Sale 22BP01 | Lot 198

BLOMFIELD, JAMES Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies. Being a record of an Artist's Impressions in the Land of the Red Gods.

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BLOMFIELD, JAMES Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies. Being a record of an Artist's Impressions in the Land of the Red Gods.

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Lot 198
BLOMFIELD, JAMES Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies. Being a record of an Artist's Impressions in the Land of the Red Gods.
Chicago: W. E. Wroe, 1914. First edition (reportedly one of 25 copies). Original three-quarters sheep over gilt lettered cloth. 10 1/4 x 7 inches (26 x 17.5 cm); 116 pp.; color plates and in-text illustration. Binding slightly soiled and rubbed, unevenly toned at the fore-edge of the boards, internally clean.

"Wroe, the publisher, invited Blomfield on this trip, and was probably host. Sketches of the participants are in the book, the text is in the form of a log kept by Blomfield, Rare" (Bruns). Bromfield was an English artist living in Chicago at the time of this expedition. Bruns B-180; Streeter 4129.


C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for $441 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for $441 (includes buyer's premium)
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10am EDT