The World on Stone Shapero RARE BOOKS The World on Stone Nineteenth-century lithograph view books 32 Saint George Street London W1S 2EA +44 (0)20 7493 0876 [email protected] www.shapero.com INTRODUCTION Lithography, a technique of printing on stone, which originated at the end of the eighteenth century, enabled an easier and less costly transfer of an artist’s drawings into printed form than had hitherto been possible. It also lent itself to capturing the fluidity and sense of the moment that is the essence of a sketch. Amongst the artists who took advantage of this development were those indefatigable travellers who ventured across the globe recording beautiful and striking topographical views, as well as the costume and manners of peoples in far-flung corners of the world. Some of these artists were military officers recording various campaigns, others were travelling under the patronage of the wealthy back home. This catalogue includes the work of some of the finest of the artists: Lear, Lewis, Prout, Roberts and Wilkie. It also contains two works by Girault de Prangey, a pioneer of the daguerreotype, who worked up his sketches from his photographic images. The subjects include the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, United States, South America, India, Russia, and the Levant. We hope you will find something to interest you amongst these magnificent publications. ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STRETCHES OF THE RIVER THAMES 1. ALFRED, HENRY J. Views on the Thames. Marlow Weir, near Marlow Bridge, Bisham Abbey, Temple Lock, Hurley, Harleyford. London, Henry J. Alfred, 1857. £2,500 [ref: 92460] A rare suite of hand-coloured lithographs illustrating one of the most beautiful stretches of the Thames. Well preserved. An excellent copy. First edition. Landscape folio (51 x 35.5 cm). 6 hand-coloured lithographs. Original wrappers, modern blue half calf, marbled sides, red morocco lettering piece. Abbey (Scenery), 437 (not coloured); Bobins 830. Shapero Rare Books 3 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF EGYPT 2. ALLAN, JOHN H. A pictorial tour in the Mediterranean: including Malta - Dalmatia - Turkey - Asia Minor - Grecian Archipelago - Egypt - Nubia - Greece - Ionian Islands - Sicily - Italy - and Spain. London, Longman, 1843. £1,850 [ref: 98306] Allan spent a year from 1841-1842 travelling in the Mediterranean. The plates are after drawings by the author and illustrate sites mostly in Egypt but there are also views of Rhodes, Cos, Asia Minor, and Greece. Provenance: Lord Farnham (armorial bookplate). First edition. Folio (37.5 x 28 cm), vi, 96 pp., additional lithograph title page heightened in gold, 40 lithographs 67 wood-engraved text vignettes, contemporary half calf gilt, morocco label, marbled boards, a little light foxing and soiling, neat repairs to binding, rubbed. Atabey 15; Blackmer 24; Abbey (Travel), 200. 4 Shapero Rare Books PARTICULARLY SCARCE HAND-COLOURED AS HERE 3. ALLEN, WILLIAM. Picturesque views on the River Niger, sketched during Lander’s last visit in 1832-33. London, Murray, 1840. £7,500 [ref: 90201] RARE FIRST EDITION WITH HAND-COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS DEPICTING THE RIVER NIGER. A scarce book in any format - the subscriber list accounts for some 235 copies only - very few of these were hand-coloured and in this format is very rare. Whilst remembered for commanding the Wilberforce on Trotter’s disastrous Niger expedition of 1841, William Allen (a Royal Navy officer) had already navigated the river in 1832 with Richard Lemon Lander and Macgregor Laird, and published this series of illustrations documenting their trip. Allen was a talented artist whose work was exhibited several times at the Royal Academy. On publication the book attracted a strong list of subscribers, including Robert Schomburgk, the eminent explorer. It includes several panoramas and strip views of the river, its natural surroundings and riverside towns such as Rabba, Nigeria. This work makes a great visual companion to the works of exploration concerning the Niger. First edition. Landscape folio (27 x 38 cm), vi, [7]-18 pp., hand-coloured lithograph map and 10 hand-coloured lithographs (including one folding panorama and some with two or more images), 2pp. list of subscribers at end, original printed wrappers, spine renewed, well preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth box, a fine copy. Abbey (Travel), 284. D. Graham Burnet, Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado, page 122. Shapero Rare Books 5 C AVALRY UNIFORMS 4. AMBERT, JOACHIM. Esquisses historiques des differents corps qui composent l’armée française. Saumur, A. Degouy, 1835. £2,250 [ref: 53273] First edition of these fine plates of cavalry uniforms set against attractive backgrounds, all finely hand-coloured. The author (1804-1890) became a general in the French cavalry, having served in Spain and north Africa. First edition. Large folio (54 x 40 cm), pictorial title, dedication, decorative head- and tailpieces, 13 hand-coloured lithographs after Charles Aubry and Karl Leoillot, of military subjects, each surrounded with a broad border of vignettes, contemporary red morocco backed marbled boards, some slight fading to top edges of boards. Colas 106; Lipperheide 2315; Mennessier p18. 6 Shapero Rare Books FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM 5. ANGAS, GEORGE FRENCH. The New Zealanders Illustrated. London McLean, 1847. £17,500 [ref: 93765] Angas (1822-1886), was perhaps the most brilliant British depictor of ethnographic types. To perfect himself as a draughtsman, in 1842, he studied anatomical drawing in London, and also learned the art of lithography. In September 1843 he went to South Australia, a colony of which his father was one of the founders. There he joined several of (Sir) George Grey’s expeditions, and made sketches in watercolours of the scenery, aborigines, and natural history of South Australia. Proceeding to New Zealand, he travelled over eight hundred miles on foot in the wildest regions, and made sketches of the country as he journeyed. Returning to England, he published his sketches in 1847 in two folio volumes, entitled ‘South Australia Illustrated’ and ‘The New Zealanders Illustrated’. These, along with his South African volume, form a cornerstone of colour-plate travel literature. This work features marvelous plates of the Maori and their environment. Angas depicts them swinging from a pole by rope; their tattoos, etc. First edition in book form. Folio (55.5 x 37 cm). Additional hand-coloured lithograph title-page, 60 hand-coloured lithographs, minimal light foxing, contemporary half red morocco, a bit rubbed, rebacked preserving original spine, a very good example. Abbey (Travel), 589; Colas 132; Tooley 61; Hocken p129; Taylor p152. Shapero Rare Books 7 ANGAS’S GREATEST AND MOST ACCOMPLISHED WORK 6. ANGAS, GEORGE FRENCH. South Australia illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847. £22,500 [ref: 98294] Angas, born in 1822 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, spent two years from 1843 sketching extensively in South Australia and New Zealand, producing 2 large folio volumes on the respective subjects in 1847. ‘South Australia illustrated is without question Angas’s greatest and most accomplished work. his views of towns and scenery, of the Aborigines and of the flora and fauna offer an outstanding - if romantic- interpretation of the Australian landscape. It is a rare book... and one that has always been held in high esteem. It must be considered one of the fundamental works in any collection of Australian plate books and no collection can be considered complete without it’ (Wantrup). First edition. Large folio (56 x 38 cm approx.), hand-coloured lithograph pictorial title, subscription list, 60 hand-coloured lithographs by Angas, Giles, Hawkins, and Wing, after Gill (2) and Angas (58), modern green half morocco gilt, a little light spotting, plates 10, 31-33, 43-45, 53, and 59 with browning and sometimes heavier spotting, original tissue guards a bit stained, a very good copy. Abbey (Travel), 577; Colas 133; Ferguson 4458; Tooley 62; Wantrup pp311-312. 8 Shapero Rare Books DELUXE EDITION WITH PLATES HAND-COLOURED 7. ATKINSON, GEORGE FRANCKLIN. The campaign in India 1857-58... illustrating the military operations before Delhi and its neighbourhood. London, Day & Son, 1859. £17,500 [ref: 96217] RARE HAND-COLOURED COPY of a fine visual record of the Indian Mutiny by George Atkinson, Captain in the Bengal Engineers. The coloured edition was priced at £6.6s, whilst the regular tinted copies were £3.3s. First edition. Folio (55.6 x 37.2 cm.), 26 lithographs on 20 sheets (including pictorial title), all hand-coloured as issued, short tears repaired to plates 13 & 18 not touching image, light finger soiling to a few margins, text and plates guarded throughout, original pictorial red cloth gilt, rather worn, corners repaired, neatly rebacked modern red half calf gilt, a very good copy of a scarce item. Abbey (Travel), 486. Shapero Rare Books 9 RARE DELUXE ISSUE WITH THE PLATES MOUNTED ON CARD 8. ATKINSON, JAMES. Sketches in Afghaunistan. London, Graves, 1842. £30,000 [ref: 91899] THE RARE DELUXE ISSUE WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED ON FINE PAPER AND MOUNTED ON CARD. One of the classic illustrated books on Afghanistan. The plates include fine views of Kabul, Ghuznee, Kwettah, etc. and the work provides a valuable pictorial record of what was then an unexplored country. Accomplished in literature and art, both a scholar and a popular writer, James Atkinson (1780-1852) was a pioneer of oriental research. He had originally studied medicine and it was in this capacity that in 1838 he was appointed superintending surgeon to the army of the Indus, and accompanied it on its march to Kabul. Fortunately for him, he was relieved shortly after the surrender of Dost Mohammad, and, returning to Bengal in 1841, escaped the fate which awaited the army of occupation. First edition. Large folio 57x 46.5 cm. approx., title-page vignette and 25 lithographs all hand-coloured and mounted on card as issued, complete with list of plates printed in blue, a fine fresh copy, original dark red half morocco portfolio, morocco lettering piece to upper cover, an excellent example.