Dec 01, 2016 - Sale 2433

Sale 2433 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ARTISTS' MANUAL / DARTMOUTH.) Two late-19th-century student drawing books by a James A. Howe of Dartmouth College. "Mechanical Drawing" * "Free Drawing." Both volumes 4to, 1/4 calf gilt over boards and with calligraphed title-pages. The first contains 52 plates of ink and sometimes watercolored designs for hardware, moulding profiles, furniture, building facades, general perspective, and plane theory exercises, all well-executed. The second work treats shapes, objects, and facial and bodily figures. Dartmouth College C.S.C., 1898-99