A Frost Drawing, Modelled by His Wife
Pen-and-ink Drawing, captioned “Caleb’s courtship / Eunice Stout”...
N.p: N.d. [ca. 1885?]. Frost, A.B. A Frost Drawing, Modelled by His Wife. A delicate, lightly-inked drawing of... Read More
Price: $1,250
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Two Autograph Letters, Signed, One to Miss Luff (autograph request)and another to Mr. Harris (accepting dinner engagement).
Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire: Nov 25, 1905 & March 10, 1906. Read More
Price: $150
Edwin A. Abbey Sketchbook
Sketchbook of drawings.
n.p. Edwin A. Abbey Sketchbook. Extracts from an early Edwin Abbey sketchbook, containing 19 pencil sketches signed by Abbey. Some are rudimentary sketches of trees and shrubs, others detailed, complete drawings of landscapes and houses This album was given to Abbey Thom Kissel from his grand-uncle Alden Freeman, in appreciation... Read More
Price: $9,000
Abracheff School of Art. Founded 1928.
Boston: 172 Newbury Street, n.d., ca. 1930. Scool of art founded by Bulgarian-born artist Nicolai Abracheff and his brother Ivan Abracheff. Includes illustrations of student work by Irma Orvokki-Saïla, John Andreev, Esther F. Trachtenberg, Irving E. Smith, Aaron Bornstein, Lotte Korson, and Charlotte J. Fox. Read More
Price: $100
Account for Painting "1761. Mr. William Waine to Thomas Etheridge, Dr;..."
1761. An invoice for whitening, ceiling repair, spotting, mending an oven; docketed for Mr. Waine's account on verso. Read More
Price: $125
Addams to a Little Admirer
Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block).
[New York]: 27 October 1954. Addams to a Little Admirer. The great American cartoonist of the macabre writes: “Dear Robert, Thanks for your very kind letter. I’m glad that you like my pictures and I will try to do more of them. They’re all so special, that it isn’t easy to... Read More
Price: $400
Inscribed
Black Maria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley and his wife, “For Marg and Nathaniel with love, Chas Addams, New York, 1960.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965). Read More
Price: $750
Inscribed with Drawing of Pugsley
Nightcrawlers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Inscribed with Drawing of Pugsley. With a full-page pen drawing on the fly leaf of Pugsley with a pet lizard, inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley, “For Nat, Chas Addams, 1957.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965)... Read More
Price: $3,750
Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus. Designed by John Flaxman. Engraved by Thomas Piroli. The Original Drawings in the Possession...
London: published for I. Flaxman Junr. by J. Matthews No. 44 Strand, Januray 12, 1795. Flaxman, John. First edition. Read More
Price: $900
4 Original pen drawings signed “L. H. Sartor”.
N. P: n.d. [1970's]. Each drawing showing a view of a small farm of an African-American family, probably southern. The first showing a woman in apron and cap churning butter on the porch,h talking to a young boy in a baseball cap while on the front steps a young girl... Read More
Price: $500
INSCRIBED BY ARTIST
L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz.
Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1933. Number 684. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. The artsist was Jewish, Ukrainian 1894-1962). The book is inscribed to the Weslers by the artist in 1950. Read More
Price: $150
Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée...
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1829-1834. Read More
Price: $750
Painters of the Desert.
Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More
Price: $150
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[Photographs of Alaska].
[Alaska]: c. 1905. A collection of photos including images of the U.S. Revenue Cutter (USRC) Manning and her crew. Designed as a cruising cutter for the Revenue Cutter Service, the Manning was commissioned on 8 January, 1898. After service with the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War, the Manning returned... Read More
Price: $750
“A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More
Price: $400
Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors
Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper.
China: Ca. first half of 19th century. Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors. A very interesting and engaging collection of genre scenes. The trees, rocks, and landscapes are particularly well rendered, and the figures are full of life. The pictures in many such albums often follow a sequence of events... Read More
Price: $6,000
Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg.
[Berlin, Charlottenburg]: [c.1908]. Includes dated drawings of on the Spree River, as seen from the gardens behind the Fredericks Palace, Berlin (May 20, 1908) and King William's Hunting lodge in Grunwald (May 21, 1908), as well as statues, landscapes, and architecture in Charlottenburg and Grunwald. Read More
Price: $900
ONE OF 50
Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik.
Munich: Galerie van der Loo, [1967]. #28 of 50 with an original lithographic print, signed and numbered. ONE OF 50. Read More
Price: $350
Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait.
Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and... Read More
Price: $1,250
Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, [1971]. First edition, Number 57 of 150 copies, signed by the Author. Read More
Price: $300
Rudolf Alt. Sein Leben und sein Werk. Herausgegeben vom k.k. Ministerium für Kultus und Unterricht. Nach dem hinterlassenen Manuskripte für...
Vienna: Artaria & Co, 1911. First edition, one of 500 copies. Read More
Price: $400
Hoe copy
Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, quae est Altorffii ... opus philologicum.
Nuremberg: Abr. Wagenman, 1617. First edition thus. Hoe copy. Described as "Editio II," this is actually an enlarged edition of a work original published in 1597, documenting prize medals made for students of the Altdorf academy in Nuremberg. "The most remarkable example of [emblems and numismatics coming together] is the... Read More
Price: $1,750
A fine example of the American cut-out showing a young girl, seated, sipping from a bowl with a steaming cup...
N. P. [American]: ca. 1850's. Read More
Price: $250
Handcolored Plates
Leaf and Flower Pictures, and How to Make Them.
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph [John A. Gray, Printer and Stereotyper], 1857. First edition. Handcolored Plates. Read More
Price: $150