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Lot 34
[PUBLIFOTO of Rome, and others (photographers).] - NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Co. (compilor)
[Latina Power Station, Italy]. A photograph album titled "Nuclear Power Station .... Photographic Record [of] Construction"
Over 320 photographs offering an official record from 'ground-breaking' to completion
Lot 42
American Federation of the Arts (organizers). - Takaaki MATSUMOTO (designer)
[Exhibition poster/invitation at The Equitable Gallery] Neo-Dada Redefining Art 1958-62 ... Susan Hapgood guest curator
January 27 - March 18, 1995
Lot 43
Follower of REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
["Portrait of a Native American woman ... wearing a feather headdress and holding a quiver with arrows"]
the title is taken from description of the copy in the British Musem, Department of Prints and Drawings
Lot 45
After Hans HOLBEIN the Younger. - Emma ROBERTS (artist).
Portrait of Lady Jane Gray, liquid gold and body-color on vellum, with integral lettering ‘Ye Lady Jane / Graye [sic.]...'
Lot 47
Samuel W. RUTHERFORD (African American entrepreneur). - Nat. Benefit Life Insur. Co.
[Title from the cover: A Modern Jack and the Bean-Stalk: Miracle of the Colored Race.]
Issued by the National Benefit Life Insurance Company (“founded, officered and conducted entirely by people of the colored race”).
Lot 48
Margaret, Alice & Mary LINDSAY
Original illustrated manuscript 'Dark Baron Rolf. or a romance of the Middle Ages...'
'respectfully dedicated to the Lady Lindsay' ('To our darling Mother on her birthday ... New Year's Eve 1866')
Lot 49
Vice-Admiral Sir William A. Montagu (1785-1852). – Anonymous artist/calligrapher).
[H.M.S. Malabar]. Two original pen-and-ink menus executed by an unidentified ‘Private of Marines’, for Montagu
Naval rations?
Lot 51
John WODEHOUSE
[Original poetry by John Wodehouse fair-copied into an album, the album a gift from John Hopcraft]
gift inscription dated 'July 23 1823'
Lot 52
Hans RENOLD Ltd. – John Cecil SWIFT.
An album recalling the more-than 50-year career of J.C. Swift at Renolds, one highlight: a 1930’s Renold’s exhibition stand.
A pioneer of the use of scientific managment techniques in Great Britain
Lot 53
William BEETENSON.
Prodromus Astrologicus: being an Astrological Discourse, of the effects of the great eclipse ... on Monday May 11th, 1724.
rare - 2 (or 3) copies listed
Lot 54
Henry (or Henri) de TERNANT (artist)
Original artwork to a 'view' booklet, titled “The North Coast of Devon Illustrated by Henry de Ternant."
Lot 55
ETON College, John NEWBOROUGH. - Eilhard LUBIN (1565 – 1621, compiler).
[Greek anthology of poetry, in Latin & Greek] Florilegium omnium veterum Graecorum poetarum epigrammatum in septem libros divisum
with Eton College bookplate from between 1690 and 1710.
Lot 57
MYANMAR (Burma), maps on cloth. – W.A. ROBERTSON (cartographer [?]).
[Pyin Oo Lwin or Pyin U Lwin ] “Maymyo rides / Scale: 4 inches = 1 mile”, colored printed map on cloth.
with three other maps, all on cloth, all of Myammar (Burma)
Lot 62
[Adam LANGLANDS (designer, fabricator, retailer)].
The Shadowrock Book Block.
this example is for sale, but I will also be happy to take orders for additional book blocks as required.
Lot 64
N.Y. School of Fine & Applied Arts [now PARSONS]. - Julia ANDERSON (artist).
“Fall Fashions for Women & Misses” - original artwork for a display
SOLD UNFRAMED.