Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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WALL, Bernhardt T., illustrator (1872?1956). ?? GLEASON, Dorothy and J. Duncan. Windjammers. New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. 4to. 28 etched leaves of text by Wall with numerous illustrations and decorations by J. Duncan Gleason in various colors, under tissue as issued. Original publisher?s quarter cloth, paper over boards with etching cover illustration, uncut. LIMITED EDITION, number 91 of 325 copies SIGNED BY BOTH GLEASON?S AND BERNHARDT WALL on limitation. Provenance: Henry Brevoort Kane (book label with penciled gift inscription laid in); Grenville Kane (bookplate). The Brevoort Kane family was one of the richest in Manhattan. A superb collaboration between landscape and marine artist J. Duncan Gleason, his wife Dorothy, and historian, illustrator and etcher Bernhardt Wall. We are unable to locate any copies institutionally.