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Recent Auction Highlights - MBAPRINTS | Travel, Sport & Natural History | 20th july 2021Browse all
Jean Theodore Descourtilz, Ornithologie Bresilienne: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor, Tanagra Chrysogaster. Chromolithograph, from Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, c.1852-56.. Chromolithgraph plate printed in colour and finished by hand. Overall sheet size: 602mm by 432mm.
Colonel Ward & Richard Blagdon, Multura Fort, Edward Orme, 1804. Aquatint with original hand-colouring.. Aquatint, with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 305 by 365mm. (12 by 14.25 inches).
David Roberts & Louis Haghe, Approach to the Fortress of Ibrim, London, 1849. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt.. Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' 'Egypt'. Dimensions: 325 by 485 mm. (12.75 by 19 inches).
David Roberts & Louis Haghe, Bethlehem, London, 1846-9. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from the subscription edition of Roberts' The Holy Land.. Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' 'Holy Land', foxing to sky. Dimensions: 370 by 515mm. (14.5 by 20.25 inches).
John Gould & H.C. Richter, Astur approximans [Australian Goshawk], Hullmandel, 1840-8. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from Gould’s Birds of Australia.. Original hand-coloured lithograph. Dimensions: 560 by 385mm. (22 by 15.25 inches).
David Roberts & Louis Haghe, Suez, London, 1846-9. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt.. Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' 'Egypt', foxed. Dimensions: 330 by 490mm. (13 by 19.25 inches).
Jacques Barraband, La Perruce Tui, plate 70, Langlois, Paris, 1805. Hand-coloured stipple engraving, from Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquet.. Original stipple engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, with strong colour, trimmed to just outside plate-mark, small tear to left side, otherwise a fine copy with clean, strong colours. Dimensions: 347 by 260mm (13.5 by 10 inches).
Henry Salt, A View within the Fort of Monghyr, London, 1809. Aquatint with original hand-colouring, from Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt.. A magnificent original hand-coloured aquatint.
David Roberts, Interior of the Mosque of the Sultan El Ghoree, F.B. Moon, London. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt & Nubia.. Original hand-coloured lithograph on fine paper mounted on card as issued from the subscription edition of Roberts' Egypt and Nubia. Dimensions: Page size 60,4 x 41,8 cm. Image size: 48,6 x 34,1 cm.
John Gould & H.C. Richter, Casuarius Bennetti [Bennett's Cassowary (2 Heads)], Hullmandel, 1840-8. Original hand-coloured lithograph, from Gould’s Birds of Australia.. Original hand-coloured lithograph. Dimensions: 545 by 370mm. (21.50 by 14.25 inches).
Basilius Besler. I. Abutilon Auicenna. II. Lathyrusperegrinus svavitererubescens. III. Lathyrusperegrinus ecceruleopurpurascente flore. Nuremberg, 1713. Hand-coloured copper-engraving, from Hortus Eystettensis.. Copper-engraving, with fine hand colour. Dimensions: 520 by 420mm. (20.50 by 16.50 inches).
Samuel Howitt & Thomas Williamson, The Ganges Breaking its Banks; with Fishing &c. - Le Ganges se Debordant; avec des Pecheurs, &c., Thomas McLean, London, 1819. Aquatint with original hand-colouring.. Aquatint engraving with original hand-colour. Dimensions: 375 by 490mm. (14.75 by 19.25 inches).