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November 2004 Fine Arts & Antiques Auction Catalog

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Lots

Antiquities
1-10
11-14
Paintings
15-29
30-44
45-59
60-74
75-89
90-102
Works on Paper
103-122
123-142
143-162
163-182
183-202
203
Russian Enamel & Sterling Silver
204-218
219-233
234-248
249-263
264-278
Sculpture
279-288
Porcelain & Ceramics
289-303
304-318
319-333
334-348
349-361
Glass
362-371
372-381
382-387
Fine Jewelry
388-397
398-407
408-417
418-427
428-437
438-447
448-455
Furniture
456-465
466-475
476-480
Lighting
481-490
491-500
501
Napoleonic Collection: Books, Sculpture & Art
502-511
512-521
522-524
Decorative Arts
525-539
540-554
555-569
570-584
585-597
Orientalia
598-607
608-617
618-627
628-637
638-642
Estate Oriental Carpets
643-652
653-662
663-672
673-674
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
675-684
685-694
695-704
705-714
715-724
725-733
Ephemera, Autographs & Photography
734-743
744-745


A Lot of Six Art Reference Books

715. A Lot of Six Art Reference Books


Lot includes: 1) Pearson, Ralph M. Experiencing American Pictures. New York/ London: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1943. 234 pp. ill. Bound with ark blue fabric and dust jacket. 2) Mainstreams of Modern Art. New York: Simon and Schuster. 576 pp. ill. Bound with blue fabric. 3) Bertram, Anthony. Contemporary Painting in Europe. New York: The Studio Publications Inc. ca. 1940. 144 pp. B/w and col. ill. Bound in beige fabric with red lettering and dust jacket. 4) Schorske, Carl E. Fin-De-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1980. 378 pp. ill. Bound with light beige and gilding with dust jacket. 5) Fischel, Oskar. Tizian: Des Meisters Gemälde in 284 Abbildungen. Stuttgart: Deutschen Veriags- Anstalt. 1911. 281 pp. ill. Bound with red leather and gilding. 6) Boswell, Peyton. Modern American Painting. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 166 pp. Col.ill. Bound with Blue fabric and dust jacket.

100/150 Sold: $40.25

Two Lots of Books (one 5 volume set)

716. Two Lots of Books (one 5 volume set)


Lot includes: 1) Andresen, Andreas. Der Deutsche Peintre- Graveur (German Graphic Artists Cataloged from 1560 to 1800). New York: Collectors Editions Ltd. n.d. Unabridged Republication of the 1864-78 Leipzig Edition. Vol I-V. Bound in red fabric. 2) Salaman, Malcolm C. The Great Painter-Etchers From Rembrandt to Whistler. Ed. Charles Holme. London: "The Studio" Ltd. 1914. 264 pp. Ill. Bound in green fabric with gold lettering.

50/100 Sold: $92.00

A Fourth Lot of Six  Hardback Books About Art

717. A Fourth Lot of Six Hardback Books About Art


Lot includes: 1) Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures 2) Drawings of the Masters: vol. French and Italian 3) A Treasury of Art Masterpieces 4) Art of the French Book 5) The Faber Library of Illuminate Manuscripts: The Rohan Book of Hours. 1) Mayor, A. Hyatt. Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1971. 752 b/w pr. Bound with green fabric with gilt lettering and dust jacket. 2) Ames, Winslow. Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings From the 15th to the 19th Century/ French Drawings Through Géricault. New York: Shorewood Publishers, Inc. 1963. 141 pp. B/w and col.ill. Bound with tan fabric with black letter and in slip cover. 3) Craven, Thomas. ed. A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: From the Renaissance to the Present Day. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1952. 327 pp. ill. Bound with black paper. 4) LeJard, André. ed. Art of the French Book. London: Paul Elek. 1947. 166 pp. B/w and col. ill. Bound with blue fabric. 5) Porcher, Jean. The Rohan Book of Hours. London: Faber and Faber. 1959. 32 pp. Col. pl. Bound with blue cloth with gilt letters, and dust jacket.

50/75 Sold: $40.25

Lot of Eight Art Books

718. Lot of Eight Art Books


Lot includes: 1) The International Style 2) The Color Revolution 3) Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Minature 4) Books in Manuscript 5) The Mortimer Brandt Collection of Medieval Manuscript Illuminations 6) The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting 7) Medieval and Rennaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery 8) Gatherings in Honor of Dorothy E. Miner. 1) The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400. Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: 1962. 313 pp. ill. Paper back. 2) Cate, Phillip Dennis and Sinclair Hamilton Hitchings. The Color Revolution: Color Lithography in France, 1890-1900. Rutgers University: 1978. 146 pp. B/w and col. ill. Paper back. 3) Randall, Lillian M.C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Minature: Highlights from the Collection of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: 1984. 40 color plates. Paper backed. 4) Madan, Falconer. Books in Manuscript: A Short Introduction to their study and Use. New York: Empire State Book Company. 1927. 208 pp. ill. Bound in brown fabric. 5) Bober, Harry. The Mortimer Brandt Collection of Medieval Manuscript Illuminations. New York: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1966. 63 pp. ill. Paperbacked. 6) Marrow, James H. The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. New York: George Braziller, Inc. The Pierpoint Morgan Library. 1990. 318 pp. B/w and col. ill. Paper back. 7) Randall. Medieval and Rennaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, Book I (France, 875-1420). Baltimore. Bound with blue fabric and gilt lettering. 8) McCracken, Ursula E. Gatherings in Honor of Dorothy E. Miner. Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery. 1974. 353 pp. ill. Bound in blue fabric with gilt lettering.

100/150 Sold: $57.50

A Second Lot of Eight Hardback Art Books

719. A Second Lot of Eight Hardback Art Books


Lot includes: 1) Simone Martini 2) Paolo Uccello 3) French Impressionists 4) The Real World of the Impressionists 5) Impressionist Prints 6) The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878-1882 7) Lovers in Art 8) L'Europe Du XVII Siècle: L'Art et la Culture. 1) Carli. Enzo. Simone Martini. Milan: Amilcare Pizzi Editore. 1959. B/w and color pl. Bound with cream paper, dust jacket and slip cover. 2) D'Ancona, Paolo. Paolo Uccello. Milan: Amilcare Pizzi Editore. 1959. B/w and color pl. Bound with cream paper, dust jacket and slip cover. 3) Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York: The Hyperion Press. 1944. 192 pp. ill. Bound with orange fabric. 4) Le Pichon, Yann. The Real World of the Impressionists: Paintings and Photographs 1848-1918. New York: Harrison House. 1983. 285 pp. B/w and col.ill. Bound with red fabric and gilt lettering and dust jacket. 5) Passeron, Roger. Impressionist Prints. Seaucus, N.J.: Wellfleet Press. 1974. 223 pp. B/w and col. ill. Bound with peach fabric. 6) Isaacson, Joel. The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878-1882. University of Michigan Museum of Art . 1980. 220 pp. ill. Bound with blue material with silver letters. 7) Johnson, Meredith. Lovers in Art. New York: Portland House. 1990. 176pp. Col ill. Bound in dusty pink fabric and dust jacket. 8) Schönberger, Arno and Halldor Soehner. L'Europe Du XVII Siècle: L'Art et la Culture. Paris: Éditions des Deux-Mondes. 1960. 366 pp. B/W and col. pl. Bound with green fabric with gilt decoration.

125/175 Sold: $46.00

A Lot of Nine Art Books

720. A Lot of Nine Art Books


Lot includes: 1)Enrichissements: 1961-1973 2) The Visconti Hours 3) La Librairie de Charles V 4) Katalog einer Musik-Sammlung 5) The Illuminated Manuscript 6) The De Lévis Hours and the Bedford Workshop 7) Gotische Buchmalerei 8) The International Style 9) Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1) Bibliothèque Nationale. Enrichissements: 1961-1973. Paris, 1974. 376 pp. ill. Soft cover. 2) Meiss, Millard and Edith H. Kirsch. The Visconti Hours: Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence. London: Thames and Hudson. 1972. 262 pp. Col. ill. w/ gilt. Bound with blue cloth with gilt printing and in slip cover. 3) Bibliothèque Nationale. La Librairie de Charles V. Paris. 1968. apprx 176 pp. B/w and col. pl. Soft cover bound with white paper. 4) Zeileis, Friedrich Georg. Katalog einer Musik-Sammlung. Gallspach 1992. 240 pp. ill. Bound with marbled paper. 5) Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. Oxford: Phaidon. 1979. 80 pp. B/w and Col. ill. Bound with black fabric and dust jacket. 6) Meiss, Millard. The De Lévis Hours and the Bedford Workshop. New Haven: Yale University Library. 1972. apprx 50 pp. ill. Bound with orange fabric. 7) Boeckler, Albert. Deutsche Buchmalerei Der Gotik. Tausend. 1966. 79 pp. Soft cover bound with purple paper with grey letters and dust jacket. 8) The Walters Art Gallery. The International Style: The Arts In Europe Around 1400. Baltimore. 1962. 313 pp. ill. Soft cover bound with white paper and dust jacket. 9) The Baltimore Museum of Art. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baltimore. 1949. 228 pp. ill. Soft cover bound with blue paper and silver gilt letters.

100/175 Sold: $92.00

Lot of Five Hardback Books About Art

721. Lot of Five Hardback Books About Art


Lot includes: 1) Rosenberg, Adolf. Raffael Des Meisters Gemälde in 202 Abbildungen. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. 1905.168 pp. ill. Bound in read fabric with gilt lettering. 2) Berenson, Bernard. Lorenzo Lotto: Complete Edition with 400 Illustrations. New York: Garden City Books. 1956. 477 pp. b/w and col. pl. Bound with maroon fabric with dust jacket. 3) Tietze, Hans. Titian: The Paintings and Drawings with Three Hundred Illustrations. London: The Phaidon Press. 1950. 414 pp. ill. Bound with beige fabric with brown lettering. 4) Tintoretto: The Paintings and Drawings with Three Hundred Illustrations. London: The Phaidon Press. 1948. b/w and col. pl. 383 pp. Bound with beige fabric with brown lettering.

50/100 Sold: $63.25

Lot of Eight Books About Art

722. Lot of Eight Books About Art


Lot includes: 1) Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards 2) Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. 3) Essential Impressionists 4) The Book of Kells 5) Ottonian Book Illumination: A Historical Study 6) The Visions of Tondal 7) In Remembrance of Creation 8) James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years. 1) Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1966. 83 pp. B/w and col. ill. Bound with red fabric with gilt decoration and plastic dust jacket. 2) Mino, Yutaka. Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1980. 264 pp. ill. Soft cover. 3) Cunningham, Antonia. Essential Impressionists. Bath: Dempsey Parr. 2000. 256 pp. Col ill. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4) Sullivan, Edward. The Book of Kells. London: The Studio, Ltd. 1927. 72 pp. Col pl. Bound with tan fabric. 5) Mary-Harting. Ottonian Book Illumination: A Historical Study. Part One: Themes. London: Harvey Miller Publishers. 1991. 271 pp. B/w and col. ill. Bound with maroon fabric and dust jacket. 6) The Visions of Tondal. pub: Getty. 7) Berkowitz, David Sandler. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham: The Brandeis University Press. 1968. 211 pp. ill. Bound with light grey leather. 8) Freund, Gisèle Freund and V.B. Carleton. James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years. London: Cassell. 1965. 177 pp. 117. b/w photo. Bound with blue fabric and dust jacket.

100/150 Sold: $69.00

Lot of Sixteen Books and Catalogues About Art

723. Lot of Sixteen Books and Catalogues About Art


Lot includes: 1) The Wormsley Library: A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, KBE. London: Maggs Bros. 1999. 178 pp. Col. ill. Soft cover. 2) Friedländer, Max J. and Jacob Rosenberg. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach. Secaucus: Wellfleet Press. 1978. apprx 203 pp. Col and b/w ill. Hardcover bound with black fabric and dust jacket. 3) Kren, Thomas. Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal. Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum. 1992. 271 pp. ill. Soft cover. 4) Davies, Peter. The Sculpture of John Milne. London: Belgrave Gallery. 2000. 96 pp. Col and b/w ill. Bound with grey fabric. 5) Basel, Kunstmusem. Claude Monet: Nympheas: Impression Vision. 1986. 181 pp. B/w and col. ill. Soft cover. 6) Christie's Catalogue. Mauerbach: Items Seized by the Nazis to be Sold for the Benefit of the Victims of the Holocaust. Vienna. 1996. 403 pp. B/w and col. ill. 7) Cummings, Paul. Joseph Goldyne. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1989. 112 pp. Col. ill. Soft cover. 8) Die Zauberflöte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 1965. 76 pp. B/w and col. ill. Soft cover. 9) Chadwick: Recent Sculpture. Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd. 1978. 20 pp. ill. Soft cover. 10) Hermann Blumenthal: 1905-1942. Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG. 1992. 71 pp. B/w and col. ill. Soft cover with dust jacket. 11) Hommage à Menzel. Deutsche und französische Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Ölskizzen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG. 1997. 16pp. B/w and col. ill. soft cover. 12) Pastelle Von Degas Bis Matta. Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG. 1988. 18 pp. Col. ill. Soft cover with dust jacket. 13) Edouard Vuillard: Intérieurs et Paysages de Paris. 1992. Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG. 30 pp. Col. ill. Soft cover with dust jacket. 14) Paula Modersohn- Becker: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG. 1992. Col. ill. 39 pp. Soft cover with dust jacket. 15) Odilon Redon: 1840-1916. Museum Villa Stuck. Mäander. 1986. 130 pp. B/w and col. ill. 16) Lobo: Skulpturen. Galerie Nathan Zürich. 1996. 43 pp. Soft cover.

150/300 Sold: $132.25

Lot of Twelve Art Reference Books

724. Lot of Twelve Art Reference Books


Lot includes: 1) Westwood, J. O. The Art of Illuminated Manuscripts: Illustrated Sacred Writings. London: Bracken Books. 1988. apprx 250 pp. Col ill. Bound with blue fabric and dust jacket. 2) Weiner, Douglas. Tibetan and Himalayan Woodblock Prints. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1974. 65 pp. ill. Soft cover. 3) Underverk, Konstens. Fra Angelico. Stockholm. 1954. apprx 100 pgs. Col. ill. Bound with grey fabric with red lettering and dust jacket. 4) Pächt, Otto. The Master of Mary of Burgundy. London: Faber and Faber Limited. 1947. 120 pp. ill. Bound with grey fabric. 5) Miniatures of the Renaissance. Vatican City. 1950. 160 pp. ill. Soft cover. 6) Harrison, Ann Tukey, ed. The Danse Macabre of Women. Kent: The Kent State University Press. 1994. 161 pp. ill. Bound with black fabric. 7) Smith, Rex Alan. The Carving of Mount Rushmore. New York: Abbeville Press. 1985. 415 pp. ill. Bound in brown fabric with silver gilt decoration. 8) Arwas, Victor. Berthon and Grasset. London: Academy Editions. 1978. 144 pp.B/w and col. ill. Soft cover. 9) Millar, Eric G. The Parisian Miniaturist, Honoré. New York: Thomas Yoseloff. 1959. 31 pp. Col. pl. Bound in yellow fabric with gilt lettering and dust jacket. 10) Hoffmann, Konrad. The Year 1200. Ed I: The Exhibition. Ed II: A Background Survey. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970. Ill. Soft cover. 11) Mathews, Thomas and Roger S. Wieck. eds. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library. 1994. 229 pp. ill. Soft cover.

150/200 Sold: $109.25

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