Grosvenor Prints

Victoria preparing for the Ball.
J. Roberts delin.t. J. Jones Fecit.
[n.d., c.1791.]
Stipple. Sheet: 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾''). Cut to platemark
A scene showing a young woman dressing for a ball. Frontispiece to 'The Rambler' 1791.
[Ref: 50297] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Dressing for the Ball in 1857. Punch's Pocket book for 1857.
John Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1857.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
An illustration depicting a satirical scene of women getting ready for a ball. One of the ladies is being dressed in an inflatable crinoline, with a maidservant pumping air to inflate the petticoat. By John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63846] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[1775.]
Etching with engraving in black ink, fine impression. 241 x 216mm. 9½ x 8½". Trimmed.
Ticket. A young woman is seated with her upper body bear and crowned with flowers, in the right hand she holds a caduceus. Three putti dance on the floor; two fly above holding grapes and a basket of flowers. The host is politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv. See Ref 14666 for same state in red/brown ink & 14667 for earlier state, & 21223 for same state.
[Ref: 20524] £340.00

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[1775.]
Etching with engraving in black ink. A very fine impression, mint. Plate 241 x 216mm. 9½ x 8½". Foxed. Very large margins.
Ticket. A young woman is seated with her upper body bear and crowned with flowers, in the right hand she holds a caduceus. Three putti dance on the floor; two fly above holding grapes and a basket of flowers. The host is politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv. See Ref 14666 for same state in red/brown ink & 14667 for earlier state. See Ref: 20524 for same state.
[Ref: 21223] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ball at the Mansion House, April 23. 1821. The Right Honourable J. T. Thorp, Lord Mayor. No admittance til /2 past 9. Wm. Borradach. [Ink signature.] [Red Seal of the Lord Mayor.]
Engraving. 275 x 218mm. 10¾ x 8½". Wax Seal peeled away around edges.
During 1817–1835, J.T. Thorp was mercer for alderman and livery companies. This being an invitation to a Ball hosted by the Lord Mayor.
[Ref: 13014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Ball Game]
91-100 [illegible signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, printed in colours, signed by the artist. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½").
Two men playing a game against a wall in a Spanish village.
[Ref: 60925] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Ball jun.
Lib. [Liborio Prosperi.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith.
Vanity Fair. March 5 1892.
Chomolithograph. Printed area 330 x 190mm (13 x 7½"). Tear in right margin. Slight offset.
John Ball, Jr. (1861-1940), golfer, the first of only three amateurs to win an Open Championship. He won the Open Championship and the Amateur the same year, 1890.
[Ref: 40692] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Ball [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire.
M. & N. Hanhard Imp. [n.d., 1851.]
Lithograph on india. Printed area 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11). Surface soiling.
Robert Ball (1802-57), Irish naturalist who served as the Director of the Dublin University Museum and inventor of 'Ball's Dredge', for the collection of marine organisms.
Wellcome 159.
[Ref: 51182] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Stawall Ball] "popular Astronomy" Jehu Junior. Vanity Fair Supplement.
Spy [engraved in the image.]
[April 13th 1905.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. Lith.
Chromolithograph. 394 x 272mm (15½ x 10¾"). Slight mark above head.
Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) was an Irish astronomer who worked for Lord Rosse from 1865 for two years. In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin and in 1874 he was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin at Dunsink Observatory. He also published books on mathematical astronomy such as "A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy". In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University and also accepted the post as Director of the Cambridge Observatory.
[Ref: 18036] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

["popular Astronomy" Jehu Junior"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 21.st 1904]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Irish astronomer, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913).
See also reference 18036.
[Ref: 63690] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A ballad singer]
L: Castro pinxit.
I. smith excud. [n.d. c.1670.]
Very fine mezzotint, 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"), with very large margins. Collector's stamp of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.
A three-quarters length portrait of a ballad singer, holding the sheets out in front of her with both hands and others in her apron. Russell identifies her as Mrs Parker, a ballad singer from c.1700.
Le Blanc 414. Wessely 410. Russell 197a.
[Ref: 59545] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[View of Ballasore Roads] Rade, de la Balasore
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1811]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 490 x 355mm (19¼ x 13¾"). Central fold as issued; uncut sheet.
View from the harbour in Balasore, which 'offers nothing but the sea to the view'. The letterpress published with the print explains how the sea is 'frequented by different sorts of vessels', including 'large ships from Bombay, Surate, and other parts of the western coasts', schooners from the Ganges From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33640] £480.00

[Ensemble de 14 Planche Danse Opera.] No.1. M.elle Taglioni, Dans la Sylphide. [&] No.2. M.me Rosati, Ballet du Corsaire. [&] No.3. M.me Ferraris, dan le Ballet des Elfes. [&] No.4. M.lle Zina Richard, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.5. M.elle Marquet, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.6. M.elle Marquet, dans le Ballet du Dieu et la Bayadère. [&] No.7. M.lle Fiocre, dans l'Amour de Pierre de Médicis. [&] No.8. M.elle Cassegrain, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.9. M.elle Emarot, dans Guillaume Tell. [&] No.10. M.elle Emma Livry, dans Herculanum. [&] No.11. M.elle Caroline, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.12. M.elle Plunkett, dans La Mañola de La Favorite. [&] No.13 M.elle Vibon, dans le Ballet de Vert-Vert. [&] No.14.M.elle Lefèvre, dans Orfa.
Alophe del. Et lith. Imp. Auguste Bry, r. du Bac, 114, Paris.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Rare complete set of 14 hand-coloured lithographs, bound together. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10").
From Alophe's 'Les Danseuses de l'Opéra' at the Paris Opera, c.1860. Maria Taglioni, the greatest ballerina of the 19th century as the Sylph in La Sylphide her most famous role. She was teaching at the Paris opera in 1860. [&] Carolina Rosati, one of the great dramatic dancers of the mid-19th century, she was the highest paid dancer ever at the Paris Opera. [&] Amalia Ferraris, one of Paris Opera Ballet's main stars. [&] Zina Richard, in Marco Spada, performed at the Paris Opera in 1857, chosen because it provided two strong female roles for the Paris Opera Ballet's main stars. Carolina Rosati and Amalia Ferraris. [&] Louise Marquet, also in Marco Spada, as a minor soloist. [&]Louise Marquet as an Indian temple dancer. [&] Louise Fiocre, as Cupid, in the opera Pierre de Médicis at the Paris Opera in 1860. [&] Julie Cassegrain, performing also in the Paris Opera Ballet production of Marco Spada. [&] Célestine Emarot, mother to Emma Livry. [&] Emma Livry in the opera by Félicien David, produced at the Paris Opera in 1858; tragically in 1862, she died from burns received when her flimsy ballet dress caught fire during a rehearsal. [&] Caroline Lassiat, a minor soloist in the 1857 Paris Opera production of Marco Spada. [&] Adelina Plunklett, following in the footsteps of Fanny Essler; versions of La Mañola were also danced by Fanny Cerrito. [&] Mlle Vibon as a minor dancer at the Paris Opera in the 1850s. By the 1860s, most male roles in ballets in Paris and later in London were played by girls en travesti. [&] Mme Lefèvre in peasant costume from Reykjavik. The Paris Opera was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra. This collection features artists from the time it was under the title of Académie Impériale de Musique and thus featured music that highlighted events and challenges faced by the Second Empire, led by Napoleon III. Marco Spada, for example was a splendid piece of French Second Empire nonsense, featuring bandits, kidnapped heroines, lovers' misunderstandings, a rejected suitor who in a fit of pique agrees to marry someone he doesn't love and a bandit chief's daughter, freed to marry her lover when it transpires she was adopted.
Harvard: [Vol.P.state.] [1] No. [2] III.439.iv/iv. [3]II.23.ii/iii. [4]III.412.i/i. [5] No. [6] III.138.i/ii. [7] II.26.ii/ii. [8] I.216.i/i. [9] No. [10] III.88.i/iv. [11] No. [12] III.343.iii/vii. [
[Ref: 21615] £2,200.00 view all images for this item

[Pet of the Ballet. No. 8.]
[R. Gallon pinx. et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.]
[R. Ackermann 14th Feb. 1844.]
Aquatint in india. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"). Staining on backing paper.
A portrait of a ballerina from a series of eight plates portraying annoymous dancers who made up the decorative background during a performance.
[Ref: 15653] £580.00

Ballet dansé au Théatre de l'Opera, dans le Carnaval du Parnasse. Acte Ier. Dedié, è Monseigneur, le Duc de la Valiere; Pair et Grand Fauconnier de France, Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, Brigadier de ses Armées, Gouverneur et Grand Senechal de la Province de Bourbonnois et Capitaoine des Chasses de la Capitainerie Royale de la Varenne du Louvre, Par son très humble et très obéissant serviteur, Basan.
G. De St. Aubin Pinxit F. Basan Sc.
A Paris, ches Basan, Graveur, rue St. Jacques. [c.1760]
Etching and engraving, platemark 320 x 370mm (12½ x 14½"). Repaired tear, trimmed close to plate. Very scarce.
Scene from the 'Carnaval de Parnasse', a ballet composed by Fuzelier and Mondonville. It was issued as a pair to 'La Guinguette', depicting a scene from the pantomime of that name by created by de Hesse.
[Ref: 23105] £360.00

[Ballet.]
J. Brandard.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 315 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Framed. Staining. Unexamined out of frame.
A couple dancing, wearing Central European dress.
[Ref: 57272] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ballet Scene.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured etching with tinsel decoration. Sheet: 150 x 185mm (6 x 7¼''). Laid on card, central vertical crease.
A theatre scene showing five ballerinas in costume, the print has been decorated with glitter.
[Ref: 50634] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of four Ballet scenes.]
[German/Austrian, n.d., c.1780.]
Four coloured etchings. Ech 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"), with large margins. A few signs of wear.
Four ballet scenes, numbered X.1 to 4, each with a central dancer (a king, queen, shepherd and shepherdess) flanked by musicians in a rustic landscape.
[Ref: 45059] £650.00

Ballet 1946-1947.
Covent Garden Books - Number One. Editor: Anthony Gishford.
Printed by Jarrold and Sons Ltd. Norwich and Published by The Covent Garden Opera Trust. [n.d. c.1947.]
Book, 4to; 63 pages. Coloured cover of the stage from a right-wing box.
An illustrated sixty-three page book on the Royal Ballet. It includes contributions by Philip Page "The Royal Opera House", Anthony Gishford "The Covent Garden Opera Trust" and "Frederick Ashton" (with a portrait by Cecil Beaton), David Webster "Lord Keynes", Frances Harris "Ninette de Valois", Sacheverell Sitwell "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Giselle", and Michael Benthall "The Creation of a Ballet". This volume is superbly illustrated with portraits of the dancers and notables, including Ninette de Valois, Constant Lambert, Frederick Ashton, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Harold Turner, Pamela May, June Brae, Robert Helpmann, David Paltenghi, Alexis Rassine, Beryl Grey, Michael Somes, and so on, together with photographs of performances and stagings. Among the photographs are works by Cecil Beaton, Germaine Kanova, Baron, Frank Sharman, Gordon Anthony, etc. Other illustrations include a colour plate depicting "William Chappell's backcloth design for the first act of Coppelia", and color photographs of performances of "The Sleeping Beauty" featuring Margot Fonteyn .Among the ballets featured in this, number one of the Covent Garden books, are "The Sleeping Beauty", "Giselle", "Adam Zero", "Les Sirenes".
[Ref: 23324] £140.00

The Chinese Lantern [pencil].
E. Gordon Carter [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, numbered 12 of 100. 200 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"), with large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A ballet dancer standing under a Chinese lantern.
[Ref: 49154] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Classe du premier quadrille [in pencil.]
P. Rd [pencil signature; Paul Renouard.]
[n.d. c.1892.]
Etching with very large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 229 x 280mm (9 x 11").
Inside a dance studio, the maestro plays a violin, the teacher directs four dancers on the floor; the rest sit behind the musician on a window ledge. No. 25 from a series published as 'A l'Opera 30 Eaux-Fortes par P. Renouard preface de Ludovic Halivy'.
[Ref: 34645] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Ballet Costume.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen outline and detail. Image 310 x 135mm. 12¼ x 5¼". Laid on board.
A lady standing in an arabesque posture, without the hand positioning. In a long drape floral dress, with pink floral detail down the pleats. She wears a small jacket with pink and blue frills on the sides and collar. In her right hand she daintly leans on a parasol and in her left hand she holds a hand bag with a pink bow. On her head she wears a pink ribboned bow.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22715] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

In the Limelight [pencil].
E. Gordon Carter [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, numbered 4 of 100. 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A ballet dancer on pointe, in tutu, hair bobbed.
[Ref: 49151] £350.00

The little dancer [pencil].
E. Gordon Carter [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, numbered 5 of 100. 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), with large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A ballet dancer, on pointe with back arched.
[Ref: 49153] £350.00

[Scrapsheet with Drawings of Ballet Dancers.]
Scrapsheet. Sheet: 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾''). Tears.
A scrapsheet with various scenes including amateur portraits of Taglioni, Grisi, Cerrito and Lucile Grahn dancing.
[Ref: 50597] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ballets de l’Opéra de Paris. Ballets dans les Opéras-Nouveaux Ballets.
Par Léandre Vaillat. Dessins de Jean-Charles Duval.
Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques. MCMXLVII [1947].
4to, with original protective tissue cover. pp. 187. Profusely illustrated with colour and b/w images. Tissue slightly torn along spine and corners.
A survey of the major dance productions of the Paris Opera during the first half of the 20th century, including Castor et Pollux, Aida, Roméo et Juliette and Impressions de Music-Hall, indexes, profusely illustrated by Jean-Charles Duval.
[Ref: 22089] £260.00

Quadrangle of Balliol College.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour, J. Whatman 1812 watermark; 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
The exterior of the Quadrangle of Balliol College. Founded in 1263, Balliol is one of Oxford’s oldest colleges; the oldest academic institution in the English-speaking world still on its original site; and almost certainly the oldest co-founded by a woman anywhere.
[Ref: 62942] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dervorguilla Mater. J.Balliol Scot: Regs. Fund. Coll Balliolensis. A.D.1266. Hanc Effisiem a Tabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverando viro Theoph. Leigh S.T.P et istius Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. H.Parker.
[n.d., c.1740.] Printed for H.Parker. Print and Bookseller, at No.82 in Cornhill, London.
Mezzotint, pt 18th century watermark, 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait of Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 - 1290), "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland, the wife of John de Balliol co-founder of Balliol College, Oxford, and mother of John I, future King of Scotland.
CS 34 IV of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65125] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Dervorguilla Mater. J.Balliol Scot: Regs. Fund. Coll Balliolensis. A.D.1266. Hanc Effisiem a Tabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverando viro Johanni Baron S.T.P et istius Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. J.Faber. A.1712.
[n.d., c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 - 1290), "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland, the wife of John de Balliol co-founder of Balliol College, Oxford, and mother of John I, future King of Scotland.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65126] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Dervorguilla Mater. J.Balliol Scot: Regs. Fund. Coll Balliolensis. A.D.1266. Hanc Effisiem a Tabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverando viro Johanni Baron S.T.P et istius Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. J.Faber. A.1712.
[n.d., c.1712.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 - 1290), "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland, the wife of John de Balliol co-founder of Balliol College, Oxford, and mother of John I, future King of Scotland.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65127] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44077] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
J: Faber Ao 1732
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below. Loss lower left.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse'.
CS 34
[Ref: 44076] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[John Balliol.] Johannis Balliol. Pater J.Balliol Scot: Regis Fundr. Coll. Balliolensis. Han Effigiem a Fabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverendo viro Johanni Baron S.T.P. et istus Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. J.Faber. A.1712.
[n.d., c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet.
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of John de Balliol (prior to 1208 - 1268), English nobleman, belonging to the House of Balliol. Balliol College, in Oxford, is named after him. Following a dispute with the Bishop of Durham, he agreed to provide funds for scholars studying at Oxford. Support for a house of students began in around 1263; further endowments, made after his death by his widow Dervorguilla, resulted in the establishment of Balliol College.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65123] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[John Balliol.] Johannis Balliol. Pater J.Balliol Scot: Regis Fundr. Coll. Balliolensis. A.D. 1263. Han Effigiem a Fabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverendo viro Theoph. Leigh S.T.P. et istus Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. H.Parker.
[n.d., c.1740.] Printed for H.Parker. Print and Bookseller, at No.82 in Cornhill, London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), with large margins.
Portrait of John de Balliol (prior to 1208 - 1268), English nobleman, belonging to the House of Balliol. Balliol College, in Oxford, is named after him. Following a dispute with the Bishop of Durham, he agreed to provide funds for scholars studying at Oxford. Support for a house of students began in around 1263; further endowments, made after his death by his widow Dervorguilla, resulted in the establishment of Balliol College.
CS 34 IV of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65124] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John de Balliol] Johannis Balliol pater J: Balliol Scot: Regis Fund.r Coll: Balliolensis [...]
Printed for H. Parker Print & Bookseller at No 82 in Cornhill London. D.D.D. H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
John de Balliol (b. before 1208, d.1268), magnate and benefactor. As the result of a conflict with Balliol's powerful neighbour, the bishop of Durham, he submitted himself to a public whipping in front of the cathedral church door and undertook to maintain scholars studying at Oxford. Balliol made some provision for this before his death, leaving further endowments in his will, and his widow Dervorguilla formulated the statutes of what became Balliol College in 1282. One of a set of forty-five 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44079] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Un Ballo in Maschera.]
J. Brandard.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Tinted lithograph. Framed, sight size 285 x 205mm (11¼ x 8"). Mounted over image, unexamined out of frame.
A scene from Giuseppe Verdi's three-act opera, ''A Masked Ball'', first performed 1859.
[Ref: 68495] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Le Ballon au dessus de la Méditerranée.
[after Jules Marie Desandré.]
[n.d., c.1880.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"), very large margins.
A balloon ditching in the Mediterranean sea. From the novel "Aventures de Paul enlevé par un ballon" by Jean Bruno.
[Ref: 57030] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A hot air balloon taking off.]
C. H[*****] 1880.
Photogravure, printed in colours. 585 x 345mm (23 x 13½"), on thick paper, very large margins.. Repaired tear entering plate but not image.
A post-Revolutionary scene of a hot air balloon lifting off from a crowded area, carrying a couple, with a woman waving a tricolour. Two of the spectators tumble over.
[Ref: 57135] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Aeronautica; or, Sketches Illustrative of the Theory and Practice of Aerostation; comprising an enlarged account of the late aerial expedition to Germany; By Monck Mason, Esq. Member of the 'Académie de l'Industrie française,' and of the 'Societé de statistque universelle,' etc. etc. With Plates.
London: F.C. Westley, 162, Piccadilly. 1838.
8vo, contemporary diced russia, rebacked with calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; pp. viii + 355; lithographic frontispiece and five plates, as called for in the list of illustrations. Ex libris labels on front pastedown. Scarce.
An account of a balloon trip from London to Weilburg in Hessen, Germany, by Thomas Monck Mason (1803-89), Charles Green (1785-1870) and Robert Hollond (1808-77). They travelled a record distance of 500 miles in 18 hours. The frontispiece has portraits of the three aeronauts with facsimile signatures; the other plates are four views of the flight and a depiction of two parachute designs. In 1844 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a hoax account of a man called Monck Mason who had just crossed the Atlantic by balloon in 72 hours; it was published in New York newpaper 'The Sun' on April 13th and was retracted two days later.
Provenance: the Carton Library, i.e. Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791–1874).
[Ref: 40599] £480.00 view all images for this item

[Three ballooning prints on sheet from the European Magazine] [An Air Balloon invented in the last Century] [The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon.] [The Descent of the Air Balloon]
[Jn.o Lodge sc.] [J. Lodge sc.]
[Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1st March 1789.] [Engraved for the European Magazine.] [Published Dec.r 1st 1783 by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.]
Engravings on sheet, sheet 200 x 400mm (8 x 15¾"). Light foxing.
The first print is of three men sitting in a boat with four balloons attached, one man holds an oar to steer. The second and third are satires on the Montgolfier brothers Le Réveillon balloon experiment were they put a a sheep, duck and cockerel in the basket to see if hot air ballooning is safe for mankind. The demonstration was held in front of Louis XVI and the royal family in the palace forecourt. The balloon left the ground and soared 600 metres into the air. Damaged by a rip in the fabric, it descended slowly eight minutes later after travelling 3.5 km and came back to land in the Wood of Vaucresson, at the Maréchal crossroads.
See Ref: 58170 & 58171
[Ref: 57270] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Balloon.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Wormholes in unprinted area.
Two men in balloon take off from the grounds of a factory or mill, in Coventry, watched by a crowd.
[Ref: 56872] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Air-um Scare-um Travelling.
George Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾").
A satirical scene depicting balloon travel. Balloons and their passengers fill the sky, a tower on the right advertises excursions to Paris, Mont Blanc, Pekin & Canton.
[Ref: 67100] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ascent of M.r Sadler and Miss Thompson from Burlington House July 29 1814.
I.G.
[c.1814]
Etching, sheet 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"). Glued to board and varnished, with title in ink glued to back. Some surface marks. Corners of board exposed.
A view of Burlington House courtyard, showing a balloon on the ground, still being inflated. A large crowd has gathered in the courtyard and on the surrounding buildings to watch. James Sadler (1753 –1828) was the first English balloonist, as well as a chemist and pastry chef.
[Ref: 57020] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Ascension of Queen Caroline.
Tudor del.
London, Published for the Proprietor by J, Creswell, 121 Crawford St, Portman Square Aug.t 17th 1821.
Scarce hand-coloured lithograph. Printed area 360 x 170mm (14¼ x 6¾"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1821]. Stains, horizontal fold, creasing.
Caroline of Brunswick on a cloud being lifted by a hot air balloon of cherubs after her death in 1821. A crown falls from the cloud.
From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra".
[Ref: 58196] £450.00

Les Amusements de Paris, annee 1783, Hoec omina in irritum cadent,
[c.1783].
Engraving with hand colour, sheet 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some time staining.
A small ballooning display within a grandstand. A crowd gathers to watch the rise and fall of the objects. A man on the right guts pigs for their innards to be used as balloons.
[Ref: 56939] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Fair in Hyde Park,
Printed in the Park on June, 28.th 1838.
Very rare lithograph, sheet 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½"). Brown stain top left and further glue stains on edges where it was once put into a scrapbook.
A view near the Queen Elizabeth Gate at Hyde Park Corner with the statue of Achilles. A large crowd gathers and a hot air balloon floats across the sky.
[Ref: 56940] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bo.t of John Richards & C.o. Linen Drapers and Furniture Printers. Manufacture of Silk & Patent... [for Sir J. Cotrell in ink]
[Mar. 1st 1824] [in ink].
Engraving and ink mss, sheet 120 x 235mm (5 x 9¾"). Creases where previously folded. Small tear.
Receipt for an order. A small image of a hot air balloon above a river with ships, in London.
Ex collection of Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 57117] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Five comic scenes] Plate 15.
Designed and Drawn on Zine by A.I. Molinari. Printed by J. Grieve. Nicholas Lane London.
London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d.,c.1820].
Very rare zincograph, sheet 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾").
Five comic scenes with one line of text; A man being handed a piece of paper, 'Hope I don't Intrude?', two men dragging a hot air balloon out of the water, 'Cloud's Omnibus arrival at the bank,' dance partners with the woman's feather accessory attaching itself to the man's hair, 'Miss Huggins, M.r Huggins,' a man sliding down a ladder from a gas lamp post,'More speed than pleasure,' and two gentleman leaning, 'a pair of Cross-grained fellows'.
[Ref: 57072] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Expérience Aerostatique. Faite à Lyon en Janvier 1784, avec un Ballon de cent pieds de diamètre. Vuë prise du Pavillon meridional de Sr. Antonio Spréafico, aux Brotteaux.
A Lyon chés Joubert fils Md. D'Estampes g.de Rue Merciere [n.d. c.1784].
Fine engraving with etching. Sheet 480 x 340mm (19 x 13½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, laid on sheet.
The 'Aerostatic Experience', 19th January 1784. The only recorded flight by Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810). After the first ascent in a hydrogen balloon by Charles (1746-1823) on 1 December 1783, the Montgolfier brothers, determined not to be outdone, returned to the South of France where they constructed a balloon of staggering proportions. Named ‘Le Flesselle’ in honour of the Governor of Lyons who sponsored the project, this giant balloon was 131 feet high and 104 feet in diameter, with a capacity of more than 700,000 cubic feet. The ascent from Brotteaux, Lyon on the 19 January 1784 was watched by over 100,000 people. The balloon reached a height of 3000 feet before a large tear in the fabric caused it to descend rapidly, leaving the seven aeronauts shaken but otherwise unhurt.
[Ref: 56953] £380.00

Modern Balooning. Or the Newest Phase of Folly.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare etching. Sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and pasted onto album paper.
Satirical scene depicting a donkey sat on top of a horse, suspended in their air by a balloon. The donkey wears a jacket and trousers, and holds a flag, looking down upon the field of other donkeys below.
[Ref: 66810] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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