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[Javanese gamelan orchestra]
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
1. Seigneure Delassa tirés de Grueber. 2. Trophée à l'honneur du Grand Lama. (Tibet).
Fanciful European depiction of people from Tibet and Lhassa. A somewhat larger image appeared in "Abbe A.F. Prévost, Histoire Generale des Voyages".
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Première figure / Epigramme de la première figure. (79)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Seconde figure / Epigramme de la Seconde figure. (81)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Uzbek Tartars [ together with] Eastern Tartars, from Nieuhof.
Two engravings on one sheet, taken from "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels", printed for Thomas Astley. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin and N.Parr afte...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: London, 1746
Tartars of Koko Nor [ together with] Nothern Tartary Woman at Lafsa.
Two engravings on one sheet, taken from "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels", printed for Thomas Astley. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin and N.Parr afte...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: London, 1746
Calmuk Tartars from Isbrant Ides [ together with] Tartars from Isbr. Ides.
Two engravings on one sheet, taken from "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels", printed for Thomas Astley. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin and N.Parr afte...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: London, 1746
Femme Persienne.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a Persian woman engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and writ...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
Carte de la Terre Sainte.
Detailed map of Israel, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &c M...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Egypte, Palestine, Syrie et Phoenicie.
Detailed map of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Phoenicia, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel d...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Karte des Türkischen Reiches in Europa und Asien . . .
Map of Turkish Empire.
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Breslau, 1878
[Java].
Wood block engraved coastal profiles set in text from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux adv...
- $20 / ≈ €19
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Carte de la sibérie et des Pays voisins.
An interesting detailed map of Siberia, extending from the White Sea and the Caspian Sea in the west to Irkuckoi Province .Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Homme-nord-est de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored costume mezzotint of a man of Nord East Russia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etche...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Souan pan, ou instrument dont les chinois se servent pour compter.
Text page with a wood block illustration of a souan-pan [suan-p'an] the calculation table used by the Chinese. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
- $20 / ≈ €19
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Femme Kourilienne.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a native Kourilles lady engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. From 'Costumes civil...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme Kamls chadalle.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of native woman from Kams, Siberia, Russland engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Asie.
Detailed map of Asia, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &c Mod...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Sibérie ou Russie d'Asie.
Detailed map of Siberia, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &c ...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Kirguisienne.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus', showing a native of Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country along the Silk Road, ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Homme Toungouse.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Engraving of a man dressed in native garb from the Tunguska region of norther...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
[Illustration from Hierusalemsche Reyse.] Interieur of Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Interior of a Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Below a decorative cartouche with lettered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins.Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius G...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Batsjan. (Bacan)
Decorative panoramic view of Bay with the Dutch fortress Barneveld at the island of Bacan in today's Indonesia. Dutch (V.O.C.) sailing ships are illustrated.François Val...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Turquie d'Asie.
Detailed map of Asian Turkey with Cyprus, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Homme Tschoukotske.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a man from Tschukotka, Syberia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Homme Kouritien.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Siberian man dressed in native garb engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etc...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Case de Pecheurs dans la riviere Sambas.
A fishing hut seen along the Sambas River in Borneo. Plate 137 taken from the 'Voyage au Pole et dans L'Oceanie…' Departing in late 1837 in the Astrolabe and Zélée, D...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
[ A man and woman from Timor ].
Aquatint depicting a man and woman from Timor, engraved by A.Biasioli. Plate N° 56. The weaving of traditional scarves or tais is widespread in East Timor. From Giulio...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ Island of Bouro with a view of Cayeli ].
Aquatint depicts a view of Cayeli on the island of Bouro. Engraved by G.Castellini. Plate N° 55.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du g...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[No title]. [Two locals of the island of Ubi ].
Aquatint depicting two locals, one rowing to shore, the other searching for sea shells on the Island of Ubi in the Moluccas. Engraved by Carlo Bottigella. From Giulio Fer...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Sumatra plants ].
Aquatint depicting coffee, pepper et other plants in Sumatra. Plate N° 46.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mil...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ Tartars ].
Aquatint depicts a group of Tartars in traditional attire, engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by G.Gattina. Plate N° 45 From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Anci...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Taoism religion of the Callmoucks].
Aquatint depicting six Taoist deities engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella. Plate N° 43. The Tatars people which live almost all in the north of Asi...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Bagnan de Moka.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a man in Banyan costume in Mocha, Yemen engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Bagnan de Moka.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a Banyan costume in Mocha, Yemen engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Une Metcherèke.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Baskirienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Fille Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Deruis Religieux Turc. (24)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Gentille Femme Perotte Franque. (48)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Pera, taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de cel...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Femme Tattare de Kazan.
Originally hand-colored costume mezzotint of a Kazakhstan women engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, draw...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Homme nord est de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and wri...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Neufiesme figure / Epigramme de la Neufiesmie figure. (95)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Dixiesme figure / Epigramme de la Dixiesmie figure. (97)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Douziesme figure / Epigramme de la Douziesme figure. (101)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Une Kabardinienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Quatorziesme figure / Epigramme de la Quatorziesme figure. (105)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Quinziesme figure / Epigramme de la Quinziesme figure. (107)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Onziesme figure / Epigramme de la Onziesme figure. (99)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Homme du nord est de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a native from North Eastern Russia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. From 'Cos...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme Kirguisses.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Native Tartary lady engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. From 'Costumes civils ac...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Plan du Ti-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang 天堂 [Tiantang] temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..." prepared by Jesuit missionaries ...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2017
Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang 天堂 [Tiantang] temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit mission...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $8
Sold in 2017
Bayadere.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a Temple Dancer engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and writ...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme de nord ets de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a woman from Nord West Asia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme du nord est de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a woman from Nord East Russia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, d...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Carte des Isles Kouriles, d'après la carte Russe dréssée et gravée par Laurent.
An interesting map of the Kuril Islands, northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean.Prepared by Jacq...
Place & Date: Paris, 1738-1775
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 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Chart showing the track of the Flagships of the US-Japan Expedition to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope 1853 & 1854.
A simple sea chart showing the track of the US Steam Frigate Mississippi as she tracked her way from east of Cape Town across the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, up t...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: New York, 1857
Tjilatjap (1888)
Detailed plan of the port and city of Tjilatjap on Java. Taken from "Atlas des Ports Etrangers". Lithographed by A. Simon.
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1888
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Huictiesme figure / Epigramme de la Huictiesme figure. (93)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
[ LXXII. Divertimenti de' serpenti ].
Aquatint depicting snake charmers engraved by D.Klemi-Bonatti, Plate N°60.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mil...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[XXIII Infanteria ].
Aquatint depicting Chinese infantry engraved by G Bigatti, Plate N°23.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice,...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[XXV Cavalleria ].
Aquatint depicting Chinese cavalry engraved by G Bigatti, Plate N°25.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[LVI. Strada di Nan-King].
Aquatint depicting a street in Nanking (Nanjing) engraved by G Zancon, Plate N°56.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, d...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Une rue du Quartier Malais a Macassar.
An attractive lithograph of the Malay living quarters in the southern village of Makassar in Sulawesi, formerly the Celebes island in Indonesia. Plate 131 taken from the ...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Une rue de Macassar.
A pretty lithograph of a street scene in the village of Makassar, on the southern edge of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, formerly the Celebes Island. Plate 130 taken ...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Japanese Sketches.
Two woodcut engravings illustrating a Japanese Gentleman and a Japanese Lady. Included in Ballou's Pictorial.The 1840s~50s saw the rapid growth in popularity of the illus...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Boston, 1856
Femme Turque de moyen estat En chambre. (42)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Oro-Hydrographische Kaart van Azië.
One of the earliest thematic maps of Asia published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthu...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Sibérie ou Russie d'Asie.
A decorative map of Siberia from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon. published by J. Migeon.From one of the last decorative atlases published in the 19th century.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Rade d'Amboine.
A peaceful lithograph of ships and boats at anchor in Ambon Island, located in the archipelago of the Moluccas in Indonesia. Plate 108 taken from the 'Voyage au Pole et d...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Village de Warrou.
Lithograph of the small settlement of Waru on the island of Seram in Indonesia. Plate 127, taken from the "Voyage au Pole Sud et dans L'Oceanie…." Departing i...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
La procession de Ganga/ La fête de Huly.
Two scenes on one page showing religious scenes, in Japan. Fine copper engraving by Bernard Picart and taken from Bernard Picart's famous Céréonies et costumes religieu...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
[De terra sancta.]
On verso a map of the Middle East with Syria, Israel and Cyprus (123x158mm.). From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Asia.
Map of Asia encompassing the Russian Empire, the Chinese Empire, India Persia, Tartary, Turkey, and Arabia. From Sidney E. Morse''s: System of Geography for the use of sc...
Place & Date: New York, 1855
De kleine Soenda-Eilanden. Schaal van 1:800000.
Very detailed two sheet map of Soenda Islands, taken from "Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indie", prepared by doctor I. Dornseiffen, and published by publ...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Seyffardt, 1884
Selimus Primus Imperator Turcarum decimus Tertius.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Selim I, who was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. His reign is notable for the enormous expansion ...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
[assorted Chinese musical instruments].
A delightful copperplate print of 15 assorted Chinese musical instruments including violin, flute, trumpet, guitars, cymbals etc.
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1812