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Jos de Beauchamp
Jos de Beauchamp Astronomer.
Eng.d by Mackenzie from an Original Picture.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate and laid to album page; a strong impression.
Joseph de Beauchamp, astronomer, scientist, and papal assistant in 1782, in oriental costume, in an oval. Beauchamp explored Babylon and other archaeological sites by questioning nearby residents and watching excavations done by local peasants to salvage ancient fired bricks. He learned that ''by digging up the earth, they found a chamber that had a wall where a cow was formed from glazed bricks… which might shed some further light on the ancient religion of Chaldea''.
[Ref: 13890]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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J. Hawkesworth, L.L.D.
J. Hawkesworth, L.L.D.
Engrav'd by E. Mackenzie from a Painting of Sir Joshua Reynolds R.A.
Printed for C. Cooke Jan. 9 1808.
Stipple, sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
John Hawkesworth (c.1720 - 1773), writer. He is said to have been clerk to an attorney, and was certainly self-educated. In 1744, he succeeded Samuel Johnson as compiler of the parliamentary debates for the Gentleman's Magazine. In company with Johnson and others, he started a periodical called 'The Adventurer', which ran to 140 issues, of which 70 were from the pen of Hawkesworth himself. Hawkesworth was a close imitator of Johnson both in style and thought, and was at one time on very friendly terms with him. It is said that he presumed on his success, and lost Johnson's friendship as early as 1756. Hawkesworth is most remembered today for his compiling of the three-volume 'An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere...', which contained the official account of James Cook's first circumnavigation, on which Cook mapped New Zealand and the east coast of Australia accurately for the first the time.
Not in O'D
[Ref: 35286]   £40.00   (£48.00 incl.VAT)
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N.E. View of the Hall of the Middle Temple built in 1570.
N.E. View of the Hall of the Middle Temple built in 1570. with Plowden Buildings, erected after the Designs of Henry Hakewell, Arch.t. in 1831 and the Entrance Tower, designed and erected by James Savage, Arch.t. in 1832.
F.Mackenzie litho. From sketches by W.Crosby.
Printed by Lefevre & Co., [n.d., c.1832.]
Lithograph on india, 330 x 420mm. Faint spotting.
A very rare print.
[Ref: 12425]   £320.00  
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N.E. View of the Hall of the Middle Temple built in 1570. with Plowden Buildings, erected after the Designs of Henry Hakewell, Arch.t. in 1831 and the Entrance Tower, designed and erected by James Savage, Arch.t. in 1832.
N.E. View of the Hall of the Middle Temple built in 1570. with Plowden Buildings, erected after the Designs of Henry Hakewell, Arch.t. in 1831 and the Entrance Tower, designed and erected by James Savage, Arch.t. in 1832.
F.Mackenzie litho. From sketches by W.Crosby.
Printed by Lefevre & Co., [n.d., c.1832.]
A very rare lithograph on india, 325 x 420mm. 12¾ x 16½". Large margins.
Coleridge Collection. Provenance: from The Chanter's House Somerset, former home of Samuel Coleridge.
[Ref: 14208]   £350.00  
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