Combat de la Roche sur Yon, Vendée. (26 Aout 1793 Tom 1.er page 241 de Victoires Conquetes.)
F. Grenier. 1818. Lithog. de C. de Last.
au dépot gén.al de Lithog.ie ruë Jacob. No.14.
Lithograph. Printed area: 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 11¾"), with very large margins. Title faint.
A military scene showing the uprising of the Royalist supporters in the Vendée region of France, the war between the Republican army and the royalist supporters led to the deaths of tens of thousands of French civilians. A lady holding a pistol is fending off the French troops. A plate from ''The Victories, Conquests, Disasters, Reverses and the Civil War of the French from 1789-1815'' published in 1818.
[Ref: 44816] £180.00
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The Glorious Victory of Vittoria in Spain. This Glorious Battle was fought June 21 1813 near Vittoria in Spain when that Noble Veteran the Marquis Wellington and the Brave Army under his command who drove the French and gained a complete Victory...
Published July 16, 1813 by G. Thompson No.43 Long Lane.
Rare woodcut. Sheet: 370 x 470mm (14½ x 18½''). Damaged.
A scene showing the Battle of Vittoria which took place on June 1813 between the British Army under Wellington and the French commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. The British were victorious and this victory ultimately led to victory in the Peninsular War. A key below the image identifies various figures shown in the scene as well as major events.
[Ref: 51030] £380.00
Bataille de Wagram. Le 6 Juillet 1809 le lendemain de la Bataille d'Enzersdorff....
A Paris chez la V.e Chéreau, M.de d'Estampes, rue St Jacques, No 10 aux deux Colonnes près la Fontaine St Severin. [n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving with bright colour. 305 x 420mm (12 x 16½"), with wide margins. Stain in title area.
The French crossed the Danube near Enzersdorff and attacked the Austrian army on the 4th July 1809, with an inconclusive result. On following day the more decisive Battle of Wagram started, lasting two days. In the end Napoleon defeated the Austrians, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition. It is regarded as one of the most important battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 33522] £290.00
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The Capture of Napoleon's Carriage at Genappe by Prussian Cavalry.
[Anon, c.1815]
Engraving with hand-colouring, rare; sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"), Trimmed around image and title; glued to album sheet.
Following the Battle of Waterloo, Johannes Horn, who drove Napoleon's coach (or 'dormeuse') tried to bring the vehicle to safety. He drove from La Belle Alliance to near Genappe where the Prussian cavalry captured the carriage and left Horn for dead. The aftermath of the battle is suggested by the scattered cannons, barrels and cannonballs.
[Ref: 32294] £120.00
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Bonaparte's Observatory. To view the Battle of Waterloo, June 18-1815.
London Published by Thomas Kelly Paternoster Row. Oct. 14-1815.
Coloured engraving, watermark 1814; 245 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Trimmed with partial loss of the publication line; laid onto album sheet at sides.
A figure, pressumably Napoleon, looking through a telescope with two escorts atop the viewing platform of a trestle tower.
[Ref: 55848] £65.00
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[Keyplate] The Battle of Waterloo.
[n.d., 1815.]
Scarce etching with letterpress. Sheet 460 x 520mm (18¼ x 20½"), on paper watermarked 'J. Whatman 1814'. Small hole in letterpress.
The key plate to William Heath' painting of the Battle of Waterloo, with a 62-point key in English and French, as published in James Jenkins' Martial achievements, less than three months after the battle. The letterpress (which continues on the reverse of the sheet) contains the dispatches from the Duke of Wellington, and list of British officer casualties.
[Ref: 57910] £380.00
Combats de Wavre et de Hamme. (14. 15. Septembre 1792. Tome 1er page 93 des Vict. et Conquets.) ''Suis moi situ veux la Mériter.''
F. Grenier. 1818. Lithog. de C. de Last.
au dépot gén.al de Lithog ruë Jacob. No.14.
Lithograph. Printed area: 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 11¾"), with very large margins. Loss at top right corner missing.
A view of the Battle of the Wavre and Hamme Rivers in 1792. A scene from ''The Victories, Conquests, Disasters, Reverses and the Civil War of the French from 1789-1815'' published in 1818.
[Ref: 44804] £180.00
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