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Calendarium Londinense or the London Almanack for the Year 1919. The Cenotaph, Whitehall.
London. Published by W. Monk. Drawn Etched and Printed by W. Monk, 118, New Bond Street, W.
Etched image, 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with calendar underneath, sheet 400 x 290mm (15¾ x 12").
An issue of 'Monk's Calendar', a publication for print collectors founded in 1902 by William Monk (1863-1937) and published yearly until the year 2004. The view shows Whitehall and Lutyens' new Cenotaph, not officially unveiled until 11th November 1920, the second anniversary of the Armistice with Germany.
[Ref: 60103] £240.00
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[Livery Companies] The Twelve Companies. Mercers. Grocers. Drapers. Fishmongers. Goldsmiths. Skinners. Merchat Taylors. Haberdashers. Salters. Ironmongers. Vintners. Cloth-Workers.
[London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708.]
Scarce engraving. Top right "To Front. Voll:y.2nd"; Sheet 190 x 500mm (7½ x 19¾"), large margins. Repairs at binding folds, repaired nicks in edges.
The arms of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, those which had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515. From Edward Hatton's 'A New View of London; or an Ample Account of that City'.
[Ref: 59958] £280.00
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[Livery Companies]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Top left "page 593"; 220 x 360mm (8¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate on right, new margin added, binding folds flattened. Small margins.
The arms of the fifty of the lesser City Livery Companies, numbered 13-62, after the Great Twelve City Livery Companies that had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515.
[Ref: 59959] £240.00
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[Scrap sheet relating to Peerless Pool, including 2 complete adverts.]
[Various dates, 1746-c.1820]
Eight scraps on one sheet: a pencil sketch, map, etching, two wood engravings & three letterpress extracts. Sheet 680 x 490mm (27 x 19¼"). Scarce. Map trimmed with colour added in places.
In 1743 William Kemp bought a spring-fed pond called Perilous Pond on Old Street, London, and created a pair of stone-edged pools, one for swimming in summer and skating in winter and one for fishing. Originally named for the number of drownings that occured there, he renamed it Peerless Pool and created a very successful business. The map is a section of one sheet of the monumental 24-sheet map of London by John Rocque, 1746.
[Ref: 59824] £360.00
The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London. Veue du dedans de la Bourse Royale a Londres.
Bowles Delin et Sculpt.
London, Printed for Bowles and Carver 69 St Paul's Church, R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill amd Laurie & Whittle 53, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1794].
Coloured engraving. 285 x 425mm (11¼ x 16¾"). A few marks in title, top corners of margins snipped.
A view of the interior courtyard of London's second Royal Exchange, designed by Edward Jerman and opened in 1669, destroyed by fire in 1838.
[Ref: 59819] £240.00
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Gezigt van den Tuin van Somerset's Paleis, Langs den Theems tot op de Brug van Londen.
[After Canaletto.] C. Philips junior fecit, 1753.
Is. Tirion excudit.
Engraving, 180 x 435mm (7 x 17¼") with large margins. Stained, folding creases as normal, nicks to edges.
Panoramic view from the garden terrace of the Somerset House overlooking the Thames River. St. Paul's Cathedral looms in the background while London Bridge is depicted at far right. This view is based on a painting by Canaletto.
[Ref: 59817] £240.00
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Kitchen. St. James's Palace.
J. Stephanoff del.t. W.J. Bennett sculp.t.
Pub. April 1. 1819 by W.H. Pyne, 30 Upper Charlotte Str.t Fitzroy Sq.e.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 315mm (10 x 12¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
The interior of the kitchen at St. James's Palace, with the cooks and other servants hard at work. After James Stephanoff, illustration to William Henry Pyne's 'The History of the Royal Residences', published in three volumes. See Ref: 27454
[Ref: 60095] £230.00
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