ORTELIUS'S MAP OF AFRICA Abraham Ortelius.PRESBITERI JOHANNIS, SIVE, ABISSINORUM IMPERII DESCRIPTIO. Antwerp, late 16th century. From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Copperplate engraving, hand colored, depicting Africa...
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TWO MERCATOR / HONDIUS MAPS2 (Gerard)Mercator atlas maps, 1619 French Edition, handcolored copperplate engravings on paper. 1st item: America "L'Amerique" by Joducus Hondius, Western Hemisphere - North and South...
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3 EUROPEAN MAPS, INCL. SCHENK, VALK,& HOMANN1st item: ESTATS DE POLOGNE SUBDIVISES SUIVANT LESTENDUE DES PALANTINATS map, published by Pieter Schenk, Amsterdam, ca. 1700. Copperplate engraving with hand-coloring...
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HOMANN MAP, BRITISH TERRITORIES IN NORTHAMERICA, C. 17...DOMINICA ANGLORUM IN AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS map, published by the Heirs of Johann Baptist Homann after Herman Moll, Nuremberg, ca. 1737-40. Copperplate engraving...
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KITCHIN, MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, 1787MAPOF NORTH AMERICA DRAWN FROM THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHORITIES, drawn by Thomas Kitchin, engraved by G. Terry, published by Jonathan Harrison, London, 1787. Copperplate engraving...
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JACOB PHILIPP (JAKOB) HACKERT LANDSCAPEPENCIL DRAWINGJacob Philipp (Jakob) Hackert (Germany/Italy, 1737-1807) pencil on laid paper landscape drawing depicting a rocky outcropping in a small body of water, trees...
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5 18TH CENT. MARINE ENGRAVINGS, INCL.T. MAJOR, J. BOYN...Five (5) English copperplate engravings depicting maritime scenes, including three (3) by Thomas Major (United Kingdom, 1720-1799) and two (2) by John...
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3 AFTER FRANCESCO PIRANESI ENGRAVINGS,CLASSICAL STATUE...Three (3) copperplate engravings on wove paper of classical Greek or Roman statues, after Franceso Piranesi (Italian, 1756-1810). 1st-2nd items: Two (2)...
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MEISSEN PORCELAIN CANECa. 1880-Smallporcelain knob modeled in a classic Baroque shape with a gently tapering and ribbed body and a slightly widening and scalloped domed top, painted with birds, scattered blooms...
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BELLIN'S 18TH CENTURY MAP OF THE CAROLINASLa Caroline dans l'Amérique Septentrionale Suivant les Cartes Angloises from Le Petit Atlas Maritime (Paris, 1764), copperplate engraving with outline color, depicting the...
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ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. DESCRIPTIO GERMANIAEINFERIORIS From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp, late 16th century), hand-colored copperplate engraving with Latin text on the verso, depicting the North Sea coastal region...
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NAPOLEONIC ERA SPANISH NAVIGATION CHARTFOR THE BOSPHORUS Titled Plano Del Canal Del Mar Negro, Bosforo con el de la Ciudad y vista tomada por la parte de Escutarim de Constantinopla construido y delineado por Dn....
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THREE EARLY MAPS OF SOUTHEASTERN INTERESTTo include: Moll, Herman. Carolina n.p., n.d. (1729) copperplate engraving with sparse outline color, depicts North America's southeastern coast from the mouth of the Chesapeake...
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BELLIN, JACQUES. CARTE DE LA VIRGINIE,DE LA BAYE CHESAPEACK ET PAYS VOISINS... ...Pour servir à l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (1757), copperplate engraving with no color, depicts Virginia, Maryland and the...
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BRAUN AND HOGENBERG, VENETIAN SCENESFROM CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM Dated 1578, but issued from that date into the early 17th century, being a copperplate engraving with hand color; the sheet consists of two scenes,...
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BLAEU, JOHANNES. INSULA GADITANA VULGOISLA DE CADIZ (Amsterdam, late 17th century), copperplate engraving with hand color depicting the Bay of Cadiz in Spain. Presented in vintage wooden frame with mid-20th century...
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MAXIM GAUCI (1774-1845): CHINESE COURTOF JUSTICETrial of Neptune Sailors, Canton 1807; hand-colored copperplate engraving on paper, framed and glazed; "on stone by M. Gauci" lower left, printed by Graf and Soret...
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THOMAS ALLOM (1804-1872): GROUP OF ENGRAVINGSagroup of etching of China and genre scenes, circa 1840; comprising a group of four hand-colored copperplate engravings within one frame; a group of five copperplate engravings...
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HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST. VIRGINIA MARYLANDIAET CAROLINA... ...in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultar reprasentatae a Ioh. Bap. Homann S. C. M. Geog. Norimbergae (Nuremburg, fist half 18th century),...
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VAN DER MEULEN, A. F. ENTRéE DU ROYDANS DUNQUERQUE Late 17th century, two copperplate engravings with hand color married to form a large panoramic scene depicting French King Louis XIV entering the channel...
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JOHN TAYLOR (1745-1797), FOUR COPPERPLATEENGRAVINGS OF SUN DIALS Late 18th century, depicting the placement and operation of the instruments. Presented together in one frame (25 x 54 in.)....
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NICHOLAS VISSCHER, INSULAE AMERICANAEIN OCEANO SEPTENTRIONALI... ...ac Regiones Adjacentes, late 17th century, copperplate engraving with hand color, depicting the Caribbean and adjacent lands in North, South,...
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AFTER HEINRICH SCHERER, LIKELY REPRODUCTIONSOF TWO CIRCA 1700 MAPS Copperplate engravings with color as follows: Navigationes Praecipuae Europaeorum ad Exteras Nationes, showing global sea routes with galleons in each...
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JAILLOT, HUBERT. AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE(Paris, 1694), copperplate engraving with sparse outline color; this map of North America depicts California as an island and demonstrates no knowledge of America's northwestern...
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MERCATOR, GERARD. ANGLIA, SCOTIA, ETHIBERNIA After Mercator, 17th century, likely England, being a copperplate engraving with hand color depicting the British Isles; a 20th century penciled inscription states...
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BLAEU, WILLEM JANZOON. NOVA VIRGINIAETABULA (Amsterdam, second half of 17th century), copperplate engraving with hand color; depicts the Chesapeake Bay region with mainland Virginia and Maryland beyond; of special...
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LIKELY MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS. VIRGINIAEPARTIS AUSTRALIS... ...et Floridae Partis Orientalis, Interia Centiumque Regionum Nova Descriptio. (Amsterdam: Arnoldus Montanus, 1671), hand-colored copperplate engraving...
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BODENEHR, GABRIEL. AMERICAE (Augsburg,early 18th century), likely Gabriel Bodenehr, Jr., copperplate engraving with hand color depicting the Western Hemisphere with California as an island and, oddly, the Solomon...
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DANCKERTS, JUSTUS. NOVA TOTIUS TERRARUMORBIS (Amsterdam, circa 1680), copperplate engraving with hand color, depicts the two hemispheres and poles with a background given to lively allegorical scenes; California...
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DE WIT, FREDERIK, NOVA ORBIS TABULAIN LUCEM EDITA. A.F. DE WIT (Amsterdam, 1670), copperplate engraving with hand color; depicts double-hemisphere maps with the poles above and below; vignettes in each corner...
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WILLEM BLAEU, MAPPA AESTIVARUM INSULARUMALIAS BARMUDA... Circa 1670, copperplate engraving with hand color, depicts Bermuda divided among the landowners listed beneath the map; the arms of England and Bermuda are...
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MAP OF THE SPANISH SIEGE OF BERGAN OPZOOM, NORTH BRABANT NETHERLANDS, 1627 Copperplate engraving by Professor Frans van Schoten the Elder ((Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, mid-17th century) depicting events associated...
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EARLY MAPS OF ISRAEL AND SOUTHEAST ASIA,BOTH COPPERPLATE ENGRAVINGS WITH COLOR To include: Berey, Calude August and Ertinger, Franz. Nova Desciptio Judae et Totius Terrae Israel (1699), having a wonderful cartouche...
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1631 BLAEU MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES,FRAMED "Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula", hand colored copperplate engraving on wove paper, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), based on the plates of Joducus Hondius,...
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17th Century Italian Maritime Engraving"Bucintoro nella Solennita, che si celebra in Venetia nel giorgno dell'Ascensione", by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Venice, circa 1690, published in Corelli's Navi, o Vascelli,...
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COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING - Depicting ruler& his subjects old masters green tinted pencil signed lower right shrink wrapped SS: 4 3/4'' x 3 3/8'' OS: 4'' x 2 3/4''. Condition: minor toning....
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