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Seven (7) Southern Arts and Crafts and Historical books; subjects include George Ohr, Alabama and Shenandoah Pottery, MIssissippi historic sites, and Silver. 1st item: TENNESSEE SILVERSMITHS by Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr., published by The Museum of Early Decorative Arts (MESDA), Winston-Salem, 1988. Hardcover octavo, 216 pages with black and white and color photographic illustrations, hardbound […]

Five (5) Civil War related biography and autobiography books. 1st-3rd items: THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Tenth Edition, Vol. I-III, by Issac N. Arnold, published by A. C. McClure and Company, Chicago, 1906. Hardcover octavos, 894 top gilt edged total pages including three steel engraved frontispieces with tissue paper guards and additional full page illustrations, […]

THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, Vol. I-II, by William Combe, with illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson, printed by J. Diggens, published by R. Ackermann, London, ca. 1815-16. Hardcover octavos, 594 total gilt-edged pages with a hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 72 additional full page illustrations, volume I with front advertisement, rebound in navy blue […]

DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, Vol. I-IV, translated from the original Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Charles Jarvas / Jarvis, Esq., by printed by J. Brettell for T. McClean, London, 1819. Hardcover octavos, 1,589 total marble-edged pages including 24 engraved plates with hand-coloring, hardbound in brown leather with blind stamped covers, gilt lettering […]

PHANTASMAGORIA OF FUN, Vol. I-II, edited and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, published by Richard Bentley, London, 1843. Hardcover octavos, 604 gilt top edged pages with illustrations, rebound in three-quarter red leather with marbled-paper sides, gilt lettering and gilt blind stamping to spines, five raised hubs, red grosgrain ribbon book marks, marbled end papers. Ex libris […]

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 […]

American Hudson River School oil on canvas landscape painting depicting several ships including a steam or paddleboat, surrounded by tree covered cliffs, an early morning sunrise in the background. Unsigned. Housed in a giltwood frame. Sight: 13 3/4" H x 19 3/4" W. Framed: 19 1/4" H x 25" W. American, second half of the […]

Two (2) American oil paintings by Sydney Dale Shaw and Albert Scott Cox. 1st Item: Albert Scott Cox (Maine/Massachusetts/New York, 1863-1920) impressionistic oil on board painting titled "The Blue Door" depicting a white stucco wall with a blue door and terracotta roof, covered in overgrown greenery, rendered in an impasto technique. Signed "Albert Scott Cox" […]

Three (3) American watercolor paintings. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) Helene Glass (American, 20th/21st Century) watercolor and tempera on paper paintings, one (1) titled "Mosque," depicting multicolor Islamic architectural style buildings. Unsigned (possibly obscured by mats). Smallest painting with The Collector's Gallery, Nashville, TN label with artist's name and title, en verso. Both matted and housed […]

Continental School, possibly Russian, oil on canvas painting depicting a three quarter bust-length view of a shrouded woman, possibly St. Anna, holding a book against a brown background. Unsigned. Housed in a carved giltwood frame with a yellow velvet liner and a wooden fillet. Sight: 21 3/4" H x 16" W. Framed: 30 1/2" H […]