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Lot 174
India & Edward VII.- AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, 748pp., 4pp. printed pamphlet at end: "Inman Line. List of Saloon Passengers Per Mail Steamer `City of Berlin` From New York to Liverpool, Sailing April 28, 1877" with Clifford`s name marked with ink in passenger list, later ink inscription on front free endpaper, original half morocco, 8vo, 21st November 1875 - 6th May 1877. ***A detailed account of a journey to India, China, Japan and America and around the world. Lewis Clifford travelled on the steam ship Assam through the Bay of Biscay, past Gibraltar, Malta (stopping in the harbour), Port Said, through the Suez Canal, "about 30 feet deep" and into the Red Sea, Aden, Ceylon, landing in Madras. In India he submits a letter of introduction at Government House, meets some friends, visits a tea auction, goes to the opera and sees some rajah`s sitting in the viceroy`s box. In India he is introduced to Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) on his tour of the subcontinent and joins him on numerous formal and informal occasions. Also while in India Clifford details an expedition with Viscount Ebrington to Kashmir (Gilgit, Baramulla etc.), shooting Ibex, a bear and a musk deer and describes camping life with "coolies" serving them. After India Clifford travelled back to Ceylon (Hambantota and Galle), and then by ship to the Far East, one of his travelling companions being William Palgrave (1826-88), Arabist and traveller on his way to Manila to take up a diplomatic posting, "Palgrave`s Nubian servant `the man Friday` as he is called on board was very nearly left behind. He only reached the steamer just as she was moving out of harbour. His state of alarm at the prospect of being left among a race he had not seen before with no one who spoke his native tongue was very absurd." From Ceylon Clifford sailed to Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Tokyo, and in Japan Clifford met Sir Harry Parkes (1828-85), diplomatist. From Yokohama Clifford sailed across the Pacific and landed at San Francisco and then by train and coach to Santa Barbara (with a piece discussing the California gold rush), Los Angeles, Yosemite Falls and by Pacific Railroad to Cheyenne, St. Paul, Kansas City, Jefferson City, St. Louis (staying with General Daniel Frost, meeting Joseph Pulitzer and enquiring after Bishop Ryan and Archbishop Kenrick), New York and by ship on the `City of Berlin` to Liverpool and by train back to Ugbrooke Park. INDIA. "Wednesday Dec 15th [1875] Left my letter of introduction to Lord Northcote at Government House. . Arriving at Calcutta the Viceroy asked me to come up & see the reception in private durbar of Sindia Jeypore & Puttiala. As there was no time to get back I borrowed a frock coat from one of the A.D.C.. . The Prince [Edward] was looking remarkably well & as stout as ever. The cheering was not enthusiastic owing I fancy to the scattered position of the Europeans, the natives of course never cheering. . In the evening Courtenay and myself went to G[overnment] House to dine. The dinner was got through in good time as the Prince was to allow more than an hour. After dinner when the ladies retired every one smoked and then the Prince received visitors chiefly natives. The rajah of Puttiala came very late and rather the worse for liquor and having made a very indifferent salutation to the Viceroy demanded to be introduced to H.R.H. as it was already late the Prince withdrew & Puttiala got a wagging from his resident. . Thursday Jan. 13th [1876] The Prince had a picnic at the Kootub but there were only about 80 people.".
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Lot 193
Clemens (Samuel Langhorne, humourist 1p., 8vo, n.p., Tuesday, [Vienna], n.d. [1897], on ?publishing and translating a speech by the use of stenography, "If it can be taken down in short-hand & published in full, I shan`t mind that. I mean, that such part (or all) of it as you use shall not be synopsized, but delivered directly from the one language into the other. You get my idea? I can`t bear synopses", and commenting that he hasn`t yet found the admission to the Reichsrath [Austrian Imperial Parliament]the Imperial Parliament, folds.
Lot 206
Shaw (Charlotte, wife of G. Bernard Shaw photographer and bookseller, 3pp., 8vo & smaller, London & Ayot St. Lawrence, 25th June 1903 & 22nd December 1917, thanking him for some photographs, particularly of the room where the first Fabian essay was written and one of himself, apologising for failing him, "I can hardly bear to think how disgusted you must be with me..., explaing how their time is taken up when they come to London, and sending a "charming little chap" as a peace and goodwill offering", folds, slightly browned. ***The Shaws paid the school fees of Evans`s son..
Lot 326
Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan second edition with "bear" ornament on printed title, dedication leaf loose, X2 lower corner torn with loss, contemporary signature and `price` to the recto of front free end-paper, bookplate of Sir James R. Fergusson to front paste-down, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving old spine, new endpapers, rubbed at extremities, [Wing H2247], folio, for Andrew Crooke, 1651 [i.e. Amsterdam, c.1651].
Lot 595
Norman Redmayne, mid 20th century- Untitled composition; oil on board, signed and dated 1970, 45x110cm: together with one other similar untitled study in oils on board by the same hand, signed and dated 1970, both bear extensive inscriptions on the reverse, in matching white painted frames, 45x100cm., ea., (2) Provenance: Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Middlesex (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
Lot 37
A collection of approximately one hundred 19th century magic lantern slides to include seventy-four hand painted examples depicting Constantinople, Castle of Argyro-Castro Albania, Banbrough Castle, Wierbridge Killarney, Jerusalem, Lake Como by Abram & Danger, The Dead Sea, Eddystone Lighthouse a calm day by J Barnard & Sons, Bear shooting Arctic region, Native Sports Arctic region, River Jordan, Valley of Kedron, The Sultans New Palace, Barskinning, Sierra Leone, The Victory frozen in the Arctic region, The Mount of Olives, The Polar Expedition, Battleships of Sebastopol, three Robinson Crusoe circular examples, ten whimsical slides, one kaleidoscope slide, Ramsgate, Dunbarton Castle and exotic animals, birds, insects, fish etc including elephant, cobra, crocodile, dodo, beetles, a collection of religious and other slides contained in two large boxes, also a Dancer of Manchester black magic lantern and quantity of loose lenses (part af) (illustrated)
Lot 1057
Assorted Costume And Accessories including Susan Small pink chiffon full length evening dress with ruffle hem and collar; Harrods silk shirt dress (size 10); checked silk shift dress; Droopy and Brown printed velvet pinafore dress and matching shirt (size 12); Marcel Fenez powder blue full length evening dress (size 10); Cresta Couture full length evening gown with gathered long sleeves; Charles Gray pink and sequin decorated evening dress; black silk top hat; embroidered black velvet smokers cap; brown jointed teddy bear; mother of pearl fan with floral painted gauze mount; evening bags and purses etc
Lot 537
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN BEAR NOVELTY SPECIMEN VASES the bridled bear holding a flower trumpet between its fore paws and with glass inset eyes, on cavetto base, 16.5cm h, maker WWH & Co, probably W W Harrison & Co of Sheffield, PODR mark for 8 August 1877 One bear lacking the glass eyes; both with polish residues but undamaged and not replated
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