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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Place of Origin: French
Recognized Seller Listings
Rare 17th Century Engraving of Solor Island Fort and Bay, Indonesia, circa 1670
Located in Langweer, NL
Rare 17th Century Engraving of Solor Island Fort and Bay, Indonesia, circa 1670
Description:
This rare and finely detailed 17th-century copper engraving depicts the bay and fort of ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Venetian Naval Battle Print – Rare Optical Vue of Venice versus Turks, c.1770
Located in Langweer, NL
Combat Naval dans le Golfe de Venise – Rare Optical Print of the Venetian Victory over the Turks, circa 1770
This rare and vividly hand-colored 18th-century 'vue d’optique' titled 'Combat naval dans le Golfe de Venise gagné par les Vénitiens sur les Turcs le 29 may 1749' portrays the dramatic naval engagement between Venetian and Ottoman forces in the Gulf of Venice. Published anonymously around 1770 and engraved with both French and contemporary Dutch captions, this optical print commemorates the final large-scale clashes between two former Mediterranean naval superpowers.
The scene is packed with explosive detail. On the left, Venetian galleons fly red flags and dominate the composition, their cannon smoke billowing across the water. Soldiers and sailors tumble into the sea or scramble into longboats, while others engage in intense shipboard combat. To the right, the Ottoman fleet, also with full sails and ornate sterns, exchanges fire from a line of vessels that extends toward the hazy horizon.
The turbulent sea, streaked with swimmers, debris, and gunfire, draws the viewer's eye toward the vanishing point, a classic technique in *vues d’optique* designed to create depth when viewed through a zograscope. The perspective is exaggerated and theatrical, heightening the tension of the moment. The hand coloring, still strong and fresh, adds to the dramatic impact—especially the reds, blues, and blacks used to signify uniforms, flames, and flags.
Above the scene, a reversed French title along the top border is a hallmark of optical prints, meant to appear legible when viewed through mirrored optical devices. The lower margin features a printed French description and a carefully penned Dutch caption in brown ink, adding provenance and local historical context for a Dutch-speaking audience.
These types of naval battle scenes are among the most collectable of optical prints, especially when they depict rare or less frequently recorded events such as this Turkish-Venetian engagement, which helped mark the waning of Ottoman influence in the Adriatic.
Keywords: Venetian naval battle print, Ottoman fleet, vue d’optique maritime, 18th-century naval...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
Exotic Birds of the World: A 1765-1780 Study by Martinet and Buffon
Located in Langweer, NL
This image is an exquisite hand-colored engraving from the "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux," a seminal work published between 1765 and 1780. The artist behind this detailed work is F...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
Optica Print – The Hague Prinsegracht, Basset c.1770, Hand-Colored
Located in Langweer, NL
Optica View The Hague Prinsegracht, Basset c.1770 Hand-Colored Engraving
This is a beautifully engraved and hand-colored optical print titled *Vue perspective du Chateau du Prince G...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Map of India and Ceylon with Inset of Calcutta and the Ganges, by Bonne, 1780
Located in Langweer, NL
The map on offer is an antique copperplate engraving of India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), created by Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794), a prominent French cartographer. Here is a breakdown of t...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pair of Louis XVI Period Gilt-Bronze and Marble Figural Candelabra, France 1780
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI Period Gilt-Bronze and Marble Three-Light Figural Candelabra.
Modelled as partially robed classical maidens. One with a floral posy at her feet, representing Spi...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Medical Print
Seconde Pl. XIII
by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XIII Seconde: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate shows the perineal muscles of a sixteen year old. This print originates from 'Encyclopédie (..)' by D. Diderot. Published circa...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
1758 Bellin Map of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante – Caribbean Islands
Located in Langweer, NL
1758 Bellin Map of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante – Caribbean Islands
Original antique map titled Carte de l’Isle de la Guadeloupe by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, engraved for the *Histoire Générale des Voyages*, published in Paris in 1758.
This finely engraved copperplate map depicts the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, showing its distinctive butterfly-shaped division into Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre. The surrounding smaller islands include Marie-Galante (bottom right) and Les Saintes. The map details numerous place names, parishes, rivers, bays, mountains, and anchorages. A decorative rococo title cartouche graces the upper right corner, complemented by a scale bar cartouche in the upper left.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) served as Hydrographer to the King and was one of the most prominent French cartographers of the 18th century, producing maps noted for their accuracy, elegance, and clarity. This map was created for the influential *Histoire Générale des Voyages* by Abbé Prévost.
Condition report:
Excellent condition. Strong and clean impression on fine laid paper with wide margins. Original hand coloring in outline and wash, highlighting coastlines and cartouches. Minor age toning at edges; verso blank.
Framing suggestion:
Frame with a classic gold or dark wood moulding and a neutral cream archival mat to emphasize the fine engraving and delicate color washes. Museum glass is recommended to preserve this 18th-century Caribbean map...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Authentic, Beautifully Richly Colored, Copper Engraving of Cockatoos
1792
Located in Langweer, NL
An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 3 Cockatoos: Le Kakatoes a Huppe Rouge, Le Kakatoes a Huppe Jaune and Le Kakatoes a Huppe Blanche. Also 1 s...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Parchment Paper
Attack Plan of Douay Fortress, France, 1710 Siege – Brussels c.1720 Map
Located in Langweer, NL
Attack Plan of Douay Fortress, France, 1710 Siege – Brussels c.1720 Map
This engraved military map shows the detailed plan of attacks on the fortress city of Douay (Douai) in northe...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Copper Engraving Depicting the High Quality of the Fashion Under Louis XIV, 1684
Located in Langweer, NL
Beautiful engraving of Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean with title 'Homme de qualité en Surtout'
(translated in English: Man of of a particular quality). This original copper engraving is ha...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
18th Century Sevres Porcelain Bottle Cooler Hand-Painted France 1773-1782
Located in Katonah, NY
Sèvres was the royal factory of Louis XV and Louis XVI, Kings of France from 1715-1793.
The Sèvres factory was known to have the best painters and gilders in 18th-century France.
This stunning Sèvres 18th...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Saint Arno, Bishop of Metz – French Religious Engraving, circa 1670
Located in Langweer, NL
Saint Arno, Bishop of Metz – 17th Century French Engraving
This original 17th-century engraving depicts Saint Arno (Arnulf) of Metz, a prominent 7th-century Frankish bishop and sain...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Map of Roermond
Duchy of Guelders by Sanson – Hand-Colored, c.1667
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map of Roermond and the Duchy of Guelders with rich detail, c.1667
This beautifully hand-colored 17th-century map presents the region of Roermond and the broader Duchy of Gu...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Map of the Kingdom of Hungary and Transylvania, circa 1780
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Map of the Kingdom of Hungary and Surrounding Regions by S. Robert, circa 1780
This beautifully engraved map titled Royaume de Hongrie, Principauté de Transilvanie, Esclavon...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Vue de Bayonne du Côté du Port – Hand-Colored Optical Print by Basset, c.1790
Located in Langweer, NL
Vue de Bayonne du Côté du Port – Hand-Colored Optical Print by Basset, Paris circa 1790
This beautifully detailed hand-colored optical print, titled 'Vue de Bayonne du côté du Port'...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Optical View of the Spanish Royal Retreat, Daumont, Paris circa 1770
Located in Langweer, NL
Vue Perspective du Grand Étang de Buen Retiro – Optical View of the Spanish Royal Retreat, Daumont, Paris circa 1770
This antique hand-colored optical print, titled 'Vue Perspective...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
French Provincial Walnut Grandfather Clock
Located in Queens, NY
French Provincial (Mid-18th Century) walnut grandfather clock with fruitwood inlay and fluted sides. (Not working)
Not Working. Clock face is slightly misaligned
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Glass, Walnut
Montesquieu Portrait Tortoiseshell Snuff Box
By Jacques Joseph de Gault
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite miniature of French philosopher Charles Montesquieu graces the lid of this tortoiseshell-lined snuff box. The handsome portrait was fash...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Original Spanish Brabant map with Brussels, Louvain and Antwerp quarters, c.1684
Located in Langweer, NL
Spanish Brabant map with Brussels, Louvain, and Antwerp quarters, c.1690
Description:
This richly detailed antique map depicts the historical region of Spanish Brabant, focusing on ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Medical Print
Pl. XXX
by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate XXX: 'Chirurgie'. (Surgery.) This plate deals with bandages and instruments used for applying bandages. This print originates from 'Encyclopédie...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Map of Northern Europe by Bonne, c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Le Nord de L'Europe, Contenant Le Danemark, La Norwege; La Suede et La Laponie avec la Majeure Partie de al Russie Europeenne.' Map of Northern Europe and Europea...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$112 Sale Price
30% Off
Leeuwarden Friesland City View – Antique Engraving by Jollain, c.1670
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Bird’s Eye View of Leeuwarden, Friesland, by Jollain, circa 1670
This rare and decorative antique engraving presents a panoramic bird’s eye view of the fortified city of Lee...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$1,640 Sale Price
40% Off
18th-Century Fencing Engraving – Elegant Depiction of Escrime Techniques
Located in Langweer, NL
18th-Century Fencing Engraving – Elegant Depiction of Escrime Techniques
This exquisite 18th-century engraving, titled 'Escrime', presents a detailed depiction of fencing techniqu...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Map of Juan Fernandez by Van Schley, 1757
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Carte Particuliere de l'Isle de Juan Fernandez - Byzondere Kaart van 't Eiland Juan Fernandez'.
Map of the Chilean Juan Fernandez Island, topped by a view of it...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
French Porcelain Monteith, Sevres, circa 1760
Located in New York, NY
Painters mark of Pierre-Joseph Rosset.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Print of Catholic Ceremonies ‘Marriage
Nuptiual Benediction’ - 1724
Located in Langweer, NL
Two images on one sheet titled 'Ceremonie de Mariage' and 'Benediciton du Lit Nuptial'. Antique print of a marriage ceremony and a nuptial benediction of Catholics. Originates from '...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
Pair of French 18th Century Louis XVI Corner Cabinets with Flower Marquetry
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An exceptional pair of Louis XVI period corner cabinets or encoignures with elaborate marquetry work. Each cabinet opens with a front door, revealing two shelves, on bracket feet. Be...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Marble
Antique Print of Two Religious Ceremonies by B. Picart, 1724
Located in Langweer, NL
This print originates from 'Naaukeurige beschryving der godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt.', a Dutch edition or its French edition 'Ceremo...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
19th-Century Flame Mahogany Mantel Clock by Breguet Raised by Lion Paw Feet
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An extremely rare mantel clock with a figured mahogany-veneered case by A-L Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), who was of Swiss origin, is undoubtedly the most celebrated clockmaker of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in France. He is responsible for the invention of the self-winding watch, the tourbillon and the sympathetic watch ( a watch that is placed in a cradle of a special clock. It is then linked by means of a pin fixed behind the clock dial. Built into the motion work which, when released by the clock, automatically sets the hands to the clock's time as well as correcting the watch's regulator necessitated by any degree of inaccuracy registered at the moment of synchronisation) and many other horological improvements and developments. Around the year 1807 Breguet brought in his son, Antoine-Louis (born 1776), as a business partner, and from this point, the firm became known as Breguet et Fils. Breguet had previously sent his son to London to study with the great English chronometer maker John Arnold...
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French Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Brass
Woman of Navarre – Hand-Colored Engraving by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, c.1797
Located in Langweer, NL
Woman of Navarre – Hand-Colored Engraving by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, c.1797
Description:
A beautifully detailed hand-colored engraving titled “Femme de Navarre,” drawn by Jacques ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
Orange Seller from Murcia – Hand-Colored Engraving by G.de Saint-Sauveur, c.1797
Located in Langweer, NL
Orange Seller from Murcia – Hand-Colored Engraving by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, c.1797
A charming late-18th-century hand-colored engraving titled “Marchand d’Orange de Murci...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Emperor Vespian Besieging and Conquering Iotapata
Yodfat
, 1725
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Vespasiaan belegert en verovert Iotapata'.
Emperor Vespian besieging and conquering Iotapata (Yodfat). This print originates from 'Het algemeen groot historisch, oordeelkundig, chronologisch, geografisch, en letterlyk naam- en woord-boek, van den gantschen H. Bijbel (..)' by A. Calmet.
The Siege of Yodfat (Hebrew: ????????, also Jotapata, Iotapata, Yodefat) was a 47-day siege by Roman forces of the Jewish town of Yodfat which took place in 67 CE, during the Great Revolt. Led by Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus, both future emperors, the siege ended with the sacking of the town, the deaths of most of its inhabitants and the enslavement of the rest. It was the second bloodiest battle of the revolt, surpassed only by the Siege of Jerusalem...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$490 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Map of Germany by Clouet, 1787
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'L'Allemagne'. Antique map of Germany. Originates from 'Geographie moderne avec une introduction' by J.B.L. Clouet.
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Louis XVI Bronze Chenets
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two little fawns attempt to keep warm by brazier fire in this enchanting pair of French Louis XVI chenets, or fireplace andirons. Crafted of stunning...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$18,500
Map of Constantinople, Bosphorus, the Coasts of Greece and the Archipelago, 1785
Located in Langweer, NL
This is a large 1785 map titled "Carte de la Ville de Constantinople et du Bosphore de Thrace", which includes detailed maps of Constantinople (modern-day Is...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$1,747 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique Chromolithograph of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel – Floral Jar Surface, 1882
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Chromolithograph of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel – Floral Jar Surface, 1882
This exquisite chromolithograph, Section VII, Plate IX, comes from George Ashdown Audsley’s *The Orn...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$261 Sale Price
20% Off
Original 18th-Century Map of Southern Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Styria
Located in Langweer, NL
title: 18th-Century Map of Southern Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Styria by Robert de Vaugondy
Description: This finely engraved 18th-century map by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
Antique Map of Italy, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, ca.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
Description: Antique map titled 'L'Italie.'
Map of Italy, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. Highly detailed, showing towns, rivers, some topographical features and political boundaries...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$228 Sale Price
40% Off
Large German Chart of the Philippines with Hand-Colored Borders, 1763
Located in Langweer, NL
Original antique map titled 'Karte von dem Canal in den Philippinischen Inseln (..)'. Large detailed chart of the islands of the Philippines. One of the most detailed charts of the Philippines of the era. Shows Islands, bays, reefs, soundings tracks of the Manila Galleon route, etc. Includes a large compass rose and rhumb lines. Originates from a German edition of "Voyage around the World...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$941 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Print of La Fayette, a French Aristocrat, Freemason
Militair, ca.1790
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'M. le Mis de la Fayette commandant General de la Garde Nationalle Parisienne dedie aux citoyens la soldats'. Original antique print of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette. He was a French aristocrat...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$741 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of French Louis XV Metal Noblemen Busts
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of French Louis XV style (19th Cent) metal busts of 18th century style Noblemen (signed POLI)
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Metal
$7,800 / set
Fireback with Atlantes Supporting an Entablature with Fire Vases, 18th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Fireback of the 18th century with two atlantes supporting an entablature with fire vases.
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Iron
Louis XVI Period Fireplace with Detached Columns
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This beautiful fireplace was made at the end of the 18th century in breche de Sienne marble and carrara marble and shows an exceptionnal sculpted decor of delicacy.
It shapes imitates the antique architectural model...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Marble, Breccia Marble, Carrara Marble
Antique Map of Russia by N. Sanson, 1705
Located in Langweer, NL
A strongly engraved map of European Russia showing its political divisions, major topographical features, cities and towns. Extends to the Sea of Azov and the tip of the Caspian Sea ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
1700 Guillaume Delisle Map: Western Mediterranean
Moorish North Africa
Located in Langweer, NL
1700 Guillaume Delisle Map: Western Mediterranean
Moorish North Africa
This hand-colored map from 1700 by Guillaume Delisle, titled "In Notitiam Ecclesiasticam Africae Tabula Geographica," offers a detailed look at the regions under Moorish control during the later medieval period.
It encompasses the northern African coast from Morocco to Libya, the Iberian Peninsula, and the western Mediterranean, including notable islands such as Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, the Balearics, and Sicily, where a smoking Mount Etna is depicted.
The map is embellished with three decorative cartouches, adding artistic flair to the detailed geographical renderings.
Engraved by Jean Baptiste Liebaux, the map measures 25.2 inches wide by 19.1 inches high.
It features a sharp impression with contemporary outline color, later enhanced cartouches, and is printed on a bright sheet with a Society of Jesus watermark.
The condition is very good, with an archivally repaired centerfold separation at the bottom and light toning along the edges.
Keywords:
- Guillaume Delisle map
- Western Mediterranean historical map
- Northern Africa map...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$702 Sale Price
35% Off
Antique Map of the Russian Empire by R. Bonne, 1780
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Carte de l'Empire de Russie.' Drawn by R. Bonne for G. Raynal’s Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Po...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
1684 Mallet Map of Amazon River
Kingdom of Amazons – Hand Colored, Miniature
Located in Langweer, NL
This map, titled 'Royaume des Amazones', was created by Alain Manesson Mallet and published in 1684 in a German edition of Beschreibung des Gantzen Welt-Kreisses, a renowned work der...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Agile Chamois or Mountain Goat Antilope: A Detailed Etching - circa 1740
Located in Langweer, NL
This etching and engraving, titled "Chamois," depicts a chamois standing with a poised and alert demeanor. The artist has intricately captured the animal’s slender frame, short curve...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$392 Sale Price
25% Off
Important Louis XV Inlaid Kingwood Commode by Pierre Migeon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Important Louis XV inlaid kingwood commode by Pierre II Migeon, circa 1745, having original shaped and molded Porto marble top over two drawers having high style rocaille inlay and o...
Category
French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Print of the Dutch VOC Bombing Palembang, Sumatra (Indonesia), ca.1700
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'La Ville de Palimbang dans L’Ile de Sumatra.' A very decorative, impressive engraving of Palembang in Sumatra. Two views on one sheet. In the upper part the ove...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Set of 2 Antique Prints of Ships/Vessels by Pluche, 1750
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of two antique prints titled 'A Ship carrying all her Sailes' and 'A little Vessel'. These prints originates from volume 3 of 'Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd' by No...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$237 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique Medical Print
Pl. VI
by D. Diderot, circa 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Plate VI: 'Chirurgie.' (Surgery). This plate shows surgical / medical instruments relating to surgery of rickets and hernia. This print originates from 'Encyclopédie (..)' by D. Dide...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Resting Wild Boar: A Detailed Etching - circa 1740
Located in Langweer, NL
This etching and engraving, titled "Sanglier" (Wild Boar), depicts a wild boar lying down, possibly resting or in a moment of repose. The artist has meticulously captured the texture...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$392 Sale Price
25% Off
Large 1693 Maritime Map of Irish Sea, West Coasts of Ireland, England, Scotland
Located in Langweer, NL
This large late-17th-century sea chart is titled *Carte Générale des Costes d’Irlande, et des Costes Occidentales d’Angleterre avec une Partie de celles d’Ecosse*, showing the entire...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$2,318 Sale Price
25% Off
Trapped Wolf: A Detailed Etching - circa 1740
Located in Langweer, NL
This etching and engraving, titled "Loup pris au piège" (Wolf Caught in a Trap), depicts a wolf ensnared in a trap. The artwork captures the wolf's struggle and distress with precise...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$418 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century French Régence Style Fireplace
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
18th Century French Régence Style Fireplace Mantel in Buxy Limestone
This exquisite 18th Century Régence style fireplace mantel originates from France and is carved from the coveted...
Category
French Regency Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Large Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Avian Wonders: Engravings from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie
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This meticulously presented a...
Category
French Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
Elegant Avian Diversity: Illustrations from Buffon
s Ornithology, c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
These hand-colored engravings depict various bird species from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s monumental work *Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière* (Natural History, General and Particular), published in the 18th century. The specific plates come from the ornithological section, *Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux*, which appeared between 1770 and 1783. Buffon’s publications were among the most influential natural history works of their time, and the bird illustrations remain admired for their detail, accuracy, and elegance.
The engravings presented here are three separate plates, each showing multiple bird species in characteristic poses and naturalistic settings.
First Print (Pl. 88):
1. Le Héron (The Heron) – A tall wading bird with gray plumage, long legs, and a pointed beak, shown standing near water.
2. Le Butor (The Bittern) – A stout marsh bird with brown streaked feathers, blending into reed habitats.
3. Le Secretaire (The Secretary Bird) – A distinctive African raptor with crane-like legs, long tail feathers, and a head crest.
Second Print (Pl. 105):
1. L’Albatros (The Albatross) – A great seabird with long wings, depicted floating at sea.
2. Le Cygne (The Swan) – An elegant white swan with an orange beak, shown swimming gracefully.
3. Le Pélican (The Pelican) – A large bird with its characteristic throat pouch, standing near the water’s edge.
Third Print (Pl. 96):
1. La Spatule (The Spoonbill) – Recognizable by its flat, spoon-shaped bill, with pale plumage.
2. La Grue (The Crane) – A tall gray bird with black wing tips and a red crown.
3. L’Aigrette (The Egret) – A slender white bird with plumes, standing by the water.
Each species is carefully rendered to reflect both its anatomy and typical environment. Herons, bitterns, cranes, spoonbills, and egrets are marshland and wetland birds, while swans and pelicans inhabit freshwater lakes and coastal areas. The albatross is a truly oceanic...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
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Paper
$599 Sale Price / set
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Scarce Middle East and Arabia Map Showing The Exodus of the Israelites, 1725
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Kaarte van de reize en togten der Israeliten in de woestyne, sedert der zelver uytgang uyt Egypten, tot den overtogt over de Jordaane.'
Scarce map of the Middle East and Arbabia. It shows the exodus...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Furniture
Materials
Paper
$1,203 Sale Price
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