Grosvenor Prints

View of Enontekis, at the Source of the Muonio. shewing the Ministers House, the Church, and the Warehouses of the Lapps, and Merchants of Tornea.
E.D. Clarke delt. L. Byrne Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1. 1819 by T. Cadell & W. Davies Strand. London.
Engraving, sheet 210 x 260mm. 8¼ x 10¼". Trimmed within plate.
Enontekio, Finland, on the banks of the Muonio River. From 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia & Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769 – 1822), English mineralogist and traveller. In 1799 Clarke set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke was of considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts, etc., which had been collected by the French savants.
[Ref: 13511] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Winter Clothing. Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Summer Clothing.
E.D. Clarke delt. R. Pollard Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1. 1819 by T. Cadell & W. Davies Strand. London.
Engraving, 200 x 275mm. 8 x 10¾". Slightly soiled.
Finnish costume plate, two images from a single plate. From 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia & Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769 – 1822), English mineralogist and traveller. In 1799 Clarke set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke was of considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts, etc., which had been collected by the French savants.
[Ref: 13512] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in Russian Finland. The Seat of a Nobleman near Wyburg. [&] A Scene in Russian Finland. The Seat of a Nobleman near Wyburg.
Mortinoff Pinx.t in the Possession of Baron Nicolay. Aquatinted by M. Merigot.
London Published May 1 1805 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Pair of rare coloured aquatints. Each c.420 x 520mm (16¾ x 20½"). Narrow margins; second plate with repairs, laid on archival tissue.
Two views of an estate on the Vyborg Bay, Russia, engraved by J. Mérigot after Andrej Jefimovitsh Martinoff.
[Ref: 57682] £680.00 view all images for this item

No 5. [A Woman of Finland in her Holiday Dress.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Portrait of a Finnish woman dressed in a heavily-embroidered dress, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37870] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Village de Kyrö en Finland, 22 8.br 1839.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Lith par Sabatier. Imp. Lemercier à Paris.
Paris. Arthu-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d., 1842.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 440mm (13½ x 17¼"). Very large margins.
The rocky scenery of Kyrö (Karinainen) in western Finland. It was published in 'Voyages de la Commission Scientifique du Nord, en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et au Feröe, pendant les années 1838, 1839 et 1840, sur la corvette La Recherche'.
[Ref: 37048] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Les Thermopiles (Environ de Tammerfors).
Dessiné et lith. par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier à Paris.
Paris. Arthu-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d., 1842.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 440mm (13½ x 17¼").
A narrow passage between two cliffs near Tammerfors (Tampere) in southern Finland. It was published in 'Voyages de la Commission Scientifique du Nord, en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et au Feröe, pendant les années 1838, 1839 et 1840, sur la corvette La Recherche'.
[Ref: 37053] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Lake view near Turku, Finland.] Vue de Sjolac près de la Gymnastique.
[Anon, c.1880.]
Watercolour, 95 x 150mm (3¾ x 6"). Glued to album sheet, with cut out watercolours of birds. Ms in pencil 'My cousins House in Finland nr Abo'.
Attractive Victorian watercolour showing a view in Finland, identified by manuscript naming it as near Abo (the Swedish name for the city of Turku in Southwest Finland). Swedish, while still widely spoken in Finland, was still more common in the 19th century.
[Ref: 39596] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fish Barks.
Drawn and Etched by John Augustus Atkinson.
London Published as the Act directs, May 1. 1803, by J.A. Atkinson and Ja.s Walker, No. 8, Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess.rs John & Josiah Boydell, Pall Mall & Cheapside.
Hand coloured soft gound etching and aquatint with very large margins. Watermarked paper: 'J. Whatman. 1801'. Platemark: 185 x 245mm (7¼ x 9¾").
Plate 85 from John Augustus Atkinson's (1775 - 1831) 'A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians', 1803 - 1804. The scene depicts Russian fishermen and women on a row boat on the Neva. According to the text these vessels 'serve the fishmongers at once for dwelling houses, shops and fishponds... the lower part of the bark is divided into different wells for the keeping [of] all kinds of fresh-water fish'. John Augustus Atkinson was a British etcher, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He spent 1784 - 1801 in Russia with his uncle, James Walker. After returning to London in 1801, he made prints after his works, of Russian subjects, and made outline etchings for other artists. He also executed paintings on military subjects and battles.
Abbey: 223.
[Ref: 33502] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Toscane. [A set of eight views in Florence]. Vue générale prise du coté de Bello Sgaurdo + Veduta generale presa dalla parte di Bello Sguardo. [/] Ponte A. S. Trinita, Firenze. [/] Pont anx Graces + Ponte alle Grazie. [/] Palais vieux et Loge des Lanzi + Palazzo becchio e Luggi dei Lanzi. [/] Palais Putti + Palazzo Pitti. [/] Ste..Marie des fleurs (la Cathedrale.) + Sta..Maria del fiore (Si Duomo.) [/] Sainte Marie nouvelle + Santa Maria novella. [/] Porte St. Gallo + Porta Sn. Gallo.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. [Various engravers].
Imp. Lemercier, a Paris. Paris, publie par Bulla, rue Tiquetonne, 18 et (Mon. Aumont) Francois Delarue, Succ, rue JJ Rousseau 10. [n.d., c.1850].
Set of seven tinted lithographs with one aquatint. Unbound. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15") each.
A set of eight views in Florence, the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, including seven tinted lithographs after Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), titles in French and Italian, and one aquatint after Swiss painter Salomon Corrodi (1810-1892). The set includes a stunning panoramic view of the city; a view of the Renaissance Ponte Santa Trìnita 'Holy Trinity Bridge', spanning the river Arno; the Palazzo Pitti, situated on the south side of the River Arno; a view from the front of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore or 'Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower', which remains the main church of Florence; and the Porta Galla, or 'the Triumphal Arch'.
[Ref: 33313] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

A View of Florence from the Convent of Capuchins at Montugi.
Joseph Zocchi Delin.t. T. Bowles Sculp.t.
Printed for [***] Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Original coloured engraving. Sheet 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"). Trimmed and laid on card as a vüe d'optique, title (as above) pasted on reverse. Surface scuffed. with some colour oxidation.
A prospect of Florence after Giuseppe Zocchi (c.?1711-67), best known for his Vedute of his native city, Florence.
[Ref: 34041] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Florence Taken without the Cross Gate near the River Arno.
Jo Zocchi Delin.t Parr Sculp.t.
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament. London Printed for R. Sayer Map & Printseller opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street. and J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside.
Very fine hand coloured engraving on J Whatman paper water marked 1808. Plate 300 x 450mm (11¾ x 17¾). Trimmed to plate on right side and small margins on the other three.
A view in Florence Italy showing fisherman at work.
[Ref: 56294] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Palaces of the Seigniors Corsi and Viviani at Florence.
Jo. Zocchi Delin.t. Parr sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 1, 1750. London Printed for R. Sayer facing Fetter Lane Fleet Street _ & J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street, Cheapside.
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 300 x 460mm (11¾ x 18"). Narrow margin left. 2 stains in title.
The Corsi and Viviani palaces in Florence, copied from a plate in Giuseppe Zocchi's 'Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze', 1744.
[Ref: 45290] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Florence. Vue du pont de la Trinité. Firenze. Pont della Trinita.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet, foxing.
A view of the Renaissance bridge of Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence.
[Ref: 49326] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta di S.Giovanni di Firenze.
Ant. Terreni dis. e inc.
Aquatint. Plate: 360 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with very large margins.
A view of the St John Baptistry in Piazza del Duomo in Florence.
[Ref: 42508] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta festa rapresentata in Firenze Nel Fiume d'Arno il di XXV di Luglio 1.6.1.9.
Edouard Eomen sc. Jacomo Callot Inv.
[n.d. c.1639.]
Etching and engraving. 210 x 296mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed
Early copy of Jacques Callot's printed fan showing the ceremonial Battle between the guilds of weavers and dyers on the Arno in 1619, in which they fought for possession of an artificial hill in the centre of the river. Callot's print was commissioned by the Grand Duke before the event and distributed to spectators. One, mounted on card for use as a fan, can be seen held aloft by a spectator seated on the right side of the volute which forms the border. Etched by Edouard Ecqman (1639, fl), who produced copies of many of Callot's prints.
Meaume 617 (copy); Lieure 302 (copy 1).
[Ref: 28918] £380.00

Ordinanza nella quale si fermarono il Ser.mo Princ.pe le squadre de caval.ri, ed i carri delle Deità Interno almonte d'Atlante nella Festra a Cavallo Rappre.ta. Per le Reali Noze dell A.S.S. Nel Teatro Cong.to al Pala.zo del S.G.D.
S.D. Bella 1661.
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 280 x 435mm (11 x 17"). Trimmed close to image.
An elaborate tournament held in the amphitheatre of the Giardino di Boboli, behind the Medici's Pitti Palace. Top left is the Forte di Belvedere.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62142] £490.00

Anton Florianus, S.R.J. Princeps de Liechtenstein, Nicolspurgii in Silesia, Troppavia, et Jagerndorffy Dux. Comes a Ritberg [...]
Pet: Schenck ad vivum delin Hagae Com: Sculp: Amsteloed: Cum Privil
Lud Smids M. Dr.
Mezzotint, sheet 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet. Fine.
Anton Florian, prince of Liechtenstein (1656-1721). During the War of the Spanish Succession Anton Florian served as Chief Intendant and Prime Minister to Archduke Karl, who subsequently became Emperor Charles VI. Charles created the new principality of Liechtenstein, and made Anton Florian its first prince.
[Ref: 42996] £380.00

[Memorial] Sacred. To the Memory of John Richardson. late seaman on board of H.M.S. Revenge. who died at the Naval Hospital Malta Dec. 30th 1836 Aged 45. Long shall thy Memory be held most dear By Shipmates who this tribute freely give God's high reward we do not fear. Is thine ___ eternally to live./ Erected in the beautiful burying ground at Florian Island of Malta by the shipmates of this worthy Seaman.
W.I. Cole Cap.n.
[1836]
Pen and ink with watercolour, 135 x 195mm. 5¼ x 7¾". Laid on album sheet.
Watercolour of a monument to a British seaman in the burial ground at Floriana in Malta, the main Protestant cemetery on the archipelago in the early nineteenth century.
[Ref: 11282] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Floris III] Florentius IIIus, Theoderici VIti filius [...]
[C. Visscher sculp.]
[Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, c.1650.]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark, 410 x 295mm (16 x 11½") very large margins. Margins chipped and stained in bottom right margin.
Head and shoulders portrait of Floris III (1141-90), from Cornelis Visscher's series, 'Counts of Holland, Zeeland and West-Frisia', first published by Pieter Soutman in 1650. Floris joined his emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the Third Crusade, dying of pestilence at Antioch, where he was buried. This second state has Visscher's name removed.
BM 1839,0413.348.
[Ref: 62538] £320.00

View of the entrance into the Port of Flushing. Engraved for Banke's, New System of Geography Published by Royal Authority.
B. Peters Pinx. Sparrow Sculp.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Copper engraving. Plate 215 x 317mm. 8½ x 12½". Small water stain bottom left-hand corner.
From "A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography Antient (sic) and Modern..." by the Reverend Thomas Banks, London, 1787-1790. Flushing, in southwestern Holland. It has been an important harbour for centuries, strategically located between the Scheldt river and the North Sea. It was a harbour of great importance to the Dutch East India Company; and as the construction harbour for the ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
See: NMM: PAD1578.
[Ref: 16469] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

J. De La Fontaine. Peint par son ami Rigaud. Dedie a Monsieu Ginguene, Membre de l'Institut de France des Academies de Turin, de Florence, &c.
Pointeau delt. Coqueret Sct.
A Paris, chez l'Auteur, Rue des Fosses St. Jacques, No.3 [n.d., c.1820]. Depose a la Direction Royale de l'Imprimerie.
Coloured soft ground etching, 400 x 320mm. 15¾ x 12½". Tear from right along platemark.
Jean de la Fontaine (1621 - 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. Pierre Charles Coqueret (1761 - 1832 c.). Engraver: aquatint and crayon-manner; active in Paris. Trained by Janinet (q.v.). Works exhibited at the Salon, 1789-1810.
[Ref: 9030] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of one of the Wings of Fontainebleau taken from the Court of Fountains.
London Printed for Robt. Sayer Print & Mapseller at the Golden Buck in Fleetstreet [n.d., c.1760s].
Hand coloured engraving, image 195 x 430mm, 7¾ x 17". Laid on card in near-contemporary presentation by or for collector 'E J Myles'; inscribed to verso with his name (probably signature) in ink, and numbered '38'. Print trimmed to image; extremities/(card) margin over painted in black, with inscription detached and pasted to verso, as often. Some staining and scuffing, corners clipped and creased. Fine contemporary colour.
Figures disembarking from elaborate rowing barges, into the gardens of the Palace of Fontainebleau, not far from Paris, France. Fontainebleau is one of the largest and most imposing French royal châteaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on an early 16th century structure of Francis I. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754).
[Ref: 21760] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

View of One Wing of Fontainebleau, taken from the Court of Fountains.
J.Rigaud delin.
Published by F. West, 83, Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 225 x 450mm, 9 x 17¾".
The chateau of Fontainbleau, with rowing boats on the Carp Pond.
[Ref: 18525] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Flower Garden & part of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
J. Tinney sculp. et ex.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whttle, 53 Fleet Street, London. [This impression c.1805.]
Copper engraving in fine contemporary colour by hand, wove paper watermarked 1805. 220 x 450mm, 8¾ x 17¾". Evidence of some scratching to sky with some oxidisation in the pigment, overall fine.
Figures in the gardens of the Palace of Fontainebleau, not far from Paris, France, one of the largest and most imposing French royal châteaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on an early 16th century structure of Francis I. Numbered '10' upper right. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 20737] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Veüe de Fontaineblaeu. A View of the Royal Palace of Fontainbleau. 2.
J. Rigaud Delin.
Printed for Bowles & Carver, S.t Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1819].
Etching with fine hand colour. 225 x 415mm (8¾ x 16¼"), on Whatman paper watermarked 1819, with large margins.
A view of Fontaineblaeu and the carp pond, with promenaders under avenues of trees in the jardin anglais. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 60198] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fontana Di Venere Posta Nel Piano Dell' Organo. 22.
Gio: Francesco Venturini del. et inc.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Plate: 220 x 320mm (8¾ x 12½''), with very large margins.
A view of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's fountains at the Villa D'Este in Rome. From 'Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e luoghi publici della citta' by Giovanni Francesco Venturini.
[Ref: 50290] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Claude de Forbin] Le Comte de Forbin. Amiral de Siam du num d'Opra Sac Disom Cram, Chef d'Escadre des Armées Navalles de sa Majesté, Chevalier de l'ordre Militaire de Saint Louis.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A portrait of Claude de Forbin-Gardanne (1656-1733) while in the service of the king of Siam, when he was grand admiral, general of all the king's armies and governor of Bangkok. Although the story sounds like a novel inspired by 'Baron Munchausen', Forbin did indeed hold these titles: he stayed on for two years after the first French embassy to Siam, 1685. This portrait was a frontispiece to his memoirs. That was not the only remarkable event in his life. He had been a musketeer but had been sentenced to death after a duel; reprieved he joined the Navy under his brother's identity. After his return from Siam he fought in the Nine Years' War, escaping from custody in Plymouth (1689) to fight at the Battle of Beachy Head (1690), Barfleur (1692) where he was wounded, the Battle of Lagos (1693), and the Siege of Barcelona (1697). During the War of the Spanish Succession his successes included fighting in the Battle of the Lizard (1707) in which the French destroyed an English convoy, capturing 60 merchantman and four ships of the line out of 80 ships. His final claim-to-fame was transporting Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', to Scotland for his ill-fated attempt to regain the throne, only to be thwarted by Admiral Sir George Byng's fleet.
[Ref: 43214] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Louis Auguste Foucquel de Belle-isle Duke of Gisors, Prince of the Holy Empire, Marechal of France &c.
Rigaud pinxit. G. Johnson fecit.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Crease in centre. Trimmed into image on three sides, inscription area shaved.
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684-1791), the French general and statesman. In 1758, King Louis XV made him Secretary of State of War, a position that Belle-Isle held until his death. He also had an interest in literature and was elected a member of the French National Academy in 1740.
Not in Chaloner Smith. Not in BM.
[Ref: 52784] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Lieu.t Général Foy. Député du Dép.t de l'Aisne.
Maurin.
Chez l'Editeur, petite rue S.Race. No.10. Imp. Lith. de Villain.
Lithograph. Sheet: 510 x 335mm (20 x 13¼") large margins. Repaired tear
A portrait of French general, statesman and writer Maximilien Sebastien Foy (1775-1825). Following his military career during the French Revolutionary Wars Foy entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, a position he held until his death. From the collection of Lady Elizabeth Fielding (1773-1846), mother of William Henry Fox-Talbot, and her family.
[Ref: 46457] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Francorum Regum Simulcra a Pharamundo ad Ludovicum XIV…
Pietro VansicKleers Sculp.
[Rome, G.G. de Rossi, c. 1715.]
7 engraved sheets (of 8), each c. 580 x 400mm. Some staining to margins.
56 [of 65] portraits of the Kings of France from the legendary Pharamond (c. 370 - c. 430) to Louis XV, a later addition to the plate. With a blank for a future king and two decorative cartouches and an elaborate border. Incomplete.
[Ref: 1672] £1,250.00

Les Costes de France Sur l'Ocean et sur la Mediterranée Corigées, Augmentées, et Divisées . en Capitaineries Garde-Costes, Dediées A Monseigneur le Dauphin Par Son tres Himble et tres Obeissant Serviteur et Geographe De Fer.
A Paris Chez le O.r de Fer dans l'Isle du Palais Sur le Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale. avec Pri. du Roy 1690.
Engraved titlepage. 225 x 335mm. Splits in upper and lower centrefold.
Titlepage from Nicolas de Fer's atlas of charts of the French coasts. de Fer (1646-1720) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher who issued altogether more than 600 separate maps, including atlases, sheet maps and large wall maps. He gained a great reputation in his lifetime and was appointed 'Geographer to the King' in 1690.
[Ref: 7577] £280.00

[French almanak] L'Indicateur Général. 1836.
Chez Binet, Propriétaire-éditeur rue Aubry-le-Boucher, No 34m et au Bureau Central d'Imprimeriem rue Saint-Marc No 21.
Engraved map with hand colour with letterpress and engravings. Sheet 525 x 650mm (20¾ x 25½"), with watermark. Damage in lower edge and bottom right corner.
A map of France surrounded by tables of information, five vignette scenes of Napoleon's life and portraits of him and his son Napoleon II. The tables include a diary of Saints' days, currency exchange rates, interest rates, and populations of different countries.
[Ref: 55769] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

La France. A.6.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed in margin.
A rococo design representing France, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59304] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Cluse, en Savoye
[probably published 1791 by Thomas Gowland]
Etching with very fine hand-colouring, sheet 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed; printed on Whatman paper.
The town of Cluses in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France. The town is famous for its Alpine setting and watchmaking industry.
[Ref: 39647] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[France finds consolation in the arms of peace] La France consolee entre les bras de la paix. Dedié au Roi.
F. Chauveau in. J. Boulanger fecit.
P. Bertrand ex. cum privil. Regis [c.1651]
Engraving, platemark 415 x 545mm (16¼ x 21½") large margins. Fold through centre as issued. Slight foxing.
Allegorical scene predicting that Louis XIV will end divisions in France. France (represented by Louis) embraces peace; a winged warrior above whom is inscribed 'souhait des bons francois' ('wishes of good frenchmen') pursues the cowering figures of Fury, Envy and Discord. Engraved by Jean Boulanger (1608-c.1680) after François Chauveau (1613-76).
IFF 111
[Ref: 45433] £320.00

Corsica.
Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm, 5¼ x 6½".
A chart of Corsica, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13668] £190.00

Vue d'Evian, sur le Lac de Genève.
[probably published 1791 by Thomas Gowland]
Etching with very fine hand-colouring, 18th century watermark; sheet 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed.
Évian-les-Bains, a resort and spa town in the Haute-Savoie department of France, situated on Lake Geneva. Long famous with royalty and celebrities such as Marcel Proust, it is the home of Évian mineral water.
[Ref: 39646] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Bibliotheque. [The Library.]
Jacottet lith. fig. par V. Adam.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du faub: Montmatre No.6. [Paris, c.1825.]
Lithograph, sheet 205 x 260mm. 8 x 10¼".
Military officers studying books and charts in a well-appointed library; a globe and orrery on the table to foreground. Possibly this is the École Militaire, Paris. The figures by Victor Adam (1801 - 1866). A fine library scene.
[Ref: 17980] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Salenche
[Anon., c.1820]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 275 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½"). Trimmed.
A view of Sallanches in the Haute-Savoie department of France, on the road from Geneva to Chamonix, with the Mont Blanc massif behind.
[Ref: 39644] £320.00

Franciscus I D.G. Francorum Rex.
[Engraved by Dominicus Custos.]
[Augsburg, 1601-4.]
Engraving 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Francis I (1494-1547) the French king who helped finance Giovanni da Verrazzano's expedition to North America in 1524.
[Ref: 53037] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Francis II (Late King of Naples).
Metzmacher del et sc. Imprimé par Coupil & C.ie Paris.
The Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personagès Presented with the Illustrated News of the World. 125, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1865.]
Etching with very small margins. 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼").
Francis II (1836-94), king of the Two Sicilies from 1859 until he was deposed in 1861 and his kingdom becoming part of the new Kingdom of Italy.
[Ref: 33300] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis, Duke of Guise] Franciscus a Lotharin gia Dux Guisius
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾") Tear to engraving lower right. Small margins on left repaired. Good repair in centre.
Francis, Duke of Guise (1519-63), French soldier and politician. Husband of Anna d'Este and uncle of Mary, Queen of Scots, his military triumphs included defending Metz against Emperor Charles V in 1552 and capturing Calais from England in 1558. In religion Guise was strongly Catholic, which served him well during the reign of Francis II but after the king's death, the favour that regent Catherine de' Medici showed towards Protestants led Guise to become part of the 'triumvirate' defending the Catholic cause. The disputes between Protestants and Catholics eventually led not just to Guise's assassination by a Huguenot, but the French Wars of Religion (1562-98). From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39894] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Tommaso Francesco, Prince of Savoy-Carignan.] Serenissimo Principi Francisco Thomae a Sabaudi a Principi Carigniani etc [...]
Ant. van Dyck pinxit. Paulus Pontius sculpsit
Gillis Hendricx excudit Antw. [c.1635]
Etching with small margins, platemark 390 x 295mm (15¼ x 11½"). Horizontal fold; glued at edge to backing sheet along left edge.
Tommaso Franesco di Savoia (1596-1656), Captain-general of Spanish troops in the Netherlands and briefly provisional regent following the death of Archduchess Isabella in 1633. In 1642 he changed sides and started fighting for the French against the Spaniards.
[Ref: 34845] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Francofurtum Ad Moenum Floridum, Urbis huius Imperialis et Emporii celeberrimi, in quo Imperatores eliguntur, vera et accurata Delineatio…. a Salomone Kleiner, Electoris Moguntini Architecto, Nunc vero excusum et in lucem editum per Ioannem Andream Pfeffel, S.C.M. Aulae Chalcographum. Pretio vero prostat in iconopoleo Ioannis Simonis Negges, Chalcographi Augustani [German translation follows].
Sal. Kleiner I.E.M. del.
Cum Priv. Sac. Caes. Maj. [n.d. c.1720].
Titlepage, engraved map and 7 engraved views, complete as isssued, 343 x 271mm. Includes plate of the Cathedral 520 x 345mm. Light foxing and staining, largely to margins.
A set of skillfully engraved views in Frankfurt, Germany, at the time the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the Empire's administrative centre. They seem to be a special commission for the chief architect of the city. Includes 1 large plate of the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (numbered '3') 'Ecclesia Metropolitana Sancti Bartholomaei et turris eius Francofurti ad Moenum'. After the Holy Roman Emperors ceased to be crowned by the popes, their coronation ceremonies took place here (1562–1792). Each plate has title and description in both German and Latin.
[Ref: 3588] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Frankfort.
Publish'd by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1814.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 305 x 394mm. 12 x 15½". Trimmed to the platemark along the bottom.
From "An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, During the Years 1812, 1813, 1814 & 1815, Comprising a series of Views of Paris, Moscow, The Kremlin, Dresden, Berlin..... together with a History of those Momentous Transactions."
[Ref: 15190] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Frankfort, een beroemde koopstad, te zien van Saxenhausen. Francofurtum urbs mercatura nobilis qua prospectus ad eam est ex Saxenhusio.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 215 x 266mm (8½ x 10½").
Frankfurt seen from across the Main River, with the great St. Bartholomaus Cathedral in the background. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 28700] £420.00

Vero e Novo Disegno di Frascati con Tutte le Ville Convicine.
[after Dominique Barriere.]
Si Stampano per Gio. Giacomo Rossi in Roma alla pace Con Licenza de Superiori [n.d., c.1670].
Etching. 435 x 560mm (17 x 22"). Repaired tears left border.
A bird's-eye view of Frascati with a 24-point key naming the villas (including Villa Aldobrandini, Monte Porzio Catone, Villa Lodovisi, Mondragone), churches and other notable buildings. Lorenzo Filippo's 'Indice delle Stampe De' Rossi' (1735) names the artist as Domenico Barriera.
[Ref: 61254] £490.00

Frederic Auguste Roy de Pologne Electeur et Duc de Saxe..[etc.]
Grave par E. Desrochers et se vend chez luy a Paris rue St. Jacque au Mecenas [n.d., c.1720].
Engraving. 105 x 150mm. Trimmed within plate.
Frederick Augustus I or Augustus II the Strong (1670 – 1733) was Elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I) and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (as Augustus II); in armour and fur cloak, in inscribed oval frame. Four lines of tribute to pediment. Engraved and published by Étienne Desrochers (1668 - 1741).
[Ref: 14047] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Friedrich August Koenig von Sachsen.
C. Vogel gem. M. Steinla gest.
Gedruckt bei Durand & Sauvé in Paris. Verlegt bei Ernst Arnold in Dresden [n.d., c.1820].
Rare engraving with etching. 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"), large margins.
Half-length portrait in uniform of Frederick Augustus (1750-1827, last Elector of Saxony (1763-1806), then King of Saxony, and Duke of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815. He inherited the Polish throne in 1798, but he refused because of the repercussions of the Partitions of Poland by Austria, Russia and Prussia. However in 1807 he became the Duke of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Engraved by Moritz Steinla (1791-1858) after Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759-1816).
[Ref: 57742] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

De Intredinge van den Cheur Prins van saxen met zyn Vrouw [...] [parallel text in Latin]
A.V. Laan Inv.
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, one spot.
A scene showing the entry of the Prince of Saxony Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763) and his wife into Dresden on 2 September 1719, after their marriage in Vienna.
[Ref: 59261] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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