New catalogue Grosvenor Prints, n°128.
Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our special listing for Firsts London’s rare Book Fair: Catalogue 128! Highlights include: Cover: Horatio Gates Esq.r Major General of the American Forces. London: Publish’d as the Act directs, 2nd Jan.y 1778, by John Morris.Extremely finely coloured mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾”), large margins. Three-quarter length portrait of American General Horatio Gates (1728-1806) in uniform. Under Gates’ left hand is a copy of the ‘Articles of Convention between Gen.l Gates & Gen.l Burgoyne’. [Ref: 60431] £2,600.00 [10 topographical gouaches of Sicily.] T:o R:o.[n.d., c.1820.]Ten fine gouaches on card, titled in old...