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Click here to subscribeNatural History.- A large, mixed group of bird plates, including game birds, song birds and waterfowl, by or after Buffon, Keulemans, Thorburn and others, hand-coloured engravings and wood-engravings, and chromolithographs, various sizes, generally in good condition, occasional light surface dust, a few plates spotted, 18th and 19th centuries (over 300).
-. De Seve (Jacques Eustache) Insects, Arachnids, and Crustaceans, a large group of plates from the Encyclopedie Methodique, with others from an earlier vol. by Benard on the same subjects, engravings, each c.255 x 190mm., light spotting to a few plates, occasional surface dust, [Paris, Pancoucke], late 18th and early 19th centuries (c.160).
Fishing.- Simmons (W.H.) Steady, Johnnie - Steady, a Highland angling scene, after Erskine Nicol A.R.A., engraving with hand-colouring, 760 x 595mm., publisher's blind-stamp, lower left, surface dirt, mostly marginal, slight uneven browning, other minor marginal defects, Pilgeram & Lefevre, 1874 ~ Pratt (J.B.) Chien de Chasse (On the Scent), after Rosa Bonheur, engraving with hand-colouring, 595 x 695mm., publisher's blind-stamp, lower left, slight surface dirt, mostly marginal, a few minor defects at sheet edges, Lefevre, 1884 ~ Posselwhite (James) The Youthful Queen of the Hop Garden, after William Witherington R.A., line and stipple-engraving, printed in bistre, with original hand-colouring, 605 x 475mm., with engraver's address, lower right, light surface dirt and slight uneven browning, a few cracks along the platemark, [?by the engraver], mid 19th century (3).
-. Herring (John Frederick) Fox-Hunting Scenes, the set of four, The Meet; Breaking Cover; Full Cry; The Death, by J. Harris, 4 aquatints, with original hand-colouring, each c.557 x 865mm., unexamined out of frames, The Meet, only, with publisher's blind-stamp, light spotting to Breaking Cover, only, other 3 plates with occasional cuts and abrasions, a few other minor surface defects, framed and glazed, [Siltzer p.152], first issued by Evans, 1854, three plates Brooks & Son, 1864, one G. P. McQueen, 1874, (?later 19th century issues) (4).
Picasso (Pablo) Taureau et Cheval, from Balzac's Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu, etching, 195 x 275mm., unexamined out of frame, signed in ink, lower right, numbered 78/99, lower left, both slightly faded, light spotting, mounted well outside platemark, backboard bears the label of The Zwemmer Gallery, [Bloch 84; Geiser 125], framed, 1927.
Arrowsmith (John) The London Atlas of Universal Geography, exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the various Countries of the World, constructed from Original Materials, engraved title with dedication, engraved leaf with preface and list of contents (maps 1-50) dated 1842, these frayed at fore-edges and backed, 65 double-page engraved maps in original outline hand-colouring, several short splits at foot of centre folds, occasional light spotting, slight surface wear along some centre folds and other minor defects (the more important maps unaffected), original half morocco, gilt title label on upper cover, worn, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, folio, 1842. *** The cartographical work of John Arrowsmith is notable for his regular updating of maps as new information became available and political circumstances changed. This is the best edition of his London Atlas, including good examples of the celebrated map of the Republic of Texas dated 17 April 1841 and the detailed regional maps of Australia based on recent surveys.
-. Palmer (Frances Flora Bond [Fanny]) View of New York, from Brooklyn Heights, with paddle steamers and sail ships in the foreground, original hand-coloured lithograph, 325 x 425mm., a few spots, browning, surface dust, two tears in the margins, only, some light handling creases, New York, N. Currier, 1849.
Canada.- Homann (Heirs of) Nord-America unter Franzoesisch und Englische Jurisdiction, with 3 plans on 1 sheet, Port et Ville de Louisbourg, Ville de Quebec, The Town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, engraved map, in original hand-colouring, 475 x 525mm., central vertical fold, a light horizontal crease, trimmed to upper platemark, well outside lettering, Nuremberg, 1756.
-. Mayer (Luigi) An Egyptian Bey; A Mamaluke Exercising, and 14 other plates from Views in Egypt, original hand-coloured aquatints, each c.445 x 270mm., or c.300 x 390mm., one watermarked 1794, some others 1801, occasional light surface dirt and slight browning, one duplicate, this plate, only, with a vertical fold and trimmed within the platemark, but well outside the image and title, R. Bowyer, 1802 (16).
Italy.- Abbott (Henry) Antiquities of Rome, title and 16 views only, of 24, including St. Peter's, the Trajan and Antonine columns, and the Pantheon, also with the 4 plates of the panorama, aquatints, printed in bistre, each c.345 x 470mm., or the reverse, the panorama line-engraved, each plate c.425 x 925mm., (approx. 425 x 3625mm. if joined), good impressions, occasional light surface dirt, mostly marginal, a few plates lightly spotted, green half morocco, worn, [Abbey, Travel 179], folio, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1820.
-. Vasi (Giuseppe) Prospetto dell'Alma Citta di Roma, Visto dal Monte Gianicolo, in 11 of 12 sheets, only, unjoined, lacking lower plate 5 but supplied with a high quality facsimile on closely matching paper, etching with engraving, the six upper plates, depicting the main vista, each c.680 x 440mm., the six lower plates, bearing the title tablet, with dedication and date, also the key and some foreground detail, each c.335 x 445mm., the whole image approximately 1010 x 2600mm., if joined, a very good, richly inked, impression, occasional light surface dust and a few minor handling creases, a marginal tear to one plate, not affecting the image, a minor surface loss to one lower plate, Rome, 1765. *** This breath-taking panorama, from St Peter's to the Acqua Paola, is effectively a vertically compressed plan-view, of the type devised by Tempesta in the late 16th century, allowing the artist a certain license to emphasise buildings and monuments which would not otherwise be so obvious from the identifiable viewpoint in the gardens of the Palazzo Corsini, the residence of Vasi's early patron, Cardinal Neri Corsini.
-. Venice.- A panoramic view north over the Canale della Giudecca and Canale di San Marco with the Piazza San Marco in the centre, with many sail ships and a paddle steamer in the foreground, original hand-coloured lithograph, 220 x 1740mm., in two sections joined, unexamined out of frame, a few light handling creases and some small surface losses, framed and glazed, [?Venice], mid 19th century.
Portugal.- L'Eveque (Henry) Campaigns of the British Army in Portugal, Under the Command of General the Earl of Wellington, K.B., portrait frontispiece, title and 18 plates, with 1 extra, engravings by Bartolozzi, Vendramini, Heath and others, after L'Eveque, including four proof plates engraved by the artist, average c.375 x 525mm., the extra illustration a lithographed equestrian portrait of the elderly Duke, 345 x 280mm., unevenly trimmed, laid onto verso of front free end-paper with a letter from Wellington cut from The Times of 1847, the frontispiece portrait and the final plate laid onto paper supports, with short marginal tears, some damp-staining throughout, surface dirt, occasional light spotting, partially disbound in 19th century gilt-lettered boards, worn, detached, back strip missing, folio, Colnaghi & Co., 1812 (?but 1815). *** The plates include the unnumbered view of The Departure of His R.H. the Prince Regent of Portugal for the Brazils, followed by 17 numbered plates, the last four being the proofs by L'Eveque, the pagination of the related descriptive text suggesting this was an expanded edition.
West Indies.- Haiti.- Boquet (Pierre Jean) Vue de l'Incendie de la Ville du Cap Francais, Arrivee le 21 Juin, 1793, Vieux Style, mixed-method engraving by Jean Baptiste Chapuy, part-printed in colour and finished by hand, 525 x 730mm., trimmed to the platemark, but well outside the image and title, three well-repaired tears and a small repaired hole, a few light surface creases, Paris, J.A. Boquet freres, [1795].
-. Arrowsmith (A.and S.) [An Atlas of Modern Geography], lacking title, 30 hand-coloured maps, most double-page, occasional splits on centre folds, ink marks and other minor defects, contemporary half roan, worn, 8vo, c.1830 ~ Butler (Samuel) An Atlas of Modern Geography, engraved title, folding world map and 22 double-page maps in outline hand-colouring, occasional light offsetting and minor defects, contemporary half roan, worn, covers detached, 8vo, 1827; with another by Samuel Arrowsmith and Williams' Eton Atlas, lacking titles and with some defects, 4to (4).
Ireland.- Berry (William) The Province of Leinster Surveyed by Sr.William Petty. Divided into its Counties and the Counties into their severall Barronies, Wherein are distinguished the Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Places that return Parliament Men, also the Roads and Bridges, engraved map in original outline hand-colouring, 440 x 560mm., light spotting, slight wear along old centre crease, a few repaired tears at edges, one extending just into engraved surface at top right, backed with fine tissue, William Berry at the Sign of the Globe, c.1689. *** Rare; the scale is 8 miles to 1 inch.
-. Cary (John) London, Westminster and Southwark, accurately delineated from the latest Surveys, to which is now first added a Correct List of upwards of 350 Hackney Coach Fares laid down from actual Measurement, and the prices regulated agreeable to the late act of Parliament 1785, engraved plan with original outline hand-colouring, dissected and linen-backed, 415 x 555mm. including panel of fares at foot, light browning and surface dirt, [not in Howgego], original marbled slipcase, worn, with Cary's engraved label, J.Wallis and J.Cary, 1785.
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