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![[8 illustrations of astronomy.]](jpegs/56835.jpg)
[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)
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
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)
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)
![[Astronomy.]](jpegs/56780.jpg)
[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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.]](jpegs/56913.jpg)
[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)
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)
[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.]](jpegs/34702.jpg)
[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)
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]](jpegs/59550.jpg)
[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
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)
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.]](jpegs/13718.jpg)
[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)
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)
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)
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)
General View of Esouan and the Island of Elephantine.
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith.
London, Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, July. 1st. 1848.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 330 x 490mm (13 x 19¼").
Aswan, situated at Egypt's first cataract, studded with numerous granite islands. The largest, Elephantine Island has various monuments, and a Nubian settlement. Qubbet el-Hawa was the burial ground of the Old Kingdom noblemen from Elephantine, and their tombs were hewn out of the rock, about halfway up the hill facing the river.
[Ref: 4922] £900.00
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith.
London, Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, July. 1st. 1848.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 330 x 490mm (13 x 19¼").
Aswan, situated at Egypt's first cataract, studded with numerous granite islands. The largest, Elephantine Island has various monuments, and a Nubian settlement. Qubbet el-Hawa was the burial ground of the Old Kingdom noblemen from Elephantine, and their tombs were hewn out of the rock, about halfway up the hill facing the river.
[Ref: 4922] £900.00
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, in the Greenwich Road.
Published June 24, 1813 by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, No. 53, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured engraving. 295 x 440mm, 11½ x 17¼".
The Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor was established in 1792 by Reverend John Townsend (1757-1826) of the Jamaica Row Congregation Church in Bermondsey, London. With the patronage of the Duke of Gloucester, the Asylum moved to these premises closer to the Old Kent Road, Southwark, in 1810, becoming an important national charity. Its model of patronage and governing committee did much to transform the operation of British charitable institutions. With contemporary hand colour.
[Ref: 20702] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published June 24, 1813 by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, No. 53, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured engraving. 295 x 440mm, 11½ x 17¼".
The Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor was established in 1792 by Reverend John Townsend (1757-1826) of the Jamaica Row Congregation Church in Bermondsey, London. With the patronage of the Duke of Gloucester, the Asylum moved to these premises closer to the Old Kent Road, Southwark, in 1810, becoming an important national charity. Its model of patronage and governing committee did much to transform the operation of British charitable institutions. With contemporary hand colour.
[Ref: 20702] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Atahualpa] Athabaliba ultimus Rex Peruanorum.](jpegs/46398.jpg)
[Atahualpa] Athabaliba ultimus Rex Peruanorum.
[London: John Ogilby 1671.]
Engraving. 290 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
Medallion portrait of Atahualpa (c.1502-33), the last ruling emperor of the Incas, within an ornately-illustrated border. From Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Arnoldus van Bergen's ''De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld of Beschryving van America''.
[Ref: 46398] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[London: John Ogilby 1671.]
Engraving. 290 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
Medallion portrait of Atahualpa (c.1502-33), the last ruling emperor of the Incas, within an ornately-illustrated border. From Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Arnoldus van Bergen's ''De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld of Beschryving van America''.
[Ref: 46398] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Atahualpa Rejecting the Breviary.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
Published by R. Evans, 17 Paternoster Row, 1817.
Engraving; watermark 1816. Plate: 225 x 150mm (9 x 6'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the last Incan Emperor Atahualpa rejecting the breviary offered to him by Dominican friar Vincente de Valverde. After Atahualpa rejected the breviary Valverde called the Spaniards to attack the Incans and they conquered without losing one Spanish soldier however many Incans were slaughtered.
[Ref: 48299] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
Published by R. Evans, 17 Paternoster Row, 1817.
Engraving; watermark 1816. Plate: 225 x 150mm (9 x 6'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the last Incan Emperor Atahualpa rejecting the breviary offered to him by Dominican friar Vincente de Valverde. After Atahualpa rejected the breviary Valverde called the Spaniards to attack the Incans and they conquered without losing one Spanish soldier however many Incans were slaughtered.
[Ref: 48299] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
![[Atalanta and Melanion .] LXXXXV.](jpegs/55485.jpg)
[Atalanta and Melanion .] LXXXXV.
A:D: Gabbiani inven: Santi Pacini Sculps:
[Florence 1762.]
Very fine etching in brown with plate tone, 18th century watemark. 205 x 375mm (8 x 14¾"), with very large margins.
Melanion (Hippomenes) dropping golden apples to slow Atalanta in the race he had to win to marry her. From ''Raccolta di cento pensieri diversi di Anton Domenico Gabbiani''.
[Ref: 55485] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A:D: Gabbiani inven: Santi Pacini Sculps:
[Florence 1762.]
Very fine etching in brown with plate tone, 18th century watemark. 205 x 375mm (8 x 14¾"), with very large margins.
Melanion (Hippomenes) dropping golden apples to slow Atalanta in the race he had to win to marry her. From ''Raccolta di cento pensieri diversi di Anton Domenico Gabbiani''.
[Ref: 55485] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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)
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.]](jpegs/42531.jpg)
[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)
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)
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)
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...](jpegs/64306.jpg)
[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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
[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)
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)
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)
![[Athens] View of the Temple of Jupiter Olympia.](jpegs/67857.jpg)
[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)
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)
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)
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)
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.]](jpegs/35542.jpg)
[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)
[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)
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.]](jpegs/47440.jpg)
[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)
[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.]](jpegs/59683.jpg)
[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
[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
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.]](jpegs/26794.jpg)
[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
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.]](jpegs/26791.jpg)
[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
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)
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)
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. ]](jpegs/26796.jpg)
[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
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
[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]](jpegs/47632.jpg)
[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)
[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)
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
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
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)!!!](jpegs/58372.jpg)
[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
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)
[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)