Important Estates | November 22 2020-11-22 Auction - 1005 Price Results - Butterscotch Auction in NY - Page 9
Important Estates | November 22
WILLIAM LESTER STEVENS (American, 1888-1969)
VERY FINE CHINESE INLAID IRON TRIPOD CENSER
FRANCIS BACON (British, 1909-1992)
Done
Bedford, NY, United States
Auction Details

Important Estates | November 22

FEATURING: - Nearly 200 lots from the 12-acre homestead of a late Greenwich nonagenarian - A collection of unique contemporary art & furnishings from the late Joseph S. Blank, Jr., former board member of The Neuberger Museum of Art - Paintings, silver, and jewelry from a Greenwich, CT socialite - Important Chinese art and Antiques from a nonagenarian lifelong appraiser - Fine Antiques from a North Salem, NY collector - Antique jewelry and an important rug from a NYC estate - Artwork from a Katonah, NY collector - Over 2,000 troy ounces of silver bullion from a Fairfield, CT collection - Over four pounds of international and American gold coins from a Pleasantville, NY collection - And much more!
SOLD
(4pc) ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690-1742), ENGRAVINGS: colored bird engravings, including "The Cock & Hen Reed Sparrow," "The green Wren," "The Nuthach," and the "Pied Chaffinch; with "A Natural History of Birds" labels on verso h. 10-1/2 w. 8 in.,
Est.
$400
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$600
SOLD
(5pc) MARIE LAURENCIN (French, 1883-1956): colored etching h. 6-3/4 w. 3-3/4 in., sight overall: 10-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. colored etchings, each pencil signed, of low edition; including "La Ronde" and others Provenance: The estate of a
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
(4pc) J.M. CROWLEY (American, 19th C.), DRAWINGS: the Hobbs family pencil on paper early 19th century folk art family group, including 2 drawings of children with prominent 'puffy sleeves,' framed as one, facing each other, signed lower right
Est.
$1,000
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$2,000
SOLD
JAMES S. KING (American, 1852-1925), ETCHING: George Washington etching pencil signed lower right, tissue paper; with "Crosby & Company Art Galleries... NY" label on verso Provenance: Property of a nonagenarian Westport, CT gentleman
Est.
$300
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$500
SOLD
(2vol) DEFOE, DANIEL (1660-1731): "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner... London, John Stockdale, 1790." 8vo. illustrated with 17 plates drawn by Stothard and engraved by Medland; bound
Est.
$300
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$500
SOLD
(2vol) ROBINSON CRUSOE, THIRD EDITION: Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731), "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner... The Third Edition, London: W. Taylor, 1719." 8vo, in two volumes, vol. 1 with
Est.
$1,200
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$1,800
SOLD
ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED GULLIVER: Gulliver's Travels... by Jonathan Swift, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London and New York: J. M. Dent & Co. and E. P. Dutton & Co., 1909, 8vo, FIRST TRADE EDITION, bound in full green leather
Est.
$300
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$500
SOLD
TROLLOPE, FRANCES: THE MOTHER: [Trollope, Frances] The Mother's Manual or Illustrations of Matrimonial Economy, An Essay in Verse, with Twenty Plates, London: Treutel, Wurtz and Richter, 1833, with 20 color plates. First
Est.
$500
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$1,000
SOLD
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE FIRST ISSUE, SCARLET LETTER: "The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850," 8vo., original blind-stamped brown cloth, first edition, first issue, title page printed in black
Est.
$500
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$1,000
SOLD
FIRST EDITION of THOREAU'S WALDEN WITH AUTOGRAPH: "Walden; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry D. Thoreau, ...Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854," first edition, lithographic map facing page 307, 8 pages of publisher's ads inserted between end papers
Est.
$2,000
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$4,000
SOLD
(3vol) THOREAU FIRSTS SIGNED BY WHITTIER: three first editions by Henry David Thoreau, each with tipped-in autograph of poet John Greenleaf Whittier (American, 1807-1892), all published Boston: Thicknor and Fields, including: Excursions,
Est.
$500
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$1,000
SOLD
FIRST EDITION TOCQUEVILLE'S DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: De la Démocratie en Amérique by Alexis de Tocqueville, Paris: Bourgogne and Martinet for Charles Gosselin, 1835, 8vo, with hand colored folding map, in two volumes, first edition (of the first
Est.
$3,000
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$5,000
SOLD
WALT WHITMAN FIRST EDITION, DRUM TAPS: "Drum Taps., New York, 1865," 12mo, publisher's brown stamped cloth with gilt, first edition, second issue, bound with the separately printed "Sequel to Drum Taps. (Since the Preceding Came From
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
WALT WHITMAN FIRST EDITION, SIGNED: 'After All, Not To Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871., Boston:
Est.
$300
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$500
SOLD
FIRST EDITION of POE'S 'THE RAVEN' with 'TALES': first editions of both 'The Raven' and 'Tales' bound together, including "The Raven and Other Poems. By Edgar A. Poe. New York: Wiley And Putnam, 1845," 8vo. [i-viii] [1]-91 [92, blank] [i-iv].
Est.
$5,000
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$10,000
SOLD
[McKEE COPY] EDGAR ALLEN POE FIRST EDITION: "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838," 12mo, with 14-page catalogue and 2-page advertisement in the back, front wrapper with book plate of famed
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
(4vol) MARK TWAIN FIRST EDITIONS: including: THE CELEEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, "and Other Sketches, edited by John Paul, New York: C. H. Webb... 1867," lacking publisher's ads, in original cloth with gilt stamped
Est.
$300
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$500
SOLD
JOHN MUIR BOOK, ONE OF 30 DELUXE COPIES: John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, [Covelo, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1988], Foreword and a Note on the Text by Frederick Turner; illustrated with 12 wood engravings by Michael McCurdy,
Est.
$500
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$1,000
SOLD
(12vol) HAWTHORNE'S WORKS: "Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne... Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company" (about 1890s), 8vo, bound; including "Our Old Home. - Septimius Felton. - Fanshawe. - The Dolliver Romance, and other
Est.
$100
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$200
SOLD
1665 EDITION SENECA'S TRAGEDIES: c. 1665, the title page reads, "L. ANNAEI SENECAE CORDVBENSIS, Tragoediae. / VENETIIS, CI)I)CLXV [MDCLXV] / Typis Brigoncrjs", 16mo, [1-348], bound in period vellum over boards; bookplate of
Est.
$100
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$300
SOLD
CRUIKSHANK'S MAGAZINE, 1854: the complete two-issue run of George Cruikshank's Magazine, edited by Frank E. Smedley [Fairlegh], London: D. Bogue, 1854, with four fold-out plates, in original wrappers, with custom
Est.
$150
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$300