WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WORKS AND PLAYS,PRINTED 1710 The Works of William Shakespear Containing Venus and Adonis, Tarquin and Lucrece and Miscellany Poems, With Critical Remarks On His Plays, to Which is Prefixed,...
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FIRST ED. POPULAR SCIENCE 1872-1879YOUMANS,E.L.; SPENCER, Herbert; SPOTTISWOODE, William; WALLACE, Alfred; MAYER, Alfred; DARWIN, Charles; EDISON, Thomas; et al. The Popular Science Monthly. New York: D. Appleton and...
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DECREMPS, HENRI. FIVE CLASSIC FRENCHCONJURING WORKS. F...Decremps, Henri. Five Classic French Conjuring Works. Five volumes bound in one, including La Magie Blanche DŽvoilee (1792), SupplŽment A La Magie Blanche...
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CLARKE, SIDNEY W. THE ANNALS OF CONJURING.LONDON: GEOR...Clarke, Sidney W. The Annals of Conjuring. London: George Johnson, 1929. Author's Copy of the First Edition. Limited to four copies printed by the author's...
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THE GOLDEN AGE: DUTCH PAINTERS OF THE17TH C. HAAKFeatured is this Original First Edition of "The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century" by Bob Haak, 1984 Harry N. Abrahams, Inc., Publishers New...
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EARLY BALI INDONESIAN CARVED SAWO WOODSCULPTUREFeatured in this lot is a Early Vintage Bali Indonesian hand-carved Sawo wood Sculpture. It depicts a celebrated tale from the Hindu epic, Ramayana, a commonly found...
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FINE ANCIENT ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS (PR)Roman,Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A lovely pair of wearable Roman earrings comprised of annular hoops formed from 92% gold (equivalent to 22K+). Each earring features...
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PUBLISHED GREEK TERRACOTTA ROUNDEL OFSATYR - TL TESTED...Greece, late Hellenistic period, ca. 1st century BCE. An impressive, mold-made terracotta roundel, presenting with a raised rim, a projecting head of a...
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NAZCA POLYCHROME STIRRUP VESSEL, TLTESTEDPre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a relatively spherical form with a round but stable base,...
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ROMAN QUARTZ INTAGLIO SET IN SILVERRINGRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A gorgeous intaglio carved from a fragment of translucent quartz depicting a reclining woman reaching out towards an...
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GREEK CLASSICAL MARBLE STELE, RELIEFOF WOMANAncient Greece, Classical to Hellenistic Period, ca. 5th to 3rd century CE. A stunning marble funerary stele hand-carved to depict the relief of a woman in profile....
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LARGE CORINTHIAN SKYPHOS ANIMAL FRIEZE,TL TESTEDAncient Greece, Corinth, ca. 6th to 5th century CE. A wheel-thrown skyphos of sizable form with a flared discoid foot, an inverted bell-shaped body with swelling...
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SIGNED 1650S JAPANESE EDO WAKIZASHIBY BISHU OSAFUNEEast Asia, Japan, early Edo Period, ca. mid-17th century, signed "Bishu Osafune" on tang. A forged steel wakizashi blade of elegant shinogi-zukuri form bearing...
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HUGE 5TH C. PERSIAN MARLIK PITCHER,TL TESTED**Originally Listed At $2500**
Central Asia, Persia, Gilan, Marlik / Cheragh-Ali Tepe, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A beautiful and rare terracotta pitcher of magnificent...
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TALL 12TH C. PERSIAN AMOL TERRACOTTAWINE JAR, TL'D**Originally Listed At $1800**
Western Asia, Northern Persia, Amol, ca. 12th century CE. A magnificent terracotta royal wine jug of an impressively large scale,...
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CANOSAN POTTERY VOLUTE KRATER W/ EQUESTRIAN& NIKE, TL**First Time At Auction**
Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, Canosa, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A gorgeous polychrome volute krater, meticulously hand-painted...
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HUGE 5TH C. PERSIAN MARLIK PITCHER,TL TESTED**Originally Listed At $2500**
Central Asia, Persia, Gilan, Marlik / Cheragh-Ali Tepe, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A beautiful and rare terracotta pitcher of magnificent...
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RARE / FINE GREEK CAMPANIAN ARETHUSACUP - TL TESTEDMagna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. Truly a wonder to behold! A rare and exemplary terracotta stemless kylix known as an "Arethusa...
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[BINDINGS] -- [HISTORY]. A group of7 works, most in contemporary full leather bindings, including works related to history, comprising:
1) GIBBON, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. L: John Murray,1855....
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MAXFIELD PARRISH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, PENNSYLVANIA(1870-1966), DAYBREAK, , CHROMOLITHOGRAPH, 17 1/2"H X 29 1/2"W, 19 1/2" HX 31 1/4"W (FRAME)Maxfield Parrish, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, (1870-1966) Daybreak, chromolithograph...
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WALT WHITMAN'S 'LEAVES OF GRASS', LIMITEDEDITION SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT EDITION SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT, New York: Heritage Press n.d. [1936], bound in original full dark green morocco with gilt title and ornaments,...
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LARGE COLLECTION OF LEATHER-BOUND SETSOF BOOKSvarious authors, titles, and languages; including Encyclopedia Brittanica, 11th edition, volumes 1 - 32 (in 16); and Works of Charles Dickens, New Century Edition,...
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COLLECTION OF 14 BOOKS RELATED TO JAMESABBOTTMcNeill Whistler, to include: "The Life of Whistler", 2 vols, by E. R. and J. Pennell, Lippincott Co. , London, 1908, cloth bound boards, 8vo, hand cut pages, numerous...
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(20) BOOKS: WORKS OF HUME & FIELDING,18TH C.(lot of 20) Books by eighteenth-century British authors, all leather bound, with gilt lettering and accents, marbleized interior covers, including: (10 vols) "The History...
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Sixteen books bound in soft leatherfrom the New Century Library of the works of Charles Dickens (Thomas Nelson, London, etc., 1913)....
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THREE PRINTS INCLUDING NAUTICAL. Secondhalf 20th century copies after originals. "Outward Bound" and "Homeward Bound", ships near Liverpool after Pepprill's engravings. 18.25"h. 22.25"w. And "Portuguese Visitors...
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AN INTERESTING LOT OF NINE PIECES OFEPHEMERARELATED TO DUXBURY AND THE SHIPPING TRADE IN THE LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES. TO INCLUDE: 1) A BOUND LOG BOOK KEPT BY JOSEPH SOUL OF DUXBURY IN 1801 FOR THE...
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Lot of 11 Books by James Purdy MostSigned Lot of 10 books by James Purdy plus one book of essays about Purdy. One of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century avant garde Purdy...
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Joseph Rusling Meeker (American/NewJersey, 1827-1887; Active New Orleans) "Near Lake Pontchartrain", 1875, oil on canvas, 14" x 18", signed and dated lower left "JR Meeker 1875", titled, monogrammed and dated...
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Twenty-Two Decorative Bindings, withgilt-tooling, of Continental interest, including works of Goethe, the Memoires de la Comtesse de Boigne, volumes of Moliere's Plays, Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Gladstone's...
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* (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 12 booksbound in nineteenth-century gilt-tooled calf. [The Works of Thomas Babington Macaulay.] Boston: Estes and Lauriat n.d. 7 vols. 8vo 3/4 calf over marbled boards tooling to...
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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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An American Renaissance Carved and BurlWalnut Bedroom Suite c. 1860 Mitchell & Rammelsberg Cincinnati Ohio comprising a bedstead and princess dresser; the bedstead and mirror with cartouche crest floral and burl...
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The Holy Bible containing the Old andNew Testaments and the Apocrypha, R. H. Hinkley, Boston, 1923, This handsome and much-sought edition of the King James Bible was printed at the Merrymount Press and limited...
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* (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT) OFFICUM MORTUORUMIlluminated manuscript 89 leaves on vellum. 12mo bound in later brocaded velvet covers. Italian fifteenth-century. This small illuminated manuscript contains on the first...
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Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lotof Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and...
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