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Ashdowne Parke in the County of Bercks
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Ashdown House, an unusual Dutch-style house near Swindon, and now in Oxfordshire. It was built by William Craven for Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia in 1642. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector. L.4536
[Ref: 38545] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
La Ville de Moscou, Capitale de la Moscovie.
[after Nicolas Witsen.]
a Leide, chez Pierre vander Aa [1729].
Rare engraving. 290 x 500mm (11½ x 19½"). Small margins. Creases and folds.
A prospect of Moscow with a 24-point key, with the foreground filled with figures.
[Ref: 38177] £690.00
Redingia / Redding
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Early map of Reading, in Berkshire. In the medieval period it was the site of Reading Abbey, an important monastery with royal connections. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector. L.4536
[Ref: 38543] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Salesbury / Sarisburia
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Early map of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, showing the cathedral and cutaway view of the town house. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector. L.4536
[Ref: 38544] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Schamachie.
[Pieter Van Der Aa.]
[n.d., c.1727.]
Engraving. Plate 355 x 285mm (14 x 11¼"), with very large margins.633 Crease down centre as normal.
View of the city of Shamakhi, which was in antiquity part of successive Persian empires. It is famous for its traditional dancers, the Shamakhi Dancers, and also for giving its name to the Soumak rugs.
[Ref: 63093] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Up Parke in Sussex
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), with wide margins, unfolded issue.
The house and gardens of Uppark in on the borders of West Sussex and Hampshire, near Petersfield. The house, set high on the South Downs, was built for Ford Grey, first Earl of Tankerville (c.1655-1701), politician and conspirator affiliated with the Rye House plotters who supposedly planned to kill Charles II and his brother to raise an insurrection. The house was sold in 1747 to Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh. It is now run by the National Trust. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector. L.4536; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
[Ref: 38541] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
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