Prints
Sir Joseph Banks, Bart P.R.S
London: Fisher, Son & Co, 1847. Stipple engraving by W.Holl, 225 x 145 mm. (plate size); fine portrait of Banks seated, with facsimile autograph below the title. Joseph Banks (1743-1820) is depicted here later in life as the President of the Royal Society, wearing the insignia of the Order of.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4007944
Henry, Earl Bathurst. From an original picture in the possession of Sir George Thomas, Bart. Drawn by J. Wright, engraved by H. Meyer.
London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1810. Stipple engraving, 380 x 300mm. (plate size), a little toning at the margins, very good. Fine engraved portrait of Henry Bathurst, the Tory politician who instigated the Bigge reports into the convict system of New South Wales under the administration of Governor Macquarie.....
Price (AUD):
$900.00
Ref: #4109646
Portrait of Arthur Phillip Esq…
London: Joyce Gold, 31 January, 1812. Engraved oval portrait, 95 x 75 mm.; tipped onto an early album leaf, with ink border. Uncommon: one of the last published portraits of Arthur Phillip, issued two years before his death, and updated to reflect his promotion in July 1810 to the new.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3309874
Sir Josh. Banks.
London: T. Boys, June, 1820. Engraving, 140 x 90 mm. Good portrait of Banks after Phillips, published quickly after the death of the great man in 1820. The elaborate border shows Banks surrounded by the accoutrements of science and natural history. As the caption to this portrait explains, this was.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007733
J. Banks.
London: 1835. Engraving, 230 x 140 mm. An uncommon portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, after Phillips. Although evidently an accomplished image, and while clearly dated 1835, little is known about the production of this portrait. The engraver "Herdiviller" does not seem to have been recorded in the standard references such.....
Price (AUD):
$320.00
Ref: #3007738
Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B.
Edinburgh: Engraved for the Naturalist's Library, circa 1835. Engraving, 160 x 100 mm. An attractive and well-executed portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, engraved by William Home Lizars. As the full caption here suggests, this portrait was engraved for the Naturalist's Library, an important series of books published by Sir William.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #3007734
Sir Joseph Banks Bart.
London: H. Colburn & Co., August 1st, 1820. Engraving, 215 x 140 mm. An excellent copy of this engraved portrait of Banks after Thomas Phillips, published soon after the great man's death in 1820. This portrait is another example of the popular reproductions of the most famous image of Banks.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #3007735
Sir J. Banks.
London: Charles Knight, n.d., but circa 1835. Engraving, 138 x 107 mm. A very good engraved portrait of Banks, based on the painting by Thomas Phillips commissioned by the Royal Society, a famous image of Banks in his later life as President of the Royal Society, with the motto "Nullius.....
Price (AUD):
$420.00
Ref: #3007736
Sir J. Banks.
Glasgow & Edinburgh: William Mackenzie, n.d., circa 1835. Engraving, 138 x 107 mm. A very good engraved portrait of Banks, based on the famous painting by Thomas Phillips commissioned by the Royal Society. Perhaps the most famous of the images depicting Banks in his later life, this portrait shows him.....
Price (AUD):
$320.00
Ref: #3007737
New Government House, Sydney.
Sydney: J.S. Prout, 1842. Lithographic view, 185 x 295 mm; mounted. An idyllic view of Government House and its castellated bathing house seen across Farm Cove, from the Botanical Gardens. The signal station on Fort Phillip Hill is in the background to the left and Macquarie Fort to the right.....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #2908506
On the Plenty near Melbourne.
Sydney: J.S. Prout, circa 1842. Tinted lithograph, page size approx 230 x 365 m, corners tipped to backing sheet. Charming Victorian rural scene by a pioneering Australian lithographic artist. John Skinner Prout was "the first itinerant painter in the colonies whose work ceases to be dominated by the requirements of.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4009196
Oceanic Group… American Group…
London J. Reynolds & Sons 174 Strand nd, circa 1875.
Peoples of the Polynesian islands portrayed
Hand coloured lithograph, 430 x 690mm; mounted and framed. A large nineteenth century lithograph showing full length portraits of people from Oceania and America. To the left of the lithograph are depicted examples of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3806749
The Rt. Hon Sir George Grey Bart G.C.B
London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co, 1850. Mezzotint after painting by F.Grant, 620 x 425mm, framed. A separately issued and full length mezzotint portrait of George Grey (1812-1898), outstanding explorer, governor and politician. This is a handsome image of a youthful Sir George Grey done two years after being.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #4111693
James Edward Smith M.D., F.R.S., President of the Linnean Society...
London: Published for Dr. Thornton, 25 March, 1800.
The bounty of Linneaus in English hands
Stipple engraved oval portrait of James Edward Smith above line engraved view of 'The Pursuit of the ship containing the Linnean Collection by order of the King of Spain', on the one sheet 480 x......
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4107647
Engraved plate captioned 'Tombeau d'un Indigène'.
Paris: Didot Fréres, 1836.
Two dendroglyph carved trees
Engraving, 135 x 220 mm.; very good condition. Charming engraved plate depicting an Australian indigenous tomb, complete with carved trees and unusually formed earthen walls. Although the image is somewhat incongruous as a depiction of an Australian Aboriginal tomb, it does include.....
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #3509130
Engraved plate of sailors filling water casks captioned 'Aiguade de l'Uranie'…
Paris: Didot Fréres, 1836.
Canary Islands
Engraving, 135 x 220 mm.; very good condition. Charming engraved plate depicting sailors filling casks at the Canary Islands from Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième partie du monde, revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de.....
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #3509125
Engraving captioned 'Ile Rawak, Maisons baties sur Pilotis'…
Paris: Didot Fréres, 1836. Engraving, 135 x 220 mm.; very good condition. Charming engraved plate depicting coastal stilt dwellings on the Isle of Rawak (present day Indonesia) from Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième partie du monde, revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie.....
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #4012359
John Earl of Sandwich.
London: John Cooke, 1 February 1799.
Cook's friend and patron
Copper engraving, 233 x 295 mm. Lord Sandwich, for whom Cook named the Hawaiian islands; after the portrait by Gainsborough. Cook's friend and patron John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in February.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3912569
Neuhollander.
Zurich: J. Honegger, 1845. Lithograph, 250 x 335 mm. Rare depiction of a group of Aborigines roasting lizards over a fire. The lithograph comes from Schinz's Naturgesichte und Abbildung des Menschen der Verscheulenen Rassen und Stamme, which was a comparative anthropological study of racial types and physiognomy. The author served.....
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #3309882
The Sea Leopard.
Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1869. Coloured lithograph, 355 x 460 mm. Attractive coloured lithograph of two seal-leopards, from the press of the Sydney government printer.
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #1600668
Lieut. Watts.
London: Stockdale, 8 December, 1789. Stipple engraving, 230 x 180 mm. (plate size), some spotting else fine. Uncommon engraved portrait of John Watts, veteran of Cook's third voyage, who sailed with the First Fleet on board Lady Penrhyn. Although published by Stockdale and intended to be included in Governor Phillip's.....
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #4008987
Arthur Phillip Esq. Captain General and Commander in Chief…
London: J. Stockdale, 1789.
First Fleet
Stipple engraved oval portrait by Sherwin; 150 x 125 mm. The classic contemporary portrait of Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the First Fleet and first governor of the fledgling convict settlement at Port Jackson. This portrait was engraved as the frontispiece to The Voyage.....
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #4504217
The Great South Sea Caterpillar transform'd into a Bath butterfly.
London: Henry Bohn, no date, but 1851.
Sir Joseph Banks emerges from his chrysalis
Handcoloured engraving, 350 x 250 mm; mounted. Rare satirical cartoon of Sir Joseph Banks, ridiculed for using the Royal Order of the Bath for self-promotion. Portraits of Banks by the most famous artists of the day.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4108622
9 hand coloured Botanical engravings.
London: 1794.
Australia's first botanical illustrations
9 hand coloured engravings, each 235 x147mm, some with accompanying original letter press descriptions and all housed in a custom made solander case. A collection of nine superb hand coloured engravings from the first illustrated book on Australian flowers - John Edward Smith's A......
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #4106627