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(Complete 9 Plate set of silk dryeing.) Teinturier.
Complete 9 Plate set ‘Teinturier’ from, Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’ Edited by Denis Diderot. Original copper engraving drawn b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2015
(A set of five plates about optical lens making.) Lunettier.
A set of five plates Lunettier (optical lens maker). From, Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’.Edited by Denis Diderot.Collection of Plate...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2015
(A set of seven plates about button making in many forms) Boutonnier.
A set of seven plates ‘Boutonnier’ (Button making in many forms), from, Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’. Edited by Denis Diderot. ...
Place & Date: Paris 1751
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL IV).
The plate shows the steps in the casting of massive equestrian statues, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (suite de la PL III)
The plate shows the steps in the casting of massive equestrian statues, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL III)
The plate shows the steps in the casting of massive equestrian statues, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL II)
The plate show the steps in the casting of massive equestrian statues, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL V)
The plate shows a step in the casting of a massive equestrian statue, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates in ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL I)
The plate shows the steps in the casting of massive equestrian statues, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Figures of the Most Beautiful and Uncommon Plants. . .
Two marvelous hand-colored engravings from this scarce and important botanical book. Scottish botanist Phillip Miller (1691-1771) was the curator at the Chelsea Physic Ga...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1755
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2013
10 Original antique copper engravings For William Maitlands
An attractive set of "The Churches", copperplate prints, engraved by Benjamin Cole, from William Maitland's "History of London" 1753-56. St Swithin Ca...
Place & Date: London, 1755
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Histoire Naturelle, Phoques.
An interesting plate showing four types of seal. Probably from a work by Diderot named Encyclopedia oder Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1756
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
La Brebis
Decorative copper engraving from "Histoire naturelle" by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, this great naturalist (1707-88) spent the greater part of his l...
Place & Date: Paris 1758
Selling price: $30
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Obelisco Egizio.
Obelisco Egizio (Egyptian obelisk erected by Pope Sixtus V on the Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano) is a wonderful black and white etching by the master of architectur...
Place & Date: Rome, 1759
Selling price: $385
Sold in 2020
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Anamorphose
Copper engraving in original colors, pasted on card board, as issued. This rare (catoptric) anamorphosis, is to be viewed with a cylindrical mirror, placed on the print. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $1100
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Vedute di Roma Veduta del Tempio ottangolare di Minerva Medica.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 'Veduta del Tempio ottangolane di Minerva Medica'. An original etching from 'Vedute di Roma' by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca 1760. Signed ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
[Four butterflies on one sheet]
Beautifully hand-colored copper engraving of 4 butterflies on one sheet, from "Beyträge zur Natur- oder Insecten-Geschichte." By the engraver and publisher Chr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Blason ou Art Héraldique.
Interesting folio sized work with 26 single page, and one large folding copper engravings. Illustrates numerous heraldic figures, coat of arms, amours, a genealogical tre...
Place & Date: Paris, c1763
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
[Two prints - Masque in honor of King Charles III of Spain.]
A pair of attractive copperplate engravings displaying the event of the Royal masque (parade) executed by the guilds of the City of Barcelona upon the arrival of their Mo...
Place & Date: Barcelona, 1764
Decoration de Porte a Placard a Lusage des Appartements.
Fine copper engraving from "Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Orders d'Architecture" by Jaques Barozzio (giacomo Barozzi de Vignole). François-Philippe Charp...
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
Chandelier Pascal, Montant avec Suspensoir de la Planche, Lutrin, Appui de Communion.
Fine copper engraving from "Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Orders d'Architecture" by Jaques Barozzio (giacomo Barozzi de Vignole).François-Philippe Charpenti...
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2015
Expulsion et Embarquement des Jesuites des Etats d’Espagne, Par Ordre de S.M.C. le 31 Mars 1767
A large and rare print on the subject of the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and its colonies by Charles III.In the wake of France, the Bourbons of Spain and Italy in...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Two Pythons, Scarlet Ibis and Shama.
Plate LXII from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', displaying a pair of snakes, a scarlet Ibis and a small bird on a branch. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, z...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1734-1769
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2021
Group of 5 engravings of Roman buildings.
"Group of 5 engravings of Roman ancient buildings, together with 2 title pages. The prints are taken from ''Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonn&eacut...
Place & Date: Paris 1770
Selling price: $50
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NAVALIS PRAELII ADSPECTUS, VUE D'UN COMBAT NAVAL, VEDUTA D'UNA BATTAGLIADI MARE, PROSPECT EINES SEE-TREFFENS.
Rare print, showing a dramatic sea battle scene with a warship burning, sailors and goods swimming in the water, and rowing rescue boats trying to save them. Numerous oth...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1770
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2012
NAVALIS PRAELII ADSPECTUS, VUE D'UN COMBAT NAVAL, VEDUTA D'UNA BATTAGLIADI MARE, PROSPECT EINES SEE-TREFFENS.
Rare print, showing two fleets during a sea battle. One ship burning, others firing their cannons. In the front surviving sailors swimming in the water, and rowing rescu...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1770
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Veduta degli avanzi del Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli.
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”, which is the name for a collection of 135 monumental etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. With those etchings he had a ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1770
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Daniel Rabel Yellow & White Lilly - Pl. XXX.
This engraving was originally published in "Theatrum Florae" in Paris in 1622 as a collection of plates of the most beautiful flowering plants available in earl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2019
Le final exhaussé Dédié à Monseigneur le Duc de la Rochefoucauld Pair de France
Copper engraving after a painting of Joseph Claude Vernet (Le plus célébre des peintres de marine français du XVIII èm siécle.) Born in 1714 in Avignon and died in 1...
Place & Date: Paris, J.Alaimet, ca.1772
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Decorative pilaster with fruit, flowers, mythological figures and endrils.
A very fine, and an extremely decorative image from the work entitled "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" depicting the decorative work executed by Raphael and hi...
Place & Date: Rome, 1772
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
Branche d\'un arbre-à-pain avec des fruits. [Tahiti.]
Tree branch with fruits. From the French edition of James Cook\'s first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement r...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2008
Malva vulgaris./ Gemeine Pappel. (Malvae)
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal,' originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Calendula./ Ringelblume.
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Caprifolium./ Jericher Rosen (Honeysuckle)
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Lilium Album. Weise Lilie.
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nürnberg, 1757–1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Fragaria. Erdbeerkraut. [Strawberry]
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Amoris Pomum. Liebs-Aepfel. [Tomato]
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Morus nigra vulgaris. Maulbeer Baum. [Mulberry tree]
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Acanthus Branca Ursina. Welsche Baeren-Klau.
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
[Insects] Plate XXI
Decorative plate from ''Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes.'' Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1774
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2009
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Avanzi di una Sala appartamente al Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli.
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”, which is the name for a collection of 135 monumental etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. With those etchings he had a ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1774
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
London Restored Or Sir John Evelyn's Plan for Rebuilding that Ancient Metropolis after the Fire in 1666.
John Evelyn, Wren and Hooke were among the architects and draughtsmen who submitted masterplans for a wholesale rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, proposing varia...
Place & Date: London, 1775
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2019
Veduta della fonte e delle Spelonche d'Egeria fuor della porta Capena or di San Sebastiano... Tempio di Bacco, or di S. Urbano
View of the fountain and grotto of Egeria (Spelonche d'Egeria) outside the Porte Capena in Rome. An impressive and stark etching by the master of architectural prints Gia...
Place & Date: Rome/Paris, 1776
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
Anatra col collare dell'Isola di Terra Nuova.
A rare print of a Newfoundland duck, being plate DLXXV from the publication: 'Ornitologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illumitatis ornata, latine et i...
Place & Date: Florence, 1767-1776
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Pio Septimo Pont Max. Bonarum artium restitutori ac vindici D.D.D.
Engraving with etching reproducing the upper half of the north wall of the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' names and dedication to Pope Pius V...
Place & Date: Rome, 1772-1777
Histoire Naturelle.Vers Testaces a Coquille Multivalve...
Complicated engraving depicting Barnacles.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2013
Chirurgie, plate XXIV
Showing a eye-surgeon at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an ...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2015
Chirurgie, plate V.
Showing instruments and sections of internal organs, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important wo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
Chirurgie, plate XXV.
Showing an eye-surgeon at work and various instruments, from the medical section of Diderot's "Encyclopaedia". Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Ve...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Chirurgie, plate IX.
Showing medical instruments, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important work as it is giving an in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
Chirurgie, plate VII.
Showing medical tools and bondages, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important work as it is givin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
Chirurgie, plate XIII.
Showing male perineal anatomy section and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot\'s Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very impo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2009
Chirurgie, plate XXVIII.
Showing female breast anatomy examples and medical tools, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very importa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Tempête sur Mer.
So-called optical print. Showing a English and French ships at rough sea. Mondhare was one of the well-known publishers of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eig...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Marine.
Curious double-page copper-engraved display of 38 detailed maritime flags. Engraved by Pietro Scattaglia, probably for Denis Diderot.
Place & Date: Paris, c1780
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2013
Le Plan ou Maniere de Placer la Maison du Roi de Perse en Son Camp.
Interesting military print from "Illustrations de Lettres édifiantes et curieuses" by J.G. Merigot. Engraved by Nicolas Ransonnette in 1780.
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2016
A View of the Whale-Fishery, and the manner of Killing-Bears near and on the Coast of Greenland.
Nicely rendered copperplate engraving showing several ships and about a dozen longboats with men harpooning whales. Icebergs float in the sea. On the shore, a small group...
Place & Date: London, 1780
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2015
A View of the Whale-Fishery, and the manner of Killing-Bears near the Coast of Greenland.
A well engraved late eighteenth century copperplate showing a number of ships and about a dozen longboat, most with men harpooning whales. Icebergs nearby float in the se...
Place & Date: London, ca 1780
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019
[Vue d'optique] Le Profil du Palais de Petersbourg.
A delightful late eighteenth century (partial) view of the Palace of St. Petersburg in Russia. Some 'well to do' locals are seen strolling among its many columns, all obs...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1780
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Spotted Brown Snake (No Title).
Striking large hand-colored, copper plate of a spotted snake. From Buchoz's book "Histoire Naturelle". Pierre-Joseph Buchoz (1731- 1807) was a French physician,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Selling price: $6
Sold in 2016
The Manner of Burning the Martyrs During the Bloody Teighn of Queen Mary.
Fine hand-colored historical copper engraving featuring martyrs being burnt at the stake. The engraver was Sparrow from a picture by Wale. The engraving comes from "...
Place & Date: London, 1782
Selling price: $33
Sold in 2016
King Charles the First After His Retreat From York to Nottingham Ordering the Royal Standard to Be erected On the Castle.
Historical copper engraving featuring King Charles I. The engraver was Taylor after a picture by Wale. The engraving comes from "HISTORY OF ENGLAND" by Raymond...
Place & Date: London, 1782
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
Le Basset A Jambes Torses.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Braque de Bengale [Pl. 23]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Le Mâtin.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Petit Barbet.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2022
Le Grand Barbet [Pl. 26]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Chien D'Islande.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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Le Dogue de Forte Race.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Chien Courant [Pl. 21]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
L'Axis Femelle [Pl. 151]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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L'Âne.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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Lady Elizabeth Grey Petitioning Edward IV To Restore Her Lands.
Fine hand-colored copper engraving featuring Lady Elizabeth Grey. Engraved by Grignion from a picture by Edwards and published by Alexander Hogg in London in 1783.
Place & Date: London, 1783
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2016
Biblical figures.
Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. Number 30 of the serial "History of the Old and new testament"
Place & Date: Antwerp 1784
Selling price: $50
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British Churches - St. Botolph's, Dt. Leonard's etc.
Striking hand-colored copper engraving featuring british churches including St. Botolph's - Bishopgates Street, St. Leonard's - Shoreditch, Christ's - Spittlefields, st. ...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
A View of the Principal Place & Manner of Execution of Persons condemned by the Inquisition of Spain.
Early 18th century engraving. Engraved for the Rev Dr Wright's Modernised and Improved Edition of Fox's original Book of Martyr's. Inscription: London Published by Alexan...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
The Ship Harry Grace a Dieu, from an Original Drawing preserved in the Pepysian Library in Magdalen College Cambridge.
Scarce copper-engraved illustration of the ship with fine detail. Henry Grace à Dieu also known as Great Harry, was an English carrack or "great ship" of the K...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020