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Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery

Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery by STRAW MARQUETRY COSMETICS BOX

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Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.
Title
Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery
Author
STRAW MARQUETRY COSMETICS BOX
Seller
Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
[France, 18th century]. A two-part round wooden box, approx. 68 mm in diameter x 30 mm. high, the top slightly rounded, top and sides covered in decorative designs composed of bands of straw marquetry overlaid with twisted and embroidered straw-work, the design on upper cover with sections in relief, the bottom of the box undecorated, the interior lined in strips of multi-colored straw. Condition: loss of one hook of the looped ribbon on sides, slight ungluing of straw decoration on bottom part; the straw lining with some swelling and irregularities, but overall in excellent condition. *** A lovely decorative box, possibly a “boîte à poudre” for face powder. The cover is decorated with a flowering plant, its flowers made of tiny flat bands of straw with leaves of interwoven straw, petals and leaves outlined in embroidered straw, and the rest of the surface decorated with embroidered tendrils. The sides of both sections are decorated with a continuous looped garland. “Starting in the 17th century and throughout the 18th century, elegant women carried around their necks or in their pockets a proliferation of bibelots, boxes, tubes and other miniaturized nécéssaires, most intended for perfumes or makeup, They also appeared in their bedrooms.`Their rooms are cluttered with thousands of boxes,’” complained one contemporary in 1642. (Caunes & Baumgartner, p. 148, transl). Sold by marchands-merciers, these accessories came in all sorts of materials, from the most expensive materials like porcelain or ivory, to the humblest, like straw. In spite of the inexpensive and accessible material, straw creations during this period, which often combined the techniques of straw-plaiting, straw marquetry, and a method of using straw in embroidery, could be exquisite. The box was probably made by nuns. Straw marquetry and straw embroidery were associated early on in France with nuns’ handiwork, in the production of both religious and secular objects, often produced for sale outside the convent. Straw was cheap and abundant, and working it demanded skill rather than any expensive materials or sophisticated preparation. To make a palette resembling wood veneer, wheat or oat straw was split, soaked for a time in water, and then ironed. From this basic technique, two main decorative techniques evolved, one using straw marquetry and the other relief embroidery. This little box uses both. An example of a larger box using the same techniques is reproduced by Caunes, et al., p. 62. A similar box, measuring approx 11 x 6 cm, is currently being offered by a New York antiques dealer (for $14,000). While externally the colors of the box are somewhat muted, the original bright colors of the dyed straw strips have been preserved in its inner lining. Cf. Lison de Caunes, Serge Goldsal, & Catherine Baumgartner, La Marqueterie de Paille (Paris: les Editions de l'Amateur, 1993), passim.
Femme de Mouche

Femme de Mouche by Araki, Nobuyoshi

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Title
Femme de Mouche
Author
Araki, Nobuyoshi
Seller
Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9784943810933
Condition
Very good +
Description
Tokyo: Mizuki, 1994. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 9 1/4". Two pages of text in Japanese, else completely in photographs. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, over paper boards. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with 1" closed tear to upper edge of rear panel. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An appealing example, in full color and in black-and-white, of the erotic photogaphy of Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940).
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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XII

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Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)
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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XII
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Very good condition
Description
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1908. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in original cloth with rules stamped in blind on the covers and the spine stamped in gilt. Gilt on spine is faded. Previous owner's name in ink on the front pastedown endpaper. Minor chips to the head and heel of the spine and to some corners.
THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE "OBJECTIVITY QUESTION" AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION

THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE "OBJECTIVITY QUESTION" AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION by Novick, Peter

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THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE "OBJECTIVITY QUESTION" AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION
Author
Novick, Peter
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780521343282
Description
Cambridge, UK / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition, Twenty-Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xii, 648 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine black, white, and bronze with black lettering. Light rubbing to boards. Mild bumping to tail of spine. Mild stain to top edge of text block. Shelved General U.S. History. 1412543. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Notes on Cuba

Notes on Cuba by Wurdemann, John G. F., 1810-1849

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Notes on Cuba
Author
Wurdemann, John G. F., 1810-1849
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. x, 359p. Original black cloth. 21 cm. Backstrip heavily chipped along joints and mostly detached along front cover. Some ond corner creases. Text leaves age-toned and browned around edges. Significant foxing throughout. The 1971 Arno reprint of this book adds a two-page "About the Author" note by Robert M. Goldwyn in which Wurdemann is identified as a South Carolina physician who went to Cuba in hopes of recovering from tuberculosis.
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Theodore M. Lilienthal by Adams, Earl; Monihan, William J.; Magee, David; Crahan, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark

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Title
Theodore M. Lilienthal
Author
Adams, Earl; Monihan, William J.; Magee, David; Crahan, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs / Grace Hoper Press, 1972. Limited edition of 150 copies (total limitation of 250). Paperback. Near Fine. Stitched wraps. Covers a little sunned and wrinkled along spine and edges, otherwise fine.
General-Register der Bande XXI bis XXXX der Astronomischen Nachrichten.

General-Register der Bande XXI bis XXXX der Astronomischen Nachrichten. by [Astronomischen Nachrichten] JAHN, Gustav Adolph (1804-1857) (ed.).

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General-Register der Bande XXI bis XXXX der Astronomischen Nachrichten.
Author
[Astronomischen Nachrichten] JAHN, Gustav Adolph (1804-1857) (ed.).
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Hamburg:: Perther- Besser & Mauke, 1856., 1856. 4to. (iv), 313, [1] pp. Indexes. Original printed wrappers; disbound, spine mostly missing. Substantially unopened. Very good (accept for binding). Gustav Adolph Jahn, a private scholar in Leipzig, knew the most outstanding German astronomers of the first half of the 19th century personally or corresponded with them. He saw his main duty in the popularization of astronomical and meteorological knowledge among all classes of people. He chaired the "Astronomische Gesellschaft zu Leipzig" (Leipzig Astronomical Society), edited a journal und supported the cooperation of professionals and amateurs. Many of his ideas were realised in the "Astronomische Gesellschaft" founded in 1863. [Summary of: Munzel, Gisela, "Gustav Adolf Jahn, a Leipzig Astronomer of the 19th Century", Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 10, pp. 100-119].

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