Grosvenor Prints

[Alaska] A Woman of Prince William's Sound.
J. Webber del. J. Basire sc.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving., fine impression 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to the plate. Slight crease in centre.
A woman, head and shoulders facing front and looking towards the viewer, wearing a fur cape tied under her chin. She has pendants hanging from her ears, with a nose ornament and piercings beneath her bottom lip. James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The editors of Cook's maps changed the name to Prince William Sound, in honor of Prince William, who would later become King William IV. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 51199] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Snug Corner Cove.
Fittler sculp.
Published by Dr. Trusler June 1. 1790.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of Snug Corner Cove, Alaska with canoes and figures.
[Ref: 32125] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Franciscus Albanus Bonon. Albanum mihi Fama iubes depingere; pingam. Pictura, Is pariter si sibi Pictor erit. [On pedestal:] Picturae Francisci Albani in Aede Verospia.
Petrus de Petris inv. et delin.
Io. Hyeronymus Frezza incid. Romae cum Priv. Sum. Pont. an. 1704.
Engraving with large margins. Image plate 362 x 280mm. 14¼ x 11". Title plate 32 x 280mm. 11¼ x 11". Crease to upper right corner. Foxed.
Frontispiece with Albani's portrait surrounded by Fame and a putto, with allegory of Painting lying in the foreground. One of a series of 17 prints after Francesco Albani's and Sisto Badalocchio's frescoes in Palazzo Verospi, Rome. Albani frescoed the loggia, while Badalocchio worked on the ground floor decorations. Francesco Albani (1578-1660), the Italian Baroque painter.
[Ref: 25905] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Tsetinje.
Hanhart lith.
[London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1864.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 150 x 235mm. 6 x 9¼". Stain upper left and right.
From "The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1863. With a Visit to Montenegro", by the Viscountess Strangford, Emily Anne Beaufort.
[Ref: 10298] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Le Pinde. Traversée de Jannina à Tricala.
L. Dupré. Litho. de C. Molle.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 470 x 365mm (18½ x 14½"). Spotting in unprinted areas, repaired tears in edges.
A scene of Louis Dupré and his fellow travellers climbing up a snowy pass in the Pindus Mountains with the help of local guides. The artist is recognisable by the drawing book he carries. From Louis Dupré's ''Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople''.
[Ref: 49026] £480.00

Ali Pacha de Jannina, chassant sur le lac de Butrinto en Mars 1819. Pl. VIII.
L. Dupré. Imp. Litho. de M.elle Formentin.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 355 x 515mm (14 x 20½"), publisher's blind stamp.
Ali Pasha of Yannina (1740-1822), the Ottoman Albanian ruler of the western part of Rumelia, in a rowing boat with six oarsmen and bodyguard, smoking a pipe. From Louis Dupré's ''Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople''. Lord Byron visited the court of Ai in Ioannina in 1809 and had very mixed feelings about him and his court. Ali Pasha was notorious throughout the region for the cruelties inflicted on his subjects, from torture to rape and even murder. In 1820 the tensions with the Turkish Reforms grew and after two years of fighting the Ottoman forces took hold of Ioannina forcing Ali Pasha to surrender. He was asked to surrender for beheading, which he refused and continued to fight until he was eventually shot.
[Ref: 49025] £480.00

[Albania] George Castriot, otherwise called Scanderberg. Prince of Eprius Scourge of the Turkes. He flew Fera Bassa with his owne hand, Cheife Comander of Amuraths army, Overran the countrey of Macedonia, Overthrew ye Turks army consisting of 40000 still reimayning victor in many battells by his valour and pollicie.
[n.d. c.1720]
A very rare engraving. 183 x 112mm. 7½ x 4½". Trimmed to inside the plate and laid on separate sheet.
George Castriot, Scanderbeg (1405-1468), was an Albanian national hero. The son of a prince of North Albania, he was educated in the Muslim faith and kept at the court of Sultan Murad II. The Sultan favoured him by giving him the title bey and an army to command. However when the Ottomans indicated they would attack Albania, Scanderbeg escaped to his homeland, forming a league of princes. By resisting the Ottomans, Scanderbeg receieved assistance from Venice, Naples and Hungary, and the pope.
[Ref: 14583] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Albania] Georgius Castriot Scanderbegus Epiri et Albaniæ Princeps.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, printed on 17th century watermarked paper. Sheet 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed within plate.
George Kastrioti (1405-68), an Albanian widely known as Skanderbeg (Lord Alexander). Having been appointed governor of the Sanjak of Dibra in Macedonia by the Ottoman Turks in 1440, he rebelled and rallied the Albanians against the Ottomans, holding them off for two decades, until he died. In 1463 he was appointed chief commander of the crusading forces of Pope Pius II, but the Pope died before the troops were gathered. Skanderbeg is remembered as Albania's most important hero.
[Ref: 29889] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Albania] Le Prince Castriotto d'Albanie, né l'année MDCCLI. XVIII. Fevrier. II. Petit-fils du Grand Schcanderbeg.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with small margins, fine. Sheet 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
Stjepan Zanovic (1751-86), Albanian writer and adverturer, descendent of Skanderbeg, Albania's most important hero. He committed suicide aged 35. At the bottom of the monument his works are listed.
[Ref: 29890] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Albanian at Athens [ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple and aquatint, fine original hand colour. Sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Whatman paper. Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
A woman with headscarf, skirt with patterned hem and ornately-embroidered topcoat.
[Ref: 35543] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

An Albanian.
London Published by James Cawthorne, 24 Cockspur Street 1812. [But 1813.]
Coloured aquatint with fine colour. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼").
A costume plate from John Cam Hobhouse's 'A Journey Through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople'. Hobhouse (1st Baron Broughton, 1786-1869), met Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, and travelled with him through Italy, Greece and Turkey, a journey which resulted in this book. Hobhouse became Byron's executor after the poet's death in 1824. Despite being imprisoned in Newgate for writing a Radical pamphlet in 1819 Hobhouse became a successful Whig politician, serving in government as Secretary at War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and President of the Board of Control. He became a Privy Councillor in 1832.
[Ref: 34546] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Albanian.
Wyndham? 1829.
Pen and watercolour. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
An Albanian in national dress, with a musket.
[Ref: 37731] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Albanian Soldier.] Soldat Albanois.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47026] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Effiges of the Right Noble George, late Duke of Albemarle, Earle of Torrington [...]
Edw. Le Davis Sculp.
[1679]
Engraving, very fine impression; sheet 270 x175mm (10¼ x 7"). Trimmed; false margins added.
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608 - 1670), soldier and statesman, holding truncheon. Plate to Guillim's 'Heraldry'. Monck was one of the architects of the Restoration of the monarchy, along with Pepys' patron Edward Montagu. He was an accomplished military commander and served as Joint-Commander-in-Chief with Prince Rupert, in the campaign of 1666 against the Dutch.
O'D 23
[Ref: 31142] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

George Albemarle, General Anglois. d'Apres Barlow.
Touze d.
A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with hand colour. 278 x 168mm.
Strong contemporary colour in gold leaf line surround. ['A.D.P.R.' (Avec Privilege Du Roi) inscribed lower right].
[Ref: 1928] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Albert] In Memory of H.R.H. Prince Consort, Born at Ehrenberg, August 26th, 1819. Died at Windsor, December 14th,1861. The Nation Mourns Her Loss.
[n.d., c.1861.]
Embossed card. 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Laid on album paper.
A blind-embossed card with a portrait of Prince Albert in a border of mourning angels with an hourglass.
[Ref: 63287] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

S. Albertu' Clara fugat lampas noctem, liber otia tollit Mactatur Cypris flore, Cupido cruce
[after Hans von Aachen, as engraved by Robert Boissard.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Thread margin at bottom, tipped onto album sheet at corners.
A copy of a portrait of Saint Albertus Magnus (1200-80). [Albert Bullstredt] Albert was one of the Great Medieval Philosophers and scientists.
[Ref: 62686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Albert President of Societies for Sciences [engraved in reverse].
[Engraved by Charles Henry Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1859.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with large margins.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (1819-1861) was elected President of the British Science Association in 1859.
[Ref: 51053] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Prince Albert as Edward III.]
[n.d., c.1842.]
Fine & rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 510 x 340mm (20 x 13¼''), with large margins.
A portrait of Prince Albert dressed as Edward III, the costume he wore at a costume ball held at Buckingham Palace on 12th May 1842.
[Ref: 50132] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Albert Chancellor of an University [engraved in reverse].
[Engraved by Charles Henry Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with very large margins.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (1819-1861), elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1847, holding the position until his death. He used this position to campaign successfully for a reformed and more modern university curricula, expanding the subjects taught beyond the traditional mathematics and classics, to include modern history and the natural sciences.
[Ref: 50846] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, Gotha.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph on chine collé, rare. 299 x 241mm (11¾ x 9½"). Foxing to upper part of image
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Victoria, having married her in 1840. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Provenance: Elizabeth Anne Hippisley of Ston Easton.
[Ref: 29442] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[His Royal Highness Prince Albert Patron of the Ipswich Museum Taken Expressly for a Series of Portraits of Scientific Members of that Institution.]
T.H. Maguire 1851. [Drawn on stone from life by T.H. Maguire. M & N Hanhart, Lith printers.]
[Published Sep.br 1851 by George Ransom, Honorary Secretary.]
Lithograph. Rare proof before letters, with 'Ipswich Museum' blind stamp. Image 330 x 270mm (13 x 10¾"), with large margins. Small tear in bottom margin.
A seated portrait of Prince Albert (1819–1861) at Osborne House, with a view across parkland and the Solent behind. One of over 60 portraits of renowned scientific figures were published in this series between 1848-1852, commissioned in connection with the founding of Ipswich Museum.
[Ref: 59512] £330.00

[Archduke Albert VII & Isabella.]
[P.P. Rubens pinxit. F. Eisen delineavit. F. Harrewÿn Sculpsit.]
[Se vend a Brusselles Chez le Dit Harrewÿn a la Monoie.] [n.d., c.1730.]
Etching, proof before letters. 535 x 390mm (21 x 15¼"). Loss in three corners of margin.
Portraits of Albert VIII and his wife Isabella (a daughter of the Spanish King Philip II) as sovereign regents of the Spanish Netherlands, as depicted in the Triptych of St. Ildefonso, with St Albert of Louvain standing above Albert and St Clare (the duchess's patron) above Isabella. Although printed on one sheet of paper, the portraits were designed to be separated and placed either side of the triptuch's central image, that of St. Ildefonso of Toledo receiving a chasuble from the Virgin Mary.
The triptych is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
[Ref: 57399] £480.00

The Queen & Prince Albert taking an airing in Hyde Park.
Painted by J. Pollard.
Lithd. & Pubd. by Dean & Co. Threadneedle St. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 220 x 280mm. 8¾ x 11". Sheet trimmed. On linen backing.
The Royal Carriage passing the Wellington Monument (Achilles) on Hyde Park Corner. Very fine colour published for the fashionable pastime of compiling scrap albums. After James Pollard (1792 - 1867).
See: Ref 56957, 58569, 12939 & 14256
[Ref: 11712] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Albert VII, archduke of Austria, and Isabella Clara Eugenia] Serenissimo et Potentissimo Alberto Austriae Archiduci, Burgundiae, Duci, Principi [...]
Joannes Muller Sculptor devotionis ergo. D.D. Ex Archetypo Petri Pauli Rubenii Serenitatis Suae Pictoris.
[1615]
Two fine engravings, each sheet approx. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"). Trimmed; false lower margins.
Portraits of Albert VII (1559-1621), briefly archduke of Austria in 1619 before abdicating in favour of Ferdinand II, and his wife Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1598-1621. Fine engravings after portraits by Rubens, who was appointed court painter to Albert and Isabella although he was permitted to remain in his hometown of Antwerp and accept commissions from whoever he chose.
[Ref: 43005] £2,000.00

Albertus II.
C. de pas exc.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 145 x 105mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
Albert the Magnanimous (1397-1439) of the House of Hapsburg,, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (although never crowned Holy Roman Emperor), as well as Duke of Austria and king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He is best known for the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna in 1420: on March 12th 1421, 92 men and 120 women who were still in Vienna were burned at the stake south of the city walls. From a series of equestrian portraits of the Holy Roman Emperors by Crispijn de Pass the Elder.
[Ref: 56348] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Albert Duc de Saxe Gouxr. Lieutt. Genal. des Pays-bas.
de la Gallerie du Cardl.de Richelieu.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 278 x 166mm.
[Ref: 1929] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Sketch Map.] Dominion of Canada. Albert Railway of New Brunswick.
Lithographic map. Sheet: 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼''). Creasing and folds as issued.
A map of the Albert Railway in the area around the Bay of Fundy. Towns marked include Salisbury, Alma, Harvey and Greenville.
[Ref: 48595] £130.00

[Albert VII, archduke of Austria] Albertus Card. Archidux Austr. Belgicar. Provinciar. Gubernator. 1597.
O.Vaenius inven. G. Velden f.
[c.1619.]
Engraving. 485 x 365mm (19 x 14¼"), large margins. Folds, wear in margins.
Portrait of Albert VII (1559-1621), joint-sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands with his wife Isabella from 1598-1621, a cardinal and briefly archduke of Austria in 1619 before abdicating in favour of Ferdinand II. Although he is dressed as a cardinal the use of his ducal title suggests the print was published for his brief reign.
[Ref: 50008] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The White Negro, female.
J. Ihle del.t. J.Pass sculp.
Published as the Act directs, June 1 1794.
Engraving, platemark 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed. Messy.
An albino negress, wearing a fur cape, holding an axe and an exotic bird. Drawn by Johann Ihle for Ebenezer Sibly's five-volume ''Universal System of Natural History'', 1794-6.
[Ref: 45466] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Signor Felice Albinolo, di Torino.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce Blind embossed visiting card on porcelain. Sheet 45 x 75mm (1¾ x 3"). Slight soiling, laid on album paper, with ink mss 'I am happy altho' solo'.
[Ref: 57610] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Albion Hotel & Parade, Eastbourne.
Published by T.S. Gowland Library, Eastbourne. [n.d. c.1880.]
Engraving. 88 x 114mm. 3½ x 4½". Bit messy.
A view of the Albion Hotel, which was removed in 1882 to make way for the new Electric Light Company.
[Ref: 19104] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Antonius Albicius Nobilis Florentinus. Hæc est Albitii, Regum qui Stemmata scripsit...
[n.d., c.1625.]
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5'').
A portrait of Italian jurist and genealogist Antonio Albizzi (1547-1626).
[Ref: 49120] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Antonio Albizzi] Antonius Albicius Nobilis Florentinus.
[Augsburg: Kraus, c.1612.]
Engraving, 190 x 130mm (7¼ x 9"), set in letterpress text.
Antonio Albizzi (1547-1626), Florentine jurist and genealogist, whose most famous work is 'Principum Christianorum Stemmata', a collection of engraved family trees with backdrops of City views and panoramas closely copied from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg (1572-1618).
[Ref: 29771] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Marietta Albony [facsimile.]
Auguste Hüssener sc.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving and stipple on album page. 279 x 214mm. 11 x 8½". Some spotting, time stained.
Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
Harvard: 4.
[Ref: 23672] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Marietta Alboni, Contralto.
[n.d. c.1855.]
Lithograph on album page. 342 x 260mm. 13½ x 10½". Foxed, some spotting.
Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
[Ref: 23669] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Le Brindisi Valse Brillante pour Le Piano. Dédiée a M.elle Alboni par Fréd. Burgmüller.
[Mayence anvers et Bruxelles, Chez les fils de B. Schott; c.1850.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf ribbed border, on album page. 260 x 197mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Some spotting.
Marietta Alboni raising a glass in a toast. Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
See Harvard: 20.
[Ref: 23673] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[18 Australian Gum leaf paintings with autograph album of Edwardian musicians.]
Album, autographs dated 1906-7.
An autograph album compiled by Miss Willis, daughter? of the proprietor of The Willis Music Company Ltd. Alongside the signatures of composers and musicians she came into contact with are a collection of paintings on gum leaves of Australian trees, including scenes of Sydney Harbour, kookaburras and flowers. There is also a regimental menu and a few watercolours of different subjects. 18 items. Edwardian musicians including H. Trotere, G. Clifton Bingham and Edward Nicholls.
See: Ref: 52938
[Ref: 52979] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

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

['Album' poem.]
W.H.H.
[Anon, n.d., c.1830.]
Curious letterpress poem in two numbered verses, arranged either side of woodcut letters forming the word 'Album' in a central column; printed on green paper, verse 1 orientated to read 'upside down'. Sheet 110 x 180mm, 4¼ x 7".
Perhaps (privately?) printed as an introductory leaf to a scrap album or drawing book, the unidentified author extols the virtues of the contents within.
[Ref: 16860] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Preuve frappante du danger de faibles Tiran. Album Pour Rire.
A Paris chez Ostervald ainé quai des Augustins No. 37. Litho de George Frey, Rue Coq-héron, No.11. et chez Hautecoeur-Martinet, Rue du Coq St. Honore.
[n.d., c. 1832.]
Hand coloured lithograph with large margins. Sheet size: 265 x 345mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Light spotting in margins.
A gentleman's boot straps snap, resulting in the figure on the left, who kneels before him, receiving a kick in the mouth, his top hat falling from his head from the impact. Three paintings on the wall behind are titled, 'Tombeau de Napoleon', 'Tarquin le Superbe' and 'Denis Tyran de Syracuse'. A plate from 'Album pour Rire' or, 'Album for Laughs', published by French printers Hautcoeur-Martinet, 1832. The plates for 'Album pour Rire' were issued separately and never collected into and sold as a single volume.
[Ref: 36653] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Album. Oh! tell us not of life's lone way...
W.H. Rock, London. [n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured steel engraving. 220 x 145mm, 8¾ x 6". Trimmed to plate at top.
Title page to an album of pre-printed pages of flowers and birds, popular with scrapbook collectors. The three female allegorical figures depict Religion, Music & Poetry. Rock published a number of these leather-bound albums.
[Ref: 17507] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Alchemist in his study- illustration to Erasmus, 'In Praise of Folly'?] Le docteur et ses attributs
C. Eisen inv.
a Paris chez Basan [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 140 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). 'Eloge de la Folie' in ms lower left.
Book illustration after Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, La Fontaine and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46499] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Alchymist. He's in Belief of Chymistry, so bold,/ if his Dream last, he'll turn the Age to Gold.
Teniers pinx.t. W. Baillie sculp.t.
Early impression
Etching. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
An alchemist in his workshop, using bellows to make his fire burn hotter, etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 55334] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[An alchemist at work.]
[Engraved by Pierre Chenu after Thomas Wyck.]
[Paris, Chenu? n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, fine proof before letters, very scarce. 430 x 520mm (17 x 20½" Tear entering image on left.
An alchemist at work at a furnace, his books on a stool. His wife and children sit to one side, and one assistant rummages in a cupboard, another watching. Thomas Wyck (or 'Wijck', 1616-77) was a Flemish painter whose interiors are said to have influenced Thomas Wright of Derby. Alchemy was a subject he returned to frequently. A pre-Fire prospect of London by Wyck is in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.
[Ref: 34375] £450.00

Auri vexavit nitidi nos fira cu,, pido, Nuc me paupertas premere vall,, de solet.
Gabriel Spizel inv et excud. Aug.Vinel.
[n.d. c.1750]
Fine & rare mezzotint printed in blue. Plate 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"), with large margins.
Alchemy print with lines in Latin and German. A man holds his head in alarm as his experiment makes sparks.
[Ref: 63094] £390.00

[Alchemist] Die Arsnen [?] Kunst. La Pharmacie.
Jacob Wangner Sculp. Inventé et peint par J. La Jouë.
[Augsburg c.1740.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate at bottom with loss of imprint.
The interior of an apothecary's workshop, with an oven, stills, books and animals hanging from the ceiling. This is a German edition of one of a series of allegorical prints of the arts and sciences after Jacques de Lajoue (1686 - 1761), a French decorative rococo painter, engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin and published by the verve Chéreau in Paris during the 1730s.
[Ref: 63128] £680.00

[Charles W. Alcock.] The Man of the World. ''Association Football.''
Saturday, February 8, 1890.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 375 x 230mm (14¾ x 9"). Trimmed, creased, small splits in folds.
Charles William Alcock (1842-1907) captained England in a football international against Scotland in 1875. He also proposed the F.A. Cup in 1872 and refereed the 1875 and 1879 FA Cup Finals.
[Ref: 58846] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Marchande d'Eau de vie. Qui veut boire la goulte? No 83.
Carle Vernet. S. lith de Delpech.
[Paris, n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 300 x 140mm (11¾ x 5½").
A woman selling brandy, calling 'Who will drink a drop?'. One of a series, 'Cris de Paris', depicting Parisian street vendors, lithographed by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825) after Antoine Charles Horace (Carle) Vernet (1758-1836).
[Ref: 33222] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus Aldegrever Vestphalus Pictor et Sculptor. Henry Aldegraef. Aldegraef estoir originaire de Westphalie. On ignore de que il a appris l'Art de peindre, & de graver: … Il mourit a Soest, & y fut entrerre sans beacoups d'appareil: main un Peintre de ses amis passant par cette Ville honora son Sepulchre d'un marbre.
N. de. Larmessin, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Coppe engraving. 265 x 152mm. 10 x 6".
Henry Aldegraef (1502-1558), famous German artist and engraver.
[Ref: 14309] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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