Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana
Catalog Information: 101 lots | 80 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: ABELIN, JOHANN PHILIPP, MATTHIAS MERIAN, AND OTHERS.
ABELIN, JOHANN PHILIPP, MATTHIAS MERIAN, AND OTHERS.21 volumes, folio (ca. 13 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 349 x 210 mm). 20 engraved title-pages, 21 additional letterpress title-pages, half-titles in vols. 9-20 (half-titles not called for by Lipperheide in rema [...more]
Lot 2: s - ABBEY, JOHN R.
PROPERTY OF SOTHEBY'SScenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860. -- Life in England, 1770-1860. -- Travel in Aquatint and Lithography. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1951-56.NOTE4 volumes, 4to (12 1/4 [...more]
Lot 3: s - ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, PUBLISHER
PROPERTY OF SOTHEBY'SThe Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature. London: Ackermann, 1808-10.3 volumes folio (13 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.; 335 x 275 mm.) 104 colored aquatint plates after ROWLANDSON and PUGIN by Bluck, Hill, Stadler, Sunderland, et al. [...more]
Lot 4: AMERICAN LITERATURE
Group of eleven items in first editions (except where noted), including works by Henry James, Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, E.E.Cummings and Edith Wharton.NOTEJames, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co [...more]
Lot 5: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES AND JOHN BACHMAN
The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V. G. Audubon, 18543 volumes, 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.; 264 x 172 mm). 155 handcolored lithographed plates after J.J. Audubon and J. W. Audubon, backgraounds after Victor Audubon, by J. T. Bowen, and Nagel an [...more]
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