American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

navajo girl in kinaldah dress

T00141

pastimes

playtime, gatineau hill

American Indian Art

fleece of earth and sky

peleg franklin brownell; " portrait of a gent leman"

ammi phillips (1788-1865) portrait of betsy brownell gilbert (march 8,

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

D'Wolf, John, Captain A Voyage to the North Pacific and a Journey Through Siberia. Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1861 8vo (214 x 136 mm). 4 lithograph plates with manuscript titles; occasional light browning. Half black sheep over marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; lightly rubbed. [With]: Autograph letter signed ("John D'Wolf) to Mrs. Lucia D.W. Brownel [Brownell]. 1 page (188 x 114mm) on a bifolium, Dorchester, August 3rd, [18]61, with the original envelope; old folds, lightly toned. First edition, presentation copy, signed by D'Wolf on the title-page to his cousin, an inspiration for Moby Dick "One of the rarest of Pacific voyages.... D'Wolf captained the Juno to New Archangel (Sitka) in Alaska ... After staying with Governor Alexander Baranov of the Russian American Company at New Archangel, D'Wolf accepted Baranov's invitation to accompany him across Siberia to St. Petersburg with Baron Georg von Langsdorff. In his narrative, D'Wolf expresses the opinion that he was the first American to make the journey" (Hill). Captain D'Wolf was related to Herman Melville through his wife Mary Melville. His nephew was undoubtedly influenced by his uncle's voyages, citing him in both Redburn (see lot 1084) and Moby Dick (lot 1085). The latter references him in Chapter 45, where he relays the story of an encounter with a whale that "raised the ship three feet at least out of the water. The masts reeled, and the sails fell altogether ..." Before going on to describe D'Wolf as "a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston. I have the honor of being a nephew of his." Rare: according to Sabin, only 100 copies were printed. Writing to his cousin in the letter enclosed in this copy, D'Wolf explains his rationale for publishing an account of his voyage: "My object in writing This Book was namely a desire to leave a slight record of that voyage in our family least it might be in infered by modern travelers that the spirit of enterprise was entirely dormant fifty years ago." REFERENCE: Hill 527; Sabin 19883; Streeter 3526 PROVENANCE: Mrs. Lucia Brownell (gift inscription, letter of presentation dated August 3rd, 1861) — Chas. D.W. Brownell (ownership signature dated October, 1884)

View 1 of Lot 1216: D'Wolf, John, Captain |  Presentation copy, an inspiration for Moby Dick

d'wolf, john, captain | presentation copy, an inspiration for moby dick

Books and Manuscripts from the Japan Society Library

Property from the Japan Society Library, London

Property from the Japan Society Library, London A group of books by or presented to the Japan Society Library, by Arthur Diósy comprising: Arthur Diósy, Harmsworth history of the world: Japan (n. p., 1908), presented by Arthur Diósy on 19 June 1908 Arthur Diósy, New Far East (London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1898), donated by the author in 1898 Arthur Diósy, Report of an Illustrated Address on ‘Russia and Japan’ (London: McCorquodale and Company, 1904) Clarence Ludlow Brownell, Tales from Tokio (New York: Quail & Warner, 1900) Augustus Henry Mounsey, The Satsuma Rebellion. An Episode of Japanese History (London: John Murray, 1879), donated by Arthur Diósy on 22 November 1892 David Murray, Japan: the story of the nations (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894), donated by Arthur Diósy on 1894 Eugene Stock, Japan & the Japanese Mission (London: Church Missionary Society/Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1887), donated by Mrs Diósy on July 1893 (see images 4, 5, 6) Henry Arthur Tilley, Japan: the Amoor and the Pacific (1858-1860) (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861) Japan Dept of Education, Japanese Education at the International Health Exhibition: A Catalogue with Explanatory Notes of the Exhibits from the Department of Education, Empire of Japan (London: William Clowes and Sons Limited, 1884), donated by Arthur Diósy on 22 November 1892 (see image 1) John R. Black, Young Japan: Yokohama & Yedo. vols. 1-2 (London/Yokohama: Trubner & Co./Kelly & Co., 1880), donated by Arthur Diósy in October 1893 Kenchio Suyematsu, A fantasy of far Japan (London: Archibald Constable, 1905), presented by Suyematsu Kenchio to Arthur Diósy Léon van der Polder, De cultuur der bamboe in Japan [in Dutch] (Amsterdam: Koloniaal Museum te Haarlem, 1894), donated by Arthur Diósy on 27 September 1897 Michinori Nagasaki, Womens Education: their social privileges and civil rights in Japan (London, 1877), donated by Arthur Diósy Percival Lowell, Noto: an unexplored corner of Japan (Houghton, Mifflin and Company/Riverside Press, 1891), donated by Arthur Diósy on August 1893 Shimbei Kobayashi, Ei-wa tsuiyaku jisho [English-Japanese dictionary] (Tokyo, 1872), presented to Arthur Diósy Thomas R. H. McClatchie, Japanese plays (London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890), presented to Arthur Diósy in May 1893 Vasily Golownin, Japan and the Japanese: Comprising the Narrative of a Captivity in Japan and an Account of British Commercial Intercourse with that Country, vols. 1-2 (London: Colburn and Co., 1818) Vasily Golownin, Recollections of Japan (London: Henry Colburn, 1819) donated by Arthur Diósy William Dalton, William Adams: The first Englishman in Japan (London: James Blackwood & Co., 1894)

View 1 of Lot 1: A group of books by or presented to the Japan Society Library, by Arthur Diósy

a group of books by or presented to the japan society library, by arthur diósy

Music

[George Frideric Handel] Friedrich Chrysander

[George Frideric Handel] Friedrich Chrysander Four volumes from Chrysander's library Frittelli, Fausto. Il modo di solfeggiare all'uso francese... introdotto nuovamente in Siena, Siena: Stamperia del Pubblico, 1744, 26 pages, 8vo, woodcut initials, typeset staves with manuscript notation, with final blank leaf, pink paper wrapper, stamp of the music dealer ("G.G. Guidi...Firenze") [Pope, Alexander.] An essay on man. In four epistles to a friend. Corrected by the author. The seventh edition, London: for J. Witford, 1736 [but a pirated edition], 37 pages, 12mo, *4 B-F4 (without blank F4), half-title, typographical ornaments, later reused vellum wrapper, [Foxon P855; Griffiths 419, listed as variant a], trimmed unevenly and cut close with slight loss, half-title torn with slight loss [Vincent, Antoine-François.] De la position de l'homme à cheval, envisagé relativement aux arts fondés sur le dessin. Cinquième letter à M. Bachelier [extract] (Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1788), 56 pages, 8vo, caption title, woodcut headpiece, 3 folding engraved plates, original blue paper wrappers, wrappers slightly creased and soiled Collectio Halmiana. Catalogue de lettres autographes et de portraits composant la collection précieuse de feu Mr Charles de Halm à Munic... vente... le 12 Mars 1883... 1re partie, Leipzig: List & Francke, 1883, 121 pages, 8vo, printed wrappers, text block split, wrappers creased Four volumes from the library of the great nineteenth-century Handel scholar Friedrich Chrysander (1826-1901). Perhaps the most intriguing of the four volumes is the edition of Pope's famous Essay, given Handel's setting of a line from it in his 1751 oratorio Jephtha: in the autograph manuscript Handel substitutes Pope's line 'Whatever is, is right' (I, 294) for every appearance of Thomas Morrell's words 'What God ordains is right', in the chorus 'How Dark, O Lord, are thy decrees', which Winton Dean has described as 'perhaps the profoundest music Handel ever wrote'. See lots 37 and 55-57. LITERATURE Morris R. Brownell, 'Ears of an untoward make: Pope and Handel', The Musical Quarterly, vol.62 no.4 (1976), p.570; Winton Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques (1959), p.611 and note. ICCU lists four copies of Frittelli's work. The Essay on Man is one of numerous recorded pirated copies, the first listed by Foxon.

View 1 of Lot 38: [G.F. Handel] F. Chrysander. Four volumes from Chrysander's library, 1736-1883

[g.f. handel] f. chrysander. four volumes from chrysander's library, 1736-1883

Property from the Japan Society Library, London A group of books on literature and the history of Japan, including some donated by Ernest Mason Satow comprising: A. Penitent Peri (George Cullen Pearson), Flights Inside and Outside Paradise (New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1886) Alfred Parsons, Notes in Japan (London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1896) Andrew Steinmetz, Japan and her people (London: Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859), donated by Parfit/Macfarlane Nobuko & Cliff/Duncan Lewis Mackenzie Baba Bunyel, Japan 1854-1864 Genki Yume Monogatari (n. p., 1870/71) C. Pfoundes, Fu-So Mimi Bukuro: A Budget of Japanese Notes (Yokohama: Japan Mail, 1875) Clarence Ludlow Brownell, The heart of Japan (London: Methuen, 1904) Douglas Sladen,The Japs at Home. [fifth edition: To which are added for the first time some bits of China] (London: Ward, Lock & Bowden Limited, 1895) Du Pin, Le Japon: moeurs, coutumes, descriptions [in French] (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1868), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Edward J. Reed, Japan: Its History, Traditions, and Religions, vols. 1-2 (London: John Murray, 1880) F. R. Wetmore, Yokohama Guide (Yokohama: F. R. Wetmore, 1874) Félix Régamey (transl. F. Sheldon), Le Japon pratique (Paris: J. Hetzel, 1891) Frank Brinkley, A history of the Japanese people: from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era (London and New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1914) George John Younghusband, On short leave to Japan (London: Sampson Low, Marsten & Company, 1894) Henry Norman, The Real Japan. Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners, Morals, Administration, and Politics (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893) Henry Baker Tristam, Rambles in Japan: The Land of the Rising Sun (London: Religious Tract Society, 1895) Henry Craven St John, Notes and Sketches from the Wild Coasts of Nipon. [with Chapters on Cruising after Pirates in Chinese Waters] (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880) Herbert Moore, A Japanese Family (n. p., 1905) Johanne Justus Rein, Japan: travels and researches (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1884) John William Robertson Scott, The Foundations of Japan (London: John Murray, 1922), presented to Arthur Diósy by Baron Suyematsu Kenchio in December 1905 Joseph L. Thomas, Journeys among the Gentle Japs in 1895 (London: Sampson Low, Marsten & Company, 1897), donated by Joseph L. Thomas Louis Emile Bertin, Les grandes guerres civiles du Japon 1156-1392 [in French] (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1894), donated by Louis Emile Bertin M. McLean, Echoes from Japan (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1889), donated by M. McLean on 2 April 1892 Major Ronald V. C.Bodley, A Japanese Omelette: A British writer’s impressions on the Japanese empire (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1933) Mortimer Menpes, Japan: a record in colour (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1901), donated by Freddie Schaeffer Pfarrer Fleischhauer, Japan [in German] (Langenfalza: Schulbuchhandlung des thür, 1857), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Paul de P. de Lapeyrère, Le Japon militaire (Paris: E. Plon, 1883), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysanthème [in French] (Paris: Calmann, Lévy, Éditeur, 1888), donated by Pierre Loti in 1892 Rutherford Alcock, The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of Three Years’ Residence in Japan, vols. 1-2 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863), donated by E. Gilbertson in 1893 Samuel Mossman, New Japan: the land of the Rising Sun (London: John Murray, 1873), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Sherard Osborn, A Cruise in Japanese Waters (Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1759) Sherard Osborn, A Cruise in Japanese Waters (Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1759) Susan Ballard, More about Japan (London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1915) Tadamasa (Viscount) Hayashi, For His People: The true story of Sogoro’s sacrifice (London: Harper & Brothers, 1903), donated by Hayashi Tadamasa Walter Dickson, Japan: a sketch of the history, government and officers of the empire (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1869), donated by Ernest Mason Satow Walter Weston, Mountaineering and exploration in the Japanese Alps (London: John Murray, 1896) William Conn, Japanese life: love and legend (n. p., 1886) William George Aston, A History of Japanese literature (London: William Heinemann, 1918), donated by Duncan Lewis Mackenzie Macfarlane William George Aston, Ancient Japanese classic: Tosa diary (Yedo: Asiatic Society of Japan, 1875) [Anon.], History of the empire of Japan (Tokyo: Dai Nippon Tosho Kabushiki Kwaisha, 1893) [Anon.] (ed. Summers James), The Chinese and Japanese repository of facts and events in Science, History and Art relating to Eastern Asia, vol 1 (London/Paris: W. H. Allen/Benj. Duprat, 1863)

View 1 of Lot 24: A group of books on literature and the history of Japan, including some donated by Ernest Mason Satow

a group of books on literature and the history of japan, including some donated by ernest mason satow

or an explanation of the Cant words used by Thieves, House-Breakers, Street-Robbers and Pick-Pockets about Town. To which is prefixed, some curious dissertations on the Art of Wheedling; and a collection of their Flash Songs, with a proper Glossary. London: for J. Brownnell, 1754

the scoundrel's dictionary,

Americana

A note attached to the underside of the top inscribed Table belonged to the grand-father of John A. Brownell, who was a town official in Westport, and lived at Hix Bridge in  the house across from Remington's. Gift of Mrs. John A. Brownell.

fine and rare queen anne carved and figured mahogany dish-top tea table, attributed to john goddard, newport, rhode island, circa 1760

English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations 

including the printed "Provisional Specifications" for the "Kodak no.1" camera (titled 'Improvements in or relating to Cameras'), registered by George Eastman in 1888, and the first "Brownie", registered by Frank A. Brownell  in 1900, CONTAINING DETAILED DIAGRAMS OF BOTH DEVICES, together with the printed patent specifications registered on behalf of Kodak Ltd in London (43 Clerkenwell Rd), dating from 1900 until 1939, giving details of Improvements to many specific areas of cameras, film, sound and motion-picture production, including apparatus for developing photographic films, enlarging cameras, folding cameras, photographic shutters, plate-holders, focussing devices (all 1900-1909), automatic focussing projecting apparatus, photographic chemical emulsions, Motion Picture Film (1929), films for sound photography (1929), Apparatus for Continuously Treating Moving Strips of Photographic Film, Combined Kinematographic Sound Record Film and many others

including the printed "Provisional Specifications" for the "Kodak no.1" camera (titled 'Improvements in or relating to Cameras'), registered by George Eastman in 1888, and the first "Brownie", registered by Frank A. Brownell  in 1900, CONTAINING DETAILED DIAGRAMS OF BOTH DEVICES, together with the printed patent specifications registered on behalf of Kodak Ltd in London (43 Clerkenwell Rd), dating from 1900 until 1939, giving details of Improvements to many specific areas of cameras, film, sound and motion-picture production, including apparatus for developing photographic films, enlarging cameras, folding cameras, photographic shutters, plate-holders, focussing devices (all 1900-1909), automatic focussing projecting apparatus, photographic chemical emulsions, Motion Picture Film (1929), films for sound photography (1929), Apparatus for Continuously Treating Moving Strips of Photographic Film, Combined Kinematographic Sound Record Film and many others c.270 items, 8vo (c.10  x 7¼ ins), London, 1888 and 1900-1947, library stamps, disbound

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