Auction 2209
Holiday Fine Art & Collectibles Auction - Day 1
By Worthington Galleries
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Nov 19, 2022
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Day 1 of Worthington's Annual Holiday Auction includes fine art and collectibles from all major categories, including oil and watercolor paintings, rare etchings and engravings, bronze & stone Sculptures, antique furniture, porcelain & pottery, antique books & maps, and a large selection of rare ethnographic art and artifacts, including ancient, prehistoric, and pre-columbian (Chinese, Native American & Pre-Columbian) The ethnographic art comes from several important collections and estates, including the prominent private ethnographic collection from the Estate of Paul S. Hughey, all of which were previously on loan to the Mississippi Museum of Art and the large Reynolds collection of Prehistoric Native American Artifacts, Townsend, Tennessee. Day 2 of the auction is on November 26 at 10:00am.
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LOT 60M:
First Ed. 3v. WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1809
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Sold for: $25
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Estimated price :
$100 - $200
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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First Ed. 3v. WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1809
Description: First Edition 3 volumes of THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH - Oliver Goldsmith, M.B | New Edition, Published in Baltimore by Coales & Thomas (Edes and Leakin Printers), 1809 | Volumes I, II & III of a five volume set, including the Vicar of Wakefield in Volume I | Full title: THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M.B. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, AND A CRITICAL DISSERTATION ON THE POETRY, by J. Aiken, M.D. | Approx. Dimensions: 7" H x 4.5" W | Fully bound in brown calf leather with gold gilt decoration and lettering to spine | Interior toned / foxed with age, Vol. I has a portion of title page missing - see photographs for complete condition.
Artist or Maker: Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774)
Medium: Leather Bound
Notes: Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
