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Sic capiunt Ibices iaculo, sic cuspide ferri, / Vel canibus, duro aut flammantis turbinis ictu.
A fine early illustration of capturing a mountain goat hunt. In the left foreground, a group of hunters rest, three dead mountain goats lying beside them; to the right, a...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
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
Sanitati et Voluptati inservientes herbae thee et caffe.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women, drinking tea or coffee. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mar...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Lusus Lucrum Temporis Iactura.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women playing cards. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mart. Engelbr...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Vue & description de l'Eglise du Saint Sepulchre tant par dehors que dedans . . .
Shows various interiors and exterior views of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abrah...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte pour introduire à la chronologie et à trouver les années devant et après Jésus Christ par le moyen des périodes Iulienne, Dionysienne et par les trois cycles comme aussi pour trouver la fête de Pasque. . .
An engraved table showing the years before and after Jesus Christ through the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pasto...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Lapides Bezoar ex Hippototamo, vel Equo marino. Tab CXII.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Lapides Bezoardici Orientales. Tab CXI.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Lapides Porcini. Tab CXIII.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Pila Vitulina. Tab CXIV.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
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
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
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
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
No title: training a horse.
After a design by Silva.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1800
(Interior scene)
Lively interior scene with the men sitting together and drinking around a table whilst the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cooking. Engrav...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
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
K.K. Österreichischer Platz Offizier und Stabs-Feld Arzt.
Rare hand-colored lithograph published in the work on the Austrian Military "Bildliche Darstellung der K. K. Österreichischen Armee". Figurs a military medical...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Vienna, c. 1820
Musee Grotesque No. 56
A charming and delightful hand colored etchings in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century. With title Maudits Bonbons ! (Damn Candies!) An infant is seen ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris ca 1816-1820
The Black Draught. (after Michael William Sharp).
Mezzotint by Henry Edward Dawe (Kentish Town 1790 - Windsor 1848) after a painting of Michael William Sharp (1776? – 1840). Showing a man seated beside table, inclined ...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: London, 1824
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
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
Caricature anti-cholérique. Je sens les gargouillemens. (pl 2)
Original hand-colored lithographed caricature of a young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance as she suspects the onset of cholera. In 1832, there was a devas...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832
Caricature anti-cholérique. Oui Mr Patochard c'est la Révolution de Juyet qui nous a produit ce fleyeau!. (pl 9)
Lithographed caricature on hypochondria and protective measures against cholera: An overweight man seated in a chair surrounded by pitchers and bowls. In 1832, there was ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832
Caricature anti-cholérique.
Lithography with underneath the illustration "Moi je traite le choléra par le champagne, c’est le système Mayeux, nom de D... ! "In 1832, there was a devast...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1832
Mr. Joliv (Plate 346 in la Caricature).
Depicts a portrait of Mr. Adolphe Jollivet, an influential politician of the time. After the July Revolution and the reinstatement of the Freedom of the Press, CHARLES PH...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, La Caricature, November 20, 1833
Cortège du Commandant Général des Apothicaires, le prince Lancelot de Tricanule, à son entrée dans la Chambre de Pairs.
The print shows the procession of the General Command, the Pharmacist and Prince Lancelot moving into the Pairs Chamber (House of Lords). Chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Paris, August 1, 1833
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
Service de santé.
Plate lithographed by Villain, published in Paris in "Costumes de tous les corps de l’Armée et de la Marine Française sous Louis Philippe Ier." Figurs the h...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, chez Martinet Hautecœur,c. 1840
(Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard).
A rare woven silk portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard after Bonnefonds, completed on the Jacquard punched-card loom. Woven by Carquillat in the silk factory of Didier Petit...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1840
Mœurs conjugales. Le trépas du caniche. Oh mon Dieu . . . (Plate 28)
Translation in English of title text: The Demise of the Poodle. - Oh my God, my God, is it possible?.... My poor Zozore, my joy, my consolation, I shall never see him aga...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 30 september 1840
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
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
Robert Macaire. Règlement de comptes. Monsieur de Macaire . . . (Plate 5).
Translation in English of text title: SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. – Monsieur de Macaire, allow me to note that I find your accounts amazing. For a spy, who was charged to k...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Officiers de santé. Médecin Adjoint - Chirurgien Major - Pharmacien Aide M.or.
Plate # 48 of the series "Uniformes de l'Armée Francaise en 1848", drawn and lithographed by Janet-Lange, printed by d'Aubert & C.ie. Figurs a medical offi...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Tout ce qu'on voudra. Moi aussi j'ai été jeune …(Plate 3)
Translation in English of title text: I have also been young . . . I have also been an amiable person . . .I have also been loved . . . And all this did not stop me from ...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Paris, 1847
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
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
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
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
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
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
Les femmes socialistes. Comme vous vous faites belles. . . (Plate 2)
Translation in English of title text: You are really getting dressed up, my dear! - I am going to a banquet presided by Pierre Leroux. And you know how he enjoys beautifu...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Paris, 23 April 1849
Dutch ice-scene.
Attractive lithography showing a typical Dutch ice-scene, lithographed by C.W. Mieling after a painting by J.B. Jongkind. Published in Kunst Kroniek.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: The Hague, 1850
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Turnhout, ca.1850
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
Parti ved Frederikssted (St. Croix).
Early town-views of the small town of Frederiksted on the island of St. Croix. This view shows much of the harbor and a portion of the town's waterfront. one of a series ...
- $950 / ≈ €889
Place & Date: Copenhagen, Baerentzen / Co, 1856
St. Thomas (parti af Byen og Havnen).
A beautiful view of the harbour on the island St. Thomas. This view shows much of the town, bay and surrounding area. One of a series of six lithographs of St. Thomas pro...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Copenhagen, Baerentzen Co, 1856
Frefser.
Etching by Jos Ströber after a design of Loder.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1860
Les plaisirs des Champs-Elysées. Un guerrier electrisé. Le Physicien: tel est…
Published by Bauger, rue du Croissant 16 (lower left). Printed by Imprimeurs d'Aubert & Cie at Aubert, Place de la Bourse. Text was written by Alphonse Jean LAURE...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Bureau de remplacemens militaires. Y a Marchandise …(Plate 38)
Macaire personified the clever business man, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Tout ce qu'on voudra. Jeune et vieille garde...
TOUT CE QU'ON VOUDRA. (As you like it). This series consists of 94 lithographs published between March 28, 1847 and November 30, 1852 in the Charivari. Some of the plates...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Dutch landscape.
Attractive lithography showing a typical Dutch landscape, lithographed by F.H.Weissenbruch after a painting by W.Roelofs. Published in Kunst Kroniek.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: The Hague, 1865
Dutch windmill with sheeps.
Attractive lithography showing a typical Dutch windmill with sheep's on foreground, lithographed by F.H.Weissenbruch after a painting by Jan van Lokhorst. Published in Ku...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: The Hague 1866
Guides interprètes de l'armee d'Angleterre.
A very decorative lithography of English soldiers about 1804.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: France, c.1870
[Game of the goose] Jeu du Jardin Zoologique / Thiergarten Spiel.
Goose board game. With boxes numbered from 1 to 25. The boxes illustrate different animals.Below the title and the game rules in letterpress in French and German.N° 71 ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Wissembourg (Alsace), ca. 1870
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
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
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
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
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
Art arabe. - Mosquée d'El-Bordeyny.
Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
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
Grande baie de salle a manger Louis XVI.
Very decorative and colorful lithography of an elegant French interior. From La Tenture Française, published by G.MathiÞre, 32/34 Rue de Charonne, Paris.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1880
Fantaisie Funebre [ Funeral Fantasy.]
With text below the illustration "-Qui, parlons-en: vous faites un malade bien agréable... j'voudrais... qu'vous n'ayez personne à votre enterrement ! Design by Le...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
[ A set of four humorous illustrations 'Le Malade Imaginaire'.]
A humorous illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" - numbers 68. Shows a smiling, frothing syringe, with hands-on hips surrounded by dancing witches. Small...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
William Tecuseh Sherman The Great General of our small army.
Illustration of General William T. Sherman, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding binoculars, his sword resting on a campstool behind him. Published in Ne...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: New York, 1881
Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 48]
Illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Félix Lorioux . This plate 48 has a caption that roughly translates as: "I hear some great news", Mr ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Turnhout, ca.1900
[Game of the goose] Nouveau Jeu des Singes.
Game of 30 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise, showing apes and in the center apes enjoying a dinner. The example was made by "Imagerie d'Epinal" and in upper rig...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Epinal, ca.1900
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Turnhout, ca.1900
Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 61]
Humorous illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Félix Lorioux. This Plate 61 has a caption that reads: "A doctor, having posed a question to Arga...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 6]
Humorous illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Félix Lorioux . This plate 6 has a caption that roughly translates "There was not a day when Arga...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Sul teatro della guerra (L'entusiasmo patriottico dei Russi) - Rana N. 10 (Cent.10) - Sur le théâtre de la guerre (enthousiasme patriotique des Russes).
Satirical depiction of the Russo-Japanese war, which began in February 1904,we can see the opposed armies of the Russian and those of the Japanese Empire for the control ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Bologna, 11 March 1904
[Game of the goose] Het apenspel.
Game of 73 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game. Outside the board images of monkeys. More about game boards and goose games. [+]
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Senefelder, ca. 1890-1910
[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
'Art déco' illstration.
A beautiful art déco illustration depicting a nice landscape with a woman playing with a hind. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graph...
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930