ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair Listing: Catalogue 116!

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Pinchbeck.
Isaac Whood pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small repaired tear into margin on left. Printer's crease bottom right in margin.
Christopher Pinchbeck (1670?-1732), maker of clocks and automata, here shown holding an open pocket watch. He also invented 'pinchbeck', an alloy of copper and zinc that resembled gold, which created a new market for costume jewelry. Among his clients was Louis XIV, for whom he made a music clock. In 1717 he advertised a clock at one thousand guineas (appoximately £140,000 today). From 1721 until his death his address was 'at the sign of ‘The Astronomico-Musical Clock' in Fleet Street.
CS 289 i/ii.
[Ref: 57864]   £950.00  


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This miscellaneous catalogue of over 230 items contains:
Portraits including Mezzotints.
Decorative items including items by Stefano Della Bella and assemblage prints after George Spratt.
Satire.
Costumes.
Historical, Political and Social Scenes.
Aviation.
Views Overseas and UK (including prints after John Constable), Sports and Pastimes.
Some Naval and Military.
Plus selected Natural History including horses, Ephemera, Science and a couple of Books.

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A few highlights:
 

The Royall Hospitall at Chelsey To the Right Hon.ble S.r Stephen Fox Kn.t Soley Employ'd by King Charles the Second to take care and build the Royal Hospital at Chelsea for y.e Superanuated. and Indigent Officers & Soldiers towards which, he gave the Ground and a third part of his Office of paymaster to the Army which he then Enjoyed and Carryed on the Work with Constant Payments.
[Engraved by Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff.]
[London: David Mortier, n.d., c.1715.]
Engraving with etching on two sheets conjoined. Total platemark 560 x 895mm (22 x 35¼"). Original binding folds, as normal; old ink pagination.
A bird's eye view of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, with the river in the foreground and the formal gardens between the river and the hospital. The Westbourne can be seen entering the Thames. This is an early example, before the addition of Joseph Smith's publication line in 1724. The hospital was founded by King Charles II in 1682, however Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716), to whom this print is dedicated, was the inspiration for its foundation. Fox was a royal administrator and courtier to Charles II and a politician who rose from humble origins, so much so that he became known as 'the richest commoner in the three kingdoms'.
[Ref: 57876]   £990.00   

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The Pictorial Missionary Map of the World.
Drawn by John Gilbert. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans.
London: James Nisbet & Co., 21, Berniers Street [n.d., c.1850], - Prince one Penny, or 7s. per 100, plain; Twopence, or 14s. per 100. Coloured.
Scarce colour-printed wood-engraved map. Sheet 510 x 760mm (20 x 30"). Edges chipped and torn, splits in folds.
A double-hemisphere map, colour-coded to depict parts of the world as 'Protestant', 'Roman Catholic', 'Greek Church', Mahometan', 'Decayed Christian Churches' (Ethiopia) and 'Heathen'. Scenes in the borders denigrate 'heathen' religions, depicting Sati (Suttee) for 'Cruelty of Hindoo Dolatory' and 'Cruelty of Budhism.-- Infant-burying in China'. Top left two scenes compare druids burning human sacrifices in Stonehenge (with a Straw Man) to 'England under the Gospel'. Other scenes depict Maori war canoes, slaves, 'Liberated Negroes in Sierra Leone and missionaries preaching. Depicts most of Australia, New Zealand and Americas as "Heathens" and American Indians before and after conversion.
[Ref: 58204]   £950.00    

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[19th century scrapbook containing views of Portugal].
[5 Pencil drawings were drawn in 1830 by Lady Ashworth, 14 watercolours in 1816 by Lady Rooke. As per list compiled by Caroline Ashworth (Cameron) c. 1860’s.]
[C.L. Cameron c. 1865, but contents much earlier.]
Book. Folio 485 x 360mm (19 x 16"). Leather spine detached. Some pages missing. Tears. Some time staining.
A large scrapbook containing views of Portugal, including a fantastic collection of 14 large watercolours of the Douro by Lady Rooke in 1816 & 5 drawings of Braga & the Douro by Lady Ashworth drawn in 1830 and depicting the areas her husband fought in. Caroline Laura Ashworth was born in Portugal presumably Oporto in 1820. Her father was Major General Charles Ashworth (1784-1832) who fought in the Peninsular War. He married Mary Anne Rooke, daughter of Sir Giles, a judge (1743-1808) & Harriet Rooke and their daughter Emily Marianne (1825-1909) married Prof. Edward Forbes, the famous naturalist & geologist. Caroline married Lt. Col. Alexander Cameron (1781-1850) in 1847, and they had one son Ewan Henry Cameron. Emily’s sister Frances Sophie Rooke (1789) married Lucy Henry Kingston (d.1852). His family were major wine & port traders in London & Oporto hence the major link to all these families. Lucy’s father was a partner in the Oporto firm Lambert Kingston & Egan and was MP for Lymington 1802-14. The family also had links to Cork. Their son was the famous author William Henry Giles Kingston who lived many years in Oporto. This is a rare chance to buy a bit of history of Oporto with vivid illustrations by families with close connections to the area in the 18th & 19th century.
[Ref: 58240]   £4,900.00 

 


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