Prints and Portraits
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Ettingshausen, C. Von and A Pokorny
Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum. Der Naturselbstdruck in seiner Anwendung auf die Gefässpflanzen [Nature-printed plates 197-198]
Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei [1855-1856]. Folio nature-printed plates (each 56.5 x 39.5 cm, circa 43 x 30 cm for printed area). With very wide, uniform margins.
Read more[Darwin, Charles Robert]
Portrait of Darwin - Rare carte de visite.
Down and London, Elliott and Fry, [1874]. Albumen print, mounted on cardboard with rounded edges and a red ink border (10.0 x 6.2 cm). With the name Darwin printed in black below the photo, and red, crowned logo on verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve.
Read moreKeulemans, J. G.
Red-headed bunting. Emberiza luteola. [Henry Dresser's A history of the birds of Europe, plate 618].
London, for H. E. Dresser, 1895. Folio. A fine, large, lithographed plate drawn, engraved in stone, and hand-coloured by John Gerrard Keulemans. In an attractive wooden frame (44.2 x 39.2 cm).
Read moreLaborde, C. [Chas Laborde]
Scenes of Decadence. [Collection of coloured proof prints, perhaps for Rues et Visages De Paris, but one with a nudist scene from Rues et Visages De Berlin].
[Paris], 1926. Four proof plates (ca. 43.0 x 33.0 cm; printed surfaces ca. 27.0 x 24.0 cm) showing the Parisian and Berlin beau monde at its most decadent.
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