Antique French Print of Horses Mouths and Teeth Equestrian Anotomy Interest

We are delighted to offer for sale this Robert Dodd 1748-1816 Copper Plate print published by The British Sportsman 1792 titled Pheasant hunting An...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly collectable suite of four original 1800 dated copper plate prints by the genius that was Bouillon These are sublime qu...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original hand colour LTD Edition print No 3 signed in Pencil by Robert Anning Bell and Fred Millar Se Er Imp ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of original copper plate prints dating to 1719 by Bernard De Montfauucon of Paris. Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (French: [d? m?~fok?~]; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of works of the Fathers of the Church. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern discipline of archaeology Montfaucon was born on 13 January 1655 in the Castle of Soulatgé, a small village in the southern town of Corbières, then in the ancient Province of Languedoc, now in the modern Department of Aude. Other sources claimed his birth date is in 16 January, the most accepted date. After one year he was moved to the Castle of Roquetaillade, residence of his family. When he was seven, he was sent to Limoux, to the college run by the Fathers of Christian Doctrine Montfaucon served in the French army as a volunteer and participated in the Franco-Dutch War of 1673. He was a captain of grenadiers and made two campaigns under the command of Marshall Turenne, participated in the Battle of Herbsthausen and fell ill in Saverne in Alsace. Because of his infectious illness he made a vow to Our Lady of Marceille to give one hundred livres to her sanctuary in Limoux and to become a monk, if he was able to return to his country as a result of her intervention. After the death of Montfaucon's father at the Château de Roquetaillade, in 1675 he entered the novitiate of the Benedictine monastery of Bream in Toulouse. There he learned several ancient languages: Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, and Coptic. In 1687 Montfaucon was called to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and he started to work on an edition of the works of the Greek Church...

Antique print titled 'Barbarisches Pferd. Cheval Barbe'. Old horse print of a Barbary horse or Barb or Berber horse. This print originates from 'Naturgeschi...

Antique print titled 'Nubisches Pferd. Cheval de la Nubie'. Old horse print of a Nubian horse. This print originates from 'Naturgeschichte Abbildungen der S...

Antique print titled 'Tinoceras Pugnax'. Original lithograph of the lower jaw and teeth of a Tinoceras Pugnax, an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal. This print originates from volu...

Antique print titled 'Dinoceras Lucare'. Original lithograph of the teeth of a Dinoceras Lucare, a large extinct mammal. This print originates from volume 10 of 'Monographs of the United States Geological Survey...