New-York tribune., 1919-05-09
Art
Japanese Color Prints To Be
Sold at Walpole Galleries;
Other Important Sales

japanese color prints, the collection
CT Mra. Isaac Feigel, of Yonkers, and
OF a war worker who is going abroad,
will be he'd this evening at S:15. at
tae Walpole Galleries, 10 Ease Ror+y-
ninth Street. Among the attractive
features will be the best snow and rain
prints Of the Hiroshige series; four
Oh Hokussl's "Thirtysix Views of
fuJl;" The Lazy Lovers and other
prints by Harunobu; examples of Kori-
usal, Kiyonaga, Shunsho and Shunko;
the first Toyokuni and his pupils and
followers; prints by Utamaro from The
six lama Rivers" and the "Komachi"
series; Yeishi's "Matchless Teahouse
beautles;" Hanaogi, by Yeiso; Kake-
mono prints and triptychs by Ycizan,
Shunsen and Kunisada.
few desirable books will also be
sold, including "Beautiful Women Of
Gtamaro," Toxic, 1918; Bing's "Japan
Aftistique," three volumes, Paris, 1900
The sale of the library of the late E.
M. Boyle was completed yesterday
afternooH at the Anderson Galleries
with total for the day Of $76S6o, and
a grand total of s3,622. George D.
Smith again made several purchases,
paying SIT for lot of "Chap Books"
containing "The Death of Lord Roches-
ter" "The Remarkable Story and Sudden
Death of a Cock-Fighter," etc: S31 for
another lot of "Chap Books" contain
ing The Black Prince" "The Murder
IN The Wood" etc. SAC for set of
colored plates illustrating "The Singu-
1ar Amours, Entertaining Adventures,
Eemarkable Travels, etc, of the Hon.
EDWARD w: Montagu, Son of the Cele-
orated Lady Mary WORTHY Montagu," !"
and 81 for the Liberal Verse and
Prose From the South" by Shelley.
byron, Leigh Hunt and others. Harvard
University paid $3.50 for "The Cor
respondence Of Lord Byron With a
Friend, including His Letters to His
Mother" Only four or five comics of
this rare first edition, which was sup
pressed before publication, are known
to be in existence.
The total for the first day Of the
sale of antique Chinese porcelains,
European ceramics, Tiffany glass,
"Salmagundi mugs" bronzes, bric4a-
brac and Ellington and Christofe re-
productions of antiques and armor ia
notable European museums at the
American Art Galleries yesterday
afternoon was $2,3o7.5o. Yukishima
& Co. paid $12O for a K'ang-hsi vase.
l. Voran gave 5000 for blue and
white hawthorn temple jar and $75 for
a pair of blue and white K'ang-hsi
plates. Henry Symons paid S110 for a
decorated ginger jar with original
cover of the Ming period and R. H
Lorentz, agent, bought Chien-lung
covered jar for 500. The sale will be
completed this afternoon.
Prices ran high at the third session
Of the sale of anciont Spanish art at
Clarke's yesterday afternoon. The
total for the day was $16,113, making
grand total of $40 ,296. Among the
individual sales were twp large carved
wood candlesticks, f. c. Henderson,
$500; a large silver and cream silk
bed cover, Spanish. eighteenth CEN
tury, G.. M. Gedding, $500; two large
carved wood candlesticks. Spa nish,
sixteenth century, G. PfeffeYcorn, Sl20;
two large carved wood columns, Span
ish. sixteenth century G.. Pfeffercorn,
$400; Louis XIV carved walnut arm
chair, Mrs. A. j. Biddle, $210; set of
six Louis XVIII mahogany armchairs,
Mrs. A. j. Biddle, $125; small Spanish
bargueno with stand, Miss Merrill,
$40O; two carved wood candlesticks,
Carl Freund, $3.50. The sale will be
continued this afternoon.