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[Cassowary]. Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile Descrès. Casoar de la N.elle (Casuarines novæ Hollandiæ. Lath.)
C.A. Lesueur del. J. Milbert direx. F.res Lambert sculp.
De l'Imprimerie de Langlois. [Paris, 1807.]
Engraving, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed within plate, tape stains on edges. Very slight crease top right.
A family of cassowaries, drawn by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur for the official account of Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia. Leseuer was originally an assistant gunner on the expeditions, but took over artist and naturalist duties after a number of the expedition members left the ship due to illness at Mauritius.
[Ref: 39128] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
Dromæus Irroratus. Trans. Zool. Soc. Vol 4. Pl 76.
J.Jury, ad nat. lith. M. & N. Hanhart, Imp.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Coloured lithograph.
An accurate depiction of an emu.
[Ref: 39108] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
Hernes Oak. Windsor Forest. There is an old Tale goes, that Herne the Hunter, Sometime a 'Keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the Winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with ragged horns. Vide "Merry Wines of Windsor."
Drawn on Stone & Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1830 by W.A. Delamotte Jun.r R.M. college, Sandhurst.
Printed by Chagrey, 310 Strand.
Lithograph. Rare. Sheet size: 215 x 155mm (8½ x 6½").
Herne the Hunter's Oak was located in Home Park, Windsor. Herne, a character from Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', seen seated below the tree with antlers on his head, was a forest keeper, said to have hung himself from the tree, his ghost haunted the forest at midnight. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 39387] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Horse Chestnut]
J Martin
[London, Published May 15th 1817 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.]
Etching, sheet 330 x 270mm (13 x 10½"). Trimmed losing text. Crease; slight foxing.
Horse chestnut with two groups of figures, and deer, beneath. One of seven etchings contained in John Martin's (1789-1854) first commercial publication, 'Characters of Trees' (1817). The work contained no text, being simply a series of unnumbered prints advertised as a drawing book. According to Campbell, ''Horse Chestnut' is, without doubt, the most elaborate of the etchings produced for 'Characters of Trees''. Martin (1789 - 1854) is best known for his paintings and mezzotints of biblical subjects, in which capacity his hold on the popular imagination was unparalleled in its day. In the 20th century the influence of these works has continued to be felt- Martin's mezzotint of Belshazzar's Feast was the basis of the enormous Babylon set constructed for D.W. Griffith's film 'Intolerance' (1916). C.W.5.
[Ref: 39537] £360.00
The Duck-Billed Playpus. Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus.
Published under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. [n.d., c.1853.]
Coloured wood engraving with letterpress. Printed area 250 x 250mm (9¾ x 9¾"). Slight tear on right.
A platypus, the semi-aquatic mammal of eastern Australia, and Tasmania.
[Ref: 39129] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
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