GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A collection of 19th century reverse engravings on glass, 36cm x 25.5cm (5)

A graveyard curiosity or macabre memento mori, Tree Bark ~ Hampshire Flint: Off the Grave of Gilbert White of Selbourne (the "parson-naturalist", ...

An American polychrome lithograph pillow sham, by Schwab & Wolf, New York, printed with a young gentleman admiring a portrait of his sweetheart, t...

An arrangement of wax seal matrix impressions, various Grand Tour and heraldic subjects, 26.5cm x 26.5cm, framed

Astronomy - Petrum Schenk & Gerardum Valk, sfter, a pair of astronomical prints, Graphicus Etaspectus Umbrans and Terrae Coelestibus Datae, showin...

Arachnology - a large didactic illustration of a spider on its web, chromolithograph, circular, 46cm diam

Local Interest, Advertising - an unusual and amusing theatrical costume photograph portfolio-album, of County Carnival Stores, 1 Bold Lane, Derby,...

A collection of 18th, 19th and 20th century pictures and prints, including Thomas Bowles III (c.1712-1767), after Canaletto (1697-1768), A View of...

A collection of late 18th century and later engravings and prints, including William Davison (1781-1858), by, Hop and Stage Doctor, Printed and Pu...

A folio of 17th & 18th century Old Master and other engravings, French School (fourth-quarter 17th century), after Jean Lepautre (1618-1682), Baro...

After Augusta Innes Withers (1792-1877), a set of six botanical studies, Camellias, Roses, Orchids, Country Flowers and others [London: ?1859], ha...

After Lady Diana Beauclerk (née Spencer, 1734-1808), Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, unlettered ?proof, [London: probably Published ...

After Thomas Harris (1787-1817), View of the Parish Church in Sheffield [...], 20th century restrike, line engraving, 42cm x 56cm

An early 20th century oak connoisseur's Old Master diptych altarpiece, printed in polychrome and picked out in gilt, gilt slip, ebonised rectangul...

An interesting portfolio of 18th and 19th century Old Master prints and engravings, including Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718), after Paolo Vero...

Benjamin Smith (1754-1833), after Sir William Beechy RA (1753-1839), His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Third [...], Pub[lished] [...] by J...

Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), after Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), Cattle on a Riverbank by Moonlight, [London]: Published Sep:r 1 1773, mezzoti...

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935), by and after, a motoring caricature, Gone Away, [Published by Lawrence & Bullen, London, 1903], chromolit...

China - John Dadley (1767-1807), after Pu-Qua of Canton (second-half 18th century), eight prints from 'The Costumes of China', No. 18, A Shoemaker...

English School (18th century), Sir John Falstaff in the Buck Basket, from Act 3, Scene 9 of the Marry of the Merry Wives of Windsor by William Sha...

Fores's New Chalk Drawing-Book of Heads and Academy Figures, From Original Drawings by [Conrad Martin Metz, (1749-1827)], Engraved in Exact Imitat...

Gaston Hoffman (French, 1883 - 1960), by, Feu d'artifice [Fireworks at the Dentist], signed and numbered in pencil 02/10 by the artist, titled wit...

Gaston Hoffman (French, 1883 - 1960), by, L'intrus, signed in pencil by the artist, titled within the platemark, etching with some colouring, 32cm...

George White (c. 1684-1732), [after Thomas Gibson (c. 1680-1751)], portrait, The Hon:ble John Baker Esqr., Vice Admiral of the White, Obt: 10 Nov:...

Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780), by, a set four: after Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox; Mary, Queen of S...

Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53-1722), by, The South Prospect of the Church of St. Clements Danes, London, [Dedicated] To the Right Hon.ble John Cæcil...

John Harris (fl. 1686-1739), [The Customs House, London, designed by Sir Christopher Wren], [Dedicated] To the Right Honourable the Commifsioners ...

Local Interest - Antoine Benoist (1721 - 1770) and James Roberts (1725-99), after Thomas Smith of Derby (d. 1767), 2 named-view topographical prin...

John Law and The Mississippi Bubble - Dutch School (early 18th century), Koning en Koningin van de Missisippi, a coloured satirical engraving, 26...

John Lucas (1807-1874) and Samuel Cousins RA (1801-1887), after George Sanders (1774-1846), a matrimonial pair, John Henry and Elizabeth Manners, ...

Jorg Forsfell (first-half, 19th century), after Johan Gustaf Sandberg (1782-1854), Costumes: Sweden, a folio of 34 loose prints, [Stockholm?, c. 1...

Local Interest - Francis Nicholson RSA (1753-1844), after William Shiels RSA (1783-1857), a pair of equine prints: Plate V ~ The Old English Black...

Louis Phillippe Boitard (fl. 1733-1767), by and after, The Cov:t Garden Morning Frolick (sic), [London]: Oct:r 9 1747, Sold by B. Dickinson on Lud...

Richard Earlom (1743-1822), after Claude Lorrain (c.1600-1682), an Italianate harbour scene, No. 30, From the Original Drawing, in the Collection ...

T Woodman & H Mutlow, by, Issac Oliver, after, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex 1601, 30cm x 20cm, published June 19th 1784; Rudolph Ackerman, after...

Vanity Fair - After "Spy", [Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851 - 1922)], four caricatures: "Macclesfield", [Brigadier-General Sir William Bromley-Daven...

Vanity Fair - After "Spy", [Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851 - 1922)], two sporting caricatures: Boxing, "Hard Hitter", [Captain Edgeworth Johnstone]...

William Davison (1781-1858), by and after, a set of three dentistry caricatures, The Town Tooth Drawer, The Country Tooth Drawer, and Hob and Stag...

William Heath (1794-1840), by and after, royal caricature, Packing Up!!, [the Conyngham family plundering the goods of the Late George IV], Pub Ju...

William Tombleson (1795 - c.1846), after, a set of ten topographical vignettes, from Tombleson's Views of the Thames and Medway, coloured engravin...

Americana - Provincial Imprint, Wansey (Henry), The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America, In the Summer of 1794 [...], fi...

Botany - Loudon (Mrs [Jane]), British Wild Flowers, second edition, London: William S. Orr & Co., [n.d. 1849], pp: [i]-xvi, [1]-311, illustrated w...

Botany - Loudon (Mrs [Jane]), The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials, second edition, London: William S. Orr and Co, [n.d. 1849], pp: ...

Architecture and Heraldry - Specimens of Mediæval Architecture Chiefly Selected from Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France & Italy and...

Literature - Milton's Paradise Lost, Illustrated by Gustave Doré, Edited, with Notes and a Life of Milton, by Robert Vaughan, D.D., London: Cassel...

Pain (William), The Practical Builder; or Workman's General Assistant; Shewing (sic) The moft approved and eafy Methods for Drawing and Working th...

British Art History and Portraiture - The Brocket Hall Copy: British Portrait Painters and Engravers of the Eighteenth Century, Kneller to Reynold...