SALE NUMBER 2047 PUBLIC EXHIBITION FROM MONDAY, MARCH FIFTEENTH THE FINE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE LATE OLIVER HENRY PERKINS DES MOINES, IOWA TO BE SOLD BY ORDER OF HIS HEIRS FREDERICK OLIVER THOMPSON OLIVER PERKINS THOMPSON DES MOINES, IOWA UNIV. OF TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS & EVENINGS THE ANDERSON GALLERIES 489 PARK AVENUE AT FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK CONDITIONS OF SALE All bids to be PER LOT as numbered in the Catalogue. P45 The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so removed they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to storage charges, and The Anderson Galleries, Incorporated, will not be responsible if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. TERMS CASH. If accounts are not paid at the conclusion of each sale, or, in the case of absent buyers, when bills are rendered, this Company reserves the right to recatalogue the goods for immediate sale without notice to the defaulting buyer, and all costs of such resale will be charged to the defaulter. This condition is without prejudice to the rights of the Company to enforce the sale contract and collect the amount due without such resale at its own option. Unsettled accounts are subject to interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECONDHAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Magazines and other periodicals, and all miscellaneous books arranged in parcels, are sold as they are, WITHOUT RECOURSE. Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts and Bindings are sold as they are, without recourse. The utmost care is taken to authenticate and correctly describe items of this character, but this Company will not be responsible for errors, omissions, or defects of any kind. BIDS. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Telephone bids accepted at the sender's risk. Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be secured for One Dollar THE ANDERSON GALLERIES INCORPORATED PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK TELEPHONE REGENT 0250 CATALOGUES ON REQUEST SALES CONDUCTED BY MR. F. A. CHAPMAN, MR. A. N. BADE AND ea OLIVER HENRY PERKINS was my first American friend. I met him in 1894 in a little secondhand bookshop off the Strand in London, where he came in to ask if we had a book he wanted. We took to each other at once and I saw him nearly every day when we were in the same city. He spent several months travelling in Europe each year, and several weeks in London; but when I moved to New York in 1896 I saw less of him, as he stayed here only a few days on his way to or from Europe. Every day we were in London he would drop in to show me a book he had bought or was taking to his favorite modern binder, Zaehnsdorf, represented by Mr. Francesco Bianco, who is now in New York. I believe he bought ninety-nine per cent. of his books in London, as did nearly all the collectors of his day. He died in 1912, before the Hoe Sale brought the rare book business to America. Since he died his Library has been preserved in a specially built vault, and every volume is in as fine condition as when he bought it. The collection is one of the most individual and interesting ever formed by an American, and expresses his exquisite and fastidious taste in everything. MITCHELL KENNERLEY |