All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Places : Pre 1900 item #735976 (stock #SK081)
Galerie Hafner
$200.00
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Original Albumen print mounted on coeval cardboard showing Philae - temple of Isis, eastern view of the birth house. Condition: Good, cardboard cut. Dimension: Photo 19 x 22,6 cm., cardboard 20,5 x 24,3 cm.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1900 item #1418448
A set of five antique atlas maps, titled, "Oceanie", "Amerique Septentrionale", "Amerique Meridionale", "Europe", and "Asie", published in 1856 by A. Combette, and printed by Alfred Lemercier, Paris, after cartography by Victor Levasseur. The set is framed identically in dark, "distressed" style modern framing of good quality (each measures 15" by 22"). Maps are very clean, considering the age, with only the stray fox mark here and there...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Places : Pre 1900 item #1420202 (stock #TBD00294)
An interesting view of the monumental Hagia Sophia rising above houses on either side and a man standing in a square(?) that is probably some distance from the mosque but with the perspective appears quite close. No writing in the negative and the identification of the view in pencil appears later than the image which is around 1880. It is attached to a thin paper page that from the roughness of the back side might have been an album page that was separated. The mat is protective...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Places : Pre 1900 item #1422101 (stock #TBD00309)
An albumen photograph of a gargoyle located high on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Unknown photographer. Written in the negative in the lower right, “1003, Paris Notre Dame.” The gargoyle emerges from the waist up with a human torso, a dragons ridge on the back of the elongated neck, pointed ears, deep sunk eyes and a slit for a nostril in a rounded snout. 10 ½ x 8 inches (27 x 20 cm) mounted with transparent corners in a 16 x 20 inch (40.5 x 51 cm) mat...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1900 item #1415348 (stock #JB02756)
Found in New Hampshire, this is a beautifully and meticulously drawn map of the South American continent, from the Isthmus of Panama to Cape Horn, signed at lower right one "Rosa W. Miner" (or, "Mines"). The work, which measures 13" by 10" in a simple earlier 20th century frame, is drawn in pencil, with watercolor forming the borders of the various countries...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1900 item #1489277
Map UNITED COUNTIES LEEDS & GRENVILLE by Walling 1861 Rare Canada Map 5ft x 5ft MAP OF THE UNITED COUNTIES OF LEEDS AND GRENVILLE by PUTNAM AND WALLING This is a very rare mapping seldom seen outside National Collections. It measures 5ft square and is in used condition. It is linen backed and some areas of the map are fragile and in need of some restoration...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Autographs : Historical : Pre 1900 item #1419783 (stock #JB02716)
This is an actual antique page (not a reprint) from the Illustrated London News issue of April 1, 1843, the article describing in detail the efforts at the time to manufacture a flying machine powered by a light weight steam engine. The decorative and most interesting page features three detailed drawings of these primitive contraptions, all of which failed; Kitty Hawk was sixty years in the future...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Autographs : Historical : Pre 1900 item #1421195 (stock #JB05313)
A handwritten letter mounted on an old board, along with old photographic reproductions of two of the artist's works, by well listed French 19th century artist JEAN-JACQUES HENNER (1829-1905). The letter is entirely in French, written in old brown ink, on one page (though there are three other unused sides), and is undated. An old mat with hand-drawn and painted borders (removable) is fitted over openings made for the letter and photos...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Pre 1900 item #428795 (stock #G408)
Offered is a lovely, double, gutta-percha photograph case holding two mid 19th century, Civil War Era tin types of two different women.

The double gutta-percha case measures 2.5 inches wide x 3 inches long x .75 inches deep when closed, and 5 inches wide when opened. The case appears to be in excellent condition!

The two cased tin types are each further framed within different press-molded, thin, ornate, brass frame and behind a little pane of glass...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Medals : Pre 1900 item #1487238 (stock #D321)
Antique German bronze medal that was minted in 1897 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Walloon and Dutch community in Hanau. The medal was made by the Mayer and Wilhelm workshop in Stuttgart and features a bust portrait of Philipp Ludwig II Graf von Hanau-Münzenberg (1596-1612) in relief, as well as a view of the Walloon church on the obverse.

The medal comes with its original display case box, which is covered in black-tan leatherette and has a lid lined with white silk satin...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Medals : Pre 1900 item #1427171
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$135.00
Julien Tappan-Davies, New York Supreme Court Justice bronze plaque, signed E W P size 5.25 by 4"
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Medals : Pre 1900 item #1427175
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$295.00
1895 James Russell Lowell Bronze gilt Plaque, Grolier Club NY, by Charles Calverley" antique bronze plaque. It measures about 6.75" in diameter . It features the bust of James Russell Lowell a famous American romantic poet. The design was created by Charles Calverley and the casting was done by John Williams, of New York City. Cleverley's plaque of Russell Lowell issued by Grolier Club popular in many American Museum collections. Verdigris spot on forehead.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Medals : Pre 1900 item #1469818 (stock #E985)
Antique Polish Bronze Medal Władysław Warneńczyk (Ladislas of Varna) by J.F. Holzhäussera struck in bronze with ultra-high relief, with fine details.

Description: Obverse: Portrait of King Władysław III of Varna in armor and a helmet with a crown of the, turned almost directly to the right. Legend; VLADISLAUS VARNENSIS. (Władysław Warneńczyk. Signed under bust I. P. H[olzhäusser]. F[ecit]...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : Pre 1900 item #598905 (stock #Misc103)
Henry Noel Humphreys, "Parables of our Lord" printed 1847, New York,D. Appleton edition...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Pre 1900 item #1490755
A late 19th century souvenir: miniature bone binoculars depicting Catskill Mountain House, another hotel building, waterfalls and more (can be seen, but not photographed). These truly minimal magnifying lenses were invented in the 18th century by Lord Stanhope. Measures: "1/2 x 1/3 / 12 x 9 mm. Condition: some general wear consisting with time, but both lenses are working.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Coins : Pre 1900 item #1490402 (stock #FA125)
Scarce antique 18th-century posthumous medal struck in 1733 from solid silver to commemorate the death of Augustus II the Strong in 1733. Made by the medalist Georg Wilhelm Vestner (1677-1740).

Obverse: The bust of the King is to the right, around the inscription D G AVGVSTVS II REX POLON ELECT SAXON. It is signed under the bust "VESTNER. F."

On the obverse, to the right of the King's bust, there is an inscription from the end of the 18th century commemorating the birth of Barbara Ann...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : History : Pre 1900 item #1456718
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$75.00
Author NAST, Thomas Title The Fight at Dame Europa's School: Showing How the German Boy Thrashed the French Boy, and How the English Boy Looked On. New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871) Description: Hardcover first edition. Illustrated by Nast. red brown cloth gilt. Some damp staining to the edges of the boards, name written in ink and text scuff to front cover, good copy. Nast lampoons the Franco-Prussian War.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : History : Pre 1900 item #96036
This is the Book: The MUSIC DRAMAS of RICHARD WAGNER by ALBERT LAVIGNAC, 1898. 515p; 8vo; bars of music on mutiple pages; two fold out pages of music; edge wear; slight interior binding looseness; grade is VG to VG+. From a VIRGINIA collection of Antique MUSIC BOOKS. jpgs tell the rest.