oswald brierly (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Rebacked in 2006. First Edition.

xii+488pp. 8vo. Contemporary half-morocco gilt, a touch rubbed at extremities. Marbled edges. Black and white illustrations. A very good crisp copy. Second issue without frontispiece, map etc. (See Ferguson 12627).

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover edition. Nicely rebound, gilt titles to spine. 487pp+24pp of ads, 17 plates (12 of which are colored), folding map to rear, quarterbound octavo in black leather; boards clean, tight binding, foxing to endpapers, text and images clean, Very Good. Rebound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine rubbed. 40mm tear to cloth at head of rear joint. Some loss of cloth at edges of corners of boards. Foxing and staining to the frontispiece. The folding map with large 140mm tear and creasing.; xii, 487, [1] pages + mounted oval albumen photographic portrait frontispiece + 8 chromolithograph plates + 4 tinted wood engraved plates. Black and white illustrations on the paginated leaves, some full page. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt floral illustrations at corners of front board. Variant binding, no title on front board and no nautical illustration to cloth. Page dimensions: 219 x 138mm. The plates are facing pages 9, 28, 61, 88, 100, 129, 172, 236, 323, 355, 404 and 481. [Reference: Ferguson 12627].

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xii, 487, [1]. text illus. (some full-page). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, a.e.g. (rubbed). Second Edition. The first edition of this account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Australian colonies in 1867-68 was also published in 1869 with plates and a chart. cfFerguson 12627. cfNational Maritime Museum I 690.

Hand-coloured lithograph, title also in French, coats of arms in imprint, from 'The English and French Fleets in the Baltic 1854', slight spotting, two tears repaired, When war against Russia seemed inevitable in February 1854, a squadron commanded by Sir Charles Napier was sent to the Baltic to try to blockade the Russian fleet when the ice melted. It was also hoped their presence would persuade Sweden to fight Russia. Oswald Brierly, the artist, who had also trained as a naval architect, was on board HMS 'St Jean d'Acre' as Henry Keppel's guest.

Hand-coloured lithograph, title also in French, coats of arms in imprint, from 'The English and French Fleets in the Baltic 1854', slight discolouration and faint creases in sky,

First edition; large folio (74x 54 cm); engraved dedication, 2pp. letterpress descriptive list of plates, 18 lithographic plates on 15 sheets coloured by a contemporary hand, no title issued, spotting to first plate, some minor staining to top margin; later dark blue half morocco, label to upper cover, corners bumped, binding a little worn, preserving one original wrapper bound in as title, a very good copy. Brierly's fine and rare series of plates of the English and French fleets in the Baltic, during the Crimean War. At the outbreak of the war, Sir Oswald Brierly joined Captain Henry Keppel as artist-observer on the man-of-war HMS St Jean d'Acre in the allied Baltic fleet. Brierley had previously accompanied Keppel on board HMS Maeander in the Pacific. The aim of this particular campaign was to bring Sweden into the war on the side of the allies, and also to pressure Russia to sue for peace over Sebastopol. In 1855 Brierly accompanied Keppel, in HMS Rodney, to the Black Sea and Sea of Azov; during this voyage he was often under enemy fire, and was subsequently awarded the Baltic and Crimean medals. Abbey Life 329; Bobins II, 349.

Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm. A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns. The first print shows the Mæander in the Pacific, shortening sail in heavy weather; the caption dates the events to 9 July 1850; in the second the ship is coming slowly to anchor in Rio de Janeiro, and the scene is dated 9 June 1851. Both prints are dedicated to Henry Keppel, and the ship's officers. Oswald Brierly (1817-1894), the leading marine painter, had studied naval architecture. He sailed on numerous expeditions including the Rattlesnake voyage surveying the Barrier Reef, with Benjamin Boyd on the Wanderer, and on the Galatea with the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867. Brierly joined Henry Keppel on H.M.S. Mæander after his voyage on the Rattlesnake and visited New Zealand, Tahiti and South America, returning to England in July 1851. A description of the voyage is given in Admiral Keppel's A Sailor's Life Under Four Sovereigns (London, 1899). .

Large tinted lithograph further captioned " To Admiral the Right Honble. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, G.C.B. G.C.H. Commander in Chief at Plymouth / This Print of Her Majesty's Ship Royal Adelaide, Guard Ship at that Port, is with his Lordship's permission respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's most obliged and very humble Servant, / Oswald Walters Brierly". Printed by Edmund Fry, London, & Edmund Fry Jnr. Plymouth. Image size 366 x 294 mm, with ample margins. Margins with some very light dusting. Overall a very nice copy.