Auction 2209
Holiday Fine Art & Collectibles Auction - Day 1
By Worthington Galleries
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Nov 19, 2022
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Day 1 of Worthington's Annual Holiday Auction includes fine art and collectibles from all major categories, including oil and watercolor paintings, rare etchings and engravings, bronze & stone Sculptures, antique furniture, porcelain & pottery, antique books & maps, and a large selection of rare ethnographic art and artifacts, including ancient, prehistoric, and pre-columbian (Chinese, Native American & Pre-Columbian) The ethnographic art comes from several important collections and estates, including the prominent private ethnographic collection from the Estate of Paul S. Hughey, all of which were previously on loan to the Mississippi Museum of Art and the large Reynolds collection of Prehistoric Native American Artifacts, Townsend, Tennessee. Day 2 of the auction is on November 26 at 10:00am.
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LOT 63M:
First Ed. v.1 PICTURESQUE AMERICA William Cullen Bryant 1872
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Sold for: $80
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Estimated price :
$250 - $450
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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First Ed. v.1 PICTURESQUE AMERICA William Cullen Bryant 1872
First Edition Volume 1 of the important post-civil war PICTURESQUE AMERICA, edited by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | First Edition & First Printing - Published: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872, 1874 | 568 pp.+ 49 Steel Engravings | Fully bound brown leather binding with spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, embossed decoration to front, back and spine; gilt lettering on spine and cover, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page. Illustrated with 49 excellent steel-engraved tissue-protected plates on thick stock, in addition to hundreds of steel and wood engraved in-text illustrations | Approx. Dimensions: Large Heavy 4to 13" x 11" | Full Title: PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN. A DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, LAKES, FORESTS, WATER-FALLS, SHORES, CANONS, VALLEYS, CITIES, AND OTHER PICTURESQUE FEATURES OF OUR COUNTRY | William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
