Les Merveilles de la Mer: Les Coquillages – Paul Valéry and Paul-André Robert, 1936
A beautifully illustrated French volume devoted to seashells, published by Librairie Plon, Paris, in 1936. Les Merveilles de la Mer:
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Jakob Christian Bergner (1812–1877) – Study of Three Birds, 1862
A finely observed mixed-media study of three dead birds suspended together from a small nail, including a woodcock at the
Antique Botanical Illustration of Marshall’s Wallflower, 1850
Marshall’s Wallflower – Cheiranthus Marshallii An antique hand-coloured botanical engraving of Cheiranthus Marshallii, or Marshall’s wallflower, published in The Floricultural
Fine Art, Paintings, Drawings
Hans Eggimann – Romantic Night in May
Hans Eggimann May Night (“Mainacht”) A couple embraces in a garden under a fruit tree. Signed in the Plate, Hans
Antique Prints
Pancrace Bessa – Aloë Lingua from Flore des jardiniers
An original hand-coloured botanical engraving of Aloë Lingua, published in Paris in 1836 in Pancrace Bessa’s Flore des jardiniers, amateurs
Switzerland
Leuk – Loueche – Antique Engraving of Leukerbad
Leuk-Loueche Aquatint Engraving with period handcoloring – circa 1850 Drawn by Geissler – Engraved by Huber. Published by the Verlag
Gottfried Engelmann – 19th Century Lithograph – Village of Maglan, Switzerland
Engelmann – road to Maglan 1827 Lithograph by Engelmann Vue de La Sortie du Village de Maglan Beautiful early 19th
Portrait of Pierre Albert Rigot by Francois d’Albert Durade
Portrait of Pierre Albert Rigot (1833 Varembe 1890), the son of the mayor of Petit-Sacconex, Jean-Amédée-Samuel Rigot, and Jeanne Finguerlin.
18th Century View of Cully on Lake Geneva – Antique Engraving
Beautiful original 18th Century copperplate engraving entitled “Vue Prise Au Dessus de Cueilly” from Baron Zurlauben’s Tableaux de la Suisse.
Folk Art
Harvest – Chinese Folk Art Painting by Cao Deyi
Striking large Chinese folk art painting by Cao Deyi. Surrounded by chickens and livestock, girls with their long braids flying
