Catalogue 131 is here!
Tabac.
V. Adam.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 590 x 385mm (23¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed into image top and bottom, repaired tears.
An elaborate design of a vase filled with, and surrounded by, smoking paraphernalia, including pipes, ranging from plain to exquisitely carved, and Turkish hookahs.
[Ref: 61074] £390.00
We are pleased to present our newest listing: Catalogue 131!
Pharoah's Seat, with the sacred Island of Philae [pencil title on reverse]
By Owen Jones [pencil on reverse].
[n.d., c.1830.]
Watercolour on card. Sheet 190 x 550mm (7½ x 21½"). Wear to edges.
A
view of the Egyptian temples in their original positions on the island
of Philae, before the building of the Aswan Dam. The viewpoint is the
same as the lithograph 'Philae - Looking South' in 'Views on the Nile
from Cairo to the Second Cataract' by Jones & Jules Goury, 1843,
with changes to the rocks and staffage.
[Ref: 61264] £1,450.00
Turner's Select Views [Book of 20 plates after J.M.W. Turner]
J.M.W Turner R.A. del.t. W. Radclyffe sculp.t. C. Heath sculp.t. J.Scott sculp.t. S. Middiman sculp.t. Engraved by T. Higham. Engraved by John Pye. S. Rawle sculp.t. J. Landseer F.S.A sculp.t. J. Archer sculp.t. J. C. Varrall sculp.t...
Published by Longman, Hurst & C.o Paternaster Row and Hurst, Robinson & C.o Cheapside London, June 1822.
Oblong folio, half morocco with mottled boards, marbled end papers. 20 copper engravings on chiné colle interwoven with tissue paper and 5 additional handwritten pages added in. One loose page of handwritten text. Royal Folio edition limited to 125 copies. Abrasions to cover. Prints time stained.
Plates: Hornby Castle from Tatham Church. Kirby Lonsdale Church Yard. Aysgarth Force. Weathercote Cave, when half filled with water. Egglestone Abbey near Barnard Castle. Wycliffe near Rokeby. Moss Dale Fall. Brignall Church. High Force or Fall of Tees. Aske Hall, the Seat of the Right Hon.ble Lord Dundas. Richmond Castle and Town. Merrick Abbey, Swaledale. Junction of the Greta and Tees at Rokeby. Ingleborough from Hornby Castle Terrace. Heysham and Cumberland Mountains. S.t Agatha's Abbey, Easby. Crook of Lune, looking towards Horby Castle. Simmer Lake near Askrig. Hardraw Fall. Richmond, Yorkshire. From Reverend Thomas Dunham Whitaker's 'History of Richmondshire', published 1818–23. Originally intended to be a much larger project, an entire History of Yorkshire, the project prematurely closed with only the Richmondshire section completed, containing twenty engravings after Turner, as the publishers overcommitted themselves paying Turner and the engravers a generous salary. It was published as large paper copies (Royal Folio) on India 125 copies (originally supposed to be 160) and a smaller version (Demy folio) on plain paper 550 copies.
R. 169-188. 1st Published State.
[Ref: 61296] £1,250.00
A Portrait of the East Indiaman built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched Aug.st 1817.
J. Smart Jun. del.t. R. Pollard fec.t.
Pub.d Aug.t 21 1817 by R.N. Rose, Bookseller Ipswich.
Scarce coloured aquatint with etching. Framed, sight size
250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Framed over platemark, pencil note on title,
unexamined out of frame.
The 'Orwell' East Indiaman
being built, sitting on a scaffold with a row of poles. It was built
by Jabez Bayley's (1771 -1834) Ship-Yard in Halifax for Matthew Isacke
of Greenwich (possibly Captain (Mathew) Robert Isacke (c.1803-96), of
Croomes Hill, Greenwich, Kent, who was in the naval service of the East
India Company or his father Mathew Isacke (born in St Helena 1761-1831).
Made of Suffolk oak it took over 15 months to build and was named after
Ipswich's river, the Orwell was launched on the 29th August, watched by
about 20,000 spectators.
[Ref: 61191] £550.00
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3 - 4 November 2023
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