Grosvenor Prints

L'Etoile double.
Peint Par Faléro. Grave Par H. Eichens [with their signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right].
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. [Second, very faded and almost invisible publication line of Goupil & Co. at bottom of plate.]
Engraving with etching and coloured aquatint, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 8041] £420.00

[L'Etoile double.]
P. Hermann Eichens [signed in pencil lower right.] ['Faléro' and 'Eichens' signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right.]
London published October 1st. 1883 by Goupil & Co. 116 & 111. New Bond street London, W. and 9 rue Chaptal Paris Copyright registered.
Engraving with etching and aquatint on india laid paper, signed engraver's proof before title, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 8042] £620.00

[L'Etoile double.]
['Faléro' and 'Eichens' signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right.]
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. Imprime & Publie par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre_Paris Londres_La Haye. Berlin_Verlag von Goupil & Co. New-York_Published by M. Knoedler.
Engraving with etching and aquatint on india laid paper, proof before title, 710 x 395mm. Pin hole to india lower right, outside image.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 8043] £450.00

L'Etoile polaire.
Peint par Faléro.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs successeurs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er Octobre 1886 _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on india. 660 x 385mm.
A representation of the Pole Star as a naked woman. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7228] £520.00

[L'Etoile polaire.]
[Peint par Faléro.].
[Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs successeurs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er Octobre 1886 _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.].
Photogravure, signed proof on chine collé, limited to 125. 660 x 385mm (26 x 15¼"). Margin torn.
Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7229] £750.00

The Start for the Meet - 1882. The Quorn Pack Huntsman & Whips leaving the old Kennels at Quorn,
[Frank Paton & W.E. Cooke]
Printed in Paris. 1882 [ Boussod Valadon & Co. Publishers, Successors to Goupil & Co. Paris_London]
Photogravure. 560 x 760mm.
[Ref: 4574] £420.00

[Startled Horse.]
Gordon Browne [pencil signature lower right.] Gordon Browne 1902 [written in ink inside the image, lower left.]
[Publisher's Stamp 28.] Published by Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich, London & New York. Printed in Munich.
Watercolour. 342 x 438mm. 13½ x 17¼".
A man on his horse with a woman sitting behind him, tries to control his startled horse as a man on stilts and a walking band come from the opposite direction. Gordon Frederick Browne (1858-1932) was an English artist and children's book illustrator. Browne worked in watercolour and pen and ink. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Society of British Artists. See 18436 for titled image.
[Ref: 18401] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The State Cotillon.]
[1773.]
Engaving. Sheet: 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed and some creasing.
A political satire in which serveral figures including Lord North, Lord Bathurst and Lord Barrington hold hands and dance around on top of various papers with titles such as 'National Debt' and 'Magna Charta'.
BM Satire 5106.
[Ref: 45454] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

An Exact Representation of the Drawing of the State Lottery, As it will take place on Tuesday, the 18th Day of July, 1826 for the Last Time in this Kingdom.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Fine hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾''). Trimmed.
A view showing the running of the last lottery held in the UK until 1994. Following mounting opposition to the practice, government outlawed the practice and the last lottery was held on 18th July 1826. The scene shows various clerks and boys from Christ Hospital school in their recognizable blue coats. There were six prizes of £30,000 to be won. The lottery was derided for its lack of organisation.
[Ref: 48948] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait Present de l'Europe.
G. Bickham jun.r delin. sculp.
Published by William Meyer at Boerhaave's Head the Strand. According to Act of Parliament May 1742.
Engraving. Sheet: 200 x 315mm (8 x 12¼''). Trimmed within plate. Damage in central crease.
Part of a political broadside commenting on the state of Europe following the coronation of Charles VII as Emperor and the Convention of Turin by which Sardinia entered the war in support of Austria. The complete sheet had letterpress below.
BM: 2562.
[Ref: 48362] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The State of Innocence. Genesis Chap. 2. V. 25. [/] And they were both Naked, the Man and his Wife and were not ashamed.
R.t Pranker Sculp.t.
[n.d, c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate: 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides.
A view of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, behind them the angel prepares to chase them from the garden.
[Ref: 45954] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Toestand der Engelsche Natie]
[n.d. c.1780]
Engraving, plate 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"), very large margins. A little bit of surface dirt.
A Dutch satire on the defensive alliance against Britain, title translates to 'State of the English Nation'. A cow representing the commerce of Great Britain has its horns cut off by an American, assisted by other nations. The ship is inscribed "Eagle" and the town "Philadelphia". A rare & unusual image of Americana
BM Satires 5726
[Ref: 58918] £850.00

Standing orders or John Bull lock'd out.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d Augst 1807 by Walker Nº 7 Cornhill.
Fine coloured etching. 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Small tear just entering plate at top. Small margins.
John Bull, a yokel in a smock, stands at a closed door above which is an inscription: 'Rebuilt with Portland Stone in the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century'. Above is a window from which a man leans, saying 'By St Dennis Mr Bull, you seem in a Brown Quandary - but dont be angry - you have nothing to do with the business we are about - it is quite of a private nature'. In July 1807, after the collapse of the Ministry of all the Talents, Samuel Whitbread moved for a Committee on the State of the Nation. Dennis Browne, M.P. for Mayo, called for the exclusion of strangers (non-MPs), and the galleries were cleared.
BM Satires 10754.
[Ref: 61840] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

State Economy -- or, in at the Spigot and out at the Bung. State Quacks; or, the desperate condition of the Wither'd Sisters.
[William Heath.]
Pub. by J. Fairburn, Broadway Ludgate Hill.
Hand coloured etching. Platemark: 375 x 260mm. (14¾ x 10¼). Sheet is grubby and trimmed to platemark.
Two anonymous copies of plates by William Heath, possibly etched by Sharpshooter, etched on a single plate one above the other.
BM Satires: 16061.A
[Ref: 31502] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Hathway's Cottage. Stratford-on-Avon.] 17. [Anne Hathaway's Cottage, in the village of Shottery, one mile from Shakespeare's Birthplace, was the early home of Shakespeare's wife and of her family. The property was in the Hathaway family from the time of Henry VIII. to 1838. It is a thatched cottage of the Elizabethan period, and is preserved with much furniture of corresponding date. No building in England is more famous than this "humble" cottage, and no place excepting Shakespeare's Birthplace has more visitors. The cottage, or house, is furnished in a homely style. In one room is the famous courting settle beside the hearth, where it would be well in view of the parents sitting at either end of the chimney corner. The house is of interest as a typical thatched Elizabethan farmstead, but it is its association with Shakespeare that has made it a centre of attraction for visitors to Stratford.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 256 x 285mm.
[Ref: 14605] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Hathway's Cottage. Stratford-on-Avon]
W H Sweet [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. With Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp to lower margin.
Anne Hathaway's Cottage, in the village of Shottery, one mile from Shakespeare's Birthplace, was the early home of Shakespeare's wife and of her family. The property was in the Hathaway family from the time of Henry VIII to 1838. It is a thatched cottage of the Elizabethan period, and is preserved with much furniture of corresponding date. No building in England is more famous than this "humble" cottage, and no place excepting Shakespeare's Birthplace has more visitors. The cottage, or house, is furnished in a homely style. In one room is the famous courting settle beside the hearth, where it would be well in view of the parents sitting at either end of the chimney corner. The house is of interest as a typical thatched Elizabethan farmstead, but it is its association with Shakespeare that has made it a centre of attraction for visitors to Stratford. Walter Henry Sweet (1889-1943), prolific Devon artist who painted street scenes, moorland views and seascapes.
[Ref: 60418] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Hickson, Stationer, Engraver, and Printer. Maker of Merchants Account Books &c.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved trade card, edged in red. Sheet 55 x 90mm (2¼ x 3½").
The text is on an open volume of a pile of books.
[Ref: 48818] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Bo.t of D.T. M.cCarthy Paper Factor, General Stationer, Account Book Manufacturer. Account Books Ruled & Bound upon the most Improved Principle. Importer of & Dealer in Rags, Ropes, &c. Wholesale Paper & Account Book Warehouse, 1. Bridewell Lane, Bristol.
Joy & Son Sc. All Saints St, Bristol.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel-engraved billhead. Sheet 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Trimmed at lateral edges, some old ink mss.
During the trial of those arrested in the Queen Square Riots of October 1831, after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill, Daniel Thomas McCarthy (born 1803) was called as a witness to the attack on Bridewell Prison.
[Ref: 40941] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Stationer's Invoice.] Bought of John Mundell Artists Colourman, Printseller, Stationer and Picture Frame Maker 60 Princes Street.
[Dated in mss. 1844.]
Letterpress and manuscript invoice. Sheet: 210 x 325mm (8¼ x 12¾"). Creasing and holes.
An invoice for items such as pigments, tubes of colour, board and brushes.
[Ref: 44720] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Statue Gallery.
W. Westall del.t. Lewis sculp.t.
London Pub. Sept.r 1st 1814 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with large margins.
View of the interior of the Statue Gallery at Oxford University.
[Ref: 62959] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Castor et Pollux. Ces deux statues de marbre representent deux enfans Jumeaux, dont la Déesse Latonne, qui avoiteu commerce avec Jupiter, accoucha dans l'Isle de Delos, où elle ses toit refugiée pour eviter la colere de Junon, qui pour se vanger l'avoit banni de dessus la terre. Ces deux statues antiques de marbre sont placées dans la Vigne Ludovise à Rome, elles ont été copiées par un sculpteur francois, pour estre placées à Versailles. 65.
Elles sont designées et gravées par S. Thomassin graveur du Roy 1724.
Engraving, 375 x 240mm (14½ x 9½"), with small margins. Scuffed, stains and creases going into the image and inscription area.
A statue of Caster and Pollux, by Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720), offering a sacrifice to Persephone. The statue, based on the 1st century AD original located in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, was commissioned for the Parterre de Latone of Versailles in 1685.
[Ref: 58977] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Statue d’une Nymphe tenant une couronne de chesne, haute de sept pieds. Dans le Jardins de Versaillles. Par Phillipes de Buyster d'Anvers.
le Potre Sculps. 1672.
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 285mm, 16 x 11¼". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A statue of a nymph by Philippe de Buyster (1595-1688), set in a classical landscape. The statue was commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace. The statuary was replaced during the later, grander developments, so this series, engraved by Jean le Pautre (1618-82), is one of the only records of the original scheme.
[Ref: 13918] £400.00

Statue d’un Satyre, haulte de sept pieds. Dans le Jardins de Versaillles. Par Phillipes de Buyster d'Anvers.
le Potre Sculps. 1675.
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 285mm, 16 x 11¼". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A statue of a satyr holding a horn, by Philippe de Buyster (1595-1688), set in a landscape. The statue was commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace. The statuary was replaced during the later, grander developments, so this series, engraved by Jean le Pautre (1618-82), is one of the only records of the original scheme.
[Ref: 13919] £400.00

Statue d’un Satyre, accompagne d'un petit Satyre, haulte de sept pieds. Dans le Jardins de Versaillles. Par Phillipes de Buyster d'Anvers.
le Potre Sculps. 1675.
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 285mm, 16 x 11¼". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A statue of an adult and a juvenile satyr, by Philippe de Buyster (1595-1688), set in a landscape. The statue was commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace. The statuary was replaced during the later, grander developments, so this series, engraved by Jean le Pautre (1618-82), is one of the only records of the original scheme.
[Ref: 13920] £400.00

Statue d’un Satyre, tenant une grappe de raisin, haulte de sept pieds. Dans le Jardins de Versaillles. Par Phillipes de Buyster d'Anvers.
le Potre Sculps. 1672.
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 285mm, 16 x 11¼". Trimmed and laid on album paper. One spot.
A statue of a satyr holding a set of pipes and a bunch of grapes, by Philippe de Buyster (1595-1688), set in a landscape. The statue was commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace. The statuary was replaced during the later, grander developments, so this series, engraved by Jean le Pautre (1618-82), is one of the only records of the original scheme.
[Ref: 13921] £400.00

Statue d’un Faune, haulte de sept pieds. Dans le Jardins de Versaillles. Par Loüis Lerambert de Paris.
le Potre Sculps. 1672.
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 285mm, 16 x 11¼". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A statue of a faun by Louis Lerambert (1620-70), set in a landscape. The statue was commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace. The statuary was replaced during the later, grander developments, so this series, engraved by Jean le Pautre (1618-82), is one of the only records of the original scheme.
[Ref: 13922] £400.00

Latone, entre des deux enfants Apollon et Diane, demandant vengeance a Jupiter de l'insolence des paisans de Lycie, qui sont changes em grenouilles. Grouppe de marbre blanc dans le Jardins de Versaillles. Par Balthazar Marsy de Cambray.
J.Edelinck Sculps. 1672.
Engraving. Sheet 405 x 285mm, 16 x 11¼". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A statue of Latone and her two children by Jupiter, Apollo and Diana. When the peasants of Lycia refused to give her water to drink she got Jupiter to turn them into frogs. The statue was by Balthazar Marsy (1628-74), commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace. The statuary was replaced during the later, grander developments, so this series is one of the only records of the original scheme.
[Ref: 13923] £450.00

Statue d'une Danseuse, de Sept pieds de hat. Dans les Jardins de Versailles. Par Louis Lerambert de Paris. Statua Puellae saltantis, Septem pedes alta. In hortis Versalianis. Opus Ludovici Lerambert Parisini.
F. Chauveau Sculps. 1675.
Copper engraving. 398 x 280mm. 15¾ x 11". Cut and laid on separate sheet.
A statue of a dancer by Louis Lerambert (1620-70), set in a landscape with a satyr dancing. The statue was commissioned as part of the "Petite Commande" of 1664, the first series of garden ornaments for the new palace of Versailles, featuring mythological creatures suitable for the rustic setting of the original palace.
[Ref: 14403] £320.00

Statute Hall For Hiring Servants. Engraved from an Original Picture Painted by Mr Daws, in the Possession of Mr Smith.
J. Goldar sculpt.
Printed for Robert Sayer No 53 Fleet Street & Jn.o Smith, No 35 Cheapside. as the Act directs Nov.r 10 1770.
Scarce coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 380 x 480mm (15 x 19"). Tears in margins, crack in platemark, some creasing.
A scene in 'Cheatall's new Statute Hall', with elderly clients ogle young, good-looking servants.
[Ref: 58477] £340.00

Prémiére Chûte du Staubbach dans la Vallée de Lauterbrounn. No.4.
C. Wolf pinxit. Schellenberg sculpsit.
a Berne chez A. Wagner Imp de LL:EE:
Engraving. Sheet: 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Surface dirt. Cut to platemark.
A view in the Swiss Alps from 'Collection des Vues remarquables des Alpes de la Suisse' 1789 engraved after Caspar Wolf's paintings done from nature.
[Ref: 42756] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Second Chûte du Staubbach prise de sa gauche dans lad Vallée de Lauterbraunn. No.5.
C. Wolf pinxit. Schellenberg sculpsit.
a Berne chez A. Wagner Imp de LL:EE:
Engraving. Sheet: 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Surface dirt. Cut to platemark.
A view in the Swiss Alps from 'Collection des Vues remarquables des Alpes de la Suisse' 1789 engraved after Caspar Wolf's paintings done from nature.
[Ref: 42757] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Staubbach dans la vallée de Lauterbrunnen avec la vue sur le mittaghorn au canton de Berne. [title in ms.]
[Johann Peter Lamy.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Fine hand coloured aquatint. Sheet: 195 x 165mm, (7¾ x 6½"). Trimmed
A view of the Satubbach Falls in the Bernese Oberland, the waterfall drops 300m from a hanging valley.
[Ref: 40393] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sir George Leonard Staunton, Bart. LLD. FRS. Aet. 55.
Engleheart pinx.t 1792. Engraved by C. Picart.
Private Plate.
Rare stipple. Plate 254 x 197mm (10 x 7¾"), with large margins. Some surface dirt and creases.
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801) was an employee of the East India Company, diplomat, and a botanist. He accompanied George, Lord McCartney to Madras to negotiate peace with Tipu Sultan. In 1787 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1793 he was named Secretary to the British mission to the Chinese Imperial Court.
NPG: D11106.
[Ref: 55998] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Staveren uit de Zuiderzee te zien. Staveren prise du Zuiderzee. Tiré de la Collection des Ports d'Hollande dessinés par M'D'De jong dans le meme Port.
Dk de Jong ad vivum delin. A Suntach Direxit. No. 18 [top right].
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, Plate 198 x 235mm. 7¾ x 9¼".
Stavoren, a small town on the coast of the Ijsselmeer, and one of the eleven cities in Freisland. As seen here from the Zuiderzee, a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands.
See: NMM: PAF7387. for larger engraving by Sallieth.
[Ref: 16468] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Steam Boat.
[H. Heath.]
Pubd. by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked: 1822. Plate 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed on right. Small margins on 3 sides.
Satire; a fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'; a more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so-'.
[Ref: 52320] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Steam Boat.
[Henry Heath.]
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, slight crease.
A fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'. A more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so'.
Not in BM Satire
[Ref: 58404] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Steam Boat.
[Henry Heath.]
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1827.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10''). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A scene on the deck of a steam boat, a fashionably dressed woman looks very queasy while a man with a red nose complains about the noise.
[Ref: 50741] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Text about steamboats] Dr. Franklin mentions that a boat propelled by steam had been launched on one of the American rivers in the Year 1788 [...]
[n.d., c.1819.
Letterpress with woodcut border. Pink paper, sheet 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Ink stains, soiling, creasing.
A short text outlining the history of steam-powered shippin, including the 'Comet' in Britain in 1812. Copied part of the introduction to 'Kingsbridge and Salcombe, with the Intermediate Estuary: Historically and Topographically Depicted', by Abraham Hawkins, 1819.
[Ref: 63496] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The New Steam Carriage... It has been constructed by Mr Goldsworthy Gurney, the Inventor and Patentee.
G. Morton Del.t. Pyall Sculp.t.
Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket.London. [n.d., c.1828.]
Coloured aquatint. 300 x 440mm (12 x 17¼"). Time staining at edges, very slight central crease.
A large steam-driven coach passing an ale-house on the London to Bath road, with passengers including a kilted soldier. In the background are amazed spectators and a windmill. In July 1829 a steam coach built by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793-1875) ran from London to Bath and back at an average speed of 14mph, double that of a horse-draen coach. However the introduction of heavy tolls for his vehicles and Gurney was bankrupted with debts of £232,000.
[Ref: 49010] £680.00

The New Steam Carriage!!
[n.d., c.1828.]
Coloured aquatint, scarce. Printed border 115 x 215mm (4½ x 8½"). Trimmed, title excised and replaced, laid on album paper.
A large steam-driven road vehicle, with a driver and eight passengers, overtaking a horse-drawn coach. A scene with a similar carriage, but with an ale house looming large, was engraved by Pyall after G. Morton and published by McLean c.1828.
[Ref: 44561] £390.00

The Steam Coach.
[G. Davis.]
Published by J. Didsbury 22 Southampton St. Strand. [n.d., c.1820.]
Extremely scarce lithograph, with hand colour. Sheet size: 235 x 285mm (9¼ x 11¼"). Diagonal crease and small stains.
Goldsworthy Gurney’s Steam Carriage passing the gates of Hyde Park, with passengers onboard including a mother and child peeping out through the window of the carriage in the centre, and a boy playing a trumpet towards the front. There are four chimneys at the rear of the coach. Passers by, including one figure on a donkey, can be seen looking at the coach.
[Ref: 52100] £480.00

The Steam Engine. 29.
[Reynolds; n.d. c.1860.]
Coloured engraving. 215 x 280mm. 8½ x 11". Fold through centre of image, as normal.
A double-acting condensing rotative engine. The development of the steam engine in the 18th century was fundamental in paving the way for the Industrial Revolution. From Reynolds' 'Pictorial Atlas of Arts, Sciences, Manufacturers and Machinery'.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. In the Science and Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 20630] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps relating to steam engines.]
[c.1843.]
Six items laid on thick paper, including a letter, a written slip, two news clippings, a patent for an engine and a lithographed sheet of illustrations of engines.
The letter is an offer to submit a tender by the Glasgow firm Tod & Macgregor, builders of steam engines; the slip part of a prospectus for the fitting of a ship; one newspaper clipping relates to the sea trials of HMS Rattler, the first British (and arguably global) screw-driven warship, the other about the launch of an iron schooner for the Baptist Missionaries to Africa; the patent describes the 'Cambrian Patent Steam Engine', designed by Aspinall, Jones & Co, Smethwick, and the illustration seems to give examples of its use.
[Ref: 37789] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Steam Fire Engine. 34.
[Reynolds; n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 215 x 280mm. 8½ x 11". Fold through centre, as normal.
Horse-drawn fire engine patented by Shand, Mason & Co; a reputable fire engine production company. From Reynolds' 'Pictorial Atlas of Arts, Sciences, Manufacturers and Machinery'.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 20636] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Proposed Steam Navigation Dock at the Mouth of the River Lea.
Sketch'd by S. Hemming, Engineer.
Printed by W.N. Vear 24 Tabernacle Row [c.1827]
Lithograph, printed area 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Slight marking on right.
Unrealised plan for a steam navigation dock where the river Lea meets the Thames (known as Leamouth). Designed by Samuel Hemming (1800-76), civil engineer whose plans also included a horse-drawn railway from the nearby East India Dock (see ref. 46935).
[Ref: 46937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Steam Omnibus.
J. R. Barfoot.
William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, sheet 170 x 215mm. 6¾ x 8½". Sheet trimmed, laid onto album page.
A steam omnibus operating on the Paddington to City of London service. Despite the introduction of the first steam omnibus in 1833, horse-drawn buses, first introduced in London in 1829, remained more common and survived until 1912 when they were superseded by the new motorised omnibuses. Numbered 'No.42' lower left.
[Ref: 14856] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Ephemera relating to Steam Packets on the Thames.]
[n.d., c.1831]
Two pamphlets. Largest: 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾''). Creasing and foxing.
Two printed pamphlets one 'Steam Packet Companion from London Bridge to Gravesend, Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate and Ramsgate; with a Picturesque Description of Each of the Above Places and a Correct Chart of the River' and 'A New Picturesque Steam-Packet Companion in an Excursion to Greenhithe, Northfleet, Gravesend, The Nore, and Herne Bay'. Each has illustrations of the Thames, Thames Tunnel, and tourist destinations along the Thames.
[Ref: 49469] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bateau à vapeur. Chemin de Fer.
[Schaarbeek, Hemeleers & Van Houter, c.1860.]
Two wood engravings on one sheet. Sheet 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"). Creases, nicks to edges.
A naive popular print, illustrating a paddle steamer and steam locomotive.
[Ref: 58587] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Steam Conveyance on a General Iron-Rail-Way. By the Author of Observations on a General Iron-Rail-Way.
Eng. & Prin.d by Palethorpe Nott.m. Published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. London.
London, [n.d. after 1825].
Engraving. 395 x 320mm (15½ x 12½"). In mount. Creasing. Repaired tear in right edge going into the plate mark.
Three examples of steam trains with accompanying text extracted from 'Observations on a General Iron-Rail-Way'.
[Ref: 55112] £320.00

Steamed Out, or the Starving Stage-Coachman and Boys.
George Cruikshank.
[London: David Bogue, 1847.]
Etching. Sheet 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A portly but broken-down coach driver, heading an assortment of thin post boys and others, begs from a well-dressed family at a window. Behind a locomotive crosses a viaduct. Railway interest. From 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 58728] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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