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Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL I)
The plate shows the steps in the casting of massive equestrian statues, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Veduta di una parte di Firenze presa fuori della Porta a S.Niccolo presso al Fiume Arno.
Lively view of one of the entrance gates of Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by B.Sgrilli. From "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principa...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Veduta di Lung'Arno e del Ponte a S. Trinita presa dal Terrazzo de' SS.ri Rucellai.
Lively view of St. Trinita bridge in Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Johann Sebastian Muller. From "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle p...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Veduta del Ponte a S. Trinita, della Chiesa di S. Trinita e della colonna inalzata da Cosimo I.
Lively street scene with the S.Trinita bridge in Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Johan Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748). From "Scelta ...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Veduta dello Spedale, e della Piazza di S. Maria Nuova.
Lively view of a square in Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by B.Sgrilli. From "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piaz...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Veduta della Badia Fiorentina, e del Palazzo del Potestà presa dalla Piazza della Chiesa de' PP. dell'Oratorio.
Lively street scene with the palaces of the Major of Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Vincenco Francesschini. From "Scelta di XXIV...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Veduta degli Ufizi, o sia Curia Fiorentina presa dalla Loggia presso Arno.
Lively scene showing Uffizi Gallery in central Florence, one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. After Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) an...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $450
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Veduta della Metropolitana Fiorentina, e del Battistero di S. Gio. con la Processione del Corpus Domini.
Lively scene showing the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in central Florence, showing a procession on the square and the Battistero of San Giovanni to the right. After ...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $700
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Veduta della Chiesa e Piazza di S. Maria Novella con la festa della Corsa de' Cocchi.
Lively scene showing the square di Santa Maria Novella in central Florence, showing a horse racing scene in the center. After Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and eng...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $450
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Veduta del Palazzo Vecchio del P.D. della Loggia e della Piazza con la Festa degli Omaggi nella solennità di S. Gio. Battista protettore della Città.
Lively scene showing the central square of Florence, showing a horse parade in the center. After Giuseppe Zocchi (1711or 1717 - 1767) and engraved by Carlo Gregori (1719-...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $800
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Veduta della Chiesa, e Piazza di S. Croce con la festa del Calcio fatta l'anno 1738 alla Real presenza de' Regnanti Sovrani.
Lively scene showing the Piazza Santa Croce, one of the main squares of the center of Florence. To the right the Santa Croce church before it was rebuild in 1863.After Gi...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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(Title page) Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze. . .
Title page from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze" Engraved by Johan Gottfried Seutter after a...
Place & Date: Florence, Bouchard, 1754
Selling price: $500
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Figures of the Most Beautiful and Uncommon Plants. . .
Two marvelous hand-colored engravings from this scarce and important botanical book. Scottish botanist Phillip Miller (1691-1771) was the curator at the Chelsea Physic Ga...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1755
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2013
10 Original antique copper engravings For William Maitlands
An attractive set of "The Churches", copperplate prints, engraved by Benjamin Cole, from William Maitland's "History of London" 1753-56. St Swithin Ca...
Place & Date: London, 1755
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Histoire Naturelle, Phoques.
An interesting plate showing four types of seal. Probably from a work by Diderot named Encyclopedia oder Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1756
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
La Brebis
Decorative copper engraving from "Histoire naturelle" by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, this great naturalist (1707-88) spent the greater part of his l...
Place & Date: Paris 1758
Selling price: $30
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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...
Place & Date: Rome, 1759
Selling price: $385
Sold in 2020
Vue et Perspective de la Trinité a Vienne.
Decorative perspective view of a square in Vienna centered on the column which represents the Trinity. Published by Charpentier, who was active in rue St.Jacques in Paris...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2022
Vuë de la Mer au Soleil couchant.
Optical view of a sunset on the seacoast, by Daumont who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Anamorphose
Copper engraving in original colors, pasted on card board, as issued. This rare (catoptric) anamorphosis, is to be viewed with a cylindrical mirror, placed on the print. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $1100
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Vue de Siam avec diverses Sortes des Ballons, ou Vaisseaux Chinoise a rame.
So-called optical print illustrating a parade of vessels. Engraved by F.X. Habermann (1721-1796). The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical prints, est...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Vedute di Roma Veduta del Tempio ottangolare di Minerva Medica.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 'Veduta del Tempio ottangolane di Minerva Medica'. An original etching from 'Vedute di Roma' by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca 1760. Signed ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
[Four butterflies on one sheet]
Beautifully hand-colored copper engraving of 4 butterflies on one sheet, from "Beyträge zur Natur- oder Insecten-Geschichte." By the engraver and publisher Chr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Blason ou Art Héraldique.
Interesting folio sized work with 26 single page, and one large folding copper engravings. Illustrates numerous heraldic figures, coat of arms, amours, a genealogical tre...
Place & Date: Paris, c1763
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
TO S,,r George Pocock KNIGHT of the BATH and Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty’s Fleet, on the EXPEDITION against the Havannah in 1762, / This PERSPECTIVE VIEW of the Harbour, with the LAND to the West, the MORO CASTLE to
A large, rare view of the British fleet entering the harbor of Havana to take possession of the town, 16 August 1762. Seven Years War (1756-63). Engraved after paintings ...
Place & Date: London, 1766
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2021
Decoration de Porte a Placard a Lusage des Appartements.
Fine copper engraving from "Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Orders d'Architecture" by Jaques Barozzio (giacomo Barozzi de Vignole). François-Philippe Charp...
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
Chandelier Pascal, Montant avec Suspensoir de la Planche, Lutrin, Appui de Communion.
Fine copper engraving from "Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Orders d'Architecture" by Jaques Barozzio (giacomo Barozzi de Vignole).François-Philippe Charpenti...
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2015
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
Two Pythons, Scarlet Ibis and Shama.
Plate LXII from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', displaying a pair of snakes, a scarlet Ibis and a small bird on a branch. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, z...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1734-1769
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2021
Group of 5 engravings of Roman buildings.
"Group of 5 engravings of Roman ancient buildings, together with 2 title pages. The prints are taken from ''Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonn&eacut...
Place & Date: Paris 1770
Selling price: $50
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NAVALIS PRAELII ADSPECTUS, VUE D'UN COMBAT NAVAL, VEDUTA D'UNA BATTAGLIADI MARE, PROSPECT EINES SEE-TREFFENS.
Rare print, showing a dramatic sea battle scene with a warship burning, sailors and goods swimming in the water, and rowing rescue boats trying to save them. Numerous oth...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1770
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2012
NAVALIS PRAELII ADSPECTUS, VUE D'UN COMBAT NAVAL, VEDUTA D'UNA BATTAGLIADI MARE, PROSPECT EINES SEE-TREFFENS.
Rare print, showing two fleets during a sea battle. One ship burning, others firing their cannons. In the front surviving sailors swimming in the water, and rowing rescu...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1770
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
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 ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1770
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
A View of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
An optical print of the Christopher Wren Old Royal Naval College from the Thames.
Place & Date: London, circa 1770
Selling price: $185
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca 1770
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
The four seasons.
Morin remains an unknown engraver, Ignatius Fougeron worked around 1760-70 in London and Paul Angier (1725-1757) worked in London too. David Teniers the Younger (1610-169...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1770
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2021
Daniel Rabel Yellow & White Lilly - Pl. XXX.
This engraving was originally published in "Theatrum Florae" in Paris in 1622 as a collection of plates of the most beautiful flowering plants available in earl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2019
Le final exhaussé Dédié à Monseigneur le Duc de la Rochefoucauld Pair de France
Copper engraving after a painting of Joseph Claude Vernet (Le plus célébre des peintres de marine français du XVIII èm siécle.) Born in 1714 in Avignon and died in 1...
Place & Date: Paris, J.Alaimet, ca.1772
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Decorative pilaster with fruit, flowers, mythological figures and endrils.
A very fine, and an extremely decorative image from the work entitled "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" depicting the decorative work executed by Raphael and hi...
Place & Date: Rome, 1772
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
Branche d\'un arbre-à-pain avec des fruits. [Tahiti.]
Tree branch with fruits. From the French edition of James Cook\'s first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement r...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2008
Femme de la Nouvelle Zélande. Pl. 58.
Portrait of a woman from New Zealand. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique ac...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2023
The Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Willes, D.D.
Fine large mezzotint portrait print of Reverend Edward Willes. Engraved by John Faber after Thomas Hudson. Published in London 1773. Interestingly, it has a price of two ...
Place & Date: London, 1773
Selling price: $6
Sold in 2018
Malva vulgaris./ Gemeine Pappel. (Malvae)
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal,' originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Calendula./ Ringelblume.
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Caprifolium./ Jericher Rosen (Honeysuckle)
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Lilium Album. Weise Lilie.
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nürnberg, 1757–1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Fragaria. Erdbeerkraut. [Strawberry]
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Amoris Pomum. Liebs-Aepfel. [Tomato]
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Morus nigra vulgaris. Maulbeer Baum. [Mulberry tree]
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
Acanthus Branca Ursina. Welsche Baeren-Klau.
Copper engraved print; overall size 36 x 22,5 cm from the German edition of Blackwell's 'Herbarium Blackwellianum...' or 'A Curious Herbal', originally published in Londo...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1757-1773
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
[Insects] Plate XXI
Decorative plate from ''Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes.'' Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1774
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2009
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
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 ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1774
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
London Restored Or Sir John Evelyn's Plan for Rebuilding that Ancient Metropolis after the Fire in 1666.
John Evelyn, Wren and Hooke were among the architects and draughtsmen who submitted masterplans for a wholesale rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, proposing varia...
Place & Date: London, 1775
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2019
Vuë de la Nouvelle Yorck. Neu Yorck. Eine Stadt in Nord-America auf einer Insul Manatthan.
Fascinating optical print with a view of the harbor in New York, showing an idealized image of Manhattan at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary-War.Read more about...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1776
Selling price: $333
Sold in 2023
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
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...
Place & Date: Rome/Paris, 1776
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
Anatra col collare dell'Isola di Terra Nuova.
A rare print of a Newfoundland duck, being plate DLXXV from the publication: 'Ornitologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illumitatis ornata, latine et i...
Place & Date: Florence, 1767-1776
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Histoire Naturelle.Vers Testaces a Coquille Multivalve...
Complicated engraving depicting Barnacles.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2013
Pizarro, De Valdibia, De Alvarado, De la Gasca, Cortez & De Almagro.
Six historical copper engravings featuring portraits of men who discovered different parts of America including:Francisco Pizarro (1496 - 1541) Led an Expedition that con...
Place & Date: London, 1778
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2019
S. Rocco incarcerato Quadro ditutta Perfezione dipinto . . .
Rare etching depicting Saint Rocco imprisoned. Etched and aquatint by Vincenzio Vangelisti (Italian, Florence 1728–1798 Milan) after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbie...
Place & Date: Venice, 1778
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
Chirurgie, plate XXIV
Showing a eye-surgeon at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an ...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2015
Chirurgie, plate V.
Showing instruments and sections of internal organs, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important wo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
Chirurgie, plate XXV.
Showing an eye-surgeon at work and various instruments, from the medical section of Diderot's "Encyclopaedia". Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Ve...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Chirurgie, plate IX.
Showing medical instruments, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important work as it is giving an in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
Chirurgie, plate VII.
Showing medical tools and bondages, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important work as it is givin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
Chirurgie, plate XIII.
Showing male perineal anatomy section and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot\'s Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very impo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2009
Chirurgie, plate XXVIII.
Showing female breast anatomy examples and medical tools, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very importa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Tempête sur Mer.
So-called optical print. Showing a English and French ships at rough sea. Mondhare was one of the well-known publishers of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eig...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
A View of the Royal Exchange , London. Vue de la bourse royal a Londres. . .
So-called optical print of London with a view of Cornhill and the Exchange, with St. Paul's visible in the distance - horse-drawn traffic laboring along the road.The imag...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2023
Marine.
Curious double-page copper-engraved display of 38 detailed maritime flags. Engraved by Pietro Scattaglia, probably for Denis Diderot.
Place & Date: Paris, c1780
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2013
Le Plan ou Maniere de Placer la Maison du Roi de Perse en Son Camp.
Interesting military print from "Illustrations de Lettres édifiantes et curieuses" by J.G. Merigot. Engraved by Nicolas Ransonnette in 1780.
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2016
A View of the Whale-Fishery, and the manner of Killing-Bears near and on the Coast of Greenland.
Nicely rendered copperplate engraving showing several ships and about a dozen longboats with men harpooning whales. Icebergs float in the sea. On the shore, a small group...
Place & Date: London, 1780
Selling price: $70
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
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
A View of the Whale-Fishery, and the manner of Killing-Bears near the Coast of Greenland.
A well engraved late eighteenth century copperplate showing a number of ships and about a dozen longboat, most with men harpooning whales. Icebergs nearby float in the se...
Place & Date: London, ca 1780
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019
[Vue d'optique] Le Profil du Palais de Petersbourg.
A delightful late eighteenth century (partial) view of the Palace of St. Petersburg in Russia. Some 'well to do' locals are seen strolling among its many columns, all obs...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1780
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Flags of Different Nations.
A sheet of 66 various flags of different nations and companies, as they were towards the end of the eighteenth century, published in Hall's Encyclopaedia. Many individual...
Place & Date: London, ca 1780
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2023
Spotted Brown Snake (No Title).
Striking large hand-colored, copper plate of a spotted snake. From Buchoz's book "Histoire Naturelle". Pierre-Joseph Buchoz (1731- 1807) was a French physician,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Selling price: $6
Sold in 2016