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Indian painting on paper.
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 ...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1920
Indian painting on paper.
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 ...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1920
Au quartier Latin.
This image also appears on the Christmas cover of the magazine in 1900. This is the version before the magazine boilerplate was added, but "this black-and-white vers...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1899
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. CII
Text page with wood block cuts on recto MARY AND THE APOSTLES. The Virgin Mary is seated on a throne surrounded by the apostles, among whom we are able to identify Pe...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai] Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXI
The Latin text page is illustrated with a large woodblock cut depiction Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the Law broken and found the Isra...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Plan commercial de la Région Saïgon-Cholon.
Decorative publicity plan of Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon and Cholon, prepared by Ngo-Trinh, surrounded by advertisements of local stores. Th...
Place & Date: Saigon, 1948
Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]
An aboriginal campfire, near the ruins of an old wooden fence, and a dead tree, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
La Curiosite punie, aventure hydrauli-comique et vraie.
A charming and delightful hand colored etching in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century from "Musee Grotesque No. 20" : La Curiosite punie, ave...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Le Curieux.
A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
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...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, 1942
Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor.
War propaganda poster by Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely, distributed in the liberated South of the Netherlands, this poster concerned the Japanese occupation of Indonesia an...
Place & Date: London, J.Haworth / Brother Ltd, 1944
By the Dawn's Early Light.
Original 1940's WW II American liberation poster by Natacha Carlu, published by the French Press & Information Service, New York, N. Y.The poster shows a torch-bearin...
Place & Date: New York, French press and information service, 1945
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: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded Gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
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...
Place & Date: London, ca 1750
Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Emprunt national 6%.n Souscrivez.
Very decorative propaganda poster with design by Mark All of Paris for "Guaranty Trust Company of New York", a JPMorgan Chase predecessor in order to promote th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1918
[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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1563
Actualites. [News]
A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1840
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Air France dans tous les ciels.
Rare travel mini-poster made by Roger de Valerio in 1935. This example is one of the first advertising poster made by Air France. Roger de Valerio (1886 - 1951) is a Fren...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1936
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...
Place & Date: English, ca. 1750-1760
[Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXI].
Recto text page with woodcuts of Kings. Verso text page with woodcuts of Saints and Popes. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, p...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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
Cunard Cherbourg-New York.
Original vintage Cunard luxury cruise liner travel poster advertising Cunard Europe to all America fastest ocean service in the world. Stunning design featuring two color...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1930
The Soviet Political Poster. - a portfolio collection of 32, full-color posters.
An attractive large portfolio set of 32 reproductions of various Soviet Union political posters from 1919 to the 1970s. The large cardboard portfolio folder contains 32 c...
Place & Date: Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1976
Нам знания станут опорой в труде (= Nam znaniia stanut oporoi v trude = Knowledge will become a support in our workforce).
Original vintage Soviet motivational poster by Y. Tupitsyn, with in top Нам знания станут опорой в труде (= Nam znaniia stanut oporoi v trude) ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1977
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
Fly TWA (Miami).
This Miami poster was created in the early 1960's by David Klein (1918 -2005) for TWA. It depicts “hotel row” along Collins Avenue leading to the corridor of South Be...
Place & Date: 1965
Sabena (USA - NYC).
Sabena Belgian World Airlines poster showing the skyline of New York in abstract style. Published by Rali Brisart in Belgium.La Sabena, acronym for Societé Anonyme Belg...
Place & Date: Brussels, ca. 1970
Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris - Femmes Femmes Femmes.
Poster designed by René Gruau for Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris - Festival fantaisie de rêve avec les 40 Doris Girls. Signed in the upper right-hand corner with Monogram G....
Place & Date: Paris, Artis SA Paris, 1973
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1975
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1973
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1974
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1975
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1975
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1974
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1970
[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 ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1978
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
Place & Date: Pars, ca. 1939
Air France dans tous les ciels.
Original lithograph advertising poster for Air France, by Badia Vilato Xavier. Signed in the upper right corner. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air Fra...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1951
(Chatelain "Atlas Historique" in 7 volumes.]
Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose Atlas Historique was one of the most expansive encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie Châtelain, 1732 - 1739
This is our biography.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
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. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
USRR initiatives.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
1917. Enlightened century
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
Save means to increase.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
[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. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986
L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne . . .
A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
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...
Place & Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Malte Vue prise de la Mer. - Malta Vista lomada del mar.
Very decorative view of the Grand Harbour of Malta by Louis Lebreton, published in "Ports de Mer d’Europe" in 1859 by L. Turgis in Paris.This lithography show...
Place & Date: Paris, Turgis, 1859
McCormick's Map of the World.
Colorful promotional map of the 20th century spice trade.What better way to showcase the global composition of a multi-national company than with a world map? This lovely...
Place & Date: United-States, 1931
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Sanitati et Voluptati inservientes herbae thee et caffe.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women, drinking tea or coffee. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mar...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Lusus Lucrum Temporis Iactura.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women playing cards. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mart. Engelbr...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Piscantur tevetes sinuato in gargite pices.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Sic leporem in laqueos agitnat per aperta fugacem - Gramina, siq canes rapidi sua terga sequutur
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Sic ferus exardet in circo taurus aperto - Cum sua terribili petit iritamina cornu.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1577
Sic inter dumos, pregrandi corpore cerus. - In pecus extrorquent dumeta per auia, acuto.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Rotterdam Lloyd, Royal Mail Line. La Méditerranée - L' Egypte - Ceylan - La Malaysie - Les Indes Néerlandaises - L' Australie - L' Indo-Chine - La Chine - Le Japon.
Johann von Stein made this iconic poster for the Rotterdam Lloyd in 1930. This is the rare French version for the tour from Rotterdam to Australia.Johann von Stein (Dutch...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1930
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: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Beschrijving van Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Vervattende een Naukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd [...] met meer dan thien honderd en vyftig Prentverbeeldingen verrykt...
"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text an...
Place & Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726
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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
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
Japan (poster signed by Georges Mathieu)
Dedicated "Pour Benijs Boulanger" and signed "Georges Mathieu", in black marker. Decorative poster advertising flights to Japan made by Georges Mathie...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
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...
Place & Date: Leyden, Amsterdam & The Hague: Honcoop, Allart & van Cleef, 1795-1801
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1721
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch...
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch, Uber die gantze heilige Schrifft, in zwey Bücher geteilet... Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mens...
Place & Date: Magdenburg, 1587
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes. . .
Original poster promoting the French company Montgolfier Renard Charles, manufacture of hot air balloon and dirigibles. Full title Translation: " It is to France tha...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes, Clement Ader, Premier décollage du premier avion, 9 octobre 1890.
Original poster for the historical first take-off of the first plane. Translation: " It is to France that the world owes its wings, Clement Ader, First takeoff of th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Folies Bergères - J'aime à la folie. Hélène Martini.
Original advertising poster for the show "J'aime la Folie!" presented by Hélène Martini in the famous Les Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The Théâtre des ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1971
Folies Bergere - Folies en Folie!
Original advertising poster for the show " Folies en Folie! ", in the famous Les Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The Théâtre des Folies Bergère is a famous...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1975
Folies Bergere - Folies de Paris. La revue de Hélène Martin . . .
Original advertising poster for Les Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The Théâtre des Folies Bergère is a famous Parisian performance hall inaugurated on May 2, 1869 a...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1977
Kort begrip der oude en nieuwe staatkundige Geographie: behelzende eene beschryving der heerschappyen, in welken de aarde verdeeld is, haare gelegenheid. . .
Sixth edition- Interesting geographical compendium, prepared by Johann Hubner en W.A. Bachiene. Of particular interest is the section starting with pages 589 with "O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Covens / Mortier, Utrecht, Poolsum, 1758
Cartes pour le tom V de mineraux. (Atlas des cartes des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée, rédigées d'après la Table des observations ...
Cartes pour le tom V de mineraux. (Atlas des cartes des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée, rédigées d'après la Table des observations magnétiques ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783-1788
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 wha...
Place & Date: Late Edo, 1790