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)
A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land.
J. Webber del. Newton sculp.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 265 x 405mm (10 x 16"). Trimmed close to plate right and bottom
HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery at anchor in Christmas Harbour in the Kerguelen Islands (also known as Desolation Islands) in the Southern Indian Ocean. In the foreground an unafraid penguin watches a crewman approaching to club it. A sea lion is hidden among the rocks. Engraved by James Newton after John Webber for 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (1784), the official account of Captain Cook's Third and final voyage.
[Ref: 51210] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
J. Webber del. Newton sculp.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 265 x 405mm (10 x 16"). Trimmed close to plate right and bottom
HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery at anchor in Christmas Harbour in the Kerguelen Islands (also known as Desolation Islands) in the Southern Indian Ocean. In the foreground an unafraid penguin watches a crewman approaching to club it. A sea lion is hidden among the rocks. Engraved by James Newton after John Webber for 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (1784), the official account of Captain Cook's Third and final voyage.
[Ref: 51210] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)