Grosvenor Prints

The Play Fellow.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 190 x 210mm (7½ x 8¼"). Trimmed at corners.
A scene showing a young boy playing with his dog.
[Ref: 47474] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Clarkson. Playford Hall. Aug. 31. 1846, aged 87. Thomas Clarkson penned the original Autograph, (of which the above is a perfect facsimile, obtained by the Anastatic Press) in ink pre-pared for the purpose; about 4 weeks before his death, which took place on the 26th of the 9th month, 1846, in his 87th year. The windows immediately opposite the gate are these of his usual sitting room, the two above them of that where he ended his mortal career. WDS.
W.m Dillwyn Sims [facsilimile within plate].
Ipswich Anastatic Press. [n.d., c.1846.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 275 x 385mm (10¾ x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A view of Playford Hall, Suffolk, with abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (1760 - 1846), walking towards the gates. Clarkson was founding member of The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves. Clarkson rented Playford Hall in around 1813 and lived there until his death in 1846.
[Ref: 62208] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[John Playford.] Johannis Playford Effigies.
F.H.Van Hove Sculp.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some time staining. Small margins.
Portrait of John Playford (1623 - 1686), London bookseller, publisher, minor composer and member of the Stationers' Company. He published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments and psalters with tunes for singing in churches. Frontispiece to Playford's 'A Brief Introduction to the Skill of Music'.
[Ref: 67031] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Playing at the Ring. 7.
Van Lee Berghi del. James Godby sculp.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1. 1806, by Edw.d Orme. 52, Bond Street, London.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Paper watermarked: J. Whatman 1817. Plate 248 x 336mm. 9¾ x 13¼". Very slight offsetting.
Boys on the shoreline playing at the ring. The scenery behind which includes a volcano Vesuvius. No:7 from a series of scenes of Italian Scenery. See ref:22866 A ring stuck into the sand through which boys hit balls with a wooden paddle.
[Ref: 22863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

For Exportation Fifty Pounds Penalty if Relanded & Twenty Pounds if Sold or Used in Great Britain.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 102 x 70mm. 4 x 2¾".
A motif used on playing cards by I. Hardy and I. Kirk during the 18th century.
[Ref: 23338] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Playing card wrapper] The Great Mogul.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed, losing maker's details, laid on album paper.
A generic portrait of the 'Grand Mogul', a symbol first used for playing card wrappers by Blanchard in 1741 and adopted by others as a sign of the best quality cards. Above the portrait, upside-down, are the Prince of Wales's feathers. A differently engraved version of the same design (BM Banks,97*.3) has the details ''Principal Superfine Large Cards Made by Matthew Gibson Cardmaker to His Majesty'', dated 1804.
[Ref: 56353] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Men Playing Cards.]
J. J. Haid et filius excudit A. V. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate: 150 x 230mm (6 x 9").
Interior scene in which several figures crowd around a table a which three men are playing cards.
[Ref: 35119] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Playing Cards.]
E. Tilbargh pinx: Lorenz Quaglio del: 1818.
Early & fine German lithograph, very rare. Sheet 411 x 502mm (16¼ x 19¾").
A rustic interior of men playing cards at a table in the centre; a man and woman stood by a fireplace to the right.
[Ref: 30425] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Pictorial Cards.
No. 37 of R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c., Pub.d Jan.y 1 1819.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 240 x 150mm, 9¼ x 6". Stitch marks in left edge.
Designs for four court cards: the Queen of Hearts and King of Clubs in Romanesque style; and Eastern Kings of Spades and Diamonds.
[Ref: 27020] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Great Mogul.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Engraving. 114 x 89mm. 4½ x 3½". Trimmed,
Heavily trimmed outer wrapper of playing cards - This particular wrapper "THE GREAT MOGUL" - SUCCrs. TO MATTw. GIBSON, Superfine Cards Made by Josh. Hunt & Son, Card Makers to his Majesty No.58 Mortimer Street, LONDON. " - central graphic pain of a Great Mogul within a border featuring the four suit signs. This motif was also used by Hall and Bancks in 1823 and again by Reynolds & Son. in 1830.
[Ref: 17407] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Children building a house of cards.]
Car. Coypel 1725 [in image.] F. Joullain Sculp.
A Paris chez G. Duchange rue St. Jacques [n.d., c.1730].
Fine etching, 230 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼". A nice impression, with thin margin outside the plate mark.
Two children assembling a house of playing cards on a fancy upholstered table or stool; the boy behind the girl holds his finger to his lips mischievously, both smiling. Four lines of whimsical verse below. This is the fourth state of the print, with the publisher's address added. After Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752).
BM 2002,0728.25.
[Ref: 26215] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

La Partie D’Échecs. Check to the Queen.
Gavarni pinx. Weber lith.
New-York published by Bailly Ward et C.ie. A Paris, chez Rittner et Goupil, b.ard Montmartre, N.o12 Lith. de Lemercier, rue du Four, S.G. No.55.
Lithograph. 297 x 215mm (11¾ x 8½").
A couple sat playing a game of chess.
[Ref: 30033] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Playing in Parts.
[after Brownlow North.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Pen and ink sketch on card. Sheet 235 x 325mm (9¼ x 12¾").
A copy of a satirical scene by Brownlow North (1778 - 1829) as etched by James Gillray and published by Hannah Humphrey in 1801. An amateur quintet led by a fierce-looking woman on a square piano
See BM Satires 9766 for the etching.
[Ref: 51721] £360.00

[Playing on a Log]
[Eileen A. Soper.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching, 140 x 200mm
Children playing on a log
[Ref: 5666] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Playmates.
Painted by H. Merle. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, R.A.
London, Published by Thomas McLean, 7 Haymarket June 1.st 1877.
Mezzotint and mixed-method engraving, india paper. Printsellers Association stamp. Plate 356 x 280mm. 14 x 11".
A little girl sitting in a loose gown with her shoulders bare, cuddlng a kitten on her lap, smiling towards the viewer.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. W: 212 iii of iii.
[Ref: 19377] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Proben Sir Mein Herr. Please Take a Prove Sir!
Lith v. F. Hecht. Druck v. F. Hugot in Berlin.
Verlag v. Carl Glück in Berlin. [n.d c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. 400 x 317mm. 15¾ x 12½". Bit messy around title.
A young servant girl holding a tray with a bottle of wine and a glass half-full looking at viewer.
[Ref: 23336] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis XVIII] A Pleasent Draught for Louis or the way to get rid of a troublesome fellow.
[by William Heath?]
[published by Thomas Tegg, 1814.]
Coloured etching; 1817 watermark. 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Paper toned, creased, repaired tear.
Louis XVIII, his gout-afflicted foot raised on a cushion, holds a wine-glass in which kneels a tiny screaming Napoleon, submerged to the waist, with both arms raised above his head. Louis took the throne of France soon after Napoleon's abdication in April 1814, exiling the former emperor to Elba. However his mismanagement of the country resulted in increased popular support for Napoleon after his escape the following year.
[Ref: 35974] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

De Lustplaats Suypestyn. Suypestyn Maison de Plaisance.
C. Troost pinx. Pelletier fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 500 x 395mm (19¾ x 15½"), with very large margins. Plate broken along top. Repaired
A group of drunken men board a barge after having spent the night at a pleasure house. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42666] £420.00

The Pleasures & Advantages of a capital run (meltonicè) a Tickler.
R.F. invt: et fecit.
[London, Pubd. June 5. 1815, by C. Turner, 50, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.]
Etching. Plate 215 x 305mm. 8½ x 12".
Hunting scene, with hunting group trying to pass fence in the centre, from the left to the right, one rider already passed the fence and following the dogs, another pulling the rein of his horse over the fence, another checking his fallen horse in the left middle distance, plain in the background
Siltzer: p.122.
[Ref: 23332] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasures of Being Too Late. Tune - Mr. and Mrs. Bristle. Punctuality, so says a many, Is one of the best traits in man, But I'll prove, as plain as a penny, It's only a flash in the pan. 'Though it's preached up by fathers & mothers, I'll prove by the words I let fall, That you lose very little – more t'other; In not being punctual at all...A precious good job that I tarried, For she whack'd him the very first night. So I've given you all a fair sample, ('Though there's plenty more still in my pate) Now follow my novel example; There's nothing like being too late. Let your, &c. [Around edges:] Instruments bought, sold or exchanged. Fancy Walking Sticks Toy. Violins, Accordians, Harmonicans & Concertinas sold & repaired.
Printed by T. King, Birmingham, and sold by Mr. Green, at his Music Stall, near the Turnpike, City-Road, and at 27, Featherstone-street, City-road, where an extensive collection of old and new songs, harp and violin str fancy stationery, &c. may be had. [n.d. c.1845.]
Printed letterpress. 153 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Slightly foxed, two tears.
A ballad to the tune of Mr. and Mrs. Bristle.
[Ref: 21022] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasures of Memory.
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
March 1, 1844 Published By J.C Grundy, Machester; R. H. Grundy, Liverpool; The Anaglyphic Company, Berners Street, London, & Goupil & Vibert, Paris.
Mezzotint with engraving, 460 x 350mm (18 x 13¾"), with very large margins. Repaired tear in top left margin. Very light creasing including one very small crease in her face.
Portrait in an oval frame of a woman looking at a picture book. She studies the book resting her hand on her head. The book is raised on a cushion. An illustration to poem 'The Pleasures of Memory', (1792) by Samuel Rogers (1763-1855).
[Ref: 60697] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le plaisir de la promenade le Teste a Teste.
Chez Guerard rue petit a limage N. dame
[n.d. c. 1670]
Fine & rare engraving, pt 17th watermark. 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"), with large margins. Fading to the title in lower right corner. Fainting toning at the edges of the upper and right hand margins.
A man and a woman, well dressed and made up, walk hand in hand. Printed by Nicolas Bonnart (c. 1637 - 1718), the son of Henri Bonnart. He was largely active between 1664-70 and moved his printing business to St. Jacques Rue in 1674.
[Ref: 54685] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Les Plaisirs de la Jeunesse. Colin-Maillard. [&] Le Concert Amoureux. [&] La Conversation Interessante. [&] La Danse.
Paterre Pinxit. Filloeul Sculp 1739.
A paris chez Filloeul à l'entrée de la ruë du Fouare, au bâtiment neuf, par la ruë Galande. Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Président de Ségur Avec Privilége du Roy.
Set of four engravings. Plate: 490 x 365mm (19¼ x 14¼"), with very large margins. Repaired worm holes in plate 1.
A fine contemporary set of elegant images of four engravings illustrating four amusements of youth including, blind-man's buff, flirting, conversation and dancing.
[Ref: 47747] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

[Johann Adrian von Plenken]. Joh. Adrian Freÿherr von Plenken Kaÿyserl Geheimer+Rath u. Ober-Ambts Canteler in Schlesien.
[engraved by Martin Bernigeroth.]
[n.d., c.1722.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed and mounted on a mismatched contemporary sheet with a decorative engraved architectural surround, total printed area 310 x 205mm (12¼ x 8").
Very decorative oval portrait of Johann Adrian von Plenken (1635-1719), lawyer, civil servant and chancellor of the University of Breslau (Wroclaw). When plague hit Silesia in 1708 he was responsible for quarantine measures.
[Ref: 57753] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Plenty.
London Publish'd by P. [& J.], Jan.y 1, 1798.
Coloured etching with mezzotint borders. 130 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Small hole in border, stain at top edge; '& J.' crossed out. Cut inside platemark at top.
An allegorical figure of Plenty, sheaf in one hand and a cornucopia (horn of plenty) in the other, aided by a putto.
The BM states that 'J. Gally' left the business before 1802.
[Ref: 37586] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Plenty.
Hancock sc.t.
Publish'd march 10th 96 by J. Hancock Congreve St. Birm.m.
Stipple. Plate: 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼''). Trimmed to plate. Creasing
An allegorical portrait of the figure of Plenty shown holding a cornucopia. Hancock, Thomas, Engraver, Printseller, Congreve St, Birmingham. A skilful engraver working in Birmingham during the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth centuries.
[Ref: 48078] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Armand Jean du Plessis] Armand Cardinal de Richlieu Duc et Pair de France Grand M. Chef et Sur:Intendant de la Navigation Gouvernateur , et Lieuten.t g.nal poun le Roy au pais de Bretaigne.
B. Moncornet ex. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins. Stains.
A half-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), French clergyman and statesman.
[Ref: 56408] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Richelieu] Armand Jean du Plessis.
[Abraham Bosse.]
F.L.D. Ciartres excudit Parisijs [n.d., c.1638].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 265 x 240mm (10½ x 9½"). Thread margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu known as Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) within a dial, published by François Langlois, il Ciartres.
[Ref: 63325] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

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[Anne Pleydell-Bouverie] Anne Countess of Radnor
Rich.d Cosway R.A. Del.t. M.no Bovi Sculp.t pupil to F. Bartolozzi.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple printed in sepia. 295 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"), with wide margins.
Full length portrait of Anne Duncombe (1759-1829), who married Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in 1777.
Daniell 119.
[Ref: 31870] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Pleydell-Bouverie] Anne Countess of Radnor
Rich.d Cosway R.A. Del.t. M.no Bovi Sculp.t pupil to F. Bartolozzi.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Fine stipple printed in sepia. 295 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"), with large margins. Uncut.
Full length portrait of Anne Duncombe (1759-1829), who married Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in 1777.
Daniell 119.
[Ref: 60768] £320.00

Marie Pleyel. [Facsimile signature:] M. Pleyel.
Le Ménestrel, 9 bis, Rue Vivienne. M. Alophe [facsimile in image.]
Imp. Bertauts, Paris. [n.d. c.1835.]
Lithograph. 388 x 267mm. 15½ x 14½". Slight foxing.
Marie-Félicité-Denise Pleyel (1811-1875) was a French pianist and teacher, and one of the most celebrated virtuosos of the 19th century. In 1830 she was engaged to Hector Berlioz but broke it off to marry Camille Pleyel, scion of the piano-manufacturing family.
[Ref: 19965] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Plimsoll, Esq., M.P. ('The Sailors' Friend.')
Entered at Stationers Hall, by Alfred Taylor, New Court, Farringtdon Street, London E.C. [n.d., c.1875.]
Lithograph. Printed area 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Bit dusty.
M.P. for Derby, whose six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy.
[Ref: 43351] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Plimsoll, M.P. "The Sailor's Friend."
Entered at Stationers Hall, by Alfred Taylor, New Court, Farringdon St, London E.C. [c.1875]
Lithograph, printed area approx. 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼").
Samuel Plimsoll (1824-98), politician and shipping reformer. An M.P. for Derby, Plimsoll's six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy. Plimsoll's name was also bestowed on the rubber-soled canvas shoes manufactured by the Liverpool Rubber Company in 1876: the company's salesman, Philip Lace, said that the shoes were water-tight as long as they were not immersed above the level of the band, and that this reminded him of the Plimsoll line.
[Ref: 43685] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Plimsoll.
Lock and Whitfield [...] Woodbury Process [c.1875].
Photograph mounted on printed sheet, sheet 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8").
Samuel Plimsoll (1824-98), politician and shipping reformer. An M.P. for Derby, Plimsoll's six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy. Plimsoll's name was also bestowed on the rubber-soled canvas shoes manufactured by the Liverpool Rubber Company in 1876: the company's salesman, Philip Lace, said that the shoes were water-tight as long as they were not immersed above the level of the band, and that this reminded him of the Plimsoll line.
For the same photograph in a different format see ref.3930.
[Ref: 47296] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Plimsoll, Esq., M.P. ('The Sailors' Friend.')
Photographed from Life by Lock and Whitfield, 178, Regent Street, London.
The London Sketch-Book. London: January, 1875.
Photograph, 115 x 90mm, mounted on newssheet. Part of photograph detached.
M.P. for Derby, whose six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy.
[Ref: 3930] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Plimsoll [facsimile signature]
[Anon., c.1875]
Chromolithograph, rare; printed area approx. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½").
Samuel Plimsoll (1824-98), politician and shipping reformer. An M.P. for Derby, Plimsoll's six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy. Plimsoll's name was also bestowed on the rubber-soled canvas shoes manufactured by the Liverpool Rubber Company in 1876: the company's salesman, Philip Lace, said that the shoes were water-tight as long as they were not immersed above the level of the band, and that this reminded him of the Plimsoll line.
[Ref: 43684] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ploughing.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 115 x 195mm, 4½ x 7¾". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a pair of horses dragging plough.
[Ref: 16439] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Labourage nivernais, also called Le Sombrage (Ploughing in Nevers, also called The First Dressing).]
Rosa Bonheur [scratched in plate lower right.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Colour printed mezzotint, 295 x 530mm. 11½ x 20¾".
Two teams of Charolais-Nivernais oxen pulling heavy ploughs in the Nivernais landscape of France. After Rosa Bonheur's (1822 - 1899) oil dated 1849. The French State commissioned the painting from Bonheur in 1848 for the Musée de Lyon, but decided to keep it in Paris, at the Musée du Luxembourg. When the artist died it was put in the Louvre and is now part of the Musée d'Orsay collection.
[Ref: 9449] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Straw-burning ploughing engine.] [Written on the engine:] Ransomes Sims & Head Ipswich England. Head & Schemioths Patent.
[In ink underneath the image:] Engraved with instruments on waxed plate.
[n.d. c.1848.]
Engraving, scarce. 228 x 342mm. 9 x 13½". Folds and creasing.
Ransomes, Sims & Head, established 1789, was a major British agricultural machinery maker, and also manufactured aeroplanes during the First World War. In 1848, John Head joined the firm as an apprentice and invented an apparatus which enabled straw to be burnt as fuel in the firebox of portable and traction engines. This development, made in collaboration with a Russian engineer named Schemioth, proved a very useful one in countries where there was no wood available for fuel and where coal had to be imported at great expense. The Head-Schemioth system involved the provision of extra-large fireboxes and an apparatus, driven from the crankshaft by a strap, for feeding the straw into the firebox.
[Ref: 20902] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Ploughman.
Engraved by W. Giller, from a sketch by T. Barker.
London, Published by James Bulcock, 163, Strand (11, Doors East of Somerset House) June 1, 1828.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 365 x 290mm (14½ x 11½") with large margins.
A young ploughman raising his arms and yawning broadly, carrying a lantern, followed by a dog.
[Ref: 60335] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Plovers. 9th Plate of the British Feather Game.
Barenger pinx.t. Turner sculp.t.
London Publish'd Sept. 1 1810 at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 365 x 435mm, 14¼ x 17¼". Some damage in title area.
James Barenger (1780 - 1831), nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 until his death. From a series of fourteen prints "British Feather Game", depicting English game birds, all engraved by Charles Turner and published 1810-12.
Whitman: 659. Siltzer: pg. 79. See Ref: 8670 & 8672
[Ref: 8669] £320.00

[Frontispiece vignette to Leonard Plukenet, 'Almagesti botanici mantissa'] Anagr: Ut pene Nullus sic ardeo Aliis inserviendo consumor.
J. Collins fec:
[published by T. Davies et al, 1700.]
Rare engraving, sheet 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½"). False margins added.
Leonard Plukenet (bap. 1642-d. 1706), botanist, sitting at his desk. Vignette from Plukenet's 'Almagesti botanici mantissa' (1700), one of a series of magesterial volumes which presented Plukenet's collection, and in which several British plants made their first appearance. By this time Plukenet had been appointed superintendent of the royal gardens at Hampton Court, by William III, a king himself interested in horticulture.
[Ref: 42079] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Plundering Vagrants, or Gypsies Detected.
Painted by W. R. Bigg A. Engraved by W. Barnard.
London: Published March 28.th. by W. Barnard N.o.1. Fitzroy S.t., Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint partly printed in fine colour. 600 x 480mm (23 x 19"), with wide margins. Some slight staining and repaired damage in margin.
An exterior scene in which a man scolds three gypsy children after discovering them while out hunting with his dog. In the distance figures can be seen riding off into the woods.
See Ref: 29031 for the pair printed in colour. Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35745] £360.00

Oliverius Plunket. Archiepiscopus Armachanus suspensus, et Partitus Londini 1 July 1681, profide
[Richard Collin.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Oliver Plunkett (1625 - 1681) who served as the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, and was the final victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, becoming the first newly declared Irish saint in nearly seven centuries.
[Ref: 67714] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Pluralist and Old Soldier. A Soldier once and in the Beggar's list / Did thus adress a well-fed Pluralist.
[Engraved by Matthew Darley after John Collier.]
[Pub.d according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly facing New Round Court the Strand 1766.]
Coloured etching. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Laid on card, tear taped in margin on right.
A scene illustraing engraved verse. A ragged and unkempt old soldier (a crippled veteran of Guadalupe, taken from the French in 1759) begging arms from a well-fed pluralist parson, who holds a glass of ale and a tobacco pipe. The soldier's entreaties are haughtily dismissed by the clergyman. Originally published in 1766, this example has a plate number '30' top left and the publisher's inscription removed.
See BM Satires 3994 for a 1762 version, in reverse.
[Ref: 54325] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Pluralist and Old Soldier. A Soldier once and in the Beggar's list / Did thus adress a well-fed Pluralist.
[Engraved by Matthew Darley after John Collier.]
Pub.d according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly facing New Round Court the Strand 1766.
Etching. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾").
A scene illustraing engraved verse. A ragged and unkempt old soldier (a crippled veteran of Guadalupe, taken from the French in 1759) begging arms from a well-fed pluralist parson, who holds a glass of ale and a tobacco pipe. The soldier's entreaties are haughtily dismissed by the clergyman.
See BM Satires 3994 for a 1762 version, in reverse.
[Ref: 14123] £420.00

The North-East Prospect of Plymouth, in the County of Devon.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.t.
according to Act of Parliament 1736.
Engraving. Sheet 310 x 775mm (12¼ x 30½"). Trimmed within plate, three horizontal folds, folded onto album sheet. Staining in sky.
A detailed view of Plymouth, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42265] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Plymouth & Plymothians. Photographs & Memories.
Printed by Aberdeen University Press. [1985.]
4to, illustrated soft covers; pp. 108, profusely illustrated. Good condition.
An account of life in Plymouth in the Victorian Age through pictures.
[Ref: 59845] £15.00

Maison qui serre de magasins, pour la marine du Roy, et une partie de Plimouthe en Angleterre.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured engraving. 260 x 385mm, 10½ x 15¼".
A 'vüe d'optique'of Plymouth, designed to be viewed through an optical viewer called a 'zograscope'. The naive colouring is standard for this genre of prints.
[Ref: 11560] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Plymouth] Zee-Slagh Tusschen de M.r Miciel de Ruiter en de H.r Georg Ascue by Plymurden op den 26 Augusti 1652.
Stoopendael sculp.
[Amsterdam, c.1686.]
Etching. Sheet 265 x 350mm (10½ x 13¾"). Slight central crease. Trimmed to printed border.
A view of the Battle of Plymouth, 16 August 1652 (26th in the Gregorian calendar), in which personal friends General-at-Sea George Ayscue and Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter led English and Dutch fleets into battle. Despite having the smaller fleet, de Ruyter succeeded in getting the Dutch merchant convoy to safety, an action that brought him to prominence as a commander. An illustration from G. Brandt's account of de Ruyter's life 'Het leven en bedryt van der heere Michiel de Ruiter'
[Ref: 56266] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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