Grosvenor Prints

[View of the Bridge over the Ilissus River connecting the Panathenaic Stadium with the city of Athens. ]
Stuart del.t. Tho.s Medland Sculp.t.
Published Jan.y 30th 1791 by Eliz:th Stuart Leicesterfields.
Engraving with large margins on 3 sides. 350 x 490mm, 13¾ x 19".
A view of the bridge over the Ilissus, south-east of the Acropolis, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. In the foreground are shepherds, two with musical instruments, a third with a pipe. The bridge led to the Panathenaic Stadium, now rebuilt and site of the first modern Olympic Games. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the bridge is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD146/1.
[Ref: 26796] £330.00

Plan of the Antiquities of Athens as Surveyed by J. Stuart. 1752.
[Drawn by A. Arrowsmith?]
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraved map. 535 x 700mm, 21 x 27½". Small margins.
Map of Athens showing the classical buildings surveyed made by James 'Athenian' Stuart and published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by Stuart & Nicholas Revett. To Stuart's dismay the local authorities would not allow him to survey the Acropolis because of an outbreak of plague. Stuart (1713-88) and Revett (1720-1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'. This map was published in Volume 4; the general map of Attica in the same volume was signed by Arrowsmith.
[Ref: 26784] £260.00

[Athens Polytechnic]
[Unsigned, c.1870]
Lithograph and tintstone, scarce, printed area 255 x 315mm (10 x 12½"), with large margins.
The Averof building, which remains at the centre of the Patision Complex of the National Technical University of Athens (also still known as the Athens Polytechnic). Designed by Lysander Kaftanzoglou, the building is a key example of European Neoclassicism.
[Ref: 47632] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Jupiter Olympius, Athens. Le Temple de Jupiter Olympius, Athènes. Der Tempel Jupiter Olympius, Athen.
Drawn by Wolfensberger. Engraved by J. Sands.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d. c.1841.]
Steel engraving. 208 x 279mm. 8¼ x 11".
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion, in the centre of Athens. Although begun in the 6th century BC, it was not completed until the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods it was the largest temple in Greece. Its foundations were laid on the site of an earlier temple by the tyrant Pisistratus in 515 BC, but the work was abandoned when Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BC.
[Ref: 20158] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Attica from an Actual Survey by Mr. Stuart.
Drawn by A. Arrowsmith. J. Walker Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs by Elizabeth Stuart Feb: 12th 1794.
Engraved map. 660 x 620mm, 26 x 24½". Folded as issued, Two tears repaired.
Map of the peninsula of Attica, the region dominated by Athens in classical times. It was drawn by Aaron Arrowsmith, one of the leading English cartographers of the period, based on the survey made by James 'Athenian' Stuart and published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Stuart (1713-88) and Revett (1720-1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
[Ref: 26783] £260.00

[Germany] Attila, King of the Huns.
J. Chapman Sculp.
London Published March 10, 1810 by J. Wilkes.
Stipple with large margins. Plate 172 x 114mm. 6¾ x 4½".
Head and shoulders directed to left, head in profile, with a small beard and moustache, wearing a crown with a ribbon at the nape, a cloak of spotted animal fur tied in a bow over armour; in an oval with a plaque below showing spiked shields, spears and scimitar. Attila the Hun (406-453) was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. During his reign he was one of the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. One of a number of stipple heads of Kings and Queens of similar format printed on quarto sheets, by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810. They probably appeared as illustrations to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes'.
[Ref: 24538] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Général Auber-Dubayet aujourd'hui Ambassadeur en Turquie.
Boilly del.
Mezzotint with very large margins; band around waist coloured; 540 x 360mm (21¼ x 14¼").
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet (1759-1797), French general and politician during the Revolution, show full-length in uniform, a battle raging behind. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he fought in the American Revolutionary War before travelling to France at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. He began his political career with an anti-Jewish pamphlet 'Le cri du citoyen contre les Juifs', and was elected to the legislature in 1791. He served as President of the moderate 'Legislative Assembly' from 8 July 1792 to 22 July 1792, a month before the new National Convention took over, then as the Minister of Defense of France from November 1795 to February 1796. He was then appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, tasked with helping Selim modernise the army. He died of fever in Constantinople in 1797.
[Ref: 34981] £360.00

[Augustus Duke of Brunswick.] Domn Gottes Gnaden Christian...
Luneburgi Apud Stern [n.d., 1640.]
Engraving. Collector's stamp of Duke of Cambridge. Plate: 325 x 210mm (12¾ x 8¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet at corners.
A portrait of Augustus II (1579-1666) Duke of Brunswick-from the House of Welf.
[Ref: 49468] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Augustus II Rex. Pol. et Elect. Saxon.
Eggelhoff sc.
[Frankfurt am Main: Johann Adam Jung, 1719.]
Engraving. Plate 155 x 115mm (6" x 4½"), with large margins.
Augustus II (1670-1733), known as Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony as well as King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania. His death in 1733 sparked the War of the Polish Succession. Engraved by Johann Friedrich Eggelhoff (1680-1731) for 'Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises', a German edition of Allain Manesson Mallet's 'Description de L'Univers'.
[Ref: 57732] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus II] Frid. Aucust. D.G. Rex Polon. S.R.I. Archim. et Elect. Saxon. &c.
[Frankfurt am Main, n.d., 1652.]
Engraving. 225 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"), very large margins.
Portrait of Augustus II (1670-1733, 'The Strong'), king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, also Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. From 'Theatrum Europeaum'.
[Ref: 57735] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus II] August der Starke.
[German, 1837.]
Lithograph. Printed area 200 x 125mm (8 x 5") very large margins. Some spotting.
Portrait of Augustus II (1670-1733, 'The Strong'), king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, also Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. From 'Theatrum Europeaum'.
[Ref: 57736] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus III] Friderick Augustus, Rex Poloniarum Elector Saxoniæ.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 110mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed to image.
Portrait of Augustus III (1696-1763), wearing armour, ermine mantle and Order of the Golden Fleece. He was king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, also Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus II.
[Ref: 57733] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

De geboorte van den Ionge Cheur Prins van Saxen Carel Frederik Augustus Franciscus, op den 18 November 1720 [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Leon:Schenk Fecit.
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Pr. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, one spot on image.
A scene showing the birth of Frederick Augustus Franz Xavier, the first son of the King of Poland Augustus III (1696-1763), on 18 November 1720. He died two months later.
[Ref: 59302] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Serenissimus Princeps ac Dominus, Dn Augustus, Dei Gratia, Dux Brunsvicensis et Lunæburgensis
Sereniss.o Principi ac Dn. humilimè consecrat Lucas Kilianus, MDCXXI [but later].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Narrow margins.
Augustus II (1579-1666), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1636, founder of the Herzog August Library at Wolfenbüttel, the largest collection of books north of the Alps. He was a friend of Henry IV of France and attended the coronation of James I of England.
Hollstein 131.
[Ref: 59792] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Lake of Aushkul and Holy Mount.
R. Murchison Esq.re del. L. Haghe lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[London: John Murray, 1845.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"). With two registry pin holes in corners, as usual with this technique.
Aushkul Lake and mountain in the Urals, famed for its jasper, vases of which decorate the Hermitage staircase. The plate comes from Sir Roderick Impey's important monograph, 'The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains', the result of an expedition he made accompanied by Édouard de Verneuil (1805-73) and Count Alexander von Keyserling (1815-91). The expedition led to him describing the Permian geologic period, named after the Perm region of Russia, the last period of the Paleozoic era.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 52674] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Church [Austrian Hungarian Empire] and Monastry of the Holy Trinity for Redeeming Slaves, founded and endowed by the Emperor Leopold the Ist.
S. Kleiner delint. H. Roberts sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, 200 x 250mm. 7¾ x 9¾". Repaired tear to image. Slightly soiled.
After Salomon Kleiner (1703 - 1761), topographical draughtsman and engraver, who lived and worked most of his career in Vienna. Between 1723-27 he was working at court in Mainz. From a series of views, numbered '14' upper right.
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 10947] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Schnee-Lauven, oder Schnee-Bruche [...] Autre Espece de Lauven, dite Lauven de Terre, où les Neiges se glissent avec gran bruit dans les Vallèes, emportant et ruinant toute ce qu'elles recontrent. [&] Lauven, c.a.d. Glissage et Chüte des Neiges, qui tombent en frieuse quantité et presque per pendiculairement des roides Montagnes.
Duerringer pinxit. D. Herrliberger ex Zurich Cum Priv.
[Zürich: Ziegler 1754.]
Engraving. 295 x 155mm (11½ x 6").
Two scenes of an avalanche, in which a giant avalanche filled with chalets, trees and mountain goats, crashes onto a village. Plates 41 & 42 of 'Topographie der Eidgenossenschaft'.
[Ref: 57530] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Great St Bernard Hospice after Avalanche on Mount Marengo, 20 January 1825] Première echapée de vue sur le couvent du grand St. Bernard, avec la représentation de l'avalanche qui se précipita du mont Marengo, le 20 Janvier 1825.
Publié p.r J.P. Lamy à Basle, Berne, Lausanne, Genève. [c.1830]
Aquatint printed in black and sepia, platemark 180 x 200mm (7 x 8") very large margins.
[Ref: 46108] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Washing sheds, Avranches [in pencil].
G. Hayes [in pencil].
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching signed by the artist, 150 x 225mm (6 x 8¾"), with very large margins. Faint foxing.
Women wash laundry at a lavoir. By Gertrude Ellen Hayes (1872-1956), who married Alfred Kedington. Both were art tutors at Rugby School.
[Ref: 62607] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Don Féliz de Azara. Geb. zu Barbunales d.18 Mai 1746.
[n.d c.1780.]
Stipple. Plate 152 x 107mm. 6 x 4¼". Foxing.
Féliz de Azara (1742-1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist and engineer. He distinguished himself as an engineer in the Spanish Army and was set to South America to negotiate the border dispute between the Portuguese and Spanish colonies. He spent twenty years in South America and sent various notes and observations of a zoological nature to his brother, the then Spanish Ambassador at Paris. in 1801 Moreau to Saint-Mery published these notes and observations under the title "Essaie sur l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes du Paraguay". On his return he wrote "Voyage dans l'Amerique meridionale depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801".
[Ref: 26012] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Vignettes of Bad Kreuznach] Souvenir de Creuznach.
F.C. Klimsch gez. W.I. Cooke
Publié par B. Dondorf à Francfort s/m. [c.1850]
Steel-engraving on india, platemark 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼") large margins.
Views of landmarks in Bad Kreuznach, Germany.
[Ref: 46582] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Ober Baden.
Christopher Stimmer ft. [in ink under image.]
[Sebastian Munster, c.1550.]
Woodcut engraving. 265 x 355mm. 10½ x 14". Trimmed with a fold.
Over Baden, a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau, located in the Limmat Valley. From Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographiae Universalis".
[Ref: 20802] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Album with 30 portraits of rulers of Baden.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Folio, 19th century half morocco with marbled boards; with 30 lithographs, ea. 270 x 185mm (10¾ x 7¼"), pasted in. Spine rebacked with rexine, inner hinges strained; prints trimmed to printed border on three sides, spotting throughout.
Thirty full-length portraits of margraves (Markgrafs) of Baden, from Bertold I to Carl Willhelm (d.1666).
With a photocopied condition report with pencil mss from Rugby School.
[Ref: 55129] £450.00 view all images for this item

Domingo Badia y Leblich.
C Westermayr fecit.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. Plate 135 x 89mm. 5¼ x 3½".
Domingo Badia y Leblich (1766-1818) the Spanish traveller, known as Ali Bey. He set out from Cadiz in 1803 and travelled through North Africa, Syria and Arabia, reaching Mecca. He wrote 'Voyage d'Ali Bey en Asie et en Afrique' (1814).
[Ref: 25984] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[France] J.S.Bailley Député aux États Généraux de 1789, et Maire de Paris, Jugé à mort le 12 Novembre 1794.
Lavachez sc. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), astronomer, mathematician and politician who presided over the Tennis Court Oath. He was guillotined at the Champs de Mars for refusing to testify at Marie Antoinette's trial. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
Wellcome: 148-2
[Ref: 28400] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

J.n Silvain Bailly. Président de l'Assemblée Nationale. Néle 15 7.bre 1736. Collection Genérale des Portraits de M.M. les Députés à l'Assemblée Nationale tenue à Versailles le 4 Mai 1789. A.P.D.R.
De Vogues le J.ne del. A. Sergent excudit. Sergent sculp.
Chez Sergent rue Mauconseil, No 62. A Paris chez le Vache, M.d d'Estampes sous les Colonnades du Palais Royal, N.o 258. Et chez le meme à Versailles, rue des Chantiers, N.o 14.
Fine mezzotint, printed in sepia and black. Plate: 180 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"), very large margins. Faint marking in margins. Very slight repair above Bailly name.
A portrait of French mathematician, astronomer and early political leader of the French Revolution Jean Silvain Bailly (1736-1793). Bailly was the first to take the Tennis Court Oath on June 20th 1789 and became mayor of Paris following the storming of the Bastille. Bailly was executed during the Reign of Terror.
[Ref: 41614] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Philippus Baldæus Delphensis V.D. M. Primo Annum in Punte Gale, Postea in Regno Iaffnapatnam in Insula Ceylon 8 Annos, Iam in Geervliet 2. Ætatis 38. A. 1671.
vr. Sÿdervelt. I:v P. A. Blooteling sculp.
[1671.]
Engraving. Plate: 275 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½'') very large margins.
A portrait of Dutch minister Philips Baldaeus (1632-1671) who travelled to Ceylon.
[Ref: 49119] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Franciscus Baldwinus.
N. L'armessin sculp.
[n.d., 1682.]
Engraving, 190 x 140mm, 7½ x 5½". Trimmed.
Francis Baldwin (1520-1573), a jurist prominent as first a friend and then opponent of John Calvin. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
[Ref: 16998] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Balzac. Cire de l'Institut Royal de France.
Maurin. Lith de Delpech, a Paris.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 457 x 312mm. 18 x 12¼".
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594-1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 14356] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur de Balzac:
R. Gaywood fecit. [n.d., c.1660]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Rare; letterpress pasted below.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594 - 1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 37680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Bapteme Russe.
h.te Be.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Fine lithograph, paper watermarked. Image area 203 x 272mm. 8 x 10¾". Trimmed to image and around title area.
Russian baptism where the baby is held aloft over the font, with family members to the right. From an uncoloured copy of "Moeurs et costumes des Russes représentés en 50 planches coloriées exécutées en lithographie -- par A. C. Houbigant".
[Ref: 26566] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de l'isle Barbe à une lieue de Lyon.
Grobon del et sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The Roman church of Notre-Dame on Île Barbe, on the Saone near Lyon. Drawn and etched by Jean Michel Grobon (1770-1853). According to the BM 'all his prints bar one precede 1800'.
[Ref: 59405] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[France] [Louis Barbedor.] Lodoicus Barbedor e Stato Regii [...]
J. Boulanger delin. et sculpsit
1650
Engraving, very scarce; 17th century watermark of a crown; 315 x 220mm (12¼ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark; crease through centre.
Louis Barbedor (1589-1670), writing master. Anagrams of his name in Latin below. Published in 'Les Escritures financière et italienne bastarde dans leur naiveté'. Engraved by Jean Boulanger (1608-c.1680).
[Ref: 31128] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Antonio Barberini.]
R. Nanteuil ad vivam pinge. et sculpebat 1664.
Engraving. Sheet: 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼''). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1608-1671) who was the nephew of Urban VIII, he served as Papal Legate in Avignon, Great Almoner to the Queen of France from 1651 and was made Bishop of Poitiers in 1652.
Petitjean & Wickert 9.
[Ref: 49265] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Barcelona.
H. Swinburne Delin.t. Ellis sculp.t.
[London: Printed for P. Elmsly, 1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 200mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, text sheet (in English & French) pasted as overlay.
A view of Barcelona, published in 'Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776 in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot' by Henry Swinburne (1743-1803), an account of his travels with Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Spain was relatively unknown land. It was the first antiquarian book on Spain to be published in England, describing early Roman and Moorish architecture with historical background.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33309] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Città e del Porto di Barcellona, Capitale della Catalogna in Spagna.
[Engraved by Francesco Sesone.]
[Naples, c.1740.]
Engraving. 165 x 330mm (6½ x 13"). Binding folds and creases as normal.
A prospect of Barcelona, engraved by Sesone, showing the Lighthouse, Santa Maria del Mar and the castle of Montjuic.
[Ref: 49986] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona.]
Axel H. Haig [signed in pencil].
London Published 1919 by W.R. Howell & Co, The Gallery, Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright Registered. Printed by Chas. Welch.
Etching 470 x 315mm (18½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Axel Herman Haig (1835-1921), Swedish printmaker, painter and architect. While studying architecture with William Burgess in London Haig became interested in Gothic architecture and became known as the 'Piranesi of the Gothic Revival' for his evocations of the medieval world.
[Ref: 41254] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the City of Barcelona.
I. Basire Sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19"). Very fine impression with original binding folds, trimmed into printed border at top.
A plan of the defences of Barcelona, towards the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, after the Treaty of Utrecht had removed Britain from the hostilities. The capture of the city in 1714 ended Catalan hopes for independence from Spain. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 28281] £260.00

[Barcelona: Santa Maria del Mar.]
Axel H. Haig [pencil].
London. Published 1913, by W.R. Howell & Co, The Gallery, Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright. Printed by Chas. Welch.
Etching, signed by the artist. 420 x 280mm (16½ x 11"), with wide margins. Mint.
A street scene outside a church. Originally published in 1889 as a limited edition of 150, priced at 3 guineas.
Nordaught Crook & Lennox-Boyd: Axel Haig 87.
[Ref: 51731] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Jean Bart.
J. Chapman sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Laid on scrap sheet.
A portrait in an oval of French naval commander and privateer Jean Bart (1650 - 1702). Jean Bart was born in Dunkirk in 1650 and almost certainly spoke Flemish, at that time the native language in the region. When war broke out between France and the United Provinces in 1672, Bart entered the French service and became captain of one of the Dunkirk privateers. In this capacity he displayed such astonishing bravery, that Louis XIV sent him on a special mission to the Mediterranean, where he gained great distinction. He went on to achieve his greatest successes during the Nine Years' War (1688–1697).
[Ref: 34443] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Jean Bart. Ne a Dunkerque en 1650. Mort en 1702. Du grand Louis Jean-Bart etendit la puissance, L'Empire de Thetis admira sa valeur Et toujours ce soutien du pavillon de France Sera de nos marins le modele & l'honneur. Dedie aux Marins, a l'honneur, au courage et a l'amour de la patrie. En 181 paroitra le Portrait de l'Admiral Nelson.
Peint d'apres Nature par Hyacinthe Rigaud. Grave par Perrot.
Publie a Paris en 181 par Mr. Bernardini Illyrien, ancien Commissaire Principal de la Marine, de S.M. le Roi des Deux Siciles. Depose a la Direction generale.
Stipple printed in colour. Sheet 360 x 445mm. Tatty margins with some discolouration.
Jean Bart, French naval commander and privateer, who achieved his greatest successes during the War of the Grand Alliance (1688 - 1697). He captured 386 ships, destroying many more..
[Ref: 4902] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tamkupt. / Baschkir.
Schadow del. Buchhorn sculp.
[n.d., c.1813].
Aquatint, very scarce. Sheet size: 260 x 333mm. (10¼ x13"). Trimmed with lower corners of sheet missing.
A Bashkir archer on horseback with bow and arrow poised to fire. The Bashkirs are Turkic people, indigenous to Bashkortostan, extending on both sides of the Ural Mountains, the area where Europe meets Asia. Ludwig Buchhorn (1770 - 185) is considered to be the most eminent draughtsman of his time besides J.G. Schadow, with whom he regularly worked with. This print is taken from 'Russische Kriegsvöler', first published in 1813.
[Ref: 31404] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] I.B. Basedow.
J.D. Philipp geb: Syrang sc.
[German, n.d., c.1731 (?per pencil annotation to verso).]
Etching, 215 x 175mm. 8½ x 7". Slight stain lower right.
Oval portrait in profile of Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724 – 1790), German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular illustrated textbook for children.
[Ref: 21605] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen gebeüwen.
C.S. RMD.
[Basel, n.d., c.1570.]
Woodcut. Printed area 270 x 350mm, 10½ x 13¾". Small split in upper centrefold repaired.
Early map-view of Basel, drawn by Christoph Schweicker (whose initials appear in the Rhine on the left) and engraved by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (monogram RMD bottom left), published in Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographia'. Basel was Münster's home city: he was Professor of Hebrew at Basle University, editing the Hebrew Bible and translating it into Latin. He died of the plague in 1552. His 'Cosmographia' one of the most successful books of the C16th, with 24 editions.
[Ref: 13170] £220.00

Bazel, enn beroemde Stadt aen den Ryn, alwaer het graf is van Erasmus.
Pet: Schenk Amst. C.P.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 215 x 270mm. Stitch holes in left margin.
A prospect of Basel in Switzerland. The title notes that it is where Erasmus was buried.
[Ref: 7480] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Schoon gezicht der Stad Bazel.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 215 x 270mm. Stitch holes in left margin.
A view of Basel in Switzerland, looking along the banks of the Rhine.
[Ref: 7482] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect der Statt Basel von Seiten der Vestung Hüningen. Vue et Perspective de la ville de Bâle du côté de Huningue. (Coat of arms and key listing buildings beneath the image.)
Em Büchel delin. et pinxit, I. M. Weis Argent. sc. 1744.
Cum Privil. Ampliss. Senat. Basil.
A rare engraving. Plate 458 x 679mm. 18 x 26¾".
A view of Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine towards the Mittlere Brücke with the Basler Münster in the background. Boats and rafts on the river; a fisherman in the near foreground. Emmanuel Büchel, Swiss artist, 1705-1775, was baker, illustrator, topographer and painter and Johann Martin Weis 1711-1751, was a German engraver from Stuttgart. This is print number two of a series of four prints drawn by Büchel between 1743 and 1747 and engraved by J.M. Weiss in Strasbourg.
[Ref: 20210] £520.00

[Basel.]
A.W. [in plate]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with strong hand colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 330 x 1150mm (13 x 45¼"). In 19th century frame with the label of a Basel framer. Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Unexamined out of frame.
An elevated view looking north, probably from the Basel Minster, with the Middle Bridge (the oldest bridge site on the Rhine) in the foreground. An ink inscription on the backboard identifies the artist as J.J. Schneider (John Jacob, 1822-1887).
[Ref: 55159] £850.00

[Woodcut commemorating Basel joining the Swiss Confederation in 1501] Basel win Welt-beruehmte Vandeels-Statt / tratt in Bund Ano 1501 [...]
[Anon., sixteenth century]
Woodcut with hand-colouring, sheet 280 x 150mm (11 x 6"). Slight loss bottom right. Repairs, damage.
[Ref: 46379] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Belarus] Son Éminence Monseigneur Basile Archevèque de Polotsk et de Vitebsk. Histoire Général (Partie qui comprend les Chefs et les Membres du Clergé des Différentes Églises) dont la publication sw continue à Genève.
A. Lugardon, Lith. Imp. Vauthey.
[Paris, c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph on india, with title on backing sheet. 290 x 220mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Large margins.
Basil, the Archbishop of Polotsk in Belarus, probably of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church.
[Ref: 38986] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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