HE few catalogues we thus far have done revealed, (among other things) our penchant for portraiture in various media, as well as our inability to resist esoteric material, providing it is both beautiful and/or historically significant. Happily, these tastes have coincided with those of many of our clients: dealers, collectors and institutions in this country and abroad.

Catalogue Five has a significant percentage of drawings from a splendid sixteenth century Mannerist example to three exceptional works by major American artists. There is also a great Renaissance medal, a wonderful Mughal, miniature and one of the finest American self-portraits extant. The rarity of the early Kentucky watercolor included is matched by the beauty of its execution. We have strayed farther afield with a Bontoc armlet, which is the finest of its kind that we know, and an evocative cross-cultural Haida pipe, the bowl of which is the face of a white trader carved of walrus ivory. The statuettes of the great nineteenth century British political adversaries, Gladstone and Disraeli, though caricatures, reveal much of the personalities of their subjects.

Finally, we have indulged our enthusiasm for autograph material with a volume of Tennyson's Idylls of the King inscribed to the great Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and a spectacular letter from Pancho Villa to Emiliano Zapata.

MARVIN SADIK
LAWRENCE HAYDEN