Grosvenor Prints

IIme Vue de Mein. Dédiée à Monsieur C.. G.. Schutz, Peintre à Francfort Sur le Mein.
Peint par Schutz. Grave par A. Zingg.
A Paris chés Wille Graveur du Roi, Quai des Augustins [n.d., c.1762].
Engraving, laid paper, 255 x 295mm. 10 x 11¾". Full margins.
A picturesque view on the Main river in Germany, one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine. After Schütz (1718-1791), a Frankfurt artist, from a set of four views along the Main engraved by Adrian Zingg (1734 - 1816).
See BNF FRBNF40284632. See item 22669 for another view in the series.
[Ref: 22671] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Old cedars, coast of Maine.
J Smillie del et sct. 1880. [all inscriptions in pencil.]
Etching. 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins.
By James David Smillie (1833-1909), founder of the New York Etching Club and charter member of the London Society of Painter-Etchers.
[Ref: 48917] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Off Cape Newagen Maine [pencil].
Philip Kappel [signed in pencil lower right].
[c.1925.]
Etching, 100 x 150mm. 4 x 6".
A sailing boat in Maine, New England, USA. By Philip Kappel (1901 - 1981), etcher, illustrator and painter. Born Hartford, Connecticut in 1901.
[Ref: 9474] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Madame de Maintenon.
HBonnart, ex au Coq, avec privil [c.1700]
Etching, sheet 275 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), second wife of Louis XIV. Her marriage to the king was never officially announced or admitted, although she was influential within the court. She founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school for poor girls from noble families, and used her influence to subsequently secure them prominent positions.
[Ref: 42989] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon’s Flight across the Rhine, Near the City of Mentz, pursued by the Allies, 1812.
Manskirch del. Clark & Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1st 1816, by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty & the Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. Printed area 220 x 280mm (8½ x 11"). Cut inside platemark.
A cavalry rear guard action as Napoleon's troops try to cross the Rhine to reach the city of Mainz. From 'Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war'.
[Ref: 36053] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon’s Flight across the Rhine, Near the City of Mentz, pursued by the Allies, 1812.
Manskirch del. Clark & Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1st 1816, by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty & the Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1814'.
A cavalry rear guard action as Napoleon's troops try to cross the Rhine to reach the city of Mainz. From 'Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war'.
[Ref: 55827] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mentz, Keurvorstelyke Residentiestadt, gelegen daer de Main en Ryn by ein komen. Moguntium, nobilis urbs, seds Electoralis, ad confluentes Rhenum et Moenum.
Pet: Schenk Amst: C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 214 x 266mm (8½ x 10½").
A view of Mainz from across the River Rhine. It was the capital of the Electorate of Mainz at the time of the Holy Roman Empire. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 28698] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mentz. From the Influx of the Maine into the Rhine.
C. G. Schultz del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t. London, pub.d Octo.r 1, 1819, at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's Views on the Rhine.
London, 1819.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 295mm (11½ x 9¾"). Trimmed. Some toning.
A beautifully coloured view of Mentz (now Mainz), the capital of the Rhineland-Palatinate state, Germany.
[Ref: 54086] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Mainzer.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint with stipple and etching, image 265 x 225mm. 10½ x 9". Trimmed within plate.
Joseph Mainzer (1801- 1851), German music teacher, at his keyboard in a lecture theatre. He is best known for the free classes he opened in Paris (1835), London and Edinburgh (1841), in which hundreds of adults learnt to sing. His journal Mainzer's Musical times (founded 1842) was taken over by Novello and in 1844 became The Musical Times.
[Ref: 12082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Earl of Lauderdale.
Drawn from a Bust by J.Nollekins Esqr. R.A. G.P. Harding del.t.
1819.
Wash drawing. 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5").
Portrait of a bust of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, KT, PC (1759 - 1839) was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords by George Perfect Harding.
[Ref: 64233] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke and Dutchess of Lauderdale.
P. Lellÿ Eques pinxit. R.Williams fecit.
R. Tompson excudit [n.d., c.1672].
Mezzotint, sheet 335 x 400mm (13¼ x 15¾"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Tears, one entering inscription area, taped.
A seated portrait of John Maitland (1616-82), 1st Duke of Lauderdale, with his second wife, Elizabeth Murray (1626-98), with Ham House, their home in Richmond, in the background. A reversed copy of a painting after Peter Lely, still at Ham House, a National Trust property.
CS: 32, state i or ii of iii. Blackett-Ord T. 44, ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65364] £320.00

[John Maitland] John Duke of Lauderdale, Martquis of March, Earle of Lauderdale, Vicount Maitland, Barron of Thirlestane, Musselburgh, and Bolton, The Kings High Commissioner, President of the Council, & Sole Secretary of State in Scotland; Earle of Guilford, Barron of Petersham, & Privy Councellor in England, Gent of ye Bedchamber to ye King, & Knt of ye most noble Order of the Garter.
J Roiley pinx. I. Beckett fec: & ex:
[n.d., c.1682.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins, some foxing.
Half-length portrait in oval of John Maitland (1616-82), 1st Duke of Lauderdale, in long wig, lace cravat, wearing the star of the Order of the Garter.
CS 61, ii of iii.
[Ref: 65415] £360.00

[John Maitland] John Duke of Lauderdale, Martquis of March, Earle of Lauderdale, Vicount Maitland, Barron of Thirlestane, Musselburgh, and Bolton, The Kings High Commissioner, President of the Council, & Sole Secretary of State in Scotland; Earle of Guilford, Barron of Petersham, & Privy Councellor in England, Gent of ye Bedchamber to ye King, & Knt of ye most noble Order of the Garter.
J Roiley pinx. I. Beckett fec:
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait in oval of John Maitland (1616-82), 1st Duke of Lauderdale, in long wig, lace cravat, wearing the star of the Order of the Garter.
CS 61, iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65416] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale.]
[Painted by John Riley. Engraved by Gerard Valck.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Proof before all letters, 17th century watermark; Sheet: 295 x 245mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside plate and tipped into an album sheet.
John Maitland, 1st Duke and 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, 3rd Lord Thirlestane (1616 - 1682), was a Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry. By John Riley, portrait painter (1646 - 1691), engraved by Gerard Valck (1651/1652 - 1726), engraver, mezzotinter and publisher, Amsterdam.
[Ref: 43070] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale.] James Prince of Walles. Nat. 21 Juni 1688.
[by Gerald Valck.]
[n.d., c.1710.]
Engraving, very rare. Sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides, mounted on album paper.
Portrait of John Maitland, first Duke of Lauderdale (1616-82), dressed in the robes of the Order of the Garter, in which he was enroled in 1672. However this plate has been altered, with a new title suggesting the sitter is James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), the 'Old Pretender', without any attempt to re-engrave the face.
Not in Sharpe.
[Ref: 34053] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale.]
[Painted by John Riley. Engraved by Gerard Valck.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, sheet 296 x 255mm. Trimmed inside plate.
John Maitland, 1st Duke and 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, 3rd Lord Thirlestane (1616 - 1682), was a Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry. By John Riley, portrait painter (1646 - 1691), engraved by Gerard Valck (1651/1652 - 1726), engraver, mezzotinter and publisher, Amsterdam.
[Ref: 7638] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Ricardus Dominus Maitland Ser.smo Reg: Car. S.do Pro Regno Scotiae Justiciarius Clericus Capi-talis & a Secretioribus Consilys Caroli Come-tis de Lauderdale Filius natu maximus Anno & mo: 1683 Aetat.31. Patientia Victrix. Dux Lauderdale.
G. Kneller pinxit. P. Vandrebanc Sculp:
[n.d. c.1690.]
Copper engraving. 398 x 286mm. 15¾ x 11¼". Repair to bottom left-hand corner.
Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale (1653-1695). He was sworn Privy Councillor in 1678 and appointed joint General of the Mint with his father. In 1680 he was Lord Justice Clerk, but this title was removed after alleged suspicions of communication with his father-in-law, Argyll, who had escaped to Holland. He fought for the King at the Battle of Boyne, after which he retired and went to the exiled court of James II.
[Ref: 17617] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mich: Maittaire A.M. Amicorum jussu.
B. Danderidge pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane [n.d., c.1734].
Scarce mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
A half-length portrait in oval of Huguenot classical scholar Michel Maittaire (1668-1747), standing before a bookcase holding a volume of Horace. He also wrote 'The English Grammar' (London, 1712) for the use of Westminster School. John Faber junior operated from Craven Buildings between c.1731-4.
CS 232, state ii of ii, with lettering added to the oval. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67174] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mich: Maittaire A.M. Amicorum jussu.
B. Danderidge pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane [n.d., c.1734].
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Tear repaired on right.
A half-length portrait in oval of Huguenot classical scholar Michel Maittaire (1668-1747), standing before a bookcase holding a volume of Horace. He also wrote 'The English Grammar' (London, 1712) for the use of Westminster School. John Faber junior operated from Craven Buildings between c.1731-4.
CS 232, state ii of ii, with lettering added to the oval. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67380] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mich: Maittaire A.M. Amicorum jussu.
B. Danderidge pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane [n.d., c.1734].
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, creases.
A half-length portrait in oval of Huguenot classical scholar Michel Maittaire (1668-1747), standing before a bookcase holding a volume of Horace. He also wrote 'The English Grammar' (London, 1712) for the use of Westminster School. John Faber junior operated from Craven Buildings between c.1731-4.
CS 232, state ii of ii, with lettering added to the oval. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67382] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mich: Maittaire A.M. Amicorum jussu.
B. Danderidge pinx. J. Faber fecit.
[Sold by J. Faber at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane] [n.d., c.1734]
Mezzotint. Sheet 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed into image and title, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait in oval of Huguenot classical scholar Michel Maittaire (1668-1747), standing before a bookcase holding a volume of Horace. He also wrote 'The English Grammar' (London, 1712) for the use of Westminster School. John Faber junior operated from Craven Buildings between c.1731-4.
CS 232, state i of ii, before lettering added to the oval. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67383] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Major.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Proof before letters, rare. Laid on India paper. Platemark: 205 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Bit dusty.
A portrait of the composer and pianist Joseph Major. Half length, to the right, nearly in profile, wearing a double breasted jacket, cravat, and neck scarf tied in bow over a winged collar. After British painter and miniaturist George Englehart.
[Ref: 34893] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Majorcan beauty, sitting at a table.]
Lendon [signed in ink lower right.]
[British, n.d., c.1929.]
Pencil drawing on thin tissue-type paper, sheet 265 x 215mm. 10½ x 8½". The artist's name and address in pen to verso of blue paper mount.
A lively sketch from life inside a Spanish bar; a woman in a headdress smiling in foreground. Perhaps a study for Gordon West's 'Jogging round Majorca' (1929). Warwick William Lendon, illustrator for Punch magazine; he has scenes of World War I in the Imperial War Museum.
See BM W47/3419.
[Ref: 27920] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

De Maleische Kampong Te Makasser. Quater Malais a Makasser.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Mount burn around image.
A view of the busy Malayan Quarter in Makassar on the island of Celebes, Sulawesi, part of the Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Charles William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), was a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven", of which the drawings were made when Van de Velde was a midshipman on the ZM Triton and later when he was working in Batavia for the Commission for the Improvement of Maps and Charts of Indonesia.
[Ref: 35199] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

De Maleische Kampong Te Makasser. Quater Malais a Makasser. Pl. XLII. Celebes.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour, image area 310 x 350mm (12¼ x 13¾") very large margins. Mount burn around image, stained at edges.
A view of the busy Malayan Quarter in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi, part of the Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Charles William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), was a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven", of which the drawings were made when Van de Velde was a midshipman on the ZM Triton and later when he was working in Batavia for the Commission for the Improvement of Maps and Charts of Indonesia.
[Ref: 59560] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Making Game.
[by Alfred Mills?]
London, Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 4th June 1804.
Coloured etching with fine colour. Sheet 175 x 225mm (7¾ x 9"). Trimmed within plate.
A fashionably-dressed gentleman doffs his hat to a lady out walking in the countryside with her dog. The text below explains that when he flattered her looks, saying she had grown plump as a partridge, she replied that he was 'making Game' of her.
BM: 1948,0214.211, suggesting it was drawn & etched by Mills, who worked for the publishers at the time.
[Ref: 41792] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Makrijannis.
Hanfstaengl ft. 1828. [signed in plate.] Nach der Natur gez. v. Krazeisen. Gedr. v. Selb.
[Munich, 1828-31.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 335 x 230mm. 13¼ x 9".
Makriyiannis or Makrigiannis (1794 - 1864), Greek merchant, politician and warrior, hero of the Greek War of Independence. From the rare folio 'Bildnisse ausgezeichneter Griechen und Philhellenen/Portraits des Grecs et des Philhelle`nes les plus ce´le`bres...' by Carl or Karl Krazeisen, published in Munich, Germany, with text in German and French. Published in parts between 1828 and 1831, the work contains 21 portraits and seven views or scenes. Krazeisen accompanied von Heideck and the Bavarian philhellenes to Greece in 1826 where he served as a junior officer. The portraits are amongst the best-known of the leaders of the War of Independence and are frequently reproduced. The original drawings are preserved in the National Gallery, Athens.
British Library: 002020473. From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 14909] £450.00

Vue Prise à Malacca.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc. Finot imp.
De Sainson Edit. [n.d., 1835.]
Coloured aquatint on india, publisher's blindstamp. 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14"). .
View of the town of Malacca, at the time a British colony, published in ' Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace'.
[Ref: 24857] £320.00

Vue Prise à Malacca.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper, 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), with very large margins with blindstamp of 'La Favorite'.
View at Malacca, Malaysia; some Europeans on horseback in right foreground. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
See BNF FRBNF33995730. See BM Anthropology Library KU4 [LAP-] V.1-5.
[Ref: 27825] £550.00

Entree de la Riviere de Malacca.
Paris del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper with very large margins, 290 x 380mm. 11½ x 15". Small closed tear from above.
View on the Malay Peninsula; a soldier with his musket to right foreground. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
See BNF FRBNF33995730. See BM Anthropology Library KU4 [LAP-] V.1-5.
[Ref: 27826] £550.00

The City of Malacca in the East Indies. Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography.
[London: J. Cooke, c.1780.]
Engraving. 200 x 295mm (8 x 11½"), with large margins.
A view of the Dutch fort at Malacca City.
[Ref: 49605] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vue Prise à Malacca.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. Finot imp. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), very large margins, with blindstamp of 'La Favorite' in bottom margin.
View at Malacca, Malaysia; some Europeans on horseback in right foreground. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols). Colour-printed examples are rare.
SP Lohia Collection 5256: ''The coloured version of the 'Album Historique' is a work of extraordinary quality. It ranks among the finest plate books produced in the 19th century, the colouring being o
[Ref: 54666] £390.00

The City of Malacca in the East Indies. Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography.
[London: J. Cooke, 1777-8.]
Engraving. 200 x 295mm (8 x 11½"), with large margins. Slightly time stained.
A view of the Dutch fort at Malacca City. From Charles Theodore Middleton's 'A new and complete system of Geography'.
[Ref: 63719] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Restes des Fortifications Portugaises à Malacca.
Pâris del. Himely sc. Finot imp.
De Sainson Edit. [n.d., 1835.]
Aquatint on india. 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14"), with publisher's blindstamp of 'Favourite's' stern with large margins. Staining in outer margins.
View of the town of Malacca, at the time a British colony, published in ' Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace'. The artist, François-Edmond Pâris (1806-1893), was a young ensign who had already accompanied Dumont d'Urville around the world. He ended his naval career as an admiral.
[Ref: 46333] £320.00

Mallacca, with the Hope at Anchor in the Roads.
I.Wathen del.t. I.Clark direx.t.
London Pub.d by Black, Parry & Co, 1814.
Coloured aquatint. 180 x 240mm, 7 x 9½".
From James Wathen's 'Voyage to Madras and China'.
[Ref: 8942] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Kasimir Malachowski, Cannonnier en 1784 - Major en 1794, en Pologne. Chef de bataillon dans les légions d'Italie, en 1797. Commandant la Lègion polonaise à St Domingue, en 1803. Général de Brigade en 1812-Généralissime en 1831. Né à Wisxniow et Litavnie, le 24 Février 1765. Mort à Chantilly en France le Janvier 1845.
Kwiaskowski del. J. Hopwood sc. [De la Coll.on de Léonard Chodzko.]
[Paris: P. Dien, n.d., c. 1840.]
Mezzotint on steel. Printed area 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾").
A portrait of Kazimierz Malachowski of Gryf (1765-1845), a general of both the armed forces of Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland. After fighting with the French during the Napoleonic Wars, he is best remembered as one of the last Commanders-in-Chief of the failed November Uprising, assuming command shortly after the disastrous battle of Warsaw in 1831. 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: 31846] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

West View of the Mole of Malaga seen from one of the Towers of te Cathedral and Drawn by Francis Carter 1772.
Basire sc.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.ry 1st 1777.
Engraving, very fine with large margins. 205 x 740mm (8¼ x 29"). With centre fold as normal.
A view of the fortifications of Malaga on the Mediterranean coast of Andalusia, Spain. It was published in Carter's 'A Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga; with a View of that Garrison and its Environs; a Particular Account of the Towns in the Hoya of Malaga...'. The odd triangles on the horizon are how the white sails of Spanish barques appear in the distance.
[Ref: 28603] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Naval battle off Malaga] England's Glory. The Engagement of the Confederate Fleet, under Sir George Rook, Sir Cloudesly Shovel, Sir John Leake., And the Admiral Byng, and Dikes, with the Duch Admirals Callemburge, & Vanderdusson... on the thirteenth of Aug.t 1704. off of Malaga.
William Rayner. Done according to Act of Parliament. [n.d., c.1739.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18½"). Trimmed within plate, some wear to edges, toning, laid on board.
The Battle of Malaga, fought between the combined British and Dutch fleets and the French on 13 August 1704, less than a week after the capture of Gibraltar. The largest sea-battle of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), the result was inconclusive, although the French fleet never emerged from Toulon for the rest of the war. From a series of patriotic series depicting British naval achievements, 'England's Glory'. It was published by William Rayner (1699 - 1761) to promote a pro-war (with Spain) agenda, and to undermine Prime Minister Robert Walpole's policy of avoiding military conflict.
Clayton: pp.150-51. Parker 31e. Not in NMM.
[Ref: 57578] £450.00

[Battle of Malaga.] Das See Treffen bey Malaga.
Paulus Decker Archit. invent. et delin. Iohan August Corvinus Sculps.
[Cum Privileg. Sac. Caes. Majest. Ieremias Wolff excudit Aug. Vindelicorum.] [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 450 x 400mm (17¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed, part of publication line missing. Couple of rust spots; Central crease.
A scene showing the Battle of Malaga in 1704, the largest naval battle in the War of Spanish Succession. The battle was fought between the United Provinces and England on one side and Bourbon France and Spain on the other. The scene is decorated with a ornate border, with a map of Malaga and its environs below. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42958] £380.00

Malaga.
D. Roberts 1836 [in plate]. [Lithographed by William Gauci.]
[London Published Nov.r 1st 1836 by Hodgson & Graves, 6, Pall Mall.]
Colour tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 275 x 390mm (10¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed into image, laid on card as issued.
A view of the Citadel and Port of Malaga, Spain. It was published in David Roberts's 'Picturesque Sketches in Spain', his first publication. Although the plate bears the initials of William Gauci as lithographer, it is known that Roberts worked on every stone. The success of this work enabled Roberts to finance his important excursion to Egypt and the Holy Land.
[Ref: 55047] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Gesicht der Stad Mallaga met desselfs Casteel Mouilje en Rheede opwelke t Hollands Esquader onder bevel can den Viee Adm: P:H: Reynst den Verjaardagh Des Konings van Spanjen vierden den 20 january 1784.
F.A. Van Spyh Fet. Suntach direxit.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Copper engraving. 203 x 254mm. 8 x 10". Trimmed close to the platemark, slight crease.
A spectacle and demonstration for the birthday of Charles IV of Spain on 20 January 1784. Pieter Hendrik Reynst (1767-1832) was a Vice-Admiral in the Dutch Navy, who commanded this re-enactment for the King. The original Battle of Malage was the largest naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession, in 1704. Adrmiral George Rooke lead the English-Dutch fleet against the French, resulting in an allied stategic victory. The castle that stands in the background is Gibralfaro, an ancient fortress above the Port of Malaga. 1784 also marked the year that Malaga was granted with a Breakwater in the port.
[Ref: 16481] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Malaga.
D. Roberts [signed and dated in plate].
1836.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 275 x 390mm (10¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed to subject. Small repaired wormhole top left.
A view of the Citadel and Port of Malaga, Spain. A plate from 'Picturesque Sketches in Spain', London published, 1837.
[Ref: 37832] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Cathedral and Episcopal Palace of Malaga.
Drawn by Francis Carter 1773.
Published according to Act of Parliament Aug.t 1st 1776
Engraving, sheet 200 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Trimmed, losing part of publication line.
The Cathedral of Málaga, engraved from a drawing by Francis Carter (1741?-1783) and published in his two-volume 'A Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga' (1777). Carter, a traveller and collector of coins, was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries that same year, but died before completing his next work, a study of early Spanish printed books.
For another plate from the same volume, see ref. 28603.
[Ref: 33762] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Santiago Old Malaga.
Lionel Lindsay [c.1940].
Etching, platemark 280 x 225mm (11 x 8¾"), with very large margins. Signed and titled by artist and numbered '100' in pencil.
One of a number of etchings of Spanish locations by Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961), Australian printmaker and illustrator. In 1902 Lindsay travelled to Spain, London and Italy, eventually settling in Sydney where he continued to work as an illustrator while developing a passion for etching historical views of the city and the harbour. He returned to Europe in 1926 where he made etchings and drypoints of landscapes and cityscapes. He was knighted for his services to art in 1941.
[Ref: 44198] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

High Land to the East.d of Malaga - Sept. 10th 1845.
[Painted by Lieut. J. Corbett, R.N.]
Watercolour with pencil title. Sheet 90 x 250mm.
Lieutenant John Corbett served with the Royal Navy from the late 1830s to the 1870s, travelling in the Mediterranean, Africa & the Far East. In 1851, serving on the 'Penelope', he took part in the storming of Lagos under heavy fire, spiking the guns of the fort, making Lagos a British Province. He was Commander of HMS 'Inflexible' during the Second Opium War (1856-60), which, in 1857, towed the gun-boat 'Starling' 10,000 miles to Hong Kong after it was damaged in a storm.
[Ref: 6807] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Résidence a Cayeli. (Ile Bourou.)
de Sainson pinx. Leborne Lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, n.d. c.1833.]
Lithograph. 330 x 519mm. 13 x 20½". Paper toning around the edges. Some spotting.
A view of the Dutch Residence on the Island of Buru, within the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. A sentry on guard speaking to locals outside as a herder leaves the main entrance with two cows. Numbered 'Pl.205' upper right; from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829. Publisher's blindstamp below title. After Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887).
NLA: 2926355. Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18848] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

M. Malard M.er. Nova Veteribus Potiora Ut Pote Perfectiora Proinde Que Meliora.
D.d Lockley Sc. [c.1719]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed; false margins added. Rare.
Michel Malard (b.1676), religious controversialist and tutor in French. Raised by Catholic parents in France, he moved to England in around 1700 and converted to Protestantism at the French church of the Savoy in London. He then became an episcopalian and began publishing frequent attacks against the French committee for the distribution of the £15,000 allocated annually to French protestants (Malard's own allowance was withdrawn). Malard also wrote several manuals on French grammar, and in one, dedicated to George I, Malard is described as French tutor to the duaghters of the prince of Wales (and future George II).
Not in O'D.
[Ref: 39755] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Jacobo Malatesta.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
General Jacobo Malatesta, the commander of the Venetian forces on Cyprus in the 1560s, prior to the loss of the island to the Ottomans in 1571.. He seems to have been a member of the Malatesta family that ruled Rimini until expelled in 1500 by Cesare Borgia. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32670] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Malay.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed, printer's crease through inscription.
From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
[Ref: 63458] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Malay.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed.
From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
[Ref: 63904] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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