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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Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. The Ass.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), very large margins.
A central illustration of an ass is surrounded by eight vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the animal, in life and death (each captioned). Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms. Numbered 'Pl. 6' upper right.
[Ref: 53577] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), very large margins.
A central illustration of an ass is surrounded by eight vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the animal, in life and death (each captioned). Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms. Numbered 'Pl. 6' upper right.
[Ref: 53577] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cockatoo.]](jpegs/53588.jpg)
[Cockatoo.]
32/36. Jan Sirks [pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, limited edition, signed by the artist. 255 x 175mm (10 x 7"). Paper toned, margins with paper manufacturer's blind stamp.
Jan Sirks (1885-1938) of Rotterdam. Australian interest.
[Ref: 53588] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
32/36. Jan Sirks [pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, limited edition, signed by the artist. 255 x 175mm (10 x 7"). Paper toned, margins with paper manufacturer's blind stamp.
Jan Sirks (1885-1938) of Rotterdam. Australian interest.
[Ref: 53588] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Cowthorpe Oak. Yorkshire.
Drawn by W.H. Hammer Esq.r. F.A.L.S.S. Engraved by J. Laporte.
Publish'd Sep.r 1, 1806, by J. Laporte, 21 Winchester Row, Edgware Road.
Lithograph. In ink under artist "girth 47 feet". Sheet 360 x 525mm (14 x 20¾"). Some small stains, creasing.
Portrait of an ancient oak tree, so famous that it was sketched by J.M.W. Turner. Believed to pre-date the Norman Conquest, it was already on the decline when this view was taken, but it was only when it was hit by lightning in 1950 that it died. However acorns from it have been planted as far away as New Zealand.
See Ref: 57657
[Ref: 53584] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by W.H. Hammer Esq.r. F.A.L.S.S. Engraved by J. Laporte.
Publish'd Sep.r 1, 1806, by J. Laporte, 21 Winchester Row, Edgware Road.
Lithograph. In ink under artist "girth 47 feet". Sheet 360 x 525mm (14 x 20¾"). Some small stains, creasing.
Portrait of an ancient oak tree, so famous that it was sketched by J.M.W. Turner. Believed to pre-date the Norman Conquest, it was already on the decline when this view was taken, but it was only when it was hit by lightning in 1950 that it died. However acorns from it have been planted as far away as New Zealand.
See Ref: 57657
[Ref: 53584] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Part of a Fallen Tree.] 13.
TB [monogram of Thomas Barker of Bath].
[Bath, D. Redman, 1814.]
Pen lithograph, laid on original backing page; 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½").
A knarled old tree with part of its trunk fallen. From "Thirty Two Lithographic Impression from Pen Drawings of Landscape Scenery", 1814. Views around Bath, Wales, the Lake District and elsewhere.
[Ref: 53525] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
TB [monogram of Thomas Barker of Bath].
[Bath, D. Redman, 1814.]
Pen lithograph, laid on original backing page; 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½").
A knarled old tree with part of its trunk fallen. From "Thirty Two Lithographic Impression from Pen Drawings of Landscape Scenery", 1814. Views around Bath, Wales, the Lake District and elsewhere.
[Ref: 53525] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Cubs Bred Between a Lion and Tigress, Three Months Old.
London, Published by G.B. Whittaker, Feb.y 1825.
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A pair of 'Ligers'. From 'The Animal Kingdom' by Georges Léopold, Baron de Cuvier, published 1827-35.
[Ref: 53691] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published by G.B. Whittaker, Feb.y 1825.
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A pair of 'Ligers'. From 'The Animal Kingdom' by Georges Léopold, Baron de Cuvier, published 1827-35.
[Ref: 53691] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Oblique-Leaved Begonia.
Reinagle pinx.t. Caldwell sculp.t.
London. Published July 1, 1800 by Dr. Thornton.
Coloured aquatint with stipple and line, printed in colours and hand-finished. 510 x 380mm (20 x 15") very large margins. Two small tears in margin.
'Begonia nitidia', introduced from Jamaica by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist on Cook's first circumnaviation. Published in Thornton's 'Temple of Flora', the first series of flower prints to show the plant within a habitat.
Dunthorne: p. 248, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 53465] £850.00
Reinagle pinx.t. Caldwell sculp.t.
London. Published July 1, 1800 by Dr. Thornton.
Coloured aquatint with stipple and line, printed in colours and hand-finished. 510 x 380mm (20 x 15") very large margins. Two small tears in margin.
'Begonia nitidia', introduced from Jamaica by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist on Cook's first circumnaviation. Published in Thornton's 'Temple of Flora', the first series of flower prints to show the plant within a habitat.
Dunthorne: p. 248, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 53465] £850.00