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1920/30s, 108x95x32 cm., wood, brass, mirrored glass an…

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Italian manufacture 1920/30s, 108x95x32 cm., wood, brass, mirrored glass and faux leather, bar cabinet, slight wears

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Italian manufacture 1920/30s, 108x95x32 cm., wood, brass, mirrored glass and faux leather, bar cabinet, slight wears

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Estim. 130 - 300 EUR

DUBOIS (Alphonse): Synopsis avium. New ornithology manual. Bruxelles, H. Lamertin, 1902-1904. 2 parts in 2 volumes. 18 by 28 cm. Continuous pagination of XV-(1)-1339 pages + 16 color plates + IX-(1) pp. (faux-titre, title, afterword and table). Contemporary half-percaline bradel, red basane titles on spines, covers preserved. Delivery plates (17 in all) are bound at the end of each volume. The two general covers and their spines have also been preserved. Very good condition (two corner leaves restored, without missing, at the end of volume 2). Important work for determining all known birds, by Belgian naturalist A. Dubois (1839-1920). It is illustrated with 16 beautiful color hors-texte plates, based on the author's drawings, depicting different kinds of birds. Fasc. XV and XVI-XVII contain "tables of genera" and "alphabetical tables of species and systematic tables of orders and families". C.A. Wood, An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology, p. 325.

Estim. 200 - 250 EUR

OPERA - ARIMONDI Vittorio (1861 - 1928) - Cabinet-card photographic portrait with autograph dedication signed Cabinet-card photographic portrait with autograph dedication signed, dated “Lisbona 904” by the Italian bass singer. He made his debut in 1883 in Varese with D. J. Gomez's Guarany . He then began a career that took him from the minor Italian theaters, where he especially played the parts of Count Rodolfa in V. Bellini's Sonnambula , the king in Aida and Sparafucile in G. Verdi's Rigoletto. In 1893 he was cast at La Scala in Milan as Pistola for the first performance of Verdi's Falstaff. In New York, he sang at the Metropolitan in the 1895-1896 season and at the Manhattan in the years 1906 to 1910; in Chicago, he took part in the opera seasons from 1910-1911 to 1920. In the latter city he remained, after retiring from the stage, teaching singing at the Fine Arts Building and then at the Chicago Music College. (20 x 30 cm). - This item is under temporary import. If the item is delivered within the United Kingdom, it will be subject to a 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) on the hammer price.

Estim. 700 - 1 200 EUR

Freestanding clock with a circular dial in gilded bronze and engraved with floral reliefs, with Roman numerals in blue on white enamel and Arabic numerals on the outer edge, it has two holes for winding and striking. Movement with wire suspension and pendulum regulator; percussion ring with bronze bell, machine signed Gite Martinot aparis. Plinth case on four feet conical trunk, with side walls in glass and veneered wood and threaded in brass. Conditions: machine not tested, small flaws and defects in the cabinetry.

Estim. 700 - 1 050 EUR

Giovanni Salviati, Boote vor Venedig abendlicher Blick über die Lagune, vorbei ankerdenden Booten, auf die Silhouette der Insel San Giorgio Maggiore mit der gleichnamigen Benediktinerabtei, atmospheric, pastose, impressionistic painting with broad brushstrokes in warm-toned colours, oil on canvas and stretcher, c. 1920, signed lower right "G. Salviati", craquelure, old retouching, scratches, in need of restoration, unframed, dimensions approx. 47.5 x 80.5 cm. Artist information: Italian landscape and veduta painter (1881 Venice to 1950 Venice), studied at the Venice Academy under Gugliemo Ciardi, had exhibitions in Turin, Florence, Treviso, Verona, Bologna and Venice from 1907, active in Venice, source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Comanducci and Internet.

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