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Abbild des sehr kleinen Männleins auß der Schweitz Hans Worrenberg genant, ist lang zwei Fuß und sieben zoll, alt 36 Jahr wie zu Hamburg Anno 1687 im Majo und Junio gesehen worden.

Engraving showing Hans Worrenberg, a dwarf of Switzerland at an age of 36 in the year of 1687. Worrenberg was actor and active in Hamburg 1687 and London 1688. The engrav...

$250 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: VON WIERING, Th.
Place & Date: Hamburg, ca.1689

 


[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.

This poster, an advertisement for Red Lion Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograph...

$300 / ≈ €263
Maker / Publisher: ASIATIC LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PRESS
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934

 


(Island of Pearls) Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta.

A depiction of Cubagua as the Perlarum Insula (Island of Pearls), with in the foreground, two large ships send dinghies toward busy Native Americans collecting pearl oyst...

$250 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


The Chap Book.

Chromo lithographed poster, "The Chap Book.", by BRADLEY, W. Plate 136, published in Maître 17, on April 1895. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contai...

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: BRADLEY, W.
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1895