Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

More documents

Recommendations

Info

35 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS 263. HALLIWELL, later HALLIWELL-PHILLIPS (James Orchard, 1820-1889, Shakespearean Scholar) ALS toWilliam Shilleto, thanking him and saying that Mrs Butler has given him “a very interesting letter from you on the popular superstitions of your neighbourhood ... useful ... information ... though provincial words are what I am still more desirous of obtaining”, 2 sides 8vo., Islip, Oxfordshire, 4th September 1844, strip from mount in blank margin of verso [SD19899]£45 Halliwell was an F.S.A. and F.R.S. at 19, and married Sir Thomas Phillips’ daughter. 264. HALLOWES (Odette, née Bailly, 1912-1995, French-born Resistance Agent) TLS toPeter Evans saying that she will “always tell” young people who write “that ... the human race ... is a large family ... we are responsible for what happens ... we have to give our help as best we can when necessary. It is what I have had to explain to my own children, and now to my grandchildren”, and thanking him “for your thoughtful letter”, 1 side 8vo., Rosedale, Walton on Thames, 5th January 1986, together with a colour photo signed and inscribed “with best wishes” showing her wearing her medals, 5” x 4”, n.p., n.d., c. 1986 [SD50034]£85 265. HAMILTON (Lord George Francis, 1845-1927, M.P., Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for India) ALS toDr. Maurice Ernst (later Ernest), 1872-1955, saying “Disarmament is much too abstruse ... to discuss offhand. Every country in Europe is financially suffering from over armament” but Protectionists “make it an excuse for maintaining taxation ... personally beneficial to themselves”, 2 sides 8vo, 17 Montagu Street, Portman Square, 30th April 1907 tiny staple holes [SD17344]£45 Lord George was (Conservative) Secretary of State for India, 1895-1903. Ernst was London Correspondent of the ‘Neues Wiener Tagblatt’. 266. HARDWICKE (Charles Philip Yorke, 1799-1873, M.P., Admiral, Postmaster General March to December 1852, from 1834 4th Earl) ALS to Admiral Sir John ROSS, Arctic Explorer, 1777- 1856, saying he “saw the Duke & put your note to me before him ... I think from what I saw, you had better give up the idea of going ... the probability is - that no more will be attempted after this exploration”, with Sir John Ross’s autograph note of receipt and reply on conjugate leaf, 2 sides 8vo., 10 St. James’s Square, 22nd April 1852, light traces of laying down on blank margin of fourth side [SD50155]£125 Ross had made an unsuccessful expedition in 1850 to find Sir John Franklin. 267. HAYDON (Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846, Painter) ALS to Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1773-1854, the topographer, from 1825 librarian at the Russell Institution, Coram Street, asking him to “oblige me by admitting for four days ... the Rev.d. Dr. Bosworth - he is a friend of Hamilton’s who was Ambassador at Naples ... without the delay of applying to the Committee”, 1 side 8vo., n.p., n.d., c. 1835 [SD19900]£45 268. HERALDIC DIPLOMA Finely Penned Diploma, certifying that George Harrison (1740-1821, Bluemantle Pursuivant, later Windsor, Norroy and Clarenceux) performed the duties of Esquire to Sir John Moore (1718-1779, Admiral, 1st Bart.) at his installation as aMilitary Knight of the Bath on 15th June 1772, and that in consequence he is entitled to all the rights “that Esquires of the Sovereign’s Body, or the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber do lawfully enjoy”, with a very fine Hanoverian Arms of Great Britain, with supporters and crest, flanked by the arms of the Great Master of the Order (1st Earl of Mexborough) and Sir John Moore, each with the collar and motto of the Bath, all in full colour, and signed by the last two and byWilliam Whitehead (1715-1785, Registrar & Secretary, Poet Laureate), on the verso Harrison’s qualifications to be an Esquire are attested after examination by Ralph Bigland, Somerset, and Isaac Heard, Lancaster, at the foot is the papered double-sided seal of the Order of the Bath on a crimson ribbon, vellum, 2 sides 18¼” x 16”, n.p. (College of Heralds), 17th November 1772, a trifle dusty at folds, papered seal defective but retains the three crowns of the Order impaling Great Britain [SD50249]£350 Esquires accompanied the Knights elect from Westminster Hall to Henry VII’s chapel, cap in hand, returning with cap donned after the ceremony. 269. HERMANT (Abel, 1862-1950, French writer and Academician) 2ALS in French with translation to Ferdinand L. Leipnik (1869-c.1924, Hungarian Journalist, intermediary between Austria-Hungary and Great Britain in WWI), saying “You have been kind enough to tell me that ... the Neues Pester Journal would like to publish the German translation of my novel ‘Confession of a Man of Today’, which is going to appear from the 15th November next in the Revue ... and will then be published by Ollendorff”, suggesting 1500 francs inclusive for serial and book, and adding that a sequel, ‘The World’s Fair’, will soon follow in ‘Le Figaro’, “it would be perfectly possible ... to publish them in the Neues Pester Journal without a break” (8th November 1902), since the serial for the first work, starting “today ... will be there at the most for four months”, it could appear abroad daily from “the 1st February, or even a few days before”, he can also send “the extract” from “this morning’s Revue” and “proofs of the following issue”, (15th November 1902), 50 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris, 8th - 15th November 1902 [SD19033]£95 Between 1901 and 1937, Hermant wrote a series of novels “to serve as the history of society ... a pitiless and ironic critique of the bourgeois environment of the time” (DBF). He was the chief contributor to the Academy’s ‘Grammaire Française, 1932’, a masterpiece of concise statement. In 1945 Hermant was tried for articles he published during the Occupation and deprived of his chair atthe Academy. However, in 1948 he was exonerated, and the Academy gave him refuge at Chantilly. 270. HUNT (Sir Rex, b. 1926, Governor and C-I-C of the Falklands, High Commissioner British Antarctic Territory) Colour photograph signed, 6” x 8”, showing him in his studybyamap ofAntarctica, n.d., c. 1985 [SD50043]£35
Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 36 271. HIDALGO (Elvira, 1892-1980, Spanish Soprano) ALS to‘Dear Signora’, in Italian with translation, saying that “Mamma and I will be most happy to come and see you tomorrow. With a thousand thanks”, 2 sides 8vo., Grand Hôtel, 12, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, ‘Monday’ n.d., c. 1910 [SD20140]£75 The singer made her debut at Naples in 1908 as Rosina in ‘Il Barbiere’, her most famous role, and was immediately in great demand. After 1932 she taught, first in Athens, where Maria Callas was her pupil, and later in Ankara. 272. [HONEGGER (Arthur, 1892-1955, Composer)] Unsigned black and white photograph showing Honegger happily holding a small railway signal while a friend sits in the tender of a fine model locomotive ‘LMS 6100’, postcard size, n.d., c. 1930 [SD19180]£35 Honegger adored locomotives. In 1927 he drove the King’s Cross express to Hitchin, averaging over 60 m.p.h. His ‘Pacific 231’ is a wonderful ‘mechanical’ piece which ‘arouses the emotions without recourse to sentiment’, ‘the rhythm accelerating while the metronome beat slows down’ 273. [HOW TO GROW A HYACINTH IN A TURNIP] Delightful pen drawing of “that useful Root the Turnip ...” which is “converted into an ornamental suspended Reservoir of the Grecian form, for holding the Hyacinth”, as found “in the best furnished Rooms in Paris”, the hyacinth, hung in a window facing South, “majestically shoots its perpendicular blooming stem, while the humble nourishing turnip is vegetating downwards forming a verdant tassel”, with full instructions opposite the lettered diagrams, employing “a hoop of narrow twopenny ribbon ... taking care not to let the needle penetrate the ... Turnip”, 3 sides 4to., n.p., n.d., watermark 1824 [SD50010]£75 In best tongue-in-cheek style. 274. HOWARD (Sir Henry, 1843-1921, Diplomat) ALS to Evelyn, 1st wife of the historian J.E.C. Bodley, saying “I saw your portrait in Bonnat’s Atelier; it is a perfect gem ... I regret that circumstances ... prevent this combination of English beauty and French Art being exhibited this year at the Salon”, with her identification at head, 2 sides 8vo., Paris, 21st March 1895 [SD19062]£25 Sir Henry was Secretary of Embassy at Paris, 1895-1896. L.J.F. Bonnat (1833-1922) painted Hugo, Pasteur, Dumas, etc. 275. HUGHES (Thomas, 1822-1896, Judge, Author of ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’) Fine ALS toHarwood, saying that he was sorry not to have seen him in London, but “heard of you from the Dean. It was not I, but Canon Curtis, who threw down the gauntlet as to the Burials Bill. It was quite impossible to allow his narrow nonsense to go unchallenged. I fear the parsons are going back rather than forward - it seems impossible for them to realize the true nobleness of the national idea. If they cannot rise to it & accept the position of officers appointed by the nation to do its highest work I see no reason for keeping the ... (I) hope the Dean is right but doubt it ... the question could not be tried practically without a row, & as the Bill will I take it be carried next session ... I shall not be farther north again then Birmingham till next year ...”, 3 sides 8vo., Athenaeum Club headed paper, 25th October 1871 [SD26581]£175 276. HUMBOLDT (Alexander, Baron von, 1769-1859, Naturalist and Traveller) Autograph statement signed, in French which translates as “having been informed by my most respectable and kind friend Dr. Guggenbuhl that the Rev. Edwin Sidney has expressed interest in some of my works ... it is with great pleasure that I take the opportunity of expressing my great esteem for the gentleman, who through his work in the Young Man’s Association and elsewhere, as with his public lectures, has nobly sought to link well thought out ideas on natural phenomena, to combat public prejudice and to raise intellectual awareness specifically to the sophisticated concepts of harmony in the natural world ...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., Berlin, 1856, traces of mounting on the verso [SD26574]£275 Humboldt was one of the greatest scientists of the first half of the 19th century, and a pioneer in many fields, including the climate and ecology. From 1830 he was employed from 1830 by Friedrich Wilhelm III as a special envoy to France, frequently travelling between Paris and Berlin. 277. HUNT (William Holman, 1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter) Fine ALS (with initials) to “My dear old Comrade” telling him that he had been “very much of the same mind and body too last Thursday ... before on the top of my usual malady I had caught a serious attack of bronchitis and it was only because I had to get my head for the Grosvenor into shape that I was allowed to attend the studio ... I sent round the little messengers in the hope of finding you free for anhour’s visit and gossip, it was a pain to find that you were seriously laid up ... I was inclined to be lugubrious enough as I went home for my fortnight’s preliminary nursing which now the doctor is enforcing ... I am determined to be as careful just now as circumstances will allow or I see that I shall not have much opportunity of proving how far greater a painter I am than the carping and stingy temper of the world has ever allowed me to prove myself to be so far - unless it should indeed be in superintending rainbows, butterfly’s and humming bird’s wings, and such artistic performances conducted either side of the cemetery where I shall try to exercise my skill with more spirit because I should know for certain that no Royal Academy would be present to mislead public taste and patronage ... it strikes me how shocked poor SHIELDS [?Frederic James, 1833-1911, Painter, intimate of D. G. Rossetti] would be at my bantering vein about the future, and I feel somewhat of a hypocrite in recognising the fact that I should scarcely dare to write to him in such a strain, but indeed I do not have less feeling of the solemnity of the whole question in speaking lightly of one phase of it ... I see the school in which he has studied the faith, and adopted it, rightly or wrongly scandalised at bringing every day tests to it ...” he then reverts to talk about their ailments and ends “go on bravely, and write more poetry, which somehow I can’t attempt to rival, altho I have some very fine stanzas about somewhere ...”, 4 sides 8vo., Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 30th April 1885 [SD11523]£375
Page 1 and 2: CATALOGUE 56 CLIVE FARAHAR & SOPHIE
Page 3 and 4: Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV T
Page 35: Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV T
Page 87 and 88:
Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV T
Page 89 and 90:
Page 91 and 92:
Page 93 and 94:
Page 95 and 96:
Page 97 and 98:
Page 99 and 100:
Page 101 and 102:
Page 103 and 104:
Page 105 and 106:
Page 107 and 108:
Page 109 and 110:
Page 111 and 112:
show all

Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?