2024 Kennedy Galleries Reference Library, Coffee Table, and Fine Book Auction

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
12 Volumes
translated by Richard Burton, edited by Leonard SMithers, illustrated by Albert Letchford, published 1897 by H.S. Nichols, London
The Arabian Nights Kamashastra Edition

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh
published 1652, London printed for R. Best to Place and Sam: Cartwright and one to be sold at Grays Inn and Furnival’s Inn gates in Holborn and at the hand and Bible in Duck Lane 1652
Condition: in rough condition, front and back cover detached, some staining and smudging

Estimate: $300 - $500

Seven Rare Books on Egypt by Amelia B. Edwards and Others
to include
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile first edition in original gilt cloth, published in 1877
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile Pant publisher New York
Two Pharaohs Fellas and Explorer, published Harper Poros New York 1892
Museum of Antiquity Illustrated, Ancient Life 1882
Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt by Breasted published 1924
A History of Egypt by Breasted 1919, color plates

Estimate: $300 - $500

Henry Lee II (American 1756-1818)
Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States Volumes I and II
published by Bradford and Inskeep in Philadelphia 1812
along with two partial handwritten letters from a Ch. Simmons to Governor John Francis Mercer (American 1759-1821) dated 1810 discussing the book

Estimate: $300 - $500

Five Box Lots of Books Primarily on Egypt and Children’s Books
to include
Rawlson’s Ancient Egypt Volumes I and II
The Lone Ranger
Tarzan
Works of Shakespeare
Haji Baba of Isfahan by Morier
etcetera

Estimate: $200 - $400

Handwritten 1822 Chichester Arithmetic Book
David P. Shaw, multiplication, decimals, etcetera
14″ x 9″
Provenance: Gentlemen’s Estate Watch Hill, Rhode Island

Estimate: $200 - $400

Jonathan Boucher (British 1738-1804)
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution: in Thirteen Discourses, Preached in North America Between the Years 1763 and 1775
published in London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797, leather binding Octavio format
Condition: some wear, foxing

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Eight Box Lots of Mostly French Leather Bound Books
to include
Ecole Centrale Des Arts et Manufactures, 1829-1929
Histoire des Francois by Gaxotte
Le Coeur et Le Sang by Bordeaux
Romantisme et l’Art, 1928
etcetera

Estimate: $500 - $900

87 French Leather Bound Books
to include 36 volumes by Francois Mauriac, 25 volumes by Victor Hugo, 14 volumes by Jules Romains, 12 volumes by Joseph Ernest Renan

Estimate: $200 - $400

Large Group of Books
to include
Volumes of Milton’s Poems
Edgar Allan Poe
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Thachery
Henry Longfellow
and others

Estimate: $200 - $400

Two Volumes of The Complete Angler
published by Walton, Charles Cotton 1902
Condition: Volume II missing one corner and Volume I one cover detached but present

Estimate: $100 - $300

Three Volume Set of The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War by Benson J. Lossing

Estimate: $150 - $300

Large Group of Books
to include subjects on art, history, architecture, theater, and pop culture, etcetera
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Five Box Lots of Autographed Books
authors include Joseph Kanon, Ron Chernow, Robert Fagles, John Sloan, Alexander McCall Smith, Bill Mayers, with Richard Nixon autographed First Man on the Moon presentation first day of the issue
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Group of Three Folios
to include
Julien Gracq’s Le Roi Cophetua with images by Ivan Theimer, published by Le Livre Contemporain et Les Bibliophiles France Suisses, example #52
L’ecole Centrale Des Arts et Manufactures, with signed watercolor
Rivard’s De L’universalite De la Langue Francaise

Estimate: $400 - $600

L’Etranger by Albert Camus with Lithographs by Sadequain
published by Les Bibliophiles de L’Automobile Club de France 1966

Estimate: $400 - $800

Two Box Lots of Audubon Books
to include
Audubon’s America: The Narrative and Experiences of John James Audubon, published 1940, signed by Donald Culross Peattie, edition of 3025, in original cardboard cover
Audubon: An Intimate of Life of the American Woodsman, published 1937 by Stanley Clisby Arthur
The Birds of America, first edition, published 1937, William Vogt and Macmillan Co., 500 colored plates
Quadrupeds of North America Volumes I and II, published 1851, John Bachman
The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals, Quadrupeds of North America, published 1967
Audubon’s Animals the Quadrupeds of North America, published 1951 Alice Ford
Audubon the Naturalist, a History of His Life and Time, Volumes I and II, published 1917 Francis Hobart Herrick
etcetera
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Four Box Lots of Art Reference Books
to include
The West of William H.Ashley (1822-1838), published 1964 by Dale Morgan, signed and editioned 246/250 in original cardboard cover
The Life and Letters of Washington Allston by Jared Flag, published 1892
Lectures on Art and Poems by Washington Allston, published 1850 by Richard Dana
Milton Avery Paintings 1930-1960, Hilton Kramer, published 1962
Milton Avery, Barbara Haskell published 1982
Milton Avery the Late Paintings, 2002 Robert Hobbs
Bartlett’s West by Robert Hine, published 1968
Ivan Albright, Courtney Donnell, published 1997
Bartlett’s Canada, W.H. Bartlett 1968
etcetera
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Four Box Lots of Art Reference Books
to include
Seth Eastman Pictorial Historian of the Indian
Edwin Dickinson, Dreams, and Realities
The Drawings of Edwin Dickinson by Lloyd Goodrich
Lloyd Goodrich Volumes I and II Thomas Eakins, 1982 in original cardboard case
The Photographs of Eakins by Gordon Hendricks, 1972
Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work by Lloyd Goodrich, 1933
Eakins by Roland McKinney 1942
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $200 - $400

Five Boxes of Art Reference Books and Catalogs
artists include David Gilmour Blythe, Charles Burchfield, Peter Blume, and Anna Richards Brewster with letter signed by her husband William T. Brewster
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Four Box Lots of Art Reference and Coffee Table Books
to include
Ancestors in Silhouette by Emily Jackson, 1920
Jacob Eichholtz 1776-1842 by Rebecca J. Beal, 1969
Robert Field by Harry Piers, 1927
Robert Feke by Henry Wilder Foote, 1930
The Graphic Work of Philip Evergood, published by Crown Publisher 1966
along with a signed etching of Girl with Sunflowers edition 107/150 signed “Philip Evergood”
etcetera
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Four Box Lots of Art Reference Books
to include
Leon Gaspard by Frank Waters, 1964 edition 219/500 signed by author
The Sculpture of Erwin F. Frey by Adams, published 1939, signed and inscribed by Erwin Frey 1941
The A.B. Frost Book by Henry Reed 1967, signed and inscribed by Henry Reed 1967
Horatio Greenough The First American Sculptor, by Wright 1963
Balcomb Green “Retrospective”, having pen signature
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $200 - $400

Two Boxes of John Singleton Copley Reference Books and Catalogs
to include
A Sketch of the Life and List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley by Augustus Thorndike Perkins having original envelope and letter signed by artist
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $300 - $500

Three Boxes of Art Reference Books, Catalogs, and Coffee Table Books
artists to include Jose de Creeft (three having artist signature), Gene Davis, John Stuart Carry with first edition author signed John Stuart Carry’s Pageant of America, Asher B. Durand, and Arthur Wesley Dow
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $100 - $300

Two Box Lots of Art Reference Books on Edward Hopper
to include
Edward Hopper an Intimate Biography by Gail Levin, signed by author 1995
Edward Hopper, a Journal of His Work, by Deborah Lyons, published 1995
Edward Hopper American Artists Series Whitney Museum of American Art, by Guy Pene Du Bois
Edward Hopper by Lloyd Goodrich
etcetera
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York

Estimate: $200 - $300