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Carved bone bead necklace, flower buds and screw clasp

A single strand of hand-carved bovine bone, every bead cut as a closed flower bud with the petals wrapped and overlapping to a point.Strands...

Clover-shaped porcelain ashtray and cigarette rest

1950

Porcelain ashtray and cigarette rest in the shape of a four-leaf clover, with a hand-coloured green ground, a printed rose and four cigarette rests...

Embroidered and Beaded French Purse

France, 1920

An evening bag worked in white glass seed beads and gold-toned chain stitch, on a gilt metal frame with a chain handle. The label...

Heart Shaped Floral Hair Receiver

Austria - Imported to Cleavland, 1900 to 1918

A heart-shaped porcelain hair receiver decorated with violets, made in Austria for an American importer. Hair from the brush went in through the lid...

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Tome V, Toulouse 1788, with the plates

Toulouse, France, 1788

Gil Blas was the most read French novel of the eighteenth century, a picaresque about a Spanish valet who rises through every kind of...

Histoire Particuliere du Siege de Montauban, 1624, dedicated to the Duc de Rohan

France, after a Leiden edition, 1624

In the autumn of 1621 the Protestant city of Montauban shut its gates against the army of Louis XIII and held them shut for...

Les Confessions de S. Augustin, Arnauld d'Andilly's translation, Paris, later seventeenth century

Paris, France, 1669 by later manuscript note; title page lacking

Augustine's Confessions in French, in the translation Robert Arnauld d'Andilly made for the readers around Port-Royal, the abbey that spent the seventeenth century arguing...

Les Exiles, Tome VIII of the Works of Madame de Villedieu, Paris 1741

Paris, France, 1741

Marie-Catherine Desjardins, who published as Madame de Villedieu, wrote novels, plays and verse in Paris in the 1660s and 1670s and put her own...

Menagiana, Tomes II and III, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1713 and 1716

Amsterdam, 1713 and 1716

Gilles Menage was a scholar in seventeenth-century Paris who talked well and knew it. After he died in 1692 his friends wrote down what...

Pearl Luster Ceramic Match Holder with Anemones

1950

A ceramic holder in pearl luster with a pocket above and a tray below, printed with anemones. Holds matches and a matchbox, or cigarettes.

Rodin "The Thinker" Bookends Pair Cast Metal Brass Finish

1928

This pair of vintage bookends provides a classic academic aesthetic, reproducing Auguste Rodin's iconic 1902 sculpture, "The Thinker." The figures are cast with athletic...

Unique Mid-Century Solid Brass Cowboy Boot

1950s

A solid brass cowboy boot, cast with tooled stitching and the slouch of real leather, most likely mid-century.The top is open and it makes...

Victorian Opaline Glass Oil Lamp Font on Cast Base

England or Continental Europe, ca. 1880-1900

A parlor oil lamp font in shaded opaline glass, coral falling to white, with a printed scene of a child, on a pierced cast...