Ending Mar 7, 2024 10:17 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Collection of proof portraits by the Rosenthals of Supreme Court justices
ROSENTHAL, MAX AND ALBERT
Collection of approximately 43 signed etchings of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Associate Justices. Philadelphia: circa 1890. Proofs on Japan paper, signed by the engravers in pencil, neatly lettered with the name of the subject at the foot of sheet in pencil, a few with facsimile signatures of the justices in the images. In overall fine condition, with a few minor diagonal corner creases (not passing through images).
A large collection of 43 etched portraits of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, each signed in pencil by the artist. These include 21 signed by painter, lithographer, draftsman and etcher Max Rosenthal (1833-1918); and a further 22 signed by his son, the portrait artist, printmaker, writer, and collector Albert Rosenthal (1863-1939). The subjects include a wide array of Supreme Court justices and a few incorporate facsimile signatures of the subjects. Subjects signed by Max Rosenthal include Oliver Ellsworth, William Cushing, John Rutledge, Samuel Blatchford, Roger B. Taney, Stephen Johnson Field, L. Q. C. Lamar, John Marshall Harlan, Peter Vivian Daniel, David Davis, James Wilson, and others. Subjects signed by Albert Rosenthal include Samuel Chase, John McKinley, Gabriel Duvall, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, James Wilson, James Moore Wayne, Nathan Clifford, Robert Trimble, Smith Thompson, Thomas Todd, Alfred Moore, Noah Haynes Swayne, Melville Fuller, Horace Gray, Stanley Matthews, and others. Image sizes range from about 4 x 6 to 5 x 7 inches, with overall sheet sizes ranging from 8.5 x 11.5 to 10 x 13 inches.
Sold for $416
Estimated at $300 - $500
Includes Buyer's Premium
ROSENTHAL, MAX AND ALBERT
Collection of approximately 43 signed etchings of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Associate Justices. Philadelphia: circa 1890. Proofs on Japan paper, signed by the engravers in pencil, neatly lettered with the name of the subject at the foot of sheet in pencil, a few with facsimile signatures of the justices in the images. In overall fine condition, with a few minor diagonal corner creases (not passing through images).
A large collection of 43 etched portraits of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, each signed in pencil by the artist. These include 21 signed by painter, lithographer, draftsman and etcher Max Rosenthal (1833-1918); and a further 22 signed by his son, the portrait artist, printmaker, writer, and collector Albert Rosenthal (1863-1939). The subjects include a wide array of Supreme Court justices and a few incorporate facsimile signatures of the subjects. Subjects signed by Max Rosenthal include Oliver Ellsworth, William Cushing, John Rutledge, Samuel Blatchford, Roger B. Taney, Stephen Johnson Field, L. Q. C. Lamar, John Marshall Harlan, Peter Vivian Daniel, David Davis, James Wilson, and others. Subjects signed by Albert Rosenthal include Samuel Chase, John McKinley, Gabriel Duvall, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, James Wilson, James Moore Wayne, Nathan Clifford, Robert Trimble, Smith Thompson, Thomas Todd, Alfred Moore, Noah Haynes Swayne, Melville Fuller, Horace Gray, Stanley Matthews, and others. Image sizes range from about 4 x 6 to 5 x 7 inches, with overall sheet sizes ranging from 8.5 x 11.5 to 10 x 13 inches.
Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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