Catalogue: England
The North-West Prospect of Sheerness, in the County of Kent.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. March 26th 1739 Carden Co. No 1 Middle Temple London.
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 790mm (12¼ x 31"). Central fold as normal, slight offsetting in title and trimmed to plate on top edge
A view of the port at Sheerness, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 43063] £480.00
[Isle of Thanet] Mappa Thaneti Insule.
[n.d., 1655.]
Etched map. 410 x 365mm (16 x 14½"). Splits in folds, some creasing and spotting.
A map of the isles of Thanet in the time of Augustine of Canterbury, from a manuscript map in Trinity College, Cambridge. Orientated with north to the left, it depicts the religious houses. An illustration from William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum'.
[Ref: 61224] £160.00
Tonbridge Wells. Plate 3. Part 2. from the Common.
[G. Barnard.]
[London: Ackermann & Co., n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, fragment from a sheet of three landscape vignettes. Sheet 185 x 340mm, 7¼ x 13½". Glued to album page, glue stains to extremities.
Figures, some in carriages or on horseback, with a prospect of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, beyond. From the third plate of George Barnard's (d.1890) oblong folio 'Landscape reminiscences... Tonbridge Wells and its Vicinity'. See Abbey Scenery 329, 3. See Wellcome Library no. 22944i.
[Ref: 24264] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Tunbridge Castle.
P. Sandby Fecit 1787.
Publish'd by P. Sand St Georges Row facing Hyde Park, May 1st 1788.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 370 x 540mm (14½ x 21¼"). Small margins, bit messy.
A view of the Norman Motte and Bailey castle at Tonbridge in Kent in which several labourers fill carts with stone from the ruin, a woman walks past with her children and three men stand in conversation. The owner at the time, John Hooker sold stone from the castle in order to build locks in the river Medway and in 1791 his son Thomas built a house adjoining the gatehouse.
[Ref: 43565] £420.00
Tunbridge Castle.
J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt.
Pub. June 1, 1795, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside.
Sepia aquatint. 320 x 220mm. Some creasing to the lower corners.
From the 'History of the River Thames'. Abbey: 432.
[Ref: 2426] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The New Church From The Common.
Lithographed by W. Clerk 202 High Holborn.
Published by R. Nash, Royal Library, Parade, Tunbridge Wells. [n.d., c.1830.]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 250 x 315mm (10 x 12½"). Some foxing and some surface dirt largely in margins. Some creasing that goes into the image.
A birds eye view of a church, houses and a common. Presumably in Tunbridge Wells. Possibly Holy Trinity Church, consecrated on 3rd September 1829, in 1982 it became Trinity Theatre.
[Ref: 58574] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Tunbridge Wells humbly Dedicated to Thomas Pellet M.D.
T. Badeslade Delin. J. Kip Sculp.
[London: D. Midwinter, 1719.]
Engraving, very fine impression. 350 x 430mm (13¾ x 17"), with very large margins. Crease as normal.
A detailed bird's-eye view engraved by Johannes Kip after Thomas Badeslade for John Harris's 'History of Kent in Five Parts'. The houses are named in the image, with the wells in the centre of the plate. The title is on a scroll at the top of the plate, along with Pellet's armorial. Thomas Pellet was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1716 and served as President 1735-9. William Hogarth painted his portrait about that time, which is now in the Tate Gallery.
[Ref: 42302] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Tunbridge Wells, from Mount Ephraim. No. 2.
Drawn from Nature & lith by H. Harris.
Pr. by Graf & Soret. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 220 x 280mm (8¾ X 11"). Very large margins.
An attractive view of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, from Mount Ephraim, with a number of figures on the paths before the town itself.
[Ref: 38071] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Tunbridge Wells Chapel.
Lithographed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn.
Published by R. Nash, Royal Library, Parade, Tonbridge Wells. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 240 x 320mm. 9½ x 12½". Some marginal spotting.
Rare and attractive locally-published view of the church of King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; carriages, figures, and animals to foreground. Abbey Scenery: undescribed. For a collection of views in the vicinity by the same publisher see 328.
[Ref: 15689] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Tunbridge Wells.
[after James Winston.]
London, Published 1st April 1804, Villiers St., Strand.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Trimmed into plate, glue stains from album on reverse.
A view of Tunbridge Wells Theatre, the first plate from Winston's 'The Theatrical Tourist: being a genuine collection of correct views...".
[Ref: 38838] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Twyford Bridge nr Maidenhead. [in pencil.]
Murray. [in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Etching. 145 x 191mm (5¾ x 7½"). Some tears in the margins.
Yalding is a village in the Maidstone District of Kent. It is the point where the Rivers Teise and Beult join the River Medway. This image is of Twyford Bridge, one of three bridges crossing the Medway in Yalding.
[Ref: 14895] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Walmer Castle. November 5, 1852.
[British, Anon., November 1852.]
Memorial souvenir of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 – 1852); one sheet folded so 4to (265 x 215mm, 10½ x 8½"). Rare, illustrated letterpress verses with sepia-tinted lithograph of Walmer Castle to upper leaf. Some faint staining.
Wellington died, aged 83, of the after effects of a stroke culminating in a series of epileptic seizures, on 14 September 1852, at Walmer Castle - his honorary residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on the east Kent coast. Walmer Castle was built by Henry VIII in 1539–1540 as an artillery fortress to counter the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain. It was part of his programme to create a chain of coastal defences along England's coast known as the Device Forts or as Henrician Castles. The castle is now owned and managed by English Heritage.
[Ref: 22721] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
West Combe, in Kent, the Seat of the Marchioness of Lothian.
P. Sandby R.A. del. W. Watts sculp.
Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1st. 1779, by W. Watts, Kemp's Row, Chelsea.
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 420 x 245mm (16½ x 9¾") large margins.
A near view of the house from the front with park sloping into the foreground. The letterpress describes the house, its location and views that can be seen from it. The son of the house holds an 18th century cricket bat.
[Ref: 56005] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
A Front View of the Earl of Westmorlands Villa, in the County of Kent, taken from the Road, with Part of the Park. Book 8. Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c. 1.
W.m Woollett delin.
Printed by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Copper engraving, frontispiece, 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10¾". Small hole in platemark.
[Ref: 16928] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
Word or Fenderland Farm. NB. This Farm lies in the Parishes of Word and Easty in Kent And was Plan'd by a Scale of 18 Poles to an Inch in 1775.
by Henry Hogben.
[1775.]
Manuscript estate plan on vellum. Sheet 500 x 695mm (19¾ x 27¼"). Some surface soiling.
A manuscript plan with a 25-point key surmounted by a basket of apples and grapes. Henry Hogben (1741-d.1822) of Doddington, surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, was the third generation of the family to be a mapmaker in Kent, plotting estates in Kent, Essex, Surrey and Hampshire. Versions of his maps of Thanet, the River Stour and Romney Marsh were published, 1775-1515.
[Ref: 55058] £420.00