448
(BOOKPLATES - EX LIBRIS.)
Fine group of over 330 bookplates from
the Golden Age of plate design,
most from Germany or German speaking areas, most
proofs, various sizes small to large; many signed by the artist (C. Hoffmann, Paul Levi,
Georg Jilovsky, E. M. Geyger, Karl Michel, Richard Lux, K. Kopar, and others). about half
mounted along top edge into an album, remaining loose. Includes minor duplication.
Principally Germany, 1910s-20s
[500/750]
449
(BUFFALO BILL.)
Souvenir program sold at performances of The Wild
West Show.
Illustrated throughout. Small 4to, color pictorial wrappers with portrait of
Buffalo Bill on front cover and ad for Sen Sen Gum on rear; one ad leaf defective along
fore-edge. Np, first decade 20th century?
[200/300]
450
(CHINESE ADVERTISING.)
Group of 6 colorful ads picturing pretty
Chinese women.
Various sizes, 29x11 inches being the smallest and 30x19
1
/
2
inches being
the largest. AdvertisingVictory Cigarettes,Toilet Soap, and other products.
China, 1930s
[200/300]
451
(CHRISTMAS GREETING.)
Elaborate 18th century Christmas sentiment,
with an intricate pen-and-ink drawing occupying about a third of a folio sheet, and
showing the Nativity, the adoration of the magi, shepherds in the field, with a background
composed of rolling hills and castles. On folio sheet; with integral address leaf addressed
to the Lord Francesco Damiani. Prague, 15 December 1757
[500/750]
Written in Italian by Reginaldo Bullisso of Prague to Francesco Damiani, Administrator
General of the Roman Catholic Camera del Lotto inVienna. English translation of the body
of the greeting available on request.
451
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