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Mercure and the Trojan wars.

Two leaves, each of which has an engraving at either side of the page.Page 31/2 has engravings on the god "Mercure", with ornamental borders.Page 161/2 has engr...

$10 / ≈ €9
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Lyons 1559
Selling price: $10
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Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 6)

Text page with a woodblock illustration showing God's creation of the earth (117 x 150 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and publ...

$25 / ≈ €23
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021

 


Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 70)

Text page with woodblock illustration showing Adam and Eve (110 x 155 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by ...

$30 / ≈ €28
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022

 


3 leaves from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis

3 leaves from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, illustrated with heterogeneous figures in woodblock engravings. One page features the mouse-tower of Bingen with rats e...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2010

 


Arcus ad d. Michaelis pars pior Hercules Prodicius.

Architectural frontage after design by P.P.Rubens. Engraved and published by Ta Thul.

$255 / ≈ €239
Maker / Publisher: THUL,T.
Place & Date: Antwerp c.1590
Selling price: $255
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Dondem Leutschen Lande.

A woodcut leaf from Munster's Cosmographia. It features two workers with implements and other workers building a house. There is German text on the front and back and a s...

$11 / ≈ €10
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1598
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2013

 


Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.

Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: VREDEMAN DE VRIES,J./ HONDIUS,H.
Place & Date: The Hague 1604
Selling price: $100
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[Interior of a church)

This is the only print made by Cornelis(?) Hoecgeest. Immerzeel eponymously list his family name "G. Hoekgeest" or "Hoeckgeest". (See also Brulliot, N...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: HOECGEEST, C.
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1650
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017

 


The body of heraldry.

Very attractive and decorative page with 208 shields / coat of arms! Published in "The Gentleman's Recreation" by Richard Blome.

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: BLOME, R.
Place & Date: London, c1686
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013

 


The British Way of Fighting.

A late 17th century engraving by the Flemish engraver Michael Vandergucht. Seven scenes, The British Way of Fighting, An Ancient Britain, Boadicea, A Druid, A Britain, A ...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: VANDERGUCHT, Michael.
Place & Date: London, 1688
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018

 


Divo Leopoldo Caesari August : ae Germaniae Hungariae Bohem zc Regi Archiduci Austriae etc. . .

Half length portrait of Leopold (1640-1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia, here shown with the Golden Fleece.Leopold's reign is ...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: KÜSSEL, M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017

 


Tafel in welke vertoont werden alle werk-tuigen behorende tot de krygs-kunde, Vestingbouw en Artillery e. als mede. . .

An attractive instructional plate showing a collage of various systems of fortifications, both inland and coastal, and the weapons and techniques used to attack and defen...

$950 / ≈ €889
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2013

 


CARTE QUI REPRESENTE TOUTES LES PIECES QUI SONT COMPRISE DANS L'ARCHITECTURE MILITAIRE OU L'ART DES FORTIFICATIONS...

Attractive copper-engraved print of military objects, weapons, cannons, fortifications, buildings, ships, tools, etc. Includes an extensive key with more than 84 descript...

$325 / ≈ €304
Maker / Publisher: OTTENS, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1700
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2010

 


Zee-Slagh Tusschen de Hr. Michiel de Ruiter en den Hr. Georg Ascue by Plymuyden op den 26 August 1652.

A magnificent copperplate engraving depicting the battle of the First Sea War (1652-1654) between the Dutch and the English at Plymouth. The Dutch fleet was under the com...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: STOOPENDAEL, D.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010

 


Tafel in welke vertoont werden alle Werk-tuygen behorende tot de Krygs-kunde..

An attractive instructional plate showing a collage of various systems of fortifications, both inland and coastal, and the weapons and techniques used to attack and defen...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1703
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020

 


William and Margaret - A Ballad.

Very unusual musical sheet with text, by David Mallet. Famous ballad from around 1720. Only few examples are known! We could only locate holdings in the British Museum.

$170 / ≈ €159
Maker / Publisher: MALLET, D.
Place & Date: unknown, ca. 1720
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014

 


Adam Olearius , Bibliothecaire du Duc de Holstein.

Adam Olearius (1599–1671), was a German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. He became secretary to the ambassador sent by Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-...

$56 / ≈ €52
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS.
Place & Date: Germany, 1727
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2017

 


Accurata Utopiae Tabula das ist der Neu entdeckten Schalck Welt. . .Schlarraffenlandes. . .

Despite the name in the title (Utopia), this exceptionally decorative, large map doe not depict Thomas More's ideal society: Schlarraffenlandes is the German Fool's Parad...

Maker / Publisher: HOMANN, J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1730

 


Reem, Rhinoceros.

Rare copper engraved print of Reem. Rhinoceros, though to be copied from Duerer's Rhino. Engraved by I.G. Pinz for Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra.Johannes Jacob Scheuc...

$129 / ≈ €121
Maker / Publisher: SCHEUCHZER, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $129
Sold in 2015

 


Krygs Ingenieurs en Artillerie Tafel, in welke de voornaamste benamingen zoo wel der Meetkunde, Vestingbouw, Oorlogsgereedschappen, Vuurwerken; als ook ...

Highly decorative explanatory plate illustrating the main geometrical figures and instruments, elements of light and heavy artillery, tools as well as some examples of fo...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015

 


King George I

Hand colored engraving by J. Houbraken, published in Amsterdam by J & P Knapton in 1746. King George I (1660-1727), reigned 1714-1727. The great-grandson of James I,...

$19 / ≈ €18
Maker / Publisher: HOUBRAKEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1746
Selling price: $19
Sold in 2016

 


Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii.

RARE.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G.B.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011

 


Winter pleasures on the Haarlemmer Lake with Haarlem in the distance.

Engraving By J. Aliamet, Les Amusements De L'Hiver. Rare 18th century Dutch golf engraving by J. Aliamet depicting Dutchman playing the early form of golf on the ice near...

Maker / Publisher: Chez Jean
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023

 


Rare etching of a printing office at Haarlem.

A rare etching by the famous Cornelis van Noorde of the offices of the printing firm Joh. Enschede at Haarlem.The etching was produced to accompany the oldest and most be...

Maker / Publisher: VAN NOORDE, C.
Place & Date: Haarlem, 1768
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2022

 


Creation and Fall of Man [Set of Four prints]

A nice set of four so- called optica-prints, depicting the Creation of Adam, the Eating of the Forbidden Fruit, the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Earthly Paradise, a...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, Georg Balthasar.
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca 1770
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020

 


This plate, the death of General Wolfe, is with his gracious permition humply dedicated by his Mayestis most dutyfully subject & servant

Representation of the battle of Quebeck with the death of General Wolf.During the 1759 Battle of Quebec of the French and Indian War, the British General James Wolfe suff...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: WOOLLETT, W.
Place & Date: London, after 1776
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2014

 


Female Classical Figure with red Shawl.

Copper engraving on laid paper. overall size 36 x 22,5 cm. Very beautifully hand colored print of a classical figure.

$40 / ≈ €37
Maker / Publisher: UNKNOWN ARTIST
Place & Date: Italian (?), 1720-1780
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015

 


Female Classical Figure in yellow dress.

Copper engraving on laid paper. overall size 36 x 22,5 cm. Very beautifully hand colored print of a classical figure.

$55 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: UNKNOWN ARTIST
Place & Date: Italian (?), ca. 1720-1780
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015

 


The Pope With the Cross / The Pope at the Close of the Holy Gate Jubilee. (Lot of 2 engeravings)

Two fine copper engraved prints featuring images of the Pope. From Dr. Hurd's "RELIGIOUS RITES & CEREMONIES OF ALL NATIONS". Featuring extremely fancy engra...

$7 / ≈ €7
Maker / Publisher: HURD, Dr.
Place & Date: London, c1785
Selling price: $7
Sold in 2015

 


(3 Engravings) Edward IV, Henry VI & Edward V.

Three hand-colored, copper engravings of three kings of England that reigned during the 1400's. Each has a wonderful printed frame and a royal coat of arms. They are from...

$26 / ≈ €24
Maker / Publisher: RAYMOND, G.
Place & Date: London, 1787
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2016

 


Portrait of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples & Sicily.

Hand-colored portrait of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples & Sicily - by Gulielmus Morghen published in Rome in 1789.

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: MORGHEN, G.
Place & Date: Rome, 1789
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017

 


The fortunate Escape of Capt'n Cook from the Furious Natives of Erramango

A copper engraving featuring Captan Cook's escape from Erromango, "the land of Mangoes", one of the largest and least populated islands in Vanuatu.It was visite...

$31 / ≈ €29
Maker / Publisher: WEBBER, J.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1790
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2016

 


Pirogue de Tchoka. & Pirogue de l'Ile de Paque.

Striking views of Pirogues of Sakhalin (Russia) and the Easter Islands. Published in the atlas volume of the official account of the voyage of La Perouse around the wor...

$38 / ≈ €36
Maker / Publisher: LA PEROUSE, J.-F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2012

 


Zograscope (The optical diagonal machine)

The optical diagonal machine is a viewing apparatus to view optical prints whose main components are a large, double convex lens and a mirror fixed directly behind it at ...

$950 / ≈ €889
Maker / Publisher: UNKNOWN
Place & Date: France, ca. 1800
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2011

 


Trompe l?oeil.

Including fragments of Blaeu's map of China, showing Korea and part of China's main land. A title page of ''Groote Christelijke Zee-vart, in XXVI Predicatien.. (Amsterdam...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Netherlands c.1800
Selling price: $350
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MATRIMONIAL - HARMONICS.

An unhappily married couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. Inscription beneath "Js. Gillray. des. & ft. / London. Publish'd. October 25th. 1805, by H....

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: GILLRAY, James
Place & Date: London 1805
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018

 


Nouvelle-Hollande. . .[plate VII]

A charming set of five coastal views on the western and northern coast of Australia, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Austra...

Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022

 


Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre Napoleon. . . [plate V]

A charming set of several views off the South Australian coast of Australia, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by F...

Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2022

 


Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .

Important map of the south east coastline of Tasmania from South East Cape to Cape Bougainville includes the previous survey by Beautemps-Beaupre together with the later ...

Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022

 


Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins. (Shark's Bay)

Map of a portion of the coastline of Western Australia, the Baie des Chiens-Marins, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824. The French...

Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022

 


'Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong from the ethereal sky'

Original mezzotint with drypoint (1825), assembled for the first edition 1827 of Imperial Octavo. John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published in London by Septimus Prowett.O...

$220 / ≈ €206
Maker / Publisher: MARTIN, John / PROWETT, Septimus.
Place & Date: London, 1825
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2016

 


[Human sacrifices by Peruvian Indians ].

Aquatint depicting human sacrifices by Peruvian Indians. Engraved by Gallina.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la m...

Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016

 


That's your sort.

Copper engraved hunting scene.

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DUNCAN, E.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014

 


Yooi - over he goes!

Copper engraved hunting scene.

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: DUNCAN, E.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014

 


Orlando, 1844 winner of the derby stakes at Epsom...../ The princess, 1844 winner of the oaks stakes at Epsom....

Representation of two Horses, winner of a derby.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: HUNT, C.
Place & Date: London, 1844
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014

 


Gerard Dow von ihm selbst gemalt.

Lithograph; overall size 67 x 49 cm by Franz Hanfstaengl, after an original self portrait by Gerard Dow (Dou); printed on papier de Chine, pasted onto thicker paper; wi...

$46 / ≈ €43
Maker / Publisher: HANFSTAENGL, FRANZ
Place & Date: Munich, c1850
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2015

 


Tableau de l´art Aerostatique et de la direction des Ballons.

Beautiful representation of different balloons and the art of flying.

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BASSET
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2014

 


Océanie.

A very decorative 19th-century map of the Pacific Ocean, with hand-colored lines indicating the extent of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia (or Southeast Asi...

Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2022

 


View of Hong-Kong from East Point

A stunning early view of the colony with numerous boats in the harbor and people in the foreground, from the 'Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the C...

Maker / Publisher: Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith
Place & Date: New York, 1856

 


(2 separate titles...) High Life & Low Life.

Two engravings by H Beckwith after Sir Edwin Landseer. Published by James S Virtue Each accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: H Beckwith – Sir Edwin Landseer
Place & Date: London 1860
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018

 


Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match. At Lucknow in the Province of Oude in the Year 1786 at which were present several High and Distinguished Personages

An impression from the second half of the nineteenth century on wove paper first published as a hand-colored mezzotint by Earlom after Zoffany, Robert Sayer, London, 1792...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: Richard Earlom - Johann Zoffan.
Place & Date: London, 1850-1860
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016

 


La Maison des Jeux.

Sub title: (Le Croupier) A qui cette pièce ? --- (Tous) à moi ! à moi ! à moi !. Plate no.3 from Souvenirs Charivariques de spa. Printed by Bertauts, rue Cadet, Paris...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: CHARIVARI
Place & Date: Paris 1875
Selling price: $90
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Full set with cut out figures.

An early and dvry decorative example of a full sheet intended to illuminate poem books made by children.The page shows young boys in a medieval style outfit, presenting f...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: France/ Germany c.1880
Selling price: $60
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Rouge perd !!!

Sub title: Saperlote ! l'argent qui me restait pour à l'hotel !!! . Plate no.9 from Souvenirs Charivariques de spa . Printed by Bertauts, rue Cadet, Paris. Lithographed ...

$105 / ≈ €98
Maker / Publisher: CHARIVARI
Place & Date: Paris 1880
Selling price: $105
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Bien antique, mais, hélas! .. Elle est indéchiffrable. L'ANTIQUAIRE.

Decorative caricature of an antique dealer.

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: OSTERVALD / RITTNER
Place & Date: Paris 1880
Selling price: $120
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Full set with cut out figures.

An early and very decorative example of a full sheet intended to illuminate poem books made by children.The page shows different type of fishes and lobster.

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: France/ Germany c.1880
Selling price: $60
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Full set with cut out figures.

An early and very decorative example of a full sheet intended to illuminate poem books made by children.The page shows 22 fishes.

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: France/ Germany c.1880
Selling price: $60
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Meta Phisicks.

Very attractive and decorative page about metaphysics. Decorated with symbols and figures. Published in "The Gentleman's Recreation" by Richard Blome.

$55 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: BLOME, R.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1686
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015