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[Jaguarai, Brazil?]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Pencil sketch on pink embossed card. Sheet 115 x 155mm (4½ x 6"). Glue stains in embossing.
A pencil sketch of buildings on a riverside with mooring places. 'Jaguarai' is written in pencil on the reverse, probably Jaguarari Brazil or somewhere in Thailand.
[Ref: 60881] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Honourable Charles James Fox.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r 1.st 1789, by J. Jones, No. 63, Great Portland Street, Marylebone.
Mezzotint. 515 x 360mm (20¼ x 14¼"). Margin restored on right. Small margins.
Three-quarter portrait of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), the first foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and vocal supporter of American independence. From the second of two very similar plates by Jones. CS: 29. Hamilton p.29, one state only.
[Ref: 60737] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Inte[rior of the res]idence of the Prince of the Sandwich Islands.
[London: Richard Philips, 1821.]
Rare aquatint. Sheet 130 x 205mm (5¼ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, bottom edge frayed with binding damage, affecting title.
A plate from Otto von Kotzebue's 'Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits, in search of a North-east Passage; Undertaken in the Years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick'.
[Ref: 60760] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Panama] Marche des Indiens lors qu'ils vont rendre visite à quelcum, ou qu'ils vont à un Festin. P.220,
[after Lionel Wafer.]
[Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1711.]
Engraving. 150 x 285mm (6 x 11¼"). Original binding folds.
Portraits of the Cuna king Lacenta, his wife and children, with his bodyguard, after Lionel Wafer (1640-1705), published in part of a French edition of Dampier's account of his voyages to Australia. Wafer, a Welsh ship's surgeon who served on buccaneer and privateer ships, was injured by a gunpowder blast while with Dampier near Cartagena in 1680. Left with the Cuna Indians on the Darien Isthmus to recover, he integrated with the tribe so much that when his crewmates returned they did not recognise him. In 1695 he published 'A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America', which contained much about Cuna culture and the natural history of Panama. His glowing account influenced the infamous 1698 Darien Scheme that nearly bankrupted Scotland: the 'Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies' hired him as an advisor and quoted his account in their promotional literature.
[Ref: 60824] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
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