Grosvenor Prints

[Four lithographs in original wrappers] Etchings No. 4
P.S. Munn [1811]
Four lithographs in wrappers, Plates II & IV watermarked 'J. Whatman 1810'; 240 x 410mm (9½ x 16").
Four sheets of tree studies. Early lithographs by Paul Sandby Munn (1773 - 1845). Munn was named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions. He drew some of the views of Britton's "Beauties of England and Wales". He painted little after 1832, when he devoted himself chiefly to music.
[Ref: 36808] £450.00 view all images for this item

[A country lane]
P.S. Munn. 1810.
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 365mm (9¼ x 14¼")watermarked 'J Whatman 1808'. Ink smear.
Early lithograph, depicting a lane winding through fields and trees. Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845), named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions.
[Ref: 56472] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Family and horses resting near water] 4
P.S. Munn 1813
Pen lithograph, rare; sheet 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Occasional wash colouring to figures, creasing. Trimmed.
Lithograph by Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845). Munn was named after his godfather, artist Paul Sandby, followed his namesake into watercolour painting. He went on a sketching expedition to Wales with John Sell Cotman in 1802 and from 1807 was making use of the new medium of pen lithography, which he used in several sets of landscape prints.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36945] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A water mill]
P.S. Munn.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 365mm (9¼ x 14¼"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1808'. Creases
Early pen lithograph, depicting a delapidated cottage with a mill wheel. Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845), named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions.
[Ref: 56471] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Four studies of tree branches.]
P. S. Munn 1811.
Pen lithograph, from a drawing book; sheet 230 x 315mm. 9 x 12½".
Sketches from nature by Paul Sandby Munn (1773 - 1845). Munn was named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. Plate numbered '1' upper right. Paul Sandby Mann (1773-1845) first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions. He drew some of the views of Britton's "Beauties of England and Wales". He painted little after 1832, when he devoted himself chiefly to music.
DNB.
[Ref: 21446] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Tree studies] Elm [and] Birch.
P. S. Munn 1810.
Pen lithograph, from a drawing book; sheet 215 x 325mm. 8½ x 12¾". Pencil doodle of wagon and horses between the images.
Sketches of an elm tree on the left and a birch on the right by Paul Sandby Munn (1773 - 1845). Munn was named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. Plate numbered '2' upper right. Paul Sandby Mann (1773-1845) first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions. He drew some of the views of Britton's "Beauties of England and Wales". He painted little after 1832, when he devoted himself chiefly to music.
DNB.
[Ref: 21448] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Munro.] Robertus Munro, tribunus. Noli deiici fortiter matum qui patitur, idem post potitur bonum. Sapienta mea tu, es domine doce me facere voluntatem tuam, da intellectum ex teriora contemnere et ad interiora me dare, nam uera laetitia est in timore Dei cum bona coscientia...
Sebastien Furck. fecit.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, rare. Collector's mark of Albert Richard on verso. Plate: 215 x 130mm (8½ x 5'') large margins.
A portrait of Scottish nobleman Robert Munro.
[Ref: 48667] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Thomas Munro Bar.t K.C.B.]
Painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. &c &c. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
[n.d., 1830.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. 760 x 515mm, with blank inscription plate, 60 x 515mm.
Sir Thomas Munro (1761-1827), 1st Baronet of Linderits, Scottish soldier and statesman. In India he fought against Haidar Ali (1780-1783), Tipu Sultan (1790-1792), and the the Pindari War (1817). He died of cholera.
Whitman 114, between states i and ii (with the names of the painter and engraver added, the title plate still blank). Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5505] £650.00

[Woodcut of an astrologer]
[c.1559]
Woodcut, sheet 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8").
Page from Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographia'.
[Ref: 24529] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Janus]
DK [David Kandel]
[Basle: Heinrich Petri, n.d., c.1600]
Woodcut and letterpress, sheet 160 x 160mm (6¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed down from book leaf.
Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings, holding a vine in one hand and a key in the other. Illustration from a French edition of Münster's 'Cosmographia' (first published Basle, 1550).
[Ref: 31397] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[A nobleman, with a woman filling a cup with water verso]
[Anon
[Basel, Heinrich Petri, n.d., c.1600.]
Woodcut and letterpress, sheet 140 x 195mm (5½ x 7¾"). Trimmed down from book leaf.
Illustrations from a French edition of Münster's 'Cosmographia' (first published Basle, 1550).
[Ref: 31405] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sebastianus Munsterus Cosmographus.
[French, c.1600.]
Engraving with very large margins. 135 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼").
Portrait of the German cartographer, Sebastian Münster. (1488-1552), best known for his work 'Cosmographia', one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. Although Lutheran he was Professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel, and edited a Hebrew bible, adding a a Latin translation. This portrait was published in Robert Boissard's 'Bibliotheca, siue thesavrvs virtvtis & gloriæ'.
[Ref: 29717] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sebastianus Munsterus.
H. [monogram of Hendrick Hondius] f.
[Amsterdam c.1600.]
Engraving with very large margins. 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾").
Portrait of the German cartographer, Sebastian Münster. (1488-1552), best known for his work 'Cosmographia', one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. Although Lutheran he was Professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel, and edited a Hebrew bible, adding a a Latin translation.
[Ref: 29718] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Sebastianus Munsterus, Prof. Ebr. L. in Acad. Basil. nat 1489. den.d.23 Maji 1552.
Ioh. Iac. Haid exc. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1747.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Slight marking and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of German academic and cartographer Sebastian Munster (1488-1552). An illustration from Brucker's "Ehren-tempel der Deutschen Gelehrsamkeit".
[Ref: 43656] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Sebastian Munster.
[Paris, 1584.]
Engraving. 175 x 155mm, 7 x 6¼". Trimmed from a larger sheet, mounted on album paper.
Portrait of the German cartographer, Sebastian Münster. (1488-1552), best known for his work 'Cosmographia', one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. As Professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel he edited the Hebrew bible, adding a a Latin translation. This portrait was published in André Thevet's 'Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres'. It shows Munster pointing at a Hebrew script.
[Ref: 25773] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Seb. Munst. ayant 60. ans:
[Basle, c.1600.]
Woodcut. Sheet 170 x 130mm, 6¾ x 5". Trimmed from a larger sheet, repairs.
Portrait of the German cartographer, Sebastian Münster. (1488-1552), best known for his work 'Cosmographia', one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. As Professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel he edited the Hebrew bible, adding a a Latin translation. Probably published in a posthumous edition of one of Munsters's works.
[Ref: 25774] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Facsimile:] Yours faithfully G.F. Muntz. Presented to the Subscribers of the Birmingham Mercury._July 21st. 1849.
R.B. Moody & Co. Lithographers & Printers, Birmingham & London.
Rare lithograph. 381 x 279mm. 15 x 11".
George Frederick Muntz (1794-1857) was an industrialist and political reformer. He was a Liberal Party MP for Birmingham from 1840 until his death. As an industrialist, he developed Muntz metal, and he commercialised the alloy following his patent of 1832. The notable use of Muntz metal was in the hull of the Cutty Sark.
[Ref: 18418] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sultan Murat Chan.
[Engraved by Theodore de Bry.]
[Frankfurt: de Bry, 1593.]
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 95mm (3¾ x 3¾). Trimmed losing ornamental border; glued to backing sheet.
Murad III (1546-95), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from the death of Selim II in 1574. He approved negotations towards an alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the England of Elizabeth I: England sold the Ottomans tin and lead needed for cannon-casting, and, with the outbreak of England's war with Spain in 1585, they planned joint military operations. Murat wrote that Islam and Protestantism had 'much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols'. Published in the 'Vitae et icones Sultanorum turcicorum'.
[Ref: 29844] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Murad III] Amurathes Tertius, Turcarum Imperator Sextus: Floruit An.o 1574.
[Engraved by Theodore de Bry.]
[Frankfurt: de Bry, 1593.]
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 95mm (3¾ x 3¾). Trimmed losing ornamental border.
Murad III (1546-95), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from the death of Selim II in 1574. He approved negotations towards an alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the England of Elizabeth I: England sold the Ottomans tin and lead needed for cannon-casting, and, with the outbreak of England's war with Spain in 1585, they planned joint military operations. Murat wrote that Islam and Protestantism had 'much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols'. Published in the 'Vitae et icones Sultanorum turcicorum'.
[Ref: 29868] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S.] [Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.]
[Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.]
[London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67781] £460.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins. Some age-toning.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and whtie shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67784] £380.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12") very large margins. Foxing
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67785] £380.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Proof. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Proof mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67786] £380.00

[Murcia street scene.]
Ch. Damour sculp. de Chacaton pinx.
[Paris: Gihaut fréres, 1851.]
Etching. 320 x 250mm, 12½ x 9¾". Some spotting.
A street scene in Murcia, with a moorish archway and shops. Etched by Charles Damour after Jean Nicolas Henri de Chacaton for "Espagne: Cinq Passages à l'Eau-forte", a series of folios each with five plates.
[Ref: 17833] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Fratricide, or the Murderer's Gibbet, Being the Right Tragical Hystorie of Sir J. Dinely Goodere, Bart., Who was murdered by his Brother, Capt. Samuel Goodere, and Assistants, On the 19th of January, 1741, on board his Majesty;s Ship the Ruby, 64. then lying in Kingroad, Bristol. To the Editor of the Bristol Mirror.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Letterpress pamphlet; 8vo, pp. (iv) with wood-engraved illustration. Some age-toning, glue stains, old ink mss, correction.
The transcript of a letter to the editor of the Bristol Mirror, in which the unnamed correspondent tells of being shown the gibbet irons in which the body of one of the murderers, Matthew Mahony, was displayed, with an illustration of the contraption. Feeling slighted by what he regarded as an unfair division of an inheritance, Captain Samuel Goodere arranged for his older brother, Sir John Dinely Goodere, to be abducted, taken to his ship (HMS Ruby) and garrotted. Found guilty, the three were executed on the 20th April 1741 and hung in chains.
See item 21373 for a contemporary print with portraits and scenes.
[Ref: 40958] £50.00

Murder of the Fisher Boy. Written by W, Milton, Esq. As Recited by Miss Emily Fothergill, of the "Fothergill Family." From the Crystal Palace, and Royal Aquarium, London.
[London, c.1850s.]
Scarce broadside handbill, two columns of letterpress verse. Sheet 250 x 195mm, 9¾ x 7¾". A little soiled, with tatty extremities and folds.
Interesting piece of popular Victorian ephemera recording an entertainment - a recital of a poem by a precocious young performer.
[Ref: 19176] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Murder of Mrs Frances Ruscombe and Her Maid, In College Green A.D. 1764.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Letterpress pamphlet; 8vo, pp. 4, Glue stains.
A description of an infamous Bristol murder by Richard Smith, who seems to have a fascination with examining notorious murders.
[Ref: 40959] £50.00

[A murderess in the dock.]
DD.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 215 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Creased, laid on album paper.
A woman sitting in the dock, watched warily by two 'peelers' with truncheons ready.
[Ref: 41305] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A feast with Persians being murdered.]
[Engraved by Matthias Merian.]
[Frankfurt, Merian, c.1619.]
Rare engraving. 100 x 140mm (4 x 5½), set in German letterpress text.
An untitled classical scene, with a Graecian king at the end of the table standing up with a sword as women around the table stab their Persian guests. The surrounding text refers to Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia but we have been unable to identify the event illustrated. From Gottfried's Historische Chronik.
[Ref: 49775] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of Mr. Murphy, From a Painting by J. Warburton, Esq. [Facsimilie Signature.]
Wood engraving. Sheet: 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5''). Creasing and staining.
A portrait of a seated man, on the floor around him are scientific apparatus and books, including a globe and telescope.
[Ref: 48167] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Arthur Murphy Esq.r. From an original Picture in the Possession of Miss Thrales.
Nath.l Dance Esq.r R.A. pinx.t. W. Ward sculp Mezzotinto Engraver to His R.H. the Duke of York.
London Published Oct.r 5th 1803, by John P. Thompson, Great Newport Street, Printseller to His Majesty & the Duke & Duchess of York.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). A little surface wear. Small margins.
Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), Irish barrister, born in Roscommon, writer and actor, reading at a table. Murphy wrote over twenty farces, comedies and tragedies including Three Weeks after Marriage (1764) and Know Your Own Mind (1777). After the 1777 oil on canvas in the National Portrait Gallery by Nathaniel Dance (1735 - 1811).
Frankau 208, ii, Chaloner Smith 63 ii.
[Ref: 55229] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Patrick Muphy] Murphy The Dick-tater, Alias the weather cock of the walk, A Statue to be erected near the change.
Standidge & Co. Litho, London [n.d., 1837].
Lithograph, sheet 361 x 251mm.
A potato-headed figure with a globe for a body evidently prepared for all weathers. A satire on Patrick Murphy (1782 - 1847), weather prophet. His name was very prominent in 1838 as the author of ‘The Weather Almanack (on Scientific Principles, showing the State of the Weather for every Day of the Year 1838). By P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S'. Under the date of 20 January he said ‘Fair, prob. lowest deg. of winter temp.' By a happy chance this proved to be a remarkably cold day, the thermometer at sunrise standing at four degrees below zero. This circumstance raised his celebrity to a great height as a weather prophet, and the shop of his publishers, Messrs. Whittaker & Co., was besieged with customers, while the winter of 1837-8 became known as Murphy's winter. The 1838 almanac ran to forty-five editions, and the prophet made 3,000l., which he almost immediately lost in an unsuccessful speculation in corn. There was nothing very remarkable about the prediction, as the coldest day generally falls about 20 Jan. In the predictions throughout the year the forecasts were partly right on 168 days and decidedly wrong on 197 days. A popular song of the day, a parody on ‘Lesbia has a beaming eye,' commenced ‘Murphy has a weather eye.' The almanack was afterwards occasionally published, but its sale very much fell off after the ‘nine days' wonder' was past, and ultimately it had a very limited circulation. Murphy, however, persevered in his pursuit, and was about bringing out an almanac for 1848, when he died at his lodgings, 108 Dorset Street, St. Bride's, London, in 1847, aged 65.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7559] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Murphy Esq.r. Dedicated to the Rate Payers of St Pancras as a tribute of respect for his Talented & Zealous exertions in the cause of Parochial Reform.
Engraved by Francis Holl after T.W. Harland.
Published July 1, 1835, by T.W. Harland & Francis Holl.
Stipple, rare. 245 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Trimmed into plate at top.
Thomas Murphy, an Irish coal merchant, lead the Parochial Reform Party in opposition to the 1836 Poor Law.
NPG D39104.
[Ref: 44432] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Murray River - Moorundi.
Eugene von Guerard.
Hamel & Ferguson. Lithographers & c. 85 Queen St. Mebourne. [n.d., c.1867.]
Chromolithograph with very large margins. Sheet size: 490 x 640mm (19¼ x 25¼"). Fine impression. Taped into mount.
A stunning view of the River Murray, taken from near Moorundee in South Australia. The wide channel is bordered by dense shrubland to the right, and open plains to the left. A group of figures with two dogs can be seen in the forground to the left, a small canoe is on the river below, and several other figures near small shelters are in the far left of the scene. From the series 'Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes', 1867.
See Ref: 46164
[Ref: 35193] £650.00

The Hon.ble Alexander Murray Esq.r.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t 1751. J. Faber fecit.
Price 1s/6d. Sold by W.m Bizet Bookseller in S.t Clements Church Yard, Strand. According to Act of Parliament.
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), with large margins. Small tear in margin.
A half-length portrait in oval of Alexander Murray of Elibank (1712-78), an active, but discreet Jacobite. He lent Charles Edward Stuart hundreds of pounds at high interest at a time when Charles was short of money, but took no part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. However he became involved in a plot to kidnap George II (the Elibank Plot, 1751-2). Although it was never carried out, Murray spent the next 20 years in exile and in 1759 James Francis Edward Stuart created him Earl of Westminster. He was allowed to return to Britain in 1771.
CS 251. Sharpe 538. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64681] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Alexander Murray Esq.r.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t 1751. J. Faber fecit.
Price 1s/6d. Sold by W.m Bizet Bookseller in S.t Clements Church Yard, Strand. According to Act of Parliament.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Horizontal centre fold.
A half-length portrait in oval of Alexander Murray of Elibank (1712-78), an active, but discreet Jacobite. He lent Charles Edward Stuart hundreds of pounds at high interest at a time when Charles was short of money, but took no part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. However he became involved in a plot to kidnap George II (the Elibank Plot, 1751-2). Although it was never carried out, Murray spent the next 20 years in exile and in 1759 James Francis Edward Stuart created him Earl of Westminster. He was allowed to return to Britain in 1771.
CS 251. Sharpe 538. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64682] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Alexander Murray Esq.r.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t 1751. J. Faber fecit.
Price 1s/6d. Sold by W.m Bizet Bookseller in S.t Clements Church Yard, Strand. According to Act of Parliament.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾") large margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Alexander Murray of Elibank (1712-78), an active, but discreet Jacobite. He lent Charles Edward Stuart hundreds of pounds at high interest at a time when Charles was short of money, but took no part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. However he became involved in a plot to kidnap George II (the Elibank Plot, 1751-2). Although it was never carried out, Murray spent the next 20 years in exile and in 1759 James Francis Edward Stuart created him Earl of Westminster. He was allowed to return to Britain in 1771.
CS 251. Sharpe 538. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64683] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Alexander Murray Esq.r.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t 1751. J. Faber fecit.
Price 1s/6d. Sold by W.m Bizet Bookseller in S.t Clements Church Yard, Strand. According to Act of Parliament.
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper at corners, stains in inscription area.
A half-length portrait in oval of Alexander Murray of Elibank (1712-78), an active, but discreet Jacobite. He lent Charles Edward Stuart hundreds of pounds at high interest at a time when Charles was short of money, but took no part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. However he became involved in a plot to kidnap George II (the Elibank Plot, 1751-2). Although it was never carried out, Murray spent the next 20 years in exile and in 1759 James Francis Edward Stuart created him Earl of Westminster. He was allowed to return to Britain in 1771.
CS 251. Sharpe 538. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64684] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Augustus Murray.]
[After Willis Maddox. Engraved by George Zobel.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters; 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"), large margins.
Portrait of Charles Augustus Murray (1806-95), British author and diplomat. Murray spent several years travelling across Europe and America from 1835 and 1838, including several months with a Pawnee tribe in 1835. He described his experiences in his popular book Travels in North America (1839).
See Ref: 4004. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67776] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Honourable Charles Augustus Murray, H.B.M's agent and Consul General in Egypt &c &c.
Painted by Willes Maddox. Engraved by Geo. Zobel.
London: Published July 1st 1853, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 13 & 14 Pall Mall East. Publishers to Her Majesty.
Mezzotint 485 x 380mm (19 x 15"). Some toning, pencil mark in title.
Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806-95), travel writer and diplomat, pictured seated with young native servant. Murray travelled across Europe and America between 1835-8, spending several months with a Pawnee tribe in 1835, publishing the popular Travels in North America' (1839). This portrait shows him as consul-general in Cairo (1846-53), during which time he was befriended by the Ottoman Viceroy, Mehmet Ali Pasha. Less successful was his appointment as British ambassador to the Court of the Shah of Persia in 1854: rumours linked him with the sister of one the Shah's principal wives and, when she was taken into custody by her brother to defend her honour, Murray broke off diplomatic relations. The Anglo-Persian War broke out the following year, but Murray returned to be ambassador until 1859. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1875.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67806] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Honourable Charles Augustus Murray, H.B.M's agent and Consul General in Egypt &c. &c.
Painted by Willes Maddox. Engraved by Geo. Zobel.
London Published July 1st. 1853, By Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East. _ Publishers To Her Majesty.
Mezzotint. 500 x 400mm (19¾ x 15¾"0.
Sir Charles Augustus Murray, 1806 - 1895, travelled in America in the 1830s, joining a tribe of wandering Pawnees for some months. He fell in love with a young woman, living near Niagara, whose wealthy father was against their relationship. Murray declared his love obliquely in a romantic novel, which he published in 1844 and married Elsie Wadsworth after her father's death in 1849. In 1846, he was appointed Consul-general for Egypt.
[Ref: 4004] £320.00

[Davis Murray, Viscount Stormont.] 33.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (1727 - 1796), diplomat and statesman; right hand on hip, left thrust into his waistcoat. He wears the ribbon of the Thistle and a Sword (Knight of the Thistle). Ambassador to Vienna and then to France in the early years of the American War of Independence.
BM Satires 6637.
[Ref: 60073] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fanny Murray. Here sportive Loves inviting seem to say, / Behold this Face, and gaze your Heart away.
H. Morland Pinx.t. J. Mc.Ardell fecit.
Sold by J. M.cArdell at the Golden Head, Covent Garden [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, sheet 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed into plate on three sides, thread margins at bottom.
A full-length portrait of famous courtesan Fanny Murray (c.1729-78). Murray eventually settled down, marrying first Sir Richard Atkins, 6th Baronet, then actor David Ross.
CS 134, state with 70mm gap between plate and artist and engraver's names. Goodwin 184. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68349] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir George Murray. Commander in Chief in Ireland.
Engelmen & Co's Lith. [n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph.Very rare. Laid, on India paper. Sheet size: 300 x 240mm (12 x 9½"). Light foxing on India paper.
A rare portrait of British soldier and politician Sir George Murray, (1772 -1846), of whom the Murray River and Mount Murray in eastern Australia, the Murray River in Western Australia and Murray House in Hong Kong are named after. The city of Perth, Western Australia was also named in his honour, after his parliamentary constituency of Perthshire. Murray's varied military career included serving as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Colonial Secretary. Australian interest.
[Ref: 39386] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Noble John Duke, Marquis and Earl of Atholl, Marquis and Earl of Tullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount of Balquhidder, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, Lord Murray... Lord Lieutenant of the County of Perth, One of His Majesties Most Hon.ble Privy Council, and Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
Painted by John Hoppner R.A. Engraved by Charles Knight, 1811.
London Pub.d Aug.t 1 1811. C. Knight Hammersmith at Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Stipple with roulette, with large margins. 660 x 450mm, 26 x 17½". Margins creased.
John Murray (1755-1830), 4th Duke of Atholl, wearing the Order of the Thistle.
[Ref: 24508] £420.00

[John Samuel Murray.]
[Engraved by Edward Finden after Henry William Pickersgill.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before letters. 275 x 220mm (11 x 8¾") very large margins,
Oval portrait of John Murray II (1778-1843), the publisher of Byron, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, reading a letter He gained infamy for burning Byron's memoirs rather than publishing them as the poet wanted.
[Ref: 40260] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lindley Murray.
[n.d. c.1800].
Mixed-method, 4¼ x 2¾".
Lindley Murray (1745-1826), a Pennsylvania-born Quaker who, after a success law career, retired to York, England, for the sake of his health (1784). There, noticing a lack of suitable lesson-books for a Friends' school for girls, he wrote 'English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners' (1795). Published both in England and America, running through nearly 50 editions and becoming the predominant grammar schoolbook. His 'English Reader' (1799) was described by Abraham Lincoln as 'the best schoolbook ever put in the hands of an American youth'.
[Ref: 259] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[An manuscript promissory note with the autograph of Lindley Murray, Quaker grammarian] Exch. £45 - Holdgate near York, 4th of 7th month, 1825. At sight, please pay to Wilson, Tweedy & Co., or their order, Forty five pounds, due to me from [old paper patch obscuring text] Lindley Murray.
Ink mss. promissory note. Sheet 85 x 190mm (3¼ x 7½"). Slightly trimmed, laid on album paper, old clipping pasted over edge, mounted on album paper with steel-engraved portrait with matching facsimile signature.
Lindley Murray (1745-1826), a Pennsylvania-born Quaker who, after a success law career, retired to Holdgate (near York, England) for the sake of his health (1784). There, noticing a lack of suitable lesson-books for a Friends' school for girls, he wrote 'English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners' (1795). Published both in England and America, running through nearly 50 editions and becoming the predominant grammar schoolbook. His 'English Reader' (1799) was described by Abraham Lincoln as 'the best schoolbook ever put in the hands of an American youth'. Wilson, Tweedy & Co. were country bankers of High Ousegate, York.
[Ref: 55319] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Master Murray
Painted by J.Graham. Engraved by P. Dawe
London, Published May 20th 1786 by W Dickinson, Engraver and Printseller No.158 Bond Street.
Mezzotint, 360 x 515mm.
CS: 8
[Ref: 2798] £650.00

Along the Murrumbidgee. N.S.W. Trial Proof. D.
F. Sidney Walker
1924.
Signed etching. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"), with large margins. Minor toning.
A view of the Murrumbidgee River by Australian artist F. Sidney Walker (1888-1972).
[Ref: 54025] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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