Marble Bookends

Introducing a truly luxurious addition to your personal library - a stunning pair of hand-carved marble bookends from the artisanal experts at b...

Beautiful pair of vintage Italian marble bookends, circa 1970s. In the style of Sergio Asti. Stone is beautifully veined and in great c...

A pair of stunning organic modern bookends crafted out of pink natural marble featuring a beautiful design making them a perfect addition to a home or office space. Ettore Sottsass a...

Art Deco nickel-plated bird bookends. Streamlined yet rectilinear, these abstract pair of Deco birds are the perfect compliment to any bookcase or desk. ...

Antique brass orrery planetarium made for the German market by Jan Felkl Prag in the second half of the nineteenth century. Cast iron base, papier mâché´ globe, with detailed territorial map and oceanic currents. Very good condition. Measures: Length 75 cm - 29.5 inch, height 48 cm - 18.8 inch, width 28 cm - 11 inch. Shipping in insured by Lloyd's London and the gift box is free (look at the last picture). Jan Felkl (1817-1878) was born in Bohemia and already in 1840 he had designed some globes in 6 different sizes. During the following 20 years he became the biggest maker of globes in market Austro-Hungarian, making terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 different languages, lunar globes and planetaria. Felkl showed his globes at international fairs in 1867 in Paris and in 1873 in Vienna. He established his Geographic and lithographic Institute in Prague for Making globes and maps. In 1870 he moved his factory from Prague to Roztok and his youngest son became his partner in the firm now named Felkl & Son, making globes and selling them all over the Europe and also in the Usa. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London; our gift box is free (look at the last picture). The orrery is the most detailed and complex representation of the cosmos and in addition to the movement of stars,it includes movement of the sun, moon and planets, like a giant clock mechanism. Among these devices one of the oldest was an orrery by Archimedes, which Cicero speaks widely in Tusculanae Disputationes I, 63: when Roman troops sacked Syracuse in 212 BC, the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus in Rome brought the instrument of Archimedes, who, thanks to his ability and divine intelligence that he possessed, had managed to generate the motions of planets, each so different, from a single rotation.
Because of heliocentric system theorized by Copernicus, it was possible to create mechanical antique orreries...

White marble home decor. These bookends are made from hand cut white marble from Mexico. Each piece is carved from a solid block of marble and has...

Oggetti Italian marble bookends. Brilliant veining throughout. Signed. Small chip on bottom of one (please refer to photos). Please note they are slightly different in height. One st...

Hand-cast concrete / Gypsum cement / Mica and natural pigments / Handmade in Oakland. Measures: 5” x 4.5" 9" tall 5.8lbs/7.8lbs (Total 13.6 lbs) Sold in sets of 2. Each cast is handmade. As the concrete settles uniquely for each pour, no two are the same. While all of our pieces are made of high quality cement and durable when cared for properly, they are inherently delicate by design. Reminiscent of Primitive designs found throughout history, the Henge Book Ends speak to the early act of carving stone, which represented the first forms...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very nice and collectable antique field used Jones Brothers & Co of Wolverhampton LTD Steel boots case with an original engraved plaque for J ...

Beautiful pair of postmodern marble bookends from Italy. These sizeable pieces of marble are captivating as they are commanding. The veining that develops on the green marble with gr...

A large and extremely rare 24-inch terrestrial globe by Newton Our most magnificent and rare globes were a pair of 24-inch Newton globes. These too were updated in 1852 (terre...

A fine pair of 15 inch floor globes by J & G Cary, dated 1820 and 1833, each set into a mahogany stand with a vase shaped support and three legs centred on a compass, one with a labe...