Grosvenor Prints

La Grande Chronique Ancienne Et Moderne, De Hollande, Zelande, Vvest-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques a la fin de l'An 1600.
Receuillee tant des histoires desdites Provinces, que de divers autres Auteurs, par Iean Francois Le Petit, Greffier de Bethune en Arthois. Christoffel von Sichem sculp.
Tome Premier. A Dordrecht. de l'Impression de Iacob Canin, pour l'Auteur. Avec privilege pour dix ans. [Dordrecht, 1601.]
Hand coloured engraved titlepage, sheet 290 x 190mm. 11½ x 7½". Trimmed to plate. Foxing, staining and creasing. Tatty extremities, with chips and small tears.
Decorative motifs include ships and trading merchants on a quayside; musical instruments; armour and weaponry, and books and scientific instruments. From Volume I of the first edition of the chronicle and genealogy of the counts of Holland and their families by the French historian and poet Jean François Le Petit (1546 - 1614 or 1615). The first volume is in its greater part, the translation of the "Divisie-Kroniek", works of the monk Cornelius Aurelius who about 1517 resided at the monastery of Lopsen close to Leiden (Netherlands).
[Ref: 13143] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece. This Emblematic Plate represents Hercules assisting Atla in supporting the Globe. Fame is resounding the New Discoveries of the late celebrated Circumnavigators & Travellers, while History tenders a Crown of Laurels to the publick Services of Capt.ns Cook, Phillips, Dixon, Portlek, Hunter, &c. whose Expeditions are pointed out by the appearance of Shipping in the Back Ground.
Published by Alex.r Hogg, May 1 1793.
Engraving. 230 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
Probably the frontis. to Hogg's 'A New Complete and Authentic System of Universal Geography'.
[Ref: 39937] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

To Thomas Brand Hollis Esq.r These Memoirs of his Friend Thomas Hollis Esq.r are Inscribed by the Compilers. MDCCLXXX.
J.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
Publish'd March 20th 1780.
Stipple and etching. 310 x 235mm (12¼ x 9¼"), with margins.
The dedication to the 'Memoirs of Thomas Hollis' by Francis Blackburne, featuring an female allegorical figure of Fame, with trumpet, shield and owl.
De Vesme 1736.
[Ref: 53330] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Front wrapper to F. Broughton and W.A. Delamotte, 'View of the Overland Journey to India'] Overland Journey. Twelve Views.
Drawn on Zinc by W.A. Delamotte. From the Original Sketches by F. Broughton H.E.I.C.S.
London. Published for the Proprietor by C. Chabot, Skinner Street [1847]
Lithograph, rare, printed area 250 x 315mm (9¾ x 12½").
Abbey comments that the series to which this print was the front wrapper was "Probably privately produced for distribution to Broughton's (and Delamotte's?) friends'.
See Abbey 522 (not numbered with plates but described separately); for another plate from the volume see ref. 30315.
[Ref: 43377] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece]
A. Kauffman del. Delatre sculp.
Published as the Act directs, 1 May 1780 by E.M. Diemar, Strand London.
Etching and engraving sheet 8½ x 6½" (215 x 165mm). Cut to the plate mark.
The print appears in 'The History and Amours of Rhodope', written and published by Diemar. Jupiter in the form of an eagle perches on his throne which is draped in cloth or perhaps his discarded clothes. Behind this a naked nymph dances among the clouds. In the background stands a pyramid. In the foreground a wreath frames the lower portion of the image.
[Ref: 54733] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontis] The Kit-Cat Club Done From the Original Paintings Of S.R Godfrey Kneller By M.r Faber 1735.
H. Gravelot inv. et delin. J. Faber Fecit 1735.
Sold by J Tonson in teh Strand. & J Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermarked paper; plate 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Very small margins. Tipped into album sheet at sides. Foxed.
Title within an oval shield, Minerva on left, Mars on right, Pegasus below, instruments of music, art bunches of grapes and a goblet on right, and sheaves of corn and a scythe on left.
[Ref: 61603] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Histoire d'Angleterre d'Ecosse et d'Irlande [in medallion at top]
A van d.r Werff pinx. Vermeulen Sculps.
a Rotterdam chez Reinier Leers [n.d., 1697-1713]
Etching, sheet 350 x 230mm (13¾ x 9"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet at corners; small tear on right.
Female personification of Britain seated under canopy on left, watching the Rape of Europa on the right. Frontispiece to Isaac de Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre' (1697-1713), designed by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722). Van der Werff was acclaimed as the most important Dutch Master during his lifetime, although his reputation declined from the late 18th century onwards.
[Ref: 34240] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to James Howell, 'Lexicon tetraglotton'] Associatio Linguarum. La Ligue des Langues
W Faithorne Fc. [c.1660]
Engraving, platemark 260 x 165mm (10¼ x 6½").
Frontispiece to a later edition of 'Lexicon tetraglotton' (first edition 1660) by James Howell (1594?-1666), a dictionary in four languages. The four women are emblematic of the English, French, Spanish and Italian languages. The publication of this work was supported by Bulstrode Whitelock (for whom see ref. 21594). Engraving by William Faithorne (c.1620-91), printmaker who was apprenticed to the printseller William Peake, with whom he served in the royalist army during the civil war. At the Restoration Faithorne was appointed engraver in copper to the king, doubtless as reward for his devotion to the Stuart cause. The finest native British engraver born before the eighteenth century, Faithorne was highly esteemed by Pepys (who recorded many visits to his shop) while enthusiasts such as Horace Walpole ensured his posthumous reputation, which led to fine proofs of his work fetching extraordinary prices in the late Georgian period.
Fagan p.86.
[Ref: 43674] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece to Henry Hare's translation of Giovanni Francesco Loredano's 'The Ascents of the Soul']
W. Faithorne Sculp.
[Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford for Robert Harford, London, 1681.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 270 x 160mm (10½ x 6¼"). Collector's stamp of Walter Francis Tiffin on reverse. Trimmed to the image.
A writer in pilgrim's habit, before a pyramidal monument on which is an image of Jacob's ladder with angels ascending and descending. In the background is a map-view of Venice and the city's crest. Giovanni Francesco Loredano (1607-61) was a Venetian writer and politician, a founder of the 'Accademia degli Incogniti' and member of the Council of Ten and the Minor Consiglio. Henry Hare (1636-1708) was the second Baron Coleraine; it is suggested that the writer is either him or his father Hugh (the first baron), who had actutally travelled to Venice. Walter Francis Tiffin was a miniature painter, who published (for private circulation), a 'Catalog of a collection of English Portraits in Mezzotint' in 1883.
Lugt: 1051
[Ref: 52535] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to book two of Lucretius' 'Of the nature of things' II]
Frans van Mieris inv. et delin. J. Wandelaar fecit.
[published Leiden by J. van der Aa, 1725.]
Engraving, 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Allegorical illustration to Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura', with stack of books by Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. Frans van Mieris designed six illustrations which were engraved by Wandelaar for the 1725 Leiden publication of the work. These were copied by Duflos for the 1754 French publication.
[Ref: 31385] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to book three of Lucretius' 'Of the nature of things' III]
Frans van Mieris inv. et delin. / J. Wandelaar fecit
[published Leiden by J. van der Aa, 1725]
Engraving, 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Allegorical illustration to Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura', with vanitas symbols and the three-headed hound cerberus alluding to the discussion of death in book three of the work. Frans van Mieris designed six illustrations which were engraved by Wandelaar for the 1725 Leiden publication of the work. These were copied by Duflos for the 1754 French publication. In the middle of image "Quies" on stone seat.
[Ref: 31386] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to 'Septimana Philosophica' by Michael Maier] Septimana Philosophica, Qua Ænigmata Aureola de Omni Naturae Genere [...]
Balth. Schw: f.
Francofurti Typis Hartmann Palthenii Sumptibus Lucawe Jennis 1620
Engraving, sheet 170 x 135mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Frontispiece to 'Septimana Philosophica' (or 'The Philosophical Week') by Michael Maier (1568-1622), German physician, alchemist, epigramist and composer who became physician and imperial counsellor to Rudolf II in 1609. The book discusses the secrets of the universe over the course of a week. Engraved by the Frankfurt-based printmaker Balthasar Schwan (d.1624).
[Ref: 47774] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece to Jonas Hanway, 'Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society'] J.B. Cipriani delineavit piaeque institutioni dicavit.
[1758]
Engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Scene demonstrating how the Marine Society recruited boys for sea service by providing them with clothing kits. Frontispiece to Jonas Hanway, 'Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society' (1758). Hanway (bap.1712- d.1786) was a philanthropist and governor of the Foundling Hospital who founded the Marine Society in 1756 following the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, both saving the boys from poverty and solving the difficulties of recruitment at a time when the British navy was crucial to national trade and power. The 'Three Letters' was one of many pamphlet Hanway authored seeking support for his various causes. The Marine Society, now based in Lambeth, is still active in training for careers at sea.
See O'Connell, 'London 1753', Cat. 3.26; for uncoloured impression see ref.16252; for a portrait of Hanway see ref.23172; for a superb later print in aid of the Marine Society see ref.8851.
[Ref: 37643] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Marine Society.]
J.B. Cipriani delineavit piaeque institutione dicavit.
[London, Jonas Hanway, 1758.]
A rare copper engraving. 216 x 159mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Trimmed.
Room with the board of the Marine Society turning beggars into apprentice seaman. This is the frontispiece of Jonas Hanway's "Three Letters on the subject of the Marine Society".
BM: 1876,0708.2521.
[Ref: 16252] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pubd. as the Act dizects 14 th December 1783. by G. Graglia London.
Etching with engraving. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"). Small margins.
A satyr seated playing Pan's flute before a bust of Martial (poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, c.40-c.104AD). The engraved title of 'Tutti gli Epigrammi di M. Val Marziale, fedelmente trasportati in italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Torinese'.
De Vesme: 1744; ii/iii.
[Ref: 62162] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cl. et Excell. Joannis Prævostii Practici ac P.P. Patavini Medicina Pauperum ac ejusdem de venenis ac eorundem alexipharmacis opusculum.
Francofurti Sumptibus Johannes Beyeri. M.DC.XL. [1641.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 65mm (4¼ x 2½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
The engraved titlepage of a herbal by Jean Pre´vost (1585-1631), head of the Botanical Gardens in Padua, the epicentre of renaissance medicine and anti-clerical sentiment. It was an influential work: the English edition of 1670, 'Medicaments for the poor', was intended to break the monopoly of the apothecaries who used Latin to obscure their knowledge.
[Ref: 42369] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Il Mercurio Italico. Vide p.18. Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant. Omnia nos itidem___ Lucretius.
Burney del.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London Published Jan.y 31.st 1789 for F. Sastres.
Etching and engraving. Plate 222 x 171mm. 8¾ x 6¾". Uncut, very large margins.
Minerva stretching her right arm towards Italy, seated on the ground in the form of a woman. In the centre, Mercury flying in the air; St Peter's Basilica and Colosseum in the background. Frontispiece to "Il Mercurio Italico" by Francesco Sastres (London: 1789).
De Vesme: 1784; iii/iii.
[Ref: 20427] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to the 'Miscellanea Curiosa' (Decuria II, Annus VII]
[c.1689]
Rare engraving, sheet 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Frontispiece to a volume of the 'Miscellanea Curiosa' published by the German learned society Academia Natarae Curiosorum (which became known by its present name, the Leopoldina, around the time this print was published). The Miscellanea Curiosa was one of the earliest scientific journals and had a particular focus on medicine and other aspects of natural philosophy.
[Ref: 46518] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 1:] Sixieme Livre de Formes. Rocailles et Cartel ornés de Figures Françoises, Dédié à très Haut et très Illustre Seigneur Monseigneur Alexis Madelaine Rosalie Duc de Chatillon Pair de France Gouverneur de Monseigneur le Dauphin Chevalier Commandeur des Ordres du Roi, Lieutenant général des Armées de S.M. Gr.d Bailli de la Prefecture Roiallé d'Hagnenau, Baron d'Argenton &
Par Son très humble et fidelle Serviteur Mondon le fils Et Gravé par Ant.ne Aveline 1736.
Se Vend à Paris chez Mondon le Fils ruë St. Eloy à l'Hôtel Pepin, Et Chez A. Aveline ruë St. Jacques. [1736.]
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 229 x 178mm. 9 x 7". Staining into the image area. Uncut, large margins.
The frontispiece to the sixth book of a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the sixth set.
[Ref: 23055] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Monthly Banquet of Apollo. Containing, Songs, Duets, Trios, Rondeaus, Canzonets, Catches, Glees, &c. All Composed by Mr. Hook. And Never Before Published.
Jones. script. et sculpsit.
London: Printed for Harrison & Co. No.18, Paternoster Row. MDCC XCVI [1796]. Published as the Act directs Decr. 1, 1795.
Engraved titlepage with etching, 200 x 150mm. 8 x 6".
The etched vignette shows two classical female figures, one playing a lyre, inscribed 'Rothwell, sculpsit'.
British Library: 004419944.
[Ref: 9773] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Natural History of Monkeys] Storia Naturale delle Scimie e dei Maki Dissegnata dal Sig. H. Jacob, ed incisi al Sig. L. Rados...
Torino, Presso i Labraj, Gaetano Balbino, Giuseppe Pic, Vedova Pomba e figli, e i Fratelli Reycend. Genova, presso i Libraj, Yves Gravier, e Basso 1816.
Scarce stipple, printed in sepia. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") very large margins. Foxing.
An engraved titlepage for an important early monograph on primates, which contained 85 fine plates. The title is within an architectural frame, on which two monkeys sit. The entablature lists the names of important French Naturalists, headed by Buffon.
[Ref: 58052] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A New Book of Ornaments Consisting of Compartment Decorations of Theaters, Ceilings, Chimney Pieces, Doors, Windows and other Beautyful Forms Usefull to Painters, Carvers, Engravers, &c. Invented by Angelo Rosis Florentine. Engrav'd by Ant. Visentini Venitian.
Publish'd Nov. 1st 1753 by ye Proprietor F. Vivares at the Golden Head, in Newport Street, near Licester Fields London.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed close to printed border, repaired tear at top.
The titlepage and first plate of a book on ornamental designs by Angiolo Rosis (or Angelo, 1670-1742), with the title engraved within a roccoco design featuring an artist's palette, pen, set square, and pair of compasses. The plates were engraved from drawings found after Rosis's death, by Antonio Visentini (1688-1772) and first published by Francesco Zuccarelli in 1747.
[Ref: 60215] £320.00

[Frontsipiece to the New Naval History]
[by John Entick?]
London june 18th 1757. Engraved for the New Naval History. Printed for R: Manby, W: Reeve, W: Bizet, P: Davey, B: Law, & J. Scott
Engraving, sheet 340 x 220mm (13½ x 8¾"). Trimmed; crease; small tears.
Allegorical figures composing the work from which this is taken, 'A New Naval History or, Compleat View of the British Marine in which the Royal Navy and the Merchant's Service are Traced through All their Periods and different Branches [...]'
[Ref: 38650] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Nouveau Theatre Italien.
Coypel jun. Inventit. J.B. Scotin Sculp.
[Paris, Briasson,1733.]
Etched titlepage. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A decorative titlepage, with cherubs dressing up before an audience of other cherubs. From Monicault's 'Le nouveau the´atre italien, ou, recueil general des come´dies represente´es par les Come´diens italiens ordinaires du roi'.
[Ref: 53647] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Nuovo Atlante Portatile Compilato per Istruzione della Gioventu, Disegnato sopra le migliori Carte moderne ed inciso da Gio. Valerio Pasquali in Venezia l'anno MDCCCX
G.V. Pasquali sculp.
Si vende da Teodoro Viero in Merceria vicino all'Orologlio Prezzo lire d'Italia non miniato. [1810.]
Etching, platemark 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8½"). Stained.
Frontispiece to an Italian atlas, with decorative border comprised of cartographical instruments.
[Ref: 42480] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nürnberg: Prospecten. Vûes de Nuremberg. Gezeichnet und in Kupfer gebracht von Johann Adam Delsenbach.
Zu finder in der Wirsingisschen Kunsthandlung in Nürnberg. [n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving. Plate 223 x 324mm (8¾ x 12¾"). Very fine.
Title page to a series of views on Nuremburg. An architectural cartouche with the escutcheon, including a view of Nuremberg and inscription: Tegit umbra minoris. Allegory of the river to the left and various nymphs to the right; at the bottom designs and instruments for painting and geometry.
[Ref: 31226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Dedication to Frederick IV, from Adam Olearius' 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia'] A sa Majesté Frideric IV. Roi de Danemark, de Norvegue, des Vandales et des Goths [...]
[1727]
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8").
Dedication from a 1727 edition, in French, of Adam Olearius' (1603-71) 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia', first published in the 1640s. A famed mathematician, geographer, librarian and writer, Olearius was the secretary on an embassy sent by Frederick III to Russia and Persia to try and establish the newly-founded town of Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein as the European terminus for an overland silk trade. The trip proved unsuccessful but Olearius' observations provided the material for a highly influential volume.
[Ref: 40094] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Olearius, Bibliothecaire du Duc de Holstein, et Mathematicien de sa Cour.
[n.d, c.1727]
Engraving. 285 x 160mm (11¼ x 6¼") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Adam Olearius (1603-71), afamed mathematician, geographer, librarian and writer. He was appointed secretary on an embassy sent by Frederick III to Russia and Persia to try and establish the newly-founded town of Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein as the European terminus for an overland silk trade. The trip proved unsuccessful but Olearius' observations provided the material for the highly influential 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia', first published in the 1640s. This is likley to have been the frontispiece to an edition.
Wellcome: 2179
[Ref: 48920] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Noble Peasant. A Comic-Opera. Set to Music by William Shield. Price 10.6d.
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Printed for Willm. Napier Music-seller to their Majesties No.474 Strand. [1784.]
Engraved titlepage illustrated by Bartolozzi, sheet 155 x 215mm. 6 x 8½". One diagonal crease.
The decorative border including flowers and fronds held by winged putti, and a lyre, pipes and sheet music in the lower part, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815). William Shield (1748 - 1829), composer at Covent Garden, wrote music for upwards of thirty dramatic pieces. This comic opera was written by Thomas Holcroft (1745 - 1809).
British Library: 004655802. De V:
[Ref: 13892] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening; by Sr: William Chambers, Knt: Comptroller General of his Majesty's Works.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London] Printed by W. Griffin, Printer to the Royal Academy [also Davies, Dodsley, Wilson, Nicoll, Walter and Elmsley]. 1772.
Engraved illustrated titlepage to the first (4to) edition, with large margins, rare. 230 x 170mm, 9 x 6¾".
According to Colvin, the book was “primarily an attack on the bare style of landscape gardening associated with Capability Brown, and the oriental dress was merely a literary camouflage. To Chamber’s embarrassment his supposed championship of the Chinese garden as a model for imitation was taken seriously by the public, obliging him in 1773 to publish a second edition with an “Explanatory Discourse.’ Scottish architect Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) was responsible for many of Kew Gardens' temples, Carlton House, the north and south wings of Buckingham Palace, Richmond Palace, Sir Joshua Reynolds house, internal decorations of St James's Palace, Somerset House and many others. He was appointed tutor in architecture to the future George III. The classical design in an oval after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785) shows a spirit with butterfly wings decorating a statue with flower garlands; on the right, a woman seated on a chair, and on the left, three naked putti, one drawing.
See BL L.32/58. Colvin p. 205. De Vesme 1693.
[Ref: 26329] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Collection of Prints, Engraved after the most Capital Paintings in England. Published by John Boydell. Volume the Second, containing sixty Prints. with a Description of each Picture in English and French./ The Origin of Drawing.
J. Mortimer Inventit. S.F. Ravenet Sculpsit.
London: Printed for the Editor, MDCCLXXII./ Published May 1st. 1771 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Letterpress with copper engraving, sheet 665 x 500mm (26¼ x 19½").
Title page to the second volume of "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in published in five volumes between the late 1760s and 1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell, who promoted the interests of artists, engravers and patrons, establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints. With an engraving illustrating the origin of drawing. According to some sources drawing originated with the tracing of human shadows.
[Ref: 14901] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Alle de werken van Mr. Wilhelm Perkins vermaarde Ghodgheleerde, T'weede Deel.] [Oval portrait: Mr Wilhelm Perkins Gheboren 1558. Ghestorven 1602.] [In ink:] Wm. Perkins. Proof.
[Th. Matham fecit.]
t'Amsterdam, By Iohannes van Someren. Ao. 1662.
Very scarce engraving. Unfinished, proof before all letters. Collector's mark on verso. Plate 284 x 184mm. 11¼ x 7¼". Wormhole by left angel's wing.
A frontispiece to a posthumous publication of the work of William Perkins (1558-1602), a clergyman and Cambridge theologian who was one of the foremost leaders of the Puritan movement in the Church of England.
See Ref: 20141 for lettered state. Ex Collection: W.B. Dukes (architect, d.1942.) Lugt: 2757a.
[Ref: 20142] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to 'A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in theory and practice, on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor'.]
[by Thomas Malton.]
Publishd by Tho.s Malton April 1st 1774. (but c. 1805)
Engraving, paper watermarked 1805. 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Small margins on 3 sides; trimmed to image on left.
An architectural caprice with a mausoleum dedicated 'To the Memory of Dr Brook Taylor; in gratitude for his sublime Principles, on Perspective'. Brook Taylor (1685-1731) was an English mathematician whose 1715 essay 'Linear Perspective' set forth the principles of perspective in a more understandable form
[Ref: 57903] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Cornelis de Brun, 'Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie']
B. Picart delineavit anno 1711
Engraving, sheet 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½"). Crease.
Frontispiece to a travel volume by the Flemish artist Cornelis de Bruyn. The French engraver Bernard Picart (1673-1733) settled in Amsterdam in 1711, where he engraved this print.
[Ref: 41393] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible Expounding the difficult places thereof Learnedly & plainly By the Reverend Learned and Godly Divine, Mr, John Diodati, Minister of the Gospel and now living in Geneva.
W. Hollar fecit 1643.
London: Printed for Nicolas Fussell 1643.
Etched titlepage. 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5").
A title page for a book, with the title within a elaborate architectural border with portraits of Moses and Aaron, rare in this state.
Pennington 2659, i of iv.
[Ref: 44174] £320.00

Pious Annotations Upon the Holy Bible Expounding the difficult places there:of Learnedly & plainly By the Reverend Learned and Godly Divine, M. Iohn Diodati Minister of the Gospecl and now living in Geneva.
W. Hollar fecit. 1643.
London Printed for Nicolas Fussel, 1643.
Etching. Plate 190 x 132mm (7½ x 5¼"). Creases, holes.
Title-page to Giovanni Diodati's 'Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible'; architectural setting, with Moses holding tablets of the commandments in front of two columns at left, Aaron holding a censer at right, four scenes featuring the Evangelists above and below, open book on broken pediment at top centre, and semi-circle of light above, lettered in Hebrew with 'Jehova'. Giovanni Diodati (1576-1649), the Swiss Calvinist cleric, religious author and translator of the Bible.
P: 2659, i of iv.
[Ref: 34773] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Indice delle Tavole contenute in quest'Opera.
Etching. Total 235 x 250mm, 9½ x 10".
A caprice etched by Piranesi as an index to one of his books, with the text within a border printed from a separate plate, simulating a stone memorial. Above the 28-item list of plates is a Latin dedication to Augustus found on the Ponte di Rimino. Printed from two plates.
[Ref: 13915] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Antichita` Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica e de' Primi Imperatori, Designate, ed Incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano... Parte Prima.
Roma si vende dall'Auttore dirimpetto l'Academia di Franzia.
Etching. Plate: 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"), with very large margins. Uncut. Crease in margin top right.
A caprice etched by Piranesi as a half-title to one of his books, with the text within a border printed from a separate plate, simulating a stone memorial. Printed from two plates. The text roughly translates as 'Roman Antiquities from the time of the Republic and the First Emperors, designed and engraved by the Venetian architect Giambattista Piranesi and by the same is dedicated to the most illustrious and most reverened Monseigneur Giovanni Bottari, private chaplain to Pope Benedict XIV, the guardian of the Vatican Library and canon of Santa Maria in Trestevere.'
[Ref: 39980] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece vignette to Leonard Plukenet, 'Almagesti botanici mantissa'] Anagr: Ut pene Nullus sic ardeo Aliis inserviendo consumor.
J. Collins fec:
[published by T. Davies et al, 1700.]
Rare engraving, sheet 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½"). False margins added.
Leonard Plukenet (bap. 1642-d. 1706), botanist, sitting at his desk. Vignette from Plukenet's 'Almagesti botanici mantissa' (1700), one of a series of magesterial volumes which presented Plukenet's collection, and in which several British plants made their first appearance. By this time Plukenet had been appointed superintendent of the royal gardens at Hampton Court, by William III, a king himself interested in horticulture.
[Ref: 42079] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Engraved frontispiece.]
J. Rob. sculp.
Apud Jos. Pote, Bibliop Etonens. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 130 x 80mm.
Pote (1703-1787) was a publisher and bookseller of Eton.
[Ref: 4708] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to an almanac] The Prophetic Messenger for 1830. Hieroglyphic, for the Eventful Year 1830.
London, Published by William Charlton Wright [c.1830].
Hand-coloured etching, rare with aquatint, folding (as normal) frontispiece to 'The prophetic messenger, or, The events, predictions, and the weather, that will occur in each month...' by "Raphael". Lacking margins; closed tear into image lower right.
A kaleidoscope of vignettes illustrating the significant events anticipated for the year 1830; including representations of coronations, fires, extreme weather, political agitation, funerals, military campaigns and scientific advances. The 8vo annuals were published 1795-1832. Each issue has a folding coloured frontispiece.
See Cambridge University Library: Waddleton.d.9.1-3.
[Ref: 27491] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The History of the World.
Ren. Elstrack sculpsit [in image lower left]
London Printed for R: White. Tho. Basset, Jos Wright, Ric. Chiswell. Geo. Dawes & Tho. Sawdribge. 1676
Engraving with large margins, platemark 305 x 180mm (12 x 7"). Eighteenth century impression on watermarked paper; faint crease upper left.
Engraved title-page for an edition of Walter Raleigh's 'History of the World' (London, 1615). Female figure inscribed 'magistra vitae' ('directress of life') supporting a globe (showing ships and monsters). Angels either side of the globe representing good and bad fame, with further allegorical figures representing experience and truth. The central figure steps on representations of death and oblivion (ie. forgetting). The eye of Providence overlooking the scene. The British Museum has an earlier impression with different publication line (1872,0608.490).
[Ref: 33694] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A New Book of Landskips after Marco Ricci Sold by J. Jarvis in Bedford Court Covent Garden. Price 6d.
[Anon, c.1750]
Engraving with central crease and very large margins, scarce, platemark 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾")
Frontispiece to a volume reproducing landscapes by Marco Ricci (1676-1730). Like his compatriot Canaletto, Ricci spent several years working in England, hence the demand for his works in printed form.
[Ref: 33776] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

XII Caesarum Qui Primi Rom Imperarunt Effigies. Cum Ausony in eosdem Tetrasticis. Serenissimo Invictoo Principi Vicentio Gonzagae Mantuae, Montisque Ferrati Duci Amplissimo. Justus Sadelerus Immortali eius Nomini denotus D.D.
W. Kilian sculpsit.
Per Iustum Sadelerum excusae 1608 Venetys.
Engraving. Sheet: 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
The frontispiece to a series of thirteen busts of Roman Emperors engraved by Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662) after Raffaello Schiaminossi.
[Ref: 49692] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Et erunt reges nutricii tui et reginae eorum nutrices euae.} Esai.49. Beati qui audiunt verbum dei et custodiunt illud. LVC. II. Non me pudet Euangelij Christi. Virtus enim Dei est ad salu=tem Omni credenti Rom. 1.' (i.e. Romans 1.16)
[n.d. c.1700.]
Rare engraving. 210 x 159mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed.
Royal holding sceptre and orb; crowned by Justice and Mercy; Fortitude and Prudence look up from below throne.
[Ref: 52515] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

XII Views in North Wales Being Part of a Tour through that Fertile and Romantick Country. under the Patronage of the Honourable Sir Watkin Williams Wynn Bart. to whom they are most Humbly Inscribed by his most Obedient and most Humble Servant Paul Sandby R.A. MDCCLXXV No 2.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St Georges Row Oxford Turnpike Sep.r 1st 1776
Aquatint with large margins, platemark 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½"). Excellent condition
Title page to the set of views in north Wales published in 1776 by Paul Sandby (bap. 1731, d. 1809). Sandby, one of the foremost landscape artists of his generation, had published a similar set of views in south Wales the previous year, having collected material during sketching tours in 1771 and 1773 with Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Charles Greville, and Joseph Banks, the dedicatees of the two sets. Over the coming decades Wales became highly popular amongst tourists searching for romantic and picturesque landscapes, due in no small part to Sandby's popular depictions.
Abbey 511; For a view from the series see ref. 8376.
[Ref: 33693] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Me[r]. Deuxieme Partie.
A Amsterdam, Ce vendent chez Johannes van K[eulen, M]archant de Cartes Marines, au bout du Pont Neuf, [...1682].
Engraved titlepage with letterpress, rare but with damage. Printed area 510 x 280mm, 20 x 11". Bottom right torn with loss to letterpress, abrasion affecting figures in the sky, damaged top left.
The decorative titlepage to a French edition of the second volume of Jan van Keulen's important sea-atlas 'Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel', first published the year before. It depicts various Europeans gathered around a large globe, with one holding up a blazing torch, representing the atlas, 'New Sea-Torch'. Others examine two large charts. Above are allegorical figures and the signs of the Zodiac. The atlas contained 130 charts by Claes Janszoon Vooght and launch the van Keulen family business, which lasted into the C19th. The second volume was dedicated to the seas of north and western Europe, with western coasts of Africa to the Canary Islands. Very important image of mapmakers and explorers pouring over the globe and charts.
[Ref: 22435] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La Troisiéme Partie.
A Amsterdam, Chez Johannes van Keulen, Marchant de Livres & Cartes Marines, au bout du Pont Neuf, au Pilote Couronne, 1682.
Engraved titlepage with letterpress, rare. Printed area 510 x 280mm, 20 x 11".
The decorative titlepage to a French edition of the third volume of Jan van Keulen's important sea-atlas 'Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel', first published the year before. It depicts an allegorical figure of Holland, with traders in the Indies on the left and the figures of Mercury and Neptune examining a compass on the right. Underneath a galleon battles three galleys. The atlas ('New Torch of the Sea') contained 130 charts by Claes Janszoon Vooght and launched the van Keulen family business, which lasted into the C19th. The third volume was dedicated to the Mediterranean.
[Ref: 22434] £380.00

[Sea atlas titlepage.] Le Neptune Francois, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines pour l'Usage de ses Armées de Mer.
A Paris, Chez Hubert Jaillot aux deux Globes, M. D.C. LXXXXIII. Avec Privilege du Roy [but Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1693].
Fine letterpress titlepage printed in black and red, with engraved vignette of a sea battle. Sheet 635 x 505mm (25 x 19¾") very large margins. Old ink mss. number top right.
The titlepage of the largest atlas of sea charts published up to that time. The vignette is signed by Jan van Vianen. The atlas was published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, with a false publication line perhaps to avoid customs duties abroad. A companion volume contained the famous sea charts etched by Romain de Hooghe, dedicated to William III, the Dutch king of England.
[Ref: 60957] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea atlas titlepage.] Cartes Marines a l'Eusage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretane.
A Amsterdam. Chez Pierre Mortier Libraire sur le Vygen Dam M. D.C. LXXXXIII [1693].
Fine letterpress titlepage printed in black and red, with engraved vignette of a sea battle. Sheet 635 x 505mm (25 x 19¾") very large margins. Old ink mss. number top right.
The titlepage to the magnificent atlas of sea charts etched by Romain de Hooghe, dedicated to William III, the new Dutch king of England. The suite of nine charts, described by Koeman as the 'most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam', included the three-sheet chart of the Mediterrean. The vignette is signed by Jan van Vianen.
Koeman: vol 4, p. 423-4, M. Mor 5.
[Ref: 60958] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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