Auction 32 - Autographs, old books & travel photography

Gold embossed paper – gold ornaments, anonymous sample book, approx. 300 applications

Curiosities – three-dimensional wall decoration: roses, fruits and doves before a reclining female beauty

Curiosities – The Realm of the Queen of Flowers. Instructive entertainment. 4 insert boards and 47 of 50 insert flowers

Curiosities – Collection of 22 paper curiosities, including pull, folding and pop-up cards, transparent cards, rotating tickets, pull fans

Curiosities – Collection of 30 colour postcards with elaborate appliqués of various materials. USA, Germany, France, Spain

Curiosities – Match or needle holder. Three wall holders and one slipper made of die-cut white-blue printed cardboard

Needlework papers – collection of 11 greeting cards and letter papers with needle or finest die-cut decoration

Nature collages – three greeting cards each with a bird made of real feathers mounted over leaf skeletons

Wafers – three adhesive albums with together nearly 600 chromolithographed wafers (glossy pictures)

Wafers – collection of over 70 chromolithographed wafers (glossy pictures)

Optical toys – The alphabet. – The alphabet in capitals. – The Lord's Prayer. 3 hand-coloured medallions on an engraved card.

Optical toys – Anamorphoses. Two round distorted images to be viewed with a cylindrical mirror. Coloured line etchings.

Optical toys – Brès, Jean Pierre. Myriorama. Collection of several thousand landscapes. 21 hand-coloured picture cards in aquatint.

Optical toys – Engelbrecht, Martin. The Massacre of the Innocents. Perspective theatre of 7 scenes (including proscenium and backdrop).

Optical toys – Engelbrecht, Martin. Game and tobacco society. Perspective theatre with 6 (instead of 7) scenery pieces

Optical toys – La Fontaine, Jean de. The fable game for youth, or the movable La Fontaine fables

Optical toys – La Lorgnette pittoresque. Series of 5 round views in coloured lithography with coloured backing

Optical toys – Reversible picture. Heads of an elderly Biedermeier couple, smiling, quarrelling when rotated 180°

Optical toys – Four paper strips in colour lithography, one side with a full figure, the other with six transformation parts

Optical toys – White Shadows - Ombres Blanches. Collection of 14 portrait cut-outs in white laid paper for enlarged projection

Physionotraces – Béthune-Hesdigneul, Eugène Francois Léon. Oeuvres mêlées. Ornées de portraits en taille-douce, divisées en Passe-tems…

Dolls – Collection of 35 clothing pieces for dress-up or pin dolls, of which 32 in chromolithographed cardboard and 3 in thin fabric

Dolls – Collection of nearly 50 mostly multi-part paper dolls and scenes (Paper Dolls)

Rebus pictures – 9 watercoloured pen drawings with 27 rebus, letter and note puzzles