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ONLY KNOWN INSCRIBED AND SIGNED PROOF HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Publisher's Advance Proof Copy with author's corrections. [i-ii], [1] dedication, [1], [476], [2] pages. Folio, 476 leaves printed on rectos only, thread-bound stiff brown paper wrappers pasted down on the spine and spine edges printed white paper label covering most of the front wrapper, thumb-soiled, scattered creasing, title and author handwritten in pencil on spine; vertical crease along front cover near spine with early repair on verso, faint dampstaining along exposed edges, into outer margins of inscription page through page 5, also affects rear endpaper, and very light and scattered throughout contents; brown hand-sewn leather cover, outer surface in a natural nap finish, inside is polished with title and author burned in cursive on inside rear flap; custom plain cloth clamshell box. New York: Scribner's, 1940
publisher''s proof copy inscribed and signed by hemingway to longtime friend and employee toby otto bruce, with manuscript corrections and dedication to the author''s third wife, martha gellhorn. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "To Otto with much affection and deep appreciation for all he did to make this book. Ernest Hemingway."
Hemingway met Bruce in Piggott, Arkansas while visiting his in-laws after the birth of his and wife Pauline Pfeiffer''s first son Patrick in the summer of 1928. Bruce, the local furniture maker, was one of Pauline''s classmates and a friend of the Pfeiffer family. At this time Hemingway was in the final phase of writing A Farewell to Arms. For diversion from family and work, he would often go hunting with Bruce and the two developed a fast friendship. Hemingway most often called him "Otto" or "Tobes," and Bruce called Hemingway "Cap" or "Pop," short for his usual letter closing "Poor old Papa."
When the author''s Whitehead Street home was listed in the 1935 Key West Guide to Local attractions, Hemingway asked Bruce to build its privacy wall from old city bricks stored at the Key West Naval Station. A year later Hemingway offered him a job as his driver, shaking hands on a salary of $65 a month, room and board if he wished, and "all the booze and cigarettes [he] could stand" (McLendon, Papa Hemingway in Key West. Key West: Langley Press, 2000, page 145). Toby''s first task was to purchase the dove grey Buick Special convertible Hemingway had his eye on. To the author''s delight, Toby also had a spotlight installed on the car so they could shoot raccoons and rabbits on nighttime excursions. From that point on Toby bought all of the Hemingway cars and, in his own words, became his "driver, secretary, man-Friday, getaway-money-holder, and drinking companion" on salary for the next six years and "for free" thereafter for the rest of Hemingway''s life (McLendon. op cit., p.145). Toby also resurfaced the floor of the author''s poolhouse/office, added an elaborate wall shelf for his manuscripts, and oversaw the installation of the swimming pool Pauline had ordered in a vain attempt to hold their marriage together. He would later serve as the administrator for the Hemingways'' Key West estate and, with his wife Betty, help the author''s last wife, Mary Hemingway, dispose of her husband''s contents in the back room of Sloppy Joe''s Bar, Hemingway''s well-known afternoon watering hole and "second home."
Bruce played an instrumental role by helping to keep the family peace during the turbulent last years of Ernest and Pauline''s marriage. This period saw Hemingway absent for long stretches while serving as war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, commencing For Whom the Bell Tolls, and strengthening his relationship with journalist Martha Gellhorn, who would become his third wife in 1940. Soon after Hemingway and Martha moved to Cuba in 1939 , he called Toby to their Havana home, La Vigía, to do some repair work and serve as Hemingway''s secretary. This included the supervision of the typewritten copy of the manuscript which he read as the novel was being written.
In appreciation of Bruce''s support, Hemingway dubbed him "The Iron Man" and awarded him the commission to design the dust jacket. Toby roughed out a sketch of a small village nestled at the foot of a mountain, a bell tower, and the woods with an outline of the bridge that was blown up by protagonist Robert Jordan. An artist in New York completed the drawing, but Hemingway proudly declared that it was "the Iron Man''s masterpiece" (McLendon, op cit. page 205). He also presented Bruce with this final galley proof, telling him it was his "insurance policy . . . its value will go up with Hemingstein stock . . . let''s hope the company doesn''t run dry!" (op cit p.205). The book was indeed a great success, making Hemingway rich and achieving universal critical acclaim. And, with Ernest and Pauline''s divorce having become formal on Labor Day, the path was clear for him to declare in print for its October release "This book is for Martha Gellhorn." That dedication is penciled in his hand to the front blank of this proof.
The first edition differs from the proof in several respects. Chapter Three in the proof was divided (page 50, line 12) into Chapters Three and Four in the first edition, creating a total of forty-three chapters from the forty-two in the proof. Several new paragraphs were created from longer ones in the proof. The character Agustín was spelled Augustín throughout the proof.
Most of Hemingway''s pencil corrections made their way into the first printing. The majority are minor spelling or language corrections such as changing La Gloria to La Gloire, parientes to padres, Sardo to Sordo, etc., but one full sentence change in the final chapter appears on page 470, lines 16/17: The proof shows "Augustín wheeled his horse and brought his right fist down with a gesture and rode up the draw." Hemingway crossed out "with a gesture" and penciled in the margin "so it was as though he cried again with the movement of it." The first edition prints an altered combination of the two: "Agustín wheeled his horse and brought his right fist down as though he cursed again with the motion of it and rode up the draw." A printed list of other corrections is available upon request.
The only other recorded (unsigned, uncorrected) copy of an advance proof for this novel is in the Thomas Cooper Library at University of South Carolina. See McLendon, James. Papa Hemingway in Key West. Key West: Langley Press, 2000; Pratt, Steven. Toby Bruce: Hemingway''s Aide-de-camp and an Extraordinary Man. Printed in Key Wester, Volume 2, Issue 9 July 2004. The photograph at left is attributed to Lloyd Arnold and is the property of the Bruce family. The assistance and research of Hemingway scholar and bibliographer Edgar Grissom was invaluable to this description.
Provenance: Bruce family collection.
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Letters Between the Sturges Brothers Most Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield Co. CT. He arrived in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary war although the exact date is uncertain. They were in Georgia by 1801 and in Waynesborough (now Waynesboro) by 1804. In May of 1804 he married Rachel Lowery (1786-1837). Samuel became one of the leaders of the community one of five members of the Board of Town Incorporators and was elected in 1813 as one of the first five commissioners. He held other town positions through his lifetime there.Samuel and Rachel had three children: Jane Robinson (1809-1817) William Urquhart (1816-1884) and John Reynolds (1827-1862). In the 1830 Census Samuel lists 10 slaves. William seems to have spent most of his career as a hotel keeper although he occasionally became something of a merchant picking up items for townspeople when he or his agents went to New York for supplies. Samuel died in 1831 when his youngest son was only three. Rachel followed but six years later.About this time the U.S. government was moving native peoples off their lands and the Cherokee had prime farm land in Georgia. The tribe appealed to the Supreme Court and won but President Andrew Jackson had the U.S. Army move them off their land anyway in what would be known as the "Trail of Tears". The Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 indicates that the orphans of Samuel Sturges received lottery number 115 for the 8th District 1st section and Rachel (Rachael) received 143 for the 6th District 3rd Section. William would have been an adult at the time of Rachel's death so presumably he continued raising his younger brother John and the brothers remained close for life. William appears in the mid-century censuses as a hotel keeper but may have been a merchant earlier (implied in some of his letters).By 1844 John had made his way "up east." In the first letter in the collection William writes to John [4 Sept. 1844] in Princeton NJ passing along brotherly advice particularly about health issues: I am glad you took the step you did by entering on your studies soon after your arrival and congratulate yourself & John Shewmaker upon your success in entering the Sophomore class. I trust neither of you will flag yet I would advise that you keep an eye on your health. In that climate the constitution is easily undermined by leading too sedentary a life. Provide yourself with some means of bodily exercise perform some daily labour or take pedestrian exercise. Exercise with the "dumb bells" will tend to expand the chest and develop the muscles of the arms. These may seem of no importance now and may make seemingly no very great improvement in your feelings while you continue the use. They may be used as preventions. He also suggests that the young men enlist an agent to cash checks sent up to them and to hold any monies which were not immediately needed.On occasion William discusses politics in his letters. November of 1844 is one of those occasions being a presidential election year. (reconstructed letters in brackets.) The news political of this State is that sh[e] has cast her vote for Mr. Polk for president. The lat[e] [re]turns indicate that Mr. Polk will be our next President Much [to] the surprise of all politicians. I must feel as an American citizen should feel no little mortification at the result of this [con]test. I do heartily rejoice however that it is over. We have been from one end of this union to the other in a perfect stew and as the Whig "Pot" has boiled over and spilt all the fat in the fire (excuse this sentence) & we cannot make amends I trust we will have a little quiet & a little more trade and I truly hope a good deal more good feeling from our neighbors to another. The people will now return to their uniform Christian feelings. He goes on to note that the local medical college has resumed with an overflow class of 125 students and describes the amusements in town - the theater circus a ventriloquist / magician.William seems to have gone "all out" into Whig politics. The party formed largely in opposition to Jacksonian policies. It advocated investment in roads and railroads to tie the country together economically. Henry Clay one of the better known leaders of the party advocated returning proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states to make these improvements. This would certainly have been an attractive position for these members of the "merchant class " increasing the availability and decreasing the price of goods. At one point William writes referring to the folks in Burke and Waynesboro: Those people are to be envied somewhat for their quiet (seeming) happiness. But truly is a life of that kind to be objected to because of the excess of doing naught that tends to the usefulness or benefits of the human family. They have no meetings or gatherings but for frivolous amusement. He goes on to say that Augusta is determined to turn itself into a manufacturing town but so far "all talk no action." [30 Jan. 1845] In October 1845 William notes that Georgia elected a Whig governor [George Crawford] and would likely elect a Whig senator.Other Whig party leaders included William Henry Harrison and Daniel Webster. After Harrison's death John Tyler became president and his stand on states' rights was even stronger than most particularly attractive to the South as abolition issues were heating up. In 1847 Webster made a trip to this small southern town which William describes in his letter of 29 May: The very distinguished Mr. Webster of Massachusetts has been among us for some time near a week. He being detained on a/c [account] of health. He received from men of all parties the most marked attention and I hope will return well impressed with Southern hospitality and the better understanding our institutions particularly that of slavery. He says he will go home and tell his people what pleasure he derived from this time. He spent one day and night in Waynesboro when all the village visited him except Mr. Douglass.William seems to be a bit mistrusting of politicians generally. In a postscript to his letter of 20 Feby. 1845: A Duel which took place on the morning of the 20th (yesterday) terminated in the death of one of the combatants. They were double Brothers-in-Law and citizens of So. Ca. They fought at a distance of ten paces with muskets. From report there is another hostile party making preliminaries now in the city. They are to fire at 10 feet distant with pistols. This party are men who have been in high confidence in State Offices. It does not speak well of their morals without which no man can be safely trusted or truly great.By late in 1845 John and his friend decided that they did not really like Princeton although specific reasons are not indicated. They seem to have decided on Yale. In December 1845 William advises his brother: After conversation with John T. Shoemaker who had just reached here I have reconsidered your proposition to leave Princeton and now give my consent that you do so if you wish; the only advice I can give you is that you make the best possible use of your time while in any college.. I hope you will get into as few quarrels with the abolitionists in and about New Haven as possible for you must know that this is the hotbed of abolitionism and constant subject for conversation even among the old maids of which that place abounds in confused numbers. And abolition isn't the only issue to be considered [6 Jan. 1846]: I cannot know myself how or why either of the institutions may be the better for your education and would have preferred your graduating at Princeton only because it is know[n] as a "Southern institution "[emph. added] and I had presumed that you were as pleasantly located there as at any place except home.There was also a family connection to the area and it appears that John was curious about the family history and that may have attracted him to New Haven. William writes [18 Jany. 1846]: I am unable to give you as yet any clue to any members of our family. As to our Fathers family I can only say that within the state of Connecticut there must still some reside and very probably many near New Haven. Our Father was I think a native of Fairfield and presume that there was none of his immediate progenitors (?) living at or about the time of his death. I know only of one Brother to him and he died in this place now many years since.. [Nathaniel Sturges Sr. died in Waynesboro 7 Nov. 1826] We have no relations in the north but upon the Father's side and our Mothers being now nearly extinct.. However a number of times William emphasizes that John's education is more dependent on his efforts than on the school he chooses [4 Jany. 1846]: I have no objections to the change [of schools] and leave it entirely to your own discretion to stop at either of the institutions. .There is I think little depending on the institution you may pursue your collegiate course in or at least much less than upon your own industry and pursuit after knowledge. [18 Jany. 1846] I cannot deem it necessary or even prudent to lay out any path for your future course through life.. I desire you if it suits you to study Law. He is for any education that can be obtained - for anyone. It appeared that John's friend John Shewmaker could no longer afford to live in the East and continue in college. [8 Nov. 1845] If I were John I would exact the sum sufficient from my guardian to take me [through the] course - It might infringe a little upon my estate but the "value recd." would doubly compensate for the expenditure so made.William makes another interesting recommendation to his brother. [18 Jany. 1846] I will propose one thing which in after I think you will not repent(?) of following and this is that you look about when you return home for a good wife with a comfortable little fortune not however for her fortune alone. Earlier he warned of marrying in haste. He notes that there are six weddings in the next few weeks and hopes those who "act in haste" may not have cause "to repent at leisure" [8 Nov. 1845]. He also relates the story of a friend Nancy W. who became engaged to a gentleman she knew only a short time [20 Octr. 1845]. Her guardian persuaded her to wait a bit to marry. Two days later the man was engaged to her sister according to William proving the adage "one of the name was as good as the same." William does however suggest the man would have made a good husband. He had been twice widowed and had 3 children including an infant of only three months probably explaining his "rush to the altar."Along with the "states' rights" issues of the Whig party abolition was rearing its head as William's comment about New Haven indicates: A rumour is at present being circulated from Burke that Saml. Russell has run off with some several Negroes the property of different person near Waynesboro. Sam has very mysteriously disappeared from Burke and since the Christmas Holiday the negroes have not been heard of and further proof of his guilt by the testimony of a gentleman returning from the ??? part of this state that he saw him on board of some Steam Boat bound westward. The supposition is that he has [illeg.] his course for Texas via New Orleans and steps have been taken to follow him. We can only hope that justice may reach the offenders of the Law so speedily as to be to others a good warning . A letter from his niece Abby indicates the general attitude of this family toward "the help." She went to Savannah for a visit and [11 Feb. 1846]: On my way home I stopped at Waynesboro for three or four hours. While there I went round to see Cousin Betsy Douglas whom I found quite well. .I saw all the servants they were all quite well and want to see you very much indeed. Whenever they see me the first question is when did you hear from Mas. John and how is he. You know they are all to be sold next month. Uncle William is going to try and buy them all in as he hates to have them separated. Old Aunt Beckey hated it very much she can scarcely speak of it without tears coming into her eyes. A letter from William a month or so later indicates that he did just that. [9 March 1846] I remained in the village [Waynesboro] until after the sale which resulted in my purchasing all the negroes except little Becky who Mr. Dowse bot [bought] for Abby & Mary Ann and her daughters who was bot by Sid Dowse as was previously agreed upon. The servants are all now well satisfied and hope not to be harassed by the fear of being sold again soon. For the present they will all remain in Waynesboro but I presume soon to find a good situation for Lizzy here. Eliza will remain with Dr. Mst. and Celia will remain as a kind of nurse to Old Aunt Becky. In nearly every letter the servants send their regards and William reports their health status as well as that of the family.Health was a major concern especially in Georgia summers. The end of May brought the end of the school term and the end of the social season especially as that segment of the population would generally leave for the worst of the summer. In May 1845 William wrote: I . commend your contemplated tour on foot. I cannot advise however to make the tour if you must expose yourself to the sun through the month of July. Having been shut up in coledge [sic] regulation for many months previous I should think you are but ill prepared to much exposure to the sun and the consequent fatigue of such an undertaking. . I would advise.a trip as a manner of recreating the mind and seeing something of the many places of renown of which our glorious land abounds. He notes there was a party for a newly married couple This party winds up the gayiety of the village at least for this season. Many of those who move from Burke left the same week for their summer residences and the village is now left with its usual number of "Summer inhabitants " and entirely rid of its young folks. .I am sorry to say that old Aunt Becky's health is fast declining though she yet continues to go about. The rest of our servants are all well. Apparently William followed other residents of Burke County and went to Madison Springs: I am at quite a delightfull place being one of the fashionable resorts for the gay and fashionable of this State & SoCa. I have been drinking freely of the medicinal water here and find from it a great benefit induced thus far. I feel my strength much recovered & can see a decided improvement in fullness of person. After a period he writes John again apologizing that he has not written sooner but he did not want to be thought unsociable. [8 Sept. 1845] I have recovered in a very considerable degree the strength that a debility of two summers had rid me of. I consider the water here efficacious & the air fine and bracing but the constant exercise the spirits are compelled to take in part with the company goes a greater ways in the restoration of many visitors than anything else. .I think I have come in for my share of the good benefits of very agreeable society and do offer up my thanks for the advantage enjoyed. Indicates (at end of the letter) that it has been a dry year: So far as I can learn the health of that part of Georgia considered sickly in summer is better than I've known and the people have nothing to complain of but the shortness of the crop. They will make a sufficiency of provisions and a ? crop of cotton. This will for those who are out of debt but those - and they are many - who presumed to pay old debts from the proceeds of this crop must be disappointed. In the counties of the state from this to the Tennessee line the crop of provisions promises to be so short that many have made arrangement to leave the country and seek some place where corn is plenty. There has been quite a flood of emigrants from Carolina to Tennessee in search of cheap provisions. I am glad to know that they will find it quite low there. Considerable distress must be experienced among the poor of some sections as they have neither provisions or the means to buy them. Yet we feel assured that there will be no starving as the sympathies of the more independent class will move them to the relief of the needy. Even into October he notes the relative health of the area during the summer but with the dry weather comes "insufferable heat."As winter came around however he recommended to John that he find a doctor up in New Haven: I would advise that you get a good Medical person to vaccinate you as the Small Pox seems to be traveling the "country all over" - and you are by necessity associated with persons from every part of the land. Of course smallpox vaccinations were used even by George Washington during the Revolutionary War and William understood exposure risk to the disease in those urban population centers. Less clear seems to be their understanding of other "tropical diseases." In 1848 [3 July] he writes to Johns that there is much sickness in Augusta. Germans were working on a canal living in filthy conditions and the doctor was reporting cases of yellow fever. We now know that neither "Germans" nor "filthy conditions" (per se) would have been responsible for this outbreak - but more likely the canal itself since this would have been an excellent breeding ground for the mosquitoes that carry this disease (although that knowledge did not come until construction of the Panama Canal though suspected somewhat earlier).Besides politics slavery and other moral issues late in John's college career William addresses the other "third rail." You must excuse me my dear Brother that I have never mentioned the subject of Religion when writing to you. . That I know a just part is for us to perform which upon this earth and that we will have to account for all the deeds done in the body to a just God is sufficient to warn me always to a proper course through life. He goes on to say that he has not joined a church because he finds many of the "code of laws governing them" impossible for mere mortals to follow and many of them are "petty and unnecessary." However a couple years earlier when niece Abby joined the Presbyterian church William commented [28 April 1845] I consider the garb of Religion gives peculiar beauty to the female (young particularly) character.Another view of the Southern social scene comes from Abby's letters. Abby married 20 May 1846 and several letters from William deal with John's preparations to return home for both the wedding and summer break. In the autumn Abby writes that she and her new husband left Bath shortly after John did (presumably to return to school) and they went to the seaboard then on to Mr. Jones' family home. Although worried about how she would be received by his family she was received warmly as a member of the family. She tells her cousin [30 Sept. 1846]: ...for nothing is more pleasant than to be beloved particularly in the circle in which we are to move and I sincerely trust that hereafter my actions will not be such as to forfeit the confidence and esteem of these kind friends.You can readily perceive my dear Uncle that my situation at first upon arriving at the home of my husband was peculiarly delicate and embarrassing. A few weeks had wrought a strange and sudden revolution in my existence. A young girl surrounded by her family circle engrossed with maidenly occupation and concerned only with the passing events of the home was transformed into the wife the home of her childhood forsaken and a new train of duties attendant upon this change opened to her view. This responsibility for a time was felt very acutely but the cordial reception of which I have spoken of before in a short time banished these feelings and I felt not only reconciled to but delighted with my future prospects. Every member of the family welcomed me to their midst and I already feel identified with them in every particular. Later she adds: I have been busily employed preparing for housekeeping which I hope to commence about the last of November. I look forward to the time with a great deal of pleasure and yet with fear to [sic] for I have so little experience in the mysteries of housekeeping. I dare say I will do many things that is wrong yet all had to learn by experience .I suppose that I will have to do the same. She then suggests that she will have William or someone pick up items for her that are cheaper in the North than at home another reality of Southern life even antebellum.John graduated from Yale in 1847 but seems to have remained in the north for a bit. There is one letter from William addressed to John in New Haven with a postal stamp for July 1848. William for his part married Georgia Ann Ward (1826 - 1905) on 10 Aug. By 1850 John had returned to Georgia where the 1850 census shows him as a 22-year-old schoolteacher living with William plus just over a dozen single men two couples and a widow with two daughters in the hotel/boarding house. John seems to have also been studying law in Augusta at the same time. In 1852 John became County Surveyor for Burke County and there are about 20 letters from the 1850s relating to this role. One of the early ones is to another surveyor asking what they charge for surveying etc. apparently trying to determine his rates in this new occupation. Another letter relates to measurements of the variation in magnetic deviation from true north. A few of the requests become rather insistent: I am getting in a hurry about that surveying and I wish you to come over tonight - so that you can make an early start as I wish you to do some surveying in different places.Most of the letters contain requests for surveys or documents from earlier surveys but one contains political opinions along with a request for paperwork on a property. Sam P. Davis [9 July 1852] suggests that political excitement is waning and only a 3rd candidate is likely to get people interested again. He notes that if the election is only between the present candidates he would vote for Pierce since "Pierce can show a clean hand on the n---er question [his underline]. This is more than can be said of Scott." The question of slavery was foremost in the minds of local "movers and shakers." Scott had come out as anti-slavery (a problem for southern voters) in spite of the Whig pro-slavery platform (a problem for northern voters). Daniel Webster rejected by his Whig party as their candidate ran as a Union Party (basically Southern Whigs) candidate and despite the fact that he died before the election still received several thousand Georgia votes!In 1860 John was still living in William's hotel/boarding house along with 15 men many of whom were also law students or lawyers and an older woman and her adult son. He never seems to have found his "good wife with a comfortable little fortune" suggested by brother William but he did seem to be building his own home. After the November election South Carolina seceded and several other states called their own conventions. Georgia's election of delegates to the convention that would determine her course occurred on the second day of the new year. These delegates then convened in Milledgeville on the 16th to begin debating the issue. By the 19th George Crawford convention president and former Whig governor declared Georgia officially seceded from the United States. Within two more weeks the infant Confederate States of America formed and two months later the offspring nation was at war with her northern parent. The last six letters are war da Condition: Variable as expected. Only one with insect/rodent damage extensive enough for loss of text.
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Breckinridge Family Archive Approx. 165 items including 130+ photographs cased images & portraits plus 35+ paper items and newspaper clippings.Since Kentucky was established as a state in 1792 the Breckenridge family has gained notoriety not only in Kentucky but also in national politics. To date the family has included six members of the U.S. House of Representatives two U.S. Senators a cabinet member two Ambassadors the Vice President of the United States under James Buchanan John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875) who was also an unsuccessful candidate for President in 1860. In addition to their political involvement members of the Breckinridge family have held many important positions serving as college presidents theologians ministers and high-ranking soldiers.One of the early founders of the family John Breckinridge (1760-1806) served as Attorney General of the United States under Thomas Jefferson. His son Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871) was a politician and Presbyterian minister who opposed slavery acting as one of the leaders of the Emancipation Party in 1849. He favored public education and was a passionate supporter of the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War. Robert who was married three times having 14 children in total had several sons including Joseph Cabell & Charles Henry who fought on the Union side during the Civil War with Joseph Cabell subsequently making a career for himself in the Army along with Robert Jefferson Jr. who fought for the Confederacy and later became a prominent politician in Kentucky.The archive features 5 portraits of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge including a cabinet photo from a painting by Matthew Jouett depicting Robert in his younger years. An additional cabinet photo of a Jouett painting of Elizabeth Breckinridge Meredith the daughter of Colonel Robert Breckinridge (1720-1773) is included and both have inked family notes on recto and verso. Two cdvs of Robert in his later years one in which he poses with a young boy (probably a son) a period copy of a family photo of Robert with his sons 4 x 6 in. and a 4.25 x 5.75 lithograph of Robert are also included. The group features several photographs of Robert's sons Joseph Cabell and Charles Henry Breckenridge both from his first marriage to Ann Sophonisba Preston.Charles Henry Breckinridge (1844-1867) the last child born to Robert's wife Ann Sophonisba before she passed enlisted in the Union Army in September of 1864 in Covington Kentucky as a Private mustering in to Company G of the U.S. Colored Troops 117th Infantry. The 117th was on duty at Camp Nelson Kentucky through October 1864 and was then ordered to Baltimore Maryland followed by City Point Virginia. It was involved in siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond until March 1865 and saw action in the Appomattox Campaign Hatcher's Run the fall of Petersburg and Appomattox Court House. The 117th was present for the surrender of Lee and his Army but then saw duty at Petersburg and City Point until June before moving to Brazos Santiago Texas in July and Brownsville and on the Rio Grande until August 1867 mustering out on August 10th. Charles died the same year. Portraits of Charles include:Quarter plate ambrotype of a young boy who appears to be Charles posed with the family dog; cdv while at West Point pencil id and date on verso July 14 1864; 3 cdvs with Lexington backmarks 2.25 x 2.5 in. albumen photo and 1.25 x 1.5 in. tintype of Charles in uniform with 2 in which he appears as a 2nd Lieutenant including penciled id and dates of August and September 1865 respectively; and a 2.25 x 2.75 in. portrait of Charles as 2nd Lieutenant painted on ivory housed in a velvet case with a plaque attached engraved Charlie.The majority of the photographs in this fine archive focus on Charles' older brother Joseph Cabell Breckenridge Sr. (1842-1920) and his family. Joseph joined the army in August 1861 and was appointed aide-de-camp to George H. Thomas serving with him at Mill Springs and Shiloh. He also served at Corinth and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 2nd US Artillery. After participating in the Atlanta Campaign Joseph was captured following the death of James B. McPherson but he was eventually exchanged and served out the remainder of the war as a mustering officer receiving brevet promotions to Captain in July 1864 and Major in March 1865.Following the Civil War Joseph continued to impress his superiors with his high standards winning a series of additional promotions including Brigadier General and Inspector General of the Army in January 1889. During the Spanish American War he was promoted to Major General of volunteers. Outside of the Army Joseph served as Vice-President General of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was married to Louise Ludlow Dudley of Lexington Kentucky in 1868. They had thirteen children together several of whom followed their father into military service. Sadly one of their sons Joseph Cabell Jr. (1872-1898) was among the first casualties of the Spanish American War. The archive includes the following portraits of Joseph Louise and their family:2 post-Civil War cabinet cards of Joseph in uniform one by Gutekunst the other by C.M. Bell; 2 photomechanical prints with one by Dupont; 7 silver gelatin photos of Joseph ca late 19th-early 20th century with 4 in which he poses in uniform also sitting atop his mount in one of the shots and the remaining 3 snapshots of Joseph with family ranging in size from 2.5 x 4 in. to 3.5 x 5 in. Also included are assorted paper items related to Joseph consisting of 12+ invitations to events primarily for the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution many accompanied by original envelopes with personal notes inked on covers along with a few booklets/menus from the gatherings. Plus a later copy of The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 & 1799 with Joseph's stamp on inside cover and a typed speech written for a May Day ceremony unsigned but probably written for Joseph.Also featured are three oval-length watercolor portraits painted on ivory and housed in full velvet-lined cases including Joseph in uniform 3 x 3.5 in. a woman who looks to be his wife Louise although unidentified 2.75 x 3.25 in. and a portrait of another unidentified woman possibly their eldest daughter Mary Dudley 4 x 5 in. signed and dated lower left by Margaret Foote Hawley 1921. With 20+ additional photos of Louise and the children some identified including two fine portraits from the same sitting of Louise in her older years posed with 9 of their children with Joseph Cabell Jr. who later passed away standing in the back row. Photos range in size from 4 x 5.75 in. to 6.5 x 9.5 in.2 cabinet photographs of Joseph Cabell Jr. dressed as a young cadet at the age of 16 plus an 1892 cdv-sized portrait of him in uniform round out this portion of the collection. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1895 Joseph Cabell Jr. served on the battleship Texas where he demonstrated remarkable coolness and ability in times of peril. However while serving aboard the USS Cushing he was washed overboard and drowned in Cuban waters. The USS Breckinridge was named after him.Assorted exterior and interior shots are also included in the archive with 4 interior shots capturing Joseph & Louise's family home showing numerous family portraits displayed on the mantel and piano ranging in size from 4.75 x 6.75 in. to 9 x 11.5 in. plus an interesting albumen of a relief depicting Joseph Louise and their first 10 children in profile by Mullen of Lexington. This relief image is also visible in one of the interior shots. Plus an early 20th century snapshot of "Grove Hill " one of many estates belonging to General James Breckinridge located in Virginia 3.25 x 3.5 in.The following photographs accompany the archive: Half plate ambrotype of unidentified stern looking parents posed with their children; CDV of Colonel Ambrose Dudley (1789-1875) a relative to Louise Dudley Breckinridge who served in the War of 1812 as paymaster of Trotter's Regiment KY Mounted Volunteers; a Dudley family cdv of a bearded gentleman; an Anthony cdv of unidentified Civil War officer; 2 cdvs of a young man identified as Winfield S. Jones from San Francisco; cdv of young man identified as Will McFarland with a Lexington backmark; 40+ assorted cdvs tintypes cabinet cards and snapshots of men women and children unidentified but presumably Breckinridge family and/or friends; a curious shot of an African American woman probably taken during a trip to Sicily as per verso notes; and 30+ real photo postcards and snapshots some with inked verso notes including vacation and farm scenes.
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William Dugdale/ Roger Dodsworth, Monasticon Anglicanum, formerly the property of Richard Towneley, Scientist and Astronomer, First edition in Latin (3 Vols) Volume 1 was published in 1655, Volume 2 in 1659 and Volume 3 in 1673. Whilst volumes one and two are often found together it is much rarer for the third volume to be found with them because many copies of this volume were destroyed in a fire at the printers. HISTORICAL NOTE; Christopher Towneley (1604-74) and his nephew Richard Towneley (1629-1707) were members of a Catholic gentry family from Towneley in Lancashire. Christopher Towneley is known as an antiquary but also had an interest in scientific research, particularly astronomy. He befriended a number of the northern astronomers, Jeremiah Horrocks, William Crabtree, William Gascoigne and John Stephenson, and collected their papers. His nephew, Richard Towneley, working with other local collaborators, conducted experiments into the relationship between air pressure and volume which became known as Boyle's Law. He also perfected the micrometer and was a pioneer of meteorology. All three books are signed with ownership details by Richard and Christopher Towneley and have Richard Towneley book-plates dated 1702. There is also a signed inscription pasted in to the front of Vol 3 as follows; "The three vols in Folios of Dugdales Monasticon Anglicanum are the property of Mr Townley of Townley of Lancashireand are to be sent to him with care in case of my death, J Clayton, Breadsal December 22nd 1773" confirming that the books had remained within the family for 100 years. PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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[Wordsworth, William, Mary and Dora] - Fenwick, Isabella - A collection of manuscript material comprising:1) Wordsworth, William "The Pine Tree upon Monte Mario", Autograph Manuscript Poem, signed; 15 lines including title, with at foot: "Rydal Mount, St. Peter's day (June 29th), 1843. Transcribed for my beloved friend Isabella Fenwick, Wm. Wordsworth", one sheet, 23 x 19cm., few small creases, light spot or rust-mark at centre fold 2) Dora Quillinan [neé Wordsworth] A.L.S. to Isabella Fenwick "My beloved Miss Fenwick", a poignant letter, written two months before Dora's death in July 1847, "I must with my own hand send you one line of loving "farewell" & express the deep gratitude of my peaceful heart to you for the tender affection you have showered upon me... I know that you will not cease to pray for me & my beloved parents & my broken hearted husband..., 2pp., 24 May 1847 3) Wordsworth, Mary A.L.S. to Isabella Fenwick "Poor Mr W! his heart sinks at the thought of so long an absence were he to visit the continent without coming to see us - & indeed Rome being the long wished for object of his desire.... he adds to this in his last letter: 'Dora get well & go with me & perhaps dear Miss Fenwick may be well enough to be of the party. She, I rejoice to say, is almost well...", referring to Dora's illness, "Our dear little friend Kate Southey left us on Sunday, with the the intention to return to accompany Dora on a short journey - by the Lake - & along sands towards the sea coast..... How glad I should have been my dear Miss F. had it been in Mr Wordsworth's scheme of pleasure to have visited you at your own home.... Dora & her friend Kate, who are both too much addicted to almost a diseased home-clinging agreed that there was no person whom they could with so much pleasure go to visit as dear Miss Fenwick & if I may add, for myself, that I was not slow to be in sympathy with them", 8 pp., on two sheets, June 27th, [1836] 4) Wordsworth, Mary A.L.S. to Isabella Piotrowski (neé Fenwick), 8pp. (2 sheets folded), referring to Isabella Fenwick and Fanny Wordsworth's health, having "my dear sister & her two daughters settled in Grasmere", the Quillinans "in their usual happy way", referring to strangers "the Derwent Coleridges & their sister Edith" 5) Manuscript of Wordsworth's poem dedicated to Isabella Fenwick, in an unknown hand: "The Star which comes at close of Day to shine", headed at the top to the dedicatee "I[sabella] F[enwick].", at foot: "Rydal Mount, Feb. 1840. Bright is the star which comes at even to shine More heavenly bright than when it leads the morn, And such is friendship, whether the forlorn" 19 lines including dedicatory initials, one leaf, 23 x 18cm., slight loss to lower margin, small hole to upper margin not affecting ms. 6) Autograph of Wordsworth's poem, in an unknown hand: [On a Portrait of I[sabella] F[enwick], painted by Margaret Gillies] "We gaze - nor grieve to think that we must die and part But that the precious love this Friend hath sown Within our hearts - the love whose flower hath blown Bright as if Heaven were ever in its eye"... Rydal Mount, New Year's Day, 1840, William Wordsworth, dictated to Isabella Fenwick" 16 lines in total, one leaf 7) Southey, Katharine A.L.S. to Isabella Fenwick, thanking her for the pretty dresses [which] "will certainly be favourites with Papa as he likes to see us gaily attired and often tells us that it is a part of our duty to wear bright dresses, referring to Dora, Fenwick's gift of Abbott's "Young Christian" and his "Corner Stone which Papa brought with him", reminiscensing about her stay, referring to Papa "looking Better... & I need not say working hard", "The acceptable addition to his income for which we are all indebted to Mr Taylor & Sir R. Peel's kindness has made him happy in one way, for it enables him to look forward to writing his History of Portugal & other things which he has so long been desirous, tho' unable to do", saying of Bertha and her "we try to be content and submissive to our Heavenly Father's will, so beautiful an example as we have daily before us in Papa" who "always recommends us to look to the bright side of thing", 3pp, Keswick, 5 May 1835 8) Fenwick, Isabella 3 Autograph Letters Signed, to her niece Isabella Piotrowski (neé Fenwick). First Letter: Keswick, 4 April 1843, referring to Wordsworth, the death of Southey "dear Kate says "I never thought of my father as dearer than other men, I only thought he was better", and referring to Wordsworth being offered the Laureatship "Mr Wordsworth has been offered the Laureatship but has declined the honour - it was he said too late in life to undertake any new duty - for he could not view it exactly as a sinecure", saying she "wished I could send you a little Poem Mr W- has been writing on the subject of Grace Darling, the Northumbrian Heroine", with a postscript stating that "The old Poet is to be the Laureate. The Queen would not accept his refusal", 2 leaves, postmark excised with loss of a couple of words; 2nd Letter: Ambleside, March 1, 1845, recounting her visits including with the Wordsworths to William Whewell (1794-1866) at Cambridge, 4 pages, (1/4 of 2nd page torn away). 3rd Letter: The Gale, Ambleside, 6 May 1840, about moving into The Gale, 2pp. 9) Manuscript copy of William Wordsworth's poem "We are Seven", in an unidentified hand, 17 verses on 1 sheet, verso and recto, 19 x 30cm., now split along fold in two, small portion of verse 4 and 8 torn away affecting a few words, two small splits where once folded affecting a few letters, one small hole affecting one word 10) Manuscript copy of William Wordsworth's poem "Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A true story", in an unidentified hand, on two sheets, originally 19 x 32 cm., now split in four sheets, 129 lines including title at head of page 1, a few small holes where previously folded 11) Fenwick, Hannah (b. c.1782; sister of Isabella Fenwick). Autograph diary 1799-1800, Autograph Journal, partly disbound, partly in wrappers, c. 250pp.; manuscript verse, copies of contemporary poetry, including "A Portrait" (published in Edinburgh Annual Register for 1810, under title "A Character", p.ci-cii); 2 autograph letters from Henry Taylor to Isabella Piotrowski (neé Fenwick), 1856; 9 A.L.S. from Louise Fenwick, in French, to her sister Isabella Piotrowski [neé Fenwick], c.1840, most c/o their Aunt at Gale House, Ambleside; 6 A.L.S. from Aunt Sophia to Isabella Piotrowski, & 1 to Mina, 1868-69; A.L.S. from Louisa Elrington [neé Fenwick] to her brother Robert Orde Fenwick, 1 sheet, folded. Ambleside, 12 Dec. 1845 referring to "Mrs Quillinan restored to health by the climate of Portugal"; A.L.S. from Lady Cranworth to Isabella Piotrowski commenting on Isabella Fenwick's failing health, [c.1870]; Autograph letters from Louise Elrington [neé Fenwick] to her sister Belle [Isabella Piotrowska (neé Fenwick)], 1860's; Autograph letters from Julia Elrington to her cousin Mina, 1879-70; 12) Carte-de-visites including those of R. Fenwick Piotrowski, Phoebe & Creswell Desmond, Isabella Piotrowski, Jemima Quillinan "Mima" and Rotha Quillinan 13) Autograph Poem, in an unidentified hand, "To a Squirrel on a tree behind Mr Wordsworth's House, June 18 1845", 14 lines, also inscribed "John Morley, Salutation Inn, from Egerton, nr Bolton le Moors, Lancashire", 10 x 6cms.; another early copy of this poem in another hand, with the same date 14) Autograph Poem, in an unidentified hand, of Wordsworth's Poem "Sacred to the Memory of Robert Southey", commencing "Ye Torrents, foaming down the rocky steeps", 10 lines, undated, 18 x 11cm. 15) Commonplace Book, c. 148pp., inscribed "D. Robertson, the extracts were made by the late Mrs Fenwick of Lemmington", verses, extracts, religious reflections, prayers, hymns, &c., c.1800; A Lament by Robert Orde Fenwick, Song by Miss Hannah Fenwick, poem "To Fancy, address'd to her sister Isabella by Miss [Hannah] Fenwick, Lemmington, 1801, and other verses, contemporary calf, rubbed, cover detached 16) Manuscript poem by person unknown, headed "Wordsworth 1832" "Bard, who in simplest matter dost explore The beauty which in all things hidden lies, Loving to penetrate the secret store, In common for, of unseen harmonies"... 12 lines, Wadham College, Oxford, one page, within envelope addressed to Miss Fenwick, R. Thorp Esq., Bailiff Gate, with note written on inside envelope "One of the enclosed is for a memorandum of the man's own making on our delightful visit... I am sure Henry will be vexed in he has not your own account so he has mine alone" 17) Silhouette of William Wordsworth, inscribed in pencil "Silhouette of Wordsworth found among the old letters from Rydal Mount his home", sheet 20 x 12cm., torn without loss 18) 14 photographs of female members of the Thorp and Fenwick families, c.1890-1900 19) Fenwick, Robert Orde. The Goblin Groom, at Tale of Dunse. Edinburgh, 1809. 4to., inscribed "To Isabella Piotrowski from her affec. mother & sister in remembrance of the author, Dec. 29th 1852", pencil drawing of Lemmington Hall, Northumberland pasted in before half-title, contemporary calf, worn 20) Miniatures of Nicholas Fenwick; Mrs N. Fenwick (neé Dorothy Foster); Louisa Elrington (née Fenwick), daughter of Robert Orde Fenwick; Mrs Peareth, sister to Nicholas Fenwick; Dolly Robinson (two portraits); Lady Ventry, sister of Robert Fenwick's wife 21) Piotrowski, Isabella (neé Fenwick) Journal in French and English of her travels to Ireland and Britain, 17th June 1839- Dec. 1840, including period of her visit to her Aunt, Isabella Fenwick, at Ambleside (commencing 30 May 1840), numerous references to the Wordsworths, Edward Quilinnan's reading of his story The Moor of Andalucia, the visit of the Queen Dowager (spouse of William IV) to Wordsworth, Bible readings, sermons, visit to the Halsteads with Wordsworth 5 Oct. 1840, "Afterwards my Aunt read me one or two of Wordsworth's poems...", "W. was very funny yesterday. When Dora told him I was coming, when going to fetch me; "What Isabella again!" he exclaimed. It appears he did not know Aunt was out. He then said had he known it he would have come to keep me company. He was sure Aunt would have let him in. Returned after tea with darling old Poet..." (27 June 1840). &c., two 4to. notebooks, c. 54 + 88pp., marbled wrappers, worn, one with wrappers detached; and 12mo, 88 pages, contemporary calf 22) Taylor, Henry St Clement's Eve. 1862, inscribed "E.I. Thorp, from her affect. ?son, 1862", original cloth; [Idem] Notes from Books. London, 1849. 8vo, inscribed "E.I. Thorp from my dear husband 1851", original cloth; [Idem] Philip van Artevelde, a Dramatic Romance. London, 1834. 2 volumes, 12mo, inscribed "E. Tudor, July 1834, Bagbro' House", half calf 23) Manuscript copy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Good Great Man" [1st published in The Morning Post, 23/9/1802], one leaf, in an unidentified hand Estimate £ 15,000-25,000 Note: Henry Taylor (1800-1886), English dramatist and poet, official, and well-connected man of letters, met William Wordsworth and Robert Southey on a visit to the Lake District in 1823. Jane Taylor had a first cousin Isabella Fenwick (1783–1856), and it was Henry Taylor who introduced Isabella to the Wordsworth family. Isabella was the daughter of Nicholas Fenwick, of Lemmington Hall, Edlingham, near Alnwick in Northumberland, and his wife Dorothy Forster, who was the first cousin of Henry Taylor's step-mother. Taylor's tribute to his cousin's mind and character and his account of her relations with the Wordsworths are found in his Autobiography of Henry Taylor, (2 vols; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885). "Isabella Fenwick first signed the visitor's book at Rydal Mount in June 1831 though she probably met the poet first a year or two earlier. She spent months at a time as a guest of the Wordsworths before moving to Ambleside in 1838 to be close to her friends at Rydal Mount. In August 1838 she wrote to her cousin Henry Taylor that Wordsworth often visited her cottage, Gale House, at Ambleside, as a "refuge" from the crush of up to 30 visitors a day at Rydal Mount and for a month he and Mary Wordsworth were her guests there in February 1839. They conversed for hours at a time but Wordsworth also recited or read aloud to her portions of The Prelude, which he was then revising.... Isabella Fenwick often walked with Wordsworth among the nearby valleys and fells surrounding Lakes Windemere, Rydal Water and Grasmere, places that held so many associations with his poetic life. This woman of intelligence, imagination and strong affections in some sense filled the gap left by Wordsworth's sister Dorothy in her debilitating illness, and his letters to her in her absence from Ambleside and Rydal Mount vividly attest to his deep affection for her. Trusted and loved as much by Mary and Dora as by Wordsworth himself, she was the mediating force which made possible Dora's marriage to Edward Quillinan in April 1841.... Later, when work proceeded with the publication of Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years, Isabella Fenwick undertook to copy large portions of the text for the printer. A few months later, probably late in 1842, Wordsworth accepted her offer to take dictation of his notes to the poems, and they commenced work in January 1843. They completed their work six months later at Rydal Mount June 24th 1843. Among those outside the family, and many within it, there was no one better qualified for such a task, no one so in tune with its aim and spirit." (Jared Curtis, The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth.) Dora and Edward Quillinan copied Isabella's notes into a leather bound folio notebook for use by family and friends, completing this task on 25th August 1843. None of Isabella Fenwick's original transcription of the dictated notes survives. "Two recent tours with family and friends provided impetus for his composing the ["Fenwick"] notes at this time. The first was in the summer of 1840 when Wordsworth, his wife Mary, their daughter Dora, Isabella Fenwick and her niece [also Isabella Fenwick (later Piotrowski)], and Edward Quillinan and his elder daughter Jemima, travelled through the Duddon valley, visiting scenes Wordworth had known from his days at Hawkshead School and written of in The Prelude, The Excursion, The River Duddon, and in a number of descriptive poems centred on Black Combe... The second tour included his visits to Tintern Abbey in the Wye valley, and to Alfoxden and the Quantocks just before and after his daughter Dora's marriage to Edward Quillinan in the spring of 1841... Of this second leg Isabella Fenwick wrote to Henry Taylor of their visit to Wells, Alfoxden, &c.: "He was delighted to see again those scenes... where he had been so happy - where he had felt and thought so much. He pointed out the spots where he had written many of his early poems, and told us how they had been suggested" (Jared Curtis, The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth, p.12-13). Curtis notes that "without the presence and encouragement of Isabella Fenwick, however, it is unlikely that the notes would have been composed at all." Footnotes: 2) Dorothy "Dora" Wordsworth, the only surviving daughter of the romantic poet William Wordsworth, immortalised in Wordsworth's poem, The Triad. Dora was devoted to her father and had a significant influence on his poetry. Their relationship was especially close. In 1843, with Isabella playing a crucial intermediary role, Dora married Edward Quillinan aged 39 against her father's strong opposition, and in 1847 died of tuberculosis. After her death, her father, distraught, planted hundreds of daffodils in her memory in a field beside St Mary's Church, Rydal, now owned by the National Trust. 3) A long news-filled letter from Mary Wordsworth, wife of the poet, to Isabella Fenwick, who seems to be the godmother of one of Mary and William's children, disusssing Mr Wordsworth's plans, Kate Southey, the health of her daughter Dora Quilllinan [neé Wordsworth] and the ecclesiastical appointments of her son William. 5) Wordsworth's close friend, Isabella Fenwick, to whom he dictated what are now known as the "Fenwick Notes" is immortalised in two poems by the poet, The Star which comes at close of Day to shine, and On a Portrait of I.F., painted by Margaret Gillies 9) We are Seven was first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798. This version differs from the published version in having "handkerchief" for "'kerchief" in verse 11. 10) Goody Blake and Harry Gill was first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798. This version differs from the published version in several instances; for example, in the third verse of the present manuscript the line reads "Ill fed was she, and thinly clad", and the published version read "Ill fed she was." Isabella Fenwick's notes in the published edition: "Written at Alfoxden, 1798. The incident from Dr. Darwin's Zoonomia. Thomas Thorp, 1797-1877, was educated at Trinity College, where he was elected a scholar in 1817, and a Fellow in 1820. " He held a number of College offices, including a tutorship and the vice-mastership (1843-4). Thorp is closely associated the Cambridge Camden Society, of which he was president for twenty years. The Society derived considerable support from William Whewell, Master of Trinity, [whom Wordsworth visited with Isabella Piotrowski [neé Fenwick] in 1845]. Thorp was strongly influenced by Romanticism and Wordsworth's appropriation of whatever was 'pure and imaginative, whatever was not merely utilitarian, to the service of both Church and State."... Influenced by the Oxford Movement, he once said that Wordsworth might be considered among the founders of the Society" [https://trinitycollegechapel.com/about/memorials/brasses/thorp/ ] The archive also contains some typed transcripts of autograph letters which are no longer present in the archive. A substantial, fascinating and hitherto undocumented archive relating to an intimate friend of one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Provenance: By descent from Dorothy Tudor [née Fenwick], sister of Isabella Fenwick (1780-1856) - Elizabeth Tudor (married Thomas Thorp) - W.T. Thorp - R.W.T. Thorp - R.J.F. Thorp - S.A.R. Thorp. Sold for £42,500 (buyer's premium included)
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ROBERT PRENZEL (1866-1941) A RARE CARVED LONG CASE CLOCK CIRCA 1910 REPUTEDLY PART OF THE ORIGINAL FURNISHINGS OF GLENORMISTON WESTERN DISTRICT VICTORIA THE MOVEMENT STAMPED F. ZIEGELER MELBOURNE Decorated in the Arts and Crafts style with a beaten and embossed brass Roman numeral dial engraved pewter hands and a weight driven eight day quarter striking movement on two bells hour striking on one bell the hood boldly carved with gryphons to each corner within foliate surrounds extending to either side on a stippled ground centred by the relief carved motto 'Time / and Tide / Wait for / No / Man ' above a frieze carved with five individual moon caricatures the casement door inset with a panel depicting a gryphon in elongated form applied with a beaten metal escutcheon and strapwork the lower section with a carved panel depicting a gothic mask head stamped 'ROBT PRENZEL / CITY ROAD / SOUTH MELBOURNE / EUROPEAN LABOUR ONLY' to the interior and to the top of the hood raised on a plinth base 240cm high. Provenance: by repute the Black family Glenormiston homestead Western District Victoria Circa 1942 to present - by descent the Roberts family Victoria History: According to Roberts family history the long case clock presented here with a case carved by the renowned Melbourne wood carver Robert Prenzel was purchased by the current owner's father Mr Harold Roberts from the sale of furniture from Glenormiston homestead in Victoria's Western District circa 1942. At the time the Roberts family were living in the previous caretaker's residence on the Glenormiston estate and Mr Roberts was working as manager of Trufood Australia a company in which the Black family of Glenormiston held an interest. Steuart and Isabella Black were among Prenzel's greatest patrons. From 1905 to 1910 they commissioned Prenzel to design and construct numerous pieces of furniture and architectural ornamentation including a comprehensive bedroom suite newel posts and panels for the staircase of Glenormiston. Heavily carved with both European and Australian floral and faunal motifs these works are today considered to be icons of Prenzel's oeuvre. The long case clock is heavily influenced by both the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th/early 20th century combined with Gothic Renaissance motifs which are most often found in Prenzel's works dating from the late 19th century up to 1910. The maker's stamp on the clock lists Prenzel's address at that time as City Road South Melbourne a site which he occupied from 1904 to 1909 which helps to substantiate the dating of the clock's manufacture to circa 1910. The clock has been in the Roberts family since its purchase circa 1942 initially passing to the vendor's youngest brother by inheritance then to the vendor following his brother's passing. The clock's movement was extensively serviced over a three month period in 1992 with worn and missing parts repaired and replaced but the case is largely untouched the only blemish being a burn mark to the back lower left hand edge. The work of Melbourne clockmakers Johann (Fritz) Frederick Wilhelm Ziegeler (1855-1936) and his son Johann Frederick Wilhelm Jnr. forms an integral part of many of the iconic public buildings constructed in Australia in the late 19th century until 1928. Specialising in the manufacture of tower clocks they were responsible for the making clock movements for buildings including Flinders Street Station and Royal Arcade in Melbourne as well as numerous post office buildings throughout Australia. The movement for the clock presented here was manufactured in Melbourne by the Ziegeler firm although it is uncertain as to whether it was made by father or son. Reference: Hose Ken and Judy Ziegeler: Melbourne's Clockmaker Melbourne 2008.
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Thomas Archer, Pictures and Royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish History ( Illustrations of English & Scottish History ), Publ 1884, Blackie and Sons London. Full red morocco bindings with bevelled boards, extensive gilt tooling and blind stamping of various English and Scottish heraldic crests on front and back boards. The spine has raised bands. Marbelled end-papers. PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![John Robert Mortimer, Forty years Researches](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MjQ=&size=med2&)
John Robert Mortimer, Forty years Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire With presentation inscription to "G Bohn CE with kind regards of J R Mortimer" PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![John Britton, Picturesque Antiquities](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MjU=&size=med2&)
John Britton, Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities. Illustrated by a Series of Engravings of Ancient Buildings, Street Scenery etc. with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each Subject. PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Thomas Robson, The British Herald, or](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MjY=&size=med2&)
Thomas Robson, The British Herald, or cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, from the earliest to the present time; with a complete glossary of heraldic terms, to which is prefixed a history of heraldry, collected and arranged in three volumes. First Edition 1830. All three leather bound volumes stamped "Ulster King of Arms" PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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Twenty four various books including Charles Kingsley, The Water-babies, ill H G Theaker PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![The Cecil Aldin Book, Eyre and Spottiswood](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1Mjk=&size=med2&)
The Cecil Aldin Book, Eyre and Spottiswood 1932 and Cecil Aldin, Dogs of Character, 1930 PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![A Collection of Ornamental Designs Applicable](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzA=&size=med2&)
A Collection of Ornamental Designs Applicable to Furniture, Frames and the Decoration of Rooms in the Style of Louis 14th on 24 Plates Chiefly After Thos Chippendale (All plates present) PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![T Faulkner, Designs for mural monuments](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzE=&size=med2&)
T Faulkner, Designs for mural monuments and Geo. Maliphant, Designs and for Sepulchral Monuments PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, second edition](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzI=&size=med2&)
A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, second edition publ. Methuen 1926 PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![T S Eliot, seven vols. including first](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzM=&size=med2&)
T S Eliot, seven vols. including first editions of The elder statesman and The confidential clerk all with dust jackets PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Izaak Walton, The complete angler, 1853](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzQ=&size=med2&)
Izaak Walton, The complete angler, 1853 PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Hawkins, silver coins of England 1876](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzU=&size=med2&)
Hawkins, silver coins of England 1876 and William Redman, Handbook of information on money currency and precious metals PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography,](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1MzY=&size=med2&)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 2 vols. 1868-9 and Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1850 3 Vols PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Imperial Dictionary English Technological](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1Mzc=&size=med2&)
Imperial Dictionary English Technological and Scientific, edited John Ogilvie 1850 Two vols and supplement PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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Six matching green leather bound volumes 1865-1870 PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![J H Ewing, Snap Dragons; Harold Gaze,](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1Mzk=&size=med2&)
J H Ewing, Snap Dragons; Harold Gaze, The merry piper and ten other childrens books PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Jules Verne twenty two volumes with](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1NDA=&size=med2&)
Jules Verne twenty two volumes with decorative covers, printed Sampson Low PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Walter Scott, Waverly novels, 25 vols](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1NDE=&size=med2&)
Walter Scott, Waverly novels, 25 vols publ Adam and Charles Black 1854 PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![The story of nations, 8 vols. Ireland,](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1NDI=&size=med2&)
The story of nations, 8 vols. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Parthia, Chaldea, Germany, Early Britain and Assyria PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![W J Gordon, Our Countrys series, Shells,](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1NDM=&size=med2&)
W J Gordon, Our Country's series, Shells, Animals, Eggs of British Birds, Fishes, Birds, and Flowers (two copies) 7 Vols PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Twenty five 19th century and early 20th](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1NDQ=&size=med2&)
Twenty five 19th century and early 20th century bindings PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
![Joseph Allen, Battles of the British](/content/serve_image.php?id=dWNvb2tpZT1jMDY3NTQwZWIyNSw2MTE1NDU=&size=med2&)
Joseph Allen, Battles of the British Navy and twelve other volumes of naval and military interest PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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Robert William Billings, Illustrations of the Temple Church, Publ Boone 1838, one vol PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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William Boyne, Tokens issued in the seventeenth century, 1858 and Herbert Grueber Roman medallions in the British Museum PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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John Evans, The ancient bronze implements weapons and ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland and ten other various volumes PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton 'Vathek' Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn's abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor's hands and many treasures were picked up this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
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ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (AMERICAN/BRITISH 1738-1815) PORTRAIT OF MAJOR PATRICK CAMPBELL Oil on canvas 76cm x 63.5cm (30in x 25in) Estimate £ 20,000-30,000 Provenance: Burwood House sale, Esher, October 1927 The Georgian Galleries, London The Walkinshaw family of Edinburgh Sold Dowells auction house, Edinburgh, July 1937, Lot 129 Doig, Watson and Wheatley, Edinburgh Collection of Colonel RM Guild, Edinburgh, August 1937. Note: We are indebted to the research of a number of authorities, including J Craig Nannos (Col. Retd), Professor Gregory Urwin of Temple University, Philadelphia, JA Houlding, Ed Brumby, René Chartrand and Ian McCulloch. Potential confirmation of the identity of the sitter is born out by a similar painting of a British Officer, with the same face, also said to be a portrait of Major Patrick Campbell, now in the de Young Collection, San Francisco, (the San Francisco painting, 85 1/8in x 60 1/4in) which was previously attributed to Copley, before losing that attribution in 1972 when the renowned Copley scholar Jules Prown concluded it differed from Copley's style "in its muted and soft coloration, the gentle treatment of the background and the absence of the strong value contrasts." This of course, is entirely true when considering Copley's career as a portraitist in America. His later, London paintings though are very different. So the question of the date and the place at which the work was executed becomes crucial and it is necessary to look at the history of the sitter, along with the provenance of both paintings. The San Francisco painting of Major Campbell was put up for sale in 1927 and purchased by The Georgian Galleries of King Street London, from a sale at Burwood House, Surrey. As much is stated in an advertisement in the Connoisseur magazine for October 1927 (illustrated below). It also states that the view is of Barcaldine Castle, Campbell's ancestral home. Burwood was purchased in 1927 by the 1st Lord Iveagh (Cecil Guinness), who died that same year. It is also clear from the advert that by this time the painting had been sent by the Georgian Galleries to New York for sale, presumably on account of it being thought to be by Copley. Bought as such by the collector Warner S McCall of St Louis, it was sold by the John Levy Gallery of New York to Mr and Mrs Edmond Herrscher and presented by them to the de Young in August 1933. The Sitter Patrick Campbell of Barcaldine, the supposed sitter in both portraits, was the third son of Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine and Glenure. It would appear that Patrick's father, Duncan, fell out with three of his other sons, all of whom who joined the military and died while in service. Patrick Campbell obtained a lieutenant's commission in the 103rd Regiment of Foot toward the end of the Seven Years' War in 1762, aged around seventeen. The regiment was sent to Belle-Îsle, off the coast of Brittany. In 1763, at the end of the Seven Years War, aged 18, Campbell became a compulsory 'reduced' half-pay lieutenant, but was keen to re-join the regular army. His uncle, the wealthy Scottish businessman Robert Campbell, based in London, suggested that the boy might be found another commission -but his father Duncan thought otherwise; it was too expensive. Instead, Patrick was called back to the Highlands and operated a cattle-droving partnership. His ambition, however, was to return to the army. Eight years later, in November 1775, he got his wish when, aged around 28, raising a Highland 'levy' of infantrymen, he purchased a commission in Colonel Simon Fraser's newly formed 71st Highland Regiment, with the rank of captain. It seems possible that the San Francisco picture was painted for Patrick Campbell to mark his being commissioned into the army in 1775. Paid for perhaps by his wealthy uncle Robert, who had backed the idea all along. The view of Barcaldine Castle of course looks nothing like the castle today. Abandoned in 1735 it fell into ruins (being bought back by the Campbells in 1896 and rebuilt). The landscape though does seem to marry up with that around Barcaldine and has a look of the west Highlands. It also has something of the Roman Campagna and this too would work with ascribing it to Copley in 1775, when the influence of Italy was fresh in his mind. Having purchased his commission, Patrick would have had almost six months in London before the regiment sailed in April 1776 and it is possible that during this time that his portrait now in San Francisco was painted. The fact that the portrait would have been painted in London and not in America, would explain its style. Copley's style changed completely in London where he arrived in 1774 before setting off for the continent, where he remained until September 1775. On his return, according to the scholar of Copley's English style, Emily Ballew Neff, he aligned himself with the Reynolds camp. He would thus have been working in London at his new studio in George Street from October 1775, at precisely the same moment that Patrick Campbell was there as a newly commissioned officer. We know that Copley was looking at the work of Reynolds at this time. There is also no doubt that the painting now on offer is by an artist who has absorbed the teachings of Reynolds. Such an opinion has recently been expressed by Professor David Mannings of Aberdeen University, a world authority on Reynolds, who also offered the opinion that the painting might easily be the work of Copley. For relevant comparisons of light, shade and handling see Copley's 'Mrs Seymour Fort' of c1778 in Connecticut and 'Clark Gayton, Admiral of the White of 1779' in NMM Greenwich. The 1777 painting of 'The Copley Family also bears comparison.' Major Campbell's pose is a cross between the Apollo Belvedere and the statue of Octavian in Rome in the adlocutio pose adopted by commanders when addressing their troops. Having just been in Rome, Copley would have been acutely aware of such antique sculpture. So how do we happen to have two paintings of Major Campbell? The answer surely lies in Campbell's own story. In April 1776 Fraser's Highlanders, now the 71st foot, mustered at Glasgow and arrived in August 1776 at New York. Doubts have been raised as what appear to be dark blue, dark green, or even black facings on the officer's coat in both paintings, as the facing colour of the 71st was white. We do know though that, although he does not wear the short Highland regimental version of the red coat, the man depicted is an officer in a Highland regiment as he wears his sash on his left shoulder. Only Highland officers were granted this privilege, other officers wearing their sashes around the waist. Thus, the sitter is a conundrum. It is possible though that from November to April 1775-1776, when the San Francisco portrait was painted, the facing colours of Fraser's 71st had not yet been decided upon. What uniform then would Copley have painted his sitter in other than his old coat from his previous regiment, the 103rd? Although the uniform of the 103rd has yet to be visually documented, the leading expert René Chartrand has proposed that its regimental facing colour might have been a dark green, which fits with both of the portraits. It is also not without significance that the coat in both portraits is firmly of the early 1768 pattern and indeed that the gorget is also larger than those worn during the Revolutionary War. Patrick Campbell of Barcaldine commanded the Grenadier company of the 71st which formed part of a composite Highland grenadier battalion. During its brief existence this 4th British Grenadier Battalion was active in the New York area. Campbell's first action would have been the landing on Long Island. The Grenadiers also landed on Manhattan and supported the Light Infantry and 42nd Highlanders in the Battle of Harlem Heights. Might not the smaller, Scottish portrait celebrate Campbell's involvement in the assaults of the New York campaign? It shows a howitzer (French or American) and in the background what appears to be a siege gun, but the landscape is not specific. This second portrait might have been commissioned at the smaller scale to be transported by sea, the larger San Francisco painting remaining in London. It might also be the case that the face in the smaller picture would have been modelled on that in the first as well as preliminary studies made from the original sitting in 1775. This would also explain the use of the dark facings in the second portrait as these would have been in Copley's original notes for his first painting (the San Francisco portrait). Interestingly, the uniform coat is exactly the same in the two paintings with the epaulette hanging down on the left shoulder. Indeed in the Scottish painting, it is clear from a pentimento, that the artist has moved the original position of the fusil in order to reveal the epaulette more fully. We know that Copley painted a posthumous portrait of the mother in a group portrait of 'The Pepperell Family of 1778', using sketches he had made while she was still alive. David Mannings has also pointed out that it was Reynolds's practice to paint smaller portraits which could be transported on board ship. There appears to be one other portrait by Copley with exactly the same dimensions as the Scottish portrait, in which the sitter is depicted full length. This is the portrait of 'John Wombwell' sold at Sotheby's New York in 2009. Wombwell was a merchant in Spain in the 1770s and it seems likely that his portrait might have been painted by Copley for export, around 1775. If Campbell's portrait had a similar purpose, however, it never reached him, for by 1782 he was dead. On October 26, 1779, through the sale of his farming interest in the Scottish Highlands, Campbell had put up £1,100 to purchase his promotion to Major. He then sailed south to participate in the British capture of Georgia, but ill health caused him to return north. He eventually found quarters in the house of Thomas Pearsall, a wealthy Quaker in New York and while there fell in love with Pearsall's daughter Sarah. Despite her father's opposition, the two were married on 1st January 1781 and that December had one son, named after Patrick's father. Patrick's health however, had suffered during his military service, and leaving the army to settle in New York, he died there in September 1782. Interestingly, another portrait of Major Patrick Campbell of the 71st foot, a miniature, is featured along with the two portraits under discussion, in the Frick Art Reference Library, in which the sitter is wearing white facings. It bears a striking facial resemblance to both the Scottish and San Francisco portraits and it has been suggested that it might have been painted shortly before Campbell sailed for America. . Sold for £23,750 (buyer's premium included)
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Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lot of Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and Katherine (Klussman) Hook Charles Ruffin Hook grew up in Northwest Cincinnati on Colerain Avenue just across the Miami and Erie Canal from the foot of Clifton hill. The early years were happy and mostly carefree but Charlie??Ts mother died in 1892 when he was just 12. The Panic of 1893 followed and in a little over a year the family went from a middle-class lifestyle to poverty. The company in which Hook Senior was employed was wiped out he ended up selling the family home the family broke up and Charlie and his brother Gay moved to Walnut Hills living with a kindly engineer Robert Engle. This also required Charlie to change from District No. 18 school to Walnut Hills High the first suburban school. There was no question that Charlie would have to work after high school college was out of the financial equation. He began to look to the long-term examining options such as coal lumber and other basic commodities; chemistry was his best subject in school; but he ended up deciding that steel was the most promising area ??" Carnegie had been poor and had no technical training so it should be possible to Charlie Hook to get into the business. With a letter of introduction arranged by his brother he appeared at the offices of Cincinnati Rolling Mill in Riverside west of the city (the site visited in the photo in this lot). When told the only opening was that of office boy Charlie jumped on the opportunity. He moved up quickly in the office but that put him at odds with boys his age who worked in the plant. One day when the plant was closed because of the annual spring floods a group of ?plant boys? tried to give Charlie a ?dunking? as he entered the flatboat that was used to ferry the office staff to their building which was on stilts and out of the water. Sensing what was coming Charlie turned the tables and toppled his tormentor into the water. The boatswain was John ?Roxy? Draut the night watchman and one of the other gentlemen with whom Hook would tour the site half a century later (photos in this lot). Roxy protected the young office boy for the duration of the flood walking him to and from the streetcar stop. He would become a veteran of the Middletown ARMCO plant. Charlie made himself indispensable at the Riverside plant finding solutions to many problems in management and production. But the plant failed to be profitable enough for the owners and was closed in late 1899. Many of the employees were absorbed into other Tin Plate Trust plants including Charlie. His supervisors made sure he had a position elsewhere; they sensed that the young man would contribute to the company. Charlie was reassigned to Chicago leaving everything familiar in the ?Queen City? behind. After barely 2 months in the Windy City the Trust decided to move Charlie??Ts entire department to New York City. Outfitting two trains one for desks and files the other for personnel the department was ceremonially moved to the Big Apple. It was winter and the boy from the Midwest was becoming homesick amid tall buildings with barely a blade of grass to be found. He had been in touch with others from the Riverside plant in particular William P. Lewis who had been transferred to the Gas City plant in Indiana. He begged Lewis for a job hoping to get back to an environment in which grass and trees lived. Lewis had an opening in the sheet bar yard but Hook needed approval for the transfer. Charlie decided that if he really wanted to learn the business he needed training in production. He made his case up the chain of command in New York with most treating him as if he were ready to be committed but Warner Arms vice-president in charge of operations decided to give him a chance and allowed the transfer to Indiana. Hook had remained in touch with his first boss at Riverside who had made sure he was reassigned to a Trust plant but had lost touch with the president of the plant. However these two men had remained in touch with each other and when they teamed up with George M. Verity to start up the American Rolling Mill Co. in Middletown Ohio one of the first people both men thought of to recruit for the new enterprise was Charlie. It was a fateful interview. Verity and Hook liked each other at once and had very similar philosophies about the business. Verity believed in people and tried to run his business by the ?Golden Rule ? a striking (even shocking) departure from the typical steel mill of the day. On top of that Verity decided to build a combined mill which used pig iron to produce ingots and slabs which were made into shapes and bars which were made into sheets and then galvanized or fabricated - what had been the domain of 5 different mills now would be done more efficiently (so Verity thought) in one mill. The rest of the industry was sure it would fail. But Verity surrounded himself with capable men like Hook who continued to take every opportunity to learn as much about the steel industry as he could ??" what worked and what didn??Tt in plants around the country. And eventually Hook and John Tytus developed a continuous mill and revolutionized the steel industry. To compete with the giants such as U.S. Steel Armco focused on specialty steels which required continual research. It became the first steel company to include a research department. It was the production of corrugated culvert pipe that generated interest overseas in railroad construction and ultimately led to Armco becoming an international company. ARMCO grew and prospered and Hook with it. By 1910 he became general superintendent. In 1913 he made his final ?life-path? move ??" he married Verity??Ts daughter Leah. More than a decade his junior Leah was still a schoolgirl when Hook came to Middletown and looked upon him as ?Uncle Charlie.? But as she matured she and ?Uncle Charlie? found they had many interests in common. Charlie continued to make connections even on the couple??Ts honeymoon in Europe most notably to George Lorimer editor of the Saturday Evening Post. The couple had two sons and a daughter. The images in the photo book appear to be primarily the first-born Charles Jr. although a few show both boys just a couple years apart in age. Armco??Ts labor policies also served the company well. By letting the employees know that they were part of the company and providing them with the best equipment and working conditions technology allowed the company prospered. In a 1937 article on Armco Forbes pointed out that in the second quarter of that year alone the good relations with labor and the fact that they did not strike probably saved the company 5 million (compared to a similar-sized company that had picketing and rioting in its plant). Any problems any new changes were always discussed with employees. Any employee could make an appointment with Verity or Hook or other management official and express his viewpoint air problems etc. without patronizing or judgment. Armco also saw itself as a good neighbor in Middletown and later wherever there were Armco plants. Verity and Hook tried to make life better for all city residents ??" everything from supporting scouting to expanding the American Legion for veterans during the Second World War to creating organizations for naturalizing citizens. Even those who did not interact often with the top management knew of them and their works. After George Verity died in 1942 employees of the plant a year later suggested a day of service to remember his neighborly actions and Founder??Ts Day was born. The first Founder??Ts Day saw 30 beds being donated to the Children??Ts Fresh Air Camp and a family that had been burned out of their home had a cash gift to begin rebuilding. A later Founder??Ts Day in Australia had a lift designed and built by Armco engineers for getting spastic children in and out of beds and baths. A couple of Founder??Ts Day programs are included in this lot along with Verity??Ts memorial and program from the dedication of his statue. Several brochures relating to the history of Middletown are certainly also related to the sense of community in the Armco ranks. As Hook??Ts methods of labor relations proved viable and the depression struck Charlie was looked at more and more for national offices. The National Association of Manufacturers tried to get him into their top position in 1934 but Verity could not spare him in the depths of the depression. Four years later he did serve as President of NAM. He became an industry spokesman in Washington and served on a number of committees there. He was also increasingly in demand as a speaker and one of his typescripts for a luncheon speech is in this lot. We need more Charlie Hooks today. Over decades he ?preached? that in the American incentive system the individual is of primary importance. ?If industry is to have its story accepted by the public it must expose abuses in the ranks and condemn improper business practices as quickly as it opposes legislation which it considers obstructive to business progress. It must show unimpeachable good faith. The place to begin is at the grassroots. The way to win confidence in and respect for all industry is for each company to be a good honorable desirable citizen at home.? We seem to have forgotten these old principles in a new century. Hook and others were convinced that they would need to convert to war production sooner than later. He met with some of his Washington friends and realized that the plans were nearly a decade and a half old and most companies had grown and changed considerably. Hook was front and center in redrafting the plans to convert industry to defense a plan decisive in the production records set by industry a mere three years later. Armco??Ts war-time production is outlined in one of the brochures in this lot. As President of NAM he worked toward collaboration of government and industry. He went to England to study labor relations then went to Sweden for the same purpose. As he was leaving the office he set out a 5-point policy for industrial and national welfare that included collaboration of government and industry to raise the standard of living elimination of government competition with the private sector rebuilding tax structures national labor policy based on common sense and fairness (to both labor and management) and a ?square deal? (not a new deal) for business for them to create nine million new jobs. (Anything sound familiar here?) Within a few months however unemployment was zero. On December 14 1941 Charlie Hook had other appointments notably to the War Labor Board made up of 12 members of industry and 12 of labor. Business leaders included presidents/chairmen of SKF Bell Aircraft U.S. Rubber Ingersoll Milling Machine Studebaker American Type Founders American Hawaiian Steamship Champion Paper GE ??" critical industries in a wartime economy. Shortly after he was sent to England to see if steel production could be increased and decide which country could best make what war material. After many days of work Hook was ready to report back to President Roosevelt. As he was boarding the plane at Herndon he was introduced to an American General who was escorting his British counterpart to the same transport. That General turned out to be Dwight Eisenhower. Hook would cross paths with Eisenhower again in Britain during the war. So respected were Hook??Ts processes and opinions that immediately after the war as the U.S. military was going into peacetime mode (they thought) President Truman called on Hook to study and recommend changes in pay of armed services. After the war Hook was involved in many ventures including Junior Achievement. He also promoted some college programs always with the goal of ?selling the basic concepts of the American way of life? - to youth to the public to foreigners to anyone who would listen. One person who got wind of Hook??Ts program was Dwight Eisenhower then president of Columbia University. Hook was invited to Columbia where he spent half a day laying out his program for the president and forming a lifelong friendship. Many years of government service is reflected in the letters from Ike and Nixon although earlier communications (such as FDR and Truman) are not among this particular group of papers. In 1950 Armco celebrated its half-century anniversary. The company put on a party at all of its plants. In Middletown alone the assembled well-wishers consumed 382 000 hot dogs and similar amounts of other comestibles. Just a year before Middletown celebrated Charles R. Hook Day with a testimonial dinner in Middletown??Ts Hotel Manchester attended by Generals an Admiral and a thousand others. A copy of the souvenir of this event is included here. Charlie was given two bound volumes with the originals of these letters telegrams and other well-wishes of his friends and associates. Charlie continued to talk to anyone who would listen over the next decade and had his chance at numerous award ceremonies. Although he never went to college he did take a few correspondence courses in engineering but learned most of the industry by rolling up his sleeves in the mills and talking to those who knew. He was awarded the medal for the advancement of metallurgical research in 1947 the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1950 and eleven honorary degrees by colleges and universities. Hook retired in December 1960 at the age of 80 but continued doing whatever he could to promote industry and the American ideal. He still went to his office every day as his physical condition allowed. He died in 1963 at 83 years of age. Lot includes: Numerous letters over a period of a couple decades to the White House and Department of Labor. Some have autopen or secretarial signatures but at least one Nixon letter may be authentic (or a new autopen pattern!) but 3 others have identical ?Dick? signatures and are likely autopen (they match one known autopen ?Dick Nixon?). A fourth letter signed ?Dick? with a slight difference may be authentic. There are many Eisenhower letters all initialed ?D.E.? There are 8 with slightly different initials some of which may be authentic. One without periods after the initials may be proxy/secretarial ??" we think he usually put periods after initials when he wrote them. All are on either light green White House letterhead or Ike??Ts personal DDE letterhead paper. Many more items in this folder are copies of what Hook sent to the various presidents including his copies of telegrams sent to Eisenhower. Folder labeled ?White House ??" President? with photographs (15) of Presidents Ronald and Nancy Reagan 4 living presidents (2) (Reagan Nixon Bush (41) and Ford) plus another with same four and their wives Bill and Hillary Clinton Republican leaders (Bob Dole Newt Gingrich Jack Kemp) some individual some in groups. Also a few ?certificates? or ?awards.? All seem to be rewards for donations and other support to the party. All signatures are in the photo. In addition there is a banner that is still in its packaging. One can see ?Republican President? in gold letters and one grommet but what the rest says is not certain (that label has been torn off the box ??" it probably had the address on it). Miscellaneous papers including an address given by Hook at a luncheon of the Union League Club Chicago 17 May 1940 entitled ?Wake Up America and Save the Private Enterprise System ? and a number of pages removed from a 3-ring binder most are photographs of maps and buildings in Middletown. File with ?American Rolling Mill Co. interesting facts? on front. Contains three more pamphlets on the story of ARMCO plus a typed speech given by Hook on Founder??Ts Day 1946 supplement to Middletown Journal in honor of ARMCO??Ts 75th Anniversary etc. 4 x 6 and 5 x 7 in. professional photos of Charles R. Hook in photographer??Ts folder. Photo album Obl. Folio string bound ?Photographs? in gilt on front black ?construction paper? pages; 2 x 3.25 in. and 2.25 x 4 in snapshots of family (lots of baby pictures) most likely Charles Hook??Ts (Sr.) family ??" approx. 45 images some have become detached from pages. Envelope with one 4 x 5 in. of a family of five (unidentified but possibly Charles Jr. based on the ages of the sitters and the clothing styles) plus 29 small loose images ranging from 1 x 1 in. to 3 x 5 in. ??" most snapshots taken with home camera. Four 8 x 10 in. black-&-white photos if Hook with Bernie Draut John Draut and Bill Draut at the William Henry Harrison tomb and site of Cincinnati Rolling Mill nearby. Photos taken 7 Aug. 1957 and labeled on verso. Charles R. Hook Testimonial Dinner / Manchester Hotel 6:30 P.M. / April 18 1939. Souvenir In paper covers with 3 brass brads poem by Wm. Dineen five 8 x 10 in. photos were glued to heavy paper but have now come loose plus copies of speeches telegrams letters etc. (i.e. the ?testimonials? given at the dinner). ARMCO Today 75th Anniversary Issue (1975) folio periodical Cover and 2pp article on Charles Hook and ARMCO Business Week 28 Jan. 1950 Forbes Magazine 15 Sept. 1948 with cover of ?Hook of ARMCo Steel Forbes: The Interpreter of Business 15 August 1944 with article on ?Charles R. Hook? U.S. News & World Report 8 June 1951 Hook on Cover indicating the inside article is an interview ?Less Steel for Civilians? Old Middletown folio printed cardstock wraps 1976. Illustrated with line drawings. ARMCO 75th Anniversary book Obl. Folio history of company illustrated with color photos. Armco Goes to War front cover with photo of Armco Air Raid Shelter president??Ts (George Verity) message dated 6 April 1942 with statistics about Armco??Ts war effort. Small folio 12pp. ?In Memoriam? for George Matthew Verity who died suddenly 6 Nov. 1942 (aged 77 yrs) Booklet for the Unveiling April 22 1948 the statue of founder George Verity Charles Ruffin Hook. Romance of Iron and Steel: Contribution of the Central Ohio Valley. New York: The Newcomen Society in North America 1950. 8vo printed paper wraps 32pp. Trifold flyer with History of Middletown Ohio U.S.A. 7.5 in. square folded Brochure from The Henry Laurence Gantt Memorial Gold Medal: Charles R. Hook Sr. Medalist. With speeches by the president of Gantt Medal Board and Charles Hook. Awarded ?for distinguished achievement in industrial management as a service to the community.? 8 June 1950 Plus 4 loose images of Middletown black-and-white. ARMCO in Pictures and Fact Middletown (OH): American Rolling Mill Co. 1921. 8vo soft leatherette cover gilt front and spine 247pp. Borth Christy. True Steel: The Story of George Matthew Verity and His Associates. Dayton United Color Press 1941 (Reprint 1973). 8vo red cloth with dj 319pp. Minor scuffing of dj very minor wear to spine ends. Text block excellent. Tebbel John. The Human Touch in Business: A Biography of Charles R. Hook. Dayton (OH): Otterbein Press 1963. 8vo red printed cloth with gilt front and spine dj 196pp. Top of dj with some damage otherwise book in near new condition. Hook Charles R. The Story of ARMCO. Middletown (OH): The American Rolling Mill Company 1928. 12mo in suede ?Arts & Crafts? style covers 41pp. Some fading of front cover with ?ring? from something heavy maybe wet. Historic South Main Middletown Ohio. Narrow 8vo in printed paper wraps issued by Middletown Department of Planning and Community Development 1977. Architectural and Historic Heritage Middletown Ohio. Narrow 8vo in printed paper wraps issued by Middletown Department of Planning and Community Development 1977. Founder??Ts Day Nuggets selected from talks and articles by George M. Verity the Founder of ARMCO. N.d. 19pp pamphlet with introduction by Charles Hook. Second Founder??Ts Day Nuggets selected from talks and articles by George M. Verity the Founder of ARMCO. N.d. but from a different year 16pp pamphlet with introduction by Charles Hook. The ARMCO First Line: A History and Its Purpose. 23 May 1958. 12mo pamphlet in blue flocked paper covers with gilt front string binding. Condition: Variable as expected. Generally the books and pamphlets are in excellent condition; photos are OK; letters with some humidity damage (light foxing).
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Nathaniel D. Hackett Wisconsin 1st Heavy Artillery Civil War and Personal Archive 330 items dating from 1860-1947. While serving in the 1st Wisconsin Battery Light Artillery Davis Hackett kept in close correspondence with his family at home. An upstanding young man Hackett received 74 letters while in the service that provide a glimpse into how communities remained connected across the barriers of absence and military service as well as the adjustments made by family and friends on the home front. The letters are filled with familial concern news of soldiers coming home after their time had run out funerals and family and the daily events of life on the home front. In a typical letter Hackett??Ts sister wrote about a girlfriend of Davis??T (Leone Baldwin) whom she disapproved and whom she felt had wronged him by courting a number of soldiers: You can see as well as I how she has wronged you all this time. It is too much to bear peacefully. I would give a good deal if your letters were somewhere besides in her possession for I??Tll bet anything she will show them to everybody. She is just as true to you as she is to every one or as true as she would be if she were engaged to everyone. She expects and wishes all to worship at her footstool.... You desire a whole heart not one whose affections are scattered from the Potomac to the Rio Grande and you deserve it too -- but no one will ever receive such from her for she has no heart to bestow. I do not feel that I do her the least injustice when I say she is a heartless coquette... Hackett??Ts sister May wrote with some juicy local gossip: When Miss Maxwell came to our school she wrote it seems she left her Bible (on purpose I suppose) and today after Sabbath School commenced she came in after it and paraded the whole length of the house and out again so we all had a chance to see her which I dare say she considered a great privilege. I do not know as it is Christian like to slander ones neighbor in this manner but you know I do not wish to write the same things to you that the rest do so you must excuse me if I do say things sometimes which it were better not to say. Other letters offer similar flavor: Friends Marion Miles writes: You ask me not to ?forget the soldiers.? Know ye Dave there lives not one who has a more profound respect for the soldier than myself. I think they are fighting in the noblest cause for which a patriot ever unsheathed his sword; and we watch their course follow them with our best wishes glory in their achievements and are waiting patiently and hopefully for the time when we can welcome them home. I would be very glad if the last battle had already been fought if not another drop of loyal blood need be spilled if not another waiting heart at home need sent with anguish because of the death of a loved one; but How useless and vain the wish! For the horrid appetite of cruel remorseless war is not yet appeased. Many another noble life must be sacrificed ere this accursed rebellion is crushed. But now Lincoln is elected we hope to be safe again... From young brother Oscar: As to the use of Tobacco I did use it before you went away for I thought that it was nice and it was gentlemanly but I saw my error before it was to late but I thank you for your advice and I am very glad that you was s thoughtfull for my welfare. I have tried to help Father and Mother all that I could since you went away. I have stayed to home from school about a week to help Father get up some wood. I am learning t cipher considerably and Pa says that just as soon as you get bacl that that he is agoing to have me learn some trade for you know I do not like to work on a farm. I think that I shall learn the Blacksmiths trade for I like that the best any trade... Cousin Lizzie; I heard of the President??Ts death while I was in Farmington last Saturday afternoon. We got the intelligence about four in the afternoon and immediately the flag was seen flying at half mast. Bells were tolled and Stores and Houses draped in mourning. The evening before everyone seemed happy and all had a gay time. The stores on Main Street were illuminated also many private residences. Speeches were made by the clergymen and everyone was rejoicing over the recent good news... Marion Miles was just as deeply affected by the assassination: Seward??Ts loss too at any other time would be deeply felt and even now will be mourned sincerely but Lincoln was our Chieftain and it seems to me is just as necessary to us as a nation as was Washington in the Revolutionary War. Can the perpetrator of the awful deed ever be sufficiently punished for a crime too horrible for a just God to pardon? The only consolation is that Johnson will be likely (if he don??Tt get intoxicated) to deal with rebels and traitors as honestly as they deserve if possible. I don??Tt believe he would parole their Commander in Chief should be again be captured. I have just faith enough in Gen. Lee??Ts honor to believe he has gone to South Carolina to help ??~conquer??T Sherman and sent his army to the mountains to practice guerrilla warfare. I wish he and his whole command had been hung instead of paroled...The collection also includes a nice letter from Davis shortly after his arrival in Washington D.C. in Oct. 4 1864 describing the nation??Ts capitol at the height of the war: Here I am in the Capitol of the United States standing in the dome as you enter from the north side and turn to your right and there you see the picture of the landing of Columbus the size of which is about ten by fourteen feet. The next is the embarkation of the Pilgrims third George Washington resigning his commission to Congress fourth surrender of Lord Cornwallace fifth surrender of Gen Burgoyne.... We went through to the south side and got a drink of water at the fountain the basin of which is filled with fish and the park is a splendid thing and there is a fountain on either side of the wall coming north and south but the one of the west was not finished... After the war Hackett moved to the west settling in East Ashland Oregon by 1910 and then in Victor Montana where he died August 1929. As was true during his service his correspondence helped overcome the distance that separated him from his family. The collection also includes a thick sheaf of correspondence from relatives and friends written to Davis during the post-war period mostly during the 1860s through 1890s but continuing into the next generation as well. A solid typical domestic correspondence these letters discuss family illness aging parents dead dogs choking on bones and the usual ebb and flow of life in mid-Victorian Wisconsin (Baraboo Chippewa Falls). Among the most interesting series of letters are 14 from Davis to his wife Carrie written from Chippewa Falls Wisc. in 1889 describing his life there and a ?sensation? at the Stanley House hotel: They had a german girl doing laundry work that was not compos mentus & Ginns [an acquaintance] nephew has been a fool of her for some time & about the time Gonn died he got the negrow porter & 3 other fellows down in the cellar & they all took part in the fun each taking his turn. It finally got out & the authorities had 3 of them shut up & one skipped & one was not molested. Two were fined $100 each or 6 months in jail & the nephew $50. He & the negrow paid & the latter skipped as soon as he paid & the 3 one is in jail. The nephew was in school here but I heard Mr. Long was going to have him expelled. We little know what is going on right under our noses... Other items include a nice series of 33 letters from Florence Vrooman to her close friend Davis 1914-1917 discussing her life on a farm in Lakeville Wisc. and her efforts to cope with loneliness and hard winters; a series of letters to Millie Hackett from friends and relatives 1890s; and 45 letters to Davis??T daughter Edith 1890s-1940s including letters discussing life as a teacher and occasional mentions of the Second World War. Some general soiling and wear as expected many with envelopes. Condition: Some general soiling and wear as expected many with envelopes.
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William Woodward (American/New Orleans 1859-1939) "French Market New Orleans" 1903 watercolor on paper laid down on board titled lower left and inscribed "Jan." signed and dated "Wm. Woodward New Orleans 1903" on backing 24 in. x 16 in.; accompanied by an envelope inscribed "This watercolor done by Mr. William Woodward circa 1900. It was property of my grandmother Nannie Mather Bell" with typed "Bomar" return address attractively matted and framed. Provenance: Gift from the artist; descended in a Louisiana family. Note: The French Market was a favored theme of William Woodward. He depicted it in different media over several decades. A watercolor from 1891 in The Historic New Orleans Collection depicts an active scene with piles of cabbages and onions and a man at work cleaning cabbages in the right background. Seemingly the same man is shown in the 1903 painting offered here but in a slightly different location of the market. This view depicts one of the gabled entries on the river side of the French Market and relates very closely to a Raffaelli oil crayon from 1904 in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art. In that work from a different angle he shows the same woman with her red scarf and blue skirt standing by a table piled with cabbages. The man is also shown but at work on his horse carriage. Large watercolors by William Woodward are quite rare as he generally preferred the medium of oil crayon to capture his beloved Vieux Carré. Reference: Brady Patricia ed. Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection The Historic New Orleans Collection 1996 p. 34. Hinckley Robert William Woodward: American Impressionist 2009 p. 16 and 129.
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A Group of Seven White Porcelain Articles
20th Century
comprising two Nymphenburg cherub figures, each with an impressed shield to the underside; a Nymphenburg dog sitting on a pillow bearing a green stamp and impressed shield to the underside; a German boy in a tricorn hat bearing a scepter mark in underglaze blue to the underside; a German bell bearing a scepter mark in underglaze blue to the underside; a group of a man and woman bearing a CC mark in underglaze blue to the underside; and a group depicting a lady in a carriage with a blue hook mark to the underside.
Height of bell 4 1/2 inches.
Property from the European Family Collection of a Pharmaceutical Executive and Venture Capitalist
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Diary of Lt Paul Shirley, USN, USS Susquehanna Diary (log) of the steam/sail ship, U.S.S. Susquehanna written by Lt. Paul Shirley, 3/31/1856 - 5/22/1858 (approx. 168 pages total, two volumes). Paul Shirley (1820 - 1876) was born in Kentucky, December 19, 1820, and was appointed to the Navy, July 25, 1839; became master, December 3, 1853; lieutenant, July 24, 1854; commander, November 5, 1863; captain, July 1, 1870. While in command of the "Cyane" of the Pacific squadron, he captured the piratical cruiser "J. M. Chapman", in 1863, for which he was complimented by Rear Adm. Charles Bell. While in command of the "Suwanee" he took the piratical steamer "Colon" at Cape Saint Lucas, Lower California, thereby saving two mail steamers that would have been captured. Subsequently, he was in command of the flag ship "Pensacola" during the 1867-8 and after of the "Independence" at Mare Island, California in 1869 and 1870. He died at Columbus, Ohio, November 24, 1876 (Ancestory.com). The 1856-58 diary covers the commissioning of the Susquehanna and its deployment to Key West, Fla.; to San Juan; and on to the Mediterranean Sea; to London to assist in laying of the first telegraph line, where Lt. Shirley met Samual Morse, from England to America; back to the Mediterranean when the cable broke after laying 335 miles of wire; then back to San Juan and Key West; finally to New York where he left to visit his family in Philadelphia. An entry on Oct 2, 1856 gives an account of Shirley's loyalties, "Received letter intelligence from home - Things look equally in a political way at home, what is to be the result of the insane & unholy war that the North are waging against the South is not in the power of man to tell; but it certainly looks to the rupture of our glorious Union, I think. Oh the political insanity and folly and wickedness of the Black Republicans in acting the part they do. God preserve my Country, I pray. Many years of my life have I devoted to the service of my country, but it is no long a foreign enemy we dread, the enemy is at home. As long as there is a party (?) to sustain the Federal Government, I will be found with it, but if matters come to the worst, I will shoulder my rifle and offer up my life in defense of the South, not simply because she is "The South", but because her cause is just, and I am one of her sons." Shirley ultimately served as a Union Commander during the Civil War. Ironically, Shirley takes command of the "Suwanee" in January 1865 with the primary mission of capturing or destroying the CSS Shenandoah (Refer to CSS Shenandoah archive lots in this sale). It is unsuccessful and the ship is later wrecked off of British Columbia in 1868. His diary is filled with remorse in waiting for a letter from home, as he left a wife and two sons in the States. Paul Shirley's interests extended to art and history and many of his entries describe the museums he visited in Europe and England. Also, his entries talk about the culture in Europe and the acquaintenances he met there. He detested the West Indies because of its hot weather and people and was very disappointed when their vessel received orders to return there from the Mediterranean. His dread and disappointment were justified because on returning, crew members started to become ill and die with the "fever", probably Yellow Fever. The first died on March 23rd, 1858. The number sick increased to 90 cases by April 4th. They received orders to sail for New York where they stayed at quarantine near Staten Island. After three days, the ship was ordered to Boston and the crew sent to a quarantine hospital. Lt. Shirley was released from the hospital and returned to Philadelphia to see his family. Unfortunately, his oldest son took sick several days later and died in his arms. His diary details the anguish he suffered during this sad time and records some of his final entries.
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Group of Union Officers, Gov. Brownlow Albumen Prints Group of Civil War era photos including TN Governor Brownlow and staff, and assorted images of Union Officers. 1st group: Albumen print of Governor Brownlow (second from left) and with his staff including son James Patton Brownlow (seated to his right) and his other son John Bell Brownlow ( seated fifth from left) during one of his terms as Tennessee governor. Image titled "Gov Brownlow -- family", photo identified as of him and his staff in the book "Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II" by James Hoobler, published 2000. A single photograph is mounted to the top margin with printed description "A later addition." Main photo - 8 1/2" x 10". Includes a Carl C. Giers, Photographic Art Gallery, Nashville, Tenn. envelope with illegible address, 4 1/8" x 6". Note: this image is pictured on page 24 of the book "Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II" by James Hoobler, published 2000. 2nd group: 4 albumen prints of officers, one labeled on reverse " Giers & Co., National Portrait Gallery, Nashville, Tenn", 1 cabinet card size image of a man in a uniform with epaulets and sword, and 3 CDVs including one illustration labeled "General Foster and the Flag of Truce," one illustrated image of several officers at a camp, and one image of a man in uniform with sword and hat, standing in front of an illustrated battle scene backdrop. Sizes - 4" x 2 1/2" to 10" x 8". Provenance: the estate of Giers descendant Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
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Group of Union Officers, Gov. Brownlow Albumen Prints: Group of Civil War era photos including TN Governor Brownlow and staff, and assorted images of Union Officers. 1st group: Albumen print of Governor Brownlow (second from left) and with his staff including son James Patton Brownlow (seated to his right) and his other son John Bell Brownlow ( seated fifth from left) during one of his terms as Tennessee governor. Image titled "Gov Brownlow -- family", photo identified as of him and his staff in the book "Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II" by James Hoobler, published 2000. A single photograph is mounted to the top margin with printed description "A later addition. " Main photo - 8 1/2" x 10". Includes a Carl C. Giers, Photographic Art Gallery, Nashville, Tenn. envelope with illegible address, 4 1/8" x 6". Note: this image is pictured on page 24 of the book "Nashville: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Volume II" by James Hoobler, published 2000. 2nd group: 4 albumen prints of officers, one labeled on reverse " Giers & Co. , National Portrait Gallery, Nashville, Tenn", 1 cabinet card size image of a man in a uniform with epaulets and sword, and 3 CDVs including one illustration labeled "General Foster and the Flag of Truce, " one illustrated image of several officers at a camp, and one image of a man in uniform with sword and hat, standing in front of an illustrated battle scene backdrop. Sizes - 4" x 2 1/2" to 10" x 8". Provenance: the estate of Giers descendant Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www. caseantiques. com) Condition All with surface grime, some fading and/or foxing and losses at edges. Albumen print of Governor Brownlow and his staff with fold break lower left corner, ink touch up at center loss, losses to image at center, 1/2" x 3/4" to 3/4" to 7/8" and lower center, 1-1/4" x 4-1/2", plus loss to upper right edge, 2 1/4" to 1/2".
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SARTAIN, William (engraver, 1843-1924). - After Samuel Bell WAUGH (1814-1885).Lincoln and His Family. Philadelphia: published by Bradley & Co., 1866. Mezzotint by William Sartian after Waugh, marked 'proof', printed by Irwin & Sartain on india paper mounted on wove paper. Sheet size: 24 3/4 x 32 7/8 in. Condition: toning, and small tears and creases to margins of mount. A masterpiece from William Sartain: "in accuracy of portraiture and artistic excellence of execution [this work] is acknowledged to be unsurpassed by any Engraving ever executed in America" (contemporary advertisement). "The President and Mrs. Lincoln are seated at a table [in the White House], back of which is Captain Robert Lincoln, standing in a manly and pleasing attitude. Little 'Tad', the idol of his Father … sits upon an ottoman at his Father's side … Upon the wall, in the background, hangs a portrait of Willie, who died [in 1862] during Mr. Lincoln's first Presidential term." (advertisement quoted in The Lincoln Image pp. 171-172). Above Lincoln's right shoulder is a bust of George Washington, linking him with the father of the nation. Outside the window is the outline of the Capitol dome, completed during the Lincoln presidency. Mary Lincoln sits to the right. "The grouping is graceful and harmonious. the President is in earnest conversation in regard to the future of our country … The Artist has, with happy effect, thrown into his countenance that life and animation which he was accustomed to display in cheerful and animated conversation" (op. cit. p.172). The Lincoln Image pp. pp.171-174 and figure 80.
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CAMILLE PISSARRO Paysage à Osny près de Pontoise. Drypoint printed in black on cream laid paper, 1887. 116x155 mm; 4 1/2x6 1/8 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). One of approximately only 10 artist's proof impressions in this state, there were approximately only 12 artist's proof impressions in both states combined, aside from the edition of 100 published by André Marty for L'Estampe Originale, Paris. Signed, titled and inscribed "belle épreuve" and "no. 4" in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce print. Osny is in the countryside, bordering the town of Pontoise, where Pissarro and his family lived during the 1870s/early 1880s, northwest of Paris. Much of Pissarro's subjects for paintings and drawings of the landscape and peasants at work during this decade-plus period come from the Pontoise/Osny area. Soon after he moved to Pontoise, returning from self-exile in England during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, he was joined by Cézanne ( who was 9 years Pissarro's junior) as a frequent painting and sketching companion in the Pontoise landscape. Cézanne later noted that, "He was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord." Delteil 70.- 5,000
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Vermeil Stanhope Erotic Dress Cane: Ca. 1890-Classic-shaped knob fashioned of woven and gilt silver wire on a well figured snake wood shaft with eyelets and a horn ferrule. So far, so good, however, what makes this cane singular is that it is fitted with an erotic Stanhope in a peephole concealed in the fake eyelets on the top of the shaft. The micro lens shows a daring nude scene with two girls and a man and endows it with the crossover appeal of associating with more than one collecting field to augment its desirability. The expert opinions are unanimous on the French origin and suggest that the cane was probably commissioned by an eccentric Gentleman from the Belle Époque for his own pleasure. The tasteful and inconspicuous look allowed him to wear his cane at all occasions, and, in the appropriate time, make sensation and become the topic of the gathering. H. 1 ½” x 1 ¼”, O. L. 36 ½” The Stanhope, named after English scientist Lord Stanhope (1753-1816), was an optical novelty that was concealed in nineteenth century jewelry, ornaments and occasionally canes. It consisted of a slim glass rod, less than one-eighth of an inch in diameter, which had one end rounded to form a lens and a tiny round collodion positive photograph cemented to the other end. A small hole was drilled in the jewelry, the Stanhope inserted, and a magnified view of the photograph could then be seen by looking through the lens. Actually, the Stanhope is the beginning of micro-photography or the microfilm of today. In 1867 a French patent was obtained by Antoine Rochard for objects fitted with Stanhope’s. For a cane with Stanhope’s see C. Dike, Cane Curiosa, Chapter 10, Photography, page 114, 10/24 and Francis H. Monek’s book, Canes Through The Ages, page 262. Piratinera Guianensis or snake wood belongs to the family of Moraceae and originates in tropical South AmeriCa It is a truly exotic species and probably one of the most difficult woods to find. Typically, it is a very small tree, and only shows the wonderful reddish brown heartwood with speckles of black appearing as hieroglyphics or snakeskin markings in a small quantity of the wood, and then rarely evenly spread across the entire face of the board. Its markings which resemble those of a snakeskin, give this small, relatively rare timber its name. Snake wood is dense, extremely heavy and hard, brittle and splits easily. It becomes very smooth when finished and has natural polish.