Prints and Portraits
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The SI unit of electric current is named after him
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV-style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style dragon spitting flowers
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
An unknown plate containing a possibly valid name and illustration of an undescribed frog
A 'high flyer' indeed
Fine, large poster-sized example of original Viennese Art Nouveau
A great image of a great, extinct bird
All the very rare early photos from Alois Auer's Faust
Auer, A.
Faust. Poligrafisch illustrirte Zeitschrift für Kunst, Wissenschaft, Industrie, und geselliges Leben, begleitet von Kunst-Beilagen aus mehr als 30 Druckfächern. [All photographic plates. Original prints, mounted, as issued].
Wien, Auer, [1853]-1855. Folio (34.4 x 25.6 cm). Three original albumen prints, mounted on printed boards.
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€1,800.00
Magnificent early view on the Lutchinen waterfalls
Belanger, L. and P. Vanlerberghe and S. Malgo
View of the torrent of the Lutschinen, and of the glaciers where it takes its source – Vue du torrent de la Lutschinen en Suisse, et des glaciers ou il prend sa source.
London, G. & W. Nicoll, 1800. Broadsheet (71.0 x 56.0 cm). Aquatint, finished by hand.
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€2,250.00
A rare original photo of the influential French chemist Marcellin Berthelot
A dozen fine reptile plates from a famous Bilderbuch
Bertuch, F. [J. J.]
Bilderbuch für Kinder, enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien.... [12 herpetological plates].
Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, ca. 1800. Folio (ca. 23.5 x 19.0 cm, mounted on larger sheets). Collection of 12 hand-coloured engravings from Bilderbuch für Kinder, showing reptiles and amphibians. All framed and with their description in German added.
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€300.00
A fine portrait of this renowned Swedish chemist
