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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Aeneas saving his father from the burning of Troy.]](jpegs/59913.jpg)
[Aeneas saving his father from the burning of Troy.]
P.P. Rubens Pinx. v. Prenner del. et incid.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving on two plates. Outside plate 265 x 320mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins. Uncut.
A scene of the Fall of Troy, with a separate plate for the decorative, frame-like printed border, published in the 'Theatrum Artis Pictoriae', a series of reproductions of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna. The attribution to Rubens is doubtful. Aeneas carries his elderly father Anchises from the burning city, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius.
[Ref: 59913] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
P.P. Rubens Pinx. v. Prenner del. et incid.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving on two plates. Outside plate 265 x 320mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins. Uncut.
A scene of the Fall of Troy, with a separate plate for the decorative, frame-like printed border, published in the 'Theatrum Artis Pictoriae', a series of reproductions of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna. The attribution to Rubens is doubtful. Aeneas carries his elderly father Anchises from the burning city, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius.
[Ref: 59913] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Livery Companies] The Twelve Companies.](jpegs/59958.jpg)
[Livery Companies] The Twelve Companies. Mercers. Grocers. Drapers. Fishmongers. Goldsmiths. Skinners. Merchat Taylors. Haberdashers. Salters. Ironmongers. Vintners. Cloth-Workers.
[London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708.]
Scarce engraving. Top right "To Front. Voll:y.2nd"; Sheet 190 x 500mm (7½ x 19¾"), large margins. Repairs at binding folds, repaired nicks in edges.
The arms of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, those which had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515. From Edward Hatton's 'A New View of London; or an Ample Account of that City'.
[Ref: 59958] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708.]
Scarce engraving. Top right "To Front. Voll:y.2nd"; Sheet 190 x 500mm (7½ x 19¾"), large margins. Repairs at binding folds, repaired nicks in edges.
The arms of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, those which had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515. From Edward Hatton's 'A New View of London; or an Ample Account of that City'.
[Ref: 59958] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Livery Companies]](jpegs/59959.jpg)
[Livery Companies]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Top left "page 593"; 220 x 360mm (8¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate on right, new margin added, binding folds flattened. Small margins.
The arms of the fifty of the lesser City Livery Companies, numbered 13-62, after the Great Twelve City Livery Companies that had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515.
[Ref: 59959] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Top left "page 593"; 220 x 360mm (8¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate on right, new margin added, binding folds flattened. Small margins.
The arms of the fifty of the lesser City Livery Companies, numbered 13-62, after the Great Twelve City Livery Companies that had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515.
[Ref: 59959] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Diogenes looking for an Honest Man. 86.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs, 2nd Oct.r 1777.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, laid on archival tissue. Damaged.
A scene showing the Greek philosopher Diogenes walking through a contemporary English villlage streets in the middle of the day, using a lit lamp to searching for a good man. The villagers point and laugh.
Not in BM but see BM Satires 5392 for a smaller mezzotint also published by Bowles.
[Ref: 59673] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs, 2nd Oct.r 1777.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, laid on archival tissue. Damaged.
A scene showing the Greek philosopher Diogenes walking through a contemporary English villlage streets in the middle of the day, using a lit lamp to searching for a good man. The villagers point and laugh.
Not in BM but see BM Satires 5392 for a smaller mezzotint also published by Bowles.
[Ref: 59673] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)
Le Repose.
Peint par Gaspard Netscher. Dessiné par Beaudouin. Gravé par C.E. Gaucher, des acad.ie R.le et Soc.té de Londre, Rouen &c.
Imp. Chardon ainé, à Paris [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving with etching. 270 x 225mm (10¾ x 9"), very large margins.
Interior of a rich bedroom with a naked woman asleep on a canopied bed, a jug on a side-table. First published c.1808, the title also had 'De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. A.P.D.R.'
[Ref: 59646] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par Gaspard Netscher. Dessiné par Beaudouin. Gravé par C.E. Gaucher, des acad.ie R.le et Soc.té de Londre, Rouen &c.
Imp. Chardon ainé, à Paris [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving with etching. 270 x 225mm (10¾ x 9"), very large margins.
Interior of a rich bedroom with a naked woman asleep on a canopied bed, a jug on a side-table. First published c.1808, the title also had 'De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. A.P.D.R.'
[Ref: 59646] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London; Royal Palaces; Hospitals; and Publick Edifices; Built by S.r Christopher Wren K.t Surveyor General of the Royal Works, during Fifty Years: Viz.t from 1668, to 1718. A List Of the exect Sums of Money laid out for Rebuilding each Church, with References to their Names & Numbers in the Rounds.
H. Hulsbergh Sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"). Trimmed into image, loss as central fold. Repairs, messy.
A pyramid with roundels listing Wren's works, cross-referenced to tromp-l'oeil scrolls listing the cost (if known). It was the first plate (of 15) in a book with the same title.
See RA Collection 03/2812 for the complete book.
[Ref: 59823] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
H. Hulsbergh Sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"). Trimmed into image, loss as central fold. Repairs, messy.
A pyramid with roundels listing Wren's works, cross-referenced to tromp-l'oeil scrolls listing the cost (if known). It was the first plate (of 15) in a book with the same title.
See RA Collection 03/2812 for the complete book.
[Ref: 59823] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)