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Click here to subscribeTwo Tunbridge ware boxes and a similar example comprising a rectangular reel box, the sliding lid with colour painted ruined building and rural landscape, 12.5cm, another with in hinge lid with a titled print view ñBroadwater Church Nr Worthingî 10.5cm, and another ñRoyal Albert Bridge, Saltashî, containing buttons 15.4cm (3)
*Opera. Parisian Opera Singers, Paris: Stanislas-D‚sir‚ Avril et Cie, circa 1865, fifty-two playing cards, comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each with ten pip cards, and three full-length photographic court cards, plain versos, 97 x 64mm (3.75 x 2.5ins), contained in lower portion of original card box (lacking base of box and pull-off lid) A rare set of operatic playing cards in very good condition. The BibliothŠque Nationale de France list this set, but have only ten of the fifty-two cards. The court cards are photographs of famous 19th century French opera singers. The portraits were taken by renowned French lithographer and photographer Adolphe Bilordeaux (1807-1872) who was one of the pioneers in the use of salt print technique on waxed paper. Gouache was added to the cards to highlight the suit symbols as colour photography was not then possible. These cards are reminiscent of the fashionable costume packs made by Gilbert and others around this time. Avril et Cie was only active in Paris between 1856 and 1868, after which it was declared bankrupt. The British Museum has a deck by Avril, of English historical characters, with decorative aces identical to ours (Schreiber 67). The opera singers represented include Louis Gueymard, Pauline Lauters, Charles Louis Puberaux and Marie Cico. (1)
Limebeer (Ena). To a Proud Phantom, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1923, one or two light spots, original marbled boards, printed paper label to upper cover torn with loss, 8vo Woolmer 35. One of 250 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed in pencil to front endpaper: "To H. Harrison, with best wishes from Ena Limebeer, Chelsea, Autumn 1924", futher inscribed at foot "To the memory of Autumn in Serbia 1924", with a loose small faded albumum print of two couples. (1)
*Roberts (David). A collection of eight lithographs, originally published in 'The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Egypt & Nubia..., published F. G. Moon [1842 - 1849], eight 'half-page' lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, all mounted on to contemporary card (as published in the 'Subscribers' edition), one print (Semia) with some spotting, each approximately 240 x 330 mm, mounted The images consist of :- Jaffa, Temple of Wady Kardassy in Nubia, Group of Nubians at Wady Kardassy, Semia, Ramla ancient Arimathea, Ruined mosques in the desert west of the citadel, The Dead Sea looking towards Moab [and] Ascent to the summit of Sinai. (8)
[Cleland, John]. The Surprises of Love, Exemplified in the Romance of a Day, or an Adventure in Greenwich Park, last Easter; The Romance of a Night, or a Covent-Garden-Adventure; The Second Edition; with the Addition of Two Stories, never before in Print, entitled, The Romance of a Morning, or the Chance of a Sport; The Romance of an Evening, or who would have thought it? 1st collected edition, T. Lownds & W. Nicoll, 1765, title slightly loose at gutter, occasional light dust-soiling and few marks, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, upper joint cracked at head, worn at head & foot of spine and to board corners, 12mo (1)
World. Lufft (Hans), 'Der Prophet', map of the world based on the prophet Daniel's dream. [1530 but this edition circa 1560], uncoloured woodblock map set into an ornate engraved border, the map shows the four beasts of Daniel's dream and the highly simplified continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, set in its biblical context with Dutch text below and on the verso, title above map, slight toning and text showthrough, map size 120 x 155 mm In the depiction of the four animals and their geographical attribution, the artist largely follows the text of the seventh chapter of the book of the prophet Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible. Hans Lufft included a map amongst the column illustrations for his large folio edition of Luther's German Bible. Luffts rather abstract map comprises a sketchy outline of the three Old World continents with the four mythical beasts seen by the prophet Daniel in his Dream, as related in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 7 (where the map always occurs). The four Beasts have come to stand for the four empires of Babylon, Medes and Persians, Greece (Alexander and his successors) and Rome but, placed on the map of Asia, Europe and Africa, they seem to have, as Strachan remarked, little or no relation to the accepted interpretation of the four empires which they represent. This curious map had already appeared in print and it continued to feature as a column illustration in re-issues of Luffts Wittenberg Bible although no other bible publishers seem to have made use of it. R.W.Shirley. The Mapping of the World, no 65(A) for an earlier edition. (1)
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