Returning from Market, a.W. Calcott, Very Large 55cm Coloured Engraving

Folio Leaf: 37 x 23 cms. Hand colored copper engraving. Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engr...

J.V. Schley after Bellin ‘Carte du Golphe de St. Laurent et Pays Voisins’ Size: 14.2 x 8.6 inches 36.1 x 21.8 cm First state of this nice copper engraved map of St. Lawrence Bay with Anticosti Island, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton...

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...

37.5 x 22.5 cm SUPERB ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVING!! Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ran a publishing house. Born in Basel, Merian learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zürich. He next worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry, who was the son of renowned engraver and traveler Theodor de Bry. Early in his life, he had created detailed town plans...

Autruche Habits les deserts brulants de l’Afrique, court Alec use vitesse incroyable, et donne plumes du plus beau duvet. Extremely rare. Issued in the series: Histoire naturelle. Ensemble de 41 planches dessinées par Guerin et Lith. en couleurs par E.F. Noel. Published by Noel aîné, Paris, 1827. Because the work was never formally completed no title-page nor accompanying letterpress for the series was produced, though the title 'Collection d'Animaux' appears in the publisher's 1827 catalogue of plates available for individual purchase (at a franc each, or 75 centimes uncoloured). The images were produced by Paul-Louis Oudart and P. Guerin, both noted as "dessinateurs-naturalistes" at the Jardin du Roi (the Jardin des Plantes...

Lysimachia nemorum, the yellow pimpernel, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. Large folio: 42.7 x 27.5 cm Copper engraving, hand ...

Framed late 19th century hand colored engraving titled "Returning from Market" after Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (original painting first exhibited in 1834), showing three women and a...

Antique print, titled: 'De Spinneweb Tarantula.' - This original antique print shows spiders of Crete. Dutch text on verso. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers...

Antique print, titled: 'A. Scaro vario - B. Scarius.' - Kreta nu Kandia on top of the page. This original antique print shows fish from Crete with ships in the background. Dutch text...

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.

Set of four Regency era coloured engravings by Rowlandson. Four framed coloured engravings of Regency London landmarks including the Corn Exchange,...

This beautiful engraving is entitled "Country Market" and was made by AF. Bargas (1659-17...), a painter and engraver of the late 17th and early 18th century. This print depicts a ...