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La Ara Rouge. Le Ara Bleu.
Noteworthy bird print from 1839 Furne edition of the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.Engraved by Pardinel after ...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Paris, 1838 - 1839
Tailleur vous me demandez de l'argent, mais je n'en fais pas et je fais des portraits..... prenez ça c'est Mme votre épouse que j'ai faite de souvenir. (Plate 6 from Le Charivari, Scènes grotesques.)
Translation in English of title text: "Tailor, you ask for money, but I am a painter and I don't make money. Here, take this portrait of your wife. I drew it from me...
Place & Date: Paris, November 29, 1839
Soyez donc poli. i.. impertinent!! (Leçon de Civilité puérile et honnète). (Plate 1 from the Charivari, Scènes grotesques)
Translation in English of title text: Be polite, you uneducated flail…(Lesson in juvenile civility and honest courtesy)..The old gentleman is slapping the young boy who...
Place & Date: Paris, June 19, 1839
Guide de Florence et de ses environs Redige´ sur un plan entierement nouveau par l'Abbé A. Bulgarini et Traduit en français par A. Le Rendu. Deuxième édition.
Second edition. With 1 engr. folding plan (Pianta della Citta di Firenze. I. Balatri inc. e scris.) and 12 copper plates with views in Florence. The folding plan has meas...
- $550 / ≈ €485
Place & Date: Florence, Gaspard Ricci, 1839
Orbis Veteribus Notus.
This is a detailed steel-engraved map of the ancient world, stretching from Europe eastwards to the Black Sea and beyond, southwards through northern Africa, Arabia, Indi...
Place & Date: London, 1839
England.
A large and detailed steel engraved map of England, with each county divided by a different color. Many place names and physical features shown - it shows how densely pop...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Scotland.
An attractive steel engraved map of Scotland, with each county divided by a different color. Many place names and physical features shown.The Arrowsmith family members we...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Sweden & Norway.
An attractive steel engraved map of Sweden & Norway. An inset map which is the continuation from Tornea to North Cape. Many place names and physical features shown.Th...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Holland & Belgium.
An attractive steel engraved map of Holland and Belgium. Map flanked by France and Prussia. Duchy of Luxembourg included. Many place names and physical features shown. 4 ...
Place & Date: London, 1839
France.
A lovely, large steel engraved map of France, with an inset sketch of France divided into provinces, plus small inset map of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica . ...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Western Germany.
A lovely, large steel engraved map of Western Germany. Some of the states engraved are: Holstein, Hannover, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Bavaria, Württemberg and Nassau. An extr...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Prussia & Poland.
A glorious, large steel engraved map of Prussia and Poland. Some of the states covered are: Saxony, Pomerania, Posen, Brandenburg, Western & Eastern Prussia and the K...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Russia & Poland.
A glorious, large steel engraved map of Russia and Poland. Covering Poland and Finland in the west, as far south as to the very edges of Persia, the Black sea, and to the...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Austrian Empire.
A, large steel engraved map of the mighty Austrian Empire, covering Austria, Dalmatia, Styria, Slavonia, Hungary, Transylvania, Moravia and Bohemia. An enormous amount of...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Greece and the Ionian Islands.
A large steel engraved map concentrating on Greece and the Ionian islands. Featured are Albania, Corfu, Macedonia, Central Greece and Morea., along with many small island...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Spain & Portugal.
A large steel engraved map of European neighbours of Spain and Portugal. Including Balearic Islands, with a further inset map of Minorca. Numerous place names and physica...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Nubia & Abyssinia.
A lovely looking steel engraved map of the portion of Africa that lies to the west of the Red sea. Mostly great deserts and the territories of nomadic African tribes are ...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Egypt.
Quite a striking, large steel engraved map of Egypt. Following the course of the River Nile from Lower Egypt southwards to Upper Egypt, then crossing the border with Nubi...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Pacific Ocean.
A wonderfully laid out map of the region, displaying the many island groups that make up this fascinating part of the world. The region is separated into parts, the South...
Place & Date: London, 1839
America.
A beautiful, large-scale map of the Americas. Alaska is named as 'Russian America', Texas is still a part of Mexico, yet to become a republic (1836), before finally becom...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Upper Canada &c.
A beautiful, large scale map of Upper Canada, and portions of the American states of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The province of 'Upper' Canada was created by the B...
Place & Date: London, 1839
United States.
A lovely large map of the Untied States, as it was at the time of publication. Each state shown in a different outline color. Nothing is shown west of Louisiana, Arkansas...
Place & Date: London, 1839
West Indies.
A fine, detailed steel engraved map comprising Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Windward, and the Leeward Islands, the northern Columbian coastline, Panama, Gu...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Turkey in Asia.
A lovely looking steel engraved map of Turkey in Asia. Map extent is Asia Minor, Syria, Holy Land, across to the Caucasian peoples that inhabit the lands between the Blac...
Place & Date: London, 1839
La parte orientale dell' antico.. messico con la Florida..
A splendid two-sheet map of Mexico, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, part of Texas, Baja California and Mexico (west part) and of the Southeast Part of the US, ...
Place & Date: Rome, Calcography, 1797-before 1839
La Penisola delle Indie di la' dal Gange con parte delle Isole della Sonda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
Cassini’s splendid early map of Indochina, from Bangladesh in the west to central Borneo in the east, and southern China in the north, to Bali in the south. Good detail...
Place & Date: Rome, Calcography, 1797-before 1839
Le Coste Nord Ovest Dell'America e Nord Est dell'Asia Delineate sulle ultime Osservazioni del Cap. Cook
Cassini’s splendid early map of Cook's exploration of the Bering Strait, made on his Third and final voyage. The title is within a decorative title cartouche depicting ...
Place & Date: Rome, Calcography, 1798-before 1839
Le Insole della Sonda
Cassini’s splendid early map of Philippines, and Indonesia..Taken from the ""Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", pu...
Place & Date: Rome, Calcography, 1797-before 1839
Carte de la Partie Nord-Ouest de' l'Ile de Java. . . Pl. 33. N° 1086.
Sea chart depicting the north west part of the Island of Java, up to Batavia (present-day Jakarta). Also an inset chart of part of the Java coast line.Prepared by Clémen...
Place & Date: Paris, 1839
Oostindische Zeemagazijn. & De Werf van Het Oostind. Zeemagazijn.
Two decorative lithographies on one sheet, illustrating the V.O.C. East Indian Arsenal and the naval shipyard.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1840
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'S Lands Magazijn en Werf. [&] Het Oostindischehuis.
Two decorative lithographies on one sheet. View of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaartsmuseum' (Maritime Museum) on top. On the bottom the East Indian House , the hea...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1840
Impero Brasiliano . . .
A rare and detailed double-page map of Brazil. Map is surrounded by an explanatory historical text about the countries in a yellow background color.According to the title...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Le due Repubbliche . . . la Confederazione Peruviana . . . Bolivia . . .
A rare and detailed double-page map of Peru and Bolivia. Map is surrounded by an explanatory historical text about the countries in pink, yellow and green background colo...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Tour d'Observation et siège de police dans la grande Morskoi. (2 Juillet 1839).
A view of Observation Tower and police headquarters in the Morskoi in Saint Petersburg on August 9 1839. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian archite...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2013
L'Alemagna . . .
A rare double-page map of Germany and Poland. Prepared by Las Casas and engraved by G.V.Pasquali for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . with at...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
L'Italia antica-romana.
A rare and detailed double-page map of ancient Italy. According to the title cartouche, prepared by A de La Sage for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Il mondo cocsciuto dagli antichi e le laggiori antiche monarchie Persiana, Macedone, Romana . . .
A rare double-page map of the so-called Empire of Alexander the Great (also known as the Macedonian Empire or the Hellenistic Empire ) refers to that great empire , which...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Regno de' Paesi-Bassi compresa la Olanda . . . / La Svizzera . . .
Two rare and detailed maps of The Netherland (210 x 230mm. ) and Switzerland (140 x 230mm.) According to the title cartouche, prepared by J.A.Buchon and A de La Sage for ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
I dieci circoli Della Germania . . . / Permute e Secolarizzazioni Nella Germania . . .
Two rare maps of Germany: Top map: 160 x 235mm. Bottom map: 160 x 235mm.Prepared by Las Casas for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . with attri...
- $30 / ≈ €26
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
La Germania, suoi ducati e dependenze . . . /Origine e derivazione de principali stati . . .
Two rare maps of ancient Germany: Top map: 160 x 235mm. Bottom map: 160 x 235mm.Prepared by Las Casas for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . wi...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
La Grecia Antica . . . / Atene e sue vicinanze . . .
Two rare maps, one of Greece map 175 x 240mm. and the other of Athens 140 x 240mm. with an inset map of Sparta.From l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologic...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
General karte vom europaischen Russland.
Rare second edition of a lithographed wall map of the European part of the Russian empire, at a scale of about 1:3,200,000. With the title in a elaborately decorated lett...
Place & Date: Weimar, Geographisches Institut, 1840
Le Vaza ou Perroquet noir/ Le Mascarin.
Decorative lithography from a later edition of ,Histoire naturelle, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, this great naturalist (1707-88) spent the greater part of h...
- $80 / ≈ €71
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
France par Provinces.
Finely engraved map prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon atlas "Le globe Atlas classique Universel de...
- $30 / ≈ €26
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Etat de la Grèce.
Finely engraved map of Greece prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon atlas "Le globe Atlas classique Un...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Turquie d'Asie.
Finely engraved map of Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine, Kurdistan and Iraq, prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Marok Alger et Tunis. / Etat de Tripoli.
Two maps on one sheet. Finely engraved map of North Africa and Libya, prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon...
- $40 / ≈ €35
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Antilles.
Finely engraved map of the Caribbean, with a color key to Spanish, English, French, Danish, Dutch and Swedish possessions, prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon...
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Gaule.
Finely engraved map prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon atlas "Le globe Atlas classique Universel de...
- $20 / ≈ €18
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Macao from the Forts of Heang-shan.
A finely delineated view of the city of Macao as seen from one of its fortification areas. The foreground contains a group of religious worshipers. Engraved by S. Fisher....
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: London, ca. 1840
(Title page) Souvenir de Heidelberg.
Cover for a souvenir album with chromolithographed design and entitled: Souvenir de Heidelberg prepared by Louis Charles François. He emigrated with his family in May 17...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Wallis's Guide for Strangers Through London.
Engraved plan with original hand-coloring, with title and alphabetical list of the principal streets below. Published by Edward Wellis 42 Skinner Street.With "An alp...
Place & Date: London, E.Wallis, ca. 1840
Carte physique et politique de la Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie contenant la Syrie, une partie de l'Egypte . . .
A detailed map including Turkey, Greece, Black Sea, Holy Land, Georgie, Iran, Iraq, Armenia.
Place & Date: Brussels, 1840
Joseph Acerbi.
Contemporary stipple engraved portrait of Giuseppe Acerbi (1773 – 1846) . Acerbi was an Italian explorer and naturalist, born in Castel Goffredo. In 1798 Acerbi travell...
- $175 / ≈ €154
Place & Date: ca. 1840
Ansicht der Heidelberger Schlosses. . .
Early lithograph published by Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by C.F Müller.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Ch...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue de la porte Charles. . . Ansicht ded Karlthors . . .
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by J.J Tanner.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Françoi...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue du pont de Heidelberg. Ansicht der Brücke in Heidelberg.
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by J.J Tanner.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Françoi...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue de Heidelberg . . . Ansicht von Heidelberg . . .
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by J.J Tanner.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fran...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue du château de Stolzenfels . . . Ansicht des Schlofses Stolzenfels . . .
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by J.J Tanner.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fran...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Das grofse Fafs au Heidelberg . Le gros tonneau de Heidelberg.
Engraving after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by J.J Tanner.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles François emi...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Nördlicher Theil des Heidelberg schlosses. Vue de la partie du nord du château de Heidelberg.
Early lithographs after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by C.F Müller.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles ...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Nördlicher Theil des Heidelberger schlosses. . . Façade nord du château de Heidelberg . . .
Early aquatint after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by Hibon and F. Salathé.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charl...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue du château et de la ville de Heidelberg . . . Ansicht des schlosses und der stadt Heidelberger . . .
Engraving after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by Ch. Haldennvang.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fran...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue de la ville et du château de Heidelberg . . . Ansicht der stadt und des schlosses Heidelberger . . .
Engraving after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by Ch. Haldennvang.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Françoi...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Vue du château de Heidelberg . . . Ansicht des Heidelberger schlosses . . .
Engraving after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by Charles Haldenwang.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles FranÃ...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Ruines des batimens d' Adolphe et de Robert J au châteaude Heidelberg . . . Die ruinen des Adolfs und Rupruhtsbaues J auf dem Heidelberg . . .
Early lithography after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by L. Faure.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fra...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Le châteaude Heidelberg au commencemment de XVIIe siecle. . . Das Heidelberg schlosse von den acusseren . . .
Early lithography after Merian. Lithographed by L. Faure.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles François emigrated with his family in Ma...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Le châteaude Heidelberg et ses environs . . . Das Heidelberg schlosse mit seinen umgebungen . . .
Early lithographs after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by L. Faure.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fra...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Ansicht des Heidelberger schlosses . . . Vue du château de Heidelberg . . .
Early lithographs after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by Salathé.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Fra...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
Carte Générale de Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde.
A map of the world centered on the Pacific Ocean. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu.Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 – 1842) was a French explorer, naval offic...
- $125 / ≈ €110
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1840
Carte de L'Entrée de la Mer Rouge. Dressée par M.Daussy. . .
Very large and detailed chart depicting the entrance of the Red Sea, including the coastline of Yemen with inset "Carte du détroit de Bab!el-Mandeb. . ." and &...
- $750 / ≈ €662
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 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
Oceana or Pacific Ocean.
A lovely detailed map of the Pacific, centered on Hawaii, from an early edition of Tanner's New Universal Atlas. From Russian America (AK) to Patagonia, and from New Zeal...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Philadelphia, ca 1840
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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
Pianta Topografica della R.a Città di Venezia con XIX de suoi principali prospetti.
A detailed town plan of Venice with an extensive key underneath and nineteen views of the important buildings among which: Piazza di S. Marco, Canal Grande, Tempio della ...
Place & Date: Milan: Santo Vallardi, c.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 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Paris, 30 september 1840
Histoire Sainte, 1840, Cours encyclopédiques - 28e Année - Méthode de Mr Colart . . .
Fine genealogic sheet for educational purpose, about Jewish history. From Adam to Cyrus. In top a map of "Palestine ou Terre Promise en 12 Tribes" 135 x 70mm.
- $350 / ≈ €309
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Visiting The Sick. (319).
Caricature by J. Gillray. Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interesting factions: representing the social and ministerial conflict surroundin...
Place & Date: Henry G. Bohn, London, 1840
Farce dramatique. Doucement ! Doucement . . . Ne levez pas le rideau, je ne jous pas. . . - (Le Directeur accourant effrayé). Vous plaisantez, mon cher Macaire, vous plaisantez, n'est-ce pas ?. . . (Plate 8 from Robert Macaire.)
Second state. Translation in English of text title: Dramatic farce. - Gently! Gently!? Do not raise the curtain, I am not playing -(the frightened Director rushing toward...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840 - 1841
Robert Macaire. - Hé bien! mon cher directeur, ton affaire marche-t-elle? . . .
Plate from his famous series "Robert Macaire." This print has no plate number.Caption in English: (Robert): Well, well! My dear director… how's business? - (B...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840-1841