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[The Great Plague of London.] London's Dreadful Visitation: Or. A Collection of All the Bills of Mortality From this Present Year: Beginning the 27th of December 1664. and ending the 19th. of December follwoing: As also, The General or whole years Bill: According to the Report made to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London &c. London: Printed and are to be sold by E. Cotes living in Aldersgate-street. Printer to the said Company 1665.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving. 230 x 175mm (9 x 6¾").
The titlepage to a volume listing the deaths from the bubonic plague known as the Great Plague of London, 1664-5. An engraved facsimile of the original woodcut and letterpress titlepage.
[Ref: 63455] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Attic red-figure vase design, with a naked couple grappling.] 71. Tom. IV.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with hand colour. 130 x 205mm (5 x 8"), large margins. Narrow left margin.
From a series taking Sir William Hamilton's ''Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities'' as inspiration.
[Ref: 63443] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Attic red-figure vase design, with comic actors.] 59. Tom. IV.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with hand colour. 130 x 205mm (5 x 8"), large margins on 3 sides. Narrow left margin.
Two men, one with a huge phallus, the other with a ladder, look up at a woman in a window. From a series taking Sir William Hamilton's ''Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities'' as inspiration.
[Ref: 63437] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Cave Canem. [Pompei. Mosaico. __ Mosaique.]
[Lenghi Dis.]
[G. Lenghi Edit.] [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph in fine contemporary hand colour. Sheet 195 150mm (7¾ x 6"). Trimmed to image, losing all inscriptions.
The iconic mosaic of a guard dog at Pompeii with the warning 'Cave Canem' ("Beware of the dog"). It is on the floor of the entrance hall to the House of the Tragic Poet, facing the Via di Nola.
[Ref: 63521] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
S.t James's Park. [&] A Tea Garden.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by F.D. Soirson.
London Publish'd Jan.y 1790, by T. Gaugain, N.º 9 Manor Street, Chelsea.
Pair of colour-printed stipples. Sheets 480 x 550mm (19 x 21½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, edges chipped; 'St James's' with repairs outside image area.
Pair of fine oval views: 'St James's' shows a soldier's family being served milk fresh from the cow; 'The Tea Garden' has slightly more civilized surroundings, posssibly the famous Bagnigge Wells or Ranelagh Gardens. Two of the finest colour-printed English stipples.
[Ref: 63332] £1,100.00
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