Holiday season special list 2022
12-24 December 2022
Holiday season special list 2022
83 items found
Paradise lost - Magnificent image found
Paradise lost - Magnificent image found
Owls of extreme beauty
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 5. Otus clamator, Strix perlata, and Strix pumila. [Striped owl, pearl-spotted owlet, and pygmy owl].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
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€2,000.00
Nice watercolour 'portraits' of 17th-century Dutchmen
A fine photo of the "late" Rodin
One of the last samurai
Highlights of Dutch news photography: Cor Jaring and the wedding of Beatrix
A finely engraved 18th-century print depicting a spectacular array of zoological and herpetological objects from the collection of Frederik Ruysch
A finely engraved 18th-century print depicting a spectacular array of anatomical objects from the collection of Frederik Ruysch
Bloch's salmon
A polychromatic extravaganza in print
Petit and Bisiaux
Motifs de décorations. Première série de cinquante planches en couleurs extraites de Journal-Manuel de Peintures.
Paris, A. Morel, 1862. Royal Folio (52.1 x 36.2 cm). Half-title and title page; 50 fine chromolithographed plates on thick paper. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised gilt-stippled and gilt-bordered bands, gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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€2,500.00
Powerful images of Mongolian horsemen, hunting
[Original drawings]
Mongolian horsemen with falcons, cats and rabbits. [Eight original paintings on silk].
Mongolia, mid to late 19th - early 20th century. Oblong (27 x 35 cm). Eight paintings on silk, each mounted on large, iridescent silk sheets, and framed behind glass. Early to mid-20th century black varnished, bevelled wooden frames, each measuring 38.0 x 47.5 cm.
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€1,600.00