Bayard Taylor Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Bayard Taylor Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 06, 2022
Europe.- [Bayard (Taylor), editor] Picturesque Europe, 5 vol., London, Paris & New York, [c.1880].
Est: £150 - £200
Europe.- [Bayard (Taylor), editor] Picturesque Europe, 5 vol., half-titles, additional engraved titles, engraved plates and illustrations, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, occasional light spotting, vol. 5 with some creasing to fore-edge, original publisher's morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, rubbed at joints and extremities, a few small stains, g.e., large 4to, London, Paris & New York, [c.1880]. ⁂ The first two volumes on the British Isles, the latter three on mainland Europe.
Forum Auctions - UK
Aug. 13, 2020
Europe.- Bayard (Taylor) Picturesque Europe, 8 vol., first English edition, 1876.
Est: £100 - £150
Europe.- Bayard (Taylor) Picturesque Europe, 8 vol., first English edition, wood- and steel-engraved frontispieces and plates, some lacking titles and half-titles, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed, spines faded and worn, some soiling to upper covers, n.d., c.1876-1881.
Forum Auctions - UK
Mar. 17, 2019
Bayard Taylor w/c "Valley of Unna in Lew Chew"
Est: $300 - $500
Bayard Taylor w/c "Valley of Unna in Lew Chew": Framed watercolor and pencil by Bayard Taylor (1825-1879) the Chester County, Pennsylvania, author, traveler and artist. This drawing was the basis for "The Valley of Unna in Lew Chew", the frontispiece of his 1855 volume "A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853". This work was based on his travels in Asia, including accompying Admiral Perry into Japan in 1853 as the group's unofficial artist. It is an excellent landscape scene with traditional Japanese straw-roofed houses in the foreground and a moutain looming in the distance. Signed by the artist in pencil in he lower right, numbered 413, dated June 3. 1853. Captioned "Valley in Loo Choo Western Coast opposite Heady Barrow's Bay"; The location is present-day Okinawa, then the Kingdom of Ryukyu. Barrow's Bay is Kimbu Bay, which would make the mountain Mt Onna. Research notes by Robert A Goldstein on reverse, along with a xerox of the caption on the reverse of the sheet. Provenance: Robert A Goldstein;Barry S Slosberg Auctions, 25 October 2009; Paul D Rodebaugh. Size: sight is 11.875" X 8.75", frame is 17.5" X 15.5".CONDITION: Sheet is slightly toned all-over, apparently otherwise fine; not examinined out of frame, but reframed by the former owner.
Barry S. Slosberg Inc
Mar. 17, 2019
Bayard Taylor Watercolor of Cyprus
Est: $200 - $400
Bayard Taylor Watercolor of Cyprus : A framed watercolor by poet, artist and travel writer, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) titled "The Isle of Cyprus", showing a view of a port city with mountains in the background, like copied from an engraving or a book illustration, as it is formatted as a period engraving would have been, with a broad margin at the bottom with the title. date and artist's name. Taylor has signed it as "J. B. Taylor Del". Date is July 1840, which would make Taylor 15 at the time of execution. Provenance: collection of Robert A Goldstein; Paul A Rodebaugh, who was an omnivorous collector of Bayard Taylor's work, in addition to being an historian of Chester County and the Society of Friends. Size: image is 7.125" X 4.5", frame is 12.25' X 10.25". CONDITION: Stain in lower margin, some scattered foxing; wear to gilt frame. Not examined out of frame.
Barry S. Slosberg Inc
Dec. 16, 2017
BAYARD TAYLOR ED., PICTURESQUE EUROPE, THREE VOLUMES
Est: $300 - $500
BAYARD TAYLOR ED., PICTURESQUE EUROPE , THREE VOLUMES D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1875 (13 x 10 1/4 in.). Collection of Dr. Heinrich Medicus, Troy, NY
STAIR
Oct. 14, 2017
Bayard Taylor West Chester Pa Ephemera Lot
Est: -
Includes a note dated 1861, and an autographed letter to Couaut dated June 11, 1875, regarding improvisations. An interesting local historical lot.
Smith Auction Company
Aug. 05, 2017
AFTER BAYARD TAYLOR (1825-1878): SERRANUS TSIRIMENARA... (NATURAL HISTORY PLATE III), FROM U.S. JAPAN EXPEDITION
Est: $200 - $400
AFTER BAYARD TAYLOR (1825-1878): SERRANUS TSIRIMENARA... (NATURAL HISTORY PLATE III) , FROM U.S. JAPAN EXPEDITION Lithograph in black with hand-coloring on wove paper, originally published 1856; together with After Hamilton Patterson: Pelor Japonicum... (Natural History Plate V) , from the U.S. Japan Expedition , lithograph in black with hand-coloring on wove paper, originally published 1856; and After John Harris (1667?-1719): The Whale Fishery and Killing the Bears, from Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, originally published 1744, T. Woodward, London; and After John Webber (1751-1793), After J. Record: Caps of the Natives of Oonalashka, from James Cook''s A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, engraving on laid paper, originally published 1784, W. and A. Strahan, London. Fish 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (sheet), 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (sheet), both unframed; Whales 14 1/8 x 9 in. (plate), 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (sight); and Caps 11 x 8 1/4 in. (plate), 21 x 15 in. (sheet). Note: U.S. Japan Expedition : Bayard Taylor and Hamilton Patterson accompanied Commodore Perry on his Expedition to Japan in the 1850s. One of the tasks of the expedition was to record the flora and fauna of Japan, which had previously been inaccessible to Western naturalists and scientists. James Cook''s A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: On his third and final voyage, James Cook and his crew explored and charted the North American West Coast up to the Bering Strait. They then went south to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, where they stayed for three weeks among natives and Russian traders. Cook would then go on to travel south to Hawaii, where he was killed after an attempt to take the King of Hawaii hostage. Property from the Estate of Seward Kennedy
STAIR
Mar. 11, 2017
BAYARD TAYLOR WORKS OF BAYARD TAYLOR 1870-1871
Est: $150 - $250
BAYARD TAYLOR, WORKS OF BAYARD TAYLOR, 1870-1871:Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878). A group of works by Bayard Taylor. New York: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1870-1871. Having nine volumes, each with blue morocco leather and marbled three-quarter binding, gilt spines with raised bands, and top edge gilt. Includes: The Lands of the Saracens: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain, Household Edition, 1870; Views A-Foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff, Household Edition, Revised, 1870; Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures (Sweden, Denmark, and Lapland), 1870; Travels in Greece and Russia, With an Excursion to Crete, Household Edition, 1870; By-Ways of Europe, Household Edition, 1871; John Godfrey's Fortunes: Related by Himself, Household Edition, 1871; At Home and Abroad, A Sketch of Life, Scenery, and Man, Second Series, Household Edition, 1871; Joseph and his Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, Household Edition, 1871; and Hannah Thurston: A Story of American Life, Household Edition, 1871. Provenance: From the estate of Daniel Clancy, Voltaire Place, Grosse Pointe Farms.
DuMouchelles
Jul. 09, 2015
(CHINA) BAYARD TAYLOR TRAVELOGUE
Est: $100 - $150
(CHINA) BAYARD TAYLOR TRAVELOGUE BAYARD TAYLOR (1825 - 1878) American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author. His book: India, China, and Japan in the Year 1853", (New York: G. P. Putnam & Co.), 1855. First edition, 539pp. 8vo. in blue embossed cloth with gilt title and pagoda on spine, inscribed to his cousin on front flyleaf, New York, Oct. 13, 1855. Gutter cracked, first and last few pages foxed a bit, else very good.
Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Jun. 13, 2013
19th Century Autograph Grouping-Politicians, Abolitionists and Others
Est: $80 - $120
19th Century Autograph Grouping-Politicians, Abolitionists and Others Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) noted author and literary personage (signed quote dated Dec 17, 1860), David Wilmot (1814–1868) noted politician and supporter of Lincoln (ALS dated Washington, March 20, 1861), Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) noted clergyman and abolitionist (Clip signature dated Brooklyn Nov 22, 1860), William Gannaway (1805–1877), American newspaper editor, minister, and pro-slavery politician and Abram Pryne (1823-1862) Abolitionist (signed page dated September 11, 1858) and Sheet presenting the autographs of H. Y. Smith, O. H. P. Parker, Peter Fasel, who were the committee representing the Republican Club of Philadelphia sent to visit President-elect Lincoln in Springfield Ill on Jan 24, 1861.
Alderfer Auction
Oct. 18, 2011
TAYLOR, J. BAYARD. 1825-1878. Views-a-Foot; or, Europe Seen with a Knapsack and Staff. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Views-a-Foot; or, Europe Seen with a Knapsack and Staff. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. 2 volumes. 12mo (187 x 122 mm). x, [2], 191; [vi], 193-393 pp. Original buff-colored printed wrappers. Custom chemise and slipcase. Some chipping to spines and corners, wrappers soiled, a few repairs to spines. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'Essential Parts,' 1996, p 35. FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 24 numbers in the Library of American Books listed on the back wrapper. The book's popularity propelled it into a sixth edition by the end of its first year. BAL 19626a.
Bonhams
Oct. 18, 2011
TAYLOR, J. BAYARD. 1825-1878. Picturesque Europe: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil.... New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1875-77.
Est: $800 - $1,200
Picturesque Europe: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil.... New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1875-77. 60 parts (3 volumes). 4to (340 x 258 mm). 63 steel-engraved plates, including additional title-pages, on heavy paper and extensive wood-engraved text illustrations throughout. Original brown pictorial wrappers printed in purple. Few parts cleanly detached from wrappers, light soiling to part 1, a little edge-chipping but generally clean and crisp. FINE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. "The most complete and elegantly Illustrated Work on Europe ever produced" (back wrapper advertisement). It was sold by subscription only at the cost of 50 cents per part.
Bonhams
Dec. 02, 2010
TAYLOR, BAYARD. 1825-1878. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region; and Experiences of Mexican Travel. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.
Est: $400 - $600
Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region; and Experiences of Mexican Travel. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. 2 volumes. [4], 188; [iv], [189]-360 pp. 8vo. Original green boards printed in blue and red. Unopened. Early ownership stamp to titles and opening pages, else internally fine, shelf numbers penned to upper covers, some soiling, corners rubbed, chips and early repairs to head and tail of spine, an excellent set. SECOND ENGLISH EDITION, issued the same year and using the same sheets as the first; this edition without plates. Howes calls this account by the Methodist missionary an "unexcelled description of California's gold-rush days by a professional traveler and trained observer." Cowan p 630 (earlier edition); Graff 4074 (earlier edition); Howes T43; Kurutz 618e; Sabin 94440; Zamorano 80 73. Acquisition: purchased from William Reese Company, 2001, $760.
Bonhams
Oct. 15, 2010
TAYLOR, BAYARD
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
TAYLOR, BAYARD Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel. New York: George P. Putnam, 1850 2 volumes, 12mo (7 5/8 x 5 in.; 193 x 128 mm). 4 tinted lithographed plates after Taylor (one after J. C. Ward) by Sarony & Major. Publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered iin gilt; rubbed, spines darkened and with wear to spine ends. Half blue morocco gilt slipcase, chemises. Together with: a one-volume 1855 edition of the work.
Sotheby's
Mar. 05, 2008
Cabinet Card of Literary Notables by Brady Cabinet
Est: $80 - $100
Cabinet Card of Literary Notables by Brady Cabinet card of group portrait of George Henry Boker (1823 -1890) American poet, playwright, and diplomat, George Bancroft (1800û1891) American historian and statesman, Bayard Taylor (1825û1878) American. poet and writer, and William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American poet and journalist. Image by Mathew Brady of Washington. Image shows all four around table with facsimile autographs in bottom of photograph. Photograph exhibits medium tones. Shipping: $15
Alderfer Auction
Nov. 18, 2007
Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), Eldorado: or Adventures in the Path of Empire, New York: George P. Putnam, 1855,...
Est: $250 - $350
Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), Eldorado: or Adventures in the Path of Empire, New York: George P. Putnam, 1855, seventh edition, cloth, 8vo, (cover bumped, with spine tears, fading and soiling, starting, toning, edge chipping, scattered foxing).
Skinner