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![[Music Sheet] Musical Bouquet. The Battle of Austerlitz Quadrille.](jpegs/55742.jpg)
[Music Sheet] Musical Bouquet. The Battle of Austerlitz Quadrille. Composed by A. Le Duc.
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192, High Holborn: & J. Allen, 20 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
4pp. lithographed music, with vignette scene on front. Sheets 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Paper toned, second sheet of music with long tear sellotaped.
The vignette shows Napoleon and his officers at the Battle of Austerlitz (2nd December 1805), after the painting by François Gérard.
[Ref: 55742] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192, High Holborn: & J. Allen, 20 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
4pp. lithographed music, with vignette scene on front. Sheets 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Paper toned, second sheet of music with long tear sellotaped.
The vignette shows Napoleon and his officers at the Battle of Austerlitz (2nd December 1805), after the painting by François Gérard.
[Ref: 55742] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Picken's Sketches of Napoleon, No.5. Price 1s. Un Bivouac [&] The Spirit of Napoleon Visiting his Tomb.
On Stone by A. Picken Jun.
London, Pub. by T. Fisher 1, Hanway St. Oxford St [n.d., c.1845].
Two lithographic vignettes printed on a single sheet, including one puzzle print, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10¾"). Slight creasing
The upper illustration is a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte standing in a landscape. The natural forms in the landscape below conceal the outline profiles of military commanders from both opposing sides of the Napoleonic Wars. The figures represented are listed in the text below. From a scarce set of popular prints issued by subscription; with note to subscribers to lower margin.
for a larger version of 'Un Bivouac' (top image), see ref. 29444
[Ref: 23468] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
On Stone by A. Picken Jun.
London, Pub. by T. Fisher 1, Hanway St. Oxford St [n.d., c.1845].
Two lithographic vignettes printed on a single sheet, including one puzzle print, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10¾"). Slight creasing
The upper illustration is a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte standing in a landscape. The natural forms in the landscape below conceal the outline profiles of military commanders from both opposing sides of the Napoleonic Wars. The figures represented are listed in the text below. From a scarce set of popular prints issued by subscription; with note to subscribers to lower margin.
for a larger version of 'Un Bivouac' (top image), see ref. 29444
[Ref: 23468] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Circular Zodiac in White Marble.
Denon del.
On sale and may be viewed at Mr Gale's 8 Bruton St Bond St.
Very scarce engraving. 470 x 390mm (18½ x 15½").
An illustration of the circular zodiac, a highly significant record of Egyptian astronomical beliefs. It was first discovered in Egypt by Napoleon, and bought by Louis XVIII for 10,000 pounds in 1814. This print is accompanied by a detailed text recounting the history of the artefact.
[Ref: 9396] £420.00
Denon del.
On sale and may be viewed at Mr Gale's 8 Bruton St Bond St.
Very scarce engraving. 470 x 390mm (18½ x 15½").
An illustration of the circular zodiac, a highly significant record of Egyptian astronomical beliefs. It was first discovered in Egypt by Napoleon, and bought by Louis XVIII for 10,000 pounds in 1814. This print is accompanied by a detailed text recounting the history of the artefact.
[Ref: 9396] £420.00
Le Baptême du Roi de Rome. Allégories. Par M. Louason. Ex-Inspecteur en Chef de l'habillement de l'armée dl'allemagne. [&] Impromptu [letterpress card]
Paris, de l'imprimerie de Pillet, rue Christine, No 5. / 1811.
Engraving and letterpress, with small letterpress sheet, together on album sheet, sheet 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Both items glued to backing sheet.
Two items relating to the birth of Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Mary-Louise of Austria, in 1811. The frontispiece to Louason's poem on the baptism of Napoleon II includes the eagle (after which Napoleon II would be nicknamed), while below is a British response to the news in the form of a comic bulletin and poem (''Twill be a Die nasty indeed! ! !'). Napoleon II was King of Rome, Prince of Parma, and Duke of Reichstadt. He died of pneumonia in 1832, leaving no issue, and it was his cousin Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte who took over the Napoleonic claim to the throne and subsequently restored the empire as Napoleon III.
[Ref: 35936] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Paris, de l'imprimerie de Pillet, rue Christine, No 5. / 1811.
Engraving and letterpress, with small letterpress sheet, together on album sheet, sheet 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Both items glued to backing sheet.
Two items relating to the birth of Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Mary-Louise of Austria, in 1811. The frontispiece to Louason's poem on the baptism of Napoleon II includes the eagle (after which Napoleon II would be nicknamed), while below is a British response to the news in the form of a comic bulletin and poem (''Twill be a Die nasty indeed! ! !'). Napoleon II was King of Rome, Prince of Parma, and Duke of Reichstadt. He died of pneumonia in 1832, leaving no issue, and it was his cousin Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte who took over the Napoleonic claim to the throne and subsequently restored the empire as Napoleon III.
[Ref: 35936] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
![[Louis XVIII] Le Père Des Français.](jpegs/22968.jpg)
[Louis XVIII] Le Père Des Français. Semblable au bon Henri, sa vie est à l'État, son coeur à ses Sujets.
Déposé. A Paris, chez Charon, rue St Jean de Beauvais, N° 26, et chez Bance aîné, Md. d'Estampes, rue Saint Denis N° 214 [1816].
Scarce stipple and etching, first state. 345 x 265mm (13½ x 10½"), with wide margins. Slight crease through lower left of plate.
Louis XVIII King of France (1755 - 1824), sitting at his desk in his study, writing a “méditation sur le bonheur de la France”; in a circular frame surmounted by the allegorical image of a pelican feeding chicks on a nest. Emblems of the garde royale and the garde nationale flanking the medallion, which in turn is positioned above a pediment with bas-relief showing the changing of the guard and inscribed “Il Veille Pour Nous, Veillons Pour Lui” ("He watches over us, we watch over him"). An interesting piece of royalist propaganda published when Louis XVIII had been on the throne for less than a year since his second restoration following Napoleon's Hundred Days', in July 1815. Louis XVIII was King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824 (omitting the Hundred Days). He spent twenty-three years in exile during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, living in Prussia, the United Kingdom and Russia.
[Ref: 22968] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Déposé. A Paris, chez Charon, rue St Jean de Beauvais, N° 26, et chez Bance aîné, Md. d'Estampes, rue Saint Denis N° 214 [1816].
Scarce stipple and etching, first state. 345 x 265mm (13½ x 10½"), with wide margins. Slight crease through lower left of plate.
Louis XVIII King of France (1755 - 1824), sitting at his desk in his study, writing a “méditation sur le bonheur de la France”; in a circular frame surmounted by the allegorical image of a pelican feeding chicks on a nest. Emblems of the garde royale and the garde nationale flanking the medallion, which in turn is positioned above a pediment with bas-relief showing the changing of the guard and inscribed “Il Veille Pour Nous, Veillons Pour Lui” ("He watches over us, we watch over him"). An interesting piece of royalist propaganda published when Louis XVIII had been on the throne for less than a year since his second restoration following Napoleon's Hundred Days', in July 1815. Louis XVIII was King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824 (omitting the Hundred Days). He spent twenty-three years in exile during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, living in Prussia, the United Kingdom and Russia.
[Ref: 22968] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Embossed text pages from 'Memoirs of Constant'.]](jpegs/53982.jpg)
[Embossed text pages from 'Memoirs of Constant'.]
[n.d., c.1838.]
Three sheets of card of embossed blind letterpress. Largest sheet 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"). 1 sheet trimmed with loss of text.
Three sheets of card containing twelve pages (of 340?) from an English edition of ''Memoirs of Constant, first valet de chambre of the emperor, on the private life of Napoleon, his family and his court", by Louis Constant Wairy (1778-1845)
[Ref: 53982] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1838.]
Three sheets of card of embossed blind letterpress. Largest sheet 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"). 1 sheet trimmed with loss of text.
Three sheets of card containing twelve pages (of 340?) from an English edition of ''Memoirs of Constant, first valet de chambre of the emperor, on the private life of Napoleon, his family and his court", by Louis Constant Wairy (1778-1845)
[Ref: 53982] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Fac Simile de la Dernière lettre du General Moreau à Madame Moreau.
Engraved by I. Girtin, 330, Oxford Street.
Pub.d Sep.t 30. 1813, by Cox, [D'Angilou] 66 Stafford Place, Pimlico.
Engraving. Verso in ink To the Mrs Spurgeon. Sheet: 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed. Two vertical folds.
A rare image by Girtin of a facsimilie of the last letter sent by Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763-1813) to his wife, Moreau was mortally wounded during the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Moreau had helped with the rise of Napoleon but he was exiled to the USA in 1804, he returned to Europe and joined forces with his old friend Crown Prince Charles John of Sweden and Tsar Alexander I against the French forces. As well as a facsimilie of the letter the print includes a translation in English and a poem glorifying Moreau.
[Ref: 47006] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by I. Girtin, 330, Oxford Street.
Pub.d Sep.t 30. 1813, by Cox, [D'Angilou] 66 Stafford Place, Pimlico.
Engraving. Verso in ink To the Mrs Spurgeon. Sheet: 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed. Two vertical folds.
A rare image by Girtin of a facsimilie of the last letter sent by Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763-1813) to his wife, Moreau was mortally wounded during the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Moreau had helped with the rise of Napoleon but he was exiled to the USA in 1804, he returned to Europe and joined forces with his old friend Crown Prince Charles John of Sweden and Tsar Alexander I against the French forces. As well as a facsimilie of the letter the print includes a translation in English and a poem glorifying Moreau.
[Ref: 47006] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)
Souvenirs de Gloire et de Maleurs.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare engraving. Oval sheet 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾") Trimmed as oval, laid on album paper.
A design celebrating the triumphs and failures of Napoleon Bonaparte, with four verses within a circle within a collection of trophies, surrounded by a list of battles including Waterloo.
[Ref: 37383] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare engraving. Oval sheet 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾") Trimmed as oval, laid on album paper.
A design celebrating the triumphs and failures of Napoleon Bonaparte, with four verses within a circle within a collection of trophies, surrounded by a list of battles including Waterloo.
[Ref: 37383] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Napoleon. The First, and Last, by the Wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins, Protector of the Confederation of Rogues, Mediator of the Hellish League, Grand Cross of the Legion of Horror, Commander in Chief of the Legions of Skeletons left at Moscow, Smolensk, Leipzig, &c., Head Runner of Runaways, Mock High-Priest of the Sanhedrim, Mock Prophet of Mussulmen, Mock Pillar of the Christian Faith, Inventor of the Syrian Method of disposing of his own Sick by sleeping Draughts, or of captured Enemies by the Bayonet; First Grave-Digger for burying alive; Chief Gaoler of the Holy Father and of the King of Spain, Destroyer of Crowns, and Manufacturer of Counts, Dukes, Princes, and Kings; Chief Douanier of the Continental System, Head Butcher of the Parisian and Toulonese Massacres, Murderer of Hoffer, Palm, Wright, nay, of his own Prince the noble and virtuous Duke of Enghien, and of a Thousand others; Kidnapper of Ambassadors, High-Admiral of the Invasion Praams, Cup-bearer of the Jaffa Poison, Arch-Chancellor of Waste-Paper Treaties, Arch-Treasurer of the Plunder of the World, the Sanguinary Coxcomb, Assassin, and Incendiary......to / MAKE PEACE WITH !!! / This Hieroglyphic Portrait of the DESTROYER is faithfully copied from a German Print, with the parody of his assumed titles. The Hat of the Destroyer represents a discomfited French Eagle, maimed and crouching, after his Conflict with the Eagles of the North. His Visage is composed of the Carcases of the Victims of his Folly and Ambition, who perished on the Plains of Russia and Saxony. His Throat is encircled with the Red Sea, in Allusion to his drowned Hosts. His Epaulette is a Hand, leading the Rhenish Confederation, under the flimsy Symbol of a Cobweb. The Spider is an Emblem of the Vigilance of the Allies, who have inflicted on That Hand a deadly Sting!'
[Harrison & Leigh Printers, 375 Strand.]
Published at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand, London [n.d., c.1811].
Rare coloured etching and letterpress. Sheet 485 x 300mm (19 x 11¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Damaged and cut with some loss.
An important piece of anti-Napoleon propaganda, featuring a composite portrait made up of details of Bonaparte's 'sins', with explanatory letterpress underneath. Based on a print by Johann Michael Voltz, it is one of the most widespread depictions of Napoleon. Versions were produced in nine European countries, twenty-three in Germany alone.
BM Satires 12002.
[Ref: 55808] £350.00
[Harrison & Leigh Printers, 375 Strand.]
Published at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand, London [n.d., c.1811].
Rare coloured etching and letterpress. Sheet 485 x 300mm (19 x 11¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Damaged and cut with some loss.
An important piece of anti-Napoleon propaganda, featuring a composite portrait made up of details of Bonaparte's 'sins', with explanatory letterpress underneath. Based on a print by Johann Michael Voltz, it is one of the most widespread depictions of Napoleon. Versions were produced in nine European countries, twenty-three in Germany alone.
BM Satires 12002.
[Ref: 55808] £350.00
Napoleon
[After Johann Michael Voltz]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Cut and glued onto backing sheet, cutting the top of his hat.
A satirical bust length portrait of Napoleon based on a head engraved by Lehmann after a portrait by Dahling. 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55853] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[After Johann Michael Voltz]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Cut and glued onto backing sheet, cutting the top of his hat.
A satirical bust length portrait of Napoleon based on a head engraved by Lehmann after a portrait by Dahling. 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55853] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Memoirs of Buonaparte, His Imperial Family, Great Officers of State, and Great Military Officers.
London: Printed and Published by G.Smeeton, 17, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. Price Sixpence. [n.d., c.1814.]
Rare broadsheet, with engraved portrait 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½", set in letterpress with printed border, sheet 425 x 275mm, 16¾ x 10¾". Some creasing and significant loss to lower right corner.
A scurrilous attack on Napoleon Bonaparte, probably published in the last days of the campaign that led to his abdication in 1814. (The last date in the text is 1813.) Apparently Napoleon's mother was a brothel keeper and at sixteen he poisoned a girl he had made pregnant. The portrait, after one by Johann Michael Voltz is a 'hieroglyphic': 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55852] £280.00
London: Printed and Published by G.Smeeton, 17, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. Price Sixpence. [n.d., c.1814.]
Rare broadsheet, with engraved portrait 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½", set in letterpress with printed border, sheet 425 x 275mm, 16¾ x 10¾". Some creasing and significant loss to lower right corner.
A scurrilous attack on Napoleon Bonaparte, probably published in the last days of the campaign that led to his abdication in 1814. (The last date in the text is 1813.) Apparently Napoleon's mother was a brothel keeper and at sixteen he poisoned a girl he had made pregnant. The portrait, after one by Johann Michael Voltz is a 'hieroglyphic': 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55852] £280.00
![[Napoleon Puzzle Print] Corporal Violette.](jpegs/33242.jpg)
[Napoleon Puzzle Print] Corporal Violette. This Print, which appears to consist simply of that beautiful Flower, the Violet, contains correct Profiles of the Emporer Napoleon, Maria Louisa, and the Young King of Rome; the first under the green Leaf on the right --- the second opposite, under the second Violet -- and the third one, on the right of the centrical Stems, near the lower Violet.
Radcliffe Sc.
213 Piccadilly. [n.d., c.1810].
Hand coloured engraving with two sections of letterpress text. Sheet size: 265 x 280mm (10½ x 11"). Cut and glued to scrap sheet.
An impression of an uncommon 'puzzle' portrait showing the concealed the profiles of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), his wife Marie Louise of Austria (1791-1847), and Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles (1811-1832), King of Rome. Napoleon was nicknamed "Corporal Violet" by his soldiers after having to return from Elba during Springtime. Explanatory letterpress above and below image.
[Ref: 33242] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Radcliffe Sc.
213 Piccadilly. [n.d., c.1810].
Hand coloured engraving with two sections of letterpress text. Sheet size: 265 x 280mm (10½ x 11"). Cut and glued to scrap sheet.
An impression of an uncommon 'puzzle' portrait showing the concealed the profiles of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), his wife Marie Louise of Austria (1791-1847), and Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles (1811-1832), King of Rome. Napoleon was nicknamed "Corporal Violet" by his soldiers after having to return from Elba during Springtime. Explanatory letterpress above and below image.
[Ref: 33242] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
A Poetical Prediction When Broad St. Giles's' shall ascend the sky,/ And Grosvenor Square be filled with apple-pie [...] Men shall be honest,_ Nations be at peace,/ Slander lose its power, and female clamour cease!_
[n.d., c.1810]
Manuscript with three ink and watercolour sketches attached below. Sheet 355 x 270mm (13¼ x 10½"). General paper tone.
A whimsical poem spanning a range of cultural references. A line about when 'Bonaparte keeps a chandler's shop' possibly places it during Napoleon's lifetime. Below are three comical ink and watercolour scenes the size of playing cards in which the protagonists have spades, hearts and clubs for faces.
[Ref: 15839] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1810]
Manuscript with three ink and watercolour sketches attached below. Sheet 355 x 270mm (13¼ x 10½"). General paper tone.
A whimsical poem spanning a range of cultural references. A line about when 'Bonaparte keeps a chandler's shop' possibly places it during Napoleon's lifetime. Below are three comical ink and watercolour scenes the size of playing cards in which the protagonists have spades, hearts and clubs for faces.
[Ref: 15839] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
L'Ombre de Napoléon visitant son tombeau. 1821.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 140 x 130mm (5½ x 5"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
The trunks of two willow trees, together with their branches and other foliage, form the outline profile of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), beside a simple moonlit grave on Saint Helena. This one of several puzzle-type prints on the same theme published in the aftermath of Napoleon's death.
[Ref: 45768] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1821.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 140 x 130mm (5½ x 5"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
The trunks of two willow trees, together with their branches and other foliage, form the outline profile of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), beside a simple moonlit grave on Saint Helena. This one of several puzzle-type prints on the same theme published in the aftermath of Napoleon's death.
[Ref: 45768] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
St Helena. Visiting his Tomb. The Shade of Napoleon.
[Day & Hague Lith.rs to the King, 7 Gate St.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, trimmed. 195 x 220mm (7¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed around title and subtitle. Small loss to the image along the top right.
The trunks of two willow trees, together with their branches and other foliage, form the outline profile of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), beside a simple moonlit grave on the Atlantic island of Saint Helena. A woman in a mourning veil holds a wreath, the French Imperial eagle at her feet. This one of several puzzle-type prints on the same theme published in the aftermath of Napoleon's death.
[Ref: 53839] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Day & Hague Lith.rs to the King, 7 Gate St.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, trimmed. 195 x 220mm (7¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed around title and subtitle. Small loss to the image along the top right.
The trunks of two willow trees, together with their branches and other foliage, form the outline profile of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), beside a simple moonlit grave on the Atlantic island of Saint Helena. A woman in a mourning veil holds a wreath, the French Imperial eagle at her feet. This one of several puzzle-type prints on the same theme published in the aftermath of Napoleon's death.
[Ref: 53839] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Album sheet] The Shade of Napoleon Visiting his Tomb.](jpegs/55746.jpg)
[Album sheet] The Shade of Napoleon Visiting his Tomb. [with two portraits of Napoleon II & a portrait of the horse 'Le Vizir'.]
[Various dates, c.1840.]
Three lithographs and an engraving on an album sheet. Largest 125 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"). Creased and soiled.
Four scraps on one sheet: a puzzle print depicting Napoleon's tomb in the Valley of Willows of the Island of Saint Helena, with the Napoleon's shape created in between the trunks of two trees; portraits of Napoleon II as a boy and a young man; and a portrait of 'Le Vizier', Napoleon's famous Arabian horse, at pasture. After its death in 1826 it was stuffed, smuggled to England in 1839, returned to France under Napeolon III and now preserved at the Musée de l'Armée.
[Ref: 55746] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Various dates, c.1840.]
Three lithographs and an engraving on an album sheet. Largest 125 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"). Creased and soiled.
Four scraps on one sheet: a puzzle print depicting Napoleon's tomb in the Valley of Willows of the Island of Saint Helena, with the Napoleon's shape created in between the trunks of two trees; portraits of Napoleon II as a boy and a young man; and a portrait of 'Le Vizier', Napoleon's famous Arabian horse, at pasture. After its death in 1826 it was stuffed, smuggled to England in 1839, returned to France under Napeolon III and now preserved at the Musée de l'Armée.
[Ref: 55746] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Shade of Napoleon.]](jpegs/19762.jpg)
[The Shade of Napoleon.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. 252 x 352mm (10 x 14"), edges uncut. Small stain spot outside title area left. Vertical crease down right-hand side.
Spot the ghostly silhouette of Napoleon by his grave on the Isle of Elba.
[Ref: 19762] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. 252 x 352mm (10 x 14"), edges uncut. Small stain spot outside title area left. Vertical crease down right-hand side.
Spot the ghostly silhouette of Napoleon by his grave on the Isle of Elba.
[Ref: 19762] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 150 x 170mm (6 x 6¾"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55130] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 150 x 170mm (6 x 6¾"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55130] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 150 x 170mm Trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 5701] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 150 x 170mm Trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 5701] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Grandmother Easy's] Wonders of a Toy-Shop.](jpegs/56186.jpg)
[Grandmother Easy's] Wonders of a Toy-Shop.
[London: Dean & Co., 1852.]
8 hand-coloured wood-engravings, last 2 sheets repro; each sheet c. 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Laid on album sheets with other scraps.
The complete set of eight scenes of a toyshop owner showing children around his stock, explained with humourous quadrains, including cricket bats, racquets and stuffed animals etc. but lacking the illustrated covers of the pamphlet.
[Ref: 56186] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
[London: Dean & Co., 1852.]
8 hand-coloured wood-engravings, last 2 sheets repro; each sheet c. 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Laid on album sheets with other scraps.
The complete set of eight scenes of a toyshop owner showing children around his stock, explained with humourous quadrains, including cricket bats, racquets and stuffed animals etc. but lacking the illustrated covers of the pamphlet.
[Ref: 56186] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Pickens Sketches of Napoleon No.1. Violets. Napoleon, Wife and Son.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½''). Trimmed.
A puzzle prints in which the profiles of Napoleon, his wife Josephine and son Napoleon II are forms in the stems and leaves of a bouquet of violets.
[Ref: 49934] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½''). Trimmed.
A puzzle prints in which the profiles of Napoleon, his wife Josephine and son Napoleon II are forms in the stems and leaves of a bouquet of violets.
[Ref: 49934] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Vredetocht naar Waterloo. 23 Juni 1890.
Drukk, van Flandria, Schaarbeek-Brussel.
4pp. scarce letterpress and music. Each page 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Text not complete, mounted on album paper.
Part of a programme of Belgian celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The central two pages contain the music and five verses (in Dutch) of 'The Peace Trip of Waterloo'.
[Ref: 37133] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Drukk, van Flandria, Schaarbeek-Brussel.
4pp. scarce letterpress and music. Each page 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Text not complete, mounted on album paper.
Part of a programme of Belgian celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The central two pages contain the music and five verses (in Dutch) of 'The Peace Trip of Waterloo'.
[Ref: 37133] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Explanation Of the Battle of Waterloo, Painted On the largest Scale, from Drawings taken on the Spot, by Mr. Henry Aston Barker, (The Figures composed and painted by Mr. John Burnet,) Now Exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square. The Upper Circle contains a Representation of the Battle of Paris, Fought by the Allies in March, 1814, With a View of the City and Environs. 1817. Open from Ten until Dusk. Admission to each Painting One Shilling.
[J. Adlard, Printer, 23, Bartholomew-Close, West Smithfield.]
Wood engraved broadside with letterpress. Sheet 365 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Mounted in album paper, wear to folds reinforced with tape on reverse.
A circular wood engraving with a 68-point key, the guide to a painted panorama of the Battle of Waterloo exhibited at the 'Panorama', the first building to be erected for the purpose of displaying panoramas. According to the letterpress he went to Allied Headquarters in Paris to research the battle. His sketches were issued as a set of eight etchings by John Burnett. During his lifetime Barker's celebrity opened doors: he met Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Nelson in Naples, and Napoleon Bonaparte on Elba. He married Admiral William Bligh's eldest daughter in 1802.
See Ref: 37063
[Ref: 37171] £360.00
[J. Adlard, Printer, 23, Bartholomew-Close, West Smithfield.]
Wood engraved broadside with letterpress. Sheet 365 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Mounted in album paper, wear to folds reinforced with tape on reverse.
A circular wood engraving with a 68-point key, the guide to a painted panorama of the Battle of Waterloo exhibited at the 'Panorama', the first building to be erected for the purpose of displaying panoramas. According to the letterpress he went to Allied Headquarters in Paris to research the battle. His sketches were issued as a set of eight etchings by John Burnett. During his lifetime Barker's celebrity opened doors: he met Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Nelson in Naples, and Napoleon Bonaparte on Elba. He married Admiral William Bligh's eldest daughter in 1802.
See Ref: 37063
[Ref: 37171] £360.00