Grosvenor Prints

[John Abercrombie]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to engraved border, laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of John Abercrombie (1726–1806), Scottish horticulturist, the new frontispiece for the 1800 edition of his 'Every Man His Own Gardener'.
[Ref: 57200] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Magnus Alexander Achillinus.
[Bologna, Hieronymum de Benedictis, n.d., c.1520.]
Very scarce woodcut, set in Latin text. Sheet 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Small notch in top edge, slight spotting.
An early portrait of Alessandro Achillini (c.1463-1512), philosopher and physician of Bologna, who studied anatomy. It was published as the frontispiece to 'Annotationes anatomiae magni Alexandri Achillini Bononiensis', first published 1520.
Wellcome 8-1.
[Ref: 57195] £360.00

[Robert Adam.]
Published March 1st 1808 by William Richardson, 31, Strand.
Etching. 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Profile bust portrait of Robert Adam (1728-92), architect
[Ref: 57207] £65.00 (£78.00 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

New London Magazine. M.r Sadler, The first English Ærostatist. M.r Arnold, The first unsuccessful Aerial Adventurer.
Thornton sculp.
Published by Alex..r Hogg at the kings Arms N.o16 Paternoster Row, De[c. 31. 1785.]
Engraving, plate 125 x 200mm (5 x 7¾"). Publication line partially obscured.
Oval portraits of James Sadler (1753 – 1828) and Stuart Amos Arnold. Sadler was the first English balloonist and the second person, after Vincenzo Lunardi (1754 – 1806), to make a balloon ascent in England. He was an eminent scientist and made a number of important discoveries; notably that hot air, rather than smoke, as the Montgolfiers had wrongly concluded, was required for airborne propulsion, managed tomanufacture hydrogen at a time when the element was so new it hadn’t even been named and was the first to create an adjustable fire in the basket to manipulate the balloon’s altitude. Arnold is most famous for his balloon that launched 31 August 1785 from St George's Fields, London, which ended in disaster after it got caught on some railings.
[Ref: 56930] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.] Behold the figure of that man of Parts / who dive'd into the secrets of all Arts, / A Second Solomon, the mighty Hee / That try'de them all, and found them Vanity.
[London: R. Bentley, 1694.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Profile portrait of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), a German physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian and occult writer, author of 'Three Books Concerning Occult Philosophy'. He was also a magician and a spy. This portrait was published as the frontispiece of his book 'The Vanity of Arts & Sciences'.
[Ref: 57199] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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)

Geo. J. Allman
T. H. Maguire.
1851.
Lithograph. Sheet 615 x 445mm (24¼ x 17½"), very large margins.
A portrait of George James Allman (1812-1898), seated, with facsimile signature beneath. Allman was an Irish ecologist, botonist and zoologist. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 56
[Ref: 57052] £220.00 (£264.00 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)

D. T. Ansted [facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1850. [Etched in plate.]
[M & N Hanhart, London.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 600 x 435mm (23½ x 17") very large margins. Some foxing in margins.
A three quarter length portrait of geologist David Thomas Ansted (1814-1880). Ansted was appointed a follow of the Royal Society in 1844 and by 1850 had produced a number of seminal texts and manuals on practical geology. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846. American interest in Virginia.
Wellcome: 78.
[Ref: 57122] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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)

Henry Baker, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and of the Society for the Ecouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Author of "The Microscope made easy" "Employment for the Microscope," and other Works. Bonr May 8. 1698; died Nov.r 25. 1774.
Thomson pinx. Nutter Sculpt.
Publish'd by Jany. 1st. 1812.
Stipple, sheet 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"). Some foxing around the edges. Trimmed within plate on left and small margin on right.
Half-length portrait of Henry Baker in an oval to right, head turned to look to front, in his study with bookcase behind at left and microscope on table behind at right; illustration to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes of the eighteenth century' (London, 1812-1815). Henry Baker (1698 -1774) was a British naturalist.
Wellcome: 151
[Ref: 57151] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Robert Barker, Inventor and Proprietor of the Panorama.
G. Ralph pinx.t. J. Singleton Sculp.t.
Published Oct.r 1,,st 1802, by W.m Richardson, York House, Strand.
Rare Stipple. Sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed at sides.
Half-length portrait of Robert Barker (1739-1806), who coined the word 'panorama' in 1792 for his method of painting 360º views on a cylindrical surface. The following year he opened the world's first purpose-built panorama building, in Leicester Square. One of his most successful panoramas, showing London from the roof of Albion Mills, drawn by his son Henry Aston Barker, was published on six sheets in 1792.
[Ref: 57194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Isaac Barrow D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II. professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and of the Greek Tongue and Mathematics at Cambridge, and Master of Trinity College in that University.
Vandyke pinx.t. Pelit Sculp.t..
Engrav'd for the Royal Magazine. [n.d., c.1770]
Engraving, plate 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"), with large margins. Some surface dirt on left.
Oval portraits of Isaac Barrow (1630 –1677) an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus.
Wellcome: 183-7
[Ref: 57053] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Compy. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"). Thread margin on left.
Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Early in his career at sea Beaufort's gallant record and scientific talents made him well known throughout the navy. In 1817 he published a record of his survey and exploration of the southern Turkish coast (then little known to Europeans). In 1829, at the age of 55, Beaufort became the Hydrographer of the British Admiralty, remaining so for 26 years, charting the seas to make them safe for the increasing amount of British and foreign shipping. Beaufort converted a minor chart repository into the finest surveying and charting institution in the world. Some of his excellent charts are still used, 200 years after he created them.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57021] £480.00

Thomas Bell [facsimile signature]
T. H. Maguire [etched in plate.]
Ashbee & Tuckett Lith Printers London.
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 600 x 445mm (23½ x 17½") very large margins. Some faint foxing and time staining in the margins.
A half length portrait of Thomas Bell (1792-1880). Bell was a notable zoologist, specialising in reptile specimens. He was instrumental in the publication of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection and is commemorated in the names of several species and sub-species of reptile. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 236.
[Ref: 57136] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

George Bidder, of Devonshire, AET.13. Whose extraordinary power of Calculation developed itself without instruction & reached an unprecedented height before he attained his seventh year. From a Miniature in the possession of the Rev.d Tho.s Jephson, of St. John's College Cambridge.
Painted by Miss Hayter. Engraved by J.H. Robinson.
London, Published June 25, 1819, by Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street.
Engraving. 245 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Thread margins.
George Parker Bidder (1806-1878), the English engineer, architect and calculating prodigy. In 1834 Robert Stephenson, whose acquaintance he had made in Edinburgh, offered him an appointment on the London & Birmingham Railway, and in the succeeding year or two he began to assist George Stephenson in his parliamentary work, which at that time included schemes for railways between London and Brighton and between Manchester and Rugby via the Potteries. In 1837 he was engaged with Stephenson in building the Blackwall Railway, and it was he who designed the peculiar method of disconnecting a carriage at each station while the rest of the train went on without stopping, which was employed in the early days of that line when it was worked by means of a cable. He also advised on the construction of the Belgian railways; with Robert Stephenson he made the first railway in Norway, from Christiania to Eidsvold; he was engineer-in-chief of the Danish railways, and he was largely concerned with railways in India, where he strongly and successfully opposed break of gauge on through routes. In 1860 he was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was also one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company, which enabled the public generally to enjoy the benefits of telegraphic communication. In hydraulic engineering, he was the designer of the Victoria Docks (London). Bidder also investigated the practicality of steam trawlers in conjunction with Samuel Lake.
See Ref: 55257 for another version.
[Ref: 56988] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Pierre Blanchard. The first Aerial Mariner, Citizen of Calais...
R. Livesay pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
March 24 Pub. for the Proprietor by S. Hooper No 212, High-Holborn, London.
Stipple with etching and engraving. Sheet 230 x 205mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed within plate. Slight vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, published shortly after he and American doctor John Jefferies made the first balloon flight across the English Channel when they travelled from Dover to Calais, January 7th 1785.
[Ref: 56777] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

"Aviation." Louis Bleriot. (The First to Fly the Chanel.)
F.W.
Supplement to "The Throne and Country." August 7, 1909.
Chromolithograph, sheet 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"), large margins. Tears to edges, some creasing and surface dirt. Messy.
Full length portrait of Louis Charles Joseph Bleriot (1872 – 1936) French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
[Ref: 56967] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

John P. Boileau [facsimile signature]
T. H. Maguire. 1849. [etched in plate]
M & N Hanhart Lith. Printers.
Lithograph on octagonal chine collé. Sheet 600 x 435mm (23½ x 17") very large margins. Foxing in margins.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of John Boileau (1794-1869) with the Ipswich Museum blind stamp in the lower right corner. Boileau was president and vice president of various Archaeological and Zoological Societies in London and Norfolk, where he was created a first baronet in 1838. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852: the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
[Ref: 57139] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

CL. Bonaparte. [Facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1849. [etched in plate.]
[M & N Hanhart, London 1852.]
Llithograph on octagonal chine collé. Sheet 600 x 435mm (23½ x 17") with large margins. Some faint foxing and spotting in the margins and title area.
A seated three-quarter length portrait of Charles Lucien Bonaparte. A noted Ornithologist. Napoleon was his uncle.
Wellcome: 35
[Ref: 57140] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Theophilus Bonetus. D.M.
[n.d. 1700.]
Engraving. 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") Trimmed. Some faint staining in the title area.
A portrait of Theophile Boneti (1620-89) seated at a desk and surrounded by piles and shelves of books. He holds a quill, suspended above the page, near an ink pot in one hand and an hourglass in the other. A skeleton with a scythe stands at the open door. Published as the frontis piece to his complete works "Sepulchretum" on all known surgical., medical and pharmacological knowledge at the time, published as three volumes.
Wellcome: 353-2
[Ref: 57214] £260.00 (£312.00 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)

Dr Chauncy [pencil mss., Nathaniel Chauncy?]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
Caricatured profile portrait, possibly of Nathaniel Chauncy, described by the BM as an 'Antiquary and virtuoso', not a doctor.
See BM 1868,0822.2302 for a portrait after Reynolds.
[Ref: 57208] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Cremorne.] [&] Chelsea Park. (2)
[Anon.] [&] Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, c.1800 - 1825.]
Portrait, proof stipple and etching before all letters, with lithograph view, both tipped into a single folio album leaf. Sheet 485 x 330mm, 18¾ x 13". The prints lacking some margin.
Cremorne Gardens, Lots Road SW10 are named for Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne (1725 - 1813); this portrait is by Charles Knight after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830). Lord Cremorne bought Chelsea Farm, the house depicted below his portrait, in 1778. In 1831 it was purchased by Charles Random De Berenger, Baron De Beaufain who turned it first into a sports club and then opened the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens. Entertainment included concerts, fireworks, balloon ascents and galas. After its closure, the gardens were sold for building and soon built over.
NPG D2225. See Longford Images of Chelsea 355, 'Chelsea Farm'.
[Ref: 25686] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

"Vanity Fair" Supplement Men of the Day No. 1303. "All British" (M.r S F. Cody)
Alick. P.F. Ritchie. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 1 Nov 1911]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins. Crease top right corner.
Full length portrait of Samuel Franklin Cowdery (1867 – 1913), known as Samuel Franklin Cody, USA born Wild West showman, early pioneer of manned flight and inventor of the Cody kite used by the British military. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane built in Britain. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognised as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain. He set various British flight distance and endurance records and won prizes in flight competitions such as the Michelin Cup in 1911.
[Ref: 56968] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas Culpeper.
[n.d., c.1800]
Stipple, plate 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"), with small margins. Slight foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait of Nicholas Culpeper in an oval with symbols of the zodiac surrounding. Coat of arms below. Nicholas Culpeper (1616 –1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His 'The English Physician' (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and 'Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick' (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.
Not in Wellcome. W. 727
[Ref: 57164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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)

Is. Dalby Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military College at Farnham.
Drawn by Derby, from the Original by Halls, in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Thomson sculp.
[n.d.,c.1827]
Engraving with stipple, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Isaac Dalby (1744–1824) English mathematician, surveyor and teacher. He was involved in the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, the first high-precision trigonometric survey of Great Britain. In 1799 he was appointed first professor of mathematics in the senior department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which subsequently moved to Farnham in Surrey, and later became the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He held this post for twenty-one years, resigning it in 1820, when old age and infirmity had overtaken him. He was a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 749-1.
[Ref: 57075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

John Dalton, D.C.L. L.L.D. F.R.S. L.&E. &c.&c. President of the Lit. & Phil.l Soc.y of Manch.r.
Drawn& Etch'd by J. Stephenson.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 190 x 115mm (7½ x 4½"), on card, with large margins.
A half-length portrait of John Dalton (1766-1844), scientist and natural philosopher credited as the inventor of atomic theory. He peers through spectacles at a liquid in a glass.
[Ref: 56774] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

W.m. Darling [facsimile signature].
Painted by John Reay. Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor.
London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket & Currie & Bowman, Newcastle upon Tyne. J.Graf, Printer to Her Majesty [n.d., c.1830].
Rare lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Printed area. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Soiling to backing paper. Margins bit messy.
William Darling (1786-1865), keeper of Longstone lighthouse, seated but with a wreck behind him. On the 7th of September 1838, the "Forfarshire"with sixty-three persons on board, struck on the Farne Islands, and Darling, along with his daughter Grace Darling, rescued nine survivors from the shipwreck, earning them a gold medal from the Humane Society. The original painting, by John Reay (active 1838-1900) is in the RNLI Grace Darling Museum .
[Ref: 57056] £230.00 (£276.00 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)

Ionnes De La Quintinye Regiorum Hortorum Culturae Praefectus. Hanc deorate Deoe, quot quot floretis in hortis, Floribus e vestris supraque infraque tabellam: Hic dedit arboribus florere, e edilibus herbis, Este mirata est tanto Pomona colono.
F. de la Mare Richart pinx acad. C. Vermeulen Sculp.
[Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.]
Rare engraving, sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
Oval portrait of Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626 –1688) French lawyer, gardener and agronomist who served under Louis XIV. Named director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens by the king in 1670, he created between 1678 and 1683 the Potager du roi ("King's vegetable garden") near the Palace of Versailles. Frontispiece to 'The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry,' Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.
[Ref: 57074] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes, Dominus De Perron, Natus Hagae Turonum, Anno. M.D.X.CVI, Ultimo Die Martii.
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten's important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes's greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 57209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

E. Doubleday. [Facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1849. [Etched in plate.]
M & N Hanhart lith. printers.
Lithograph on octagonal chine collé. 570 x 440mm (22½ x 17¼"), very large margins. Foxing and time staining in the margins.
A half length portrait of Edward Doubleday (1810-1849) with his arms folded. Doubleday was a notable entomologist; during his tenure at the British Museum he built the most comprehensive butterfly collections of the time. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852: the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 841
[Ref: 57165] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Erasmus.
Painted by Hans Holbein. Engraved by Tho.s Lupton.
Published by J Brydone Leicester 1823.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 11¾"). Thread margins. Margins bit ragged.
Half length portrait of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466 - 1536), wearing a hat and fur lined robe, his hands rest on a book with 'Desg Erasmvs Roterod,' written on the pages. Erasmus was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance.
[Ref: 57143] £260.00 (£312.00 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

Edward Flower, Esq.re. Painted & Engraved for the Gentlemen who were Educated at Mr. Flower's Academy, Islington.
Painted by J. Linnell. Engraved by Henry Cook.
London, Published Oct.r 14.th 1828 by Carpenter & Son, Old Bond St. Colnaghi, Cockspur S.t Moon, Boys & Graves, Pall Mall & Scholey, 100, Upper St. Islington.
Engraving, very fine & rare impression. Plate: 335 x 235mm (13 x 9¼''). Staining on right margin and slight foxing
A portrait of schoolmaster of Flower's Academy in Islington, a stricking image.
[Ref: 50654] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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)

Edward Forster [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"), with large margins. A few small tear in the bottom edge.
Half-length portrait of Edward Forster the Younger (1765-1849), banker and botanist. An early fellow of the Linnean Society, he was elected treasurer in 1816 and vice-president in 1828. He also had a catalogue of British birds printed in 1817. He helped found a Refuge for the Destitute in Hackney Road: he contracted cholera during an inspection, dying two days later. His herbarium was bought and presented to the British Museum. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
[Ref: 57188] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[John Freeth and the Birmingham Book Club]. Birmingham Men of the Last Century. From a fine Picture in the possession of Dugdale Houghton Esquire.
Painted by John Eckstein. W. Underwood Lith.
Published by T. Underwood, Castle St., Birmingham,
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"), with large margins.
A meeting of the Birmingham Book Club, at the Leicester Arms, a coffee house run by John Freeth (1731-1808), who was also a poet and songwriter under the pseudonym John Free. A book club and debating society, its members included Radicals, supporters of John Wilkes and Unitarians, causing its opponents to call it the Jacobin Club. It existed until at least 1964.
[Ref: 56870] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Gemma Frisivs, Doccomiensis, Medicvs et Mathematicvs. Ut simulat solem radiantis gemma pyropi, Sic Gemmam artifici picta tabella manu. Haec vultum dedit, ipse animi monumenta perennis; Ne quid in exstincto non Superebe putes. 29. Vita excebit Louany VII. Kal. Iun. CIC. ICLV. Aet. XLVII.
[After Jan van Stalburch]
[n.d., c1620]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of Gemma Frisius with an excerpt from Melchior Adam's (c. 1575 – 1622) 'Vitae Germanorum medicorum' (1620). Gemma Frisius (born Jemme Reinerszoon; 1508 –1555) was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied mathematics in new ways to surveying and navigation. The astronomical rings known as Gemma's rings are named after him.
[Ref: 57144] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Goldsmith.
Poupard sculp.t [after Aundinet].
[Philadelpha, n.d., c. 1780].
Stipple. Sheet 105 x 85mm (4¼ x 3½"), large margins top and bottom. Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
A portrait of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), from an American edition of Goldsmith's work. By James Poupard of Philadelphia & New York, 1772-1814.
See Wellcome 1160.
[Ref: 57211] £450.00

Vanity Fair Supplement. [Men of the Day No. 2219.] "Claudie." (C. Graham. White.)
Tec. Hentschel- Colourtype London
[n.d., 10 May 1911.]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length portrait of Claude Grahame-White (1879 – 1959) English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. Grahame-White's interest in aviation was sparked by Louis Blériot's crossing of the English Channel in 1909. This prompted him to go to France, where he attended the Reims aviation meeting, at which he met Blériot and subsequently enrolled at his flying school. He was one of the first people to qualify as pilot in England. He reached celebrity status in April 1910 when he competed with the French pilot Louis Paulhan for the £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail newspaper for the first flight between London and Manchester in under 24 hours. Although Paulhan won the prize, Grahame White's achievement was widely praised.
[Ref: 56969] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Edw. Gray [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1851. M. & N. Hanhart Imp.t.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), with wide margins. Foxing in margin.
Half-length portrait of John Edward Gray (1800-75), one of the most prolific taxonomists in the history of zoology. He was founder of the Entomological Society of London in 1833 (now the Royal Entomological Society). He was keeper of zoology at the British Museum 1840-1874 (before the department became the Natural History Museum. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1202.
[Ref: 57191] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The true and lively pourtraicture of Valentine Greatrakes Esq.r of Affane in ye Country of Waterford, in ye Kingdome of Ireland famous for curing several Deseases and distempers by the stroak of his hand only.]
[Sold by W.m Faithorne.] [n.d.,. 1666.]
Etching. Sheet 130 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed into image, losing all text, top edged chipped, laid on album paper.
Valentine Greatrakes (1628-82), an Irish faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. A religious man, he started his healing in 1662 after feeling an impulse, curing Robert Phayre, a former Commonwealth Governor of County Cork, of acute ague in 1665. In 1667 he returned to farming in Ireland. The frontispiece of ''A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed''.
[Ref: 57203] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Effigie Iohannis Gravii. A.D. 1650.
E.M. [Edward Mascall] fec.
[n.d. c.1650].
Etching. Sheet 105 x 75mm (4¼ x 3"). Trimmed inside platemark, laid on album paper.
John Greaves (1602-52), mathematician and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. In 1637 he travelled to the Levant, intending to ascertain the latitude of Alexandria, home of the great mathmatician and cartographer Ptolemy. He also completed the most accurate survey of the pyramids of Egypt.
[Ref: 57202] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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