Grosvenor Prints

Mr James Asperne Bookseller, Cornhill, Past Master of the Foundation Lodge No 96, And St Peter's No 249. P.S.D. of the Lodge of Antiquity No. 1. And Grand Steward for 1814. Proof.
Painted by S. Drummond A.R.A. Engraved by T. Blood.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Proof stipple with etching. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1810', with large margins. Folds in margins. Uncut.
A rare portrait of James Asperne (1757-1820), publisher of prints and books, including the European Magazine from 1803, shown seated on a masonic throne, wearing masonic regalia.
[Ref: 55709] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mr James Asperne, late sole Proprietor of the European Magazine.
Engraved by J. Thompson from an original Painting by S. Drummond Esq.r A.R.A.
London, Published (for the Proprietors of the European Magazine) by the Executors of the late Ja.s Asperne, No 32 Cornhill, 1st Feb.y 1821.
Stipple. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"), very large margins.. Spotting.
A half-length portrait of James Asperne (1757-1820), publisher of prints and books, including the European Magazine from 1803.
[Ref: 55729] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Mr James Asperne Bookseller, Cornhill, Past Master of the Foundation Lodge No 96, And St Peter's No 249. P.S.D. of the Lodge of Antiquity No. 1. And Grand Steward for 1814.
Painted by S. Drummond A.R.A. Engraved by T. Blood.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple with etching. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper.
A rare portrait of James Asperne (1757-1820), publisher of prints and books, including the European Magazine from 1803, shown seated on a masonic throne, wearing masonic regalia.
[Ref: 55710] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aspin.
J. Cozens [scratched in image lower right.]
Pub, July 1. 1814, by W.H. Pyne, Cecil Stt. Strand.
Soft ground etching in sepia. 325 x 390mm (12¾ x 15¼), on Whatman paper watermarked 1813. Trimmed into plate lower left, ink stains upper left (outside image).
The artist is John Robert Cozens (1752 - 1797), son of Alexander Cozens (1717 - 1786), the drawing master and landscape-painter in water-colours. From the 1814 edition of his 'Series of 13 Trees' first published in 1789, and with the original publication line faintly visible in image lower left.
[Ref: 8011] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

My Ass in a Band Box.
R. Dighton fecit.
Pub as the Act directs, Feb.t 1793.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6''), with large margins. Staining at bottom margin, hole at bottom left platemark.
A illustration of a course answer to the offer of anything inadequate to the purpose.
BM Satire 7793.
[Ref: 50996] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Certain City Macaronies, drinking Asses Milk.
[Oxford Magazine November, 1770.]
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed to plate on left.
Satire: a group of four fashionably dressed men drinking milk supplied by a fat lady from her ass, with a man pointing and laughing behind her. Plate from the 'Oxford Magazine', where it was published to illustrate a dialogue entitled 'The City Macaronies drinking Asses-Milk, at the Lactaeum, in St. George's-fields'. The dialogue described the affectations of macaronies and the advantages of drinking asses' milk. Possibly a satire of Teresa (Theresa) (nee Imer) Cornelys (1723-97), an operatic soprano and impresario who hosted fashionable gatherings at Carlisle House in Soho Square who in 1795 was using the name Mrs Smith and selling asses' milk in Knightsbridge.
BM Satires: 4814.
[Ref: 67882] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

An Ass Race, for a Laced Hat. N.o 95
Sold Wholesale by James Lumsden Engraver Glasgow. [n.d., c.1790.]
A very rare engraving with hand colour, sheet 160 x 245mm (6¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Nicks to edges. Some creasing.
Three men ride on donkeys; one tries to buck off its rider; a crowd of onlookers watch from outside a building, perhaps a travellers inn. Accoring to 'Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected' a 'silver-laced hat' means to be hung in chains so possibly this is a race that will land the men in chains, they are chasing someone who broke the law or are being chased.
[Ref: 58420] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. The Ass.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), very large margins.
A central illustration of an ass is surrounded by eight vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the animal, in life and death (each captioned). Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms. Numbered 'Pl. 6' upper right.
[Ref: 53577] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Asses of the Nineteenth Century or the Modern Use of a Coachman. See the Follies of the Watering Places.
Argus del.t [Charles Williams].
Pub.d by C Knight and Sold at No 7 Cornhill [n.d., c.1805].
Scarce etching, printed in brown and hand coloured. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), large margins.
A satire on beach activities: a lady rides an ass on the seashore, with the coachman following behind on a large horse using his whip to keep the ass going forwards.
Not in BM Satires but see 1991,0720.64.
[Ref: 56161] £460.00 (£552.00 incl.VAT)

The Assignation.
[after Rowlandson.]
Published 1.st August 1799 by R. Ackermann 101 Strand for D.r In.o Trusler.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, very fine colour. Plate 450 x 356mm (17¾ x 14"). Paper watermarked: J Whatman 1794. Nick and tears to edges and inside platemark. Trimmed in bottom left corner. Overall toning.
A young couple try to escape from a mother under the cover of darkness; a horse-drawn carriage waits by the lake. A transparency image.
[Ref: 34776] £320.00 view all images for this item

Assisi October Evening [pencilled outside plate.] Assisi 19 AH 03.
Axel H Haig [pencil signature.]
[1903.]
Drypoint etching, signed in pencil. Limited edition of 200. 489 x 621mm. 19¼ x 24½". Time stained from old mount and backing board.
Figures on the river bank with the great Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi behind.
Mordaunt Crook & Lennox-Boyd: 182.
[Ref: 24020] £420.00

General Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. during the address of the President, Lord Francis Egerton, M.P. at Manchester, June 23, 1842.
R.W. Buss. G.H. Adcock.
[c.1842.]
Engraving on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11". Margins foxed; a fine impression.
An audience of men and women listening to a speech by the president Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800 - 1857) at the general meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Manchester in 1842. The aim of the association, founded in 1831, was to present to the public the latest scientific discoveries, and to debate the effects on people's lives these innovations would have. The annual meeting was an important public arena for the discussion of scientific matters. After Robert William Buss (1804 - 1875).
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18485] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William Astell.] W:Astell [facsimile signature].
Painted by Frederic R. Say. Engraved by G. Raphael Ward. 31, Flitzroy Square.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint on chine collé. 405 x 305mm (16 x 12"), with wide margins..
Half-length seated portrait of William Astell (1774-1847), a director of the East India Company for the unprecedented period of forty-seven years. He led early negotiations with the government that resulted in the Charter Act of 1833, which extended the royal charter granted to the East India Company for twenty years and restructured the governance of British India.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66258] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Astle Esq.r F.R.S. &c. Trust. Brit. Mus. & Keeper of the Records in the Tower.
Engraved by Ridley.
Pub. by J. Sewell Cornhill Nov 1. 1802.
Stipple, printed in dark blue, European magazine. 165 x 115mm, 6½ x 4½.
Thomas Astle (1735-1803), antiquary and palaeographer. He indexed the catalogue of the Harleian manuscripts, published in 1759. His main work was 'The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts, and charters, ancient and modern', 1784.
[Ref: 19013] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Astle Esq.r F.R.S. &c.
H. Howard A. Pinxit. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1803, by J. White Fleet Street.
Engraving, image 165 x 125mm. 6½ x 5".
Portrait of Thomas Astle (1735-1803), antiquary and palaeographer; seated in a chair, holding a scroll. He indexed the catalogue of the Harleian manuscripts, published in 1759. His main work was 'The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts, and charters, ancient and modern', 1784.
[Ref: 27564] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Notice announcing Jacob Henry Astley's intention to run as candidate for Norfolk, with letter from Astley to James Sayers] To the Gentlemen Clergy, and Freeholders, of the County of Norfolk [...]
Melton Constable, Feb. 20th, 1807
Letterpress and ms, 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Small tears, folds etc.
Jacob Henry Astley (1756-1817), from an ancient and influential Norfolk family, was candidate for the county from 1797-1806, an instrument of Thomas William Coke's ambition to secure a Whig monopoly. With support waning and facing another contest, Astley withdrew in 1806 and ceded his interest to William Windham, but soon returned to the fold, as this notice indicates. It was sent to James Sayers of Yarmouth on 22nd February 1807 with a letter explaining Astley's motivations.
[Ref: 37935] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Exterior View of Astley's Amphitheatre. As it appeared in 1777, from an Original Drawing by William Capon.
Charles John Smith, F.S.A. sculp.t
[n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. 216 x 292mm. 8½ x 11½".
Philip Astley (1742-1814), regarded as the "father of modern circus", opened Astley's Amphitheatre in London 1773. Signs outside advertise 'tight rope', 'Astley's Riding School' and 'Sieur Jones'.
[Ref: 20835] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Astley's Amphitheatre.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. Hill, Aquat.
London. Pub Jany 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
An interior view of Astley's Amphitheatre at Westminster Bridge Road, as rebuilt in 1803 after one of several fires in its history. The scene shows a performance in progress. A man is balancing on the backs of three horses and the ring master is dressed as a clown. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34071] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Bernard Astley.
[Thomas Worlidge.]
Published 1821 (from a Plate by Worlidge) by T. & H. Rodd, 71. Little Newport St. Long Acre.
Etching. Plate 165 x 132mm (6½ x 5¼").
Sir Bernard Astley (d.1645) was a Royalist who fell at Bristol; he was the son of Jacob Astley.
[Ref: 23282] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Bernard Astley.
[etched by Thomas Worlidge 1758.]
[published by T & H Rodd, 1827]
Etching, plate 165 x 132mm (6½ x 5¼"). Small margins.
Sir Bernard Astley (d.1645) was a Royalist who fell at Bristol; he was the son of Jacob Astley. Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. This plate was seemingly not offered for sale in Mary Worlidge's 1767 sale of Worlidge prints. This impression is from a 19th century republication.
State ii/ii; D8; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32945] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Edward Astley, Bar.t]
TW 1762 [in reverse top centre]
Etching, platemark 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to platemark except for wide bottom margin; creases; small hole top right; on laid paper with watermark.
Portrait of Edward Astley (1729-1802) as Rembrandt's Burgomaster Jan Six (from his famous print). Etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt'. Astley was a major print collector who assembled a very fine collection of Rembrandt prints. Posthumous state published by Worlidge's widow with numbers added in the plate corners to correspond with her 1767 sale catalogue of Worlidge prints.
State iii/iii; W3; D10
[Ref: 32721] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Edward Astley, Bar.t]
TW 1762 [in reverse top centre]
Etching, platemark 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Good impression with wide margins; foxed; nineteenth century laid paper.
Portrait of Edward Astley (1729-1802) as Rembrandt's Burgomaster Jan Six (from his famous print). Etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt'. Astley was a major print collector who assembled a very fine collection of Rembrandt prints. Posthumous state (first published by Worlidge's widow) with number added in the plate corner to correspond with her 1767 sale catalogue of Worlidge prints.
State iii/iii; W3; D10
[Ref: 32722] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Jacob Astley] [57 top left]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1757.
Etching, sheet 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5"). Good impression; trimmed inside platemark. Early ms. verso
Sir Jacob Astley (1579-1652), royalist army officer and one of the best-known figures of the English civil war. After serving on the continent, Astley was appointed sergeant-major-general in the second bishops' war in 1640. In the civil war Astley led forces of up to 10,000 until his defeat and capture in Stow on the Wold in 1646. After time spent in prison, Astley spent his last years at the Old Palace, Maidstone, which he had inherited from a cousin. Portrait, probably after Van Dyck, etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
State ii/v; W56; D12; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32854] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Jacob Astley [ms]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1757.
Etching, platemark 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Very good impression; thread margins; glued to album sheet.
Sir Jacob Astley (1579-1652), royalist army officer and one of the best-known figures of the English civil war. After serving on the continent, Astley was appointed sergeant-major-general in the second bishops' war in 1640. In the civil war Astley led forces of up to 10,000 until his defeat and capture in Stow on the Wold in 1646. After time spent in prison, Astley spent his last years at the Old Palace, Maidstone, which he had inherited from a cousin. Portrait, probably after Van Dyck, etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
State i/v; W56; D12.
[Ref: 32855] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Jacob Astley]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1757.
Etching, sheet 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Good margins; tipped into album sheet at edges; pencil annotations 'very fine', 'a proof' [incorrectly] etc. Later number removed.
Sir Jacob Astley (1579-1652), royalist army officer and one of the best-known figures of the English civil war. After serving on the continent, Astley was appointed sergeant-major-general in the second bishops' war in 1640. In the civil war Astley led forces of up to 10,000 until his defeat and capture in Stow on the Wold in 1646. After time spent in prison, Astley spent his last years at the Old Palace, Maidstone, which he had inherited from a cousin. Portrait, probably after Van Dyck, etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after numbers erased.
State iv/v; W56; D12; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32856] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Jacob Astley]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1757.
Etching, sheet 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"), wide margins. Later number removed.
Sir Jacob Astley (1579-1652), royalist army officer and one of the best-known figures of the English civil war. After serving on the continent, Astley was appointed sergeant-major-general in the second bishops' war in 1640. In the civil war Astley led forces of up to 10,000 until his defeat and capture in Stow on the Wold in 1646. After time spent in prison, Astley spent his last years at the Old Palace, Maidstone, which he had inherited from a cousin. Portrait, probably after Van Dyck, etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after numbers erased.
State iv/v; W56; D12.
[Ref: 32857] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Jacob Astley.
Published Aug. 1821 (From a Plate by Worlidge) by T. & H. Rodd. 17 Little Newport St. Leicester Sq. / Proof.
Etching, sheet 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Small margins; glue stains to corners.
Sir Jacob Astley (1579-1652), royalist army officer and one of the best-known figures of the English civil war. After serving on the continent, Astley was appointed sergeant-major-general in the second bishops' war in 1640. In the civil war Astley led forces of up to 10,000 until his defeat and capture in Stow on the Wold in 1646. After time spent in prison, Astley spent his last years at the Old Palace, Maidstone, which he had inherited from a cousin. Portrait, probably after Van Dyck, etched by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Nineteenth century restrike of a plate etched by Worlidge in 1757.
State v/v; W56; D12; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32858] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Combate in Paris betwixt John de Astley and Peter de Masse 29 Aug: Aº 1438. The Combate in Smithfeild betwixt the same John de Astley and Sr Philip Boyle, 30 Jan: An: 1441.
[Wenceslaus Hollar.]
[London, 1656.]
Rare etching, 17th century watermark. 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Small margins.
Two tournament scenes involving Sir John Astley of Patshull Hall, one of the most famous tournament knights of his time, flanked by eight panels with scenes before, during and after the action. The joust against Pierre de Massie in the upper scene was in the presence of Charles VII of France, ending; the lower scene is a duel, hand-to hand in armour with Philip de Boyle, before Henry VI of England. Astley was inducted into the Order of the Garter for his second victory. A plate from Dugdale's History of Warwickshire, 1656.
Pennington 530, i of ii.
[Ref: 62177] £480.00

[Lady's Head with feather in her hair] 15
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1753.
Etching, platemark 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"). Very large margins; on cream laid paper. Slight creasing.
Female portrait study, 'supposed to be Lady Astley' according to Charles Dack's catalogue. By Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
D118 (i/iii?); W102; Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33023] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Aston Hall.
[c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 430 x 540mm, 17 x 14¼". Very trimmed, some damage, a rare survivor.
A rare arial view of Aston Hall near Birmingham. Built in the Jacobean style by Sir Thomas Holte and completed 1635, the building passed into the possession of James Watt Jnr before becoming the first historic country house to pass into municipal ownership, 1864.
[Ref: 18614] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The East View of Aston in the County of Warwick, the Seat of S.r. Lister Holte, Bar.t is humbly Inscribed by his Obliged Serv.ts Sam.l & Nath.l Buck.
Sam.l & Nath.l Buck delin. et sculp. April 1744. 1 Garden Court Middle Temple.
Large engraving. 600 x 770mm (23½ x 30¼") with small margins. Several repairs, splits and tears.
A rare arial view of Aston Hall near Birmingham. Built in the Jacobean style by Sir Thomas Holte and completed 1635, the building passed into the possession of James Watt Jnr before becoming the first historic country house to pass into municipal ownership, 1864.
[Ref: 52627] £580.00

The City of Astracan, the Capital of Tartary.
W.M. Craig del. R.W. Wallis sc.
Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool. Feb.y 1816.
Engraving. 210 x 272mm. 8¼ x 10¾". Some toning along edges.
A view of Astrakhan, in southern European Russia and the administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast. The river behind is that of the Volga River, which leads directly to the Caspian Sea.
[Ref: 25844] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

La Fontaine Enchantée de la Verité d'Amour. Dédiée à Monsieur Alexandre Roslin, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal [...]
Dessiné par C.N. Cochin, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel / Gravé a l'Eau forte par Aug. de St Aubin, et terminé au Burin par C.F. Macret
a Paris chez Demonchy Graveur Cloitre St. Benoit la 1.re porte cochere à gauche par la rue des Mathurins A.P.D.R.
Engraving, sheet 315 x 380mm (12½ x 15"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Illustration to Honoré d'Urfé's prose romance 'Astrée': Celadon, Silvandre, Astrée and Diane, followed by two unicorns, approach the enchanted fountain of the truth of love, which is protected by two lions.
[Ref: 38615] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Baie De Sarah’s Bosom (Iles Auckland)
Dessiné par Le Breton. lith.par Sabatier. Imp par Lemercier.
Gide Editeur. [Paris, 1840-54.]
Lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 280 x 340mm (11 x 13¼"). Publisher's blind stamp.
The Astrolabe & Zélée anchored off the Auckland Islands, 300 miles south of South Island, New Zealand. For eight days in March 1840 the expedition's scientists explored the region, collecting bird, plant and rock samples. Their surgeon, Louis Le Breton, painted this scene From 'Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée 1837-1840', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's second expedition to the South Seas. The 31 volumes took 14 years to publish, not helped by D'Urville's death in the famous Versailles Rail Accident of 1842, the first French railway disaster.
[Ref: 35522] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Rives du Bio Bio a Six Milles de Conception.
Dessiné par Le Breton, lith.par Bichbois. Imp Lemercier, Benard et c.e.
Gide Editeur. [Paris, 1846.]
Hand coloured lithograph on india. 265 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Backing paper browned, not affecting image.
A view of the Bio Bio region of Chile, painted by Louis Le Breton and published in the first volume of 'Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée 1837-1840', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's second expedition to the South Seas. The 31 volumes took 14 years to publish, not helped by D'Urville's death in the famous Versailles Rail Accident of 1842, the first French railway disaster. Le Breton (1818-1866) was the surgeon on the voyage but became illustator after the death of the original artist.
[Ref: 43289] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

L'Astrolabe faisant de l'eau sur un glaçon, 6 Février 1838.
Dessiné par L. Le Breton. Lith.é par E. de Laplante. Lith. de Thierry Frères, Paris.
Gide Editeur. [Paris, 1840-54.]
Lithograph. Printed area 280 x 340mm. Publisher's blind stamp.
The crew of the Astrolabe making drinking water from the Antarctic ice. From 'Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée 1837-1840', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's second expedition to the South Seas. The 31 volumes took 14 years to publish, not helped by D'Urville's death in the famous Versailles Rail Accident of 1842, the first French railway disaster.
[Ref: 11046] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la Zélée. aux ordres du Ct. Dumont D'Urville, dans le coup de vent du Janvier 1840. Parages de cercle Polaire Antarctique.
Dess. et Lith. par Louis Le Breton.
Imp. Auguste Bry, 114 r. du Bac, Paris. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 450 x 635mm (17¾ x 25"). Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line. Nicks in edges.
One of two very rare separately-published lithographs, this showing the Astrolabe and the Zélée in a hurricane, surrounded by icebergs and penguins. In 1837 Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was sent to try to claim the southern magnetic pole for France. He returned to home in 1840 and was killed in France's first railway disaster two years later.
[Ref: 45618] £850.00

L'Astrolabe and Zelée. {French Corvets}.
Berlin, F. Sala & Co. Unter d. Linden 51. [n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. 362 x 476mm. 14¼ x 18¾". Grubby.
In a storm, the Astrolabe and Zelée were famous for their travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville and his explorations of the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.
[Ref: 25048] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Inauguration du Monument [elevé par l'Astrolabe à lapérouse à Vanikoro.]
de Sainson pinxt. Vanderburch Lith. Fig. par V. Adam
[J. Tastu]
Lithograph. Printed area 325 x 470mm (12¾ x 18½"). Trimmed to image top and bottom, losing half of title.
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. Here the ship's crew assemble for the inauguration of a monument to La Pérouse in Vanikoro on 14th March, 1828. La Pérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in the Pacific around 1788. A number of expeditions were sent in search of him before Dumont d'Urville found the remains of his ships in the Solomon Islands.
[Ref: 8178] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

S. Cunningham's Adventure with his Old Nurse and Astrologer.
W. Jett delin. J. Basire sculp.
[Birmingham: R. Walker, 1742.]
Engraving. 200 x 310mm (8 x 12").
Scene in an astrologer's study, with stuffed animals and animal skeletons suspended from the ceiling, specimen jars on the window ledge and globes and a compass on the desk behind. Plate to Charles Johnson's (fl.1724 - 1731) 'A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. To which is added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Noted Pirates...' published by R. Walker, Birmingham, 1742. Inscribed 'Page 32' upper left.
Ex: Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 39878] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

L'Astrologie. S.5.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"). Small margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Astrology, with an eagle on a plinth, globes and a telescope.
[Ref: 59100] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

L'Astrologie. Mon jour est dans la nuit & lenoir de ses voiles...
Huret Inventor. Rouffelet fecit. de l'impression de Marionette Avec Privilege.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 210mm (12 x 8¼''), with large margins.
An allegorical depiction of astrology, shown as a woman with one hand on a globe and a telescope in the other.
[Ref: 51141] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Astronomers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching. Sheet 50 x 70mm (2 x 2¾"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Two men use a telescope to examine a star. Probably one panel of an alphabet of sciences.
[Ref: 66682] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Relox Astronomico. Tomo I, N.o4 Lamina 32.
R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. 1824.
Finely coloured aquatint, sheet 240 x 140 (9½ x 5½").
An astronomical device.
[Ref: 56985] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Die sichtbare Seite der Mon-Oberflache. [The visible side of the Moon's Surface.]
Steiler's Hand-Atlas N.o 2. u. 3. Gotha: Justus Perthes 1872.
Chromolithograph. 375 x 460mm (14¾ x 18"). Some minor toning around the edges. Folded along central crease as normal.
An impressively detailed map of the moon's topographical features as well as a small inset diagram that shows the daily changes of the lunar phase. This sort of detail was typical of the maps designed by Adolf Stieler. His 'Handatlas' enjoyed huge popularity as a scientific publication, and ran from 1816 to 1945 in ten editions.
[Ref: 56912] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy.] Come forth O Man, yon azure Round survey [...]. Baker on the Universe.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Bottom margin trimmed to plate mark. Repaired damage to title area. Repaired wormhole in top margin.
A frontispiece to an edition of Henry Baker's 1730 poem 'On the Universe', illustrated with a scene of five people using telescopes, an armillary sphere and a globe in a classical garden. Compasses, telescopes and other astronomical instruments litter the ground.
See: Science Museum 13619.
[Ref: 56934] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Astronomy. Fitzgeralds General Preceptor Vol. pa:
London Publish'd by C. Taylor Holborn Dec.r 1 1795
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 205 x 110mm (8 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark on right offset.
Female figure alongide telescope and astronomical instruments, with a starry sky behind.
[Ref: 46020] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy] To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, &c. This Magazine is most humbly Dedicated by the Proprietors.
B. Cole sc.
[London: John Hinton, c.1752.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on left, small tear taped, paper toned.
The prince (later George III) is given a lesson in astronomy, an adaptation of Le Bas's engraving of Galileo giving a demonstration to the Doge of Venice. The frontispiece from an issue of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62376] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

L'Astronomie. S.4.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Astronomy, with measuring tools and a telescope.
[Ref: 59098] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet Of 1811.
Neele & Son Sc. 353 Strand.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce engraving, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Time stained. Creased in margin. No plate mark left and right.
From 'The wonders of the heavens displayed : in twenty lectures / by the author of The hundred wonders of the world,' by Sir Richard Phillips (1767–1840).
See also reference 56815. See Yale. D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers.
[Ref: 60548] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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