Joseph Widener, French Engravings

24 Volumes. Joseph Conrad, The Works of Joseph Conrad. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco. Linen boards. Raised bands. Top edges gilt. Decorative gilt emblems on...

2 Volumes. Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi Memoirs. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with the covers displaying figures in multi-color inlay and gilt-tooled borde...

3 Volumes. G.N. Wright, The People's Gallery of Engravings. Bound by John Mylrea in 3/4 red calf and marbled boards bordered in floral open-tooling. The spines display a black morocc...

1 Volume. Frances Elliot, Old Court Life in France. Bound in full blue calf. Gilt-tooled title on front cover. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt on spi...

20 Volumes. (Various Authors). A Century of French Romance. Bound in 3/4 red morocco. Marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands, floral gilt on spines. Illustra...

1 Volume. Charles S. Goldman, With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa. Extra Illustrated Edition. Bound by Riviere in full red morocco with a rectangular onlay of navy mo...

Antique religion print titled 'Joseph tempted to whoredom'. Joseph Tempted to Whoredom, as in Genesis 39:7: "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her e...

Joseph crossard French silver gold plated and Engraved traveling liqueur Bottle, 1900. A French Art Nouveau crystal bottle, richly decorated with gol...

Fine 18th century engraving of a stag, after the hunt, with a magnificient dog at rest, in a country scene, beautifully depicted.

Antique print titled 'L'Hermitage à Versailles - Labyrinthe d'Abano au Prince Mocenigo - Projet d'un Labyrinthe par Bettini'. Copper engraving showing a Labyrinth and the Hermita...

Antique map titled 'Partie Meridionale, de L'Ancien Mexique ou de la Nouvelle Espagne.' Detailed map of Mexico, the Yucatan and Central America, prepared under the direction of Rigobert Bonne. Shows towns, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc. Detailed map of the region. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795 ) was one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century. In 1773 he succeeded Jacques Bellin as Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at the Depôt de la Marine. Working in his official capacity Bonne compiled some of the most detailed and accurate maps of the period. Bonne's work represents an important step in the evolution of the cartographic ideology away from the decorative work of the 17th and early 18th century towards a more detail oriented and practical aesthetic. With regard to the rendering of terrain Bonne maps...

Antique print titled 'Plan de la décoration du Bassin de Neptune à Versailles'. Copper engraving showing parts of the Neptune fountain of Versaill...