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Item #4227 [MANUSCRIPT]. [FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES DIARY]. Diary of a British soldier of the 49th...

[Anonymous British Soldier]

[MANUSCRIPT]. [FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES DIARY]. Diary of a British soldier of the 49th Infantry Division, ending abruptly on December 19, 1915, the first day Phosgene gas was used against the British

France, Belgium, England: April 12 - Dec 19, 1915. Oblong 8vo. Small "Walker's Service Notebook" (154 x 94 mm), lined, 26 pages filled with neat entries in pencil and pen (final page of diary loose), the remaining portion of the notebook (i.e. about 2/3) blank. Original limp cloth covers, worn..... More

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Item #4389 [ETHIOPIAN COPTIC MANUSCRIPT]. Three Sälams (Hymns or Poems) written in Ge'ez on...

Anonymous Ethiopian scribe

[ETHIOPIAN COPTIC MANUSCRIPT]. Three Sälams (Hymns or Poems) written in Ge'ez on heavy parchment (Laird MS 1)

Ethiopia: 1900-1925 (ca.). Manuscript on heavy parchment (115 x 80 mm). Collation: A12 (-A1) B10 C8 D8 = 37 (of 38) ff. Traditional Ethiopian coptic binding structure of hewn wooden boards, exposed string outside quires, looped and tied back onto the twine itself. Back board split vertically with old repair..... More

Price: $3,200.00

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Item #4048 [EROTICA / CURIOSA]. A quantity of three original paintings on recycled leaves from...

Anonymous Indian Artist

[EROTICA / CURIOSA]. A quantity of three original paintings on recycled leaves from the same Indian Urdu manuscript

India: 18th or 19th century (?). Three matted paintings (matte size: 323 x 266; leaf size: 215 x 145 mm; visible image: 170 x 115 mm), hinged to clear Plexiglas so that the manuscript texts on the versos are perfectly legible. Leaves with some soiling, edges slightly frayed along inner..... More

Price: $400.00

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Item #4018 [INDIAN PAINTING ON MANUSCRIPT LEAF: WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL BIRD]. Painted in gold and...

Anonymous Indian Artist

[INDIAN PAINTING ON MANUSCRIPT LEAF: WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL BIRD]. Painted in gold and color, overpainted on a manuscript of Ibn Nafis "Mujiz al-Qanun"

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting on manuscript leaf (ca. 270 x 160 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 367 x 250 mm, some spotting on the matte). Manuscript leaf with some damage outside painted area; a very attractive ornithological painting. A delicate..... More

Price: $300.00

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Item #4019 [INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]. Painted in...

Anonymous Indian Artist

[INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]. Painted in gold and color, overpainted on a partially printed leaf with manuscript annotations

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in..... More

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Item #4016 [INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: A BULL AND A CAMEL]. A pair of paintings in...

Anonymous Indian Artist

[INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: A BULL AND A CAMEL]. A pair of paintings in gold and color, overpainted on a manuscript of a Persian / Urdu dictionary

India: 19th or 20th century. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 300 x 220 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 315 mm). Edges of manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged, without loss to painting of the bull, but intruding in several..... More

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Item #4020 [TWO INDIAN PAINTINGS OF PROCESSIONAL SCENES AT TWILIGHT]. Painted in color and...

Anonymous Indian Artist

[TWO INDIAN PAINTINGS OF PROCESSIONAL SCENES AT TWILIGHT]. Painted in color and heightened in gold

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 354 x 164 mm), mounted on card, matted (matte size: 460 x 278 mm). Each painting has a scratch to the surface area (SEE IMAGES), overall in very good condition..... More

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Item #4027 [EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in...

Anonymous Indian Artist / Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah

[EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in which appear multiple orgies

India: Early 20th century (?). Large painting on a manuscript leaf (in Arabic) from the "Sharh al-Wiqayah" by Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah (SEE BELOW), 353 x 216 mm, hinged onto plexiglas mount with clear tape so that the text of the manuscript is visible from the back; matted..... More

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Item #3217 [CURIOSA]. [A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high...

[Anonymous Indian Artist]

[CURIOSA]. [A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high quality]

n.d. (19th or 20th century). Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing, professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 (priapus): 300 x 250 mm (frame size), 198 x 140 mm (visible), 147 x 93 mm (size of illumination). Ad 2 (she-devil): 306 x 231 mm (frame size), 205 x...... More

Price: $650.00

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Item #4325 [TEXTILES - JAPAN, 1920s-1940s]. A lavish bridal kimono featuring lobsters. Anonymous...

Anonymous Japanese Designers

[TEXTILES - JAPAN, 1920s-1940s]. A lavish bridal kimono featuring lobsters

Japan: 1920-1930s (early Showa period). One uchikake kimono. Measurements: collar to hem = ca. 163 cm; sleeve hem to sleeve hem = ca. 125 cm. With original price tag: "PRICE 176 着物 (打掛)" (Price, 176, Kimono / Uchikake," the meaning of which is unclear: an old price, shop item number..... More

Price: $980.00

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Item #4211 [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. A manuscript album of colored drawings and b/w sketches of...

[Anonymous Juvenile Artist]

[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. A manuscript album of colored drawings and b/w sketches of Africans, Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians

s.l. (Germany or Austria?): s.d. (late 19th or early 20th century?). 64mo (70 x 55 mm). Homemade binding, cloth spine (loosening, front cover perished); back cover: board covered with glazed paper, present on the pastedown inside (detaching) but the glazed paper on the outside is torn away. VERY WORN (see..... More

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Item #3870 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA - VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS]. Small collection of 7 original...

[Anonymous Photographer]

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA - VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS]. Small collection of 7 original photographs of African-Americans (six were taken in the street, the other on a hard-scrabble beach)

s.l. (Pittsburgh?): 1940s (?). 7 glossy black and white prints on paper (3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches), on versos the paper numbered M001, M220, and M349. Some general wear (creasing from handling, soiling on versos, one small tear). ODD, CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are..... More

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Item #3835 [ANTI-SMOKING IN 1687]. De morborum curationibus tractatus curiosus (D. M. E. P....

[Anonymous Physician and Physicist]

[ANTI-SMOKING IN 1687]. De morborum curationibus tractatus curiosus (D. M. E. P. medici ac physici accuratissimi)

Lugduni (imprint false: likely printed in Germany): 1687. First Edition. 8vo (180 x 100 mm). [8], 295 pp. Later German quarter calf over decorated blue paper boards (actually two different sheets were utilized), printed waste utilized as spine lining (the text is in Latin and French), vellum corner tips, black..... More

Price: $1,250.00

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Item #3882 [BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album. Anonymous

[Anonymous]

[BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More

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Item #2009 [MANUSCRIPT - UNPUBLISHED GERMAN PLAY]. Der Katzenkomodie, erster Theil, oder Lottchus...

[Anonymous]

[MANUSCRIPT - UNPUBLISHED GERMAN PLAY]. Der Katzenkomodie, erster Theil, oder Lottchus Todt. Historisches Trauerspiel mit Gesangen in vier Aufzugen. WITH: Der Katzenkomodie, zweiter Theil, oder Das Gluck de Ehe

1835. First Edition. Softcover. Small 4to. Manuscript on paper. [2], 53 pp. Complete. Stitched (plain paper wrappers torn and frayed along spine, with loss), edges untrimmed. Minor blemishes to the text but unsophisticated. Preserved in a protective cloth case. Highly curious and apparently unpublished German Romantic play concerning the "Death..... More

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