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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Buy a new Almanack. Almanachs Nouveaux. Lunary dell Anno Nuovo. 5. 53.
[after Marcellus Laroon]
[n.d. c.1780]
Etching and engraving, sheet 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An almanac seller walking to right with basket of books around her neck. From late series of the Cries of London, plate reworked with hat, head and shoes altered. First engraved in 1688, they were reworked and published after c.1750. According to Raines, plates in the late editions of the series "were re-engraved with alterations after L.P. Boitard"
Raines p.57.
[Ref: 67648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[after Marcellus Laroon]
[n.d. c.1780]
Etching and engraving, sheet 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An almanac seller walking to right with basket of books around her neck. From late series of the Cries of London, plate reworked with hat, head and shoes altered. First engraved in 1688, they were reworked and published after c.1750. According to Raines, plates in the late editions of the series "were re-engraved with alterations after L.P. Boitard"
Raines p.57.
[Ref: 67648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Pop In & Popt Out. A noted Wag on frolic bent / Once on a time did stop / Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd / Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop [...]
[Alfred Mills]
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Creasing, repaired tear.
Comic song set at a barber's shop.
BM Satires 10652. See [Ref: 41574] for one with slighlty different colouring.
[Ref: 67891] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Alfred Mills]
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Creasing, repaired tear.
Comic song set at a barber's shop.
BM Satires 10652. See [Ref: 41574] for one with slighlty different colouring.
[Ref: 67891] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Londons Gazette here. Novelle Gazette. Chi Compra gl'auisi di Londra.
Mauron delin: P Tempest exc: Cum Privilegio.
[Henry Overton, n.d. c.1720.]
Etching and engraving, sheet 250 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate. '56' in right bottom corner erased.
From an edition of the 1688 plates from series of the Cries of London (originally published by Pierce Tempest (1653-1717)), published after 1709 and before c.1750. A paper seller in cape and straw hat standing to front with a newsheet in hand and a pouch around her waist.
[Ref: 67647] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Mauron delin: P Tempest exc: Cum Privilegio.
[Henry Overton, n.d. c.1720.]
Etching and engraving, sheet 250 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate. '56' in right bottom corner erased.
From an edition of the 1688 plates from series of the Cries of London (originally published by Pierce Tempest (1653-1717)), published after 1709 and before c.1750. A paper seller in cape and straw hat standing to front with a newsheet in hand and a pouch around her waist.
[Ref: 67647] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Tireuse de Cartes. N.o 17.
[Adrien Joly]
a Paris chez L.M. Petit, rue du Battoir, S.t Andre N.o3. chez Martinet rue du Coq, N.o 13 et 15. et rue des Mathurins, N.o18. Dep.se a la Bib.que Imp.le. [n.d. c. 1815]
Hand-coloured engraving, 175 x 100mm (7 x 4") with large margins on three sides. Foxed. Small left margin.
Plate 17 from, 'Arts, Métiers et Cris de Paris par Joly d'après nature'. A card reader stands behind a table, shown in left profile, with her right hand raised and her left hand holding three cards.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 68153] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Adrien Joly]
a Paris chez L.M. Petit, rue du Battoir, S.t Andre N.o3. chez Martinet rue du Coq, N.o 13 et 15. et rue des Mathurins, N.o18. Dep.se a la Bib.que Imp.le. [n.d. c. 1815]
Hand-coloured engraving, 175 x 100mm (7 x 4") with large margins on three sides. Foxed. Small left margin.
Plate 17 from, 'Arts, Métiers et Cris de Paris par Joly d'après nature'. A card reader stands behind a table, shown in left profile, with her right hand raised and her left hand holding three cards.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 68153] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![[Wheelwright] Une Femme de Charon. Eine Wangnerin.](jpegs/68125.jpg)
[Wheelwright] Une Femme de Charon. Eine Wangnerin.
J.J. Stelzer fecit.
Cum Priv. Maj. M. Engelbrecht exc. A.V. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 305 x 195mm (12 x 7¾"), large margins.
A fanciful representation of a female wheelwright, with a wheel as the hoop of her dress, on which are hanging the tools of her trade. She holds a saw and an axle. Cross-dressing image.
[Ref: 68125] £480.00
J.J. Stelzer fecit.
Cum Priv. Maj. M. Engelbrecht exc. A.V. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 305 x 195mm (12 x 7¾"), large margins.
A fanciful representation of a female wheelwright, with a wheel as the hoop of her dress, on which are hanging the tools of her trade. She holds a saw and an axle. Cross-dressing image.
[Ref: 68125] £480.00