Grosvenor Prints

[Lake See Hoo and Temple of the Thundering Winds, from the Vale of Tombs.]
[Drawn by Thomas Allom. Engraved by J.C.Bentley.]
[Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. n.d., c.1843.]
Engraving, proof on chine collé. 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with uncut backing sheet. Some foxing.
From Thomas Allon's 'China Illustrated'.
[Ref: 26728] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

See-Saw. When young together we resort...
F. Wheatley inv.t. Delatree sculp.t.
Pub.d by R. Pollard Spa Fields London. [n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Plate: 175 x 185mm (7 x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate on right and left sides.
A scene showing three children playing on a see-saw.
[Ref: 42499] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sutton's Tuberous-Rooted Begonias.
Ben George, London.
Sutton & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Reading. [n.d., c.1885.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue, with illustrations of six varieties, all red.
[Ref: 41840] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sutton's Strains of Florist's Flowers. Double Portulaca. Cineria. Dianthus. Calceolaria. Giant Cyclamen.
Ben George, London.
Sutton & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Reading. [n.d., c.1890.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41841] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Webbs' Superb Strains of Florists' Flowers. Webbs' Excelsior Gloxinia. Webbs' Perfection Cyclamen. Webbs' Exquisite Primula. Celosia Huttoni. Webbs' New Petunia. Webbs' Superb Calceolaria. Webbs' Superb Cineraria.
G. Severeyns, Chromolith. Brussels.
Webb & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Wordsley, Stourbridge [n.d., c.1885].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glue stains on right edge, laid on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41842] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Seeds of these splendid varieties are included in Webbs' Popular Boxes of Floral Gems at 5/, 7/6 & 10/6 each. Post Free.
G. Severeyns, Chromolith. Brussels.
Webb & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Wordsley, Stourbridge [n.d., c.1885].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glue stains on left, laid on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41843] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Seedsman's Invoice.] Bought of Harris Seedsman, No5. Lower Thames Street. Garden Mats & Grass Seeds Wholesale_Split Pease, Flour of Mustard &c for Exportation.
[Dated in mss. January 20th 1787].
Letterpress invoice. Sheet: 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"). Some staining and folds.
An invoice issued to a customer in Arbroath from Harris & Co.
[Ref: 44714] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Nurseryman.] Edinburgh. Bo.t of Dicksons & Co. Nursery Seedsmen and Florists.
[ms. dated 1804.]
Letterpress invoice with manuscript. Sheet: 200 x 320mm (8 x 12½"). Folds.
An invoice from an Edinburgh nursery to Sir Alexander Gordon Bart.
[Ref: 44681] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Seeing A Friend Home.
Drawn from Life & on Stone by Henry Wilkin. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
London, Published by J. Dickinson New Bond Street.
Lithograph. Sheet 394 x 566mm. 15½ x 22¼". Very slight staining around and some small tears the edges of margins. Uncut.
Three men in a drunken stupor attempt to escort home the particularly far-gone man in then middle.
[Ref: 20134] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

See-saw.
London, Published by Tobart & Co. July 13 1804.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed. Laid on album paper.
Young girls on a seesaw, probably from a series of children's pastimes.
[Ref: 56341] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Daniel Seghers] Daniel Segers Frere Iesuite. Un de premier painctres de nostre temps, en fleurs natureles: il a faict son aprentisage chez Iean Breugel. l'on trouve de ses chefs d'oeuvres, dans les courts de grandes Seigneurs. L'Empereur d'Alemaigne, et l'Archiducq Leopolde Guillelme ont beaucoup de ses pieces S.A.e le Prince d'Oraigne Henri Fredericq luj a faict deux presents pour deux pieces de sa main, une chaine et une crois d'or masif, toutes deux de grander valeur, il teint maintenant sa residence en Anvers dans la maison de proffesse de Pere Iesuites.
I. Livens pinxit [after Paulus Pontius].
I. Meyssens excudit [n.d. c.1622].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"), large margins.
Daniel Seghers (1590-1661), Flemish Jesuit brother and Baroque painter who specialised in flower still lifes, and is particularly well known for his contributions to the genre of 'flower garland' painting. Drawn by Jan Livens afte a portrait by Paulus Pontius for Cornelis de Bie's "Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const".
[Ref: 63367] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Evening Recreation at the Environs of Segovia.
Bacler d'Albe f.t. Drawn on Stone by N. Chater & Co.
Printed & Published by N. Chater & Co. 33 Fleet Street, 1 May. 1823.
Lithograph, printed on india. Printed area: 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"). Marking.
A view of a the town of Segovia in Spain with figures dancing and playing music.
[Ref: 46076] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France] Petrus Seguier Fraciae Cancellarius [...]
[after Charles Le Brun?]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"). Repaired tear to both sheets. Small margins.
Pierre Séguier (1588-1672), chancellor of France from 1635, and a bibliophile whose library was amongst the most valuable of its day. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660), which was dedicated to Séguier. The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne.
[Ref: 39872] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Seguierius Franciæ Cancellarius.
Johannes Valdor delineavit.
[n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 315mm (17 x 24½"). Trimmed within plate, creases and holes.
A roundell portrait of Pierre Séguier (1588-1672), within an elaborate border featuring cherubs, medallions of Justice and Wisdom and armorials. Séguier was chancellor of France from 1635, and a bibliophile whose library was amongst the most valuable of its day.
[Ref: 50073] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Bergen Op Zoom. 1747.
1747.
Etching, very rare. Sheet size: 275 x 385mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed to image. Central vertical crease.
The Siege of Bergen op Zoom took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Lowendal and the overall direction of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, laid siege and captured the strategic Dutch border fortress of Bergen op Zoom on the border of Brabant and Zealand in 1747. Bergen op Zoom was defended by allies, consisting of the Dutch, Austrians, British, Hanoverians and Hessians, that supported the Pragmatic Sanction. Although tentative peace initiatives had been put forward, neither side was willing to make meaningful concessions. The capture of Bergen op Zoom would be a signal defeat for the Dutch and would open the door for an invasion of the Dutch Netherlands. This satirical print depicts the town under seige, with four scenes in each corner showing different perspectives of the event. Lettered with captions in the image, the title above and four verses of two lines each below the image.
[Ref: 35750] £620.00

Naarder afbeelding der werking van Gianibellies brandtscheenen tegen de Schinbrug des Prinsen van Parma over de de Schelde. 1. Parmaas Schipbrug. 2. Het brandtschip de Hoop. 3. Het brandship de Fortuin. 4. D.andre kleener brandtscheepen. 5. De Schans S. Marye op den Vlaamschen oever.
[Pieter Bor.]
[Antwerp, n.d. c.1585].
Rare etching. 280 x 345mm 11 x 13½"), large margins Central crease as normal. Two repaired tears in lower margin and title area.
The explosive 'hellburners' or fireships used to destroy the pontoon bridge constructed by the army of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, during the seige of Antwerp. Supported and subsidised by Elizabeth I, Italian engineer Federigo Giambelli developed perhaps the earliest example of weapons of mass destruction, two unmanned ships packed with gunpowder, schrapnel and fitted with a sophisticated timer mechanism set to detonate at the ideal moment. It is recorded that over one thousand Spanish troops were killed instantly at the moment of detonation, and the seige on Antwerp was lifted for a time.
[Ref: 56315] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Storming of Seringapatam.
[After Isaac Robert Cruikshank.] Radcliffe sculp.
[n.d., c.1812.]
Very rare etching. Sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some cockling and time-damage.
An illustration from Clarke's 'Life of Wellington', depicting the siege of Seringapatam (5 April 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. Two officers standing at left beside a flag-bearer, as troops storm through a large archway at right with Indian soldiers lined along the top of the walls.
[Ref: 66914] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Seizing for Assessed Taxes According to Law. The Political Drama. No.30.
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market [c.1833]
Wood-engraving, sheet 280 x 440mm (11 x 17¼"). Centre crease as normal.
Tax officers take away the bed from underneath a dead woman in lieu of tax while the woman's husband rails against the 'vile and despotic Government' and her daughter weeps beside her body. Woodcut satire from 'The Political Drama', a series of 131 satires produced between 1833 and 1835 by Charles Jameson Grant (1830-52, fl.), several of which concerned unjust taxation and the uses to which government revenues were put.
[Ref: 45880] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Perse. Le Sélam. The Selam.
Jules David litho. Imprimerie de Dauty.
Dauty, Editeur, 2, rue Vivienne, Paris; London: pub.d Ch. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street; New-York: Bailly Ward and Co. [n.d. c.1870.]
Lithograph. 248 x 178mm. 9¾ x 7". .
The Turkish 'Sélam'. The 'Sélam' was described by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a way for a girl in a harem to communicate in secret with her lover on the outside. Objects would be wrapped in a handkerchief and sent from the woman to her lover and vice versa; the messages were supposedly derived from words that rhymed with the names of the objects.
[Ref: 20898] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

King Sahlela Selassie.
On Stone by W. L. Walton, from a Portrait by Major Harris. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by Longman & Co. 1844.
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, rare. Sheet: 140 x 220mm (4½ x 8½"). Creasing.
A portrait of Ethiopian Negus (monarch) Shale Selassie (1795-1847). An illustration from William Cornwallis Harris's 'The Highlands of Aethipia' published in three volumes in 1844.
[Ref: 47239] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Seldenus. ex Tabella in Bibl: Bodleiana Oxon.
J. Faber Excud.t [after Anthony van Dyck].
Printed & Sold by Tim: Jordan & Tho: Bakewell at ye Golden Lion in Fleetstreet.
Mezzotint. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Narrow margins, chip in left edge.
A half-length portrait in oval of John Selden (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum', which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map.
CS 322, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 67288] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Seldenus. ex Tabella in Bibl: Bodleiana Oxon.
J. Faber Excud.t [after Anthony van Dyck].
Printed & Sold by Tim: Jordan & Tho: Bakewell at ye Golden Lion in Fleetstreet.
Mezzotint. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of John Selden (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum', which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map.
CS 322, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67289] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The true and lively Portraiture of that Learned Antiquary John Selden.
I.Chantry: Sculp.
[n.d., c.1650.] [But later]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Selden (1584 -1654), English jurist, a scholar of both England's ancient laws and constitution and Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" He wrote 'Mare clausum' to dismantle the pretensions advanced by Grotius in The Free Sea (Mare liberum), on behalf of the Dutch fishermen, to poach in the waters off the English coasts.
[Ref: 67745] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

John Selden. From the original of Mytens in The Bodleian Gallery, Oxford.
Drawn by H. Crease, & Engraved (with Permission) by W. Holl.
London, Published March 1 1815 by Lackington, Allen & Co and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
Stipple, platemark 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on right. Toning and light foxing around lower and left margins. Creasing to upper left corner.
John Selden (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum', which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map. Engraving after a portrait by Daniel Mytens (c.1590-1647), Dutch portraitist in London by 1618, who was the leading court portraitist in the city until the arrival of van Dyck in 1632.
[Ref: 53819] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Seldenus Armig.
F.H.van Hove fec:
Printed for Thomas Lee at the sign of the turks head in fleet street 1677.
Engraving. 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Cut, laid on sheet.
John Selden (1584-1654) was a jurist, politician and scholar and was called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum' which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map.
[Ref: 25348] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

John Selden, Born 1584. Died 1654.
Sir P. Lely Pinx.t. W. Birch Sculp.
Published July 1789 by Jeffery, Pall Mall.
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 55mm (3¾ x 2¼") Cut, laid on sheet.
John Selden (1584-1654) was a jurist, politician and scholar, called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum', which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map. The engraver, William Birch (1755-1834), moved to America in 1794.
[Ref: 41252] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Poole's, Select Pocket Remembrancer. 1834. Christina of Sweden resigns her Crown. Pa: 2. [&] Fete Champetre.
E. Burney Del. J. Romney Sculp.
London. Printed by Assignment of J. Poole, for Suttaby & Co. Stationers Court . P. Ayres, & Shepherd & Sutton. Noble Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Engraving. Plate 131 x 159mm. 5¼ x 6¼". Uncut before binding.
Frontispiece and illustrations to Poole's "Select Pocket Remembrancer". Illustration of a countryside party, women and men of society elegantly dressed in the gardens of a country residence.
[Ref: 27868] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Selections from Seymour No. 10. ''Och thin Paddy, what's the botheration, if you carry me, don't I carry the wiskey, sure and that's fair, and aqual.
[after Robert Seymour.]
Published at 137 Fleet Street, London, May 1836.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6").
An Irishman has rolled up his trousers and walks through water bare-footed, carrying a one-legged man on his shoulders. That man carries a barrel of whiskey, adding to the first man's burden. Robert Seymour (1798-1836), an early illustrator for Charles Dickens, commited suicide by shooting himself in April, 1836. Several printers and print dealers issued 'Selections from Seymour' to help his family.
[Ref: 60593] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Self Accusation. No. 28. -Please to bestow your charity / - Friend I have it Not
Pickering sc [c.1820]
Wood engraving, sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Small margins.
A Quaker outside a meeting house refuses charity to an amputee.
[Ref: 41483] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Selim. Selim, a Chesnut Horse, bred by His Grace the Duke of Queensberry, foaled in 1802; got by Buzzard, his Dam by Alexander: grand Dam by Highflyer, Alfred, Engineer, bay Malton's Dam, &c. In 1806, won at 4 yrs. old 50 G.s at Brighton, & the 1.st Class of the October Oatlands at Newmarket. In 1807, at 5 yrs. old the Craven Stakes, 100 G.s and a Class of the October Oatlands, at Newmarket. In 1808, at 6 yrs. old 200 G.s at Newmarket, and he became a Stallion after 1808. To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, This Plate is most respectfully Dedicated by His Most Royal Highness's very grateful & devoted Servant. C. Random, D.B.
Painted by H.B. Chalon. Animal Painter to their R.H. the Prince of Wales and Duke & Duchess of York. Engraved by W. Ward. Engraver (Extraordinary to their R.H.s the Prince of Wales) & Duke & York.
London, Published 2d. Dec.r 1809 ny C. Random D.B. Sporting Gallery, 5 Hart Street, Bloomsbury Street.
Very rare mezzotint. 450 x 550mm (17¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed, margins replaced.
Selim (1802) a thoroughbred racehorse who won many races at Newmarket.
Siltzer: 93; Not seen by Frankau.
[Ref: 20724] £950.00

Habit of Selim in the Tragedy of Barbarossa. Selim dans la Tragédie de Barberousse.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Sheet size: 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Fine original colour. Trimmed inside platemark. Slight staining centre bottom.
The character of 'Selim' from John Browne's Barbarossa, in full costume, wearing a fur trimmed robe and plumed headpiece. Plate 232 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 34888] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sultan Selim Chan.
[Engraved by Theodore de Bry.]
[Frankfurt: de Bry, 1593.]
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 95mm (3¾ x 3¾). Trimmed losing ornamental border; glued to backing sheet.
Selim II (1524-1574), son of Suleiman the Magnificent known as 'Selim the Drunkard'. Among his few successess was the capture of Cyprus in 1571, but the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto the same year has been pinpointed as the beginning of the slow deline of the Empire. Published in the 'Vitae et icones Sultanorum turcicorum'.
[Ref: 29843] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Selim der Dritte Türkischer Kaiser.
C. Schule sc. 1806.
Engraving with small margins. 190 x 140m (7½ x 5½"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners.
Selim III (1761-1808), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. His attempts at reform ended when the Janissaries deposed and imprisoned him: when a rescuing army approached Constantinople Selim was stabbed, the only Ottoman sultan to die by the sword.
[Ref: 29869] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Selim Surpris par Giaffir. Giaffir ayant remarquè la disparition de Sélim et de Zuleika, s’élance à leur poursuite à la téte de ses gardes. Sélim se voyant découvert, donne un dernier baiser à Zuleika et décharge son pistolet pour appeler à son secourt ses braves compagnons. Selim Sorprendido de Giaffir. Giaffir habiendo advertido la desaparicion de Selim y de Zuleika, persigue á los fugitivos á la cabeza de sus Guardias. Selim viéndose descubierto, da un úlitmo beso á Zuleika, y dispara su pistoleta, para llamar á su asistencia sus valientes compañeros.
Paris, L. Turgis & Fils, Edit. Imp. r. des Ecoles, 60. New-York, Barclay St. 39. [n.d.c.1830.]
Lithograph. 450 x 630mm (17¾ x 24¾").
Selim as a pirate stealing one last kiss before Giaffir's men kill him. Relating to 'The Bride of Abydos', the poem of 1813 by Lord Byron.
[Ref: 31266] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Selkirk.
Craig del. Warren Sc.
Publish'd by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool, Oct. 24 1814.
Rare engraving. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½").
Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), Scottish privateer and castaway, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. He spent four years marooned on Juan Fernández, an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
[Ref: 34454] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Selkirk Makes his Cats and Kids dance before Captn. Cook and His Company.
[London: F. Newbery, 1774.]
Engraving, sheet 100 x 160mm. 4 x 6¼". Trimmed within plate.
Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' was based on the story of Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 1721), who went to sea in 1704 with William Dampier and was marooned for four years on Juan Fernandez Island in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile. He survived until he was rescued in 1709 by Captain Woodes Rogers. This image illustrates Captain Edward Cooke's account of the ship that rescued Selkirk. Plate to Vol. II of 'An historical account of all the voyages round the world performed by English navigators... ' Page numbered upper right.
[Ref: 11405] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

I am out of humanity's reach, / I must finish my journey alone. Alexander Selkirk.
ADC Dec. 5th 1812 [?]
Pencil and watercolour, 80 x 55mm (3¼ x 2¼").
Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), Scottish privateer and castaway, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. He spent four years marooned on Juan Fernández, an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
[Ref: 44784] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Chretien Gottlieb Selle. Docteur & Professeur en Medicine etc.a etc.a Dedie a Son Altesse Madam la Princesse de Sacken, nee Baronne de Dreskau.
Carolus Townley ad vivum delt: et Sculpt:
[n.d. c.1790.]
Rare mezzotint. 335 x 235mm. 13¼ x 9¼". Cut; on board with crease and some surface damage.
Christian Gottlieb Selle (1748-1800), last private physician of Friedrich the Great.
In the National Library of Medicine.
[Ref: 24760] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Seller of pleasures] La Marchande de plaisirs. Jeunesse qui courez à ces friands Plaisirs / Vous pouvez les gouter sans en craindre l'usage [...]
F. Eisen pinx. P.L. Cor Excu.
Se Vend AParis chez Cor Graveur Quay des Augustins du coté du Pont neuf [c.1762].
Engraving, platemark 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with a young streetseller; verses below explaining how unlike pleasures encountered in later life, these are not followed by repenting. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner.
[Ref: 44960] £650.00

Kuchentrager. Pourvoyeur de cuisine. [Seller of kitchen supplies.]
Gezeichnet v. C. Brand Prof. Gestochen v. Joh Seigel.
[n.d., 1810.]
Etching, sheet 335 x 245mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed within plate.
Plate to a set of 'Cries of Vienna', after Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694 - 1756), who seems to have been a drawing master at the Vienna Academy.
[Ref: 11587] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Selwood Park, in the County of Berks, the Seat of James Sibbald Esqr, towards the Pleasure Grounds [Translation into French follows.]
Robt. Mitchell Archt.
Publish'd March 25, 1801.
Etching and aquatint, image 255 x 455mm. 10 x 18". Trimmed within plate.
Plate 3 to Mitchell's 'Plans and views in perspective, with descriptions of buildings erected in England and Scotland'.
[Ref: 8538] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Selwood Park, in the County of Berks, the Seat of James Sibbald Esqr, towards the Pleasure Grounds [Translation into French follows.]
Robt. Mitchell Archt.
Publish'd March 25, 1801.
Etching and aquatint in sepia, 295 x 485mm. 11½ x 19". A fine impression, with full margins.
Plate 3 to Robert Mitchell's (1782 - 1809; fl.) folio 'Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions of buildings erected in England and Scotland; and ... an essay to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic Architecture.' Mitchell designed Silwood Park, near Staines, Berkshire. In about 1788, Sir James Sibbald built a Georgian mansion on part of the present house and demolished the old "Eastmore"; he called it Selwood or Silwood Park. The name stems from the Old English for Sallow, which presumably grew then along the banks of the streams that flow through the Park. The house was, in its turn, demolished, and the present mansion was completed in 1878. During WWII it became a convalescent home for airmen; then in 1947 Imperial College purchased the house for entomological research and field studies.
[Ref: 24320] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.
Tho: Cross fecit.
[London: John Crook, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Alvaro de Semedo (1585-1658) the Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China. Along with another Jesuit, he was imprisoned during an anti-Christian campaign in Nanjing in 1616, and then sent back to Macau. He later returned to to China and in 1636 he went back to Europe as a procurator. The frontispiece to Semado's 'History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China',
[Ref: 59871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Noco-Shimatt-Tash-Tanaki. Grizzly Bear. Seminole Chief.
A. Schott del.. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[Washington: Department of the Interior, 1857.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Image 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
A Seminole chief holding a musket. He lived on the prairies west of the Arkansas River. Arthur Carl Victor Schott (1814-1875), a Stuttgart-born artist, topographical engineer and cartographer, joined the 'The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey' which was determining the border after the Mexican–American War (1846-8). His sketches, including this one, appeared in William H. Emory's 'Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey'. They were reproduced in the 'Illustrated London News' in 1858.
[Ref: 43340] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Semiramis.
C. Monnet, del.t. Picot, Excud.t.
London. Pub.d Oct.r 10. 1777, by V.M. Picot. N.o 471, Strand.
Fine stipple in sanguine, plate 250 x 210mm (10 x 8¼"). Small margins.
A representation of the semi-legendary Semiramis; head and shoulders portrait looking down wearing a headress.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60275] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Major James George Semple Lilse.
Harding sc.
[Pub.d September 1 1799, by W. Stewart 194 Piccadilly.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 175 x 130mm (6½ x 5¼"). Trimmed inside platemark loosing publication line.
A half-length portrait in an oval of Major James George Semple (1759 - 1815), standing to left, looking ahead with his right arm thrown out a little. He is wearing military uniform with braiding, dark stock, white cravat and a wing collar. Semple was a notorious swindler and con-man in late eighteenth century Britain who was arrested numerous times for fraud and eventually deported to Australia in 1797 on the 'The Lady Shore', which suffered a mutiny on the Brazilian coast. After several months of travelling he was finally returned via Lisbon and Tangiers to England, where he spent time in Portsmouth before being taken to London and Tothill Field. On the 6 June 1805 Semple is reported as being in Paris, and is now suspected of being the well-known spy 'Facqs', after a letter from his public house in Piccadilly claims he was 'begging to be allowed to offer his services as a spy or instigator of mutiny on enemy ships, describing his fitness for these tasks, and requesting that his past faults and follies be overlooked'. After further arrests in the following years, including one in 1814 in which he was found guilty at the Middlesex sessions of obtaining bacon and butter by fraudulent means, Semple died in Lisbon, on his way to Morocco, to which he had apparently engaged to transport himself.
BM: 1851.0308.628
[Ref: 34374] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Major Semple.
Etched by J. Chapman.
Published Dec.r 1803 by J. Cundee Ivy Lane.
Stipple. Sheet: 150 x 85mm (6 x 3¼''). Trimmed, foxing.
A portrait of the adventurer and con man James George Semple Lisle (1759-1815) who travelled across the world and was often in prison for fraud. Having served in America in the American Revolutionary Wars Semple was taken prisoner in 1776 and while in America had a relationship with the writer Elizabeth Sarah Gooch. He travelled back to Europe in the 1780s and claimed to have met many members of European royalty. Semple returned to England in 1784 and was tried and sentenced to seven years' transportation for fraud. He was released on the promise that he leave England so he set off for France and while there he claimed to have witnessed the execution of Louis XVI. He returned to England in 1795 to escape trouble in France and was once again arrested and sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, he tried to avoid this sentence by stabbing and starving himself but he recovered and was dispatched in the 'Lady Jane Shore' to Australia. However, during the voyage a mutiny broke out and Semple and some fellow sailors left the ship in a rowing boat and landed in South America. From South America Semple travelled to Tangier where he gave himself up and he was taken back to England and imprisoned in Tothill Fields Prison where he penned and published his memoir 'The Life of Major J. G. Semple Lisle'. He offered himself as a spy to the government, was once again sentenced to transportation in 1814 but was pardonned by the Prince Regent.
Kivell p.176.
[Ref: 48978] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sending on board the Admiral for Letters at Sea.
O.W. Brierly Del. _J. Needham Lith. Shipping by Dutton. Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen.
London Published Feby. 1st 1855 by Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen, 17, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Large hand-coloured lithograph, image 400 x 610mm. 15¾ x 24". Filled worm holes and some tears from slightly tatty extremities. Corners chipped.
Mail is delivered to ships of the Royal Navy in the Baltic Sea in 1854 by steamship; during the Crimean War campaign (1853 - 1856). Titles in French and English; naval ships and the comparatively tiny mail steamer captioned below image. After Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). From a set of fifteen lithographs depicting "The Baltic Fleet under Sir Charles Napier on its way to the seat of war".
Parker: 1618. NMM: PAH8326.
[Ref: 21634] £580.00

The Death of Seneca. From the Original Picture at Burleigh, Painted by Luca Giordano, In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter; To whom this Plate is Dedicated, by his Lordship's most Obliged and most Humble Servant John Boydell.
Luca Giordano pinx.t R. Earlom delin.t. S.F. Ravenet Sculpsit.
J. Boydell excudit 1768 / Published Oct.r 1st 1768.
Engraving, platemark 475 x 610mm (18¾ x 24"). Small margins on 3 sides. Trimmed inside platemark at top. Crease verso not visible on front.
The Stoic philosopher Seneca about to open his veins to commit suicide on the orders of the tyrant Nero. Seneca sits on the right, his feet in a copper vessel filled with warm water to dull the pain and collect his blood. After a painting by Italian artist Luca Giordano purchased by the Fifth Earl of Exeter for display at Burleigh House, where it hung in the 'Best Bedd Chamber'. There it was seen by poet Matthew Prior, whose poem 'Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath. By Jordain. At the Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter's at Burleigh-House', 1718, celebrates the artist's role as Seneca's preserver. The painting remains at Burleigh. From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in published in five volumes between the late 1760s and 1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were 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.
See James Ker, 'The Deaths of Seneca', p.304. Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38482] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca. An excellent Stoick Philosopher [...] Ex Marmore Antiquo.
P.P. Rubens Delin.t. J. Faber fecit. m.
Printed for and Sold by Tho: Bowles nezxt ye Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Repaired wormholes. Damaged.
A portrait of Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (c.4BC - 65AD), taken from a marble bust in Rubens' own collection, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2.
[Ref: 64999] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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