EditorialOver 1,200 of Hollywoods biggest blockbuster film Artifacts and 20th and 21st century screen gems including John Travoltas Pulp Fiction suit and casino chips from James Bond film Casino Royale to dazzle the auction block
EditorialGerman sesame, Myagrum sativum, and toadflax, Linaria vulgaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations ...
EditorialIskandar with Daryush's tokens. Sharafnama. Bengal, probably Gur, 1531-1532. Iskandar takes the polo sticks, ball and sesame seed sent by Daryush as a portent of Daryush's impending downfall. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of ...
EditorialOpen sesame.' Illustration for ' 'The Forty Thieves.'. Walter Crane's Picture Books. Vol.4 containing : 'The Forty Thieves.'. London : John Lane ; Chicago : Stone & Kimball, [1895-98]. Source: 12809.w.56, vol.4, after title page.
EditorialGerman sesame, Myagrum sativum, and toadflax, Linaria vulgaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations ...
EditorialSesame, til, gingeli or goma, Sesamum indicum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialSesame, Sesamum indicum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialGoma or sesame, Sesamum indicum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.