The Potomack Company 1166 JOHN HANCOCK MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED AS GOVERNOR, 1790 Military appointment signed by John Hancock on November 29th 1790. Daniel Barlow is being appointed "Captain of a company in the Second Reg' first Brigade and fifth regiment of the militia of this Commonwealth comprising of the counties of Plimouth, Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes County, and Nantucket." Hancock signed underneath the Massachusetts paper seal, with his usual paraph present. The document is countersigned by John Avery, the first Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Torn in half along the vertical crease, with minor loss of text, including the 'A' in Avery. The lower right corner also loose, detaching the most of Avery's name. Minimal foxing and toning. Note on the rear of the appointment regarding the appointment, dated July 11, 1791. $600-800
1167 TWO CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR BILLS two bills, one each for the denominations of $10 and $50, with mild wear, both with printing dates of February 17, 1864 (2) $200-300 Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection
Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection 1168 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SIGNED 'EXCELSIOR' POEM STANZA, 1868 On the back of a scrap piece of paper, Longfellow has written the first five lines of his poem 'Excelsior', followed by his signature and the year. The edges have some mild age-toning. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! $300-500 Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection
1170 PUCK MAGAZINE 1889 New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, Publishers, 1889. Vol. XXV, Nos. 625-650. Quarto, 439 pages. G+. Half bound in black leather, heavy wear to edges and corners; slight sunning to boards, spine, chips to head and tail of spine, rubbed corners; text block has slight toning throughout, minimally impacts plates; chipping to fore edges of some pages toward front of text, few loose pages; cracking to front gutters; profusely illustrated with humorous illustrations, including some in color $500-600
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1169 THEODORE JASPER 'THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA AND ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE SCIENCE OF BIRDS' 1878 TWO VOLUMES Two volumes bound in uniform full brown leather, blind embossing to boards with gilt stamp in middle, spines with gilt titling and tooling. Columbus, Ohio: Jacob H. Studer & Co., 1878. Both volumes beautifully rebacked with new spines in style. Moderate rubbing to boards. Volume 1 is Studer's Popular Ornithology - The Birds of North America, with 119 colored plates representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics. Tide-marks to fore edge of text block, sometimes impacting plates. Volume 2 is Ornithology; or the Science of Birds, with 212 illustrations on 37 plates. Light tidemarks to some pages on fore edge of text block $750-1,000 1171 THE WHITE HOUSE GALLERY OF OFFICIAL PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS, TWO BOUND VOLUMES, 1901 & 1907 the first being numbered 467 in The McKinley Memorial Edition, allotted to Chas. Tierney, printed by The Gravure Company of America, December 18, 1901, with portraits of the presidents from Washington to McKinley; the second being numbered 3731, printed by The Gravure Company of America (New York and Washington), 1907, with portraits of the presidents from Washington to McKinley (as indicated by the table of contents), but also including an additional portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt (2) $300-500
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The Potomack Company 1172 WILLIAM FREDERICK "BUFFALO BILL" CODY SIGNED LETTER, 1910 a handwritten letter dated August 15, 1910 in St. Paul, on the cover of a Buffalo Bill's Farewell Proclamation pamphlet. "The poems I love best breathe nature." $400-600 Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection
1173 ANDREW CARNEGIE SIGNED LETTER TO ALBERT PAINE REGARDING MARK TWAIN, 1912 two page ALS on Carnegie's Two East Ninety-First Street letterhead, dated July 17, 1912. It was written to Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain's literary executor, and concerns Paine's monumental 1912 biography of the author. $250-350 Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection
1174 ALBERT SCHWEITZER HANDWRITTEN LETTER AND NOTE, 1956 the first item is a page long ALS in French by Schweitzer, dated 15 Octobre, 1956, written in Lambaréné, Gabon, with his stamp stating such. The second item is a typewritten letter from the treasurer of the hospital thanking the recipients for their donation, dated January 17th, 1956. Below is a three-line handwritten note in French by Schweitzer. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life," and used his hospital in Lambaréné in Gabon to demonstrate this philosophy (2) $150-250
1175 KURT VONNEGUT JR.'S 'SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE' FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING FIRST STATE DUST JACKET Octavo, 186 pages. VG/VG-. Dust jacket has some age-toning, closed tear to upper edge of front hinge, some rubbing and wear. Price uncut '$5.95' and '0369' code on rear flap. Ownership inscription on first flyleaf. Slight foxing to edges of text block. $300-400
Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection 1176 EDWARD GOREY'S 'THE LOATHSOME COUPLE' SIGNED Oblong Octavo in pictorial dust jacket in VG/VG condition. First Trade Edition Second Printing, following the limited edition. Very mild wear to the head and tail of spine. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page, crossing out his printed name as usual $300-400
1177 MOUNTED NEW YORK METS 1987 DREAM WEEK FAN CARD WITH TEAM SIGNED BALL together with a framed article from the Greenwich Times, "Mets Fan Recalls Miracle", and a mounted New York Mets baseball signed by Elroy Neiman (3) $150-300
1178 18 BOXES OF BASEBALL CARDS Topps Baseball 24 ct (3) 1987 Donruss Baseball Wax Box (3) Topps Major League Baseball Bubble Gum Cards 24 ct (4) 1987 Fleer Baseball Wax Box (3) Topps Baseball 1952 Reprint Set, opened Topps Baseball 1990 Traded Set Topps Baseball 1990 Complete Set of 792 Cards Topps Baseball 1991 Complete Set of 792 Cards Topps Baseball 1987 Complete Set of 792 Cards $300-500
1179 JAMES HOWELL'S 'INSTRUCTIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR FORREN TRAVELL' 1650 SECOND EDITION 12mo., [12] 140 pages. VG. Bound in early calf, repacked with later matching spine. Ex-Library stamp to verso of title page. Small dot of archival repair to title page. With Portrait. London : printed by W.W. for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes, in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1650. With an additional title page, engraved and signed by W. Hollar: Instructions for forraine travell ... printed by T:B. for Humphrey Mosley, … Full title: Instructions and directions for forren travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what compas of time, one may take an exact survey of the kingdomes, and states of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledg of the languages, to good purpose. With a new appendix for travelling into Turkey and the Levant parts. By James Howell Esq; Originally published in 1642 as: Instructions for forreine travell. ESTC R202463, Wing H3081 $1,000-1,500 Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria, Virginia collection
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The Potomack Company 1180 [THOMAS HOBBES] 'THE ILIADS AND ODYSSES OF HOMER' THIRD EDITION 1686 Small Octavo, [24], [12], 304, 293, [7] pages. VG. Bound in later half black calf, marbled boards, paneled spine with gilt tooling. Title page dated 1686, Second title page dated 1684, with slightly different imprint, Odyssey title page dated 1686. London: Printed for Will. Crook, 1686. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy $500-750 Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria, Virginia collection
1181 JOHN MILTON'S 'PARADISE LOST' SIXTH EDITION 1695 Quarto, [8], 343, [3], [6], 57, [1], [2], 66 pages. VG. Bound in half calf with marbled covered boards, label on spine peeling off, moderate rubbing to boards. Bound with "Paradise Regain'd "and " Samson Agonistes" - each with separate title page and pagination. With the engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White with Dryden's epigram, and all 12 plates bound in their correct place. The 12 engraved illustrations are from the 1688 edition. London: Jacob Tonson 1695. Wickenheiser 612A/1760 (for the First Collected Edition). This copy contains three parts of the First Collected Edition. $1,500-2,000 Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria, Virginia collection
1182 SAMUEL JOHNSON'S 'A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGES IN TWO VOLUMES' ABRIDGED EDITION 1756 Octavos, 2 volumes. VG. Bound in contemporary brown calf, early repacking with spines preserved. Boards have moderate rubbing and scuffing. London: Printed for J. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Miller, R. and J. Dodsley, and M. and T. Longman, 1756. The First Abridged Edition. "abstracted from the folio edition by the author", laid out as two columns per page $750-1,000 Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria, Virginia collection
1183 [AESOP] DODSLEY'S 'SELECT FABLES OF ESOP AND OTHER FABULISTS'. IN THREE BOOKS 1763 Dublin, T. & J. Whitehouse, 1763. 12mo. First Dublin Edition. xlvi, iv, 130, xxii pages. Bound in Contemporary full leather, rebacked with later spine in style.The Life of Aesop is followed by a preface and the three books of fables: Ancient Fables, Modern Fables, and Original Fables. Three indices, one for each book. Tape marks to the gutter of 6 leaves, the last page of the index lacks a small piece, impacting part of the text. With names of former owners. Dodsley's Aesop was first published by Baskerville in 1761. $300-400 Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria, Virginia collection
1184 [JONATHAN SWIFT] [GULLIVER'S TRAVELS] 'TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD' 1766 Octavo, xvi, 292, [2] pages. Rebound in modern half-calf with marbled board. With 6 maps and 1 plate as called for. Interior clean with wide margins. London: C. Bathurst. 1766. Parts 1 - 4, Voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa. and Houyhnhnms $400-500 Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria, Virginia collection
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1185 THE BRITISH POETS. INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS. IN ONE HUNDRED VOLUMES. 1822 Chiswick: For J. Carpenter, J. Booker et al. 1822. VG. One Hundred Volumes bound in matching half red leather with marbled boards and matching endpapers and text blocks. Spines with two panels of gilt lettering and four with gilt tooling. Beautiful set including works by Chaucer, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Translations of Greek classics by authors including Homer, Virgil, and Apollonius $2,000-2,500
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The Potomack Company 1186 STRICKLAND 'LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND' Agnes Strickland's complete 16 volume set published by George Barrie and Sons, Philadelphia, 1902, For Subcribers Only, the 3/4 dark blue leather and marble boards with matching endpapers, spines with four raised bands, a coat of arms, gold lettering, illustrated with two plates in two states; the frontispieces are hand-colored and in sepia, gold page tops (16) $300-600
1187 THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS HARDY ANNIVERSARY EDITION 21 VOLUMES Harper & Brothers, 1920, limited edition of 1250, the red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spines, blind stamp of author's monogram to cover, 21 volumes complete(21) $300-600
1188 CHARLES DICKENS' 'A TALE OF TWO CITIES' FIRST EDITION ISSUE 1859 Octavo, viii, [1], [1], 254 pages. Bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, paneled spine with gilt tooling, black label with gilt lettering. Covers lightly worn and rubbed, some light foxing. Plates with minimal of the usual foxing and spotting. First edition, first issue, Smith points present, including signature "b" present on the List of Plates leaf, "affetcionately" on p. 134, line 12, and page 213 incorrectly numbered "113. This copy without the 32page publisher's catalogue, dated November, 1859, bound at the end of some copies. With Sixteen etched plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), including frontispiece and added vignette title $1,500-2,000
1189 CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS IN 32 VOLUMES Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. 32 octavos in VG condition in matching half burgundy leather and marbled boards and endpapers. paneled spines with gilt lettering and tooling. Top edge of text blocks gilt. Mild rubbing. Some pages unopened. Illustrated with steel portraits and engravings from the original designs by Brown, Cruikshank, Leech, and others $500-1,000
1190 LEWIS CARROLL'S 'ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND' FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN AMERICA 1869 Octavo, 192 pages. Bound in full burgundy calf with double gilt rules to boards, paneled spines with two black leather labels, gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. The second American Edition but the First Edition printed in America. It follows the suppressed 1865 edition which utilized British sheets, and of which there are few surviving copies. With Forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel $1,500-2,000
1191 THE WORKS OF J.M. BARRIE 'PETER PAN' LIMITED EDITION 14 VOLUMES the Peter Pan edition by Charles Scribners Sons, 1929, was limited to 1030 sets, this set is no. 881, the brown colored boards with the gold embossed Peter Pan seal on the front cover, tan linen spines and tan paper label with black lettering, the set retains the original glassine wrappers and the original slip cases (14) $200-300
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1192 THE SIGNED WORKS OF H.G. WELLS ALANTIC EDITION the 28 volume set with original sleeves was published by Scribner's, 1924-1927, photogravure frontispieces, approx. 23 x 15.3 cm. (9 x 6"), tan linen backed green boards, paper spine label, floral monogram design on front covers, the set is no. 421 of 1050 copies, volume 1 is signed by H.G. Wells at the limitation statement (28) $1,000-2,000
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1193 THE WORKS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 25 VOLUMES the Charles Scribner's Sons Manaton Edition, 1922, signed by the author on the limitation page, this set is no. 747 of 780, the hardcovers have green halfcloth binding with light green paper covered boards and paper spine labels with dark green lettering, decorative end papers, the volumes retain their original slip cases (25) $400-800
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The Potomack Company 1194 ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S 'THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES' FIRST EDITION IN A BAYNTUN BINDING Octavo, 359 pages. Beautifully bound in full blue morocco with gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With original cloth covers and spine bound in rear. Bound by BayntunRiviere of Bath with their mark. With frontispiece and 15 plates by Paget. Very clean within $2,000-3,000
1195 THE TURNER GALLERY: A SERIES OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS FROM THE WORKS OF THE LATE J.M.W. TURNER, R.A. Two volumes, Folios, unpaginated. G. Bound in full green leather with gilt tooling, paneled spines with gilt. Front board of volume 1 partially detached, front board of volume 2, together with the first two endpapers, attached by strings. Some tide-marks to the lower fore corner of volume 1. With engraved portrait and 120 beautiful steelengraved plates after Turner $750-1,000
1196 WILLIAM UNGER'S 'EAUX-FORTES D'APRES LES MAITRES ANCIENS' 1874 Leiden; A.W. Sijthoff 1874. Large Folio, bound in half dark green leather, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers. VG-. Paneled spine with gilt lettering and tooling. Some rubbing and wear to head and tail of spine, corners. Some wear to front hinge. Text by C. Vosmaer and seventy two etchings on wove Van Gelder by William Unger after old masters like Tintoretto, Nicolas Poussin, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Adriaan van Ostade, and others. Each print laid to the mounting sheet with the upper reverse sheet edge. Scattered foxing, some mount staining, sheet edges and endpapers browned $750-1,000
1197 'L'ART REVUE HEBOMADAIRE ILLUSTREE', 20 VOLS. 1877-1887 'L'Art Revue Hebdomadaire Illustree', A. Ballue, Editeur, Paris: 1877-1887; complete with all engravings and illustrations present as published; Folio, ½ buckram, many with marbled boards, condition Good to Very Good with moderate to heavy rubbing to boards and edges; light to moderate foxing in most volumes; 1877, Vol. 3, front board detached (20) $6,000-7,500
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The Potomack Company 1199 GIL BLAS, COMPLETE 1891-1903, STEINLEN COVERS Gils Blas 8-page French weekly newspapers featuring many color lithographs by Steinlen on front and back covers; each complete year in folio size foam core portfolio; condition generally Very Good; paper age toned, but colors remain vivid; chipping and micro tears along long edge of pages (13) $4,000-5,000
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1200 'LE RIRE' FOUR VOLUMES 1898-1901 Four Volumes of 'Le Rire', containing the years 1898-1901. All are bound in matching quarter green buckram with marbled boards. Paris: F. Juven et Cie, Editeurs, 1898. Quarto; unpaginated; VG-; bound copies of weekly publication from 1 January 1898-31 December 1898; cloth shows soiling to spine, adhesive residue to spine; some rubbing to edges and corners; text block has age toning, mostly toward edges; minor chipping to few pages; profusely illustrated; marbled endpapers; cracking to gutters, first few pages are loose. Paris: Felix Juven, Directeur, 1899. Quarto; unpaginated; Fair; bound copies of weekly publication from 7 January 1899-30 December 1899; cloth shows soiling to spine, adhesive and adhesive residue to spine; chipped edge of marbled paper of rear board; rubbed exterior edges and corners; text block has age toning, mostly toward edges; slight writing to first page; profusely illustrated, some in color; marbled endpapers; cracking to gutters, loose binding. Paris: Felix Juven, Directeur, 1900. Quarto; unpaginated; G-; bound copies of weekly publication from 6 January 1900-29 December 1900; cloth shows soiling to spine, adhesive residue to spine; rubbed exterior edges and corners; text block has age toning, mostly toward edges; profusely illustrated, some in color; marbled endpapers; cracking to gutters, loose binding. Paris: F. Juven, Editeur, 1901. Quarto; unpaginated; Fair; bound copies of weekly publication from 5 January 1901-28 December 1901; cloth shows soiling to spine, adhesive residue to spine; some rubbing to edges and corners; text block has age toning, mostly toward edges; profusely illustrated, some in color; marbled endpapers; cracking to gutters, loose binding $1,200-1,500
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The Potomack Company 1201 'LE RIRE' EIGHT BOUND VOLUMES 1898-1908 Eight Volumes of 'Le Rire' spanning the years 1898-1908. Seven volumes are bound in Ÿ or ½ leather or buckram with marbled boards. One volume is bound in brown buckram. General condition of seven volumes is Very Good with light to moderate rubbing to edges and boards and the pages of Le Rire filled with richly colored illustrations. The following lists the months contained in each volume: Dec 1897-Sept 1898; June 1898-Nov 1899 (front board and spine detached from textblock); Oct 1898-July 1899; Jan-Dec 1900 (two copies); Jan-Dec 1907; Jan-Dec 1908. . The binding of one of the two 1900 volumes 'Le Rire" is in poor condition with the front board partially detached and boards compromised. In this volume, the 1900 Le Rire's themselves are in Good to Very Good condition with micro chipping along right edge of many pages and some water damage to front and back of text block leaving the vast majority of the pages in Very Good condition. The other volume of 1900 Le Rire's is in Very Good condition. $2,400-3,000
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1202 THE WORKS OF CHARLES PAUL DE KOCK [23 OF 25 VOLUMES] Boston, London, Paris: The Frederick J. Quinby Company, 1902, 1903, 1904. Limited Edition, #380/1000. Octavos, 23 volumes only, lacking vol. 19, Scenes of Parisian Life and vol. 21, Madame Pantalon; VG. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, cloths show slight wear to exteriors, some spotting to boards, slight sunning to spines, mild rubbing to edges. Text blocks have deckled fore and tail edges, gilt head edges, slight cracking to some front hinges. Interiors clean $800-1,000
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The Potomack Company 1203 LARGE COLLECTION OF ASSORTED AMERICAN ART BOOKS includes Georgia O'Keefe One Hundred Flowers, Whistler, Modern Masters of Etching Whistler (second vol.), Whistler in Venice, Rockwellkentiana, Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, John Singer Sargent, Jacob Lawrence, Edward Hopper, The Natural Paradise Painting in America 1800-1950, Hopper's Places, John Sloan, George Bellows, Great American Prints 1900-1950, American Women Artists 1830-1930, Precisionism in America 1915-1941, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, Hopper, The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent, The Early Drawings of Edward Hopper (pamphlet), Winslow Homer, American Paradise The World of the Hudson River School, A Focused Collection The Hudson River School (pamphlet), Drawn From Tradition American Drawings and Watercolors, Having Faith The Collected Art of David Israel Litan, The Raptors and Other Birds by Raskin, The Art of New York, Rockwell Kent an Anthololy of His Work, Raskin's Illustrated Hagadah for Passover, Passover Hagadah for Passover by Leonard Baskin (autographed), Cave Birds illus. Leonard Baskin, John Marin, John Marin 1870-1953, The American Art Journal Nov. 1976, Contemporary American Works on Paper/Realist Drawings & Watercolors, Nathan Oliveira, Over the Line/The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, Joseph Goldyne, New American Painting, Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams, Beane Flower, Joseph Cornell (2 copies), Mark Rothko in New York, Joseph Stella (4 copies), Rothko, Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko, Motherwell, Nell Blaine, Eric Fischl, Jacob Kainen, The Sculptures of Leonard Baskin, Paul Cadmus (2), Drawings of Paul Cadmus, Watercolors of Carolyn Brady, The Museum of Modern Art/New York, Jasper Johns/ A Print Retrospective, Stuart Davis (2), Davis's Abstract Argot, Drawings of Stuart Davis, The Sculptor's Eye, Mark Rothko, Richard Estes, William Bailey, Isabel Bishop, Prints of Michael Mazur, Richard Estes, Fairfield Porter, Winslow Homer Watercolors, Charles Demuth, Charles Demuth, The American Scene, Joseph Stella's Symbolism, Drawings and Digressions by Larry Rivers, Drawings of Joesph Stella, Joseph Stella, Stuart Davis, Modernist Tradition in American WAtercolors 1911-1939, Modern Art in America, Joseph Stella, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, additional catalogs and pamphlets (a lot) $400-800
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1204 LARGE COLLECTION OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE ART BOOKS includes Beauty & Violence Prints by Yoshitoshi, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, 250 Years of Japanese Art, Hiroshige, Hiroshige Fan Prints, Heroes of the Grand Pacification, Ukiyo-e, Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Escape From the Dusty World, Ukiyo-e to shin Hansa, The Art of Japanese Prints, Hiroshige in Tokyo, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, The Floating World of Ukiyo-E, Hokusai, Two Vol. Hasui, Time Present and Time Past, Hiroshige, Hiroshige, Japanese Costume, Ukiyoe Images of Unknown Japan, Textures of Influence, Japonese Comes to America, Kuniyoshi, Bertha Lum, Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868, Images From the Floating World, Hokusai, Hiroshige, A Guide to Japanese Prints, The Matsukata Collection of Ukiyo-E Prints, Hokusai's Mount Fuji, A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, Hokusai, Mount Fuji, The Four Seasons, Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, The Art of Japanese Prints, Far Eastern Art, Hokusai Sketchbooks, The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido, Masterpieces of Chinese Art, Ladder to the Clouds, Son of Heaven, Hokusai, Bertha Lum, Kawase Hasui, Hokusai, Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, MET Bulletin, Beauty & Violence, Drawings from the Floating World, Dictionary of Japanese Artists, Untitled Softbound in Japanese with Illustrations (55) $300-500
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The Potomack Company 1205 LARGE GROUP OF ART NOUVEAU, JUGENDSTIL, ARTS AND CRAFTS AND RELATED ART BOOKS includes Art Nouveau Domestic Metalwork, The City as A Work of Art, A Guide to Art Nouveau Style, Art Nouveau, Heinrich Vogeler, Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley, Munch: Symbols & Images, The Arts & Crafts Companion, Liberty Design, Liberty Style, Heywood-Wakefield Modern Furniture, In the Nouveau Style, Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte, Art Nouveau Jewelry & Fans, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, Art Nouveau Jewelry, The Art of William Morris, The Engraved Work of Eric Gill, Art Nouveau Furniture, Art Nouveau, Louis Majorelle, Liberty of London, The Liberty Style, Art Nouveau Drawings, Art In Vienna, Arts and Crafts Metalwork and Silver, Herter Brothers, Art Nouveau Bing, Art Nouveau, Max Klinger, Gustav Klimt, William Morris, Art Nouveau, Fin de Siecle Masterpieces, Hector Guimard, Art Nouveau Jewelry, Wiener Werkstaette, Jugendstil Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha, Arthur Rackham, Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau Style, The Master Jewelers, Prints Abound Paris in the 1890s, Tamara de Lempicka, Archibald Knox, Art Nouveau Jewelry, The Master Jewelers, Archibald Knox, Art Nouveau Domestic Metalwork, Art Nouveau, Christie's Arts and Crafts Style, Art Nouveau, Treasures of Art Nouveau, Archibald Knox, Taschen's Mackintosh, Art Nouveau pamphlet from Apollo, contemporary exhibition pamphlet from Liberty's, Burne-Jones, Edward BurneJones Victorian Artist-Dreamer, Alastair (63) $300-500
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1206 LARGE COLLECTION OF ART BOOKS INCLUDING IMPRESSIONISM, POST IMPRESSIONISM, FAUVISM, FUTURISM including Degas, Signac Watercolors, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Monet at Argenteuil, Sargent, the Watecolors of J.S. Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Pissarro, Impressionist Gardens, Camille Pissarro, Cezanne, Pierre Bonnard, Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, The Complete Van Gogh, Masters of Color, Cezanne, Impressionists in Winter, Monet in the '90s, Degas beyond Impressionism, Vlaminck, Vuillard, Feininger, The Prints of the PontAven School, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Franz Marc, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the USSR, Lyonel Feininger, Bonnard, The Passionate Eye, Sargent, Arthur Wesley Dow, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, Sargent, Impressionist Gardens, Paul Signac, Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fauvism, The Fauve Landscape, Lyonel Feininger, Feininger in Paris, Exhibition Catalog Lyonel Feininger 1985-86, Prints of the Nabis, Archipenko, Boccioni, Visions of Paris Robert Delaunay (2), Futurism, R. Delaunay, Mainstreams of Modern Art, Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti, Masters of Colour, Singular Impressions (2), The Parian Phenomenon, Sculpture of Leonard Baskin, Lalique, Lalique Glass, Chihuly, Tino Tagliapietra, Galle, Christie's Important 20th C. Decorative Arts, Elton John's Flower Fantasies, Embassies of Washington, The White House Collection of American Crafts, Lovis Corinth, Bonnard, Childe Hassam, Rhythms of Modern Life, Wood Engravings of John Nash, Ency. of Desks, Art of Albert Paley, Phillip de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Treas. of the Frick Art Museum, Paul Cezanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, Bonnard, Gauguin, Cezanne, European Ptgs. in the MET by Artists born before 1865, The Art of Thomas Rowlandson, John Taylor Arms A Man for All Time,The Prisons- Piranesi, Lyonel Feininger, The Disasters of War - Goya, John Marin Drawings, Etchings of John Marin, Imps and Demons- Leonard Baskin, Graphic Works of Max Klinger, Wadsworth, Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso, Dulac, additional pamphlets (a lot) $400-600
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The Potomack Company 1207 LARGE COLLECTION OF VARIOUS ART BOOKS INCLUDING THE ARTIST CHARLES BURCHFIELD Charles Burchfield/ The Scared Woods, Life Cycles/ Burchfield Coll., Life and Work of C. Burchfield(2), Paintings of Charles Burchfield, Architecture of Painting/C. Burchfield, The Inlander/Life and Work of C. Burchfield(3), Charles Burchfield,, C.B.The Charles Rand Penney Coll.(2), C. Burchfield's Journal/The Poetry of Place, Drawings of C. Burchfield, C. Burchfield's Seasons, Trees/John Marian and C. Burchfield, John Marin, Whistler, Whistler/Freer Gallery, Whistler/Etching, Arthur Wesley Dow, Guy Pene du Bois, The Print in Germany/1880-1933, Edvard Munch, Haden/Etching, Linocuts of the Machine Age, Franz Marc, Max Klinger, Whistler/Etchings, Feininger/Jawlensky/Kandinsky/Klee, Balla, Lovis Corinth, Kathe Kollwitz, Kathe Kollwitz, Kathe Kollwitz/Das Zeichnerische Werk, Illus. of Rockwell Kent, Kokoschka, Kokoschka, Kirchner, Kirchner, Balthus, Beckmann, Max Beckman, Coll. of Drawings and Watercolors Charles Demuth, Jacob Lawrence, Amer. Ptgs. Manoogian Collection, Crawford Lithographs, Wadsworth, Beckmann, Kathe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, CRW Nevinson, Dictionary of American Art, Amer. and European Prints, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910, Amer. Impressionism, Graphics of the German Expressionists, John Marin, Max Beckmann, German Exp. PRints, Nation on the Move, Kirchner, German Exp. Prints, Whistler/Drawing Near, Felix Vallotton, Jan Matulka, Goya/Disasters of War, Feinenger, Spirit of Place, Treasures of Tutankhamun, Hatshepsut/From Queen to Pharoah, including Masterworks of Amer. Art from the Munson-Williams -Proctor Inst., Ptgs. of Joseph Raffael, Wayne Thiebaud, Hermitage & Pushkin Museum/Master Drawings, The Barye Bronzes, The Phillips Coll., The National Gallery of Art/Washington, Vanity Fair Gallery Caricatures, Norton Simon Museum, French Master Drawings/Rouen Museum, Splendid Legacy/Havemeyer Coll., Maestri americani della Collezione Thyssen-Bornemisza, Impress. to Early Modern Ptgs. from USSR, Over the Line/Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, Spirit of Place, Lucien Freud Paintings, Itchiku Tsujigahana, Painting Harlem Modern/Jacob Lawrence, Donald Sultan, Drawings and Digressions/Larry Rivers, Nathan Oliviera, Virtue & Beauty, Women Artists, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Albert Goodwin R.W.S.1845-1932 (oversized), various asst. pamphlets, catalogs (a lot) $300-500
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1208 LARGE GROUP OF ENGLISH ART BOOKS includes Constable, Lucian Freud, Archibald Knox (2), Turner in the North, J.M.W. Turner, Constable, British Watercolours, William Blake's WaterColours, The Pre-Raphaelites, British Watercolour Artists, The English Dreamers, Hogarth to Cruikshank, English Country Gardens, Turner's Venice, Constable, The Treasure Houses of Britain, Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Girtin, Constable's England, British Landscape Watercolours, S.R. Badmin and the English Landscape, Turner and the Sublime, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Constable English Landscape Scenery,British Watercolour Artists, The Art of Satire, J.M.W. Turner,Watercolour Painting in Britain, Turner- 4 Decades (4), Turner in His Time, Gainsborough Drawings, J.M.W. Turner His Art and Life, Turner's Early Sketchbooks, George Stubbs The Complete Engraved Works (40) $300-500
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The Potomack Company 1209 LARGE COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ART BOOKS includes Worldly Pleasures, Earthly Delights, Bertha Lum, Hiroshige Fan Prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Ukiyo-E from the MET, Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty, Heroes of the Grand Pacification, Chikanobu Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints, The Decadents, Hokusai, Hokusai's Mount Fuji, Masterful Illusions, Hiroshige, Hiroshige, Hiroshige's Journey, The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Hokusai and Hirshige, Ukiyo-e, Ukiyo-e 250 Years of Japanese Art, Poetry and Image in Japanese Prints, The Great Wave, Printed to Perfection, Hokusai, Hokusai and His School, Hokusai One Hundred Poets, Hokusai, Japanese Color Prints, Hiroshige's Woodblock Prints (28) (16)) $200-300
1210 GROUP OF ASSORTED ART BOOKS INCLUDING MICHELANGELO, DURER, REMBRANDT, VERMEER, CANALETTO AND RODIN The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, Hans Baldung Grien Prints and Drawings, Early Netherlandish Painting, Flemish Paintings, Northern Painting, Rembrandt's Landscapes, Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt, Masterpieces, Vermeer, Michelangelo, History of Renaissance Art Throughout Europe, Caravaggio, Caravaggio, Michelangelo and His Influence, The Sculpture of the Roman Baroque, Uccello, One Hundred Saints, Renaissance and Baroque Art, Leonardo, All the Etchings of Rembrandt, Gericault in Italy, Master Drawings by Gericault, Rodin's Sculpture, Donatello, Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, Durer's Animals, The Prints of Lucas van Leyden, Vermeer and the Delft School, Vermeer, The Sculptures of Auguste Rodin, Rodin Rediscovered, Art Bronses, Durer's Cities: Nuremberg & Venice, The Complete Engravings, Etchings & Drypoints of Albrecht Durer, Durer in America, The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi, Jacques de Gheyn, Canaletto, Vermeer, Le Bronse et l'Animal, Bronse Sculpture of "Les Animaliers", (40) $300-500
1211 COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPY ART BOOKS including Snowdon Sittings, Portraits by Inge Morath, Herman Leonard, Henri Cartier-Bresson in India, The Photographers 2014, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer (2), Andreas Feininger NY in the Forties, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 31 Years: Gifts from Martin Weinstein, Paul Strand/Circa 1916, Two Lives/Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stiedglitz, Stieglitz/Camera Work, Eggleston, Photography of Charles Sheeler, Howard Greenberg, Cole Weston/At Home and Abroad, Arthur Wesley Dow, The Family of Man, Alvin Langdon Coburn/Symbolist Photographer, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes, Master Photographs, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Photo-Secession, Alving Langdon Coburn/Symbolist Photographer, The History of Photography, American Photographs/The First Century, Broken Manual, William Wegman, Down the Colorado John Wesley Powel/Eliot Porter, A.L. Coburn Photograper, Selected Photographs/From Brassai to Cindy Sherman,Eliot Porter/Moments of Discovery: Adventures with American Birds, 14th Annual Friends of Friends Phot. Auction, 2010 (a lot) $100-300
1212 GROUP OF 10 REFERENCE BOOKS RELATING TO BARYE BRONZE SCULPTURES AND BRONZE ANIMAL SCULPTURES including Christie's, New York, Barye Bronzes: An Important Private Collection including rediscovered modeles from the sculptor's atelier sale, Friday 25 April 2003; Barye, catalogue raisonne des sculptures, Michel Poletti, Alain Richarme; Barye, Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Vol. 4; Antoine-Louis Barye, The Corcoran Collection; Untamed, The Art of AntoineLouis Barye; The Barye Bronzes, A Catalogue Raisonne by Stuart Pivar; The Animaliers, A Collector's Guide to the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, James Mackay; Bronze Sculpture of "Les Animaliers" Reference and Price Guide by Jane Horswell; Antoine Louis Barye Bronzes, From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Public Auction, Wednesday October 29, 1975, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York; Animals in Bronze, Reference and Price Guide, Christopher Payne (10) $200-400
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