Very rare separately issued view of Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, etched by Giovanni Maggi (1566-1618) and printed in 1600 by Andrea Vaccari (d. 1627) in honor of a certain Manilio Orlandi (fl. c. 1550s-c. 1602), captain of munitions (capitano di bombardieri) at Castel Sant’Angelo. The etching is unusual among printed..... More
A separately published rare architectural folio-size broadside for pilgrims visiting Rome and offering to visitors a plan of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, one of the seven pilgrim churches of Rome. This print is part of a series of ten broadsides by Giovanni Maggi on the pilgrim churches in Rome published..... More
Two 1696 German broadsides, apparently unrecorded, addressing the regulation of “foreign” merchants of brass and copper wares at the yearly fair (Jahrmarkt) of Celle (“Zelle”) in Lower Saxony, a town at that time subject to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. These sheets are rare survivals of printed legal ephemera dispatched to..... More
Rare, large-format engraved broadside produced in 1730 as part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession (1530), one of the foundational documents of Lutheranism. The subject of the print is the famous Tranquebar Mission in southern India, which was established by King Frederick IV of Denmark..... More
Engraving of the coconut plant from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, “the first botanical book to use color printed mezzotint successfully” (Hunt). Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) was a German botanist and apothecary in Regensburg, and his monumental series represents the most innovative achievement in botanical illustration of its time. “The mezzotint process used..... More
Rare satirical broadside featuring a large, finely executed engraving by the renowned Dutch printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), a very unusual example of a political cartoon in which an engraved copperplate was later ‘recycled’ to fit a geopolitical situation for which it was not originally intended. De Hooghe’s Paye qui..... More
Rare 18th-century Venetian engraving of a kitchen scene after a genre painting by Francesco Maggiotto (1738-1805), son and pupil of the painter Domenico Fedeli (1713-94), himself a student of Giambattista Piazzetta (1682-1754). The print depicts a peasant family preparing their repast, a humble meal of polenta and grated cheese. Intent..... More
Rare, separately issued etching, here in contemporary hand-color, by the celebrated printmaker Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714) depicting the cabinet of the Académie des Sciences at the Louvre with its fascinating assortment of more than 100 instruments and objects relating to the study of astronomy, optics, perspective, architecture, physics, painting, sculpture..... More
This separately published popular print offers a remarkable glimpse into the enduring “world turned upside down” theme, a potent satirical motif. The ancient theme, depicting the reversal of societal norms and expectations, traces its roots back to the iconography and literature of the Middle East, Greece, and Rome. It gained..... More
A full-sheet Oxford Almanack for the year 1800 with lists of the kings of England starting from William the Conqueror and of the officers of the university. It is illustrated with an etching designed by Edward Dayes (1763-1804) and executed by James Basire (1730-1802). The text was engraved by James..... More
A rare survival of such an ephemeral piece (unrecorded on ICCU): a large broadside issued during the nine-month occupation of Rome following the fall of the Roman Republic, and proclaiming a complete revision of the running of the city’s public market to prevent “hoarders and scalpers” from inflating food prices..... More
Very rare. A superb example one of the finest views of Constantinople we have handled. The great city, seen here from the east, overlooking Üsküdar and the Bosphorus, appears as it was during the reign of Sultan Mahmud II. The Topkapi Palace, the Hagia Sophia, and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque..... More
Rare early 19th-century French popular broadside, here in fine contemporary hand-color, depicting the legendary Juif-Errant, or ‘Wandering Jew,’ the mythical immortal man said to have been present at the Crucifixion who was cursed thereafter to walk the earth ceaselessly until the Second Coming. The broadside has at its center a...... More
First state, with the British sloop-of-war Hermes spelled “Hermese” (corrected in second state), and very rare, especially in first state: no sales listed in Rare Book Hub since Maggs in 1928 (second state). The print depicts the American privateer Gipsey in mid-ocean and flying the American flag, with the British..... More
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Unusual royal souvenir printed on silk and commemorating the death of the infant Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (1820-1821), daughter of Prince William (the future William IV) and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, who at the date of her passing was ahead of the future Queen Victoria (1819-1901), her cousin, in the line..... More
Separately published, fine stipple engraved portrait of Alessandro Volta, likely executed shortly after his death. Volta is depicted seated at a table, his left hand concealed within his coat and his right resting on the surface. To his right, an example of his “crown of cups” battery is prominently displayed..... More
Rare silk textile portrait of George Washington (1732-99) woven on the earliest programmable loom – the Jacquard Loom – which influenced the development of other programmable, punch-card-driven machines that in turn would lead to the early versions of IBM’s digital compiler. The present work thus may plausibly be considered the..... More
This provincial illustrated broadside, issued by the Teatro Garibaldi in Padova in 1877, announces a presentation of Professor Joseph Faber’s “talking machine” (“macchina parlante”), an ingenious human-like automaton that represented one of the earliest attempts to synthesize and reproduce human speech and that fascinated Alexander Melville Bell, a Scottish professor..... More
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Two satirical auca broadsides, each with 24 images of dwarfs, illustrating Catalan trades and archetypes, from the Valencia-based printing shop of Ildefonso Mompié (ca. 1785-1855). Both prints feature characters that would have been instantaneously recognizable to their audiences. The first print, depicting female archetypes and professions, includes illustrations of a...... More
A very rare separately published illustrated broadside on the disease of podagra or gout, a form of arthritis, by Gottfried Rogg (1669-1742), a draughtsman, engraver, and publisher in Augsburg. The central image depicts a well-dressed nobleman with legs wrapped in special gout stockings in front of a table covered with..... More
A stipple engraving and a related print in outline technique by Alexandre Clément (c. 1775 - c. 1808), after Réunion d'artistes dans l'atelier d'Isabey ("A Reunion of Artists in Isabey’s Studio"), a painting by Louis Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), which enjoyed great popularity at the time. Shown for the first time..... More
Separately published apotropaic Remondini print intended to ward off the plague and protect the household. It depicts a crucified Christ surrounded by two angels, who each hold an oval cartouche depicting biblical scenes with accompanying Latin quotes, on the left the Abraham and Isaac story from Genesis 22 (“Non extendas..... More
Etched portrait by Jost Amman of Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572), a French national hero and influential Huguenot leader, issued in 1573 in the aftermath of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in August 1572. The portrait and its scenes of the massacre, including the murder of Coligny on the orders of..... More
Rare 17th-century separately issued engraving depicting the newly excavated and constructed Vatican grottoes beneath St. Peter’s in Rome, a print produced by Pietro Paolo Drei after designs by his father, Benedetto Drei. Both father and son served as ‘factors’ for the Reverenda Fabbrica of St. Peter’s and thus played pivotal..... More
Unrecorded broadside giving a ‘true likeness’ of a miraculous medieval fresco re-discovered by builders during the destruction of a wall in Milan in 1651. Of interest for Counter-Reformation Christian archaeology as well as private devotion: this event appears to be little-recorded in contemporary or modern literature, and the present broadside..... More