Conditions of Sale I: TERMS CASH. The highest bidder to be the buyer; in all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be immediately re-sold. II: Books are sold per volume, other articles per piece, unless otherwise stated in the catalogue, and bids must be made accordingly. III: Goods purchased at the sales must be removed from the premises within one week; in default of which the Auctioneer will reserve the right of re-selling them at the cost of the purchaser. IV: Bids will be faithfully executed by the Auctioneer and used only in competition. All unlimited bids should come through Agents. V: Books are presumed to be perfect unless other. wise stated. Imperfect books (not so described) may be returned within three days. The Successor to Bangs & Co. No. 5 West 29th Street, New York UNEQUALED facilities for the handling and sale of Books, Manuscripts, Paintings, Etchings and Engravings, Autographs, Coins, Stamps, etc. Sales of Private Collections Extract from the Will of Edmond de Goncourt: 6.6 (Trans.) My wish is that my Drawings, my Prints, my Curiosities, my Books-in a word these things of art which have been the joy of my life-shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum, and subjected to the stupid glance of the careless passer-by; but I require that they shall all be dispersed under the hammer of the Auctioneer, so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one of them has given me shall be given again, in each case, to some inheritor of my own tastes." |