Four (4) Ohio related books, including MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY, HISTORY OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, and THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 1st-2nd items: MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY AND THE CITY OF TOLEDO, Vol. I-II, by Harvey Scribner, Editor-in-Chief, published by the Western Historical Association, Maidon, 1910. Hardcover octavos, 1,311 total marbled-edged pages with illustrations and […]
Lot 461: Maund's Botanic Garden, Vols. 1-6, 1825-36
THE BOTANIC GARDEN: CONSISTING OF HIGHLY FINISHED REPRESENTATIONS OF HARDY ORNAMENTAL FLOWERING PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN, Volumes I-VI, by Benjamin Maund, F.L.S., published by Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, and Sherwood and Company, London, circa 1825-36. Hardcover octavos, 43 hand-colored plates with English text pages with red-speckled edges, all volumes hardbound in three-quarter green leather […]
Lot 462: SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, ed. G.C. Verplanck, 3 Vols, 1847
SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, WITH HIS LIFE ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY WOODCUTS, Vol. I-III, edited by Gulian C. Verplanck, published by Harper and Brothers, New York, 1847. Hardcover octavos, gilt-edged pages with woodcut frontispieces, half-title pages, and illustrations, hardbound in brown leather with pictorial gilt covers and spines with gilt lettering, gilt dentelle with off-white pastedowns and front […]
Lot 460: 2 Latin Books, incl. M. VELLEIVS PATERCVLVS & FROSSARDUS ET COMINEAUS
1st item: M. VELLEIVS PATERCVLVS CUM NOTIS GERARDI VOSSII G.F., Second Edition, published by Ex Officina Elzeviriana, Lvgd. Batavorvm, 1654. Hardcover 32mo, 128 marble-edged pages with Addenda and Errata page, engraved title page, hardbound in brown leather with gilt line borders to covers, gilt lettering and floral gilt stamping to spine, five raised hubs to […]
Lot 458: 5 18th Cent. Marine Engravings, incl. T. Major, J. Boyndell
Five (5) English copperplate engravings depicting maritime scenes, including three (3) by Thomas Major (United Kingdom, 1720-1799) and two (2) by John Boydell (United Kingdom, 1720-1804), after various artists, published in London, circa 1749-52. Each depicts reproductions of paintings or views of towns, including Hammersmith, a district of west London. Artist and engraver information, lower […]
Lot 459: 2 Francois-Nicolas Martinet Bird Engravings
Two (2) hand-colored copper engravings on laid paper depicting birds by Francois-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800) from HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES OISEUX BY George Louis Leclerc Buffon, published in Paris, circa 1765 to 1786. Includes one (1) Plate 249 "Geai a ventre jaune, de Cayenne" and one (1) Plate 739 "Le Fournier, de Buenos-Ayres". Both housed under […]
Lot 456: Hamerton, Art of the American Wood Engraver, 1894
THE ART OF THE AMERICAN WOOD ENGRAVER: FORTY INDIA PROOFS, to accompany the text of Philip Gilbert Hamerton, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1894. Hardcover folio, forty tipped in India proof paper plates, all but plates VI and VII pencil signed by engraver below the image, with numbered and titled mats with artist […]
Lot 457: 20 Antique Engraved Portraits, incl. Lafayette, Van Dyck, Peter Lely, etc.
Large group of twenty (20) 17th and 18th century portrait engravings. Subjects and engravers/artists include the Marquis de Lafayette by Vincenzo Vangelisti/Michael Honore Bounieu ("d'apres une Miniature," c. 1789); Phillip II, King of Spain (illustration to Emanuel van Meteren's 'Niederlandische Historien oder Geschichten" Antwerp, 1611); Christina, Queen of Sweden by Paulus Pontius (c. 1654); Elias […]
Lot 455: 5 Prints, incl. Samuel V. Chamberlain, Davis Gray, Captain James Cook
1st item: Samuel V. Chamberlain (Massachusetts/Iowa, 1895-1975) drypoint etching on paper titled "Far West Junk Shop" depicting the store front of Haslam's junk shop. Numbered "70/100," in pencil, lower left below plate, signed "Samuel Chamberlain," in pencil, lower right below plate. Housed and matted under glass in a black wooden frame with gilt trim. Plate: […]
Lot 453: 3 WPA era Prints: Kenneth Hayes Miller, John De Martelly, Alice Murphy
1st item: Kenneth Hayes Miller (New York/California, 1876-1952) etching on paper study titled "Play" depicting a nude female with her two young children. Signed and dated "Hayes Miller 19" lower right, in the plate, signed "Hayes Miller" in pencil, lower right, below the plate. Housed in a coral-colored mat. Plate: 4 3/4" H x 6 […]