Draakestein – ‘Talu-dama’ – 1686
‘Talu-dama’
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
Hendrik Draakestein
The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.
Amsterdam
1686
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Churchill’s Voyages – 1750 – CGW134489-6-4
Churchill’s Voyages
Mid 18th Century copper engravings of Fish.
1750
Picasso en marge du Buffon – The Eagle – Paris 1957
‘The Eagle’
‘Picasso en marge du Buffon’
Published by Jonquieres (Paris) 1957
Limited edition lithographs
Printed in France
A Rare George III oak dish-top lamp table – UK1908
The circular tilt-top raised on a vase-turned pillar and three hipped downswept legs terminating in pad feet.
C.1770 H:69.5 cm Diameter:41.5 cm
Herrison – Mappe Monde – 1856 – CGW134488-2
‘Mappe Monde en deux hemispheres’
by
Herrison
Large hand coloured double hemisphere world map
1856
78 cm x 55 cm (unframed)
Insectes Coleopetres – AA1875
Natural History – Dumond D’ Urville
Insectes Coleopetres by C.E. Blanchard
Hand coloured steel engravings of beetle specimens from Ambon (Moluccas), New Zealand and Tonga. Single folio sheet, plate size 400 x 270 mm, drawn by Blanchard, engraved by Mme Egasse, printed by Gide; being Plate 9 from the Atlas volume of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage au Pole Sud et dans I’Oceanie sur les Corvettes I’Astrolabe et la Zelee, pendant les annees, 1837-40 (Paris’ Hombron et Jacquinot, 1842).
Mild water stain to upper left margin, not affecting the plate, which is in fine condition.
Unframed 31.5 cm x 51 cm
An English 18th Century and later adjustable beech dressing mirror – CAC500
An English 18th Century and later adjustable beech dressing mirror
1780 – 1820
H: 46.5 cm
W: 34 cm