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[James Christie] The Specious Orator. Will Your Ladyship Dome
the Honor to day £50-000- A Mere Trifle- A Brilliant of the Finest
Water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely.
R. Dighton 1794.
Etching with very fine hand colour, sheet 350 x 225mm (13¾ x 9"). Tipped into album sheet.
A portrait of auctioneer James Christie (1730–1803) shown standing at an auctioneer's rostrum.
BM Satire 8526.
[Ref: 60013] £320.00
A miscellany of just under 300 items.
It features the following subject matters:
Ephemera
Portraits including mezzotints
Military
Naval
Satire including etchings by James Sayers
Maps
Views UK
Views Overseas including Greece and China
Music
A few Decorative items
Natural History including Jacob Strutt trees
Key Plates
Historical, Social and Political
Some Photos and a smattering of Americana
A few highlights:
Finished from a Drawing in the possession of His Majesty, by F.Chesham, the Aquatinta by W.Ellis. _ Painted by W.Anderson.
Published by Alex.r Riley, 82 Pall Mall London Dec.1.1800.
Rare set of four proof aquatints. Each. c. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾"). 2nd View slight loss in left border. Trimmed to borders.
Four views of the Battle of the Nile, each with a descriptive text and with each ship named.
[Ref: 56104] £1,250.00
Cary's Traveller's Companion, or, A Delineation of the Turnpike
Roads of England & Wales [...] [with] Cary's New Itinerary: or, An
Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross,
Throughout England and Wales; With many of the principal Roads in
Scotland.... Second Edition with Improvements.
London. Printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map
& Printseller, Strand. 1st Jan.y 1791. [&] London: Printed for
John Cary, No. 181 Strand, 1802 [-3].
Two works in one;
8vo (180 x 120mm, 7 x 4¾"), original full diced calf travelling case
with empty pockets front and back. 'Companion': engr. title, pp.
(iv)+(6)+(2)(ads); index map, 42 maps printed back to back, 1 folding
map. 'Itinerary': engr. title & dedication; pp.
(iv)+(1)(ad)+868+(2)(ads). All maps with original hand colour. With the
bookplate of Henry Pakenham-Mahon of Strokeston Park. Binding with tear
to flap, some wear and fading. Folding map of Yorkshire with tear on
fold; two folding maps of 'Itinerary' both trimmed to allow opening of
segments, one segment loose, with tears on folds.
An
unusual travelling edition of two works by John Cary. The 'Traveller's
Companion' has a map of England and Wales, 41 counties and maps of North
& South Wales. The 'Itinerary' has two road maps of England &
Wales, with extensive indexes of the roads. The adverts list some of
Cary's maps, with one page dedicated to his globes. The empty pockets
in the covers would most likely contain larger folding maps not called
for in either the 'Companion' or 'Itinerary'. Henry Pakenham-Mahon
(1851-1922) was an amateur photographer: in 2012, a collection of 324 of
his glass plates was uncovered at Strokestown Park including several
explicit images of live models. Strokestown (in County Roscommon,
Ireland) is now home to the National Irish Famine Museum. Henry's
grandfather was Denis Mahon, whose responce to a rent strike by his
tenants at Strokestown was to evict them and force them to sail to
Quebec in 1847, filling four ships. When news came back to Ireland that
nearly half the passengers had died on route (primarily from cholera)
Mahon was ambushed and shot dead, to general celebration.
[Ref: 59721] £850.00
Exhibition extraordinary in the horticultural room.
A. Bird, inv.t_et del.t. Etched by G. Cruikshank.
[London, George Humphrey, n.d., 1st January, 1826.]
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A scarce and interesting exhibition in the 'Great Room' of the Horticultural Society, containing portraits of officials and caricatures of spectators. The exhibits embody political figures and other allusions. The three officials command the room from seats at a raised table, each with a sloping desk. The chairman, John Elliot (1764-1829), hammer in hand, sits between the Secretary and Assistant Secretary. His desk is inscribed 'A most respectable Cauliflower always in order—'. On his right is Joseph Sabine (1770-1837), and to his left, John Turner, Assistant Secretary, wearing spectacles. The exhibits are on an oblong counter against and below that of the officials, and also on a slightly lower annexe to it, having a curved front which corresponds to the horse-shoe benches facing it. The exhibits on the projecting table are of naturalistic fruit, with one exception, a basket inscribed 'Keen's Seedling A Hot Bed Plant' contains a plump manikin (Kean), naked except for buskins and a head-dress like a strawberry, with a spray of leaves attached to it. The spectators are in the foreground, some standing over the exhibits, others on or beside the green-covered benches. Each has a punning caption in the lower margin. On the pilastered wall are three pictures and a portrait bust, including "Hortos Siccus The Flower of the Flock" Sir Joseph Banks.
BM Satires 15155 with extensive description.
[Ref: 60094] £520.00
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