Grosvenor Prints

[Qasr al-'Ashiq, Iraq] Al-Ajik, beyond Samarra.
Charles W. Cain. [pencil signature]
[n.d. 1921.]
Etching. 105 x 220mm (4¼ x 8¾"), with large margins. Faint mount burn around image.
A view of the Abbasid palace of Qasr al-'Ashiq, built 877-882. From Cain's 'Second Mesopotamian Set', limited to 40. Charles W. Cain (1893-1962) produced 74 etchings and engravings of scenes in Iraq, Persia, India and Burma (Myanmar) between the 1920s and 1930s, likely inspired by his service in the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia. With such a distinctive thematic subject Cain gained a strong reputation as an Orientalist printmaker.
[Ref: 62221] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Arab sailors and Abyssinian dress] Naute Arabes quibus navessuas regenda Lusitani committunt in quibus cum uxoribus ut plurimum habitant. Habitus Abissinorum quibus logo S. Baptismatis frons nutiritur.
AvLinschoten. Johannes à Doetechum fecit.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Some spotting and toning.
Portraits of an Arab sailor employed by the Portuguese to guide their ships; and an Abyssinian man and woman. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62369] £350.00

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)

Brisbane.
McGready, Thomson & Niven, Glasgow [n.d. 1878].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"), large margins.
A view of the European settlement at Brisbane. From David Blair's 'The History of Australasia', the first such history to be published.
[Ref: 62384] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Inhabitants of Pegu, Moluccas & S. Thomas.] Provincie Pegu incola...
AvLinschoten. Johannes à Doetechum fecit.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Tear at centre fold taped.
From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62371] £350.00

[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)

[Chinese dress] Habitus e China regno pretiose elegantie et rerun omnium affluentissimum Habitus Abissinorum quibus logo S. Baptismatis frons nutiritur.
AvLinschoten. Johannes à Doetechum fecit.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Hole in image, some spotting and toning.
Four Chinese figures. The title notes that China was the richest kingdom of them all. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62370] £350.00

Elba. Napoleon Musing.
on Stone by A. Picken. W. Day lith to the King.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8").
An invented view of Napoleon standing on a rock looking down onto a harbour of Elba.
[Ref: 62331] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ordinanza nella quale si fermarono il Ser.mo Princ.pe le squadre de caval.ri, ed i carri delle Deità Interno almonte d'Atlante nella Festra a Cavallo Rappre.ta. Per le Reali Noze dell A.S.S. Nel Teatro Cong.to al Pala.zo del S.G.D.
S.D. Bella 1661.
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 280 x 435mm (11 x 17"). Trimmed close to image.
An elaborate tournament held in the amphitheatre of the Giardino di Boboli, behind the Medici's Pitti Palace. Top left is the Forte di Belvedere.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62142] £490.00

[Goa] Indorum casæ villæ, et vici circa Goam.
AvLinschoten. Joan à Doet: fe:.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), large margins. Wax stain in image.
A Goan village with women bathing. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62372] £450.00

Goldfish.
R. Herdman-Smith.
[London: Arthur Greatorex, n.d., c.1935.]
Etching, printed in colours, limited edition 13/75, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), in publisher's mount with printed title label.
A pair of Japanese women with parasol, fan and goldfish bowl. Robert Herdman-Smith (1879-1945) produced 18 prints in the Asian Art-Deco style during the 1930s. Although he travelled to India, Australia and the United States, he never visited Japan.
[Ref: 62319] £320.00

Jeune Grec.
Printed by Kohler & Co., 22, Denmark S.t Soho.
London J. M.cCormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph with fine fresh hand colour. Sheet 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½").
Young Greek man turned to left, carrying a drapery over his right shoulder, wearing turban and embroidered waistcoat over stripped shirt. Detail from a painting by Baron François Gérard (1770 - 1837).
[Ref: 62340] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[La Perouse.] On Jette à la Mer un Indien qui avait Frappé un Matelot à Coups de Maillet.
[Paris: Librairie de l'Encyclopédie du XIXe siècle, 1849.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 200mm (5¼ x 8").
A South Sea Islander being thrown into the sea from a longboat, having hit a French sailor with a mallet. From 'Voyages autour du monde', collected by William Smith.
[Ref: 62175] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lake of Como.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache, titled in ink at top. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Tear taped, some scuffing, stain along right edge.
A well-executed and colourful scene.
[Ref: 62405] £380.00

[Lake Como and Villa d'Este.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache. Sheet 155 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Trimmed to image.
A close copy of the view of Lake Como by G. Castellini for Francesco Bernucca's 'Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como', c.1818. It is painted on the back of a part lithographic portrait.
[Ref: 62406] £450.00

Lake of Como.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache, titled in ink at top. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Stains at top and right edges.
A well-executed and colourful scene.
[Ref: 62407] £480.00

Lake Maggiore.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Gouache, titled in ink at top, Stamp of C. Rastrelli Geneva verso. Sheet 165 x 250mm (6½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image.
A well-executed and colourful scene of the island palaces, with a steamer on the lake.
[Ref: 62408] £480.00

A Modern Greek.
London J. M.cCormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph, with very fine fresh colour. Sheet 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½"). Slight soiling.
A portrait of a Greek man in a richly embroidered dress.
[Ref: 62339] £240.00 (£288.00 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)

South Head, Port Jackson.
McGready, Thomson & Niven, Glasgow [n.d. 1878].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"), large margins.
A view of cliffs and the Macquarie Lighthouse of Port Jackson, New South Wales. From David Blair's 'The History of Australasia', the first such history to be published.
[Ref: 62383] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ruins of Ancient Rome ~ Ruines de l'Ancienne Rome. The Amphitheatre ~ The Remains of the Senatorial Bridge. 6.
G.P. Pannini Pinx.t. J.S.Austin [William Austin] Sculp.t.
Printed for Bowles & Carver N.º 69 in St. Psul's Church Yard _ Whittle & Laurie 53 Fleet Street, & _ Robert Wilkinson _ 125 Fenchurch Street [n.d, c. 1815].
Engraving with fine hand colouring, 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"), large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A composite view of the Tiber, with several ruined Roman buildings, including the Colosseum and the three arches of the Ponte Rotto. From a series of ten plates engraved by William Austin (c.1733-1820) after Giovanni Paolo Pannini (c.1691-1765).
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray.
[Ref: 62130] £320.00

Frontespizio della Istoria Romana incisa all'acqua Forte, da Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano 1818. In mezzo alle rovine del Foro, Roma mi apparve nella sua maestrosa dignità, e grandezza.
Pinelli inv. e inc.
[Rome, 1819.]
Etching. 315 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"), with large margins.
The artist, Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), stands in the Roman Forum, with a figure of Rome holding a shield decorated with Romulus and Remus sucking the she-wolf. This was the frontispiece to Pinelli's series of 100 plates illustrating the the history of Republican Rome, as told in Charles Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'.
[Ref: 62145] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of S.t Martins Church, Also of the Arch of Septimus Severus, through which the Roman Generals marched in their triumphs to the Capitol.
Piranesi delin.t. Bowles Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson 58 Cornhill & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. [n.d. c.1800]
Engraving with hand colour. 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"), large margins.
A view of the Arch of Septimus Severus in the Roman Forum, still half-buried. To the left is the Colonna di Foca (Phocas); to the right is the Chiesa Santi Luca e Martina. A copy of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's ''Arco di Settimio Severo'', 1759.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray.
[Ref: 62131] £320.00

Rome in it's Original Splendor. Rome dans Sa Splendeur Ancienne. 1 the Temple of Vesta. 2 Virgins going to Sacrifice. 3 The Imperial Palace. 4 A Fountain of Medicinal Water. 5 The Arch of Trajan. 6 The Tomb of Cestus.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson _ 125 Fenchurch Street _ Whittle & Laurie 53 Fleet Street & Bowles & Carver N.º 69 S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Coloured engraving, J. Whatman 1816 watermark; 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"), with very large margins. Small tear in margin, some paper tone.
An imaginary view of classical Rome.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62134] £320.00

[Rome] Urbis Romae Veteris ac Modernae Accurata Delineatio.
edita â Joh: Bapt: Homann S.C.M. Geographo Norimbergae. [n.d., c.1720].
Engraved map with original hand colour. 495 x 585mm (19½ x 23"). Wormhole and toning at centre fold, split at botton; tears in margin.
A detailed map of Ancient Rome decoratedwith figures representing the Catholic Church.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray.
[Ref: 62178] £580.00

Rome in it's Original Splendor. Rome dans Sa Splendeur Ancienne. 1 An Egyptian Obelisk. 2 The Senate House. 3 A Triumphal Arch. 4 A Column Erected to Augustus. 5 The Temple of Fortune. 6 A Temple Dedicated to Jove ye Thunderer.
Printed for Whittle & Laurie N.º 53 Fleet Street _ Bowles & Carver N.º 69 S.t Pauls Church Yard. & _ Robert Wilkinson _ 125 Fenchurch Street.
Coloured engraving. 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"), large margins. Tear through title into plate repaired; top left corner extensively repaired, with mss. fill. Damaged.
An imaginary view of classical Rome.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62133] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Church of St. Peter at Rome. L'Eglise de St. Pierre a Rome. 1.
[Engraved by Thomas Bowles]
London Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard [n.d. c.1800].
Engraving with hand colour. 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"), with large margins.
View of St Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome from Via della Conciliazone; figures in the square, a small procession on the steps in front of the basilica.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62132] £320.00

[Salzburg] Prospectus Elegantiores Splendidissimae Achiepiscopalis Urbis Salisburgensis...
A Jo. Baptista Homanno Noribergae [n.d., c.1720].
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 495 x 585mm (19½ x 23"). Original central fold, printer's crease, trimmed into plate at bottom.
Views of Salzburg in ten compartments: a prospect of the city and nine views of important buildings, including the Hohensalzburg Fortress.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62144] £490.00

[Sati] Bramenes cum mortuus est [...]
AvLinschoten. Joa à Doe: fe:.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"). Edges chipped, worming in margins on left, paper slightly toned.
A depiction of Sati (or suttee), with a widow stepping onto her husband's pyre to be burned alive. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62368] £320.00

[Sledges drawn by a reindeer and dogs.] N.º 11.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 140 x 260mm (5½ x 10¼"). Stains and marks.
Two native sledges.
[Ref: 62330] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

X. A Gentleman with his Hookah Burdar, or Pipe Bearer.
[by Sir Charles D'Oyly.]
London, Published & Sold by Edw.d Orme, March 1.st 1813 [but c.1824].
Aquatint. 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"). Small margins.
Drawn by Sir Charles D'Oyly for Captain Thomas Williamson's 'The Costume and Customs of Modern India'. The work was first published as 'The European in India' in 1813 (Abbey 435), as plate 'X'; this issue has the title (as given in the original list of plates) engraved outside the printed border.
Abbey 440.
[Ref: 62068] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Un amour de bronze qui tire une flèche d'eau à Versailles.
de Lespine ex. Cum Privilegio Ordin: Hollandiae et West-Frisiae [n.d., 1717].
Engraving. 385 x 495mm (15¼ x 19½"). Folds, tears taped.
An illustration of the fountain featuring Cupid drawing his bow, the jet of water replacing his arrow. It was created by Louis Lerambert (1620-70) for the pool of the Parterre des Fleurs in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
[Ref: 62143] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Czar Peter House] Intérieur de la Cabane de Pieere le Grand, à Zaandam.
[Chez Frères Buffa et C,,º Kalverstraat, N.º 50, à Amsterdam.]
Lithograph. Sheet 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A view of the interior of the wooden house built in 1632, in which the Russian Tzar Peter the Great stayed when he was studying shipbuilding in Zaandam in 1697. It is now preserved inside a stone building built over it in 1897.
[Ref: 62067] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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