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Prospect des Rossmarcktes zu Statin - Vue du Marché aux Cheveaux a Stettin.
Rare so-called optical print illustrating the Horse market of Stettin in Poland. Engraved by F. Riedel. The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical print...
- $600 / ≈ €526
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
40e Vue d'Optique Representant Le Parc Royal de St. James a Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Saint James Park, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality estab...
- $250 / ≈ €219
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pondichéry, de l'Amirauté et de la maison du Gouverneur.
Optical print of the French East India Company's warehouses, the Admiralty and the Governor's House at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu. Pondicherry, on the Coromandel Coast sou...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
The North West Prospect of S. Pauls Cathedral in London.
Uncommon optical print illustrating a view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments ...
- $275 / ≈ €241
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Vüe Perspective de la grande Place du Parc St. Jacques à Londres, du nouveau Batiment des Gardes a Cheval, de l'Amirauté..
So-called optical print illustrating a cortege of subjects accompanying the king to the House of Lords along the Horse guards Road in St. James's Park, in London.The Old ...
- $200 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Prospect des grossen Arno Platzes in Florenz.
Rare so-called optical print illustrating a Street scene in Florence with the Palazzo Vecchio (town hall) and its Duomo (cathedral) in the background. Engraved by Balth F...
- $250 / ≈ €219
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Prospect der Überbleibssel von altem Rome. - Vue du Reste des Antiquites a Rome.
A rare so-called optical print illustrates Roman Forum, ancient Rome's showpiece center, a grandiose district of marble-clad temples, proud basilicas and vibrant public s...
- $250 / ≈ €219
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
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 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Vue de la superbe Gallerie de Petersbourg en Russie.
So-called optical print illustrates a perspective view of the interior of a palace in Saint Petersburg.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established ...
- $200 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
- $450 / ≈ €394
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
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[Three butterflies on one sheet]
Beautifully hand colored copper engraving of 3 butter flies on one sheet, from "Beyträge zur Natur- oder Insecten-Geschichte". By the engraver and publisher Ch...
- $60 / ≈ €53
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Vue de la Rue du Roi, vers la Porte de la Campagne a Boston.
A vue d'optique of the city of Boston. A view of a typical Bostonian street, with buildings opening directly onto the throughway, groups of people, gentlemen, workers and...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
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 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
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[manuscript plan] Siège de Schweidnitz en Silésie fait par les trouppes Imperial es commandées par Mr. le de Nadasti ...
This fine manuscript shows the layout of the city of Swidnica with its surrounding defence wall, its advanced bastions and suburbs, roads and two nearby villages. In lowe...
- $2750 / ≈ €2409
Place & Date: France, 1769
Vue des Promenades et les Fontaines d'Ispahan.
Carmine was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.Isfahan was once one of Central Asia's largest and most important cities, at the crossroads ...
- $250 / ≈ €219
Place & Date: Augsburg 1770
Vue d'optique representant La Douane de Londres sur la Tamise. . .
Showing the Customs office in London seen from the River Thames. Published by Daumont, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in...
- $200 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Elevation perspective de la nouvelle place de Petersbourg suivant le projet . . .
Showing a perspective view of the new Palace Square in St. Petersburg. In the 1760s, the Baroque architecture was succeeded by neoclassical architecture.This so-called op...
- $200 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
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[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
- $40 / ≈ €35
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
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Prospect des Plazes vor dem Rath Haus zu Boston. Vuë de la Rue et de la Maison de Ville a Boston. [together with] Prospect der König[lichen] ...
Two so-called optical prints show a decorative imaginary view of the old state house, built in 1657, which was the center of government for the colony of Massachusetts an...
- $1500 / ≈ €1314
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1776
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
Chirurgie, plate XIV.
Showing medical bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an invento...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Chirurgie, plate XVIII
Showing bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an inventory of t...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate II.
Showing medical instruments and bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is ...
- $80 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Chirurgie, plate XXXII
Showing medical bondage from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an invent...
- $80 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris 1779
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["Kijkkast"]. Viewing box for optical prints
A very rare custom made collapsible peepshow in a bookshaped box, late 18th century, folded out 66(h.)x56(w.)x40(d.) cm., 7 hinging cardboard parts painted blue or w. bla...
- $12000 / ≈ €10513
Place & Date: The Netherlands, ca. 1780
Prospect des Escurials von vornen gegen Madrid / L'entrée de l'Escurial, en perspective.
A so-called optical print of the the entrance to the Escurial at the foot of the Sierra Guadarrama in Spain. Bilingual title in German and French. Engraved by Leizel.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1780
Vue Perspective de la Place des Victoires
So-called optical print of la Place des Victoires in Paris. Therefore the image is reversed or mirror-image. One of the well-known publishers of optical prints, establish...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
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 / ≈ €175
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 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Vue perpective de l'Isle de St.Helene appartenant a la Compagnie Angloise pour les Indes Orientales.
Decorative optical view of St. Helena. The island is well-known as after the Royal Navy captured Napoleon Bonaparte, he was held hostage on the island until he died in 18...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Vüe de L'Eglise Cathedrale de Tolede.
A so-optical print of a church in Toledo, Spain, prepared for use in a light-box or an amusing light-show. This richly hand colored print is much perforated, windows are ...
Place & Date: Italy ca 1780
Ceremonie de la grande Feste que les Chinois celebre le 24 de la Lune d'Aoust dans la principale Place de Pekin.
So-called optical print illustrating the festivities on the 24th of August in Beijing.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, at rue ...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
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 / ≈ €350
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
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 / ≈ €350
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 / ≈ €350
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Prospect der Strasse gegen der Kirche der Recolecten in der obern Stadt zu Quebec. Vuë de la Rue des Recolets dans la haute Ville de Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Qué...
- $450 / ≈ €394
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1780
Prospect des Haupt Plazes der Untern Stadt zu Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Qué...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca.1780
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Le Palmiste [Pl. 121]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Les Navires des anciens, considérés par rapport à leurs voiles et à l'usage qu'on en pourroit faire dans notre marine, ouvrage servant de suite à celui qui a pour titre ela Marine ...
First edition. The book is giving a description of the different ship types of all parts of the world from its early times till present (1780). Illustrated with 3 folding...
- $900 / ≈ €788
Place & Date: Paris, Nyon, 1783
Le Basset à jambes droites.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Le Braque.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
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 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Embarquement de vivres.
With a dedication to Monseigneur le Comte de Saint Florentin Commandeur des Ordres du Roy. Engraved by Jac. Philippe Le Bas, who was also engraver for "Cabinet du Ro...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1785
Hackled Partridge.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Hackled Partridge from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the pre?eminent ornithologist...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: London, 1781-1785
Green Partridge.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Green Partridge from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of ...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Bengal. Vulture, N.° 16.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Bengal Vulture from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of h...
- $90 / ≈ €79
Place & Date: London, 1781-1785
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 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Prospectus primarii.. turrim rubram Viennae.
So-called optical print, showing Red tower in Vienna.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and L...
- $175 / ≈ €153
Place & Date: Italy c.1790
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 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Saintes, P. Toussaint, 1791
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[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 / ≈ €350
Place & Date: Niort, 1793
Bataille sur la rive droite de la Brenta. gagnée par les Francais de 22 fructidor an 4. Bonaparte Général en chef. . .
Uncommon print showing the siege of Bassano in 1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under Napoleo...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1795
Bataille sur la rive droite de la Brenta. gagnée par les Français de 22 fructidor an 4. Bonaparte Général en chef. . .
Uncommon optical print showing the siege of Bassano in 1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1795
Piano di Nizza.
Rare 1797 manuscript map of Nice, with the French navy attacking from the sea. Unknown author, Italian, but map attributed to an original, probably broadsheet map by Moll...
Place & Date: Italy, after 1797
Tableau des Decouvertes du Cap.ne Cook, & de la Pérouse.
Three series of figures of natives with key below, surrounded by narrow pictorial border.Grasset de Saint Sauveur skillfully wove together two dozen individual scenes fro...
- $2200 / ≈ €1927
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
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
Theodorus Primus Corsicae Rex.
Portrait of Everard Jabach, three-quarter length, standing by the fragment of a column, facing left, wearing a cloak and doublet with plain collar, his left arm held behi...
- $40 / ≈ €35
Place & Date: Paris, 1652 - 1800
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
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[Portrait of Nicolas Louis de La Caille].
Portrait of Nicolas Louis de La Caille, also known as L'Abbé De La Caille, engraved by Thérèse Devaux.
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
No title: training a horse.
After a design by Silva.
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1800
Mauve alcée. Malva alcea L.
Greater musk-mallow, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Souci des Jardins. Calendula Officinalis. L.
The Common Marigold, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'aprè...
Place & Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
L'Acoli.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as the...
- $230 / ≈ €201
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
Le S. a Cinture Marron.
An attractive representation of a bird by François Levaillant publisher in Paris 1801 in Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et de...
Place & Date: Paris 1801
La Méesange Brune Male. La Méesange Grise. . .
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as the...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
Le Go-Ruck.
An attractive representation of a bird by François Levaillant publisher in Paris 1801 in Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et de...
Place & Date: Paris 1801
L'Heoro-taire brun. Pl.65.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his deat...
- $230 / ≈ €201
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Le G. G. Noir et Bleu.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his deat...
- $230 / ≈ €201
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Le Neghôbàrra. Pl.64
A very rare print of a bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops , by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his death Audeb...
- $230 / ≈ €201
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
First Russian mission.
A rare Nagasaki-e print of the first Russian mission to Japan.
- $2250 / ≈ €1971
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1804
Two traders.
A rare Nagasaki-e print of the first Russian mission to Japan.
- $2250 / ≈ €1971
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1804
'Jokisen no zu' (Steamboat)
Nagasaki-e original Japanese woodblock print of a Steamboat. The figurehead is a striking detail.Nagasaki-e are Japanese woodblock prints that depict foreigners (Mostly ...
- $3750 / ≈ €3285
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1805
Paysan & Paysanne d'Hanas en Boheme.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Engraved by Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an et...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris,1805
Femme Tschermifse.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixe...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
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[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 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Femme de Barabinze.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a woman from Barabinze, engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer ...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
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[Butterflies]
Plate CXCVIII from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jab...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Femme d'Ausbourg.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. After Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. As an etcher, drawer and writer, Gras...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris,1806