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Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position, set in an interior. The miniature has been painted in India in late 19th - early 20th century. The miniature ...
Date: India, ca. 1900
Indian erotic painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in a love-making position, set on a balcony within a landscape in the background. The miniature was painted in India in the late 19th ...
Date: India, ca. 1900
COGNAC PELISSON.
Original advertising poster for the French cognac brand Pellisson, printed by Imprimerie Vercasson, in Paris, designed by Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello, born in ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Anamorphose.
Perspective anamorphosis is an ingenious perspective technique that gives a distorted image of the subject represented in a picture when seen from the usual viewpoint but...
Date: France, ca. 1900
Anamorphose.
Perspective anamorphosis are an ingenious perspective technique that gives a distorted image of the subject represented in a picture when seen from the usual viewpoint bu...
Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Kasteel Heeswijk.
Very fine etching of the Castle of Heeswijk, by the well-known etcher Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach. He was born in The Hague on 12 January 1860 and died in 1937. The ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1901
COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.
A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong K...
Date: London, 1841 - 1901
Carte des Missions Catholiques du Sud Africain.
Map of the Catholic Missions in South Africa. Inset map of L'Ile St. Hélène.Published as supplement of the Les Missions Catholiques. To the lower right an inset key to ...
Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902
![[Soil map] Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia, Leesburg sheet.](/uploads/cache/23257-250x250.jpg)
[Soil map] Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia, Leesburg sheet.
Early color lithographed soil map by Julius Bien & Co. in New York for Department of Agriculture. Legends at side give detail on soil type, etc. They also include int...
Date: New York, 1903
CANTON Kong-Teheou.
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map centered on Macao and Victoria Island, showing soundings, English, Australian, Danish telegraph lines reaching Hong Kong and extended to M...
Date: Paris, 1898 updated for june 1904
Übersichtskarte von Ost-Asien im Maßstabe 1: 5.000.000 mit 14 Beikarten in großen Maßstäben . . .
A large, uncommon map of East Asia prepared by Karl Peucker, and published by Ataria & Co. Striking and heavily annotated with information on China, Korea, Japan, and...
Date: Vienna, Artaria, 1904
A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia. / 滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu.
A wonderful example of the rare 1904 Kisaburo Ohara satirical 'Octopus Map' of Europe being swallowed by an octopus (Russia). Composed at the outbreak of the Russo-Japane...
Date: Tokyo, April, 1904
Hinterindien und Malayischer Archipel.
Map of South East Asia with four insets. Shows settlements, roads, railways, telegraph cables, etc. A color key to Dutch, French, British, and Portuguese occupations. Inc...
Date: Leipzig, 1905
![Manila the perl of the Orient. Guide book to the intending visitor [with several photos and 3 plans of Manila]](/uploads/cache/48356-250x250.jpg)
Manila the perl of the Orient. Guide book to the intending visitor [with several photos and 3 plans of Manila]
Charming 1908 Guide book to with several photos and 3 folding plans of Manilla. Published by the "Manila merchants' association", directed by O'Connell, Daniel....
Date: Manilla, 1908
![[Tartary - Russia]](/uploads/cache/44310-250x250.jpg)
[Tartary - Russia]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Siberia prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vil...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Australia and New Zealand map with Ottoman script.]](/uploads/cache/44313-250x250.jpg)
[Australia and New Zealand map with Ottoman script.]
Post card size map in Ottoman script showing Australia and New Zealand prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكا...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[United States map with Ottoman script.]](/uploads/cache/44314-250x250.jpg)
[United States map with Ottoman script.]
Postcard-size map in Ottoman script showing the United States, prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas: عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44316-250x250.jpg)
[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكو...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Asia map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44317-250x250.jpg)
[Asia map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Asia, prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vilay...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Australia, New Zealand and Oceania map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44319-250x250.jpg)
[Australia, New Zealand and Oceania map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Australia, New Zealand and Oceania prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىك...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44322-250x250.jpg)
[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]
Post card size world map in Mercator projection showing the currents in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمو...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44328-250x250.jpg)
[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps showing the entire world in Mercator projection. The maps are in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياة...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[ North and South America with telegraph cables, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44330-250x250.jpg)
[ North and South America with telegraph cables, with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map showing North and South America with telegraph cables. The map is in Ottoman Arabic-script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولا...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Canberra Contour Survey.
An important large-scale folding map by Charles Scrivener of the present-day city of Canberra, featuring contour lines and elevation data, created as part of the prelimin...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W. July, 1909
Atlas Geographique. (Puzzle).
Three map puzzles, each measuring 25 x 33 cm., housed in the original color printed card case. Geographical jigsaw puzzle set comprising three maps (world, Europe and Fra...
Date: Paris, ca. 1910
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...
Date: Paris, 1910
Map of contour survey of the site for the federal capital of Australia.
Map of contour survey of the site for the federal capital of Australia / drawn on stone by Messrs. O. Fischer and A.G. von Stach under direction of E.S. Vautin ; drawn on...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney, 1910
Topographical map of the Federal Territory, Australia.
This map, published by the New South Wales Department of Lands in Sydney in 1910, depicts the Federal Territory—the area designated to house Australia’s future federa...
Date: Sydney, Dept. of Lands, 1910
![[Lot of 2 maps] Map of part of New South Wales Australia shewing position of Commonwealth Territory / Map of New South Wales Australia…](/uploads/cache/49457-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 maps] Map of part of New South Wales Australia shewing position of Commonwealth Territory / Map of New South Wales Australia…
Two maps depicting the region of New South Wales and the area designated as the future Commonwealth Territory (which later became the Australian Capital Territory).The fi...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney NSW, 1911
Nuevo plano de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y parte del partido de avellaneda . . .
A rare detailed city plan of Buenos Aires prepared in 1912 by Ernesto Escalante. The plan depicts the city from the Partido de Avellaneda and the Villa Riachuelo to the R...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1912
Overzichtskaart van Java en Madoera schaal 1:500.000. Met aanduiding van de politieke indeeling, de organisatie van het bestuur, de bestaande en nog aan te leggen verkeerswegen en van de groote cultuur- en industrieele centra…
If assembled a very large color-printed map (60x 218cm.) of Java and Madoera (Madura Island) on four sheets, each measuring 60 x 54.5 cm, dissected into 12 sections and l...
Date: Atelier Kurkdjian-Soerabaia, 1912
Gazette du Bon Ton Art - Modes Frivolités. (1912/1913 volume)
La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. The extremely rich and vivid colors were achieved through the l...
Date: Paris, 1912-1913
(Postcard of Europe)
During the Great War, when the only means of communicating news to the masses was by newspapers and weekly illustrated magazines, the ‘war’ or 'military' picture post...
Date: Moscow, 1914
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Thacker's Reduced Survey Map of India.
Thacker's reduced Survey Map of India prepared by John Bartholomew and published n Calcutta by Thacker, Spink, & Co. And W. Thacker & Co. in London in 1914.This e...
Date: Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co./ London : W. Thacker and Co., 1914
![[Goose game board] Le 1914 Edition pochette.](/uploads/cache/47214-250x250.jpg)
[Goose game board] Le 1914 Edition pochette.
Goose game in the form of a folding map of north of France and Belgium, with part of England, Germany, Holland and Luxembourg.More about board games [+]
Date: Paris, 1914
Mappa Humoristico da Europa.
A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...
Date: Lisbon, 1914
Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.
This scarce political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time, the Great War. Designed by Johnson, ...
Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co.,1914
Völker Europas wie schön sind eure Geschichter. (World War I post card)
During the Great War, when the only means of communicating news to the masses was by newspapers and weekly illustrated magazines, the ‘war’ or 'military' picture post...
Date: Germany, 1915
![[Cloth Map of Europe]](/uploads/cache/47148-250x250.jpg)
[Cloth Map of Europe]
Anglo-centric cloth map of Europe produced during WWI.Serbia, the spark that lit the conflagration of World War One, isn’t even labeled on this interesting cloth map of...
Date: London, c. 1915
L'Impero della preda ossia la Piovra d'Absburgo.
Austro-Hungarian Octopus zinc lithographed map. A propaganda sheet attacking the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing it as an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the v...
Date: La Zincografia, Milan, c. 1915
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...
Date: Paris, 1917
![[Lot of Five Pacific Brand crate labels]](/uploads/cache/45706-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of Five Pacific Brand crate labels]
Five fruit crate label for Pacific Brand, showing a lemon and a map of the Pacific Ocean, centered on Hawaii and including a part of California and Asia, with also Austra...
Date: Santa Barbara, 1917
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...
Date: Warsaw, [H. Sklodowski], 1918
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...
Date: Paris, 1918
Carte populaire des opérations de la guerre. 2ème édition.
Folding map. War Operations Map showing a part of Europe, published by Epinal.
Date: Paris, ca. 1919
![[This is Great Brittain to-day - Cambridge]](/uploads/cache/43009-250x250.jpg)
[This is Great Brittain to-day - Cambridge]
Chromolithoghraphed plate showing a fancy depiction of the courtyard of a British University (Cambridge). A text in Arabic language explaining about the 20 universities a...
Date: Arabia, ca. 1920
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Cigarettes Saphir.
Beautiful late Art Nouveau style poster for the tobacco brand Cigarettes Saphir. Printed by Imprimerie Moullot, in Paris and designed by Stephano. The poster shows a very...
Date: Marseille, ca. 1920
![[6 Post cards of young woman seated on a globe ]](/uploads/cache/41502-250x250.jpg)
[6 Post cards of young woman seated on a globe ]
Complete set of 6 pictorial post cards showing young women seated on a globe. Signed "Morin". Unsent.More aboutcartographical curiosities [+]
Date: Italy, ca. 1920
Accion de 10 pesos. No. 110,931 (Share certificate)
Beautifully engraved certificate from the "Compania Azucarera de Paraiso Novillero S.A. Republica Mexicana", share certificate No.110,931 for one share, in a $ ...
Date: Paris, 1924
Designs for Porcelains with Chinese design.
In right hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 04509". and the numbers 11.103, 11.141, 11.142, 11,077, 11,101, 10,981. Original design created by the Sevres artist...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for porcelain plate with Chinese design.
In right hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 06502". And the numbers 11.153, 11.154, 11.155. Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for Porcelain ware with Chinese design.
In left hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 05501". Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve as guide...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for two porcelain bowls with Chinese design.
With numbers 4.601, 4.818. In top "Planche N° d'ordre : 03004.Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve a...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for porcelain vase with Chinese motif.
With attractive pattern of a classic Chinese motif. In top "Planche d'aquarelle N° 04510" and the numbers 2,198. Original design created by the Sevres artist G...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for porcelain vases with Chinese motif.
Hand colored design of 13 vases with attractive patterns of a classic Chinese motif. In right "Planche d'aquarelle N° 04004" and the numbers 7.404, 2.074, 8.93...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Travellers' Map of Japan, Chosen (Korea), Taiwan (Formosa) with Brief Descriptions of the Principal Tourist Points of Japan.
An early 20th century map which wss published in Tokyo for English speaking tourists.Very detailed set of maps of Japan and parts of Korea, Taiwan and part of China, show...
Date: Tokyo, 1925
![Hoo Daihiko Kinen Hiko Sugoroku [ [訪欧大飛行記念飛行双六 ]](/uploads/cache/46569-250x250.jpg)
Hoo Daihiko Kinen Hiko Sugoroku [ [訪欧大飛行記念飛行双六 ]
FIRST EDITION. A rare paper board game celebrating a flight from Tokyo to Rome Europe. Published in by Osaka Asahi Shinbun.This color offset-printed sugoroku (a paper “...
Date: Osaka, Taisho 14 or 1925
Le Pal - Nous ne connaissons ni la discipline des partis ni les complaisances de la camaraderie.
Original cover design in pen and ink by Henri Desbarbieux for the satirical bi-monthly journal Le Pal.Not much information is found about Henri Desbarbieux. In this BNF l...
Date: Paris, 1925
Share of 100 Francs. No. 003841 (Share certificate)
Beautifully engraved certificate from the "Société Financière de Madagascar", share certificate No. 003841 for one hundred shares, in a 5,000000 francs loan....
Date: Paris, 1929
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)
Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), began by be...
Date: England, ca. 1930
AUSTRALIE
Detailed folding maps of Australia. In upper left corner "Atlas Universal" and in upper right corner "Carte 78".In lower left "Dessiné: le trait...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
World Flight Routes (all in Japanese).
A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’...
Date: Osaka, 1930
Hongarije.
Poster made for Hungarian Tourist association. The uncommon Dutch version of this fine poster to promote Hungary in the 1930's. Arisztid Uher was a graphic designer. He d...
Date: Budapest, KLOSZ / Sohn., ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Art déco gouache with winter scene.
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache with winter scene of The Palace of Westminster )
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Art déco gouache.
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Five Art déco labels.
5 Lithographed perfume labels laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graphic designer Robert Pichon and hi...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label for Georges Salomon Paris.
Lithographed perfume label "Savon Cold cream N°1531 - Georges Salomon Paris" laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produc...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label Biette Savon - Tein de fleur.
Lithographed perfume label " Biette Savon - Tein de fleur" laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist an...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
