Grosvenor Prints

[Pair of Celestial Hemisheres] Northern Hemisphere. [&] Sothern Hemisphere.
J. Shury sc.
[London: Thomas Tegg, 1826.]
Two engravings with hand colour. Two sheets each 150 x 165mm (6 x 6½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A pair of celestial hemispheres, with the classical depictions of the constellations.
[Ref: 57036] £140.00

Vale of Chalford, Gloucestershire.
Kershaw & Son, London [n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Some staining.
A view of a valley in the Cotswolds, near Stroud, with a train running at bottom of valley.
[Ref: 56962] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Chart of the Heavens, for the Latitude of Great Britain. Shewing The Stars Visible On Any Night Throughout The Year.
London: Published By James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand tinted engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. A celestial tranformation map with calendar scale round the outside; holes where the stars are so when held up to the light they "shine".
[Ref: 56836] £360.00 view all images for this item

Dr Chauncy [pencil mss., Nathaniel Chauncy?]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
Caricatured profile portrait, possibly of Nathaniel Chauncy, described by the BM as an 'Antiquary and virtuoso', not a doctor.
See BM 1868,0822.2302 for a portrait after Reynolds.
[Ref: 57208] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Cremorne.] [&] Chelsea Park. (2)
[Anon.] [&] Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, c.1800 - 1825.]
Portrait, proof stipple and etching before all letters, with lithograph view, both tipped into a single folio album leaf. Sheet 485 x 330mm, 18¾ x 13". The prints lacking some margin.
Cremorne Gardens, Lots Road SW10 are named for Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne (1725 - 1813); this portrait is by Charles Knight after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830). Lord Cremorne bought Chelsea Farm, the house depicted below his portrait, in 1778. In 1831 it was purchased by Charles Random De Berenger, Baron De Beaufain who turned it first into a sports club and then opened the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens. Entertainment included concerts, fireworks, balloon ascents and galas. After its closure, the gardens were sold for building and soon built over.
NPG D2225. See Longford Images of Chelsea 355, 'Chelsea Farm'.
[Ref: 25686] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Pittville Gardens, Prestbury Road [Cheltenham]. A Grand Race Gala [...] On Tuesday Evening next, July 19th, 1831 [...]After the Concert, there will be a Grand Gala Fete, and Superb Display of Fireworks Ona very extensive Scale; on which Occasion the Gardens will be most brilliantly Illuminted with Variegated Lamps [...]
Cunningham and Co, Chronicle Office, Pittville Street, Cheltenham.
[1831.]
Scarce letterpress handbill, watermark 1818, Sheet 335 x 190mm (13¼ x 7½"). Creasing, staining and wear.
A hand bill for a concert ending with a fireworks display, with a 26-point 'Order of Firing'.
[Ref: 57179] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Railway at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire; Invented by Henry R. Palmer, Civil-Engineer.
Ingrey & Madeley, Lithog. 310 Strand.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured lithograph on chine collé. 130 x 285mm (5 x 11¼"). Margins messy.
A view of the world's first passenger monorail, designed by Henry Robinson Palmer (1795-1844) and opened in 1825. Robinson patented his design in 1821 (unaware of a monorail built near Moscow by Ivan Elmanov in 1820, with wheels on the beam rather than the carriage) and built his first in Deptford Dockyard in 1824, which was the first elevated railway. The Cheshunt monorail was the world's third monorail and the first to carry passengers, with horses pulling carriages along the mile-long track. Robinson also invented corrugated iron, designed and executed the Eastern Dock in London, and was instrumental in the founding of the Institution of Civil Engineeers.
[Ref: 56964] £360.00

Clouds - Cirro - Stratus N.o 100
[Published 1842, London for "The Beauty of the Heavens: A Pictorial Display of The Astronomical Phenomena of The Universe" by Charles. F. Blunt.]
Very rare coloured lithograph, sheet 160 x 205mm (6¼ x 8¼") Right corner missing.
A view of Cirrostratus clouds above a rocky terrain with a dam, ruins, buildings and mountains in the distance. The thin, layered cirrostratus cloud is composed of ice crystals and forms a veil that covers all or part of the sky.
[Ref: 56990] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Globe Celeste. Hemel-Globe,
[n.d., c.1700]
Engraving with hand colour, pt 17th century watermark. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Glue stains in margins.
An illustration of a celestial globe with a rococo base, with a classical background.
[Ref: 56809] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Clifton Downs.
Lithographed & Publsihed by Newman & C.o 48, Watling S.t London.
Very rare lithograph, sheet 220 x 300mm (8½ x 11¾).
A view of the Clifton Downs with the suspension bridge and Clifton in the background.
[Ref: 57102] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Observatory, Clifton. Mr. West begs most respectfully to inform the Subscribers, Visitors, and the public generally, that the Observatory is now open, and that it contains, for their use, by day or night, large and powerful Reflecting and Achromatic Telescopes...
[n.d., c.1842.]
Wood engraving and letterpress, sheet 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4¼").
Clifton Observatory is a former corn and snuff mill, but in 1777 the sails were left turning during a gale and caused the equipment to catch light. After being derelict for 52 years, William West rented it from the Society of Merchant Venturers and installed a telescope and a camera obscura.
[Ref: 50589] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Supsension Bridge now erecting over the Avon at S.t Vincent's Rocks, Clifton.
Drawn on Stone by E. Harding from a Sketch by S. Jackson.
Published by O.C Lane Library, Clifton. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d., c.1864]
Lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), very large margins.
A view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the water from the ground below.
[Ref: 57084] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Suspension Bridge Clifton.
Lavars, Litho: Bristol.
Published by James Bolton, Hotwell House & Baths.
Lithograph, sheet 220 x 300mm (8½ x 11¾), large margins. Left corner slightly ragged.
An oval view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
[Ref: 57101] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Clogher Gold Mine Halfway between Dolgelley & Barmouth.
Eng.d & Pub.d by Newman & C.o 48, Watling S.t London.
[n.d., c.1860].
Rare engraving, sheet 105 x 120 (4¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed and glued to card. Some age staining.
A view of Clogau Gold Mine (also known as Clogau St David's) near Bontddu in North Wales. The Clogau mine was opened to exploit the copper and lead veins in the area. Gold was discovered at the mine in 1860 and arrangements were made with the Crown Esate to work the gold comercially.
[Ref: 56978] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Clouds - Stratus N.o 101
[Published 1842, London for "The Beauty of the Heavens: A Pictorial Display of The Astronomical Phenomena of The Universe" by Charles. F. Blunt.]
Very rare coloured lithograph, sheet 160 x 205mm (6¼ x 8¼")
A view of a high altitude town covered in a fog of stratus clouds. Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base.
[Ref: 56992] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Clouds - Cirrus N.o 98
[Published 1842, London for "The Beauty of the Heavens: A Pictorial Display of The Astronomical Phenomena of The Universe" by Charles. F. Blunt.]
Very rare coloured lithograph, sheet 160 x 205mm (6¼ x 8¼")
A view on the sea with ships and boats, Cirrus clouds float in the sky above. Cirrus clouds are short, detached, hair-like clouds found at high altitudes. These delicate clouds are wispy, with a silky sheen, or look like tufts of hair.
[Ref: 56991] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Cobbler]
Done from an Original Picture of Old Heemskerck by Jonathan Spilsbury.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at N.o33 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate.
Cobbler sitting on a stool holding a shoe in his lap while pulling on a strap of leather slung around his knee and under his foot, wearing a soft cap set at a slant and a leather apron; with a slipper on a stool to left, a pitcher standing beneath it and wooden dresser and shelf with bowls, dishes, phials and cups to the left, shoes and tools lying on the ground in the foreground.
Holstein: undescribed. CS: undescribed. Russel: undescribed. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57082] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

"Vanity Fair" Supplement Men of the Day No. 1303. "All British" (M.r S F. Cody)
Alick. P.F. Ritchie. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 1 Nov 1911]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins. Crease top right corner.
Full length portrait of Samuel Franklin Cowdery (1867 – 1913), known as Samuel Franklin Cody, USA born Wild West showman, early pioneer of manned flight and inventor of the Cody kite used by the British military. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane built in Britain. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognised as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain. He set various British flight distance and endurance records and won prizes in flight competitions such as the Michelin Cup in 1911.
[Ref: 56968] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Indians Astonished at the Eclipse of the Moon foretold by Colombus. Engraved for Drake's Voyages.
[n.d.]
Coloured engraving. 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Paper toned.
Desperate for supplies, Columbus impressed the natives of Jamaica by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse for February 29, 1504. He threatened that the gods would turn off the moon if they did not continue to feed his crew.
[Ref: 45052] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cornwall. Railways. 6.
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 185 x 240mm ( 7¼ x 9½"). Folded as issued, time staining along fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A map of the railways showing ones under constuction and stations.
[Ref: 56926] £40.00

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

Interior of The Crystal Palace at Sydenham. No. 7. The Nubian Court.
[Thomas Hosmer Shepherd]
[n.d. c.1854-55]
Tinted lithograph. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"). Several repaired tears in margins.
An interior view of the 'Nubian Court' designed by Owen Jones and complete with life size replicas of Pharoahs and Sphinxes. The Crystal Palace was relocated to Sydenham Hill in 1854 after the Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in Hyde Park.
[Ref: 56944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas Culpeper.
[n.d., c.1800]
Stipple, plate 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"), with small margins. Slight foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait of Nicholas Culpeper in an oval with symbols of the zodiac surrounding. Coat of arms below. Nicholas Culpeper (1616 –1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His 'The English Physician' (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and 'Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick' (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.
Not in Wellcome. W. 727
[Ref: 57164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas Culpeper. View in this face, whom Heaven snatcht from hence, / Our Phisicall and Starrie Influence; / Had not Great Culpeper such order tooke, / In spight of Fate to Live still in this Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1655]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 9½". Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), hand on a skull. A botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer, he is best known for his 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to posthumous editions of his 'Semeiotics Uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases' and 'Culpeper’s Last Legacy',1676.
W: 727-6.
[Ref: 57197] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis. / The shaddow of that Body heer you find / Which serves but as a case to hold his mind, / His Intellectuall part be pleas'd to looke / In lively lines described in the Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. Probably a frontispiece to one of his works.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 57196] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Culverhole Point near Lyme Regis. The extended reef & basin of water, looking eastward. To the Inhabitants & Visitors this plate is most respectfully inscribed by their obed.t Servant Daniel Dunster.
On Stone by G. Hawkins, Jun.r. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by D. Dunster, Book-seller, Broad St. Lyme. [n.d., c 1840]
Lithograph, sheet, 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), very large margins. Paper toning round the edges. Some foxing in image.
View of a bay with rocky cliffs to left, a man standing on the shore in the foreground at centre with his back to the viewer, another man standing to right.
[Ref: 57119] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Aponensis. Medicus', Astrologus et Philosos
[n.d., c.1688].
Engraving, sheet 220 x 125mm (8½ x 5"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of Pietro d'Abano wearing a cap and gown. Pietro d'Abano, also known as Petrus de Apono, Petrus Aponensis or Peter of Abano (c. 157 – c.1316), was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quae inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur. He was eventually accused of heresy and atheism, and came before the Inquisition. He died in prison in 1315 (some sources say 1316) before the end of his trial.
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2290.2 Wellcome 84
[Ref: 57159] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

J.G. D'Ernst, Artist in Fire Works to His Majesty, and the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. No 5, Doughty Place, Lambeth Walk.
Barnes, Printer, 44, Bridge House Place, Newington Causeway.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress on green paper. Sheet 235 x 125mm (9¼ x 5"). Some foxing.
An advertisment for fireworks, with a price list.
[Ref: 57183] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Is. Dalby Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military College at Farnham.
Drawn by Derby, from the Original by Halls, in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Thomson sculp.
[n.d.,c.1827]
Engraving with stipple, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Isaac Dalby (1744–1824) English mathematician, surveyor and teacher. He was involved in the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, the first high-precision trigonometric survey of Great Britain. In 1799 he was appointed first professor of mathematics in the senior department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which subsequently moved to Farnham in Surrey, and later became the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He held this post for twenty-one years, resigning it in 1820, when old age and infirmity had overtaken him. He was a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 749-1.
[Ref: 57075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

John Dalton, D.C.L. L.L.D. F.R.S. L.&E. &c.&c. President of the Lit. & Phil.l Soc.y of Manch.r.
Drawn& Etch'd by J. Stephenson.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 190 x 115mm (7½ x 4½"), on card, with large margins.
A half-length portrait of John Dalton (1766-1844), scientist and natural philosopher credited as the inventor of atomic theory. He peers through spectacles at a liquid in a glass.
[Ref: 56774] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Grand Triumphal Arch displayed opposite to Windsor Castle, by H.W. Darby, In honour of the visit of Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France, to her Majesty, Queen Victoria the First. H.W. Darby, 98, Regent Street, Lambeth, London, Wholesale Firework Manufacturer, and Railway Signal-Light Contractor. Artist to the Nobility and Gentry's Grand Fetes, Theatres, and Public Gardens. For many years the Sole Artiste to the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall.
[c.1863.]
Scarce letterpress advertisment. Sheet 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Left edge frayed.
Probably a page from a trade directory.
[Ref: 57180] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

W.m. Darling [facsimile signature].
Painted by John Reay. Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor.
London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket & Currie & Bowman, Newcastle upon Tyne. J.Graf, Printer to Her Majesty [n.d., c.1830].
Rare lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Printed area. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Soiling to backing paper. Margins bit messy.
William Darling (1786-1865), keeper of Longstone lighthouse, seated but with a wreck behind him. On the 7th of September 1838, the "Forfarshire"with sixty-three persons on board, struck on the Farne Islands, and Darling, along with his daughter Grace Darling, rescued nine survivors from the shipwreck, earning them a gold medal from the Humane Society. The original painting, by John Reay (active 1838-1900) is in the RNLI Grace Darling Museum .
[Ref: 57056] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Jos de Beauchamp. Astronomer.
Eng.d by Mackenzie from an Original Picture. [after François Marie Rosset]
[Published by A. Tilloch Carey Street June 1.st 1802]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5"). Trimmed within publication line. Glued to backing sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp, wearing a headscarf and fur trimmed coat. Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752-1801) was a French diplomat, clergyman and astronomer.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 57162] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Ionnes De La Quintinye Regiorum Hortorum Culturae Praefectus. Hanc deorate Deoe, quot quot floretis in hortis, Floribus e vestris supraque infraque tabellam: Hic dedit arboribus florere, e edilibus herbis, Este mirata est tanto Pomona colono.
F. de la Mare Richart pinx acad. C. Vermeulen Sculp.
[Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.]
Rare engraving, sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
Oval portrait of Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626 –1688) French lawyer, gardener and agronomist who served under Louis XIV. Named director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens by the king in 1670, he created between 1678 and 1683 the Potager du roi ("King's vegetable garden") near the Palace of Versailles. Frontispiece to 'The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry,' Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.
[Ref: 57074] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Defford Bridge. Designed to Carry The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway over the River Avon Worcestershire 1839. Span of each Arch 58 Feet. Height above Water Line 28 Feet. Capt. W.S. Moorson Eng.r.
F.I. Dolby, del. Clerk & Co. lithog: 202, High Holborn.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 330 x 460mm (13 x 18"). A few repairs.
The Defford Bridge, with a locomotive crossing. The bridge was a major feature of Captian William Scarth Moorsom's (1804 - 1863) Birmingham and Gloucester railway, which opened in 1841. Moorsom was awarded the Telford Medal for his method of using cast iron caissons filled with concrete to form the foundations of the three-arch viaduct which spans the river Avon near Tukesbury.
[Ref: 57103] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes, Dominus De Perron, Natus Hagae Turonum, Anno. M.D.X.CVI, Ultimo Die Martii.
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten’s important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes’s greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 57209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

17. Die Stadt.
[Eduard Walther.]
[Published in Munich. c.1870.]
Chromolithograph. 318 x 413mm (12½ x 16¼"). Centre fold as published.
A view of a German city and showing a train and carriage. Possibly an unregistered plate from Walther's "Geographische Charaketerbilder".
[Ref: 56996] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Railway Engine] Dolphin.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pen and ink drawing. 165 x 275mm (6½ x 10¾"). Central crease. Time staining.
An amateur sketch of the profile of an early locomotive.
[Ref: 57040] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

E. Doubleday. [Facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1849. [Etched in plate.]
M & N Hanhart lith. printers.
Lithograph on octagonal chine collé. 570 x 440mm (22½ x 17¼"), very large margins. Foxing and time staining in the margins.
A half length portrait of Edward Doubleday (1810-1849) with his arms folded. Doubleday was a notable entomologist; during his tenure at the British Museum he built the most comprehensive butterfly collections of the time. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852: the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 841
[Ref: 57165] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Syntax Going to Richmond in the Steam Boat.
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Mount burn.
The cleric is sprayed in the face by a fellow passenger opening a bottle. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 56868] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Syntax Star-Gazing.
Drawn by Rowlandson.
Pub.d May 1.1821, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Coloured aquatint, sheet145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9½")
Dr Syntax with a young lady on a small balcony; she looks through a telescope to the sky. Two further couples, one on the bridge look up to the sky and the other do the same by the lake. To the right, a butler holding a tray of tea trips over a dog and falls down. From 'The Third Tour of Dr Syntax. In Search of a Wife'.
In the Science and Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 57063] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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