Beschreibung:

AMERICAN AUCTIONS -- A collection of 38 auction, private library, and exhibition catalogues, including: GARDNER, Isabella Stewart. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court . (Boston: Privately Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press), 1906. 8 o. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. -- PLIMPTON, George Arthur and Margaret Hastings JACKSON. Catalogue of the Frances Taylor Pearsons Plimpton Collection of Italian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of Wellesley College . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. 8 o. Numerous reproductions in text. Original cloth. -- HEARST, William Randolph. The William Randolph Hearst Collection Part I. Historical & Literary Autographs & Manuscripts . New York: Parke-Bernet, 16 November 1938. 8 o. Original wrappers. -- HEARST. The William Randolph Hearst Collection Part III. Books in Fine Bindings, Autograph Manuscripts & Letters, Original Drawings . New York: Parke Bernet Galleries, 30 November 1938. 8 o. Original wrappers. -- HEARST. The William Randolph Hearst Collection Part V. Books in Fine Bindings, Autograph Manuscripts & Letters, Original Drawings . New York: Parke-Berney Galleries, 11 January 1939. -- NEWTON, A. Edward. Rare Books, Original Drawings, Autograph Letters, and Manuscripts Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton . New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1941. 3 volumes, 8 o. Numerous illustrations throughout. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jackets. Volumes I and II PRICED, with some buyers' names in pencil. -- and 30 others, 4 o and 8 o, condition varies. (38)