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Namur, Belgium, 1733. Ephemera. Very good condition. An unusual survival of an 18th century swindle and subsequent execution. The manuscript letter is written by Mme de Douglas to an unknown "Monsieur" from Namur (Belgium) dated early January 1733. Mme Douglas was the widow of one of two brothers who inherited their fathers' rich estate from the East Indies. Upon the brothers' death, in order to prevent the estate being distributed to the daughter of her brother in law, she paid a wet nurse and others to falsify testimony implying that the daughter was illegitimate. The daughter was imprisoned but later found to be not guilty, and the courts in Holland (Belgium) indicted Mme Douglas. Ultimately, "The verdict (was) that she be hanged, and that her 80 year old father be brought onto the scaffoled in order to watch the execution; and her 300,000 florin fortune is not sufficient to save her from her fate." [Translation of an article in "Kurz-gefaßter historischer Nachrichten zum Behuf der neuern… Read More

Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. A young woman dressed in black stands with her foot on the head of a dead bull while she wipes blood from the sword she holds. Image size varies on paper 11 1/4 x 15 1/2" with the blind stamp in the lower right corner.

Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. Two young women in a gondola put flowers on a light post. Image size varies on paper 11 1/4 x 15 1/2" with the blind stamp in the lower right corner.

Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. A young lady dancing. Image size varies on paper 11 1/4 x 15 1/2" with the blind stamp in the lower right corner.

Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. Picture of a cat watching a young woman sit and smoke a cigarette. Image size varies on paper 11 1/4 x 15 1/2" with the blind stamp in the lower right corner.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" that was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York May 4-July 31, 2011. Folio, 240pp, brown cloth covers with holographic on front, silver title on spine. Fine condition.

Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, 1965. Hardcover. Very good overall. A record of New South Wales and Tasmania in the 1830s & 1840's & later in Scotland. 8vo, 179pp, fold out house plan at back. Publishers orange boards fine and slt. rubbed dj.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 84.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 140.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 79.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 82.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 90.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 78.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 60.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 50.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 89.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 39.

London: J. Ridgway, 1829. Print. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 plus margins. Original copper engraving with period hand color, highlighted with gum arabic. The quality of prints from the Pomological Magazine is very fine, and it is difficult to obtain these days. The plates were drawn by Augusta Innes Withers (née Baker) (1793-1877), an English natural history illustrator. Plate 94.

London: Illustrated London News, 1872. Very good condition. Beautifully hand colored double spread woodcut from August 24, 1872 issue of London Illustrated News. Unsigned, but the style suggests Lucien Davis, showing ladies participating in an archery event. Dramatic central figure with her bow drawn, aiming her arrow to the right. Woodcut with later hand color, 19 x 12 1/4"

London: J.M. Dent, 1925. Hardcover. Very good. The Outward Bound Library, c1925. 242pp, F + 5 ills by John Goodchild, maps on ep. Blue cloth, dj, vgc. Absolon copy.