Watercolours Rare Books and Prints
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...
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Souvenirs d'Angleterre; Personnages.
Nineteenth century French School Album.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00An unusual and amusing album of period pencil and watercolour plates. The numerous plates depict furniture, street scenes including protests with ...
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[Original Artwork].
KNIGHT, Frank (illustrator).Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00A fine set of 37 original watercolours by Frank Knight for Joseph Forshaw's 2011 work, Vanished and Vanishing Parrots. The plates depict: Carolina...
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Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.
SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.Original price £195,000.00 - Original price £195,000.00Original price £0.00£195,000.00£195,000.00 - £195,000.00Current price £195,000.00Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...
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[A Group of Three Watercolours of Hyacinths].
LOO, Pieter van.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00Pieter Van Loo (or Loon), Haarlem 1731-1784, was a noted flower painter who spent the whole of his life in Haarlem. His paintings are sought after...
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[A Group of 10 Watercolours of Flowers & Butterflies.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...
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Costumes de Rome et de Naples.
RUSPI, Ercole.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00A Fine album of watercolours of Rome and Naples each signed by Ruspi.Ruspi trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome where he was active in the...
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Watercolour Album
[CHINA.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £25,000.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Chinese folk religion. A fine collection of Qing dynasty watercolours depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion, incorporating ele...
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White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.
REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £20,000.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00A beautiful watercolour on vellum by the greatest flower painter of all time.Belgian born Redouté (1759-1840) achieved success as a painter workin...
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Album of Botanical Watercolours.
DRUMMOND, Charlotte.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00A most attractive series of watercolours on vellum including a fine China rose.Album (31.5 x 39cm) containing 7 botanical watercolours on VELLUM, ...
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The Superb Lily.
EARLOM, Richard (1743-1822), after REINAGLE, Philip for THORNTON, Dr Robert.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00A fine early impression in the first state.Engraving with mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic. Good con...
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Le grand jaune de Tokay [and] La blanc doux bigarré.
[KIENER]Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £1,800.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00Original watercolours. This highly unusual and impressive pair of watercolours depict some yellow grapes from Tokay ( a region in Hungary) and some...
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The Quadrangular Passion Flower.
THORNTON, Dr Robert, HENDERSON & HOPWOODOriginal price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00A fine early impression in second state, strong fresh colouring, with complete margins.Original hand-coloured aquatint with stipple engraving.
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Royal Navy Master's logbook recording the tour of HMS Amazon
[RENAUD, Benjamin].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...
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Branch with Buds and Insect
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Branch with Flowers
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Branch with Flowers
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Fruit Tree with Insect
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Fruit Tree with Insect
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Lychee Tree
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Flower and Insect
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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Flowers
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...
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