Set of Six Framed Prints of Seashells

By Johannes Van den Aveelen and engraved by Holmice. Six views of Swedish royal residences. Hand colored engravings. Framed and matted.

All featuring the communes of northern France including Rethel, Dunkirk, Mouzon, Gravelines etc. Framed and matted. By C.N. Cochin. Uninspected out of frames. Likely 19th century.

All by Basilius Besler { 1561-1629] Besler was an apothecary and botanist and managed the gardens of Bishop Johann Conrad of Eichstatt, Germany. Besler created 'Hortus Eystettensis a...

Six framed scenes from Shakespeare plays. Ca 1798 and published by Boydell. The Shakespeare gallery opened on Pall Mall in 1789, the inspiration of print publisher John Boydell based...

Group of six hand-colored engravings of monkeys by Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759-1800), from his 'Histoire naturelle des singes', which included 62 images drawn and engraved by himsel...

A striking set of three framed vintage Chinese woodblock prints from a book printed in the 1960s, each depicting a different phase of Chairman ...

The vintage duck prints from the second edition of "Svenska fåglar, efter naturen och på sten ritade" (Swedish Birds, Drawn from Nature and on Stone) represent an exquisite collection of chromolithographs, a form of lithography that relies on color separations to produce rich, vibrant images. Published around 1920 and printed by A. Bortzells in Stockholm, these prints encapsulate the beauty and diversity of Swedish avian species through the expert eye of Magnus von Wright...

A Fabulous Set of Six Mr Goulds Tropical Birds in excellent order over 69 years old and of good size being 40 x 30 cm. Unframed for you to choose your framing! In 1830, John Gould’s ambition crystallised after receiving a delivery of Himalayan bird skins at the Zoological Society, and he set to work publishing one of the first illustrated books on birds from the Indian subcontinent. He procured his friend and fellow Society member Nicholas Ayward Vigors to write the manuscript, and encouraged his wife Elizabeth to learn lithography in order to illustrate the work. Published in parts and completed in 1832, A Century of Birds of the Himalaya Mountains was the success that John Gould needed to establish his name in the ranks of ornithology. Almost immediately, Gould launched into his next project: a massive five-volume work on European birds. Published over five years from 1832-1837, The Birds of Europe...