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The island of Formosa.
A small, but historically important map of Taiwan (the first American lithograph of Taiwan) made by the American Commodore Matthew C. Perry and published by Ackerman. The...
Place & Date: New York, 1856
Concours international de chant . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Concours international de chant . . . .", by DONNAY, A. Plate 59, published in Maître 15, on Fébruary 1897. The "Les Maitres...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
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
[Title in Russian; translated to : Believe in the power of a nuclear trucheon - It's up to you to celebrate a wake. ]
Propaganda mini poster published in Russia during The Cold War (1979–1985). The time refers to the phase of a deterioration in relations between the Soviet Union and th...
Place & Date: Russia, 1982
L'Homme A La Boule.
Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871
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
ANTIBES, Ville et Port de Mer de Provence, sur la Mer Mediterranée.
Early plan of Antibes. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Place & Date: Paris, 1693
Huile de Calamite.
Oil to heal all ailments, only distributed by François Giramo, who alone owns the secret. Surrounded by a decorative border and the Royal coat-of-arms.With privilege of ...
Place & Date: France, c.1790
[ Portraits of Motezuma II and Cortes ].
Aquatint depicting two portraits of Motezuma II and Cortes engraved by Gallina. Plate N°63.Montezuma II was trained as a priest and rose to become leader of the Aztecs i...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..
Title page from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vri...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1604
P.les de Virginie.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a couple of native people of Florida.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Oostindische Zeemagazijn. & De Werf van Het Oostind. Zeemagazijn.
Two decorative lithographies on one sheet, illustrating the V.O.C. East Indian Arsenal and the naval shipyard.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1840
'S Lands Magazijn en Werf. [&] Het Oostindischehuis.
Two decorative lithographies on one sheet. View of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaartsmuseum' (Maritime Museum) on top. On the bottom the East Indian House , the hea...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1840
[Text page with Kings and historical personalities.] Quita etas mundi. Foliu. LXXXIII
Text page with woodcuts of Kings and historical personalities.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXVI.
Recto verso text page with woodcuts of Kings, Queens, Saints (St.Cecilia), Popes and historical personalities. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Koreische Fischerfamilie. Famille de pecheurs de Corea.
A Korean family of fishermen playing a board game. No.9' above image. From "Schinz Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stämme&...
Place & Date: Zürich, 1845
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
(Shipping)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With explanatory text on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By All...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Helmond.
A panoramic view of the Helmond, seen from the Kromme Steenweg .
Place & Date: Arnhem, 1613
Plan of the Borough of New Rochelle, Westchester Co. N.Y.
Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Borough of New Rochelle. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and phys...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Porte de Harlem (Heemstede/Haarlem)
Showing the Haarlemmer Poort (gate) in Heemstede near Haarlem. Likely published by Mondhard, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St.Marti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
[Title page] La Sphere Royale.
Title page from Nicolas de Fers "La Sphere Royale", published in 1717. Showing a sphere, surrounded by Neptune, Europe, the elements and scholars.
Place & Date: Paris, 1717
Cazal. (Casale Monferrato)
A rare panoramic of Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region. Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He was also a print-publisher and print-seller. H...
Place & Date: Paris, 1690-1730
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
Aux buttes Chaumont.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Aux buttes Chaumont.", by CHERET, J. Plate 141, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" c...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving depicting the use of the vanishing point. From Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instructi...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Map of Formosa. My hunting place.
An unusual hand drawn map of Formosa with an inset plan ‘My hunting place’. The map has the major cities marked in red ink and was made during Japanese occupation. Th...
Place & Date: Chiayi, Formosa, ca. 1940
Du sang à l'aube.
Original lithographed poster for the Spanish movie "Blood at dawn" (1948) directed by Rafael Gil, based on the novel by Blasco Ibanez. Poster designed by Duccio...
Place & Date: Paris, 1948
[ Aztec low relief representing ancient warriors ].
Aquatint depicting an Oaxaca monument representing a warrior engraved by Bonatti. Plate N°67.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouv...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Title page] Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. . .
The lovely title page from Homann's Grosser Atlas uber de Gantsa Welt (Grand Atlas of all the World)with striking color and features. It shows Atlas and Hercules / Herakl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1737
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Romani Imperii Oriens est Descriptio Geographica. . .
A fine map of the Near East. The map was first published by Tavernier and later by Mariette. This edition is dated 1637 with the address of Pierre Mariette at rue S. Jacq...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1637
St Tropez.
Early plan of St.Tropez. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Place & Date: Paris, 1693
[ Mexican weapons ].
Aquatint depicting an Oaxaca monument representing a warrior engraved by Bonatti. Plate N°66.Oaxaca is the historic home of the Zapotec and Mixtec peoples, and contains ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Rhodopsin Vistana Czechoslovakia 1895 . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°56. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1897
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...
Place & Date: Germany, 1915
(Title page) Campi phlegraei ou observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, . . .
Etched and mezzotint title with in the center an eruption of volcano in Sicily.William Hamilton, an English diplomat in Naples to the Kingdom of The Two Sicily's, was a g...
Place & Date: Paris, Lamy, 1799
Henna ardera deel. De vijfde Grietenije van de Wester goo. . .
Very detailed map of "Henna ardera deel. De vijfde Grietenije van de Wester goo" in Friesland prepared by Bernardus Schotanus Steringa. With decorative title ca...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, 1718
[Canadian Indian traditional garments ].
Aquatint depicting Canadian Indian traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°32.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernem...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
The Greyhound Map of This Amazing America. . .
A large colored lithograph map of the USA, published by the Greyhound Corporation during the second world war. The map demonstrates where all the Greyhound bus routes int...
Place & Date: United States, 1941
A view of Amsterdam taken from the Old Rampart.
So-called optical print of Amsterdam, published by Jean Mondhare after a print by Laurie and Wtitle. With captions in English and French above and belowIn the eighteenth ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1760
First annual exhibition in the United States . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°112. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
Hassia Landgraviatus.
Centered on the town of Kassel.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
[ Mexican traditional garments ].
Aquatint depicting Mexican traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°83.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Human sacrifice.]
Aquatint depicting a human sacrifice engraved by Gallina. Plate N°72.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Tombeau de Soultan Qalaoûn.
Lithograph by Bernard Schmidt representing the tomb of sultan Ibn Qalaoun, founder of the mamluk dynasty during the 13th century. The tomb has some rich stained glass and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
La Dépêche Grand Format.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°140. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
Carte du Kouy-Tchéou.
Detailed map of Guizhou Province prepared by Mgr. Faurie and other sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les Missions Catholique". Engraved by P. Méa...
Place & Date: Lyon, c.1874
Candie.
A panoramic view, showing the Turkish siege of Candia, with a numbered key (1-33) at the bottom locating 33 points of interest. of Crete coast and the Turkish vessels (33...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1678
Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]
Map of Tche Kiang, prepared by Bishop Edmond-François Guierry, C.M. (Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang, China) after sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les M...
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
[ Regla columnar basalt quarry ].
Aquatint depicting columnar basalt quarry engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°60.This common extrusive volcanic rock is used for highway construction, railroad ballast, and t...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Sibyl d'Ahmed Hoceyn Margouch.
Lithograph by Fichou. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist & Muslim convert, obsessive in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
[ Azrec Idols ].
Aquatint depicting Aztec idols engraved by Gallina. Plate N°698.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Charming small manuscript leaf from an French Book of Hours written around 1470 in or near Rouen.VERSO: 14 Lines of text in Latin five 1-lines initial in liquid gold on b...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
[ Mechoacan Indians traditional garments ].
Aquatint depicting Mechoacan Indians traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°85.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvern...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Set of two maps in north and south pole projections, with orographic profile of mountains and oceans, with volcanos with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps with north and south pole projections, below each map orographic profiles of mountains and oceans, with volcanos. The maps are in Ottoman script pr...
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Oost-Indis Zee Magazyn - Arçenal des Indes Orientalis.
Decorative view of the East Indian Arsenal, now-a-says the Maritime Museum.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
[ Hieroglyph Christian calendar written in an Aztec style ].
Aquatint depicting Hieroglyph Christian calendar written in an Aztec style engraved by BonattiB. Plate N°84.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou H...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
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
Harlekin en Bombario en den rouw.
Harlequin and Bombario in mourning, taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
[ Jorullo Volcano ].
Aquatint depicting the Jorullo Volcano engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°61.El Jorullo is a cinder cone volcano in Michoacán, central Mexico in an area known as the Michoa...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Emir Fechrredin prince des Drus.
Engraving published by Nicolas Bonnart (c.1637 - 1718), engraver in Augsburg since 1719. Before the nineteenth century portraits of rulers in the Islamic Middle East were...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1740
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
Otago Capo dell'Isola d'Amsterdam nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Otago Chef de l'Isle d'Amsterdam dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud. .. [Tongatapu, Tonga]
Otago was a native of the island of Tongatapu, Tonga. The island was first sighted by Europeans in 1643 by Abel Tasman, commanding two ships. “Tasman named the island &...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Dona del Regno di Granata. / Femme du Roy.me de Granade.
A full portrait of a woman from Granada, situated at Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca. From "Raccolta di stampe", a series of historically significant eighteenth...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola d' Erramanga una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l'Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]
Full portrait of a woman, native of the island of Erramanga in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di Mallicolo una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud. [Vanuatu]
Full portrait of a woman, a native of the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
[View of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon ].
Aquatint depicting a view of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°46.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire d...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Cape Colony.
A decorative steel engraved map from the famous Victorian publisher John Tallis and Company, published ca.1851. Drawn and engraved by J Rapkin, while the four corner vign...
Place & Date: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, 1851
Punishment of China.
The Chinese way of a punishment from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fr...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Een ander gesicht van de Oost Indische Werf: uyt het Ye.
Decorative engraving giving good detail of the entrance of the IJ with in the background the ship building wharf of the V.O.C. and its ware house, presently the Maritime ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
Het Oost Indisch Huys op de Suyd hock..
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, 1720
Borneo (together with) The Philippine Islands.
Two maps on one sheet. Both maps are highly detailed, filled with place names. The Philippines are shown from the Bashee Islands in the north to the Sooloo Archipelago in...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1858
Canada Creek Falls . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°32. Pl. 4.
A view of the Canada Creek Falls.From 8e Livraison Amérique Septentrionale - Etat de New York. After Jacques Milbert and lithographed by Dupressoir and figures by V. Ada...
Place & Date: Paris, Bove dirigée par Nöel ainé & Cie, 1892
[ Hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess ].
Aquatint depicting a hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess engraved by DKB. Plate N°68.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases, skeletons and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540