Grosvenor Prints

A Man of the Tuda Race. Dr. Pritchard's Natural History of Man.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1844.
Coloured aquatint, paper watermarked: J Whatman 1848. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
A man from the Tuda Race, and Indian tribal group. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
See Ref: 30262 for a woman of the Tuda race.
[Ref: 30254] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Description of Nine Historical Prints, Representing Kings, Queens, Princes, &c. of the Tudor Family. Selected, Drawn, and Engraved, from the Original Paintings, by George Vertue, Late Engraver to the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Republished by the Society, MDCCLXXVI.
Nine engravings with title page and accompanying text. Text sheets 550 x 360mm (21½ x 14¼"), engravings on double sheets with central fold, with very large margins. Staining at bottom. Tears to edges of paper. Paper slightly toned. Printers' crease in PLIX.
Complete set of nine 'Historical Portraitures' engraved by the printmaker and antiquary George Vertue (1684-1756) after paintings relating to the Tudor family. These were originally published in three parts between 1743 and 1750. This is the complete edition which the Society of Antiquaries published in 1776, along with Vertue's notes on the pictures (which he presented to the Society). Engravings as follows: 1. Henry VII with Elizabeth of York, and Henry VIII with Jane Seymour (after Holbein); 2. The three children of Christian II of Denmark (wrongly titled the children of Henry VII, of Gossaert); 3. Mary, Queen of Scots and Charles Brandon; 4. Frances, Duchess of Suffolk and Adrian Stock (after Lucas de Heere); 5. Elizabeth I (incorrectly titled as Lady Jane Grey); 6. Edward VI granting the Charter for Bridewell to Sir George Barnes (after painting then attributed to Holbein); 7. Cenotaph of Henry, Lord Darnley; 8. The Surrender of Mary, Queen of Scots at Carberry Hill and the Escape of Earl Bothwell; 9. Queen Elizabeth and courtiers in procession to Blackfriars (mistitled 'Visit to Lord Hunsdon', after Gheeraerts).
Alexander 855; for individual plates from the set see refs. 13313 (Darnley cenotaph), 13309 (Bridewell), 23921 (Mary and Brandon) and 13312 (Elizabeth)
[Ref: 67499] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Tufted-Tailed or Mountain Kanguroo.
London, Published by G.B. Whittaker, Feb.y 1825.
Fine coloured engraving. 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
From 'The Animal Kingdom' by Georges Léopold, Baron de Cuvier, published 1827-35.
[Ref: 55358] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The Tug.]
Joseph Cook. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.][Alfred Bell & Co.]
Etching. 27 of 100 limited edition, in original mount with Advert slip. Plate: 235 x 325mm (9¼ x 12¾'') very large margins. Very slight stain.
A marine scene showing a tug boat bringing in a larger ship.
[Ref: 49342] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tug of War - Army v. Navy.]
E. Buckman [in plate] E. Buckman A.R.W.S. - inv et scul.t.
[London: Arthur Lucas, n.d., 1886.]
Proof etching, limited to 225 signed by the artist. 215 x 850mm, 8½ x 33½". Printsellers' blind stamp. Some foxing, wear to edges, cracks in lateral platemarks reinforced.
A tug of war between the navy and the army, which is represented by one of the Scottish regiments, with the team all wearing kilts. This was the first print in a series of British sports and games by Buckman, followed by Wrestling and Football (rugby).
[Ref: 22793] £360.00 view all images for this item

A View of the Palace & Walks of the Thuilleries. Les Promenades du Palais de Thuilleries.
Rigaud delin.
Sold by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1757 [but probably Hurst & Robinson, c.1818]
Engraving with strong contemporary hand colour. 240 x 445mm (9½ x 17½"), very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album.
Promenaders in the grounds of the Palais de Thuilleries, destroyed by the Paris Commune in 1871. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'. This example was probably published by Hurst & Robinson, who bought most of the Boydell business when it folded in 1818.
[Ref: 60202] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Tuileries Palace] Unité Fraternité. Les Thuilleries ou Chateau National. C'est dans ce Temple que nos Legislateurs Decrete les Loix [...]
[Anon., c.1795]
Etching with brown wash to border, scarce, sheet 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Foxing; crease & tears.
The Tuileries Palace in Paris, with allegorical elements celebrating it as a place of law, published during the First Republic.
[Ref: 44849] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Paris, Garden of the Tuileries.
London, Published March 1828 by Adam Friedel. Printed by R. Martin, 124, High Holborn.
Lithograph, scarce, sheet 445 x 340mm (17½ x 13¼"). Two tears.
Lithograph showing a busy scene in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, with stalls selling goods, men relaxing and reading the newspaper, and other activities. An interesting representation of Parisian life and fashions in the early 19th century.
[Ref: 43831] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Garden of the Tuileries. Jardin des Tuileries.
[P.A. Demachy.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Plate: 315 x 580mm (12½ x 21¾''), with very large margins.
A view of the ornate gardens of the Tuileries, many people promenade through the paths including two men in turbans.
[Ref: 50607] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Palace of the Tuileries facing La Place du Carrousel. Palais du Government.
Sparrow sc.
Engraving. Plate: 265 x 580mm (10½ x 23''), with very large margins Creasing.
A view of the Tuileries in Paris, part of the complex which included the Louvre Palace, the Tuileries was burned down in the Paris Commune 1871.
[Ref: 50604] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Nicolase Tulp, Burgemeester en raad der staad Amsterdam.]
[Engraved by Jacob Houbraken after Hendrik Pothoven.]
[Amsterdam: n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), large margins.
Nicolaes Tulp (1593-1674) was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. Pothoven drew this portrait from Rembrandt's painting 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp'.
Ver Huell: Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre, 247.
[Ref: 59784] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Tun-Min, Roy de la Chine. Sous la Puissance du Grand Cam, Ou Empereur de Tartarie...et Choisisent tel genre de mort q.ls veulent Quand a leurs Religions Ils Sont Grands Idolastres et Super stitieux, &.
[Engraved by De Larmessin].
Paris Chez P Bertrand Rue St. Iacques a la pomme d'Or pres St Seuerin, Avec Privil du Roy, [n.d. c.1685].
Engraving with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 234 x 159mm. 9¼ x 6¼".
Portrait of a Chinese Emperor, bust-length, facing front, wearing fur hat and tunic embroidered with dragons and adorned with pearls; in oval frame with ribbon tied in the upper part, and coat of arms in the lower part. 'Tun-Min' could be be Tianming/Nurhaci (1519-1626). From a large series of portraits, all following the same composition.
[Ref: 26192] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Castle.
J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt.
Pub. June 1, 1795, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside.
Sepia aquatint. 320 x 220mm. Some creasing to the lower corners.
From the 'History of the River Thames'.
Abbey: 432.
[Ref: 2426] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge School. To Dr. Knox, this Plate is inscribed by his obliged humble Serv.t J. Baker _
T. Rickards del.t et. Sc.t
[n.d. c.1820.]
Aquatint. Plate 133 x 204mm. 5¼ x 8".
Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821) was an English essayist and minister who after graduating from St John's College, Oxford, took orders, and became Head Master of Tonbridge School, Kent.
[Ref: 19252] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The New Church From The Common.
Lithographed by W. Clerk 202 High Holborn.
Published by R. Nash, Royal Library, Parade, Tunbridge Wells. [n.d., c.1830.]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 250 x 315mm (10 x 12½"). Some foxing and some surface dirt largely in margins. Some creasing that goes into the image.
A birds eye view of a church, houses and a common. Presumably in Tunbridge Wells. Possibly Holy Trinity Church, consecrated on 3rd September 1829, in 1982 it became Trinity Theatre.
[Ref: 58574] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Wells humbly Dedicated to Thomas Pellet M.D.
T. Badslade Delin. I Kip Sculp.
[London: D. Midwinter, 1719.]
Engraving, very fine impression, 18th century watermark. 350 x 430mm (13¾ x 17"), with very large margins. Central crease as normal as issued.
A detailed bird's-eye view engraved by Johannes Kip after Thomas Badeslade for John Harris's 'History of Kent in Five Parts'. The houses are named in the image, with the wells in the centre of the plate. The title is on a scroll at the top of the plate, along with Pellet's armorial. Thomas Pellet was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1716 and served as President 1735-9. William Hogarth painted his portrait about that time, which is now in the Tate Gallery.
[Ref: 68282] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Wells, from Mount Ephraim. No. 2.
Drawn from Nature & lith by H. Harris.
Pr. by Graf & Soret. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 220 x 280mm (8¾ X 11"). Very large margins.
An attractive view of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, from Mount Ephraim, with a number of figures on the paths before the town itself.
[Ref: 38071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Wells Chapel.
Lithographed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn.
Published by R. Nash, Royal Library, Parade, Tonbridge Wells. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 240 x 320mm. 9½ x 12½". Some marginal spotting.
Rare and attractive locally-published view of the church of King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; carriages, figures, and animals to foreground.
Abbey Scenery: undescribed. For a collection of views in the vicinity by the same publisher see 328.
[Ref: 15689] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Wells.
[after John Winston.]
London, Published 1st April 1804, Villiers St., Strand.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Trimmed into plate, glue stains from album on reverse.
A view of Tunbridge Wells Theatre, the first plate from Winston's 'The Theatrical Tourist: being a genuine collection of correct views...".
[Ref: 38838] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Tungchang.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving. 130 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
A view from Jan Nieuhoff's account of first embassy of the Dutch East India Company to China, as published in Ogilby's English edition.
[Ref: 38850] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Coletta of Tunis.
W. Devereux Del.
Dickinson & Co. Lith. [n.d. c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. 362 x 540mm. 14¼ x 21¼".
A view of the a Dome above the valley and city of Tunis.
[Ref: 25698] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tunis, een sterke verblyfplaets der zeeroveren...
Pet Schenk.
Amsteld. C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Fine engraving, 215 x 265mm. 8½ x 10½". Marginal tear lower left.
A panoramic prospect of Tunis, in Tunisia, North Africa. Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and Latin.
Hollstein, vol XV, nos.1306-1405.
[Ref: 9752] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

A General View of Tunis, a celebrated Town in Barbary. Engraved for Millar's New, Complete & Universal System of Geography.
Sherwin sculp.
[London: A. Hogg, c.1782.]
Engraving, 195 x 310mm (7¾ x 12¼").
A prospect of Tunis, in Tunisia, North Africa; shipping on the Mediterranean Sea to foreground. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782.
[Ref: 16684] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Bab Souika, Tunis.
D.Donald.
Published 1923 by the Museum Galleries, Museum Street, London W.C. Copyright.
Etching printed in colours, signed by the artist. 125 x 220mm, 5 x 8¾".
Bab Souika, one of the fifteen municipal districts of Tunis.
[Ref: 13545] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

North Africa.
D.Donald.
Published 1923 by the Museum Galleries, Museum Street, London W.C. Copyright.
Etching printed in colours, signed by the artist. 120 x 250mm, 4¾ x 9¾".
A town on a river, probably in Tunisia
[Ref: 13546] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Festival.]
D.Donald. [Pencil.]
Published 1923 by the Museum Galleries, Museum Street, London W.C. Copyright.
Etching printed in colours, signed by the artist. 200 x 120mm, 8 x 4¾".
A procession with flags, probably Tunis.
[Ref: 13650] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Beys Fond Tunis.
D.Donald.
Published 1923 by the Museum Galleries, Museum Street, London W.C. Copyright.
Etching printed in colours, signed by the artist. 170 x 110mm, 6¾ x 4½".
Street with Arab architecture in Tunis.
[Ref: 13652] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[A bearded man in a turban.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 250 x 195mm (13¾ x 8"), very large margins. Foxing in margins.
A head and shoulder portrait of a bearded Turkish man in a turban.
[Ref: 67063] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A bearded man in a turban.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 250 x 195mm (13¾ x 8") very large margins Foxing in margins.
A head and shoulder portrait of a bearded Turkish man in a turban.
[Ref: 67064] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Turc debout.] Pl.11.
Charlet [signed in the stone.] Lith de Villain.
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, boulevard des Italiens, No.5. [n.d. c.1828.]
Lithograph on india, very fine. Sheet 356 x 266mm. 14 x 10½". Foxing mostly off image.
A standing 'Turk' wearing a turban and a long coat, next to a table; two women, probably North African slaves, holding children are silhouetted behind him. According to La Combe [Joseph F L de, Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonné de son oeuvre lithographique, Paris, 1856] this lithograph was published as part of a series, in 'Croquis et pochades à l'encre par Charlet, 1828'. Very atmospheric.
[Ref: 19982] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Christianæ a Francia, Sabaudiæ Ducissæ, Cypri Reginæ, &c. Vinea Montana juxta Valentinum.
Thomas Borgonius inv & delineavit.
Johannes Blaeu Excudit [but The Hague, R.C. Alberts, 1724.]
Engraving. 445 x 605mm (17½ x 23¾"). Centre fold as usual, faint mount burn.
An elevated view of the 'Vineyard', a building complex, built for Christine of France (sister of Louis III) when she was Duchess of Savoy and regent to her son Francis Hyacinth. It was on the opposite bank of the Po River from the Castello del Valentino, the official residence of the Duke and Duchess outside Turin. This plate was published in Jan Blaeu's 'Townbook of Savoy', as reissued by Alberts.
[Ref: 33884] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of the City of Turin.
W.M. Craig del. T. Smith sculp.
Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool. Feb.y 1816.
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of Turin, with sheep and goats in the foreground.
[Ref: 67139] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

View of the City of Turin.
W. M. Craig del. E. Goodall sculp.
[Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool, April, c.1816.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 200 x 255mm (7¾ x 10") Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, corners snipped.
A view of Turin from outside the city walls.
[Ref: 63015] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Turin from the Portico of the Superga Church.
Drawn by J.M.W. Turner from a finished sketch by J. Hakewell. Engraved by James Mitan.
London March 1 1820 by John Murray, Albermarle Street London.
Steel engraving. 225 x 305mm (8¾ x 12"), large margins.
A view of Turin from the hilltop Basilica of Superga, which was built 1717-31 for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy.
Rawlinson 161.
[Ref: 66295] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Nuovo ponte sul Po in Torino. Nouveau Pont du Po a Turin.
Nicolosini dis. Stucchi inc.
Torino presso Gio. Batta. Maggi Negro.te di Stampa in Via de Po [n.d., 1827.]
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾"), with large margins. Uncut. Slight crease top right.
A view of the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I, Turin, with washerwomen working on the riverbank.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54963] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Piazza Reale a Torino. Place Royale a Turin.
Nicolosini dis. Stucchi inc.
Torino presso Gio. Batta. Maggi Negro.te di Stampa in Via de Po [n.d., 1827.]
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾"), with large margins. Uncut.
A view of the Piazza San Carlo, Turin, before the placing of the 'Caval 'd brons'.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54964] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of Turin as Besieged in 1706.
I. Basire Sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19"). Original binding folds, trimmed into plate at top, as issued.
A plan of Turin under siege by the French during the War of the Spanish Succession. The siege lasted two months and the French were on the point of victory when Prince Eugene of Savoy arrived with a relief army. Caught between Eugene's army and Turin's garrison, the siege collapsed, causing Marlborough to write 'I not only esteem, but I really love that Prince'. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 28274] £260.00

[The Royal Vineyard, Turin, during the fireworks] Veduta della Vigna di S.M. la Regina con l'illuminatione [parallel text in French]
Ignatius Agliaudus Architect ornavit Joan. Ant. Belmondus sculpsit Taurini 1737
Etching, rare, platemark 290 x 410mm (11½ x 16¼").
The villa of the Royal Vineyard in Turin, Italy, which underwent substantial expansion after it passed to Anna d'Orleans in 1692. This locally-published print shows a firework display taking place in the background.
Provenance: Thomas Pitt 1st Baron Camelford
[Ref: 45279] £420.00

[Turc Debout] Pl.18.
Charlet [signed in plate.] Lith de Villain.
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, boulevard des Italiens, No.5 [Paris, n.d., c.1828].
Fine lithograph on india paper, india 260 x 190mm. 10¼ x 7½". Margins a little foxed.
Full-length standing Turk wearing a turban and opulent costume; behind him a landscape and numerous figures; a figure on horseback in the mid-ground. Print made by Parisian illustrator Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845), from a series of lithographs 'Croquis et pochades à l'encre par Charlet' (1828), and printed by Villain on behalf of the publisherAntoine François Gihaut from Normandy.
See La Combe 'Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonné de son oeuvre lithographique' (Paris, 1856). British Museum Reference:1869,0410.109
[Ref: 22400] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Grec contemplant ses riches] Pl.4.
Charlet [signed in plate.] Lith de Villain.
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, boulevard des Italiens, No.5 [Paris, n.d., c.1828].
Fine lithograph on india paper, india 215 x 180mm. 8½ x 7". Margins a little foxed.
A "Greek" wearing a turban and cloak is seated at a table with coins and a box of jewels around him; a supernatural figure and a skeleton holding a scythe are represented with white outlines on a dark background. Print made by Parisian illustrator Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845), from a series of lithographs 'Croquis et pochades à l'encre par Charlet' (1828), and printed by Villain on behalf of the publisherAntoine François Gihaut from Normandy.
See La Combe:710 'Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonné de son oeuvre lithographique' (Paris, 1856). British Museum reference:1869,0410.94
[Ref: 22401] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Turk Assis.] Pl. 1.
Charlet [signed in plate.] Lith de Villain.
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, boulevard des Italiens, No.5 [Paris, n.d., c.1828].
Lithograph on india paper, india 235 x 190mm. 9¼ x 7½". Margins a little foxed.
A seated 'Turk' wearing a turban and embroidered coat; a devil wearing a wig and frock-coat and a bearded figure seen from behind are represented with white outlines on a dark background. Print made by Parisian illustrator Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845), from a series of lithographs 'Croquis et pochades à l'encre par Charlet' (1828), and printed by Villain on behalf of the publisherAntoine François Gihaut from Normandy.
See La Combe: 707 'Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonné de son oeuvre lithographique' (Paris, 1856). British Museum reference:1869,0410.90.
[Ref: 22403] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Turk. From a Sketch by the late R.P. Bonington (In the Possession of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. &c. &c.). Proof.
Plate 13 of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artist by Rich.d J. Lane A.R.A.
Printed by Engelmann & Co. London Published by J. Dickinson. 1839.
Lithograph on chine collé. Collectors stamp Sir Thomas Lawrence; Printed area: 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"), with large margins.
A portrait of a man in Turkish costume shown sitting in a corner with a long pipe. The original work was painted in the studio of Bonington's friend Eugène Delacroix, the props were taken from the studio and the setting imaginary. The oil painting was hung in an exhibition held for the benefit of the Greeks who were fighting for independence from Turkey.
[Ref: 47357] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Study of a Turk in profile.]
JG Spurgeon A.F.
[n.d., c.1800]
Etching, platemark 130 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Very large margins; on wove paper.
Bust of an oriental man with beard, wearing a large turban and fur-trimmed robe. By amateur printmaker John Grove Spurgeon (1747-1829) after Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), whose prints Spurgeon often imitated.
For a version of this image in mezzotint see ref. 20220
[Ref: 33078] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Turc qui fait sa priere.
JB [artist's monogram.] G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [French, n.d., 1714 or later.]
Etching, 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾". Filled chip to upper left margin.
A Muslim with turban and beard kneeling on a mat at prayer; one of a series of 100 characters observed on his travels by Charles comte de Ferriol, marquis d'Argental, French ambassador to the Turkish Sultanate. From 'Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, gravees sur les tableaux peints d'apres nature en 1707 & 1708. Par la Ordre de M. De Ferriol Ambassadeur du Roi a La Porte' (1714). Numbered '42' lower right. By French engraver and publisher Gérard Scotin I (1643 - 1715).
[Ref: 24920] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

La Grande Sultane. Captive, ou Greque, au Sultane presentee, /Quand te Ciel veut par moi, doner un successeur; Si desormais, je suis la moins aimee, Aucune dame au moins, n'egate mon honneur.
chez N. Bonnart, rue St. Jacques, a l'Aigle, avec privil.
Paris [n.d. c. 1675-1700]
Engraving. 270 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Small margin on left side. Toning in margins. Top right corner creased.
The Sultana of Turkey, holding a flower in her hand. Printed by Nicolas Bonnart (c. 1637 - 1718), the son of Henri Bonnart. He was largely active between 1664-70 and moved his printing business to St. Jacques Rue in 1674. From an album of 215 prints depicting different French costumes of the period, the majority are published by members of the Bonnart family.
[Ref: 54726] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Telmessus_Lycia.
I.H. Allan. A.R. Grieve, Zinco.
Printed by J. Grieve, 33, Nicholas Lane. [n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted zincograph with colour added by hand, 375 x 265mm. 14¾ x 10½".
Telmessos (or incorrectly Telmissis) was a flourishing city in Lycia, modern Turkey, on the Gulf of Fethiye. It was famed for its school of diviners, consulted among others by the Lydian king Croesus, prior to declaring war against Cyrus, and by Alexander the Great, when he came to the town after the siege of Halicarnassus. From John Harrison Allan's 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean'.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 6.
[Ref: 11741] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled map of the Levant.]
[Engraved by] De la Haye.
[Paris, c.1770.]
Engraved map, hand coloured. One sheet of two, 520 x 820mm. Some wear, slightly foxed.
The southern sheet of a two-sheet map of Eastern Europe and the Levant. This sheet shows the southern Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land and Kurdistan.
[Ref: 19990] £280.00

[Three women; interior scene in Turkey.]
Hanhart, Chromo-lith.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 190 x 265mm. 7½ x 10½".
Three women in hareem (?) in Turkey. One prepares a long smoking pipe; a hookah on the floor to right. Illustration to a travel book.
[Ref: 10306] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[One woman washes another's hands, Turkey.]
Hanhart, Chromo-lith.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 190 x 285mm. 7½ x 11¼".
Three female European travellers in Turkey. Illustration to a travel book.
[Ref: 10307] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Women dressing, Turkey.]
Hanhart, Chromo-lith.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 190 x 265mm. 7½ x 10½".
Female European travellers dressing in the Turkish manner; a young girl holds up a mirror. Illustration to a travel book.
[Ref: 10308] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

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