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![Heads After Rembrandt [front cover.]](jpegs/13573.jpg)
Heads After Rembrandt [front cover.]
[Jonathan Spilsbury.]
[Some plates dated 1776. Compiled c.1800.]
Book, 8vo (225 x 160mm, 9 x 6¼"), 24 etched plates of busts by Spilsbury after the manner of Rembrandt; on thick laid paper, in original full green gilt-stamped morocco. Spine and extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed; some spotting and discoloration to plates.
It seems this vibrant and engaging collection of studies of heads is compiled from smaller sets, of up to six etchings (some plates are numbered, no plate higher than 6). Most plates initialled, or signed in plate, by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812).
See BM: 1861,0413.528 for a set of six included here.
[Ref: 13573] £950.00 view all images for this item
[Jonathan Spilsbury.]
[Some plates dated 1776. Compiled c.1800.]
Book, 8vo (225 x 160mm, 9 x 6¼"), 24 etched plates of busts by Spilsbury after the manner of Rembrandt; on thick laid paper, in original full green gilt-stamped morocco. Spine and extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed; some spotting and discoloration to plates.
It seems this vibrant and engaging collection of studies of heads is compiled from smaller sets, of up to six etchings (some plates are numbered, no plate higher than 6). Most plates initialled, or signed in plate, by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812).
See BM: 1861,0413.528 for a set of six included here.
[Ref: 13573] £950.00 view all images for this item
![Hieroglyphica, of, Merkbeelden der oude volkeren : namentlyk Egyptenaren, Chaldeeuwen, Feniciers, Joden, Grieken, Romeynen, enz. [...]](jpegs/53763.jpg)
Hieroglyphica, of, Merkbeelden der oude volkeren : namentlyk Egyptenaren, Chaldeeuwen, Feniciers, Joden, Grieken, Romeynen, enz. [...] Beschreven en Verbeeld door M.r Romeyn de Hoogue [...[ door Arn. Henr. Westerhovius,
Te Amsterdam, by Joris van der Woude. MDCCXXXV [1735].
First edition. 4to, original half calf with speckled boards; pp. (xvi)+455+(20)(index including plates); eng. title, title in black & red with engr. vignette, engr. dedication, portrait of de Hooghe, 63 etched plates. Large paper copy. Binding worn, inner hinges strained, contents clean.
Extraordinary illustrations. ''The Hieroglyphica of the People of Old''. A collection of allegorical plates about the iconography of early cultures, with classical, Christian, Jewish and Mohammedan. The plates were etched by Romeyn de Hoogue (who had died in 1708), described in an extensive text by Arnoldus Herricus Westerhoff, written before Egyptian hieroglyphics were decyphered. The frontispiece portrait of de Hooghe was engraved by Houbraken after Bos.
Landwehr 108.
[Ref: 53763] £1,650.00 view all images for this item
Te Amsterdam, by Joris van der Woude. MDCCXXXV [1735].
First edition. 4to, original half calf with speckled boards; pp. (xvi)+455+(20)(index including plates); eng. title, title in black & red with engr. vignette, engr. dedication, portrait of de Hooghe, 63 etched plates. Large paper copy. Binding worn, inner hinges strained, contents clean.
Extraordinary illustrations. ''The Hieroglyphica of the People of Old''. A collection of allegorical plates about the iconography of early cultures, with classical, Christian, Jewish and Mohammedan. The plates were etched by Romeyn de Hoogue (who had died in 1708), described in an extensive text by Arnoldus Herricus Westerhoff, written before Egyptian hieroglyphics were decyphered. The frontispiece portrait of de Hooghe was engraved by Houbraken after Bos.
Landwehr 108.
[Ref: 53763] £1,650.00 view all images for this item
![[Homer Travestie.] A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In Two Volumes. The Fourth Edition Improved.](jpegs/60711.jpg)
[Homer Travestie.] A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In Two Volumes. The Fourth Edition Improved.
[by Thomas Bridges, plates after George Moutard Woodward.]
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1797.
8vo (215 x 140mm, 8½ x 5½"), half calf with contemporary marbled boards; vol 1: pp. (vi)+360; Vol 2: pp. 432; complete with two engr. titles, 24 engraved plates. Spines rebacked, inner hinges taped; spotting throughout. Bookplates of E.F. Bolton on front paste-downs.
The fourth edition of a work written by Thomas Bridges under the pseudonym 'Caustic Barebones', first published 1762. This edition was the first with plates after Woodward, which are said to have been engraved by Francis Grose.
Lowndes, The Bibliographers Manual of English Literature, volume II, p. 1101: ''Best edition, with humorous plates. A work full of humour... which often transgresses the bounds of decency''.
[Ref: 60711] £490.00 view all images for this item
[by Thomas Bridges, plates after George Moutard Woodward.]
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1797.
8vo (215 x 140mm, 8½ x 5½"), half calf with contemporary marbled boards; vol 1: pp. (vi)+360; Vol 2: pp. 432; complete with two engr. titles, 24 engraved plates. Spines rebacked, inner hinges taped; spotting throughout. Bookplates of E.F. Bolton on front paste-downs.
The fourth edition of a work written by Thomas Bridges under the pseudonym 'Caustic Barebones', first published 1762. This edition was the first with plates after Woodward, which are said to have been engraved by Francis Grose.
Lowndes, The Bibliographers Manual of English Literature, volume II, p. 1101: ''Best edition, with humorous plates. A work full of humour... which often transgresses the bounds of decency''.
[Ref: 60711] £490.00 view all images for this item
To India and Back by the Cape. By a Traveller.
With numerous Drawings on Wood and Stone, by John Corbet Anderson, from Sketches by the Author and Others. Subscriber's Copy.
Croydon: Published by John C. Anderson, Sumner Road. 1858.
4to, gilt-illustrated blue cloth, rebacked. Subscribers copy, of 307 subscribers. 28 pages of text with 19 tinted lithographic illustrations. Spine broken, foxing.
From the foreward "The following work pretends to nothing more than a collection of incidents and facts, familiar to every voyager, together with a very general and summary description, as well of the scientific portions of the book, as of the different places which are either only "sighted" or "touched at" on the journey'.
Abbey Travel: 524.
[Ref: 23952] £1,100.00 view all images for this item
With numerous Drawings on Wood and Stone, by John Corbet Anderson, from Sketches by the Author and Others. Subscriber's Copy.
Croydon: Published by John C. Anderson, Sumner Road. 1858.
4to, gilt-illustrated blue cloth, rebacked. Subscribers copy, of 307 subscribers. 28 pages of text with 19 tinted lithographic illustrations. Spine broken, foxing.
From the foreward "The following work pretends to nothing more than a collection of incidents and facts, familiar to every voyager, together with a very general and summary description, as well of the scientific portions of the book, as of the different places which are either only "sighted" or "touched at" on the journey'.
Abbey Travel: 524.
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Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les Tableaux les plus intéressants des Palais et des Eglises de L'Italie, Première Suite. Rome [&] ... Second Suite. Rome. [&] ... Cinquieme Suite. Venice. [&] Troisieme Suite. Bologne.
[Paris: Lavoy, 1770-75.]
Small folio, 265 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"), original half calf gilt, marbled boards. Four parts: 1 & 2 (Rome) with 55 of 60 numbered aquatints (one unnumbered, bound at end of book); part 4 (Venice) 40 numbered plates, as called for; part 3 (Bologna) 40 numbered plates, as called for. Total 135 aquatints printed in sepia of 140. Wear to binding, inner hinges strained, parts three and four misbound, ink stamp on engraved title
A collection of the first four parts of the 'Fragments' (Five & Six related to Naples and Herculanum, with 60 more plates), containing sketches mostly by Fragonard after paintings by Michaelangelo. Raphael, Carrachi and others. The plates were etched in aquatint by Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non, an early use of the technique.
[Ref: 53762] £950.00 view all images for this item
[Paris: Lavoy, 1770-75.]
Small folio, 265 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"), original half calf gilt, marbled boards. Four parts: 1 & 2 (Rome) with 55 of 60 numbered aquatints (one unnumbered, bound at end of book); part 4 (Venice) 40 numbered plates, as called for; part 3 (Bologna) 40 numbered plates, as called for. Total 135 aquatints printed in sepia of 140. Wear to binding, inner hinges strained, parts three and four misbound, ink stamp on engraved title
A collection of the first four parts of the 'Fragments' (Five & Six related to Naples and Herculanum, with 60 more plates), containing sketches mostly by Fragonard after paintings by Michaelangelo. Raphael, Carrachi and others. The plates were etched in aquatint by Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non, an early use of the technique.
[Ref: 53762] £950.00 view all images for this item
Memoirs of celebrated women of all countries. by Madame Junot. With Portraits by the most eminent masters.
London: Edward Churton, 26, Holles Street. 1834.
Folio, contemporary green half calf, marbled boards; pp.94 with 16 plates as called for. Varying degrees of foxing to plates, but image only affected in a few cases.
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes, 1784-1838. The plates are lithographs from engravings by Greyedon, Mme. Fauchery, Barin, Maurer, Deveria, Desmaisons, et al., after Gerard, Holbein, Isabey, David, Mme. Lebrun, Nattier, et al. Comprises brief lives of Maria Letizia Ramolini Bonaparte, Anna Zingha-Queen of Matamba, Lady Jane Gray, Dona Catalina De Erauso, Beatrice Cenci, Catherine First Queen of Russia, Ann Boleyn, Baroness De Stael Holstein, Charlotte Corday, Josephine Bonaparte, Mary The Catholic Queen of England, Marina Mniszech, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Marie Antoinette and Mary of Medicis.
[Ref: 23834] £450.00 view all images for this item
London: Edward Churton, 26, Holles Street. 1834.
Folio, contemporary green half calf, marbled boards; pp.94 with 16 plates as called for. Varying degrees of foxing to plates, but image only affected in a few cases.
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes, 1784-1838. The plates are lithographs from engravings by Greyedon, Mme. Fauchery, Barin, Maurer, Deveria, Desmaisons, et al., after Gerard, Holbein, Isabey, David, Mme. Lebrun, Nattier, et al. Comprises brief lives of Maria Letizia Ramolini Bonaparte, Anna Zingha-Queen of Matamba, Lady Jane Gray, Dona Catalina De Erauso, Beatrice Cenci, Catherine First Queen of Russia, Ann Boleyn, Baroness De Stael Holstein, Charlotte Corday, Josephine Bonaparte, Mary The Catholic Queen of England, Marina Mniszech, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Marie Antoinette and Mary of Medicis.
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La levrette en pal'tot.
[Paris: Imp. Le Taneur, 1881.]
4to pamphlet, paper cover with etched plate, 5 etchings (of 7?) and frontis. Incomplete.
A pamphet with illustrations to 'La levrette en paletot' (The Greyhound in an Overcoat), the best known poem by Auguste de Chatillon (1808-1881).
[Ref: 58031] £140.00 view all images for this item
[Paris: Imp. Le Taneur, 1881.]
4to pamphlet, paper cover with etched plate, 5 etchings (of 7?) and frontis. Incomplete.
A pamphet with illustrations to 'La levrette en paletot' (The Greyhound in an Overcoat), the best known poem by Auguste de Chatillon (1808-1881).
[Ref: 58031] £140.00 view all images for this item
![[The Progress of Seduction]](jpegs/36865.jpg)
[The Progress of Seduction]
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by A. Gabriel.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Five out of six etchings (lacking plate 3) with large margins. Each plate 280 x 320mm (11 x 12½"). Spotting.
Five out of six scenes from The Progress of Seduction showing the downfall and penitence of Lætitia, seduced by a faithless lover. These plates were engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli (1749 - 1817) after the stipples published by John Raphael Smith in 1789.
D' Oench: 300 copies. Frankau: 214-19
[Ref: 36865] £690.00 view all images for this item
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by A. Gabriel.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Five out of six etchings (lacking plate 3) with large margins. Each plate 280 x 320mm (11 x 12½"). Spotting.
Five out of six scenes from The Progress of Seduction showing the downfall and penitence of Lætitia, seduced by a faithless lover. These plates were engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli (1749 - 1817) after the stipples published by John Raphael Smith in 1789.
D' Oench: 300 copies. Frankau: 214-19
[Ref: 36865] £690.00 view all images for this item
Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes. Inventez et gravez de Nouveau par J. Le Pautre Architecte et Dessinateur des Bâtimerns du Roy. Avec Privilege du Roy 1751. N.º 117.
A Paris rue Dauphine, chez Jombert, Librare du Roy.
Extract, 4to, 340 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾"), very large margins; numbered engraved title and nine plates on five sheets, the complete set of plates from this section. 18th century watermark. A few nicks to edges of margin, occasional spotting.
The complete set of ten engravings of Jean Le Pautre's 'Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes', published as a section of Volume 3 of ''Oeuvres d'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre''.
[Ref: 62224] £480.00 view all images for this item
A Paris rue Dauphine, chez Jombert, Librare du Roy.
Extract, 4to, 340 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾"), very large margins; numbered engraved title and nine plates on five sheets, the complete set of plates from this section. 18th century watermark. A few nicks to edges of margin, occasional spotting.
The complete set of ten engravings of Jean Le Pautre's 'Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes', published as a section of Volume 3 of ''Oeuvres d'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre''.
[Ref: 62224] £480.00 view all images for this item
Beauties of Claude Lorraine Consisting of Twenty Four Landscapes, Selected from the Liber Veritatis; And Engraved on Steel By Eminent Engravers, from a Brilliant Copy in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
London, Published by W.B. Cooke, 9, Soho Square. 1825.
2º, later half morocco gilt with marbled boards and endpapers; frontispiece portrait, title, 4pp., 24 numbered mezzotints on steel, printed in sepia. Block loose from covers; plates spotted.
24 plates printed from mezzotints engraved on steel, copied from plates in John Boydell's 'Liber Veritatis' engraved by Richard Earlom. Bookplate of Arthur Perigal 1784-1847.
See Ref: 60827 & 60828
[Ref: 60829] £720.00 view all images for this item
London, Published by W.B. Cooke, 9, Soho Square. 1825.
2º, later half morocco gilt with marbled boards and endpapers; frontispiece portrait, title, 4pp., 24 numbered mezzotints on steel, printed in sepia. Block loose from covers; plates spotted.
24 plates printed from mezzotints engraved on steel, copied from plates in John Boydell's 'Liber Veritatis' engraved by Richard Earlom. Bookplate of Arthur Perigal 1784-1847.
See Ref: 60827 & 60828
[Ref: 60829] £720.00 view all images for this item
![[Eleven bound plates of Lorraine's 'Liber Veritatis'.]](jpegs/60828.jpg)
[Eleven bound plates of Lorraine's 'Liber Veritatis'.]
Claude le Lorraine delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Jan: 1.st 1774 [to Jan.y 1.st 1776] by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Oblong folio, later cloth; 11 mezzotints with etching, printed in bistre, various sizes. Each plate c. 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). First plate with surface soiling, wear to edges.
Ten landscapes after Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorraine, five from the collection of Earl Spencer and five from Charles Lambert's. They were issued as part of the Subscription Edition of the third volume of John Boydell's highly successful 'Liber Veritatis'. The first two volumes were published in 1774 and 1777, and contained mezzotint copies by Richard Earlom of Claude Lorrain's 'Book of Truth', owned by the Duke of Devonshire, which contained Claude's sketches of his works for authentication purposes. This third volume, also by Earlom, contained 100 plates of paintings in other collections. Engraving the plates of this additional volume began in January 1802 and the completed book was published 1819. The plates are numbers 140, 128, 109, 110, 99, 91, 87, 42, 3 & 16, evidence of removal of plates.
Abbey: Life 200. See Ref: 60829.
[Ref: 60828] £480.00 view all images for this item
Claude le Lorraine delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Jan: 1.st 1774 [to Jan.y 1.st 1776] by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Oblong folio, later cloth; 11 mezzotints with etching, printed in bistre, various sizes. Each plate c. 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). First plate with surface soiling, wear to edges.
Ten landscapes after Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorraine, five from the collection of Earl Spencer and five from Charles Lambert's. They were issued as part of the Subscription Edition of the third volume of John Boydell's highly successful 'Liber Veritatis'. The first two volumes were published in 1774 and 1777, and contained mezzotint copies by Richard Earlom of Claude Lorrain's 'Book of Truth', owned by the Duke of Devonshire, which contained Claude's sketches of his works for authentication purposes. This third volume, also by Earlom, contained 100 plates of paintings in other collections. Engraving the plates of this additional volume began in January 1802 and the completed book was published 1819. The plates are numbers 140, 128, 109, 110, 99, 91, 87, 42, 3 & 16, evidence of removal of plates.
Abbey: Life 200. See Ref: 60829.
[Ref: 60828] £480.00 view all images for this item
![[Subscription issue of plates 51-60 of Volume III of Claude Lorraine's 'Liber Veritatis'.]](jpegs/60827.jpg)
[Subscription issue of plates 51-60 of Volume III of Claude Lorraine's 'Liber Veritatis'.]
Claude Lorraine del.t. Rich.d Earlom, sculp.t.
Pub. June 1, 1807, by Boydell & C.o 90 Cheapside London.
10 mezzotints with etching, printed in bistre, various sizes, with large margins. Sheets 295 x 460mm (11½ x 18"), original stitching on top edge. Two plates watermarked 'J Whatman 1808', six '1809', two not marked. Plates spotted
Ten landscapes after Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorraine, copied in mezzotint by Richard Earlom from the Duke of Devonshire's copy of Claude Lorrain's 'Book of Truth', which contained Claude's sketches of his works for authentication purposes.
Abbey: Life 200. See Ref: 60828
[Ref: 60827] £450.00 view all images for this item
Claude Lorraine del.t. Rich.d Earlom, sculp.t.
Pub. June 1, 1807, by Boydell & C.o 90 Cheapside London.
10 mezzotints with etching, printed in bistre, various sizes, with large margins. Sheets 295 x 460mm (11½ x 18"), original stitching on top edge. Two plates watermarked 'J Whatman 1808', six '1809', two not marked. Plates spotted
Ten landscapes after Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorraine, copied in mezzotint by Richard Earlom from the Duke of Devonshire's copy of Claude Lorrain's 'Book of Truth', which contained Claude's sketches of his works for authentication purposes.
Abbey: Life 200. See Ref: 60828
[Ref: 60827] £450.00 view all images for this item
Londons Armory Accuratly delineated in a Graphical display of all the Arms, Crests, Supporters, Mantles and Motto’s of every distinct Company and Corporate Societie in the Honourable City of London....[etc.]
London, Printed for the Author Rich Wallis Citizen & Arms painter of London & are to be sold by him at his Shop against ye Royall Exchange 1677.
Book, folio (458 x 350mm). Engraved titlepage, 27 engraved plates, and original ink and wash sketch of an elaborate empty shield cartouche; broken fine contemporary red calf City of London binding, tooled in gilt. Lacking four preliminary pages. Binding re-cornered, generally scuffed and rubbed, spine worn and partially missing at top, front cover detached. The plates slightly soiled and browned, with waterstains to margins. The titlepage and first two plates with extensive marginal repairs.
A magnificent collection of skillfully rendered crests of the various livery companies of the City of London. Includes East and West India companies, and the Bermudas Company and Merchants of Virginia. Three engravings are full size plates, one with empty shield cartouche at centre. The remainder are arranged as four armorials per plate, separated by contemporary red ruling. Some are annotated in ink by a contemporary hand. Volume also contains Preface and dedication to the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Davies. With Worthing Public Library and Phillip Shirley ex-libris bookplates inside front cover, and Worthing ink stamps to upper right of each sheet.
See British Library: 138.i.1.
[Ref: 7831] £4,000.00 view all images for this item
London, Printed for the Author Rich Wallis Citizen & Arms painter of London & are to be sold by him at his Shop against ye Royall Exchange 1677.
Book, folio (458 x 350mm). Engraved titlepage, 27 engraved plates, and original ink and wash sketch of an elaborate empty shield cartouche; broken fine contemporary red calf City of London binding, tooled in gilt. Lacking four preliminary pages. Binding re-cornered, generally scuffed and rubbed, spine worn and partially missing at top, front cover detached. The plates slightly soiled and browned, with waterstains to margins. The titlepage and first two plates with extensive marginal repairs.
A magnificent collection of skillfully rendered crests of the various livery companies of the City of London. Includes East and West India companies, and the Bermudas Company and Merchants of Virginia. Three engravings are full size plates, one with empty shield cartouche at centre. The remainder are arranged as four armorials per plate, separated by contemporary red ruling. Some are annotated in ink by a contemporary hand. Volume also contains Preface and dedication to the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Davies. With Worthing Public Library and Phillip Shirley ex-libris bookplates inside front cover, and Worthing ink stamps to upper right of each sheet.
See British Library: 138.i.1.
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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, lime-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 of the Royal Palace and Arsenal in Berlin, both badly damaged during the Second World War.
Vicaire V: 481. Gumuchian: 3918 & 3919.
[Ref: 17658] £260.00 view all images for this item
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, lime-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 of the Royal Palace and Arsenal in Berlin, both badly damaged during the Second World War.
Vicaire V: 481. Gumuchian: 3918 & 3919.
[Ref: 17658] £260.00 view all images for this item
![[Grotesque Masks] Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.](jpegs/59203.jpg)
[Grotesque Masks] Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.
[by Aloisio Giovannoli.]
In Roma MDCCLXXXI [1781] Presso Venanzio Monaldini al Corso.
Folio, rebound in half treed calf with marbled boards, morocco title label, marbled endpapers; 33 of 38 etched plates. Scarce, but incomplete.
A fine collection of etchings of classical Roman theatrical masks etched by Aloisio Giovannoli (ca.1550–1618), and originally published c.1600 with book and plate numbers under the image, here cut from the plate. Giovannoli has copied prints designed by Cornelis Floris, engraved by Frans Huys and published by Hans Liefrinck I between 1539-1560.
See BM 1932,0217.37 for the original issue and description.
[Ref: 59203] £4,000.00 view all images for this item
[by Aloisio Giovannoli.]
In Roma MDCCLXXXI [1781] Presso Venanzio Monaldini al Corso.
Folio, rebound in half treed calf with marbled boards, morocco title label, marbled endpapers; 33 of 38 etched plates. Scarce, but incomplete.
A fine collection of etchings of classical Roman theatrical masks etched by Aloisio Giovannoli (ca.1550–1618), and originally published c.1600 with book and plate numbers under the image, here cut from the plate. Giovannoli has copied prints designed by Cornelis Floris, engraved by Frans Huys and published by Hans Liefrinck I between 1539-1560.
See BM 1932,0217.37 for the original issue and description.
[Ref: 59203] £4,000.00 view all images for this item
Souvenir of a Journey from Glasgow to Barrow-In-Furness, September 13th, 1920.
[by William John Patton McDowell.]
[c.1921.]
Album, oblong folio, full green morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; 13 watercolours on paper, mounted on card leaves, 12 with titles with a decorative pen and ink vignette on previous leaf. Some spotting to map and margins of a few sheets, last two watercolours loose.
A fine album of watercolours recording a journey from one shipbuilding centre to another, mostly of the Lake District. The volume depicts the journey of a Donaldson family member to the launch of their new ship. The last two watercolours show the launch of S.S. Cortona in 1921. Built for the Donaldson line as a cargo ship, she was sunk by U-201 with the loss of thirty of her crew in 1942. William John Patton McDowell (1888-1950), a naval architect for Vickers before a successful career as a marine artist. He painted ship portraits for advertising posters and painted murals in the interiors of liners; during World War II he was a war illustrator for the 'Sphere' and broadcast on marine matters for the BBC.
[Ref: 58604] £980.00 view all images for this item
[by William John Patton McDowell.]
[c.1921.]
Album, oblong folio, full green morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; 13 watercolours on paper, mounted on card leaves, 12 with titles with a decorative pen and ink vignette on previous leaf. Some spotting to map and margins of a few sheets, last two watercolours loose.
A fine album of watercolours recording a journey from one shipbuilding centre to another, mostly of the Lake District. The volume depicts the journey of a Donaldson family member to the launch of their new ship. The last two watercolours show the launch of S.S. Cortona in 1921. Built for the Donaldson line as a cargo ship, she was sunk by U-201 with the loss of thirty of her crew in 1942. William John Patton McDowell (1888-1950), a naval architect for Vickers before a successful career as a marine artist. He painted ship portraits for advertising posters and painted murals in the interiors of liners; during World War II he was a war illustrator for the 'Sphere' and broadcast on marine matters for the BBC.
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Miseries of Human Life: Designed and Etched by T. Rowlandson and Published December 1 1808 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London.
[n.d., 1808, First Edition, early issue.]
4to, original half morocco, with printed paper title label on front board; 50 etchings, as called for, with wonderfully fresh colour and large margins; plates watermarked 'J Whatman 1804' (1), 'J Whatman 1805 (3, including 'Pall Mall'); 'J Whatman 1806' (3), and 'John Hall 1805' (11). Hinges cracked, front board nearly detached. 'Miseries of Human Life Introductory Dialogue' with stain; 'Miseries of Social Life Dialogue 7' with repaired tear.
An extremely rare early example of the complete series by Thomas Rowlandson, inspired by 'The Miseries of Human Life' by James Beresford (1764-1840), published in 1806. Rowlandson began drawing scenes as soon as the book was published and, after two years, fifty were selected by Ackermann to be published in a new edition. Contents of the book vary widely, with some plates replaced. The iconic scenes and characters from this series, some of which were Rowlandson's own invention while others closely mirror Beresford's text, reappeared frequently under variations of the 'Miseries' title, right up until the artist's death.
Abbey Life 317; ''Plate 40 'Pall Mall' [last plate in this example] is rare, most copies replacing this with 'The Chiropodist''. Grego Vol II, pp. 119-124.
[Ref: 54618] £4,500.00 view all images for this item
[n.d., 1808, First Edition, early issue.]
4to, original half morocco, with printed paper title label on front board; 50 etchings, as called for, with wonderfully fresh colour and large margins; plates watermarked 'J Whatman 1804' (1), 'J Whatman 1805 (3, including 'Pall Mall'); 'J Whatman 1806' (3), and 'John Hall 1805' (11). Hinges cracked, front board nearly detached. 'Miseries of Human Life Introductory Dialogue' with stain; 'Miseries of Social Life Dialogue 7' with repaired tear.
An extremely rare early example of the complete series by Thomas Rowlandson, inspired by 'The Miseries of Human Life' by James Beresford (1764-1840), published in 1806. Rowlandson began drawing scenes as soon as the book was published and, after two years, fifty were selected by Ackermann to be published in a new edition. Contents of the book vary widely, with some plates replaced. The iconic scenes and characters from this series, some of which were Rowlandson's own invention while others closely mirror Beresford's text, reappeared frequently under variations of the 'Miseries' title, right up until the artist's death.
Abbey Life 317; ''Plate 40 'Pall Mall' [last plate in this example] is rare, most copies replacing this with 'The Chiropodist''. Grego Vol II, pp. 119-124.
[Ref: 54618] £4,500.00 view all images for this item
![[Album of proof wood-engravings for Felix Summerly’s ‘Hand-Book for the National Gallery’]](jpegs/49537.jpg)
[Album of proof wood-engravings for Felix Summerly’s ‘Hand-Book for the National Gallery’]
[Engraved by John jr., James and William Linnell.]
[n.d., c.1843.]
Card wrappers titled in pencil, blindstamp on prelim., explanation in pencil signed 'J. Linnell jun.r'; 49 wood engravings (three loose) mounted on 18 leaves, most annotated in pencil. Evidence of one missing plate.
The preparatory illustrations for a guide to the National Gallery, with wood-engraved copies of paintings including Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne' and Jan van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait'. Most have pencilled comments on the readiness of the blocks. Unique album by the Linnell family. The name, 'Felix Summerly', is a pseudonym of Sir Henry Cole (1808-82), a British civil servant and inventor credited with the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas.
Tate Gallery: A00752. Provenance: Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 49537] £2,000.00 view all images for this item
[Engraved by John jr., James and William Linnell.]
[n.d., c.1843.]
Card wrappers titled in pencil, blindstamp on prelim., explanation in pencil signed 'J. Linnell jun.r'; 49 wood engravings (three loose) mounted on 18 leaves, most annotated in pencil. Evidence of one missing plate.
The preparatory illustrations for a guide to the National Gallery, with wood-engraved copies of paintings including Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne' and Jan van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait'. Most have pencilled comments on the readiness of the blocks. Unique album by the Linnell family. The name, 'Felix Summerly', is a pseudonym of Sir Henry Cole (1808-82), a British civil servant and inventor credited with the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas.
Tate Gallery: A00752. Provenance: Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 49537] £2,000.00 view all images for this item
![The Wonderful Magazine. 35. [Vol III]](jpegs/54689.jpg)
The Wonderful Magazine. 35. [Vol III]
London: Printed for the Proprietors. Sold by C. Johnson, No 14. Hogg, Symonds, Parsons, Walker, and the Other Booksellers in Paternoster-Row, and may be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland [n.d., c.1795.]
8vo, original printed wrappers with woodcut illustration and publisher's adverts; engraved frontis. portrait, pp. 401-440, edges uncut. With 4pp. from next issue, loose. Edges worn, covers stained.
A very rare surviving single issue of one of the earliest magazines to focus on tales of the unusual, with a mixture of fact and fiction. The cover illustrates a Beefeater turned town crier with an extensive letterpress text. The frontispiece is a portrait of Thayendanegea (or Joseph Brant) after William Armstrong, painted when the Mohawk chief visited London in 1775 (where he was interviewed by James Boswell, who owned Armstrong's painting). Also included is an extract of 'Gulliver's Travels'. The portrait appears to be a teaser to encourage purchase of the next issue, in which the text describing Thayendanegea's visit appears (this is the extra text included here).
[Ref: 54689] £820.00 view all images for this item
London: Printed for the Proprietors. Sold by C. Johnson, No 14. Hogg, Symonds, Parsons, Walker, and the Other Booksellers in Paternoster-Row, and may be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland [n.d., c.1795.]
8vo, original printed wrappers with woodcut illustration and publisher's adverts; engraved frontis. portrait, pp. 401-440, edges uncut. With 4pp. from next issue, loose. Edges worn, covers stained.
A very rare surviving single issue of one of the earliest magazines to focus on tales of the unusual, with a mixture of fact and fiction. The cover illustrates a Beefeater turned town crier with an extensive letterpress text. The frontispiece is a portrait of Thayendanegea (or Joseph Brant) after William Armstrong, painted when the Mohawk chief visited London in 1775 (where he was interviewed by James Boswell, who owned Armstrong's painting). Also included is an extract of 'Gulliver's Travels'. The portrait appears to be a teaser to encourage purchase of the next issue, in which the text describing Thayendanegea's visit appears (this is the extra text included here).
[Ref: 54689] £820.00 view all images for this item
The Young Painter's Maulstick; being a Practical Treatise on Perspective... Containing Rules And Principles For Delineation On Planes, Treated so as to render the Art of Drawing correctly, easy of Attainment even to common Capacities; and entertaining at the same Time, from its Truth and Facility. Founded on the clear mechanical Process of Vignola And Sirigatti; United With The Theoretical Principles Of The Celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor. Addressed To Students In Drawing. By James Malton, Architect and Draughtsman.
Printed by V. Griffthsm No 1. Paternoster Row; and published for the Author, by Carpenter and Co. Old Bond Street.
Quarto, modern cloth; letterpress title & dedication, pp. (ii)+xiv+71; 23 numbered plates, as called for, mostly aquatint, plate 6 & 14 with flaps. Ownership inscription on title, some damp staining, tear in margin of p.3.
A guide to the use of perspective in painting by James Malton (1761-1803), an artist best known for his 'Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin', 1792-9.
Abbey Life 152; Prideaux, 'Aquatint Engraving', ''Probably the earliest text-book of instruction to which the new process was applied''.
[Ref: 53845] £290.00 view all images for this item
Printed by V. Griffthsm No 1. Paternoster Row; and published for the Author, by Carpenter and Co. Old Bond Street.
Quarto, modern cloth; letterpress title & dedication, pp. (ii)+xiv+71; 23 numbered plates, as called for, mostly aquatint, plate 6 & 14 with flaps. Ownership inscription on title, some damp staining, tear in margin of p.3.
A guide to the use of perspective in painting by James Malton (1761-1803), an artist best known for his 'Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin', 1792-9.
Abbey Life 152; Prideaux, 'Aquatint Engraving', ''Probably the earliest text-book of instruction to which the new process was applied''.
[Ref: 53845] £290.00 view all images for this item
![[Satire of the Oxford Movement] The Protestant House That Jack Built.](jpegs/61354.jpg)
[Satire of the Oxford Movement] The Protestant House That Jack Built.
[Illustrated by George Cruikshank.]
Clayton and Son, 265, Strand [n.d., c.1845]. Prince Two-Pence.
Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 8, with nine wood-engravings. Glue stains on front page, old patch on back page, nicks to edges.
An anti-Catholic satire, with particular reference to Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-82) and the Oxford Movement. Led by High Church figures Pusey and John Henry Newman, the movement argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy. After Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845, members of the Oxford Movement became known as Puseyites (here caricatured as 'these stupid and blind Pusey-Cats').
[Ref: 61354] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
[Illustrated by George Cruikshank.]
Clayton and Son, 265, Strand [n.d., c.1845]. Prince Two-Pence.
Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 8, with nine wood-engravings. Glue stains on front page, old patch on back page, nicks to edges.
An anti-Catholic satire, with particular reference to Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-82) and the Oxford Movement. Led by High Church figures Pusey and John Henry Newman, the movement argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy. After Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845, members of the Oxford Movement became known as Puseyites (here caricatured as 'these stupid and blind Pusey-Cats').
[Ref: 61354] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
An Epitome, Historical and Statistical, Descriptive of the Royal Naval Service of England. By E. Miles, with the Assistance of Lieutenant Lawford Miles, R.N. Embellished with Eight Highly-Finished, Coloured, Engraved Views of Shipping, by W. Knell Besides Fourteeen Coloured Illustrations of The Flags, Pendants, and Ensigns, as worn by Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels in Commission.
London: Ackermann & Company, 96, Strand. 1841.
8vo, original half morocco, gilt-illustrated front board; pp. pp. xiv (incl. half-title, title and dedication) + 184 + (ii) (pricelist of Ackermann's Important Marine Prints) + 14 ('List of the most essential Requisites for Artists and Amateurs'); 8 coloured aquatint plates, each with a sheet with a quadrain, and 14 coloured wood-engraved text illustrations. Spine worn and split, inner hinges strained.
A history and description of the Royal Navy, dedicated to Queen Victoria. It lists the types of warships and how they are equipped and crewed, and describes the various duties of each rank.
[Ref: 22509] £750.00 view all images for this item
London: Ackermann & Company, 96, Strand. 1841.
8vo, original half morocco, gilt-illustrated front board; pp. pp. xiv (incl. half-title, title and dedication) + 184 + (ii) (pricelist of Ackermann's Important Marine Prints) + 14 ('List of the most essential Requisites for Artists and Amateurs'); 8 coloured aquatint plates, each with a sheet with a quadrain, and 14 coloured wood-engraved text illustrations. Spine worn and split, inner hinges strained.
A history and description of the Royal Navy, dedicated to Queen Victoria. It lists the types of warships and how they are equipped and crewed, and describes the various duties of each rank.
[Ref: 22509] £750.00 view all images for this item
Of Man: Six Monograms by David Scott S.A. The speech of these things trembleth and is moved / Esdras
Edinburgh, Henry Constable: / London, Moon, Boys & Graves: Hamburga, Peithis & Besser: / Leipzig, Ernst Fleisher: 1831.
Set of six interleaved etchings with original wrapper (front only), with large margins, very rare; sheets approx 505 x 425mm (19¾ x 16¾")
Complete set of David Scott's 'Monograms of Man', a series of allegorical scenes with Biblical quotations tracing the life of man, influenced by the etching style of Blake and Flaxman. The six plates (Of Death; Of Life; Of Power; Of Intellect; Of Knowledge; Of Relation) were well-received but a commercial failure when published in 1831. Scott (1806-49) was an Edinburgh-born painter and poet whose work frequently tackled themes of death, terror and the supernatural. His works were frequently met with incomprehension but he did little to make his work accessible. He has subsequently been placed firmly within the tradition of British Romantic painting, with admirers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who described him as 'the painter most nearly fulfilling the highest requirement for historic art, both as a thinker and a colourist who has appeared among us from the time of Hogarth to his own'.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35476] £850.00 view all images for this item
Edinburgh, Henry Constable: / London, Moon, Boys & Graves: Hamburga, Peithis & Besser: / Leipzig, Ernst Fleisher: 1831.
Set of six interleaved etchings with original wrapper (front only), with large margins, very rare; sheets approx 505 x 425mm (19¾ x 16¾")
Complete set of David Scott's 'Monograms of Man', a series of allegorical scenes with Biblical quotations tracing the life of man, influenced by the etching style of Blake and Flaxman. The six plates (Of Death; Of Life; Of Power; Of Intellect; Of Knowledge; Of Relation) were well-received but a commercial failure when published in 1831. Scott (1806-49) was an Edinburgh-born painter and poet whose work frequently tackled themes of death, terror and the supernatural. His works were frequently met with incomprehension but he did little to make his work accessible. He has subsequently been placed firmly within the tradition of British Romantic painting, with admirers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who described him as 'the painter most nearly fulfilling the highest requirement for historic art, both as a thinker and a colourist who has appeared among us from the time of Hogarth to his own'.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35476] £850.00 view all images for this item
Scripture Prints, Edited by James R. Hope, D.C.L., Scholar of Merton. Old Testament Series from the Frescoes of Raphael, in the Vatican. Part III... the Prints have been prepared under the superintendence of Mr Lewis Gruner, from Drawings made from the original Frescos, by M.N. Consoni, one of the most distinguished Draughtsmen in Rome.
Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row; and W. [***] 183 Regent Street, London: and J. Parker, Oxford.
Rare Oblong folio, printed wrappers. 6 tinted lithographs, each c.470 x 600mm (18½ x 23½" Wrappers worn, printseller's label stuck over publisher's inscription; plates with blindstamp.
The plates are: Adam & Eve; The Building of the Ark; The Sacrifice of Noah; Melchizedek and Abraham; Moses Smiting the Rock; The Triumph of David. James Robert Hope (1812-1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian (being a friend of John Henry Newman). In 1853, when his wife, a grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, inherited Abbotsford, he changed his surname to Hope-Scott.
[Ref: 53102] £180.00 view all images for this item
Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row; and W. [***] 183 Regent Street, London: and J. Parker, Oxford.
Rare Oblong folio, printed wrappers. 6 tinted lithographs, each c.470 x 600mm (18½ x 23½" Wrappers worn, printseller's label stuck over publisher's inscription; plates with blindstamp.
The plates are: Adam & Eve; The Building of the Ark; The Sacrifice of Noah; Melchizedek and Abraham; Moses Smiting the Rock; The Triumph of David. James Robert Hope (1812-1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian (being a friend of John Henry Newman). In 1853, when his wife, a grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, inherited Abbotsford, he changed his surname to Hope-Scott.
[Ref: 53102] £180.00 view all images for this item
A Short History of Birds and Beasts, for the Amusement and Instruction of Children. Adorned with Cuts.
London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row; and at Wellington, Salop. Price One Penny. [n.d. c.1820.]
Wood engraving; scarce, 24 page chapbook including the cover with 15 wood-cut illustrations. 104 x 65mm (4 x 2½").
A book of birds and beasts, including the cock, cow, lion, whale, butterfly, crocodile and ant; and one page each given to the parrot, cuckoo, nightingale, lamb and ass.
[Ref: 30337] £260.00
London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row; and at Wellington, Salop. Price One Penny. [n.d. c.1820.]
Wood engraving; scarce, 24 page chapbook including the cover with 15 wood-cut illustrations. 104 x 65mm (4 x 2½").
A book of birds and beasts, including the cock, cow, lion, whale, butterfly, crocodile and ant; and one page each given to the parrot, cuckoo, nightingale, lamb and ass.
[Ref: 30337] £260.00
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. With extra plate loosely inserted. Some spotting.
A collection of views drawn at Ramsgate, Ireland, Wales, Italy and Belgium. The extra plate is Stretton's 'A View of the Chateau of Weldene, at Seeverghem near Ghent as it was in the year 1300'. One of only 180 subscribers' copies of the book.
[Ref: 60832] £490.00 view all images for this item
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. With extra plate loosely inserted. Some spotting.
A collection of views drawn at Ramsgate, Ireland, Wales, Italy and Belgium. The extra plate is Stretton's 'A View of the Chateau of Weldene, at Seeverghem near Ghent as it was in the year 1300'. One of only 180 subscribers' copies of the book.
[Ref: 60832] £490.00 view all images for this item
![[Album of set designs after important Italian theatre designers connected with La Scala, Milan.]](jpegs/59407.jpg)
[Album of set designs after important Italian theatre designers connected with La Scala, Milan.]
[Milan, c.1800-1820.]
Large folio (585 x 445mm, 21¾ x 17½"), 19th century quarter morocco, gilt lettered "Invenzioni teatrali" on spine; 38 full-page plates (a hand-coloured etching, a hand-coloured aquatint, 29 sepia aquatints, a black aquatint and 5 etchings), 25 half-page plates (4 sepia aquatints, 4 aquatints printed in colours, 1 black aquatint, 16 etchings, proofs?, one printed in red with pencil additions), plus 4 half-page etched topographical views, total 67 plates. Losses to head and foot of spine, boards scuffed, some of the half-page plates trimmed and joined to match book size.
The larger plates include: the hand-coloured title and 10 sepia aquatint plates (of 24) of Gaspare Gallieri's ''Numero XXIV invenzioni teatrali'', c.1801, with an uncaptioned hand-coloured aquatint after Galliari; 17 sepia aquatints by Francesco Fontanesi & Ludovico Pozzetti (numbered 1-18, lacking no. 6); an aquatint and six proof etchings before aquatint by Luigi Rados after Pietro Gonzaga; and two sepia aquatints (''Carcere'' and ''Ampia Volta'') by Carolo Zucchi after Frencesco Fontanesi. The 29 smaller prints include four colour-printed aquatints by Zucchi after Galliari (numbered 1-4), and a number of scenes (one of a courtyard, printed in red with pencil additions) after Sanquirico. The final four etchings have no theatrical connection.
[Ref: 59407] £7,200.00 view all images for this item
[Milan, c.1800-1820.]
Large folio (585 x 445mm, 21¾ x 17½"), 19th century quarter morocco, gilt lettered "Invenzioni teatrali" on spine; 38 full-page plates (a hand-coloured etching, a hand-coloured aquatint, 29 sepia aquatints, a black aquatint and 5 etchings), 25 half-page plates (4 sepia aquatints, 4 aquatints printed in colours, 1 black aquatint, 16 etchings, proofs?, one printed in red with pencil additions), plus 4 half-page etched topographical views, total 67 plates. Losses to head and foot of spine, boards scuffed, some of the half-page plates trimmed and joined to match book size.
The larger plates include: the hand-coloured title and 10 sepia aquatint plates (of 24) of Gaspare Gallieri's ''Numero XXIV invenzioni teatrali'', c.1801, with an uncaptioned hand-coloured aquatint after Galliari; 17 sepia aquatints by Francesco Fontanesi & Ludovico Pozzetti (numbered 1-18, lacking no. 6); an aquatint and six proof etchings before aquatint by Luigi Rados after Pietro Gonzaga; and two sepia aquatints (''Carcere'' and ''Ampia Volta'') by Carolo Zucchi after Frencesco Fontanesi. The 29 smaller prints include four colour-printed aquatints by Zucchi after Galliari (numbered 1-4), and a number of scenes (one of a courtyard, printed in red with pencil additions) after Sanquirico. The final four etchings have no theatrical connection.
[Ref: 59407] £7,200.00 view all images for this item
A Literary & Pictorial Record of the Great Tichborne Case: containing A Complete History of this cause célèbre, With numerous Engravings from Sketches and Photographs, Reprinted from the Graphic and Facsimile Autographs Of Letters, now published for the first time. Prince Sixpence.
[Illustrated Newspapers Ltd] 190, Strand. W.C. [1874].
Newspaper supplement, bound in 20th century cloth. 420 x 310mm; pp. 28 (inc. 6pp. ads), numerous wood-engravings, two double-page, seven full page. A little foxing at edges.
A collection of images from The Graphic's coverage of a series of court cases in which a claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy first attempted to prove he was Roger Tichborne, the heir lost at sea in 1854. He had travelled to London from Australia in 1867, started legal proceedings with 'Tichborne v. Lushington' (1871-2), which he lost because he did not have the tattoos the younger Roger had had, then faced pergury charges in 'Regina v. Castro' (1873-4), and was sentenced to two consecutive terms of seven years' imprisonment. Published as a supplement to the paper in 1874.
[Ref: 58218] £130.00 view all images for this item
[Illustrated Newspapers Ltd] 190, Strand. W.C. [1874].
Newspaper supplement, bound in 20th century cloth. 420 x 310mm; pp. 28 (inc. 6pp. ads), numerous wood-engravings, two double-page, seven full page. A little foxing at edges.
A collection of images from The Graphic's coverage of a series of court cases in which a claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy first attempted to prove he was Roger Tichborne, the heir lost at sea in 1854. He had travelled to London from Australia in 1867, started legal proceedings with 'Tichborne v. Lushington' (1871-2), which he lost because he did not have the tattoos the younger Roger had had, then faced pergury charges in 'Regina v. Castro' (1873-4), and was sentenced to two consecutive terms of seven years' imprisonment. Published as a supplement to the paper in 1874.
[Ref: 58218] £130.00 view all images for this item
![[Title on front board] Illustrated Regulations. Standard Uniforms and Patterns of the Army, Navy, Militia Volunteers, Civil Servic, Court Dress, &c.](jpegs/60720.jpg)
[Title on front board] Illustrated Regulations. Standard Uniforms and Patterns of the Army, Navy, Militia Volunteers, Civil Servic, Court Dress, &c.
Published by William Jones & Comp.y 236, Regent S.t London [n.d., c.1886.]
Scarce folio, blue buckram gilt; chromolithographic frontispiece and 74 numbered sheets including 29 full-page plates. Some spotting throughout, frontispiece with repaired tears.
A military tailor's pattern book with fine colour plates.
[Ref: 60720] £1,250.00 view all images for this item
Published by William Jones & Comp.y 236, Regent S.t London [n.d., c.1886.]
Scarce folio, blue buckram gilt; chromolithographic frontispiece and 74 numbered sheets including 29 full-page plates. Some spotting throughout, frontispiece with repaired tears.
A military tailor's pattern book with fine colour plates.
[Ref: 60720] £1,250.00 view all images for this item
Vicissitudes of An Indiaman.
Painted by J.F. Ellis. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[R. Ackermann. c.1835.]
Very scarce, 33 plates (?of more), including 2 duplicates, inside a green leather and card volume, 4to. Colour-printed mezzotints c.135 x 180mm, 5¼ x 7"., trimmed within the platemark but outside image and title, most with loss of caption above, mounted on card, within buckram folder, hinges split. Broken covers.
Plates depicting the launch in India, faring under various climatic and other conditions, to being broken up on the Thames. An East Indiaman, which was a ship operating under charter or license to any of the any of the East India Companies, and usually ran between England, the Cape of Good Hope and India, with main ports in Bombay, Madras an Calcutta.
Ex the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 23953] £1,200.00 view all images for this item
Painted by J.F. Ellis. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[R. Ackermann. c.1835.]
Very scarce, 33 plates (?of more), including 2 duplicates, inside a green leather and card volume, 4to. Colour-printed mezzotints c.135 x 180mm, 5¼ x 7"., trimmed within the platemark but outside image and title, most with loss of caption above, mounted on card, within buckram folder, hinges split. Broken covers.
Plates depicting the launch in India, faring under various climatic and other conditions, to being broken up on the Thames. An East Indiaman, which was a ship operating under charter or license to any of the any of the East India Companies, and usually ran between England, the Cape of Good Hope and India, with main ports in Bombay, Madras an Calcutta.
Ex the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 23953] £1,200.00 view all images for this item
Loyal Volunteers Of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, In 87 Plates.
Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. and Dedicated by Permission to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
[London: Rudolph Ackermann, n.d., plates dated 1798 - 1799.]
Subscriber's copy, with large 4to, original marbled boards, rebacked, uncut; pp. viii incl. dedication, plus list of subscribers & foreign subscribers, and contents; hand-coloured etched titlepage & 86 hand-coloured aquatint plates, many heightened with gold or silver, total 87 as called for. Binding worn, plates generally good with well-preserved vivid colour, occasionally stained. Some offsetting of image to facing text.
The volunteer corps were established as a direct response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by Napoleon's forces. A volunteer from each London regiment is placed by Rowlandson in a particular drill position, with an etched description below. The corresponding adjacent text sheet gives a brief history and description of the composition of the corps, and lists the commanding officers. Arguably the greatest of all military costume books, no mere record of uniforms but an important social document in its own right that should be viewed in the context it was published - a time of great national peril with Britain under threat of invasion from France.
Abbey Life In England: 379, "Later impressions can be recognised by not being heightened with gold".
[Ref: 7433] £4,900.00 view all images for this item
Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. and Dedicated by Permission to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
[London: Rudolph Ackermann, n.d., plates dated 1798 - 1799.]
Subscriber's copy, with large 4to, original marbled boards, rebacked, uncut; pp. viii incl. dedication, plus list of subscribers & foreign subscribers, and contents; hand-coloured etched titlepage & 86 hand-coloured aquatint plates, many heightened with gold or silver, total 87 as called for. Binding worn, plates generally good with well-preserved vivid colour, occasionally stained. Some offsetting of image to facing text.
The volunteer corps were established as a direct response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by Napoleon's forces. A volunteer from each London regiment is placed by Rowlandson in a particular drill position, with an etched description below. The corresponding adjacent text sheet gives a brief history and description of the composition of the corps, and lists the commanding officers. Arguably the greatest of all military costume books, no mere record of uniforms but an important social document in its own right that should be viewed in the context it was published - a time of great national peril with Britain under threat of invasion from France.
Abbey Life In England: 379, "Later impressions can be recognised by not being heightened with gold".
[Ref: 7433] £4,900.00 view all images for this item
The Select Works of Tho.s Worlidge, containing Fifty Etchings of Portraits, Fancy Heads, and Miscellaneous Subjects.
London: Published by C.G. Dyer, 55, Old Compton Street, Soho. Printed by Gold and Swalton, 24, Wardour Street. 1823.
Quarto, original card covers with label 'Fifty Select Etchings by Tho.s Worlidge', bound. Title page and fifty plates as called for (including portrait of Worlidge as frontispiece). Occasional offsetting and spotting. Includes an amateur watercolour portrait after Worlidge. Some sheets on watermarked 1823 Whatman paper.
A posthumous collection of prints by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), known as the 'English Rembrandt' for his etching technique and fondness for copying subjects by Rembrandt and his contemporaries. The subjects here include several Rembrandt copies and other Dutch genre scenes, along with religious subjects, portraits and oddities such as a camel, écorché figure, and portraits of 'Mahomet, a Turkish Merchant' and his companion 'Hamet'. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. His widow issued his plates in 1766 and 1767 after his death with the numbers in the corners, but very few impressions were issued and sold by Worlidge during his lifetime.
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London: Published by C.G. Dyer, 55, Old Compton Street, Soho. Printed by Gold and Swalton, 24, Wardour Street. 1823.
Quarto, original card covers with label 'Fifty Select Etchings by Tho.s Worlidge', bound. Title page and fifty plates as called for (including portrait of Worlidge as frontispiece). Occasional offsetting and spotting. Includes an amateur watercolour portrait after Worlidge. Some sheets on watermarked 1823 Whatman paper.
A posthumous collection of prints by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), known as the 'English Rembrandt' for his etching technique and fondness for copying subjects by Rembrandt and his contemporaries. The subjects here include several Rembrandt copies and other Dutch genre scenes, along with religious subjects, portraits and oddities such as a camel, écorché figure, and portraits of 'Mahomet, a Turkish Merchant' and his companion 'Hamet'. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. His widow issued his plates in 1766 and 1767 after his death with the numbers in the corners, but very few impressions were issued and sold by Worlidge during his lifetime.
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Les Étoiles du Chant. Gabrielle Krauss. Adelina Patti. Christina Nilson.
[n.d. c.1870.]
4to (286 x 209mm. 11¼ x 8¼".), blue nineteenth century demi-toilé covers with gilt names on front cover and title on spine with patterning; also two facsimile letters bound inside. 22 pp. 7 b/w illustrations. Some scuffing and wearing to the covers. Time stained.
Biographical notes in French on the following three singers. [Marie] Gabrielle Krauss (1842-1906), was an Austrian soprano. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Marchesi. She made her debut in Berlin (1859) as Mathilde in William Tell. Adelina Patti (1843-1919) was a Spanish 19th-century opera singer. The composer Verdi described her as being perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived and a 'stupendous artist'. Christina Nilsson (1843-1921) was a Swedish operatic soprano who was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti. She became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869. The first letter in French over eleven lines, dated 'Paris, 1er Mai 1869' and signed 'Gabrielle Krauss', with her giving permission and recognition of the author's 'Étoiles du Chant'. Second letter in French over sixteen lines, dated 'Paris, 1er Mai 1868', and signed 'Adelina Patti', with her giving the author recognition, praise and permission to include her in hits 'Étoiles du Chant'. The author was Guy de Charnace (1825-1909), and he was a French writer, journalist, agronomist and musicologist.
[Ref: 22180] £280.00
[n.d. c.1870.]
4to (286 x 209mm. 11¼ x 8¼".), blue nineteenth century demi-toilé covers with gilt names on front cover and title on spine with patterning; also two facsimile letters bound inside. 22 pp. 7 b/w illustrations. Some scuffing and wearing to the covers. Time stained.
Biographical notes in French on the following three singers. [Marie] Gabrielle Krauss (1842-1906), was an Austrian soprano. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Marchesi. She made her debut in Berlin (1859) as Mathilde in William Tell. Adelina Patti (1843-1919) was a Spanish 19th-century opera singer. The composer Verdi described her as being perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived and a 'stupendous artist'. Christina Nilsson (1843-1921) was a Swedish operatic soprano who was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti. She became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869. The first letter in French over eleven lines, dated 'Paris, 1er Mai 1869' and signed 'Gabrielle Krauss', with her giving permission and recognition of the author's 'Étoiles du Chant'. Second letter in French over sixteen lines, dated 'Paris, 1er Mai 1868', and signed 'Adelina Patti', with her giving the author recognition, praise and permission to include her in hits 'Étoiles du Chant'. The author was Guy de Charnace (1825-1909), and he was a French writer, journalist, agronomist and musicologist.
[Ref: 22180] £280.00