Grosvenor Prints

Travels in Parts of South America, During the Years, 1801, 1802, 1803, & 1804; containing A Description of the Captain-Generalship of Carraccas, with An Account of the Laws, Commerce, and Natural Productions of that Country; as also A View of the Customs and Manners of the Spaniards and Native Indians. By F. Depons, Agent from the French Government to Carraccas.
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 6, New Bridge Street, by J.G. Barnard, 57, Snow Hill. 1806.
Small 4vo, full calf, boards detached, spine distressed; pp. 158 + 2, two folding engraved maps.
The maps are: a general map of Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana; and a plan of Caraccas.
[Ref: 21200] £230.00 view all images for this item

Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages. Engraved in Mezzotinto, by Richard Earlom, Charles Turner, and R. Dunkarton.
London: printed by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street. 1816. [published by S. Woodburn, No. 112, St. Martin's Lane.]
Folio; fine calf binding, hinges broken, modern slipcase. Gilt edged pages. Ex libris plate of Joseph Gould, Balliol College, inside front cover.
Plates as follows: 1. Queen Elizabeth; 2. Mary Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnley; 3. James the First; 4. James the First and his Royal Progeny; 5. Henry, Prince of Wales; 6. Charles , Prince of Wales, afterwards King; 7. Frederick, King of Bohemia; 8. Oliver Cromwell; 9. Charles the Second, King of England; 10. Christian the Fourth of Denmark, with his Son Frederick; 11. Maximilian, Emperor of Germany; 12. Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany; William the First, Prince of Orange; 14. Henry the Fourth, King of France; 15. Henry the Great, King of France, as he lay in State.
[Ref: 12084] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Engravings from the Works of Henry Liverseege.
London. Published by Hodgson, Boys and Graves. Printsellers to his Majesty. Pall Mall. And Grundy and Goadsby, Manchester.
Folio, marble cover, spine in compartment with decorative gilt. 430 x 290mm. 17 x 11½". Some plates foxed. Ex libris plate of John Hall inside cover.
Containing 35 engravings from paintings by Henry Liverseege (1803-32). Also contains an engraving of William Bradley's portrait of him. Liverseege was born, and died, in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Manchester Institution amongst other institutions. Many of his works are now in Manchester City Galleries.
[Ref: 12090] £160.00 view all images for this item

Historical Illustrations of the Chateau d'Eu from its foundation to the present day; with full and authentic details of the recent visit of Her Majesty the Queen of England, and her royal consort, to His Majesty the king of the French, and his August family.
By Joseph Skelton, F.S.A. author and engraver of the architectural antiquities of Oxfordshire, etc. The text by M.J. Vatout, Counsellor of State and first librarian to the King. The English department by the Rev. C.J. Furlong, A.M.
London, F.G. Moon, publisher to Her Majesty, Threadneedle-Street. 1844. Printed by A. and H. Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, 56.
Large folio, fine contemporary calf binding with gilt border and crest, decorative spine in compartments. Gilt page edges. 21 plates as called for. Front cover detached, edges rubbed. Staining to back cover
Includes list of subscribers and text describing the plates. The crest on the front is that of Percy, Duke of Northumberland. The Dukedom was created on 22 October 1766. The book therefore possibly comes from the library at Alnwick or Syon.
With thanks to Thomas Woodcock, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, for identifying the crest of Percy, Duke of Northumberland.
[Ref: 12518] £550.00 view all images for this item

(Ireland, William Henry.) [Something concerning Nobody.] [Edited by Somebody. Embellished with fourteen characteristic etchings.]
[Plates etched by G. M. Woodward.]
[London: Robert Scholey, 1814.]
Fourteen sepia etchings (complete, including frontispiece) attributed to George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), glued into green paper pamphlet, front wrapper annotated in ink. Only edition, 8vo (210 x 135mm, 8¼ x 5¼"). Etchings trimmed within platemarks (lacking text and original binding).
Each captioned plate shows the 'Nobody' character - a large head on small shoulders placed on his legs so that he has no body - in different everyday situations. A real curiosity.
British Library: 010250214.
[Ref: 12610] £230.00 view all images for this item

Berlin. Les Capitales De L'Europe. Promenades Pittoresques. Berlin. Vue de l'Arsenal et du Palais du Roi.
Par M. Charles Malo.
Paris, Marcilly Fils Ainé, Rue S.-Jacques, No.21. Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, Rue Jacob, No.24. No.53 R. de la Paroisse, Boullenger, Md. Papetier a Versailles. [n.d. c.1829.]
Small 12mo book, 35 pages, emerald green board cover embossed and with title printed in black; with hand-coloured aquatint. 152 x 95mm. 6 x 3¾". Some foxing.
Charles Malo (1790-1871) produced a series of books on the capital cities of Europe, in French, and recorded details of daily life in the cities, historical information and architectural details of churches and significant public buildings. The frontispiece is a view the Royal Palace and Arsenal in Berlin, both badly damaged during the Second World War.
Vicaire V: 481. Gumuchian: 3918 & 3919.
[Ref: 17536] £260.00 view all images for this item

Vienne. Les Capitales De L'Europe. Promenades Pittoresques. Vienne. Vue du Belveder sur le Bassin.
Par M. Charles Malo.
Paris, Marcilly Fils Ainé, Rue S.-Jacques, No.21. Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, Rue Jacob, No.24. No.53 R. de la Paroisse, Boullenger, Md. Papetier a Versailles.[n.d. c.1829.]
Small 12mo book, 36 pages, mineral blue board cover embossed and with title printed in black; with hand-coloured aquatint. 146 x 95mm. 5¾ x 3¾". Some foxing.
Charles Malo (1790-1871) produced a series of books on the capital cities of Europe, in French, and recorded details of daily life in the cities, historical information and architectural details of churches and significant public buildings. The frontispiece view is of the Upper Belvedere Palace and Fountain, Vienna, Austria. The Baroque palace complex of Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables, were built as a summer residence for the Prince Eugene of Savoy.
[Ref: 17542] £260.00 view all images for this item

Vienne. Les Capitales De L'Europe. Promenades Pittoresques. Vienne. Vue du Belveder sur le Bassin.
Par M. Charles Malo.
Paris, Marcilly Fils Ainé, Rue S.-Jacques, No.21. Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, Rue Jacob, No.24. No.53 R. de la Paroisse, Boullenger, Md. Papetier a Versailles.[n.d. c.1829.]
Small 12mo book, 36 pages, grey board cover embossed and with title printed in black; with hand-coloured aquatint. 146 x 95mm. 5¾ x 3¾". Some foxing.
Charles Malo (1790-1871) produced a series of books on the capital cities of Europe, in French, and recorded details of daily life in the cities, historical information and architectural details of churches and significant public buildings. The frontispiece is a view of of the Upper Belvedere Palace and Fountain, Vienna, Austria. The Baroque palace complex of Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables, were built as a summer residence for the Prince Eugene of Savoy.
[Ref: 17659] £260.00 view all images for this item

[Unused Commonplace book/diary, published with 16 engravings by Richard Westall.] Nature.
[Plates drawn by Richard Westall, most engraved by John Pye.
[Published by John Sparpe, Duke Street Piccadilly 1823-4.]
4to, original black blind-decorated morocco, black calf gilt title label on spine, all edges gilt, with original lock lacking key; lacking front endpaper; 16 engravings with tissue guards, interspersed with 4 blank pages, fine binding. Some spotting to plates.
A book published as a yearly scrapbook or diary, with a plate for each month and each season, drawn by Richard Westall and engraved with a short text. Both boards are illustrated with allegorical figures of the Arts.
[Ref: 18191] £290.00 view all images for this item

Engravings fron the Works of Henry Liverseege. With a Memoir by George Richardson, author of 'Patriotism,' 'Miscellaneous Poems,' &c.
London: George Routledge and Sons, and L.C. Gent. 1875
Folio, cloth binding with gilt embellishment. 440 x 310mm. 17¼ x 12¼".
Containing 38 engravings from paintings by Henry Liverseege (1803-32). Also contains an engraving of William Bradley's portrait of him. Liverseege was born, and died, in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Manchester Institution amongst other institutions. Many of his works are now in Manchester City Galleries.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 12086] £150.00 view all images for this item

Survey & Plans of Woolley Manor in the County of Somerset, the Property of Miss Eliz: Gunning.
Survey'd by John Hinde in 1760, and planned by Isaac Johnson, Surveyor Woodbridge Suff: 1798, &9.
7 estate plans, 2 figurative vignettes, 1 elaborate frontispiece and 1 view of Woolley church in pen and ink and watercolour separated by blank leaves, in original card wrapper and complete as index. Sheet size 233 x 200mm. Binding extremely worn and chipped, with tatty extremities. Leaves partially disbound.
A set of high quality manuscript surveys, far more decorative than is standard on maps of estates. Each map shows a unique compass point design and corresponds to an index on facing page with elegant calligraphic title within a cartouche in ink and watercolour. 2 leaves with classical female figures in ovals mark the beginning and end of the volume. These and the vignette view of the local church further demonstrate the high degree of draughtsmanship and skill of the artist, Isaac Johnson. Johnson [1754 - 1835], a Suffolk man through and through, practised as a surveyor in Woodbridge for 50 years and he produced detailed maps of many estates throughout East Anglia. He was also a gifted artist, copyist and antiquarian draughtsman. This survey he copied from an earlier work by a John Hinde, perhaps at the request of a Reverend Gunning of Sutton in Suffolk who it is known ordered drawings of Gretna Green and 'Cupids from Cipriani', and may have been a relation of the Elizabeth Gunning who owned Woolley Manor. Includes 4 loose sheets of ephemera relating to the Poulett family, including 2 birth certificates, an engraved genealogical chart and an 1851 certificate of induction of one William Henry Poulett into the 'Grand Lodge of Ireland'. The Pouletts were an ancient Somerset family who it can be reasonably assumed resided at Woolley Manor during the 19th century.
[Ref: 3475] £4,800.00 view all images for this item

Studies of Chess; Containing Caissa, a Poem, by Sir William Jones, A Systematic Introduction to the Game; and the Whole Analysis of Chess, By Mr. A. D. Philidor: with Original Critical Remarks "Ludimus effigiem belli." A New Edition. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, No. 81, Strand, 1808.
Book in two 8vo vols., 271 and 267 pp., half-title, engraved frontispiece of a chessboard with pieces arranged for the start of a game. Preface misbound in reverse order, 3 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Contemporary half calf over marble boards, gilt spines with red morocco lettering pieces. Bindings slightly scuffed and rubbed, spines rebacked. Contents clean; complete with publisher's advertisements to end.
Includes Sir William Jones's poem 'Caissa', while the introductory part is from Peter Pratt's 'Theory of Chess'. By Francois-Andre Danican Philidor (1726 - 1795). Philidor was a French composer, also regarded as the best chess player of his age. He started playing regularly around 1740 at the chess Mecca of France, the Café de la Régence. It was also there that he famously played with a friend from 'New England', Benjamin Franklin. The best player in France at the time, Legall de Kermeur, taught him. In 1774 the Parloe's chess club, on St James Street in London, was created, and Philidor obtained a remuneration as a chess master every year, for a regular season from February to June. Philidor stayed faithful to this agreement until the end of his life and he was replaced by Verdoni only after his death. In December 1792 he had to leave France permanently for England, fleeing the French Revolution, because his name figured on the banishment list established by the Convention nationale. His admirers and friends included the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and the famous actor David Garrick. Ink ownership inscriptions to front free-endpapers.
[Ref: 19554] £390.00

Designs for Ornamental Plate, Many of Which have been Executed in Silver from Original Drawings.
By Charles Heathcote Tatham, Architect; Member of the Academy of Saint Luke at Rome, and of the Institute at Bologna.
London: Printed for Thomas Gardiner, Prices Street, Cavanish Square, by John Barfield, Wardour Street, Printer to His Royal Highness the Price of Wales. MDCCCVI.
Folio, front board missing; title, dedication, pp. iv + (i)(advert), 41 numbered etched plates, as called for.
Charles Heathcote Tatham (1772-1842), British architect who designed the sculpture gallery at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. His career was ended by his habit of ill-advised litigation. The advertisment at the rear lists Tatham's publications both executed and proposed.
[Ref: 13653] £1,350.00 view all images for this item

Portraits Theatres De Paris.
[Paris: Francisque Noël et Companie, c.1825.]
Book, folio (410 x 270mm, 16½ x 10¾"), original half calf gilt, marbled boards. 70 lithographic plates of French actors in character, complete (though not bound according to plate numbers), after Colin and Marin. Front cover detached. Some spotting to plates.
All plates numbered and captioned with the surname of the actor, the name of the role in which they are portrayed and the title of the play; also the theatre at which they performed. One plate dated 1824. Baron Northwick bookplate.
Provenance: Ex collection of John Rushout, second Baron Northwick (1769 - 1859), collector and connoisseur.
[Ref: 12249] £2,000.00 view all images for this item

Bianka Capello von A.G. Meissner.
Wien in der Wucherischen Buchhandlung 1786.
Engraved titlepage, frontispiece, and 12 engravings, bound with single stitch, largest 115 x 85mm, most c.94 x 70mm.
A set of illustrations from an early Vienna edition of August Gottlieb Meissner's 'Bianka Capello'. It is a tragedy inspired by the life of Bianca Cappello (1548 – 1587), an Italian noblewoman who was first the lover and then the wife of Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Meissner (1753 - 1807) was an author and poet who became a professor in Prague in 1785, and in 1805 director of the Lyceum at Fulda. He wrote plays and stories and was active as a translator. His work has a pronounced moralizing trend. Alfred von Meißner was his grandson. All engravings by Mark after Sambach, and inscribed with plate and page numbers from the volume they have been disbound from.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7849] £280.00 view all images for this item

A Fasciculus of Eight Drawings on Stone of Groups of Birds &c. by John Hancock. This whole being representations of Specimens Stuffed and Contributed by the Author the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. [Inside titles:] Hooded Falcon. [&] Struggle with the Quarry. [&] Gorged Falcon. [&] The Dead Gull. [&] Leopard Cub Reposing. [&] Black Game & Ptarmigan. [&] The Laemmer-Geyer of the Alps. [&] The Laemmer-Geyer of the Alps.
Hullmandel & Watlton, Lithog: London.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Published by the Author. 1853.
Bound portfolio with original covers; eight lithographic plates; notices; list of subscribers. 551 x 381mm (21¾ x 15"). Covers worn along spine. Some foxing.
A collection of lithographs produced for the Great Exhibition. John Hancock (1808-1890), was highly regarded as an expert in the study of ornithology and attained a national reputation as an accomplished taxidermist. He was a member of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne from its inception in 1829. As his prowess in the art of taxidermy increased he was often called upon to prepare specimens for the local gentry. In order to advertise his talents further afield he created a selection of dramatic taxidermy mounts which he displayed at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London in1851. He later produced a large folio book of lithographs of the mounts on display 'A Fasciculus of Eight Drawings on Stone of Groups of Birds etc…', published in 1853.
[Ref: 31021] £850.00 view all images for this item

Volta della Sala Borgia nel Palazzo Vaticano Ove Sono Espressi I Pianeti le Ore del Giorno ed I Segni Dello Zodiaco dall'Immortal Raffaele Sanzio D'urbino.
Folio, original blue wrappers; eight etchings, each c. 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Apparently complete. Covers worn, some spotting.
A study of the fresco on one ceilings of the Borgia Apartments in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. The first plate, which contains the title as above, shows the complete ceiling, but wrongly ascribes the work to Raphael rather than Bernardino di Betto (known as Pinturicchio). Executed between 1492-4, the designs include Zodiac signs and illustrations of the bodies of the solar system as Roman gods in chariots, shown as detail in the other seven plates. Each of these is printed from two plates: an oval for the central illustration and a rectangular one for the decorative border.
[Ref: 31140] £350.00 view all images for this item

Nicholsons' Lithographic Drawings, Taken from Nature, in the Vicinity of Liverpool. Non-Subscriber's Copy, price £1 10s each Part.
Printed by C.M. Willich, Westminster, and Published by S. & G. Nicholson, Liverpool. [n.d., c.1821.]
Folio, printed wrappers; 13 lithographic plates as called for, loose. Wrappers torn, original stitching lost.
The first half of Samuel & George Nicholson's 'Twenty-Six Lithographic Drawings; views in the vicinity of Liverpool', published complete in 1821, although the text of the finished work tells that 'The many accidents, chemical phenomena, and unaccountable failures incident to lithographic printing very much retarded the appearance of the present work...'. The plates are Birkenhead Priory; Hale Hut; Childwell Church; Toxteth Park; Lydiate Abbey; Dingle, Toxteth Park; Knowsley Hall; Ormskirk; Runcorn; Halton Castle; Speke Hall; Green-Bank; & Wavertree. An advert on the back lists the plates in the second part.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 31560] £390.00 view all images for this item

Relation en Forme de Journal du Voyage et Sejour, que Le Serenissime et Tres-Puissant Prince Charles II Roy de la Grand Bretagne, &c, A fait en Holland, depuis le 25. May, jusques au 2 Juin 1660.
A La Haye, Chez Adrian Vlacq. M,DC,LX, Avec Previlege des Estates de Hollande & West-Frise.
Folio, contemporary vellum, spine cracked, inner hinges strained, cloth ties; title with engr. vignette, pp. (ii) + 108; engr. frontis. portrait & 6 engr. plates, all folding. Some minor worming at in text margins at rear, one plate affected with a small pair of holes.
Charles II's state visit to Holland, shortly after the Restoration.
[Ref: 1234] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates, As a Cabinet for the Gentleman and curious Fancy Worker; or Pattern-book for the Coach Painter, Engraver, Jeweller, Sadler, Plater, Embroiderer, Modeller, &c. Being a Companion to his Book of Cyphers, Published by Mr. Bowles.
Published 1st. Jany. 1812. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet St. London.
Oblong 4to, limp boards; engr. title and eleven plates, as called for.
Each plate c. 200 x 255mm.
[Ref: 3935] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

[Collection of Prints by Elias Martin.]
[Drawn by Elias Martin, engraved by Elias Martin or Johan Frederick Martin.]
[No 1. Leicester Street, London: Elias Martin, c.1778.]
Small folio, contemporary boards rebacked with morocco; 25 stipple plate, most printed in sanguine, many interleaved with the original tissue. Mint.
Elias Martin, A.R.A. Swedish, born Stockholm in 1739, died Stockholm 1818. He came to London in 1768, becoming a Royal Academy student the next year and was elected A.R.A in 1770. He returned to Stocholm in 1780. This collection of fine stipples, etchings and engravings after Elias Martin's drawings were engraved by him and his younger brother, Johann Frederick, and were published by Elias, most dated 1778, the others undated.
[Ref: 4104] £5,500.00 view all images for this item

J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates, As a Cabinet for the Gentleman and curious Fancy Worker; or Pattern-book for the Coach Painter, Engraver, Jeweller, Sadler, Plater, Embroiderer, Modeller, &c. Being a Companion to his Book of Cyphers, Published by Mr. Bowles.
London, Published June 30, 1791, by John Lockington, Engraver, Saville Passage, near Hanover Square.
Oblong 4to, stitched with marbled paper covers, tatty and torn; engr. title and eleven plates, as called for. Some defects to plates.
Each plate c. 200 x 255mm.
[Ref: 3934] £950.00

The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations.
Prepared under the Authority of the Board of Trade by Robert Jackson, Esq., Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen.
Published for the Committee of Lloyd's by Spottiswoode & Co., 54 Gracechurch Street, London. Entered at Satationers' Hall, 1885.
8vo, half calf with blind-illus. boards, spine distressed, inner hinges strained; pp. 38 (ads) + xvi + 238; three colour plates of flags.
[Ref: 3411] £120.00

Erinnerung an Dresden und Umgebung.
[n.d., c.1840. Flyleaf annotated in ink "E.L. Hi(illegible). Dresden Aug 24th 1869."]
Book, 23 steel engravings by various artists (largest 260 x 330mm, smallest 235 x 190mm) bound to style into red morocco binding, oblong folio (300 x 410mm). Binding scuffed and rubbed; damage to spine. Plates generally good: strong impressions some with relatively light foxing/staining.
'Souvenir of Dresden and its Environs.'
[Ref: 7428] £750.00

Original Sketches, Drawn and Engraved on Stone.
By Henry Stretton, Esq.
Subscribers' Copies to be had of Mr. Paul Gauci, 9, North Crescent, Alfred Place; and of Mr. Worsfold, 161, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Original blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt on front board, hinges strained; title, dedication, list of 180 subscribers, 10 tinted lithographic plates, printed by Paul Gauci. Some spotting.
One of only 180 subscribers' copies of the book.
[Ref: 8840] £450.00 view all images for this item

Das Vater Unser eines Underwaldners.
erfunden von J. Martin Usteri in Zürich ausgeführt und in Tuschmanier geäzt von Marquard Wocher in Basel
Freiburg im Breisgau in der Herderschen Kunsthandlung. [n.d., c.1814.]
4to. Cover and 8 leaves of calligraphic lithograph text, with 8 aquatint plates.330 x 240mm. 13 x 9½". Some foxing on pages but not on plates; loosely bound.
Usteri's anti-French series of illustrations and one of his most important works. The aquatints depict the Schwarzer September ('Black September'), as the bloody rebellion of the Swiss Nidwalden against the invading French revolutionary troops in September 1798 became known. 600 houses were burned down and a large number of women and children perished. The illustrations follow a Nidwald mountain shepherd and his young nephew accompanied by a text based on the Lord's Prayer.
[Ref: 8909] £420.00 view all images for this item

[Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich Islands during the years 1821 and 1822. With miscellaneous remarks on the past and present state, and political prospects of those countries.]
[By Gilbert Farquhar Mathison.]
[London: C. Knight, 1825.]
Book, 8vo (205 x 130mm, 8 x 5"), xii. 478 pp., in contemporary green morocco, spine gilt. One folding chart and three coloured aquatint plates, lacking one plate and titlepage. Extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed. Light staining to some plates, interior generally good. Dedication leaf almost detached.
The author sailed from Lisbon to Rio in 1821, visiting the Swiss settlement of Nova Friburgo. He then boarded an American brig destined for Chile and Peru, and at Callao he took another ship to the Sandwich Islands. Includes a folding map of the Sandwich Islands and colour plates depicting Peruvian women. Abbey calls for four plates, but the copy in the Hill collection contains only three, as this copy.
Abbey Travel: 700. British Library: 002422190.
[Ref: 13339] £250.00 view all images for this item

Souvenirs de la Belgique. Album Contenant Douze Vues Des Plus Beaux Monuments Du Pays Et Un Plan de la Ville de Bruxelles.
Chez Gerard, Lithographe, Rue de la Bergere, No.6, a Bruxelles, pres du Marche au Bois. [n.d., c.1853.]
Book, oblong 4to (230 x 295mm, 9 x 11½"), 12 lithographs on india laid paper and one fold-out map of Brussels 1853, complete as issued. In original printed wrappers with title and vignette to cover. Wrapper scuffed and rubbed, plates good. Tear to map.
Souvenir book of views in Brussels, Belgium, each one captioned in English, French and German, aimed at foreign visitors to the city.
[Ref: 11469] £270.00 view all images for this item

Chinese Architecture. Part the Second. Being a Large Collection of Designs of their Paling of different Kinds, Lattice Work, &c. For Parks, Paddocks, Terminations for Vistos, Ha Ha's Common Fence and Garden, Paling, both close and open, Chinese Stiles, Stair-Cases, Galleries, Windows, &c. To Which are added, Several Designs of Chinese Vessels, Ewers, Ganges Cups, Tureens, Garden Pots, &c.
The Whole neatly engraved on Twelve Copper-Plates, from real Chinese Designs, improved by P.Decker, Architect.
Printed for the Authorm and Sold by Henry Parker and Elizabeth Bakewell, opposite Birchin-Lane, in Cornhill; and H.Piers and Partner, at the Bible and Crown, near Chancery-Lane, Holborn. MDCCLIX. Price 3s.
Part 2 only. Oblong 4to, wrappers, disbound, edges worn; title & 12 engraved plates. Some worming.
Designs for fences, windows and pailings, with some plates decorated with vases etc.
[Ref: 11565] £480.00 view all images for this item

Sketches of Corsica; -or, a Journal Written during a Visit to that Island, in 1823. With an Outline of its History, and Specimens of the Language and Poetry of the People.
By Robert Benson, M.A. F.L.S.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row. MDCCCXXV. [1825.]
Book, first edition, 8vo (210 x 130mm, 8¼ x 5"), hand coloured aquatint and 4 sepia (including frontispiece), wood-engraved vignette titlepage, 195 pp. Contemporary brown calf with gilt border decoration and gilt stamped banded spine inscribed 'Bensons Corsica'. Spine and extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed. Spotting to plates, generally light, offsetting to coloured plate. Otherwise good.
Robert Benson (1797 - 1844), recorder of Salisbury, was the youngest son of the Rev. Edmund Benson, priest-vicar of Salisbury Cathedral, and was born in that city. In 1823 he went to Corsica as one of the commissioners to carry into effect the bequests of General Paoli, and on his return he published this book. Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli (Pascal Paoli, 1725 – 1807), was a Corsican patriot and leader, the president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica. Paoli designed and wrote the Constitution of this first democratic republic of the modern age himself. It was a representative democracy asserting that the elected Diet of Corsican representatives had no master.
Abbey Travel: 76.
[Ref: 11921] £420.00 view all images for this item

The Andalusian Annual, For MDCCCXXXVII.
Edited by Michael Burke Honan, Esq., Author of 'The Court and Camp of Don Carlos.'
London: John Macrone, St. James's Square. 1836.
Book, 4to (310 x 245mm. 12¼ x 9¾"), sheet music and lyrics to thirteen Spanish songs and dances with background text, illustrated by 12 fine hand coloured lithographic plates of principal characters by M. Gauci. 162 pp. In full contemporary embossed brown morocco with gilt spine and gilt stamped title with vignette to cover. Very scarce. Spine detached. Binding scuffed and rubbed. Interior good, occasional spotting, plates in vivd colour.
British Library: 004419129.
[Ref: 11947] £2,300.00 view all images for this item

Engravings from the Works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. by J. Scott, G.H. Every, G.Sanders, and other Eminent Engravers.
Published by Henry Graves & Company, Printsellers & Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. 6, Pall Mall, London. [n.d., c.1880.]
Folio, half morocco binding with gilt spine in compartments. 510 x 370mm. 20 x 14½". Marble paper inside cover, gilt front edge. 125 proof mezzotints interleaved on indian paper. Bookplate of Francis H.D.C. Whitmore inside front cover. Light foxing but images unaffected.
Complete volume of 125 engravings from the works of Thomas Gainsborough, divided into portraits, royal portraits and fancy subjects.
[Ref: 12075] £950.00 view all images for this item

[12 landscape prints most engraved by Benjamin Green after Paul Sandby, Thomas Daniell, S.H. Grimn, etc.]
[all but one] Pub.d Aug.st 1st 1787 by C. Phillips.
Album of 12 stipples and etchings, various sizes, largest 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Three plates with heavy oxidisation of paper.
A collection of plates reissued by Charles Phillips. Scarce collection stitched as purchased in the 18th century.
[Ref: 58838] £650.00 view all images for this item

The Illustrated General, and Elementary Physical Atlas: with Descriptive Letterpress... Recommended by the Minister of Public Instruction to be used in the Schools of Prussia and Germany.
By Dr. Karl, Vogel. Director of Schools, Berlin, and the Editor of the 'University Atlas of the Middle Ages,' &c.
London: Edward Gover, Sen., Princes Street, Bedford Row; Whittaker and Co; Simpkin and MArshall; Aylott and Jones. Dublin: J. Robertson. 1850.
4to, limp boards titled in gilt on front board; pp. 24, 1 folding steel-engraved world map and 7 double-page maps, all in original hand colour. Pages loose, some slight foxing, ink ownship inscription dated 1856 on prelim.
A basic atlas with maps of the World, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and the British Isles. All the maps have decorative borders; the continents have illustrations of the peoples and wildlife. On the maps the British Empire is marked in red.
[Ref: 40554] £390.00 view all images for this item

Bewick Gleanings: being Impressions from Copperplates and Wood Blocks, Engraved in the Bewick Workshop, Remaining in the possession of the family until the death of the last Miss Bewick, and sold afterwards by order of her executors. Edited, with Notes, by Julia Boyd... To which are added, Lives of Thos. Bewick and his Pupils. With Impressions from other Wood Blocks Collected by or Left to the Author.
Printed and Published by Andrew Reid, Printing Court Buildings, Akenside Hill, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. 1886.
4to, Small Paper Copy No 44, signed in ink by the editor; green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt; pp. xiv, including engraved frontis. portrait, + 108 + 104, woodcuts throughout, 53 numbered engraved plates at rear with tissue guards. A little rubbing to binding, occasional foxing, bookplate of Leonard Harrison Matthews on front pastedown.
A collection of the work of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), a natural history author famed for the quality of his wood engravings. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) was a British zoologist, especially known for his research and writings on marine mammals. In the 1920s he spent some time on South Georgia studying the biology of whales and southern elephant seals.
[Ref: 56129] £350.00

Fac Similes des Dessins Extraits des Livres de Croquis de Géricault et Lithographiés par Plusieurs Artistes.
Publiés par Blaisot M.d d'Estampes de S.A.R. M.gr le Duc d'Orléans / Palais Royal 1825 / Imp.e Lithog.e de P. Ducarme, Rue des Fossés Saint Germain l'auxerrois, No. 24
Ten lithographs in original wrappers, sheets each approx 365 x 270mm (14¼ x 10½"). Collector's stamp of [?]Paul and Véronique Sanchez on verso of each (probably variant of L.3289.
Ten lithographs of 20? after drawings by Théodore Géricault (1791 - 1824) and published shortly after his death. Subjects include military and oriental costume studies, fighting bulls, the philosopher Helvetius presenting his son to Voltaire, and a fragment of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'. After Géricault's death at the age of 32, his works were auctioned in a sale which contained around 220 paintings and an estimated 1600-1800 drawings and watercolours. Géricault sold very little in his lifetime, and so he owned most of his work at the time of his death. The drawings reproduced here were probably purchased at the auction by Blaisot. While he had little financial success in his lifetime, Géricault's postuhumous influence was on the likes of Delacroix and Courbet was great.
[Ref: 35578] £600.00 view all images for this item

A Series of Subjects from the Works of the late R.P. Bonington; Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding.
London. Published by J. Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street, Colnaghi & Son, Pall Mall East and Bovinet & Co., Paris. Printed at C. Hullmandel's Lithographic Establishment, 49 G.t Marlborough St. [n.d., 1829-30.]
Large folio, original cloth gilt; lithographic frontis. portrait on chine collé, lithographed title with vignette illustration on chine collé and 20 lithographs on chine collé, interleaved. Base of spine worn, inner hinges strained, some damp staining.
A series of prints after Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28), a landscape painter whose career was cut short by his death from tuberculosis aged 25. The lithographer, James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) made significant advances to the technique of lithography.
[Ref: 49511] £280.00 view all images for this item

Work by Frank Brangwyn. Ten Plates Reproduced in Facsimile.
Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin. London Agents: The Berlin Photographic Company, Fine Art Publishers to the King. - MDCCCCXIV [1914]
Parchment portfolio gilt, no 22 of a large paper issue of 25, containing 10 colour photogravures, proofs signed in pencil by the artist and blind stamped, with title and contents. Issue label on front pastedown, numbered and signed in ink by Brangwyn. 4pp. prospectus extra. Portfolio, title and contents worn, distressed, plates in good condition, but 'Fruit' lacks title label pasted on reverse.
Ten plates illustrating porters in the London docks, including Rug Porters, Meat, Tea & Suger, Curios & Coal.. According to the contents: 'The reproductions are from the cartoons for the Paintings executed in 1913-1914 for Lloyd's Register, in the City of London'. The ten paintings in tempura decorated the committee luncheon room until the late 1960s when they were put into storage and subsequently lost!
[Ref: 52064] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

The Etching Work of Frank Brangwyn A.R.A., R.E. A Catalogue by Frank Newbolt., A.R.E. with Appreciations by Henry Marcel, Director of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and Prof. Dr. Hans W. Singer, Keeper of the Royal Print Room, Dresden.
The Fine Art Society Ltd. 148 New Bond St. London. 1908.
Folio, Ltd Ed. 11/100, original printed boards with cloth spine, endpapers browned, within original printed cloth folder and card slipcase with title label, broken with upper edge lost; pp. 42, portrait of the artist on label on the titlepage, 51 collotype illustrations after Brangwyn, with tissue guards. With three original etchings signed by Brangyn in inner pocket of folders. Other than the endpapers and the card box, generally clean and in good condition
Frank William Brangwyn (Bruges, 1867 - London, 1956) was one of the most influential etchers of the early twentieth century. He had already established his reputation as a major painter and watercolourist when he attempted his first etching in 1900. He was then quickly drawn more and more to the many possibilities of this artistic medium and by 1926 had completed 331 original etchings. Most of Brangwyn's art concentrated upon figure studies, architectural and marine subjects. He traveled extensively and many of his most famous etchings are of continental views, particularly scenes from Normandy, Belgium and Italy.
[Ref: 23864] £1,900.00 view all images for this item

Etchings from Original Pictures in the Cleveland-House Gallery, Drawn, Etched, and Dedicated to the Marshioness of Stafford:
By her Ladyship's Porter [William Cantrill].
London: Published by Subscription. Price 12s. Printed by Law and Gilbert, St John's Square, Clerkenwell; and sold by Messrs. White and Co., Fleet Street; Clarke, New Bond Street; Ackermann, 101, Strand; Colnaghi, Cockspur-Street; and Molteno, Pall-Mall. 1812.
Large folio, 550 x 380mm (21½ x 15"), printed wrappers, letterpress dedication and six etched plates, with large margins, as called for, loose. With watermarks J. Whatman, Balston 1807, 1808, 1811. Minor staining to wrappers.
Six etchings (''first attempts from an untutored hand'' according to the dedication) after Old Master genre scenes in the collection of George and Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (infamous for their Highland clearances) in Cleveland House, Mayfair: three by David Teniers the younger, and one each by Antoine Le Nain, Jean Fyt and Quirijn van Brekelenkam.
See https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/cleveland-house for an extensive account of the series.
[Ref: 62514] £360.00 view all images for this item

English Landscape Scenery; An Advanced Drawing Book. Twenty-Four Sketches from Nature. By George Childs.
London: David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, late Tilt & Bogue [n.d., c.1845].
Oblong 4to (195 x 285mm, 7¾ x 11¼), green cloth gilt; letterpress title and 24 lithographic plates, as called for. Hinges strained, one plate loose and battered, spotting throughout.
A book of rustic scenery, mostly in Kent and the South-East, but also Wales, drawn and lithographed by George Childs (1800-75).
[Ref: 60684] £360.00 view all images for this item

The Comic Almanak, for 1847: An Ephemeris in Jest and Ernest, containing 'All Things Fitting for such a Work.' By Ricdum Funnidos, Gent. Adorned with Numerous Humorous Illustrations: - And a Dozen of 'Right Merrie' Cuts pertaining to the Months.
By George Cruikshank.
London Imprinted for David Bogue, Bibliopolist, in Fleet Street. Vizetelly Brothers & Co. Printers, Peterborough Court, 135 Fleet Street.
Very small 4to, original half calf gilt with marbled boards, maroon morocco title label on spine; pp. 64, twelve wood-engraved plates, Bookplate E. C. Grant on front pastedown, some pages toned, one text page with a tear.
A mixture of useful dates (i.e. when the British Museum is open), satire and caricature. The last plate is 'The Banquet of the Black Dolls' with a page of text. In ink 'To Edward C. Grant esq with thanks for his assistance from the Author.
[Ref: 40552] £180.00 view all images for this item

Cupid Turned Volunteer: In A Series of Prints, Designed By ***** [Princess Elizabeth]; And Engraved By W.N. Gardiner, With Poetical Illustrations By Thomas Park, F.S.A.
London: Printed By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, For E. Harding, Pall-Mall Court; And Sold By W.N. Gardiner, No. 48, Pall Mall. 1804.
4to, contemporary boards; half-title, title, dedication and preface; frontispiece and 11 fine colour-printed stipple engravings, each with a page of verse, and 1pp. 'Notes'. Boards distressed, inner hinges stained.
A series of charming stipples showing putti with a variety of military motifs after the designs of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840), third daughter of George III and a talented artist. Thomas Park (1759-1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer.
[Ref: 59283] £790.00 view all images for this item

The Christian's Defence Against the Fears of Death, with Reasonable Directions How to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well. Written, originally, in French, by the late Reverend Divine of the Protestant Church of Paris, Charles Drelincourt. Translated into English by Marius D'Assigney, B.D. A New Edition, Corrected, and Embellished with Engravings. With an Account of the Author, and his Last Minutes.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, No. 53, Paternoster-Row, By Rider and Weed, Little Britain. 1814.
Small 4to, contemporary full calf gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. (viii)+558+(ii)(ads); engraved frontis, engraved title and ten plates. Old ink ownership inscriptions on front endpapers, tear on frontis. taped.
A theological work by Charles Drelincourt (1595-1669), first published in French in 1651. The engraved title is illustrated with a 'memento mori' of a skull on the Bible. Included as a foreword is a re-issue of a 1706 pamphlet, 'A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal', said to have been written by Daniel Defoe and to be the first modern ghost story. In it the ghost of Mrs Veal visits an old friend before departing the world, recommending the perusal of Drelincourt's work.
[Ref: 60844] £180.00 view all images for this item

Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools. Particularly Rembrandt, Ostade, Conelius Bega and Van Vliet Accompanied with Sundry Miscellaneous Pieces and A Few Designs by Dav.d Deuchar Seal Engraver, Edinburgh. Dec,r 22 1803.
1 vol. of 3, original green morocco gilt; 136 etchings on 101 pages. Some scuffing of binding, bookplate of John Cheesment Severn on front pastedown.
Etchings by David Deuchar (1743–1808), seal engraver to George, Prince of Wales, in Edinburgh.
[Ref: 54926] £950.00 view all images for this item

The History of the Flagellants, Or The Advantages of Discipline; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary On the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &c. By Somebody who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne [John Lewis Delolme].
London: Printed for Fielding & Walker, No. 20, Paternoster-Row. MDCCLXXVII [1777].
First Edition, second issue. 4to, in fine 19th century full morocco gilt binding, t.e.g., by F. Bedford; pp. (vi), including half title, title, list of illustration and contents, + 340; 4 engraved plates & four engraved vignettes, as called for. Occasional spotting.
A fine example of Delolme’s provocative English adaptation of Abbé Boileau’s highly controversial history of flagellation, first published 1700. It traces the practice throughout history and literature, with its uses as punishment, religious self-discipline, private atonement or erotic practice. The illustrations include devils whipping men, Henry II's penitance for the death of Thomas Becket, and Bernadine of Sienna whipping a bare-breasted woman to extinguish her ardour. This scarce second issue has an errata on page 332.
With bookplate of George Clive on front pastedown.
[Ref: 54483] £580.00 view all images for this item

[Portraits of the founders of the colleges of Oxford & Cambridge.]
London. Pub.d for Ackermann's History of Cambridge [& Oxford] [n.d., c.1815].
Folio, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, all edges gilt; 49 aquatints with etching, all in superb original hand colour, interleaved with tissue. A few plates on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1812'. Binding worn, some prints offet on guards but plates unusually clean.
A complete and matching set of the founder's portraits from the 'History of the University of Cambridge' (16 plates) and 'History of the University of Oxford' (33), published 1814 & 1815. Very unusual to find both universities bound together. None of the plates are dated, as usual.
See Abbey Scenery 79 & 278 for the complete Histories.
[Ref: 60845] £750.00 view all images for this item

Grand Album des Célébrités Industrielles Contemporains. 1862.
Paris: Imprimerie de Georges Kugelmann.
Rare folio, original blind-decorated cloth gilt, with five studs on front and back boards; letterpress title and 14 tinted lithograph plates, one wood engraved, each with a page of letterpress. Inner hinges and plates strained; some plates damaged.
A scarce book of descriptions of the premises of 15 French industrialists, Wine & Champagne houses including Mumm etc, including the musical instrument factory of Adolphe Sax (1814-94), inventor of the saxophone. An advert for "photo albums from Scherff Freres " at back.
[Ref: 50436] £750.00 view all images for this item

Gems, Principally from the Antique, "Here from the mould to conscious being start Those finer forms, the miracles of art; Here chosen Gems, imprest on sulphur, shine, That slept for ages in a second mine."--- Rogers.
Drawn and Etched by Richard Dagley, Author of "Select Gems," Etc. With Illustrations in Verse By The Rev. George Croly A.M. Author of "Catiline, A Tragedy;" "Paris in 1815," Etc.
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; and Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh. 1822.
A fine 8vo (171 x 114mm. 6¾ x 4½".), with original marble boards and calf spine, gilt lettering on spine. Covers slightly rubbed and scuffed.
George Croly's poems are written to accompany engravings by Richard Dagley of cameo gems - the gems being selected as appropriate topics for verses. This manner of versifying an object derives, appropriately enough, from the epigrams in the Greek Anthology. The artist, Richard Dagley (d. 1841), had worked with Croly at the Literary Gazette.
Ex Libris: Philip E.H. Samuel.
[Ref: 22110] £240.00

Gems, Selected from the Antique with Illustrations.
[Richard Dagley.]
London: Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet Street, by C. Whittingham, Dean Street. 1804.
4to (291 x 229mm. 11½ x 9".), marbled boards with red calf stpin and corner edges with title and patterning in gilt on spine.
19 plates of engraved gems with 60 pages of explanatory text. This is the scarce London 1st edition. More common is the 1822 editions in a smaller format [ref: 22110]. Richard Dagley (d. 1841) has compiled a collection of gems 'to disseminate a love of the fine arts, and to introduce the general reader to a familiar acquaintance with engraved gems'.
See Ref: 22110 for later and small format edition.
[Ref: 22178] £220.00

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