Lot 119 · British and Continental Watercolours and Drawings
A Herd of Deer with a View of London from Harrow on the Hill
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- Estimate
- £200–£300 hammer ≈ $341–$512
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS, London (South Kensington) · 14 October 1998
- Record ID
- TB-2026-6637211
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John Scarlett Davis, A Herd of Deer with a View of London from Harrow on the Hill. Christie's, 14 Oct 1998, lot 119. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6637211.
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John Scarlett Davis, A Herd of Deer with a View of London from Harrow on the Hill. Christie's, 14 Oct 1998, lot 119. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6637211.
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| [AMERICANA]. IVES, JOSEPH CHARLES. Report upon the Colorado River of … | [AMERICANA]. IVES, JOSEPH CHARLES. Report upon the Colorado River of the West... Washington, 1861. Numerous engraved plates and maps, some colored, some folding. 4to, original cloth, upper cover detached. FIRST EDITION. Howes I-92; Sabin 35308 -- KING, CLARENCE. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. Boston, 1872. 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION. Howes K-148 -- DOMENECH, EMMANUEL. Seven Year's Residence in the Great Deserts of North America. London, 1860. Engraved folding map and numerous engraved plates. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, light wear; hinges cracked. Sabin 20554 -- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Mortier de Lafayette... Washington, 1835. 8vo, disbound, backstrip reinforced with tape, some staining. Sabin 295 -- [SELECT DOCUMENTS]. CUSHING, CALEB. Reports on the Territory of Oregon... Washington, 1839. Engraved folding map. 2 parts, including supplement. "Free Cushing" autographed label on first leaf. Howes C-970; GREENHOW, ROBERT T. Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America... Washington, 1840. Engraved folding map. Howes G-389; LINN, LEWIS F. Report on a Bill to Authorize the President to Occupy the Oregon Territory. Washington, 1838. 2 engraved folding maps. "Free L.F. Linn" autographed label on first leaf. Howes L-364; JACKSON, ANDREW. Message from the President of the United States transmitting... sundry Documents relating to the Northeastern Boundary of the United States. Washington, 1836; BUCHANAN, JAMES. Report... on the northeastern boundary line of the United States... Washington, 1839; POINSETT, JOEL R. Report... on the protection of the Western Frontier of the United States. Washington, 1838. 2 engraved folding maps, one with outline coloring. "J.R. Poinsett" autographed label on first leaf; POINSETT. Report... for the improvement of the Neenah, Wiskonsin, and Rock rivers... Washington, 1840. 2 engraved folding maps; POINSETT. Report... in relation to internal improvements in the Territory of Wisconsin... Washington, 1840; ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Smithsonian Bequest... Report. Together 9 parts in one volume, 8vo, old half calf, upper cover detached. L.A. Hayward, bookplate; A.H. Lester ink owner's stamp -- [PAINEIANA]. CHALMERS, GEORGE. The Life of Thomas Paine. London, 1793. 7th edition; GIFFORD, J. A Plaine Address to the Common Sense of the People of England... London, 1792; [ANON.]. Deism Disarmed, or a short Answer to Paine's Age of Reason... London, 1794; [ANON.]. A Country Carpenter's Confession of Faith... London, 1794; NASH, MICHAEL. Paine's Age of Reason... London, 1794; WAKEFIELD, GILBERT. An Examination of the Age of Reason... London, 1794; NARES, R. Principles of Government... London, 1792. Together 7 works in one volume, 8vo, old half calf -- THACHER, JAMES. A Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War... Boston, 1827. 8vo, contemporary half cloth, worn. Second edition. Howes T-149 -- NORTON, JOHN. Narrative of the Capture and Burning of Fort Massachusetts... Albany, 1870. 4to, red half morocco. LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 copies -- GILLISS, JAMES MELVILLE. The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere... Philadelphia, 1856. Numerous plates and maps, some colored. 2 volumes, 4to, rebound in buckram -- HARDIE, JAMES. The American Remembrancer, and Universal Tablet of Memory... Philadelphia, 1795. 8vo, contemporary sheep, worn. FIRST EDITION. Evans 28800; Howes H-183 -- WALTON, WILLIAM. A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his Family... Philadelphia, printed: London, 1790. 8vo, rebound in modern morocco; slipcase . Howes W-80 -- and 7 others. (20) | $1,200–$1,800 | |
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