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Carte du calendrier ancien rangé en parallèle avec le nouveau et l'usage qu'on en peut faire pour l'intelligence de l'histoire par ou on fait voir la manière de . . .
Chart of the old and new calendars.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
Carte pour introduire à la chronologie et à trouver les années devant et après Jésus Christ par le moyen des périodes Iulienne, Dionysienne et par les trois cycles comme aussi pour trouver la fête de Pasque. . .
An engraved table showing the years before and after Jesus Christ through the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pasto...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2020
Nouvelle Histoire Abregée de la Vie des Roys de France.
A listing of all the French Kings from 418 until 1715 from an Atlas Carte générale de la Monarchie Française 1730-1733 published by the French cartographer La Jaisse. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1733
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
A Prospect of the Tower of Babel.
A Prospect of the Tower of Babel, engraved by J Mynde. The inscription beneath reads: To the right reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Oxford this plate is most hu...
Place & Date: London, 1733
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
Garden of Eden and Expulsion from Paradise.
A set of 4 copper engravings; overall size 41 x 24 cm each . from Scheuchzer's 'Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica Sacra, oder geheiligte Natur-Wissenschafft derer in H...
Place & Date: Augsburg/Ulm, 1731-1735
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2015
Philip II, King of Spain, Naples, Sicilie &c.
A fine hand colored copper engraving of Philip II. Engraved by Vertue from a painting by Titian. From Rapin's "HISTORY OF ENGLAND" IN 1736. The portrait is surr...
Place & Date: London, 1736
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2016
Lapides Bezoar ex Hippototamo, vel Equo marino. Tab CXII.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Lapides Bezoardici Orientales. Tab CXI.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Lapides Porcini. Tab CXIII.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
Pila Vitulina. Tab CXIV.
Natural history aroused the passion of wealthy collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries. These constitute vast "cabinets of curiosities" and sometimes undertak...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1740
A PAIR OF CELESTIAL MAPS 'NOORDER-HEMEL-KLOOT' AND 'ZUIDER-HEMEL-KLOOT'
A pair of very decorative celestial maps, each on two sheet, which can be joined to form the two celestial hemispheres. Each hemisphere has a diameter of 28 cm. Very rare...
Place & Date: Holland, ca 1740
Shepherds With Cattle & Goats Meeting - Plate #41.
This is a mezzotint print after Claude Lorrain. His paintings were etched masterfully by another great artist: Richard Earlom, who had specialized in the most royal of pr...
Place & Date: London, 1744
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Ampelographia Iconica id est, Historia culturae Vinearum Naturalis...
A scarce print, illustrating viniculture with two images showing vineyards and winegrowers. Explanatory German text about cultivating and cutting the vines.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1747
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2019
Madonna & Child.
Fine copper engraving of an ultra decorative "Madonna & Child" painting with engraved frame entitiled "Inventions for making Plates". From "O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2014
Les Filles de Pelias.
This fine copper engraving by Le Pautre features the daughters of Pelias turning on him and trying to kill him.From "Oeuvres d'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre" b...
Place & Date: Paris, Mariette, 1751
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2015
(Complete 15 Plate set) Fayancerie.
Complete 15 Plate set ‘Fayancerie’ Contenant Douze Planches Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’. Original copper engraving drawn by L...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
(Complete 9 Plate set) Miroitier Metteur au Teint.
Complete 9 Plate set ‘Miroitier Metteur au Teint’ ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’.Original copper engraving drawn by Lucotte & others, ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2015
(Complete 5 Plate set) Chaudronnier.
Complete 5 Plate set Chaudronnier ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’.Original copper engraving drawn by Dasgerantins & others, engraved by Prev...
Place & Date: Paris 1751
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
(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
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
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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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
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[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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Veduta di Pizzo-falcone, e del Castel dell' Uovo a Napoli
A Large, spectacular view of Naples with the mout Vesuvious in background. From a painting of Jacob Philipp Hackert. Sold jis brother in Naples. The print is extremely ra...
Place & Date: Naples, 1787
Richard I Leaving Cyprus
A beautifully engraved scene, Richard the 'Lion Heart' is about to board his ship leaving Cyprus in preparation for the Crusade. From Robert Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'H...
Place & Date: London, 1794
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2015
Cecilia - Cecile.
Painted by Tho. Stothard and engraved by Masetti.
Place & Date: London, 1794
Here Justice Triumphs in His Elbow Chair.
Copper engraving of William Hogarth's "Here Justice Triumphs in His Elbow chair", from the Cook Edition from 1796. This print shows a pregnant woman pleading wi...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $97
Sold in 2018
Henry VI Taken Prisoner by the Earls of Warwic & Marche.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
Edward VI Granting the Charter for Hospitals.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $79
Sold in 2016
The Entry of James I Into London.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowyer...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2017
The Convocation at Oxford.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
The Briton.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2016
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Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2017
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[Untitled French Satircal Cartoon]
A delightful French satirical cartoon, a 'John Bull' allegory. Set in the 'Orange Café' in Plymouth it features John Bull seated on the left, Major Grosswener seated in ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1800
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
The Shepherd.
A fine mezzotint engraving entitled “THE SHEPHERD” by W. Benard from a painting by George Morland in London in 1801. Published in London by Barnard.
Place & Date: London, 1801
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
La vaccine aux prises avec la Faculté.
Rare satirical print on the controversy over vaccination: a cow at left charges at a donkey dressed in academic dress. The plate was deposited on 8 July 1801 by Argaud de...
Place & Date: Paris, July 1801
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Gare la Vaccine - Triomphe de la petite Vérole.
Rare satirical print on the controversy over vaccination. "A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wield...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1801
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
La vaccine ou l'inoculation a la mode.
Rare satirical print on the controversy over vaccination published in Paris " A Paris chez Depeuille Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux deux Pilastre d'Or".A child ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
Bataille de Fleurus gagnée par l'arme´e française le 8 messidor de l'an 2 : commandée par les géneéraux Jourdan, Le Fevre, et Hatri : contre l'armée impériale commandée par Cobourg et Beaulieu. (N° 29).
After a design by Thomas-Charles Naudet. Engraved by Pierre-Adrien Le Beau. Print belonging to a suite illustrating the General Napoleon Bonaparte’s Campaigns. Read mor...
Place & Date: Paris, Jean, 1797 -1802
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Napoleon 1er Empereur des Français.
Fine full length in uniform, with chapeau, head to right, on a prancing horse, advancing to the left, at the head of his staff, on the field of battle. Engraved by Pierre...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1806
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
![Death of Sir Philip Sidney [and] Lord Russell's Last Interview With His Family. [Lot of 2 prints]](/uploads/cache/93700-250x250.jpg)
Death of Sir Philip Sidney [and] Lord Russell's Last Interview With His Family. [Lot of 2 prints]
Two decorative copper engravings featuring history scenes. They were engraved by A. Smith and published in "ASHBURTON'S HISTORY" by J. Stratford in 1811.
Place & Date: London, 1811
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
George Town and City of Washington.
A delightful bucolic copperplate engraving of the village of 'George Town' and the neighbouring 'City of Washington' by the Potomac River. Georgetown is a historic suburb...
Place & Date: London, 1811
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2021
Charles The First, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c.
The portrait is after Anthony Vandyck, three heads: in profile to right, facing front, three-quarters to left, wearing a lace collar, star and ribbon of the garter, pearl...
Place & Date: London, 1815
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Lotto Sucht.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June1768, died 12 March1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Kartenfpiel.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June1768, died 12 March1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
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Music. [Two sheets].
Two pages with musical instruments and monkeys from "Encyclodedia Londenensis". Engraved by J.Pas.
Place & Date: London, 1818
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
Uytgegeven Door Fs. de Vletter & Comp. te Amsterdam.
Wonderful, large, stippled, mezzotint engraving by Jan Willem Pienman in Abcoude, the Netherlands, in about 1820. It is an allegory of the death of William V, Prince of O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1820
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
Musee Grotesque No. 56
A charming and delightful hand colored etchings in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century. With title Maudits Bonbons ! (Damn Candies!) An infant is seen ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris ca 1816-1820
Before - A Girl's Last Minute Resistance.
Fine large, hand colored copperplate engraving featuring a woman resisting a man's advances. By William Hogarth, published in London in 1736, but a re-strike of the orig...
Place & Date: London, (Heath edition), 1822
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Pandemonium. (Proof state)
Original mezzotint with drypoint 1825 marked ‘Proof’ assembled for the first edition 1827 of Imperial Octavo John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published in London by Sep...
Place & Date: London, 1825
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Satan on his throne. (proof state)
Original mezzotint with drypoint 1825 marked ‘Proof’ assembled for the first edition 1827 of Imperial Octavo John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published in London.One of...
Place & Date: London 1825
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016
The Courts of God. (Proof state)
Original mezzotint with drypoint 1825 marked ‘Proof’ assembled for the first edition 1827 of Imperial Octavo John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published in London by Sep...
Place & Date: London 1825
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2016
Découverte de la vaccine son caractère. ... Les notes explicatives ont été rédigées par le Cen. Chaussier.
Broadsheets etchings each with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about the cow-pox disease. Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard.Francois C...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Icnoculation de la vaccine ou vaccination.
Etching and descriptive text about vaccination. Two vignettes related to vaccination. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself. François Chaussier (1746-182...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Coeffure orné de fleurs .. (2552)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Place & Date: Paris 1827
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2009
Coeffures exécute;es par M.Hyppolite .. (2473)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Place & Date: Paris 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2009