Grosvenor Prints

[Sketch Map.] Dominion of Canada. Albert Railway of New Brunswick.
Lithographic map. Sheet: 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼''). Creasing and folds as issued.
A map of the Albert Railway in the area around the Bay of Fundy. Towns marked include Salisbury, Alma, Harvey and Greenville.
[Ref: 48595] £130.00

Anacoana Condemn'd to Death by the Spaniards.
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Jan 25 1817 by Rich.d Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing Anacoana, who was a Taino chief captured because of her suspected involvement in attacks on the Spanish settlement in Hispaniola. Anacoana was offered the choice of becoming a concubine to one of the Spaniards but she refused and so was hanged.
[Ref: 48301] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Atahualpa Rejecting the Breviary.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
Published by R. Evans, 17 Paternoster Row, 1817.
Engraving; watermark 1816. Plate: 225 x 150mm (9 x 6'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the last Incan Emperor Atahualpa rejecting the breviary offered to him by Dominican friar Vincente de Valverde. After Atahualpa rejected the breviary Valverde called the Spaniards to attack the Incans and they conquered without losing one Spanish soldier however many Incans were slaughtered.
[Ref: 48299] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

A Leader of the Savage Tribes Recording his Victories on a Tree.
J.B. Cruikshank del.t. C. Canton sculp.t.
London Published by Rich.d Evans White Row Spitalfields. [n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Sheet: 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8'').
A scene showing a native South American carving signs and symbols into a tree while surrounded by other men,
[Ref: 48306] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Balboa Discovering the Southern Ocean.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) discovering the Pacific. Balboa was the first to reach the Pacific from the New World and he founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first permanent European settlement in the Americas.
[Ref: 48298] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Entrance Rio de Janiero.
[by Lieutenant Nightingale, R.M.]
]n.d., c.1850.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 120 x 220mm (4¾ x 8¾").
H.M.S. Fox approaching Rio de Janeiro, with Sugarloaf Mountain.
[Ref: 49015] £450.00

The first discovery of America by Columbus.
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Dec. 21 1861 by Rich.d Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 10¼'') very large margins.
An imagined historical scene showing Columbus landing on the shores of the West Indies.
[Ref: 48305] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus presenting the Production of the new World to Ferdinands & Isabella.
Meyron del. Romney scu.
London Pub. Jan. 11.1817 by Rich. Evans White row Spitalfields.
Engraving. Plate: 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins.
A historic scene showing the explorer Christopher Columbus returning to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who had funded his expeditions. Columbus presents a group of Native Americans who carry baskets full of fruit that look like coconut.
[Ref: 48303] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Singular Dresses of the Inhabitants of Conception in South America.
Walker sculp.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼'') very large margins.
A print showing the costume of the inhabitants of South America in the eighteenth century, the costume is an interesting mixture of European and South American costume.
[Ref: 48304] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Florida Natives Cooking]
[After Jaques LeMoyne.]
Fumagalli f. [n.d., c.1827.]
Aquatint. Plate: 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼'') very large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A view native Americans preparing food by the water. An illustration to Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement...' 1816-1827.
[Ref: 49049] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[A Timucua Village.]
[After Jaques LeMoyne.]
Fumagalli sc. [n.d., c.1827.]
Aquatint. Plate: 210 x 305mm (8¼ x 12'') very large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A view of a Timucua village in Florida. An illustration to Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement...' 1816-1827.
[Ref: 49048] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Pure-Piapa. A remarkable Basaltic Column in Guiana.
Drawn from the Original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by P. Gauci. Printed by P. Gauci.
[London: Ackermann and Co., 1840.]
Coloured lithograph with very fine colour. Sheet 345 x 450mm (13½ x 17¾"), with large margins. Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line, some foxing outside image.
A pair of bowmen stalking savanna deer under Puré-Piapa, a fifty-foot natural basalt pillar, from 'Twelve views in the interior of Guiana: from drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches during the expedition carried on in the years 1835 to 1839'. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48693] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Roraima. A remarkable range of Sandstone Mountains in Guiana.
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by George Barnard. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 300 x 410mm (11¾ x 16¼")large margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
The Pakaraima Mountains, include Mount Roraima, first described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595, shared between Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48696] £380.00

Ataraipu or the Devil's Rock.
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by Coke Smith. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16¼") large margins. Laid on card.
A granite peak extending an estimated 550 feet above its base, in total 1,300 feet above sea level. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48695] £350.00

Pirara and Lake Amucu. The Site of El Dorado.
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by George Barnard.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16¼") large margins. Laid on card.
A native village on a plain below steep mountains, from 'Twelve views in the interior of Guiana: from drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches during the expedition carried on in the years 1835 to 1839'. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48694] £320.00

The English Pursuing their Victory & Hunting the Indians, from their Places of Retreat.
London Published by Rich.d Evans Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Sheet: 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8'') very large margins. Trimmed.
A historical scene showing the English settlers attacking the Native Americans in retaliation for an attack on the English settlement in Virginia.
[Ref: 48300] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Plates from ''The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia. Including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith.'']
[Engraved by John Harris.]
[Two plates with ink mss.] Sold by R. Martin Book & Printseller, 47 Great Queen Str.t Lincolns Inn Fields [n.d., latest watermark 1828.]
25 plates (of 104) plus 2 duplicates, engravings with stipple and roulette, all in original hand colour. Each c. 380 x 290mm (15 x 11½"), some on Whatman paper, watermarks 1820-8. Separate issue plates thus a few showing signs of wear, two plates without printed titles and numbers.
A collection of plates of the butterflies and moths of the US state of Georgia, illustrated with their larvæ, pupæ and the plants each prefers to feed. Originally published in 1797, the 'Natural History' was the earliest illustrated monograph devoted to the butterflies and moths of North America. However it was not a commercial success and existing sets are particularly rare. The publisher Robert Martin seems to have bought the plates c.1820 and issued them individually, not wishing to take on the expence of reprinting the text, sometimes writing his publisher's inscription on them by hand.
[Ref: 49009] £3,500.00 view all images for this item

Old cedars, coast of Maine.
J Smillie del et sct. 1880. [all inscriptions in pencil.]
Etching. 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins.
By James David Smillie (1833-1909), founder of the New York Etching Club and charter member of the London Society of Painter-Etchers.
[Ref: 48917] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Battle of Otumba.
Brighty del.t. Romney sculp.t.
London Published by Rich.d Evans, 17, Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1817.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 165mm (8 x 6½'') very large margins.
A historical scene showing the Battle of Otumba which was fought between the Spanish under Cortes and the Aztecs in what is now Mexico.
[Ref: 48302] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Stuyvesants Army entering New Amsterdam. See Knickerbocker's New York.
From a Drawing by William Heath of London.
Lithograph. Sheet 250 x 715mm (10 x 28¼"). Laid on archival paper.
A satire depicting the Dutch colonists of New York in the 1650s, naming the families underneath, including Van Brummel, Van Kloten, Van Pelt, Van Ness, Van Higginbottom, Van Groll, Gardenier, Van Hoesen, Couenhoven, and Van Kortlandt. From 'A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, Containing Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter' by 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', a pseudonym of Washington Irving.
[Ref: 49144] £360.00

Free Omnibus Niagara House. Open Summer and Winter, Niagara Falls, N.Y. R. D. Porter. Proprietor. Two Dollars Per Day.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Letterpress advert with wood engraving on two sheets. Each sheet: 115 x 70mm (4½ x 2¾''). Top corner missing on one sheet.
An advertisment for Niagara House hotel described as 'one of the oldest established Hotels at Niagara Falls, and is known far and near for the hospitality it extends to its guests and patrons'. The advert details how it provides a free omnibus to the Falls from the hotel as well as listing places of interest in and around the Falls including American Falls, American Rapids, Goat Island and Luna Island.
[Ref: 48756] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[William Penn on the Banks of the Delaware.]
RS. [Robert Spence.]
[n.d., c.1905.]
Etching on vellum, signed in pencil. Plate: 345 x 445mm (13½ x 17½''). Creasing.
A scene showing William Penn and a group of Europeans standing before a group of Native Americans. By artist Robert Spence (1871-1964) who was a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
[Ref: 49069] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Incas of Peru.
Gent. Mag. May, 1752.
Engraving. Sheet: 195 x 100mm (7¾ x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
Six portraits of Inca emperors including Inca-Roca, Yahuar-Huacac, Viracocha-Inca, Pacha-Cutec, Yupan-Qui, Tupac-Yupanqui.
[Ref: 48718] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

San Diego from the Old Fort.
C.B. Graham Lith.rs.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 135 x 220mm (5½ x 8¾''). Foxing.
An early view of San Diego, California from William Hemsley Emory's 'Notes from Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California'.
[Ref: 49084] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

St. Louis.
Drawn by J.W. Hill. Engraved by Wellstood & Peters.
Engraved by permission, for the Ladies Repository, from Views of American Cities, Published by Smith, Brothers & Co. Printed by Middleton, Wallace & Co. Cin. [n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. Sheet: 160 x 250mm (6¼ x 9¾'').
A view of the port town of St Louis in Missouri.
[Ref: 49085] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Les Isles Antilles et le Golfe du Méxique.
[by Rigobert Bonne.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1780.]
Engraved map. 225 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Small hole in margin, stain at top. Small margins.
A map of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, with an inset of Bermuda.
[Ref: 48929] £180.00

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