Son 1879 (13 résultats)

Hardcover. xxxv, 553 p.; 8 pl.; 21 cm. [London edition 1880-82, 3 vols.; first thus in 1883] Samuel Wilberforce, 1805-1873. `It is fitting to say a few words about the manner in which the three English volumes have been compressed into the single American one, without, it is believed, any substandital loss of interest of value. Much was gained, of course, by the use of smaller print, and scarcely less by the careful excision of unnecessary or unimportant words and phrases--lists of names, titles, trivialities, redundancies, and repetitions of all sorts; most of which, especially to an American reader, tended rather to burden than to assist the understanding. The latest volume of the English edition, which is chiefly responsible for the ferment across the water, is the most substantially reproduced, not so much to gratify the general desire to see the so-called "revelations" as becuase it is the most interesting.' (p. xvi) Good olive cloth, spine ends frayed. Note at head of title-page.…

1p., 4to. Fair, on aged paper. He offers Gye his 'very best wishes' on his 'new appointment', adding: 'of course do not trouble to answer for this deserves none'.

One page, 8vo, fold marks, good condition. He congratulates him on his posting to Tangier. See Image.1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'dear Ernest'. Marked by Gye 'Ansd.' He is sending Gye 'a word of congratulations on the august appointment to Tangier'. He apologises that he cannot be 'part of the celebration on March 23'. He concludes: 'I hope you are pleased and that everything will prosper. | No answer required of course'.…

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In very good condition, neatly placed by the second leaf in a windowpane mount. He has 'received an intimation' that his picture is in Bond Street ('from whence I must fetch it'), and is writing to say that he has 'two Pictures by my Father (one very small but a beautiful little bit) the other the Peak in Derbyshire; a Landscape by Smith of Chichester & a copy of mine after Liverseege all of which I would lend to the Crystal Palace if you would like to have them'. He can deliver these to Bond St on collecting the other. 'I have safely deposited the Bull at Manchester where it looks magnificent & as it is surrounded by merchant Princes I should be glad that it leave not the County'. The 'Catalogue of the Art treasures of the United Kingdom, collected at Manchester in 1857' lists as number 196, loand by 'G. R. Ward, Esq.': 'JAMES WARD R.A. | BULL, COW. AND CALF. Painted 1822. Exhibited 1823'.…

°°° 16 CABINET AND LARGE-CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS by famous St. Petersburg-based Photographers; THE COLLECTION IN DETAIL, chronologically [MANY PHOTOS SIGNED by Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, paternal great-great-grandmother of King Charles III of the United Kingdom (*1948) and pat. great-great-great-grandmother of King Felipe VI. of Spain (*1968), 1 SHORTLY INSCRIBED by her son Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, 1 perhaps**** inscr. by Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna): 1) TSAR ALEXANDER II (1818-1881, Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland; assassinated March 13, 1881; Photo: Levitsky (late 1860ies, later draw after he opened his Studio at Nevsky Prospect), 1890s. / 2) probably GRAND DUCHESS ALEXANDRA IOSIFOVNA (Photo: Levitsky, Moika-Studio), INSCRIBED ''Alexandra chatelaine d'Orianda 1874'' ****) which should refer to Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, yet she looks more like Alexandra Iosifovna. / 3) GRAND DUKE KONSTANTIN NIKOLAYEVICH OF RUSSIA (Photo: Bergamasco). / 4) GRAND DUCHESS ALEXANDRA IOSIFOVNA OF RUSSIA (Photo: Pasetti), early 1870ies; embossed, SIGNED ''Alexandra''. / 5) Gr.D. ALEXANDRA IOSIFOVNA . . . (Photo: Levitsky, Moika-Studio), 1870ies. / 6) Same photo, later draw at Nevsky-Studio), 1890ies; SIGNED ''Alexandra''. / 7) Gr.D. ALEXANDRA IOSIFOVNA . . . (Photo: Bergamasco); hand-coloured, wearing a black dress [her brother-in-law Tsar Alexander II was murdered in 1881], SIGNED ''Alexandra 1881/1882''. / 8) Gr.D. ALEXANDRA IOSIFOVNA . . . (Photo: Pasetti), SIGNED ''Alexandra 1884''. / 9) Gr.D. ALEXANDRA IOSIFOVNA . . . (Photo: Pasetti), SIGNED ''Alexandra 1900''. / 10) Similar Photo (Photo: Pasetti), SIGNED ''Alexandra 1900''. / 11) 4 CHILDREN OF KONSTANTIN AND ALEXANDRA (see above, right to left): GRAND DUCHESS VERA KONSTANTINOVNA OF RUSSIA (1854-1912, granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I and first cousin of Tsar Alexander III; legally adopted by King Karl of Württemberg and Queen Olga Grand Duchess in 1871, arranged marriage to Duke Eugen of Württemberg, lived and died in Stuttgart); GRAND DUKE KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH OF RUSSIA (1858-1915, grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, became a renowned poet and playwright under the pen name 'K.R.'[Konstantin Romanov] (see also below); GRAND DUKE VYACHESLAV KONSTANTINOVICH OF RUSSIA (1862-1879, Romanov Grand Duke and youngest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and his wife Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (see also below); GRAND DUKE DMITRY KONSTANTINOVICH OF RUSSIA (1860-1919, son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich and Cousin of Tsar Alexander III, followed a military career (Photo: Bergamasco; famous photograph: very similar one [same session] in Alexander Palace St. Petersburg). / 12) GRAND DUKE VYACHESLAV KONSTANTINOVICH OF RUSSIA (Photo: Giulio Rossi, Milano [1823-1884, ''è stato un pittore e fotografo italiano''], see also above). / 13) GRAND DUKE KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH OF RUSSIA (in military uniform, grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, 4th child of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and his spouse Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg; his eldest sister Grand Duchess Olga married King George I of the Hellenes in 1867, therefore he is the great-great-grandbrother-in-law of King Charles III; Photo: Pasetti). / 14a) GR.-D. KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH . . . (Wedding day photo [see below], April 27 1884), later INSCRIBED ''un futur père, 1886'' [a becoming father (his 1st son 'John' was murdered by revolutionsts in 1918)]. / 14b) his wife GRAND DUCHESS ELIZABETH MAVRIKIEVNA OF RUSSIA, born Princess Elisabeth Auguste Marie Agnes of Saxe-Altenburg (1865-1927, Wedding day photo [see above], April 27 1884); Photos: Bergamasco (this photo is also on Wikipedia!). / 15) their latest son PRINCE OF THE IMPERIAL BLOOD GEORGY KONSTANTINOVICH OF RUSSIA (1903-1938, youngest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Mavrikiyevna, i.e. Elisabeth Auguste Marie Agnes of Saxe-Altenburg, see right above. . . --- Few photos slightly spotty; OVERALL A VERY GOOD SET. …

°°° (Sabin #30958) I. FIRST EDITION, BIBLIOPHILE BOUND ORIGINAL; THE SENATE-EDITION*. - FIRST BLANK SHEET WITH 4-LINE INSCRIPTION ''to Baron Gerolt / with the kind regards / of P. G. Washington / Feby. 16 1857''. Peter Grayson Washington (1798-1872), son of the Nephew of a Cousin of George Washington (1732-1799, American Founding Father and first President of the United States) served as 'Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Virginia New York City'; Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797-1879) was the German-Prussian 'Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States' and has been the longest-ever serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S. In the quarter+ century of service, Gerolt met presidents James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant. As a studied mining geologist (Freiberg Mining Academy) in ''1824 he travelled to Mexico as an agent of the German-American Mining Association, where significant silver mines were suspected. Together with Carl de Berghes, also an Mining Association Agent, he published the 'Carta geognostica de los principales distritos minerales del Estado de Mexico' in 1827 with Arnz & Comp., a special mineralogical map of central Mexico, which is considered the first geological map of Mexico printed in colour.''(german wikipedia). - DETAILED PAGINATION: . / I. 2 blank sheets, XVII (I); 537 pages, with 78 xylographic illustrations in the text; 86 singleside-printed toned or colour-lithographic plates (incl. portraits after Daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown) and 3 foldout-colourplates of japanese woodblock-prints (89 plates in total) and 3 geographical maps (1 foldout) bound within; 2 blank sheets. / II. (House Edition, 1857). (8) 414, (1) 14 pages ('Treaty of Ka-na-ga-wa'[Kanagawa], the first document ever negotiated by the Empire of Japan with any western nation according to International Law), (1) XI (1) p.; some xylographic text-illustrations, 4 (3 coloured) lithographic plates 'Agriculture of China', 22 (of 23, 17 [hand-]coloured) plates of Natural History (Yack, Japanese Fox), Ornithology (Japanese Birds, 5 of 6), Ichthyology (Japanese Fishes, 10), Conchyology (Japanese Shells, 5); 3 (2 folded) maps in the text, 16 plates with meteorological diagrams; 15 of 17 very large multiple folded maps at the end. / III. XLIII, 705 pages with 365 (of 366) astronomic xylographic plates (lacking plate 66); all plates in I and II on singleside printed cardboards. --- *) 'Senate executive Documents #34 of 33rd Congress, 2nd Session', published parrallel to Nicholson's 'House-Editon': Corners of the leather-binding partly somewhat rubbed, panels slightly rubbed and slightly scratched; some textpages opposite of lithographic plates with slight offsetting (shadow) last sheets with slim humidity-stain at top sharp-corner, last 10 sheets (incl. rear endpaper) with small hole in the blank bottom margin; A MAGNIFICIENT COPY WITH A 'WELL NAMED' ASSOCIATION OF THE PERIOD. --- II. Binding somewhat rubbed, lacks plate 6 of Ornithology and textpages 257-262 (beginning of Ichthyology); Acceptably used. / III. Binding rubbed, many pages with humiditystain at foreedge or top sharp-corner (growing towards the end), lacks zodiac-plate #66 (of 352). - MAIN OFFER IS THE LUXOURIUS EQUIPPED AND COMPLETE HISTORIC ASSOCIATION COPY OF VOLUME I; Vols. II and III have been added from another set to create scientific completeness (more or less). . . [Cordier 'Japonica' #513 / Nissen ZBI #3132].…

12mo, 2 pp. Twenty-eight lines of text. Good, on lightly-creased paper. Lockhart's signature has been docketed in ink (by Aitken?) 'Sir Robert'. A letter of condolence on the death of Aitken's father. Reminisces about the 'moment I came into his life', a 'luncheon at Charkley' soon after the First World War: 'The only other guest was Augustus John. [.] as you know, I learnt much from him. Indeed, it was he who taught me how to write, and in his house I met numerous people whom, but for him, I should never have known.' He considers that Beaverbrook treated him 'nobly'. He will keep the last letter he received from Beaverbrook: 'It was an original letter and, as you know, he always wanted originality in every writer and newspaper correspondent'. Beaverbrook was 'a very great and generous man' and Lockhart feels sure that his son 'will follow in his steps'. He hopes to see him, but is 'too old now to come often to London. I wish you a great future.'.…

Letter One: 1p., 12mo. Signed '(Hon) Donough O'Brien'. Good, on aged paper, with a couple of short closed tears at head. Addressed to 'Elliott O'Connell Esqre of The Red House, Guilsborough, Northants.' He is sending him a copy of his 'Genealogical Table of the Princes of Ireland', 'in a cardboard-roll to see': 'The descents are from the Common Ancestor, Milesius, King of Spain and Ireland'. The price is two pounds, and he believes that 'it is the first time that the 23 lines have been set out on one Chart and in their appropriate places of Geniture, and over so distant a period of time'. Letter Two: 1p., 12mo. Simply signed 'Donough O'Brien'. In fair condition, on lightly aged and ruckled paper. 'Certainly I remember meeting you. I am making a note that you will be at 49 Gros. Str from 29 Apr to 13 May, & if I am in town will hope to see you.' He explains his usual movements, suggesting that they 'meet by telephone when I'm up'.…

Editeur Sté Armorica - 17 numéros - In-8 - Revue bilingue français-breton - Brochée - Illustrations en texte - N° 33, 4 ème Année, 3 ème trimestre 1930, 36, 38, 41, 44, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 67 & 68, 13 ème Année, 2 ème trimestre 1939 - 70 à 80 pages par numéro - Bon état général, sauf N° 36 - Réf. 48269 An Oaled, sous-titré Le Foyer breton (oaled signifie âtre en breton) est une revue bilingue français-breton trimestrielle parue de 1929 à 1939 à Carhaix (Finistère). Livres 285531502374. …

Etat : Very Good. Uniform matching third edition hard back binding in publisher's original half white vellum covers, black and red title and author lettering to the spines, polished brown marble covers, thick satin white silk end papers, polished red page edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 413; 420; 416 printed pages of French text. From the private library of E. Balfour, Balbirny | Balbirnie House, with smart coat of arms bookplate inside each front free end paper, white spines slightly grubby, without any foxing or age toning to the text block and in Very Good condition. Heavy set. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History). …

All three are air mail letter cards. Each with 'Field Post Office' postmark and censor's stamp. The three in fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Letter One: To his father, 17 March [1944]. Addressed to 'My dear Father', with the envelope addressed to 'Sir E. de la Rue Bart. | The Sol | Cookham | Berkshire | England.' 1p, 4to, and 1p., 12mo. A light-hearted letter, in which he jokes about his father's inability to read the word 'Aviv' ('I suppose a series of "i"s and "v"s is rather difficult even if printed') and find the place on the map ('it is much larger than Bournemouth'). He also thanks him 'for all your work on investing my "large" fortune. If I stay out here much longer it really will be large! I dont spend all my pay anyhow so have got £100 here I think or something like it.' He hopes to return home that year: 'Five years out here is exactly five years too long.' He jokes that he will 'fly a neutral flag on the way back in case I get caught up in the second front or maybe the third front.' He explains that 'people of my age in what they call a combatant unit unless he is a Lt Col or above, must be getting very old! He 'carried an unused roll of bromo [lavatory paper] in my box for a long time & never used it. By chance it was put into use a month ago. I noticed each sheet was torn and buried at the bottom of it was a large piece of shrapnal! [sic] If that's where all the shrapnal goes I wont mind much!' He has sold his gun for ten pounds, 'on the strength of my belief I wont be here next winter. I sold it for what I gave for it £10 but I was told I was stupid as it was worth a lot more. I expect it was as one cannot get a gun in any place in the Middle East and it was in perfect condition - of course!' He ends by commenting on the quality of the food, and the 'stockings at £2 a pair'' he is sending his sister. Letter Two. To his sister, 4 May [1944]. Addressed (as is Letter Three) to 'My dear Diana', with the envelope addressed to Miss de la Rue, Rusper, Horsham, Sussex.' 3pp., 12mo. He begins 'I went into Cairo a week ago and bought you some food. We are not allowed to send more than 5 lbs and not more than 2 lbs of the same thing. So I sent you some jam, currants, and tea. I actually sent it to Mother so you may get it in 3 months time.' The 'heat is getting deplorable': 'You would have smiled this last week as I was told 1/2 an hour before, that I had to ride a motorbicycle in the desert for four days and nights. I had never been on one in my life and had half an hour to learn!' He 'only had one fall but got continuously stuck in the deep sand on the first day'. He tells her that she would have been 'awfully interested at times as we stood in a forest of trees. Tress were lying everywhere. They were exactly as they had fallen. The bark was the same colour as ordinary bark. You could see where all the catterpillars [sic] had burrowed in the wood and the rotten wood shone as if it were still wet. Some of the trees looked as if they had been choped [sic] down. They were all fosalized [sic] 3,000 years old! The extraordinary thing is they were still on the surface.' Towards the end he writes: 'I dont suppose it matters at all now telling you what you must have known before that last February year ago I was at Bengazi. It was far the best place to be so far as this regiment went, as in those days were were split up in Tobrook Crete and Cyprus as well.' They had 'a terribly comfortable mess': 'The Italian police in the town were charming, but the Australians I am afraid behaved very badly. It was always the soldiers with the big hats who the people did not like as they would say.' Letter Three: To his sister, 4 October [1944]. 3pp., 12mo. In pencil. He sees in the press that 'Bobby has got the D.S.O. How wonderful! [.] It was published in the papers alongside Hitler's speech to the Reich, and that seemed Bobbie's answer.' A great deal has been happening, but he can only say that 'the total show was magnificent'. 'Mo.…

8vo. ¾ page on bifolium. A charming letter by the eight-year-old to his grandmother: "My dear Nana I will read at 1/2 oclock Nana I will write you better I love you of all My hart".

8vo. 1 page on bifolium. In French, to "mon cher Général", whom he invites to England to speak with him about forthcoming events. A meeting is about to be held in Camden where the general will meet among others Raoul Duval (French politician, 1807-93). On the eve of this meeting Napoléon IV would like to take the advice of the most influential and powerful men. Napoléon IV does not want to give an official character to this little reunion in order not to harm certain people but still he asks the general to show this letter which could be taken for a convocation rather than an invitation. Napoléon IV ends his letter by sending his regards to the general's wife and sons as well as to the general himself, asking him to arrive in England on the 5th or 6th May. - On headed stationery "Camden Place, Chislehurst".…