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:
New on Village Antiques
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
Village Antiques – Charles L’Eplattenier – Two Nudes – Charcoal Drawing (SOLD)
Charles L’Eplattenier (Neuchatel 1874 – Les Cotes du Doubes 1946) Two Nudes Charcoal Drawing Signed upper right Dated 1932 Dimensions
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
Schloss Thun by Werner Engel
View of the Castle of Thun – Schloss Thun – engraving by Swiss Artist Werner Engel.
Antique Engraving of Geneva, Switzerland from Zurlauben’s Topography
Vue de La Vile de Geneve Prise du Lac Large format Copperplate Engraving from Baron Zurlauben’s topography published around 1780.
Geneve – Vue Prise des Bergues – Antique Lithograph (Sold)
Geneve – Vue Prise des Bergues Exquisitely colored antique lithograph from the series “La Suisse pittoresque, monumentale vues et monuments
General Ulrich Wille – Swiss Border Patrol 1914 – Color Lithograph
This Swiss militaria print is a color lithograph or chromolithographic illustration, a common format for patriotic and military imagery in
Folk Art
Primitive / Naive Sketch of Children / Anonymous
Naive Sketch of Children Holding Hands Folk Art Anonymous Early 19th Century Drawing of a brother and sister in a
