Grosvenor Prints

Eisenbahn zwischen Liverpool and Manchester. 6ter Jahrgang. Tab II.
[n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph, sheet 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½").
German print of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 15th September 1830. The Duke of Wellington's train and other locomotives being readied for departure from Liverpool and people atop the Moorish Arch at Edge Hill wave and cheer.
[Ref: 57066] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Four-Cylinder Compound Express Locomotive, L. & N.W. Ry. Mr F.W. Webb, M.I.C.E., Chief Mechanical Engineer, Crewe. No 13. The Locomotive Magazine Series.
Reproduced from a Painting by F. Moore [i.e. Edwin Thomas Rudd]. Alf Cooke, Queen's Printer, Leeds.
[n.d., September 1901.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 270 x 440mm (10½ x 17¼"), A few stains & creases.
An illustration of the locomotive 'King Edward VII', with a tender. From No 69 of 'The Locomotive Magazine Series'. 'F. Moore' was a pseudonym, believed to have been originally for Edwin Thomas Rudd but used by others at least into the 1930s.
[Ref: 57118] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Single Express Locomotive, G.N. Ry. Supplement to The Locomotive Magazine Series.
From a Painting by F. Moore [i.e. Edwin Thomas Rudd]. Alf Cooke, Queen's Printer, Leeds.
[n.d., June 1900.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 270 x 440mm (10½ x 17¼"), A few stains.
An illustration of a locomotive and tender. From No 54 of 'The Locomotive Magazine Series'. 'F. Moore' was a pseudonym, believed to have been originally for Edwin Thomas Rudd but used by others at least into the 1930s.
See Ref: 48345
[Ref: 57121] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[State Visit of Louis Phillippe of France.] Le Roi a la Station de New-Cross.
Ed. Pingret pinx.t. A.d Cuvillier & Bayot. Imp. par Lemercier à Paris.
Paris, chez Chaillou [n.d., c.1844].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph on chine collé, on printed backing card. Printed area 320 x 395mm (12½ x 15½").
Louis Phillippe, king of the French, arriving at New Cross Station, Deptford, at the beginning of his state visit to Windsor Castle in 1844. His road carriage sits on a tender. A good image of a c. 1840's train and carriage.
[Ref: 56694] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Aerostatische Maschine des Herrn von Montgolfier, welche auf Kosten der Koenigle. Akad der Wissenschafften, zu Paris im Garten des Herrn Reveillon den 12 Sept. 1783 zu Stande kam. Tab 4.
[c.1783].
Rare engraving, plate 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), with small margins.
A diagram of a Montgolfier (the brothers Joseph-Michel (1740–1810) and Jacques-Étienne (1745–1799)) hot air ballon which was financed by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and launched from Jean-Baptiste Réveillon's (1725–1811) garden at Folie Titon on 12th September 1783.
[Ref: 57028] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. Grand day and evening fete, next Tuesday, August 7, 1838.] Ascent of the [N]assau Balloon. Combined with the Evening Entertainments. The Ascent Conducted by Mr. Green. Places in the Car for Ten Persons.
[Balne, Printer, 38, Gracechurch Street.] [c.1838].
Cut and glued to backing sheet. Damage losing some of the text.
A scarce advert for one of Charles Green's (1785-1870) ascensions in the balloon "Nassau" from Vauxhall Gardens. Charles Green was the first man to ascend in a balloon filled with coal-generated hydrogen gas in 1821. He made over 500 ascents and airborne excursions between 1821 and 1852, one of which was a record journey of about five hundred miles from Vauxhall Gardens in London to Weilburg in Germany. He regularly ascended a balloon above Vauxhall Gardens.
[Ref: 56935] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Olive Mount.
Drawn & Engraved by I. Shaw.
[British, c.1831.]
Wood engraving, rare; image 155 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"). Crease top left corner.
Engraving by Isaac Shaw showing a view of a steam locomotive pulling carriages through the Olive Mount cutting during the construction of the railway line between Liverpool and Manchester. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the world's first inter-city railway and was built under the supervision of chief engineer George Stephenson. Railways were developed mainly for the transportation of goods, mainly coal, but it was quickly realised that trains were also a good way of carrying passengers.
[Ref: 57065] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Ouse Burn Viaduct, in the Line of the Newcastle, North-Shields and Tynemouth Railway, Jonh [sic] and Benjamin Green, Architects and Engineers 1838.
T.M. Richardson Sen.r del & lithog.r. A Ducôtés Lithog.y 70 St Martins Lane London.
London, Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, & F. Loraine, Grey St, Newcastle upon Tyne [n.d., c.1838].
Tinted lithograph with hand colour, on card, as issued. Sheet 345 x 475mm (13½ x 18¾).
A railway viaduct, built 1838 with five laminated timber arches. These were replaced with iron on 1867, when the bridge was widened to four tracks. The Ouseburn Viaduct is now listed Grade II*.
[Ref: 56684] £480.00

[Wonderful Museum] Mons: Garnerin's Wonderful Airial Flight of 8000 feet high. from S.t George's Parade, North Audley Street; the Parashute descending after being seperated from the Balloon.
[Pub. June 1-1803 by Alex Hogg 16 Paternoster-row.]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed within plate losing publication line and part of the image. Glued to backing sheet. Some time staining and surface dirt.
Diagram of André-Jacques Garnerin's (1769 – 1823) parachute descent from his hot air balloon flight from St. George's Parade (the Volunteeer Ground, Grosvenor Square) on the evening of 21 September 1802. The parachute descended in a field near St Pancras. This trip gave rise to the English ballad, "Bold Garnerin went up, Which increased his Repute, And came safe to earth, In his Grand Parachute." The image is labeled with letters, suggesting that there was an associated key French balloonist Garnerin was appointed Official Aeronaut of France and visited England with his wife Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse, 1775–1847) in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens. He was also the inventor of the frameless parachute.
[Ref: 56938] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Cocking's parachute]. The Ascent of the Royal Nassau Balloon from Vauxhall, with the Parachute attached. [&] The fatal Descent of the Parachute by which Mr Cocking lost his life.
W. Lake litho 50 Old Bailey.
[n.d., c.1837.]
Two coloured lithographs. Sheets (at most) 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"). Trimmed as scraps. Fine repairs in ascent.
Two scenes of Robert Cocking's attempt at a parachute descent from a balloon on 24th July 1837: the successful ascent in the Royal Nassau, piloted by Charles Green and Edward Spencer; and the disastrous descent, in which the flimsy design broke up before it even hit the ground.
[Ref: 57018] £380.00

The Parachute [in old ink mss.]
A.L.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Rare oval stipple. Sheet 125 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper with ink mss. border and title.
A young boy playing with a toy parachute.
[Ref: 57029] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Chemin de Fer.
Lith. de Daems.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9"). Trimmed.
The inauguration of a passenger railway, watched by a huge crowd, probably Notre Dame de Paris in the background.
[Ref: 56965] £140.00

The Last of the Coaches.
[after James Pollard, c.1845]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to image as normal.
Lithograph after James Pollard's 1845 painting 'The Louth-London Royal Mail Travelling by Train from Peterborough East, Northamptonshire' (New Haven, Yale Center for British Art).
[Ref: 56997] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Rolls-Royce Company Christmas Card, illustrated Airshow, with flypast of Hawker Harts?]
[by Cyril Barraud.]
[Printed by] W.F. Sedgewick Ltd. Xmas 1934.
Etching, presented as a printed christmas card. Etching 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾") on front of a folded sheet watermarked 1934. Rare.
A christmas card with a printed greeting from A.F. Sidgreaves, managing director of Rolls Royce Ltd. It depicts an airshow with a flypast of biplanes in three ranks of three, most likely the Hawker Hart, a prominent British light bomber between the wars, powered by a Rolls-Royde engine. A Rolls Royce car is parked prominently among the spectators. Cyril Barraud (1877-1965), son of Herbert Rose Barraud and nephew of Francis Barraud. Having trained at the Brighton School of Art he emigrated to Winnepeg in 1913. He was commissioned as a lieutenant with the 43rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in 1915 but transferred to the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada a few months later. He was wounded in the leg fighting in France in 1917, but returned to active service. Barraud was one of the first Canadian artists hired by Lord Beaverbrook for the War Records Office to sketch Canadian battle zones around Ypres and Vimy Ridge-Arras sectors. Later he was seconded to the Canadian War Memorials Fund. After demobilisation he remained in England, painting and etching landscapes, some of which were used for the LNER carriage prints, and taking commissions for christmas cards like this.
[Ref: 37591] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Sage. [The first English Female Aerial Traveller, who ascended with Mr. Biggin, in Mr. Lunardi's Balloon, from St. George's Fields June 29th 1785; at 25 Minutes after one oClock, and descended a few Miles beyond Harrow in Middlesex, at three oClock, after traversing upwards of Thirty Miles on the Atmosphere.]
Tburke fecit. S. Shelley del.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet: 130 x 140mm (5 x 5½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Letitia Ann Sage (1750-1817) an actress who was the first woman to fly, riding in Vincenzo Lunardi's balloon.
See ref: 50053 for another version.
[Ref: 56977] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[San Franciso] Hallidie's patent Cable Tramway System, Worked without Horses or Locomotives.
[n.d., c.1883.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 285 x 420mm (11¼ x 16½"). Some creasing. Bit dusty.
A view of the trams on the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, the world's first practical cable car system, promoted by Andrew Smith Hallidie (1836-1900).
Wellcome: 36611i.
[Ref: 57099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

"the Deutsch Prize" Santos. Dumont. N.o 6.
Geo. Hum. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lt.d lith.
Vanity Fair Nov.r 14th 1901.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼").
Caricature of Alberto Santos Dumont (1873 - 1932), Brazillian aeronaut, sportsman and inventor, in a flying machine. The Deutsch de la Meurthe prize, simply known as the Deutsch prize, of 100,000 francs was offered by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe (born Salomon Henry Deutsch 1846–1919) to the first machine capable of flying a round trip from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and back in less than 30 minutes. On October 19, 1901, Santos-Dumont launched his Number 6 airship at 2:30 pm. After only nine minutes of flight, Santos-Dumont had rounded the Eiffel Tower, but then suffered an engine failure. To restart the engine, he had to climb back over the gondola rail without a safety harness. The attempt was successful, and he crossed the finish line in 29 minutes 30 seconds. However, a short delay arose before his mooring line was secured, and at first the adjudicating committee refused him the prize, despite de la Meurthe, who was present, declaring himself satisfied. This caused a public outcry from the crowds watching the flight, as well as comment in the press. However a face-saving compromise was reached, and Santos-Dumont was awarded the prize. In a charitable gesture, he gave half the prize to his crew and then donated the other half to the poor of Paris.
[Ref: 56945] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

This Print in commemoration of the opening of the Shoreham Branch of the London & Brighton Railway, is repectfully dedicated to the Shareholders by their Obedient Servant, W.H. Mason.
Drawn by H.G Hine. Printed by Lefevre, Newman S.t.
Published by W.H. Mason, at his Respository of Arts, Brighton. [n.d., c.1840].
Very rare lithograph, 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Small amount of creasing in small margins.
A crowd gathers at Shoreham-by-Sea railway station and along the cliffs waving at two steam trains. The original Shoreham station was a terminus built by the London and Brighton Railway and was opened on 11th May 1840. However it was demolished in 1845 when the Brighton and Chichester Railway opened its line to Worthing railway station. Both railways merged with others in July 1846 to become the London Brighton and South Coast Railway.
[Ref: 57137] £420.00

Old Locomotive Engine, constructed by the late George Stephenson, for Killingworth Colliery.
Published by W. Fordyce, Newcastle [n.d., c.1850].
Wood engraving. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾").
[Ref: 56963] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Opening of The First English Rail-Way between Stockton and Darlington, Sept. 27th, 1825. Race of Locomotives at Rainhill, Near Liverpool, in which George Stevenson's "Rocket" won, 1829. A First-Class Train on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-way, 1833. A Second-Class Train on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-way, 1833
[n.d, c.1880.]
Coloured lithograph, later impression, Sheet 415 x 550mm (16¼ x 21¾"). Repaired tears.
Four scenes from early British railway history.
[Ref: 56682] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Japanese script: trams in Tokyo]
[n.d., c.1903.]
Extremely rare chromolithograph. Sheet 400 x 545mm (15¾ x 21¾"). Multiple tears with loss in title in centre. Damaged.
Probably a newspaper illustration covering the electricification of the Tokyo Horse-drawn Railway in 1903, becoming the Tokyo Electric Railway (Toden)
[Ref: 56699] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ponte di Ferro della Pio-Latina presso Velletri.
[Etched by Cleter Gregorio.]
[n.d., c.1865.]
Aquatint. 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"), with large margins. Crease in bottom right corner.
A view of an iron railway viaduct at Velletri, near Rome, with a locomotive crossing. It was published in 'Le Scienze e le Arti sotto il pontificato di Pio IX' by Paolo Cacchiatelli and Gregorio Cleter, a record of the artistic, architectural, urban planning and scientific enterprises promoted by Pope Pius IX. This viaduct was needed to connect Rome and Velletri by rail. Originally it was planned as a monumental stone bridge, but an English company offered a cast iron bridge that they had built for a client but which had been rejected; it was shipped out and erected, allowing the Pope to open the railway in 1866.
[Ref: 56951] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Royal Children departing in their Railway Carriage for Scotland.] [&] [Queen Victoria Goes by Train.]
[London: Dean & Son, c.1850.]
Pair of tinted lithographs with hand colour. Sheets 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Trimmed into images, losing titles etc. Damaged.
Two scenes of the Royal Family's trip to Balmoral by train, first entering the royal carriage and then on route, with the 'Albion' locomotive.
See Ref: 58855, 20757, 12940 & 11711
[Ref: 56957] £380.00 view all images for this item

Gloster "Gamecock"
Geoffrey Watson [signed in pencil]
Numbered 16/30 [c.1931]
Etching, 260 x 340mm. 10¼ x 13¼".
Etching by Geoffrey Watson, who produced a series of prints showing aircraft in flight. The Gloster Gamecock, an RAF biplane, first flew in 1925. It was also used by the Finnish air force.
[Ref: 14906] £480.00

Gloster SS19
Geoffrey Watson [signed in pencil]
1931. Numbered 16/30
Etching, 260 x 340mm. 10¼ x 13¼".
Etching by Geoffrey Watson, who produced a series of prints showing aircraft in flight. The Gloster SS. 19, also known as the Gauntlet, entered RAF service in the 1930s and saw combat in Finland in 1939-40.
[Ref: 14905] £480.00

Siskin IIIa.
Geoffrey Watson [signed in pencil]
Etching, 260 x 340mm. 10¼ x 13¼". Slight line across sky.
Etching by Geoffrey Watson, who produced a series of prints showing aircraft in flight. The Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, one of the first RAF fighters designed after World War I. They were used by RAF squadrons between 1924 and 1932.
[Ref: 14828] £350.00

The Walking Philosopher.
DeBruyn del. Rothwell sc.
[Published by Harrison & Co 1/8/1802]
Rare engraving, sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed within plate.
A man with a balloon strapped to his body and paddle-shaped wings in each hand.
[Ref: 57061] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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