Search Results: Titles starting with S from Gallery of Prints

copper engraving. View from 'A New System of Geography or A General Description of the World'.. Condition: some foxing, smudge and paper toning. "Sachem"means chief in the Algonquin language of the American natives in Massachusetts, per Captain John Smith in the early 1600s.

original-colour lithograph map, with folds as issued.

SCARCE original-colour chromolithograph. An Ichthyology print, published by Leighton Brothers. Salmon are typically anadromous. They hatch in the shallow gravel beds of freshwater headstreams and spend their juvenile years in rivers, lakes and freshwater wetlands, migrate to the ocean as adults and live like sea fish, then return to their freshwater birthplace to reproduce. Condition: with some foxing along margins, otherwise very good.

copper engraving. Map from 'Histoire Generale des Voyages.', Sulawesi (formerly known as Celebes), is one of the four larger Sunda islands. Condition: with folds as issued, paper toning, cleaned.

original colour chromolithographs. Complete set of 6 cards 'Liebig Company's Fleisch Extract'. Reference: Arnhold / Spielhagen; Loos.

wood engraving (verso: La Vierge, par Nino Pisano). View from "A Travers la Toscane, par M. Eugène Müntz", by Eugène Müntz. Condition: with some smudges and water stains, stains and dirt spots along margins margins, slightly affecting plate, paper creases. Condition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Müntz

9 x 12.5 cm (image size), 15 x 24.5 cm (page size), steel engraving. View from "Voyages Autour du Monde". Condition: with some foxing. REFERENCE: Sabin 38606.".

wood engraving. View from "A Travers la Toscane, par M. Eugène Müntz", by Eugène Müntz. Condition: minor stains and dirt spots along margins, slightly affecting plate, paper creases. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Müntz

82 x 34 cm, original colour photo-lithograph. Map from "Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1898. Report of the Major-General Commanding the Army to the Secretary of War". Condition: folded as issued, tiny holes in cross-folds..

82 x 34 cm, original colour photo-lithograph. Map from "Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1898. Report of the Major-General Commanding the Army to the Secretary of War". Condition: folded as issued, tiny holes in cross-folds..

original tinted wood engraving. View from 'Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara'. Reference: Sabin 77619; Hill II, p. 565 DuRietz, Kroepelien 1155; Borba de Moraes II, p. 619 Koppel 503; Wurzbach 29, 236 Bosch, Brasilien-Bibl. (EA of 1861-62) Bosch, 503; Mendelsohn IV, 144.

original-colour chromolithograph. Botanical print from the EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of the Album 'Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de la Flore et de la Pomone de L'ile de Java', French and English text. Printed from Van Nooten's original sketches by P. Depannemaeker. Chromolithography by G. Severeyns. Mme Berthe Hoola van Nooten was born in Utrecht, Holland in 1817. A botanist, author & watercolorist, she moved & settled in Indonesia in 1847, where she painted over 40 fruits & flowers which became the basis for this album. REFERENCE: Nissen BBI 931; Landwehr 79; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3025; L. Tongiorgi Tomasi An Oak Spring Flora 87. Condition: with minor foxing.. 1st Edition.

wood engraving (verso: Madone de Jean de Pise). View from "A Travers la Toscane, par M. Eugène Müntz", by Eugène Müntz. Condition: paper creases. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Müntz

original-colour lithograph. Botanical print from "Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and of Other Botanical Establishments in Great Britain, Vol. 14 of the Third Series (or Vol. 84 of the Whole Work.), pl. 5066. Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications. His work in colour lithograph, including 2700 illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, produced up to 200 plates per year. His nephew, John Nugent Fitch (1840–1927), also produced illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Vincent Brooks (1815-1885) was London based printer and lithographer whose firm took over Day & Son in 1867 to form Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Bergenia purpurascens, the purple bergenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. This species is a perennial herb and is native to Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Tibet, south-central China, and Myanmar.… Read More

RARE original hand-colour copper engraving, double-page chart map of the Scandinavian countries from the "Atlas Minor ex Tabulis Geographicis" [without plate no.]. ". Condition: with center-fold as issued, with minor paper stains, strong plate impression, old glued small pieces of papers affecting bottom of the plate.

steel engraving. View from 'Narrative of the United States exploring expedition (1838 - 1842). new edition; Condition: top portion slightly shaved off, paper loss at right corners, burn stains along top portion, slightly into plate, small paper loss and burn stain at bottom right corner, not affecting plate, paper toning. RARE. Reference: Howes W414.

Joseph Stöcklein. 1732. 22.2 x 25.8 cm, copper engraving, with fold as issued, light toning. RARE; map showing the kingdom of Persia, from 'Der Neue Welt-Bott. ' [Jesuit letters]; here from 'Allerhand So Lehr-als Geist-reiche Brief, Schrifften, und Reis-Beschreibungen'. Reference: Cordier 941, Sabin 91981, De Backer-S, VII 1586..

chromolithograph double-page view, with centerfold as issued. View from "Völkerkunde", vol. 1, 1st edition.

original colour lithograph map from 'Allgemeiner Handatlas' 2nd improved and expanded edition; p. 69; verso: Irland (SKU# 9773).

Map from "Asiae Nova Descriptio [Tabularum libri IV]", f.6. Asian part from "Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor". Second to the last edition, substantially extended edition of Barent Langenes' Caert-Thresoor, published then at Middelburg. This edition is extremely rare as only "one copy known" (per Koeman in British Museum), and has no text, I.e. all maps show a blank verso - collector's item. copper engraving - NO verso text with some foxing along margins, not affecting plate.EXTREMELY RARE edition. Ref: Koeman Vis 4 (= Lan 15); Shirley T.LAN-1h; Tiele 1160; Zacharakis 1219..