Grosvenor Prints

H.M.S. Atalante passing Sambro, Halifax, N.S.
J.E. del.t Bailey sculp.t
Published May 31. 1814. by Joyce Gold, Naval Chronicle Office 103, Shoe Lane London.
Aquatint, 150 x 230mm. 9" x 6". Laid down on separate sheet of paper.
The HMS Atalante passing Sambro in Nova Scotia, Canada.
[Ref: 8788] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Conquest of Ath.] Die Belagerung u Eroberung Ath.
Georg Phil. Rugendas del. Abraham Drentwett Ornam: del. Ioh: August: Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Privileg: Sac: Caes: Maj. Ieremias Wolff excudit Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 380 x 435mm (15 x 17"). Trimmed to image. Creasing hardly visible from front, small repair.
A decorative scene showing Marlborough's conquest of Ath, his final conquest of his Ramillies campaign in 1706. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42531] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Scene from Racine's Tragedy of Athalie.
Victoria R. delt. Edmond Morin, lith.
Day & Son, Lithrs. to The Queen. January, 1853.
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 384mm. Foxing.
Scene from Racine's 'Athalie'; interior with the young Joas, King of Judah, seated on a throne in the centre. In the foreground stands Joad, the high priest, and Athalie, with Abner, the captain of the Guard, in armour. These and the other characters are captioned below the image. A rare lithograph, from a sketch by Queen Victoria.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7878] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Scene from Racine's Tragedy of Athalie.
Victoria R. delt. Edmond Morin, lith.
Day & Son, Lithrs. to The Queen. January, 1853.
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 384mm (11¼ x 15"). Very slight foxing.
Scene from Racine's 'Athalie' with parts played by the Royal Family; interior with the young Joas, King of Judah, seated on a throne in the centre. In the foreground stands Joad, the high priest, and Athalie, with Abner, the captain of the Guard, in armour. These and the other characters are captioned below the image. A rare lithograph, from a sketch by Queen Victoria.
[Ref: 53263] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Athanasius I of Alexandria] Hanc Sancti Athanasii Magni Archiepiscopi Alexandriæ imaginem depingi curavit Andræas Thuetis, Cosmograph. Reg...
J.C. Böcklin Sculp [after André Thevet].
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, laid on the back of an 1809 portrait of William Wilberforce. Slightly time stained.
A full-length portrait of Athanasius I of Alexandria (c. 29-373), 20th patriarch of Alexandria. The text ascribes the portrait to André Thevet (1516-90): it is probably a copy of an illustration in Thevet's 'Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres', 1584.
[Ref: 64306] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Athawes, Esq.r.
R.P. pinx. S. Smith fecit [William Dickinson].
[William Dickinson. n.d., c.1780.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet size: 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed inside image.
Probably a portrait of Virginia tobacco trade merchant and financier Edward Athawes (d.1767), sitting three-quarter to left, with a tricorn in his lap. His right arm is curled around his cane. Edward Athawes was a prominent London merchant in the tobacco trade, which financed American plantations, (owners including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington) with sizeable loans from London. When tobacco prices dropped precipitously in the 1750s, many plantations struggled to remain financially solvent. Jefferson, on the verge of losing his own farm, aggressively espoused various conspiracy theories. Though never verified, Jefferson accused London merchants of unfairly depressing tobacco prices and forcing Virginia farmers to take on unsustainable debt loads. Chaloner Smith quotes Bromley's description of a second state with Dickinson's name added. This suggests that Dickinson engraved this when still working for Carington Bowles. He also describes another Edward Athawes, clerk for the Cordwainer's Company, who died in 1796; neither the dress nor the need for 'memory' suits that attribution,
CS: Dickinson 2.
[Ref: 35246] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Athawes, Esq.r. from a Picture painted by Memory.
R.P. pinx. S. Smith fecit [William Dickinson].
[William Dickinson. n.d., c.1780.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet size: 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Probably a portrait of Virginia tobacco trade merchant and financier Edward Athawes (d.1767), sitting three-quarter to left, with a tricorn in his lap. His right arm is curled around his cane. Edward Athawes was a prominent London merchant in the tobacco trade, which financed American plantations, (owners including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington) with sizeable loans from London. When tobacco prices dropped precipitously in the 1750s, many plantations struggled to remain financially solvent. Jefferson, on the verge of losing his own farm, aggressively espoused various conspiracy theories. Though never verified, Jefferson accused London merchants of unfairly depressing tobacco prices and forcing Virginia farmers to take on unsustainable debt loads. Chaloner Smith quotes Bromley's description of a second state with Dickinson's name added. This suggests that Dickinson engraved this when still working for Carington Bowles. He also describes another Edward Athawes, clerk for the Cordwainer's Company, who died in 1796; neither the dress nor the need for 'memory' suits that attribution,
CS: Dickinson 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64868] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Athawes Esq.r.
Painted amd Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Pub. March 20, 1805, by J.R. Smith, 37, King Street, Covent Garden, & ar R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Mezzotint. 655 x 450mm, 25¾ x 17¾". Some creasing. Large margins.
Full-length portrait of an elderly man, leaning on an unbrella, attended by an adoring Newfoundland dog. Samuel Athawes (1734-1822), print collector and supporter of Charles James Fox. Challoner Smith describes him as a collector who received 'choice impressions' from Woollett.
D'Oench 395; Frankau 17; CS 4.
[Ref: 23101] £420.00

Stoa of Adrian,_Athens, The rock of the Acropolis in the background.
From a drawing by F.W. Newton, Esq.re Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
[n.d. c.1837.]
Lithograph, rare. 120 x 190mm. 4¾ x 7½".
Adrian's Stoa, Athens, with the Acropolis Rock behind. A stoa was an Ancient Greek covered walkway or portico, commonly for public usage. From "A Short Visit to The Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea. By Edward Giffard, Esq."
[Ref: 25651] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Athene vel Minerva.
[Hartmann Schedel, 1493.]
Woodcut engraving with letterpress text, rare. Image area 140 x 222mm. 5½ x 8¾". Cut.
Athene vel Minerva, a fictional view of Athens. An identical image is used to represent both the land of the Amazons and the city of Alexandra. The same city is also used in other parts of the book to represent Pavia, Austria, Carinthia, and Prussia. From the 'Nuremberg Chronical', by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Maps in his Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
[Ref: 26186] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Athens] View of the Temple of Jupiter Olympia.
Lith by C. de Brochtorff. Malta 1837 from a Sketch by D. White R.N.
Rare & scarce lithograph. Sheet 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Creasing.
A view of the ruins of a temple, with the Parthenon behind. By German-Danish artist Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (c. 1775/1785 - 1850).
[Ref: 67857] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Acropolis of Athens.
W. M. Craig del. E. Goodall sc.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 170mm (8½ x 7").
A view of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
[Ref: 63071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus at Athens. Vue du Temple de Jupiter Olimpien a Athens.
LeRoy delin J.Boydell excudit.
Sold by H, Overton at White Horse without Newgate.
Fine hand coloured engraving on 18th century water marked paper. Plate 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾), with large margins.
A view of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens (Olympieion) showing the ruin built up with shops trading in contrast to the sparse open space Museum that it has become today.
[Ref: 56299] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Athens, from the Academy.
C.R. Cockerell R.A. del. L. Haghe Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King [1837]
Rare lithograph, sheet 135 x 225mm (5¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Staining from glue.
View of Athens after a design by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), who first trained with the distinguished watercolourists Thomas and William Daniell. Cockerell was on the continent from 1810-17, spending much of his time studying ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Frontispiece to 'Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There' by Christopher Wordsworth, bishop of Lincoln (1837).
[Ref: 42106] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Columns of a ruined temple, Athens.]
[by and after Mrs F. Cunningham?]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, image 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 9").
A very rare early lithograph, similar in style to 'Nine views taken on the continent drawn on stone by Mrs. F. Cunningham'. Cunningham, a talented amateur artist, was born Richenda Gurney, in a prominent Quaker banking family) and was sister to Elizabeth Fry.
[Ref: 35542] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Outline of the View of Athens exhibiting in the Panorama Strand.
Engraved by R & E Williamson.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 245 x 440mm (9¾ x 17½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A key plate to a view of Athens exhibited in Barker's Panorama in the Strand. This alternative venue to the more famous Panorama in Leicester Square was opened in 1801 by Thomas Edward Barker and Ramsay Richard Reinagle.
[Ref: 46205] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Temple of Hephaestus, Athens.]
[D. Costantin á Athens]
[n.d., c.1860]
Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). A little discolouration in sky.
An early photograph of the Temple of Hephaestus (formerly the Temple of Theseus because it was believed his remains were inside), a well-preserved Doric temple on the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, inaugurated 415BC. P. Constantin in Athens not signed in plate.
[Ref: 47440] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[View of the Parthenon from the Propylea.]
[Engraved by J. Bailey after Simone Pomardi.]
[London, published September 1, 1819, by Rodwell and Martin, Bond-street.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 270 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', no date. Trimmed close to printed border (never with printed title).
A view looking across rooftops to the Parthenon, from 'Views in Greece' by Edward Dodwell (1767-1832), published in parts between 1819 and 1821 to accompany 'A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806'. Dodwell produced 400 drawings and Pomardi 600 during their travels around Greece, many of which are now in the Packard Humanities Institute.
Abbey Travel 130.
[Ref: 59683] £390.00

Athens, South View of the Acropolis. To J. Spencer Smith, Esq.r M.P. F.R.S. & F.S.A. &c. The Print from the Original Drawing in his Collection, is respectfully inscribed by E. Orme.
Drawn by Préaux on the Spot 1799. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published Nov.r 1 1804, by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, New Bond Street London.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), watermarked 'Russell'. Trimmed within plate, a little creasing.
A view looking up at the Acropolis, with the pediment of the Parthenon just visible above the walls. The artist, Jean Francois Préaulx, was a draughtsman in the service of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in the Levant and near east. He also engraved several pictures in the collection of John Sydney Smith (1796-1845, younger brother of Admiral Sydney Smith), who served in the British Embassy at Constantinople 1793-1801, first as private secretary to the ambassador and Secretary of Legation from 1798.
[Ref: 59676] £480.00

[The Aqueduct of Hadrian.]
Stuart del.t. Lerpiniere Sculp.t.
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraving, with large margins. 330 x 500mm, 13 x 19½".
A view of the remains of the Aqueduct of Hadrian, on the slopes of Anchesmos, to the north east of the Acropolis in Athens, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
[Ref: 26794] £350.00

[The Arch of Hadrian.]
Stuart del.t. Lerpiniere Sculp.t. [&] Stuart del.t. W. Lowry sculp[&] N. Revett del.t.
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.] [&] Published as the act direct. [&] Pub.d as the Act directs April 3 1792.
Three engravings with large margins. 330 x 455mm, 13 x 18"; 395 x 300mm, 15¼ x 12"; & 400 x 300mm, 15¾ x 11¾".
A view and elevations of the front and sides of the Arch of Hadrian, south east of the Acropolis in Athens, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The view shows the existing remains, with a family of shepherds; the elevations show it as it would have been complete, although not guessing what statuary would be used. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the Arch is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD145/9.
[Ref: 26791] £390.00 view all images for this item

The Temple of Erictheus at Athens. Le Temple d'Erictheus a Athénes.
R. Dalton del: J.S.Muller Sc:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 12.th 1751.
Engraving. Plate: 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the Erectheion, an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis in Athens. One of the six cariatyds supporting the porch, depicted here on the left, was removed by Lord Elgin in 1801 and now resides in the British Musuem. This is a plate from Richard Dalton's 'Antiquites and Views in Greece and Egypt, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, from Drawings made on the spot A.D. 1749' 1751. The plates were popular and were reprinted in various studies of antiquities and are some of the earliest images of Greec and Egypt compiled by an Englishman.
[Ref: 41359] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Erictheus at Athens. Le Temple d'Erictheus a Athénes.
R. Dalton del: J.S.Muller Sc:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 12.th 1751.
Engraving. Plate: 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the Erectheion, an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis in Athens. One of the six cariatyds supporting the porch, depicted here on the right, was removed by Lord Elgin in 1801 and now resides in the British Musuem. This is a plate from Richard Dalton's 'Antiquites and Views in Greece and Egypt, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, from Drawings made on the spot A.D. 1749' 1751. The plates were popular and were reprinted in various studies of antiquities and are some of the earliest images of Greec and Egypt compiled by an Englishman.
[Ref: 41358] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[View of the Bridge over the Ilissus River connecting the Panathenaic Stadium with the city of Athens. ]
Stuart del.t. Tho.s Medland Sculp.t.
Published Jan.y 30th 1791 by Eliz:th Stuart Leicesterfields.
Engraving with large margins on 3 sides. 350 x 490mm, 13¾ x 19".
A view of the bridge over the Ilissus, south-east of the Acropolis, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. In the foreground are shepherds, two with musical instruments, a third with a pipe. The bridge led to the Panathenaic Stadium, now rebuilt and site of the first modern Olympic Games. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the bridge is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD146/1.
[Ref: 26796] £330.00

Plan of the Antiquities of Athens as Surveyed by J. Stuart. 1752.
[Drawn by A. Arrowsmith?]
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraved map. 535 x 700mm, 21 x 27½". Small margins.
Map of Athens showing the classical buildings surveyed made by James 'Athenian' Stuart and published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by Stuart & Nicholas Revett. To Stuart's dismay the local authorities would not allow him to survey the Acropolis because of an outbreak of plague. Stuart (1713-88) and Revett (1720-1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'. This map was published in Volume 4; the general map of Attica in the same volume was signed by Arrowsmith.
[Ref: 26784] £260.00

[Athens Polytechnic]
[Unsigned, c.1870]
Lithograph and tintstone, scarce, printed area 255 x 315mm (10 x 12½"), with large margins.
The Averof building, which remains at the centre of the Patision Complex of the National Technical University of Athens (also still known as the Athens Polytechnic). Designed by Lysander Kaftanzoglou, the building is a key example of European Neoclassicism.
[Ref: 47632] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Jupiter Olympius, Athens. Le Temple de Jupiter Olympius, Athènes. Der Tempel Jupiter Olympius, Athen.
Drawn by Wolfensberger. Engraved by J. Sands.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d. c.1841.]
Steel engraving. 208 x 279mm. 8¼ x 11".
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion, in the centre of Athens. Although begun in the 6th century BC, it was not completed until the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods it was the largest temple in Greece. Its foundations were laid on the site of an earlier temple by the tyrant Pisistratus in 515 BC, but the work was abandoned when Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BC.
[Ref: 20158] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Dun Nose. Isle of Wight.
Atkins Pinxt. R. & D. Havell Sculp.nt.
London Published March 25th, 1813 by James Daniell, 480 Strand.
Colour printed aquatint, 530 x 540mm.
[Ref: 456] £1,450.00

Opening of the Henley Water Works, by the Right Hon. W.H. Smith, M.P., June 17th, 1882. A large and influential party...assembled at Henley-on-Thames...on the occasion of the Public Opening of the Water Works, to inspect the working of the 'Atkins' Patent System of Softening and Purifying Water... [List of dignitaries in attendance, report of the proceedings and some speeches follows.]
The Atkins Water Softening and Purifying Company (Limited), 62, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
[London, 1882.]
Promotional ephemera relating to the Atkins Water Softening and Purifying Co: letterpress leaflet report, small 4to (page 260 x 190mm, 10¼ x 7½"); letterpress testimonial 'Certificate' from the London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway Company, sheet similar size; and ink ALS on company headed paper to George Bowen of St. Neots from W. A[tkins?] (sheet 205 x 130mm, 8 x 5"); altogether 3 items. Folds; certificate with tatty and chipped extremities.
The letter from scarce collection, details the estimated charges applied by the company to install their apparatus in the home of Geo. Bowers Esqr, St. Noets.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16546] £240.00 view all images for this item

[John Atkins, Lord Mayor of London] Smoak Jack the Alarmist, Extinguishing the Second Great Fire of London (a la Gulliver)!!!
G C.k [George Cruikshank].
Pub.d Oct.r 12 1819 by T. Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Small hole in edge of plate top right. Time stained.
The Lord Mayor stands on a balcony of the Mansion House, wearing his robes and a fool's cap, as London burns, with St Paul's Cathedral, the Monument and Tower of London in flames. He holds a hose between his legs, directing a spray down on the heads of the Jacobins and their torches, with the reference to Gulliver suggesting he is urinating. John Atkins (c.1754-1838, Lord Mayor of London 1818-9) had made a speech in which he claimed the radicals wanted 'to fire the Metropolis and murder the inhabitants', after which he was heckled with cries of 'Fire Fire!' & 'Smoke Jack'
BM Satires 13272.
[Ref: 58372] £320.00

The true and perfect manner of the execution of one Richard Atkins, Englishman at Rome. Anno. 1581.
[n.d., c.1600?]
Rare woodcut. Sheet: 195 x 280mm (7¾ x 11''). Trimmed. Creasing.
A series of four vignettes showing events that led to the execution of the Protestant martyr Richard Atkins. Atkins was travelling in Rome with his New Testament where he was arrested by the Inquisition. He was tortured and finally burnt at the stake.
[Ref: 49702] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

South West View of St. Nicholas Church, Lower Tooting, Surrey. Erected by the Parish from the Design of Thomas Whitham Atkinson, Architect, at an Expence of 4619 pounds, with accomodation for 1083 persons. This plate of the New and Old Church is most respectfully dedicated to the Rev.d I.Ravenhill, D.D. Rector, the Rev.d Richard Greaves, M.A. Patron, And the Gentlemen Constituting the Building Committee, By their Obedient and Humble Servant W.J. Wade.
Drawn by T.W.Atkinson, Stanford Street. Engraved by C.Rosenberg.
London. Published Jan.y 1832 by W.I. Wade, Picture Frame Maker, 86, Leadenhall Street, and Mr Hudson, Lower Tooting.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 470 x 570mm. Trimmed within plate at top.
In Tooting Graveney, published the year before it opened.
[Ref: 459] £480.00

Revd. Charles Atkinson, late of Ipswich. 38 Years Minister at the Independent Meeting, Jacket Street.
Painted by R. Willoughby. On Stone by J. Smart Junr.
Published July 1830, by T. Jennings, Carver & Gilder, Tacket Street, Ipswich.
Lithograph on india paper, india 240 x 205mm. 9½ x 8". A little soiled; margins with chips and tears.
Portrait of Charles Atkinson (1762 - 1830), nonconformist minister at Ipswich. Seated at desk, looking towards the viewer, right hand tucked into his waistcoat; ink well and quill behind.
[Ref: 27075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A General Chart of the Sea Coast of Europe, Africa & America. According to E. Wrights or Mercator's Projection.
By H. Moll Geographer.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraved map. 345 x 285mm (13½ x 11¼"). Original binding folds.
A sea chart centred on the Atlantic Ocean, but also showing all of South America, Africa and the Black Sea. Of interest in the mythical Peypys Island off South America. From Josiah Burchett's 'A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Account... to the Conclusion of the Last War with France''. Edward Wright (1561-1615), a mathmatician and surveyor, not only corrected Mercator's Projection but also published a guide explaining how to use charts using that projection, something that Gerhard Mercator had never done. His work gave British navigators a particular advantage over the competition.
[Ref: 61702] £250.00

To His Excellency George M. Dallas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States, this Print of the Vessels engaged in laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, is respectfully dedicated by his most obedient Servant, [...]
Josiah Taylor Del. Vincent Brooks Lith.
London: Published August 4th 1857, by W. Foster, 114, Fenchurch Street.
A large and fine coloured lithograph. Printed area 530 x 880mm (20¾ x 34½"). Trimmed into inscription area, losing dedicatee, a few repaired tears.
The first attempt to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable, beaten when the cable kept breaking. The British ships are named as 'Agamemnon' & 'Leopard', the American 'Niagara' & 'Susquehanna'.
[Ref: 45849] £1,800.00

Atlas.
[Anon.]
[1720.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14'') very large margins. Crease as normal.
A Dutch satirical print commenting on collapse of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles. Figures, including Atlas and John Law hold up giant bubbles above their heads.
[Ref: 48482] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Illustrated General, and Elementary Physical Atlas: with Descriptive Letterpress... Recommended by the Minister of Public Instruction to be used in the Schools of Prussia and Germany.
By Dr. Karl, Vogel. Director of Schools, Berlin, and the Editor of the 'University Atlas of the Middle Ages,' &c.
London: Edward Gover, Sen., Princes Street, Bedford Row; Whittaker and Co; Simpkin and MArshall; Aylott and Jones. Dublin: J. Robertson. 1850.
4to, limp boards titled in gilt on front board; pp. 24, 1 folding steel-engraved world map and 7 double-page maps, all in original hand colour. Pages loose, some slight foxing, ink ownship inscription dated 1856 on prelim.
A basic atlas with maps of the World, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and the British Isles. All the maps have decorative borders; the continents have illustrations of the peoples and wildlife. On the maps the British Empire is marked in red.
[Ref: 40554] £390.00 view all images for this item

[Atlas.]
F. Verdier jnvent. J. Bap. de Poilly Sculp. C.P.R.
[Paris, n.d., 1747.]
Fine engraving. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾").
Atlas the Titan, supporting a large celestial globe on a rocky outcrop. A pair of compasses and a slab with scrolls of diagrams are resting against the base of the rock lower left. Although he was frequently depicted holding up the world, the original myth has Atlas supporting the sky. From 'Recueil de plusieurs figures d'Académie, dessinées d'après nature par François Verdier'.
[Ref: 19614] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Terre et Son Atmosphere. Pl. X.
[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").
A section of the Earth and its atmosphere at the equator, higlighting the effects of reflection and refraction and the uneven nature of the Earth's surface. The oceans and continents are indicated as are some islands and volcanoes. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56895] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Earth and its Atmosphere.
Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie.
Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. March 10.th 1849.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
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 section of the Earth and its atmosphere at the equator, higlighting the effects of reflection and refraction and the uneven nature of the Earth's surface. The oceans and continents are indicated as are some islands and volcanoes.
[Ref: 56884] £360.00

Atmospheric Refraction.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
Optical illusions caused by atmospheric refraction, with mirrored images of ships. Plate 93 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56796] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Atom.
Corbould del. Walker sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. APril 15 1786.
Engraving. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on left, damp stains. Large margins on 3 sides.
A 'Japanese' man sits in his study holding up a piece of paper lettered with 'Hob Nob', surrounded by books, a globe and a pair of compasses. A frontispiece to 'The Novelist's Magazine' when it published Tobias Smollett's novel 'The History and Adventures of an Atom', a satire of British politics during the Seven Years' War.
[Ref: 56784] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Atropos. La troisieme des Parques coupoit la trame de la vie des hommes.
A Paris chez I. Mariette rue S.t Jacques Aux Colones d'Hercule. [nd. c.1680]
Engraving, sheet 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper at corners.
Atropos (or Morta), one of the Parcæ, the Three Fates of Roman mythology, responsible for cutting the Thread of Life. She sits in an ornate garden the long thread in her finger tips and large shears in the other. Published by Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716) idely regarded as the most important publisher of the century. He was the son of Pierre Mariette I and, in 1655, married Madeleine, the widow of François Langlois, after which he took over the Langlois business at the “Colonnes d’Hercules.” In 1657, he established himself at his father’s address on Rue Saint-Jacques, à l’Espérance, of which he already owned a quarter share, and in 1663 he purchased the remaining portions outright. In 1658, he also acquired the “Colonnes d’Hercules,” which he initially leased to a hatmaker and later to a bookseller, before eventually transferring it to his son Jean in 1691.
See [Ref: 14407]
[Ref: 68723] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Attack on Gibraltar in 1781, by the Spanish Floating Batteries.
Hamilton R.A. del.t Wells delt.
[Bunney & Gold, 1804.]
Aquatint. 140 x 229mm. 5½ x 9". Slightly cut.
The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American War of Independence. It was the longest siege endured by the British Armed Forces. In November 1781 the British garrison filed silently out of the defence works and made a surprise sortie. They routed the whole body of the besieging infantry in the trenches, set their batteries on fire, blew up and spiked their cannon, destroyed their entrenchments, and killed or took prisoner a large number of the Spaniards.
Parker: 92, i. NMM: PAI2904; for another item demonstrating the floating batteries used to attack Gibraltar, see ref. 13789
[Ref: 25156] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Attack on the Strong Fort of Grijo, on the 11.th of May 1809. Respectfully Dedicated to Major General the Honorable Sir Charles Stewart, K.B. by his most obed.t hum.ble Ser.t H. L'Eveque.
Painted by H. L'Eveque. Engraved by Ch.e Heath.
London: Pub.d Jan.1.1813 for the Proprietors by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. 23 Cockspur St.t
Copper engraving. Plate 356 x 489mm. 14 x 19¼". Tear into lower right-hand edge and image.
The Battle of Grijó was a battle that ended up in victory for the Anglo-Portuguese army commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley over the French Army commanded by Marshal Nicolas Soult during the second French invasion of Portugal in the Peninsular War.
[Ref: 20874] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Attacking the Badger. From the Original Picture by S. Taylor.
Painted by Stephen Taylor. Drawn on Stone by Fairland. Printed by Fraf & Soret.
London Published June 1st 1833 by J. McCormick No. 147 Strand.
Coloured lithograph. 300 x 240mm. Framed. Single crease effecting title.
[Ref: 5875] £380.00

La liste de presence [in pencil.]
P. Renouard [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1892.]
Etching, very large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 291 x 221
A young girl in ballet dress leans over a table to read her instructions for her class. No. 1. from a series published as 'A l'Opera 30 Eaux-Fortes par P. Renouard preface de Ludovic Halivy'.
[Ref: 34643] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Attentative Nurse]
A. Kauffman R.A. pinxit. Rob.t Lowrie fecit.
R. Sayer excudit.
Mezzotint, sheet 370 x 290mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate at right and bottom possibly losing title. Glued onto backing paper. Creasing.
Three-quarter length oval portrait of a young woman swathed in fabric holding a baby.
[Ref: 61597] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Attention. [&] Serenity.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Pub.d Feb.y. 1.st 1798 by Colnaghi Sala & Co. (late Tore) No.132 Pall Mall.
A pair of printed stipple. Framed. Image: 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"). Frame: 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"). Unexamined out of frame.
A pair of allegorical scenes, one showing the figure of attention writing at her desk, the second shows serenity looking towards the sky.
[Ref: 45409] £420.00 view all images for this item

Attention.
Taylor, Holborn, excudit. [n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple. Plate 172 x 115mm. 6¾ x 4½".
A young boy standing next to a young girl who is seated holding a small nest with three baby birds tweeting up at her as she holds a small flower above them. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22614] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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