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Colourful fish View picture(s) 1 ALBUM with 13 watercolours of Indo-Pacific fish. (No place, late 19th century). Large oblong 4to. Gilt decorated cloth. 13 watercolours (305 x 240 mm) with black background of mostly saltwater fish from the Indo-Pacific region. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Asia  Ichthyology  Pacific  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Magnificent early nineteenth-century water colours of Ceylon View picture(s) 2 ALBUM with 29 beautiful water colours with views of Ceylon (26), St. Helena (2) and the Cape of Good Hope (1). (ca. 1840). Album: 28,5 x 35 cm. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards with title label on front cover, lettered in gold. With 29 water colours of ca. 22 x 30 cm. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Ceylon  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare collection of Swiss costumes View picture(s) 3 COLLECTION des costumes de la Suisse et de ses pays limitrophes. Zürich, Keller et Fussli, (c. 1810-1830). (105 x 90 mm). Green wrappers with small stamp: "F.S. Fussli successeur de Keller & Fussli a Zurich" in light blue slipcase, gilt edges. Title within coloured flower garland and 24 charming aquatint illustrations of Swiss costumes, all very beautifully coloured by hand. 25 loose lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Switzerland  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original watercolours View picture(s) 4 JEU DU CHEVAL BLANC. Explication. (Paris, 1836). Large 8vo. Contemp. box, covered with flowered gilt-printed and red and green coloured paper, and with large lithographed plate of a lady with four children playing the present game, richly coloured by hand and glazed with egg-white, on top of the box and put within double borders of decorative gilt strips, printed in relief. With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone. 1 leaf with printed rules of the game. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Games & Pastimes  Horses & Horsemanship  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'Souvenirs de voyage': 98 magnificent watercolours made during a journey to South America in 1864-65 View picture(s) 5 QUESNEL, Edouard. Voyage dans l'Amerique du Sud, 1864-1865. (South America, 1864-1865). Large oblong folio. Green blind-tooled morocco, ribbed spine, blind-tooled title on front cover, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (GIROUX). With 98 magnificent watercolours (ca. 20 x 33 cm) by Edouard Quesnel, pasted on 98 leaves (33 x 51 cm), with titles and dates on which he visited the various locations entered by hand underneath, showing land- and seascapes of Portugal, Tenerife, Cape Verde, several countries in South America such as Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Bordaux, the starting and finishing point of the journey. Many watercolours are signed 'EQ'. (98) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Argentina  Brazil  Watercolours  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Facsimile of a 17th century ornithology classic View picture(s) 6 RUDBECK, Olof. Book of birds. A facsimile of the original watercolours (c. 1693 - 1710) of Olof Rudbeck the younger in the Leufsta collection in Uppsala University Library. Stockholm, Björck & Börjesson, 1986. 2 vols. Folio. Blue cloth. Both volumes preserved in a slipcase. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Facsimiles  Ornithology  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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