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[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 Ch...
- $60 / ≈ €51
Place & 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...
- $450 / ≈ €385
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
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 ...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Vue de la Rue du Roi, vers la Porte de la Campagne a Boston.
A vue d'optique of the city of Boston. A view of a typical Bostonian street, with buildings opening directly onto the throughway, groups of people, gentlemen, workers and...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
Expulsion et Embarquement des Jesuites des Etats d’Espagne, Par Ordre de S.M.C. le 31 Mars 1767
A large and rare print on the subject of the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and its colonies by Charles III.In the wake of France, the Bourbons of Spain and Italy in...
- $400 / ≈ €342
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
[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 / ≈ €2351
Place & 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 ...
Place & Date: Augsburg 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...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 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...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & 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.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
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 vo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
- $40 / ≈ €34
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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] ...
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 / ≈ €1282
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Rome, 1772-1777
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...
- $100 / ≈ €85
Place & 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 ...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Place & 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...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing medical chair and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it...
Place & 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 / ≈ €43
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
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.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 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 / ≈ €85
Place & Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €256
Place & 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...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & Date: Paris, 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...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
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 Qué...
- $500 / ≈ €427
Place & 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 Qué...
- $450 / ≈ €385
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1780
["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 / ≈ €10260
Place & Date: The Netherlands, ca. 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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 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...
Place & Date: Paris, 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...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Une Kirguisiene par devant. [together with] Une Kirguisienne par derriere.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate showing two natives of Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route between China and the Medit...
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
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 / ≈ €342
Place & 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 / ≈ €342
Place & Date: Italy, c. 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 / ≈ €342
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
Vüe de L'Eglise Cathedrale de Tolede.
A so-optical print of a church in Toledo, Spain, prepared for use in a light-box or an amusing light-show. This richly hand colored print is much perforated, windows are ...
Place & Date: Italy ca 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.
Place & Date: Paris, 1782
Le Braque.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Place & 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 celebrate...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
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 celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
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 / ≈ €769
Place & Date: Paris, Nyon, 1783
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 / ≈ €85
Place & 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 / ≈ €77
Place & 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 / ≈ €128
Place & 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 / ≈ €128
Place & Date: London, 1781-1785
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 Pieters...
- $300 / ≈ €256
Place & Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 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 / ≈ €427
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1785
Donna dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]
Full portrait of a woman, a native from the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the ...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Homme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hébrides dans la Mer du Pacifique. [Vanuatu]
Full portrait of a man from the island of Tanna in the Pacific. New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium was the colonial name for the island group in the So...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Capo della flotta degli Otahiti nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Chef de la flotte des Otahiti dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of the captain of the Otahiti flotilla, from Tahiti. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Potatow Capo dei Tahiti Isola nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Potatow Chef de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of the Hawaiian chief Potatow. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, w...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Otoo, Re di Tahiti Isola nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Otoo, Roi de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of King Otoo from Tahiti. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who acco...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di Pasqua, o terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de Pâques ou terre de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.
Full portrait of a woman, a native of Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in PolynesiaFrom "Raccolta di stampe." a series of histori...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo dell' Isola di Pasqua o Terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Homme de l' Isle de Pâquesou Terra de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.
Full portrait of a native from Easter Island. Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia.From "Raccolta di stampe," a series o...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de S.e Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer du Sud.
Full portrait of a woman from the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by Willia...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Capo dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Chef de l'Isle de Ste. Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of the Chief of the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
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
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 ...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo della nuova Caledonia Isola del Mar Pacifico. / Homme de la nouvelle Calédonie Isle dans la Mer Pacifique.
Full portrait of a native from New Caledonia. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who...
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
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
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 eight...
Place & 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 Venetia...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
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
Prospectus primarii.. turrim rubram Viennae.
So-called optical print, showing Red tower in Vienna.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and L...
- $175 / ≈ €150
Place & Date: Italy c.1790
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
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...
Place & Date: Late Edo, 1790
Donna dell' Isola di Mallicolo una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle d'Erramanga... [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
Loi relative à l'exercice de la pharmacie, et à la vente et distribution des drogues et médicamens. Donnée à Paris, le 17 avril 1791.
Decree of the National Assembly of April 17, 1791 concerning the practice of pharmacy. Published in Saintes (Fait à Saintes le 13 mai 1791) by P. Toussaint, printer of t...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Place & Date: Saintes, P. Toussaint, 1791
[Lot of 8 broad sheets] Campaign indemnities granted to pharmacy students in ambulant hospitals.
Eight campaign indemnities granted to pharmacy students in ambulant hospitals during the French Revolution and the Wars of Vendée. L’Armée des Côtes de La Rochelle (...
- $400 / ≈ €342
Place & Date: Niort, 1793
Cecilia - Cecile.
Painted by Tho. Stothard and engraved by Masetti.
Place & Date: London, 1794
Piano di Nizza.
Rare 1797 manuscript map of Nice, with the French navy attacking from the sea. Unknown author, Italian, but map attributed to an original, probably broadsheet map by Moll...
Place & Date: Italy, after 1797
Tableau des Decouvertes du Cap.ne Cook, & de la Pérouse.
Three series of figures of natives with key below, surrounded by narrow pictorial border.Grasset de Saint Sauveur skillfully wove together two dozen individual scenes fro...
- $2200 / ≈ €1881
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
An Emblem of America / An Emblem of Africa / An Emblem of Asia / An Emblem of Europe.
An Emblem of America : This white female figure of Columbia, emblematic of the United States, represents America in a set of prints of the Four Continents. Standing besid...
Place & Date: London, 1798
Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. L.
A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "http://www.swaen.com/Fleu...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1800
No title: training a horse.
After a design by Silva.
- $75 / ≈ €64
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1800
Chêne commun.
Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . receuil ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius. L.
Bouquet of Seringats. A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fle...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.
The true Nasturtium, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800