Grosvenor Prints

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)

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)

[The first hydrogen balloon] Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du ballon aréostatique de Mr. de Mongolfier.
Se vend à Augsbourg dans le Negoce com¯un de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libér aux avec privilège de sa Majesté Imperiale et avec Defense de n'en fairem'd' vendre de copies [n.d., c.1783].
Coloured etching. 280 x 405mm (11½ x 16"), very large margins. A few foxing spots.
Jacques Charles and brothers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis Robert designed and built the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon, using rubberised silk. It was launched (unmanned) on 27th August 1783 from the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, watched by Benjamin Frankin. It landed 21 kilometres away in the village of Gonesse where the reportedly terrified local peasants attacked it with pitchforks, as depicted here. This print is a vüe-d'optique, designed to be viewed through an optical viewer so the title, which incorrectly draws on Montgolfier's name, is reversed above the image.
[Ref: 56954] £690.00

[The first hydrogen balloon] Expérience de la Machine Aréostatique de M.rs de Montgolfier d'Anonai eb Vivaris, Reppetée à Paris le 27 Aoust 1783 au Champ de Mars, avec un Bolon de Taffetas enduit de Gomme élastique, de 30 pieds 6 ponces de circonference Ce Balon plein d'Air Inflamable a été éxécuté par Mrs. Robert en vertu d'une Souscription Nationale sous le direction de Mr Faujas de Saint Fond.
[Paris, c.1785]
Engraving with original hand colour. 295 x 410mm (11½ x 16"). Spotting and creasing.
Jacques Charles and brothers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis Robert designed and built the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon, using rubberised silk. It was launched (unmanned) on 27th August 1783 from the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, as depicted here, watched by Benjamin Frankin. It landed 21 kilometres away in the village of Gonesse where the reportedly terrified local peasants attacked it with pitchforks. The use of Montgolfier's name is incorrect. This print is a vüe-d'optique, designed to be viewed through an optical viewer so the title is reversed above the image.
[Ref: 56955] £690.00

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Second Voyage Aérien. Expériénce faite dans le Jardin Thueilleries par M.M. Charles et Robert, le 1.er x.bre 1783. Le Globe en Taffettas gommé de 26 Pieds de diamètre était plein d'Air inflammable.
Dessiné par le Ch.r de Lorimier. Gravé par N. De Launay.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, repair on right edge, paper toned.
A view of a balloon carrying professor Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert away from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, on the 1st December 1783. Coming less than a fortnight after Montolfier's first balloon flight, this was the first using hydrogen rather than hot air. Among the 400,000 spectators reported were Montgolfier and Benjamin Franklin.
[Ref: 57654] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Beilage zum N.J Blatt der Erlanger Real. Zeitung 1784.
Rare engraving, plate 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). A few age spots mostly in margins. Centre horizontal crease.
Supplement to the German newspaper 'Erlanger Real' published in 1784. Three men on the ground man the instrument providing the hot air to push the balloon upwards. Two men stand in the basket: one waving a flag the other having dropped his. The date, number of passengers and the balloon being unteathered suggests that this depicts the November 21st, 1783 Parisian flight of Pilatre de Rozier and French military official, the Marquis d’Arlandes in a balloon set up by the Montgolfier brothers. The pair flew from the center of Paris to the suburbs, about 5.5 miles (9 km), in 25 minutes. Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight and wrote about it in his journal.
[Ref: 56928] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Engraved for the European Magazine. The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon.
Jn.o Lodge sc.
Published Nov.r 1.st 1783, by I. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.
Engraving, plate 190 x 125mm (7½" x 5"). No11 and some pencil text is written in the top margin. Creases in margins. Stain on right that creeps into the plate mark.
A satire 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: 57270. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58170] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Engraved for the European Magazine. The Descent of the Air Balloon.
Jn.o Lodge sc.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1783, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.
Engraving, plate 190 x 125mm (7½" x 5"). No11 and some pencil text is written at the top entering the plate mark. Nicks to edge of the paper.
A satire 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: 57270. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58171] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Le Nouveau Pâris. Ou la Pomme de discorde entre les Jeunes Filles de la Rue St. Martin et celles de la Rue St. Denis.
31 Juillet 1808.
Very rare cloured etching in frame: dimensions of frame 280 x 335mm (11 x 13¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A contemporary take on the story of the Golden Apple of Discord which Eris said she would give to the fairest at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, sparking a dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Paris, a Phrygian mortal, was called upon to judge the contest, and in this print Paris is an aeronaut who descends to arbitrate between the young women of the Rue St. Martin and the Rue St. Denis.
[Ref: 11229] £330.00

Balmoral Castle. (Dee Side) Published By Royal Permission. W. Smith, Architect.
Drawn by E. Duncan. Engraved by T.A. Prior.
London J. & W. Robins 57, Tooley Street, London [n.d., c.1857].
Steel engraving, sheet 230 x 440mm. 9 x 17¼". Trimmed within plate. Vertical centre crease.
View of Balmoral Castle, a large estate house situated in the area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known as Royal Deeside. The estate was purchased by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, and remains a favourite summer royal residence. Albert paid just over £30,000 for full ownership in 1852 and immediately started making plans with William Smith to extend the existing 15th century castle, and make a new and bigger castle fit for the royal family. The new building Prince Albert ordered to be built within a hundred yards of the old castle was planned and designed partly by himself and completed in 1856. Engraved for the Stationers' Almanack. The Stationers' Company had published the Stationers' Almanack since 1747, a single-sheet which consisted of calendar text set out beneath an engraved headpiece that recorded significant events of the preceeding year.
[Ref: 9981] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Balms in the County of Middlesex.
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38538] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of Beloochistan & Sinde, with Parts of Kutch, Seistan, Khorasan, Persia, &c. by Henry Pottinger, Lieut.t 7th Bombay Native Infantry, A.D. 1814.
Reduced from the Original Document and Engraved by Thomson & Hall, Bury Street, Bloomsbury.
London, Published Feb.y 27th 1816, by Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row.
Engraving with stipple, with original hand colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 665 x 930mm (26¼ x 36½"). Some offset, folded; cracks in folds.
A rare map of Balochistan, covering parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and southern Persia, marking the routes of Henry Pottinger and Captain Charles Christie as they mapped the region for the East India Company, amid concerns that Napoleonic France could invade India. Disguised as Muslims, they travelled together to Nushki before separating and taking different routes to Isfahan in Iran. Later Pottinger was appointent envoy and plenipotentiary in China, as which he negotiated the Treaty of Nanking (1842), ending the First Opium War and ceding Hong Kong to Britain. The following year he became the first Governor of Hong Kong, then Governor of the Cape Colony (1847) and Governor of Madras (1848-54).
[Ref: 57970] £650.00

[Honoré de Balzac.]
P. Hayrick sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist.
[Ref: 52554] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Balzac. Cire de l'Institut Royal de France.
Maurin. Lith de Delpech, a Paris.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 457 x 312mm. 18 x 12¼".
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594-1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 14356] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur de Balzac:
R. Gaywood fecit. [n.d., c.1660]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Rare; letterpress pasted below.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594-1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 37680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Bamborough Castle, Northumberland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of Bamburgh Castle from the coast. During the Wars of the Roses, it became the first castle in England to be defeated by artillery, 1464. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 35963] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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[Bamburgh Castle.]
Marion Rhodes [pencil signature outside image.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 298 x 468mm (11¾ x 18½").
Marion Rhodes, English artist. (1907 - 1998). Rhodes studied at Huddersfield School of Art, Leeds School of Art (1925-1929) and the Central School of Art and Design, London (1934-39). She taught art before moving to London. Rhodes went on to teach in the city and in the south of England for most of her life though she exhibited her etchings and drawings at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Paris Salon.
[Ref: 14883] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bamburgh Castle.
Original Etching by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A. Edition linited to 175 impressions. Plate to be destroyed.
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1935.]
Drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"), very large margins, publisher's blind stamps. In original mount with printed label with title as above, with publisher's 'Minerva's Head' & 'A B C' logo. Mint.
By Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), an artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as a creator of art deco travel and British railway posters. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929.
[Ref: 49158] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[George Warwick Bampfylde?] A View near Bamfylde.
W H fecit. [Heath.]
Pub May 7 1823 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St & 74 New Bond St.
Good hand coloured etching. Watermarked: Whatman 1823. Sheet 250 x 200mm. 9¾ x 8". Trimmed within plate, to border.
Caricature gentleman walking with a stick in profile to the right; possibly a portrait of George Warwick Bampfylde, 1st Baron Poltimore (1786 - 1858). He succeeded to the baronetcy in April 1823 after his father was killed by a former servant. Print made by William Heath (1794/5 - 1840).
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 15567] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Les Mystères des Bois. Sous le Bananier. Under the Bananier. Unter des Bananier.
Composé et lith. par Joseph Félon. Imprimé par Lemercièr, á Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxford S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 420mm (12¾ x 16½"). Marking on left.
An exotic Middle Eastern scene in which two scantily clad women lie beneath a banana tree.
[Ref: 47761] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Charle Banks Gentilhomme Suedois Peintre a L'Encre de L'Achine en Mignature. 1748. Le Chevalier Du Halley Descazeaux dédit, struxit, et inscripsit, 1748.
C. Bancks pinx.t. J. Mac'Ardell Fecit.
Rare mezzotint, with engraved armorial and text. Sheet 210 x 125mm (8¼ x 5"), with large margins.
A self-portrait in oval of Charles Bancks (fl. 1738), a Swedish miniaturist working in England. The dedication is to a Frenchman, born 1710, who joined the Prussian army but had to flee after a duel, settling in London. He was confined in Fleet Prison because of debt, where he wrote a lot of poetry (very little published).
CS 10. Goodwin 5.
[Ref: 68362] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Band Boxes. Tabarts Juveline Library.
[London: Richard Phillips, 1805.]
Coloured engraving with very large margins. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"), with text sheet. Repaired tear in wide margin.
A man selling decorative boxes, published in 'Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis'. Behind him is the Bibliotheque d'Education or Tabart's Juveline Library, which was on New Bond Street, on the corner of Grafton Street.
[Ref: 33999] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Gamron, cen groot vlek in het Lantschap Kirman, niet verre van Ormus, gelegen aen den Perziaenschen zeeboezem. Gamron, sinus Persici vicus olim exigius nunc vero maxime opulentus.
Pet: Schenk.
Amst. C.P. [n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 267mm. 8¼ x 10½". Tear outside platemark on left.
View of Bandar Abbas in Iran, formerly known in the west as Gamron, Persia.
[Ref: 20607] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Banderole with allegorical figures.]
[By Laurent Guyot?]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 135 x 435mm (5¼ x 17"), very large margins.
An ornamental banderole with six allegorical figures, including Mercury and two figures representing the Arts.
[Ref: 45180] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

James Bandinel [facsimile signature] Drawn from an early sketch & from memory by J.C. Horsley May 1850
[painted by] C.J. Horsley [print made by] R.J. Lane
M & N Hanhart imp.t
Lithograph, printed area 360 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Printed on india paper; discoloration in margins.
James Bandinel (1783-1849), civil servant. Between 1824 and 1845 he was superintendent of the slave trade department, and as such bore considerable responsibility for its abolition. Lithograph by Richard James Lane (1800-72), a specialist in portraiture who by 1850 was charging as much as £100 for portrait lithography. From an original sketch by John Callcott Horsley RA (1817-1903).
[Ref: 20321] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Captain of Banditti and his Family. Etch'd by Sam.l Ireland form an Original Drawing by Mortimer. To Sir George Beaumont Bar.t and admirer of Mortimer & encourager of the fine Arts this etching is inscribed by his obliged and obedient Servant S: Ireland.
Mortimer del.t Sam.l Ireland fecit.
London, 1785.
Etching. 420 x 465mm (16½ x 18¼"). Very small tears along the lower platemark, some have been repaired. Some creasing in the corners. Very small hole in top right corner margin. Small margins.
A captain, well dressed, standing before his wife and child near the shore, attended by another bandit. Sir George Beaumont (1753 - 1827) was a prominent patron of the British arts and an amatuer painter himself. He was instrumental in the creation of the National Gallery in London, being the first to make a donation of paintings.
[Ref: 53967] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti.
Drawn by I. Mortimer Etch'd by I. Haynes Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.y 1, 1780 by J. Mortimer Norfolk Street Strand, & J, Boydell Cheapside.
London, 1780.
Etching. 350 x 350mm (130¾ x 13¾"), with very wide margins. Stain across foreground figure.
A round design of three bandits. Possibly part of a pair with print 'Pilgrims' of a similar design and also published by Jane Mortimer and John Boydell.
[Ref: 53963] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Attack of robbers in a cave.]
[P. de Laer Pinxit. C. Visscher Fecit.]
[Amsterdam, Cornelis Visscher, c.1660.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 320 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing inscriptions(?), damage in corners, old ink mss bottom right corner.
Riders attack a coach in a cavernous tunnel. The BM has a unlettered proof, but the inscriptions are below the cut here. Other impressions listed were published by Frederick de Wit and Gerard Valck.
From the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), with the signature of his paternal grandfather Pierre Mariette (1634-1716), a Parisian publisher, on reverse.
[Ref: 57438] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti.
Marco Ricci. pinx.t / Goupy direxit/ / Chatelain fecit.
[n.d. c.1740s]
Etching. 310 x 410mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate. Crease in left side of the title area.
Bandits accosting and robbing a group of travellers by the edge of a lake. This print was part of a set of eight scenes by Chatelain after Ricci under the direction of Goupy.
Ex Collection Hon C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 54008] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Banditti Made Prisoners. From an Original Drawing of Mr. Mortimer's, in the Possession of Mr. Wright of Derby.
Etcht by Tho.s Hardy.
London, 1805.
Etching. 395 x 495mm (15½ x 19½"), with small margins.
Two bandits held captive, presumably by the aggressive man in the background, while two country folk stand watch. It is likely the inscription refers to Joseph Wright of Derby, which suggests this scene was drawn in 1774 when Mortimer and Wright were working together on illustrations of the Captive from Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey'.
[Ref: 53969] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti Regaling To the R.t Hon.ble Earl Harcourt, this Etching from the Original Drawing by Mortimer in the possession of S. Ireland is inscribed By his Lordships much obliged & obedient Serv.t S. I.
Mortimer Del.t Sam. Ireland fecit.
1785.
Etching. 430 x 465mm (17 x 18¼"). Torn along plate edge upper right corner and lower left corner and edge. One small tear affects the title area. Small margins.
A group of bandits feasting and relaxing in a courtyard. The inscription is likely dedicated to George Harcourt (1736-1809), who was a politician and noted patron of the arts.
[Ref: 53968] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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