Historical Books and Etchings

Collection of vintage books featuring historical topics, etchings, and illustrations, showcasing diverse subjects and styles from the 18th to 19th centuries.

How we photograph the clouds, hayez, c. 1899 book Brussels paper printing

Lightning explosions of steam boilers; of their real cause; Infallible way to avoid them, Désiré Tassin, 1863 book Liège paper. linen (material). photographic support. transparant paper printing / albumen print / shell marbled paper

Essay on the principles governing the administration of justice to the Dutch East Indies especially in the islands of Java and Madoura and their application, C.P.K. Winckel, 1880 book publisher: Amsterdampublisher: Samarang paper. linen (material) printing

Etching by Joseph Fischer after 1822 depicting a village associated with Peter Paul Rubens, showing buildings, streets, and landscape elements.

Leaves from A. Hendschel's sketchbook, Theodor Huth, After Albert Hendschel, c. 1870 Cover with 50 photos on 48 sheets, a list of images and a title page. Frankfurt am Main paper. cardboard. linen (material) albumen print / printing Cover with 50 photos on 48 sheets, a list of images and a title page. Frankfurt am Main paper. cardboard. linen (material) albumen print / printing

A popular history of the grammar school of Queen Elizabeth at Heath, near Halifax, Thomas Cox, 1879 book Halifax paper. linen (material) printing

Ayame-san, a Japanese romance of the 23rd year of Meiji (1890), Walter Scott (uitgever), 1892 book London paper. linen (material). cardboard. rope printing / collotype

Freshly decorated with leaf motifs, a zeis and a chalice. It concerns verse: L'Hiver de l'Age by A. Dehen.

Annals of Lloyd's register : being a sketch of the origin, constitution, and progress of Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping, c. 1884 book paper. photographic support. cardboard. textile materials printing / albumen print

Memories of a member of the town, 1877 book paper printing / collotype

How we photograph the clouds, hayez, c. 1899 book Brussels paper printing

Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861..

Big Kopparberg's mountain team. From Carl Sahlin's mountain historical collection.

Portrait of presumably Eugène Garsonnet, Anonymous, c. 1872 - In or Before 1877 photograph photographic support albumen print historical persons

Photo production from a print to a relief by Anne Seymour Damer, representing a scene from Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, Stephen Ayling, After William Satchwell Leney, after Anne Seymour Damer, c. 1854 - in or before 1867 photograph You can see deed II, scene 1 with six figures in a row. London photographic support albumen print specific works of literature

Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861, Arthur Helps, 1868 book London paper. cardboard. photographic support. leather albumen print / printing

Print (France)

Report on the excavations operated in 1868 in Juslenville by the Liège archaeological institute, Stanislas Bormans, c. 1869 book Liège paper. cardboard printing / albumen print

Fig. 53 'De Genista' in the Boodts Herbarium of 1640, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1640 text sheet Beschrijving bij Fig. 53 op p. 104 In: Anselm Boët de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi 2. Imp. Roman. Physicians from the bedrooms of flowers, herbs, and fruits of selectior Icons, and the strength of the most unknown. Onderdeel van het album met Bladen en platen shipped de Boodts Herbarium van 1640. Het twaalfde van twaalf albums met Aquarellen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend Rond 1600, gemaakt in Opdracht van Keizer Rudolf 2. Used paper. ink letterpress printing

Jean-François Xhoffer de Verviers: his life and his work, 1881 book paper. photographic support printing / albumen print

Life image of Simon Kuhlenhölter from 1860 to 1882, pastor of the Evang. Salem's community in Quincy, Ills. / by H. Hoefer, 1886 book paper. textile materials. cardboard. photographic support printing / albumen print

FIG. 33 'of Sempervivo in the Boodts Herbarium van 1640, Anselm Boëtius de Boodt, 1640 text sheet Beschrijving bij Fig. 33 op p. 64 In: Anselm Boët de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi 2. Imp. Roman. Physicians from the bedrooms of flowers, herbs, and fruits of selectior Icons, and the strength of the most unknown. Onderdeel van het album met Bladen en platen shipped de Boodts Herbarium van 1640. Het twaalfde van twaalf albums met Aquarellen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend Rond 1600, gemaakt in Opdracht van Keizer Rudolf 2. Used paper. ink letterpress printing

The Church of the Bishopric of Arges, Savva N. Soimescu, 1886 book Bucharest paper. cardboard. photographic support printing / albumen print

Photo production of a portrait of Frederik VI van Denmark, Anonymous, After Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, c. 1867 - in Or Before 1877 photograph photographic support albumen print Ruler, Sovereign

The islands and coral reefs of Fiji. .

Reproduction of a design for the World Exhibition of 1885 in Antwerp by Frans van Kuyck, Emile Aubry, After Frans Van Kuyck, c. 1880 - in or before 1885 photomechanical print Brussels paper collotype world fair, world exhibition

Portret van François-Gaspard Leroy, anonymous, c. 1862 - in or before 1867 photograph photographic support albumen print historical persons

The expression of mind disorders in man and the animals, Charles Darwin, 1873 book The Hague paper. linen (material) printing / collotype

Life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl, 1879 book Boston linen (material). cardboard. paper printing / collotype

Ninety days in the tropics, or letters from Brazil, William Stuart Auchincloss, 1874 book paper. photographic support. cardboard. linen (material) albumen print

Reproduction of a title page, Anonymous, c. 1881 - in or before 1889 photomechanical print Antwerp paper photolithography title-page

Freshly decorated with two portraits and a house, Collin, c. 1858 - in or before 1868 photograph Concerns verse: Contraste by A. Dehen. Paris photographic support albumen print historical persons. housing

On the results of spectrum analysis applied to the heavenly bodies, William Huggins, 1866 book London paper. photographic support. linen (material) albumen print

Freshly decorated with a tent, an open book and probably a bidchair. It concerns verse: Le Voeu by A. Dehen.

Print, Title page from Oeuvres contenant un recueil de trophées, attributs, cartouches, vases, fleurs, ornemens, et plusieurs dessins agréables pour broder des fauteuils; composés et dessinés par Ranson, et gravés par Berthaut et Voysard

Swedish iron stamps 1907.Press.ur Carl Sahlin's mountain history collection.

Bombay and Western India : a series of stray papers, James Douglas, 1893 book London paper. leather. cardboard. linen (material) Printing / Moiré Marbled Paper

The truth about the flight and arrest of Louis XVI in Varennes according to unpublished documents, Étienne Auguste Ancelon, 1866 book Paris paper. photographic support. linen (material). leather. cardboard printing / albumen print / veined marbled paper

The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Walter Scott, 1868 book Edinburgh paper. photographic support. leather. wood (plant material) albumen print / engraving / printing

Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt 1882, 1885 book Washington D.C. textile materials. paper collotype / printing

Horace Opera, Horatius, 1855 book Paris paper. cardboard. linen (material). photographic support printing / albumen print

The Holkham bust of Thucydides, a study in Greek iconography. .

About the creation of the species in the animal and plant kingdom by natural breeding, or maintaining the combined breeds in the struggle for Daseyn, Charles Darwin, 1863 book Stuttgart paper. cardboard. photographic support. leather printing / albumen print

A walk from London to John O'Groat's, with notes by the way, Elliott & Fry, 1864 London paper. cardboard. linen (material). glassine albumen print / letterpress printing London paper. cardboard. linen (material). glassine albumen print / letterpress printing

Annals of the Royal Observatory of Brussels. Astronomical Annals, F. Hayez, 1883 book Brussels paper. cardboard printing

Directory of the Liége free emulation company, J.-G. Carmanne, 1863 book Liège paper. cardboard. photographic support printing / albumen print

Portret van Moritz Hartmann, G.F. Krauss, c. 1854 - in or before 1864 photograph Germany photographic support albumen print writer, poet, author

Title to Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects. Artist: Workshop of Charles Percier (French, Paris 1764-1838 Paris); Workshop of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (French, Pontoise 1762-1853 Paris). Dimensions: 15 11/16 x 10 in. (39.8 x 25.4 cm). Date: ca. 1800-1850. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Ancient Pile of Guillaume The Guileville ENTITLED LE PELERINAGE THE LA HOMME, COMPARED WOMATH THE PILLIGRIAN. .

Bald spot on the head of a child caused by ringworm, anonymous, c. 1868 - in or before 1878 photomechanical print paper infections and wounds

Excursion in Brussels of the association of engineers who left the Liége school, F. Hayez, 1876 book Brussels paper. linen (material). transparant paper printing / albumen print / photolithography

Life and works of Blessed Marguerite-Marie Alacoque ..., Poussielgue Frères, 1867 book Paris photographic support. paper. linen (material). leather albumen print / spanish marbled paper

I remember Florence 24 views of photography with description = album of florence 24 photographic views with descriptive text, Giacomo Brogi, c. 1871 book Florence paper. photographic support. linen (material) albumen print

List of historical characters depicted by the students in the historic procession at the second centenary of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, 1836; Optogters the Dutch armies to Ostend (...) which will be proposed by the students of the Utrechtsche Hoogeschool den 16den Junij 1836.; Optogtes the Dutch armies to Ostende, the 3 July 1600, daily after the BY Nieuwpoort victory; According to the coated show, given by H H students, by the center of the second centenary of the Utrechtsche Hoogeschool. The 16 June 1836. Printed booklet with a list of the proposed historic characters and groups in the historic costumed procession of the students of the Hogeschool van Utrecht in on June 16, 1836, at the celebration of the second centenary of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. The procession represents the arrival of the state army in Ostend on July 3, 1600, day after victory in the Battle of Nieuwpoort. Booklet with 11 numbered pages.

The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium. .

Historical study on the Marquis de Pombal, 1738-1777 / by Baron Édouard de Septenville, Édouard Septenville (Baron) de, 1868 book Brussels paper. photographic support. linen (material). cardboard printing / decorated paper / albumen print

The ferrotype and how to make it/ by Edward M. Estabrooke, Edward M. Estabrooke, 1873 book Cincinnati paper. linen (material). cardboard. iron (metal) Printing / Ferrotyping

Oldport days, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1873 book Boston paper. cardboard. linen (material) printing / collotype

Fairylife and fairyland a lyric poem, Thomas of Ercildoune, 1870 book London paper. cardboard. photographic support. linen (material) albumen print

FIG. 11 'De Flora Constantinople' in the Boodts Herbarium Van 1640, Anselm Boëtius de Boodt, 1640 text sheet Beschrijving bij Fig. 11 op p. 20 In: Anselm Boët de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi 2. Imp. Roman. Physicians from the bedrooms of flowers, herbs, and fruits of selectior Icons, and the strength of the most unknown. Onderdeel van het album met Bladen en platen shipped de Boodts Herbarium van 1640. Het twaalfde van twaalf albums met Aquarellen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend Rond 1600, gemaakt in Opdracht van Keizer Rudolf 2. Used paper. ink letterpress printing

Print, Title Page; Written by Pietro Metastasio (Italian, 1698 - 1782); Published by Giovanni Claudio Molini (Italian, 1724 - 1812); France; etching on laid paper; Sheet: 21.6 x 15.2 cm (8 1/2 x 6 in.)

Hotel Astor. 1917. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division

Photography without devices for the reproduction of drawings, engravings, photographs and any plans objects, Maurice Boudet de Paris, 1886 book Paris paper printing

Litterar estate of Friedrich Raumer ...

Old and modern paintings porcelain and antiquity, E.J. Brill, 1879 book publisher: Leidenpublisher: Amsterdam cardboard. paper printing / albumen print / marbled paper

Back-bone photographed from "the scalpel", Edward H. Dixon, 1866 book New York (city) paper. cardboard. linen (material). photographic support printing / albumen print

Portrait of an unknown woman reading a letter, George M. Elton, c. 1873 - In or Before 1878 photograph Palmyra photographic support albumen print historical persons not known by name - BB - woman Palmyra

Speech on Wilhelm Grimm and talk about age, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, 1864 book Berlin paper printing / albumen print

A few words about His Excellency the maquis of Avila and Bolama, André Meyrelles de Tavora do canto e Castro, 1871 book Lisbon paper. cardboard albumen print / printing

The expression of feelings in humans in animals, Charles Darwin, 1890 book Turin paper. linen (material) collotype / decorated paper

From Carmen Sylva's life, Natalie Stackelberg (Freiin) von, 1886 book Heidelberg paper. linen (material). cardboard printing / collotype

Instructions for positive and negative retouch, Carl Zamboni, 1888 book Hall on the Saale paper. cardboard. linen (material) printing / collotype

Portret van Georges Montjoie, anonymous, c. 1884 - in or before 1889 photograph photographic support albumen print historical persons

The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau in the summer of 1871/ by Gerald Molloy, Gerald Molloy, 1872 book Boston paper. linen (material). cardboard. photographic support printing / albumen print

The theatre, Clement Scott, c. 1883 magazine London paper. leather printing / combed marbled paper

Natural history papers and memoir of N. Laurence Austen. .

Selections from the poems of Charlotte Elliott, Charlotte Elliott, c. 1873 book publisher: Londonpublisher: Manchester paper. linen (material) collotype

Studies on microstructures of the frozen sulfur and comments on sublimation, ... etc., Otto Büschli, 1900 book Leipzig paper collotype / printing

The Mall, George Gardner Rockwood, c. 1869 - in or before 1870 photograph Central Park (New York) photographic support albumen print public gardens, park. avenue, boulevard, promenade, esplanade Central Park (New York)

Travel to Switzerland, Louis Ghémar, 1868 book paper. photographic support. linen (material) printing / albumen print / shell marbled paper

Bernardus Ledeboer, Adrianus Marinus Ledeboer, 1877 Deventer paper. cardboard printing / albumen print Deventer paper. cardboard printing / albumen print

Photo production of a portrait of louise van mecklenburg-strelitz; Luise Königin von Preuses. .

Catalogue of the Soulage collection being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession of M. Jules Soulages of Toulouse, now.... exhibited to the public at the Museum of Ornamental art, Marlborough House december 1856, John Charles Robinson, 1856 book London paper. photographic support. linen (material) albumen print

Frozes and backstage: Anecdotal history of the Théatres de Paris: Comédie-Française, Imprimerie Paul Dupont, 1874 book printer: Clichypublisher: Paris paper. photographic support albumen print

Bernard Véillot died on June 1, 1886 in Saint-Mary's College (Cantorbéry). .

The expression of humbles in humans and the reading. .

Print, Title Page; Designed by Bellay (French, active from 1734); Print Maker: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); France; etching and engraving on laid paper

Annual report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park for the year ending December 31, 1869, Evening Post Steam Presses, 1870 book New York (city) paper. photographic support printing / albumen print

Freshly decorated with leaf motifs, birds and Christian symbolism. It concerns verse: Jadis et aujourd'hui by A. Dehen.

Gruss Aus Rheinland, diverse manufacturers, 1866 book Elberfeld paper. photographic support. cardboard. linen (material) printing / albumen print

Encyclopedic photography repertoire: including in alphabetical order everything that appeared and appeared in France and abroad since the discovery by Niepce and Daguerre. Volume 4, Henri de la Blanchère, c. 1862 - C. 1866 Printer: Bar-sur-Seinepublisher: Paris paper. cardboard. linen (material) letterpress printing Printer: Bar-sur-Seinepublisher: Paris paper. cardboard. linen (material) letterpress printing

Rev. Francis Muir, anonymous, c. 1863 - in or before 1873 photograph Leith photographic support albumen print façade (of house or building)

Natural history papers and memoir of N. Laurence Austen, R. Clay & Sons, 1877 book paper. linen (material)

Bulletin of the Belgian Society of Geology, Paleontology and Hydrology, Polleunis and Ceuterick, 1889 magazine Brussels paper. linen (material) printing / collotype / double combed marbled paper

Portrait of Jeanne (actress at the theater of varieties) Portrait of Jeanne actress at the theater of varieties. 1860-1890. Business card (verso). Photograph of Louis Joseph Gemmi Prevot and Thomassin & Cie.

Fig. 34 'The Tapso Barbato' in the Boodts Herbarium of 1640, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1640 text sheet Beschrijving bij Fig. 34 op p. 66 in: Anselm Boët de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi 2. Imp. Roman. Physicians from the bedrooms of flowers, herbs, and fruits of selectior Icons, and the strength of the most unknown. Onderdeel van het album met Bladen en platen shipped de Boodts Herbarium van 1640. Het twaalfde van twaalf albums met Aquarellen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend Rond 1600, gemaakt in Opdracht van Keizer Rudolf 2. Used paper. ink letterpress printing

Alderman Cobden of Manchester letters and reminiscences of alderman Cobden, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, and index, Edward Watkin, 1891 book London paper. linen (material)

Descriptive notice of the drawings and publications of the Arundel Society, Frederic W. Maynard, 1869 book London cardboard. paper. photographic support. linen (material) printing / albumen print

Alderman Cobden of Manchester letters and reminiscences of alderman Cobden, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, and index. .

Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain, William Howitt, 1862 book London paper. photographic support. leather albumen print

Italian jewellery as worn by the peasants of Italy collected by signor Castellani and purchased from the Paris universal exhibition for the South Kensington Museum, Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, 1868 book London photographic support. linen (material). leather. cardboard printing / albumen print

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