A View in the Island of Jamaica, of the Bridge crossing the River Cobre near Spanish Town. Dedicated to William Beckford Esq.r of Somerley in Suffolk, by his most Obliged Servant, John Boydell. No. 6.
Drawn on the Spot & Painted by George Robertson. Engraved by Daniel Lerpiniere.
Published March 25th, 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mixed-method engraving. 405 x 560mm (16 x 22"). Trimmed to platemark, dedication and publisher's inscription weakly inked. Crease at bottom of image. Right hand corner in border made up.
Plate 8 of six views of Jamaica by George Robertson, of which three were his patron William Beckford's sugar plantations in Jamaica. The illegitimate nephew of Alderman Beckford, William inherited four such estates but squandered his wealth (for example employing Mozart as his son's piano teacher) and lost his holdings. He returned to London in 1776 and seems to have sold the paintings to Boydell for publishing. The John Carter Brown Library's exhibition, 'Aestheticizing the Landscape of Sugar', describes the engravings as 'the most aesthetically ambitious views of Jamaica published in the eighteenth century'.
[Ref: 52919] £320.00
Inside of the Temple Jugangu in the Province of Peking.
[London: Henry Lintot, 1744.]
Engraving. Plate 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13½") very large margins.
A view of the interior of a Buddhist temple in China. From 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels by Philip Baldaeus, accompanying The True & Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East'.
[Ref: 53069] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Kingston Bridge] To the Right Hon.ble John Garratt Lord Mayor of London, This Perspective View of a Design for a Cast Iron Bridge, proposed to be erected at Kingston, Surrey, and which obtained the Premium of 100 Guineas in the Public Competition 1824. is by Permission dedicated by his Lordship's obedient Servant, John Burges Watson, Arch.t.
Drawn by J.B. Watson. Engraved by M. Dubourg.
London Published by J.B. Watson
Aquatint. 225 x 545mm (9 x 21½"). Creases and repaired tear on left. Bit messy. Small margins.
Despite winning the competition, it was decided not to use this design because of the rising price of iron. Instead a bridge of Portland stone designed by Edward Lapidge was built, still in use today.
[Ref: 53086] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Quirinus Kuhlmann Vratislaviæ Silesorum die 15 (250 Februar Anni M.DC.LI.
I. Muscowita pinxit 1679. R. White sculp 1683.
Andreas Luppius Edit. [n.d., c.1690.]
Rare engraving. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651-89), German Baroque poet and mystic. His poetry was initially successful, but his political and religious views were too extreme. He believed that Protestant Europe should join with the Ottomans to destroy Catholic Europe, the House of Habsburg, and the Pope, thus establishing the ''Kingdom of Jesus''. In 1689 he travelled to Moscow to convince Tsar Ivan V to join this alliance; while living in the city he was denounced by the chief pastor of Moscow Lutherans as theologically and politically dangerous, arrested, tortured, and burned at the stake for heresy.
[Ref: 53178] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
[Land grant, Cheshire] Carta Donationis Terrarum in Congilton [Com: Cestriae] a Dno Henrico de Lacy Comite Lincoln Benedicto Filio Walteri de Stanley. circa Annum 1300.28.Ed.1.concessa.
(maxima preservacoe) penes Ric: Rawlinson, LLD et RSS. [British, c.1754].
Engraved facsimile of a c.1300 Latin grant of land to Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln; seal below text. Sheet 210 x 230mm, (8¼ x 9"). Tears and holes, trimmed. Damaged.
The land around Congleton in Cheshire is granted by the de Stanley family to the powerful nobleman de Lacy, who became Chief Councillor to Edward I. While the king was engaged on military conflicts with the Scots, Henry de Lacy was appointed Protector of the Realm. The original document is from the collection of Richard Rawlinson (1690 - 1755), a clergyman and antiquarian who bequeathed a huge collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In 1716 he was ordained, but as he was a nonjuror and Jacobite, the ceremony was performed by a nonjuring bishop, Jeremy Collier. In 1728 he became a bishop, but seems to have preferred to pass his time in collecting books and manuscripts, pictures and curiosities, rather than in discharging his episcopal functions. At his death Rawlinson left to the Library 5,205 manuscripts bound in volumes that include many rare broadsides and other printed ephemera, his curiosities, and some other property that endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. The Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon was first appointed in 1795. He was also a benefactor to St John's College, Oxford.
[Ref: 53132] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Carolus Linneo.
Tramontini dis. Felice Zuliani inc.
per Dalla Libera [Italian, n.d. c.1800].
Engraving. Sheet 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Tears in edges.
Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) the Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is often referred to as the father of modern taxonomy, and also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Wellcome 1778, 18.
[Ref: 53121] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Little Unknown. The above gentleman turns round to express his gratitude to the Ladies of London on account of the very handsome and flattering manner in which his proposals have been received by them; at the same time he is happy to inform them that he is still open to treaty, no matrimonial arrangement having been determined on...
Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly for the Proprietor 1832.
Very scarce lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 310 x 245mm (12¼ x 9¾"). Laid on scrapbook page.
A racist satire, the second in a series of three, taking the form of a man advertising his desire to find a wife. Although the illustration makes it clear he is black, the text, written in the third person, includes the line 'he has already expressly stated that he is by no means a [n-word]', and makes in plain that he is looking for a white wife, not a 'sable lady'. He writes he can be viewed in Hyde Park or the Burlington Arcade if it is raining. The third print in the series (BM Satires 15154) shows him as a very short man, engaged to a white woman who towers above him; an ink and watercolour sketch in the Lewis Walpole collection (lwlpr13368), apparently unpublished, shows him with a son. See BM 2006,0929.45 for very similar variant; Not in BM Satire, but see 15153 & 15154 for first and third plate.
[Ref: 53217] £390.00
Prospect der Stadt London in England.
A. Sommer fec.
J. Eder ex. [Vienna, n.d. c.1795.]
A very rare engraving. Plate 173 x 262mm (6¾ x 10¼"), large margins.
A stylised prospect of London from the south, with an almost-unrecognisable St Paul's Cathedral, The Monument and London Bridge still with buildings on it. The engraving is based on the Kip prospect: it shows the Folly, the floating tea-room, but incorrectly downstream of London Bridge.
[Ref: 53204] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
The Oblique Arch in the viaduct on the London & Birmingham Railway at Watford, Herts. Dedicated by permision to G W Buck, Esq.r Engineer.
Drawn & Lithographed by W.m Sharp, Sen.r
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare & fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 320 x 435mm (12½ x 17"). Slight mount burn.
The Bushy Arches, Watford, on the London to Birmingham Railway soon after the opening in 1838.
[Ref: 53000] £450.00
Railway and Viaduct, Across the Turnpike Road, Watford, _ Herts.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone, by J.C. Oldmeadow.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 395mm (11¼ x 15½"). Slight mount burn.
The Bushy Arches, Watford, on the London to Birmingham Railway soon after the opening in 1838.
[Ref: 52999] £360.00
The First London County Council. Supplement to the Graphic, June 8th 1889.
[1889.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 400 x 585mm (15¾ x 23"). Wear to edges, slightly trimmed at bottom, as issued.
A collection of 114 portraits of councillors of the first LCC, including the chairman Lord Roseberry and two women, Margaret Mansfield, Baroness Sandhurst (1828-92) and Jane Cobden (1851-1947), both noted campaigners for Women's Suffrage. The LCC was the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected.
[Ref: 53099] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
View of the Termination of the London Grand Junction Railway at Skinner Street.
[Standidge and Lemon, Litho.] [n.d., c.1835.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14") Trimmed at bottom, losing printer's inscription.
A hypothetical view of the terminus steps of the planned 'London Grand Junction Railway', intended to link the City of London to Camden Town and the London and Birmingham Railway. To the side are the Saracen's Head Hotel and St Sepulcre's Church. The railway was over-ambitious and did not raise enough money to become viable, despite being approved by Act of Parliament.
[Ref: 52989] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
This View of the Entrance to the London Grand Junction Railway, at Skinner Street, as Approved by the Committee of the House of Commons, and agreed with the Corporation of London.
[Standidge and Lemon, Litho.] [n.d., c.1835.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 350 x 440mm (13¾ x 17¼"). A few tears and loss at edge & bottom left..
A view of the proposed frontage of the planned 'London Grand Junction Railway', intended to link the City of London to Camden Town and the London and Birmingham Railway. Behind is St Sepulcre's Church. The railway was over-ambitious and did not raise enough money to become viable, despite being approved by Act of Parliament.
[Ref: 52993] £330.00
Richard Lower M.D. Ætatis Suæ 55.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper. Slight damage on right margin.
Richard Lower (1631 -91), a physician who tended to Charles II during his last illness and to Princess Anne during her pregnancy. He heavily influenced the development of medical science: he was the first to see the difference between arterial and venous blood and experimented with transfusion, including from sheep to a man. W1821.
[Ref: 53183] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Nicolaus Machiavelus Florentin. Nasc. Florentiæ Ao. Obiit Ao. Supremum per te nada est Prudentia culmen Ulterus nec quo progendiatur habet.
F. Morellon la Cave sculpsit 1724.
Etching. 150 x 85mm (6 x 3¼"). Trimmed, worm trail filled.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1460-1527), Italian historian, philosopher, humanist and a writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He was a founder of modern political science (with his treatise 'The Prince'), diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic.
[Ref: 53033] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Marianne.
W.m Wynne Ryland Del.t et Scul.t.
Published as the Act directs January 3, 1780 by W.W. Ryland London.
Fine stipple, printed in sanguine sepia in colour, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
Fine printing of a Portrait of a young girl, possibly the artist's daughter, wearing a square-necked gown with elbow-length sleeves and a frilly cap, smiling shyly towards the viewer. The BM (1873,0809.373) notes that Nicholas Stogden has pointed out that the model was a boy.
[Ref: 53092] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Masulipatnam.
[London: Henry Lintot, 1744.]
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 240 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Original binding folds.
A view of the ancient port town Masulipatnam (Machilipatnam or Bandar), India, a major trading post for the British, Dutch and French in the C17th. From 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels by Philip Baldaeus, accompanying The True & Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East'.
[Ref: 53063] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
The New Commercial Sale Rooms in Mincing Lane. (Now used as the Custom House).
Publish'd Jan.y 16th 1815 by Ja.s Whittle & Rich.d H. Laurie 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 390 x 440mm (11½x 17¼") Trimmed within plate, a few small tears in edges.
Mincing Lane in the City of London, was for some years the world's leading centre for tea and spice trading after the British East India Company successfully took over all trading ports from Dutch East India Company in 1799.
[Ref: 53212] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
No. [528] Ministére de la Maison de l'Empereur. Musées Imperiaux. Carte d'entrée personelle pour les jours d'étude. M. [Daudrin?] présenté par M. [Belloc] Le Directeur général des Musées impériaux, pendant des Beau Arts de la Maison de l'Empereur. Enrégestré le [24 Sept. 1859].
[1859.]
Engraved ticket, completed in ink mss. Sheet 70 x 115mm (2¾ x 4½").
An admission ticket for a study day run by the 'Ministry of the Emperor's House', which managed the royal residences of Napoleon III.
[Ref: 53191] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
Nicolas de Neufville. Seig.r de Villeroy, Secretaire et Ministre d'Etat mort le 12. 9.bre 1617 agé de 74 ans.
A.I. Pinx Pinsio Sculp.
AParis chez Odieuvre Md d'Estampes rüe Danjou entrant par la rüe Dauphine la derniere P. Cochere.
Engraving. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4½") very large margins.
Nicolas de Neufville (1543-1617), secretary of state under four French kings: Charles IX, Henry III, Henry IV, and Louis XIII.
[Ref: 53052] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Vue de New-York. Vues de l'Amerique du Nord (1.r au 10e lé).
Lith de Englemann pére et fils.
[Rixheim (Alsace-Lorraine): J. Zuber et C.ie, c.1834.]
Lithograph. Sheet 295 x 465mm (11½ x 18¼"). Very slight creasing.
A hypothetical view of New York from across the Hudson, with promenaders (including affluently-dressed African-Americans), riders and coaches. This is an uncut sheet from a series of views of different places in New York State that could be joined together as wallpaper, with rocks or woodland masking the breaks. The titles of the next scenes are in the top corners: 'Niagara' and 'West-Point'.
[Ref: 52926] £450.00
Michel de Nostradamus. Médecin, Né à St Remy, en Provence, le 14 Décemb. 1503. Mort le 2 juillet 1566.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), with wide margins.
Michel de Nostredame (1503 - 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, physician and astronomer. He is best known for his book 'Les Propheties', first printed in 1555 and rarely out of print since. Wellcome W2161.
[Ref: 53176] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Oak Hill School, Conducted ny J.H. Garvin, A.M.
On Stone by A. Picken. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
[n.d., 1836.]
Lithograph. Sheet 110 x 170mm (4 x 6¾").
View of Oak Hill School, Isle of Man, with a game of cricket being played. An advert puts the charges as 21 guineas for under 11s, 25 for 11-14, and 30 for above 14. ''The above terms include not only instruction in the practical mathematics and all the branches necessary to qualify either for the Military or Naval Colleges, the Universities or Public Offices, but also washing and extras, stationary excepted. Separate beds are provided.'' The school did not last long: Garvin had left the island by 1840. Rare cricket item. From 'Six Days' Tour through the Isle of Man', believed to have been written by the architect John Welch.
[Ref: 53080] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The ducking of John Osbourn & his wife on a charge of Witchcraft.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1795.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Slightly time stained.
In 1751 John and Ruth Osbourne were seized from a workhouse in Tring and accused of witchcraft. Both were ducked in a pond in Wilstone, but one of the leaders, Thomas Colley, held Ruth down with a stick until she drowned. Colley was convicted of murder and hanged in chains at Gubblecote Cross. From Hogg's 'New and Complete Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 53142] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
A View of a Pagan Temple.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1748.]
Engraving. Plate 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13½") very large margins.
From 'A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels' by John Harris.
[Ref: 53071] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Ausfuhrlicher Plan Borauss zu erfehen / wie 3. Viertlstund von Passarowiz [...]
[n.d., c.1718.]
Engraved plan, 190 x 255mm (7½ x 10"), set in letterpress, with 2pp. 'Extract von der Accords-Buncten' Some creasing.
A plan of the encampment outside Požarevac (Serbia) at which the Treaty of Passarowitz was negotiated in 1718. A 22-point key notes the layout of the camp, with the tents of the delegates and the English and Dutch mediators. A sheet of German text gives the main points of the treaty. The Holy League's ambassadors entered Ottoman territory to end the wars between the Holy League (primarily Venice and Hapsburg Austria) and the Ottomans. The successess of each side were recognised: Venice gave up its claims in Greece (especially the Morea) and the Ottomans lost lands including the Banat of Temeswar to Austria. For an English translation of the treaty see: https://archive.org/stream/generalcollectio00lond#page/412/mode/2up
[Ref: 52990] £450.00
Past and Present Generations.
L. Alma Tadema [pencil signature.]
Copyright 1895 by Messrs Arthur Tooth 7 Sons Publishers, 5 & 6 Haymarket London and 295 Fifth Avenue New York and Messrs Steifbold & Co Berlin. Printed in Berlin.
Photogravure on chine collé. 550 x 410mm (21¾ x 16"), Printsellers' Association blind stamp. Some cockling of india paper, edges of backing board chipped.
Two figures stand on a marble terrace lined with funerary busts on herm pillars, a winged griffin looking in. In 2019 the original oil on panel, which was commissioned by the publishers of this print, sold at Sotheby's for nearly £250,000.
[Ref: 53028] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
The City of Peking from Nieuhof.
J. Basire sculp.
[London: Henry Lintot, 1744.]
Engraving. Plate 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Trimmed to platemark at bottom.
A view of Peking and the surrounding countryside. Although based on the view by Johan Nieuhof, this engraving comes from 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels by Philip Baldaeus, accompanying The True & Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East'.
[Ref: 53066] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Mess.rs Robert and Daniel Perreau.
[c.1776.]
Rare etching. Sheet 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Daniel Perreau and his twin brother Robert were put on trial for forgery, alongside Daniel's lover Margaret Caroline Rudd. Her defence was that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53151] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. P. Perrin.
A. Chevallier Tayler 1905 [facsimile signature.]
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. Lith London.
Chromolithograph. 380 x 255mm (15 x 10").
Percival Albert Perrin (1876-1945) the English cricketer who played for Essex for more than thiry years from 1896. He was a Tottenham publican and a property developer who organised his considerable activities around his cricket, turning out for Essex regularly from 1896 to 1926. His total of 496 County Championship matches for Essex is a record for an amateur player in English cricket. Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925), the English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting. From 'The Empire's Cricketers'.
[Ref: 53127] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Philador Esq.r.
[English c.1810.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 110mm (5¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
François-André Danican Philidor (1726-95), French composer regarded as the best chess player of his day. His 'Analyse du jeu des Échecs', for which this probably a frontispiece portrait of an English edition, was considered a standard chess manual for at least a century.
[Ref: 52982] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Drake's Island, Plymouth]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 158 x 209mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet, with old ink mss. title.
Drake's Island in Plymouth Harbour, once named for St Nicholas's Chapel. In 1583 Francis Drake was made governor of the island and it began to be fortified, with barracks for 300 men built.
[Ref: 53120] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Ducks on a pond.]
D. Teniers Pinx.t. H. Houston fecit.
Printed for Jn.o Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1765.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") with narrow margins.
A rustic scene, with ducks and ducklings, a kingfisher, with rabbits on the bank. It was engraved by Richard Houston after David Teniers the Younger. Houston absconded for debt in 1762; perhaps the 'H' in the inscription is to disguise the attribution.
[Ref: 53083] £380.00
Rob.t Dunthorne has the honour to invite [-] to see a New Etching by A.H. Haig. The Cathedral of Saint George Limburg on the Lahn. at The Rembrandt Head, 5, Vigo St London W. Saturday 26th Feb.y 1887.
AH [monogram of Axel Haig] 1887.
Etching. Sheet 80 x 115mm (3¼ x 4½"). Invitee's name scraped off.
An invitation to a private view, decorated with a view of the cathedral and a representation of St George and the Dragon. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53198] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
George Psalmanazar The Imposter.
[n.d.., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
George Psalmanazar (c.1679-1763), a Frenchman, passed himself off as the first visitor to Europe from Taiwan, even speaking an invented language. He assumed the name of 'George Psalmanazar' when he 'converted' to Christianity in 1702. Coming to London, he switched to Anglicanism and wrote ''An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan'' in 1704. After confessing the imposture in 1706 he went straight, learning Hebrew and co-authoring Samuel Palmer's 'A General History of Printing' (1732). He even contributed to A Complete System of Geography and wrote about the real conditions in Formosa, pointedly criticising the hoax he himself had perpetrated. In later life he became a friend of Samuel Johnson and wrote his autobiography, although even this did not reveal his real name.
[Ref: 53174] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[A puppy asleep inside a gambler's hat.]
H. Macbeth Raeburn [pencil signature].
London Published 1st January 1887 by W. Wollrauch & Co. 24 Great Alie Street, Aldgate.
Etching, signed by the artist, with Artist Proof stamp. 330 x 380mm (13 x 15") with very large margins. Creasing. Messy.
On the table are scattered playing cards, one of which has been chewed by the dog; also a cigar stub and a box marked 'Colorado'.
[Ref: 53133] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[John Rainolds] Johannes Rainoldus Theogous Anglus Clarissimus Obit Oxoniæ MDCVII.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
John Rainolds (or Reynolds, 1549-1607), Puritan theologian. At the Hampton Court Conference (1604) his request that ''one only translation of the Bible [be] declared authentical, and read in the church'' led to the creation of the King James Bible.
[Ref: 53036] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Plan of the Situation where the Battle of Ramillies was fought May ye 23rd 1706: Designed upon the Spot by G.L. Mosburger, Officer in Geneal Dopf's Regiment of Dragoons.
I. Basire Sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751 bit later.]
Engraved map with hand colour. 385 x 480mm (15 x 19"). Creasing as normal.
Plan of the Battle of Ramillies, fought during the war of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). The English and Dutch, under the Duke of Marlborough and Hendrik van Nassau-Ouwerkerk, beat a French, Bavarian and Spanish army convincingly, leading Marshal Villars to call Ramillies 'The most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs'. Nearly a third of the French allies were killed or captured. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 53104] £130.00
[Martha Ray] Miss Martha Reay.
T. Steventon Pinx.t.
Publish'd June 7.th. 1779.
Rare stipple. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
A half portrait in an oval of Martha Ray (1742-79), a singer who was the mistress of John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, by whom she had nine children. On 7th April, a jealous admirer, James Hackman, murdered her at the Royal Opera House, for which he was executed at Tyburn.
[Ref: 53154] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
An Accurate Map of the Site of Reygate Castle, Surry, with the lands belonging, laid down from an actual Survey, taken in 1790.
Edwards sculp.
Published as the Act directs, May 21st 1817, by J. Edwards, Old Brompton, Middlesex.
Engraved map with original colour. 225 x 275mm (9 x 10½"). Trimmed to plate at top.
Uncommon plan of the site of Reigate Castle in Surrey, with the London Road. From Edwards' "Tabulæ Distantiæ".
[Ref: 53205] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Rembrandt] Lingenieux Merlin Anglois.
[after Rembrandt.]
[Balthasar Moncornet, c.1660.]
Etching. 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"), with large margins.
Rembrandt's laughing self-portrait.
[Ref: 53159] £250.00
(£300.00 incl.VAT)
Charles Rennett. Convicted at the Old Bailey of May 28th 1819 of Child Stealing.
Published by R. Ackermann June 1st 1819.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8") very wide margins. Slight soiling.
By sweet-talking a nursery-servant, Rennett kidnapped the three-year-old son of his first cousin, who had inherited an estate that Rennett felt should have been his. He absconded to Germany, where he was apprehended and brought back to England. Found guilty, Rennett was sentenced to seven years’ transportation to Australia. See Ref: 53549 for portrait of child
[Ref: 53141] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Gen.l Don Raphaele del Riego.
A. Aglio del. Printed by P. Sinonau.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 445 x 340mm (17½ x 13½"). Horizontal fold at centre, wear to edges.
Rafael del Riego y Nuñez (1784-1823), Spanish general and liberal politician who played a key role in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War of 1820-3. After Agostino Aglio.
[Ref: 53157] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Gen.l Don Raphaele del Riego.]
A. Aglio del. Printed by P. Sinonau.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Rare lithograph, proof before title on india paper. 455 x 340mm (17½ x 13½"). Wear to backing paper.
Rafael del Riego y Nuñez (1784-1823), Spanish general and liberal politician who played a key role in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War of 1820-3. After Agostino Aglio.
[Ref: 53223] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Elizabeth Robinson Montague] [Mrs Montagu. From a Painting by S.r Joshua Reynolds in the Possession of His Grace the Lord Primate of All Ireland, to whom thie Plate is Inscribed by his Graces much Oblig'd and Obed.t Serv.t John Raphael Smith.]
Painted by Sr. Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J. R. Smith.
Publish'd April 10th, 1776 by I.R. Smith No 10 Bateman's Buildings, Soho Square, London.
Very fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Thread margins with a little wear, repairs to corners.
Portrait of Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), the famous ''blue-stocking'', author and literary hostess, seated three-quarter length with her hands in her lap, wearing an ornate brocade dress and cap. Born Elizabeth Robinson in York, she was partly brought up in Cambridge with her grandmother whose second husband was the classical scholar Dr Conyers Middleton. In 1742 she married the wealthy landowner, Edward Montagu and by 1760 her literary breakfasts in Hill Street, Mayfair were established. After her husband's death in 1775, she commissioned James "Athenian" Stuart to design Montagu House in Portman Square (destroyed in WW2). CS: 112. i.
[Ref: 53090] £280.00
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[Map of Rotherhithe and Limehouse, from John Rocque's ‘Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark’.]
Published by John Pine & John Tinney in October 1746 according to Act of Parliament.
Engraved map. 695 x 505mm (27¼ x 19¾"). Small margins.
The most detailed map of Rotherhithe and Limehouse up to that time, showing the locations of the small docks made obsolete by the building of the East and West India docks half a century later. This plate was on the eastern edge of an iconic 24 sheet map, with a scale of 26 inches to a mile, surveyed by John Rocque (1736 - 1762) between 1735 and 1746. The map's eleborate engraved border runs down the right of this sheet.
[Ref: 53082] £460.00
J. Jaques Rousseau. Tombeau de I. I. Rousseau a Ermenonville ou il a été déposé le 4 Julliet 1778 agé de 66 ans.
A Genêne chez Cassin, à Paris chez Isabay M.d d'Estampe rue de Gesvres.[n.d., c.1778.]
Engraving. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Triummed within plate, printers crease top right.
A bust portrait in profile to the right of Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, within a trompe l'oeil oval. Below the portrait is a depiction of Rousseau's tomb. He was initially buried at Ermenonville on the 'Ile des Peupliers' as shown, which became a place of pilgrimage for his many admirers, before being moved to the Panthéon in 1794. W2547
[Ref: 53182] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd.
[c.1770]
Rare engraving. Sheet 170 x 90mm (6¾ x 3½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) in jail, was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53136] £95.00
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[Margaret Caroline Rudd] Mrs Rudd.
[c.1775.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 110mm (6 x 4") Slight offset. Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53135] £60.00
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[John Russell] A Late Crow from the Earley Bird. The Hornet. June 26th, 1872.]
[London: Frederick Arnold, 1872.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 400 x 270mm (15¾ x 10¾"). Nicks in edges.
Caricature of John Russell (1792-1878), former prime minister, as a crowing cockerel standing on a scroll titled 'Alabama Claims'. In 1862, during the American Civil War, Foreign Secretary Russell allowed 'Alabama', a warship built by John Laird, to leave Birkenhead to join the Confederate navy, despite complaints from the Federal legation in London. Within two years she had taken over sixty Federal prizes before being sunk off the coast of France. In 1869 the US brought a claim for damages against Britain, seeking compensation for the damage done by ships built in this country. The original demand was for either $2 billion or the ceding of Canada to the United States but, after international arbitration, the case. was settled for $15.5 million. Despite admitting the release of the ship was a mistake, Russell obstinately refused to accept Britain should pay damages.
[Ref: 53077] £95.00
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