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Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Chosen Danpan - Korean negotiation.
A scene of a Japanese legation under the command of Hanabusa Yoshitada who is forcing the Korean King Kojong (1852-1919) to agree to Japanese demands during the Chemulpo ...
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1750
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
Transom of a ship in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE"
Decorative transom sign in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE" in a foliage environment. The transom usually kept the name of the ship...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1880
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750
![[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.](/uploads/cache/47201-250x250.jpg)
[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.
Copper-plate engraving of the rehearsal of a chamber cantata by Johann Christoph Steudner, after Paul Decker the elder, in the Handel-Haus, Halle. (Musikgeschichte in Bil...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Nieuwe Afteekening van het Eijland Curaçao..
Decorative and extremely rare chart of Curaçao with several coastal insets and an inset of Fort Amsterdam and the Bay of St.Anna (127x135mm.)Besides the island of Curaca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.
Engraved map by Jan van Deutecum, here the very rare first edition published by Cornelis Nicola in Asterdam in 1596. In very attractive original coloring.A re-issued was ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelius Nicol, 1596
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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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 ...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Franciae orientalis../ Monasteriensis et osnaburgensis..
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]' published in Antwerp. French text on verso.The map of Frankenland is prepared by Sebastian Rotenhan (1478-1532) ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1574
Waschinga Sahba's Grab.. (Wakonda Creek.)
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Ch. Vogel. The finest work on American Indian life and the American...
Place & Date: London/ Paris/ Coblenz, 1839
Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey.. Virginie.. Georgie..
Uncommon chart that extends from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia south through much of Georgia to Island Amelia and St. Johns River. Fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines fill the s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
![De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.](/uploads/cache/12097-250x250.jpg)
De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Carro, che uà à vela Su le Piagge di Schevelingue.
Italian version of Prince Maurits' sailing carriage designed by Simon Stevin. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per ho...
Place & Date: Venice, 1707
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'...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,
Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1736
Hongarije.
Poster made for Hungarian Tourist association. The uncommon Dutch version of this fine poster to promote Hungary in the 1930's. Arisztid Uher was a graphic designer. He d...
Place & Date: Budapest, KLOSZ / Sohn., ca. 1930
Venice Simplon Orient-Express. London-Paris-Venice.
Vintage poster by Pierre Fix Masseau for the restoration of the mythic "Orient-Express" in 1981.Pierre Fix-Masseau (1905-1994) is a French poster artist, son of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1981
![[ Map of the island Nexos]](/uploads/cache/45289-250x250.jpg)
[ Map of the island Nexos]
Very rare map of the island Naxos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Renault Savane 1951 L. La nouvelle voiture mixte 6 / 7 places 800 kg moteur
Original advertising poster for the French car brand Renault, printed by Barreau.Read more about Poster History [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
Kaart van Palestina voor oud- en nieuw testament behorend bij de weg met en naar Christus door Fr. M. Bellarminus.
Original vintage illustrated map wall map sized poster (166 x 118cm) of Palestine in the time of Christ featuring a map of the old and new testament of the Bible from The...
Place & Date: Utrecht, Sint Gregoriushuis, 1948
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
1917. Enlightened century
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period (1985 - 1991) by Plakat (All-Union...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
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Lenin October.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
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[Title cartouche from Carte de la France]
Title cartouche from "Carte de la France", prepared by Captaine and published by Pierre D. Belleyme.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1789
Connecticut and Parts adjacent at Amsterdam. .
A nice example of this early map of the state of Connecticut with part of Rhode Island to the east, Long Island to the south, and New York to the east. Rivers, roads, t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium cum partibus adjacentibus delinatio ad Exemplar Londinense in lucem edita . . . Ao. 1755.
The German edition of this map of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands in full original colors. Published in Seligmann's "Sammlung verschiedener auslaendischer ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1755
La pericolante ostinata. Papagallo No. 20 Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Constatinopolis.
Panoramic town-view of Constantinople (Istanbul). Woodcut published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Ori...
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
A globe by Thomas
Large terrestrial globe by G. Thomas of Paris c.1920. 12" diameter globe with printed paper surface and brass fitting. On an ebonized column basis.Thomas shows us th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1922-1924
Provincie Noord-Braband.
Decorative and uncommon costume plate lithographed by Desguerrois & Co. and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. 12 illustrations of Brabant costumes: 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
A handsome map of modern-day Panama and Colombia. The cartouches and decoration are colored in an artistic way. Very fine and rare with this type of coloring.From "l...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
A chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monsr. D'APRES de MANNEVILLETTE .. To A.Dalrymple.
This most important milestone chart is based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first hydrographer of the Brit...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Nieuwe gemeten kaart van de colonie de Berbice met der zelver plantagiën en de namen der Bezitters. . .
Re-issue of his map from 1740, without the printed list of owners, with a large added contemp. hand-colored cartouche Relaas van de rebellie, ontstaan op de plantagien in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1763
Het stadhuis, van vooren.
The former Amsterdam Town Hall, now the Royal Palace. Copper engraving by Frans de Bakker after Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816).From the well-known description of Amsterdam ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
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 ...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
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 "...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1692
Cadran Politique au casque magique de guillaume.
A rare broad sheet about the Franco-Prussian War. Showing a large clock with in the center William I, the German Emperor, surrounded by 12 stages of the war.Printed by Gi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1872
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 187 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 160 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
![[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]](/uploads/cache/39343-250x250.jpg)
[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]
Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Concours international de chant . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Concours international de chant . . . .", by DONNAY, A. Plate 59, published in Maître 15, on Fébruary 1897. The "Les Maitres...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
Théâtre de l'Opéra.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Théâtre de l'Opéra.", by CHERET, Jules. Plate 57, published in Maître 15, on February 1897. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche&...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, February 1897
Lippincott's August.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Lippincott's August.", by CARQUEVILLE, W. Plate 132, published in Maître 17, on April 1896. The "Les Maîtres de l'affiche&qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
![Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio . . . [and] Terretorii Romani Descrip. [and] Fori Iulii Vulgo Frivli Typus. . .](/uploads/cache/41008-250x250.jpg)
Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio . . . [and] Terretorii Romani Descrip. [and] Fori Iulii Vulgo Frivli Typus. . .
Set of 3 maps of Lake Como, the region around Rome and the region around the Upper Adriatic, centered on Udinese from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Gazette du Bon Ton Art - Modes Frivolités. (1912/1913 volume)
La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. The extremely rich and vivid colors were achieved through the l...
Place & Date: Paris, 1912-1913
Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico ‘t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker. . .
First state. Rare. “This chart appeared in the first edition of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known” -- Burden. This is an example ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .
Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to...
Place & Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte routière de l'Indochine. Des kilomètres en sécurité sur Goodrich.
Advertising poster for the brand Goodrich, showing a map of Indochina.Goodrich Corporation is a former American company specializing in civil and military aeronautical eq...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1934
La Crise salutaire.
In this` fine French caricature we see Napoleon seated in side profile to the left on an ornate chair-commode, clasping his knees, benign forward to vomit into a bowl hel...
Place & Date: Paris, 1814
The Soviet Political Poster. - a portfolio collection of 32, full-color posters.
An attractive large portfolio set of 32 reproductions published in Leningrad in 1976 by Aurora Art Publishers, containing various Soviet Union political posters from 1919...
Place & Date: Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1976
Нам знания станут опорой в труде (= Nam znaniia stanut oporoi v trude = Knowledge will become a support in our workforce).
Original vintage Soviet motivational poster by Y. Tupitsyn, with in top Нам знания станут опорой в труде (= Nam znaniia stanut oporoi v trude) ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1977
Piscantur tevetes sinuato in gargite pices.
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
Sic leporem in laqueos agitnat per aperta fugacem - Gramina, siq canes rapidi sua terga sequutur
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
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
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45060-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Hataman Cigarettes from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It d...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45068-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Red Lion Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograph...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45070-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Jintan Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography....
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Carte Des Detroits De Singapour Durian, Jombol et Rhio Dressee d'apres les travaux Anglais et Hollandais les plus recents . . . 1866
Rare separately issued chart of Singapore, extending to Johore, Battam, Bintang, Rempang, Galang, Jombol, Suji, Sanbon and neighboring islands, depicting coastal features...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
Place & Date: Pars, ca. 1939
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
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map, which ...
Place & Date: London 1714
Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630