Grosvenor Prints

[The Hero of Mafeking.]
R. Caton Woodville. [signed in pencil.]
London, Published 1900 by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd. Publishers to H.M. The Queen, 6 Pall Mall. U.S.A Copyright.
Mint photogravure, printed on india paper, remarque proof. Plate: 600 x 355mm (23¾ x 14''), with large margins. Uncut.
A portrait of army officer Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) who was made famous following his successful holding of the town of Mafeking during the Seige of Mafeking 1899-1900. He was hailed as the 'Hero of Mafeking'.
[Ref: 50933] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Baden-Powell] The Mafeking March by Ezra Read. Dedicated to Lieut Gen.l Baden-Powell.
From Photo by Permission of Mess.rs Elliott & Fry.
London; W. Paxton 19 Oxford Street, W. [n.d., c.1900.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Tears in margins.
The cover of a music sheet, illustrated by the famous photographic portrait of Baden-Powell taken by Francis Henry Hart, 1896. 'The Mafeking March' was first published in 1900, written by Ezra Read (1862-1922), who also wrote 'Kimberley' and 'Ladysmith' marches.
[Ref: 41767] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

'We Sat Tight' B.P.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 200 x 140mm.
A semi-caricature portrait of Robert Baden-Powell sitting on a keg of gunppowder, apparently writing his despatch of November 20th 1899, duringthe 217-day Seige of Mafeking (1899) in which he which he wrote "The enemy's sentries drew us out Saturday by making a show of going away and leaving a gun, apparently in a state of being dismantled. Our scounbts found the enemy in force. So we sat tight".
[Ref: 8436] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Capture of the Badere Zaffir, July 6.th. 1808.
Painted by Whitcombe. Engraved by T. Sutherland.
Pub.d. Dec.r. 1. 1816, at 48 Strand, for J. Jenkins's Naval Achievements.
Hand coloured aquatint. Plate: 300 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Very large margins.
A naval scene showing the capture of the Turkish vessel Badere-I-Zaffér by the British frigate Seahorse under the command of Captain J. Stewart. The Badere-I-Zaffér was so badly damaged that she was useless to the British navy. From 'The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793-1817' by J.Jenkins.
[Ref: 39264] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Domingo Badia y Leblich.
C Westermayr fecit.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. Plate 135 x 89mm. 5¼ x 3½".
Domingo Badia y Leblich (1766-1818) the Spanish traveller, known as Ali Bey. He set out from Cadiz in 1803 and travelled through North Africa, Syria and Arabia, reaching Mecca. He wrote 'Voyage d'Ali Bey en Asie et en Afrique' (1814).
[Ref: 25984] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Badminton House] To the Most Noble Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, Lord High Steward of the City of Bristol, This View of Badminton House, Gloucestershire, is most respectfully Dedicated by The Publisher.
On stone by l. Haghe from a drawing by M. Holmes. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by George Davey, Bookseller, 1 Broad St., Bristol [n.d., c.1840].
Rare lithograph on india. India 255 x 335mm (10 x 13¼").
Badminton House from across the lake, deer in the foreground. From a series of views in Gloucestershire and Bristol.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 58047] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Badminton House] To the Most Noble Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, Lord High Steward of the City of Bristol, This View of Badminton House, Gloucestershire, is most respectfully Dedicated by The Publisher.
On stone by L. Haghe from a drawing by M. Holmes. [Printed by Day & Haghe.]
Published by George Davey, Bookseller, 1 Broad St., Bristol [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 255 x 310mm (10 x 12¼"). Slightly trimmed at bottom, losing most of printers' inscription.
Badminton House from across the lake, deer in the foreground. From a series of views in Gloucestershire and Bristol.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 56361] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman holding a bird and cherries] Sunt Oculi Scopuli, quos parat illa Venus
E. Back a H. sc. Jeremias Wolff excud . Aug. Vind.
Engraving, platemark 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½"), with very large margins.
One of a series of engravings by Augsburg printmaker Jeremias Wolff after Elias Bäck (1679-1747), also of Augsburg.
[Ref: 40173] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman sealing a letter] Tertius haud penetrat Veneris mysteria testis, Et sunt clausa aslys Cordaq charta simul.
E. Back a H. sc. Jeremias Wolff excud . Aug. Vind.
Engraving, platemark 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½"), with very large margins.
One of a series of engravings by Augsburg printmaker Jeremias Wolff after Elias Bäck (1679-1747), also of Augsburg.
[Ref: 40175] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

K. Bädeker. geb. 3 Nov, 1801. gest 4. Oct. 1859.
Lith. Inst v. Breidenbach & Co. in Düsseldorf.
[n.d., c.1860.].
Lithograph on india. Printed area 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Spotted around edges.
Karl Baedeker (1801-59), German publisher who set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. He dropped the umlaut in his name c.1850.
[Ref: 29664] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Crimson Cliffs. A View of the Coloured Snow in Lat. 76. 25 N. & Long. 68. W.
Drawn by Cap.t Ross. Engraved by D. Havell.
London, Published Jan.y 1819 by J. Murray, Albermarle Street.
Coloured aquatint. 200 x 450mm (8 x 17¾") very large margins. Folded as issued.
Red cliffs seen in Baffin Bay west of Cape York, by Sir John Ross during his search for the North West Passage. Ross sent some of the crew to investigate them and found the snow was coloured to a depth of 10-12 feet. Samples were taken back to the ship and examined: it was concluded that the red was vegetable matter, probably from plants that grew at the tops of the cliffs. From 'A Voyage of Discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage.
[Ref: 44001] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Bagan] Pagahm-Mew, [Drawn on the spot by Capt: Kershaw, 13th Light Infantry.]
[Engraved by William Daniell after James Kershaw.]
[London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1831.]
Coloured aquatint, plate 350 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Mount burn and laid onto card.
An elevated view of Bagan, filled with pagodas. James Kershaw served with the 13th (Somerset) Light Infantry during the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6), sketching as the army advanced.
Abbey Travel 406.
[Ref: 63359] £650.00

With the tides to Baghdad.
Charles Cain. [Pencil Signature]
[n.d. c. 1924]
Drypoint etching, limited edition 40. Plate size: 100 x 215mm. 4 x 8½".
Charles William Cain [1893-1962] A student of Camberwell School of Art and then an illustrator/cartoonist for the Johannesburg Star until WWI when he joined the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia the Armistice, and entered the Royal College of Art under Frank Short 1920-1.
[Ref: 27946] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Giorgio Baglivi] Georgius Baglivus Aetat. 34.
Carolus Maratta inv:, delin:, et Autori amico D.D.D. Romæ 1713. C. Duflos Sc. Parisüs.
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Giorgio Armeno (1668-1707, Latinised as Baglivi), a Croatian-Italian physician, Professor of Anatomy at the College of Sapienza, then Professor of Theoretical Medicine. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England in July 1698,
Wellcome 141-1.
[Ref: 63457] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Deputy Dumpling and Family enjoying a Summer Afternoon. 463.
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [n.d., c.1781].
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x10"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, worm holes, mounted on card..
A fat citizen, his wig awry and dripping with perspiration, carries a little girl who holds a whip. Behind is his equally fat wife, his son, who pulls a cart, in which is a small girl and her doll. This scene, taking place outside Bagnigge Wells, one of the most popular 18th-century spas (on the King's Cross Road, London), is a burlesque of William Hogarth's 'Evening'.
BM Satires 5955.
[Ref: 58497] £550.00

Bagnigge Wells Islington [ink mss].
[by William Pickett.]
[Pub.d June 4th by T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill.]
Aquatint with hand colouring. Sheet approx 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to image. Foxing.
The twin chimneys of Mr Randell's kiln at Bagnigge Wells (although the artist has put his name on the sign). From Pickett's 1812 book of 'Ninety-Six Speciments of Cottages-Bridges-Castles-Churches [...] Intended to facilitate the Improvement of the Student, and to aid the Practitioner, in Landscape Composition'. Aside from its function as an educational volume, the scenes in the book also provide many unusual views of London in the early 19th century.
Abbey (Life in England) 168.
[Ref: 32392] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Plan General du Chateau de Bagnolet et de ses Jardins. Appartenant a S.A.R. Madame la Duchesse d'Orleans. du dessein de M.r Desgotz, architecte du Roi et Controlleur de ses Bâtiments. [&] Elevation de la façade de Château de Bagnolet du côté du Jardin. [&] Plan du pavillon appellé l'Hermitage dans le Jardin du Château de Bagnolet.
AParis chez Mariette rue S. Jacques aux Colones d'hercule [n.d., c.1700].
Three plates stitched on left edge: engraved plan & two architectural plates. Each sheet 470 x 605mm (18½ x 23¾").
A finely-engraved plan and plates of Marly, showing the positions of the house, ornamental gardens and parkland, with an extensive key.
[Ref: 63862] £420.00 view all images for this item

[Lewis Bagot, L.L.D. Bishop of S.t Asaph.]
[Painted by J. Hoppner Esq. R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.]
[Published by S.W. Reynolds Bayswaster 1819.]
Mezzotint, working proof before letters. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Some slight foxing.
A three-quarter length portrait of Lewis Bagot (1740-1802) in clerical robes seated inside the cathedral with an open Bible in front of him. He had previously been bishop of Bristol (1782-3) and Norwich (1783-90). The painting is in the collection of Christ Church, Oxford, where Bagot studied.
Whitman 14, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66628] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Strolling Bagpiper.
[after Abraham Bloemaert.]
[Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles No 69 St Paul's Church Yard London. Published as the Act directs.]
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. Sheet 135 x 110mm (5¼ x 4"). Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions, title excised and pasted below.
A bagpipe being played by a man wearing a bright jerkin, with a floppy hat with a feather and rose.
[Ref: 55934] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Bagpiper.
L. van Leyden pinx.t Anno 1529 [but Albrecht Dürer, 1514]. Eliza Smith sculp.
Pub, Feb. 6 1819 by M.rs Wadsworth, N.º 19 Rathbone Place.
Scarce mezzotint, printed in colour. 155 x 105mm (6 x 4"), with large margins.
A Continental bagpiper, leaning against a tree, a copy of the 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer. This print is unusual as having female engraver (Eliza Smith, daughter of J.R. Smith) and publisher.
See BM E,2.142 for Dürer's original engraving. Smith is not listed in Alexander's Dictionary of Engravers.
[Ref: 66202] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Bagshot Frolick or the Pot-Lid & Inkhorn.
[1762.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 285mm (7½ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate, affecting title.
A satire of the duel between John Wilkes and Lord William Talbot, fought on 6th October 1762 over Wilkes' mockery of Talbot in the 'North Briton'. Talbot holds a pot-lid and a spit, Wilkes a quill and and ink pot. Talbot is attended by Smollett while Wilkes is backed by Churchill. The duel was fought with pistols on Bagshot Common: despite firing at only eight yards, neither man was hit and the pair then went to a local tavern to share a bottle of claret. The lack of blood caused rumours that the duel was a stunt, inspiring satires such as this.
BM Satires 3914.
[Ref: 55193] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Camp on Bagshot Heath; His Majesty coming up to view the Troops. Taken from the Kings Stand. by J Phillips.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 8. 1792 by I.F. Tomkins No.49 New Bond Street, London.
Rare and fine etching, image 160 x 370mm. 6¼ x 14½". Trimmed to plate.
A royal review of troops at the encampment on Bagshot Heath, Surrey, during the summer of 1792. Key to left and right of title.
Ogilby: 2243.
[Ref: 19702] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Bahadur Shah II] Der Gross_Mogul.
[Anon.]
[German, n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving, sheet 280 x 205mm. 11 x 8".
Portrait of Bahadur Shah II, better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775 –1862), the last Mughal emperor and a member of the Timurid Dynasty. After his involvement in the Indian Rebellion (Mutiny) of 1857 the British exiled him from Delhi and sent him to Rangoon in Burma.
[Ref: 27666] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Bahadur Shah II.] Mohomed Suraj-oo-deen Shan Gazee. Titular King of Delhi.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775 - 1862), the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet. His spouse was Zeenat Mahal.
[Ref: 66364] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Bahamas] Hole in the Wall _ Island of Abaco.
Wells Sculp.
Publish'd 30 June, 1803 by J. Gold, 103 Shoe Lane.
Aquatint with explanatory text. 140 x 229mm. 5½ x 9". Small crease.
As written on the sheet of text "The 'Hole in the Wall' is in a rocky point at the south end of Abaco, the most northern of the Bahama Islands." This engraving was published in the 'Naval Chronicle'. Gold was the founder and publisher.
[Ref: 23315] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View of Nassau in the Bahamas.
N. Pocock Del. T. Medland sculp.
Published Dec.r 2 1799 by Bunney & Gold.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9").
A view of Nassau from the sea.
[Ref: 47496] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Nassau in the Bahamas.
N. Pocock Del. [...] T. Medland Sculp.
Publish'd Dec. 2 1799 by Bunney & Gold.
Aquatint, 150 x 229mm (6 x 9").
Nassau, which by the late eighteenth century was already the commercial centre of the Bahamas. Published in the 'Naval Chronicle'.
[Ref: 47422] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bahir Mandia from the North Africa [sic].
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1820s.]
Pencil and watercolour drawing, ink-ruled border and title below. Image 175 x 310mm, 7 x 12¼". Signs of handling to lower margin.
An oasis fringed with green plant life, set in the expansive landscape of Africa's Sahara Desert; by a military or naval amateur draughtsman. One candidate is perhaps Frederick Fitzgerald De Roost (1804 - 1861), an officer in the Royal Navy who wrote 'Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826... With remarks on the present state of the American Navy', illustrated with plates after his drawings. This is a remarkably similar image to a plate appearing in 'Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824...' by Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton.
[Ref: 25102] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bail form] Public Office, Bow Street. Taske Notice that you [ __ ] of [ __ ] aare bound in the Sum of Forty Pounds, to appear at the Session of the Peace, to be holden for the County of Middlesex, at the Session House, Clerkenwell Greem, on the [ __ ] Day of [ __ ] next, to prefer as Bill of Indictment, and prosecute the Law with effect against [ __ ] for Felony [...]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress form, part 18th century watermark. Sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½").
An unused bail form, to be filled in and signed by a Justice of the Peace.
[Ref: 54219] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mich.l Bailey. The original subject of the celebrated Picture of the Woodman - Taken in the 108th year of his Age: by John Artur Cahusac: Aged 15.
Drawn by J.A. Cahusac. W.m Florio sculp.t.
London Published Jan.y 12.th 1818 by D. Cox, Bookseller & Stationer, N.º 39 High Street, Borough.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"), with large margins.
A half-length portrait of an elderly man leaning on a stick. Possibly the woodman painted by Thomas Barker of Bath at least twice.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64580] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

From a Drawing of Molyn, in the Collection of the Earl of Bute.
WBaillie sculp.t.
Publish'd Feb.y 2.d 1773.
Soft ground etching with mezzotint tone, 18th century watermark. Sheet 220 x 325mm (8¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate, creasing.
A rustic scene with wagons, after Pieter de Molijn (1595-1661), Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Baillie also acted as the Earl of Bute's art agent.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68466] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Honourable George Baillie Esq.r of Jerriswood - one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
G. Kneller 1718/19 Pinx. A.V. Heacken fecit.
[n.d., c.1742.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
Half-length portrait in oval of George Baillie (1664-1738), M.P., a director of the 'Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies' and thus one of the first subscribers to the Darien Scheme, and a supporter of the Act of Union treaty that compensated the company for its losses. The accounts of his house, Mellerstain, for 1742 lists the expenses of a copper plate portrait paid for by his widow.
CS i of ii. See BM 1933,0623.52 for the accounts.
[Ref: 65839] £360.00

Baillière's Popular Atlas of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Female Human Body. With Descriptive Text by Hubert E.J. Bliss M.A., M.D., Cantab. Third edition.
Plates by Georges M. Dupuy., M.D.
London: Ballière, Tindall & Cox, 7 & 8 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1942 (Reprinted).
Tall folio, original illustrated boards; pp. (ii)+ 24 + (1)(ads); five chromolithographic plates on one folding sheet, as called for. A few signs of wear.
Five anatomical illustrations, one with overlays. Mounted into the book and folded, the plates appear out of order. Interestingly, while the atlas of the male body has a photo-realistic illustration of a man wearing a loincloth on the front board, this volume prudishly has a marble statue of Venus.
[Ref: 50438] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Baillière's Popular Atlas of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Male Human Body. With Descriptive Text by Hubert E.J. Bliss M.A., M.D., Cantab. Third edition.
Plates by Georges M. Dupuy., M.D.
London: Ballière, Tindall & Cox, 7 & 8 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1942 (Reprinted).
Tall folio, original illustrated boards; pp. 27; eight plates, as called for. A few signs of wear.
Eight anatomical illustrations, with a photo-realistic illustration of a man wearing a loincloth on the front board.
[Ref: 50439] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

M. Bailly, Mayor of Paris 1789 and 1790.
Boizot, del. Cook, sculpt.
[n.d., c.1793].
Engraving, plate 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with margins. Small margin on left. Foxing, mainly in margins. Holes in right margin where previously bound.
Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly bust in profile to the right, wearing a queue wig. Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736 -1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Wellcome: 148-1.
[Ref: 57161] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

M. Bailly Presid.t de l'Assemblée Nationale, Nommé Maire de Ville par les Citoyens de Paris, le 14 Juillet 1789.
A Paris chez Mad.e Bergny Mde. d'Estampes de S.A.S. la Princesse Lamballe, rue du Coq S. Honore [n.d., 1790-1792.]
Stipple printed in colours, 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). A fine impression, with full margins.
Profile portrait by Jean-Baptiste Vérité, Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736 - 1793), French astronomer and politician, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791 and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He is oted for his computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet in 1759 In oval, lettered to plaque below.
BNF FRBNF40248744. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 24271] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

J.S.Bailley Député aux États Généraux de 1789, et Maire de Paris, Jugé à mort le 12 Novembre 1794.
Lavachez sc. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), astronomer, mathematician and politician who presided over the Tennis Court Oath. He was guillotined at the Champs de Mars for refusing to testify at Marie Antoinette's trial. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
Wellcome: 148-2
[Ref: 28400] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

J.n Silvain Bailly. Président de l'Assemblée Nationale. Néle 15 7.bre 1736. Collection Genérale des Portraits de M.M. les Députés à l'Assemblée Nationale tenue à Versailles le 4 Mai 1789. A.P.D.R.
De Vogues le J.ne del. A. Sergent excudit. Sergent sculp.
Chez Sergent rue Mauconseil, No 62. A Paris chez le Vache, M.d d'Estampes sous les Colonnades du Palais Royal, N.o 258. Et chez le meme à Versailles, rue des Chantiers, N.o 14.
Fine mezzotint, printed in sepia and black. Plate: 180 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"), very large margins. Faint marking in margins. Very slight repair above Bailly name.
A portrait of French mathematician, astronomer and early political leader of the French Revolution Jean Silvain Bailly (1736-1793). Bailly was the first to take the Tennis Court Oath on June 20th 1789 and became mayor of Paris following the storming of the Bastille. Bailly was executed during the Reign of Terror.
[Ref: 41614] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

M. Bailly élu Maire de la Ville de Paris de 15 Juillet 1789 [...] Dédié et Presenté à Messeigneurs de l'assemblée Nationale, Par leur très humble et très Respectueux Serviteur Miger.
Dessiné par Boizot S.D.R. Gravé par Miger
A Paris chez Miger graveur du Roi, Rue de 4 Vents, No. 5 en face de la rue de Tournon.
Etching, sheet 295 x 180mm (11½ x 7"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736 - 1793), French astronomer and politician, and one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791 and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror. As an astronomer, Bailly built an observatory in the Louvre and was noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet in 1759 and his study of Jupiter's moons He was elected to the Academy des Sciences in 1763 and befriended Franklin in Paris. Meanwhile, his antiquarian interests led to works on the history of astronomy and the origins of science (written in response to Voltaire's ideas on the subject), which gain him membership in the French Academy. Bailly's high public standing saw him made first President of the National Assembly- he stands above the crowd of deputies in David's famous painting 'the Tennis Court Oath'. However, his political authority had disappeared by the time he and Lafayette imposed martial law and had the national guard open fire on demonstrators on July 17 1791. Bailly resigned as mayor soon after but was later arrested and executed. His subsequent influence has been felt through his thesis about a Hyperborean Atlantis dating to before recorded history, which while mocked by Jules Verne in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', was incorporated by Madame Blavatsky into the mythos of Theosophy.
For 'The Tennis Court Oath' see ref. 6998
[Ref: 36923] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Bailey President of the Roy: Ast: Soc: [facsimile signature].
Painted by Thomas Phillips R.A. From the Picture painted for the Royal Astronomical Society. Engraved by Thomas Lupton. 1 Keppel Street, Russell Square.
[n.d. c.1830].
Mezzotint. 405 x 530mm. Some ingrained dirt in paper.
Francis Baily [1774 - 1844] President of the Royal Astronomical Society.
[Ref: 4625] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Edward Baines Junior.]
[Drawn by C. A. Du Val.. Engraved by J. Stevenson. Printed by Brooker & Harrison.]
[Published by Thomas Agnew, Repository of Arts Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. London, April 21st. 1846.]
Mezzotint with stipple and engraving, proof before letters. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), with large margins.
Seated portrait of nonconformist newspaper publisher Edward Baines (1800-90). As a young journalist on the Leeds Mercury (owned by his father) he witnessed the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He became editor (1834) and proprietor (1848), and served as MP for Leeds from 1859 to 1874.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67841] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Major General Sir David Baird K.C.
Drawn by A.J. Oliver. Engraved by A. Cardon
London Pub. 1805 & Sold by Ant. Cardon 31 Clipstone Street Fitzroy Square.
Fine stipple. 250 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Small margins.
Sir David Baird, first baronet (1757-1829), army officer. Baird served in India (1780-1801). In the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799, Baird (who twenty years earlier had been held captive by the Indians for nearly four years) led the British troops in their assault. In the palace Baird discovered the body of Tipu Sultan (an event commemorated by Sir David Wilkie's painting 'General Sir David Baird discovering the body of the Sultaun Tippoo Sahib' (National Gallery of Scotland). Baird also served in Egypt before heading a British attack on Cape Colony in 1806, culminating in the Battle of Blauberg near Cape Town. He then served in Spain before relinquishing his command for executive office in later years.
[Ref: 35838] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Right Hon.ble General David Baird Bar.t G.C.B. & K.C. Col. 24.th Reg.t &c. &c. &c.
Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. Pinx.t. T. Hodgetts & Son Sculp.t.
Published for Alexander Hill Printseller and Colourman to the Scottish Academy of Painting &c. 50 Princes Street Edinburgh.
Mezzotint with separate engraved title plate. Total of two plates 745 x 410mm (29½ x 16"), very large margins. Some foxing.
Full length portrait of Sir David Baird (1757-1929), in uniform, standing beside a white horse, right hand pointing. Baird served in India, capturing Pondicherry in 1793 and leading the storming party at Seringapatam in 1799; he served in Egypt in 1801; he commanded the 1805-6 expedition against the Cape of Good Hope with complete success, capturing Cape Town; and during the Peninsular War he was briefly Commander of the British forces, during the Battle of Corunna in 1819, between the death of John Moore and his own wounding.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66093] £620.00

Right Hon.ble General David Baird Bar.t G.C.B. & K.C. Col. 24.th Reg.t &c. &c. &c.
Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. Pinx.t. T. Hodgetts & Son Sculp.t.
Published for Alexander Hill Printseller and Colourman to the Scottish Academy of Painting &c. 50 Princes Street Edinburgh.
Mezzotint with separate engraved title plate. Total of two plates 745 x 410mm (29½ x 16"). Paper toned. Small margins.
Full length portrait of Sir David Baird (1757-1929), in uniform, standing beside a white horse, right hand pointing. Baird served in India, capturing Pondicherry in 1793 and leading the storming party at Seringapatam in 1799; he served in Egypt in 1801; he commanded the 1805-6 expedition against the Cape of Good Hope, capturing Cape Town; and he was briefly Commander of the British forces in the Peninsular, between the death of John Moore and his own wounding during the Battle of Corunna in 1809.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66094] £620.00

[Le Baiser Envoyé.]
J. B. Greuze. C. Turner [in lower right corner in plate].
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very fine mezzotint. 410 x 520mm (16 x 20½"). Frame: 620 x 740mm (24½ x 29"). Trimmed in lower edge. Some repaired damage.
A portrait of a young woman in a state of undress who stands by a window, in one hand she holds a letter while in the other she blows a kiss.
Whitman 747.I.
[Ref: 35741] £520.00

No. 47. [Baker.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 10").
A man with a white apron carrying two large baskets of bread down a path. The print was published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 28715] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Baker.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 225mm, 5½ x 9". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a baker putting a pie into an oven.
[Ref: 16431] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Baker
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Foxing.
A baker kneading dough in his bakery.
[Ref: 50493] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Fairies! Flee o'er the dale! Flee o'er the Bourn...
Design'd & Sketche'd on stone by I.Baker.
Printed by N.Chater & Co, 33 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 180 x 230mm. Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Three kilted Scots pursued by 'Brownies, Bogles, Phantons'.
[Ref: 7097] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Baker, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and of the Society for the Ecouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Author of "The Microscope made easy" "Employment for the Microscope," and other Works. Bonr May 8. 1698; died Nov.r 25. 1774.
Thomson pinx. Nutter Sculpt.
Publish'd by Jany. 1st. 1812.
Stipple, sheet 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"). Some foxing around the edges. Trimmed within plate on left and small margin on right.
Half-length portrait of Henry Baker in an oval to right, head turned to look to front, in his study with bookcase behind at left and microscope on table behind at right; illustration to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes of the eighteenth century' (London, 1812-1815). Henry Baker (1698 -1774) was a British naturalist.
Wellcome: 151
[Ref: 57151] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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