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Vaisseau.
Miniature view of a vessel, showing its various corposants. With key list on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Tabacs.
A charming print illustrating Tabacco cultivation and preparation in the Caribbean. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text editi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
Vaisseaux de l'Asie et de l'Afrique.
Miniature view of various forms of sailing ships from these two continents. From the German text edition of Description d'Univers.. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706),...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1684
Selling price: $40
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Palmiers.
A fine 17th century depiction of a palm, coconut and a fig tree plantation .From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Das grosse Segel. . .
Maritime scene of a vessel with its key: J-M by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France und...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Tocht naer Nova Zemla in den Jaere MDXCVI.
Showing Dutchmen hunting a walrus in Magdalenefjorden (Norway) from a small sailing boat, other walruses at right, two large sailing vessels in the right background, whal...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1679-1684
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Aqua Acetosa Extra Urbem, Penes Portam Populi.
Pleasing copperplate print of a baroque Roman fountain by Giovanni Falda from the book "Le Fontaine di Roma", published by Froberger for Sandrart in 1685.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1685
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
Alius Sons Praedictae Villae a Frescada.
Fine hand-colored engraving of a very fancy fountain at the Villa Frescada in Rome. It features 18 people and two dogs visiting the fountain. Giovanni Battista Falda (...
Place & Date: Rome, 1685
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2015
(Two engravings) The Gentleman's Recreation.
Two copper engraved, hand-colored prints from Richard Blome's "The Gentleman's Recreation".
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
The Bass Island: Soland Goose; Heron; Sea Gull; Wild Duck; Curlew.
The Bass Island etching by Francis Barlow and engraved by Francis Place is from a work dedicated to Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale in 1686. On lined paper with ...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2017
Agriculture, or Husbandry.
Very attractive and decorative page about growing trees, planting herbs, etc. With coat of arms, agricultural tools, and workers. Published in "The Gentleman's Recre...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1686
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2015
Musick.
From full title, The Gentleman’s Recreations: In Three Parts. The Full Part contains A Short and Easie Introduction to all the Liberal Arts and Sciences, &c. The Se...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Dialectick or Logick.
An attractive and decorative page. Decorated with symbols and figures. Published in "The Gentleman's Recreation" by Englishman Richard Blome.
Place & Date: London, ca 1686
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2019
Het lande van syn Hoogh in Engelant.
William of Orange landing at Torbay; letters A-P within composition indicating different scenes. 1689. Lettered in Dutch in banderol in top center: "Het lande van sy...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1689
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Agamemnon offering his daughter Iphegenia, in honour of the goddess Diana.
De Lairesse drew and cut the plate. Edited by Nicolaas Visscher.
Place & Date: The Netherlands 1650-1690
Selling price: $100
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Landscape.
A wooded landscape with a river and fishermen, a castle in the background.Rijsbrack was a pupil of Philips Immenraet in 1672. Was master in Antwerp in 1673, he left for L...
Place & Date: Antwerp ca. 1690
Selling price: $100
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The Icthyography or Platform of Sedbergh School & Masters House, as it is designed to be built.
This large copper engraved print showed the front elevation, plan & interior view of the proposed school building. It was published & sold by Joseph Smith in Lond...
Place & Date: London, 1690
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Margarita Romanorum Imperatrix, nata regia Hispaniarum Infans.
Half-length portrait of Margaret Theresa of Spain (12 July 1651 – 12 March 1673) by Bartholome Kilian (1630-1696). She was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1690
Selling price: $28
Sold in 2017
Sea battle in the Baya de Gibraltar.
Print of the sea battle in the Bay of Gibraltar. On the right the city, on the right in the foreground a fort. Shots are fired from this fort as well as from the ramparts...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2021
Saique bâtiment dont les Turcs se servent en tenant pour leur trafic.
A finely executed maritime engraving of a Turkish Saique (small sailing vessel) under full sail before a town. This was printed as part of a series of 17 folio copperplat...
Place & Date: Marseille, ca. 1690
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Coupe dun Amiral de 104 pieces de Canon avec ses principales proportions et les noms des pieces du dedans.
Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel. Etched by Jan van Vianen. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Nept...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2023
Vertrek van S.K.H. NA Engeland den 11. Nov. 1688 & Aenkomst van S.K.H.D.P. van Orangie in Engeland, den 15. en 16. Nov. 1688. . .
Two large engraved views on one sheet, illustrating the departure of William III of Orange with his large fleet from Holland (Hellevoetsluis), and his arrival at Brixham,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1695
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
(Lot of 10 sheets) Les forces de l'Europe, ou description des principales villes . . .
Lot of 10 engravings showing fortification prepared by Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707).Commonly refe...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1697
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
S. K. H. gehet zu Schiff in Engelland über Zufahren
Unusual print showing the departure of Wilhelm III of Oranien with his fleet, leaving to conquer England in November 1688. Very detailed view showing many ships in great...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1698
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
Nave di CIV. Cannoni Colle fue proportioni tagliata à mezzo per. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of a ship. On verso a map of the Malay Peninsular as far south as Singapore. (215x275mm) With three small brown spot...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Nave di CIV. Cannoni. . .
A large cross-section view of a 17th century sailing ship. A very interesting and detailed print, with the cargo visible at the bottom and numerous cannons. From Coronell...
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1698
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
(Hercules and Hippolyte, Queen of the Amazons.)
PROOF. Engraving by Jean Pesne (1623–1700) after Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), showing Hercules and Hippolyte (Queen of the Amazons.) Proof state before title "Herc...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Scortatores.
Engraving by Crispin de Passe the Younger (Dutch, 1593–1670) and published by his father Crispijn de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1637) who was an engraver, draughtsman ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Coniuges (marriage partners)
Engraving by Crispin de Passe the Younger (Dutch, 1593–1670) after and published by his father Crispijn de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1637) who was an engraver, draugh...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Polacre a la voille.
Scarce copper-engraved illustration of a 17th century sailing ship. Fantastic view with sailors working on the ship with full sails, cannons, etc. With a second ship, and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693-1700
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2015
Passades au Petit Galop a Gauche.
This striking copperplate engraving after Abraham van Diepenbeeck , shows the Duke of Newcastle demonstrating how gallop to the left. It is from Cavendish’s exposition ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1700
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2016
Tira Honoranza Tutti.
Game of the Goose board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice, human figures or owls, in the center a crowned owl atop a crown resting on three dice sho...
Place & Date: Lucca, ca 1700
Selling price: $555
Sold in 2020
(Title page) Introduction a la Fortification. . .Tome premier
Very decorative title page of this Amsterdam edition of De Fer's important atlas "'Les forces de l'Europe, ou description des principales villes. . .", original...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693-1702
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2012
Combat de la Hogue (Sea battle between the Dutch, French, and English armies. )
Dramatic and wonderfully colored representation of the sea battle of The Hogue in 1692, with, on the right, the French trying to escape in small boats; coat of arms in lo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1709
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2017
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Regnum Judeorum In Filios Herodis Magni.. [Four seasons]
A set of four sheets each depicting one of the seasonsSpring depicts the erection of the "may Tree". Summer shows the fires of St John.Autumn presents a rural m...
Place & Date: Paris c.1710
Selling price: $215
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Ausriss des Vorigen Palasts, Wie er Nach dem Garten Zu. (The Palace After the Garden)
This magnificent copper engraving is from Paul Decker's work entitled "Furstliche Baumeister, oder Architectura Civilis.... Published in Augsburg, Germany by Peter D...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1711
Selling price: $1
Sold in 2023
The Elevation of Rowhampton House in Surrey, the seat of Thomas Cary.
Fine steel engraving of the Rowhampton House in Surrey.Colen Campbell (1676–1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of...
Place & Date: London, 1712
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
Sherborne, The Seat of Sir Ralph Dutton Bart.
The noted Dutch draughtsman and engraver, Johannes Kip (1653-1722) engraved this handsome topographical copperplate engraving for inclusion within Sir Robert Atkyns’s T...
Place & Date: London, ca 1712
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Besler Scorsonera Latifolia
Basilius Besler Hortus Eystettensis, published at Eichstatt near Nuremberg in 1613 under the patronage of Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, Bishop of Eichstatt, in whose garde...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1713
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
Besler Copper Plate Botanical Engraving
The most impressive of the early seventeenth-century florilegia was the Hortus Eystettensis, published at Eichstatt near Nuremberg in 1613 under the patronage of Johann C...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1713
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
Anatomical print. TAB. XX.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Anatomical print.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Anatomical print.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Anatomical print. TAB. XXXII.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552, t...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Anatomical print. TAB. XXIX.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Anatomical print. TAB. XXXVI.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552, wi...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Anatomical print. TAB.XXIV.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae. In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Anatomical print.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552, wi...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $80
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Anatomical print. TAB. XXIX.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $70
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Anatomical print. TAB.XXIV.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $70
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Anatomical print. TAB. XXXVI.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $70
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Anatomical print. TAB. XXXII.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $70
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Anatomical print.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $80
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Anatomical print. TAB. XXXXIV.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $70
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Anatomical print. TAB. XXXIX.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $70
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Anatomical print. TAB. XX.
Decorative and rare full-page anatomical copperplate engraving by Giulio de' Musi after a drawing by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. From Tabulae anatomicae..In 1552 wit...
Place & Date: Rome, Francesco Gonzaga, 1714
Selling price: $80
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Oeue de la Chapelle de Versailles du Cote du Jardin.
This stunning engraving of the chapel at Versailles is from the work "Les Plans, Profils et Elevations de Versailles" by Giles de Mortain in Paris in 1714. Kin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1714
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2018
Plan et Coupe du Reservoir Nome le Chateau d'Eau Qui est a Versailles du Cote de la Chapelle.
This stunning engraving featuring the plans for the water house reservoir is from the work "Les Plans, Profils et Elevations de Versailles" by Giles de Mortain,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1714
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2017
The Loggio in the Bowling Green at Wilton & Front of the Grotto at Wilton.
A fine copper engraving from the first edition of Vitruvius Britannicus or, the British Architect, containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the most Regular Buil...
Place & Date: London, 1714
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2017
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[Design Art] Italian Chandelier No. 39.
A fine copperplate of an Italian Chandelier from the finest 18th-century collection of secular and ecclesiastical designs for silversmiths and goldsmiths by Giovanni Giar...
Place & Date: Prague, 1714
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
The Plans, Elevations and Section of Bon-Steeple in Cheapside.
Stiking steel engraving of the steeple in Cheapside. A fine example of a Vitruvius Britannicus print. Colen Campbell (1676–1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect an...
Place & Date: London, 1715
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2016
Vitruvius Britannicus (House plan for the Duke of Argyle in the Style of Indigo Jones)
Fine house design in the style of Indigo Jones. Engraved by Colen Campbell and presented to the Duke of Argyle.
Place & Date: London, 1715
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2021
Elevation of One of the Double Pavillions of the Royall Hospital att Greenwich to the River
A fine copper plate engraving, published in about 1715 in London. From the "VITRIUS BRITANNICUS" by Colen Campbell. Colen Campbell (1676 -1729) was a pioneering...
Place & Date: London, 1715
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs..
Superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, etc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1717
Selling price: $1200
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Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs..
Superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, etc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1717
Selling price: $500
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Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs..
Superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, etc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1717
Selling price: $475
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Durchschnitt eines Capital Krieg-Schiffs. . .
A superb engraving of marine architecture featuring a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, e...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1717
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2021
3 prints dealing with manufacturing of canons.
2 prints dealing with manufacturing of canons, etc. Very rare. Together with engraving of an attack of the town (Hohentwiel?).
Place & Date: Zürich 1696/1719
Selling price: $30
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Généalogie de Mahomet, depuis Ismael, fils du patriarche Abraham. (The genealogy of Mohammed, since Ismael, son of patriarch Abraham)
The genealogy of Mohammed, since Ismael, son of patriarch Abraham.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutivel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
To His Royal highness, George, Prince of Wales
This print was one of twelve, then twenty, drawn and engraved by Thomas Baston, and published by Carrington Bowles in “Twenty-two Prints of Several of the Capital Ships...
Place & Date: London, c1720
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
De Inventeur der Windnegotie, op zyn Zegekar
Print known as the Mississippi Bubble incident. A translation of the title is, "The inventor of stock-jobbery in his triumphal car," which is pulled by a pair o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Four Town Plans of Dutch Monastaries.
Unique, detailed, hand-colored plans of Monasteries in Holland. Jan Goeree produced these in about 1720.Jan Goeree (1670-1730) was a painter, draughtsman, engraver, and e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $37
Sold in 2015
The Elevation of Althrop in Northampton Shire.
Fine copper engraving of Althrop, the seat of the Right Honorable Earl of Sunderland. Included in the famous architectural publication, "Vitruvious Britannicus"...
Place & Date: London, 1720
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2016
Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.?
Map of 88 marine flags.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014
Nouvelle carte des ordres militaires ou de la chevalerie institués par divers princes pour récompenser le mérite ou la vertu par reconnaissance de quelque signalée victoire.
Interesting sheet with an illustration of all the medals awarded to the Knights, with descriptive French text, from Chatelain's monumental 7-volume Atlas "Historique...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2014
Le Jeu des fortifications . . . (The Game of Fortifications)
A board game comprising an uncut sheet of 52 playing-cards in which are represented and explained the details of military fortification. Prepared by Gilles de la Boissiè...
Place & Date: Paris, 1691 - 1720
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2016
Aftekening der Schilderye, op't Stadhuis te Dordrecht geplaatst, ter gedagtenisse van de Overwinning by Chattam, in't Jaar 1667, onder't beleid van Kornelis de Wit, Ruwaard van Putten
The scene of the Battle of Chatham. Glorification of Grand Pensionary Kornelis de Witt, the commander in armour, holding a baton. He is, being crowned with a laurel by a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, circa 1720
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2019
Carte pour conduire a l'intelligence de la fable et servir de secours a la connoissance de l'Histoire . . .
A magnificent display of 52 images of moral fables. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique, 1732-1739. In upper right margin: 'Tom. 7. No 26.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2017
Carte pour contribuer a indiquer la connoissance des premiers principes de fortifications. . .
Decorative military copperplate engraving showing fortifications, armour, etc. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abraham Chatelain (...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2017
Carte du blazon ou la science de la noblesse avec des instructions pour conduire a cette connaissance.
Decorative heraldic page with in bottom samples of hats and crowns worn by various ranks of nobility and church leaders. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018