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Animals

Amphibians, Birds, Butterflies and Moths, Fish and Marine Animals, Insects, Reptiles, Rodents
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"Das thier Rhinoceros genant" Woodcut by David Kandel after Albrecht Duerer. Published in "Cosmographia" by Sebastian Muenster. Basel, 1553 Original antique print Woodblock had split and was repaired for further printing, which explains white line through animal. Paper naturally age-toned. No upper and lower margins. Print from reverse side visible. Print is mounted on stronger paper.

Animals, Rhinoceros, Rhino. David Kandel after Albrecht Duerer, Muenster

$180.00

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"Buch Hiob Cap. XXVI v. 13" . The fulminant God. Crocodile and whale as well as coins and medals. Copperplate etching. Published in "Physica sacra" (Bible) by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Augsburg, 1731-35

Religious, Animals, Hiob, fulminant god, crocodile, whale

$120.00 $72.00

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Birds, No title. Flamingo. Anonymous chromo-lithograph, the flamingos very attractively hand-finished. Ca. 1880.

No title. Flamingo. Anonymous chromo-lithograph, the flamingos very

$150.00 $75.00

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Owls: No title. Various, altogether eight owls. Anonymous lithograph. No printing details, except plate number (CXIII) given. Mounted on cardboard. Printed in color. Ca. 1880

Owls: no title

$75.00 $37.50

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"Le Laocoon" Laokoon Very fine copper etching by Charles-Clement Bervic (1756-1822) After the drawing by Pierre Bouillon (1776-1831) Published in Musée des Antiques; Recueil Des Plus Beaux Tableaux, Statues, et Bas-Reliefs Qui Existaient Au Louvre Avant 1815. by Jean Duchesne Aine (author) Henri-Guillaume Chatillon (1780 - 1856) artist and engraver. Paris, ca. 1825

Statues: Le Laocoon

$420.00 $250.00

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No title Chromolithograph ca 1900 showing a wide range of reptiles. Light browning on margin edges.

Wide range of reptiles

$45.00 $27.00

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hauve-Souris D'Egypte 1. Taphien Filet. 2. Nyctere de la Thebaide. 3. Vespertulion Pipistrelle. Fine copper stipple-line etching by Bouquet from "Description de l'Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, Histoire naturelle" by Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1809. Each bat is finely shown with absolute detail with every hair on its frontside and exquisite wing detail.

Bats: Chauve-Souris D'Egypte

$375.00 $187.50

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Ordnung III Raubmaeuse Lithograph by St. Schillinger ca 1860. Fine, original hand coloring. A few minor scatter spots. Crease in lower image. 30.5 x 25 cm (12 x 9.8 ")

Ordnung III Raubmaeuse

$65.00 $26.00

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"Tintenfish" (Nautilis pompilius, Sepia officialis, Octopus vulgaris, Argonauta argo) Chromolithograph ca 1880. Minor signs of age and use. 26.2 x 17.5 c ( 10.3 x 6,8")

Tintenfisch: Nautilis pompilius, Sepia officialis, Octopus vulgaris, Argonauta argo

$45.00 $27.00

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The fish on the left is an "Aesche" in German and on the right is a "Forelle" (trout). Woodcut published ca 1585. Reverse side is printed with three fish images and text. Fine, recent hand coloring. Print has small, scattered worm holes in lower part of image. Small repairs in upper right margin corner.. 400 years have left their signs of age! Page size: 34 x 22 cm ( 13.3 x 8.6 ")

Fish Aesche (German: Äsche), Trout (Forelle)

$220.00 $110.00

"Graecum vulgus Flascopsarum id est Lagenam........" "Ital. Venetum vulgus perpera Columbum......" Reverse side: Upper image: "Orbus Scutatus Rondeletij" Lower Image: Orbis Echinatus...." Woodcuts. Published in "Piscium and aquatilium animantium nature" Zurich, 1558 By Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) Zurich, 1558 Original antique print

Fish, Animals, Marine Life, Orbus Scutatus Rondeletij, Orbis Echinatus, Gessner

$190.00 $114.00

Das Faulthier oder der Ai Ignavus, Le Paresseux Copper etching by Joh. Sebastz. Leitner after G. E. Edwards, for Seligmann, Johann Michael (engraver and art dealer in Nuremberg 1720-1762). Published ca 1750. Original hand coloring. Original antique print

Animals, Sloth, Faultier

$180.00 $108.00

"Buch Hiob Cap. XXVI v. 13" . The fulminant God. Crocodile and whale as well as coins and medals. Copper etching. Published in "Physica sacra" (Bible) by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Augsburg, 1731-35 Original antique print

Animals, Reptiles, Fish, Religious, Whale, coins, fulminant God, Hiob

$150.00 $90.00

Upper images: Light producing apparatus - Spermaceti Whale: preparation for "flencing". Middle image: "Harpooning the whale in the Artics Seas, for Lamp-oil and whaling harpoons" Lower images: "Viginia myrtle yielding wax, Arachis nut yielding West Indian Oil, Sesamum yielding Persian Oil" Wood engravings published ca 1880. Original antique print

Technology, Hunting, Animals, Fish, Whaling, Light producing apparatus, Harpooning

$60.00 $36.00

"Scaup Pochard" "Fuligula marila (Steph.) "Nr. 1 Male in immature plumage" "2. Female" Hand-Colored Lithographs from Naumann: "Naturgeschichte Der Voegel MittelEuropas" published in several volumes from 1822-1860. Very fine lithographs with information below the title about the size and habits of the waterfowl shown. Notice that on some of the prints is an egg of the particular species. Many of the lithographs are by H.L. Meyer and dated after his signature in the image. Original antique print

Waterbirds, Ducks, Birds, Scaup Pochard, Fuligula marila

$160.00 $96.00