Category: Albums and Sketchbooks

1870's Autograph Album with Several Sketches

Price: $32.00

Seller ID: 002747

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Mostly a typical autograph album, neater than many others, with two amateur sketches, one of a black man with racist overtones, and one page with a touch of decorative ink work. The oblong album measures 3 by 5 inches, 8 by 13 cm. Most entries are dated 1877 or 1878. Soiling to the green gilt-stamped boards. Slightly loose text block.
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1890s Autograph Album Signed by Many Theatrical and Musical Celebrities, Including Anna Held, Johanna Gadski, Maurice Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Chauncey Olcott, Anthony Hope, etc.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: : 1897-1899, 1925

Seller ID: 002750

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Most entries are from 1897 or 1898, with only one at the much later date of 1925. John Hare (1844-1921) was a prominent English actor manager who ran the Garrick Theatre in London for a number of years. He was closely associated with Pinero, both producing some of his works as well as acting in them (not the same works). His fame was as great in America as in England. Kathryn Kidder (1868-1939) was a successful American stage actress. Howard Gould was the son of financier Jay Gould. Maurice Barrymore (1849-1905) was the patriarch of the legendary theatrical family. Father of Lionel, Eth...
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Album Amicorum C.B.S.S. Souvenir 17 Januar 1845

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Denmark, : 1845-1854

Seller ID: 005665

Binding: Box

Condition: Very Good

Highly decorative box containing Biedermeier Period Album Amicorum from Denmark. The box, oblong, 8 by 15.5 cm. With four leaves containing original artwork, a fifth, with a lock of hair. One other is of a steel engraved view of Copenhagen by the water. The remainder, 26 leaves, are purely writing -- verse, autographs, etc. We would regard the most interesting of the pictorial leaves as one with a lace window onto which is attached a floral garland, above which hovers a seraph, and a ribbon containing an aphorism. This mounted part is not flat, and we would say it was probably manufactu...
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Album Amicorum for Abby Dole

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Massachusetts and New Hampshire, : 1836 - 1839

Seller ID: 003448

Binding: Blindstamped Full Morocco

Condition: Good

8vo. 24 by 19 cm. 3 to 135 numbered pages. Poetry by many hands, including classmates, relatives and some other friends. Many entries are conveniently dated. Also locations are given as Methuen, Andover and Boston, all being Eastern and Northeast Massachusetts, and New Hampton Salisbury, NH, in central NH. Six nice, even intricate, period vignette illustrations, done with ink or watercolor, plus six steel engravings that were bound in the blank album by its binder/publisher. The entries would appear to have been done mostly by fellow students of Abby, and we would surmise that she was a...
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Album Amicorum. Der Freundschaft gewidmet von Julie Bühler

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Berlin, Leipzig, etc., : 1829-1830

Seller ID: 004857

Condition: Very Good

An especially interesting, lovely box, with two sets of flaps cut on the diagonal and falling both below and above the top lid, and an outer box to house this box. The inner box is 16 by 10 cm, an it has mounted marbled papers set off at their edges by gilt ruling and a thin ornamental band within. The contents are mostly typical verse rendered in a somewhat inscrutable German cursive, but there are four cards with color illustrations. The most outstanding is an original Romantic-style watercolor of a classical ruin by a waterfall and the backs of two men in period coats. A second card has...
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Album of 37 Oil Paintings and Watercolors of Primarily England [D.L. & A.C. Miller. June-July 1920]

Price: $800.00

Publisher: : 1920

Seller ID: 002605

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

By various hands. The album bears the date of 1920 but the artwork presumably would probably have been collected over time, either before or after that date, or a bit of both. The name of Miller is on the front cover, but that is probably the name of the owner and compiler of the album and does not explain much beyond that. The quality is various, as is the style, with the unifying element that they are all relating to lovely scenery of the countryside, the small town, the seaside in the South of England, Yorkshire, perhaps elsewhere in England, and at least one or two from the Continent (F...
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Album of 48 Indian Watercolors Painted on Mica

Price: $2,500.00

Seller ID: 005513

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Wonderful folk art-ish paintings of Indian musicians, craftsmen, dancers, etc. 8vo. 22.5 by 18.5 cm. 12 leaves, with four paintings mounted onto the rectos of each of these leaves. Mica painting has a long tradition as a technique for artists to trace existing works. The type of mica paintings here, representing occupations, ceremonies and artistic performances, were made exclusively for European patrons, most typically, employees of the East India Company, as momentos of their time in India. (See M. Archer, "Company Paintings, Indian Paintings of the British Period", published b...
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Album of a Dozen Chinese Watercolors of Colorful Birds on Pith Paper, 19th Century

Price: $1,500.00

Seller ID: 005977

Binding: Silk covered boards

Condition: Good

N.d., circa 1850. 12mo, 16 by 12 cm. Each painting mounted on thin paper and framed with blue strips, as typical of such albums made presumably for the tourist and expatriate market. The paintings have a disarming naive quality. Yet in our view the paintings have more color and detail than the average such album of this size (larger format pictures tend to be more nuanced when it comes to this genre). The silk patterned cover has had its joints repaired. The usual amount of fissures, or tears, to the pith paper. Most of the paintings have no or very light defects of this type.
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Album of Caricatures and Photos of an Austro-Hungarian Army Unit Stationed in Northern Italy, circa early 1860s.

Price: $5,000.00

Seller ID: 005960

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Fabulous collection of army caricatures, as well as actual photos of many of the soldiers and officers. The artwork has an inimitable naive, folk art-ish and outsider art-ish quality that is simply captivating. Even with the captions mostly unreadable by us written as they are in an indecipherable Suettelin Schrift, the humor and narrative generally comes through very clearly. The artwork is mostly focused on the soldiers' lifestyle -- hunting, womanizing and wooing, drinking and carousing, day to day activities, and other than their being in uniform mostly, relatively light on actual milit...
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Album of Erotic Photos from the Early 20th Century

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 004282

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 18 by 13 cm. Unpaginated, 32 pp., with a photo of a nude, or sparingly clad, woman or girl on every page. The photos would appear to have been from the teens, when the vamp (think Theda Bara) was at its apogee in terms of erotic appeal. Many of the women are lolling as if in a harem. They are generally bedizened with jewels, but what garments they have on is of a see-through sheer fabric. Most of the women can be described as voluptuous in their carriage -- the twenties ideal of slender had not yet taken hold. And their hair-styles are generally quite thick and full, as characteri...
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Album of Humorous Cut-Out Figures, Detailed with Penwork, And Some Movable

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 002282

Binding: Quarter Morocco

Condition: Good

Highly unusual and original album of cut-out figures, loosely in the style of an Edward Lear. N.d., early 20th century. With 21 leaves. There are images of early cars and scooters, and a reference to Teddy's braces, which is probably referencing Theodore Roosevelt. Most of the figures, though, could easily be late Victorian as much as Edwardian. The juxtapositions on some of the leaves can be manic, and that is part of the fun, in addition to the figures with movable parts. The effect is that of collage. There is the occasional political reference, but there would seem to be no agenda o...
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Album of Origami and Chromolithographic Imagery, Roses on Cover

Price: $195.00

Seller ID: 002412

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1880s. 16 pages, plus cover, with the artful combination of origami paper folding and chromolithographic die cuts to create pages of artfully arranged imagery, or combining the two media into a single pictorial image. While such albums were not that at all uncommon, this one is done with singular neatness and what would seem an intuitive aesthetic sense that results in ineffably delightful juxtapositions. A good amount of the paper work involves a weaving of two different colors of paper, and this can lend an abstract element to the picture created as well. Some of the imagery ...
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Album of Original Pen-and-Ink Victorian Caricature and Cartoons

Price: $1,650.00

Publisher: England, : 1879

Seller ID: 004234

Binding: Half Calf, pebbled cloth

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1879. One illustration near the end of the album is dated 1879, and so we assume they all come from that date, or a few years prior or after. Oblong, 15 by 24 cm. 25 pp. with fine, even brilliant, pen-and-ink caricatures and cartoons. The work is unquestionably of professional quality, but there are no signatures or other indicia of authorship. The style would have fit right in with "Punch", and one can see a kinship with Tenniel or DuMaurier, to name two of the best known contributors to that humor magazine. Here the heads are often oversized atop miniaturized bodies. The...
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Image for Album of Original Watercolor and Ink Designs for Calendars from 1903 to 1907 Satan's Calendar. Life's Journey Calendar. Expectation's Calendar. Young Herchard Calendar.

Album of Original Watercolor and Ink Designs for Calendars from 1903 to 1907 Satan's Calendar. Life's Journey Calendar. Expectation's Calendar. Young Herchard Calendar.

Price: $6,500.00

Publisher: : 1902-1906

Seller ID: 003296

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Uncommonly clever, colorful manuscript calendar illustrations built around a theme for each of the years. Small folio. 31.5 by 26.5 cm. A total of 29 original watercolors, all dated and signed E.L.P.R. The identity of the artist is otherwise unknown and possibly irretrievable. What is manifest, however, is his skill, humor and panache, and these illustrations stand out among the fluent amateurs of the day, if amateur the artist in fact was. Some of the imagery is decidedly pre-Raphaelite in its style and modeling, while others are more suavely Fin-de-Siecle. Similarities can be found t...
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Album of Original Watercolors of Butterflies, Moths, a Cricket and a Lizard "Lenton New Year 1763"

Price: $12,500.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 007335

Binding: Full Decorated Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Twenty highly detailed, exquisite watercolors, 18 of which are butterflies and/or moths. sometimes with lawn and floral details and Rococo touches. The lizard, while seemingly an outlier of sorts, is especially wonderful, in our view. The album is a glorious manifestation of the eighteenth century new-found fascination with science and the natural world, very much a part of the Englightenment. Setting the album apart from later accurate renderings of insects is the finishing off with the Rococo decoration, the Rococo itself being an homage to the natural environment, with its sinuous swirl-...
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Album of seventeen miniature-sized pen-and-ink caricatures

Price: $275.00

Publisher: : 1857

Seller ID: 006072

Binding: Morocco spine. Blindstamped cloth boards.

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 11 by 19 cm. Nine leaves with 17 cartoons or caricatures, all done on a miniature scale, which is a part of their charm. Each drawing has a short caption written in block letters. The drafting is quite fine -- these drawings could pass for published work of the mid-Victorian era. And the visual humor, showing drunks, sleepers, musical bandits, the injured, etc., holds up remarkably well. Neat though the captions are, an inscription presumably to the artist's sister is not entirely legible to us, and thus we can not identify the artist, other than to state that the artist was proba...
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Album of Trade Cards, Photographs and Other Ephemera

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1876-1878

Seller ID: 003129

Binding: Half Leather, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 18 by 16 cm. Unpaginated, 82 pp. The exceptional aspect of the album is surely the photographs. Among them is a photo of two boys and a girl with toys (a toy drum, a toy shotgun, a wagon), a bonneted little girl posing next to an open ABC, a photo with the title "An Evening at Home" showing a large family making music, playing with blocks, etc. as parent's sternly or patiently look on; three ladies having tea while dressed in what was then old-fashioned dress; children "Listening to the Birds", a smiling baby (at a time when smiling was uncommon in photos), a tot wit...
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Album of Twenty-Four Original Watercolors of Flowers and Leaves

Price: $725.00

Seller ID: 002832

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A lovely collection of botanical watercolors that are both realistic and tinged with a bit of Art Nouveau. N.d., , circa 1900. Probably English, but it could be American alternatively. The watercolors are all mounted onto card, which was then mounted onto the card stock leaves of the album. The flowers are all neatly captioned and include Purple Spurge, White Heather, Daffodil, Sweet Scented Coltsfoot, Yellow Monkey Flower, Bullace, Polypody Fern, Hart's Tongue Fern, Gromwell, Trefoil, Stork's Bill, Rest Harrow, Lesser Periwinkle, Hellebore, Wood Sorrel, Gladwyn Iris, Snowdrop, Purple Will...
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Album of Watercolors and Color Pencil Drawings of Three Children and a Few Other Subjects

Price: $400.00

Publisher: : 1882-1884, 1888-9, 1924-7

Seller ID: 002268

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

A fabulous collection of a child's nearf-realistic renderings of three siblings, Carl, Hermann and Leslie, along with a few other fanciful illustration. Probably German, at least in part, and possibly English, based on the spelling of the name Hermann, although Leslie is an unlikely German name. Three pages in the back are made up of ledger like entries from the 1920s relating to the sale of postcards, and these entries are in German. One might conjecture that this latter use of the notebook was made by one of the two boys now a grown-up who reached for something that was just laying around...
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Album of Watercolors of Verdun by an English Prisoner-of-War during the Napoleonic Wars

Price: $7,500.00

Publisher: Verdun, France, : 1810-1813

Seller ID: 006391

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Thirteen fine original watercolors of Verdun. Oblong, 16.5 by 26 cm. According to an inscription on the first leaf, these paintings were done by a friend of John Spencer Stanhope while both were prisoners-of-war in Verdun. The identity of the artist, alas, is unknown otherwise. Stanhope (1787-1873) was indeed a prisoner-of-war in Verdun between 1810 and 1813. His son, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, was a well-known Pre-Raphaelite artist. This album captures the lovely architecture of Verdun, an ancient yet still small city, as well as the countryside surrounding the city, with its panoram...
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Category: Albums and Sketchbooks