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Hudibras is a mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler. The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work was written in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678 although an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 48.5 x 64 / 19 x 25
Dimensions (W x H): 48.5 x 64 / 19 x 25
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![HUDIBRAS. [TWELVE Excellent and most Diverting PRINTS; Taken from the Celebrated POEM of HUDIBRAS. Wrote by Mr. SAMUEL BUTLER. Exposing the Villany and Hypocricy of those TIMES. Invented and Engraved on Twelve COPPER PLATES, by William Hogarth.]](itemImages/th_6222.jpg)
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HOGARTH, William
Hogarth’s 12 prints illustrating Samuel Butler’s poem Hudibras, were among his favourite works. Although a little more obscure than some of his works, they represent an important stage in his development; Butler’s comic narrative was the perfect subject for Hogarth to develop his gift for social ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 54 / 14 x 21½
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HOGARTH, William
The twelve prints in this set show the the relative fortunes of two apprentices; one industrious, one idle: the industrious apprentice becomes Lord Mayor of London, the idle apprentice is executed at Tyburn. Hogarth regularly used events of his time to produce series of prints charting a story. His ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 29 / 14 x 11½
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A rather raffish character, McSwiny made and lost “a moderate younger brother’s fortune” as a theatrical impresario in London. With the failure of Handel’s Teseo in 1713 he was bankrupted and forced to flee abroad. Settling in Italy he continued to act as an agent for Italian opera in London, ...
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The eight scenes tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his miserly father. It was Hogarth's second 'modern moral subject', and followed the hugely successful A Harlot's Progress (1730). In an advertisement ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 26 / 14 x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 26.5 x 35 / 10½ x 14
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 34.5 x 25 / 13½ x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 26 / 14 x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 25.5 / 14 x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36.5 x 26.5 / 14½ x 10½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 27.5 / 8½ x 11
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19.5 x 26 / 7½ x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 35 / 10 x 14
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 29.5 / 15 x 11½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 25 / 14 x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 27.5 / 15 x 11
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 37 / 10 x 14½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 25.5 / 14 x 10
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 35 / 10 x 14
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BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Two plates on one sheet. The left plate shows a compass rose with 32 wind directions, the left shows an armillary sphere. Both plates have cherubs with navigational equipment at lower right. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was cartographer to ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 32 / 9 x 12½
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BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Two plates on one sheet. The left plate shows a compass rose with 32 wind directions, the left shows an armillary sphere. Both plates have cherubs with navigational equipment at lower right. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was cartographer to ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 32 / 9 x 12½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 39 / 20½ x 15½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 24.5 / 14 x 9½
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KIP, Johannes
This wonderful panorama is from the Nouveau théâtre de la Grand Bretagne, by Johannes Kip. The set of five volumes is celebrated for its survey of the country house during the Augustinian age, as recorded in the series of plates engraved by Kip himself. This ‘flourishing period of restoration, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 134 x 62 / 53 x 24½
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VERTUE, George
A handsome view of the interior and exterior of St. Thomas Chapel on the old London Bridge. At centre of the engraving is a view of ‘London bridge as it was first built in 1209’. The lower third of the plate contains a history of the bridge set in an emblematic architectural frame. In the days ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 54 / 19½ x 21½
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 44 x 37.5 / 17½ x 15
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.’ (The Hill Collection, Cornell University)
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 46 / 12½ x 18
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.’ (The Hill Collection, Cornell University).
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 55 / 14 x 21½
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds show Gould at the peak of his art. The accuracy of depiction, the composition of each plate, the vibrant and precise colouring, and the sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.
Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 45.5 / 12 x 18
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.’ (The Hill Collection, Cornell University).
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 54.5 / 14 x 21½
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.
Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 43.5 / 12½ x 17
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GILLRAY, James.
.James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 55 x 42 / 21½ x 16½
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19.5 x 14 / 7½ x 5½
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 17.5 x 12 / 7 x 4½
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
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BESLER, Basilius
Three summer plants from Basilius Besler’s collection of botanicals, Hortus Eystettensis. Besler was a Nuremburg apothecary in charge of the elaborate garden of the Bishop Prince of Eisenstatt. The plates, illustrating more than a thousand flowers were arranged according to the seasons. When the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 39.5 x 48 / 15½ x 19
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
Inset maps of Corfu, Sanorimi, Zante, Milo, Nicsia and Scarpanto. In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as ...
Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 14.5 / 8 x 5½
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JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert
A spectacular but inaccurate sea chart of the coast and and the islands of NW Scotland and Ireland. Ornamental compasses at sea, highlighted in gold, connected by rhumb lines. The Neptune Francois was ‘a seminal work in the development of sea atlases.’ (ref: British Library Catalogue.) It was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 85 x 59 / 33½ x 23
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
The map is in two parts, north and south, they are both of equal size. The northern map has a decorated cartouche, and shows the north of white Russia, and part of the arctic coast, reaches as far south as ‘Petersbourg’. The southern map stretches to the northern tip of the Black Sea, the Volga ...
Dimensions (W x H): 66 x 50 / 26 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
The map is in two parts, north and south, they are both of equal size. The northern map has a decorated cartouche, and shows the north of white Russia, and part of the arctic coast, reaches as far south as the Principality of Galicz. The southern map stretches to the northern tip of the Black Sea, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 66 x 50 / 26 x 19½
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
An interesting map of north east Africa, with plenty of information, mostly very speculative about the interior of Africa- its people, regions and kingdoms.The plates were originally made by De l’Isle around 1700. Covens and Mortimer reissued them in the Atlas Novissimo (1730-40). Phillipe Buache, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 61 x 49 / 24 x 19½
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
Fine elaborate cartouche, although the title suggest a map of Denmark, this handsome map shows the northern halves of Sweden, Norway and Finland. The plates were originally made by De l’Isle around 1700. Covens and Mortimer reissued them in the Atlas Novissimo (1730-40). Phillipe Buache, de ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 45 / 24½ x 17½
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
Ornamental cartouche, seven different national scales, a good clear map showing the regions of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. The plates were originally made by De l’Isle around 1700. Covens and Mortimer reissued them in the Atlas Novissimo (1730-40). Phillipe Buache, de l’Isle’s successor, and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 47.5 / 24½ x 18½
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
Elaborate cartouche of strapwork surrounded by marine and mythical figures, secondary simpler cartouche contains three scales. A large clear map of present day Holland. The plates were originally made by De l’Isle around 1700. Covens and Mortimer reissued them in the Atlas Novissimo (1730-40). ...
Dimensions (W x H): 61 x 47 / 24 x 18½
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JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert
Fine sea chart of the coasts of Ireland, and western Britain, with an inset map at lower left of the estuary of the River Dee, as far as Chester. Rhumb lines crisscross the map, depth soundings. compass point. The Neptune Francois was ‘a seminal work in the development of sea atlases.’ (ref: ...
Dimensions (W x H): 92 x 64 / 36 x 25
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MERCATOR, Gerard/HONDIUS, Jodocus
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 18.5 / 10 x 7½
£220
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9
£650
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.’ (The Hill Collection, Cornell University)
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 46 / 12½ x 18
£650
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds show Gould at the peak of his art. The accuracy of depiction, the composition of each plate, the vibrant and precise colouring, and the sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.
Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 45.5 / 12 x 18
£675
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£475
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£475
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£300
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£300
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£190
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£300
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£475
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
£165
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 26 / 14 x 10
£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½
£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½
£2000
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GOULD, John
The Birds of Europe is the first of Gould's works to feature plates by Edward Lear. The greater number were drawn and lithographed by Elizabeth Gould, but a quarter of them were drawn and lithographed by Lear. All the plates were coloured under the direction of My Bayfield. Finally the printing ...
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GOULD, John
The Birds of Europe is the first of Gould's works to feature plates by Edward Lear. The greater number were drawn and lithographed by Elizabeth Gould, but a quarter of them were drawn and lithographed by Lear. All the plates were coloured under the direction of My Bayfield. Finally the printing ...
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GOULD, John & Elizabeth
Stunning lithograph from John Gould’s ‘Birds of Europe’, the first of Gould’s works to include work by Edward Lear. Gould, and his wife Elizabeth, drew and lithographed three quarters of the plates, Lear one quarter. The success of the work enabled the Goulds to move to Australia for two years to ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 34 / 18½ x 13½
£85
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£350
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£275
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£275
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£245
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£60
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£550
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EDWARDS, George
A beautiful engraving of a crane from the “Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer un seltener Vogel” based on George Edwards’ "Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History" with the plates re-engraved by J.M. Seligmann.
Dimensions (W x H): 18.5 x 23.5 / 7½ x 9½
£220
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EDWARDS, George
A beautiful bird print from the “Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer un seltener Vogel” based on George Edwards’ "Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History" with the plates re-engraved by J.M. Seligmann.
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 28 / 8½ x 11
£300
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the pigeon, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the pigeon, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£300
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the pigeon, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£100
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Print of a duck’s head (Fig.1) and 2 bones (Fig.2), the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the goose, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£250
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the ducks, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£300
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the diver, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the diver, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£300
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the diver, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£110
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 28 / 15 x 11
£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
£600
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.’ (The Hill Collection, Cornell University).
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 54.5 / 14 x 21½
£650
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds probably represent the peak of his art. ‘The iridescent splendor and sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.’ (The Hill Collection, Cornell University)
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 46 / 12½ x 18
£650
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds show Gould at the peak of his art. The accuracy of depiction, the composition of each plate, the vibrant and precise colouring, and the sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.
Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 45.5 / 12 x 18
£650
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GOULD, John
Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidae, Or Family of Humming Birds show Gould at the peak of his art. The accuracy of depiction, the composition of each plate, the vibrant and precise colouring, and the sense of motion captured in the plates is overwhelming.
Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 45.5 / 12 x 18
£1100
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after TURNER, William
A beautiful view after painting by William Turner, showing the wooden battleship on her last trip to be broken up as the sun sets. Original mezzotint signed by the famous British artist, with Print Sellers Association stamp in left corner. John Cother Webb, Landseer’s student, was in his lifetime ...
Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 34 / 17½ x 13½
£95
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
£450
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BRAUN, George, and HOGENBERG, Frans
Beautiful view of Fondi in Latina province, south central Italy. Figures in the foreground, behind the town lie the Aurunci mountains. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was a monumental work completed over 45 years between 1572 and 1617, and was one of the best-selling works of the late ...
Dimensions (W x H): 46.5 x 35 / 18½ x 14
£85
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½
£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 17.5 x 12 / 7 x 4½
£2000
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GOULD, John & Elizabeth
Stunning lithograph from John Gould’s ‘Birds of Europe’, the first of Gould’s works to include work by Edward Lear. Gould, and his wife Elizabeth, drew and lithographed three quarters of the plates, Lear one quarter. The success of the work enabled the Goulds to move to Australia for two years to ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 34 / 18½ x 13½
£1000
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RAWLINS, J, T
A beautifully bound book by Lawrence Rawstorne on shooting and the art of preserving game. “The first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game...”. With 15 plates in exquisite ...
Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 12 / 8 x 4½
£320
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 12 / 7 x 4½
£320
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
£220
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GILLRAY, James.
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50.5 x 35 / 20 x 14
£120
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BESSA, Pancrace
/ Duhamel Du Monceau
Duhamel du Monceau was one of the outstanding botanists and horticulturists of the 18th century. Redouté and his pupil Bessa were to draw all the images for this great work. Both artists studied under Gerald von Spaendonck, the great flower painter of France's Le Jardin du Roi. To produce the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 30.5 / 9 x 12
£110
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan.
In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 12 / 7½ x 4½
