Leonhart Fuchs, Birthwood, Aristolochia, Folio Woodcuts 1st Edn

Landmark stone lithograph. Measures: 41.5 cm. Extremely rare. 1816 antique hand colored stone lithograph by Carl Joseph Brodtmann from his extremely rare series: From the scarce large format issue of 1816: 42, 5 x 32, 5 cm. Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche  Lindau, Brodtmann [1816]. Here in hand colour. Measures: 37.5 x 47.5 cm. Superb plate from this famed ‘incunabula of lithography’.  Reference Winkler 105. Brodtmann is considered a pioneer in the art of lithography employing techniques for "texture" that are quite similar to that of an aquatint. He produced his lithographs in the post-Linnaean "'Age of Enlightenment" as books illustrations and sets of natural history prints, as Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche, with the more expensive sets being hand coloured. Natural history specimens...

Anser; Oye. Nicolas Robert (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) Issued in the scarce work: Diverses oyseaux dessignées et gravées d'apres le naturel. Paris, F. Pilly, (1673). Sheet: 36.5 x 24 cm. Later hand color. Nissen, IVB 787; Ronsil 2599; see Bradley Martin 1837. 17th century ornithological engraving...

Fine folio including early and finely executed portraits of Renaissance artists by Joachim von Sandrart. Included are portraits of: Mino da Fiesole; Giuliano da Sangallo; Domenico Puligo; Andrea da Fiesole, and Properzia de' Rossi. The latter is of particular historical significance in that Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490 Bologna – 1530 Bologna) was a ground-breaking female Italian Renaissance sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in Vasari's Lives of the Artists. According to Vasari, she taught herself to carve by working with peach-stones. At the end of her life, she was sought out by the Pope Clement VII, who unfortunately found her dead. Sometimes referred to as the “German Vasari,” Joachim von Sandrart, born in Frankfurt, trained first as a printmaker, notably in Nuremberg, and in Prague with Aegidius Sadeler. He then studied painting from 1625 on, originally in the studio of Gerrit van Honthorst...

Fine folio including early and finely executed portraits of Renaissance artists by Joachim von Sandrart. Included are portraits of: Antonio da Correggio; Rosso Fiorentino; Gianfrancesco Penni; Polidoro da Caravaggio...

H.M. Tomlinson "The Sea and The Jungle" First Edition with woodcuts by Clare Leighton, circa 1930 Rare First Edition. Very good condition. Fantastic woodcuts by noted artist Clare...

Set of 5 original antique botany prints from the work 'Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus (..)' by A. Happe. The...

Ernst Fuchs "Flora Okuli" Etching on handmade paper number 9523/10000, sign. Measures: 24 x 16.5 (43 x 31.5) cm.

Antique print titled 'Francis Lord Cottington'. Portrait of Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington was the English lord treasurer and ambassador and leader of the pro-Spanish, pro-...