Grosvenor Prints

Valley of the Gila & Sierra de Las Estrellas From Maricopa Wells. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 32º Parallel California. General Report Plate V.
A.H. Campbell.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼").
A view of the United States Pacific Rail Road surveyors' camp in a valley now occupied by the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62387] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

N.º 2. Geological Plan & Section from the Rio Grand to the Pimas Villages. Along the Route explored by Leiut. John G. Parke, Corps of the Top.l Eng.rs. Near the Parallele of 32º North Latitude. 1856. Prepared to accompany the Report of Thomas Antisell M.D. Geologist of the Expedition.
U.S. Pacific Rail Road Expl. & Surveys War Department.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 385 x 640mm (15¼ x 25¼"). Original binding folds, crease in corner.
A geological map and cross section of the intended route of the first transcontinental railway in the U.S.A. The 'Pima' are the Akimel O'odham ('River Reople') of Arizona. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'.
[Ref: 62394] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[California] Warners Pass from San Felipe. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼").
A view of the United States Pacific Rail Road surveyors' camp in Warner's Pass, San Diego County, California. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62388] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[California] Valley of the Mud Lakes Showing Eight Two Miles of the Projected Railroad Line June 14th at 9 A.M. From Mud Lake Peak. 1854 U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 32º Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 260 x 785mm (10¼ x 31"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, original binding folds, two with splits taped.
An early view of the Valley of the Mud Lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with a key including the entrance to Madelaine Pass, Mount Observation, Black Rock Range, and the Humboldt River Range. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62390] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[California] Northern Slopes of the Sierra Nevada. June 30.th at 9 A.M. View towards the West. 1854. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 260 x 795mm (10¼ x 31½"). Trimmed into plate one three sides, damage at original binding folds, a few tears in lateral edges.
An early view of the Sierra Nevada, centred on the snow-covered volcano Mount Shasta. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62392] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Lassen County, California] Madelin Pass. June 19.th at 2 P.M. View from Mount Observation. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 260 x 795mm (10¼ x 31½"). Trimmed into plate one three sides, damage at original binding folds, tear taped.
An early view of the Madeline Plains, published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62393] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

N.º 1. Geological Plan of the Coastal Range of California from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles. Along the Route explored by Leiut. John G. Parke, Corps of the Top.l Eng.rs to connect the Routes near the 35º & 32º parallels of North Latitude. 1855 & 1856. Prepared to accompany the Report of Thomas Antisell M.D. Geologist of the Expedition.
U.S. Pacific Rail Road Expl. & Surveys War Department.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 510 x 325mm (20 x 12¾"). Original binding folds, creased
A geological map of California, published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'.
[Ref: 62395] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Columbiad: a Poem.] [Cruelty Presiding over the Prison Ship.]
R. Smirke R.A. pinx.t. J. Neagle Sculp.
[Philadelphia: A. Conrad and Co., 1807.]
Stipple with engraving, scratched letter progress proof, with guidelines for the elaborate title border. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate, small hole in unprinted area.
An illustration from Joel Barlow's epic poem about America, 'The Columbiad', with the winged figure of (British) Cruelty ignoring the pleas from American prisoners of war reaching through the hatch of a prison ship. 'The Columbiad' is a philosophical epic poem, enlarged from Joel Barlow's earlier work 'The Vision of Columbus' (1787). Intended as a national epic, it was initially popular but quickly fell out of favour: 'The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature' describes it as 'a tedious and turgid work modeled on Milton'.
[Ref: 62291] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Charles, Earl Cornwallis. Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &c.
Painted by H.D. Hamilton. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
[London. Publish'd March 15th. 1781, for Watson & Dickinson No. 158, New Bond Street.]
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 130 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Oval portrait of Charles Cornwallis (1738- 1805), one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
De Vesme 793, state iii of iv. See Ref: 18233 for a proof printed in red ink.
[Ref: 62073] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Pickpocket] Jenny Diver.
[n.d., c.1741.]
Engraving Sheet 190 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Jenny Diver (née Mary Young, c.1700-41), with a watch and purse in her hands. She was a skilled pickpocker, capable of mixing in high society, and said to sometimes use fake arms so she could steal with her hands apparently in her lap. Twice she was arrested but, by using false names, was sentenced to transportation to Virginia as a first offender. Both times she bribed her way back to London. On her third arrest she was recognised and sentenced to death: as a famous criminal, she was taken to her execution in a mourning carriage.
[Ref: 62095] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 255mm (6¾ x 10"). Trimmed from larger sheet, a few stains, laid on album paper..
A section of a music sheet cover. The Ethiopian Serenaders were an American troupe of blackface minstrels who performed for President John Tyler at the White House in 1844. When they toured England 1846-7 they were mistaken for real black men and had to publish portraits of themselves without make-up. The tour line up was: Gilbert Pelham (playing the bones); George Alfred Harrington & George Warren White (banjos, a new instrument), Moody G. Stanwood (accordion) and Francis Carr Germon (tambourine).
[Ref: 62125] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Female American] Serenaders.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 215 x 330mm (8½ x 13"). Trimmed as scrap, part of title pasted on.
A group portrait of the Female American Serenaders, a troupe of blackface minstrels that toured England in 1847, named as Cora, Jumba, Woski, Miami, Yarico, Womba and Rosa. They play banjos, tambourines, bells and a keyboard.
[Ref: 62126] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Nevada] Goshoot Passage. Showing 65 Miles of the Proposed Line of Railroad from the Desert West of Great Salt Lake to Humboldt Mountains. May 20th at 2 P.M. from a Peak Near Antelope Butte. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 260 x 785mm (10¼ x 31"). Trimmed into plate at sides, original binding folds, one with splits taped.
An early view of Utah and Nevada, published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62389] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Nevada] Valley of the Humboldt River at Lassen's Meadows. June 9.th at 3 P.M. from a Peak on the Western Humboldt River Range Showing 50 Mikes of the Projected Line of Railroad. 1854. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 250 x 790mm (9¾ x 31¼"). Trimmed into plate at sides, damage at original binding folds.
An early view of Nevada, published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62391] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

General Washington.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londonensis, 1828.
Stipple, watermark 1828, 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
Oval head and shoulders portrait of George Washington (1732-1799) in uniform, after Charles Gilbert Stuart.
[Ref: 62181] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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