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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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .
Two maps on one sheet, on top a map of the southern portion of Cape Barren Island, Clarke Island, and islets in the southern part of the Furneaux Group.With in lower part...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Carte des Principales Riviers du Globe.
A nice detailed depiction of the principal rivers of the world from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1629
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1895
Het Klooster ten Hage (Marienhage Eindhoven)
Very rare lithography of the ruin of the monastery of Ten Haghe in Eindhoven. Lithographed by M.Mouret, published in "oud-Nederland en de uit vroegere dagen overgebl...
Place & Date: Nijmegen, 1837-1846
Everything that the party has designed, we will do. 12 and five years of specific action.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period (1985 - 1991) by Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — ПÐ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
Selling price: $160
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(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Divisione Militare di Alessandria. Provincie di Casale e di Asti.
"Published in ""Atlante Geografico dell' Italia"". With inset cartouche with detailed plans of the cities of Asti and Casale. Showing the river P...
Place & Date: Florence, 1845
Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing medical chair and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253
Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
3e emprunt de la Défense nationale Crédit Lyonnais. Souscrivez.
Large color lithographed propaganda World War 1 poster. Designed by the illustrator Faivre Abel (1867-1945). A solder placing the French flag on a globe.English translati...
Place & Date: Paris, 1917
[Map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus]
Attractive full page longitudinal map of Palestine, Syria and Cyprus, cut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. The shore line running from Southern Anatolia to the Nile Delta. ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Hippodrome au pont de l'Alma . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Hippodrome au pont de l'Alma . . .", by Jules Chéret (1836–1932). Plate 125, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Le...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
Christophorus Columbus Liguriensis Indiarum Primus Inventor Anno MCCCCXCII.
Portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in north-western Italy. Under th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $200
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Carte des Principales Montagnes du Globe.
A nice detailed depiction of the principal mountains of the world from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isle...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Das Hertzogthum Braband. . .
Charming map of the Dutch and Belgium province of Brabant. With a fine cartouche.
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1749
Het West Indisch Huys.
A decorative print of the West Indian House , the headquarters of the WIC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
Rowntree's Elect Cocoa.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°168. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1899
Save means to increase.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period (1985 - 1991) by Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — ПÐ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2024
Le Turban.
Etching in brown ink on cream laid paper by Albert Besnard (1849–1934) of a young naked woman with feathered turban. Inscribed below the borderline: (left) “A. Besnar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1910
Plan of Yonkers Town of Yonkers Westchester Co. N.Y. . . .
Fine lithographed map of Yonkers, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the ...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Chocolat Menier.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°47. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1897
Thé Ceylan, Darjeeling, Darceyta, Chine.
Ceylon tea, Darjeeling, Darceyta, China. Advertising cardboard. Lithograph enhanced with gouache. Printed in France. King René's Illuminator.Jean Adrien Mercier, born Au...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1980
Province de Sardaigne.
Province de Sardaigne Contenant 9 Col. 1 Sem. 1 Noviciat, 2 Résidences 300 Jésuites". Publiée dans "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuite...
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
USRR initiatives.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period (1985 - 1991) by Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — ПлаÐ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
Selling price: $160
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77e Vüe d'Optique Représentant Les Cascades du Jardin de Vauxhall a Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the fountains and artificial cascades in Vauxhall Gardens, London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
A view of the Gerzay near Iside part. / Vue du port et rade de Gerzay.
A fanciful depiction of the port of Jersey. Engraved by the French engraver Paul Angier after a design by P.Brookes and published by Robert Sayer of London, a well-known ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1760
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Iris . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°180. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1899
Our land is our life...
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster. "Our land is our life. Lost one means lose other."Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1989
Eugenie Buffet ... La chanteuse populaire.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°151. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1899
6e Vüe d'Optique Représentant Le Chœur de la Cathedrale de St. Paul de Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the interior of the Saint Paul Cathedral in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
1917. Enlightened century
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period (1985 - 1991) by Plakat (All-Union...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
Selling price: $160
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Concerts Ysaye . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°40.The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1896
Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang, dans l'île de Timor.
Nice double page view of the town Kupang, formerly known as Koepang. In the center is the Dutch V.O.C. fort. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Vüe Perspective du Pont neuf construit sur la tamise a Hampton-Court.
So-called optical print illustrating a bridge on the river Thames at Hampton-Court.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establish...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Large 13-person library (from Huxian Farmers' painting Exhibition)
A library with students with a western world map at the wall. Published by Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出...
Place & Date: Shanghai, September, 1974 / Janury 1975
Nieuwe kaart van het oostelykste deel van Holland. . .
Detailed map covering the area of Gouda, IJsselstein, s'Hertogenbosch, Zevenbergen, Dordrecht.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1749
[Improve the work of all lines of the transport Conveyor.]
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster from Kommunar Publishing, located south of Moscow in Tula at 150 Friedrich Engels Street. The publishing house also issued the Kommunar ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1984
A Perspective View of the Admiralty Office, Dock-Yard, Storehouses &c. at Amsterdam.
Decorative engraving giving good detail of the intense activity in the Amsterdam dockyards.Engraved for BANKES's New System of Geography
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Certificaat N° 230
Text reads "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 Ass...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1841
The new woman . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°79. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Floride.
A charming map of Florida, also showing Cuba, Golf of Mexico & St Augustine.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
[Atlas] Images du Monde. Atlas Illustré.
In original green publishers green covered cloth covers, complete with a contents table and 33 pictorial maps of countries of the world (including continents and a world ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1942
Aracam.
A rare miniature map of Thailand and Burma. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his 'Caert-Thresoor', the plates were executed by the mos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Carte de l'Empire de Perse. . .
Map of the Persian empire by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini and first published in Santini's 'Atlas Universel dressée sur les meuilleu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
Cacodemon attacking the savages.
Cacodemon ("evil spirit") attacking the savages. Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 370x250 mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Grande brasserie . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°12. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 14. The eng...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Pianta della citta di Livorno.
Very finely engraved and detailed plan of Livorno. Engraved by V.Angeli and included in: Atlante Geografico dell Italia . To the left, a key to the principal buildings a...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Lenin October.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
Nouvelle carte de l'Isle de Java.
A very nice map centred on the island of Java.With French text in title cartouche and an additional title in Dutch underneath the map.Read more Early maps of South East A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Lessive Figaro.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°71. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
IV Compartimento Aretoni. . .
Very finely engraved and detailed map centered on Arezzo and Lago Trasimeno. Lower part three inset plans of Cortona, Arezzo and Chiusi. In upper corners plans of Montepu...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Divisione militaire di Novara. Provincie di Valsesia e di Vercelli.
Very finely engraved and detailed map centered on Vercelli and Varalio. Lower part two inset plans of Vercelli and Varallo and sacro Monte. Engraved by Pietro Manzoni and...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Politica Maramea Inglese - Rugantino - n°419 - Roma 17 Gennaio 1892.
Satirical print relating to the British Conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo–Egyptian War, between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the Un...
Place & Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Indo/Persian, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Miniature about 135 x 150mm. Painted in g...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
Inde.
Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Compartimento Pisano.
Very finely engraved and detailed map centered on Pisa, including Livorno. Centered on the lower part, an inset plan of Pisa. Lower left corner, a key. Engraved by Vetto...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Divisione Militare di Cuneo. Mondovi / Alba.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of Cuneo, centered on the towns of Mondovi and Alba. Lower corners, two inset plans of Mondovi and Alba. Upper right corner, a key. ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from an Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin, on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda)...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 12. The engraving is copi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
DELFT. Delphium urbs Hollandiae cultissima. . .
A bird's-eye view of the town of Delft. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands. In this town-plan, three buildings, still domin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Siberia & Central Asia.
This map covers the eastern section of Russia as well as China, Japan, Korea, India and Tibet. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea a...
Place & Date: Boston, 1835
Proletarians of all countries, connect.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1989
Sexta Etas Mudi. Folio CCLV. (With portret of Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe.
A very fine presentation of the astronomer Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe. A village-scene (Dim. H : 150 mm W : 223 mm) is depicted on the lower...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Indian painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of an Japanese looking couple. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Corte ende waerachtige beschrijvinghe van het Fort de Schencken-Schans. . .
Map of the Schencken-Schans fortress printed with text. Text in Dutch and French.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1635
Carte de L'Empire d'Alemagne par P. Duval. . .
Uncommon map of Germany and the eastern part of Poland. In upper right corner a dedicational cartouche with coat of arms and dedication to Saint-Laurens.
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
[Fan shaped shopping guide to Stockholm.]
A highly unusual and interesting vintage fan-shaped map of Stockholm to illustrate a 'Shopping guide to Stockholm'. Text written in English. With ten fold-out panels prin...
Place & Date: Stockholm, 1960
Entrée des forêts de la rivière Sedger. . .
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Sedger's river in the Chili, with as seen by Dumont D'Urville's, with Indians. Drawn by Louis Le Breton, lithographed by Bich...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Rivage du port Saint-Nicolas.
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Port Saint-Nicolmas Bay in most southern part of South America, with Dumont D'Urville's officers making landfall. Drawn by E....
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Ministry of health warned . . .
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster against tobacco consumption.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1988
De kornet van vuil gewin of wortel en besse postiljon op zyn mager, doch niewlyks gemest varken uitschreewende de kompany is vol.
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Naves Chinensibus usitatae velis arundineis & anchoris ligneis.
A Chinese vessel. Print taken from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Mapa Polski i Krajów Osciennych - Wydanie trzecie. Opracowal Stanislaw Max. Wydani M. Arcta.
‘The Birth of Modern Poland on a map’ - an excellent wall map of Poland and surrounding regions, published in Warsaw near the end of World War I, when Poland’s fate...
Place & Date: Warsaw, [H. Sklodowski], 1918
Ruremunda Gelriae opp.
A bird's eye town-plan of the town of Roermond. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612