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'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.

'1. Vigigne 2. Lama' (1. Vicuna 2' Llama) French engraving with original hand-colourimg, circa 1840.

Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Published in Berlin in 1883. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics.

'Eglise St Genevieve', tinted lithograph by Felix Benoist (1818-1896). From a series of lithographs depicting the famous buildings of Paris - 'Paris dans...

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting a toilet scene with three women from an Attic hydria, now in the British Museum. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original han...

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...

'Pyrethrums' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there is an ...

Original colour lithograph of a French fashion design from 'Haute Couture'. Published in a folio of designs for Summer 1971. 32cm by 22cm (sheet)

'Forced Shrubs' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.

'Crustacea' Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. 210mm by 130mm (sheet)

'The Quadrangle of Jesus College' Engraving by John Le Keux after Frederick Mackenzie, 1837. From James Ingram's 'Memorials of Oxford'. 135mm by 175mm (...

17th century German fountain design Copper-line engraving, published in 1664 in Nuremberg. From 'Architectura Curiosa Nova' by George Andreas Beckley (...

'PRA' (President of the Royal Academy) Vanity Fair portrait of Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet, PRA, who was an English painter, designer, ...

'Morchella Conica' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name...

MacIntosh - Chief (Tartan) Chromolithograph. 1886. From 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', by James Grant, 1886. 365mm by 265mm (sheet). Accompanied by a sheet of descripti...

'1-7 Geaster Hygrometricus 8-14 Bovista Nigrescens' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scient...

Original 1960s fashion design from a Northern Italian fashion house. Sketched and coloured by hand with a pencil sketch of the reverse. The name and description of the outfit is type...

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting from depicting a Silenus with tambourine and two maenads from a Campanian bell-krater. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-col...

'137. Pholiota squarrosa 138. Pholiota aurea' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swis...

'Agaricus Ovoideus' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name...

'Cripta di S Cornelio, Papa e Martire, Cemetero di S Calisto, presso la Via Appia' Tinted lithograph by Sabatier after Felix Benoist (1813-1881), with figures by Bayot. From a Fren...

'Sarcelle D'Hiver' (Eurasian Teal) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of ...

Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting young nude man with thyrsus and flowers, opposite two young women with fillet, situla, phiale and thyrsus. Above left, Hercules in Nem...

English moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there is an ...

'Adenandra umbellata' Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps & Jean Claude M...

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

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)

'Crustacea' Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. 210mm by 130mm (sheet)

Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.

'Persian - Persan - Persisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Racinet's 'L' Ornement Po...

'1. Le Panda, Ailurus Fulgens, F Cuvier 2. Balisaur, Arctonyx Collaris, F Cuvier' French engraving with original hand-colourimg, circa 1840.

English hawk moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

'Pitch Weed (Madia Saliva, Mol)' Colour lithograph, 1909.

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

'Crustacea' Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. 210mm by 130mm (sheet)

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the bro...

Antique 19th century fern colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett after AF Lydon. From Edward J. Lowe’s 'Ferns: British and Exotic', 1867. Accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text. ...

'Crustacea' Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837. 210mm by 130mm (sheet)

'Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)' Colour lithograph, 1909.

'Michel Grove, Seat of Thomas Walker Esq'. Michel Grove was a house in Sussex which Humphrey Repton was commissioned to landscape. Published by Rudo...

'George II' Copper-line engraving by Pierre Francois Basan (1723-1797) after Founan. Basan (1723-1797) was a French engraver and publisher. George II (1683-1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Leneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain, and was famous for his numerous conflicts with his father and, subsequently, with his son. As king, he exercised little control over policy in his early reign, the government instead being controlled by Great Britain's de facto first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole...

'37 Tricholoma saponaceum 38 Tricholoma terreum' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et B...

Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.

French botanical flower engraving, 1818. Colour-printed stipple engraving by J Lambert after Pierre Turpin (1775-1840) From Francois Pierre Chaumeton's 'Flore Medicale' which portrayed a variety of flowers, trees and herbs which could be used for treating illnesses. The engravings were produced during the great period of French colour printing using the stipple-engraving process pioneered by the great botanical artist Pierre-Jospeh Redoute. The artist is the celebrated Pierre Jean Francois Turpin...

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

'Hanging Mistletoe (Loranthus pendulus)' Colour lithograph, 1909.

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

'Burtonia Villosa - Villous Burtonia' Botanical lithograph of a Western Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1848, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). 235mm by 145m...

French 1950s women's fashion design from 'Les Tendances de la Mode' a Parisien fashion periodical showing the designs of Gaston Verbie. Descriptions in F...

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...

18th century natural history engraving depicting shells by Robert Benard after Henry Joseph Redoute. Henry Redoute was the brother of the great botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redout...

'Calothamnus Villosa - Villous Calothamnus' Original engraving with original hand-colouring by S Watts After M Hart, 1827. Native plant of Australia. ...

Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.

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 vi...

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

'London Bridge' Aquatint by JC Stadler after J Farmington. Published c1795 for Boydell's 'History of the River Thames'. Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl London, 1780-1822) was an eng...

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