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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93 FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED FIRST EDITIONSLEATHER 93 Franklin Library Leather Bound, Signed First Editions, to include: "The Man Who Was Late", Louis Begley, "Charley Bland", Mary Lee Settle, "The Copper Beech", Maeve...
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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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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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Four engravings after William Hayes,from Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds…, London, 1794-1799: Pencilled Chinese Pheasant, Painted Pheasant Female, Ring-Pheasant Female, signed by colourist "Matilda...
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