[Bay Psalm Book] 1947 descriptive Auction Catalogue

The Crowninshield - Stevens - Brinley - Vanderbilt - Whitney Copy of The Bay Psalm Book (Auction Catalogue); To Be Sold by Direction of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1947. First Edition. [9480]

Blue printed wrapper, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, wrapper edges slightly faded, former owner's name stamped in ink inside front cover. Six b/w plates of the text & binding of the book being auctioned, auction terms, 12 pp. of text, complete. Very good. Wraps.

Includes the complete description of this copy of "The Bay Psalm Book," and descriptions of every extant copy of the 1640 edition. The book sold for $151,000, and was purchased by A. S. W. Rosenbach.

With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.