Carved wood coffee table. Legs as winged female figures. Marbled black marble to…

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Carved wood coffee table. Legs as winged female figures. Marbled black marble top. 20th century. 47x55x115cm

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Carved wood coffee table. Legs as winged female figures. Marbled black marble top. 20th century. 47x55x115cm

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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. 50 - 80 EUR

Carl Maria von Weber, Oberon, or the Elf King's Oath, The Popular Romantic and Fairy Opera as Performed with great Success at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, The Poetry by J.R. Planché, Esqre. Composed & Arranged, with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte [parts 1, 2, 3]. London, The Royal Harmonic Institution Argyll Rooms, 1826. In-folio, 197p, intermediate title pages not included. First edition of this opera, here in a piano arrangement. Premiered on April 12, 1826 at Covent Garden, this opera was a great success. Meyer died having only glimpsed this success, on June 5, 1826, while writing a German adaptation. Contemporary half-basane, smooth spine, false nerves with gilding, speckled edges. Board edges worn, binding rubbed, pages sometimes slightly browned with ink, small marginal wetness on last 5 leaves. Uncommon.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Mid Century Modern Widdecomb Teak Tile Top Coffee Table MCM coffee table with glass tile top in the tones of red. Light wood frame with bottom shelf standing on 4 round legs. H: 22 W: 29.5 D: 29.5 Conditions: Some wobble to the legs and scratches to the surface. Overall, fair condition.

Estim. 700 - 1 400 EUR

so-called trumpeter clock, Black Forest around1910/20, richly carved front (similar to cuckoo clock), orig. top, partly old worm infestation, at oak leaf and four antler tips replaced, bezel as a large French horn, horn hands partly carved, numerals in seconds, at the half-hour call a soldier comes out from behind the double doors (right hand with trumpet is missing), while he blows on three tin trumpets of different keys via bellows, skeleton. Brass plate movement according to: G.H.S. (Gordian Hettich & son, Furtwangen), hook gear, drive via two chains and pine cone weights, height approx. 75cm, condition of movement/housing 3

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