1620s Prints

Hand-Colored Engraving of Louis XIII from Pluvinel's Equestrian Manual, 1623-1629 Description: This exquisite hand-colored engraving is from Antoine de Pluvinel's renowned equestr...

Antique map titled 'Lumen Historium per Orientem (..).' Scarce map of the Middle East, surrounded by Latin text. The two insets show Israel and an oval world map. This map (from the last edition of Ortelius Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon, 1624) was engraved by Franciscus Hareio. Later, this map was copied by Hornius for his World Atlas (1653). Artists and Engravers: Franciscus Haraeus (Latinised form of Franciscus Verhaer; also known as Frans Verhaer), (Utrecht 1555? - Leuven, 11 January 1631), was a Dutch theologian, historian, and cartographer. He is best known for his history (from a Catholic point of view) of the Dutch Revolt...

These images are rare but fine examples of original 17th-century European engravings, displaying characteristics that might point to an Italian origin based on stylistic analysis. Th...

These original antique engravings are characteristic examples of 17th-century European art, possibly Italian, given some of the stylistic choices and the text. The images show putti,...

These images are rare but fine examples of original 17th-century European engravings, displaying characteristics that might point to an Italian origin based on stylistic analysis. Th...

These images are rare but fine examples of original 17th-century European engravings, displaying characteristics that might point to an Italian origin based on stylistic analysis. Th...

Antique print depicting two horses near the Louvre, France. Also depicted are a group of men, including Mr. LeGrand. This print originates from 'L'Instruction du Roy en l'Exercice de...

Antique map titled 'Frisia Occidentalis.' - A very decorative map of the Dutch province Friesland, also showing the Wadden islands Terschelling and Ameland. With coats of arms of the...

Antique portrait of William of Orange I. With text in oval 'tranquillus in undis saevis'. Latin text below: 'Guihelmus D:G: Princeps Arausionensum; comes Nassavia, Cattimelibocii, Vianda, Dietzia, Linga, Buyra Leerdami; etc. Marchio Vera et Flissinga; dominus et baro Breda, Diest, Grimbergia, Arlay, Noseretti, Castelbellin; etc. vice comes hereditarius Antverpia et Bisancia Gubernator generalis Brabantia Hollandia Zelandia Frisia Ultrajecti Arcdithalassus maris inferioris Germania: quam celeberimi Pr: effigiem a Cornelio Vischero ad visum depictam et Guilismo Jacobi Delphio coelo hac forma expressam dedicat consecratq ipse sculptor DD: principibus Mauritio et Henrico filijs paternarum virtutum heredibus. Cum privilegio illus tr: DD : Ordinum gener. ad annos octo An. Dom'. William the Silent (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange, was the main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1581. Born into the House of Nassau, he became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the Orange-Nassau branch and the ancestor of the monarchy of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he is also known as Father of the Fatherland (Pater Patriae). A wealthy nobleman, William originally served the Habsburgs as a member of the court of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Spanish Netherlands. Unhappy with the centralisation of political power away from the local estates and with the Spanish persecution of Dutch Protestants, William joined the Dutch uprising and turned against his former masters. The most influential and politically capable of the rebels, he led the Dutch to several successes in the fight against the Spanish. Declared an outlaw by the Spanish king...

John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. Here the pair of prints show mosses and lichen and the other of ferns. From: Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris: or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers...

A 17th century hand-colored map of North & South America entitled "Americae Descriptio" by the cartographer Johannes Jansson, published in Jansson's Atlas Minor in Amsterdam in 1628....

These images are rare but fine examples of original 17th-century European engravings, displaying characteristics that might point to an Italian origin based on stylistic analysis. Th...

Antique map titled 'Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia, Lecestria, Rutlandia et Norfolcia'. Decorative early map of the northeast of England, comprising the cou...