Isca Dumnoniorum / Exeter  Map

Antique copper engraving by William Stukeley  and various engravers Page size 38 x 24 cm. . The book was entitled "Itinerarium curiosum. Or, an account of the antiquitys and remarkable curiositys in nature or art, observ'd in travels thro' Great Brittan." published in 1724  .  William Stukeley, included his observations of Roman and pre Roman, Celtic sites etc  showing walls, floors, walls , houses etc remaining at that date so useful for archaeologists   William Stukeley (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, influential on the later development of archaeology, he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. These books are rarely broken £40 inc delivery

Exeter
Antique copper engraved plate from "The Itinerant: A Select Collection of Interesting and Picturesque Views in Great Britain and Ireland", one of 180 half-page plates engraved by John Walker after, among others, Turner, Girtin and Sandby, folio page 42.8 x 26 cm Engraved surface 127 x 168mm. Published by John Walker in 1799. When Framing recommend fold text behind mount left whole page in case needed to repair a book Basically a Copperplate Magazine extended version with more information dated 1799 £35 unmounted tinted including delivery. Image shown item is complete in page of text

Marine Barrack at Stonehouse

Antique copper engraved plate from "The Itinerant: A Select Collection of Interesting and Picturesque Views in Great Britain and Ireland", one of 180 half-page plates engraved by John Walker after, among others, Turner, Girtin and Sandby, folio page 42.8 x 26 cm Engraved surface 127 x 168mm. Published by John Walker in 1799. When Framing recommend fold text behind mount left whole page in case needed to repair a book Basically a Copperplate Magazine extended version with more information dated 1799 £35 unmounted untinted including delivery. Image shown item is complete in page of text

Same item but from Copperplate magazine sans text £30

LIGHTHOUSE Eddystone Plymouth Original copperplate engraving by the  engraver and cartographer Pierre Van Der Aa (1659-1733) published for the miniature edition of 'Estates of Great Britain and Ireland'/"Les Délices De La Grand' Bretagne Et De L'irlande.". London 1707 by James Beeverell engraved plates and maps after Loggan, Kip, Slezer,etc. size to the plate mark is 14 x 16cm most unmounted Pieter van der Aa was a Leiden bookseller and publisher who published these mini versions of Kip .These look stunning block framed in sets, with  central folds as issued   for the first edition £30

 
 

View at Okehampton castle
Antique engraved print  unmounted copper engraving. Engraved by Middiman from "Select Views in Great Britain. Engraved by S. Middiman, from Pictures and Drawings by the most eminent Artists. With descriptions."Samuel Middiman (1750 - 1831) published by Samuel Middiman, 3 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, 1784-92. 7 1/4 x 5 inches. with text £35 inc delivery...

ILFRACOMBE FROM HILLSBOROUGH
   Lithograph with original colour  drawn from nature by J. Martin. engraved by Hawkins (G), , Published by Published by J Banfield 1840 . Approx 26.5cms by 18.5cms. . Printed bt Day & Haghe. £55 inc delivery

Clovelly
 Lithograph with original colour  drawn from nature by J. Martin. engraved by Hawkins (G), , Published by Published by J Banfield 1840 . Approx 26.5cms by 18.5cms. . Printed by Rowe in Cheltenham . £55 inc delivery

Kingsweare
Originally produced for Walker's "The Copper-Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints" (London : 1792-1802). Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 125 x 166mm  Then published by J Walker in "The Itinerant: A select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland".engraved and published by J Walker in "The Itinerant: A select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland" dated 1799 but 1818 normally  . £35 rare on page with text still

 


Totness
Originally produced for Walker's "The Copper-Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints" (London : 1792-1802). Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 125 x 166mm  Then published by J Walker in "The Itinerant: A select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland".engraved and published by J Walker in "The Itinerant: A select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland" dated 1799 but 1818 normally  . £35 rare on page with text still

View of tavistock Abby in the County of Devon

Antique engraved print engraved by Thornton or peltro  published in  the Complete English Traveller" Edited  by Nathaniel SPENCER. London.  1771-3   Published according to Act of Parliament, by Alexr. Hogg, No.16, Paternoster Row Copper engraving   Page is over foolscap this print is unmounted £25 same as England Displayed diff publisher

South West View of Exeter
Antique engraved print engraved by Thornton or peltro  published in  the Complete English Traveller" Edited  by Nathaniel SPENCER. London.  1771-3   Published according to Act of Parliament, by Alexr. Hogg, No.16, Paternoster Row Copper engraving   Page is over foolscap this print is unmounted £25 same as England Displayed diff publisher x 3

  


Berry Castle & Totness

Noble delt. D. Havell sculpt. Pubd. August, 1818, by E. Croydon, Teignmouth Library. Aquatint in brown ink plus original hand colour , Image size 158 x 103mm. Plate to W.B. Noble's 'A guide to the watering-places, on the coast, between the Exe and the Dart, including Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay...' Stunningly rare. Dated in plate 1818 presume 1821 edition . . .Originally published in 1817 with three more plates and a map. Worldcat lists only one copy of this edition, and seven copies of the 1817 edition. £95 each. . . should be in a library

Perspective View of the Cathedral and City of Exeter
Engraved for The Modern Universal British Traveller; or A New Complete, and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands.[London: J. Cooke] [1779]. originally produced for the Cooke part-work publication "The Modern Universal British Traveller" (London 1779).Plate mark and good margins. Size 27.5 x 17 cms. full page ...full plate A4 £30 untinted x 3

 



Bicton
from COPPERPLATE MAGAZINE by John WALKER, engraver and printseller, 16, Rosomon Street, Clerkenwell 1795-1802. Exhibited Royal Academy 1796-1800. Landscape engraver and draughtsman. He finished many of his father's plates. Published as"The Copper Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints" many drawn earlier but published 1792..1803  Engraved surface 13 x 17 cm . . .2nd state by  Published July 1st, 1795 by J. Walker, Rosomans Street, London £30 mounted untinted

Castle Hill seat of Lord Fortesque
Antique engraved print from  From a series of 84 copper engravings, uncoloured as sold  by William Watts (1752 - 1851)  from The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a Collection of the most interesting & Picturesque Views, January 1st, 1779, Size oblong 205 x 270 mm .Similar to Sandby whose pupil Watts had been ,  about palaces of the English nobility. Many of the prints taken from drawings by Paul and Thomas Sandby.  £30 . . x3

 

Saltram .
 Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . . . x 3

Luxborough the Seat of Rear Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: JS Storer/ j Walker:copperplate and wood engravings £15 .

 
Berry Pomeroy .
Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . . .x 3

       

Berry Pomeroy Castle
An.Antique copper engraved print published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: J S Storer:copperplate and wood engravings. Plate/Image size 14 x 10 cm 8 mounted. . some light foxing

 


Plymouth, a 210 milles sud-ouest de Londres
Fanal de Plymouth

 Engraved from  drawing / engraving  by Nicholas Bellin 1757 .  Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) French cartographer who worked for the French Marine Office. He was famous for his coastal charts and atlases.     [Paris] : [Georges Louis Le Rouge], 1759. VERY very rare £30  tiny

missing

 

Ordulph's Tomb Tavistock Abbey
published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: JS Storer:copperplate and wood engraving high quality but very small (Approximately 6x3.5 Inches) £6 unmounted .

Remains of the Keep at Okehampton castle
published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: JS Storer:copperplate and wood engraving high quality but very small (Approximately 6x3.5 Inches) £8 unmounted .sent clean

  

Ordulph's Sarcophagus Tavistock Abbey
published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: JS Storer:copperplate and wood engraving high quality but very small (Approximately 6x3.5 Inches) £8 unmounted .

Buckfastleigh Abbey
published  in The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green; and John Andrews, 1827. (Approximately 6x3.5 Inches) by Turner reduce to tiny  £8 unmounted .x 2

Tiverton Church
Lithograph with condition issues  from Spreat's Devon Churches. Laid to paper wrinkle in sky , close cut . By W Spreat published by Hullmandel.Size 190 x 230 mm. £18

The Church & Remains of the Episcopal Palace, Paignton, Devon

Engraved by W. Floyed from the Drawing by R. Brandard from  Sketch by H. Worsley.' Published in 1831.Size approx 16 x 10cm £15 unmounted

 


Okehampton Castle Antique copper line engraved print  by various artists/engravers Published by Samuel Hooper London, Printed by C. Clarke,  for Francis GROSE (c.1731 . .1791)  from THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES , first published in 1772/3. and  Image minimum  from 18 x13 cm £12 unmounted . . x 7

  


Filleigh Church
 Drawn from Nature and on stone by Spreat from Picturesque sketches of the churches of Devon completed 1842. Lithograph £20

Berry Pomery Castle
Antique copper line engraved print by  J Ryland and Benjamin Ralph, engraver. (fl) 1763-1775. first published in 1764. originally produced for "England Illustrated, or, a Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil, of England and Wales" .Published in London by  R. & J. Dodsley, 1764 : 1764.. Engraved surface minimum 90 x 125mm £8 unmounted  vignette in text page x 2

 

FORD ABBEY ..SEAT OF FRANCIS GWYN
 c 1750  a copy minus inscription at £15

  Powderham
From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.this print is unmounted £20

Powderham  proof but no history £12

 

Langdon Hall
From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale non proof copy £8 x 2

Coryton

From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.this print is unmounted £20

unmounted and not including the history  £12 proof copy  no history pages . x1

Also as a non proof £8

Ford
From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history £20 proof copy with history pages . 

Buckland Filleigh
 From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.this print is unmounted £20

Also as a non proof £8

 


Collipriest
From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted

  £20 proof copy with history pages . 

Mamhead
From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history  £12 proof copy  no history pages . x2

Buckland Filliegh From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history  £12 proof copy  no history pages . x2

 Endesleigh Cottage
From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history  £12 proof copy  with history pages .

Luscombe
From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history £12 proof copy  no history pages . x2

  £20 proof copy with history pages .

View of Oakhampton Castle
drawn by Mitchell engraved by Middiman  from  "Select Views in Great Britain. Engraved by S. Middiman, from Pictures and Drawings by the most eminent Artists. With descriptions." Samuel Middiman (1750 - 1831)  published by Samuel Middiman, 3 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, 1784-92. Dated in plate 1787  £30 RARE

 

Torquay from the sea.
Engraved by John Rogers (1800?-1882) from an original study by David Cox. Originally produced for "The Watering Places of Great Britain" (1833),Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 119 x 173mm . Unmounted crease £15

Cotmaton House
Lithograph in sepai tones from Butcher, Revd. E. The beauties of Sidmouth displayed, being a descriptive sketch of its situation, salubrity and picturesque scenery.[…] Sidmouth: J. Wallis, 1820.. RARE and differing som Devon archives version £25 tiny

 

Rougemont Castle,
 Exeter Antique copper line engraved print  by various artists/engravers Published by Samuel Hooper London, Printed by C. Clarke,  for FrancisGROSE (c.1731 . .1791)  from THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES , first published in 1772/3. and  Image minimum  from 18 x13 cm £12 unmounted . . x 3

 

Cothele Chapel  .
Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .

Exeter . .
 Cathedral . Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .+ 1 tinted

Wolford Lodge .
 Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .x 2

Bren Tor & Church .
 Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12

    



Kingswere
 
SCARCE: plate 27   in the book Turner and Girtin*s 'Picturesque Views, Sixty Years Since' (London: J. Hogarth, 1854) engraved by J. Walker drawn by Turner.Later but identical to the Copperplate one ie this is a reworking of the Copperplate Magazine Original £20 mounted .Thomas Girtin originally worked in London as the apprentice to mezzotint engraver, Edward Dayes. He then met J.M.W. Turner who recognized his drawing skills and encouraged him to paint landscapes. He began painting with watercolors and exhibited them at the Royal Academy beginning in 1794, thus developing an appreciation for the medium. Girtin also collaborated with Turner on a project copying architectural paintings, many by Canaletto. In 1802, Girtin died from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven. tinted and mounted

Stevenstone Park
published in Francis Orpen Morris's, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Mounted..., in 1884. The plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) and printed from colored woodblocks by the Baxter process using  eight or more overlays from separate wooden blocksby Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) of Driffield, Yorkshire unmounted £10 . . .x2

Dartmouth castle .

 Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . .untinted

OKEHAMPTON CASTLE 2 .
Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .3 copies

OKEHAMPTON CASTLE 3 .
Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .x 3

Oxton House .
 Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . . .x 3

Mount Edgecumbe now Cornwall
. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . . .

Powderham CASTLE 1
. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .x 3

Powderham CASTLE 2 .
Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by JohnJohn Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 .x 3

E View of  Powderham Castle 

Antique engraved print from Buck vignette size  14 x 7.5 cm plus title and borders,The brothers, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck made a series of etched panoramas and views of British towns, castles and abbeys.  £12 originally 1720’s  unmounted

 

XIX. View of Compton Castle .
engraving from Daniel and Samuel Lyson's Magna Britannia was published between 1806 -22 in 6 volumes, the intention was to write the history of every county in England, unfortunately only 6 counties were completed..Published T. Cadell, London . Image 24 x 17 cm 1822 £20 rare

VI. Painted Glass in the East Window of Beer Ferrers Church
. . engraving from Daniel and Samuel Lyson's Magna Britannia was published between 1806 -22 in 6 volumes, the intention was to write the history of every county in England, unfortunately only 6 counties were completed. .Published T. Cadell, London . Image 24 x 17 cm 1822 £20 rare

XXI. Old Mansion at Bradley
. engraving from Daniel and Samuel Lyson's Magna Britannia was published between 1806 -22 in 6 volumes, the intention was to write the history of every county in England, unfortunately only 6 counties were completed. .Published T. Cadell, London . Image 24 x 17 cm 1822 £20 rare

A West View of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter
Aquatint by W.Davy  engraved by F.Jukes  Size /cropped behind the mount by an idiot with the title kept two creasse diagonal  over the page plus a surface abrasion top rt edge of the church roof  and the original size 380 x 468 mm .Originally with title and description in French and English published 1791 by W. Davey, London, and F. Jukes, Exeter ie published to be sold locally  will need a courier delivery due to size/mounted etc  £165 due to condition a shame as a £600 perfect pic


William TRAIES (1789-1872)  Old Billmarsh Mill Near Churdleigh
 Called 'The Devonshire Claude' He was born in Crediton. Starting as a clerk in Exeter Post Office. Hus talent was recognised by John Gendall, & became patronised by Rev. Patch of Trinity, Exeter, and Rev. Carrington of Bridford. Had a studio at Whiteway, Chudleigh for 40 years.Exhibited at Royal Academy. Examples in V&A., & Exeter Museum. Died at Parkers Well Cottage, Topsham Rd., Exeter. Original Watercolour with title etc to mount in what looks an early  frame ( repainted) very detailed with good perspective so probably a study for a later oil Affordable and less flat than his later oils  £425 inc delivery less collected as way oversize for royal mail