EditorialRecto: Hunting Ducks using Pumpkins in the West Indies; Verso, above: Crocodile Hunt in the Nile; Verso, below: Hunting Tigers using Traps and Mirrors, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and ink, brush and brown wash on laid p...
EditorialMessrs. Morgan & Sanders, Catherine St., Strand, Print made by unknown artist, Published by Rudolf Ackermann, 17641834, British, 1809, Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 6 1/16...
EditorialLady Time Present and Lady Time Past, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Published by Francis E. Adams, active ca.17601775, British, 1773, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 16 5/8 x 11 1/4 inche...
EditorialA Group of Women at Mass, Sir David Wilkie, 17851841, British, undated, Watercolor with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm), Catholicism, church, dresses, genre subject, headp...
EditorialOpticorum Libri Sex. Dated: published 1613. Dimensions: page size: 35 x 22.1 cm (13 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.). Medium: 1 vol: ill: engraved title page; text illustration (p.3); 6 headpieces engraved by Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens.
EditorialOpticorum Libri Sex. Dated: published 1613. Dimensions: page size: 35 x 22.1 cm (13 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.). Medium: 1 vol: ill: engraved title page; text illustration (p.3); 6 headpieces engraved by Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens.
EditorialLebensl?ufe nach Aufsteigender Linie nebst Beylagen A, B, C. Dated: 1779. Dimensions: book: 16 x 10.8 x 3.7 cm (6 5/16 x 4 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.). Medium: 1 of a set of 4 bound volumes with 1 etched frontispiece, 1 etched title, 4 etched illustrations and 2...
EditorialOpticorum Libri Sex. Dated: published 1613. Dimensions: page size: 35 x 22.1 cm (13 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.). Medium: 1 vol: ill: engraved title page; text illustration (p.3); 6 headpieces engraved by Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens.
EditorialLebensl?ufe nach Aufsteigender Linie nebst Beylagen A, B, C. Dated: 1779. Dimensions: book: 16 x 10.8 x 3.7 cm (6 5/16 x 4 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.). Medium: 1 of a set of 4 bound volumes with 1 etched frontispiece, 1 etched title, 4 etched illustrations and 2...
EditorialMemoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur : divis?s en trois livres : I. De l'art militaire en g?n?ral, II. De la guerre contre le turc, III. Relation de la campagne de 1664, 1760, Paris, France, xl, 510, [4] pages: leaves of pla...
EditorialOeuvres de Jean Racine, 1801, Printed book with engraved illustrations, Overall: 19 11/16 x 13 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (50 x 35 x 7 cm), Books, This is the first volume of Didot's three-volume The Works of Racine. It inaugurated the third part of his suite of ...
EditorialRimon-the headpieces on the staves on which the Torah scroll is rolled. First half 19th, from Palestine. It shows the Tablets of the Law. Brass,20,7 x 6,8 cm.
EditorialPainted silk headpiece from a banner, Five Dynasties or Northern Song Dynasty, 10th century. The almost identical images of the Buddha can be seen on both sides of the headpiece. Triangular headpieces were made by folding squares of silk diagonally and...