Grosvenor Prints

L'Eclipse de 1832.
Lith. de Delaporte Sr. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat. [Paris, 1832.]
Lithograph with some hand colouring, sheet 255 x 330mm. 10 x 13".
A contemporary satire on reactions to the solar eclipse of July 1832; a military officer (centre) tries to rouse a man in theatrical costume from his slumber in a chair, gesturing towards the celestial phenomenon (coloured) upper right. Rows of sleeping men in armchairs to right, several figures looking through telescopes to left. The unrest of 1830 brought about the popular overthrow of the entrenched power within France and by summer 1832 the political scene was quite altered and the eclipse is used as an analogy. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature', numbered 'No.60' upper right.
[Ref: 17981] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Hieroglyphic for the Eventful Year 1838.
Engraved by Mansell.
[n.d., 1837]
Aquatint, sheet 205 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed. Folds as normal, taped tears.
Nine vignette scenes of 'events' foretold for 1838. The centre image shows a woman (possibly Queen Victoria) being held by a centaur and grabbed by Death. Other scenes include; a woman greeting someone; someone trying to snatch the crown, a drier looking River Thames; a ship sinking; war; an allegorical scene; a natural disaster; and rural plague victims.
[Ref: 56980] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Abercrombie]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to engraved border, laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of John Abercrombie (1726–1806), Scottish horticulturist, the new frontispiece for the 1800 edition of his 'Every Man His Own Gardener'.
[Ref: 57200] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Abingdon Old Gaol] View of the New County Prison, at Abingdon, Berks.
Drawn by W. Waite. Engraved by H. Meyer.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Rare aquatint. 420 x 485mm (16½ x 19"). Narrow bottom margin, small tear entering inscription area.
A view of Abingdon Old Gaol, probably published before the prison opened in 1812. Taken from the banks of the Thames (with an angler), it also shows Abingdon Bridge. On the opposite side is a wharf, with a barge, scale beam and crane. The gaol was built by Daniel Harris (c. 1761-1840), the Surveyor and Gaoler of Oxford Prison, and Sir Jeffry Wyatville RA (1766-1840), architect who worked on alterations for both Chatsworth House and Windsor Castle. It was largely superseded by the larger prison at Reading (1844) and closed in 1868. After being used as a grain store, slum dwellings and a leisure centre, it has now been converted into flats.
[Ref: 56769] £420.00

Gas-Works. Accums' Description of Gas Works. Pl.VII.
Lowry Delt & Sculpt.
[London: T. Boys, 1819.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Framed, visible area 400 x 280mm (15¾ x 11"). Unexamined out of frame.
A gas works, showing a collapsing gas holder, Retort House, Purifying House with lime machine and the Director's Office. 'Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets, Houses, and Public Buildings' by Frederick Christian Accum (1769-1838). He played a prominent role in the development of gas lighting in London and other major cities. The full text is available for download from the Wellcome Collection (https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wdv38w86).
[Ref: 56775] £460.00

Magnus Alexander Achillinus.
[Bologna, Hieronymum de Benedictis, n.d., c.1520.]
Very scarce woodcut, set in Latin text. Sheet 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Small notch in top edge, slight spotting.
An early portrait of Alessandro Achillini (c.1463-1512), philosopher and physician of Bologna, who studied anatomy. It was published as the frontispiece to 'Annotationes anatomiae magni Alexandri Achillini Bononiensis', first published 1520.
Wellcome 8-1.
[Ref: 57195] £360.00

[Robert Adam.]
Published March 1st 1808 by William Richardson, 31, Strand.
Etching. 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Profile bust portrait of Robert Adam (1728-92), architect
[Ref: 57207] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M. Coll. Divi Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius. Neptunus calculo monstratus, A.D. 1845.
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint on chine collé. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"). Repaired tear in backing sheet.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
[Ref: 57110] £460.00

The Aerial Steam Carriage.
Rock & Co. London [n.d., c.1808.]
Rare steel engraving, letter sheet 225 x 185mm (9 x 7½"). Some creasing and surface dirt.
A fictitious flight of the Aerial Steam Carriage over the Thames. The Aerial Steam Carriage was patented in 1842 by William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow. Henson and Stringfellow only produced scale models, none of which were capable of flying more than a short distance inside a hanger, but the invention marks an important development in the history of powered flying machines.
[Ref: 56976] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Aeriel Ship or Munchausen Improved!
[n.d., 1845].
Lithograph. Sheet 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Laid down on album sheet. Trimmed around title and into image at bottom.
A satire on the exaggerated ambitions of the 'Henson Aerial Steam Carriage', patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-88) in 1843, over half-a-century before the Wright Brothers' first flight. He incorporated the 'Aerial Transit Company' in 1843, and built a scale model of this steam-powered aeroplane, which did manage to hop (or perhaps bounce) off the ground. However a lack of sustained success led to the company being wound up in 1848.
[Ref: 52638] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Die Aeronauten.
J: Blaschke sc.
[n.d., c.1840].
Engraving, sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Cut to plate on threee sides.
A german print depicting a hot air ballon manned by a single person flies above a sea port watched by huge crowds. A unidentified swallow tailed flag waves in the wind above a battlement and a ships mast can be seen behind.
[Ref: 56937] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

New London Magazine. M.r Sadler, The first English Ærostatist. M.r Arnold, The first unsuccessful Aerial Adventurer.
Thornton sculp.
Published by Alex..r Hogg at the kings Arms N.o16 Paternoster Row, De[c. 31. 1785.]
Engraving, plate 125 x 200mm (5 x 7¾"). Publication line partially obscured.
Oval portraits of James Sadler (1753 – 1828) and Stuart Amos Arnold. Sadler was the first English balloonist and the second person, after Vincenzo Lunardi (1754 – 1806), to make a balloon ascent in England. He was an eminent scientist and made a number of important discoveries; notably that hot air, rather than smoke, as the Montgolfiers had wrongly concluded, was required for airborne propulsion, managed tomanufacture hydrogen at a time when the element was so new it hadn’t even been named and was the first to create an adjustable fire in the basket to manipulate the balloon’s altitude. Arnold is most famous for his balloon that launched 31 August 1785 from St George's Fields, London, which ended in disaster after it got caught on some railings.
[Ref: 56930] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

English Agricultural Society's Show Yard. First Meeting at Oxford, July 17.th 1839. To the Right Hon.ble John Charles, Earl Spencer, President, the Trustees, Vice Presidents, Committe of Management, and Members. This Print is most respectfully dedicated.
On Stone by T. Picken, from a Drawing by W.A. Delamotte. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by John & R. Dewe, Broad St.t Oxford; and Sold by R.Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street; and T. M.cLean, 26 Haymarket, London.
Rare lithograph, 275 x 350mm (10¾ x 13¾"). Repaired tears top and bottom.
Gentlemen in top hats converse and survey the cows and horses under awnings. In the center are marquees and farm equipment such as ploughs and carts. The Royal Agricultural Society of England was established in the United Kingdom in 1838. Its motto was "Practice with Science", and its aim was to promote the scientific development of agriculture. The society received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria in 1840.
See: Ref: 16545 for English Agricultural Society's Show Yard in Cambridge
[Ref: 57087] £320.00

[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.] Behold the figure of that man of Parts / who dive'd into the secrets of all Arts, / A Second Solomon, the mighty Hee / That try'de them all, and found them Vanity.
[London: R. Bentley, 1694.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Profile portrait of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), a German physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian and occult writer, author of 'Three Books Concerning Occult Philosophy'. He was also a magician and a spy. This portrait was published as the frontispiece of his book 'The Vanity of Arts & Sciences'.
[Ref: 57199] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Air.
[n.d., c.1800].
Scrap sheet with ten hand coloured etchings glued to it. Sheet 480 x 305mm (19 x 12"). Some creasing, glue stains, surface dirt and ageing of the paper.
A rare set of scenes with rhyming couplets explaining the usefulness of air in motion, featuring a hot air balloon, instruments, kites, bubbles, fans, bellows, wind, glassblowing, a popgun and a windmill. Game of cricket in background.
[Ref: 56972] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

G. B. Airy [facsimile signature].
1852 T.H. Maguire.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of George Biddell Airy (1801-92), seated, holding a device. During his tenure as Astronomer Royal (1835-1881) he established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
[Ref: 57109] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Geo. J. Allman
T. H. Maguire.
1851.
Lithograph. Sheet 615 x 445mm (24¼ x 17½"), very large margins.
A portrait of George James Allman (1812-1898), seated, with facsimile signature beneath. Allman was an Irish ecologist, botonist and zoologist. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 56
[Ref: 57052] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Andrews, Astronomer and the celebrated Author of Moore's Almanack. Aged 71 -- 1815. Born at Frieston, near Grantham, February 4th 1744; Died at Royston, in Hertfordshire, January 26th, 1820, aged 76 years.
J. Watson Pinxt. T. Blood Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Very rare stipple with letterpress attachment. Plate 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), very large margins. Some age spots and creasing.
Half portrait of Henry Andrews (1744 –1820) mathematician and astronomer. For 43 years he worked in his spare time as 'Compiler of the tables detailing the movement of the planets' for Old Moore's Almanac aside his day job as Calculator to the Board of Longitude.
W: 72.
[Ref: 56979] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

D. T. Ansted [facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1850. [Etched in plate.]
[M & N Hanhart, London.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 600 x 435mm (23½ x 17") very large margins. Some foxing in margins.
A three quarter length portrait of geologist David Thomas Ansted (1814-1880). Ansted was appointed a follow of the Royal Society in 1844 and by 1850 had produced a number of seminal texts and manuals on practical geology. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846. American interest in Virginia.
Wellcome: 78.
[Ref: 57122] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Architecture.
Printed for Carrington Bowles, in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Engraving, sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). 18th century watermark. Trimmed within plate.
Two couples ponder an architect's plan that he gestures to. Men work on the construction. In the middleground the structure is part finished with scaffolding erected to continue.
[Ref: 57085] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sphere.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving with fine hand colour, including gold highlights, pt 17th century watermark. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5").
An illustration of an armillary sphere on a tromp l'oeil wall hanging. The stand and pair of compasses are highlighted in gold.
[Ref: 56808] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Relox Astronomico. Tomo I, N.o4 Lamina 32.
R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. 1824.
Finely coloured aquatint, sheet 240 x 140 (9½ x 5½").
An astronomical device.
[Ref: 56985] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Telescope and Cross-staff.]
S. Fokke in fe.
[Amsterdam, c.1745.]
Engraving. 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"), with large margins. Some slight staining.
Two scenes on one plate. On the left a group use a telescope to look at the stars. On the right a navigator uses a cross-staff from a ship, looking up at the Plough (Big Dipper); the plate demonstrates how to use the asterism to locate Polaris.
[Ref: 56822] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[8 illustrations of astronomy.]
Jaede del. G. Brinckmann sculps.t Leipzig.
Druck von Voigt & Günther [n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾").
Eight numbered vignette illustrations: an observatory building, the Moon, Saturn, a telescope, a reflecting telescope, a celestial globe, how to observe an eclipse via a reflection in water and a comet.
[Ref: 56835] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy.] Come forth O Man, yon azure Round survey [...]. Baker on the Universe.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Bottom margin trimmed to plate mark. Repaired damage to title area. Repaired wormhole in top margin.
A frontispiece to an edition of Henry Baker's 1730 poem 'On the Universe', illustrated with a scene of five people using telescopes, an armillary sphere and a globe in a classical garden. Compasses, telescopes and other astronomical instruments litter the ground.
See: Science Museum 13619.
[Ref: 56934] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Die sichtbare Seite der Mon-Oberflache. [The visible side of the Moon's Surface.]
Steiler's Hand-Atlas N.o 2. u. 3. Gotha: Justus Perthes 1872.
Chromolithograph. 375 x 460mm (14¾ x 18"). Some minor toning around the edges. Folded along central crease as normal.
An impressively detailed map of the moon's topographical features as well as a small inset diagram that shows the daily changes of the lunar phase. This sort of detail was typical of the maps designed by Adolf Stieler. His 'Handatlas' enjoyed huge popularity as a scientific publication, and ran from 1816 to 1945 in ten editions.
[Ref: 56912] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Total Solar Eclipse.] Astronomy. Plate 5.
Engraved & Printed in Colours by W. & A. K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 350mm (10 ½ x 13¾"). Central fold crease as normal.
Plate 5 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56913] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

La Terre et Son Atmosphere. Pl. X.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
A section of the Earth and its atmosphere at the equator, higlighting the effects of reflection and refraction and the uneven nature of the Earth's surface. The oceans and continents are indicated as are some islands and volcanoes. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56895] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Earth and its Atmosphere.
Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie.
Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. March 10.th 1849.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. A section of the Earth and its atmosphere at the equator, higlighting the effects of reflection and refraction and the uneven nature of the Earth's surface. The oceans and continents are indicated as are some islands and volcanoes.
[Ref: 56884] £360.00

Atmospheric Refraction.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
Optical illusions caused by atmospheric refraction, with mirrored images of ships. Plate 93 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56796] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Atom.
Corbould del. Walker sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. APril 15 1786.
Engraving. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on left, damp stains. Large margins on 3 sides.
A 'Japanese' man sits in his study holding up a piece of paper lettered with 'Hob Nob', surrounded by books, a globe and a pair of compasses. A frontispiece to 'The Novelist's Magazine' when it published Tobias Smollett's novel 'The History and Adventures of an Atom', a satire of British politics during the Seven Years' War.
[Ref: 56784] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate IX.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate IX of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56850] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate IV.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge, with a church spire. Plate IV of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56856] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate VII.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis with the silhouettes of a windmill and a church steeple. Plate VII of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56846] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Heavens. By Robert Mudie. [with two vignettes] The Seasons. Polar Sky.
Baxter's Patent Oil Colour Printing, 3 Charter-house Square. From a painting by W. Westall, A.R.A.
London: Thomas Ward & Co., Paternoster Row. MDCCCXXXV [1835].
Fine Baxter-printed titlepage and frontispiece. Sheet 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). A little faint staining.
The two illustrations are of the Aurora Borealis, with two polar bears and a comet, and the sun with three Earths orbiting.
[Ref: 57024] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate II.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate II of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56855] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Plate cut and rejoined, tear in inscription area, edges chipped.
The Northern Lights. Plate 94 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56792] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate I.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate IV of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 57011] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 95 x 115mm (3¾ x 4½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A view of the Aurora Borealis over an icy landscape.
[Ref: 56864] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate X.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis with the silhouettes of two churches. Plate X of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56848] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate VIII.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate VIII of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56847] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate III.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate III of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56849] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24.th 1847. Plate. V.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Some time staining.
One a set of twelve coloured engravings from "An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847: together with those of September 21, 1846, and March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory" by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street.
[Ref: 56942] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24.th 1847. Plate. VI.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Some time staining.
One a set of twelve coloured engravings from "An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847: together with those of September 21, 1846, and March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory" by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street.
[Ref: 56943] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen at the Cambridge Observatory. September 21.st 1846. Plate. XI
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Some time staining.
One a set of twelve coloured engravings from "An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847: together with those of September 21, 1846, and March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory" by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street.
[Ref: 56941] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

L'Aurore Boreale.
Lith. E. Lemaitre, Rue brulée 6, à Strasbourg.
[Strasbourg: Libraire Derivaux, 1856.]
Chromolithograph, with gum arabic highlights. Sheet 290 x 235mm (9¼"), very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis in Lapland, with sledges drawn by reindeer. From Munerelle’s 'Les Phenomenes et Curiosites de la Nature'.
[Ref: 56845] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Avro 504 BIPLANE.
Phil Britton.
1924.
Pen and ink drawing, mount 375 x 485mm (14¾ x 19). Taped within mount. Some time staining.
The Avro 504 was a biplane aircraft made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. It was the most-produced aircraft of any kind that served in any military capacity during the First World War; more than 10,000 were built from 1913 until production ended in 1932.
Ex Parker Gallery.
[Ref: 57023] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

M. Bailly, Mayor of Paris 1789 and 1790.
Boizot, del. Cook, sculpt.
[n.d., c.1793].
Engraving, plate 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with margins. Small margin on left. Foxing, mainly in margins. Holes in right margin where previously bound.
Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly bust in profile to the right, wearing a queue wig. Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736 -1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Wellcome: 148-1.
[Ref: 57161] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Baker, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and of the Society for the Ecouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Author of "The Microscope made easy" "Employment for the Microscope," and other Works. Bonr May 8. 1698; died Nov.r 25. 1774.
Thomson pinx. Nutter Sculpt.
Publish'd by Jany. 1st. 1812.
Stipple, sheet 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"). Some foxing around the edges. Trimmed within plate on left and small margin on right.
Half-length portrait of Henry Baker in an oval to right, head turned to look to front, in his study with bookcase behind at left and microscope on table behind at right; illustration to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes of the eighteenth century' (London, 1812-1815). Henry Baker (1698 –1774) was a British naturalist.
Wellcome: 151
[Ref: 57151] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A hot air balloon taking off.]
C. H[*****] 1880.
Photogravure, printed in colours. 585 x 345mm (23 x 13½"), on thick paper, very large margins.. Repaired tear entering plate but not image.
A post-Revolutionary scene of a hot air balloon lifting off from a crowded area, carrying a couple, with a woman waving a tricolour. Two of the spectators tumble over.
[Ref: 57135] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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