Discover our antique furniture and decorative objects. From <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/antiques?objectTypes=Seating&amp;Period%20-%20Specific=Louis%2520XV&amp;Period%20-%20Specific=Louis%2520XV%2520Style" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Louis XV chairs</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/antiques?objectTypes=Dining%2520%2526%2520Serveware&amp;Period%20-%20Specific=Art%2520Nouveau" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">art nouveau silverware</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/interiors/antiques?objectTypes=Seating&amp;objectTypes=Table&amp;Period%20-%20Specific=Biedermeier" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">biedermeier chairs and tables</a> and more, our antique pieces were carefully curated from esteemed dealers and private collectors.

Antiques

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">color plate</a>&nbsp;of flowers by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre-Joseph%20Redout%C3%A9&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre-Joseph Redouté</a>.<ul><li>Pierre-Joseph Redouté (Belgian).</li><li>Paris: Chez L’Auteur,&nbsp;1802-16.</li><li>Plate number 17.</li><li>Stipple engraving printed in color, and finished by hand, after Redouté by Tassaert, bearing the artist’s name, lower left.</li><li>This work is presented matted.</li></ul>&nbsp;"The highest peak of Redouté's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be published." (Frans A. Stafleu, "Redoute - peintre de fleurs" in A Catalogue of Redouteana). Redouté was at the height of his powers during the publication of&nbsp;Les Liliacees. It is easily the equal in accomplishment of its more popular successor,&nbsp;Les Roses. The work is broader than its title implies, including as it does petaloid monocotyledons in general belonging, for example to Commelinaceae, Bromeliaceae, Liliacea. At this time, he had as patron and sponsor Josephine Bonaparte, who, on acquiring Malmaison and establishing a superb garden of rare plants there, required an artist of outstanding talent to record them.

Narcissus Engraved Plate

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Samuel%20Taylor%20Coleridge&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Coleridge</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Rime%20Of%20The%20Ancient%20Mariner&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner</a>.<ul><li>Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Sampson, Low, &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1857.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece and illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. </li><li>Bound in full embossed purple morocco with gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings&amp;query=James%20Caulfield&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Caulfield</a>'s Portraits, Memoirs, And Characters Of Remarkable Persons.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7 volumes.</li><li>James Caulfield (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;R.S. Kirby,&nbsp;1813.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters tan morocco with marbled boards, gilt tooling on raised band spines, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. </li></ul>

Portraits, Memoirs, And Characters Of Remarkable Persons

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=dante%20alighieri&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dante</a>'s Purgatorio.<ul><li>Dante Alighieri (Italian).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Libreria Hachette,&nbsp;1868.</li><li>Illustrated throughout with wood carvings. </li><li>Bound in full green morocco with ornate gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine, all edges gilt, dentelles and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

Purgatorio

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Smith%20Surtees&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Smith Surtees</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6 volumes.</li><li>Robert Smith Surtees (English).</li><li>Titles include Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tours, Handley Cross, and Ask Mama.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bradbury, Agnew, &amp; Co,&nbsp;1852.</li><li>Color illustration frontispiece with illustrations throughout by John Leech.</li><li>50 copies of which this is 1.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound by Bayntun in three-quarters red morocco with red linen boards, gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Works Of R. S. Surtees

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">color plate</a> of flowers by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre-Joseph%20Redout%C3%A9&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre-Joseph Redouté</a>.<ul><li>Pierre-Joseph Redouté (Belgian).</li><li>Crinium Giganteum</li><li>Paris: Chez L’Auteur,&nbsp;1802-16.</li><li>Plate number 181.</li><li>Stipple engraving printed in color, and finished by hand, after Redouté by Allais, bearing the artist’s name, lower left.</li><li>This work is presented matted.</li></ul>&nbsp;"The highest peak of Redouté's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be published." (Frans A. Stafleu, "Redoute - peintre de fleurs" in A Catalogue of Redouteana). Redouté was at the height of his powers during the publication of Les Liliacees. It is easily the equal in accomplishment of its more popular successor, Les Roses. The work is broader than its title implies, including as it does petaloid monocotyledons in general belonging, for example to Commelinaceae, Bromeliaceae, Liliacea. At this time, he had as patron and sponsor Josephine Bonaparte, who, on acquiring Malmaison and establishing a superb garden of rare plants there, required an artist of outstanding talent to record them.

Crinium Giganteum Engraved Plate

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Mexico by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Abraham%20Ortelius&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Abraham Ortelius</a>.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian).</li><li>Hispaniae Novae Sivae Magnae Re Cens Et Ve Ra Descrip Tio, 1579, from Theatre De L’univers.</li><li>Antwerp: Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598.</li><li>Double-page copper engraved map, with later hand-coloring.</li><li>Cartouches for titles and disclaimer.</li><li>French text on verso.</li><li>This work is presented matted.</li></ul>&nbsp;Well-preserved example of Ortelius’ map of Mexico, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l’Univers. Enriched with decorative cartouches, ships, and a mythical sea with islands in the northwest.

Belgian Map Of Mexico

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The English Spy, illustrated by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Cruikshank&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Cruikshank</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Charles Malloy Westmacott (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank.</li><li>The English Spy. An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle.</li><li>London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, 1826.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>With 71 hand-colored aquatint plates, one full page wood engraving, and 74 woodcuts in the text, after Robert Cruikshank.</li><li>Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt spine, all edges gilt, by Riviere &amp; Son.</li></ul> A vast panorama of high and low life in Regency England, from aristocratic London and the fashionable spas to pubs and boxing rings and street markets and sailors' carousals and town-and-gown riots, all caught in Westmacott's text and Cruikshank's inimitable illustrations. Abbey notes that this book was once described as "perhaps the most daring book ever published", since many of the characters were drawn from life, "and were, at the time of publication, undoubtedly easy to recognize". Time has perhaps obscured some of the scandalous aspects, but the work remains a vivid chronicle of a regal and rambunctious age.

The English Spy

A British railway <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of India by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Colonel%20Henry%20Ravenshaw%20Thuillier&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier</a>.<ul><li>Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier (English).</li><li>Railway Map of India. Railways Brought up to October 1895. </li><li>Scale: 1 Inch = 48 miles or 1:3,041,280.</li><li>Calcutta: Published under the direction of Colonel H. Thuillier, R.E., Surveyor General of India,&nbsp;October 1890.</li><li>Photozincograph map.</li><li>Partly printed in color, with additional hand-coloring.</li><li>Dissected into 50 sheets and mounted on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>&nbsp;A comprehensive railway map of British India, including the subcontinent and Burma, also displaying the main road networks, navigable canals, steamship routes, and telegraph connections across the peninsular. This publication by the Survey of India Office includes a useful ‘References’ key giving information on the differing gauges in use across the region, and a color code highlighting the lands under direct British administration in pink, ‘Tributary States’ in yellow and ‘Independent and Foreign Possessions’ in Green. A notice records the price for color as ‘Five Rupees’, as against ‘Four Rupees’ without. Prepared under the direction of Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier, who as his father before him, served as Surveyor General of India from 1887 to 1895. Here Baluchistan is shown as an enclave of the British Raj. This strategically important territory lies in modern-day Pakistan, and is situated around the natural fort town of Quetta located high in the Chiltan mountains. It came under direct British rule in 1876, securing the vital Bolan Pass though which British troops under the command of General Michael Biddulph passed during the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 to 1880. The railway connecting the remote province to the Raj proper was built through the pass in 1887. The map also contains an early route highlighted in crayon showing a journey by sea to Bombay, and thence via Daman to the Indian Princely State of Baroda. Other towns underlined in crayon include Kurrachee, Lingsugur, Raichur, and Hyderabad.

Railway Map of India

A group of Amaryllis <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">plates</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre-Joseph%20Redout%C3%A9&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre-Joseph Redouté</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8.</li><li>Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French).&nbsp;</li><li>Paris: Chez L’Auteur,&nbsp;1802-16.</li><li>Printed in colors and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>Each is presented framed.</li></ul>&nbsp;Redoute was at the height of his powers during the publication of Les Liliacees. It is easily the equal in accomplishment of its more popular successor, Les Roses. The work is broader than its title implies, including as it does petaloid monocotyledons in general belonging, for example to Commelinaceae, Bromeliaceae, Liliaceae. At this time, he had as patron and sponsor Josephine Bonaparte, who, on acquiring Malmaison and establishing a superb garden of rare plants there, required an artist of outstanding talent to record them.

Amaryllis Plates

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Plates</a> from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit,' by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre%20Jean%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Turpin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre Jean François Turpin</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Pierre%20Antoine%20Poiteau&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pierre Antoine Poiteau</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Pierre Jean François Turpin (French).</li><li>Pierre Antoine Poiteau (French).</li><li>Traité des arbres Fruitiers.</li><li>Paris: H. Perronneau for T. Delachausée, 1807-1835.</li><li>Stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand.</li><li>Each is presented framed.</li></ul>&nbsp;This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is an independent work and was intended as Poiteau and Turpin's homage to the earlier work. A team of over twenty engravers was involved. The color printing was by Langlois, the great French color-printer who supervised much of Redouté's work.

Traité Des Arbres Fruitier Plates

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first state of Arctic Explorations by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Elisha%20Kent%20Kane&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elisha Kent Kane</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Elisha Kent Kane (American).</li><li>The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55.</li><li>Philadelphia: Childs &amp; Peterson, 1856.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>With engraved vignette titles, engraved portrait frontispieces of Kane and Grinnell, 18 engraved plates with tissue guards, 3 maps, one of them folding, folding isothermal chart, and numerous wood engravings in the text.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's dark brown wave-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine, decorative blind frames to boards, enclosing blind ship vignettes to front.</li></ul> This edition with folding map without "Kane Sea" labeling the expanse between Smith Strait and Kennedy Channel: the appellation was inserted only after an American historian of Arctic exploration, Colonel Peter Force, wrote to the publishers demonstrating that Kane's discovery of the strait had been suppressed. "In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent participated in two Arctic expeditions and by the time of his death in 1857 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors … Little went right in the second expedition [but] there were many notable achievements … The discoveries of Kennedy Channel, the Kane Basin, a record north of 80° 10'N, and the sighting of the Humboldt Glacier were important firsts for Kane."

Arctic Explorations

A collection of engravings after <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joachim%20Sandrart&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joachim Sandrart</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Joachim Sandrart (German).</li><li>Venice: Stefano Scolari, 1650.</li><li>Copper-plate engravings.</li><li>Each is captioned in Latin with 8 lines of Latin verse below image.</li><li>Each is numbered and mounted.</li></ul>&nbsp;This decorative series, Labours of the Months refers to the Medieval cycle depicting in twelve scenes the rural activities that commonly took place in the months of the year. These scenes all depict tasks which are necessary all year round to put food on the table. They are all linked to the signs of the Zodiac and in each engraving the relevant sign appears indicating the relationship between the heavens and earth.&nbsp; The engravings are after a series was created by the artist Joachim Sandrart (1606-1688) and commissioned by Prince Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria for the old Schleissheim Palace. Painted in Amsterdam in 1641-43, the work comprises the twelve labors of the months, also includes two allegories of time (hours of the day) (today they are housed at Old Pinakothek, Munich). As a series of etchings the paintings were reproduced for the first time in 1645 by the engravers Falck, Suyderhoef, van Dalen the Younger, Haelwegh, Persijn and others (another edition dated 1651). This series of copperplates, was engraved by the Venetian engraver and publisher Stefano Scolari who worked between 1650-70. All the plates have the Latin verses by Caspar Barlaeus below the image . The texts were published in Sandrart’s Lebenslauf und Kunstwerke.

Labours of the Months Engravings

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> framed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">print</a> of ballet slippers.<ul><li>Thomas Greig (English).</li><li>Edinburgh: David Douglas,&nbsp;1900.</li><li>Chromolithographed illustration of a pair of&nbsp;Ballet Slippers.</li><li>Printed with gold and silver inks.</li><li>Framed and glazed.</li></ul>&nbsp;‘The sixty-three ladies’ shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have been most carefully selected to illustrate the variety and change of fashion during that period.’ Each page contains three nearly life-sized shoes except for a single shoe on frontispiece and last plate, which depicts Madame Cerri's ballet slipper.

Ballet Slippers

Detailed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Oman, with Muscat marked, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Philippe%20Vandermaelen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philippe Vandermaelen</a>.<ul><li>Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgian).</li><li>Partie de L'Arabie. Asie No 92.</li><li>Brussels: 1827.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Showing part of the Arabian peninsula, including Oman, with Muscat and the island of Marirah also marked. Published in the Atlas Universel de Geographie, the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836. Because of this standardization it was the first time that some areas of the world were shown with any detail. However, the interior of the peninsula is mostly blank and some of the coastal features are incorrect.

Belgian Map Of Oman

A 17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Turkish Empire by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;objectTypes=Book&amp;query=Frederick%20De%20Wit&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frederick De Wit</a>.<ul><li>Frederick De Wit (Dutch).</li><li>Turcicum Imperium.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1688. </li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The second state of De Wit's map of the Turkish Empire, without 'Johannes Lhulier Sculp' in the bottom right border and with his own imprint in the title cartouche. Some more detail has been added in the interior of Arabia (in the region of modern Riyadh), and, strangely, in Italy &amp; Germany. The title cartouche features three men in turbans above two western slaves.

Dutch Map Of The Turkish Empire

17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Dutch Spice Islands.<ul><li>Jodocus Hondius II (Dutch).</li><li>Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch).</li><li>Moluccae Insulae Celeberimae.</li><li>Amsterdam: 1640.</li><li>Fine original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Early map of the islands of Ternate, Timor, Tidore and Makian, off the coast of Halmahera, orientated with north to the right with an insert map of the Dutch East India Company's trading post on Bachian Island. This chain was a focal point of the VOC's lucrative spice trade. Despite Blaeu's name on the plate, this map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius II (son of the engraver of Speed's county atlas). When Jodocus died in 1629 many of his plates were sold to Willem Blaeu, who added his name to the plates and used them to publish his first atlas in 1630. Angered by the sale, Hondius's brother-in-law Jansson had these plates slavishly copied for the family atlas.

Dutch Map Of Moluccas

An early 19th century description of Constantinople, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Adam%20Bergk&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Adam Bergk</a>.<ul><li>Johann Adam Bergk (German).</li><li>Beschreibung von Constantinopel... Nebst einem Plane und einem Prospekte dieser Stadt, so wie einer Charte von den Dardanellen.</li><li>Leipzig: Industrie-Comptoir, circa 1807. </li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Three folding engraved plates.</li><li>Wrappers, front printed with title.</li></ul> A German-text description of Constantinople, illustrated with a map and prospect of the city, and a map of the Dardanelles.

German Map Of Constantinople

A mid-19th century town plan of New York City by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John%20M.%20Atwood&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John M. Atwood</a>.<ul><li>John M. Atwood (American).</li><li>Map of the City of New York with the Adjacent Cities of Brooklyn &amp; Jersey City, &amp; The Village of Williamsburg.</li><li>New York: Ensign &amp; Thayer, 1849. </li><li>Original color.</li><li>Folded into cloth gilt covers, with booklet, with titlepage.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A folding plan of New York City with insets of Jersey City and Upper Manhattan. Of interest is the list of 'strokes of bell', for fire alarms of each district. The text is an extensive gazetteer.

Map Of New York City

An early English chart of the east coast of Newfoundland on two sheets, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry%20Southwood&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Southwood</a>.<ul><li>Henry Southwood (English).</li><li>The Coast of New Found Land From Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista.</li><li>London: W. &amp; J. Mount and T. Page, 1748. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The east coast of Newfoundland from Bonavista south to Trepassy, orientated with north to the right. Insets show St John's Harbor and Trinity Harbor. The chart was engraved by James Clark and first published in John Thornton's Atlas Maritimus in 1676. This example was published in an edition of Mount &amp; Page's The English Pilot. The Fourth Book Describing The West India Navigation... Also, a New Description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina. This was the first sea atlas of America containing charts only from English sources.

English Map Of Newfoundland

An 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Liguria with a prospect of Genoa by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Baptist%20Homann&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Baptist Homann</a>.<ul><li>Johann Baptist Homann (German).</li><li>Status Reipublicae Genuensis nec non Prospectuum Celeberrimae eiusdem Urbis et Portus Geographica simul et Topographica Descriptio.</li><li>Nuremberg: circa 1730.</li><li>Original color with additions to the prospect.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fine map of the Republic of Genoa. Beneath the map is an elaborate allegorical title cartouche depicting the achievements of the Republic. Below that is a prospect of the city with a key to important places.

German Map Of Genoa

The world as known to the Ancients, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Giovanni%20Maria%20Cassini&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Giovanni Maria Cassini</a>.<ul><li>Giovanni Maria Cassini&nbsp;(Italian).</li><li>Mappa Mondo Antico Diviso Nell'Uno e nell'Altro Continente secondo la mente di Guglielmo Sanson.</li><li>Rome: 1801.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A double-hemisphere map showing the contemporary outline of the world but with references from ancient history and myth. Neither Australia nor New New Zealand are named, Sri Lanka is marked Taprobana and America 'Atlante' or Atlantis. Published in the rare Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale, it is decorated with allegorical figures of the four continents in the corners.

Italian Map Of The Ancient World

First <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">plate</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Ortelius&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ortelius</a>' map of the Holy Land.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian).</li><li>Palestinae sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Nova Descriptio Auctore Tilemanno Stella Sigenens.</li><li>Antwerp: 1574.</li><li>Latin text edition.</li><li>Colored.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The Holy Land after Stella, showing the route of the Exodus, printed from the first of three very similar plates. All three have the same two large strapwork cartouches; however this plate has five ships and three sea-monsters, while the second has only one monster, and the third only three ships and no monsters.

Belgian Map Of Palestine

A 17th century Italian map of Tartary by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Giovanni%20Giacomo%20De%20Rossi&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi</a>.<ul><li>Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian).</li><li>La Gran Tartaria divisa nelle sue parti principali..</li><li>Rome: 1683.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A chart of Sumatra and the tip of the Malay Peninsula, orientated with north to the left. Published in Jansson's sea-atlas, it was first issued 1657, a decade after the Dutch seized Malacca from the Portuguese. The map also marks the Aceh sultanate on the northern tip of Sumatra: during the 1650s the Dutch encouraged revolts against Aceh rule in order to gain control of tin deposits in the area.

Italian Map Of Tartary

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Prussian and Russian occupation of the Duchy of Warsaw by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Ernst%20Knittel&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Ernst Knittel</a>.<ul><li>Johann Ernst Knittel (German).</li><li>Neue militairische Situations=und Post=Carte von Polen und Preussen von I.E. Kinittel. Nouvelle Carte militaire et routiere de la Pologne et de la Prusse par I.E. Knittel.</li><li>Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, 1812. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A separate-issue map of the Duchy of Warsaw as the Prussians and Russians occupied the country after Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow. It places emphasis on the post roads, which would have been the main lines of communication for the occupying army. At the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars the Polish people saw Bonaparte as the best chance for them to regain their country after the three Partitions inflicted on them by Austria, Russia and Prussia. Polish Legions fought with the French in Europe, Egypt and the West Indies, and were rewarded with the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. However, as Napoleon's army fled from Moscow, the Russians followed, overrunning the Duchy and occupying it until the Congress of Vienna (1815) divided it between Russia and Prussia.

German Map Of Poland

17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Sumatra marking Singapore, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jan%20Jansson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jan Jansson</a>.<ul><li>Jan Jansson (Dutch).</li><li>Sumatrae et Insularum Locorumque nonnullorum Circumiacentium Tabula Nova.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1657.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A chart of Sumatra and the tip of the Malay Peninsula, orientated with north to the left. Published in Jansson's sea-atlas, it was first issued 1657, a decade after the Dutch seized Malacca from the Portuguese. The map also marks the Aceh sultanate on the northern tip of Sumatra: during the 1650s the Dutch encouraged revolts against Aceh rule in order to gain control of tin deposits in the area.

Dutch Map Of Sumatra

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Classical Turkey and Cyprus by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nicolas%20Sanson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicolas Sanson</a>.<ul><li>Nicolas Sanson (French).</li><li>Asia Minor in Epitomen Contracta, Magnas Regiones, seu Provincias Representans, in quibus Populi, Primariae Urbes, Locaque Praecipua Notantur.</li><li>Paris: Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, circa 1731. </li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A map of Asia Minor, first published by Pierre Moullard Sanson in 1697, but this example published by Gilles Robert du Vaugondy, who took over his business in 1731.

French Map Of Ancient Turkey

A detailed 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Mediterranean Sea, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Louis%20Andr%C3%A9%20Dupuis&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Louis André Dupuis</a>.<ul><li>Louis André Dupuis (French).</li><li>Carte de la Mer Méditerranée. 1785.</li><li>Paris: 1785.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined, dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and detailed sea-chart of the Mediterranean. The same year Dupuis published similar charts of the Baltic, Black Sea and the Danube.

French Map Of The Mediterranean

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Pipra Militaris, Pipra Serena, Pipra Setifera and Pipra Galeata.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

Ornithologie Bresilienne Birds Plate

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Pipra Strigillata, Pipra Erythrocephala, Pipra Chrysocephala and Pipra Aureola.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Muscipeta Filicauda, Muscipeta Leucocephala, Muscipeta Psalura, Muscipeta Alector and Muscipeta Coronata.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Euphonia Chlorolica, Euphonia Vittata, Euphonia Diademata and Euphonia Psittacina.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Phibalura Flavirostris, Querula Rubricollis, Turdus Orpheus, Turdus Flavipes and Turdus Brasiliensis.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a>&nbsp;of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From&nbsp;Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Pipra Pareola, Pipra Gutturosa and Pipra Caudata.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work&nbsp;Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colored plate</a> of birds by Jean-Théodore Descourtilz.<ul><li>Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (French).</li><li>From Ornithologie Bresilienne ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.</li><li>Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons; London for Thomas Reeves, circa 1852-1856.</li><li>Birds depicted: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor and Tanagra Chrysogaster.</li><li>Chromolithgraph plate printed in color and finished by hand.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> second edition of Edward Newman's History Of Insects.<ul><li>Edward Newman (English).</li><li>A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; Being a new and greatly improved edition of the Grammar of Entomology.</li><li>London: John van Voorst, 1841.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>288 pages.</li><li>Engravings throughout the text.</li><li>Bound in late nineteenth-century brown half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, bookplate</li></ul> Though nominally a manufacturer, Edward Newman (1801-1876) devoted much of his leisure time to natural history, in particular insects. He was a founder of the Entomological Club and housed its collections and library in his residence, and he served as editor of the Entomological Magazine. He was a founder of the Entomological Society of London, serving as president between 1853 and 1854, and was elected to the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society, and the Royal Microscopical Society, as well as a number of foreign scientific societies. ‘Newman's publications up to 1838 focused on entomological subjects. His first paper, in 1831, “Polyommatus argiolus, melitaea euphrosyne and selene”, was published in the Magazine of Natural History, and a year later his more important work, Sphinx vespiformis: an Essay, appeared; it was regarded as an attempt at a new system of classification. In 1832 he began an anonymous series of notes in the Magazine of Natural History, which were reprinted in 1849 as The Letters of Rusticus, chiefly discussing the bird and insect life of Surrey. His pseudonym, Rusticus, was a secret known not even by his closest friend, the naturalist Edward Doubleday (1810–1849). In 1835 he published the Grammar of Entomology, of which a more extended second edition was issued in 1841, under the title A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; this was later issued as The Insect Hunters, or, Entomology in Verse (1858)’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

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