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Brandt Découvrant le Phosphore.
Ulm sculp. Imp. Delâtre Rue S.t Jacques, 303, Paris.
Paris, Publié par Cadart & Luquet, Editeurs, 79, Rue Richlieu [n.d., 1864].
Etching. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), paper watermarked 'Aqua Fortistes', large margins.
A portrait of German alchemist Hennig Brand (c.1630-c.1700) standing by a glowing retort in which, by heating urine, distilled phosphorus. Etched by Emile Ulm (1829-92) for Alfred Cadart's 'Societe des Aqua-Fortistes - Eaux-Fortes Modernes', on paper made for the society.
[Ref: 67122] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Ulm sculp. Imp. Delâtre Rue S.t Jacques, 303, Paris.
Paris, Publié par Cadart & Luquet, Editeurs, 79, Rue Richlieu [n.d., 1864].
Etching. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), paper watermarked 'Aqua Fortistes', large margins.
A portrait of German alchemist Hennig Brand (c.1630-c.1700) standing by a glowing retort in which, by heating urine, distilled phosphorus. Etched by Emile Ulm (1829-92) for Alfred Cadart's 'Societe des Aqua-Fortistes - Eaux-Fortes Modernes', on paper made for the society.
[Ref: 67122] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Joannes Browne Regius Chirurgus Ordinarius. Aetatis suae 42 Ano Dom 1684.
R. White sculp.
[n.d. c.1684]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Trimmed into plate.
Half-length portrait of John Browne (1642-c.1700), surgeon to both Charles II and William III, wearing long wig, gown, and lace cravat; in oval frame on pedestal. The plate was used as the frontispiece to his 'A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours' (1678), but was updated to use in 'Adeno-Choiradelogia, or an Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise', with the date altered to 1684. On this example a mustache has been added.
Wellcome 446-3.
[Ref: 67426] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
R. White sculp.
[n.d. c.1684]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Trimmed into plate.
Half-length portrait of John Browne (1642-c.1700), surgeon to both Charles II and William III, wearing long wig, gown, and lace cravat; in oval frame on pedestal. The plate was used as the frontispiece to his 'A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours' (1678), but was updated to use in 'Adeno-Choiradelogia, or an Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise', with the date altered to 1684. On this example a mustache has been added.
Wellcome 446-3.
[Ref: 67426] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Nicholas Culpeper. View in this face, whom Heaven snatcht from hence, / Our Phisicall and Starrie Influence; / Had not Great Culpeper such order tooke, / In spight of Fate to Live still in this Booke.
[n.d., c.1670]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 9½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), hand on a skull. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to posthumous editions of his 'Semeiotics Uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases' and 'Culpeper's Last Legacy', 1676.
Wellcome: 727-6
[Ref: 67403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1670]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 9½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), hand on a skull. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to posthumous editions of his 'Semeiotics Uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases' and 'Culpeper's Last Legacy', 1676.
Wellcome: 727-6
[Ref: 67403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis. / The shaddow of that Body heer you find / Which serves but as a case to hold his mind, / His Intellectuall part be pleas'd to looke / In lively lines described in the Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1649.]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper. Staining.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. The frontispiece to his 'A physical directory'.
W: 727-1
[Ref: 67404] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1649.]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper. Staining.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. The frontispiece to his 'A physical directory'.
W: 727-1
[Ref: 67404] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Nich. Culpeper Physitian & Astrologer.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait in oval of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'.
Not in Wellcome 727.
[Ref: 67405] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait in oval of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'.
Not in Wellcome 727.
[Ref: 67405] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Nicholas Culpeper. Born Oct. 18. 11m P.M.
[n.d., c.1616.]
Engraving, with signs of the zodiac. Sheet trimmed as oval, 90 x 70mm (3½ x 2¾"). Laid on album paper.
An astrological portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'.
Wellcome: 727-8
[Ref: 67406] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1616.]
Engraving, with signs of the zodiac. Sheet trimmed as oval, 90 x 70mm (3½ x 2¾"). Laid on album paper.
An astrological portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'.
Wellcome: 727-8
[Ref: 67406] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
James Ferguson F:R:S:
James Northcote Pinx.t. F. Harward fecit.
Publish'd March 20 1776, for W. Shropshire N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration
A half-length portrait in oval of Scottish astronomer and instrument maker James Ferguson (1710-76), holding a book. Apart from three months at a grammar school Ferguson was self-taught. His 'Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles' was first published in 1756 and was still in print in 1811.
CS 2. Wellcome: 965-1
[Ref: 67125] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
James Northcote Pinx.t. F. Harward fecit.
Publish'd March 20 1776, for W. Shropshire N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration
A half-length portrait in oval of Scottish astronomer and instrument maker James Ferguson (1710-76), holding a book. Apart from three months at a grammar school Ferguson was self-taught. His 'Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles' was first published in 1756 and was still in print in 1811.
CS 2. Wellcome: 965-1
[Ref: 67125] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Gilbert Knowles. Aetatis 49. The Author of Materia Medica Botanica. A.º 1724.
T. Murray pinx. John Faber fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼"). Repaired tears, creasing, laid on board.
A portrait of botanist and poet Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), half length, in an oval, directed to left, looking and facing the front. This portrait was published as a frontispiece to his best-known work, 'Materia Medica Botanica (London, 1724), which consisted of 7355 Latin hexameters, describing four hundred plants, explaining their uses in medicine.
CS 212. ii of ii. Wellcome: 1614. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67258] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
T. Murray pinx. John Faber fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼"). Repaired tears, creasing, laid on board.
A portrait of botanist and poet Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), half length, in an oval, directed to left, looking and facing the front. This portrait was published as a frontispiece to his best-known work, 'Materia Medica Botanica (London, 1724), which consisted of 7355 Latin hexameters, describing four hundred plants, explaining their uses in medicine.
CS 212. ii of ii. Wellcome: 1614. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67258] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Gilbert Knowles. Aetatis 49. The Author of Materia Medica Botanica. A.º 1724.
T. Murray pinx. John Faber fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of botanist and poet Gilbert Knowles, half length, in an oval, directed to left, looking and facing the front. This portrait was published as a frontispiece to his best-known work, 'Materia Medica Botanica (London, 1724), which consisted of 7355 Latin hexameters, describing four hundred plants, explaining their uses in medicine.
CS 212. ii of ii. Wellcome: 1614. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67259] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
T. Murray pinx. John Faber fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of botanist and poet Gilbert Knowles, half length, in an oval, directed to left, looking and facing the front. This portrait was published as a frontispiece to his best-known work, 'Materia Medica Botanica (London, 1724), which consisted of 7355 Latin hexameters, describing four hundred plants, explaining their uses in medicine.
CS 212. ii of ii. Wellcome: 1614. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67259] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Mathematician.]](jpegs/67104.jpg)
[The Mathematician.]
[James McArdell after Rembrandt.]
[nd., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 470 x 355mm (18½ x 14"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into lower plate, publication space.
A teacher leaning on the table holding a pair of compasses, demonstrates a problem to the student who leans on his chin. In front is a globe. A rare & interesting item.
Goodwin 213. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67104] £680.00
[James McArdell after Rembrandt.]
[nd., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 470 x 355mm (18½ x 14"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into lower plate, publication space.
A teacher leaning on the table holding a pair of compasses, demonstrates a problem to the student who leans on his chin. In front is a globe. A rare & interesting item.
Goodwin 213. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67104] £680.00
William Roxburgh M.D. F.L.S Superintendnt of the Hon.ble East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta, Late Honorary Corresponding Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Maufactures and Commerce.
Engraved by Charles Warren, Esq.r from a Miniature in the possession of M.rs Roxburgh.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed, browned, glue stains.
A half-length seated portrait of surgeon and botanist William Roxburgh (1751-1815), known as the founding father of Indian botany. Calcutta interest.
Wellcpme 2552.
[Ref: 67427] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Charles Warren, Esq.r from a Miniature in the possession of M.rs Roxburgh.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed, browned, glue stains.
A half-length seated portrait of surgeon and botanist William Roxburgh (1751-1815), known as the founding father of Indian botany. Calcutta interest.
Wellcpme 2552.
[Ref: 67427] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Nicolaus Sandersonus. A.M. Matheseos Professor Cantabrigiae & R.S.S. Obÿt 1739. Ætat: 57.
J. Vanderbanck pinx. An.o 1719 pro Martino Folkes. Arm.o Cui Tabulam humillime D. D. Johannes Faber.
Prince 2 Shill. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d, c.1740].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins
A portrait of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) holding an armillery sphere. Despite being blind because of smallpox, Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge. He is credited by some historians as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.
CS: 316.
[Ref: 67371] £320.00
J. Vanderbanck pinx. An.o 1719 pro Martino Folkes. Arm.o Cui Tabulam humillime D. D. Johannes Faber.
Prince 2 Shill. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d, c.1740].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins
A portrait of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) holding an armillery sphere. Despite being blind because of smallpox, Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge. He is credited by some historians as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.
CS: 316.
[Ref: 67371] £320.00
![[Robert Turner] The Brittish or English physician](jpegs/67402.jpg)
[Robert Turner] The Brittish or English physician
[London: R. Wood for Nathamiel Brooke, 1664.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 145 x 195mm (5¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of herbalist and occultist Robert Turner (c.1620-c.64), within a floral border with a scene of a man tending plants in a woodland clearing. The frontispiece to Turner's 'Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants'.
NPG D47388; Wellcome 3000-1.
[Ref: 67402] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[London: R. Wood for Nathamiel Brooke, 1664.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 145 x 195mm (5¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of herbalist and occultist Robert Turner (c.1620-c.64), within a floral border with a scene of a man tending plants in a woodland clearing. The frontispiece to Turner's 'Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants'.
NPG D47388; Wellcome 3000-1.
[Ref: 67402] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![W.m Twemlow [facsimile signature] of Witton Cottage, Northwich, Surgeon [...]](jpegs/67152.jpg)
W.m Twemlow [facsimile signature] of Witton Cottage, Northwich, Surgeon [...]
Rev.d T. Birkett, pinx.t 1823. S.W. Reynolds, London, sculp.t 1843.
Mezzotint. 250 x 180mm (8 x 7"), with large margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Norwich surgeon William Twemlow (1770-1843), seated at a table with skull on it, the legs of a skeleton hanging behind.
Whitman 531. Not in Wellcome. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67152] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Rev.d T. Birkett, pinx.t 1823. S.W. Reynolds, London, sculp.t 1843.
Mezzotint. 250 x 180mm (8 x 7"), with large margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Norwich surgeon William Twemlow (1770-1843), seated at a table with skull on it, the legs of a skeleton hanging behind.
Whitman 531. Not in Wellcome. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67152] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)