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Decorative Prints

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Ruta - Rauten Here we get to know him an author of simply wonderful descriptions of plants and flowers used in medicine. His specialty was to set the flowers oversize into a landscape, adorning the print with flying ribbon in which the name of the plant or flower is engraved. The book in which these little gems were published was called "Die fruchtbringende Gesellschaft"

Botanical Prints by Matthaeus Merian: Ruta - Rauten

$135.00 $67.00

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Antique map, Europe, "Nouvelle Carte pour servira L'Histoire de L'Empire D'Occiendent depuis les premiers Empereurs Romains jusques après les successeurs de l'empereur Theodose avec des tables et des remarques très instructives" The Roman Empire (West Rome) around 400 A.D. Interesting names given by the Romans to the peoples in Europe. Map has 2 vertical and 1 horizontal folds. All Sea waters have original hand color as well as border lines. Copper engraving map. Published in Amsterdam 1720

Maps, Europe, Roman Empire, West Rome

$420.00

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No title. - Winged stallion led by a Celtic type, fur clad man with a club over his shoulder. Herkules? Copper etching by Melchior Kuesel (1626-1684) Augsburg, 1671 Original antique print , Hercules?

Ancient World, Mythology, Hercules?, Winged stallion

$70.00 $49.00

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On the left is part of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. In the upper right is Japan. In the lower right is Molucca, part of New Guinea, and Timor. Near the lower center is Sri Lanka. This is the second map of Asia by Sebastian Muenster (1488 - 1552). It is a woodcut map published in 1588. Older hand coloring. Nicely colored woodcut map of Asia. Crease in right part of map from Japan to Molucca.

Maps, Asia, Japan, Molucca, New Guinea, Timor, Sri Lanka, Muenster

$620.00 $434.00

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Portugal ,Azores, Terceira, Grupo central Azores. - "Terceira Insula" Hand-colored copper etching. Published in the pocket atlas by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Antwerp, 1587 The island chart decorated with two sail ships and two sea monsters. Verso text for "Spain" in Latin Language. Island print a bit awrily placed on paper.

Maps, Portugal, Azores, Terceira, Grupo central

$80.00

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"Tabula Portugalliae et Algarbia" West-oriented copper etching by Frederic de Wit. Very nice hand coloring including the two cartouches (title and mileage) and the sailships. Amsterdam, 1680 Very nice hand coloring Printed ca. 1690 in Amsterdam

Maps, Portugal, de Wit

$440.00

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Spain, Espagña, "Hispaniae Veteris Descriptio. Ex. conatibus Geographicis Abrah. Ortely." Copper engraving from the atlas:"Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius, dated 1586. Hand coloring.

Maps, Spain, Espagña, Cadiz, Ortelius

$720.00

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Cartographer: Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer (1533/34?-1605/6?) - His exact birth and death dates are unknown. Map title:"Beschrijvinge vande wterste omlopende custe van Judtlandt aen weder zijden op de Belt en Noort zee"

Maps, Scandinavia, Denmark, Jutland, Belt, Aalborg, island Laesoe, Waghenaer

$2,800.00

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"Prospecte des Hartzwalds: nebst accurater Vorstellung der auf selbigem gebräuchlichen Bergwerks-Machinen, Ertz- und Praege-Arbeiten... Published by Homann Erben, Nürnberg ca. 1737

City Views, Landscapes, Professions, Germany, Mining, Harz, Clausthal

$1,100.00 $680.00

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"Sfera artifiale" Type of print: Copperplate etching Color: Hand colored Author / Engraver: Anonymous Origin: Italian

Astronomy, Sfera arti - ficiale

$130.00 $78.00

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Staple Ford The Seat of the Right Honorable the Earl of Harborough. By Walker after throsby, dated 1790. Repairs in upper left margin corner and lower left margin corner. 13.3 x 18.1 cm (5.2 x 7.1 ") Castles, Landscapes and Estates of England and Scotland

City Views, Landscapes, England Stapleford, Seat of the Right Honorable the Earl of Harborough

$70.00 $42.00

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De Bry 33 Six varieties of fritilla. Antique Botanical Prints by De Bry Johann Theodor De Bry (1528-1598) came from Liege, Belgium to Frankfurt on the Main and founded about 1570 an important publishing house. The famous Florilegium Novum, a comprehensive flower book was first published between 1612 and 1618.

Botanicals, De Bry, Six varieties of fritilla

$140.00 $84.00

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"Passau" One of the especially "pretty" views in the entire "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg is this general view of Passau! Hand-colored copper etching. Dated 1576. Text in Latin about Passau on half of backside.

City Views, Germany, Passau, Braun and Hogenberg

$1,750.00 $875.00

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By Georg Braun (1540-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590) Cologne, 1572 The most prominent panoramic view of the city of Aden in Yemen in Arabia and three views of Africa's East Coast in the 16th century. Mombaza (Mombasa in Kenya) Quiloa (near Kilwa Kisiwani) Cefala (Sofala in Mozambique)

Maps, City Views, Aden, Mombaza, Quiloa, Cefala, Braun, Hogenberg

$390.00 $320.00

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Mythology, Faustulus, Remus and Romulus

Mythology, Faustulus, Remus and Romulus

$180.00 $108.00

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"The City of Dublin" Very attractively hand-colored impressive panoramic view of Dublin, from the position of a half bird's eye view. Stated below by the publisher: "Being No. 1 of a series of views of the Principal Capitals in Europe Presented gratis to the Subscribers to The Illustrated London News" (TILN) Large, smashing folio areal view of Ireland's Capital Dublin.

Ireland, "The City of Dublin"

$700.00 $420.00

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"Vegetationsbild von Ceylon" Chromolithograph after the watercolor by Ernst Haeckrl ca 1900.

Sri Lanka, "Vegetationsbild von Ceylon"

$35.00 $21.00

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Simon Romanovitch Woronzow, 3rd Count Woronzow, "Semen Romanovich Vorontsov", born 1744, of one of the great aristocratic families of Russia, died 1832, age 88 years, buried in the Pembroke family vault in Marylebone, London, the street where he resided in St. John's Wood, London is now called Woronzow.

Portraits: Simon Romanovitch Woronzow

$380.00 $228.00

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"Carte du Kamtchatka" (Kamchatka) Copper etching by Laurent. Published by by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin in his ãPetit Atlas". Paris 1764. Very good recent hand coloring. Map shows in detail the Kamchatka peninsula together with the northernmost Kuril islands with both, their Russian and their Japanese names.

Maps, Russia, Carte du Kamtchatka

$210.00 $147.00

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France, map, "Poictou". Copper etching in modern coloring from the pocket atlas by A. Ortelius. Antwerp, ca 1580. In the upper left is Nantes and a bit of Normandy. On the left side jalf-way down is La Rochelle and in the lower right is the region of Berri. Text on backside about Bretagne.

Maps, France, Poictou, Ortelius

$90.00