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Ceremonie de la grande Feste que les Chinois celebre le 24 de la Lune d'Aoust dans la principale Place de Pekin.
So-called optical print illustrating the festivities on the 24th of August in Beijing.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, at rue ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Navigacio super Glaciem / La navigation sur la glace.
A so called optical print of the Greenland Whale Fishery with polar bears in foreground. Bilingual title in Latin and French.
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
Balaena ramis adigitur ad Navim / La baleine est rame en Navire.
A so called optical print of the Greenland Whale Fishery with polar bears in foreground. Bilingual title in Latin and French.
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
Navigatio Piscatorum in glacie quaerentium Balaenam / La navigation dans la glace, et chercher du Baleine.
A so called optical print of the Greenland Whale Fishery with polar bears in foreground. Bilingual title in Latin and French.
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Prospect der Strasse gegen der Kirche der Recolecten in der obern Stadt zu Quebec. Vuë de la Rue des Recolets dans la haute Ville de Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Qué...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1780
Prospect des Haupt Plazes der Untern Stadt zu Quebec.
A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Qué...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca.1780
MARS Rejouissances du Papeguay. Les Triomphes d'un conquerant
Etching published by Louis Charles Desnos (1725-1805) with address of rue St.Jacques au Globe. He is also known for his output of wall maps and atlases.
Place & Date: Paris, 1782
Le Basset à jambes droites.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Le Braque.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
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Le Palmiste [Pl. 121]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Les Navires des anciens, considérés par rapport à leurs voiles et à l'usage qu'on en pourroit faire dans notre marine, ouvrage servant de suite à celui qui a pour titre ela Marine ...
First edition. The book is giving a description of the different ship types of all parts of the world from its early times till present (1780). Illustrated with 3 folding...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, Nyon, 1783
Red Flamingo.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Red Flamingo from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of his...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Bengal. Vulture, N.° 16.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Bengal Vulture from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of h...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: London, 1781-1785
Green Partridge.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Green Partridge from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the prominent ornithologist of ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Hackled Partridge.
Original hand-colored copper engraving representing a Hackled Partridge from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740-1837) who was the pre?eminent ornithologist...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1781-1785
Le Rachat de l'Esclave.
With a dedication to Monseigneur Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Ministre d'Etat, Controlleur Général des Finances. Engraved by J. Aliamet (1726-1788) after Nicolaes Pieters...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Embarquement de vivres.
With a dedication to Monseigneur le Comte de Saint Florentin Commandeur des Ordres du Roy. Engraved by Jac. Philippe Le Bas, who was also engraver for "Cabinet du Ro...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1785
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 ...
Place & Date: France, c.1790
Prospectus primarii.. turrim rubram Viennae.
So-called optical print, showing Red tower in Vienna.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and L...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Italy c.1790
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...
Place & Date: Late Edo, 1790
Le Curieux.
A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 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 / ≈ €140
Place & 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 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Niort, 1793
Bataille sur la rive droite de la Brenta. gagnée par les Français de 22 fructidor an 4. Bonaparte Général en chef. . .
Uncommon optical print showing the siege of Bassano in 1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1795
Bataille sur la rive droite de la Brenta. gagnée par les Francais de 22 fructidor an 4. Bonaparte Général en chef. . .
Uncommon print showing the siege of Bassano in 1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under Napoleo...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1795
Piano di Nizza.
Rare 1797 manuscript map of Nice, with the French navy attacking from the sea. Unknown author, Italian, but map attributed to an original, probably broadsheet map by Moll...
Place & Date: Italy, after 1797
Tableau des Decouvertes du Cap.ne Cook, & de la Pérouse.
Three series of figures of natives with key below, surrounded by narrow pictorial border.Grasset de Saint Sauveur skillfully wove together two dozen individual scenes fro...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
Reine-Marguerite. Aster chinensis. L.
A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'aprè...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. L.
A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "http://www.swaen.com/Fleu...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1800
Chêne commun.
Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . receuil ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius. L.
Bouquet of Seringats. A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fle...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.
The true Nasturtium, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
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[Portrait of Nicolas Louis de La Caille].
Portrait of Nicolas Louis de La Caille, also known as L'Abbé De La Caille, engraved by Thérèse Devaux.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
No title: training a horse.
After a design by Silva.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Italy, c. 1800
Theodorus Primus Corsicae Rex.
Portrait of Everard Jabach, three-quarter length, standing by the fragment of a column, facing left, wearing a cloak and doublet with plain collar, his left arm held behi...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Paris, 1652 - 1800
(Interior scene)
Lively interior scene with the men sitting together and drinking around a table whilst the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cooking. Engrav...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
Campanule gantelée. - Campanule trachaelium L.
Bouquet of poppy flowers, engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'a...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Pavot cultivé. Papaver somniferum L.
Bouquet of poppy flowers, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Mauve alcée. Malva alcea L.
Greater musk-mallow, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Seringat odorant - Philadelphus coronarius L.
Sweet Mock-Orange, English Dogwood engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dess...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Rose de Provins. Rosa Gallica.
Bouquet of roses, stipple engraving by J.Godefroy after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'apr...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Lilas - Syringa vulgaris L.
Bouquet of lilacs, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après ...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Mufle de veau. Antirrhinum majus L.
Bouquet of Common Snapdragons, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessiné...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Souci des Jardins. Calendula Officinalis. L.
The Common Marigold, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'aprè...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Iris bleu - clair. Iris pallida.
Dalmatian Iris or Sweet Iris, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinée...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Digitale pourprée. Digitalis purpurea L.
The foxglove, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après natur...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Sceau de Salomon. Convallaria multiflora L.
King Solomon's Seal or David's Harp, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs de...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Grande Capucine. Tropaeolum majus. L.
Indian cress or monks cress, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Le Go-Ruck.
An attractive representation of a bird by François Levaillant publisher in Paris 1801 in Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et de...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris 1801
Le S. a Cinture Marron.
An attractive representation of a bird by François Levaillant publisher in Paris 1801 in Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et de...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris 1801
La Méesange Brune Male. La Méesange Grise. . .
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as the...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
L'Acoli.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as the...
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
L'Heoro-taire brun. Pl.65.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his deat...
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Le G. G. Noir et Bleu.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his deat...
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Le Neghôbàrra. Pl.64
A very rare print of a bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops , by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his death Audeb...
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Two traders.
A rare Nagasaki-e print of the first Russian mission to Japan.
- $2250 / ≈ €2105
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1804
First Russian mission.
A rare Nagasaki-e print of the first Russian mission to Japan.
- $2250 / ≈ €2105
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1804
Daar is niet aan aftedingen: het is de gezette prijs.
Fine color plate from "Afbeeldingen van de Kleeding, Zeden en Gewoonten in de BataafscheRepubliek..". A young woman in local dress buying jewellery.Plate number...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1804
'Jokisen no zu' (Steamboat)
Nagasaki-e original Japanese woodblock print of a Steamboat. The figurehead is a striking detail.Nagasaki-e are Japanese woodblock prints that depict foreigners (Mostly ...
- $3750 / ≈ €3509
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1805
Paysan & Paysanne d'Hanas en Boheme.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Engraved by Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an et...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1805
Homme & Femme de la Baviere.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Engraved by Félix Mixelle after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etche...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1806
Femme Touralinze.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixe...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme Tschermifse.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixe...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme Kamls chadalle.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of native woman from Kams, Siberia, Russland engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Homme Tschoukotske.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a man from Tschukotka, Syberia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Homme Kouritien.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Siberian man dressed in native garb engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etc...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme d'Ausbourg.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. After Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. As an etcher, drawer and writer, Gras...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1806
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Homme de Tobolsk [together with] Femme Fatar Tobolsk.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
![Kirguise [together with] Fille Fatar Kastchintz.](/uploads/cache/36937-250x250.jpg)
Kirguise [together with] Fille Fatar Kastchintz.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
![Femme Baschkir [together with] Homme Baschkir.](/uploads/cache/36933-250x250.jpg)
Femme Baschkir [together with] Homme Baschkir.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
![Fille Mordwine en habits de nôces [together with] Fille Mordwine.](/uploads/cache/36932-250x250.jpg)
Fille Mordwine en habits de nôces [together with] Fille Mordwine.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Kabardinienne.
Originally hand-colored costume mezzotint of a Kabardian woman from the Northwest Caucasus, engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Sain...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Femme de Barabinze.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a woman from Barabinze, engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer ...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Bagnan de Moka.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a Banyan costume in Mocha, Yemen engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Homme Kouritien.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a Siberian man dressed in native garb, engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an ...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
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[Butterflies]
Plate CXCVIII from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jab...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Homme nord est de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and wri...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
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[Butterflies]
Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806