Grosvenor Prints

[The Observatory in Southwark] [Erected 1835 for the British Parallactic Society].
[Drawn & Printed by Charles Bellamy at his Lithographic Office, 20, Bridge House Place, Newington.][c.1835.]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Trimmed losing title and publication line.
A view of the triangular shaped observatory with steps leading to the top where a man stands on the platform next to a flag with "Observatory" on it, a large oblong object lies diagonally across, presumably a telescopic lens; below an open area where figures stand with the houses of Southwark surrounding.
[Ref: 57077] £420.00

Spooner's Protean Views No.4. Destruction of a Swiss Village by an Avalanche. The Village is seen by Moonlight, the inhabitants, by the lights gleaming from the casements & reflected on the Lake are not yet retired to their beds. The Morning dawn brings to the destruction of the Night an Avalanche has buried in its fall the village leaving but the Spire of the Church and the Turret of the castle to mark its situation.
London, W. Spooner, 377 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Sheet: 225 x 285mm (9 x 11¼'').
A scene which changes when held to the light.
[Ref: 48067] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Chinese Bridge Illuminated, On the Night of the celebration of the Peace, 1814.
J.H. Clark Del. M. Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold Aug.t 12th 1814, by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince Regent, Bond Street (corner of Brook St) London.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
On 1st August 1814 a series of events celebrating both the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the centenary of Hanoverian rule in England. In St James's Park a Chinese bridge with a pagoda was built over the lake; it was set alight by fireworks, killing one and injuring another.
[Ref: 56707] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan and Elevation of the Royal Fire Works to be Perform'd in St James's Park, April the 27th. 1749, on Account of the General Peace signed at Aix la Chapelle Oct.r. 7 1748.
G. Vertue Sculp Londini.
Drawn, Engrav'd and Publish'd 5th of April 1749, according to Act of Parliament.
Engraving, very fine impression. 410 x 555mm (16 x 21¾"). A few tiny holes. Thread margins. Slight tear bottom right.
The erections in St James's Park to stage the a display of fireworks to celebrate the second Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) of 1748, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52271] £750.00

Old Locomotive Engine, constructed by the late George Stephenson, for Killingworth Colliery.
Published by W. Fordyce, Newcastle [n.d., c.1850].
Wood engraving. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾").
[Ref: 56963] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Opening of The First English Rail-Way between Stockton and Darlington, Sept. 27th, 1825. Race of Locomotives at Rainhill, Near Liverpool, in which George Stevenson's "Rocket" won, 1829. A First-Class Train on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-way, 1833. A Second-Class Train on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-way, 1833
[n.d, c.1880.]
Coloured lithograph, later impression, Sheet 415 x 550mm (16¼ x 21¾"). Repaired tears.
Four scenes from early British railway history.
[Ref: 56682] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Fireworks at Strasbourg] Représentation des Edifices et Decorations Elevés, et du Feu d'Artifice exécuté le 5 Octobre 1744 sous le bon plaisir et en presence de Sa Majesté Louis XV, par les Ordres du Magestrat de Strasbourg, sur la Riviere d'Ill, et en façe du Palais Episcopal où Sa Majesté.
Inventé dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis Graveur de la Ville de Strasbourg. Gravé par J.B. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy.
[n.d., c.1745]
Etching. 450 x 770mm (17¾ x 30¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark and centrefold margin repaired, faint damp stain affecting margin and title area on left.
A massive fireworks display outside the Episcopal Palace, Strasbourg, with spectators lining the river. In 1744 Louis XIV travelled to Germany to join his army fighting the War of the Austrian Succession. He fell ill, so gravely that his chaplain could blackmail Louis into giving up his mistress before receiving absolution. When he recovered a five-day party was held, with the events recorded in 'Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi, à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville', with this being plate 5 of 11.
[Ref: 54038] £650.00

Suffolk. Railways. 27.
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 185 x 240mm ( 7¼ x 9½"). Folded as issued, time staining along fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A map of the railways showing ones under constuction and stations.
[Ref: 56922] £40.00

Sukey. Thaw.
Published Jan.y 10. 1825 by S. W. Fores Piccadilly London.
Hand coloured etching. 170 x 145mm (6¾ x 5¾"). Small loss and crease in bottom left corner. Trimmed.
A caricature of a woman with an umbrella, traipsing through a sodden street in the rain. She wears a purple dress and bonnet with a colourful green shawl.
[Ref: 57218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sun] Schema corporis Solaris, prouta P P Kirchero et Scheinero Roma Anno 1635 observatum suit.
[after Athanasius Kircher & Christoph Scheiner.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 200mm. Repairs, time stained. Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margin at top.
A plan of the surface of the sun, based on the work of Jesuits Athanasius Kircher (1601-80) and Christoph Scheiner (c.1573-1650) as published in Kircher's 'Mundus Subterraneus', 1665. A key labels the solar axis, the solar equator, the northern and southern poles, sunspots and solar prominences (clouds of smoke).
[Ref: 56859] £160.00

Parhelia _ No 2.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
Parhelia (or 'sun dogs') are an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Plate 96 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56789] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipse of the Sun.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
A solar eclipse over a Middle-Eastern landscape. Plate 60 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56790] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Soleil et ses principaux phenomenes. Pl. V.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Large image of the Sun with several sunspots, and smaller diagrams at the top showing the relationship of the Sun and Earth during the day and night and at different seasons. Small vignettes at the bottom give artistic renderings of a Transit of Mercury, The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape of Europe and an Annualar Eclipse. A bar down the left hand side of the main image shows the comparative size of the planets as seen from the Sun and a bar on the right shows the changing appearance of sunspots on different parts of its disc. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56898] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Soleil. De La Sphere. Figure XLVIII.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with letterpress. Time stained.
An illustration of the Sun after Kircher, shown above an Italianate landscape. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 56840] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
The Midnight Sun over the cliffs of North Cape, Norway, visible from 14th May to 31st July. Plate 65 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56788] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The surface and appearance of the Sun.] Astronomy. Plate 3.
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal.
Four diagrams illuminating the 'Paths of the spots across the disc of the sun at different peiods of the year', 'the zodiacal light', 'solar spots, viewed with high magnifying power' and the 'apparent magnitude of the sun as viewed from the various planets'. Plate 3 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56915] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Magnitude of the Sun, the Primary and Secundary Planets, and the Distances of the Secundaey Planets from their Primary Ones;
Deduced from the Latest Observations by S. Dunn. Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1786.
Engraving with mezzotint detailing. 360 x 560mm (14¼ x 22"), very large margins. Repaired tear in lower centre fold in margin.
A diagram comparing the sizes of the Sun and planets, and illustrating the distances of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn from their satellites. From ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57111] £450.00

Surrey and Sussex. Railways. 28.
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 185 x 240mm ( 7¼ x 9½"). Folded as issued, time staining along taped fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A map of the railways showing ones under constuction and stations.
[Ref: 56923] £40.00

Herschel's Forty-Foot Reflecting Telescope. Guide to Knowledge. No. LXXXIII. Price One Penny.
J. Archer sc.
London, Published for the Proprietors, by W. Edwards, No 12 Ave Maria Lane [n.d., 1837].
Wood engraving. Sheet 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small tears top margin.
William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, a reflecting telescope constructed 1785-9 at Observatory House in Slough, the largest telescope in the world for 50 years. It was dismantled in 1839 by Herschel's son, John, because of rot in the frame. From Duncan Bradford's 'The Wonders of the Heavens, being a Popular View of Astronomy'.
[Ref: 56833] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Temporary Mounting of an Achromatic Refracting Telescope. Te property of E.J. Cooper Esq.r M.P. Diameter of the Object Glass 13.5 Inches, Focal Length 25 Feet. Object Glass by M Cauchoix of Paris. Mounting and adjustments by Mr Tulley on the premises of Mr Cornfield, Clapham Sept 23rd 1831.
[W. Eldridge lit.g. Printed by Engelmann & Co.]
[c.1831.]
Lithograph, extremely scarce. Image 185 x 170mm (7¼ x 6¾"), title excised and pasted beneath. Trimmed, losing lithographer and printer's names, trimmed around title, pasted on sheet.
A wheeled frame for a telescope.
[Ref: 56828] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Ariel Telescope.
[after Laurent de la Hire.]
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street [n.d., 1757].
Coloured engraving. 190 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right.
A diagram of a tubeless telescope, from the 'Universal Magazine'.
[Ref: 56824] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Ariel Telescope.
[after Laurent de la Hire.]
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street [n.d., 1757].
Wngraving. 190 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on left, some toning of paper on left edge.
A diagram of a tubeless telescope, from the 'Universal Magazine'.
[Ref: 56826] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Optics. Plate XIII. 1 to 11 for Telescopes. 12 to 15 for Microscopes.
J. Pass sc.
Engraved for the Encyclopoedia Londonensis, 1820.
Coloured engraving. 270 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Narrow margins. One small wormhole top left.
Diagrams of parts of optical instruments.
[Ref: 57127] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tellurion.] Plate VIII.
J. Ferguson delin. J. Mynde sc.
[London: James Ferguson, c.1756.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, as issued, affecting signatures, binding folds.
Three illustrations of a tellurion, a device to depicts how day, night, and the seasons are caused by the rotation and orientation of Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun. From Ferguson's own work, ''Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles''. The title given comes from the text explaining the diagram, which is available in full from Project Gutenburg, at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60619/60619-h/60619-h.htm
[Ref: 56854] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye water near ye Court of ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle Oct. 18, 1748.) & exhibited June 18, 1749. N.S.
Ridge sculp.
Engraved for S. & I. Exshaw Dub: 1749.
Engraving. 195 x 430mm. Very fine Irish copper engraving.
In essence, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the War of Austrian Succession concluded status quo ante bellum. In the commercial struggle between Britain and France in the West Indies, Africa, and India, nothing was settled; the treaty was thus no basis for a lasting peace.
[Ref: 7192] £450.00

H.M. Ship, Thisbe. N.o2. On Fire by Lightning at Sea. 4.th Jan.y 1786
From a Drawing by N.M. Condy. Esq.re. Engraved on Copper by C. Rosenburg.
London, Published by John Weale, 1849.
Very rare aquatint, plate 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"), with large margins.
A view of the HMS Thisbe sailing on fire after being struck by lightning. Text below image goes into the details. The HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robertson.
[Ref: 57086] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT)

James Thornton.
J. Zoffany pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
London, printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs, 1.t July 1770.
Rare mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Some creasing and small tear at top. Small margins.
Portrait of James Thornton, gardener at Kew; within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing flower-patterned waistcoat beneath open coat and short wig. After Johan Joseph Zoffany (1733-1810).
Chaloner Smith 116, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 57083] £320.00

1. Phaenomenon, observ'd near Warrington. 2. Ansty Church. 3. Shulbred Priory. Pl. I.p.641.
Father Paul del.
Gent. Mag. August. 1799.
Engraving, plate 180 x 110mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins. Right edge holes where previously bound.
A series of views published in The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle: a tornado June 16th 1798 that occured in Warrignton, Cheshire, the small rural church of Ansty in Wiltshire and of Shulbred Priory (also known as Woolynchmere Priory) , in West Sussex both places of notable antiquity.
[Ref: 57031] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Town and Country Magazine] Frontispiece Vol VII. No 1.
I. Taylor f.
[1775.]
Engraving. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½") very large margins.
An allegorical frontispiece for the 'Town and Country Magazine', featuring classical gods, including Apollo and Cupid, around a globe. Isaac Taylor's original artwork, a pen and ink sketch with grey wash, is in the Yale Center for British Art.
[Ref: 56786] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Japanese script: trams in Tokyo]
[n.d., c.1903.]
Extremely rare chromolithograph. Sheet 400 x 545mm (15¾ x 21¾"). Multiple tears with loss in title in centre. Damaged.
Probably a newspaper illustration covering the electricification of the Tokyo Horse-drawn Railway in 1903, becoming the Tokyo Electric Railway (Toden)
[Ref: 56699] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Triangle with analemma adapted to show the sun's declination for every day in the year in all latitudes.]
[Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie]
[London : Published by James Reynolds. Decr. 7th.1852.]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 185mm (8½ x 7¼"). Tip is lightly soiled and creased.
Tool placed in the front inside of Reynold's book 'View of Nature in all Climates, from the Equator to the Arctic Circle' which consisted of a folded colored pictorial diagram engraved by John Emslie and four pages of descriptive text.
[Ref: 56880] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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

Union Chain-Bridge across the river Tweed near Berwick. Designed and Executed by Capt.n S. Brown, R.N. Completed 1820. Length 361 feet. Weight 100 Tons.
W. Henderson del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare aquatint, printed in blue and brown. Sheet 245 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate, tears taped. Central crease.
A view of the remarkable suspension bridge over the River Tweed between Horncliffe in Northumberland and Fishwick, Berwickshire, with an angler in the foreground. When it opened it was the longest wrought iron suspension bridge in the world; it is now the oldest suspension bridge still carrying road traffic. Captain Samuel Brown (1776-1852) championed the Royal Navy's use of chain link cables to replace unreliable hemp ropes in rigging. Leaving the navy he set up a chain-making company which provided the navy with chain until 1916. He also provided chain for Brunel's SS Great Eastern: the famous photograph of Brunel by Robert Howlett includes these chains. In 1817 he took out a patent titled the 'Construction of a Bridge by the Formation and Uniting of its Component Parts'. In 1819 he started building this bridge, with the help of John Rennie on the masonry, finishing in less than a year. In 1823 he built the Chain Pier in Brighton. In 1838 Brown was knighted by Queen Victoria. An unusual example, not finished with hand colour as expected.
[Ref: 56709] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Phenomena of the Universe by James Wyld Geographer to the Queen. 457 Strand, Charing Cross East, London.
London, Published by Ja.s Wyld Geographer to the Queen 457 West Strand, Charing Cross East [n.d., c.1840].
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"). A little soiling to the edges.
A plate with six illustrations, demonstrating: the seasons; eclipses; the solar system (with Uranus still called 'Herschel') and comets; the size of the sun as seen from each planet; tides; and phases of the Moon.
[Ref: 57125] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Vauxhall Bridge] This Plate exhibiting a Picturesque Elevation of the Iron Bridge Erected over the Thames at Vauxhall, under the Direction of James Walker, Engineer, & compleated A.D. 1816, Is respectfully Dedicated to the Vauxhall Bridge Company, by their very Obedient & humble Servant, Sam.l Cossart.
Sam.l Cossart del. J.s Basire, sculp.
Publishedas the Act directs, Nov.r 1, 1816.
Coloured engraving. 310 x 630mm (12¼ x 24¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, tears taped, some soiling.
The first Vauxhall Bridge, opened as a toll bridge in 1816, replaced 1906. A scale bar is drawn on a raft of timber lower right.
[Ref: 56685] £350.00

Ponte di Ferro della Pio-Latina presso Velletri.
[Etched by Cleter Gregorio.]
[n.d., c.1865.]
Aquatint. 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"), with large margins. Crease in bottom right corner.
A view of an iron railway viaduct at Velletri, near Rome, with a locomotive crossing. It was published in 'Le Scienze e le Arti sotto il pontificato di Pio IX' by Paolo Cacchiatelli and Gregorio Cleter, a record of the artistic, architectural, urban planning and scientific enterprises promoted by Pope Pius IX. This viaduct was needed to connect Rome and Velletri by rail. Originally it was planned as a monumental stone bridge, but an English company offered a cast iron bridge that they had built for a client but which had been rejected; it was shipped out and erected, allowing the Pope to open the railway in 1866.
[Ref: 56951] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Panorama al fresco with fireworks] Botanic Garden. Mr David Smith the Curator, most respectfully announces [...] A Benefit on Friday Evening, Oct. 7, on which Messrs. Southby & Adams have undertaken to produce one of the most Splendid Exhibitions That have yet taken place of the Grand Historical Spectacle, The Eruption of Vesuvius And the destruction of the Cities of Herculaneum & Pompeii. [...] The Eruption will take place at Eight o'Clock; but should the Weather be unfavourable, it will be postponed till Monday 10th.
M.C. Peck. Printer, Lowgate Hull.
1842 [old ink mss.]
Letterpress handbill. Sheet 340 x 205mm (13½ x 8"). A few small tears.
A hand bill for a show at Hull's Botanic Garden, with an exhibition of George Danson's immense protean view of the Eruption of Vesuvius: under normal light the painting showed a daytime view of the Bay of Naples but, at the appointed time, back-lighting changed the scene to night, with lava spewing into the air, accompanied by fireworks. George Danson (1799-1881) specialised in panoramas exhibited outside in pleasure gardens, usually first shown at Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, Walworth. This ‘Vast Panorama Al Fresco of Mount Vesuvius’ (first exhibited 1837) was admired by J.M.W. Turner. The 'Southby' mentioned here is J. Southby (d.1865), a self-created ‘Chevalier’, who was the pyrotechnist. Southby created the firework display for the coronation of Queen Victoria in Hyde Park in 1838.
[Ref: 57169] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Royal Children departing in their Railway Carriage for Scotland.] [&] [Queen Victoria Goes by Train.]
[London: Dean & Son, c.1850.]
Pair of tinted lithographs with hand colour. Sheets 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Trimmed into images, losing titles etc. Damaged.
Two scenes of the Royal Family's trip to Balmoral by train, first entering the royal carriage and then on route, with the 'Albion' locomotive.
See Ref: 58855, 20757, 12940 & 11711
[Ref: 56957] £380.00 view all images for this item

Vue De Ternate. Suppl, au Tome VIII. N.o 4.
[Jacques Nicolas Bellin]
[n.d., c1750]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), very large margins. Flattened creases where previously bound.
Depiction of Gamalama erupting in the early 1700s with a Portuguese fort shown. Made by Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) for Antoine-François Prevost's (1697-1763) 20 volume edition of 'L`Histoire Generale des Voyages' published by Pierre de Hondt, The Hague between 1747 - 1780. Gamalama is a near-conical stratovolcano that comprises the entire Ternate island in Indonesia.
[Ref: 57090] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Marie François Arouet de Voltaire de l'Academie Francoise...
ex [erasure].
à Paris chez Petit rue S. Jacques à la Couronne d'epines [n.d., c.1742.]
Engraving. 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4"), with large margins.
Portrait of François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher.
[Ref: 56871] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

François Marie de Voltaire, MDCCLXIX. Praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores. HOR.
J. June sculp.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Etching. 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed into plate on right.
Medallion portrait of François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher, after a bust by Lemoyne.
[Ref: 57198] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[A volvelle disk with a map of the Northern Hemisphere.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce engraving with original hand colour. Cut into a circle, 115mm (4½") diameter, pinhole in centre. Lacking backing sheet.
A volvelle disk, probably for calculating time difference.
See reference 56881
[Ref: 56798] £320.00

The Effect of a Water Spout at Sea. N.o 109.
J.F. Ellis. Pinx.t. H. Dawe. Sculp.
Pub.d April 1832 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town, R. Ackermann Strand & C. Tilt Fleet Street
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½).
A view of a ship on rough seas sailing away from a waterspout.
[Ref: 57034] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Phenomena of Water Spouts.
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7") Trimmed within plate.
A view of waterspouts lettered, presumably once with an explanatory key. Ships sail in the distance
[Ref: 57048] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Phenomena of Water Spouts.
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7") Trimmed within plate.
A view of waterspouts lettered, presumably once with an explanatory key. Ships sail in the distance
[Ref: 57050] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Waterfalls
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie 1846.
London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; Reeves & Sons; Rock & Co; Peacock & Mansfield. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamps on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon' and 'Broughton Hall West Derby.'
Data visulisation of waterfall heights with key; from Reynolds series 'Introduction to Natural Philosophy', a companion to Reynolds's series of Popular diagrams of natural philosophy comprising of two hundred and fifty illustrations.
[Ref: 56879] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Waterloo Bridge. The foundation of the Waterloo Bridge, was laid on Friday, Oct 11, AD1811, by the Directors for executing the same Henry Swann, Esq.r M.P. Chairman; in the Fifty- first Year of...
London; Published by J. Wright Engraver & Printer 35, Blue Anchor Passage, Bunhill Row. [n.d., 1812].
Rare engraving with text, 1812 watermark; sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. Tear.
A view of Waterloo Bridge with letterpress with engineering information.
[Ref: 56982] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Gloster "Gamecock"
Geoffrey Watson [signed in pencil]
Numbered 16/30 [c.1931]
Etching, 260 x 340mm. 10¼ x 13¼".
Etching by Geoffrey Watson, who produced a series of prints showing aircraft in flight. The Gloster Gamecock, an RAF biplane, first flew in 1925. It was also used by the Finnish air force.
[Ref: 14906] £480.00

Gloster SS19
Geoffrey Watson [signed in pencil]
1931. Numbered 16/30
Etching, 260 x 340mm. 10¼ x 13¼".
Etching by Geoffrey Watson, who produced a series of prints showing aircraft in flight. The Gloster SS. 19, also known as the Gauntlet, entered RAF service in the 1930s and saw combat in Finland in 1939-40.
[Ref: 14905] £480.00

Siskin IIIa.
Geoffrey Watson [signed in pencil]
Etching, 260 x 340mm. 10¼ x 13¼". Slight line across sky.
Etching by Geoffrey Watson, who produced a series of prints showing aircraft in flight. The Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, one of the first RAF fighters designed after World War I. They were used by RAF squadrons between 1924 and 1932.
[Ref: 14828] £350.00

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