Grosvenor Prints

The Royal Family. King William/ Queen Mary/ Prince George of Denmark/ Princess Anne of Denmark.
E.Cooper excudit. B.Lens Fecit.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare & fine mezzotint. 205 x 170mm (8 x 6¾"). Trimmed close to platemark, very small margins.
Portraits of William III (1650-1702), reigned 1689-1702., Mary II (1662-1694), reigned with William III 1689-94, Prince George of Denmark (1653-1708), Consort of Queen Anne; son of King Frederick III of Denmark and Norway and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Princess Anne of Denmark, later Queen Anne (1665-1714), reigned 1702-14.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS 17.
[Ref: 64503] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Portraits of the Whole of the Royal Family, Engraved from the Original Pictures By Her Majestys most gracious permission to whom they are Humbly Dedicated by her Dutiful And Obedient Servant E. Harding.
Nash del. Greig sculp. Hopkins del. M.A. Bourlier sc. S.r W.m Beechy del. Cheesman sc. Lawrence del. Madame Le Brun del. Muller del. Geremia sc. Fodd Sculp. Gainsborough pinx.
Published by E. Harding N.o 100. Pall Mall. 1806.
Folio with board covers and leather spine with gilt. 21 very fine stipple plates printed in colour, included in front is a prospectus for Nash's Views of the chapel of St. George's at Windsor Castle, with list of subscribers verso. On paper watermarked 1802, large margins.
Portraits include: George III (1738-1820), Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), George IV as the Prince of Wales (1762-1830), Caroline of Brunswick as the Princess of Wales (1768-1822), Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817), Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia Duchess of York (1767-1820), William IV as the Duke od Clarence (1765-1837), Charlotte Princess Royal as Duchess (Queen Consort) of Württemberg (1766-1828), Prince Edward Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1829), Princess Augusta Sophia (1768-1840), Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), Ernest Augustus King of Hanover as the Duke of Cumberland (1771-1851), Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), Prince Adolphus Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), Princess Mary Duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857), Princess Sophia (1777-1848), Prince Octavius (1779–1783), Prince Alfred (1780-1782) and Princess Amelia (1783-1810).
Abbey Life 298.
[Ref: 61627] £820.00 view all images for this item

Prince Albert's Stock; or, the Royal Fashion for 1843, which is to Continue for the Succeeding Ten Years.
London Published by William Spooner 377 Strand. Printed for W. Kohler.
Coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet: 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10''). Flap damaged, laid on album sheet.
A transformation print showing Prince Albert's stock or neckcloth, once the flaps are lifted Prince Albert and Queen Victoria's children the Princess Royal, Prince Edward and the newborn Princess Alice are revealed.
See Ref: 58855
[Ref: 48939] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Ancient Greece. Royal Gallery of British Art.]
Painted by W. Linton. Engraved by J.W. Appleton. Printed by Horwood & Watkins.
London, Published Dec.r 1, 1840, by the Proprietors No.s 18 & 19, Southampton Place, Euston Square, Sold also by F.G. Moon, Threadneedle Street, and Ackermann & Co., Strand.
Etching and engraving on chine collé. Plate 360 x 510mm (14¼ x 20") with wide margins. Some surface dirt in margins.
A city in ancient Greece, after Linton; people on steps in front of a temple in the foreground, with trees round the curved collonaded portico, preparing to offer a sacrifice and looking to left towards a galley carrying men in armour which rows past, other galleys lined up to left in front of another temples, more in the harbour beyond to right with town buildings rising above, including a bridge lined by statues across a cascade, to left. According to ODNB, the 'Royal Gallery of British Art' was the most ambitious publication of the brothers William and Edward Finden, though sadly unprofitable: a set of forty-eight plates after the most notable painters of the day, published by them with the collaboration of others, between 1838 and 1840.
[Ref: 52464] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

History Made Easy [Royal] Genealogy Since The Conquest.
Entered at Stationer's Hall. Chart, Two Shillings. Key to Do. One Shilling [here lacking]. Published by W. Pinnock, Newbury, Berks and sold by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom [n.d., c.1810-1820].
Engraved folding genealogical chart, c.400 x 500mm. 15¾ x 19¾". Folds splitting, repaired.
A large circular diagram at centre traces the genealogy of British royalty since the Norman Conquest. In surrounding cartouches a list of British rulers from Egbert to Harold, a list of consorts since the Conquest, and 'Notes' and 'Directions' to the reader. An interesting and probably scarce piece of educational ephemera. The chart was perhaps originally intended to be mounted on linen and folded into a cardboard slipcase.
[Ref: 23518] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales. Honi. Soit. Qui. Mal. Y. Pense. Ich Dien. [in crest]
T Baston F. J. Harris S.
[n.d. c.1721].
Coloured engraving. 210 x 305mm (8¼ x 12").
'Royal George' was a short-lived name for the Royal Nay 100-gun ship of the line launched in 1675 as 'Royal James'. After the Glorious Revolution she was renamed 'Victory', then 'Royal George' in 1714, on the Hanoverian accession, but reverted to 'Victory' the following year.. She burned to the waterline in 1721 and was broken up. Fine impression.
[Ref: 8507] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, This Plate of his Maj.ties Ship the Royal George is most humbly Inscribed.
T. Baston delin: J. Cole Sculp.
[n.d., c.1714.]
Engraving. Sheet 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"). Mss borders added through image from a print screen.
'Royal George' was a short-lived name for the Royal Navy 100-gun ship of the line launched in 1675 as 'Royal James'. After the Glorious Revolution she was renamed 'Victory', then 'Royal George' in 1714, on the Hanoverian accession, but reverted to 'Victory' the following year. She burned to the waterline in 1721 and was broken up.
[Ref: 55056] £680.00

[The Royal George Yacht.] To His Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G. &c. &c. This Engraving representing the Royal George Yacht Conveying Her Majesty and Royal Consort to Edinburgh, August, 1842. Off the Bass Rock, at the Time the Squadron was joined by the General Steam Navigation Company's Steam Ships Trident and Monarch, each of 1000 Tons, is with permission humbly dedicated by His Royal Highness' most obedient Servant, W.J. Huggins.
Painted by W.J. Huggins, Marine Painter to His late Majesty William IVth. Engraved by E. Duncan.
London. Published February 1st 1843, by M.r Huggins, 105, Leadenhall Street.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 480 x 660mm (19 x 26"). A few repairs.
Queen Victoria and Albert aboard the Royal George Yacht in the Firth of Forth, on one of its last voyages as the Royal Yacht. Other ships shown are the 'Trinity Yacht', 'Monarch', 'Shear-Water', 'Black Eagle' and 'Trident', as well as two cutters full of sight-seers. To the right is the Bass Rock, Tantallon Castle to the left. Launched in 1817 the 'Royal George' was replaced in 1843 by a paddle steamer, the 'Victoria and Albert'. This was Victoria's first visit to Scotland, five years after becoming monarch. She had been fascinated by the novels of Sir Walter Scott and her interest in Scotland increased with this trip. She bought Balmoral in 1852.
NMM: PAH8904.
[Ref: 33725] £680.00

Royal George 1759 by Serres.
[Dominic Serres]
Ink and grey wash. Sheet 170 x 450mm (6¾ x 17¾"). 'Royal George' in same grey wash on reverse, title on front (as above) in later hand. Tears, stains, mounted on card.
The starboard side of the 'Royal George', a first-rate with 100 guns on three decks, the largest warship in the world when launched in 1756. The year of this sketch she was Admiral Sir Edward Hawke's flagship at the Battle of Quiberon Bay, where she sank 'Superbe'. Royal George sank in August 1782 at Spithead off Portsmouth while she was rolled for maintenance, with the loss of more than 900 lives. The wreck was a major hazard in the Solent until 1840, when gunpowder was used to destroy it. We believe this sketch shows the Royal George with damage after the Battle of Quiberon Bay. Dominic Serres (1722-93) was a French-born maritime painter who documented the events of the Seven Years' War, including Quiberon Bay and the Capture of Havana in 1762.
[Ref: 56382] £590.00

Club Rooms & Baths. To Sir Charles Ibbetson Bart: Commodore, and the other Members of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, This Print is respectfully Inscribed by the Author.
W.H. Landsey Del. J. Sutcliffe, Lithr.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Rare hand coloured lithograph, sheet 145 x 230mm. 5¾ x 9". Horizontal crease.
The clubhouse of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club (est.1845) which overlooked the harbour entrance at Harwich, Essex, ideally located for the signalling activities which were a significant part of yacht club life. The scene features bathing boxes on wheels, to right.
[Ref: 15700] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Key to the Royal Horoscope of Futurity, For Unfolding the Mysteries of Destiny, Respectfully dedicated to all Lovers of the Astral Sciences, by their Devoted Servant, Gabriel, Astrologer of the 19th Century.
Letterpress. Sheet: 165 x 170mm (6½ x 6¾''). Creasing, trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A horoscope, possibly produced by the Society of the Mercurii, one of the primary groups involved in the revival of the occult and astrological in the 1830s.
[Ref: 51134] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Royal Horse Artillery.]
Gilbert Holiday.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Photolithograph. 255 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"), trimmed to image and laid on board, as issued.
Charles Gilbert Holiday (1879-1937) worked as an illustrator at The Graphic, The Tatler and The Illustrated London News before the Great War. Receiving a commission with The Royal Field Artillery, he served with distinction at Arras, Passchendaele and the Third Battle of Ypres. After the war he returned to his main interest, painting horses. Lionel Edwards said: ''no one can, or ever could, paint a horse in action better than Gilbert could''.
[Ref: 55433] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Horse Guard . . . Created in 1661.
J. June sc.
Printed for Jn. Smith, at Hogarth's Head, in Cheapside [n.d., c. 1785]
Coloured engraving, 170 x 150mm. 6¾ x 6". Slight foxing
One of a series of ten military costume prints engraved by June and published by Smith.
Ogilby 872.10
[Ref: 11184] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Hospital of Chelsea.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of the Royal Hospital on the banks of the Thames at Chelsea, from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45324] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Hospital of Chelsey, fronting ye River Thames.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of the Royal Hospital on the banks of the Thames at Chelsea, from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45325] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Hospital of Greenwich.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of the Royal Hospital on the banks of the Thames at Greenwich, from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45326] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled prints relating to the Royal Humane Society]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Two lithographs. 1: sheet 120 x 205mm (4¾ x 8"). 2: on chine collé, 160 x 245mm (6¼ x 9½"). 2: trimmed into chine collé at top, spotting and creasing.
The first print shows the Society's receiving house by the Serpentine in Hyde Park, with their wheeled ladders designed to rescue skaters who have fallen through the ice. The second scene shows skaters enjoying themselves, oblivious to one of their number under the ice beneath them.
[Ref: 58508] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A Corporal of the 10th. Or Prince of Wales Own Royal Hussars, In Review Order.
C. H. S. Aquatinted by J. C. Stadler.
London. Pub.d. Jan.y. 1813. by Colnaghi, & C.o. 23 Cockspur Street.
Coloured aquatint, J. Whatman watermark 1811; 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Slightly faded.
A Corporal of the 10th Royal Hussars brandishing a sword, on a rearing horse. From Charles Hamilton Smith's "Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations of 1812".
Oglivy 870.
[Ref: 63452] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Insititution [Admission Ticket.] Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum.
R. Westall, R. A. delin. A. Raimbach, Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving. 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"). Laid on original album paper.
Ticket to the Royal Institution, with engraving of Minerva and the Muses, by Raimbach after Westall, and at bottom "Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum".
[Ref: 63141] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Institution, Albemarle Street. Plate 68.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. Stadler, aquat.
London, Pub, 1.st May 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 270mm (9 x 10½"), with very large margins.
The library at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or RI), an organization devoted to scientific education and research. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea. The Institution's stated aims were "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and improvements; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life." Since its founding it has been based on Albemarle Street in Mayfair. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (3 vols., 1808-10). Numbered 'Plate 68.' upper right.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 68.
[Ref: 62698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Honorary Diploma. London May 17th 1817. Anniversary of Doctor Jenner's Birth-day. Under the Presidency of Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington... At the General Court of the Royal Jennerian Society, The Director Doctor Walker in the Chair, The Governors by an Unanimous Vote did themselve the High Gratification to elect [The Right Hon. Lord Binning M.P.] An Honourary Member of their Great Royal Establishment.
G.Oben Esq.re delineavit. J.Dadley sculpsit.
Engraved diploma certificate with ink mss. fill. 380 x 320mm, 15 x 12½". Some spotting and time staining.
Engraved certificate of honoury membership of the Royal Jennerian Society, which was founded by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) to promote smallpox vaccination for the poor and the elimination of the disease through inoculation. It shows a statue of Jenner, carrying the slain python of disease, standing on a pedestal bearing a bas-relief of a milkmaid and cow (a reference to to Jenner’s discovery that matter taken from cowpox lesions on the hands of milkmaids, and provided protection from smallpox), before a triumphal arch bearing bearing the Royal Arms, through which is a view of London. In the foreground are engraved scrolls bearing the names of the members (including the Dukes of Wellington, Somerset & Beaufort) and patrons (George III, the Prince Regent and Princess Caroline) of the Society. The newly-inducted member was Thomas Hamilton (1780-1858), 9th Earl of Haddington, who was Lord Binning from 1794 to 1828. He was created a Privy Counsellor in 1814, and was offered but refused the post of Governor General of India in 1841, instead becoming First Lord of the Admiralty. In January 1846 he became Lord Privy Seal, a job that lasted only until July, when Peel's govenment fell.
[Ref: 19993] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Dance Ticket.] Royal London Yacht Club. Annual Ball. Willis's Rooms, Thursday, January 31st, 1861.
Letterpress ticket on embossed card. Sheet: 100 x 65mm (4 x 2½''). Marking.
A ticket to a ball held by the Royal London Yacht Club, founded in 1838.
[Ref: 50296] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Mail Coming Down Hill.
London, Published by J.L. Marks. 91, Long Acre, West Smithfield March,1.1837.
Coloured engraving. 209 x 369mm. 8¼ x 14½".
A Royal Mail coach rushes down the road between Brighton and London. The co-driver looks shocked by the speed and lack of control of the horses.
[Ref: 16803] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Royal Manchester Institution] Exhibition of Works of Art in Black & White. W.E. Hamer has the honor ro invite [blank] & Lady to a Private View & Conversazione on Tuesday, April 2nd at the Royal Insitution, Mosely St. Private View, 10 to 4 o'clock. Conversazione, 7 o'clock. Evening Dress.
[Perhaps by C. Green RI] [n.d., 1872 or 1878?]
Rare etched invitation on card. 135 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½").
An invition to a sale exhibition held yearly during the 1870s at the Royal Manchester Institution, intended to promote local artists. The design features two footmen, one black, the other white, pulling back a curtain hanging from a porte-crayon, revealing paintings, including Hogarth's selfportrait with his dog Trump.
[Ref: 67946] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Private of the Royal Marines.
C. H. S. Aquatinted by I. C. Stadtler.
London. Pub.d Jany. 2.d 1815 by Colnaghi & Co. 23. Cockspur Street.
Very fine etching with hand coloured aquatint 320 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Small margin on left side.
An Illustration to "Costume of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last Regulations, 1814." A private of the Royal Marines, stands on a wharf with musket in one hand, dressed in uniform with blue facings, his 'flowerpot' top hat on his head and cross-belts across his chest and high gaiters on his legs. Ships can be seen in the port beyond.
[Ref: 55926] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Marionette Theatre, Adelaide Street, West Strand. This Evening, Saturday, Feburary 26th, 1853, and Every Evening, at Eight o'Clock. Wellington Young's Royal Entertainment, Legerdemain. Magic Impossibilities Realised! Ventriloquism! Disappearances! Combined with The Celebrated Ethiopian Serenade, by the Original Ebony Marionettes!
John K. Chapman & Company, 5, Shoe Lane, & Peterborough-court, Fleet-street.
Scarce letterpress playbill. Yellow sheet, 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Some wear.
Originally named the Adelaide Gallery, the theatre was renamed in 1852 because of the success of Signor Brigaldi's Italian marionettes.
[Ref: 58860] £390.00 (£468.00 incl.VAT)

Elevation of a Greek Temple Erected at Eton on the Day of Her Majesty's Marriage February 10, 1840. 60 Feet Wide._ 30 Feet High_and illuminated by 5000 Lamps.
Day & Haghe, liths. to the Queen.
[c.1840.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 235 x 305mm. 9¼ x 12". Margins soiled, with one tear.
A grand illumination to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria to her cousin, Prince Albert, on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, London. Very scarce.
[Ref: 11916] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

R.M.I.G. - New Senior School at Rickmansworth.
Charles Knight(?) [19]34. [Signed and dated in pencil lower right.]
Etching, 250 x 200mm. 9¾ x 8". Light foxing.
The Royal Masonic School for Girls is an independent school in Rickmansworth, England with both day and boarding pupils. The school was instituted in 1788, with the aim of maintaining the daughters of indigent Freemasons, unable through death, illness, or incapacitation to support their families. Today, the school accepts the children of both masons and non-masons. It began in 1789 with fifteen pupils and a Matron in Somers Place, East London. During its history, the school has moved premises three times, twice within London and finally in 1934 (the date of this etching) to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, where it still is today. Possibly the etcher is landscape painter Charles Knight (1901 - 1990), who was Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society 1961-64.
[Ref: 13410] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

To the Commodore, Officers and Members of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club This Print of the 1st Sailing Match of the Season of the R.M.Y.C., on Monday, June 16th 1845, (Appearance of the Yachts in the Crosby Channel) Is respectfully inscribed by their obedient Servant, Henry Melling.
HM 1835. Henry Melling Invenit et Lithog.
Liverpool, published by the Artist, at the R.M.Y Club Room, Slater Street, June 30th 1845.
Rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 365 x 540mm (14¼ x 21¼"). A little soiling and nicks in the edges.
A line of racing yachts, a paddle steamer in the distance. Henry Melling (1808-79) was a founder member of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club in 1844. He worked in oil, watercolour and pastel, as well as etching and lithography, not exclusively marine scenes.
[Ref: 51476] £480.00

The South Front of the Royal Stables at Charing Cross.
Gulielmus Kent Archit: et Pict: Invenit et Delin.t. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1735.]
Engraving. 245 x 440mm (10 x 17¼"), with very large margins.
The King's Mews (or Royal Mews), as rebuilt by William Kent in 1732. The buildings lasted just short of a century, being demolished as part of the Trafalgar Square scheme in 1830, with the National Gallery replacing it. Kent (1685 - 1748) introduced the Palladian style of architecture to England, building Chiswick House in 1729.
See Ref: 39703
[Ref: 39702] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Naval School, New Cross. Front View [&] View From Playing Field.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Very rare lithograph. Sheet 565 x 440mm (22¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear on bottom of sheet.
Two views of the Royal Naval School, New Cross. A front view and a view from the playing field which depicts a game of cricket. The Royal Naval School was an English school that was established in Camberwell, London, in 1833 and then formally constituted by the Royal Naval School Act 1840.
[Ref: 67281] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Navy. Captain Lieutenant. No.1 [&] Commander. Captain. Midshipman. Admiral. No.2. [&] Doctor, Boatsman. Master. No.3. [&] Mate. 2nd Class Boy, Commodore. No.4. [&] Paymaster. Cadet. Assistant Surgeon. No.5 [&] Clerk. Second Master. A.B.Seaman. No.6.
London, Published May 12, 1848 [- July 28th 1849], by Ackermann & Co, 96, Strand.
Set of 6 aquatints. 410 x 280mm (16 x 11") very large margins. Stain on lower right corner of plate No.6 and No.5. Crease on lower right corner of plate No.3, margins dusty.
A rare complete set of six numbered aquatint plates depicting Naval uniform by J. Harris after R.H.C. Ubsdell, with captions.
[Ref: 62921] £520.00 view all images for this item

The Royal Navy. Dedicated to Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Bar.t, Capt.n H.S. Hillyar C.B., and the Officers of H.M.S. The Royal Oak.
Drawn By Orlando Norie & T.G. Dutton. Engraved By W. Summers.
Published, October 1st. 1869, by R. & A. Ackermann, 191, Regent Street, London.
Aquatint printed in colour and finished by hand, 515 x 820mm (20¼ x 32¼"). Repaired tears into plate from margin; image unaffected.
An impressive view on board H.M.S The Royal Oak showing the uniforms of the different ranks of seamen. Each is captioned below the image. After Orlando Norie (1832 - 1901).
[Ref: 8498] £750.00

An Epitome, Historical and Statistical, Descriptive of the Royal Naval Service of England. By E. Miles, with the Assistance of Lieutenant Lawford Miles, R.N. Embellished with Eight Highly-Finished, Coloured, Engraved Views of Shipping, by W. Knell Besides Fourteeen Coloured Illustrations of The Flags, Pendants, and Ensigns, as worn by Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels in Commission.
London: Ackermann & Company, 96, Strand. 1841.
8vo, original half morocco, gilt-illustrated front board; pp. pp. xiv (incl. half-title, title and dedication) + 184 + (ii) (pricelist of Ackermann's Important Marine Prints) + 14 ('List of the most essential Requisites for Artists and Amateurs'); 8 coloured aquatint plates, each with a sheet with a quadrain, and 14 coloured wood-engraved text illustrations. Spine worn and split, inner hinges strained.
A history and description of the Royal Navy, dedicated to Queen Victoria. It lists the types of warships and how they are equipped and crewed, and describes the various duties of each rank.
[Ref: 22509] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Royal Oak, In which may be discovered 20 likenesses of Illustrious Individuals. Royal Album.
[Alf.d Carlile, Lithog.r London.]
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed at bottom, losing printer's inscription.
A puzzle print with portraits 'hidden' in the branches and foliage of the Royal Oak, the tree in which Charles II hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. A key lists only 14 of the twenty portraits of the Victorian royal family and politicians: ''The Duke of Sussex, Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, Queen Adelaide, The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Brougham, Lord John Russell, Prince George, Lord Melbourne, Daniel O'Connell, Father Mathew, &c.&c.''.
[Ref: 57622] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Oak. Drawn at the Gallery of Practical Science.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pencil drawing. Framed. Image: 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7"). Frame: 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"). Paper tone. Unexamined out of frame.
A concealed silhouette of Queen Victoria formed of the trunk and branches of trees in a landscape scene.
[Ref: 44853] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Performed at Professor Keller's, of the Royal Olympic Theatre. The Little Italian Dancers & Singers.
L'Enfant Brothers, lith. Printers, 12, Rathbone Place.
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 330 x 270mm (13 x 10½"). Repaired tear in left edge.
A portrait of two little dancers who performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre.
[Ref: 46667] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Twelve views of royal palaces.]
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at the Golden Buck near Sarjeants Inn, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1779].
Set of twelve numbered engravings, with large margins; stitched. Each plate c.180 x 280mm (7 x 11").
Twelve numbered views, stitched as issued, with three views each of Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace & Windsor Great Park. Two of the Windsor prints are copied from Thomas Sandby.
[Ref: 31568] £680.00 view all images for this item

[Henry VII] A Pardon Granted by Hen. 7th given under his Signet Seal at Richmond 27th. Novr. in the 21st [year] of his Reign [c.1506] to Thos: Barker therein Nam'd in Excuse of the Matters therein suggested; from the Original in the hands of Ric. Rawlinson L.L.D. & At. R.S.F. 1754.
[British, 1750s.]
Engraved facsimile of a Royal Pardon issued (in English) by Henry VII (1457 - 1509); seal below text. 195 x 305mm, 7¾ x 12".
Henry was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor. The original document is from the collection of Richard Rawlinson (1690 - 1755), a clergyman and antiquarian who bequeathed a huge collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In 1716 he was ordained, but as he was a nonjuror and Jacobite, the ceremony was performed by a nonjuring bishop, Jeremy Collier. In 1728 he became a bishop, but seems to have preferred to pass his time in collecting books and manuscripts, pictures and curiosities, rather than in discharging his episcopal functions. At his death Rawlinson left to the Library 5,205 manuscripts bound in volumes that include many rare broadsides and other printed ephemera, his curiosities, and some other property that endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. The Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon was first appointed in 1795. He was also a benefactor to St John's College, Oxford.
[Ref: 24737] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Rose Buds and the Parent Stem.
Pubd. by S.S _ 11, Panton St Haymarket. [n.d., c.1870.]
Puzzle print, zincograph, sheet 190 x 150mm. 7½ x 6".
The profiles of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert face each other, delineated by a rose bush. In the buds above are the Royal Princesses.
For similar Ref: 50310
[Ref: 17147] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Rose Buds and the Parent Stem.
London, Pub. by. J.T. Wood, 33, Holywell Str. Strand. [n.d., c.1850.]
Puzzle print, zincograph. Sheet:150 x 115mm (6 x 4½'').
The profiles of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert face each other, delineated by a rose bush. In the buds above are the Royal Princesses.
See ref: 17147
[Ref: 50310] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

New Appointment of Directions for the Royal Ranger.
[John Doyle.]
[n.d., c.1841.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 270 x 355mm (10½ x 14'').
A satirical scene showing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert having a conversation surrounded by courtiers, Prince Albert is dressed in a rangers costume which is amusing to the courtiers present. Queen Victoria appointed Prince Albert Grand Ranger in 1841.
[Ref: 49210] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

2.nd Royal North British Dragoons. Scots Greys _ Chobam 1853.
Drawn by A.F. de Prades. Lith.d by Augustus Butler.
London; Published by J.S. Welch 24, S.t James's Street March 1.st 1854.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 465mm (14 x 18½"). Paper toned, tears in title area taped.
A view of the Royal Scots Greys on manoeuvres on Chobham Common during the Great Camp of 1853. Six months after this print was published, the dragoons took part in the charge of the Heavy Brigade, during the Battle of Balaklava.
[Ref: 66469] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's 'The History of the Royal Society of London'.]
Evelyn inv. D.D.C. Wenceslaus Hollar f. 1667.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed within image and backed onto album paper at borders.
Under an open vault a bust of Charles II is being crowned with a wreath by Fame. On the left William Brouncker (president of the Royal Society in 1662) points to the inscription on the pedestal; on the right Francis Bacon holds his chancellor's bag. On the walls are inventions, a bookcase and scientific instruments. Outside a man looks through a huge telescope.
Pennington 459.
[Ref: 67998] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.] Sir, I have the honour to inform you that you were this day elected a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce. The Accompanying letter from the Collectr will point our some Rules & Orders of the Society to which I beg leave to call your attention. I am Sir Aldelphi, Your very obedient Serv.t.
Engraved by H.C.Shenton from a Drawing by T.Stothard, R.A.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Engraving with letter inscription. "To Wm Williams Great St Helens" at bottom in ink. Sheet 235 x 180mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some creasing and time-stains.
Engraving with letter insciption electing the recipient as a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce. The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, founded in 1754, was the precursor of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce now more usually known as the RSA. The original Society gained the Royal prefix in the Edwardian era, when the Prince of Wales was its President. Its primary aim was to stimulate industry through the awarding of prizes.
[Ref: 64257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's 'The History of the Royal Society of London'.]
Evelyn inv. D.D.C. Wenceslaus Hollar f. 1667.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed within image. Missing a quarter of inch on left hand side.
Under an open vault a bust of Charles II is being crowned with a wreath by Fame. On the left William Brouncker (president of the Royal Society in 1662) points to the inscription on the pedestal; on the right Francis Bacon holds his chancellor's bag. On the walls are inventions, a bookcase and scientific instruments. Outside a man looks through a huge telescope.
Pennington 459.
[Ref: 66339] £420.00

The President of the Royal Society requests the honor of Mr Winkworth's [ink] Company at the Soirées at 13, Connaught Place, on Saturday April 24th May 8th. 22 & June 12th. at 9 o'Clock.
[n.d. c.1852.]
Ticket. 102 x 140mm. 4 x 5½".
A ticket requesting the company of Mr Winkworth to the parties of 1852 hosted by the President of the Royal Society, William Parsons, Earl of Rosse (1848-1854).
[Ref: 25549] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The President of the Royal Society requests the honor of Mr Winkworth's [ink] Company at the Soirées at 13, Connaught Place, on Saturday April 23rd May 7th. 28th. & June 11th. at 9 o'Clock.
[n.d. c.1853.]
Ticket. 102 x 140mm. 4 x 5½".
A ticket requesting the company of Mr Winkworth to the parties of 1853 hosted by the President of the Royal Society, William Parsons, Earl of Rosse (1848-1854).
[Ref: 25548] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The President of the Royal Society requests the honor of Mr Winkworth's [ink] Company at Burlington House, on Saturday, March 16th. and May 11th. at 9 o'Clock.
[n.d. c.1861.]
Ticket. 102 x 140mm. 4 x 5½".
A ticket requesting the company of Mr Winkworth to the parties of 1861 hosted by the President of the Royal Society, William Parsons, Earl of Rosse (1848-1854).
[Ref: 25550] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Dimensions of the Royal Sovereign.
[TBastion F. Claude Du Bosc S.]
[n.d., c.1721.]
Scarce coloured engraving. Framed, sight size 400 x 370mm (15¾ x 14½"). Mounted over image, probably trimmed, inscriptions hidden or lost.
An extremely rare and decorative rear view of HMS Royal Sovereign, a 100-gun first rate ship of the line launch 1701, showing the richly carved stern, with longboats around the ship. Decorations include two mermaids in the bottom corners framing view and a figure of Neptune on a sea-horse. From the series ''Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy with variety of other sea pieces''.
[Ref: 64039] £900.00

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