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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
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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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]](/uploads/cache/37433-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
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
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
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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
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]](/uploads/cache/95774-250x250.jpg)
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]](/uploads/cache/95775-250x250.jpg)
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]](/uploads/cache/95776-250x250.jpg)
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
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[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
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[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]](/uploads/cache/09187-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
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
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
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.](/uploads/cache/46763-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
![Le Grand Barbet [Pl. 26]](/uploads/cache/21915-250x250.jpg)
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
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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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
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
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 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
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