Amer. Furniture, Fine Art, Sculpture, Decorations and Books
Catalog Information: 647 lots with images | View lots
Date: September 12, 2009
Auction House:
Location:
549 Warren Street
Hudson, NY
USA
12534
Phone: 518 751 1000
Fax: 518 751 1010
Sale Notes:
A two-day auction of American, English and Continental furniture, decorations and fine art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, including property from the collections of a French Gentleman, the Wanamaker-de Heeren Family, Josephine and Walter Buhl Ford II, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, being sold for the benefit of the Acquisitions funds, and the Childs Family, removed from "Florham," Madison, New Jersey, the 100-room mansion designed by McKim, Mead & White for Florence Vanderbilt Twombly and her husband, Hamilton Twombly. Also sculptures and plaster maquettes from the estate of American artist Chester Beach (1881-1956). Among the sculptor's property are several marble reliefs by Thomas Ball (1819-1911), acquired by Beach when he purchased Ball's studio. Featured in the sale are rare books, prints and fine bindings, highlights of which are a manuscript antiphonal on vellum, two volumes of John Abbot's "The Natural History of Rare Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia" (1797), and forty volumes of Washington Irving's "Works."
Lot 1: (KAY NIELSEN) ANDERSON, HANS. "FAIRY TALES."
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. 4TO. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen with 12 color plates and black and white plates. Edition de Luxe - 1 of 500 copies signed by Nielsen. Full vellum with elaborate gilt designs. Spine soiled but gilt still visible.
Lot 2: CARROLL, LEWIS. "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS."
London, Macmillan, 1872. First edition, first issue, octavo. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Bound in original red cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, all edges gilt. Minor rubs to the spine, fading to the gilt on the boards and spine. An outstan [...more]
Lot 3: (1 of 350) MILNE, A.A. "WINNIE-THE-POOH."
London, Methuen, 1926. Small quarto. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Bound in 1/2 cloth over blue paper boards. Fine copy in chipped dust jacket. The dust jacket also has one closed tear. 1 of 350 copies signed by Milne and Shepard.
Lot 4: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. "KIDNAPPED."
London, Cassell, 1886. First edition, first issue, octavo. Folding colored map with closed tear at one fold line. Bound in original blue cloth with black endpapers. The spine is faded with small chips at top. There are 2 small rubs on cloth of f [...more]
Lot 5: (CLARKE) POE, EDGAR ALLAN. "TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION."
New York, Brentano's. Quarto. Illustrated in color and black and white by Harry Clarke. Bound in 3/4 blue gilt morocco, slightly chipped. 1 of 2500 copies.
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