[Henry Woodward] M.r Woodward in the Character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Ha ha! a dream! / O then I see queen Mab hath been with you...
Published by W. Herbert at the Globe on London Bridge 1753 March 1. according to Act of Parliament. Price 6d.
Scarce etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired tears with loss of text, creases, edges chipped.
A full-length portrait of actor Henry Woodward (1714-77), in character in Shakespeare's play; standing in a forest, delivering the Queen Mab soliloquy.
[Ref: 68070] £180.00
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Dr.Woodward. From an Original Picture in the Family of his Executor, the Late Col.R.d King.
W.Humphrey Fec.t.
Pub. 2 May 1774 by W.Humphrey.
Rare Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼").
Portrait of Dr. John Woodward (1665 - 1728), Professor of Physic at Gresham College and endowed the Professorship of Geology at Cambridge University. CS19 ii of iv.
[Ref: 68262] £240.00
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[John Woodward] D.r Woodward, From an Original Picture in the family of his Executor, the Late Col. R..d King.
W. Humphrey Fec.t.
Pub. 2 May 1774 by W. Humphrey.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), large margins.
Portrait in oval of John Woodward (1665-1728), English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist. He was the founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge. CS 19.
[Ref: 59836] £120.00
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Mr. W.m Woodward.
I. Taverner pinx: I Smith fec:
[n.d., c.1690.]
Rare mezzotint. 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾").
Portrait of William Woodward (d.1692), Nonconformist Minister at Leominster; long white hair, wearing cap and black coat with wide sleeves. Previously Woodward was a tutor at Christ Church, and vicar of Whitchurch, in the diocese of Hereford; but he was ejected, and travelled to Turkey, after which he left the Anglican Church and became a nonconformist. After Jeremiah Taverner (fl. c.1690 - 1706). Chaloner Smith 281.
[Ref: 24270] £160.00
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Wool Drays on the Blue Mountains.
Maria Read. [signed in image.]
[n.d., c.1868.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Laid on card. Foxing. Some staining.
An amateur watercolour by Maria or Kate Read after a chromolithograph by Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880) titled 'Wool Drays' from his series of twenty four studies of Australian life titled 'The Australian Sketchbook' 1865. The image depicts several carts pulled by cattle across the plains of New South Wales, cattle were favoured for this sort of work because they were more reliable on the rought terrain, in the foreground a driver attempt to control his team. See 37164 & 37165 for similar watercolours.
[Ref: 37166] £260.00
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General Wool Rescuing a Mexican Family.
H. Warren, Hon. Mem. Philadelphia Soc. of Fine Arts, &c. &c. C.H.Jeens.
[n.d. c.1856] George Virtue, London & New York.
Engraving. Sheet 173 x 252mm. 6¾" x 10". Two small tears, and a crease. One visible stain outside of the image.
General Wool intervenes and rescues a Mexican lady and her child from being captured by Native Indians. John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) led the Chihuahuan Expedition during the Mexican–American War (1846-8)
[Ref: 8775] £45.00
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Thomas Jonathan Wooler.
From a Drawing by Cha.s Landseer.
Published 24th Nov.r 1817 by W. Hone, Old Bailey, and Sold by E. Wilson, Royal Exchange, amd all the Print dealers in the United Kingdom.
Etching. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9").
Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786-1853), publisher active in the Radical movement. He is best known for his satirical journal 'The Black Dwarf', published as a response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817). He was soon charged with seditious libel, but was acquitted on the grounds he was the publisher, not the author, of the offending articles. This portrait would have been issued at the time of the trial.
[Ref: 43398] £160.00
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Thomas Jonathan Wooler.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 160 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, laid on album paper.
Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786-1853), publisher active in the Radical movement, shown with a copy of his satirical journal 'The Black Dwarf' in his hand. It was published as a response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817). He was soon charged with seditious libel, but was acquitted on the grounds he was the publisher, not the author, of the offending articles. This portrait would have been issued at the time of the trial.
[Ref: 67438] £180.00
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The Cottagers. To the Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Spencer, &c. This Plate (Engrav'd after a Capital Picture of the same Size by Cornelius Du Sart, in the Possession of Mr. Bradford) is with the utmost respect Inscri'd by his Lordship's most obliged and obedient Humble Servant William Wollett.
Du Sart pinxit 1692. Browne Aqua forte fecit. Woollett sculpsit. Londini.
Publish'd by W. Woollett, Gr.n Str. Leicester F.ds R. Sayer & J. Bennett in Fleet Street & J. Boydell in Cheapside, as the Act directs, June 1765.
Etching and engraving with large margins, platemark 520 x 380mm (20½ x 15"). Full sheet.
Rural scene after Cornelis Dusart, painter and printmaker and pupil of Adrian van Ostade, the contents of whose studio he inherited. Fagan: 56.10/10
[Ref: 24966] £260.00
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William Woollet, Engraver.
T. Hearne F.S.A. advivum del. 1790. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp. 1790.
London Pub April 30 1795 by J. Thane, Spur Street, Leicester Square.
Stipple, printed in brown. 125 x 100mm (5 x 4").
William Woollett (1735-85), famed for his engravings after Benjamin West, including the 'Death of General Wolfe'. De Vesme 933, iii of iii.
[Ref: 63097] £160.00
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[William Woollet, Engraver.]
[T. Hearne F.S.A. advivum del. 1790. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp. 1790.]
[London Pub April 30 1795 by J. Thane, Spur Street, Leicester Square.]
Stipple, proof before letters. 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"), with large margins. Some foxing.
William Woollett (1735-85), famed for his engravings after Benjamin West, including the 'Death of General Wolfe'. De Vesme 933, i of iii.
[Ref: 63098] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Woolley Park. With the procession opening of the new public road on the 13.th Sept.r 1818.
A. Aglio pinxt. et delt. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published for & by the Author, 18 Berners St. October 21, 1821.
Coloured lithograph. 228 x 367mm. 9 x 14½". Slightly messy.
Figures on horseback and carriages proceeding across a bridge up a hill, figures watching from the side of the road. The gardens to Woolley Hall, Yorkshire.
[Ref: 26115] £140.00
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Hannah Wooley.
[1683.] [But later]
Rare engraving. Sheet 125 x 60mm (5 x 2¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some foxing.
Portrait of Hannah Woolley (c.1622 - 1675), English writer who published early books on household management. Frontispeice for 'The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight', 3rd edition, 1683. She is the author of the 'Queen-like Closet', a cookery book published in 1670. The book provides a recipe for trifle, involving cream but no custard, a gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and cheesecakes. The book also contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding
[Ref: 67656] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Woolly Kangaroo. Macropus Lanigerus.
Lewin del.t. New Holland. H. Kearsley Sc.
London, Published by G.B. Whittaker, March 1827.
Fine coloured engraving. Sheet 220 x 130mm (8½ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
From 'The Animal Kingdom' by Georges Léopold, Baron de Cuvier, published 1827-35. The artist, John William Lewin (1770-1819, son of bird artist William Lewin), was Australia’s first professional artist to arrive in the young colony as a free man.
[Ref: 55359] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
John Woolmore Esq.r F.R.S. Deputy Master of the Trinity House. From a Drawing by H. Edridge R.A. in the possession of C.H. Turner Esq.r
Private Place. Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1815.]
Lithograph on india, with large margins. 425 x 342mm. 16¾ x 13½".
Sir John Woolmore (1756-1838) was a captain with the East India Company and during his long career he sailed several East Indiamen to the Far East from London. He was also one of the leading figures behind the establishment of the East India Dock Company. He served as Deputy Master of the Trinity House from 1825 until 1834. Ex. Collection James Watt Jnr,. See NPG: D8799.
[Ref: 24789] £180.00
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Captain John Woolmore, F.R.S. Deputy Master of the Trinity House. From a Painting which was presented to that Corporation by the Merchant Elder Brethren In testimony of their Appreciation of his Public and Private Worth.
Painted by Sir Martin A. Shee, P.R.A. Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.
London, Published July 20, 1833, for the Proprietor, by Mr. C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. Plate 832 x 527mm. 32¾ x 20¾".
Captain John Woolmore (1755-1837), standing on a rocky shore in front of a cliff, wearing a coat with brass buttons, a dark necktie, holding a telescope against his body, his hat and gloves on a rock to the right, a sailing ship in the distance on the left. He was a captain with the East India Company and during his long career he sailed several East Indiamen to the Far East from London. He was also one of the leading figures behind the establishment of the East India Dock Company. He served as Deputy Master of Trinity House from 1825 until 1834. Whitman: 626.
[Ref: 19184] £420.00
[Philip Woolrich.]
[Engraved by Frances Place after John Greenhill.]
[Engraved c. 1680 but printed c.1800.]
Mezzotint, title masked out. 270 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"), with large margins.
Portrait of Philip Woolrich (d.1699), in elaborate wig and armour, looking over his right shoulder towards the viewer. Little is known about Woolrich: William Hutchinson wrote in his 'History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham' (1823) that Place had 'scraped a fine mezzotinto of his friend and relation Philip Woolrich'. The BM has a titled example annotated 'Buried at Darlington 23 July 1699'. The original pastel & chalk is in the Yale Centre for British Art. CS 14. Russell state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 67594] £160.00
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From near a Tree on the new Turf drive between the Old Grantham Road and the new path to Woolsthorpe.
F:W: Trench Ap: 1819.
Lithograph. Sheet: 380 x 540mm (15 x 21¼''), with large margins. Uncut.
A view looking up a hill to Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire from the road to Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir. By army officer and M.P. Sir Frederick William Trench (1775-1859).
[Ref: 50911] £160.00
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[Original sketch for Dugdales' England & Wales.] The Birth place of Sir Isaac Newton. Wolsthorpe. Lincolnshire.
[Thomas Hosmer Shepherd]
[n.d., c.1838.]
Colour wash sketch. Sheet 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"). Mounted on album paper at corners.
Woolsthorpe Manor, bithplace of Isaac Newton in 1642, and where the apple fell from a tree. It is now a National Trust property. This is the original sketch for the engraving published in ''Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated'', by Thomas Dugdale, published by John Tallis in parts from 1838.
[Ref: 60263] £300.00
Thomas Woolston B.D. Sometime Fellow of Sidney College Cambridge.
B. Dandridge Pinxit. Jno. Vander Gucht Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Engraving, 365 x 255mm. 14¼ x 10". A fine impression on laid paper, with full margins.
Thomas Woolston (1670 - 1733), enthusiast and free-thinker. After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754). NPG: D19356.
[Ref: 13587] £220.00
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River Orwell. Woolverstone House.
1843.
Watercolour in sepia tones. Sheet size: 255 x 360mm (10 x 14"). Glued to backing sheet in corners. Extreme right corner detached.
A fine watercolour depicting the River Orwell, with a steam boat travelling on the right and a sailing vessel in the centre. Woolverstone Hall can be seen in the middle gound. The house was built in 1776 for William Berners, a property developer from London who had gradually been acquiring extensive landholdings on the Shotley peninsula. The back of the house overlooks the River Orwell at a picturesque curve and from the sides of the house there are views both down and upstream towards Ipswich. The high level of skill and accuracy of the painting would suggest that it was made by an architect.
[Ref: 37743] £220.00
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A View of Woolwich. Prospect von Woolwich.
G.D. Heumann excudit Norimberg.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Etching, with large margins; 430 x 265mm. 17" x 10½".
View of boats on the River Thames near Woolwich. By Georg Daniel Heumann (1691 - 1759), draughtsman and engraver born in Nuremberg. He was a member of the Nuremberg academy, and described on some prints as 'Königl. Gross-Brit. Hofkupferstecker' (engraver for the British court?). This plate was bought and reissued in London by John Boydell (1719 - 1804) in 1750. See Guildhall Library Record: 22785.
[Ref: 26927] £260.00
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[Woolwich.] London. Sheet LXXXI. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, tears, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Woolwich, with the Royal Albert Dock (the site of London City Airport) and the Royal Victoria Gardens. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority, noting sales. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10972] £220.00
[The grand] Military Feast in Honor of the Queen's Coronation to the Royal Artillery at Woolwich [July 5th 1838]
[Printed & Sold by W. Belch. 6, Bridge St., Union St., Boro.]
Fine coloured wood engraving, scarce; sheet 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed, losing part of image left and right, and bottom line of text; glued to album sheet; with a cut copy of the new Great Seal of Britain
Banquet scene in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich, celebrating the Coronation of Queen Victoria. Engraved by the popular printmaker William Belch (1790s-1840s, fl.). Uncut impression in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University.
[Ref: 32278] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Woolwich - Sunday Evening, 1827.
G.L. [George Landmann] del et scul.
[n.d., c.1827.]
Rare coloured etching. Sheet 195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate; Landmann's name in old ink mss. in inscription area. Staining.
Officers preening in their dress uniforms. George Thomas Landmann, a Royal Engineer, was in Iberia between 1805-12, fighting in the Peninsular War. His 'Historical, Military and Picturesque Obervations of Portugal', containing 75 plates, was described by Tooley as 'the most beautiful illustrated English book on Portugal of the period'. See Abbey: 140 for his 'Observations'.
[Ref: 51737] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Mortar Battery at Woolwich.
T. Jones, del.t. C. Hunt, sculp.t.
London, Published September 13th. 1847, by Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.
Rare aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 580mm (16½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, wormholes.
The Royal Artillery demonstrating live fire of their mortars, watched by a large audience. Hickman p.209.
[Ref: 53898] £240.00
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Vue Générale des Alpes et Glacieres Prise du Chateau de Worb. Dedié à S.A.Royale Frederic Guillaume D Prince heréditaire de Prusse, Par son très humble et très respectueus serviteur Henzi.
Clement pin.x. Descourtis sculp.t. Imprimé par Guyant le jeune.
Se vend à Paris Rue des deux Portes S.t Sauveur chez Mr Graff [n.d., c.1785].
Aquatint and etching with fine hand colour. 320 x 450mm (12½ x 17¾"). Small margins
A large & fine view of the Alps, Worb Castle in the foreground. From ''Vues Remarkables des Montagnes de la Suisse, Dessinees et Peintes d'apres Nature, Avec Leur Description'', one of the earliest and rarest alpine colour plate books. Orignally published by Wagner in Bern in 1782, the plates passed to Bern publisher Rodolphe Hentzi who published them in 1785. This example has Graff's name added.
[Ref: 54921] £480.00
(£576.00 incl.VAT)
The South View of the City of Worcester, from Digley Fields.
T. Sandby delin & sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 1777.
Engraving. Sheet: 235 x 345mm (9¼ x 13½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A view of Worcester showing the cathedral and River Severn.
[Ref: 47942] £140.00
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The North View of the City of Worcester, from the Porto-Bello Henwick Hill.
T. Sandby delin & sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 1777.
Engraving. Sheet: 235 x 345mm (9¼ x 13½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A view of Worcester showing the cathedral and River Severn.
[Ref: 47943] £140.00
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The North East View of the City of Worcester, from Red-house Hill.
T. Sandby delin & sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 1777.
Engraving. Sheet: 235 x 345mm (9¼ x 13½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A view of Worcester showing the cathedral.
[Ref: 47944] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[The proposed Worcester and Birmingham Canal.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraved map with hand colour, 18th century watermark. Printed area 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Trimmed to printed border lower right, tear on fold, binding stitch holes.
A map showing the proposed Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the surrounding canal network, including Dudley, Kidderminster and Wolverhampton. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52276] £180.00
Porcelain Manufacturers To Their Majesties, By Appointment.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraved scrap. At most 55 x 70mm, 2¼ x 2¾". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A scrap showing the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company's warrant.
[Ref: 16264] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Waterman's Church. Worcester.
[British, Anon., n.d. c.1845.]
Scarce lithograph, sheet 205 x 260mm. 8 x 10¼". Two vertical folds (flattened). Glued to backing sheet.
Remarkable print of a floating church. Until the late 19th century, Worcester was a busy port. Traffic of many kinds came up the River Severn from Bristol and Avonmouth; the Worcester and Birmingham Canal from Diglis Canal Lock carried traffic to and from Birmingham and the Midlands A floating chapel for those employed on the river and canal was founded in 1842 by the Rector of St Clements, John Davies, who became known as the Apostle of the Watermen. Davies fitted up an old Severn barge, The Albion, for the purpose, and moored it at the old St. Clement's churchyard. In the later 19th century, a new Watermen's Church was built on land of corrugated iron, with a spire. Davies' memorial can be seen in St Clement's Church. See Worcester City Museums collection.
[Ref: 26348] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[...This Map of the County of Worcester...]
[Drawn, engraved and published by Isaac Taylor.]
[Ross-on-Wye, 1772.]
Engraved map, one sheet [of four], with original hand colour. 530 x 515mm (21 x 20¼"), with large margins. Some wear to edges. Slight creasing in right margin.
One sheet of Isaac Taylor's monumental four-sheet map of Worcestershire, showing the south-east of the county, decorated with a scale cartouche and compass rose. Taylor (c.1720-88, not to be confused with the engraver (1730-1807), lived at 54-55 High Street, Ross-on-Wye. He surveyed down plans and five large-scale county maps: Herefordshire 1754, Hampshire 1759, Dorset 1765, Worcestershire 1772, and Gloucestershire 1777.
[Ref: 59549] £230.00
[...This Map of the County of Worcester...]
[Drawn, engraved and published by Isaac Taylor.]
[Ross-on-Wye, 1772.]
Engraved map, one sheet [of four], with original hand colour. 530 x 515mm (21 x 20¼"), large margins. Some wear to edges. Tear top left.
One sheet of Isaac Taylor's monumental four-sheet map of Worcestershire, showing the north-west of the county, with Kidderminster, the map's key and gazetteer. Taylor (c.1720-88, not to be confused with the engraver (1730-1807), lived at 54-55 High Street, Ross-on-Wye. He surveyed down plans and five large-scale county maps: Herefordshire 1754, Hampshire 1759, Dorset 1765, Worcestershire 1772, and Gloucestershire 1777.
[Ref: 59552] £180.00
[...This Map of the County of Worcester...]
[Drawn, engraved and published by Isaac Taylor.]
[Ross-on-Wye, 1772.]
Engraved map, one sheet [of four], with original hand colour. 530 x 515mm (21 x 20¼") very large margins. Some wear to edges.
One sheet of Isaac Taylor's monumental four-sheet map of Worcestershire, showing the north-east of the county, with Droitwich, Stourbridge and Dudley, also marking Edbaston and Birmingham across the border with Warwickshire. Taylor (c.1720-88, not to be confused with the engraver (1730-1807), lived at 54-55 High Street, Ross-on-Wye. He surveyed down plans and five large-scale county maps: Herefordshire 1754, Hampshire 1759, Dorset 1765, Worcestershire 1772, and Gloucestershire 1777.
[Ref: 59553] £230.00
Word or Fenderland Farm. NB. This Farm lies in the Parishes of Word and Easty in Kent And was Plan'd by a Scale of 18 Poles to an Inch in 1775.
by Henry Hogben.
[1775.]
Manuscript estate plan on vellum. Sheet 500 x 695mm (19¾ x 27¼"). Some surface soiling.
A manuscript plan with a 25-point key surmounted by a basket of apples and grapes. Henry Hogben (1741-d.1822) of Doddington, surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, was the third generation of the family to be a mapmaker in Kent, plotting estates in Kent, Essex, Surrey and Hampshire. Versions of his maps of Thanet, the River Stour and Romney Marsh were published, 1775-1515.
[Ref: 55058] £420.00
[Word puzzles] Ses Caucaus de la Portière.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Eight wood engravings on one sheet, each block and title c. 55 x 40mm (2¼ x 1½"). Some creasing.
Eight images of people standing in doorways, holding a poster with a message made up of letters and images. Being in French makes the puzzles more difficult! See Ref: 60253
[Ref: 60252] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Word puzzles] Ses Caucaus de la Portière.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Eight wood engravings on one sheet, each block and title c. 55 x 40mm (2¼ x 1½"). Some creasing.
Eight images of people standing in doorways, holding a poster with a message made up of letters and images. Being in French makes the puzzles more difficult!
[Ref: 60253] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
W.m Wordsworth [facsimile signature].
Painted by Miss Margaret Gillies. Engraved by Edward M.c Innes.
London Published Aug.t 6 1841 by F.G. Moon, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Rare mezzotint on india, private plate. 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"); very large margins.
A seated portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), before an arched window. The painter, Margaret Gillies (1803-87), a Scottish painter known for her portraits of Wordsworth & Charles Dickens. For many years she lived with Thomas Southwood Smith, the physician who dissected Jeremy Bentham in 1832: Bentham's 'auto-con' (the box holding his preserved body) lived with them until 1850 when it was acquired by University College London.
[Ref: 39303] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
William Wordsworth.
Painted by W. Boxall. Engraved by J. Bromley.
London, Published June 10, 1832 by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, James Ryman, Oxford, and Robert Roe. Cambridge.
Mezzotint. 425 x 355mm (16¾ x 14"), with very large margins.
A half-length portrait of romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), with arms crossed. This was the first portrait by William Boxall, started in 1831 and was not highly regarded. Wordsworth told John Gardner that 'it has mortified me much that I cannot get any of my Friends and Acquaintances to be pleased with [it] or the Print - both of which they say are much too dark and gloomy'. The finished portrait was engraved in mezzotint by Bromley: 'except for my sister I cannot get anyone to look at it with pleasure'. The original oil is still in the possession of the Wordsworth family. See NPG 4211 for a preliminary version of the oil with description.
[Ref: 63957] £320.00
The North Prospect of Worksop Mannor, in the County of Nottingham, one of the Seats of the Most Noble Edward Duke of Norfolk...
Sam.l & Nath.l Buck delin. et sculp.t.
publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t July 2nd 1745. No I Garden Court Middle-Temple, London.
Rare engraving. 390 x 600mm (15½ x 23½"), with large margins. Repaired tear entering plate on left, edges scrappy.
Worksop Manor, built in the 1580s for the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, probably designed by Robert Smythson, burnt down in 1761.
[Ref: 49824] £380.00
[Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire.] To the most Noble Edward, Duke of Norfolk...
Sam.l & Nath.l Buck del et sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t July 2.d 1745 N.o1 Garden-Court Middle Temple London. I Laughten le Morthen, in Yorkshire.
Engraving, sheet 400 x 570mm (16 x 22½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Creases where folds have been restored.
A south view of Worksop Manor with the gardens; built in the 1580s for the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, probably designed by Robert Smythson, burnt down in 1761.
[Ref: 63057] £380.00
A General Chart, on Mercator's Projection, to Shew the Track of the Lion and Hindostan from England to the Gulph of China, and of their Return to England, with the daily statement of the Barometer and Thermometer as observed at noon; containing also the limits of the Chinese Empire, as extended by the Conquests of the present Emperor, Tchien-Lung.
J. Barrow del.t. B.Baker sculp.t.
Published April 12, 1796 by George Nicol.
Engraved map. Sheet 620 x 960mm (24½ x 37¾"). Creasing top left. Binding folds, one with a small split.
Map of the route taken by the George Macartney to China, heading the first British embassy to that country, 1792–94. It was published in Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'.
[Ref: 38155] £450.00
[Double-hemisphere world map.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink and watercolour on card. Sheet 45 x 60mm.
A charming miniature map.
[Ref: 51159] £130.00
The World Displayed; or a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from The Writers of all Nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several vain Editors and Translators are expunged, Every Relation is madde concise and plain, And The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. With Variety of Maps and Prints By the best Hands,. Vol IV.
[Edited by Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith & Christopher Smart.]
London: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Hoey, jun. in Skinner-Row, Dublin MXCCLX (1760).
One volume only (of 20); 6to, contemporary full calf, maroon morocco title labelpp. (viii)(title & contents)+214+(2)(ads); 8 engraved plates. Front cover detached.
The volume relating to the English discoveries in America, starting with John & Sebastian Cabot, with chapters on voyages include those of Drake, Raleigh & Davis, and the settlment of New England, Virginia, Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Bermuda, Bahamas and Jamaica.
[Ref: 38000] £220.00
Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet: 180 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"). Trimmed around globes. Some staining.
A double-hemisphere world map, with a separately-printed, frame-like border. The map illustrates the discoveries of Cook's three voyages (1769-1779), with New Zealand, New South Wales and Hawaii following his surveys. Also, Tasmania is separate from mainland Australia, as proved by Flinders & Bass in 1802.
[Ref: 39456] £320.00
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
[Engraved by Jodocus Hondius.]
[London, Michael Sparke & Samuel Cartwright, 1635.]
Engraved map, 140 x 200mm, 5½ x 8", set in a page of letterpress. Impression of the map weak.
Originally engraved in 1607 by Jodocus Hondius for his "Atlas Minor", the printing plate of this map was sold to a London publisher when new, up-to-date plates were introduced. It was first used to illustrate Samuel Purchas's "Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes" in 1625, then Sparke & Cartwright's "Historia Mundi or Mercator's Atlas", as this example. After thirty years' service the plate had become worn, resulting in a rather grey impression.
[Ref: 17431] £450.00
A Chart of the World, Exhibiting the Three Voyages of Capt.n Cook.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraved map. 195 x 310mm, 7¾ x 12½". Narrow margin on right due to binding.
A reduced version of the map of the world by Lieutenant Henry Roberts, who drew many of the maps published in the Official Account of Captain Cook's Third Voyage, during which he discovered Hawaii, where he was killed.
[Ref: 26390] £160.00
A New Mercator's Chart Drawn from the Latest Discoveries.
W. Harrison sc.
London, Published January 1st. 1794, by Rt. Wilkinson No.58 Cornhill.
Engraved map of the world, in original hand colour. 280 x 450mm, 11 x 17¾". Vertical centrefold as normal, stained from reinforcement to verso.
Australia is captioned 'New Holland', while what is now the western part of the USA beyond the Rocky Mountains is 'New Albion'.
[Ref: 13066] £320.00