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![[Sir Henry Blount.]](jpegs/33848.jpg)
[Sir Henry Blount.] Loquendum cum vulgo sentiendum cum sapientibus.
D. Loggan ad Vivum delin et sculp.
1679.
Engraving. Sheet size: 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed to image. False borders. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of the traveller and landowner Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682). Half length, to the right, looking at viewer, wearing a jacket with small collar tied at the neck with a ribbon. In an oval on a pedestal with a motto on ribbon at top, and a coat of arms below. Blount travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was the author of 'Voyage into the Levant' published in London in 1634.
[Ref: 33848] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
D. Loggan ad Vivum delin et sculp.
1679.
Engraving. Sheet size: 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed to image. False borders. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of the traveller and landowner Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682). Half length, to the right, looking at viewer, wearing a jacket with small collar tied at the neck with a ribbon. In an oval on a pedestal with a motto on ribbon at top, and a coat of arms below. Blount travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was the author of 'Voyage into the Levant' published in London in 1634.
[Ref: 33848] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Blouzelind. The peerless maid that did all maids excel. -Gay
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton Fecit
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching on 18th century laid paper, sheet 435 x 345mm (17 x 13½"). Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811) with line from 'The Shepherd's Week’ (1714) by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The line is from the beginning of 'Friday; or, the Dirge', in which Bumkinet mourns the death of Blouzelind: 'As the wood pigeon cooes without his mate, / So shall my doleful Dirge bewail her fate. / Of Blouzelinda fair I mean to tell, / The peerless maid that did all maids excel.'
For proof before letters see ref. 16983.
[Ref: 37965] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton Fecit
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching on 18th century laid paper, sheet 435 x 345mm (17 x 13½"). Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811) with line from 'The Shepherd's Week’ (1714) by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The line is from the beginning of 'Friday; or, the Dirge', in which Bumkinet mourns the death of Blouzelind: 'As the wood pigeon cooes without his mate, / So shall my doleful Dirge bewail her fate. / Of Blouzelinda fair I mean to tell, / The peerless maid that did all maids excel.'
For proof before letters see ref. 16983.
[Ref: 37965] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[Blouzelind.]](jpegs/16083.jpg)
[Blouzelind.]
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f. [ink mss.]
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching, proof before letters on 18th century watermarked laid paper, sheet 380 x 340mm. 15 x 13". Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811), illustrating ‘Sweet William's Farewell To Black-Ey'd Susan: A Ballad’ by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The lettered state of the print in inscribed with a line from Gay: 'The peerless maid that did all maids excel'. The print is a pair with 'Susan'.
[Ref: 16083] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f. [ink mss.]
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching, proof before letters on 18th century watermarked laid paper, sheet 380 x 340mm. 15 x 13". Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811), illustrating ‘Sweet William's Farewell To Black-Ey'd Susan: A Ballad’ by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The lettered state of the print in inscribed with a line from Gay: 'The peerless maid that did all maids excel'. The print is a pair with 'Susan'.
[Ref: 16083] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Blow, Doctor of Music.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving and etching, laid on album page. 140 x 84mm (5½ x 3¼"). Cut.
John Blow (1648-1708), the English baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. It is thought that his Venus and Adonis influenced Henry Purcell's later opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1687 he became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral and in 1699 he was appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.
NPG: D31306.
[Ref: 34597] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving and etching, laid on album page. 140 x 84mm (5½ x 3¼"). Cut.
John Blow (1648-1708), the English baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. It is thought that his Venus and Adonis influenced Henry Purcell's later opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1687 he became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral and in 1699 he was appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.
NPG: D31306.
[Ref: 34597] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![[Blucher. Copied from a Bust, Modeled at Paris, by M. Bosin.]](jpegs/33005.jpg)
[Blucher. Copied from a Bust, Modeled at Paris, by M. Bosin.]
[Engraved by Charles Turner.]
[Pub. Aug.t 1814, by R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters with large margins. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. It is based on a bust by François Joseph Bosio.
[Ref: 33005] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Charles Turner.]
[Pub. Aug.t 1814, by R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters with large margins. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. It is based on a bust by François Joseph Bosio.
[Ref: 33005] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Blücher] To his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge](jpegs/34262.jpg)
[Blücher] To his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge This Print of Prince Blucher, in the Costume of D.r in Civil Law of that University, is Humbly Dedicated, by His Royal Highnesses most obedient Servant W. Mason.
W. Mason del.t. J. Swaine sc.
Pub.d Oct.r 5 1815 by W. Mason, near the Hospital, Cambridge.
Aquatint. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Scuffing lower right. Bit dusty.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated.
[Ref: 34262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
W. Mason del.t. J. Swaine sc.
Pub.d Oct.r 5 1815 by W. Mason, near the Hospital, Cambridge.
Aquatint. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Scuffing lower right. Bit dusty.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated.
[Ref: 34262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
G.L. von Blucher. Field Marshal of the Prussian Forces from an Original Drawing by Her Royal Highness Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia.
London: Pub: March 10 1814 at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Rare stipple. 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"), with large margins.
Sketch portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. The artist, Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820) was consort of William V of Orange and mother of King William I of the Netherlands, the founder of the present Dutch monarchy.
[Ref: 35332] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
London: Pub: March 10 1814 at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Rare stipple. 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"), with large margins.
Sketch portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. The artist, Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820) was consort of William V of Orange and mother of King William I of the Netherlands, the founder of the present Dutch monarchy.
[Ref: 35332] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Blucher. Born at Rostock Dec.r 16.th 1742. Decided the Eventful Battle of Waterloo, June 18.th 1815 and Died Sep.r 10.th 1819. His Martial Glory Filled the World. Emori Domuit Ferum Qui Nappoleonta.
Engraved by J. Swaine after a Drawing from Life by F. Rehberg Esq.r.
Pub.d by J. Swaine Engraver, 84 Dean St.t. Soho Square London.
Engraving. Proof. Sheet: 220 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. Blucher faces to the left, smoking a pipe. A view of La Belle Alliance below portrait.
[Ref: 42157] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by J. Swaine after a Drawing from Life by F. Rehberg Esq.r.
Pub.d by J. Swaine Engraver, 84 Dean St.t. Soho Square London.
Engraving. Proof. Sheet: 220 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. Blucher faces to the left, smoking a pipe. A view of La Belle Alliance below portrait.
[Ref: 42157] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
His Highness Prince Blucher of Wahlstadt General Field Mrshall of the Prussian Armies, Victor of Lutzen, Bautzen, Hainan, Katzbach, Möckern, Leipzig, Wartburg, Brienne, Loan, Montmartre, Ligny, and Co-Victor of Waterloo and Paris.
Engrav'd by C.Turner from the picture painted by C.Back of Breslaw, for Her Highness Princess Blucher.
Published London 1st August 1815 by R.Ackermann, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint. Sheet 615 x 510mm. A few small tears, laid on paper. Image scratched between the front feet of the horse.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian Field Marshal, whose arrival at Waterloo saved the day for Wellington. Published less that three months after the battle.
Whitman: 47. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 478] £580.00
Engrav'd by C.Turner from the picture painted by C.Back of Breslaw, for Her Highness Princess Blucher.
Published London 1st August 1815 by R.Ackermann, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint. Sheet 615 x 510mm. A few small tears, laid on paper. Image scratched between the front feet of the horse.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian Field Marshal, whose arrival at Waterloo saved the day for Wellington. Published less that three months after the battle.
Whitman: 47. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 478] £580.00
Blue Beard.
John Parry. On Stone by J. Brandard. M. & N. Hanhart Chromo. lith Printers.
[n.d., c. 1860.]
Chromolithograph, with gilt highlights. Sheet (at most) 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed as scrapsheet, laid on album paper.
The cover of a music sheet, depicting the Bluebeard character as an Ottoman rather than the European of early versions of the story. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, regularly staged a pantomime version from 1798.
[Ref: 33879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Parry. On Stone by J. Brandard. M. & N. Hanhart Chromo. lith Printers.
[n.d., c. 1860.]
Chromolithograph, with gilt highlights. Sheet (at most) 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed as scrapsheet, laid on album paper.
The cover of a music sheet, depicting the Bluebeard character as an Ottoman rather than the European of early versions of the story. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, regularly staged a pantomime version from 1798.
[Ref: 33879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Buds and Blossoms. Blue Bells.
Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway. Printed by F. Alvey Brandon's Row, Newington. [n.d. c.1840.]
Very fine hand-coloured lithograph, with added gum arabic. 350 x 246mm. 13¾ x 9¾".
Two girls in Scottish costume, seated on the grass, one holding bluebells.
[Ref: 24195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway. Printed by F. Alvey Brandon's Row, Newington. [n.d. c.1840.]
Very fine hand-coloured lithograph, with added gum arabic. 350 x 246mm. 13¾ x 9¾".
Two girls in Scottish costume, seated on the grass, one holding bluebells.
[Ref: 24195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
The Hall, Blue Coat School. Plate 10.
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. Hill, Aquat.
London. Pub March 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
A view inside the hall of the school at Blue Coat School, London. Two students wearing blue coats stand on platform in centre of hall, with scholars and elegantly dressed figures seated around edge. A large "figure painting" can be seen across the top half of the wall above the panelling on the right. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.10.
[Ref: 62752] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. Hill, Aquat.
London. Pub March 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
A view inside the hall of the school at Blue Coat School, London. Two students wearing blue coats stand on platform in centre of hall, with scholars and elegantly dressed figures seated around edge. A large "figure painting" can be seen across the top half of the wall above the panelling on the right. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.10.
[Ref: 62752] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Le Geai blue (mâle) Garrulus cristatus (Vieillot) ½ nature. Le Pic à baguettes dorées (femelle) Picus auratus (Gmelin) ½ nature. Amérique Sept.le.
Edouard Travies.
Imp. par Lemercier. Paris E. Savary et C.ie place du Louvre 10. [n.d. c.1857.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. 370 x 540mm. 14½ x 21¼". Few spots.
A blue jay and a golden winged woodpecker, from Edouard Traviés (1809-1865) 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables'.
[Ref: 21906] £420.00
Edouard Travies.
Imp. par Lemercier. Paris E. Savary et C.ie place du Louvre 10. [n.d. c.1857.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. 370 x 540mm. 14½ x 21¼". Few spots.
A blue jay and a golden winged woodpecker, from Edouard Traviés (1809-1865) 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables'.
[Ref: 21906] £420.00
![[Bluwe Shrike.] Pie-grièche Bleue.](jpegs/33883.jpg)
[Bluwe Shrike.] Pie-grièche Bleue. Lanius bicolor (Gmelin.) Grandeur naturelle. de Madagascar.
Edouard Traviés. Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris, Victor Delarue, Place de Louvre, 10. [n.d., c.1857.]
Lithograph with exceptionally fine hand colour. Printed area 310 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Wear to edges.
A blue skrike of Madagascar pearched on a creeper eying a butterfly. Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865) was one of the greatest ornithological artists of the 19th century, painting the birds in their natural habitat. His finest work was 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables par leurs formes et leurs coleurs. Scenes variees de leurs moeurs & de leur habitudes'.
[Ref: 33883] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Edouard Traviés. Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris, Victor Delarue, Place de Louvre, 10. [n.d., c.1857.]
Lithograph with exceptionally fine hand colour. Printed area 310 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Wear to edges.
A blue skrike of Madagascar pearched on a creeper eying a butterfly. Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865) was one of the greatest ornithological artists of the 19th century, painting the birds in their natural habitat. His finest work was 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables par leurs formes et leurs coleurs. Scenes variees de leurs moeurs & de leur habitudes'.
[Ref: 33883] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Grand Dramatic Romance of Blue-Beard or Female Curiosity, As now performing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with unbounded Applause, the words by George Coleman the Younger, Esq.r, the Music Composed and Selected by Michael Kelly.
London, Sold at Preston's Music Warehouse 97 Strand & at Kelly's Musical Saloon 9 Pall Mall [n.d., c.1798].
Engraved titlepage. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). With ink stamp 'MK' (Michael Kelly's music shop?), large margins (tatty) on 3 sides. In ink at bottom right border J. Hill? Split in image area, tear at top taped, edges chipped, paper soiled. Old ink mss in image, lower inscription area and margin.
The cover of the music to an opera with lyrics by George Coleman the Younger (1762-1836) and music by the famous Irish tenor Michael Kelly (1762-1826). An example of the complete book in the University of Western Ontario has the same 'MK' stamp.
[Ref: 63661] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
London, Sold at Preston's Music Warehouse 97 Strand & at Kelly's Musical Saloon 9 Pall Mall [n.d., c.1798].
Engraved titlepage. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). With ink stamp 'MK' (Michael Kelly's music shop?), large margins (tatty) on 3 sides. In ink at bottom right border J. Hill? Split in image area, tear at top taped, edges chipped, paper soiled. Old ink mss in image, lower inscription area and margin.
The cover of the music to an opera with lyrics by George Coleman the Younger (1762-1836) and music by the famous Irish tenor Michael Kelly (1762-1826). An example of the complete book in the University of Western Ontario has the same 'MK' stamp.
[Ref: 63661] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Peter Blundell. Founder of Tiverton School. 1604. Died 1601.
Drawn on Stone by L.E. Reed, Tiverton. Captn. Hackett, Lithog. Exeter.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph. 343 x 267mm. 13½ x 10½". Some scratching, rust stain along bottom edge.
Peter Blundell (c.1520-1601) was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. Dying in 1601 having never married and with no children, he left his inheritance to fellow clothiers, their families and his employees. He also created several charitable trusts and gave funds to build Blundell's School, to be a free grammar school.
[Ref: 14464] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn on Stone by L.E. Reed, Tiverton. Captn. Hackett, Lithog. Exeter.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph. 343 x 267mm. 13½ x 10½". Some scratching, rust stain along bottom edge.
Peter Blundell (c.1520-1601) was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. Dying in 1601 having never married and with no children, he left his inheritance to fellow clothiers, their families and his employees. He also created several charitable trusts and gave funds to build Blundell's School, to be a free grammar school.
[Ref: 14464] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Peter Blundell. Founder of Tiverton School, 1604._Died 1601. From a Portrait given by Thomas Whitmore Esq.e of Apley Park, Shropshire, To Robert Newton Incledon Esq.e and by him to the Trustees of the School.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 381 x 330mm. 15 x 13".
Peter Blundell (c.1520-1601) was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. Dying in 1601 having never married and with no children, he left his inheritance to fellow clothiers, their families and his employees. He also created several charitable trusts and gave funds to build Blundell's School, to be a free grammar school.
[Ref: 24743] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 381 x 330mm. 15 x 13".
Peter Blundell (c.1520-1601) was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. Dying in 1601 having never married and with no children, he left his inheritance to fellow clothiers, their families and his employees. He also created several charitable trusts and gave funds to build Blundell's School, to be a free grammar school.
[Ref: 24743] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A Blunt Razor. E_cod!_ One might as well _ shave _ with _ a Saw!
M.E. [Egerton]
Pub. Jan.y 1827 by Hunt, Corner of York St.t & Bridges St.t Covent Garden.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9"). Trimmed within plate, creasing in borders.
A man attempts to shave, precariously balenced on two of his chair's four legs. The first state: Thomas Mclean reissued this plate later the same year.
Hickman p.78.
[Ref: 59449] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
M.E. [Egerton]
Pub. Jan.y 1827 by Hunt, Corner of York St.t & Bridges St.t Covent Garden.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9"). Trimmed within plate, creasing in borders.
A man attempts to shave, precariously balenced on two of his chair's four legs. The first state: Thomas Mclean reissued this plate later the same year.
Hickman p.78.
[Ref: 59449] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
![[Five portraits of Marshal Blücher]](jpegs/55845.jpg)
[Five portraits of Marshal Blücher] Sketches of the veteran Field Marshal Blücher taken from life June 12.h by Fr Rehberg.
J. Swaine sc.
London, Pubd, July 13, 1814 by M.r Colnaghi's, Cockspur St.t & M.r Rehberg, 30, St, James's Street.
Rare proof etching, sheet 515 x 420mm (20¼ x 16½"). Taped into mount. Large crease across the middle.
Portraits of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (1742-1819), three bust length and two full length of him smoking. The Prussian field marshal best known for leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
[Ref: 55845] £360.00
J. Swaine sc.
London, Pubd, July 13, 1814 by M.r Colnaghi's, Cockspur St.t & M.r Rehberg, 30, St, James's Street.
Rare proof etching, sheet 515 x 420mm (20¼ x 16½"). Taped into mount. Large crease across the middle.
Portraits of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (1742-1819), three bust length and two full length of him smoking. The Prussian field marshal best known for leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
[Ref: 55845] £360.00
Samuel Blyth Esq.r Commander R.N.
Blood sculpsit
Published 31st Dec.r 1814 by Joyce Gold, Naval Chronicle Office, 103, Shoe Lane, London.
Stipple, sheet 235 x 130mm (9¼ x 5"). Trimmed, as published; offsetting; foxing.
Samuel Blyth (c.1784-1813), naval officer. Blyth commanded the HMS Boxer from September 1812, sailing for Halifax in the squadron of Sir John Borlase Warren in April 1813. The Boxer captured several small Amerian vessels that year, before Blyth died in September 1813 after engaging the American brig Enterprise. He was buried in Portland, Maine, with full military honours, and the subsequently-defeated Boxer was sold at auction in Portland.
Not in O'D; for the Enterprise and Boxer engaging, see refs. 23800 and 23829.
[Ref: 35302] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Blood sculpsit
Published 31st Dec.r 1814 by Joyce Gold, Naval Chronicle Office, 103, Shoe Lane, London.
Stipple, sheet 235 x 130mm (9¼ x 5"). Trimmed, as published; offsetting; foxing.
Samuel Blyth (c.1784-1813), naval officer. Blyth commanded the HMS Boxer from September 1812, sailing for Halifax in the squadron of Sir John Borlase Warren in April 1813. The Boxer captured several small Amerian vessels that year, before Blyth died in September 1813 after engaging the American brig Enterprise. He was buried in Portland, Maine, with full military honours, and the subsequently-defeated Boxer was sold at auction in Portland.
Not in O'D; for the Enterprise and Boxer engaging, see refs. 23800 and 23829.
[Ref: 35302] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Division I. Political and Personal Satires. (No. 1236 to No. 2015). Vol. II. - June 1689 to 1733.
[Prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins Late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.R.S.]
Printed by Order of the Trustees 1873. Chiswick Press:-Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Stamp of the "Royal Institution Great Britain".
Book: (258 x 161mm). Stamp on cover and stamped spine in gilt. 1 vol only. Worn and tired binding.
British Museum Catalogue. Only reference guide to British Satirical Prints.
[Ref: 10073] £250.00
[Prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins Late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.R.S.]
Printed by Order of the Trustees 1873. Chiswick Press:-Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Stamp of the "Royal Institution Great Britain".
Book: (258 x 161mm). Stamp on cover and stamped spine in gilt. 1 vol only. Worn and tired binding.
British Museum Catalogue. Only reference guide to British Satirical Prints.
[Ref: 10073] £250.00
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Division I. Political and Personal Satires. (No. 3117 to No. 3804). Vol. III. Part II. - March 28, 1751, to C. 1760.
Prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins Late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.R.S.
Printed by Order of the Trustees 1877. Chiswick Press:Charles Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.
Book: (258 x 151mm). Stamp on cover and stamped spine in gilt. 1 vol only. Worn and rubbed cover. Tears to binding.
British Museum Catalogue. Only reference guide to British Satirical Prints.
[Ref: 10076] £250.00
Prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins Late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.R.S.
Printed by Order of the Trustees 1877. Chiswick Press:Charles Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.
Book: (258 x 151mm). Stamp on cover and stamped spine in gilt. 1 vol only. Worn and rubbed cover. Tears to binding.
British Museum Catalogue. Only reference guide to British Satirical Prints.
[Ref: 10076] £250.00
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Division I. Political and Personal Satires. Vol. IV._A.D. 1761 to c. A.D. 1770. (No. 3805 to No. 4838)
Prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins Late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.R.S.
Printed by Order of the Trustees 1883. Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham & Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Stamp of the "Royal Institution Great Britain".
Book: (254 x 159mm). Stamp on cover and stamped spine in gilt. 1 vol only. Tear to binding. Rubbed and scuffed.
British Museum Catalogue. Only reference guide to British Satirical Prints. Very useful for American War of Independence.
[Ref: 10077] £350.00
Prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins Late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.R.S.
Printed by Order of the Trustees 1883. Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham & Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Stamp of the "Royal Institution Great Britain".
Book: (254 x 159mm). Stamp on cover and stamped spine in gilt. 1 vol only. Tear to binding. Rubbed and scuffed.
British Museum Catalogue. Only reference guide to British Satirical Prints. Very useful for American War of Independence.
[Ref: 10077] £350.00
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Frederic George Stephens. Mary Dorothy George.
Printed by Order of the Trustee. 1870-1954. [Vol. IV reprinted in 1978.]
Twelve 8vo volumes, original cloth gilt. Made up set from different sources. Distressed binding and damaged cover in some volumes.
British Museum Catalogue. The twelve-volume catalogue is the primary reference work for the study of British satirical prints of the 18th and 19th century. The first five volume of the catalogue were compiled by Frederic George Stephens (1827-1907), with the assistance of Edward Hawkins, while the last seven volumes were compiled by Mary Dorothy George (1878–1971). Valuable asset for any serious collector of satire.
[Ref: 59950] £1,800.00
Frederic George Stephens. Mary Dorothy George.
Printed by Order of the Trustee. 1870-1954. [Vol. IV reprinted in 1978.]
Twelve 8vo volumes, original cloth gilt. Made up set from different sources. Distressed binding and damaged cover in some volumes.
British Museum Catalogue. The twelve-volume catalogue is the primary reference work for the study of British satirical prints of the 18th and 19th century. The first five volume of the catalogue were compiled by Frederic George Stephens (1827-1907), with the assistance of Edward Hawkins, while the last seven volumes were compiled by Mary Dorothy George (1878–1971). Valuable asset for any serious collector of satire.
[Ref: 59950] £1,800.00
![[Emerald tree boa] The Green Boa.](jpegs/45780.jpg)
[Emerald tree boa] The Green Boa. Xiphosoma Caninum.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Some slight cockling of paper.
Corallus caninus, a non-venonous snake of the South American rainforests, named for its fangs, proportionately larger than those of any other non-venomous snake. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45780] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Some slight cockling of paper.
Corallus caninus, a non-venonous snake of the South American rainforests, named for its fangs, proportionately larger than those of any other non-venomous snake. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45780] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Group of Gouty-Stem Trees, Adansonia gregorii, near the Baines River, Victoria River, North Australia .
From an original oil-painting by T. Baines, in the Museum, Kew.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Chromolithograph, printed in colours. Sheet 145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9").
An illustration of the boab (or boabab) tree, by Thomas Baines (1820-75), the official artist and storekeeper for Augustus Gregory's 1855-7 expedition across northern Australia for the Royal Geographical Society. Both Mount Baines and the Baines River were named in his honour. The following year Baines accompanied Livingston to the Victoria Falls in Africa.
[Ref: 44652] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
From an original oil-painting by T. Baines, in the Museum, Kew.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Chromolithograph, printed in colours. Sheet 145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9").
An illustration of the boab (or boabab) tree, by Thomas Baines (1820-75), the official artist and storekeeper for Augustus Gregory's 1855-7 expedition across northern Australia for the Royal Geographical Society. Both Mount Baines and the Baines River were named in his honour. The following year Baines accompanied Livingston to the Victoria Falls in Africa.
[Ref: 44652] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Boadicea. Queen of the Iceni, leading the Britons against the Roman army under Suetonius, Seeing her troops defeated with the slaughter of 80,000 men, She terminated her life by poison, in order to avoid falling into the power of the Roman General.
Painted by Henry Singleton. Engraved by William Bond.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Queen Boadicea in a chariot being drawn to left, spear in her right hand, with her daughters slumped in despair at her knees.
[Ref: 44094] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Henry Singleton. Engraved by William Bond.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Queen Boadicea in a chariot being drawn to left, spear in her right hand, with her daughters slumped in despair at her knees.
[Ref: 44094] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
M. Boai. The Chin Chopper. Exhibiting Aug.t. 1830, at the Eqyptian Hall.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 110 x 70mm (4¼ x 2¾"). Laid on album paper.
Portrait of M. Boai who played tunes on his chin, also known and described as 'The Chin Chopper.'
[Ref: 63209] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 110 x 70mm (4¼ x 2¾"). Laid on album paper.
Portrait of M. Boai who played tunes on his chin, also known and described as 'The Chin Chopper.'
[Ref: 63209] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
A German Wild Boar. One of the animals belonging to His Majesty in Windsor Gt. Park.
Etched by JF Lewis.
Pub by FC Lewis 1836. 3 Charlotte St. Portland Place.
Etching. Sheet 559 x 381mm. 22 x 15".
John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) was primarily an Orientalist English painter; his son Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856) was an engraver and landscape painter.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 19336] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Etched by JF Lewis.
Pub by FC Lewis 1836. 3 Charlotte St. Portland Place.
Etching. Sheet 559 x 381mm. 22 x 15".
John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) was primarily an Orientalist English painter; his son Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856) was an engraver and landscape painter.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 19336] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
La Chasse au Sanglier. Gravé par W.m. Woollett d'aprés Le dessin Original de Jean Pillement.
London Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 29, 1760. A Paris chez Leviez rue S.t. André des Arts, vis a vis l'hôtel de Château Vieux.
Engraving. 590 x 480mm (23 x 19"). Trimmed within plate on left, right and upper edges.
A scene showing a boar hunt in a large forest. In the foreground several figures spear a boar, a male figure on horseback aims a rifle at the boar and a mounted female hunter points a pistol. In the background figures on horseback and on foot approach with dogs, guns and spears.
[Ref: 37510] £380.00
London Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 29, 1760. A Paris chez Leviez rue S.t. André des Arts, vis a vis l'hôtel de Château Vieux.
Engraving. 590 x 480mm (23 x 19"). Trimmed within plate on left, right and upper edges.
A scene showing a boar hunt in a large forest. In the foreground several figures spear a boar, a male figure on horseback aims a rifle at the boar and a mounted female hunter points a pistol. In the background figures on horseback and on foot approach with dogs, guns and spears.
[Ref: 37510] £380.00
Boar Hunting. In his Majesty's Collection at the Royal Apartments Windsor Castle.
Snyders Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t. Gabriel Smith, Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sep.r 2.d 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Etching with engraving, printed in colours. 485 x 620mm (19 x 24½"), with large margins. Laid on board. Some foxing top of outside margin.
A dramatic image showing a pack of dogs bringing down a boar, after a painting by Frans Snyders (1579-1657) dated 1653. Bought by Charles II, it is now in the Public Dining Room, Hampton Court Palace. Gabriel Smith engraved the plate from a preparatory drawing by John Boydell's nephew, Josiah, three years before he became a partner in the family firm.
See Royal Collection RCIN 405557.
[Ref: 62660] £360.00
Snyders Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t. Gabriel Smith, Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sep.r 2.d 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Etching with engraving, printed in colours. 485 x 620mm (19 x 24½"), with large margins. Laid on board. Some foxing top of outside margin.
A dramatic image showing a pack of dogs bringing down a boar, after a painting by Frans Snyders (1579-1657) dated 1653. Bought by Charles II, it is now in the Public Dining Room, Hampton Court Palace. Gabriel Smith engraved the plate from a preparatory drawing by John Boydell's nephew, Josiah, three years before he became a partner in the family firm.
See Royal Collection RCIN 405557.
[Ref: 62660] £360.00
A sketch from the Central Board of Health or The Real Ass-i-Antic Cholera!!
[by Henry Heath.] W. Clerk lith, 41 Dean St Soho.
[Published by S.W. Fores, 1832.]
Lithograph. Sheet 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed top and bottom, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. A doctor is shouting through a loud speaker: "Contagious to all but doctors!" A satire on the Board of Health set up when the second cholera pandemic (1826-37, also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic), reached England in 1831. It depicts the board (Sir William Pym, Sir William Burnett, Sir B. Martin, Sir James McGrigor) as scaremongers, profiterring from fees charged for quarantining patients.
Wellcome 11405i.
[Ref: 54378] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[by Henry Heath.] W. Clerk lith, 41 Dean St Soho.
[Published by S.W. Fores, 1832.]
Lithograph. Sheet 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed top and bottom, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. A doctor is shouting through a loud speaker: "Contagious to all but doctors!" A satire on the Board of Health set up when the second cholera pandemic (1826-37, also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic), reached England in 1831. It depicts the board (Sir William Pym, Sir William Burnett, Sir B. Martin, Sir James McGrigor) as scaremongers, profiterring from fees charged for quarantining patients.
Wellcome 11405i.
[Ref: 54378] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Board of Trade. Whitehall & c. from Downing Street.
T.S.Boys Del et Lithog.
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet: 535 x 360mm (21 x 14").
A view of Whitehall, looking towards Charing Cross; the colonnaded government office on the left, the Banqueting House on the right, and the spire of St Martin in the Fields in the distance. Published for Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Abbey: 240.
[Ref: 47060] £450.00
T.S.Boys Del et Lithog.
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet: 535 x 360mm (21 x 14").
A view of Whitehall, looking towards Charing Cross; the colonnaded government office on the left, the Banqueting House on the right, and the spire of St Martin in the Fields in the distance. Published for Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Abbey: 240.
[Ref: 47060] £450.00
Board of Trade. Whitehall & c. from Downing Street.
T.S.Boys Del et Lithog.
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with added colour. 320 x 420mm. (12½ x 16½").
A view of Whitehall, looking towards Charing Cross; the colonnaded government office on the left, the Banqueting House on the right, and the spire of St Martin in the Fields in the distance. Published for Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Abbey: 240.
[Ref: 31371] £380.00
T.S.Boys Del et Lithog.
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with added colour. 320 x 420mm. (12½ x 16½").
A view of Whitehall, looking towards Charing Cross; the colonnaded government office on the left, the Banqueting House on the right, and the spire of St Martin in the Fields in the distance. Published for Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Abbey: 240.
[Ref: 31371] £380.00
Reve D'Une Pensionnaire. The Dream Of A Boarding School Miss. Pl. 3.
Bouchot [within image]. a Paris Lith de Delaporte. a Londres chez M Charles Thilt.
chez Aubert E.eur du J.al la caricature, Galerie véro dodat. [n.d. 1832]
A very scarce lithograph with fine hand colour, sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼").
A boarder at a girl's school has fallen asleep reading on a bench; dreaming of a daring, over the fence, rescue. A gentleman, most likely her suitor, and man in military dress help her down a ladder to an awaiting carriage. In her real life her schoolmates are seen pointing and running over to the fence.
[Ref: 61489] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Bouchot [within image]. a Paris Lith de Delaporte. a Londres chez M Charles Thilt.
chez Aubert E.eur du J.al la caricature, Galerie véro dodat. [n.d. 1832]
A very scarce lithograph with fine hand colour, sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼").
A boarder at a girl's school has fallen asleep reading on a bench; dreaming of a daring, over the fence, rescue. A gentleman, most likely her suitor, and man in military dress help her down a ladder to an awaiting carriage. In her real life her schoolmates are seen pointing and running over to the fence.
[Ref: 61489] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
British Sailors Boarding a Man of War.
J. A. Atkinson Del. Fry & Sutherland Sculp.t.
Published & Sold June 4.th. 1815, by EDW.D. ORME, Publisher to his Majesty & H.R.H. the Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London.
Very fine coloured aquatint with large margins. Watermarked paper 'J.Whatman 1811'. Plate: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Crease across bottom left-hand corner.
Battle scene depicting British sailors, some brandishing swords, some with rifles, boarding a Man of War from a boat, a British naval officer falls from the boat into the waves. A marine action.
[Ref: 33600] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
J. A. Atkinson Del. Fry & Sutherland Sculp.t.
Published & Sold June 4.th. 1815, by EDW.D. ORME, Publisher to his Majesty & H.R.H. the Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London.
Very fine coloured aquatint with large margins. Watermarked paper 'J.Whatman 1811'. Plate: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Crease across bottom left-hand corner.
Battle scene depicting British sailors, some brandishing swords, some with rifles, boarding a Man of War from a boat, a British naval officer falls from the boat into the waves. A marine action.
[Ref: 33600] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![John G Boardman [ink signature.]](jpegs/17377.jpg)
John G Boardman [ink signature.]
Rees & Pitcher. 298, Clapham R.d London S.W. [n.d. c.1862.]
Photograph and small pamphlett of references and testimonials. 185 x 115mm. 7¼ x 4½".
John G. Boardman, was Professor of Music, Organist and Choir Master to the Clapham Grammar School.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17377] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Rees & Pitcher. 298, Clapham R.d London S.W. [n.d. c.1862.]
Photograph and small pamphlett of references and testimonials. 185 x 115mm. 7¼ x 4½".
John G. Boardman, was Professor of Music, Organist and Choir Master to the Clapham Grammar School.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17377] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
![[Vulcan.]](jpegs/23019.jpg)
[Vulcan.]
[Engraved by Charles Mottram, 1876.] [Inside plate: EL 1841.] [EL: artist's monogram.]
London Published May 1.st 1876 by Henry Graves & Co, the Proprietors Publishers to H.M. the Queen &, T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall, Copyright Registered. [Published by Henry Graves & Co. Printsellers and Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen and T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Pall Mall, London. Sold by D. Woodcock & Co., 17, Farringdon Street, London.]
Mixed method engraving, proof before letters on india. Printseller's Association Stamp. Artist Proof Edition, Limited to One Hundred Copies. Plate 430 x 539mm. 17 x 21¼". Uncut, mint.
A boarhound with a boar head. The crayon drawing is the property of Her Majesty the Queen and hangs at Windsor. From "Her Majesty's Pets being a Collection of Twenty Steel-Place Engravings from Paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. By Special Permission of, and Dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen".
Ex Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 23019] £420.00
[Engraved by Charles Mottram, 1876.] [Inside plate: EL 1841.] [EL: artist's monogram.]
London Published May 1.st 1876 by Henry Graves & Co, the Proprietors Publishers to H.M. the Queen &, T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall, Copyright Registered. [Published by Henry Graves & Co. Printsellers and Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen and T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Pall Mall, London. Sold by D. Woodcock & Co., 17, Farringdon Street, London.]
Mixed method engraving, proof before letters on india. Printseller's Association Stamp. Artist Proof Edition, Limited to One Hundred Copies. Plate 430 x 539mm. 17 x 21¼". Uncut, mint.
A boarhound with a boar head. The crayon drawing is the property of Her Majesty the Queen and hangs at Windsor. From "Her Majesty's Pets being a Collection of Twenty Steel-Place Engravings from Paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. By Special Permission of, and Dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen".
Ex Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 23019] £420.00
The Wild Boar. Le Sanglier.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 170 x 271mm. 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed to round image for a scrapbook.
A savage-looking boar.
[Ref: 19385] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 170 x 271mm. 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed to round image for a scrapbook.
A savage-looking boar.
[Ref: 19385] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
A Boat Race on the Thames.
London. Published by ). Hodgson, 22 Macclesfield Street, City Road.
Engraving Trimmed to plate and under title.
[Ref: 12172] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
London. Published by ). Hodgson, 22 Macclesfield Street, City Road.
Engraving Trimmed to plate and under title.
[Ref: 12172] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Record of the University Boat Race 1829-1880 and of the Commemoration Dinner 1881. Compile by the Hon. Secs. Geo. G.T. Threherne, O.U.B.C. and J.H.D. Goldie, C.U.B.C. Printed by Wm. Spottiswoode, O.U.B.C., P.R.S. at the Request of the Committee. With Illustrations.
London: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square. Oxford: James Thornton. Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes 1883.
No 227 of 250 in a large paper edition. Folio (340 x 265mm, 13¼" x 10"), original cloth with printed title label; pp. (xii)+ 207; 2 etched plates on chine collé, facsimile dinner invitation, plan, menu, and two wood engraved vignettes, as called for. Spine distressed, front endpaper browned, margins of frontispiece etching spotted.
A book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, recording the speeches made at the dinner and containing statistics of the races.
[Ref: 59349] £280.00 view all images for this item
London: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square. Oxford: James Thornton. Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes 1883.
No 227 of 250 in a large paper edition. Folio (340 x 265mm, 13¼" x 10"), original cloth with printed title label; pp. (xii)+ 207; 2 etched plates on chine collé, facsimile dinner invitation, plan, menu, and two wood engraved vignettes, as called for. Spine distressed, front endpaper browned, margins of frontispiece etching spotted.
A book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, recording the speeches made at the dinner and containing statistics of the races.
[Ref: 59349] £280.00 view all images for this item
Souvenir of the Great University Boat Race on Saturday, April 4, About 3.30 P.M. Best Places to View the Race...
Printed and Published by Mrs S. Burgess, 4 Artillery Lanes, Bishopsgate, London, E.C. [n.d., but 1908.]
Wood engraving on linen, overprinted with a floral border in colours, framed. 340 x 340mm, 13½ x 13½". Some damp staining and colour run.
A linen handkerchief with a stylised portrait of students and lists of the best places to view the race and the crews with their weights, within a colour-printed floral border. The only race held on April 4th in fifty years was 1908; Cambridge won with a time of 19.02 for a third consecutive year.
[Ref: 21583] £340.00
Printed and Published by Mrs S. Burgess, 4 Artillery Lanes, Bishopsgate, London, E.C. [n.d., but 1908.]
Wood engraving on linen, overprinted with a floral border in colours, framed. 340 x 340mm, 13½ x 13½". Some damp staining and colour run.
A linen handkerchief with a stylised portrait of students and lists of the best places to view the race and the crews with their weights, within a colour-printed floral border. The only race held on April 4th in fifty years was 1908; Cambridge won with a time of 19.02 for a third consecutive year.
[Ref: 21583] £340.00
N.o 50. It's most hinfamous to le these here Steamers out on a Sunday. If this is Chelsea Reach, I am afraid it will make me wery sick.
H. Heath.
Published by J. B. Brookes, 9 New Bond S.t Oct.r 21, 1834.
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Some staining at bottom.
Two men in a dingy are tossed by the waves created by a paddle steam boat.
[Ref: 58436] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
H. Heath.
Published by J. B. Brookes, 9 New Bond S.t Oct.r 21, 1834.
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Some staining at bottom.
Two men in a dingy are tossed by the waves created by a paddle steam boat.
[Ref: 58436] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Bob.
Philip Pimlott 1922.
Etching, very rare. Plate: 100 x 150mm, (4 x 6"). Trimmed. Laid on card.
Portrait of a male lacrosse player by Philip Pimlott (1871-1960). The figure holds the typical short stick of the midfielder or attacker. Lacrosse developed in Canada and the US from a similar sport played by the indiginous peoples whose games formed part of ceremonial celebrations and could last for several days.
[Ref: 35196] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Philip Pimlott 1922.
Etching, very rare. Plate: 100 x 150mm, (4 x 6"). Trimmed. Laid on card.
Portrait of a male lacrosse player by Philip Pimlott (1871-1960). The figure holds the typical short stick of the midfielder or attacker. Lacrosse developed in Canada and the US from a similar sport played by the indiginous peoples whose games formed part of ceremonial celebrations and could last for several days.
[Ref: 35196] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
In and Out, and turn about; or, The Game of Bob-Cherry. As it is now performing by the greatest Actors in the Nation [...]
[Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street. Price Six-pence]
Engraving and letterpress, sheet 310 x 170mm (12¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed; collector's stamp of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledclune lower right.
Satire on the 'triumvirate' government of George Grenville, Charles Wyndham, Earl of Egremont and George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax which followed the resignation of Lord Bute in April 1763. Bute dangles a cherry on a string in front of his successors while Britannia despairs "Oh my foolish Children". On the right the countess of Yarmouth (an ally of William Pitt) and Henry Fox depart. Letterpress verses below. This impression formerly in the collection of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledclune, fourth baronet (1826-98), politician and author. Fraser left his splendid collection of Gillray's caricatures to the House of Lords, a similar collection of H. B.'s caricatures and a unique set of portraits of former speakers to the House of Commons, along with various gifts to other libraries and institutions.
BM Satires 4032; L.2831; for another print from Fraser's collection see ref. 34591.
[Ref: 45459] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street. Price Six-pence]
Engraving and letterpress, sheet 310 x 170mm (12¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed; collector's stamp of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledclune lower right.
Satire on the 'triumvirate' government of George Grenville, Charles Wyndham, Earl of Egremont and George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax which followed the resignation of Lord Bute in April 1763. Bute dangles a cherry on a string in front of his successors while Britannia despairs "Oh my foolish Children". On the right the countess of Yarmouth (an ally of William Pitt) and Henry Fox depart. Letterpress verses below. This impression formerly in the collection of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledclune, fourth baronet (1826-98), politician and author. Fraser left his splendid collection of Gillray's caricatures to the House of Lords, a similar collection of H. B.'s caricatures and a unique set of portraits of former speakers to the House of Commons, along with various gifts to other libraries and institutions.
BM Satires 4032; L.2831; for another print from Fraser's collection see ref. 34591.
[Ref: 45459] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Jacob Bobart. A native German. Chosen by ye founder to be keeper of ye Physic Garden at Oxford, he died Feb.y. 4th 1679 in he 81st Year of his Age.
D.Loggan delineavit.
Published by Wm. Richardson, July 1st 1800, York House, N°31 Strand.
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into right side of plate. Some time-staining.
Portrait of Jacob Bobart (or Bobert), the Elder (1599 - 1680), a German botanist who moved to England to be the first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden.
[Ref: 67028] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
D.Loggan delineavit.
Published by Wm. Richardson, July 1st 1800, York House, N°31 Strand.
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into right side of plate. Some time-staining.
Portrait of Jacob Bobart (or Bobert), the Elder (1599 - 1680), a German botanist who moved to England to be the first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden.
[Ref: 67028] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart] The Classical Almamater Coachman Oxford.](jpegs/41517.jpg)
[Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart] The Classical Almamater Coachman Oxford.
Drawn, Etch.d & Pub.d, by Dighton, Char.g Cross. Jan.y 1808.
Hand-coloured etching, with manuscript annotation. Plate: 220 x 290mm, (8¾ x 11½"). Some diagonal creasing.
A portrait of Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart (c.1771-1838), a coachman who ran a four horse coach between Oxford and London. Bobart had attended University College but never graduated. He was forced to give up the road due to accidents and was made Esquire Bedel in Law in 1815. 'Mr. Bobart' annotated in plate.
[Ref: 41517] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn, Etch.d & Pub.d, by Dighton, Char.g Cross. Jan.y 1808.
Hand-coloured etching, with manuscript annotation. Plate: 220 x 290mm, (8¾ x 11½"). Some diagonal creasing.
A portrait of Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart (c.1771-1838), a coachman who ran a four horse coach between Oxford and London. Bobart had attended University College but never graduated. He was forced to give up the road due to accidents and was made Esquire Bedel in Law in 1815. 'Mr. Bobart' annotated in plate.
[Ref: 41517] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Die Galerie deß Königlichen Pallasts zu Boblin fürstellend einige große thaten deß Alexandri so entworffen sind auf Tapesereyen und grossen Kunst-Stücken von Mons. Caroli le Brun.
Caral Remshard sculp.
Joann Ulrich Krausen Excudit.
Rare engraving. Plate: 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"), with large margins.
A view in Boblin castle in Pomerania showing the hanging of a large tapestry after a large work by Charles le Brun.
[Ref: 44622] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Caral Remshard sculp.
Joann Ulrich Krausen Excudit.
Rare engraving. Plate: 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"), with large margins.
A view in Boblin castle in Pomerania showing the hanging of a large tapestry after a large work by Charles le Brun.
[Ref: 44622] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Boby ou la Folle par Amour Ecossaise.
S. Julien pinx. L. Julien sculp.
A Paris chez l'Auteur, rue de Bouley No 49 et chez Chereau et Joubert aux deux Piliers d'Or rue des Maturins. [n.d., c.1785.]
Stipple, scarce & rare. 375 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate on left.
'The Scotswoman mad through love'; a forlorn woman seated in garden, one foot resting on sheet with letterpress.
[Ref: 45345] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
S. Julien pinx. L. Julien sculp.
A Paris chez l'Auteur, rue de Bouley No 49 et chez Chereau et Joubert aux deux Piliers d'Or rue des Maturins. [n.d., c.1785.]
Stipple, scarce & rare. 375 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate on left.
'The Scotswoman mad through love'; a forlorn woman seated in garden, one foot resting on sheet with letterpress.
[Ref: 45345] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Humen] Ile de Bocca Tigre et Batteries de Bocca Tigris.](jpegs/56199.jpg)
[Humen] Ile de Bocca Tigre et Batteries de Bocca Tigris.
Paris del. Himely sc. de Sainson Edit. Finot imp.
[Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on chine collé. 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15") with large margins, blind stamp of 'La Favorite'. Some spotting in margins.
A view of the famous forts in the Pearl River delta, built to guard the approaches to Canton. Later in the 1830s the first major battle of the First Opium War was the British attack on these forts. Part of a series "Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830,1831,1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace", published in Paris in 1835 under the direction of Louise Auguste de Sainson. Under the command of Laplace, La Favorite explored Indian Ocean and the route to the Indies via the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and Malaysia, into the China Sea (1830-1832).
[Ref: 56199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Paris del. Himely sc. de Sainson Edit. Finot imp.
[Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on chine collé. 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15") with large margins, blind stamp of 'La Favorite'. Some spotting in margins.
A view of the famous forts in the Pearl River delta, built to guard the approaches to Canton. Later in the 1830s the first major battle of the First Opium War was the British attack on these forts. Part of a series "Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830,1831,1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace", published in Paris in 1835 under the direction of Louise Auguste de Sainson. Under the command of Laplace, La Favorite explored Indian Ocean and the route to the Indies via the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and Malaysia, into the China Sea (1830-1832).
[Ref: 56199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)