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![The true Effigies of Sr. Edmond Bury Godf[reye]](jpegs/62115.jpg)
The true Effigies of Sr. Edmond Bury Godf[reye] Knight and Iustice of the Peace who was Murthered by Papists the 12th day of October An. Dom. 1678.
F.H. Van Ho[ve] Sculp:
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed to image, some loss in title and border, laid on album paper.
Rare portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate. In 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a 'Popish Plot', and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch. Three men were hanged for Godfrey's murder on perjured evidence.
[Ref: 62115] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
F.H. Van Ho[ve] Sculp:
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed to image, some loss in title and border, laid on album paper.
Rare portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate. In 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a 'Popish Plot', and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch. Three men were hanged for Godfrey's murder on perjured evidence.
[Ref: 62115] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Mahmut The Turkish Spy. Ætatis suæ 72.
F. H. Van. Hove. sculp:
[London, n.d., 1691 or later.]
Engraving, frontispiece to Giovanni Paolo Marana’s 'The First Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish spy'. 120 x 75mm, 4¾ x 3”. A reasonably strong impression; slightly tatty margins.
The fictional bearded spy is seated at a table in his study, holding a quill; hour glass, mathematical instruments, ink bottle, and paper on table. Sphere in the lower left foreground, scrolls strewn on floor, next to two sacks of coins; bookshelf with books, three with inscribed spines, 'Alcaran', 'Tacitus', and 'St. Austin', behind his head. Room also contains a hanging lamp, mirror, and clock in background to centre; window, below which a framed picture of a man with a net and fish, on wall to right. Engraved by Dutch-born Frederick Hendrik van Hove (1628 - 1698).
See item Ref: 22497.
[Ref: 22496] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
F. H. Van. Hove. sculp:
[London, n.d., 1691 or later.]
Engraving, frontispiece to Giovanni Paolo Marana’s 'The First Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish spy'. 120 x 75mm, 4¾ x 3”. A reasonably strong impression; slightly tatty margins.
The fictional bearded spy is seated at a table in his study, holding a quill; hour glass, mathematical instruments, ink bottle, and paper on table. Sphere in the lower left foreground, scrolls strewn on floor, next to two sacks of coins; bookshelf with books, three with inscribed spines, 'Alcaran', 'Tacitus', and 'St. Austin', behind his head. Room also contains a hanging lamp, mirror, and clock in background to centre; window, below which a framed picture of a man with a net and fish, on wall to right. Engraved by Dutch-born Frederick Hendrik van Hove (1628 - 1698).
See item Ref: 22497.
[Ref: 22496] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mahmut The Turkish Spy. Ætatis suæ 72.
F. H. Van. Hove. sculp:
[London, n.d., originally 1691 but a later impression.]
Engraving on laid paper, frontispiece to Giovanni Paolo Marana’s 'The First Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish spy'. 120 x 75mm, 4¾ x 3”. A slightly faded impression from a reworked plate, likely from an 18th century edition. Some creasing, with tatty and chipped margins.
The fictional bearded spy is seated at a table in his study, holding a quill; hour glass, mathematical instruments, ink bottle, and paper on table. Sphere in the lower left foreground, scrolls strewn on floor, next to two sacks of coins; bookshelf with books, three with inscribed spines, 'Alcaran', 'Tacitus', and 'St. Austin', behind his head. Room also contains a hanging lamp, mirror, and clock in background to centre; window, below which a framed picture of a man with a net and fish, on wall to right. Engraved by Dutch-born Frederick Hendrik van Hove (1628 - 1698).
See item Ref: 22496.
[Ref: 22497] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
F. H. Van. Hove. sculp:
[London, n.d., originally 1691 but a later impression.]
Engraving on laid paper, frontispiece to Giovanni Paolo Marana’s 'The First Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish spy'. 120 x 75mm, 4¾ x 3”. A slightly faded impression from a reworked plate, likely from an 18th century edition. Some creasing, with tatty and chipped margins.
The fictional bearded spy is seated at a table in his study, holding a quill; hour glass, mathematical instruments, ink bottle, and paper on table. Sphere in the lower left foreground, scrolls strewn on floor, next to two sacks of coins; bookshelf with books, three with inscribed spines, 'Alcaran', 'Tacitus', and 'St. Austin', behind his head. Room also contains a hanging lamp, mirror, and clock in background to centre; window, below which a framed picture of a man with a net and fish, on wall to right. Engraved by Dutch-born Frederick Hendrik van Hove (1628 - 1698).
See item Ref: 22496.
[Ref: 22497] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The true Effigies of ye Hon.ble S.r Walter Rawlegh Knight.
F.H.Van.Hove. Sculp:
[n.d. c.1680].
Etching. Plate 140 x 88mm. 5½ x 3½".
Sir Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh), famed naval commander, explorer and author (1552? - 1618).
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18496] £125.00 (£150.00 incl.VAT)
F.H.Van.Hove. Sculp:
[n.d. c.1680].
Etching. Plate 140 x 88mm. 5½ x 3½".
Sir Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh), famed naval commander, explorer and author (1552? - 1618).
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18496] £125.00 (£150.00 incl.VAT)
Johannes Seldenus Armig.
F.H.van Hove fec:
Printed for Thomas Lee at the sign of the turks head in fleet street 1677.
Engraving. 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Cut, laid on sheet.
John Selden (1584-1654) was a jurist, politician and scholar and was called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum' which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map.
[Ref: 25348] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
F.H.van Hove fec:
Printed for Thomas Lee at the sign of the turks head in fleet street 1677.
Engraving. 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Cut, laid on sheet.
John Selden (1584-1654) was a jurist, politician and scholar and was called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum' which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map.
[Ref: 25348] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)