Holiday 2023 Catalogue

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195. [History & Culture] [The Golden Rule] Redpath, Ian. (?–?).
Autograph Inscription by an Unknown Hand!

Leaf mounted on other leaf, with text in English, "The Golden Rule (as rendered by the Anglo-Saxon Race) / If thine enemy smite thee on thy rigth [sic] cheek, return it on the left cheek and on the other also. / Ian [?] Redpath."  7.75 x 5 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm).  Small stains along edges, else in very good condition. 

The handwriting and paper suggest that the text was written no later than the mid-20th century.

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194. [History & Culture] [Shakers].
"Shakers near Lebanon, State of New York" - Stipple Engraving, ca. 1830

Stipple line engraving depicting Shakers engaged in their particular form of religious worship, ca. 1830, displayed in a worn but handsome period bird's eye maple frame.  Text below the image, partially covered by the frame, reads "Shakers near Lebanon, / State of New York."  Unexamined out of frame but evidently somewhat trimmed at margins and more significantly along the upper edge and mounted to rigid backing, scattered staining and light foxing, overall in good condition.  Framed to 18.5 x 14.25 inches (47 x 36.2 cm.). Read More...

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193. [History & Culture] [Shakers].
"Hope all things" - Shaker Paper Cross-stitch Bookmark, ca. 1880

Bookmark cross-stitched on needlepoint mesh made of perforated paper, with red border and blue text adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:7, "It [love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." Provenance: Likely Catherine Hall (Harvard Commune, 1813-1890, contained in a manuscript Shaker notebook ca. 1880); Raymond Adams (1898-1987, noted Thoreau scholar and collector, founder of the Thoreau Society); by descent. 5.25 x 1.2 inches. In fine condition.  Read More...

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192. [History & Culture] [Shakers].
CHERRIES - Shaker Stencil Print, ca. 1880

Simple, fragile, beautiful: an original 19th century red stencil print with delicate filigree design, presumably for a package or display of cherries.  Provenance: Likely Catherine Hall (Harvard Commune, 1813-1890, contained in a manuscript Shaker notebook ca. 1880); Raymond Adams (1898-1987, noted Thoreau scholar and collector, founder of the Thoreau Society); by descent. 5.75 x 1.4 inches. Irregularly trimmed, slight toning along left edge, else fine.  Read More...

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191. [History & Culture] Queen Victoria. (1819–1901).
Signed Military Doctument

Partially printed military document bearing the Royal Seal and signed by Queen Victoria.  July 2, 1849.  The document appoints Alexander Edgar McGregor Gent to the rank of Lieutenant in the 69th Regiment of Foot, and has been embossed with an additional seal reading "One Pound Ten Shillings."  A London postmark to recto is dated December 22, 1849.  Three vertical creases and some light foxing, else in fine condition.  13.9 x 9.6 inches (35.3 x 24.4 cm.).

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190. [History & Culture] [Newman, Paul. (1925–2008)] [Mondale, Walter F.. (1928 - 2021)].
Signed Photograph to Paul Newman

Black and white photograph of Paul Newman with Walter Mondale, for whom the actor campaigned in his 1984 run for the Presidency. Inscribed in blue ink 'To Paul-with Admiration' and signed "W.F." by the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. 8 x 10 inches, in fine condition. 

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189. [History & Culture] [Mother].
"Talk to me. I'm your Mother." - 1970 Poster

Amusing poster printed by Empathy Graphics in New York City, 1970, with white text reading "Talk to me. I'm your Mother" over the photograph "Mother, No. P128" by New York City-based photograph Bard Martin.  Some creasing, push-pin holes to corners, small puncture to middle-left side of the poster, else fine.  21 x 26 inches (53.3 x 66 cm.).

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188. [History & Culture] [French Beauty] .
Rockfellson Facial Douche, ca. 1930

Rare and striking 1930s French Rockfellson facial douche, together with the original box. Transparent plastic moulded mask, aluminum tubing, illustrated container. In fine condition, apart from normal wear to the box and to the plastic mask (including a custom cut in the mouth, most likely to make it more "comfortable" during the treatment) and aluminum tubing.  Box 10.4 x 7.5 x 4 inches (26.5 x 19 x 9.5 cm.). Read More...

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187. [History & Culture] Einstein, Albert. (1879 - 1955).
"Mein Weltbild" ["The World As I See It"] - Signed "Two Years After The Fall Of The German Goyim"

Amsterdam: Querdio Verlag. 1934. First Edition.

German edition of "Mein Weltbild" or "The World As I See It," signed and inscribed by Einstein on the front free endpaper, in German (translated): "Two years after the Fall of the German Goyim. Kindly granted  / Albert Einstein 1935." The recipient's name has been clipped out. Several diagrams and tables throughout. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titling on the front cover. Printed in German. With light wear and dampstaining to the covers. Slightly cocked. Light toning and foxing throughout internal pages and edges. Boldly signed. Read More...


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186. [History & Culture] [Dagger].
Continental Engraved Steel Dagger

A Continental engraved steel dagger with a finger ring, in mahogany case. Evidently French but of unknown origin and date, it is apparently a reproduction of an earlier example. Overall 15.5 inches (39.5 cm) in length and with an inscription on the over the handle reading  "DOLEE TE" and then within the central section lengthwise of the blade "SCHWAN LA GARDE LE DE FRANCE." Oxidation, marks, and wear. Case 3 1/4 x 20 x 9 inches, rather worn and partially damaged. 



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185. [History & Culture] [Autograph Album] Balthus, Barber, Romain, Brauner, Maganani, Moravia, Morante, Milhaud, Rota, Visconti etc. [Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci, aka Mimì Pecci-Blunt. (1885 - 1971) .
Autograph Album of the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci

An extraordinary autograph album, assembled by Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci, the Italian noblewoman, patron and collector, granddaughter of Pope Leo XIII, who was very active in the cultural sphere, opening numerous salons, galleries and theaters in Rome, Paris and New York. The album, signed "Anna Leticia Pecci" on the first page and identified on the following as "Palazzo Pecci Blunt / 3 Piazza Aracoeli," records dinners and parties at the famed Roman Palazzo Fani in Piazza d'Aracoeli, renamed Palazzo Pecci Blunt, which became the venue for important events from the early 1930s, the present album containing entries from 27 March, 1952 through 12 April, 1970.  The subsequent pages are full of autograph signatures from the many luminaries from all spheres of public life who attended parties and salons at this famed address: film directors, actors and actresses, composers, singers, instrumentalists, poets, writers, painters, politicians, financiers etc. etc. Read More...
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184. [Literature & Art] [Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900)] Douglas, Lord Alfred. (1870–1945).
"Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" - SIGNED

London: Duckworth. 1940. First. Signed copy of Lord Douglas's final book on the Irish playwright and author, inscribed on front free endpaper to cricket broadcaster John Arlott (1914–1991) and dated February 1943.  Inscription is faded but signature remains bold.  Purple cloth in dust jacket. 143 pp. Frontis portrait of Wilde, portrait of Lord Alfred Douglas, from the drawing by Walter Spindler; facsimile of letter written to Douglas from Wilde in 1897. Foxing throughout, wear and some small tears and edge losses to dust jacket, else fine. Read More...

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183. [Literature & Art] [Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900)] [Morley, Robert. (1908–1992)].
"Oscar Wilde" – Original Playbill from Broadway Production

Original Playbill program from the 1938 Broadway production of Leslie and Sewell Stokes' Oscar Wilde, starring British actor Robert Morley in his Broadway debut.  16 pp.  Moderate wear to spine and edges, else in fine condition.  6.75 x 9.25 inches (17.1 x 23.5 cm.). Read More...
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182. [Literature & Art] [Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900)] Douglas, Lord Alfred. (1870–1945).
Green Posy Holder inscribed from Alfred Douglas to Oscar Wilde

A green glass posy holder with the etched inscription "To Oscar Love Bosie" and measuring approximately 1 x 7 cm. Small crack to rear lip of the glass, else fine.  Read More...

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181. [Literature & Art] Walker, Kara. (b. 1969).
Freedom, A Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times.

New York: The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project. 1997. Bound pop-up book, with offset lithographs and five laser-cut, pop-up silhouettes on wove paper, 1997. 238x213 mm; 9 3/8x8 3/8 inches, full red leather binding as issued. Edition of 4000. For many years, the Peter Norton family commissioned an art edition to celebrate the holidays. This book was privately published and gifted to friends. Another copy of this book is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Read More...

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180. [Literature & Art] [Voltaire. (1694-1778)] [Huber, Jean. (1721-1786)] Holloway, Thomas. (1748-1827).
"Voltaire after Hubert" – Original Etching

Original etching by English painter and engraver Thomas Holloway, ca. 1791, who created these thirty-three head portraits of the French philosopher after illustrations by Swiss painter Jean Huber for Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind, London, Bensley, 1789-98.  Toning and scattered foxing, irregularly trimmed, overall in fine condition.  7.5 x 9.25 inches (19 x 23.5 cm.). Read More...

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179. [Literature & Art] [Toy].
Two-Face Pipsqueak Toy

Pipsqueak toy of plaster, fabric and string, decorated with two faces, American, late-19th century.  2.25 x 2 inches (5.7 x 5 cm.). Fabric torn, else fine.

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178. [Literature & Art] [Stevens, Wallace. (1879-1955)].
Chair from the Wallace Stevens Collection (ca. 1930)

Wooden chair of cross-back form, with painted floral decorations to the back, arms, and legs, ca. 1930, owned and used by the Pulitzer-Prize winning American Modernist poet. Formerly displayed in the now closed Wallace Stevens Room at Fort Andross in Brunswick, Maine and acquired directly from the Curator, Alison Johnson, Author of Wallace Stevens: A Dual Life as Poet and Insurance Executive and Producer/Director/Writer of The World of Wallace Stevens. Stevens's grandson, Peter "Zeke" Hanchak, has noted that Wallace Stevens kept his small secretary and this chair in his sitting room in CT, which was to the right at the top of the stairway. That secretary, which now resides in the Poetry Room at Harvard, has floral paintings on it that are very similar to the ones on the present chair.

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177. [Literature & Art] Sontag, Susan. (1993 - 2004) [Howard, Richard. (1929- 2022) & Friedman, Sanford. (1928-2010).
The Benefactor - Inscribed to Richard Howard & Sanford Friedman

New York: Farrar, Straus & Co. . 1963. First Edition. First printing. .

Octavo (22cm); Black cloth over black paper-covered boards; dark gray topstain; titles in white and green on spine; xii,274pp. Inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "For Sandy& Richard and Richard&Sandy / from Susan / with much love," undated but contemporary with publication. With occasional underlining and marginalia in the hand of Richard Howard, including a few notes to the ffe and rear jacket flap.  With some staining to the fore-edge in the final approximately 70 pp, barely coming round the margins in most cases and otherwise a tight and generally fine copy throughout. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.50 on front flap); toned, with small losses to upper spine edge and a taped repair to right front.  Read More...


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176. [Literature & Art] [Senses] [Underwood & Underwood].
The Five Senses. Set of stereographic photographs

Set of five pairs of stereographic photographs, each illustrating one of the five senses and, at the same time, telling a story.  By Underwood & Underwood Publishers, New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas, 1905.  Each pair of photographs mounted to solid, concave cardboard plate to be inserted in a stereoscopic viewer (viewer not included).  3.5 x 7 inches (8.8 x 17.8 cm).  In very fine condition.  The sequence: Read More...

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