Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
23 June 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/944
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    69 70 cal 02 25) SIZES MIXED Hupson River Porrrouio. Twenty Coloured Plates, by I. Hill and I. R. Smith after W. G. Wall, letterpress description to each plate, no title, half calf, leather label on upper cover, lettered, A FINE COPY obl. folio (19 in. by 26 in.) Henry I. Megarey [and others], New York, n. d. % Lhe Plates comprise :—No. 1. Little Falls at Luzerne. 2. The Junction of the Sacandaga and Hudson Rivers. 3. View near J essup’s Landing. 4. Rapids above Hadley’s Falls. 5. Hadley’s Falls. 6. Glenn’s Falls. 7. View near Sandy Hill. 8. Baker’s Falls. 9. View near Fort Miller (the plate is numbered 10, letterpress numbered 9). 10. Fort Edwards, 12 Troy from Mount Ida. 13. Hudson [placed after 15], 14. Newburg. 15[a]. View near Hudson. 15 [b]. (two plates numbered the same) View from Fishkill looking to West Point. 16. West Point. 18. View near Fishkill [the letterpress numbered 16]. 19. Palisades. 20. New Yorx FROM GOVERNORS IsLAND. 22. View near Fort Montgomery [placed after 18]. *~ his volume bears on the upper cover below the leather label, the book- label of George, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.B. (see note on p. 28). Sold not subject to return owing to the difficulty of obtaining a full collation of the work. McNiven (T. W. 0.) Digby and the opening of the gut of Annapolis, after Woolford, 16 in. by 214%n., on a mount Nova Scoria, etc. Six Water-Colour Drawings, Artists unknown, all mounted :— Point of Partridge Island, 16 in. by 214 in. [? by Woolford] ; View of the Church, etc. in Lake of Two Mountains, 154 in. by 224 in.; View of St. Mary’s River, 143 in. by 21 in.; Fall of the eight mile brook, near Hall, 145in. by 214%m.; View of the Indian Village Lake of the T'wo Mountains, 154 in. by 22 in.; Lundy’s Lane, 6 in, by 9 in. (6) QuesBec. A series of 16 fine Water-Colour Drawings of Quebec and district, by J. C., comprising :— Quebec from the Micmac Encampment, Point Levy, 12in. by 204 in. [See In~ustRaTIon]. Quebec from the River, 124 in. by 20% in. Quebec from the River (another view), 124in. by 203 in. Quebec from Diamond Harbour, 123 in. by 202% %n. Quebec from the Point Levy side, 124 in. by 21 in. Quebec from Cliff Cottage, Point Levy, 124 in. by 202 in, Cape Diamond from Spencer Wood, 124 in. by 203 wm. Quebec from Lauzon, the seat of the Hon. Jno, Caldwell, 124 in. by 203 in. Quebec from Sillory Cove, 9 in. by 113 in. The Church of Chateau Richer, 94 in. by 12 in. Montmorency, 113 in. by 104 in. Wolfe’s Cove, 10 in. by 123 in. Wolfe’s Cove (another view), 10 in. by 122 in. The Cove, Montmorency, 103 in. by 15 in. The Cove, Montmorency (another view), 104 in. by 144 in,
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