Grosvenor Prints

[Text illustration from Stumpf's 'Schwytzer Chronica'.]
[Cut by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder?]
[Zurich 1548.]
Woodcut, 80 x 170mm, 3¼ x 6¾", set in letterpress with three woodcut armorials. Minor worming in margin.
An army on a barge being hauled across a lake to a city's walls. The page is headed 'Von dem Zürychgow' (the Canton of Zürich). Johannes Stumpf (1500-1574) was a German theologian and historian who was given civic rights in Zurich in 1548. His 'Schwytzer Chronica' is a richly-illustrated history of the Swiss 'Old Confederacy' (1293-1523), with most of the 400 woodcut illustrations engraved by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder.
[Ref: 23486] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Château d'Unspunnen et de ses environs.
[After Gabriel Lory le père][Engraver Johann Hurlimann].
[n.d. c.1822.]
Hand coloured aquatint, pt J. Whatman watermark, sheet 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Trimmed within platemark. Some creases and spots on image.
A landscape view of the ruins of Unspunnen Castle and its surroundings, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The scene depicts a valley with snowy peaks in the distance, the Unspunnen Castle on the right and some houses and cows in the middle ground. A group of three figures resting in the left foreground.
[Ref: 58903] £320.00

Vue de la Source de l'Arveron.
[Anon., c.1820]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 275 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½"). Trimmed.
A view of the Arveyron river emerging from the Mer de Glace, before merging with the Arve in Chamonix. It shows the grotto-like vault from which the river once emerged, painted by J.M.W. Turner in his 'Source of the Arveron in the Valley of Chamouni Savoy', 1816.
For similar view see ref. 33789.
[Ref: 39643] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne bernoise des environs de la ville
[Anon, c.1805]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Peasant girl from the outskirts of Bern in Switzerland, holding a pitchfork with workers gathering hay bales in background.
[Ref: 39637] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Fluelen.
Dessiné d'après nature par J. Wetzel. Gravé par F. Hegi
[n.d., c.1820]
Fine aquatint printed in colour, sheet 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11").
Distant view of the municipality of Flüelen in the canton of Uri, Switzerland, with Lake Lucerne in the foreground. From a series of landscapes after Swiss artist Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834).
See also refs. 31933-4.
[Ref: 39639] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne Freibourgeoise, de la partie romande du Canton
[Anon, c.1805]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed; nicked upper right.
Peasant girl from the French-speaking part of the Canton of Fribourg, in the west of Switzerland.
[Ref: 39636] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne de Gouggisberg
[Anon, c.1805]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Peasant girl from the municipality of Guggisberg in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. In the early 19th century Guggisberg was a popular tourist destination because of its mountain views.
[Ref: 39635] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Interlaken
[Anon., c.1805]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 95 x 135mm (3¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and title; glued to backing sheet.
The district of Interlaken in the canton of Bern in Switzerland; cattle in foreground.
[Ref: 39634] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Lac de Geneve.
[probably published 1791 by Thomas Gowland.]
Etching with hand-colouring, 18th century watermark; sheet 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Trimmed.
View on lake Geneva, on the north side of the Alps between Switzerland and France.
[Ref: 39648] £360.00

La dot d'une paysanne lucernoise
[Anon, c.1830]
Rare lithograph with very fine hand colouring, sheet 215 x 340mm (8½ x 13½").
Newly-married couple from the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, in a cart carrying the bride's dowry.
[Ref: 39651] £460.00

La noce Lucernoise.
[Anon, c.1830]
Rare lithograph with very fine hand colouring, sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Some staining.
Wedding celebrations in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
[Ref: 39650] £360.00

Bergér d'Oberhasli, tenant la trompe des Alpes.
G.L. 1805 [in image lower left]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Shepherd from the Hasli region of Switzerland in the Canton of Bern, holding an Alpine horn.
[Ref: 39638] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Alpine shepherd scene]
[Gabriel Lory, c.1814]
Etching and aquatint with very fine hand-colouring, sheet 275 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"). Trimmed.
Shepherd milking a cow while a shepherdess holds a bucket with city in background. Alpine scene by Gabriel Lory, the younger (1784-1846), Swiss painter, watercolourist and engraver. Lory's wife Louise de Meuron supervised the production and colouring of Lory's prints while the artist travelled abroad in search of commissions. In 1814, around the time this print was made, Lory arrived in England via Guernsey (Ackermann published an English translation of Lory's popular 'Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon' in 1820.
[Ref: 39642] £450.00

Vue de Stanzstad.
Dessiné d'après nature par J. Wetzel. Gravé par F. Hegi
Publié par Orell Fussli & Comp. à Zurich.
Aquatint printed in colour, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 11"). Trimmed.
The village of Stansstad in the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland. It overlooks Lake Lucerne. From a series of landscapes after Swiss artist Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834).
See also refs. 31933-4.
[Ref: 39649] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vue prise du Chateau de Thoun.
London, Published May 2d 1804 by Charles Richards, No 349 Strand.
Etching and aquatint with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 310mm (8¾ x 12¼"). Trimmed.
View from Thun Castle in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. The castle was built by the Dukes of Zährigen c.1200 and is now a castle museum and Swiss heritage site of national significance.
For a similar view see ref. 31931.
[Ref: 39640] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Ville et de L'Isle de Syra.
Eenens et Petermanns del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Ano Syros, built by the Venetians on Syros, ringed by their fortifications and topped by the Roman Catholic cathedral of San Giorgio. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35158] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Szarvasszöllö.
Term. u és köre rajz Keleti Gusztáv. Özvegy Fuchs Györgyné müintézete. München.
[Budapest: Gustav Emich, 1867.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Large margins.
Szarvasszöllö in Hungary, from 'Tokaj-Hegyaljaer Album', a study of the famous Tokaj wine region by Josef Szabó & Stefan von Török. Gusztáv Frigyes Kelety (originally Klette, 1834-1902), a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and art critic.
[Ref: 38973] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Tagus, 1842.]
[Painted by Lieut. J. Corbett, R.N.]
Watercolour with pencil title. Sheet 185 x 310mm.
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: 6808] £320.00

[France] Ioannes, Taisnerius.
De, L'armessin, Scul.
[Paris, 1682.?]
Rare engraving. Plate 190 x 133mm. 7½ x 5¼".
Jean Taisner (1508-c.1582) was a priest, who in 1572 published a plagiarised copy of Pierre de Maricourt's 'Epistola de magnete'. Taisner described a magnetic-based perpetual motion machine, which had been noted earlier by Maricourt. Illustration to Isaac Bullart's "Academie des Sciences et des Arts".
[Ref: 24558] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Omer Talon, Avocat General au Parlement de Paris. d'apres Champagne tire des Estampes du Cabinet du Roi.
Touze d. P. Duflos S.
A Paris chez Cuflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 274 x 160mm.
[Ref: 2144] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Denis Talon.]
Nanteuil faciebat ad vivum.
[n.d. c.1654-6.]
Fine engraving, 17th century watermark; 365 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"). Fine. Trimmed.
A bust length portrait of French magistrate Denis Talon (1628-1698) in magistrates robes, in a frame of oak leaves decorated with entwined initials and a coat of arms.
PW 211.
[Ref: 57483] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tarczal.
Term. u és köre rajz Keleti Gusztáv. Özvegy Fuchs Györgyné müintézete. München.
[Budapest: Gustav Emich, 1867.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Large margins.
Tarcal in Hungary, from 'Tokaj-Hegyaljaer Album', a study of the famous Tokaj wine region by Josef Szabó & Stefan von Török. Gusztáv Frigyes Kelety (originally Klette, 1834-1902), a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and art critic.
[Ref: 38972] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Camp of Tarragona.
I. Basire Sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19"). Very fine impression with original binding folds, trimmed into printed border at top, as issued.
A plan of the environs of the Catalan port of Taragona, a British base during the War of the Spanish Succession, as Catalonia was fighting for independence from Spain. The surrounding hills made for good natural defences, as the map notes: 'The Hills marked with a cross are impractical for cavalry'. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 28280] £140.00

Tartars of Casan.
Burney del. Barlow sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs by Dr. J. Trusler Nov.r. 1788.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of a settlement of the Tartars of Casan in Northern Russia. Illustration from Dr John Trusler's 'The Habitable World Described' (c1788-1806).
[Ref: 32142] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Tartar Mountaineers.] Vol.2.Pl.12.
Geisler del.t Medland Sculp.t
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving with large margins; Stamp: Stamford Library. Plate 196 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼").
Plate 12: two Tartar Mountaineers in their respective dresses. In the background are seen dwellings, one half of which is excavated in the rock. From Volume 2 of "Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794".
[Ref: 31037] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Tartar Murses.] Vol.2.Pl.21.
Geisler del.t Medland sculp.
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving with large margins; Stamp: Stamford Library. Plate 201 x 165mm (8 x 6½").
Plate 21: a group, consisting of two Tartar Murses, or Nobles, in their daily dress, both being faithful pictures drawn from nature; and a youth standing before them. In the background are seen the rocks beyond Kara-Ilas, on the banks of the Belbek; in front is delineated a fountain. From Volume 2 of "Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794".
[Ref: 31044] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Jeune Fille de Tegernsée, district du Tyrol. Cost. de div. Pays. No.12
Lanté delt. Gatine Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1827.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate 298 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼".
A young girl from Tegernsee, a spa town in Bavaria, Germany, which is abot 20km from Tyrol, Austria. In brightly coloured traditional dress.
[Ref: 16206] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Chancellor Michel le Tellier].
Nanteuil ad vivum del. et Sculpebat 20 Junni An.o 1659.
Engraving, in mount; 360 x 270mm (14 x 10½"). Trimmed, attached top & bottom on left.
A bust portrait of Chancellor Michel le Tellier (1603-1685) in an oval laurel garland atop a pedestel decorated with a coat of arms. Tellier enjoyed a successful career as a French statesman, owing in no small part to his close friendship with Cardinal Mazarin, and in 1677 was appointed Chancellor of France.
RD 131. PW 111.
[Ref: 57467] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of Apollo, near Phigaleia.
From a drawing by F.W. Newton Esq.re Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
London, J. Murray, Albermarle St. 1837.
Lithograph. 120 x 190mm. 4¾ x 7½.
A snow scene. The Temple of Apollo Epicurios, at Phigaleia, in Arcadia, stands in a slight depression on the bare and wind-swept side of Mount Cotylion, above the valley of the river Neda. It was discovered towards the end of the eighteenth century, but on account of its remote position it was seldom visited before 1811. From "A Short Visit to The Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea. By Edward Giffard, Esq."
[Ref: 25646] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Saorgio in the Passage of the Col de Tende.
Drawn by Mary Countess Harcourt, Engraved by J. Hibbert, Bath.
Aquatint tinted with beige. 480 x 367mm Laid on board.
View of a town on cliffs, seen from below, a winding road and river at left in the foreground. 1809-33. Department of Alpes-Maritimes region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, while Col de Tende is a high mountain pass in the Alps, on the border of France and Italy. Mary, Countess Harcourt [1749 - 1833] Wife of William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt, and amateur painter.
[Ref: 9934] £380.00

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[Greek War of Independence.] Die Helden von Tenedos.
[Etched by Wunder after Geissler?]
[Nuremberg?, c.1829.]
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 170 x 205mm (6¾ x 8"). Trimmed.
A scene from Greek War of Independence (1821-29), with Constantine Canaris blowing up a Turkish warship using a fireship off Tenedos, a tactic he used several times.
[Ref: 29826] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Marmore Falls] Pio Sexto Pont. Opt. Max. Bonarum Artium Auspici et Patrono. Velinum aere expressum per Fossam Curianam nunc Clementinam in Narem defluentem Interamnatium et Reatinorum dissidüs celeberrimum.
Philippus Hackert Delineavit. Carolus Antonini Sculpsit Romæ.
Franciscus Carrara Bergomas S. Congrgationis Concilii a Secretis D.D.D. [n.d., c.1779.]
Etching. 610 x 420mm (24 x 16½"), with large margins. Uncut. Mint.
A view of the spectacular man-made waterfall created by the Romans on the river Velino near Terni, Umbria. In 1779 Cardinal Francesco Carrara presented to the pope a dissertation on the Terni waterfalls, 'La caduta del Velino nella Nera', probably commisioning this etching at that time. Hackert's preparatory drawing is in the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54971] £750.00

De Nieuwe Haven van Texel, met het Dorp tSchilt in't verschiet. Le Nouveau Port de Texel, avec le Village't Schilt dans le lointain. Tiré de la Collections des Ports d'Hollande dessinés par M'D'D jong dans le meme port.
D de Jong, ad vivum delin. A. Suntach Direxit. No.11 [Top right].
[n.d. c.1800.]
Copper engraving, fine. Plate 198 x 236mm. 7¾ x 9¼".
Texel, one of the Dutch Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea. The village of Schilt can be seen in the distance.
See: NMM: PAF7380. for larger engraving by Sallieth.
[Ref: 16471] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Texel, op het Nieuwe Veer te zien. Port de Texel, appellé Veer te zien. Tiré de la Collections des Ports d'Hollande dessinés par M'D'D jong dans le meme port.
Dk de Jong, ad vivum delin. A. Suntach Direxit. No.16 [Top right].
[n.d. c.1800.]
Copper engraving. Plate 198 x 236mm. 7¾ x 9¼".
Texel, one of the Dutch Frisian Island in the Wadden Sea.
See: NMM: PAF7385. for larger engraving by Sallieth.
[Ref: 16470] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

El Prior.
J.F. Lewis 1836.
Hand-coloured lithograph, very fine colour, subscriber's first state. Image 261 x 342mm. 10¼ x 13½".
From "Sketches of Spain"; the interior of the friar's office in a Spanish monastery. John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) was an Orientalist English painter. He lived in Spain between 1832 and 1834. In 1859 he became an Associate of the Royal Academy and in 1865 a member.
[Ref: 19220] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Theatre Royal Malta. Saturday 13th May 1848. For the total benefit of the Basso Generico Salvatore Vinco. The First, Second, and Fourth Acts of the Leonora. After the first act, the following pieces will be performed: Fantasia on the Clarionett, by the Amateur Mr. Philip Galea, who has kindly offered his services. Air from the Prigioni d'Edimburgo-(Fuoco e sciabla, Bu) - by Mr. Del Riccio. Duet in the Borgomastro di Sardaam, in the Maltese language by Miss Servoli and S. Vinco. Indulgent Public, Noble Garrison and Royal Navy,-Mr. Vinco having seen with what love and zeal, you so kindly and nobly came forward to patrionise his fellow Actors;-humbly trusts, that you will, also, as kindly extend your favors to him;-the more so, as he has the good fortune to be a native of this free and happy soil. To begin at half past eight o'clock.
Letterpress, scarce. 253 x 178mm. 10 x 7".
A theatre bill for an 1848 benefit performance in Malta of the opera 'Leonora' or "Léonore ou L’Amour conjugal" by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer. This piece was well known at the time and is based on the same source as "Fidelio" by Beethoven, who is said to have owned a score of the Paer opera. It was first performed at the Kleines Kurfürstliches Theater, Dresden in 1804.
[Ref: 18361] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Theatre Royal Malta. Thursday 4th May 1848. For the Total Benefit of the Seconda Donna Ermelinda Jacobacci. The First and Second Acts of Robert Devereux. After the first act, the following pieces will be performed: A Duete from Vestale, sung by Misses Servoli and Jacobacci. A Duet from Lucia, sung by Messrs; Coletti and Bianchi. A Duet from Elena da Feltre, sung by Mr. Del Riccio and Miss Jacobacci. Generous Public, Garrison and Navy, the humble actress in offering the above entertainment, trusts solely in your goodness, feeling convinced that she will be honoured and assisted, for which she makes bold to return her anticipated acknowledgements. To begin at hald past eight o'clock.
Scarce Letterpress. 306 x 235mm. 12 x 9¼".
A theatre bill for Gaetano Donizetti's tragic opera 'Robert Devereux'. The performance is for the benefit of Ermelinda Jacobacci, whose debut was at the Teatro Ducale in Parma in 1844. See ref: 18361 for a similar handbill.
[Ref: 18358] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Straights of Thermopylae.
London: Published by J. McCormick, 147, Strand, June 1.st 1832. A. Ducôte's Estab.t 70, St. Martins Lane.
A very scarce lithograph. 272 x 380mm. 10¾ x 15". Uncut sheet.
The straits of Thermopylae, Greece. A narrow coastal passage that existed in antiquity, its names from its hot sulphur springs, meaning 'hot gate'. It was here that the Battle of Thermopylae took place between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
[Ref: 22962] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Town of Theodosia.] Vol.2.Pl.14.
Geisler del.t Medland Sculp.t
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving, offset, small margins; Stamp: Stamford Library. Plate 202 x 342mm (8 x 13½"). Trimmed along right edge; folds as normal.
Plate 14: prospect of the ruinous Town of Theodosia, or Kaffa, with part of the bay; the ancient town seen surrounded by the fortified wall. From Volume 2 of "Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794".
[Ref: 31043] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mary Theresa by y.e Grace of God Queen of Hungary & Bohemia, Archdutchess of Austria, &c &c
C.Valo Pinx. J. Frank fecit.
Sold by T. Millward at the Dial and 3 Crowns in Fleet Street 1741. Prince 2 shillings.
Fine & scarce mezzotint, print 360 x 250mm (13¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet.
Full body portrait of Queen Maria Theresa (1717-1780), sitting, hair in curls dressed with pearls, wearing earring, pearl necklace, dress with short sleeves, and robe; fluted pillar and curtain on the left; curtain on the right. Plate reduced and altered from one by R.Williams of Barbara Duchess of Cleveland. The names Valo and Frank are evidently fictitious.
CS: 13.IV. Layard 32.
[Ref: 58795] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Diva Eleonora Divi Leopoldi Caesaris. Salus Augusta.
B. Kilian sculp.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. 324 x 190mm. 12¾ x 7½". Trimmed and laid on album page; crease in middle.
Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg (1655-1720) was Holy Roman Empress as the spouse of Leopold I. She served as Interim Regent in 1711 following the death of her son, Joseph I who served after his father from 1705.
[Ref: 26047] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Mr. Thiverny Oeconome de Bicestre.
Mareuil fecit.
[n.d. c.1700]
Etching, rare. Plate 114 x 83mm. 4½ x 3". Scarce.
De Mareuil engraving, Bicetre, in the 17th century Louis XIII built a hospital for for invalid soldiers, on the ruins of this fortress which was a hospital, lunatic asylum and a Parisian jail. "Oeconome" suggest that Mr.Thiverny must have been the finance officer of that institution.
[Ref: 24428] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Emeric Comte de Teckely Chef des Mécontents en Hongrie.
S. Thomassin Sculptor Regius
Se Vend a Paris chez Thomassin rue St. Jacques vis a vis la rue du Platre a l'Image St. Jean avec Privil du Roy [c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
Count Imre Thököly de Késmárk (1658-1705), Hungarian nobleman who led an anti-Habsburg uprising, following his father Istvan (who died when he was a child) in doing so. He led an army of rebels, reinforced by Turkish and Transylvanian forces, and established himself as Prince of Upper Hungary (1682-5). Having formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, Thököly assisted the Turks in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, in which intervention from the Polish army of Sobieski led to a decisive defeat for the Ottoman army. Thököly then tried to reconcile himself with Habsburg Emperor Leopold I, offering to lay down his arms in exchange for recognition of Thököly as Prince of Upper Hungary and confirmation of Protestant religious rights in Hungary. Leopold, however, demanded complete surrender, and Thököly renewed hostilities. This 1685 campaign was also a failure and ended in imprisonment. Although Thököly achieved subsequent victories with diminished forces, he lost his principality of Upper Hungary and finally retired to Galata, near Istanbul, with large estates granted him by Sultan Mustafa II.
[Ref: 43001] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Emerici Tokoly Hungarici Comitis, Vera Effigies.
a Plasse pinx: P. Stephani F. Sculp.
ex Formis Nicolae Visscher cum Privil: Ordin: General Belgii Foederati. [n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching, watermarked laid paper, 370 x 280mm. 14½ x 11". Horizontal creases to centre of plate.
Handsome bust portrait in oval frame of Count Imre (Emerich) Thököly de Kesmarkium (1657 - 1705) was a Hungarian statesman and national hero. He led an anti-Habsburg uprising; significantly, as inscribed below the title, this plate was (re)issued in the United States of Belgium, a short-lived confederation of the Southern Netherlands which existed from January to December 1790, during a revolt against the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II.
[Ref: 20764] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jacq. Aug. De Thou, Encien President au Parlement de Paris. Tire en Partie de la Galerie des Grands Hommes de l'Hotel de Pr. Pdt.
Touze d. Femme Duflos. S.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 276 x 163mm.
[Ref: 2151] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Messire Christophe de Thou Premier Président MDLXXXII.
Morin scul.
[n.d., c.1640.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½"). Fine impression. Trimmed to plate.
Christophe de Thou (1508-82), Magistrate and First President of the Parlement of Paris 1554-62.
[Ref: 49422] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Trhaia.
[Hartmann Schedel, c.1493.]
Woodcut engraving with letterpress text, rare. Image area 230 x 224mm. 9 x 8¾". Cut.
A view of Thrace, modern Greece, a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains in the north, the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara in the east. From "Schedelsche Weltchronik" published by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) in 1493 in Nuremberg. Maps in his Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
[Ref: 26187] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Thrashing Grain.] Vig.13. General Remarks on the Peninsula of the Crimea.
[Geisler del. Medland sc.]
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving with letterpress printed page, offset; stamp: Stamford Library. Sheet 266 x 203mm (10½ x 8").
Vignette 13: delineations of the Tartar mode of trashing of treading out the grain. From Volume 2 of "Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794".
[Ref: 31060] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Thun Castle, Switzerland.]
Johnstone Baird [pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist. In original mount, limited edition of 75; 315 x 170mm (12½ x 6¾") very large margins. Mint.
A 13th century castle in the canton of Bern. Johnstone Baird (1880 - 1935). Born in Ayrshire, studied Glasgow School of Art. Naval architect with the Admiralty 1917-19. Travelled widely on the Continent. Exhibited 1910-30.
[Ref: 49229] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Thun du Côté du Midi. Dedié à S.A.Royale M.e F. Sophie Wilhelmine Princess d'Orange et de Nassau Née Princesse de Prusse, Par son très humble et très respectueus serviteur Henzi.
Wolff pinx. J. Janinet sculp. Gravé sous la direction de M.r Vernet, Peintre du Roi.
Se vend à Paris Rue des deux Portes S.t Sauveur chez Mr Graff [n.d., c.1785].
Aquatint and etching with fine hand colour. 320 x 450mm (12½ x 17¾"). Small margins.
A fine view of Castle Thun with a footbridge over the Aare river. Plate 6 of ''Vues Remarkables des Montagnes de la Suisse, Dessinees et Peintes d'apres Nature, Avec Leur Description'', one of the earliest and rarest alpine colour plate books. Orignally published by Wagner in Bern in 1782, the plates passed to Bern publisher Rodolphe Hentzi who published them in 1785. This example has Graff's name added.
[Ref: 54919] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT)

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