Browse Listings in Books
Ars moriendi.
The Ars moriendi or Art of Dying is one of the great themes of medieval life, and it founds its most poetic expression in a series of wonderful images created around 1460...
Place & Date: Lyon, Johann Siber, ca. 1495
Selling price: $18000
Sold in 2021
'Cows'.
A copper engraving. Print showing cows in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Hoc-Schema demonstrat terram esse globosam.
This fascinating sheet, from Cluver's "Introductionis in Universam Geographiam" contains the demonstration that the Earth is a globe. Several diagrams, in fact,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
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
Selling price: $9180
Sold in 2017
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.
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
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2018
Geographia Magnae Britanniae Or, Correct Maps Of All The Counties In England, Scotland, And Wales; With General Ones Of Both Kingdoms, And Of The Several Adjacent Islands
We believe this to be the 1st edition. A subsequent edition had the caption in the bottom left-hand corner of the title page with the following names: T. Osborne, D. Brow...
Place & Date: London, 1748
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2023
Bowles's Post Chaise Companion; or, Travellers Directory through England and Wales …
The 2nd edition (1782); printed at Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London.The book includes an engraved general map of E...
Place & Date: 1782
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2023
Heath's Fern Portfolio.
Illustrated with fifteen chromo-lithographed color plates. All the species of British ferns are included in this volume. The work is intended to present a series of life-...
Place & Date: London, 1885
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2019
La Gazette du Bon Ton. (First issue)
La Gazette du Bon Ton">La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. The extremely rich and vivid col...
Place & Date: Paris, 1912
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2011