XXVII. Triremes seu Galiottae et Fustae Iavenenfium. 21. ( A typical Javanese man-of-war ship)
A typical Javanese man-of-war ship. The Javanese call their man-of-war ships Cathurs. The slaves are all seated below deck and do the rowing with oars, while the warriors...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Echelle pour trouver les jours de la semaine. . . / Scale om de Dagen van de Week te vinden. . . / Scale to find the Days of the Week. . .
Fine engraved plate showing eight different scales with explications in French, Dutch and English.Scale om de dagen van de week, de verschietende feest-dagen, de maan-tyd...
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Shipping
Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by F.A.Breuhaus de Groot. Published in Kunst Kroniek.
Date: The Hague, 1849
![[Ships at sea]](/uploads/cache/08213-250x250.jpg)
[Ships at sea]
Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by F.H.Weissenbruch after a painting by L.Meijer. Published in Kunst Kroniek .
Date: The Hague, 1862
Ladimistri nel arcipelago. (Edremit)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Edremit on the west coast of Turkey, not far from the Greek island Lesbos. It is situated at the tip of the gulf with the same name (G...
Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Canistro nel Arcipelago.
Magnificent view of Kanaestreo and its harbour front, decorated with ships and rowing boats in a rough sea. Engraved by Lucas Vostermans II, who was born in 1624, in the ...
Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Kronborg et le Sund (Danemarck).
Uncommon and decorative lithography published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that time. From: It...
Date: Paris, c.1859
![Le Capitaine Wallis est attaqué dans le Dauphin par les Otahitiens. [Tome II Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26099-250x250.jpg)
Le Capitaine Wallis est attaqué dans le Dauphin par les Otahitiens. [Tome II Pl. 1ère.]
Scene of an attack by local Tahitians on Captain Wallis' Dolphin ship off Tahiti's shore. Samuel Wallis (1728-95), a Royal Navy Captain and a skilled navigator was given ...
Date: Paris, 1773
Naufrage sur les côtes d'Afrique.
So called optical print of a shipwrecking in a storm off the African shores.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in...
Date: Paris, 1760
Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.
A plate of 88 marine flags, including Malta, Turkey, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Portugal, Monaco, Tuscany, China, Nanking, the French Royal flag, the French admiralty flag an...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 14. The eng...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Virulus marinus. Cete (Whale and whaling scene)
Whale and whaling scene, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 1. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert pla...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 12. The engraving is copi...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 15. The engr...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
![Pisces in mari alati [flying fish attack]](/uploads/cache/48527-250x250.jpg)
Pisces in mari alati [flying fish attack]
Flying fish attacking a Portuguese ship in the West Indian Waters.Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
