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Oursins.
Showing sand dollars, sea urchin, etc. engraved by Macret. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he tra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii. / Representation en perspective de la partie inferieure d'un arsenal. . .
RARE. Engraved optical print by Georg Balthasar Probst of a arsenal.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Seringat odorant - Philadelphus coronarius L.
Sweet Mock-Orange, English Dogwood engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dess...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Eadem Aurantia Dimidiata.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Mr. l'avocat a rendu pleine justice au rare talent déployé par le ministère public dans son réquisitoire; ...
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 16. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : Th...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
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 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
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
(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
AU CAFÉ D'AGUESSEAU. En attendant l'audience, Démosthène déjeune aux frais du client, le bifteck aux pommes pousse à l'éloquence...
Third state (of 3), with text, numbered 23. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : AT ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
Quel dommage que cette charmante petite femme ne m'ait pas chargé de défendre sa cause...... comme je plaiderais que son mari est un gredin!....
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 24. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image :...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
Monument Sépulcral près de Kymân El-Gyouchy. (XVIIIe. siècle)
Highly decorative lithography by Asselineau, representing a mausoleum. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire?". Emile Prisse d'Avennes,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Aliae Formae Citrati Limonis Alios Includentis.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Dis donc, mon vieux tous les hommes qui passent m'ont l'air de tourner . . . C'est donc l'qu'artier des hommes politiques par ici ? . . . ( Tout ce qu'on voudra. - Plate 66).
Translation in English of title: Tell me, my friend, all the people who walk in this area turn around... could it be that this is the politician's district ? TOUT CE QU'...
Place & Date: Paris, 22 August 1850
DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253
Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 12. The engraving is copi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 14. The eng...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 15. The engr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Mon cher Monsieur, il m'est absolument impossible de plaider votre affaire..... il vous manque les pièces les plus importantes...... (à part) les pièces de cent sous!....
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 20. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image :...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
![[Lot of 8 broad sheets] Campaign indemnities granted to pharmacy students in ambulant hospitals.](/uploads/cache/48381-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Niort, 1793
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 / ≈ €374
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 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 5
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
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 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Lampreta, Rayu, Erica, Lira. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Lampreta, Rayu, Erica, Lira, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 4. The engraving is copied after Ad...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Theatre du Trianon. Papagallo No. 2. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Gli organi rompitesta. Papagallo No. 52. Anno V.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1877
Ultimi momenti di Don Carlos. Papagallo No. 33. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
L'Orsa Balla. Papagallo No. 30. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Un Posto mal fermo. Papagallo No. 5. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
I diritti da discutersi al congresso di Brusselle. Papagallo No. 32. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Vous m'avez injurié dans votre plaidoirie, mais je saurai bien vous forcer à m'en rendre raison!... - Monsieur, apprenez que je ne vous crains pas!.. J'ai au plus haut degré, le courage civil ...
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 9. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
Vuë de la Mer au Soleil couchant.
Optical view of a sunset on the seacoast, by Daumont who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $200
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Vous aviez faim ... vous aviez faim...ça n'est pas une raison ... mais moi aussi presque tous les jours j'ai faim et je ne vole pas pour cela!....vol j'espère être plus heureux!......
Second state (of 3), with text, numbered 15. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Translated text below...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
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
Anguilla, Congrus, Orbis, Tesludo marina, Tesludo. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Blowfish, turtle, eel, etc. set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 7. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
![[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]](/uploads/cache/26445-250x250.jpg)
[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
(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
![Figure 40 deuxieme partie. [Hors riding]](/uploads/cache/14165-250x250.jpg)
Figure 40 deuxieme partie. [Hors riding]
This fabulous illustration depict formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at an age of 16...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris 1629
Anti-dandy infantry triumphant or the velocipede cavalry unhobby'd. (pl 353)
Scene on a high-road passing through a village. Those who see their livelihood threatened by mechanical transport attack the riders of velocipedes. In the foreground a di...
Place & Date: London, 1819
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
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 / ≈ €187
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 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Canis marinus. Cuculus. Silurc (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Two seals and fishes, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 3. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert plate ...
- $275 / ≈ €257
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Cepola, Rosmarus, Adonis, Hirunda. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Cepola, Rosmarus, Adonis, Hirunda, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 5. The engraving is copied af...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Carpio. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Different types of carp, widespread freshwater fish, are set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 9. The engraving is ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Pusser, Percainus, Salino. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Salmon and other fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 11. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert plate...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Perca, Tinca piscis. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Perca, Tinca piscis. Fish types set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 16. The engraving is copied afte...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Campanule gantelée. - Campanule trachaelium L.
Bouquet of poppy flowers, 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'a...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Faut-y faire une lettre pour l'attendrir?....
Third state (of 3), with text, numbered 3. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : -...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
Ce qui m'chiffonne c'est que j'suis accusé de douze vols!.. - Il y en a douze... tant mieux... je plaiderai la monomanie!…
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 19. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29". Text below image ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
![[Louis-Philippe teaching geography and mathematics in Reichenau, Switzerland]](/uploads/cache/47439-250x250.jpg)
[Louis-Philippe teaching geography and mathematics in Reichenau, Switzerland]
Lithograph by Chrétien after painting by David showing Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) the last king of France (1830-1848), in Switzerland teaching geography and mathematics ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
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...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Toujours des sangsues!
Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832
Et dire que voilà trois de mes prévenus que je n'ai pas pu faire condamner! .... je vais être perdu de réputation!..
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 12. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : - ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
![Actualites. [News]](/uploads/cache/46547-250x250.jpg)
Actualites. [News]
A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1840
Robert Macaire. Excellent Placement. Comment Ernest . . . (Plate 14).
Translation in English of text title: An excellent investment. - What do you mean, Earnest, you have 100'000 Francs and you don't want to give them to me, you must have l...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Caricature anti-cholérique La peur du mal donne le mal de la peur. (pl 1)
Caricature on hypochondria and protective measures against cholera. An overweight man seated in a chair surrounded by pitchers and bowls. In 1832, there was a devastating...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1830
Et parlant à sa portière ainsi déclarée, lui ai signifié qu'il eut à obtempérer à la dite sommation, sinon et faute de ce faire,…
Third state (of 3), with text, numbered 10. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29". Text below image :...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
Robert Macaire. Inventaire chez un veuf. Mon Dieu! Messieurs . . . (Plate 9).
Translation in English of text title: Inventory at a widower's. My God, gentlemen, I must really apologize! Since the death of my poor wife I was so much in pain, so much...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1840-1841
(Des Galeres - Shipping scene)
Miniature view of a vessel, showing the various types of sails. With key list in upper left corner.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 16...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
GALERE
Miniature view of a galley. From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military en...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Mellon Scarlet fresh Rock.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 10
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
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 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
![[Butterflies]](/uploads/cache/25584-250x250.jpg)
[Butterflies]
Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 13.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 27.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tres renomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 19.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
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 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Saintes, P. Toussaint, 1791
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 12
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 11
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Le Parterre du Palais Royal.
View of the Palais Royal published by I. Mariette. Etched by Gabriel Pérelle (1603-1677) and included in "Veues des plus beaux bastimens de France". Plates for...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1700 - 1707
![[Butterflies]](/uploads/cache/25585-250x250.jpg)
[Butterflies]
Plate CLXXXIII from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Ja...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Société du Clystère. Robert Macaire philantrope. Vois-tu Bertrand . . . Caricaturana (Plate 2)
Translation in English of text title: Robert Macaire, philanthropist. You see, Bertrand... We are moralists in actions (play on words: actions means stocks). .... In acti...
- $275 / ≈ €257
Place & Date: Paris, 1838
ABIETUM phyllulae et pulvini.s. Tab. 137.
From his famous work 'Flora Japonica'. Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 15.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 14.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
![[Game of the goose] Nieuw vermakelijk Ganzenspel.](/uploads/cache/48338-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Nieuw vermakelijk Ganzenspel.
Goose board game. Oval with boxes numbered from 1 to 63. Every box shows an image of a person, a goose, a building or dice. In the middle a large oval with a goose. Child...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Weisenburg, ca.1910
Locataires et Propriétaires. La reconduite du propriétaire. (Pl 27)
A couple is saying goodbye to their landlord as he leaves their apartment. From "Locataires et Propriétaires" [Tenants and Landlords], number 27, published in ...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Paris, Le Charivari, December 2, 1847