Sotheby, Parke Bernet Inc. (New York)

(24 cm), [56] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 245 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Further “restructuring” of the Franklin Institute Library occurred in 1986, when 47,000 volumes were sold en bloc by sealed bid (realising $270,000) and another 2500 volumes (organised in 378 lots) were sold by the local auctioneer Samuel T. Freeman & Co. with minimal cataloguing (”At auction : the rare book collection of the Franklin Institute sale”, 12 September 1986). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No Price list.