Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts (SEP18) Wed, 12th Sep 2018 Lot 160 Estimate: £2000 - £3000 + Fees Panoramas at Leicester Square. Panoramas at Leicester Square. A collection of 36 plans and descriptions of the various panoramas exhibited at the Panorama, Leicester Square and the Panorama, Strand, London, 1803-40, comprising 21 wood folding wood engraved plans accompanied by descriptive text, 14 folding wood engraved plans without text, and one engraved plan of the Battle of Waterloo, partly hand-coloured, engraved by James Wyld after William Siborne, with accompanying descriptive text entitled Guide to the Model of the Battle of Waterloo, the folding plans various sizes (50 x 38 cm, 19.5 x 15 ins and smaller), a few waterstained or with minor soiling (generally in good condition), all disbound without covers, loose A rare collection of wood engraved plans and descriptions of the various panoramas exhibited to the public by Robert Barker, subsequently his son Henry Aston Barker, and later John and Robert Burford, mainly at the Leicester Square Panorama. First established in Leicester Square in 1793, Robert Barker's purpose built panorama rotunda exhibited 360 degree panoramas painted by the proprietors, with the exception in this present collection of the panorama of St. Petersburg, painted by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825), and the panorama of the Battle of Navarin, painted by John Wilson (1774-1855) and Joseph Cartwright (1789-1829). The folded single-sheet plans comprise: View of Paris. and, in the upper circle, the superb view of Constantinople, for a short time, 1803, Two views of Paris, 1803, Weymouth/Lord Nelson's glorious victory, gained over the French and Spanish fleets, off Trafalgar, circa 1805, Battle of Trafalgar, circa 1805 [watermarked 1802], View of Gibraltar and Bay, 1808, View of Flushing, during the siege, 1810, Grand View of La Valetta, the capital of Malta, circa 1810, View of Messina, in Sicily, circa 1810, View of the Grand Harbour of Malta, 1812, Representation of the Battle of Paris, 1815, Explanation of the view of Dover, circa 1816, View of the city of St Petersburg, 1819, Explanation of the view of Lausanne and Lake of Geneva, circa 1819, and St. Petersburg, painted by Mr. Serres, Royal Panorama, Lyceum, Strand. Plans with accompanying descriptive text comprise: A Short Dscription of Badajoz, 1813, Description of the View of the Battle of Vittoria, 1814, A Short Description of the Island of Elba, 1815, Description of a View of the Grand Harbour of Malta, and the City of La Valetta, 1839, Description of a View of the City and Bay of Dublin... painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by himself in 1836, Description of a View of Rome painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by himself in 1837, published 1839, Description of the Field of Battle... near Waterloo, 1816, Description of the View of Venice, 1819, Description of the View of Naples, 1821, Description of a View of the Ruins of the City of Pompeii, 1824, Description of a Second View of the Ruins of Pompeii, 1824, Description of a View of the City of Edinburgh, 1825, Description of a View of the City and Bay of Genoa, 1828, Description of a View of the City of Florence, 1831, Description of a View of the City of Milan, 1832, Description of a View of the Siege of Antwerp, 1833, Description of a View of the Great Temple of Karnak and the surrounding city of Thebes, painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by Mr F. Catherwood, architect, in 1833, Description of a View of the City of Jerusalem, 1835, Description of a View of Isola Bella, the Lago Maggiore, and the surrounding country, painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by himself in 1835, and A Description of the View of Berlin exhibiting in Barker's Panorama, Strand, 1814, and Guide to the Model of the Battle of Waterloo, circa 1815 (with partly hand-coloured engraved plan by James Wyld after W. Siborne). Qty: 26.