Drawn on the Spot by Mr. McLeod, Surgeon.Engraved by Dubourg. Published & Sold, July 4, 1818,by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, London.Aquatint, very scarce & rare, paper watermarked: JWhatman. Plate 291 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). £490In 1816 Captain Sir Murray Maxwell (1775-1831),Captain of HMS Alceste escorted Lord Amherst'sdiplomatic mission to the Chinese Emperor Jiaqing.Having been instructed to reconvene at Canton, butunable to obtain a pass to sail up the Pearl River,Maxwell nonetheless headed for Canton, breakingthrough a blockade of junks and firing on the fortsguarding the river mouth, scattering the defenders.The Bocca Tigris (Tiger's Mouth) is a narrow straitaround 40 miles from the mouth of the Pearl River. SeeRMG: PAF4865. Not in Parker.Stock: 29961204. Pugna Nautica inter Melitenses, etTurcos, in Mari Mediteraneo [Latin] / Treffenzwischen den Maltersern und Türcken in demMittelländischen Meer [German]. Ao 1645.[n.d., c.1707].Engraving with large margins. Platemark: 345 x193mm. (13½ x 7"). Some creasing on left, central foldas normal. £260A depiction of a sea battle between a convoy ofTurkish ships sailing from Constantinople toAlexandria and carrying a number of pilgrims boundfor Mecca, which were attacked by the KnightsHospitaller of Malta during the Action of 28 September1644.On the left, a galley labelled "Capitaine de Malte"("Maltese captain") engages a vessel labelled"Griechisches Schiff" ("Greek ship"). In the middle,two ships labelled "S. Iohann" and "S. Ioseph" engageanother Turkish sailing vessel labelled "TürckischesSchiff" ("Turkish ship"); and on the right, three galleyslabelled "S. Laurentz", "S. Maria" and "Victoria"surround a ship labelled "Türckische Gallion"("Turkish galleon"). In the distance on the right aremore vessels labelled "Türckische Schiff" ("Turkishship[s]"), while on the left the land is marked "Rhode"in German and "Rhodis" in Latin ("Rhodes"). The seais labelled "Mediterrannee".From Merian's 'Theatri Europaei'.Stock: 29865205. H.M.S. 'Mæander'. 44 Guns, 'ShorteningSail for Anchoring'. (Rio, June 9th 1851.) ToCaptain The Honble Henry Keppel, and theOfficers of H.M.S. Mæander, This print isrespectfully dedicated by Oswald W. Brierly.O.W.Brierly, Del._T.G.Dutton Lith. Day & Son Liths.To the Queen. London. Pub'd Jan.y 1852. byAckermann & Co. 96 Strand.Lithograph. Printed area: 300 x 370mm. (12 x 14½").Trimmed, losing bottom of text; tears into text; creases;laid on conservation tissue. £320A shipping scene with a good view of the Rio deJaneiro harbour.The maritime painter Sir Oswald Walters Brierly(1817-1894) travelled with Sir Henry Keppel on theMaeander in 1850, and provided the illustrations forKeppel's record of the journey published in 1853. Bornin Chester, Brierly studied naval architecture atPlymouth and studied briefly at Sass's art school,London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in1839 and spent most of his life travelling the world bysea and illustrating his voyages.Stock: 29941206. View of Acre & H.M. Ship Le Tigre.Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury, and Drawn byD.l Orme. Jeakes Aquaforte. Edw.d Orme Excudit.[n.d. c.1819.]Aquatint with added hand colour. 295 x 400mm (11¾x 15¾"). Trimmed. Chip to paper upper left corner.£280A view of St John of Acre (now Akka, Israel) from thesea, with HMS Le Tigre seen in the foreground.The draughtsman F.B. Spilsbury was a surgeon onboard Le Tigre, which together with the H.M.S.Theseus, under the command of Commodore SirSydney Smith, was sent on a naval mission to the HolyLand and Syria. This operation was launched as part ofthe overall mission to counter the military campaignsof Napoleon in the Middle East in 1799 and 1800.Spilsbury's original on-site sketches of famous sitesand local peoples were redrawn in London by DanielOrme and reproduced in printed form, as here. SeeRMG: PAF4679; Parker: 144A.Stock: 29960207. Christophorus Columbus LiguriensisIndiarum Primus Inventor Anno 1492[after de Bry] [n.d., c.1720.]Engraving. 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3½"). £140Portrait of Christopher Columbus, derived from theearly engraved portrait attributed to Theodore de Bry(itself after Sebastiano del Piombo), and retaining thelatin text from that engraving.Stock: 29804208. L'Amiral de Krusenstern PremierCircumnavigateur Russe.a la Lithogr. de la Banque de Pol. Lit. M.Fajans àVarsovie. [n.d., c.1841.]Lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 460 x300mm (18 x 12"). £680A scarce and fine portrait of Adam Johann vonKrusenstern (1770-1846), leader of the first Russiancircumnavigation of the globe, 1803-6. He publishedan account (1810) and an atlas of the Pacific (1827,Saint Petersburg). The portrait (now in the Hermitage,St Petersburg) seems to have been painted to celebratehis promotion to admiral in 1841.Printed in Warsaw, PolandStock: 29893209. Louis De L'Isle de la Croyère[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple. Plate 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). £140Louis de L'Isle (1720-1745), brother of the FrenchRoyal Cartographer Guillaume, accompanied anotherbrother, Joseph Nicolas into the service of the Russian
tsars in 1726 (apparently aged six!), working on thefirst Atlas of Russia, the 'Atlas Russicus', published1745 and compiling the work of Russian explorers inthe North Pacific.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29547210. Francois Andreossy. Geb. zu Paris d.10Juni 1633. Gest.d. 3 Juni 1688.[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 152 x 89mm (6 x3½"). £130Francois Andreossy (1633-1688) the French engineerand cartographer, who in 1660 went to study Italiancanal technology in Lombardy and Padua. When hereturned to France, he became Pierre-Paul Riquet'sassistant as he was able to supply the technicalexpertise of canal building that Riquet lacked. He wasalso responsible for the levelling and the drawing ofthe maps. He monitored the construction and assistedRiquet until Riquet's death, after which he continued towork at the canal. Many argue that the Canal du Midishould be attributed to Andreossy and not Riquet.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29728211. Peter Anich. Geb.d.22. Febr.1723. Gest.d.1.Sept.1766.[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 133 x 89mm (5¼ x3½"). £160Peter Anich (1723-1766) the Tirolean surveyor andcartographer who in 1774 published 'Atlas Tyrolensis',one of the most accurate maps of his time. He was alsoknown as an astronomer and designer of sundials andglobes.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29729212. Apianus Petrus. Mathematicus.[by Tobias Strimmer.] [Strassburg, n.d, c.1590.]Woodcut. Sheet 135 x 100mm (5¼ x 4"). Trimmedfrom a larger sheet. £240Petrus Apianus (latinized from Peter Bienewitz) (1495-1552), holding a globe & dividers, Germancartographer, astronomer & mathematician. His mostfamous works were his cordiform world map 'TipusOrbis Universalis juxta Ptolomei CosmographiTraditionem et Americi Vespucii AliorqueLustrationes' of 1520, the 'Cosmographicus liber' of1524 and the 'Astronomicum Caesareum' of 1540.The portrait was published in Nicolaus Reusner's'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden'. Wellcome:84.Stock: 29654213. Jean Denys Barbié du Bocage.Geograph des Franz. Ministeriums derauswartigen Angelegenheiten.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £95Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760-1825), Frenchcartographer, specialising in maps of antiquity.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29607214. N. Baudin. Schifs-Capitain HauptCommandeur der neuesten Franz EntoeckungsReise in die SüdseeJauffret pi. Westermayr sc. 1801. [Weimar: n.d.,c.1805.]Stipple. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed intoplate on left. Cut to platemark on left. £140Nicolas-Thomas Baudin (1754-1803) was a Frenchexplorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer,best known for his expedition to map the coast ofAustralia, 1800-3. While stopped at the British colonyat Sydney for supplies he prepared a report forNapoleon on a potential French attack on the colony.He named the coastline from Wilson's promantory toCape Leevwin "Terre Napoleon". He died ofTuberculosis at Mauritius in 1803 aged 49.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al. See Kivell & Spence: Pg. 24 - not in.Stock: 29613215. Bode.Lythog. v. Fricke. [n.d., c.1830.]Lithograph. Sheet 200 x 170mm (8 x 6¾"). Trimmedinto image, few small repaired holes on left. £90Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), German astronomerand director of the Berlin Observatory, who namedUranus after it was determined to be a planet in 1783.His star atlas of 1801, which he named the'Uranographia' was the largest up to that time,containing the positions of more than 17,000 stars, andwas one of the last scientific astronomic atlases todepict the tranditional figures for constellations.Shows globe in background.Lithographed by Friedrich August Fricke. Wellcome338.Stock: 29723216. Johann Elert Bode. gebohren zuHamburg d: 19 Iañ: 1747.Malvieux sc. 1791.Stipple and engraving, very fine image with largemargins. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). £160Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), German astronomerand director of the Berlin Observatory, who namedUranus after it was determined to be a planet in 1783.His star atlas of 1801, which he named the'Uranographia' was the largest up to that time,
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