Grosvenor Prints

Hopelessly clubbed. Military Caricatures 3.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 3 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A perplexed figure stands in the centre, with a crowd of infantry behind to the left, and an outraged Officer to the right. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 3.
[Ref: 39058] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The festive Infantry Major. Military Caricatures 1.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 1 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A rotund Infantry Major smiles as he takes the floor to dance at a festive ball. Other well dressed figures are seen in the background. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 1.
[Ref: 39061] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Peacocking. Military Caricatures 5.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 5 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A Military Artillery Officer in full uniform, wearing a jacket, belt, a pouch around his shoulder, dress spurs and boots, a dress hat with chin scales and a peaked feather at the front, clutching his sword and hanky. A group of women in Ball gowns in watch the officer from behind. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 5.
[Ref: 39062] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Howev-a-r am I to get ov-a-r? Military Caricatures 6.
T.S. Seacombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 6 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. An extremely tall Infantry Officer looks down at a puddle through his monicle, contemplating how to cross it. A well dressed woman watches him from the background, smiling. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 6.
[Ref: 39063] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Fredericus Henrius S.R.J. Comes de Seckendorf. etc. etc. S.C.M. Supremus Campi Mareschallus.
Joh. El. Ridinger inv. fec. et exc. AV. [n.d., c.1750.]
Rare engraving. Plate: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾''). Small margins.
An equestrian portrait of Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff (1673-1763), a German military commander for the Austrian army during the Wars of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War.
[Ref: 50852] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ch.les De Secondat Bon. De Montesquieu. Presidt. a Mortier au Parlemt. de Bourdeaux.
d'Apres sa Statue Sculptee par M. Clodion, pour le Roi.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St.Victor. A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with fine hand colour. 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Small margins.
The baron de Montesquieu, social commentator and political thinker. From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 40157] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Secret. R.1.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing secrecy, with a sphinx and a pair of keys.
[Ref: 59342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Secret.
Drawn & Engraved by H. Beckwith.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford, 246 Strand, 1854.
Engraving. Sheet: 155 x 240mm (6 x 9½").
A view of the yacht "The Secret" at sea with a ship and steam ship behind. An illustration from the 'Sporting Magazine'.
[Ref: 45916] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A Secret Letter.]
Etching by T. Orde, Esq. afterwards 1st Lord Bolton. [In manuscript below plate.]
[n.d., c1770.]
Rare etching. Plate: 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Paper tone, small margins.
An exterior scene in which a woman, walking arm in arm with an older man, is handed a letter by a young man walking behind her. Another man peeps out from behind a bush. An etching by Thomas Orde Powlett (1746-1807) who was an amateur caricaturist whilst at Cambridge.
[Ref: 41530] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Secret.
Drawn & Engraved by H. Beckwith.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford, 246, Strand, 1854.
Steel engraving, sheet 150 x 220mm. 6 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate. Slightly soiled.
A yacht at sea, coastline and other shipping in background. By Henry Beckwith (1830 fl. - 1900 after).
[Ref: 13510] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Details of the various sections of the brain.]
Hopkins lithog.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Two very rare lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 403 x 260mm. 16 x 10¼". Stained.
Top section: a mans head from the side, the front and the back; divded into sections, marked numerically from I to XXXIII. Bottom: specific feeling, thouht allocated to that specific section. I. Organ of Amativeness - Physical Love. II. Organ of Philoprogenitiveness. Love of Offspring. III. Organ of Inhabitiveness_attachment to particular places…XXXI. Organ of Causality power of tracing the relation of cause and effect. XXXII. Organ of Wit. XXXIII. Organ of Imitation, mimickry.
[Ref: 15542] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sedan chair and horse fall into water]
[Anon., c.1800]
Etching, unique & rare; sheet 340 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Trimmed; tears to edges; glued to backing sheet; another impression of same plate verso of same plate.
[Ref: 44224] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Chairmen's Terror. Here, Chair, cries Baron Paunch with Venison cram'd / Ay call away cries Paddy, and be damnd."
Rowlandson 1792.
Published July 18th 1792 by T. Rowlandson, No 52, Strand.
Rare coloured etching. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, small tears. Ink spot centre.
Sedan chair porters recoil when hailed by an obese naval officer outside St James's Palace.
Not in BM
[Ref: 58348] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Iohn Seddon. When you behold this Face you look upon, The Great...
Guliel: Faithorne delin: Iohn Sturt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1695]
Fine & rare engraving, 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Small margins.
Frontispiece to Seddon's 'Pen-man's Paradise.' Half length portrait of John Seddon (1644-1700) in an oval on a pedestal. On ribbon at top "Vive La Plume" and beneath on pedestal two lines by John Hubbard. Seddon has shoulder length hair, wearing jacket and cravat pinned at chest. Seddon was an engraver, leading calligrapher of his day, and master of Sir John Johnson's Free Writing School in Priest's Court, Foster Lane.
[Ref: 65753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The duke of Monmouth defeated by the earl of Feversham at the Battle of Sedgemoor, 1685.] Le Duc de Montmouth est battu par le Comte de Faversham [parallel text in Dutch]
Adr. Schoonebeek exc [c.1690]
Etching, rare, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
James Scott, first duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch (1649 -1685), illegitimate son of Charles II, executed after the Monmouth Rebellion. Here shown in the Battle of Sedgemoor, which took place near Bridgwater in Somerset on 5 July 1685. This was the final battle of the Monmouth Rebellion, and a decisive victory for royalist supporters loyal to James II. Monmouth escaped the battlefield but was captured and executed soon after.
[Ref: 42546] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sedgley Vicarage Garden_June 30.th 1837.
Sketched & Drawn on Zinc by Miss G.G.
Printed from Zinc by J. Grieve 33 Nicholas Lane London.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
A view of the vicarage garden in Sedgeley parish near Alderley in Cheshire. The vicar Charles Girdleston is seen to be blessing a school tea party: the children are lined up before him, as others watch and prepare food.
[Ref: 45972] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with very large margins. Margins dusty.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65896] £380.00

The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65898] £380.00

The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65899] £380.00

Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermark, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Small margins. Crease left corner.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65107] £320.00

Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Trimmed to plate. Wormhole near bottom of image. Loss in left bottom corner. Repaired abrasions. Time stained.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65108] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper; 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Trimmed to plate.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65109] £320.00

Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), large margins. Tipped into album sheet.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord & Turner T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65110] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Sedley] The Countess of Dorchester.
G. Kneller pinxit. [engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), mounted on a 2pp letterpress biography from a book. Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three quarter portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), a long-time mistress of James II, who made her Countess of Dorchester in 1686. A noted wit, she questioned the reason James picked her: ''It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any''. In 1696 she married David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 32, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65388] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Sedley] The Countess of Dorchester.
G. Kneller pinxit. [engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), mounted on a 2pp letterpress biography from a book. Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Collector's stamp on reverse.
A three quarter portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), a long-time mistress of James II, who made her Countess of Dorchester in 1686. A noted wit, she questioned the reason James picked her: ''It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any''. In 1696 she married David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 32, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Lugt 1560, John Young (died. c.1875), member of the Society of Antiquaries.
[Ref: 65389] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Sedley] Madam Sidley.
W Wissing pinx: cum Privilegio Regis. R Williams fe:
Sold by E Cooper at the 3 pidgions in Bedford str.t [n.d. c.1800.]
Mezzotint. 240 x 177mm (9½ x 7"), with wide margins. Staining in margin.
Catharine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657-1717) was the mistress of James II and in 1686 was created Baroness Darlington and Countess of Dorchester. In 1696 she married Sir David Colyear, later Earl of Portmore. First published c.1680.
CS: 52: iii/iii.
[Ref: 30917] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupid and Lovers.] Claudine envain fait la difficile,/ l'Amour qui sest emparé de son coeur,/ En rendra la conqueste tres facille,/ Et Pierrot sera tout le vainqueur.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
A scene from 'L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé' (The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped), a story adapted by Jean-Joseph Vadé from Boccaccio's 'Decameron' The verse below tells how Claudine, the female, tries in vain to fend off Pierrot, the male, as Love 'will make the conquest very easy.'
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 11149] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Seduction.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London. Pub. Nov.r 5. 1788 by Ja.s Birchall No. 473, Strand.
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Light foxing. A few scratches to printed area.
A young woman wearing a mob cap, shawl and apron, sitting at the door of a thatched cottage, her left arm hooked over the back of her chair, reading a letter. There is a basket upside down beside her, and a bird drinking from a plate on the ground next to it. A young man is seen bribing a second woman behind a tree next to the cottage to the right. A companion print to item ref: 36981, 'Credulous Innocence'.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36990] £360.00

[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)

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