Short Diodon Pipe Fish

Sea Porcupine

Sand Eel

Copper etching ca 1800. Some spotting on upper margin edges. Binding marks on right margin edge.

15.7 x 9 cm ( 6.1 x 3.5 ")

$ 45.00

Order Nr. FISH9017

The fish on the left is an "Aesche" in German and on the right is a "Forelle" (trout).

Woodcut published ca 1585. Reverse side is printed with three fish images and text.
Fine, recent hand coloring.
Print has small, scattered worm holes in lower part of image. Small repairs in upper right margin corner..
400 years have left their signs of age!

Page size: 34 x 22 cm ( 13.3 x 8.6 ")

$ 340.00

Order Nr. FISH9091

Sturionum has duas icones Venetijs naetus sum: Secundum Moronam mominant.
Sturio primus Sturio secundus

Woodcut published ca 1585. Reverse side is printed with three fish images and text in Latin.
Fine, recent hand coloring.
Print has small, scattered worm holes in lower part of image. Small repairs in upper right and left margin corners.
Some light scattered spotting.
400 years have left their signs of age!

Page size: 34 x 22 cm ( 13.3 x 8.6 ")

$ 360.00

Order Nr. FISH9091

Drago Marino (Stone Fish)

Woodcut by Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-1577).
Published 1571. Reverse side is printed with another s type of stone fish and a sea snake plus text in Italian.
Fine, recent hand coloring. Small repairs on lower margin edge .Some light scattered spotting.
400 years have left their signs of age!

Page size: 34 x 22 cm ( 13.3 x 8.6 ")

$ 240.00

Order Nr. FISH9088

Scorpione Marino (Type of Stone fish)

Drago Marino (Stone Fish)

Woodcut by Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-1577).
Published 1571. Reverse side is printed with an image of land scorpions plus text in Italian.
Fine, recent hand coloring.
Some scattered spotting and a crease on lower left side.
400 years have left their signs of age!

Page size: 34 x 22 cm ( 13.3 x 8.6 ")

$ 240.00

Order Nr. FISH9089

Capito Anadromus. Ein Elb Nasen. Ein Zert (Chub)

Drago Marino (Stone Fish)

Wood cut ca 1590. Reverse side is printed with an image of a smelt and an eel plus text in German.
Fine, recent hand coloring. Some light scattered spotting.
400 years have left their signs of age!

Page size: 34 x 22 cm ( 13.3 x 8.6 ")

$ 170.00

Order Nr. FISH9090

Torpedo (Type of Flounder)

Woodcut ca 1580. Nice recent hand coloring with a silvery shimmer.

Backside has text and has three more images(not colored). Repaired tear on lower margin edge.

Page size: 34 x 20.2 cm ( 13.3 x 7.9 ")

$ 185.00

Order Nr. SEA9614

"Schmalkoepfe" (Small Heads)

Names of fish show: Thunnfisch(Seomber), Lootsen (Naucrates), Schwordfisch ( Xiphias), Spiegelfisch ( Galbus), Sonnenfisch (zeus), Bandmakreele (Equula ), Schwaepperfisch ( Acanthurus), Einhornfisch (Monoceros), Gichtfisch (Platax), Spritfisch (Chelmo).

Steel engraving by C. Meijer from "Oken´s Allgemeine Naturgeschichte. Vi Zoologie", ca 1850. Very fine original hand coloring. A few very light spots and small repaired tear in upper left corner.

29.4 x 22.5 cm ( 11.5 x 8.8 ")

$ 170.00

Order Nr. FISH9028

1. La Zee Forgeron (Zeus Faber-Lin) 2. Le Salmoe Schiffermuller (Salme Schiffermulleri, Cuv.) 3. Le Capros Sanglier (Capros aper, Cuv.)

Fine stipple engravings by Schmelz after Acarie Baron, ca 1800. Original hand coloring. Light overall age toning.

Page size: 26.2 x 18.8 cm ( 10.3 x 7.4 ")

$ 75.00

Order Nr. FISH9035

1. La Petimbre (Fistularia tabacaria Lin) 2. Le Scombresoce (Scombresox Saurus Lin), 3. La Lorcaire Setigere(Loricaria Setigera Lin).

Fine stipple engravings by Schmelz, Victor and Sebin after Acarie Baron, ca 1800. Original hand coloring. Light overall age toning.

Page size: 18.8 x 26.2 cm ( 7.4 x 10.3")

$ 75.00

Order Nr. FISH9036

Copper etching by F. Kirschner ca 1800. Original hand coloring.
Wide margins. A few spots in margins. Browning on margin edges.
Two, small repaired teard on lower margin edge.

29.5 x 40.5 cm (11.6 x 15.9 ")

$ 385.00

Order Nr. FISH9029

1. La Morue. 2. Le Thon. 3. Le Saumon. 4. L'Esturgeon.

Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle" published 1751 in Paris.

31.2 x 20.2 cm ( 12.2 x 7.9 ")

$ 180.00

Order Nr. FISH 9021

1. La Lamproye. 2. Le Serpent Marin. 3. La Trompette de Mer.

Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle" published 1751 in Paris.

31.7 x 20.2 cm ( 12.4 x 7.9 ")

$ 140.00

Order Nr. FISH 9022

1. Le Poisson Coffre. 2. La Lyre. 3. Le Poisson Volant.

Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle" published 1751 in Paris.

31.7 x 19.8 cm ( 12.4 x 7.8 ")

$ 140.00

Order Nr. FISH 9023

White Shark Dolphin Wolf Fish Sea Eagle

Copper etching, ca 1800.
Print is very clean. Three vertical fold lines. Fraying on lower left margin.

Page size: 20.5 x 26 cm ( 8 x 10.2 ")
Length of white shark: 18 cm ( 7 ")

$90.00

Order Nr. FISH9015 RESERVED K

No title.

Very fine chromolithograph from the painting of the American painter Samuel Kilbourne (1836-1881). ca 1880.

36 x 52.4 cm ( 14.1 x 20.6 ")

$ 780.00

Order Nr. FISH 9031

No title.

Very fine chromolithograph from the painting of the American painter Samuel Kilbourne (1836-1881). ca 1880.

35.5 x 52 cm ( 13.9 x 20.4 ")

$ 620.00

Order Nr. FISH 9034

No title.

Very fine chromolithograph from the painting of the American painter Samuel Kilbourne (1836-1881). ca 1880.

35.7 x 52.4 cm ( 14 x 20.6 ")

$ 620.00

Order Nr. FISH 9033

Mark Catesby

Mark Catesby, ( 1682 - 1749 ) was born in England. His first extended journey to the Southeast of the United States of North America took place between 1712 and 1719. He was an artist with a sharp observing eye and began to depict animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plants which he later published in London as Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. This illustrative and zoologically and biologically exact work was the first important rendering in this field. It was then as much admired as it is in our time. After returning to England he won important and well to do people as sponsors for his work. He returned to America in 1722 and onward to Bermuda in 1725. He collected specimen of plants and animals and sketched what he saw. He learned the craft of engraving and made copper etchings for his publication. He began publishing his significant Natural History in 1731, thus becoming the first to publish a serious, scientific rendering of American flora and fauna. Catesby finished the mentioned publication in 1747, two years before he died.

Our copper etchings, all in original hand coloring, are as decorative as they are scientific. Their folio size adds to the pleasure viewing them. Our plates stem from the 1754 edition. They are generally clean and well preserved. Any faults are individually mentioned.

A German edition of Mark Catesby's birds along with the birds of George Edwards was published by Johann Michael Seligman between 1749 and 1776 in Nuremberg. We do have some prints of this edition and show them here.

Page size: ca 34.5 x 51cm (13.5 x 20 ")
Some variation in page sizes.

Cornus folius Salicis Laureae acuminatis; floribus albis; fructu Sassafras.
An Phaseolus minor lactescens flore purpeo. Orbis Loevis variegatus.

Light, pleasant age toning not visible on this photograph.

Page size: 49 x 32.5 cm ( 23.2 x 12.7 ")

$ 850.00

Order Nr. CATESBY4533

Suillus

This fish head is part of a two-page fish print. We only have this part. Maybe someone has the rest of the fish.

Crease in lower right margin corner.

Page size: 35 x 50 cm ( 13.7 x 19.6 ")

$ 1000.00

Order Nr. CATESBY4528

Frutex aquiticus floribus luteis fructu rotundo quinque-capsulari.

Acus maxima squamosa viridis.

Light fraying on right margin edge.

Page size: 32.5 x 49 cm ( 12.7 x 19.2 ")

$ 1000.00

Order Nr. CATESBY4509

Gugupuguacu Brasil

Saltatrige

A few very tiny original spots in paper.

Page size: 32.5 x 49 cm ( 12.7 x 19.2 ")

$ 1400.00

Order Nr. CATESBY4511

Lithophyton longe racemosum cortice flavo perforato.

Muraena maculata nigra.

Light spotting in upper left margin corner. A few other minor spots in margins.

$ 850.00

Order Nr. CATESBY4513

Selache grandissima.

Copper etching by Corsi after Pretre, ca 1800. Original hand coloring.

Print has wide margins and is very clean except for light browning on upper margin edge.
One small rubbed area on right margin edge.

Page size: 25 x 16.5 cm ( 9.8 x 6.5 ")
Length of fish: 14.3 cm ( 5.6 ")

$50.00

Order Nr. FISH9011

Large Image: Grey Mullet
Other images clockwise: Ballan Wrasse, Gemmeons Dragonet, Green-Streak Wrasse, Butterfly Fish, Ceylonese Green Wrasse, Goldfinny, Red Wrasse, Gilt-head or Golden Maid.

Wood engraving ca 1870. Modern hand coloring.
Backside is printed in English about the fishes. A few very minor spots.

Page size: 35 x 24.5 cm ( 13.7 x 9.6 ")

$ 120.00

Order Nr. FISH9124

Large fish: Northern Char Lower image: Lake Windemere
Left middle image: Gray smelt. Right middle image: Great Grey trout.

Wood engraving ca 1870. Modern hand coloring.
Backside is printed in English about the fishes. A few very minor spots.

Page size: 35 x 24.5 cm ( 13.7 x 9.6 ")

$ 120.00

Order Nr. FISH9025

Large center fish: Pike
Upper left: Group of fish. Upper right: Salmon.
Lower left: Garfish, Salmon, Flying fish.
Other lower images show hatching of salmon.

Wood engraving ca 1870. Modern hand coloring.
Backside is printed in English about the fishes.

Page size: 35 x 24.5 cm ( 13.7 x 9.6 ")

$ 120.00

Order Nr. FISH9026

Center Image: Dace and Raoch
Upper images: Chub and Dace. Lower images: Netting Fishes, Otter Hunting.

Wood engraving ca 1870. Modern hand coloring.
Backside is printed in English about the fishes. A few very minor spots.

Page size: 35 x 24.5 cm ( 13.7 x 9.6 ")

$ 120.00

Order Nr. FISH9027

Fig. 1. Le Turbot. Fig. 2 L'Orbis. Fig. 3 . Le Mole

Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle" published 1751 in Paris.
Small crease in upper margin. Banding marks on left margin edge.

32.7 x 22.2 cm ( 12.8 x 8.7 ")

$ 140.00

Order Nr. FISH9004

Histoire Naturelle
Fig. 1. L'Ange. Fig. 2. La Raie Bouclée
Fig. 3 La Torpille

Copper etching from "Histoire Naturelle" published 1751 in Paris.
Modern hand coloring. Left margin edge has binding holes.

32 x 21 cm ( 12.6 x 8.2 ")

$ 320.00

Order Nr. FISH9002