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A portfolio of prints, mainly 19th century, to include: the Society of Dilettanti, mezzotint before letters, 57 x 40cm; two satirical coloured etc...

Carte du Gouvernement Ecclesiastique d'Angleterre, French18th century double page engraving with arms and vignettes of Oxford and Cambridge Univer...

After William Heath Grimaldi's Bold Dragoon in the Popular Pantomime of the Red Dwarf, coloured etching published by T. Palser, 1812; After James ...

Scenes of China. The Great Wall of China, engraving 1796, hand coloured, 33 x 43cm; two photographic views, including the Forbidden City, 14 x 32c...

Archibald Thorburn. British Mammals; British Birds; collection of about 132 loose colour plates c.1915-18Ranging from 21 x 25cm to 32.5 x 25.5cm ...

After Le Capelain, Grosnez Castle, Jersey, 19th century coloured lithograph by L Haghe, for Day & Son, 36 x 53cm (image); A Cambridge University A...

Robert DightonTwelve Elegant and Humorous Prints of Rural Scenes, series of engravings published 1782 by Carington Bowles20 x 30cm (visible)some f...

After Simon De Koster The Right Honourable William Pitt, by J. Brydon, stipple engraving printed in colour, published London, 179937 x 29cm ...[m...

Leonard Griffith Brammer (1906-1994)Couple walking by a canal, a bottle kiln and factory building beyond, signed in pencil, etching, 26 x 19cm .....

Cecil Aldin (British, 1870-1935)Eton Chapel Signed photo-lithograph, 44 x 36cm; together with an Eton Society board, 1889-1890;Robert B Farren (B...

E Jeaurat after Charles le Brun Entrevue de Louis XIV; Ceremonie du Mariage de Louis XIV, engravings circa 1731, 39.5 x 55.5cm Brass plaques on re...

G B PiranesiVeduta di Campo Vaccino, etching, plate 10, a later re-impression on buff colour paper, 57 x 71cm (sheet) ...[more]

James Gillray, Napoléon Bonaparte - 'Apotheosis of the Corsican-Phoenix'hand-coloured satirical etching and aquatint, published 2 August 1808 by H...

G B PiranesiVeduta della Dogana di Terra a Piazza di Pietra, 18th century etching, some marginal tears and worm damage, 42 x 58.5cm (visible) ......

A group of four hand coloured satirical cartoons. The Como-Cal Hobby, publ. G Humfrey, 27 x 22cm pl.; Daring & Impudent Robbery, by W. Heath, 24.5...

After Reynolds,Portrait of Bartolozzi, engraving; other printed portraits after Reynolds and Ramsay; with three others including two Quaker subjec...

Thomas Watson after Gardner, Family group, engraving published 1778, with four 18th/19th century portraits and an engraved view of Ely Cathedral, ...

A group of seven 18th century mezzotint historical portraits, including George Duke of Buckingham and his Brother Francis after Van Dyck, various ...

Collection of loose prints and engravings, including 17th and 18th century Dutch views, historical portraits, architecture and topography includin...

James Gillray[William Smyth] 'A Petty-Professor of Modern-History, brought to Light'hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published by Hannah Humphr...

William Hogarth (British 1697-1764) 'Humours of an Election' - 'An Election Entertainment Plate I' 'Canvassing for Votes Plate II' 'The Polling Pl...

James McNeill Whistler PRBA (American 1834-1903)Hurlinghametching and drypoint, 16 x 21.5cmpaper rather sunned. Hinge mounted. see photos. ...[mo...

George Townley Stubbs (1756-1815) after George Stubbs Anvil, stipple engraving printed in colour, second state of three, published by Messers Stub...

Regency Dandy satirical hand coloured etchings. A Nice Gentleman, by Cruikshank, publ. Fores, 1818, (sides trimmed), 35 x 23 cm; A Dandy and a Da...

David Jones. Centenary Edition of Engravings, no. 37 of 50 sets, London: Wolseley Fine Arts Ltd 1995, with 4 loose engravings each numbered 37/100...

Indian Rebellion of 1857. Captain Dominick Sarsfield Greene (1826-1892)The Slaughter House, Cawnpore, Interior and Front View, two tinted lithogra...

Philip Dawe and Richard Houston, after Henry MorlandThe Laundry Maid; Lady's Maid Soaping Linnen; Ladys Maid Ironing mezzotints, good impressions,...

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) Nadia, and, Elizabeth, etchings, both signed below in pencil, 15.5. x 13cm and 17 x 14cm (visible) ...[more]

G B Piranesi Veduta del Pantheon d'Agrippa oggi Chiesa di S. Maria ad Martyres, 18th century etching, 48.5 x 70cm (visible sheet)some foxing noted...

China. Thomas and William Daniell. [A Picturesque Voyage to India by the way of China], London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810, series of th...

Robert Havell Jnr. A Panoramic View of Tunbridge Wells coloured aquatint on joined sheets, published 1838, in oak frame, 13 x 149cm ...[more]

Emanuel BowenDetailed Plan of Old and New Peking, with explanation of the various locations withing the City Walls (from Harris' Navigantum), engr...

Abraham Ortelius.Fessae et Marocchi Regna Africae celeberr describebat, inset map of West-Africa based on Philippo Pigafetta's map of the Congo, l...

Two framed wall maps. Oarsmans map of the River Thames, 87 x 46cm, and Bacon's Excelsior Map of Norfolk and Suffolk, 113 x 89cm (2) ...[more]

A hand coloured engraved map of British Columbia by Stanford, 1862, 33 x 39cm; together with five maps of Lancashire, by Robert Morden, (43 x 37cm...

Willem BlaeuTerra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina [map of the Holy Land]hand coloured engraving circa 1629, with French te...

Two plans of Paris. Esnauts and Rapilly. Nouveau Plan Routier de la Ville et Faubourg de Paris, 1782, hand coloured engraving, dissected and linen...

Post Office Directory Map of London, 1851, linen backed, folding, 73 x 94cm; Tombleson's Panoramic Map of the River Thames and Medway, new edition...

John SpeedSuffolke described, hand coloured engraved map of Suffolk by Bassett and Chiswell, circa 1676, English text verso, creases around reinfo...

John Senex. A New Map of the English Empire in the Ocean of America or West Indies, engraved map circa 1720, hand coloured in outline, the lower p...

J A Knipe. Geological and Mineralogical Map of England and Wales, with parts of Scotland, Ireland and France, folding coloured dissected map, 1839...

John SpeedLancashire, hand coloured engraved map for Bassett and Chiswell, c.1676, 39 x 51cmslight undulation to surface. Slight darkening to cent...

William Smith Lancastriae Comitatus Palatinus, uncoloured engraved map of Lancashire, 1603 or later, uncoloured, 38 x 49cmslight undulation to pap...

SOLINUS (Caius Julius) Polyhistor, The Worthie Worke of -- Contayning the noble actions of humaine creatures.., translated by Arthur Golding, Lond...

PAUNCEFOTE (J.; translator)The Firme Foundation of Catholike Religion against the Bottomless Pitt of heresies, Antwerp 1590 [but later?], 12mo, bo...

MONTANI (Benedicti Ariae) Hispalensis Poemata in quatuor tomos distincta. Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1589, 16mo, 2 vols. in one, ...

Brutum Fulmen Papae Sixti V adversus Henricum sereniss. Regem Navarrae et illustrissimum Henricum Borbonium, principem Condaeum : una cum protesta...

CARY (Walter) The Hammer for the Stone. so named, for that it sheweth the most excellent remedie that euer was knowne for the same. Lately deuised...

STEPHANUS (Henricus) New Testament in Greek, [Geneva] excudebat 1576, 16mo, (114 x 67mm), 'from the collection of Dr Trevor, Lord Bishop of Durham...

Bible, King James version, London: Robert Barker and John Bill 1630, small 4to, black letter, lacks title to prayer book, with wood engraved OT an...

Bible in Latin, Franciscus Junius and Theodor Beza, 1602, small 4to, lacks general title, toning and slight damp staining, calf, spine strip lacki...

Bible in Latin, Paris: Jean Prevel, 11 April, 1523, small 8vo (156 x 102mm.). Biblia cum summariorum apparatu pleno quadruplice repertorio insigni...

Bible, King James version, London: Robert Barker and John Bill 1620, small 4to, NT title only, black letter, Concordances at end with Bonham Norto...

Bible, Geneva version, 'Breeches Bible', London: the Deputies of Christopher Barker 1589, black letter, lacks all before B3 (Baptism; this leaf da...

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