Grosvenor Prints

[Aeneas saving his father from the burning of Troy.]
P.P. Rubens Pinx. v. Prenner del. et incid.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving on two plates. Outside plate 265 x 320mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins. Uncut.
A scene of the Fall of Troy, with a separate plate for the decorative, frame-like printed border, published in the 'Theatrum Artis Pictoriae', a series of reproductions of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna. The attribution to Rubens is doubtful. Aeneas carries his elderly father Anchises from the burning city, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius.
[Ref: 59913] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Alpine photograph of ice formation on a glacier, near Lucerne.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Creasing.
A photographic view of ice formations on a glacier near Lucerne, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59890] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Alpine photograph of a glacial cave, Lucerne.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 200 x 145mm (8 x 6").
A photographic view of ice formations in a glacial cave, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59889] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Alpine photograph.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 250 x 280mm (9¾ x 11") Creasing, tear.
A photographic view of the end of a glacier, probably Switzerland.
[Ref: 59887] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Alpine photograph.]
Schroeder & Cie, Zürich [ink stamp on reverse]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 210 (at most) x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed at bottom.
A photographic view of chalets in a valley, with a mountainous backdrop.
[Ref: 59882] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Amherst.] 7.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 6 April 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), wearing his uniform and his ribbon of the Bath. Amherst was responsible for a series of sweeping victories against the French, 1758-60, during the Seven Years War, leading to the conquest of Canada.
BM Satires 6053.
[Ref: 60069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph-Marie Amiot.] M. Amyot, Missionaire Apostolique à Peking, Correspondant de l'Academie &c &c. Chargé d'Affaires par S.M.T.C. auprès de l'Empereur de la Chine [...]
Peint? à la Chine par Panzi.
Rare stipple. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718-93), Jesuit priest and missionary in China, astronomer and historian. Amiot arrived in Macao in 1750 and the following year travelled to Peking (now Beijing) where he remained until his death. A prolific author on science and music, his translations from Chinese included the first translation into a European language of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. Amiot was one of the last Jesuit missionaries in China, as the Chinese attitude towards the West hardened in the late 18th century. Engraved after a portrait made in China by the Italian artist and missionary Giuseppe Panzi.
[Ref: 59872] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Christopher Anstey]
Engraved by J. Hibbert Jun.r [after Thomas Lawrence].
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple. 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"), watermarked 1794. Old ink mss. title. Small margins. Very small pinhole left centre.
English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), sitting at his desk, writing. Resident at 4 Royal Crescent, Bath, he penned 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', an immediate success. Although he is buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath, he has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 59810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Master Ashton.]
Jos.h Wright Pinx.t. W.m Pether Fecit 1770.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 26, 1770, by W.m Pether in G.t Russell S.t Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint, fine scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
John Ashton, son of Nicholas Ashton, a former High Sheriff of Lancashire; seated in a landscape, dressed in the girlish style of the period, hugging his spaniel. William Pether also engraved some of Joseph Wright of Derby's most famous works, including 'A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery', 'The Farrier's Shop' and 'An Alchymist'.
CS: 1, state i of ii.
[Ref: 53219] £650.00

Athens, South View of the Acropolis. To J. Spencer Smith, Esq.r M.P. F.R.S. & F.S.A. &c. The Print from the Original Drawing in his Collection, is respectfully inscribed by E. Orme.
Drawn by Préaux on the Spot 1799. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published Nov.r 1 1804, by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, New Bond Street London.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), watermarked 'Russell'. Trimmed within plate, a little creasing.
A view looking up at the Acropolis, with the pediment of the Parthenon just visible above the walls. The artist, Jean Francois Préaulx, was a draughtsman in the service of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in the Levant and near east. He also engraved several pictures in the collection of John Sydney Smith (1796-1845, younger brother of Admiral Sydney Smith), who served in the British Embassy at Constantinople 1793-1801, first as private secretary to the ambassador and Secretary of Legation from 1798.
[Ref: 59676] £480.00

[View of the Parthenon from the Propylea.]
[Engraved by J. Bailey after Simone Pomardi.]
[London, published September 1, 1819, by Rodwell and Martin, Bond-street.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 270 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', no date. Trimmed close to printed border (never with printed title).
A view looking across rooftops to the Parthenon, from 'Views in Greece' by Edward Dodwell (1767-1832), published in parts between 1819 and 1821 to accompany 'A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806'. Dodwell produced 400 drawings and Pomardi 600 during their travels around Greece, many of which are now in the Packard Humanities Institute.
Abbey Travel 130.
[Ref: 59683] £390.00

Serenissimus Princeps ac Dominus, Dn Augustus, Dei Gratia, Dux Brunsvicensis et Lunæburgensis
Sereniss.o Principi ac Dn. humilimè consecrat Lucas Kilianus, MDCXXI [but later].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Narrow margins.
Augustus II (1579-1666), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1636, founder of the Herzog August Library at Wolfenbüttel, the largest collection of books north of the Alps. He was a friend of Henry IV of France and attended the coronation of James I of England.
Hollstein 131.
[Ref: 59792] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Colonel Barré.] 18.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Isaac Barré (1726-1802), shown holding his hat in his right hand, his left thrust into his waistcoat. Barré was an Irish soldier and MP who earned distinction during the Seven Years War and supported William Pitt during his time in Parliament.
BM Satires 6066.
[Ref: 60064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Seascape with a ship floundering on a rocky coastline] Tres Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet. Virgil
TBaston delin. J. Sartor sculp.
[Thomas Baston, n.d., c.1721.]
Scarce & rare etching with added artwork. Plate 195 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾"), with margins. Slightly stained. Tears to edges.
From an 18th century Print Room or Screen, plate seventeen from a series 'Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy with variety of other sea pieces'. Engraved by Johann Jakob Sartor after Thomas Baston, marine artist (1699-1730, fl.), who made a series of marine paintings for William III in 1699 and published the series of prints from which this plate comes from. The epigram from Virgil translates as 'The South wind whirled around three ships carrying them off onto hidden rocks
See 51231 for original without added artwork.
[Ref: 60051] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

_ proram Obvertit vento et] flridens Aquilone procella Velum Adverta ferit fluctufq ad Sydera tollit. Virgil
T Baston F. J. Sartor S.
[Thomas Baston, n.d., c.1721.]
Scarce & rare etching with added artwork. Plate 195 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾"), with margins. Stained. Tears to edges.
From an 18th century Print Room or Screen, plate from the series 'Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy with variety of other sea pieces'. Engraved by Johann Jakob Sartor after Thomas Baston, marine artist (1699-1730, fl.), who made a series of marine paintings for William III in 1699 and published the series of prints from which this plate comes himself. The epigram from Virgil translates as 'He is turned by the wind, and, laughing in the north, the storm strikes the Velum Warninga with a wave and takes it away to the Siders.'
See also reference 60051.
[Ref: 60052] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Female Intrepidity, or the Battle of the Belles, on ye Election of a King of Bath. Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[11th April, 1769.]
Etching. 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed top and bottom.
A satire on a scuffle, between both men and women, that occurred in the Bath Assembly Rooms, between the supporters of the two candidates for the Master of Ceremonies, causing the Riot Act to be read.
BM 4283.
[Ref: 59969] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Map of 24 Miles Round the City of Bath, Most humbly dedicated to the Residents and Visitors by their obedient Servant C. Harcourt Masters.
[n.d., c.1812.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 590 x 615mm (23¼ x 24¼"), folded into slipcase with old ink mss. title.
A detailed map of the environs of Bath, marking Glastonbury clockwise to Bristol, Newport, Cirencester, Cricklade and Salisbury.
Library of Congress, Bath in Time.
[Ref: 59723] £360.00

Historic Map of Bath. Indicating the Sites of Public Buildings and Residences of Famous Personages Connected with the History of the City.
Prepared by T. Sturgis Cotterell.
Printed and Published at the Bath Chronicle & Bath Pictorial Offices. Revised to 1898.
Wood engraved map, printed in colours. 570 x 450mm (22½ x 17¾"), folded into original printed boards, adverts on verso. Map with wax stains; covers taped at spine, damped stained.
A tourist's map of Bath, with extensive keys of important sights. Among the list of famous residents are the Henry Fielding, William Herschel, Beau Nash, Frederick Leighton, Thomas Gainsborough and, of course, Jane Austen.
[Ref: 59725] £75.00

[Untitled map of Bath]
London: G.W. Bacon & Co., Ltd., Norwich St. E.C.4.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Wood-engraved map. Sheet 670 x 830mm (26½ x 32¾"), folded into original cloth covers. Splits in folds, tape stains.
A map of Bath with advertisments for the wine merchants 'Sainsbury Bros.', famous tea and coffee merchants 'Gillards of Bath' and milliners William Rayner. We have dated the map from Bacon's address, which they used 1919-22.
[Ref: 59729] £60.00

[Earl Bathurst.] 19.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins, repaired tear going into image.
Caricature of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714 - 1794). His hands are thrust into his waistcoat; he wears a tie-wig and sword. He has an almost imbecile expression. Known as the Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, Bathurst was Lord Chancellor from 1771 to 1778.
BM Satires 6070. NPG D9622.
[Ref: 60081] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Beauty unmasked.
[After Henry Morland.]
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer. N.o 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Scarce mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Glued on an album sheet.
A portrait of a young woman, holding a mask in right hand and wearing an ermine-trimmed cloak over a low-necked gown with pearl jewellery and her hair up in a plumed turban with a coil hanging over left shoulder.
[Ref: 60085] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Ludwig van Beethoven.]
Werner E.A. Hoffmann [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 300 x 260mm (11¾ x 10¼"). Small tear near platemark at top.
The head of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
[Ref: 59821] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Giovanni Bellini Pittore.
Gio. Do. Campiglia del. P. Ant. Pazzi sc.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Fine engraving. 270 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"), with large margins.
A half-length self-portrait of Giovanni Bellini (c.1430-1516), Venetian painter of the Renaissance. This portrait was part of A. F. Gori's monumental 'Museum Florentium', which set out to engrave all the portraits of painters, architects, sculptors and patrons of the arts in the major galleries of Florence. This vast undertaking was issued in parts, taking over thirty years (1731-1766) to complete. In this case, the intermediate artist was Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768) and the engraver Pietro Antonio Pazzi (c. 1706 - after 1766).
[Ref: 59699] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dr Tom Bentley.
Cavr. Ghezzi. del. [Engraved by Arthur Pond.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, sheet 345 x 230mm (13¾ x 9¼"). False margins added.
A caricature of Thomas Bentley LLD (1693 - 1742), classical scholar, probably on his grand tour 1725-6. After Pierleone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), caricaturist and etcher who worked in Rome. It was used by Hogarth for his plate 'Characters and Caricaturas' to exemplify the difference (as Hogarth saw it) between the caricature of Ghezzi, Leonardo et al, and his own delineation of character.
BM: 1873,0712.643. See Martin Myrone & Tim Batchelor, 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art'; Bindman: Hogarth and his Times; Hake:80.
[Ref: 60018] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The City of Berlin.~Le Ville de Berlin.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, and Whittle & Laurie, 53 Fleet Street.
Engraving on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 270 x 450mm (7¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed at top. Small margins other three sides
At this time Berlin was the capital of Prussia. The seat of the electors of Brandenburg (after 1701, kings of Prussia) from 1486, Berlin suffered from the Thirty Years War (1618-48), but the reign of Frederick William (1640-88), the Great Elector, restored and improved the city. Occupied in the Seven Years War by Austrian (1757) and Russian (1760) troops and in the Napoleonic Wars by the French (1806-8), Berlin emerged from the conflicts as a center of German Culture, rivalling Vienna.
[Ref: 60047] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Gio. Lorenzo Bernini Scultore, Archietto, Pittore ecc.
Gio. Do. Campiglia del. e sc.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Fine engraving. 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (1598-1680), sculptor and architect, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. This portrait was part of A. F. Gori's monumental 'Museum Florentium', which set out to engrave all the portraits of painters, architects, sculptors and patrons of the arts in the major galleries of Florence. This vast undertaking was issued in parts, taking over thirty years (1731-1766) to complete. In this case, the intermediate artist and engraver was Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768)
[Ref: 59698] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Here Pope Sung. The above was carved on Popes Beech Tree at Binfield, Berks, by another celebrated Poet Lord Lyttelton when on a Visit at Bill Hill, the seat of the late General Gower.
Wm. DelaMotte fec. 1830. [etched in image.] William DelaMotte delt. et fecit.
Scarce etching. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"), with 'D' blindstamp. Trimmed to plate.
A broad tree trunk with one single curling branch in a field in Binfield, Berkshire, with scattered trees and a shepherd leaning on his staff to left, his sheep grazing nearby. George Lyttelton (1709-73), 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley, was secretary to Frederick Prince of Wales, and author of many poetical and historical works.
[Ref: 59688] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Black Brown & Fair. You tell me dear Girl, that I'm given to rove, That I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of Love... [R2]
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 [but later] by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), watermarked 1817. Extremely fine colour. Very slight offsetting near title left.
A fine example of this satirical songsheet with a scene at Wapping docks. The men, a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, stand on the pavement gazing up at four smiling women, one of whom is black, leaning out a window. A black sailor walks inside, his arm round the waist of another girl. The BM states there was no ‘Sir E. Bunbury’, instead suggesting it was drawn by Henry Bunbury.
BM Satires 10925.
[Ref: 59957] £480.00

Mr. Henry Blacker the British Giant. Born near Cuckfield in Sussex 1724. He is thought by all who have viewed him, to be the tallest Man ever exhibited in England, measuring 7 Feet 4 Inches & exceeds ye famous Mynheer Cajanus who was shewn with so much applause several years ago.
[Pub. by C. Johnson, c.1760.]
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate.
Henry Blacker, who came to London in 1751 to launch his career as a travelling giant, and is here compared with the Finnish giant Daniel Mynheer Cajanus (1704-49). From the 'Wonderful Magazine'.
[Ref: 60110] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Colonel Boden.] 39.
JS [James Sayers.]
Published 4.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Colonel George Boden, wearing his tricorne hat and with his hand in the pocket of a long coat. He was renowned for his large size.
BM Satires 6064.
[Ref: 60078] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Buonaparte. Engraved with permission by Rob.t Cooper from the original whole length Picture Painted by Mr. David his chief Painter at Paris.
London Published Jan.y 1815 for the Propietor by William Cribb, 13 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Stipple, rich impression. 505 x 365mm (19¾ x 14¼"). Cracks in image restored, some surface abrasions, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
Half length portrait of Napeolon Bonaparte, looking towards the front, dressed in uniform with cross and Grand Eagle of the Legion of honour, his right hand slipped inside his waistcoat. A detail of the full-length portrait by Jacques-Louis David, ''The Emperor Napoleon in his Study at the Tuileries''.
[Ref: 59651] £320.00

[Untitled portrait of a young man in a broad hat.]
Terburg [Moses ter Borch] se upsum del. A. Bartsch sc.
[Vienna, n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Moses ter Borch (1645-67) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose work mostly consists of drawings. He died during the Dutch attack on Chatham, during the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, and is buried in Harwich. This portrait was etched by Johann Adam Bartsch (von Bartsch fro 1812), a librarian and print historian. As an amateur etcher he produced a large series of facsimile prints after old master drawings, many of which were in the collection of his friend, Charles de Ligne.
[Ref: 59790] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Praia Rodrigues, near Rio de Janeiro] Praya Rodriguez. Près de Rio de Janeiro.
Villeneuve del. fig. par V. Adam. dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas
Lith. de Engelmann, Rue Louis-le-Grand No 27 a Paris
Lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 295 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½") very large margins.
Landscape in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with hunters in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff's scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846. This particular plate is of added interest owing to the involvement of the landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) as a draughtsman. Bonington lived in Paris for part of his short career, sharing a studio with Delacroix, and despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, his work has consistently been held in high esteem.
See Ref: 45564 for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 59894] £320.00

[View of Rio de Janeiro from the Carioca aqueduct] Vue de Rio-Janeiro. prise de l'Acqueduc.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Villeneuve del. fig. par V. Adam.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du faub Montmartre No.6 [1827-35]
Lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 280 x 355mm (11 x 14"), very large margins.
View of Rio de Janeiro with leisurely hunting party in foreground. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff's scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 59893] £360.00

[Repton's design for a dining room for the Royal Pavilion.]
H. Repton Esq.r del. J.C. Stader sculp.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"), set in letterpress, watermarked 'Turkey Mill 1824'?, very large margins. Scuff mark on right of plate.
Humphry Repton's design for a dining room at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton which, despite having the same Mughal influences, was never implemented. Despite being primarily a landscape designer, Repton (1752-1818) was hired to remodel the Pavilion by the Prince Regent in 1805. The Prince's money problems caused the project to be shelved, but John Nash made use of Repton's proposals when he finally redeveloped the building from 1814.
[Ref: 60097] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[William John Burchell.]
T.H. Maguire 1854.
Tinted lithograph, proof before letters. Printed area 295 x 245mm (11½ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Foxing.
Half length portrait of William John Burchell (1781-1863), botanist and nauralist, who lived on St Helena and in South Africa 1805-15, returning with 48 crates of specimens, including plants, skins, skeletons, insects, seeds, bulbs and fish. He wrote 'Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa' (1824-4). His travels in Brazil from 1825 to 1830 resulted in another large collection, including more than 20,000 insects. When he killed himself in 1863 his plant specimens, drawings and manuscripts, both South African and Brazilian, were presented to Kew Gardens and the insects to Oxford University Museum.
[Ref: 59769] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Read - Compare - and - Judge. Or the Freedom of Election Exemplified.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Aug.t 13th 1804 by SW Fores No 50 Piccadilly _ Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate.
A satire in support of Sir Francis Burdett (1770 –1844) in the 1804 Middlesex election against George Boulton Mainwaring (c.1773-1822). Although Burdett won, his return was declared void.
BM Satires 10265.
[Ref: 60092] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[General Burgoyne.] 23.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of John Burgoyne (1722-1792), holding out a paper in his right hand as if making a speech and wearing his general's uniform. Burgoyne was a politician and playwright, notable for his service in the Seven Years War and American Revolutionary War. The surrender of his army in 1777 at Saragota was a turning point in the war.
BM Satires 6068.
[Ref: 60072] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

John Byrom. M.A. F.R.S. ''Ha!'' quoth I to his Face ''my old friend, are you there?'' / And methought the face smil'd.
Engraved by Thopham, from an Original sketch by D. Rasbotham Esq.r In the Posession of Charles White Esq.r.
Leeds Pub.d 15th Dec.r 1814 by James Nichols.
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper at edges.
John Byrom (1692-1763), poet and inventor of a system of shorthand. He also coined the phrase ''Tweedledum and Tweedledee'', during a dispute about the merits of composers Handel and Bononcini.
[Ref: 59829] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Calendarium Londinense or the London Almanack for the Year 1919. The Cenotaph, Whitehall.
London. Published by W. Monk. Drawn Etched and Printed by W. Monk, 118, New Bond Street, W.
Etched image, 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with calendar underneath, sheet 400 x 290mm (15¾ x 12").
An issue of 'Monk's Calendar', a publication for print collectors founded in 1902 by William Monk (1863-1937) and published yearly until the year 2004. The view shows Whitehall and Lutyens' new Cenotaph, not officially unveiled until 11th November 1920, the second anniversary of the Armistice with Germany.
[Ref: 60103] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Californian Wedding.
Benezec del. Fitter sculp.
Published by John Trusler, Sept. 1. 1790.
Engraving, sheet 120 x 210mm (4¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark top and bottom. Light foxing.
A wedding ceremony of the indigenous peoples of California.
[Ref: 60066] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Jesus College Boat Club. Cambridge.
By F. Brittain and H.B. Playford.
Cambridge. W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 1928.
8vo, original red cloth gilt; pp. xv + 298, profusely illustrated. Foxed at edges.
An account of the history and racing activities of the Jesus Club Boat at the University of Cambridge.
[Ref: 59800] £70.00

The Canary Islands.
[London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14") very large margins.
Five coastal profiles, including Lanzerote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera From 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 59924] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Cary's Traveller's Companion, or, A Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England & Wales [...] [with] Cary's New Itinerary: or, An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross, Throughout England and Wales; With many of the principal Roads in Scotland.... Second Edition with Improvements.
London. Printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map & Printseller, Strand. 1st Jan.y 1791. [&] London: Printed for John Cary, No. 181 Strand, 1802 [-3].
Two works in one; 8vo (180 x 120mm, 7 x 4¾"), original full diced calf travelling case with empty pockets front and back. 'Companion': engr. title, pp. (iv)+(6)+(2)(ads); index map, 42 maps printed back to back, 1 folding map. 'Itinerary': engr. title & dedication; pp. (iv)+(1)(ad)+868+(2)(ads). All maps with original hand colour. With the bookplate of Henry Pakenham-Mahon of Strokeston Park. Binding with tear to flap, some wear and fading. Folding map of Yorkshire with tear on fold; two folding maps of 'Itinerary' both trimmed to allow opening of segments, one segment loose, with tears on folds.
An unusual travelling edition of two works by John Cary. The 'Traveller's Companion' has a map of England and Wales, 41 counties and maps of North & South Wales. The 'Itinerary' has two road maps of England & Wales, with extensive indexes of the roads. The adverts list some of Cary's maps, with one page dedicated to his globes. The empty pockets in the covers would most likely contain larger folding maps not called for in either the 'Companion' or 'Itinerary'. Henry Pakenham-Mahon (1851-1922) was an amateur photographer: in 2012, a collection of 324 of his glass plates was uncovered at Strokestown Park including several explicit images of live models. Strokestown (in County Roscommon, Ireland) is now home to the National Irish Famine Museum. Henry's grandfather was Denis Mahon, whose responce to a rent strike by his tenants at Strokestown was to evict them and force them to sail to Quebec in 1847, filling four ships. When news came back to Ireland that nearly half the passengers had died on route (primarily from cholera) Mahon was ambushed and shot dead, to general celebration.
[Ref: 59721] £850.00 view all images for this item

Caxton.
Holl sculp.
[n.d., 1819.]
Stipple set in letterpress. Sheet 230 x 150mm (9 x 6").
A miniature oval portrait of merchant William Caxton (1422-1491) who introduced the printing press to England, published in the 'Biographical Magazine containing portraits and characters of eminent and ingenious persons'.
[Ref: 59832] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chinese Lady.
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00

[A woman playing a cittern.]
[n.d., John Boydell?, c.1805.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"), on wove paper with large margins.
A woman playing a cittern, watched by a man leaning on a table. The BM states 'The print was reissued by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits' (1805)'.
BM 1876,1111.63.
[Ref: 59199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Livery Companies]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Top left "page 593"; 220 x 360mm (8¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate on right, new margin added, binding folds flattened. Small margins.
The arms of the fifty of the lesser City Livery Companies, numbered 13-62, after the Great Twelve City Livery Companies that had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515.
[Ref: 59959] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Livery Companies] The Twelve Companies. Mercers. Grocers. Drapers. Fishmongers. Goldsmiths. Skinners. Merchat Taylors. Haberdashers. Salters. Ironmongers. Vintners. Cloth-Workers.
[London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708.]
Scarce engraving. Top right "To Front. Voll:y.2nd"; Sheet 190 x 500mm (7½ x 19¾"), large margins. Repairs at binding folds, repaired nicks in edges.
The arms of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, those which had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515. From Edward Hatton's 'A New View of London; or an Ample Account of that City'.
[Ref: 59958] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Slave Merchant, Constantinople.]
[Designed from Nature & on Stone by T. Allom. Printed by C. Hullmandel.]
[Fisher, Son & Co., Paris & London.] [n.d., c.1845.]
Rare lithograph, proof before letters. Printed area 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"). Crease left bottom and slight soiling in unprinted areas.
An interior, with two men haggling over a woman slave, while other women look on. By Thomas Allom (1804 - 1872). Possibly from 'Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy. Designed and drawn ... by Thomas Allom, Esq. With descriptive letter-press by Emma Reeve' (21 plates).
[Ref: 59822] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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