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Vasten avonds Vreugde krans en tooneel stuk. . .
Page taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Ne...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Amsterdam aan de Waterkant vanaf 't IJ te Sien.
A panoramic view of the town from 't IJ. Engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal.
Publisher: COMMELIN, C.
Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Provincia ecclesiastica di Utrecht Nell' Olanda (Tav LXIII)
This large-format map of The Netherlands with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who ...
Publisher: PETRI Girolamo
Date: Rome, 1858
Descriptio Arabie / Arabia.
A rare miniature map of the Arabian Peninsular. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the m...
Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
A handsome map of modern-day Panama and Colombia. The cartouches and decoration are colored in an artistic way. Very fine and rare with this type of coloring.From "l...
Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.
During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Black Sea.
Decorative steel engraved map of the Black Sea with inset views of Sebastopol and Odessa. There are also vignettes of Constantinople, Sinope and Varna. Taken from "T...
Publisher: TALLIS, J.
Date: London, London Printing and publishing Company of London, ca. 1851
Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico ‘t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker. . .
First state. Rare. “This chart appeared in the first edition of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known” -- Burden. This is an example ...
Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45070-500x500.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Jintan Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography....
Publisher: ASIATIC LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PRESS
Date: Shanghai, 1934
Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .
Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to...
Publisher: RY, G.
Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch...
Publisher: JOLLAIN, G.
Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Secours pour les enfants qui naissent sans donner signe de vie.
Broadsheets etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about child born without sign of life.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Publisher: BALTARD, LP.
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Secours à donner aux noyés.
Broad sheet etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about how to rescue a flooded person.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Publisher: BALTARD, LP.
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het stadhuis, van vooren.
The former Amsterdam Town Hall, now the Royal Palace. Copper engraving by Frans de Bakker after Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816).From the well-known description of Amsterdam ...
Publisher: De BAKKER, F.
Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Sexta etas Mundi. Folium. CCXLV
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of two lovers happened to have lived in Italy: a knight named Eurialus, who was the personal attendant of Emperor Sigi...
Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]](/uploads/cache/39343-500x500.jpg)
[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]
Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Publisher: BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629)
Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
Vue d'une Rue Nanking.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular sp...
Publisher: PROBST,G.B.
Date: Augsburg 1760
Carte de l'Amerique Septle. Pour Servir a l'intelligence de la Guerre entre les Anglois et les Insurgents...
Second state of this extremely rare separate publication. This separately issued map is one of the most beautiful of the thirteen American Colonies from the Revolutionary...
Publisher: BEAURAIN, Jean Chev. de
Date: Paris, ca. 1756
Les Costes Aux Environs De La Riviere De Misisipi Decouvertes par Mr. De la Salle en 1683, et reconnues par Mr. Le Chevallier d'Iberville en 1698 et 1699 . . . 1705
A historically significant map of Florida and the Gulf Coast shows especially the Mississippi's estuary in some detail, more or less correctly located.The locations of ma...
Publisher: DE FER, N.
Date: Paris, 1705
Provincie Noord-Braband.
Decorative and uncommon costume plate lithographed by Desguerrois & Co. and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. 12 illustrations of Brabant costumes: 1...
Publisher: BRAET VON UBERFELDT / BING,V.
Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Date: Venice, 1691
Use of Liége.
Contents of the Book of Hours : 1. ff. 2-7 : calender. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm. 2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles : - Saint Jean 1, 1-...
Publisher: BOOKS OF HOURS
Date: c.1480
Certificaat N° 230
Na primo januarij 1872 is houder dezes geregtigd voor 2/2147 tot hetgeen, ter zake van verjariing, zoude kunnen worden gereclmeerd, uiy gelden bij de Associatie-Cassa alh...
Publisher: CLIFFORD, W. / LE CHEVALLIER, R.
Date: Amsterdam, 1841
Jeu Royal de la vie d'Henri IV.
Large sheet with an animated game of goose of 63 numbered squares, spiral, counter clockwise, centripetal focused on the French king Henri IV.André Basset offers a life ...
Publisher: BASSET, P.A.
Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon (à la Nouvelle Hollande)... par M.L. Freycinet an 1808.
Fine map of part of Australia prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. The longitude is calculated from Paris.The cartouche...
Publisher: FREYCINET, M.L.
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1811
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Publisher: FOGLY, A.
Date: Italy, ca. 1954
Carte de la Charte de L'Antique . . .
The rare French version of this decorative pictorial world map by MacDonald Gill. "This magnificent map drawn up while the Second World War still raged is already en...
Publisher: MACDONALD GILL, L.
Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general des Cotes des Indes orientales et de la Chine..
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of this important French Sea Atlas of the Red Sea, India, the East Indies, Indochina and Formosa.2° (640 x 490 mm). Title printed in red and b...
Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Date: Paris, 1745
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères. . .
This scarce atlas contains maps showing the locations of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Étrangères in Asia. It covers India, Burma, Siam,...
Publisher: LAUNAY, Adrien
Date: Lille, 1890
French Line CGT Poster.
French Line CGT Poster showing the Normandie cruise ship travelling from Southampton to New York, advertising an express luxury service on both the Ile de France and the ...
Publisher: Attrib. Walter Thomas.
Date: England, ca. 1936
Untitled wartime propaganda map poster depicting Roosevelt & Churchill stuggling between each other over the African Continent.
This powerful image shows US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a tug-of-war over Africa. This original war poster was created by ...
Publisher: FORT, Jean
Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943
La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict les XVII Provinces. Chez Jacob Colom.
Rare atlas of the Low Countries, by Jacob Colom, in an early – first- French edition. The atlas was first printed in Dutch (1635) and than in 1636 in French, using the ...
Publisher: COLOM, J. A.
Date: Amsterdam, 1636
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[The world can be saved only by joint efforts of all states and all peoples.]
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Publisher: PLAKAT PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Date: Moscow, 1986
Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
A view of the Admiralty at Amsterdam of the store houses, wharfes.. To the East India Company of Holland..
So-called optical print showing a mirror image depiction of the headquarters of the V.O.C. in Amsterdam (present-day Maritime Museum) and their wharfs' and docks, with ex...
Publisher: OVERTON, H. / BASSET
Date: London / Paris, ca. 1752
Ville de Nimes - Concours hippique - 16, 17, 18 Juin 1895.
Belle époque original chromo lithographed poster published by A. Gautherin & J. Berndard. Together with a text panel giving information's about an Concours Hippique ...
Publisher: PAL (Jean de Paleologue)
Date: Paris, Nimes, 1895/1896
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Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
Publisher: ISTITUTO ITALIANO D'ARTI GRAFICHE - BERGAMO
Date: Turin, 1928
Réseau aérien mondial.
"Sur les ailes d'Air France, découvrez le monde à votre tour" lithograph poster from AIR France. A great mid century design by Air France advertising poster b...
Publisher: PLAQUET. / AIR FRANCE
Date: Imprimerie Perceval Paris, ca. 1940-1950
Everything that the party has designed, we will do. 12 and five years of specific action.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Publisher: PLAKAT PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Date: Moscow, 1986
Save means to increase.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Publisher: PLAKAT PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Date: Moscow, 1986
Mappemonde contenant les parties connues du globe terrestre dressée suivant de nouvelles observations
Wall map of the world in two hemispheres printed on two sheets. A first, unrecorded state, dated 1641, of this wall map of the world published in Paris, depicting the Eas...
Publisher: CHAMBON, Gobert-Denis.
Date: Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754
ST MORITZ.
An original Swiss travel poster for St. Moritz, 1948, lithograph in color on paper, depicting a smiling yellow sun skiing (the symbol of the Engadine region of Switzerlan...
Publisher: J.C MULLER A.G
Date: Zürich, 1948
Mexico.
Unusual poster for Mexican tourism, published by Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo, The artist is unknown and the design is surreal and modern at the same time.The popularit...
Publisher: ASOCIACION MEXICANA DE TURISMO
Date: Mexico, ca. 1935
Excelsiori (Rana N. 28 - Cent. 20).
"After so many wars and so many troubles, young Russia, in a more serene glaze all the beautiful sun of freedom you will enjoy ... ". Fascinating allegorical sa...
Publisher: CETTO, M.
Date: Bologna, 1905
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Publisher: ADSEC Engineers Section
Date: London, 1945
A folding fan showing Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, circa 1750-1760.
The fan shows Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, where she welcomes Julius Caesar who came to visit her in 48BC. Her suite is made up of soldiers and maids. The arriva...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: English, ca. 1750-1760
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[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
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 ...
Publisher: THE FIGHTING PENCILS
Date: Leningrad, 1974
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .
The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Pacific Stars and Strips Map of the War.
A detailed map of the Korean War. Several silhouetted flying military aircraft are shown in formation. The map shows the Korean Peninsula from its northern border with Ru...
Publisher: THE PACIFIC STARS AND STRIPES.
Date: America, 1953
Novi Belgii novae que Angliae nec non partis Virginiae..
The third state with Fort Kassimier and Philadelphia and nearby placenames added. To the south the Dutch colony of Nieu Amstel. New nomenclature and a key appear around t...
Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Date: Amsterdam, 1684
This is our biography.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Publisher: PLAKAT PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Date: Moscow, 1986
A new & accurate map of Asia, drawn from the most approved Modern Maps & Charts.
An excellent engraving of Asia. The map renders the entire continent in excellent detail with mountains, rivers, lake and forests. The map is of interest for the use of S...
Publisher: BOWEN, Thomas.
Date: London, ca 1771
La Corvette la recherche au milieu des glaces.
Beautiful lithograph by A. Mayer and Bayot of the corvette "La recherche" surrounded by Ice. Published by Arthus-Bertrand and Lemercier in Paris.From Joseph Pau...
Publisher: GAIMARD, P.
Date: Paris. Arthus-Bertrand, 1838-1852
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute, featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wh...
Publisher: CHOKOSAI EISHO
Date: Late Edo, 1790
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[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, design by François Lesourt (Périgueux, 1913 - 1997). Th...
Publisher: LESOURT, F.
Date: Paris, Hubert Baille & Cie Paris, 1960
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Publisher: BREUGHEL, P.
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.
Date: Venice, 1734
Toujours des sangsues!
Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...
Publisher: AUBERT, B.
Date: Paris, c. 1832
Eadem Aurantia Dimidiata.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Publisher: FERRARI, G. B.
Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Painting of Tupinamba cannibals of Brazil set in a local landscape on wooden panel.
The iconography of this painting is actually directly derived from one of the plates illustrating the third volume of "Grands Voyages" Theodore Bry devoted to B...
Publisher: Follower of Jan van Kessel
Date: ca. 1750
Aenwysinge van de Stadt Salvador, ende de Baya de Todos Los Santtos.
Extremely rare map of Salvador and Baia de Todos os Santos (Bay of Saints) published by the The Hague publisher Henricus Hondius (not to confuse with the Amsterdam H.Hond...
Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Date: The Hague, 1624
Namurcum comitatus.
Very rare map of Namen by Cornelis Danckerts. Depicting the region around the city of Namur based on the once secret map of Jacques Surhon (ca. 1555). Decorated with figu...
Publisher: DANCKERTS, C.
Date: Amsterdam / Paris, ca. 1640
Rooseveld rekende verkeerd ! De vangarmen van De Dollarpoliep worden afgesneden. . .
An remarkable Anti-American Dutch World War II propaganda poster by Lou Manche, showing an pink octopus, representing the United States, with its tentacles being cut from...
Publisher: MANCHE, L.
Date: The Netherlands, 1942
Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor.
War propaganda poster by Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely, who died in 1970, was a British graphic artist known for his Second World War posters for the Ministry of Informatio...
Publisher: KEELEY, P.
Date: London, J.Haworth / Brother Ltd, 1944
Ichnographia munitissimae Arcis Otzakoff quae Ao. 1737, die 3 Iulÿ auspicÿs Supremi Campi Mareschalli Comitis de Münnich ab exercitu Russorum vi occupata . . .
A striking image of this fortified Russian outpost on the Black Sea at Otzakoff, northeast of Odessa.
Publisher: SEUTTER, M.
Date: Augsburg, 1737
The East Part of India, or India beyond the R. Ganges.
Herman Moll's map of those Asian countries to be found east of the River Ganges, including Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, southern most China, Malaysia, Sumatr...
Publisher: MOLL, Herman.
Date: London, ca 1750
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785. Share nº 23726, hand signed by several company officials.Engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810) after...
Publisher: REAL COMPANIA DE FILIPINAS
Date: Spain, 1785
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[West Africa]
Second block. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native village. O...
Publisher: RAMUSIO, G. B.
Date: Venice, 1563
Horizon ring for globe.
Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters, and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. T...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Germany, 1720
Teatro della guerra nelle Flandre Austriache e Francesi. . .
Rare folio-sized map of Belgium by Antonio Zatta e Figli, from a never-finished atlas by the ‘Società Calcografia’, a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers...
Publisher: SOCIETA CALCOGRAFICA.
Date: Venise, 1803
L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.
Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...
Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant.
Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
Par Brevets. / Eau admirable de Cologne, de A. Farina, ancien Distillateur de Cologne, breveté, Place Juliers, N°11.
Advertising Broadsheet promoting the toilet water "Eau de Cologne". Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France and 2 two-headed eagles. With the printed sign...
Publisher: FARIBA, A.
Date: After 1810
Par permission sur l'aprobation des médecins du roi...la véritable Boule de Mars...
Printed broadsheet promoting the "Boule de Mars" (March Ball) produced and sold by Renault in Nancy and Paris. Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France. Pr...
Publisher: Advertising placard for the
Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
USRR initiatives.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Publisher: PLAKAT PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Date: Moscow, 1986
Carte de la Tartarie Orientale pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages, Tiree des Cartes Levees par les P.P. Jesuites...
This map covers the eastern part of Tartary with part of present-day Manchuria and Sakhalin Island. The map was based primarily on Jesuit and English sources and is parti...
Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Date: Paris, 1750
AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.
Original pictorial lithograph advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black back ground. In the lower right below the border '016/P/AF Printed in...
Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1950
Kaart Van Nieuw Zeeland in de Jaaren 1769 en 1770 bezogt door den Luitenant J. Cook met het Schip De Endeavour.
A uncommon issue of this key map of New Zealand from the Dutch edition of Cook's map of New Zealand, published in 'Reize rondom de Waereld door James Cook', a Dutch editi...
Publisher: COOK, J.
Date: Leyden, Amsterdam & The Hague: Honcoop, Allart & van Cleef, 1795-1801
内務省地理局 (Administratif atlas of the Empire of Japan.)
Atlas of Japan published by the Home Ministry shortly after the start of Meiji period. The atlas contains 16 double page maps, with the border in original out line colors...
Publisher: Home Ministry (内務省, Naimu-shō)
Date: Tokyo, Meiji 14 or 1881
Waere Affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA Gelegen opt Groot Eylant Java.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Date: Amsterdam, 1721