Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

23 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS
173. BISHOP (Isabella Lucy, née Bird, 1831-1904,
Traveller & Authoress)
Autograph Postcard signed toMr.Woolmer,whoisstaying
at Salen on Mull, saying “As Ito, my Japanese servant truly
observed, ‘Nothing is worth anything that is not true’”, and
hastening “to correct my statement concerning Anio boats
... I find they are practically ‘dug-outs’ but made in two
halves ... laced together by strong bark fibre twine a high
‘gunwale’ being laced on finally”, and hoping that he and
Mr Ross “will find your way over here again”, 1 side
postcard with printed stamp, The Cottage, Tobermory,
Mull, 22nd August 1888, faint trace of gum in right margin
of verso [SD26492]£475
Isabella suffered from poor health throughout her life, particularly
from back problems. She found that travel to distant parts
alleviated her symptoms which is quite extraordinary considering
the discomfort of nineteenth century travel, but may suggest that
some of her ailments were psychological. By 1878 she had
already visited America, Australia, New Zealand and the
Sandwich Islands and then she spent seven months in Japan. Her
book of this journey ‘Unbeaten Tracks in Japan’ was published in
1880 and was remarkable for her descriptions of the Ainu people
of Hokkaido. She married Dr Bishop in 1881 but started
travelling again in 1886 after his death. She studied medicine &
went on to found hospitals in Kashmir, the Punjab and elsewhere
in memory of her husband and her sister. In 1892 she was elected
the first lady F.R.G.S.
Isabella Bird was one of the most liberated and strong minded
women of the mid nineteenth century and her books remain
popular. She also published ‘The Englishwoman in America’,
1856, ‘The Hawaiian Archipelago’, 1875, ‘A Lady’s Life in the
RockyMountains’, 1879
174. BLACKIE (Prof. John Stuart, 1809-1895, Scottish
manofletters)
ALS asking his publisher to send “a copy of my Selfculture
to the enclosed address and affix the papers to the
fly-leaf”, 2 sides 8vo., London (with in pencil ‘22 Arle St.
Edin.’), 28th January n.y., c. 1875, light traces of old tabs
on verso [SD16789]£25
Blackie was professor of Greek at Edinburgh, 1852-1882, and
founded a Celtic chair there on his retirement.
175. BOEHM (Sir J. Edgar, R.A., 1834-1890, 1st Bart.,
Austrian-born Sculptor)
ALS to‘Dear Glaseby’, asking him to send “the Bronze
group ofthe Arab horse with Selim the negro ... to Mrs
Hammond ... Have it a little brushed before leaving”, 1 side
8vo., Highcliff, Christchurch, Hampshire, n.d., c. 1880,
faint traces of laying down on conjugate blank
[SD24359]£35
Boehm exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1862 and soon had
an extensive portrait practice. He was sculptor in ordinary to
Queen Victoria and designed her portrait for the silver coinage of
1887.
176. BOUGHTON (George Henry, 1833-1905, Painter &
Illustrator)
ALS to Frederick HOLLYER (1837-1933,
Photographer), asking him to “let me have the Burne
Jones’ photos - with the numbers and list ...”, 1 side 8vo.,
West House, Campden Hill headed paper, 26th March 1886
[SD5190]£60
177. BONAMICI (Antonio, Student at the Seminary at
Frascati)
Printed Heads of his Disputation ‘On the Mystery of the
Trinity’, in Latin, to be argued on 3rd September before
Giovanni Battista Arinio, on the title is the dedication to
Henry, Cardinal York, (1725-1809, the last Stuart
pretender), “Bishop of Frascati, most ample patron”, with a
fine woodblock of the Stuart Arms of Great Britain,
differenced with a crescent, the Cardinal’s hat above,
stitched, 8 sides 8vo., Frascati (ancient Tusculum), at the
Seminary’s Printing Press, 1787, crisp copy, with a little
very light foxing [SD50195]£125
Henry was Bishop of Frascati for over forty years, 1761-1803.
178. BOOSEY (Thomas, c.1795-1871, Music Publisher)
ALS to the music publisher S. Cocks, 6 New Burlington
Street, saying he shall be happy “to give Mr Bentley any
information ... relating to the present position of my two
Actions on the Sonnambula Copyright ,or... I have no
doubt my Solicitor Mr Comyn ... who ... has the pleasure of
knowing Mr Bentley will be happy to satisfy him”, 2 sides
8vo. and original autograph envelope, 28 Holles Street,
24th May 1850, envelope neatly attached by flap to blank
third side [SD16803]£40
Thomas Boosey began as a foreign book seller in Holles Street,
Oxford Street. He published the Italian operas of Bellini,
Donizetti & Verdi down to 1854, when a decision of the House of
Lords deprived him of all his copyrights.
179. BOULANGER (Georges, 1837-1891, French
General and Minister of War)
ALS to an unnamed correspondent, in French with
translation, saying he will “put things right for the young
man from the Conservatoire”, and will recommend “the
young man who has been a volunteer for a year, and who
passed his exam on Monday ... you will always find me at
home between 10 and 11”, 1 side 8vo., Grand Hôtel Du
Louvre, Paris, ‘Saturday’ n.d., c. 1886 [SD24363]£45
Boulanger rose on a wave of populism, based on his reforms in
the army for officers and men alike, and on his policy of revenge
for the war of 1870. Taken up by the radicals, he was Minister of
War from January 1886 to May 1887. However, a new
government found him inconveniently prominent, and was glad
when he resigned. The Paris mob clamoured for their “brav’
général”, who became a familiar figure on his black horse. During
1888 his personality dominated French politics, and the royalists
saw in him a chance to defeat the parliamentary Republic. In
April 1889 he fled Paris, for which he had been elected to the
Assembly, faced with a warrant for his arrest for treason. In 1891
he shot himself in Brussels by his mistress’ grave.
180. BOWLES (Revd. William Lisle, 1762-1850, Divine,
Poet and Antiquary)
ALS to‘Dear Merewether’, asking him to “come and dine
here to day at five o’clock to meet Duncan”, 1 side small
8vo., n.p., ‘Friday Morn.’, n.d., c. 1820, faint traces of
laying down at corners of blank verso [SD16811]£45
A forerunner of the Romantic movement, Bowles’ ‘Fourteen
Sonnets, written chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey’,
1789, had Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey among its
enthusiastic admirers. His edition of Pope, 1806, led to a long
controversy, 1809-1825, in which Campbell and Byron were his
chief antagonists.