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Der Beycht Spiegel.
Woodcut showing Moses receiving the ten commandments, and showing the tables to the Jewish people.
Date: Ingolstadt 1420-1450
Selling price: $20
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Portrait of an astronomer.
Incunabula text leaf with in lower right corner charming wood block print of an astronomer with a sphere, pair of dividers, etc. looking at the stars. On verso two 5-line...
Date: c.1480
Selling price: $60
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The crowned Holy Virgin.
Engraving by Albrecht Duerer. Showing the crowned Holy Virgin, within a small mandorla, standing on the crescent moon. On her left arm she is carrying the child Jesus, wh...
Date: Germany, dated 1508
Selling price: $500
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Title page.
Title page to: "Chrysopassus predestinationis....." Edited by J. Eckius and printed in Augsburg, officina Willania 1512/1514. Fullpage woodcut Jacob, crowned by...
Date: Augsburg 1512/1514
Selling price: $95
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Fragmenta passionis dni nostri Jesu Christi.....
Title Page. 5 figures in a medieval gothic interior
Date: Starssburg 1520
Selling price: $10
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Autoritates Aristotelis...
Woodcut of a teacher at his desk, with 4 pupils attending. This same woodcut is also used by Henri Quentell in Cologne for his "Composita Verborum" in 1494. See...
Date: Perhaps Cologne 1529
Selling price: $35
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Annunciation.
Woodcut of the annunciation of the angel to the Holy Virgin.
Date: Germany 1510-1530
Selling price: $40
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King David.
RECTO: An engraving showing king David, who is receiving the messenger telling him king Saul is killed in a battle, and bringing him Saul's crown. Text in Dutch. VERSO: 4...
Date: The Netherlands 1550
Selling price: $10
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The mocking of Christ.
The mocking of Christ. by A. Duerer.(1471-1528) From the "passion" series. B.No.8. 2nd state.Monogrammed at centrebottom AD.On the back is text in 16th.century...
Date: Germany c. 1550
Selling price: $500
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Abundance.
Engraving, showing allegorically Abundance. signed in right bottom-corner J.BO.
Date: Bologna. 1550-1580
Selling price: $75
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Woodcut showing the Holy Family.
Woodcut showing the holy family, 2nd.state. Signed in topright corner HsP. Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550)
Date: 1550-1580
Selling price: $65
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Portrait of a virgin (Agnes ?)
Etching by Herman Muller, of a seated woman with a palm leaf in her hand as sign of martyrdom, a lamb and part of an anchor in the foreground, probably St.Agnes.Engraved ...
Date: The Netherlands ca. 1585
Selling price: $50
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Lapis polaris magnes.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 2. Lettered in margin,...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
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Hyacum et lues venera
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 6. Lettered in margin,...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
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Distillatio.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 7. Lettered in margin,...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
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Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein.. .
Finely executed engraving by Matthäus Merian, taken from "Aufzug des durchleuchtigsten hochgebornen Fürsten und Herren, Herren Friderichen Pfaltzgrafen bey Rhein. ...
Date: Hulsen, Stuttgart, 1616
Selling price: $50
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La possedee ou l'Exorciste..
Etching and engraving showing:"La possedee ou l'Exorciste", within a decorative surrounding. Originally drawn by A.Boscholi P.F.Engraved by J.Callot.
Date: ca.1630
Selling price: $110
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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife depicts a story from the Bible, wherein Potiphar's Wife attempts to seduce Joseph. This etching is signed and dated "Rembrandt f. 1634&quo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $1000
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Disce nepos virtutem ex me.
Charles V, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire on horseback with Archduke Ferdinand. From the series "Guillielmus Becanus, Serenissimi principis Ferdinandi Hispaniaru...
Date: Antwerp, J.Meurs, ca. 1636
Selling price: $50
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Den Grooten Figuer-Bibel. Dat is een afbeeldingh en levendighe vertooningh, van alle de voornaemste historien, leeringen en ghelijckenissen der gantscher Heyliger Schrift, in schoone copere figueren by malkander vergadert en in order ghestelt. . .
This fine Dutch Print Bible includes a total of 502 pages with copper engraved prints ; including five engraved titles, 3 folding maps (the Middle East, the Persian Gulf,...
Date: Alkmaar, Simon Cornelisz, 1646
Selling price: $8300
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Four woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer.
Christ before Caiphas (Bartsch 29). The mocking of Christ (Bartsch 30). Christ before Pilate (Bartsch 31). The scourging of Christ (Bartsch 33). All woodcuts on paper
Date: Germany , probably ca. 1650
Selling price: $200
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Mercury guarding the horses of Apollo.
Etching of a wooded landscape with Mercury guarding the horses of Apollo. Signed in the plate "H:Swanevelt fecit Rome", edited and sold by Pierre Mariette in Pa...
Date: Rome ca. 1650
Selling price: $130
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Angelus Tobiam liberat ne deuoretur a pisce Tob.6.
Illustration of the history of Tobias. engraving number 4.The angel saving Tobias from being devored by the whale.
Date: Southern Netherlands c.1650
Selling price: $50
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The adventures of Diana with Endormye, and Venus with Adonis.
v.Swanevelt drew, sculped and edited the engraving.
Date: The Netherlands 1654
Selling price: $100
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Rome and soldiers.
Engraving by Pietro (di) Santo Bartoli, showing a frieze with Roman soldiers. After a drawing by Julio Romano. Iacintus Paribenius Pistorien formis Romae.
Date: Rome, c.1660
Selling price: $35
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[Hercules]
Engraving showing Hercules, resting on club, with the skin of the lion of Nemesis.Signed in lefthand bottom GMF
Date: 1650-1680
Selling price: $126
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Tabacs.
A charming print illustrating Tabacco cultivation and preparation in the Caribbean. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text editi...
Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $30
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Musick.
From full title, The Gentleman’s Recreations: In Three Parts. The Full Part contains A Short and Easie Introduction to all the Liberal Arts and Sciences, &c. The Se...
Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $50
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Agamemnon offering his daughter Iphegenia, in honour of the goddess Diana.
De Lairesse drew and cut the plate. Edited by Nicolaas Visscher.
Date: The Netherlands 1650-1690
Selling price: $100
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Landscape.
A wooded landscape with a river and fishermen, a castle in the background.Rijsbrack was a pupil of Philips Immenraet in 1672. Was master in Antwerp in 1673, he left for L...
Date: Antwerp ca. 1690
Selling price: $100
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(Hercules and Hippolyte, Queen of the Amazons.)
PROOF. Engraving by Jean Pesne (1623–1700) after Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), showing Hercules and Hippolyte (Queen of the Amazons.) Proof state before title "Herc...
Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $50
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Scortatores.
Engraving by Crispin de Passe the Younger (Dutch, 1593–1670) and published by his father Crispijn de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1637) who was an engraver, draughtsman ...
Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $35
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Coniuges (marriage partners)
Engraving by Crispin de Passe the Younger (Dutch, 1593–1670) after and published by his father Crispijn de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1637) who was an engraver, draugh...
Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $50
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Anatomical print. TAB. XXXII.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552, to...
Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $140
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[Arcadian Landscape]
Engraving of an Arcadian Landscape,building and a river in the background, figures on the foreground. Engraved by P.Rysbrack, pinxit, fecit et excudit
Date: Flanders 1655-1729
Selling price: $50
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Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn.
Very fine impression of the first published state. Hogarth's theatrical satire, showing a company of touring players dressing and rehearsing their parts in ‘Devil to Pa...
Date: London, 1738
Selling price: $500
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Man Tied To Tree - Plate #45.
This is a mezzotint print by Claude Lorrain. His paintings were etched masterfully by another great artist: Richard Earlom, who had specialized in the most royal of print...
Date: London, 1744
Selling price: $25
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The Industrious Apprentice Performing the Duty of a Christian.
Fine, large, copper engraved Hogarth print featuring the industrious apprentice singing in the choir. William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English painter, printmake...
Date: London, 1747
Selling price: $75
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The Idle Apprentice Executed at Tyburn.
Fine, large, hand-colored copper engraving featuring a crowd gathering to watch the execution of the Idle Apprentice. William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English pai...
Date: London, 1747
Selling price: $95
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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...
Date: Rome, 1759
Selling price: $385
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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 ...
Date: Rome, 1770
Selling price: $500
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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 ...
Date: Rome, 1774
Selling price: $500
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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...
Date: Rome/Paris, 1776
Selling price: $275
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Biblical figures.
Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. Number 30 of the serial "History of the Old and new testament"
Date: Antwerp 1784
Selling price: $50
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Temple of Baal.
Bible illustration from the "book of kings", engraved by Johan Galle, and edited by Spanoghe in 1785 at Antwerp.
Date: Antwerpen 1785
Selling price: $20
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Huile de Calamite.
Oil to heal all ailments, only distributed by François Giramo, who alone owns the secret. Surrounded by a decorative border and the Royal coat-of-arms.With privilege of ...
- $120 / ≈ €110
Date: France, c.1790
Loi relative à l'exercice de la pharmacie, et à la vente et distribution des drogues et médicamens. Donnée à Paris, le 17 avril 1791.
Decree of the National Assembly of April 17, 1791 concerning the practice of pharmacy. Published in Saintes (Fait à Saintes le 13 mai 1791) by P. Toussaint, printer of t...
- $150 / ≈ €138
Date: Saintes, P. Toussaint, 1791
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[Lot of 8 broad sheets] Campaign indemnities granted to pharmacy students in ambulant hospitals.
Eight campaign indemnities granted to pharmacy students in ambulant hospitals during the French Revolution and the Wars of Vendée. L’Armée des Côtes de La Rochelle (...
- $400 / ≈ €368
Date: Niort, 1793
Veduta del Mausoleo d'Elio Adriano (ora chiamato Castello S.Angelo) nella parte opposta alla Facciata dentro al Castello.
Fine early imprint and signed in the plate in lower right corner : Piranesi Archit.dis. ed inc.. In the center Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinità de'Mon...
Date: First Paris edition, 1800?1807
Selling price: $1300
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Adam & Eve (1 ter Stamm).
Adam and Eve. From a natural history or ethnographic folio by renowned Swiss artist and lithographer Carl (Karl) Joseph Brodtmann (1787-1862).Carl Joseph Brodtmann (1787-...
Date: Zurich, 1816
Selling price: $110
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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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Selling price: $200
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Secours pour les enfants qui naissent sans donner signe de vie.
Broadsheets etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about child born without sign of life.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Selling price: $100
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Secours à donner aux noyés.
Broad sheet etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about how to rescue a flooded person.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Mon cher Monsieur, il m'est absolument impossible de plaider votre affaire..... il vous manque les pièces les plus importantes...... (à part) les pièces de cent sous!....
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 20. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image :...
- $500 / ≈ €460
Date: Paris, 1848
Quel dommage que cette charmante petite femme ne m'ait pas chargé de défendre sa cause...... comme je plaiderais que son mari est un gredin!....
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 24. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image :...
- $500 / ≈ €460
Date: Paris, 1848
Les Gens de Justice. - Vous êtes jolie … Nous prouverons facilement que votre mari a eu tous les torts! ... (pl 39)
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Vous êtes jolie … Nous prouverons facilement que votre mari a eu tous les ...
- $200 / ≈ €184
Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Vous m'avez injurié dans votre plaidoirie, mais je saurai bien vous forcer à m'en rendre raison!... - Monsieur, apprenez que je ne vous crains pas!.. J'ai au plus haut degré, le courage civil ...
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 9. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image ...
- $400 / ≈ €368
Date: Paris, 1848
Et parlant à sa portière ainsi déclarée, lui ai signifié qu'il eut à obtempérer à la dite sommation, sinon et faute de ce faire,…
Third state (of 3), with text, numbered 10. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29". Text below image :...
- $300 / ≈ €276
Date: Paris, 1848
Ce qui m'chiffonne c'est que j'suis accusé de douze vols!.. - Il y en a douze... tant mieux... je plaiderai la monomanie!…
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 19. From "Les Gens de Justice", published " Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29". Text below image ...
- $400 / ≈ €368
Date: Paris, 1848
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[Louis-Philippe teaching geography and mathematics in Reichenau, Switzerland]
Lithograph by Chrétien after painting by David showing Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) the last king of France (1830-1848), in Switzerland teaching geography and mathematics ...
- $400 / ≈ €368
Date: Paris, 1864
Mary Hamilton - Le Café Concert
Original lithograph of Mary Hamilton by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, from the Le Café-Concert series. Printed on the hand press by Edouard Avcourt.This original lithograp...
Date: Paris, 1893
Engraving
Engraving showing Clio, one of the 9 Muses from Greek Mythology. From the series of the Muses, nr. 89 By Goltzius (1558-1616)
Date: 17 th. cent.
Selling price: $70
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