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40e Vue d'Optique Representant Le Parc Royal de St. James a Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Saint James Park, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality estab...
Date: Paris, 1760
39e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Hotel du Lord Maire de Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Somerset House on the Strand in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many popular specialty estab...
Date: Paris, 1760
26e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Abbaye de Westminster et de l'Eglise Ste. Marguerite à Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Westminster Abbey, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many popular specialty establishments ...
Date: Paris, 1760
Vuë du dedans de l'Eglise de St. MARTIN à Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the central aisle of St. Martin's church, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many popular sp...
Date: Paris, 1760
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 ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1760
The North West Prospect of S. Pauls Cathedral in London.
Uncommon optical print illustrating a view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments ...
Date: Paris, 1760
Vue de la superbe Gallerie de Petersbourg en Russie.
So-called optical print illustrates a perspective view of the interior of a palace in Saint Petersburg.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established ...
Date: Paris, 1761
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
- $450 / ≈ €393
Date: Paris, 1761
![[Three butterflies on one sheet]](/uploads/cache/37419-250x250.jpg)
[Three butterflies on one sheet]
Beautifully hand colored copper engraving of 3 butter flies on one sheet, from "Beyträge zur Natur- oder Insecten-Geschichte". By the engraver and publisher Chr...
- $60 / ≈ €52
Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
Date: Paris, 1761
A minore D: Marci Area Dalmatarum ripam.
A minore D: Marci Area Dalmatarum ripam". View of the Riva degli Schiavoni from the east including the Palazzo Ducale in the foreground. Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto su...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
Prospectus Plateae et Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi prope Pontem Rivi alti.
Prospectus Plateae et Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi prope Pontem Rivi alti". The Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, at right Palazzo dei Dieci and the bridge of Rialto.From ...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
Pons Rivoalti, utriumqque Ripae, et Aedes ad Orientem.
Pons Rivoalti, utriumqque Ripae, et Aedes ad Orientem." From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). 1st state. Published by Lodovico F...
Date: Venice, 1763
Pons Rivoalti ad Occidentem, cum Aedibus Publicis utrique Lateri adjectis.
Pons Rivoalti ad Occidentem, cum Aedibus Publicis utrique Lateri adjectis."From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). 1st state. Publ...
Date: Venice, 1763
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur.
Bucentaurus et Nundinae Venetae in die Ascensionis". The Doge leaving for the Lido on the Bucintoro on Ascension Day.From the series of 12 views entitled Feste Ducal...
Date: Venice, c. 1766
![[manuscript plan] Siège de Schweidnitz en Silésie fait par les trouppes Imperial es commandées par Mr. le de Nadasti ...](/uploads/cache/39893-250x250.jpg)
[manuscript plan] Siège de Schweidnitz en Silésie fait par les trouppes Imperial es commandées par Mr. le de Nadasti ...
This fine manuscript shows the layout of the city of Swidnica with its surrounding defence wall, its advanced bastions and suburbs, roads and two nearby villages. In lowe...
- $2750 / ≈ €2404
Date: France, 1769
Vue des Promenades et les Fontaines d'Ispahan.
Carmine was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.Isfahan was once one of Central Asia's largest and most important cities, at the crossroads ...
Date: Augsburg 1770
Habita a Serenissimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci ad populum allocutione…
Habita a Serenissimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci ad populum allocutione, ab eoque Dux salutatus, Armamentariorum humeris in sella gestatoria cum duobus proxime consanguineis...
Date: Venice, c. 1766-1770
Elevation perspective de la nouvelle place de Petersbourg suivant le projet . . .
Showing a perspective view of the new Palace Square in St. Petersburg. In the 1760s, the Baroque architecture was succeeded by neoclassical architecture.This so-called op...
Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Vue d'optique representant La Douane de Londres sur la Tamise. . .
Showing the Customs office in London seen from the River Thames. Published by Daumont, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in...
Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Réjouissances du Peuple près de la Pyramide d'Illumination, élévée sur l'Esplanade de la Porte de Mars et Distribution de Vivres, fontaines de Vin , sous les Ordres de Mrs. Du Conseil de la Ville, à Reims le 27 Aoust 1765.
Engraved by Varin after Moreau Jr. The print shows a lightning spectacle held in Reims on 27 August 1765.
Date: Paris, 1771
![Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]](/uploads/cache/26108-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]
A view of the Island of Huaheine, Tahiti, a beautiful tropical Owharra tree in the foreground and a depiction of the House of God with its offertory. From the French edit...
Date: Paris, 1773
![Manière dont on expose les morts à Otahiti. [Tome II Pl. 16.]](/uploads/cache/26113-250x250.jpg)
Manière dont on expose les morts à Otahiti. [Tome II Pl. 16.]
A view of a Tahitian funeral home in a beautiful landscape. Engraved by Demouchy. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entre...
Date: Paris, 1773
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[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Date: Amsterdam, 1774
![Cession de l'Isle d'Ohahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Obéréa. [Tome II Pl. 2.]](/uploads/cache/26111-250x250.jpg)
Cession de l'Isle d'Ohahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Obéréa. [Tome II Pl. 2.]
Queen Oberea's transfer ceremony to Captain Wallis on Tahiti.Engraved by François Godefroi. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voy...
Date: Paris, 1774
![Prospect des Plazes vor dem Rath Haus zu Boston. Vuë de la Rue et de la Maison de Ville a Boston. [together with] Prospect der König[lichen] ...](/uploads/cache/34214-250x250.jpg)
Prospect des Plazes vor dem Rath Haus zu Boston. Vuë de la Rue et de la Maison de Ville a Boston. [together with] Prospect der König[lichen] ...
Two so-called optical prints show a decorative imaginary view of the old state house, built in 1657, which was the center of government for the colony of Massachusetts an...
- $1500 / ≈ €1311
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1776
Pio Septimo Pont Max. Bonarum artium restitutori ac vindici D.D.D.
Engraving with etching reproducing the upper half of the north wall of the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' names and dedication to Pope Pius V...
Date: Rome, 1772-1777
Une Kabardinienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme de Tatares Nogais.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi's "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the w...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme tatares de Tchatsk.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi's "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the w...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Fille Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Baskirienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Metcherèke.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Ecclesae R.R.M.M. Ord. Servorum (vulgo Cappuccine) super ripam dictam Fondamente Nuove Prospectus litora versus.
Ecclesae [sic] R.R.M.M. Ord. Servorum (vulgo Cappuccine) super ripam dictam Fondamente Nuove Prospectus litora versus". Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto supra Pontem vulgo ...
Date: Venice, c. 1778
Chirurgie, plate XVIII
Showing bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an inventory of t...
Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate II.
Showing medical instruments and bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is ...
Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate XXXII
Showing medical bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an invent...
Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing a medical chair and a physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopédie. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as...
Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate XIV.
Showing medical bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an invento...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Date: Paris, 1779
Prospect des Haupt Plazes der Untern Stadt zu Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Québe...
Date: Augsburg, ca.1780
Prospect der Strasse gegen der Kirche der Recolecten in der obern Stadt zu Quebec. Vuë de la Rue des Recolets dans la haute Ville de Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Québe...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1780
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[No Title]
A small copperplate engraving showing an elderly lady sitting in her bed chamber, astride a camode , using a cylster, probably to administer an enema to herself. A not un...
Date: France, ca. 1780
Vue Perspective de la Place des Victoires
So-called optical print of la Place des Victoires in Paris. Therefore the image is reversed or mirror-image. One of the well-known publishers of optical prints, establish...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Paris, 1780
![["Kijkkast"]. Viewing box for optical prints](/uploads/cache/49106-250x250.jpg)
["Kijkkast"]. Viewing box for optical prints
A very rare custom made collapsible peepshow in a bookshaped box, late 18th century, folded out 66(h.)x56(w.)x40(d.) cm., 7 hinging cardboard parts painted blue or w. bla...
- $12000 / ≈ €10491
Date: The Netherlands, ca. 1780
Navigatio Piscatorum in glacie quaerentium Balaenam / La navigation dans la glace, et chercher du Baleine.
A so called optical print of the Greenland Whale Fishery with polar bears in foreground. Bilingual title in Latin and French.
- $400 / ≈ €350
Date: Italy, c. 1780
Balaena ramis adigitur ad Navim / La baleine est rame en Navire.
A so called optical print of the Greenland Whale Fishery with polar bears in foreground. Bilingual title in Latin and French.
- $400 / ≈ €350
Date: Italy, c. 1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
Date: Paris, c.1780
![[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.](/uploads/cache/46799-250x250.jpg)
[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.
A nice set of sixteen French professions, or trades, or stage characters. The print is faint on some titles. Some of the characters are a soldier, a doctor, a nun, a lawy...
Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Vue interiere de la Cathedrale de St.Paul a Londres.
So-called optical print, engraved by F.Leizelt. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London...
Date: Augsburg 1780
Navigacio super Glaciem / La navigation sur la glace.
A so called optical print of the Greenland Whale Fishery with polar bears in foreground. Bilingual title in Latin and French.
- $400 / ≈ €350
Date: Italy, c. 1780
Par permission sur l'aprobation des médecins du roi...la véritable Boule de Mars...
Printed broadsheet promoting the "Boule de Mars" (March Ball) produced and sold by Renault in Nancy and Paris. Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France. Pr...
Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
Date: Paris, c.1780
Ceremonie de la grande Feste que les Chinois celebre le 24 de la Lune d'Aoust dans la principale Place de Pekin.
So-called optical print illustrating the festivities on the 24th of August in Beijing.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, at rue ...
Date: Paris, c.1780
Vue perpective de l'Isle de St.Helene appartenant a la Compagnie Angloise pour les Indes Orientales.
Decorative optical view of St. Helena. The island is well-known as after the Royal Navy captured Napoleon Bonaparte, he was held hostage on the island until he died in 18...
- $300 / ≈ €262
Date: Paris, 1780
![Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.](/uploads/cache/32984-250x250.jpg)
Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
![Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.](/uploads/cache/32985-250x250.jpg)
Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
![Un Jacout en habit de chasse par devant [together with] Un Jakout en habit de chasse par derriére.](/uploads/cache/32986-250x250.jpg)
Un Jacout en habit de chasse par devant [together with] Un Jakout en habit de chasse par derriére.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
![Fille tatare à Kousnetsk par devant. [together with] Fille tatare Kousnetsk par derriere.](/uploads/cache/32988-250x250.jpg)
Fille tatare à Kousnetsk par devant. [together with] Fille tatare Kousnetsk par derriere.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
![Femme tatare à Kousnetsk par devant. [together with] Femme tatare à Kousnetsk par derriere.](/uploads/cache/32990-250x250.jpg)
Femme tatare à Kousnetsk par devant. [together with] Femme tatare à Kousnetsk par derriere.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
![Une Kirguisiene par devant. [together with] Une Kirguisienne par derriere.](/uploads/cache/32991-250x250.jpg)
Une Kirguisiene par devant. [together with] Une Kirguisienne par derriere.
1780 - ROTH, Ch. M. Two costume plates showing natives of Kyrgyzstan
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Prospect des Escurials von vornen gegen Madrid / L'entrée de l'Escurial, en perspective.
A so-called optical print of the the entrance to the Escurial at the foot of the Sierra Guadarrama in Spain. Bilingual title in German and French. Engraved by Leizel.
Date: Augsburg, 1780
La Mer Agitée et Naufrage de plusietrs Vassseaux.
So-called optical print illustrating a dramatic rough sea with the wrecking of 3 ships.A so-called optical print by Daumont. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, m...
Date: Paris, 1780
108e. Vaisseaux en pleine Mer.
Optical print of ships in the open sea, by Daumont, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...
Date: Paris, 1780
MARS Rejouissances du Papeguay. Les Triomphes d'un conquerant
Etching published by Louis Charles Desnos (1725-1805) with address of rue St.Jacques au Globe. He is also known for his output of wall maps and atlases.
Date: Paris, 1782
Les Navires des anciens, considérés par rapport à leurs voiles et à l'usage qu'on en pourroit faire dans notre marine, ouvrage servant de suite à celui qui a pour titre ela Marine ...
First edition. The book is giving a description of the different ship types of all parts of the world from its early times till present (1780). Illustrated with 3 folding...
- $900 / ≈ €787
Date: Paris, Nyon, 1783
![Le Palmiste [Pl. 121]](/uploads/cache/21920-250x250.jpg)
Le Palmiste [Pl. 121]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrated t...
Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Le Basset à jambes droites.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrated t...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Le Braque.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrated t...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Le Rachat de l'Esclave.
With a dedication to Monseigneur Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Ministre d'Etat, Controlleur Général des Finances. Engraved by J. Aliamet (1726-1788) after Nicolaes Pietersz ...
- $300 / ≈ €262
Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Red Flamingo.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Red Flamingo from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of his...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: London 1781-1785
Bengal. Vulture, N.° 16.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Bengal Vulture from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of h...
- $90 / ≈ €79
Date: London, 1781-1785
Green Partridge.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Green Partridge from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of ...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Date: London 1781-1785
Hackled Partridge.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Hackled Partridge from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the pre?eminent ornithologist...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Date: London, 1781-1785
Embarquement de vivres.
With a dedication to Monseigneur le Comte de Saint Florentin Commandeur des Ordres du Roy. Engraved by Jac. Philippe Le Bas, who was also engraver for "Cabinet du Ro...
- $500 / ≈ €437
Date: Paris, ca. 1785
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-c...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna della nuova Caledonia Isola del Mar Pacifico. / Femme de la nouvelle Calédonie Isle dans la Mer Pacifique.
Full portrait of a woman from New Caledonia. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who ...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo del Canale di Noël della terra del Fuoco, nel Mar Australe. / Homme du Canal de Noël de la terre de Feu dans la Mer Australe.
Full portrait of a man from Christmas Sound, in Tierra del Fuego This engraved print on laid paper is from "Raccolta di stampe," a series of historically signi...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo del Paraguai nell' America Meridionalle. / Homme du Paraguai dans l'Amerique Meridionalle.
Full portrait of a person from Paraguay. From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetian...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Indiana del Perù. / Indienne du Perou.
Portrait of a Peruvian Indian woman holding a fruit basket and a lama in the background. From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eighte...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
