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River Ranch: The Collection of Carole Harris | Part III | June 19, 2025

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River Ranch: The Collection of Carole Harris represents over three decades of thoughtful collecting, a passion for interior design and a lifelong pursuit of beauty and self-expression.
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Lot 803

Group of Books Relating to English Architecture and Decorative Arts

Estimate: $400 - $600
Starting Bid
$200

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Including:

Banks-Pye, Roger: Interior Inspirations: Colefax and Fowler, 1997;

Benjamin, Susan: English Enamel Boxes from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, 1982;

Bryant, Julius: London's Country House Collections, 1993;

Chippendale, Thomas: The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1966;

Cornforth, John: The Inspiration of the Past, 1985;

Gilbert, Christopher: The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, 1978;

Gore, Alan & Ann: English Interiors, 1991;

Hicks, David and Jenkins, Nicholas: David Hicks: Living with Design, 1979;

Impey, Oliver: The Cecil Family Collects: Four Centuries of Decorative Arts from Burghley House, 1998;

Jones, Chester: Colefax & Fowler: The Best in Interior Decoration, 1989;

Leatham, Lady Victoria: Life at Burghley: Restoring One of England's Great Houses, 1992;

Lees-Milne, Alvilde (ed.): The Englishman's Room, 1986;

Lennox-Boyd, Edward (ed.): Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, 1998;

Littlejohn, David: The Fate of the English Country House, 1997;

Menkes, Suzy: The Windsor Style, 1987;

Miers, Mary: The English Country House, 2012;

Rothschild, Mrs. James de: The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor, 1979;

Sotheby's, : The Duke and Duchess of Windsor: The Public and Private Collections, in two volumes, 1997, with annotations and many folded pages;

Spencer-Churchill, Henrietta: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, 2005;

The Duchess of Devonshire, : Chatsworth: The House, 2002;

Vickers, Hugo: The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1995, first edition;

Wood, Martin: Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style, 2005;

Wood, Martin: John Fowler: Prince of Decorators, 2007

(23).

Condition

Individual condition reports not available for this lot. All items in good condition, with occasional annotations and earmarked pages.

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