1840s Prints

A hand colored copper engraving print of an American steamship published by President Ackermann & Co, London, 1840 in a later frame under glass.  

Antique portolano, nautical map of Golfe De St. Drely engraved on a copper plate by Antoine Roux, Marseille France 1844, from his work Recueil des principaux plans des ports et de Ra...

Description: This print, a page from the work "Costume du Moyen Age" from 1847, depicts a regal figure representing Edward III, one of the most notable kings of England during the me...

Title: "Regalia of Valor: The Distinguished Garb of a Medieval Soldier This illustration offers a meticulous representation of a medieval soldier's attire, underlining the military ...

Great image of a brown bear presented in a distressed antique oak frame Lithograph after Cpt. Brown with original hand color. Published, 1847.

An antique botanical engraving depicting "Consoude du Caucase," which is the French name for Caucasian comfrey, known scientifically as Sy...

The translations of the bird names from French to English are as follows: Guepier Commun - European Bee-Eater Martin-Pêcheur Vintsioides - Common Kingfisher Martin-chasseur à coiffe...

A rare and wonderful set of portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa delineated from life in their native haunts by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris and drawn on stone by Frank Howard and framed 1840. All in very good condition. The Book these came out of made £12400 when sold 12th June 2019 Lot 68. From one of the rarest of all books dealing with African big game and sport, this monumental presentation depicts wild game of southern Africa as encountered and studied by Harris. The tinted lithographs highlighted in colour by hand are especially lovely, each of the illustrations is also enlivened by scenic backgrounds of the habitat. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the “Cape Colonists” of the particular species pictured in each print. Howard, Frank (1805?–1866), painter, son of Henry Howard...