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[ART REFERENCE.] A collection of books on art collecting and the Roosevelt collections from the Libraries of Eleanor Roosevelt and John A. Roosevelt, comprising: Samuel MacIntyre. A Bicentennial Symposium. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1957. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original blue cloth. Provenance: Eleanor Roosevelt (bookplate); John A. Roosevelt (stamp and signature on front free endpaper). -- Books from the Library of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Hammer Galleries, 1964. 8vo. Original wrappers. -- Another copy. --Furniture & Decorations, Silver, Accessories Including Items from the Estate of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Others. New York: O'Reilly's Plaza Art Galleries, 1966. 8vo. Wrappers. -- Exhibition and Sale. Personal Possessions from the Estate of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Hammer Galleries, 1964. 4to. Photographic illustrations. Wrappers. --CORRY, Raymond. A Preliminary List of Civil War Paintings, Drawings, and Prints in the Naval Collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hyde Park: General Services Administration, 1960. 4to. Wrappers. -- The Old Navy. 1776-1860. A Catalog of an Exhibit of Prints and Watercolors From the Naval Collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington:D.C., 1962. Oblong 4to. Photographic illustrations. Wrappers. -- OLDS, Irving S. Bits and Pieces of American History. As Told by a Collection of American Naval and Other Historical Prints and Paintings, Including Portraits of American Naval Commanders and Some Early Views of New York. New York, 1951. 4to. Photographic illustrations. Original cloth. -- SMITH, Philip Chadwick Foster. More Marine Paintings & Drawings in the Peabody Museum. Salem: Peabody Museum, 1979. 4to. Photographic illustrations. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. -- MILLER, Nathan. The U.S. Navy: An Illustrated History. New York: American Heritage, 1971. 4to. Photographic illustrations. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. --MORISON, Samuel E. The Roosevelt Collection of Marine Art. Annapolis, 1963. 8vo. Photographic illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. -- POTTER, E.B. The Naval Academy Illustrated History of the United States Navy. New York: Galahad, 1971. 4to. Photographic illustrations. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. -- VAN LOON, Henrik Willem. The Life of Rembrandt van Rijn. New York: Heritage Club, 1939. 8vo. Photographic illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT on the front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt from Henrik Willem van Loon, June 16, 39." -- An Exhibition of American Silver and Art Treasures. London: The English-Speaking Union, 1960. 8vo. Photographic illustrations. Wrappers. Provenance: Eleanor Roosevelt (bookplate and Hammer Galleries sticker); John A. Roosevelt (stamp and signature on front free endpaper). (14)