Grosvenor Prints

Patrice ou les Pionniers de l'Amérique du Nord par M. de Chavannes
Tours, A.d Mame et C.ie, Imprimeurs-Libraires, 1854
Small 12vo book, embossed with gilt decoration and coloured lithograph on cover and gilt text on spine. One woodcut illustration. On frontis in ink Elizabeth Watson Dec 18, 1855; 128pp, 130 x 85mm ( 5¼ x 3¼") Some pages slightly stained.
Children's book from the 'Bibliothèque des petits enfants' recounting the adventures of emmigrants to North America and including an illustration of the protagonist Patrice hiding from a hostile Native American.
[Ref: 31408] £140.00 view all images for this item

Ah-quee-we-zaints. The Boy.
J. Harris sculp.t. [after George Catlin.]
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1844.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Slightly time stained.
A native American youth with a painted face, half-length, wearing a painted robe and holding a war axe. A reduced version of the portrait by George Catlin, published in 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 31507] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A European amoung Natives.]
[Amsterdam, Olfert Dapper, 1671.]
Engraving, 130 x 165mm, set in German text.
A European among West Indian natives. Published in Armold Montanus' 'America'.
[Ref: 7131] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The War Dance, by the Ojibbeway Indians.
J.Harris scul[p]. [after George Catlin.]
[London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed. Slightly time stained.
A reduced version of the scene by George Catlin, published in 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'. The dancers are named as Flying Cloud, Tobacco, Moonlight Night, and Flying Gull. Members of the tribe performed their war dance for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1844.
[Ref: 31519] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

An American Indian Demanding his Bride.
W.M. Craig del. K. Mackenzie sculp.
London, Published Sept.r 1808 by S.A. & H. Oddy, 27, Oxford Street.
Rare stipple. Sheet 225 x 130mm (9 x 5¼").
A fanciful scene of a Native American presenting a dowry of game.
[Ref: 56214] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[American Revolution.] A New and Accurate Map of Virginia, and Part of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Jn.o Lodge sculp.
London, Published as the Act directs, 31st December 1780, by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row.
Engraved map. Sheet 285 x 390mm (11¼ x 15½"). Trimmed close to neatline lower right for binding, folds.
A contemporary map of the theatre of the Revolutionary War in Virginia, showing west to the Alleghany Mountains, the south parts of New Jersey and Philadelphia. The month this map was published Benedict Arnold had led a force of 1,600 troops into Virginia; less than a week later Arnold burned Richmond. Also marked on the map are events from the French-Indian Wars, including forts Duquesne & Necessity; next to Fort Necessity is ''Washington taken here 1754'', a reference to the future president's only military surrender. Published in the 'Political Magazine', a monthly newspaper.
The accompanying text is available at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067321755;view=1up;seq=479
[Ref: 43273] £480.00

Noble Indien de la Nation Ottawa. Recueil de Jefrise.
Touze. Fine. Duflos S.
A Paris chez Duflos , Rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 276 x 165mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2051] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes.
Printed, Drawn & Coloured at J. T. Bowen, Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut Street [after Peter Rindisbacher].
Published by F.W. Greenough, Philada. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838 by E.C. Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the Districk Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Lithograph. Printed area 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"), with large margins.
Warriors of the Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) tribes dancing, sketched by Peter Rindisbacher (1806-34) and published in Thomas McKenney and James Hall's 'History of the Indian Tribes of North America'.
[Ref: 56058] £420.00

Femme, Caraibe. Histore des Voyages.
Touze. Feme Duflos.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 276 x 168mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2014] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands.
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint. 9¼ x 6".
From 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 4729] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Femme Honduras.
d'apres Sonisbec.
A Paris chez Duflos, rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with hand colour. 277 x 163mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2018] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[America] Homme, Caraibe. Histoire des Voyages.
Touze d. Femine Duflos S.
A Paris chez Duflos, rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 274 x 164mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2045] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Chippeway-Widow.
Printed & Coloured at J. T. Bowen, Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut Street.
Published by F.W. Greenough, Philada. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838 by E.C. Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the Districk Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Coloured lithograph. 330 x 420mm.
[Ref: 2834] £480.00

Chef Des Honduras.
d'apres Sonisbec.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 278 x 266mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2046] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Patagon. Ils onts 10 Pieds de hauts. de Dom Pernety.
Touze. Fen. Duflos.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 269 x 166mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2108] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Humanity of General Amherst
Smirke del. P. Audinet sculp.
Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London, 1824
Engraving, platemark 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7"), with large margins.
General Amherst standing outside a British fort, gesturing towards a basket at right in offering to begging figures at left, a Native American soldier standing behind at right. In fact Amherst's career in North America and Canada was clouded by failures in relations with native Americans. Illustration to Camden's 'History of England' (this plate first published by J. Stratford in 1811), engraved after a design by Robert Smirke (1753-1845), painter and illustrator, who specialised in literary themes. Smirke depicted a great number of Shakespearean subjects and provided illustrations for literary and historical texts such as Hume's 'History of England', Dr Johnson's 'Rasselas', the 'Arabian Nights', and 'Don Quixote'.
[Ref: 42083] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Timpoochee Barnard. An Uchee Warrior.
[after Hery Inman] Drawn, Printed & Coloured at I.T.Bowens Lithographic Establishment Nº94 Walnut St.
[1836.] Published by F.W.Greenough, Philad.
Very fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Loss in bottom right corner.
Portrait of Timpoochee Barnard (c.1783- c.1841), chief of the Yuchi Indians, a constituent tribe of the Creek Nation, and served as a member of the Creek National Council. His father was Timothy Barnard, a well-known and highly respected trader to the Creek Nation who also served as interpreter for U. S. agent Benjamin Hawkins.
[Ref: 67224] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Battle of Erie.
Printed by Sam.l Maverick N.Y. Engraved by P. Maverick. Newark N.J.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Engraving. 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½". Repairs to large tear into upper edge of image and smaller tears right.
The War of 1812 at Lake Erie where Commander Oliver Perry fought a successful and victorious fleet actions against a task force of the Royal Navy. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of Great Britain's Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.
[Ref: 23837] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Battle of Erie, 2.d View.
P. Maverick sc. Newark N.J.
Printed by Sam.l Maverick New York. [n.d. c.1815.]
Engraving. 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½". Tear to right.
The War of 1812 at Lake Erie where Commander Oliver Perry fought a successful and victorious fleet actions against a task force of the Royal Navy. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of Great Britain's Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.
[Ref: 23838] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bullock's Museum. 22, Piccadilly.
No.18, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. June 1 1810 at 101 Strand; London.
Hand coloured engraving. 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Offset from text.
The interior of Bullock's Museum, also known as the London Museum and the Egyptian Hall (or Museum), centred on a display of stuffed animals including an elephant, zebra and polar bear. William Bullock (c.1773-1849), a traveller, naturalist, and antiquarian, established the museum in 1812. Built at a cost of £16,000, it contained 15,000 items, collected according to the guidebook 'during seventeen years of arduous research at a cost of £30,000'. Admission was l shilling or 1 guinea for an annual ticket. Over the years special exhibits included Napoleon's carriage, 'the superb Feather, Cloak, and and Helmet, presented by the king of Owyhee to, and worn [by] our Unfortunate Circumnavigator [Captain James Cook] a few days before he fell', Giovanni Battista Belzoni's finds in Egypt, and and James Ward's gigantic painting 'Allegory of Waterloo'. Thomas Shotter Boys' view of Piccadilly for 'London As It Is' shows the exterior of the Egyptian Hall during the exhibition of George Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio'.
[Ref: 61419] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of the Island of Cape Breton.
[n.d., July 1758.]
Rare engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate on left.
A map of Cape Breton, marking Louisburg and where the English landed in June 1758, published in the 'Grand Magazine of Magazines', to illustrate an account of English attacks during the 'French and Indian War', the North American theatre of the 'Seven Years' War'. The French fortress of Louisbourg was captured in 1758, prior to the Siege of Quebec by James Wolfe. The first issue of the 'Grand Magazine' was in July 1758; it ceased publication after the November 1759 issue.
[Ref: 55703] £180.00

Vilda Hästars Fangande.
[After George Catlin.]
Stentr. ad A.Hardh. [n.d. c.1848.]
Coloured lithograph. 171 x 266mm (6¾ x 10½"). Topleft, bottom left and right corners of paper missing.
Catching the Wild Horse. From 'Nord-Amerikas Indianer', the Swedish abridged edition of Catlin's 'Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians'.
[Ref: 31250] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Indians Astonished at the Eclipse of the Moon foretold by Colombus. Engraved for Drake's Voyages.
[n.d.]
Coloured engraving. 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Paper toned.
Desperate for supplies, Columbus impressed the natives of Jamaica by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse for February 29, 1504. He threatened that the gods would turn off the moon if they did not continue to feed his crew.
[Ref: 45052] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The first Interview of Christopher Columbus with the Natives of America.
Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography.
[n.d., c.1777.]
Etching and engraving. 295 x 175mm (11½ x 7"). Trace of water stain to lower left corner.
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) landed within the Bahamas Archipelago in October 1492 at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking the Carribean island for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its inhabitants as "Indians". Severely underestimating the circumference of the Earth, Columbus had hypothesized that a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter and more direct than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would have allowed his royal Spanish patrons entry into the lucrative spice trade. Plate to Charles Theodore Middleton's 'A new and complete system of Geography ... Embellished ... with ... copper plates, etc.', London 1777-78.
[Ref: 9664] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

An Indian Cacique of the Island of Cuba, addressing Columbus concerning a future state.
B. West delin.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 230 x 195mm (9 x 7¾"). Trimmed inside plate.
A meeting between Christopher Columbus and a cacique (Taino for chief) and his people. Columbus is backed by a priest and some soldiers to the left. The natives appear to have an offering of fruit, including pineapples, shown on the right. After Columbus' arrival, Cuba became a Spanish colony, ruled by a Spanish governor in Havana. In 1762, Havana was briefly occupied by Great Britain, before being returned to Spain in exchange for Florida.
[Ref: 37611] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Chevalier D'_n producing his evidence against certain persons.
[Oxford Magazine, 12th Auguest, 1769.]
Etching. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7").
An ape-faced Chevalier d'Eon kneels on a platform, vomiting over Bute and other members of the Grafton admininstration. Joining the attack are Horne Tooke, Beckford and an American Indian, who draws his bow and aims at Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the North American Colonies. Behind the Chevalier is Dr Musgrave, who holds a clyster pipe and says 'If the Etetic does not operate sufficiently Chevalier, I have this Ready'. Having acted as minister-plenipotentiary for France in London, the Chevalier d'Eon refused to be recalled, publishing libels against the French embassy members. When Musgrave accused the Grafton administration and the Princess of Wales of taking bribes to sway the settlement of the Treaty of Paris in the favour of the French, he attempted to get the Chevalier to back up his claims, which D'Eon refused to do.
BM 4308.
[Ref: 59973] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Drake receiving the Crown from the Hioh, or King of new Albion.
[London: F. Newbery, 1774.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Drake landed on the coast of California, took possession in the name of his sovereign, and named it Nova Albion. He remained for some weeks, and made friends with the natives, who regarded the newcomers as gods. The chief, dressed in furs, came with his official attendants, and indulged in a wild dance. Drake was asked to sit down, and the king, singing with all the rest, set a crown on Drake's head and saluted him as Hioh ('sovereign'). From 'An Historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators...'.
British Library: 008615932.
[Ref: 52025] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The dream of Francis Xavier.] Den droom van Xaverius van Indien te bekeeren.
[Antwerp: Plantin, 1640.]
Engraving, 105 x 135mm (4¼ x 5¼"), set in text.
A young boy with a bow and quiver of arrows carries a native American wearing feathered headdress. Published in Jean Bollandus's 'Af-beeldinghe van d'eerste eeuwe der societeyt Jesu', a history of the Jesuits which contained emblems by Abraham van Diepenbeek (1596-1675), a follower of Rubens. In 1537 Francis Xavier had a recurring dream in which he that he was carrying an Indian on his back as penance. This led him to leave Rome in 1541 and undertake missionary work in India, Goa, Japan, and China, for which he was eventually made a saint. Despite this work being in Asia the 'Indian' is often portrayed as an American.
[Ref: 41459] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Dying Buffalo Bull, in Snow Drift. No.17.
Catlin del._Mc.Gahey lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
(From Catlins N.A. Indian Collection.) [London: Geo. Catlin, 1844.]
Lithograph with hand colour. 430 x 579mm (17 x 22¾").
Indians hunting bison in a bleak snowy landscape. "In this view the reader is introduced to the optimum of dreariness and severity which the hunters of the northern prairies have to contend with in the depths of winter. An intensely cold day, and dry and sand-like snow three or four feet in depth, drifting before the wind, and a herd of buffaloes labouring to plough their way through it, whilst they are urged on by a party of Indians on snow-shoes, deeply clad in furs, and dealing death to them with their spears. The dying bull in the foreground of this picture, and that in the preceding plate, were carefully sketched by my own hand whilst the animals were thus struggling with death; and I therefore confidently offer them as faithful delineations of their forms and looks, as well as fit and impressive subjects for contemplation for those who may ever have the time, and feel disposed to sympathize with the cruel destruction and extinction of this useful and noble animal.” An exhibition of Catlin's 'American Indian Portraits' is currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery. George Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvanian-born artist who made five trips to the western United States to document the Native American peoples and their way of life. From Catlin's "North American Indian Portfolio".
Abbey Travel: 653.17.
[Ref: 29515] £850.00

Eskimaux de Labrador.
de Jefrize.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 271 x 164mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2007] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Ex Libris Charles .E. Cameron. 1897. Books in the Running Brooks.
J.W. Spenceley. Del, Sc. '97.
Engraving. 108 x 82mm. 4¼ x 3¼". Laid on album scrap.
An American Indian leaning against a large rock is looking down into a brook which gushes from its base. His birch bark canoe is drawn up beside him in the long grass and ferns. Behind the rock grows a pine tree, the lower branch of which frames the top of the picture. The background is a lake fringed with trees and mountains.
In: Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library.
[Ref: 27960] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A South View of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in North America.
Engraved for the London Magazine, 1760.
Engraving on watermarked laid paper, sheet 150 x 270mm. 6 x 10½". Trimmed within plate. Pin hole to sky.
Fort Oswego was an important frontier post for British traders in the 18th century. A trading post was established in 1722 with a log palisade, and New York governor William Burnet ordered a fort built at the site in 1727. The fort established a British presence on the Great Lakes. During the French and Indian War, this fort was captured and destroyed by the French in 1756. The site is now included in the city of Oswego, New York. Illustration to the London Magazine, numbered in image, with key lower left.
From Capper Album.
[Ref: 10950] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

From Pirae.
Charles Surendorf. Tahiti 1939. 7/50 [Signed in pencil].
A very scarce woodcut printed on india paper. Limited to 50. 172 x 216mm. Tipped on corners to old card.
Charles Surendorf, American, 1906--1979 Charles Frederick Surendorf was born in Richmond, Indiana in November 1906. He left Richmond to spend time at the Chicago Art Institute, Art Student's League, New York and two semesters at Ohio State University in the Fine Arts program. In 1929, he moved to Los Angeles and to San Francisco in 1935. Charles Surendorf's early prints were woodblock, but he soon moved to a process he called "Linoleum Engravings." A view from Pirae, on the Northern coastline of Tahiti.
From the Harmsworth Estate: Desmond Harmsworth.
[Ref: 13055] £360.00

Horatio Gattes. Major Général, Commandant les Troupes Amériquaines Vainqueur des Anglois devant Saharatoga; ou le Général Burgoine fut fait Prisonnier avec toutes son Armée, le 17 Octobre 1777.
Published: A Paris chez Mondhare rue St. Jacques.
Engraving, 7¾ x 4¼".
American general who fought in the French and Indian War and then was, at different times, commander of both the Northern Army of the U.S. and the Southern Army of the U.S. He was the commanding officer of the American force that retreated from the recaptured Fort Ticonderoga, and he was in command at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga. This success, coupled with George Washington's recent failures, prompted a movement to replace Washington with Gates as commander-in-chief. Washington, however, stayed on. Gates retired to his farm in 1789 but was called back a year later and given the command of the Southern Army. The defeat at Camden proved disastrous, and Gates was replaced by Nathanael Greene.
[Ref: 210] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Carrosel] Præfectorum Castrorum et Quinque Turmarum ex ingenti area, quæ Vindocinensi Palatio adjacet, usque ad Ampitheatri aditum Incessus.
[Etched by Israel Silvestre after François Chaveau?]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Four etched plates (of eight) each c. 185 x 560mm (7¼ x 22"), with very large margins.
Part of a record of one of the processions of 'The Grand Carrousel', a three-day festivity organised by the young king Louis XIV in June 1662. The participants were divided into teams dressed as Native Americans, Romans, Persians, Indians and Turks, and would compete in equestrian events before an audience of 15,000 in the Tuilleries palace, Paris. This huge view was engraved by Israel Silvestre (1621-91), probably after François Chauveau (1613-76) who drew and engraved portraits of individual riders for Charles Perrault's 'Courses de Testes et de Bague Faittes Par Le Roy et par Les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour En l'Année 1662'.
[Ref: 45172] £380.00 view all images for this item

Hee-doh-gee-ats, a Chin-ook Boy.
G. Catlin P.t. J.Harris sc.
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Slightly time stained.
A reduced version of the portrait by George Catlin, published in 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 31522] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece of 'Ignoramus. Comoedia.']
[London, 1737.]
Engraving. 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼").
A man stands before bookshelves, holding a paper marked 'Ignoramus'. 'Ignoramus. Comoedia.' was a satirical play on the judiciary written by George Ruggle (1575-1622) and was first performed in 1615 before an audience including James I. The play caused the English meaning of the Latin word 'ignoramus' to change from 'I do not know' to 'a dunce'. Ruggle worked for the Virginia Company for the last three years of his life, leaving £100 for the Christian education of American Indian children in the colony in his will.
[Ref: 63462] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Der Herico. Das merckwürdigste von der Nation und dem Lande
[Erfurt, published by J.M. Funck, 1723]
Very rare woodcut with letterpress, printed area 320 x 180mm (12½ x 7"). Time stained.
Image and letterpress on native American indians, from J.M. Funcks' 'Neu-eröffnetes Amphitheatrum' (1723), on the inhabitants of various parts of the world.
[Ref: 38941] £320.00

Indian Gratitude. Peruvians Attending Las Cassas.
London Published by Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. [n.d. c.1845.]
Very rare mezzotint and etching, with hand-colouring and gum-arabic. 190 x 220mm (7¾ x 8¾"), very large margins.
Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566) was a 16th century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas in Mexico, He defended the rights of indigenous Peruvians against the slavery imposed on them by the Spanish Conquistadors. Here depicted on his deathbed, attended by grateful Peruvian Indians.
[Ref: 56287] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The English Pursuing their Victory & Hunting the Indians, from their Places of Retreat.
London Published by Rich.d Evans Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Sheet: 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8'') very large margins. Trimmed.
A historical scene showing the English settlers attacking the Native Americans in retaliation for an attack on the English settlement in Virginia.
[Ref: 48300] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Will.m. Penn's Treaty with the Indians.]
[After Benjamin West. H.Dawe sculp.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Very fine coloured mezzotint. 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed into image.
Coloured mezzotint after Benjamin West's impression of the 1681 peace treaty rendered between William Penn and the Delaware Indians.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64517] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Will.m. Penn's Treaty with the Indians.
[After] B.West. H.Dawe sculp.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured mezzotint. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins. Some time-staining. Messy.
Coloured mezzotint after Benjamin West's impression of the 1681 peace treaty rendered between William Penn and the Delaware Indians.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64518] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mouth of Fox River. (Indiana). Mündung des Fox-River (Indiana). [/] Embouchure du Fox-River (Indiana).
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ch. Bodmer. / Gravé par Himely.
London published by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840].
Aquatint, laid on india. Blindstamp underneath publication line reads, 'C.Bodmer, Direc'. Printed area: 436 x 300mm. (17¼ x 11¾"). Cut to platemark on left.
A view of the confluence of the Fox and Wabash Rivers: Cattle drink from their watering place on the opposite bank, a flock of Carolina Parrakeets can be seen settling in the mass of branches and vines at the top of the scene, beneath a Bald Eagle perches watchfully. After Karl Bodmer (1809 - 1893), engraved by Sigismond Himely (1801-1866). Bodmer accompanied German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied from 1832 to 1834 on his Missouri River expedition. He was hired as an artist by Maximilian with the specific intent of travelling through the American West and recording images of cities, rivers, towns and people they saw along the way. Titles in German, French and English.
[Ref: 28829] £650.00

V. Gottlieb Inventor. 1. A Perpetual Log. 2. A Ships Time Regulator. 3. A Ship's Tell Tale.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Diagrams of ship's instuments invented by Valentine Gottlieb, an immigrant who settled in Lambeth in the 1770s. He successfully lobbied the government to install his design of a mechanical perpetual ship’s log to two newly-designed fast postal packets commissioned in 1790 for the North American and West Indian mail service. The December 1791 issue of the European Magazine contained a variation of this engraving plus explanatory text of this group of related navigational instruments.
See http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-15/valentine-gottlieb/
[Ref: 57043] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Iroquois Indians of Canada. F.
[London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, c.1818.]
Engraving with original hand colour, Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½").
The man carries a musket, bow and quiver of arrows, and the woman holds a baby in a papoose. A plate from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present; being being descriptions of the principal countries of the world. With representations of the various Inhabitants in their respective costumes, beautifully coloured'.
[Ref: 57323] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Edmund Kean Esq.r In the Dress presented to and worn by him on the Occasion of his being chosen a Chief and Prince of the Huron tribe of Indians by the name of Alanienouidet. To the Patentee, Committee, and Performers of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane... This Print is most respectfully dedicated by their obliged and ob.t Ser.t William Kenneth.
Painted by Frederick Meyer Jun.r 3 Red Lion Square. Engraved by G.F. Storm.
London Published by William Kenneth at his Dramatic Repository Corner of Bow St. Covent Garden May 14th 1827.
Fine image.
In Canada on his North American tour of 1826 (taken to avoid the scandal caused by his adultery), Edmund Kean was made an honorary chieftain in the Huron tribe of Indians, with an Indian name of Alanienouidet.
[Ref: 38811] £420.00

Ker-O-Menée. A Celebrated Winnebego Chief.
Taken at the treaty of Green Bay 1827._by J. O. Lewis. T. Barincoy [on Stone].Lehman & Duval Lithrs.
[Philadelphia, Published July 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size approx 270 x 490mm.
From the rare folio edition of the 'Aboriginal Portfolio', with original hand colouring.
[Ref: 3877] £320.00

A Plan of the City & Harbour of Louisburg.
[n.d., August 1758.]
Rare engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate right and bottom.
A plan of the environs of the French fortress of Louisbourg, published in the 'Grand Magazine of Magazines', to illustrate an account of English attacks during the 'French and Indian War', the North American theatre of the 'Seven Years' War'. The fortress was captured by a New England army backed by the Royal Navy in 1745, part of the 'War of the Austrian Succession'. Returned to French possession at the end of the war, it was attacked again unsuccessfully in 1757 and finally in 1758, prior to the Seige of Quebec by James Wolfe. The first issue of the 'Grand Magazine' was in July 1758; it ceased publication after the November 1759 issue.
[Ref: 55702] £180.00

Mah-to-toh-pa. (The Four Bears) 2nd Chief of the Mandans.
G. Catlin P.t. J.Harris sc.
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Slightly time stained.
A reduced version of the portrait of a Mandan of Dakota by George Catlin, published in 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 31512] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mah-To-Toh-Pa. The Mandan Chief. (From Catlin's N.A. Indian Collection).
Catlin del. Mc.Gahey, lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Scarce tinted lithograph. Sheet: 515 x 385mm (21¼ x 15''). Staining at bottom and 2 very small tears top.
A portrait of the Mandan chief Mah-To-Toh-Pa after a study made by George Catlin (1796-1872) who made three trips to study the Native American peoples between 1832-1836.
[Ref: 50647] £480.00

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