Jan 28, 2025 10:00 EST
Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture
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A "rural, romantic, and descriptive poem" about George Washinton's home, Mount Vernon
Estate / Collection: The Howard Phipps, Jr. Collection, Erchless, Old Westbury
SEARSON, JOHN
Mount Vernon, A Poem: being the seat of his excellency George Washington in the State of Virginia... Philadelphia: Printed for the author by Folwell, [1800]. Contemporary tree calf, red leather spine label. 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; [i]-vi, [7-9], 10-83 pp., with a later portrait of Washington added as a frontispiece. Wear to boards, spine defective, front joint cracked with the front board holding by a thread, without the frontispiece view of Mount Vernon, offsetting to title from the added frontispiece, contents uniformly toned with occasional spots.
$300 - $500
Estate / Collection: The Howard Phipps, Jr. Collection, Erchless, Old Westbury
SEARSON, JOHN
Mount Vernon, A Poem: being the seat of his excellency George Washington in the State of Virginia... Philadelphia: Printed for the author by Folwell, [1800]. Contemporary tree calf, red leather spine label. 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; [i]-vi, [7-9], 10-83 pp., with a later portrait of Washington added as a frontispiece. Wear to boards, spine defective, front joint cracked with the front board holding by a thread, without the frontispiece view of Mount Vernon, offsetting to title from the added frontispiece, contents uniformly toned with occasional spots.
The Howard Phipps, Jr. Collection, Erchless, Old Westbury
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Auction: Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture, Jan 28, 2025
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Auction of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings and The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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Auction of English & Continental Silver and English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts on Wednesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle's auction on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 will offer 19th Century & Old Master Paintings & Drawings as well as The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury.
The auction onWednesday, January 29 at 10am will feature English & Continental Decorative Arts and English & Continental Silver.
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