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Matthaus Merian London, Thames panorama circa 1646, with numbered key below, engraving, on two joined sheets, some abrasion along join area, few...

Lot 2

LONDRA,

LONDRA, Italian engraving of London at the time of the Great Fire 1666, probably a late 17th century impression, 28 x 90cm surface creasing, sl...

Mattheus Greuter after Giovanni Maggi S. Giovanni in Laterano; S. Maria Maggiore; S. Sebastiano; L'Anunciata; La Madonna del Popolo five engraved...

Mattheus Greuter after Giovanni Maggi S. Pietro; S. Lorenzo; Le Tre Fontane; S. Paolo four engraved plates from the Ten Basilicas series, publish...

After Albrecht Dürer Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins; The Knight on the Horseback with Lansquenet signed with monogram within the prints ...

After Van Dyck Charles I and Henrietta Maria, engravings, 50 x 32cm (sheet); R. Earlom after Zoffany, Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match 1786, coloure...

Lot 10

After Hogarth

After Hogarth A Rake's Progress, six plates from the series, engravings, later impressions, 36 x 40cm (visible); with two others: A Midnight Mode...

An album of 36 amusing French cartoon prints, circa mid-19th century, including coloured lithographs after Jean Pigal, trimmed and mounted, some ...

Berthault after J R Perronet Design for a bridge at St Petersburg over the Neva, 18th century hand coloured engraving, pl.XXXV, 28 x 62cm; with -...

Norah Spicer Unwin (1907-1982) The Annunciation, wood engraving on laid paper, signed in pencil to margin and numbered 10/30, 16.5 x 15cm The pa...

Richard Earlom after Claude Le Lorrain, four sepia mezzotints with etching, published 1774 by John Boydell, plates 2, 35, 54 and 64 from the Lib...

Thomas Todd Blaylock (1876-1929) Daffodils, colour woodcut on satin, signed in the image, original frame and label of Andrew Duthie, Glasgow, 27....

W. Byrne after W. Alexander, A View near the City of Lin-Tsin, coloured engraving (plate 33) published 1796 by G. Nicol, 35 x 97cm (visible)

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) View of the Porcelain Pagoda (Da Bao'en Si), at Nanjing, engraving, signed in the plate with initials, circa 1800,...

Four 17th Century Netherlandish Woodcuts Depicting scenes from Exodus including the Plagues of Egypt all double sided, mounted on two sheets each...

John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) after George Morland Return from Market mezzotint, published 1801 37 x 57cm ...[more]

A suite of four decorative hand coloured engravings, 18th century, of well dressed figures on a terrace and in a landscape, titled in Spanish and...

Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) Oriental children signed and dated 1902 in the print chromolithograph, unframed, 32.5 x 100cm The present print is likel...

Gwen Raverat (British, 1885-1957) From a Window, wood engraving, 1946, numbered 11 to lower margin, 14.5 x 18.5cm; Children, 1926, wood engravin...

James Gillray (1756-1815) after Brownlow North Hounds Finding, Hounds in Full Cry, Hounds Throwing Off, Coming in at the Death; set of 4 hand col...

Jean Baptiste Nicolas Denis d'Apres de Mannevillette (1707-1780) Plan De La Baye Simon, Situe au Cap de Bonne Esperance, suivant les Observations...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) Spring photogravure, published by the Berlin Photographic Company (1894), signed in pencil to margin, ornate...

Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) War Drawings, the complete set of 60 lithographs Presentation edition, issued by authority of the War Office, Londo...

William and Hilkiah Burgess, Twelve views of churches in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire; drawn and engraved by W. and H. Burgess, published cir...

William Hogarth (1697-1764) David Garrick in the Character of Richard III etching and engraving by Charles Grignion, published 1746 41 x 51cm; to...

J Bluck after Henry Salt A View near the Roode Sand Pass at the Cape of Good Hope, hand coloured aquatint, circa 1830, 40 x 58.5cm (visible) fra...

After Edward Detmold and Maurice Detmold (British 20th Century), 'Baloo in the Forest', 'Mowgli and the Lone Wolf', 'Council Rock', 'Village Clu...

London views of the Thames, a collection of six prints. New London Bridge, coloured engraving by S Rogers after Pugin, 1831, 25 x 48cm (plate) Th...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Seven sheets, believe to be principally from Antichità romane de'tempi della repubblica, circa 1750 eight ...

Lot 32

HAGHE (Louis)

HAGHE (Louis) Sketches [Belgium and Germany], 3 portfolios, First, Second, Third Series, [publ. Thomas McLean 1850], with 79 coloured lithographs...

Lot 33

J B Piranesi

J B Piranesi Veduta Interna del Panteon etching, late 18th century, 48.5 x 56.5cm (visible) central section had damp stain (see image). Not stuc...

James Gillray (1756-1815) John Bull and the Alarmist etching with aquatint and hand-colouring published by Hannah Humphrey, September 1st, 1803 3...

The Holy Land. Group of seven coloured aquatint plates by Luigi Mayer, 1803, for R. Bowyer, London, unmounted loose, 34.5 x 49cm (sheet size); al...

Views of London Bridge and The Thames collection of 25 framed prints and 20 mounted prints, mainly 19th century artists or engravers include Thos...

William Daniell R.A. Voyage Round Great Britain series 1814-25, Scottish coastal views, 19 framed aquatints Bay of Tongue John O'Groats Caithnes...

Currier and Ives City of New York and Environs; The Great East River Bridge; Steamer Drew coloured lithographs, 1870s [or later], 25 x 35cm (1) a...

Lot 39

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem. Jerusalem in her Grandeur AD33; Jerusalem in her Fall; a pair of coloured engravings by G Mottram after H C Selous, published by Lord ...

Lot 43

Joan Blaeu

Joan Blaeu Britannia, hand coloured engraved map of the British Isles, circa 1645, the vertical margins decorated with fourteen cartouches of Saxo...

Lot 44

Joan Blaeu

Joan Blaeu Regiones Inundatae, hand coloured engraved map of the Fens, circa 1650, 43.5 x 54cm ...[more]

BARTHOLOMEW'S Touring maps of England and Wales, parts 1 to 37, published by Edward Stanford, probably 1920s, folding into a leather travel case,...

Lot 46

Robert Morden

Robert Morden Britannia Romana, hand coloured engraved map circa 1695, 36 x 43cm (visible); two other maps - Carte du Berry, and a map of Guyana ...

Lot 47

Jan Jansson

Jan Jansson A general Plott and description of the Fennes, [map of East Anglia], double page uncoloured engraving, circa 1650, 43 x 55cm ...[mor...

Lot 48

John Speed

John Speed Huntington Both Shire and Shire Towne, hand coloured engraved map of Huntingdonshire, published by George Humble, circa 1610 [or later...

Cambridgeshire - six engraved county maps Saxton and Kip, Cambridge Comitatus, circa 1636, 29 x 32.5cm; five others of smaller size, by T. Kitchi...

Michael Drayton Allegorical map of the Isle of Ely and the Fens, engraving circa 1612, 25 x 31cm; with Peter van der Aa, Cambridgeshire, hand col...

Abraham Ortelius Barbariae et Biledulgerid, Nova Descriptio, engraved double page hand coloured map of North Africa, circa 1570-1612, 40.5 x 53.5...

After Willem Blaeu Asia noviter delineata, hand coloured map of Asia, laid down, probably late 19th century impression, 42 x 56cm ...[more]

BAIN (James; editor) The Authentic Map Directory of London and Suburbs, 4th edition, Geographia Limited, no date [circa 1936], 4to, coloured maps...

Braun and Hogenberg Algerii sarace norum urbis fortissimae, in Numidia Africae Provinicia.., engraved double page hand coloured map of Algeria [A...

Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg Palatium Regium in Angliae Regno Appellatum Nonciutz, [Nonesuch Palace] hand coloured engraving circa 1582, 34.5...

Gerard Mercator Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia, Lecestria, Rutlandia et Norfolcia, hand coloured map of Eastern England cou...

Humphrey Lhuyd and Gerard Mercator Cambriae Typus, hand coloured engraved map of Wales, circa 1640, 36 x 50cm

Lot 58

J B Homann

J B Homann Particulir Carte des Landes .. Gegund und Paris, hand coloured engraved map of the regions around Paris, 62 x 52cm (visible) framed. ...

Lot 59

J B Homann

J B Homann A General Map of Great Britain and Ireland, with Part of Holland.., hand coloured engraving, circa 1750, 52 x 60cm (visible) ...[more]

Joan Blaeu and Jan Jansson Huntingdonensis Comitatus, hand coloured engraved map of Huntingdonshire, circa 1645, 41 x 51cm (visible) Leicestrens...

Lot 61

John Speed

John Speed Huntington Both Shire and Shire Towne, hand coloured engraved map for George Humble, circa 1650, 37 x 49cm (visible) frmaed. few smal...

JOHNSTON (A Keith) The Physical Atlas illustrating the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phaenomena, Section I Geology, 1848, Blackwood & Son...

Hubert Jaillot after Sanson Estats de l'Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turcs en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique, hand coloured engraved map, circa 16...

Lot 64

Joan Blaeu

Joan Blaeu Wallia, hand coloured engraved map of Wales, circa 1645, 42 x 53cm (visible); Comitatus Caernarvoniensis et Mona Insula, hand coloured...

Lot 65

John Speed

John Speed Barkshire Described, hand coloured engraved map of Berkshire, published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676, with panorama of...

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