Grosvenor Prints

Walter Burrell, Esq.re Member for Sussex during five Parliaments.
Painted by R. Reinagle, R.A. Engraved by J. Jenkins.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Steel engraving. Plate 356 x 279mm. 14 x 11".
Walter Burrell (1777-1831) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1812 to 1831. He was educated at Westminster School and during the 1812 general election he was elected at Member of Parliament for Sussex; he was re-elected three times, and held the seat until his death shortly before the 1831 general election.
[Ref: 22794] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[St Giles Beauty.]
J.H. Benwell Pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Pub.d 8. Sept. 1783 by E.M. Diemar Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia, fine proof before title. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10¾ x 8¾"), with very large margins.
A portrait of Elizabeth Burrough, the St Giles Beauty, shown in profile, wearing a bonnet with a satin sash.
De Vesme 1290.II of III. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46716] £360.00

[Album sheet with three watercolours of Death's Head Moths by Albin Roberts Burt.]
[1826-7.]
Abum sheet with three watercolours and two coloured etchings. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼").
Illustrations of the chrysalis, caterpillar and adult Death's Head Moth, with an ink mss. description signed by Albin Roberts Burt, dated 1826. On the same sheet is a table of sign-language etched by Burt and an illustration of a mosaic of the Roman villa at Bignor. Albin Roberts Burt (1783-1842), portrait-painter and engraver.
[Ref: 61402] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Burton Ale, A Song.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scrap, 150 x 110mm, 6 x 4¼", on page with two coloured etchings.
A song praising the joys of beer. At one time Burton-on-Trent produced a quarter of all British beer, made by such famous names as Worthington and Bass.
[Ref: 9991] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Burton Constable, East Front. The Seat of Sir Clifford Constable, Bart.
J. Storey, lith. Printed by W. Monkhouse.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Very rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 295 x 430mm (11½ x 17"). Repaired tear in top margin.
Burton Constable Hall, outside the village Skirlaugh in the East Riding of Yorkshire, an Elizabethan Grade 1 listed building, as is the Stable Block. The interiors were remodelled in the 1760s, when Robert Adam lost the commission to Timothy Lightoler. Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscaped the grounds between 1772-82.
[Ref: 40497] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

View of El Medinah, the Burial Place of the Prophet. Taken From the Harrah (Or Ridge) West of the Town.
R. Burton Del.t. Hanhart Lith.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Large margins. Foxing.
Plate 6 from the second volume of Richard Francis Burton's 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca', 1855-1856. In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access.
Abbey: 368.
[Ref: 37263] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The East Prospect of Burton upon Trent in the County of Stafford.
S. & N. Buck delin. et Sculp.t 1732.
Engraving. Plate: 305 x 800mm (12 x 31½"). Central fold as issued, old ink mss. plate number.
A detailed prospect of Burton upon Trent, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales'; an early printing, before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 46951] £390.00

[William Burton.] Vera Effigies Guilielmi Burton. L.L. Baccalaurei.
W.Hollar fec:
[n.d., c.1658.]
Engraving. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Burton (1609-57). Frontis to his work 'A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary' (London: 1658).
Pennington 1368 ii of ii.
[Ref: 67999] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ansicht v. Burtscheid u. Des Viaducts. Vue de Borcette et du Viaduct.
Stahlstich v.a. Heinrigs in Aachen.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving, very rare; 114 x 229mm. 4½ x 9". Damaged.
The railway and Viaduct at Burtscheid, Germany. The railroad which crossed to valley and took passengers to Cologne.
[Ref: 26593] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

View in the Island of Bouro taken from the Roadstead. No. XLII.
Piron del. W. Angus sc.
Harding ex. [n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving. 222 x 292mm. 8¾ x 11½".
A view of Cayeli, on the Island of Bouro, Indonesia; with a representation of the Sego Palm Tree. From "An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse...Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'.
[Ref: 20733] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de l'Ile de Bourou. prise de la Rade.
Piron del. Copia Sculp. Dien scripsit.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving. 310 x 450mm, 12¼ x 17¾".
A Dutch trading post near Java. In 1788 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse set sail from Botany Bay and was never seen again. Despite the upheaval of the French Revolution the National Assembly was moved to send an expedition in search of their lost hero, 1791-3, under Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Despite finding no trace of La Perouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists, especially in Australia. This account, compiled by the expedition's botanist, Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière, was published as 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', with natural history plates by Redouté and Audebert. The work even has its own abbreviation in botantical literature, 'Voy.Rech.Perouse'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18694] £450.00

Vue de Cayeli (Ile Bourou.)
de Sainson pinxt. St Aulaire Lith.
J. Tastu, Editeur. Lith. de Bichebois ainé. rue clery, 23. [Paris, 1833.]
Lithograph. Printed area 275 x 335mm, 11 x 13¼".
The Astrolabe at anchor off Buru, an island west of Ambon and Seram in the Maluku province of Indonesia. From 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829.
[Ref: 13492] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Door of the Kiosk]
Viscount Bury 1859 [in image]
London, Published December 1st 1861 by Day & Son, Lith to the Queen
Etching, platemark 300 x 215mm (11¾ x 8½").
Rare etching by William Coutts Keppel, seventh earl of Albemarle and Viscount Bury (1832-94), politician and amateur artist. Plate from 'Passages from 'Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club' (1862). Bury was in India as aide-de-camp to Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, commander-in-chief at Bombay (1852-3), an experience which may have contributed to this etching.
[Ref: 41169] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Old Eastgate Bridge, (Bury Saint Edmunds.)
From a Drawing, (by Permission) By the late Lady Blake. A. Friedel, lith. 252, Tottenham Court R.d London.
Published by T.C. Newby, Angel Hill. [n.d. c.1820.]
Tinted lithograph, rare. Sheet 285 x 381mm. 11¼ x 15". Creasing, repaired tear into upper edge.
A view of East Gate Bridge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Lithographed by Adam Friedel, whose output also includeda series of Greek Revolutionary portraits, and decorative prints from Dutch Golden Age paintings.
[Ref: 27654] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Bridge at Bury S.t Edmunds.
London, Published May 10, 1817, by J. Jeakes, N.º 39 Little Russell Street, Bloomsbury.
Rare aquatint, printed in brown. Sheet 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 63291] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Charlotte Bury]
Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. Engraved by C.Wilkin.
Published May 1799 by C.Wilkin, N.o 19 Eaton Str.t Pimlico.
Stipple, Proof before title. 250 x 190 (9¾ x 7½") very large margins.
A portrait of Lady Charlottle Bury (1775-1861) from the series 'Portraits of Ladies of Rank and Fashion' published between 1797-1803 by C. Wilkin. Lady Bury moved in the literary circles of the day and was rumoured to be an acquaintance of a young Walter Scott and William Blake. She published a number of her own poems and novels though is remembered chiefly for the 'Diary Illustrative of the Times of George VI', despite its contested authorship.
[Ref: 56905] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Richardus Busby S.T.P. Wellensis Ecclesiae Thesaurarius: Westmonasteriensis, Collegii Praebendarius; Scholae per anos 58 Archididascalus Notissimius Ob.5.Apr.Anno Aetat.suae 89. Christi 1695.
R. White Sculp. [H. Tilson.]
[Publish'd by John King. c.1696.]
Line engraving. Plate 368 x 262mm. 14½ x 10¼". Some creasing.
Richard Busby (1606-1695), an English Anglican priest, and Headmaster of Westminster School, London.
[Ref: 14463] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Brush-Turkey. Talegalla Lathami.
[after Joseph Wolfe.]
[n.d.1864.]
Coloured lithograph 585 x 440mm [sheet].
The Zoological Sketches were commissioned by the Zoological Society as a record of the rare species of birds and animals in the Society's Gardens.
[Ref: 6677] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

This Portrait of the R.t Honourable Charles Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, &c. &c &c., Is most respectfully inscribed to the Irish Bar, by the Publisher, Andrew Milliken.
Painted by W. Stephenson. Engraved by D.Lucas.
Dublin, Dec.r 30, 1841; Andrew Milliken, Bookseller to the Lord Lieutenant _ The Kings Inn Library, &c &c. London, F.G.Moon Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Threadneedle Street.
Rare mezzotint. 520 x 380mm (20½ x 15"). Narrow margins.
Charles Kendal Bushe (1767-1843), Irish lawyer and judge, known as 'silver-tongued Bushe'. Despite his opposition to the Act of Union in 1800 he was not averse to accepting high office from the British Crown: he was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland five years later, holding the office until 1822 when he became Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland. He retired in 1841, when this portrait was published. He also supported Catholic Emancipation yet prosecuted members of the Catholic Association for sedition.
[Ref: 36309] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Bushe [signature facsimile].
Painted by W. Stevenson. Engraved by D. Lucas.
Dublin, Decr. 30, 1841; Andrew Milliken, Bookseller to the Lord Lieutenant_ The Kings Inn Library, &c &c. London, F.G.Moon, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Threadneedle Street.
Mezzotint with stipple, before title, 510 x 375mm. 20 x 14¾".
Charles Kendal Bushe (1767 - 1843), judge, chief justice of the king's bench, Ireland. In 1796 Bushe entered the Irish parliament as member for Callan. He sat for that place till 1799, when he was returned for Donegal borough. He wrote as well as spoke against the union.
[Ref: 18341] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

John Bushe [facsimile signature.]
d'Orsay fecit 1st April 1847 [signed in plate].
London, Published, by J. Mitchell, Royal Library 33, Old Bond Street. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.
Lithograph on india paper, india 215 x 150mm. 8½ x 6". Bit soiled.
John Bushe (1794-1870) was an Irish business man and was a Fundholder, he lived the latter part of his life in The Albany, Piccadilly. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue supplement p.39, 5. See NPG D32464.
[Ref: 21811] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The South Prospect of Bushey Hall. P540 To y.e Right Worp.ll S.v Robert Marsham K.t & Baron.t
This Draught is humbly Presen.d by J. Drapentier.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold. Damaged, loss in the middle of the print.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. Bushey Hall was a historic house built in 1428 for Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury. It was also the home of Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet. From 1883 Bushey Hall hosted a hydrotheraputic institue in in its 250 acres of parkland. The manor was demolished in the nineteenth century.
[Ref: 56165] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Cage, the Young Cricketer].
L. Busiere [pencil signature].
Copyright 1st September 1929 by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd 182 Sloane Street London S.W.1. Printed in England. Copyright 1929 in the United States of America by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd 182 Sloane Street London S.W.1.
Colour-printed mezzotint. Image 365 x 535mm.
After the painting by Francis Cotes [1725? - 1770]. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left of plate.
[Ref: 1117] £580.00

Tregear's Flights of Humour No.42. Business. My Master is the Man for Business there's none of your coming twice fot erh Money No! No! he settles at once for he tells you you'll Never Get It!!!
London Pub.d by G.S. Tregear 123 Cheapside [n.d., c.1835].
Very fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 290 x 185mm (11½ x 7¼"). Laid on album paper. Trimmed.
A man in an apron, carrying a bottle basket, writing in a notebook. Published in a series of social satires by Gabriel Shire Tregear (1828 - 1840; fl.).
[Ref: 57695] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Business and Pleasure.
Woodward del. Rowlandson scul.
London Published by Thomas Tegg No 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured etching. 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill' watermark. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") large margins.
A cobbler and his neighbour chat: their idea of pleasure is to go to see five men being hung.
BM Satire 11133B.
[Ref: 50796] £320.00

Captain Hans Busk's Schooner yacht 'Lady Busk'. Built and fitted with auxiliary engines (80 I.H.P.) by Messrs. Henry Tipping of Portsmouth.
Hans Busk, Delt._T.G. Dutton, Lith.
Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith [n.d. c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 580 x 440mm, (22¾ x 17¼") very large margins. Some light foxing.
Hans Busk the younger (1815 - 1882) was one of the principal originators of the volunteer movement in England. He took an equal interest in the navy. Originally it was his intention to adopt a naval career, and, being forced to abandon it, he devoted much of his leisure to yachting. He mastered the principles of naval construction, and made designs for several yachts which were very successful. He was the first to advocate life-ship stations, and fitted out a model life-ship at his own expense. Busk's youngest sister, Rachel Harriette Busk, was an authoress of repute.
Parker: 2284. NMM: PAH8792.
[Ref: 39889] £1,250.00

Captain Hans Busk's Schooner yacht 'Lady Busk'. Built and fitted with auxiliary engines (80 I.H.P.) by Messrs. Henry Tipping of Portsmouth.
Hans Busk, Delt._T.G. Dutton, Lith.
Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith [n.d. c.1860].
Hand coloured lithograph. Printed area: 340 x 465mm (13¼ x 18¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A view of the yacht, 'Lady Busk', owned by Hans Busk and built by Henry Tipping of Portsmouth. Hans Busk the younger (1815 - 1882) was one of the originators of 'England's volunteer army'. Originally it was his intention to adopt a naval career and, being forced to abandon it, he devoted much of his leisure to yachting. He mastered the principles of naval construction, and made designs for several yachts which were very successful. He was the first to advocate life-ship stations, and fitted out a model life-ship at his own expense.
Parker: 2284.
[Ref: 33611] £850.00

Hans Busk, Originator of England's Volunteer Army. The Profits arising from the sale of this portrait will be contributed to the funds of an Association for the Mutual Benefit of Volunteers.
Drawn from life on stone by H.J.Fleuss, Member of the Artist's Volunteer Rifle Corps.
Vincent Brooks, Imp. [n.d., c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 385 x 240mm, with the page of letterpress. Very scarce.
Hans Busk the younger (1815-1882). While still an undergraduate Busk proposed to the government the advantage of forming rifle clubs for defence against invasion, and on receiving a discouraging reply from Lord Melbourne in 1837 started a model rifle club in the university, and published a popular pamphlet, The Rifle and how to Use it. In 1858 he joined and revived the Victoria Rifles, then the only volunteer corps in existence.
[Ref: 2498] £480.00

Marble size of Life - Townleian. Plate LXIV.
I. Brown del. W. Evans sc.
Published by T. Payne & J. White London, Jan. 1. 1819.
Stipple, printed in light brown. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9").
A marble bust apparently of a woman but identified in pencil as 'Didymean Apollo', an androgynous representation. From "Specimens of Antient Sculpture".
[Ref: 64374] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Albanian butcher feeding mutton to the cats of the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul] Dgi-Guerdgi Albanois qui porte au Bezestein des Foyes de Mouton pour nourrir les Chats.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving, mint; platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A cat image. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Ferriol. After Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, remembered for his his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
[Ref: 46960] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

43. [Butcher.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 10").
A butcher wearing the traditional red-striped shirt, with sleeve guards. Astride a horse, an adapted saddle holds a joint of meat. The print was published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 28720] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Butcher] Boucher. Metzer.
[after Jean-Frédéric Wentzel] Lith. C. Fasoli et Ohlman à Stras.sbg.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour heightened with gum arabic, rare with large margins. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
The interior of a butcher's shop. One man chops ribs, another butchers a hanging cow carcase and a third makes sausages.
[Ref: 36839] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Butcher, taken from ye sign of a butcher in ye Butcher Row.
[attributed to George Bickham the Younger]
Decem.r 19 1746.
Etching, 335 x 200mm (13¼ x 8"), with large margins. Old folds
Caricature depicting Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65) as a butcher, symbolised by an ox dressed in butcher’s garb with axe, cleaver, and meat-tray armour, his Garter Star partly visible. He stands before a block bearing a heart, while in the background a house burns, guarded by grenadiers, with bodies on the ground and others hanging from a gallows. The scene is framed with ornate imagery: satyr heads, flaming torches, an inverted thistle, and a snake encircling a cartouche inscribed with verses. Prince William Augustus was nicknamed, 'butcher Cumberland' for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.
BM Satires 2843. Not in Sharp.
[Ref: 67300] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

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Information for the Million. "Mr. Scrag, can you tell me how they kill the Pigs in China?" [/] "They dos'nt kill them at all Mum, they feeds 'em untill they burstis!" [/] "Gracious goodness!!!"
Pub by A.Park, 41 Leonard Street, Finsbury, London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8½").
A smiling, rotund butcher stands beside a shocked elderly woman, with a pig's head and other meat behind.
[Ref: 39041] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

London Market. No. 3. Poultry.
J.Pollard del.t. M.Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published May 10, 1822, by Edw,d Orme, Editor of Prints to the King, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, and T. & I. Elvey, 83 Fleet Street, & 30, Castle Street, Holborn, London.
Hand coloured aquatint. 280 x 340mm, 11 x 13½". A little colour fading with glue stains outside the plate mark and affecting the title area. Repaired tear upper left through margin into upper part of the engraved area.
A poultry shop, displaying turkeys, geese, ducks, and, oddly, pigs and rabbits. One of a rare set of four London markets.
[Ref: 16492] £380.00

The Curtain.
Signor Rhezio Invt. [George Townshend?]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 200 x 325mm (8 x 12¾"). Tear through title taped, bottom right corner torn off. Trimmed.
A Scottish bag-piper plays "Scotch Vagary for the German Flute or Bagpipe" while two gentleman note that he is "sure of preferment". When held up to the light the figures of Princess Augusta and Lord Bute appear, dancing. A satire on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, by George Townshend (1724-1807), 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend. An early transformation print.
BM Satires 3824.
[Ref: 63318] £390.00 view all images for this item

Sawney Discovered. or the Scotch Intruders 1760.
[by George Townshend.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 200 x 325mm (8 x 12¾"). Tear through title taped. Trimmed.
A line of Scots wait to be introduced to Princess Augusta to get sinecures, who is behind a screen decorated with thistles and the royal motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit", with the English ''translation', ''No One Touches Me But Gets the Itch''. The figures of Augusta, Bute and two others appear when held up to the light. A satire on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, by George Townshend (1724-1807), 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend. An early transformation print.
BM Satires 3825
[Ref: 63317] £390.00 view all images for this item

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Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Messrs. Longman & Co., Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Feb.y 1, 1817.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Watermarked 'J. Whatman 1816'. Large margins, uncut.
Mount Stuart House, on the east coast of Arran, viewed from the sea. The house shown here, designed by Alexander McGill in 1719, burned down in 1877. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36281] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Plate IX [hunters at rest]. 20. Chase of the Hartebeest.
H.B. = 3c.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾").
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a outline sketch of hunters resting under cover of reeds; below is a more detailed scene of riders chasing hartebeest, with hand colour. Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58119] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Game fleeing before the Hunters.
H.B. [Henry Butler] des. 1837.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Coloured lithograph. Image 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
Buffalo, zebra and antelope stampeding across a valley. Published in Captain Henry Butler's 'South African Sketches: Illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony'. Captain Henry Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey Travel: 336.9
[Ref: 30233] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Camp at Modder Key. (going out in the morning). The Bontibok Flats.
H.B. pinxit. 1838.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Coloured lithograph. Image 150 x 210mm (6 x ¼"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
A self-portrait of the author reaching for his gun having spotted some antelope to kill. It was published in Captain Henry Butler's 'South African Sketches: Illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony'. Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to be a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey Travel: 336.
[Ref: 30234] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Plate VIII. Baboonon the look out _ The Bontibok Flats. 18. The Game fleeing before the Hunters.
H.B. des 1837.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾").
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a outline sketch of babboons looking down from a rocky ledge; below is a more detailed scene of wildebeest anf quagga running across a plain, having spotted riders in the distance, with hand colour. Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58120] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Plate 21. Smoking out the Tiger _ Klip Plauts. 22. A Kafir Sports man. The Quagga hard Run.
H.B. [Henry Butler] pinxit 1838.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"). Top left corner rebuilt, outside image.
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a coloured and more detailed centre scene of three Europeans trapping a leopard [?] in a rocky outcrop; below is a native rider about to throw a spear at a quagga (a now extinct zebra subspecies). Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58122] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

29. The Eland blown. Tsitse River 30. Bivouac in the raw hide.
H.B. [Henry Butler] 39.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾").
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a coloured and more detailed centre scene of a European rider about to shoot an eland; below is a sketch of a hunter sheltering from a hunderstorm. Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58123] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The wounded Blesbok. Plate III.
H.B. [Henry Butler]
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Coloured lithograph. 197 x 279mm (7¾ x 11"). Some toning, crease to upper left corner.
A wounded blesbok, an antelope endemic to South Africa; vultures fly overhead ready to scavenge. From Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches".
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 30165] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Plate VII. [An orphaned quagga following a hunter.] 15. Camp at Modder Key. (going out in the morning) The Bontibok Flats. 16. [a hyena at a watering hole.]
H.B. [Henry Butler] pinxit 1838.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Three lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾").
Three scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above and below are outline sketches, with a coloured and more detailed centre scene of a mounted European hunter taking a rifle from his ghillie to shoot at antelope, a camp behind. Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58121] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Plate II Off Saddled near Death Valley Bontibok Flats. Death of a Sprink Bok Bontibok Flats.
H.B. [Henry Butler].
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two coloured lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾").
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a scene of a camp, with the horse being hobbled by a rope from the neck to a foreleg, so it can graze but not run. Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58124] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Amelia Countess of Ossory. From the Original Picture in His Majesty's Collection at Windsor.
Painted by Sir Peter Lely. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
Publish'd Jan.y 1.st 1779, for W: Shropshire, No.158, & T. Watson, No.142, New Bond-Street, London.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 455 x 330mm (18 x 13"). Backed onto album paper at corners. Crease in lower left and faint time-staining. Small margins.
Portrait of Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory (1635 - 1688 (buried), born Æmilia van Nassau-Beverweerd, was an Anglo-Dutch courtier. Emilia was married in Den Bosch in the Netherlands on 14 November 1659 to Thomas Butler, viscount Thurles (1633 - 1680). Lady Ossory served Queen Catherine for over twenty years, retiring from service after the death of Charles II (1685). From a set of six prints after a series of paintings by Sir Peter Lely of women at the court of Charles II, known as 'The Beauties of Windsor'.
Goodwin: 34; CS 5 iii/iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64929] £360.00

The Right Hon.rbl The Lady Elizabeth Butler Countess of Chesterfield.
P. Lelly Eques Pinxit.
Sold by Alexander Browne at y.e blew balcony in little Queen Street. [n.d. c.1680]
Mezzotint, sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate. Bottom half tipped onto album paper. Crease where previously folded. Taped into mount at top. Large brown spot near hand. Smaller brown stains in inscription area.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of court beauty Elizabeth, Countess of Chesterfield (1640-65). She wears a volumous dress, pearl necklace and holds an orange blossom.
CS7. Turner B9. II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 64907] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Butler] [The Countess of Chesterfield.]
[S.r P Lilly pinx. Is: Beckett fe: & ex:]
[n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, 17th century watermark. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of court beauty Elizabeth Butler (1640-65), Countess of Chesterfield after her marriage to Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl.. She wears a voluminous dress, pearl necklace and holds an orange blossom.
CS 21, state i of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65373] £320.00

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