Grosvenor Prints

The Theatre. The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCCXX [1820].
Drawn by J. Bucker 1815. Engraved by Joseph Skelton.
Published by J. Parker, Oxford & E. Gardner No 7 Paternoster Row, London. Price 5 Shillings & Sixpence.
Engraving. 565 x 485mm (22¼ x 19"), with very large margins, stamp duty ink stamp lower right margin. Uncut. Horizontal fold, creasing in almanack, damp stains in margins.
The Oxford Almanack is an annual almanac published since 1674. The stamp duty was payable to the compiler of the almanac, set at 1 shilling and threepence per year covered by Act of Parliament 55 Geo. III c. 185. The same act set the penalty for issuing an unstamped almanac as three months' imprisonment.
[Ref: 51436] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Theatre.
Drawn by J. Buckler, 1815. Engraved by Joseph Skelton.
[n.d., c.1820].
Engraving, fine impression. Laid on India paper. Plate: 490 x 390mm (19 x 15"). Trimmed on lower margin. Tears in lower edge. Creases in top right hand corner.
Interior view of the Sheldonion Theatre in Oxford. Constructed between 1664 and 1669 it was the first major design of Sir Christopher Wren. The building was funded by Gilbert Sheldon who was later to become the Archbishop of Canterbury.
From the Encombe Estate, Earl of Eldon.
[Ref: 32651] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[St Marylebone New Road Portland Place] [ms.]
[by William Pickett.]
[Pub.d June 4th by T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill.]
Aquatint with hand colouring. Sheet approx 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to image; glued to album sheet.
Scene on St Marylebone New Road in London's West End. The Farthing Pie House From Pickett's 1812 book of 'Ninety-Six Speciments of Cottages-Bridges-Castles-Churches [...] Intended to facilitate the Improvement of the Student, and to aid the Practitioner, in Landscape Composition'. Aside from its function as an educational volume, the scenes in the book also provide many unusual views of London in the early 19th century.
Abbey (Life in England) 168.
[Ref: 32298] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[St Giles, Oxford] Hanc Ecclesiæ D. Aegidii in Suburbiis Civ. Oxon. (ut creditur Normannorum tempore) certe ante 1189 ult. R. Hen. aedificatae, faciem Austrtalem in aere excudi jussit Ric. Rawlinson LLD Oxon. R. & AT. S.S. suis sumptibus A.D> MDCCLIV.
[Engraved by George Vertue?]
[1754.]
Engraving. 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"); very large margins. Some slight soiling.
St. Giles' Church, Oxford, completed 1120 but not consecrated until 1200.
[Ref: 42013] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

St John's College, from the Garden.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Hill sculp.
London Pub.d Sept.r 1st 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1812', with wide margins.
[Ref: 53440] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

St John's College, from the Garden.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Hill sculp.
London Pub.d Sept.r 1st 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), large margins on 3 sides.
View of St John's College from the garden. Two ladies walk along the grounds, a dog following behind them.
[Ref: 62950] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

St John's College from the Garden.
M.A. Rooker., del & sculp.
[c.1787.]
Engraving, fine impression. Sheet 345 x 485mm (13½ x 19"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Drawn and engraved by Michael Angelo Rooker for the Oxford Almanack.
[Ref: 53453] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[St John's College, Oxford.] [No.49.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 202 x 140mm. 8 x 5½". Mint.
A view of the entrance to the Great Lawn and Groves at the Canterbury Quad at St John's College, Oxford. The quad was the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Oxford.
[Ref: 27593] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.] [No.52]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 198 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½".
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. The south porch, seen here, was built in 1637 and designed by Nicholas Stone, master mason to Charles I. It is a highly eccentric baroque porch with spiral columns supporting a curly pediment framing a small niche with a statue of the Virgin and Child, underneath a gothic fan vault.
[Ref: 27690] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

View of St Peter's Church, The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCCIX [1809].
Drawn by Thyne O'Niell. Engraved by James Basire.
Published by J. Cooke, Oxford & E. Gardner No 7 Paternoster Row, London. Price Three Shillings and Six Pence.
Engraving. 565 x 485mm (22¼ x 19"), with very large margins, stamp duty ink stamp lower right margin. Uncut. Horizontal fold, wear to the edges.
The Oxford Almanack has been published annually since 1674. The stamp duty was payable to the compiler of the almanac, set at one shilling per year.
[Ref: 51433] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity College Chapel.
A. Pugin del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London Pub.d Sept.r 1 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with large margins.
The exterior of the chapel from the quad.
[Ref: 62964] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Bradley. Fifty Years Servant of Trinity College, Oxford.
Drawn on Stone by Albert Hoffay, from a Painting by Tho.s Kirkby.
Printed by C. Hullmandel, December 1826.
Lithograph on chine collé. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼") very large margins.
Half-length portrait of Richard Bradley wearing open coat, waistcoat and cravat. According to Blakiston's 'Trinity College' (1898) the original painting was hanging in the Common Room stores.
[Ref: 59364] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Garden Gate of Trinity College, Erected 1713. The Oxford Almanack for the Year of our Lord God M.DCCCC.II. [1902]
[William] Monk 1901.
Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Horace Hart, M.A., Printer to the University; - and published by Henry Frowde, M.A., Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, London, E.C.
Etching set in letterpress, sheet 760 x 560mm (30 x 22"). Central fold, spotting.
A view of the ornamental gates of the college, with an almanack and a list of the University staff.
[Ref: 57380] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Garden Gate of Trinity College, Erected 1713.]
[William] Monk 1901.
Etching proof 300 x 380mm (11¾ x 15"), large margins.
A view of the ornamental gates of the college, also published as 'The Oxford Almanack for the Year of our Lord God M.DCCCC.II.'
[Ref: 57381] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity College Chapel.
A. Pugin del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London Pub.d Sept.r 1 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with wide margins.
The exterior of the chapel from the quad.
[Ref: 53441] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Oxford Almanack for the Year of the our Lord God MDCCXXXII. Being Bissextile or Leap Year.
[G. Vertue Sculp.]
[n.d. c.1732.]
Etching and engraving. Plate 495 x 458mm (19½ x 18"). Tax stamp top left corner. Staining; creasing.
Trinity College, shown in the background with figures in the foreground, including the founder Sr Thomas Pope, holding a view of the college to left, Dr Bathurst in the centre, refusing the mitre which is offered by a cherub, with a view of a neo-classical façade and another showing the central section of the building shown, on the ground nearby and other figures to right, including Adams, Bishop of Limerick and Wright, Bishop of Litchfield, fellows of the college. The Oxford Almanack is an annual almanac published since 1674. The stamp duty was payable to the compiler of the almanac, set at 1 shilling and threepence per year covered by Act of Parliament 55 Geo. III c. 185. The same act set the penalty for issuing an unstamped almanac as three months' imprisonment.
[Ref: 52471] £320.00

University & Queen's Colleges, High Street.
Pugin del.t. J. Hill sculp.t.
London Pub.d June 1 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with wide margins.
A view looking east along Oxford's High Street.
[Ref: 53444] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The New Library University College, Oxford.
Drawn & Engraved by J. H. Le Keux.
[n.d., c.1861.]
Etching. Plate: 410 x 330mm (16 x 13"), with very large margins. Title area bit messy.
A view of George Gilbert Scott's library in University College, Oxford constructed between 1858 and 1861.
[Ref: 40629] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The University Museum.
Drawn & Engraved by J.H.Le Keux.
Published by J.H. Parker, Oxford, Nov.r. 1st. 1859.
Mint etching. Plate: 400 x 340mm (15¾ x 13½"), with very large margins.
A view of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History which was completed in 1861 after a neo-gothic design by Deane and Woodward.
[Ref: 40623] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Oxford. Südseite.
N.d. Nat.gez.v. C. Rundt, lith.v.F. Tempeltei.
Druck d. Königl.lith Instituts zu Berlin. [n.d. c.1846.]
Tinted lithograph, scarce with very large margins. Blindstamp centre title area: CR. 514 x 666mm. 20¼ x 26¼".
A wonderful view of Oxford, with the dome of the Radcliffe Camera, and the spires and high roofs of King's College, All Saints Church and other colleges of Oxford University; shepherds with their dogs sat in the near foreground with their flocks of sheep in the middleground. From Carl Rundt's "Views of the most picturesque Colleges in the University of Oxford" which was published in Berlin in two parts with five lithographed plates and four pages of discriptive text in English and German to each part and with a note recommending Ingram's Memorials of Oxford.
[Ref: 27507] £720.00

Wadham College from the Garden. The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCCXIX [1819].
Drawn by C. Wild. Engraved by J. Skelton.
Published by J. Parker, Oxford & E. Gardner No 7 Paternoster Row, London. Price 5 Shillings & Sixpence.
Engraving. 565 x 485mm (22¼ x 19"), with large margins, stamp duty ink stamp lower right margin. Uncut. Horizontal fold.
The Oxford Almanack is an annual almanac published since 1674. The stamp duty was payable to the compiler of the almanac, set at 1 shilling and threepence per year covered by Act of Parliament 55 Geo. III c. 185. The same act set the penalty for issuing an unstamped almanac as three months' imprisonment.
[Ref: 51425] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

View From The Grounds At The North East Of Wadham College.
F. Mackenzie delt. W. Radclyffe Sculpt.
Published by J.H. Parker, Oxford, November 1st. 1848.
Steel engraving, sheet 300 x 395mm. Slightly trimmed.
Engraved for The Oxford Almanac 1849.
[Ref: 7385] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Oxford Almanack for the Year of the our Lord God MDCCXXXVIII.
G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d. c.1738.]
Etching and engraving. Plate 506 x 451mm (20 x 17¾"), very large margins. Stamped at top left corner. Central crease.
A view of Wadham College, according to designs for its rebuilding; in the foreground, James I enthroned to left with the founders Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham beside him and an allegorical female figure of Learning, with John Wilkins, warden and Bishop of Chester in the centre, holding drawings of Wadham and Gresham colleges, Thomas Sprat, writing his history of the Royal Society, the astronomer Seth Ward and former students Christopher Wren, with views of the Sheldonian Theatre and St. Paul's and Admiral Robert Blake, indicating a picture of a naval engagement; behind these figures is another group, including Philip Bisse and Humphrey Hody, professor of Greek. See Helen Mary Petter, 'The Oxford Almanacks' (Oxford 1974), p. 65-66. Both surviving plates are signed by Vertue. Me green the painter was paid £4.4s.0d. in 1745-6 for the drawing. The front and flanking buildings are taken from an engraving signed 'MBurghers delin. et sculp.', the rest is taken from Loggan, 'Oxonia Illustrata' in 1675. The Oxford Almanack is an annual almanac published since 1674. The stamp duty was payable to the compiler of the almanac, set at 1 shilling and threepence per year covered by Act of Parliament 55 Geo. III c. 185. The same act set the penalty for issuing an unstamped almanac as three months' imprisonment.
Alexander (2008): 786.
[Ref: 52476] £320.00

The Oxford Almanack for the Year of the our Lord God MDCCXLI.
G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d. c.1741.]
Etching and engraving. Plate 501 x 458mm (19¾ x 18"). Tax stamp top left corner.
A view of Worcester College, according to the 18th century design, of which the south side was never built; below, a cartouche showing Charity kneeling before the founder Sir Thomas Cookes, standing next to Bishop Lloyd of Worcester, followed by figures of Divinity, Law, Physick and the Sciences; to right, Dr Clarke stands holding a plan of the library, with benefactors Margaret Alcorne and Sarah Eaton. See Helen Mary Petter, 'The Oxford Almanacks' (Oxford 1974), p. 62. Both surviving plates are signed by Vertue; the perspective is taken from the engraving by W. Williams, 'Oxonia Depicta', 1733, Pl. lviii. The Oxford Almanack is an annual almanac published since 1674. The stamp duty was payable to the compiler of the almanac, set at 1 shilling and threepence per year covered by Act of Parliament 55 Geo. III c. 185. The same act set the penalty for issuing an unstamped almanac as three months' imprisonment.
Alexander (2008): 826.
[Ref: 52479] £320.00

Worcester College From The Provost's Garden.
Drawn and Engraved by J.H. Le Keux.
Published by J.H. Parker, Oxford, Novr. 1st. 1855.
Steel engraving, sheet 305 x 410mm. Trimmed to plate.
Engraved for The Oxford Almanac.
[Ref: 7384] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Reginacide, or, An attack on the Constitution.
Sketched on the spot by a Page in waiting. Dean & Munday, Lithog.rs.
Published by H. Hilliard, 7 Ball Alley, Lombard S.t. London, 1840.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet. 225 x 340mm (8¾ x 13½"). Slight surface soiling.
The attempted assassination of Victoria by Edward Oxford satirised as a 'Liliputian' scene, with the figures wih large heads and small bodies, and tiny horses. Oxford is firing a pistol at the Queen, as she and albert turn to look in shock.
[Ref: 64298] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of Her Most Gracious Majesty and Prince Albert Attacked by the Villain Edward Oxford. Star. No 24.
T.C. Wilson del. Alvey lith 128 London Road.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 200 x 255mm (8 x 10") Tear at top right.
Edward Oxford firing a pistol at Victoria and Albert in a phæton on Constitution Hill. Oxford (1822-1900) was the first of eight people who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria, on 10th June 1840 (although no bullets were found at the scene). Charged with treason, he was found 'not guilty by reason of insanity', much to Victoria's fury (she later tried to get the verdict 'guilty but insane' introduced), and was sent to Bethlem Hospital ('Bedlam'). A model prisoner and obviously highly intelligent, he was transferred to Broadmoor in 1864; three years later he was released on the proviso that he left the country, choosing Melbourne as his destination.
[Ref: 49425] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Oxford. From a sketch taken at the Old Bailey on Monday, June 22nd 1840.
T.C. Wilson. Alvey lith 128 London Road.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 225 x 230mm (8¾ x 9"). Trimmed close to image, creased, laid on album paper. Messy.
Edward Oxford (1822-1900), the first of eight people who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria, on 10th June 1840. Charged with treason, he was found 'not guilty by reason of insanity', much to Victoria's fury (she later tried to get the verdict 'guilty but insane' introduced), and was sent to Bethlem Hospital ('Bedlam'). A model prisoner and obviously highly intelligent, he was transferred to Broadmoor in 1864; three years later he was released on the proviso that he left the country, choosing Melbourne as his destination. Australian interest.
[Ref: 41302] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[An Oxfordshire Lane.]
YM [John Mallows Youngman]
[n.d.c. 1899]
Etching, plate 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"), with small margins. Some creasing outside image. Paper toned. Abrasions at very top of image. Messy.
A country scene in Oxfordshire. Two women stand outside a building in a stream. A girl scavenges the water. A church can be seen in the background. John Mallows Youngman (1817-99) painter, etcher and father of British painter Annie Mary Youngman (1859 -1919).
[Ref: 61183] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Oxoniensia. To the Queen. When first the kingdom to thy virtues due Rose from the billowy deep in distant view; / When Albion's isle, old ocean's peerless pride, / Towr'd in imperial state above the tide; / What bright ideas of the new domain / Form'd the fair prospect of thy promis'd reign!
[Written by] Thomas Warton, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Professor of Poetry.
[Oxford, 1761.]
Broadsheet, 4pp. letterpress. Scarce. Creased, stitch holes, folded, small tear, foxing. Old ink name of Dr. Loveday on front.
A poem written to welcome Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to England for her marriage to George III. It was written by Thomas Warton (1728-90), poetry professor at Oxford and Poet Laureate from 1785 until his death. It was a popular verse and was reprinted in several contemporary periodicals and in Pearch's Supplement to Dodsley's Collection of Poems. This, however, is a separate issue, probably printed for a reading, with the owner's name written in ink.
[Ref: 34059] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of Oxted Cottage situate at Oxted, Surrey. for Sale by Auction by Mr Geo: Robins. at the Auction Mart, London, on Tuesday June 27th 1843, at 12 o'clock.
[1843.]
Scarce lithographic auction prospectus with map. Sheet 355 x 230mm (14 x 9").
The auction prospectus for Oxted Cottage on the Westerham Road (A25).
[Ref: 56595] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The First Day of Oysters.
Painted by A. Fraser. Engraved by Wm. Greatbach.
Cassell & Company, Limited. [n.d. c.1841.]
Etching and engraving. 349 x 410mm (13¾ x 16"). Small tear into left of sheet. Trimmed.
At a market stall, a group eagerly reaching towards a woman at left opening the oysters, which fill a large basket before her.
[Ref: 52389] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mahee Contrafactur des Tuchishen Kansers Ibrahims Sohn und der Sultanin seiner Mutter welches in dem Seetzeffen von denen Maltese Ritterm gesangen und nach Malta gebracht worden. Hosmanus Imperatoris Ibrahim Filius.
[1707.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½''). Trimmed, worm hole and staining.
The portrait of a young boy thought to be Ozman, the son of Ottoman Emperor Ibrahim I. An Ottoman convoy travelling from Constantinople was attacked in 1644 by the Knights Hospitaller of Malta, the ship was filled with pilgrims headed for Mecca. Historians have since disputed whether the boy captured was actually the son of Sultan Ibrahim I. From 'Theatrum Europeaum' 1707 by Johann Peter Lotichius.
[Ref: 49711] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A P&O Company letter ledger.] No 1. Bombay from 18 Dec 68 to Dec 69.
Quarto binder with index leaves; 370 numbered leaves of manuscript. Damp staining throughout, a few pages stuck together at rear.
A volume of general correspondence relating to company business, indexed at the beginning. The period covers the opening of Suez Canal in November 1869. A unique compilation of trading links in and out of Bombay; some signed by the Superintendent George Herring.
[Ref: 35797] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

[A P&O Company letter ledger.]
[1871.]
Quarto binder with index leaves; 456 numbered leaves of manuscript.
A volume of general correspondence relating to company business, based in India, copied into the ledger by a secretary, indexed at the beginning. Dealing with Far Eastern matters including Australia, China, India, Hong Kong etc.
[Ref: 35795] £750.00 view all images for this item

[Two letter ledgers of P&O Company's Hong Kong superintendents.]
[First vol dated November 1868 - June 1869; second vol with sheets dated October 1892 - January 1893.]
Two quarto binders with index leaves; first vol. with 71 numbered letters (most multi-page); second with 229 inserted sheets, numbered in blue wax pencil. Some wear.
A pair of agents' ledgers containing copies of the correspondence to and from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's superindendents in Hong Kong, each with manuscript indexes at the beginning, detailing the day to day activities of the agents, with the arrivals and departures of the company's ship, with accounts of the cargos, passengers and profits. The first volume contains the correspondence of William Macaulay (d.1879), who later became managing director of the company. The second relates to Henry Hope Joseph (c.1849-1931). He also records memos about a surcharge for £125 'Around the World' ticket holders should they wish to visit the Chicago World War via the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a letter of complaint from Bombay Yarn and Opium importers about their bales being damaged by sea water. However within these three months Joseph had to deal with two serious incidents: the shipwreck of SS Bokhara and the collision between SS Ravenna and the Japanese naval cruiser Chisima. The Bokhara was driven onto a reef off Sand Island (Pescadores Islands) by a typhoon on 10th October. 125 drowned and 23 saved, of whom only two were passengers, members of the Hong Kong cricket team returning from a match against Shanghai. The documents attached translations of coded telegrams (Bokhara is referred to as 'Baclulite'), newspaper clippings, copies of letters to the Directors in London, accounts of salvage and the burial of the dead. The collision of SS Ravenna and Chishima occurred at 30 November 1892, when the cruiser cut across the mail steamer's path: the Ravenna hit Chishima amidships, cutting it in two. The warship sank with the loss of her captain and 74 crew, with the Ravenna taking only minor damage on her bow. The ledger contains three original photographs of the damage, taken in dry dock, with a damage report, first-hand accounts, and discussion of the forthcoming Naval Court of Inquiry at Yokohama. Although the letters show the intention of P&O to demand damages from Japan, the company ended up paying £10,000 compensation (covering the cost of the Chishima but nothing for the crew). Japan established 'Maritime Anti-Collision Regulations' in the wake of the incident. Henry Hope Joseph was appointed a joint General Manager of P&O in 1899. A unique compilation of trading links in and out of Hong Kong by P & O including list of cargoes, incidents, problems with staff etc. Must be viewed! Index of contents at front.
[Ref: 35793] £4,600.00 view all images for this item

Carte de L'Oceanie ou cinquieme partie du Monde.
Par A.H. Brué, Geographe de S.A.R. Monsieur.
a Paris Chez J. Goujon, Editeur Propriétaire, Rue de Bac, No 6, près le Pont Royal. 1822, Revue et Augementée en 1825.
Engraved map with original outline colour. Sheet 630 x 930mm (24¾ x 36½"), with publisher's blind stamp.. Pair of holes top corners.
A large and detailed map of the Pacific and Australasia, also showing the coastlines of America and Asia. Australia is depicted before the expeditions of Hume & Hovell and Sturt, so little detail is shown other than the Blue Mountains.
[Ref: 51350] £350.00

A Chart of the Pacific Ocean from the Equinotical to the Latitude of 39½.d. No.
R.W. Seale sculp.
[London: for the author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748.]
Engraved map, two sheets conjoined total 315 x 885mm (12½ x 34½"). Folded as issued, splits in folds.
A chart showing the route of George Anson's ship 'Centurion' in pursuit of a Spanish treasure ship, the ' Nuestra Señora de Covadonga', sailing between Acapulco in Mexico and Manila in the Philippines. By a stroke of luck they met up, and Anson took a vast treasure of 1.3 million silver pieces of eight, a haul that needed thirty-two wagons to transport to the Tower of London on his return. Published in Anson's own account, ''A Voyage Round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV''.
[Ref: 43986] £350.00

[Pacific Ocean] A New and Accurate Chart of the Discoveries of Cap.n Cook, and other later Circumnavigators, exhibiting Norfolk Island, and Port Jackson where the new Settlement is formed, including The Whole Coast of New South Wales; also the New Discoveries on the Coast of North America, shewing Nootka Sound, Comprising likewise the Pelew and other new Discovered Islands situated in the Pacific Ocean.
Engrav'd by J. Lodge Jun.r.
Engraved map. 440 x 345mm (17¼ x 13½"), with very large margins. Tear top centre entering plate, repaired, creasing.
A map of the Pacific Ocean, showing the discoveries of all three of James Cook's voyages, including New South Wales, New Zealand, Hawaii and the Bering Strait. The title references the founding of the colony of Port Jackson in 1788 but the findings of George Vancouver in the American North West (1791-95) and George Bass and Matthew Flinders (1798-9), including the Bass Strait separating Tasman from the mainland, are lacking.
[Ref: 55315] £150.00

Vomo dell'Isola di Tanna. una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. [French translation to right.]
Apud Theodorum Viero Venetiis [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8".
A man of the island of Tanna, part of Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides island group) in the South Pacific Ocean. Plate to 'Raccolta di ... Stampe, che rappresentano figure ed abiti di varie nazioni, etc' in 3 parts, 1783-91, by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice.
[Ref: 10885] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Donna dell'Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. [French translation to right.]
Apud Theodorum Viero Venetiis [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8". Tear into lower edge of plate. One stain spot.
A woman and child of the island of Tanna, part of Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides island group) in the South Pacific Ocean. Plate to 'Raccolta di ... Stampe, che rappresentano figure ed abiti di varie nazioni, etc' in 3 parts, 1783-91, by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice.
[Ref: 10883] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Donna delle Isole degli Amici che suona il flauto con le narici. [French translation to right.]
p.il Zatta [n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple and etching, sheet 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Creases where folded several times. Large stain upper left.
Two women of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean playing a flute and pipes. Plate to an Italian edition of Cook's Voyages, published in Venice by Antonio Zatta & Son.
[Ref: 10888] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Capo dell'Isola di Sa. Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar del Sud. [French translation to right.]
Apud Theodorum Viero Venetiis [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 280 x 205mm. 11 x 8".
A chieftain of the Marquesas Islands, a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean. He wears a headdress and has paint or tattoos on his face. Plate to 'Raccolta di ... Stampe, che rappresentano figure ed abiti di varie nazioni, etc' in 3 parts, 1783-91, by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice.
[Ref: 10887] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Donna dell'Isola d'Erramanga. una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. [French translation to right.]
Apud Theodorum Viero Venetiis [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8".
A woman of the island of Erromango, the largest island in Tafea, the southernmost province of Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides island group) in the South Pacific Ocean. Plate to 'Raccolta di ... Stampe, che rappresentano figure ed abiti di varie nazioni, etc' in 3 parts, 1783-91, by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice.
[Ref: 10886] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Chart of the Great Ocean or Southern Sea.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraved map. 230 x 300mm, 9 x 11¾". Narrow margin on right due to binding.
Map of the Pacific Ocean showijng the findings of Captain Cook's Third Voyage, including the Bering Strait and Hawaii, where he was killed.
[Ref: 26393] £160.00

Chart of the Great Pacific Ocean or South Sea, To Illustrate the Voyage of Discovery made by the Boussole and Astrolabe in the Years 1785, 86, 87 & 88.
Published as the Act directs, Nov.r 1, 1798, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London.
Engraved map with hand colouring, platemark 400 x 520mm (15¾ x 20½"). Trimmed close to plate; mount burn to edges, nicks and tears to edges.
Map published originally as part of 'Charts and Plates to La Perouse's Voyage' (1798). The voyages of Lapérouse (1741-88?) covered much of the Pacific region, and are here marked onto the map. He is last recorded in Botany Bay, Australia, after which he and his ships disappeared. The map shows that much of Australia and Tasmania was yet to be charted.
[Ref: 27247] £230.00

The Departure Of The Packet.
On Stone by Paul Gauci, from a Drawing by S. Owen.
Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. And Published by them at 14, Newman St., London Jan 1, 1830.
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 200 x 240mm. 8 x 9½". Some foxing. Glued at corners to album page.
A tranquil harbour scene; figures on a quayside and the largest ship departing for sea to right. After marine painter and watercolourist Samuel Owen (1768/9 - 1857), by Paul Gauci (1834 - 1866; fl.), son of Maxim Gauci and brother of William Gauci.
[Ref: 11623] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Packing Up!!! "Had sly Ulysses at the Sack____Of Troy, brought thee his pedler's back_____Vide Cleaveland_
W. Heath.
Pub July 1st 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Cut to border.
In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham, in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of George IV famous giraffe which had died in 1829. A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor. Following George IV's death the Conynghams left Windsor immediately having been bequeathed the king's plate and jewels.
BM Satires: 16143.
[Ref: 43635] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

Geroge Packwood, the Celebrated Razor Strop Maker and Author of the Goldfinch's Nest.
Drawn & Engraved by A. Watkinshaw.
Pubd. As the Act directs 23 July, 1796.
Stipple engraving 95 x 175mm, 3¾ x 6¾inches. Trimmed inside plate with false margins added.
George Packwood was a middle-class businessman with a product and a desire to get rich. In 1794 he published his an advertisement for his razor strop and paste in the London Times. Like all good advertisers, he knew that repetition was essential if he wanted to attract public attention. His first target was London coffeehouses and the middle- to upper-class men who frequented them. As his business and his name grew, Packwood expanded his advertising efforts to country newspapers. He eventually captured markets in all the cites and large fashionable towns of Great Britain. Packwood made a show of his outrageous, original, and ever-changing attempts to capture public attention. He believed that his advertisements had entertainment as well as commercial value, and to illustrate this he published a compilation of his advertisements "Packwood's Whim: The Goldfinch's Nest; or the Way to Get Money and Be Happy", this booklet was a shameless attempt to glorify Packwood, both for his razor strops and his advertising prowess. This frontice shows his tactic of suprising his customers with packaged, spherical, yellow balls of paste in circular boxes that resembled, upon Packwood's suggestion, the nest of a goldfinch.
[Ref: 12888] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A View at the Head of the Canal or Bason at Paddington. 1360 Feet long by 95 Feet wide.
H. Milbourne Delin. J. Jeakes Sculpt.
London Published 10th February, 1813, by Robert Wilkinson, No. 58 Cornhill.
Coloured aquatint. 346 x 245mm image size. Abrasion on left side of image near right margin, minor browning of paper on edges
One from a set of four views of Paddington.
for another plate from the series, see ref. 4234
[Ref: 4236] £440.00

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