A rare copy in fine condition of the first edition of the children’s classic “The Velveteen Rabbit”, by Margery Williams, illustrated by William Nicholson. The paper covered boards with Nicholson’s illustrations to the covers. The pictorial endpapers are a colorful riot of many, many bunnies. There are 19 pages of text, four full-page color…
THE WORKS OF MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR IN SIX VOLUMES: ADORN’D WITH CUTS published in 1709 is the first edition of Shakespeare’s plays published after the four folios. THE WORKS OF MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR. VOLUME THE SEVENTH. CONTAINING VENUS & ADONIS, TARQUIN & LUCRECE AND HIS MISCELLANY POEMS published in 1710 by Edmund Curll was intended…
A “family portrait” photograph of Picasso’s nephew standing before an oil painting of Picasso. Black and white silver gelatin print. MAGNUM photo library print verso. Exhibited MacGill Gallery. A deeply psychological portrait of the painter Pablo Picasso as a young artist and his close look-alike nephew. Both men wear a similar mustache. We see the…
A large Italian (perhaps Sicilian) two-handled renaissance lead glaze wet drug or water jar in a yellow pigment derived from lead-antimony, an ochre color known as Naples Yellow. The pottery of Maiolica derived its name from the medieval Italian word for Majorca, an island on the route for ships bringing Hispano-Moresque wares from Valencia in…
Painting, oil in canvas, depicting two Chinese peasant women, one wearing a cap, holding implements as they walk away from the viewer into an abstract or muted background. Painting is signed by Zhang Jiang (signed and dated lower left), a well-known painter of Chinese peasants. This is an early work, from 1991, before the artist’s…
Rare pair of museum quality Bohemian carved and painted wood angels, or putti, in flight. These figures were once part of a cathedral, probably in Bohemia or Germany. Both figures are carved in a life-like manner with open mouths and pointing fingers. Flesh toned bodies, gold wings and flowing draperies. They are extremely well done…
Very large, stunning English sterling silver chased and engraved lobed teapot on a decorative scroll-work stand. Spirit heating element present. The teapot is melon-shaped with domed lid topped with a vine, leaf, and floral knop. Scroll handle and spout on a platform stand with a spirit burner, engraved with a coat-of-arms of a bust of…
Child’s Velocipede in beautiful condition – a piece of folk art. It has a cast iron carriage over the rear wheels, and a beautiful polished iron head. The tail is braided from horse hair. It is still in working condition, with hand cranks at the head which turn a chain hidden in the shoulders running…
Twenty wine stems (table service for 6 plus 2) of vintage corodonato d’oro or gold fleck. They are all ribbed around the bowl, and double knopped with attractively flaring rims. There are large, medium and smaller sizes forming 6 complete sets of each size. There are two additional glasses of large and medium size. Probably…
This rare folio is composed of 15 lines of the Quran, in Arabic, on parchment. It was probably created in the 9th century in northern Africa. Calligraphy was an important Arabic art form, seen on ceramics, coins and manuscripts. The highly angular horizontal Kufic seen here was the primary script used in the earliest copies…
Framed studio portrait of Marlene Dietrich, actress – an exceptionally large image. An authentic, iconic full-face glamour photograph by George Hurrell circa 1930 (printed later). Gelatin silver print is an authentic image by the photographer. George Hurrell. Signed on the lower right and numbered 23/50 on the lower left. George Hurrell was an American photographer…
An impressionistic bronze figure of a roaming mountain lion on a square wooden plinth. The renowned animalier modeler is Kenneth Rodney Bunn, born in Colorado in 1938. This artist has captured the essences of wild animals of all kinds through the many decades of his career. Available for purchase here. You may contact us directly…
Between 1897 and 1913, Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940) lived in the Netherlands, where he painted with the Hague School of art and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the US. He, his wife Helen and their children returned permanently to America in 1913 ahead of World War I. All their children were active…
A large and wonderful Japanese Lacquer Bunko (document box), Edo or Meiji Period (late 18th-late 19th century) decorated in gold, silver and blue hiramaki-e (low-relief lacquer) and nashiji (sprinkled gold powder) the interior of the cover decorated in iroe-hiramaki-e (colored low-relief lacquer) and takamaki-e (high-relief lacquer) with a village by a lake, a rice paddy,…
A SELECTION OF RARE AND CURIOUS FISHES FOUND UPON THE COAST OF CEYLON by John Whitchurch Bennett. Printed for the author in 1851. Bennett was a British army officer and naturalist. He was posted to Ceylon from 1815 to 1827. Contains 30 vibrant color plates. A rare book. Available for purchase here. You may contact…
An English George II Sterling cone-shape lidded silver coffee pot with wooden handle. The underside of the spout has a substantial acanthus leaf design. Date year is 1738-1739 (crowned leopard’s head, date letter “c”). Maker probably Edward Vincent, fine maker of coffee pots and other hollow ware, registered in 1720, active during the 1st half…
An extremely scarce map titled “Panorama of the Mississippi Valley and its Fortifications” which illustrates the theater of war that was the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. Published in New York in 1863 by Charles Magnus. This broadside map shows the cities, towns, stores, plantations, mills, academies, etc. along the Mississippi River from…
English mahogany bracket clock, ca 1750. An 8-day movement bracket clock with brass and silvered dial signed Robert Higgs, London on the silvered dial / and again on the bright cut engraved brass back plate. In a mahogany case with four pine cone shaped ormolu mounts on the dome caddy top and figural herms on…
A fine and very life-like, life-size Janus head ceremonial helmet-mask from the cross-river region of Nigeria. The wood carved head is covered with animal skin which is stained and polished, accented with wooden teeth, and mounted on a fiber shoulder support. This mask has two similar but differentiated sides, one very dark and the other…
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