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301 - John Skinner Prout, R.I. (British, 1806-1876) 'Sydney Illustrated', Part I and Part IIlithographwith...

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John Skinner Prout, R.I. (British, 1806-1876)
'Sydney Illustrated', Part I and Part II
lithograph
with descriptive letter press by J. Rae. M, J.S. Prout & Co, Illustration Lithographic Establishment, O'Connell Street, Sydney, 1842
Part I containing lithographic plates of Sydney Cove, Woolloomooloo Bay, Miller's Point, Port Jackson, Part II with Note to subscribers, a lithographed slip, tipped-in, Sydney Cove, The Lower Fall of Willoughby, Sydney from Mrs Darling's Point, with additional loose related prints
plates 18.5 x 28cm, overall folio 43 x 28.5cm

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Original wrappers heavily foxed, wrappers and pages foxed with creasing and folding to the edges and corners, part I with ten numbered pages, part II numbered up to page 22.
Additional prints:
- aquatint, Austrialian Aboriginal Native spearing a kangaroo, 18.5 x 25cm, title is in pencil
- St Peter's Chuch and Parsonage, Cooks River N.S.W. printed and published by W. Baker, King Street, Sydney, with pencil note inscribed relating to the Collier Family vault being in the cemetery, sheet overall 25.5 x 40.5cm
- lithograph by Prout of the Cathedral Church of St Mary, Sydney NSW, sheet overall 43 x 30cm, very tatty around the edges
- etching by JC, of the Post Office, George Street, Sydney, sheet overall 29 x 52.5cm, title is inscribed in pencil, torn and creased around the edges
- hand coloured engraving, 'Caffres, Aboriginies of Caffraria' by J, Chapman, published by Wilkes 1800, sheet 27 x 20.5cm, paper discoloured

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27th Jun 23 at 9:30am BST