Grosvenor Prints

L'Eclipse de 1832.
Lith. de Delaporte Sr. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat. [Paris, 1832.]
Lithograph with some hand colouring, sheet 255 x 330mm. 10 x 13".
A contemporary satire on reactions to the solar eclipse of July 1832; a military officer (centre) tries to rouse a man in theatrical costume from his slumber in a chair, gesturing towards the celestial phenomenon (coloured) upper right. Rows of sleeping men in armchairs to right, several figures looking through telescopes to left. The unrest of 1830 brought about the popular overthrow of the entrenched power within France and by summer 1832 the political scene was quite altered and the eclipse is used as an analogy. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature', numbered 'No.60' upper right.
[Ref: 17981] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M. Coll. Divi Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius. Neptunus calculo monstratus, A.D. 1845.
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint on chine collé. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"). Repaired tear in backing sheet.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
[Ref: 57110] £460.00

G. B. Airy [facsimile signature].
1852 T.H. Maguire.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of George Biddell Airy (1801-92), seated, holding a device. During his tenure as Astronomer Royal (1835-1881) he established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
[Ref: 57109] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Andrews, Astronomer and the celebrated Author of Moore's Almanack. Aged 71 -- 1815. Born at Frieston, near Grantham, February 4th 1744; Died at Royston, in Hertfordshire, January 26th, 1820, aged 76 years.
J. Watson Pinxt. T. Blood Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Very rare stipple with letterpress attachment. Plate 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), very large margins. Some age spots and creasing.
Half portrait of Henry Andrews (1744 –1820) mathematician and astronomer. For 43 years he worked in his spare time as 'Compiler of the tables detailing the movement of the planets' for Old Moore's Almanac aside his day job as Calculator to the Board of Longitude.
W: 72.
[Ref: 56979] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sphere.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving with fine hand colour, including gold highlights, pt 17th century watermark. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5").
An illustration of an armillary sphere on a tromp l'oeil wall hanging. The stand and pair of compasses are highlighted in gold.
[Ref: 56808] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Relox Astronomico. Tomo I, N.o4 Lamina 32.
R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. 1824.
Finely coloured aquatint, sheet 240 x 140 (9½ x 5½").
An astronomical device.
[Ref: 56985] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy.] Come forth O Man, yon azure Round survey [...]. Baker on the Universe.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Bottom margin trimmed to plate mark. Repaired damage to title area. Repaired wormhole in top margin.
A frontispiece to an edition of Henry Baker's 1730 poem 'On the Universe', illustrated with a scene of five people using telescopes, an armillary sphere and a globe in a classical garden. Compasses, telescopes and other astronomical instruments litter the ground.
See: Science Museum 13619.
[Ref: 56934] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Die sichtbare Seite der Mon-Oberflache. [The visible side of the Moon's Surface.]
Steiler's Hand-Atlas N.o 2. u. 3. Gotha: Justus Perthes 1872.
Chromolithograph. 375 x 460mm (14¾ x 18"). Some minor toning around the edges. Folded along central crease as normal.
An impressively detailed map of the moon's topographical features as well as a small inset diagram that shows the daily changes of the lunar phase. This sort of detail was typical of the maps designed by Adolf Stieler. His 'Handatlas' enjoyed huge popularity as a scientific publication, and ran from 1816 to 1945 in ten editions.
[Ref: 56912] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[8 illustrations of astronomy.]
Jaede del. G. Brinckmann sculps.t Leipzig.
Druck von Voigt & Günther [n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾").
Eight numbered vignette illustrations: an observatory building, the Moon, Saturn, a telescope, a reflecting telescope, a celestial globe, how to observe an eclipse via a reflection in water and a comet.
[Ref: 56835] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Telescope and Cross-staff.]
S. Fokke in fe.
[Amsterdam, c.1745.]
Engraving. 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"), with large margins. Some slight staining.
Two scenes on one plate. On the left a group use a telescope to look at the stars. On the right a navigator uses a cross-staff from a ship, looking up at the Plough (Big Dipper); the plate demonstrates how to use the asterism to locate Polaris.
[Ref: 56822] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Total Solar Eclipse.] Astronomy. Plate 5.
Engraved & Printed in Colours by W. & A. K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 350mm (10 ½ x 13¾"). Central fold crease as normal.
Plate 5 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56913] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Earth and its Atmosphere.
Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie.
Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. March 10.th 1849.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. A section of the Earth and its atmosphere at the equator, higlighting the effects of reflection and refraction and the uneven nature of the Earth's surface. The oceans and continents are indicated as are some islands and volcanoes.
[Ref: 56884] £360.00

M. Bailly, Mayor of Paris 1789 and 1790.
Boizot, del. Cook, sculpt.
[n.d., c.1793].
Engraving, plate 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with margins. Small margin on left. Foxing, mainly in margins. Holes in right margin where previously bound.
Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly bust in profile to the right, wearing a queue wig. Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736 -1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Wellcome: 148-1.
[Ref: 57161] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Tycho Brahe Astronome. Ne a Knud- Strup pres d'Helsinborg en Dannemare le 19 x.bre 1546. Mort a Prague le 24 Octobre 1601.
[after Jacques de Gheyn II]
A Paris chez Odieuvre, M.d d'Estampes, quai de l'Ecole vis a vis la Samarit.e ala belle Imag. CPR. [n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of Tycho Brahe, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of the Elephant, holding glove and resting hand on ledge. Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe 1546 -1601) was a Danish astrologer, alchemist and astronomer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations.
Not in Wellcome: 405.
[Ref: 57154] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Plani Sperium Coeleste.
[Engraved by Jan Peeters]
[Antwerp, 1692.]
Engraving. 150 x 285mm (6 x 11¼"), large margins. Some creasing as normal.
A double-hemisphere celestial map, with allegorical figures of the bodies of the Solar System in the corners and cusps. From ''L'Atlas en Abrege, ou Nouvelle Description du Monde''.
[Ref: 56823] £160.00

[Celestial Hemispheres] The First Part of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. [&] The Second Part of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. [&] The First Part of the So.n Celestial Hemisphere. [&] The Second Celestial Hemisphere.
J. Mynde sculp. [on one plate.]
[London, c.1760.]
Set of four engravings with hand colour. Each c. 155 x 295mm. All plates with binding folds, 2nd plate with damp and damage top right.
Four plates making up the two celestial hemispheres, with the constellations in their classic shapes. From volume 4 of 'Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth', an English edition of a work by Noël Antoine Pluche.
[Ref: 56837] £500.00 view all images for this item

[Celestial Globe.] Engraved for the Universal Magazine.
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street [n.d., 1757].
Coloured engraving. 190 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"), large margins on 3 sides.
A celestial globe with a mechanism for positioning the sun and moon.
[Ref: 56827] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair of Celestial Hemisheres] Northern Hemisphere. [&] Sothern Hemisphere.
J. Shury sc.
[London: Thomas Tegg, 1826.]
Two engravings with hand colour. Two sheets each 150 x 165mm (6 x 6½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A pair of celestial hemispheres, with the classical depictions of the constellations.
[Ref: 57036] £140.00

Chart of the Heavens, for the Latitude of Great Britain. Shewing The Stars Visible On Any Night Throughout The Year.
London: Published By James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand tinted engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. A celestial tranformation map with calendar scale round the outside; holes where the stars are so when held up to the light they "shine".
[Ref: 56836] £360.00 view all images for this item

Globe Celeste. Hemel-Globe,
[n.d., c.1700]
Engraving with hand colour, pt 17th century watermark. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Glue stains in margins.
An illustration of a celestial globe with a rococo base, with a classical background.
[Ref: 56809] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Observatory, Clifton. Mr. West begs most respectfully to inform the Subscribers, Visitors, and the public generally, that the Observatory is now open, and that it contains, for their use, by day or night, large and powerful Reflecting and Achromatic Telescopes...
[n.d., c.1842.]
Wood engraving and letterpress, sheet 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4¼").
Clifton Observatory is a former corn and snuff mill, but in 1777 the sails were left turning during a gale and caused the equipment to catch light. After being derelict for 52 years, William West rented it from the Society of Merchant Venturers and installed a telescope and a camera obscura.
[Ref: 50589] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Indians Astonished at the Eclipse of the Moon foretold by Colombus. Engraved for Drake's Voyages.
[n.d.]
Coloured engraving. 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Paper toned.
Desperate for supplies, Columbus impressed the natives of Jamaica by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse for February 29, 1504. He threatened that the gods would turn off the moon if they did not continue to feed his crew.
[Ref: 45052] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Shooting Star.]
[n.d.]
Engraving. 110 x 140mm (4¼ x 5½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A scene of townspeople gaze upward in shock at a bright shooting star while an anthropomorphic moon looks down at them. The German Comet of 1619.
[Ref: 57217] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet. Grand Meteoric Phenomenon. - The Comet.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Wood engraving with letterpress. Sheet 160 x 165mm (6¼ x 6½"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
The Great Meteor Procession of 1860, with a meteor leaving a long trail caused by debris. According to the text, Sir John Herschel published a detailed notice of the event.
[Ref: 56862] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet of 1811, As seen at Day Break the 15th Oct.r from Otterbourne Hill, near Winchester.
Engraved by H,R, Cook from a drawing by Pether for the Gallery of Nature & Art.
[London: R. Wilkes, 1815.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed close to image, backed with archival paper.
The Great Comet of 1811 (designated C/1811 F1) with an estimated an orbital period of nearly 3,000 years.
[Ref: 56825] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet and Zodiacal Light, as seen from the Terrace of the Maison Guiglia at Nice, on the evening of the 17th March 1843.
London, Published June 9th 1843 by William Spooner, 377 Strand.
Scarce lithograph. Printed area 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Tears in inscription area taped, edges chipped.
An illustration of the Great Comet of 1843 (designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I), one of the Kreutz Sungrazers, noted for its long tail. Its orbital period is believed to be between 600 and 800 years. Also shown is the zodical light, a false dawn caused by sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust.
[Ref: 56813] £490.00

The Great Comet of 1861 as seen from a Newtonian Equatorial of 13 inches aperture. July 2 10,h 10.m G.M.T. July 3 12.h 40.m G.M.T.
Waren de la Rue del. J. Basire sc.
[c.1861.]
Scarce mezzotint. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"). Tear in top margin.
Two illustrations of the coma of the Great Comet of 1861 (designated C/1861 J1 and 1861 II). It is believed to have an orbital period of 400 years.
[Ref: 56812] £380.00

Comets. Comets are heavenly bodies of a luminous and nebulous appearance which approach and recede from the Sun, moving in very elliptical...
[Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie.]
London, James Reynolds, 174, Strand. Sep.r 25 1860
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some foxing.
Astronomical diagram from a set of teaching cards published by Reynolds; depicting comets in the years 1811, 1680, 1858, 1835 and 1741 with explainary text. Most likely drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who frequently collaborated with Reynolds on diagrams.
[Ref: 56830] £390.00

Cometes et Aerolithes Pl. XI
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Celestial map showing and explaining comets and aerolites (a meteorite composed mainly of silica). One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56891] £360.00

Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations.
By S. Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. 1786.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 January 1774.
Engraving with mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 370 x 550mm (14½ x 21¾"), very large margins.
A diagram with twelve spheres, illustrating the Solar System, the orbits of the inner planets, the compass, magnetic variation, etc. From the first edition of ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57114] £450.00

Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations.
By S. Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. 1786.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1786.
Engraving with mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 370 x 550mm (14½ x 21¾"), very large margins.
A diagram with twelve spheres, illustrating the Solar System, the orbits of the inner planets, the compass, magnetic variation, etc. From ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57113] £450.00

Nicholas Culpeper. View in this face, whom Heaven snatcht from hence, / Our Phisicall and Starrie Influence; / Had not Great Culpeper such order tooke, / In spight of Fate to Live still in this Booke.
[n.d., c.1655]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), hand on a skull. A botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer, he is best known for his 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to posthumous editions of his 'Semeiotics Uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases' and 'Culpeper's Last Legacy',1676.
W: 727-6.
[Ref: 57197] £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.
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)

Petrus Aponensis. Medicus', Astrologus et Philosos
[n.d., c.1688].
Engraving, sheet 220 x 125mm (8½ x 5"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of Pietro d'Abano wearing a cap and gown. Pietro d'Abano, also known as Petrus de Apono, Petrus Aponensis or Peter of Abano (c. 157 – c.1316), was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quae inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur. He was eventually accused of heresy and atheism, and came before the Inquisition. He died in prison in 1315 (some sources say 1316) before the end of his trial.
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2290.2 Wellcome 84
[Ref: 57159] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Jos de Beauchamp. Astronomer.
Eng.d by Mackenzie from an Original Picture. [after François Marie Rosset]
[Published by A. Tilloch Carey Street June 1.st 1802]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5"). Trimmed within publication line. Glued to backing sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp, wearing a headscarf and fur trimmed coat. Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752-1801) was a French diplomat, clergyman and astronomer.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 57162] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Syntax Star-Gazing.
Drawn by Rowlandson.
Pub.d May 1.1821, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Coloured aquatint, sheet145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9½")
Dr Syntax with a young lady on a small balcony; she looks through a telescope to the sky. Two further couples, one on the bridge look up to the sky and the other do the same by the lake. To the right, a butler holding a tray of tea trips over a dog and falls down. From 'The Third Tour of Dr Syntax. In Search of a Wife'.
In the Science and Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 57063] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Geographical Diagram of The Earth. Adapted for Illustrating Its Movements &c.
[Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie]
London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; Reeves & Sons; Rock & Co; Peacock & Mansfield. [n.d., c.1850]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Missing two volvelle, pinholes where they would have been. Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.' Ink stains upper right corner.
Series of six diagrams illustrating day and night, the climatic zones and the Earth's rotation and its movement through space with two rotating, hand-coloured discs showing the hemispheres of the Earth which are sadly missing.
See reference 56798.
[Ref: 56881] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Earth - Its Annual Revolutions, and the Seasons of the Year. Nebulae _ Comets. Plate LIX. LX.
Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Dublin [n.d., c.1880].
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½").
Multiple images of the Earth within a ring demarqued with the Zodiac, showing the seasons. In the borders are 21 illustrations of nebulae and comets, including the Crab Nabula and three views of Halley's Comet as seen in 1835.
[Ref: 57133] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

An Extraordinary Eclipse.
Rowlandson. sc. Quiz.fecit.
London published by T. Tegg. N.o 111. Cheapside. Nov. 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 135 x 230mm (5¼ x 9"). Some surface dirt. Repaired tears.
From the series 'The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? In Hindostan a Hudibranstic poem in eight cantos by quiz'. A group of officials, military and civilian, watch an eclipse across a piece of water. Satire phrophesising Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings', 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754 -1826), failure as Governor-General of India.
BM Satires 12725.
[Ref: 57064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A Partial Eclipse.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Taped to album sheet.
A half-length portrait of a young woman, with some of her face obscured by a veil.
[Ref: 57095] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The appearance of the Total Solar eclipse from Haradon hill May 11. 1724.
Stukeley del. E. Kirkhall Sculp.
[1724-c.1776.]
Mezzotint on wove paper. 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very large margins. Slight creasing in margins.
Three men, two holding their horses, looking across a field at the solar eclipse; rays edged with light radiating from a bank of darkened clouds. In the modern calendar the date of the eclipse was May 22nd. A plate from 'Itinerarium Curiosum, Or, An Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observ'd in Travels thro' Great Brittan', by Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765), who best known for his early researches of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. Although the book was first published in 1724, there was a second edition in 1776.
[Ref: 57017] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

L'Eclipse. Dediée aux Astronomes, et aux Philosophes du dixhuitieme Steele par VA.
Etch'd by J. Barlow.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb.y 20, 1787, by H. Humphrey No 51, New Bond Street.
Rare etching with fine hand colour. 300 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Mounted in album paper.
A woman's head, topped with a conical hat trimmed with a monstrous arrangement of feathers, peers over a huge fur muff. Eclipses were in the news in 1787 because there were seven full eclipses of the sun and moon, the maximum number possible, which usually happens once every 130 years. A note on the British Museum's example of this print (from the Banks Collection) ascribes it to a Miss V. Aynscombe.
BM Satires 7248. The three examples in the BM are all uncoloured.
[Ref: 43889] £480.00

[Untitled map of the path of the 1764 Solar Eclipse]
Gent. Mag. 1764.
Engraved map. 185 x 115mm.
A map of the path of the 1764 solar eclipse across northern France and south east England. Three disks show how much of the sun was obscured in Bologne (total), Orleans & London (almost total) 6.
[Ref: 56817] £120.00

Annular Eclipse of the Sun.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Damage in right corner repaired,
A solar eclipse over a seascape. Plate 62 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 57025] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipses. The Theory of the Tides.
[Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie]
[London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Small tears at the bottom and some of the explanatory text faded. Some ageing to the paper.
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. Diagrams explaining eclipses of the Moon, eclipses of the Sun, and the theory of tides
[Ref: 56887] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipses. The Theory of the Tides.
[Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie]
[London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some ageing to the paper. Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. Diagrams explaining eclipses of the Moon, eclipses of the Sun, and the theory of tides.
[Ref: 56890] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipes. Flux et reflux (mares). Pl. VIII.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some paper toning.
Diagrams explaining eclipses of the Moon, eclipses of the Sun, and the theory of tides. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56900] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Flamsteed.
J: Gibson pinx. Jos.h Baker Sculp.
[n.d., c.1795]
Engraving, plate 175 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼), with margins.
Half-length portrait of John Flamsteed, in an oval, slightly turned to the left, one hand at his breast, dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and with a periwig on his head. Illustration to a magazine. John Flamsteed FRS (1646 –1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumously. He also made the first recorded observations of Uranus, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a star, and he laid the foundation stone for the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
[Ref: 57155] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Flamsteedius Derbiensis. Astronomiæ Professor Regius. Anno Ætatis 74. Obÿt Decem: 31 1719.
T. Gibson pinx. 1712. Geo. Vertue sculp. 1721.
Engraving. 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾"), very large margins. Old ink mss. in lower margin.
Oval portrait of John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) the first Astronomer Royal.
Wellcome: 988-1. See Ref: 54226 for a cut version.
[Ref: 57009] £320.00

Fontenelle Méditant sur la Pluralité des Mondes.
Desfontaines del.t. Moret Sculp.t.
A Paris, chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille Douce, Place Maubert, No.17, vis-a-vis la Rue des 3 Portes, A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1790.]
Aquatint with fine printed colour, with engraved text. 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), with large margins. With tear entering text taped.
A portrait of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757), standing by a telescope, gazing up at a moon with a human face. Fontenelle was a French author known for his accessible scientific texts during the Age of Enlightenment. He died one month short of his centenary.
[Ref: 56861] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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