First editions of famous books ...
Subtitle: public auction sale December 3 ... December 4 [1946]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Important library of the late Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas
Notes: 341 lots.

Cover title: The important library of the late Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas.

"Sale number 815"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 3 and 4, 1946.

" ... including Blake's "America," Milton's "Paradise lost," Walton & Cotton's "Compleat angler," Fitzgerald's "Omar Khayyam," first English edition of Cervante's "Don Quixote'; illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, beautiful jewelled bindings, autograph manuscripts and lettersm the "New York weekly journal", Zenger, 1733-6; the important library of the late Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas; sold by order of the executors and trustees, William C. Allsopp and W.B. Worthen Company, bankers, acting under order of the Pulaski probate court of Little Rock, Arkansas.  Part I."

Rare Book copy: Cased with other catalogs from same auction house.

Place of sale: New York.