ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair Listing
Just in case you missed it our new listing for the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair is here!
This catalogue of over 400 interesting & curious items, contains a large
selection of satire, UK & foreign topography, portraits, natural history, sporting, decorative scenes and of course ephemera.
Highlights to look out for are a beautiful mezzotint portrait ofMaharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar III and some wonderful animal etchings by A. Radclyffe Dumore.
See below for some images to whet your appetite:
[Leiden: B. & A. Elzevir: 1630.]
Large engraving. 490 x 700mm (15¾ x 27½"), with large margins. Tear at top, two creases as normal. Small margins.
A plate from Gerard Thibault's 'L'académie de l'espée', illustrating the geometry that the author considered of utmost importance in sword fighting. Of particular interest is the use of Thibault's 'mysterious circle', proportional to the swordsman's body. Thibault (c.1574-1627) was a Dutch fencing master and author of the rapier manual 'Academie de l'Espée'. one of the most detailed and elaborate sources on swordsmanship.
[Ref: 52740]
London: Ackermann & Co., 96, Strand [n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 325 x 755mm (12½ x 29¾"), with wide margins.
A view of Freetown with a key noting Government House, Soldiers's Hospital and the Wesleyan Mission House. Laetitia Jervis Terry was the wife of the Assistant Superintendant of the Liberated African's Department. The 'Liberated Africans' were those rescued by the Royal Navy from slave ships destined for the Americas. Over 40,000 liberated Africans arrived in Freetown between 1808 (when Britain abolished the slave trade) and about 1855.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 52573]
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey. [n.d. c.1784.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Plate 248 x 354mm (9¾ x 13½"). With small margins. Very slight centre crease.
The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY' [Cecil Wray]. Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turns to North and sings. North (right), also with a stick, sings. Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail', a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch.
BM Satires 6591.
[Ref: 52361]
[Fencing.] Tabula I.
J. Gelle Collonien sculp:[Leiden: B. & A. Elzevir: 1630.]
Large engraving. 490 x 700mm (15¾ x 27½"), with large margins. Tear at top, two creases as normal. Small margins.
A plate from Gerard Thibault's 'L'académie de l'espée', illustrating the geometry that the author considered of utmost importance in sword fighting. Of particular interest is the use of Thibault's 'mysterious circle', proportional to the swordsman's body. Thibault (c.1574-1627) was a Dutch fencing master and author of the rapier manual 'Academie de l'Espée'. one of the most detailed and elaborate sources on swordsmanship.
[Ref: 52740]
No II. - Free Town, Sierra Leone. South East View.
[Drawn on Stone by A. Laby & J. Needham after Sketches
by Mrs. Terry.] Printed at Mclean Lithographic Establishment, 50 St
Martin's Lane.London: Ackermann & Co., 96, Strand [n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 325 x 755mm (12½ x 29¾"), with wide margins.
A view of Freetown with a key noting Government House, Soldiers's Hospital and the Wesleyan Mission House. Laetitia Jervis Terry was the wife of the Assistant Superintendant of the Liberated African's Department. The 'Liberated Africans' were those rescued by the Royal Navy from slave ships destined for the Americas. Over 40,000 liberated Africans arrived in Freetown between 1808 (when Britain abolished the slave trade) and about 1855.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 52573]
For the Benefit of the Champion. A Catch to be Perform'd at the
New Theatre Covent Garden _ for Admission Apply to the D____ ss_ NB.
Gratis to those who wear Large Tails.
Etch'd by T. Rowlandson.Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey. [n.d. c.1784.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Plate 248 x 354mm (9¾ x 13½"). With small margins. Very slight centre crease.
The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY' [Cecil Wray]. Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turns to North and sings. North (right), also with a stick, sings. Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail', a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch.
BM Satires 6591.
[Ref: 52361]
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