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Horn-Nosed Snake – Shaw and Nodder – 1792

The Horn-Nosed snake pictured was obtained from the master of a Guinea vessel by the Rev Edward Jenkins of South Carolina who presented it to the British Museum. It was supposed to be native of the “interior parts of Africa”. The full description by Shaw was sure to put fear into the mind of any reader.

Copper engraved and hand coloured by Shaw & Nodder and published in London on in 1792 (dated in the plate). Shaw was in charge of the Natural History Department at the British Museum. Frederick Nodder was a natural history artist and worked for Banks on his Florilegium.

Price $160.00 framed in Voyager recommended Natural History style in cream board with black core and mild gilt frame … to see all my superbly snakeee-ness juts click on the image.

$160.00

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Java la Grande – Lawrence Fitzgerald

Published in Hobart in 1984 a very good copy in a fine dust jacket.

A useful and easily read book on the Portuguese Discovery of Australia … where else could it be … Brigadier Fitzgerald was well qualified to compile this well illustrated account. A good understanding of the Dauphin map.

Portuguese First … no really they were!

$40.00

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Voyage autour de ma Chambre – Xavier de Maistre – Beautifully Illustrated by Maggy Monier

Published by Nilsson, Paris the “Collection Emeraude [Emerald]” c 1930 with twelve aquarelles (watercolours) by Maggy Monier tipped in at front and throughout. A striking and delightful production.

The author Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) wrote this work in 1790 and it was published in 1794 when he was under arrest in Turin as a result of a duel.

Voyage autour de ma chambre is a parody set in the tradition of the grand travel narrative. An autobiographical account of how a young official, imprisoned in his room for six weeks, looks at the furniture, engravings, etc., as if they were scenes from a voyage in a strange land. He praises this voyage because it does not cost anything, for and he recommends it to the poor, the infirm, and the lazy. “When I travel through my room,” he writes, “I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don’t think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado.” Later, proceeding North, he encounters his bed, and in this way he light heartedly continues his “Voyage”.

It was later quoted or referenced by Somerset Maugham, D H Lawrence. Jorge Luis Borges and other literary greats.

Another beautiful french illustrated book

$120.00

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Orange Parson – Salmon Fly

The Orange Parson is a sure thing for catching a lovely silvery Salmon. Not to be confused with a slightly irate priest!

Wear it in your lapel for the full “country effect”. Click on me to see all my parson!

$20.00

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Classical Medical Print [Pochoir] – Hippocrates – Kuhn Regneir – 1932

An unusual beautifully coloured risqué “Pochoir” produced in 1932 by Joseph Kuhn-Regneir (1873-1940) Hippocrates of course had died some time earlier!

Medical Consultation at its most informal.

Beautifully framed ..

Price $160.00 – Or a set of four for $490.00

$160.00

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Classical Medical Prints – Hippocrates Pochoir – Kuhn Regneir – 1932

An unusual and beautifully coloured risqué “Pochoir” produced in 1932 by Joseph Kuhn-Regneir (1873-1940) Hippocrates of course had died some time earlier!

Medical Consultation at its most informal.

Beautifully framed

Price $160.00 – Or a set of four for $490.00

$160.00

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Horn-Nosed Snake – Shaw and Nodder – 1792

Java la Grande – Lawrence Fitzgerald

Voyage autour de ma Chambre – Xavier de Maistre – Beautifully Illustrated by Maggy Monier

Orange Parson – Salmon Fly

Classical Medical Print [Pochoir] – Hippocrates – Kuhn Regneir – 1932

Classical Medical Prints – Hippocrates Pochoir – Kuhn Regneir – 1932

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