COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
ONASIAN WORKS OF ART ????????????????????????????????????????including art reference books for jade, works or art, archaeology, musuem and exhibition catalogues, in total 46...
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MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF COLLECTION CATALOGUESCIRCA 1940-1990Approximately fifty books.
Including:
The Hever Castle Collection of Arms and Armour, Sotheby's 1983, Vols. I & II
Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzöge...
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ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)WinterGolf - Play the Like in Four!, c. 1899
signed "A.B. Frost" lower right
gouache, 17 1/2 by 25 1/2 in.
This important self portrait of the artist golfing and his two sons as...
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DESCRIPTION DE L EGYPTE, PANCKOUCKE,1820-1830Description de l Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l expedition de l Egypte. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1820-1830...
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AFTER GEORGE ROMNEY(British, 1734-1802)
MissAnne Parry, unsigned, after the original portrait painted in 1777, possibly a 19th century copy, oil on canvas, 29-7/8 x 25 in.; gilt wood cove molding frame, 35-3/8 x 30-1/2...
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GROUP OF 20 BOOKS ON POETRY AND LITERATUREThePoetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , London, Paris and New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., c. 1881, bound in full green morocco, gilt borders and accents,...
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SIX VOLUMES MORRIS'S BRITISH BIRDSLondon:George Bell & Sons, 1860, second edition, six volumes (complete), blindstamped front and back boards with gilt decorations on front covers, elaborately gilt decorated spines
Provenance:...
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PUBLISHED / EXHIBITED ROMAN BRONZE VENUSW/ SILVER EYES...Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A stunning leaded bronze figure of Venus (Greek Aphrodite), the goddess of love and beauty, enveloped in...
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PUBLISHED & EXHIBITED ROMAN BRONZE OILLAMP WITH LIONRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A stupendous leaded bronze oil lamp, cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process, with an elegant, elongated body,...
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3 TAUCHNITZ FIRST EDITION BOOKS CONRAD& YEATS3 first Tauchnitz edition books. Lord Jim and The Rover, both by Joseph Conrad; A Selection From the Poetry of W.B. Yeats. Joseph Conrad (Poland / England, 1857-1924)....
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[LEATHER BINDINGS]. A group of 7 worksin 25 volumes, in 19th and 20th-century leather bindings, including:
BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake, 1807.3 vols. -- MELVILLE,...
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TWO-VOLUME "CATALOGUE OF THE MORGANCOLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAINS" COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAINS", By Robert Grier Cooke. Privately printed by J. Pierpont Morgan, with accompanying letter affixed to...
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[CHINESE JADE]
A group of referencebooks and catalogues about Chinese jades, including several important early publications, with titles comprising:
LAUFER, Berthold. Archaic Chinese Jades Collected in China...
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[JAPANESE PRINTS & DRAWINGS--COLLECTIONS]
Agroup of multi-volumed works about Japanese Prints & Drawings in Private or Museum Collections, comprising:
— GUNSAULUS, Helen C. and GENTLES, Margaret O. The Clarence...
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[CHINESE JADE]
A group of referencebooks and catalogues about Chinese jades, including several important early publications, with titles comprising:
LAUFER, Berthold. Archaic Chinese Jades Collected in China...
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3 TAUCHNITZ FIRST EDITION BOOKS CONRAD& YEATS3 first Tauchnitz edition books. Lord Jim and The Rover, both by Joseph Conrad; A Selection From the Poetry of W.B. Yeats.
Joseph Conrad (Poland / England, 1857-1924)....
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 - 1997): SWEETDREAMS, BABY!from 11 Pop Artists Portfolio, Vol. III; Corlett 39; 1965; silkscreen in colors, matted and framed under acrylic; pencil-signed lower right, numbered lower left...
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[LITERATURE]. A group of 28 works ofart, history, and literature, including:
DRYDEN, John. The Works. NY: Croscup & Sterling Company, n.d. 10 volumes (of 18, vols., lacking vols. I-II of Drama, vols. I-II of...
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BALZAC'S WORKS: PRIVATE LIFE (VOL. 1-11)Balzac'sWorks: Private Life (Vol. 1-11). #32 out of 1000 copies. Author: May Tomlinson Publisher: George Barrie and Son, Philadelphia...
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(COLLECTED WORKS) A group of five setsof collected works in fine leather binding comprising the Memoirs of Casanova (S.l.: Privately Printed 1894) 12 vols. The Essays of Macaulay (Boston and New York: Houghton...
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Leatherbound books: biographies lettersand memoirs Walpole Horace. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF HORACE WALPOLE EARL OF OXFORD. Vols. I-IV. London: Rodwell and Martin 1820.; Walpole Horace. LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE...
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4 vols. Private & Small Press Books,Books on Books & C: (Chiswick Press.) Holbein, Hans. The Dance of Death. London: G. Bell, 1892. 1/500 (of 600). Introductory Note by Austin Dobson. 16mo, orig. gilt-lettered...
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1 vol. + 1 portfolio. Private Press- Specimens & C: Fine, Ruth E.; Matherson, William; Taylor W. Thomas. Printer's Choice: A Selection of American Press Books, 1968-1978: Catalogue... Exhibition... Grolier...
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Fine leatherbound books: BiographiesIrving Washington. LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. Vols. I-V. New York: G.P. Putnam 1857- 1859; Cellini Benvenuto. THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI. Trans. John Abingdon. 2 vols....
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Fine leatherbound books: Histories LansdaleMaria Honor. THE CHATEAUX OF TOURAINE. New York: The Century Co. 1907; Carlyle Thomas. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 2 Vols. Chicago: Belford Clarke & Co. n.d.; Yarrell William....
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(FINE PRESS) A group of six works publishedby and pertaining to private presses. Poems in English of John Milton with Illustrations by William Blake. Cambridge: Nonesuch Press 1926. 8vo full vellum. 2 vols. bound together....
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3 vols. (Napoleon Bonaparte): O'Mera,Barry E. Napoleon in Exile: or, A Voice from St. Helena. London: for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. 1st ed. 2 vols. 8vo, early 20th-Century 3/4 crushed green niger morocco...
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Leatherbound books: David Ramsay's AmericanRevolution and life of Washington THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 2 vols. London: J. Johnson and J. Stockdale 1791; THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. New York: Hopkins...
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Massachusetts Minute Men of 1861 IdentifiedMedal Plus ID Tags of W.F. Parker 5th Mass. Vols. A related group of nine items belonging to Private Warren F. Parker Co. I 5th Massachusetts Infantry including his exclusive...
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Fine leatherbound books: Rabelais Chalmersand Dumas Rabelais Francis. THE WORKS OF FRANCIS RABELAIS. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux trans. 2 vols. London: Henry G. Bohn 1864. Bound in half brown morocco with marbled...
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Fine leatherbound books: various titlesHolmes Oliver Wendell. THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 3 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1891. Dumas Alexander. THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO. 2 vols. New...
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Fine leatherbound books by Meredithand Pardoe Meredith George. THE WORKS OF GEORGE MEREDITH. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1910. Three-quarter red morocco with marbled boards and gilt-tooled spines....
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4 vols. Private Press Books & LimitedEditions: (Nonesuch Press.) The Book of The Bear. Twenty-One Tales Newly Translated from The Russian by Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees. London, 1926. 12mo, orig. marbled...
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3 vols. Private Press Books & C: VanVliet, Claire. Some Trees and Bushes: Drawings and Woodcuts. Maple Shade: Pickering Press, 1959. #52/125 signed by Van Vliet. 4to, orig. pictorial green paper bds.; light...
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South Carolina newspapers: five CivilWar era: (1) Charleston Daily Courier , Friday, February 28, 1862, No. 19,098, Vol. LX, 23-1/4 x 16-1/2 in. (sight); (2) The Charleston Mercury , Wednesday, May 21, 1862,...
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3 vols. Private Press Books: Thompson,Francis. Uncollected Verses. London: Privately printed by Clement Shorter, July 1917. 4to, orig. printed red wrappers; corners slightly creased. In custom red morocco slipcase...
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