A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Alpine photograph.]](jpegs/59887.jpg)
[Alpine photograph.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 250 x 280mm (9¾ x 11") Creasing, tear.
A photographic view of the end of a glacier, probably Switzerland.
[Ref: 59887] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 250 x 280mm (9¾ x 11") Creasing, tear.
A photographic view of the end of a glacier, probably Switzerland.
[Ref: 59887] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Alpine photograph.]](jpegs/59882.jpg)
[Alpine photograph.]
Schroeder & Cie, Zürich [ink stamp on reverse]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 210 (at most) x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed at bottom.
A photographic view of chalets in a valley, with a mountainous backdrop.
[Ref: 59882] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Schroeder & Cie, Zürich [ink stamp on reverse]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 210 (at most) x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed at bottom.
A photographic view of chalets in a valley, with a mountainous backdrop.
[Ref: 59882] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
![[Alpine photograph of a glacial cave, Lucerne.]](jpegs/59889.jpg)
[Alpine photograph of a glacial cave, Lucerne.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 200 x 145mm (8 x 6").
A photographic view of ice formations in a glacial cave, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59889] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 200 x 145mm (8 x 6").
A photographic view of ice formations in a glacial cave, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59889] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Alpine photograph of ice formation on a glacier, near Lucerne.]](jpegs/59890.jpg)
[Alpine photograph of ice formation on a glacier, near Lucerne.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Creasing.
A photographic view of ice formations on a glacier near Lucerne, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59890] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Creasing.
A photographic view of ice formations on a glacier near Lucerne, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59890] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[View of the Parthenon from the Propylea.]](jpegs/59683.jpg)
[View of the Parthenon from the Propylea.]
[Engraved by J. Bailey after Simone Pomardi.]
[London, published September 1, 1819, by Rodwell and Martin, Bond-street.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 270 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', no date. Trimmed close to printed border (never with printed title).
A view looking across rooftops to the Parthenon, from 'Views in Greece' by Edward Dodwell (1767-1832), published in parts between 1819 and 1821 to accompany 'A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806'. Dodwell produced 400 drawings and Pomardi 600 during their travels around Greece, many of which are now in the Packard Humanities Institute.
Abbey Travel 130.
[Ref: 59683] £390.00
[Engraved by J. Bailey after Simone Pomardi.]
[London, published September 1, 1819, by Rodwell and Martin, Bond-street.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 270 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', no date. Trimmed close to printed border (never with printed title).
A view looking across rooftops to the Parthenon, from 'Views in Greece' by Edward Dodwell (1767-1832), published in parts between 1819 and 1821 to accompany 'A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806'. Dodwell produced 400 drawings and Pomardi 600 during their travels around Greece, many of which are now in the Packard Humanities Institute.
Abbey Travel 130.
[Ref: 59683] £390.00
Athens, South View of the Acropolis. To J. Spencer Smith, Esq.r M.P. F.R.S. & F.S.A. &c. The Print from the Original Drawing in his Collection, is respectfully inscribed by E. Orme.
Drawn by Préaux on the Spot 1799. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published Nov.r 1 1804, by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, New Bond Street London.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), watermarked 'Russell'. Trimmed within plate, a little creasing.
A view looking up at the Acropolis, with the pediment of the Parthenon just visible above the walls. The artist, Jean Francois Préaulx, was a draughtsman in the service of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in the Levant and near east. He also engraved several pictures in the collection of John Sydney Smith (1796-1845, younger brother of Admiral Sydney Smith), who served in the British Embassy at Constantinople 1793-1801, first as private secretary to the ambassador and Secretary of Legation from 1798.
[Ref: 59676] £480.00
Drawn by Préaux on the Spot 1799. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published Nov.r 1 1804, by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, New Bond Street London.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), watermarked 'Russell'. Trimmed within plate, a little creasing.
A view looking up at the Acropolis, with the pediment of the Parthenon just visible above the walls. The artist, Jean Francois Préaulx, was a draughtsman in the service of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in the Levant and near east. He also engraved several pictures in the collection of John Sydney Smith (1796-1845, younger brother of Admiral Sydney Smith), who served in the British Embassy at Constantinople 1793-1801, first as private secretary to the ambassador and Secretary of Legation from 1798.
[Ref: 59676] £480.00
Serenissimus Princeps ac Dominus, Dn Augustus, Dei Gratia, Dux Brunsvicensis et Lunæburgensis
Sereniss.o Principi ac Dn. humilimè consecrat Lucas Kilianus, MDCXXI [but later].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Narrow margins.
Augustus II (1579-1666), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1636, founder of the Herzog August Library at Wolfenbüttel, the largest collection of books north of the Alps. He was a friend of Henry IV of France and attended the coronation of James I of England.
Hollstein 131.
[Ref: 59792] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Sereniss.o Principi ac Dn. humilimè consecrat Lucas Kilianus, MDCXXI [but later].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Narrow margins.
Augustus II (1579-1666), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1636, founder of the Herzog August Library at Wolfenbüttel, the largest collection of books north of the Alps. He was a friend of Henry IV of France and attended the coronation of James I of England.
Hollstein 131.
[Ref: 59792] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The City of Berlin.~Le Ville de Berlin.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, and Whittle & Laurie, 53 Fleet Street.
Engraving on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 270 x 450mm (7¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed at top. Small margins other three sides
At this time Berlin was the capital of Prussia. The seat of the electors of Brandenburg (after 1701, kings of Prussia) from 1486, Berlin suffered from the Thirty Years War (1618-48), but the reign of Frederick William (1640-88), the Great Elector, restored and improved the city. Occupied in the Seven Years War by Austrian (1757) and Russian (1760) troops and in the Napoleonic Wars by the French (1806-8), Berlin emerged from the conflicts as a center of German Culture, rivalling Vienna.
[Ref: 60047] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, and Whittle & Laurie, 53 Fleet Street.
Engraving on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 270 x 450mm (7¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed at top. Small margins other three sides
At this time Berlin was the capital of Prussia. The seat of the electors of Brandenburg (after 1701, kings of Prussia) from 1486, Berlin suffered from the Thirty Years War (1618-48), but the reign of Frederick William (1640-88), the Great Elector, restored and improved the city. Occupied in the Seven Years War by Austrian (1757) and Russian (1760) troops and in the Napoleonic Wars by the French (1806-8), Berlin emerged from the conflicts as a center of German Culture, rivalling Vienna.
[Ref: 60047] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
A Woman of Spra. A Woman of Cyprus. Vol. VI., p.120.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured etching. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Illustrations of the attire of Greek women of the islands of Psara and Cyprus, from ''The World in Miniature: Turkey''. The work was published during the war for Greek Independence: in 1824 Psara was recaptured by the Ottomans, and 17,000 Greeks (7,000 Psarians and 10,000 refugees from other parts of Greece) were killed or sold as slaves, leaving the island deserted.
Abbey Travel 6.
[Ref: 59692] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured etching. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Illustrations of the attire of Greek women of the islands of Psara and Cyprus, from ''The World in Miniature: Turkey''. The work was published during the war for Greek Independence: in 1824 Psara was recaptured by the Ottomans, and 17,000 Greeks (7,000 Psarians and 10,000 refugees from other parts of Greece) were killed or sold as slaves, leaving the island deserted.
Abbey Travel 6.
[Ref: 59692] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha] Ernestus, der Dritte/herzog zu Sachsen/Jülich/Clve und Berg/etc.](jpegs/59804.jpg)
[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha] Ernestus, der Dritte/herzog zu Sachsen/Jülich/Clve und Berg/etc.
[Nuremberg, n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 320 x 190mm, with letterpress surtitle. Small margins. Mounted on album paper at corners.
A full-length portrait of Ernest 'the Pious' (1601-75) From an edition of 'Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze H. Schrift, Altes vnd Newes Testaments Teutsch', first published 1641. Text verso.
[Ref: 59804] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Nuremberg, n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 320 x 190mm, with letterpress surtitle. Small margins. Mounted on album paper at corners.
A full-length portrait of Ernest 'the Pious' (1601-75) From an edition of 'Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze H. Schrift, Altes vnd Newes Testaments Teutsch', first published 1641. Text verso.
[Ref: 59804] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Fridericus IIII. D.G. Com. Pal. Reni. Utr. Bavar. Dux, Sac. Rom. Imp. Archidapifer Elector Sept.
Crispiano Passære cælatore.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Verso in ink "Claude Augustin Mariette 1694" From a famous collection. Sheet cut in oval, 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on J Whatman album paper top left.
Portrait of Frederick IV (1574-1610), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, engraved by Crispijn de Passe, curiously clean-shaven.
[Ref: 59860] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Crispiano Passære cælatore.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Verso in ink "Claude Augustin Mariette 1694" From a famous collection. Sheet cut in oval, 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on J Whatman album paper top left.
Portrait of Frederick IV (1574-1610), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, engraved by Crispijn de Passe, curiously clean-shaven.
[Ref: 59860] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz] Sereniss: Sax: Elect: Consiliarius Intimus et ad Comitia VII Viralia](jpegs/59802.jpg)
[Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz] Sereniss: Sax: Elect: Consiliarius Intimus et ad Comitia VII Viralia Ratisbonham Legatus Amplissimus etc. Nicolaus Gebhartus a Militis Sibeneichæ, Burkerstorfii, et Bertelstorfii Toparcha. etc. A.o 1630.
Lucas Kilian sculpsit.
[c.1630.]
Fine rich engraving but damaged impression, 17th century watermark. Sheet 245 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, tear in inscription area and middle right.
Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz (1597-1635), Privy Councillor in Regensburg.
[Ref: 59802] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Lucas Kilian sculpsit.
[c.1630.]
Fine rich engraving but damaged impression, 17th century watermark. Sheet 245 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, tear in inscription area and middle right.
Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz (1597-1635), Privy Councillor in Regensburg.
[Ref: 59802] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
![[Jeune Grec.]](jpegs/59902.jpg)
[Jeune Grec.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7").
A young Greek, with mustache and turban.
[Ref: 59902] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7").
A young Greek, with mustache and turban.
[Ref: 59902] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[A Greek couple attacked.]](jpegs/59899.jpg)
[A Greek couple attacked.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 175 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½") Trimmed into image.
A Greek couple stand under a cliff, the man firing his pistol into the air. Behind are men with torches.
[Ref: 59899] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 175 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½") Trimmed into image.
A Greek couple stand under a cliff, the man firing his pistol into the air. Behind are men with torches.
[Ref: 59899] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Le Mage Grec.
[Charles Waltner after Rubens.]
[n.d., c.1878.]
Drypoint etching. Sheet 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed.
An interpretative etching after Peter Paul Rubens.
[Ref: 59695] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles Waltner after Rubens.]
[n.d., c.1878.]
Drypoint etching. Sheet 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed.
An interpretative etching after Peter Paul Rubens.
[Ref: 59695] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Greek Merchant of Astrachan, in the Streets of Moscow, from a drawing by Geissler, given to the Author by Professor Pallas. P.48.
Published Nov.r 25th 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, London.
Rare aquatint and etching. Sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½").
Published in 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 59694] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Published Nov.r 25th 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, London.
Rare aquatint and etching. Sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½").
Published in 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 59694] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, een Zedighe doch moedighe Heldinne van treffelijcken huyse binnen Haerlem, out 46 jaren, die int belegh 1572, als Kapitein met bus, spies en geweer drie hondert Vrouwen, tegen de Spagnierts opvoerde.
[Engraved by Pieter Hendricksz. Schut?]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Full length portrait of Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer (1526-88), a Haarlem wood merchant who is said to have led a company of 300 fighting women during the Spanish siege of the city in 1573, although a contemporary account only describes her as an unusually fearless woman who worked night and day carrying earth to the city walls to rebuild the defences.
Rijksmuseum RP-P-AO-9-32-2-1.
[Ref: 59834] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Pieter Hendricksz. Schut?]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Full length portrait of Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer (1526-88), a Haarlem wood merchant who is said to have led a company of 300 fighting women during the Spanish siege of the city in 1573, although a contemporary account only describes her as an unusually fearless woman who worked night and day carrying earth to the city walls to rebuild the defences.
Rijksmuseum RP-P-AO-9-32-2-1.
[Ref: 59834] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Christoph Frideric Imhof Ab Et In Helmstatt.
J. N. Bemmel ad viv. pingeb. J. J. Preisler invent. delineab. Val. Dan. Preisler sculpeb.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. 415 x 290mm (17½ x 11½"). Tears in margins taped.
Half-length portrait of Christoph Friedrich Imhof (1696-1750), politician of Nuremberg, dressed in councillor's fur robes with lace collar. Astronomical instruments can be seen. Behind is an observatory with a man studying the rising sun, and statue personifications of astronomy and music.
[Ref: 59781] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
J. N. Bemmel ad viv. pingeb. J. J. Preisler invent. delineab. Val. Dan. Preisler sculpeb.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. 415 x 290mm (17½ x 11½"). Tears in margins taped.
Half-length portrait of Christoph Friedrich Imhof (1696-1750), politician of Nuremberg, dressed in councillor's fur robes with lace collar. Astronomical instruments can be seen. Behind is an observatory with a man studying the rising sun, and statue personifications of astronomy and music.
[Ref: 59781] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Haasje Klaas Dogter, int Paradys; Stigteresje van't Burger Weeshuys.]](jpegs/59783.jpg)
[Haasje Klaas Dogter, int Paradys; Stigteresje van't Burger Weeshuys.]
[by Jacob Houbraken.]
[Amsterdam: n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), large margins.
Haesje Claes (1475-before 1544), said to be the founder of the Burgerweeshuis, the civic orphanage of Amsterdam.
Ver Huell: Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre, 247.
[Ref: 59783] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[by Jacob Houbraken.]
[Amsterdam: n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), large margins.
Haesje Claes (1475-before 1544), said to be the founder of the Burgerweeshuis, the civic orphanage of Amsterdam.
Ver Huell: Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre, 247.
[Ref: 59783] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Lutzenburg.
[engraved by Jodocus Hondius II.]
[Amsterdam, c.1616.]
Engraved map. 95 x 135mm (3¾ x 5¼"), with letterpress sur-title. Repaired tear, right margin ragged, rust stains, laid on album paper.
A miniature map of Luxembourg, engraved by Jodocus Hondius II for the the 'Tabularum Geographicarum' atlas, with a text by Petrus Bertius. The is the second plate used by Bertius, replacing one engraved by Pieter van den Keere. It is recognisable by having wider borders and longitude & latitude scales.
[Ref: 59896] £130.00
[engraved by Jodocus Hondius II.]
[Amsterdam, c.1616.]
Engraved map. 95 x 135mm (3¾ x 5¼"), with letterpress sur-title. Repaired tear, right margin ragged, rust stains, laid on album paper.
A miniature map of Luxembourg, engraved by Jodocus Hondius II for the the 'Tabularum Geographicarum' atlas, with a text by Petrus Bertius. The is the second plate used by Bertius, replacing one engraved by Pieter van den Keere. It is recognisable by having wider borders and longitude & latitude scales.
[Ref: 59896] £130.00
![[Maria Anna of Neuburg] Maria Anna Hispaniarum Indiarum Regina, Princeps Neoburgicæ.](jpegs/59801.jpg)
[Maria Anna of Neuburg] Maria Anna Hispaniarum Indiarum Regina, Princeps Neoburgicæ.
J. Gole Fe: et ex: Amstel: cum Privil: Ord: H. et W: Frisiæ [n.d., c 1690].
Fine mezzotint, state before lettering in frame. Mary Dickinson Collector's Mark. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Thread margins.
Portrait in oval of Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667-1740), wearing crown and ermine. She became Queen consort of Spain in 1689 as the second wife of Charles II, last Habsburg King of Spain, whose death in 1700 led to the War of the Spanish Succession.
From Halsey Collection.
[Ref: 59801] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J. Gole Fe: et ex: Amstel: cum Privil: Ord: H. et W: Frisiæ [n.d., c 1690].
Fine mezzotint, state before lettering in frame. Mary Dickinson Collector's Mark. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Thread margins.
Portrait in oval of Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667-1740), wearing crown and ermine. She became Queen consort of Spain in 1689 as the second wife of Charles II, last Habsburg King of Spain, whose death in 1700 led to the War of the Spanish Succession.
From Halsey Collection.
[Ref: 59801] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Moses Mendelssohn.]](jpegs/59816.jpg)
[Moses Mendelssohn.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph on chine collé, proof before signature. Sheet area 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), large margins.
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian of the 'Jewish Enlightenment', grandfather of composer Felix Mendelssohn.
[Ref: 59816] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph on chine collé, proof before signature. Sheet area 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), large margins.
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian of the 'Jewish Enlightenment', grandfather of composer Felix Mendelssohn.
[Ref: 59816] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Moses Mendelssohn] M. Mendelson [facsimile signature].](jpegs/59815.jpg)
[Moses Mendelssohn] M. Mendelson [facsimile signature].
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph on chine collé, printed signature on backing sheet. Printed area 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), large margins. Small stain on left bottom.
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian of the 'Jewish Enlightenment', grandfather of composer Felix Mendelssohn.
[Ref: 59815] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph on chine collé, printed signature on backing sheet. Printed area 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), large margins. Small stain on left bottom.
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian of the 'Jewish Enlightenment', grandfather of composer Felix Mendelssohn.
[Ref: 59815] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Menton.]](jpegs/59907.jpg)
[Menton.]
[by Lord Avonmore.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Watercolour. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾").
A view of a hilltop town in the Menton (Italian 'Mentone') commune. 'Lord Avonmore' is probably Irish nobleman Barry John Yelverton (1790-1870), 3rd Viscount Avonmore.
[Ref: 59907] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[by Lord Avonmore.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Watercolour. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾").
A view of a hilltop town in the Menton (Italian 'Mentone') commune. 'Lord Avonmore' is probably Irish nobleman Barry John Yelverton (1790-1870), 3rd Viscount Avonmore.
[Ref: 59907] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
5357. Le Mont-Rose vu du Monte-Moro
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Slight creasing.
A photographic view of Monte Rosa, with walkers on the Monte Moro Pass (between Switzerland & Italy).
[Ref: 59886] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Slight creasing.
A photographic view of Monte Rosa, with walkers on the Monte Moro Pass (between Switzerland & Italy).
[Ref: 59886] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A View of the City of Oporto. Vue Perspective de la Ville de Oporto. 52.
Published 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, N.o 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured engraving, plate 255 x 425mm (10 x 16¾"), with good margins. Laid on archival paper. Some restoration.
This important trading city on the Douro, Portugal - the so-called 'The Unvanquished City' - was never conquered, although Romans, Moors, and Napoleon tried.
[Ref: 60054] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Published 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, N.o 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured engraving, plate 255 x 425mm (10 x 16¾"), with good margins. Laid on archival paper. Some restoration.
This important trading city on the Douro, Portugal - the so-called 'The Unvanquished City' - was never conquered, although Romans, Moors, and Napoleon tried.
[Ref: 60054] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
The Sepulchre of King Theodorick near Ravenna, the Roof of one Stone 38 Feet in Diameter about 12 Feet Thick, Erected A.D. 530.
Clerisau Pinxt. P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs by P. Sandby S.t Georges Row, Oxford Turnpike March 1778.
Rare aquatint, scarce in good condition, printed in sepia. 340 x 495mm (13½ 19½), with large margins.
The Mausoleum of Theodoric, built in 520 AD by Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. who ruled Italy from 493 to 526 AD. Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), went to Rome in 1749 working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam's 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. Paul Sandby etched this plate as a pair to the 'Triumphal Arch of Constantine at Fano', one of several aquatints he did after Grand Tourists.
[Ref: 59960] £680.00
Clerisau Pinxt. P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs by P. Sandby S.t Georges Row, Oxford Turnpike March 1778.
Rare aquatint, scarce in good condition, printed in sepia. 340 x 495mm (13½ 19½), with large margins.
The Mausoleum of Theodoric, built in 520 AD by Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. who ruled Italy from 493 to 526 AD. Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), went to Rome in 1749 working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam's 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. Paul Sandby etched this plate as a pair to the 'Triumphal Arch of Constantine at Fano', one of several aquatints he did after Grand Tourists.
[Ref: 59960] £680.00
5346. Saas-Fee et les Mischabels.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Some creasing.
A photographic view of Saas-Fee, including the Hotel Belle Vue, a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border.
[Ref: 59884] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Some creasing.
A photographic view of Saas-Fee, including the Hotel Belle Vue, a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border.
[Ref: 59884] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
5345. Saas-Fee.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Notch in top edge.
A photographic view looking up from the valley to the mountain snows. Saas-Fee is a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border.
[Ref: 59880] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Notch in top edge.
A photographic view looking up from the valley to the mountain snows. Saas-Fee is a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border.
[Ref: 59880] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev] [Cyrillic title] Lieutenant General Schepeleff.](jpegs/59652.jpg)
[Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev] [Cyrillic title] Lieutenant General Schepeleff.
Painted by order of the Emperor M. Alexander 1st by G. Dawe Esqr. Member of the Roy.l Ac.dy London, that of St. Petersburg &c: &c. Engraved by Hy Dawe London.
[Russian publisher in Cyrillic] & Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. London, Sep.t 1828.
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins Surface dirt, creasing.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev (1771-1841). Born into a noble family he enlisted as a sergeant in the Russian Life Guards in 1782. He served in Poland (1794), Persia (1796), Switzerland (1799, under Rimsky-Korsakov) and the Battle of Austerlitz (1805). In 1813 he led an advance guard of Wittgenstein's Corps that captured Koenigsberg. In 1815 he became commander of the 2nd Hussar Division, but had to retire due to ill-health the following year. George Dawe (1781 - 1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 59652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by order of the Emperor M. Alexander 1st by G. Dawe Esqr. Member of the Roy.l Ac.dy London, that of St. Petersburg &c: &c. Engraved by Hy Dawe London.
[Russian publisher in Cyrillic] & Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. London, Sep.t 1828.
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins Surface dirt, creasing.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev (1771-1841). Born into a noble family he enlisted as a sergeant in the Russian Life Guards in 1782. He served in Poland (1794), Persia (1796), Switzerland (1799, under Rimsky-Korsakov) and the Battle of Austerlitz (1805). In 1813 he led an advance guard of Wittgenstein's Corps that captured Koenigsberg. In 1815 he became commander of the 2nd Hussar Division, but had to retire due to ill-health the following year. George Dawe (1781 - 1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 59652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Axel Oxenstierna] Perillustri ac Generosissimo Dno Dno Axelio Oxenstierna [...]](jpegs/60089.jpg)
[Axel Oxenstierna] Perillustri ac Generosissimo Dno Dno Axelio Oxenstierna [...]
D.B. pin. I.F. sculp et excu. cum priv. R.S. Stockholmiae 1652.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9"). Narrow margins.
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (1583-1654), Count of Södermöre, a Swedish statesman. who served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death and regent of Queen Christina. Engraved and published by Jeremias Falck after David Beck.
[Ref: 60089] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
D.B. pin. I.F. sculp et excu. cum priv. R.S. Stockholmiae 1652.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9"). Narrow margins.
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (1583-1654), Count of Södermöre, a Swedish statesman. who served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death and regent of Queen Christina. Engraved and published by Jeremias Falck after David Beck.
[Ref: 60089] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)