Grosvenor Prints

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

Pyrennées. Chevrier prés les eaux chaudes. No.38.
ed Pingret. Litho. de Bernard.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 329 x 279mm. 13 x 11".
A man in traditional dress, in the Pyrenees near the hot springs of Eaux-Chades in the valley of the Gave d'Ossau, France.
[Ref: 26639] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Quarantin Harbour.
Lith. by C. de Brocktorff. Malta.
Lithograph, sheet 95 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). 'Malta 1846' in ms.
Marsamxett Harbour, Malta. In the nineteenth century it was commonly known as Quarantine Harbour, perhaps because of the quarantine hospital which briefly occupied nearby Manoel Island. Lithograph by the German/Danish artist resident in Malta, Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775-1850)
[Ref: 47421] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Paschasius Quesnel.
Dessine d'apres nature. au mis de Juillet 1714.
Se vend chez J. Golle à Amsterdam.
Mezzotint, rare, with large margins. Plate 222 x 165mm. 8¾ x 6½". Rubbed
Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719) was a French Jansenist theologian who took a leading part in scholarly controversy, for example against Joseph Anthelmi. His Janesenist sympathies led to his banishment from Paris in 1681, and four years later he fled to Brussels where he remained until 1703. He was then arrested by order of the archbishop of Mechelen, but managed to escape and settle in Amsterdam for the remainder of his life. This print was made and published in Amsterdam during Quesnel's time there. Jansenism was a Christian theological movement, primarily in France, that emphasised sin, human depravity, the necesity of divine grace, and predestination.
[Ref: 24678] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Circonstances Principales de la Vie du R.P. Quesnel & Ses principaux ecrits.
[Anon, c.1720]
Engraving, scarce; sheet 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing part of image at bottom.
Portrait of Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719), Jansenist theologian, surrounded by a garland listing his published works. An unusual combination of portraiture and bibliography. In 2009 the Princeton University Library Graphic Arts blog, discussing their impression of this portrait, stated 'the only other impression we have located is in the Bibliothèque Nationale'. Our impression has been trimmed whereas Princeton's has, at the bottom, an empty rectangle flanked by two circles. This was presumably unfinished, to be filled with text and allegorical symbols similar to those in the top left and right corners.
[Ref: 31319] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Quillebeuf. Plate XXI.
J. Gendall del.t T. Sutherland sculp.t
London. Pub.d May 1.1821, at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's Views on the Seine.
Coloured aquatint, small margins. Plate 249 x 297mm. 9¾ x 11¾". Very fine.
Quillebeuf-sur-Seine, located in Haute-Normandie and on the left bank of the Seine. A family sit with their dog having a picnic and tradeswomen pack a boat to the left.
[Ref: 27140] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Schloss Rabeneck in the Franconian Switzerland
F:W:T Sept. 29 1830
Lithograph on grey paper, printed area 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼).
Unusual view of Rabeneck castle in Switzerland. Amateur lithograph by the army officer and politician Frederick William Trench (c.1777-1859), whose father owned Heywood, Ballynakill in Queen's County. Trench was also keenly interested in architecture: in 1815 he proposed a vast monument to British naval and military victories over France on the site which became Trafalgar Square, and in 1824 he launched a project for an embankment on the north side of the Thames (in conjunction with which a long print of the project was produced).
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For Trench's embankment scheme see refs. 23749, 27468 &c.
[Ref: 35495] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Race Course,
Drawn & Etched by John Augustus Atkinson.
Published as the Act directs May 10, 1804 by J.A. Atkinson & Ja.s Walker, No 3 Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess.rs John & Josiah Boydell, Pall Mall & Cheapside, London.
Coloured soft-ground etching with aquatint. 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"), large margins, watermarked 'J.Whatman 1801'
The crowds at the races, with coaches and sledges, published in Atkinson's 'A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians'. Atkinson accompanied his uncle, James Walker. to St Petersburg when Walker was appointed engraver to Catherine the Great. On his return he and his uncle published this work, which contained 100 plates.
Abbey: Travel 223, 'These plates of Atkinson's show the spontaineity and sprit possible when the artist is his own engraver... The colouring is skilfully done'.
[Ref: 43862] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Racine. De l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Né à Paris le 2. Novembre 1692.
AV Pinxit. Gaillard Scul.
AParis chez Odieuvre, M.d d'Estampes rüe d'Anjoue entrant par la rüe d'Auphine la deniere porte Cochere aul.er.
Fine engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). With narrow margins.
Louis Racine (1692-1763), French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment, son of dramatist Jean Racine.
[Ref: 53304] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Rakoczii D.G. Princeps Transylvaniae etc.
Fred Bouttats sculp.
T. v. Merlen ex [c.1660]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet at edges.
György Rákóczi II (1621-1660), prince of Transylvania. After making alliances with Sweden amongst other countries Rákóczi led a war against Poland which, after initial advances, ended badly. His land was subsequently invaded by Ottoman Turks and he died in battle in 1660.
[Ref: 42988] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Michal Stefan Radziejowski] Michaek S.R.E. Presbyter Cardinalis Radzieiowski Archiepis. Gnesnensis Polonus. Creatus Die II. Septembris MDCLXXXVI.
Frankfurt: heirs of Matthäus Merian, 1702.
Engraving. 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"), very large margins.
An oval portrait of Augustyn Michal Stefan Radziejowski (1645-1705), archbishop of Gniezno and cardinal primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. After the death of Jan III Sobieski, he functioned as Interrex until a new king was elected.
[Ref: 57749] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Janusz Radziwill] Janusius Radzivil. Dux Birza et Dubing, S.R.I. Princeps, Capitaneus Generalis Exercitus Magni Ducatus Lituania etc.
[engraved by W.P. Kilian.]
[Ulm: Wagner, 1691.]
Engraving. 310 x 180mm (12¼ x 7"), very large margins.
Oval portrait of Prince Janusz Radziwill (also Janusz the Second and Janusz the Youngerm 1612-55), a noble and magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose positions included Court Chamberlain of Lithuania (from 1633), Field Hetman of Lithuania (from 1646) and Grand Hetman of Lithuania (from 1654). His ambition for Lithuania led him to side with Sweden against Poland in the Second Northern War (1655-60). When the Swedes were driven back, Janusz died during the Siege of Tykocin by loyal Commonwealth forces. From 'Historia Moderna Europae, oder eine Historische Beschreibung des heutigen Europae' by Everhardus Guernerus Happelius.
[Ref: 57752] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[A Raft.] Een Vlodt, Een Onderlegger.
J.J. [Rainer Zeeman.]
Fine etching. 135 x 240mm (5¼ x 9½''), with 18th century watermark.
Thread margins.
A view of rafts near Amsterdam. Plate 2 from 'Verscheÿde Schepen en Gesichten van Amstelredam. Derde Deel'.
[Ref: 48351] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Fancy Ball Dress. No. 1. Ragusa.
L. M. Delt. in plate [Leon Mansion].
Published by W. Spooner, 259. Regent St.t Deposé a Paris. Printed by Engelmann & Co. [n.d. c.1831-32]
Fine coloured lithograph. 347 x 247mm. 13¾ x 9¾".
Regional Costume Studies from Fancy Ball Dresses. This a representation of the costume of Ragusa, Sicily. A lady wearing a sleeve-less jacket in green with gold borders and frills; her white tunic dress underneath with gold stripes and billowing arms. She holds a basket of flowers under her left arm.
V&A No: E.21127-1957 See: Ref: 17087
[Ref: 22872] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

L'Arc-En-Ciel. Seconde Vüe De Flandres. Grave d'après le Tableau Original de Teniers, de même grandeur Tiré du Cabinet du Chevalier de la Roque. 21.
D. Teniers pinx. Le Bas Sculp.
A Paris chez Le Bas Graveur du Roy au bas de la rue de la Harpe vis a vis la rue Percee chez un Fayancier. 1740.
Etching on 18th century watermarked paper; 295 x 375mm (11½ x 14¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A rainbow over a Flanders landscape, two figures and a dog in the foreground to right. From the series 'Vue de Flandres' engraved by by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707-83) after David Teniers the Younger (1610-90).
[Ref: 57874] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Baths of Calda da Rainha. Les Bains de Caldas de Rainha.
London, Published May 2. 1814 by Mess.rs. Colnaghi & C.o.
Hand coloured aquatint,with large margins, scarce. Plate: 175 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Some slight staining.
Interior view of the Baths of Caldas da Rainha in Portugal.
[Ref: 33604] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Il Principe Ragozzi che fugge vestito da donna dalla fortezza di Neustat, e va a far ribellare lUngheria. Le Prince Ragozzi qui s'enfait déguisé en habit d'une femme da la forteresse de Neustat et il va a faire révolter la Hongerie.
Novelli inv.
Ap. Antonio Zatta e Figli. G.Z.s. [Venice c.1780.].
Engraving, very scarce. Sheet 335 x 400mm, 13¼ x 15¾". Trimmed within plate, some creasing and wear; small tear at top.
A scene from the life of Francis II Rákóczi (1676-1735), leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Austrian Habsburgs, 1703-11). Brought up under Austrian supervision, he was arrested when secret dealings with the French were uncovered in 1700. Sent to the fortress of Wiener Neustadt, it was expected that his trial would end with his death, but, with the aid of his wife, he managed to escape (whether in women's clothes, as shown here, or not, is unclear), fleeing to Poland. When the War of the Spanish Succession broke out in 1704 the Hungarian rebellion began, but it floundered when the Battle of Blenheim made french support evaporate. In 1711 he again went into exile, settling in Turkey. He remains a hero in Hungary. Antonio Zatta & Son, important publishers in Venice, have given the scene a very contemporary look, perhaps reflecting their current problems with the Austrians.
[Ref: 26700] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus Ranzovius Regis Daniae Vicarius, In Ducatib. Slesvi, Holsat. ac Ditmarsiae. DN. in Bredenb. etc,
[Augsburg, 1600.]
Rare engraving with very large margins, printed on 17th century watermarked paper. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5¼"), set in letterpress.
Portrait of Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598), a Danish economist, astrologer and governor of Schleswig & Holstein, from Dominic Custos's 'Atrium heroicum'. Rantzau was patron to cartographer Mark Jordan and astronomer Tycho Brahe and regularly corresponded with both Gerard Mercator and Braun & Hogenberg: the only country map in Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' atlas of townplans is Jordan's map of Denmark, dedicated to Rantzau.
[Ref: 29710] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Shrine of the Saline, Rapallo.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
The view of a shrine in the Italian town of Rapallo, near Genoa. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49337] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Zuagli, Bay of Rapallo (Italy).]
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Edition strictly limited to 100 signed artists proofs. In original mount. Plate: 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6'') very large margins. Marking.
A view of the Bay of Rapallo. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49340] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Sepulchre of King Theodorick near Ravenna, the Roof of one Stone 38 Feet in Diameter about 12 Feet Thick, Erected A.D. 530.
Clerisau Pinxt. P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs by P. Sandby S.t Georges Row, Oxford Turnpike March 1778.
Rare aquatint, scarce in good condition, printed in sepia. 340 x 495mm (13½ 19½), with large margins.
The Mausoleum of Theodoric, built in 520 AD by Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. who ruled Italy from 493 to 526 AD. Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), went to Rome in 1749 working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam's 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. Paul Sandby etched this plate as a pair to the 'Triumphal Arch of Constantine at Fano', one of several aquatints he did after Grand Tourists.
[Ref: 59960] £680.00

F. philippus Aravenna. Ord. Min. Con. Tertiarius Laicus Humls Paulo Goraccio Tertiario C.s S.i Sepulcri Raphael.S.In.F.D.D.
Gio:Incomo Raffe formis Roma alla Pace.
[n.d. c.1601.]
Etching. Plate 178 x 120mm. 7 x 4¾".
St Filippo of Ravenna, standing holding a basket and leaning forward, speaking the words 'Laudato Sempre sia Il nome di Gesue di Maria'. Philip of Ravenna, was a Friar of the third order of the Franciscans.
[Ref: 24842] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[France] G.me T.mas Raynal, De la Société Royale de Londres et de l’Academie des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Prusse.
[Charles Nicolas Cochin.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. 165 x 106mm (6½ x 4¼"). Cut to platemark.
Guillaume Thomas Raynal (1713-1796) the French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. His most important work was 'L'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Establissements et du Commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes', however its introduction was forbidden in France, and the book was burned and an order given for the arrest of the author, whose name had not appeared on the first edition.
[Ref: 29902] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Malta] Dom Martin De Redin Grand Prieur de Navarre et Viceroy de Sicille, et Grand Maistre de Malte.
[n.d. c.1657].
Engraving. 185 x 230mm. Slight staining in upper part of image. Minor creasing to left side of paper.
Martino de Redin y Cruz, Grandmaster of The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (1657 - 1660). During his office the island benefited greatly. He formed a regular Maltese corps of 4,000 musketeers, built a number of forts, and garrisoned them with Maltese gunners paid by him. Because of his personal connections with Sicily, as its former viceroy, he managed to obtain food for Malta from that country and improve the miserable conditions for the islanders.
Collection of the Royal House of Savoy and Italy.
[Ref: 280] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Regnard sur Les Bords de la Mer Glaciale.
Dessiné par Bouchot. Gravé par Charon. Imprimé par Veyron.
A Paris, chez Charon, Graveur, Rue St Jan de Beauvais, No. 26.
Rare & scarce aquatint. Sheet 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, paper toned.
Portrait of Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709), standing on a glacier in Lapland, writing on a block of ice. Regnard was a comic poet and traveller: at the age of 22 he was captured by an Algerian pirate and was taken to Constantinople as a slave, where he was ransomed by the French consul. in 1681 he travelled through Scandinavia, including Lapland, inspiring this fanciful portrait.
[Ref: 60492] £590.00

[Germany] H.A.O. Reichard. Herz: Sächs. Kriegsrath zu Gotha geb. daselbst d. 3: Mrt. 1752.
F. Jageman pinx. F. Müller sc.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving with large margins on three sides. Plate 145 x 96mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Slight crease.
Heinrigh August Ottokar Reichard (1751-1828) the German writer, journalist, theatre director and librarian, best known for his Guides Reichards, which were amongst the first examples of modern travel guides. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29745] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cérémonie de l'Inauguration de la Statue de Louis, Le Bien-Aimé, A Reima par M. Rouillé d'Orseuil, Intendant de la Province, à là tête du Corps de Ville. le 26 aoust 1765. [Numbered key 1 to 11 of important buildings and people.
Van Blarenberghe, delincavit. Varin Fratres Socii Sculpserunt 1771.
Copper engraving. 565 x 693mm. 22¼ x 27¼". Repaired tear.
The inauguration of the statue of Louis XV (1710-1774) in the Place Royale in Reims, France, by Jean Baptiste Pigalle. Louis was very popular at the beginning of his reign and he earned the epithey "le Bien-Aimé", however in time the debauchery of his court, the return of the Austrian Netherlands, the cession of New France, and the defeat during the Seven Years' War, all led to Louis becoming the most unpopular king in the history of France.
[Ref: 17892] £480.00

[Man in a Sledge Pulled by Reindeer.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Pencil drawing; in reverse to print. Sheet: 190 x 245mm (7½ x 9¾''). Damaged and laid on album sheet.
A scene in Northern Europe showing a man in a sledge pulled by a reindeer and a woman and child. After a lithograph.
See 49108
[Ref: 49109] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Man in a Sledge Pulled by Reindeer.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 190 x 245mm (7½ x 9¾''). Trimmed and creased.
A scene in Northern Europe showing a man in a sledge pulled by a reindeer and a woman and child standing by a hut covered in reindeer skins.
See 49109 for drawing.
[Ref: 49108] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sepoloro a Falerium citta Etrusca ditrutta.
C. Reinhart fc. Roma 1796.
1769.
Etching. Fine. Platemark: 375 x 285mm (14¾ x 11¼"); very large margins.
A plate from Johann Christian Reinhart's (1761 - 1847) 'Collection of Picturesque Views of Italy.', depicting the tomb at Falerium, a Ruined Etruscan City, with a shepherd herding goats in the foreground to the left.
[Ref: 39506] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

La France de nos jours. No. 53 Vue du Thèatre, A Rennes.
Asselineau del.t et lith. Imp. Destouches, rue Paradis P.re 28.
Paris, F. Sinnett, Editeur, Passage Colbert. [n.d., c.1845.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 310 x 445mm (12 x 17½'').
A view of the theatre in Rennes.
[Ref: 49602] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Revolution of France.
R. Corbould del. J. Chapman sc.
London, Published April 3 1810, by J. Wilkes
Stipple, sheet 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"). Trimmed inside platemark.
An allegorical scene of the French revolution (1789-1799). A wild-eyed Marianne stands on a map of Europe wielding a sword and holding up a flaming torch, with a dejected figure of liberty slumped to left, a cockerel and two shackled men to right, Father Time flys above and gestures towards justice and a figure carrying a banner labelled 'Bourbon', accompanying the Bourbon Prince. 'Given the octavo sheet size, publisher and date, this may have appeared as an illustration to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes' (24 volumes, published 1810-1829, primarily by J. Wilkes, some volumes by G Jones).'
[Ref: 40182] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Thadé Reyten. Confédéré de Bar, Nonce de Nowogrodek en Litvanie, à la Diete de Warsovie de 1773 [...]
François Smuglewicz, del. James Hopwood sc.
P. Dien impr. [Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Stipple engraving on steel. Sheet 270 x 185mm, 10½ x 7¼".
Thadé Reyten (1742-80), Polish lawyer and politician. 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: 21275] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rheinfall waterfall near Schaffhausen] Vue de la Chute du Rhin à Lauffen près de Schaffhouse en Suisse / Cette fameuse Cataracte, la plus considérable de l'Europe, se voit à une petite lieu de la Ville de Schaffhouse[...]
Peint d'après Nature par J:J: Schalch / Gravé à Basle par G:F: Gmelin en 1783
Publié à Basle par Chr: de Mechel, Graveur et Membre de diverses Académies
Engraving, sheet 480 x 640mm (19 x 25¼"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed inside lower platemark. Some foxing.
The Rheinfall, the largest waterfall in Europe, located between the cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland. Engraved by Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin (1760-1820) after Johann Jakob Schalch (1723-89), little-known Swiss painter. Extensive text below describing the location and significance of the waterfall, and noting that Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, had visited and been impressed by the spectacle on a visit in 1777.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38494] £420.00

A Grotto Cut in the Rock, near Lindo, in Rhodes. Grotte Taillée dans le Roc, prés de Linde, dans l’Ile de Rhodes.
L. Mayer del.
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, 1803.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 305 x 386mm. 12 x 15¼".
Part of a hidden Doric columned temple at Lindos on the Island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Founded by the Dorians led by the King Tlepolemus of Rhodes, Lindos became a major trading centre by the 8th century. In medieval times most buildings fell into disuse and in the 14th century many were partly overlaid by a massive fortress built on the acropolis by the knights of St John to defend the island against the Ottomans. The acropolis is one of the greatest sites in the world.
[Ref: 25736] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rhodes Harbour.
[Edward Morrison de Courcy Short]
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 90 x 200mm. 3½ x 8".
A view of the harbour on the Greek island of Rhodes, from an album of 'sketches made on a trip round the world'. By Edward Morrison de Courcy Short, b.1857, who attended Charterhouse School, Surrey (1870-6). He passed the Ceylon Civil Service exam in 1878, and in 1905 became Chairman of the Municipal Council and Mayor of Colombo, retiring in 1910.
List of Carthusians, 1800-1879, by W.D. Parrish
[Ref: 11239] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[The Colossus of Rhodes.] Die der Sonnen gemidttmete Wünder-Statua, Colossus zü Rhodis [...] Le merveilleux Colosse de Rhodes dedié au Soleil [...]
J: B: F: v: E: delin:
[Leipzig, 1725.]
Engraving with very large margins. 305 x 430mm (12 x 17"). Spotting, creasing.
The Colossus of Rhodes, standing astride the entrance to the harbour. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was built in BC 280, when it was one of the tallest statues in the world. It stood for a little over 50 years, brought down by an earthquake in BC 226. The plate was published in Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's 'Entwürst Einer Historischen Architectur', a study of the architecture of the ancient world. Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was a successful Austrian architect: his baroque works include the Schönbrunn Palace, Karlskirche, and the Austrian National Library in Vienna. He also studied ancient architecture, publishing 'A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture' in 1721, taking on classical influences in his building.
[Ref: 33739] £420.00

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