Grosvenor Prints

Louis XVI Roi de France [&] La Reine de France
[Anon., c.1790]
Very scarce pair of woodcuts with early hand-colouring, each approx 110 x 90mm (4¼ x 3½"). Both glued to backing sheets with other prints of Louis XVI verso.
Pair of popular prints of Louis XVI and his queen Marie-Antoinette, who were both executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution.
[Ref: 37551] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Dionysius Marin Regi a Sanctioribus Consiliis et Ærarii Præfectus.
Dieu pinxit. Nanteuil sculpebat 1661.
Engraving. Plate: 325 x 245mm (12¾ x 9¾'').
A portrait of French statesman Denis Marin (1600-1678) who came from a humble background but nevertheless led a successful career, he was appointed trésorier général des fermes in 1638, Secretary to the King, Councillor of State in 1648, and Intendant of armies and finances in 1656. He married Marguerite Colbert, cousin of the Great Colbert.
Petitjean & Wickert 151.I
[Ref: 49271] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Veue du Chateau de Marli du bas du grand Parterre. A View of ye Palace of Marli from y.e bottom of y.e great Parterre.
J. Rigaud, del.
Published 12.th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London [but c. 1818].
Etching with strong original hand colour. 245 x 425mm (9¾ x 16¾"), very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album.
The garden at the château of Marly, with promenaders walking around ornamental pounds with fountains, the house in the background. While Versailles was being transformed to become the chief residence of the King and the Court, Louis XIV commissioned Jules-Hardouin Mansart to convert the Marly estate, to escape the stifling etiquette of Court life. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 60200] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[France] J.F. Marmontel de l'Academie Francoise.
H. Godin Sculp.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 145 x 83mm. 5¾ x 3¼".
Jean-Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement. He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1763.
[Ref: 23235] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A View from the Port of Marseilles. L'Interieur du Port de Marseilles
Vernet Pinx.t J Boydell Sculp.t
Sold by I. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, 1762.
Very scarce hand coloured engraving on 18th century water marked paper. Plate 255 x 395mm (10 x 15½), with large margins.
A busy scene in the port of Marseille in the south of France. Crowds of people stand with their goods as workers load and unload the ships. One ship seems to have capsized. After Claude-Joseph Vernet's Intérieur du port de Marseille.
[Ref: 56297] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Marseilles.
[Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.]
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm, 5¼ x 6½".
A chart of the environs of Marseilles, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13669] £60.00

Marseille. Vue prise au dessus de la Gare du Chemin de Fer. Voyage Aérien en France.
Dessiné par Guesdon. Lith. par A. Cuvillier.
Paris, publié par A. Hauser, boul. des Italiens 11. Imp. Lemercier à Paris.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 395 x 560mm (15½ x 22"), with very large margins.
An elevated view of Marseilles from above the railway station.
[Ref: 55296] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Marseilles.]
[Venice, c.1503.]
Woodcut. 65 x 80mm (2½ x 3¼"), set in Latin letterpress.
A sheet from Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo's 'Novissime Hystoriæ', with a rather diagramatical prospect of Marseilles to illustrate the account of the city's founding by the Greeks in 600BC. Foresti was a noted historian in his day: his 'Supplementum Chronicarum' (1491), was plagarised by Hartmann Schedel for the more famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle' (1493).
[Ref: 30682] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bataille de Massore, où les Sarrazins furent deux fois vaincus par Sainct Lovys, l'an 1249. [and] Bataille de Cassel, où les Flamans furent vaincus par les François, l'an 1329.
N. Cohin f.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Two etchings, each c.180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"), set in letterpress. Trimmed at sides, pasted back to back.
Two scenes of mediaeval French history: the first shows one of the few victories of Louis IX against the Saracens during the Seventh Crusade; the second shows the Battle of Cassel (1328), in which Philip VI defeated an army of Flemish peasants who have rebelled against his taxation policies.
[Ref: 45119] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Pierre Mauru.
[Haussman effig. pinx. J.F. Bausse sculp.]
[A.F. Oesser orn.]
Engraving, scarce with small margins; platemark 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾). Proof before artist's names.
Portrait of Pierre Mauru, ecclesiastic, observed by a child reading Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man'.
[Ref: 31878] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Ortance Manzini Duchesse de Mazarin, etc.
P.Lely Pinx. A De Blois fecit.
N. Visscher exc: [n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint. Early watermark in paper. Platemark: 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Small margins. Light horizontal crease.
Ortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (1646-1699), court beauty; half length in an oval, hair in curls, wearing a low dress.
CS: 7.
[Ref: 38436] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Ortance Manzini Duchesse de Mazarin, etc.
P.Lely Pinx. A De Blois fecit.
N. Visscher exc: [n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint. Image 200 x 145mm. Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper; hole in subscription area.
Ortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (1646-1699), court beauty.
CS: 7.
[Ref: 7245] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Jule Mazarin. Cardinal, Evèque de Metx, Abbé de Saint Arnoul, de St. Clement et de St. Vincent de la meme ville de Metz...né à Piscina dans l’Abruzze le 14 Juillet 1602; mort d Vincennes le 9 Mars 1661. No. 43.
Sergent del et Sculp 1790.
AParis, chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille-Douce, Place Maubert, No.17, vis-a-vis la Rue des 3-Portes, A.P.D.R.
Coloured aquatint, with large margins. Plate 247 x 165mm. 9¾ x 6½". Some light spotting.
Plate 43 of an unidentified set: bust portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, slightly turned to the right; within oval, with coat of arms at the bottom Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) the French-Italian cardinal, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister of France from 1642 until his death. He succeeded his mentor, Cardinal Richelieu. His personal library was the origin of the Bibliotheque Mazarine in Paris.
[Ref: 26892] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mazarin Conclut la Paix des Pyrénés et le Mariage de Louis XIV.
Desfontaines del. 1790. Moret Sculp.
A Paris, chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille Douce, Place Maubert, No.17, vis-a-vis la Rue des 3 Portes, A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1790.]
Aquatint with fine colour, with engraved text. 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), with wide margins. Stain in engraved text bottom left.
Jules Mazarin concluding the Treaty of the Pyrenees (7th November 1659), ending the Franco-Spanish War and agreeing the marriage between Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain, the daughter of Philip IV. From the series 'Portraits des Grands Hommes et Femmes Illustres, et sujets mémorables de France', published between 1786-92.
[Ref: 55602] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Jules Mazarin.]
F. Migard, P. F. Poilly Sculp. 1660.
Engraving. 400 x 295mm (15¾ x 11½"). Trimmed within image, small nick in bottom edge, creased, ink collector's stamp affecting bottom right corner.
Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin (1602-61), an Italian cardinal who Chief Minister to Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 until his death.
Ink stamp unidentified.
[Ref: 49643] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie de' Medici] La destinée de la Reine. Les Parques filent la vie de la Reine sous l'heureuse constellation de Jupiter [...]
Rubens pinxit. J.B. Nattier delin Lud. de Chastillon sculp.
A Paris chez Duchange Graveur du Roy, rue St Jacques au dessus de la rue des Mathurins. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving, platemark 505 x 235mm (19¾ x 9¼").
The Destiny of Marie de' Medici, the first picture in Rubens' great narrative cycle on the life of Marie. The three Fates, on clouds beneath Juno and Jupiter, spin the thread which determines Marie's destiny. Consisting of twenty-four paintings, the series was commissioned by Marie for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. They now hang in the Louvre.
[Ref: 35030] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie de Medici surrounded by her children]
[Lucas Vorsterman after Nicolaas van der Horst]
[Published by Balthasar Moretus, 1632]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Laid onto album sheet on left margin.
Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573-1642), wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. Later she was the regent for her son King Louis XIII of France. Shown here framed within a tree, from the branches of which grow her children: Louis XIII of France; Henrietta Maria; Elisabeth, Gaston of Orléans; and Christine Marie of Savoy. Fame and Fortune water the tree in lower corners. Illustration to Jean Puget de la Serre's 'Histoire Curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'Entree de la Reyne Mere du Roy Treschrestien dans les Villes des Pays Bas" (Antwerp: Moretus, 1632)
[Ref: 43012] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie' de Medici] Maria Medicea H.I HIIII.I Coniux [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾").
Marie' de Medici (1575-1642), Queen of France as second wife of Henri IV. Following her husband's assassination at the hands of a fanatical Catholic in 1610 she acted as regent until her son, the future Louis XIII, came of age. A notable patron of the arts, Marie oversaw the construction and furnishing of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris (modelled after the Palazzo Pitti in Marie's hometown of Florence) and employed Rubens as her court painter. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men (and women) hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 40069] £320.00

[Marie de Médicis.] Sic ivit nostram grandis Medicea per Urbem, Sceptrorum Mater suspicienda trium
[after Gerard van Honthorst, c.1638]
Engraving, sheet 315 x 210mm (12½ x 8¼"). Trimmed inside platemark and glued to album sheet with hand-drawn borders.
Portrait of Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573-1642) with a view of Amsterdam in the background. She was the wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. Later she was the regent for her son King Louis XIII of France. Frontsipiece to Caspar Barlaeus' 'Medicea Hospes' (Amsterdam, 1638), a series of plates showing the festivals and ceremonies given to Marie de Medici by the city of Amsterdam during her visit from 31 August to 5 September 1638.
For another plate from 'Medicea Hospes' see ref. 28696.
[Ref: 37359] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean II Le Meingre] Joannes Boucicault Polemarchus Sub Carolo 5.o et Carolo 6.o [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Some foxing.
Jean II Le Meingre (1366-1421), knight and marshal of France. Beginning in 1384, Jean spent some twenty years travelling in Europe and Asia and fighting in numerous campaigns against pagans, Moors and the Ottoman Empire. He combined undoubted military prowess (defeating the most famous English soldiers at the tournament of Saint-Inglevert) with literary talents, assisting in the 'Livre des Cent Ballades' which set out the knight's code of chivalry. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39880] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Camille Mellinet?]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce tinted lithograph with some hand colour. Sheet 565 x 395mm (22¼ x 15½"). Repaired tear, creasing, soiling.
A man standing, hat in hand, leaning against his horse, in a garden with statuary. A pencil note on the reverse names him as Camille Mellinet (1795-1843), French printer, journalist and historian.
[Ref: 61262] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Menton.]
Fred. A. Farrell [signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching. 160 x 370mm.
b.1882. Scotland. Official Artist with the 51st Highlanders 1914-1918.
[Ref: 2449] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Menton.]
[by Lord Avonmore.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Watercolour. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾").
A view of a hilltop town in the Menton (Italian 'Mentone') commune. 'Lord Avonmore' is probably Irish nobleman Barry John Yelverton (1790-1870), 3rd Viscount Avonmore.
[Ref: 59907] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

No 26. White Polar or Abele. The Fig & Cypress. N.r Mentone, Coast of Genoa.
Geo. Barnard del.t 1868. M & N. Hanhart Imp.
London; Published by Winsor & Newton, Rathbone Place, April 1868.
Coloured lithograph, rare. Printed area 330 x 440mm (13 x 17¼"). Wear to edges, small worm hole in sky.
A view near Menton in France, with the Maritime Alps in the background, from 'Barnard’s Trees', which illustrated 30 trees 'Drawn on stone by the author, with foreign and home scenes of interest, and short descriptive letter press'. George Barnard, a drawing master at Rugby School, is best known for his 'Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours'.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 33830] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Mer de glace depuis le Montanvert.
Briquet et fils Genéve. A. Guvillier lith. Imp Lemercier.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 115 x 140mm (4½ x 5½").
A view of a glacier with many ice-peaks, a valley in the centre, and small buildings and figures in the foreground. The Mer de Glace is a glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps.
[Ref: 37828] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Claude de Mesme Comte d'Avaux Con.er du Roy en ses Conseils d'Estat, Gressier de l'Ordre du St Esprit, Surintendant des Finances et Plenipotentiaire pour la Paix Generale.
B. Moncornet excudit.
[n.d. c.1670.]
Engraving. 157 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Claude de Mesme, Count of Avaux, half-length, slightly turned to left, wearing sash with insignia of the Order of the Saint-Esprit over dark buttoned doublet with slashed sleeves; standing in front of window partly hidden by curtain, and opening onto a landscape. Claude de Mesme, Comte d'Avaux (1595-1650) was a French diplomat and public administrator. He served as Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650. His first major post was that of French Ambassador to the Republic of Venice, and later in Denmark and Sweden. In 1635, he contributed to the achievement of an armistice between Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
[Ref: 26038] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Aubin Louis Millin. Mitglief des K. Fr. Institutes und der Ehrenlegion, Conservateur der Münzen, geschnittenen Steine und Antiken der Kaiserl. Bibliothek zu Paris.
[n.d. c.1811.]
Stipple. Plate 140 x 89mm. 5½ x 3½".
Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison (1759-1818) was an antiquary and naturalist erudite in various domains. During the French Revolution he was imprisoned in 1793 as a result of his campaigns against Jacobins in the 'Chronique de Paris', which he edited. He was released a year later to teach archaeology at the nationalised royal library, reestablished as the Bibliotheque Nationale. He also served as conservateur-professeur in the department of antiquities and in 1799-1800 as president of the Conservatoire de la Bibliotheque nationale de France. He formed the first Linnean society in the world with Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet and Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic.
[Ref: 25999] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Mint: or; La Monnoie. The Facade of the Louvre.
[P.A. Demachy.] S. Porter sculp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving with text page. Plate: 300 x 555mm (12 x 21¾''), with very large margins.
A view of the Louvre and the Mint in Paris, a preacher stands on a stool pointing at images of demonic figures
[Ref: 50608] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Dernieres Paroles de Mirabeau.
Dessiné par Antoiné Borel. Gravé par Delaunay le Jeane.
A Paris chez l'Auteur rue S.t Jacques près la Place du Panthéon Français N.º 122 [n.d., c.1791].
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 400 x 255mm (15¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, small tear in right edge, ink collector's stamp in inscription area on right.
An allegorical scene of the last words of the Count of Mirabeau (1749-91), with the statesman dying in the arms of France, with Death standing above.
Collector's stamp of Jean-Louis Soulavie (1752-1813), Lugt L1533.
[Ref: 61531] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[France] H.G. Mirabeau.
Drawn by J. Guerin. Engraved by Fiesinger.
Publish'd as the Act directs London Feb.y 10th 1793 by Fiesinger.
Stipple. 355 x 270mm, 14 x 10½". Some spotting of large margins.
Oval portrait of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-91), French writer and revolutionary. In the 1770s he was condemned to death for the "seduction and abduction" of another man's wife, although he was only imprisoned at the castle of Vincennes, where he met the Marquis de Sade. Having reversed his conviction he was elected to the Estates-General in 1789, in which he a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. He made secret attempts to negotiate with Louis XIV to achieve this, but died of pericarditis in 1791. Regarded as one of the fathers of the revolution he was buried in the Panthéon, but when his secret negotiations became public knowledge he was disinterred in 1794 and reburied, and his remains are now lost.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection
[Ref: 18592] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[France] H.G. Mirabeau.
Drawn by J. Guerin. Engraved by Fiesinger.
Publish'd as the Act directs London Feb.y 10th 1795 by Fiesinger.
Oval stipple with aquatinted border printed in blue, very fine. Proof. Sheet 315 x 230mm, 12½ x 9". Trimmed within plate.
Oval portrait of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-91), French writer and revolutionary. In the 1770s he was condemned to death for the "seduction and abduction" of another man's wife, although he was only imprisoned at the castle of Vincennes, where he met the Marquis de Sade. Having reversed his conviction he was elected to the Estates-General in 1789, in which he a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. He made secret attempts to negotiate with Louis XIV to achieve this, but died of pericarditis in 1791. Regarded as one of the fathers of the revolution he was buried in the Panthéon, but when his secret negotiations became public knowledge he was disinterred in 1794 and reburied, and his remains are now lost. The blue border appears only in the proof state: for the published edition the aquatinting was removed.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18595] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Mirabeau, Député de Provence Aux États Généraux de 1789, Mort le 2 Avril 1791.
Lavachez sculp. 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 Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene from his life. A moderate revolutionary, he tried to persuade Louis XVI to accept constitutional monarchy, but died before any deal could be reached. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, the French writer and revolutionary. In the 1770s he was condemned to death for the "seduction and abduction" of another man's wife, although he was only imprisoned at the castle of Vincennes, where he met the Marquis de Sade. Having reversed his conviction he was elected to the Estates-General in 1789, in which he a moderate, favouring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. He made secret attempts to negotiate with Louis XIV to achieve this, but died of pericarditis in 1791. Regarded as one of the fathers of the revolution he was buried in the Panthéon, but when his secret negotiations became public knowledge he was disinterred in 1794 and reburied, and his remains are now lost.
[Ref: 28226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Abriss der Dreÿen gegeneinander Correspondierenden Vestungen Monaco, Capo di Sant' Spirito und Niza di Provenza.
[Engraved by Matthias Merian.]
[Frankfurt: Merian, c.1640.]
Engraved map. Sheet 205 x 365mm (8 x 14¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A map in the form of a bird's-eye view, looking down on Nice, Monte Carlo, Villa Franca and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, detailing their defensive walls. The map was published during the period that the Grimaldi family won recognition of the independence of Monaco, from the Spanish in 1633 and the French in 1641. Honoré II (1597-1662) was the first Prince of Monaco.
[Ref: 54245] £350.00

Monge.
Hesse. J. Lith de Delpech.
[Paris, c.1825.]
Lithograph, sheet 500 x 330mm (19¾ x 13").
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (1746 - 1818) was a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry, which allows the representation of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, by using a specific set of procedures. He accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte's expeditions to Egypt and Syria.
W: 2038-3
[Ref: 16376] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Gaspard Monge.
Imp. Lithog. de F. Villain.
[Paris, c.1825.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 250 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Crease.
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (1746 - 1818) was a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry, which allows the representation of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, by using a specific set of procedures. He accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte's expeditions to Egypt and Syria.
Wellcome: 2038 Not in.
[Ref: 56873] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Anne De Monmorenci Connetable de France. Tire des Antiquites du Pere Monfaucon.
Touze d. Fme. Duflos Sc.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1787] Avec Privilege du Roi.
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 271 x 161mm.
[Ref: 2090] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Mont Blanc prise des montées (Vallée de Chamouny).
Dessiné d'apres nature par Chapuy. Lith par Sabatier_Fig. par Bayot.
London, pub. by Gambart, Junin & Co. 25 Berners St. Oxf. St. Paris, Bulla et Jouy, Succ. rue Tiquetonne, 18. Imp. par Lemercier, à Paris.
Lithograph. Sheet: 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of Mont Blanc which is the highest mountain in Europe and lies on the French-Italian border.
[Ref: 41861] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Montblanc prise de Chamouny
Straub del Weber sc.
Edition originale à Zurich chez l'Editeur H.F. Leuthold [c.1835]
Aquatint, sheet 175 x 195mm (7 x 7¾").
View of the town of Chamonix in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-east France, overshadowed by the mountains of the Mont Blanc massif (the highest mountain in the Alps and western Europe). After Georg Straub (Swiss, 1805-77).
[Ref: 41109] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Mont blanc Vu du Sommet du grand Saleve.
S. Morel M.d d'estampes à Genève.
Imp. Lemercier, Paris [c.1850]
Tinted lithograph, printed area 105 x 120mm (4 x 4¾").
Mont blanc seen from the Salève. Probably published in 'Chamonix et Ses Environs', one of Morel's 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' series, which contained 23 tinted lithographic views by Morel, Mottu, Linck and others.
[Ref: 46116] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Le Mont Blanc er La Valée de Chamouni, vus du col de Balme.
Briquet et Fils, Editeur a Genéve. Th. Muller lith. Imp. Lemercier.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 200mm (5½ x 8").
A view of Mont Balnc and the Chamonix valley to the right, with a small building with figures on a peak in the centre.
[Ref: 37829] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Mer de Glace.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 195 (7¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet at corners. View of San Marco on the back.
An Alpine view of the Mer de Glace ("Sea of Ice"); a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps.
[Ref: 58163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Blaise De Montluc Marechal de France. Gallerie du Cardinal 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. 277 x 167mm. Paper lightly toned.
[Ref: 2093] £20.00 (£24.00 incl.VAT)

[Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc] Blasius de Monluc Polemarchus [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), very large margins. Foxed.
Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc (c.1502-77), marshal of France. Montluc famously defended Siena in 1555 and held Guyenne for the king during the French Religious Wars. He is most famous, however, for his book of memoirs, the 'Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc' (1592), which have been described as a 'soldier's bible'. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
For another portrait of Montluc see ref. 2093.
[Ref: 39896] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Marguerite Charlote de Montmorenci Princesse de Condé Pr.re Princesse du Sang.
Par Son tres-humble serviteeur Balt. Montcornet.
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594-1650) married Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé aged 15, on the orders of the elderly Henry IV who wanted her on hand as a mistress. However the newly-weds fled to Brussels to thwart the ploy, only returning after the king's death.
[Ref: 56413] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[France] France [Henri I. de Montmorency.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Henri de Montmorency (1534-1614), Marshal of France, Constable of France, governor of Languedoc from 1563 until his death, Duke of Montmorency from 1579. He sided with the Protestants during the French Religious Wars. He is shown in ornate armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32665] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Jean Nicolas Moreau Premier Chirurgien De L'Hôtel Dieu De Paris.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching, 195 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½". Proof before artist engraver.
Jean Nicolas Moreau, chief surgeon at the Hôtel Dieu, regarded as the oldest hospital in Paris. It is located on the Île de la Cité, next to Notre Dame. After Charles Nicolas Cochin fils (1715 - 1790), by J. P. Dupin.
W. 2061-2
[Ref: 10896] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Victor Moreau Général en chef de Rhin. Né à Morlaix, en 1763.
Gravé D'après le Dessin original de Girard.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼").
Oval mezzotint portrait of Victor Moreau (1763-1813), surrounded by an etched border and a scene of the Battle of Hohenlinden, 1800, which helped end the War of the Second Coalition. However his rivalry with Napoleon forced him into exile in the United States. On the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was offered command of the U.S. Army, but he returned to Europe, where he died at the Battle of Dresden, advising the Russians on how to beat his native country. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28221] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Ludovicus Moreri Presbyter SS The Aº Æt XXXVII.
De Troy Pin. G. Edelinck Sculp.
[n.d., c.1680. ]
Engraving. Sheet 320 x 215mm (12½ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate.
Louis Moréri (1643-80), priest and encyclopedist, author of 'Le Grand Dictionaire historique, ou le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane'. At least twenty-four editions were published between 1674 and 1759, as well as translations in English, German, Dutch and Spanish.
[Ref: 50076] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Mortier Senateur Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur Commandant a la Gr.de Armeé.
A Paris chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais. No.10. [n.d., c.1820.]
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside plate at top.
A portrait of Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier, duke of Treviso (1768 1835), on horseback in full military costume, looking behind. Mortier was a French general and Marshal of France under Napoleon I, serving in the French Revolutionary Wars in the campaigns of 1792 and 1793 anf in 1812 and 1813 he commanded the Imperial Guard. Jean was a publisher in Paris on the rue St. Jean de Beauvais, appearing in the Bibliographe de France, a 19th century registry of prints, from 1811 to 1838.
[Ref: 37275] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Made. de ** en habit de Bal.
Peint au pastel par Ch. Coypel. Gravee par L. Surugue en 1746.
a Paris chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers attenant le Magazin de papier vis avis St. Yves A.P.D.R.
Engraving, 415 x 300mm. 16½ x 11¾". Trimmed close to plate.
Madame de Mouchy, daughter of M. Duchesne, valet to the King, seated in an armchair in a ball gown looking towards the viewer. She holds a mask in her left hand. The identification of the sitter as Madame de Mouchy, first suggested in 'Catalogue manuscrit de l'oeuvre gravé de et après Charles Coypel', is now accepted by most scholars. An Italian print engraved after the same portrait in 1766 wrongly identifies the sitter as the Marquess of Pompadour. After Charles Coypel (1694 - 1752).
Collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (1821 - 1897) to verso.
[Ref: 12137] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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