Grosvenor Prints

Hospitality Kicking Avarice out of Doors. Or, New Tenants at a Mansion House.
[John Nixon.]
Sold by all the Printsellers in London, Nov.r. 9, 1799.
Very fine etching. 440 x 295mm (17¼ x 11½"). Trimmed close to plate and some album paper on verso.
A satirical scene depicting the new Lord Mayor of London, Harvey Combe (1752 - 1818) stands center in a hall, surrounded by a group of people who kneel and beg.
[Ref: 66299] £380.00

The Court of Assistants of the New Plantation in Ulster within the Realm of Ireland. This Print of Harvey Christian Combe Esqr. M.P. Governor of the Honble. the Irish Society, London, From the original Picture, in the Irish Chamber, Guildhall London.
Painted by J. Opie Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London, Published June 12.1812, by C. Turner, No.50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, Mr.Lee, St.Martins le Grand & Messrs. Wade & Merle, Aldgate.
Mezzotint. Plate 502 x 350mm.
Harvey Christian Combe (1752-1818), fishmonger and brewer, who went on to become an Alderman by 1790 (through 1817), and Lord Mayor in 1799.
WH: 135.
[Ref: 4475] £320.00

[Harvey Combe] No. XVII. The Amiable Letitia Lutestring. No. XVIII. The Billing Brewer.
London Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street 1 July 1790.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Moustache added in ink. Small margins.
Two portrait busts set in ovals. On the right a portrait of Harvey Combe (1752-1818) who made his fortune in the brewing industry and elected Alderman of London in 1790, on his left is a portrait of an unknown courtesan. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 7703.
[Ref: 38577] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Come la Trovate?
Sicardi inv et del. Copia sculp.
Paris chez Sicardi Rue et Faubourg Poissonier, au coin de la Rue Bergère, No. 158. et 16 de la Section. Et chez Jeaufret M.d. d'Estampes au Palais de l'Egalité à côte du Café de Foy, No 61. [n.d., c.1804.]
Stipple. 455 x 360mm.
Engraved by Copia, after the miniaturist Louis Marie Sicard of Avignon.
[Ref: 7012] £520.00

Come, Maria, do walk faster, for the young mean do stare so! Funny Characters No.3.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 318 x 242mm. 12½ x 9½". Cut. Laid on separate sheet.
A woman with a parasol urges her companion to move along more hastily, for the looks of passing men is all too much for her.
[Ref: 15227] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Come, Maria, do walk faster, for the young mean do stare so! Funny Characters No.3.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Stains in corners.
A woman with a parasol urges her companion to move along more hastily, for the looks of passing men is all too much for her, probably not for their beauty.
[Ref: 54465] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Air _ Johny M.cGill, or the High way to Dublin. Come under my Plaidy. She crept in ayont him, beside the stane wa, Whar Johny was listening, and heard her tell a.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved oval, 110 x 160mm.
'Plaidy' is a plaid garment that was used as a blanket. The lyrics for this song were written by Hector MacNeill (1746-1818), and concern the appeal that worldly goods have for certain women who, upon receiving an offer of marriage, are not unduly worried by the age of a suitor as long as he is wealthy. This is one of several songs by MacNeill that appear in 'The Scots Musical Museum'. The air that these song lyrics are sung to is 'Johnny McGill'.
[Ref: 164] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Comedy To the Baron Obendorff, Minister to His most Serence Highness the Elector Palatine, this Plate is Dedicated by His most humble and obedient Servant H. Sitzenich.
Angelica Kauffman del.t Sintzenich Sculpt.
John Boydell exc.t 1782. publish'd Oct.r 1.st 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple, 280 x 215mm. Fine.
A young woman holding a mask in her left hand.
[Ref: 8419] £330.00

[A comedy.]
Imp. Bertauts, Paris [c.1850].
Lithograph on india laid paper, image 135 x 240mm. 5¼ x 9½". Sheet foxed.
Three comic actors performing on stage dressed as harlequins/clowns. With collector's blindstamp of Adolphe Moreau below dated 1851, and stamped with number 'II' upper left corner of sheet. Moreau's collection of 19th century French paintings compiled in the 1840s was augmented between 1898 and 1906 by Impressionist works bought by his grandson Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, the painter and art historian. The entire collection was given to the French state in 1906 and divided between the Musée du Louvre and Musée d'Orsay.
[Ref: 10416] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Comedy.
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I. Mortimer.
Etching. Plate: 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8"), with large margins.
A allegorical scene showing the figure of Comedy pointing at a folio in which is the portrait of Falstaff, at the base of the plinth sits a satyr and a child looking in a mirror. By John Hamilton Mortimer.
[Ref: 47378] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Q 11. Le Théatre. [&] Q 12. La Comedy.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760].
A pair of rare etchings, pt 18th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½") very large margins. Mint
A pair of rococo designs, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58939] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[John Amos Comenius.] Iohan-Amos Comenivs, Morauvs, A' ÆTAT 50! 1642.
Exsump M:S. G.Glover Sc.
[n.d., c.1650.] Are to be Sould by T.H.and I.C.
Rare engraving. Sheet 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.
[Ref: 67702] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eigentlicher Abriss und Situation des Neuen Sterns, wie derselbe zu Regenspurg, und anderer Orthen im h. Röm. Reich den 14. 15. 16. Decembris deß 1652 Jahres, observirt und gesehen worden.
[Frankfurt, Matthaus Merian, c.1652.]
Etching. 235 x 260mm (9¼ x 10¼"). Vertical fold, tear in edge of right margin.
Four illustrations of a comet seen over Regensburg in mid-December 1652.
[Ref: 56807] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Shooting Star.]
[n.d.]
Engraving. 110 x 140mm (4¼ x 5½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A scene of townspeople gaze upward in shock at a bright shooting star while an anthropomorphic moon looks down at them. The German Comet of 1619.
[Ref: 57217] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet of 1811.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 110 x 130mm (4¼ x 5''). Creasing in right corner.
A view showing the Great Comet of 1811 which was visible for around 260 days. The comet had an impact on non-astronomers such as John Linnell and William Blake and was seen as a portent to Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the War of 1812. Because 1811 was such a good year for wine, merchants marketed 'comet wine' for years afterwards.
[Ref: 49581] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Folie du Jour. Venus ou la pretendue Comete.
Depose a la Bibliotheque nationale, a Paris chez Berthet, Graveur [n.d., c.1800].
Hand coloured etching and engraving, sheet 120 x 175mm. 4¾ x 7". Two vertical creases from folds, as issued. Trimmed within plate and glued to scrap sheet.
A group of people observe a comet in the sky upper right. Engraved by Louis Berthet (1775 - 1808; fl.) in Paris. Numbered 'No.I' upper right.
[Ref: 9532] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet. Grand Meteoric Phenomenon. - The Comet.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Wood engraving with letterpress. Sheet 160 x 165mm (6¼ x 6½"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
The Great Meteor Procession of 1860, with a meteor leaving a long trail caused by debris. According to the text, Sir John Herschel published a detailed notice of the event.
[Ref: 56862] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet A Return of the Comet which appeared in 1761² is expected this Year and - to be within our horizon from the Month of Oct. 1788 to Aug.t 1789 but is expected to be most visible (if it forces itself upon our notice) in the Winter months Febr.y & March...
18.th Feby 1789 Pub by Tho.s Cornell. Braton Street.
Etching with aquatint. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"), with wide margins. Slight creasing & staining.
A comet traverses the design diagonally downwards. At its head the Prince Wales is a star. Following in its tail are Fox and Portland. After them comes the wig in back view of Lord Loughborough. Then comes Stormont and North. They are followed by the Duke of Queensberry holding up a quizzing-glass and Powys. Behind them are Lord Lothian, Burkeand the Duke of Norfolk. Between Norfolk and Queensberry is the 'profil perdu' of Derby. They are followed by Lord Sandwich, Bishop Watson of Llandaff, and Sir Grey Cooper. Next are Wilson, Bishop of Bristol, and Warren, Bishop of Bangor, while in the upper left corner Sawbridge.
BM 6796
[Ref: 54530] £650.00

The Comet of 1811, As seen at Day Break the 15th Oct.r from Otterbourne Hill, near Winchester.
Engraved by H,R, Cook from a drawing by Pether for the Gallery of Nature & Art.
[London: R. Wilkes, 1815.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed close to image, backed with archival paper.
The Great Comet of 1811 (designated C/1811 F1) with an estimated an orbital period of nearly 3,000 years.
[Ref: 56825] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet and Zodiacal Light, as seen from the Terrace of the Maison Guiglia at Nice, on the evening of the 17th March 1843.
London, Published June 9th 1843 by William Spooner, 377 Strand.
Scarce lithograph. Printed area 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Tears in inscription area taped, edges chipped.
An illustration of the Great Comet of 1843 (designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I), one of the Kreutz Sungrazers, noted for its long tail. Its orbital period is believed to be between 600 and 800 years. Also shown is the zodical light, a false dawn caused by sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust.
[Ref: 56813] £490.00

The Great Comet of 1861 as seen from a Newtonian Equatorial of 13 inches aperture. July 2 10,h 10.m G.M.T. July 3 12.h 40.m G.M.T.
Waren de la Rue del. J. Basire sc.
[c.1861.]
Scarce mezzotint. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"). Tear in top margin.
Two illustrations of the coma of the Great Comet of 1861 (designated C/1861 J1 and 1861 II). It is believed to have an orbital period of 400 years.
[Ref: 56812] £380.00

A New Cometarium Improved by B.M.
[Benjamin Martin.]
[London 1755.]
Engraving with hand colour, in mount. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Small margins.
A Cometarium, showing the motion of a comet on its path around the sun, designed by Benjamin Martin (c.1705-82), a ploughboy turned instrument maker. Published in the 'General Magazine of Arts and Sciences', which became 'Martin's Magazine' when he took it over in 1755.
[Ref: 58144] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Comets. Comets are heavenly bodies of a luminous and nebulous appearance which approach and recede from the Sun, moving in very elliptical...
[Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie.]
London, James Reynolds, 174, Strand. Sep.r 25 1860
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some foxing.
Astronomical diagram from a set of teaching cards published by Reynolds; depicting comets in the years 1811, 1680, 1858, 1835 and 1741 with explainary text. Most likely drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who frequently collaborated with Reynolds on diagrams.
[Ref: 56830] £390.00

Cometes et Aerolithes Pl. XI
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Celestial map showing and explaining comets and aerolites (a meteorite composed mainly of silica). One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56891] £360.00

Comfort for an Old Maid.
[After Woodward.]
[After P. Roberts.]
Drawing. J. Green 1820 watermark. Sheet: 240 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Staining.
A drawing after Woodwards etching c.1800 published by P. Roberts showing an old woman with an oversized hand muff sitting in a chair conversing with her footman.
[Ref: 43626] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Comfort to the Corns.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 6th 1800. by H. Humphrey. 27, St James's Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to printed border.
A grotesque old woman sitting in a gothic chair before the fire with her cat, slicing her corns on her feet with a large knife.
BMM Satires 9585.
[Ref: 61764] £380.00

The Comforts of Matrimony. a good Toast.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured aquatint. 270 x 320mm (10½ x 12½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1810, large margins.
A handsome young couple sit at a breakfast-table near a fire, the husband toasting a muffin, his wife with her arm round his shoulder. Around them are three young children and a dog. Originally published 1809 by Reeve & Jones, this example has their inscription removed and the thick aquatint border reduced, with much of the detail of the scene worn away.
BM: 11452.
[Ref: 51875] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Comic Almanak, for 1847: An Ephemeris in Jest and Ernest, containing 'All Things Fitting for such a Work.' By Ricdum Funnidos, Gent. Adorned with Numerous Humorous Illustrations: - And a Dozen of 'Right Merrie' Cuts pertaining to the Months.
By George Cruikshank.
London Imprinted for David Bogue, Bibliopolist, in Fleet Street. Vizetelly Brothers & Co. Printers, Peterborough Court, 135 Fleet Street.
Very small 4to, original half calf gilt with marbled boards, maroon morocco title label on spine; pp. 64, twelve wood-engraved plates, Bookplate E. C. Grant on front pastedown, some pages toned, one text page with a tear.
A mixture of useful dates (i.e. when the British Museum is open), satire and caricature. The last plate is 'The Banquet of the Black Dolls' with a page of text. In ink 'To Edward C. Grant esq with thanks for his assistance from the Author.
[Ref: 40552] £180.00 view all images for this item

Comic Dance in the Popular Pantomine of the white Cat by Mess.rs Kirby & Chatterley to the Tune of the Bold Dragoon.
Drawn & Etched by W. Heath.
pub 5th of Jan.y 1812 by T. Palser Bridge Road Lambeth.
Coloured etching. 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Large margins on 3 sides.
A scene of two clowns, James Kirby (died 1826) in drag & William Simmons Chatterley (1787-1822) with white face and red triangles, the signature look of Joseph Grimaldi's 'Joey' clown.
[Ref: 33086] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Figures Following a Donkey.] [EWH the gift of his brother Charles. Nov. 1. 1824.][in pencil below image.]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"), with large margins.
A scene showing two caricatured figures following a donkey.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46795] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Figures Following a Donkey.]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"). Staining and foxing. Holes in top edge.
A scene showing two caricatured figures following a donkey.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46796] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The Comic Society.
G.Douw Pinxit. W.Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾").
Travelling players.
[Ref: 7008] £490.00

The Comic Society.
G.Douw Pinxit. W.Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾")..
A group of travelling musicians, seen through an arched window, play a flute, hurdy-gurdy and tambourine, for a woman holding a pestle and mortar. One of the group reaches out to take payment.
CS: see pg. 995.
[Ref: 62731] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Coming it! _
I. _ etched by G. C_k.
London Pubd by G Humphrey 24 St James's Street _ Nov.r 24th 1824.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate.
Amateur whips, ostentatiously or ineptly negligent, drive outré vehicles with showy horses.
BM Satires 14721.
[Ref: 58274] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

First View of Com. Perry's Victory. Engraved for the Naval Monument.
[Abel Bowen.] M. Corne P. W.B. Annin sc.
[Published by George Clark. 1840.]
Engraving. 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½".
The War of 1812 at Lake Erie where Commander Oliver Perry fought a successful and victorious fleet actions against a task force of the Royal Navy. From Bowen's "Naval Monument". See ref:23803 for similar.
[Ref: 23801] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Second View of Com. Perry's Victory. Engraved for the Naval Monument.
[Abel Bowen.] M. Corne P. W.B. Annin sc.
[Published by George Clark. 1840.]
Engraving. 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½".
The War of 1812 at Lake Erie where Commander Oliver Perry fought a successful and victorious fleet actions against a task force of the Royal Navy. From Bowen's "Naval Monument". Also see ref:23801 for similar.
[Ref: 23803] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Commemoration Dinner, at the Freemason's Hall. Wednesday, June 18th, 1828. his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the Chair, Wm. Smith, Esq. M.P, Deputy Chairman. [with list of stewards]
J. Moyes, Took's Court, Chancery Lane [printer]
Two sheets engraving and letterpress, each approx 250 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheets; soiling, offsetting, small tears and creases. Other prints verso.
Ticket (numbered '409' in ink) for a dinner commemorating the 'Royal Assent to the Bill for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test, May the 9th 1828' and signed by William Smith, Chairman of the United Committee for conducting the application to Parliament, and Robert Winter, Secretary to the Committee. The Bill repealed an Act which stated all mayors and officials in municipal corporations had to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion (although the law was not always enacted). The passing of the Bill gave greater religious liberty and led to much discussion of Catholic Emancipation, which was to follow soon after.
[Ref: 32274] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bill of Lading.
G. Bickham sculp.
[n.d. c.1741.]
Engraving. 89 x 178mm. 3½ x 7". Cut.
George Bickham, who in The Universal Penman, published in parts between 1733 and 1741, gathered together examples of contemporary handwriting by all the best masters of the day, and produced one of the most splendid of English copy books. The end of the 17th century saw the beginning of a new era. With the increase of trade at home, and with English merchant shipping penetrating to ever-more-distant parts of the globe, there was a need for more and more clerks and accountants. In the busy world of commerce, what was most necessary was a good clear hand, easily learnt and easily read. So that, after the great variety of styles prevalent earlier, the English round-hand, a composite form which at its best was both practical and legible, became supreme. This hand, carried round the world by bills of lading, letters of credit and other commercial documents, gave the 18th century English writing masters a position in society.
[Ref: 21061] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Commissioner Yeh.
From a Sketch by Lieut.t Shearman, G. Bird. R.E.
Lithographed by Parish. Artist &.c Colchester.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 175 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"). Marking and some staining.
A slightly satirical portrait of Commissioner Yeh (1807-1859), a Canton official who fought British influence in the aftermath of the First Opium War and who was involved in the beginning of the Second. Yeh was often characterised as the embodiment of Chinese xenophobia. Yeh died as a Prisoner of War in Calcutta.
[Ref: 42615] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Commodore. Illustrations of Dibdin.
Designed & drawn on Stone by Ja.s & Geo. Foggo.
London: Published by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. 14 Newman St. Aug: 1830. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"). Crease above title.
An old commodore seated in an armchair at a fireplace, with a bandaged gouty foot resting on a footstool, grabbing a walking stick with his right hand. He is watched by a younger man, standing behind the armchair. Sword and scroll lying on the floor in foreground. Illustration to a Charles Dibdin's song.
[Ref: 60607] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Court of Common Pleas, Westminster Hall.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. J. C. Stadler, Aquat.
London. Pub June 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
An interior view of the Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, London. Authorised by the Magna Carta to sit in a fixed location, the Common Pleas sat in Westminster Hall for its entire existence, joined by the Exchequer of Pleas and Court of King's Bench. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34082] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Villa Tanzi presso Torno sul Lago di Como.
F Lose dis dal Vero.
[Milano, presso Francesco Bernucca Contrada de' tre Alberghi No 4091.] [n.d., c.1818.]
Framed coloured aquatint, with fine colour, sight size 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"), frame size 245 x 180mm (9½ x 11"). Unexamined outside of frame.
A view of the Villa Tanzi Taverna from Lake Como, also know as also known as Villa Taverna Borromeo, Villa Tanza, Villa Perlasca, Villa Tanzi or Villa Taverna. One of the 56 plates in 'Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e di Como'.
[Ref: 63512] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Pliniana sul Lago di Como.
F Lose dis dal Vero. Carolina Lose inc. G. Bigatti Aqua tinta.
[Milano, presso Francesco Bernucca Contrada de' tre Alberghi No 4091.] [n.d., c.1818.]
Framed coloured aquatint, with fine colour, sight size 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"), frame size 245 x 180mm (9½ x 11"). Unexamined outside of frame.
A view of the Villa Pliniana, originally built in 1573, on the site of a more modest pre-existing building, in the territory of the municipality of Torno, in the province of Como, on the right bank of the western branch of Lake Como. The villa took its name from Pliny the Younger, who described an intermittent karst spring present there in a letter addressed to his friend Lucius Licinius Sura. One of the 56 plates in 'Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e di Como'.
[Ref: 63513] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Como.
[Anon, c.1820]
Aquatint, sheet 180 x 215mm (6¼ x 8½"). Trimmed around image and title.
French-produced view of Lago di Como in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy.
[Ref: 33759] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bellaggio au Lac de Como.
Exécuté d'après l'original du Daguerréotype Gravé par Falkeisen
Milan chez Ferd. Artaria et Fils, Editeurs [c.1838]
Aquatint, sheet 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Artaria blindstamp lower left.
The municipality of Bellaggio on the shore of Lake Como in the Lombardy region or northern Italy. Bellaggio is situated where the lake divides into two narrow arms, the Como (west) arm and Lecco (east) arm. Aquatint after a daguerreotype (an early photographic process), engraved by Johann Jacob Falkeisen (1804-83), Swiss printmaker who worked in Milan until 1838. He later set himself up as a businessman in Asia Minor before returning to Switzerland to curate the museum of Basle.
[Ref: 41110] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Villa Carlotta au Lac de Como. autrefois Villa Sommariva
Mazzola dess Gravé par L. Cherbuin
Milan chez Ferd. Artaria et Fils, Editeurs [c.1838]
Aquatint, sheet 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Artaria blindstamp lower left.
Villa Carlotta on the western shore of Lake Como in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Completed in 1745, it was acquired by the Neapolitan banker and politician Giambattista Sommariva (hence its previous name 'Villa Sommariva').
[Ref: 41111] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

You are desired to meet the Company of Painter Stayners at Dinner...
[n.d., c.1890.]
Facsimile etching, uncompleted diploma, sheet 310 x 240mm. 12¼ x 9½".
Reproduction of an invitation to accompany the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers at St Lukes Feast on Thursday 24 November, 1687 in Painter's Hall in the City of London. Lettering to cartouche illustrated above with an allegorical scene, including a female artist painting an angel, an old man (Time?) leaning over her shoulder, spilling coins from a purse. Two putti, one to right sculpting a bust, the other to left sketching, the whole surrounded by a frame of laurels. The Company is the 28th in seniority in the City of London's Livery Companies. After Antonio Verrio (Italian/British, 1639 - 1707).
See BM 1977,U.1223 for a 17th century impression.
[Ref: 21983] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Aln-måtts jemföring emellan the förnämsta Handels-Städer i Europa. [&] Wigtens jemföring emellan the förnämsta Handels-Städer i Europa.
[n..d. c.1750.]
Printed letterpress, very scarce. Sheet 381 x 235mm. 15 x 9¼".
Stockholm during the Age of Liberty (1718-1772) and following the Stockholm Treaties of 1719 and 1720 financial resources were transposed from countryside to cities, this was closely followed by urbanisation which in turn affected the rate of growth in social development and education standards. During the 18th century the economic model introduced the previous century was further developed, and Stockholm became the vital centre of trade in Europe; this particular chart outlines the comparison in measures and weights amongst the principal Cities of Commerce in Europe.
Ex: Collection of Norman Blackburn
[Ref: 18936] £390.00

[Compass Rose]
[Basel, c.1588]
Woodcut with letterpress, sheet 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8").
Sheet from a Latin edition of Sebastian Munster's important sixteenth century geographical work 'Cosmography'.
[Ref: 42479] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A compass rose.]
[Dutch, n.d., c.1620.]
Hand coloured engraved compass rose, sheet 100 x 100mm. 4 x 4". Excised from an atlas and glued to card.
Finely engraved and decorated with floral and animal motifs, fine later colour. From a Dutch atlas.
[Ref: 10752] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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