Britannica Auctions

At our auctions we offer a huge selection of treasured antique prints and engravings from the 16th-20th centuries.

Our auction selection includes engravings of natural history subjects, architecture & design, caricatures & humour, classical, historical, religious, famous buildings & views, sporting events, royal & historical portraits and maps.

We are particularly delighted to feature ornithological prints by John Gould, Edouard Travies, Jacques Barraband, Daniel, Giraud Elliot, Conrad Susemihl, Beverley Morris, Francois Martinet, Prideaux J Selby, Cornelius Nozeman, Peter Mazell, William Swainson, William Lewin, Jean-Baptiste Audebert, Robert Gillmor and Edward Lear.

Other notable natural history artists are JJ & JW Audubon, Rev. Houghton, Josiah Whymper, Archibald Thorburn, George Sowerby, John Frederick Miller, George Edwards, Moses Harris, Edward Donovan, HN Humphreys and many more.

There are numerous botanical engravings by Elizabeth Twining, Rory McEwen, George Brookshaw, Maria Sybella Merian, Walter Fitch, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Christopher Trew & Georg Ehret, Louis van Houtte, Thomas Moore, Jane E Giraud, Elizabeth Yeats and Frederick Polydore Nodder.

We also have maps by Heinrich Bunting, Van der Aa, Emanuel Bowen, Morden and title pages by Johann Blaeu.

Other important artists and engravers featured are Hans Holbein, Thomas Chippendale, Owen Jones, George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, John Sell Cotman, Auguste Racinet, Bartolomeo Pinelli, “Kyd”, Edouard Garnier, Anthony Desgodetz, Joseph Strutt, Charles Riviere and Louis Haghe.

We also have a significant number of prints relating to ancient Egypt including engravings from Description de l’Egypte, The Book of the Dead, Denon’s Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Egypte and Capt. Nordern’s Antiquities, Natural History etc of Egypt, Nubia & Thebes.