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Butte Opal Carving Depicting Sea Life by W.K. Ngai :Opal Butte, Oregon
Opal Butte opal is a rare precious stone mined from the depths of the Opal Butte in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. This unique silica-rich opal is found within geode-like structures called thunder eggs, formed 65 million years ago by lava flow. Opal Butte is one of the few active precious opal mines in the world today. Depicting sea life in a vertical presentation, with a sea turtle, multiple starfish and scallop shell and stylized coral, carved from a single large specimen of orange and white opal in a matrix of brown and taupe. Raised on a base of natural coral, above a free-form base of polished black onyx. Measuring 11 x 9 x 7in (27.9 x 22.9 x 17.8cm)

W.K.Ngai的Butte Opal雕刻描绘海洋生物 无 题

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VANINI, GIULIO CAESARE. 1585-1619.:Amphitheatrum aeternae providentiae divino-magicum. Lyons: widow of Antoine de Harsy, 1615.
8vo (172 x 107 mm). Woodcut vignette on title page and at end of index, errata on verso of final leaf. Recased in contemporary vellum. Covers soiled and slightly wrinkled, with some repairs; dampstaining, ink notations to front paste-down, browning and spotting.

FIRST EDITION of this rare work by outspoken free-thinker Vanini, denouncing atheism perhaps to re-ingratiate himself with the church. However, his second book made his radical ideas clear, and he was eventually arrested, tortured, and burned at the stake. Peignot Livres condamnés, II, 174; Thorndike VI, 568-573.

瓦尼尼，朱利奥·凯撒。1585–1619. 永恒的神圣魔法供应。莱昂斯：安托万·德·哈西的遗孀，1615年。

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GERARD, JOHN. 1545-1612. :The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. London: John Norton, 1597.
Folio (340 x 240 mm). Engraved title, portrait, woodcut illustrations throughout (2 with early hand-coloring). Contemporary paneled reverse calf, rebacked, later free endpapers. Lacking colophon 5i4, title trimmed and soiled, small hole on 3V3 with loss to 2 woodcuts, some foxing, staining and occasional small tear throughout, index leaves heavily worn and soiled, with one leaf strengthened at fore-margin.
Provenance: Thomas Leman (contemporary ownership signature on paste-down and title); another inscription dated 1656.

FIRST EDITION of this great herbal by \"the best known of English herbalists\" (Arber). The woodcuts include nearly 200 native plants which had not previously been described, as well as the first illustration of the potato. STC 11750; Henrey 154; Hunt 174; Nissen BBI 698.

杰勒德，约翰。1545-1612. 植物的草本或一般历史。伦敦：约翰·诺顿，1597年。

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OVID. 43 B.C.E.-17 A.D.E.:Ovidii metamorphoseon libri XV. Venice: Aldi, 1516.
8vo (152 x 90 mm). 2 title pages with woodcut printer\'s devices (one after the index), woodcut printer\'s device on colophon. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Browning and some minor staining.
WITH: Les quinze livres de la métamorphose d\'Ovide interprétés en rime francaise selon la phrase latine par Francois Habert d\'Issoudun. Paris: Hierosme de Marnes, 1580. 12mo (108 x 81 mm). Woodcut printer\'s device on title page and colophon, woodcut illustratons in text. Late 18th century calf, rebacked retaining original spine, decorted in gilt with 5 raised bands, morocco gilt lettering piece, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Wear and chipping to covers and spine, free front endpaper loose, margins trimmed with slight losses to printed marginalia, staining and some ink underlining.

提供。公元前43年-公元前17年。 查看第十五本书的变形。威尼斯：阿尔迪，1516年。

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DAVIS, EDMUND W. 1853-1908.:Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia. [New York]: Printed for private distribution [by the De Vinne Press], 1904.
8vo. 16 photogravure and 3 color half-tone plates of flies, captioned tissue guards. Publisher\'s half vellum and boards, letterpress spine label, publisher\'s card slipcase. Spine slightly soiled and scuffed, bookplate on front free endpaper.

LIMITED EDITION, number 91 of 100 copies. First printing, with 143 pages (rather than the later printing with 152 pages). Edmund Davis came into his inheritance at 27 years old, and turned most of his attention to angling. He was a founding member of the Cascapedia Club, and his work on one of the great North American Salmon rivers is scarce. Bruns D25; Gee 88; Litchfield 71.

埃德蒙·戴维斯，1853-1908年。 Grand Cascapedia上的三文鱼钓鱼。[纽约]：1904年[由德维恩出版社]私人发行。

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ALDROVANDI, ULISSE.:De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor, post mortem eius editi: nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis et zoophytis. Bologna: J.B. Bellagambam, 1606.
Folio (358 x 230 mm). Engraved title with architectural border, engraved portrait, woodcut illustrations throughout. Modern morocco-backed marbled paper boards, gilt titles to spine. Engraved title repaired and laid down, as is the \"Registrum\" at end.

FIRST EDITION of Aldrovandi\'s treatise on shellfish, octopi, shells, and jellyfish—one of the earliest works and the largest assembly of conchological illustrations and descriptions to date. Aldrovandi \"was among the first to attempt to free the natural sciences from the stifling influence of the authority of textbooks, for which he substituted, as far as possible, direct study and observation of the animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds\" (DSB). Nissen ZBI 68.

乌利塞，阿尔德罗凡迪。 在他死后，我吃了书中剩下的四种动物：不是熔化的、甲壳动物、目击者和浮游动物。博洛尼亚：J.B.Bellagambam，1606年。

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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882.:4 titles:
1. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872. 8vo. 7 heliotype plates, publisher\'s advertisements at end, wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher\'s green cloth. Corners bumped, wear to cloth at edges, rear hinge cracked, bookplate on front paste-down. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE.
2. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. New York: D. Appleton Company, 1860. 8vo. Folding lithographed diagram. Publisher\'s blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt title on spine, brown coated endpapers. Text block broken, lower joint cracked through, spine loose, cloth heavily chipped, old adhesive repair to upper joint, hinges cracking with old repair to front hinge. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. New York: Hurst and Company, n.d. Publisher\'s red cloth. Sunned, spine ends bumped, front hinge cracked, toning. Marked \"Reprinted from the Sixth London edition, with all additions and corrections.\"
4. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton Co., 1871. 2 volumes. 8vo. Publisher\'s russet cloth stamped in black, spines titled in gilt. First American edition. Spine ends chipped, large chip from upper panel of volume II, soiling and staining to covers, corners bumped, free front endpaper slightly loose in volume I, toning throughout.
5. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1885. 20th century half morocco and marbled boards, gilt titles on spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Shelfwear, light toning. Second edition, 19th thousand.

达尔文，查尔斯。1809-1882. 4个标题：

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Cy Twombly * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome)
Untitled, 1963/1964, signed Cy Twombly, colored pencil, wax crayon on paper, 86 x 67 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Private Collection, 德国y
Kunsthaus Lempertz, 3 December 2016, lot 450 - acquired there by the present owner

Literature:
Nicola Del Roscio, Cy Twombly, drawings, catalogue raisonné, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Ed.), Munich 2011, vol. 4, no. 20

Cy Twombly occupies a unique position among US artists. Twombly lived and worked in Italy, far from the 美国 art world, and felt free to experiment. In Rome, Twombly refined his distinctive artistic language. Twombly\'s visual language is informed by classical literature, ancient history, poetry and mythology, as well as his own life experience. Since the 1950s, Twombly\'s drawings have been dominated by rhythmically repeated line progressions, swirls, dense tangles and isolated numbers. Pencil, coloured pens and ballpoint pens enabled Twombly to make this \'scriptural\' drawing, which ultimately includes the signature of the artist himself. On the white of the paper, the pictorial elements provoke by appearing as scribbles, appearing as if randomly distributed on the surface.

The untitled work offered here is a vivid example of Twombly\'s unique pictorial language. The pictorial elements merge into an abstract composition that is both delicate and dynamic. The work was created in Italy between 1963-64. Twombly lived in a 17th-century palazzo on Via di Monserrato in Rome at the time the work was created. Untitled is emblematic of the groundbreaking work Twombly produced in the 1960s, widely regarded as a critical and highly fruitful period in his long and illustrious career.

“Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don’t like oil because you can’t get back into it, or you make a mess. It’s not my favourite thing... pencil is more my medium than wet paint.”
Cy Twombly

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CASTELL, WILLIAM. D. 1645. :A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America. London: [no printer], 1644.
8vo (163 x 94 mm). Title and dedication supplied in early expert manuscript facsimile (see below), and signature B (4 leaves) lacking, some pagination along top edges shaved, four leaves at beginning repaired along upper margin twice affecting first line of text, a few other small repairs. 19th century calf gilt by Pratt, hinges split, light rubbing to spine ends and corners.
Provenance: Henry Stevens (bound by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, 1860, binder\'s stamp on front free endpaper, his sale \"Bibliotheca Americana\" Puttick and Simpson, 7 March, 1861, lot 514); Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913) bibliographer (bookplate, his sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 November 1948, lot 58).

FIRST EDITION, THE MOST ACCURATE ENGLISH DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK BEFORE 1650, from the collection of noted bibliographers and Americana collectors Henry Stevens and Anson Phelps Stokes. The full title reads: A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America, From the Equinoctiall Northward, and of the adjacent Isles. Whereunto is prefixed the Authors Petition to this present Parliament, for the propagation of the Gospell in America; attested by many eminent English and Scottish Divines. And a late Ordinance of Parliament for that purpose, and for the better government of the English Plantations there. Together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers Speech in Parliament, 21. Jan. concerning America. Stevens states that this work \"should find a place in every collection of the so-called \'Eliot Tracts,\' for herein is contained the embryo idea or suggestion that Parliament should recognize the benefits to be derived by the colonies from cultivating the friendship of the Indians. EXCEEDINGLY RARE, only one other copy sold at auction (according to American Book Prices Current) in the past 45 years. Church 461; OCLC : 1238118938; Sabin 11398; Stevens, Bibliotheca Americana Vol 1, p 123; Wing C-1231.

威廉·卡斯特尔。D、 1645年。 美国海岸和大陆的短暂发现。伦敦：（没有打印机），1644年。

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LOBEL, MATTHIAS DE. 1538-1616. :Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia [Bound with]: PENA, PIERRE and MATTHIAS DE LOBEL. Nova stirpium adversaria. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1576.
Folio (315 x 225 mm). 2 parts in 1. Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut illustrations by Antonii van Leest, Gerard Janssen van Kampen, et al. throughout, pasted-in illustrations on R3r and R4v, second work with 2 pasted-in illustrations on X6v and Ll2v, and 3 slips with woodcut illustrations tipped onto A6, C5 N4. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards, roll-tooled roundels of Luther, Erasmus and Melancthon on upper and rear boards, paper spine label, metal clasps; covers soiled, paper repairs to title, occasional toning and foxing.
Provenance: ink drawing of palm tree with ms notes by an early owner on rear paste-down; \"Kroeber\" (signature to front free endpaper); Naturforschende Gesellschaft (ink stamp on title).

FIRST EDITION OF LOBEL\'S STIRPIUM OBSERVATIONES AND THE SECOND, ENLARGED ISSUE OF NOVA STIRPIUM ADVERSARIA. The first work is a companion to the Nova Stirpium Adversaria, \"one of the milestones of modern botany\" (DNB), first published in London 1570-1 by Thomas Purfoot. Plantin purchased 800 copies of the London printing, re-issuing the original sheets with a new title page and expanded end matter and publishing it together with the first edition of De Lobel\'s Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia. \"The chief importance of this herbal lies in its system of classification which is better than that used by any contemporary botanist\" (Hunt I, p 28). Hunt 126-7; Nissen BBI 1218; Pritzel 5548.

洛贝尔，马蒂亚斯·德。1538-1616年。 Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia[绑定]：PENA、PIERRE和MATTHIAS DE LOBEL。对抗性新星。安特卫普：克里斯托弗·普兰廷，1576年。