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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1700
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2010
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2013
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...
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.
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-...
Place & Date: Germany, 1727
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2017
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...
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...
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,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1746
Selling price: $19
Sold in 2016
Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii.
RARE.
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...
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...
Place & Date: Haarlem, 1768
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2022
![Creation and Fall of Man [Set of Four prints]](/uploads/cache/84536-250x250.jpg)
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
Place & Date: London 1805
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre Napoleon. . . [plate V]](/uploads/cache/46268-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2022
![Nouvelle-Hollande. . .[plate VII]](/uploads/cache/46270-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $100
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![Terre de Diemen. Navigation. [plate XIV].](/uploads/cache/46277-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Navigation. [plate XIV].
Aboriginal boat, getting from island to island, or for gathering food, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by Franço...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2023
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $200
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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...
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...
Place & Date: London, 1825
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2016
![[Human sacrifices by Peruvian Indians ].](/uploads/cache/27281-250x250.jpg)
[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...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Yooi - over he goes!
Copper engraved hunting scene.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
That's your sort.
Copper engraved hunting scene.
Place & Date: London, 1840
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014
Monuments Funeraires de L'Ile Toud.
An unusual lithograph of funerial monuments connected with the island of Toud, in the Torres Strait, to the north of Queensland. Plate 189 taken from the 'Voyage au Pole ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
![Baalbec [The Sanctuary, 4th-5th May, 1839].](/uploads/cache/1126552-250x250.jpg)
Baalbec [The Sanctuary, 4th-5th May, 1839].
Baalbek is a town in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon situated east of the Litani River. After Alexander the Great conquered the Near East in 334 BC, the existing settlement w...
Place & Date: London: F.G. Moon. 1842
Selling price: $660
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Convent of St. Saba April 4th 1839. / Engedi.
Dramatic view overlooking the Greek Orthodox Convent or Monastery of St. Saba near Bethlehem. Roberts was the first independent, professional British artist to travel ...
Place & Date: London: F.G. Moon. 1842-9 1842
Selling price: $370
Sold in 2023
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.
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...
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.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2022
(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
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...
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...
Place & Date: Paris 1875
Selling price: $90
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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Place & Date: France/ Germany c.1880
Selling price: $60
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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...
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.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1686
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015