Levant in Antiquity: Lands of Phoenicia, Judea, and Neighboring Kingdoms, 1880

This map, titled "PONTUS EUXINUS," depicts the Black Sea region, historically known as the Pontus Euxinus. The Black Sea was central to ancient trade routes and cultural exchange, bo...

The map titled "ALBANIA, IBERIA, COLCHIS, ARMENIA, MESOPOTAMIA, BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA" portrays the ancient regions that would encompass parts of modern-day Eastern Turkey, Armenia, Aze...

Antique print titled 'Gedeelte van Syriën en Phenicië'. Old map of part of Syria and Phoenicia. Originates from the first Dutch editon of an interesting travel account of Norther...

Antique map titled 'Natolia detta anticamente Asia Minor (..)'. Rare map of Asia Minor (Turkey) and Cyprus and neighboring regions. The map provides one of the most detailed and up t...

Sotheby's New York: Antiquities and Islamic Art, 1990. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Western Asiatic Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art. 230 l...

An antique Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, possibly by Benjamin Edgington, London. The fabric is in a giltwood frame under glass. Each of the four quadrants on the flag represe...

This is Gilpin's third in his series of works tracing picturesque beauty in British natural landscapes. In it he portrays the landscapes of Scottish Highlands, and describes them lyrically in his text. Prefacing the list of Prints at the end of the second volume, the author says "With regards to the prints, which adorn these volumes, I can only say..... that few of them pretend to be 'exact portraits.' They in general 'only characterize the countries,' through which the reader is carried." The illustrations, based on Gilpin's sketches, were etched by his nephew William Sawrey Gilpin using the newly invented aquatint process. This volume also includes a technical discourse about drawing and the mixing of colors, including a chart (vol. 1, p. 131-134) William Gilpin (1724 – 1804) was an English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author. He is best known as a travel writer and as one of those who originated the idea of the picturesque. Gilpin's tour journals circulated in manuscript to friends such as the poet William Mason and a wider circle including Thomas Gray...

Sotheby's: The Breitbart Collection of Antiquities & Ancient Glass, 6/1990. 145 lots, Ancient Glass; Egyptian, Western Asiatic, and classical antiquities...