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This is an original hand-painted decorative panel on canvas from the design partners Dimonah and Mehmet Iksel.Dimonah was living in New York and Mehmet, in Paris when they met under somewhat fateful circumstances in India. This encounter united their...

Original abstract contemporary oil painting on board. Beautiful, impasto texture. The painting measures 24" x 24" square.

Beautiful handwritten ledgers from Portual dating back to 1877 on blue lined paper. The cursive writing on these pieces are just impecable! Each piece has writing on both side, the pictures shown are the most interesting views of the ledgers. Each piece...

I was recently going through a file in the Soicher-Marin archives I had not yet sorted through and found a handful (5) of these great mollusk shell sheets from a scientific studies book. At first glance I thought the shells were colored engravings, but...

I was recently going through a file in the Soicher-Marin archives I had not yet sorted through and found a handful (5) of these great mollusk shell sheets from a scientific studies book. At first glance I thought the shells were colored engravings, but...

Original lithograph of Raoul Dufy's watercolor printed on vellum Arjomari (paper created after the merger of the 4 major paper manufactures in France) by Mourlot Freres in 1965 for Marcelle Oury's, "Lettre à mon Peintre". This collection included...

This piece comes from one of the largest and finest works of the French malacologist and palaeontologist Gérard Paul Deshayes. "Description des animaux sans vertèbres découverts dans la Bassin de Paris" was first published in 1856 in...

"The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds” by Bradbury and Evans, published in 1859. These intricately detailed prints were created using the “nature-printed” process developed by the Austrian Alois Auer and perfected by Henry Bradbury. In...

Beautiful pair of small (each is 5" x 6.5") hand-colored seaweed lithographs by Scottish botanical illustrator/engraver Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). Fitch was one of the most prolific artists of his time. For many years, he was the sole artist for all...

Very rare hand colored copper plate engravings of colorful frogs from the late 19th century. I spent quite some time doing my research on these pieces and couldn't find any others like them for sale. This piece is from a book entitled, "Biologia...

Very rare hand colored copper plate engravings of colorful frogs from the late 19th century. I spent quite some time doing my research on these pieces and couldn't find any others like them for sale. This piece is from a book entitled, "Biologia...

Very rare hand colored copper plate engravings of colorful frogs from the late 19th century. I spent quite some time doing my research on these pieces and couldn't find any others like them for sale. This piece is from a book entitled, "Biologia...