Grosvenor Prints

[Landscape with Overhanging Tree.]
HBK.
[n.d. c.1812.]
Soft-ground etching. 141 x 229mm (5½ x 9"). Some creasing to corners. Cut.
Landscape, with a tree overhanging a meandering brook from the right bank. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34797] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with River Estuary.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 140 x 171mm (5½ x 6¾").
Landscape with river estuary, tree in foreground at left and wooded area at right; windmills in the distance. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34824] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with stretch of water.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 109 x 152mm (4¼ x 6"). Cut.
Landscape with stretch of water in foreground, a tall tree on the opposite bank at right, and more trees within a fenced area in background. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34812] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape by a river, with Roman temple on hilltop]
S. Gessner inv et f [1767/8]
Etching, platemark 170 x 250mm (6¾ x 10"), with large margins.
Plate seven from Salomon Gessner's series of etchings 'Folge der Landschaften in antikem Geschmack'. Gessner (1730-88) achieved international fame as a writer and etched illustrations to his texts as well as producing standalone series of etchings such as these, as well as paintings and drawings (of which the most significant collection is in the Kunsthaus Zurich). His son Conrad Gessner was also a significant artist.
[Ref: 47683] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with Wooden Bridge.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7").
Landscape with wooden bridge over a river at left, leading into a cottage surrounded by trees on the opposite bank. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34823] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with classical figures.] To William Whitehead Esqr,, P.L. This Etching from Francesco Millet is Inscribed. By his Obliged & affectionate Servant Newnham 1762.
[1762.]
Scarce etching, sheet 420 x 555mm. 16½ x 21¾". Trimmed to, or close to, plate. Small nicks and tears to extremities.
The print made by George Simon, Viscount Nuneham, later second earl Harcourt (1736 - 1809), a gifted amateur artist who was taught by Paul Sandby, and was a member of the Society of Dilettanti. William Whitehead (1715 - 1785) was poet-laureate. After Francisque Millet (1642 - 1679).
[Ref: 16365] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with haystacks and, behind, the thatched roof of three cottages]
Dessiné et Gravé, par Wille, 1754.
Etching, sheet 105 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed
Landscapes by Johann Georg Wille (1715 - 1808), latterly known as Jean Georges Wille. Born near Koenigsberg in Germany and came to Paris in 1736 where began etching genre pictures and landscapes from the northern schools to complement his practice as a portrait engraver. His studio became one of the most important printmaking centres. This etching was published in 'Variétés de gravures', a series of thirty-seven plates representing various subjects, engraved by Wille from his own designs between 1738 and 1801. It appeared in the volume on a sheet with two other prints.
For the uncut sheet consisting of this plate and two others, see ref. 44326.
[Ref: 46374] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Landscapes. Paintings and Drawings from the Royal Collection.
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. 1975-76.
8vo, illustrated soft covers; pp. 27.
An catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of landscapes paintings and drawings drawings from the Royal Collection, held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace in 1975-76.
[Ref: 59946] £10.00

[Three rural landscapes]
[top] Wille, del.t et sculp.t 1760. [centre] Wille, del.t et sculp.t 1761. [lower] Dessiné et Gravé, par Wille, 1754.
[n.d., c.1780. bit later]
Three etchings on one sheet, 330 x 270mm (12¼ x 10½"), very large margins.
Three landscapes by Johann Georg Wille (1715 - 1808), latterly known as Jean Georges Wille. He was born near Koenigsberg in Germany and came to Paris in 1736 where began etching genre pictures and landscapes from the northern schools to complement his practice as a portrait engraver. His studio became one of the most important printmaking centres. This sheet comes from a collected edition of his landscapes.
[Ref: 44326] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Two rural landscapes]
Wille Fecit 1756 [upper] Wille Del.t et Sculp.t 1761 [lower]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Two etchings on sheet 360 x 270mm (14¼ x 10½"), with generous margins.
Pair of landscapes by Johann Georg Wille (1715 - 1808), latterly known as Jean Georges Wille. He was born near Koenigsberg in Germany and came to Paris in 1736 where began etching genre pictures and landscapes from the northern schools to complement his practice as a portrait engraver. His studio became one of the most important printmaking centres. This sheet comes from a collected edition of his landscapes.
[Ref: 44228] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Two rural landscapes]
[top] Dessiné et Gravé, par J.G. Wille, 1762. [bottom] Dessiné et Gravé, par J.G. Wille, 1777.
[n.d., c.1780. bit later]
Two etchings on one sheet, 330 x 270mm (12¼ x 10½"), very large margins.
Pair of landscapes by Johann Georg Wille (1715 - 1808), latterly known as Jean Georges Wille. He was born near Koenigsberg in Germany and came to Paris in 1736 where began etching genre pictures and landscapes from the northern schools to complement his practice as a portrait engraver. His studio became one of the most important printmaking centres. This sheet comes from a collected edition of his landscapes.
[Ref: 44327] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Two rural landscapes]
[top] I.G.W. 1738. [bottom] Dessiné et Gravé par Wille, 1759.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Two etchings on one sheet, 330 x 270mm (12¼ x 10½"), very large margins
Pair of landscapes by Johann Georg Wille (1715 - 1808), latterly known as Jean Georges Wille. He was born near Koenigsberg in Germany and came to Paris in 1736 where began etching genre pictures and landscapes from the northern schools to complement his practice as a portrait engraver. His studio became one of the most important printmaking centres. This sheet comes from a collected edition of his landscapes.
[Ref: 44328] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Three rural landscapes]
[top] Fait par Wille, 1760. [center] Dessiné et Gravé, par J.G. Wille, 1762. [lower] I.G.W. 1746.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Three etchings on one sheet, 330 x 270mm (12¼ x 10½"), very large margins
Three landscapes by Johann Georg Wille (1715 - 1808), latterly known as Jean Georges Wille. He was born near Koenigsberg in Germany and came to Paris in 1736 where began etching genre pictures and landscapes from the northern schools to complement his practice as a portrait engraver. His studio became one of the most important printmaking centres. This sheet comes from a collected edition of his landscapes.
[Ref: 44329] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Edwin Landseer] A Royal Academican.
Cte D'Orsay fecit 1843 [signed in plate.]
Published by T. Mc Lean, 26, Haymarket Dec: 1843. Printed at 10 St. Martins Lane, London.
Tinted lithograph, image 275 x 205mm. 10¾ x 8". Some soiling/staining to the wide margins.
Portrait of the painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873); full-length, in profile, walking to right, holding stick and top hat. He was elected R.A. on 10 February 1831. Sketched from life by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
NPG D32475.
[Ref: 27084] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseurs.]
[Painted by Edwin Landseer R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.]
London; Published Dec.r 10th 1867, by Henry Graves & Co the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen, and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales _ 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint on india, proof before letters, 'Printsellers' Association' blindstamp. Plate mark 580 x 430mm (23 x 17"), very large margins. Very slight foxing mainly in large margins.
Landseer's self portrait, accompanied by two dogs.
Whitman: Samuel Cousins, 99, state II of II.
[Ref: 57856] £450.00

[Five plates of the set 'Six beautiful landskips drawn from nature by Richards'.] [A Farm and View near the River Ex in Devonshire.] [&] [A View of Part of the River Trent Nottinghamshire.] [&] [A Cottage by the New River near Hornsey Middlesex.] [&] [The Herdsman with a View of Part of Wakefield Out Wood Yorkshire.] [&] [A View of the Marsh Lands with the River Lee in Essex.]
Richards delin. Peltro sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs. [London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map, Chart and Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, Oct.r 1st 1784.]
Five etchings [of six], scratched-letter proofs before titles. Each 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½"). Slightly foxed.
Five landscapes by John Inigo Richards (1731-1810), a scene painter for London theatres and a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768. As their secretary 1788-1810 he had an apartment in Somerset House. When his brother-in-law, Thomas Wignell, proposed building a theatre in Philadelphia Richards obtained Thomas Greenway’s plans for the Theatre Royal, Bath, which was used to build the 'New Theatre' (later renamed the Chestnut Street Theatre). This was the first purpose-built theatre in North America. American interest.
See BM: 1852,1009.1003 for published states.
[Ref: 30687] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Landslip near Lyme Regis looking East.
Lithographed by J. Newman & C.o 48 Watling St. London.
Published by Daniel Dunster, Lyme Regis [n.d., c1840].
Rare coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), very large margins. Foxing. Repaired tears. Creasing in margins.
A view of the aftermath of the 1839 Bindon Landslip; craggy cliffs on the coastline of East Devon between Axmouth and Lyme Regis.
[Ref: 57120] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

"Willie." Mr. W. Arbuthnot Lane. Vanity Fair Supplement, No. 2324. Men Of The Day.
Eianley Cock. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[21st May 1913]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of British surgeon and physician, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet (1856-1943).
[Ref: 63689] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d M:r Tobias Langdon Priest Vicar of the Cathedral Church of S.t Peter in Exon a Celebrated Master of Musick.
Done from a Drawinf in Ciaro Oscura of M.r Nath: Tucker by Faber.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint, fine impression. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, mounted in album paper.
Half length portrait of Tobias Langdon (1683-1712), Vicar choral of Exeter Cathedral, wearing a dark wig and gown. He was paid £20 a year to teach choristers.
CS 215. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64913] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le nouveau, et ancien pont dit Langenruch, aux Schoellinen, route du S.t Gottard.
M Kälin ad. nat. del. et sc.
Zurich chez H.y Fuessli & C.e [n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Some staining on left.
Two bridges over a river in a steep-sided valley. Heinrich Füssli (1755-1829, son of the artist Henry Fuseli, most famous for 'The Nightmare'). After working in Paris 1779-92, he returned to Zurich where he founded a major firm of art dealers.
[Ref: 62682] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dirk Langendyk.
J.B. Scheffer pinx.
Joh. Bemme A:zn. del.sculp. et excud. [n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 240 x 171mm. 9½ x 6¾".
Dirk Langendijk (1748-1805) the Dutch draughtsman, painter and etcher. He produced mainly depictions of land and sea battles and other military scenes from the Dutch Patriottentijd (c.1780-1800) and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 26054] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend John Langford, V.D.M.
J. Russel pinxt. Carington Bowles excudit. R. Houston fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs, August 1. 1775.
Mezzotint. Image 255 x 330mm. 'Price 2s.' inscribed lower right. Trimmed to image. Crease through top left corner.
Dissenting minister.
CS: 68. Only state.
[Ref: 5299] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Throwing up his Majesty's Fox Hounds.
Published as the Act directs April the 16th, 1782 by J.Langham, No 11. St Bride's Passage.
Engraving. 245 x 295mm.
Basil Feilding (1719-1800), Earl of Denbigh, vomiting up six foxhounds, and gesturing after a fox in the fields. Feilding was Master of the Royal Harriers and and Foxhounds from 1762 until the post was abolished in 1782 when Edmund Burke reformed the Royal finances. In 1777 Walpole called Feilding 'the lowest and most officious of the Court-Tools'.
BM: 5976.
[Ref: 6798] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Langhorn, Executed 14.th July 1679.
Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1802 by W.m Richardson, York House, 31 Strand.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Plate: 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5'').
A portrait of Richard Langhorne (1624-1679) a Catholic martry who was executed under false charges to do with the fabricated Popish Plot.
[Ref: 49203] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Langley Park, Norfolk. The Seat of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor Bar.t.
E.F.P. [Payne?] del et lithog. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 340 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Trimmed within printed border at sides, inscription area with repaired cracks and tear, top right corner cracked.
The facade of the 18th century Palladian hall built by Matthew Brettingham, set in a landscape park attributed to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. It is now home to Langley School. The print predates Sir William changing his surname to Proctor-Beauchamp in 1852.
[Ref: 62171] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Part of the Aqueduct that crosses the Langothlin Vale.
J. Baker delt. J. Bluck fecit.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Aquatint. Plate 140 x 196mm. 5½ x 7¾".
Completed in 1805 the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wrexham in north east Wales. Canals were the arteries of the Industrial Revolution and the engineering team of Thomas Telford and William Jessop were the most experienced canal and bridge builders of their time.
[Ref: 17117] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Effigies Of John Langton Writing Master In Stamford, in the County of Lincoln. Who in the Year 1700 Revived the Noble Art of Glass-Painting Staining & Tinging in the way of the Antients [...]
Printed and Sold by H. Overton and J. Hoole, at the White Horse without Newgate, London. [1713]
Engraving, sheet 170 x 220mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at top.
John Langton, writing master and glass painter of Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Not in O'D. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38870] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Langton.]
Painted by C.F. de Breda, R.A. of Stockholm & Painter to the King of Sweden. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Published March 1st. 1796, by S.W. Reynolds, No.6 Rolls Buildings Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾". Wide margins folded back.
Mary Langton, Daughter of Bennet Langton (1737 - 1801), friend of Dr. Johnson. After Carl Fredrick von Breda (1759 - 1818)
NPG: D3535. Whitman: 316, sitter unidentified. Ex: Collection The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10006] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edwin Lankester [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1852.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), with large margins. Foxing.
Half-length portrait of Edwin Lankester (1814-74), surgeon and naturalist., the President of the British Association for 25 years. He studied water through microscopes, and established a committee to examine the findings of John Sutherland and Dr John Snow concerning the outbreak of the 1854 Cholera outbreak around Broad Street, leading to the acceptance of the problem being contaminated water. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1680.
[Ref: 57189] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Phillipus Lansbergius Gandavensis Aetatis Suae Anno LXVII. Sidera qui tersis, totumg relinquit Olmpum Monstrator aetheris novi, Iam pridem coeli vetus incola, corporis aegzi Pertaesus, et nostri satur, Umbzam animi, coelog oculos quos fixit, amicus. Sic consecrat Lansbergius. D. Heinsius.
Z. Roman exc. W Delff sculpsit.
[n.d., c.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
An oval head and shoulders portrait of Johan Philip Lansberge. With latin script by Daniel Heinsius (1580 –1655). Johan Philip Lansberge (1561 –1632) was a Dutch Calvinist Minister, astronomer and Mathematician. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under the Latin name Philippus Lansbergius. He is best known as the author of a set of astronomical tables, Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuæ, for predicting planetary positions
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1683.1
[Ref: 57160] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Philippus Lansbergius Gandavensis Ætatis suæ Anno LXVII.
W. Delff sculpsit.
Z Romain exc. [n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 190 x 125mm, 8 x 5".
Johan Philip Lansberge (1561-1632), Dutch astronomer, author of a set of astronomical tables, 'Tabulae motum coelestium'.
Welcome: 1683-1.
[Ref: 13974] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Lansdown.
Smith Sc.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Rare etching with engraving,. 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼").
A view of the Battle of Lansdowne (5th July 1643), during the English Civil War, with trophies above and below the scene. It depicts the Royalist cavalry storming the Parliamentarian positions, with great loss.
[Ref: 66434] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Malagrida driving post.
J.s G.y inv & f.
Pub.d March 16th by H.Humphrey Bond Street.
Coloured etching 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Frame measures 460 x 365mm (18 x 14¼"). Slightly time stained. Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting Lord Lansdowne racing in a coach toward power, eagerly calling for speed, while opposition figures chase after him, hoping to join. Meanwhile, William Pitt and his allies flee in a runaway coach, overwhelmed. A dove flies overhead, hinting at a possible peaceful change.
BM Satire 10979.
[Ref: 66035] £360.00

Pic de Lantao, Pres de l'entree du Bocca Tigris, Dessine sur le lieu meme par T.S. Parry. Il git N-E. mi-Est a huit Milles de distance. / On appercoit les petites Iles de Taipak et de Botow.
[Anon, 1794]
Engraving, very scarce; 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed on platemark, top edge.
Lantau Island, the largest island in Hong Kong, which is located at the mouth of the Pearl River near the strait of Bocca Tigris. From the first French edition of "Collection de Cartes Geographiques, Vues, Marines, Plans et Portraits, relatifs aux Voyages du Capitaine J. Meares".
Not in Chater.
[Ref: 33196] £620.00

Nouvelle Lanterne Magique. A la bataille de l'Isly, c'est la qu' nous avons evu de l'agrement! ...
J. Platier [signed in plate.]
chez Aubert Place de la Bourse. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie [Paris, n.d., c.1840s].
Lithograph, sheet 245 x 315mm. 9¾ x 12½".
Social satire: two French army veterans of the Battle of Isly (August 14, 1844) commiserate over a bottle of wine, one man complaining that the only booty captured by the French army was an umbrella and some pipes. The uniforms suggest that the man on the left is artillery, his comrade across the table infantry. The Battle of Isly was fought between France and Morocco near Oujda, Morocco. The French Marshal Bugeaud, who recovered the Moroccan commander's tent and umbrella (equivalent to capturing a military standard in European warfare), was made Duke of Isly for his victory. Numbered '69' upper right; from a series of caricatures published in a Paris periodical.
[Ref: 22425] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lantrissent Bridge on the River Taaf. South Wales.
Drawn by Wulmsly. Engraved by Hamble.
Published by J. Deeley 95 Berwick St. Soho, Feb.y 21 1811.
Very fine colour printed aquatint, finished with hand colour with very large margins. On watermarked paper, 'S & C. Wise, 1814' Platemark: 420 x 550mm (16½ x 21½").
A stunning view of the Lantrissent Bridge on the River Taaf, south Wales. The bridge dominates the rural landscape as the river flows by in the centre. One figure can be seen fishing to the bottom left in the foreground, three more are climbing rocks beneath the bridge and one watches from above.
[Ref: 33634] £360.00

Laomedon, King of Troy, detected by Neptune and Apollo. Vide Hom. Iliad 21. From the Painting of Salvator Rosa in the Collection of William Hunter M.D.
Salvator Rosa pinx.t R. Strange Londini Sculp.t 1775
Line engraving, 450 x 360mm. 17½ x 14".
Apollo and Neptune disguised themselves and helped Laomedon to built the city of Troy, as recounted in Homer's Iliad. The painting (now in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow) which Strange believed to be by Salvator Rosa, is currently unattributed.
[Ref: 12275] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Asia] Calamin-Han, Empereur et souverain d'Asie. Tire des Estampes du Cabinet du Roi.
Touze d.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour in gold leaf line surround. 276 x 166mm.
A figure described by Fernand Mendez Pinto in the account of his explorations in Asia, 1537 - 1558. 'Calaminhan' is believed to be Luang Prabang in Laos, to which Pinto was taken as a prisoner by the Burmese. From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 1955] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Laos] L'Empereur De Calaminhan, lUn des plus Puissans, et Renommez Monarques, de l'Asie….cest celle que le Calaminhan adore...
[Engraved by De Larmessin].
A Paris Chez L'Armessin Rue St. Iacques, a la Pomme d'Or, proche St Seuerin, Avec Privil, du Roy [n.d. c.1680].
Engraving. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾").. General browning of paper. Pin-sized hole lower left of frame.
A figure described by Fernand Mendez Pinto in the account of his explorations in Asia, 1537 - 1558. 'Calaminhan' is believed to be Luang Prabang in Laos, to which Pinto was taken as a prisoner by the Burmese.
Collection of the Royal House of Savoy and Italy.
[Ref: 1638] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Laos] L'Empereur De Calaminhan, lUn des plus Puissans, et Renommez Monarques, de l'Asie….cest celle que le Calaminhan adore...
[Engraved by Nicolas De Larmessin].
A Paris Chez P. Bertrand, Rue St. Iacques, à la Pomme d'Or, proche St Seuerin, Avec Privil, du Roy [n.d. c.1670].
Engraving. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾").. Small margins.
Probably Xixivarom Meleutay, a figure described by Fernand Mendez Pinto in the account of his explorations in Asia, 1537-58. 'Calaminhan' is believed to be Luang Prabang in Laos, to which Pinto was taken as a prisoner by the Burmese.
[Ref: 63329] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Descent of the Solivara Mountains.
Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding. The Figures by D. Dighton. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Pub. by J. Murray Albermarle Stt. 1825.
Lithograph with colour added by hand, sheet 215 x 275mm. 8½ x 10¾".
Sleighs drawn by reindeer in difficulties negotiating a treacherous slope. Plate to 'A Winter in Lapland and Sweden' by Arthur de Capell.
Abbey Travel: 250, 14.
[Ref: 11386] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

24. Die Lappländer.
[Eduard Walther.]
[Published in Munich. c.1870.]
Chromolithograph. 318 x 413mm. 12½ x 16¼". Centre fold as published.
A view of Laplanders outside their tent with deer attached to their sledge, and a couple hanging fish inside and another outside carrying them in. In the distance, a husky-drawn sledge approaches, a fisherman out in the bay; a polar bear sits in the far distance. The last plate from Walther's "Geographische Charaketerbilder".
[Ref: 18886] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Lapland] Amund Swantzen. A Sea Laplander 70 Years of Age of Havöe Sund near the North Cape.
Drawn from Nature by Cap.n de C. Brooke. Drawn on Stone by D: Dighton.
London Pubd. by Rodwell and Martin New Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. 260 x 180 mm (10¼" x 7").
A 'sea laplander' of Havøysund (now part of Finnmark, in Norway). From a collection of drawings made by Captain A. de C. Brooke during two journeys to Scandinavia, 1820 and 1820-21.
Scott Polar Research Institute: Y: 56/18/14. Abbey: 248; for others in the series see our refs. 15133-4, 15136-7.
[Ref: 31897] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Lapland Wizard bargaining for Wind.
Kirk del. / Taylor sc.
Publish'd Ap.l 1 1797 by E. Newbery, corner of St Pauls
Engraving, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Possibly from an edition of Tobias Smollett's 'The Present State of All Nations' (8 vols., 1768-9), which includes the following description: 'When a ship is wind-bound at Wardhu, or Kiemi [Kemi], and the pilot has faith in these incantations, he addresses himself to a Lapland wizard; who, for a reasonable consideration, presents him with a magic cord, on which are a certain number of knots, to be united occasionally, as the wind may happen to fail about certain capes, or promontories'.
[Ref: 37545] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Laplanders.
I. Ibbetson del. J Thornthwaite sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Dr. J. Trusler, May 1788.
Engraving with small margins. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5").
A hunting scene in which a group of Laplanders (one wearing skis) have cornered a bear up against a cliff face.
[Ref: 32106] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Laplanders?]
Gallo Gallina inc.
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"), publisher's blindstamp.
From Giulio Ferrario's 'Costumi antichi e Moderni'.
[Ref: 45641] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mongol Race _ Lapps and Esquimaux.
Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Dublin.
Chromolithograph. Printed area 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"), very large margins.
A costume plate, grouping Lapps and Eskimos as part of the Mongol race, published in 'The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World: Comprising an Extensive Series of Maps, a Description, Physical and Political, of all the Countries of the Earth; a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Geographical Names, and a Copious Index of Geographical Positions...'
[Ref: 45643] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Larder. In the Common Parlour at Houghton.
Martin de Vos Pinxit. Joseph Farington Delin.t. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside. London. Bit later.
Mezzotint. 455 x 570mm (18 x 22½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear and crack in plate mark, some creasing & rubbing.
A smiling man holds up a rabbit, standing before a display of game and other foods, with a cat on clawing a string of small birds and a dog surprised by another cat under the table. Among the foods are a deer, boar, lobster, pumpkins, artichokes and asparagus. The scene was drawn by Joseph Farington after the painting by Maarten de Vos and published in Boydell's series of engravings of the Walpole Collection. The painting, the enormous 'Cook at the Table with Game' (1.7 x 2.4 metres), was sold to Catherine the Great in 1779 and now hangs in the General Staff Building of the Hermitage.
[Ref: 48155] £360.00

[Nicholas Largilliere & family.]
N. de Largilliere Pinx. I.Beckett fe.
I. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate. Crease top right.
Largilliere's portrait of himself and his family in an ornamental garden with statuary including a female nude and a fountain of a cherub riding on a dophin. He stands, leaning against a pedestal, looking down on his wife, who is seated with two small children, to whom she feeds grapes and other fruit. Also depicted are a peacock and a King Charles Spaniel.
CS: Beckett 60, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65320] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Largilliere & family.]
N. de Largilliere Pinx. I.Beckett fe.
I. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate, crease in top right corner.
Largilliere's portrait of himself and his family in an ornamental garden with statuary including a female nude and a fountain of a cherub riding on a dophin. He stands, leaning against a pedestal, looking down on his wife, who is seated with two small children, to whom she feeds grapes and other fruit. Also depicted are a peacock and a King Charles Spaniel.
CS: Beckett 60, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65321] £360.00

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