Le Mole St. Nicolas, dans L’Isle de St. Domingue

Vu du mouillage

Tiré d’un receil de differents Ports des Isles Antilles dessineés en 1780

Copper engraving with later hand colouring

Sheet: w x h:450 x307 mm

Image: w x h:317 x 146

Surface grubbiness: fold across the broad margin on the bottom right hand side

Price : £95

Santo Domingo de Guzmán, or  Santo Domingo, is the capital of the Dominican Republic; it is also its largest city. It is the oldest European city in the Americas: it was founded at the end of the 16th century.

It is on the river Ozama

The other part of the island is Haiti

The city was first founded on the east side of the River Ozama by Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher, with the name of La Nueva Isabela (The New Isabela); La Isabela was a town founded on the northern coast of the island by Christopher Columbus. The name was soon changed to Santo Domingo.

The view shows the  ‘mole’ or breakwater. The St. Nicholas of Bari Hospital was the first hospital in the Americas but now is partially destroyed.

Anon

[View of Antibes from the Cap d’Antibes]

Late 19^th century watercolour

Sheet: 201 x 466 mm

In good condition.

Price: £ 85

View of the old harbour with the mountains in the background. Set in spring, with the cherry blossom on the trees.

J.A. le Campion after Testard and Sergent

6 Views of Paris

Pubished by the Campion brothers, Rue St. Jacques, Rouen

6 circular colour aquatints of the late 18th century, printed on laid paper.

Diameter of the image within the black lines: approx. 110 mm

Vue de Palais Royal has a faint crease running across the image and a slight printing defect. Vue de la façade de l’ecole militaire has some slight surface abrasion. Otherwise, all in good condition.

Price: £250 for 6

6 views of Paris. The sights include (in order of images above):

View of the Louis XVI Bridge

The Luxembourg Palace

The Royal Military College

The Interior of Notre Dame

The Royal Palace

View of St Martin’s Gate

Het Haar Boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin vaar L. M. Schooner de Johanna op de Riviere Sousang in der Oost-Indien op den 27 Juny 1821 …… der Palembangsche Expeditie &c.

The Hague ? 1822

Aquatint

Trimmed to image, laid onto card, slight overall browning.

245x310mm

£140

Het Haar Boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin vaar L. M. Schooner de Johanna op de Riviere Sousang in der Oost-Indien op den 27 Juny 1821 …… der Palembangsche Expeditie &c.

A rare, naïve, popular print, on an unusual subject. A view of the expeditionary force, including the British ships Johanna and Calypso, taking part in the punitive expedition against Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II of Sumatra, for his recent massacre of Dutch traders. The view shows boats crowded with marines and sailors rowing towards the city of Palembang.

Antwerp, c. 1649

Etchings by Sebastian Vranck (Francken).Five small, delicately executed views of the ruins of Rome.

Set of five plates including title page

75x100mm

£350  Reserved

Ruinæ aliquot sive Antiquitatus Romanæ Vestigia…

Title page




Amphiteatri Romani.




Ruine de Ste. Croy de Jerusalem.




Thermaru Diocletianus Ruine (plate 1)




Thermaru Diocletianus Ruine (plate 2)

Natolie

Frankfurt, J. D. Zunner 1685-6

Copper engraving

155x110mm

£65

Natolie

From the second, German edition of Mallet’s Description des Univers &c. first published in Paris in 1683. A small, early, naively executed map of Anatolia, Turkey, with a decorative cartouche of mounted turks and trophies of arms. The map covers the whole Anatolian peninsula, from the Black Sea in the north to Cyprus in the south, and from Trebizond in the east to Europe in the west.

Abritz des Kayserlichen Feuer wercks Schlosses: und Barraquen, worinen das Fried und freudenmahl gehalten worde, vor Nurnberg auff et Joh. Schutzplatz Ao. 1650

Frankfort, 1652

Copper engraving

270x370mm

£225

Abritz des Kayserlichen Feuer wercks Schlosses: und Barraquen, worinen das Fried und freudenmahl gehalten worde, vor Nurnberg auff et Joh. Schutzplatz Ao. 1650

A spectacular view of the splendid fireworks display, held at the Royal Palace and barracks at Nuremburg in August 1650. The view shows the fireworks ascending from the palace roof and grounds on the right, with the strange conical roofed barracks on the left.

Bordeaux

Basle, 1579 - c. 1628

Woodcut, with text in German

290x320mm

£350

Bordeaux

A fine early city map of Bordeaux, France, enclosed within a fine scrolled border. The view shows the city from the River Garonne, within its defensive walls, looking northwards towards the Castle. An interesting, rare, early city map, from a later German edition of Munster's Cosmographia one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century.

Watercolour views of Continental cities

Basle, July 24th 1865

Watercolours,1854-65

275x375mm

£140

Watercolour views of Continental cities

Delicate watercolour sketches, executed mostly in light sepia tones, of views executed during Petit’s frequent travels all over Europe. John Louis Petit (1801-68) was educated at Eton and then elected to a scholarship at Trinity College. He took Holy Orders in 1824 - hence Rev. John Louis Petit - but did not perform any parochial work. A keen amateur artist with an interest in church architecture, he early showed a talent for detailed and correct drawing and sketching. He died in Lichfield on 2nd December 1868 - from a cold caught while sketching ! He is buried in St. Michael’s, Lichfield.