Europe
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# 18501
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. [LISTON, John, c.1776-1846]
[THEATRE PLAYBILL] For the Benefit of Mr & Mrs Liston. Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, June 15, 1814.
Will be performed [for the first time] a New Comick Extravaganza called Broad but not Long: Or, How to Damn a New Piece … the New Grand Serio-Comick Melo-Dramatick Romance called The Black Princess … After which, the Comedy of Who Wants a Guinea? … To which will be added (2d time) the musical Entertainment …
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# 39526
HARE, Joseph
[NAPOLEONIC WARS] A captured British sailor’s petition to the prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, written at the depot for British prisoners of war at Givet, northeast France in September, 1813.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 1 page (240 x 195 mm); headed ‘Depot of British Prisoners at Givet in France, September 6th 1813’, the document is a petition by an imprisoned British naval seaman, Joseph Hare, formerly of HMS Hussar, to the Royal Navy’s prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, requesting that the share of …
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# 37961
CARLU, Jean; KRULL, Germaine; COCTEAU, Jean; LARA, René;
Théâtre Pigalle : ses éclairages, sa machinerie.
Montrouge : Draeger, [1929]. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), metal spiral binding, silvered boards, the upper board with 8 circular “windows” allowing glimpses of the stunning illustrated title leaf, a serigraph of a cubist-stye poster for the theatre designed by Jean Carlu, which is printed on black with six colours in pochoir; [24] leaves, with …
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# 38511
Rosy One
Cause we got style! European hip hop posing from the 80s and early 90s
Årsta [Sweden] : Document Press, 2011. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 144, photographically illustrated. ‘Posing is the art of self-expression. It comprises appearance, fashion, accessories and the art of arranging the body or face in a good pose. Cause we got Style is a collection of European hip hop pose photos from the 80s …
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# 36842
SZEKELY, Josef (1838-1901)
Studio portrait of Ilka Pálmay, Hungarian opera singer and actress. Vienna, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount), identifying caption beneath image in pencil in a 19th-century hand ‘Palmay’; recto and verso of the gilt-edged mount with imprint of the studio of Dr. Josef Székely, Vienna, and the wet stamp of the photography dealer S. Bloch, Vienna; print and mount are both …
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# 19466
PANZIROLI, Guidi (1523 - 1599)
De claris legum interpretibus libri quatuor
Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1721. Quarto, full calf (rubbed), spine with raised bands, gilt-lettered contrasting title label, previous owner’s bookplate and inscriptions to endpapers, edges stained red, portrait frontispiece, pp. [xxxii]; 660; (20); ornamental headpiece, tailpiece and initials, top of leaves a2 and a3 remargined, overall very good. Panciroli’s guide to legal practice based on biographical …
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# 35558
Anon.
Malta : the island of sunshine
[Valetta : Government Tourist Bureau, circa 1924]. Tourist brochure, octavo, folded sheet, pp. [6], cover illustration, three panel map of ‘The Principal Routes to Malta’ showing Europe and the Mediterranean with land and sea routes to Malta, list of passenger lines calling at Malta, one panel with a history and description of the island.
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# 15593
Maker unknown.
Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization
[Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …
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# 32580
HERISSON, Eustache ; BONNE, Rigobert
Carte générale de l’Europe, ou l’on voit le départ et le retour du Capne. Cook, dans ses differéns voyages.
Dressée par Hérisson, Eleve de Mr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. A Paris : chez Basset Md d’Estampes Rue Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, no. 670, 1802. Copperplate engraving, original outline hand colour, 525 x 755 mm (image), old folds as issued, a fine example. Map of Europe showing the departures …
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# 32733
ŠEVČÍK, Otakar (1852-1934)
Otakar Ševčík, violinist and influential pedagogue: autograph note, signed, on a postcard featuring a portrait of himself. Sent from Prague, and addressed to a music critic in Berlin, April 1904.
Prague : Mojmír Urbánek, [1904]. Postcard, 91 x 141 mm; on the left side of the recto is a photomechanical process portrait of Ševčík from a photograph by V. Donát, with a printed caption ‘PROF. OT. ŠEVČÍK’ at top centre; the right side is occupied by an autograph note by Ševčík written in German in pen, …
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# 32949
KRIES, Mateo et al.
German Design 1949 – 1989. Two Countries, One History
Weil am Rhein (Germany) : Vitra Design Museum, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 320, illustrated. New copy. Selected by Mateo Kries and Thomas A. Geisler, Edited by Erika Pinner and Klara Nemeckova. The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 – …
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# 31100
BENNETT, James
Treasure Ships : Art in the Age of Spices
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2014. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. Treasure Ships: Art in the age of spices is the first exhibition in Australia to present the complex artistic and cultural interactions between Europe and Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries – a period known as the ‘Age …
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# 31099
MENZ, Christopher
Morris & Co.
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. Quarto, illustrated laminated pictorial boards, pp. 188, illustrated throughout, including numerous folding plates, a fine copy, as new. Includes a chapter on the publications of the Kelmscott Press, including the Kelmscott Chaucer. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition Morris & Co., held at the Art …
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# 30262
HESLOP, Robert
Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.
London : Robert Heslop, n.d. [c.1795]. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.7 mm. Obverse: A male contortionist and a monkey. Around the perimeter: CAN YOU DO SO. Reverse: An inscription on six lines THE FIRST SHOP IN LONDON FOR NATURAL CURIOSITYS PAINTINGS COINS COLOURS FOR ARTISTS &c. Around the perimeter: R. HESLOP NO. 86 CHISWELL STREET FINSBURY …
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# 30839
DIXON, W. (William) Hepworth
British Cyprus
London : Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth over boards (some light marks and staining to both), Crescent and Cross device in black at centre of both boards, spine with the same device and lettering in gilt (a little sunned); ownership signature of original owner in …
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# 30705
OLDEKOP, August von
[A RELIC OF THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL] Razgovory francuzsko-russko-německie = Dialogues français-russes-allemands = Französisch-russisch-deutsche Gespräche.
Sanktpeterburg : F. Bellizar, 1837. First edition. Octavo, contemporary half calf over papered boards (upper board detached, boards heavily scuffed and corners worn), original backstrip lettered in gilt (loss to leather at head and tail); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Found in Sebastopol, September 1855’; front free-endpaper with a presentation inscription in the same hand: …