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A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
Justification : 16x10cm. RECTO: Five 1-line initials in burnished gold on colored red and blue grounds and 3 line fillers in same.VERSO: One 2-line initial A and three 1-...
Place, Date: Paris, ca. 1445
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[ Traditional tools from New Caledonia ].
Aquatint depicting a variety of traditional tools from New Caledonia engraved by Rossi. Plate N° 72. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoi...
Place, Date: Milan, 1827
Carte de L\'Egypte de la Nubie de L\'Abissinie. . .
Prepared by G.de l'Isle. Uncommon issue by Hendrik de Leth. Very detailed map of northeastern Africa, the Red Sea and the Arabian peninsula shows the political divisions ...
Place, Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Vue du sperbe Temple de St.Sophie .. a Constantinople.
A fanciful depiction of the Aya Sofya in Istanbul. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lon...
Place, Date: Paris, 1800
La Tartaria Chinese.
With decorative title cartouche. Covering north eastern part of China, with good detail in Korea and a curious shape for Hokkaido (here called Jeso-Gasima ).Engraved by G...
Place, Date: Venice, 1784
Nova et Accurata totius EUROPAE Descriptio Authore Frederico de Wit Amstelodami.
General map of Europe richly ornamented with small compass rose and Europa shown riding Zeus in the form of a bull, and several putti holding the title banner aloft.
Place, Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Alssleben.
The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larger paper: she colored it in pastel colors, adding extensive cl...
Place, Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
Place, Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Carte Geo-Hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses Isles..
Map of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico showing the various islands and continental coastlines according to the 18th century Venetian cartography of Rizzi Zannoni.Illustr...
Place, Date: Paris, ca 1783
Erfolgte Kapitulation zwischen dem General Bonaparte und den Gross Leister von Malta. Vor der Hauptstadt Walette zu Maltha, am 10 Juni 1798.
Copper engraving with three scenes and one portrait on one sheet. In upper a view of Bonaparte arriving at Valletta. Published in "Allgemeine Welt-Chronik oder neue ...
Place, Date: Zittau, 1798-1800