Grosvenor Prints

[Railway Station / Adelaide] Genuine original etching limited edition by Fabian Swire (London Artist) / Series three views of South Australia.
[n.d., after 1930.]
Signed etching with original label as issued; 75 x 130mm (3 x 5"). Sheet laid at top in original mount.
A view of the railway station in Adelaide, published as part of Fabian Swire's third series Views of South Australia.
[Ref: 54014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, William IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, This Portrait of His Royal and August Consort Queen Adelaide, is by permission humbly dedicated by His Majesty's most devoted Subject and Servant, William Sams.
Painted by Sir William Beechey, R.A. Principal Portrait Painter in Ordinary to Their Majesties. Engraved by Thomas Lupton, 4 Leigh Street, Burton Crescent.
London. Published by William Sams, Royal Library, 1 st James's Street, May 1, 1834.
Mezzotint. 390 x 310mm (15½ x 12¼"). Creased at bottom corner, edges worn.
Queen Adelaide (1792-1849), queen consort of William IV, the last Hanovarian king of the United Kingdom, who gave her name to the Australian city.
[Ref: 23119] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Adelaide, Heritiere des C.tes de Suze et de Turin Epouse d'Amede 1r. Cte. de Savoye et Margrave d'Italie. Tire en partie de Guichenon.
Touze. Fem Duflos.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 277 x 168mm.
[Ref: 1922] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Long Room, Gallery of Practical Science, Adelaide Street, Strand.
Drawn & Etched by Tho.s Kearnan, 17, Euston Place, New Road [c.1830]
Etching, rare. sheet 195 x 225mm (7¾ x 8¾"). Glued to backing sheet; some foxing ; lower right corner missing; tear lower left.
The 'National Gallery of Practical Science, Blending Instruction with Amusement', which contained some 250 machines, devices and models such as a pocket thermometer, a gas mask, an oxyhydrogen microscope, a steam gun and, later, demonstrations of daguerreotypes, electricity and magnetism. The gallery was situated in the Lowther Arcade, a glass-domed arcade near the Strand in London's West End. The gallery closed in the 1840s, and the site went through various incarnations before the Lowther Arcade was demolished in 1904 to make way for Coutts' Bank.
[Ref: 34865] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Adelgunde Konigl. Prinzessin von Bayern.
Gemalt v. J. Stieler 1839. Gedr. v. Th. Kammerer. Auf Stein gez. v. J. Fertig.
[c.1840.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, india 380 x 295mm. 15 x 11½". Marginal foxing.
Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (German: Adelgunde Auguste Charlotte Caroline Elisabeth Amalie Marie Sophie Luise von Bayern; 1823 – 1914) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
[Ref: 9939] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ada] after nature.
V.R
1840.
Rare etching on india paper, by Queen Victoria usually gifted to visitors, plate 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"), with large margins. Foxing.
Portrait of a young Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835–1900), sitting on a rock, leaning her left hand on another and turned away from the viewer. After the pen and ink drawing by Queen Victoria (1819–1901) currently in the collection of the Royal Collection Trust. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the daughter of Queen Victoria's elder half-sister Princess Feodora of Leiningen. Princess Adelheid, known as Ada, visited England with her mother and siblings in September 1840.
[Ref: 61625] £480.00

A View of the Adelphy & Somerset House. Vue d'Adelphy, de la Maison de Somerset et du Pont de Blakfryars.
L. Belanger le Romain London 1791. Guyot sculpsit.
London Pub.d Juin 1791, as the act Direc.t by Moltano Colnaghi & C.o No 132 Pall Mall. A Paris chez Guyot Graveur et M.d d'Estampes Rue S. Jacques N.o 10.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12").
A view of the Thames waterside looking from the York Watergate past the Adelphi and Somerset House to Blackfriars Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral and the Shot Tower.
[Ref: 60802] £360.00

Adam Street, Adelphi.
Publish'd March 15.th 1796. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Tape marks.
View of Adam Street, Adelphi, looking north; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'
[Ref: 59017] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Adelphi
Publish'd June 15. 1796 by T. Malton.
Coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 290 x 380mm (11¼ x 15").
View from the River Thames, looking south-west, with the Adelphi on the far right; a number of boats moored and on the water in the foreground and beyond, Westminster Abbey in the distance to the left; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59023] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Adelphi Terrace
Publish'd Dec.r 21.st 1795. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾").
View down the Adelphi Terrace, looking towards the York Buildings; a horse-drawn carriage waits by the building, a lady and child stand by the iron railing that fronts the river, a couple walk down the pavement on the right, beyond on the left can be seen the steam engine tower of the waterworks; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59027] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

John Street, Adelphi.
Publish'd Dec.r 21.st 1795. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 420 x 310mm (16½ x 12¼"). Crease near centre. Time staining, messy.
View down John Street, Adelphi; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59005] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Waterloo Bridge. S.t. Martins. Adelphi. S.t. Paul's Covent Garden. Savoy. Covent Garden Theatre. Lancaster Place. Drury Lane Theatre.
[T.M. Baynes. Charles Hullmandel.]
[Published by Ackermann, 1825.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet: 650 x 280mm (25½ x 11"), with large margins.
Section showing St. Martins to Waterloo Bridge, from 'View of the North Bank of the Thames from Westminster Bridge, to London Bridge. Shewing that Part of the Improvements Suggested by Lt.-Col. Trench, which is Intended to Carry into Execution.' Imagined view along River Thames looking from the site of Charing Cross Station on left to Waterloo Bridge on right. Colonel (later General Sir Frederick) Trench originated the idea of the Thames Embankment, for which a bill was (unsuccessfully) presented to Parliament in 1825. Revived, work on the Embankment started in 1864, although to a different design than is shown here, this would have been one of nine lithographic sheets.
see R.Hyde, 'Panoramania!' (1988); See Abbey Life: 496.2.
[Ref: 39952] £320.00

The King of Aden Hang'd aboard Soliman Bassus Galley.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraving. 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), set in text, very large margins.
The 1538 execution of the king of Aden by Hadim Suleiman Pasha (c.1467-1547), as punishment for being a friend to the Portuguese. From the account of Philips Baelde (or Father Philippus Baldaeus) of India and Sri Lanka, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58627] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Adkin Esq.r Dedicated to Elizabeth Whitbread, By her most obliged and obedient humble Servant, Elizabeth Reynolds.
Painted by John Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by Elizabeth Reynolds.
Published Sept.r 1.1814, by E. Reynolds, 47, Poland Street, London.
A very rare mezzotint. 356 x 249mm (14 x 9¾"). Bit rubbed; small margins, false margins added.
Thomas Adkin (1760-1809fl.), of Downham Market, Norfolk. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he acquired a reputation as a roisterer, and was afterwards a close friend of Lord Grey and Samuel Whitbread.
NPG: D7174.
[Ref: 24368] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

No 32. [Admiral].
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
The uniform of an admiral including a bicorn hat, also wearing the Order of the Bath. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 52043] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Admiralty.
[William Monk.]
[London, 1917.]
Etching, 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾". [Sheet trimmed.]
The Admiralty in Whitehall, London; mostly military figures to foreground. Drawn, etched and published by William Monk (1863 - 1937), a skilled architectural draughtsman who started 'The London Calendar' in 1903. The calendar itself (for 1918) has been removed, the upper part of the border visible below title where sheet trimmed.
[Ref: 14010] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Admiralty Office at White Hall.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of the admiralty from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45319] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Admiralty.
J.Gendall Del.t. J.C. Stadler Sculp.t.
London. Published Oct.r 1st 1818 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 395 x 505mm, 15½ x 19¾. Unexamined out of frame.
A view of the Ripley Building of the Admiralty, built by Thomas Ripley 1723-6, with the front screen added by Robert Adam in 1788. It is regarded as the first purpose-built office buildings in Great Britain and now houses the Cabinet Office. The view is from a series of eighteen 'Views of London' published by Ackermann between 1811 and 1822, engraved mostly from paintings by John Gendall and Thomas Shepherd.
Adams; 221 item 12.
[Ref: 23096] £750.00

View of the Admiralty Islands. No. II.
Piron del. Harding ex. Angus sc.
Published Apr. 20 1800 by J. Debrett Piccadilly.
Engraving. 222 x 291mm. 8¾ x 11½".
Natives fishing in tbe bay outside the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. From the English edition of Jacques Labillardière's ''An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse... Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'', an expedition that crossed the South Pacific, visiting Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies between 1791-3.
[Ref: 20743] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Vue des Îsles de L'Amirauté
Piron del. Dien scripsit. Imprimée chez Dien.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving. 310 x 440mm (12¼ x 17¼").
View in the Admiralty Islands, in the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea, with locals spear-fishing from canoes. In 1788 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse set sail from Botany Bay and was never seen again. Despite the upheaval of the French Revolution the National Assembly was moved to send an expedition in search of their lost hero, 1791-3, under Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Despite finding no trace of La Perouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists, especially in Australia. This account, compiled by the expedition's botanist, Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière, was published as 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', with natural history plates by Redouté and Audebert. The work even has its own abbreviation in botantical literature, 'Voy.Rech.Perouse'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18696] £550.00

Admiration. [Pleasures are ever in our hands...]
G.B. Cipriani inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Published May, 1782, by W. Palmer No. 159 Strand.
Fine stipple, open-letter proof, printed in sanguine. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
An oval portrait of a woman, hand on breast, looking upwards.
De Vesme 568, state ii of iii, before lines under title.
[Ref: 53321] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Admit one Person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday, the 4th of June 1835, when a Sermon will be preached by The Right Reverend Robert James, Lord Bishop of Worcester.
Wood engraved scrap. Image 105 x 180mm. Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Robert James Carr (1774-1841). Carr was the prelate who attended George IV during his last illness.
[Ref: 7002] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Admonition and Gratitude.
Woodward del.t _ W_S Sculp.t [Charles Williams].
London Pub.d Decm.r 1st 1807 by Tho.s. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 345mm (10 x 13½"). Trimmed just within plate. Very slight damage in centre.
A man in ragged clothes stands before a justice, who points at the book in his hand: 'Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape - here it is - Burns Justice page 22 - if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!'. The ragged man replies 'Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman -I humbly thank you - and hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!'.
[Ref: 40502] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Admonition and Gratitude.
Woodward del.t _ W_S Sculp.t [Charles Williams].
London Pub.d Decm.r 1st 1807 by Tho.s. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, stained.
A man in ragged clothes stands before a justice, who points at the book in his hand: 'Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape - here it is - Burns Justice page 22 - if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!'. The ragged man replies 'Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman -I humbly thank you - and hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!'.
[Ref: 56613] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

L'Adolescenza.
G. Zocxhi inv. F. Bartollozi Scul.
Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S. [n.d., c.1761.]
Very fine engraving, 18th century watermark. 520 x 340mm (20½ x 13½"), with large margins.
Young people, read, play a pipe and flirt among classical ruins.
[Ref: 55693] £320.00

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
London Publish'd by E. Harding 19 May 1806.
Stipple. Plate 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½".
Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850) was the tenth child of George III and Queen Charlotte. He held the title of Duke of Cambridge from 1801 until his death. He also served as Viceroy of Hanover on behalf of his brothers George IV and William IV. His granddaughter, Mary of Teck, was Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and paternal grandmother of the current monarch, Elizabeth II.
NPG: D10631.
[Ref: 22680] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Relief of His Royal Prince Adolphus and Field Marshall Freytag, At the Village of Rexpoede near Dunkirk; on the 6th of Sept.t 1793.
M.Brown pinx.t. S.W.Sculp.
Sold & Published by Orme, No.14 Old Bond Street, June 7. 1794.
Colour mezzotint. 480 x 605mm. Close margins.
Prince Adolphus (1774-1850), Duke of Cambridge. Son of George III, he went to Hanover in 1791 to receive military training under the supervision of the Hannoverian commander Field Marshal von Freytag, fighting in the War of the Spanish Succession. The pair were briefly captured before the Battle of Hondschoote, in which 40,000 Frenchmen defeated 24,000 British and Hanoverian soldiers, capturing 6 flags and all of the Duke of York's artillery.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 990] £490.00

Death of Adonis. from Theocrates.
J. Barber inv.t et del.t. S. Wykes, Sculpsit, Birm.
Publish'd as the act directs March 1st 1785 by S. Wykes.
Rare stipple, printed in sanguine. 285 x 300mm (11¼ x 11¾"), with wide margins left & right. Narrow margins top and bottom.
Adonis, having been gored by a boar he was hunting, dies attended by Aphrodite and Eros. A rare Birmingham publication: there is nothing attributed to Wykes listed on the British Museum web site.
[Ref: 54241] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Adorazione de Re Magi. Tavola in Legno di Baldasar Peruzzi alta B.a 4.?. larga B.a 4. Scarse. XXXVI.
Carlo Bozzolini dis. Carlo Lasinio fece all'acqua forte Matteo Carboni termino a bulino.
[published by N. Pagni & G. Bardi, c.1791-5]
Etching and engraving, with large margins. Plate 398 x 280mm. 15¾ x 11". Nicks and tears to margins; creasing; soiling.
The Adoration of the Magi; the three Magi having found Jesus present their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, and worship him. After Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536). Plate from Lastri's 'L'Etruria pittrice' (2 vols, Florence 1791-5).
[Ref: 27309] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

These are to Certify that Mr. Francis Cole recv'd as an Hospital Mate in my Department from the 12th Day of December 1812 to the 4th of March 1813.... [words of commendation follow].
Given under my Hand at the Royal Hospital Haslam this 14th Day of March 1813 J Stephenson[?] MD Surgeon.
Diploma, ADS on laid watermarked paper, sheet 225 x 185mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
The Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire, began as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has a long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel in peacetime and in war. In 1902 the hospital became known as the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, and in the 1940s, RNH Haslar set up the country's first 'blood bank' to help treat wounded soldiers from the Second World War. The Royal Hospital Haslar officially closed as the last military hospital in the UK in 2007, and is now used by the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust to treat both military and civilian patients.
[Ref: 7948] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

This is to Certify that Mr. Francis Cole has diligently attended two courses of my Lectures upon Pharmaceutic Chemistry -
Westminster Hospital November 1st 1811. John Ayrton Paris. MD. &c
Diploma, ADS on one half of folded sheet with red wax seal, page 225 x 185mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
Westminster Hospital was founded in 1719, following a meeting in a coffee house, where four men met to discuss a 'charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy and other distressed persons”. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. Westminster Hospital moved from Marsham Street to become Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site in 1994. From the hand of and signed by John Ayrton Paris, M.D. (1785 - 1856). He had been elected a fellow of the College of Physicians 30 Sept. 1814, and from 1819 to 1826 lectured there on materia medica. He attained considerable practice as a physician, and was famous for his resource in treatment and skill in prescribing. In making out what was the matter, he trusted much to the patient's general appearance, asked only a few questions, and made no very minute physical examination. His prescriptions were remarkable for their efficiency, and for the minute care with which they were drawn up. His ‘Pharmacologia’ published in 1812, and revised by him up to the ninth edition in 1843, was a general treatise on materia medica and therapeutics. It was long the standard book on its subject, and he made five thousand guineas by its sale. He published in 1823 a book on ‘Medical Jurisprudence,’ which still continues to be the only English work on the subject with any pretensions to literary value. His portrait, by Skottowe, has been engraved by Bellin, and hangs in the dining-room of the College of Physicians of London. His bust, by Jackson, is at Falmouth, in the hall of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Paper watermarked 1807.
[Ref: 7949] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Westminster Hospital This is to Certify that Mr, Francis Cole hath very diligently attended the Practice of this Hospital for Twelve Months from Nov. 1810
Wm Lynn Anth Carlisle F.R.S. Surgeons.
Etched diploma on watermarked laid paper, with vignette of the hospital, signed and dated and completed in ink, sheet 240 x 190mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
Westminster Hospital was founded in 1719, following a meeting in a coffee house, where four men met to discuss a 'charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy and other distressed persons”. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. Westminster Hospital moved from Marsham Street to become Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site in 1994. One of the signatories is Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768 - 1840). After attending the lectures of John Hunter, Baillie, and Cruikshank, and being the resident pupil of Mr. Henry Watson, surgeon to Westminster Hospital, he succeeded to the surgeoncy in 1793, and held the office till his death in 1840. Carlisle became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1800, and in 1804 delivered the Croonian lecture on ‘Muscular Motion,’ following it by another on the ‘Muscles of Fishes’ in 1805. He contributed other papers on biological subjects to the Philosophical and Linnean ‘Transactions,’ the ‘Philosophical Magazine,’ &c. Carlisle was long a member of the council of the College of Surgeons (from 1815) and an examiner (from April 1825), holding these appointments till death. He took great interest in Westminster Hospital, and was largely instrumental in raising funds for the new building. Carlisle was neither a brilliant anatomist nor physiologist, but was a fairly good surgeon. His introduction of the thin-bladed, straight-edged amputating knife, in place of the old clumsy crooked one, and his use of the simple carpenter's saw make his name chiefly worthy of note.
[Ref: 7951] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The extraordinary Manner of the Trial for Adultery, among the Malays.
[William Elmes.]
[London Pub. by T. Tegg, Oct. 7. 1808.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 260 x 175mm (10¼ x 7"). Trimmed, creases, edges damaged and paper toned.
A fascinating image from a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg.
[Ref: 44680] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

An Advantageous Concern.
[n.d. c.1813.]
Letter press and engraving; three pages, 8vo. 172 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"). Laid on album sheet left side.
Joseph Hamilton here lays out his patents and brick designs that have air holes for both oblong and triangular bricks. References below from "Nineteenth Century Brickmaking Innovations in Britain: Building and Technological Change" by Kathleen Ann Watt, 1990. 'Machinery capable of extruding hollow tubes was patented as early as 1810 by Johann Deyerlein (British Patent No.3319), further developed by Yoseph Hamilton in 1813 (British Patent No.3685)'. 'Use of a screw to provide continuous pressure on the contents of the hopper which allowed an uninterrupted flow of clay into the moulds (British Patent No.3685, 1813, Joseph Hamilton)'.
[Ref: 52420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Advena. [&] The Mary 9/11 no. 1825.
Etched by E. Backhouse Jr. 1 no. 1828.
Etching, 135 x 210mm. 5¼ x 8¼". Rare. Some staining.
Scene of two ships ashore at low tide with repair work being done on them as a result of a major storm, against a backdrop of cliffs and clouds.
NMM:PAD6415
[Ref: 8810] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Essex To Wit. Writ on Enquiry. Victoria the First, Queen, Defender of the Faith and of her liege subjects, claim to her special protection as Guardian of their health, to her trusty Bailiffs, John Waterproof and Richard Strongboot, and her well beloved Stewards of her houshold Timothy Wellstitch and Henry Neverburst. - Greeting - We command you and every one of you, for the further protection of their health and constitution, to summon every Man, Woman, and Child of your Baliwick, to attend a Court holden from Day to Day, until further notice, at the Shop of your well beloved subject, M. Blamire, Broadway Stratford, & Bow Bridge, to examine and give judgment, according to the statute made and provided, on her superior and well assorted Stock of Boots and Shoes...
[n.d., c.1860.]
Letterpress advert with woodblock Royal Arms. Sheet 60 x 250mm, 2½ x 9¾". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An advert in the form of a spoof royal proclaimation.
[Ref: 16711] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Norton, Hargrave & Co. Australian & Foreign Advertising Agents, and Commission Merchants, 27 Lonsdale Steet, East, Melbourne.
J.D. Lawson sc., 83 Sw.n St.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Engraved business card. Sheet 75 x 115mm. With paste remains.
[Ref: 7200] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

R_l Advice.
Lewis Marks del.
Pub.d by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside, June 6. 1814.
Hand-coloured etching, J. Whatman & W. Balston watermark. Sheet: 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½"). Damaged.
A satirical scene shows an ugly woman sitting on the throne dipping her hand in a box of snuff while the Prince Regent enquires after his wife. A commentary on the arrival of the allied sovereigns who exploited the Regent's bad relationship with his wife.
BM Satires 12278.
[Ref: 46474] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Zee Battaille tussen de Venetiaanse en Turkse vloote, op den 21 Iuly 1718 welke actie op den 22 en 23 Iuly hervatis tot voordeel van de eerste. [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: Cum Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 155 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, some foxing.
A scene of a battle between the Venetian and Ottoman fleets taking place in the Aegean Sea on 21 July 1718, during the Seventh Ottoman-Venetian War. Fought between 1714 and 1718, it was the last conflict between the two powers, and ended with an Ottoman victory and the loss of Venice's major possession in the Peloponnese (Morea).
[Ref: 59136] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Aeneas dispatched to Dido by the gods] Oro liceat dare tuta per undas vela, Virg. AEneid. Lib. 5 [...]
Cotelle pinx. Dans le Cabinet des Bijoux de S.A.R. Monseig. le Duc d'Orleans à S. Cloud
Se vend à Paris chez Limosin rue de Gesvres au grand Coeur avec privil. [c.1750]
Fine engraving, platemark 340 x 285mm (13½ x 11¼") large margins Crease in centre as normal.
Scene from book five of Virgil's 'The Aeneid', with the gods sending the protagonist Aeneas to Dido, queen of Carthage. Aeneas and Dido fall in love, but he is eventually compelled to leave her to found the city of Rome.
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45140] £340.00

[Aeneas saving his father from the burning of Troy.]
P.P. Rubens Pinx. v. Prenner del. et incid.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving on two plates. Outside plate 265 x 320mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins. Uncut.
A scene of the Fall of Troy, with a separate plate for the decorative, frame-like printed border, published in the 'Theatrum Artis Pictoriae', a series of reproductions of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna. The attribution to Rubens is doubtful. Aeneas carries his elderly father Anchises from the burning city, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius.
[Ref: 59913] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Aeneas takes leave of Dido.]
Le Potre Invent et fecit.
Le Blond avec Privil [Paris, n.d., c.1660.]
Etching. 240 x 330mm (9¼ x 13"). Trimmed to plate, split in centre fold.
Aeneas takes leave of his lover, Queen Dido, at a quay in Carthage as his men load his ship.
[Ref: 61406] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Aeneas saving his father from the burning of Troy.] A Monsieur De Jullienne Ecuyer Chevalier de l'Ordre de St Michel. Par son tres humble Serviteur Nicolas Dupuis. Quand tu sauves la vie à l'auteur de tes jours, Tout vancu que tu sois, Tendre et pieux Enée, Et que pour le porter tu prestes ton secours, Tu me parois plus grand sous poids précieux, Fuyant ta ville infortunée, Que tous les Grecs victorieux. Moraine.
Carles Vanloo pinxit. N. Dupuis junior Sculp.
a Paris chez Dupuis graveur du Roy rüe de la Vannerie à L'Ange St Michel. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very large margins.
After the defeat of Troy Aneas carries his elderly father Anchises from the burning city, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius.
[Ref: 38123] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Eneas carrying his Father Anchyses from the Ruins of Troy. From the Original Picture, Painted by Jacopo Robusti commonly called Tintoretto, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Size of the Picture, 1' 0" by 1' 4" in height.
Tintoretto pinx.t R. Earlom delin.t & Sculpsit
John Boydell excudit London 1767
Mezzotint with etching, 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9". Large margins; creasing through centre
Aeneas carrying his father away from Troy before beginning the journey that will lead to the foundation of Rome. Illustration to an episode featuring in Virgil's 'The Aeneid'. From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes produced in late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to 1773) originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of artists, engravers and patrons, establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
[Ref: 14885] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Aeolinan]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to printed border.
Portraits of a man and women playing the aeolian (an early harmonica, known as a 'Mundharmonika' in German), with examples of the instrument underneath. At the bottom is an example of an improved version, designed by Charles Wheatstone (1802-75) in 1827. Sir Charles Wheatstone also invented the English concertina, but his main fame comes from creating the stereoscope and involvement in early telegraphy.
[Ref: 62245] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[By permission of the Patentees, This Engraving of the First Carriage, the "Ariel", is respectfully inscribed, to the Directors of the Aerial Transit Company, by their obedient Servants, The Publishers.]
W. Walton. Day & Haghe, Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Pub March 28th, 1843, by Ackermann & Co. Strand.
Lithograph. Sheet size: 150 x 230mm (6 x 9"). Trimmed to image.
William Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage is depicted in a ficticious flight over the Pyramids. In 1842 William Henson (1812-1888) patented his design for an Aerial Steam Carriage, known as the 'Ariel'. Although the design never flew, it acted as a basis for much of the thinking of the early aviation pioneers, and laid the foundations for the modern monoplane. With his partner, John Stringfellow, plans were made to set up an airfreight company, the Aerial Steam Transit Company, to transport goods acoss the world.
[Ref: 36332] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Aeriel Ship or Munchausen Improved!
[n.d., 1845].
Lithograph. Sheet 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Laid down on album sheet. Trimmed around title and into image at bottom.
A satire on the exaggerated ambitions of the 'Henson Aerial Steam Carriage', patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-88) in 1843, over half-a-century before the Wright Brothers' first flight. He incorporated the 'Aerial Transit Company' in 1843, and built a scale model of this steam-powered aeroplane, which did manage to hop (or perhaps bounce) off the ground. However a lack of sustained success led to the company being wound up in 1848.
[Ref: 52638] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Aerial Steam Carriage.
Rock & Co. London [n.d., c.1808.]
Rare steel engraving, letter sheet 225 x 185mm (9 x 7½"). Some creasing and surface dirt.
A fictitious flight of the Aerial Steam Carriage over the Thames. The Aerial Steam Carriage was patented in 1842 by William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow. Henson and Stringfellow only produced scale models, none of which were capable of flying more than a short distance inside a hanger, but the invention marks an important development in the history of powered flying machines.
[Ref: 56976] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Aeronautical Prints & Drawings. with text by Lt.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh O.B.E., M.A., LL.B., A.F.R.Ae.S., Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Foreword by Major-General Sir Frederick H. Sykes G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., F.R. Ae.S., M.P., Late Chief of the Air Staff and Controller-General of Civil Aviation
London Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924
4to, limited edition no 252 of 1000; original blue cloth gilt, rubbed edges; pp. xx + 36; colour frontis. tipped in + 87 plates, of which 80 half-tones, 7 colour tipped in. Bookplate on front endpaper.
A compendium of important aeronautical prints and drawings with background information. The best reference work on ballooning, from the Collection of Lord Kings Norton.
[Ref: 8269] £420.00

New London Magazine. M.r Sadler, The first English Ærostatist. M.r Arnold, The first unsuccessful Aerial Adventurer.
Thornton sculp.
Published by Alex..r Hogg at the kings Arms N.o16 Paternoster Row, De[c. 31. 1785.]
Engraving, plate 125 x 200mm (5 x 7¾"). Publication line partially obscured.
Oval portraits of James Sadler (1753 – 1828) and Stuart Amos Arnold. Sadler was the first English balloonist and the second person, after Vincenzo Lunardi (1754 – 1806), to make a balloon ascent in England. He was an eminent scientist and made a number of important discoveries; notably that hot air, rather than smoke, as the Montgolfiers had wrongly concluded, was required for airborne propulsion, managed tomanufacture hydrogen at a time when the element was so new it hadn’t even been named and was the first to create an adjustable fire in the basket to manipulate the balloon’s altitude. Arnold is most famous for his balloon that launched 31 August 1785 from St George's Fields, London, which ended in disaster after it got caught on some railings.
[Ref: 56930] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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