Christie's - Wateringbury Place Parts I & II, Pair of Auction Catalogs, 1st Ed

Pair of Christie's Catalogs, The Exceptional Sales 2010 and 2013 London. 1st Ed auction catalog. Since 2008 this unique sale platform has provided collectors with the opportunity to ...

Auction catalogues from the Walter Chrysler Jr. Collection of English Furniture in two volumes. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1960. First edi...

Christie's Part I & II, Childwick Bury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire Objects of Art, Fine French and Important English Furniture. Christie's May 15, 1978. 1345 Lots with B&W photos with estimates and descriptions. Childwickbury Manor is a manor house in the hamlet of Childwickbury, Hertfordshire, England, between St Albans and Harpenden. The Lomax family bought the house in 1666 and lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans. Toulmin left the property to Sir John Blundell Maple around 20 years later. Toulmin's granddaughter, the author Mary Carbery, was born at the house. Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet bred and raced thoroughbreds and built Childwickbury Stud into a very successful horse breeding operation. Another prominent racehorse owner, Jack Barnato Joel, bought the estate including the stud farm in 1906. On his death in 1940, his son Jim Joel took over the operation. He too became a successful racehorse owner and breeder and maintained the property until 1978 when the stud and the manor were sold separately. Film director Stanley Kubrick bought the manor in 1978. He used the estate as both a home and a nerve centre for his film productions. He lived there until his death in 1999 and is interred in its grounds together with his eldest daughter Anya Kubrick, who died in 2009. His widow, Christiane Kubrick...

Christie's, Segoura New York October 2006 sale #1781 and A Segoura catalog from 1997. A pair of 1st Ed books. The large Christie's catalog has 449 pages with 246 lots illustrated in ...

Works of Art from the Bute Collection. Volumes one and two from the sales in London on July 3rd and July 8th 1996. Two softcover catalogs are presented in a green fabric covered slip...

Countess of Snowden. (continued from title) This is the two volume set of sales catalogues produced by Christie's for the sale of Princess Margaret's collection of personal effects. ...

This is an antique 3 volume book set - The Dictionary of English Furniture by Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards. An English, bound antiques A-Z reference guide, dating to the early 2...

2 Volumes. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, The Personal Government of Charles I. Bound in 3.4 brown morocco and linen boards. The covers and raised band spines display ornate gilt-tooling. T...