Grosvenor Prints

John Adams, of Edmonton; Teacher of the Mathematics, Navigation, &c. Born at Pondersend 1737/8. Aged 56. To his numerous Pupils, both at sea & son land; to his extensive aquaintance, & particular friends, this Portrait is respectfully inscribed by their obedient Serv.t J.T. Smith.
Painted & Engraved by J.T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities of London and Environs.
Pub.d Feb. 1 1795 by N. Smith, Rembrandt's Head, G.t May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane.
Etipple with engraving/ 185 x 138mm (7¼ x 5½"), with large margins. Foxing in borders. Very small hole in title "the".
Half-length portrait of John Adams, seated at a table on which are a telescope and sextant. He was headmaster of Latymer School, Edmonton, and author of 'The Mathematician's Companion'.
[Ref: 60750] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Adelphy & Somerset House. Vue d'Adelphy, de la Maison de Somerset et du Pont de Blakfryars.
L. Belanger le Romain London 1791. Guyot sculpsit.
London Pub.d Juin 1791, as the act Direc.t by Moltano Colnaghi & C.o No 132 Pall Mall. A Paris chez Guyot Graveur et M.d d'Estampes Rue S. Jacques N.o 10.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12").
A view of the Thames waterside looking from the York Watergate past the Adelphi and Somerset House to Blackfriars Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral and the Shot Tower.
[Ref: 60802] £360.00

M.r Arnold.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Rare stipple proof. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Thread margins on three sides, old ink mss., 'Aeronaut', in bottom margin.
A bust-length oval portrait of Stuart Amos Arnold (active c.1785) a cockaded hat over his curled and powdered hair tied in a queue, in a dark coat and light waistcoat with large lapels, his linen starched. He was a Royal Navy purser and surveyor and author and. Arnold published several commercial works on Navigation in the 18th Century, before losing an arm, at which point he became famous as a hot air balloonist, touring Europe with his flying circus. He made an ascent from St George's Fields in 1785, which ended in disaster after it got caught on some railings. In 1778 he wrote 'The Merchants and Owners Friend: Or, Seamens Preserver, Etc.'. In 1800 his sea chart 'The Lewis and West Coast of Scotland' was published in London by D. & E. Steel; in 1803 a French edition of his chart of Ireland was published by the Depot de la Marine. The British Museum have incorrectly identified the sitter as the military commander and famous traitor Benedict Arnold (1741-1801).
O'Donoghue 1908-25 undescribed. BM website 1920,1211.147. See also reference 56930.
[Ref: 60800] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ptolemy & Euclid] Universitas rerum ut pulvis in manu Jehovae.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Trimmed from larger sheet, mounted on album paper, tear in top right corner due to mounting glue, remains of red-lettered title underneath.
Full-length portrait of Claudius Ptolemy and Euclid holding instruments, with an armillary sphere held by a disembodied hand between them. The Latin motto translates as 'The universe is as a handful of dust in the hand of God'. This is later version of an engraving used as a vignette on the titlepage of Girolamo Cardano's 'Opera omnia', 1663.
[Ref: 60759] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of Banff.
Waterston. Edinburgh.
Published by William Smith, Bookseller, 22, Low Street, Banff.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 350 x 420mm (13¾ x 16½"), very large margins.
A rare locally-published view of Banff from above the town. On the right is John Smeaton's bridge over the River Deveron. Before the town is Duff House, built 1735-40 by William Adam, father of Robert Adam.
[Ref: 60735] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A View of Barrackpore House, with the Reach of the River.]
Drawn by James B. Fraser. Engraved by Rob.t Havell Jun.r 79 Newman Str.t Oxford Str.
[London, Published for the Proprietor by Mess.rs Rodwell & Martin, New Bond Street, March 1 1825.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 305 x 470mm (12 x 14½"). Trimmed within plate, title and publication line exised. some surface wear.
From a series of views showing Calcutta life in the early 19th century, 'Views of Calcutta and its Environs", by James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856). Fraser, an amateur artist, banker and merchant was based in Calcutta from 1813 to 1820. His famous series of views of Calcutta record the topography of this metropolis during the most dynamic period of its history. He was influenced by other artists working in Calcutta including George Chinnery and William Havell. The publication of these views was begun by Rodwell and Martin in 1824, publishers of his 'Views in the Himalaya Mountains' in 1820, but completed and extended by Smith, Elder by 1826.
Abbey: 494.
[Ref: 60807] £380.00

[Beethoven showing Goethe around a garden.]
[Illegible pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"), very large margins. Serval wormholes filled, laid on archival tissue.
In 1809 Ludwig van Beethoven was commissioned to write incidental music for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play 'Egmont'; he set his 'Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt' for choir and orchestra in 1815.
[Ref: 60804] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Russo-Swedish War plotters] Shields. Obrien. Benzelstierna. Med Tilladelse af H.s Ex: G: L.t v. Fircks Comandant i Kiobenhavns Castel lit Soldater Börns og andre Fregendes Beste, legnet og slukket ved G.L. Lahde. Avec permission de S: Ex: M.r Fircks L.t. G: Comd.t de la Citadelle de Copenhague au pfofit des Enfans militaires, dessiné et gravé d'apres nature par G.L. Lahde. 1789.
[drawn & engraved by Gerhard Ludwig Lahde.]
[Copenhagen: G.L. Lahde, c.1789.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. Framed. 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Blind stanp in bottom of image and inscription area. Damp stain in lower margin, stain and ink numeral in top margin. Unexamined out of frame.
Profile portraits of three plotters who tried to blow up Russian & Danish ships frozen at anchor in Copenhagen harbour during the Russo-Swedish War in 1789. Lars Benzelstierna (1759-1808), conspiring with an Irish innkeeper called Shields, purchased a cutter from another Irishman, a captain called O'Brien, using money provided by Sweden king Gustaf III. He planned to fill it with explosives and move it among the Russian ships, invite Russian officers aboard and blow them up. However O'Brien mentioned the plot to an Englishman, who had him arrested. Benzelstierna hid in the Swedish embassy but eventually gave himself up and was sentenced to death by beheading, the ladder and wheel. However the sentence was commuted on appeal; he was pardoned in 1796 when the political situation between Sweden and Denmark changed.
[Ref: 60774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann.]
Franz Alt [in plate].
[Eduard Holzel] [n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed to image and laid on backing card, as issued.
A summer view of the town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, with the Watzmann, Germany's third highest mountain in the background. From the series 'Aus Den Alpen' after Franz Alt (1821-1914), Austrian artist.
[Ref: 60892] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

No. 1. From an Original Drawing of the same size by Dan.l Bond.
Pye sculpsit.
London, published March 1st 1796, by B.B. Evans, in the Poultry and Colnaghi & C.o Pall Mall.
Rare etching. 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with very large margins.
A ruined church on a countryside hill, with travellers in the foreground. Daniel Bond (c.1725-1803), painter and japanner, the first of the Birmingham School of landscape artists.
[Ref: 60729] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ackermann's Library, for Work's of Art.
A. Pugin del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
N.o [52?] of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub 1st April 1813 at 101, Strand, London.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 235 x 285mm (9¼ x 11¼"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Trimmed within plate by binder, affecting publication line. Folds as normal.
Readers studying books in a library decorated with paintings and sculpture, lit by gas lamps by F C Accum. The building was one of the first to have gas illumination. After Augustus Charles Pugin (1768/69 - 1832).
[Ref: 60746] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Abraham Booth.
Engraved by J. Collyer.
London, Painted and Published by J. Robinson, 5, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 7 July 1806.
Stipple. Sheet 190 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border at sides.
Half-length portrait of Abraham Booth (1734-1806), Baptist minister and author, published shortly after his death.
[Ref: 60724] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Recueil de diverses Figures Chinoise du Cabinet de Fr. Boucher Peintre du Roy Dessinées et Gravées par lui-même. Avec Priv du Roy.
AParis Chez Huquier rue S.t Jacques, au coin de la rue des Matherins [n.d., c.1745].
4to (250 x 210mm, 9¾ x 8¼"), large margins, modern boards; engraved title and 10 plates, lacking one plate, plates 4, 7 & 9 from later state (with plate numbers). Remnants of glue on the reverse.
Scarce collection of portraits of Chinese characters, including musicians, soldiers, women and a doctor. The missing plate (6) is a magician.

[Ref: 60833] £2,000.00 view all images for this item

[Jaguarai, Brazil?]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Pencil sketch on pink embossed card. Sheet 115 x 155mm (4½ x 6"). Glue stains in embossing.
A pencil sketch of buildings on a riverside with mooring places. 'Jaguarai' is written in pencil on the reverse, probably Jaguarari Brazil or somewhere in Thailand.
[Ref: 60881] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Scrapbook relating to Bridgnorth, with election broadsides, theatre bills, newspaper clippings and letters.]
[Compiled 1824-56.]
Unique scrapbook, large folio, half morocco gilt; with c.50 broadsides, many loose. Binding worn.
The broadsides relate to elections from 1832-58. Satire and results of polls, some handwritten are included. Letters etc, over 80 items in total.
[Ref: 60831] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

Mark Anthony teaching ye Dogs to Dance. Oliver Cromwell turn'd Rat-Catcher. Vol. II. p.9.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed close to image on right.
Mark Antony dressed as a soldier, teaching dogs to do acrobatic tricks. To the right a man carries a 'Raree Show' on his back. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
The full text can be found on Google Books. Property of Nigel C. Talbot.
[Ref: 60869] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Mitred Hog and Ladys. Vol. II. p.130.
E Kirkall Sculp.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate.
A priest addresses three women in a boudoir. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
[Ref: 60867] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Second Vol. of T. Brown's Works.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. 145 x 80mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Narrow right margin. Time stained.
The frontispiece to 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. In the foreground Charon ferrys a group of gentlemen across the River Styx, watched by three men on the far bank, the author and the recently-dead comic actors Joe Haines and James Nokes. Above a demon flies by on a monster. Thomas Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
BM Satires 1390.
[Ref: 60866] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Bully Dawson in the Bilboes. Vol. II. p.219.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed close to image on right.
Dawson, described in the text as 'Noble Captain and Commander in Chief of all the Cowards in Christendom', is manhandled into the stocks. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
The full text can be found on Google Books.
[Ref: 60878] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Joe Haynes's Mountebanks Speech. Vol. II. p.167.
[London: Sam Brown, 1720.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed close to image on right.
The quack doctor 'Seignior Giusippe Hanesio, High-German Doctor and Astrologer in Brandinopolis' stands on a stage, haranguing an audience. From 'Letters from the Dead to the Living', in 'The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse'. Brown (1662-1704) was a satirist, now best known for his epigram, 'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell'.
The full text can be found on Google Books.
[Ref: 60877] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Margaret Bryant] Mrs. Bryan and Children.
Engraved by W. Nutter from a Miniature of the same size Painted by Sam.l Shelley.
London, Published Septem.r 29th; 1797 by G. Kearsley 46 Fleet Street.
Stipple. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Margaret Bryan (1790 - 1815; fl.), schoolmistress and natural philosopher, with her two daughters. They are shown amidst the scientific instruments Bryan would have used. She taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath, London, at a time when education for ladies was largely self-taught. She also wrote elementary, practical books that gave a general grounding in astronomy and physics. Engraved by Samuel Shelley (1756-1808) as the frontispiece to the sitter's 'A Compendious System of Astronomy' (1797).
[Ref: 60744] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A collection of engraving pulls for decorating underglaze blue transferware.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
38 ceramic designs, including Chinese designs for plates, on tissue paper. Various sizes, largest 230 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"). With a collection of 1970s correspondence regarding the collection. Trimmed, some damage, tape stains.
A collection of trial engravings that form an extensive record of the designs of 19th century English blue transferware, from factories including Spode, Minton, J. & R. Clews, Heraculaneum Pottery of Liverpool, Dillwyn & Co. of Swansea, Thomas Mayer of Stoke, J. & W. Ridgeway, Deakin & Bailey, c.1828-30, and Copeland. The collection has been traced back to an auction of the effects of Mary Frances Jones, 1967.
[Ref: 60835] £850.00 view all images for this item

Charitas.
S. Lyne Excu. [c. 1700]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 180 x 120mm, large margins. Very slight staining.
A female allegorical figure of Charity in a landscape of classical ruins, with three children and a dog.
[Ref: 60860] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg &c. &c. &c. in their box at Covent Garden Theatre, Drawn by Command of Her Royal Highness by George Dawe, Esq.r R.A. [and Engraved with permission by W.J. Fry.] Proof.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Scarce stipple with fine hand colour. Sheet 430 x 350mm (17 x 13¾"). Framed. Trimmed to image, title excised and pasted to back of frame, title surface rubbed, parts illegible. Unexamined out of frame.
Famous Opera image showing Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817), second-in-line to the throne, with her husband, Prince Leopold (1790-1865), later King of the Belgians.
[Ref: 60855] £590.00

Charter House, from the Play Ground.
W. Westall del.t. W. Bennett sculp.t.
London: Pub.d July 1, 1816, at 101, Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Charter House School.
Fine coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (6 x 11¾"). Mint.
A view of Charterhouse School at its original location in Charterhouse Square, in Smithfield, London. In the foreground pupils play cricket, watched by masters.
[Ref: 60871] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

A Bull in a China-Shop; [Written by Mr C. Dibdin; composed by Mr Reeve; and sung by Mr Grimaldi with unbounded Applause, in the New Comic Patomime [sic], called ''Harlequin Highflyer, or Off she Goes'', at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers Wells.]
Cruikshank Del.
[Publish'd Sept. 5. 1808. by Laurie & Whittle, 53. Fleet Street, London].
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into letterpress title at bottom.
A bull rampages among broken crockery in a China Warehouse, tossing the proprietor, John Mug, through the shattered window, to land on a scavenger's cart.
BM Satires 11206.
[Ref: 60778] £320.00

Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates. H 1. Price 2.sh.
Columbani delin ac. sculp.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate, very small stain.
A large ornamental vase topped by two Graecian spinxes. The title page to a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:3. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 60788] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 3.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼") Trimmed into plate, affecting publication line.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60790] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 4.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed to plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:9. Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60789] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 5.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed to plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:6. Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60791] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Connoisseur and Tired Boy. (from Morland.)
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop'.
[Ref: 60880] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Cort] To the Iron Trade of Great Britain, This Portrait of the late Henry Cort, The Tubal Cain of our Century & of our Country The Father of the British Iron Trade, Times July 29th 1856, is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Ser.t Sydney Marks. Proof.
Engraved and Published by Sydney Marks [n.d., c.1860].
Rare mezzotint. 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Some soiling.
Profile portrait of Henry Cort (c. 1740-1800), an English ironware producer who developed innovative systems for the production of wrought iron from pig iron In 1784 he patented an improved version of the puddling process for refining cast iron, although it was only made economically viable by innovations by ironmasters Crawshay and Homfray, who paid him royalties. This plate was first published by his son, Richard Cort, quoting The Times newspaper's description of his father.
See BM 1931,1211.15 for the original issue.
[Ref: 60742] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Grec.
[Brussels: Librairie historique-artistique, 1843-1844.]
Wood engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 160 x 80mm (6¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
A Greek man in traditional dress, pistol and sword tucked into his belt. From Auguste Wahlen's 'Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde'.
[Ref: 60837] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Cricketers.]
Gregorio Prieto. 1938.
[Dolphin Book Co (Tredwr) Ltd, 1938.]
Woodcut. Printed area 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"), on laid paper, with large margins.
From ''Students: Oxford and Cambridge'', by Gregorio Prieto, a collection of twenty woodcuts, limited to 100 copies. Prieto (1897-1992), a Spanish avante garde artist whose work often featured homoerotica, moved to London to avoid the Spanish Civil War, only returning to Spain in 1950.
See also reference 60882.
[Ref: 60883] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Crockery sellers.]
T. Orde ft 1768.
Etching. Sheet 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides.
A portrait of a man and a woman, both carrying baskets of crockery, by Thomas Orde-Powlett (1746-1807), a politician also known for his etched caricatures (mostly of Cambridge celebrities) which were published by his drawing-master, the well-known printmaker James Bretherton. The British Museum's impression has a pencil annotation 'Mrs. Hammond Printseller & D. Randal Printman at Cambridge', which they have taken as an identification. However as they have more than one Orde caricature with 'D. Randal' on the reverse it is more likely that Randal sold the print rather that is the subject.
See BM 1847,0713.61 for this print and 1847,0713.60 for the other 'Randal'. Ex. Collection N. Blackburn.
[Ref: 60747] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cross Readings. To be read downwards, commencing at the Top of each column.
E.S. Hall.
Printed & sold by W. Jeffrey 7 Geo. Yard Lombard St. Price Sixpence [n.d., c.1850.]
Scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 310 x 245mm (12¼ x 9¾").
A fence covered with overlapping bills, positioned to be read for humourous effect. An example reads 'Her Majesty who has been graciously pleased to say she will take' ... 'Any Old Iron Saucepans or Frying Pans in exchange for' ... 'Lords Melbourne and Russell'. Top right is a swivel cannon, designed to repel boarders, with a sign 'Bill stickers beware'. Looking over the fence is a grotesque man saying 'Tunder and Turf, I should just like to cotch one o' the Wagabones'. 'The Chinese Saloon the celebrated Jugglers ..'.
See 12598 for an earlier version.
[Ref: 60763] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Gems of the Crystal Palace, No. 3 (The Crystal Palace and Gardens).]
[Published Oct.r 30, 1854, by G. Baxter, Proprietor & Patentee, London.]
Baxter process. Sheet 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to image as normal, some staining, laid on album paper.
A view of the Crystal Palace as reconstructed at Sydenham, open by Queen Victorias in 1854. In the foreground are the famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, the first dinosaur sculptures in the world, designed and sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
[Ref: 60839] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Gems of the Crystal Palace, No. 3 (The Crystal Palace and Gardens).]
[Le Blond.]
Baxter process. Sheet 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to image as normal, some staining.
A view of the Crystal Palace as reconstructed at Sydenham, opened by Queen Victorias in 1854. In the foreground are the famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, the first dinosaur sculptures in the world, designed and sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
[Ref: 60838] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Cunningham's Adventure with the Astrologer.
Pub.d by Hodgson & Co., 10 Newgate St. [n.d. c.1820].
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Bit messy.
Sawney Cunningham murdered his wife's lover and uncle and terrorised the countryside until he was eventually caught and executed at Leith in 1635. Here he is in an astrologer's study, accompanied by his nurse, with stuffed animals and animal skeletons suspended from the ceiling, specimen jars on the window ledge and globes and a compass on the desk behind. A copy of William Jett's engraving for Johnson's 'A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c, to which is added A Geniune Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Noted Pirates', 1734.
See Ref: 15429 for the original engraving.
[Ref: 57529] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Herbert Mascall Curteis, Esq.r. Master of the East Sussex Fox Hounds.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by Charles Mottram.
London, Published April 1st 1866 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Very rare coloured mixed-method engraving; 580 x 730mm (23 x 28½"). Right top corner margin missing. Nicks to edges. Bit time-stained.
Herbert Mascall Curteis (1823-95) was born in Florence and died in Windmill Hill Place, Hailsham (probably the castellated house in the background). He is shown here on horseback, with three foxhounds in attendence. He was also a cricketer, playing for Oxford University (1841-2), Sussex (1846-1860), Marylebone Cricket Club (1855 and England (1850).
[Ref: 60425] £450.00

A New Book of Ornaments In the Present (Antique) Taste as now used by all Professions by Matt.s Darly. Price 4 Sh.
Pub by MDarly according to Act Jan.y 1.st 1772 Where may be had the greatest Variety of Ornamants, Vases, &c.
Scarce etching. 330 x 205mm (13 x 8"), with large margins. Laid on 18th century album paper.
The title page of a book of ornamental designs by Matthias (or Matthew) Darly, a drawing master and engraver who had worked with Thomas Chippendale in the 1750s, but is best known now for his caricatures.
[Ref: 60784] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A New Book of Ornaments.] 5.
Pub according to Act by MDarly December 20.th 1771.
Scarce etching. 205 x 330mm (8 x 13"), large margins Old ink number in margin, laid on 18th century album paper.
Three ornamental designs for scroll work for room decoration. Plate 5 of 'A New Book of Ornaments In the Present (Antique) Taste as now used by all Professions' by Matthias (or Matthew) Darly, a drawing master and engraver who had worked with Thomas Chippendale in the 1750s, but is best known now for his caricatures.
See Ref: 60785
[Ref: 60786] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A New Book of Ornaments.] 6.
Pub according to Act by MDarly Jan.y 7.th 1772.
Scarce etching. 205 x 330mm (8 x 13"), with large margins. Old ink number in margin, laid on 18th century album paper.
Four ornamental designs including two mirrors and a ceiling rose. Plate 6 of 'A New Book of Ornaments In the Present (Antique) Taste as now used by all Professions' by Matthias (or Matthew) Darly, a drawing master and engraver who had worked with Thomas Chippendale in the 1750s, but is best known now for his caricatures.
[Ref: 60785] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Christian's Defence Against the Fears of Death, with Reasonable Directions How to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well. Written, originally, in French, by the late Reverend Divine of the Protestant Church of Paris, Charles Drelincourt. Translated into English by Marius D'Assigney, B.D. A New Edition, Corrected, and Embellished with Engravings. With an Account of the Author, and his Last Minutes.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, No. 53, Paternoster-Row, By Rider and Weed, Little Britain. 1814.
Small 4to, contemporary full calf gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. (viii)+558+(ii)(ads); engraved frontis, engraved title and ten plates. Old ink ownership inscriptions on front endpapers, tear on frontis. taped.
A theological work by Charles Drelincourt (1595-1669), first published in French in 1651. The engraved title is illustrated with a 'memento mori' of a skull on the Bible. Included as a foreword is a re-issue of a 1706 pamphlet, 'A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal', said to have been written by Daniel Defoe and to be the first modern ghost story. In it the ghost of Mrs Veal visits an old friend before departing the world, recommending the perusal of Drelincourt's work.
[Ref: 60844] £180.00 view all images for this item

[Delhi]
K.W. Merrylees [? pencil signature.]
B. 19.1.29. [date?]
Etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5").
A view of city walls with domes rising above. Other views by the same artist are identified as Delhi.
[Ref: 60820] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Delhi Gate. Delhi Fort. [pencil, in different hand to signature.]
K.W. Merrylees [? pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1929.]
Etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4").
[Ref: 60819] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Jami Masj'id Delhi [pencil].
K.W. Merrylees [? pencil signature.]
C. 19.1.29. [date?]
Etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Some spotting.
A view of the Masjid-i-Jehan-Numa in Delhi.
[Ref: 60822] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Design with star and two fanciful dolphins.]
[Drawn and etched by Christoph Jamnitzer?]
[Nuremberg: Jamnitzer, 1610?]
Etching. 80 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere.
A decorative design in the style of Christoph Jamnitzer's 'New Grotteßken Buch', a patternbook of designs showing grotesque imagery, putti, fantastic animals and other subjects to be used by craftsmen.
[Ref: 60761] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Doctor Syntax in the middle of a smoaking hot Political squabble, wishes to Whet his Whistle.]
Rowlandson Del.
by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside [n.d., c.1815]. Price 1s. Coloured.
Coloured etching. Sheet 215 x 320mm (8½ x 12½"). Trimmed to image, losing title.
A scene in a crowded tavern: Dr Syntax sits on a bench with three men, smoking a long pipe; he looks over his shoulder to attract the attention of the barmaid, who is serving a good-looking soldier. Originally published 31st August 1813, this example has the date removed.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 60794] £380.00

S.r Francis Drake. This Picture was taken from an Original Painting, communicated by the Hon.ble S.r Phillip Sydenham Bar.t Kn.t opf ye shire for Somerset, To whom this Place is dedicated by the Publishers.
R. White sculpsit.
[London, c.1705.]
Engraving. Sheet 300 x 185mm (11¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Sir Francis Drake (1540?-96), in embroidered jacket with lace collar, within an oval on a plinth. From Harrison's 'A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels'. The National Portrait Gallery describes this as 'Unknown man engraved as Sir Francis Drake'.
NPG D13560.
[Ref: 60793] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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