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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Antique Roman Gladiator Short Sword 1.AD with Bronze Teardrop Terminal Belt
Located in Doha, QA
This Roman Gladiator short sword is an absolutely outstanding and unique example of an ancient Roman Pompeian Gladius Sword from 1. AD. There were three ty...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze, Iron
English 15th Century Pre-Reformation Ecclesiastical Throne
Located in Kent, Dover
A large English carved and polychrome painted medieval ecclesiastical throne. In the English gothic manner, with finely carved tracery, it is also decorated in the Italianate taste w...
Category
English Medieval Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fruitwood, Oak, Walnut
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, early edition 1786
Located in Middletown, NY
4th Edition of the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
London: A. Strahan and T. Cade...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Medieval Tile From Gravensteen (counts
Castle) – Ghent – 14th–15th Century
Located in Bilzen, BE
Medieval floor tile from the Gravensteen Castle – Ghent, 14th–15th century
Rare red earthenware floor tile decorated with a heraldic lion, incised and inlaid with yellow slip under ...
Category
Belgian Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
16 x 18th Century Venetian Marionette Puppets from Commedia dell’arte Theatre
Located in London, GB
Antique Venetian Marionettes, Antique Puppets, Venice Carnival Antiques, Masked Ball Antiques, Venetian Mask, Commedia dell'art Theatre Marionettes.
Co...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Antique Early Romanesque Gothic Architectural Tabernacle Niche Door
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce antique ecclesiastical architectural hand carved and painted wooden church - cathederal tabernacle door.
18th century or earlier, early Medieval European Romanesque Gothic style, facade with elaborate arched header atop partial quartfoil, hinged tabernacle door panel which would have opened to important religious niche...
Category
European Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Authentic Antique Map of the Caribbean, Gulf Coast and Central America, 1787
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Les Isles Antilles et le Golfe du Méxique'. Original old map of the Caribbean, Gulf Coast and Central America. With inset map of Bermuda...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$297 Sale Price
20% Off
Grand Carved Wooden Niche – Italian Baroque, 18th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
A magnificent example of 18th-century Italian Baroque craftsmanship, this grand polychrome and gilded wooden niche embodies the opulence and theatricality of the period. At its cente...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique Map of Virginia
the Chesapeake Bay by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, c. 1750
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique 18th century French map of North America.
By Jacques-Nicolas Bellin.
On laid paper with polychrome highlights.
Depicting Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay, and the nearb...
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
17th-18th Century Italian Hand carved Wooden Reliquary Bust of a Saint
Located in Buisson, FR
Spectacular and very decorative piece. Large hand carved wooden reliquary bust of a saint. Beautiful weathered color and gilding. Small losses/Old repairs and without the relics. Ita...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
$3,329 Sale Price
53% Off
Plus Ultra; or, The progress and advancement of knowledge ... Aristotle
Located in Middletown, NY
Glanvill, Joseph
Plus Ultra; or, The progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, u...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rare Antique Map of the Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
, 1774
Located in Langweer, NL
Rare decorative engraved map of the Dutch East Indies, or nowadays Indonesia.
Title (in old Dutch): NIEUWE EN NAUKEURIGE KAART DER OOST-INDISCHE ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$1,151 Sale Price
20% Off
Silver Reformation Commemorative Medal 1630, 100th Anniversary Augsburg
Located in Bilzen, BE
"Silver Reformation Commemorative Medal 1630, 100th Anniversary Of The Augsburg Confession"
Silver Reformation Commemorative Medal 1630 — Johann the Steadfast — 100th Anniversary of ...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Rare Antique German Gothic Crossbow, circa 1540, All Original
Located in Doha, QA
An exceptional early German crossbow dating to around 1540, crafted from antler, wood, and iron. This finely made piece exemplifies the late Gothic to early Renaissance period of Ger...
Category
German Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Sacrifice Offered to the Sun – Antique Engraving, Upper Egypt, c.1790
Located in Langweer, NL
Sacrifice Offered to the Sun – Antique Engraving, Upper Egypt, c.1790
This 18th-century copperplate engraving, titled *Sacrifice Offert au Soleil*, presen...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Gorgeous Antique World Map by the Dutch Mapmaker Visscher, published circa 1679
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Auctore Nicolao Visscher'. Gorgeous example of Nicholas Visscher's World map, which appeared...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
DIGGES, Sir Dudly. The Compleat Ambassador. 1655 - FIRST EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: DIGGES, Sir Dudly.
TITLE: The Compleat Ambassador or Two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious Memory; Comprised in Letters of Negotiation of Sir F...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Rare 1766 Bavarian Schreib-Kalender – Annotated with Contemporary Notes
Located in Langweer, NL
Annotated Bavarian Schreib-Kalender, Munich 1766 – With Contemporary Handwritten Accounts
A rare surviving example of a Bavarian Schreib-Kalender (writing calendar) for the year 176...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
18th Century Hand Carved Pair of Angels
Located in London, GB
18th Century Hand Carved Pair of Angels
Dimensions in inches: H 24” x W 26” x D 9”
Age: 1780
Origin: Unknown
Condition: Aged
Overview
A rare and highly decorative pair of late 18th...
Category
Italian Early Victorian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Jewish Judaea Silver Shekel – Year 2 of the First Jewish Revolt (AD 67/68)
Located in New York, NY
This silver shekel, weighing 14.32 grams, was struck in Judaea during the First Jewish–Roman War, a significant period of resistance against Roman occupation that lasted from AD 66 t...
Category
Israeli Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Embroidered Holy Spirit Panel
Located in New York, NY
Embroidered Holy Spirit panel. Antique embroidered doubled sided panel in paper with original antique seeded glass and gilt carved frame, Italy, l...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silk
Nice Collection of 18th/ 19th Century Weathered Spanish Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of five extremely weathered vellum books, Spain 18th/ 19th century. Weathered ,small losses and old repairs. More photo's available on request.
H:20-21cm W:2,5-4,5cm...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Parchment Paper
$869 Sale Price / set
47% Off
English Medieval Extremely Rare Church Pew Animal Carvings
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English Medieval Extremely Rare Church Pew Animal Carvings
Pair of extraordinary animal carvings from the 15th century. A cat playing with a mouse and a dog with a bat wing in its p...
Category
Medieval Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere, Charles-François Delamarche, Paris, ante 1798
Located in Milano, IT
Ptolemaic armillary sphere
Charles-François Delamarche
Paris, ante 1798
Wood and papier-mâché
covered with printed and partly hand-colored paper
It measures 16.37 in in height x Ø 10.94 in (41.60 cm - Ø 27.80 cm)
It weights 2.33 lb (1,058 g)
State of conservation: consistent with its age and use, the paper shows some signs of use, stains and abrasions.
The sphere is Ptolemaic, with the Earth placed at its center, surrounded by the Moon and the Sun mounted on two metal arms.
The sphere is composed of six horizontal and two vertical rings (armillae), each bearing graduations and its own name.
The first horizontal ring is illegible. The others, in descending order are: North Pole, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, South Pole.
The vertical rings consist of two double meridians.
The sphere is then connected to the large meridian by two pins, a vertical ring inserted perpendicularly into the circle of the Horizon, in turn supported by four semicircles connected to the turned and black-stained wooden base.
Each element is covered with printed paper. It contains various pieces of information: latitudes, length of days, names and zodiac symbols, calendar, wind directions, etc.
The vertical circles mention the latitudes and longitudes of different cities: Rome, Bordeaux, Madrid, Boston, Batavia (Jakarta), Acapulco, etc.
Even the small terrestrial globe is covered with printed paper: continents and oceans appear with numerous geographical markings indicating the most recent explorations.
In the Pacific Ocean, west of South America bears the following inscription:
GLOBE
TERRESTRIAL
à Paris
chez Delamarche Géog
Rue du Foin Jacques
Au Collège de
M.e Gervais
The North American coasts are well delineated and California appears correctly as a peninsula - reports from Spanish explorers in the region had given rise to confusion as to whether it was connected to the mainland or not. The geographical nature of California was confirmed after the explorations of Juan Bautista de Anza (1774-1776).
Alaska is not described and is only partially traced; it would become part of the United States in 1867.
Various Pacific islands are indicated.
Australia (the name definitely used from 1824) is called "Nouvelle Hollande."
Tasmania is still represented as a peninsula and this is an important detail for the dating of our armillary sphere.
The island is separated from Australia by Bass Strait, which was crossed by Matthew Flinders for the first time in 1798, showing that it was not a peninsula. Delamarche certainly would not have waited a long time to update such an important geographical datum: presumably he did so shortly after receiving the news.
Charles-François Delamarche (1740-1817) founded his laboratory around 1770 and, in a few years, he became the most famous French cartographer and globe maker between the 18th and 19th centuries. After having acquired the laboratory of the late Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786; himself a renowned cartographer who continued the family business founded by his grandfather Nicolas Sanson in the seventeenth century) and after having purchased, between 1788 and around 1800, the businesses of Jean-Baptiste Fortin (1750-1831) and Jean Lattré (around 1750-1800), he began to call himself "Successeur de MM. Sanson and Robert de Vaugondi, Géographes du Roi and de M. Fortin, Ingénieur-mécanicien du Roi pour les globes et les sphères."
Thus, at the end of the eighteenth century, Delamarche possessed the warehouse stocks, as well as the manufacturing skills of the globes of his main rivals in Paris.
In addition to this aggressive acquisition policy, the key to its success also lay in the combination of high-quality cartography combined with extremely attractive globes and armillary spheres; and, of course, its famous red paint finishing touch.
His laboratory was located on Rue de Foin St Jacques "au Collège Me. (or "Mtre") Gervais" in the Latin Quarter of Paris until around 1805, when he moved to rue du Jardinet No. 13.
On the death of Charles-François in 1817, the reins of the company passed to his son Félix (1779-1835), who continued to publish, often in collaboration with the engraver Charles Dien, Sr. In 1835 the company first moved to rue du Jardinet No. 12 and a little later to rue du Battoir No. 7.
Bibliography:
Dekker, Elly, et al. Globes at Greenwich...
Category
French Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
Saint Domingue Map 1793 – Colonial Haiti and Dominican Republic Plan
Located in Langweer, NL
1793 Map of Saint Domingue (Haiti and DR) – Colonial Island Plan
This antique map is titled “A Map of the Island of St. Domingo” and dates from circa 1793. It depicts the entire isl...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
William BLACKSTONE. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 1770 - FOURTH EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BLACKSTONE, William.
TITLE: Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books.
PUBLISHER: London: At The Clarendon Press, 1770.
DESCRIPTION: FOURTH EDITION. 4 vols., squ...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Bowles
s New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies by Benjamin WILKES
Located in Middletown, NY
Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies; In Twelve Prints, All Drawn from Life Representing near 300 different Species of those Beautiful Insects. Elegantly and accurately Engraved and disposed in an Ornamental Order To each Print is added:-A Description of their Names, Food, and times of Change, By Benjamin Wilkes.
London: Carington Bowles, 1764.
Second Edition.
Folio, (15 1/2 x 11 3/4 in, 394 x 300mm) Second edition, 1 title page and 12 plates engraved and hand-colored, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later 3/4 red morocco with title and fillets in gilt, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn.
The plates were engraved by Henry Roberts as evidenced in the markings of each plate the first edition, but omitted in the second edition.
[Nissen 4411; Linsey 183].
EXTREMELY RARE, COMPLETE BOUND SET of...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Print of the Sang-Won-Hab Mountains in China, 1665
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Gebergte van Sang-Won-Hab'. Old print depicting the Sang-Won-Hab mountains (China) with many ships on the river between the mountains. This print originates fro...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$172 Sale Price
20% Off
IMPORTANT PORTUGUESE ORATORY WITH CALVARY 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
IMPORTANT PORTUGUESE ORATORY WITH CALVARY 18th Century
Portuguese, from the 18th century
in carved Brazilian rosewood.
Decoration with interrupted pediments, volutes, floral motifs...
Category
Portuguese Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Rider
s British Merlin 1726; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful.
Located in Middletown, NY
A precursor of Benjamin Franklin's famous and popular POOR RICHARD's ALMANAC
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's (1726) British Merlin; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful Veritie...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Map of Tibet and Latac by D’Anville, Paris, 1737
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Map of Tibet and Latac by D’Anville, Paris, 1737
This antique engraved map is the ninth and final sheet of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville’s monumental Carte générale du...
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Map of Canaan, Armenia, Syria, Mesopotamia and Arabia, 1709
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Descriptio Paradisi et Terrae Canaan'.
Original antique map of Canaan, Armenia, Syria, Mesopotamia and Arabia. It displays the Middle East from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$526 Sale Price
35% Off
Antique Russian Carved Sleigh
Located in Queens, NY
Russian (18/19th Cent) ornately painted and carved sleigh with carved shell front sleigh
Category
Russian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Immaculate Conception. Oil on canvas. Colonial school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Immaculate Conception. Oil on canvas. Colonial school, 18th century.
Oil on canvas showing the Virgin Mary among angels, in a landscape and standing on a crescent moon, wearing a wh...
Category
South American Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Mythical Atlantis Restored - A 1694 Map of the Americas and Ancient Geography
Located in Langweer, NL
This rare and fascinating map, titled "Atlantis Insula a Nicolao Sanson Antiquitati Restituta" by Guillaume Sanson, presents an unusual interpretation of the Western Hemisphere, comb...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$1,852 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique wax Seal Stamp With Important Coat Of Arms, 18th Century
Located in Bilzen, BE
An 18th century wax seal in brass with boxwood handle with a nice aged old patina
Important noble coat of arms
Height 8.5 cm, surface area of the seal 3 cm, diameter top boxwood gri...
Category
French Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
18th Century Italian Tabernacle Door Fragment
Located in San Angelo, TX
18th Century Italian Tabernacle Door Fragment. Unique piece that can go anywhere. Perfect for a sculpture on the wall in a hallway or niche.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Renaissance Hunting Cranequin, Dated 1589 — With Maker’s Mark in Shield
Located in Bilzen, BE
Renaissance Hunting Cranequin, Dated 1589 — With Maker’s Mark in Shield
Origin: Southern Germany or Flanders
Date: 1589 (engraved)
Material: Forged iron, turned hardwood handle
Lengt...
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German Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wrought Iron
Very Decorative Original Antique Map of the World, Published in France in c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'L'Ancien Monde Et Le Nouveau en Deux Hemispheres' - Double hemisphere map of the World, showing the contemporary geographical...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$554 Sale Price
40% Off
Silva: or a Discourse of Forest-Trees by John Evelyn
Located in Middletown, NY
Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's Dominions; As it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon Occa...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Healing of the Paralytic. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Healing of the Paralytic. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
Partially rebuilt.
A religious scene set in a prestigious interior, made of two-tone stone, depicting a ser...
Category
Spanish Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Antique Bible World Map by R.
J. Wetstein, 1743
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique world map titled 'De Werelt Caart'.
A scarce and richly detailed double hemisphere world map that was probably based on an earlier work by Cornelis Dankerts. This map has t...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Old Map of Ancient Assyria Divided into Syria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia
Assyria
Located in Langweer, NL
This map, "Assyria vetus diuisa in Syriam, Messopotamiam, Babyloniam, et Assyriam", by Pierre Mortier, is a late 17th-century depiction of the historical Middle East.
Title: Ancie...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Caen – Antique Hand-Coloured Normandy Town Plan Engraving (1666)
Located in Langweer, NL
Caen – Antique Hand-Coloured Normandy Town Plan Engraving (1666)
This 17th-century copper engraving offers a finely detailed early plan of Caen, published in Antwerp in 1666 for the...
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Belgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Cherbourg – Antique Hand-Coloured French Coastal Town Engraving (1666)
Located in Langweer, NL
Cherbourg – Antique Hand-Coloured French Coastal Town Engraving (1666)
This 17th-century copper engraving presents a finely detailed early plan of Cherbourg, published in Antwerp in...
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Belgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Dieppe – Antique Hand-Coloured French Coastal Town Engraving (1666)
Located in Langweer, NL
Dieppe – Antique Hand-Coloured French Coastal Town Engraving (1666)
This charming 17th-century copper engraving presents an early bird’s-eye plan of the fortified port town of Diepp...
Category
Belgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
RICAUT [Rycaut]. History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. 5TH ED 1682
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: RICAUT [Rycaut], Paul.
TITLE: The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing the maxims of the Turkish Polity, the Most Material points of the Mahometan...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
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MONTALTI. Theologicam Academico. EMBROIDERED BINDING BOUND FOR BENEDETTO LATILLA
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MONTALTI, Augustinus.
TITLE: Reverendissimo Patri D. D. Benedicto (Benedetto) Latilla Neapolitano Congregationis Canonicorum Regularium Lateranebsium Abbati Generali Suam b...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
Original Antique Map of Ancient Greece, Achaia, Corinth, 1786
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great map of Ancient Greece. Showing the region of Thessaly, including Mount Olympus
Drawn by J.D. Barbie Du Bocage
Copper plate engraving by P.F Tardieu
Original hand color...
Category
French Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Very Early Illustrated Book on Birds, Giovanni P. Olina: "Uccelliera", 1622
Located in Middletown, NY
Giovanni Pietro Olina. UCCELLIERA; Overo discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli, e mantenergli.
Rome: Andrea Fe, 1622. FIRST EDITION.
Large Octavo, 9 3/16 x 6 7/8 inches (232 x 175 mm);pp. XI + 161 + [12], including 66 full-page engraving of which 43 represent individual birds and 23 illustrate the materials about trapping and caring for birds; woodcut initials & tail-pieces, light offsetting as typical, a little browned, a few stains, A7 lacking small portion from inner margin, E4 with small paper flaw holes at head just touching head-line; 18th century diced russia, rebacked, flat spines divided into panels by single gilt rules, gilt title and publication year, rubbed, corners worn, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers.
Front pastedown with the engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
1640 Map of North Africa Nova Barbariae Descriptio or The Barbarian Coast
Located in Langweer, NL
1640 Antique Map of North Africa 'Nova Barbariae Descriptio' by Johannes Janssonius
This antique map titled Nova Barbariae Descriptio*, published by Johannes Janssonius around 1640,...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Steel and Sterling Silver Malaysian Dagger
Located in Miami, FL
19th century sterling silver Malaysian Dagger.
Original carved mahogany wood handle.
Sterting silver carved crown.
Damascene steel.
The kris is an as...
Category
Malaysian Malayer Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Ireland House of Commons 1753 Vol. III and Statutes at Large 1703-1719 Vol. IV
Located in Morristown, NJ
Two leather bound volumes published in Dublin, Ireland in the mid 1700's.
The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Eleventh Year of King James the Fir...
Category
Irish Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Sculpture - Saint Margaret - Chestnut Wood - Polychrome Remnants
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A large and atmospheric 18th century carved wooden statue of Saint Margaret, most likely originating from Spain. Executed in chestnut w...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chestnut
Konstantinopel – Panoramic View of Istanbul by François Halma, 1705
Located in Langweer, NL
Konstantinopel – Panoramic View of Istanbul by François Halma, 1705
This engaging hand-colored engraving of “Konstantinopel” offers a sweeping panoramic view of 18th-century Istanbu...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
D. Ioannis Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani 1556
Located in Bilzen, BE
D. Ioannis Chrysostomi archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani Enarrationes in divi Pauli epistolas, ad Timotheum II., Titum, Philemonem, & HebræosD.IOANNIS CHRYSOSTOMI ARCHEPISCOPI CONSTA...
Category
Belgian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Extraordinary 18th Century Spanish Wooden Mannequin
Located in Middleburg, VA
Extraordinary 18th Century Spanish Wooden Mannequin. Rare large size made of carved poplar with articulated joints retaining the original painted decoration possibly depicting a Sain...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paint
Hand-colored 16th century copy of the famous Moerentorf Bible
By Henry Moret
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
Publisher: Daniel Vervliet and Hendrik Swingen for Jan I Moretus & Jan I van Keerberghen
Place / Date: Antwerp, 1599
Biblia sacra. Dat is de geheele heylighe schrifture bed...
Category
Belgian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
$29,248 Sale Price
25% Off
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer
Located in Middletown, NY
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed
London: Adam Islip, 1602.
Second Edition.
Folio, 13 x 8 3/4 inches (328 x 223 ...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Amazing Collection of 18th / 19th Century Weathered Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Amazing collection of 5 extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/Italy 18th/ 19th century.
Weathered and small losses and old repairs.
More photo's available on request
H:19-36,5cm ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Parchment Paper
$1,397 Sale Price / set
41% Off
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