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Imprint: London: printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...], 1856
Binding: Hardback Small 8vo. pp. 354 + 15 wood-engraved plates. Some light staining. Brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Bookseller’s ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856.
The sixth edition of Murray’s popular and influential book on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the settlement of Pitcairn in its aftermath contains a record of births, deaths and marriages on the island and a table of all ships which called there, from the arrival of the Topaz in 1808. A preface dated August 1856 brings events completely up-to-date, with an account of the proposed abandonment of Pitcairn in favour of Norfolk Island (which had in fact taken place in May-June that year). The Pitcairners began to return just eighteen months later.
Stock number:6501.
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Imprint: Edinburgh: Printed for Constable & Co., 1827
Binding: Hardback 8vo. pp. xi, [i], 353, [i] including half title, + engraved portrait frontis. (‘Tippahee, a New Zealand Chief’) and addtional steel-engraved title with vignette. Publisher’s cloth, somehwat rubbed, worn at headcaps, with original paper-label.
Volume IV in the Constable’s Miscellany series, the collection includes accounts of the wreck of the Antelope off the ‘Pelews’ (and anecdotes of Prince Lee Boo); the mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh’s subsequent voyage in an open boat, the wreck of the Pandora and the rediscovery of the mutineers on Pitcairn; the wreck of the Boyd off New Zealand (hence the frontispiece).
Stock number:6524.
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Imprint: London, c. 1823
Aquatint, 19 x 24 cms, engraved by Robert Havell junior after Charles Wild, original colour, slight toning, blank verso; first plate from Nayler’s Coronation of George IV, issued in parts in 1823 and 1827, still incomplete on the death of George IV himself and reissued in an augmented form by Henry Bohn in 1839.
Abbey, Scenery, 260/1; Adams 232/1.
Stock number:5887.
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Imprint: Paris, c. 1700
Copper engraving 47 x 62.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, a couple of short tears on either side of centrefold closed on verso, blank verso.
Stock number:5056.
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Imprint: London, c. 1860
Tinted lithograph, 18 x 27 cms, blank verso.
Stock number:5594.
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Imprint: London, c. 1875
Tinted lithograph, 20 x 34.5 cms, removed from an old frame, blank verso. Way was a friend of Whistler and encouraged the artist to experiment with lithography.
Stock number:5595.
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Imprint: London, c. 1875
Tinted lithograph, 20 x 34.5 cms, removed from an old frame, blank verso. Way was a friend of Whistler and encouraged the artist to experiment with lithography.
Stock number:5596.
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Imprint: London, T. Hearne & W. Byrne, 1786
Copper engraving, 21.3 x 27 cms, black and white, trimmed to plate-mark, blank verso, dedication to Mrs Coke of Holkham; from “Antiquities of Great-Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing, engraved from drawings made by Thomas Hearne [1744-1817]”.
Stock number:5591.
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Imprint: London, c. 1860
Tinted lithograph, 21.5 x 31.5 cms, blank verso.
Stock number:5592.
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Imprint: London, c. 1860
Tinted lithograph, 21.5 x 31.5 cms, short tear without loss extending slightly into printed area. blank verso.
Stock number:5593.
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Imprint: London, 1887
Wood engraving, 29 x 55 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso.
Stock number:6332.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 39.5 x 30 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4545.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 37.5 x 22.5 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4547.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 41 x 27.5 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4191.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 31 x 28 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4197.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 39 x 22.5 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4548.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 39 x 31 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:3773.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 45 x 35.5 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4168.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 42 x 27.5 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4176.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 39.5 x 33 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4169.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 39.5 x 30 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4199.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 34 x 28.5 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4549.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 37.5 x 34 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4187.
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Imprint: Amsterdam, 1770-1829
Engraved plate with original hand colour, 43 x 30 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
Stock number:4550.
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Imprint: London,, 1698
Copper engraving, 35 x 43 cms, recent hand-colour, numbered bottom right, blank verso. From Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, seven strips showing each hill, hamlet or other landmark, compass rose indicating North in each strip, passing through St Neots and Northampton.
Stock number:5548.
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Imprint: London, 1896
Binding: Hardback Lithographed map, 70.5 x 102 cms, dissected into 32 sheets and laid on linen as issued, ink stamp and bookplate of Mr William Glazer, Land Agent and Surveyor, annotated in pencil and ink for his use, cloth slipcase with paper label of Edward Stanford Ltd. Shows the South Bank between Blackfriars and Southwark Bridges, now home to the Tate Modern.
Stock number:5506.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5972.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 33 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
French Dragoons capture Sir Edward Paget, then second in command of the British Army in the Penisinsula and, like Wellington, accustomed to ride without an escort. On 17 November 1812 he was attempting to close a gap between the 5th and 7th Divisions when he was taken by surpise. Alone, but for a single Spanish orderly, and having lost an arm in 1809, he was in no position to defend himself. Paget had proved himself to be an able commander - he handled the rearguard with great skill during the retreat to Corunna. Wellington put his capture down to his poor eyesight., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5977.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Picton, the senior allied casualty at Waterloo, was indeed shot through the temple as depicted here. However, the unconventional and irascible general was entirely dressed in civilian clothes, sporting a top hat rather than a bicorn., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5973.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
As commander of the Union Cavalry Brigade at Waterloo, Ponsonby was among the senior officers who presided over one of the great British cavalry disasters. His cavalry, including the Scots Greys, turned an initially successful counter attack into bloody annihilation when they pushed too far without full infantry support. Mired in the mud, their horses spent, the Brigade was effectively destroyed by fresh French cavalry and played no significant further part in the battle. Ponsonby shared the fate of so many of his men: with his horse bogged down near the enemy lines he presented an easy target for French lancers., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5974.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5986.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5996.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5971.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 33 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Sir William Beresford (holding the rank of Lieutenant General in the British Army and Marshall in the Portugese - hence the caption) commanded allied forces at Albuera in May 1811, an especially bloody but relatively indecisive engagement, although Soult was unable to relieve Badajoz. At one point in the battle, in the reduced visibility caused by a rain storm, Polish Lancers outflanked the British infantry and all but annihilated three battalions. Beresford and his staff were scattered and in the melee he parried a lance thrust and by sheer bodily strength hurled the lancer to the ground., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5976.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32 cms, engraved by Clark and Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5982.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25 x 34 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Blucher’s horse was shot from under him at Ligny, three days before Waterloo, trapping the 72 year old commander of the Prussian forces beneath the weight of its body. Blucher was forced to play dead while French cavalry searched for survivors., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5979.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Clark & Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
The Battle of the Nile in August 1798 was one of Nelson’s most innovative and decisive victories, a major contributing factor in establishing British naval supremacy. The French army in Egypt was effectively isolated and the overland route to India was secured. Nelson’s chaplain, Stephen Comyn, led divine service on board the flagship Vanguard at 2pm on the day after the battle., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5990.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Deighton, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
The first French Eagle to be captured, from the French 8th Line Regiment at Barrosa on March 5th 1811, in the hands of Sergeant Patrick Masterson of the 87th Irish Regiment. Ensign Edward Keogh, killed as he grasped the Eagle, lies in the foreground., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5993.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Clark, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5985.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 33 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Clark, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Danzig was captured by the French in 1807 and besieged by the Russians throughout 1813; the French withdrew on January 2nd 1814., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5992.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5988.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Outflanked by French and Polish cavalry, the Buffs were all but wiped out at Albuera in May 1811 (643 of 755 men killed). Lieutenant Matthew Latham saved the colours, though badly wounded, by falling upon them under the hooves of the enemy. Only the staff was taken, although five other regimental colours were captured., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5994.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
The Battle of the Nile in Ausgust 1798 was one of Nelson’s most innovative and decisive victories, a major contributing factor in establishing British naval supremacy. The French army in Egypt was effectively isolated and the overland route to India was secured. Nelson was wounded in the forehead by grapeshot and removed below decks of his flagship, Vanguard., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5995.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5998.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25 x 34 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Clark, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
The battle of Toplitz was fought on August 30th 1813; the treaty of Toplitz later in the year united Russia, Prussia and Austria against Napoleon., Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5984.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Heath, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5997.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25 x 34 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Lord Uxbridge, commander of the allied cavalry, was awarded the title Marquess of Anglesea days after losing his leg very late in the day at Waterloo, prompting the famous (anecdotal) exchange with Wellington:, By God, sir, I've lost my leg!
Stock number:5980.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5987.
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Imprint: London, c. 1820
Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.
Abbey: Life, 376.
Stock number:5989.
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Imprint: Frankfurt, 1604
Copper engraving, 8.7 x 11.7 cms, recent hand-colour, German text on the verso. From the series of maps engraved by brothers Ferdinand and Ambrose Arsenius for the third version of the ‘epitome’, the pocket-atlas version of Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum’. The German edition was published by Keerberger and Hulsius under a Frankfurt imprint rather than the usual Antwerp.
Koeman Ort 66
Stock number:6548.
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