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The Manner of Burning the Martyrs During the Bloody Teighn of Queen Mary.
Fine hand-colored historical copper engraving featuring martyrs being burnt at the stake. The engraver was Sparrow from a picture by Wale. The engraving comes from "...
Place & Date: London, 1782
Selling price: $33
Sold in 2016
King Charles the First After His Retreat From York to Nottingham Ordering the Royal Standard to Be erected On the Castle.
Historical copper engraving featuring King Charles I. The engraver was Taylor after a picture by Wale. The engraving comes from "HISTORY OF ENGLAND" by Raymond...
Place & Date: London, 1782
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
Le Basset A Jambes Torses.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
![Le Braque de Bengale [Pl. 23]](/uploads/cache/21828-250x250.jpg)
Le Braque de Bengale [Pl. 23]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Le Mâtin.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Basset à jambes Torses.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Le Pyrame.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Le Petit Barbet.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2022
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Le Grand Barbet [Pl. 26]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Chien D'Islande.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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Le Dogue de Forte Race.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
![Le Chien Courant [Pl. 21]](/uploads/cache/21919-250x250.jpg)
Le Chien Courant [Pl. 21]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
![L'Axis Femelle [Pl. 151]](/uploads/cache/21921-250x250.jpg)
L'Axis Femelle [Pl. 151]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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L'Âne.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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Lady Elizabeth Grey Petitioning Edward IV To Restore Her Lands.
Fine hand-colored copper engraving featuring Lady Elizabeth Grey. Engraved by Grignion from a picture by Edwards and published by Alexander Hogg in London in 1783.
Place & Date: London, 1783
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2016
Biblical figures.
Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. Number 30 of the serial "History of the Old and new testament"
Place & Date: Antwerp 1784
Selling price: $50
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British Churches - St. Botolph's, Dt. Leonard's etc.
Striking hand-colored copper engraving featuring british churches including St. Botolph's - Bishopgates Street, St. Leonard's - Shoreditch, Christ's - Spittlefields, st. ...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
A View of the Principal Place & Manner of Execution of Persons condemned by the Inquisition of Spain.
Early 18th century engraving. Engraved for the Rev Dr Wright's Modernised and Improved Edition of Fox's original Book of Martyr's. Inscription: London Published by Alexan...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
Cruel Methods by which Mr Nicholas Burton an Englishman was Tortured in the Inquisitorial Prison at cadiz in Spain . . .
Early 18th century engraving. Engraved for the Rev Dr Wright's Modernised and Improved Edition of Fox's original Book of Martyr's. Inscription: London, Published by Alexa...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
The Ship Harry Grace a Dieu, from an Original Drawing preserved in the Pepysian Library in Magdalen College Cambridge.
Scarce copper-engraved illustration of the ship with fine detail. Henry Grace à Dieu also known as Great Harry, was an English carrack or "great ship" of the K...
Place & Date: London, 1784
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
Temple of Baal.
Bible illustration from the "book of kings", engraved by Johan Galle, and edited by Spanoghe in 1785 at Antwerp.
Place & Date: Antwerpen 1785
Selling price: $20
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Venerunt pastores.
Copper engraving, showing the birth of Christ. With decorative borders. Title page to the New Testament, edited by Spanoghe in Antwerp 1785.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1785
Selling price: $20
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The Toco.
Hand colored copper engraving representing a Toco Toucan carrying a fruit with his beak from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740?1837) who was the pre?emine...
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
View of Tavistock Abby in the County of Devon.
The engraver and publisher are unknown but this fine hand-colored copper engraving was engraved for "ENGLAND DISPLAYED".
Place & Date: London, 1785
Selling price: $8
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
1. Manakin à tête d'or. / 2. Manakin à tête blanche. / 3. Manakin rouge.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Casoar, des Indes Orientales.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Perruche à front jaune, de Cayenne.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Les differents pavillons ou bannieres que la pluspart des nations arborent sur mer.
Uncommon print showing 152 flags and banners of the sea-faring nations and town states of the world, including the Dutch trading companies of V.O.C., W.I.C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Le Port-au-Prince dans l'Isle de St. Domingue.
Drawn by Nicolas Ozanne and engraved by Jeanne F. Ozanne. Published by Le Gouaz.
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2010
(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
Vue de la Bataille Navale des Flottes Russes et Turques . . .
Very decorative engraving of a battle between Russian and Turkish men-of-war on July 5th, 1770. After a painting of Franc Swain.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1790
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
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
The New Library at Oriel College.
A nice copperplate engraved view of the New Library at Oriel College, Oxford, showing labourers unloading a heavy block of stone from a cart. From 'The Oxford Almanack'. ...
Place & Date: Oxford, ca 1791
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Different Sortes de Peches
Strong copper plate engraving of three sailing fishing vessels. It came from "Encyclopedia Methodique". Engraved and signed in plate by Bernard Direxit. The pu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1793
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013
Boydell's Shakespeare - Merry Wives of Windsor.
Fine hand-colored engraving from Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, published in about 1850 in London. Engraved by A. Smith from a painting by R. Smirke featuring a scene fro...
Place & Date: London, 1793
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2019
Richard I Leaving Cyprus
A beautifully engraved scene, Richard the 'Lion Heart' is about to board his ship leaving Cyprus in preparation for the Crusade. From Robert Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'H...
Place & Date: London, 1794
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2015
Flags of different Nations.
A full sheet of Flags, issued in London, 1795, engraved for Hall's Encyclopedia by Sidney Hall.Point of interest the Flag of the United States has only 13 stars and 7 str...
Place & Date: London, 1795
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2012
1. Le Râle Huppé, de Caienne éspéce nouvelle. / 2. La petite Marouette de la Guyanne.
Last production, and his most refined, of François Nicolas Martinet's famous birds. The plates are smaller than the ones he made for Buffon or Brisson.From Histoire des ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790-1796
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
Here Justice Triumphs in His Elbow Chair.
Copper engraving of William Hogarth's "Here Justice Triumphs in His Elbow chair", from the Cook Edition from 1796. This print shows a pregnant woman pleading wi...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $97
Sold in 2018
Henry VI Taken Prisoner by the Earls of Warwic & Marche.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
Edward VI Granting the Charter for Hospitals.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $79
Sold in 2016
The Entry of James I Into London.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowyer...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2017
The Convocation at Oxford.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
Lewis VII, King of France Before Beckett's Tomb.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2018
The Briton.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2016
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Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2017
Shephard Boy & Six Cameos.
Hand-colored engraving published by R. Bowyer in "HISTORIC GALLERY" in London in 1796. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Miniature painter and publisher. Robert Bowye...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2018
Queen Elizabeth Appointing Her Successor.
A fine copper engraving featuring Queen Elizabeth on her deathbed, choosing her successor. The print comes form "HISTORIC GALLERY", published by R. Bowyer in Lo...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2018
Plan, Section and Elevation of the Poo-Ta-La or Temple of the Lama at Zhe-Hol in Tartary.
A striking copper engraving from an important eighteenth century series on China by William Alexander. From Sir George Leonard Staunton's An Authentic Account of an Emba...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2023
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
Rose à cent feuilles - Rosa contifolia L.
A bouquet of Roses. 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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2022
Tulipe des Jardins. Tulipa gesneriana. L.
Tulips, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . receuil util...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2013
Pivoine double. Poenia officinalis. L.
A bouquet of Double-Pivoine roses, engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
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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Pavot cultivé. Papaver somniferum. L.
Bouquet of poppy flowers, engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . rec...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Jacinthe double. Hyacinthus orientalis. L.
Bouquet of hyacinth flowers, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nat...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2013
Combat de la Frégate française La bellone contre le v.au Anglais Le Foudroyant le 21. Vendémaire An 7. (1798)
Beautiful aquatint of the French frigate "La Bellone" shown during a sea battle against the British "Le Foudroyant" in 1798, after L.Léon.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $120
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
Hypericum Hircinum, Millepertuis Setide.
Very fine botanical stipple engraving by Pancrace Bessa, one of the most famous botanical artists of all time. From his "Trait des Arbres et Arbustes que l'On Cultiv...
Place & Date: Paris, c1800
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica L.
Common medlar, 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 natu...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2017
Revolution of France.
Fine Mezzotint featuring the genius of Literature and Science presenting her pupils to Minerva. It was engraved by J. Chapman. It sold in Christies Auctions for $625. Ri...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1800
Selling price: $111
Sold in 2018
Stromboli.
From the famous book of Spallanzani Reise in beyden Sizilien a spectacular view of the volcanic area of the Italian island of Stromboli.
Place & Date: Leipzig, ca. 1800
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2021
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[Untitled French Satircal Cartoon]
A delightful French satirical cartoon, a 'John Bull' allegory. Set in the 'Orange Café' in Plymouth it features John Bull seated on the left, Major Grosswener seated in ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1800
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Le Calibée.
An attractive representation of a bird by François Levaillant in 1801. From Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Améerique et des Indes : ou...
Place & Date: Paris 1801
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
L\'Ara Militaire. Pl. 4.
Superb representation of a parrot belonging to the species of the Military Macaw (Ara militaris) which occupies a massive but fragmented range from Mexico to Argentina.Fr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
Selling price: $370
Sold in 2008
The Shepherd.
A fine mezzotint engraving entitled “THE SHEPHERD” by W. Benard from a painting by George Morland in London in 1801. Published in London by Barnard.
Place & Date: London, 1801
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
La vaccine aux prises avec la Faculté.
Rare satirical print on the controversy over vaccination: a cow at left charges at a donkey dressed in academic dress. The plate was deposited on 8 July 1801 by Argaud de...
Place & Date: Paris, July 1801
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Gare la Vaccine - Triomphe de la petite Vérole.
Rare satirical print on the controversy over vaccination. "A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wield...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1801
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
La vaccine ou l'inoculation a la mode.
Rare satirical print on the controversy over vaccination published in Paris " A Paris chez Depeuille Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux deux Pilastre d'Or".A child ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
Le S. Brun et Blanc. Pl.81.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2011
Le S. Rouge-Dorée.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
Le Promerops Rayé. Pl.7.
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 dea...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2008
Le S. Violet. Pl.12
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 dea...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $360
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Bataille de Fleurus gagnée par l'arme´e française le 8 messidor de l'an 2 : commandée par les géneéraux Jourdan, Le Fevre, et Hatri : contre l'armée impériale commandée par Cobourg et Beaulieu. (N° 29).
After a design by Thomas-Charles Naudet. Engraved by Pierre-Adrien Le Beau. Print belonging to a suite illustrating the General Napoleon Bonaparte’s Campaigns. Read mor...
Place & Date: Paris, Jean, 1797 -1802
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Charles Bonnet, F.R.S., Author of the Contemplation of Nature
A portrait of Charles Bonnet, one of the best known naturalists of the 1700's.Bonnet is surrounded by "THE CHAIN OF NATURE" with 17 fine vignettes of animals an...
Place & Date: London, 1802
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
Flower (Plate 632).
Plate from William Curtis (1746-1799) The Botanical Magazine. The publication began in February 1787 and was immediately successful, and the early volumes were quickly so...
Place & Date: London 1803
Selling price: $20
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Flower (Plate 1117).
Plate from William Curtis (1746-1799) The Botanical Magazine. The publication began in February 1787 and was immediately successful, and the early volumes were quickly so...
Place & Date: London 1803
Selling price: $20
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Flower (Plate 703).
Plate from William Curtis (1746-1799) The Botanical Magazine. The publication began in February 1787 and was immediately successful, and the early volumes were quickly so...
Place & Date: London 1803
Selling price: $20
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