G. B. Ferrari 'b1584', Floral Bouquet, Quarto Engraving Hand Colour

Coc Gallus Poulle Gallina Nicolas Robert (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) Issued in the scarce work: Diverses oyseaux dessignées et gravées d'apres le nature...

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733); engraved by P.A. Kilian. Bible engraving, Noah’s Ark Folio. Dimensions: 38 x 24 cm. Hand coloured This fascinating folio engraving is from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra. The work was published in Augsburg und Ulm between 1731 and 1735. Each engraving features highly decorative borders which feature biblical and scientific depictions. Physica Sacra combined theological and scientific practices in an attempt to reconcile biblical passages with the new sciences of the time. The work is an extraordinary illustrated natural history work, and a great example of the decorative nature of the 18th century copper engraving. Scheuchzer was a founder of paleobotany and European paleontology, as well as a professor of mathematics and physics. He believed the Old Testament was a factual account of the history of the world...

Fiber ales Bieure Nicolas Robert (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) Issued in the scarce work: Diverses oyseaux dessignées et gravées d'apres le naturel. Paris, F. Pilly, (1673). ...

Exceedingly rare. No other example found worldwide. Rose Blanche - Witte Roos Measures: Large Folio: 33.5 x 27.2 cm Lithographed by Guillaume Philidor Van den Burggraaff (b. 1790) and published in Brussels before his move to Paris. Likely incunabula of stone lithography. During the first years of the 19th...

The engravings presented here are exquisite botanical illustrations from the 'Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles', an authoritative work published in Brussels in 1845 und...

Original antique print of opossums. Originates from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch für Kinder'. In 1790 Friedrich Justin Bertuch started his biggest book-project ever. Issued in 12 volumes it...

Antique Bird Prints Natural History Studies of Parrots and Tropical Birds Hand-colored engravings 23.5 x 30.5 inches each including frame Imagine all 18 on one wall in your study.

Antique print titled 'Amaranthus tricolor (..)'. Hand-finished mezzotint engraving of amaranthus tricolor, known as edible amaranth. This print originates from 'Phytanthoza Iconograp...