Grosvenor Prints

Blaise Pascal ne en 1623, mort en 1662.
[J. C. François.]
[Paris: Brunet, c.1760.]
Soft-ground etching, printed in red on watermarked laid paper, printed area 250 x 185mm. 9¾ x 7¼". One pin hole and paint smudge to upper margin. Cut to image on right.
Portrait of Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. In honour of his scientific contributions, the name Pascal has been given to the SI unit of pressure and to Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics); Pascal's triangle and Pascal's wager are also named for him. From Alexandre Savérien's 'Histoire des Philosophes modernes', published in eight 4to volumes from 1760-1767. 79 plates (and eight frontispieces) were engraved for the book. The plates engraved for vols 3-8 are adaptated to an in-12mo format, with the addition of a crayon manner border engraved by Jean Charles François (1717 - 1769), inventor of the technique in 1757.
Wellcome 2240 - not in.
[Ref: 22217] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Patterson [facsimile autograph].
T.H. Maguire 1849.
M. & N. Hanhart Lith. Printers.
Lithograph on india. Printed area 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½).
Robert Patterson (1802–1872) Belfast-born businessman and naturalist, founder member of the Belfast Natural History Society (1821), elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1859. He wrote 'Patterson's Zoological Diagrams, prepared for the Department of Science and Art' (1859), which was illustrated by Joseph Wolf. His son and grandson, both Roberts, were also naturalists.
Wellcome 2249.
[Ref: 51181] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, known as Sister Dora]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 216 x 141mm.
Philanthropist and Nurse. [1832-1878]
[Ref: 3458] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Geo Peacock [facsimile autograph].
Douglas Y. Blakiston, pinx. G. Zobel, Sculp.
Published Decr. 30th 1859, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, London. Printed by T. Brooker.
Mezzotint on india laid paper, 420 x 315mm.
George Peacock (1791 - 1858), dean of Ely and mathematician. A fine impression.
Not in Wellcome or BM.
[Ref: 7512] £360.00

Thomas Pellet M.D. Praeses Coll: Reg: Medicorum Londinens, Anno 1739.
MDahl pinx.t. J. Faber fecit
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, sheet 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Thread margins.
Thomas Pellett (c.1671-1744), physician. A resident of Covent Garden (he was buried in the churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden), Pellett was a fellow of the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians. This engraving is done from a 1737 portrait by Swedish painter Michael Dahl in the Royal College of Physicians. The engraving shows various changes from the oil painting, most notably on the right where a classical bust has been inserted. Pellett was also painted by Hogarth.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 280 (only state). Wellcome Ref: 7748i.
[Ref: 34101] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Pennant Esq.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 20, 1787 by Peter Mazell, Engraver No. 32 James Street, Covent Garden.
Etching, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"). Foxed.
Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798), naturalist and topographer. Detail from the painting by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) in the collection of the National Museum of Wales, engraved by John Keyse Sherwin (1751? - 1790).
Not in BM. NPG: D14536. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth; for another engraving from the same picture (also by Sherwin) see ref. 19819.
[Ref: 9637] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Tho Pennant [facsimile signature].
Chapman sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis May 1823.
Hand-coloured stipple, with large margins; 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
Portrait of Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798), naturalist and topographer; in profile in oval. One of a number of stipple heads for the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature' originally published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810.
Wellcome 2267-11.
[Ref: 26343] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Iohannes Friedricus Pentherus, Magn. Brit. Regi a consiliis Oecon. Prof. P. Ord. in Academia Georgia Augusta, quae Goettingae est, aedium publicarum Ephorus suprem. Nat. d. 17. Maii 1693. Furstenwalde. Dec. VIII.
G.D. Heumann del. I.I. Haid scul. et exc. A. v.
[n.d. c.1750].
Mezzotint. 200 x 320mm.
Johann Friedrich Penther (16931749) was a German mathematician and architect based at Gottingen.
W 2270.
[Ref: 3179] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Wm. Hasledine Pepys. Athenaeum Portraits No. 34.
Walter Pinxt. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the King.
London Pubd. May 1836, by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Lithograph. 170 x 145mm.
Member of the Philosophical Institute. Very rare.
[Ref: 6419] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

William Phillips F.R.L. & G.S.S.
[John Elliot. Maxim Gauci.]
[John & Arthur Arch.][n.d., c.1831.]
Lithograph, printed in chine collé. Sheet: 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Foxing in borders.
A portrait of mineralogist and geologist William Phillips (1773-1828).
[Ref: 50586] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Robertus Poole, Doctor Medicinae AEtatis suae 35 An.o Dom: 1743
Aug.s Armstrong pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Paper tone; crease top right.
Robert Poole (1707/8-52), physician and theological writer. As a physician's pupil at St Thomas's Hospital he published (under a pseudonym) a meticulous description of the hospital, 'A Physical Vade Mecum [...]' (1741). He later travelled widely, studying in France and visiting Gibraltar and the West Indies. This portrait was included in his 'Journal from London to France and Holland, or, the Traveller's Useful Vade Mecum'. Only likeness.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 292 (only state). Wellcome Library no. 7916i.
[Ref: 34108] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

E'ffigies Johannis Pordage. Philosophi Medici Theologi. Authoris bujus Figurae hierogliphiae.
[William Faithorne.]
Pub.d by W. Richardson Castle Street Leicester Square. [n.d. c.1795.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 204 x 159mm. 8 x 6¼".
John Pordage (1607-1681) was an Anglican priest, astrologer, alchemist and Christian mystic. He founded the English Behmenist group, which later became known as the Philadelphian Society.
NPG: D28905. W: 2361.
[Ref: 24609] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

James Poro. Shewn in London in the Year 1714. (see Gent. Mag. Vol.XLVII. p 424.)
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching, 180 x 120mm.
James Poro opens his shirt to expose a baby-sized conjoined twin, called Matthew, growing from his chest with long hair divided into plaits, which he rests on the table top. These subjects of a twin birth, joined at the navel, were exhibited in London in 1714.
[Ref: 7743] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. _ F.R.S.
Hopwood sculp.
Pub.d by H.D. Symonds, June 1.1804.
Stipple. 178 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Narrow margins.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, Dissenting clergyman and scientist, renowned for his discovery of oxygen and carbon monoxide. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was an avid supporter of the American and French Revolutions, resulting in him leaving for the USA as the British government cracked down on radicals.
Wellcome Library no. 7967i; ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25310] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

J. Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S.
Angus sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½").
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, Dissenting clergyman and scientist, renowned for his discovery of oxygen and carbon monoxide. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was an avid supporter of the American and French Revolutions, resulting in him leaving for the USA as the British government cracked down on radicals.
W: 2385-4.
[Ref: 24613] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S.
[J.Walker., Feb.1, 1782.]
Engraving. 171 x 114mm (6¾ x 4½").
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, Dissenting clergyman and scientist, renowned for his discovery of oxygen and carbon monoxide. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was an avid supporter of the American and French Revolutions, resulting in him leaving for the USA as the British government cracked down on radicals.
W: 2385-3.
[Ref: 24611] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Priestley. L.L.D: F.R.S.
W. Bromley Sculp.
Publish'd by J. Sewell Cornhill. 1. Jan:y 1791.
Engraving with small margins. Platemark: 175 x 115mm. (6¾ x 4¼"). Watermarked paper, 'WL'.
Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1773 - 1840), bust, turned to the left. Below are allegorical figures refering to Preistley's discovery of oxygen. An illustration to the 'European Magazine'. Priestley was an 18th-century English theologian, clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state.
[Ref: 31662] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Priestley. L.L.D: F.R.S. &c. Universal Magazine & Review
J. Hazlitt pinxt. A. McDonald sculp.
[n.d., c.1790]
Rare stipple. Sheet 130 x 105mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark. Slight damage right corners.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, Dissenting clergyman and scientist, renowned for his discovery of oxygen and carbon monoxide. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was an avid supporter of the American and French Revolutions, resulting in him leaving for the USA as the British government cracked down on radicals. Engraved after a portrait by John Hazlitt (1767-1837), brother of the celebrated essayist William Hazlitt. John himself worked in the US as a young man, returning to England in 1787.
Not in O'D.
[Ref: 35828] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Priestley. L.L.D: F.R.S.
London: Sold by D. Eaton 187 High Holborn [n.d., c.1804].
Engraving. 200 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper. Trimmed within plate top and left.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, Dissenting clergyman and scientist, renowned for his discovery of oxygen and carbon monoxide. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was an avid supporter of the American and French Revolutions, resulting in him leaving for the USA as the British government cracked down on radicals.
[Ref: 53463] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, Dissenting clergyman and scientist, renowned for his discovery of oxygen and carbon monoxide. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was an avid supporter of the American and French Revolutions, resulting in him leaving for the USA as the British government cracked down on radicals.
Wellcome Library 2385.
[Ref: 57210] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mr William Prowting. Aged 86.
Painted by L. Abbot. Engraved by C. Townley Member of the Universities of Florence and Berlin.
[London, C. Townley, c.1800.]
Mezzotin, rare. 360 x 280mm (14 x 11"). Edges chipped.
William Prowting (1708-94), apothecary on Tower Hill; treasurer of St Luke's and of the Apothecaries' Company. Engraved by Charles Townley after Lemuel Francis Abbott, this portrait shows him sitting with a snuff-box in his hand.
Wellcom 2393-1; CS 21.
[Ref: 30954] £320.00

Pythagoras.
W. Elder sculp.
[n.d. c.1700, but later.]
Engraving. 140 x 89mm. 5½ x 3½". Cut.
Pythagoras of Samos (c.570-c.495BC), the Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is particularly remembered for his Pythagorean theorem in the field of mathematics.
[Ref: 24546] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir William Ramsay] ''Chemistry.'' Vanity Fair Supplement.
Spy [Leslie Ward].
[Vanity Fair, 1908.]
Collotype. Sheet 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾").
Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), KCB, FRS, FRSE, chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904.
[Ref: 46395] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre Ramus. ne en 1515, mort en 1572.
[J. C. François.]
[Paris: Brunet, c.1760.]
Crayon manner, printed in red on watermarked laid paper, printed area 245 x 180mm. 9¾ x 7".
Portrait of Pierre de la Ramée (Peter Ramus, 1515 – 1572), French humanist, logician, and educational reformer; in profile to the right, his left hand placed on a book. A Protestant, he fled from Paris in 1561 and returned only to be murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, which saw Roman Catholic violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. From Alexandre Savérien's 'Histoire des Philosophes modernes', published in eight 4to volumes from 1760-1767. 79 plates (and eight frontispieces) were engraved for the book. The plates engraved for vols 3-8 are adapted from a 12mo format, with the addition of a crayon manner border engraved by Jean Charles François (1717 - 1769), inventor of the technique in 1757.
Wellcome 2435 - not in.
[Ref: 22194] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Ramus Gallus.
Johann Bussem: excud: Colonie.
[Köln, c.1580.]
Engraving, scarce. Sheet 140 x 90mm, 5½ x 3½". Trimmed, laid on card.
Portrait of the French humanist Petrus Ramus (or Pierre de la Ramée, 1515-72), engraved by Johann Bussemacher, with one hand on a globe, the other holding a set of compasses. Ramus, a convert to Protestantism, was stabbed to death during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572.
[Ref: 25783] £350.00

Franciscus Raphe-Lengius.
De Larmessin, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1682.]
Engraving, with very large margins. Plate 184 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½".
Frans van Ravelingen (1539-1597), the Flemish-born Dutch scholar, printer and bookseller. In 1587 he held the chair in Hebrew at Leiden University. In 1613 a copy of his Arabic-Latin lexicon was published, and this was said to be the first proper dictionary of the Arabic language. From Isaac Bullart's "Académie des Sciences et des Arts".
In the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
[Ref: 26051] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Récamier.]
Peint par Paulin Guérin. Gravé par F. Girard.
Imprimé par Alfred Chardon, J.ne rue Racine, 3, Paris. [n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint, scarce. Sheet 535 x 380mm (21 x 15"). Tear in top edge. Margins rubbed.
Joseph-Claude-Anthelme Récamier (1774-1852), French gynecologist who coined the term ''metastasis''. His two most important papers are: 'Recherches sur le traitement du cancer' (Research on Treatment of Cancer, 1829) & 'Recherches sur le traitement du cholera-morbus' (Research on Treatment of Cholera, 1832), which is shown propped up on the table next to him in this portrait.
[Ref: 46396] £450.00

Mark Ridley. Missus ab Elisa Ruthenis quinque per amnos Anglis ni desis te Vocat illa domum Tute mathematicis clarus magnetica calles Paeonias laudes doctus Ubique capis.
Pub. by Wm. Richardson Castle Street Leicester Fields. [n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. Plate 177 x 133mm. 7 x 5¼". Trimmed.
Dr Mark Ridley (1560-1624) was an English physician. He served as physician to the English merchants in Russia, to the Tsar of Russia; during which he complied a Russian-English, English-Russian Dicitionary. As a mathematician, he also wrote on magnetism. Frontis to "Treatise of Magneticall Bodies, 1613".
W: 2493.
[Ref: 20030] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

François Rivard Professeur de Philosophie en l'Uni-versité de Paris, au College du Beauvais.
Suite de Desrochers.
a Paris chez Petit rue S. Jacques pres les Mathurins. 1743.
Copper engraving. Plate 152 x 107mm. 6 x 4¼". Large margins.
[Ref: 15769] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. John Robeson, PR. of NAT. PHIL. Edinburgh.
From Tassie. Mackenzie sc.
[n.d c.1780].
Stipple engraving. 70 x 85mm. Light foxing.
Mathematician and philosopher [1739 - 1805].
[Ref: 5867] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Jacques Rohault Philosophe Cartesien, néa Amiens mort a Paris, en 1675 agé de 55 ans, oct effigies est tiré sur son Tombeau que es a St.e a Paris.. Cet Illustre Cartesien Astonomie et Phisicien Guidé para une raison Sure, Penetre les Secrets de la Terre et des Cieux: Et Scrutateur de la Nature Nous decouvre a l'Espritee quelle cache aux yeux.
Se vend, AParis chez E. Desrochers reu du Foin pres la rue St. Iacques. [n.d. c.1770.]
Copper engraving. Watermarked. 152 x 108mm. 6 x 4¼". Diagonal crease through image.
Jacques Rohault (1618-1672) was a French philosopher, physicist and mathematician, and a follower of Cartesianism.
W: 2527.
[Ref: 15770] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe]
C.H.Jeend [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 211 x 137mm.
Chemist. [1833-1915]
W: 2538.
[Ref: 3459] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies, Alexandri Rossaei Anno aetatis 63.
P. Lombart Sculpsit Londin.
[n.d. c.1650].
Engraving. 70 x 130mm.
Ross, Alexander 1591-1654, miscellaneous writer, born at Aberdeen
[Ref: 3944] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Sketch of John Rutter M.D.
Drawn on stone and presented to the Liverpool Medical Institution Bazaar by W G H.
P by T. Physick Manchester. [n.d., c.1850].
Lithograph with large margins, rare. Sheet size: 385 x 280mm. (15¼ x 11").
A portrait, seated, in profile to the right, of John Rutter, one of the founders of the Liverpool Medical Institution. Liverpool Medical Institution is one of the oldest medical societies in the world, tracing its origins to the founding of the Liverpool Medical Library in 1779. For 50 years the Liverpool Medical Library was situated variously at the Liverpool Infirmary on Shaw's Brow, and the Liverpool Dispensary in Church Street. In the 1830s a campaign masterminded by Dr John Rutter, led to the raising of sufficient funds to erect the present building, which was opened in May 1837.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 31687] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ricardus Saunders. [Greek lettering follows.] Art and the Grauer did in Councell sit, The last to shew his Fate this first his witt But not being able: For to ioyne in one Two things where each migt make perfection Themselves they did devide and parts they took The Graver drew his face and Art his Booke.
[n.d. c.170.]
Copper engraving. 228 x 152mm. 9 x 6". Slight damage at corners. Cut to image.
Richard Saunders (1613-1692) was the central figure in the study of chiromancy. He produced his first work 'Physiognomie, Chiromancie, Metoposcopie' in 1653, with an introduction and approbation written by William Lilly. Holding a Horoscope Globe.
In the NPG.
[Ref: 23990] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Charles Scarborough.
[n.d. c.1820s]
Watercolour. 125 x 100mm.
[1616 - 1694]. Physician to Charles II, James II, and Mary II. By George Perfect Harding [1781 - 1853], portrait painter, copyist and antiquary.
[Ref: 2986] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

J. Scharp. Aet. LVIII. Doctor in de Godgeleerdheid, Lid van het Hollandsch Instituut, Predikant te Rotterdam. opgedragen aan de Maatschappy Verscheidenheid & OvereenStemming. [stuck on to left-hand margin: with his signature on slip of paper.] Jan Scharp V.D.Ap.
J. Smits pinx. J. Bemmer. Sculpt. et Excud.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. 468 x 366mm. 18½ x 14½". Crease bottom left-hand corner. Water stain to left-hand side.
January Scharp. (1756-1828) was a Dutch theologian, preacher and poet. Doctor in Theology.
[Ref: 14577] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Joh: Jacobus Scheuchzerus: Med. D. Helvetio-Tiguinus Soc: Reg: Lond: et Acad. Nat.
IBBrühl Sc. Lips.
[n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving, rare. 131 x 78mm (5¼ x 3"). Cut.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the Swiss scholar. He took his degree of doctor in medicine at the University of Utrecht and then went to Altdorf to complete his mathematical studies. He then returned to his home town of Zurich and was made junior town physician with the promise of professorship of mathematics. In 1733 he was promoted to the chair of physics with the office of senior town physician.
W: 2646-2.
[Ref: 29901] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christophorus Theophilus Scheurl a Defersdorf.
Christophorus Weigelius. [Nuremberg, Germany, c.1715.]
Mezzotint, 275 x 190mm. 10¾ x 7½". A fine impression.
Portrait in oval frame of Christoph Theophilus Scheurl (1641 - 1713), physician at Nuremberg; coat of arms below. By Christoph Weigel (1654 - 1725).
Wellcome: 2647.
[Ref: 16863] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Erasmus Schmidius Delitzio - Misnicus, Natus MDLXX Denatus MDCXXXVII, Universitatis Wittemberg. Senior & Annos XL.P.P.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 310 x 190mm. 12¼ x 7½". Cut.
Erasmus Schmidt (1570-1637), German philologist, linguist, and mathematician. Image shows a sphere, books on science & a clock.
[Ref: 27958] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ludovicus Septallius. Louys Septal.
NDL [overlapping in image area.]
[n.d. c.1695.]
Engraving. 203 x 152mm. 8 x 6". Trimmed.
Ludovicus Septallius (1553-1633), a philosopher, physician, pharmacologist and professor at the University of Pavia.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 21484] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Adrian von Seumenicht] Hadrianus, a Minsicht, Germanus, Com: Pal: Phil: Et Med: D: P.L. Caes: Nec Non Diver: S.R. Prin. Consil Et Arch:
D. Diricksen Hamburg sculpt [in image]
[n.d., c.1685.]
Rare engraving, sheet 175 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet.
Adrien von Seumenicht (1588-1638), alchemist best known for his work 'Aureum Saeculum Redivivum' (The Golden Age Restored). In an oval frame surrounded by alchemical and mathematical instruments, two of which supported by angels, with six lines of Latin text by Jonas Angelus in cartouche below. Probably a frontispiece to a volume of his works.
Wellcome Library no. 7128i; for another portrait of Seumenicht see ref. 13322.
[Ref: 39754] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Col. Tal. P. Shaffner, LL.D. &c. Projector of the North Atlantic Telegraph.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Steel engraving, printed area 280 x 170mm..
Tagliaferro Preston Shaffner, (1818-1881), his hand resting on a globe showing the Atlantic Ocean, which he attempted to run a telegraph cable across, from America to Europe, in 1857. The project was unsuccessful due largely to poor financing. He was editor of the American Telegraphic Magazine, and also wrote ‘The Telegraph Manual’ (1859).
[Ref: 4162] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d Barnabas Shaw. Missionary to South Africa.
Painted by J. Jackson, R.A. Engraved by W.T. Fry.
By appointment of the Wesleyan Book Committee 14, City Road. [n.d. c.1860.]
Stipple. 215 x 120mm (8½ x 4¾"). Soiling.
Barnabas Shaw (1821-1902) was sent by the Missionary Committee to join his father in South Africa. His first appointment in Africa was to the Cape Town Circuit, from whence he removed to Raithby, where failure of voice began to trouble him.
[Ref: 28555] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Shebbeare.
From an orig. Draw.g Armstrong sculpt.
Published by Harrison & Co. Nov.r 1. 1795.
Engraving and letterpress. 210 x 114mm. 8¼ x 4½".
John Shebbeare (1709-1788) was a British tory political satirist and entered into a partnership with a chemist in 1736 when he moved to Bristol. In 1740 he published 'A New Analysis of the Bristol Waters; together with the Cause of Diabetes and Hectic, and their Cure, as it results from those Waters'.
In the National Library of Medicine. W: 2720-2.
[Ref: 24615] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

A.J. Sigaud de la Fond, ancien Pro=fesseur de Mathématiques, de monstrateur de Physique expérimentale en l’Université, de la Societé Royale des Sciences de Montpellier, des Académie de Petersbourg, Dangers, de Baviere, de Valladolid, de Florence, &c.&c.
Naudin. Pinx. Coron Sculp. 1777 (bit later).
Aparis chéz l'Auteur, Rue des Anglais, vis-à-vis la rue de Platre 1.
Engraving on india with large margins. Plate 156 x 89mm (6¼ x 3½").
Joseph-Aigan Sigaud Lafond (1730-1810), the French physicist and teacher who was a pupil of Abbe Nollet.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 29617] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

James Sims, M. & L.L.D. Pres. Med. Soc. London.
Painted by S. Medley. Engrav'd by W. Holl.
Publish'd October 1, 1804, by H.D. Symonds.
Stipple. 166 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½". Few marks top left off image.
Dr James Sims (1741-1820) was a physician and president of the Medical Society of London.
W: 2742.
[Ref: 24614] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
T. Prescott, sculp.
Pub.d by C. Dyer, Soho [n.d., c.1810].
Stipple, printed in brown, watermark 1809. Printed area 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Profile portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
Wellcome Library no. 8800i.
[Ref: 59825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, plate 175 x 105mm (7 x 10¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small right margin.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
[Ref: 59826] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane M.D.
W. Holl.
A. Fullarton & Co. London & Edinburgh [n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving, plate 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Small margins except top.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum. Copied from the mezzotint by Faber after T. Murray.
Not in BM. W 2750-8.
[Ref: 61114] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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