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Coupe d'une galère avec ses proportions - Quille d'une Galere sur le chantier.
Fine double-page engraved plate of a cutaway of a standard late 17th-century French galley with a detailed legend of parts (in French). Below is a representation of the k...
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere.
Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere. Cassini was a geographer and cartographer, but also perspective and architecture carver - one of Giovanni Battista Pirane...
Date: Rome, 1795
Grande brasserie . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°12. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best ...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Vue Interieure de la Bourse Royale à Londres.
So-called optical print of the London stock exchange. Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
Date: Paris, 1760
AIR France - Comet De Havilland
Promotional poster attributed to Lucien Boucher showing the Comet de Havilland on a Mercator projection world map. The map depicts a pictorial map of the entire world in ...
Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
Veduta della Piazza della SS. Nunziata, Statua Equestre di Ferdinando Primo, Fonti, e Loggie Laterali.
Lively view of Nunziata square with the statue of Ferdinand I in Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by B.Sgrilli. From "Scelta di XXIV ...
Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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[ Hieroglyph Christian calendar written in an Aztec style ].
Aquatint depicting Hieroglyph Christian calendar written in an Aztec style engraved by BonattiB. Plate N°84.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Hi...
Date: Milan, 1827
DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253
Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...
Date: Paris, 1683
Bern in der Schweitz.
Very fine large-scale panoramic view of Bern. With a numbered key (1-25) of principal buildings in town. ¤
Date: Augsburg, 1740
Designs for Porcelain ware with Chinese design.
In left hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 05501". Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve as guides...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Philippines - The famous volcanic peak Mt. Mayon. . .
Mt Mayon Volcano Peak near Legaspi on the Philippines. Fine Pan American Airline mini poster.Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and co...
Date: 1956
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Oost-Frise, ou Le Comté d'Embden . . .
Fine map of East Friesland with a decorative cartouche and small scale of miles.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
Rare wood block map depicting the Mediterranean, with an over-sized Cyprus from the final Dutch edition of Heinrich Bünting's famous Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, a book...
Date: Magdeburg, 1581
![Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]](/uploads/cache/47694-250x250.jpg)
Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]
A superb example of this illustration showing Ruth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Frefser.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Date: Wien, 1818
Plants, including the canior, diringuo, pucho and chiabe.
In the Indies there are many delightful plants, which include the ‘costus indicus’ (named by the Malays 'pucho') that has a wonderful aroma. Then there is the ‘calamus ar...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818...
Date: Germany, 1882
La nuova Zelanda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni del Capitan Cook.
First edition on laid paper Cassini’s splendid early map of New Zealand, being the most decorative version of Captain Cook's map of New Zealand, published in the very sca...
Date: Rome, 1798
Quinquina Dubonnet, apéritif dans tous les cafés.
Original chromo lithographed medium size poster, "Quinquina Dubonnet, apéritif dans tous les cafés", by CHERET, signed in the plate. Supplement to "Courrie...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1895
Forteresse Ile Ste Marguerite.
Nice drawing of a stronghold Ste Marguerite. The Île Sainte-Marguerite is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of C...
Date: France, Provence, after 1960
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[ Acrobatic games ].
Aquatint depicting acrobatic games engraved by Gallina. Plate N°78.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de ...
Date: Milan, 1827
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Date: France, ca.1530
ANNA IWANOVNA - Anna Ioannovna imperatricea i camoderschiza wserossinskaja (rossice). Anna Joannowna imperatrix totius Russiae
Extremely rare half portrait print of Anna Ivanovna (7 February [O.S. 28 January] 1693, Moscow – 28 October [O.S. 17 October] 1740) reigned as Duchess of Courland from 17...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1743
Ormus (Straits of Hormus)
A lovely miniature map of the Kingdom of Ormus, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive st...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Czaslaw.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Czaslaw, Caslav, Tschslau in Böhmen.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mount...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Botanibay, Englischer Verweisungs Ort fur Verbrecher. / Laijene Franzosicher Verweisungs Ort fur Verbrecher.
Copper engraving with four scenes and one portrait of Frederick III of Saxony on one sheet. In the upper part fanciful views of Botany Bay with English and French settlem...
Date: Zittau, 1798-1800
DELFT. Delphium urbs Hollandiae cultissima. . .
A bird's-eye view of the town of Delft. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands. In this town-plan, three buildings, still domin...
Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Nice Vue prise audessus de Montalban.
Beautiful view of Nice from the book "l'Italie à vol d'oiseau".
Date: Paris, 1850
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[ Azrec Idols ].
Aquatint depicting Aztec idols engraved by Gallina. Plate N°698.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la ...
Date: Milan, 1827
Exposition Internationale des produits du commerce . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Exposition Internationale des produits du commerce . . .", by WILETTE, A. Plate 142, published in Maître 17, on April 1896. The &qu...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
7eme Exposition du Salon des 100.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°15. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best ...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Par Brevets. / Eau admirable de Cologne, de A. Farina, ancien Distillateur de Cologne, breveté, Place Juliers, N°11.
Advertising Broadsheet promoting the toilet water "Eau de Cologne". Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France and 2 two-headed eagles. With the printed sign...
Date: After 1810
Pianta Della Citta di Roma con la Indicazione di tutte le Antichita e Nuovi Abbelliment.
Beautifully engraved town plan of Rome, featuring side borders that depict the 16 most important monuments, along with a legend that locates the significant places and bu...
Date: Venanzio Monaldini, Rome, 1829
Le comte de Namur et partie des Duchez de Brabant. . .
Decorative map centered on Namen and including the towns of Liege, Leuven, Charleroi, Dinant, Luxemburg, etc. by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 1704).Rare "ca...
Date: Paris, c. 1692
Het Oost Indisch Huys op de Suyd hock..
A decorative print of the East Indian House , the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment.The maps and charts we...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
L’Atlas de la Mer ou Monde aquaticque.
Original blind-stamped vellum binding; attractive ORIGINAL HAND-COLOR in outline with cartouches, windroses and decoration in full original color; internally some usual m...
Date: Amsterdam, sur le Cay de Teexel, prez du Rams-Koy, au miroir de la Mer, 1670
Partie de la Chine N°87. (Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.)
Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever pr...
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
(Postcard of Europe)
During the Great War, when the only means of communicating news to the masses was by newspapers and weekly illustrated magazines, the ‘war’ or 'military' picture postcard...
Date: Moscow, 1914
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Vues du port de Llivourne. (set of 6 prints)
Sought-after complete suite of 6 engravings by S[tefano] Della Bella [1610-1664]. in a second state (of 2).Della Bella was born in Florence in 1610, and studied the art ...
Date: 1654-1655
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 370x250 mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (...
Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Le Coupable.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Le Coupable.", by STEILEN, A. Plate 134, published in Maître 17, on April 1896. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained ...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
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Via Bethleem. [The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem ]
The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Below a lettered key. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "Hierusalemsche Reyse". The book describe...
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana, included in Rare American...
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt.
Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved dedication to the Dutch East India Company, 32 double-page engraved charts in very ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.
Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of star fishes, by Macret and Leleu. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trave...
Date: Paris, 1822
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[ Aztec low relief representing ancient warriors ].
Aquatint depicting an Oaxaca monument representing a warrior engraved by Bonatti. Plate N°67.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouve...
Date: Milan, 1827
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[St Peter's Square].
View of St Peter's Square and Vatican probably featuring a solemn blessing. The square is crowdy, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is present. A beautifully colored lithography...
Date: Italy ?, 1732
Sommaire du n°32 - Juillet 1898.
Cover binder of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°32 (3rd year of publication). It used to contains the plates 125, 126, 127 and 128. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" co...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, July 1898
Middelbourg Ville la plus considerable de l'Isle de Walcheren et du Comté de Zelande l'une des huit provinces Unis des pais-bas . .
A very decorative and extremely rare of Middelburg, including a numbered (1-19) key in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and f...
Date: Paris, ca.1750
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes. . .
Original poster promoting the French company Montgolfier Renard Charles, manufacture of hot air balloon and dirigibles. Full title Translation: " It is to France tha...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
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[Lot of Five Pacific Brand crate labels]
1917 JOHNSTON FRUIT COMPANY - [The price is for the lot of five]. Advertising map with a lemon in the center.
Date: Santa Barbara, 1917
Henna ardera deel. De vijfde Grietenije van de Wester goo. . .
Very detailed map of "Henna ardera deel. De vijfde Grietenije van de Wester goo" in Friesland prepared by Bernardus Schotanus Steringa. With decorative title ca...
Date: Leeuwarden, 1718
26e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Abbaye de Westminster et de l'Eglise Ste. Marguerite à Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Westminster Abbey, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many popular specialty establishments ...
Date: Paris, 1760
Amieux Freres, sardines et toute conserves.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, being plate n°183. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small lithographic prints of the best po...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1899
Grès Emile Muller . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Grès Emile Muller . . .", by CHARPENTIER, A. Plate 131, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche&q...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
FJODOR JOANNOWITSCH - Feodor Ioannowitsch zar i camoderschez wserossinskij (rossice). Feodor Ioannowicz tzaar et autocrator totius Russiae Joann Alexiewicz tzaar et autocrator totius Russiae.
Extremely rare half portrait print of Czar Fyodor I Ivanovich (31 May 1557 – 16/17 January 1598) was the last Rurikid Tsar of Russia (1584 - 1598), son of Ivan the Terrib...
Date: St. Petersburg 1743
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Paraguay.
A nice detailed map of Paraguay from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Date: Paris, 1825
Schmetterlingsfang.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Date: Wien, 1818
Carte de L'Empire d'Alemagne par P. Duval. . .
Uncommon map of Germany and the eastern part of Poland. In upper right corner a dedicational cartouche with coat of arms and dedication to Saint-Laurens.
Date: Paris, 1676
Course de Baque et Disposition des Quadrilles, dans l'Amphiteatre seconde journée.
An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...
Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
Planisfero (Tav III)
A large-format world map with a key to the steamship routes, telegraph lines and land routes in Europe. Finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girola...
Date: Rome, 1858
Vermakelykheden van Brabant, en deszelfs onderhoorige Landen... (2 volumes)
Topographical and iconographical work on Brabant illustrated with 1 engr. title-vignette and 190 engraved views, plans & armorial plates by J. Harrewijn, G. Bouttats ...
Date: Amsterdam, P.J. Entrop, 1768
Kunst is allemaal flauwe kul.
Joop Schafthuizen is a Dutch artist known for his prints. He inspired some of the books written by his partner, the famous writer Gerard Reve. "Kunst is allemaal fla...
Date: Rotterdam, 1976
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[Canadian Indians ].
Aquatint depicting a group of Canadian Indians engraved by Gallina. Plate N° 33 n°1.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, ...
Date: Milan, 1827
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Dépt. De L'Aude. N°10. [ Carcassonne ]
Map of the Aude region, centered on the town of Carcassonne. Reaching to the right till the Mediterranean.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the ninete...
Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Sexta Etas Mudi. Symon Apostolus.. Folio CVII.
A very nice presentation of the martyrdom of Simon, sawn in half at Suanir, and Mathias stoned to death at Colchis in 80 AD. Overleaf, it shows the martyrdom of Matthew a...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Designs for two porcelain bowls with Chinese design.
With numbers 4.601, 4.818. In top "Planche N° d'ordre : 03004.Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve as...
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
ANTIBES, Ville et Port de Mer de Provence, sur la Mer Mediterranée.
Early plan of Antibes. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Date: Paris, 1693
Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .
Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Cazal. (Casale Monferrato)
A rare panoramic of Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region. Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He was also a print-publisher and print-seller. H...
Date: Paris, 1690-1730
Carte de la Hongarie a l'Autriche. .
A detailed and scarce map showing Hungary and Austria engraved by de François Lapointe (Lépine). Dated 1664.With a dedication to Ferdinand-Ernest Comte d'Abensperg-Traun....
Date: Paris, 1676
Illustriss et excellentiss D.Paulus Quirini divi Marci procurator.
Fine text page from Isolario Dell'Atlante Vento. with two copper engraved portraits printed within letter press. In top portrait of "Hieronymus Quirinus" (60x55...
Date: Venice, 1691
Iris bleu - clair. Iris pallida.
Dalmatian Iris or Sweet Iris, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Date: Paris, c.1800
An Artist's Model.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, being plate n°3. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small lithographic prints of the best post...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Chungguk-do
Chungguk-do [Map of China] taken from a Korean printed Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] which is a 19th century version of the traditional Korean atlas produced ...
Date: Korea, ca. 1820
Simori.
Portrait of Simori.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at ...
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Arabie.
Uncommon miniature map of the Arabian peninsula, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval publi...
Date: Paris, 1676
