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The Unlucky Surprise. [&] The Bengall Minuet.
The Unlucky Surprise. [&] The Bengall Minuet.
Pub.d. Accor.g to Act Nov.r 1 1773 by MDarly Strand [& Nov 3.].
Fine pair of etchings on one sheet, 18th century watermark. Each 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Slight paper toning. Uncut.
Two satires. Above a portly, middle-aged man opens a door to find his young wife in an embrace. Below, two figures in profile face each other for a minuet dance in a panelled interior, satirising a nabob (a man who had gained significant wealth with the East India Company) and his wife, preparing for their new place in society.
'Bengall' BM Satires: 5174. Unlucky Surprise not in BM.
[Ref: 55387]   £460.00  
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The Unpleasant Rencontre.
The Unpleasant Rencontre.
Design'd & Etch'd by D.T. Egerton.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 126, Haymarket, 1824.
Coloured aquatint. 210 x 270mm (8½ x 10¾") with wide margins. Slight stain through title, stitch marks in left margin, tear in bottom margin.
A scene from 'Fashionable Bores; or Coolers in High Life by Peter Quiz'. A woman, accompanied by her black steward, encounters her fiancé coming out of the 'Temple of Venus' (brothel). To the man this is a bore because the impending nuptials were what kept the creditors away. Daniel Thomas Egerton (1797-1842), satirist and landscape painter, murdered while living in Mexico, shortly after publishing 'Egerton's Views in Mexico'.
[Ref: 54329]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Key to The Un_President_ed Leap Dedicated Respectfully to the Edinburgh Gymnastic Club.
Key to The Un_President_ed Leap Dedicated Respectfully to the Edinburgh Gymnastic Club.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Pen lithograph, rare, 228 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Laid on linen, creasing.
Edinburgh legal satire on the efforts to leap highes and thereby attain presidency of the 'Edinburgh gymnastic club'.
[Ref: 29947]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Unter, wot would have taken the lead if he could.
The Unter, wot would have taken the lead if he could. [Above the design:] Locum Tenens The celebrated Hunter to be rode by Sir Clod A.S.S [Claudius], The Property of Gill [Guild] Hall.
[Anon., November 1830.]
Very fine hand coloured lithograph, very scarce, sheet 380 x 280mm. 15 x 11".
Satire "Locum Tenens, the celebrated Hunter"; shows a donkey in aldermanic costume sitting astride a horse. Alludes to Sir Claudius Hunter's involvement with the cancellation of the Royal visit to the City for fear of anti- Wellington riots. The alderman with an ass's head rides a rearing horse, a baton held out in his right hand in the manner of an equestrian statue. Hunter wears a cocked hat and furred alderman's gown over court dress. His head is turned to the right, and he smokes a cigar. The Latin phrase locum tenens (literally 'place-holder') refers to a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another.
BM Satires: 16312.
[Ref: 16143]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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La fileuse d'Unterwalden.
La fileuse d'Unterwalden.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A woman in Unterwalden, Switzerland, sat at a spinning wheel, making wood; she smokes a pipe. A fileuse was an instrumental piece with rapid figurations of various kinds suggesting the motion of a spinning wheel.
[Ref: 24117]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Untitled Classical figures]
[Untitled Classical figures]
G. B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by F. Bartolozzi, 1788.
Coloured stipple. 235 x 270mm.
[Ref: 1294]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Unwelcome Visiter.
The Unwelcome Visiter.
London Published by W. Soffe, 401 Strand, July 20th, 1830.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 240 x 280mm (9½ x11"). Trimmed inside platemark losing publication line.
A rare hand coloured aquatint showing two cats frightened by a dog in an interior scene. A line of manuscript on the reverse reads, 'For the scrap book with [Richards?] compliments if you think it worthy of it'.
[Ref: 33563]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Publisher.
The Publisher. [Pencilled:] (T Fisher Unwin.) Fisher Unwin.
[n.d. c.1908.]
Photogravure. 255 x 185mm. 10 x 7¼".
Probably Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935); he was an English publisher. He founded the publishing house T. Fisher Unwin in 1882 and was a joint founder of the First Council of Publishing Association.
[Ref: 19032]   £30.00   (£36.00 incl.VAT)
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Francis Unwin Etcher and Draughtsman With a Memoir by Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E. Seventeen Colltype Press.
Francis Unwin Etcher and Draughtsman With a Memoir by Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E. Seventeen Colltype Press.
edited by John Nash
and published by The Fleuron Limited. 101 Russell Street, London, W.C.1. 1928.
Book: 8vo (258 x 192mm). Board binding with cloth spine. 'Francis Unwin' stamped along spine in gilt. This edition is limited to 300 copies. Most pages stamped by the "Royal Institute British Architects MDCCCXXXIV" [1834]. Binding worn. Some time staining on edges of pages.
A small memoir of the artist Francis Unwin followed by a catalogue of some of his works.
[Ref: 10327]   £130.00  
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George Unwin, Esq.r.
George Unwin, Esq.r. Reviver of the Tin Trade to India and China in 1789. From the Original Picture Painted by S. Medley , in the Possession of R. A. Daniell Esq.r.
Painted by S. Medley. Engraved by N.C.Branwhite.
Published by S.Medley, 52 Threadneedle Street March 1-1805.
Stipple. Sheet: 225 x 310mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed within plate.
Half portrait of tin trader George Unwin (b. 1748) who revived the tin and copper trade to India and China to the benefit of the East India Company and the Cornish mining community. Unwin sits at a desk strewn with letters addressed to various persons in Cornwall and India House.
[Ref: 35440]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Portrait of William Upcott]
[Portrait of William Upcott] A Collector.
Engraved by T. BRagg from a Drawing by W. Behnes, March 1818.
Engraving on india, very fine impression; platemark 285 x 185mm (11¼ x 7¼").
William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector and son of the artist Ozias Humphry (1742-1810). Along with his early collecting of prints, coins and trade tokens, Upcott inherited his father's artworks and extensive correspondence. It was the latter which led Upcott towards his primary interest of collecting autographs. Upcott also catalogued the library at the Evelyn family home of Wotton in Surrey (in the course of which he acquired, possibly illegally, a number of items which he later refused to return), and compiled a biographical dictionary of British authors and a bibliography of British topgraphical works (a volume of which he holds in this print). In later years Upcott negotiated with various institutions interested in acquiring his collection (from the British Museum to the Library of Congress) but most of his collection remained with him at his Islington residence 'Autograph Cottage'. After his death the collections were dispersed in three sales: the British Museum purchased his collections relating to British topography, while the Evelyn family repossessed items Upcott had taken from the library. Engraved after a drawing by William Behnes (1791x7-1864), who was second only to Francis Chantrey as England's most prolific and successful portrait sculptor at this time.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 43354]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Up Parke in Sussex,
Up Parke in Sussex, the Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble Ford Ld. Grey Baron of Werke, Viscount Glendale Earle of Tankerville, and one of His Maj.ts Most Hon.ble Privy Councill.
L. Knyff Delin. J. Kip Sculp.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Fine engraving. 350 x 490mm (13¾ x 19¼"). Centre fold as usual.
An elevated view of Uppark, a 17th-century house and gardens in South Harting in West Sussex. The house, set high on the South Downs, was built for Ford Grey (1605-1701), the first Earl of Tankerville, c.1690, and was sold in 1747 to Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh. It came to the National Trust in 1954. With some imagination, Knyff's view includes shipping in the English Channel.
[Ref: 62669]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Up Parke in Sussex
Up Parke in Sussex
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), with wide margins, unfolded issue.
The house and gardens of Uppark in on the borders of West Sussex and Hampshire, near Petersfield. The house, set high on the South Downs, was built for Ford Grey, first Earl of Tankerville (c.1655-1701), politician and conspirator affiliated with the Rye House plotters who supposedly planned to kill Charles II and his brother to raise an insurrection. The house was sold in 1747 to Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh. It is now run by the National Trust. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
[Ref: 38541]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Upper Clapton Macaroni.
The Upper Clapton Macaroni. V.6. 6.
Pubds accord to Act by MDarly 39 Strand April 2d 1772.
Etching. Plate 178 x 128 (7 x 5").
Portrait of a man walking fast to the left and looking round to his left. In his right hand he holds out a striped and spotted handkerchief; in his left is a cane. Pens protrude from his coat pocket. His hair is in a twisted and looped club; he wears a three-cornered hat, frilled shirt, short coat, striped breeches, and a sword.
BM Satires: 5153.
[Ref: 38245]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Uppingham [pencil].
Uppingham [pencil].
Etched by Wallace Hester [pencil]
[n.d., c.1912.]
Etching, 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with large margins.
A view of Uppingham School in Uppingham, Rutland. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson (1540 – 1625). By Wallace Hester (1866-1942), artist and engraver who contributed caricatures to "Vanity Fair."
[Ref: 65170]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[Uppingham.____ "Chapel Quad".]
[Uppingham.____ "Chapel Quad".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. A Tallberg. [Etched into image:] F.P. Barraud. A. Tallberg sc.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Remarque in the title area. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 463 x 578mm. 18¼ x 22¾".
Uppingham School, Rutland, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. Edward Thring, headmaster from 1853 to 1887, opened the first gymnasium in an English school and commissiones this Chapel, designed by the famous Gothic Revival architext G.E. Street. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 25.
[Ref: 22053]   £320.00  
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Uppingham.____ "Chapel Quad".
Uppingham.____ "Chapel Quad".
Painted by F.P. Barraud. Etched by A Tallberg. [Etched into image:] F.P. Barraud. A. Tallberg sc.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Plate 463 x 578mm. 18¼ x 22¾".
Uppingham School, Rutland, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. Edward Thring, headmaster from 1853 to 1887, opened the first gymnasium in an English school and commissiones this Chapel, designed by the famous Gothic Revival architext G.E. Street. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
[Ref: 24952]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Uppingham. ______"Old School".
Uppingham. ______"Old School".
Painted by F.P. Barraud. Etched by F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Plate 425 x 553mm. 16¾ x 21¾".
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
[PSA states that the artist is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 24949]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 431 x 553mm. 17 x 21¾". Crease.
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.II. AP. 50. [PSA states that engraver is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 24950]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Remarque in title area. Plate 425 x 553mm. 16¾ x 21¾". Some toning.
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 25. [PSA states that engraver is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 22049]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Pencil signature:] F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil by engraver only. Printseller's Association stamp. Remarque in title area. Plate 425 x 553mm. 16¾ x 21¾". Some toning.
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
See PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 25. [PSA states that engraver is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 22050]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Uproar House!!!
The Uproar House!!!
Satirist inv.t. W H Ekoorb [Brooke] del.t et sculp.t.
Satirist 1st June 1813.
Very fine coloured etching. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed to printed border lower right for binding, folds as normal.
A performance on 1st May 1813 of Charles-Louis Didelot's 'Psyche et l'Amour' (for which he invented wires to enable characters to fly) is interrupted by a riot caused by Angelica Catalani refusing to sing until she was paid. Soldiers storm the stage with bayonets and the orchestra scatters. Ballet interest.
See BM 12133 for an extensive description
[Ref: 56720]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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[Arthur Percy Upton] Up-Town.
[Arthur Percy Upton] Up-Town. Colonel Upton.
Drawn Etch.d by Rich.d. Dighton. 1817.
Pub.d. bt T. McLean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10"). Some light markings.
Full length portrait in profile of Arthur Percy Upton, 3rd son of 1st Baron Templeton, an army officer and politician who served as MP for Bury St. Edmunds between 1818 and 1825).
BM 12911.
[Ref: 34401]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Porte Extérieure de Montévidéo.
Porte Extérieure de Montévidéo. Uraguay.
Dessiné par Fisquet. Lith. par Bichebois, Fig par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. Im. de Lemercier Bernard et C. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
A view of Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 13 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47191]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Marché de Montévidéo.
Marché de Montévidéo. Uraguay.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.e. Lith. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand Éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the market in Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 12 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47192]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Église de Montévidéo.
Église de Montévidéo. Uraguay.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.e. Lith. par Guiaud, fig. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand Éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of the church in Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 11 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47193]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Débarcadere de Montévidéo.
Débarcadere de Montévidéo. (Uraguay).
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.e. Sabatier lith. fig. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Creasing and damage in right edge.
A view of the harbour in Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 10 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47194]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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La Corvette l'Uranie entrainée par les courans au milieu des roches de Boulaboula, près de la N.lle Guinée.
La Corvette l'Uranie entrainée par les courans au milieu des roches de Boulaboula, près de la N.lle Guinée.
J.es Arago del. Lith de Langlumé & de L'Abbaye. n.4.
[Paris: Leblanc, 1822.]
Lithograph. Printed area 180 x 200mm, 7 x 8". Stitch holes in top edge.
A view of the corvette L'Uranie being dragged through rocks by the currents off New Guinea, during Freycinet's voyage to Australia. On the return voyage L'Uranie was wrecked off the Falkland Isles: although Freycinet's papers were all saved, over half the expedition's plant specimens were lost. The view was published in the Official Account, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 26400]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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I Sette Pianeli dispinti da Raffaele d'Urbino nella Sala Borgia del Vaticano.
I Sette Pianeli dispinti da Raffaele d'Urbino nella Sala Borgia del Vaticano.
Carlo Lasinio inc.
Si vendono da Nicola d'Antoni in Via del Corso No.35. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 340 x 500mm (13½ x 19¾"). Repaired tears. Damaged.
Two female allegorical figures, one with globe and a pair of compasses, the other with a magnetic compass, pay homage to a portrait of Gallileo, held up by cherubs. The title sheet from a series of allegorical plates of the planets, after Raphael's murals in the Vatican.
See Ref: 60385
[Ref: 60384]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Urial] Vigne's Wild Sheep.
[Urial] Vigne's Wild Sheep. Ovis Vignel.
[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 245 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), with very large margins.
The Urial, also arkars or shapo, from central Asia. 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: 50359]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Medecin Empyrique.
Le Medecin Empyrique. Gravé d'Après le Tableau Original de David Teniers, du Cabinet de Monsieur Le Compte de Vence.
D. Teniers. J. Tardieu Sculp.
Par J. Tardieu Graveur du Roy, rue des Noyers vis à vis celle des Anglois, AParis Avec Priv. dy Roy.
Etching. 275 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
An urinoscopist examining a bottle with urine at a table.
[Ref: 45336]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Vase in the Conservatory Room at Bromley Hill, brought from Rome by the Earl Brownlow.
Vase in the Conservatory Room at Bromley Hill, brought from Rome by the Earl Brownlow.
A L [monogram of Amelia Long.] Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare & scarce lithograph on chine collé. 270 x 240mm (14½ x 9½"), with large margins. Surface wear & soiling.
A vase belonging to John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, who was married to the artist's suster. Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772-1837). In 1793 she married Charles Long, created Baron Farnborough in 1826. An amateur etcher and a vigorous patron of the arts, he assisted the watercolourist Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) to make his one visit to Paris in 1801. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely admired by professional artists and drawing masters. Her watercolours also show the influence of her contemporary John Varley.
[Ref: 49996]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[A decorated urn on a plinth, between a pair of standing chinoiserie vases (interior).]
[A decorated urn on a plinth, between a pair of standing chinoiserie vases (interior).]
A L [monogram on stone.]
[British, n.d., c.1837.]
Rare lithograph with colour added by hand, 390 x 245mm. 15¼ x 9¾". Original card mount with ink ruled border. Some light foxing.
Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772-1837). In 1793 she married Charles Long, created Baron Farnborough in 1826. An amateur etcher and a vigorous patron of the arts, he assisted the watercolourist Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) to make his one visit to Paris in 1801. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely admired by professional artists and drawing masters. Her watercolours also show the influence of her contemporary John Varley. At Petworth House, Sussex?
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 27037]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Urquhart.
Urquhart.
R. R. M.clan pinxit. L. Dickinson, Lith. Printed by C. Graf.
London, Published by Ackermann & Co, 36, Strand [n.d., 1847].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"), on thick paper. Tear entering image bottom right, edges chipped.
A woman of Clan Urquhart, from Robert Ronald McIan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', Volume II, published in 1847. McIan (1803-56, also Robert Ranald McIan), was a Scottish actor and painter best known for romanticised depictions of Scottish clansmen, their battles and domestic life.
[Ref: 61060]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Punta dell'Ursa.
Punta dell'Ursa.
M.A.T.W. [Mary Anne Theresa Whitby] Newlands [c.1828].
Rare lithograph. Printed area 105 x 140mm (4 x 5½").
The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35693]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Ursa Major, or the Old City Bear.
Ursa Major, or the Old City Bear.
to be hand at the Acorn in the Strand [anon., 1756]
Engraving with hand-colouring, small margins, platemark 200 x 325mm (8 x 12¾"). Slight staining to edges, good overall.
Satire on Sir John Barnard's political misjudgment in opposing the corporation of London's address on the loss of Minorca. The 'Old City Bear' is Barnard, who fights off the Lord Mayor of London, Slingsby Bethel, and his Aldermen on the left, who carry the City Address to the King. The rope around Barnard's jaws is held by the Duke of Newcastle. At Newcastle's feet the British lion sleeps, while a French monkey points a pistol at him. In the background is a view of London showing Bow church with its dragon weathercock (Barnard was Alderman of the City of Bow). Early hand-colouring similar to that on the British Museum's impression of the print.
BM Satires 3510
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Method of Mixing Clay.
Method of Mixing Clay.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 145mm (3¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
A scene in Uruguay: men drive horses around a sunken corral, throwing buckets of water in. Adapted from an illustration in William Gregory's 'A Visible Display of Divine Providence; or, the Journal of a Captured Missionary, designated to the Southern Pacific Ocean'.
[Ref: 45656]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, presenting in pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Eighth Instant,
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, presenting in pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Eighth Instant, A Statement of Lands, Lots, Swelling Houses, and Slaves. Feburary 15, 1816, Read, and Ordered to lie upon the Table.
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis. 1816.
Pamphlet; pp. (4), rare. Worn edges.
A statement to Congress of the taxable value of each state, written by Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817), Treasury Secretary under President James Madison. Of the 18 states of the Union only 14 supplied statistics. According to the covering note: ''From the States of Southern Carolina and Louisiana, returns from the boards of principal assessors have not been received; and the returns received from the boards for the States of Virginia and Tennesse [sic] are incomplete and erroneous''.
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Map of the United States of North America,
Map of the United States of North America, Upper & Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia & British Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, St Domingo and the Bahama Islands.
By T. Ettling.
Supplement to The Illustrated London News, June 1st 1861.
Wood engraving with colour printing. Printed area 780 x 920mm (30¾ x 36¼"). Splits in binding folds.
A map of the United States of America at the outbreak of the Civil War, with the states colour-coded to differentiate between Union and Confederacy. The day of issue, June 1st 1861, the Federal Army entered Virginia.
[Ref: 57402]   £280.00  
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Northern Provinces of the United States.
Northern Provinces of the United States.
Drawn and Engraved for Thomson's New General Atlas. [Edinburgh: John Thomson, c.1815.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. 530 x 620mm (20¾ x 24½"). Paper pasted around printed border at bottom to hide damp stains.
A map of United States north east of Pennsylvania, with a vignette illustration of Niagara Falls.
[Ref: 43575]   £360.00  
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[The Useless and Useful Merchant.]
[The Useless and Useful Merchant.] De Nuttige, en Nuttelooze Koopman.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 510 x 430mm (20 x 16½''). Slight central crease as normal.
A Dutch satirical print commenting on the financial crisis of 1720. In an ornate formal garden the figures of Truth, Justice, Wisdom and Wealth gather by two thrones before which two merchants stand and kneel.
BM Satire 1706.
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Earl Howe's Decisive Victory Over the Grand French Fleet on the 1st of June 1794.
Earl Howe's Decisive Victory Over the Grand French Fleet on the 1st of June 1794.
Drawn by J. Morris late of the Navy with the assistance of a Naval Officer on board the Brunswick.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Watercolour ink and wash, 18th century watermarked paper, unique. Sheet 430 x 650mm (17 x 25½"). Wear to edges, two tears, crease through middle.
A naïve illustration of the Third Battle of Ushant (The Glorious First of June), in which the British navy sank or captured seven French ships but failed to stop a vital convoy of supplies reaching France. Keys name the ships and give statistics for each fleet. It appears that this is an original work: we have been unable to trace a published source.
Provenance: Hermitage Hexham.
[Ref: 30298]   £1,650.00  
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Biographical Sketch of the Life of James Usher.
Biographical Sketch of the Life of James Usher. B.p Usher.
Printed by T. Plummer, Seething Lane, for G. Offer, Postern Row, Tower Hill.
Engraved portrait with letter press. Watermarked paper '1807'. Portrait platemark: 180 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Overall sheet size: 345 x 215mm (13½ z 8½").
A portrait of Irish Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland between 1625 and 1656, James Ussher (1580 - 1656), with a detailed biography surrounding the image.
[Ref: 39469]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Jacobus Usserius, Archiepiscopus Armachanus, Totius Hiberniae Primas.
Jacobus Usserius, Archiepiscopus Armachanus, Totius Hiberniae Primas. Antiquitatis primaevae pertissimus, orthodoxae Religioni vindez [Greek Cryllic], errorum malleus in concionando frequens, facundus praepotens, vitae incupatae exemplar spectabile.
Rob: Pinck Vicecancellarius Oxoniensis posuit. W. Marshall Sculpsit. 1647.
Sold by George Badger in St Dunstans Church yard in fleet street.
Engraving. 272 x 159mm. 10¾ x 6¼".
Portrait of James Ussher, half length, seated at a table, wearing skull-cap, ruff and gown, writing in a book; curtain to the right, coat of arms at upper left. Frontispiece to his 'Body of Divinitie', 2nd edition, 1647. James Ussher (1581-1656) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and his death. He was a theologian and scholar and published a chronology of Earth based on the Bible, determining the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC.
NPG: D26751.
[Ref: 24699]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Camp No. 4, Near Promontory Point Great Salt Lake.
Camp No. 4, Near Promontory Point Great Salt Lake.
Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway N.Y.
[n.d., c.1853.]
Coloured lithograph, image 115 x 192mm. Glued to sheet at upper edge.
Published in New York for Captain Howard Stansbury's 'An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah' 1853. His survey contributed to the accumulating of information essential for locating the trans-American railway route.
[Ref: 7910]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Fort Utah On The Timpanogas. _ Valley Of The Great Salt Lake.
Fort Utah On The Timpanogas. _ Valley Of The Great Salt Lake.
A. Fay [in image]. Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway.
[n.d., c.1853.]
Coloured lithograph, image 112 x 192mm. Soiling, crease through upper right corner.
Published in New York for Captain Howard Stansbury's 'An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah' 1853. His survey contributed to the accumulating of information essential for locating the trans-American railway route.
[Ref: 7909]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, by William Hunter,
[The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to The Queen, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.]
[Printed at Birmingham by John Baskerville, 1774.]
Large folio, rebound in half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. [iv], with 29 engraved plates (of 34), each with a page of letterpress in English and Latin. Lacking title, one leaf of preface, plate list, plates 30 to 34, with text; plates 1, 2, 6, 8 trimmed into image at top by binder; plate 24 with long tear repaired; damp stains and toning throughout.
A scarce but incomplete example of the first edition of William Hunter's study of the uterus, with photographs of the missing pages. William Hunter (1718-1783), a Scottish anatomist, physician and and obstetrician. He worked with the artist Jan Van Rymsdyk to produce this work, one of the greatest achievements in the history of medical illustration.
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View Near Utrecht.- Albert Cuyp.
View Near Utrecht.- Albert Cuyp.
[Ralph Cockburn c.1816.]
Aquatint with fantastic colour. Sheet: 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"). Trimmed to printed image and mounted on card with captions pasted below as issued.
Two farmers stand with their cows and sheep, below them the town of Utrecht is visible. From a collection of aquatints of popular paintings in the Dulwich Picture Gallery's collection drawn, engraved and published by Ralph Cockburn, keeper of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, between 1816-1820.
Abbet 201.
[Ref: 43559]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Earl of Uxbridge.]
[Earl of Uxbridge.] A View Near Uxbridge.
Sketched by an Amateur. Etched by G.Cruik.k.
Pub.d. by G.Humphrey St James St. & 74 Bond Street Octr. 12th 1823.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Slight crease. Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Satirical portrait of Henry William Paget, 3rd Earl of Uxbridge (1768-1854), British Army officer and politician, riding a horse.
[Ref: 66890]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Uxbridge House.
Uxbridge House.
Published May 15.th 1800. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Tape marks.
View of Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly; fashionably dressed figures on pavements on street, a carriage entering street beyond the house; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59016]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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