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Nobiolo Canavesano, o uva Spanal.
Highly decorative stipple engraving with hand-colored details from a scarce work 'Pomona Italiana ossia Trattato Degli Alberi Fruttiferi' by Giorgio Gallesio. The series ...
Date: Turin, 1832
Tabula IV sequitur Farnesiana Posticus.
Ornamental representation of Temple St. Mariae in Rome by Petrus Aquila (1650-1692), after Annibale Carracci. Inscribed in the plate. "Petrus Aquila delin at sculp. ...
Date: Rome, 1660
Les Gens de Justice. - Comme je vous ai bien dit vertement votre fait !
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Comme je vous ai bien dit vertement votre fait !. . . - Mais aussi, que je vous...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Plaidez, plaidez . . . ça sera un bon tour à jouer à votre voisin. . .
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Plaidez, plaidez . . . ça sera un bon tour à jouer à votre voisin . . . vous...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Mr. le juge de paix a rendu sa décision, le sparties sont censées conciliées.
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Mr. le juge de paix a rendu sa décision, le sparties sont censées conciliées...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Mr. l'avocat a rendu pleine justice au rare talent déployé par le ministère public . . .
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Mr. l'avocat a rendu pleine justice au rare talent déployé par le ministère ...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - L'avocat qui se trouve mal - dernière ressource quand la cause est bien malade.
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - L'avocat qui se trouve mal - dernière ressource quand la cause est bien malade...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Au café d'Aguesseau.
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Au café d'Aguesseau. En attendant l'audience, Démosthéne déjeune aux frais ...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Comme je vous ai bien dit vertement votre fait! . . .
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Comme je vous ai bien dit vertement votre fait! . . . - Mais aussi, je vous ai...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Art arabe. - Mosquée d'el-Bordeyny. . .
Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire…". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...
Date: Paris, 1877
Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii. / Representation en perspective de la partie inferieure d'un arsenal. . .
RARE. Engraved optical print by Georg Balthasar Probst of a arsenal.
Date: Augsburg, 1750
Oursins.
Decorative plate of a sea urchin, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he traveled...
Date: Paris, 1822
Oursins.
Showing sand dollars, sea urchin, etc. engraved by Macret. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he tra...
Date: Paris, 1822
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of a star fish, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trave...
Date: Paris, 1822
Hommards.
Decorative engraving of a lobster, by Tresca. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he traveled to Egyp...
Date: Paris, 1822
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 trav...
Date: Paris, 1822
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
Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.
Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel, with the various parts of the ship numbered and identified. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier'...
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
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
Reine-Marguerite. Aster chinensis. L.
A bouquet of 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'aprè...
Date: Paris, ca. 1800
Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. L.
A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "http://www.swaen.com/Fleu...
Date: Paris, ca.1800
Chêne commun.
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'après nature. . . receuil ...
Date: Paris, c. 1800
Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius. L.
Bouquet of Seringats. A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fle...
Date: Paris, c. 1800
Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.
The true Nasturtium, 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...
Date: Paris, c.1800
Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .
A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sb...
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Date: The Hague, 1606
1) Le Kakatoës à Huppe Jaune. 2) Le Lori Tricolor. Le Perroquet Vert.
Noteworthy bird print from 1839 Furne edition of the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.Engraved by Fournier after ...
Date: Paris, 1838 - 1839
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Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
GALERE
Miniature view of a galley. From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military en...
Date: Paris, 1683
(Shipping)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With explanatory text on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By All...
Date: Paris, 1683
(Des Galeres - Shipping scene)
Miniature view of a vessel, showing the various types of sails. With key list in upper left corner.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 16...
Date: Paris, 1683
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
(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Date: Paris, 1683
Croquis d'expression. La maman - Est il gentil à manger son sucre d'orge . . . (Plate 31)
The mother: - Isn't he cute licking his barley sugar candy… one would think a young man of twenty years… He absolutely must become a lawyer!.Lithography published by ...
Date: Paris, 21 10 1838
Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing medical chair and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it...
Date: Paris 1779
Les Gens de Justice. - Vous avez perdu votre procès c'est vrai . . .
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Vous avez perdu votre procès c'est vrai . . . mais vous avez du éprouver bien...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Au café d'Aguesseau.
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Au café d'Aguesseau. En attendant l'audience, Démosthéne déjeune aux frais ...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Encore perdu en cour royale . . .
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Encore perdu en cour royale . . . et il se lamente comme s'il ne lui restait pa...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Nous avons grande représentation aujourd'hui . . .
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Nous avons grande représentation aujourd'hui, M'sieu Galuchet! . . . - Parble...
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Lessive de la Trappe. 15
Print showing the laundry of the abbey of Trappe. From a series of 19 prints, "Les travaux et les jours de la Trappe", illustrates the life of the Trappists, th...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Vendange des religieux. 14
Print showing the vendange by the religious of the abbey of Trappe. From a series of 19 prints, "Les travaux et les jours de la Trappe", illustrates the life of...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Cuisine de la Trappe. 12
Print showing the kitchen of the religious of the abbey of Trappe. From a series of 19 prints, "Les travaux et les jours de la Trappe", illustrates the life of ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Menuiserie de la Trappe. 10
Print showing the carpentry of Trappe. From a series of 19 prints, "Les travaux et les jours de la Trappe", illustrates the life of the Trappists, their manual ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Travail des mains. 11
Print showing the manual labor of the religious of the abbey of Trappe. From a series of 19 prints, "Les travaux et les jours de la Trappe", illustrates the lif...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
La boulangerie de la Trappe. 9
Print showing the bakery in Trappe. From a series of 19 prints, "Les travaux et les jours de la Trappe", illustrates the life of the Trappists, their manual act...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Femme Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
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...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Metcherèke.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Kabardinienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
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...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Sul teatro della guerra (L'entusiasmo patriottico dei Russi) - Rana N. 10 (Cent.10) - Sur le théâtre de la guerre (enthousiasme patriotique des Russes).
Satirical depiction of the Russo-Japanese war, which began in February 1904,we can see the opposed armies of the Russian and those of the Japanese Empire for the control ...
Date: Bologna, 11 March 1904
Lampreta, Rayu, Erica, Lira. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Lampreta, Rayu, Erica, Lira, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 4. The engraving is copied after Ad...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Cepola, Rosmarus, Adonis, Hirunda. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Cepola, Rosmarus, Adonis, Hirunda, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 5. The engraving is copied af...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Canis marinus. Cuculus. Silurc (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Two seals and fishes, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 3. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert plate ...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Caricature anti-cholérique. Je sens les gargouillemens. (pl 2)
Original hand-colored lithographed caricature of a young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance as she suspects the onset of cholera. In 1832, there was a devas...
Date: Paris, c. 1832
Napoleonic solder's.
Group of Napoleonic solder's with standard and drums after Carle Vernet (1758 - 1836) and lithographed by François-Sérafin Delpech (1778-1825)
Date: Paris, 1820
Cecilia - Cecile.
Painted by Tho. Stothard and engraved by Masetti.
Date: London, 1794
Paris fashion plate. (164)
From Revue de la Mode. Gazette de la Famille.. Underneath the print are the names of the shops where the clothing's, perfumes, porcelains, flowers, etc., depicted in the ...
Date: Paris, 1875
Paris fashion plate. (305)
From "Revue de la Mode - Gazette de la Famille". Underneath the print are the names of the shops where the clothing's, perfumes, porcelains, flowers, etc., depi...
Date: Paris, 1877
Le Piacpiac. Planche 54. Tome 2.
This is a very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique, published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Af...
Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Dites donc, confrère, vous allez soutenir aujourd'hui contre moi absolument ce que je plaidais il y a trois semaines, dans une cause identique... hé hé hé!.. c'est drôle!..
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 14. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Translated text below...
Date: Paris, 1848
Coeffure formée de velours . . .
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Date: Paris, 1824
Chapeau de velours plain.. (2561)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Date: Paris, 1827
Chapeau de crépe orné de rouleaux.. (2502)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Date: Paris, 1827
Paris fashion plate. (308)
From Revue de la Mode. Gazette de la Famille . Underneath the print are the names of the shops where the clothing's, perfumes, porcelains, flowers, etc., depicted in the ...
Date: Paris, 1877
Paris fashion plate. (306)
From "Revue de la Mode - Gazette de la Famille". Underneath the print are the names of the shops where the clothing's, perfumes, porcelains, flowers, etc., depi...
Date: Paris, 1877
Paris fashion plate. (304)
From "Revue de la Mode - Gazette de la Famille". Underneath the print are the names of the shops where the clothing's, perfumes, porcelains, flowers, etc., depi...
Date: Paris, 1877
Chapeau de paille d'Italie.. (2546)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Date: Paris, 1827
Coiffure ornee de marabouts. . . (1875)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Date: Paris, 1820
Musicien de la Chapelle. Mr. Lebeau premier trombone du Roi.
A humorous cartoon showing a rather surprised looking Mr. Lebeau - the portly, premier trombone player to the French king, 'playing' a clyster, with tube in mouth, and on...
Date: Paris, ca 1860
Vuë de la Mer au Soleil couchant.
Optical view of a sunset on the seacoast, by Daumont who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, th...
Date: Paris, 1760
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...
Date: Paris, 30 september 1840
Société du Clystère. Robert Macaire philantrope. Vois-tu Bertrand . . . Caricaturana (Plate 2)
Translation in English of text title: Robert Macaire, philanthropist. You see, Bertrand... We are moralists in actions (play on words: actions means stocks). .... In acti...
Date: Paris, 1838
Les plaisirs des Champs-Elysées. Un guerrier electrisé. Le Physicien: tel est…
Published by Bauger, rue du Croissant 16 (lower left). Printed by Imprimeurs d'Aubert & Cie at Aubert, Place de la Bourse. Text was written by Alphonse Jean LAURE...
Date: Paris, 1864
Les femmes socialistes. Comme vous vous faites belles. . . (Plate 2)
Translation in English of title text: You are really getting dressed up, my dear! - I am going to a banquet presided by Pierre Leroux. And you know how he enjoys beautifu...
Date: Paris, 23 April 1849
Robert Macaire. Excellent Placement. Comment Ernest . . . (Plate 14).
Translation in English of text title: An excellent investment. - What do you mean, Earnest, you have 100'000 Francs and you don't want to give them to me, you must have l...
Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Tout ce qu'on voudra. Moi aussi j'ai été jeune …(Plate 3)
Translation in English of title text: I have also been young . . . I have also been an amiable person . . .I have also been loved . . . And all this did not stop me from ...
Date: Paris, 1847
Robert Macaire. Inventaire chez un veuf. Mon Dieu! Messieurs . . . (Plate 9).
Translation in English of text title: Inventory at a widower's. My God, gentlemen, I must really apologize! Since the death of my poor wife I was so much in pain, so much...
Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Robert Macaire. Règlement de comptes. Monsieur de Macaire . . . (Plate 5).
Translation in English of text title: SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. – Monsieur de Macaire, allow me to note that I find your accounts amazing. For a spy, who was charged to k...
Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Bureau de remplacemens militaires. Y a Marchandise …(Plate 38)
Macaire personified the clever business man, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly ...
Date: Paris, 1864
