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Indian painting on ivory

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Fine oriental miniature of an amourouse Indian couple. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.

Indian painting on paper.

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position. The miniature has been painted in India in early 20th century. The miniature is 165 x 110 mm, painted in oil and gouache on paper, framed with a red and green line.

Chinese painting on silk.

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Fine oriental miniature of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymous, also called "pillow books" or "spring images," had its beginning in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and had its peak in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1664). They have been used throughout the centuries for visual use and enjoyment, and some people also say that they were illustrations in books or scrolls that mothers gave their daugh...

A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt.

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt. The series was published anonymously in a small edition. These etchings are among the most expressive by van Maele. Here the overwhelmingly dominating sexuality is represented with almost visionary power.An accomplished engraver with a sharp ironic eye and a whimsical imagination, Maurice François Alfred Martin van Miële is better known by his pseudonym Martin van Maële. His mother, from whom he a...

Chinese painting on silk.

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Fine oriental miniature of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymous, also called "pillow books" or "spring images", had its beginning in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and had its peak in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1664). They have been used throughout the centuries for visual use and enjoyment, and some people also say that they were illustrations in books or scrolls that mothers gave their daugh...

[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor planning, endless paper-pushing, redundancy and shirking, phony reporting, and cover-ups at all levels of the centralized economy had become the norm.The results included shoddy construction, inefficient farming methods, empty store shelves, environmental pollution, and a decidedly uncivil civil service.To combat these ills, the...

Indian painting on paper.

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position, set on a balcony with in a landscape in the background. The miniature has been painted in India in late 19th - early 20th century. The miniature is 165 x 110 mm, painted in gouache on paper, framed with black border and brown colored box.

[Russian Agitprop propaganda poster for 9 May]

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Soviet propaganda poster celebrating Victory Day (Thursday 9 May). Showing a star with USA, English, French flags partly overlapped with Soviet flag and inscription in Russian: 9 May.Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, and the war in Europe was over.Agitprop is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political messa...

Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map production in the fifteenth century.Its configuration is ostensibly based on Ptolemy's second projection but simplified for a popular audience, without the scientific apparatus of latitudes, longitudes, scales and extensive nomenclature.The map provides a window onto the late medieval imagination. The border contains twelve dour wind...

Indian painting on paper.

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Lapis polaris magnes.

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0400

This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. On image, bottom right: 'Ion. Stradanus Invent.' and 'Phls. Galle excud.'Seated to right, seen on profile, Flavio Amalfitano at his desk measuring a compass while reading a book; a globe and an hourglass also seen on his desk and a dog at his feet; opposite him, floating on air, a sailing ship and below another desk with books and an astrolabe globe; a large recipie...

(Northern celestial planisphere with a pasted volvelle.)

Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0400

Probably by the Vienna astronomer Melchior Klayber who used the Copernican precession theory, which is closely connected with the chart (Ptolemy - 6° 40' and Ptolemy - 55° epoche).In counting the total number of spheres, like other sixteenth-century astronomers Copernicus considered not only the theory of precession but the entire structure of cosmos. Beautiful et decorative celestial planisphere with a pasted volvelle. The chart shows the stars visible from 52 degrees latitude in a polar equi...

CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500

The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the maps in the atlas, "Ch’onhado" (Map of the world), is a unique and popular China-centered world map seen in Korean perspective.The typical contents of the traditional Korean atlases during this period consist of the following: a world map bearing the title Ch’onhado, with China, Korea, Japan and the Ryukyus at the c...

Tartaria.

Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500

Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing China, Korea as an island, and the northern Pacific coast of America showing the two continents separated by the Straits of Anian and naming Cape de FortunaAn incomplete Nova Zembla, extends west to include the Black Sea and Russia. The northern part of Korea is show. Very fine and decorative engraving.

SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.

Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0400

Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are by minor artists. He himself was a well-known ukiyo-e artist and book illustrator. The text was written by Akizato Rito who did numerous guides similar to this one. The work in 12 volumes has about 280 double-and 50 single-page woodblock illustrations, in some cases one scene may cover up to 8 single pages.Besides panoramic view...

Carte générale de L'Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie dressée par Henri Kiepert . . .

Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0400

Large School wall map of Turkish Empire printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Ferdind Barth in Berlin. This rare map has two insets in lower left corner "Prononciation" and "Explication de termes géographiques appartenant aux langues principales de l'orient et de leurs abbreviations".Geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is generally reckoned one of the more important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. Kiepert...

De Bello Belgico, Decas PrimaDeces II.

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Each volume contains an engraved title with a representation of the Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion, with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, a large woodcut printer's device on the colophons, and 30 richly engraved views and plans of battles and sieges, 28 double-page and 2 full-page, by Johanness W.Bauer, J.Miele, Jacomo Cortese, a.o. Two examples of the famous Leo Belgicus map are included. Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arres...

Chinese painting on silk of a couple in a love-making position.

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymous, also called "pillow books" or "spring images", had its beginning in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and its peak in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1664).They have been used throughout the centuries for visual use and enjoyment, and some people also say that they were illustrations in books or scrolls that mothers ga...

Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

This uncommon map of Japan, which is on a fairly large scale, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to have the most beautiful women.Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) used both names for he same sea-space : "Océan Oriental " written in great characters, located in the middle of the sea, and "mer de Coreer" in minus, along eastern sea coast of Korean peninsula. Tavernier based his cartography of the shape of ...

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..

Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0400

The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the California as an island hypothesis and one of the earliest maps to show the Dutch discoveries in Australia. A corner stone map for any collection of world or Australian maps. Portraits of Caesar, Ptolemy, Mercator and Jodocus Hondius occupy each corner, with symbols of the four elements, a celestial orb, various native figures, flowers ...