Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers stuffed cloth dog Left: 4 1/2" t x

Left: 4 1/2" t x 2 3/8" w x 2 1/2" d

the concept of the "Circassian beauty" dates back to as early as the late Middle Ages

actually reminding me a bit of his portrait of Gertrude Stein--as if a this were a portrait of woman looking toward modernity

About a year ago I found and sold another painting by self-taught artist Charles Rabin (1897-1983)--that one of an interior with  woman in orange dress holding a potted plant (which I completely fell in love with

Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers stuffed cloth dog Left: 4 1/2" t xAs early a French secret compartment book box as I've come across 1752! and quite a large one, with the most gorgeous marbled endpapers . And, a volume about Roman History, specifically the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, feels pretty apt for the moment. (This is the third volume in a series written by Charles Rollin and Jean Baptiste Louis Crvier spanning the period from the founding of Rome to the The Battle of Actium, 31 BC, leading to the end