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[Elch Moose]
One Latin text page with on recto a wood cut illustration of an Elch Moose (11,5 x 16 cm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
[River horse]
On verso a presentation of a river horse, a fantastic animal. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Seb...
Place & Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2015
Rhino. On verso elephant.
An early representation of a Rhino.VERSO: an early depiction of an elephant carrying people in a basket.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compen...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $125
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[Crocodile]
On recto a crocodile and on verso an early birds-eye Alexandria in Egypt.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
Nigra Sylva olim pars Herciniae Sylvae.
On recto an early scene showing the Foret Noire with different animals (a wolf, dear, bear, etc. (Print : 77x150 mm).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that gr...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
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'Crab and lobster'.
A copper engraving. Print showing 2 lovely crustaceans.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
'Lions'.
A copper engraving. Print showing lions in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
'Peacocks'.
A copper engraving. Print showing peacocks in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
L. Colivri / Pie Griesche.
A very fine and decorative representation of two birds, with flowers and insects. In the style of DeBry, but here by François Langlois, French (1589-1647).
Place & Date: Paris, c.1655
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
Utilis Piscis serram ad instar Picis habens. Delphinus prior, Delphin. . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing a narwhale and four dolphins, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Draco hipes apteros in Agro Bononiensi. . . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing four dragons, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt of 1650-53 illust...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Grijphus, Grijps, Hippopotanus. . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing a griffin and two sorts of hippopotamus, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
(Three plates showing tigers, leopards, lion, etc, etc.)
Two pages from the first and only but very important Dutch edition of this curious and comprehensive zoological work, richly illustrated with excellent copper engravings,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $96
Sold in 2017
The Bass Island: Soland Goose; Heron; Sea Gull; Wild Duck; Curlew.
The Bass Island etching by Francis Barlow and engraved by Francis Place is from a work dedicated to Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale in 1686. On lined paper with ...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2017
[Snakes and Birds.]
Print from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', showing snakes and birds. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, zoölogist, author, collector and owner of a 'Cabinet ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1735
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
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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[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
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
[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
[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] 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
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
Histoire Naturelle.Vers Testaces a Coquille Multivalve...
Complicated engraving depicting Barnacles.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2013
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
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
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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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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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
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 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 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 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 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 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
The Toco.
Hand colored copper engraving representing a Toco Toucan carrying a fruit with his beak from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740?1837) who was the pre?emine...
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Perruche à front jaune, de Cayenne.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
1. Manakin à tête d'or. / 2. Manakin à tête blanche. / 3. Manakin rouge.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Casoar, des Indes Orientales.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
1. Le Râle Huppé, de Caienne éspéce nouvelle. / 2. La petite Marouette de la Guyanne.
Last production, and his most refined, of François Nicolas Martinet's famous birds. The plates are smaller than the ones he made for Buffon or Brisson.From Histoire des ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790-1796
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011