Antique Engravings of Mauritius and Indonesia, incl de Banda Islands, c.1730

Antique map titled 'Nieuwe Caart der Eylanden van Banda'. Beautiful chart of the Banda Islands including Banda Api, Banda Neira, Banda Besar, Pulau Hatta (Rosengain), Pulau Ai an...

Antique map Indonesia titled 'Kaart der Zuyd-Wester Eylanden van Banda'. Map of the islands in the southwestern part of the Banda Sea including ...

Antique map Indonesia titled 'Bandae Insulae designatio'. Antique map depicting the Banda Islands, Indonesia. With Latin text, blank verso. Orig...

Original antique map titled 'Kaart van de Zuyd-Ooster Eylanden van Banda'. Important map of the seas and islands surrounding the Banda Islands, Indonesia, extending south to northern Australia, east to Papua New Guinea and north to Ceram. Published 1724-1726 by Joannes van Braam...

Antique print Indonesia with an image on each side. The first image depicts Ontong Java, one of the largest atolls on earth. On verso: antique map of the Banda Islands. With the rout...

Antique map titled 'Kaart van de Zuyd-Ooster Eylanden van Banda'. Map of the southeastern part of the Banda islands. This map originates from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valen...

This 1865 engraving features the Emancipation Proclamation in elaborate calligraphic text, with five patriotic vignettes and a small portrait...

This is the 1889 William H. Overend (1851-1898) and Lionel Smythe (1839-1918) first edition, photogravure of the Calcutta Cup – a Rugby match between Scotland and England, that has been played over 100 times, the first match...

“Les Misères Et Les Malheurs De La Guerre” (“The misfortunes of war”) more commonly called “the great miseries of war” (“The great miseries of war”) is a major work by the 17th centu...

Golf mezzotint of 'Henry Callender Esq' (Captain of the society of Golfers at Blackheath) after Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760-1803). Henry Callend...

Presented is an elaborate engraved broadside presentation of both the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamations, dated September 22, 1...

Presented is a Proclamation of Emancipation wood engraving by W. Roberts. The engraving was published in 1864, just one year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Proclamation. W. Roberts was the artist and engraver and Corydon Alexis Alvord was the printer. The engraving was published by R. A Dimmick, in New York, 1864. The text of the Proclamation is set in a variety of typefaces, which is encased in a pictorial border. The border is decorated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and seven other vignettes, including the horrors of slavery at left, the bombardment of Fort Sumter at bottom, and scenes from a prosperous and united nation at right. On September 22, 1862, five days after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1, 1863 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation...