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A group of First Day Covers.

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A group of First Day Covers.

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Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 GBP

CÉSAR LÓPEZ OSORNIO (La Plata, Argentina, 1930-2015). Untitled, from the series "Floating Suns", 1995. Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. With stamp on the back of the Galería Maria José Castellví, Barcelona. Size: 40 x 40 cm. Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of La Plata, in 1960, César López Osornio received a scholarship to study in Japan for three years. There he learned Asian arts, oriental arts and landscape architecture, studied Zen philosophy and spent 45 days in a Buddhist temple. On his return, César López Osornio became a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in La Plata, as well as at the Faculty of Architecture of the Catholic University in the same city. In 1975, he travelled through Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, reflecting on the possibility of bringing together all Latin American artists. As a result of this idea, he held a first exhibition of these painters in Europe in 1992. Subsequently, in 1999, he founded the MACLA Museum of Contemporary Latin American Artists in Argentina. His work, which is classified as free geometry, does not adhere to a single movement, but is related to the Parisian Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, as well as to the concepts of severity and rationality. López Osornio has participated in more than 300 solo and group exhibitions in his native country and around the world. He also exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Argentina, Venezuela, Japan, Colombia, France, Puerto Rico, Spain, Bulgaria, Bratislava and Italy, and produced works as a muralist, designer and landscape architect.

Estim. 200 - 400 GBP

Lauren Bacall (7) Signed Items

Estim. 600 - 800 GBP

[OCCULTISM] Francis ROLT-WHEELER - Brahm's Day Published by Apostrophe, Villa Adonais, Nice, 1947 - Very fine set of three complete volumes of this extremely rare work on the occult and esoteric sciences. First edition only. This is the total of 60 typescript lessons distributed exclusively to members of the group run by Francis Rolt-Wheeler in Nice in the 30s and 50s. This is one of the last books written by British occultist and astrologer Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1876-1960), who left an important body of work, but always reserved for a circle of initiates. All the author's publications are particularly sought-after, as they are printed in very small numbers and are of great interest in terms of content. Our copy is numbered on volumes 1 and 3, and signed in the author's hand. Bound in red half-percaline (first two volumes) and burgundy (last volume), the whole is coherent and uniform. Titles and author in gilt lettering on spines, with gilt fillets. All in excellent condition, interiors perfect, minor rubbing to bindings, only slightly visible. The breakdown is as follows: Volume 1: Cosmic Origins Volume 2: The Soul of the World Volume 3: Cycles of Return In-4, unnumbered pages (volume 1 XX lessons, volume 2 XX lessons, volume 3 XX lessons), each page printed on one side only.

Estim. 6 500 - 7 500 GBP

[The Boys of Via Panisperna]. Significant set of autographs of the group of scientists who changed nuclear physics studies forever in the 1930s. The lot is headed by a beautiful autograph letter from Enrico Fermi, 2 pages in 4°, on letterhead of the Institute of Physics in Via Panisperna, 'Rome, April 24, 1929 VII'. Two business cards follow, one with dedication and autograph signature by Bruno Pontecorvo and the other by Emilio Segrè. Accompanying the lot is an envelope franked on the first day of issue of the commemorative stamp issued Dec. 2, 1967 with the autograph signatures of Edoardo Amaldi, Oscar D'Agostino and Franco Rasetti. Beautiful set, today preserved in Plexiglas case.

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