Grosvenor Prints

Bat. Water Rat. Short tail'd field Mouse. Long tail'd field Mouse.
P. Paillou pinx. P. Mazell sculp.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 385 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾'')very large margins.
A diagram of a bat, water rat and mice in a naturalistic setting from 'The British Zoology' 1766 by Thomas Pennant.
[Ref: 48381] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Beaver.
J.E. Ridinger at viv. del. J.S. Muller Sculpt.
[British, n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 340 x 415mm. 13½ x 16¼". Tatty extremities.
Landscape with six beavers, one of them in the centre eating the bark of a tree. Extensive description below title. Numbered '10' lower and upper right. After Johann Elias Ridinger (1698 - 1767) from an English publication of the c.1736 series of natural history and hunting subjects 'Betrachtung der wilden Thiere mit beygefügter vortrefflicher Poesie des hochberühmten Herrn Barthold Heinrich Brockes'.
[Ref: 20558] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Beaver. Plate XXXV. (Castor fiber.)]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The Eurasian or European beaver. It was once widespread, but it was hunted to near-extinction for its fur and castoreum. They have since been reintroduced from Great Britain to China and Mongolia. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30198] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A German Wild Boar. One of the animals belonging to His Majesty in Windsor Gt. Park.
Etched by JF Lewis.
Pub by FC Lewis 1836. 3 Charlotte St. Portland Place.
Etching. Sheet 559 x 381mm. 22 x 15".
John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) was primarily an Orientalist English painter; his son Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856) was an engraver and landscape painter.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 19336] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Wild Boar. Le Sanglier.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 170 x 271mm. 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed to round image for a scrapbook.
A savage-looking boar.
[Ref: 19385] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Album sheet with three watercolours of Death's Head Moths by Albin Roberts Burt.]
[1826-7.]
Abum sheet with three watercolours and two coloured etchings. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼").
Illustrations of the chrysalis, caterpillar and adult Death's Head Moth, with an ink mss. description signed by Albin Roberts Burt, dated 1826. On the same sheet is a table of sign-language etched by Burt and an illustration of a mosaic of the Roman villa at Bignor. Albin Roberts Burt (1783-1842), portrait-painter and engraver.
[Ref: 61402] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Wild Cat. Plate XIV. (Felis catus).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
A wild cat sitting comfortably on a tree branch. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30184] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Red Deer. Plate XXXIV. (Cervus elaphus).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 171 x 241mm (6¾ x 9½").
The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region in Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30197] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Fallow Deer.
Painted by A. Cooper R.A. Drawn on Stone by Thos. Fairland.
[British, n.d., c.1835.]
Fine lithograph on india paper, very rare. Image 300 x 250mm, 11¾ x 9¾". Margins a little trimmed. Some creasing to corner tips.
Fine study of a stag's head, with magnificent antlers; wooded landscape in background. After Abraham Cooper (1787 - 1868), from a series of animal portraits.
[Ref: 25153] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Leaves from the Book of Nature. Deer. For Full Descriptions vide the Naturalist's Library. Published by W.H. Lizars Edinburgh. S. Highley London. & W.Curry Jun.r & Co Dublin. and ssolb by all Book & Printsellers.
Lizars sc.
[Edinburgh? c. 1840.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 550 x 405mm (21½ x 16"). Slight toning.
Ten illustrations of different types of deer, from the Red Deer of Scotland to the Springbok of South Africa and the Chikara of Bengal. It was printed as a salesman's sheet, used to advertise Sir William Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library', a hugely successful series of forty volumes published between 1833-1843. By choosing a small format Jardine could sell the volumes cheaply, bringing natural history to the general public.
[Ref: 30225] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A Deer.]
John Skeaping 1928. [In pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"), with very large margins.
A portrait of a deer eating by artist John Skeaping (1901-1980) famous for his animal sculpture. Skeaping, designed work for Wedgwood, was a member of the London group and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1960.
[Ref: 44542] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bitch Suckling]
J. Le Ducq fe: 1661
Etching, platemark 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7") large margins.
One of a set of eight etchings of dogs by Jan Le Ducq (1629/30-76), painter and etcher active in the Hague.
[Ref: 45996] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Fox. Plate XXV. (Canis vulpes or Vulpes alopex).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
A common red fox. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30190] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[The Lynx. Plate XXIX. (Felis (Lynx) lynx).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The lynx, a genus of medium-sixed wild cats. They are found in parts of North America, and Northern Europe. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30194] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Marmot. Plate XXXVI. (Arctomys marmotta).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The alpine marmot, found in mountainous areas of central and southern Europe. They live at heights between 800 and 3200 metres in the Alps, Carpathians, Tatras, the Pyrenees and Northern Apennines in Italy. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30199] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Cheese-tasters.]
END [monogram in plate.] E.N. Downard Ernest Mohn. [pencil signatures.]
London Published March 16th 1882 by Arthur Lucas the Proprietor, 37 Duke St. Piccadilly.
Very scarce rare etching on india laid paper, limited edition of 158 signed proofs, 255 x 335mm. 10 x 13¼". Some slight surface soiling.
Two house mice nibbling at some cheese crumbs on a dish on a table. After Ebenezer Newman Downard (fl.1849 - 1889). Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
Printseller's Association: pg.54.
[Ref: 12150] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Otters and Salmon.]
Engraved by Charles George Lewis after Edwin Henry Landseer.
[April 28th 1871] by J. McQueen, 31 Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street, London.
Mezzotint with engraving. Artist's proof before letters 25/100. 770 x 530mm (30 x 21"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Printsellers Association. Mount burn. Mint.
An otter standing over a dead salmon on a rock, looking back to left with a snarl at another otter which approaches; waterfall and mountain stream bordered by rocks in the background.
[Ref: 62634] £420.00

[The Pine-Marten. Plate XXVII. (Mustela martes).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The European pine martin, native to Northern Europe belonging to the mustelid family, which included mink, otter, badger, wolverine and weasel. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30192] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Roebuck.
P. Paillou pinx. P. Mazell sculp.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾'') very large margins.
An illustration of a roe deer from 'The British Zoology' 1766 by Thomas Pennant.
[Ref: 48379] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 18. The Seal and Walrus.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal. Mint
A central illustration of a seal and walrus, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of of their harvesting and products, including canoes, clothes, oil, glue and 'Ivory for Dentists use'. Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 13283] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vitello Marino Grande e Picciolo.]
[Venice: Alessandri & Scataglia, c.1775.]
Coloured etching. 360 x 270mm (14¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
An illustration of seals from an Italian edition of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle'.
[Ref: 45020] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Squirrel. Plate VI. (Sciurus vulgaris).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
Two red squirrels in a tree. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30180] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Weasel. The Stoat.
P. Paillou pinx. P. Mazell sculp.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 225 x 440mm (9 x 17¼'') very large margins.
An illustration of a weasel and a stoat facing each other, from 'The British Zoology' 1766 by Thomas Pennant.
[Ref: 48380] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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