AMERICAN, ENGLISH and CONTINENTAL - Saturday
Catalog Information: 583 lots with images | View lots
Date: September 25, 2010
Auction House:
Location:
549 Warren Street
Hudson, NY
USA
12534
Phone: 518 751 1000
Fax: 518 751 1010
Viewing Notes:
Paintings, Old Master Drawings, Furniture, Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Books, Including Property from the Collection of the Late Sir Jay Chernis, from the Estates of Mary Warburg and Mary Carrigan, from a Connecticut Gentleman, a Lady, the Crane Family of Dalton, MA, and from the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno, CA, the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, sold to benefit the acquisition fund.
Lot 1: DONOVAN, E. "THE NATURALIST'S REPOSITORY OF EXOTIC NATURAL HISTORY... OF QUADREPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS, SHELLS, MARINE PRODUCTIONS..."
London, no date. 8VO, 2 volumes. 72 handcolored plates of birds, insects, shells, etc. Half green morocco; gilt spine with two birds, a butterfly and a shell. Donovan published the Naturalist's in 5 volumes from 1823-27. These volumes are reprin [...more]
Lot 2: FERRARI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. "FLORA, OVERO CULTURA DI FIORI"
Rome, 1638. First edition in Italian. Engraved title and 46 plates: florals, garden plans, garden tools and allegorical plates. Modern binding. Portrait of the author not present. An important 17th century work on Italian gardens.
Lot 3: NUS, EUGENE & ANTONY MURRAY. "LES PAPILLON'S METAMORPHASIS TURESTRES DES PEUPLES DE L'AIR"
Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1852. First edition, large 8VO, 2 volumes. Handcolored portrait, 2 handcolored titles and 33 handcolored plates; all wood engravings by Amelee Varin. One-quarter mococco over marbled boards. The butterflies and insects ta [...more]
Lot 4: (1 OF 260) STODDARD, HERBERT L. "THE BOBWHITE QUAIL - ITS HABITS, PRESERVATION AND INCREASE"
New York, Scribners, 1931. First Limited Edition, 4TO. Signed etching by Frank Benson, color plates after Kalmback and photo illustrations. One-quarter vellum over gilt pictoral board. 1 of 260 copies signed by Stoddard with the signed Benson etc [...more]
Lot 5: TRAVIÈS, EDOUARD. "BUFFON EN ESTAMPES"
Paris, Ledat, 1860. Oblong 4TO. 24 handcolored lithographs of birds; 2 birds to a plate. Background uncolored. Brown pebbled cloth, leather spine. Spine rubbed; plates are fine.
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