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[Bantam].
Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[The dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa attacking native Indians]
A brutal scene in which the dogs of the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, ferociously attack native Indians, while the Spanish look on.In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfri...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXXII
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. On verso a large wood cut of A giant colossus, executed by Chares of Lindus (Clare Lydo), t...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Plants, including the canior, diringuo, pucho and chiabe.
In the Indies there are many delightful plants, which include the ‘costus indicus’ (named by the Malays 'pucho') that has a wonderful aroma. Then there is the ‘cala...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The hanging of the head of police Jean Grauwels in Brussels, 11 february 1569.
Print relating to Brussels during the first decades of the eighty year war between Spain and the Low Countries: (plate 18). This plate shows the hanging of the head of po...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
[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
[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
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the East Indian House, the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts we...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
Arcenal de l'Amirauté.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700