Grosvenor Prints

Homme de Goa. [&] Femme de Goa.
J. G. S. Sauveur Inv. Direx. Labrousse Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800].
Pair of coloured engravingd. Plate: 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½").
Portraits of a wealthy man and woman of Goa, wearing elaborate dress, from ''Costumes de Différent Pays'' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).
[Ref: 35077] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Goa, Een vermaerde koopstad in het Portugals indie, aen den mond der rivier Gacis.
Pet. Schenk.
Amsteld. C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Engraving, 215 x 265mm. 8½ x 10½". Two tears to upper margin, two small foxing spots to image.
Panoramic view in Goa, on the west coast of India, with some native inhabitants in the foreground, one riding an elephant. Portuguese first landed in Goa as merchants, in the early 16th century, and conquered it soon thereafter. The Portuguese overseas territory existed for about 450 years, until it was annexed by India in 1961. Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and Latin. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
Hollstein, vol XV, nos.1306-1405.
[Ref: 11078] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Sea Ingagement betwixt the Portuges and Dutch near Goa.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraving. 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), set in text, very large margins.
The Battle of Goa, January 1638. One of a series of battles which the Portugese won. From the account of Philips Baelde (or Father Philippus Baldaeus) of India and Sri Lanka, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58628] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Hac forma Lusitanorum nobiliores et qui opulentiores se gestari jubent Op dese maniere laeten haer die Portugeesen draegen die van affcompste en vermoegen zyn.
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Joannes à Doetechum: fecit.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving, 16th century watermark. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"), large margins. Repaired split in lower centre fold.
An important Portuguese nobleman in a pallanquin carried by slaves. Engraved by Jan van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
[Ref: 59680] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Scaphe piscatorie Goensium et Cochinensium...
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Joannes à Doetechum: fec.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving, 16th century watermark. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½") very large margins.
Illustrations of fishing boats of the East Indies. Engraved by Jan van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
[Ref: 51996] £380.00

Goa, From the Upper Curtain.
Drawn on the Spot by J.T. Rawlins. On Stone by Dean & Co.
[1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Slight cockling.
A view of the Western port town of Goa. An illustration from 'The History of China and India Pictorial and Descriptive...' by Julia Corner 1847.
Abbey 468, Plate 3.
[Ref: 50122] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Goa] Hoc Habitu, qui e Lusitanis Nobilitate aut dignitate clariores in India fere conspiciuntur per plateas obequitant. Op dese maniere rijden gemeenlick over straeten die Portugeesche Edellieden Rigierders en Raetsheeren.
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Joann à Doete: fec.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"), large margins. A very small hole in centre fold.
A Portuguese dignitary on horseback, surrounded by servants (one of whom shelters the rider with a 'Sombreiro', a large parasol), rides through the streets of India. Engraved by Jan van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
See Ref: 51620 (trimmed)
[Ref: 59678] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Goa] Indorum casæ villæ, et vici circa Goam.
AvLinschoten. Joan à Doet: fe:.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), large margins. Wax stain in image.
A Goan village with women bathing. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62372] £450.00

Nupiarum ritus, et epule in Provincia Ballagare supra Goam. [Nupt]
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Joann à Doete: fec.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Trimmed at sides to image, laid on card, old ink mss. pagination.
A marriage procession, with musicians playing pipes and drums. Engraved by Jan van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
See Ref 59678
[Ref: 51621] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Goa] Hoc Habitu, qui e Lusitanis Nobilitate aut dignitate clariores in India fere conspiciuntur per plateas obequitant.
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Joann à Doete: fec.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Trimmed at sides, small loss of image top corners, laid on card, old ink mss. pagination.
A Portuguese dignitary on horseback, surrounded by servants, one of whom shelters the rider with a 'Sombreiro', a large parasol. Engraved by Jan van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
Ref: See 59678
[Ref: 51620] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Trees of India.]
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Baptista à Doetechum: fecit.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"), very large margins. Repaired split in lower centre fold.
An illustration of cash crop trees of India, including Coco palms, pepper, areca and fig. Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
[Ref: 59682] £360.00

Legati Regis Ballagatte in urbe Goa comitatus. Die staet des Ambassateurs van den Coninck van Ballagatte binnen Goa.
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Joann à Doete: fec.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Trimmed at sides to image, laid on card, old ink mss. pagination.
'The Ambassador of the King of Ballagatte in Goa', showing him in a sedan chair, surrounded by guards. Engraved by Jan van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
[Ref: 51619] £320.00

[Hindu Goddess.] Typus Pullae seu cybelis aut Isidis Sinensium. Characteres Sacri quos Sinae a Brachmanib acceperunt ÿsq magnae suae Deastrae attributa experimunt.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 305 x 210mm (12 x 8¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet at corners.
A portrait of Hindu multiarmed goddess sitting upon a lotus. Above her are sanskrit like characters.
[Ref: 49910] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sonnah Waller.
[Drawn from nature & on stone by Major J. Luard.]
[Printed by Graf & Soret.][n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph on india. Sheet: 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"). Trimmed, title and publication line missing.
A scene showing an Indian goldsmith at work watched by two women in saris. From 'A Series of Views in India' by Major John Luard of the 16th Lancers.
[Ref: 46045] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Gonuck Ghur.
Drawn by Capt.n Barton. R.Ackermann's Lithography.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Printed area 230 x 330mm. Ink stamp on verso.
From '12 Views of Hill Forts in the Western Ghats near Bombay' by Captain James Barton (1793-1829), an artillery officer in the Fourth Anglo-Maratha War, 1817-19. The Western Ghats are a range of hills that reach from the state of Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu and separate Bombay, on the western coast, from central India.
[Ref: 7621] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Cutwaly Gate, Gour [&] A Small Gateway leading through the east side of the rampart of the Fort of Gour. [verso of the former] The Cutwaly or south gate of the ancient City of Gour from coloured prints done from sketches of Robert Creighton Esqre Grand father of the present who had the appointment of Malda & the care of the ruins of Gour many years before my brother
Two pencil drawings, each approx. 270 x 365mm (10½ x 14¼"). Water staining.
Two drawings of the ruined city of Gau?a or Lakhnauti (formerly known as Gour) on the India-Bangladesh border. The drawings are based on prints published in 'The ruins of Gour described and represented in eighteen views', which were themselves made after drawings by Henry Creighton, grandfather of the maker of these drawings (mistakenly referred to as Robert in the inscription). Malda, also referred to in the inscription, is a nearby city which gives its name to the Malda District in West Bengal which includes Gour.
[Ref: 44781] £420.00 view all images for this item

[Great Reed Warbler] 26. L'Efarvatte et son nid. Grandeur naturelle. Sylvia arundinacea (Latham.) Europe.
Edouard Traviés.
London pub by Gambart, Junin & Co. 25 Berniers S.t.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 490 x 375mm (19¼ x 14¾"). Printseller's blindstamp.
A great reed warbler on its distinctive nest. Plate 26 of the series 'Les oiseaux les plus remarquables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs'.
[Ref: 50624] £360.00

Sketches about Kurrah Mannickpore. by Lieu.t G. Abbott, 15th Reg.t Nat. Inf.y, in the Service of the Honourable East India Company.
[London, Colnagi & Son, 1831.]
10 tinted lithographs (of 11) on india, lacking all text. Each c. 280 x 380mm, 11 x 15". With another lithograph by Abbott from a different series. Some foxing.
A scarce series of views around Manekpore in Gujarat, India, lithographed by Nicholson, with the title by Gauci. The missing plate is apparently the dedication. According to the introduction, not present, this work was published for the benefit of Abbott's widowed mother and younger siblings, "now in England after a long residence in India", issued with the permission of the East India Company. The List of Subscribers (also lacking) lists 150 names suggesting this work is very rare: certainly it is not listed in Abbey Travel. We have not been able to trace the source of the extra plate, 'View Taken from the Top of the Breach in the Long Necked Bastion, Looking towards the Interior of the Fort. Bhurtpoore" (Bharatpur), lithographed by Templeton after Abbott.
[Ref: 17031] £950.00 view all images for this item

Le Puissant Idalcansi, Roy de Gouzarata ou Camboya, de Dulcinde, de Decan, dOrixa, & Seig.r de touttes les Costes de Malabares….Ouvrages les plus Estimez des Indes,&
[Engraved by De Larmessin].
A Paris Chez P Bertrand Rue St. Iacques a la Pomme d'Or, proche St Seuerin, Avec Pr, du Roy [n.d. c.1690].
Engraving. 175 x 240mm. Foxing/staining, mostly in margins. Pin-sized hole lower left of frame.
'The powerful Idalcansi, king of Gujurat or Cambaya, Dulcinda, Dekkan, Odisha etc, and master of all the Malabar coast and of the lands where the famous river which give India its name begins. The one who most strongly opposes the power of the Great Mogol, he claims to be descended from Alcidaris, the sole living descendant of the Great Tamberlane, this powerful Indian king can raise armies from 6- to 700- thousand men, and 800 elephants. He seeks gold mines, the finest diamonds, and other precious stones, including rubies, emeralds, turqoise, topaz, sapphires and a quantity of amethysts, chrysolites, agates, and his palaces are built from marble illuminated with gold leaf. His people are the most ingenious in spirit, perform the greatest kindnesses, and the most admired works in the Indias, etc.'
Collection of the Royal House of Savoy and Italy.
[Ref: 1649] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bazar.
[by Balthazar Solvyns.]
[Published Paris, 1811.]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 490 x 355mm (19¼ x 13¾"). With letterpress description in French and English. Central fold as issued; uncut sheet.
'There are at present in Hindoostan few Bazars frequented exclusively by Hindoos: this which the print represents is of that number' (from accompanying letterpress). The scene shows merchants selling fish, meat, fruit and vegetables. 'An European who is satisfied with a simple diet may live very cheap in India, but once luxuries are admitted, the expence of the table becomes enormous, particularly respecting wines'. From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33642] £480.00

A Hindoo Place of Worship.
Daniell Pinx.t/ J. C. Stadler Aquatinta.
Published & Sold July 30 1804 by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, 59 New Bond Street, London.
Coloured aquatint with small margins. Platemark: 327 x 493mm. (12¾ x 19¼").
Scene showing a Brahmin standing by a pillar. The pillar is decorated with a small canopy and some garlands made of white blossoms. From the series titled 'Twenty - Four Views in Hindostan', by Edward Orme, published in London in 1801-4. In addition to "Views of Hindostan", Orme was involved in several other publications including J. Walker’s "The Itinerant" (1799), Francis William Blagdon’s "A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India" (1806) and F.B. Solvyn’s "The Costumes of Hindostan" (1805).
Abbey. 424, 16.
[Ref: 29853] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Beyde. [Physician]
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Uncut sheet.
'Menu gives the descent of Physicians from a Brahmun and a woman of the cast of Byces or Merchants. Their age in general gains them the credit of experience, which ensures to them great respect. They pursue a system of medicine traced out in the sacred writings, and from which they are not allowed to depart. As they are deprived too of instruction by the inspection of dead bodies, they are totally deficient in anatomical knowledge. 'The carved wood seen in the plate, and which is called bursah-caut, is placed in commemoration of the dead before the houses, in the bazars or markets, on the high roads, near the pagods, or on the stairs which lead to the river, where the greater number of them are to be seen, because there the Hindoos prefer to terminate their career' (from letterpress published with the print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33671] £360.00

Causto.
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 355 x 245mm (9½ x 13¾"). Uncut sheet.
A causto from Calcutta. 'He who is drawn here wrote in one of the public offices, and was perhaps the only one in the town of Calcutta' (from letterpress published with the print). Many caustos were employed as writers by the government or by foreign merchants. From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33659] £450.00

[Horse richly caparisoned, and a Tattou] Cheval richement caparaçonné et Tattou.
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1811]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). With letterpress description in French and English. Uncut sheet.
Arabian horse, 'the race most esteemed in Hindoostan, of which considerable numbers are constantly imported...the horse near the Arabian is a Tattou, or one of the Hindoo race. For size and beauty he bears no comparison with the other, but is superior to him for use...' (from accompanying letterpress). From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33647] £320.00

[Jugglers] Jongleurs
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1811]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). With letterpress description in French and English. Uncut sheet.
Indian performers: in foreground sword-swallower on left, a juggler on right 'whose tricks are less perillous', and (centre) a man who juggles with 'two canon balls of thirty or forty pounds weight'. The figure at the top of the image is 'a woman who lies flat, upon an iron plate which turns round upon a sharp point fixed on the top of a bambou' (quotations from accompanying letterpress). From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
see also ref. 15034.
[Ref: 33648] £340.00

Mohabharat or Chorah. [Explaining of the Text and Commentaries of the Mohabaurut by a Brahmun]
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808.]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 495 x 360mm (19½ x 14¼"). Uncut sheet; central fold as issued.
'The Brauhmun, adorned with red flowers, is seated on an eminence or little hill of earth, holding in his hands the poitahs or leaves of trees upon which is engraved the text of the Mohabaurut, one of the sacred books of the Hindoos. Upon a stool before him are other poitahs, and opposite to him the salgram stone, the sunk or shell, and the guntah or bell' (from letterpress published with print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33679] £320.00

Rahouths.
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Uncut sheet.
'This tribe, who inhabit a mountainous country, form...a military cast, and esteems themselves superior to the others, asserting that they, as well as the Ouriahs, descend from the first inhabitants of Hindoostan, which adds not a little to their pride...many of them are seen in the service of the grandees of the country, as well as foreigners...they are well looking and have something of a military air; but are nevertheless seldom employed in the service of the house, as they would not easily bear the subjection of domestic attendance. They run before the palanquin, go on messages, carry letters, etc' (from letterpress published with the print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33674] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sounnar-Banyahs. [Money-changers]
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Uncut sheet; central fold as issued.
'The money changers who are also called shroffs, are at the same time bankers. They are good calculators, and lend upon pledges at a very high interest. In general, their principal characteristic is their avidity and ostentatious luxury...they are, as stockholders, at the head of the most considerable trading houses of Hindoostan...they acquire also great importance from the power which they exercise in regulating every orning the price of exchange of notes (hourdies) and of coins, which determines that of every article in the bazars or markets...' (from letterpress published with the print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33667] £350.00

Tillys. [Retailers]
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Uncut sheet; central fold as issued.
Retailers of daily articles (rice, spices, wood, fruit etc), who also change money. 'The plate represents a retailer sitting upon his little board, in the middle of his shop. The Tillys have a spoon which they use with great dexterity to take up the articles that are called for. They wrap up the smaller objects in plantain leaves. One of these leaves also serves to write the accounts of their different sales' (from letterpress published with the print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33666] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hindoo Girl.
[after Henry Corbould.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Pencil sketch, with indistinct signature (Jemima Woodmason?]. Sheet 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Laid on album paper at corners. blind stamp top left.
A pencil sketch of the statue of a seated woman, arm resting on an urn, sculpted by Sir Richard Westmacott in 1821 for a monument in St John’s Cathedral, Calcutta, erected in honour of Alexander Colvin, a British merchant. A contemporary copy of the illustration drawn by Henry Corbould and engraved by Thomson for 'The Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon', 1825.
[Ref: 60552] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nariel Hooka.
[by Balthazar Solvyns.]
[published Paris, 1811]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 245 x355mm (9½ x 13¾"). Uncut sheet.
Hindu smoking a Narial Hooka. From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33655] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Snake Hooka] Houka à Tuyau
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1811]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 245 x355mm (9½ x 13¾"). Uncut sheet.
The Snake Hookah: 'This is the Hooka of the richer classes, and that which the Europeans have adopted...this instrument which frequently costs seveal hundred pounds, becomes an object of great expence' (from letterpress published with print). From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33656] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Horry-Seng-Karten.
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1808]
Etching printed in colour with hand-colouring, platemark approx 495 x 360mm (19½ x 14¼"). Uncut sheet; central fold as issued.
'Hurry is the name given to Vestno incarnate for the conservation of the human race. Hurry-Sung-Kartun is that of a religious festival celebrated in honour of the god. 'A Vestnub Brahmun recites the incarnation and the life of Hurry, whose loves are also the subject of his song. What relates to this latter part is repeated by other Vestnubs, to the sound of various instruments, the baunt, the mirdun and the kurtaul' (from letterpress published with print). From the first volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33670] £360.00

Hyder-Ali [Commander in Chief of the Mahrattas.] [&] Tipoo Saib.
[Hyder Ali - F. Bonneville Del.t. J. Chapman Sculp.t.]
[Published as the Act directs, Sept.r 10, 1794.]
Pair of stipples on album paper, trimmed as ovals. Each 105 x 85mm (4 x 3½"), titles excised and pasted underneath.
Oval portraits of Hyder Ali (c. 1720-1782), de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India, and his son Tipu Sultan (1750-99). The names have been switched.
[Ref: 52322] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Hyder-Ali, Commander in Chief of the Mahrattas.
F. Bonneville Del.t. J. Chapman Sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs, Sept.r 10, 1794.
Stipple. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with wide margins.
Oval portrait of Hyder Ali (c. 1720-1782), de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India; father of Tipu Sultan. He is incorrectly described as the Commander in Chief of the Marathas. He fought a series of wars against the British East India Company during the Anglo-Mysore Wars.
[Ref: 27038] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Pettah The Citadel & Pettah of Dowlutabad. A Fortress belonging to the Nizam, near Aurungabad.
G. Fitz Clarence del.t. Engraved by R. Havell & Son.
London, Published April 1819, by John Murray, Albermarle Street.
Coloured aquatint. Rare. Sheet size: 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Trimmed inside plate at three edges.
A view of the Devagiri-Daulatabad fort, overlooking the citadel of Daulatabad. Plate 1 from 'Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England: in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818', by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence, first Earl of Munster (1794 - 1842). Fitzclarence was a military commander in India and President of the Royal Asiatic Society of London.
Abbey. 519.1. Bohn says in 1841 this volume is very scarce.
[Ref: 38092] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Malabar.
[Amsterdam: Cornelis Claes, c.1606.]
Engraved map. 90 x 130mm (3½ x 5").
A miniature map of the Indian peninsula and part of Sri Lanka, orientated with north to the left, probably engraved by Pieter van der Keere and published in a French edition of Bertius's 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'
[Ref: 31827] £120.00

[Scene in the Mountains - India.]
W. Westall pinx. J. Landseer Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1820.]
A rare engraving on india. India 305 x 248mm. 12 x 9¾".
A girl, with washing balanced on her head, walks home from the stream passes a young man seated on a log.
[Ref: 15487] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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The Burial Place of A Peer Zada, Anopther.
Colonel Ward Pinx.t./ W. Orme delin.
Published & Sold Jan.y. 1. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond St. London.
Coloured aquatint with small margins. Platemark: 490 x 370mm. (19 x 15¼").
A scene depicting the tomb of a Muslim holy man at Anupshahr, Uttar Pradesh. The obelisk to the left would have acted as a lamp stand. Within the walls is a tank for the purpose of bathing before entering the mosque. From the series titled 'Twenty - Four Views in Hindostan', by Edward Orme, published in London in 1801-4. In addition to "Views of Hindoostan", Orme was involved in several other publications including J. Walker’s "The Itinerant" (1799), Francis William Blagdon’s "A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India" (1806) and F.B. Solvyn’s "The Costumes of Hindostan" (1805).
Abbey. 424, 7.
[Ref: 29861] £390.00

[Indian.] Indien.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47033] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Indian? cemetery.] 'Amoungst the stones that fallen decay, [/] Or yet their turbaned foreheads rear, [/] Some sculptured shafts some tablets say [/] A different race one flourished here. [/] Carlisle.
E.S.
Dec. 1820.
Pencil sketch, sheet 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾").
A ruined cemetery with fallen headstones.
[Ref: 39221] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Indian woman with a muntjac deer and peacock-feather fan; on reverse are three scraps with samples of Oriental languages.]
Rev.d T. Price Nov.r 1872.
Lithograph with fine hand colour, French. Oval, 260 x 195mm, 10¼ x 7¾". Three paper scraps, with ink mss. within gilt-embossed paper borders, pasted on album sheet, 390 x 240mm, 15¼ x 9½".
Several Oriental quotations, some with English translations. The scripts include Greek, Arabic, Marathi, Persian and Urdu, and possibly Farsi.
[Ref: 25240] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Indian Jugglers.
Pubd.1.Octr.1813, at R.Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Coloured aquatint. 146 x 235mm. 5¾ x 9¼".
Three Indian jugglers. These were common figures in a town or a village. They were the entertainers in the rural life of India. At times were they seen in the cities entertaining crowds on the road. They were nomadic people. Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it did cover all of these fields. At the time, it was considered to be of great influence to the English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.
[Ref: 15034] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Indian man carving.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Original coloured watercolour on card. 215 x 184mm. 8½ x 7¼".
An Indian man outside a hut with a bamboo awning, and seated on a woven rug. He is carving with his knife, a basket of coal and a hookah to his right.
[Ref: 17973] £320.00

Incidents in the Indian War. _ No.1. Treachery and Fidelity.
Watts Phillips del_ E. Walker, lith. Day & Son, Lithrs. to The Queen.
London, Published by Ackermann & Co. 106 Strand [n.d., 1857].
Sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, rare, sheet 380 x 260mm. 15 x 10¼". A little soiled.
Dramatic illustration of an "Extract from a private letter" printed below, which reports how a faithful guard-dog protected a British child from a would-be Indian assassin during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The rebellion began in the town of Meerut when a group of sepoys, native soldiers employed by the British East India Company's army, mutinied because of perceived race-based injustices and inequities. The uprising was soon converted into a wider civilian insurrection against the Company. From a populist series, 'Incidents in the Indian War'. Watts Phillips (1825 - 1874) was an illustrator and dramatist, and pupil of George Cruikshank.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 27417] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Indian Pastime.
Hamerton inv. et lith.
Printed by Graf & Soret. [n.d. c.1845.]
Very fine & rare coloured lithograph. 234 x 285mm. Laid on album page, slightly time stained.
An indian pastime; two young ladies enticed by a young man playing bells; an Indian temple seen in the background through the trees.
[Ref: 24187] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Indian women cooking.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Original coloured watercolour on card 216x 177mm. 8½ x 7".
An indian women seated on a woven mat in the shade underneath a tree. In front of her is a round flat stone on which she moves around a spreader.
[Ref: 17974] £320.00

[Jahanara Begum] Segum Saheb.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving 285 x 175mm (11¼ x 7"), with large margins. Some spotting
A full length portrait of Jahanara Begum (1614-81), eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan. Although the title of the print reads 'Segum Saheb', Ogilby's text refers to her as 'Begum Saheb', 'My Lady Princess'. From John Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 47536] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View at Jaulna.
Drawn by Capt.n Barton. R.Ackermann's Lithography.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Printed area 230 x 330mm. Ink stamp on verso, some staining.
From '12 Views of Hill Forts in the Western Ghats near Bombay' by Captain James Barton (1793-1829), an artillery officer in the Fourth Anglo-Maratha War, 1817-19. The Western Ghats are a range of hills that reach from the state of Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu and separate Bombay, on the western coast, from central India.
[Ref: 7625] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

View at Jaulna.
Drawn by Capt.n Barton. R.Ackermann's Lithography.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Printed area 230 x 330mm. Ink stamp on verso, crease in margin.
From '12 Views of Hill Forts in the Western Ghats near Bombay' by Captain James Barton (1793-1829), an artillery officer in the Fourth Anglo-Maratha War, 1817-19. The Western Ghats are a range of hills that reach from the state of Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu and separate Bombay, on the western coast, from central India.
[Ref: 7623] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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