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Vue de L'Hotel de Batavie. . .

A so-called optical print of Fatahillah Square in Jakarta, Indonesia, prepared for use in a light-box or an amusing light-show. This richly hand colored print is much per...

$600 / ≈ €513
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G.B.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750

 


An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .

Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...

$9000 / ≈ €7695
Maker / Publisher: NIEUHOF, J.
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669

 


Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40

A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph in Jail.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris t...

$300 / ≈ €256
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, G.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585

 


N°3. Horologium Horizontale Horas a meridie et media nocte Numeratas continens ad latitudinem XLIX GR XXIII Minut ec.

This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with a 32-point wind rose at the bottom, signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640."It is remarkab...

$750 / ≈ €641
Maker / Publisher: RITTER, F.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640