Grosvenor Prints

République Française.
Fragonard fils inv. et del. Copia sculps.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. 265 x 340mm (10½ x 13½"), with large margins.
A scene with classical allegorical figures in a chariot mowing down their enemies. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 55768] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fête de la Foundation de la Republique, 1.er Vendémaire An 5.
Giardet inv. & del. Berthault Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching with large margins. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12").
The celebration of the founding of the French Republic, held on the first day of the Republican year 5 (22nd September 1796), including a chariot race. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28232] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Tableaux de la Révolution Française.
Fragonard fils inv. et del. Coiny aqua forti. Malapeau sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching 310 x 280mm (12¼ x 11"), large margins top & bottom; small margins left & right. Ink stamp on reverse showing through in bottom margin.
Allegorical frontispiece to 'Tableaux de la Révolution Française, published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 55762] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tableaux de la Révolution Fran?aise. Ils ne sont plus ces jours de désastres, de deuil, Où les partis haineux qui déchiraient la France, Transformant nos cites en un vaste cereueil, Au fond des coeurs navrés refoulaient l’esperance! La valeur, le génie ont reconquis la paiz: Des noires factions les voix son étouffées; Et c’est à nos brillans trophées Qu’est dû l’honneur du nom fran?ais. P.A.M. Miger.
Fragonard fils inv. et del. Coiny aqua forti. Malapeau sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching, 8 lines by Miger, about the revolution. Plate 310 x 280mm (12¼ x 11"); plate 482 x 305mm (19 x 12").
Frontispiece to 'Tableaux de la Révolution Fran?ise, published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28293] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Le Jardin du Chateau Gaillon.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph on india, first subscriber's issue, laid on card as issued, original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. India size 400 x 280mm, 15¾ x 11". Some toning of card.
A finely-coloured view of the gardens of the Château de Gaillon in northern France. It had been one of the finest renaissance castles in the country, but after being gutted by fire in 1764, reconstructed as a Carthusian monastery, vandalised during the Revolution and used as a prison under Napoleon, this scene shows only a ruined arcade. From the Subscription Edition of the work (which we haven't traced), issued in parts before the book was completed, with the print presented like a watercolour.
[Ref: 15351] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Gaston of Foix] Gasto de Foix sub Ludovico 12o prosapia magnus maximus Evasisset [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Paper glued to left margin of engraving.
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489-1512), French military commander whose brilliant six month Italian campaign as a 21 year-old commander in 1511-2 earnt him the nickname 'the Thunderbolt of Italy'. His death in the Battle of Ravenna was a huge loss to the French. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39888] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Gaston, Duke of Orléans] Gasto Franciae Dux Aureliacus [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608-60), third son of Henri IV and Marie' de Medici, and brother of Louis XIII. Gaston's life involved numerous political intrigues, and he twice fled France following plots against his mother and Cardinal Richelieu. During the wars of the Fronde (1648-53) in France, he passed from one side to the other without loyalty, and was exiled by Cardinal Mazarin at their conclusion. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men (and women) hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (in which Gaston was perhaps surprisingly included, given his history with Richelieu). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 40072] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Colonel Gaudin de Soter, the Royalist of Martinique.
From a sketch by Eckstein, in the possession of Major Gen.l Fred. Maitland.
[n.d. c.1835.]
Stipple engraving, rare. Sheet size: 260 x 175mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed inside plate. Toning around the edges. Small crease lower left and upper right corners. Dusty.
Colonel Julien Denis Gaudin de Soter led the royalist attack in 1793 during the French Revolution in Martinique. Britain then held control for some years until the French monarchy re-established itself. In 1794 the French Convention abolished slavery, previously upheld by the British.
[Ref: 40029] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Gazan. Général de Division a la Grande Armeé Membre de la Legion d'Honneur.
Desiné par Naudet.
[A Paris chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais. No.10. c.1820.]
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside plate at top & bottom.
A portrait of Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière (1764 - 1845), on horseback, in profile to the right, looking towards the viewer. Gazan was a French general who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Jean was a publisher in Paris on the rue St. Jean de Beauvais, appearing in the Bibliographe de France, a 19th century registry of prints, from 1811 to 1838.
[Ref: 37276] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean Gerson] Quid Sorbona Potest, Monstras Doctissime Gero, Gerso Sacrosancti Luxque Decusque Chori.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed, corners snipped.
Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429), Chancellor of the University of Paris.
[Ref: 53046] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Gotofridus Bullionius Rex Jerusalem. Regumque matres barbarorum et/ Purpurei metuunt tyranni Horat. carm. l. 4.
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½". Horizontal centre crease.
Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060 - 1100), one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087. After the fall of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 2880
[Ref: 10488] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean Francoise Paul de Gondi] Haec Domat. Illa Tuetur.
R. Nantueil Faciebat. 1650 [after Philippe de Champaigne].
Engraving. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼").
A half portrait of Jean Francoise Paul de Gondi (1613-1679), wearing clerical dress and a crucifix in a trompe l'oeil stone window. Gondi was a politically motivated churchman, elected Cardinal de Retz in 1650, and was a key player in The Fronde, earning himself the longstanding emnity of Louis XIV. Throughout his career he was protected and supported by Pope Innocent X. Their relationship proved exceptionally forunate after Retz escaped from prison, during which he became the Archbishop of Paris, and was welcomed by the Pope in Rome. Innocent X refused to let him resign as archbishop despite immense pressure from the King. Eventually, yielding to the King's demands, he returned to Paris after the death of his nemesis Cardinal Mazarin but was compensated handsomely with income from twelve estates. Petitjean and Wickert assert that Nanteuil's engraving was after the portrait by Jean Morin after de Champaigne. Frontis "Histoire des Papes" 1653.
PW 199. ii/iii
[Ref: 57415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron] Armandus de Biron Polemarchus [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Foxing.
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron (1524-1592), French soldier who repeatedly distinguished himself in the French Wars of Religion. He was made a marshal of France in 1576 and was also known for his literary achievements. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39897] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Charles Grant. Vicomte de Vaux. Marechal des Camps et Armees de sa Majeste tres Chretienne.
Conde pinx et scu.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and engraving, rare. 146 x 89mm. 5¾ x 7½". Cut.
Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux (1749-c.1818) was a French soldier and writer. He served as a sous-lieutenant in the Scots Company of the Garde du Roi, and by 1781 was a lieutenant colonel. After the French Revolution, the vicomte escaped to England, where, in 1802, he appealed for an appointment on refugee allowance from the war Office. The vicomte was obviously fascinated by his ancestry and published his Mémoires de la Maison Grant in London in 1796. Without the income from his property in Mauritius or France, Grant devoted much of his time in exile to his writing, including a 'History of Mauritius' (1801).
NPG: D15493.
[Ref: 24684] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Grasse, France.]
Fred. A. Farrell [signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching. 230 x 370mm.
b.1882. Scotland. Official Artist with the 51st Highlanders 1914-1918.
[Ref: 2441] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bertrand de Guesclin] Bertrandus du Guesclin Comes Stabuli Sub Carolo V [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾") very large margins.
Bertrand de Guesclin (c.1320-1380), French military commander during the Hundred Years' War and Constable of France from 1370 until his death. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne. The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39876] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Guillotine.
J. Chapman sc.
[Published Jan. 1804 by James Cundee, Ivy Lane.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed inside plate. Some staining.
A plate from 'The Criminal Recorder; or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters', printed and published by James Cundee, Ivy Lane, London, illustrating the use of the guillotine.
[Ref: 38042] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

J. I. Guillotin. De´pute´ a` l'Assemble´e Constituante. Ne´ a Saintes le 29 Mars 1738.
Bonneville del... et Sculp.
[A Paris chez l'auteur, rue de Theatre Française No 4.] [n.d. 1798.]
Stipple. Sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, mounted in album paper.
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814) hoped that a more humane and less painful method of execution than hanging would be the first step toward a total abolition of the death penalty. The use of his name for the machine designed by Antoine Louis was a life-long embarassment. Although he was arrested during the Terror he avoided the death penalty and died of natural causes.
[Ref: 42164] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[France] [Henry of Guise.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Henry, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu (1550-88). He helped plan the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 and in 1576 he founded the Catholic League to prevent the heir, King Henry of Navarre, head of the Huguenot movement, from succeeding to the French throne. Having earned the emnity of Catherine de' Medici, he was assassinated by the bodyguards of her son, King Henry III. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32661] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[France.] Guizot.
Painted by Camille Sebere. Lith.d by C. Couzens.
Published by T. Mc.Lean 26, Haymarket. M & N. Hanhart lith. Printers. [n.d. C.1850.]
Lithograph, rare. 520 x 413mm (20½ x 16¼").
Francois Guizot (1787-1874), the French historian, orator and statesman. He was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, a conservative liberal who opposed the attempt by King Charles X to usurp legislative power, and worked to sustain a constitutional monarchy following the July Revolution of 1830. After holding office as Minister of Education, ambassador to London and Foreign Minister, he finally became Prime Minister of France from September 1847 to February 1848. His influence was critical in expanding public education, which under his ministry saw the creation of primary schools in every French commune.
[Ref: 34631] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Harfleur.
Peint par Francia d'apres l'esquisse de Noel. Grave par Thales Fielding.
Imprime par Sauniee fils [n.d., c.1825.]
Aquatint with etching, sheet 295 x 430mm. 11½ x 17". Trimmed to plate at top and bottom.
View of Harfleur, Normandy, France. A river running through the town to the sea beyond, the pleasing composition dominated by the spire of Saint Martin's Church at centre.
[Ref: 10312] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Harfleur.
Peint par Francia d'apres l'esquisse de Noel. Grave par Thales Fielding.
Imprime par Sauniee fils [n.d., c.1825.]
Hand coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 300 x 370mm. 11¾ x 14½".
View of Harfleur, Normandy, France. A river running through the town to the sea beyond, the pleasing composition dominated by the spire of Saint Martin's Church at centre. In fine colour, on Whatman paper watermarked 1823.
[Ref: 10313] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Achille Du Harlay. Premier President au Parlement de Paris. Tire en partie de la galerie des grands Hommes de l'Hotel du Pr. Pdt.
Touze d. Femme duflos S.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 276 x 163mm.
[Ref: 2041] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[François de Harlay.]
R. Nanteuil ad vivam ping. scul. et excudebat cum Privil. Regis 1671.
Engraving. 405 x 320mm (16 x 12½"). Some spotting, creased. Small margins.
François de Harlay de Champvallon (1625-95), the fifth Archbishop of Paris. He is believed to have officiated at the second marriage of Louis XIV, to Madame Scarron, which was never officially announced or admitted, as it was morganatic.
Petitjean & Wickert 85, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 49400] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Louis Hector Duc de Villars, Pair et Maral. De Fr.ce. Chevalier des Ords. Du Roy, Genal. de Ses Armées, et Gouvernr. De Provence, Pour S.M. Victorie remportée sur les Alliez au Camp de Denain en Flanders. Anagrame. Louis Hector de Villars. Le Heros de la Victoire. Quatrain sur l'Anagrame. Porter l'Auguste nom d'Heros de la Victoire, Par mille et mille exploits en relever la gloire. Et Marcher pas-a-pas sur les traces de Mars, Il n'appartient qua toy Louis Hector de Villars.
Hyacint Rigaud pinx. Holls Desrochers ex.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Line engraving. Image 394 x 293mm. Trimmed and laid on a sheet. Crease.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis and Duc de Villars and Vicomte de Melun (1653-1734) was the last great general of Louis XIV of France and one of the most brilliant commanders in French military history, one of only six Marshals that have been promoted to Marshal General of France. He entered the French army through the corps of pages in 1671. He distinguished himself at twenty in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War and after the bloody Battle of Seneffe a year later he was promoted on the field to mestre de camp of a cavalry regiment. The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of excellent service under Turenne, The Great Condé and Luxembourg, and of his aristocratic birth. The reason was that he had incurred the enmity of the powerful Louvois, he was finally made maréchal de camp in 1687. In the interval between the Dutch wars and the formation of the League of Augsburg, Villars, who combined with his military gifts the tact and subtlety of the diplomatist, was employed in an unofficial mission to the court of Bavaria, and there became the constant companion of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. He returned to France in 1690 and was given a command in the cavalry of the army in Flanders, but towards the end of the War of the Grand Alliance he went to Vienna as ambassador. His part in the next war beginning with Friedlingen (1702) and Hochstadt (1703) and ending with Denain (1712), has made him immortal. For Friedlingen he received the marshalate, and for the pacification of the insurgent Cévennes the Saint-Esprit order and the title of duke. Friedlingen and Hochstadt were barren victories, and the campaigns of which they formed part records of lost opportunities. Villars's glory thus begins with the year 1709 when France, apparently helpless, was roused to a great effort of self-defence by the stringent demands of the Coalition. Villars played a conspicuous part in the politics of the Regency period as the principal opponent of Cardinal Dubois, and he took the field for the last time in the War of the Polish Succession (1734), with the title marshal-general of the king's armies.
[Ref: 12563] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henry de Lorraine Comte de Harcourt General des Armees du Roy en Italie.
[Balthasar Moncornet, n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼") very large margins.
Henri de Lorraine (1601-66), count of Harcourt, count of Armagnac, count of Brionne and viscount of Marsan. During the Franco-Spanish War (1635-59) he commanded the French army at the Siege of Turin (1640, seen in the background in this portrait)), taking the city after three months.
[Ref: 56414] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus III D. G. Francorum et Eoniae Rex MDLXXXVI.
Hieronymus Wierix sculp.
[Antwerp, n.d., c.1586.]
Engraving. Sheet 60 x 80mm (2½ x 3¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Henri III (1551-89), son of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1573-5 and king of France from 1574 until his death. His childless marriage sparked the last of the French Wars of Religion. He was assassinated by Dominican monk Jacques Clément. The engraver, Hieronymus Wierix (1553-1619) was a child prodigy, becoming a master aged 19.
[Ref: 51655] £620.00

[Henri IV of France] Henricus Magnus IIIIid Rex Gallorum [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"). Large margins on 3 sides. Remargined on left.
Henri IV (1553-1610), king of France from 1589 until his death. Baptised as a Catholic but raised as a Protestant, the conflict between the two faiths in 16th century France was the leitmotif of Henri's rule. He had already led Protestant forces against the royal army before succeeding his brother-in-law and distant cousin Henri III as king of France, and although he promulgated the Edict of Nantes in 1598 which effectively ended the French Wars of Religion, the underlying tensions remained. Despite his moderacy, Henri was viewed with suspicion by both Catholics and Protestants, and after surviving at least twelve assassination attempts, he was murdered by the fanatical Catholic François Ravaillac in 1610. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men (and women) hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 40068] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Bordeaux.
N. d. Natur gez v. Prof. Kruger. Konigl. lith. Institut zu Berlin. Lith. v. C. Wildt.
London, Published by Hering & Remington; 137, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1855.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, india 395 x 300mm. 15½ x 11¾".
Henri V of France and Navarre (Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois de France, 1820 – 1883), best known by his title comte de Chambord, was Duke of Bordeaux and Count of Chambord, and disputedly King of France and Navarre from 2–9 August 1830 and afterwards the Legitimist pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883. Henri was the posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry, younger son of Charles X of France, by his wife, Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise of the Two Sicilies, daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
[Ref: 12369] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henriette d'Angletterre, Duchesse d'Orleans derniere fille de Charles premier du Nom Roy de la grande Bretagne er de Henriette Marie de France Nasquit à Excester le 15 Iuin 1644 accompagna la Reine sa Mere lors quelle se sauua par Mer en France Espousa le 13. Mars 1661 Philippes de France Du d'Orleans frere unique du Roy.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Plate: 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾''). Thread margins.
A portrait of Henrietta of England (1644-1670), daughter of Charles I and wife of Phillipe of France, Duc D'Orleans, brother of King Louis XIV.
[Ref: 48252] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Henry the Fourth, King of France, called the Great. Obit.1519.
Engraved by Charles Turner from a Unique Print by Reynold Elsrake.
London: Pub.d 1814, by S. Woodburn, 112, S.t Martin's Lane.
Mezzotint. Proof. Plate: 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"); large margins on 3 sides. Thread margin on right.
A portrait of Henry IV King of France, Henry inherited the throne of France in 1589 and ruled until his assassination in 1610. Henry IV was Charles II's maternal grandfather. From Woodburn's series of mezzotint portraits after early engravings titled 'Portraits of Royal Personages'.
Whitman: 476 Pre I
[Ref: 40765] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[France] [Henry the Great, King of France, as he lay in State after his murder, Anno 1610.]
[Engraved by R. Dunkarton.]
[London: S. Woodburn, 1813-1814.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters on india laid paper, 360 x 270mm. 14¼ x 10½".
Henry IV (Henry of Navarre, 1553 – 1610) was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France. Henry was ultimately assassinated in Paris on 14th May 1610 by a Catholic fanatic, François Ravaillac, who stabbed the king to death while his coach's progress was stopped by traffic congestion. A copy of the engraving by I. Briot, by Robert Dunkarton (1744 - c. 1815). From a series of 15 copies of early engravings, 'Portraits of Royal Personages', by Turner, Earlom and Dunkarton, issued by Samuel Woodburn in book form in 1816. Another edition was published in 1830.
Chaloner Smith: undescribed.
[Ref: 18065] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Hoche Géneral des Armées de la République Française dans le Nord, Et ensuite dans l'Ouest.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼").
Oval mezzotint portrait of General Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his pacification of the Vendée in 1796. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française' Louis Lazare Hoche was a French soldier and is often considered one of the best of the Revolutionary generals. Hoche began serving in the Guards. In 1789 he went over to the side of the Revolution. During the years 1792-93 he distinguished himself in battles against the interventionists in northeastern France. He was close to the Jacobins and enjoyed great popularity. Hoche successfully defended Dunkerque against an Anglo-Austrian army in 1793, and he then commanded the Moselle Army and the combined Moselle and Rhine armies; he defeated the Austrian Army at Woerth and at Fröschweiler (Frueschwiller). In March 1794 he was arrested without grounds, and in August he was freed. During the years 1794-95, Hoche successfully crushed counterrevolutionary uprisings in Brittany and La Vendée. In 1797, while commanding the Sambre-Meuse Army, he smashed the Austrians at Neuwied and Altenkirchen. In July 1797 he refused the post of minister of war. Hoche died suddenly in his staff quarters (possibly poisoned).
[Ref: 28214] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[7 Views around Honfleur.] Honfleur: Vue de l'Intendance. [&] Ruine d'Ourscamp. No. 2. [&] S.t Jean au Bois. No. 3. [&] Eglise de Criqueboeuf (près Honfleur) No. 5. [&] Honfleur Chapelle de Grace. No 6. [&] Honfleur: Vue des Fossés. No. 7. [&] Honfleur: Vue du Portail St. Léonard.
H. [& J.] Damas. Lith. Hue, Havre.
[on plates 2 & 3] à Honfleur chez l'auteur, rue du d'auphin. [n.d., c.1840.]
Seven lithographs. Printed areas c. 230 x 320mm, 9 x 12½". Wear to edges.
[Ref: 17038] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Cour intérieure de l’Hopital de Beaune. Cote d'Or.
E. Sagot del. Eug Ciceri lith.
Imp. Lemercier, [n.d. c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. 300 x 368mm. 11¾ x 14½".
The courtyard to the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune. Founded in 1443, the hospice was established by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, as a hospital for the poor and needy. Since 1851, a charity wine auction has been held at the hospice, taking place on the third Sunday in November amid a three day festival devoted to the food and wines of Burgundy called 'Les Trois Glorieuses'.
[Ref: 27963] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Isabeau De Baviere. Reine de France.
C. P. Marrillier aquaforti.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 272 x 166mm.
[Ref: 2052] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

The Sea Coastes of the landes of Poyctou and Bordeaux eue as they shew and appeare, when you sayle there alongst betweene Picquelier and the River of Bordeaux called the Garonne.
Theodor de Bry sculp: [after Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer.]
[London: J. Charlewood, 1588.]
Engraved map with old hand colour, English text on reverse. 330 x 510mm (13 x 20"). Some old ink and pencil annotations, pinhole in centre of compass rose.
An early sea chart of the coast of France from Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez south to the mouth of the Garonne, with the Ile de Ré and Oleron. An English letterpress text on verso gives sailing directions. One of the first maps to be engraved in England (albeit by a German engraver), it has all the features of the golden age of decorative cartography: a compass rose, strapwork cartouches for the title and scale, galleons and a seamonster. The manuscript includes corrections to rhumb lines and due north. This is a plate from the extremely scarce single English editon of Waghenaer's sea atlas, the 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt', the first printed atlas of sea charts. Commissioned by Sir Christopher Hatton, Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, the charts were copied by engravers including by De Bry, Jodocus Hondius, Augustine Ryther, and Johannes Rutlinger, and were published in London as 'The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, sounding, flouds and ebs ... of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe', the year of the Spanish Armada. It has been suggested that the circulation was limited to the most trusted English sea captains. A second edition of the plate was published in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, who engraved Dutch titles onto it.
[Ref: 45598] £2,000.00 view all images for this item

Insulæ Divi Martini et Uliarus Vulgo L'Isle de Ré et Oleron.
[Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, c.1650, French text edition.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. 395 x 540mm (15½ x 21¼"), large margins.
A sea chart of Ile de Ré and Oleron, orientated with north to the left, decorated with coloured cartouches for the title and scale. The adjacent coastline is also shown, with La Rochelle.
[Ref: 45599] £350.00

Cloture de la Salle des Jacobins, dans la nuit du 27 au 28 Juillet 1794, ou du 9 au 19 Thermidor, an 2. de la République.
Duplesi-Bertaux inv. & del. Malapeau Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. 230 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾").
The Jacobin Club, the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, which provided the leadership for the Reign of Terror. The sign outside the building reads: 'Société des Jacobins/ Unité, Liberté, Egalité, Indivisibilité/ de la République, Fraternité ou la Mort'. Eventually the other Republicans attacked the club and shutting it down. Robespierre, the Jacobin leader, was shot in the jaw (possibly self-inflicted) and was guillotined the next day. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28240] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Vue Interieure d'un Jardin Anglois. appelle le Moulin joly a deux lieuses de Paris, appartenant a Mr. Watelet Receveur general des finances.
Dessiné par Daubigny. Dirigé par Née.
A.P.D.R. [Paris, n.d., c.1790.]
Etching, watermarked laid paper, 245 x 365mm. 9¾ x 14¼". A fine impression, with full margins.
View of a cottage and bridge over water in a parkland landscape near Paris. A man fishes lower right, and a woman washes to the left. A 'Jardin Anglais' (English garden) is a type of landscape garden which emerged from England in the early 18th century. Numbered 'No.34' lower right; for the 'Isle de France' part of the grand series of French views 'Voyage pittoresque de la France', a 1781-96 collaboration of several artists and engravers (12 vols).
See BL 001302621.
[Ref: 20585] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Ionna Puella Restuaratrix Rerum Gallicarum. Johanna de Maecht van Orleans, Behoutster der Saken van vrancvyck.
Rare engraving, 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning.
A head and shoulders portrait of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), right profile and framed in an oval. Joan of Arc, sometime nick-named 'the Maid of Orleans' was a heroic figure during France's Hundred Years War. She was executed for continuing to dress in 'male' clothing and was eventually canonised 1920.
[Ref: 53814] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Jeanne D'Arc Surnommee la Purcelle d'Orleans, Tiree de la Gallerie du Cardinal de Richelieu.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 275 x 167mm.
Joan of Arc was 19 when she was burnt at the stake in Rouen by the English on 30 May, 1431.
[Ref: 1991] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Joan of Arc] Puella Aureliaca sub Carolo 7o
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾") very large margins. Slight loss near right leg. Staining bottom right on edge of margins.
Joan of Arc (c.1412-31), the 'maid of Orléans' who helped to relieve the town in 1429. Captured at Compiègne in 1430, she was handed over to the English, tried and found guilty, and burnt at the stake, aged 19 in May 1431. She was posthumously pronounced innocent and canonized as a Roman Catholic saint in 1920. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39885] £450.00

[France] Guillelmus Franciscus Joly de Fleury, Procurator Catholicus / N. 11 Novembre 1675. / M. 25 Martii 1756
Didier pinx. R. Gaillard sculp.
[n.d., c.1756]
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 460 x 350mm (18 x 13¾"). Slightly time stained.
Guillaume-Francois Joly de Fleury, procureur général under Louis XV remembered for his erudition and strong personality.
[Ref: 31972] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Marquis de Launay. Gouverneur de la Bastile. Décapité le 14 Juillet 1789, En la Place de Greve à Paris. Pour avoir fait tirer sur le peuple apres avoir aboré le drapeau blanc. Monstrum horrendum informe, ingensm cui lumen ademptum. Virg.
Pint par le Comte Cagliostro. Gravé par Chenon pere.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Rare. Sheet: 155 x 215mm (6 x 8½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A portrait in an oval of Bernard Rene Jourdan, Marquis de Launay (1740-1789), governor of the Bastille and commander of the attached garrison. On the 14th July 1789 the revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, de Launay was seized and lynched by the attacking mob. His head was cut off and paraded through the streets on a pike.
[Ref: 42154] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Kellermann. Senateur Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur Commandant a la Gr.de Armeé.
A Paris chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais. No.10. [n.d., c.1820.]
Fine hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed at top of image.
A portrait of François Christophe Kellermann (1735 - 1820), on horseback in military costume with his sword held in his right hand. Kellermann was a French military commander, later the Général d'Armée, a Marshal of France who served in varying roles throughout the entirety of two major conflicts, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Jean was a publisher in Paris on the rue St. Jean de Beauvais, appearing in the Bibliographe de France, a 19th century registry of prints, from 1811 to 1838.
[Ref: 37274] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Kerlescan standing stones at Carnac] Row near Kerlescant.
J.s Basire sc.
Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, April 23rd, 1833.
Etching. 190 x 290mm (7½ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Standing stones at Carnac, Brittany. From 'Archaeologia ; Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity: Volume 25, Part 1'.
[Ref: 61383] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[France.] Krantz.
Paul Maurou Dess. d'apres la photog Truchelut.
Imp. Lemercier & Cie., Paris. [n.d. c.1880.]
Lithograph, with very large margins, rare. 451 x 316mm (17¾ x 12½").
Jean Baptiste Sebastien Krantz (1817-1899), the French engineer and politician. He was responsible for the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition. He spent twenty years developing the French railway system and gave advice to Matsukata of Japan. The two studied the topographical maps of Japan and Krantz suggested that the first major undertaking should be a line from Tokyo to Osaka.
[Ref: 34646] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Marie de Laubespine femme de Nicolas Lambert, Seign.r de Thorigny, President en la Chambre des Comptes.
N. Largilliere Pinxit. P. Drevet sculp.
A Paris chez P. Drevet [n.d., c.1698].
Engraving. 470 x 345mm (18½ x 13½") large margins. Slight mount burn.
Marie de L'Aubespine, married Nicolas Lambert de Thorigny, president of the Chambre des comptes, in 1653. Thorigny used his position to amass a great wealth, owning 14 house on l'île Saint-Louis.
FD81 II.
[Ref: 52946] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Michel De L'Hopital, Chancelliet de France; Tires des Antiquites du Pere Montfaucon.
Touze d.l. P Duflos sc.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 276 x 162mm.
Michel de l'Hôpital (1507-73), French statesman.
[Ref: 2072] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

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