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(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
Atlas Geographique. (Puzzle).
Three map puzzles, each measuring 25 x 33 cm., housed in the original color printed card case. Geographical jigsaw puzzle set comprising three maps (world, Europe and Fra...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1910
![[Set of five maps] Carte Générale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde](/uploads/cache/41145X-250x250.jpg)
[Set of five maps] Carte Générale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde
Rare and decorative set of five wall maps of the world and the four continents, prepared by Clouet, in very fine bright contemporary coloring. Each map ca. 965 x 1230 mm ...
Place & Date: Paris and Cadiz, Mondhare, 1785-1793
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
Irlandiae Regnum.
A very nice map from Ireland.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]](/uploads/cache/29795-250x250.jpg)
XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]
How elephants are caught in Pegu. The king of Pegu had a particular method of transporting elephants. He had a great enclosure built of strong wooden posts, with a trap d...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Isole dell'Indie. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of the East Indies, including the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, the Philippines and all of Indonesia and the Spice Isla...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
![Actualites. [News]](/uploads/cache/46547-250x250.jpg)
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
![Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.](/uploads/cache/29013-250x250.jpg)
Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.
Two bird's-eye views on one sheet: Mexico and Cusco.Showing Mexico City and Cusco, the capital cities of the Aztecs and Incas, with the major buildings shown in profile w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
![Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten. [Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers. ]](/uploads/cache/28094-250x250.jpg)
Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten. [Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers. ]
Text page with copper engraving (150 x 100mm.) taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnego...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
CCCP/USA, 1966
Original 1968 Cold War Superman Style Poster by Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996). Published by Georges Fall, Paris. Printed by Serg, Paris.In 1968 the Parisian left-wing ar...
Place & Date: Serg, Paris, 1968
Nova Italiae delineatio.
Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among other copper plates,purchased by Willem Blaeu who trimmed the figured borders,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
![[Title in Russian; translated to : Believe in the power of a nuclear trucheon - It's up to you to celebrate a wake. ]](/uploads/cache/41508-250x250.jpg)
[Title in Russian; translated to : Believe in the power of a nuclear trucheon - It's up to you to celebrate a wake. ]
Propaganda mini poster published in Russia during The Cold War (1979–1985). The time refers to the phase of a deterioration in relations between the Soviet Union and th...
Place & Date: Russia, 1982
3e emprunt de la Défense nationale Crédit Lyonnais. Souscrivez.
Large color lithographed propaganda World War 1 poster. Designed by the illustrator Faivre Abel (1867-1945). A solder placing the French flag on a globe.English translati...
Place & Date: Paris, 1917
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 "Courr...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1895
Quinquina Bourin Force l'apetit donne de la force.
Advertising poster for the French liquor brand Quinquina Bourin. Printed by De la Vasselais, Paris. Jacques Bellenger designed this original vintage poster in 1936. This ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1936
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
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: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded Gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
39e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Hotel du Lord Maire de Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Somerset House on the Strand in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speci...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Vuë du dedans de l'Eglise de St. MARTIN à Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the central aisle of St. Martin's church, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Carte de LA LOUISIANE et des PAYS VOISINS Dédiée a M. Rouillé Dediee a M. Rouille Secretairr 'd Etat ayant le Departement de la Marine... 1750
North America from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. Based on Delisle's map of 1718 with additions from notes compiled by the Jesuit priest, explorer and histo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
![Province de Fo-Kien. [Includes West Coast of Taiwan]](/uploads/cache/43503-250x250.jpg)
Province de Fo-Kien. [Includes West Coast of Taiwan]
An important map of Fujian Province shows the East Coast of China and the West Coast of Taiwan. It shows that for the Manchu Qing, only the western half of Formosa was co...
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
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
Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Place & Date: London, ca 1937
British Empire Trade Map WWII Eric Fraser.
Original vintage World War Two period British Empire trade map poster with the stylised text in Spanish reading: For more than two centuries the British fleets have kept ...
Place & Date: England, 1941
Carriers of the New Black Plague.
A powerful satirical commentary on totalitarian control of speech from the first issue of Ken Magazine. "Caught here in all their peculiar beauty by the soul searchi...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1938
Map of Formosa. My hunting place.
An unusual hand drawn map of Formosa with an inset plan ‘My hunting place’. The map has the major cities marked in red ink and was made during Japanese occupation. Th...
Place & Date: Chiayi, Formosa, ca. 1940
Quella Tavola E l'Antica Siria ch'Era destinta in dodici . . .
Very rare view of Holy Land published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da G...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Scio. (Chios)
Very rare view of Chios Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. D...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Metileme. (Lesbos)
Very rare map of Lesbos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Giose...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
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
![Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]](/uploads/cache/27961-250x250.jpg)
Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]
A very good impression of Jaillot's large map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. A first state.The map shows the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1692
Kaart van Zeeland.
Fine map of the province of Zeeland, with the fortified cities are highlighted in red. Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion pu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1747
Tabula Episcopatuum Leodiensis et Coloniensis. . .
Rare issue of Cornelis Danckert's attractive map of Limburg, shows the area of Cologne, Mainz, Trier, Jülich, Mons, Antwerp and Liege in Belgium.Decorative title cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
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
Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, &quo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..
Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1688
![[Lot of Five Pacific Brand crate labels]](/uploads/cache/45706-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of Five Pacific Brand crate labels]
Five fruit crate label for Pacific Brand, showing a lemon and a map of the Pacific Ocean, centered on Hawaii and including a part of California and Asia, with also Austra...
Place & Date: Santa Barbara, 1917
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
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
(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
A Map and Chart of Arabia, the Red Sea, & Persian Gulf, drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean, Publish'd in 1740, by Order of ye Count de Maruepas,...
A small but unusual map of the Arabian Peninsular, engraved by G. Child for 'The universal traveller: or, A compleat description of the several nations of the world', by ...
Place & Date: London, Th. Salmon, 1752-1753
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1681
Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..
Very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying f...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1733
Carte Réduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L' Amérique..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart prepared by Bellin of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In addition to a magnificent title cartouche and a color key to the ...
Place & Date: Paris dated year 17, or 1808
Sincapour.
Early view of Singapore after Paris and engraved in aquatint technique by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). Published as plate 28 in Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'...
Place & Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
Pecheli, Xansi, Xantung, Honan, Nanking, In plaga Regni Sinensis. . .
A map of the northern provinces of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini, depicting of Hebei (Pecheli), Shanxi (Xansi), Shandong (Xantung), Henan (Honan), and Jangsu (Na...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
![ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].](/uploads/cache/27877-250x250.jpg)
ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].
After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1, 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia,...
Place & Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride.
This chart shows a plan of the Port of St. Augustine in Florida.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. Depths shown by s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Share of 1000 Florins to Michel de Knyff. N° 135.
Share of 1000 Florins, paid in four tranches at 250 Florins of Vienna, from "Compagnie Imperiale & Royale Octroyee d'Assurance de Commerce & d'escompte."...
Place & Date: Trieste, 1782 - 1783
Arabia
A lovely miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
![[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]](/uploads/cache/43680-250x250.jpg)
[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]
Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (ful...
Place & Date: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938
![Rhodi [Map of Rhodes]](/uploads/cache/45235-250x250.jpg)
Rhodi [Map of Rhodes]
Very rare map of Rhodes Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. D...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Santorini.
Very rare map of Santorini published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Gi...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
La Lune à un Mètre [Mini poster for Paris Exposition Universelle)
Original lithograph poster for "Paris Exposition Universelle" held between April and November, 1900, which received 50 million visitors. In 1899, director Geor...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1900
Carte des Principales Ports de Mer Bancs de sable &c: qui sont dans la Mer Rouge..
Some cities existed along the western coast of the Arabian peninsula, where they served as entrepots for transcontinental trade between Europe and Asia. Mecca, founded by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Pianta Della Citta di Roma con la Indicazione di tutte le Antichita e Nuovi Abbelliment.
Beautiful engraved town-plan of Rome with side borders depicting the 16 most important monuments and with a legend locating the major places and buildings.The views are o...
Place & Date: Venanzio Monaldini, Rome, 1829
Paraguay o Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra.
Blaeu's map of the Rio de la Plata region of South America. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1728
Typus Geographicus Chili Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c.
Detailed map covering the southern part of the continent based on the cartography of Delisle and the information gleaned from the voyages of Brouwer, Narbouroug and Beauc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.
This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to...
Place & Date: London, 1788
Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .
Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720