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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S. Albertu' Clara fugat lampas noctem, liber otia tollit Mactatur Cypris flore, Cupido cruce
[after Hans von Aachen, as engraved by Robert Boissard.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Thread margin at bottom, tipped onto album sheet at corners.
A copy of a portrait of Saint Albertus Magnus (1200-80). [Albert Bullstredt] Albert was one of the Great Medieval Philosophers and scientists.
[Ref: 62686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[after Hans von Aachen, as engraved by Robert Boissard.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Thread margin at bottom, tipped onto album sheet at corners.
A copy of a portrait of Saint Albertus Magnus (1200-80). [Albert Bullstredt] Albert was one of the Great Medieval Philosophers and scientists.
[Ref: 62686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Auri vexavit nitidi nos fira cu,, pido, Nuc me paupertas premere vall,, de solet.
Gabriel Spizel inv et excud. Aug.Vinel.
[n.d. c.1750]
Fine & rare mezzotint printed in blue. Plate 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"), with large margins.
Alchemy print with lines in Latin and German. A man holds his head in alarm as his experiment makes sparks.
[Ref: 63094] £390.00
Gabriel Spizel inv et excud. Aug.Vinel.
[n.d. c.1750]
Fine & rare mezzotint printed in blue. Plate 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"), with large margins.
Alchemy print with lines in Latin and German. A man holds his head in alarm as his experiment makes sparks.
[Ref: 63094] £390.00
![[Alchemist] Die Arsnen [?] Kunst. La Pharmacie.](jpegs/63128.jpg)
[Alchemist] Die Arsnen [?] Kunst. La Pharmacie.
Jacob Wangner Sculp. Inventé et peint par J. La Jouë.
[Augsburg c.1740.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate at bottom with loss of imprint.
The interior of an apothecary's workshop, with an oven, stills, books and animals hanging from the ceiling. This is a German edition of one of a series of allegorical prints of the arts and sciences after Jacques de Lajoue (1686 - 1761), a French decorative rococo painter, engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin and published by the verve Chéreau in Paris during the 1730s.
[Ref: 63128] £680.00
Jacob Wangner Sculp. Inventé et peint par J. La Jouë.
[Augsburg c.1740.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate at bottom with loss of imprint.
The interior of an apothecary's workshop, with an oven, stills, books and animals hanging from the ceiling. This is a German edition of one of a series of allegorical prints of the arts and sciences after Jacques de Lajoue (1686 - 1761), a French decorative rococo painter, engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin and published by the verve Chéreau in Paris during the 1730s.
[Ref: 63128] £680.00
The Right Hon: Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. President of the Royal Society. From an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A. in the Possession of Samuel Lysons, Esq.
Drawn by W. Evans. Engraved by A. Cardon.
Published Jan. 1 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate on right. Bit dusty.
A portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), seated with left arm resting on a volume labelled 'Royal Society', to which he was elected in 1766. Banks, a botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences, took part in Captain James Cook's first Circumnavigation (1768-71). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 63180] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by W. Evans. Engraved by A. Cardon.
Published Jan. 1 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate on right. Bit dusty.
A portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), seated with left arm resting on a volume labelled 'Royal Society', to which he was elected in 1766. Banks, a botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences, took part in Captain James Cook's first Circumnavigation (1768-71). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 63180] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Planisphaerium coeleste.
Tobias Conrad Lotter, Geog. Excudit. Aug. Vindel [Augsburg, n.d., c.1760].
Engraved map with original colour. 490 x 580mm (19¼ x 23"), very large margins. Borders bit messy.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centred on the poles, with the constellations shown with their classical depictions. Around the central map are other diagrams, including the solar systems of Ptolemy, Brahe and Copernicus, armillary spheres and globes.
[Ref: 63297] £850.00
Tobias Conrad Lotter, Geog. Excudit. Aug. Vindel [Augsburg, n.d., c.1760].
Engraved map with original colour. 490 x 580mm (19¼ x 23"), very large margins. Borders bit messy.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centred on the poles, with the constellations shown with their classical depictions. Around the central map are other diagrams, including the solar systems of Ptolemy, Brahe and Copernicus, armillary spheres and globes.
[Ref: 63297] £850.00
![Crosby Hall Literary and Scientific Institution. [Entrance Ticket.]](jpegs/63133.jpg)
Crosby Hall Literary and Scientific Institution. [Entrance Ticket.] Admit......... Hon: Sec:
[n.d.,c.1800s.]
Etching. 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Foxing. Lower right corner of very large margin, torn away.
Entrance ticket for Crosby Hall Literary and Scientific Institution.
[Ref: 63133] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d.,c.1800s.]
Etching. 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Foxing. Lower right corner of very large margin, torn away.
Entrance ticket for Crosby Hall Literary and Scientific Institution.
[Ref: 63133] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Hobbes Malmesburiensis Aetatis suae. 76.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Holes and fold in right margin where previously bound. Trimmed within plate on left.
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), social philosopher. Hobbes wrote extensively on history, geometry and politics. His major work, Leviathan (1651), was an important influence on the tradition of utilitarian political thinking. He was the friend of Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson and William Harvey, and tutor of Charles II, who later granted him a pension, but his reputation as an atheist gained him many opponents within the Church and government. Inscribed 'pag. 221' upper right. After William Faithorne (c.1620 - 1691), engraver and draughtsman.
Not in BM, NPG.
[Ref: 63012] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Holes and fold in right margin where previously bound. Trimmed within plate on left.
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), social philosopher. Hobbes wrote extensively on history, geometry and politics. His major work, Leviathan (1651), was an important influence on the tradition of utilitarian political thinking. He was the friend of Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson and William Harvey, and tutor of Charles II, who later granted him a pension, but his reputation as an atheist gained him many opponents within the Church and government. Inscribed 'pag. 221' upper right. After William Faithorne (c.1620 - 1691), engraver and draughtsman.
Not in BM, NPG.
[Ref: 63012] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Leeuwenhoek.
J. Chapman sculp.
London Published Feb 26 1813 by G. Jones.
Coloured stipple. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½") very large margins. Small hole in unprinted area of plate.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) the Dutch scientist considered to be the first microbiologist. He is best known for hs work on the improvement of the microscope and was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms.
W: 1719-4. See Ref: 27071 for black and white version.
[Ref: 63328] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
J. Chapman sculp.
London Published Feb 26 1813 by G. Jones.
Coloured stipple. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½") very large margins. Small hole in unprinted area of plate.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) the Dutch scientist considered to be the first microbiologist. He is best known for hs work on the improvement of the microscope and was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms.
W: 1719-4. See Ref: 27071 for black and white version.
[Ref: 63328] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Rogerus Long S.T.P. Aulae Pemb. Cantab. Custos. Astronomiae et Geometriae Professor Lowndesianus. R.S.S. A.D. 1769. Aetat. 89.
B. Wilson pinxt. Edw. Fisher Sculp.
[Publish'd as the Act directs 14 July 1769. & sold at the Golden Head southside of Leicester Square.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom
Roger Long (1680 - 1770), divine and astronomer, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, between 1733 and 1770. He constructed a "zodiack", now considered to be the first planetarium, a hollow sphere that could hold thirty people, showing the movements of the planets and constellations; it remained in the grounds of Pembroke until 1871.
CS 39, unlisted state with publication line removed.
[Ref: 62767] £380.00
B. Wilson pinxt. Edw. Fisher Sculp.
[Publish'd as the Act directs 14 July 1769. & sold at the Golden Head southside of Leicester Square.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom
Roger Long (1680 - 1770), divine and astronomer, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, between 1733 and 1770. He constructed a "zodiack", now considered to be the first planetarium, a hollow sphere that could hold thirty people, showing the movements of the planets and constellations; it remained in the grounds of Pembroke until 1871.
CS 39, unlisted state with publication line removed.
[Ref: 62767] £380.00
Astronomical Observatory.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Feb.y 1 1814, t 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
The interior of the Radcliffe Observatory, showing instruments including a reflecting telescope by William Herschel and a pair of refracting telescopes. Engrav by John Blucj after William Westall (1781-1850) for 'A History of the University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Hall, and Public Buildings', by William Combe.
[Ref: 62940] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Feb.y 1 1814, t 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
The interior of the Radcliffe Observatory, showing instruments including a reflecting telescope by William Herschel and a pair of refracting telescopes. Engrav by John Blucj after William Westall (1781-1850) for 'A History of the University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Hall, and Public Buildings', by William Combe.
[Ref: 62940] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![Royal Insititution [Admission Ticket.]](jpegs/63141.jpg)
Royal Insititution [Admission Ticket.] Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum.
R. Westall, R. A. delin. A. Raimbach, Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving. 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"). Laid on original album paper.
Ticket to the Royal Institution, with engraving of Minerva and the Muses, by Raimbach after Westall, and at bottom "Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum".
[Ref: 63141] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
R. Westall, R. A. delin. A. Raimbach, Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving. 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"). Laid on original album paper.
Ticket to the Royal Institution, with engraving of Minerva and the Muses, by Raimbach after Westall, and at bottom "Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum".
[Ref: 63141] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Benjamin Stillingfleet.]](jpegs/62739.jpg)
[Benjamin Stillingfleet.]
Painted by J. Zoffani R.A. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Eleector Palatine, 1782.
[London: Valantine Green, c.1782.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 360 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-71), botanist, translator and author. He was tutor to William Windham and accompanied him and Rochard Pococke on a trip to Chamonix in 1771, the first recorded travellers for pleasure in the region. Exploring the glaciers, they named the 'Mer de Glace'. As a botanist he was instrumental in popularising the Linnean System in England.
CS: 124. Whitman: I of II; Wellcome: 2831.
[Ref: 62739] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by J. Zoffani R.A. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Eleector Palatine, 1782.
[London: Valantine Green, c.1782.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 360 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-71), botanist, translator and author. He was tutor to William Windham and accompanied him and Rochard Pococke on a trip to Chamonix in 1771, the first recorded travellers for pleasure in the region. Exploring the glaciers, they named the 'Mer de Glace'. As a botanist he was instrumental in popularising the Linnean System in England.
CS: 124. Whitman: I of II; Wellcome: 2831.
[Ref: 62739] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)