Striking original portrait of the French actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionary. Oil on paper, ca. 1780. 12.5 x 16 inches (31.7 x 40.7 cm), framed in an antique wooden frame to an overall size of 17.5 x 19 inches. Unsigned, the subject identified in pencil on the reverse. Read More...
Chilling large photograph of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, seated in two rows and guarded by American military police. Signed on the mount at the lower right by photographer Ray D'Addario. Together with a typed letter signed from D'Addario (1 p., November 14, 1990), sending a typed list of the defendants in seated order (also included.) Visible in the front row are (left to right): Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht; and in the back row (left to right): Karl Doenitz, Erich Rader, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Syess-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche. Read More...
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Hugo, Victor. (1802–1885). "Actes et paroles II: Pendant l'exil" - INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SECRETARY
Paris: Calmann Lévy. 1880. Dixieme edition. Second volume in the Actes et paroles collection, subtitled Pendant l'exil,' ("During Exile"), inscribed on the half title by the author to his personal secretary Richard Lesclide. 8vo. 536 pp., half red leather with five raised bands over red marbled boards, original wrappers support backed and bound in with light chipping to edges, scattered foxing throughout, else in fine condition. Read More...
Gotha: Chez Justus Perthes. 1837. First Edition. Inscribed "To the Queen/from her grateful + affect[tionate] Adel[k?]chen / July 6. 1837." Publisher's red cloth gilt with the armorial crest of Ferdinand I of Austria. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (11 x 7.5 cm); vi, [48], 290, 92, [2] pp., with engraved portraits, pages edged in gilt. Light wear, overall fine. Read More...
An ornamental music folder, boards covered in gold velvet, the front board decorated with four brass corner ornaments each inlaid with multi-color cloisonné, surrounding an elaborate and large central decoration in brass and detailed cloisonné with a raised image of a lyre at the center. 14.25 x 11.25x .5 inches. From the collection of King Farouk of Egypt, sold originally at the 1988 Oakland Galleries auction of the J.W. Menhall Estate, including items from the King Farouk Collection, and sold here with a copy of the sale catalogue in which the folder is illustrated. Read More...
Vintage 10 x 8 inch news press photograph, ca. 1920. The verso with various stamps and the original press stub reading "Stalin, although generally regarded at the present moment as the leading light in the Soviet, is not averse to mixing with the 'Comrades' occasionally. Here he is in Moscow, in Center, dressed in a White Shirt, and smoking his pipe, posing with some of the 'Boy Friends' for his photograph!" Corners chipped, else fine.
Engraving of the Italian cleric and puritanical reformer, shown as a larger-than-life figure towering over Florence, with tiny citizens and a pyre in the foreground. At upper left: I. Deel. At upper right, partially scratched out: [Pag.?] 453. Light toning and a few large spots of foxing at the edges; overall very good. 6.75 x 11 inches (17.3 x 28.5 cm). Read More...
Anonymous uniface portrait medal, facing left in monastic hood and gown, inscribed F · HIERONYMVS SAVONAROLA ORDINIS PRAEDICAT ("Friar Hieronymous Savonarola of the Order of Preachers"). 3.3 inch (8 cm.) diameter. With a hanging loop welded to the reverse. Very fine. Read More...