A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Jean Pierre Blanchard. The first Aerial Mariner, Citizen of Calais...
R. Livesay pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
March 24 Pub. for the Proprietor by S. Hooper No 212, High-Holborn, London.
Stipple with etching and engraving. Sheet 230 x 205mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed within plate. Slight vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, published shortly after he and American doctor John Jefferies made the first balloon flight across the English Channel when they travelled from Dover to Calais, January 7th 1785.
[Ref: 56777] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
R. Livesay pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
March 24 Pub. for the Proprietor by S. Hooper No 212, High-Holborn, London.
Stipple with etching and engraving. Sheet 230 x 205mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed within plate. Slight vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, published shortly after he and American doctor John Jefferies made the first balloon flight across the English Channel when they travelled from Dover to Calais, January 7th 1785.
[Ref: 56777] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
John Fothergill M.D. F.R.S. Cui suas artes, sua dona laetus Et herbam et Venae salientis ictum Scire concessit, celerem et medendi Delius usum. From a Bust in the Possession of Dr. Lettsom.
R.d Livesay pinx. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Rare stipple. 197 x 120mm. 7¾ x 4¾".
Dr John Fothergill (1712-1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. A great friend of Benjamin Franklin, he helped to advance the interests of the Pennsylvania Hospital in England. In 1762 he sent anatomical drawings and anatomical casts of a pregnant woman to the hospital, which were greatly admired by medical students and the public, in addition to donating the first book to the hospital library.
De Vesme: 813, iii/iii. W: 1016-5.
[Ref: 24569] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
R.d Livesay pinx. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Rare stipple. 197 x 120mm. 7¾ x 4¾".
Dr John Fothergill (1712-1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. A great friend of Benjamin Franklin, he helped to advance the interests of the Pennsylvania Hospital in England. In 1762 he sent anatomical drawings and anatomical casts of a pregnant woman to the hospital, which were greatly admired by medical students and the public, in addition to donating the first book to the hospital library.
De Vesme: 813, iii/iii. W: 1016-5.
[Ref: 24569] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Fothergill M.D. F.R.S.
R.d. Livesay pinx. F.Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.] From a Bust in the Possession of Dr Lettsom.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Portrait of John Fothergill FRS (1712 - 1780), English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. His medical writings were influential, and he built up a sizeable botanic garden in what is now West Ham Park in London.
[Ref: 68234] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
R.d. Livesay pinx. F.Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.] From a Bust in the Possession of Dr Lettsom.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Portrait of John Fothergill FRS (1712 - 1780), English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. His medical writings were influential, and he built up a sizeable botanic garden in what is now West Ham Park in London.
[Ref: 68234] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Young Foresters.
R. Livesay. John Murphy sculpt.
London: Published Oct.r 19. 1796, by John [Murphy], North-side of Paddington Green.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 515 x 660mm (20¼ x 26"), watermarked 1794. Trimmed into plate at bottom, publication line rubbed, repairs to margins. Title area messy.
Four young girls feed fawns at the edge of a wood, from which a boy bearing a bundle of sticks on his head arrives.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67513] £420.00
R. Livesay. John Murphy sculpt.
London: Published Oct.r 19. 1796, by John [Murphy], North-side of Paddington Green.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 515 x 660mm (20¼ x 26"), watermarked 1794. Trimmed into plate at bottom, publication line rubbed, repairs to margins. Title area messy.
Four young girls feed fawns at the edge of a wood, from which a boy bearing a bundle of sticks on his head arrives.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67513] £420.00