- PAIR OF 18TH C. GERMAN EQUESTRIAN ENGRAVINGSTwo
German double-page copper plate engravings of equestrian scenes, from Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux , whose three editions were published in 1658, 1737,...
[more like this] - 2 EUROPEAN GENRE ARTWORKS, 19TH C.1st
item: Jacob Fischer (German, 19th century) Watercolor and gouache on paper, DER HUMMERFANG (The Lobster), night scene of two figures standing in water, one holding a lobster,...
[more like this] - ORESTE CORTAZZO(Italian, 1836-1910)
Four
scenes from the life of Kaiser Wilhelm II: Scene in Duke Ernest Gunther's Quarters; In the White Hall, Berlin Palace; Theresse Dragged on Lawn, Empresse Frederick and Professor...
[more like this] - 19TH C. GILT RUSSIAN ICON - OUR LADY
OF UNEXPECTED JOYEastern Europe, Russia, ca. 19th century CE. Finely painted in gold, egg tempera, and gesso on wood, this icon depicts a scene called "Our Lady of Unexpected...
[more like this] - 1906 JACK LONDON "WHITE FANG," 1ST EDITIONNorth
America, United States, New York, ca. 1906 CE. BAL 11896; Sisson & Martens, p. 29. Wow! A first edition of one of Jack London's most famous novels! A fine second issue of...
[more like this] - 1868 GERMAN PRAYER BOOKGerman prayer
book, Salzburg, 1869, the cover appearing as leather with bone decoration at front, gilt lettering on the raised band spine, two medal closure clasps, gilt page ends, two...
[more like this] - (6) LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS: BRITISH & GERMAN
POETRY(lot of 6) Poetry books, many with leather bindings, raised band spines, gilt page edges, including: (1) "The Poems of Goethe," translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring, G....
[more like this] - DELUXE EDITION OF THE HOLY BIBLE (New
York: Thomas Kelly, 1885), consisting of the Old and New Testaments, lavishly illustrated with notes by the Rev. George Leo Haydock, folio (13 in.), 1,671 pages, deeply tooled...
[more like this] - BASILIUS BESLER (GERMAN, 1561-1629),
THREE BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS Hand-colored engravings on laid paper, appear to be 17th century, to include Solanum Pomiferum, Canna Indica Rubra,...
[more like this] - ENAMEL ICON PENDANT AND VINTAGE ILLUSTRATION
OF A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT The first a late 19th century framed Russian finift enamel icon pendant, depicting a Saint holding a bird, possibly Saint Trifone (2 3/8 x 2 in.);...
[more like this] - FOLIO GERMAN BIBLE, DORE ILLUSTRATIONS,
C.1868 DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFTE, ALTEN UND NEUEN TESTAMENTS, illustrated by Gustav Dore (Stuttgart: Hallberger, c.1868) Thick folio, deluxe full leather binding, marbled endpapers....
[more like this] - COLLECTIBLE BOOKS: "GOETHE'S WORKS,
ILLUSTRATED BCOLLECTIBLE BOOKS: "Goethe's Works, Illustrated by the Best German Artists," five volumes, George Barrie, 1885. Green leather, gilt edges. 11.75" x 8.75"...
[more like this] - GERMAN LEATHER-BOUND PRAYER BOOK, 1868German
prayer book, Salzburg, 1869, leather bound, with bone decoration at front, gilt lettering on the raised band spine, two medal closure clasps, gilt page ends, two black and...
[more like this] - HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST. VIRGINIA MARYLANDIA
ET CAROLINA... ...in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultar reprasentatae a Ioh. Bap. Homann S. C. M. Geog. Norimbergae (Nuremburg, fist half 18th century),...
[more like this] - ANTON OTTO FISCHER (AMERICAN, GERMAN,
1882 - 1962), "UNTITLED (APPEAL TO SULTAN)", 1928, OIL ON CANVAS, DEPICTS CARAVAN OF MIDDLE EASTERN SOLDIERS AND THEIR ELEPHANT RIDING LEADERS CONFRONTED BY SMALL GROUP OF...
[more like this] - An 18th Century wooden rosary chain,
South German or Italian, in the form of a stylised Crown of Thorns, with pierced silver gilt filigree beads with a pendant relief of the Virgin and Christ in ivory and rosary...
[more like this] - LOT OF 6 BOOKS ALL ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR
RACKHAMTO INCLUDE (1) COMUS BY JOHN MILTON, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., LONDON HEINMANN PROBABLY 1921, 9 7/8" X 7 1/4" QUARTRO, 176 PAGES, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH WRAP...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Pennsylvania Fraktur Reference
& C.: Weiser, Frederick S; Heaney, Howell J. The Pennsylvania German Fraktur... An Illustrated Catalogue. Breinigsville: Penn. German Society; Philadelphia, Free Library,...
[more like this] - 1 vol. (Wyss, Jonathann.) The Family
Robinson Crusoe... Translated from The German of M. Wiss. London: for M.J. Godwin, 1814. First edition in English. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo, contemp. sheep; rubbed. With frontis.,...
[more like this] - Three German Illustrated Books Including
Reznicek and Heilemann Verliebte Leute, album von F. von Reznicek. Munchen; Albert Langen, ca. 1900. Folio of 30 color plates, German text, green cloth covers with printed...
[more like this] - Three Books on Art in the Antiquities
Tunis: Kairouan & Carthage, Described By Graham Petrie, Illustrated by Painted By Graham Petrie. new York: Doubleday, 1908. 4to. Hard bound in brown cloth with decorative...
[more like this] - OWENS HARRY J. Doctor Faust. A Play
Based on Old German Puppet Versions. (Chicago: Caxton Club) 1953. 8vo quarter linen over gilt-decorated paper boards t.e.g. Illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. One...
[more like this] - Salesman's Book of Fruit and Flower
Color Plates Some refer to these as Nurserymen's books but this one folds into thirds and slips into a 7.25 x 10 in. leather case - clearly for travel. The 5.25 x 8.5 in....
[more like this] - Universe and Humanity By Hans Kramer
Four Volumes out of Five In Russian St. Petersburg: Prosveshcheniye 1904. 4to. Four out of five volumes missing the fifth. Translated from German to Russian by A. D. Dogel'....
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