A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[The Honourable Miss Cholmondeley.]](jpegs/61485.jpg)
[The Honourable Miss Cholmondeley.]
[Reynolds pinx.t. Marchi fecit.]
[Sold by Ryland, Bryer & Co. in Cornhill] [n.d., c.1763].
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with very large margins. Repaired tear bottom left.
Lady Hester Frances Cholmondeley (1763 - 1844) as a child, wading across a stream in bare feet, carrying a shaggy white dog. The daughter of Robert Cholmondeley and granddaughter of George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, she married Sir William Bellingham in 1783.
Chaloner Smith I of II. Hamilton I of III.
[Ref: 61485] £480.00
[Reynolds pinx.t. Marchi fecit.]
[Sold by Ryland, Bryer & Co. in Cornhill] [n.d., c.1763].
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with very large margins. Repaired tear bottom left.
Lady Hester Frances Cholmondeley (1763 - 1844) as a child, wading across a stream in bare feet, carrying a shaggy white dog. The daughter of Robert Cholmondeley and granddaughter of George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, she married Sir William Bellingham in 1783.
Chaloner Smith I of II. Hamilton I of III.
[Ref: 61485] £480.00
Dogs dancing. La danse des chiens.
C. Vernet inv. & del. Levachez fils sculp.
Se vend à Paris, Rue St. Lazare, Chaussée d'Antin, No. 88 [n.d., c.1800].
Fine & rare coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 435 x 635mm (17 x 25"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, paper toned.
A Parisian street scene with a street entertainer with performing dogs and monkeys dressed in clothes, after Carle Vernet (1758-1836). A second man plays a flute and drum as a third, holding a huge tamborine, passes his hat around a large crowd.
[Ref: 61825] £790.00
C. Vernet inv. & del. Levachez fils sculp.
Se vend à Paris, Rue St. Lazare, Chaussée d'Antin, No. 88 [n.d., c.1800].
Fine & rare coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 435 x 635mm (17 x 25"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, paper toned.
A Parisian street scene with a street entertainer with performing dogs and monkeys dressed in clothes, after Carle Vernet (1758-1836). A second man plays a flute and drum as a third, holding a huge tamborine, passes his hat around a large crowd.
[Ref: 61825] £790.00
"The Baby Hippopotamus"
[n.d. c.1870's]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼"), with large margins. Creases.
An anthropromorphic satire. A midwife wearing a dress and bonnet holds a baby hippo, just birthed by the hippo laying in a grand bed. Grandparents look pleased, the grandmother sits on a chair while the grandfather stands next to the fireplace wearing a housecoat. Possibly a satire on the first captive-bred hippo at London Zoo; bore by Adhela and fathered by Obaysch in 1871.
[Ref: 61459] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1870's]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼"), with large margins. Creases.
An anthropromorphic satire. A midwife wearing a dress and bonnet holds a baby hippo, just birthed by the hippo laying in a grand bed. Grandparents look pleased, the grandmother sits on a chair while the grandfather stands next to the fireplace wearing a housecoat. Possibly a satire on the first captive-bred hippo at London Zoo; bore by Adhela and fathered by Obaysch in 1871.
[Ref: 61459] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[At Jamrach's, The Dealer in Wild Animals, East London.]](jpegs/61991.jpg)
[At Jamrach's, The Dealer in Wild Animals, East London.]
W.H.W.
[n.d., 1887.]
Pen and ink, sheet 230 x 315mm (9 x 12½"), with a wood-engraved version of the scene. Tear entering image at top, mounted on album paper.
A view of the animal cages at Mr Jamrach's repository on St George's Street (the Ratcliffe Highway), with a keeper and a customer. In the cages are kangaroos, emus and an owl. The wood-engraving comes from the Illustrated London News of February 19th, 1887, with additional details, including a boy, camels, an elephant (on top of a cage, so probably stuffed) and some skulls. Charles Jamrach (Johann Christian Carl Jamrach, 1815-91) took over the London branch of his father's animal business c.1840. In 1857 a Bengal tiger escaped from its box at the Emporium, snatching a small boy in the street; Jamrach used his bare hands and a crowbar borrowed from a bystander to rescue the boy (who sued Jamrach for £300).
[Ref: 61991] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
W.H.W.
[n.d., 1887.]
Pen and ink, sheet 230 x 315mm (9 x 12½"), with a wood-engraved version of the scene. Tear entering image at top, mounted on album paper.
A view of the animal cages at Mr Jamrach's repository on St George's Street (the Ratcliffe Highway), with a keeper and a customer. In the cages are kangaroos, emus and an owl. The wood-engraving comes from the Illustrated London News of February 19th, 1887, with additional details, including a boy, camels, an elephant (on top of a cage, so probably stuffed) and some skulls. Charles Jamrach (Johann Christian Carl Jamrach, 1815-91) took over the London branch of his father's animal business c.1840. In 1857 a Bengal tiger escaped from its box at the Emporium, snatching a small boy in the street; Jamrach used his bare hands and a crowbar borrowed from a bystander to rescue the boy (who sued Jamrach for £300).
[Ref: 61991] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Psittacus gloriosus. The Splendid Parrott. 53.
London Published Jan.ry 1.st 1791 by F.P. Nodder & C.o N.o15 Brewer Street.
Scarce letterpress and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"), with large margins.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a red and blue parrott. Although described as a 'Splendid Parrott' by this text it is actually a Crimson rosella; a parrot native to eastern and south eastern Australia which has been introduced to New Zealand and Norfolk Island.
[Ref: 61938] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
London Published Jan.ry 1.st 1791 by F.P. Nodder & C.o N.o15 Brewer Street.
Scarce letterpress and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"), with large margins.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a red and blue parrott. Although described as a 'Splendid Parrott' by this text it is actually a Crimson rosella; a parrot native to eastern and south eastern Australia which has been introduced to New Zealand and Norfolk Island.
[Ref: 61938] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Petaurus australis. The Southern Petaurus. 60.
London Published March 1.st 1791 by F.P. Nodder & C.o N.o15 Brewer Street.
Two rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"), with margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a yellow-bellied glider also known as the fluffy glider, is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria.
[Ref: 61939] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
London Published March 1.st 1791 by F.P. Nodder & C.o N.o15 Brewer Street.
Two rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"), with margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a yellow-bellied glider also known as the fluffy glider, is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria.
[Ref: 61939] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Psittacus Porphyrocephialus. The Purple Headed Parakeet. 1.
Published Aug.t 1.st 1789 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 13 Panton Street.
Rare letterpress and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"), with large margins. Slight time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a small bird with an indigo coloured head, read face and leggs. Most likely a purple-crowned lorikeet (Parvipsitta porphyrocephala), (also known as the porphyry-crowned lorikeet, zit parrot, blue-crowned lorikeet, purple-capped lorikeet, lory, cowara, lorikeet, and purple-capped parakeet) is a lorikeet found in scrub and mallee of southern Australia.
[Ref: 61940] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published Aug.t 1.st 1789 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 13 Panton Street.
Rare letterpress and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"), with large margins. Slight time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a small bird with an indigo coloured head, read face and leggs. Most likely a purple-crowned lorikeet (Parvipsitta porphyrocephala), (also known as the porphyry-crowned lorikeet, zit parrot, blue-crowned lorikeet, purple-capped lorikeet, lory, cowara, lorikeet, and purple-capped parakeet) is a lorikeet found in scrub and mallee of southern Australia.
[Ref: 61940] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Motacilla Superba. The Superb Warbler. 10.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1789 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 13 Panton Street.
Rare letterpress and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with large margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a small black bird with blue markings on it's head, cheek and tail. A The Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) is a tiny songbird found in a variety of habitats in south-eastern Australia; Tasmania.
[Ref: 61941] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1789 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 13 Panton Street.
Rare letterpress and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with large margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a small black bird with blue markings on it's head, cheek and tail. A The Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) is a tiny songbird found in a variety of habitats in south-eastern Australia; Tasmania.
[Ref: 61941] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Psittacus Magnificus. The Magnificent Cockatoo. 50.
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1790 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 15 Brewer Street.
Two rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a large black bird with yellow markings on head, cheeks, top of wing and belly, plus striking red and yellow markings on tail. The red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) also known as Banksian- or Banks' black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo native to Australia.
[Ref: 61942] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1790 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 15 Brewer Street.
Two rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a large black bird with yellow markings on head, cheeks, top of wing and belly, plus striking red and yellow markings on tail. The red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) also known as Banksian- or Banks' black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo native to Australia.
[Ref: 61942] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Struthio Rhea. The American Ostrich. 72.
London, Published July 1.st 1791 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 15 Brewer Street.
Two rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with large margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a brown flightless bird. Rheas also known as nandus or South American ostrich are moderately-sized.
[Ref: 61943] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published July 1.st 1791 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 15 Brewer Street.
Two rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with large margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. Picture of a brown flightless bird. Rheas also known as nandus or South American ostrich are moderately-sized.
[Ref: 61943] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Macropus Giganteus. The Great Kangaroo. 33.
[After George Stubbs]
London, Published June 1.st 1790 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 13 Panton Street.
Three rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with large margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. A Kangaroo after the painting by George Stubbs 'The Kongouro from New Holland.'
CLB Stubbs 388.
[Ref: 61944] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[After George Stubbs]
London, Published June 1.st 1790 by F.P. Nodder & C.o. No. 13 Panton Street.
Three rare letterpress sheets and etching with fine hand colour. Plate 190 x 120mm (7½ 4¾"), with large margins. Time staining.
Illustration and excerpt from George Shaw's (1751– 1813) periodical, ‘The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature’. A Kangaroo after the painting by George Stubbs 'The Kongouro from New Holland.'
CLB Stubbs 388.
[Ref: 61944] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
A Tyger.
Painted by Ja.s Northcote; Engraved by Jn.o Murphy.
Publish'd May 1, 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, closed letters. 485 x 605mm (19 x 23¾"), with very large margins.
A fine impression of this scene of a prowling tiger in a cave, staring at the viewer. To the right is the head of a dead wolf. A fantastic image of 18th century mezzotint art.
[Ref: 61190] £6,800.00
Painted by Ja.s Northcote; Engraved by Jn.o Murphy.
Publish'd May 1, 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, closed letters. 485 x 605mm (19 x 23¾"), with very large margins.
A fine impression of this scene of a prowling tiger in a cave, staring at the viewer. To the right is the head of a dead wolf. A fantastic image of 18th century mezzotint art.
[Ref: 61190] £6,800.00