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Pelargoniums. Charles Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough. 1851.
Pelargoniums. Charles Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough. 1851. Strongly recommends the following New Pelargoniums; it will be sufficient to observe that he has the entire Stock of the beautiful varieties raised by E. Forster, Esq. and G.W. Hoyle, Esq.: strong Plants will be ready the first week in October.
Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Letterpress. Sheet: 215mm x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), folded once.
A four-page catalogue of new Pelargoniums offered for sale in 1851 by Charles Turner's Royal Nursery. Charles Turner (1818-1885) was the head gardener of the Royal Nursery during the mid nineteenth century and specialised in Pelargoniums.
[Ref: 42773]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Les souverains alliés à Paris. année 1815.
Les souverains alliés à Paris. année 1815.
AG [Monogram of Adrien Godefroy]
A Paris chez Martinet. Déposé &a [1815].
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, pinholes in corners, a few stains.
Four of the monarchs of the armies allied against Napoleon during his Hundred Days, in dress uniforms: Alexander I of Russia, Louis XVIII, Francis I of Austria and Frederick William III of Prussia. A supplemental plate from the series 'Armée des Souverains Alliés, année 1815', illustrations of the uniforms of the various armies.
[Ref: 42016]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)

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Mrs Abington
Mrs Abington
Sr. Jos. Reynolds Pinx J. Wilson fec
[n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Frances Abington (1737-1815), actress. Born in lowly circumstances, Abington grew up in the slums around Drury Lane, and sold flowers and sang in Covent Garden as a girl. Along with other jobs she did when young (kitchenmaid, milliner's assistant), various accounts of her life hint at prostitution during her early years. After making a start as an actress in London her first professional success came while working in Dublin, rejoining Garrick's Drury Lane company where she established herself as one of the leading comedy actresses of her generation. She was also the mistress of at least two prominent figures. Engraving after the several portrait 'Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse' by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1764-8, hair and dress repainted 1772-3) now in Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. This was one of several portraits that Reynolds painted of Abington- he was an admirer and purchased twelve tickets for her benefit performance in 1772. Reynolds' portrait was a companion to his portrait of Sarah Siddons as 'the Tragic Muse'.
CS: 2. Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 42094]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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De Misleyden. Les Abusée.
De Misleyden. Les Abusée.
C. Troost pinx. A. Delfos fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 410 x 575mm (16 x 22¾"), with very large margins.
A comic scene in which a man exposes his bottom, painted with a face, to a group of onlookers below while two men play horns beside him. A group of people look on amused while a puritan couple look straight ahead unamused. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42662]   £360.00  
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The Humanity of General Amherst
The Humanity of General Amherst
Smirke del. P. Audinet sculp.
Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London, 1824
Engraving, platemark 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") large margins.
General Amherst standing outside a British fort, gesturing towards a basket at right in offering to begging figures at left, a Native American soldier standing behind at right. In fact Amherst's career in North America and Canada was clouded by failures in relations with native Americans. Illustration to Camden's 'History of England' (this plate first published by J. Stratford in 1811), engraved after a design by Robert Smirke (1753-1845), painter and illustrator, who specialised in literary themes. Smirke depicted a great number of Shakespearean subjects and provided illustrations for literary and historical texts such as Hume's 'History of England', Dr Johnson's 'Rasselas', the 'Arabian Nights', and 'Don Quixote'.
[Ref: 42083]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Philips' Model of the Human Body (Female).
Philips' Model of the Human Body (Female). Edited by W.S. Furneaux.
London: George Philip & Son, Ltd., 32 Fleet Street, E.C.4. Philip, Son & Nephew, Ltd., Liverpool, 1. [n.d., c.1920.]
Tall folio, illustrated front board, cloth spine; pp. 16, with four full-length illustrations of the female body, each with overlays and a half-size illustration of a pregnancy, with one overlay. Covers worn, Foyles label on inner front board. Silverfish loss on frontboard.
An anatomical study of the female body.
[Ref: 41808]   £160.00   view all images for this item
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Annesley Hall. Grande Salle, d'Annesley.
Annesley Hall. Grande Salle, d'Annesley. The Residence of Miss Chaworth. La Residence de Miss Chaworth.
S. Rayner, Derby, Delt. et Lithog.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 190 x 145mm (7½ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
A view of Chaworth Hall in Nottinghamshire, the childhood home of Mary Chaworth the object of Lord Byron's unrequited affection during his childhood who became the subject of many of his poems. Chaworth was two years older than Byron and though they spent much time together she never returned his feelings.
[Ref: 42488]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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The Honest Tars and Marines of the Argonaut.
The Honest Tars and Marines of the Argonaut. Contributing Nobly against the Enemies of Old England...
Published 12.th March 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etching. Plate: 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Cracks and tears in edges.
A view on board HMS Argonaut showing the sharing of the reward for the capture of the French ship Esperance in 1795. Argonaut was originally a French ship called Jason caught by the British Navy in 1782 and renamed.
[Ref: 41936]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Commemorative Diploma of the British Arts & Crafts Exhibition at the Pavillion de Marsan Palais du Louvre Paris 1914 Issued by the Board of Trade.
Commemorative Diploma of the British Arts & Crafts Exhibition at the Pavillion de Marsan Palais du Louvre Paris 1914 Issued by the Board of Trade.
Isidore Speilman invt. Hugh Thomson del. Emery Walker, engr.
[1914.]
Broadside. Scarce. Sheet: 530 x 730mm (21 x 28¾"). Paper tone, some staining, creasing and tears.
A commemorative diploma for the exhibition of Arts & Crafts at the Louvre in 1914. Designed by the exhibition's director Sir Isidore Speilman (1854-1925) it was drawn by illustrator Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) and engraved by artist and friend of William Morris, Emery Walker (1851-1933). The text is decorated by a border of oak leaves in which are small vignettes showing craftsmen at their various trades including printing, pottery, casting, embroidery, weaving and spinning.
[Ref: 42765]   £480.00  
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Athens, from the Academy.
Athens, from the Academy.
C.R. Cockerell R.A. del. L. Haghe Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King [1837]
Rare lithograph, sheet 135 x 225mm (5¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Staining from glue.
View of Athens after a design by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), who first trained with the distinguished watercolourists Thomas and William Daniell. Cockerell was on the continent from 1810-17, spending much of his time studying ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Frontispiece to 'Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There' by Christopher Wordsworth, bishop of Lincoln (1837).
[Ref: 42106]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Barber's Nuptials. A True Tale.
The Barber's Nuptials. A True Tale.
W. Day, Printer, 17, Goswell Street. [n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress. Sheet 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼").
A broadsheet songsheet, with a poem by Rev. George Huddesford (1749-1809), a painter and a satirical poet of Oxford. This verse was first published in 'Salmagundi: a Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry', 1791
[Ref: 42358]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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De Baadende Juffers Bespied. Les Baigneuses Epiées.
De Baadende Juffers Bespied. Les Baigneuses Epiées.
C. Troost inv. S. Fokke fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 270 x 380mm (10½ x 15").
A scene in which several bathing women are spied on by two men hiding in the bushes. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42656]   £420.00  
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Le Koert de Bruxselles.
Le Koert de Bruxselles.
[after Bartholomeus de Momper?]
Excudebat Corn. de Jode. [n.d., c.1590.]
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 505mm (16 x 19¾"). Trimmed into image, some damage, backed on paper, mounted on album sheet.
The Palace of Coudenberg, seat of the Dukes of Burgundy, with a jousting scene in the foreground. It burned down in 1731. Cornelis de Jode is best known for republishing his father Gerard de Jode's atlas, 'Speculum Orbis Terrarum' in 1593.
[Ref: 42298]   £480.00  
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Bartolomo Bergami.
Bartolomo Bergami.
Designed from the life, by Mons.r Marinette, Artist at St. Omers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching, very fine. 320 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾") large margins.
Full length portrait of Bartolomo Pergami (or Bergami), believed to be Queen Caroline's lover, in uniform.
[Ref: 42182]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Bible! Dedicated to the Society for the Supression of Vice and Immorality.
The Bible! Dedicated to the Society for the Supression of Vice and Immorality. The following Chapers and Verses selected for the Old and New Testament, are particularly recommended to the serious perusal and attention of the modest, virtuous, and moral Females in Great Britain[...]
Letterpress with woodcut border.Letterpress with woodcut border. Sheet 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed just into border, mounted on album paper.
The Society for the Supression of Vice and Immorality was founded in 1802 by William Wilberforce, aiming at ''profanation of the Lord's Day and profane swearing; publication of blasphemous, licentious and obscene books and prints; selling by false weights and measures; keeping of disorderly public houses, brothels and gaming houses; procuring; illegal lotteries; cruelty to animals''. In 1809 Absalom Jones founded an American chapter. The Society was absorbed into the National Vigilance Association in August 1885.
[Ref: 42422]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Eight Curious prints of Fowl and Fish.
Eight Curious prints of Fowl and Fish.
P. And. Rÿsbrack Pinx. G: Vander Gucht Sculpt.
Published by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Extremely scarce complete set of eight engravings, including one proof impression. Plates: 570 x 420mm (22½ x 16½").
Eight plates after Pieter Andreas Rysbrack's (1685-1748) series of four paintings showing fish and four paintings showing fowl. The fish are depicted lying haphazardly on tables next to baskets as if ready for preparation or on the market stall while the birds are all shown in landscape settings as if freshly shot, ready to be collected. Each bird is numbered and named in a key below the image. John Boydell reissued the plates in 1760s which had previously been published in 1735 by Richard Hylton.
[Ref: 41786]   £6,500.00   view all images for this item
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[Album of 9 Watercolours of England.]
[Album of 9 Watercolours of England.]
[Painted by Rev. Thomas Bisse.]
[1785-1805.]
An album containing nine albumen-based watercolours in limp marbled wrappers. Album: 310 x 255mm (12 x 10").
A collection of 9 watercolours including views of Beaconsfield, Bristol and Malvern by the Rev. Thomas Bisse who lived at Portnall Park, now known as the Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water.
[Ref: 42587]   £450.00   view all images for this item
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J.no P. Blencowe [facsimile signature].
J.no P. Blencowe [facsimile signature].
J. Linnell 1841.
Etching. 275 x 225mm (10¾ x 9") very large margins. Paper toned.
John Prescott Blencowe [1778-c.1841], a merchant of St Margaret's Place, King's Lynn, Norfolk, several times mayor.
[Ref: 42172]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Fourteen Views in Lithography of Bolton Abbey, Wharfdale, Yorkshire.
Fourteen Views in Lithography of Bolton Abbey, Wharfdale, Yorkshire. Dedicated by Permission to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
By. J. Scarlett Davis.
London: Printed by C. Hullmandel: Published by Charles Frederick Cock, Agent for Sale to the Public of the Books and Tracts of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 21, Fleet Street, 1829.
Set of 14 lithographs bound in wrappers. Proofs on india. Second edition. 390 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Foxing. Wrappers worn.
A set of 14 views of Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire by John Scarlett Davis (1804-1845).
Abbey 372
[Ref: 42639]   £390.00   view all images for this item
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Bobolina.
Bobolina. The distinguished Heroine from Spezia...
Drawn from Life, & Published in London & Paris, 1827, by A. Friedel. This Print forms one of a Series of Greek Portraits (1st Part) now in course of Publication by A. Friedel, & Sold by the principal Book and Printsellers in Town & Country.
Lithograph. Sheet: 225 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) a naval commander during the Greek War of Independence and an Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. Plate from a series of twenty-four portraits of figures related to the Greek War of Independence, by the Danish painter Adam Friedel. Title in English and French.
[Ref: 42767]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Children of Joseph Baggaley Bradshaw.]
[The Children of Joseph Baggaley Bradshaw.]
Jos. Wright pinxit. Val. Green fecit.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Mezzotint. Scratched proof. Plate: 375 x 475mm (14¾ x 18¾"). Slight repair in lower title on right. Trimmed to plate and laid on card.
A group portrait of three children of Joseph Baggale Bradshaw shown holding a lamb in a rural landscape. After a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).
CS: 141.
[Ref: 42502]   £650.00  
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[Set of 18 Bullfighting Scenes.] España corrida de toros...
[Set of 18 Bullfighting Scenes.] España corrida de toros...
[Jose Vallejo.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Set of 18 tinted lithographs. Sheet: 200 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Glue stains in corners.
A complete set of 18 bullfighting scenes showing the events in the ring from the herding of the bulls to the ring to the removal of the bull from the ring.
[Ref: 42623]   £700.00   view all images for this item
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The Bulstrode Siren.
The Bulstrode Siren. Blest as th'immortal Gods is he / The youth who fondly sists by thee, / And sees and hears thee all the while / Softly Sing and sweetly smile.
J. Gillray del.t. 1803.
London, Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured engraving. 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½").
Caricature of William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck (1738-1809), 3rd Duke of Portland and Elizabeth Billington (1768-1818), a famed opera singer whom he paid to sing for him at his estate at Bulstode. A copy of Gilray's original caricature, as published by Humphrey.
BM: 10168.
[Ref: 42447]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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Costumbres Malagueñas. No. 1.
Costumbres Malagueñas. No. 1. La Caleta.
Fab. de Fran.co Mitjana Malaga.
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"), large margins.
A scene showing figures watching and dancing the traditional Malagna dance la Caleta.
[Ref: 42628]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Veduta dell'Eremo di Camaldoli.
Veduta dell'Eremo di Camaldoli.
Ant. Terreni dis. e inc.
Aquatint. Plate: 360 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins.
A view of the Camaldoli Hermitage in Tuscany.
[Ref: 42505]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Eliz.th Duchess of Hamilton.
Eliz.th Duchess of Hamilton.
F. Cotes pinx.t. R. Brookshaw Fecit
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 in King Street
Mezzotint, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins.
Elizabeth Hamilton [née Gunning], duchess of Hamilton and Brandon (1733-90), courtier. She first met James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and Argyll, at a party in January 1752 and they married the following month at a chapel in Curzon Street, Mayfair. The duke had forgotten to bring a ring so married her with a bed-curtain ring fetched from his house. The duke brought Elizabeth back to Scotland where, dividing their time between Edinburgh and Hamilton, they were at the centre of Scottish society. The duke died in 1758 after catching a chill while out hunting and Elizabeth remarried the following year, to 'Handsome Jack Campbell' (1723-1806), a professional soldier. When George III married Princess Charlotte in 1761, Elizabeth was chosen as one of the ladies of the bedchamber, and became a figure of real significance in the household of Queen Charlotte. Engraving after a portrait by Francis Cotes (and copied in reverse from an earlier print from the same portrait).
For the print from which this derives see ref. 34421. CS: 13 II of II.
[Ref: 42088]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Canoes in the Ice.]
[Canoes in the Ice.]
Ferugio?
[n.d., 1860.]
Lithograph. Rare. Sheet: 510 x 330mm (20 x 13"), large margins. Light foxing around edges.
An atmospheric scene showing figures in native American costume canoeing through the ice in a fog in North America.
[Ref: 42725]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The South-West Prospect of the City of Canterbury.
The South-West Prospect of the City of Canterbury.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Mar. 25th 1738. Garden Court, No 1. Middle Temple, London.
Engraving. Sheet 310 x 780mm (12¼ x 30¾"). Central vertical fold as normal, small margins.
A detailed view of Canterbury, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42779]   £380.00  
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[Six of Caracogia's ships taken by the Prince of Hess near the port of La Goulette, Tunis, 24 September 1640]
[Six of Caracogia's ships taken by the Prince of Hess near the port of La Goulette, Tunis, 24 September 1640] Prise de Six Vaisseaux de Caracogia faite auprès le Port de la Goulette de Tunis par le Ven.ble Prince de Hesse General des Galeres le 24. 9.bre 1640
[Anon.]
Pen and ink with watercolour wash, 195 x 270mm (7¾ x 9½"). Damaged; glued to backing sheet; oxidising in sky.
The taking of ships from the famous corsair Caracogia in the port of Tunis in 1640.
[Ref: 41642]   £650.00  
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[Frontispiece to Jean Commire, 'Carminum']
[Frontispiece to Jean Commire, 'Carminum']
H. Watelé delin. G. Edelinck sculp. cum privilegio Regis
[First published by Simon Bernard, 1678, but a later impression.]
Engraving, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmmed to platemark on two sides.
Female figure holding lyre and trumpet surrounded by putti representing the arts. One sculpts a bust of Jean Commire (1625-1702), the French Jesuit theologian and writer to whose 'Carminum', book three (1678) this is the frontispiece. It was engraved after a design by painter Henri Watelé (1640-77) by Gérard Edelinck (bap.1640-1707), French engraver of Flemish origin who is considered one of the greatest 17th century engravers and reproduced the work of important portraitists of the day such as Rigaud and Largilliere.
[Ref: 41987]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Prospect of Cape Cassepourry in America.
The Prospect of Cape Cassepourry in America.
I. Kip fec.t
[n.d., c.1704.]
Engraving. Plate: 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Central fold as issued.
A view of the coast of French Guiana in South America showing Cayenne, the capital city. An illustration from Awnsham & John Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels' first published in 1704.
[Ref: 42537]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Musical Bouquet. The Chase Set Every Inch of Canvas.
Musical Bouquet. The Chase Set Every Inch of Canvas. Composed by Henry Russell for his New Entertainment "Negro Life"_Words by Angus B. Reach Esq.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Surface dirt and tears to edges.
Slavery interest.
[Ref: 42762]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Chelsea Valiant.
The Chelsea Valiant.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5")
A peg-legged Chelsea Pensioner.
[Ref: 41907]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Ma Chere Amie.
Ma Chere Amie.
L.E. Regaud inv.t. I.M. Delattre Sculpt.
Pub.d by Pollard Spa Fields London.
Stipple. Plate: 130 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"), very large margins.
A scene showing two friends in an embrace.
[Ref: 42500]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The South-West Prospect of the City of Chester.
The South-West Prospect of the City of Chester.
S. & N. Buck delin. et Sculp.t.
1728.
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 690mm (9¾ x 27¼"). Trimmed within plate, two horizontal folds, one with extensive split, folded onto album sheet.
A detailed view of Chester, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42263]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The South-West Prospect of the City of Chichester.
The South-West Prospect of the City of Chichester.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.
According to Act of Parliament. 1738.
Engraving. Sheet 310 x 780mm (12¼ x 30¾"), with large margins. Central vertical fold as normal.
A detailed view of Chichester, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42781]   £350.00  
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Veduta della Città di Chiusi.
Veduta della Città di Chiusi.
Ant. Terreni dis. e inc.
Aquatint. Plate: 360 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with very large margins.
A view of the town of Chiusi in Seina, Tuscany.
[Ref: 42504]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Thrupp & Maberly, 269 Oxford Street, London, Coach Builders & Harness Makers by Appointment to the Queen.
Thrupp & Maberly, 269 Oxford Street, London, Coach Builders & Harness Makers by Appointment to the Queen.
Lee & Lee Printers, 49, Holborn Hill.
[n.d., c.1862.]
Rare wood engraving on yellow paper. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Wear at horizontal centre fold, spotted.
A handbill illustrating two carriages, a ''pony phaeto'' and ''prize medal carriage 1862'', a landau. The firm's history began with the Thrupps in Worcester c.1740, who moved to London c.1765, becoming Thrupp & Maberly in 1858. Eventually the firm turned to customising automobiles, lasting until 1967.
[Ref: 42064]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Commissioner Yeh.
Commissioner Yeh.
From a Sketch by Lieut.t Shearman, G. Bird. R.E.
Lithographed by Parish. Artist &.c Colchester.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 175 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"). Marking and some staining.
A slightly satirical portrait of Commissioner Yeh (1807-1859), a Canton official who fought British influence in the aftermath of the First Opium War and who was involved in the beginning of the Second. Yeh was often characterised as the embodiment of Chinese xenophobia. Yeh died as a Prisoner of War in Calcutta.
[Ref: 42615]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Compass Rose]
[Compass Rose]
[Basel, c.1588]
Woodcut with letterpress, sheet 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8").
Sheet from a Latin edition of Sebastian Munster's important sixteenth century geographical work 'Cosmography'.
[Ref: 42479]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Measuring instruments and scale]
[Measuring instruments and scale] Meta del Piedi Vicentino. Diviso in sei oncie, ed ogni oncia in quattro Minuti.
M. Vd. Gucht Sculp [c.1720]
Engraving, rare; platemark 310 x 215mm (12¼ x 8½").
[Ref: 42482]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Conversion of the World.
Conversion of the World.
By an American.
Printed for D. Cox 12, Nassau Plac[e Com]merical Road; Price One Halfpenny each, or Two Shillings and Sixpence per hundred.] [n.d., c.1821.]
Letterpress. Sheet 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Small tear in bottom edge, affecting printer's inscription.
A handbill attempting to raise funds for Christian missionarys. It complains of the 'Six hundred millions of the human race who need the gospel, and only four hundred Missionaries to impart it to them!'.
[Ref: 42367]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Comfort to the Cross.
Comfort to the Cross.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t
Pub.d Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate: 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Surface dirt.
A scene showing a old woman cleaning her feet and scraping her corns.
[Ref: 42713]   £320.00  
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La Coraterie.
La Coraterie. Vue de la Maison de M.r De Saussure, à Geneve.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 255 ( 7½ x 10"). Trimmed. Laid on album sheet.
A view of the rue de la Corraterie in Geneva with Maison Saussure in the background.
[Ref: 42020]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Three Sibyls]
[Three Sibyls] Vates Sibyllinae
[Basel, c.1588]
Woodcut with letterpress, sheet 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8").
Three sibyls, or prophetesses. Sheet from a Latin edition of Sebastian Munster's important sixteenth century geographical work 'Cosmography'.
[Ref: 42478]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Dagon Fallen or the Scriptural Doctrine of God's Love to all Mankind Displayed; In Answer to Some Verses, Entitled
Dagon Fallen or the Scriptural Doctrine of God's Love to all Mankind Displayed; In Answer to Some Verses, Entitled "A Stone aimed at Goliah," Published at Diss in June Last, Prentending to prove the Notion of Reprobation to be Spiritual...
Third Edition. [Price Two-Pence.]
Robertson, Printer, Peterborough. [n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress. Sheet: 210 x 340mm (8¼ x 13¼").
A spiritual broadside published in Peterborough.
[Ref: 42485]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Plan of different Movements of ye Army of ye Allies under Prince Eugene of Savoy,
Plan of different Movements of ye Army of ye Allies under Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of ye French Army, under Marshal Villars; from ye beginning of ye Campaign to ye 24th July, 1712, when ye French attacked ye intrenched Camp at Denain commanded by the E. of Albermarle.
J. Basire sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19").
A plan of the French, English and Dutch movements during the wars of Spanish succession in 1712. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 42393]   £120.00  
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Deptford Pier & Improvments, by Act of Parliament 5th. William 4th. &c. &c. &c. &c.
Deptford Pier & Improvments, by Act of Parliament 5th. William 4th. &c. &c. &c. &c.
Batemans lithog. 16 Bucklersbury.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Rare. Sheet: 500 x 340mm (19¾ x 13¼"). Staining.
Following the closing of Deptford docks in the early 19th century following the end of the Napoleonic Wars the area declined and in 1839 a act was passed for the improvement of the area.
[Ref: 42778]   £320.00  
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The East Prospect of Derby.
The East Prospect of Derby.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.t.
1728.
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 715mm (10 x 28¼"). Trimmed within plate, central fold, on album sheet.
A detailed view of Derby, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. One of the early plates in the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42267]   £350.00  
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Desire with Hope.
Desire with Hope.
Pub. June 4. 1810, by Edw.d Orme, London.
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼") large margins.
A man looks greedily at a bottle of wine held by a second man.
[Ref: 42629]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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