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Vera Effigies Georgii Croke Equitis Aurati et Utriusqu Banci Iusticiar: Temp: Car: Reg: Ut Vulturs hominum, Ita Sumulacra vultus quae Marmore, aut aere finguntur Imbecilla, ac mortalia sunt: Forma mentis aeterna: quam tenera, et exprimere non per alienam maeriam, et artem, sed tuis ipse moribus possis. Tac: in vita Iulÿ Agric: Socri Sui.
Rob: Vaughan sculp:
[n.d. c.1661.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 140mm. 8¼ x 5½", paper with 17th century watermark. Trimmed, crease through centre.
Portrait of George Croke, bust in an oval, wearing skull-cap, ruff, and robes, and holding a scroll; coat of arms below, with a row of books. Sir George Croke (1560-1642) the judge and law-reporter. NPG: D26956.
[Ref: 27337] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Experienc'd Angler, or Angling Improved.
Vaughn sculp.
Sold by Rich. Marriott in St Dunstan's Church yard [engraved 1662 but later].
Engraving. 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"), with large margins. Laid on backing sheet.
A reprint of a plate engraved as the frontispiece to a book by Robert Venables, depicting rods, hanging fish, a basket, lures and bait.
[Ref: 56369] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
The true portraiture of Iudge Littleton the Famous English Lawyer.
[Robert Vaughan.]
[n.d. c.1628.]
Engraving. 197 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½".
Thomas Littleton (1417-1481) was an English judge and legal writer. Frontipiece to Edward Coke's "The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, not the name of a lawyer onely, but of the law it selfe" (London [Adam Islip], 1628).
[Ref: 18423] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Tam Marti, Quam Mercurio. The Hoble. and Learned Knight Sr. Walter Raleigh.
[Ro: Vaughan sculp.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Image 95 x 58mm. 3¾x 2¼".
Sir Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh), famed naval commander, explorer and author (1552? - 1618). By Robert Vaughan (c.1600 - c.1663), copied from a 1614 engraving by Simon De Passe. See: Hind III.61.48.
[Ref: 16189] £110.00
(£132.00 incl.VAT)
The true and lively Poraiture of the Ho.ble and learned Knight S.r Walter Ralegh. Tam Marti, Quam Mercurio
Ro: Vaughan Sculp:
[n.d. c.1650]
Engraving, sheet 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Trimmed within plate right and top. Tipped into album sheet at edges.
Portrait of Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), half length, wearing ruff, holding baton, and hand over a globe inscribed 'Guiana'; bookshelf at upper right, arms at upper left.
[Ref: 61638] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Patriam Inquiro Nondum Attigi Peregrinus in Terra Cursum Prosequor. Aetat Suae 64 1655. In Europe, Africa, Asia have I gone.
[Robert Vaughan.]
[Printed in London for J. Wilkie, W. Cater, S. Hayes, and E. Easton in 1777.]
Engraving, rare. 133 x 82mm. 5¼ x 3¼". Cut and laid on sheet.
Portrait of Edward Terry, half length in an oval, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, and holding a book; in lower left spandril, a ship; on shelf below, calipers and a globe. Frontispiece to his 'Voyage to East-India'. Edward Terry (1590-1660) was a writer of travels and in 1615-16 he went out to India as chaplain with a fleet sent by the London East India Company, sailing in the Charles with Benjamin Joseph, commander of the expedition. In his account of the voyage Terry describes a fight with a Portugese carrack, in which Joseph was killed on 6 August 1616. NPG: D28830.
[Ref: 24705] £140.00
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