Grosvenor Prints

Londen aen de Theems een seer vermaerde Koopstadt van de gantsche Werelt en des Konings Residenzie Plaats. Londinum ad Tamesin Emporium toto orbe famigeratis simum, Sedes Regia.
Pet Schenk exc: amst: cum privil:
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving. 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼").
A view of London before the Great Fire of 1666, taken from an imaginary hill south of the Thames. In the centre is the Norman St Paul's Cathedral; London Bridge is filled with houses; and the Tower of London appears on the right.
[Ref: 28514] £450.00

Londra Capitale dell'Inghilterra. Tom XII. A. Il fiume Tamigi. B. Il Ponte. C. La Torre. D. Il Palazzo di Whitehall. E. Il Borgo di Southwark.
[Francesco Sesone.]
[n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving. Plate 177 x 342mm (7 x 13½"). Trimmed along upper plate edge, folds as normal.
A pre-fire prospect of London, engraved by Sesone and probably copied from Schenck's view of London (for which see ref. 28514).
See Ref: 28516 for added hand colour and different publication.
[Ref: 28515] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Londra Capitale dell'Inghilterra. Tom XII. Pag 14. A. Il fiume Tamigi. B. Il Ponte. C. La Torre. D. Il Palazzo di Whitehall. E. Il Borgo di Southwark.
Fran. Sesone Sculp. Nap.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving with added hand colour. Plate 153 x 343mm (6¾ x 13½"). Folding.
A pre-fire prospect of London, engraved by Sesone. However he has reversed the image, so London Bridge is to the west of St Paul's! This image was published before the error was spotted and corrected.
See Ref: 28515 for uncoloured impression with corrected view.
[Ref: 28516] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Clue Plan for Collins's Illustrated Guide To London By J. Batholomew.
William Collins, Sons & C.º London, Glasgow & Edinburgh [n.d., c.1871.]
Rare wood-engraved map, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 190 x 365mm (7½ x 14¼"). Original folds, mounted on card at corners.
A map of the roads of London, with landmarks and railways.
Not in Hyde's Victorian Maps of London.
[Ref: 61749] £360.00

Panorama de Londres, Par A.M. Perrot.
Gravé par Legagneur, Rue de la Harpe, No. 35.
[n.d., but 1828.]
Engraved map with original colour. Sheet 355 x 450mm (14 x 17¾"). Folded as issued, trimmed to printed border on right.
A tourist's map of London, showing only the major roads, extending from Hyde Park east to the East India Docks and from Kentish Town south to Kennington. From the 'Guide de l'Étranger a Londres'.
[Ref: 37602] £260.00

A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Borough of Southwark.
[London: R. Dodesley, 1744.]
Engraved map. Sheet 230 x 420mm (9 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, folds and creasing, slight ink offset, laid on album sheet
A map of London, extending from Park Lane in the west, clockwise to Marylebone, Sadlers Wells, Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Rotherhithe and Lambeth. The map shows the extent of the damage caused by the Great Fire of 1666. From "The Geography of England".
Darlington and Howgego 92.
[Ref: 61743] £360.00

A Correct Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster & Borough of Southwark, including the Bills of Mortality, with the Additional Buildings &c. Engraved from a New Survey for the London Magazine 1761.
Engraved map. 230 x 410mm (9 x 16"). Trimmed into plate on left, original binding folds.laid on card.
A map of London based on John Rocque's important 24-sheet map of 1746. The Bills of Mortality were the areas in Greater London that reported death notices directly to the London government.
Darlington & Howgego 118.
[Ref: 61741] £360.00

London.
Printed in the Year 1683.
Two engravings, trimmed and conjoined, laid on album sheet. Total printed area 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½").
An amalgam of two engraved titlepages. Above are the arms of Charles II on an architrave; below is a stylised prospect of London from the south, with an odd Pre-Fire Norman St Paul's Cathedral and three theatres grouped close together on the South Bank, including Shakespeare's Globe.
[Ref: 61728] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

London.
Published as the Act directs Feb.y 1815 by G. Jones, Ave Maria Lane.
Engraved map. Sheet 255 x 405mm (10 x 16"). Vertical fold, laid on card.
A Georgian plan of London, published a matter of months before the Battle of Waterloo. It shows from the Serpentine River in Hyde Park, clockwise to Paddington, Regent's Park, Hackney, Stratford, the East India Docks, Greenwich, Walworth, Nine Elms and Chelsea. The map shows Regent's Park and the Millbank Penitentiary under construction, and 'Tomlins Town', a shanty town for workers off the Edgware Road.
Darlington & Howgego 265.
[Ref: 61729] £260.00

Panorama des Environs Londres, Par A.M. Perrot.
Gravé par Legagneur, Rue de la Harpe, No. 35.
[n.d., but 1828.]
Engraved map with original colour. Printed area 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12"). Folded as issued.
A tourist's map of the environs of London, extending from Windsor east to Gravesend and from Ware south to Reigate. From the 'Guide de l'Étranger a Londres'.
[Ref: 37603] £260.00

Plan des Villes de Londres et de Westminster et de leurs Faubourgs avec le Bourg de Southwark.
C. Inselin sculp.
Avec Priv. du Roy 1700.
Engraved map. Plate: 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"), with large margins.
Nicolas de Fer's map of London showing the City of London and Westminster.
[Ref: 42750] £390.00

London.
P.H. Schut fecit. N. Visscher excudit.
[n.d., c.1666.]
Engraving. Sheet: 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Slight creasing.
A view of London from Southwark across to the city showing the extent of the Great Fire of London in 1666. An illustration from a Dutch broadside, published by Visscher describing the event.
[Ref: 42363] £650.00

Prospect der Stadt London in England.
A. Sommer fec.
J. Eder ex. [Vienna, n.d. c.1795.]
A very rare engraving. Plate 173 x 262mm (6¾ x 10¼"), large margins.
A stylised prospect of London from the south, with an almost-unrecognisable St Paul's Cathedral, The Monument and London Bridge still with buildings on it. The engraving is based on the Kip prospect: it shows the Folly, the floating tea-room, but incorrectly downstream of London Bridge.
[Ref: 53204] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Londres ville Capitale du Royaume d'Angleterre.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), set in letterpress.
A prospect of London based on Claes Janszoon Visscher's view of 1616, here used to illustrate the principles of triangulation. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 49504] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan of London as in Q. Elizabeths days.
London. Printed for T. Bowles at N.º 43 in Cornhill [n.d., c.1750].
Engraved map. Sheet 175 x 550mm (6¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing half of plate; paper toned, some stains.
A map of London in Tudor times, based on the large woodcut map often attributed to Ralph Agas. Originally published c. 1700 by John Bowles. The missing lower half of the plate contained a prospect of London after Visscher and five views.
[Ref: 61744] £450.00

A Prospect of the City of London from S.t Marie Overs Steeple In Southwark in its flourishing Condition before The Fire. Another Prospect of the above City taken from the Same Place as it Appeared after that Dreadfull Fire in 1666. A Plan for Rebuilding the City after the Fire, Design’d by that Great Architect S.r Christoph.r Wren and approv’d of by King and Parliament but unhappily Defeated by Faction.Vues de la Ville de Londres Comme il doit devant & apres l’incendie de 1666. Avec le plan pour la rebâtir. Projetté par ce grand architecte le chevalier Chrsitopher Wren, & aprouvé par le roi & parliament; mais malheureusement rejetté par faction.
[Prospects after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Publiè par Jean Rocque, Chorographe de Son Altesse Royalle le Prince de Galles.
Engraved map. Sheet 360 x 315mm (14½ x 12½"). Dissected and laid on linen, trimmed close to printed border, some surface loss top centre & top left, stains and creases, mounted on card.
Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666, with copies of Wenceslaus Hollar's prospects of the city before and after the fire.
Rare: OCLC records only two institutional examples, in the British Library and the Yale Centre for British Art
[Ref: 61745] £1,650.00

Londres. Rue du Regent. Quadrant, Regent Street.
Ch. Rivière del. et lith. Imp de Godard r. du Jardinet, 13.
Paris. Mainson Martinet [n.d., c.1860].
Tinted lithograph with some hand colour. Printed area 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Bit messy.
A view of Regent Street from Piccadilly Circus, after Nash's colonnade was demolished to deter thieves and prostitutes.
[Ref: 57666] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Londinium Antiqua. This Plan shews the ancient extent of the famous cities of London and Westminster as it was near the begining of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth [...]
Vertue, Soc. Antiq. London excudit 1737.
Engraving on pewter, two sheets (of eight) conjoined, total 355 x 940mm. Repairs to folds. Ink stamps of the Paul Mellon Collection on reverse.
The bottom left corner of a map of Tudor London, engraved on pewter by George Vertue from a comtemporary woodcut in the possession of Sir Hans Sloane. The strip here shows Westminster, Whitehall, Lambeth Palace and Charing Cross, the buildings south of the Strand and Fleet Street, to St Paul's Cathedral and Barnard's Castle. Under the title is a list of buildings not present, as a guide to dating the map. Three examples of an anonymous woodcut map of London c.1570 exist, all now in institutions. Vertue, an enthusiastic member of the Society of Antiquaries, researched the map and attributed it to Ralph Agas (c.1540-1621), solely on the basis of a letter in which Agas spoke of his intentions of making such a plan. The style is much the same as Braun & Hogenberg, with the buildings shown in profile, and many of the details are shared. However on this plan St Paul's Cathedral is without the spire hit by lighting and destroyed in 1561 (not shown here as the building runs off the top of the present sheet).
Howgego: Printed Maps of London 8, and the introduction pp.7 - 8.
[Ref: 35662] £1,800.00

On the North side of London.
WHollar delin et sculp 1665 [but later]
Etching, sheet 95 x 130mm (3¾ x 5"). Trimmed.
View of London from Islington made shortly before the Great Fire of London, with the old St Paul's cathedral in the distance and three men practicing archery in the foreground. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), Bohemian printmaker who spent most of his career working in England. Hollar's technical skill has ensured that his prints have always been keenly collected, and comprehensive collections of his work are at institutions in London, Berlin and Prague. Hollar's life was changed when he met Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, at Cologne in 1636: for eight months he travelled in Arundel's retinue at travelled with him to London, taking lodgings at Arundel House and marrying a servant of the countess of Arundel. This is one of a group of small views from north London sometimes thought to have been issued as a set.
Pennington 918 ii/ii.
[Ref: 68301] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

London.
Drawn, Engraved and Published by John Swertner, Maudlin Lane, St. James's, Bristol, July 1st 1801.
Hand coloured aquatint. Printed area approx: Unexamined out of frame. Vertical crease to right where previously folded.
A view of London from the north (Islington); St Paul's central at mid-distance; fields in foreground with figures working on harvest, Islington church to the right. Print made by Johannes Swertner (1746 - 1813) a Moravian Minister who, in 1787 ascended the spire of St Mary's church, (depicted in print) which was being fitted with a lightning conductor at the time, in order to study London from a height.
[Ref: 29192] £1,250.00

A View of London taken off the Thames near York Buildings. Veüe de Londres dessiné de dessus la Tamise, pres de York Buildings. No.22.
John Boydell Delin. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J.no Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside London. [n.d c.1770.]
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 260 x 430mm (10¼ x 17").
A view of York Buildings waterworks, on the Thames riverside near the Strand. The tower is the York Buildings Company's octagonal 70-ft water tower, built in the late 17th century, with supplied up to 2,500 housholds with water. In the background are Westminster Abbey and Bridge. Also visible are the houses of the Duchess of Portland, Earl of Pembroke, Sir Thomas Robinson, Mrs. Dunch, Black Lion Stairs, and Villiers Street. On the far right is part of the Salt Office, formerly Samuel Pepys' house. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.22; Hugh Phillips, 'The Thames around 1750' p.116
[Ref: 29315] £450.00

A View of London taken off Lambeth Church. Veüe de Londres dessinè de dessus l’Eglize de Lambeth. No.24.
J.no Boydell Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside London 1752. Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 260 x 430mm (10¼ x 17").
Fine view of London looking from Lambeth towards the centre of London. Westminster Abbey and bridge in middle-distance, St Paul's in the distance. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.24.
[Ref: 29317] £450.00

A View of London as it was in the Year 1647. 45. [&] Vüe de Londres comme il etoit dans L’An. 1647. 46. [with numbered key both in English and French.]
R. Benning del. et sculp.
Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn in Cheapside London 1756.
Panoramic view on two sheets; engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins; rare in good condition. Plate 305 x 489mm (12 x 19¼").
A long view of London as it was in 1647, before the Great Fire, from Westminster Abbey to St. Katharine's and Essex on the north side of the Thames. Very detailed view of Southwark on the south of the Thames in the foreground. From John Boydell's 'A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales', compiled after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by engravers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.45 & 46.
[Ref: 29381] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

No 11. The River. St Pauls from Southwark London. [pencil]
J. Brown Gibson. [pencil]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Scarce etching. 300 x 405mm (11¾ x 16"). Very large margins.
Scottish artist James Brown Gibson (1880-1961).
[Ref: 38937] £320.00

Londres. Vue de Pont de Waterloo.
Alph. Leroy del. Lith. de Langlumé.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Very large margins.
The famouse view, looking up the Thames to Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral.
[Ref: 39335] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Londres.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"). Trimmed to image, laid on old album paper.
A prospect of London from south of the Thames. Christopher Wren's new St Paul's Cathedral is shown but not accurately, suggesting it was based on the designs rather than the building finished in 1711.
[Ref: 30819] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Environs of London.
Drawn and Engraved by James Bingley.
Published Nov 3 1828 by Cowie & Strange, 64 Paternoster Row.
Rare steel-engraved map. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Small repaired tear affecting publisher's inscription.
An oval map of the environs of London, extending to Finchley in the north, clockwise to Tottenham, Barking, Woolwich, Norwood, Tooting, Wimbledon, Richmond, Brentford and Hendon. Within the decorative borders are vignette view of London Bridge, Hammersmith, Hyde Park Corner and the Post Office. At the bottom is the head of Old Father Thames and twin cornucopiæ (horns of plenty) filled with fruits and jewels representing the trade coming up the river. The design of this separate-issue map was later copied by Thomas Moule for his county atlas.
Howgego No. 315.
[Ref: 37605] £280.00

[Prospect of Pre-Fire London]
[after Pieter Hendrickszoon Schut]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. Sheet 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed into image, stains, laid on album paper.
A prospect of London before the Great Fire of 1666, from an imaginary hill south of the Thames, with people and dogs in the right foreground. Possibly a later state of Schut's broadsheet view of the Fire of London published by Visscher in 1666, with the flames removed, as well as Schut & Visscher's names, and the key under the dogs.
See BM 1872,0113.592 for Schut's original.
[Ref: 61736] £320.00

London. in England [ms]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 225mm (9½ x 9"). Trimmed to image; staining lower left; repaired tear and crease through centre.
German prospect of London from south of the Thames, with many buildings numbered for identification by a key (not included). The position, south of London Bridge, gives a particularly precise view of Borough, Southwark and Bermondsey.
For similar view published in France see ref. 30819.
[Ref: 38624] £480.00

London
[Anon., c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 105 x 150mm (4 x 6"). Cut to image.
London and Southwark, with London Bridge crossing the River Thames. The panorama features St. Paul's Cathedral in its previous gothic incarnation, before the Wren building that was completed in 1708. This suggests a piracy of an engraving made before the Great Fire of London of 1666, or that the plate pre-dates the adoption of Wren's design. Possibly derived from a larger but similar view published in a French series of city prospects by Crépy.
For Crépy's view see ref. 27811.
[Ref: 38641] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A view of London from Flamstead Hill in Greenwich Park.
Drawn by Tho.s Hearne. Etch'd by Eliz & Engrav's by W.m Ellis.
[n.d., c.1786].
Engraving and etching. Printed area: 390 x 495mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Few repaired tears.
A landscape view of London from Greenwich, with the Royal Observatory on the left, in a trompe l'oeil oval. A family can be seen on a hill in the foreground overlooking the Thames with ships moored, and the silhouette of St Paul's Cathedral on the horizon. The image framed by trees at right and the edge of a building with figures on the terrace at left.
[Ref: 32502] £360.00

London. Londres en Ballon. Excursions Aériennes.
Dessiné d'Après nature et lith. par Jules Arnout.
Paris, Bulla Frères et Jouy, Rue Tiquetonne, 18. London, Gambart, Junin & Co, 15 Berniers S.t. Oxf. S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. 355 x 455mm (14 x 18").
A view of London looking down from a hot air balloon, another in the distance. Taken from above Elephant and Castle, it shows Brunel's Hungerford Suspension Bridge and the Houses of Parliament before the completion of Big Ben's Clock Tower.
[Ref: 51348] £680.00

Angleterre. Vue Générale de Londres. Vista General de Londres.
Dessiné et Lithog par Ch. Rivière.
Paris, L. Turgis J.ne Imp.r Editeur, r. des Ecoles, 60_ Maison à New-York. [c.1865.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 390 x 495mm, 15½ x 19½". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A balloon-view of London taken from above Vauxhall, with a 32-point key. The Houses of Parliament and Lambeth Palace are lower left, St George's Circus and Bethlehem Hospital (now the Imperial War Museum) lower right. Other landmarks in the key are Buckingham Palace, Regents Park, St Paul's, Monument and London Bridge. We have assigned the date of 1865 because of the Hungerford Railway Bridge of John Hawkshaw which opened in 1864 and a cursory depiction of Joseph Bazalgette's Victoria Embankent, started 1865 and not finished until 1870. Little is known about the artist, Charles François de Riffardeau, Duc de Rivière (1848-1920). He produced a volume 'Vues de Londres dessinées d'après nature et lithographiées' in 1862 (not including this prospect). His father (with the same name) was French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, during which time he helped purchase the Venus de Milo for the Louvre.
[Ref: 27778] £1,250.00

4.e Veuë et Perspective de Londres, du côté de la Tamise.
Peinte pas Charles de Léopold-de-Grevenbrock, Peintre ordinaire du Roi et Gravée d'après le Tableau Original de la même grandeur, par P.F. Tardieu.
A Paris chés Daumont. Presentement chés Lachaussée rue S. Jacques. [n.d., c.1750.]
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11 ¾'') large margins. Foxing.
A view of London from the south looking across Southwark, across London Bridge to the City of London.
[Ref: 48759] £380.00

[Prospect of Pre-Fire London]
[after Pieter Hendrickszoon Schut?]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. Sheet 165 x 255mm (6½ x 10"). Trimmed into image, losing title at top, laid on album paper.
A prospect of London before the Great Fire of 1666, from an imaginary hill south of the Thames, with people and dogs in the right foreground. Possibly a later state of Schut's broadsheet view of the Fire of London published by Visscher in 1666, with the flames removed, as well as Schut & Visscher's names, and the key under the dogs.
See BM 1872,0113.592 for Schut's original.
[Ref: 61735] £350.00

London in 1842. This Picture of the Metropolis of the British Empire is presented to the Subscribers of the Illustrated London News by the Proprietors.
Supplement to the ''Illustrated London News'' of January 7, 1843; Published by W. Little, 198 Strand, London.
Wood engraving from 12 blocks on one sheet. Sheet 900 x 1340mm (35½ x 52¾") Original folds with small splits.
Two large views, looking north and south from the top of the Duke of York Column at the bottom of Regent Street, separated by a vignette roundel of the column itself. Landmarks looking north include Carlton House Terrace in foreground, Regent Street and Trafalgar Square with the steeple of St Martin's Church still under construction. Looking south is St James's Park, the Admiralty and Horse Guards, St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey,
[Ref: 55057] £650.00

The University of London. From the Designs of W. Wilkins, M.A., R.A.
Eng.d by Tho.s Higham [c.1840]
Engraving, sheet 240 x 450mm (9½ x 17¾"). Surface abrasions.
The main building of University College London, constructed between 1825 and 1832 to designs by the architect and antiquary William Wilkins (1778-1839). Like Wilkins' other projects of the period, his ideas were stimulated by reading the works of John Howard, Jeremy Bentham, and continental Enlightenment authors.
[Ref: 46930] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Suburbs and Circumjacent Country. Shewing the steeples of all the Churches and as many of the Public Buildings as are seen from the gallery of the steeple of Islington which Town appears in the fore ground.
Delineated, Etchd, and done in Aquatinto by John Swertner.
Published as the Act directs July 1st. 1789 by John Swertner No10 Nevils Court Fetter Lane London.
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 320 x 695mm (12½ x 27½"). With key plate, coloured etching, 120 x 745 (4¾ x 29¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, some damage to image, laid on card with keyplate.
A view of London and Westminster as seen from the lantern of St Mary Islington, here with the uncommon key plate. The detail in the foreground shows figures in their gardens, tending livestock and tiling a roof. Major landmarks such as St Pauls, Westminster Abbey and the Monument, as well as many church spires, can be made out in the distance. The Rev. John Swertner (1746-1813) was a Moravian Minister who, when not producing views such as this, was a prolific writer of hymns.
[Ref: 63927] £1,300.00

[A Panorama of London, Taken from Nature by R. Havell, Jnr.]
[London: Published by Rodwell & Martin, 40 New Bond Street. 1822.]
Coloured aquatint in six sections. 80 x c.4020mm (3¼ x c.158"). Some restoration.
A four-metre rolling scarce & decorative prospect showing the north side of the Thames from Chelsea Prison down the river to The Pool of London, recording the buildings and the traffic both on the river and on the bridges. The prospect was originally published in one piece, rolled into a boxwood drum.
Abbey Life 485.
[Ref: 62530] £680.00 view all images for this item

Abilltung wie königliche Maistät in Engelandt Die Artickel Dess Spanischen Heyraths Jur: Bekreftiget Anno 1623. Lunden.
[Cologne: Abraham Hogenberg, 1627.]
Coloured engraving. 270 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½"). Evidence of crack in printing plate (as the BM example).
Four scenes relating to the Spanish Match treaty, from Kaspar Ens' ''Fama Austriaca'': James I signing the treaty in the Chapel Royal; James dining with the Spanish ambassador; James in procession; and a prospect of London, with the Norman St Paul's Cathedral. In 1614 a Spanish embassy arrived in London to reach agreement to stop English privateers attacking Spanish shipping in the Americas and prevent England joining the Thirty Years' War. In return Spain would cease supporting opponents of James's rule in Ireland. Spain also proposed the marriage of the Spanish Infanta to Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles I), promising a dowry of half-a-million pounds. James, who desperately needed money, was enthusiastic, but Parliament refused to accept any deal and James dissolved it in fury. It eventually transpired that the Infanta had no intention of marrying a protestant, and Spain was just stringing out negotiations to stop England entering the war. In 1625 Charles married Henrietta Maria of France instead.
[Ref: 57336] £380.00

Panorama of the River Thames in 1845. Given With The Illustrated London News.
[by Frederick James Smyth.]
[London: William Little, 1845.]
Wood engraving on two sheets conjoined, total 380 x 2460mm (15 x 97"), with wood-engraved title page & keyplate & 8pp letterpress description illustrated with small wood engravings. Mint.
A large and impressive prospect of London, extending from Lambeth Bridge in the west to Greenwich, with Woolwich in the distance. Superbly-detailed, the separate key lists 237 points of interest, including Brunel's newly-opened Hungerford Suspension Bridge and Nelson's Column, erected only three years before, although without Landseer's lions. This prospect was first published as a supplement to the Illustrated London News, as a gift to subscribers. It was normally presented in two halves, printed one above the other: this example has been joined to show the entire length in one piece.
[Ref: 62061] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

[Port of London.] To the Right Hon.ble Lord Hawkesbury, &c. &c. This Perspective Sketch illustrating a design submitted to the consideration of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the improvement of the Port of London, Is inscribed by his obedient humble Servant, Geo. Dance.
Designed by Geo. Dance, Prof.r of Archit.e in the Royal Acad.y & Arch.t to the City of London. Will.m Daniell fecit.
Published as the Act directs, for Geo. Dance Esq. R.A. Upper Gower Street, London, Nov.r 10 1800.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 400 x 660mm (15¾ x 26"). Trimmed within plate, central fold, tears in margins.
A fully-formed illustration showing George Dance's vision of the redevelopment of the Port of London, with Old London Bridge replaced by two bridges, both with drawbridges to allow ships further upstream. Set between the bridges are the Monument and a proposed 'Naval Trophy', a pillar commemorating the achievements of the Navy, design by James Barry. Old London Bridge was eventually replaced by one designed by John Rennie.
[Ref: 43774] £950.00

The very Wise Aldermen of Gotham, Scratching for a Mayor.
[Anon., 1774.]
Etching, sheet 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼". Trimmed to plate; stain spot upper right.
A satire on London politics; a throng of figures in furred gowns, most of whom have animals' heads, surround a table, on which are open polling books, with triple columns of names. Alderman Frederick Bull, with a bull's head, writes with a pen in his cloven hoof at the centre. On his right hand is John Wilkes (1725 - 1797). Behind stands a man with a goat's beard and horns probably intended for Alderman Sir Watkin Lewes. Thomas Harley (1730 - 1804) as an ape wearing spurred boots enters from the right. At the election for the mayoralty in October 1774 Wilkes was head of the poll, next being Bull, the actual mayor. These two were therefore returned to the Court of Aldermen; eleven of them voted for Wilkes to be Lord Mayor, while only two, Townsend and Oliver, voted for Bull. Probably from a magazine.
BM Satires: 5235.
[Ref: 13858] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The very Wise Aldermen of Gotham, Scratching for a Mayor.
[Anon., 1773.]
Etching, sheet 195 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼") with 2pp. accompanying letterpress. Glued to backing sheet.
Etching and the 'Letter from a Gentleman in London' which it accompanied in the 'Sentimental Magazine' for October 1773. The text notes that 'by the annexed cooper-plate, representing the court of aldermen of London scratching for a lord-mayor, the leading features, or characteristics of the greater part of them, may be easily distinguished'. These include Frederick Bull, with a bull's head, writing with a pen in his cloven hoof in the centre; John Wilkes (1725 - 1797) on the right, Sir Watkin Lewes behind them; and Thomas Harley (1730 - 1804) as an ape wearing spurred boots entering from the right. In this election Bull was chosen by the aldermen, although the print was reissued on the same occasion the following year, when Wilkes became mayor.
BM Satires: 5235; for 1774 reissue see ref. 13858.
[Ref: 46561] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Oblique Arch in the viaduct on the London & Birmingham Railway at Watford, Herts. Dedicated by permision to G W Buck, Esq.r Engineer.
Drawn & Lithographed by W.m Sharp, Sen.r
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare & fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 320 x 435mm (12½ x 17"). Slight mount burn.
The Bushy Arches, Watford, on the London to Birmingham Railway soon after the opening in 1838.
[Ref: 53000] £450.00

Railway and Viaduct, Across the Turnpike Road, Watford, _ Herts.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone, by J.C. Oldmeadow.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 395mm (11¼ x 15½"). Slight mount burn.
The Bushy Arches, Watford, on the London to Birmingham Railway soon after the opening in 1838.
[Ref: 52999] £360.00

D.r Church's London and Birmingham Steam Coach, Built at Birmingham, 1833.
John Cooke, Delin. Eng.d by Josiah Allen birm.m.
Published by Josiah Allen, Birmingham, & by Mess.rs Ackermann, Tilt & Fullers, London.
Fine & scarce steel engraving. Sheet 210 x 295mm (8¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line.
A three-wheeled steam coach carrying passengers down a country road. There is no sign of a flue. Dr. William Church (c.1778-1863), an American inventor, patented two steam carriages, the first in 1832, which wasn't built, and a second in 1835, after which he founded the London and Birmingham Steam Carriage Company. Whether the London to Birmingham run was ever completed is uncertain, but soon Church turned his attention to designing locomotives.
[Ref: 62118] £450.00

Plan of the Cabins of the London and Edinburgh Steam Packets.
Litho L. Clark & C.º, 1 Birchin Lane, Cornhill.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 250 x 390mm (9¾ x 15¼"). With wood-engraving pasted of the ship on reverse. Folds as normal, loss at top centre.
Plans of four ships of the London and Edinburgh Steam Packet Company: 'Soho', upper deck and lower deck; 'Tourist'; 'City of Edinburgh'; and 'James Watt', upper and lower. The wood engraving is a profile of 'City of Edinburgh'. The company was bought by the General Steam Navigation Company in 1836.
[Ref: 67856] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[London Bridge from Custom House Quay, 1820. This Plate is by permission respectfully dedicated to William Rendle Esq. F.R.C.S. (author of Old Southwark and its People) in acknowledgement of services rendered to the cause of Southwark Archæology and in particular for his valued Antiquarian assistance to his grateful and obedient servant, The Publisher.]
[Drawn by Edward Duncan. Etched by Wildred Ball.]
[Published March 1st 1885 by S.Drewett late F.Nichols & Co, 14, Borough High St, S.E.]
Etching, proof before letters. 440 x 605mm, 17¼ x 23¾". With title from published edition pasted under bottom plate mark, with mss. ownership slip.
[Ref: 11886] £580.00

London Bridge, from Above Bridge.
E. Walker Del. _ W. Simpson. Lith.
[n.d., c.1852.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 375 x 490mm (14¾ x 19¼"). Repaired tears.
A view of John Rennie's Bridge, detailing the river workers. The BM example has the publication line ''London, Published May 1st 1852 by Messrs Lloyd, Brothers & Co. 22 Ludgate Hill'' between image and title.
[Ref: 67124] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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