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Sic inter dumos, pregrandi corpore cerus. - In pecus extrorquent dumeta per auia, acuto.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Lusus Lucrum Temporis Iactura.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women playing cards. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mart. Engelbr...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses.
Chromo lithographed mini poster, " Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses. Pelouse 1 f. pesage 2 f. Nouveau sport. Grand prix : une rivière en diamants de 20...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
The Chap Book.
Chromo lithographed poster, "The Chap Book.", by BRADLEY, W. Plate 136, published in Maître 17, on April 1895. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contai...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1895
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[This is Great Brittain to-day - Cambridge]
Chromolithoghraphed plate showing a fancy depiction of the courtyard of a British University (Cambridge). A text in Arabic language explaining about the 20 universities a...
Place & Date: Arabia, ca. 1920
Selling price: $360
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Nititur ad vetitos iuuenem compellere amores Putephar, Gene[sis] 39,
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph Runs from Potiphar's Wife.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum his...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
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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 ...
Place & Date: 1654-1655
Aux buttes Chaumont.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Aux buttes Chaumont.", by CHERET, J. Plate 141, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" c...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
Iris . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°180. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1899
Geography Humphrey . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°76. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Casino d'Enghien.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Casino d'Enghien.", by CHERET, Jules. Plate 129, published in Maître 33, on August 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" ...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1890
La Dépêche Grand Format.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°140. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
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Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
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Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph in Jail.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...
Place & Date: Late Edo, 1790
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
Eadem Aurantia Dimidiata.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Toujours des sangsues!
Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832
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.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
MARS Rejouissances du Papeguay. Les Triomphes d'un conquerant
Etching published by Louis Charles Desnos (1725-1805) with address of rue St.Jacques au Globe. He is also known for his output of wall maps and atlases.
Place & Date: Paris, 1782
Vue du village de Maarsen en Hollande.
Showing the river Vecht at the town of Maarsen. Published by Jacques Chereau, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. I...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Vue perspective edu fauxbourg et du port de Scheveningue a une lieue de la Haye, en Hollande.
Optical print showing the village and harbor of Scheveningen with the church at the right, in the background the North Sea. In the background the summer residence Nieuw S...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
A view of the Gerzay near Iside part. / Vue du port et rade de Gerzay.
A fanciful depiction of the port of Jersey. Engraved by the French engraver Paul Angier after a design by P.Brookes and published by Robert Sayer of London, a well-known ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1760
A view of Amsterdam taken from the Old Rampart.
So-called optical print of Amsterdam, published by Jean Mondhare after a print by Laurie and Wtitle. With captions in English and French above and belowIn the eighteenth ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1760
(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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.
Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...
Place & Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
20 advertising gouaches for tobacco industry.
A stunning collection of 20 original square and rectangular decorative commercial designs for the Tabaco industries in gouache and watercolor by the artist and graphic de...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
View of the harbour of Taloo, in the island of Eimeo.
John Webber View of the Harbour of Taloo on Moorea (Society Islands), from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes enc...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The Narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka.
Webber's view of transport in Kamtchatka, Russia, showing the sledge dogs hooked up to the sledge, and their master on skis, taken from "Views in the South Seas"...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
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View in the island of Cracatoa. [Rakata in the Sunda Strait]
Early view of the volcano Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), on the Indonesian island of Rakata in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" bei...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The Fan palm, in the island of Cracatoa.
The Fan palm, on the island of Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early ...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
A view in Oheitepeha Bay in the Island of Otaheite. (Tahiti)
A view of Vaitepiha Bay (Tahiti), with a mountainous landscape, with a river in the centre, a small canoe, Tahitian houses to the right, and a Tahitian couple in the left...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Art déco gouache with winter scene.
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache with winter scene of The Palace of Westminster )
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Art déco gouache.
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Le Turban.
Etching in brown ink on cream laid paper by Albert Besnard (1849–1934) of a young naked woman with feathered turban. Inscribed below the borderline: (left) “A. Besnar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1910
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...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
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Actualites. [News]
A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1840
La Curiosite punie, aventure hydrauli-comique et vraie.
A charming and delightful hand colored etching in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century from "Musee Grotesque No. 20" : La Curiosite punie, ave...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Le Curieux.
A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Petit solfège illustré. Illustrations de Pierre Bonnard. Deuxième mille.
30 compositions by Bonnard, mostly printed in colors, integrated with and surrounding the texts and musical passages. Publisher’s dec. boards, with full-cover illustrat...
Place & Date: Paris, 1893
Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position. The miniature has been painted in India in early 20th century. The miniature is 165 x 110 mm, painted in oil ...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1920
Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position. The miniature has been painted in India in early 20th century. The miniature is 165 x 110 mm, painted in oil ...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1920
Au quartier Latin.
This image also appears on the Christmas cover of the magazine in 1900. This is the version before the magazine boilerplate was added, but "this black-and-white vers...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1899
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838 - 1839
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 ...
Place & Date: Turin, 1832
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...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1976
A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt.
A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt. The series was published anonymously in a small edition. These etchings a...
Place & Date: Nevers, Brussels, 1882,1883
Chinese painting on silk.
Fine oriental miniature of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymous, also called &qu...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1880
Selling price: $175
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Chinese painting on silk.
Fine oriental miniature of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymous, also called &qu...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1880
Chinese painting on silk of a couple in a love-making position.
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymo...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1880
Indian painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of an amourouse Indian couple. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
Indian painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of an Japanese looking couple. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
Indian painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of a amorous scene of an Indian couple with a landscape in the back. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Place & Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
Eight Indian paintings, accordion mounted.
SUPERB SET of eight remarkable free miniatures, presenting couples in natural decorations. The miniatures are painted in Iran or India in late 19th - early 20th century]....
Place & Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
Tiger tamer.
Showing a tiger tamer with two tigers who apparently have more interest in his erotic, scarily dressed assistance.
Place & Date: ca. 1950
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Chocolat Menier.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°47. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1897
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 for lithographic prints of the bes...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Concerts Ysaye . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°40.The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1896
The hanging of the head of police Jean Grauwels in Brussels, 11 february 1569.
Print relating to Brussels during the first decades of the eighty year war between Spain and the Low Countries: (plate 18). This plate shows the hanging of the head of po...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Caricature anti-cholérique.
Lithography with underneath the illustration "Moi je traite le choléra par le champagne, c’est le système Mayeux, nom de D... ! "In 1832, there was a devast...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1832
Caricature anti-cholérique La peur du mal donne le mal de la peur. (pl 1)
Caricature on hypochondria and protective measures against cholera. An overweight man seated in a chair surrounded by pitchers and bowls. In 1832, there was a devastating...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1830
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 be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
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 be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
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Le Sacre Hagard [Haggard-falcon]
A beautiful elephant folio sized colored lithograph of a Hagard Falcon, taken from the famous book on Falconry Traite de Fauconnerie by Schlegel and A.H. Verster van Wulv...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1844-1853
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930