Rare Original Hand colored engraving, drawn by the artist Jacques Barraband ( 1767-1809) in collaboration with the French Naturalist Francois Levaillant for his important work "Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets" which was produced between 1801 and 1805 and is considered the world's best natural history work about Parrots. The detail is so fine that the viewer can almost feel the Parrot's feathers. This engraving is # 88 from the set and is titled " L'Amazone Tapire' en Rouge". The engraver... Click for details

An ORIGINAL John Gerrard Keulemans Hand Colored Lithograph of a Bird known as a Lesser or Hume's White Throat (Curruca curruca) native to Southwestern Asia. It is one of a set of 200 published in three volumes between 1869 and 1876. It is in very good condition with no stains or creases, and one small tear in the left margin. paper Size 7 1/8" X 10 1/8". Keulemans was one of the most prolific of the 19th Century bird artists. He created two of his own works and contributed to numerous works by... Click for details

Two Original Hand Colored Lithographs by J. G. Keulemans from a set of 200 published in 3 volumes between 1869 and 1876. They are framed in an American Aesthetic Movement Ebonized Frame with incised decoration and gilded outer border, which dates from about 1870. Keulemans who was born in Holland, emigrated to England which was the center of natural history research and art in the 19th Century. He was a prolific and talented artist who created two works of his own on the subject of... Click for details

An original lithograph of two birds of paradise drawn on stone by Josef Smit and framed in a superb period antique walnut and gold leaf picture frame. The frame size is 27 1/4" X 31 1/4". ** WE GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR MERCHANDISE AS REPRESENTED. **

An original chromolithograph by the Louis Prang Co. of Boston, the most famous chromolithographers of the period, titled "Dessert #4" after an original and still extant oil on canvas still life by prolific American still life painter C.P. Ream who by the turn of the 20th Century was widely regarded as the "king of the fruit painters" and it is dated 1870. These Prang chromos were so well done that they appear almost as original paintings and were expensive in their day. This excellent example... Click for details

"THE START" and "THE STRUGGLE" Jacquard loom woven silk pictures, Stevengraphs are Victorian silk pictures that became popular in 1862 when they were first produced by Thomas Stevens of Coventry, England. They covered many popular subjects of the day and among the most popular are scenes of horsemanship. Stevens continued to produce them in his factory until his death in 1888 and the business continued under 2 of his sons and were popular until WWI. We offer two in their original ebonized and... Click for details