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[Set of 3 Letterpress.] [Master Bassle.] Mnemonical Conversazione. Master Bassle. [&] Under the special patronage of H.R.H The Duke of Sussex. Master Bassle of the Age of only Thirteen Years [..] [&] Master Bassle at Glasgow & Ireland.
[n.d., c.1838.] Newcastle: printed by M.Benson, 2, Dean Street. [&] W.Turtle, Printer, 10, Essex Street, Strand.
Letterpress. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼") [&] Sheet 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½") [&] Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A set of three letterpress ephemeral items for Master Bassle. The broadside read 'Under the special patronage of H.R.H The Duke of Sussex. Master Bassle of the Age of only Thirteen Years, Who atrracted considerable notice in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin, purposes to display his wonderful Powers of Memory, and acquirements in The Mnemonic Art, (Surpassing every thing hitherto known, and which created great sensation at the late Philosophical Meeting of the British Association, a Newcastle upon Tyne,) in only one Conversazione, to take place at Two O'Clock, at Willis's Rooms, King-Street, St. James's.'
[Ref: 69116] £480.00
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Now Open! The Wondrous Pictures, By Ligozzi. Which cost above £20,000, more than 235 Years since, At least equal to the finest and most valuable Paintings in the world, are now to be seen, at the Ligozzi Gallery of Pictures, Maddox Street, Opposite St.George's Church, Between Regent & Bond Streets.
[n.d., c.1850.] Walton & Mitchell, Printers, 24, Wardour St.
Printed letterpress. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A broadside for an exhibtion, 'The Wondrous Pictures, By Ligozzi at the Ligozzi Gallery of Pictures, Maddox Street, London.'
[Ref: 69117] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Lawrence Gallery, removed to No.112, St. Martin's Lane. The Third Exhibition, consisting of Claude and Poussin, Now Open, at Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, No.112, St.Martin's Lane, Charing Cross.
[n.d., c.1836.] C.Richards, Printer, 100, St.Martin's-lane, Charing-cross.
Printed letterpress. Sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A broadside for the Third Exhibition of the Lawrence Gallery, featuring original drawings by the French masters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin.
[Ref: 69118] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Extraordinary Novelty!! Exhibition of the Eccaleobion, whereby Life in Countless Thousands of Animal Beings, From a Wren to an Eagle is Produced by Machinery!
[n.d., c1839.] H.Court, Printer, 14, Brooke Street, Holborn.
Printed letterpress. Sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A broadside advertising a public exhibition of the egg hatching incubator which had been invented in 1839 by W. Bucknell.
[Ref: 69115] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Splendid Mechanical Museum of Moving Figures is now open. With an entire new and splendid collection of Groups, composed of upwards of 500 figures. Coriolanus on the Walls of Rome With the Volscian Army, composed upwards of 300 figures! Canadian Insurrectionists Papineau, Mackenzie, &c. [...]
[n.d., c.1838.] Stuart, Printer, 15, Archer Street, Haymarket.
Scarce printed letterpress. Sheet 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A broadside for the Splendid Mechanical Museum of Moving Figures at Great Windmill St, Haymarket which featured 500 figures with mechanical motions by Signor Gagliardi. Very rare Canadian ephemera.
[Ref: 69114] £480.00
[Ticket.] Entree, A L'Acropole.
[n.d., c.1836.]
Very rare letterpress. Sheet 135 x 100mm (5¼ x 4"). Trimmed with some folds and ink mss, as issued.
An entrance ticket for the Acropolis in Athens, featuring a little plan showing the Parthenon, Erechtheion, Propylaia (or Propylaea), Odeon of Herodes Atticus and Theatre of Dionysus (Bacchus) Eleuthereus .
[Ref: 69192] £360.00
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