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Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)

Depiction of Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. Set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 8. The engra...

Maker / Publisher: COLLAERT, Adriaen (after)
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023

 


Alosa, Acipenser, Manula, Apua cobitis, (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)

Depiction of Alosa, Acipenser, Manula, Apua cobitis, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 10. The engraving is cop...

Maker / Publisher: COLLAERT, Adriaen (after)
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023

 


Asellus, Cancellus, Asellus mollis. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)

Depiction of Asellus, Cancellus, Asellus mollis. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 13. The engraving is co...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: COLLAERT, Adriaen (after)
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017

 


The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.

Desirable scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Barentsz made three voyages (1594, 1595, 1596-1597) in search of the...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $120
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The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.

These famous and desirable scene is engraved by de Bry depicting a scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Despite the...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018

 


Ambivi.. Victoria.. [The ship victoria of Magellean]

A print representing a the ship Victoria by Magellean, crossing the Pacific Ocean.

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: BERTUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $120
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De Grandibus Adeo et Vastis Cancris. (Giant crabs)

Dutch attacked by giant crabs.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of ...

Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022

 


Jonas From the Belly of the Whale & Jonas Thrown Into the Sea (Two Woodcut Engravings)

Two hand-colored woodcuts featuring Jonas in bible stories. The prints come form "Figures des Histoires de la Sainte Bible". One shows crew members throwing Jon...

$175 / ≈ €164
Maker / Publisher: LECLERC, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1614
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2013

 


Pisces in Marialati.

Fine early engraving of a Portuguese sailing ship.

$240 / ≈ €225
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY,Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1617
Selling price: $240
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Monstra Marina. Meehr Wunder. Inventore Gabrielo Weÿero Norimberg excudebat Petr. Iselburg Col. 1617

Complete suite of 12 copper engravings representing of Sea divinities with scroll work and cupids. Gabriel Weyer (Nuremberg 1576–1632 Nuremberg) was an engraver and pai...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: WEYER, G.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1617
Selling price: $3000
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Classis Hispanica celeberrima, quae anno celeberrimo. MDLXXXVIII. inter Galliam Brittaniamque venit. & perijt.

Scene of the great sea battle in 1588 between Calais and Dover. Filled with fighting sailing ships, some already sinking with survivors being rescued.

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: COMMELIN, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1650
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2015

 


Philippi Brietii S. J. Ventorum Tabula. Secundum Veterem & Novam dispositionem et nomenclaturam.

A very decorative, early engraving of a wind-rose. It is divided into five categories. The First is the "Divisio & Nomina Ventorum Apud Nautas..." (i.e., th...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: CLUVER, P
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2021

 


Figura admirandi meteori.

Two Dutch ships observe a "marvelous meteor" during their voyage. The witnesses said "the object moved slowly in the sky above them and seemed to be made o...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1665
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012

 


Vaisseau.

Miniature view of a vessel, showing its various corposants. With key list on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Ma...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: MALLET,A.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020

 


(Shipping - Noms des principales Voiles d'un Navire)

Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With on verso an explanation of the various parts of the vessel. (Noms des principales Voiles d'un Navire).From ...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: MALLET, A.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018

 


Vaisseau.

Miniature view of a vessel, showing its various corposants. With key list on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Ma...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MANESSON MALLET, Alain.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

 


Vaisseaux de l'Asie et de l'Afrique.

Miniature view of various forms of sailing ships from these two continents. From the German text edition of Description d'Univers.. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706),...

$40 / ≈ €37
Maker / Publisher: MALLET,A.M.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1684
Selling price: $40
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Tocht naer Nova Zemla in den Jaere MDXCVI.

Showing Dutchmen hunting a walrus in Magdalenefjorden (Norway) from a small sailing boat, other walruses at right, two large sailing vessels in the right background, whal...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: LUYKEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1679-1684
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016

 


Das grosse Segel. . .

Maritime scene of a vessel with its key: J-M by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France und...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MALLET, A.M.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014

 


Het lande van syn Hoogh in Engelant.

William of Orange landing at Torbay; letters A-P within composition indicating different scenes. 1689. Lettered in Dutch in banderol in top center: "Het lande van sy...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: STOOPENDAAL, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1689
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011

 


Sea battle in the Baya de Gibraltar.

Print of the sea battle in the Bay of Gibraltar. On the right the city, on the right in the foreground a fort. Shots are fired from this fort as well as from the ramparts...

$325 / ≈ €304
Maker / Publisher: DE JONGE, Guglielmo
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2021

 


Saique bâtiment dont les Turcs se servent en tenant pour leur trafic.

A finely executed maritime engraving of a Turkish Saique (small sailing vessel) under full sail before a town. This was printed as part of a series of 17 folio copperplat...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: RANDON, Charles, after Henri Sbonski de Passebon.
Place & Date: Marseille, ca. 1690
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020

 


Coupe dun Amiral de 104 pieces de Canon avec ses principales proportions et les noms des pieces du dedans.

Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel. Etched by Jan van Vianen. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Nept...

$925 / ≈ €866
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2023

 


Vertrek van S.K.H. NA Engeland den 11. Nov. 1688 & Aenkomst van S.K.H.D.P. van Orangie in Engeland, den 15. en 16. Nov. 1688. . .

Two large engraved views on one sheet, illustrating the departure of William III of Orange with his large fleet from Holland (Hellevoetsluis), and his arrival at Brixham,...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: HOOGHE, R. DE
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1695
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021

 


Sea Monsters

Very decorative, large page from the rare Specula physico-mathematico-historica, superbly illustrated compendium of mathematics and natural history by Zahn, a member of t...

Maker / Publisher: ZAHN, J.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1696

 


S. K. H. gehet zu Schiff in Engelland über Zufahren

Unusual print showing the departure of Wilhelm III of Oranien with his fleet, leaving to conquer England in November 1688. Very detailed view showing many ships in great...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: MERIAN, M.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1698
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011

 


Nave di CIV. Cannoni. . .

A large cross-section view of a 17th century sailing ship. A very interesting and detailed print, with the cargo visible at the bottom and numerous cannons. From Coronell...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1698
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018

 


Nave di CIV. Cannoni Colle fue proportioni tagliata à mezzo per. . .

A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of a ship. On verso a map of the Malay Peninsular as far south as Singapore. (215x275mm) With three small brown spot...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013

 


Polacre a la voille.

Scarce copper-engraved illustration of a 17th century sailing ship. Fantastic view with sailors working on the ship with full sails, cannons, etc. With a second ship, and...

$335 / ≈ €313
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693-1700
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2015

 


(Title page) Introduction a la Fortification. . .Tome premier

Very decorative title page of this Amsterdam edition of De Fer's important atlas "'Les forces de l'Europe, ou description des principales villes. . .", original...

$45 / ≈ €42
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693-1702
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2012

 


Combat de la Hogue (Sea battle between the Dutch, French, and English armies. )

Dramatic and wonderfully colored representation of the sea battle of The Hogue in 1692, with, on the right, the French trying to escape in small boats; coat of arms in lo...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: WEST, B. and VOYSARD, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1709
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2017

 


Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs..

Superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, etc...

$475 / ≈ €444
Maker / Publisher: WEIGEL,C.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1717
Selling price: $475
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Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs..

Superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, etc...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: WEIGEL,C.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1717
Selling price: $1200
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Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs. . .

A superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, e...

$375 / ≈ €351
Maker / Publisher: WEIGEL, C.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1717
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2021

 


Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs..

Superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, etc...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: WEIGEL,C.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1717
Selling price: $500
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To His Royal highness, George, Prince of Wales

This print was one of twelve, then twenty, drawn and engraved by Thomas Baston, and published by Carrington Bowles in “Twenty-two Prints of Several of the Capital Ships...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: BASTON, T.
Place & Date: London, c1720
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020

 


Aftekening der Schilderye, op't Stadhuis te Dordrecht geplaatst, ter gedagtenisse van de Overwinning by Chattam, in't Jaar 1667, onder't beleid van Kornelis de Wit, Ruwaard van Putten

The scene of the Battle of Chatham. Glorification of Grand Pensionary Kornelis de Witt, the commander in armour, holding a baton. He is, being crowned with a laurel by a ...

$38 / ≈ €36
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, circa 1720
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2019

 


Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.?

Map of 88 marine flags.

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014

 


Nouvelle Carte pour conduire a la Connoissance de la Marine . . .

This is a fascinating folio sheet filled with engravings of ships and navigation instruments. At center is a large view of a frigate showing the rigging in great detail. ...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2023

 


Neue Tafel vor alle Liebhabers und See-fahrende Personen Stellet vor ein Orlog oder Kriegs-Schiff mit seinen volligen Tow & Seilwerck Sampt einen Durchgeschnittnen Schiff...

Interesting engraving of a warship (a three-masted, 96-gun man-o-war) at anchor, illustrating every aspect of its design and construction. Beneath the main illustration i...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1730
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2016

 


Flaggen aller Seefahrenden Potenzen und Noationen in der gantzen Welt...

Striking example of the famous Flag print produced by Homann. The chart illustrates 139 flags of various nations, factions, and trading companies, including the flags of ...

Maker / Publisher: Homann, J. B.
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1730

 


Neue Tafel vor alle Liebhabers und See-fahrende..

Large sheet with construction and rigging detail of a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, e...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN,J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1730
Selling price: $1500
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Navis bellica es maximis / Engl. Kriegs=Schiff vom ersten Rang.

A fine and very rare display of English sailing war ships. Superb print from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, engraved by Johann Georg Pintz.Highly decorative.

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: SCHEUCHZER, J. S.
Place & Date: Zurich?, c1731
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020

 


Phoenecian Navy.

A hand-colored copperplate print featuring two splendid ships from the Phoenician navy. Sedlezki engraved them. Interesting drapery cartouche with four Phoenecian coins.J...

$45 / ≈ €42
Maker / Publisher: SCHEUCHZER, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2013

 


Tab.V. Architectura Navalis oder Schiffs-Bau-Kunst.

An attractive and interesting naval plate by L.M. Steinberger, produced for Hubner's Reales Staats-Zeitungs und Conversations-Lexicon. . .This is plate 5 from the work an...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: HUBNER, Johann.
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1737
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019

 


Tab.V. Architectura Navalis oder Schiffs-Bau-Kunst.

An attractive and interesting naval plate by L.M. Steinberger, produced for Hubner's Reales Staats-Zeitungs und Conversations-Lexicon. . .This is plate 5 from the work an...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: HUBNER, Johann.
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1737
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020

 


Ein Orlog-oder grosses Krieg-Schiff nach seinen Vornehmsten

Decorative print with depiction's of the ship equipment, several ship types and their construction, rigging and further naval formation.

$950 / ≈ €889
Maker / Publisher: SEUTTER,M.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1740
Selling price: $950
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TAB.V. De Architectura Marina..

Decorative print with depiction's of the ship equipment, several ship types and their construction, rigging and further naval formation.

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: SEUTTER,M.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1740
Selling price: $190
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Afbeelding en befchrying van de Roemrugtige Overwinning bevogten door den Engelfe Vice- Admiral Anson . . .

Broad - sheet copper engraving with letter press. Spectacular etching by Romein de Hooghe. With letterpress describing the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (14 May 1747. 1...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: HAYMAN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1747
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020

 


A View of the Bay of St. Julian When Mount Wood Bears W.S.W. 1/2 S and he Port or Rivers Mouth S.W. Distant Ten Miles.

Fine river view with ships in the Bay of St. Julian in South America. From "ILLUSTRATUIONS DE A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS MDCCXL" by George Anson. Eng...

$23 / ≈ €22
Maker / Publisher: ANSON, G.
Place & Date: London, 1749
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2019

 


Flaggen aller seefahrenden potenzen und nationen..

A highly decorative and beautiful chart with 140 flags of the sea-faring nations of the world.

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN,J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1750
Selling price: $400
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Les Pavillons des Mer du Monde Nouvellement Corriges.

Rare sheet with 192 maritime flags of nations and provinces with French names. With many interesting flags, like the one of Mallorca, Corsaires, Constantinople, Ragusa, W...

$140 / ≈ €131
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G. L.
Place & Date: Paris, c1750
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2012

 


Les Pavillons des Mer du Monde Nouvellement Corriges.

Rare sheet with 192 maritime flags of nations and provinces with French names. With many interesting flags, like the one of Mallorca, Corsaires, Constantinople, Ragusa, W...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G. L.
Place & Date: Paris, c1750
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013

 


Flaggen aller seefahrenden potenzen und nationen…

A highly decorative and beautiful print with 139 flags of the sea-faring nations, factions, and trading companies. Among the more interesting flags are those of the Dutch...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN, J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750

 


[d'Onderdaling der Arke door verscheide betoogingen ondersogt.]

Decorative print focused on the illustration of a vessel. Besides putti are represented playing with simple wooden model ships.Surmounted by putti performing empirical ex...

$20 / ≈ €19
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1750
Selling price: $20
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The representation of a first rate shipp in the manner they are usually moddeled.

Large and unusual print of a war ship in great detail. The title and 28 point legend is given in four languages. We could not trace this engraving or find out when and wh...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: SCHMETTAU, S.
Place & Date: Berlin, ca. 1750
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018

 


A first rate ship hoisting the Vice Admirals flag./ A first rate ship carrying a flag at the main top mast head.

Two decorative prints of a first rate ship, with title and on each side a numbered keys (A-UUU, 1-51) in English and French.Engraved by G.Scotin. Very decorative.

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: SCOTIN,G.
Place & Date: London 1750
Selling price: $250
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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...

Maker / Publisher: DAUMONT
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020

 


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...

$425 / ≈ €398
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G. B.
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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G. B.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1770
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012

 


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...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: VERNET, J. / BYRNE, W.
Place & Date: Paris, J.Alaimet, ca.1772
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011

 


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...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: BANKS, T.
Place & Date: London, 1780
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2015

 


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...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: MONDMARE
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.

$41 / ≈ €38
Maker / Publisher: SCATTAGLIA, P.
Place & Date: Paris, c1780
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2013

 


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...

$27 / ≈ €25
Maker / Publisher: BANKES. Thomas.
Place & Date: London, ca 1780
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019

 


View of Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where Captain Cook had the Ship laid on Shore, in order to repair the Damage which she received on the Rock.

One of only a handful of 18th century images of the ship Endeavour.This copperplate view shows Cook's ship leaning on an angle, while repairs are hastily carried out - so...

Maker / Publisher: HOGG, Alexander.
Place & Date: London, 1784

 


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...

$85 / ≈ €80
Maker / Publisher: BASIRE, J.
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020

 


Les differents pavillons ou bannieres que la pluspart des nations arborent sur mer.

Uncommon print showing 152 flags and banners of the sea-faring nations and town states of the world, including the Dutch trading companies of V.O.C., W.I.C.

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARE
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012

 


Le Port-au-Prince dans l'Isle de St. Domingue.

Drawn by Nicolas Ozanne and engraved by Jeanne F. Ozanne. Published by Le Gouaz.

$170 / ≈ €159
Maker / Publisher: OZANNE, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2010

 


Vue de la Bataille Navale des Flottes Russes et Turques . . .

Very decorative engraving of a battle between Russian and Turkish men-of-war on July 5th, 1770. After a painting of Franc Swain.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: LEIZELT, B.F.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1790
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016

 


Different Sortes de Peches

Strong copper plate engraving of three sailing fishing vessels. It came from "Encyclopedia Methodique". Engraved and signed in plate by Bernard Direxit. The pu...

$25 / ≈ €23
Maker / Publisher: PANCKOUCKE, C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1793
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013

 


Flags of different Nations.

A full sheet of Flags, issued in London, 1795, engraved for Hall's Encyclopedia by Sidney Hall.Point of interest the Flag of the United States has only 13 stars and 7 str...

$55 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: HALL, Sidney
Place & Date: London, 1795
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2012

 


Veduta dell' Isola si S. Elena presa dalla parte del Mare alla distanza di 8 Miglia.

A fine Italian sepia aquatint view of the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. It shows a rocky island from 8 miles out to sea. Two ships sail forth in the f...

Maker / Publisher: PAGNI, Niccolo.
Place & Date: Florence, ca 1800

 


Combat de la Frégate française La bellone contre le v.au Anglais Le Foudroyant le 21. Vendémaire An 7. (1798)

Beautiful aquatint of the French frigate "La Bellone" shown during a sea battle against the British "Le Foudroyant" in 1798, after L.Léon.

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: LEON, L / AUBERTIN
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012

 


Vaisseaux des Anciennes / Construction de Vaisseaux.

An attractive pair of prints concerning boat building, and boat from ancient times past, printed in Germany. Complete with original pages of (French) text. From Bilderbuc...

$35 / ≈ €33
Maker / Publisher: BERTUCH.
Place & Date: Weimar, 1810
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2020

 


Capture of L'Immoratalite, Oct 20th 1798.

A nice colored aquatint of a naval battle from Jenkins Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. It shows the an English warship alongside the Frenc...

$65 / ≈ €61
Maker / Publisher: JENKINS, James.
Place & Date: London, ca 1825
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018

 


Four Bartlett steel engraved prints of marine scenes.

Four fine steel engraving prints by William Bartlett. Included are: - FORTIFIED CLIFFS OF ALAYA, COAST OF CARAMANIA - CASTLE NEAR PAMBOUK - FALL OF THE RIVER CYDNUS, N...

$14 / ≈ €13
Maker / Publisher: BARTLETT, W.
Place & Date: London, 1837
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2017

 


Lot of three lithographs of Kamchatka.

An interesting set of 3 lithographs of Kamchatka in Russia from the famous expedition work: A.A. DU PETIT-THOUARS. Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate Vénus... Relati...

$220 / ≈ €206
Maker / Publisher: THIERRY
Place & Date: Paris, c1841
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2010

 


Pavillons et cocardes des principales puissances du globe d'après des Documents Officiels

Rare sheet with images of flags and rosettes of all sea fearing nations, from France to Russia, Turkey, and even Peru. Prepared by J. Andriveau-Goujon, published in his &...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2011

 


Combat de la Fregate la Pomone.

Fine tinted lithograph of a famous naval battle. Lithographed by A. Lemercier after a painting by Henri Durand-Brager. Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, (1814 – 1879),...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: DURAND-BRAGER, H.
Place & Date: Paris, 1844
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016