Exploration and Travel with the Polar Sale
Catalog Information: 177 lots | 127 with images
Lot 1: THE NEW WORLD
THE NEW WORLD A coconut cup-and-cover, the cup carved with three scenes from the New World: a European hunting with a dog in the jungle; a European making music; and a dog taking down his preythe cup carved in three panels, brass mounted with brass b [...more]
Lot 2: SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S VIRGINIA
SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S VIRGINIA A coconut carved with depictions of the North Carolina Algonquins, after the original watercolours by John White, the images including a festive dance, their idol Kiwasa, a wife of a 'werowance' or chief of Pomeiooc carr [...more]
Lot 3: Marc Ferrez (1843-1923)
Marc Ferrez (1843-1923) Brazil an album containing 68 photographs, mounted on card leaves, several with photographer's credit in the plate, 36 titled in the platealbumen prints 8 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (21.2 x 27cm.) and smaller oblong 2° album, contemporar [...more]
Lot 4: ESTEBAN GONNET (1830-1868)
ESTEBAN GONNET (1830-1868)Recuerdos de Buenos-Ayres [And:] Recuerdos de la Campana de Buenos-Ayres. [Buenos Aires: 1864]. 2 volumes, oblong 2° (344 x 247mm). 40 albumen prints, mostly in landscape format approx. 210 x 127mm, mounted, together with 9 [...more]
Lot 5: Franz Josef Frühbeck (b.1795)
Franz Josef Frühbeck (b.1795) Botafogo Bay looking across to the Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro pencil and tempera on paperunframed5½ x 8 3/8in. (14 x 21.3cm.)
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