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'.

Count J de Maistre - De L'Eglise Gallicane - Lyon, 1854, cloth binding with gold block titling to spine, 358 pp; with 'Ex Libris de Charencey' bookplate to inside cover. 491 grams, 21.6 x 14 cm



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Bénédict-Henry Révoil - Tours, 1886, hardback with cloth covers, gilt edging, 286 pp. 1.43 kg, 29.7 x 21.5 cm



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Edward A. Samuels - Boston, 1870, hardback with cloth covers, 591 pp, 8 plates. 1.22 kg, 24.2 x 16 cm



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Roger Vercel (illustrations by André Collot) - Paris, 1947, test print on laid paper, 244 pp; hand-tinted illustrations, loose leaf format in paper covers with slipcase; number 291 of 500. 1.33 kg, 29 x 23 cm



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J. Girardin - Paris, 1888 (2nd edition), hardback with cloth covers, 191 pp; French text; boards loose. 612 grams, 23 x 14.5 cm



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Lucien Jonas - Reproduction of the field sketchbook of Jonas subtitled 'Armée Anglaise Juin 1915' (British Army, June 1915) with studies of Sir John French, Douglas Haig, Brigadier Maurice, General Lambton and other officers, many with a location; inside front cover with listing of British and Indian regimental officers; inside back cover with list of Interpreters, French and Belgian mission officers, studies of Ypres (2) and the Pas de Calais; hardback with cloth covers (partly detached)' publisher's note to inside back cover (in French) stating that this sketchbook by the painter Jonas, who was attached to the Musée de l' Armée, has been reproduced in facsimile through Librarie Dorbon-Ainé in Paris; this volume is one of 200 monochrome offprints; with artist's manuscript initials. 799 grams, 32.2 x 24.2 cm



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Unique first-hand study of the British Army in the early stages of the First World war.

A. Hugo - Paris, 1835, marbled boards with cloth bindings, Vol 1: France, historical and geographical description and development, military and commercial history, etc. Vol.3: départements from Puy-de-Dome to Yonne, and the overseas possessions (Algiers, to Madagascar); vol.1 covers partly detached. 2.68 kg total, 28 x 19.5 cm



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L. Le Leu - Tournai, 1899, hardback with moulded cloth covers, 176 pp; spine and boards partly detached. 796 grams, 27 x 18 cm



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Goethe - Faust (in French translation) - Paris, 1847, hardback with cloth covers, gilding to edges, 373 pp. 1.17 kg, 27.5 x 19 cm



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M.B. (trans.) - Limoges, 1836, hardback with moulded boards, 228 pp. 200 grams, 17.5 x 10.6 cm



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Paris, 1725, full calf binding with marbled endpapers, 681 pp, 1 foldout plate; one board partly detached. 1.65 kg, 26 x 20.5 cm



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J. Josephus Overbeck - Oxford, 1865, hardback with cloth covers, 424 pp; English preface and list of contents, text in Syriac script; spine and covers damaged. 947 grams, 24 x 15.5 cm



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