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The East Prospect of the Church and Steeple of Kettering with Mr. Sayer's House to the South.
[n.d. engraved c.1791; but later publication.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 190 x 209mm. 7½ x 8¼".
St Peter and Paul Church, Kettering, Northamptonshire, which dominated the town with its crocketed spire. From John Bridges' "History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire".
[Ref: 27600] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Temporary Mounting of an Achromatic Refracting Telescope. The property of E.J. Cooper Esq.r M.P. Diameter of the Object Glass 13.5 Inches, Focal Length 25 Feet. Object Glass by M Cauchoix of Paris. Mounting and adjustments by Mr Tulley on the premises of Mr Cornfield, Clapham Sept 23rd 1831.
[W. Eldridge lit.g. Printed by Engelmann & Co.]
[c.1831.]
Lithograph, extremely scarce. Image 185 x 170mm (7¼ x 6¾"), title excised and pasted beneath. Trimmed, losing lithographer and printer's names, trimmed around title, pasted on sheet.
A wheeled frame for a telescope.
[Ref: 56828] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye water near ye Court of ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle Oct. 18, 1748.) & exhibited June 18, 1749. N.S.
Ridge sculp.
Engraved for S. & I. Exshaw Dub: 1749.
Engraving. 195 x 430mm. Very fine Irish copper engraving.
In essence, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the War of Austrian Succession concluded status quo ante bellum. In the commercial struggle between Britain and France in the West Indies, Africa, and India, nothing was settled; the treaty was thus no basis for a lasting peace.
[Ref: 7192] £450.00
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