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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Atropa Mandragora L./ Die Alraunapfel.
Orginal colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked. from: Icones plantarum medicinalium, Vienna, 1788-1803.Joseph Jacob Pleck (1735 - 1807)...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Orchis Mascula L./ Das maennliche Knabenkraut.
Orginal colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked. from: Icones plantarum medicinalium, Vienna, 1788-1803. Joseph Jacob Pleck (1735 - 1807...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus L./ Die unaechte Narzisse.
Orginal colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked. from: Icones plantarum medicinalium, Vienna, 1788-1803. Joseph Jacob Pleck (1735 - 1807...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803
Selling price: $72
Sold in 2015
Cannabis Sativa. Der zahme Hanf. (Cannabis!)
Orginal colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked. from: Icones plantarum medicinalium, Vienna, 1788-1803. Joseph Jacob Pleck (1735 - 1807...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803
Selling price: $121
Sold in 2015
Nicotiana Tabacum L./ Der gemeine Tobak.
Orginal colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked. from: Icones plantarum medicinalium, Vienna, 1788-1803. Joseph Jacob Pleck (1735 - 1807...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Phoenix Dactylifera./ Die Gemeine Dattelpalme. (Date Palm Tree)
Original colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked. From: 'Icones plantarum medicinalium', Vienna, 1788-1803. Joseph Jacob Plenck (1735-180...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
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[Butterflies]
Plate CLIX from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablon...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Napoleon 1er Empereur des Français.
Fine full length in uniform, with chapeau, head to right, on a prancing horse, advancing to the left, at the head of his staff, on the field of battle. Engraved by Pierre...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1806
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Dame d'Ausbourg.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. After Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. As an etcher, drawer and writer, Gras...
Place & Date: Paris,1806
Selling price: $1
Sold in 2023
Veduta del Mausoleo d'Elio Adriano (ora chiamato Castello S.Angelo) nella parte opposta alla Facciata dentro al Castello.
Fine early imprint and signed in the plate in lower right corner : Piranesi Archit.dis. ed inc.. In the center Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinità de'Mon...
Place & Date: First Paris edition, 1800?1807
Selling price: $1300
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Le Quadricolor.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris 1796-1808
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2008
Le Bacbakiri.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. After Reinold and engraved by Claude Fessard.Levaillant's interest in na...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Le Piacpiac.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
Le Minule.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
La Pie Rousse.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
Le Sieriner. Planche 82.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Ours blanc du nord. Dessine d'apres nature par Huet fils peintre de la menagerie de sa majeste. . .
A very rare and large print of a polar bear. From a series of images of the zoological garden "Jardin des Plantes" which also included a "Menagerie". ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1808
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2020
Vaisseaux des Anciennes / Construction de Vaisseaux.
An attractive pair of prints concerning boat building, and boat from ancient times past, printed in Germany. Complete with original pages of (French) text. From Bilderbuc...
Place & Date: Weimar, 1810
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2020
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Death of Sir Philip Sidney [and] Lord Russell's Last Interview With His Family. [Lot of 2 prints]
Two decorative copper engravings featuring history scenes. They were engraved by A. Smith and published in "ASHBURTON'S HISTORY" by J. Stratford in 1811.
Place & Date: London, 1811
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
George Town and City of Washington.
A delightful bucolic copperplate engraving of the village of 'George Town' and the neighbouring 'City of Washington' by the Potomac River. Georgetown is a historic suburb...
Place & Date: London, 1811
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2021
Mosque on the Booragunga Branch of the Ganges.
Mosque on the Booragunga Branch of the Ganges. A British trading post was established at Dacca in East Bengal in the 17th century. The city was a capital of Mughul vicer...
Place & Date: London, 1814
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Charles The First, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c.
The portrait is after Anthony Vandyck, three heads: in profile to right, facing front, three-quarters to left, wearing a lace collar, star and ribbon of the garter, pearl...
Place & Date: London, 1815
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Adam & Eve (1 ter Stamm).
Adam and Eve. From a natural history or ethnographic folio by renowned Swiss artist and lithographer Carl (Karl) Joseph Brodtmann (1787-1862).Carl Joseph Brodtmann (1787-...
Place & Date: Zurich, 1816
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2019
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Mollusques et Zoophytes [plate XXIX]
Plate illustrating molluscs and zoohytes by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
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Mollusques et Zoophytes [plate XXX]
Plate illustrating molluscs and zoohytes by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
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Mollusques et Zoophytes [plate XXXI]
Plate illustrating molluscs and zoohytes by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Seven plates from Pomona Britannica.
Seven aquatint and stipple engraved plates of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica, or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pre...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Strawberry.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2023
Rasperry.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2023
Lotto Sucht.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June1768, died 12 March1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Kartenfpiel.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June1768, died 12 March1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
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Music. [Two sheets].
Two pages with musical instruments and monkeys from "Encyclodedia Londenensis". Engraved by J.Pas.
Place & Date: London, 1818
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
Le Merisier a Fruits Rouges.
An attractive representation of a wild cherry tree by Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854), wellknown from his Pomologie Française (1838). This print is from Histoire natu...
Place & Date: Paris 1818-1820
Selling price: $60
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Coiffures ornée de gaze-velours.. (1872)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Place & Date: Paris 1820
Selling price: $10
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Uytgegeven Door Fs. de Vletter & Comp. te Amsterdam.
Wonderful, large, stippled, mezzotint engraving by Jan Willem Pienman in Abcoude, the Netherlands, in about 1820. It is an allegory of the death of William V, Prince of O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1820
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
Flower (Plate 83).
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, 1821
Selling price: $20
Sold
Flower (Plate 83).
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, 1821
Selling price: $30
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Chapeau de velours plein.. (2047)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Place & Date: Paris 1822
Selling price: $10
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Before - A Girl's Last Minute Resistance.
Fine large, hand colored copperplate engraving featuring a woman resisting a man's advances. By William Hogarth, published in London in 1736, but a re-strike of the orig...
Place & Date: London, (Heath edition), 1822
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Doctor Syntax setting out in search of a wife.
Charming title page for "Doctor Syntax.. .. in Search of a Wife .. Printed by R. Ackermann.
Place & Date: London, 1823
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
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Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile Decres. Details du Casoar. [plate XLI]
Details of the Australian flightless bird, the Cassowary. Details include, head and beak, tail feathers, plumes, claw etc. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Chapeau de bois dit paille de riz.. (2308)
From Costume Parisien (1797-1839).Paris was the capital for fashion innovation and design. After the final defeat of Napoleon, English and French fashions merged to close...
Place & Date: Paris 1825
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2009
Autour radieux, jeune. Autour tyran. Autour a calotte noire.
3 original handcolored copperplate engravings from Temmnick's Nouveau Receuil des Planches coloriees d'oiseau. (New Collection of Colored Plates of Birds) these prints ar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1825
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2010
Colombar Capelle, male
Original handcolored copperplate engraving from Temmnick's Nouveau Receuil des Planches coloriees d'oiseau. (New Collection of Colored Plates of Birds) this print is name...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1825
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2010
Pandemonium. (Proof state)
Original mezzotint with drypoint 1825 marked ‘Proof’ assembled for the first edition 1827 of Imperial Octavo John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published in London by Sep...
Place & Date: London, 1825
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Satan on his throne. (proof state)
Original mezzotint with drypoint 1825 marked ‘Proof’ assembled for the first edition 1827 of Imperial Octavo John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published in London.One of...
Place & Date: London 1825
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016