A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Armillary sphere.]](jpegs/19976.jpg)
[Armillary sphere.]
[Paris, 1770.]
Copper engraving with original colour. 320 x 555mm, 12½ x 21½". Split in centrefold, as normal.
A decorative engraving of an armilllary sphere, with Earth at the centre and the rings representing the various planes, on an ornate stand. Down the sides is an engraved text. Published for Clouet's 'Geographie Moderne'.
[Ref: 19976] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Paris, 1770.]
Copper engraving with original colour. 320 x 555mm, 12½ x 21½". Split in centrefold, as normal.
A decorative engraving of an armilllary sphere, with Earth at the centre and the rings representing the various planes, on an ornate stand. Down the sides is an engraved text. Published for Clouet's 'Geographie Moderne'.
[Ref: 19976] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Jean Ribault at Charlesfort.]](jpegs/39090.jpg)
[Jean Ribault at Charlesfort.]
[from a wall map by Abbé Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet.]
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 150mm (5½ x 6"). Trimmed from a larger sheet, mounted on card.
A vignette scene of Jean Ribault (1520-65) at Charlesfort, the settlement he founded in Florida (but now South Carolina), shown on good terms with the local native Americans. Unfortunately relations were not so good with the Spanish: following the destruction of his fleet by a hurricane Ribault surrendered his destitute army to a Spanish force, who promptly knifed Ribault and his predomininately Huguenot followers. This is one of twenty vignette scenes decorating the borders of Abbé Clouet's wall map of the Americas, 'Carte d'Amerique Divisee en ses Principaux Pays Dressee sur les Memoires les Plus Recents...'.
[Ref: 39090] £450.00
[from a wall map by Abbé Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet.]
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 150mm (5½ x 6"). Trimmed from a larger sheet, mounted on card.
A vignette scene of Jean Ribault (1520-65) at Charlesfort, the settlement he founded in Florida (but now South Carolina), shown on good terms with the local native Americans. Unfortunately relations were not so good with the Spanish: following the destruction of his fleet by a hurricane Ribault surrendered his destitute army to a Spanish force, who promptly knifed Ribault and his predomininately Huguenot followers. This is one of twenty vignette scenes decorating the borders of Abbé Clouet's wall map of the Americas, 'Carte d'Amerique Divisee en ses Principaux Pays Dressee sur les Memoires les Plus Recents...'.
[Ref: 39090] £450.00