Annual Major Fall Americana and Chinese Auction

19 Volume Set of William Makepeace Thackeray Leather Bound Books, Thackeray Works, Paris.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Three Sets of Leather Bound Books, to include 1896 limited edition of Carlyle’s works, ____ volumes, limited edition “The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes”, published in ____, along with ____ volumes of “The Novels of Charles Lever”, published in 1898, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Two Volumes of Bibliotheque Orientale ou Dictionnaire Universel.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Nine Volume Leatherbound Set of British Antiquity William Playfair Books, 1810, having Hamilton Fish bookplate.

Estimate: $400 - $800

Leatherbound Book, having 112 hand painted coats of arms of cities and states, Dem Fuehrer und Reichskanzler sum Grosse Die Hauptstadt der Bewegung Muenchen, 1935

History of The Jews, two volumes in one, London, 1718, glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament by A. Welby Pugin, color plates, 1744.

Estimate: $250 - $400

Five Leatherbound Books, to include Biographical Dictionary of Engravings by Joseph Strutt, two volumes in one, some hand colored, 1786; The History of Philosophy, third edition by Thomas Stanley, London, 1701; Pronti, Domenico Nuovx Ricoolta, 170 engraved views, 1795; Dictionary of Arts & Sciences by Erasmus Middleton, two volumes in one; along with St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Contra Gentlivas, 1552.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Three Leatherbound Bibles, to include Elaborate Replica, 1830, German bible; Wurzburg bible, 1705; align with a German bible, 1730.

Estimate: $250 - $450

Six Piece Chinese Oxblood Porcelain Group, two vases, baluster vase covered overall with even red glaze, fading to oatmeal at the mouth, raised ring around its neck, four character mark on base, height 14 1/2 inches, along with a second hexagonal covered in a flambe glaze and with an incised regnal mark, height 12 inches, a large brush pot having spurious Kangxi mark, diameter 7 inches; a small bow, diameter 4 1/2 inches, brush washer with a six-character Qianlong seal on base, diameter 4 1/2 inches; along with a small long necked flower vase (heaping), height tallest 14 inches.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Four Chinese Porcelain Vases, to include a pair of oxblood bottle vases, having rich overall red glaze on the exterior, apocryphal six character Kangxi mark on bases, height 9 inches along with oxblood plum vase, the body covered uniformly with thick lustrous orange peel glaze ending in waves at the foot, base unmarked, glazed in oatmeal crackle, height 14 1/2 inches.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Nine Piece Japanese Porcelain Group, to include four Kutani articles, including a plate, diameter 12 inches, a small pair of vases, along with a small covered jar, height 6 inches, pair of imari plates, saucer plates decorated with flowers, diameter 8 1/2 inches; along with a small pair of square scalloped-edged plates, Japan, 19th century, Meiji Period, diameter 4 1/2 inches, a satsuma baluster vase, the body simply and delicately painted with opposing chrysanthemum stems and blossoms, intricate crenulated base and shoulder borders, engaged zoomorphic gilt ring handles, pottery and artist’s signature on the drilled base, height 12 inches, and a pair of arita chargers, imperial symbols to include dragon and phoenix, blue fish scale ground, diameter 12 inches.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Group of Seven Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Pieces, to include two blue and white prunus vases, each decorated with white flowers on blue ground, one of plum shape (mei ping), height 13 inches; along with a lantern shape, height 15 inches, both with underglaze double blue rings on base, three blue and white Jars, comprised of two small jars with prunus decoration (no covers), height 6 inches, along with a larger covered baluster jar decorated in Kangxi style with formalized scrolling foliage, height 12 inches, a pair of blue and white beaker vases, decorated with reserves of boys on a prunus background, height 14 inches.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Six Piece Group of Chinese Porcelain, to include two Chinese Dingware dragon dishes; a vase having metal rims, height 8 inches; celadon bowl having incised flowers; yellow glazed stem cup, signed on bottom; along with a plate having six character mark on bottom.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Four Piece Chinese Porcelain Group, to include a brown glazed globular vase, a blue and white porcelain lotus fish bowl, height 10 1/4 inches, diameter 15 3/4 inches; a blue and white dragon charger, along with a Famille Rose style vase having painted figures.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Seven Piece Chinese Porcelain Group, to include a dragon vase having underglaze copper dragon, a set of five bowls with painted blue dragons, along with a blue and white garlic dragon vase, height 16 inches.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Group of Four Chinese Porcelain Vases, to include a large grisaille beaker vase, decorated with fine lined gold painting of landscape, height 20 inches, two vases, famille verte plum decorated with floral branches and a doucai beaker, decorated in classic Kangxi style with figures and mythic beasts, height 17 1/2 -18 inches, a blue and white beaker vase decorated overall in Ming-style of scrolling chrysanthemum flowers and leaves, unmarked, height 17 1/2 inches.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Three Piece Group of Chinese Porcelain, to include a Rouleau vase (as is) having painted courtyard scene; a large Wucai covered jar having painted koi and lily pads; along with a blue and red five claw dragon vase, having six character mark on bottom; tallest 27 inches.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Eight Historical Books, to include two volumes of John L. Stephen’s “Incidents of Travel”, M.M. Callery and Yvan “History of the Insurrection in China, volumes 2 and 3 of “Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States”, one copy of Ainsworth’s “Tower of London”, Marcy’s “The Prairie Traveler, published in 1859, along with Kemble’s “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation”, published in 1863, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Third Edition of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”, published in 1860-1861 in Boston, by Theyer and Eldridge, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.

Estimate: $400 - $800

Three Volumes of “Commodore Perry’s Voyages”, by Francis L. Hawks, “Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan”, preformed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the goverment of the United States, published in 1856, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

George Catlin’s “North American Indians”, in two volumes, published in 1926 along with Sanderson’s “Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India”, published in 1878 in London, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.

Estimate: $400 - $800

Eleven Classic Books, to include Mark Twain’s 1869 “Innocents Abroad”, Dicken’s “Sketches of Young Couples and Young Gentlemen”, two volumes of “Pop Gun Series, by Aunt Fanny, published in 1864, Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon” published in 1952, two volumes of Oliver Wendell Holmes “A Romance of Destiny”, along with two volumes of Dicken’s “Childs History of London” and Bonner’s “Childs History of the United States”, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.

Estimate: $300 - $500