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Le Triomphateur. (Plate 449 in La Caricature)
Thiers is being appointed Minister of the Interior and was elected in 1834 to the French Academy (therefore the oversize goose feather). This represents the victory of Th...
Place & Date: Paris, December 18, 1834
Athéniens prenez garde à Philippe ! (Démosthènes aux Athéniens). (Plate 454 in La Caricature)
A comedian dressed in a toga is warning the audience to beware of King Louis-Philip. The allusion is to Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) warning the Athenians of the upcoming d...
Place & Date: Paris, January 8, 1835
Yeux noirs, front haut, teint brun, barbe, favoris...c'est bon! ...on te reconnaîtra, mon gaillard. (from La Caricature, Plate 391)
A man is sick and lying down on a bed while a doctor is examining him. This print most likely refers to the uprising in Lyon and Paris of April 9 to 14, 1834 and shows a ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
(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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Soyez donc poli. i.. impertinent!! (Leçon de Civilité puérile et honnète). (Plate 1 from the Charivari, Scènes grotesques)
Translation in English of title text: Be polite, you uneducated flail…(Lesson in juvenile civility and honest courtesy)..The old gentleman is slapping the young boy who...
Place & Date: Paris, June 19, 1839
Tailleur vous me demandez de l'argent, mais je n'en fais pas et je fais des portraits..... prenez ça c'est Mme votre épouse que j'ai faite de souvenir. (Plate 6 from Le Charivari, Scènes grotesques.)
Translation in English of title text: "Tailor, you ask for money, but I am a painter and I don't make money. Here, take this portrait of your wife. I drew it from me...
Place & Date: Paris, November 29, 1839
(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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye town-view of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Art déco
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Combat de Tchang-Ki-Ouang 18 septembre 1860.
Plate VI from "Atlas de l'expédition de Chine en 1860: rédigé au dépôt de la guerre d'après les documents officiels, étant directeur le général Blondel, sou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1862
Le vray portraict de la Ville de Marseille.
Fine wood cut bird's-eye view of Marseille. Decorated with several ship in the harbour and on the sea. To the left two keys describing the main buildings and places. Publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Le Isole del Giappone e la Corea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Japan and Korea, with large decorative title cartouche. The map has a very unusual, almost triangular, repr...
Place & Date: Rome, 1797
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this modern map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, for the first time it "clearly shows the island of Bahrain and Qatar".T...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe celeberrima notissimaque, caput regni Franciae.
Early bird's eye view of Paris, called at the time Lutetia. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Massilia - Marseille.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Marseille. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Flandria Barbantia e Holanda No.
Gastaldi's modern map of the Low Countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It includes parts of England, France and Germany.According to van der Heijden This ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Nova Europae descriptio.
A fine "carte à figures"- map with four panels in columns on each side show portraits of Kings and Queens of European countries. The top border contains panora...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Veue de Nice.
Engraved birds eye view of Nice. Shows rivers, canals, bridges, landmarks, farms and buildings. Relief shown pictorially.
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
The spot where General Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates.
Decorative print after Jacques Milbert, and lithographed by Sabatier and the figures by Victor Adam.From Amérique Septentrionale. Printed by de Bove and Noöl ainé &...
Place & Date: Paris, 1829
Projet de la forteresse de Nice.
Nice city plan of Nice at the Mediterranean sea. From the " Les forces de l'Europe, ou description des principales villes, avec leurs fortifications".
Place & Date: Leiden, 1729
Valencena . . .
Eye-bird view of Valenciennes.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1590
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Homme Kamtschadale [together with] Femme Kamtschadale.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Die statt Montpellier . . .
Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Below the engraving a letterpress key. From the German edition of Sebastian Munster's Cosmography, "Cosmographey...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1574
(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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Poland from the best authorities.
Detailed map of Poland from "A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar", by William Guthrie. William Guthrie (later engraver for Carey) London, UK....
Place & Date: London, 1805
Carte générale de L'asie . . .
Uncommon map of Asia prepared by Felix Delamarche, after R.de Vaugondy. In the right hand a lengthy description of geographical details of the different European countrie...
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
Veüe de Nice.
Engraved birds eye view of Nice. Shows rivers, canals, bridges, landmarks, farms and buildings. Relief shown pictorially.
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
(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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Workers - Hu Xian Peasant Painting.
Published by Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出版社). A fine Chinese propaganda poster at the tim...
Place & Date: Shanghai, September, 1974 - variant 1975
Porte du Palais du Soultan Beybars. (XIIIe. siècle)
Highly decorative lithography by Ch. Fichot, showing the walled-up entrance of Sultan Beybars' palace. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
En Chine.
From the series "Caricatures du Prussien - Guerre des Duchés". Lithographed by Julés Pelcoq.
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Géorgie.
Uncommon miniature map of Ukraine, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smal...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Département des Apennins Divisé en 3 Arrondissemens et en 18 cantons.
Published in the "Atlas National de France" at Chanlaire. Engraved by P.A.F. Tardieu. Represents the department of Apennines which was under French administrati...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790-1811
General karte vom europaischen Russland.
Rare second edition of a lithographed wall map of the European part of the Russian empire, at a scale of about 1:3,200,000. With the title in a elaborately decorated lett...
Place & Date: Weimar, Geographisches Institut, 1840
Plan des paroisses de Paris avec la distinction des parties éparses qui en dépendent dressé... par J. Junié, Ingén. Géogr. De Monseigneur l'Archeveque et géomètre des Eaux et forêts de ...
Large wall map size plan of Paris in 4 separate sheets, if joined forming a plan of Paris of 93 x 60cm. This plan is a 1904 version of a manuscript plan drawn in 1786 by ...
Place & Date: Paris, Service des Travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris, 1904
Oldenburg Comitatus
A map of the northern part of Germany centered on Oldenburg. Also showing Bremen. North to the right. The decoration consists with a windrose and a title cartouche surmou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
(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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Republica Argentina.
Unique manuscript map of Argentina. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congress) E...
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
Plan of the Attack of Camaret Bay, on the coast of Bretagne, thro which lies the Harbour of Brest.
An interesting copper engraved plan of the Fortification of Camaret in Bretagne (France), with an attractive rococo cartouche, showing an overview of the battlefield and ...
Place & Date: London, 1743