Brazil

(25,3 x 34,7 cm). Rare first German edition of the famous lithography by Rugendas, showing enslaved Africans in a ship's hold. It depicts the harsh reality of the slave trade, with its victims chained and stacked in an overcrowded space; an African is straining to obtain drink through the hatch and a dead body being removed by sailors. The print was presented in 1827 at the Paris Art Fair (Salon de...

Place: Schaffhausen
Date: 1836
Item Number: 8398

(25,3 x 34,7 cm). [English description below] Linda vista de Rio de Janeiro, desde la iglesia de la Gloria al sur de la ciudad. En el primer plano, se nota el contraste entre una vegetación tropical exuberante y una pareja vestida a la moda european, saludando a un monje franciscano; una escena típica del romanticismo tropical valorado por Johann Moritz Rugendas, qué va en contra de la oposición entre...

Place: Schaffhausen
Date: 1836
Item Number: 8403

(25,3 x 34,7 cm). First German edition of Rugendas print showing the disembarkation of enslaved Africans in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Four European-looking traders and officials are discussing the fate of the newly arrived, including a young boy separated from his mother. The prints of Johann Moritz Rugendas played an important role in the debates leading to the abolition of slavery in Western Europe,...

Place: Schaffhausen
Date: 1836
Item Number: 8399

(25,3 x 34,7 cm). Important lithography of Johann Moritz Rugendas depicting a slave market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under a porch. On the right side, the owner appears to show the teeth of an enslaved African to a potential buyer; on the left, another Western-clad visitor shares a tense stare with a slave; a group of Black women are cooking; a young man draws a ship on the wall. The harsh condition...

Place: Schaffhausen
Date: 1836
Item Number: 8400

A rare Brazilian Masonic lodge document stating that British citizen Samuel Charles Creedmore has achieved 'Master' mason; dated 5909 (1909), in Rio de Janeiro. It was issued by the lodge Amizade Fraternal Nº 10, and signed by 5 members. Issued in Portugese, French and English. Colored lithograph of 'Lith: Costa Cabral & Ca Rio'. A todas as LL? Regulares e MM Espalhados pela Superficie da Terra. L:....

Place: Rio de Janeiro
Date: 1909
Item Number: 7058

An elaborate map of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, designed by M. Barral, naval vessel lieutenant under the command of the rear-admiral M. le Baron Hyde de Neuville, and engraved by Jean Francois Caplin. The original map from 1826-1827 was redone with various additional corrections in 1843, 1851, 1866, 1868, and 1869. This is the first map to offer a comprehensive survey of the Bay of Rio. Previous...

Place: Paris
Date: 1847
Size: 96x66,5
Item Number: 7937

[English description below] (25,3 x 34,7 cm). Impresionante representación de indígenas brasileños construyendo un puente colgante de lianas en lo profundo de la selva tropical. Desafiando las convencionales representaciones europeas de los nativos americanos como pasivos e incapaces, Rugendas presenta una escena dinámica de estas personas construyendo, cazando y recolectando recursos. La vibrante...

Place: Schaffhausen
Date: 1836
Item Number: 8404

(25,3 x 34,7 cm). [English description below] Escena de un violento enfrentamiento entre las tropas gubernamentales brasileñas y los indígenas botocudos de Minas Gerais. Desde 1808, bajo el reinado del príncipe regente Juan VI, las autoridades coloniales lanzaron una ofensiva militar conocida como la "Guerra Justa" contra los pueblos originarios del río Doce, que atraviesa las capitanías de Minas...

Place: Schaffhausen
Date: 1836
Item Number: 8405

Uncommon agriculture map of Brazil, drawn in Rio de Janeiro in 1883 and published in 1887 in Leipzig. It details the different crops cultivated in Brazil (corn, beans, coffee, sugarcane, cotton, etc.). It also highlights the potential of the rubber trees in the Amazon forest, in the first years of the infamous rubber fever. The author, Rudolph Alexander Hehl, was a German geologist and engineer who...

Place: Rio de Janeiro / Leipzig
Date: 1887
Item Number: 7732