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French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

'The Century Atlas. Arizona and New Mexico.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

'The Century Atlas. Africa. Southern Part' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 40cm by 29.5cm.

'The Century Atlas. German Empire, Southwestern Part' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse co...

'The Century Atlas. Alaska, North America.' Original antique map, 1903. Inset maps of 'Sitka, Glacier Bay' and Aleutian Is.'. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on...

European fashion design from the 'Atelier Sogra', published in Vienna. 325mm by 220mm (sheet)

A German copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring of a moth, caterpillars and chrysalis. Printed on hand made laid paper. Engraved by JC Bock. From Eugenius Esper's "Die S...

European fashion design from the 'Atelier Sogra', published in Vienna. 325mm by 220mm (sheet)

Vanity Fair legal portrait of Charles Willie Matthews in wig and gown. Specialised in criminal law. 380mm by 260mm (sheet)

European fashion design from the 'Atelier Sogra', published in Vienna. 325mm by 220mm (sheet)

'Middle Ages - Moyen-Age - Mittel Alter' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' ...

French men's fashion design from 'La Revue de l'Homme' a Parisien fashion periodical. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)

'The Century Atlas. Nevada and Utah' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

Early 19th century cattle engraving from Rees' Cyclopaedia. Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768-1819), was a natural history illustrator. He produced watercolours for engraving for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, New Botanic...

'The Century Atlas. Alaska.' Inset maps of 'Sitka, Glacier Bay' and Aleutian Is.'. Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse cor...

'The Century Atlas. Nebraska.' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

'The Century Atlas. Ohio, Northern Part' Original antique map, 1903. Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners. Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.

'New Staines Bridge' Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of aquat...

'Craterellus Clavatus' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific n...

'1-4 Morchella Lutescens 5-7 Morchella Abietina' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific...

Engraving with etching by Marco Antonio Corsi after a drawing by Giuseppe Zocchi (Italian, 1711/17–1767). From 'Vedute delle ville, e d'altri luoghi d...

'Phoebetria Fusca (Sooty Albartross)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

'Bibliotheque du Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers', tinted lithograph by Felix Benoist (1818-1896). From a series of lithographs depicting the famous buildings of Paris - 'Paris da...

'Portes et Murs De Cloture, Avenue d'Aligre, Nos 8 et 10, a Chatou (Seine et Oise), par Mr Eug. Bardon, Archte'. French architectural chromolithograph. From 'La Brique Ordinaire', b...

'Middle Ages - Moyen-Age - Mittel Alter' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' ...

French fashion design published as a Supplement to 'L'Homme', a Parisien fashion periodical. Darroux was a Parisien tailor, who designed several ...

'Russian - Russe - Russisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' Ornement Pol...

French women's fashion design from 'La Revue Paris Mode' a Parisien fashion periodical, illustrated by Bryn Smith. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)

'Dendrolaugus Inustus Finschi (Cyclops mountains specimen. Tring Museum)' Tree kangaroo native of New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Do...

'Falcon Crag' Aquatint by William Green, 1804 William Green of Ambleside was a Lake District draughtsman, soft ground etcher and aquatint engraver of ...

'Chertsey Bridge, Surrey' Aquatint published by Samuel Ireland. From his 'Picturesque Views on the River Thames'. Ireland was an author and engraver who published several series of ...

'Chaffinch' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures', published circa 1919. Edward J Detmold (1883-1957) was an important early 20th century illustrator...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)

Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1873, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). 145mm by 235mm (sheet) Walter Hood Fitch was a Scottish...

Westminster Abbey. Signed in pencil by the artist below the image. Rowland Langmaid was a marine painter and etcher who studied under William Lione...

'L'Agaric Piedfu' A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742...

'Brontops Robustus, Marsh 1/4' Lithograph by Emil Crisand after the drawing by Frederick Berger, under the supervision of Othniel Charles Marsh. Depicts dinosaur fossil...

'L'Agaric Glutineux' A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793). From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...

'Kismet' Vanity Fair portrait of Mr Oscar Asche (1871 -1936) who was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for the record-breakin...

'II.e Vue d'un passage du Mont St Gothard' French copper-line engraving by Duparc after Claude Louis Chatelet (1753-1794). From 'The Scenery and Science of Switzerland illustrated'...

'Dendrolaugus Inustus Keiensis (Tring Museum Specimen)' Tree kangaroo native of New Guinea. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, published ...

'Piazza e Basilica de Santi Apostoli. Palazzi Odescalchi e Colonna' Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Grandeur', circa 18...

'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...

'Le Bolet Bisannuel' & 'Le Bolet Coriace' A French copper-line engraving with original printed colouring of mushrooms by Jean Baptiste Francois Buillard (1742-1793). From Bulliard's 'Histoire des Champignons de la France', a series of engravings describing the mushrooms of France, published in Paris in 1791. This series of engravings are 'probably the first botanical work completely colour-printed without retouching by hand' (Great Flower Books...

'Coupang : Ile Timor. Divers Travaux Mécaniques' 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...

Lauro produced a series of engravings of the ancient monuments of Classical Rome with detailed descriptions in Latin below. 180mm by 240mm (plate mark)...

'Basilica di San Paolo fuori delle mura' Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Grandeur', circa 1870...

'Dendrolaugus Inustus Keiensis' Tree kangaroo native of Kei Island, South Molucca, Indonesia. From 'On the Genus Dendrolagus' by Lionel Walter Rothschild and Guy Dollman, publish...

'Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead Road' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic landscape...

French men's fashion design published as a Supplement to 'L'Homme et Le Maitre Tailleur', a Parisien fashion periodical. Jean Darroux was a Parisien tailor, who designed several seri...

Steel-engraved map with original outline colouring by Isaac Slater. A detailed engraved map of the English county with title, scale, and key. Decorated with an uncoloured engraved view of 'Peterborough...

'Popular Astronomy' Vanity Fair portrait of Irish astronomer Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913). In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathema...

French fashion design published as a Supplement to 'L'Homme', a Parisien fashion periodical. Darroux was a Parisien tailor, who designed several ...

'145. Cortinarius fulgens 146. Cortinarius semi-sanguines 147. Flammula sapinea' ' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, illustrated by chromolithographs from watercolours by the illustrator Aimé Bessin...

French fashion design published as a Supplement to 'L'Homme', a Parisien fashion periodical. Darroux was a Parisien tailor, who designed several ...

Golden Eagle - chromolithograph from an English natural history series. Monogram JGK lower left corner of the image. John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) p...

From Dibdin's 'Observations on a tour'. Charles Dibdin the elder was a famed singer, songwriter, and actor who spent a significant amount of time touring the countryside. During this...

'China and Japan', antique lithographic map by Keith Johnston. Central vertical fold as issued. 495mm by 625mm (sheet) Alexander Keith Johnston FRS...

'Calonectris Leucomelas (White-Fronted Shearwater)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Isla...

'Strepera Crissalis (Lord howe Island Crow-Shrike)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of N...