- MAYA CYLINDER - JAGUAR / SMOKING GODS,
EX KERR**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. An exemplary pottery cylinder vessel, finely painted with scenes...
[more like this] - (7) VOLS. GREEK ARTISTS, SOME SIGNED
Includes: 1) Sophi Vari. Rizzoli, 1999, signed "Vari" on half-title page; 2) Dimitri Hadzi. Hudson Hills Press, 1996, inscribed and signed; 3) George Constant. Gold Griffin/Arts...
[more like this] - GEORGIA O'KEEFFE CATALOGUE RAISONNE,
2 VOLS. Barbara Buhler Lynes. Yale/National Gallery/Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999, two hardcovers in jackets and slipcase, gift inscription from the author on half-title,...
[more like this] - GEORGIA O'KEEFFE CATALOGUE RAISONNE,
2 VOLS. Barbara Buhler Lynes. Yale/National Gallery/Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999, two hardcovers in jackets and slipcase, gift inscription from the author on half-title,...
[more like this] - (9) VOLS. LEATHER BINDINGS, 19TH C.
Includes: Eugene Sue. The Wandering Jew. Chapman and Hall, 1845, (3) vols; The Poetical Works of John Milton English and Latin. George Bell & Sons, 1892, (2) vols; Patrick,...
[more like this] - FINE & SMALL PRESS, (8) VOLS. POETRY,
SOME SIGNED Includes: 1) The Poems of William Blake. At the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1921, vellum binding, initialed "c.g.a.Hill" on front endpaper; 2) Thirty Poems...
[more like this] - (6) VOLS. ART AND ARTISTS Includes:
1) In 't Huis Van Rembrandt. Gerhard Loeber, Amsterdam, 1938, text in Dutch, color plates; 2) 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982;...
[more like this] - GROUP OF (5) ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS Includes:
1) Godey's Lady's Book 1858, Vol. LVI and LVII, with hand-colored engravings, bound as one volume, leather spine, owner's name stamped on front, 9.5"h x 6.75"w; 2) The Complete...
[more like this] - (5) MODERNIST DECORATIVE LEATHER BINDINGS
Three unattributed inlaid bindings in custom slipcases, including: Minerals and Man, Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., Random House, 1968; Living Plants of the World, Lorus and Margery...
[more like this] - BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, 1ST ED.,
1865, (4) VOLS William Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1765, 1766, 1768, 1768, 1769, in later Bayntun (Riviere) bindings,...
[more like this] - (3 VOL) BOOKS: WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON,
1848(3 volumes) Books: "The Works of Joseph Addison," published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1848, T.H. Pease Bookseller, New Haven, Connecticut, brown leather binding,...
[more like this] - WEDGWOOD LIGHT-BLUE SOLID JASPER RECTANGULAR
PLAQUE, ‘RAISING AN ALTAR TO BACCHUS’ PLAQUE, ‘RAISING AN ALTAR TO BACCHUS’, circa 1878, impressed uppercase mark, adapted from a design by Alphonse Lechevrel (1848-1924),...
[more like this] - STATEHOOD QUARTERS COLLECTION PCS VOL
1 From the Postal Commemorative Society, the first 25 state quarters. Each of the first 25 states has a front and back side with history of the state, the P and D minted quarters,...
[more like this] - (5) VOLS. ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, DECORATING
Includes: 1) Albert Hadley Drawings and the design Process. New York School of Interior Design, 2004, hardcover in wire-o binding; 2) The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario...
[more like this] - THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, 1888, ASSOC.
COPY James Bryce. Macmillan and Co., London, in (3) vols., gift inscription in each vol. to F(rederic). W. Rhinelander, founding trustee and later President of the Metropolitan...
[more like this] - George III Era Sterling Silver Armbands
and British Officer's Gilt Copper Gorget, Presented to Ojibwa Chief John Aisance
lot of 3, includes:
William Bateman (London, 1774-1850) Sterling Silver Armbands
each hallmarked...
[more like this] - 1814 George III Silver Peace Medal
War
of 1812 period medal depicting a mantled bust of George III on one side; reverse with Royal Arms; 60.4 mm
PUBLISHED:
Sovereignty Gifts (Hoover and Brasser 2020: pg. 6, 16-17)
Although...
[more like this] - ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE WORKS ON CHINESE
PAINTING AND ART HISTORY WITH YUAN MA, CHINESISCHES FISCHERLEBEN PAINTING AND ART HISTORY WITH YUAN MA, CHINESISCHES FISCHERLEBEN, [Reference/ Chinese Art] 20 mostly hardcover...
[more like this] - BOOKS: (4) VOLS FRENCH ARTISTS, SOME
SIGNED Four hardcovers in matching buckram bindings, includes: 1) Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du Mal, Limited Editions Club, 1940, art by Rodin, #68/1500; 2) C. Despiau by Leon...
[more like this] - BOOKS: (6) VOLS FINE BINDING, INCL.
DICKENS' BOZ Includes: 1) Charles Dickens. Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall, with eight illustrations, no date, printed by Virtue and Co., 292 pages; 2) John Tyndall. The...
[more like this] - BOOKS (3) VOLS PHILIPPINE ART JUAN LUNA,
JOSE JOYA Three hardcover volumes including: Juan Luna The Filipino as Painter. Eugenio Lopez Foundation, 1980, hardcover in jacket, inscribed and signed by the author Santiago...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in
The Willows. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1908. First American edition. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered & paneled green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; lightly to moderately...
[more like this] - James Barry (Irish active in Italy and
England 1741-1806) "A Group of Recumbent Figures Huddled Among Blankets" 1792 ink and wash on laid paper with all corners missing but made up on backing card dated in English...
[more like this] - 1 vol. (Judaica - Gift Binding.) Machzor
leham Yisrael Roash Hashanah [transcribed from the Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Sinai, (1953). Sm. 12mo, orig. tooled & stamped full silver, silver clasp, a.e.g., semi-precious or...
[more like this] - 4 vols. 19th-Century Female Education:
Oakland Female Institute Circular(s) and Catalogue(s) for The Year(s) Ending.... 1846-1860, 1862-1870, 1872. Philadelphia, 1846-1860, 1862-1870, 1872. 8vo, contemp. bds.,...
[more like this] - William R. Carr 12th Massachusetts Vols.
KIA Gettysburg Civil War Archive 9 letters from Sgt. William R. Carr 1861-1863. Plus 6 related family letters. The war letters start with Carr??Ts May 17 1861 admission to...
[more like this] - (INSECTS BUTTERFLIES) HUMPHREYS HENRY
NOEL British Butterflies and their Transformations. London: William Smith 1841. Complete with 42 hand-colored plates and hand-colored title page. [Uniformly bound with:] British...
[more like this] - 9 vols. (8 wrappers) Children's Books
- Early & Mid 19th-Century American Imprints: The Death and Burial of Cock Robin. New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1826. 48mo, orig. pictorial wrappers; ink annotations on front...
[more like this] - An Important Miami Pipe With Ties to
the 1795 Treaty of Greenville delicately carved curly maple stem with engraved bands of German silver and diamond-shaped inlay; brass mouthpiece and German silver tip; stem...
[more like this] - JOHN LA FARGE (american 1835-1910)
"A BOY AND HIS DOG (DICKEY HUNT)" Oil on paperboard laid on canvas 40 x 34 in. (101.6 x 86.4cm) provenance: Albert Stickney, New York, 1884(?)-1908. Mrs. Albert Stickney,...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Signed Books: Carnegie, Dale.
Biographical Roundup. New York: Forest Hills Pub. Co., (1944). 1st ed. 12mo, orig. grey cloth. Award ticket signed by Dale Carnegie mounted to front free endpaper recto. *...
[more like this] - 3 vols. (1 wrappers) Bellow, Saul:
Herzog. New York: Viking, (1964). 1st ed. 8vo, orig. blue cloth; corners very slightly bumped, other minor edge wear, d/j (light edge wear, minor wear to joints). VG/VG+....
[more like this] - 4 vols. Masonic Subjects - American
19th-Century Imprints: The Freemason's Annual: A Gift for All Seasons. New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. [ca. 1850]. 12mo, orig. color inlaid richly gilt red cloth, a.e.g.;...
[more like this] - (AMERICAN LITERATURE) Seven items concerning
Edgar Allen Poe including: 1) "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" as published in The Gift: A Christmas and New Years Present for 1836 (Phila.: 1836) 12mo, no binding present;...
[more like this] - 1 vols. Glen, A.R.; Croft, N.A.C. Under
The Pole Star: The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-36. London: Methuen, (1937). First edition. 4to, orig. blue cloth; light to moderate edge wear, d/j (light edge...
[more like this] - An Antique French Gilt Bronze Statuette
of "Jeanne d'Arc à Cheval" after Emmanuel Frémiet (French 1824-1910) original maquette 1872-73 cast signature "E. Fremiet" on top surface of self-base height 29 in. length...
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