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24 x 16cm (9.5 x 6.5 inches)Bouvardia houtteanaThis beautiful lithograph with original hand coloring was made in 1854-1855 and comes from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, a famous nineteenth century Belgian horticulturalist. He employed plant collectors to bring back ..

40 x 24.5 cm (15.5 x 9.75 inches).Eliae currus et equi igneiThis antique copper plate engraving was made in 1731 for Scheuchzer's incredible Physica Sacra.It has hand painted water colouring embellished with metallic gold/silver paint. The engraving is on chain lined paper with strong plate marks. T..

48 x 35 cm (19 x 14 inches).This rare lithograph was made in the early 1960s and is in excellent condition. It is an original vintage lithograph, not a reproduction. The paper is light creamy white and blank on the reverse side.Vintage cars are amongst the most admired marvels of engineering of the ..

34 x 27 cm (13.5 x 10.5 inches)This is a genuine antique print of natural phenomena by Josiah Wood Whymper (1813-1903), an English painter, engraver and illustrator.Examples of his work are in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.Like many of us, Whymper was fascinated by unusual natural phenome..

42 x 24.5 cm (16.5 x 9.75 inches)Diving bell, fire engineThis large antique copper plate engraving is by George Selby Howard he was a distinguished English scientist and lawyer. It was made in 1788 for "The New Royal Cyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia". The engraving is printed on chain-linked paper with..

45 x 34 cm (17.5 x 13.5 inches)Loss of image on the centre-foldThis large antique lithograph is by Emil Hanselmann of Stuttgart in Germany and was made in about 1870. The original hand coloring and detail is superb. Antique prints by Hanselmann are rare and sought after due to their large size and l..

30.5 x 23.3cm (12 x 9 inches).Arm and Sword, Bonfire, Griffin, Horn of Plenty, Skull, Snail, Ram's Head, Wolf, Dog, Giraffe, Bull's Head and Volcano This antique engraving of heraldry was made in the 1840s by Thomas Jack. Heraldry is a system of visual identification - think of it as an early form o..

24.5 x 16 cm (9.75 x 6.25 inches).Manettia bicolorThis superb antique print was made in 1849 and is from the first edition of Dictionnaire D'Histoire Naturelle by Charles Orbigny. It was made by engraving and has beautiful hand colouring enriched with shellac finishing. The print is on heavy, high q..

18.5 x 12 cm (7.3 x 4.8 inches)This antique print was made by wood engraving in 1855. It is in in excellent condition and is an original antique by Reverend Francis Orpen Morris and was printed by Groombridge and Sons of London in 1887. The paper is good quality and blank on the reverse side. It is..

27.5 x 20 cm (10.5 x 8 inches).FireworksThis detailed engraving is from a the first edition of the rare "English Encyclopedia", made for George Kearsley in London in 1802. Its full title was "The English Encyclopedia being a collection of treatises and a dictionary of terms illustrative of the arts ..

27.5 x 20 cm (10.5 x 8 inches).FireworksThis detailed engraving is from a the first edition of the rare "English Encyclopedia", made for George Kearsley in London in 1802. Its full title was "The English Encyclopedia being a collection of treatises and a dictionary of terms illustrative of the arts ..

27.5 x 20 cm (10.5 x 8 inches).FireworksThis detailed engraving is from a the first edition of the rare "English Encyclopedia", made for George Kearsley in London in 1802. Its full title was "The English Encyclopedia being a collection of treatises and a dictionary of terms illustrative of the arts ..

27.5 x 20 cm (10.5 x 8 inches).This detailed engraving is from a the first edition of the rare "English Encyclopedia", made for George Kearsley in London in 1802. Its full title was "The English Encyclopedia being a collection of treatises and a dictionary of terms illustrative of the arts and scien..