Grosvenor Prints

For The Benefit Of Mr. Jones.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Concert ticket, etching. 95 x 90mm. 3¾ x 3½". Trimmed to plate, glued to album page at upper edge.
Two putti, one winged putto playing a lyre while the other holds a sheet of music. Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments'. This work, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe.
From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. De Vesme: 1932. See Ref: 20522.
[Ref: 9717] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]
I.B.C.Inv. F.B. sculp.
Printed by W. Hinton St. James's Street [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, printed in red/brown ink. 120 x 106mm. 4¾ x 4¼". Trimmed inside plate to left and right side.
The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, their initials only inscribed.
De Vesme: 1915; iii/iv. See 10559, 9718, 21208 and 21209 for other states.
[Ref: 10558] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]
I.B.C.Inv. F.B. sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching in sepia, with small margins. Plate 115 x 115mm. 4½ x 4½". Glued to album page at right edge.
The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, their initials only inscribed. Before publication line added.
From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. De Vesme: 1915; i/iv. See 10558, 10559, 21208 and 21209 for other states.
[Ref: 9718] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]
G.B. Cipriani Inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
Printed by W. Hinton St. James's Street [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Unidentified collector's mark on verso. 114 x 102mm. 4½ x 4". Trimmed just inside place.
With artist's and engraver's surnames fully inscribed. The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry.
De Vesme: 1915; iii/iv. Not in Lugt. See 10558, 9718, 21208 and 21209 for other states.
[Ref: 10559] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]
I.B.C.Inv. F.B. sculp.
Printed by W. Hinton St. James's Street [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, printed in black ink. 115 x 108mm. 4½ x 4¼". Trimmed inside plate.
The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, their initials only inscribed.
De Vesme: 1915; iii/iv. See 9718, 10558, 10559 and 21209 for other states.
[Ref: 21208] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]
I.B.C.Inv. F.B. sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching in black ink. 109 x 88mm. 4¼ x 3½". Trimmed.
The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, their initials only inscribed. Before publication line added.
De Vesme: 1915; i/iv. See 9718, 10558, 10559 and 21208 for other states.
[Ref: 21209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Concert Ticket, held at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.]
Smirke Invt. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1792.]
Engraving and etching, scarce proof. Plate 217 x 185mm 8½ x 7¼". Trimmed close to the plate. Light foxing.
St Cecilia is seated playing at an organ, with two winged figures standing looking over her. The relief below depicts Charity and three children, with a lion and a unicorn to either side.
De Vesme: 1948; v/v. See Ref 16047 for earlier state in red/brown ink & 20503 for earlier state.
[Ref: 21215] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Concert ticket- proof before lettering]
[Anon., c1770]
Scarce etching, platemark 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½"); very large margins. Creased.
Woman next to sheet music with harp behind. Unusual etching probably used (in its later lettered state) as a concert ticket. The style suggests it may be continental.
[Ref: 40671] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[An unattributed concert ticket featuring three putti.]
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi scu.
Pubd. Septr. 1st. 1781. by A. Poggi.
Proof etching, sheet 107 x 110mm. Trimmed inside plate, light foxing.
An attractive scene with two putti dancing to the accompaniment of the pipe and drum of a third. Proof before cartouche above image lettered.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7844] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rural Felicity, Come see rural felicity,/ which Love & Innocence ever enjoy.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi scu.
Pubd. Septr. 1st. 1789 by I. Read Coventry Court.
Etching, sheet 107 x 110mm. Trimmed to just outside plate, glued to album page.
An attractive scene with two putti dancing to the accompaniment of the pipe and drum of a third. A concert ticket (the cartouche uninscribed) originally published in 1781 and reissued by Read with this title.
From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. See item 7844.
[Ref: 9720] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Concert ticket, held at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.]
[F. Bartolozzi.]
[c.1792.]
Engraved ticket to a concert at St Margaret's Church, Westminster; proof before all letters, printed in red/brown ink. Plate 222 x 190mm, 8¾ x 7½". Laid to backing sheet, few repairs.
St. Cecilia seated playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval. Below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on either side. Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and of Church music. It is said that this came about because she sang to God as she was dying. After Robert Smirke (1752 - 1845) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815).
De Vesme: 1948; iii/v. See Ref 20503 for earlier state & 21215 for later state.
[Ref: 16047] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Concerto Spirituale.
Bretherton f
Publis'd 23d March 1773
Scarce etching, 18th century watermark; sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Partially trimmed to plate on left. Tear repaired with tape.
Three men playing a viol da gamba, flute and horn. Etching after Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist who enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. Tim Clayton writes: 'Prints by Bunbury and his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it.' He designed many prints of rural life such as this, which always remained attactive and picturesque.
BM Satires 5217.
[Ref: 61925] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Conchology of Tenby [in image]
Drawn by C. Norris Esq.r Engraved by S. Rawle
Published for the Repository at Tenby, 10 April, 1813
Rare engraving, platemark 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Small margins.
Engraving of shells found in Tenby, South Wales, after a drawing by the topographical artist Charles Norris (1779-1858) who moved there in 1810. In Tenby Norris researched architectural antiquities, and published several volumes of prints made from his drawings.
[Ref: 44785] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Conclusion, or the Last Stage of Elopement.
Publish'd by I.Phillips No.164, Piccadilly London. [c.1786.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 235mm. 14 x 9¼". Trimmed to the image top and sides. Some creasing. Glue stain to the bottom left-hand corner.
A woman with her arm held by a young man who directs her towards a waiting coach.
CS: undescribed.
[Ref: 16346] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Der Condor. Vultur Gryphus.
[Lithographed by J. Richter after Carl Wilhelm Medau.]
[Prague: Leitmeritz und Teplitz, 1836.]
Rare lithograph, watermark L. Ziegler Zurich. Sheet 400 x 315mm (15¾ x 12½"). Paper sligtly cockled.
A condor of the Andes, published in Medau's 'Das Erntefeld. eine Bildungschrift für die reifende Jugend' ('The Harvest Field: an educational journal for the maturing youth').
[Ref: 52786] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Clerical Sketches, No.2. The New Conductor. The Opposition.
Augs. Butler, Lith. Stannard & Dixon, Imp. ['WP' monogram in image lower right.]
London, Published Novr. 6th. 1857, by Stannard & Dixon, 7, Poland St.
Lithograph, sheet 380 x 280mm. 15 x 11". Horizontal and vertical crease.
A politician caricatured as a London coachman.
[Ref: 8990] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Clerical Sketches, No.1. The Old Conductor. The Regular.
Augs. Butler, Lith. Stannard & Dixon, Imp. ['WP' monogram in image lower right.]
London, Published Novr. 6th. 1857, by Stannard & Dixon, 7, Poland St.
Coloured lithograph, sheet 380 x 280mm. 15 x 11".
Although it is apparently a public coach, with destinations including Lambeth, Westminster and St Paul's, it is decorated with a bishop's mitre. It is a satire on the old school of preachers, capable of putting their congregation to sleep.
[Ref: 8989] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

H.M.S. Cambrian, 36 Guns. This print is prespectfully dedicated by permiision to Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, by his obliged and very obedient Servant N.M. Condy.
Painted by N.M.Condy. Engraved by E.Duncan.
London Published by Edward Ramsden, Ackermann & Co. Strand _ Plymouth Edmund Fry _ Bristol Philip & Evans.
Coloured aquatint. 450 x 320mm [image]. Margins have minor discolouration, minor tears at publication line.
H.M.S. Cambrian was lauched in 1841, Henry Ducie Chads R.N. sailed the Cambrian to and from the East Indies until 1845, James Hanway Plumridge R.N. in the same seas until 1847 and then under acting Captain Henry Gage Morris R.N. when it became the flagshirp of Commodore James Hanway Plumridge, East Indies.
[Ref: 1352] £1,800.00

The Confectioner.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Woodcut, with two sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Foxing.
A confectionary shop in which a woman and a child choose treats while a woman weighs them out, with text.
[Ref: 50500] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Conference at Block Drift, Kaffir Land _ Jan.y 30.th 1846; Between L.t Governor Col. Hare and the Kaffir Chief Sandilla_before the commencements of Hostilities. Regiments present,_The Royal Artillery_7th Dragoon Guards, and 91.st (Argyllshire.) also The Cape Mounted Rifles. To His Excellency, The Governor Leiu.t Gen.l Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B. This Plate is respectfully Inscribed by his obliged & obedient Servant, R. Ackermann, 191, Regent Street.
Painted by H.y Martens. From a Sketch by Capt.n Carey, Cape Mounted Rifles. Engraved by J. Harris.
London: Published March 15.th 1852, by Rudolph Ackerman, at His Eclipse Sporting and Military Gallery, 191, Regent Street.
Coloured aquatint, with large margins, laid on board. Plate 540 x 692mm. 21¼ x 27¼".
A long line of British cavalry on left in parley on plateau with large group of mounted tribesmen at right; mountains in background. Associated with the seventh of the nine Cape Frontier Wars (1846-1847), known as the 'war of the axe'. Like the six previous wars, it was between the Xhosa people and European settlers. The Xhosa forces were far greater than those of the imperial British troops, and by this time they had replaced their traditional weapons with modern firearms. It was their new use of guns that made the Xhosa considerably more effective in fighting the British. One of a set of five colour plates by Harris after Martins - 'Kaffir Wars'.
NAM: 1971-02-33-72.
[Ref: 27457] £650.00

Remissio Peccatorum.
Egbertus van Heemskirk p. J. Smith fe:
P Tempest ex: [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins. Worming in bottom left corner of margin. Creasing.
'The remission of sins.' A friar hears the confession of a chained prisoner. Engraved c.1685, the paper of this example suggests a later printing.
BM 1874,0808.1282, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 60179] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Confession.]
F. Place fec: [after Marcellus Laroon?].
P. Tespest ex: [n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"), with large margins. Stain in bottom right corner.
A young woman wearing a lace-trimmed veil kneels as she confesses to a bearded monk who sits with his hands tucked into his sleeves. On the wall behind is a picture of the Crucifixion.
[Ref: 60184] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Lady at Confession.
Millar inv.t et pinx.t. Rob.t Laurie fecit.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 20 May 1772.
Mezzotint. 395 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, laid on album paper.
A young lady at confession, holding a rosary, heard by a Jesuit monk, who looks lecherously at her. Before them are various symbols of mortality, and a paper lettered ''From fornication and all other deadly Sins Libera nos Domine! 'Tis better to Marry than burn''.
[Ref: 62359] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

La Belle Confession.
J. Gole fe.et ex. cum Privil. Ord. Holl. et W. Frisiae.
[n.d. c.1675.]
Very scarce & fine mezzotint, plate 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate and mounted on album sheet on right. Very small stain to bottom edge, very small tear to left margin.
A monk sits on a high chair on the right, looking in a lecherous manner over his shoulder towards a well-dressed prostitute, kneeling to his left in the act of confessing her sins.
[Ref: 58935] £420.00

[William Pitt the Younger] Johnny MacCree at Confession.
[Charles Williams]
Pubd March 29th 1805 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, plate 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins. Crack in plate at top. Some creasing and staining. Tear in right. Holes in margins and top left corner of the plate mark
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) as a monk with a large tonsure, sits in a high Gothic chair. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) in Highland dress and holding his feathered bonnet, kneels before him asking for advice.
BM Satires 10378
[Ref: 58786] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Lady at Confession.
M.Lauron pinxit. I.Smith fecit.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint. 250 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾").
A courtesan kneeling at confession, heard by a Franciscan monk.
For a reissued plate with added decorative border see ref.15691
[Ref: 5607] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Confessional or Lord Lion Heart, and the Yorkshire Buzzard a Rev.d Bird of Prey.
[1819 watermark.]
Wood engraving, printed area 210 x 280mm. 8¼ x 11".
Not in BM.
[Ref: 14686] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Lady at Confession.
M. Lauron pinxit. I. Smith fecit.
Printed and Sold by Thos. Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet London.
Mezzotint. 413 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼").
A courtesan kneeling at confession, heard by a Franciscan monk.
CS: 285: unusual state not recorded; with printed decorative borders. For the print without border see ref. 5607
[Ref: 15691] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Wife at Confession to the Husband in Disguise.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs. [c.1780, but a later impression.]
Mezzotint. 150 x 115mm. 6 x 4½".
A beautiful woman kneels in a confessional, with her husband, dressed as a priest, listening on the other side of the screen. Numbered '319' lower left.
BM Satires: 3778.
[Ref: 15730] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Confession. Here the Fair humble Penitent behold, To the good father all her sins unfold. He hears, absolves. But mark his leering Eyes, And judge by them where his Devotion lies.
G. Vandermyn pinx.t. C. Spooner fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Very large margins. Paper toned.
A young woman stands, holding a rosary in her hands, with a shawl over her hair, making her confession to a friar who sits with his hands tucked into his sleeves, leering down at her.
[Ref: 38714] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A Lady at Confession]
Moroone pinx:
[n.d., c.1800]
Mezzotint, platemark 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"), on wove paper with very large margins.
A young woman (supposedly the courtesan Mrs Russell) confesses to a monk who points a finger at her with one hand while one hand disappears under his habit. Such scenes between an attractive woman and a lascivious monk were common in 18th century prints. Engraved by the famous early mezzotinter John Smith (1652-1743) after Dutch painter Marcellus Laroon II (1649-1702). Originally published circa 1720.
State iii?/iv (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database); for a copy of this print in reverse see ref. 37690.
[Ref: 40222] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Wife at Confession to the Husband in Disguise. The Husband like a Priest in dress, Hears his fair kneeling Wife confess; And gets her in that Garb to tell, That she has Hornify'd him well._
[Engraved by John Raphael Smith.]
[n.d., c.1780.] Published as the Act directs. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Scarce mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Date erased from print on lower right. Mount stain.
A fashionably dressed wife kneels next to her husband, her hands clasped. Her husband, dressed in disguise as a Priest, listens to her confession behind a screen.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. BM Satires 3778.
[Ref: 64497] £420.00

[The Confessional] Le Mari-Confesseur. Dit Madelenntje [...] syn overspelig Wyf.
P. Schenck Fec: et Exc: cum Privil: Ordi: Hollan: et West Frisae [after Marcellus Laroon II, c.1695]
Mezzotint, 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Hole to right of woman.
One of several prints of the period showing a monk and a beautiful penitent, this one copied by the Dutch printmaker Pieter Schenck from 'A Lady at Confession' (John Smith after Marcellus Laroon II, 1791). Schenck has reversed Smith's composition, added four lines of text in Dutch, and as Antony Griffiths notes, he 'had the effrontery to add a Dutch privilege to protect himself from copying'.
Hollstein:431.I; for Smith's 'A Lady at Confession' see our ref. 5607, also Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart England', cat. 181.
[Ref: 23134] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Confidants or Le Billet Doux.
E.Martin pinx. T.Watson Excudit.
London, Publish'd May 20th 1780 for Watson & Dickinson No. 158 New Bond Street.
Sepia mezzotint. 255 x 180mm. Crease in title area.
[Ref: 4112] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Confidence. Plate 3. Drive about with a Protegé Tom Thumb as a Groom...
D.T. Egerton Esq.r Del.t [and etched].
London, Published by Thomas M.clean: Repository of Wit and Humour, 27 Haymarket, 1823.
Coloured aquatint. 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½), with large margins.
From Egerton's 12-plate series, 'Man of Fashion', with the man driving a cabriolet through a cobbled London square, pretending he is a soldier, rich enough for servants.
Abbey Life 286.
[Ref: 54596] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Confidential Friend.
M. Gauci lith. Printed by Engelmann, and Co.
London, Published by W. Spooner No. 259, Regent Street. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph, fine. 484 x 353mm. 19 x 14".
A girl leaning on her left elbow.
[Ref: 14732] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Confirmation. Clergyman_First Boy, Have you ever been Confirmed? Boy_No Sir but I've been Waxinated.
G. Hunt sc.
London. Published 1.st Jan.y 1831, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St.t. Convent Garden.
Hand coloured aquatint. Plate: 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Small margins.
A comic print in which a clergyman addresses a group of boys in a church, the rest of the congregation laugh as one boy misunderstands a question.
Hickman: p.110.
[Ref: 41372] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Confucius. Le plus celebre Philosophie de la Chine. No. 53. Descript. Gen.de la Chine Pag. 206.
Honbleau invenit. Fonbonne Sculp.
[n.d. c.1770].
Engraving. 200 x 330mm. Light foxing in margins
Chinese philosopher whose 'Analects' contain a collection of his sayings and dialogues compiled by disciples after his death [551 - 479? B.C].
[Ref: 3262] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Kong-Fû-Tsë or Confuçius the most Celebrated Philosopher of China.
Honbleau inv. HFletcher sculp.
[n.d. c.1730].
Engraving. 320 x 185mm (12½ x 7¼") Trimmed to image and title, mounted on album paper.
Portrait of the Chinese philosopher (551 - 479? BC) standing in a library.
[Ref: 45365] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Great Pagoda, at Congeveram.
J. Wathen del.t. J. Clark direx.t.
London Published by Black, Parry & Co, and Nichols & Co, 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint, printed area 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed.
From James Wathen's 'Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena' 1814.
Abbey Travel 517.
[Ref: 63745] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. H.M. Stanley's Explorations in the Dark Continent - Map of the Route and A Portrait Group of the Officers of his Expedition. Sketch Map to Illustrate H.M. Stanley's Route in the Emin Relief Expedition.
Drawn by W. and A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh.
[London., 1890.]
Wood engraving, printed in colour. Sheet 390 x 600mm (15¾ x 23¾"). Some spotting. Central crease as normal. Repaired tears in central crease.
A map of central Africa and nine roundel portraits of members of Henry Morton Stanley expedition (1886-9) to relieve the governor of Equatoria (south Sudan) from Mahdist forces. Published in the Graphic Newspaper.
[Ref: 58150] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A fake expedition to the Congo] Chef Nègre, (entouré de ses nobles, de quelques unes de ses femmes et de ses filles.) (Possessions Portugaises.)
Dessiné d'après nature par M.r Douveill et lith.é par Nogues. Lith de Engelmann.]
[Paris: Jules Renouard, 1832.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 250 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½"), with publisher's blind stamp. Slight staining, bottom right corner snipped.
A Congolese chief outside his hut. A plate from 'Voyage au Congo et dans l'interieur de l'Afrique Equinoxiale', three volumes, by Jean Baptiste Douville (1794-1837). A wealthy traveller, Douville visited Luanda in 1828, before returning to Paris in 1831 and claiming to have explored the African interior. On the strength of his account he was awarded the Société de Géographie's third 'Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations'. He published this account in 1832 but by the end of the year it was established that his involvement was fiction. After his fiancée killed herself because of the scandal, he left France for Brazil where he was murdered in 1837. Sir Richard Burton maintained that the details in the account were credible, but today it is believed that Douvill's chief sources were unpublished Portuguese manuscripts to which he had ready access.
[Ref: 56041] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

De Stadt van Louango. The Citÿ of Lovango.
[London: John Ogilby, 1670.]
Engraving with large margins. 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½"). Creasing as normal.
The sprawling capital of the kingdom of Loango in the Congo. In 1663 the baptism of the king of Loango led to a civil war that lasted over a decade. It was first published in Dapper's 'Beschrijvinge der Afrikaanse Gewesten', but this example comes from the English edition, published by John Ogilby as 'Africa: being, An Accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abysinnes, with All the Adjacente Islands', with the Dutch title and 11-point key duplicated into English.
[Ref: 30221] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

St. Salvador, a Portuguese City on the River Lelunda, in the Kingdom of Congo in Africa. Engraved for Banke's New System of Geography Published by Royal Authority.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate 165 x 204mm (6½ x 8").
M'banza-Kongo, known as Sao Salvador in Portuguese from 1570 to 1975, the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province. When the Portuguese arrived in Kongo, it was already a large town, and during the reign of Afonso I, stone buildings were added, including a palace and several churches.
[Ref: 30735] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Album of newpaper satires relating to the Congress of Berlin, 1878.]
[1878.]
Folio scrap album, original green half morocco gilt, with Buchram boards, silk endpapers; 33 sheets on 30 card pages. Some spotting.
An album of satires of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in which the European powers and the Ottoman Empire met to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Although the satires are in German and French, the compiler seems to have been British, as the gilt title on the front board is in English. Several of the plates caricature Benjamin D'Israeli and the British acquisition of Cyprus: one shows the Prime Minister drunk on Cypriot wine.
[Ref: 60719] £380.00 view all images for this item

William Congreve. Esq.r. 40.
G. Kneller Bar.t Pinx.t 1709. I. Faber fecit 1733.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 253mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins.
William Congreve (1670-1729), dramatist, poet, and member of the Kit-Kat Club.
CS: 54. Not in Harvard.
[Ref: 49559] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby, with his daughters Frances and Margaret.]
[Engraved by George Vertue after Sir Godfrey Kneller.]
[London: George Vertue, c.1723.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 465 x 385mm (18¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate. Messy edges.
Thomas Coningsby (1656-1729), MP for Leominster from 1679-1710 and 1715-16, when he was raised to the peerage. Coningsby holds a copy of the Magna Carta? On it is written "this is my birthright purchased with the blood of my ancestors". The painting by Kneller is now in the Tower of London. The appearence of the Tower of London in the background is a reference to his imprisonment there in 1720 for writing some ill-chosen words about Simon Harcourt, the Lord Chancellor.
Alexander: 382 who states that this was presumed a Private Plate.
[Ref: 49022] £380.00

Conjugal Affection. From the Original Picture presented to the City by Ald.n Boydell. To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte. This Print is most humbly Dedicated by their most Dutiful and Loyal Subject Jn.o Boydell.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke R.A. Engraved by Rob.t Thew, Hist. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Pub. Sept. 29, 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheaside. And at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Coloured stipple. 500 x 635mm (19¾ x 25"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Slight stain on right.
An affluent family in a room filled with paintings, surrounded by pets. Through the window is a bridge over a river, probably London, with dock workers unloading goods, suggestive of the source of the family's wealth. An interesting representation of late Georgian family life.
[Ref: 28196] £350.00

[Little Tower - Yale.]
E. Parsons.
[n.d. c. 1930.]
Etching. 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼").
Exterior view of Yale University.
[Ref: 45834] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Yale - Harkness Dorm.]
E. Parsons.
[n.d. c. 1930.]
Etching. 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7¾").
Exterior view of Yale University, with church in background.
[Ref: 45833] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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