Grosvenor Prints

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. 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)

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)

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)

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)

Kepler & Aristarchus at y.e opposition. at y.e quadratures.
J. Blunt, Del.t. W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Time stained. Creased in margins. Holes where previously bound. No plate mark left and right.
A view of lunar craters. 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60551] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Swan. The Harp.
J. Blunt, Del.t. W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce aquatint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"), on paper watermarked 'II Smith'. No plate mark left and right.
Two constellations. 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60553] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Two Views of Jupiter.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce aquatint sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60560] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nebulous Phenomena.
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"). 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60561] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Stellar & Cometic Nebulae.
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"). 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60562] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Moon during the great Solar Eclipse Sep.t 7 1820.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60563] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Double Stary Andromeda. Double Star a Hercules. Double Star E Bootes.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"), on paper watermarked '1818'. Time stained. 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60565] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nebulous Phenomena.
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. 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60566] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nebulous Phenomena.
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. No plate mark left.
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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60567] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nebulae. Treple Star in Monoceros.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Time stained. No plate mark left.
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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60568] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nebulae.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce aquatint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Time stained. No plate mark left.
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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60569] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Kepler & Aristarchus at y.e opposition. at y.e quadratures.
J. Blunt, Del.t. W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Time stained. No plate mark left.
A view of lunar craters. 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60570] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Telescopic apperance of the Pleiades.
J. Blunt, Del.t. W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce aquatint, sheet 105 x 175mm (4 x 7). Time stained. No plate mark at bottom.
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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60576] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

G.t Nebulous spot in Orion. The constellation Orion.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce aquatint, sheet 105 x 175mm (4 x 7). Time stained. No plate mark at top and bottom.
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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60577] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Astronomie. 159. Suppl Pl 8.
Benard Direx.
[n.d. c.1780].
Copper engraving, 18th century watermark, 355 x 235mm (14 x 9¼"). Thread margin on right. Couple of brown spots, crease.
Most likely from the 1780's five-volume supplement to 'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers,' edited by Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert, with the aid of Quensay, Montesquieu, Voltaire, J. J. Rousseau, Turgot, and others.
[Ref: 60628] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Ptolemy & Euclid] Universitas rerum ut pulvis in manu Jehovae.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Trimmed from larger sheet, mounted on album paper, tear in top right corner due to mounting glue, remains of red-lettered title underneath.
Full-length portrait of Claudius Ptolemy and Euclid holding instruments, with an armillary sphere held by a disembodied hand between them. The Latin motto translates as 'The universe is as a handful of dust in the hand of God'. This is later version of an engraving used as a vignette on the titlepage of Girolamo Cardano's 'Opera omnia', 1663.
[Ref: 60759] £160.00 (£192.00 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)

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.]
P. Violet pinxt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1 1792 by C. Suisan & Sold by J.F. Tomkins No 49 New Bond Street.
Stipple, proof before title. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), with large margins
A child holding a telescope, looking up at a beam of light.
De Vesme: 574, state iii of iv.
[Ref: 56780] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[8 illustrations of astronomy.]
Jaede del. G. Brinckmann sculps.t Leipzig.
Druck von Voigt & Günther [n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾").
Eight numbered vignette illustrations: an observatory building, the Moon, Saturn, a telescope, a reflecting telescope, a celestial globe, how to observe an eclipse via a reflection in water and a comet.
[Ref: 56835] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Solar Spots. The Comet of 1811. Telescopic Appearances of Venus. Telescopic Appearances of Mars. The Great Meteor of November 13 1803.
Neele & Son Sc. 353 Strand.
[London: Sir Richard Phillips, c.1823.]
Three mezzotint plates on one sheet, scarce. Sheet 450 x 270mm (17¾ x 10½"). Some damage, creasing, laid on archival paper.
From 'The Atlas of Nature: being a Graphic Display of the Most Interesting Subjects in the Three Kingdoms of Nature, for Study and Reference.
[Ref: 56815] £360.00

The Starry Heavens.
W. Wright 13 St Georges Road [n.d., c.1800].
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼").
A man in contemporary dress looks up at the stars and moon.
[Ref: 56783] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Telescope and Cross-staff.]
S. Fokke in fe.
[Amsterdam, c.1745.]
Engraving. 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"), with large margins. Some slight staining.
Two scenes on one plate. On the left a group use a telescope to look at the stars. On the right a navigator uses a cross-staff from a ship, looking up at the Plough (Big Dipper); the plate demonstrates how to use the asterism to locate Polaris.
[Ref: 56822] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy] To the worshipfull Andrew Lant of Thorp=underwood in the county of Northampton Esq.r this plate is humbly dedicated by Richard Blome.
G. Freman Inv. J. Kip S.
[London: Richard Blome, c.1680.]
Engraving. 275 x 155mm (10¾ x 6"). Narrow margins.
Four men in classical dress stand on a terrace watching a comet, one looking through a telescope (the wrong way!). Around them are a globe, an astrolabe, diagrams and various measuring devices. Possibly from Blome's 'The Gentleman’s Recreation'
Wellcome Library no. 46392i.
[Ref: 51244] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Astronomy.
Ralph Willett inv. Wm. Collins fec. James Caldwall sculp.
[London: John Willett, 1785.]
Etching, 295 x 455mm (11½ x 18").
An illustration of a frieze featuring a woman in classical dress, one hand on an armillary sphere, the other pointing at the sky. From Ralph Willett's 'A Description of the Library at Merly in the county of Dorset', a description of hisdecoration of his library. Because the plates were such different sizes they could not be bound together, so sets are rarely complete.
[Ref: 9543] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sun.
I. Blunt. Jun.r Del.t. W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce aquatint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Time stained. 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).
[Ref: 60573] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Two Views of Saturn.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge. Street. 1821]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"), on paper watermarked 'II Smith'. Time stained. 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: D. Alexander Dictionary of English & Irish Engravers. See Yale.
[Ref: 60574] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Total Solar Eclipse.] Astronomy. Plate 5.
Engraved & Printed in Colours by W. & A. K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 350mm (10 ½ x 13¾"). Central fold crease as normal.
Plate 5 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56913] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Astronomy. - New System. Signs of the Zodiac.
[by Robert Seymour?]
[London Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1827.]
Hand-coloured etching, rare, 1825 watermark. Plate: 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½''). Very slight central crease.
A ring of satirical representations of the twelve zodiac signs surround a basket in which the traditional signs have been thrown. On the basket is a sign 'Old Signs to be sold cheap'.
[Ref: 48407] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy.]
S. Wale inv. C. Grignion Sculp.
[n.d. c.1762.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 201 x 120mm (8 x 4¾").
Astronomy: a young astronomer in his study, talking with his siters, who holds a book in her lap. He points out the window to the stars; a celestial globe and telescope beside them. Plate to Benjamin Martin, 'The young gentleman and lady's philosophy, London'; frontispiece.
In the Wellcome Collection: 46326i.
[Ref: 34702] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[26 Bound plates of Astronomy] Astronomie.
Goussier Del. Benard Fecit.
[n.d. c.1750]
Bound engravings, plates 350 x 220mm (13¾ x 8¾"), with large margins. No cover.
Images of astronomical diagrams, instruments and astrology. Louis-Jacques Goussier (1722 - 1799) was a French illustrator and encyclopedist. Louis-Jacques Goussier is famous for his work on Diderot's encyclopedia. He was the first drawer to be hired on that project, in 1747 and he did himself more than 900 plates and directed the drawing of the others. Robert Bénard (1734 – 1777) was a French engraver. Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Bénard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d'Alembert from 1751.
[Ref: 59550] £600.00 view all images for this item

Tab: LXXXIII.
D. Chodowiecki del. Schleuen fc.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, 190 x 240mm. 7½ x 9½". Tatty left margin.
Three images from one plate by the painter, draughtsman, etcher, and miniaturist Daniel Nicolaus Chodowiecki (1726 - 1801). At top right religious men gather around a table in consternation at the theories of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the centre of the universe. A cityscape below. The son of of a merchant in Gdansk (Danzig), Chodowiecki made more than 2000 etchings, mainly illustrations for books by German writers like Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Klopstock. He also illustrated scientific books and translations of the works of foreign writers.
[Ref: 10522] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[A lecture on astronomy.]
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine for J. Hinton, at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard London, 1748.
Engraving, sheet 195 x 220mm. 7¾ x 8¾". Trimmed to image/title; two vertical folds (as normal).
Scientists in an interior surrounded by astronomical diagrams and globes. For the Universal Magazine.
[Ref: 13718] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Astruc.
C. Monnet inv. Gravé par Louis Halbou 1771.
Engraving, platemark 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½").
Jean Astruc (1684-1766), professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris. Astruc wrote an important treatise on venereal diseases, and was also one of the first to use secular techniques of literary analysis to advance the theory that the book of Genesis (in the Bible) was composed from various sources and manuscripts.
Wellcome Library no. 625i
[Ref: 31944] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of Dakke in Nubia.
Etched by A.Aglio after a Drawing by S.Belzoni.
London, Publsiedh 1820 by John Murray, Albermarle Street.
Coloured etching. 300 x 510mm, 11¾ x 20". Paper watermarked 'HS & S 1819'.
The temple of Ad-Dakka, drawn by Sara Belzoni for her husband Giovanni Battista's book, 'Plates Illustrative of the Researches in Egypt and Nubia, 1820-2. Originally situated about 60 miles south of Aswan, it was moved to a new site away from the flooding caused by the dam built in the 1960s. Belzoni (1778-1824), a one-time circus strongman, stumbled into Egyptology. Engaged by the British consul, Henry Salt, he removed the seven-ton bust of Rameses II from Thebes, sending it to the British Museum in London. Afterwards he cleared the sand from Abu Simbel (1817 - thirty years before the arrival of David Roberts) and opened the second pyramid at Giza.
Abbey Travel 268.
[Ref: 17042] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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