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LIMITED EDITIONS OF 20 SPLENDID FANTASY LANDSCAPES
BY ROBERT PARKEHARRISON, SIGNED BY HIM,
WITH TWO SEPARATE SIGNED ORIGINAL PLATINUM PRINTS
PARKEHARRISON, Robert. Listening to the Earth WITH: The Book of Life. Florence, Massachusetts, 2004, 2005. Two volumes. Signed limited first editions of these two marvelous collections, each consisting of ten highly imaginative photographic landscape prints, each letter C of only five lettered copies (total editions of 72 and 86 copies, respectively), each photograph initialed by the artist and accompanied by the verses of prize-winning poet Morri Creech. The editions are signed by ParkeHarrison, Creech, editor John Wood and publisher Steven Albahari. With separate signed original print “Suspension” accompanying Listening to the Earth and separate signed original print “DaVinci’s Wings” accompanying The Book of Life. $55,000.
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STRIKING ORIGINAL PAINTING, “WAR ORPHANS” BY ARTHUR SZYK
SZYK, Arthur. War Orphans. London, 1940. Extraordinary signed original watercolor and gouache painting of two young Jewish refugees, huddled together, by anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, whose wartime portrayals of brutality, heroism and suffering strongly influenced American attitudes toward the war effort. $35,000.
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WITH 30 FOLIO LTIHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF EGYPTIAN COSTUMES: EMILE PRISSE D’AVENNES’ ORIENTAL ALBUM, 1848,
PRISSE D’AVENNES, Emile. Oriental Album. London, 1848. First trade edition of this beautifully illustrated survey of Egyptian “modes of life,” with lithographic frontispiece portrait of botanist George Lloyd, to whom the work is dedicated, additional chromolithographic title page, and 30 large tinted lithographs finished by hand of contemporary Egyptian dress. $18,500.
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“AMONGST THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY”
MAN RAY. Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. Hartford, Connecticut, 1934. First edition, second issue, of Man Ray’s first photobook, inscribed on the title page to a fellow photographer, “For Charles Fraser with compliments of Man Ray Paris 1960,” with 104 rich heliogravures of his photographs and Rayographs, “regarded by some as amongst the greatest of the 20th century” (Parr & Badger). $18,000.
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SPLENDID ORIGINAL BURNE-JONES COLORED CHALK DRAWING
BURNE-JONES, Edward. Original study for The Sirens. No place, 1870. Splendid original chiaroscuro colored chalk drawing, a large preliminary compositional study for The Sirens. $16,500.
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“THE FIRST MUSEUM FOR ANTIQUITIES IN THE NEAR EAST”
(BÉCHARD, Emile and DÉLIÉ, Hippolyte) MARIETTE-BEY, Auguste. Album du Musee de Boulaq. Le Caire, 1872. First edition of this monumental folio of 40 splendid exhibition-size carbon prints of newly excavated funerary artifacts and magisterial statues of Egyptian gods such as Osiris, Isis and Ra, displayed in Egypt’s Musée de Boulaq, founded by the father of Egyptian archaeology Auguste Mariette, with each richly toned vintage print by famed photographers Béchard and Délié made from glass negatives and mounted on heavy card stock, text by Mariette. $16,500.
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SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED AND BOUND LARGE FOLIO SET,
THE GREAT MASTERS IN THE LOUVRE, ONE OF ONLY 25 SETS
LAFENESTRE, Georges, editor. Great Masters in the Louvre. London and Paris, 1899-1900. Two volumes in four. First edition, limited to only 25 numbered copies reserved for “England and the British Empire.” Profusely illustrated with hundreds of plates and in-text illustrations, many colored or tinted, including fine color plates window-mounted on thick paper. $16,500.
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CENTENNIAL TAPESTRY OF JOHN TRUMBULL'S FAMOUS PAINTING OF THE DECLARATION
TRUMBULL, John. Declaration of Independence (tapestry). No place, 1876. Large linen centennial tapestry representing John Trumbull’s famous painting of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, with Thomas Jefferson presenting their draft to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress. $16,000.
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JERUSALEM WINDOWS, BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY CHAGALL, WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
CHAGALL, Marc. Vitraux pour Jerusalem. Monte Carlo, 1962. First French edition of Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows, with two original full-color lithographs especially prepared by Chagall for this edition, and with a bold presentation inscription on the fly leaves, signed and dated “Marc Chagall, I/XI 1962,” accompanied by a lovely full-page original drawing of an olive branch held above housetops, all in the year of publication. $16,000.
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“AN EXTRAORDINARY RICHNESS OF COLOR”
PYNE, William Henry. History of the Royal Residences. London, 1819. Three volumes. First edition, large-paper (“Royal”) copy of this beautifully illustrated work on the design and history of eight royal residences, with 100 hand-colored aquatint plates after the works of Charles Wild, James Stephanoff and others. $15,000.
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