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2020

Galerie Stylo

K. Riehl, Naturhistorische Ausstellung, Zoologische und ethnographische Sammlung meiner 10-jährigen Weltreise, Emil Weiske.

Lithographed poster in colours, ca. 1912, printed by Otto Dibbern & Sperling, Leipzig. 107 x 78 cm.
Emil Weiske (1867, Dolsenhain bei Altenburg – 1950, Saalfeld) was a German naturalist and professional collector of insects and birds. He emigrated to California in 1890 and to Hawaii in 1892. He made expeditions to the Fiji Islands in 1894 and to New Zealand and Australia in 1895. He became a professional collector in New Guinea dealing especially in birds of paradise (1895 -1900). Later expeditions were to Northeast Siberia, Lake Baikal and North-Mongolia (1908) and then to Patagonia (mainly to the Rio Negro und Limay) and Paraguay (mainly) Concepcion (1911). His collections were mostly birds, mammals, molluscs, reptiles and amphibiens, beetles, butterflies, herbaria and ethnological artefacts. His associates were, among others George Meyer-Darcis, Carl Ribbe, Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt, the Otto Staudinger Staudinger & Bang-Haas dealership Walter Rothschild and Henley Grose-Smith. He maintained a private museum in Saalfeld where he gave lectures on natural history and his travels.
Insects (all orders but especially Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera collected by Emil Weiske are held by Zoologische Staatssammlung München in Munich, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the Natural History Museum, London (via the Natural History Museum at Tring).
Birds collected by Weiske are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Natural History Museum, London, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Museum für Naturkunde and Naturkundemuseum Leipzig.Other collections are in Naturhistorisches Museum Wien and Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna.
He is honoured in the butterfly names Graphium weiskei and Delias weiskei and the bird name New Guinea hawk-eagle (Hieraaetus weiskei). (source: wikipedia)

Pictura Antique Prints

Encampment of Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill and Indians during their Wild West Show.

This watercolor painting by artist Otto Eerelman (Dutch, 1839–1926) represents an important contribution to western American art from the perspective of a European artist. Eerelman, like George Catlin, spent time with the Mandan Indians. This painting depicts the encampment Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill and Indians probably during his Wild West Show at the Barnum & Bailey circus in London, England, in 1883.

Group of cavalry men on horseback at a tavern where a woman poors wine.

Made by ‘Hans Ulrich Franck’ after own design. Hans Ulrich Franck (1603-1680) was a German painter and etcher from Kaufbeuren, Swabia.
From a rare series of 25 scenes of military life scenes of war, published in 1656. Ref Hollstein German 8 Provenance Ex. Collection van der Grinten. Detached carrier sheet has a collection mark of the Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Lugt 1612b) and of the same for doublets (Lugt 2482)

Antiquariaat Meilof

Graham York

Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958), was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He carried out 25 expeditions over fifty years exploring Tibet, North Western China, Myanmar and Assam. Many of the areas that he visited were experiencing civil unrest at the time, and were somewhat dangerous.

THE LAND OF THE BLUE POPPY. TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST IN EASTERN TIBET.
1913, Cambridge, University Press, ppxii + 283 + (i), black and white illustrations and maps, complete, original publishers' green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Kingdon Ward's scarcest book.
Very good.

Sir John Carr. DESCRIPTIVE TRAVELS IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF SPAIN AND THE BALEARIC ISLES, IN THE YEAR 1809.

1811, London, printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 4to, ppxii + 374 + xx + (i), folding frontispiece and five tinted aquatint plates, half calf over boards.
Carr was born in London in 1772, went to Rugby School, became a solicitor, gave up law for health reasons and published accounts of his travels illustrated with his own sketches of journeys in various European countries.
After some success with his first books he published "The Stranger in Ireland", 1806, after which he was knighted by the Duke of Bedford, who was also the Viceroy of Ireland. "Spain" was his last travel book, published in 1811.
Lord Byron, who had met Carr in Cadiz on a brief visit, refers to him in some suppressed stanzas of Canto 1 of "Childe Harolde" as 'Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star'.
Alberich 791; Not in Foulche-Delbosc.
Recently rebacked, some scattered foxing, otherwise good.

Wilhelm Altzenbach. DIE STATT AACHEN. No date, circa 1678, Cologne, double folio (570mm x 1170mm), intaglio engraving, bird's eye view of Aachen linen-backed.

[There is a copy of this engraving in the Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, BrSides Double Folio 2013 116, in a similar condition]

The arms and insignia of Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, amongst a double-headed eagle, surrounded by Charlemagne (Charles the Great) holding his Cathedral, and Hildegard of Vinzgau (his second wife) holding Louis the Pious, his successor. [Not in Beineke].

Attached beneath this are engravings of the names and insignia of the Monks and Canons of Aachen. Printed by Altzenbach, surmounted by the arms of Charlemagne, showing the single-headed half body of an eagle as the symbol of the German emperors next to fleurs-de-lis as the symbol of the Kings of France on an impaled shield.

[See William Ottley. NOTICES OF ENGRAVERS AND THEIR WORKS...London 1831.
Wilhelm Altzenbach and Gerard Altzenbach...Their works are not of frequent occurrence]

Inset amongst these is ALLMANACH AUFF DAS JAHR 1678, Cologne, Johann Peter Richerman.

Almanacs of this period and size are extremely rare. The British Museum department of prints has only one example of a different work printed by Altzenbach [The display in Cologne of the Holy Relics of Aachen - a much smaller engraving] and nothing printed by Richerman.

Sir John Carr. DESCRIPTIVE TRAVELS IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF SPAIN AND THE BALEARIC ISLES, IN THE YEAR 1809.

1811, London, printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 4to, ppxii + 374 + xx + (i), folding frontispiece and five tinted aquatint plates, half calf over boards.
Carr was born in London in 1772, went to Rugby School, became a solicitor, gave up law for health reasons and published accounts of his travels illustrated with his own sketches of journeys in various European countries.
After some success with his first books he published "The Stranger in Ireland", 1806, after which he was knighted by the Duke of Bedford, who was also the Viceroy of Ireland. "Spain" was his last travel book, published in 1811.
Lord Byron, who had met Carr in Cadiz on a brief visit, refers to him in some suppressed stanzas of Canto 1 of "Childe Harolde" as 'Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star'.
Alberich 791; Not in Foulche-Delbosc.
Recently rebacked, some scattered foxing, otherwise good.

Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958), was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He carried out 25 expeditions over fifty years exploring Tibet, North Western China, Myanmar and Assam. Many of the areas that he visited were experiencing civil unrest at the time, and were somewhat dangerous.

THE RIDDLE OF THE TSANGPO GORGES.
1926, London, Edward Arnold & Co., ppxv + 328, black and white illustrations and map, original publishers' black cloth.
Map repaired, otherwise complete.
Slight tape offsetting on end papers, mild foxing at beginning and end, otherwise an exceptionally good copy.

Laurentius Old Master Prints & ThePrintsCollector

Antiquariaat Meuzelaar