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Asellus, Cancellus, Asellus mollis. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Asellus, Cancellus, Asellus mollis. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 13. The engraving is co...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Alosa, Acipenser, Manula, Apua cobitis, (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Alosa, Acipenser, Manula, Apua cobitis, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 10. The engraving is cop...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. Set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 8. The engra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
These famous and desirable scene is engraved by de Bry depicting a scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Despite the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
Desirable scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Barentsz made three voyages (1594, 1595, 1596-1597) in search of the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $120
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Ambivi.. Victoria.. [The ship victoria of Magellean]
A print representing a the ship Victoria by Magellean, crossing the Pacific Ocean.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $120
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De Grandibus Adeo et Vastis Cancris. (Giant crabs)
Dutch attacked by giant crabs.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Jonas From the Belly of the Whale & Jonas Thrown Into the Sea (Two Woodcut Engravings)
Two hand-colored woodcuts featuring Jonas in bible stories. The prints come form "Figures des Histoires de la Sainte Bible". One shows crew members throwing Jon...
Place & Date: Paris, 1614
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2013
Pisces in Marialati.
Fine early engraving of a Portuguese sailing ship.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1617
Selling price: $240
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Monstra Marina. Meehr Wunder. Inventore Gabrielo Weÿero Norimberg excudebat Petr. Iselburg Col. 1617
Complete suite of 12 copper engravings representing of Sea divinities with scroll work and cupids. Gabriel Weyer (Nuremberg 1576–1632 Nuremberg) was an engraver and pai...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1617
Selling price: $3000
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Classis Hispanica celeberrima, quae anno celeberrimo. MDLXXXVIII. inter Galliam Brittaniamque venit. & perijt.
Scene of the great sea battle in 1588 between Calais and Dover. Filled with fighting sailing ships, some already sinking with survivors being rescued.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1650
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2015
Philippi Brietii S. J. Ventorum Tabula. Secundum Veterem & Novam dispositionem et nomenclaturam.
A very decorative, early engraving of a wind-rose. It is divided into five categories. The First is the "Divisio & Nomina Ventorum Apud Nautas..." (i.e., th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2021
Figura admirandi meteori.
Two Dutch ships observe a "marvelous meteor" during their voyage. The witnesses said "the object moved slowly in the sky above them and seemed to be made o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1665
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012
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
(Shipping - Noms des principales Voiles d'un Navire)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With on verso an explanation of the various parts of the vessel. (Noms des principales Voiles d'un Navire).From ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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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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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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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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
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
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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[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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Capture of L'Immoratalite, Oct 20th 1798.
A nice colored aquatint of a naval battle from Jenkins Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. It shows the an English warship alongside the Frenc...
Place & Date: London, ca 1825
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
Four Bartlett steel engraved prints of marine scenes.
Four fine steel engraving prints by William Bartlett. Included are: - FORTIFIED CLIFFS OF ALAYA, COAST OF CARAMANIA - CASTLE NEAR PAMBOUK - FALL OF THE RIVER CYDNUS, N...
Place & Date: London, 1837
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2017
Lot of three lithographs of Kamchatka.
An interesting set of 3 lithographs of Kamchatka in Russia from the famous expedition work: A.A. DU PETIT-THOUARS. Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate Vénus... Relati...
Place & Date: Paris, c1841
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2010
Pavillons et cocardes des principales puissances du globe d'après des Documents Officiels
Rare sheet with images of flags and rosettes of all sea fearing nations, from France to Russia, Turkey, and even Peru. Prepared by J. Andriveau-Goujon, published in his &...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2011
Combat de la Fregate la Pomone.
Fine tinted lithograph of a famous naval battle. Lithographed by A. Lemercier after a painting by Henri Durand-Brager. Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, (1814 – 1879),...
Place & Date: Paris, 1844
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
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Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by C.C.A. Last after a painting by C.C.Kannemans. Published in "Kunst Kroniek".
Place & Date: The Hague 1849
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
GIBRALTAR.
This print is one from a series of thirty-two published in a volume entitled 'The Route of the Overland Mail To India'. The print is by the artist Henry Fitzcook, a paint...
Place & Date: London, 1850
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
A Chart of National Flags. Published by Henry Bill. New York.
Lithograph by Thomas Sinclair, showing 105 flags, mostly national flags and a few merchant and pilot's flags.In the 1850s Italy was being created from several kingdoms, s...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, ca 1850
Selling price: $140
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Pavillons et cocardes des principales puissances du globe d'après des Documents Officiels.
Very decorative originally hand colored chart of flags and rosettes of all sea fearing nations, prepared by J. Andriveau-Goujon and published in his "Atlas Universel...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1854
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2012
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Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by F.H.Weissenbruch after a painting by A.Waldorp. Published in "Kunst Kroniek".
Place & Date: The Hague, 1862
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2014
Flags of all Nations prepared for Zell's Atlas of the World.
A rare print showing 70 flags of the World, featuring multiple British and American Flags. Also including the Sandwich Islands, Birmah, Cochin-China, Siam, Papal...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, ca 1870
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
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Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by J.J.Mesker after a painting by H.W.Mesdag. Published in Kunst Kroniek .
Place & Date: The Hague 1872
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013