Grosvenor Prints

Thomas Armstrong. Binnen Londen, genhangen en gevierendeelt.
[Jan Luyken.] I.L.
[n.d., c.1684.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A scene depicting the aftermath of the execution of Thomas Armstrong (c.1633 - 1684), English army officer and politician. Following his alleged involvement in the Rye House Plot in 1683, Armstrong was convicted of high treason and executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. The image shows his body being cut limb from limb. His head was affixed to Westminster Hall, three of his quarters were displayed in London, and the fourth at Stafford.
[Ref: 67635] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Tho.s Armstrong. Exec.d 20th of June 1684.
Pub.d Oct.r 15th 1801, by W.Richardson, York House, 31, Strand.
Engraving. 155 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Some very faint foxing outside of image but within platemark.
Portrait of Thomas Armstrong (c.1633 - 1684), English Army officer and politician who was executed for treason. Following his alleged involvement in the Rye House Plot in 1683, Armstrong was convicted of high treason and executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
[Ref: 67634] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[John Parkinson.]
[Christopher Switter.]
[n.d., c.1635.]
Very rare woodcut. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Parkinson (1567 - 1650), the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. Notably he was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I. Frontis to 'Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris' 1635.
W2231-1.
[Ref: 67698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Brant] Joseph Thayendaneken. The Mohawk Chief.
Wonderful Magazine. From an Original Drawing in the Posession of James Boswell Esq.r.
[n.d., c.1800.] Published by Alex.r Hogg.
Engraving. 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Some foxing. Trimmed close to plate on left-side.
Portrait of the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant (1742-1807). Brant was closely associated with Great Britain during the American Revolution and journeyed to England in 1775 for an audience with King George III.
[Ref: 67561] £380.00

Sir Francis Burdett. Plate 2. Of Friends to a Constitutional Reform of Parliament.
Done from the life and Published by Adam Buck 17 Bentinck S.t Man. Sq. Price 1.S.
[n.d. c.1820]
Rare etching, 255 x 205mm (10 x 8"), with large margins. Foxing.
Half-length seated portrait of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), 5th Baronet, an English reformist politician.
[Ref: 67650] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Butts.]
H Holbein inv. Whollar fecit 1649. Adam Alexus Bierling ex: but later.
Rare etching. Sheet: 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed. Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Henry VIII's doctor Sir William Butts (c.1486-1545), shown in a feathered cap and fur-lined robe. The portrait has also been identified as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c.1484-1545)
Pennington 1554.
[Ref: 67642] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Walter Charleton.] Gualteri Charletoni, Med. Doct, & Coll. Med. Lond. Soch. Anno Christ. M.D.C.LXXVIII.
D.Loggan as Vivum delin et sculp.
1679.
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges
Portrait of Walter Charleton (1619 - 1707), natural philosopher and English writer. Frontis to his work 'Inquiries into Human Nature', 1680.
W587-3
[Ref: 67753] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

William Cobbett Esq. Plate 3. Of Friends to a Constitutional Reform of Parliament.
Done from the life and Published by Adam Buck 17 Bentinck S.t Man. Sq. Price 2.S.
[n.d. c.1820]
Rare & scarce etching, 255 x 205mm (10 x 8"), with large margins. Foxing.
Half-length seated portrait of essayist, politician and agriculturalist, William Cobbett (1762-1835).
[Ref: 67649] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Amos Comenius.] Iohan-Amos Comenivs, Morauvs, A' ÆTAT 50! 1642.
Exsump M:S. G.Glover Sc.
[n.d., c.1650.] Are to be Sould by T.H.and I.C.
Rare engraving. Sheet 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.
[Ref: 67702] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Jacobi Cooke Medici, ac Chirurgi peritissimi, qui, quae indefesso studio et multorum annorum Experientia comperit usui fore, ad presentem sanitatem tuendam amissamque recuperandam, non invidet humano generi. Aetatis suae 71.
R.W. [Robert White]
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
James Cooke (1614 - 1688), physician and surgeon at Warwick. Frontis to 'Mellificium chirurgiae:' or, 'The marrow of chirurgery' 1676.
See NPG: D30086. W: 665-2.
[Ref: 67719] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Coryate.] Loe heere the wooden Image of our wits; Borne, in first trauaile, on the backs of Nits; O, what will he ride, when his yeares expire? the world must ride him; or he all will tire.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Very scarce engraving. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Thomas Coryate (c. 1577 -1617), English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. Frontis to his work 'Letter from Asmere'. His description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word "umbrella" being introduced into English.
[Ref: 67707] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes, Dominus De Perron, Natus Hagae Turonum, Anno. M.D.X.CVI, Ultimo Die Martii.
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper at edges.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten's important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes's greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 67723] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[St.Dunstan.]
Engraving. 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A two part illustration: above is a portrait of St Dunstan, patron saint of jewellery, locksmiths & goldsmiths, inside a shop; below is a scene depicting metal workers.
[Ref: 67597] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Desiderii Erasmi Rotterodam.
[after Hans Holbein.]
London Printed for H. Brome, 1680.
Etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian.
[Ref: 67640] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Moll Cutpurse.] [Woman in 'man's dress'.]
[n.d., c.1660, but later.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Cut and backed onto album paper.
A portrait of the famous thief Mary Frith (c. 1584 - 1659), alias Moll Cutpurse, notorious English pickpocket and fence of the London underworld, wearing men's dress.
[Ref: 67638] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Garden. Who lived in the Parish of Auchterless Aberdeen Shire. and dies 12.th Jan.ry 1775, Aged 131 Years.
Ja.s Wales Pinx.t. H. Gavin Sculp.
[n.d. c.1810] ['Publish'd by W,, RIchardson, Antient and Modern Print Warehouse 174 Strand.]
Engraving with aquatint, 18th century watermark; sheet 295 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Portrait of centenarian Peter Garden (1644-1775) in middle age, head facing front, smiling and looking left, with curled hair on his forehead and sides, wearing a neckerchief.
David Alexander pg 373. (H. Gavin the first), Edinburgh.
[Ref: 67761] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

His most Excellent Majesty. George The Third. Price 6d.
Engraved & Published Dec.r 9.th 1810, by J.Lodge, 3 Robert S.t Bedford Row.
Engraving, sheet 65 x 60mm (2¾ x 2½"). Trimmed within plate and laid on backing sheet.
A miniature portrait of George III (1738-1829), within a circular frame with offshoots of his family coming out.
[Ref: 67740] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Highwayman.] The true and lively Portraictore of Captaine James Hind.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 90 x 60mm (3½ x 2¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of James Hind (1616-52), highwayman and Royalist rabble-rouser during the English Civil War.
[Ref: 67628] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Hans Holbein.] Ioannes Holbenus, Basilensis.
[n.d., c., 1610.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5"). Timr-stained. Cut and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Hans Holbein (c.1497 - 1543), German-Swiss painter and printmaker, shown in right-facing profile. The artist is depicted holding a paintbrush, with a painter’s palette suspended in the background to the left of his head. Behind him, a street scene unfolds, featuring two figures, one personifying Death and the other a nun.
Hollstein 147.
[Ref: 67641] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hans Holbein.
[After Hollar.] R.Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1650.] Sould by P.Stent.
Engraving Sheet 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Hans Holbein (c.1497 - 1543), German-Swiss painter and printmaker.
Globe 1985, 177 ii of ii.
[Ref: 67645] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Hans Holbein.]
Holebon Pinx. Engrav'd by B.Reading.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare proof engraving. 150 x 130mm (6 x 5"). Trimmed into left of plate.
Portrait of Hans Holbein (c.1497 - 1543), German-Swiss painter and printmaker.
[Ref: 67646] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of Hans Holbein within a separately-printed decorative border.]
[Edinburgh, c.1788.]
Etching on two plates. Outside plate 120 x 100mm (4¾ x 4"). Thread margins, laid on album paper.
A profile portrait of Hans Holbein within a separately-printed border featuring vignette portraits of cherubs and other scenes. A frontispiece to 'The Dance of Death, through the various stages of human life by John Holbein, painter', edited by James Bonar (1757-1821), a lawyer who served as Solicitor of Excise in Scotland and an amateur astronomer. He is best known for exposing Deacon Brodie as a burglar.
BMC 48:170.
[Ref: 67517] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Honoré d'Urfé.]
[n.d., c.1632.]
Fine engraving. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf (1568 - 1625), French novelist and miscellaneous writer. Frontis to 'L'Astrée' by Balthazar Baro, 1623.
[Ref: 67741] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

James Howel. One of the Clerks of his Ma'ties moist Hon.ble Privy Counsel.
Will: Marshall sculp.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 90 x 55mm (3½ x 2¼"). Trimmed and stuck onto album paper.
A portrait of James Howel (1594-1666), Welsh writer and historian. From the Frontis for Familiar Letters Domestic & Forren.
[Ref: 67627] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Hercules Humphreys. Aged 102.
Drawn by W.Wise.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by W. Wise, Oxford. [n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple and line engraving, watermark Russell & Co 1798; sheet 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Damaged at bottom, thread margins on 3 sides.
Hercules Humphreys (1699-1801), centenarian, was a victualler in the first year of the reign of George III. It is recorded that his wife, Mary Buckingham, bore his child and fled having been assaulted by him and others.
David Alexander pg 998.
[Ref: 67762] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Jenkins of Ellerton in Yorkshire, Who Lived to the surprizing age of 169, Which is 16 Years longer than Old Parr.
Taken from an Original Picture by Walker. T. Worlidge del.t.
[Published July 24 1792 by I. Caulfield, London]
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate losing publication line and laid on paper at edges.
Bust-length portrait of Henry Jenkins (d. 1670), the reputed centenarian, shown facing right while glancing toward the viewer, wearing a wide-brimmed hat.
[Ref: 67752] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Jenkins of Ellerton in Yorkshire, Who Lived to the surprizing age of 169, Which is 16 Years longer than Old Parr.
Taken from an Original Picture by Walker. T. Worlidge del.t.
.Published July 24 1792 by I. Caulfield, London.
Etching, 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5"). Trimmed within plate on left. Staining.
Bust-length portrait of Henry Jenkins (d. 1670), the reputed centenarian, shown facing right while glancing toward the viewer, wearing a wide-brimmed hat.
[Ref: 67754] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Cornelius Ketel.
Barrett sculp.
Publish'd Oct.r 1796 by G.Barrett, Engraver 289 Holborn.
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges. Foxed.
Portrait of (1548 - 1616) Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam till his death. Ketel, known essentially as a portrait-painter, was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 a sculptor as well. At times he discarded his brush and painted directly with his fingers, and even developed the trick of painting with his feet and toes.
[Ref: 67700] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[William Lilly.] Gulielmus Lillius. Astrologus Natus Comitat: Liect: 1st May 1602.
Guil. Marshall sculpsit.
[1647.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer. Frontispiece to his work 'Christian astrology' 1647/59.
[Ref: 67687] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[William Lilly.]
Guil. Marshall sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1822.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer. Frontispiece to 'History of his Lig published in 1822.
[Ref: 67689] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[William Lithgow.] Lo, here's mine Effigy, and Turkish suit; My Staff, and Shafsm as I did asia foot: Plac'd in old illium, Priam's Scepter thralls [...]
[n.d., c.1640.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 160 x 115mm (6¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of William Lithgow (1582 - c. 1645), Scottish traveller, writer, poet and alleged spy. He claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have travelled 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometres) on foot. From page 120 of 'Rare adventures and painful peregrinations' (1640).
[Ref: 67712] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ionæ Moore.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 80mm (5¼ x 3"). Very trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Jonas Moore (1617-79), mathematician, surveyor, ordnance officer, and patron of astronomy. Frontispiece to his work 'Moore's Arithmetick' (1660).
Wellcome: 2054-2
[Ref: 67674] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

René Descartes. Chev.r Seigneur Du Perron, ne a la Maye en Touraine le 31 Mara 1596; mort a Stockholm le 11 Fevrieu 1650.
Sergent del.t. M.me De Cernel Sculp.t.
1791. [Paris], chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille Douce, Place Maubert, N°17, vis-a-vis la Rue des 3 Portes A.P.D.R.
Fine coloured engraving, printed in colour. Sheet 245 x 145mm (9 ¾ x 5¾"). Cut and time-stained with foxing. Trimmed.
Portrait of René Descartes (1596 - 1650), French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
[Ref: 67724] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Increase Mather] Crescentius Matherus. Aetatis Suae 49. 1688.
[Vanderspirit pinxit. R. White Sculp. Londini.]
[n.d. c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed within plate and laid on backing sheet.
Bust-length portrait of Increase Mather (1639- 1723), at aged 49, with long hair, wearing skull-cap and bands, within an oval frame and resting on a pedestal. According to 'Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society' (1894), “Mather’s portrait was painted in 1688 during his visit to England, where, as an agent of the Massachusetts Colony, he had gone in the spring of that year. The artist was John vander Spriett (fl. 1690-1700), a Dutch mezzotint engraver of little note, who had studied under Verkolie at Amsterdam, where he had painted a few portraits." Allegedly within a few months after Mather’s portrait was painted in London, it was engraved by Robert White (1645-1703). Reverend Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was son of the Rev. Richard Mather and Kathrine Holt Mather.
[Ref: 67639] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert May.]
[n.d., c.1665.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Frontis for 1660 cookbook 'The Accomplished Cook'. Portrait of Robert May (1588 - 1664), English professional chef who trained in France and worked in England. His cookbook was the first major book of English recipes, and contains instructions for many soups and broths, as well as recipes for both sweet and savoury pies.
[Ref: 67588] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Morett.
Holbein pinxit. W.Hollar fecit. ex Collectione Arundeliana.
Ao. 1647. 31 Dec:.
Etching. 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Charles de Solier, comte de Morette (1480 - 1552), the son of Aubertin de Solier, comte de Morette (1465–1545), was a French soldier and diplomat as well as a long-serving gentilhomme de la chambre to Francis I. He acted as ambassador to England on a number of occasions from October 1526 to June 1535.
P1470 i of ii.
[Ref: 67643] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Moxon. Born at Wakefeild August the 8th Anno 1627.
F.H.Van Hove sculp.
[n.d., c.1692.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Joseph Moxon (1627 - 1691), hydrographer to Charles II, English printer specialising in mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer. He produced the first English-language dictionary devoted to mathematics, the first detailed instructional manual for printers, and the first English-language how-to books for tradesmen. Frontis to 'Mathematics made Easie', 1692.
W2082
[Ref: 67747] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

George Nottingham: Aged 80. Done from an Original Painting of T. Barrow, by W. Doughty.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Scarce etching & drypoint. Sheet 275 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed into printed border on three sides, losing text at bottom.
A half-length portrait of a beggar, hand clapsed on the handle of a walking stick, wearing a torn jacket with a striped waistcoat visible through a tear..
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67575] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Charles Ogilby-Grant, 7th Earl] [The Earl of Seafield, Laird of Grant, & His Son, Viscount ReidHaven.]
[Painted by Francis Grant, R.A. Engraved by G. Raphael Ward.]
[London, Published by G.R. Ward, 38, Fitzroy Square, W.] [n.d., c.1860.]
Mixed-method engraving, proof before letters. Sheet 660 x 425mm (22 x 16¾"). Unidentified collector's stamp ''I F P'' on reverse. Nicks and tears in edges.
Full-length portraits of John Charles Ogilby-Grant (1815-81) and his son Ian (1851-84), in Scottish dress with kilts and sporrans, the father with sword and dagger.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67738] £320.00

Old Parr. Aged 152. [European Magazine]
Rubens pin.t. Conde sculp.t.
[Published by J Sewell, 32 Cornhill, 1 April 1793]
Etching, sheet 150 x 110mm (5½ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper at edges.
Illustration for the 'European Magazine.' Half-length portrait of centenarian Thomas 'Old' Parr (1483-1635), seated in a chair, bearded, and wearing a cloak.
Not in CS.
[Ref: 67759] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Old Parr. From the Original by Peter Paul Rubens in the possesion of Uvedale Price Esqr.
Geo. Powle Fecit.
[n.d. c.1770]
Very rare mixed method, 150 x 110mm (5½ x 4½"). Trimmed to plate and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Half-length portrait of centenarian Thomas 'Old' Parr (1483-1635), seated in a chair, bearded, and wearing a cloak.
Not in CS.
[Ref: 67757] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Young Parr. Son to Tho.s Parr the shropshire man, who was born in 1438 & died in 1635. His living to so great age as 152 years, occasioned his Son to be called young Parr, as past 4 score.
Sold by I Herbert Pall Mall. [n.d. c 1795]
Etching 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with large margins.
Thomas Parr junior, Centenarian, said to be the son of 'Old Parr', the 'oldest man in England'.
[Ref: 67760] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Patin.]
I.L.Durant ad innum pinx et sculps.
1673.
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 70mm (5 x 2¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles Patin (1633-93), French physician and numismatist. He was the son of Guy Patin, dean of the school of medicine in Paris.
Wellcome 2247.
[Ref: 67697] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Publius Papinius Statius.] P.Statius Papinius, Neapolitan Poeta Sublimis.
W.Marshall Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1640.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges. Repaired tear top right.
Portrait of Publius Papinius Statius, Latin poet of the 1st century. His surviving poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the Thebaid; a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae; and an unfinished epic, the Achilleid.
[Ref: 67726] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontis to George Ruggle's Ignoramus]
[n.d. c.1630]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 65mm (4½ x 2¾"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of George Ruggle, standing in a library, facing right, wearing a hat, lace collar, and academic gown, with short hair and a moustache. He holds a closed scroll in his left hand and an open scroll in his right inscribed “Ignoramus.” A speech scroll bears the words “Currat Lex,” with bookshelves visible in the background. George Ruggle (1575-1622), author of Ignoramus, a Latin college farce with English and French passages, created one of the most notable academic plays of the English Renaissance, adapted from Giambattista della Porta’s, 'La Trappolaria' (1596). It premiered at Clare College, Cambridge, on March 8, 1615, for King James I’s visit. After Ruggle’s death, Nicholas Ferrar praised him as a “Brother of the [Virginia] Company,” noting his three years of service there. In his will, Ruggle bequeathed £100 for the education of American Indian children in Virginia.
[Ref: 67644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Oliverius Plunket. Archiepiscopus Armachanus suspensus, et Partitus Londini 1 July 1681, profide
[Richard Collin.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Oliver Plunkett (1625 - 1681) who served as the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, and was the final victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, becoming the first newly declared Irish saint in nearly seven centuries.
[Ref: 67714] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The true and lively Portraiture of that Learned Antiquary John Selden.
I.Chantry: Sculp.
[n.d., c.1650.] [But later]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Selden (1584 -1654), English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" He wrote 'Mare clausum' to dismantle the pretensions advanced by Grotius in The Free Sea (Mare liberum), on behalf of the Dutch fishermen, to poach in the waters off the English coasts.
[Ref: 67745] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Guil: Sermon Medicinae Doctoris Et Regis...Aetatis Suae 42. Let Loilists Carpe at what is past and don, Brave Sermons Acts shall live in face of th'Sun: Great Monk Restorer of his Country's Peace, Declares from his his Dropsie Soon did Cease. I.A. M.D.
W. Sherwin ad vivum deli. et sculpeabat.
1671.
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
William Sermon (1629 - 1679), physician and inventor of medicines. In 1669 he was summoned to Newhall in Essex to attend George Monck, Duke of Albermarle, for dropsy. On 12 July Monck gave him a certificate of his cure, and Charles II then sent letter to the University of Cambridge requesting them to grant Sermon a medical degree; he graduated M.D. a year later. Plate to his 'The Ladies Companion, or, the English Midwife'. 1671.
W:2703-2.
[Ref: 67717] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Comical Lord Cheif Ioker Isaac Sparks
[after Solomon Delane.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, affecting title.
A rare portrait of Irish actor Isaak Sparks (1719-76), seated, wearing wig and judge's robes. Sparks started acting in Dublin in the 1730s, appeared at London's Drury Lane Theatre 1745-8 and Haymarket Theatre in 1769.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Brugis.]
T.Cross sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Thomas Brugis (fl. 1640.), an English surgeon, the frontis to 'Vade Mecum'. Brugis practised for seven years as a surgeon during the civil wars. He does not record upon which side he served. Brugis wrote The Marrow of Physicke, London, 1640, 4to; and Vade Mecum, or a Companion for a Chirurgion, of which the first edition appeared, London, 1651, 12mo, and the seventh 1689, in the same size.
W452.
[Ref: 67699] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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