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Bechuana Belle.
Bechuana Belle.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana; a tribes woman standing bare-breasted with a small child strapped to her back peering up over her shoulder. Tribesmen are seen in the background standing around a wagon. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30174]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Bechuana of Distinction.
Bechuana of Distinction.
W.C. Harris del.t
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana; a tribesman with a loin of meat hanging off of his spear and holding a feather parasol. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30173]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Birmingham Town Hall.
Birmingham Town Hall. now erecting by Hansom & Welch Archts. The Exterior of this Building is of Anglesey White Marble. It is intended to celebrate the next Musical Festival in this Building, in October 1833. The Hall for the purposes of Town's Meetings will contain upwards of 8000 persons.
Drawn On Stone By Henry Harris. Printed By C. Hullmandel.
Published March, 1832, by the Artist, Hagley Row, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Lithograph on india laid paper, 355 x 470mm. 14 x 18½".
A handsome view of Birmingham Town Hall in Victoria Square, Birmingham. Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch were chosen as the architects. Construction began on April 27, 1832 with an expected completion date of 1833. However, Hansom went bankrupt during construction, having tendered too low. The contractors were also losing money. Three guarantors donated money for the building; W. P. Lloyd, John Welch and Edward Tench. With the injection of this money, the building was successfully opened for the delayed Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival on October 7, 1834, despite the building still being unfinished. During construction, on January 26, 1833, two workers were killed when a 70 foot crane constructed to install the roof trusses broke and the pulley block failed. Architect Charles Edge was commissioned in 1835 to repair weaknesses to the design of the building. He was also commissioned for the extension of the building in 1837 and again in 1850.
[Ref: 9465]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Birmingham Town Hall.
Birmingham Town Hall. now erecting by Hansom & Welch Arch.ts. The Exterior of this Building is of Anglesey White Marble. It is intended to celebrate the next Musical Festival in this Building, in October 1833. The Hall for the purposes of Town's Meetings will contain upwards of 8000 persons.
Drawn On Stone By Henry Harris. Printed By C. Hullmandel.
Published March, 1832, by the Artist, Hagley Row, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Lithograph on chine collé. 355 x 470mm (14 x 18½"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins.
A handsome view of Birmingham Town Hall in Victoria Square, Birmingham. Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch were chosen as the architects. Construction began on April 27, 1832 with an expected completion date of 1833. However, Hansom went bankrupt during construction, having tendered too low. The contractors were also losing money. Three guarantors donated money for the building; W. P. Lloyd, John Welch and Edward Tench. With the injection of this money, the building was successfully opened for the delayed Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival on October 7, 1834, despite the building still being unfinished. During construction, on January 26, 1833, two workers were killed when a 70 foot crane constructed to install the roof trusses broke and the pulley block failed. Architect Charles Edge was commissioned in 1835 to repair weaknesses to the design of the building. He was also commissioned for the extension of the building in 1837 and again in 1850.
[Ref: 59617]   £360.00  
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Theatre at Erythroe. Straits of Scio.
Theatre at Erythroe. Straits of Scio.
J.H. Allan. [Captioned and signed to plate.]
[London: Longman & Co., 1843.]
Sepia tinted zincograph (lithograph) heightened in white, sheet 235 x 330mm. 9¼ x 13". Waterstains to lower sheet edge, outside image; sheet slightly trimmed. Overall a fine impression.
Figures at the site of an ancient Greek amphitheatre. The Chios Strait in the Aegean Sea separates the Greek island of Chios from Turkey. From a first edition of John Harrison Allan's folio 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean' (40 plates). IT was here that the Battle of Chesma was fought between the Russia and Turkey. The Turkish fleet was so conquered by the Russians that it lead to many territories rebelling against Ottoman rule land eventually to the Greek War of Independance.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 2. BL: 000053361.
[Ref: 17706]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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XXII. Elephas Africanus. - The African Elephant.
XXII. Elephas Africanus. - The African Elephant.
W. C. Harris del.t
[London, John Murray, n.d., c.1840-3.]
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 330 x 450mm. (13 x 17¾").
A study of a African Elephant in its natural habitat, with a herd of elephants in the background, from Captain William Cornwallis Harris's 'Portraits of Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa'. Harris (1807 - 1848), an English military engineer, artist and hunter, joined the East India Company in December 1823. In their employ he was able to pursue his taste for field sports and the depiction of wildlife. One of the more notable of the early Victorian travellers, Harris's illustrations of the large African fauna were the first to have any claim to accuracy. They were originally issued in parts 1840-2 and as a volume in 1843.
Abbey Travel 335.
[Ref: 58821]   £520.00  
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Vice Adm.l Sir George F. Seymour, K.C.B. G.C.H.
Vice Adm.l Sir George F. Seymour, K.C.B. G.C.H. Commander in Chief North American Station.
John Harrison. Francis Holl.
London, Published 1852, by J. Hogarth, 5, Haymarket.
Stipple. 520 x 418mm. 20½ x 16½".
Sir George Francis Seymour (1787-1870), captain of HMS Fortunée and HMS Leonidas during the War of 1812, for which he was made a CB. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief Pacific Station in 1844, Commander-in-Chief North America and West Indies Station in 1851 and Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1856. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1866.[
NPG: D40651.
[Ref: 24245]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Grand Celebration ob de Bobalition ob African Slabery.
Grand Celebration ob de Bobalition ob African Slabery. Life in Philadelphia No. 11
Drawn & Eng.d by J. Harris
T.C. Lewis & Co. 96 Cheapside London [c1850]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 225 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with large margins. Borders dusty.
The 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population were first published by Edward William Clay in the United States in the 1820s. Shortly after the London publisher W. Harrison Isaacs published a set of copies mostly drawn by William Summers and engraved by Charles Hunt, augmenting them with new caricatures in the same vein but set in London. Isaacs' plates subsequently passed to Gabriel Shire Tregear, and then to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this impression. Hickman notes that Lewis's reissue of Tregear's set of 20 'Life in Philadelphia' prints is dated to 1860 by the Library Company of Philadelphia, but suggests 'it was probably earlier'. This is the only print in Tregear's/Lewis's set which was not engraved by Charles Hunt. It clearly relates to the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
Hickman p.126
[Ref: 47097]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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''Great Britain'' Built at Bristol 1837-1843 [...]
''Great Britain'' Built at Bristol 1837-1843 [...]
L.H.M. [Leonard Harrison Matthews] del 1926 sculp 1931.
Scarce etching, very large margins. 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"). Some spotting.
An amateur etching of SS Great Britain, surrounded by vignette details. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was the largest passenger ship in the world when she was completed in 1845, but here she is shown being used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk in the Falkland Islands. Scuttled in 1937, she was brought back to England in 1970 and restored. Dr. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) drew this sketch when he was a zoologist with the 'Discovery Investigations' (1924-9) in the Falklands and South Georgia, studying the biology of whales and southern elephant seals. In 1931 he published a paper, 'South Georgia, the Empire's Sub-Antarctic Outpost'; over fifty years later his last publication was 'Mammals in the British Isles' (1982).
[Ref: 60912]   £320.00  
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''Great Britain'' Built at Bristol 1837-1843 [...]
''Great Britain'' Built at Bristol 1837-1843 [...]
L.H.M. [Leonard Harrison Matthews] del 1926 sculp 1931.
Etching. 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"), with second etching on reverse. Creased, some spotting.
An amateur etching of SS Great Britain, surrounded by vignette details. On the reverse is an etching os a woman sleeping in an armchair, with monogram 'UNK' Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was the largest passenger ship in the world when she was completed in 1845, but here she is shown being used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk in the Falkland Islands. Scuttled in 1937, she was brought back to England in 1970 and restored. Dr. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) drew this sketch when he was a zoologist with the 'Discovery Investigations' (1924-9) in the Falklands and South Georgia, studying the biology of whales and southern elephant seals. In 1931 he published a paper, 'South Georgia, the Empire's Sub-Antarctic Outpost'; over fifty years later his last publication was 'Mammals in the British Isles' (1982).
[Ref: 60913]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Bechuana hunting the Lion.
Bechuana hunting the Lion.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana, seen hunting a lion. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30166]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Hunting at Meritsane.
Hunting at Meritsane.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½").
Hunters chasing animals at Meritsane, an area which is now Mokala National Park in the Northern Cape of Africa. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30170]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Hunting the Blesbok
Hunting the Blesbok
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½").
A hunter on horse back with his rifle chases after a fleeing herd of blesbuck. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30172]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Hunting the Giraffe.
Hunting the Giraffe.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½").
Two Indian army officers on horseback, one in the background with his rifle pointed directly at a giraffe standing still, and a second chasing after an escaping herd. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30167]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Hunting the Ostrich.
Hunting the Ostrich.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½").
An ostrich in the foreground running as a hunter stands behind by his horse with rifle pointing ready to shoot; in the background a procession of cattle and wagons. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30171]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Hunting the Wild Buffalo.
Hunting the Wild Buffalo.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½"). Tear into image along lower edge.
Wild buffalo flee, one injuring itself to left, as Indian hunters arrive on horseback with their rifles ready to shoot. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30169]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Shooting the Hippopotamus.
Shooting the Hippopotamus.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½").
Three hippos seen in the water, a fourth seen walking on the shoreline; an Indian hunter hidden behind a tree ready to shoot. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30168]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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XII. Hippopotamus Amphibius. - The Hippopotamus.
XII. Hippopotamus Amphibius. - The Hippopotamus.
W. C. Harris del.t
[London, John Murray, n.d., c.1840-3.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 330 x 450mm. (13 x 17¾").
A study of a Hippopotamus in its natural habitat, from Captain William Cornwallis Harris's 'Portraits of Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa'. Harris (1807 - 1848), an English military engineer, artist and hunter, joined the East India Company in December 1823. In their employ he was able to pursue his taste for field sports and the depiction of wildlife. One of the more notable of the early Victorian travellers, Harris's illustrations of the large African fauna were the first to have any claim to accuracy. They were originally issued in parts 1840-2 and as a volume in 1843.
Abbey Travel 335.
[Ref: 30011]   £480.00  
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[Mexico] El General Javier Mnia, Copia del Retrato Original Pintado.
[Mexico] El General Javier Mnia, Copia del Retrato Original Pintado. Pocos dias antes de su salida de Inglaterra, Que existe en poder de Tomas Broadwood.
Ja.s Harrinson Pinx.t Tho.s Wright Sculp.t.
Publicada en Londres por R. Ackermann. [n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple. 228 x 145mm. 9 x 5¾". Cut to the plate bottom and sides. Creasing and soiling to the lower edger.
Francisco Javier Mina (1789-1817) was a Spanish Lawyer and army officer and a Mexican revolutionary. As a rebel and guerilla who fled during the Peninsula War, he sought to form a large enough group to engage in full-scale military actions, but he was captured in 1810; later released following the collapse of Napoleon's governent in 1814. On returning to Spain he was appalled by the abolition of the democratic state, which was previously established under the Constitution of 1812. He was ironically forced to flee to France, where he was convinced by Servando Teresa de Mier, a Roman Catholic priest, that he could attack Spain from the colonies. Therefore in 1816 he took two ships to attack Spanish shipping in the Gulf of Mexico and setup a base in Texas. Two failed attempts, one escape later and a final capture in 1817 led to his execution by firing squad in the Fuerte de los Remedios region in Guanajuato, Mexico, aged only twenty-seven.
[Ref: 17279]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Observatory.
Observatory. Wincliff, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
W. Harris Archt, Bristol. J. Prout lithog: Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 266 x 210mm. 10½ x 8¼".
[Ref: 21305]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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King Sahlela Selassie.
King Sahlela Selassie.
On Stone by W. L. Walton, from a Portrait by Major Harris. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by Longman & Co. 1844.
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, rare. Sheet: 140 x 220mm (4½ x 8½"). Creasing.
A portrait of Ethiopian Negus (monarch) Shale Selassie (1795-1847). An illustration from William Cornwallis Harris's 'The Highlands of Aethipia' published in three volumes in 1844.
[Ref: 47239]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Tunbridge Wells, from Mount Ephraim.
Tunbridge Wells, from Mount Ephraim. No. 2.
Drawn from Nature & lith by H. Harris.
Pr. by Graf & Soret. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 220 x 280mm (8¾ X 11"). Very large margins.
An attractive view of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, from Mount Ephraim, with a number of figures on the paths before the town itself.
[Ref: 38071]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Telmessus_Lycia.
Telmessus_Lycia.
I.H. Allan. A.R. Grieve, Zinco.
Printed by J. Grieve, 33, Nicholas Lane. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted zincograph with colour added by hand, 375 x 265mm. 14¾ x 10½".
Telmessos (or incorrectly Telmissis) was a flourishing city in Lycia, modern Turkey, on the Gulf of Fethiye. It was famed for its school of diviners, consulted among others by the Lydian king Croesus, prior to declaring war against Cyrus, and by Alexander the Great, when he came to the town after the siege of Halicarnassus. From John Harrison Allan's 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean'.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 6.
[Ref: 11741]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Warfield Park] A View of the Gardens of Tho.s Hart Esq.r from the India House at Warfield, Berkshire.
[Warfield Park] A View of the Gardens of Tho.s Hart Esq.r from the India House at Warfield, Berkshire.
J. Harris Pinx.t. J. Wood Sculp.t.
Published 10th Jan.y 1753 by J. Harris.
Scarce engraving, fine impression. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15¼ x 22"). Trimmed within plate. Slight creasing on right.
A view of a landscaped estate, a 'Grecian temple' folly on a hill, with a couple being rowed in a canopied boat.
[Ref: 58512]   £320.00  
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