Animals

We have a large number of prints from ‘The Naturalist’s Library’, published by Sir William Jardine in the 1830’s. These popular, little, inexpensive steel engravings with original hand colour covered much of the animal world including beetles and butterflies. We have many of these including a large number of his most sought after prints: hummingbirds. E-mail us at beachmap@sympatico.ca with requests and quotes.

We also have a full range of finely coloured prints from Goldsmith’s ‘Animated Nature’ (c1840).

There are many early (c1750) bizarre renditions of animals from newly explored places and a lot of these are in our possession.

Some magnificent engraving and hand colouring of flowers was done in the copperplate era and some of these are now hugely expensive. For an inexpensive alternative to Dr. Thornton’s ‘Temple of Flora’, but with exquisite engraving and rich, original hand colour, try our wide selection from Curtis’ ‘Botanical Magazine’. These copper engravings were published from 1787 and through the 1800’s. We have a large selection of the early work between 1794 and 1832.

Most are priced between $30 and $70, a small sum for nearly 200 year old art works. E-mail us at beachmap@sympatico.ca   if you have a particular flower or colour in mind.

We have many original hand coloured fashion plates from the 1830’s on, published in France, England and the U.S.

Military subjects include the Civil War, War of Independence, famous British battles, Napoleon , Nelson and Wellington, and a host of lesser known names.

Whatever your interest, contact us by e-mail and we can provide a short list within two days. Please be specific. We cannot provide long, general lists and no longer issue catalogs, preferring to update our web page on a seasonal basis.

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