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Early 18th Century French Tapestry ( 4'9" x 8'6" - 144 x 260 cm )

Very nice Parisian wardrobe called "lingère". Beautiful Louis XIV style walnut cabinet of the late 17th or early 18th century. This very beautiful wa...

La Terre Sainte, The Holy Land, Tiree Des Memoires De M.De.La Rue. Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliq et de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Avec Privil du Roi 1703 Detailed map of the Holy Land from Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. East is oriented at the top. MAKER Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 The French cartographer and engraver, Nicolas de Fer, was a master at creating maps that were works of art. The maps that he published were printed during the Baroque period when the decorative arts were characterized by ornate detail. De Fer’s detailed maps and atlases were valued more for their decorative content than their geographical accuracy. Nicolas de Fer was born in 1646. His father, Antoine de Fer, owned a mapmaking firm. At the age of twelve, Nicolas was apprenticed to a Parisian engraver named Louis Spirinx. The family business was starting to decline when his father died in 1673. Nicolas de Fer’s mother, Genevieve, took over the business after the death of her husband. In 1687 the business was passed on to Nicolas and the profits increased after he took over the firm. Nicolas de Fer was a prolific cartographer who produced atlases and hundreds of single maps. He eventually became the official geographer to King Louis XIV of France and King Philip V...

Beautiful early Pewter cupboard or Plate cabinet dates from around 1700. Made of solid oak in the Netherlands. Has a very nice appearance and thick pat...

Japanese Imari porcelain tokuri, Arita, circa 1700, Genroku Period. The squared vessel painted with shaped panels of flowering plants, upon textile design inspired grounds. Rising to...

English Walnut geometric chest, with double panel sides. The top, brass pulls( hand made copies of an original pull) and feet have been replaced. But ...

Early 18th Century French Tapestry 3' X 6' - 90 X 185

Blue and white bowl Delft, 1690-1710 The bowl is painted on the outside with a continuous garland of flowers under a scroll border. The inside is boldly painted with a flying bird u...

A Louis XVI kingwood small chest with brass mounts. Opens to a metal lined interior and two velvet working lower drawers. Circa 1700, France.

Folio Leaf: 37 x 23 cms. Hand colored copper engraving. Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engr...

Title: "The Station used by the great Mandaryns Staetsie der groote Mandarijns / The Station used by the great Mandaryns Staetsie der groote Mandarijns. 1665. The richly illustrat...

Title: 'The departure of the Empirour Hockflieuw to the Emprial Court at Peking' with further description in Dutch. The Dutch man Pieter van Hoorn, his son...

Extremely rare Broadside by Johann Meyer (1655-1712). Astronomia. Die Gestirn-Kunst. Publisher: "Einer Kunst- und Tugend liebenden Jugend in Zürich, ab der Burgerl. Bibliothec am N...

Beautiful original hand-colored antique map of a large part of Western Europe. Title: Accuratissima Rheni Inferioris, Mosae et Mosellae Tabula. Maker: T. Danckerts. Amsterdam, ...

Antique portrait titled 'Thomas Muntzer'. Portrait of Thomas Müntzer. Thomas Müntzer was an early Reformation-era German theologian, who became a rebel leader during the Peasants' War. He turned against Luther with several anti-Lutheran writings, and supported the Anabaptists. In the Battle of Frankenhausen, Müntzer and his followers were defeated. He was captured, tortured and decapitated. This print originates from 'Historie der kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het jaar onses Heeren 1688 ... In het Neederduyts vertaald' by G. Arnold. Artists and Engravers: Gottfried Arnold (1666 – 1714) was a German Lutheran...

Antique map titled 'Het Heylige Land verdeeld in de Twaalf Stammen Israels (..)'. Decorative and detailed map of the Holy Land divided into 12 Tribes, sh...

Antique map titled 'Circuli Franconiae pars Occidentalis, exhibes simul integrum fere Electoratum Moguntinum (..)'. Antique map centered on Nuremberg and Bamberg. Extends from th...

Antique print titled 'Societatis Indiae Occident (..) - West Indisch Huys op Raapenburg (..)'. Despite the title suggesting this print is a view of the West-Indisch House in Amst...

Antica Cartina Regno di Napoli XVIII Secolo 1:700000 Descrizione: Meravigliosa Cartina con raffigurazione del regno di Napoli , la cartina è stata realizzata in Francia nella pri...

Group of six elegant armchairs held up by truncated conical rudent feet, as well as the upright attachment. Shaped open arms, carved flowers in the bunches, armrests and backrest. Sh...

Coppia di consolle barocco in noce, Lombardia inizio XVIII secolo. Il fronte è composto da un susseguirsi di riccioli ed elementi mossi, secondo un disegno ben definito; riserve, ele...

Sculpture depicting a man head made out of black granite, mounted on a square iron base with a brass support. Russia early XVIII century.

Chinese porcelain Famille Verte large "flower basket" dish, Kangxi Period The Chinese Export porcelain large dish is painted in “famille verte” enamels with a central medallion o...

Dutch Delft Dore Chinoiserie teapot & cover, Early 18th Century. The circular Dutch Delft Dore large teapot is painted in with Chinoiserie scene...

Set of four antique copperplate engravings with hand coloring. "Britannia Illustrata," the publication in which these prints originally appeared, was one of the most important topogr...

These meticulously-crafted French Bronze andiron chenets are circa 1790 and feature cherub angels carved along the andirons as well as face dep...

Spanish Charger c1700 with building decoration in the centre and outer decorated rim. Old hanging retained on the back. Diameter: 30 cm / 12”

Fine round antique walnut table, 18th century, Italian manufacture. The table has a very complex base consisting of three large feet, connected to a single central stem. The feet a...

Rare 18th-century wooden cabinet in the style of Louis XV, fine French manufacture. The cabinet is made entirely of fine dark wood, four legs for support. The two legs at the front are more worked and thin, very important, those at the back have classic square strong dorma. The cabinet is developed in height rather than width. Centrally there is only one door all decorated with sinuous wood inlays and squiggly fretwork, very true to the French Baroque style. At the top we see a semi-curved frieze, which lends even more majesty to the product. Inside, it is all covered with antique pink wallpaper...

Antique print, titled: 'Majorinus Numida' Majorinus was a bishop of Carthage in dispute with Ceacilianus. He favored the so-called Donatist sect. Het died ca. 329 AD. The background to the controversy was the wave of persecutions of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian. At that time some Church leaders - unwilling to endure torture or death and become martyrs - had been ready to take such acts as worshipping the gods of the old pantheon, considered idols by Christians, or surrendering church books and property to the imperial authorities. Such people became known as 'traditors' ("surrenderers"). One of these "traditors", named Caecilian, had returned to the fold of the Church once the persecutions ended, and was consecrated Bishop of Carthage and Primate of North Africa. Those of the faithful who refused to accept the authority of such a spiritual leader raised Majorinus as a rival bishop; however, Majorinus died shortly after being consecrated, and it fell to Donatus to take his place and continue the struggle. This rare print originates from: 'Historie der Kerken en Ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het Jaar onses Heeren 1688. Onzydig in 't Hoogduytsch beschreeven, door den Hoog-geleerden Heer Godfried Arnold, Voor deezen Hoog-Leeraar in de Historien tot Giesen. In het Neederduyts vertaald. Vercierd met verscheyde Koopere Plaaten door den Heer Romeyn de Hooghe.' (transl.: History of Churches and Heretics from the start of the New Testament until the year of our lord 1688 ...), by Godfried Arnold, Dutch edition published by Sebastiaan Petzold, Amsterdam 1701. This edition contains portraits of heretic figures, etched by the reknown Romeyn de Hooghe. Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Romeyn de Hooghe' after an anonymous artist. Gottfried Arnold (pseud. Christophorus Irenaeus) was an important representative of the so-called radical Pietism, publicist, church historian and chants writer (so he was believed to have written the well-known Church song 'O Durchbrecher aller Bande'). Arnold studied theology in Wittenberg. From the Lutheran Orthodoxy he converted, through writings of Spener, to Pietism, associating later into a circle around the court preacher Sprögel, who was influenced by Jakok Böhm. Many medieval mystics were later re-issued by him. In addition he was clearly influenced by Grotius and the early enlightenment. His quest for the 'true' Christianity rightly brought him in the early Church. So he arranged an edition containing the sermons of the desert father Macarius. Arnold was a skilled patristicus, although he did not escape from the creation of an ideal image of the Christian life in the early Church, in his view a flowering time which ended with the reign of Constantine. His first study of the early Church ('Die erste Liebe der Gemeinen Jesu Christi') provided him a professor position in Gießen, a post which he soon left, disappointed by what he called the 'Ruhmsachtige Vernunftwesen des akademischen Lebens'. He continued as an individual scientist and he published books and poems. His main work is 'Unparteiischen Kirchen- und Ketzerhistorie' (1699-1700), of which this is the Dutch translation. He adapts in this study the reformatory decay theory, where the censure lies no longer with Constantine, but the post-Apostolic time. The decay is temporarily lifted with the Reformation, but occurres again soon, so that even the contemporary institutional Protestantism lies under the fire of his criticism. On the other hand he favours the 'Church of the spirit' that existed in all times (invisible) and is characterised by avoiding the world and asceticism. Not the orthodoxy, but the subjectivity of religious man...

Title: Antique map titled 'De Zee en Land-Reyse, van Ioh. Mildenhal en Cartwrigt na Persien en Mogol, opt spoor gevolgd'. Old map of the Middle East, also depicting part of Greece ...

Antique map titled 'Eigentliche Vorstellung der Statt Jerusalem und derselben umliegenden Gegenden zu Salomonis auch zu und kurtz nach Christi Zeiten.' Rare town plan...

Antique print titled 'Exundatio aquarum Nocuus sic plectitur ignis ab undis'. View of people and animals being rescued from the sea. This print originates from 'Ethica naturalis,...

Antique map titled ‘Rhinolandiae Amsterlandiae et circumjacent (..)’. Map of the regions of Rijnland and Amstelland in the Netherlands, including the cities of Amsterdam, Leiden ...

Description: Antique print, untitled. This original old antique print shows an ancient Roman tomb and a floor plan in Rome, Italy. This original old ant...

Antique map titled 'Byzondere Kaart van de Landen Daar de Apostelen Het Evangelium Gepredikt Hebben (..).' Highly decorative map of the eastern Mediterranean...

Description: Antique map titled 'Paskaarte van de rievier de Elve streckende van Oldenbroek tot Hamburgh.' Rare and interesting chart of the East Frisian Islands (or Watten) and ...

Description: Antique map titled 'Erster Abriss der Stadt Jerusalem wie sie Furnemblich zur Zeit des Hernn Christi beschaffen (..).' Spectacular town plan...

Antique print titled 'Abbildung der See-Schlacht, darinnen die Englisch und Hollandischen Siegreich gegen die Französische Flotta gestochen haben 1692'. Old print depicting the Action at La Hogue, 1692. The Action at La Hogue occurred during the pursuit by the English of the French fleet after the Battle of Barfleur on 19 May Old Style (29 May (New Style)), 1692, during the Nine Years' War. The pursuing English fleet, under the command of Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell...

Antique map titled 'Chorographia Alsatiae.' Map of the Alsace region and Nova Zembla, printed for Scherer's 'Atlas Novus' (1702-1710). Scherer's 'Atlas Novus' forms an important ...

Antique print, titled: 'Brabantiae Batavae Pars Occidentalis : sive Antuerpiensis Tetrarchiae Pars Septentrionalis comprehendens Baroniam Bredanam, Marchionatum Bergensem ad Zoman al...

Antique map titled 'Austriae Archiducatus pars superior in omnes ejusdem (..).' Spectacular large map of Upper and Lower Austria between Passau and Wien with figurative cartouche a...

Antique map Sunda Islands titled 'De Eilanden van Sunda, waar onder zyn Sumatra, Java, Borneo enz'. Old map of the Bangka Belitun Islands, part of the Greater Sunda Islands, incl...

Antique map, untitled. Map of the Laptev Sea (Arctic Ocean) and the Mediterranean, printed for Scherer's 'Atlas Novus' (1702-1710). Scherer's 'Atlas Novus' forms an important mil...

Antique map titled 'Electorat Bavariae.' Map of the Electorate of Bavaria by the Jesuit Heinrich Scherer. The lower map shows the Lake Constance. Source unknown, to be determined. ...

Antique print titled 'La Ville de Palimbang dans L’Ile de Sumatra.' A very decorative, impressive engraving of Palembang in Sumatra. Two views on one sheet. In the upper part the...

Antique print titled 'Rio Janeiro'. Bird's-eye view of Rio di Janeiro and Guanabara Bay, Brazil. From the French edition (translation by Renneville) of Commelin's 'Recueil des Vo...

Antique map of Java titled‚ Iava Maior‘. Beautiful hand-coloured miniature map of the island of Java. This map originates from ‘Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi a l'etablissemen...

Antique map titled 'Carte particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique'. Depicts the coasts of Mozambique and Tanzania. With an inset map of Anjouan Island. Artists and engravers: Pub...

Antique map titled 'Carte particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique'. Map of the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. With an inset map of Saldanha Bay. Artists and Engravers: Publ...

Antique print, titled: 'Das Bildnus des H. Evangelisten Johannis (…).' - This original antique plate shows a portrait of John the Evangelist. From: Biblia : das ist die gantze He...

Antique map titled 'Isole di Banda Nelle Molucche'. Small old map depicting the Banda Islands, Indonesia. Artists and Engravers: Published by V.M. Coronelli in Venice, 1706.

Antique map titled 'Africae Pars Borealis.' Very decorative antique map of the northern part of Africa by Heinrich Scherer. The map is full of the spurious geography of the perio...

Antique map titled 'Partie de L'Angleterre' Uncommon map of the English Channel coastline with many boats on the sea. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: Made...

Antique map titled 'La Seigneurie d'Over-Yssel subdivisee en Trois Parties, Sallant, Twente, et Drente.' Detailed map of the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. From Jaill...

Antique map titled 'Horna vulgo Hoorn'. Bird's eye view plan of Hoorn, The Netherlands. With title cartouche, coats of arms and key. From an atlas published by De Wit, ca. 1698-1...

Antique portrait titled 'Macedonius'. Portrait of Macedonius I. Macedonius (died after 360) was a Greek bishop of Constantinople from 342 up to 346, and from 351 until 360. He inspired the establishment of the Macedonians, a sect later declared heretical. This print originates from 'Historie der kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het jaar onses Heeren 1688 ... In het Neederduyts vertaald' by G. Arnold. Artists and Engravers: Gottfried Arnold (1666 – 1714) was a German...

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Circus Flaminius (…)' - This original old antique print shows a reconstruction of Circus Flaminius, a large, circular area in ancient Rome, l...