Entrance of the Yellow River
London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, LTD., 1843. Engraving on cream wove paper, 8 x 10 3/4 inches (202 x 272 mm) sheet, full margins. In overall good condition with light toning at the sheet edges. More
Engravings
Capturing Elephants, from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion
Boston: Frederick Gleason, 1851. Engraving with hand-drawn borders on cream wove paper, laid down to board. 7 3/4 x 10 inches (197 x 255 mm), trimmed margins, lacking text. Scattered light soiling, and toning, with a dog-eared lower left corner. An illustration from the June 21 & 28, 1851 edition..... More
Hoisting Elephant on Shipboard
Frederick Gleason, 1851. Engraving with hand-drawn borders on cream wove paper, laid down to board. 7 3/4 x 10 inches (197 x 255 mm), trimmed margins, lacking text. Scattered light soiling, and toning, with a dog-eared lower left corner. An illustration from the June 21 & 28, 1851 edition of..... More
Transbombardment des vestes de l'Empereur Napoléon à Cherbourg
1840. Engraving on Chine collé mounted to wove paper 9 x 12 1/8 inches (230 x 308 mm), the full sheet. Uniform toning and some light scattered mottling. Lower right corner has detached from the matrix. More
Ansicht der Kirche auf der Wartburg
Dresden: E.C. Schmid, c1800. Engraving on cream wove paper, 11 1/4 x 15 inches (285 x 380 mm), the full sheet. Significant bows of dampstain, primarily visible on the verso. Overall toning and scattered light areas of discoloration. More
Triumphfzug, from Triumphfzug der edelen sighaften Weiber
Frankfurt: c1549. Engraving on laid paper, 7/8 x 5 3/8 (22 x 136 mm), thread margins. Fine impression. A fine first state (of 3) impression, with the collector's stamp of Pieter M.M. Hoogeweegen in black ink on verso (variant of Lugt 2101A). In very good condition with some light notations..... More
The Smokers' Rebellion (The Edict of William The Testy)
Paris: Goupil & Co., c1880. Photogravure and engraving on Chine collé mounted to wove paper, 11 5/8 x 16 1/4 (295 x 413 mm), the full sheet. Scattered rust-colored discoloration at the bottom of the sheet, extending in a bow into the margin, but well outside of the image area..... More
Ceiling plan of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street
Robert Wilkinson, 1816. Copperplate engraving on buff wove paper with hand coloring in watercolor, 10 7/8 x 13 /4 inches (275 x 336 mm), full margins. In good condition with some scattered age tone and surface soiling, especially in the area of the right sheet edge, and top right corner..... More
The Vale of Ting-hai, Chusan
London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, LTD., c1843. Engraving on cream wove paper, 8 x 10 3/4 inches (202 x 272 mm) sheet, full margins. In overall good condition with light toning at the sheet edges, and scattered areas of light brown discoloration. More
Apollo, plate 11 from the series of The Gods in Niches
Rome: Carlo Losi, 1526. Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (215 x 110 mm), thread margins. In very good condition with a strip of archival paper adhered at the verso along the right sheet edge. Fourth state (of 4), printed c1780. More
Sapientia Martem depellente Pax et Abundantia cogaudent; Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
1589. Engraving on handmade laid paper, 7 7/16 x 9 7/8 inches (190 x 250 mm) (the full sheet), with slightly trimmed margins, just inside the platemark (-5 mm). In very good condition with some very minor mottled light staining on the verso, perhaps adhesive residue from a former mount..... More
The Mountstuart Coat of Arms
London: T. Spilsbury & Son, 1790. Engraving on lightweight wove paper, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (950 x 145 mm), full margins at top and sides of sheet, lower portion of sheet trimmed. In fair condition with a yellow bow-shaped discoloration in the lower left sheet corner, as well..... More
Vue de Tunis d'Alger & de Gigeri
Paris: Châtelain, 1723. Copperplate engraving on cream laid paper, 15 x 17 1/4 inches (381 x 440 mm); sheet 17 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (438 x 551 mm), full margins. In good condition consistent with age, and with a reinforced central crease, as issued. An image from volume VI..... More
Earl Waldegrave coat of arms
London: c 1750. Steel engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (sheet) (142 x 162 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered handling wear, creasing and edge nicks, uniform age tone. Condition issues are consistent with age. The Waldegrave family descends from Sir Richard Waldegrave, Speaker..... More
The Punishments of China, 8 plates
London: William Miller, 1801. Six (6) stipple point engravings with hand coloring in watercolor on white wove paper, one plate (Plate 12) with accompanying text page, 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (205 x 272 mm) (sheet). Each in good condition with moderate handling wear and minor surface soiling. Each..... More
Galley slaves preparing a meal
Rome: M. Scheap, 1658. Engraving on cream laid paper, 4 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (117 x 125 mm); sheet 5 x 6 1/8 inches (128 x 151 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with paper tape remnants at the top corners on the verso. Adhesive residue at the..... More
Trophies of War, title page
Rome: M. Scheap, 1658. Engraving on cream laid paper, 4 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (117 x 125 mm); sheet 5 x 6 1/8 inches (128 x 151 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with paper tape remnants at the top corners on the verso, as well as on..... More
Landing Place and Entrance to the Temple, Honan, Canton
London: Fisher & Sons, c1843. Engraving on cream wove paper, 7 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (198 x 265 mm), full margins. In good condition with light toning and handling wear. More
The Large Village Fair
Hamburg: Lippmann, 1895. Copperplate engraving on cream wove paper with a deckle edge, 10 1/8 x 13 1/2 inches (256 x 342 mm), full margins. In generally good condition with some light mat tone and overall light discoloration. A reproduction of Dusart's 1685 etching presented in the third state (of..... More
St. Jude's Church, South Sea
c 1850. Engraving on cream wove paper, 4 x 5 5/8 inches (102 x 143 mm), margins trimmed. Uniform toning and some adhesive residue on the verso. More
Three Men with a Lantern Standing Over Three Bodies
Engraving on heavy wove paper, mounted to archival laid paper, 2 3/8 x 3 inches (60 x 76 mm), margins. In very good condition with no visible defects. Perhaps a Guy Fawkes image. More
Amida, a Deity of Japan; One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have been remarkable from the earliest period to the present time Volume 1.
London: 1778. Engraving on cream laid paper, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (290 x 190 mm) sheet, full margins. In good condition with minor age tone and an unevenly trimmed left sheet edge. Ink inscription in the left margin, recto, and pencil inscription in the right margin, recto, both..... More
A Hebrew nomadic camp
c1780. Engraving on lightweight laid paper with an small indiscernible, alphabetic watermark, 9 x 7 1/2 (230 x 188 mm); sheet 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (284 x 215 mm), wide margins. In very good condition with some light inscriptions in pencil in the lower margin, outside of the..... More
Rustics of Japan; One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have been remarkable from the earliest period to the present time Volume 1.
London: 1778. Engraving on cream laid paper, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (290 x 190 mm) sheet, full margins. In good condition with minor age tone and an unevenly trimmed left sheet edge. Ink inscription in the left margin, recto, and pencil inscription in the right margin, recto, both..... More
Hall of Bermondsey Abbey
London: Robert Wilkinson, 1820. Copperplate engraving on buff wove paper, 13 x 9 3/4 inches (330 x 247 mm) full margins. In good condition with some minor toning and surface soiling consistent with age. More