- ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE SET OF THREE SIGNED
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE SET OF THREE SIGNED LETTERS Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937), three signed letters. Each ALS is 2 pages. Paine was the biographer to Mark Twain. Three letters in period envelopes spanning 12 years. With US stamps: Scott numbers 279, 319 and 332. First letter isdated March 2, 1901 and is a letter to a friend thanking them for some clips. The second letter is dated December 1908 is a personal letter thanking the addressee for a note received about ?The Tent Dwellers.? The Tent Dwellers is a book by Albert Bigelow Paine, chronicling his travels through inland Nova Scotia on a trout fishing trip. The last letter is dated November 16, 1912 thanking the addressee for his pleasant words and for his lifelong friendship and wishing them well. Good personal content and comes with original purchase slip from 1979. The letters are written boldly with strong signatures.
- CHARLES DICKENS SIGNED LETTER TO A FRIEND,
CHARLES DICKENS SIGNED LETTER TO A FRIEND, 1857 This ALS 4 page boldly written and signed, only on one page, in blue ink. The letter is dated Nov 30th,1857 from Tavistock House. Charles Dickens leased Tavistock House in Bloomsbury for the period 1851-1860. This letter was penned to Mrs. Douglas William Jerrold, a close family friend. Douglas William Jerrold died at his own house, Kilburn Priory, in London on 8 June 1857 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery, where Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray were pall-bearers. The contents reveals Dickens helping in assisting Mrs. Jerrold in obtaining an annuity and pledging to pay by defraying out of a fund. Fine example of Dickens strong friendship.
- THREE EARLY BOOKSReflections on Courtship
THREE EARLY BOOKSReflections on Courtship and Marriage in Two Letters To a Friend: Wherein A Practicable Plan is Laid Down for Obtaining and Securing Conjugal Felicity To Which Are Added, A Letter To A Very Young Lady, On Her Marriage , by Dean Swift, and, An Essay On Jealousy In Two Discourses By Joseph Addison, Esq., Harrisburg, Allen and Wyeth, 1792, 6 1/4" x 4", together with Views of the Campaigns of the North-Western Army , by Samuel R. Brown, Burlington, Samuel Mills, 1814, 6 3/4" x 4", and Practical Horse Farrier; or, The Traveller's Pocket Companion. Shewing the Best Method to Preserve the Horse in Health , by William Carver, Philadelphia, McCarty & Davis, 1820, 6 3/4" x 4".
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- "NAPLES AND THE CAMPAGNA FELICE" (1815,
"NAPLES AND THE CAMPAGNA FELICE" (1815, ILLUSTRATED)Lewis Engelbach
Naples and the Campagna Felice, in a series of letters addressed to a friend in England in 1802
First edition, 1815
Pub. R. Ackermann (London)
Octavo, 10 1/4" x 6 7/8"
400 pages, featuring 16 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson, as well as two maps (one fold-out map of the Gulf of Naples, one map of the Island of Capri). Covered in the original brown cloth with gilt spine, found in protective clear plastic with a vintage custom cloth case.
Condition
The cover is generally worn but good, and the binding remains very good. The text block is very good as well, with only occasional minor issues (such as folds or smudges).
- RARE WEST TENNESSEE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER,
RARE WEST TENNESSEE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, LUCY MACON GREE...Rare West Tennessee Needlework Sampler, stitched by Lucy Macon Green and dated 1842, silk on linen. Strawberry border enclosing five rows of alphabets and a geometric border over a signature line, LUCY M. GREEN AGE 11 YEARS 1842; two stitched conjoined hearts beside a verse, "Celestial happiness when'er she stoops / To visit earth one shrine - the goddess finds / And one alone to make her sweet amends / For absent heav'n the bosom of a friend." Below is a row of stitched numbers and geometric floral motifs, and the names of her parents, Simon W. Green and Mary M. Green, brother Joseph T. Green, and twin sister Marianna (Mary) H. Green. 1934 note en verso from the stitcher's daughter, bequeathing it to a friend, along with a photograph of a period painting of a woman said to be Lucy Macon Green Wright. Housed in a later ebonized molded frame. Sight: 16" H x 17" W. Framed: 18" H x 18 3/4" W. Note: This sampler, one of fewer than 20 known to have been made in West Tennessee, has been documented by the Tennessee Sampler Survey. Lucy Macon Green and her twin sister Marianna Hunt Green were born in Warren or Guildford County, NC on March 3, 1831 to Simon W. Green (1805-1842) and Mary Hunt Seymour Macon (1809-1840). Around 1835 the family moved to Hardeman County, Tennessee, but Lucy's parents both died about five years later. Her father's will shows he owned 41 slaves and a vast amount of livestock at the time of his death. Lucy likely made her sampler at the Female Academy in Jackson in 1842, the same year her father died. She and her sister were then raised by a guardian, a maternal uncle named Dr. John Tubb Macon, and continued their education at the Jackson Female Academy (which became the Memphis Conference Female Institute in 1844). Lucy met Dr. Weldon Edwards Wright (himself an orphan) while visiting friends in Memphis. They married in 1854 and after a brief time in Princeton, Arkansas, moved to Little Rock. There he purchased the home of Sen. Solon Borland, and the couple raised four children including Sally Lea Wright Brame (1863-1944), who is believed to have inherited this sampler and gifted it to a friend (see note en verso of sampler). We are grateful to the Tennessee Sampler Survey for providing a packet of genealogical information on Lucy Macon Green Wright, which is available to the winning bidder.
Private Tennessee collection.
Condition:
Fading, particularly to family member's names and row of numbers; some losses to black thread, primarily in alphabet lines; light toning. Not examined out of frame; does not appear to be adhered to backing.
- 1849 PJ MENE WALL SCULPTURE BIRDSAntique
1849 PJ MENE WALL SCULPTURE BIRDSAntique 2 dimensional framed plaster wall sculpture signed PJ Mene & dated 1849 (twice) depicting dead game birds under convex glass. Pencil signed by Mene as a presentation gift to a friend. 16 x 10.5 x 2.75 in deep. Some cracks/imperfections. (Pierre Jules Mene 1810-1879 was a realistic French wildlife sculptor).
- COLLECTION OF FINE ANTIQUE LEATHERBOUND
COLLECTION OF FINE ANTIQUE LEATHERBOUND BOOKS, MOSTLY BRITISH To include: The Spectator (London: J. & R. Thompson and S. Draper, 1753), eight volumes complete, 12mo (6-5/8 in.), full calf, raised bands and gilt on spine, marbled endpapers (moderate wear and chipping; binding tight); The Rambler (London: A. MIllar & others, 1763), four volumes complete, 12mo (6-3/4 in.), full calf, raised bands and gilt to spines, owner's library plate on front pastedowns, owner's note stating the set came from a James F. Meegan sale in Washington, D.C., 27 November 1933 (intact with tight binding, minor leather losses to bottom of one spine); Rousseau, J. J. Julian: or The New Eloisa From the French. (Edinburgh: J. Bell, J. Dickson, C, Elliot, 1773), three volumes 12mo (7 in.), full calf, raised bands and gilt to spine, marbled page ends (a clean set with normal light aging); Malcom, Howard. Dictionary of Important Names, Objects, and Terms Found in the Holy Scriptures (Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1830),12mo (5-7/8 in.), full calf with gilt, author inscribed to a friend (very good condition); Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: the National Illustrated Library, n.d., 1842), five volumes complete, small octavo (7-5/8 in.), three-quarter leather over linen, marbled endpapers, leaves with gilt top edge (light soiling to boards; minimal shelf wear).
- WAR OF 1812, SOLDIER'S LETTER, RISQUE
WAR OF 1812, SOLDIER'S LETTER, RISQUE CONTENTLetter from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, soldier to a friend in Virginia, dated September 1812. Mentions Col. Coles and their hospitable treatment by a Dutch settlement along the Susquehanna. Once drinks were offered to them, "... unfortunately it was my turn to mount guard, which put it completely out of my power to attend their home and drink a little wine with them ... however, the old horse [presumably the colonel] and the rest of the officers gallanted them about the camp in stile ... wehave a good deal of fun on the road shaging [sic] the dutch girls ..." Letter (opened) measures about 10" x 16". This document is one of several dozen important signed pieces in today's sale that were part of a large collection of American historical documents from 1650 through WWII. The estate collection, assembled from about 1920-1960, has never been offered for sale at auction. Some separations and bleed. See images. This item can be shipped in-house.
- NATIVE AMERICAN MARIA POVEKA MARTINEZ
NATIVE AMERICAN MARIA POVEKA MARTINEZ (1887-1980) SAN ILDEFONSO BLACKWARE POTTERY JAR 3"H X 4"DIAM.Native American Maria Poveka Martinez (1887-1980) San Ildefonso blackware pottery jar, signed "Maria Poveka" under base. Highly burnished pottery jar was likely made in the 1950s. The signature Maria Poveka on undecorated blackware, according to Richard Spivey, was a signature started in 1956 and abandoned in the mid-1960s, so it lasted only a decade. However, in 1959, Popovi Da started adding a date to the pottery signatures, even those signed Maria Poveka. That fact would shorten the date of undated Maria Poveka pottery to the 1956-1959 dates. From The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez, by Richard L. Spivey (1937 - 2011) From the Jacket: The ceramicist Maria Poveka Martinez (1887-1980), known to the world as "Maria," continues, more than two decades after her death, to be the most famous and recognizable Native American artist ever known. Partly it is that her pots, humbly called, are breathtaking works of art no matter the comparison. It is also true that by virtue of her enormously generous spirit and radiant being she managed a kind of approachability that most legends protect themselves against. We feel we know her when her pots have touched us, and out of this exchange something is better in this world. The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez is Richard L. Spivey's masterwork as well, his tribute to a friendship with a great artist that began with Maria's son Popovi Da and extended to Maria and to many of her family members who joined over the years in the collaborations that brought San Ildefonso ceramic art to the world while reviving its ancient roots for every generation of artist to come. Two hundred fine examples of Maria's pottery are reproduced, many heretofore hidden in private collections and museum storage. Among these are nine magnificent storage jars comprising the entirety of the artist's production in this form. The author's long association with the family yields reflections on the artist and her important collaborative relationships with Julian Martinez, their son Popovi Da, and daughter-in-law Santana Martinez. The artistic achievements of Maria and Julian's descendants document significant developments in Pueblo ceramics at San Ildefonso. Many of grandson Tony Da's works are assembled for the first time. All of the pottery types and design motifs are here in the best examples from a career that spanned some seventy productive years, along with their identifying signatures, but it is the container of Maria's life that holds it all with such heart. Dimensions: 3"H x 4"diam.
- COLLIER (J) GEMINI signed limited edition
COLLIER (J) GEMINI signed limited edition -/185 Ulysses Press 1931; a lesser edition of this book; and AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND 4/90 signed 1932 (3) Estimate ?80-120 Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Gorringes Conditions of Sale.Sold for ?50
- Nicola Marschall (Alabama/Kentucky 1829-1917)
Nicola Marschall (Alabama/Kentucky 1829-1917) "Portrait of a Woman" oil on canvas incised signature lower right Trovaioli Conservation Grand Bay Alabama stamp en verso 27 1/2 in. x 22 1/2 in. in an elaborate giltwood frame. Provenance: Collection of Jay Altmayer Mobile Alabama; gift to a friend descended in the family. Note: A talented portrait artist Nicola Marschall emigrated from Prussia to America in 1849. Arriving first in New Orleans Marschall eventually settled in Alabama where he opened a portrait studio and joined the faculty at Marion Female Academy. After the secession of the Southern states in January of 1861 the Confederate Constitutional Convention was held the following month in Montgomery Alabama; Marshall was asked to design the Confederate flag. In this work the beautiful young woman is posed amidst clouds suggesting that this is in fact a posthumous portrait. Due to the proliferation of deaths from epidemics or during childbirth numerous posthumous portraits in the mid 19th century were based on daguerreotypes and ambrotypes taken during the sitter's lifetime. Reference: Adams E. Bryding Editor Made in Alabama: A State Legacy Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham 1994 pp. 158-175.
- Pair of Nimschke-Style Engraved Smith
Pair of Nimschke-Style Engraved Smith & Wesson Model No.2 Revolvers Inscribed to D.B. Dyer .32 caliber RF 6'' octagonal barrels S/N 19189 S/N 17780. Nimschke-style engraving with nickel finish and pearl grips; both with custom pearl grips and contemporary hand-tooled Slim-Jim-style leather holsters. One gun originally cased in fancy rosewood box with brass corners and lined in maroon velvet lining. A near matching pair of the acclaimed rimfire No. 2 Army Smith & Wesson revolvers that first saw widespread service during the Civil War as a reliable personal weapon and later carried on the Western frontier by the likes of George Armstrong Custer and ?Wild Bill? Hickok. These guns were exquisitely engraved by the shop of superlative firearms engraver Louis D. Nimschke (1832-1904) and illustrate the perfect symmetry of his distinctive scrollwork design harmonious and masterfully executed albeit on the Smith and Wessons. Both pistols were originally cased in rosewood boxes and are identically inscribed ?D.B. Dyer? on the back strap. One gun bears the serial number 17780 and is confirmed by Jinks as having been made in 1864 and retailed by Smith & Wesson??Ts exclusive agent J.S. Storrs of New York City. The other pistol numbered 19189 was made slightly later and shows a variant pattern of Nimschke??Ts work on the frame barrel cylinder and butt strap. That both handsome pistols were once carried by Daniel B. Dyer (1849-1912) as a pair is evidenced by the matching black leather ''Slim Jim'' holsters custom-made with an identical flower-over-star pattern tooled into the leather with aesthetic reverse hook trigger guard. The right holster shows more wear than the left. Family recollection says that the Smith & Wessons were purchased by patriarch Captain George Randolph Dyer then serving as Quartermaster at Pilot Knob Missouri as a gift ??" possibly a birthday present ??" for his second son Daniel B. Dyer sometime after 1864. Parenthetically the family retains a gold cased pocket watch inscribed and presented to the older brother Captain George Dallas Dyer on the occasion of his 18th birthday in 1862 lending substance to gift story. Even though Daniel Dyer was a fifteen-year-old civilian he had been present at Fort Davidson ??" staying with his father ??" during the battle of Pilot Knob on September 27 1864 where Sterling Price sought to overwhelm the thin Federal defenses en route to St. Louis. Family history relates that young Daniel was captured at Pilot Knob and managed to escape after a few weeks. A plausible supposition is that Captain Dyer purchased the guns for his young son in recognition of that harrowing occasion. The pistols must certainly have accompanied Daniel Dyer to Baxter Springs Kansas in 1870 where he built a successful hardware and dry goods business in the sprawling cattle town. In 1880 Dyer took up a Federal appointment as Indian Agent at the newly created Quapaw Agency in the nearby Indian Territory. He had earlier accompanied General Sherman with William Cody as their scout to the Klamath Reservation in the Oregon Territory to relocate the remnants of the defeated Modoc tribe--about 165 men women and children held as prisoners of war--to the distant Oklahoma reservation. It is thought that during this time D. B. Dyer and the flamboyant plainsman who would be regaled as ''Buffalo Bill'' became lifelong friends and business associates. The Dyers moved to the Darlington Agency in 1884 near the newly constructed Fort Reno and walked into the middle of a simmering dispute between the restive Cheyenne and Arapaho bands and local cattlemen. The ranchers had purchased limited and cheap grazing rights on the reservation that provided income for the tribes but now began to encroach directly on Indian camps. Rejecting Dyer??Ts officious demands that they take up farming the hungry Indians began to steal cattle causing the angry ranchers to clamor for army intervention. Brow-beaten by the whites arrayed against them the Cheyenne led by the Dog Soldier faction grew surely and aggressive and ?threatened to go on the warpath.? The whites at the Darlington Agency immediately fled to safety of nearby Fort Reno while the Indians watched the darkened Dyer homestead for signs of the despised Indian Agent. Dyer only survived the incident thanks to a friendly half-breed who had convinced the cautious warriors that Dyer had ?already gone to the fort.? Unquestionably the pair of Smith and Wesson??Ts were cocked and ready as the Dyer family remained secreted until the cavalry came to the rescue. By the summer of 1885 Dyer??Ts days as an government Indian Agent were over. Dyer moved to Kansas City Missouri where he and a partner engaged in the real estate business reaping significant wealth and social status in relatively short order. The Dyers had brought with them a massive collection of Indian artifacts from the Darlington Agency ??" then regarded as little more than curiosities ??" which was displayed at the National Agricultural Exhibition in Kansas City in 1887. Today the Dyer collection is held ??" but not displayed ??" by the Kansas City Museum and is said to be the largest collection of period Cheyenne-Arapaho artifacts in the world. Lured to the newly opened Oklahoma Territory in 1887 by the prospect of fresh business opportunities Dyer dabbled briefly in territorial politics and was elected the first mayor of Guthrie Oklahoma before abruptly returning to Kansas City. Dyer had caught wind of a more promising venture in Augusta Georgia. Having lined up investors and secured capital he moved to Augusta in 1890 and quickly chartered the Augusta Street Railway Company. Financial reward was immediate and Dyer would go on to successfully parlay his railroad company into a multitude of holdings that included utilities real estate and the venerable Augusta Chronicle newspaper. Dyer soon commissioned an opulent twenty-seven room mansion in Augusta he named ?Château Le Vert? and thereafter alternated between his Georgia estate and the 41 acre river front manor in Kansas City called ?Clarendon.? In 1911 Dyer sold all of his Augusta interests and returned to Kansas City Missouri. On December 23 1912 at age sixty-two Daniel Dyer died of pneumonia. Woven into the rich tapestry draping the Gilded Age of Industrialists is the illustrious Daniel B. Dyer ??" a Captain of Industry. In describing his life??Ts success Dyer preferred a baseball metaphor stating matter-of-factly: ?Business is like playing baseball. I??Tve been lucky in hitting the ball.? He was brought back to the home of his father in Joliet Illinois where he was buried in Oakwood Cemetery the pair of Smith and Wesson??Ts a lasting legacy of his frontier roots and successful ascendancy in the West. Along with the pistols is a large cross section of intriguing ephemera ??"newspaper clippings letters pamphlets genealogy and photography??"relating to D.B. Dyer??Ts eminent life as a business mogul and respected philanthropist during the Gilded Age. The paper reflects Dyer??Ts privileged status during the last decade of his life and touches upon some of personal relationships he cemented with similarly high profile individuals including the American icon ?Buffalo Bill? Cody. Born on his father's rustic farm near Plainfield Illinois on March 21 1849 Dyer as a successful man expended considerable energy in documenting the extensive genealogy of his long and illustrious family tree an impulse not lost on his survivors who likewise compiled several files of florid newspaper clippings and printed obituaries after their patriarch??Ts demise and funeral in 1912. There are twelve different cabinet cards of the heavily bearded Dyer ranging from 1884 through at least 1911; all are obligatory formal poses mostly by Augusta photographers. Three of the portraits show the regal Major Dyer wearing a Georgia National Guard dress uniform GAR medals and presentation sword. From a historical perspective the most interesting photograph is the portrait of a younger D.B. in civilian suit wonderfully inked on verso ?D.B. Dyer/US Indian Agent/Cheyenne and Arapaho/Agency. I.T./May 2. 1884? with Kansas City MO imprint. Mrs. Ida Dyer??Ts later frontier classic Fort Reno does not even include her then-husband??Ts photograph from his time as Indian Agent. Two more photographs depict showman extraordinaire William Cody. One is an undated picture of the ubiquitous ?Buffalo Bill? and D.B. Dyer standing side-by-side ??" looking like twin brothers ??" with matching moustaches and goatees now aged silver-white. The other is a glossy contemporary print of Cody mounted in full regalia a later 20th century copy of an original photograph made up with a fabricated autograph by ?Buffalo Bill? to ?Col. Dyer dated Arizona Feb. 26 1911.? The extensive ephemera consists of fifty-eight large file folders dated 1898-1912 each tab having a brief handwritten description of the generally sparse contents contained therein. Twelve more folders are undated and comprise otherwise uncategorized drafts notes inventories clippings and letters. Among the most interesting material is a highly collectable engraved $1000 gold bond certificate for the Augusta Railway Company an interurban founded by Dyer in 1890 as his first business venture in that city. This fine example of scripophily is printed in rust and black with fabulous graphics the uncut document measuring 21 x 17 in. unfolded retaining all of the redeemable coupons. Dated February 1911 is a typed two page communication on the business letterhead of the Edison Storage Battery Company informing D.B. Dyer that ?converting existing carriages and wagons into electric vehicles? is ?impossible to carry??| into effect? from a cost standpoint. The iconic inventor Thomas A. Edison is listed as ?Company President.? From Mrs. William F. Cody and family is an actual black bordered death notice still in its original envelope dated January 16 1917 addressed to Miss Mabel E. Green a niece of D.B. Dyer. Also a large file relating to ?Buffalo Bill??Ts? gift in 1912 of his ?old Deadwood coach? to the local Kansas City Missouri DAR chapter. Two typed letters dated July 1911 (one a typed transcription of an original hand written letter) on the colorful heading of William F. Cody??Ts Campo Bonito Mining & Milling Company in which D.B. Dyer responds to Lieutenant jg. Robert. L. Ghormley USN giving the officer formal permission to marry his favorite niece Lucile Lyon. Vice Admiral Ghormley USN (1883-1958) later took command of SOPAC in April 1942 and planned the initial operation at Guadalcanal during the early days of World War Two. Another folder contains Daniel B. Dyer??Ts official paperwork related to his 1889 membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) a prestigious post-war organization populated exclusively by successful Civil War veterans and their male offspring. Lastly a selection of poems and illustrations by an obscure artist named Frank C. Roberts (1861-after 1924) that appears to have descended by marriage. The handwritten collection is bound in a modern folder (1997) and lists nineteen pieces of verse on a contents page written between 1895 and 1897 in Kansas City and Chicago. Frank Roberts is a virtual unknown who seems to have specialized in ?outdoor verse ? particularly ?the wild but restful forests of Canada? according to the only reference found on the Internet. Descended Directly in the Dyer Family Condition: Both revolvers have been lightly cleaned. Still retain some of the original nickel finish. Case is in excellent condition. Holsters show wear and use but are in excellent condition. Paper documents and photographs showing expected age and minor handling wear else undamaged.
- MARY ANDERSON RAMSAY WATERCOLOR AND
MARY ANDERSON RAMSAY WATERCOLOR AND GRAPHITE ON PAPER (Scottish 1896-1963) Castle illustration possibly for use in a pottery design. Image measures 5.5'' x 9.75'' unsigned with paper label attached verso stating that the drawing was given to a friend by Mary's husband. This lot includes a short biography of the artist. Set in a wood frame.
- Grand Old Party Close-Out Sale Broadside
Grand Old Party Close-Out Sale Broadside 1932 A satirical broadside lampooning the Republican Party for its failures over the administrations of Presidents Harding Coolidge and Hoover and reveling in the fact that power will soon be transferred to the Democrats and President Franklin D. Roosevelt following the election of 1932.? For example Lot 1 is One Political Machine: 1921 model badly in need of repair Lot 5 is One Billion Dollar Crime Wave: made to order old enough to wean sired by Volstead and damned by everybody managed by Al Capone and Lot 8 is Eleven Million Dinner Pails: All empty.? Period notes read Put out in Okla City before election and This sale went over big!? Did you vote this time the way I did? suggesting it was mailed by a gleeful Democrat to a friendly political rival. 8 x 12 in. Condition: Minor chipping at top center and very minor separation at folds.
- Tom Thumb's ''Fairy'' Carriage and Miniature
Tom Thumb's ''Fairy'' Carriage and Miniature Horses Sixth Plate Ambrotype Anonymous ca 1850-55 ambrotype of Tom Thumb's miniature carriage posed in a street before a white picket fence. While Tom is not visible the carriage is drawn by two miniature spotted ponies and is attended by a uniformed driver and footman (actually children). Several adults and children look on. Housed in a half leather case.Barnum had this miniature carriage specially built for his European tour in 1844 and it proved to be an enormous advertising smash. Bragging to a friend Barnum noted His carriage ponies & servants in livery...will the kill the public. They can't survive! It will be the greatest hit in the universe see if it ain't (Kunhardt et. al. 1995:60) While studio portraits of Tom and his carriage exist in stereoscopic form this is the first cased image we have seen of this remarkable attraction. Property of Tom Thumb's Personal Valet B. F. Sellers Condition: With slight wear to leather case all else in excellent condition.
- 1 vol. Patrick, Symon. The Parable
1 vol. Patrick, Symon. The Parable of The Pilgrims: Written to a Friend. London: Robert Wise for Francis Tyton, 1673. The Fourth Edition. 4to, old full dark brown calf, re-backed, red morocco spine label. Trimmed - no loss of text. Scattered minor spotting. Sheet of 20th-Century ink notes mtd. to front paste-down. 18th-Century owner's signature on verso of license leaf. Wing P-
- LANDSCAPE WITH LOG HOME (AMERICAN LATE
LANDSCAPE WITH LOG HOME (AMERICAN LATE 19TH CENTURY). Oil on panel inscribed in pencil on verso to a friend from ''Brownell'' in Tennessee dated January 15 1881. Evening landscape with a log home and a figure in front. Minor losses. 12''h. 20''w. in a gesso and gilt frame 17 3/4''h. 25 1/4''w.