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a squadron of four French frigates on loan to the<br />
American Captain John Paul Jones. Thee duel betweenn<br />
Serapis and Jones's ship Bonhomme Richard left the<br />
American ship in danger of sinking, butt Jones lashed d<br />
his ship to Serapis in such a way to render Serapis<br />
vulnerable to<br />
fire from the<br />
other US ships, so Serapiss<br />
surrendered and was taken<br />
by Jones, who transferred<br />
his crew before the Bonhomme Richard<br />
sank. In the<br />
meantime the<br />
Baltic Fleet had escaped, for which thee<br />
Serapis's Captain Pearson received the thanks t of the<br />
Russia Company, whose arms are in thee remarque.<br />
Despite being<br />
such a small-scale action the battle is<br />
one of the most celebrated<br />
naval actionss of the<br />
American War of Independence<br />
Parker: 78b.<br />
[Ref: 29702]<br />
18. Constantinople. Capitale de L'Empire<br />
des Turcs.<br />
[After Pierre Antoine Avenline.] [Paris? n.d., c.1700.]<br />
Engraving. 3600 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"). Edges of wide<br />
margins creasedd and chipped.<br />
£1690<br />
A very scarce version v of Aveline's prospect of Istanbul,<br />
a squarer-format than the original and with<br />
a title<br />
cartouche with trophies around a crescent moon instead<br />
of<br />
a plain banderole. Underneath is a 23-point key of<br />
important buildings on both sides of the Bosphorus.<br />
[Ref: 29993]<br />
17. Petrus<br />
Alexeewitz Magnus Dominud<br />
Tzar et Magnus Dux<br />
Moscoviae.<br />
Iussu Britannieae Majestatis Godefriduss Kneller Eques<br />
ad vivum Pinxit. I. Smith Fecit & excudit. [n.d.<br />
c.1698.]<br />
Mezzotint. Plate 405 x 280mm (16 x 11"). Rare, slight<br />
creasing; glued to backing<br />
sheet.<br />
£520<br />
Peter the Great, Peter I (1672-1725), Tsar of Russia.<br />
He led a cultural revolution that replaced the<br />
traditionalist and medieval<br />
social and political systemm<br />
with a modern, scientific, Europe-orientated, and<br />
rationalist system.<br />
CS: 217.<br />
[Ref: 29920]<br />
19. Calliaqua, Saint Vincent. From the<br />
Villa Estate. .<br />
Drawn by J. Johnson. / Engraved by T. Fielding. [n.d.,<br />
c. 1827].<br />
Coloured aquatint, very fine. . ex Parker Gallery; printed<br />
area: 420 x 290mm. (19¼ x 11½"). Unexamined out of<br />
frame. Slightedd faded.<br />
£1200<br />
A view from the Villa Estate, Calliaqua on<br />
the island<br />
of<br />
St. Vincent, looking out too the Caribbean Sea.<br />
Calliaqua is a town in Saint Vincent and the<br />
Grenadines. It is i located in the far south of the main<br />
island of Saint Vincent, V closee to the island's<br />
southernmost point. p<br />
[Ref: 29995]