Grosvenor Prints

Copy of A Curious Letter From A Gentlemen to a Lady.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Letterpress, sheet 185 x120mm (7¼ x 12¾"). Some time staining. Creased where previously folded. Some holes.
A publication of a letter with an interesting code. If the letter is read directly it seems like a hate letter, however if read you read every other line it is a romantic letter. Presumambly it is written this way as a father is reading the young lady's letters and disapproves of the relationship.
[Ref: 58970] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

On Princess Amelia. To the Right Hon:a the Earl Rivers, These Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
[Etched by George Bickham.]
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Scarce etched music sheet, 18th century watermark. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins at top, trimmed to plate at bottom, original binding folds,
A music sheet with a headpiece of a woman dancing before an audience in parkland. The song was set to music by Maurice Green (1696-1755), Professor of Music at Cambridge University & 'Master of the King's Musick'. Bath interest. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58699] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Antiquarian's Museum.
Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image losing title and publication line, flap torn, horizontal slight folding crease in the middle, small tear in bottom edge.
A man opens the door to a room housing his collection. Raising the flap reveals three small children playing with his treasures. A regency amusement.
See Ref: 58833 & 58855
[Ref: 58831] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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Johnson's Patent Syrup of Asparagus. No 369, Strand, London, and Rue Caumartin, Paris. This Preparation of Wild Asparagus, is found to be a powerful Sedative, causing neither Nausea nor Constipation [...] This valuable preparation os sold at Dr. Scott's establishment, 369, Strand, London. Prince Four Shillings a Bottle.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress with wood-engraving on card. Sheet 85 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed close to text on right.
[Ref: 58752] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Johnson's Patent Syrup of Asparagus. No 369, Strand, London, and Rue Caumartin, Paris. This Preparation of Wild Asparagus, is found to be a powerful Sedative, causing neither Nausea nor Constipation [...] This valuable preparation os sold at Dr. Scott's establishment, 369, Strand, London. Prince Four Shillings a Bottle.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress with wood-engraving on card. Sheet 75 x 125mm (3 x 5"). Amendment label over title.
[Ref: 58754] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Boulton, Esq.r.
Painted by C.F. de Breda R.A. of Stockholm & Painter to the King of Sweden. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Published March 1st 1796 by S.W. Reynolds. No 6 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Slight scuffing.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) the Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur, who was called 'the first manufacturer in England' by Josiah Wedgwood. He was the founder of the Soho Works in Birmingham in 1762, known for its high quality ornamental objects. In 1775 Boulton entered into partnership with the Scottish engineer James Watt who invented the steam engine; he supplied machinery for the new Mint on Tower Hill in 1805. Boulton also designed for the commercial art market, devising ormolu (gilt brass) mounts for the English potter Josiah Wedgwood's decorative wares. Both men belonged to the Lunar Society, a group of prominent Midlands men who developed ideas and techniques in science, manufacturing and transport. The original painting, by Carl Frederik von Breda (1759-1818), is in the Birmingham Museums Trust.
Whitman 34.
[Ref: 59084] £280.00 (£336.00 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)

[Scrap book relating to deafness and sign-language, with scraps dated 1748-1885, with leaflets from the 1930s loosely inserted.]
[n.d., c.1885.]
Limp wrappers with wood engraved scrap, 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"), 16 scraps pasted on 12 leaves and back inner cover, three items relating to Selwyn Oxley inserted, includes Deaf & Dumb Alphabet.
Scraps illustrating British Sign Language, with news cuttings and promotional material for deaf associations and homes. The book collection of Selwyn Oxley (d.1951) on deafness forms the core of the University College London Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries.
See Ref 58797
[Ref: 58799] £550.00 view all images for this item

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Goodman's Compound Dandelion Pills [...] D.H. Goodman, Dispencing and Family Chemist, 6 Abingdon Buildings, Julian Road, Bath.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Letterpress advert. Sheet 180 x 95mm (7 x 3¾"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
[Ref: 58759] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Diagram of Life. This Diagram shews that Death encircles all existence.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving, cut into three for scrap album. Album sheet 170 x 85mm (6¾ x 3¼"), with two unrelated scraps of swallows.
[Ref: 58755] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

If Only I Could Get the Door Down? I Should See Them All for Nothing.
Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9¾"). Horizontal folding creases in the middle.
A man climbs onto the tailgate of a cart with marked 'The Museum of Natural Curiosities', peaking through a hole. When the tailgate flap falls opens it releases two lions and a tiger to menace the man. A Regency amusement.
See ref: 58855, 59033, 58831
[Ref: 58833] £680.00 (£816.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

This Book Belongs to Edward Nesbit. If thou art borrow'd by a friend, Right welcome shallbe, To read, to study not to lend, But to return to me,...
[n.d. c.1850]
Book label letterpess with printed border, sheet 70 x 60mm (2¾ x 2¼"). Glued to inside of book cover.
A book label with humerous poem.
[Ref: 58971] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

New Waverley Hall Waterloo Place, Edingburgh. Positively the Last Days Closing on Saturday, Jan. 2. The World-Renowned Siamese Twins accompanied by Their Children! [...]
[n.d. c.1850.]
Letterpress playbill, sheet 190 x 125mm (7¾ x 5"). Slightly foxed, abrasions and nicks on edges.
A theatre bill for a show of conjoined twins Eng and Chang Bunker (1811-1874) at New Waverley Hall in Edinburg. When the boys were 17, they joined the Scottish merchant Robert Hunter, who managed a tour in which they displayed themselves, and were examined by doctors across the United States and Europe. In 1832 they realised that their new manager, Captain Coffin, was taking most of their profits, and made a separate arrangement with the circus owner Phineas T Barnum, with whom they toured until 1839.
[Ref: 59074] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Fond Celadon. Set by D.r Green.
G. Bickham Sculp.
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Scarce etched music sheet, 18th century watermark. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins top and bottom, original binding folds, some toning.
A music sheet with a headpiece of a rustic couple. The song was set to music by Maurice Green (1696-1755), Professor of Music at Cambridge University & 'Master of the King's Musick'. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Fox Hunter, Or the Delights of the Chase. Written & Sung by James Martin, of the Theatre Royal Norwich. Dedicated by Permission to Sir G.H. Smyth. Bart. MP. Composed by John Pindar, Author of the 'Wandering Beggar Boy.'' ''Tho. Long Oppress'd''. "Come Bacchus &c &c.
W. Clerk lith. 202 High Holborn.
London. Published by Metzler & Co. 105 Wardour S.t for C.H. Bianchi, Ipswich [n.d., c.1850].
4to, disbound; scarce illustrated lithographic cover & 8pp. of music. With partial dedication inscription on cover, back sheet with damp stain.
With an illustration of a hunt's meet on the front cover. East Anglian interest.
[Ref: 58841] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

G. W.'s Transparencies. French Smugglers.
London: Published by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside; W. Morgan, 64, Hatton Garden; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; J. Reynold, 174, Strand; and E. Wilson, Jun. 16, King William Street, City. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Sheet 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½'').
When held to the light the night scene is enhanced
[Ref: 58961] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

O Death, where is thy Sting? / O Grave, where is thy Victory?
Dent sculp, Ball Alley, Lombard Street.
Furnish'd by Henry Rutt No 165 Fenchurch Street London [n.d., c.1770].
Engraved funeral ticket, filled in with old ink mss, in ink bottom left "Mr. Cox". In centre in ink "You are desired to attend the funeral of Mr In.o Cater from No 3 Watling Street to Stains in Middlesex on Monday the 5th May to set out at six o'clock in the morning precisely". 175 x 190mm (7 x 7½"), wax seal on right margin, large margins. Corners of margin snipped, slight soiling, laid on album paper.
A funeral ticket, engraved by Thomas Dent after a watchpaper engraved by William Woollett for Robert Sanderson. It depicts a large stone plinth inscribed at the base with a Biblical quotation, on which is Father Time kneeling on the edge of a tomb with a skeleton.
See BM 1873.0809.1480.
[Ref: 58953] £480.00

G. W.'s Transparencies. The Gypsies Halt.
London: Published by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside and W. Morgan, 64, Hatton Garden; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; J. Reynold, 174, Strand; and E. Wilson, Jun. 16, King William Street, City. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Sheet 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9'').
A monlight scene of a camp by a river is enhanced when held up to the light.
[Ref: 58962] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Jos. Rougier. hair Cutter, Dresser and Ornamental Hair Manufacturer. 10. Grey Street, Newcastle on Tyne. Schools and Families Attended. [with three other scraps relating to hair.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraved trade card. Sheet 40 x 70mm (1½ x 2¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
[Ref: 58761] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Harrogate] The Victoria Public Baths, Promenade Square. Near the Swan Hotel, Low Harrogate. Under the Management of Mr. and Mrs. Hall. [...] They beg to state that they can now supply the Magnesia, or Mild Sulphur, and Stong Sulphur Water Baths [...]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress on card. Sheet 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"). Small piece of paper stuck just under text.
An advert for the Victoria Public Baths, erected 1832.
[Ref: 58844] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookplate of Charles Hoare.] Cha.s Hoare [in image].
T. Holloway Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Rare stipple & etching. 230 x 175mm (9 x 7"), with large margins.
A female figure looking at a monument with a bust, an armorial with a double-headed eagle and star, and a Latin inscription 'Tendit in Ardua Virtus'. The bookplate of Charles Hoare (1767-1851), Senior Partner of the banking firm of C. Hoare & Co. He commissioned John Nash to design his rural retreat, Luscombe Castle near Dawlish, in 1800.
[Ref: 58774] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Headpiece for the London Infirmary.] In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren, ye have done it unto me. S.t Matt. XXV. v.40.
W. Hogarth inv. C. Grignion sculp.
[n.d. c.1745]
Rare etching and engraving, sheet 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9"). Trimmed around image and glued on an album sheet. Slightly stained.
Christ seats on the left in the company of his disciples, gesturing to a hospital in the distance, two figures being carried towards the door on stretchers. Headpiece of an account of London Hospital, letterpress text on the back lists the details of receipts and payments made by the Treasurer Peter Muilman.
Paulson 1989: 227.
[Ref: 59097] £480.00

Most Extraordinary Invention. Pulvermacher's Patent Portable Hydro-Electric Chain for Personal Use. [...] Acute nervous pains, such as Head, Tooth, and Ear Ache, Rheumatic Pains, &c. are relieved instantaneously, the moment the Chain is applied [...]
[n.d., c.1851.]
Letterpress with wood-engraved vignette. Sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on card.
An advert for a type of voltaic battery invented by Isaac Lewis Pulvermacher and marketed as a tool for electrotherapy. It includes a glowing testimonal from Golding Bird, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, who had been given a sample to test and found it a good source of electricity for medical purposes. However it was used here by Charles Meining, the Pulvermacher Company's London agent, without permission, alongside outrageous claims about its benefits. Bird's threat of legal action (against Meining as a quack rather than Pulvermacher) caused The Association Medical Journal, Medical Times and The Lancet to remove adverts for the machine.
See Wikipedia 'Pulvermacher's chain' for details of the construction and history.
[Ref: 58750] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Ino; or The Theban Twins. A Classical Burlesque. First produced at the Royal Strand Theatre (under the Management of Mrs. Swanborough), on Saturday, October 30th, 1869. By B.J. Spedding, Esq. [...]
Printed and Published by Arthur Swanborough, at the Royal Strand Theatre, London. [1869.]
Play script, pamphlet with printed coloured covers, pp. 46, 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Vertical folding crease, tears and creases on egdes, slighlty foxed, stained on the back.
Play script of ‘Ino; or The Theban Twins’ by B.J. Spedding performed at the Royal Strand Theatre.
[Ref: 59076] £280.00

[John Holland Bookplate]
[William Hogarth]
[n.d. c.1760]
Etching, 130 x 105mm (5 x 4¼") Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Minerva seated at right, holding a spear and looking up at a shield with the arms of the herald painter John Holland (-1760), depicting a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de-lis, held up by a putto, three other putti nearby, one by a window at left, holding up a crown with a lion inside.
Paulson 207.III. V&A F.118:174
[Ref: 59106] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Josser Football Team. Written and Sung by Mark Sheridan.
H.G. Banks. Lith.
London: Francis, Day & Hunter. 142 Charing Cross Road, Oxford Street End. New York: T.B. Harms & C.o 18 East 22.nd S.t. [n.d. c.1900.]
Very scarce music sheet, pp. 4 with chromolithograph cover. Sheets 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Slightly scuffed.
Printed illustrated music sheet cover for 'The Josser Football Team', written and sung by Mark Sheridan. The song tells the story of a football match. Sheridan stands in the forground, while football players fight for the ball in the background.
[Ref: 59070] £680.00

The Loisettian School of Physiological Memory; or, The Instantaneous Art of Never Forgetting. 37, New Oxford Street, London. [2nd June] 188[6]. Dear [Sir] I beg to acknowledge with thanks receipt by [P.P.O.] of [£1/1/-] in full for complete course of Lessons in my System of Memory by Post [...]
[1886.]
2pp. letterpress form, filled in with old ink mms and signed by Loisette, addressed to Mr. D. Cudmase. Sheet 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"). Creases, spike hole in centre.
A receipt for tuition from Professor Alphonse Loisette, who protected his memory system by forcing a gagging contract on prospective pupils. Those who signed up, including Mark Twain, found it was not only plagerised but also largely ineffective. An exposé was published reporting that Loisette's real name was Marcus Dwight Larrowe and he had no academic degree.
[Ref: 58756] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Le Lis. le 10 Mai, 1815.
Dédié aux Amis de Louis Dix huit.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper at corners, glue stains.
A puzzle print, with three heads hidden in a bouquet of lilies: Louis XVIII, his younger brother Charles, Duke of Angouleme (later Charles X) and his wife Marie Thérèse of Savoy. It was published during the Hundred Days in response to the 'Corporal Violet' portraits of Napoleon.
[Ref: 58950] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Mineral and Aerated Waters] Henry Schilling, Ten Years Superintendent of the Chemical Apparatus at the Royal German Spa Brighton Park. Manufacturer of Mineral Waters, Soda, Seltzer, Potash, Pullna, Magnesia, Fachingen &c. Nectar, a most delicious cooling draught, Champagne Lemonade & Carbonated Ginger Beer. No. 9 Middle Street, King's Road, Brighton.
Iebas sc Birm.m.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving & letterpress showing his factory. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"), printed on both sides.
Schilling used his profits to buy property: In 1846 he bought the eastern side of Kensington Place, Brighton for £950.
[Ref: 58851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon Puzzle Print] Corporal Violet. is quite the going Print in Paris, and in it may be traced the Portraits of Napole[on] Buonaparte, his Empress Maria Louisa, and his Son.
Lowe.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Scarce coloured etching with letterpress title. Sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, affecting lettering at bottom.
A 'puzzle' portrait with a bouquet of violets containing concealed 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 on his return from Elba in the Spring, during the Violet season. Such designs were surreptitious ways of showing loyalty after Napoleon's fall from grace.
See Ref: 58951
[Ref: 58681] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon Puzzle Print] Corporal Violet.
Published by J. & E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, London, and J. Wallis, Jun.r Marine Library Sidmouth [n.d., c.1815].
Coloured stipple with engraving. 205 x 155mm (8 x 6¼"). With rare 'Explanation' tipped on album sheet. Laid on album paper. Tears outside image top left and in margin bottom right.
A 'puzzle' portrait with a bouquet of violets containing concealed 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" for promising his soldiers he would return from Elba during the Violet season. Such designs were surreptitious ways of showing loyalty after Napoleon's fall from grace.
See Ref: 58681
[Ref: 58951] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

No Doubt My Wife Has Got Something Nice and Warm for Me This Cold Night. / I'll teach you to stop out till this time of night.
G.A.H. Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street [n.d., c.1840].
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed to image, horizontal folding crease in the middle.
A man uses the knocker on his door on a snowy night. When the door flap is opened it reveals his wife brandishing a red-hot poker. .
See Ref: 58831, 58833 & 58855.
[Ref: 59033] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Explanation of a View of the City of Paris, exhibiting in the Panorama, Strand.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etched keyplate. Sheet 305 x 425mm (12 x 16¾"). Original folds, old repairs, slight soiling and creasing.
The keyplate to a panorama of Paris from the Place de la Concord (here named 'Place Louis 16', used 1826-30), exhibited at the Panorama in the Strand, London. Thomas Edward Barker, son of the Robert Barker who coined the word 'panorama', opened a rival exhibition site with artist Ramsay Richard Reinagle in 1801, at 168-9 The Strand.
See: Ref: 56281, 53539 & 59116
[Ref: 58762] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Houses of Parliament on Fire.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare mezzotint mounted in card, card 195 x 230mm (7¾ x 9").
An almost-monochrome view of the Houses of Parliament on fire in 1834, with soldiers fighting the blaze, is enhanced with vibrant colour when held up to the light.
[Ref: 58963] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Children Endow'd and Property Secured by the Pelican Life Insurance Company.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Sheet 155 x 305mm (6 x 12"). Trimmed, laid on album paper, glue stains.
A scene of classical figures, probably the head piece to an insurance policy. The group was designed by Lady Diana Beauclerk and sculptured by John de Veere of the Coade stone factory. It is now in Horniman Museum.
[Ref: 58957] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pinqua.
[n.d. c.1800]
Wood cut, sheet 390 x 230mm (15½ x 9"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
A chinese style wood block print featuring three asian men, with flowing robes and beards. One holds a scroll whose top character translates to 'blessing', and second 'flow'. Pinqua may refer to Yang Pinqua (fl.1747-1795), Chinese name Yang Bingguan but also named Yang Cengong, a well-known porcelain dealer in Canton during the mid-eighteenth century who was appointed a Hong merchant in 1782. He also sold black tea, mostly Bohea to the VOC. This could be a tea label.
[Ref: 59111] £480.00

[Playbill.] Royal Living Marionette Theatre, Leicester Square, The Public are respectfully informed that in consequences of the numerous Audiences which have nightly visited this Theatre, to witness the Extraordinary Performances of the Buislay Brothers, The Proprietor is induced to extend their Engagement Six Night Longer, when they Positively Leave London. [...]
[1852.]
Letterpress playbill, sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Tears and nicks on edges, one small wormhole.
A theatre bill for a trapeze artists show at the Royal Living Marionette Theatre in Leicester Square.
[Ref: 59073] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Rossa Matilda Richter.] Zazel.
Standidge & Co. litho. 36 Old Jewry & Westminster.]
Chromolithograph on card, printed on both sides. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Top right corner snapped, part of title scratched off, slightly soiled.
A souvenir card for Rossa Matilda Richter (1860-1937), better known as 'Zazel, the Beautiful Human Cannonball', performing at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster. She first performed the stunt in 1877, aged 17. A list of patrons Royal Aquarium Westminster.
[Ref: 58804] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Marionette Theatre, Adelaide Street, West Strand. This Evening, Saturday, Feburary 26th, 1853, and Every Evening, at Eight o'Clock. Wellington Young's Royal Entertainment, Legerdemain. Magic Impossibilities Realised! Ventriloquism! Disappearances! Combined with The Celebrated Ethiopian Serenade, by the Original Ebony Marionettes!
John K. Chapman & Company, 5, Shoe Lane, & Peterborough-court, Fleet-street.
Scarce letterpress playbill. Yellow sheet, 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Some wear.
Originally named the Adelaide Gallery, the theatre was renamed in 1852 because of the success of Signor Brigaldi's Italian marionettes.
[Ref: 58860] £390.00 (£468.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral, Sir J. T. Duckworth's Victory over, and Signal Defeat, of the French Fleet, in the Bay of St. Domingo. London Gazette Extraordinary, Admiralty-Office, March 23, 1806.
J. Clark del. Pickett sculp.
Published & Sold April 20. 1806. by Edw.d Orme Bond Street, the corner of Brook Street, London. [Engraving.] Printed for Edward Orme, Engraver, Printseller to the King and Royal Family, 59, New Bond-Street, London: by J Nichols, Earl's Court, Newport-street Soho, and Sold by all the Booksellers and Printsellers. [Letterpress.]
Scarce engraving with letterpress, bottom right tax stamp, watermark 1804, sheet 560 x 430mm (22 x 17"). Tears and creases on edges, some stains and surface dirt.
A broadsheet on the Battle of San Domingo (6 February 1806), and the victory of the Royal Navy under the command of Admiral Duckworth over the French fleet. At the top, a coloured aquatint shows a naval battle scene: French battleships are under attack, with one damaged and one sinking on the right. At the right bottom of the print is an engraving with a coat-of-arms and the motto 'Veni, Vidi, Vici'. With engraved inscription, motto, and letterpress title, there is one paragraph of text in one column, and below more text in four columns, including extracts from official statements and from dispatches and letters by Duckworth, as well as statistics on the British and French fleets.
[Ref: 59066] £950.00

Particulars of Shakespeare's House At Stratford On Avon, For Sale By Auction By M.r Robins. At The Mart London. On Thursday Sep.tr 16 at 12 o'clock.
M & N Hanhart Lith.r [n.d. c. 1847]
Lithographic booklet, sheet 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Surface dirt. Slightly stained pink. Incomplete.
A rare auction catalogue for the 1847 sale of Shakespeare's house at Stratford. With lithographed title and 8 vignettes (4 portraits; 4 views) on the cover (William Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Lord Southampton, Ben Johnson)(Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford Church, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Globe theatre). On the inside; a ground plan of the house and surrounding properties.
[Ref: 58922] £280.00

The Song of the Redeemed Lord. [&] The Believer's Support in the Faithfullness of God.
[T. Adams]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Two letterpress hymn sheets, laid on album paper with an engraving of 'Antient Lyres'. Album sheet 330 x 170mm (13 x 6¾"). Sheets trimmed.
[Ref: 58958] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Submissive Admirer. Set by Mr Handel. To the R.t Hon.ble the Earl Cowper, These Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
[Etched by George Bickham.]
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Etched music sheet. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins top and bottom, original binding folds,
A music sheet with a headpiece of a courting couple. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58701] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Without Perjury May be Sold by the Snuff Maker & Tobacconist According to Act of Parliament: 10lb of Snuff And 24lb of Tobacco. H & P. in Amity.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Extremely rare engraving. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image.
An advert for a tobacconist with shopkeeper with scales and a customer taking a pinch of snuff, before a rococo design containing biblical quotes.
[Ref: 58952] £420.00

Tom Jones' Marriage Settlement.
June 17th, 1875.
Letterpress, sheet 200 x 130mm (18 x 5"). Creases where previously folded.
A lewd poem/songsheet/marriage vows.
[Ref: 58968] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Transformations No 5. The Royal Rose of England. ''The expectancy and rose of the fair State". Shakespeare.
London William Spooner, 377 Strand, June 1st 1835.
Lithograph with hand colour, prepared as a transformation print, mounted on card with title underneath. Card 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9").
A view of a rose Windsor Castle changes when the card is held up to the light, with Victoria on a throne who appears in the petals.
[Ref: 58960] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Albert driving his favorites.
Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Vertical folding crease in the middle.
Prince Albert drives a closed-top carriage with two horses and a view of Windsor Castle in the background. Raising the flap reveals Queen Victoria seated with three of her children, Victoria, Princess Royal, King Edward VII, and Princess Alice. A Regency amusement.
See Ref: 58833, 58831 & 59033
[Ref: 58855] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Warrens Jet Blacking] With Warrens, 30, Strand, the Boot so bright / The Cat alarm'd prepares her shade to fight. Presented to his Musical Friends by Robert Warren. Air The King God Bless him.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Engraved music sheet, printed on both sides. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Loss of print lower left, taped over plate on reverse. Damaged.
An early advertising jingle, with a vignette of a cat taking fright from its own reflection in the back of a highly-polished boot. Rare Dickens item. There were two rival firms in London called 'Warren’s Blacking', formed by two brothers who had fallen out, Jonathan & Thomas. This music sheet was published by Thomas's son, Robert. Jonathan's rival firm is best known for employing a 12-year-old Charles Dickens while his father was in debtor's prison in 1824. He earned six shillings a week pasting labels on pots of boot blacking, in a building near Hungerford stairs, infested with rats.
[Ref: 58840] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Whitelaw's Patent Vegetable Vapour Baths. J. Shores, 41, Dock-Street Hull. [...] It is well known that Capt. Parry, in his last Northern Expedition, took one of these Baths with him, and that those of his crew, and those only who availed themselves of its use, could bear the severity of the extreme cold [...]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Letterpress advert. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Laid on album paper.
Charles Whitlaw, a Scottish horticulturist, emigrated to North America in 1794 and spent about two decades collecting botanical specimens, some of which are preserved in the herbarium at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. On returning to Britain, he was proposed for election as a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London, but was black-balled. He established ''patent medicated vapour baths'' in which he employed various North American plants with reputed medicinal properties. Claiming to be able to cure diseases such as scrofula, Whitlaw outraged the medical establishment and he was branded a charlatan and a quack.
[Ref: 58760] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Dawson's Diorama N.o 8. Windsor Gateway, with a view of the Castle, changing to her Majesty Queen Victoria & her Royal Consort Albert, of Saxe Sobourg & Gotha, on Horseback.
London Published by T. Dawson, 39, Bedford S.t Covent Garden.
Scarce lithograph with hand colour, prepared as a transformation print, mounted on card with title underneath. Card 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Tissue over rear torn, album paper pasted on one edge.
A view of Windsor Castle changes when the card is held up to the light, with Victoria and Albert appearing on horseback.
[Ref: 58959] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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