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Pair of Antique Books Dating from the 19th Century France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of antique books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Books

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Paper

Pair of Antique Books Dating from the 19th Century France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of antique books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in
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Antique Late 19th Century French Books

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Paper

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, 1887
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues: And
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Antique 1880s English Late Victorian Books

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Leather, Paper

The Holy Bible, Standard Edition, Illustrated Family Bible, 1885
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
The “Standard” Edition of The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha
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Antique 1880s American Late Victorian Books

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Leather, Paper

Old Print of Univalve 'Gastropod' Species; Ear Shells, Limpets, Etc., 1787
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Univalves'. Old print of various Univalve (Gastropod) species; Ear shells
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Antique 1780s Prints

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Paper

Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688) Biblical episodes, 3 original drawings
By Joachim von Sandrart
Located in Paris, FR
originated from Mons/Bergen. According to his dictionary of art called the Teutsche Academie, he learned to
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1640s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

19th Century English Olivewood and Brass Inlaid Cabinet
By Town & Emanuel
Located in London, GB
Luxury Market. ACC Art Books, 2023, pp. 38-39 (illus. fig. 1.33). Town and Emanuel Recorded in the
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Antique 19th Century English Regency Cabinets

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Marble, Brass

EXQUISITE A J STICKS SIGNED SMALL OIL PAINTING FRAME BY S L NIELSEN SEA & CLIFFs
Located in GB
that old "going back in time" effect you saw in books and movies when they were looking through a
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Antique 1880s English Victorian Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Gilt Bronze Paper Cut - Maurice Frécourt - Period: Early 20th Century
By Maurice Frecourt
Located in CRÉTEIL, FR
pages of old books, but its most common use is to open letters or envelopes. Elegant on your desk, or
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20th Century French Other Letter Openers

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Bronze

Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen
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1930s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

19th Century English Leather Bound and Gilt Holy Bible by John Brown Dated 1864
Located in Dallas, TX
numerous additional notes by the Reverend Henry Cooke, the Holy book contains the Old and New Testaments
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Antique Mid-19th Century British Religious Items

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Leather, Paper

"Road Builder" 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Bronze WPA Depression-Era Sculpture
By Max Kalish
Located in New York, NY
youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place
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1920s American Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

'Ginger Cat with Still Life', American Modernist, WPA Muralist, SFAA, GGIE, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
accomplished, mid-century work painted when the artist was forty-six years old. Jay Risling was born in
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1940s Modern Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique 1755 Copperplate Engraving Westminster Bridge Lambeth Survey of London
Located in Dayton, OH
1742 Fourdrinier produced a series of books consisting of numerous folding charts showing "The
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Antique Mid-18th Century British Colonial Prints

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Paper

Mo'jam
By Farah Khelil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Khelil (b. 1980) explored his library and found an old family dictionary in Arabic (Mo'jam Arabia), at
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mo'jam
Mo'jam
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River Bure, Norfolk. East Anglia. English Rural Landscape. Tugboat and Barges.
By Rowland Hilder
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Times illustrators award. He illustrated several other books, including Moby Dick. In 1929 he was
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Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Barge Toiler -Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Plaster Depression-Era Sculpture
By Max Kalish
Located in New York, NY
the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the
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1930s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster

Dog sat amongst Roses, original oil on canvas, Victorian British artist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
hundred years old, by the English Artist Stanley Berkeley (1855–1909). Berkeley was an English
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19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Fairlawn, OH
: "Third State" lower left Printed on a sheet of old book paper From: French Church Series No. 28 Condition
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1920s American Realist Landscape Prints

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Etching

ORIGiNAL 1643 THE TWELVE MONTHS OF THE YEAR AFTER JOACHIM VON SANDART THE ELDER
Located in GB
that will never come up for sale again, dating to 1643 they are 381 years old, the copper engraving
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Antique 1640s European Charles II Decorative Art

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Paper

18th century pastel portrait of a young boy in a wooded landscape
By Arthur Pond
Located in Bath, Somerset
, and art theorist, whose books were published by John and Paul Knapton. Pond's subsequent career in the
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18th Century English School Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

Harmony, 20th century bronze & green marble base, nude man and woman with lyre
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen
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1930s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

"Summer Day at the Beach" Oil Painting Scene with Figures, Umbrellas & Boats
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
. The old, white church, Holland’s beaches, and dunes, bulb fields, city scenes in Amsterdam and
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Signed Edwin Austin Abbey oil painting of the Virgin and Child with saints
By Edwin Austin Abbey
Located in Larchmont, NY
ripe old age of 24, a wily veteran at the princely sum of $50 a week (more than three times his 1871
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Colorado Mine, 1940s WPA Modern Mountain Landscape Oil Painting, 18 x 24 inches
By Paul Kauvar Smith
Located in Denver, CO
Colorado landscape with an old mine building, trestle, mountains and dark stormy sky, vintage circa
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Haven van Muiden" Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures and Boats at Marina
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
adulthood. The old, white church, Holland’s beaches, and dunes, bulb fields, city scenes in Amsterdam and
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"View of Venice" Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures and Boats along Venice
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
books about him are available. He is one of the few contemporary artists listed in Benezit Dictionary of
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"A Day at the Beach" Impressionist Scene with Sail Boats and Figures Painting
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
adulthood. The old, white church, Holland’s beaches, and dunes, bulb fields, city scenes in Amsterdam and
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

'Springtime Evening', New York, Metropolitan Museum, American Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
(Flecks of Foam), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (An Old Church at Montreuil) and New York's
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1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Artist Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
books such as the International Dictionary of Naive Art and Moments in Jewish Life: The Folk Art of
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
also appeared in books such as the International Dictionary of Naive Art and Moments in Jewish Life
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
also appeared in books such as the International Dictionary of Naive Art and Moments in Jewish Life
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Wine & Cigarettes Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
books such as the International Dictionary of Naive Art and Moments in Jewish Life: The Folk Art of
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Mod Bull Jewish Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
number of gallery shows. Her work also appeared in books such as the International Dictionary of Naive
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1980s Folk Art Animal Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Sports Basketball Arena Coca Cola Sign
Located in Surfside, FL
. Zeldis finally resumed painting twenty-three years later, as her children grew older and her marriage
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Artist Circus Fire Eater, Tiger
Located in Surfside, FL
finally resumed painting twenty-three years later, as her children grew older and her marriage ended. She
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Moses Bible Painting Self Taught Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
books such as the International Dictionary of Naive Art and Moments in Jewish Life: The Folk Art of
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting King David Self Taught Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
finally resumed painting twenty-three years later, as her children grew older and her marriage ended. She
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

18th Century Marble Mantelpiece Designed by Isaac Ware for Chesterfield House
By Isaac Ware
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Inigo Jones and Others’ (1731 and 1743) and a scholarly translation of Palladio’s ‘Four books of
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Antique Mid-18th Century English Palladian Fireplaces and Mantels

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Statuary Marble

Large Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Oil Painting Jazz Great "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong
Located in Surfside, FL
number of gallery shows. Her work also appeared in books such as the International Dictionary of Naive
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1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Louvre, Bronze after P. Julien Executed from a Marble Ordered by Marie-Antoinette
Located in Paris, FR
several books and catalogues, including The exhibition catalogue. Gilles Grandjean and Guilhem Scherf
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19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

circa 1845 C Hindley & Sons Lion Carved Chesterfield Brown Leather Dining Chairs
By Charles Hindley & Sons, Chesterfield
Located in GB
archival material?including inventory and day books is held in the City of Westminster Archives Centre (M
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Antique 1840s English Early Victorian Dining Room Chairs

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Leather, Hardwood

At the Spring
By Joshua Shaw
Located in New York, NY
, until 1841. (Although Shaw is regularly mentioned and frequently illustrated in a host of general books
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19th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Set of 7 Leather Bound Dutch Dictionaries
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
Dutch title, “Middel en Oudnederland Woordenboek”, translates to “Middle and Old Netherlands Dictionary
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Antique 19th Century Dutch Other Books

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Leather, Paper

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Illustrated, 1882
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of The Original Tongues, with
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Antique 1880s Canadian Books

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Leather, Paper

Antique Victorian Family Bible c.1850 Leather Bound
Located in London, GB
Bible is leather bound, enriched with gilded decoration and contains the Old and New Testaments with
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Antique 1850s Books

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Leather

Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible by the Rev. John Brown, Illustrated, 1890
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Haddington. He wrote numerous works on the bible, including "The Dictionary of the Bible," "A General History
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Antique 1890s American Baroque Revival Books

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Leather, Paper

Antique French Leather Secret Compartment Books Box
Located in Dallas, TX
top of each other. The top three books are Latin-French dictionaries entitled Dictionaire de Trevoux
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Antique 19th Century French Decorative Boxes

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Leather, Paper

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Illustrated, 1885
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of The Original Tongues, and
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Antique 1880s American Gothic Revival Religious Items

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Leather, Paper

17th century English portrait of a boy with his dog in an arcadian landscape
By Willem Wissing
Located in Bath, Somerset
Studio'), purchased by H. Goldman. Sotheby's New York, Old Master Paintings, November 11 1991, lot 48, as
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

18th century English Portrait Painting of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland
By Sir Martin Archer Shee
Located in Bath, Somerset
March 1990, lot 68 Old Hall Gallery Ltd, Iden, Rye, Sussex (according to label on reverse) Anne (née
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job
By William Blake
Located in New York, NY
65 copies on French paper. After Blake's illuminated books, the Illustrations of the Book of Job
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Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Prints

Julien Le Blant Military Oil Painting on Panel of Soldiers
Located in Shippensburg, PA
appear positively weary with exhaustion, dirty and sweating from the heat as the older gentleman digests
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Antique 19th Century French Romantic Paintings

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Panel

“The Toy Seller” (1874) Antique Oil Painting by Fritz Beinke (German, 1842-1907
Located in Shippensburg, PA
books tightly. Behind the salesman is a covered wagon that is likely filled with more colorful toys, his
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Antique 19th Century German Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

"A FEW MORE STEPS" GRANVILLE BRUCE TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE OIL
By Granville Bruce
Located in San Antonio, TX
Medium: Oil "Headed Home" Old Mexico Biography Granville Bruce (1903 - 1989) Known best for his later
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

English 17th century portrait of a young girl in a landscape with a lamb
By John Closterman
Located in Bath, Somerset
Osnabruck in Northern Germany and was the son of a painter (according to Vertue, Note books, 1.44), perhaps
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17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Place Du Tertre" Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures in Parisian Village
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
into his early adulthood. The old, white church, Holland’s beaches, and dunes, bulb fields, city scenes
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Three Hunting Drawings
By Hablot Knight Browne
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
11 June 1815, as does the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and 15 June 1815 (Dictionary of
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Late 19th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Antique Edwardian Mahogany Marquetry Bookcase c.1900
Located in London, GB
book shelves are adjustable so you can easily fit books of differing sizes. The bottom half is
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Early 20th Century English Bookcases

"ROLLING HILLS" LARGE PIECE 40" x 48" ORIGINALLY FROM HIS DAUGHTERS COLLECTION
By Birger Sandzen
Located in San Antonio, TX
art books for the library, the financing of exhibitions, and the occasional awarding of a scholarship
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

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