Grosvenor Prints

M.elle Sontag.
Dessin, d'apres nature par Gosse. Reynolds graveur du Roi f'Angleterre sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, two holes in image, laid on card, some surface wear.
Henrietta Sontag (1806-1854), German operatic soprano of great international renown, here in 'Die Freischutz' by Carl Maria von Weber. Sontag sang with various companies including the Paris Italian Opera and was often referred to as 'the Nightingale of the North'.
Whitman 269. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Harvard IV p.89; 48.
[Ref: 34377] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Henriette Sontag] Sontag. Anna.
Paul Delaroche. H. Robinson.
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street Dec. 2 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Henriette Sontag (1806-54), soprano, as Donna Anna in Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 49519] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Sooty Dun the Devil's Mealman.
Pub.d according to Act Oct 30 1772 by Mdarly 29 Strand.
Etching. Sheet: 130 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
A comic portrait of a chimney sweep dressed for May Day celebrations, he waves his shovel above his head, next to him is a small figure, perhaps an apprentice.
[Ref: 44879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sooty Dun the Devil's Mealman.
Pubd accord to Act Oct 30 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, paper watermarked. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5"). Small margins.
A whole length figure running forwards; he is grinning. In his right hand he holds up a short shovel and in his left a brush. His clothes are ragged and his toes appear through remnants of buckled shoes. He wears a laced hat, cravata and a ruffled shirt. In place of a wig is what appears to be a tightly-curled lamb's fleece resting on his shoulders; two pieces of crossed wood imitate a sword. A miniature figure in ragged clothes and a long thin queue faces him astride a tasslled cane. According to the BM, he is a chimney sweep dressed for the first of May celebrations which were usual in London. The small figure may represent a child-apprentice or climbing boy, though there is nothing juvenile in its appearance.
BM Satires: 5042.
[Ref: 38221] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Children Swimming]
[Eileen A. Soper.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching, 150 x 200mm.
Children swimming in the sea.
[Ref: 5675] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Sophia Dorothea, Borussorum Regina, Georgii, Magnae Britanniae Regis, Unica Filia &c. &c.
F.W. Weideman Pinx. Berolini 1714. J. Smtih Fec. Londini 1715.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell street Covent Garden. -
Mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. Image 349 x 253mm. Cut and laid on sheet.
Sophia Dorothea, Queen of Prussia (1685-1757), Daughter of George I, King of England. In 1706 she married her cousin, Frederick William I of Prussia, and became Queen of Prussia.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12835] £210.00 (£252.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia.
Sr. Will.m Beechey del. Cheesman Scu.
London Publish'd by E. Harding May 19, 1806.
Stipple. Plate 272 x 222mm. 10¾ x 8¾".
Princess Sophia (1777-1848) was the twelfth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. She is known for rumours surrounding a supposed illegitimate child to which she gave birth as a young woman. There is a lot of speculation over the father of her child, including Thomas Garth, an equerry of her father's, and the product of rape by her elder brother the Duke of Cumberland.
[Ref: 22682] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds F.R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins R.A.
London, Published 3rd November, 1879 by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 15 Pall Mall East & Thos. McLean 7 Haymarket & Manchester Tho.s Agnew & Son Exchange Street.
Mezzotint, on india paper; limited edition in this state of 100. Plate: 480 x 445mm (19 x 17½"). Creasing.
Sophia Matilda (1773-1844)as a young child, lying on the floor cuddling her dog. A great-granddaughter of George II and niece of George III, she never married
Whitman: 149.
[Ref: 44739] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The most Illustrious Princess Sophia Electrice Dowager of Brunswick &c.
Done by I. Smith from an Original painting lately brought from Hanover, & Sold by him at ye Lyon and Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden. [n.d., c.1715.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 200 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Thread margins.
A half-length portrait of Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714) mother of George I.
CS: 238 II of III.
[Ref: 45536] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The most Illustrious Princess Anna Sophia of Hanover declared by a late Act to Succeed to ye Crown of England after Her Majestie Queen Ann and Her Royal Issue.
[Engraved by William Faithorne.]
Printed & Sold by Tho: Bakewell next the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet. [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 205 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Narrow margins.
Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714). As a granddaughter of James I she was declared heiress presumptive to Queen Anne by the Act of Settlement 1701. However she died just two months before Anne, so her son became George I.
NPG D9137. CS 38a, state ii of ii, with jewels on the bodice.. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Not in Fagan.
[Ref: 34368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The most Illustrious Princess Anna Sophia of Hanover declared by a late Act to Succeed to ye Crown of England after Her Majestie Queen Ann and Her Royal Issue.
[W. Faithorne fe.
Cum Privilegio Regis. E. Cooper ex.] [n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 205 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing engraver & publisher's name.
Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714). As a granddaughter of James I she was declared heiress presumptive to Queen Anne by the Act of Settlement 1701. However she died just two months before Anne, so her son became George I.
CS 38a, state i of ii 'One known'. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Not in Fagan.
[Ref: 34369] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The true Effigies of the Most Illustrious Princess Anna Sophia of Hanover declared by a late Act of Parliament for settling the Succession in ye Protestant line to succeed to the Crown of England after Her Ma.tie Queen Ann and Her Royal Issue. Done from ye Original brought from Hanover by ye R.t Hon.ble Tho: L.d Raby and dedicated to his Lordshirep by his most humble Servant I.B.
I. Simon fec: [but William Faithorne.]
Cum Privilegio. Sold by John Bowles opposite to Stocks Mark:t & at Mercers Hall Cheapside. [n.d., c.1725.]
Mezzotint with large margins. Sheet 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼").
Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714). As a granddaughter of James I she was declared heiress presumptive to Queen Anne by the Act of Settlement 1701. However she died just two months before Anne, so her son became George I. Although Simon has signed the plate he only made alterations to the plate by Faithorne.
CS 38, state iii of iii. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Not in Fagan.
[Ref: 34370] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

[Sophonisba accepting the Nuptial Present sent by her Husband Masinissa. From the Original Picture by Luca Giordano, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to Whom this Plate is most humnbly inscribed, By His Graces most Obliged and most devoted Servant. J.Boydell.]
Luca Giordano Pinxt. S.F. Ravenet Sculpt. J. Boydell Excudit
[Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 1st. 1764, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.]
Copper engraving. Proof before title. Platemark: 425 x 535mm (16¾ x 21"). Very large margins. Creased. Tears in upper edge of sheet.
Sophonisba, daughter of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal Gisco (often confused with the brother of Hannibal), was captured after the Battle of the Great Plains at Bagradas Masinissa , king of Numidia and an ally of Rome, fell in love with her and married her. When Scipio Africanus refused to accept the situation Masinissa sent Sophonisba poison to prevent her being taken to Rome to be displayed in a triumphal parade. With great composure, she drank it. The original painting by Italian baroque artist Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was sketched by John Hamilton Mortimer to prepare this engraving, which was published in ' The Most Capital Paintings in England', a five-volume set that was a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell.
For lettered impression see ref. 14369.
[Ref: 39361] £330.00

[Sophonisba accepting the Nuptial Present sent by her Husband Masinissa. From the Original Picture by Luca Giordano, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to Whom this Plate is most humnbly inscribed, By His Graces most Obliged and most devoted Servant. J.Boydell.]
Luca Giordano Pinxt. S.F. Ravenet Sculpt. J. Boydell Excudit
[Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 1st. 1764, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.]
Engraving, proof before, platemark 425 x 535mm (16¾ x 21"), with very large, uncut margins. Proof impression; title in early ms in lower margin.
Sophonisba, daughter of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal Gisco (often confused with the brother of Hannibal), was captured after the Battle of the Great Plains at Bagradas Masinissa , king of Numidia and an ally of Rome, fell in love with her and married her. When Scipio Africanus refused to accept the situation Masinissa sent Sophonisba poison to prevent her being taken to Rome to be displayed in a triumphal parade. With great composure, she drank it. The original painting by Italian baroque artist Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was sketched by John Hamilton Mortimer to prepare this engraving, which was published in ' The Most Capital Paintings in England', a five-volume set that was a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell.
For lettered impression see ref. 14369
[Ref: 38580] £330.00

Sophonisba accepting the Nuptial Present sent by her Husband Masinissa. From the Original Picture by Luca Giordano, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to Whom this Plate is most humnbly inscribed, By His Graces most Obliged and most devoted Servant. J.Boydell.
Luca Giordano Pinx.t. J. Mortimer delineavit. S.F. Ravenet Sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 1st. 1764, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Engraving. 535 x 425mm (21 x 16¾").
Sophonisba, daughter of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal Gisco (often confused with the brother of Hannibal), was captured after the Battle of the Great Plains at Bagradas Masinissa , king of Numidia and an ally of Rome, fell in love with her and married her. When Scipio Africanus refused to accept the situation Masinissa sent Sophonisba poison to prevent her being taken to Rome to be displayed in a triumphal parade. With great composure, she drank it. The original painting by Italian baroque artist Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was sketched by John Hamilton Mortimer to prepare this engraving, which was published in ' The Most Capital Paintings in England', a five-volume set that was a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell.
[Ref: 14369] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Venerable et Scientifique Messire Robert Sorbon Fondateur du College dit de Sorbonne,
[B. Moncornet excudit cum Privilegio Regis.] [n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Robert de Sorbon (1201-74), French theologian, chaplain of Louis IX and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.
[Ref: 57204] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Plan van het Schoone Perk van Sorgvliet, by 's Gravenhage. [&] D'Orangerie van 't Perk van Sorgvliet een der schoonste van Holland.
I. ab Avele delin: et sculp:
Tot Amsterdam by Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier met Privilegie vande Hoog. Mog: H.H. Staten Gener.l. [n.d., c.1720.]
Two engravings. Each c.395 x 480mm, 15½ x 19". Centre folds, some creasing.
A plan of the gardens of Catshuis, the official residence of the prime minister of the Netherlands since 1963, with a view of the Orangerie. Built by (and now named after) Jacob Cats (1577-1660), a poet and politician, the house was acquired in 1674 by Hans William, Baron Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709), who began to redesign the gardens as shown here in the same year. Bentinck's coat of arms is shown lower left of the plan. As Bentinck was a favourite of the stadtholder William Henry, Prince of Orange (later William III of England) the Orangery was a significant feature. The key under the Orangery view links to that of the plan. Drawn and engraved by Johannes vande Avelen for Nicolaus Janszen Visscher's 'Het Schoone Perk van Sorgvliet', c.1690.
Hunt & De Jong, The Anglo-Dutch garden in the age of William and Mary (1988), pp. 175-176.
[Ref: 16483] £550.00 view all images for this item

Sorrento (Italy) [in plate.]
J. Alphege Brewer. [pencil signature.]
[(Faded publication line.) London: Alfred Bell & Co., 1926.]
Etching printed in colours, 500 x 155mm. 19¾ x 6". Two small holes to sky area.
An evocative prospect from above of Sorrento, a popular tourist town in Campania, southern Italy; the bay of Naples beyond. Blindstamp of The Fine Art Trade Guild lower left.
Guichard: pg.71, Appendix 1 'Minor Etchers'.
[Ref: 13862] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Sorrows Of Lady Alice. Yet in his brutal mind, where gross desire...[poem in five stanzas numbered 6 - 10 follows]...To vales of peace, where streams of pleasure flow.
Design'd & Engraved by Henry Richter.
Pub: July 30, 1797, by I. & H. Richter, No.26, Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Colour-printed stipple engraving, 370 x 270mm. Foxing.
Print engraved by Henry James Richter (1772 - 1857) from his own design. Richter was a pupil of Thomas Stothard. Verses below.
[Ref: 7407] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Sorrows of Werter Translated from the German by Dr. Pratt. The Second Edition. London. [&] The last meeting of Charlotte & Werter.
Thurston del. Freeman sculp.
London, Published by Thomas Tegg Cheapside, March 28.th 1813. Printed for Thomas Tegg No. 111 Cheapside. J. Cumming Dublin, and J. Dick Edinburgh.
Stipple. Plate 171 x 197mm. 6¾ x 7¾". Unut before binding.
Frontispiece and illustration to 'Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of the Young Werter)', Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749 - 1832) tragedy.
[Ref: 27861] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte by the Tomb of Werter.]
Engraved by J.R. Smith.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Oval stipple with hand-colour. Sheet: 340 x 340mm (13¼ x 13¼''). Trimmed.
A young woman mourns by the tomb engraved with the name Werter. An illustration to 'The Sorrows of Young Werter' by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe.
[Ref: 48853] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

D.F. Sotzmann. Geh. exped. Secretair beym Ingen. Depart. u Geograph der Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
C. Westermayr f.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann, a geographer who compiled the maps for the 'Atlas Von Nordamerika', part of Ebeling's seven volume 'Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Amerika'. Sotzmann only completed ten of the intended 18 maps, based on contemprary American maps including Carey, all highly-detailed with symbols for churches, roads, court houses, distilleries, iron works, mills, academies, etc. Complete sets of ten are rare. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29609] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Mountains Of Suli.
Hanhart lith.
[London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1864.]
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 152 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Some soiling to left edge.
A view in what is now north-western Greece. Souli is a mountain settlement in Thesprotia, Greece. From "The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1863. With a Visit to Montenegro", by Emily Anne Beaufort, Viscountess Strangford.
[Ref: 53126] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Actions Glorieuses et Faits d'Armes du Marechal Soult. Combat de Cadibona. Belle Retraite Santa Justina. Bataille d'Austerlitz. Bataille de Toulouse.
Martinet del.
A Paris chez Charon Graveur Rue S.t Jean de Beauvois N.o 26 et chez Bulla Rue S. Jacques N.o 75. N.o 10. Autorise par le Bureau de la Librairie le 1.er Mai 1823.
Engraving. 250 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼"). Folded vertical crease through right third. Repaired tear in left margin.
Four scenes of Marshal Soult's (1769-1851) military campaigns as a Marshal General of France at Cadibona, Santa Justina, the Battle of Austerlitz and the Battle of Toulouse. An ornate bust of Soult stands in the centre of the four scenes and underneath reads 'Aux Talents Militaires'.
[Ref: 55846] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Ruins of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion.] Temple on Cape Colonna.
[D. Costantin á Athens]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper, titled in English in pencil. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
An early photograph of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion, 40 miles south-west of Athens, at the southernmost tip of Attica. Built c.440BC in the Doric style, it has Byron's name carved into one of the columns; although Byron mentions Sounion in his poem 'Isles of Greece' ('Place me on Sunium's marbled steep...') there is no evidence that he carved it. Another column is now in the British Museum.
[Ref: 47443] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

South African Sketches. Hottentots.
C.B. Lith.
Printed by Fr. Schenck Edinbrugh. [n.d, c.1840.]
A scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area: 400 x 265mm (15¾ x 10½"), with large margins. Foxing. Uncut.
A group portrait of three South Africans, one woman is shown brandishing a stick, one woman smokes a pipe and the third figure drinks from a bottle.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46804] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

South African Sketches. Malays.
C.B. Lith.
Printed by Fr. Schenck Edinbrugh. [n.d, c.1840.]
A scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area: 400 x 265mm (15¾ x 10½") very large margins. Uncut
A group portrait of a Malay family in South Africa, the father sits mending a net, the mother stands behind holding some fish while a young girl carries a baby.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46805] £360.00

[Four South African costume sketches.] Painted by African Native. 1857.
Four sketches, ink and watercolour, on cards. Sheets 75 x 115mm (3 x 4½"). Some slight soiling
Four sketches of native costumes including a Zulu wearing a leopard skin.
[Ref: 52881] £480.00

The Times Map of British South Africa, the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
[Times Publications, c.1899.]
Colour lithographic map, folded and laid on wax paper, original cloth gilt covers with publisher's ads. Sheet 960 x 720mm, 36½ x 28¼". Covers soiled and worn.
Map of the early theatre of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), with insets of Witwatersrand, the Natal Frontier with Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking. These were the first areas effected by the war: Witwatersrand's gold fields (around Johannesburg) were a main reason for the political destability; and Ladysmith, Kimberley and Makeking were the British townships targeted by the Boers in pre-emptive raids, leading to the famouse sieges.
[Ref: 23463] £180.00

[Scrap album sheet of photographs and sketches made in South Africa and Mauritius]
[Anon., c.1890]
Album sheet, 355 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"), with four photographs and two sketches attached.
Album sheet comprising four photographs labelled: 'Kaffir Kraal Natal'; 'Isandlhana Battle Field' (probably in reference to the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War); 'Umgeni River Durban'; 'Port Louis Mauritius'; and two sketches. One is labelled 'Agricultural Show, Port Elizabeth, March 1890', and another show the various forms of transport used by the artist while in South Africa.
[Ref: 43205] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A New Map of South America, Drawn from the latest Discoveries.
[engraved by Thomas Conder.]
[London & Edinburgh: Richard Evans & John Bourne, 1817.]
Hand-coloured engraved map. 280 x 225mm (11 x 8¾"). With original binding folds.
A map of South America, published in an edition of William Robertson's 'History of America'. The map was originally published in a 1794 edition by Robert Wilkinson, but the only changes seem to be the removal of the publication line and Conder's name. The map ignores the British occupation of much of Guyana at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 47825] £140.00

Peru, Bolivia, Chile. Die Cathedrale in Lima in Peru.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etching. 320 x 270mm (12½ x 10½"), large margins.
A coloured etching of the Lima Cathedral in Peru, surrounded by etchings of various scenes and topographical views of South America, specifically Peru, Bolvia and Chile.
[Ref: 66702] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[South America.] Tegenwoodige Staat van Zuid America.
J.C. Philips inv. et fecit.
Te Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion, 1767.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed to platemark on left.
An allegorical scene showing four women holding documents stating the names of various South American countries and well as a coat of arms. A map of South America is hung up behind them on the wall of an Aztec monument.
[Ref: 42741] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A New General Chart of the South Atlantic Ocean.
Drawn by J.W.Norie, Hydrographer &c.
A New Edition, London: Published as the Act directs, Feb.y. 1st 1833, by J.W. Norie & Co., at the Navigation Warehouse & Naval Academy, No. 157 Leadenhall Street.
Engraved chart, one sheet only. 960 x 660mm. A few small tears.
The western sheet of a two-sheet chart, showing the coast of South America from the mouth of the Amazon to Quito in Peru.
[Ref: 4425] £350.00

A Map of South America, Drawn from the Latest and Best Authorities.
Jn.o Lodge sculp.
London, Published as the Act directs, 31st December 1780, by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row.
Engraved map. Sheet 285 x 285mm (11¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed close to neatline lower right for binding, folds.
A map of South America published during the American War of Independence and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, when Britain was fighting both the French and Dutch for control of colonies in the area.
[Ref: 43275] £150.00

Paraguay, Chilo, Terre Magellan?
Par Robert de Vaugondy.
revue et corrigés Par C.F. Delamarche son success.r. [n.d., c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 270 x 220mm,, 10½ x 8¾". Few worm holes.
Southern South America, covering Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina. The question mark in the title suggests that the engraver was unsure of a spelling but forgot to change it.
[Ref: 16446] £140.00

South America.
Drawn & Engraved by Alex.r Findlay.
London. Published by Thomas Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1840.]
Steel-engraved map. Sheet 270 x 210mm, 10½ x 8¼". Binding stitches in edge.
Map of South America.
[Ref: 13234] £60.00

A Map of South America With all the European Settlements & whatever else is remarkable from the latest & best Observations.
R.W. Seale delin et sculp.
[London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, J. and P. Knapton, John Clarke, T. Longman and T. Shewell, Thomas Osborne, Henry Whitridge, 1749.]
Engraved map. 480 x 485mm (18¾ x 19"). Some creasing and folds.
A map of South America, published in Emanuel Bowen's 'A Complete System of Geography'. Despite the late date Walter Raleigh's 'El Dorado' is marked; the Galapagos are shown with English names to the islands; and the Falklands are shown only as a strait between two indistinct islands.
[Ref: 34189] £220.00

Map of South America. For the Rev. Dr. Robertson's History of America. Vol.I.
By Tho.s Kitchin Sen.r Hydrographer to his Majesty.
Published according to Act of Parliam.t Sept.r 29th. 1777 by W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand.
Engraving. 457 x 318mm. 18 x 12½". Folds as normal; creasing and some repaired tears.
A Map of South America marking the Kingdom of Terra Firma, New Kingdom of Granada, Brasil, Peru, Chile and Paraguay. From Dr William Robertson, D.D. (1721-1793) "The History of America", 1777. He was a Scottish historian, minister of religion and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
[Ref: 23840] £130.00

[Indigenous South Americans] VI:Ster Stamm. 149.
[Karl Joseph] Brodtmann delint.
Lithograph. Sheet 450 x 340mm (17¾ x 13½").
Two figures dressed in fur skirts, the man holding a club and bolas, the woman holding a child. From "Naturgeschichte Bilkder-Gallerie ause dem Thierriche''.
[Ref: 67455] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Commerical Docks. Specification for Lock Gates, Bridges, &c.
December, 1853. Westminster: Vacher & Sons, 29, Parliament Street.
Unique contract and plates, all signed by John Butler and J Pitts. Marble board folio (652 x 430mm), with title slip: "South Dock Contract Drawings. P.L.A. Drawing Officer (1925) DRG. No. 5700428". Plates: 11 extractable large-sized folio sheets (634 x 987mm). Stamped onto the first page of the contract are numerous "Two Shillings Six Pence" stamps with the Royal Emblem of Queen Victoria. Contract 4to (333 x 212mm) in wrapper attached to the inside cover of the folio. Various sections signed by J. Pitts and John Butler, including an illegible signature of a Witness (possibly Italian). Boards scuffed and binding slightly torn. Pages of contract - some holes in places. Some plates missing. Foxing, slightly cockled and tears.
CONTRACT: An agreement made the Twenty Seventh day of March One Thousand eight hundred and fifty four between John Butler and Joseph Pitts of Stanningley near Leeds in the County of York hereinafter called The Contractors of the one part and The Commercial Dock Company of the other part. [The amount to be paid by the Company will be] Twelve thousand three hundred pounds. [The Contract entails that the Contractors] construct and erect and fix four pairs of lock gates. Two pairs - Thames into East Country Dock at Rotherhithe and two pairs in and for the Communication Lock between the said Dock and the Company's Dock No.1. [Similarly] to construct and erect and fix one barrier bridge across Communication Lock and one foot bridge across the Entrance Lock and eight capstans on the pier heads. [An extra charge or similar] of one thousand and fifteen pounds will be added to make and construct Sluices. The Contractors are responsible for formation and full completion by the deadline, to completely furnish and to make and to execute all additional works required. Gate: to be framed on Company premises at the South side of the New Plough Road. Contractors can unload Messrs. Langton & Sons timber and their barges at the head of dock No.1 - and have use of the Company's rail with no extra charge but must provide their own labour and machinery. Any extra work must be presented to the Resident Engineer and on Tuesdays a bill must be delivered - or work shall be considered as abandonment, exonerating the Company from liability; all-in-all the Engineers make the final decision. The Contractors have engaged with the Company to have the Works of two lock entrances ready for fixing the gates and bridges within twenty four calendar months from the sixteenth August one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, admitting shipping into the Dock within thirty calendar months - and the Contractors and Contract are to be bound under the terms of this Contract to the same dates of completion. Heights and Depths are of eighteen feet six inches on the Index fixed at the Entrance Lock of No.1 Dock. Contractors are liable for all damage to the works during their execution and for twelve months after their completion. Schedule of Prices. SPECIFICATION. The situation of the Gates of to the Entrance and Communication Locks is shown upon Drawings Nos. 1 & 2; the details of the Gates upon Drawings Nos. 3, 4, 5 & 6. The Machinery for the Gates and Capstans is shown upon Drawing No.7 Gates. Subsections with details: Ironworks, Segment, Rollers and Carriages, Anchors, Caps to Meeting-posts and Heelposts, Pivot-plate, Socket-plates, The-Plates, Screw-eyes, Footpath, Crabs for Opening and Closing the Gates, Capstans, Rollers, Chains, Pointing-sill. Sluices. The numbers and places of the Sluices to the Locks are shown on Drawings Nos. 1 and 2, and the details of the one Sluice on Drawing No.8. Bridge over Communication Lock. The Site of the Lifting Bridge over the Communication Lock is shown upon Drawing No. 2, and the Details upon Nos. 10 and 11. Subsections with details: Machinery, Roadway, Footpaths, Covering-plates, Railing. Foot Bridge across Entrance Lock. The Site of the Foot Bridge over the Entrance Lock is shown upon Drawing No.1, and the Details upon Drawing No.9. Subsection with details: Machinery. Work Generally. Subsections with details: Cast Iron, Wrought Iron, Brass Work, Painting and Tarring.
[Ref: 11312] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

Bramber on the South Downs. [in pencil]
R. Cresswell Boak. [in pencil]
[n.d.c.1920]
Etching with beautiful hand colour, plate 100 x 145 (4 x 5¾") with very large margins. Pinholes and leftover tape in margins.
Sheep graze on the rolling hill landscape of Bramber, near Shoreham, West Sussex Robert Cresswell Boak (1875-1949) was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He then turned to teaching art for a short time in Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire before making the decision to devote all of his time to his own work
[Ref: 58640] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Ploughing on the South Downs]
N.H [in image] Norman Hirst pinx. et sculp [in pencil].
Copyright. Published August 1.st 1924 by Vicars Brothers.12. Old Bond St. London
Mezzotint, 200 x 275mm (8 x10¾"). Taped into original mount at one corner.
A rural landscape; a farmer ploughs a field with a team of oxen. Norman Hirst (1862-1956), mezzotinter and etcher. Born at Liverpool, Hirst was a student at Leeds, Lucerne and in Germany, where he began to engrave in 1875. He subsequently worked at Bushey, Christchurch and Langport, Somerset, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1890 to 1929. Along with distinguished contemporaries such as Frank Short and Seymour Haden, Hirst was a member of the Society of Mezzotint Engravers, founded in 1898.
Ex Collection Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 62592] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Map of South-Eastern Asia and Northern Australia. Showing The Districts in Annam and Tonquin which France proposes to annex and to place under a Protectorate, The portion of New Guinea proposed to be acquired by Queensland, And the Districts affected by the Volcanic Eruptions in Java.
Supplement to the Graphic, September 22.nd 1883.
Letts Son & Co. Limited London.
Map. Sheet: 420 x 620mm (16½ x 24½"). Cental crease as issued. Foxing.
A map of South East Asia, showing France's proposed annexation of Vietnam, completed the following year. It marks the colonies of the other European powers and shows the routes of the telegraph cables.
[Ref: 47050] £230.00

Lauw Maands Herdenking, wegens de nieuwbakk Goude Eeuw, vertoverd in Paarde Vygen. Nieuw-Jaars Geschenk [New Year's Gift!]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving 18th century watermark Plate: 295 x 190mm (11½ x 7½'') very large margins.
A Dutch print satirising the mania following the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and other investment schemes. In the central image the a nymph and a satyr, the symbol of chaos and panic, are shown embracing. The central panel is surrounded by text and a decorative border, this is made up of Callot figures and dwarfs.
BM Satire 1679.
[Ref: 48331] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Het uitgeteerde en stervende Actie boomje. Schoon de eid le Hoop nog hoopt, het actie boomtre sterst, Zo dra zyn voedzel van den win en dwaasheid derst.
[Pieter van den Berge?]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13'') very large margins. Creasing as issued. Tear in text.
A Dutch print satirising the collapse of financial markets following the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The central image shows a putto standing in near a tree which represents trade. The text below the image translates as 'Though the vain Hope still shopes, the little tree dies when it derives its nutrition from the wind and foolishness'. Five columns of text flank the image.
[Ref: 48327] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

De stervende Bubbel-Heer in den schoot van Madame Compagnie.
[Filibert Bouttats the Younger.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 325 x 410mm (12¾ x 16''), with large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch print satirising the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and other speculations schemes. In the central image a speculator collapses on the floor and he is surrounded by angry men and women. Two panels of text flank the central image.
BM Satire 1615.
[Ref: 48321] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[South Sea Bubble.] De Stropende Actie-Valk Om Hals, En't Bubbel-Rotje onder de klaauwen van den Uil.
Anon.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 410 x 330mm (16 x 13''). Tears in edge.
A Dutch print satirising the speculation that caused the stock market crash following the South Sea Bubble. In the engraving a young couple walk in the countryside while above them a stork pierces an eagle and an owl and bird of prey devour a mouse.
[Ref: 48317] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Het hobbelend Actiescheepje van Madame Compagnie en Monsieur Bubbels
[Pieter van den Berge.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 410 x 325mm (16 x 12¾'') large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch satirical print satirising the stock market crash following the South Sea Bubble, the broadside claims that when the economy and trade are out of control then disaster will occur. The text below the image translates as ''The little trading ship knocked over on the billows, will bubble along, until it will sail into the abyss"
[Ref: 48318] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Harlekin en Bombario in den Rouw.
[Anon.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13'') very large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch broadside satirising the financial crisis caused by the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. The central image is set upon a stage on which the characters of Harlequin and Bombario watch the figure of Mercury, representing trade, being directed by the Devil. Three panels of text in Dutch flank the image.
[Ref: 48323] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 153

Catalogue 152

Catalogue 151

Advanced Search