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German Album Amicorum

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: 001891

Binding: rnal and internal.

Condition: Very Good

Dated on case 1806 but entries include ones that are from a later date. With twelve color vignettes, all done by hand. Housed in elaborate red morocco box and casing. Depicted in the illustrations are two waterfront scenes, what looks like a monastery, a hunt trophy still life, two floral wreaths, a castle ruin, what looks like a bell-shaped mausoleum, an urn trophy, a pair of pleasure pavilions, a still life of a map and assorted papers. The text leaves are generally written in an antiquated cursive now difficult to decipher. The box and casing are worn, with rubbing and the bottom pushed...
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German Autograph Album from the 1850s and 1860s

By: N/A

Price: $495.00

Seller ID: 001913

The top leaf has an embroidered decoration over a moire silk fabric and sewn in are the initials L. A., or so it appears. Entries dated throughout the 1850s into the 1860s. Illustrations include that of a maiden with a straw hat, a rock in the landscape, a still life of letters, a lake landscape, a mountain landscape, a seraph, a bouquet on paper with raised decoration. Several of the text leaves feature writing that can only be read with a mirror. The loose slips of paper are housed in a lovely contemporary cartonnage box. The decoration on the front board of the box is rubbed. Still ove...
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Album of Red Chinese Paper Cut-outs

By: N/A

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: 002212

Binding: Silk pasted onto boards, bound together with strin

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa early twentieth century. 20 pp., with classic red paper cut-out on every page, almost all very intricate and capturing a picturesque aspect of Chinese life or imagery. The imagery never occupies more than half of the page, which measures 10 by 6.5 inches, 26 by 16 cm, but it is in the miniaturization that lies much of the art, and we can but marvel at the lapidary skill of the craftsman or artist responsible for the silhouettes created.
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[Album] European Tour Circa 1890s

By: N/A

Price: $240.00

Seller ID: 002405

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Very Good

N.d, circa 1890s. Assembled probably during an European Grand Tour that took the compiler to England, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and back to England. Posted on each page is one or two items, generally photos that were sold like postcards would later be and about the same size as the typical postcard or larger. There are 32 card leaves, or 64 pages, of these images. Rebacked in green morocco.
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Mother-of-Pearl, Paper Mache Album

By: N/A

Price: $900.00

Seller ID: 002538

N.d., the boards are circa mid-nineteenth century, while the endpapers and blank leaves within are new and fresh. The front board has a magnificent bouquet centerpiece, with a slender gilt border near the perimeter of the boards. The rear board is simply plain black. Rebacked, the album has a beautiful Japanese-style endpaper which while not strictly-speaking of the same period as the decorative boards, complements them spectacularly. The boards have typical minute craquelature, and there are a few very minor spots of surface loss along the edges. Immaculate within.
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1870's Autograph Album with Several Sketches

By: N/A

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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Watercolor Album of European Views

By: N/A

Price: $2,000.00

Seller ID: 002066

N.d., 1905-1932. 43 leaves, with 86 watercolors of different views from England, France, Italy, the Lowlands, Switzerland, all done by a very accomplished hand during the first third of the 20th century. The views of both panoramic and close-up, natural scenery and architectural, with bridges, castles, cottages aplenty. The artist was concerned with capturing the beautiful and rendering it so -- this was not the effort of a modernist cynic wallowing in irony, the sordid, the underside of things -- and so there is a dream-like quality to the art. That all was done by one artist contributes ...
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Japanese Sketchbook of Nature Paintings

By: N/A

Price: $500.00

Seller ID: 003960

Binding: Leporellos

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. 28.5 by 18 cm. Sixteen paintings, each measuring 28.5 by 36 cm, by an unknown hand. Paintings are of a flower vase, birds on branches, on a pipe or by the sea, a deer, pine cones, a cat, cranes, a woman having tea (perhaps), a tea kettle set among shoots of flowers, a butterfly above a stream, flower petals, foliage and insects. The paintings are done with bold, sure strokes. The paint is sometimes quite palpable. The style is simple, direct, economical. The paintings can each stand alone, but there is a cumulative impact from the album. Soiling and wear to the cover....
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[Autograph Album] Featuring Entries by Rosalind Russell, Linda Darnell, Pat O'Brien, etc.

By: N/A

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: 002183

Binding: Cloth Album

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1940s. Autographs include those of Linda Darnell, Rosalind Russell, Charlotte Greenwood and Pat O'Brien. The autograph of Rosalind Russell includes a pen illustration of the actress's back and her face, both crudely yet appealingly done. The sketches were probably by the album keeper, not Ms. Russell, although the latter is a possibility. More obscure nowadays but famous at the time were Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce, who played the couple Ethel and Albert Arbuckle on a long-running radio, then television, show, "The Private Lives of Ethel and Albert", and both signed the alb...
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Album of Chinese Paper Cut-outs

By: N/A

Price: $325.00

Seller ID: 002211

Binding: Silk pasted onto boards, bound together with strin

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa early to mid-twentieth century. 20 pp., with a paper cut-out on every page. On the recto is a cut-out with color fabric intricately cut to fill in the gaps and enliven the images of people. On the verso is the more classic silhouette or shadow image cut-out of buildings, trees, small human figures and animals. The images are diminuitive in size, only filling a small corner of the oblong pages, which measure 10.5 by 7 inches, or 27 by 18 cm, other than the first page in which two birds flank a pretty abstract centerpiece. The art, of course, is in part the miniaturization, whic...
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Album of Watercolors and Color Pencil Drawings of Three Children and a Few Other Subjects

By: N/A

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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Friendship Album with Three Original Drawings, Several Pages of Musical Notation, and Mounted Edelweiss

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1897-1903

Seller ID: 004142

Lovely fine pencil drawing of wooded mountain lake, an inserted pen and ink drawing of smoking monkeys, and a pencil drawing of a bartender with beer barrels behind. Oblong, 13 by 20 cm. Several entries in German. The keeper of the album probably lived in New York, since several autographs are signed with New York. One autograph is from Boston. There are not an abundance of contributions -- most of the leaves are blank -- but the pieces there are are quite nice, and with the cream colored celluloid cover and zebra pattered cushioned fabric backing, this is a handsome album.
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Enigmas

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 004409

Binding: Card. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa mid-19th century. Oblong, 7.5 by 12 cm. Unpaginated, 24 pp. Containing 20 riddles, with each riddle four to a dozen lines of verse written in a neat cursive hand, and the answers on the final leaf. Lovely original vignette watercolored illustrations, both drawn and colored by hand, one of an open book, the other, a flower bouquet. Gilt edges to the boards, with Greek raised ornamentation around perimeter.
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French Album of Original Poetry and Two Original Botanical Watercolors

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: 1841-1844

Seller ID: 004647

Binding: Felt. Blindstampted gilt decoration.

Condition: Good

Oblong 8vo, 15 by 22.5 cm. With 62 pp. or so with content. Also blank sheets. Felt is rubbed along edges, with loose seams, and sunning, or loss of color, around perimeter of boards. Repair of hinges evident. Age toning to leaves, and some light soiling scattered about.
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Album of Humorous Cut-Out Figures, Detailed with Penwork, And Some Movable

By: N/A

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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Talismanic Flowers

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Publisher: 1880

Seller ID: 002253

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

With 14 pages of chromolithographic die-cuts. Twelve of these pages are of flowers representing each of the months, the thirteenth is of an elaborate bouquet, and the final leaf is an assortment of nine die-cuts of flowers and children such as one might find in a more common Victorian album. Each of the monthly floral die-cut leaves is accompanied by poetry entitled "The Legend of" whatever the particular flower is as well as a four-line stanza dedicated to the same month. The thirteenth leaf comes with a long poem called "Nature' Cathedral". Separate from all this are n...
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Record of the Child-Life of Geraldine Richmond

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 005462

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

The heavy paper wraps have a watercolor painting of daffodils and the name of the baby, "Geraldine", written neatly at a diagonal to a side of the painting. Within are 17 leaves of content -- pen and ink work only on rectos, and a few of the pages have just the ornamental work, with the space intended for clippings or photos not used. The cover measures 25 by 17.5 cm, the interior pages, 20 ny 16.5 cm.
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Stambogs-Blade 1893

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Seller ID: 005607

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Good

A lovely Danish commonplace book or album, with watercolors, sketches, and verse (in Danish). 4to. 28 by 20.5 cm. Unpaginated, 22 pages with content. Fifteen of these pages have illustrations, most of which are watercolors or wash (seven by our count), one is colored pencil, the others pencil or pen and ink. Subjects include boats, an Italian view, trompe d'oeil cards. We would say most, but not all, are by a single capable hand, possibly bearing the surname of Olsgaard. The text entries are by many different people, and most of these are dated 1893. Moderate wear. Cracked spine.
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Album of Origami and Chromolithographic Imagery, Roses on Cover

By: N/A

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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Black Forest Photo Album with An Unusual Relief Depicting Putti, One Blowing Bubbles, the Other, Playing Cymbals

By: N/A

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Berner Oberland, Switzerland,

Seller ID: 002441

Condition: Very Good Plus

N.d., circa 1890. The front board is quite elaborate, with a beveled perimeter of a richly painted wood grain. Within is an oblong piece of walnut in the quintessential Black Forest, or in actuality, Swiss Brienzerware, style. By this is meant the delicate foliate relief vignettes which rest on lightly pitted wood. But this frames a light walnut oblong oval with the putti relief that bespeaks more eighteenth century rococo than standard Brienzerware, except that the stones and vegetation at the base are consistent with Brienzerware. The rear board of the album has a pyrographic bouquet s...
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