CLIVE FARAHAR Catalogue 60

[2nd December 1863
23rd December 1863
1863
28th December 1863
Married Maria A. Heugh at Port Elizabeth]
Mail Cart Port Elizabeth to Simon’s Bay, overland, arriving 25th December
Ariel William Cox Chapman, Commander
December 1864 Arrived Portsmouth
31st March 1865 Excellent (Gunnery vessel for Royal Naval College, Portsmouth) Richard S. Hewlett,
Captain
65. ELLIS (Havelock) The Revaluation of Obscenity, Hours Press, Paris, 1931 ii + 40 pp. end
papers discoloured, roy.8vo, hf.blue morocco, spine slightly faded, slight wear to corners,
Limited to 200 copies signed by the Author, with the bookplate of Lord Esher, [12612] £150
KING THEODORE AND THE ENGLISH CAPTIVES.
66. ETHIOPIA.. A Collection of 72 printed “Confidential Reports” including 6 mimeographed
reports marked “Secret” on India Office blind stamped paper, & 2 reports from the London
Gazette, concerning King Theodore’s holding of English & European prisoners, London, 1864-
1868 over 183 pages, folio, binders cloth, rebacked, [12642] £550
In this notorious case, King Theodore, Emperor of Ethiopia decided that because he had not enough or
satisfactory attention from Queen Victoria to whom he had written, asking for artisans and gunsmiths,
he imprisoned the British Consul Cameron and other British & European residents of Ethiopia. The
letter he had sent remained in a government department shelved and considered of little interest.
Eventually after the siege at Magdalla, they were released after the British had sent a force under Sir
Robert Napier to secure them. King Theodore shot himself with one of the guns Queen Victoria had
sent him on the appointment of Consul Cameron. Magdalla was pillaged and then torched.
Theodore was a remarkable warrioir and unifier of his country, but irracible and taken to uncontrolled
fits of rage, or as these confidential papers show was considered mad. As a Christian he had had the
idea of ridding the Holy Land of the Turks. His son was adopted by Queen Victoria and sent to Rugby
School at her private expense. He died aged 19 from tuberculosis.
67. ETHIOPIA. A Manuscript Prayer Book in the Ge’ez Language on vellum, c.1800 4 full
page coloured miniatures representing Christ in Majesty with symbols of the Gospellers in each
corner, the Virgin and Child, the Angel Gabriel, Two Horsemen with Spears, text in red and
black in different hands, some repair to pages with stitching, no apparent loss of text suggesting
the faults in the vellum occurred before the scribe began his task, 348 pp. 7.5 x 5.5 ins, carved
wooden boards inlaid with ivory, on the front cover the central motif is a cherubim, [12676]
£2,250
King Theodore, the Christian King of Ethiopia, was beseiged by the British at Magdala in 1868.
Because of his perceived slight from Queen Victoria, he had imprisoned British and other Europeans.
Its’ subsequent “Relief”, when the Hostages were released, the city was sacked and pillaged.
Theodore killed himself. Many of the Ethiopian artifacts in western museums and collections came
from there at that time.
68. ETHIOPIA. A Miniature Manuscript Ethiopian Prayer Book in the Ge’ez language, in red and
black c.1800 on vellum, 47 pages of script with 3 full page diagrams, + 5 pp blank, wooden
boards, stitching, 3 x 2 ins.contained in original blind stamped leather case, [12662] £350
King Theodore, the Christian King of Ethiopia, was beseiged by the British at Magdala in 1868.
Because of his perceived slight from Queen Victoria, he had imprisoned British and other Europeans.
Its’ subsequent “Relief”, when the Hostages were released, the city was sacked and pillaged.
Theodore killed himself. Many of the Ethiopian artifacts in western museums and collections came
from there at that time.