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This web site showcases a selection from our inventory of original antique maps and prints, all created between the 16th century and the beginning of the 20th. It includes works by famous natural history artists including Audubon and Gould, renowned botanical artists Catesby, Ehret, Redoute, and Thornton, well known prints of America and American themes by McKenney and Hall and Currier and Ives, maps and charts by Blaeu, Danckerts, DeWitt, Janson, Mercator and Visscher, city views by Bartlett, Kollner, and Wild, sporting and marine art and works by famous artists on many other subjects. We also handle maps, prints and watercolors by hundreds of talented but less well known artists. Some of these might make unique presents for those on your gift list. Check out the suggestions in our Gifts category. |
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We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book The Art of the Garden, Collecting Antique Botanical Prints. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 beautifully printed full color illustrations, this work is an invaluable reference source for experienced collectors and new enthusiasts alike. The lively text documents the magnificent botanical prints produced by notable artists of the 17th century through the turn of the twentieth. Very few good books are available on this subject. The Art of the Garden... fills that void. Click here for ordering information ... |
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A beautifully decorative large scale map of Anatolia and Asia Minor including Turkey, Rhodes, and Cyprus by Jansson, one of the foremost Dutch cartographic dynasties of the 17th century. As on most Jansson maps, there is enormous detail clearly and accurately described so that those familiar with the “Turquoise” coast can easily find the historically significant cities of Galipoli, Troy, Smyrna, Izmir, Marmaris, Perge, Assos, Myrna, etc. as well as the nearby Aegean Islands. Sailing ships and sea monsters ply the seas and turbaned figures adorn the title. Latin text on reverse.
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George Stubbs (1724-1806) was renowned during his life and ever after as the preeminent painter of horses. He teamed up with his son, engraver George Townly Stubbs, to create this large beautiful engraving. It is based upon the father’s 1793 painting entitled “Dungannon, the Property of Colonel O’Reilly, Painted in a Paddock with a Sheep.” The image depicts Dungannon one of Colonel O’Reilly’s prize thoroughbreds. Dungannon was a top racehorse and good sire. He ran for 4 years, 1783-1786, at Newmarket, Doncaster, and elsewhere, winning a number of stakes, plates and matches. |
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Pl. LXXII (Oncidium) Iconographie des Orcidees... Ghent, 1885. $115
Pl. CXXIV (Dendrobium) Ghent, 1885. $175
Pl. 18 (Candytuft, Rocket) The Ladies Flower Garde. London, 1850. $350
Pl. 5 ( Vetch) The Ladies Flower Garden. London, 1850. $350