Grosvenor Prints

Agriculture.
G.B.Cipriani Inv. I.M.Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.

A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 1275] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Agriculture.
G.B. Cipriani Inv. I.M. Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.
Uncut.
A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 55310] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Agriculture.]
B. West R.A. Historical Painter to his Majesty pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Historical Engraver to his Majesty sculp.t.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Unexamined out of frame, probably trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
An idyllic harvest scene, with figures cutting corn with sickles, binding sheaths, gathering grapes and plouching with oxen. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 1331.
[Ref: 50428] £1,200.00

Palatin. Boeuf Devon Durham.
Engrasse par M. Malo, Avecleur de la Vacherie Imperiale du Pin.
Lithographie a l'imprimerie Imperiale.
Very light staining in margins.
Printed image of three cows with details of cows at the Poissy Competition written in French.
[Ref: 56031] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.] Behold the figure of that man of Parts / who dive'd into the secrets of all Arts, / A Second Solomon, the mighty Hee / That try'de them all, and found them Vanity.
[London: R. Bentley, 1694.]
Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Profile portrait of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), a German physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian and occult writer, author of 'Three Books Concerning Occult Philosophy'. He was also a magician and a spy. This portrait was published as the frontispiece of his book 'The Vanity of Arts & Sciences'.
[Ref: 57199] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Agrippina, surrounded by her Children, weeping over the Ashes of Germannicus.
B. West R.A. pinxit, 1773, London. V. Green, Engraver in Mezzotinto to his Majesty Fecit. From the Original Picture in the Possession of A. Vesey.
Publish'd by J. Boydell, Cheapside July 23. 1774.
Mezzotint, very rare open letter title, 610 x 430mm. 24 x 17". Margin with tears, one just into plate at right.
The widow Agrippina, seated, mourns with her head resting against an urn inscribed with her husband Germanicus's name, comforted by one of her daughters, who touches her neck. A naked boy stands at her feet, leaning back with his hand on his brother's head; behind two young women stand, their arms around each other. A young man beside them buries his head in his hands, another son at the left bows his head; a crown, laurels and a statue of an eagle in the right foreground. In 5 AD Agrippina married Germanicus, her second cousin and step-grandson of the Emperor Augustus. Agrippina had nine children by Germanicus, including the future emperor Gaius (Caligula). Agrippina was very popular among the Roman people, not least because of her marriage to the much-loved Germanicus, whose ashes she brought back to Rome after his death in the east in AD 21. Her strength and popularity aroused the suspicions of the emperor Tiberius and his right-hand man Sejanus, head of the Praetorian guards and she and her eldest son were banished to the Pontian islands on the Bay of Naples in AD 29. Four years later, following a beating so severe that she was blinded in one eye, Agrippina starved herself to death. Her popularity, however, ensured a decent burial, and she was laid to rest at Rome in the Mausoleum of Augustus After Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Whitman: 180, II of II. Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14844] £360.00

Ah-quee-we-zaints. The Boy.
J. Harris sculp.t. [after George Catlin.]
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1844.
Slightly time stained.
A native American youth with a painted face, half-length, wearing a painted robe and holding a war axe. A reduced version of the portrait by George Catlin, published in 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 31507] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[King Ahasuerus & Queen Esther]
Guercino inv. Bartolozzi Sculp. [c.1790]

Two of the main personalities in the Book of Esther, one of the books of the Ketuvim ('Writings') of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Etching after a drawing by Guercino, by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. From a portfolio of eighty-two prints by Bartolozzi after drawings by Guercino in the Royal Collection.
Calabi and De Vesme 2143; for later state see ref. 21218.
[Ref: 44148] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aehmed II,
[after C. Dubosc]
[German, c.1700.]

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi (1643-95) Sultan from 1691, during a period of disaster for the Ottoman Empire. Soon after his succession the Austrian victory at the Battle of Slankamen drove the Ottomans from Hungary. Published in Demetrius Cantemir's 'History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire'.
[Ref: 29845] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Audientie Saal, waar in de Keyserlyke Ambassadeur den Graaf van Virmond [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Leon: Schenk Fecit.
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Trimmed to plate.
A scene showing the visit of Austrian ambassador Damian Hugo of Virmont (1666-1722) to Constantinople in August 1719. The ambassador is received by the Sultan Ahmed III (1673-1736).
[Ref: 59243] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Achmet Effendi.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Top corner missing.

[Ref: 29885] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Ahoy [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]

A nude woman waves a towel from the sands of a wet beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62508] £360.00

[Frontispiece to 'A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester' by John Aikin]
Stothard delt Grignion sculpt
Publish'd June 4 1795 by J. Stockdale Piccadilly
Trimmed to plate.
Allegory with six female figures sitting in a ring, one holding a cornucopia, another a sickle, another the wand of Aesclepius. Putti overhead, ship in background. Frontispiece to John Aikin's 'A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester' (1795). Aikin (1747-1822) was a physician and writer, who practiced medicine until a stroke ended his medical career in 1796. It was during his spare time while working as a doctor that he produced many of the works for which he is best known, including the 'Description', a valuable account of the Manchester area at a time of rapid industrialization.
[Ref: 40847] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr: Will:m Aikman, Painter. Engraved for the Bee.
From an Original painting by himself, in the possession of Mrs. Forbes, Edin.r
Published by J. Anderson, Nov.r 13th. 1793.
Trimmed.
William Aikman (1682-1731), was a portrait painter who studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He took up a career as an artist and, by 1703, was painting portraits professionally in Edinburgh. He sold his family estate near Arbroath to enable him to travel unfettered to Europe to complete his artistic training. Aikman spent three years in Rome, before visiting Turkey and then spent a further period in Rome. He returned to Scotland in 1712, where he made the acquaintance of the poet Allan Ramsay and found an enthusiastic patron in John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, who persuaded Aikman to move to London. He established a distinguished portrait practice in London, portraying royalty and many members of the aristocracy.
[Ref: 18956] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

W. Harrison Ainsworth [facsimile signature.]
A d'Orsay fecit 21. Novr. 1844 [facsimile.] C. Graf, Lith to Her Majesty.

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), Novelist. Ainsworth was an author of popular historical romances. He initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with Rookwood (1834), featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him as the successor to Sir Walter Scott. Jack Sheppard (1839), the story of an eighteenth-century burgular, was equally successful, but its supposed glamorisation of crime proved controversial. From then on Ainsworth switched to historical novels based on places rather than criminals, including The Tower of London (1840),Old St. Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (1841), and The Lancashire Witches (1849).
[Ref: 12768] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Aintree Race Ground, near Liverpool. Shewing the various Courses. 1842.
Drawn & Engraved by G. Tattersall.
London. Published March 1st 1842 by R. Ackermann, 191 Regent Street.

Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool. The hotelier and sports promoter William Lynn (1792-1870), who had leased the Waterloo Hotel in Aintree in 1820, leased the racecourse in 1829 (probably as a way of attracting customers to his hotel), erected a grandstand, and was soon organizing three meetings a year. By the time this print was published, however, the artistocracy had become involved. Lynn's name had been removed from the card (he was declared bankrupt in 1844), and the 'Grand National', first run in February 1839, was officially adopted in 1847 for the national racing event at the course.
See Ref: 58322
[Ref: 41083] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

L'Air.
dessigne par Huret grave par Couvay.
de l'impression de Mariette Avec privilege [n.d., c. 1660].
Small tear in bottom margin. Small margins.
A woman standing on a terrace, fanning herself. From a set of the Four Elements.
[Ref: 54649] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Air.
[n.d., c.1800].
Scrap sheet with ten hand coloured etchings glued to it. Sheet 480 x 305mm (19 x 12"). Some creasing, glue stains, surface dirt and ageing of the paper.
A rare set of scenes with rhyming couplets explaining the usefulness of air in motion, featuring a hot air balloon, instruments, kites, bubbles, fans, bellows, wind, glassblowing, a popgun and a windmill. Game of cricket in background.
[Ref: 56972] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Duo. Hymne des Marseillois et Air Militaire by L. von Esch. Pr. 2.s 6d.
F. Bartolozzi fecit. Ent.d at Sta. Hall.
Printed & Sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouse, 97, Strand [n.d, c.1800].

The title page to a music book, featuring a cherub writing music and another engraving the title. Louis von Esch (c.1765-1829) was appointed music teacher to Princess Charlotte in 1802.
De Vesme 1952 v of V. Different publisher.
[Ref: 65143] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A View with sections of Princes American Air Pump which is Superior to Smeatons, and every other modern construction. See System of Pneumatics.
Blake delin.t. Lodge sculp.
Published as the Act directs, by C. Cooke No. 17 Paternoster row.

Several diagrams of an air pump, as well as an illustration of an air gun. From William Henry Hall's 'The New Encyclopaedia: Or, Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences' (text and key to plate available on Google Books').
[Ref: 61445] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Air Pump improved by Mr. Haukesbee F.R.S.
Printed for J. Hinton at ye Kings Arms, S.t Pauls Church Yard, 1747.

A diagram of an air pump designed by scientist Francis Hauksbee (1660-1713). The double barrelled pump was presented to the Royal Society in 1703.
[Ref: 46304] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Aircraft factory] Intelatura di Ali ''Caprioni''.
Carlo Vitali.
[n.d., c.1930.]
Some spotting.
A factory making wings for 'Caproni' aircraft.
[Ref: 60924] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Let Sleeping Dogs Lie]
HD 1930.
Copyright 1930 by Frost & Reed Ltd. (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Unexamined out of frame.
Two airedale puppies blissfully asleep. Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
[Ref: 56064] £950.00

The Hill Top [pencil]
Lucy Dawson [pencil]
[n.d. c. 1930]

[Ref: 1598] £360.00

[Pair of Airedale Terriers.]
Arthur Wardle [Pencil signature]
Published by F.Mansell, 1 Orleston Road, Holloway, London N, 1904.

[Ref: 6470] £520.00

View of the Island of Airick, belonging to the Group of Kawen, in the Radack Chain.
I. Clark sc.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Trimmed inside platemark. Nick in top left & right corner.

[Ref: 37333] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

G. B. Airy. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty this print of G. B. Airy, M.A.F.R.S. Proffesor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge is by His Majesty's Gracious permission humby dediated by his faithful servant & subject W. Mason.
Drawn by _ Wageman. On Stone by W. Slater. Printed by Graf & Soret. [n.d., c.1840.]
Published by W. Mason, Cambridge & by W. H. Mason

A rare portrait of George Biddell Airy (1801 - 1892), astronomer royal. Half length, seated, to the left, looking at the viewer with his hands together in his lap. In his role as Astronomer Royal between 1835 to 1881, Airy established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. His reputation has been tarnished by allegations that, through his inaction, Britain lost the opportunity of priority in the discovery of Neptune.
[Ref: 35776] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

G. B. Airy [facsimile signature].
1852 T.H. Maguire.

A half-length portrait of George Biddell Airy (1801-92), seated, holding a device. During his tenure as Astronomer Royal (1835-1881) he established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
[Ref: 57109] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Aislabie, Esq.r. Dedicated to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club by their obedient Servant W.H. Mason.
Painted and engraved by H.E. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Trimmed within plate, top left corner chipped.
A half-length portrait of Benjamin Aislabie (1774-1842), placing a book, ''M.C.C. Subscribers to Matches'', on a table, engraved by Dawe from his own painting of 1838 (still in the collection of the M.C.C.). A wine merchant and cricket administrator, Aislabie joined the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1802, becoming President in 1823 & acting as secretary from 1822 until his death. A large man, he averaged 3.15 runs in over 100 innings, taking only eight wickets, 1808-41. Towards the end of his careet he needed a substitute not only to run for him when batting but also to field. Despite his lack of skill he was very popular. In 1841, he took the MCC team to Rugby for the match celebrated in 'Tom Brown's School Days' by Thomas Hughes.
O'D 19. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 64346] for proof impression.
[Ref: 65632] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Aislabie, Esq.r. Dedicated to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club by their obedient Servant W.H. Mason.]
[Painted and engraved by H.E. Dawe.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Trimmed within plate, small tear entering image taped.
A half-length portrait of Benjamin Aislabie (1774-1842), placing a book, ''M.C.C. Subscribers to Matches'', on a table, engraved by Dawe from his own painting of 1838 (still in the collection of the M.C.C.). A wine merchant and cricket administrator, Aislabie joined the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1802, becoming President in 1823 & acting as secretary from 1822 until his death. A large man, he averaged 3.15 runs in over 100 innings, taking only eight wickets, 1808-41. Towards the end of his careet he needed a substitute not only to run for him when batting but also to field. Despite his lack of skill he was very popular. In 1841, he took the MCC team to Rugby for the match celebrated in 'Tom Brown's School Days' by Thomas Hughes.
O'D 19. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 65632] for lettered version.
[Ref: 64346] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

James Aiten. Alias John the Painter.
Lond. Mag. March 177[7].
Trimmed into date on right.
James or John Aitkin (1752-77), a Scot better known as John the Painter, shown in the dock during his trial for arson attacks on British dockyards during the American War of Independence. A painter by trade, his knowledge of chemicals paint solvents enabled him to make crude incendiary devices. After attacking Portsmouth and Bristol Dockyards, causing a general panic of a large band of arsonists, he was captured, tried and hung at Portsmouth on 10th March 1777. The mizzenmast of HMS Arethusa was taken from the ship and erected at the dockyard entrance, so that the reported 20,000 spectators could all get a good view. It was the highest gallows ever to be used in an execution in England.
[Ref: 40942] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Yours Truly, John Aitken.
On Stone by S.T.G. From Portrait by Mr. F.F. Hutton. 1854.
Campbell & Fergusson, Melbourne.

A portrait of John Aitken (1792-1858) a pioneer sheepbreeder. Aitken was the son of a Scottish farmer who arrived in Van Dieman's Land in 1825.
[Ref: 45926] £320.00

A Russian Dandy a scene at Aix la Chapelle. Tis said that the Head of the Forces allied, Not having a Coat to his Back, A generous Monarch the needful supplied, And when thus equip'd they sat down side by side, To drink their Champaign & theire Sack, Now doubtless this Hero of wonderful note, Had the Monarch allowed him to choose, Would have barter'd his honor to sit in his Coat, For the Pleasure to stand in his Shoes.
Pub Dec 8th 1818 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilli & Oxford Street.
Laid on paper. Mount burn. Time staining. Small crease in top margin. Taped tear bottom margin.
Scarce and good satire image showing the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, held in the autumn of 1818. It (incorrectly) suggests that the Tsar imposes his policy on Wellington, who attended the Conference as Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces, Castlereagh being the British plenipotentiary. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) stands left wearing a uniform and cocked hat with field-marshal's plume. He faces talking to Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1777-1825). They both wear giant boots that reach the hips, and being wrinkled at the ankles suggest the trousers of the dandies. Wellington: "One may be allowed a Variety of Mistresses; but I have such a Variety of Masters, I shall not know which to serve first!!!" Alexander: "I think you will be a little Straiten'd in it." One of the Russians: "Our Master has put him in a strait coat now; it will be well if he does not get a Strait Waistcoat by & by."
BM Satires 13010.
[Ref: 60704] £420.00

[George IV acknowledgement of Friedrich Ferdinand replacing Luwig II as Duke of Anhalt-Kothen.]
Jean Volrade Louis Baron de Salmouth.
1818.

A manuscript acknowledgement of Friedrich Ferdinand replacing Luwig II as Duke of Anhalt-Kothen. 'To a Convention concluded at Aix la-Chapelle for the Evacuation of the French Territory by the Allied Troops signed at Bernbourg'. Manuscript in English and French. Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, which took place between October 1 - November 15, 1818, was the first of the four congresses held by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and France to discuss and take common action on European problems following the Napoleonic Wars (1800-15).
[Ref: 39504] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Ajunta. General View Of Caves Comprising Caves N.o 21 & 26. Plate II.
From A Sketch By Ja.s Fergusson Esq.r. T.C. Dibdin Del & Lith. M & N Hanhart Imp.
Published by John Weale, 59 High Holborn. [1845]

A perspective view of a few of the Ajanta Caves; 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. Universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, the caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that present emotions through gesture, pose and form. From 'Illustrations Of The Rock-Cut Temples Of India: Selected From The Best Examples Of The Different Series Of Caves At Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, And Mahavellipore. Drawn On Stone By Mr. T.C. Dibdin, From Sketches Carefully Made On The Spot, With The Assistance Of The Camera-Lucida, In The Years 1838-9, By James Fergusson, Esq. - London:: [1845]'.
Abbey 467 plate III.
[Ref: 62939] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Ajunta.Verandah Of Vihara N.o 2.. Plate N.o IX.
From A Sketch By Ja.s Fergusson Esq.r. T.C. Dibdin Del & Lith. M & N Hanhart Imp.
Published by John Weale, 59 High Holborn. [1845]
Creases and repaired tears to top and bottom margins.
A view the veranda of one the Ajanta Caves; 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. Universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, the caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that present emotions through gesture, pose and form. From 'Illustrations Of The Rock-Cut Temples Of India: Selected From The Best Examples Of The Different Series Of Caves At Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, And Mahavellipore. Drawn On Stone By Mr. T.C. Dibdin, From Sketches Carefully Made On The Spot, With The Assistance Of The Camera-Lucida, In The Years 1838-9, By James Fergusson, Esq. - London:: [1845]'.
Abbey 467 plate X.
[Ref: 62938] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Amara, een voorname Staft, midden in opper Ethiopie, Abyssine genaemt, verblyfplaets van de kinderender Abyssyrische koningen. Amara, Abyssinae, sive interioris Lybiae, oppidum prima rium, mediterraneum, regni cognominis caput.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d. c.1740.]

Amhara, is one of the nine ethnic divisions of ancient Abyssinia now Ethiopia. The stream here is a tributary to the Lake Tana, around the Semien Mountains.
[Ref: 17086] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

How to dine "Al Fesco."
E Landells [in image lower right]
London, Published Sept.r 1840, for the Proprietors of the Sporting Review, by R. ACkermann, 191 Regent St.

Young gentlemen at a racing meet, arranging refreshments on their stagecoach. By Ebenezer Landells (1808-1860), illustrator and magazine proprietor. Landells was acquainted with journalists as William Makepeace Thackeray and Henry Mayhew, with whom he launched 'Punch, or, the London Charivari', and after selling his share went on to work with other propminent magazines such as the Illustrated London News. A former pupil of Thomas Bewick, Landells' work spans the transition from the years prior to the invention of photography, to the end of the nineteenth century when the traditional documentary function of printmaking had essentially been eliminated.
[Ref: 37548] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Qasr al-'Ashiq, Iraq] Al-Ajik, beyond Samarra.
Charles W. Cain. [pencil signature]
[n.d. 1921.]
Faint mount burn around image.
A view of the Abbasid palace of Qasr al-'Ashiq, built 877-882. From Cain's 'Second Mesopotamian Set', limited to 40. Charles W. Cain (1893-1962) produced 74 etchings and engravings of scenes in Iraq, Persia, India and Burma (Myanmar) between the 1920s and 1930s, likely inspired by his service in the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia. With such a distinctive thematic subject Cain gained a strong reputation as an Orientalist printmaker.
[Ref: 62221] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Der Alabasterer.
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]

[Ref: 38915] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Alabaster Anno Aetatis Suae Luxi Studii Arcanae Theologiae 33.
Corn: Iohns: pinxit. Iohn Payne sculpsit:
[n.d. c.1633.]
Trimmed inside plate.
Portrait of William Alabaster, the divine; head and shoulders in an oval. Used as the frontispiece to his 'Ecce sponsus venit' of 1633. William Alabaster (1567-1640) was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain when on a diplomatic mission as chaplain. His religious beliefs led him to be imprisoned several times; eventually he gave up Catholicism, and was favoured by James I. He received a prebend in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Ex Collection: Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) NPG: D26774.
[Ref: 40024] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Aladdin - Slave of the Lamp.
Elyse Lord [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Slightly messy.
Aladdin floating. Elyse Ashe Lord (1900-1971), British.
[Ref: 30401] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Alarming Prospect. __The Single Ladies off to the Diggings. Punch's Pocket book for 1853.
[John Leech]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1853.]
Folded as issued. Some time stains.
A light-hearted illustration depicting women during the Victorian gold rush period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony. A crowd of women stand at the docks ready to board ships to Australia in search of wealthier suitors. They reject the British suitors asking them to stay, replying; "A Cottage! Fiddle-de dee - Sir!" and "Bother yer Hunderd (sic) Pounds, and House in the Public line! a likely Start indeed!" This image appeared as the frontispiece to the 1853 edition of Punch's Pocket Book. By John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63837] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Unidentified monogram] del. Garreau Sculp.
A Paris, chez Noel, Md. D'Estampes, Rue St. Jacques, No.38. et chez Bulla, Rue St. Jacques, No.38 [n.d. c.1790].
Engraving. 190 x 230mm. Light foxing.
Prince William Sound, on the south coast of Alaska. '3' inscribed upper right.
[Ref: 2645] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Woman of Unalaschka.
W. Ellis del. J. Heath, sc.
Publish'd Decr. 14th 1781, by G. Robinson.
A very fine impression.

[Ref: 13452] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A View in Goulding's Harbour, North West Coast of America.
Publish'd May 1, 1789 by J. Stockdale & G. Goulding.

A view of a very rudimentary settlement at Goulding's Harbour, a side channel of Portlocks Harbor between Sitka and Juneau in Alaska. From George Dixon's 'Voyage round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon'. This was the account of the first commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest, attempting to trade sea-otter fur. The crew were the first English visitors to Hawaii since Cook.
[Ref: 35849] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Canots D'Oonalashka.

Trimmed.
Natives of Unalaska, Alaska in canoes, from a French edition of James Cook's Third Voyage. Captain James Cook, explorer, cartographer and hydrographer went to command several notable voyages, the first was from 1768-1771. He was led to his commission by the direction of British overseas exploration in 1766 as commander of HM Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. Cook's journals were published upon his return, and he became something of a hero among the scientific community. Cook's 12 years sailing around the Pacific Ocean contributed much to European knowledge of the area.
[Ref: 31089] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Vue Du Port Des Francais, Sur La Cote Du N. O. De L'Amerique. Voyage de LaPerouse, autour du monde.
[Unidentified monogram] del. Garreau Sculp.
A Paris, chez Noel, Md. D'Estampes, Rue St. Jacques, No.16. et chez Bulla, Rue St. Jacques, No.38 [n.d. c.1790].
Engraving. 190 x 230mm. Light foxing.

[Ref: 2644] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside of a House, in Oonalashka.
J.Webber del. J.Hall & S.Middiman sc.
[London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.]
Large paper copy.
A scene on Unalaska, one of the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska. The natives are the Unangan, called the Aleut by Russian fur traders. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 11024] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Natives of Oonalashka, and their Habitations.
J.Webber del. J.Hall & S.Middiman sc.
[London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.]
Large paper copy.
A scene on Unalaska, one of the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska. The natives are the Unangan, called the Aleut by Russian fur traders. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 11023] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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