Grosvenor Prints

[Peasant Women Portofino.]
Signed in pencil by S. Tushingham.
Limited to 75 n.d.
Etching 385 x 245mm.
[Ref: 6226] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Portugal. Oporto von San Joao aus.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Portugal arranged around a central view of of the Oporto, other views include 'Kloster Batalha', 'Leiria', 'Coimbra'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46033] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vué du Palace Royal de Lisbonne. [&] Vué de Palais que le Roi de Portugal a achetér.
A Leide, Chez Pierre vander Aa. [n.d., 1729.]
Two engraved views printed within a separately-printed frame-like decorative border. Sheet 235 x 400mm (9¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Two views of Portuguese Royal Palaces, published in the 1729 special edition of the 'Galerie Agreable du Monde', a sixty-six volume atlas of which only 100 copies are said to have been published, with each plate augmented with these frame-like decorative borders.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33374] £350.00

Vué de la place du Palais á Lisbonne. [&] Palais du Comte d'Avero, a Lisbonne oú Charles III a été Logé. [&] Fête des Taureaux á Lisbonne. [&] Embarquement de la Princesse de Portugal, Cathérine, Epouse de Charles II Roi D'Angleterre.
[A Leide, Chez Pierre vander Aa.] [n.d., 1729.]
Four engraved views printed within a separately-printed frame-like decorative border, very scarce. Sheet 280 x 350mm (11 x 13¾"). Trimmed into the printed border, laid on album paper.
Four views of Lisbon, including bullfighting at the Royal Palace and the departure of Catherine of Braganza to marry Charles II in 1662. It was published in the 1729 special edition of the 'Galerie Agreable du Monde', a sixty-six volume atlas of which only 100 copies are said to have been published, with each plate augmented with a frame-like decorative border, here sadly mostly trimmed away.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33377] £350.00

[Lisbon] [Ca]roli Tertii, Hispaniarum regis justi palatium, Olisipone. [Repeated in Spanish, Dutch & French.]
P. v. d. Berge fec. et edit cum Privil.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Etching, rare. Sheet 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9½"). Trimmed into image on left, losing part of title, laid on album paper.
The Lisbon palace of Charles III, the Habsburg pretender to the throne of Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession. Published in 'Theatrum Hispaniæ', a series of views of Spain drawn and engraved by Pieter van den Berge (c.1670-1737).
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33379] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Belém Tower] Bethlemi munitissima arx, urbis vincinæ propugnaculum. [Repeated in Spanish, Dutch & French.]
[P. v. d. Berge fec. et ed. cum Privil.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Etching, rare. Sheet 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
The Belém Tower, a small fortress at the mouth of the River Tagus in Lisbon, published in 'Theatrum Hispaniæ', a series of views of Spain drawn and engraved by Pieter van den Berge (c.1670-1737). Built in 1519 it was included in the 2007 'Seven Wonders of Portugal'.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33384] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Portugalliae Que Olim Lusitania, Novissima et Exactissima Descrtiption Auctore Vernando Alvaro Secco . . . anno 1600.
Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.
[Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, c.1636.]
Hand-coloured engraved map. 340 x 490mm (13½ x 19¼"). Split in upper centre fold.
A map of Portugal, engraved by Baptista van Doetecum in 1600 after Fernando Alvares Secco's map of 1561, here published in a German editon of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. It is one of the most striking of 17th century maps of Portugal, and one of the few in the atlas to be printed from a purchased plate rather than engraved in-house.
[Ref: 39400] £350.00

Alfonso de Albuquerque.
Westermayr f.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 120 x 82mm (4¾ x 3¼").
Alfonso de Albuquerque (c.1453-1515) the Portuguese general, 'great conqueror', statesman and a leading empire builder. He advanced the Portuguese grand scheme of combatting Islam, spreading Christianity and securing the trade of spices and the establishment of a vast Portuguese Asian empire. He was the first European to enter the Persian Gulf and led the first voyage by a European fleet into the Red Sea. He led the conquest of Goa in 1510 and the capture of Malacca in 1511. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29727] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Maria Isabel Francisca de Bragança Rainha de Espanha.
Lopes lith. D. Vicente Lopez Pint. Lith Franceza, Calçada do Cornbro No.45 Lx.a
[n.d. c.1816.]
Lithograph. Sheet 570 x 392mm. 22½ x 15½".
Maria Isabel de Bragança (1797-1818) was Queen of Spain from 1816 until her death. She was the second daughter of Juan VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina de Borbón. Her marriage to Fernando VII in 1816 helped to strengthen relationships between Spain and Portugal. They had two children; however the second birth had its complication resulting in both the child and Maria Isabel's death.
[Ref: 20375] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Donna Maria.
[Anon, c.1840]
Pen lithograph, printed area 155 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Crease; slight foxing.
Dona Maria II (1819-53), queen regent of Portugal and the Algarves from 1826-28, and from 1834-53, here portrayed at the age of around thirteen. Maria had been nominated by the elderly King Joao VI to serve as regent (as his favoured son Pedro was emperor of Brazil), but in 1828 the Joao's exiled son Miguel deposed Maria, proclaiming himself king. Thereafter Maria travelled to various European courts in search of support. Pedro later joined forces with Maria, warring with Miguel and forcing him to abdicate, restoring Maria to the throne. From a series of portraits by lithographer Antoine Maurin dit l'aîné (1793 - 1860).
[Ref: 35274] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Joaõ Gomes da Silva Conde de Tarouca.
G.Kneller S.R Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. I. Simon Fecit.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed to image, laid on album paper, some suface wear.
Half-length portrait of Count Tarouca, the Portuguese ambassador to London, 1709, in amour.
CS: 149, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 19838] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Isabel de Portugal, Esposa de Carlos V. El cuadro original existe en el R.l Museo de Madrid.
Tiziano lo pintó. C. Rodrigez lo lit.o. J. de Madrazo lo dirigió.
Imp. en el R.l Est.o lit.o de Madrid. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 370 x 290mm (14½ x 11½"), with blindstamp in inscription area. Laid on album paper.
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (1503-39), who, as wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was queen of Germany, Italy, Spain, Naples and Sicily. Titian's original oil is now in the Prado Museum. This lithograph is from the 'Colección lithographica de cuadros del rey de España el señor Fernando VII'.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33306] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes 4 Lusitanie Rex 21. natus 19 Mart. 1603. Ex Ducatu Bragantie_omnium voce clamante...suscepta cura, quatuor ab Hispanis reportatis victorijs, regalis Bragantie Do:mus perenniter firmatur in Solia. [In frame around portrait:] Neque alienam terram sumpsimus, neque aliena detinemus, sed hereditatem patrum nostrorum, queab inimicis nostris aliquo tempore possessa est. Machab.1.C.15.
[Andreas Antonius Horatiis Romanus pinxt. Bendictus Fariat sculp.t]
[n.d. c.1680.]
A rare engraving. 271 x 182mm. 10¾ x 7¼". Trimmed to image false margins added.
John IV of Portugal (1603-1656). He was patron of music and arts and was considered a sophisticated writer on music and of music. His library, one of the largest in the world, was destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. His most famous composition is a setting of the Crux fidelis, a work that remains highly popular during Lent amongst church choirs. His daughter, Catherine of Braganza, marrieed Charles II of England. In politics and military he led the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain, and was so successful that on the eve of his death in 1656, the Portuguese empire had reached its zenith spanning almost 3 billion acres.
[Ref: 20683] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Dom Miguel.
A. Maurin 1832 [in image]. Lith. de Lemercier rue du Four S.G. No.35
Paris chez Chaillou Editeur rue St Honoré No. 140
Lithograph, image 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4½"). Wove paper; uncut sheet; foxing; publisher's blindstamp.
Miguel I (1802-66), King of Portugal (1828-34). A son of João VI, Miguel revolted against his father, who exiled him to Vienna. After the death of João VI, the heir-apparent Pedro remained in Brazil, where he had become Emperor. Pedro abdicated the portuguese throne in favour of his daughter Maria regent of Portugal, but Miguel deposed her in 1828, with the support of the British Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington. In 1831 Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne and led an invasion of Portugal, beginning a three-year civil war which ended with Miguel abdicating. He spent the rest of his life in exile in Italy, England and Germany. From a series of portraits by lithographer Antoine Maurin dit l'aîné (1793 - 1860).
For Maria II, see ref. 34516; for Pedro, see 34519; for a British satire criticizing Wellington's stance towards Miguel, see ref. 30580.
[Ref: 34520] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

D. Sebastiaõ Monteÿroda Vide Arcebispo de Bahia do Conselho de sua Magestade.
N. Oddi sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving with large margins. 225 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"). Wormhole in image.
[To Finish?]
[Ref: 34983] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

S. M. F. Maria Pia. [facsimile signature] Rainha de Portugal.
A. Pinçon. Imp. Lemercier 57 r, de Seine Paris.
[n.d. c.1860] Paris. Bulla Frères 16 rue Tiquetonne. Liboa M. Costenta
Coloured lithogragh. 495 x 350mm. 19½" x 13¾". Some slight creasing.
Queen Maria Pia (1847-1911). Maria Pia de Savoie, last queen of Portugal.
[Ref: 8318] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Rock of Lisbon, 4 Miles dis.t. The Rock, 2 Miles dis.t. The Rock, 2 Leagues dis.t.
[Engraved by J.C. Stadler after John Thomas Serres.]
Engrav'd for I.T. Serres's Little Sea Torch, & Pub.d by him, London, 1801.
Aquatint, printed in blue and hand finished. 240 x 390mm, 9½ x 15¼". Occasional spots. Colour smear in margin.
Three finely-coloured coastal profiles around Lisbon in Portugal. Published in Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13480] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jardin de Serra. Madeira.
Drawn from Nature by J.B. On stone by Villeneuve.
Printed by Engelman, Graf, Coindet & Co [n.d., c.1830].
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 265 x 325mm (10¼ x 12¾").
A picturesque scene depicting a few small buildings in a fertile, mountainous landscape, with two figures in the foreground collecting wood. Jardin da Serra (Portuguese meaning "mountain garden") is a civil parish in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos in the archipelago of Madeira.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 32144] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Lisbon.
[Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.]
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm, 5¼ x 6½".
A chart of Lisbon in Portugal, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13665] £120.00

Machico. Madeira.
Drawn from Nature by J.B. / On stone by W. Gauci.
Printed by Engelman, Graf, Coindet & Co. [n.d., c.1830].
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½").
A view of a river in the city of Machico, Portugal. To the right, a women in a white, hooded robe is being carried in a sedan chair by two men in traditional costume. A bridge can be seen in the middle ground and a mountainous landscape in the distance. Machico is a city and municipality in the northeastern part of the island of Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 32141] £330.00

The Church of Nossa Sen.a Do Livramento, In the Curral. Madeira.
Drawn from Nature by J.B. On stone by F. Nicholson.
Printed by Engelman, Graf, Coindet & Co. [n.d., c.1830].
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13").
A picturesque view of the church of Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Curral das Freiras, a civil parish in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The church can be seen in the centre of a fertile and mountainous landscape, with three figures in the foreground and a waterfall near the top of the mountains in the distance.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 32143] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Descent into the Curral. From the ridge under Pico Grande. Madeira.
Drawn from Nature by J.B. On stone by E. Nash.
Printed by Engelman, Graf, Coindet & Co. [n.d., c.1830]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 270 x 335mm (10¾ x 13¼").
A dramatic and picturesque view of the Pico Grande, Madeira, Portugal. Two figures on Donkeys can be seen on a path to the right, descending into the valley of the mountain, whilst a flock of birds fly over ahead in the distance.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 32145] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Pico Ruivo, the Torrinhas &.c &.c. From the Paul de Serra. Madeira.
Drawn from nature by J.B. On stone by F. Nicholson.
Printed by Engelman, Graf, Coindet & Co. [n.d., c.1830]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 285 x 360mm (11¼ x 14¼").
A landscape view of the Pico Ruivo, the highest peak on the Madeira Islands, Portugal. Four figures can be seen on a path in the foreground, carrying large bags across their shoulders, with dramatic mountains in the distance.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 32146] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vue d'une partie de la Coste de Pausilipe, prise du dessus de la Grotte de Pouzzoles en alland au Tombeau de Vergile. Dessinée d'après Nature par Robert peintre [de Roy.]
Gravé a l'Eau-forte par Weisbrod. Terminé par le [Roy].
[Paris: Clousier, 1781-6.]
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark. 250 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾") very large margins Tear with loss in top margin. Two areas of inscription scratched out.
A view of Posillipo, a rocky outcrop on the edge of Naples. From Jean Claude Richard Saint Non's monumental 'Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile'. In the spirit of French republicanism, any mention of the king has been erased, even the name of the engraver, Julien Le Roy.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57525] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

So wie sich selbige ausserhalb des Canals gerade vor der Brücke, präsentiren. Canal. e. zwei Steinerne Brücken. f. dei beiden Communs. g. ein klein Stück von der Colonnade.h. des Castellans und Gärtners Wohnung. i. Wachthaus. k. Stallung u. Wagenremisen.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Copper engraving. 210 x 324mm. 8¼ x 12¾".
Here depicted at the Communs, that face Postdam Palace, and the westward opening court of honour; sitatued in the Sanssouci Royal Park. Designed by Carl von Gontard and Jean Laurent le Geay, the communs are styled the same as the palace using various forms of baroque architecture and decoration. The facade is ornately decorated with curved colonnades, statues, obelisks, and a curvaceous stairway, which acted as a state entrance.
[Ref: 16488] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Gregory Alexandrowitz Potemkin, at the Age of 38 Years.
Published Feb.y 12.th 1800, by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Engraving. Sheet: 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A portrait, set in an oval of Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), the Russian military leader, statesman and nobleman who was the favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.
[Ref: 42143] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Claudine Potocka. Née Dzialunska 1779 Warsaw + Florence 1837.
J Isabey del. James Hopwood sc.
[Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Stipple engraving on steel. Sheet 270 x 185mm, 10½ x 7¼".
Portrait of Claudine Potocka (1832-36), leaning on a map of Poland. Like many Polish nobles of the period she died in exile after the Great Emigration of the 1830s. A portrait from the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 21329] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Jacque Poupar. Cure de St.Eustache et Confesseur de Louis XVI Roi de France. Dessine d'apres nature par Touzee.
Touzee. P Duflos.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1787] Avec Privilege du Roi.
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 270 x 161mm.
[Ref: 2119] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Avanzi del Tempio di Giove Seraphide a Pozzuoli.
Ph: Hackert pinx, 1789. Vinc. Aloja sculp. Giorgio Hackert direx.
Si vende a Napoli da Giorgio Hackert Incisore di S. M. Con Privilegio.
Etching. Fine. Plate: 560 x 410mm (22 x 16"). Some marking in margins.
A view of the Roman macellum, or market place, of Pozzuoli. Excavations of the site we ordered in 1750 by King Charles of Naples and the site was wrongly thought to be a temple to Serapis after excavators discovered a statue of the diety at the site. The image shows the three recognisable marble columns and figures inspecting the achitectural fragments.
[Ref: 40275] £360.00

[Pozzuoli.]
J.C. Parker [in signature lower left.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Watercolour. 177 x 247mm. 7 x 9¾".
A view of Pozzuoli, in the Italian region of Campania.
[Ref: 18829] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

[Pozzuoli.] Pozzuolo.
[Rome: Giovanni Generoso Salomoni, c.1761.]
Engraving. 125 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Narrow margins.
A view of the bay of Pozzuoli in Campania, known to the Romans as Puteoli (where Caligula built a two-mile floating bridge to defy an astrologer's prediction that he had 'no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae'). Published in Francesco Scotto's 'Itinerario d'Italia'.
[Ref: 33783] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Cumes. La porte heureuse. Cuma. L'Arco felice.
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith. par J.Jacottet Fig. par Bayot.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, Succ. 10 rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 320 x 460mm (12½ x 18"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of the Arco Felice, near the Italian town of Pozzuoli and was the original gate to the ancient site of Cumae or Cuma.
[Ref: 41866] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Porte du Pont de la Vieille Ville à Prague. Voyages en Scandinavie en Laponie etc. Atlas Pittoresque.
Dessiné par Lauvergne_Lith par Fichot. Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris. Arthus-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d. c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. 495 x 330mm. 19½ x 13".
A view of the Powder Gate, Prague, which dates back to the 11th century as one of the thirteen original entrances to Prague's Old Town. Originally known as the New Tower, its names was changed to the Powder Gate in the 17th century when it was used to store gunpowder. From "Voyages en Scandinavie en Laponie etc. Atlas Pittoresque".
[Ref: 25699] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Prague-Praha.
Jilovsky [in image and in pencil lower right.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Two tone etching with pencil signature, rare with very large margins. Plate 159 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½"). Crease.
A quiet street scene in Prague. George Jilovsky (1884-1958) the Prague painter and graphic artist.
[Ref: 30404] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Prague-Praha.
Jilovsky [in image and in pencil lower right.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Two tone etching with pencil signature, with very large margins, rare. Plate 341 x 266mm (13½ x 10½"). Some slight creasing and small tear into lower edge of margin.
A scene at the edge of the River Vltava with the Charles Bridge and tower to the left; carpenters in the foreground. George Jilovsky (1884-1958) the Prague painter and graphic artist.
[Ref: 30411] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Prague-Praha.
Jilovsky [in image and in pencil lower right.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Lithograph and etching with pencil signature with small margins; printed in brown. Plate 341 x 266mm (13½ x 10½"). Some slight creasing and two repaired tears into right-hand side of image.
A street scene on a slight incline; a street vendor with her cart in the street; a dog lying in the shade with children around; a milkman to the right with an old man with a crutch, a wooden leg and a walking stick in the far right. A woman with her two daughters and a small dog seen to the left. George Jilovsky (1884-1958) the Prague painter and graphic artist.
[Ref: 30412] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Wisse-gorod at Prague,_The Bath of Libussa.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
[Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.]
Coloured aquatint, rare. Image area 99 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Cut.
Vysehrad, the historical fort in Prague on the Vltava River. Libuse, is a legendary ancestor of the Premyslid dynasty and the Czech people as whole. She was the wisest of three sisters and prophesied the foundation of Prague from her castle, seen here. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
[Ref: 31167] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague] Facade des Pallasts welchen Z. Hoch.Sr: Excell: Joan Wencelslaus Graft von Gallas [...]
J:B: Fischers v.E: inv: et del: J.A. Delsenbach, Sculpsit
Cum Privil: Sacr: Caesar Majest. [Leipzig, 1725]
Engraving. 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17"), with wide margins. Text in French and German; foxing to edges and sky.
The baroque Clam-Gallas Palace in Prague, designed by Austrian architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach for Johann Wenceslaus, Count of Gallas, and later passed on to Kristian Filip of Clam. In this palace Mozart attended concerts, Beethoven performed here, and Franz Kafka worked as a trainee, while studying law (it is believed to be a possible inspiration for the castle in his novel of the same name). It now houses the Prague City Archives, while concerts are still given here. Plate from Fischer's 'Entwurf einer historischen Architektur' ('Outline of Historical Architecture', first published 1721) , the first comparative architecture of all periods and nations.
Richard T. Gray, ed., 'A Franz Kafka Encyclopaedia'.
[Ref: 33401] £480.00

Praag, de Hooftstadt van Bohemen, leggende op de rivier Molda.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld.C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Engraving, 210 x 265mm. 8¼ x 10½". Slightly faded, from a worn plate.
Panoramic view of Prague in central Bohemia, with travellers and a peasant family with their sheep in the foreground. Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and Latin. Numbered '40' lower right. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
Hollstein, vol XV, nos.1306-1405.
[Ref: 11524] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Nord – Ansicht von Prag aus dem Volksgarten. Malerische Darste3llung von Prag 8.tes Blatt.]
Nach der Natur gezeichnet von V. Morstadt. gestochen von C.A. Richter.
[Verlegt von Borosch & André.] [Prague: n.d., c.1841.] Bit later.
Rare aquatint, proof before title. 410 x 560mm (16 x 22").
A prospect of Prague from Letná, after Vincenc Morstadt (1802-75), a lawyer turned artist.
[Ref: 52101] £390.00

La Città di Prago.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Plate: 185 x 280mm (7¼ x 11"), with very large margins. Creasing as normal
A view of the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, showing the city walls and bridges.
[Ref: 46123] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Prague-Praha.
Jilovsky [in image and in pencil lower right.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Two tone etching with pencil signature with very large margins, rare. Plate 246 x 324mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Some slight creasing, paper toning.
A view across the River Vltava towards one of the bridge towers of the Charles Bridge, and the of the dome of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi. George Jilovsky (1884-1958) the Prague painter and graphic artist.
[Ref: 30410] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Der Intere Hirschgraben.
V. Morstadt, del. H. Winkles scp.
Verlag von Borosch & André in Prag. D. Kunst-Verlag.
Steel engraving. Sheet 155 x 205mm (6 x 8").
The 'Hirschgraben' ('Stag moat') a deer reserve under the walls of the Hradcany, Prague.
[Ref: 38983] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Boissy d'Anglas présidant la convention le 1er Prairial an III.
E. Delacroix pinxt. Bracquemond aquaf.
Imp. A. Salmon. [n.d., c.1870].
Etching, platemark: 570 x 445mm. (22¼ x 17½"). Crease top right. Bit time stained.
Etching by Bracquemond from Delacroix's 1831 painting (Musée de Bordeaux) depicting the Jacobin attack of 1st Prairial. The bloody head of Féraud, the preceding president, is thrust at Boissy (1756-1828) at the end of a pike. There is perhaps no grimmer souvenir in art of the days of the French Revolution.
[Ref: 28338] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Augustus Magnus Printz auf Haemen un Noraditz Ictus, Ihro Königl. Majest. in Pohlen und Chur=Fürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen bestalter Cammer Procurator im Marg=Grafthum Oberlausitz.
fait a Leipsig par Bernigeroth Graveur Royal.
[n.d., c.1733.]
Rare engraving, very fine impression; 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"), large margins. Laid on album paper.
Portrait of Augustus Magnus Printz, appointed kammerprokurator (taxman) in the Margraviate of Oberlausitz (Upper Lusatia) in 1726.
[Ref: 57741] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Priolo] Benjaminus Priolus. Santo Juliani F. Eques Venetus.
C. le Febre Pin. N. Pitau Sculp 1663.
Rare engraving. Sheet 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, collector's ink stamp in lower right corner. Central crease not visible from front.
Portrait of French historian Benjamin Priolo (1602-67), wearing hat and buttoned tunic, sitting at a desk and writing with a quill. He is best known for 'The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine'.
[Ref: 61361] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Ptolemy Soter.
J. Chapman sculp.t
London Published as the Act directs Dec.r 31, 1803 by J. Wilkes.
Stipple, very larege margins. Plate 165 x 115mm. 6½ x 4½".
Head and shoulders to right, head in profile, wearing armour, a ruff and ermine cloak and a circlet decorated with an alligator; in an oval; plaque below showing a temple surmounted by a smoking urn and smoking pillars to either side. Ptolemy I Soter (c.367 BC - c.283 BC) was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who later became ruler of Egypt and the founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Dynasty. One of a number of stipple heads of Kings and Queens of similar format printed on quarto sheets, by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810. They probably appeared as illustrations to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes'.
[Ref: 27011] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Jemelja or Emelka Pugatschew. A Rebel in Russia under the assumed name of Czar Peter III, in the Government of Oldenburgh [...]
Published by Alex.r Hogg [c.1793]
Engraving with 6pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"..
Portrait of Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (c.1742-75) with biographical account 'drawn from the Proceedings of the Criminal Process against him at Moscow, by the definitive Sentence of which he was condemned to be quartered alive'. Pugachev was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II (1773-4). Alexander Pushkin wrote a history of the rebellion, and fictionalised some of its events in his novella 'The Captain's Daughter'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39630] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Kasimir Pulaski. Marésal de la Terre de Lonza [...] (De la Coll.on de L. Chodzko)
Oleszkiewitz del. James Hopwood sc.
P. Dien impr. [Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Stipple engraving on steel. Sheet 270 x 185mm, 10½ x 7¼".
Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779), a Polish refugee who became a general in the Continental Army under George Washington, and has been called the Father of the American cavalry. He was killed at the Battle of Savannah and is one of only seven people to be awarded honorary United States citizenship, granted 2009. Casimir Pulaski Day is a public holiday in Illinois. A portrait from the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it. It was used on a 1931 US postage stamp.
[Ref: 21247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Six plates from 'Sketches in The Pyrenees'] Crossing the Snows of Gavarni. [&] El Fandango. [&] French Officer Feeding. [&]Pilgrimage to the Baths of Panticosa. [&] Men of Landes. [&] Swimming Baths of the Mediterranean.
M.J. Booth, Del et Lith. M. & N. Hanhart, Imp.t.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837.]
Six tinted lithographs, each sheet c. 175 x 265mm (7 x 10½"). Some spotting, a few signs of wear.
From 'Sketches in The Pyrenees with Some Remarks on Languedoc Provence and the Cornice' by Mary Boddington (née Comerford, 1776-1840). 'Snows of Gavarni' shows the author being guided through a pass in the Pyrenees. Born in Cork, Mary had her poety published in local papers before leaving for London in 1803. She married Thomas Boddington (1774-1862), son of a director of the Bank of England, in 1805 at Saint George’s Church, Hanover Square. She continued to write: other published works include: 'Slight reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a corner of Italy' (1834); 'The Gossip’s Week, in Prose and Verse' (1836); and Poems (1839).
Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland, ''She wrote a couple of entertaining volumes of travel on the Continent'',
[Ref: 49426] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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