Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 324

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SCRAPBOOK.) Album of mounted engravings and title-pages [compiled by] early nineteenth-century Philadelphia printer and bookseller, James P. Parke. Approximately 170 engraved, stipple, and aquatint plates clipped and mounted to leaves of "T Gilpin & Co/1810" watermarked laid paper. Thick 8vo, 9 1/2x6 1/4 inches, contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, spine worn and with some loss; scattered soiling and corner stains from tipping adhesive. James P. Parke, Philadelphia bookplate to front pastedown. Vp, assembled circa 1810-1820

Additional Details

Interesting group of 18th/19th century engraved plates contemporaneously assembled from various American, British, and French sources collecting a variety of subject matter including botany, natural history, mythology, political emblems, historical scenes, architecture, interiors, and portraits.

Many of the plates appear scarce, but to mention just a few:

Calendar for the Nineteenth Century, by David Mandeville. (Circular perpetual calendar with separate printed explanation broadside).

Tomb of Washington, engraved by George Murray after Gideon Fairman and William Rawle.

A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures, engraved by Charles Grignion after Michel Vincent Brandoin.

Radnor Church with Gen. Wayne's Monument, engraved by Tiebout after Strickland.

William Penn's treaty medal, engraved by Murray.

A suite of humorous reversible ambigrams by Harding.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, by Joseph Delaplaine.