Highlights from PBA Galleries' miniature books auction on August 28 include:
Expelled by John Cheever (Los Angeles, Sylvester & Orphanos, 1987)
Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, Afterword by John Updike. 55x73 mm, slipcase, 77 of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Cheever, Updike, and Cowley, and the book's designer Warren Chappell.
Two miniature Japanese scrolls (Japan, various dates)
Two scrolls, each in their own box. The first a love poem in two scripts with hand colored illustrations, silk brocade self wrapper on ivory spool, ribbon tie, 50x15 mm, rolled; the second a Buddhist Prayer scroll, silk brocade self wrapper on ivory spool, white silk chemise, two part red lacquer box with gilt titling, ribbon ties. Box measures 90x25 mm.
Miniature Bookplate Sample Book by Kiyoh-Hinboh (Sagamihara-shi, 2006)
Ten original wood-engraved bookplates printed on Gampi paper and one original copper-engraved bookplate printed on Japanese Hodomura paper. Accordion book, bound in rosewood, title label engraved in Kanji characters, with slipcase of Japanese Senkashi paper. Housed in a cloth pouch within a wooden box. 35x35 mm. Number 4 of 35 copies.
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Two miniature Japanese scrolls
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Miniature Bookplate Sample Book by Kiyoh-Hinboh
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Pictures of English History, in Miniature by Alfred Mills
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Three 19th century miniature photograph albums
Pictures of English History, in Miniature by Alfred Mills (London, Darton, Harvey, and Darton, c.1824)
Two volumes with 96 engraved plates. 62x58 mm. Text attributed to Priscilla Bell Wakefield.
Three 19th century miniature photograph albums
Three volumes comprising:
the photographic album with 12 albumen portraits. 65x50 cm, and 1864 gift inscription. Philadelphia: P.E.B. Society
miniature book with 10 photographs/engravings. 30x25 mm, cloth with metal overlay and clasp
miniature book with 10 albumen portrait photographs. 30x25 mm, black leather with pictorial overlay
