from Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books

Paris,: La Médecine Populaire,, 1881.. A very nice wood-engraving of a Chinese opium den and opium smokers. Picture size: 22 x 18 cm., sheet size: 30 x 21 cm. Being the title page of La Médecine Populaire, issue 30, 1881. With letterpress at recto and verso. Added is a clipping with explanatory text to this illustration.

's Gravenhage,: S. Lankhout & Co., ca. 1879.. A fine lithograph after the oil painting by Th. L. Mesker. 17 x 22 cm. The family Blok, and especially Josef Blok (1732-1905), were wellknown antiquarian booksellers in The Hague. Josef was sketched by Vincent van Gogh in Novermber 1881, and in the authum of 1892, Josef organized some lectures of… Read more

Paris,: LMP.,, 1880.. Each wood-engraving is 14,5 x 21 cm., sheet size is 20 x 28 cm.

Paris,: Masson,, (ca. 1920).. Published as a postcard (9 x 14 cm).

(ca 1840).. 20 x 26 cm. No captions, just a figure (76) in the upper right corner, indicating this illustrations was separated from a book.

Paris,, (ca. 1895).. 20 x 56 cm. A fine coloured lithography of the famous comedian A. Guyon. The lithograhic work was done by G. Baitaille of Paris. -- (Partly some light spots; repaired tear in the middle, right across the width) Very decorative.