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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


Genealogy of Fourteen Families

617. Genealogy of Fourteen Families


Thayer, Elisha. "Family Memorial. Part I. Genealogy of Fourteen Families of the Early Settlers of New England, of the names of Alden, Adams, Arnold, Bass, Billings, Capen, Copeland, French, Hobart, Jackson, Paine, Thayer, Wales and White, from their First Settlement in this Country, to about the Middle of the last Century...Part II. Genealogy of Ephraim and Sarah Thayer, with their Fourteen Children..." Hingham: J. Farmer, Printer, 1835. Octavo, cloth. 180, 100 pp.

30/60 Sold: $40.25

History of Dedham

618. History of Dedham


Worthington, Erastus. "The History of Dedham, from the Beginning of its Settlement in September, 1635 to May 1827." Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1827. Octavo, 146 pp., contemporary paper covered boards, paper label.

100/200 Sold: $69.00

Miro

619. Miro


Miro, (Joan). "Miro Oiseau Solaire, Oiseau Lunaire, Etincelles." New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1967. Limited/numbered. Folio, printed wraps. One of a special edition of 75 copies signed by Miro and containing one original engraving (triptych). The triptych is NOT signed and numbered as it should be from this edition. It is a replacement from the larger edition (Cramer #117, pg 300). The cover is a pochoir done by the artist and produced by the Studio Arte.

200/400 Sold: $241.50

Renoir

620. Renoir


Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Renoir." Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1929. Quarto, red cloth, illustrated, 448 pp.

75/150 Sold: $57.50

Pablo Picasso

621. Pablo Picasso


Goeppert, Sebastian; Goeppert-Frank, Herma; Cramer, Patrick. "Pablo Picasso, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonne." Geneva: Patrick Cramer, 1983. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, publisher's slipcase, 425 pp., profusely illustrated.

125/250

Le Corbusier Oeuvre Complete

622. Le Corbusier Oeuvre Complete


Le Corbusier. "Le Corbusier Oeuvre Complete." Zurich: Editions d' Architecture, 1995. 8 volume set complete. Cloth, oblong octavos in dust jackets, housed in publisher's slipcase. Text in French. All volumes remain unopened in shrinkwrap, slipcase shows some wear at corners and light soiling.

250/500 Sold: $437.00

Henry Moore Sketchbook 1928

623. Henry Moore Sketchbook 1928


Moore, Henry. HENRY MOORE SKETCHBOOK 1928, The West Wind Relief. Much Hadham: Raymond Spencer Company Limited, 1982. Limited Facsimile Edition "B" (#65 of 75 copies), Signed in pen by Moore. The Facsimile sketchbook along with a catalogue by Alan G. Wilkinson is housed in a Solander box of handmade paper. Lacking Moore etching.

400/600

Joan Miro Lithographe IV

624. Joan Miro Lithographe IV


(Miro). "Joan Miro: Lithographe IV, 1969-1972." Paris: Maeght, (1981). Limited #47 of 150 copies. Quarto, wraps, unsewn in publisher's clamshell box. 208 pp., illustrated with 5 original color lithographs.

250/500 Sold: $368.00

Au Moins Soyez Discret

625. Au Moins Soyez Discret


Lover and Robert Bonfils. "Au Moins Soyez Discret." Paris: Georges Cres, 1919. Small quarto, wraps, uncut. Limited #192 of 500 copies. 17 full page, pochoir illustrations by Robert Bonfils.

125/250 Sold: $109.25

Le Septieme Chant (illustrated book)

626. Le Septieme Chant (illustrated book)


Jouffroy, Alain. "Le Septieme Chant." Illustrated by Andre Masson. Paris: Societe International d'Art XXe Siècle, 1974. Limited edition folio, unsewn in publisher's chemise and slipcase. 41 pp. Contains four original full-page etchings with aquatint (one in color) by MASSON, printed on Arches paper by Crommelinck. Text in French. Limited numbered first edition of 175. Signed and numbered in the colophon by Masson and Jouffroy. This is one of 20 examples numbered H.C., numbered example H.C. XVI.

1,000/1,500

Two Illustrated Books

627. Two Illustrated Books


n.a. "The Chatterbox Quartette." New York: R. Worthington, 1882. Quarto, cloth in pictorial paper boards. Illustrated. Fair, shaken, rubbed and worn, corner of rear board damaged. Rowlandson, Thomas. "The Beauties of Boswell." San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1942. Limited Edition of 250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Oblong quarto, cloth, illustrated with 10 loose plates. Exterior shows some wear, interior clean and bright.

50/100 Sold: $46.00

Shepheards Calender

628. Shepheards Calender


Spenser, Edmund. "Shepheards Calender." London: Cresset Press, 1930. Limited #212 of 350 copies, quarto. Quarter vellum with silk boards, teg, deckle edges, hand-made paper. xxiii, 133, [1] pp., illustrated by John Nash.

200/350 Sold: $80.50

Early Works of Edwin Landseer with a Thomas Landseer Sketch laid-in

629. Early Works of Edwin Landseer with a Thomas Landseer Sketch laid-in


n.a. "Early Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Artist, Illustrated by Photographs of Sixteen of His Most Popular Works, with a Complete List of His Exhibited Pictures." London: Bell and Daldy, 1869. Quarto. Full red morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers, aeg, gilt and blind decorative embossing on boards and spine. 80 pp., illustrated. Thomas Landseer drawing laid-in. Thomas Landseer (British 1795-1880) "Several Studies of a foot," double-sided drawing in graphite and brown chalk. Landseer was known for his watercolors of British genre, this sketch is from one of his sketch books, dated 1813. The sketchbook was purchased from Kenneth Rendell c.1977. Our client still has the sketch book. It is not certain that the script is by Landseer, however the drawings are guaranteed to be by his hand. Measures appx 6" x 12".

300/400 Sold: $310.50

Flowers Personified

630. Flowers Personified


Cleaveland, N. "Flowers Personified: Being a Translation of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animees." New York: R. Martin, 1847. Thick octavo, 152 pp., illustrated with 44 hand-colored, steel engraved plates.

400/600 Sold: $471.50

Rowlandson the Caricaturist

631. Rowlandson the Caricaturist


Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the Caricaturist." New York: J. W. Bouton, 1880. Two volumes, quartos. 3/4 blue morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and decoration, teg. 378, 454 pp., illustrated.

125/200 Sold: $143.75

Thomson's Seasons

632. Thomson's Seasons


Thomson, James. "The Seasons." London: Printed by and for T. Chapman, 1795. Octavo, Full red calf, marbled endpapers, 233 pp., illustrated with fourteen engravings.

50/100 Sold: $51.75

Man of Feeling

633. Man of Feeling


[Henry Mackenzie]. "The Man of Feeling." London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. Small Octavo. Full calf, engraved frontis, 268 pp.

75/150 Sold: $34.50

Walton's Lives

634. Walton's Lives


Walton, Izaak. "The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson." Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1805. Two volumes. Small octavos, half calf with marbled boards. 389, 355 pp.

40/80 Sold: $40.25

History of London

635. History of London


Chamberlain, Henry. "Compleat History and Survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, &c." London: 1770. Quarto, full calf (rebacked). 682 pp., plus index. Note: this copy LACKING engraved plates and title page.

50/100 Sold: $97.75

Volney's Ruins

636. Volney's Ruins


Volney, M. "The Ruins: or A Survy of the Revolutions of Empires." London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792. Octavo, rebacked in quarter cloth with paper covered boards, 400 pp.

100/200 Sold: $120.75

Sketches of India

637. Sketches of India


(An Officer). "Sketches of India: Written by an Officer for Fire-side Travellers at Home." London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Octavo. Half calf with marbled boards, 297 pp.

75/125 Sold: $92.00

Marcus Aurelius

638. Marcus Aurelius


Rendall, Gerald (translator). "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself." London: MacMillan and Co., 1932. 12mo. Full calf, gilt, aeg. 167 pp.

40/80 Sold: $28.75

Selborne

639. Selborne


White, Gilbert. "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with The Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations, extracted from his papers." London: Printed for J. and A. Arch; Longman and Co.; Baldwin and Cradock; et. al., [1837]. New Edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. Octavo, full calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, marbled endpapers and edges. 640 pp., illustrated with woodcut vignettes.

75/150 Sold: $92.00

Works of Oscar Wilde

640. Works of Oscar Wilde


Wilde, Oscar. "The Works of Oscar Wilde." New York: Lamb Publishing, 1909. 14 volumes. Sunflower Edition. Small octavos, tan buckram, teg.

100/200 Sold: $218.50

Shakspeare Set

641. Shakspeare Set


(Shakspere); Charles Knight (editor). "Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere." London: Charles Knight and Co., n.d. 8 volumes complete. Octavo, 3/4 morocco on marbled boards, raised bands, gilt panels, teg. Illustrated with engraved vignettes.

200/400 Sold: $529.00

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