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Lot 3119

Group of Books Related to Early American Art and Americana

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(7) volumes, with (2) signed, to include:

Joseph Downs's American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. (Macmillan, 1952. Stated first printing. Hardcover.); Charles F. Montgomery's American Furniture: The Federal Period, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. (Viking Press, 1966. Signed by Montgomery on the half-title. Hardcover.); Virginius Cornick Hall, Jr.'s Portraits in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society: A Catalogue. (University Press of Virginia, 1981. Hardcover, in jacket. Signed by Hall on the title page.); Sotheby's May 1995 catalogue, Important Americana: The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Deyerle. (Paperback); Sumpter Priddy's American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840. (Chipstone Foundation, 2004. Hardcover.); Ronald Roy Seagrave's The Early Artisans & Mechanics of Petersburg Virginia, 1607-1860: The Building of a Multi-cultural Maritime Community. (Outskirts Press, 2010. Paperback.); Carolyn J. Weekley's Painters and Paintings in the Early American South. (Colonial Williamsburg and Yale, 2013. Hardcover, in jacket.)

12 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.

The Estate of the late Dr. Larry Southworth, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Titles range from good to very good condition; most titles with only light wear from use and occasional writing; American Furniture volumes with grime, toning, scuffing, slight separation from text block, wear to spine ends, and pieces of jacket laid in loose; The Federal Period with staining, spine slightly cocked, and cracking at rear joint.