Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

Nikos Kokkinos - London, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 530 pp; new. 974 grams, 24 x 16.2 cm



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Paul Lehugeur - Paris, 1887, cloth covers, 221 pp, gold blocking to edges; to inside cover, pasted label indicating the book having been awarded as a prize for handwriting in 1892. 539 grams, 22 x 14 cm



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The Palestine New Press - Jaffa, 1936, hardback with cloth covers; English and Arabic text. 429 grams, 35 x 25.5 cm



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Interesting social document covering the Arab reaction to the proposals for the establishment of a Jewish nation-state, including the acts of sabotage to railways, deployment of British troops, contemporary political cartoons, etc.

Albert Samain - Au Jardin de l'Infante / Le Chariot d'Or, Symphonie Heroique, Aux Flancs du Vase / Contes Polyphèmes - three volumes, each card covers in slip case - Paris, 1949, numbered set (No 1080 of 2200). 1.4 kg total, 21 x 14.5 cm each



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M. CH. Delaunay - 3rd edition - Paris, 1860, marbled board covers, leather spine with gold blocking, 644 pp. 608 grams, 18 x 12 cm



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Jean-Luc Baroni - Colnaghi Master Drawing Catalogue - New York, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 57 plates, supporting text; Eike Markau - Ars Antique Frankfurt Kunst und Antiquitäten - Frankfurt, 1993, hardback, 234 pp; Sergei Vassev - Stoil Mirchev - Sofia, n.d., card covers, 22 plates; Grusenmey & Grusenmeyer - Antique Fair Brussel 17 trade cards in slip; Ivo Krek - Tizian - Prague, 1976. hardback with dustwrapper, 83 pp. 2.74 kg total, 22.5 x 16 - 30.5 x 21.5 cm



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Manhattan Postcard Co. - New York, 1915, card covers, 54 pp.; repaired. 384 grams, 32.5 x 25.5 cm



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Sepia-coloured scenes from New York in the early 20th century.

B. Allent - Paris, 1842, Seventh Edition, cloth covers, 290 pp. 249 grams, 18 x 11.5 cm



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Elbert E. Farman - New York 1908, hardback with dustwrapper, 348 pp (mostly uncut) in slipcase. 959 grams, 22.5 x 15.5 cm



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Willis Gaylord Clark - Philadelphia, 1836, hardback with relief moulding, 72 pp, hand-tinted engravings. 859 grams, 28.3 x 22.5 cm



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Amédée Guillemin - Le Monde Physique: La Pesanteur et La Gravitation Universelle: Le Son - Paris, 1881, hardback, cloth cover, gilt fore-edge, 871 pp; spine torn. 2.51 kg, 28 x 19.2 cm



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Jesse Edgar Middleton - Subtitled 'A Canadian Book of Songs' - New York, 1918, cloth covers, 104pp. 324 grams, 20 x 14 cm



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