Ah Mayeux! Mayeux!! chian li li li!...
J. Grandville. Lith. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat [Paris, n.d., c.1832].
Lithograph with hand colouring, sheet 270 x 360mm. 10½ x 14¼".
Children chasing a rather freakish man dressed in female clothes (in the manner of 'Little Bo Peep') out of town. Monsieur Mayeux was a fictional hunchback character created by Charles Traviès, who depicted a series of his 'Aventures'. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature'. Under the regime of Charles X until the Revolution of 1830 the political caricature was prohibited by censorship. In November 1830 Charles Philipon (1800 - 1862) started publishing 'La Caricature', devoted to political satire. In 1832 he published the 'Charivari' with his brother-in-law Gabriel Aubert, with whom he founded the famous publishing house Maison Aubert.
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Les Artistes Contemporaines. 1. M.elle Mars. 2. M.elle Sontag. 3. M.elle Malibran Garcia. 4. M.elle Damoreau Cinti. 5. M.elle Pasta. 6. M.elle Georges.
[after Jacques Francois Gauderique Llanta.]
[n.d., c.1832.]
Aquatint with very large margins. 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Some light staining.
Half-length portrait of six actresses and singers: Mademoiselle Mars (Anne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat, 1779-1847); Henriette Sontag (1806-1854); Maria Malibran Garcia (1808-1836); Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801-1863); Giuditta Pasta (1797-1865); Marguerite Georges (1787-1867, said to have had affairs with both Napoleon and Wellington).
[Ref: 36488] £130.00
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[Ornament print] L'Asie.
J. Dumont le Rom D. M.V. Blondel. S. 1736. [signed in plate.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1736.]
Etching. Sheet 155 x 300mm (6 x 11¾"). Lacking margins, creasing.
An allegory of the continent of Asia, featuring a female figure wafting burning incense, a camel, and oriental architecture in the background. The design framed in a rococo cartouche. Presumably from a set of designs, after Jacques Dumont (called 'le Romain') (1701 - 1781).
[Ref: 27806] £220.00
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[26 Bound plates of Astronomy] Astronomie.
Goussier Del. Benard Fecit.
[n.d. c.1750]
Bound engravings, plates 350 x 220mm (13¾ x 8¾"), with large margins. No cover.
Images of astronomical diagrams, instruments and astrology. Louis-Jacques Goussier (1722 - 1799) was a French illustrator and encyclopedist. Louis-Jacques Goussier is famous for his work on Diderot's encyclopedia. He was the first drawer to be hired on that project, in 1747 and he did himself more than 900 plates and directed the drawing of the others. Robert Bénard (1734 – 1777) was a French engraver. Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Bénard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751.
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[Siege of Barcelona, 1714] Aggressio duorum propugnaculorum, a fossore cuniculario labe facta. Attaque de deux Bastions les breches faits par le Mineur. Median fol.º No. 75.
Georg Matthaüs Probst del. et sculp.
Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Mounted.
A vue d'optique of the siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession, based one of the set of six views of the siege by Jacques Rigaud for Belidor's 'La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile'. This plate shows soldiers entering the city through the three breaches made in the walls my miners. The image has been reversed for viewing through a zograscope, a device of lenses and mirrors designed to give a sense of depth, which transposed the image, resulting in the need for a title in reverse above the print.
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[The assault on Barcelona, 1714.) An Attack & Lodgement on the Covert Way: i.e. the part which lies between the Ditch and the Glacis.
[Engraved by Jean Baptiste Rigaud after Jacques Rigaud.]
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraving with strong original colour; Whatman 1794 watermark. 245 x 425mm (9¾ x 16¾"). Tears in large margins.
A view of the assault on Barcelona by the Bourbons on the 11th September 1714, led by the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II, during the War of the Spanish Succession. As plate 3 of 'Twelve of the most remarkable sieges and battles in Europe', originally published by Carington Bowles c.1760, it illustrates the art of siege warfare, with the use of sappers to get troops and guns closer to the walls. Other plates in the series depict Culloden (1746) and Minden (1759).
[Ref: 45037] £260.00
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[Battle Scene]
IDG in et ex [c.1620]
Etching, sheet 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; glue stains at corners.
Battle scene, probably by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).
[Ref: 47775] £85.00
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[Napoleon Crossing the Alps.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, losing title, old ink mss title pasted on, laid on album paper.
A version of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon on a rearing Marengo.
[Ref: 55748] £65.00
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[Napoleon Crossing the Alps.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Trimmed, losing title?, mounted in album paper.
A version of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon on a rearing Marengo.
[Ref: 55785] £75.00
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Bonaparte Crossing the Alps.
Mezzotint. Sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed into image, title excised and pasted below, mounted on album paper.
A version of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon on a rearing Marengo.
[Ref: 55786] £75.00
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
Lithograph, trimmed into oval. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Trimmed into image, title excised and pasted below, mounted on album paper.
A version of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon on a rearing Marengo.
[Ref: 55787] £75.00
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[Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into image.
A version of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon on a rearing Marengo.
[Ref: 55898] £85.00
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Napoleon Crossing the Alp's.
[Anon., c.1830.]
Lithograph with hand-colouring and gum arabic, sheet 150 x 130mm (6 x 5"). Tear to image at top.
Perhaps the most famous image of Napoleon, Jacques-Louis David's 'Napoleon Crossing the Alps' painted five times between 1801 and 1805. The painting, initially commissioned by the king of Spain, represents in idealized form Napoleon's crossing through the Great St Bernard Pass in 1800. Napoleon's army can be seen behind, and the printmaker has taken some licence to make them more prominent than in David's paintings.
[Ref: 35938] £60.00
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Napoleon Buonaparte. Engraved with permission by Rob.t Cooper from the original whole length Picture Painted by Mr. David his chief Painter at Paris.
London Published Jan.y 1815 for the Propietor by William Cribb, 13 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Stipple, rich impression. 505 x 365mm (19¾ x 14¼"). Cracks in image restored, some surface abrasions, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
Half length portrait of Napeolon Bonaparte, looking towards the front, dressed in uniform with cross and Grand Eagle of the Legion of honour, his right hand slipped inside his waistcoat. A detail of the full-length portrait by Jacques-Louis David, ''The Emperor Napoleon in his Study at the Tuileries''.
[Ref: 59651] £320.00
Napoleon Asleep in his Study. Taken Shortly Before the Battle of Waterloo.
Drawn by Dr Memes from a sketch by David. _ Eng.d by W.H. Lizars.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper. Foxed.
Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform, asleep in a chair in a tent.
[Ref: 55824] £65.00
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Tycho Brahé Astronome. Ne a Knud- Strup pres d'Helsinborg en Dannemare le 19 x.bre 1546. Mort a Prague le 24 Octobre 1601.
[after Jacques de Gheyn II]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate and mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of Tycho Brahe, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of the Elephant, holding glove and resting hand on ledge. Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe 1546 -1601) was a Danish astrologer, alchemist and astronomer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations. Not in Wellcome: 405.
[Ref: 62426] £230.00
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Tycho Brahe Astronome. Ne a Knud- Strup pres d'Helsinborg en Dannemare le 19 x.bre 1546. Mort a Prague le 24 Octobre 1601.
[after Jacques de Gheyn II]
A Paris chez Odieuvre, M.d d'Estampes, quai de l'Ecole vis a vis la Samarit.e ala belle Imag. CPR. [n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of Tycho Brahe, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of the Elephant, holding glove and resting hand on ledge. Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe 1546 -1601) was a Danish astrologer, alchemist and astronomer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations. Not in Wellcome: 405.
[Ref: 57154] £95.00
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[Gypsies stopped outside a tavern] Vous qui prenez plaisir en leurs paroles / Gardez vos blanc, vos testons, et pistolles.
Callot f. [c.1625] Bit later.
Etching, sheet 125 x 235mm (5 x 9¼"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Gypsies outside a tavern; fortune-tellers in middle-ground; figures climbing into the tavern through a window; others running away with stolen goods in background. One of a set of four plates depicting gypsies (then known as 'Egyptians', from which the word derives) by Jacques Callot (1592-1635), one of the greatest seventeenth century printmakers. The text seems to suggest that those who take pleasure in the entertainment provided by gypsies should be careful with their possessions- including their guns. British Museum cataloguing for the series suggests that it was produced after Callot returned to his native Nancy from Florence (where he spent several years) in 1621. A preparatory drawing for one of the set (now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) bears a watermark indicating the paper was from Lorraine.
[Ref: 42248] £190.00
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Camelus Bactrianus Linn.
De Seve del. J.C. Bock sc.
[Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther, c.1775.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 230 x 180mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
A portrait of Bactrian camel of Central Asia, from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen'.
[Ref: 52337] £230.00
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Camelus Dromedarius Linn.
De Seve del. J.C. Bock sc.
[Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther, c.1775.]
Engraving with original fine hand colour, pt 18th century watermark. 230 x 180mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
A portrait of an Arabian camel (Dromedary), from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen'.
[Ref: 52336] £230.00
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[The Breland, or the Prodigal.] Pellicus hinc Modulis...
Jac. Callot fec.
Con: Meyer fecit et excudit. [Engraved c.1680 but much later.]
Engraving. 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"), with very large margins. Impression weak, printer's crease centre of image.
A night scene, with the Prodigal Son playing cards by candle-light, engraved by Conrad Meyer (1618-89) after Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635) .
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Tamor des Îles Carolines et sa Femme, vus sur l'Ìle Tinian.
J.s Arago delin.t. Lerouge et Chobard sculp.t.
[Paris, 1822-4.]
Stipple. 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"), with large margins.
A warrior of the Caroline Islands, dressed in loincloth to show off his body tatoos and carrying a carved club, with his wife and child. Drawn by Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (1790-1855) and published in the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 53636] £230.00
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Vüe d'une Cascade sur les bords du Tibre près de Rome.
Le Barbier l'Ainé Pinx. Cl. Duflos Sculp.
AParis chés Cl. Duflos rüe Gallande chés M.r Fauchereau Marchand Chapelier.
Fine engraving. Sheet 330 x 400mm (13 x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Two rustics under a waterfall by the side of the river Tiber.
[Ref: 44988] £260.00
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A View of the Palace of Chantilli taken from the Orangery. ~ Vue de Chateau de Chantilli prise du Parterre de L'Orangerie
J. Rigaud delt.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whttle, 53 Fleet Street, London [This impression c.1805].
Engraving with fine contemporary hand colour. 245 x 415mm (9¾ x 16¼"), on wove paper. Evidence of some scuffing to colour in sky.
Figures in the grounds of the Château de Chantilly in the town of Chantilly, France, to the north of Paris. Partially destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s, the chateau is now owned by the Institut de France, and houses the Musée Condé, which is one of the finest art galleries in the country. Numbered '14' upper right. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
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[Christ Shown to the People] Purpurea quid opus ueste? he num cernis ur illi / Onmia purpureo membra cruore rubenr.t
Callot f [in image; c.1620]
Engraving, platemark 110 x 215mm (4¼ x 8½"). Glued to Album sheet at margins.
Plate from a set by Jacques Callot depicting episodes from the Passion, designed in Florence and engraved between 1619 and 1624. There are seven plates in the set, although preparatory drawings suggest the engraver originally planned more. Callot (1592-1635) was one of the greatest seventeenth century printmakers, bringing combining elegance and (in his 'Miseries and Misfortunes of War') grotesquerie.
[Ref: 46004] £130.00
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Constantia. Nor yet he ended_When, with troubled mien. [...] He could no more; but on her neck he fell.
Rigaud, R.A. pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.t.
London Publish'd Nov.r 30. 1799, by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple. Platemark: 430 x 500mm (17 x 19¾"). Very large margins. Small tears along top and bottom edges of sheet. Puncture holes for binding into wrappers along left margin.
Constantia kneeling before a king, her left arm resting on the king's knee as he leans towards her with his arms outstretched in grief. Courtiers are surrounding, with a columned building beyond to the left. An illustration to 'Constantia, or the Man of Law's Tale', attributed to Henry Brooke. From Macklin's 'One hundred pictures/Prints illustrative of the most celebrated British Poets [...] with letter-press explanatory of the subject, extracted from the writings of the respective poets.' For proof impressions see items ref: 18230. De Vesme: 1443.
[Ref: 38513] £260.00
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Habitus Variarum orbis gentium.[showing the continents]
[Malines, Caspar Rutz, 1581.]
Engraving with original hand colour, representing the continents of America Asia Europe and Africa. 230 x 320mm, 9 x 12½". Two areas of loss just affecting printed area.
Titlepage to an early book of 70 world costume plates, 'Habitus Variarum orbis gentium' ('Costume of the Various Peoples of the World'), usually found uncoloured.
[Ref: 13167] £220.00
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Habit d'une Morlaque de Sluin en Croatie.
J.G. S.t Sauveur inv. et direx. Ridé sculp.
[Paris, c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 110mm (6¾ c 4¼") ery large margins.
A Morlach woman from Sluin, a pastoralist community in the mountains of Croatia. From ''Costumes de Différent Pays'' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
[Ref: 61320] £75.00
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Habit d'une Morlaque de Sluin en Croatie.
J.G. S.t Sauveur inv. et direx. Ridé sculp.
[Paris, c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 110mm (6¾ c 4¼") very large margins. Light foxing.
A Morlach man from Sluin, a pastoralist community in the mountains of Croatia. From ''Costumes de Différent Pays'' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
[Ref: 61323] £75.00
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Habit d'une Morlaque d'Uglin en Croatie.
J.G. S.t Sauveur inv. et direx. Ridé sculp.
[Paris, c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A Morlach woman from Sluin, a pastoralist community in the mountains of Croatia. From ''Costumes de Différent Pays'' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
[Ref: 61321] £70.00
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Habit d'une Morlaque d'Uglin en Croatie.
J.G. S.t Sauveur inv. et direx. Ridé sculp.
[Paris, c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A Morlach man from Sluin, a pastoralist community in the mountains of Croatia. From ''Costumes de Différent Pays'' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
[Ref: 61322] £70.00
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[France] Philippus Despont Presbyter Parisiensis, Et in sacra Theologia Romana Doctor. ætatis Suæ 73.
Jacobus Van Schuppen ad viuum pinxit. Pet. Van Schuppen Sculspit 1694.
Engraving, with large margins. 385 x 280mm, 15 x 11".
Philippe Despont, a Parisian doctor of theology, shown seated in front of a huge theological text, Despont completed.Marguerin La Bigne's 'Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, et antiquorum scriptorum ecclesiasticorum...', a 27-volume compiliation of ancient and early medieval ecclesiastical authors.
[Ref: 27190] £160.00
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Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesvuntini de Divinatione & Magicis Praestigiis, Quarum Veritas ac Vanitas Solide exponitur per Descriptionem Deorum Fatidicorum qui olim Responsa dederunt; eorundemque Prophetarum, Sacerdotum, Phoebadum, Sibyllarum & Divinorum, qui priscis Temporibus celebres Oraculis exstiterunt: Adjunctis simul...imo vero necessarium: Cum indice.
Oppenheimii Typis Hieronymi Galleri. [n.d. c.1616.]
Engraving. Collector's stamp on verso. Plate 280 x 171mm. 11 x 6¾". Slightly time stained.
Frontispiece to a work on divination, necromancy, and magic; mainly based on earlier authors such as Trithemius. The work also details the different occult arts with themes such as lycanthropy, Simon Magnus, incubi and succubi. Jean Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Latin poet. In Italy he developed a taste for antiquities and formed a collection of the most curious monuments from Rome and its vicinity. Ex Collection: W.B. Dukes (architect, d.1942.) Lugt: 2757a.
[Ref: 20796] £160.00
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Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta festa rapresentata in Firenze Nel Fiume d'Arno il di XXV di Luglio 1.6.1.9.
Edouard Eomen sc. Jacomo Callot Inv.
[n.d. c.1639.]
Etching and engraving. 210 x 296mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed
Early copy of Jacques Callot's printed fan showing the ceremonial Battle between the guilds of weavers and dyers on the Arno in 1619, in which they fought for possession of an artificial hill in the centre of the river. Callot's print was commissioned by the Grand Duke before the event and distributed to spectators. One, mounted on card for use as a fan, can be seen held aloft by a spectator seated on the right side of the volute which forms the border. Etched by Edouard Ecqman (1639, fl), who produced copies of many of Callot's prints. Meaume 617 (copy); Lieure 302 (copy 1).
[Ref: 28918] £380.00
Veüe de Fontaineblaeu. A View of the Royal Palace of Fontainbleau. 2.
J. Rigaud Delin.
Printed for Bowles & Carver, S.t Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1819].
Etching with fine hand colour. 225 x 415mm (8¾ x 16¼"), on Whatman paper watermarked 1819, with large margins.
A view of Fontaineblaeu and the carp pond, with promenaders under avenues of trees in the jardin anglais. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 60198] £260.00
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A View of the Flower Garden & part of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
J. Tinney sculp. et ex.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whttle, 53 Fleet Street, London. [This impression c.1805.]
Copper engraving in fine contemporary colour by hand, wove paper watermarked 1805. 220 x 450mm, 8¾ x 17¾". Evidence of some scratching to sky with some oxidisation in the pigment, overall fine.
Figures in the gardens of the Palace of Fontainebleau, not far from Paris, France, one of the largest and most imposing French royal châteaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on an early 16th century structure of Francis I. Numbered '10' upper right. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 20737] £190.00
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View of One Wing of Fontainebleau, taken from the Court of Fountains.
J.Rigaud delin.
Published by F. West, 83, Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 225 x 450mm, 9 x 17¾".
The chateau of Fontainbleau, with rowing boats on the Carp Pond.
[Ref: 18525] £160.00
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A View of one of the Wings of Fontainebleau taken from the Court of Fountains.
London Printed for Robt. Sayer Print & Mapseller at the Golden Buck in Fleetstreet [n.d., c.1760s].
Hand coloured engraving, image 195 x 430mm, 7¾ x 17". Laid on card in near-contemporary presentation by or for collector 'E J Myles'; inscribed to verso with his name (probably signature) in ink, and numbered '38'. Print trimmed to image; extremities/(card) margin over painted in black, with inscription detached and pasted to verso, as often. Some staining and scuffing, corners clipped and creased. Fine contemporary colour.
Figures disembarking from elaborate rowing barges, into the gardens of the Palace of Fontainebleau, not far from Paris, France. Fontainebleau is one of the largest and most imposing French royal châteaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on an early 16th century structure of Francis I. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754).
[Ref: 21760] £180.00
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Carte de la Caroline et Georgie. Pour servir à l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.
Tirée des Auteurs Anglois par M.B. Ing. de la Marine. 1757.
[Paris: Didot Libraire, c.1757.]
Engraved map with hand colour, 18th century watermark. 200 x 300mm (8 x 11¾"). Binding folds, four pairs on worm holes in image, two near right plate mark. Offsetting.
A map of the US coastline from Albemarle Sound south to Jekyll Island (near Brunswick in Georgia). It extends inland to the Appalachians and parts of Eastern Tennessee. Published in Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
[Ref: 59456] £260.00
[Portrait of Bartolomeo Giavarina.] Bartolomaeus Giavarina in Aula Caesarea apud Leopoldum Imperatorem Venetae [...]
J. Van Schuppen Pinxit Parisys 1700 / P. Giffart filius sculpsit Parisys 1700
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Fine. Crease through centre;
Bartolomeo Giavarina, publisher based in Venice, holding a letter, in trompe l'oeil niche.
[Ref: 34869] £130.00
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Homme de Goa. [&] Femme de Goa.
J. G. S. Sauveur Inv. Direx. Labrousse Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800].
Pair of coloured engravingd. Plate: 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½").
Portraits of a wealthy man and woman of Goa, wearing elaborate dress, from ''Costumes de Différent Pays'' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
[Ref: 35077] £160.00
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Le Bouc de Juda. Tom. XV. Pl. XX Pag. 196.
De Seve delin. C. Baquoy Sculp.
[n.d. c.1766.]
Coloured engraving; paper watermarked. Plate 215 x 166mm (8½ x 6½"). Small margins.
Short-horned white goat with short untamed coat; palm tree and domed building in background. A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. It is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. From Buffon's "L’Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi" and particularly from his "douze volumes sur les quadrupèdes (de 1753 à 1767)".
[Ref: 52382] £65.00
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Le Bouc de Juida. Tom. III. Pl. XIII. pag. 96.
De Seve del. Baron Sc.
[n.d. c.1766.]
Coloured engraving; paper watermarked. Plate 215 x 171mm (8½ x 6¾). Small margins.
A long-horned goat with long white coat stands in the moonlight; building with minaret stands to the left in background. A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. It is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. From Buffon's "L’Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi" and particularly from his "douze volumes sur les quadrupèdes (de 1753 à 1767)".
[Ref: 52383] £65.00
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Carte vivante du Restaurateur. Une Oie. Et un Lapin.
Panneuier Lith d'apres grandville. Lith de Delaporte.
Ches Aubert, E.eur du J.al la caricature galerie véro dodat. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph with large margins. Sheet size: 280 x 365mm (11 x 14¼"). Paper toning. Top left corner missing.
Plate 5 from Jean Grandville's series 'Carte vivante du Restaurateur' (You Are What You Eat). Originally published in the early 1830s the prints are from a folio printed for the French pharmaceutical company 'Laboratoires Robert et Carriére' as a gift for clients in the mid 1900s.
[Ref: 36184] £75.00
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Griffon.
E. Jacques.
Paris Rixem Freres, Edit Rue du Sentier, 28. Imp Villain, rue de Sevres, 19 Paris.
Coloured lithograph 250 x 205mm. Image.
The griffon type is characterised by rough or wire hair.
[Ref: 3433] £150.00
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[Guanaco] Camelus Huanacus Mol.
De Seve del. J.C. Bock sc.
[Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther, c.1775.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 230 x 180mm (9 x 11"). Very large margins.
A Chilean Guanaco, here with the name given to it by Juan Ignacio Molina (1740-1829), a Jesuit priest and naturalist.
[Ref: 52338] £110.00
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Prospect of Hampton-Court.
[Etched by Bartholomew Rocque after Jacques Rigaud.]
[n.d., c.1738.]
Etching, extremely scarce. Sheet 355 x 560mm (14 x 22"). Trimmed to printed border at top, into image at sides and around title at bottom, mounted in album paper. Printers' crease.
A copy of Rigaud's 'Prospect of Hampton Court from the Garden Side', published 1736, etched by Bartholomew Rocque (d.1767), brother of mapmaker John Rocque. Bartholomew's main interest was gardening and he owned a farm in Waltham Green that is marked on his brother's map of London. In 1736 John had published an estate plan of Hampton Court: this was perhaps intended as a companion piece. A comparison with a proof in the Royal Collection (RCIN 702881) suggests this example lacks c.10cm of image on the left and 1cm on the right.
[Ref: 42174] £280.00
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A View of the Royal Palace of Hampton Court. Vüe du Palais Royal de Hampton Court.
Rigaud delin. Parr sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for & Sold by Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"), very large margins. Tear just entering inscription area at bottom. Stain.
A view of Christopher Wren's additions to Hampton Court Palace, with promenaders. Provenance: Thomas Pitt 1st Baron Camelford
[Ref: 45287] £280.00
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[Study: Cart Horses.]
Agasse pinxt. Schencker Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Large etching. Plate 190 x 266mm. 7½ x 10½". Large margins.
A fine etching by Nicolas Schencker, [1760-1848] after the best known of the Swiss animal artists, Jacques-Laurent Agasse. Schen(c)ker, worked for Bartolozzi in England and France and held the position of Director of the 'Ecole de gravure de Genève' (1817-1822).
[Ref: 23524] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Five heads.]
De Boissieu f.
[Etched c.1795 but a later printing.]
Etching on chine collé. 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Remains of album sheet on reverse.
Eight head studies, all representing middle-aged men, unshaved and wrinkled, by Jean Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810).
[Ref: 55600] £90.00
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