[Saturiwa] Regis & Reginae prodeambulatio recreandi animi gratia.
[after Jacques Le Moyne] [Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, 1591.] Scarce engraving. 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½"), set in letterpress. The king and queen of a Florida tribe take a recreational work with their entourage. Jacques Le Moyne visited Florida in 1564 with the French expedition of René Laudonnière. His scenes were engraved for de Bry's 'Grand Voyages'.
[Ref: 63446] £420.00
Thomas Paine.
Stothard del. H.Mutlow Sc. [n.d., c.1790.] Engraving. 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper at sides. Portrait of Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher. He authored 'Common Sense' (1776) and 'The American Crisis' (1776-1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he helped to inspire the colonial era patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.
[Ref: 64214] £75.00
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