Grosvenor Prints

The Address to George 2.nd on Death of Fredrick Prince of Wales [ink mss]. His Majesty's most Gracious Answer.
Dickinson ex.
Published according to Act of Parliament. [n.d. c1751].
Extremely rare engraving and printed broadside, sheet 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"). Laid down on backing sheet. Stain across the ministers. Some foxing.
Ministers tell a throne seated George II (1683–1760) of the death of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751). In the past his death has been attributed to a burst lung abscess caused by a blow from a cricket or a real tennis ball, but it is now thought to have been from a pulmonary embolism.
[Ref: 55015] £350.00

Amberley & Houghton Almanack. 1885.
Printed by Bemrose & Sons, 23 Old Bailey, London; and Derby.
Wood engraving and letterpress, printed in black and red. Sheet 760 x 500mm (30 x 19¾"). Some restoration, laid on archival paper.
A religious broadsheet, tailored for use in Amberley & Houghton, near Arundel in West Sussex. Around a wood engraving illustrating a scene from Exodus, are various notes about local customs and rules, for example what days baptisms are held and Post Office regulations. Underneath is a calendar, with days marked with a biblical quotation.
[Ref: 53999] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Western Australian Company, Settlement of Australind. Town Land+Order. no 1680. Order of Choice. Original. [&] Duplicated original.
[1843.]
Unique letterpress contract completed with ink mss. Sheet 520 x 490mm (20½ x 16½"). Creases, wear to edges.
Very early West Australiana item. The 'Original' and 'Duplicate Original' of a land ownership contract, relating to the new settlement of Australind in Western Australia, the third part, the 'Counterpart', was retained by the company. The colony was set up with the intention of breeding horses for the army in India (thus the name Austral-Ind), and plots were sold to investors and prospective settlers in London and elsewhere. By 1841 there were 440 settlers but that year Methodist minister Rev. John Smithies wrote to the Wesleyan Missionary Society in London, ''If any of your friends are thinking of Austral-Ind as a point of emigration tell them to Stop. It is one of the greatest puffs that there has been for some time. I should be sorry if any of our Methodist friends or others should be so deluded as to embark for such a place''. Poor soil, summer droughts and winter deluges meant that by 1875 the settlement was abandoned.
McNair & Rumney: Pioneer Aboriginal Mission, 1981.
[Ref: 54957] £650.00

History of England.
Publish'd Oc.bre 29 1771 by J. Farrell Printer , at No 7 PaterNosterRow Cheapside London.
Engraving with old ink mms. Sheet 440 x 355mm (17¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, folds split with loss, repaired tears, bottom left corner ripped off but present, mounted on card. Damaged.
A writing sheet with six scenes from Collier's 'History of England' and a maritime scene.
[Ref: 55060] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Chinese Christian Almanac]. [Lee in ink}
[n.d. c. 1880.]
Scarce letterpress. 555 x 460mm (21¾ x 18"). Creasing and small holes along folds. Staining
Chinese Christian Almanac with three pictorial engravings, one engraved by Charles Dietrich 1880's; a view of a Chinese town, the profile of a ship at sea and a landscape with a steam train.
[Ref: 55114] £690.00

For the Benefit of Mr Giardini.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp 1778.
Etching and engraving. Sheet 135 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"), with large margins.
Venus Anadyomene naked and seated on a conch shell, accompanied by Cupid (drawing his bow), with other cherubs holding a torch and the drapery around Venus. Felice Giardini (1716 - 1796), an Italian composer and violinist, came to London in 1751, where he was highly successful as a performer and society music teacher. For many years he served as the concertmaster and director of the Italian Opera and gave solo concerts under the auspices of close friend Johann Christian Bach (son of Johann Sebastian). He remained in England until 1784 when he travelled to Naples at the invitation of Sir William Hamilton.
De Vesme: 1929, state ii of iv.
[Ref: 53435] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Hanover Square ticket no 121.] Hanover Square for the Benefit of Miss .no Diot Jones, & Johnotone April the 10.th. A Ball to begin at 7'oclock [ink mss verso].
Rare Stipple sheet 110 x 115mm (4¼ x 4½"). Top left corner slightly torn. Trimmed.
Stipple of a putto sitting on a cloud with a cloth draped over one shoulder playing a harp. They are surrounded by an oval frame of laurel leaves. Ink writing on the back of the invitation gives details of the event.
[Ref: 55005] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

An Hieroglyphic Epistle from a (sailor) on board a (ship) (toe) his Sweet(heart).
[Printed 21st October, 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, N° 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album paper, glue stains.
A supposed letter partly written in symbols (a Rhymed Rebuser), for example a wind-head for wind, a bee for the letter 'b', and a 't' and a hat for 'that'. Other graphics are more symbolic, for example an anchor for 'hope', a very popular tattoo for sailors. These symbols were used as tattoos by sailors all over the world and as well as convicts transported to Australia.
BM 9505. Simon Barnard's 'Convict Tattoos: Marked Men & Women of Australia.
[Ref: 55073] £320.00

Abstract of the Title of John Bevan Junior to 11 acres and 2¼ perches of land situate at Field of Mars near Paramatta in the colony of New South Wales. [&] Warrent of Title of John M Macey and Sarah Anne Macey [crossed out] to certain lands and heredetainments at Peuuaut Hills
31st May 1880.
Two documents: 4pp, ink mss, pinned, sheets 420 x 345mm (16½ x 13½"); and 17pp, ink mss. pinned, sheets 420 x 345mm (16½ x 13½").
Two early documents relating to land ownership in New South Wales. One relates to John Bevan (1828-1900).
[Ref: 54960] £580.00 view all images for this item

Assignment of Lease of Kohurau Block No.1. From Hon. G. O. Waterhouse
Dated 23rd day of July 1883.
Mss, 4pp. with mss. map and tax stamp.
A land lease document for a plot of land of over 10,000 acres, near Kurow in the Waitaki District, New Zealand.
[Ref: 54936] £450.00

Memorandum of Transfer... [mss names] , being enrolled on the Court Rolls of the Native Land Court, of the District of Otaki, in the Provincial District of Wellington, as the owners, according to Native custom, of all that pieces of Land situate at or near Otaki, in the aforesaid District, known by the name of Ngakaroro.
[23rd of November 1886.]
Letterpress and ink mss on vellum, 2pp. with mss. map and tax stamps.
A record of the purchase of land of 359 acres from Maori (signed by over 10) by James Gear (1838?-1911) and Isabella Ling (1829-1921), for the grazing of cattle. Gear, a butcher, had purchased the butchery business of Benjamin Ling in 1868, although Ling seems to have retained an interest in the business, which he passed onto his widow when he died in 1881.
[Ref: 54937] £650.00

Pavillons et Cocardes des Principales Puissance du Globe d'apres des Documens Officiels.
Atlas Universel N.o 50. Paris. Imp.ie Chardon J.ne Fils. Rue Racine 3.
Publie a Paris par E. Andriveau-Goujon Rue du Bac. N.o 21. 1860.
Hand coloured engraving. 455 x 600mm (17½ x 23½"). Small losses to left and bottom right corners. Small tear through the publication line.
Global maritime ensigns as of 1860, which most notably includes the US Great Star flag.
[Ref: 55126] £320.00

No. 16 Morgan's Improved Protean Scenery. The Great Fall of Niagara. This Print at first represents the Great Fall of Niagara by day; and upon holding it before the light, it will present for your view the American Steamer Caroline on fire, as it appearewd a few seconds before it was launched into the awful abyss, on the night of the 29th of Dec.r 1837.
London. Published Feb.y 24th, 1838, by W. Morgan, 25, Bartletts Buildings, Holborn Hill.
Coloured lithograph. 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, as issued. Paper crack top left. Foxing.
A transformation print.
[Ref: 55135] £360.00 view all images for this item

Parish of Wallendoon, County of Harden : Land Districts of Young & Cootamundry.
Compiles, Drawn and Printed at the Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W. Feb.y 1899.
Rare lithographic map. Sheet 520 x 620mm (20½ x 24½"). Folded as issued.
A land ownership map of the environs of Wallendbeen, near Cootamundra, New South Wales.
[Ref: 54958] £260.00

New South Wales. [Land Grant.] A. Land Purchase.
[1881]
Letterpress & ink mss on parchment, with tax stamp and wax seal. Sheet 500 x 340mm (19¾ x 13¼"). Wax seal crumbling.
A deed for a property on the corner of Myall Street & Alma Street, Walgett, bought by Alexander Patterson.
[Ref: 54959] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Wonderful Magazine. 35. [Vol III]
London: Printed for the Proprietors. Sold by C. Johnson, No 14. Hogg, Symonds, Parsons, Walker, and the Other Booksellers in Paternoster-Row, and may be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland [n.d., c.1795.]
8vo, original printed wrappers with woodcut illustration and publisher's adverts; engraved frontis. portrait, pp. 401-440, edges uncut. With 4pp. from next issue, loose. Edges worn, covers stained.
A very rare surviving single issue of one of the earliest magazines to focus on tales of the unusual, with a mixture of fact and fiction. The cover illustrates a Beefeater turned town crier with an extensive letterpress text. The frontispiece is a portrait of Thayendanegea (or Joseph Brant) after William Armstrong, painted when the Mohawk chief visited London in 1775 (where he was interviewed by James Boswell, who owned Armstrong's painting). Also included is an extract of 'Gulliver's Travels'. The portrait appears to be a teaser to encourage purchase of the next issue, in which the text describing Thayendanegea's visit appears (this is the extra text included here).
[Ref: 54689] £820.00 view all images for this item

Royal Assent to the Bill for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test. May 9th 1828. Commemoration Dinner at the Freemason's Hall, Wednesday June 18th 1828, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the Chair, W.m Smith Esq.r M.P. Deputy Chairman.
[1828]
Engraving with letterpress, signed at bottom Rob Winter No 53. Sheet 440 x 300mm (17¼ x 11¾"). Laid on album paper, glue stains and browning.
A dinner celebrating the repeal of the requirement that governmental officials take communion in the Church of England, a step towards the Catholic Relief Act of 1829.
[Ref: 54938] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[For the Benefit of Mr Salpietro.]
[F. Bartolozzi inv: et sculp. 1773]
Very fine stipple with etching, proof before letters, printed in brown. 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"), with very large margins.
Three putti on clouds decorated with laurel branches, holding music scores. The design was first used as a billhead for the benefit of the Italian violinist Giovanni Salpietro, who came to London with his wife (a singer) c.1779. He was portrayed in 'A Sunday Concert at Dr Burney's', engraved by Bretherton after C.L. Smith. Later it was used as the trade card of William Humphrey, brother of Hannah Humphrey, James Gillray's publisher and partner.
De Vesme 1939, state i of iv.
[Ref: 53404] £520.00

[Leaf from a breviary, use of Sarum.]
[London: John Kingston & Henry Sutton, 1556.]
Latin letterpress in black and red, printed on both sides. Sheet 225 x 165mm.
A leaf from ''Portiforium Seu Breuiarium, Ad Insiguis Sarisburiensis Ecclesie Vsum'', a Catholic liturgical book for praying the canonical hours according to the Sarum Rite, printed during the reign of Catholic queen Mary I.
From a copy held at Egton Bridge Chapel, North Yorkshire. See Ref: 54956, 54990, 54991.
[Ref: 54992] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Leaf from a breviary, use of Sarum.]
[London: John Kingston & Henry Sutton, 1556.]
Latin letterpress in black and red, printed on both sides. Sheet 225 x 165mm.
A leaf from ''Portiforium Seu Breuiarium, Ad Insiguis Sarisburiensis Ecclesie Vsum'', a Catholic liturgical book for praying the canonical hours according to the Sarum Rite, printed during the reign of Catholic queen Mary I.
From a copy held at Egton Bridge Chapel, North Yorkshire. See Ref: 54956, 54990 & 54992
[Ref: 54991] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 7. The Rival Heroes or a Fight for the Championship. Between the two gamest Birds in Europe. ''When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of War.''
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. June 18 1836.
Coloured lithograph, 145 x 195mm (5¾ x 7¾"), trimmed and laid on card, stamped "Crayon Papers fast colours Creswick", with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
A transformation print: when held up to a light source the two fighting cocks acquire the heads of Wellington and Napoleon.
[Ref: 55132] £350.00 view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 150 x 170mm (6 x 6¾"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55130] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 27. Westminster Abbey Fitted Up for the Coronation of Queen Victoria, Changing to the Ceremony of the Homage.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 180 x 350mm, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The empty Abbey fills with people when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55134] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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