Manuscripts and Letters
75 items found
Robert Mertens at work: a revealing manuscript
Robert Mertens handwritten concept of a paper on snakes
Robert Mertens's handwritten draft on a mysterious snake
Robert Mertens at work: thoughts on snakes
Robert Mertens at work: a revealing Robert Mertens pondering on Oligodon
Mertens, R.
[Original manuscript on the variability of the striped kukri snake, Oligodon octolineatus (Schneider)].
[Frankfurt am Main, 1969]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of 23 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm), a photocopy of a single leaf of G. A. Boulenger's Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, volume II (1894) with a few annotations by Mertens; and another 14 leaves of several sizes, a few with printed text.
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€275.00
America versus Europe: the battle of the oysters
On whales and shells
Powerful images of Mongolian horsemen, hunting
[Original drawings]
Mongolian horsemen with falcons, cats and rabbits. [Eight original paintings on silk].
Mongolia, mid to late 19th to early 20th century. Oblong (27 x 35 cm). Eight paintings on silk, each mounted on large, iridescent silk sheets, and framed behind glass. Early to mid-20th century black varnished, bevelled wooden frames, each measuring 38.0 x 47.5 cm.
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€1,500.00
What species of cowry is this?
Beautiful, original artwork for theatre costumes
Various aspects of the versatile Justin Poirier
A fantastic, large, original aquarelle by Jean Gabriel Prêtre
