GROUP OF BOOKS ON FRENCH DECORATIVEARTSIncluding the following volumes in French: Maisons de France: Plaisir de France with an introduction by Olivier Queant, Les Publications de France, 1950, first edition;...
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE OF PEOPLEPhotographicArchive of People, approximately 300 images, many by Nashville photographer C. C. Giers, (but other photographers also represented). This lot features a large number of loose...
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2 BOOK OF HOURS PAGES & MARTIN LUTHERSUPPRESSED BIBLE ...1st item: Illuminated manuscript page on vellum from a Book of Hours, likely Italian, having Latin script with initials decorated in gilt, bordered with...
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SNOWDEN FAMILY PHOTOS AND SLAVE DOCUMENT,MEMPHIS TN AN...Archive of photographs and 1 slave document related to the Snowden family of Tennessee. 1st item: 1848 Bill of Sale recording the sale by J.B. (John Bayard)...
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HAND DRAWN TRANSFORMATION PLAYING CARDS.HandDrawn Transformation Playing Cards. English (?), late nineteenth century. 32/52. Excellent. Well executed designs by a skilled artist. Each card has a hand written notation...
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LUDLOW & CO. PATENT KNIGHT’S CARDS& T. WHEELER PLAYING...Ludlow & Co. Patent Knight’s Cards & T. Wheeler Playing Cards. London, ca. 1801. 52. Very good. This might be called a mixed deck in that it is comprised...
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A GROUP OF EIGHT NAPOLEONIC AND OTHERASSORTED DESKTOP ... ASSORTED DESKTOP OBJECTS, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, comprising a burled walnut pipe carved as the bust of Napoleon and mounted with faux horn stemmed mouthpiece,...
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19TH CENTURY ENGLISH REGENCY TORTOISESHELLCARD HOLDER19th Century English Regency Tortoiseshell Card Holder, a hinged top exposing an interior storage compartment, with blank sterling silver name plate and line inlay.
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DIMINUTIVE OAK LIFT TOP CHEST HAVINGCARVED FRONT, ENGL...Diminutive Oak Lift Top Chest having carved front, English, 17th century, top with old lock cut out. height 17 1/4 inches, top 11 1/2" x 27".
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THOMAS FRYE(Irish, 1710-1762)
ElizabethGunning, Duchess of Argyll and Maria Gunning, Countess of Coventry (CS 20, 21) , from Ladies, very elegantly attired in the fashion, and in the most agreeable attitudes ,...
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JACOBEAN OAK CANOPY BED, HAVING PANELEDCANOPY ON PANEL...Jacobean Oak Canopy Bed, having paneled canopy on paneled headboard dated 1661, English, 17th century, WB EB carved into headboard, side rail appears to...
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ARTIST UNKNOWN, ENGLISH SCHOOL, 16TH/17THCENTURY, PORT...Artist Unknown, English school, 16th/17th century, portrait of a bearded young man, Mark A Van Dijk; W. Shakespeare on back, in a Salvatore Rosa frame, 20...
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ENGLISH OAK LIFT TOP CHESTEnglish OakLift Top Chest, having center door, 17th century, height 23 inches, top 18 1/2" x 52 1/2 inches.
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19TH CENTURY BRITISH SCHOOL LANDSCAPE19thCentury British School Landscape Oil on Canvas signed illegibly lower left 27 1/2" x 39"
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MINIATURE PORTRAIT MARQUIS LOUIS CHARLESPASCAULTFramed miniature watercolor portrait on paper card, Louis Charles Pascault, the Marquis de Poleon (1790-1867), three-quarter view half-length portrait, housed in a...
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§ JOHN WADSWORTH (BRITISH 1879-1955)
EXTENSIVEARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS AND SKETCHES mixed media (pencil; pen and ink; watercolour; bodycolour) some 150 items in total, on various paper and card stocks, various dimensions,...
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Various ephemera of the 19th and 20thcenturies, including some documents by or having to do with Adolphus Washington Greely (1844-1935), a Civil War officer and arctic explorer. Together with ten letters and...
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James Purdy (1914-2009) Letters ShortStories and Books When James Purdy died 13 March 2009 the New York Times referred to his work as ?wayward and unclassifiable.? Playwright poet author of short stories and...
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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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17th century map, Virginia, "NovaVirginiae Tabula", by Henricus Hondius, engraved after Jodocus Hondius' derivation of John White's 1612 map of Virginia, published by Henricus in L'Appendice...
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BIBLE: CHARLES I [KING OF ENGLAND] (1600-1649)17TH CENTURY ROYAL BINDING; a full tan leather binding probably bound for King Charles with tooled and gilt royal armorial to centre of both boards corner pieces and ermine...
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17th century Old Master painting, presentationto King Charles II (1630-1685) at court, unsigned, oil on canvas, English School, 36-1/2 x 42 in.; 20th century gilt wood and composition frame. Lined with card then relined...
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A FINE ENGLISH LACQUERED BRASS PATENTPRISMATIC COMPASS BY CHARLES AUGUSTUS SCHMALCALDER
with hinged wire and prismatic sights, the green printed compass card inscribed Schmalcalder's PATENT No 82[corrected in...
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