The Exercise of Armes - de Gheyn

The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

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The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

An important and early work on military arms commissioned by Maurice of Orange (unframed).

1607

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor'

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’

Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari

(1584 in Siena – 1 February 1655 in Siena), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, a botanist, and an author of illustrated

botanical books and a Latin-Syrian dictionary. He was born to an affluent Sienese family and entered the Jesuit Order in Rome in 1602. His career, besides the authoring of two important works, included being professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome and horticultural advisor to the Pope.

Charles Barnett Esquire - 1862

Charles Barnett Esquire – 1862

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‘Charles Barnett Esquire’

Engraved by James Scott after a painting by Stephen Pearce

Published by Henry Greaves & Co ‘London’ 1862

Print sellers to the Queen.

Original hand coloured engraving, very high quality and rare.

81.5 x 96.5 cm

Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds - 1860

Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds – 1860

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‘Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds’

Original hand coloured engraving by Frederick Bromley.
Many of his works are in the collection of the ‘London National Portrait Gallery’

This image has been reproduced to meet the demands for this popular subject,
but the original such as this is hard to come by.

Engraved by Frederick Bromley after a painting by Sir Francis Grant.

Published by John O’Malley & Sons, London.

1860

80 x 112 cm

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Colossus Gigante - 1665

Colossus Gigante – 1665

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Colossus Gigante

Agedidius (Gillis) Hendricx after Pieter Coecke Van Aelst, ‘Colossus Gianteus Antverpianus’ dated 1665 with an unidentified collector.

69 cm x 53 cm

A Recent Sale of Eighteen 'Elizabeth Blackwells'

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’

Yet to be professionally photgraphed, these are iPhone photos.

Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.

A Recent Sale of Eighteen 'Elizabeth Blackwells' (Pre Framing)

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’ (Pre Framing)

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’

Here, pictured unframed.

Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.

Andrews (unframed collection) - "The Botanist's Repository for Rare and New Plants" - 1804 - CGW134470-26.1-19

Andrews (unframed collection) – “The Botanist’s Repository for Rare and New Plants” – 1804 – CGW134470-26.1-19

“The Botanist’s Repository for Rare and New Plants” by Henry Andrews. This showcase of exotic species made a contribution of lasting importance to the world of botany and horticulture. As information came in from British exploration from around the world including many unknown species from Australia, each volume was published as they amassed new discoveries from each voyage.

Hand coloured copper engravings.

1797 – 1815

28 cm x 21.5 cm (unframed)