Lot 3068
[MAPS]
Baye de Chesapeake en 4 feuilles avec les Bas fonds, Passes, Entrees, Sondes et Routes... Patowmack, Patapsco, et Nord-Est d'apres les Dessins de Navigateurs Experimentes, principal d'apres A. Smith Pilote de St. Marys; Comparees avec les Nouvelles Levees de Virginie et Maryland. Paris: chez le Rouge, 1778. The third (?) edition of this important chart. The map consists of four sheets, intended to be joined together (the sheets are numbered A1 through A 4 within the platemark). In this example the sheets have been combined in pairs (A1 and A2, A3 and A4) and separately framed. The printed area of the two maps so formed measures 18 1/4 x 53 1/4 inches (46.5 x 135 cm), with a total size inclusive of margins of 21 x 55 inches (54 x 140 cm).

This version of the map by Le Rouge (who issued other editions in various formats) is far larger than the Depot Generale edition of the same year. It was apparently issued in his Pilote Americain Septentrional, 1778. In dimension and structure, it is similar to the 1783 London edition published by Sayer, which was also issued in four sheets, forming a map of approximately the same dimensions as this.
Property sold on behalf of the Historical Society
Sold for $21,250

Lot 3033
[COLOR PLATE]
Mornay. A picture of St. Petersburgh, representing a collection of twenty interesting views of the city, the sledges, and the people taken on the spot at the twelve different months of the year, and accompanied with an historical and descriptive account. London: Edward Orme...printed by J.F. Dove, [text 1825 by watermark, plates Whatman 1831].

Contemporary half levant gilt, covers marbled paper over boards. 18 1/2 inches (47 cm); all edges plain, and possibly uncut. Title, 34 pp. text, with 20 very fine aquatint plates. These include 12 views of the city in all the months of the year (January as the frontispiece), with 8 additional plates of sledding and coaching scenes. Some joint and binding wear, front hinge separating but just holding on cords; occasional (mostly marginal) soiling to plates, the final plate with the guard-sheet removed (and absent), the plate starting to separate from the sewing as a consequence. The engraved title found in some copies is not present in this example.

This rare and attractive work is undated, but was initially published in 1815; the plates bear this date. Mornay's first name is unrecorded in all references consulted. His text first appears in Une Annee de Saint-Petersbourg ou douze vues pittoresques... [Paris, 1812]. The plates are engraved by John Heaviside Clark and Matthew Dubourg after Mornay's designs. Abbey, Travel 226; Tooley 355.
Sold for $20,000

Lot 3067
[MANUSCRIPT]
Carta Executoria de Hidalguia. Granada: May 16, 1600 (dated and localized thus on the verso of folio 96).

Period binding of brown goatskin, covers heavily gilt, with two concentric central panels of azured tools; the panels divided by an arabesque border, the whole framed with a broad curvilinear border from a roll. Spine in five compartments decorated with a variety of small floral tools. 12 inches (30.5 cm). 104 vellum leaves. First leaf blank, the second with elaborate full page illumination on recto and verso. Recto: the grantee's arms, surmounted with a portrait of the grantee on horseback, with borders of saints, putti, swags of fruit, etc. Verso: a finely illuminated portrait of Philip III at top, below this his titles in gilt on a purple ground, the whole with elaborate borders at the sides with floral motifs. The text is written in a fine bookhand throughout, and contains 12 exceptional large illuminated initials of saints. Leaves 95 through 104 are ruled for notarization; three are used for this purpose.

A fine example of a carta executoria, in favor of Diego Cavanillas, with illumination of unusually high standard, in a first-rate Spanish bookbinding of the period. Depicted on the opening page of illumination is St. Diego, presumably Diego Cavanillas's patron saint.
Property from the Estate of Mrs. William B. F. Drew
Sold for $16,250

Lot 3071
[MAPS]
John Senex [A New General Atlas]. [London: various publishers, 1721].

Half calf, marbled sides. 20 3/4 inches (21 cm). 7 ff. engraved with the arms of the subscribers (on 15 pp., verso last leaf blank); followed by 33 (of 34) double-page engraved maps and plans on guards, all but the city views hand-colored in outline. Three of the four maps of American interest are present, but the map of the Mississippi is lacking, and that for the Isthmus is creased. No title-page is present.

The map of Africa has a later broadsheet with a hand-colored view of St. Helena attached.
Sold for $13,750

Lot 3048
ZELDA SAYRE FITZGERALD
A group of paper dolls painted by Zelda Fitzgerald for her daughter, Frances Scott Fitzgerald ("Scottie"). [Circa 1927]. These appear to represent the costume of the Court of Louis XIV. There are 8 dolls (both male and female), and six items of clothing, two of which are affixed to figures, a total of fourteen items.

The figures stand about 13 inches (33 cm) tall, and are painted in watercolor and gouache over pencil outline.

These curiously androgynous paper dolls, with their pronounced musculature, are typical of Zelda Fitzgerald's early painting. A similar set is reproduced in Matthew J. Bruccoli's book The Romantic Egoists, 1974. The costumes shown by Bruccoli are similar to the present group; these too would appear to be French court figures. Zelda Fitzgerald used Louis de Giafferri's work L'histoire du costume feminin francais as a sourcebook for costume.
Sally Cline, in her book on Zelda Fitzgerald, states that the dolls offered a way for Fitzgerald to communicate with her daughter, who was about six years old, though it appears that they were never considered playthings in the conventional sense. A copy of Bruccoli's book, inscribed by Scottie Fitzgerald to the present owner (who curated a show of Zelda's paintings for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts) is included in the lot.
Provenance: direct gift from Frances Scott Fitzgerald to Henry Flood Robert Jr.
Sold for $10,000

Lot 3019
[ART DECO]
Le Bon Ton d'apres-guerre. Art-Modes-Frivolites. Paris: Dorbon-Aine, n.d. (1920-1922). 2 volumes, original publisher's marbled boards with paste labels on the upper cover. Title-leaf in each volume, followed by 98 colored plates in the first and 97 (one double-page) in the second volume, for a total of 195. Though 200 plates are called for on the title-page, this hastily-assembled collection frequently contains fewer. A remarkable collection of plates, most colored in pochoir (i.e. hand coloring by stencil), from one of the greatest of high-fashion journals, with contributions by Georges Barbier, Charles Martin, Pierre Brissaud, & Co.
Sold for $5,938

Lot 3066
[MANUSCRIPT]
Book of Hours. [Paris?]: [second or third quarter of the sixteenth century].
Disbound. 4 inches (10 cm). Approximately 320 leaves on uterine vellum. The text is written in a fine batarde hand, with numerous historiated initials in laid gold, red and blue throughout, leaves numbered throughout in red. The last three pages, originally blank, have been completed with prayers written out in a seventeenth century hand. The calendar lacks the first six months, and begins in July. There are several hiatuses in the main text, likely due to missing miniatures. Still, a manuscript of some quality; the text-hand is elegant.
Property from the Estate of Anton Schutz
Sold for $5,625

Lot 3065
[MANUSCRIPT]
Antiphonal, probably Italian, [late sixteenth to early seventeenth century].
In an elaborate binding with brass cornerpieces and bosses (some missing) on the upper board. 20 inches (51 cm). 2 initial contents leaves in an early hand, 96 leaves on heavy animal vellum, final leaf blank. This antiphonal is a composite manuscript, with sections from a variety of earlier sources. Some quires have fine historiated initials, with the script and staves carefully written. Others are comparatively crude, though not without charm. The plainchant is notated on four-line staves, the accompanying text is generally in a rounded bookhand (of various degrees of distinction).
Property from the Estate of Anton Schutz
Sold for $5,000

Lot 3093
WILLIAM STEIG
Four original drawings, each signed (lower right, W. Steig) and captioned in his hand, from the cartoonist's famous Dreams of Glory series. Each is rendered in various shades of black and gray, with some areas heightened in white, on sketching paper. 9 x 11 inches (23 x 28 cm), or slightly larger. Two drawings bear the stamp of the New Yorker (the Editorial Department), together with various printing and internal directions on the rear, as well as discreet reduction notes etc. on the front.

Two of these cartoons were published in the New Yorker, and have been frequently anthologized since. Breaking the Bank at Monte Carlo appeared on January 26, 1952. Hypnotic Power appeared in the October 4, 1952 issue. The two remaining drawings (both from Dreams of Glory), are Samson, and Miraculous Healer.

Steig, who died in 2003, was one of the New Yorker magazine's greatest cartoonists. Many of the drawings in this series appeared in the 1953 publication Dreams of Glory. The artist started writing for children in the 1960s, and was a Caldecott Medal winner, as well as the author of Shrek, 1990, on which the popular animated films are based. Original drawings for classic New Yorker cartoons are distinctly uncommon in the marketplace.
Sold for $4,688

Lot 3070
[MAPS]
Novii Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nec Non Pennsylvaniae et Partis Virginiae Tabula. Amsterdam?: Danckerts after Claude Janzoon Visscher, undated but postdating the foundation of Philadelphia, [1685?]. 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (46 x 54 cm), with a total size inclusive of margins of 20 1/8 x 24 1/4 inches (54 x 61 cm). Engraved, with outline color.
A later issue, incorporating Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, of Visscher's famous map with its vignette of New Amsterdam. Augustyn, Manhattan in Maps p. 32.
Sold for $4,375

Lot 3086
MARCEL PROUST
Pastiches et Melanges. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. Second edition, inscribed on the front blank to Georges de Lauris, a member of Proust's inner circle of friends. Cloth spine, marbled sides, with leather spine label, original wrappers bound in. 7 1/4 inches (18.5 cm). 272 pp, [3 ff].

Before writing In search of lost time Proust discussed the associations of the Guermantes name with de Lauris, who remained a close friend throughout his life. The signed inscription reads, in a typically Proustian manner "A mon cher Georges de Lauris avec toute ma tendresse admirative."
Sold for $3,750

Lot 3015
[ANIMATION]
Two original Disney cells. Including an image of Jiminy Cricket dressed in a Sherlock Holmes outfit, and one of Donald Duck in conversation, with gold labels "This is an Original Handpainted Celluloid Drawing Actually Used in a Walt Disney Production" on the reverse of background scenery; both images 8 x 10 inches (203 x 255 mm).
Sold for $3,125

Lot 3095
JOHN STOW
A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. London: printed for A. Churchill et al, 1720. The "corrected, improved and very much enlarged" edition by John Strype. 2 volumes, bound in full brown morocco, covers with a trelliswork design in blind, surrounded by two sets of blind rules joined by small floral tools, with larger tools of Tudor roses in each of the four corners which are repeated in the compartments of spine, six raised bands; binding unsigned, but in the Arts and Crafts style. 15 1/2 inches (39 cm). Illustrated with 69 engraved plates, including the folding map but lacking the frontispiece portrait.
Sold for $3,125