Grosvenor Prints

The Siege of Bouchain. August 10, 1711.
A. Benoist Inv. C. Du Bosc fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [London: Claude du Bosc, 1737].
Engraving, 275 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"), on 18th century watermarked paper, with large margins.
A view of the siege of Bouchain, with John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, on horseback, overlooking the city. The fall of Bouchain on September 13 was to be his last victory, as he was stripped of his offices later in the year, three years before the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. A plate from 'The Military History of the Late Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of the Late John Duke of Marlborough: Including a Particular Description of the Several Battles, Sieges, &c. in which Either or Both Those Generals Commanded'. The scene is surrounded by a decorative frame.
[Ref: 64713] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Recueil de diverses Figures Chinoise du Cabinet de Fr. Boucher Peintre du Roy Dessinées et Gravées par lui-même. Avec Priv du Roy.
AParis Chez Huquier rue S.t Jacques, au coin de la rue des Matherins [n.d., c.1745].
4to (250 x 210mm, 9¾ x 8¼"), large margins, modern boards; engraved title and 10 plates, lacking one plate, plates 4, 7 & 9 from later state (with plate numbers). Remnants of glue on the reverse.
Scarce collection of portraits of Chinese characters, including musicians, soldiers, women and a doctor. The missing plate (6) is a magician.
Bibliothèque de l'INHA: NUM 4 EST 412.
[Ref: 60833] £2,000.00 view all images for this item

[French landscape] Engraved from the Original Picture.
Boucher Pinxit. Aliamet Sculpsit.
Published Oct.r 2.d 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving with sepia wash. 205 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"), on wove paper. Glue stains in very large margins at corners.
A river with an old bridge.
[Ref: 55618] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Two lovers in an elegant bedroom]
[after Jean Baptiste Pater.]
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, proof before all letters. Sheet 295 x 380 (11½ x 15"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
The woman sits on the end of the bed, drawing the man to her, while he gestures at a cat and a dog that pick off the remains of their meal.
[Ref: 54602] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Bouffet.]
[n.d., c.1710.]
Etching, proof before letters, 520 x 375mm. 20½ x 14¾". Chip into upper left corner of plate.
Cardinal Bouffet (b.1627 according to ink inscription below plate) set full length into a highly decorative emblematic border. Below is an empty cartouche before inscription. Probably engraved and published by François Chéreau (1680 - 1729).
[Ref: 9009] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Bougainville, abordant à Taïti, (iles Marquises.)
Rouargue frères del et sc.
[n.d. c.1846.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 146 x 235mm. 5¾" x 9¼".
Comte Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), soldier, sailor. After studying law and mathematics, he published a Traité de calcul intégral (1754-56) and was elected to the Royal Society (London). Having entered the military in 1750, he was posted to Québec in 1756 as aide-de-camp to Montcalm.
[Ref: 9342] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

M. Bougainville hoisting French Colours on a small Rock, in Maghellan Streights.
Vangro delin. Royce sculp.
London, Published by Alex,r Hogg at the Kings Arms No. 16 Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1794.]
Engraving. Platemark: 285 x 170mm (11 x 6¾").
Louis Antoine de Bougainville holding a French flag, standing on a rock with other figures, with a small boat and large ship in the distance. Bougainville served as aide-de-camp to the French General Montcalm in Canada from 1759 to 1761, assisted in negotiating the Treaty of Paris, and then established a French colony on the Falkland Islands in 1764. After the French gave up the colony to the Spanish, he led the expedition of the first French circumnavigation from 1766 to 1769. A plate from 'A new, complete, and universal collection of authentic and entertaining voyages and travels to all the various parts of the world.', publised by Alexander Hogg, 1794.
[Ref: 37410] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Antoine Bougainville.
Dessiné par Cless d’aprés un portrait en medaillon.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple. Plate 152 x 102mm (6 x 4"). Cut to plate on left.
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) the French admiral and explorer. He was a contemporary of James Cook, and took part in the French and Indian War against Britain. He was the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the world, and gained fame for his expeditions to the Falkland Islands and voyages into the Pacific. His name is give to the largest eastern island of Papua New Guinea, and the strait which divides it from the Island of Choiseul. In the Falklands, Port Louis and 'Isla Bougainville' commemorate him. From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden".
Kivell & Spence: pg.37 not in.
[Ref: 29529] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bougainville.
A. Maurin 1833 [signature facsimile in plate lower left.]
Impe: Lithr: de la 1e. Divon: Mile: r. du Paon No.8.
Lithograph, sheet 230 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼". Trimmed and laid to album page.
Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville (1729 - 1811), French admiral and explorer. By lithographer Antoine Maurin dit l'aîné (1793 - 1860), after the portrait by Jean-Pierre Franquel.
[Ref: 9715] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur Bougainville Hoisting the French Colours, on a small Rock near Cape Forward in the Streights of Magellan.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 160mm. Trimmed within plate.
The first French circumnavigation, 1766-69 (and the first to include a woman), under the command of Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
[Ref: 11089] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Gardens, Plantations &c: of Boughton in Northampton Shire, The Seat of his Grace the Duke of Montague &c: Containing in all 100 Acres & 130 Sqr. perches.
Ca: Campbell Delin: H: Hulsbergh Sculp:
[n.d. c.1725.]
Engraving. 360 x 483mm (14¼ x 19").
A plan of the gardens created by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, which extended over nearly 100 acres. From ''Vitruvius Brittanicus''.
[Ref: 67072] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan of the Gardens at Boughton in Northamptonshire containing 110 acres. One of the Seats of the of the most noble John Duke of Montague...
T. Badeslade delin
[London: T. Badeslade & J. Rocque, 1739.]
Engraving. 360 x 483mm (14¼ x 19"), large margins Damage at centre fold in middle.
A plan of the gardens created by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, which extended over nearly 100 acres. From volume 4 of ''Vitruvius Brittanicus''.
[Ref: 67073] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Bougis of Bokjes. 35
[after Johann Nieuhof.]
[London, c.1732.]
Engraving. 300 x 180mm (12 x 7¼"). Large margins.
A pair of tribesmen from the Dutch East Indies. From Niuehof's account of his travels in Asia as published in Awnsham and John Churchill's 'Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 38557] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Boulanger Flamand. [The Flemish Baker.] Gravé d'Après le Tableau original d'Adrien Van Ostad. Tiré du Cabinet du Chevalier de la Rocque.
A. Van Ostade Pinx. P. Chenu Sculp.
AParis chez Lebas, Graveur du Roy, rue de la Harpe. 1743.
Etching, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8". A fine and early impression.
Blowing a horn, head turned to the left, leaning on the lower half of a door; a small boy looking up to left. Advertised in 'Mercure', March 1743. After Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (1610 - 1685).
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18498] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Jeu de Boule, Ou IV.e Vûë de Flandre. 26
D. Teniers pinx. Le Bas Sculp.
a Paris chez J.P. Le Bas graveur du Roy, rüe de la Harpe vis a vis la rüe Percée 1742.
Etching. 365 x 460mm (14½ x 18"). Narrow margins, worm holes filled.
A group of boys play boule in a village.
[Ref: 45786] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ismael Bouillaud Astronome.
Jacobus Van Schuppen ad vivum pinxit. P. Van Schuppen Sculpsit.
[Paris] C.P.R. 1697.
Engraving, 250 x 185mm. 9¾ x 7¼".
Ismael Boulliau (1605 - 1694) was a French clergyman and amateur mathematician who proposed an inverse square law for gravitation before Newton. Boulliau was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, London, having been elected on April 4, 1667, seven years after its founding. By Pierre Louis van Schuppen (1627 - 1702).
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 13982] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Reverendiss: Dom. Hugo Archiepiscopus Armachanus Totius Hiberniæ Primas & Metropolitanus, Unus e primarÿs ejusdem Regni Justitiarys Anno Dom: 1728.
Mat: Ashton Pinx: Th: Beard Fecit.
[n.d., c.1728.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, old ink mss. in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Hugh Boulter (1672-1742), probably painted when he was Bishop of Bristol (1719-24), before his appointment as Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, a post he held from 1724 until his death. In that role he supported anti-Catholic measures, succeeding in depriving them of the right of voting at elections for members of parliament or magistrates, their sole remaining constitutional right. Beard was a Dublin mezzotinter.
CS 1, state i of ii, of which he notes that there is one known example.
[Ref: 61624] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The most Rev.d Father in God his Grace Doctor Hugh Boulter Lord Archbishop of Armagh Primate & Metropolitan of all Ireland and one of the Lords Justices of the said Kingdom.
[After Michael Dahl]
Sold by I.on Brooks at S.r Isaac Newton's head on Cork Hill Dublin.
Rare mezzotint, sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of Hugh Boulter (1672-1742). Boulter wears clerical robes, bands, and a chin-length wig, he gazes at the viewer with his right elbow resting on the arm of his chair and his left hand resting on the enormous volume balanced on his knee. Irish interest and Dublin publication.
CS 15 III of IV.
[Ref: 65767] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Boulton, Esq. F.R.S. & F.S.A.
Sir William Beechey pinx.t. Will.m Sharp sculp.t.
Published May 1 1801 by W.m Sharp, London.
Engraving. 525 x 390mm (20¾ x 15½"). Tears entering plate repaired, creasing. Small margins.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) the Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur, who was called 'the first manufacturer in England' by Josiah Wedgwood. He was the founder of the Soho Works in Birmingham in 1762, known for its high quality ornamental objects. In 1775 Boulton entered into partnership with the Scottish engineer James Watt who invented the steam engine; he supplied machinery for the new Mint on Tower Hill in 1805. Boulton also designed for the commercial art market, devising ormolu (gilt brass) mounts for the English potter Josiah Wedgwood's decorative wares. Both men belonged to the Lunar Society, a group of prominent Midlands men who developed ideas and techniques in science, manufacturing and transport.
W: 385.
[Ref: 59134] £380.00

Matthew Boulton, Esq.r.
Painted by C.F. de Breda R.A. of Stockholm & Painter to the King of Sweden. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Published March 1st 1796 by S.W. Reynolds. N.º 6 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
A seated portrait of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), a Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur (called 'the first manufacturer in England' by Josiah Wedgwood), holding a miniature and magnifying glass. Behind is his 'Soho Manufactory', where Boulton installed the first Watt steam engine with the sun and planet gear in a factory. It was also the first steam-powered mint. The original painting, by Carl Frederik von Breda (1759-1818), is in the Birmingham Museums Trust.
Whitman 34, ii of ii, before etching in the hair and glass. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64751] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Boulton, Esq.r.
Painted by C.F. de Breda R.A. of Stockholm & Painter to the King of Sweden. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Published March 1st 1796 by S.W. Reynolds. N.º 6 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Faint foxing.
A seated portrait of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), a Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur (called 'the first manufacturer in England' by Josiah Wedgwood), holding a miniature and magnifying glass. Behind is his 'Soho Manufactory', where Boulton installed the first Watt steam engine with the sun and planet gear in a factory. It was also the first steam-powered mint. The original painting, by Carl Frederik von Breda (1759-1818), is in the Birmingham Museums Trust.
Whitman 34, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64750] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Boulton, Esq.r.
Painted by C.F. de Breda R.A. of Stockholm & Painter to the King of Sweden. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Published March 1st 1796 by S.W. Reynolds. No 6 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Slight scuffing.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) the Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur, who was called 'the first manufacturer in England' by Josiah Wedgwood. He was the founder of the Soho Works in Birmingham in 1762, known for its high quality ornamental objects. In 1775 Boulton entered into partnership with the Scottish engineer James Watt who invented the steam engine; he supplied machinery for the new Mint on Tower Hill in 1805. Boulton also designed for the commercial art market, devising ormolu (gilt brass) mounts for the English potter Josiah Wedgwood's decorative wares. Both men belonged to the Lunar Society, a group of prominent Midlands men who developed ideas and techniques in science, manufacturing and transport. The original painting, by Carl Frederik von Breda (1759-1818), is in the Birmingham Museums Trust.
Whitman 34.
[Ref: 59084] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Boulton, Esq. F.R.S. & F.S.A.
Sir William Beechey pinx.t. Will.m Sharp sculp.t.
Published May 1 1801 by W.m Sharp, London.
Fine engraving. 525 x 390mm (20¾ x 15½") large margins. Backed with newspaper.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) the Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur, who was called 'the first manufacturer in England' by Josiah Wedgwood. He was the founder of the Soho Works in Birmingham in 1762, known for its high quality ornamental objects. In 1775 Boulton entered into partnership with the Scottish engineer James Watt who invented the steam engine; he supplied machinery for the new Mint on Tower Hill in 1805. Boulton also designed for the commercial art market, devising ormolu (gilt brass) mounts for the English potter Josiah Wedgwood's decorative wares. Both men belonged to the Lunar Society, a group of prominent Midlands men who developed ideas and techniques in science, manufacturing and transport.
W: 385.
[Ref: 52083] £320.00

Matth:w Boulton [facsimile signature.] 24th June 1787.
From a Wax Medallion modelled from life in the possession of Mr. John Rabone Junr.
Photographed by Mr. H.J. Whitlock, Birm.m.
Photograph. 222 x 145mm. 8¾ x 5¾".
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) the Birmingham industrialist and entrepreneur, who was called 'the first manufacture in England' by Josiah Wedgwood. He was the founder of the Soho Works in Birmingham in 1762, known for its high quality ornamental objects.
[Ref: 26644] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Bouquet. Choui-------- ! ...........Put! put! put! ...Pan!!....pan pan, pan! brrrr..pan, papapapaw pan! pan!!...pan! pouf! pouf! Patapatapouf !!!!!
Lith. de Delaporte, Seur de Langlumé. Lith par Vatier d'après Grandville.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, galerie Vero dodat.
Lithograph, 340 x 265mm. 13½ x 10½". Foxing around image; stain in top right. Crease to lower right corner.
Atmospheric print of a firework display and large crowd, complete with onomatopoeic text below.
[Ref: 8792] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Bouquet Pénétrez de respect et de reconnoissance, / Allez, Enfants chéris, recevoir des jou-joux [...]
C. Eisen Pinx. R. Gaillard sculp.
A Paris chés l'Auteur Rue S. Jacques au dessus des Jacobins entre un Peruquier et une Lingere [c.1770]
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x x 275mm (15 x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Children give a bouquet of flowers to their mother and receive toys in return. Engraving after a painting by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45110] £480.00

Henri IV. Sous le joug de la Cour et du Blaisir, donne neanimoins des Exemples de Valeur, et d'Humanite au Siege de la Rochelle. [title cut and pasted below image.] [&] Nec Aestus Nec Torret Hyems.
PP. Choffard fecit 1786. [ &] PP Choffard fect 17781.
A pair of etchings. Sheet 335 x 254mm. 13¼ x 10".
Two vignettes by Pierre-Philippe Choffard for Joseph-Louis-Ripault Desormeaux's (1724-1793) 'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon'. Desormeaux was the official historiographer to the Maison de Bourbon and his work was disrupted by the French Revolution and left unfinished at the reign of Henry IV. This 'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon" was published in five volumes and published between 1772 and 1788.
[Ref: 19968] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bonte et Valeur.
PP. Choffard fecit. 1775.
[Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale: 1775.]
Two etched plates. Sheet 330 x 254mm. 13 x 10".
Two of the numerous tail-pieces and vignettes by Pierre-Philippe Choffard for Joseph-Louis-Ripault Desormeaux's (1724-1793) 'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon'. Desormeaux was the official historiographer to the Maison de Bourbon and his work was disrupted by the French Revolution and left unfinished at the reign of Henry IV. This 'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon" was published in five volumes and published between 1772 and 1788.
[Ref: 19975] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

La Victoire déposant sur les Armes de France la Devise et l'ancien Ecu des Bourbons. [Cut out and stuck at top of image.] Bonte et Valeur.
PP. Choffard fect 1788.
Etching. 132 x 197mm. 5¼ x 7¾". Foxing, title cut.
A vignette by Pierre-Philippe Choffard for Joseph-Louis-Ripault Desormeaux's (1724-1793) 'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon'. Desormeaux was the official historiographer to the Maison de Bourbon and his work was disrupted by the French Revolution and left unfinished at the reign of Henry IV. This 'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon" was published in five volumes and published between 1772 and 1788.
[Ref: 19980] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles de Bourbon.]
[Engraved by Dominic Custos.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Charles de Bourbon (1566-1612), Count of Soissons, first cousin of Henri IV, best known for being Samuel de Champlain's patron in his attempt to colonise Canada. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32668] £320.00

Le Grand Conde. Louis debourbon [facsimile signature.] Tire du Musee Royal de France.
[Illegible signature in plate.] Lith. de Delpech.
[Paris, c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 485 x 315mm. 19 x 12½".
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1621 - 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Prior to his father's death in 1646, he was styled the Duc d'Enghien. For his military prowess he was renowned as The Great Condé (Le Grand Condé). After the full length painting by Joost van Egmont
[Ref: 12383] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Joseph de Bourbon] La Contre Revolution.
[etched by Ernest Jaime]
[Paris: Chez Delloye, Libraire-Éditeur, 1838.]
Coloured etching. 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
A satire on Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1736-1818), leading a counter-revolutionary army of nobles, priests and monks along the banks of the Rhine. A reversed copy of a satire from 1792, published in Ernest Jaime's 'Musée de la caricature ou Recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quatorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, pour servir de complément à toutes les collections de mémoires'.
[Ref: 62167] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Joseph de Bourbon] Marche du dom quichotte moderne pour la deffence du moulin des abus.
[etched by Ernest Jaime]
[Paris: Chez Delloye, Libraire-Éditeur, 1838.]
Etching with fine colour. Sheet 195 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1736-1818), satirised as Don Quixote for his attempts to organize a large counter-revolutionary army of émigrés. Mirabeau is Sancho Panza. The 'Army of Condé' fought for the armies of Austria, Britain and Russia before being disbanded in 1801. A copy of a satire from 1791, published in Ernest Jaime's 'Musée de la caricature ou Recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quatorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, pour servir de complément à toutes les collections de mémoires'.
See BNF ark:/12148/btv1b6947796f for the earlier version.
[Ref: 62166] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Anthoinne de Bourbon Conte de Moret. Conseiller du Roy en ses conseil Abbe' de sainct estienne de Caen:
Antonius van dyck pinxit.
Moncornet excudit. [n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½").
Antoine de Bourbon-Bueil (1607-1632), Count of Moret, was the legitimised son of the French King Henry IV (1553-1610) and his mistress Jacqueline de Bueil (1558-1651). He conspired with Gaston d'Orleans against the policy for the establishment of a strong Royal Government, and took part in the rebellion led by himself and the Duke of Montmorency against King Louis XIII, which led to the Battle of Castelnaudary. He was wounded during the battle, but his body was never found, and legend had it that he survived and carried on the life of a hermit in Anjou.
[Ref: 26040] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Louis de Bourbon duc d'Engvien Prince du Sang et Pair de France. [Below image.] Sonnet. Rome ne vente plus tes illustres Cesars, Grece, ne parle point de ton jeune Alexandre...Vous Grecs, & vous Romains parlez moy sans enuie, Ce que ce jeune Prince a fair en deuz Estez Vos Heros l'ont ils fait en trente ans de leur vie. Desfontaines.
B. Moncornet excudit Cum Privilegio Regis.
[n.d. c.1650.]
Paper watermarked. Sheet 324 x 210mm. 12¾ x 8¼".
Louis II de Bourbon-Condé (1621-1686) was a French General during the Thirty Years War and one of the leaders of the Fronde des Princes. Enghien heroically won the Battle of Rocroi, destroying the reputation of the Spanish invincibility.
[Ref: 15455] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ritratto d'un Compagno del Padre Luigi Bourdaloue della Compagnia di Gesu dell'istesso Poussino. 13.
[Paolo Fidanza.]
[n.d. c.1785.]
Very fine engraving and etching with large margins. Plate 272 x 184mm. 10¾ x 7¼".
A companion of Luigi Bourdaloue, the 18th century Jesuit theologian. From "Recueil de têtes choisies de personnages illustres dans les lettres et dans les armes éxactement dessinées et gravées de la grandeur des originaux par Paul Fidanza peintre romain d'apres les peintures de Raphaël d'Urbin et autres grands maîtres existantes au Vatican et dans plusieurs galeries de Rome".
[Ref: 26602] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Your truly affectionate Father Tho Bourdillon [facsimile signature].
G. Richmond Delt. J.H. Lynch Lith.
M. & N. Hanhart Lith Impt.
Lithograph on india paper. Sheet 310 x 450mm.
[Ref: 4890] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Apollon Pythien, du l'Apollon du Belvedere.
Dessine par Bourdon. Gra.ve a l'Eau-forte par Queverdo de Niquet j.ne. Termine p.r Niquet l'ai.e.
Déposé a la Bibliotheque Imperiale. [n.d. c.1800]
Engraving, plate 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"), with large margins.
An image of a Apollo Belvedere (or Pythian Apollo) statue amongst a wooded background.
[Ref: 63060] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Cupidon ou L'Amour, Fils de Venus.
Dessine par Bourdon. Gra.ve a l'Eau-forte par Queverdo de Niquet j.ne. Termine p.r Niquet l'ai.e.
Dep.e a la Dir.on de l'Imp.ie et la Lib.ie. [n.d. c.1800]
Engraving, plate 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"), with very large margins.
An image of a classical statue of Cupid with his bow; in a wooded background.
[Ref: 63061] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Diane Chasseresse. Soeur d'Apollon.
Dessine par Bourdon. Gra.ve a l'Eau-forte par Queverdo de Niquet j.ne. Termine p.r Niquet l'ai.e.
Dep.e a la Dir.on de l'Imp.ie et la Lib.ie. [n.d. c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 420 x 285mm (16½ x 11¼"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on left.
An image of a statue of Diana the huntress, holding a deer by the antler, in a wooded background. The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (also known as: Diana with a Doe, Diana Huntress, and Diana of Ephesus) is a slightly over-lifesize marble statue of the Roman goddess. It is currently in the Musée du Louvre, Paris
[Ref: 63058] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Venus. ditte la Venus accroupie.
Dessine par Bourdon. Gra.ve a l'Eau-forte par Queverdo de Niquet j.ne. Termine p.r Niquet l'ai.e.
Déposé au Bur.audes Estampes [n.d. c.1800]
Engraving, plate 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"), with very large margins.
An image of a Crouching Venus statue amongst a wooded background.
[Ref: 63059] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le C.te de la Bourdonnaye. Député de Maine et Loire.
Louise de C*** 1823. Litho. de Marlet. Lenoir Scrip.t.
Lithograph with very large margins, printed area 170 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½"). Crease upper left.
François-Régis de La Bourdonnaye, Comte de La Bretèche (1767-1839), politician. Bourdonnaye was elected deputy of Maine-et-Loire in 1815 and took an extreme right position in the royalist party. In his political career, which lasted until 1830, he favoured harsh punishments for those who had occupied prominent positions during the Hundred Days under Napoleon in 1815, further reducing the number of citizens entitled to vote, and fought against laws on personal freedoms and the press.
[Ref: 34866] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vüe du Vaisseau du Roy Le Duc de Bourgogne, Lancé a la Mer dans le Port de Rochefort le 20 Octobre 1751. Dedié a Monseigneur Le Duc de Bourgogne. Par son trés humble et trés obeissant Serviteur Ozanne, Dessinateur de la Marine a Brest et de l’Academis de Marins. Lorsque ce Vaisseau partit il parut un Oiseau de proye pour suivant une Colombe qui trouva son azile dans les Lauriers du Duc de Bourgogne.
Se vend a Paris chez la V.e de F. Chereau rue St Jacques aux deux Piliers d’Or. Avec Privilege du Roi. [n.d. c.1752.]
Engraving, rare. Plate 369 x 501mm (14½ x 19¾"). Trimmed, some damage.
The launching of the French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1752), the 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, from the port of Rochfort. Under Charles de Ternay, she was the flagship of the expeditionary corps that left on 2 May 1780 for the American War of Independence, and carried the Count of Rochambeau. She took part in the Battle of the Saintes and collided with Bourgogne (1767).
[Ref: 28900] £320.00

Berkhampstead _ Herts. June 10th 1837.
J.C. Bourne del et lith. Printed by Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published 1839 by J.C. Bourne, 19, Lamb's Conduit Street & Ackermann & Co, Strand.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 285 x 385mm (11¼ x 15¼"), with large margins.
A locomotive transporting earth from a cutting, with a bridge over it under construction. Plate 15 of John Cooke Bourne's 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway'.
Abbey 398: 'the finest type of lithographed illustration'.
[Ref: 49839] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Building the Stationary Engine House, Camden Town, April 28th 1837.
J.C. Bourne del et lith. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Published 1838 by the Proprietor J.C. Bourne, 19, Lamb's Conduit Street & Ackermann & Co, Strand.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 305 x 435mm (12 x 17"), with large margins.
The Stationary Winding Engine House hauled trains up from Euston to Camden Bank by means of an endless rope. The buildings were designed by Robert Stephenson. The building of the London-Birmingham Railway devastated Camden (Charles Dickens described the work as like 'the shock of a great earthquake' in 'Dombey & Son). The machinery installed here was only used from 1837 to 1844, but the vaulted buildings being built are now Grade II*, as a rare surviro of such structures. Plate 6 of John Cooke Bourne's 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway'.
Abbey 398: 'the finest type of lithographed illustration'.
[Ref: 49838] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Hampstead Road Bridge. Sept. 5, 1837.
J.C. Bourne del et lith.
London, Published Sept.r 1838 by the Proprietor J.C. Bourne, 19, Lamb's Conduit Street & Ackermann & Co, Strand.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 290 x 415mm (11½ x 16¼"), with large margins Tears in margins, one through publication line.
The bridge to carry the Hampstead Road over the new railway. Plate 3 of John Cooke Bourne's 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway'.
Abbey 398: 'the finest type of lithographed illustration'.
[Ref: 49844] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Railway Bridge over the Regent's Canal.
J.C. Bourne del et lith. Printed by Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published Sept.r 1838 by J.C. Bourne, 19, Lamb's Conduit Street & Ackermann & Co, Strand.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 270 x 380mm (10½ x 15") Tear in edge of large margins.
The construction of a bridge over the Regent's Canal in Camden, as one form of transport supercedes another. Plate 5 of John Cooke Bourne's 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway'.
Abbey 398: 'the finest type of lithographed illustration'.
[Ref: 49840] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Bridge over the Uxbridge Road, near Hanwell.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by J.C. Bourne. Printed by C.F. Cheffins.
[London, 1846.]
Tinted lithograph with faint hand colour. Printed area 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼").
The new railway bridge over the Uxbridge Road, Middlesex, from Bourne's 'History of the Great Western Railway'.
[Ref: 45681] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Watford Embankment. Nov.r 6, 1837.
J.C. Bourne del et lith. Printed by Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published Dec.r 1838 by the Proprietor J.C. Bourne, 19, Lamb's Conduit Street & Ackermann & Co, Strand.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 255 x 365mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
A long embankment with a viaduct, Plate 9 of John Cooke Bourne's 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway'.
Abbey 398: 'the finest type of lithographed illustration'.
[Ref: 49843] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Woolverton Viaduct. August 1837.
J.C. Bourne del et lith. Printed by Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published by the Proprietor J.C. Bourne, 19, Lamb's Conduit Street & Ackermann & Co, Strand. [n.d., 1839.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 255 x 390mm (10 x 15½"), with large margins.
Wolverton Viaduct, built to carry the London & Birmingham Line over the River Great Ouse, under construction. Plate 20 of John Cooke Bourne's 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway'.
Abbey 398: 'the finest type of lithographed illustration'.
[Ref: 49845] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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