![Item #3224 [FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT IN SITU]. Anonymous French...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3224.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1601261704)
(Lyon or Paris): Ca. 1550-1570 (?). The coffret measures (in mm) ca. 280 (long) x 190 (wide) x 115 (high): around sides are four looped metal fittings for leather straps, all five original hinges on back, on front the original iron hasp facade with forged "pine leaf" decoration, keyhole &..... More
![Item #3217 [CURIOSA]. [A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3217.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1600273982)
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
Amsterdam: By de weduwe van Joannes van Someren, de erfgenaamen van Joannes van Dyk, Hendrik en de weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1690. Hardcover. Broadside, 305 x 470 (visible image size), professionally matted and framed. ¶ A huge and extraordinary 17th-century anatomical engraving, justly celebrated by anatomists and artists alike for..... More
![Item #3457 [NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAIT]. "Hayne Hudjihini Eagle of Delight." Hand-colored...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3457.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1618230483)
Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1833 (?). Hand-colored lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King (445 x 338 mm). Head-and-shoulders portrait of female Oto, wife of Chief Shaumonekusse, long black braids with hair parted at center, white and black beaded ear loops, four necklaces, silver bracelet, ruffled blouse or dress..... More
![Item #3458 [NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAIT]. "Tuko-See-Mathla A Seminole Chief." Hand-colored...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3458.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1619136663)
Philadelphia: James G. Clark, 1843 (?). Hand-colored lithograph after Charles Bird King (496 x 355 mm), "Drawn, Printed & Coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Estblishment, 94, Walnut St." Full-length standing portrait of male Seminole chief carrying a rifle, wearing striped, fringed wrap skirt, striped shirt, red sashes around..... More
![Item #3456 [NATIVE AMERICAN PORTRAIT]. "Wa-Na-Ta. The Charger, Grand Chief of the Sioux."...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3456.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1618228683)
Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837 (?). Hand-colored lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King (445 x 338 mm). Full-length standing portrait of male Sioux chief holding a rifle, wearing brightly colored blankets, feathered headdress, necklace of grizzly bear claws, and red leggings decorated with bird feathers. Very mild uniform..... More
![Item #3198 [VERNACULAR EMBROIDERED BINDING]. Der Schatz der Armen. Melchior . Maeterlinck...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3198.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1598832575)
Florence & Leipzig: [Printed in Berlin by Otto Von Holten for]: Verlag von Eugen Diederichs, 1898. "Autorisierte Ausgabe" Square 4to (210 x 170 mm). 105 pp. With stylized art-nouveau typography and large ornamental initials in red and black throughout. Vernacular binding of slightly later decorated burlap cloth patterned with lily pads;..... More
![Item #3989 [HAND-PAINTED ART-DECO DEPICTIONS OF PEOPLE FROM EXOTIC LANDS IN ORNAMENTAL COSTUME]....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3989.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681833100)
S.l. s.n., 1930s (or 1980s?). A quantity of four paintings on paper, generally 370 x 280 mm each, hinged with cloth tape to mattes ca. 1980s (?). Some age toning, the painting of the Native American is slightly creased on the lower blank margin (SEE IMAGES). INTRIGUING COLLECTION OF FOUR..... More
