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Berne. Vue Depuis le Schanzlia a Berne
Deposé. Cramer & Luthi, Editeurs, à Zurich [n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint and etching. 220 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"), large margins.
A distant view of Berne, the Alps behind.
[Ref: 66296] £140.00
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La France de nos Jours. N.º 268. Bordeaux. Vue de Quinconces.
Dess.é d'ap. nat. et lith.é en Coul. par Ch. Mercereau. Imp.é en 3. coul. par Frick fr. r. de la Vielle Estrapade, 17, Paris.
Paris, F. Sinnett, Editeur [n.d., c.1860].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 300 x 385mm (11¾ x 15¼").
A view of the entrance to the Place des Quinconces, with the two rostral columns erected by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau in 1829, symbolising commerce and navigation. They are surmounted by the marble statues of Michel de Montaigne and Charles de Secondat added in 1858. ''La France de nos jours'' was a series of 475 plates published from 1853 to 1876.
[Ref: 66384] £140.00
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La France de nos Jours. N.º 267. Bordeaux. Vue des Quais, de la Borse et de la Douane, prise du Pont.
Dess.é d'ap. nat. et lith.é en Coul. par Ch. Mercereau. Imp.é en 3. coul. par Frick fr. r. de la Vielle Estrapade, 17, Paris.
Paris, F. Sinnett, Editeur [n.d., c.1860].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 300 x 385mm (11¾ x 15¼").
The quayside of Bordeaux, with the town hall and Customs House. ''La France de nos jours'' was a series of 475 plates published from 1853 to 1876.
[Ref: 66383] £140.00
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Vue d'un Superbe Treillage et des Jets d'Eau dans le Jardin du Roi de Dannemarck.
AParis chez Bassett rue S. Jacques a S.t Genevieve [n.d., c.1780].
Etching with hand colour. 275 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Stained.
A vue-d'optique of promenaders walking amongst elaborate ornamental trellises in the Rosenborg Castle Gardens. As the plate was designed to be viewed through a zograscope, an optical viewer that reversed the image, the title is repeated in reverse about the scene.
[Ref: 66209] £140.00
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Kiobehavn.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 175 x 465mm (7 x 18¼"). Trimmed to printed border, repaired tears, creases, mounted on album paper.
A prospect of the Danish capital from inland.
[Ref: 66464] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Brief Guide to The Rome of the Rock and Al-Harm Al-Sharif.
Published by the Supreme AWQAF Council. Price 220 Fils. Jerusalem 1954. The Industrial Islamic Orphanage Press, Jerusalem.
Small 8vo, printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 96, half-tones from photographs throughout, stapled. Corner of back cover snipped (as admission ticket).
[Ref: 66538] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
A Brief Guide to The Rome of the Rock and Al-Harm Al-Sharif.
Published by the Supreme AWQAF Council. Price 220 Fils. Jerusalem 1954. The Industrial Islamic Orphanage Press, Jerusalem.
Small 8vo, printed wrappers; pp. (xii) + 96, half-tones from photographs throughout, stapled. Corner of back cover snipped (as admission ticket). Rust marks from staples.
[Ref: 66537] £70.00
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A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Dublin By J. Rocque Reduc'd from his large Plan. To George Putland Esqr this Plan os Dedicated and corrected to this Time 1765.
P. Halpin Sculps.t.
Engraved for and Sold by L. Flin at the Bible in Castle Street & I. Williams Skinner Ro[w.] [1766]
Engraved map. 270 x 390mm (10½ x 15¼"). Original binding fold, trimmed into plate on right, around title at top but affecting publication line, tape stains in top margin.
A reduced version of John Rocque's important map, from 'The History and Antiquities of Dublin' by Walter Harris, published by Laurence Flinn and James Williams. Bonar Law, Dublin vol 2, G16, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 66513] £1,250.00
[Toy Theatre - The Exile] Yermach.
[London: William West, c.1822.]
Fine etching with fine hand colour, trimmed around figure, augmented with metal beads. At most 110 x 60mm (4¼ x 2¼"). Laid on album paper watermarked 1824.
A toy theatre figure for a character in ''The Exile; or, the Deserts of Siberia'', an operatic play by Frederick Reynolds. See BM 1886,0513.489-492.
[Ref: 66430] £140.00
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Vue de Genève.
Bockler d;Albe F.e. Lith de Englemann.
[n.d., 1820-22.]
A view of Geneva from 'Souvenirs pittoresques du Général Bacler d'Albe', a collection of landscapes by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761-1824) drawn during the Napoleonic Wars. A soldier, cartographer and painter, Bacler d'Albe was a close companion of Napoléon Bonaparte from Toulon in 1793 until 1815. Napoleon's will tasked him with the education of his son Napoleon II.
[Ref: 66293] £180.00
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[An elephant and rider.]
C.R.S.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Grey wash and fine watercolour on card. 165 x 165mm (6½ x 6½").
A turbaned man rides an elephant with rich accoutrements.
[Ref: 66471] £230.00
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Dedicated by Gracious Permission To Her Majesty the Queen, Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. From Drawings Made During the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham, Lieutenant Madras Army. With Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. Late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude.
London, Published October 1.st 1858, by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Large folio, bound in original morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. (xii)(dedication, preface, description of plates), 26 numbered tinted lithographs on 17 sheets (including title, lacking plate 9). Spotting and repairs to edges throughout.
A collection of illustrations of the meagre defences of Lucknow during the siege (30th May to 27th November, 1857), when European and loyal troops of the East India Army held out against rebel sepoys outnumbering them 3 to 1. Mecham was an officer of the 52nd Madras Native Infantry.
[Ref: 66534] £580.00
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[Massawa, Eritrea] View of Massowah.
Salte Esq.r del.t. J. Storer sculp.t.
Published May 20 1809 by William Miller, Albermarle Street, London.
Engraving. Sheet 225 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"). Trimmed within plate, spotting.
A view of Massawa, drawn by Henry Salt and published in 'Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt' by George Annesley, Viscount Valentia. Annesley travelled to India via Cape Colony, with Henry Salt acting as his secretary and draughtsman.
[Ref: 66435] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Camp Meeting of the Methodists in N. America.
[J. Milbert Del. M. Dubourg Sculp.]
[Pub. as the Act Directs March 1. 1819. Sold by R. Martin, Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 190 x 290mm (7½ x 11½"). Trimmed around image, title stuck to mount. Cut.
A contemporary eye-witness view of the 'Second Great Awakening', the Protestant religious revival movement of the early 19th century, showing a 'camp meeting' probably in Virginia, centre of Methodism in the United States. At these camps people would come from the surrounding regions to camp on the grounds of a church for several days at a time. Jacques Gérard Milbert (1766-1840) drew a set of four views of these religious meetings. The Library of Congress has three of the four views, (95504527, 95504484 & 98508274.
[Ref: 66472] £260.00
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Le Dôme à Milan.
Designé par Majochi. Gravée par Cittero.
Milan Chez Leopold Calvi Rue de Cappellari N. 4048 [n.d., c.1850.]
Aquatint on steel. 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"), large margins. Trimmed to plate on right. Bit dusty.
A highly detailed view of the Gothic Cathedral of Milan, Italy, which took nearly six centuries to complete.
[Ref: 66294] £180.00
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[Costumes Mexicains. Négre d'Alvarado étendu dans son Hamac, faisant travailler sa femme.]
[Linati f.]
[Brussels: Lithographie Royale de Jobard, 1828.]
Fine colour lithograph, trimmed as scrap, losing all inscriptions. Sheet 180 x 150mm (7 x 6"). Laid on album paper.
A black man lying in a hammock uses a whip to make his wife work. From Claudo Linati's 'Costumes et Moeurs de Mexique'.
[Ref: 66302] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Homme Persan. Dame Persanne.
[after Cornelis de Bruyn.]
[Paris, c.1718.]
Engraving. 295 x 365mm (11¾ x 13¼"). Damage at centre fold, several tears taped.
Full length portraits of a Persian man and woman, from 'Voyages de Corneille le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Occidentales', a French edition of Cornelis de Bruyn's account of his travels to Russia and Persia (1701-5), first published in Dutch in 1711.
[Ref: 66228] £140.00
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[Quemoy] Insel und Fort Kinmen.
Lith Anst. v. L. Donath in Neusaber.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9").
A view of Kinmen (known in English as Quemoy), an island belonging to modern Taiwan, with junks and a pagoda.
[Ref: 66432] £160.00
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Sir Walter Raleigh ordering the Standard of Queen Elizabeth to be erected on the Coast of Virginia. Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography.
Taylor delin. et sculpt.
[London, 1777-78.]
Engraving. 290 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾").
A fanciful view of Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552-1618), claiming Virginia for Britain. Although Raleigh was in charge of the colonisation attempts at Roanoke, he never visited North America himself
[Ref: 66433] £140.00
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The Work of the Red Crescent.
[n.d., c.1877.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed close to image on left.
A scene of the aftermath of a battle in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, with the Red Crescent tending to the the wounded. To the left an arm is being amputated without anaesthetic.
[Ref: 66461] £120.00
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East View of Seringapatam.
Home del. Fittler direx.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
East view of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganthaswamy temple consecrated around 984 CE. Later, under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66327] £80.00
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North View of Seringapatam.
Home del. Fittler sculp.t.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 225 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. Under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66336] £80.00
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Distant View of Seringapatam from Meadows Redoubt.
Home del. Fittler direx.t.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. Under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66330] £80.00
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West View of Seringapatam from the middle of the River.
Home del. Fittler direx.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganthaswamy temple consecrated around 984 CE. Later, under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66329] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
N.N.E. View of Seringapatam from Capt.Sibbald's Redoubt.
Home del. Fittler sculp.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. Under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66328] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
View of Shevagunga from the road to Seringapatam.
Home del.t. Byrne sculp.t.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Shevagunga, a hill fortress in Karnataka, India.
[Ref: 66334] £80.00
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View of Shevagunga from the road to Seringapatam.
Home del.t. Byrne sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.
Etching. Sheet 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Trimmed into plate. Crease in upper right corner.
View of Shevagunga, a hill fortress in Karnataka, India.
[Ref: 66332] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Turin from the Portico of the Superga Church.
Drawn by J.M.W. Turner from a finished sketch by J. Hakewell. Engraved by James Mitan.
London March 1 1820 by John Murray, Albermarle Street London.
Steel engraving. 225 x 305mm (8¾ x 12"), large margins.
A view of Turin from the hilltop Basilica of Superga, which was built 1717-31 for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy. Rawlinson 161.
[Ref: 66295] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
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