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[Coat-of-Arms of Worshipfull Company of Distillers.]
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Plate: 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾''), with large margins.
The coat-of-arms for the Worshipful Company of Distillers, with the heraldic motto 'Drop as Raine Distill as Dew'' below. The arms is flanked by a European figure and Native American and shows distilling aparatus gathering water from the clouds. American interest.
[Ref: 49135] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Hair Devices.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. Published 29 Sept. 1795.
Rare, Plate: 210 x 160cm (8¼ x 6½''). Thread margins.
A print showing ornamental hair devices for decorative hair work from 'A Book of New and Allegorical Devices for Artists in General, and Particularly for Jewellers, Enamel Painters, Pattern Drawers' by goldsmith Terry Garnet published in 1795.
[Ref: 48524] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Adam Olearius, Bibliothecaire du Duc de Holstein, et Mathematicien de sa Cour.
[n.d, c.1727]
Engraving. 285 x 160mm (11¼ x 6¼") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Adam Olearius (1603-71), afamed mathematician, geographer, librarian and writer. He was appointed secretary on an embassy sent by Frederick III to Russia and Persia to try and establish the newly-founded town of Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein as the European terminus for an overland silk trade. The trip proved unsuccessful but Olearius' observations provided the material for the highly influential 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia', first published in the 1640s. This is likley to have been the frontispiece to an edition. Wellcome: 2179
[Ref: 48920] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Ruined Tower and Gateway.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 140 x 200mm (5½ x 8'').
[Ref: 48233] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Le Brin d'herbe. The Stem of Grass. Das Grashälmchen.
Joseph Felon inv.t et lith. Imprimé par Lemercier à Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 425mm (12¾ x 16¾").
A woodland scene in which two nude women recline by a pool; one tickles the others nose with a grass stem.
[Ref: 48992] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo Marques Wellington.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Rare engraved fan design. Sheet: 520 x 270mm (20½ x 10½''). Staining and creasing.
A Spanish fan design with a mounted portrait of the Duke of Wellington. In January 1812 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Viscount Wellington was given the title Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo after his victory at the Seige of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812.
[Ref: 49055] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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