Grosvenor Prints

Sigismundus III. D.G. Rex Polon: Mag: Dux Lit. Russ. Prus. Mass: Livo: nec non Suecor: Goth: Vand: Hæred: Rex.
Eb: Kieser exc. Dan: Meisn: Comm B. [Frankfurt, c.1627.]
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5¼"), set in letterpress.
An oval portrait of Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, wearing a lace collar over armour and Order of the Golden Fleece. From a German edition of Lundorp's 'Laurea Austriaca'. Besides being monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587-1632, he was King of Sweden (where he is known simply as Sigismund) from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599. He was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland.
See BM 1870,1112.165 for a Latin edition.
[Ref: 57726] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Sigismundus III. D.G. Rex Polon: Mag: Dux Littuaviæ Russ. Prus. Mass: Livon, nec non Suec: Goth: Vand: Hæred: Rex etc.
Eb: Kieser exc. Dan: Meisn: Comm B. [Frankfurt, c.1627.]
Engraving. 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Some paper toning.
An equestrian portrait of Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, wearing a ruff and Order of the Golden Fleece. From Eberhard Keiser's 'Fama Austriaca', with text by Daniel Meisner. Besides being monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587-1632, he was King of Sweden (where he is known simply as Sigismund) from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599. He was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland.
BM 1870,1112.165.
[Ref: 57725] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Alphabet manuel francais. [&] Alphabet manuel anglais.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Four engraving, each approx 95 x 90mm. 3¾ x 3½". Laid on two album sheets.
The sign language alphabets in both French and English.
[Ref: 11135] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Il Ponte a Signa, dalla parte di Levante.
G. Zocchi del. G. Filosi Scol. Venezia.
[n.d. c.1744.]
Etching and engraving, with large margins. Plate 316 x 490mm (12¾ x 19¼"). Very fine.
The bridge over the Arno at Signa, seen from the east, with goods being loaded onto barges. Plate nine from "Vedute delle ville e d'altri luoghi della Toscana".
[Ref: 28522] £320.00

[The Sika Deer] The Formosan Deer. Cervus Taivanus.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 245 x 355mm (9½ x 14"), with very large margins and text sheet.
The sika deer (Cervus nippon), also known as the Japanese deer or the spotted deer (being one of the few deer species that does not lose its spots upon reaching maturity), From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 50358] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Silence! (Collection of J.S. Forbes Esq.)
L. Alma Tadema R.A. pinx. Ed. Ramus sc.
L'Art. Imp. A. Clement, Paris [c.1883].
Etching. 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8½"), very large margins. Some foxing on the edge of margins.
A woman lays in front of a cubiculum, holding her index finger to her lips commanding silence.
[Ref: 62584] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Les Sylphides. Le Silence. The Hush, of Nature.
Peint d'après nature et lithographié par C. Bargue. Imprimé par Becquet frères, à Paris.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Colourd lithograph. Sheet: 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Damage to corner, mark in margin in lower left corner.
A scene in which two nude women recline near a pool, their instruments lie discarded beside them and they watch two butterflies.
[Ref: 47347] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Silence.
F. Bartolozzi inv. G. Zancon Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1800]
Rare stipple 190 x 235mm (7½ x 9¼"), with very large margins. Very light foxing.
A naked boy, asleep on a bed, is visited by two putti; one shushes the other. After the original print made by Bartolozzi and Published by Thomas Simpson in 1791; it omits the two verses by, 'S Collings.' Gaetano Zancon (1771-1816), engraver from Bassano, he produced individual plates and published various series of outline etchings after Old Masters, as well as reproductions of English prints.
R 733.
[Ref: 66024] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Silenus.
Drawn by J.H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
Publish'd as the Act directs. July 19th. 1779 by R. Blyth.
A fine etching. 265 x 232mm. 10½ x 9¼"
Silenus was a companion and tutor to the Greek god of wine, Dionysus.
[Ref: 14291] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Silhouette.
Mrs. E. Nevill Jackson.
Methuen & Co. Limited. 36 Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. [1938.]
4to, original cloth gilt; pp. xviii + 1554, profusely illustrated. Stained cover, distressed binding.
Notes on and a dictionary of the art of silhouettes.
[Ref: 59910] £75.00 view all images for this item

[Silk Production.]
Haussard sculp.
Paris, 1785.
Engraving. 390 x 540mm. Trimmed into printed area lower left.
12 scenes depicting silk production from Abbe Grosier's 'Atlas General de la Chine'..
[Ref: 2857] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The manner of placing the Leaves on Scaffolds & Shelves to Feed Silkworms.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine, according to Act of Parliament, 174, for J. Hinton, at ye Kings Arms, in St. Paul's Church Yard, London.
Engraving. 197 x 248mm. 7¾ x 9¾". Some tears and foxing, vertical crease to left as normal
The feeding of slikworms.
[Ref: 22248] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Silk Manufacture in China.
For the London Magazine, 1750. Plate 1.
Engraving. Plate 178 x 216mm. 7 x 8½".
Water staining along the lower edge, vertical crease to right as normal.
Six scenes showing the processed of manufacturing silk; winding the cods in ye Cauldron, Balneum Mariae to kill ye worms in the Cods, Taking the Cods from ye Mats after smother'd in the Earthen Pots, Hanging up ye Sheets of Paper with Eggs on them, Ways of Winding the Silk, Winding from the Cods in a Copper of Warm Water.
[Ref: 22249] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Silk Reeling. Che.kiang
Fr Schenck. 50 Geo. St Edin. [n.d. c.1860]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 125 x 190mm (5 x 7½"). Bottom margin slightly creased.
A country scene in Zhejiang (Chekiang), China of people making silk thread. One person checks mulberry leaves for silkworm cocoons, another sits creating bundles perhaps for twig frames for the silkworms, one person guides the thread onto the wheel that winds it onto spools, with another person turning. Someone watches from a window nearby and two older people watch them closely. Chickens peck at the ground.
[Ref: 58995] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Silke Throwers.
[London, Printed for the Author Rich Wallis Citizen & Arms painter of London & are to be sold by him at his Shop against ye Royall Exchange 1677.]
Engraving. 200 x 155mm, 8 x 6". Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
The arms of the Silk Weavers of London, with a mulberry tree and two turbaned men. The Silk-throwers were incorporated in 1630 by Charles I under the name of 'the master, wardens, assistants, and commonalty of the trade, art, or mystery of Silkthrowers of the City of London'. Various craft guilds were established in London as early as the 12th century, later becoming known as City Livery Companies because they often wore a distinctive livery or uniform (although the Silk Throwers had no livery or hall). The companies decided who could work or trade in their crafts, controlling prices and wages, working conditions and welfare. In return for exercising rigorous quality control they received monopoly powers. In continental Europe, various revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries swept away the guilds, but in England they continued, and several new Companies have appeared in recent years.From "Londons Armory Accuratly delineated in a Graphical display of all the Arms, Crests, Supporters, Mantles and Motto’s of every distinct Company and Corporate Societie in the Honourable City of London".
[Ref: 17851] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Inspired Drummajor of the N~shire Militia.
T.Smith del et sculp.
Published as the Act directs 19th May 1772 by Tho.s Willson.
Mezzotint. 250 x 180mm. Crease at top left corner.
According to Bromley this is John Silk of the Northamptonshire Militia.
CS: p.1321. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5602] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Silkmen.
[London, Printed for the Author Rich Wallis Citizen & Arms painter of London & are to be sold by him at his Shop against ye Royall Exchange 1677.]
Engraving. 200 x 155mm, 8 x 6". Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
The arms of the Silkmen, incorporated by Charles I in 1631, featuring bales of silk, camels and a merchant ship. Various craft guilds were established in London as early as the 12th century, later becoming known as City Livery Companies because they often wore a distinctive livery or uniform. The companies decided who could work or trade in their crafts, controlling prices and wages, working conditions and welfare. In return for exercising rigorous quality control they received monopoly powers. In continental Europe, various revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries swept away the guilds, but in England they continued, and several new Companies have appeared in recent years.From "Londons Armory Accuratly delineated in a Graphical display of all the Arms, Crests, Supporters, Mantles and Motto’s of every distinct Company and Corporate Societie in the Honourable City of London".
[Ref: 17862] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 17. The Silk Worm.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph. 375 x 485mm (14¾ x 19"). Some spotting near top left corner and along lower title area and margin. Loss to bottom left corner. Three repaired tears along lower edge.
A central illustration of the stages of life of the silk worm and moth, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of sericulture and silk manufacture. From 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 53946] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Silly Family Dispute. Husband Once for all Madam I expect to be obey'd. Wife And once for all Sir I'll do as I please. Thus pass the days in wedlocks doubtful state, Compos'd of love and joy, of grief and hate.
Design'd by Edw.d Penny R.A.
London, Pub.d Oct.r 1796, by G.T. Stubbs, at the Turf Gallery, Conduit Street, & No.97 High Street, Mary-le-bone.
Hand-coloured stipple, printed in colour. 241 x 177mm. 9½ x 7". Trimmed.
A young couple in a room; an argument between a husband who wishes to be obeyed, and a wife who wishes to be free to decide alone, coffee pot & cups on table.
[Ref: 27312] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Silo.
F: M: La Cave fecit 1766 [in image.]
Rare etching, sheet 155 x 140mm. 6 x 5½". Trimmed to plate and laid to album page.
Portrait of Adam Silo (1674 - 1756/1760), etcher and shipbuilder at Amsterdam, seated on a chair next to an easel with a seascape. By François Morellon de la Cave (1706 - 1766; fl.).
[Ref: 15392] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Silvano Littorali et Musae Laches. Silvain 1. CLXXVIII. Pl a la 276. page T1.
Boissard.
[Franckfurt : Zufinden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben, 1681.]
Engraving, framed. Visible area 159 x 178mm (6¼ x 7"). Frame 377 x 374mm (14¾ x 14¾").
Silvanus, the Roman tutelary deity of woods and fields seen here with a woman and a cupid; he is depicted here as half-fawn, half-man.
[Ref: 29522] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Q. Luctatius Q.F. Mens Silvano D.D. 2.
[Boissard.]
[Franckfurt : Zufinden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben, 1681.]
Engraving, framed. Visible area 159 x 178mm (6¼ x 7"). Frame 377 x 374mm (14¾ x 14¾").
Silvanus mocked by two cherubs, panpipies and flutes on the ground by his feet; behind is a herm, primly depicted with a leaf rather than the traditional phallus.
[Ref: 29523] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Golden Age. [&] The Silver Age. H. Walton. Charles West. [&] B. West. Facius.
Painted by B. West Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved from the Original Picture by Facius. [&] H. Walton Pinxit. Charles West Sculpsit.
Publish'd Jan.y. 1.st. 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. [&] Publish'd Sept.r. 2.d. 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipples printed in sanguine with large margins, very rare pair. Plate: 325 x 300mm (12¾ x 11¾").
A pair of images depicting stages of childhood. In one a young mother watches as her child sleeps, in the background an older couple sit and stand by a door way. [&] A girl in a bonnet sits looking out across a landscape, next to her is placed a basket of chickens.
For a pair in mezzotint see ref: 29674.
[Ref: 36837] £450.00 view all images for this item

[The Silver Age.]
H. Walton Pinxit. Charles West Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sept.r 2.d 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
A pair of stipples, printed in sepia and black. Sheet: 290 x 325mm (11½ x 12¾''). Trimmed within plate.
Two versions of the same print, printed in two different colours. The scene shows a young girl looking out across a landscape while two chickens are in a basket next to her.
[Ref: 48856] £480.00

Internal View of the Silver Mines near Schemnitz in Hungary.
Craig del.t. Williams, sc.p.
Bungay Jan.y 7th 1818 Published by Brightly & Childs.
Engraving. 235 x 190mm, 9¼ x 7½".
The interior of a mine, with miners being lowered through a hole in the tunnel roof on ropes. In the background a miner shelters from a blast. Schemnitz is now Banska Stiavnica.
[Ref: 26521] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Silver-Oar_versus_The White-wand_or_The Helmsmen.
[by Charles Williams]
Pubd. Aug.t 1828 by John Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill.
Hand-coloured etching, 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Slight staining in margins.
Satire on the Duke of Clarence's unwarranted expenditure as Lord High Admiral, which led to a dispute between he and Wellington which was laid before George IV (who found Clarence 'in error from the beginning to the end'). Further defiance by Clarence led to his forced resignation in the same month this print was published. George IV listens to the dispute between Wellington (brandishing a long scroll of Clarence's expenditures) and the Duke of Clarence, whose waterman's outfit and silver oar refer to his position. He wears a cap-like ducal coronet, a star, on his sleeve: Clarence Yacht Club.
BM Satires: 15546.
[Ref: 67654] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

G.R. Collis & C.º Silversmiths, Electro-Platers, & Gilders, Church Street Workins, Birmingham, & 1, Langham Place, London. Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, 1849.
T. Underwood Lith. High S.t Birm.m.
[Birmingham, 1849.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾").
A selection of silver ewers, teapots, tankards and goblets, published in the brochure of the Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, a precursor of the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the 1890s George Richmond Collis & Co were operating from Regent Street, London.
[Ref: 63037] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Silvertown.] London. Sheet LXXX. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, tears, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Silvertown in Newham. Of particular interest is Cresent Wharf, described as a 'chemical works'. During WWI this was a TNT factory, which exploded in 1917: the 'Silvertown Explosion' is believed to be the largest explosion in Britain up to that time, killing 73, injuring 400 and laying waste to seven hectares of warehouses. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority, noting sales.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10969] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

John Parker's Manufactory & Show Rooms, for Silver & Plated Wares, Summer Row, Birmingham. A Splendid assortment of the Most Fashionable Table Servies always on view... Orders for Exportation executed with the utmost dispatch.
W. Green Del. I. Tye Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare engraving, J. Whatman 1825 watermark. 355 x 230mm (14 x 9"), large margins. Some restoration.
A large scarce advertisment, with an elevation of the premises and a display of tableware.
[Ref: 59647] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cornelius Silvus.]
T Worlidge /Fecit 1757
Etching, sheet 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Good impression; trimmed inside platemark; on white laid paper in excellent condition
Innovative portrait by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), with the sitter extending his left arm and casting shadow outside of the oval border. 'The English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '122' added lower right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced (in which she listed this print as 'Cornelius Silvus').
State i/ii; W122; D1.
[Ref: 32922] £320.00

[Cornelius Silvus.]
T Worlidge /Fecit 1757.
Etching, sheet 120 x 105mm (4½ x 4"). Good impression; trimmed inside platemark; slight staining; 'H Grotius' in pencil lower left.
Innovative portrait by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), with the sitter extending his left arm and casting shadow outside of the oval border. 'The English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '122' added lower right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced (in which she listed this print as 'Cornelius Silvus').
State i/ii; W122; D1.
[Ref: 32921] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cornelius Silvus.]
T Worlidge /Fecit 1757.
Etching, platemark 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Good impression; large margins. '122' in ms in margins to correspond with Mary Worlidge's catalogue number.
Innovative portrait by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), with the sitter extending his left arm and casting shadow outside of the oval border. 'The English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '122' added lower right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced (in which she listed this print as 'Cornelius Silvus').
State i/ii; W122; D1.
[Ref: 32923] £350.00

[Cornelius Silvus.]
T Worlidge /Fecit 1757.
Etching, platemark 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Large margins; on white laid paper with 1808 watermark.
Innovative portrait by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), with the sitter extending his left arm and casting shadow outside of the oval border. 'The English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression (c.1808) after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '122' added lower right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced (in which she listed this print as 'Cornelius Silvus').
State ii/ii; W122; D1.
[Ref: 32924] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Entrance Front of Selwood Park in the County of Berks, the Seat of James Sibbald Esqr. [French translation below.]
Robt. Mitchell Archt.
[London] Publish'd Jany, 1, 1801.
Etching and aquatint in sepia, 295 x 485mm. 11½ x 19". A few faint spots of foxing. Full margins.
View of the façade of a residence in the Palladian style, with two figures walking on a path at right leading towards the columned portico. Numbered 'Plate 1' upper left. From architect Robert Mitchell's (1782 - 1809; fl.) folio 'Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions of buildings erected in England and Scotland; and ... an essay to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic Architecture.' Mitchell designed Silwood Park, near Staines, Berkshire. In about 1788, Sir James Sibbald built a Georgian mansion on part of the present house and demolished the old "Eastmore"; he called it Selwood or Silwood Park. The name stems from the Old English for Sallow, which presumably grew then along the banks of the streams that flow through the Park. The house was, in its turn, demolished, and the present mansion was completed in 1878. During WWII it became a convalescent home for airmen; then in 1947 Imperial College purchased the house for entomological research and field studies.
See BL 56.i.12.
[Ref: 23502] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Staircase and Music Gallery, in the House of Selwood Park. [French translation to right.]
Robt. Mitchell Archt.
[London] Publish'd March 25, 1801.
Etching and aquatint in sepia, watermarked wove paper, 320 x 325mm. 12½ x 12¾". A fine impression, with full margins.
Interior view of an ornate gallery, a round glass sky-light above a space in which statues stand in niches, columns to either side; banister with lyre shaped railings. Numbered 'Plate 4' upper left. From architect Robert Mitchell's (1782 - 1809; fl.) folio 'Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions of buildings erected in England and Scotland; and ... an essay to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic Architecture.' Mitchell designed Silwood Park, near Staines, Berkshire. In about 1788, Sir James Sibbald built a Georgian mansion on part of the present house and demolished the old "Eastmore"; he called it Selwood or Silwood Park. The name stems from the Old English for Sallow, which presumably grew then along the banks of the streams that flow through the Park. The house was, in its turn, demolished, and the present mansion was completed in 1878. During WWII it became a convalescent home for airmen; then in 1947 Imperial College purchased the house for entomological research and field studies.
See BL 56.i.12.
[Ref: 23495] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Valley of Simaus.] Vol.2.Pl:11.
Geisler del.t Medland Sculp.
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 197 x 349mm (3¾ x 13¾"), large margins. Folds as normal, slight offsetting; ink stamp of Stamford Library obscured in image.
Plate 11: a view of the Valley of Simaus, on the southern coast; abounding with olive trees, and being surrounded with elevated rocky mountains. To the left is the Black Sea. From Volume 2 of ''Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794''.
[Ref: 31052] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Late Rev.d C. Simeon M.A. Cambridge. Died Nov. 13th 1836, in the 78th Year of his Age & his 54th Year of his Faithful Ministry.
Published by R. Dimmock, King's Parade Cambridge.
Aquatint with very large margins, rare. 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Tear just entering plate on left.
Charles Simeon (1759-1836), evangelical churchman, one of the founders of the 'Church Missionary Society' in 1799 and the 'London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews' in 1809. In 1783 he took the ministry of of Holy Trinity Church: at first he was so unpopular that his services were frequently interrupted, but he overcame public prejudice, gaining a remarkable and lasting influence among the undergraduates of the university.
[Ref: 35261] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Similitude or The Juvinile Botanists.
Taylor, Holborn, excudit. [n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple. Plate 178 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
A young boy and girl in the garden near the cottage; the boy on his knee picking the roses with a girl standing holding a basket to the side. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22615] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Iosias Simlerus. Heluctius Theologus. Nasc. Capellis in Heluctius anno. Ob. Tigury. An. 1576. 2, Julij. Astronimus, bonus Historicus, verbig minister, Trinam animam trino consecro rito: Deo. R.
Engraving. 140 x 109mm. 5½ x 4¼". Cut and stuck on paper.
Josias Simmler (1530-1576) was a Swiss theologian and classicist, author of the first book relating solely to the Alps. In his treatise 'De Alpibus commentarius', he collected all that the classical authors had written on the Alps, adding a good deal of material collected from his friends and correspondents. It was the first work exclusively devoted to the Alps. Another fragment of his vast plan to make his native land better known, was the work entitled 'De Helvetiorum republica', which appeared in Zurich in 1576, just before his death. It was regarded as the chief authority on Swiss constitutional matters up to 1798.
[Ref: 23969] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Thos: Simmons.
Published Novr. 6 1807 by T. Medland Hertford.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Lacking some margin.
Caricature portrait of prisoner Thomas Simmons who was executed at Hertford jail on 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder at a Quaker family home at Hoddesdon.
[Ref: 26891] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Simmons. The horrid and inhuman Murderer of Mr. Hummerston and Mrs. Warner at the house of is Mr Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon ins Hertfordshire on Tuesday Evening. October th.20 1807. From a Correct likeness Drawn from the Life by Mr. Angelo.
Etched and Pub.d by T. Rowlandson Nov.r 9. 1807 N.1 Tames St. Adelphi.
Coloured etching. 250 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom. Some foxing.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Simmons, who murdered two people in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. A former servant at the house of the Boreham family, Simmons was sacked for brutish behaviour. He returned one evening to confront another servant who had been his girlfriend. Pushing his way into the house, he stabbed a guest, Sarah Hummerstone, in the jugular, then one of Boreham's daughters in the neck and breast. He was then disarmed, the alarm raised and he was found in a cow-crib. He was beaten, bound and taken to the Black Bull Inn, where he nearly died from the tightness of the ligatures, before being transferred to Hertford jail to await trial. There he was sketched by Henry Angelo (1756-1835), the fencing master friend of Rowlandson. Found guilty, Simmons was hanged on the 7th March 1808, After Henry Angelo.
[Ref: 61879] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Tho.s Simmons. Murderer of Mrs Warner and Mrs Hummerstone, at Hoddeston in Hertfordshire.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Aquatint with etching. Sheet 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, bit dusty.
Portrait of prisoner Thomas Simmons who was executed at Hertford jail on 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder of a Quaker family home at Hoddesdon.
[Ref: 62105] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Simon's Town.
T. W. Bowler, del.t._W. L. Walton, lith./ M&N Hanhart, lith. Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1864].
Tinted lithograph with very large margins. Sheet: 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾").
A view of Simon's Town, South Africa which is situated on the Cape Peninsular. Several boats come into harbour while several figures can be seen, sitting and standing in converstaion. In the background Red Hill appears above the clouds. From Thomas William Bowler's 'Kaffir Wars and British Settlers in South Africa'.
[Ref: 34489] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham Simon] Abrahamus Symonds.
P Lely Pinxit A Blooteling fecit.
[c.1680].
Mezzotint. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Narrow margins.
Abraham Simon (c.1617-c.1692), medallist. By 1645 Simon was making medals and wax models of leading parliamentarians and others, and spent time in Sweden and elsewhere in continental Europe in the 1650s. He returned to England after the Restoration and briefly found favour at court, modelling the portrait of Charles II for 100 broad-pieces, although his temperament saw him fall from favour. Due to his unusual appearance Simon was in demand as a model: Godfrey Kneller painted Simon three times (once as a hermit).
CS. R. ii of vi. Wesseley 44. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64782] £320.00

[Abraham Simon] Abrahamus Symonds.
P Lely Pinxit A Blooteling fecit.
J Smith excd [c.1680].
Mezzotint, sheet 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Abraham Simon (bap.1617-d.c.1692), medallist, brother of Thomas Simon who executed the great seal of the Commonwealth. By 1645 Simon was making medals and wax models of leading parliamentarians and others, and spent time in Sweden and elsewhere in continental Europe in the 1650s. He returned to England after the Restoration and briefly found favour at court, modelling the portrait of Charles II for 100 broad-pieces, although his temperament saw him fall from favour. Due to his unusual appearance Simon was in demand as a model: apart from this portrait after Lely, Godfrey Kneller painted Simon three times (once as a hermit).
O'D 1; for an engraving based on a medal by Simon see ref. 24244.
[Ref: 40237] £360.00

[Abraham Simon] Abrahamus Symonds.
P Lely Pinxit A Blooteling fecit.
J Smith excd [c.1680].
Mezzotint. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
Abraham Simon (c.1617-c.1692), medallist. By 1645 Simon was making medals and wax models of leading parliamentarians and others, and spent time in Sweden and elsewhere in continental Europe in the 1650s. He returned to England after the Restoration and briefly found favour at court, modelling the portrait of Charles II for 100 broad-pieces, although his temperament saw him fall from favour. Due to his unusual appearance Simon was in demand as a model: Godfrey Kneller painted Simon three times (once as a hermit).
CS. R. iii of iv. Wesseley 44. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64781] £320.00

[Abraham Simon] Abrahamus Symonds.
P Lely Pinxit A Blooteling fecit.
J Smith excd [c.1680].
Mezzotint. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate, old ink mss. in title area. Crease in title area.
Abraham Simon (c.1617-c.1692), medallist. By 1645 Simon was making medals and wax models of leading parliamentarians and others, and spent time in Sweden and elsewhere in continental Europe in the 1650s. He returned to England after the Restoration and briefly found favour at court, modelling the portrait of Charles II for 100 broad-pieces, although his temperament saw him fall from favour. Due to his unusual appearance Simon was in demand as a model: Godfrey Kneller painted Simon three times (once as a hermit).
CLB iv of iv; Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS-R Wesseley 44
[Ref: 64780] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Simonsberg Drakensteyn [lower left]
EIR [lower left]
[c.1850]
Watercolour, sheet 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼").
Simonsberg, part of the Cape Fold Belt in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
[Ref: 44800] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Les Simples Souvenirs Ou L'Echange Modeste, Le Docteur dit au paria….et le fourneau de terre cuite.
Challiou del. Mariage sculp.
a Paris chez Bance... [illegible] Md. D'Estampes, rue St. Denis, No.214.
Fine stipple engraving, printed in colours. 570 x 412mm (22¾ x 16¼") Repaired tears and occasional restored holes in paper, largely in margins with one patch repair lower right of title area.
The French inscription tells of the European Doctors attempt to give a gift to the poor native who refuses as he explains to the foreigner a belief that poverty protects the poor from envy. If the individual has no valuables then there is nothing for any criminal to steal. They exchange pipes as an alternative.
[Ref: 1193] £650.00

[Valentine.] Thou simple Youth a caution take, [/] Ere you your love declare, [/] A fruitless match I know you'd make, [/] And a most unhappy pair.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured wood engraving with embossed border. Sheet: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
A Victorian valentine card showing a young woman and young man standing next to each other, below them are words of caution.
[Ref: 43807] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

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