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Robertus Cottonus Bruceus.
Robertus Cottonus Bruceus. Aesculapius hic Librorum aerugo, Vetustas Pero quem nulla potest Britonum consumere chartas.
T. Cross sculpsit. [After Cornelius Johnson.]
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching. 140 x 90mm. 5½ x 3½". Cut. Laid on 18th century scrap sheet.
Portrait of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; nearly half length, slightly to the right; in falling ruff; bearded, with hair to his ears. Frontispiece to his 'An answer to Such Motives', 1651. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631) was a collector, particularly of manuscripts and charters; this collection was known as the Cottonian Library and given to the nation by grandson Sir John Cotton. It formed the core of what is now the British Library, but a small number of objects and paintings remain within the registered collection of the British Museum. Cotton was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton Library. He was elected to Parliament as member of Old Sarum (1624), Thetford (1625) and Castle Rising (1628).
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25349]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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His Majesty's Coronation Fleet.
His Majesty's Coronation Fleet. Received of [blank] the day of [blank] the Sum of [blank] Sovereign being the Amount of his Subscription as a Member of the above Fleet for the Year 182 [blank].
E.H. Cross Sc 92 Leadenhall Street.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved receipt with vignette royal coat of arms and sailing boats on a lake, 220 x 210mm.8¾ x 8¼". Creases where folded; laid to card.
Unannotated, unsigned diploma of membership of King George IV's Coronation Fleet.
[Ref: 9315]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis.
In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis. / The shaddow of that Body heer you find / Which serves but as a case to hold his mind, / His Intellectuall part be pleas'd to looke / In lively lines described in the Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. Probably a frontispiece to one of his works.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 57196]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hon.ble Selina Countess Dowager of Huntingdon.
The Right Hon.ble Selina Countess Dowager of Huntingdon. [facsimile signature and date]
F. Hurlstone delt. J. Cross sculpt.
Published Jan.y 1 1824 by R. Baynes, 28, Paternoster Row, London
Stipple, sheet 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Slight staining.
Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon (1707-91), founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. After an initially close relationship with John Wesley, she moved towards the ideas of George Whitefield before his departure for America in 1751. In the 1760s the countess established several chapels, and a college, Trevecca, in a renovated Brecknockshire farmhouse. Whitefield had left the countess the Bethesda orphanage in his will, and she organised a mission to America, which so infuriated the Georgians that Bethesda was burnt to the ground. Subsequent plans in America were rejected and her Georgia property was eventually confiscated. In 1783 the rigidly Calvinistic Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion was formed when several Trevecca students were ordained. In her final years she was sceptical about further work in England, and was concentrating on sending a mission to the South Seas. Frontispiece to A.C.H. Seymour's 'The Life and Times of Selina, countess of Huntingdon', vol. 1 (1824).
[Ref: 35832]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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The Corporation of London request the honor of [blank] Company at the opening of the New Coal Exchange,
The Corporation of London request the honor of [blank] Company at the opening of the New Coal Exchange, by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, on Tuesday 30th October, 1849. J.no Wood Chairman. The favour of an immediate answer is requested addressed to the City Rememberancer, Guildhall and if honoured with Acceptance a card of admission will be forwarded.
J.B. Bunning, Arch.t. J. Cross & Son sc. Holborn.
Steel engraving on porcelain card with blind embossed border. Sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Some surface abrasion. Creased.
An invitation with a view of the New Coal Exchange on Lower Thames Street, drawn by the architect James Bunstone Bunning. The building was eventually opened by Prince Albert rather than Victoria and was demolished in 1962, despite a campaign by John Betjeman and others.
[Ref: 57555]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Vera Effigies Francisci Roberts in Artibus Magistri, Pastoris Ecclesiae apud Augustinian: Londin:
Vera Effigies Francisci Roberts in Artibus Magistri, Pastoris Ecclesiae apud Augustinian: Londin: AEtatis suae 40. 9.bris 13.0 1648.
Tho: Cross sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1648.]
Engraving, rare. 153 x 95mm. 6 x 3¾". Trimmed.
Portrait of Francis Roberts, half length, aged 40, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, and holding a book; curtain in background to right. Frontispiece to his 'Clavis Bibliorum' (1648). Francis Roberts (1609-1675) was an English puritan clergyman, author and librarian. He founded the first Birmingham Library, one of the first public libraries in England. He was taken prisoner when the Royalist Prince Rupert of the Rhine and his troops attacked Birmingham in 1643. He managed to escape and was appointed minister of St Augustine, Watling Street in the City of London.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25254]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.
[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.
Tho: Cross fecit.
[London: John Crook, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Alvaro de Semedo (1585-1658) the Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China. Along with another Jesuit, he was imprisoned during an anti-Christian campaign in Nanjing in 1616, and then sent back to Macau. He later returned to to China and in 1636 he went back to Europe as a procurator. The frontispiece to Semado's 'History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China',
[Ref: 59871]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Ligno Christi Fixus. Caro Deorsum. Cor Sursum. Mundo Crucifixus.
Ligno Christi Fixus. Caro Deorsum. Cor Sursum. Mundo Crucifixus. "Ffrendo Sepultus, Sperando Resultus."
Cross fecit.
[n.d. c.1659.]
A very fine and rare engraving. 291 x 185mm. 11½ x 7¼". Hole top right corner, stained.
Benjamin Spencer (active mid 17th Century), Loyalist clergyman. He was minister of St Thomas's, Southwark and rector of Esher. Frontispiece to Spencer's "Chrysomeson, a Golden Meane" (1659).
O'Donoghue: 1. Hind II: 306.86. In the BM. In the NPG.
[Ref: 14721]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Thomæ Wilson Vera Effigies.
Thomæ Wilson Vera Effigies.
T. Cross Sculspit.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Oval portrait of Thomas Wilson (1563-1622), Anglican rector of St. George the Martyr, Canterbury, published as the frontispiece of the sixth edition of his 'Christian Dictionarie', expanded by Andrew Symson. This work was one of the earliest attempts made at a concordance of the Bible in English.
[Ref: 58547]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Vincentius Wing.
Vincentius Wing. Luffenhamiensis in com: Rutlandiae natus Anno 1619 Die 9 Aprilis.
T. Cross sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1652.]
Engraving, very scarce. Sheet size: 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Triimed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of English astrologer and astronomer Vincent Wing (1619-1668). Half length, wearing cloak and white collar, seated at a desk facing front, turned slightly to the right. He is holding dividers, with a globe and compass on a desk in front. A landscape with a church and houses can be seen in the background to the right. This portrait was the frontispiece to Wing's 'Astronomia Britannica' (1652). Six lines of Latin inscribed below the image.
[Ref: 33851]   £320.00  
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