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A set of English mahogany wall-hanging waterfall bookshelves,
A set of English mahogany wall-hanging waterfall bookshelves,
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The Philosophers: A pair of Venetian relief-carved statuary marble plaques
The Philosophers: A pair of Venetian relief-carved statuary marble plaques
each plaque carved in deep-relief with the profile portrait of an elderly philosopher, their opposed faces, one in anguish the other in repose, with wild flowing beards and framed with a striped folded cowl, -
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The Principles and Practice of Modern House Construction
The Principles and Practice of Modern House Construction
An early edition of this set detailing the principles underlying the construction of houses in the nineteenth century. Under the editorship of architect George Lister Sutcliffe, this set contains the guidance of several authors on the construction of modern houses. Illustrated, with five plates to volumes I, II, IV, and V, four plates to volume III, and three plates to volume VI, collated and complete. The six volumes contain sections on construction, water supply, drainage, sewage disposal, ventilation, lighting, and sanitation. With some scribbles to the verso of the rear endpaper of volume I. With fourteen pages of adverts to the rear of volume VI, and a list of subscribers to Modern House Construction. Six volumes -
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Elegant nineteenth century fossiliferous Plymouth Black chimneypiece
Elegant nineteenth century fossiliferous Plymouth Black chimneypiece
of simple form with elongated corbels, carved in native limestone from the Radstock/Pomphlett mines of Plymouth, with an unusual abundance of fossils. -
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A timber painted and stencilled Royal Parks sign,
A timber painted and stencilled Royal Parks sign,
the framed sign glazed with perspex reads: “AN APPEAL TO DOG OWNERS THIS SANDPIT IS AN EXPERIMENTAL DOG TOILET CONSTRUCTED WITH THE HOPE THAT USAGE MAY REDUCE THE UNPLEASANT AND UNHEALTHY FOULING OF PATHWAYS AND GRASS AREAS BY DOGS. THE PIT WILL BE CLEARED REGULARLY. PLEASE TRY TO ENCOURAGE AND TRAIN YOUR PETS TO USE THIS TOILET THANK YOU, LAMBETH BRIDGE HSE. S. E.1. ..R. HARE BAILIFF OF THE ROYAL PARKS -
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Late nineteenth century framed ormolu relief of Napoleon crossing the Alps
Late nineteenth century framed ormolu relief of Napoleon crossing the Alps
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Divagations I, by Henri Matisse, Verve Vol. 1 / No. 1.
Divagations I, by Henri Matisse, Verve Vol. 1 / No. 1.
The Verve Review was a purposefully luxurious. It ran from 1937 to 1960, but with only 38 editions available, due to the high degree of design and editorial work dedicated to each issue. Each edition contained unique lithographic prints, commissioned by the editor, and each cover a double-page lithograph elaborated by one of the artists contained within. It was the brainchild of its editor Stratis Eleftheriades, a Greek National who moved to Paris in the early thirties to take part in the growing Modernist movement, writing under the name of Teriade. -
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The Winning Post
The Winning Post
A framed double-page chromolithograph for Vanity Fair by LIB, Liberio Presperi, showing a field of champion jockeys of the late 19th century. Pictured on horseback are the Derby Winners John Osborne Jr (1869), Fred Webb (1873) Tom Cannon (1882), George Barrett (1891), and Fred Barrett (1888). 5 time Derby winner John ‘Jack’ Watts is also pictured alongside Oaks and St Leger William Robinson (1888) and later Ascot gold Cup winner, Fred Rickaby (1901). -
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The Hunt Breakfast at the Three Pigeons
The Hunt Breakfast at the Three Pigeons
By Cecil Aldin, 1899, original chromolithograph in birds eye maple frame. ‘The Hunt Breakfast at the Three Pigeons’, the first in Aldin’s Fallowfield Hunt set of 1899, shows a body of huntsman roused from their rustic breakfast at a country Inn by the sound of the huntsmans horn. -
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Mid century styled wall mirror
Mid century styled wall mirror
The gilded frame of pleasing form, which can be hung either landscape or portrait. -
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Large late nineteenth century medallion Oushak carpet,
Large late nineteenth century medallion Oushak carpet,
with well-drawn open design in dark and pale blues on the brown ground, the border in contrasting colours with repeating flowerheads. Cleaned and ready to lay.