Antique Print with a View of 'Pelew' or the Island of Palau, Pacific

Antique print titled 'Vue de l'Isle de Rotterdam'. Antique engraving of Rotterdam Island (Nomuka Island) in the Ha?apai group of islands in the Kingdom of Tonga as seen by Captain Co...

Antique print titled 'Het Fort Duurstede te Saparoea - Le Fort Duurstede à Saparoea'. Old print with a view of Fort Duurstede on Saparua. Originates from 'Gezigten uit Neerlands Indi...

Antique print titled 'Fiatooka of Kerkhof van het Eiland van Tongataboo'. This print depicts a cemetery on the Island of Tongatapu. Originates from 'Reizen rondom de Waereld' by J. C...

Antique print titled 'Le cote du sud-ouest de l'Ile de Tinian' and 'Vue de la rade de Tinian, ou le Centurion fit de l'eau.' Views of the south-west side of the island of Tinian and a view of the anchorage of Tinian, where the Centurion got water. This print originates from 'Reize rondsom de Werreld (..)' by George Anson, published 1749. Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...

'Convento di agagna nell' Isola Guam. Occupazioni domestiche in Guam.' Italian lithograph, c1841. Originally from 'Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo' by Giuseppe Anton...

'Coupang : Ile Timor. Vue d'un chantier de construction' Depicts Timorese people and Europeans building a rowboat under a tree, with other boats in the distance. The work is being overseen by a senior naval man, possibly intended to be Captain Freycinet. Steel-engraving by Friedrich Schroeder (1768-1839) after F Garnier after Alphonse Pellion. Alphonse Pellion, artist and naval draughtsman, was a midshipman aboard l'Uranie on Louis de Freycinet's three-year scientific and ethnographic expedition around the world in 1817-1820. From Louis Freycinet's 'Voyage Autour du Monde, Entrepris par Ordre du Roi ... Execue sur les Corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne Pendant les Annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820', published in Paris in 1825. Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842) joined the French Navy in 1793 and was a veteran of the Baudin's voyage of discovery (1801-1803). He also completed the narrative of the expedition which appeared under the title of 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes'. In 1817 de Freycinet successfully lobbied the Government and King Louis XVIII agreed to support a new global campaign. Its mission was to finally determine the shape of the earth and return with detailed reports on geography, people, government, commerce and art of this new world. The 350-ton corvette Uranie had a complement of 120 men and 23 officers including the artist Jacques Arago and a priest. Over the next three years Uranie visited Australia, East Timor...

La Pointe à Pitre prise du Morne is an original lithograph realized by an Anonymous artist of the 19th Century. Realized within the series of "France Pittor...

Borneo Road of the Sarawack is a Lithograph realized by an unknown artist of 19th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. No signature, Title on the lower margin.