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A mid 18th Century English oak drop side table of small proportions. The oval dropside top above a slight shaped frieze resting on four turned tapered legs terminating on pad feet

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition, Elcstatt's folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition, Elcstatt's folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition, Elcstatt's folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition, Elcstatt's folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus Hendrik Draakestein Amsterdam 1686 The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving. 64 cm x 72 cm

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus Hendrik Draakestein Amsterdam 1686 The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving. 62 cm x 75 cm

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus Hendrik Draakestein Amsterdam 1686 The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving. 62 cm x 75 cm

Two of 12 original lithographs printed in colours 1925. Each signed in pencil. From the edition of 300. Issued by Gustave Pellet paris 1925 signed, dated, dedicated by Vertes in pencil. Excellent strong fresh impressions with unfaded colours. On pale cream ware paper. If Lautrec and Steinlen were the chronicles of society night-life in the 1890's so then was Vertes the archetypal artiste-rapporteur of the era of the 1920's. At this period, his drawing had a wit and style which ideally reflects that era, both its panache and its excesses. These colour lithographs, commissioned by Pellet, who had issued Lautrec's Elle's scenes of lithograps in the 1890's includes what are probably Vertes finest prints. It is extremely rare to have a complete set of Vertes Les Dancing prints.