Marquis Cornwallis.
Godefroy delin.t J. Pass sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800]
Stipple. Plate: 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Repairs, damaged.
Half portrait set in a roundel of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) a leading British general famed for his roles in the American War of Independence. Cornwallis' surrender at the Seige of Yorktown (1781) drew the hostilities between the American revolutionaries and the British to a close. Later in his military career Cornwallis was appointed Governor-General of India, a role which saw him oversee negotiations between the East India Company and the kingdom of Mysore. When hostilities escalated, starting the Third Anglo-Mysore War, Cornwallis led the British to victory over the Mysorean leader Tipu Sultan at the battle of Seringapatam.
[Ref: 33529] £85.00
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Charles Earl Cornwallis, Lieutenant Général des Armées et Forces de Sa Majesté Britannique dans l'Amérique, a été fait prisonnier à Yorck et Gloucester, avec son Armée par les Américains et les Français aux Ordres des Généraux Vashington et Rochambeau &.a le 19 8.bre 1781
[Anon., c.1781]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG (1738-1805), British Army officer and colonial administrator. Cornwallis is remembered for his surrender at the Siege of Yorktown (1781) during the American Revolutionary War (noted on this print). Later in his military career Cornwallis was appointed Governor-General of India, a role which saw him oversee negotiations between the East India Company and the kingdom of Mysore. When hostilities escalated, starting the Third Anglo-Mysore War, Cornwallis led the British to victory over the Mysorean leader Tipu Sultan at the battle of Seringapatam.
[Ref: 47410] £95.00
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[Charles, Earl Cornwallis.] [Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &c.]
Painted by H.D. Hamilton. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
London. Publish'd March 15th. 1781, for Watson & Dickinson No. 158, New Bond Street.
Etching with stipple in red ink, fine proof before title, sheet 170 x 175mm. 6¾ x 7". Trimmed to plate at top and bottom.
Portrait in an oval of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG (1738- 1805), British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and Britain, he is best remembered as one of the leading generals in the American War of Independence. His 1781 surrender to a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown is often incorrectly considered the end of the war; in fact, it continued for a further two years. Despite this defeat, he retained the confidence of successive British governments and continued to enjoy an active career. In India, where he served two terms as governor general, he is remembered for promulgating the Permanent Settlement. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic emancipation and oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion and a French invasion of Ireland. After Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1736 - 1808). From the Norman Blackburn Collection. De Vesme: 793, iii/iv.
[Ref: 18233] £220.00
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Marquis Cornwallis.
H. Walton pinxt. J. Ogborne sculpt.
Published as the Act directs July 1 1795. No.5, Curzon Street.
Stipple engraving with soft-ground etching, with small margins. 317 x 250mm.
Fine portrait of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis [1738 - 1805]. Governor-General of India (1786-1793), Charles Cornwallis became famous for his reforming administration. He established the Cornwallis (or Bengal) code for stamping out corruption and pioneered a more professional, salaried civil service. His improvements had valuable long-term consequences for the effective government of India.
[Ref: 6426] £190.00
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Charles Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Engraved by J. Heath from an original Painting by Commuford in possession of Sir J. Barington.
Published Sepr.1st.1809, by G. Robinson Paternoster Row, London.
Stipple. 252 x 215mm. Stuck to card in each corner.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG (1738-1805) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and Britain, he is best remembered as one of the leading generals in the American War of Independence. His 1781 surrender to a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown is often incorrectly considered the end of the war; in fact, it continued for a further two years. Despite this defeat, he retained the confidence of successive British governments and continued to enjoy an active career. In India, where he served two terms as governor general, he is remembered for promulgating the Permanent Settlement. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic emancipation and oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion and a French invasion of Ireland.
[Ref: 12579] £50.00
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Jemima, Countess Cornwallis.
S.r J. Reynolds Pinx.t. R. Laurie fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.o 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 Oct.r 1771.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Trimmed to image.
A seated portrait of Jemima Cornwallis (1747-1779) wife of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis. CS 14
[Ref: 41434] £130.00
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Representation of the Coronation of Napoleon, in the Church of Notre-Dame, containing Portraits of the Persons Assisting _ Drawn on the Spot [December 2 1804].
R. Hicks sculpt.
[Monthly Mag. No 192.] [n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple. Sheet 210 x 325mm (8¼ x 12¾"). Trimmed to printed border and into title, losing most of key of persons; crease as normal.
Napoleon crowning himself at Notre Dame, seemingly based on Jacques-Louis David's painting exhibited 1808. The participants are: Napoleon's brothers Louis & Joseph; Joséphine; Joachim Murat; Pope Pius VI; and the cardinals Joseph Fesch (Napoleon's maternal uncle) & Giovanni Battista Caprara (also Archbishop of Milan), the only names remaining of the key.
[Ref: 55739] £140.00
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His Majesty's Coronation Fleet. Received of [blank] the day of [blank] the Sum of [blank] Sovereign being the Amount of his Subscription as a Member of the above Fleet for the Year 182 [blank].
E.H. Cross Sc 92 Leadenhall Street.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved receipt with vignette royal coat of arms and sailing boats on a lake, 220 x 210mm.8¾ x 8¼". Creases where folded; laid to card.
Unannotated, unsigned diploma of membership of King George IV's Coronation Fleet.
[Ref: 9315] £130.00
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Vincent. Coronelli. Kinoriten General und Cosmograph der Republ. Venedig. Gebor.__Gestorb. zu Venedig im Decbr. 1718.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼").
Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) the Franciscan monk, cosmographer, and Official Cartographer to both the Doge of Venice and Louis XIV of France, known for his 'Atlante Veneto' atlases and the pair of two-ton manuscript globes made for Louis and now in the Bibliothèque nationale François Mitterrand in Paris. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29532] £140.00
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[Vicenzo Coronelli presenting a book to Pope Clement XI.]
Alles.o Dalla Via Sculp.
[Venice: Coronelli c.1705.]
Coloured engraving with very large margins. 290 x 200mm (11½ x 8") Trimmed close to plate, creasing.
Vicenzo Coronelli presenting a volume of his 'Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana' to Pope Clement XI, a bookcase full of Cornelli's atlases behind the papal dais. The print is surrounded by a border of mapmaking instruments and globes. The 'Biblioteca universale' was an encyclopedia, one of the first universal encyclopedias in a European vernacular language with entries arranged alphabetically. It was planned to contain 45 volumes but only 7 volumes appeared, published 1701-7, only reaching 'C'. The set is exceedingly rare. Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) the Franciscan monk, cosmographer, and Official Cartographer to both the Doge of Venice and Louis XIV of France, known for his 'Atlante Veneto' atlases and the pair of two-ton manuscript globes made for Louis and now in the Bibliothèque nationale François Mitterrand in Paris. See Kivell & Spence P.84; for uncoloured impression see ref. 29665
[Ref: 29666] £220.00
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P. Vincentius Coronelli Venetus, Generalis LXXVIII. Electus Romæ MDCCI. Cosmographus Reipublicæ Venetiar.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving with very large margins. 250 x 165mm (6 x 6½")
A portrait of Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) the Franciscan monk, cosmographer, and Official Cartographer to both the Doge of Venice and Louis XIV of France, known for his 'Atlante Veneto' atlases and the pair of two-ton manuscript globes made for Louis and now in the Bibliothèque nationale François Mitterrand in Paris. An adaptation of the frontispiece of Coronelli's 'Atlante Veneto' it celebrates his appointment as Father General of the Franciscan order, 1699. He is shown surrounded by medallions with the titles of his publications.
[Ref: 29668] £320.00
A Coroners Inquest. Juror_The man's alive Sir, for he has open'd one eye. Coroner_Sir, the doctor declar'd him Dead two hours since & he msut remain Dead Sir, so I shall proceed with the Inquest.
F. Del.t.
London, Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet.
A comic scene in which a large crowd stand around a man lying on a bed. The man, assumed to be dead has woken up much to the annoyance of the coroner. BM Satire 15361.
[Ref: 50723] £180.00
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A Coroners Inquest. Juror_ The Man's alive Sir, for he has open'd one eye. Coroner_Sir the doctor declar'd him Dead two hours since & he must remain Dead Sir, so I shall proceed with the Inquest.
F. Delt.
London. Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean 26 Haymarket 1826.
Aquatint with fine hand-colouring, platemark 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet at corners.
BM Satires 15361.
[Ref: 41566] £180.00
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[An Exact representation of a certain wise Body without a Head in the East going to pay a Visit to to a certain great Body in the West.]
[n.d., c.1763.]
Engraving. Sheet: 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Cut, title missing.
A satirical print commenting on the Corporation of London's reaction to the Peace of Paris. Figures with grotesque heads carry banners and poles along what might be Fleet Street with the steeple of St Bride's in the back right. BM Satire 4056
[Ref: 45442] £90.00
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[Ier Corps de Garde.][in ink]
F. Boucher del. Huquier filius sculp.
[AParis chés Buldet rue de Gesvres.] [n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked, working proof ?. Plate 355 x 228mm. 14 x 9". Trimmed.
Five guards gathered around a drum, playing dice, in a wooded landscape with bas-relief in the background.
[Ref: 27699] £140.00
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II.e Corps de Garde.
F. Boucher del. Huquier filius sculp.
Aparis, chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres. [n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 228mm. 14 x 9". Trimmed.
Five guards conversing in a room, one of them holding a bottle; drum, flag and quiver in the background.
[Ref: 27700] £120.00
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Corregio.
J. Jackson del.t. 1815.
Lithograph, rare. J. Whatman 1816 watermark; Sheet: 275 x 220mm (10¾ x 8¾").
A portrait of Italian artist Antonio Correggio (1489-1534).
[Ref: 47379] £65.00
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Arcange Correlli. Musicien un des plus Celebre pour les Pieces de Violin que l'Italie aye eut né a Fusignari en Boulonois Mort a Rome vers l'an 1714.
Se vend Paris chez E. Desrochers rue du Foin pres la rue S. Iacque.
Engraving. Plate: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4''), with very large margins.
A portrait of Baroque violinist and composer Arcangelo Correlli (1653-1713). From a series of small portraits by Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers (1668-1741).
[Ref: 48268] £130.00
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Corroboree
S.T.G. [Samuel Thomas Gill.]
Printed in colors by [& published] by Hamel & Ferguson, Melboune [n.d., c.1865].
Rare chromolithograph. Printed area 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"), large margins.
An Aboriginal 'corroboree', a dance ceremony, around a camp fire, with warriors with shields and spears, and women and a man beating sticks. One of 25 studies in 'The Australian Sketchbook' by Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880), the second book published in Australia to use chromolithography.
[Ref: 57920] £260.00
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Characters from Lord Byron. Medora,- The Corsair's Bride.
London Printed & Published by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. 14, Newman St. 1829.
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 275mm (9½ x 10¾"). Corners trimmed.
A depiction of Medora, a female love interest of the corsair Conrad in Byron's poem 'The Corsair' 1814.
[Ref: 41356] £95.00
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The Cutter Yacht, Corsair, R.Y.S. Sailing the great match with the Talisman from Cowes round the Eddystone and back. This Print is respectfully dedicated to John Congreve Esqre (owner of the Corsair.) by his obedient Servant, Edmund Fry.
N.M.Condy del. T.G.Dutton lith: Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, 1843, Ackermann & Co. Strand _George Foster 114 Fenchurch St.__ Plymouth, Edmund Fry.
Lithograph, image 225 x 300mm. 9 x 11¾".
The Corsair and was the victor over the Talisman in the celebated race between the two Royal Yacht Club boats for 1,000 guineas from Cowes to the Eddystone lighthouse, Cornwall.
[Ref: 9470] £450.00
Déliverance de la Corse, le 29 Vendémaire An 5.
Dessiné par Carle Vernet. Terminé par Niquet et Pillement.
[n.d., c.1806.]
Engraving with handcolour. Plate: 390 x 295mm (15¼ x 11½"). Spotting in sky.
A military scene showing the reconquering of Corsica by the French on 19th October 1796. Following the execution of Louis XVI Pasquale Paoli, leader of Corsica, requested protection from Britain. Seeing the chance to have a naval base in the Mediterranean, a British naval fleet, under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood, set sail in 1794. However, with Spain joining the French in 1795, Britain started to reduce the number of soldiers on the island and by October all troops had been removed leaving the island unguarded and open to French attack. From Carle Vernet's 'Tableaux Historiques des Campagnes D'Italie...' 1806.
[Ref: 41493] £120.00
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Corte.
R.B. del. I. Clark sc.
Pub. by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1825.
Aquatint, with small margins. Plate 135 x 222mm. 5¼ x 8¾". Crease lower right corner.
Corte, the hill-top citadel, Corsica, wich served as the capital of the Corsican independent state during the period of Pasquale Paoli. From "Sketches of Corsica, or, A Journal Written During a Visit to That Island in 1823". Robert Benson (1797 - 1844), recorder of Salisbury, was the youngest son of the Rev. Edmund Benson, priest-vicar of Salisbury Cathedral, and was born in that city. In 1823 he went to Corsica as one of the commissioners to carry into effect the bequests of General Paoli, and on his return he published this book. Abbey Travel: 76. See Ref: 11921 for full book.
[Ref: 26126] £120.00
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Vue de Calvi prise à l'est de la baye.
L. Garneray pinx.t et sculp.t.
Déposé à la Direction. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished, rare with large margins. 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½").
A view of the town and citadel of Calvi, Corsica. Property of Nigel C. Talbot
[Ref: 32042] £220.00
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The Corsican Toad Under a Harrow.
Pub.d Nov.r 27 1813 by R. Ackermann N101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½''). Trimmed.
A commentary on the allies successes in the Napoleonic Wars; Napoleon lies on the ground underneath a harrow on which sits a large Dutchman. The harrow is pulled by a group of men representing the allies, including a Spanish don, an English sailor, a Prussian hussar and a Russian. BM Satire 12104.
[Ref: 50971] £190.00
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Cornile Cort. Engraveur admirable natis de Horne en Hollande en l'an 1536, il a demeure long temps en Italie faisant beaucoup de ses oeuvres pour Raphael d'Urbin Titian et plusieurs autres, il mourut a Rome, en l'an 1578.
franc. vande Steen Sculpsit.
I Meyssens excudit. [n.d. c.1662.]
Engraving. Plate 159 x 114mm. 6¼ x 4½". Glued to backing sheet.
Cornelis Cort (c.1533-c.1578) was a Dutch engraver and draughtsman. From Cornelis de Bie's "Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const".
[Ref: 24494] £65.00
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[Henry Cort] To the Iron Trade of Great Britain, This Portrait of the late Henry Cort, The Tubal Cain of our Century & of our Country The Father of the British Iron Trade, Times July 29th 1856, is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Ser.t Sydney Marks. Proof.
Engraved and Published by Sydney Marks [n.d., c.1860].
Rare mezzotint. 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Some soiling.
Profile portrait of Henry Cort (c. 1740-1800), an English ironware producer who developed innovative systems for the production of wrought iron from pig iron In 1784 he patented an improved version of the puddling process for refining cast iron, although it was only made economically viable by innovations by ironmasters Crawshay and Homfray, who paid him royalties. This plate was first published by his son, Richard Cort, quoting The Times newspaper's description of his father. See BM 1931,1211.15 for the original issue.
[Ref: 60742] £280.00
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La Coraterie. Vue de la Maison de M.r De Saussure, à Geneve.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 255 ( 7½ x 10"). Trimmed. Laid on album sheet.
A view of the rue de la Corraterie in Geneva with Maison Saussure in the background.
[Ref: 42020] £140.00
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The Interview of Cortes and Motezuma in the City of Mexico. Vol. 2 Page. 97. 1. Motezuma in his Royal Robes. 2. Cortes puting a rich Collar about the neck of Motezuma. 3. The Chair and Canopy of Motezuma. 4. The Guard that attended Cortes.
J. Mynde Sc.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Copper Engraving. 225 x 340mm (9 x 13½"). Large margins on 3 sides. Slight creasing & minor tears along lower edge.
On November 8, 1519, Montezuma (c.1466-1520) met Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) on the causeway leading into Tenochtitlan and the two leaders exchanged gifts. Montezuma gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. Cortés later melted these down for their material value. Mayer 'México Ilustrado': p:93.
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[Hernan Cortes] Ferdinando Cortes. Cavato da un Originale fatto innanzi ch'ei si prtasse all conquista del Messico.
In Venezia, MDCCLXXXIII [1783] Nella Stamperia Gatti A spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia.
Engraving. 160 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼"), with letterpress titlepage, with large margins. Old ink in title box, pasted label on titlepage.
A half-length portrait in oval of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes (1485-1547), the frontispiece portrait of volume 3 of 'Storia di America', an Italian edition of William Robertson's 'History of America', translated by Antonio Pillori.
[Ref: 67079] £80.00
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[Italianate landscape after Il Borgognone.] In the Collection of Peter Delmé Esq.r.
Giacomo Cortesi, detto il Borgognone pinx. Chatelain Sculp.
Publish'd by Ar: Ponf Feb.y 1744.
Etching with some engraving. 315 x 405mm, 12½ x 16". Edges worn.
A river scene with a bridge leading to a ruined keep, from a painting by Giacomo Cortese (1621-75), known as Il Borgognone, a Frenchman who spent his career in Italy, with an output mainly of battle scenes. The original painting belonged to Peter Delmé (1710-70), a wealthy English merchant, MP for Ludgershall 1734-41 and for Southampton 1741-54. He was nicknamed 'Peter the Czar' for his considerable inherited wealth, but he spent the lot before shooting himself in his house in Grosvenor Square. BM: 1869,0410.1182.
[Ref: 23125] £140.00
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Fernand-Cortes.
Velasquez pinx. E.Lingée sculp.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. 520 x 340mm, 20½ x 13½". Crack in plate mark.
Although this portrait is proported to be of Hernán Cortés 1485-1547), the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico, this is apocryphal. Velasquez's original painting, now in the Prado, is titled "The Jester Known as Don Juan de Austria".
[Ref: 17866] £120.00
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[Cortez scuttling the Spanish fleet in Mexico, 1519.] Emulo de Agatocles: Imitador de Timarco: Digna Copia de Lauria.
Dib y lit.o por Urrabieta. Lit. de Ayguals de Izco.
[Madrid : Lit. J. Donon y Ayguals de Izco, 1849.]
Lithograph with hand colour, rare. Printed area 350 x 445mm (13¾ x 17¾").
Hernán Cortez watching his ships sink, having scuttled his fleet to strand his troops in Mexico, preventing a possible mutiny. The title compares him to three historical figures: Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse; Timarchus, tyrant of Miletus, and Roger of Lauria (c. 1245 – 17 January 1305), a Sicilian admiral in the service of Aragon. Drawn and lithographed by Vicente Urrabieta Ortiz for 'Colección de láminas de la Historia de la Marina Real Española. Litografías de los Mejores Artistas Españoles.'
[Ref: 35916] £380.00
Hernand Cortez.
[Engraved by N. De Larmessin.]
[French, c.1682.]
Copper engraving, sheet 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5¼". Trimmed to/close to plate.
Portrait of Hernando Cortez (Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, c.1485 - 1547), Spanish Conquistador who led the expedition to Central America that led to the downfall of the Aztec Empire. From Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'; letterpress to verso.
[Ref: 17655] £130.00
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Fernand. Cortez. Pr. Conquerant de la nouvelle Espagne. Histoire des Voyages.
A Paris ches Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 277 x 169mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 1979] £140.00
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Death of Sir John Moore at the Battle of Corunna.
R. Corbould delin. G. Warren sculp.
Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London, 1831.
Steel engraving. 290 x 200mm (11½ x 8"), with large margins.
A scene of the death of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (1761– 1809), the commander of the British Army at the Battle of Corunna, 1809, during the Peninsula War. The scene is within a triumphal decorative border.
[Ref: 65794] £50.00
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[Battle of Corunna] Death of Moore.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 105 x 85mm (4¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed, edges spotted.
A circular view of Sir John Moore, mortally wounded by a cannonball at the Battle of Corunna (16th January, 1809).
[Ref: 55738] £70.00
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A corvette scudding under fore course.
Drawn on stone by J. Rogers.
Printed by Rowney & Forster. Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket. [n.d., c.1824.]
Coloured lithograph, 275 x 420mm. 10¾ x 16½". Repaired tear in lower right.
A corvette, a manoeuverable, lightly armed warship smaller than a frigate. 'Fore course' refers to the mast on which the sail is raised.
[Ref: 11255] £140.00
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Die Corvette Astrolabe in Gefahr an den Felsen de Insel Leighs zu scheitern. (New-Ireland.) T.58.
J. Werner del. Lith. de J. Brodtmann.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 254 x 356mm. 10 x 14".
The Astrolabe, the exploration ship of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jules Durmont d'Urville (1790-1842), who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. Here off the coast of New Ireland part of the Bismark archipelago and Papua New Guinea. From a German translation of: Voyage de la corvette L'Astrolabe.
[Ref: 20873] £230.00
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La Corvette l'Astrolabe, attaquée par les Naturels de la Côte nord. (Nouvelle Guinée.) Pl.III.
de Sainson pinx. A. St. Aulaire Lith.
J. Tastu, Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, 1833.]
Lithograph with very large margins. Sheet 342 x 508mm (13½ x 20"). Spotting in the margins; publisher's blindstamp under title.
The French ship 'Astrolabe' under attack from the natives of New Guinea. From 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829.
[Ref: 28206] £160.00
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To E. Loveden Loveden Esq.r This View between Corwen and Llangollen on the River-Dee, is with the greatest respect inscribed by his obedient and obliged Servants, T. Walmsley and F. Jukes.
From a Picture by T. Walmsley. Engrav'd by F. Jukes.
London Pub.d May 10.th 1793 by F. Jukes No:10 Howland Street.
Aquatint and etching, printed on J. Whatman watermark paper. Plate 349 x 444mm. 13¾ x 17½". Some staining around the edges of the margins. Uncut with large margins.
A view beneath the Berwyn mountains on the banks of the River Dee. View of a river which flows into the left foreground with the roofs of buildings seen above the sloping bank, behind trees, on the right, two men near the water in the foreground and a horse and cows, with mountains in the background. From a series of sixteen views in North Wales. Ex Watt Collection. Abbey Scenery 512: 11.
[Ref: 21718] £190.00
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[Corwen Bridge.] To Edw.d Williams Vaughan Salesbury Esq.r This view of Corwen Bridge is with the greatest respect inscribed by his obedient & obliged servants, T. Walmsley & F. Jukes.
From a Drawing by T. Walmsley. Engrav'd by F. Jukes.
London Pub.d by F. Jukes, N.o 10 Howland Street.
Aquatint. 350 x 445mm (13¾ x 17¼"), very large margins. Slight toning in margin edges.
An idyllic view of Corwen Bridge, with two anglers wading in the shallows of the river. Corwen bridge has been recognised as an excellent example of 18th century masonry and was built as part of a important series of early bridges across the rivers Alwen and Dee. Collection: Watt
[Ref: 56188] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
[Thomas Coryate.] Loe heere the wooden Image of our wits; Borne, in first trauaile, on the backs of Nits; O, what will he ride, when his yeares expire? the world must ride him; or he all will tire.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Very scarce engraving. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Thomas Coryate (c. 1577 -1617), English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. Frontis to his work 'Letter from Asmere'. His description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word "umbrella" being introduced into English.
[Ref: 67707] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Vessels of the Argonauts for the wedding celebration of Cosimo de' Medici] Calai e Zeti Condotti da Boreo et Oritia. Battaglia navale rapp in Arno per le nozze del Ser. Principe di Toscana l'anno 1608
Giulio Parigi I. Remigio Canta Gallina F.
[n.d., c.1608.]
Etching. 185 x 170mm (7½ x 6¾"). Notch in left margin. Small margins.
One of the ornamental barges in a regatta celebrating the marriage of Cosimo de' Medici in 1608. BM: 1861,0713.1476
[Ref: 65564] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations, from: Dunn's "A New Atlas of the Mundane System ..."
By S. Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences. London 1774.
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 10 January 1774.
Engraving with areas of mezzotint, 18th century watermark 370 x 545mm (17½ x 21½") very large margins top & bottom. Small margins left & right. A few chips to edges, small split in lower centre fold.
A collection of astronomical diagrams, with the central spheres filled in with mezzotint, an unusual use of the medium. Samuel Dunn (died 1794), mathematician, amateur astronomer and cartographer.
[Ref: 52942] £580.00
Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations.
By S. Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. 1786.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 January 1774.
Engraving with mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 370 x 550mm (14½ x 21¾"), very large margins.
A diagram with twelve spheres, illustrating the Solar System, the orbits of the inner planets, the compass, magnetic variation, etc. From the first edition of ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57114] £450.00
Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations.
By S. Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. 1786.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1786.
Engraving with mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 370 x 550mm (14½ x 21¾"), very large margins.
A diagram with twelve spheres, illustrating the Solar System, the orbits of the inner planets, the compass, magnetic variation, etc. From ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57113] £450.00
[Three Sibyls] Vates Sibyllinae
[Basel, c.1588]
Woodcut with letterpress, sheet 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8").
Three sibyls, or prophetesses. Sheet from a Latin edition of Sebastian Munster's important sixteenth century geographical work 'Cosmography'.
[Ref: 42478] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Explanation of the Cosmorama.
[Printed Dec.r 1.st 1821, for La Belle Assembleé N.º 155.]
Aquatint. Sheet 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A diagram of the viewing room of the Cosmorama, an indoor peepshow at 29 St James's Street (later 207-209 Regent Street). The viewer would look through a confex lens at a small painting, which would look much larger and more distant.
[Ref: 62309] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Cosaque.
Le Barnier L'aine Delt. Lucien Sculpt. No. 50 [upper right]
A Paris, Chez la V.e Chereau Mde. D'Esyamps, rue St. Jacques, No.10 pres la Fontaine St. Severin.
Stipple engraving 395 x 260mm.
[Ref: 3778] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)