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Giacomo Bruce.
Bramati dis. Rados inc.
[Italian, c.1820.]
Aquatint. 220 x 155mm, 9¾ x 6".
Portrait of the Scottish explorer James Bruce (1730-94), famed for his expeditions to Africa in which he discovered the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.
[Ref: 11573] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Lake Como.] Veduta della Villa D'Esta altre volte il Garuvo sul Lago di Como.
G.Castellini dis. L.Rados inc.
[c.1830.] Milano presso Francesco Bernucca Contrada de'tre Alberghi No.4091.
Very fine lithograph. 195 x 225mm (7¾ x 9"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into lower plate and backed onto album paper.
A view of Lake Como, Italy. In the foreground are two boats, in the background the Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. In 1815, the villa became the residence of Caroline of Brunswick, estranged wife of the future King George IV.
[Ref: 66691] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Giorgio Lygttleton.
G.B. Bosio dis. L. Rados inc.
[n.d. c.1770].
Stipple engraving. 155 x 220mm.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, statesman and patron of poets like Pope and Fielding [1709 - 1773].
[Ref: 730] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Natural History of Monkeys] Storia Naturale delle Scimie e dei Maki Dissegnata dal Sig. H. Jacob, ed incisi al Sig. L. Rados...
Torino, Presso i Labraj, Gaetano Balbino, Giuseppe Pic, Vedova Pomba e figli, e i Fratelli Reycend. Genova, presso i Libraj, Yves Gravier, e Basso 1816.
Scarce stipple, printed in sepia. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") very large margins. Foxing.
An engraved titlepage for an important early monograph on primates, which contained 85 fine plates. The title is within an architectural frame, on which two monkeys sit. The entablature lists the names of important French Naturalists, headed by Buffon.
[Ref: 58052] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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