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Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.

A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.

$750 / ≈ €690
Maker / Publisher: SADELER, J. / DE VOS, M.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600

 


Lusus Lucrum Temporis Iactura.

Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women playing cards. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mart. Engelbr...

$350 / ≈ €322
Maker / Publisher: DECKER, P. (after)
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700

 


[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.

Copper-plate engraving of the rehearsal of a chamber cantata by Johann Christoph Steudner, after Paul Decker the elder, in the Handel-Haus, Halle. (Musikgeschichte in Bil...

$400 / ≈ €368
Maker / Publisher: DECKER, P. (after)
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700

 


Moris Beneficio Comendatus Tabaci usus. Der durch die Mode beliebt gemachteTaback

Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women smoking long-stemmed pipes around a table in front of a garden hedge. "Paulus Decker inv....

$350 / ≈ €322
Maker / Publisher: DECKER, P. (after)
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700

 


Sphaerarum Artificialium Typica Repraesentatio. . .

Stunning engraving of Homann's terrestrial and celestial globes and armillary sphere, all with highly ornamented stands. Brief explanatory text.Johann Baptist Homann born...

$900 / ≈ €828
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN, J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1740

 


Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii. / Representation en perspective de la partie inferieure d'un arsenal. . .

RARE. Engraved optical print by Georg Balthasar Probst of a arsenal.

$300 / ≈ €276
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G.B.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750

 


Réjouissances du Peuple près de la Pyramide d'Illumination, élévée sur l'Esplanade de la Porte de Mars et Distribution de Vivres, fontaines de Vin , sous les Ordres de Mrs. Du Conseil de la Ville, à Reims le 27 Aoust 1765.

Engraved by Varin after Moreau Jr. The print shows a lightning spectacle held in Reims on 27 August 1765.

$750 / ≈ €690
Maker / Publisher: MOREAU LE JEUNE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771

 


Caricature anti-cholérique La peur du mal donne le mal de la peur. (pl 1)

Caricature on hypochondria and protective measures against cholera. An overweight man seated in a chair surrounded by pitchers and bowls. In 1832, there was a devastating...

$100 / ≈ €92
Maker / Publisher: AUBERT, B.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1830

 


Caricature anti-cholérique.

Lithography with underneath the illustration "Moi je traite le choléra par le champagne, c’est le système Mayeux, nom de D... ! "In 1832, there was a devast...

$300 / ≈ €276
Maker / Publisher: AUBERT, B.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1832

 


Toujours des sangsues!

Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...

$100 / ≈ €92
Maker / Publisher: AUBERT, B.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832

 


Actualites. [News]

A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...

$100 / ≈ €92
Maker / Publisher: VERMIER
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1840

 


Visiting The Sick. (319).

Caricature by J. Gillray. Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interesting factions: representing the social and ministerial conflict surroundin...

$100 / ≈ €92
Maker / Publisher: GILLRAY, James.
Place & Date: Henry G. Bohn, London, 1840