Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SCRAPBOOK FROM ARCHAEOLOGIST'S WIFE (ALBUM.) Scrapbook containing over 100 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by archaeologists, historians, and others encountered while traveling around the world, kept by Mary-Helen Warden, wife of archaeologist Erich F. Schmidt, including Signatures, Inscriptions, Drawings in ink or graphite, Photographs, Autograph Letters, and Autograph Musical Quotations. Most written 4-10 items per page, some signatures and letters mounted, over 60 blank pages at end. Several inscriptions in Arabic, Chinese, Tibetan, Bengali, or other languages. With several unsigned photographs and printed items, mounted on pages or laid in throughout. 8vo, calf with decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers, worn. should be examined. Vp, 1931-36

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Khalil Gibran. Autograph Quotation Signed, 5 lines beginning, "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream . . . ." Np, nd Walter Spies. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, four bars in 4 systems from the opening of "The Tjalon Arang (Witchdance)." Oboed, Bali, nd Henry Eichheim. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and Inscribed, 3 bars from an untitled work. Bali, 9 April 1933 Max von Oppenheim. Dated Signature, "Baron Max Oppenheim." Berlin, 4 December 1934 Remo Bufano. Ink drawing Signed, showing diners on a ship. Np, nd Louis L. Mowbray. Autograph Inscription Signed: "When thinking of Fishing for fish, think of Bermuda." Np, nd Ronald Graham (3). Ink drawing with watercolor, humorous llustrated map of Baghdad. Baghdad, 1931; Two Autograph Letters Signed. Baghdad, 26 October 1931; Iraq, Christmas 1931 C.U. Ariëns Kappers. Autograph Inscription Signed. Np, 13 July 1933 Henry Field. Autograph Inscription Signed. "Field Museum Near East Expedition," 1934 Henri Seyrig. Autograph Inscription Signed. Np, nd others.