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1940. Very good +. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (241 x 190 mm) from the Roland Butler Collection, Press Agent, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930s-1960s) Roland Butler Collection hand stamp on verso. Animals have always played a big role in the circus; elephants, tigers, lions. But decades ago the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus wowed their crowds with gorillas. One of those gorillas was known as M'Toto. She quickly became a household name in Sarasota, and her legacy lives on today. . . . "She was nice to have around. Just to know that you had a friend who was a gorilla and a lot of people enjoyed that," says former clown Toby Ballentine. M'Toto -Swahili for little child- was brought to the Suncoast in the 1940's by A. Maria Hoyt. The arrival happened in a time many in the U.S. knew very little about gorillas, says Pamela Rosaire, a long-time circus primate trainer. "In those days, you didn't see gorillas...even in zoos. They hardly had any in this country or…
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M'Toto - Famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Gorilla
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Maison de Paysan a Cricey
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1843. Etching on chine-collé laid down to cream wove paper, 4 x 4 5/8 inches (100 x 121 mm), full margins. In good condition with minor mat tone, several unobtrusive spots of foxing in lower quadrant of image area. Tape residue at top right and left sheet corners, on the support matrix. Born in Paris in May of 1813, little is known about the early personal life of Charles-Émile Jacque. It is known however, that he began his artistic pursuits in a nontraditional way, having trained as an etcher before having trained as a painter. As a young man, Jacque apprenticed to a map maker in Paris, and after military service, where he served as a cartographer, he left for England, where he was employed as an engraver for La Charivari. After two years in London, Jacque returned home to Paris, and made his Salon debut in 1833. Jacque continued to regularly contribute paintings and prints to the Salon every year until 1870. It was when great a cholera epidemic swept Paris in the middle of the 19th century that…
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Malerische Ansichten / Picturesque Views (of first railway lines in Slovenia); To commemorate the opening of the railway line from Cilli to Laibach by his k. k. Majesty Emperor Franz Josef I on September 16, 1849
by Sandmann, František Xaver (1805-1856)
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Vienna: Rauh, 1849. First Edition. Very Good. Oblong folio 12 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches (315 x 435 mm). Chromolithographic title, 2 text leaves, 10 hand-colored lithographic plates (image dimensions are 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. - 215 x 210 mm) with early coloring. Waterstain to outer margin that does not touch the text, scattered foxing, some slight spotting). Contemporary green percalline covers, cloth spine. A rare collection of views of the Ljubljana-Celje railway section, inaugurated in 1848. This was among the first railway lines in Slovenia after Maribor was connected to Graz in 1844. The plates include beautiful views of of Celje,Marija Gradec, Lasko, Zidani Most 2x, Hrastnik with the coal railway tunnel Zagorje ob Savi (Sagor), Breginjski kot (Poganegg) with the American railway bridge (Poganig), and Ljubljana. Title in German reads: Malerische Ansichten. Zum Andenken an die Eröffnung der Bahnstrecke von Cilli bis Laibach durch seine k. k. Majestät den Kaiser Franz Josef I. am 16. September 1849…
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Man and Woman Talking
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1800. Etching on cream wove paper, 3 15/16 x 3 1/8 inches (99 x 79 mm), unevenly trimmed at and around the platemark. Some skinning and adhesive residue on the verso, uniform age tone. Printed later, likely 19th century.
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Map of Cheapside, as it Appeared in the Year 1585
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London: Robert Wilkinson, 1814. Engraving on buff wove paper, 11 7/8 x 16 1/4 inches (300 x 411 mm), full margins. Central fold (as issued) with paper tape supports on the verso, along with some minor discoloration in the margins. Generally in good condition with issues being consistent with age. St. Michael-le-Querne, also called St. Michael ad Bladum, was a parish church in the Farringdon Within Ward in the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt. The name is apparently a reference to a quern-stone as there was a corn market in the churchyard.
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Marina; Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
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London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First Edition. Near Fine. Edward McKnight Kauffer. 8vo, 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (187 x 122 mm); Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched blue paper wrapper printed in black on pages i (color frontispiece) and iv (series title and no.), folded over heavy blanks. Edges very lightly toned and small bump to bottom of wrapper fold. No. 29 of the Ariel Poems [Gallup A17a]. This is one of the early "Ariel Poems" series published by Faber & Gwyer (later ones by Faber & Faber) which included each one poem by T. S. Eliot accompanied by a color illustration done by one of several artists who contributed to the series. One of 2000 copies published on 25 September 1930 From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 - 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965.
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The Market
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1910. Stone lithograph in black ink on tissue-thin wove Japon paper, 9 x 11 1/4 inches (228 x 285 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 43/125 in pencil in the lower margin. Overall moderate toning, some extremely minor scattered pinpoint size spots of light yellow discoloration.
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Market Square, Rothenburg, Germany
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1919. Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (270 x 190 mm), full margins. Signed, inscribed and titled in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with minor mat tone.
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The Martins of Cro' Martin
by Lever, Charles; Phiz [ill.]
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. First Edition in book form. Very Good. Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne]. 8vo, 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 (212 x 132 mm); xiv, 625 pp. Forty plates, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). Half leather binding in tan polished calf with blind-stamped blue canvas; raised bands and elegant gilt decorations; gilt title on red calf label; edges stained red; hinges partly cracked but binding square and tight; dampstains on some pages and generally evenly toned pages. [Sadleir 1410]. The Martins of Cro' Martin is novel about the exploits of a young man named Paul Goslett, who comes to the small Irish village of Cro' Martin and falls in love with the daughter of a local politician. It depicts the fall of a Connemara estate in the period between Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the Great Famine (1845-1849). Even as he asserts that the fall of the landed gentry brings disastrous upheaval to a traditional society, Lever insists on the inevitability of such…
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Master B. Finding things are not exactly what he expected-; From, The Progress of a Midshipman, Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead 1860 (plate 2)
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Etching with handcoloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 1835. 210 x 290 mm; 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches, full margins. Printed and published by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, August 1st, 1835. Second and final edition. Signed and in the plate by Cruikshank, and bearing Frederick Marryat's anchor monniker. Two large bows of light-colored dampstain, appx 1/4 inch into the image area at the left plate mark (unobtrusive). Minor bow of light dampstaining at the lower center sheet edge, does not enter plate mark. Light handling creases and surface soil. All condition issues are consistent with age. Perhaps introduced to each other by their mutual friend, Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank and Captain Frederick Marryat became fast friends, political confidants, and artistic collaborators, working together many times over the course of their late careers. Marryat, a novelist, caricaturist and captain in the Royal Navy, first went to sea in 1806, and served throughout the Napoleonic Wars. After Napoleon's defeat,…
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Matinee Avenue De Clichy
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Paris: Chalcographie Louvre, 1910. Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (240 x 271 mm) full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lower center margin. Moderate mat tone, uniform moderate toning from a non-archival mount on the verso. Unevenly trimmed sheet. Archival tape adhesive along the top sheet edge, recto. An impression of the work may be found in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Art Museum.
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Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully
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1696. Etching on fine cream laid paper, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (259 mm x 190 mm), narrow margins. In excellent condition with no visible defects. Printed 1700. An image from Charles Perrualt's 1700 volume, Les Hommes Illustres Qui ont Paru en France pendant ce Siècle.
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Meaux Cathedral II
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Paris: Gazette de Beaux Arts, 1907. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (225 x 292 mm), narrow left-hand margin, with a full margin with a deckle edge on the right (as issued). Two small spots of archival canvas tape at the top right and left corners, recto, and several small areas of light, unobtrusive discoloration in the margins, otherwise in good condition. The inking is rich with good tonality. From the edition of about 500 published by the Gazette de Beaux Arts, printed in 1908.
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The Memorial; Portrait of a Family
by Isherwood, Christopher
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Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Very good. 8vo, 8 x 5 1/2 inches (202 x 140 mm); 294 pp. Pages clear of marks and lightly and evenly toned. Publishers dark red cloth with gold and black on spine. Original dust jacket in very good condition, small tears to the bottom edge on the front and top edge on the back; price ($2.75) intact on front flap and list of "the new classics series" on the back. The first American edition of this book published in England in 1932 and written in Berlin, about the impact of the First World War on the author's family and his generation. Christopher Isherwood's (1904 - 1986) is best known for Goodbye Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret; A Single Man (1964), adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement." From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 - 1965), an Australian scholar…
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Mercurio
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Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In good condition with top right corner loss, and small 1/4 inch loss at top-left sheet edge, well outside of image area. Dog-eared lower left corner. Scattered light surface soiling. All consistent with age. A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
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Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 26; Cocoa plant, caterpillar, pupa, and butterflies
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The Netherlands, 1705. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on watermarked Honig cream laid paper. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (327 x 245 mm), sheet 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 354), full margins. Minor handling wear, and scattered light spots of minor discoloration throughout. Colors remain extremely vibrant. From the edition engraved by Pieter Sluyter, printed early between 1719 and 1730. Translation of the original text regarding Plate No. 26: "This plate shows a branch of a Cacau boom [cocoa tree], of which the leaves are hard, stiff and grass-green. The trees grow as tall as an apple tree and bear simultaneously blossom, ripe and unripe fruits. The blossom is reddish and sprouts from either side of the wood. The young fruits are reddish-green. When they are ripe they are yellow like lemons. They have thick peels, which are used as fertilizer and as manure for the land. The beans or seeds are dried and hardened in the shade before, they are sent to other countries. These trees grow very well in…
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The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image
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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Limited Edition. Near fine. Rene Ben Sussan. 12mo; 7 3/4 x 5 in (200 x 130 mm). Pp.(viii), 18, colophon (verso blank), (viii) + 2 engraved images (1-17) in sepia, brown and grey-blue ink by René Ben Sussman. Quarter bound cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt and very lightly browned, batik papered boards; lightly cracked at title page.The fragile original plain Glassine WRAPPER is in Very Good condition and now protected by a removable archival mylar cover. Printed on hand-made paper, uncut, in black ink with decorations and caps in sepia. This is number 256 of 325 copies printed. [Chanticleer 46; Ransom p. 296, no. 43]. John Marston was a poet, satirist and playwright whose short career spanned the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods and was famous for the feuds with Ben Johnson. His reputation has varied widely over time but his work was resuscitated by the Romantics and some of his works were well-loved by T.S. Elliot. The text for…
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Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 6; Thistle and Moths
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The Netherlands, 1705. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid Honig paper with a large heraldic watermark with a Strasbourg Lily and the initials WR. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (327 x 245 mm), sheet 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 354), full margins. Minor handling wear, and scattered light spots of minor discoloration throughout. Colors remain extremely vibrant. From the edition engraved by Pieter Sluyter, printed between 1719 and 1730. Translation of the original text regarding Plate No. 6: "This thistle, called Maccai in America, grows to a height of 4 ells. It has a white blossom with yellow threads in the middle. It yields yellow and red berries, which are eaten by people and birds. The stem becomes tall and hard, so that it has to be cut down with an axe. The red caterpillar with yellow stripes sitting at the top has long stiff and brown hairs. It eats the leaves of this thistle. On 4 August 1700 I saw it change into a pupa, having shed its skin beforehand after the habit of all…
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Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 58; Ice Cream Bean Plant, Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly and Caterpillar with Moth
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The Netherlands, 1705. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid Honig paper with a large heraldic watermark with a Strasbourg Lily and the initials WR. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (327 x 245 mm), sheet 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 354), full margins. Minor handling wear, and scattered light spots of minor discoloration throughout. Colors remain extremely vibrant. From the edition engraved by Pieter Sluyter, printed between 1719 and 1730. Translation of the original text regarding Plate No. 58: "I here show a branch from a large tree that grows in the forest in America. Its seed cases contain blackish beans, from which the trees derive the name Zoete Boonen-Boom [sweet-bean tree]. Around these beans lies a white pulp, which is very sweet and lovely. In this pulp I found white maggots, as can be seen on the open bean. These became brown pupae. On 2 April, that is, ten days later, such green flies emerged as can be seen next to the maggot. I fed the green caterpillar hanging below with the…
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Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 39; Unidentified tree with moth, caterpillar and pupa
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The Netherlands, 1705. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid Honig paper with a large heraldic watermark with a Strasbourg Lily and the initials WR. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (327 x 245 mm), sheet 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 354), full margins. 1/4 inch vertical edge tear, well outside of image area, minor handling wear, and several light spots of minor discoloration, three occurring in the area of the lower portion of the branch. Colors remain extremely vibrant. From the edition engraved by Pieter Sluyter, printed between 1719 and 1730. Sybilla's notes regarding Plate No. 39: "This plant grew in my garden in Suriname, without anyone being able to tell me its name or properties. It grows more than an ell tall and bears small yellow flowers.... On this plant I found large caterpillars eating its leaves. They are green and adorned with white, red and black patches. Around the end of May they spun themselves in a thin cocoon, like the one I placed on the stem. They turned into brown,…
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