We found 2466194 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 2466194 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
2466194 item(s)/page
Egypt & The Holy Land.- [?Goodwin (Mary Mackenzie, youngest daughter of Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, 1816-96, of The Abbey, Carlisle, b. 1855) Extracts from Letters & Diary of a tour to Italy, Egypt and The Holy Land, autograph manuscript, 65pp. excluding blanks, 6 pen and ink sketches (5 of Egyptian figures), slightly browned, original limp morocco, gilt, slight wear to corners, spine with tears and rubbed, lacks head and tail of spine, 4to, 16th February - 17th March 1880. ⁂ A lively diary written by a young woman on a tour through France and Italy to Egypt and Palestine. Goodwin meets Mary Louisa Whately (1824-89), educationist and missionary, at her school in Cairo, visits a harem, the pyramids and the Sphinx, and after a violent sea crossing lands in Jaffa. In Palestine she visits Miss Mangared's medical mission and moves to Ramleh where the journal finishes, "The country was exquisite, the olives with their grey bloom shone like silver in the dew." A visit to a harem. "... we went with Mrs. Shakour (Miss Whately's adopted daughter) to a rather grand harem. We went into a kind of court with an arched stone roof, out of wh. opened the men's room - Then we went upstairs, dirty & narrow to a moderate sized room where we found Miss W's pupil & her mother, both very fat & dressed in red & black check. The room was simply furnished with divans round, & a sort of carved cupboard with a shelf at one end. They immediately brought cigarettes for us... . Then a sort of awful marmalade... then came immense bowls of sherbert... ." - Mary Goodwin.
A George V silver three piece fluted baluster coffee service, of George II design, comprising coffee pot, milk jug and sugar basin, each flat-chased with flowers and leafy C-scrolls, the pot with fruitwood fittings, 21cm high, Crighton Brothers, London 1921, 28.5oz gross
A silver gilt and enamelled panel bracelet, each enamelled with a different countries flag, comprising Great Britain, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, Canada, Victoria, N S Wales, Queensland, S Australia, W Australian, N Zealand,C Colony, Natal, E Africa, Ceylon, Transvaal and Hong Kong, double row chain dividers, compression clasp, with safety chain, stamped Pegler RD358292 S'Hampton 18.5cm long, 14.6g gross
-
2466194 item(s)/page