Photographs OF Bronzes

SOTHEBY'S BELGRAVIA. FINE VICTORIAN FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART. LONDON: SOTHEBY'S BELGRAVIA, 1971.
AUCTION CATALOG. - CONSISTING OF GIBSON'S TINTED VENUS. - BRONZES SCULPTURE - WORKS OF ART - TEXTILES - MUSICAL BOXES, ETC...ETC... ; B&W Photographs; Oblong Small 8vo; 39 pages.

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Editor: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30 1914, Washington, DC United States Government Printing Office 1915
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First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 729 p. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and charts. Includes annual reports of the departments and museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution, as well as financial reports and a report on buildings and equipment. The majority of the volume is taken up with articles on scientific discoveries and natural history, including the radiation of the sun, modern theories of the sun, form and constitution of the earth, some remarks on logarithms apropos to their tercentenary, constitution of the atom, gyrostats and gyrostatic action, stability of aeroplanes, first man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained free flight, some aspects of industrial chemistry Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite, explosives, climates of geological time, pleochroic haloes, geology of the bottom of the seas, recent oceanographic researches, the Klondike and Yukon goldfield in 1913, history of the discovery of sexuality in plants, problems and progress in plant pathology, plat autographs and their revelations, the National Zoological Park and its inhabitants, the habits and behavior of the herring gull, Notes on some effects of extreme drought in Waterberg, South Africa, homoetic regeneration of the antennae in a Phasmid or walking-stick, latent life, the early inhabitants of western Asia, excavations at Abydos, a examination of Chinese bronzes, the role of depopulation, deforestation and malaria in the decadence of certain nations, the story of the chin, recent developments in the art of illumination, the loom and spindle, the demonstration play school of 1913, a sketch of the life of Eduard Suess, and more. Library bookplate and stamp. Minor foxing on endpapers. Near fine. First Edition Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library

[KW: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATURAL HISTORY INSECTS DISEASE MEDICINE ANCEINT HISTORY BAEKELAND BAKELITEScience & Nature Ancient History]

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Anderson Galleries. The Edward Perrz Warren Collection. New York: American Art Association, 1930.
Removed From "Few Acres", the Summer Home of the Late Mr. Warren at Westbrook, Maine. XVII-XVIII Century English and Colonial American Furniture. Graeco-Roman Marbles. Renaissance Bronzes. Etruscan Pottery. Together With a Small Group of Fine Oriental Rugs and Antique Fabrics. 250 lots.; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 84 pages.

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SOTHEBY'S BELGRAGIA. ENGLISH FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART, EUROPEAN BRONZES AND ARTS AND CRAFTS FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART 1830 - 1930 FEBRUARY, 5th, 1975. LONDON: SOTHEBY'S BELGRAVIA, 1975.
AUCTION CATALOG. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 39 pages.

Softcover, NF.

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