A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Jean Pierre Blanchard. The first Aerial Mariner, Citizen of Calais...
R. Livesay pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
March 24 Pub. for the Proprietor by S. Hooper No 212, High-Holborn, London.
Stipple with etching and engraving. Sheet 230 x 205mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed within plate. Slight vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, published shortly after he and American doctor John Jefferies made the first balloon flight across the English Channel when they travelled from Dover to Calais, January 7th 1785.
[Ref: 56777] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
R. Livesay pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
March 24 Pub. for the Proprietor by S. Hooper No 212, High-Holborn, London.
Stipple with etching and engraving. Sheet 230 x 205mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed within plate. Slight vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, published shortly after he and American doctor John Jefferies made the first balloon flight across the English Channel when they travelled from Dover to Calais, January 7th 1785.
[Ref: 56777] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Dr. Solander, F.R.S.
Drawn by James Sowerby. Engraved by James Newton.
[London, Pub.d 24th, 1784 for the Proprietor, by I Matthews Carver, Guilder & Printseller No 438, Strand.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper
Profile portrait of Swedish naturalist Daniel Carlsson Solander (or Daniel Charles, 1733 - 82), an 'apostle of Carl Linnaeus', taught by the great botanist. After working on cataloguing the natural history collections of the British Museum he joined Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's first voyage, becoming the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil and the first Swede to circumnavigate the world. The artist, James Sowerby, was a prolific botanical illustrator.
Kivell p.283.
[Ref: 67846] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by James Sowerby. Engraved by James Newton.
[London, Pub.d 24th, 1784 for the Proprietor, by I Matthews Carver, Guilder & Printseller No 438, Strand.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper
Profile portrait of Swedish naturalist Daniel Carlsson Solander (or Daniel Charles, 1733 - 82), an 'apostle of Carl Linnaeus', taught by the great botanist. After working on cataloguing the natural history collections of the British Museum he joined Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's first voyage, becoming the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil and the first Swede to circumnavigate the world. The artist, James Sowerby, was a prolific botanical illustrator.
Kivell p.283.
[Ref: 67846] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)