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September 2003 Fine Art and Antiques Auction Catalog

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Lots

Antiquities
1-10
11-20
21-25
Fine Paintings
26-40
41-55
56-70
71-85
86-100
101-115
116-121
Works on Paper
122-141
142-161
162-181
182-201
202-221
222-223
Bronze
224-230
Orientalia
231-240
241-245
Silver
246-255
256-265
266-275
276-285
286-295
296-305
306
Furniture & Decorative Arts
307-316
317-326
327-336
337-346
347-356
357-366
367-375
Estate Jewelry
376-390
391-405
406-420
421-435
436-450
451-460
Oriental Carpets
461-470
471-480
Porcelain, Pottery & Ceramics
481-490
491-500
501-510
511-520
521-526
Glass
527-536
537-546
547-556
557-566
567-569
Objects D'Vertu
570-579
580-589
590-591
Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
592-616
617-641
642-666
667-691
692-716
717-736


Another lot of five Huxley titles

667. Another lot of five Huxley titles


Huxley, Aldous. "What Are You Going To Do About It? The Case for Constructive Peace." London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. 12mo, wraps. VG Huxley, Aldous. "Mortal Coils: A Play." New York: Harper & Brothers, (1948). Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. VG/G Huxley, Aldous. "World of Light: A Comedy In Three Acts." London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. G/G Huxley, Aldous. " Themes and Variations." London: Chatto & Windus, 1950. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. VG/G Huxley, Aldous. "Mortal Coils." London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Octavo, cloth lacking dj. VG

50/100 Sold: $46.00

Five Huxley titles

668. Five Huxley titles


Huxley, Aldous. "Island." London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG Huxley, Aldous. "Brave New World Revisited." New York: Harper & Brothers, (1958). Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG Huxley, Aldous. "Brief Candles." London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Octavo, cloth. VG Huxley, Aldous. "Science Liberty and Peace." New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG Huxley, Aldous (editor). "Encyclopedia of Pacifism." London: Chatto & Windus, 1937. Small Octavo, wraps. VG

50/100 Sold: $57.50

Seven Huxley Titles

669. Seven Huxley Titles


Titles include: Beyond the Mexique Bay (Harpers, 1934); Eyeless in Gaza (Harpers, 1936); After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (Harpers, 1939); Grey Eminence (Harper, 1941); Ends and Means (Harpers, 1937); Ends and Means (Chatto and Windus, 1937); The World of Aldous Huxley by Charles J. Rolo.

30/60 Sold: $17.25

Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D.

670. Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D.


Traherne, Thomas; Bertram Dobell (editor). "Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D., 1636?-1674, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts." London: Bertram Dobell, 1903. Octavo, cloth, gilt titles, deckle edges. xcii, 167 pp.

50/100 Sold: $11.50

Odes of Gray

671. Odes of Gray


Gray. "Odes." Strawberry-Hill: For R. & J. Dodsley, 1757. Quarto, 21 pp., THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY HORACE WALPOLE'S STRAWBERRY - HILL PRESS. Full red crushed morocco, with five raised bands, gilt title and date. Bound by Rivieve. A handsome copy of the first edition, with first issue points "Ilissus" on page 8:17, and with a comma after "Swarm" on page 16:19. Housed in modern clamshell box.

600/1,200 Sold: $345.00

Epitome of the Arts and Sciences

672. Epitome of the Arts and Sciences


N.A. "Epitome of the Arts and Sciences., Being a Comprehensive System of the Elementary Parts of an Useful and Polite Education: Adapted to the use of Schools in the United States." Philadelphia: William Duane, 1811. Second edition. Octavo. Full calf, illustrated by numerous engravings of subjects in natural history and a variety of statistical tables. 314 pp.

50/75 Sold: $28.75

Casa Guidi Windows

673. Casa Guidi Windows


Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem." London: Chapman & Hall, 1851. 12mo., half vellum with marbled boards, endpapers and edges. 140 pp.

75/125 Sold: $40.25

Browning's Christmas - Eve

674. Browning's Christmas - Eve


Browning, Robert. "Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day. A Poem." London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. Small octavo, cloth, blindstamped, yellow endpapers, 142 pp., plus 32 pp. of ads dated August 1849 at rear.

75/125 Sold: $40.25

Satyricon

675. Satyricon


Barclay, John. "Eurphonmionis Lusinini sive Joannis Barclaii Satyricon partes quinque cum Clari Accessit Conspiratio Anglicana." Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Elzevirios, 1637. 12mo., full red morocco, gilt decorations, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, engraved frontis. 717 pp.

50/100 Sold: $149.50

Buchstabir und Lesebuch

676. Buchstabir und Lesebuch


n.a. "Buchstabir und Lesebuch zum ersten Uaterricht der Kinder." Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, (1841). 12mo., printed paper boards, 64 pp.

50/75 Sold: $17.25

Ballads and Poems, 1915-1930

677. Ballads and Poems, 1915-1930


Benet, Stephen Vincent. "Ballads and Poems, 1915-1930." New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Limited/signed. Octavo, cloth in publisher's slipcase.

30/60 Sold: $51.75

In the Forest of Arden

678. In the Forest of Arden


Mabie, Hamilton Wright. "In the Forest of Arden." New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1906. Octavo, three-quarter morocco with marbled boards, gilt spine decorations. illustrated by Will Hlow.

40/80 Sold: $11.50

The Devil and The Lady

679. The Devil and The Lady


Tennyson, Alfred; Charles Tennyson (editor). "The Devil and The Lady." London: Macmillan and Co., 1930. Limited. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 67 pp.

30/60 Sold: $5.75

Elementary Treatise on Astronomy

680. Elementary Treatise on Astronomy


Gummere, John. "An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. In Two Parts. The First Containing, A Clear and Compendious View of the Theory; The Second, A Number of Practical Problems. To Which are Added, Solar, Lunar, and Other Astronomical Tables." Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1837. Second Edition, enlarged and improved. Octavo. Full calf, illustrated with 7 fold-out plates at rear. 373, 104 pp.

30/60 Sold: $46.00

Six Cookbooks

681. Six Cookbooks


n.a. "Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping." Marysville, Ohio: Buckeye Publishing Co., 1877. Octavo, cloth (rebound), 462 pp., paper is age-toned with some soiling. Les Classiques De La Table (boxed set). "Varietes Gourmandes" by Grimod De La Reyniere and "Physiologie Du Gout" by Brillat-Savarin (two volumes). Lausanne: Grand-Chene, 1951. Limited, wraps in slipcase. other titles include: The Art of Cooking and Serving by Sarah Field Splint; Every Day Cook Book edited by Elizabeth Knorr (wraps); A Calendar of Dinners by Marion Harris Neil; a la Rector, Unveiling the Culinary Mysteries of the world-famous George Rector.

30/60 Sold: $46.00

Two Private Press Books

682. Two Private Press Books


Breton, Nicholas. "The Twelve Moneths and Christmas Day From Fantastickes." New York: Clarke & Way, 1951. Limited. Cloth in slipcase, designs by Bruce Rogers. Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." with a preface by A.P. Herbert and Lithographs by mariette Lydis. Paris: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club by G. Govone, 1937. Limited/signed. Quarto, cloth, illustrated, 121 pp., slipcase seperated at seams.

50/100 Sold: $46.00

Xenophontis

683. Xenophontis


Xenophontis. "Xenophontis Quae Extant Opera." Henricus Stephanus, 1581. Tall quarto, later full morocco, gilt, Latin and Greek text, 584, 76, 428 pp., plus index.

250/500 Sold: $356.50

Sam, The Scaramouch

684. Sam, The Scaramouch


Hamm, C.M.; Mattox, A.H.; Thomson, Peter G. (editors). "Sam, The Scaramouch." Cincinnati: Sam Publishing Co., 1885. 52 bound issues of "Sam" magazine. Illustrated. ex-library.

100/200 Sold: $494.50

The Works of Sir John Vanbrugh

685. The Works of Sir John Vanbrugh


Vanbrugh, Sir John; Bonamy Dobree and Geoffrey Webb (editors). "Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh." Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited/numbered 833 of 1300 sets. Quartos, quarter blue buckram with paper-covered boards, deckle edge.

50/100 Sold: $23.00

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

686. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


Byron, Lord. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third." London: John Murray, 1816. Octavo, half calf with marbled boards, 75 pp., plus notes.

75/150 Sold: $63.25

Lot of 8 Poetry Books

687. Lot of 8 Poetry Books


Titles include: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands and More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands edited by Helps; Trifles in Verse by Cist; Walt Whitman by Perry; Mansions of the Skies by Chilton; 1914 and Other Poems by Brooke; Seventeen-Seventy-Six and Other Poems by Johnson; The Closing Scene by Woodmansee.

30/60 Sold: $17.25

Two Books of Poetry

688. Two Books of Poetry


Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. "Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in one volume." Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Large octavo, full calf, marbled endpapers. Foxing throughout. Bryant, William Cullen (editor). "The Family Library of Poetry and Song..." New York: Fords, Howard, and Hubert, 1880. Memorial Edition. Thick quarto, half calf, marbled endpapers, gilt titles, all edges gilt. 1065 pp.

50/100 Sold: $40.25

New Paths

689. New Paths


Beaumont, C.W. and M.T.H. Sadler (editors). "New Paths, Verse Prose Pictures, 1917-1918." London: C. W. Beaumont, 1918. Limited/signed. Octavo, cloth, illustrated by Anne Estelle Rice. 164 pp.

50/75 Sold: $46.00

Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg

690. Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg


(Alfred Rosenberg). "Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg." Chicago: Ziff-Davis, (1949). Translated from the German by Eric Posselt, commentaries by Serge Lang and Ernst von Schenck. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket, photo frontis, 328 pp.

50/100 Sold: $40.25

The Feet of The Young Men

691. The Feet of The Young Men


Kipling, Rudyard. "Feet of the Young Men." New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920. Photographically illustrated by Lewis R. Freeman. Limited/numbered/signed, #243 of 377 copies. Octavo, quarter vellum with cloth boards, gilt titles.

150/300 Sold: $195.50

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