Eldred's Maritime Arts at Auction: Featuring the Collection of Benno Brenninkmeyer, July 18-19, 2013
Language: English
Published by Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., 2013
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Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.Epilonian Books
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Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., Published 2013. Wraps, 242 pp.; 28 cm; profusely illustrated throughout in color, with index of artists. In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers (front shows a maritime painting of a two-masted schooner under full sail beside a red day-marker buoy; back shows three highlight images: a bone ship model, a polychrome scrimshaw piece, and a painting of sailing vessels at anchor) with mild bumping increasing to edges and corners and mild shelf wear. Binding is tight. Interior pages are clean. Otherwise unmarked.Catalogue for the two-day Maritime Arts at Auction sale held by Robert C. Eldred Co. of East Dennis, Massachusetts on Thursday, July 18 and Friday, July 19, 2013, comprising 1,083 lots and featuring the celebrated Benno Brenninkmeyer collection of rare scientific instruments, whaling and scrimshaw artifacts, ship models, Napoleonic prisoner-of-war bone work, and fine and scarce maritime books. The Brenninkmeyer collection of bone ship models was, at the time of the sale, widely recognized as the largest collection of its type ever to come to auction, with the next-largest holdings residing at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Index of artists includes James Edward Buttersworth, Antonio Jacobsen, John Stobart, Anton Otto Fischer, Reynolds Beal, Frederic Schiller Cozzens, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, William Pierce Stubbs, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, Charles Henry Gifford, Gordon Grant, James Hamilton, Eric Erskine Campbell Tufnell, James Gale Tyler, after J.M.W. Turner, after Antoine Roux, and many others. Notable book lots include Ledyard's 1783 Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (first publication and first American edition) and a Hawaiian-printed William Ellis Journal. A standard reference for collectors and dealers in maritime art, ship models, scrimshaw, and whaling material.…
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- Title
- Eldred's Maritime Arts at Auction: Featuring the Collection of Benno Brenninkmeyer, July 18-19, 2013
- Author
- Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc.
- Publisher
- Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Wrappers
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
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- Art & Architecture
Epilonian Books
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