Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
The English pilot: describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Atlantic Ocean --Maps --Early works to 1800, Dominican Republic --Maps, Manuscript --Early works to 1800, Haiti --Maps --Early works to 1800, Hispaniola --Maps --Early works to 1800, and West Indies --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Navigation --Early works to 1800, Pilot guides --Atlantic Coast (U.S.) --Early works to 1800, and Pilot guides --Caribbean Area --Early works to 1800
The English pilot: describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Atlantic Ocean --Maps --Early works to 1800, Boston Harbor (Mass.) --Maps --Early works to 1800, New England --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Nova Scotia --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Navigation --Early works to 1800, Pilot guides --Atlantic Coast (U.S.) --Early works to 1800, and Pilot guides --Caribbean Area --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and son, on Tower-Hill, MDCCLX [1760]
The English pilot: describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Atlantic Ocean --Maps --Early works to 1800, Boston (Mass.) --Maps --Early works to 1800, Boston Harbor (Mass.) --Maps --Early works to 1800, New England --Maps --Early works to 1800, New York (State) --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Rhode Island --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Navigation --Early works to 1800, Pilot guides --Atlantic Coast (U.S.) --Early works to 1800, and Pilot guides --Caribbean Area --Early works to 1800
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
With inset map of "Ould Virginia" [with linen backing].
Description:
Engraved by Robert Vaughan, Ink washes on various vignettes., and Tipped-in facing title page.
Publisher:
Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes
Subject (Name):
Smith, John, 1580-1631
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Virginia., New England --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775., Virginia --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, and Voyages and travels.
Collection Created:
London : Printed by I.[ohn] D.[awson] and I.[ohn] H.[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, 1624
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Iles ...
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Inset map of Virginia
Description:
Engraved by Robert Vaughan, Facing p. 41, and Printed by James Reeve
Publisher:
Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes
Subject (Name):
Smith, John, 1580-1631
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Virginia., New England --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775., Virginia --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, and Voyages and travels.
Collection Created:
London : Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes, 1624