1792. Copper-line engraving. 1792. 420mm by 750mm (map) 590mm by 920mm (frame). Map of area between Solander Point Botany Bay and the North Arm, Broken Bay. Relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings. Tooley 742.Some overall toning. Some repairs along splits in folds.Framed with acid free mount in simple black.....
C1920. Etching. C1920. 230mm by 195mm (platemark). Signed in pencil below the image. C Terry Pledge was a senior archictect at the Ministry of Works, formerly the H.M. Office of Works. He was also an architectural watercolourist and etcher."
C1830. Engraving with hand-colouring. C1830. 135mm by 220mm (sheet). From Giulio Ferrario's "Il costume antico e moderno, o, storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni", vol. VIII (Asia), edited by Vincenzo Batelli, Florence. A couple of light waterstains."
1818. Soft ground etching. 1818. 225mm by 160mm (platemark). 'Giuseppe Michele Montgolfier' Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740 – 1810) with his brother Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745 – 1799) were the inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique. Italian portrait engraving from 'Serie di vite e ritratti de' famosi personaggi degli ultimi.....
1818. Stipple engraving. 1818. 220mm by 155mm (platemark). 'Giorgio Washington'' George Washington (1732 - 1799) was the first President of the United States (1789-1797), the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention.....
1818. Copper-line engraving. 1818. 215mm by 155mm (platemark). Italian engraving of Captain James Cook. From 'Serie di Vite e Ritratti de Famosi Personaggi degli ultimi tempi' published in Milan 1815-1819. One small spot in top margin. Light waterstain at the bottom of the sheet, well below the platemark. Faint movement.....
1847. Steel-engraving. 1847. 110mm by 160mm (sheet). From Brees' 'Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand'. 'A view along a beach (now Thorndon Quay) looking towards Kaiwharawhara and Wadestown, with the road to to Wadestown shown winding up the hill in the background. There are houses at the beachfront on the left.....
1847. Steel-engraving. 1847. 110mm by 160mm (sheet). From Brees' 'Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand'. Ref : National Library of New Zealand website.False-mounted. A couple of small foxing spots."
1812. Colour aquatint. 1812. 295mm by 235mm (sheet). From 'Westminster Abbey', published by Rudolf Ackermann (1764-1834).
1811. Colour aquatint. 1811. 230mm by 290mm (sheet). From 'Westminster Abbey', published by Rudolf Ackermann (1764-1834).
1811. Colour aquatint. 1811. 295mm by 235mm (sheet). From 'Westminster Abbey', published by Rudolf Ackermann (1764-1834).
1808. Colour aquatint. 1808. 255mm by 320mm (sheet). Aquatinted by Bluck, designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Pugin. From the series 'Microcosm of London', published by Rudolf Ackermann, the great Regency publisher of fine colour prints. He commissioned Rowlandson (1756-1827), a watercolourist and famous caricaturist, to design the.....
1809. Colour aquatint. 1809. 255mm by 320mm (sheet). Aquatinted by Bluck, designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Pugin. From the series 'Microcosm of London', published by Rudolf Ackermann, the great Regency publisher of fine colour prints. He commissioned Rowlandson (1756-1827), a watercolourist and famous caricaturist, to design the.....
C1850. Steel-engraving. C1850. 210mm by 130mm (sheet). Rev.d Robert Ross, Sydney, New South Wales' Robert Ross (1792-1862), Congregational minister, arrived in Sydney from Scotland in 1839 and became minister of the Pitt Street Congregational Church. He won repute, not only for a notable ministry and effective missionary agencies, but also.....
C1860. Steel-engraving. C1860. 260mm by 165mm (sheet). Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, GCH (1766 - 1844) was physician extraordinary to King George III from 1793 to 1820, then as physician in ordinary to his three successors - George IV, William IV and the young Victoria. A couple of small marks.....
C1860. Steel-engraving. C1860. 225mm by 140mm (platemark). Michael Faraday, FRS (1791 - 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
1789. Copper-line engraving. 1789. 405mm by 305mm (platemark). Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd KB (c.1710 - 1794) was a British Army officer. He was three-times Governor of Gibraltar (1776 to 1777, 1790 and 1790 to 1794). A couple of light creases over top left and right corners. A couple of small.....
C1720. Line engraving. C1720. 455mm by 585mm (platemark). 'The South Propect of Shobdon Court in Herefordshire, the Seat of Sir James Bateman' John Harris was an English artist and engraver."
C1875. Woodburytype. C1875. 110mm by 90mm (image) 270mm by 200mm (sheet). Portrait of Rt Hon Robert Lowe (1811-1892) from 'Men of Mark'. CONDITION :Slight cockling to sheet.
C1868. Albumen photograph. C1868. 101mm by 60mm. Carte de visite of George Augustus Selwyn (1809 - 1878) who was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand from 1841 to 1858. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Primate of New Zealand from 1858.....
1802. Stipple and line engraving. 1802. 455mm by 310mm (platemark). 'William Curtis FLS Author of the Flora Londinensis', vignette below portrait titled 'The Frontispiece to Mr Curtis' Flora Londinensis' William Curtis (1746 - 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist.Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea.....