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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: $50
Sold in 2018
(Ichan Darsiac / Ferroy Sier / Pompe & Cérémonie de la marche du grand Mogol)
From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutivel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Chaine de l'histoire Sacrée / Chaine de l'Histore prophane.
From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutivel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2017
Nouvelle Carte pour conduire a la Connoissance de la Marine . . .
This is a fascinating folio sheet filled with engravings of ships and navigation instruments. At center is a large view of a frigate showing the rigging in great detail. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2023
Plan of the First & Second Floors of Bobham Hall.
Interesting copper engraving featuring architectural plans for a famous building in Kent.Colen Campbell (1676 – 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architect...
Place & Date: London, c1725
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2015
Plan of the Royal Echange, London.
Striking architectural plan for the British Sock Exchange Building. Colen Campbell (1676–1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as...
Place & Date: London, c1725
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2016
The Orthography and Ichnography of Queens College Library in Oxford
A striking antique original copper engraving printed ca. 1725. A splendid architectural view of The Queen's College Library in Oxford, with separate views of the East fa...
Place & Date: London, c 1725
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016
Carte genealogique de la suite des empereurs d'orient de Trebisonde, d'Andrinople et Ottomans. . .
With a small inset map at the lower center, this grand genealogical table displays the Kings of the Orient and the Ottomans, with those of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Armenia.H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
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[Arcadian Landscape]
Engraving of an Arcadian Landscape,building and a river in the background, figures on the foreground. Engraved by P.Rysbrack, pinxit, fecit et excudit
Place & Date: Flanders 1655-1729
Selling price: $50
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Neue Tafel vor alle Liebhabers und See-fahrende..
Large sheet with construction and rigging detail of a three-masted 96 gun man-o-war. The rendering provides great detail of the ship's equipment, construction, rigging, e...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1730
Selling price: $1500
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Opus Sextae Diei.
Very fine hand-colored copper engraving featuring the creation of the world - Day 6. (Genisis Chapter I, Verses 24 & 25). It features a group of animals and is framed...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
Selling price: $89
Sold in 2013
Creation of the Golden Calf.
Very fine hand-colored copper engraving featuring the creation of the golden calf. (Exodus Chapter 32, Verse 4). It features a group men surrounding the new "golden ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2016
Socrus Petri Sebricitans Sanatur.
Very fine hand-colored copper engraving featuring Jesus healing the centurian's servant. (Matthew Chapter VIII, Verses 14 & 15). It features a group standing over the...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2016
Israelitae Geographi.
Very fine hand-colored copper engraving featuring the Israelites reading maps. It features a group of soldiers and other men studying very large maps and the image is fra...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2016
Neue Tafel vor alle Liebhabers und See-fahrende Personen Stellet vor ein Orlog oder Kriegs-Schiff mit seinen volligen Tow & Seilwerck Sampt einen Durchgeschnittnen Schiff...
Interesting engraving of a warship (a three-masted, 96-gun man-o-war) at anchor, illustrating every aspect of its design and construction. Beneath the main illustration i...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1730
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2016
Phoenecian Navy.
A hand-colored copperplate print featuring two splendid ships from the Phoenician navy. Sedlezki engraved them. Interesting drapery cartouche with four Phoenecian coins.J...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2013
Navis bellica es maximis / Engl. Kriegs=Schiff vom ersten Rang.
A fine and very rare display of English sailing war ships. Superb print from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, engraved by Johann Georg Pintz.Highly decorative.
Place & Date: Zurich?, c1731
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Aurora Borealis.
Rare hand-colored, copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra published in Augsburg in 1731.Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the the fo...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $129
Sold in 2015
Garments of the High Priests.
Scarce hand-colored, copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra published in Augsburg in 1731.Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the the ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $129
Sold in 2014
Jezebel at the Mirror.
Scarce hand-colored, copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra, published in Augsburg in 1731. Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the t...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $76
Sold in 2016
Man Drops Borrowed Axe Head Into the Water.
Scarce hand-colored, copper engraved print from Johann Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra published in Augsburg in 1731.Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) is known as the the ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1731
Selling price: $119
Sold in 2015
Carte du calendrier ancien rangé en parallèle avec le nouveau et l'usage qu'on en peut faire pour l'intelligence de l'histoire par ou on fait voir la manière de . . .
Chart of the old and new calendars.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2023
Carte du calendrier ancien rangé en parallèle avec le nouveau et l'usage qu'on en peut faire pour l'intelligence de l'histoire par ou on fait voir la manière de . . .
Chart of the old and new calendars.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
Carte pour introduire à la chronologie et à trouver les années devant et après Jésus Christ par le moyen des périodes Iulienne, Dionysienne et par les trois cycles comme aussi pour trouver la fête de Pasque. . .
An engraved table showing the years before and after Jesus Christ through the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pasto...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2020
Nouvelle Histoire Abregée de la Vie des Roys de France.
A listing of all the French Kings from 418 until 1715 from an Atlas Carte générale de la Monarchie Française 1730-1733 published by the French cartographer La Jaisse. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1733
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
A Prospect of the Tower of Babel.
A Prospect of the Tower of Babel, engraved by J Mynde. The inscription beneath reads: To the right reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Oxford this plate is most hu...
Place & Date: London, 1733
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
The East End & Section From South to North pl 11.
Fine architectural copper engraving of a domed building. It was engraved by T. Harris. James Gibbs (1682 – 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects. Born ...
Place & Date: London, c1735
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
Architectural Iron Fence & Gate by Gibbs.
Fine architectural copper engraving of an iron fence and gar . It was engraved by E. Kirkall. James Gibbs (1682 – 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architect...
Place & Date: London, c1735
Selling price: $28
Sold in 2019
Three architectural Columns by Gibbs.
Fine architectural copper engraving of three pillars. It was engraved by E. Kirkall. James Gibbs (1682 – 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects. Born i...
Place & Date: London, c1735
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2015
Interesting Brick Building by Gibbs.
Fine architectural copper engraving of an interesting brick building. It was engraved by H. Hulsberg.James Gibbs (1682 – 1754) was one of Britain's most influential arc...
Place & Date: London, c1735
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2019
Front & Back of a Domed building by Gibbs.
Fine architectural copper engraving of front & back of a domed building. It was engraved by H. Hulsbergh.James Gibbs (1682 – 1754) was one of Britain's most influen...
Place & Date: London, c1735
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
Garden of Eden and Expulsion from Paradise.
A set of 4 copper engravings; overall size 41 x 24 cm each . from Scheuchzer's 'Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica Sacra, oder geheiligte Natur-Wissenschafft derer in H...
Place & Date: Augsburg/Ulm, 1731-1735
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2015
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[Snakes and Birds.]
Print from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', showing snakes and birds. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, zoölogist, author, collector and owner of a 'Cabinet ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1735
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Philip II, King of Spain, Naples, Sicilie &c.
A fine hand colored copper engraving of Philip II. Engraved by Vertue from a painting by Titian. From Rapin's "HISTORY OF ENGLAND" IN 1736. The portrait is surr...
Place & Date: London, 1736
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2016
Tab.V. Architectura Navalis oder Schiffs-Bau-Kunst.
An attractive and interesting naval plate by L.M. Steinberger, produced for Hubner's Reales Staats-Zeitungs und Conversations-Lexicon. . .This is plate 5 from the work an...
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1737
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Tab.V. Architectura Navalis oder Schiffs-Bau-Kunst.
An attractive and interesting naval plate by L.M. Steinberger, produced for Hubner's Reales Staats-Zeitungs und Conversations-Lexicon. . .This is plate 5 from the work an...
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1737
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020
Kriegs- Ingenieur u. Artillerie Charte
A large impressive and rare print showing various fortifications, weapons, palisades etc. including explanations on the art of besieging cities and fortifications. By Joh...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1737
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2022
Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn.
Very fine impression of the first published state. Hogarth's theatrical satire, showing a company of touring players dressing and rehearsing their parts in ‘Devil to Pa...
Place & Date: London, 1738
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
TAB.V. De Architectura Marina..
Decorative print with depiction's of the ship equipment, several ship types and their construction, rigging and further naval formation.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1740
Selling price: $190
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Vue et Dessein de l'Illumination.
A view and design of the Illumination of the hotel Nesle in Paris, by the artist Jean Antoine Belmond (Italian, 1696–1775) after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1740
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
Shepherds With Cattle & Goats Meeting - Plate #41.
This is a mezzotint print after Claude Lorrain. His paintings were etched masterfully by another great artist: Richard Earlom, who had specialized in the most royal of pr...
Place & Date: London, 1744
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Man Tied To Tree - Plate #45.
This is a mezzotint print by Claude Lorrain. His paintings were etched masterfully by another great artist: Richard Earlom, who had specialized in the most royal of print...
Place & Date: London, 1744
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
The Industrious Apprentice Performing the Duty of a Christian.
Fine, large, copper engraved Hogarth print featuring the industrious apprentice singing in the choir. William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English painter, printmake...
Place & Date: London, 1747
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013
The Idle Apprentice Executed at Tyburn.
Fine, large, hand-colored copper engraving featuring a crowd gathering to watch the execution of the Idle Apprentice. William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English pai...
Place & Date: London, 1747
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2013
Afbeelding en befchrying van de Roemrugtige Overwinning bevogten door den Engelfe Vice- Admiral Anson . . .
Broad - sheet copper engraving with letter press. Spectacular etching by Romein de Hooghe. With letterpress describing the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (14 May 1747. 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1747
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Ampelographia Iconica id est, Historia culturae Vinearum Naturalis...
A scarce print, illustrating viniculture with two images showing vineyards and winegrowers. Explanatory German text about cultivating and cutting the vines.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1747
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2019
A View of the Bay of St. Julian When Mount Wood Bears W.S.W. 1/2 S and he Port or Rivers Mouth S.W. Distant Ten Miles.
Fine river view with ships in the Bay of St. Julian in South America. From "ILLUSTRATUIONS DE A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS MDCCXL" by George Anson. Eng...
Place & Date: London, 1749
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2019
A first rate ship hoisting the Vice Admirals flag./ A first rate ship carrying a flag at the main top mast head.
Two decorative prints of a first rate ship, with title and on each side a numbered keys (A-UUU, 1-51) in English and French.Engraved by G.Scotin. Very decorative.
Place & Date: London 1750
Selling price: $250
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Narcissus nobilis Orientalis polyanthosmixtus ..
Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcolored very skilfully at a later date.Plate 13 published in the Hortus Eystettensis . Without doubt one of the greate...
Place & Date: Eichstätt ca. 1713-1750
Selling price: $1050
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Narcissus Polyanthos Orientalis calice medio luteus. Odoratus maximus.
Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcolored very skilfully at a later date.Plate 14 published in the Hortus Eystettensis . Without doubt one of the greate...
Place & Date: Eichstätt ca. 1713-1750
Selling price: $1000
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Pseudo Narcillus pallidus calice amplo.
Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcolored very skilfully at a later date.Plate 5 published in the Hortus Eystettensis . Without doubt one of the greates...
Place & Date: Eichstätt ca. 1713-1750
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Hyacinthus stellatus peruanus.
Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcolored very skilfully at a later date.Plate 14 published in the Hortus Eystettensis . Without doubt one of the greate...
Place & Date: Eichstätt ca. 1713-1750
Selling price: $1100
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Malua Rosae multiplex Flora albo. Malua Rosae multiplex Floreincarnato.
Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcolored very skilfully at a later date.Plate 14 published in the Hortus Eystettensis . Without doubt one of the greate...
Place & Date: Eichstätt ca. 1713-1750
Selling price: $1100
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[d'Onderdaling der Arke door verscheide betoogingen ondersogt.]
Decorative print focused on the illustration of a vessel. Besides putti are represented playing with simple wooden model ships.Surmounted by putti performing empirical ex...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1750
Selling price: $20
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Flaggen aller seefahrenden potenzen und nationen..
A highly decorative and beautiful chart with 140 flags of the sea-faring nations of the world.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1750
Selling price: $400
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Lilio Narcissus Hemerocalli disfacie.
Copper engraving. Issue with the text on verso, handcolored very skillfully at a later date.Plate 14 published in the Hortus Eystettensis . Without doubt one of the great...
Place & Date: Eichstätt ca. 1713-1750
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2009
To the Right Honourable John Earl of Sandwich ... View of the Royal Hospital Building for Sick, and Hurt Seamen at Hasler near Portsmouth
A perspective view of the Royal Hospital Building for Sick and Hurt Seamen at Haslar, near Portsmouth. It is inscribed Theodore Jacobsen Esqr. Architect-Fourdrinier Sculp...
Place & Date: London, 1750
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
Les Pavillons des Mer du Monde Nouvellement Corriges.
Rare sheet with 192 maritime flags of nations and provinces with French names. With many interesting flags, like the one of Mallorca, Corsaires, Constantinople, Ragusa, W...
Place & Date: Paris, c1750
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2012
Les Pavillons des Mer du Monde Nouvellement Corriges.
Rare sheet with 192 maritime flags of nations and provinces with French names. With many interesting flags, like the one of Mallorca, Corsaires, Constantinople, Ragusa, W...
Place & Date: Paris, c1750
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013
The representation of a first rate shipp in the manner they are usually moddeled.
Large and unusual print of a war ship in great detail. The title and 28 point legend is given in four languages. We could not trace this engraving or find out when and wh...
Place & Date: Berlin, ca. 1750
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Hand colored Copper Engraving of Two Fancy Sideboards (Untitled).
Fine copper engraving of two very fancy sideboards. From "Oevres D'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre" published by Jobert. Jean le Pautre (1618 – 1682) was a F...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2015
Madonna & Child.
Fine copper engraving of an ultra decorative "Madonna & Child" painting with engraved frame entitiled "Inventions for making Plates". From "O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2014
Les Filles de Pelias.
This fine copper engraving by Le Pautre features the daughters of Pelias turning on him and trying to kill him.From "Oeuvres d'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre" b...
Place & Date: Paris, Mariette, 1751
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2015
(Complete 15 Plate set) Fayancerie.
Complete 15 Plate set ‘Fayancerie’ Contenant Douze Planches Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’. Original copper engraving drawn by L...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
(Complete 9 Plate set) Miroitier Metteur au Teint.
Complete 9 Plate set ‘Miroitier Metteur au Teint’ ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’.Original copper engraving drawn by Lucotte & others, ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2015
(Complete 5 Plate set) Chaudronnier.
Complete 5 Plate set Chaudronnier ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’.Original copper engraving drawn by Dasgerantins & others, engraved by Prev...
Place & Date: Paris 1751
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
(Complete 9 Plate set of silk dryeing.) Teinturier.
Complete 9 Plate set ‘Teinturier’ from, Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’ Edited by Denis Diderot. Original copper engraving drawn b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2015
(A set of five plates about optical lens making.) Lunettier.
A set of five plates Lunettier (optical lens maker). From, Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’.Edited by Denis Diderot.Collection of Plate...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2015
(A set of seven plates about button making in many forms) Boutonnier.
A set of seven plates ‘Boutonnier’ (Button making in many forms), from, Diderot's ‘Encyclopede du Duictionarnaire Raisonn des Sciences’. Edited by Denis Diderot. ...
Place & Date: Paris 1751
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL IV).
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 2019
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (suite de la PL III)
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 2019
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL III)
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 2020
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL II)
The plate show 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 in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Sculpture, Fonte des Statues Equestres . . . (PL V)
The plate shows a step in the casting of a massive equestrian statue, one of the staples of public monuments before the twentieth century. As the rule with the plates in ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
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 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
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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