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ALDEN WEIR, CAROLINE. Liber Amicorum. [A photo-illustrated journal from a European grand tour]. Italy, France, Scotland, England, and elsewhere: April-June, 1904. In a hand-painted vellum binding with yapp edges and leather ties, the boards painted dark green with gilt decorations around the edges, the upper board with the title "Liber Amicorum" in medieval-style calligraphy and a griffon design, the lower board with The Lion of St. Mark emblem. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29.5 x 21.5 cm); With watercolor illuminated title-page, 144 pp. of hand-written journal, with approximately 150 photographs of varying sizes, as well as color postcards, an original watercolor, and various souvenir items such as theater programs, tickets, stationery from hotels and railways, steamship passenger-lists and deck plans, etc. Rubbing and wear to the vellum binding mostly at extremities, with chipped spine ends, losses to much of the gilt-painted decorations, and one of the four leather ties largely missing, but the painted boards are still bright, the contents are mostly clean and bright, with some spotting to endpapers, very rare spots to the manuscript itself, some of the mounted photographs have come loose and occasionally have a creased corner, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper.
Caroline Alden Weir (1884-1974), the daughter of noted American impressionist painter Julius Alden Weir, began her European grand tour journal on April 16th, 1904, the day she was leaving Venice. She traveled with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Cora, and a man she often found irritating named Heller. Over the next few months, she visited Genoa, San Remo, Monaco, Nice, Marseilles, Paris, Orleans, the Chateaux of the Loire, Rouen, Dieppe, London, Salisbury, Edinburgh, York, Birmingham, and more. At each destination, she would tirelessly sightsee, before describing her visits to museums, churches, chateaux, country estates, parks, gardens, mausoleums, theatres, and the countryside itself. Caroline was fastidious in finding photographic prints of the places she visited, cutting small diagonal slits into the journal's pages in order to mount her photos and ephemera into their correct places in her journal.
Caroline's lively descriptions of what she encountered are brimming with personality, humor, and endless curiosity. She is clearly an intelligent and cultured young woman, beginning her journal with a quote from Lewis Carroll - "The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things" - and delighting in recounting detailed historical facts and dates that she had gleaned from her guides and guidebooks. She also discusses her day-to-day life, describing encounters with locals and other tourists, as well as her experiences while traveling, staying in various hotels ("Our last dinner at Claridges was as good as ever. It is such a perfect hotel I am afraid it spoils one for any other,") and eating different foods, such as a Bouillabaise in Marseille, which she liked, and her first olive in Ceriana, which was "not a pleasing sensation - rather bitter and oily." She also went shopping in Paris and London, and pays attention to fashion in the cities she visited - for example, she notes that "Feather boas are much in evidence" in London. Caroline and her party began their journey home on June 4th, setting sail from Gravesend on the S.S. Minneapolis. She continues writing in her journal while at sea, describing the people she meets onboard, the activities (including ship's golf and shuffleboard), and how she is reading a book about bookbinding, whose influence immediately becomes evident in her journal's hand-painting vellum binding. Caroline would go on to be an accomplished bookbinder, printmaker, etcher, and painter, settling in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will present an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 10am. The sale includes an extensive collection of illustrated books and fine bindings, many from a private collection purchased at auction in the 1970s and off the market until the present time. Here are copies of the first edition of Nerciat’s erotic classic Le Diable au Corps, and an early and curiously illustrated edition of the exceedingly naughty Academie des Dames. From the same collection comes a splendid Levitzky binding with batik endpapers on a work illustrated by Georges Barbier, with an original watercolor by the master. Many finely bound sets are featured in the sale, most notably an exceptionally luxurious set of Charles Dickens, one of 15 copies bound in sixty volumes, in superb red levant morocco with onlays.
As usual, the sale includes a selection of interesting maps and atlases, such as a copy of Turgot’s 1734 bird’s eye plan of Paris, and a finely colored celestial map by Andreas Cellarius. Additionally, there is a sizable group of globes and instruments in the auction, including a pair of 15-inch library globes and a 20-inch celestial globe by Cary, as well as three English pocket globes, a “dissected” paper globe, and a collection of rare pocket-sized navigational instruments and sundials, notably an exquisite 17th century silver “Butterfield” type sundial by the Parisian instrument maker Pierre Sevin.
One lot that bears special note is the Latin grammar owned by the young Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, used by him while studying for his baccalaureate examination. In this, the artist has penned hundreds of tiny ink sketches, ranging from studies of horses to caricatured faces. Toulouse-Lautrec was 16 to 17 years old at the time, and his genius was just starting to declare itself, evident in the precocious studies of horses in this work, which make the annotations far more compelling than mere juvenalia.
Also, in the auction are selections of Americana, travels and voyages, and a wide range of early printing. In this last category, a complete copy of Graevius’s great 1722 work on Venice is offered, the Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus with the two large folding plates of the city and all the double-page views of piazzas and palazzos.
The Collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford
Property from the Collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford offers approximately 75 lots of signed books and memorabilia relating to the political career of President Ford and watches, jewelry, and decorative items owned by and gifted to the Fords. Of note is Gerald Ford’s copy of the Official Report of the Warren Commission, of which he was a member, inscribed to him with appreciation from President Lyndon Johnson and each member of the commission. It was John “Jack” Ford who brought George Harrison to the White House, the first of the Beatles to visit, and offered in the sale are two inscribed books on Eastern thought. Of the jewelry, President Ford’s Omega and Piaget watches are offered, as is a sapphire ring that belonged to First Betty Ford. Among the gifts presented to the Fords on their world travels are jewelry items and keepsakes from Jordan and Oman, several in high karat gold. View Lots
Order of Sale
Lots 1–8 Sports and mountaineering
Lots 9–45 Americana
Lots 46–57 Travel
Lots 58–73 Maps and atlases, globes and instruments
Lots 74–114 Antiquarian books and manuscripts
Lots 115–120 Economics and the World Wars
Lots 121–163 Literature (including literary autographs)
Lots 164–178 Color plate books
Lots 179–189 Library sets
Lots 190–215 Fine bookbindings: English, French and Russian
Lots 216–220 Fore-edge paintings
Lots 221–233 Curiosa
Lots 234–249 Limited Editions Club
Lots 250–261 Private press and fine printing
Lots 262–276 Illustration and children's books
Lots 277–280 Applied Art
Lots 281–306 Books on Fine Art and Livres d'artistes
Lots 307–318 American autographs
Lots 319–340 American Presidential documents and signatures
Lots 340–End Property from the Collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford
Terms & Conditions
SHOW MORESale Notice
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ALDEN WEIR, CAROLINE. Liber Amicorum. [A photo-illustrated journal from a European grand tour]. Italy, France, Scotland, England, and elsewhere: April-June, 1904. In a hand-painted vellum binding with yapp edges and leather ties, the boards painted dark green with gilt decorations around the edges, the upper board with the title "Liber Amicorum" in medieval-style calligraphy and a griffon design, the lower board with The Lion of St. Mark emblem. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29.5 x 21.5 cm); With watercolor illuminated title-page, 144 pp. of hand-written journal, with approximately 150 photographs of varying sizes, as well as color postcards, an original watercolor, and various souvenir items such as theater programs, tickets, stationery from hotels and railways, steamship passenger-lists and deck plans, etc. Rubbing and wear to the vellum binding mostly at extremities, with chipped spine ends, losses to much of the gilt-painted decorations, and one of the four leather ties largely missing, but the painted boards are still bright, the contents are mostly clean and bright, with some spotting to endpapers, very rare spots to the manuscript itself, some of the mounted photographs have come loose and occasionally have a creased corner, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper.
Caroline Alden Weir (1884-1974), the daughter of noted American impressionist painter Julius Alden Weir, began her European grand tour journal on April 16th, 1904, the day she was leaving Venice. She traveled with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Cora, and a man she often found irritating named Heller. Over the next few months, she visited Genoa, San Remo, Monaco, Nice, Marseilles, Paris, Orleans, the Chateaux of the Loire, Rouen, Dieppe, London, Salisbury, Edinburgh, York, Birmingham, and more. At each destination, she would tirelessly sightsee, before describing her visits to museums, churches, chateaux, country estates, parks, gardens, mausoleums, theatres, and the countryside itself. Caroline was fastidious in finding photographic prints of the places she visited, cutting small diagonal slits into the journal's pages in order to mount her photos and ephemera into their correct places in her journal.
Caroline's lively descriptions of what she encountered are brimming with personality, humor, and endless curiosity. She is clearly an intelligent and cultured young woman, beginning her journal with a quote from Lewis Carroll - "The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things" - and delighting in recounting detailed historical facts and dates that she had gleaned from her guides and guidebooks. She also discusses her day-to-day life, describing encounters with locals and other tourists, as well as her experiences while traveling, staying in various hotels ("Our last dinner at Claridges was as good as ever. It is such a perfect hotel I am afraid it spoils one for any other,") and eating different foods, such as a Bouillabaise in Marseille, which she liked, and her first olive in Ceriana, which was "not a pleasing sensation - rather bitter and oily." She also went shopping in Paris and London, and pays attention to fashion in the cities she visited - for example, she notes that "Feather boas are much in evidence" in London. Caroline and her party began their journey home on June 4th, setting sail from Gravesend on the S.S. Minneapolis. She continues writing in her journal while at sea, describing the people she meets onboard, the activities (including ship's golf and shuffleboard), and how she is reading a book about bookbinding, whose influence immediately becomes evident in her journal's hand-painting vellum binding. Caroline would go on to be an accomplished bookbinder, printmaker, etcher, and painter, settling in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Für Doyle New York Versandinformtation bitte wählen Sie +1 2124272730.
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will present an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 10am. The sale includes an extensive collection of illustrated books and fine bindings, many from a private collection purchased at auction in the 1970s and off the market until the present time. Here are copies of the first edition of Nerciat’s erotic classic Le Diable au Corps, and an early and curiously illustrated edition of the exceedingly naughty Academie des Dames. From the same collection comes a splendid Levitzky binding with batik endpapers on a work illustrated by Georges Barbier, with an original watercolor by the master. Many finely bound sets are featured in the sale, most notably an exceptionally luxurious set of Charles Dickens, one of 15 copies bound in sixty volumes, in superb red levant morocco with onlays.
As usual, the sale includes a selection of interesting maps and atlases, such as a copy of Turgot’s 1734 bird’s eye plan of Paris, and a finely colored celestial map by Andreas Cellarius. Additionally, there is a sizable group of globes and instruments in the auction, including a pair of 15-inch library globes and a 20-inch celestial globe by Cary, as well as three English pocket globes, a “dissected” paper globe, and a collection of rare pocket-sized navigational instruments and sundials, notably an exquisite 17th century silver “Butterfield” type sundial by the Parisian instrument maker Pierre Sevin.
One lot that bears special note is the Latin grammar owned by the young Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, used by him while studying for his baccalaureate examination. In this, the artist has penned hundreds of tiny ink sketches, ranging from studies of horses to caricatured faces. Toulouse-Lautrec was 16 to 17 years old at the time, and his genius was just starting to declare itself, evident in the precocious studies of horses in this work, which make the annotations far more compelling than mere juvenalia.
Also, in the auction are selections of Americana, travels and voyages, and a wide range of early printing. In this last category, a complete copy of Graevius’s great 1722 work on Venice is offered, the Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus with the two large folding plates of the city and all the double-page views of piazzas and palazzos.
The Collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford
Property from the Collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford offers approximately 75 lots of signed books and memorabilia relating to the political career of President Ford and watches, jewelry, and decorative items owned by and gifted to the Fords. Of note is Gerald Ford’s copy of the Official Report of the Warren Commission, of which he was a member, inscribed to him with appreciation from President Lyndon Johnson and each member of the commission. It was John “Jack” Ford who brought George Harrison to the White House, the first of the Beatles to visit, and offered in the sale are two inscribed books on Eastern thought. Of the jewelry, President Ford’s Omega and Piaget watches are offered, as is a sapphire ring that belonged to First Betty Ford. Among the gifts presented to the Fords on their world travels are jewelry items and keepsakes from Jordan and Oman, several in high karat gold. View Lots
Order of Sale
Lots 1–8 Sports and mountaineering
Lots 9–45 Americana
Lots 46–57 Travel
Lots 58–73 Maps and atlases, globes and instruments
Lots 74–114 Antiquarian books and manuscripts
Lots 115–120 Economics and the World Wars
Lots 121–163 Literature (including literary autographs)
Lots 164–178 Color plate books
Lots 179–189 Library sets
Lots 190–215 Fine bookbindings: English, French and Russian
Lots 216–220 Fore-edge paintings
Lots 221–233 Curiosa
Lots 234–249 Limited Editions Club
Lots 250–261 Private press and fine printing
Lots 262–276 Illustration and children's books
Lots 277–280 Applied Art
Lots 281–306 Books on Fine Art and Livres d'artistes
Lots 307–318 American autographs
Lots 319–340 American Presidential documents and signatures
Lots 340–End Property from the Collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford
Terms & Conditions
SHOW MORESale Notice
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Stichworte: Lewis Carroll, Famous Author, Programme, Reiseführer, Manuskript, Zeitschrift, Book