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Education — Recreation Enfance Jeunesse Famille

 Promoting Jules Verne and other Children's Books in Late 19th Century France

Price: $ 2,800.00

The Marvel Mutant Massacre Map

Marvel promo poster / pictorial map for The Mutant Massacre (1986) featuring art by Walt Simonson.

Price: $ 195.00

(A warship and Dutch mercantile ships) Palanora | Navi Olandese di Mercantia

Attractive late-17th-century copperplate engraving showing three ships, engraved by Vincenzo Coronelli for his Atlante Veneto. The upper of the two images shows a warship built to hold a mortar, useful for ship-to-ship or ship-to-land combat. The lower image shows massive Dutch mercantile vessels at anchor.

Price: $ 295.00

(Mississippi Bubble) De Lachende Ezopus op het koolmaal gehouden ter afscheyd van de Actieapen [The Laughing Aesop held at the cabbage feast as a farewell to the Action Monkeys.]

This 1720 engraving, "De Lachende Ezopus op het koolmaal gehouden ter afscheyd van de Actieapen," is an exceptional satirical commentary on the Mississippi Bubble. It featured in the notable work Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, offering a critique on the financial crisis of 1720, a period marked by economic volatility, often referred to as the first global financial bubble.

Price: $ 245.00

(Mississippi Bubble) De inbeelding, heersseres van 't rookverkopers-gild, maald Missisippi hier 't geen vrankryks schat verspild [Imagination, ruler of the tobacco sellers' guild, grinds here what France's wealth wasted: the Mississippi.]

Published in Amsterdam in 1720, the engraving De inbeelding, heersseres van 't rookverkopers-gild, maald Missisippi hier 't geen vrankryks schat verspild originates from the Mirror of Folly, a collection satirizing the financial speculation of the time. Within an oval frame at the top, the engraving features an image of a woman painting a scene of a square-rigged ship sailing off to "Missisippi," accompanied by various allegorical scenes and a Dutch poem that reflects on the Mississippi Bubble and the foolishness of speculative investments.

Price: $ 125.00

(Colonial East Florida) [Letter From Thomas Bond in St. Augustine, East Florida, September 14, 1770 to his Father, John Bond, Merchant of Fells Point, Baltimore County, Maryland]

The Bonds of Baltimore "Dispose" of their East Florida Holdings 

Price: $ 2,500.00