Grosvenor Prints

[Composite design for a child's scrap book.]
Salmon lith.
Printed by Lefevre & Kohler 52 Newman St. [London, n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph in fine original colour by hand with gum arabic, scarce. 260 x 200mm, 10¼ x 8". Contemporary presentation: glued to album leaf, with ink ruled border, numbered 'No 233' in pen lower right.
A fine example of the designs, combining elements of science, art and nature, that were printed for children to put into their scrap albums (as here). Assembling such albums became a 19th century childhood craze, and these decorative vignettes often served as a kind of frontispiece. Includes volume of Newton & a globe.
[Ref: 27546] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Juvenile Scrap Sheet N.o 24. Price Two Pence Plain or Fourpence Col
R. Barfoot del.
London. John Betts. 115 Strand. [n.d. c.1846].
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 225 x 335mm (9 x 13¼"). Trimmed and glued to scrapbook paper. Some surface dirt, creasing and nicks to edges.
Three vignettes of children playing. The first a group of boys swim and bathe in a pond or stream. The second a group of children wearing hats and holding flags walk past a pond where other children rest, a group of children buy fruit from a fruitseller. The third is a harvest scene with a group of children playing while gathering hay.
[Ref: 58568] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Scrap-Book's Petition. "Scraps to the hungry by the hungry spared." / Reader! art thou one, whose eye / Beams with the fire of Poesy [...]
T.D. Dutton, Printer, Ballingdon-Sudbury
Chromolithograph printed in gold, sheet 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Glued to backing sheet.
Poem published to appeal to Victorian scrapbook compilers.
[Ref: 45868] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A scrapbook containing various prints, watercolours and sketches.]
[n.d., c. 1840's.]
Scrapbook; 4to, marbled boards, calf spine with gilt title, scarce & interesting. Front board detatched from spine.
A varied scrapbook containing, amongst many other items; A pencil drawing of the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, with a look of dismay after discovering tracks in the sand by the water. He holds a gun and has various smaller weapons tied around his waist, followed by a dog; three watercolour illustrations to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', published in 1852, 'Uncle Tom's small-fry (after Thomas)', 'Uncle Tom & Chloe talking over Tom's future prospects', and [Preparing food in the kitchen.]; a pencil sketch of the surveying vessel 'Ponwah', at anchor in the Tuddree River. The 'Ponwah' was used by Alfred Dundas Taylor (1825 - 1898), a civil architect to the admitalty, during the survey of the west coast of India, south of Bombay; a small engraving of the 'Magnetic Observatory, Colaba, Bombay' after G. Buist, by G.S. Tullis, 1845; an early pen and ink sketch of the harbour of Muscat from the sea, the capital of Oman. As an important port-town in the Gulf of Oman, Muscat attracted foreign tradesmen and settlers such as the Persians, the Balochs and Gujaratis. Fort al-Jalali, built by the Portuguese in the 1580s to protect the harbor after Muscat had twice been sacked by Ottoman forces, can be seen on the rocks to the right; four brightly coloured watercolour sketches depicting figures in traditional Arab costume.
[Ref: 35787] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 1]
Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank - May 20.th 1828.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Very damaged and crudely repaired.
Seven vignettes: ''A Gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on –'', a sailor startles awake as a maid tugs his peg-leg, mistaking it for a warming-pan handle, prompting his cry ''Hollo! Hollo! avast heaving there!! what the deuce are you pulling my leg for,'' to which she replies, ''O Dear! Sir I beg your pardon but I took it for the handle of the warming pan.'' ''The Advantage of a Wooden leg, upon a Pinch'', a night poaching scene where a steel trap grips a wooden leg. ''Living on wooden legs—'', performers dance on stilts on a village green. ''The Advantage of putting the best leg forward!'', a man shelters in a doorway as a dog attacks his wooden leg, while men rush up with pitchforks. ''Sing Old Rose & burn the Bellows'', a man with a peg-leg thrust into the fire sings ''Polly put a Kittle on, Polly put a Kittle on Polly put a Kittle on all hab tea!'' ''A Jury-Mast—'', a shipwrecked man floats toward shore using his raised wooden leg, bearing a streamer ''Trial by Jury.'' ''A Trifling Accident—'', a sleeping carter’s cart rolls over and snaps the wooden leg of a man lying in the road.
BM Satires 15617.
[Ref: 68106] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 2]
Designed, Etched & Published by Geogre Cruikshank - November 1.st 1829.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). On paper watermarked, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.' Trimmed within plate. Foxing. Repaired tear. Loss in left corner.
Five vignettes: The Horses, ‘going to the Dogs’—'', four horses watch a steam-coach below; one exclaims, ''A coach without Horses!!!—nonsense—come, come, Master Dobbin you are ‘Trotting’ but you must not think to hum me because I'm blind!'' Another adds, ''Well, dash my Wig, if that is’nt the rummest go I ever saw—'' Two dogs in the foreground comment, ''I say Wagtail! what do you think of this new invention?''—''Why I think we shall have meat cheap enough.'' ''A Fiery Steed—'', a horse-shaped engine emits smoke as a jockey cries ''Soho! Soho!'', watched by a coal-heaver. ''Phœnomenon—'', a grotesquely long-backed horse carries a post-boy and five passengers.''The Four Elements—'', a maidservant blows a kitchen fire with bellows beneath a large kettle. ''Faith Hope & Charity—'', a blind beggar is led by a dog.
BM Satires 15978.
[Ref: 68108] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 4]
Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Feb. 1831.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 265 x 350mm (10¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
Seven vignettes contrasting corpulence and leanness: ''Just room for three insides Sir," four lean horses glare at three grossly fat passengers boarding an already overloaded coach, one protesting ''What All fat! really this is too bad,'' while others mutter ''where is our friend Martin'' and ''I shall Kick at it.'' ''Infatuation'', in a kitchen, a huge cook bastes meat as an obese suitor kneels, sighing ''I wish I was a little fly On my loves bosom for to lie.'' ''Round Text & small hand'', a rotund clergyman peers at a paper while a gaunt rogue picks his pocket. ''The Three Tuns.'', at an alehouse door, the host ''Tunbelly'' serves frothing jugs to two enormous customers, their bellies meeting. ''A Spare rib—'', a slender woman walks arm in arm with her massively obese husband in a park. ''Fatima Fatima Selim is near, "a Turk serenades an enormous woman on a balcony. ''The Better half'', a small, thin man trudges beside a flamboyantly fat wife, carrying her pattens and umbrella.
BM Satires 16854.
[Ref: 68104] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 4]
Designed, Etched & Pub.d by Geo.e Cruikshank Nov.r 1829.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 265 x 350mm (10¼ x 14"). On paper watermarked, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.' Trimmed within plate. Foxing. Edges nicked.
Four vignettes: ''Church & State'', a bishop and a layman drink wine at opposite ends of a richly served table beneath a gas chandelier, with stiff footmen and a wall painting of a papal procession alluding to Emancipation. ''The Shop for Bargains!—'', in a coal shed, a poor child begs for coal, complaining ''that penny coal I had yesterday was only a Slate,'' while the dealer retorts, ''Slate was it?! then I’m sure she’s no call to grumble….'' ''Corporal Punishment'', a sweating, corpulent man trudges uphill, remarking, ''They tell me I shall find a good deal of difficulty in getting my fat down!—but I ’fegs I find a good deal of difficulty in getting it Up!!'' ''Taken in Tow—a Scene on a Rope walk—'', a beadle arrests a rope-maker with tow tied round his waist. ''An Unthankful fellow—'', a countryman sits in the stocks in the rain while a beadle lectures him at length, beginning ''What! want to go?!!! after we have taken all this trouble with you!'' and ending with ''or did you expect that we were to find you in Rose water & toothpicks?!!!''
BM Satires 15980.
[Ref: 68105] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 4]
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.re Cruikshank - May 20.th - 1828.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
Six vignettes: ''Johnny Cockaigne, shewing ‘Cousin Tummas’ a ‘Lions’ den—'', a cockney points out Crockford’s with riders and carriages to a countryman, remarking ''That’s one of the London ‘Hells’ Coz!''; the countryman responds, ''No sure! why what a nice looking place!!—Well; no wonder so many people do go to the Devil if he a’ gotten such Foine Housen!!'' ''Legs'' famous for ''Cutting'' & ''Shuffling'', three gamesters appear as long-legged rooks with predatory beaks, a pun on blacklegs (cheaters). ''I could a tale unfold'', a pig with a curly tail. ''Any thing but Fair play!'', a duel where a broad, fat man fires at a comically thin opponent who does not return fire. ''The Abode of Genius'', in a ragged attic, a shabby man struggles with a piece of steak, exclaiming ''To call this a tender Chuck Steak! & charge me two pence half¬penny for it!!—I've a great mind to go & Chuck it in his face!—Aye!—its a fine thing to be a Genius!!!!!'' beneath the verse: "My lodging is on the cold ground, And very hard is my fare;" a standard distressed-poet mot ''House of Industry'', a cobbler, his wife, and three children toil in a miserable room; she asks, ''If you get paid for them shoes shall us have a bit of meat on Sunday?''; he replies, ''Why—I dont know what to say to that—you know we had meat last Sunday!—we must not be extravagant.'' Below: ''A Cobler there was & he lived in a Stall which served him for Parlour & Kitchen & hall''!
BM Satires 15620.
[Ref: 68107] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[A parrot design for a screen.] Een ruur-sherm in chenille geborduurd, of op fluweel geschildord met een glass er roor.
C. Borsteegh del. D. Sluyter Sculp.
[Amsterdam: G.J.A. Beijerinck, c.1822.]
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 245 x 185mm (17½ x 7¼"). Trimmed, original binding folds as normal, mounted on album paper.
A design for a chenille screen, an oval with a colourful parrot, on an adjustable wooden stand with a floral pattern.
[Ref: 31829] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Owen Cambridge, 'The Scribleriad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Books'.]
L.P.Boitard Inv.t & Sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751 [by Richard Dodsley].
Etching. 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 10½"), large margins.
The frontispiece to Book II of Richard Owen Cambridge's 'The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books'. Scriblerus relates the story of his travels to a group of pilgrims, friends of his father. They sit on the grass in the foreground with a tiered dish, fruit, oriental figurines and statuettes, including one of Buddha, one of them to right reading a strip of paper he has drawn with much surprise from a small goblet, two on the left looking up at the sky with astonishment, with mountains in the distance, groups of indigenous people drawn up in the background to left, others chasing a solitary figure towards a broad river flowing on the right, where unicorns and other animals are swimming, with a mermaid on an island and seals and an enormous fish on the shore.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 68279] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to The Scribleriad]
L.P. Boitard inv.t & sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751.
Engraving, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), with large margins. Staining in margins
Night scene of a long-robed man with stepped shoes and an elaborate hair or tail headdress, coiled around his waist and trailing to the ground, gesturing toward an overgrown arched cave while grabbing the cloak of a turbaned man who recoils in fear as two owls burst from the cavern. This book-illustration comes from Richard Owen Cambridge's (1717 -1892), 'The Scribleriad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Books', London, 1751. A a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Miguel de Cervantes as his master. It is full of literary in-jokes.
[Ref: 68389] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Iane Scrimshaw. The Old Woman. Ætat CXXVI. 1710.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Engraving. Sheet: 130 x 90mm (5 x 3½''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of the centenarian Jane Scrimshaw (1585-1710).
[Ref: 51140] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Scriptural Protean Views, No. 5. The Holy Sepulcre changing to The Crucifixion.
By G.F. Bragg. Printed by W.Kohler.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, very rare. 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 6"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Hole in issue on the reverse.
A view of the Holy Sepulcre turns into one of classical Jerusalem with the Crucifixion in the foreground when the image is held up to a light source.
[Ref: 36406] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Scripture Prints, Edited by James R. Hope, D.C.L., Scholar of Merton. Old Testament Series from the Frescoes of Raphael, in the Vatican. Part III... the Prints have been prepared under the superintendence of Mr Lewis Gruner, from Drawings made from the original Frescos, by M.N. Consoni, one of the most distinguished Draughtsmen in Rome.
Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row; and W. [***] 183 Regent Street, London: and J. Parker, Oxford.
Rare Oblong folio, printed wrappers. 6 tinted lithographs, each c.470 x 600mm (18½ x 23½" Wrappers worn, printseller's label stuck over publisher's inscription; plates with blindstamp.
The plates are: Adam & Eve; The Building of the Ark; The Sacrifice of Noah; Melchizedek and Abraham; Moses Smiting the Rock; The Triumph of David. James Robert Hope (1812-1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian (being a friend of John Henry Newman). In 1853, when his wife, a grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, inherited Abbotsford, he changed his surname to Hope-Scott.
[Ref: 53102] £180.00 view all images for this item

Sir Adrian Scrope.
[George Perfect Harding after William Platt.]
Watercolour and wash, border 165 x 145mm (6½ x 5¾"), source stipple engraving, trimmed, pasted on left corners over watercolour.
Colonel Adrian Scrope (1601-60), army officer and regicide (he was the 27th of the 59 Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I). After the Civil War Scrope's regiment was due to be sent to Ireland but mutinied, rejecting their selection to join Cromwell's army in Ireland; the ringleaders were shot and the regiment was disbanded. Scrope was appointed governor of Bristol Castle until, in 1655, he was made a member of the council that governed Scotland. He did not oppose the Restoration but, despite paying a fine of a year's rent of his estates for an indemnity, he was arrested as a regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered. Watercolour by George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), miniature painter, presented with the engraving it was derived from. Harding devoted himself to producing minute copies in watercolour of works of historical and antiquarian interest. Examples of his work are in several major British institutions.
[Ref: 42336] £420.00

Colonel Adrian Scroop. was one of the Parliaments Officers who sat in Judgment on Charles 1, for which & signing his Death Warrant he was condemned and executed at Charing Cross Oct. 17th 1660.
C. Townley Fecit 1801.
Etching. Sheet 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Colonel Adrian Scrope (c.1601-60) was the 27th of the 59 Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I. After the Civil War his regiment was due to be sent to Ireland but mutinied; the ringleaders were shot and the regiment was disbanded. In 1655 Scrope joined the council that governed Scotland. He did not oppose the Restoration but, despite paying a fine of a year's rent of his estates for an indemnity, he was arrested as a regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered. The engraver, Charles Townley (1746-1802) primarily worked in mezzotint; this is one of his few etchings.
[Ref: 40492] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Belisa. Vide, Marmontel's tale of the Scruple.
Designed by J.R. Smith.
London Publish'd July 18 1783 by J.R. Smith No.83 Oxford Street.
Very rare stipple, roundel, printed in brown ink. Sheet 250 x 225mm. 9¾ x 9". Trimmed to plate.
A young lady with a poodle on a chaise longue, illustrating the moral tale of 'The Scruple' by Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799); with a four-line quotation below image. John Raphael Smith (1751 - 1812).
Frankau 31, ii. D'Oench 223.
[Ref: 27040] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Well Sir! And Pray What are You Looking At?
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Laid on album paper.
A pretty scullery maid on her knees scrubbing the steps of a townhouse, her skirts riding up to show her calves. She looks over her shoulder to confront the man ogling her.
[Ref: 51936] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Sculptura: or the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving on Copper... To which is annexed A new manner of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, communicated by His Hightness Prince Rupert to the Authour of this Treatise.
[by John Evelyn.]
London, Printed by J.C. for G. Beedle, and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple Gate, and J. Crook in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662.
Four leaves, 8vo: letterpress title (as above) engraved frontispiece and pp. 145-148. Mounted in album paper, old ink mss. On one sheet.
The title and frontispiece of John Evelyn's account of engraving, mounted on album paper with the four pages of 'Chap VI. Of the new way of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, Invented, and communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhyne, &c'. This was the first English account of mezzotint and was accompanied by the first mezzotint published in this country. Prince Rupert introduced mezzotint engraving into England (rather than invented as Evelyn states) when he returned during the Restoration of 1660. He demonstrated the technique to Evelyn and provided him with a plate ('The little executioner') for this book. The frontispiece is signed AH, the monogram of engraver Abraham Hertochs.
[Ref: 62183] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A sculpture studio. Christian Rauch]
Nach d Natur gez. v. L. Pietsch. Farbendruck v. Storch u. Kramer in Berlin.
Verlag und Eigenthum von Alexander Duncker Hofbuchhändler S.r Majestät d'Königs v. Prussen.
Chromolithograph, signed on right. Printed area 320 x 365mm (12½ x 14½") large margins.
The interior of a sculptor's Christian Rauch studio, an apprentice working on a bust as his master looks on. He was the pre eminent sculpture of his day 1777-1857.
[Ref: 45022] £420.00

[Sculpture head.]
H. Howard, A. delin. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1809.]
Engraving with etching, printed in dark brown ink. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"), with very large margins.
From 'Specimens of Antique Sculptures, Ægyptyan, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: selected from different collections in Great Britain'
[Ref: 62404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Scythe Man's Refreshment.
[after Philip Mercier.]
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d. 1790].
Fine mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Small margins.
A boy sits drinking from from a tankard, resting his scythe on his knee.
[Ref: 52798] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Scythe, Man's Refreshment.
[n.d. 1790].
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint, 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Very fine.
Reduced copy of an earlier print, 'Rural Life' (one from a set of six) by Jan Faber after Philip Mercier. A boy sits drinking from from a tankard, resting his scythe on his knee.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for another impression see ref. 797
[Ref: 32343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sea Air.]
C. Napier Hemy [pencil signature].
Published at Clare Street, Bristol by Frost & Reed Limited. Printsellers of Bristol and London, March 1st 1911.
Coloured photogravure, signed by the artist. 570 x 795mm, 22½ x 31¼mm. Tears in margins.
Charles Napier Hemy was the leading maritime painter of his generation. He was appointed Official Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron and was a prolific exhibitor at the Royal Academy showing one hundred and fifty-five paintings during his lifetime. He settled in Falmouth in 1881, and produced the majority of his finest works here. He built a floating studio and made countless studies of wave formations. Sir Frank Brangwyn RA wrote: ‘His knowledge of the sea was superb. As a draughtsman of wave forms he stands alone.’
[Ref: 10134] £650.00

Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Me[r]. Deuxieme Partie.
A Amsterdam, Ce vendent chez Johannes van K[eulen, M]archant de Cartes Marines, au bout du Pont Neuf, [...1682].
Engraved titlepage with letterpress, rare but with damage. Printed area 510 x 280mm, 20 x 11". Bottom right torn with loss to letterpress, abrasion affecting figures in the sky, damaged top left.
The decorative titlepage to a French edition of the second volume of Jan van Keulen's important sea-atlas 'Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel', first published the year before. It depicts various Europeans gathered around a large globe, with one holding up a blazing torch, representing the atlas, 'New Sea-Torch'. Others examine two large charts. Above are allegorical figures and the signs of the Zodiac. The atlas contained 130 charts by Claes Janszoon Vooght and launch the van Keulen family business, which lasted into the C19th. The second volume was dedicated to the seas of north and western Europe, with western coasts of Africa to the Canary Islands. Very important image of mapmakers and explorers pouring over the globe and charts.
[Ref: 22435] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La Troisiéme Partie.
A Amsterdam, Chez Johannes van Keulen, Marchant de Livres & Cartes Marines, au bout du Pont Neuf, au Pilote Couronne, 1682.
Engraved titlepage with letterpress, rare. Printed area 510 x 280mm, 20 x 11".
The decorative titlepage to a French edition of the third volume of Jan van Keulen's important sea-atlas 'Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel', first published the year before. It depicts an allegorical figure of Holland, with traders in the Indies on the left and the figures of Mercury and Neptune examining a compass on the right. Underneath a galleon battles three galleys. The atlas ('New Torch of the Sea') contained 130 charts by Claes Janszoon Vooght and launched the van Keulen family business, which lasted into the C19th. The third volume was dedicated to the Mediterranean.
[Ref: 22434] £380.00

[Sea atlas titlepage.] Le Neptune Francois, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines pour l'Usage de ses Armées de Mer.
A Paris, Chez Hubert Jaillot aux deux Globes, M. D.C. LXXXXIII. Avec Privilege du Roy [but Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1693].
Fine letterpress titlepage printed in black and red, with engraved vignette of a sea battle. Sheet 635 x 505mm (25 x 19¾") very large margins. Old ink mss. number top right.
The titlepage of the largest atlas of sea charts published up to that time. The vignette is signed by Jan van Vianen. The atlas was published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, with a false publication line perhaps to avoid customs duties abroad. A companion volume contained the famous sea charts etched by Romain de Hooghe, dedicated to William III, the Dutch king of England.
[Ref: 60957] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea atlas titlepage.] Cartes Marines a l'Eusage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretane.
A Amsterdam. Chez Pierre Mortier Libraire sur le Vygen Dam M. D.C. LXXXXIII [1693].
Fine letterpress titlepage printed in black and red, with engraved vignette of a sea battle. Sheet 635 x 505mm (25 x 19¾") very large margins. Old ink mss. number top right.
The titlepage to the magnificent atlas of sea charts etched by Romain de Hooghe, dedicated to William III, the new Dutch king of England. The suite of nine charts, described by Koeman as the 'most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam', included the three-sheet chart of the Mediterrean. The vignette is signed by Jan van Vianen.
Koeman: vol 4, p. 423-4, M. Mor 5.
[Ref: 60958] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea-battle between the Dutch & Spanish.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, 365 x 465mm. Trimmed into image at top.
[Ref: 359] £460.00

[Sea Battle - British & Knights of Malta against the French?]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). Trimmed, margins painted black for use with an optical viewer.
An engagement between three ships, one flying the Union Flag, another with a flag of a white cross on a red background (the Knights of Malta or Denmark?), the third with a white flag at half-mast.
[Ref: 33836] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Sea Boy. "Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck, they youthful form! Rocks, winds, and waves, thy shatter'd bark delay; They heart is sad, thy home is far away." Pleasures of Hope.
W. Nicholson R.S.A. Pinxt. Robert Bell Sculpt.
Printed by A Mc Gashon. [n.d. c.1825.]
A rare engraving. 292 x 197mm. 11½ x 7¾".
A young boy hanging to the rigging of a ship. A poem written below.
[Ref: 15583] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Posture of a Sea Lion wn: Suddenly rowz'd or disturb'd a Lioness asleep by him & a Seal, in a moving posture
I. Pine Sculp:
[n.d. c.1780.]
Copper engraving. Image with title: 165 x 190mm. 6½ x 7½".
A sealion has awoken startled as the female remains asleep. A seal slips by towards the sea and shoreline where other seals and sealions swim. To the right in the background is a sealioness with her pup.
[Ref: 13957] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman Rejecting a Sea Monster.]
Drawn by I. Mortimer. Etch'd by I. Haynes.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan. 25 1780 by J. Mortimer Norfolk Street Strand.
Etching. Plate: 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8''), with wide margins.
A mythological scene in which a young woman fights of a grotesque sea monster. From a series of twelve etchings published posthumously by Mortimer's wife. After a drawing by artist and printmaker John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779).
[Ref: 48851] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier Fighting a Monster.]
Mortimer del.t. Blyth Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾''). Foxing.
A mythological scene showing a man in armour fighting with a sea monster on the shore. After a drawing by artist John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779).
[Ref: 48852] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Sea Nymph [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Nude female waterskiing. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62507] £420.00

The Sea Pie Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. ''Now, Massa, Sea-Pie ready.''
P.Cruik sc.
[Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, and to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. W. Eden, Printer, 11, Queen Street, Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1842]
Etching. Sheet (at most) 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed as scrap, losing publication line.
A black cook stands at a stove.
[Ref: 62247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Trombe Di Mare. Gli Marinari Per Inveterato Costume Fanno In Certi Passaggi Una Cerimonia Chiamato Battesimo...
[Venice, c.1691.]
Copper engraving with very large margins, -printed from three plates. Total 440 x 270mm (17¼ x 10½").
Two illustrations within a separately-printed frame-like border: six sea-spouts; and a scene of sailors 'baptising' a new recruit making a new passage. This was published in Vincenzo Coronelli's 'Isolario dell'Atlante Veneto'. Coronelli (1650-1718), was Official Cartographer to both Louis XIV of France and the Doge of Venice, as well as being Father General of the Franciscan order.
[Ref: 30332] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

L'Entrée d'une Ville Maritime.
Lallemant pinx. Le Veau sc.
Se vend a Paris chés Basan et Poignant M.ds d'Estampes rue et Hotel Serpente. [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving on watermarked paper. Platemark: 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17"). Very large margins.
A storm in a port, with a ruined classical arch and statue on the left, fortifications to the right, and a sailing ship battling the rough sea in the centre. After Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803), mainly a painter and draftsman of landscapes and genre works.
[Ref: 38736] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea-battle]
[c.1810, probably restrike of a plate first published c.1760.]
Engraving with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 275 x 395mm (10¾ x 15½`"). Trimmed along lower edge, probably losing text and (?)part of image.
[Ref: 45160] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

'Estuary Dawn' [pencil].
Winston Megoran [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1950.]
Aquatint with etching on thick paper, 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾".
Seabirds, possibly cormorants, in flight over water. Winston Megoran (1913 - 1971), born Newcastle upon Tyne; he exhibited at the RA.
[Ref: 27486] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

'Stormy Afternoon' [pencil].
Winston Megoran [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1950.]
Aquatint with etching on thick paper, with large margins; 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾".
Seabirds in flight over a beach, breakers rolling in below. Winston Megoran (1913 - 1971), born Newcastle upon Tyne; he exhibited at the RA.
[Ref: 27485] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Seafield Tower Fifeshire [in pencil.]
C.S. Kay [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Etching with aquatint. 210 x 259mm. 8¼ x 10¼".
Seafield Tower is a ruined castle on the North Sea coast of Fife in Scotland. The castle was abandoned in 1733 by the Methven family.
[Ref: 15287] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Marchande de Moules. Provinces méridionales.
J. Madou fc. Lith. de Vanden Burggraaff, rue Royale. No.68.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand coloured lithograph. 241 x 190mm. 9½ x 7½". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
Mussel merchants, probably in Holland: three dogs chained to a cart with muzzles and wooden collars. On the cart is a large basket of mussels, which the and his mother are selling as they walk around the market place.
[Ref: 16214] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Well Matched.
H.L. Rolfe, del.t.
M. & N. Hanhart, Lith et Imp.t. 1856.
Lithograph. Sheet: 820 x 600mm (32 x 23¾"). Laid on conservation paper.
An extremely decorative still life scene of seafood and vegetables upon a table.
[Ref: 42359] £850.00

Seaford Cliff. As it appeared immediately after the explosion (by voltaic battery) Sept.ber 19th 1850
Miss Nanny del.t
Chapé & Lefevre lith 99 Guildford St. Russell Sq.e.
Lithograph and tintstone, very scarce; sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
The explosion at Seaford, Sussex in 1850, which was organised in order to blast away a huge mass of chalk cliff to create a large rock groyne and prevent pebbles from being transported from the Seaford Beach towards Beachy Head. As shown here, the event attracted vast crowds (including Charles Dickens, who wrote about it for 'Household Words'). The explosion took place successfully, but the chalk was blasted into very small fragments which, rather than retaining shingle at Seaford beach, merely accelerated the eastwards flow of sediment it was intended to prevent.
[Ref: 41284] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Seaham Church.
Richard Wallis 1784 sculp.
Rare etching. Sheet: 85 x 125mm (3½ x 5''). Trimmed, glue staining in corners.
A view of St Mary's Church in Seaham, County Durham.
[Ref: 50049] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 18. The Seal and Walrus.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal. Mint
A central illustration of a seal and walrus, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of of their harvesting and products, including canoes, clothes, oil, glue and 'Ivory for Dentists use'. Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 13283] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Samuel Sealer of London(?) [in ink lower left.]
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼". Water stain and some spotting to sky.
A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9419] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vitello Marino Grande e Picciolo.]
[Venice: Alessandri & Scataglia, c.1775.]
Coloured etching. 360 x 270mm (14¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
An illustration of seals from an Italian edition of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle'.
[Ref: 45020] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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