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Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper.
34 scenes, on paper, each featuring several figures in traditional dress disporting themselves amid landscapes (and, in a few in, China: Ca. first half of 19th century. The mounted leaves are linked in the Oriental accordion fashion, and contained within...
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The New Wonderful Magazine The New Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of Extraordinary Productions, Events, and Occurrences, in Nature and Art. Consisting entirely of Matter which come under the Denomination of MIRACULOUS! QUEER! ODD! STRANGE! SUPERNATURAL! WHIMSICAL.
Illustrated with 75 "Curious and Elegant" engravings of freaks, prodigies, oddities, wonders, etc. 5 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for the Proprietors. Published by Alex. Hogg, [1794]. First edition, second issue, with new title page, and some alterations in the preliminary...
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(Abbott, Berenice) Van Vechten, Carl. Portrait photograph of Berenice Abbott.
Half-length, frontal view. Gelatin silver print. 24.5 x 17.7 cm (Approximately 9-5/8 x 7 inches), New York: November 8, 1937. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Framed.
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(Anderson, Judith) Van Vechten, Carl. Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson.
Bust portrait of the actress in profile. 35 x 27.7 cm. (approximately 14 x 11 inches), New York: September 11, 1934. Docketed in pencil and in ink on verso with the name of the sitter, the date of the session,...
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(Anderson, Marian) Van Vechten, Carl. Portrait Photograph of Marian Anderson.
Gelatin silver print. Half-length, profile portrait of the singer against studio backdrop. 35 x 27.5 cm. (13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches, New York: 14 January, 1940. Docketed on rear with date of session, subject of the photo, and Van Vechten's reference number ('xii Q 9').
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(Arlen, Harold) Van Vechten, Carl. Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen.
Half-length portrait of the composer. 33.3 x 21.7 cm. (approximately 13 x 8-3/8 inches), New York: May 17, 1960. Fine. Docketed in ink on verso, giving the name of the sitter, the date of the session, and a reference to...
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Arabic Elements of Ptolemy's Astronomy (Astronomy) Al-Farghani, Muhammad bin Kathiri; GOLIUS, Jacob, trans. [Elementa Astronomica.] [Arabic title: Kitab fi-al-harakah al-samawiyah wa-jawami' 'ilm al-nujum bi-tafasir al-shaykh al-fadil] Muhammedis fil. Ketiri Ferganensis, qui vulgo Alfraganus dicitur Elementa astronomica, Arabicè & Latinè.
Text in Arabic and Latin. Pp. [12], [1+109, Arabic text], 109, 306, [18, index]. 4to, Amsterdam: Apud Johannem Janssonium à Waasberge, & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet, 1669. First edition in Arabic and first edition of the translation by Golius. Twentieth century...
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Fine 1928 Original Duck Decoy Watercolor by Joel Barber Barber, Joel D. Male Widgeon Decoy: watercolor of a Stevens Factory decoy.
Signed in lower right "Joel D. Barber / New York 1928". An illustration to Barber's Wild Fowl Decoys (plate 60). Image 11-1/2 x , New York: [The Derrydale Press], 1928. Fine condition. Provenance: From the private collection of Eugene V. Connett III.
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Beebe, William Charles. A Monograph of the Pheasants.
90 color lithographed or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönwald, Fuertes, Knight, Jones, and Megargee; 88 photogr, London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First Edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Original maroon cloth with gilt-lettering, t.e.g...
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Benedictus. Variations. [And:] Nouvelles Variations.
19 [of 20] pochoir plates in “Variations” [lacking no. 1]; and 20 plates showing 65 decorative motifs in “Nouv, Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts; Les Editions Albert Lévy, nd. Printed portfolio for “Nouvelles Variations”. Covers worn, plates fine, fresh and...
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Bergman, Ray. Trout.
With fly plates in color by Dr. Edgar Burke, photographs and diagrams by Charles S. Krug and Ivin Sickles. 451 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1938. First edition, Unnumbered of 149 copies, signed by the Author "Yours Sincerely, Ray...
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J.M. Jones' Collection, with Drawings (Bermuda) Jones, J. Matthew, and George Brown Goode, editors. Contributions to the Natural History of the Bermudas.
xxiii, 353 p. xii pl. (incl. fold. map). JONES' OWN INTERLEAVED COPY, annotated, and with numerous samples of Bermuda botanical , Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1884. First edition. "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 25" (series t.p.)...
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Signed by Daniel Boone's Sons, Daniel M. and Nathan (Boone, Daniel) Boone, Daniel Morgan. Together, three documents signed by Daniel Boone's sons: Manuscript Document, signed by Daniel M. Boone with two lines in his hand, 2 pp., 8vo, dated November 14, 1817 and July 5, 1819, being a document filed with the County of St. Charles listing a .
1 vols. Various sizes, St. Charles County, Missouri Territory: July 5, 1819, September 8, 182. Each document folded several times, very short minor tears or chipping mostly at folds, overall very good.
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Fine Copy of the Life Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.…in Two Volumes.
Engraved portrait after Joshua Reynolds, 2 other engraved plates. 2 vols. 4to, London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, second state of S4r with corrected spelling of “give”; all cancels and misprints as per Pottle. Contemporary tree calf,...
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