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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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Anacoana Condemn'd to Death by the Spaniards.
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Jan 25 1817 by Rich.d Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing Anacoana, who was a Taino chief captured because of her suspected involvement in attacks on the Spanish settlement in Hispaniola. Anacoana was offered the choice of becoming a concubine to one of the Spaniards but she refused and so was hanged.
[Ref: 48301] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Jan 25 1817 by Rich.d Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing Anacoana, who was a Taino chief captured because of her suspected involvement in attacks on the Spanish settlement in Hispaniola. Anacoana was offered the choice of becoming a concubine to one of the Spaniards but she refused and so was hanged.
[Ref: 48301] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Atahualpa Rejecting the Breviary.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
Published by R. Evans, 17 Paternoster Row, 1817.
Engraving; watermark 1816. Plate: 225 x 150mm (9 x 6'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the last Incan Emperor Atahualpa rejecting the breviary offered to him by Dominican friar Vincente de Valverde. After Atahualpa rejected the breviary Valverde called the Spaniards to attack the Incans and they conquered without losing one Spanish soldier however many Incans were slaughtered.
[Ref: 48299] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
Published by R. Evans, 17 Paternoster Row, 1817.
Engraving; watermark 1816. Plate: 225 x 150mm (9 x 6'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the last Incan Emperor Atahualpa rejecting the breviary offered to him by Dominican friar Vincente de Valverde. After Atahualpa rejected the breviary Valverde called the Spaniards to attack the Incans and they conquered without losing one Spanish soldier however many Incans were slaughtered.
[Ref: 48299] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Balboa Discovering the Southern Ocean.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) discovering the Pacific. Balboa was the first to reach the Pacific from the New World and he founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first permanent European settlement in the Americas.
[Ref: 48298] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) discovering the Pacific. Balboa was the first to reach the Pacific from the New World and he founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first permanent European settlement in the Americas.
[Ref: 48298] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
G.L. Le Clerc Count de Buffon. Author of Natural History.
Meyron del. [after François-Hubert Drouais] Romney sculp.t.
London, Published by Tho.s Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1821.
Stipple and engraving. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½") Small margins.
Portrait bust of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788), French naturalist, in an oval; underneath is a vignette landscape featuring animals including an elephant, lion and camel, with a volcano. Buffon published thirty-five quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime; one additional volume based on his notes was published in 1789 after his death. Engraved after François-Hubert Drouais, this was a frontispiece to one of the volumes of an English edition.
Wellcome: 475-13
[Ref: 48915] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Meyron del. [after François-Hubert Drouais] Romney sculp.t.
London, Published by Tho.s Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1821.
Stipple and engraving. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½") Small margins.
Portrait bust of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788), French naturalist, in an oval; underneath is a vignette landscape featuring animals including an elephant, lion and camel, with a volcano. Buffon published thirty-five quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime; one additional volume based on his notes was published in 1789 after his death. Engraved after François-Hubert Drouais, this was a frontispiece to one of the volumes of an English edition.
Wellcome: 475-13
[Ref: 48915] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Columbus presenting the Production of the new World to Ferdinands & Isabella.
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Jan. 11.1817 by Rich. Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the explorer Christopher Columbus returning to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who had funded his expeditions. Columbus presents a group of Native Americans who carry baskets full of fruit that look like coconut.
[Ref: 48303] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Jan. 11.1817 by Rich. Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the explorer Christopher Columbus returning to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who had funded his expeditions. Columbus presents a group of Native Americans who carry baskets full of fruit that look like coconut.
[Ref: 48303] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Battle of Otumba.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
London Published by Rich.d Evans, 17, Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 165mm (8 x 6½'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Battle of Otumba which was fought between the Spanish under Cortes and the Aztecs in what is now Mexico.
[Ref: 48302] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
London Published by Rich.d Evans, 17, Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 165mm (8 x 6½'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Battle of Otumba which was fought between the Spanish under Cortes and the Aztecs in what is now Mexico.
[Ref: 48302] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Poole's, Select Pocket Remembrancer. 1834. Christina of Sweden resigns her Crown. Pa: 2. [&] Fete Champetre.
E. Burney Del. J. Romney Sculp.
London. Printed by Assignment of J. Poole, for Suttaby & Co. Stationers Court . P. Ayres, & Shepherd & Sutton. Noble Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Engraving. Plate 131 x 159mm. 5¼ x 6¼". Uncut before binding.
Frontispiece and illustrations to Poole's "Select Pocket Remembrancer". Illustration of a countryside party, women and men of society elegantly dressed in the gardens of a country residence.
[Ref: 27868] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
E. Burney Del. J. Romney Sculp.
London. Printed by Assignment of J. Poole, for Suttaby & Co. Stationers Court . P. Ayres, & Shepherd & Sutton. Noble Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Engraving. Plate 131 x 159mm. 5¼ x 6¼". Uncut before binding.
Frontispiece and illustrations to Poole's "Select Pocket Remembrancer". Illustration of a countryside party, women and men of society elegantly dressed in the gardens of a country residence.
[Ref: 27868] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)