VERY RARE PAIR OF GRAEME PARK PHILADELPHIAQUEEN ANNE C...1740-1760, each with scrolled and shell carved crest over a figured splat with four scrolled volutes, set on shell carved legs with trifid feet, upholstered...
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ERTé (ROMAINE DE TIRTOFF) (RUSSIANFRENCH, 1892-1990), SIGNED LIMITED EDITION BOOK Erté. MY LIFE / MY ART: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York: E. P. Dutton and Dyansen Galleries, 1989. First edition. No. 516 of 1000...
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EARLY PREENING SCOTERAlbert Davids Laing(1811-1886)
New York, NY, and Stratford, CT, c. 1850
14 in. long
A hollow, turned-head decoy by the father of the Stratford School. Laing, originally from New York City,...
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STEUBEN GOLD AURENE JACK-IN-THE PULPITVASEDESCRIPTION: Steuben gold Aurene Jack-in-the Pulpit vase with crimped flower. c. 1910-15
Iridized Lead Glass.
Shape #751, p.256
Marked Aurene” In center of pontil enamel...
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GROUPING OF 6 SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONBOOKS, JOSEPH HELL...SIXTY STORIES by Donald Barthelme, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Released simultaneously with the trade hardcover, this Limited Edition of 500 copies...
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MIRACLE MONGERS AND THEIR METHODS.Houdini,Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1920. Publisher’s cloth. Frontispiece, plates. 8vo. Ownership signature of escape artist...
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28 BOOKS ON DECORATIVE ARTS AND FURNITUREincluding:[ Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages ] by Stanley Charles Nott, London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1936, containing numerous black and white photographs, text illustrations, and...
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IRVING PENN(American, 1917-2009)
Blackand White Vogue Cover, Jean Patchett, New York, 1950, signed, titled, dated, editioned 8/34, and annotated in pencil and stamped print verso, printed in 1974, platinum palladium...
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NARINO POTTERY SEATED COQUERO FIGUREPre-Columbian,Colombia, Highland Narino region, Capuli Cultural Complex, Narino culture, ca. 850 to 1500 CE. An intriguing, hand-built pottery coca-chewing figure - known as a coquero -...
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PUBLISHED MESOPOTAMIAN GLAZED HEAD -GYPSUM & BITUMENAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Kassite period, ca. 14th to 13th century BCE. Staring past the confine of time, a head depicting a haunting guise carved in...
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TALL GUERRERO MEZCALA STONE TYPE M-14FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 300 to 100 BCE. This is an incredible, abstract standing anthropomorphic figure of a large size,...
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LURISTAN BRONZE MASTER OF ANIMALS STANDARDFINIALAncient Near East, northwestern Iran and Turkey, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. An intriguing cast-bronze standard finial in the form known as the "master of animals."...
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ROMAN IRON SPATHA W/ BRONZE POMMEL,IVORY HANDLERoman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A beautiful forged iron spatha of a bifacial design bearing a shallow midrib, extremely sharp edges, and a pointed...
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GORGEOUS ROMAN GLASS DOUBLE UNGUENTARIUMRoman,Eastern Empire, late Imperial to early Byzantine Empire, ca. late 4th to 5th century CE. A gorgeous example of a double unguentarium that is free-blown from translucent glass...
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ROMAN GLASS JAR APPLIED TEAL-GREEN HANDLES,TRAILINGRoman, late Imperial Period, ca. 4th century CE. A free-blown jar made from translucent, pale-green glass with a concave base and smooth pontil scar, a globular body...
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RIO MAGDALENA MOSKITO POTTERY URN W/LID, TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Northern Colombia, Rio Magdalena, Moskito, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A This is an incredible funerary effigy vessel with a figural lid, and a conical...
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(35) REFERENCE BOOKS: AMERICANA, METALS,WEAPONS(lot of 35) Collection of reference books on Americana, silver, metal, and various weapons, comprising: (1) "Old English Plate," Wilfred Joseph Cripps, Spring Books,...
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(VIEW) NEW YORK - COVERING "P" THROUGH"Y" TOWNS: 139 POSTCARDS EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY "Y" TOWNS: 139 POSTCARDS, Early to Mid-20th Century, Photo card of "The Dining Room - Plattsburg Tr. Camp", "Smith Brothers'...
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A GROUP OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKSAgroup of classic children's books, Eleven hardcover books: Walt Disney Studios. "Mickey Mouse in King Arthur's Court." New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1933 The octavo...
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CHINESE "CHENXIANGMU" CARVED WASHER,QING DYNASTY Chinese ,ChenXiang wood carving of a washer, dated to Qing Dynasty, with wide opening, naturalistic carving of pine trees on low relief ,with branch curling to...
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CHINESE "CHENXIANGMU" CARVED WASHER,QING DYNASTY Chinese ,ChenXiang wood carving of a washer, dated to Qing Dynasty, with wide opening, naturalistic carving of pine trees on low relief ,with branch curling to...
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PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATER POT
KANGXISIX-CHARACTER MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD ?????? ??????? the rounded sides raised to a short, waisted neck and slightly flaring mouth, incised with three archaistic dragon...
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Signed books by Flannery O'Connor andInez Hogan O'Connor Flannery. A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1955. Signed on front endpaper with dustjacket; Hogan Inez. NICODEMUS AND HIS...
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2 vols. Illustrated Poetry: (Cook,Margaret, illustrator.) Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1913. 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial, lettered & paneled green cloth, gilt-pictorial & lettered spine,...
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13 vols. (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator):Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909. 1st Am. trade ed. thus. Lg. 8vo, orig. richly gilt-pictorial & decorated red cloth; spine ends rubbed, other...
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59 vols. E.F. Benson & Brother - Benson,E.F.: Dodo. London: Methuen, 1893. 1st ed. 2 vols. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered blue cloth; moderately scuffed, some edge wear, a little cocked. Upper 1/3 of 1/2 title chipped...
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Books: Fine art furniture decorativearts and travel guides Bernier Rosamond. MATISSE PICASSO MIRO: AS I KNEW THEM. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1991. Bridgman George B. BRIDGMAN'S LIFE-DRAWING. London: John Lane...
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3 vols. Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of.London: Harrap, [ca. 1909]. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 4to, orig. lettered & decorated green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; light to moderate wear. With 24 mounted color...
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Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. ConfederateCivil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
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6 vols. Leather Bindings: Hamilton,Count Anthony. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London: J.C. Nimmo, 1885. Edited by Walter Scott. 2 vols. Tall 8vo, early 20th-Century gilt-paneled & decorated full dark green niger...
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5 vols. (2 wrappers) Children's Books- With Mechanical & C. Illustrations: Push and Pull Pictures: A Novel Mechanical Picture Book. London: E. Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton, n.d. [ca. 1892]. Sq. 8vo, orig. chromolithographic...
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Rare leatherbound books: Roosevelt'sThe Winning of the West Roosevelt Theodore. THE WINNING OF THE WEST. 4 vols. New York: George P. Putnam's Sons 1900. The Daniel Boone Edition numbered 53 including a page...
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4 vols. Sir Richard Burton: Wright,Thomas. The Life of Sir Richard Burton. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1906. 1st Am. ed. 2 vols. 8vo, orig. red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. With 64...
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Twenty-Nine Nineteenth-Century DecorativeBindings, including eight volumes of Hawthorne's Works, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, [1892-1895]), duodecimo, in tan half calf with marbled boards and edges, the spine with...
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2 vols. Milne, A.A.: Winnie-The-Pooh.London: Methuen, (1926). First edition. 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial & paneled dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; very occasional, very light...
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Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lotof Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and...
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