Grosvenor Prints

Balboa Discovering the Southern Ocean.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) discovering the Pacific. Balboa was the first to reach the Pacific from the New World and he founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first permanent European settlement in the Americas.
[Ref: 48298] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Peru, Bolivia, Chile. Die Cathedrale in Lima in Peru [...]
[Anon., c.1850]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
Plate from a German travel volume with a view of Lima Cathedral surrounded by ten vignettes including views in Santiago, Chile and Chuquisaca, Bolivia.
[Ref: 45586] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Rade de Cobija.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. par Lemercier. Lith. par Bichebois.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
A view Coija in Bolivia. Plate 23 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47188] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Rade de Cobija. Bolivie.
Dessiné par. Touchard. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.ie. Lith par Bichebois. Fig par V.Adam.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
A view Coija in Bolivia. Plate 23 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47187] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Balsa ou bateau de peau de phoque soufflé à Cobija. (Bolivia)
A. d'Orbigny et E. Lassalle lith. E. Lassalle lith. lith Adrien r. richer, 7.
[Paris: P. Bertrand, c.1844.]
Lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"). Trimmed.
A spear fisher on a raft made of inflated skin bladders on the Cobija River, Bolivia. The plate was published in 'La Relation du Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale pendant les annés 1826 à 1833' by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-57), a work described by Charles Darwin as 'one of the great monuments of science in the 19th century'. It was an account of his mission to South America for the Paris Museum, on which he visited Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, returning to France with more than 10,000 specimens.
[Ref: 32162] £320.00

[Jaguarai, Brazil?]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Pencil sketch on pink embossed card. Sheet 115 x 155mm (4½ x 6"). Glue stains in embossing.
A pencil sketch of buildings on a riverside with mooring places. 'Jaguarai' is written in pencil on the reverse, probably Jaguarari Brazil or somewhere in Thailand.
[Ref: 60881] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Esclaves allant recevoir le bapteme. (Bresil.)
N. Maurin del. Lith. de Villain. d'apres le Croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph, sheet 245 x 155mm. 9¾ x 6".
Two slaves in Brazil, eager converts to Christianity, dressed to receive baptism. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855). A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 11029] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Brazil] Suite du Panorama de la Baie de Rio de Janeiro. 3.e Partie. PL: 54.
J.B Debret del.t. Lith de Thierry frères.
[n.d. c.1835.]
Very rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet 320 x 510mm (12½ x 20"), large margins.
Four sketches on one sheet: a view of the bay of Rio de Janeiro from the hills; a granite outcrop with a signal base at the summit; and a tree with carvings made by Emperor Pedro. From the 'Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un artiste français au Brésil' (1834-39) by J.B. Debret.
[Ref: 60392] £320.00

[Brazil] Les premières occupations du matin. Quèteurs. Voeu d'une messe demandée comme aumône. 3.e Partie. PL: 4.
J.B Debret del.t. Lith de Thierry Frères, Succ: de Engelmann.
[n.d. c.1835.]
Very rare hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 500 x 345mm (19¾ x 13¾"), very large margins. Slightly foxed, blue mark on left edge.
Two designs depicting the life and costumes of Brazilian people. On the top, a group of people busy with the first activities at the beginning of a new day. On the bottom, two illustrations of people asking and collection alms. Plate 4 of 'Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un artiste français au Brésil' (1834-39) by J.B. Debret.
[Ref: 59602] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Brazil] Une mulatresse allant passer les Fetês de Noël, a la campagne. Concours des ecoliers, la veille du Jour de S.t Alexis. 3.e Partie. PL: 7.
J.B. Debret del. Lith de Thierry Frères, Succ.rs de Engelmann & C.ie.
[n.d. c.1835.]
Very rare hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"), large margins. Slightly foxed, blue mark on left edge.
Two designs depicting the life and costumes of Brazilian people. On the top, a mixed race woman (described as a mulattress in text) and her daughter are accompanied by their black slaves who carry a bird in a cage, a basket, a rug and a jug along a country path; to spend the Christmas holidays in the countryside. On the bottom, children congregate in the street and enter schools, thrusting pieces of paper toward two adult men. A girl is escorted by a child slave and a black female slave carrying an umbrella on her head and carrying the girl's notebook and quills. Plate 7 of 'Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un artiste français au Brésil' (1834-39) by J.B. Debret.
[Ref: 59601] £320.00

[Brazil] Marchand de fleurs, a la porte d'une église. Ex-voto de marins échappés d'un naufrage. 3.e Partie. PL: 6.
J.B. Debret, et la V.esse de Portes, d.t. Lith. de Thierry Frères Succ.rs de Engelmann & C.ie.
[n.d. c.1835.]
Very rare hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 290mm (14¼ x 11½") large margins. Small tear on left edge.
Two designs depicting the life and costumes of Brazilian people. On the top, a flower seller, holding a plate full of cut coconut, offers flowers carefully placed on a banana trunk to an upper-class woman who is leaving mass with her servants and her child. On the bottom, barefoot sailors who survived a shipwreck bring a sail into a church, carrying their shoes and their hats. Plate 6 of 'Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un artiste français au Brésil' (1834-39) by J.B. Debret.
[Ref: 59600] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Brazil] Pauvre famille dans sa maison. Menuisier allant s'installer. Transport de feuilles d'aloès. 2.e Partie. PL: 34.
J.B. Debret del.t. Lith. de Thierry Frères, Succ.rs de Engelmann & C.ie.
[n.d. c.1835.]
Very rare hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 295mm (14¼ x 11½") very large margins. Mount burn around image, nick to top left corner.
Two designs depicting the life and costumes of Brazilian people. On the top, the interior of the house of a poor family. On the bottom, a carpenter carrying tools to his shop and men carrying bundle of aloe leaves on their heads. Plate 34 of 'Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un artiste français au Brésil' (1834-39) by J.B. Debret.
[Ref: 59599] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Brésil et Pays des Amazones. 1.re Feuille. Par M.Bonne, Ing.r Hydrographe de la Marine.
André sculp.
[Paris, c.1770.]
Coloured engraved map. 245 x 380mm (9¾ x 15"). Glue stains on the centrefold.
Map of Brazil with the course of the Amazon.
[Ref: 13225] £130.00

Rio de Janeiro.
Off. Lith. & pict. in Horto van Houtteano.
[n.d, c.1845.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 170 x 255mm (6¾ x 10").
A view of Rio de Janeiro, an illustration from horticultural journal 'Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe' 1845-1888. Belgian horticulturist Louis van Houtte (1810-1876) travelled throughout Brazil between 1834-1836 searching for orchids for the King of Brazil.
[Ref: 47248] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bouticoudo. (Bresil.)
N. Maurin del. Lith. de Villain. d'apres le Croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph, sheet 145 x 250mm. 5¾ x 9¾".
An indigenous Brazillian hunting a cat with bow and arrow. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855). A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 11017] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Two illustrations to Jean de Léry, 'History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil']
[Anon., c.1594]
Two wood engravings, scarce, the larger 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6"). Trimmed; the larger glued to backing sheet.
Two illustrations to an early edition of the explorer and writer Jean de Léry's record of his travels in Brazil (first edition 1578).
[Ref: 47088] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Brasilien. Ansicht eines Theils von Rio Janeiro [...]
[Anon., c.1850]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Plate from a German travel volume with a view of Rio de Janeiro surrounded by ten vignettes showing the nature of Brazil and the labour and punishment of slaves. The central image is copied from a lithograph by Victor Adam after J.M. Rugendas published in his 'Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil' (1827-35). There the lithograph was described as taken from the Mosteiro de São Bento (Monastery of St Benedict).
For Rugendas' view of Rio de Janeiro see ref. 45553.
[Ref: 45587] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Favorita Waltz Brazilense Pava Piano Forte Com Acompantiamento de Flauta e Triangulo Dedicada A Sua Altezza Real Principe Regente de Portugal e Brazil Por Pedro Weldon.
London Printed by Goulding, Phipps, D'Almaine & co., Music Sellers to thier Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales, 124 New Bond St & 7 Westmorland St Dublin. [n.d., c.1810.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 195 x 315mm (7¾ x 12½"). Creased. Trimmed.
The cover of a music sheet, showing the arrival of Joao, prince regent of Portugal, in Rio de Janeiro in 1808, having fled Napoleon's invasion of Portugal. The publication line is a later addition
[Ref: 51661] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[A skirmish between Europeans and Native Americans] America. Chap. VII.
[London: John Ogilby, 1670.]
Engraving. 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾"). Trimmed from a sheet of text.
Probably the Dutch fighting a slave revolt in Brazil. From ''America Being the Latest and Most Accurate Description of the New World'', Ogilby's translation of Arnold Montanus' ''De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld''.
[Ref: 56212] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bouticoudes. (Bresil.)
N. Maurin del.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph, sheet 145 x 250mm. 5¾ x 9¾".
Portrait studies of two indigenous Brazilians. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855). A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 11045] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[A History of the Brazil; comprising its Geography, Commerce, Colonization, Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. &c. by James Henderson, Recently from South America. Illustrated with Twenty-Eight Plates and Two Maps.]
[London: Printed for the Author, and Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row. 1821.]
4to, original half calf gilt, marbled boards, edges and endpapers; pp. iii-xiv + 522; 2 folding maps, 26 lithographic plates (of 28), two extra engraved plates of Brazil. Boards detached, lacking title and two plates.
A study of Brazil illustrated by sketches by James Henderson (1783?-1848), who travelled to Rio de Janeiro hoping to obtain a position with the British Government. The views, lithographed by C. Shoesmith and printed by Hullmandel, are some of the earliest lithographic book illustrations. This volume includes Plate 23, which only appears in Subscriber's copies.
[Ref: 32175] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Maniere de charger les Mulets pour le voyage. [Method of laoding mules for travel.]
Voyage du Prince de Neuwied en Bresil. 11, Vol. VIII. [Paris, 1821-1822.]
Fine engraving, 270 x 235mm. 10½ x 9¼". Sheet trimmed. Small tear into plate at left.
A European traveller and a fire in the background. From 'Voyage au Bresil, dans les années 1815, 1816, et 1817' by Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782 - 1867), a German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist. Prince Maximilian, accompanied by the naturalists Georg Freyreiss and Friedrich Sellow, travelled through Brazil from 1815 to 1817. From Rio de Janeiro they journeyed to Cabo Frio, along the coast to Ilheus, to the borders of Minas Geraes anf finally Bahia. The explorers made extensive studies of the flora and fauna of the Mata Atlantica, and visited the indigenous peoples such as the Botocudo, Purí, and Pataxo.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18542] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

America Meridionale. T.III. T.55. La caccia dei Tori fatta dai Vaqueiros. Rio Janeiro.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 284 x 146mm. 11¼ x 5¾". Foxing around the edges.
Two scenes from South America. Gauchos on horse back accompanied by dogs hunt a bull, in Argentina; and a view of the Carioca Aqueduct in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
[Ref: 21443] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Brazil] Amélie. Impératrice du Brésil.
Belliard. Lith. de Delpech [c.1855]
Lithograph, printed area 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Uncut sheet.
Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812-73), Empress of Brazil and wife of Pedro I. After Pedro's abdication, the couple returned to Europe.
[Ref: 34256] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Brésil. 62. Bahia.
Vanderburch del. Traversier sc.
Lemaitre dir. [Paris Firmin Didot freres et Cie 1837.]
Engraving. 140 x 215mm. 5½ x 8½".
Bahia, seen with a small turret fort to the left; small vessels in the bay with the city in the background. From Ferdinand Denis's "L'Univers. Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples. Bresil, ... Colombie et Guyanes".
[Ref: 26080] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Black man and woman from Bahia] Nègre et nègresse de Bahia.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Lith. par Maurin
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 320 x 245mm (12½ x 9½").
Man and woman from the state of Bahia in the north-east of Brazil. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45572] £320.00

[Black women from Rio de Janeiro] Nègresses de Rio-Janeiro
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Lith. par Maurin
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45571] £320.00

Buenos Ayres.
R.Elwes del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton Lithog.
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Lithograph, printed area 125 x 180mm (5 x 7").
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina by Robert Elwes (1819-1878) a Victorian traveller.
See 45593
[Ref: 45595] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Capitao do matto
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Lith. par Zwinger
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 405 x 280mm (16 x 11").
A 'capitão do mato', an employee of a factory or plantation charged with recovering runaway slaves. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45578] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Corcovado mountain and the Catete neighbourhood, Rio de Janeiro] Vue de la montagne de Corecovado et du faubourg de Cadete, prise de la Carrière
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Deroi del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du faub Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 280 x 365mm (11 x 14½").
View of mountains in Rio de Janeiro including Corcovado (now distinguished by the famous 'Christ the Redeemer' statue), with the neighbourhood of Catete in the middle-ground. Slaves working in a quarry in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45557] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bresil - Brazil. Amérique. V. Pitt. No.19.
A. St. Aulaire.
Publié par Aubert, Place de la Bourse, 29. [n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. 285 x 196mm (11¼ x 7¾").
Images of Brazilian costume: inhabitants of the province of mines; Captain of Matto; inhabitants of San Paulo; Botocudos Indians; Bogres Indians. A summary paragraph describing the land, population and resources.
[Ref: 52460] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Fields by the das Velhas river in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil] Campos sur les bords du rio das velhas. dans la province de Minaes Geraes.
Bonington del. fig. par V. Adam. dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, Rue Louis-le-Grand No 27 a Paris
Lithograph, printed area 285 x 345mm (11¼ x 13½").
Landscape in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with hunting in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846. This particular plate is of added interest owing to the involvement of the landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) as a draughtsman. Bonington lived in Paris for part of his short career, sharing a studio with Delacroix, and despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, his work has consistently been held in high esteem.
[Ref: 45562] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Inhomirim river in the state of Rio de Janeiro] Rio Jnhomerim, dans la Baie de Rio de Janeiro
Villeneuve del. fig. par V. Adam. dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, Rue Louis-le-Grand No 27 a Paris
Lithograph, printed area 295 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½").
Landscape in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with hunters shooting crocodile in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846. This particular plate is of added interest owing to the involvement of the landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) as a draughtsman. Bonington lived in Paris for part of his short career, sharing a studio with Delacroix, and despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, his work has consistently been held in high esteem.
[Ref: 45563] £320.00

[View taken from the Monastery of St Benedict, Rio de Janeiro] Vue prise devant l'élise de San-Bendo à Rio Janeiro
V. Adam del.t Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du F. Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½").
View showing the Rio de Janeiro coastline, taken from the Mosteiro de São Bento (Monastery of St Benedict). Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45553] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Olinda. [& plate of lizards, snakes, millepede and scorpion]
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraved map and view, printed back to back. Each c.130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), set in text, very large margins
A plan of Olinda, a city in Brazil, during its occupation by the Dutch under John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. On the reverse is an illustration of various creatures of the region. With a letterpress description From the account of Johann Nieuhof, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58633] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Paulo Affonso.
R.Elwes del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton, Lithog.
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Lithograph and tintstone, printed area 125 x 180mm (4½ x 7").
Spectacular view of the São Francisco River where it passes through the city of Paulo Afonso in the state of Bahia, Brazil by Robert Elwes (1819-1878) a Victorian traveller.
See 45595
[Ref: 45593] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Brazil] Obsidio Et Expugnatio Portus Calvi.
[London: John Ogilby, c.1670.]
Coloured engraving. 270 x 335mm (10½ x 13¼").
The fort at Porto Calvo, controlling the passage of the Manguaba River in the Alagoas region, the frontline of Portuguese-Dutch hostilities in the early 1630s. From John Ogilby’s 'America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World' an English translation of Arnoldus Montanus’ 'Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld'.
[Ref: 41266] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Military and slaves on boats, Rio de Janeiro coastline] Braia dos Mineiros à Rio-Janeiro
V. Adam del.t Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du F. Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 260 x 330mm (10¼ x 13").
Stretch of Rio de Janeiro coastline formerly known as the 'Praia dos Mineiros'. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45554] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Praia Rodrigues, near Rio de Janeiro] Praya Rodriguez. Près de Rio de Janeiro.
Villeneuve del. fig. par V. Adam. dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, Rue Louis-le-Grand No 27 a Paris
Lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 295 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½") very large margins.
Landscape in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with hunters in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff's scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846. This particular plate is of added interest owing to the involvement of the landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) as a draughtsman. Bonington lived in Paris for part of his short career, sharing a studio with Delacroix, and despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, his work has consistently been held in high esteem.
See Ref: 45564 for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 59894] £320.00

[Praia Rodrigues, near Rio de Janeiro] Praya Rodriguez. Près de Rio de Janeiro
Villeneuve del. fig. par V. Adam. dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, Rue Louis-le-Grand No 27 a Paris
Lithograph, printed area 295 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½").
Landscape in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with hunters in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846. This particular plate is of added interest owing to the involvement of the landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) as a draughtsman. Bonington lived in Paris for part of his short career, sharing a studio with Delacroix, and despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, his work has consistently been held in high esteem.
[Ref: 45564] £320.00

[Recife] The Recief.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraved map. 135 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½"), set in text, very large margins
A plan of Recife a city in Brazil, during its occupation by the Dutch under John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegenw, with a letterpress description From the account of Johann Nieuhof, originally published 1682 by Jacob van Meurs, but here reissued in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58634] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[San Sebastian quarter, Rio de Janeiro]
Fumagalli f
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Hand-coloured aquatint; publisher's blindstamp. Plate 180 x 240mm (7 x 9½"), very large margins.
Street scene in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with sedan chairs. Published in Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario'.
[Ref: 39663] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[View of Rio de Janeiro from the Carioca aqueduct] Vue de Rio-Janeiro. prise de l'Acqueduc.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Villeneuve del. fig. par V. Adam
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du faub Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 280 x 355mm (11 x 14").
View of Rio de Janeiro with leisurely hunting party in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45559] £360.00

Rio-Janeiro.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper, rare, with very large margins; 290 x 380mm. 11½ x 15".
A view looking towards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the Guanabara Bay. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
See BNF FRBNF33995730. See BM Anthropology Library KU4 [LAP-] V.1-5.
[Ref: 27819] £650.00

[View of Rio de Janeiro from the harbour] Vue de Rio-Janeiro. prise de la Rade.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Sabatier del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du faub Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 300 x 405mm (11¾ x 16").
Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff's scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45560] £450.00

The Pedro de Parahybuna. Organ Peaks from Theresopolis. Harbour of Rio Janeiro from the Alto do Imperador.
T. Picken, lith.
[n.n. c.1863] Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.
Three coloured lithographs on album paper. Plate: 100 x 150mm. 4" x 6". [&] 145 x 94mm. 5¾" x 3¾". [&] 100 x 150mm. 4" x 6". Cut.
Three views of rural Brazil.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 8918] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Habitation et Propriété de M.r Henri Fournier Sur la Montagne de S.ta Thereza à Rio Janeiro.
Dessiné par Mr N. Desmons.Lith. par A. Guesdon.
Imp. Lemercier, Pris. [n.d., 1855.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet. 395 x 850mm (15½ x 33½"). Extensive tear, repaired, cracking, surface abrasion, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A Brazilian fazenda (plantation) building, with some of the black workers dancing outside. Iluchar Desmons (b.1803) settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1840. In 1855 he published ''Panoramas de la Ville de Rio de Janeiro'', with thirteen lithographs. He often signed his plates with 'N Desmons'.
[Ref: 54161] £450.00

[Entrance to the Rio de Janeiro harbour] Entrée de la rade de Rio-Janeiro.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Bonington del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du faub Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½").
Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846. This particular plate is of added interest owing to the involvement of the landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) as a draughtsman. Bonington lived in Paris for part of his short career, sharing a studio with Delacroix, and despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, his work has consistently been held in high esteem.
[Ref: 45561] £360.00

Rio-Janeiro.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. N. Rémond imp. [n.d. c.1835.]
Aquatint on chine collé. 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15").
A view looking towards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the Guanabara Bay. From 'Voygage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace'.
[Ref: 23754] £350.00

Rio Janeiro.
R.Elwes del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton, Lithog.
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Lithograph printed in colour, printed area 125 x 180mm (5 x 7").
Rio de Janeiro, the second most populous city in Brazil and the national capital until 1960, when the capital was moved to the new city of Brasília nearer to the centre of the country by Robert Elwes (1819-1878) a Victorian traveller.
[Ref: 45597] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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