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Catalogue de Tableaux Capitaux des Ecoles de Hollande, de Flandre, d’Italie et de France, dont la Vente…aura lieu dans sa maison…le Mercredi matin 8 avril 1835… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LAFONTAINE, Pierre Joseph)

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Title: Catalogue de Tableaux Capitaux des Ecoles de Hollande, de Flandre, d’Italie et de France, dont la Vente…aura lieu dans sa maison…le Mercredi matin 8 avril 1835…
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LAFONTAINE, Pierre Joseph)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Wood-engraved vignettes on upper & lower wrappers, one large folding lithographed frontis. 8vo (210 x 140 mm.), orig. printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Paris: Coutellier & C. Paillet; London: Wootburn frères [sic.]; Bruxelles: Héris, 1835. A very scarce catalogue, in original state, of the personal art collection of Lafontaine (1758-1835), who “took care to prepare every new stage in his career without ever allowing himself to be affected by the political or economic changes.”–Blumenfeld, p. 218. Born in Flanders, he trained under the artists Kaplan van Neste and Jean Douelle. After his acceptance into the Académie, Lafontaine exhibited a number of paintings at the Salons of 1789 and 1791, and developed close ties with several painters, including Greuze. It also seems that Parisian experts had engaged him as an agent and scout starting in 1779; he devoted himself entirely to dealing some time in the mid-1790s. Lafontaine took full advantage of fluctuations in taste and supply and successfully arbitraged between England and the Continent throughout his career. Among countless profitable transactions, one of his most famous was an exchange with the Prince of Wales for Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer (now coll. Elie de Rothschild) in return for a group of lesser paintings. The present auction catalogue begins with an informative memorial likely written by the expert of the sale, Charles Paillet (son of the great dealer, A.J. Paillet), who recalls Lafontaine as a helpful and enterprising colleague. It then describes 32 paintings (by da Vinci, del Sarto, Schedoni, Potter, Berghem, van Dyck, Callot, S. Bourdon, Lafontaine himself, etc.). Lot 1, a painting of Herodias receiving the head of John the Baptist (reproduced with the folding frontis.), is attributed to da Vinci; however, this composition, of which there are three known variants — one at the National Gallery in London, and another, possibly the original, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna — is now re-attributed to Cesare da Cesto (1477-1523), one of the so-called Leonardeschi. Paillet provides measurements and lengthy descriptions for most of the paintings. The final six lots consist of drawings, books, and Lafontaine’s collection of sale catalogues. A fascinating sale catalogue of a noteworthy dealer’s personal collection. In original state and nice condition. ❧ Lugt 13949. C. Blumenfeld, “Pierre-Joseph Lafontaine and his Exploitation of European Art Market Imbalances in Paris and London, 1795-1815“ (pp. 217-30), in S. Avery-Quash & C. Huemer, eds., London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820 (2019), p. 218–“Lafontaine in fact played an important role in the development of the European art market during this period beset by major upheavals. For the years 1795-1815 alone, the Getty Provenance Index records 1,690 transactions under his name in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and Great Britain, and demonstrates that he was drawing far superior profits from the market than his Parisian colleagues. Most importantly, he was the only Fleming equally at ease in Paris and London and the only dealer whose business survived the political vicissitudes, enabling him to continue working from the 1780s to the July Monarchy.” See this chapter for a wonderful in-depth examination of Lafontaine’s evolution from artist to titan of the European art trade.

Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture et l’Architecture by [BACHAUMONT, Louis de]

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Title: Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture et l’Architecture
Author: [BACHAUMONT, Louis de]
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Description: Engraved allegorical frontis. 1 p.l., vi, 93 pp. 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. N.p.: 1751. First edition. Bachaumont (1690-1771) was an influential noble who grew up at the court of Versailles during the height of its significance as the political and cultural nucleus of France. He frequented the salons of Paris and was entangled in several controversies, one in particular regarding a journal filled with gossip ascertained at the salon of Madame Doublet de Persan, for which he may have been partially responsible. By the end of his life, he was known as a cultural authority, whose opinion was sought after by artists and collectors alike. In the present work, his most important, Bachaumont espouses his beliefs on the aesthetics of art. Its publication was met with an enthusiastic reception. Fine copy. Name of author inscribed on title in a contemporary hand. ❧ Dictionnaire des Journalistes (1600-1789), “Louis Petit de Bachaumont” (online resource). N.B.G., Vol. IV, cols. 55-56.

For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Rand, Ayn

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Title: For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Author: Rand, Ayn
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Description: New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Ayn Rand in blue ink on half title. viii, 242pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, with gilt spine lettering and green ruling. Near Fine with small stain to top edge, age toning to contents, in a Near Fine dust jacket, tiny closed tear to front panel, light rubbing, front flap crased, unclipped ($3.95). A signed statement of beliefs from the originator of Objectivism and novelist who wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

1775 - A warrant directing Pennsylvania sheriff arrest several men on the charge of "Felonious Trespass" signed by Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith, a member of the Bedford County Pennsylvania revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, who would become a Revolutionary War Colonel and later be arrested for opposing the state's first Constitution of 1776 by Thomas Smith

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Title: 1775 - A warrant directing Pennsylvania sheriff arrest several men on the charge of "Felonious Trespass" signed by Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith, a member of the Bedford County Pennsylvania revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, who would become a Revolutionary War Colonel and later be arrested for opposing the state's first Constitution of 1776
Author: Thomas Smith
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Bedford County Pennsylvania, 1775. Unbound. Very good. This impressive warrant from Bedford County, Pennsylvania measures 13" x 4". It is dated the "Thirteenth Day of July in the fifteenth Year of [the] Reign" of George III, i.e., 1775. In nice shape. It reads in part: "George the third by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c To the Sheriff of Bedford County Greeting We command you as we have often done heretofor Commanded that you take Pierce Noland . . . Paul Ernstberger . . . Adam Kefer . . . Henry Stegner . . . Peter Boucher . . . and Frederick Vertress . . . if they be found in your Bailiwick and them Safely keep so that you have their Bodies before our Justices as well as our Peace to keep [for] Divers Felonies Trespasses and other misdeeds within our Said County Perpetrated . . . to be Assigned . . . at our County Court of General Quarter Sessions . . . to be Held the third Tuesday in October next to answer us of a Certain Offence whereof they Stand Indicted. . .." . Perhaps as a result of revolutionary turmoil, Bedford County Court records shed little more light on the men's offences other than to indicate they were accused of "riot and assault" and that they failed to appear at court. Smith, a native of Scotland, became the deputy surveyor of Cumberland County in the early 1770s and an influential Bedford land lawyer by 1772, eventually being appointed as a Justice of the Peace. He was named as a representative to the county's revolutionary Committee of Correspondence in 1775 and commissioned as the Colonel of the Second Battalion of the Bedford County Associators in 1776. Although he helped draft the state's Constitution of 1776, he vehemently opposed some provisions and was jailed for refusing to turn over county records to the state's "Supreme Executive Council." He was finally freed after pledging to support the document; however, he continued to voice his opposition until the Constitution was rewritten in 1790. (For more information, see the Bedford County Court Records and "Thomas Smith, 1791-1794" at the Bedford County History of Judges website.) An attractive and scarce colonial arrest warrant, issued in 1775 following the battles at Lexington and Concord. Perhaps, a little more research could determine if the trespass, riot, and assault charges against Pierce Noland were related to early conflicts between American revolutionaries and loyalists. .

Ogden, Utah Paper and Billhead Becker Brewing

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Title: Ogden, Utah Paper and Billhead Becker Brewing
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Description: 1918. 23 statements and receipts from The Fred Kiesel Co., Ogden Wholesale Drug Co., Inc. Includes statements for such items as Listerine, gauze bandages, Sulfuric acid, and Muriatic acid. The Becker Brewing Company has to be considered the most successful of all the Ogden breweries, and maybe even the most successful Utah brewery, for that matter. Becker Brewing has the distinction of being the only brewery in Utah to operate before, during, and after Prohibition. It also holds the Utah brewery record for longevity, staying in business for an incredible 75 years straight. By 1905, Becker Brewing and Malting had expanded into Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada and was the preferred beer of retailers. The brewery had to expand its production since it expanded its business, so the plant underwent a renovation in 1906. The brewery never shut down business during the renovation, and, by 1906, the annual capacity had grown to 25,000 barrels of beer. The brewery had its own waterworks system, electric light system, the largest double acting ice machine in the state, and was the only Utah brewery owning its own railroad, the Oregon Shoreline. Over the years, Becker Brewing and Malting succeeded and soared in business, which prepared them for the dark years of Prohibition. In 1917, Becker Brewing changed its name to Becker Manufacturing Company, and then later to Becker Products Company in 1918. To supplement business during Prohibition, Becker went into the soda and ice business, leased cold storage space, produced non-alcoholic beer, bottled Coca-Cola products, manufactured ice, began a poultry-freezing business, turned a brewery into a slaughterhouse, and raised badgers. When beer consumption was finally legalized in Utah on January 1, 1934, Becker Products Company was the only operational brewery left in the state.

Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools by [ANONYMOUS]

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Title: Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools
Author: [ANONYMOUS]
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Description: New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl-Street, 1842. Wraps. Very good. 4 ½" x 3 ½"; 24pp; yellow paper wrapper with wood-cut decoration of a paddle-wheeler on the front and a listing of other publisher's School Books to rear; string binding; wood-cut decoration to title page; all text within double-lined wood-cut borders; light soiling to wrapper, light foxing to margins, creasing to corners; very good. No WorldCat listings for this edition. Perhaps Dr. Alexander Anderson's wood-cuts as illustrations, he worked with the firm while they were located on Pearl Street. Text includes arithmetic tables, Federal and British money information, weights and measures, time and motion, and "Tables of Money, Weights, and Measures Mentioned in the Bible". An interesting little chapbook.

Shirley Temple through the day, No. 1716 by [ANONYMOUS]

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Title: Shirley Temple through the day, No. 1716
Author: [ANONYMOUS]
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Condition: Very good +
Description: Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustration wrapper with Shirley Temple waking up in bed; 2 staple binding holding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; bumping to wrapper corners; very good plus. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen, radio and television. She later was the Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. As a child star, she was Hollywood's number one box office draw from 1935-38.

Cherry Ames Island Nurse by WELLS, Helen

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Title: Cherry Ames Island Nurse
Author: WELLS, Helen
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Description: New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960. Later printing. Cloth. Very good. Later printing. 12mo; 184pp; color pictorial cloth over board; grey endpapers; b&w illustrated frontispiece; light scuffing to boards, one page creased; very good.

Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems by Cist, Lewis J.

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Title: Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems
Author: Cist, Lewis J.
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Description: Cincinnati: Robinson and Jones, 1845. 8vo. 190 x 125 mm. [7 ½ x 5 inches]. 184 pp. Illustrated with a lithographic portrait of the author by Rouse. Original cloth; scuffed and soiled, with some fading of the color; tide marks and some foxing. First edition. Attractive and early lithograph by Samuel Rowse from a daguerreotype by Hawkins of Cincinnati. Lewis J. Cist was a successful banker, local historian, and poet, who published most of his works in the Western Monthly Magazine and in Cists' Weekly Advertiser from 1847 to 1853. He was also a notable collector of autographs, the sale of which was organized by Bangs & Co., New York in five sessions in 1886 and 1887. Sabin, Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 13156. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, p. 14 and index. .

The universal letter-writer : or, Whole art of polite correspondence, a great variety of plain, easy, entertaining, and familiar original letters . to which is subjoined an index to enable the reader . to find out any particular letter .A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged

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Title: The universal letter-writer : or, Whole art of polite correspondence, a great variety of plain, easy, entertaining, and familiar original letters . to which is subjoined an index to enable the reader . to find out any particular letter .A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged
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Description: Hudson (NY): William E. Norman, 1811. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Printed by William E. Norman, No.2 Warren Street. 8vo, half leather, 143 pages, covers heavilyworn and some signatures springing but holding, stained throughout. Definitelyunsophisticated. OCLC list 3 institutions.

The Washington Water-Color Club Fourth Annual Exhibit, 1899

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Title: The Washington Water-Color Club Fourth Annual Exhibit, 1899
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Description: Single sheet, folded. Creased at fold. Many artists listed.

May Fair by Arlen, Michael

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Title: May Fair
Author: Arlen, Michael
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Description: London: W. Collins and Son, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Original cloth; dw. Jacket designed by Edmond Dulac in gold and black. DJ is edgeworn and scraped with some small chips, but largely still all there. Previous ownership signature dated 1925.

Milford Tombstone Inscriptions by ABBOTT, Morris W

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Title: Milford Tombstone Inscriptions
Author: ABBOTT, Morris W
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Description: Milford: Morris W. Abbott. Very Good. 1967. Paperback. B000Q1RUGU . With genealogical notes by Susan Woodruff Abbott. First edition (paperback). Light soiling to covers, else very good in pictorial wraps. .

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