Important historical and literary mss, first editions, fine bindings and sets, association books ...
Subtitle: public auction Tuesday, December 12 [1961]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 250 lots.

"Sale number 2071"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 12, 1961.

"The manuscript of The glass menagerie, items from Benjamin Franklin's press at Passy, the original 1784 Indian deed to metropolitan Detroit, a calligraphic ms by Esther Inglis, a 1782 journal, Fort Pitt to New Orleans, numerous other rarities, from the collection of the late Forest H. Sweet, Battle Creek, Michigan sold by the order of Mrs. F.H. Sweet, estate of the late Mrs. Walter P. Bliss, New York and Barnardsville, N.J. sold by order of the heirs and from other sources."

Place of sale: New York.