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Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.

Propaganda map, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequently d...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: SPK.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941

 


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 ...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: AMMANN, Hans Jacob
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678

 


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...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: ALL, M.
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...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G. B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1563

 


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...

$1100 / ≈ €1029
Maker / Publisher: DE VALERIO, R.
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1936

 


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...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: VERMIER
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1840

 


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...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: English, ca. 1750-1760

 


[Set of five maps] Carte Générale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde

Rare and decorative set of five wall maps of the world and the four continents, prepared by Clouet, in very fine bright contemporary coloring. Each map ca. 965 x 1230 mm ...

$80000 / ≈ €74857
Maker / Publisher: CLOUET, Jean Baptiste Louis (abbé).
Place & Date: Paris and Cadiz, Mondhare, 1785-1793

 


[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...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: BESNARD, A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1910