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Winter Fine Art & Antique Auction Catalog

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Lots

Antiquities
1-10
11-13
Fine Paintings
14-23
24-33
34-43
44-53
54-63
64-73
74-83
84-93
94-95
Works on Paper
96-115
116-135
136-155
156-175
176-195
196-215
216-217
Sculpture
218-227
Russian Arts
228-237
238
Furniture
239-248
249-258
259-268
269-278
279-288
289-293
Decorative Arts
294-303
304-313
314-323
324-333
334-338
Silver
339-348
349-358
359-366
Fine Estate Jewelry
367-376
377-386
387-396
397-406
407-416
417-419
Porcelain and Ceramics
420-429
430-439
440-449
450-459
460-469
Glass
470-479
480-481
Orientalia
482-491
492-493
Carpets
494-503
504-513
514-521
Books and Ephemra
522-531
532-541
542-551
552-561
562-571
572-581
582-591
Antique Valentines
592-601
602-611
612-621
622-631
632-641


Lot of Three Books About Music

552. Lot of Three Books About Music


Lot includes: 1) St. John, Christopher, ed. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence. New York: The Fountain Press. 1931. 370 pp. 1st ed., number 872 out of 3,000 copies. Hard backed. Bound with green cloth, gilt decoration, pages un-trimmed. 2) Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. "The Star Spangled Banner". Washington: Government Printing Office. 1914. 115 pp with xxv b/w plates. Hard backed. Bound with red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 3) Bombet, L.A.C. The Lives of Hayden and Mozart with Observations on Metastasio and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. London: John Murray. 1818. 2nd ed. 496 pp. Hard backed. Bound with sage cloth.

100/150 Sold: $46.00

A Lot of Three Art Reference Books

553. A Lot of Three Art Reference Books


Lot includes: 1) Thomas, Marcel. The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Brazller. 1979. 119 pp. Soft cover. 2) Clark, Kenneth. Piero Della Francesca. London: Phaidon Press. 1951. 212 pp. B/w ill and col plates. Hard-backed. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and dust jacket. 3) Goldscheider, Ludwig. Michelangelo: Pittura, Scultura, Architettura. London: Phaidon Press. 1953. 227 pp. Bound in grey cloth with brown writing and dust jacket.

50/75 Sold: $28.75

Lot of Three Reference Books on Art

554. Lot of Three Reference Books on Art


Lot includes: 1) Bousquet, Jacques. Mannerism: The Painting and Style of the Late Renaissance. New York: Braziller. 347 pp. B/w ill and col plates. Hard-backed. Bound with blue fabric with brown lettering and dust jacket. 2) Clayton, Martin. Poussin: Works on Paper: Drawings from the Collection of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts. 1995. 208 pp. B/w and col ill. Soft- backed. 3) Woodward, John. Tudor and Stuart Drawings. London: Faber and Faber. 1951. 57 pp with 64 b/w pl. Bound with brown fabric and dust jacket.

75/125 Sold: $28.75

Lot of  Six Hard-Backed Art Books

555. Lot of Six Hard-Backed Art Books


Lot includes: 1)Huyghe, René. Larousse Encyclopedia of Byzantine and Medieval Art. New York: Prometheus Press. 1958. 416 pp. B/w and Col ill. Bound in black fabric with gilt design and dust jacket. 2) Bohatec, Miloslav. Illuminated Manuscripts. Prague Artia. 1970. Apprx 130 pp. B/w and col ill. Bound with white fabric with gilt design and dust jacket. 3) Botticelli. Vienna: Phaidon Press. 1937. Apprx 130 pp. B/w and col pl. Bound with beige fabric and brown lettering and dust jacket. 4) Giononi-Visani, Maria. Giorgio Giulio Clovio: Miniaturist of the Renaissance. New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd. 1980. 110 pp. B/w and col ill. Bound in beige fabric with gilt lettering on spine and dust jacket. 5) Phœbus, Gaston. The Hunting Book. London: Regent Books, Hightext. 1984. 104 pp. Bound with orange fabric with gilt lettering on the spine and dust jacket. 6) Brise, Gabriel. The Illuminate Naples Bible. London: Miller Graphics. 1979 124 pp. Bound with brown fabric and gilt lettering on spine and dust jacket.

100/150 Sold: $69.00

Lot of Four Hard-Backed Art Books

556. Lot of Four Hard-Backed Art Books


Lot includes: 1) Andronicos, Manolis. The Greek Museums. Athens: Ekdotike Anthenon. 1975. 418 pp. Col ill. Hard-backed. Bound in red fabric with gilt lettering and dust jacket. 2) Menen, Aubrey. Rome for Ourselves. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company. 1960. 244 pp. B/w and col ill. Hard-backed. Bound in beige fabric with gilt lettering on the spine. 3) Taralon, Jean. Treasures of the Churches of France. New York: George Braziller. 1966. Hard-backed. Bound in yellow fabric and dust jacket. 4) Desroussilles, François Dupuigrenet. Diew En Son Royaume: La Bible dans la France d'autrefois XIII-XVIII Siècle. Paris: Bibliohèque Nationale.1991. 174pp. B/w and col ill. Hard-backed.

100/150 Sold: $63.25

Lot of Three Reference Books

557. Lot of Three Reference Books


1) Martinez, Andres. True Narrative of the Hardships and Fate of Those Who Sailed on the Voyage to the Rio de La Plata. New York: Privately Printed. 1946. Limited Edition of 200 copies. Bound in cardboard. 2) American Institute of Graphic Arts. Fifty Books Exhibited by the Institute. New York: The John Day Company. 1926. Hard-backed. Bound with red fabric. 3) Kunsthaus Zürich. Karikaturen? Zürich: Benteli Verlag Bern. 1972. 164 pp. B/w ill. Hard-backed bound with grey and black paper and plastic box with mirrored cover.

100/200 Sold: $34.50

Lot of Five Hard-backed Books

558. Lot of Five Hard-backed Books


Lot includes: 1) Hardy, Thomas. Life and Art. New York: Greenberg Publisher. 1925. 140 pp. hard-backed. Printed on laid paper, bound with brown cloth. 2) Gnudi, Martha Teach and Jerome Pierce Webster. The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi Surgeon of Bologna: 1545-1599. New York: Hubert Reichner. 1950. 538 pp. limited edition of 2100. B/w ill. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on cover. 3) Shaw, Bernard. London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto (Later Known as bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars. London: Constable and Company. 1937. 419 pp. Image of author on frontis. Hard-backed. Bound in red cloth with gilt letters on spine. 4) The Mapleson Memoirs: 1848-1888 (Vol. I & II). London: Remington & co. Publishers. 1888. Portrait of the author on frontis. Bound with blue cloth with gilt designs.

200/300 Sold: $92.00

Lot of One Art Book and Five Art Folios

559. Lot of One Art Book and Five Art Folios


Lot includes: 1) Parker, K.T. The Drawings of Hans Holbein in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. London: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1983. 158 pp. B/w ill with color frontis. Hard-backed. Bound in red fabric with gilt lettering and dust jacket. 2) Five folios from the British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. 1908 and 1910. Series I- Each with b/w 50 plates. Bound with blue paper and slip cover.

100/200 Sold: $74.75

Die neue Rundschau

560. Die neue Rundschau


S. Fischer Verlag; Berlin und Leipzig, two vols; 1930 & 1933, offered in custon slipcase, dedicated to the "Articles of Thomas Mann". Detatched paper covers, text in German. Each apprx 9-3/4" x 6-3/4". Vol. 1930 has 864 numbered pgs with 6 additional pgs. Vol 1933 has 576 numbered pages plus 8 additional pages. Overall in slipcase apprx 10-1/4" x 7-1/4".

100/150 Sold: $40.25

Book of The Koran

561. Book of The Koran


A 19th century book with hand writen pages. One column text with gilt borders and minimal decoration. Apprx 5-3/4" x 4-1/4". Interior is toned and edges are worn with losses.

150/200 Sold: $310.50

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