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Robertus Cottonus Bruceus. Aesculapius hic Librorum aerugo, Vetustas Pero quem nulla potest Britonum consumere chartas.
T. Cross sculpsit. [After Cornelius Johnson.]
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching. 140 x 90mm. 5½ x 3½". Cut. Laid on 18th century scrap sheet.
Portrait of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; nearly half length, slightly to the right; in falling ruff; bearded, with hair to his ears. Frontispiece to his 'An answer to Such Motives', 1651. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631) was a collector, particularly of manuscripts and charters; this collection was known as the Cottonian Library and given to the nation by grandson Sir John Cotton. It formed the core of what is now the British Library, but a small number of objects and paintings remain within the registered collection of the British Museum. Cotton was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton Library. He was elected to Parliament as member of Old Sarum (1624), Thetford (1625) and Castle Rising (1628).
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25349] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
T. Cross sculpsit. [After Cornelius Johnson.]
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching. 140 x 90mm. 5½ x 3½". Cut. Laid on 18th century scrap sheet.
Portrait of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; nearly half length, slightly to the right; in falling ruff; bearded, with hair to his ears. Frontispiece to his 'An answer to Such Motives', 1651. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631) was a collector, particularly of manuscripts and charters; this collection was known as the Cottonian Library and given to the nation by grandson Sir John Cotton. It formed the core of what is now the British Library, but a small number of objects and paintings remain within the registered collection of the British Museum. Cotton was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton Library. He was elected to Parliament as member of Old Sarum (1624), Thetford (1625) and Castle Rising (1628).
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25349] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis. / The shaddow of that Body heer you find / Which serves but as a case to hold his mind, / His Intellectuall part be pleas'd to looke / In lively lines described in the Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. The frontispiece to his 'A physicall directory'.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 57196] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. The frontispiece to his 'A physicall directory'.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 57196] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis. / The shaddow of that Body heer you find / Which serves but as a case to hold his mind, / His Intellectuall part be pleas'd to looke / In lively lines described in the Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1649.]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper. Staining.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. The frontispiece to his 'A physical directory'.
W: 727-1
[Ref: 67404] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1649.]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper. Staining.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. The frontispiece to his 'A physical directory'.
W: 727-1
[Ref: 67404] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[John Gamble] Vera Effigies Joannis Gamble Philomusici.](jpegs/66075.jpg)
[John Gamble] Vera Effigies Joannis Gamble Philomusici. This to the Graver owes; / but read and Find / By his owne hand / a most Harmonious Mind. J:S:
T. Cross Sculspit.
[n.d., 1656.]
Scarce engraving. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to plate on right.
A half-length portrait in oval of composer John Gamble (d. 1687), a musician in the courts of Charles I & Charles II.
[Ref: 66075] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
T. Cross Sculspit.
[n.d., 1656.]
Scarce engraving. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to plate on right.
A half-length portrait in oval of composer John Gamble (d. 1687), a musician in the courts of Charles I & Charles II.
[Ref: 66075] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Vera Effigies Francisci Roberts in Artibus Magistri, Pastoris Ecclesiae apud Augustinian: Londin: AEtatis suae 40. 9.bris 13.0 1648.
Tho: Cross sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1648.]
Engraving, rare. 153 x 95mm. 6 x 3¾". Trimmed.
Portrait of Francis Roberts, half length, aged 40, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, and holding a book; curtain in background to right. Frontispiece to his 'Clavis Bibliorum' (1648). Francis Roberts (1609-1675) was an English puritan clergyman, author and librarian. He founded the first Birmingham Library, one of the first public libraries in England. He was taken prisoner when the Royalist Prince Rupert of the Rhine and his troops attacked Birmingham in 1643. He managed to escape and was appointed minister of St Augustine, Watling Street in the City of London.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25254] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Tho: Cross sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1648.]
Engraving, rare. 153 x 95mm. 6 x 3¾". Trimmed.
Portrait of Francis Roberts, half length, aged 40, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, and holding a book; curtain in background to right. Frontispiece to his 'Clavis Bibliorum' (1648). Francis Roberts (1609-1675) was an English puritan clergyman, author and librarian. He founded the first Birmingham Library, one of the first public libraries in England. He was taken prisoner when the Royalist Prince Rupert of the Rhine and his troops attacked Birmingham in 1643. He managed to escape and was appointed minister of St Augustine, Watling Street in the City of London.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25254] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.](jpegs/59871.jpg)
[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.
Tho: Cross fecit.
[London: John Crook, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Alvaro de Semedo (1585-1658) the Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China. Along with another Jesuit, he was imprisoned during an anti-Christian campaign in Nanjing in 1616, and then sent back to Macau. He later returned to to China and in 1636 he went back to Europe as a procurator. The frontispiece to Semado's 'History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China',
[Ref: 59871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Tho: Cross fecit.
[London: John Crook, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Alvaro de Semedo (1585-1658) the Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China. Along with another Jesuit, he was imprisoned during an anti-Christian campaign in Nanjing in 1616, and then sent back to Macau. He later returned to to China and in 1636 he went back to Europe as a procurator. The frontispiece to Semado's 'History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China',
[Ref: 59871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Thomæ Wilson Vera Effigies.
T. Cross Sculspit.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Oval portrait of Thomas Wilson (1563-1622), Anglican rector of St. George the Martyr, Canterbury, published as the frontispiece of the sixth edition of his 'Christian Dictionarie', expanded by Andrew Symson. This work was one of the earliest attempts made at a concordance of the Bible in English.
[Ref: 58547] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
T. Cross Sculspit.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Oval portrait of Thomas Wilson (1563-1622), Anglican rector of St. George the Martyr, Canterbury, published as the frontispiece of the sixth edition of his 'Christian Dictionarie', expanded by Andrew Symson. This work was one of the earliest attempts made at a concordance of the Bible in English.
[Ref: 58547] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)