Grosvenor Prints

Britannia's Glory. A View of the British Grand Fleet prpearing to sail on a Cruise.
Published Feb.y 16, 1795 by J. Marshall, Nº 4 Aldermary Church Yard London.
Rare etching. 370 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Paper toned, unexamined out of frame. Slight creasing.
A rare popular print of the a Royal Navy fleet setting sail during the French Revolutionary Wars. The ships, identified by names on their sterns, are those that fought in the 'Glorious First of June' the previous year, including Royal Sovereign, Royal George, Queen Charlotte, Culloden, Russell, Alfred, Bruswick & Marlborough.
[Ref: 61192] £690.00

[S.S. Britannic.] White Star Lines.
Printers, Sir Joseph Cuaton & Sons, London. Entered at Stationers Hall.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Chromolithograph on card, printed on both sides. Sheet 100 x 160mm (4 x 6¼"). Glue stain on front, remains of album sheet on reverse.
An advertisment for the White Star Line, showing S.S. Britannic (1874-1903) steaming from Liverpool harbour for New York. The details of the route are printed on the reverse, including ''Steerage Fare only £3 to New York, Boston or Philadelphia''.
[Ref: 56337] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Monthly Extracts from the Correspondence of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
No.23. June 30, 1819. Tilling and Hughes, Printers, Chelsea.
Letterpress leaflet, 4to (275 x 225mm, 10¾ x 9"), 4pp., single sheet folded; apparently from a larger volume, pages numbered 14 - 16. Horizontal centre fold.
The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply as the Bible society, is a non-denominational Christian charity that exists to make the Bible available throughout the world. The Society was formed on 4 March 1804. Here are printed in two columns extracts of reports and correspondence from sympathizers and affiliated organisations from around the world. These include a transcript of a letter from Bermuda informing the 'Parent Society' of the formation of a 'Bible Society of the Bermuda Islands' and requesting bibles for distribution among the island's inhabitants.
[Ref: 16971] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820.
David Alexander.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Distributed by Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 2021.
Small 4to, hard covers and illustrated s/w; pp. xii+ 1047.
The first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714-1820. Shortlisted for the 2022 William Berger Prize for British Art History.
[Ref: 59954] £75.00

Évacuation de la Hollande par Les Anglo-Russes, et Capitulation de Duc D’Yorck, le 10 Brumaire An 8. No. 143.
Duplessi-Bertaux inv. aqua forti. Dupréel sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching with 4 pages of text. Plate 254 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Some foxing and creasing.
A scene from the end of the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland (27th August - 19th November 1799), showing the English and Russian evacuating Holland after the Convention of Alkmaar, signed 18th October. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
RMG: PAD5627. NAM: 1995-02-9.
[Ref: 28292] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The British Army. ]
M.Angelo Hayes del. E.Walker, lith.
London; Published Jan.y 1.st 1846, by Henry Graves & Co., 6, Pall Mall. And A, Le Sage, Sackville S.t. Dublin.
A very scarce complete set of 15 coloured lithographs, numbered, of the major regiments at this time. Each c. 460 x 350mm. Some age-toning on paper, plate 2 with tear reinforced.
1. The Cavalry of the Guard. 2. The Dragoon Guards (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th). 3. The Dragoons (1st, 2nd, 6th). 4. The Light Dragoons (3rd, 4th, 13th, 14th). 5. The Hussars (7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 15th). 6. The Lancers (9th, 12th, 16th, 17th). 7. The Horse Artillery. 8. The Foot Artillery, Engineers, Sappers & Miners. 9. The Infantry of the Guard. 10. The Fusiliers (5th, 7th, 21st, 23rd, 87th). 11. The Light Infantry (13th, 43rd, 51st, 52nd, 68th, 85th, 90th). 12. The Highlanders (42nd, 71st, 72nd, 74th. 78th, 79th, 92nd, 93rd). 13. The Rifles (60th, Rifle Bgde, Cape Mounted Rifles, Ceylon Rifle Regt.). 14. The Line (8th, 22nd, 24th, 36th, 44th, 46th, 58th, 88th, 97th, 1st West India). 15. The Staff (Field Marshal, General, Lt. General, A.D.C. to The Queen, A.D.C., Q.M.G., Adj. Gen., etc., Fort Adj., Town Major).
Ogilby Trust: 396.
[Ref: 3108] £3,000.00 view all images for this item

The British Army. Dedicated by permission to The General Commanding-in-Chief, His Royal Highness, The Duke of Cambridge K.G.K.P.G.C.B., &c. By his obliged and most privileged servant, Rudolph Ackermann.
Drawn by Orlando Norie. Engraved by J. Harris.
London. Published Feb.y 1. 1863, by Rudolph Ackermann, 101 Regent Street.
Coloured aquatint, 480 x 745mm. 19 x 29¼".
A large aquatint depicting soldiers of many units of the British army, each identified below the image.
[Ref: 11292] £480.00

The British Army. Dedicated by permission to The General Commanding in Chief His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, K.G. K.P. G.C.B. &c. By his obliged and most obedient Servant, Arthur Ackermann. [Names of the various regiments underneath the respective uniformed soldiers.]
Drawn by Orlando Norie. Engraved by E.G. Hester.
London: Published Feb.y 7.th 1879, by Arthur Ackermann, 191, Regent Street.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 541 x 840mm. 21¼ x 33". Minor paper discolouration.
Groupings of various British Army regiments, including 1st Life Guards, Royal Horse Artillery, 79th Highlanders, 1st Royal Dragoons, 7th Hussars, Queen's Aide de Camp, Grenadier Guards, 37th North Hampshire, Scots Guards, and many others.
Ogilby 16: 3 (Ackermann's Large Groups 1859-1902).
[Ref: 22920] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Chart of British Artists 1560-1860. With Short Lives of the Principal Artists.
By H.S. Ede.
Faber & Faber Limited. 24 Russell Square. London [1934.]
8vo, disbound folded chart with soft covers. Scarce. Slightly stained binding.
A folding chart showing the ages of British artists between 1560 and 1860, with short biographies of the principal artists on the back.
[Ref: 59793] £25.00

The British Bull Baited by Mungrels. [Plate 3.]
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed into plate and around title, losing plate number, repairs to old folds, backed with archival paper. Damaged.
The bull, wearing a collar marked 'Liberty' attacked by dogs. A satire of the Massacre of St George's Fields, 1768, when troops read the Riot Act and opened fire, killing half-a-dozen people, including William Allen, who was shot after he had been chased to a nearby inn. His name appears on the obelisk.
BM Satires 4328, their example dated 1769 in ink.
[Ref: 55379] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

High Land on the British Coast.
Pillement delin. Smith Sculp.t.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street.
Engraving. 190 x 285mm, 7½ x 11¼". Creased, mounted on album paper.
A pair of figures on a rough path.
[Ref: 11605] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Table of English Silver Coins. No. 1 [&] A Table of English Gold Coins. No. 2.
Sumptibus Societatis Antiquariæ Lond. [n.d., c.1760.]
Pair of engravings. Each 270 x 450mm, 10½ x 17¾".
A pair of engraved tables listing the types of coins issued by English monarchs, silver ones from 1066, gold since Edward III in 1344, both within a decorative frame-like border.
[Ref: 26856] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Callicum and Maquilla. Chiefs of Nootka Sound.
T.Stothard del. R.Pollard, sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare aquatint. Sheet 270 x 205mm. Trimmed within plate.
From John Meares's 'Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the Northwest Coast of America'. Meares, a fur trader, caused an international incident by upsetting the Spanish who had already established a base at Nootka Sound, leading to George Vancouver's important expedition to the area.
[Ref: 11082] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Come Over Here!]
Lilian Cheviot.
Copyright, Published April 17, 1915, by Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd, 157a New Bond St, London W.
Photogravure, artist's proof, signed in pencil, printed in colour. 450 x 520mm (17¾ x 20½") with very large margins. Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp. Worm holes filled.
A bulldog, an Irish Terrier & a Scottish Terrier guard the south coast of England. First World War interest. Lilian Cheviot (fl. 1894 - 1920), who lived in South Molesey in Surrey, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895 and 1899. She is best known for her painting 'On the way to the Horse Fair'.
[Ref: 52137] £480.00

'All the Majesty of the British Empire'. Price One Penny.
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
[n.d., c.1832.]
Etching. Sheet: 195 x 285mm (7¾ x 11¼''). Trimmed, stained, creased and laid on album sheet at corners.
A satirical print from 'The Caricaturist' series showing William IV sitting on a throne and Queen Adelaide in a large feathered hat. By Charles Jameson Grant (fl. 1830-1852).
BM Satire 17346.
[Ref: 50260] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of the King of Great Britain's Dominions in Europe, Africa, and America.
G. Bickham Fecit.
[n.d., 1748.]
Engraving. 280 x 315mm (11 x 12½"). Binding folds, worm holes in bottom margin.
A map centred on the Atlantic Ocean, showing from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, marking British possessions including Gibraltar, Minorca, the Gold Coast of Guinea and the colonies in North America and West Indies. From George Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain'.
[Ref: 45602] £280.00 view all images for this item

[British Empire Exhibition] Wembley 1925.
[1925.]
Scarce wood-engraving on linen, printed in cerise with touches of blue and yellow. 655 x 710mm (25¾ x 28"). Some faint staining, mounted on board, '1925' faded?
A souvenir from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-5, celebrating the Commonwealth. A central image of a Mughal palace is surrounded by roundels containing portraits of the Royal Family (George V & Queen Mary; Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII; and the Duke & Duchess of York, later George VIII & Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) and views representing Australia, Canada, West Africa, India, South Africa & Hong King.
[Ref: 63924] £480.00

A British Female bordering upon the Picts.
[A. van Buysen.]
[n.d. c.1753.]
Engraving. 319 x 221mm (12½ x 8¾"). Cut. Laid upon album sheet.
A British female warrior with spear and sword bordering upon the Picts, a group of Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland.
[Ref: 28981] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

British Fire Engines. First Alarm. A struggle for the Start. [/] Near Approach. Take care, take care, we ar very near it now. [/] The Fire. See that no Lives are lost. [/] The Ruins. The Fire is out & now for Home.
H. Alken Del.t. B. Hughes. Sculp.t.
Lewis & Co. 79, Leadenhall St. London. [n.d., c.1860].
Very rare aquatint. Overall sheet size: 300 x 370mm (11¾ x 14½"). False margin at bottom edge. Creases. Repaired tear to top edge.
Four scenes on one sheet illustrating the stages of a fire; from the first alarm, in the top left, with a horse drawn fire engine from the 'Sun Fire Office 1820' racing along a street watched by onlookers; to the approach to the fire in the top right, where a fire engine inscribed 'Atlas Office' halts as it reaches the scene; then in the bottom left is the fire itself, as two fire engines, one named 'Westminster', pump water into a burning building, smoke billowing from the windows, with the sign above the door to the right reading, 'Fire Proof Linnen'; finally in the bottom right is a view of the ruins of the building, with the firefighters packing up two engines inscribed 'London', and 'County Fire Office 1800'. A very rare print after English painter and engraver Henry Alken (1785 - 1851), chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.
[Ref: 33565] £650.00

England and Wales with the Channel Islands and parts of Scotland Ireland and France.
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Folded as issued, time staining along taped fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A geological map of Britain with the land colour coded by rock type.
[Ref: 56924] £30.00

[History of Great Britain.]
Published by E.C. Edlin, 37 New Bond Street. [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured engraving, with small margins, paper watermarked: J Whatman 1830. Plate 275 x 410mm (10¾ x 16¼").
Popular print depicting 24 key historical scenes from early English history, from 'The Landing of Caesar' to 'The Body of Richard 3 thrown across a horse after the Battle of Bosworth', A.D. 1485.
[Ref: 29984] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

British Institution (Pall Mall) Plate 13.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculpt. J. Bluck aquat.
London. Pub 1.st April 1808. at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101. Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 235 x 275mm (9¼ x 10¾"), with very large margins.
View inside the institution; paintings hang from walls, artists set up around sides with canvases supported by easels copying the displayed work; a table in centre of room with paints and brushes; an arch leads on to the next room with a similar set up. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62697] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Catalogue of the Works of British Artists in the Gallery of the British Institution, Pall Mall, for Exhibition and Sale. 1836.
[London: The British Institution, 1836.]
4to, disbound; pp. (18) (numbered 7-20+(6)).
A list of 503 pictures and sculptures, with works by David Roberts (from his Spanish tour), Edwin Landseer, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner and William Beechey.
Ink ownership inscription of Richard James.
[Ref: 40885] £120.00

Anglie, Scotiae et Hiberniae Sive Britannicarum Insularum.
David Custodis Sculpsit.
[Frankfurt, 1627.]
Engraved map. 270 x 315mm (10¾ x 12½"). Repaired tear in bottom printed border.
Unusual map of the British Isles orientated east to west, based on the 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius but with details.
[Ref: 59230] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Les Isles Britanniques Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Mess.rs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, etc. Augmentées de Nouveau. [&] l'Europe [...]
A Amsterdam Chez Covens & Mortier [n.d., c.1730].
Two engraved maps. Both 235 x 305mm (9¼ x 12"). Pasted back to back. Tape over edge of Europe.
Two maps originally published in Pieter van der Aa's 'Atlas Curieux'.
[Ref: 57340] £260.00 view all images for this item

A Chart of the Sea Coast of Great Britain and Ireland.
By H. Moll Geographer.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraved map. 320 x 285mm (12½ x 11¼"). Narrow margin on left. Original binding folds.
A sea chart of the British Isles, from Josiah Burchett's 'A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Account... to the Conclusion of the Last War with France''.
[Ref: 61703] £380.00

British Mezzotinto Portraits; being a Descriptive Catalogue of these Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century. Arranged according to the Engravers; the Inscriptions given at Full Length; and the Variations of State precisely set forth; Accompanied by Biographical notes, And Appendix of a Selection of the Prices produced at Public Sales by some of the Specimens, down to the present time. (i) Part the First. Engravers: Adams to Faber. (ii) Part the Second. Engravers: Faithorne to Miller. (iii) Part the Third. Engravers: Moore to Vispre. (iv) Part the Fourth. Division I. Walker to Young. (v) Part the Fourth. Divison II. Additions, Corrections, Indexes.
by John Chaloner Smith, B.A.m M.R.I.A., M. Inst. C.E.
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 36 Piccadilly; And J. Noseda, 199 Strand. (i) 1878. (ii) 1879. (iii) 1880. (iv) 1882. (v) 1883.
Book [five vols]: 4to (259 x 178mm). Original cloth binding with title label on spine. (i) Spine title upside-down. (i - v) Some slight wearing, time staining and rubbing to the binding. Some sporadic spotting. (iv) Hole in the spine.
The Catalogue Raisonné of pre-1800 British Mezzotint Portraits, arranged in alphabetical order by artist.
[Ref: 10128] £580.00

Index to British Military Costume Prints 1500-1914.
Compiled and published by the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Nothumberland House, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2 in conjunction with the Robert Ogilgy Trust 1972.
Book: 4to (248 x 184mm), pp. x + 488; colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Bonhams ink stamps on front endpaper.
An enormous listing with illustrations of military costume prints.
[Ref: 45208] £95.00

Index to British Military Costume Prints 1500-1914.
Compiled and published by the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Nothumberland House, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2 in conjunction with the Robert Ogilgy Trust 1972.
Book: 4to (248 x 184mm), pp. x + 488; colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Dust jacket torn, inserted in volume.
An enormous listing with illustrations of military costume prints.
[Ref: 10120] £95.00

Prints of British Military Operations. A Catalogue Raisonné with Historical Descriptions covering the period from the Norman Conquest to the Campaign in Abyssinia.
by Lt.-Col. C. de W. Crookshank. Hon. Corps of Gentleman-at-Arms. Late Royal Engineers.
London Adlard & Son & West Newman, Ltd. 23, Bartholomew Close. 1921.
Book: 4to (322 x 258mm). pp. vii-xvi + 108. 14 illustrations in colour and black & white, with some fold-out pages. Cloth binding with board, title label on spine and front cover. Blindstamp: Nottingham Public Libraries. Binding a little scuffed and torn.
A comprehensive listing of British Military Operation prints. A must for all military collectors.
[Ref: 10124] £130.00

Die Königl. Grossbrittanische Armé Revue. 1te Abth. [The Review of the British Military by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert].
B. Hilscher after Georg Emmanuel Opitz.
Par son tiés humble serviteur Louis de Kleist in Dresde 1841.
Aquatint and etching. Platemark: 568 x 722mm. (22¼ x 28¼"). Original hand colour. A single speck of dirt appears above the Thames, but below the clouds.
Opitz’ work depicts the Queen and her consort as they review the British military. In the background, a panorama of London can be seen. The towers of Greenwich appear in the middle distance. Beyond the Thames, the cupola of St. Paul’s Cathedral looms over the central district of the city. Georg Emmanuel Opitz (1775 - 1841) was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was born in Prague, but received his initial training from Giovanni Battista Casanova in Dresden. He relocated to in Vienna in 1801, and became a specialist in amusing scenes of everyday life, particularly Parisian. He was somewhat nomadic, and moved to the French capital in 1814. After this, further trips to Heidelberg and Attenberg followed, before he settled in Liepzig in 1820. An extremely fine & scarce image.
[Ref: 30008] £2,000.00

[The British Monarchy.] Introduction.
[Engraved by George Bickham.]
[n.d., 1753.]
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 155mm (10¼ x 6"), with good margins. Slight foxing.
A sheet of stylish engraved italic text explaining the maps in Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain', with a chapter heading vignette of cherubs with surveying instruments including a theodolite.
[Ref: 45304] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Hall and Stair Case, British Museum.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. J. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub April 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 285 x 240mm (11¼ x 9¾").
An interior view of the Great Staircase in the British Museum, London. Montagu House was the first home of the British Museum. When it was built in 1686, the French style of decoration was fashionable. The walls of the Great Staircase and the ceiling above it were painted mainly by Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716). The painting on the ceiling illustrated a story from Greek mythology - Phaeton asking for permission to drive the chariot of the sun-god, Apollo. The Great Staircase led from the Entrance Hall (which was near the site of the present-day colonnade) to a landing on the first floor. From there visitors walked through the upper rooms, where they could see some of the Museum's collections of manuscripts, medals, antiquities and natural history specimens. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34076] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The South Front of The British Museum.
Drawn by F. Mackenzie. Engraved by H. Adlard.
[n.d., c.1865.]
Steel engraving on india. 255 x 440mm (10 x 17¼"), with very large margins.
A view of the south front of the British Museum, Bloomsbury, facing Great Russell Street. Above the image is the crest of the Stationers' Company. The view was originally published as the Stationers' Almanack 1852, but this example appears to be from a later compilation. In January 1759, doors opened for first time & the British Museum was opened as a public attraction
[Ref: 43282] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The British Museum.
P. Hosmer Shepherd pinx. Imp Lemercier Paris. J.Arnout lith.
London, Published 1th August 1854, by E. Gambart & C.o. 25 Berners S.t. Oxford S.t.
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet: 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼").
View of the British Museum in Bloomsbury. The museum was founded in 1753 though was housed in Montague House which stood where the current building is located.
[Ref: 35179] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The British Museum.
Lithographed & Published by Dickinson Brothers, New Bond Street. [n.d., 1851.]
Coloured tinted lithograph, sheet 300 x 395mm. 11¾ x 15½".
A view of Smirke's Greek Revival facade for the British Museum from Great Russell Street, before the completion of the pediment above the main entrance, which now features fifteen allegorical figures by Sir Richard Westmacott depicting the Progress of Civilisation.
[Ref: 61952] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Hall and Stair Case, British Museum.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. J. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub April 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins, 1807 J. Whatman watermark. Platemark: 285 x 240mm (11¼ x 9¾").
An interior view of the Great Staircase in the British Museum, London. Montagu House was the first home of the British Museum. When it was built in 1686, the French style of decoration was fashionable. The walls of the Great Staircase and the ceiling above it were painted mainly by Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716). The painting on the ceiling illustrated a story from Greek mythology - Phaeton asking for permission to drive the chariot of the sun-god, Apollo. The Great Staircase led from the Entrance Hall (which was near the site of the present-day colonnade) to a landing on the first floor. From there visitors walked through the upper rooms, where they could see some of the Museum's collections of manuscripts, medals, antiquities and natural history specimens. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61997] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Design for the Northern Approach to the British Museum.
Chas FitzRoy Doll RBA Arch.t.
[n.d., c.1911.]
Pen & ink, pencil & watercolour. Sheet 440 x 680mm (17¼ x 26¾"). Laid on card, chips to edges.
A very impressive architect's visualisation of his plan for the development of Bloomsbury between Torrington Square and the British Museum, with terraces designed in ''Flemish Franco-Gothic'' style in 1907. Chas FitzRoy Doll (1850-1929) was appointed Surveyor to the Bedford Estates in Bloomsbury and Covent Garden in 1885. He built the Russell Hotel and the Imperial Hotel, both Russell Square in 1898 & 1905.
[Ref: 63935] £750.00

A Section of the Quadrangle design'd for the British Musæum, or Public Repository. including the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Corn.s Johnston Inv.t.
[London: Cornelius Johnston, 1754.]
Scarce engraving. 380 x 760mm (15 x 30¾"), with large margins. Crease in centre as normal. Repaired tears.
An architectural orthogonal elevation of the interior facade of the proposed building, facing into the courtyard, with cut-away views through the two side wings. Johnston, of whom nothing in known, published this print in an attempt to win the contract for the construction of a new national museum. Instead the commissioners decide to convert Montague House. It was published as a pair to 'A Design for the British Musæum, or, Public Repository and Cottonian Library, being on Front of a Quadrangle, in which may be included, the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, with proper Receptacles for such future Libraries, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, as may be hereafter left'. In January 1759 the Museum opened to the public at Montague House, London.
[Ref: 61429] £580.00

[Senior officers of the British Army at a camp.]
LGFawkes September 1873.
Maclure & Macdonald, Lith.rs to the Queen, London. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Lithograph. Sheet 230 x 380mm (9 x 15"). Repaired tear, pencil identification, including Strickland, Gen. Stanley, Gen Woodhouse.
A group of Officers chatting and discussing tactics at a camp. Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849-1931) attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, becoming a colonel in the Royal Artillery and Professor of Military Topography at the Royal Military Academy from 1895 to 1900. He also served as a Justice of the Peace before retiring to Canada.
[Ref: 63132] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Photographic Group of the British Poets, complete from Chaucer to Beattie.
Published by J.B. de Voto. Glasgow [n.d., c.1875.]
Photograph laid on printed backing card. 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). With wood-engraved index sheet. Some slight oxidisation.
A photographically reproduced montage of 137 writers, including Byron and Scott.
[Ref: 63296] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

British Prints. Dictionary and Price Guide.
Ian Mackenzie. First published 1987.
Published for the Antique Collector's Club by the Antique Collector's Club Ltd. Printed in England by the Antique Collector's Club Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk.
4to, blue cloth gilt and illust. d/w; pp. 359, profusely illustrated, with 51 colour plates. Dust jacket slightly worn and with nicks.
In this book, Ian Mackenzie seeks to provide brief biographies of the British printmakers working from 1650 to 1950, as well as to detail their principal works and to give an idea of market values of specific works or general categories, he also manages to detail the difference between plates made for books and separate plates. The introduction discusses condition and rarity, subject matter, identification or prints, and the various processes used. An illustrated and comprehensive guide with 650 black and white illustrations and 51 colour illustrations.
[Ref: 59755] £60.00

The British Queen. As seen from Blackwall Wharf, on Wednesday 10.th July 1839, on her first Voyage to New York.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Zincograph, rare. Sheet 146 x 197mm. 5¾ x 7¾". Stained & creased.
Blackwall Wharf was an early departure point for early steamship services. The SS British Queen was commissioned in 1839 and named in honour of Queen Victoria. After completing nine round trip voyages she was laid up in 1841. She made her maiden voyage to New York on July 11, 1839 and stopped at Portsmouth before entering the Atlantic.
[Ref: 25161] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

British Royal Artillery. Field Battery Marching Order.
Drawn by Wm. Heath. Printed by Graf and Soret.
London, Published by Colnaghi & Co., No. 23, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross. Printsellers in Ordinary to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 277 x 407mm. 10¾ x 16".
From "Heath's Royal Artillery. c.1840. No. 1."
From the Collection of Major J.B. Talbot M.C. R.A. Ogilby:410.
[Ref: 12998] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Writing sheet.] Guardians of England's Honour. The British Seaman.
[dated 1873 in mss. text.]
Writing sheet, 4pp., with coloured wood-engraved vignette. Used with letter to "Dear Mother & Father etc ..", creased and worn.
The vignette shows a sailor standing at a deck gun.
[Ref: 52041] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hong-Kong & Other British Settlements in Asia
J. Bartholomew Edin.r [n.d., c.1870]
Chromolithograph, printed area 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾").
Small maps of British settlements Perim (Mayyun), in the strait of Mandeb and now belonging to Yemen; the Yemeni port city of Aden; Labuan Island (a Malaysian territory off the coast of Borneo); Hong Kong; the Malaysian states of Penang, Malacca and Nanning (now part of Negeri Sembilan).
[Ref: 37029] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Deaf & Dumb Alphabet]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 460 x 440mm (18 x 17¼"). Trimmed into image at top, losing title, trimmed close bottom left for binding, splits to folds, creases.
An early version of the British Sign Language, with llustrations of the signs for the 26 letters of the alphabet, 'good' & 'bad', with two illustrations of the technique in use. A few of the signs are different to the modern usage.
See Ref 58799
[Ref: 58797] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

British Soldiers Drowning Care.
[Published 20th Novr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle No. 53 Fleet Street London.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 255mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed at bottom, losing the text of a song and inscription.
Social satire; officers in a tent around a table drink red wine, or punch from a bowl, smoke pipes and sing; one has his arm in a sling, another waves his hat, in the background are mounted soldiers and the British flag, and on the floor is a cannon and shot.
[Ref: 3737] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring.
by Walter Shaw Sparrow.
This Edition Published 1965 by Spring Book, Drury House, Russell Street, London, W.C.2. Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.
Book: 4to (247 x 182mm).pp. v-xii + 249. Profusely illustrated with colour and b/w images. Cloth bound with title stamped along spine in gilt. Colour illustrated dusct jacket. Slight tear and scuffing to dust jacket.
An illustrated catologue of sporting prints by British artists.
[Ref: 10082] £45.00

The Story of British Sporting Prints. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
Captain Frank Siltzer.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1929.
4to, orginal cloth gilt, top edge gilt; pp. 413, with 8 coloured plates.
An account of the history of British sporting prints.
[Ref: 59951] £190.00 view all images for this item

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