CHARLES DICKENS, A CURIOUS DANCE PRINTED1852 A Curious Dance Round A Curious Tree by Charles Dickens. Published 1852 as a fundraiser for St. Luke's Hospital. Scarce first edition. Small book is finely bound in...
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(22) EASTON PRESS & OTHER LEATHER-BOUNDBOOKS(lot of 22) Books published by Easton Press and other fine publishers, some signed first editions (SFE), leather binding, gilt page ends, many appear unread, titles:...
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HEATHER FOSTER "CURIOUS TWO" OIL ONBOARD PAINTINGDESCRIPTION: Heather Foster oil on board painting titled: "Curious Two" features the depiction of two cows up close. Signed lower right "HF" and mounted in a...
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CHARLES DICKENS, 5 CHRISTMAS BOOKS,1ST EDS.Five (5) First Edition Christmas novels written by Charles Dickens. 1st item: THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN. A FANCY FOR CHRISTMAS TIME, First Edition, by...
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TWO VOLUMES ON REMARKABLE, ECCENTRIC,AND CURIOUS PEOPL...Two Volumes on Remarkable, Eccentric, and Curious People. Including The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders & Curiosities (New York, 1881) by Platt; and The...
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TEN SOUTHERN FURNITURE AND ANTIQUESBOOKScomprising: This Have I Done: Samplers and Embroideries from Charleston and the Lowcountry by Jan Hiester and Kathleen Staples, South Carolina: The Charleston Museum/Curious...
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MARCUS KENNEY, ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUSPOSES, 2010 Marcus Kenney (American/Georgia, born 1972). "Animals Strike Curious Poses" -2010, mixed media collage on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso. Provenance:...
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PAIR OF EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND HISTORICALLYSIGNIFICANT SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TEETH BY JOSIAH SHEFFIELD, JR., KNOWN AS THE "LOG TEETH" CIRCA 1831-1835 LENGTHS 6" AND 6.25". INCLUDES STANDS. SIGNIFICANT SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S...
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ANTIQUE ENGRAVING OF A "CROWNED AFRICANCRANE" FROM WILLIAM HAYES'S PORTRAITS OF RARE AND CURIOUS BIRDS... Engraving with extensive hand coloring, 18th century, full title of text reads Portraits of Rare and Curious...
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Very fine Chinese white jade gourd formcovered vase 19th century Of tall balanced gourd form, the cover is carved in open work to show two curious monkeys surmounting a gourd branch, over a well hollowed...
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Various Rare Book Autograph and PrintCatalogs Lot of 20. All small 12mo to 8vo in paper wraps from London and the U.S. Includes Anderson Galleries (NY) (Sale No. 1328) 1918 The Print Collection of Frederic R....
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Pair of Edwardian Mahogany Padded LongBenches, ca. 1900, each with a molded and beaded overhang, fitted with two upholstered cushions, each raised on cabriole-form legs, one example lacking two legs, h. 15-1/2",...
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Six Hyde and Goodrich Coin Silver FiddlethreadSoup/Tablespoons New Orleans mid-19th c. marked "HYDE & GOODRICH" in a rectangle with curious marks upcurved fiddlethread handles with high French style shoulders engraved...
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Federal gilt banjo clock signed A. WillardBoston circa 1820 typical banjo clock form with eagle finial on plinth over cast-brass bezel painted dial reverse-painted throat glass and door with ''Victory on Lake Champlain''...
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3 vols. Optics: Farrar, John. An ExperimentalTreatise on Optics,... Principles of The Science,... Explanation... Curious Optical Instruments and Optical Phenomena,... Cambridge, N.E.: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1826. 1st...
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AN UNUSUAL SAMPSON HANCOCK MODEL OFTHE HEAD OF A MAN
with moulded brown curly hair and rosy cheeks, 3.5cm h, red painted mark, c1900
It has been suggested that this curious object may portray Sampson Hancock....
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(CHILDREN'S) REY MARGARET Curious GeorgeFlies a Kite. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1958. 8vo publisher's decorative blue cloth stamped in cream decorative endpapers dust jacket. First edition. Soiling and marginal chipping...
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Breckinridge Family Archive Approx.165 items including 130+ photographs cased images & portraits plus 35+ paper items and newspaper clippings.Since Kentucky was established as a state in 1792 the Breckenridge...
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Letters Between the Sturges BrothersMost Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield...
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Archive of Documents Associated withthe Sturges Family Including John R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA The lot contains a variety of items including over 100 receipts and other ephemera an early indenture and...
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Samuel Lawrence Early New York Representative& the Lawrence Family Manuscript Archive An extensive archive of approximately 67 documents of the noted Lawrence family of New York spanning the years 1799 to 1908. Dealing...
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A DERBY DISH
painted in famille roseenamels with a 'Mandarin' pattern, the principal scene with a group of Chinese figures, one in a purple robe with a curious hawk perched on his right hand, another carrying...
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A DERBY OCTAGONAL PLATE
painted infamille rose enamels and gilt with two deer by a curious lavender blue rock and flowering plants in looped gilt frame with a large spray, gourd flask and two tassels hanging...
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Ben E. Green Politician & Colonel UnpublishedHandwritten Memoirs & Related Ephemera 406pp manuscript; 2 pamphlets. Ca 1900. It never ceases to amaze how so many arguments for the causes of the Civil come together combine...
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COLEMAN M. Clark (American 20th C.):Orientalist Tapestry Scene Depicts an Elderly Man Seated with a Young Curious Maiden Oil/Tapestry 54'' h. 42'' w. signed lower left unframed.CONDITION: Minor scattered abrasions....
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[Exploration and Travel] A Curious Collectionof Voyages and Travels. The World Displayed: A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels. Philadelphia: Dobelbower Key and Simpson 1795-96 vols. 1-3 5-8 (of 8). First American...
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Rare leatherbound book: Bartram's TravelsBartram William. TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA GEORGIA EAST AND WEST FLORIDA. London: J.Johnson 1792. Illustrated. Binding with right cover detached; all edges...
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Five Curious Japanese and Asian Miniatures19th-20th c. Well-carved ivory macaque and its children, primitive-style ivory skin diver girl, ivory snowy owl and two rock crystal carvings of Ganesh. Descriptions...
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19th C HAND STITCHED SAMPLER: Workedin bright colors in a most interesting group of roosters birds donkeys insects dogs flowers a wreath geometric shapes and a curious upside down house. Framed under glass in...
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Cheyenne Chief Two Moon's Beaded HideTobacco Bag Deaccessioned from the Henry County Historical Society Indiana sinew-sewn and beaded using colors of pony trader blue green red white-heart and greasy yellow total...
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Dr. Robert John Thornton (British 1768-1837)Publisher ca. 1811-1812 "Curious American Bog-Plants". Hand colored aquatint engraving from the quarto edition of "The Temple of Flora" paper size apprx. 15-1/8" x 11-3/4"...
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George Bernard Shaw Caricature ''Curiouslylike somebody else's laugh - I won't say whose.'' Sgn. G. Bernard Shaw 19/6/30. Ink drawing sgn. Lower right Tom Hutt 1930. Dimensions: Sight: 10 3/4'' x 7''E...
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Anton Karssen Dutch, b. 1945 CuriousSaint Bernard Pups
Estimate:$2,500-$3,500...
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Four engravings after William Hayes,from Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds…, London, 1794-1799: Purple Gallinale, corner loss; Crowned African Crane, signed by colourists "C.&W. Hayes 17…"'...
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Three engravings after William Hayes,birds of prey: from Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds…, London, 1794-1799: Bald Eagle, glue residue front edges and verso; Vulture, signed by colourists "W&C...
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Gruber (European, 20th century) stilllife with kittens oil on canvas four curious kittens cavort on catalogued literature, signed lower left. Good condition, three small specks on left border. 15 1/2" x 19 1/2"...
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