See our article about optical prints.
_{Perspective views were produced from the early eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth, the greatest number of them probably between c. 1740-1790.
Little has been published (particularly in English) on the type of print known as the perspective view, intended for use in an optical diagonal machine.}

Optical prints

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Vue de la Place de St Marc de Venise du côté du port.

Optical print showing the Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale), San Marco Square, and Saint Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco in Venice, as seen from the waterside. The im...

$300 / ≈ €256

Maker / Publisher: CHEREAU, J.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750

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Prospect der Gebäude beij der Realte in Venedig. - Vuës des Edifices du Realte de Venisi. (Buildings near Rialto Bridge in Venice)

Rare so-called optical print illustrating buildings close to the Ponte di Rialto (Rialto Bridge) in Venice. Engraved by Fredrich Leizelt after Joseph Baudin, who was an i...

$300 / ≈ €256

Maker / Publisher: ACADEMIE IMPERIALE
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760

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[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]

Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...

$4000 / ≈ €3420

Maker / Publisher: BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629)
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613

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[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la premiere.

Frontispiece of the second part of the first part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryin...

$350 / ≈ €299

Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J. / C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

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[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]

Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...

$1750 / ≈ €1496

Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

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