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1802 - [Nicolas Sanson] Nicol. Sanson. Konigl. Historiograph u. Geograph Geb. zu Abbeville d. 20 Dec. 1600 Gestorb. zu Paris d. 7 Jul 1667

  • $14.99

Rare miniature portrait of French mapmaker, Nicolas Sanson, published in Weimar by Westermayr. This is the first time we have ever seen this portrait.


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1802 - [Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann] D. F. Sotzmann Geh. exped Secretair beym Ingen. Depart. u Geograph dur Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

  • $14.99

Rare miniature portrait of German mapmaker Daniel Friedrich, published in Weimar by Westermayr. This is the first time we have ever seen this portrait.


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1808 - Guillaume de L'Isle Geb. zu Paris .d 28 Febr. 1675. gest. ebendas d. 25 Jan 1726.

  • $14.99

Finely engraved portrait of Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726), a cartographic prodigy who drew his first map aged nine. De L'Isle was elected to the French Academie Royale des Sciences at 27 and at 38 he became the first "Premier Geographe du Roi",...


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1820 - General Washington

  • $9.99

Fine engraved portrait of General Washington, based upon a painting by Gilbert Stuart in 1796, engraved by S. Topham and published in Leeds by Davies & Booth. The view is #453 in Charle's Henry Hart's catalog of portraits of Washington presented...


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1850 - Washington

  • $14.99

Rare portrait of George Washington, published by William Smith in Philadelphia. While we have locate examples of other Smith portraits of Washington, this one seems to be unrecorded. The address for Smith is also unusual -- 702 South Third Street,...


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1855 - The Marriage of Pocahontas. From the original picture in the possession of the publisher.

  • $21.99

Impressive hand-colored engraving of the marriage of Pocahontas and the Englishman John Rolfe. The stylized historical scene is summarized by the Library of Congress in their entry for the print: Painter Henry Brueckner imagined the 1616 wedding...


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1860 - [General George Washington]

  • $14.99

Striking full length portrait of a uniformed General George Washington, standing atop a hillside, with a battle scene from the American Revolutionary War raging on either side. Drawn from an unknown source. Handwriting on the verso suggests that it...


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1866 - Lincoln

  • $14.99

Fine steel plate engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln.


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1900 - George Washington

  • $14.99

Scarce mezzotint engraving of George Washington created and signed in pencil by S. Arlent Edwards. The portrait shows George Washington, with the monogrammed with "SAE" and the date 1900 in the lower-right corner of the engraving. A rosette lies just...


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1913 - Nathanael Greene

  • $14.99

Scarce mezzotint engraving of General Nathanael Green, created and signed in pencil by S. Arlent Edwards. ]The full-length portrait of General Greene shows him prepared for battle with his troops in the background, and was made from an original...