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1937. American Art Association / Anderson Galleries. The Library Collected by the Late Joseph B. Shea, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NY, 1937 and 1938. Sales 4353 and 4359. Over 1000 items total, a few ills. of title pages. Very good paperbounds (light shelfsoil). No pricelists. ** Part I: Americana (with many captivity..... More
1910. Anderson Auction Company / Anderson Art Galleries, NY. Oil Paintings by the Early Masters: A Part of the Collection of Dr. George Reuling of Baltimore, Md. 1910. Auction sale no. 802. N.p. (59 lots), no ills. Good paperbound (cover soil, wear). ** Chiefly landscapes, portraits, history scenes, and genre..... More
1923. Anderson Galleries, NY. The Library of John Quinn. Parts 1-5 (complete), 1923-24. Each, hundreds of lots, several ills. Unpriced. Good paperbounds (some covers lightly chipped, bottom corner of part 5 torn away, a few pages browned from newspaper clippings). Pencil notes on covers and occasionally inside. Overall sturdy and..... More
1920. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris [auctioneer]. Catalogue des Dessins Anciens du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance [et] Dessins, Pastels, Aquarelles des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. Paris, 1920. 129p + many heliotype ills. Good paperbound (covers soiled; professionally rebacked and therefore sturdy). ** The 6th part (sixieme vente) of the dispersal..... More
1928. Boerner, C.G. [firm]. Kupferstiche alter Meister: Katalog CLVII. [Cover reads: Kupferstiche des XV. bis XVIII Jahrhunderts.] Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928. 2 vols. Text: 181p, a few ills. Plates: many ills. on 54 pls. Good oversized paperbounds (spines reinforced with tape; average shelfwear; internally very good). ** Auction catalogue, featuring..... More
1977. Christie's, Manson & Woods, NY. Printed Books including the Leipzig Collection of Fine Bindings and Audubon's Birds of America. Auction catalogue, Nov. 18, 1977. Good paperbound (cover soil). Estimated prices laid in. ** Items 183-216 are fine bindings, chiefly the once-lost Riviere bindings executed for exhibition in Leipzig in..... More
1960. Galerie Charpentier [Ader, Perigois, Laurin]. Importante Collection de Porcelaines Tendres de Vincennes et Sevres. Auction cat., Paris, June 22, 1960. N.p. (lots 151-298) + many photos on 43 pls. Good paperbound. ** Also in the sale were Old Master paintings and drawings, 18th-century furniture, and tapestries, all from the..... More
1895. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. Catalogue des Objets d'Art et de Riche Ameublement executes dans les ateliers et sous la direction de M.A. Beurdeley. 1895. 56p (365 items), many photos (phototypie by Berthaud). Fair paperbound: covers faded, rather chipped; scattered foxing throughout. Sewn binding generally sound. ** In 1895 Beurdeley..... More
1902. Libbie, C.F. & Co., Auctioneers. Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late William H. Whitmore, of Boston, Genealogist and Historian, and for many years Registrar of the City of Boston. Boston, 1902. 288p, a few ills. Good paperbound (base of spine mended). Ex-museum lib., minimally marked. **..... More
1970. Parke-Bernet Galleries. Important Hebrew Manuscripts, Incunabula, & Printed Books, Choice Judaica Books from the Collection of the Late Michael Zagayski. NY, 1970. Sales 2976 and 3046. Over 500 lots, many ills. Very good paperbounds. ** Parts One and Two of this sale, complete. Prices realized laid in... More
1968. Parke-Bernet Galleries. The Library of Charles E. Feinberg, Detroit. NY, 1968. Sales 2676, 2707, 2723, Hundreds of lots, several ills. Very good paperbounds (sunned, lightly soiled, corners bumped). Prices realized laid in. ** Books, autographs, and manuscripts, chiefly British and American. Feinberg gave his large Whitman collection to the..... More
1943. Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. The Alexander Biddle Papers. Complete in 3 parts, 1943. Auction catalogues 468, 484, and 499. Very good paperbounds (closed tear to one front cover). Unpriced. ** Hundreds of American letters and other documents by Adams, Biddle, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Lee, and many more. "Including the Original..... More
1942. Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. The Angling Library Formed by the Late Dean Sage, Albany, N.Y. Sale 364, April 9-10, 1942. 552 lots, a few ills. Unpriced. Very good paperbound. ** Lots 450-508 comprise editions of "The Compleat Angler," notably two 1653 first editions, one of them belonging to John Evelyn..... More
1964. Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. Important Bindings [etc.] from Various Sources including the Collection of the Late Alfred Hopkins. Sale 2285, May 1964. 153 items, 3 pls. showing 12 bindings. Very good paperbound. No pricelist. ** One ill. shows an "outstanding example of the use of the 'drawer-handle' tool so popular..... More
1942. Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. Literature Relating to the Theatre [Catalogue 373]. NY, 1942. 950 lots, no ills. Unpriced. Very good paperbound. ** Folios of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Shakespeariana, property of [the actress] Mrs Julia Marlowe Sothern, New York. Also calligraphy, American laws, colored cariacatures, Confederate imprints, Americana..... More
1939. Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of Artistic & Literary Property connected with Rossetti, Swinburne, Ford Madox Brown, etc. removed from "The Pines", 11 Putney Hill (The Home of A.C. Swinburne and Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton). London, 1939. Auction catalogue, unnumbered. 21p (82 lots) + 5 pls. Very good paperbound. Bookseller ticket..... More
1932. Sotheby & Co., London. Catalogue of Printed Books, Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts, Oil Paintings, Drawings and Engravings, Works of Art, China, Furniture, &c. formerly the Property of Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. June 13-14, 1932. 313 lots, several pls., 1 folding. Very good paperbound. Unpriced. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
1970. Sotheby & Co., London. The Celebrated de la Rue Collection of Playing Cards [1970]. N.p., many black-and-white ills., one folding. Very good paperbound. ** Auction catalogue of "over 500 packs, of which 475 are complete; cards to provide examples of many other packs; original designs; sample books; and associated..... More
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1929. Sotheby and Co., London. Catalogue of Valuable Hebrew Books & Manuscripts. May 23-24, 1929. 336 lots, a few pls. Very good paperbound. Unpriced. ** Featuring a 12th-13th-century "commentary on the Talmudhic Tractate Hullin . . . apparently the lost commentary of Moses Maimonides, with annotations possibly in his handwriting,"..... More
1978. Sotheby Parke Bernet. Russian Works of Art (Sale 4137, June 8-9, 1978). New York. 573 lots, many ills., a few in color. Good paperbound (covers rubbed, some wear at spine). ** Auction catalogue; without prices realized. Enamels, bronzes, porcelain, silver, seals, icons, and much more. Includes over 30 works..... More
