Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

318 c   (VERRI, ALESSANDRO.) Tresham, Henry. Le Aventure di Saffo. Aquatint title, leaf of engraved text, and 18 aquatint plates by Tresham.Folio,18x13 1 / 2 inches,contemporary mottled sheep gilt, front cover additionally stamped “Cav[alie]re Alessandro Verri,” spine ends chipped, few stains on covers; dampstain in blank upper inner corners throughout, light to moderate foxing on most plates. Rome, 1784 [700/1,000] First edition of a suite of dramatic aquatints inspired by Verri’s popular 1780 novel about the Greek poet Sappho’s legendary tragic infatuation with Phaon.Tresham (1751-1814) was an Irish painter and art dealer who worked in Rome during the 1770s-80s and was elected to the Royal Academy following his return to England. 319 c   WOODWARD, GEORGE MOUTARD. The Caricature Magazine, or, Hudibrastic Mirror, Being a Most Capital Collection of Caricatures. Hand-colored etched pictorial title-page and 32 hand-colored etched plates after Woodward by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. 16 subscription parts. Oblong folio, 11x17 inches, original stitch sewn blue pictorial printed wrappers, each part numbered in manuscript ink, some sympathetic repairs; fresh and bright original hand-coloring; many sheets with a JWhatman watermark dated variously between 1804 and 1808, untrimmed deckle edges in many instances; several plates with small repairs. Housed in a blue cloth portfolio chemise with bookplate of William Hartman Woodin. London: Thomas Tegg, circa 1806 and after [3,000/5,000] 319 318