C1750. Copper-line engraving. C1750. 125mm by 100mm (platemark). The Hon.ble John Byng Esq. Admiral of the Blue, ' Admiral John Byng (1704 - 1757) was appointed Commodore-Governor of the British colony of Newfoundland in 1742. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1745, and to Vice-Admiral in 1747.He is best known.....
1903. Photogravure. 1903. 400mm by 270mm (sheet). Title at top of sheet reads - 'The British Dominions Beyond the Seas - No XX : The Exploration of Australia' From 'The Illustrated London News', 1903. Unrelated images on the reverse.Very light handling crease top right."
1886. Wood-engraving. 1886. 130mm by 135mm (sheet). William Lonsdale (1799 – 1864) supervised the founding of the official settlement at Port Phillip (later named Melbourne) from 1836 and went on to serve under the Superintendent La Trobe from 1839 to 1854. Part-page illustration from 'The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. Partial.....
1872. Wood - engraving and chromolithograph. 1872. 360mm by 460mm (image). Title below image with following text above the image "Supplement presented gratis with Christmas number of the Town & country journal, Decr. 21st, 1872". Centre fold as issued.Acid free mount."
C1825. Copper-line engraving. C1825. 200mm by 125mm (sheet). Sir William Edward Parry (1790 -1855) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer. Parry served as Commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company based at Tahlee on the northern shore of Port Stephens New South Wales, Australia from 1829 to 1834. Trimmed within.....
C1885. Tinted lithograph. C1885. 265mm by 205mm (sheet). James Laidley (1786-1835) arrived in Sydney in 1827 to become New South Wales Commissary General. He was also a foundation member of the Australian Racing Club in 1828. Laidley's Plains in Queensland was named in his honour by the botanist Allan Cunningham.....
C1850. Steel-engraving. C1850. 150mm by 115mm (image) 265mm by 175mm (sheet). Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, KCB (1795 -1857) was a British general who is particularly associated with India. He was noted for his recapture of Cawnpore from rebels during Indian Rebellion of 1857.
C1880. Stipple engraving. C1880. 180mm by 130mm (platemark). Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is also known for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as.....
C1850. Stipple engraving. C1850. 185mm by 130mm (platemark). Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman.....
C1780. Copper-line engraving. C1780. 270mm by 165mm (platemark). 'O-Taj, his Wife, and Sisters Visiting Captn. Cook on board the Resolution Sloop at O-Taheitee' Shows Captain Cook aboard the Resolution meeting a group of Tahitians in 1773 or 1774.'Engraved for Moore's Voyages and Travels'"
1787. Copper-line engraving. 1787. 315mm by 255mm (sheet). Captain William Dampier, From an Original Picture in the British Museum' The original oil is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.Trimmed within platemark, remains of hinges on the reverse.Rare."
C1880 (originally 1808). Copper-line engraving. C1880 (originally 1808). 380mm by 495mm (platemark). Printed by Andrew Maverick. Title in English and French. This impression appears to be a late nineteenth century impression rather than 1808.On the night of December 31, 1775, Major General Richard Montgomery attempted to enter Quebec during a......
C1842. Lithograph. C1842. 240mm by 185mm (sheet). Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark, giving his name to several.....
C1850. Steel-engraving. C1850. 270mm by 180mm (sheet). Portrait of Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (1796 - 1864). "
1788. Aquatint. 1788. 190mm by 110mm (platemark). Capit.ne Henri Wilson' Henry Wilson (1740-1810) was an English naval captain of the British East India Company. He commanded the packet ship Antelope, when it shipwrecked off Ulong Island, near Koror Island in Palau in 1783. Lee Boo from Palau returned to England.....
1788. Copper-line engraving. 1788. 120mm by 175mm (image). After the painting by John Webber. Published by C Cooke. Small black mark at top of the image.Trimmed within platemark at top of sheet. Toning at the bottom of the sheet.Beddie, 2627."
1886. Steel engraving. 1886. 250mm by 175mm (image) 355mm by 250mm (sheet). After the portrait by Nathaniel Dance which is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Facsimile signature below the image. From ' The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. CONDITION : Very faint toning upper right corner of image and sheet.....
1905. Chromolithograph. 1905. 395mm by 265mm (sheet). 'I regret to report'. Vanity Fair, portrait of General Alexei Kuropatkin (1848-1925). He was the Russian Imperial Minister of War (1898-1904) who is often held responsible for major Russian drawbacks in the Russian-Japanese War. a few short breaks in the paper in margins.....
C1820. Copper-line engraving. C1820. 360mm by 230mm (platemark). From Houbraken's series of portrait engravings which he set within elaborate cartouches. They were published by Knapton originally C1740, this impression is c1820. Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780) was a Dutch line engraver who is known best for this series of portraits."
1801. Copper-line engraving. 1801. 215mm by 170mm (image). Huddart's (1741-1816) field was hydrography (the surveying and charting of bodies of water). He was with the East India Company for ten years, during which time he made charts of Sumatra and the Indian coast. He made his fortune from the manufacture.....
1796. Stipple engraving. 1796. 207mm by 130mm (sheet) 110mm by 90mm (oval). Admiral Sir Hyde Parker (1714-1782) fought in the American War of Independence and was knighted for his part in the Hudson River campaign. From 1796 to 1800 he was in command at Jamaica and ably conducted the operations.....
1800. Stipple engraving. 1800. 165mm by 115mm (platemark). Published in 1800 by J Wilkes. Below the portrait is a vignette of the Death of Captain Cook."
1820. Etching. 1820. 225mm by 140mm (platemark) 113mm by 88mm (image only). Nelson's (1758-1805) victories during the wars with France gripped the popular imagination, making him the most enduring of British heroes. On the outbreak of war with France, in 1793, he lost an eye in a successful attack on.....
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.....
1817. Tinted lithograph. 1817. 203mm by 174mm (image) 280mm by 232mm (sheet). Rare German portrait lithograph after the famous portrait by Webber. Remains of hinges on reverse at top corners causing slight wrinkling of paper in top corners."