Grosvenor Prints

Albertus II.
C. de pas exc.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 145 x 105mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
Albert the Magnanimous (1397-1439) of the House of Hapsburg,, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (although never crowned Holy Roman Emperor), as well as Duke of Austria and king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He is best known for the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna in 1420: on March 12th 1421, 92 men and 120 women who were still in Vienna were burned at the stake south of the city walls. From a series of equestrian portraits of the Holy Roman Emperors by Crispijn de Pass the Elder.
[Ref: 56348] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Les Anges. The Angels.
CH. Philipon. Lith. de M.lle Formentin.
Chez Aubert, Galerie Vero-Dodat. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet et C.ie 14 Newmann street Oxford, St.
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Right edge stained.
The heads of three pretty young women with elaborate hair styles, each given wings.
[Ref: 56363] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne of Austria] Anne DAustriche Royne de France et de Navarre.
Balt. Moncornet excud avec Privilege du Roy [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Anne of Austria (1601-1666), eldest daughter of Philip III of Spain, queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII, regent for her son, Louis XIV, 1643-51.
[Ref: 56416] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness The Princess Augusta Sophia. From the original Picture, by Sir W. Beechey R.A. in the possession of H.R.H. the Duke of Glocester to whom, by permission, this print is most respectfully dedicated, by his humble & obed.t Serv.t E. Harding.
Engraved by S.W. Reynolds Engraver to the King. & S. Cousins.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 8. 1824 by S.W Reynolds. Bayswater.
Rare mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), with large margins. Some spotting.
Three-quarter length portrait of Princess Augusta Sophia (1768-1840), second daughter of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, standing in a landscape, wearing a low-cut dress with lace, transparent shawl, plumed hat and necklace.
Whitman 13: ii.
[Ref: 56492] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Brown?]
Wm. Pether Pinx & Sculp.
[n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
In reference books this mezzotint is said to portray Thomas Gent (1693-1778), printer and topographer based in York, although Chaloner Smith expressed uncertainty. A pencil note on the reverse of this example gives the name Thomas Brown.
CS 16; From Gulston collection.
[Ref: 56418] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Thomas Browne M.D.]
P. Vandrebanc F.
[n.d. 1683]
Engraving, proof before title. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Narrow margins.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), doctor and author, the frontispiece to his his 'Miscellaneous Tracts'. 1683. After graduating from Oxford in 1627, he studied medicine at Padua and Montpellier universities, finishing his medical degree in Leiden in 1633. He settled in Norwich in 1637 and practised medicine there until his death. He also wrote on a variety of subjects: his first book, 'Religio Medici' (The Religion of a Physician), was published without his consent in 1642 and was added to the the 'Papal Index Librorum Prohibitorum' the same year.
W: 448.5.
[Ref: 56347] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Colonel John Campbell, Who Succeeded to the Dukedom of Argyll in April 1761.
Jonathan Richardson Pinx.t 1721. James Basire Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1761.]
Engraving. 350 x 495mm (13¾ x 19½"). Trimmed within plate at sides. Very slight creasing.
General John Campbell (1693-1770), 4th Duke of Argyll, Governor of Limerick and Privy Councillor, painted as a young man of 28, with a drawing book on his lap. He was already a lieutenant colonel and had served two terms in Parliament. This portrait was probably published when he succeeded to the dukedom.
NPG D32570.
[Ref: 56442] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Carpenter.]
[Sir Joshua Reynolds. James Watson.]
[London: Robert Sayer, n.d., c.1768.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 345 x 280mm (13½ x 11"). Scratches and creasing in margins.
A half-length portrait of Lady Almeria Carpenter (1752-1809), hair dressed high. A noted beauty, she was painted by Joshua Reynolds, Richard Cosway and Angelica Kauffman.
CS: 26 I of III.
[Ref: 56273] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Chardin] Johannes Chardin Miles.
D: Loggan ad Vivum Sculp.
[n.d., c.1686.]
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Trimmed, losing part of title, mounted on album paper.
Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1643-1713), French Hugenot jeweller and traveller to Persia and India, later knighted by Charles II as Sir John Chardin. His ten-volume book 'The Travels of Sir John Chardin' is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia.
[Ref: 56483] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Charles par la grace de Dieu Roy d'Angleterre.
[after Anthony van Dyck.]
Balth Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Charles I in armour, one of a series of portraits after Anthony van Dyck, via engravings by Pieter de Jode II and others. First state, before decorations in the borders.
[Ref: 56410] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Her Most Excellent Majesty, Charlotte Queen of Great Britain &c &c.
Painted by J. Russell R.A. Crayon Painter to His Majesty, & H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Engraved by Joseph Collyer, A.
Published as the Act directs, 4 June 1791, & Sold by W. Faden, Charling Cross, M. Ryland, Bond Street, & J. Collyer, Dorrington Street, Cold Bath Field.
Stipple with etching and engraving. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"), with large margins.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818), the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom as wife of King George III.
[Ref: 56396] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Christianus IV. Par la Grace de Diev Roy de Denmark.
Balth Moncornet excud [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Christian IV of Denmark (1577-1648), who reigned for nearly 60 years.
[Ref: 56405] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n Tho.s Coram who after 17 Years unwearied application, obtained the Charter of the Foundling Hospital, To the Governors & Guardians of the Hospital, this Print is humbly dedicated by their obedient humble Servt. R. Cribb.
W. Hogarth Pinx.t. W. Nutter sculpt..
London, Published Dec. 1. 1796, by R. Cribb, No.288 Holborn.
Stipple, title in open letters. 580 x 405mm (22¾ x 16"), very large margins. Some foxing, very fine impression.
The philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram (c.1668 - 1751), who in 1742 founded the Foundling Hospital in Guildford Street, London. It was a children's home established for the 'education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children.' The artist William Hogarth was a friend of Coram's and later a governor of the institution. Handel donated an organ to the chapel and gave performances of the 'Messiah' on it, raising £7,000. Coram sits surrounded by emblems representing his mercantilist and philanthropic activities, including a scroll lettered "The Royal Charter" for the hospital. The charter was signed in 1739, and the hospital started receiving children at the end of 1745. After William Hogarth (1697 - 1764).
[Ref: 56430] £380.00

M. Ant. De Dominis Com. Pal.. Archiep. Spalat. Dalm. Et Croat. Primas.
Joannes Bill excud. [London, n.d., c.1620.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 280 x 185mm (11 x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Marco Antonio de Dominis (1560-1624), former Archbishop of Split and Primate of Dalmatia and all Croatia, frontispiece to his ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ contra Primatum Papæ''. Perhaps engraved by Renold Elstracke. Having sided with Venice in a row with the Papacy, he resigned his position and travelled to England to avoid the Inquisition. There he wrote ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ'', anti-Roman sermons, two volumes of which were published in London by John Bill with royal patronage, the first in 1617 and a second in 1620; a third was published in Hanau in 1622. In 1623 he recanted and returned to Rome, but soon he erred and was declared a relapsed heretic and was confined to the Castel Sant'Angelo where he died 1624. With Bill's name on the plate, this is likely to be from the 1620 second volume of the ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ''.
[Ref: 56277] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Marco Antonio de Dominis] M. Ant. De Dominis Com. Pal.. Archiep. Spalat. Dalm. Et Croat. Primas.
[London: John Bill, n.d., 1617.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 275 x 185mm (10¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Marco Antonio de Dominis (1560-1624), former Archbishop of Split and Primate of Dalmatia and all Croatia, frontispiece to his ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ contra Primatum Papæ''. Perhaps engraved by Renold Elstracke. Having sided with Venice in a row with the Papacy, he resigned his position and travelled to England to avoid the Inquisition. There he wrote ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ'', anti-Roman sermons, two volumes of which were published in London by John Bill with under royal patronage, the first in 1617 and a second in 1620; a third was published in Hanau in 1622. In 1623 he recanted and returned to Rome, but soon he erred and was declared a relapsed heretic and was confined to the Castel Sant'Angelo where he died 1624. This is an early version of the portrait: a later version has John Bill's name on the plate, which was likely to be from the 1620 second volume of the ''De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ''.
[Ref: 56278] £380.00

Thomas Dibdin Esq.r.
Painted by W. Owen R.A. Engraved by Jn.o Young, Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London, Feb.y 14. 1807 by the Engraver, No.65, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 360 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾") very large margins. Wear in margins.
Portrait of Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), English dramatist and songwriter, seated at a desk, with quill and music book.
CS: 18 only state.
[Ref: 56389] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Dickinson] [The Country Girl.]
Painted by W. Peters R.A. Engraved by W. Dickinson.
London, Publish'd Mar. 1st, 1778.
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof before title. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"), with wide margins.
A portrait identified by Chaloner Smith as Mary Dickinson, sister of the engraver, with a high hat with ribbons and low-cut dress, within an oval frame. The original painting belonged to the Marquis of Granby.
CS 17, state i of ii.
[Ref: 56319] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Lodovico Domenichi.] Medaglia del Doni.
[Enea da Parma Inv f.]
[n.d., c.1560.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image on right, losing engraver's inscription.
A medallion portrait of Lodovico Domenichi (1515-64), translator of mainly Latin classics but imprisioned by the Inquisition in 1552-3 for translating a work by Calvin. From an aborted series of medals of contemporaries by Antonio Francesco Doni.
[Ref: 56349] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Lodovico Domenichi.] Medaglia del Doni.
Enea da Parma Inv f.
[n.d., c.1560.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image on right, losing engraver's inscription.
A medallion portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a scholar, poet, and literary theorist greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language. As a young man he had a love affair with Lucrezia Borgia. From an aborted series of medals of contemporaries by Antonio Francesco Doni.
BM 26322
[Ref: 56350] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward VII] His Royal Highness Albert Prince of Wales, Born Nov.r 9th 1841.
George Hayter. R.J. Lane. G. Graf
London Published by Her Majesty's Command, by F.G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle St March 19th 1842.
Lithograph on chine collé, laid on printed backing sheet. Printed area 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾") very large margins. Spotting to backing sheet.
Portrait of Victoria's son Albert Edward (1841-1910), the new heir to the throne.
[Ref: 56491] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth of France] D Elisabethæ Borboniæ Principi serenissimæ Philippi in Hispaniarum Indiarumq. Coniugi Ineomparabili.
[Balthasar Moncornet, n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Elisabeth of France (or Isabella of Bourbon, 1602-1644), eldest daughter of Henry IV of France, wife of Philip IV of Spain.
[Ref: 56401] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Enfant du Soleil.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare stipple, printed in colours. Sheet 130 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed around image and title, laid on album paper.
A child with a headdress with five ostrich feathers printed in three colours, pearl earrings and a fur cape.
[Ref: 56354] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electricatis periculis clarus.
J.E. Haid sculp. [after Benjamin Wilson].
A.V. 1778.
Scarce mezzotint. 225 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"), with large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), wearing a wig, without spectacles. This is the scarce first version: two years later Haid re-engraved the plate, retaining the title but replacing the image with the portrait by Charles Nicolas Cochin fils, the more famous image of Franklin wearing spectacles and fur hat.
[Ref: 56455] £850.00

[James Baillie Fraser] [facsimile signature] Athenæum Portraits No 46. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
E.W. Ellis del. W.D. [WIlliam Drummond] Lith.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph on chine collé, on printed backing paper. Printed area Slight cockling. Bit messy in margin.
James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856), a Scottish travel writer and artist who wrote about and illustrated Asia Minor and India.
BM 1865,0610.1226.
[Ref: 56419] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

George, II.d. Price 5.s.
R.E. Pine pinx. 1759. W. Dickinson fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, 1766.
Very scarce mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins.
A full-length portrait of George II in court dress, soldiers with guns and bayonets behind the staircase. Painted by Robert Edge Pine the year before George died, it was published six years into the reign of George III.
CS 26, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 55972] £520.00

His Majesty George the Third King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c &c &c on his favourite Charger Adonis. From a Picture in the Possession of the Right Hon.ble Lord Somerville. To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, This Print is by her most gracious permission dedicated by her grateful and Devoted Serrvant, William Hopkins.
The King Painted by W. Hopkins from the original Picture of the Review by Sir W. Beechey and the Horse painted from the life, by J. Ward, Painter &c. to hia Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by J. Ward.
London, Published Feb.y 1st 1804, by J. Ward & Co, No 6 Newman Street.
Very rare mezzotint. 650 x 560mm (25½ x 22"), with separately-printed title 65 x 560mm (2½ x 22"), total 715 x 560mm (28¼ x 22"). Some creasing, split in bottom platemark and nicks in edges taped.
An equestrian portrait of George III in uniform, in a plain landscape. The figure of the king was taken from another Beechey painting engraved by Ward, 'His Majesty Reviewing the Third or Prince of Wales's Regiment of Dragoon Guards', 1799.
CS 20; Frankau 39.
[Ref: 56485] £650.00

[George the Third King of Great Britain &c &c. From the Original Picture in the Royal Academy.]
[Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Dickinson & Watson.]
[Publish'd April 25th 1781 by Watson & Dickson No. 158 New Bond Street.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before letters. 720 x 500mm (28¼ x 19¾"). Trimmed to plate mark, margins rebuilt but damaged, horizonal fold.
A large and impressive portrait of George III, seated on his coronation throne in Westminster Abbey, sceptre in hand.
CS 27..
[Ref: 56484] £650.00

His Most Gracious Majesty George the Third. To the Queen's most excellent Majesty This Print, From the original Drawing In her Majesty's Possession, is (by Permission) most respectfully Dedicated, by her Majesty's Most dutiful, and obedient Servant Henry Edridge.
Drawn by H. Edridge, Jan.y 1803. Engraved by Anth.y Cardon.
London, Pub.d March 1812 by H. Edridge, Margaret Str. Cavendish Squ. & Colnaghi & Co Cockspur Str.
Fine stipple and engraving. 430 x 310mm (17 x 12¼"), with large margins, paper with 'Bates' watermark.
A full-length portrait of George III standing before Windsor Castle, wearing star and garter, walking cane and hat in right hand.
[Ref: 56487] £320.00

M.lle Georges Veimer.
Gerard pinx.t. Maurin Delineavit. Imp.e Lith.e de Villain.
Chez Giraut M.d d'Estampes Boulevard des Italiens No 5. [n.d. c.1835.]
Fine lithograph. Printed area 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Marguerite Joséphine Georges (1787-1867), French actress known for her affairs with Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I and, she claimed, the Duke of Wellington. Her debut was in 1802 at the Théâtre Français in Paris. When she retired in 1853, she received a pension from Napoleon's elder brother, Joseph Bonaparte.
See Harvard Volume II. p.114: 7.
[Ref: 55936] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Eleonora Gonzaga] Ferdinandi II Uxor, Dei Gratia Imperatrix semper Augusta Germaniæ, Hungariæ et Bohemiæ Regina, Austriæ, Ardux Burgundiæ Dux &.
Balthasar Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga (1598-1655), daughter of the Duke of Mantua, second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
[Ref: 56403] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Henriette Marie par la grace de Dieu Royne d'Angleterre.
[after Anthony van Dyck.]
Balth Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins Slight stain.
A half-length portrait of Charles I in armour, one of a series of portraits after Anthony van Dyck, via engravings by Pieter de Jode II and others. First state, before decorations in the borders.
[Ref: 56411] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Herschel. European Magazine.
Published, Feby. 1, 1785, by J. Sewell, Cornhill.
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), very large margins. Spotting.
Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer best known for his discovery of the planet Uranus in addition to several of its major moons such as Titania and Oberon.
W: 1379-1.
[Ref: 56470] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Hans Holbein] Johannes Holbein I:F. Pictor Celeber. Civis Basiliensis immortale Patriae Britanniæquew Decus.
Joh: Holbein pinx.t. B: Hübner sculp: 1790.
Basileæ apud Chr: a Mechel Chalcogr.
Engraving. Sheet 305 x 250mm (12 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, top left corner snipped.
A self-portrait by Hans Holbein, showing the artist as a young man, within an architectural border.
[Ref: 56378] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Late Colonel William Horton, Founder of the Trade of Stafford.
Lithographed by Miss H. Whalley [after Michael Keeling]. W. Lake, Printer, 50 Old Bailey, London.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph on chine collé. 275 x 125mm (10¾ x 5"). Packing paper with scuff.
William Horton (1750-1832) was one of the first to manufacture shoes on a large scale. In a warehouse on Mill Street (at the rear of his home at Chetwynd House) workers would cut out the leather parts of the shoe; outworkers would collect these shoe parts, assemble them in their own homes or workshops, and return the completed shoes to the warehouse to be paid and to collect more leather. At one time he employed over 1,000 workers, but the downturn caused by the Napoleonic Wars reduced the number to 300-400 by 1813. He was Lieutenant Colonel in the local volunteer militia, became Mayor of Stafford in 1804, and issued token coinage under his name between 1798 and 1803. Richard Brinsley Sheridan the playwright and local was a close friend.
[Ref: 56372] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Howard, Comes Arundellæ.
Peter Paul Rubens Pinxt. James Basire del et Sculpt.
[n.d., 1763.]
Engraving. 540 x 360mm (21¼ x 14¼"), large margins. Some spotting, laid on card, time stained.
Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Howard (1585-1646), fourteenth Earl of Arundel, in armour, a second of the half-length portrait by Rubens in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
[Ref: 56443] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Digby Jephson] The Lobster.
Spy [Leslie Ward].
Vanity Fair, May 22nd 1902.
Chromolithograph. 265 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"). Mount burn.
Digby Loder Armroid Jephson (1871-1926) in mid lob. While playing cricket for Cambridge University and Surrey, he earned the nickname 'The Lobster' for bowling slow right-arm underarm lobs. The Cricketers of Vanity Fair.
[Ref: 56380] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Kempenfelt Esq.r Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet.
Tilly Kettle Pinxit. Richard Earlom Sculpsit. John Boydell excudit 1782.
Publish'd Oct.r 22.d 1782 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine mezzotint. 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11") very large margins. Mint.
Richard Kempenfelt (1718-1782) saw service in the West Indies during the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-48), including the capture of Portobello. In 1757 he joined the East Indies fleet, taking part in the capture of Pondicherry, 1761, and Manila. In 1781 he won the Battle of Ushant, with a vastly inferior force, defeating the French fleet under De Guichen and capturing twenty ships. Kempenfelt drowned in 1782 when the Royal George keeled over while at anchor off Spithead, drawing attention to the poor state of many British ships. The toll was over 900 lives. Tilly Kettle (1735-86) was a portrait painter and the first English painter to work in India, 1768-1776.
CS: 25, ii of ii.
[Ref: 56434] £360.00

John Kirby, Late Keeper of Newgate.
[after John James Masquerier.]
Published August 1 1809 by Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, Liverpool.
Stipple. Sheet 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed.
A half-length portrait of John Kirby, a keen angler. Charles Turner engraved a version of this portrait in 1796, his earliest dated mezzotint.
[Ref: 56275] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Messire Isaac De Laffemas Con.er du Roy en ses Conseilz d'Estat & prive M.e des Requestes ordinaires de son hostel, Lieutenant Civil en la ville Prevoste & vicomté des Paris.
[Balthasar Moncornet, n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Isaac de Laffemas (c. 1587-1657), French poet and playwright, lieutenant civil de la prévôté de Paris, author of 'L'histoire du commerce de France', 1606.
[Ref: 56399] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lazarillo Goncales, surnamed de Tormes Ætat 30.
[n.d., c.1750]
Rare engraving. Sheet 150 x 70mm (6 x 2¾"). Trimmed to printed border.
An oval portrait of the main character in 'The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities' (1554), a Spanish book regarded as the first picaresque satirical novel (from the Spanish word pícaro, meaning rogue or rascal). A boy of humble origins is apprenticed to a wily blind beggar, from whom he learns trickery before moving on to serve other masters.
[Ref: 56265] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[François Leclerc du Tremblay] Vraye effigie du R.P. Joseph de Paris predicateur Capuchin Provincial de Tournaine superior des missions estrangers er de Poitou fondateur des Religieuses de Calvaire A rendu lespirit entre les mains de ses superieurs le December 1638.
[Balthasar Moncornet, n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577-1638, also known by his monastic name Father Joseph), a Capuchin friar who was the confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu. He was the original 'éminence grise' (grey eminence), a powerful advisor working behind the scenes.
[Ref: 56412] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert E. Lee] Sold by authority of the Lee Memorial Association for the erection of a monument at the Tomb of Genl. R.E. Lee, at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
After a Photo from Life [by Julian Vannerson]. A.B. Walter Eng.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1870 by Bradley & Co [...]. W. W. Bostwick & Co. 177 & 178 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, General Agents for the Lee Memorial Association
Stipple on steel, facimile signatures of Lee, Chas. A. Davidson & Genl. W. N. Pendleton. 580 x 520mm (22¾ x 20½"), with wide margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70), published to raise money for a memorial and mausoleum, eventually completed in 1883.
[Ref: 56254] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Liscombe. Committed to Exeter Gaol charged with the Murders of Martha Huxtable and Ann Ford.
[Published March 12 1813 by Tho. Palser, Surry side Westminster Bridge.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing publisher's address.
In 1812 Thomas Liscombe, a vagrant hawker of ballads and similar materials in Devon and Cornwall, was arrested for the murder of Sarah Ford, the 60-year wife of a farmer in Kingsbridge, South Devon so be could rob the house. After he was sentenced to death he also confessed to the earlier murder of a small girl named Margaret Huxtable in nearby Dodbrook, whom he attempted to rape then beat to death.
[Ref: 56387] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Aldus Pius Manutius. Si priscos libros, veterum si volvere scripta, Debemus quidquid iam licet, Alde, tibi. Magna quide laus est Scriptoribus; at tibi major, Qui reddis veteres chalcographia arte novos.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Narrow margins.
Aldus Pius Manutius (1449-1515), the Venetian humanist, printer and publisher, founder of the Aldine Press. His legacy include the distinctions of inventing italic type, establishing the modern use of the semicolon, developing the modern appearance of the comma, and introducing inexpensive books in small formats bound in vellum that were read much like modern paperbacks.
[Ref: 56480] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Eleonore D. G. Royne de Suedois.
Balthasar Moncornet [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599-1655), Queen of Sweden as the consort of King Gustav II Adolph.
[Ref: 56406] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria of Austria] Serenissima et Augustissima Domina Domina Maria Rom Imperatrix. Germ. Hung. et Bohemiæ Regina. Infans Hispaniarum.
Balthasar Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins. Staining.
A half-length portrait of Archduchess Maria of Austria (1528-1603), daughter of Charles V and brother of Philip II of Spain, empress consort and queen consort of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary.
[Ref: 56402] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie de Bourbon] Anne Marie de Bourbon Fille de Monseigneur le Duc D'Orleans Souve.ne de Dombes Duchesse de Montpensier etc.
B. Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼") very large margins.
Marie de Bourbon (October 1605-27), Duchess of Montpensier and Duchess of Orléans after her marriage to Gaston de France, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of Louis XIII and heir presumptive. She died aged 21, shortly after childbirth.
[Ref: 56415] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Maria de Medicis. Trium Regnum Mater.
B. Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins. Crease on left top.
Marie de' Medici (1575-1642), wife of Henry IV of France and mother of Louis XIII, Elisabeth, Queen of Spain, and Henrietta Maria, Queen of England.
[Ref: 56417] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Marguerite Charlote de Montmorenci Princesse de Condé Pr.re Princesse du Sang.
Par Son tres-humble serviteeur Balt. Montcornet.
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594-1650) married Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé aged 15, on the orders of the elderly Henry IV who wanted her on hand as a mistress. However the newly-weds fled to Brussels to thwart the ploy, only returning after the king's death.
[Ref: 56413] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

O Dear What Can the Matter Be, / Dear Dear What Shall I Do. / Nobody Coming to Marry Me. / Nobody Coming to Woo. / The Old Song.
W.m Nicolas fecit.
London Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 190 x 160mm (7½ x 6¼"), large margins With album paper pasted to edges.
A pretty young woman resting her head in one hand on a window sill.
[Ref: 56334] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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