Margolis mahogany Chippendale style armchair with upholstered seat and back, on squared legs with carvings and stretcher base, attributed to Margolis shops.
L & JG Stickley sideboard having back splash with shelf over rectangular top over two center doors flanked by three small drawers on either side over one long drawer all with original hardware, signed in drawer L & JG Stickley one door pull is broke off but available. total ht. 48 1/2in. total wd. 54in.
Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville 1851, New York Harper and Brothers, First American Edition, first binding, six advertisements, Harper device centered on front and rear covers. Provenance: Perry G. Childs Library to Charles Walker Andrews to present owner
ABU AL-QASIM FIRDAWSI D. 1025AD: SHAHMAMA SAFAVID IRAN 17th Century. Twenty-Five lines of black nasta’liq script written in four columns, margins in blue, red, black and gold, 32 painted miniatures, headings in red. Front cover with imperfections, back cover in need of restoration, now in fitted leather box. From the library of Theodore Weicker. 11 x 7 Shah Nameh Firdausi
Persian Illuminated Manuscript 17th-18th century in leather binding with three hand painted plates, all writing bordered in gold, from the Lowell Palmer Library.
Four books to include Comebia De Publio Terencio Africano, 382 pages incomplete Aphorism 16th – 17th century, R.P. Thome Sanchez De Matrimonio, vellum in Latin 1629 Zenobia, two volumes in one, by William Ware 7th edition, 1846 N.Y. and Sermon, The Penitent Pardoned Prodigal Son, J. Goodman, London 1679, from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain The Writing of Mark Twain The Autograph Edition signed S. L. Clemens and Mark Twain, number 391 of 512 sets, American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn. 1899, 25 books in all.
Twenty-Two books including Edgar Allen Poe The Complete Works, 6 volumes, G.P. Putnam’s Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1902 The Works of Tennyson, six volumes and Shakespeare’s Works, 10 volumes, P.F. Collier and Son.
Thirty-Eight leather bound books including Bismarck volumes I & II, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin volumes I & II, Contemplations from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard, Poems of Oscar Wilde volumes I & II, etc., from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Three shelves of 102 leather bound books including ten volumes of Bacon’s Works, four volumes of Pepys’ Diary, eleven volumes of Beaumont and Fletcher’s Works, ten volumes of Sterne’s Works, fifteen volumes of The Pageant of America, three volumes of Macaulay’s Essays, etc., from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Seventy leather books including Cervantes Don Quixote, Works of Thomas Shadwell, Short History of the English People, Abraham Lincoln The War Years, Works of Abraham Lincoln, Lives of the Lord Chancellors, Lamb’s Works, Dewey’s Works, etc., from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Leather bound books including Edgar Allan Poe, Burns’ Works, Bulwer’s Works, Macauley’s Essays, History of England etc., 122 books total, from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Sixty-six leather bound books, including twenty-eight volume set of Trollope’s Works, eight volumes of Burns, ten volumes of John Burroughs, six volumes of Shakespeare, six volumes of Jacques Casanova, and eight volumes of Aldrich’s works, from the Library of Theodore Weicker.
Eighty leather bound books including Works of Lord Byron, Plutarch’s Morals, Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Prose Works of Charles Lamb, Barne’s A Popular History of the United States, etc., from the Library of Theodore Weicker.
Fifteen leather books including Antiquarian books, French 1785 and Amsterdam 1758, Spirit of Enthusiasm 1709, and Works of Virgil 1730 two volumes, from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Five books including Hieronymi Mercvrialis Dearte Gymnastica Libri Sex 1601 with picture plate and four volumes of Rational Recreations by W. Hooper, M.D., from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Forty-Three volumes including The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, thirty volumes of Horace Walpole leather books, Peele’s Works volumes I-III, etc., from the library of Theodore Weicker.
Edward Henry II Potthast 1880-1947 SPRING PASTURE oil on board signed lower left E.H. Potthast II titled and signed on reverse: Spring Pasture E.H. Potthast II 4247 N. Gordan Cincinnati Ohio 26 x 30
Rosewood inlaid games table, rectangular top opens to reveal tooled leather top set on four supports on four downswept members, 19th century. ht. 28in. wd. 36in.
Set of six mahogany Queen Anne style side chairs with scalloped front rail and cabriole legs connected with block and turned stretchers, early to mid 20th century.
Louis XVI style oval stand, top with brass trim over two drawers over kidney shaped shelve on turned legs, late 19th century veneer lifting. ht. 28 1/2in. 14 x 18
Williamsburg by Kittinger upholstered wing chair, Chippendale style with wine colored upholstery, signed on leg and cloth tag, excellent condition. ht. 45 1/2in.
Chippendale style secretary desk in two parts, upper section with two glass doors on lower section with pull out butler’s style desk over six short drawers on molded base. ht. 91 1/2in. wd. 49in.
George IV mahogany secretary desk in two parts, upper section with two glazed doors on lower section with drop front desk over three long drawers on bracket base, circa 1780-1810 one glass panel cracked. ht. 84in. wd. 34in.