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Bleak House. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne.

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19th CENTURY ENGLISH COMMONPLACE BOOK BELONGING TO THE BIRD FAMILY

1832D4411England probably Beckenham 1832-1862. Hardcover. Good. Written in several varying hands with 6 fine pencil drawing vignettes one laid-in loose one of Napoleons grave signed Chas. Cadby one pen and ink landscape vignette. A fine painting of sparrow and rose; several laid in drawings of architectural views mainly pastoral English scenes one view labeled Beckenham one view for the stake of William Hunt of Brentwood Protestant Marytyr died 1555 and landscape. Few clippings from publications stationery postcard views including those for Rydal Lake Westmoreland Beckenham Arundel Castle Grange Bridge Bolton Abbey Exeter Coniston Old Man and some Welsh landscapes loose or laid-in. two full-page pasted in photographs unidentified portraits likely of Bird or Cadby family and seven other photographs loose or laid in. Original paneled calf; covers detached but present spine mostly perished some contents loose. Written contents include copied poems of: Sun of the Sleepless by Lord Byron; From the Recesses by Sir John Bowring 1792-1872; a hymn: If all our hopes and all our fears by Sir John Bowring; Sweet is the balmy evening hour by Miss Mitford; It is not that my lot is low by Henry Kirke White; Byrons lament to H.K. White Unhappy White! While was in its spring And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing The spoiler came; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave to sleep for ever there copied by Alfred Bird and dated 1862. Other original work by the Bird family include To the First of my brother Anemonies When Aging some lines from a memorial for Charles Cadby signed by Bird dated 1846 3 pages in memoriam of Albert Prince Consort died 1861 in the hand of Emily Bird dated 1862. Pasted to paper and mounted on doilies are 2 preserved dissected ivy-leaves said to be taken from Brompton cemetery. Commonplace books were collections of proverbial wisdom. Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes quotes letters poems proverbs and prayers. Many of the Bird familys commonplace book themes encircle death and mourning. Alfred Bird perhaps later Bird family member composed Fair but False in 1867 on unrequited love and in that same year The River of Life love poem to nature and another The Lords of Lochleaven. A memorial page left unfinished is for Emily Bird. Alfred and Emily Bird daughter born 1827 to Charles Cadby married at Westminster in April 1847. The book was passed between the two after their marriage where some nice Victorian themes are realized in the collection. Fine Victorian anthology tied to a single family. <br/><br/> hardcover

Sanctuary Books · États-Unis375,00 $US≈ 317,29 €

WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE, (English priest, soldier, traveller, orientalist and Arabist), (1826-1888).Biblio.com

Autograph letter signed 'W. Gifford Palgrave' with his original print portrait photograph with a fez.

1875052767Westminster: Manuscript ALS. ca. 1875 1875. No Binding. Very Good. Original autograph letter signed ALS 'W. Gifford Palgrave' to "Dear Joseph" regretting he is unable to make the journey William Palgrave Gifford. Speaker's Court the Palace Westminster undated. 15x10 cm. In English. 2 pp. in good condition with a separate photographic portrait of Palgrave. William Gifford Palgrave was an English priest soldier traveller and Arabist author of A Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia 1862-1863. Palgrave was born in Westminster. He was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave and Elizabeth Turner daughter of the banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were Francis Turner Palgrave Inglis Palgrave and Reginald Palgrave. He was educated at Charterhouse School then occupying its original site near Smithfield and under the head-mastership of Dr Saunders afterwards Dean of Peterborough. Among other honours he won the school gold medal for classical verse and proceeded to Trinity College Oxford where he obtained a scholarship graduating First Class Lit. Hum. Second Class Math. 1846. He went straight from college to India and served for a time in the 8th The King's Regiment of Foot Bombay Native Infantry H.I.C. Shortly after this he became a Roman Catholic was ordained a priest and joined the order of the Jesuits Society of Jesus and served as a member of the order in India Rome and in Syria where he acquired a colloquial command of Arabic. He convinced his superiors to support a mission to the interior of Arabia which at that time was terra incognita to the rest of the world. He also gained the support of the French emperor Napoleon III representing to him that better knowledge of Arabia would benefit French imperialistic schemes in Africa and the Middle East. Palgrave then returned to Syria where he assumed the identity of a travelling Syrian physician. Stocking his bags with medicines and small trade goods and accompanied by one servant he set off for Najd in north-central Arabia. He travelled as a Christian. The service he would do for the Society of Jesus and the French empire would be as a spy not a missionary. Palgrave became friendly with Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud while in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Faisal's son Abdul Rahman bin Faisal asked Palgrave to get him strychnine. Palgrave believed that Abdul wanted to poison his father. Palgrave was accused of espionage and was almost executed for his Christian beliefs. <br/> <br/> Manuscript ALS., [ca. 1875] unknown

Khalkedon Rare Books ABA, ILAB, IOBA, ESA · Turquie375,00 $US≈ 317,29 €

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