Grosvenor Prints

[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M. Coll. Divi Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius. Neptunus calculo monstratus, A.D. 1845.
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"), with very large margins. Backboard stains.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
Whitman 5, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67777] £420.00

[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)

[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)

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)

[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)

Charles Dundas Esq.r M.P. for the County of Berks. Thirty Years Chairman of the Committee of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company. From the Original Picture by Sir Will.m Beechey R.A. painted at request of the Committee 1823.
Engraved by W. Say, Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
[n.d., c.1823.]
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾") with wide margins. Spotting, mainlky to margins.
Portrait of Charles Dundas (1751-1832), Baron of Amesbury, seated at a table, hand holding a small book, a landscape and a bridge through the window on the left.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67803] £320.00

[Sir Josiah John Guest, Bar.t, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil.] Private Plate.
Painted by Richard Buckner. Engraved by W.m Walker.
London: Published 5th April 1852, by M.r Walker, 64, Margaret St, Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint. 530 x 410mm (20 x 16"), with large margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of Josiah John Guest (1785-1852), known as John Josiah Guest), with a smoking chimney behind. He owned the Dowlais Iron Company, the largest producer of iron in the world by the time of his death, and served as MP for both Honiton & Merthyr Tydfil.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67798] £320.00

William Henry, M.D. F.R.J. Vice President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester &c, &c.
Painted by James Lonsdale. Engraved by Henry Cousins.
Published by Tho.s Agnew, Repository of Arts, Exchange St, Manchester, Jan.y 1838.
Scarce mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), with large margins.
Portrait of William Henry (1774 - 1836), English chemist. He was the son of Thomas Henry and was born in Manchester England and he developed what is known today as Henry's Law.
Wellcome 1365/1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67783] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Hick.]
Painted by George Patten, A.R.A. Engraved by Henry Cousins.
Published by J.C. Grundy, Printseller to Her Majesty, 4, Exchange Street, Manchester [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint on chine collé. 460 x 375mm (18 x 14¾"). Some toning and staining, tear in margin taped.
A seated portrait of civil and mechanical engineer Benjamin Hick (1790-1842), maker of steam engines. Among the locomotives were: 'Union' (1830) for the Bolton and Leigh Railway), 'Pioneer' for the Petersburg Railroad in Virginia, and 'Pontchartrain' (1832) for the Pontchartrain Railroad, New Orleans.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67802] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Tradecard] Sold by Jones, Gray & Keen, Maufaturers Of Nautical, Optical & Surverying Instruments, Chronometeres & Watches, Chart Sellers & Stationers 25 & 26, Strand, Near the Liverpool Custom House. Chronometers rated by Transit Instrument.
[n.d. c.1841]
Engraving, sheet 50 x 70mm (2 x 2¾"). Trimmed.
Jones, Gray & Keen was a short-lived partnership active only in 1841. Charles Jones, stepson and former apprentice of London instrument maker John Gray (the elder), later worked in Liverpool with Gray’s son from 1839. Robert Keen, also linked to the elder Gray’s London workshop, joined them in 1841. A notice in The Examiner on 1 January 1842 announced the partnership’s dissolution and Jones’s removal, likely due to his death in late 1841. Gray & Keen continued in business until 1855, exhibiting marine barometers at the Great Exhibition.
[Ref: 67637] £160.00 (£192.00 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)

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)

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)

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)

John Mudge. M.D. F.R.S. Proof.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t. S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t.
Mezzotint. 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"), with large margins.
A half-length portrait of Plymouth physician John Mudge (1720-93), in gown and cap, his right hand turning the pages of a book. An amateur telescope-maker, he won the Copley medal for his 'Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
[Ref: 67769] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S.] [Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.]
[Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.]
[London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67781] £460.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins. Some age-toning.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and whtie shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67784] £380.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12") very large margins. Foxing
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67785] £380.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Proof. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Proof mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67786] £380.00

[Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian professor and conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.]
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), Tear just entering plate.
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67800] £360.00

[Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian professor and conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.]
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"),
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67801] £360.00

[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)

Geo Peacock [facsimile signature].
Douglas Y. Blakiston, pinx. G. Zobel, Sculp.
Published Decr. 30th 1859, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, London. Printed by T. Brooker.
Mezzotint on chine collé, 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12½").
George Peacock (1791-1858), dean of Ely and mathematician, specialising in algebra.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 67797] £360.00

[John Thomas Quekett]
[Engraved by William Walker after Edmund Walker.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Trimmed to plate at top.
Three-quarter portrait of microscopist, botanist and histologist John Thomas Quekett (1815-61), seated before a microscope.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67782] £380.00

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)

[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)

Brook Taylor, L.L.D. & R.S.S. 1714.
R. Earlom [after Hans Hysing?].
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint with etching. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Laid in album paper at edges.
An oval portrait of mathematician and barrister Brook Taylor (1685-1731). The original, in the collection of the Royal Scociety, is attributed to studio of Hans Hysing (1678–1753).
CS 39A (a&c) i of i. Wellcome: 2888; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67596] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Walwyn. Ætatis Suæ 80.
R.White sculp.
[n.d., c.1696.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 125 x 70mm (5 x 2¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of William Walwyn (1600-81), English pamphleteer, a Leveller and a medical practitioner. Frontis to 'Physick for Families'.
Wellcome 3105
[Ref: 67749] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Charles White Esqr.
Painted by J. Allen. Engraved by Will.m Ward Engraver Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.
Published Nov.r 1st. 1809, by J. Allen, 37 Newman Street.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 430 x 330mm (17 x 13"). Trimmed to printed border, some surface wear. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of physician Charles White (1728-1813), co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the St Mary's Hospital for Lying in Women in 1790.
Frankau 321, ii. Russell 89. Wellcome 3175. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67616] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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