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KLOSE, OLAF.Livre Rare Book

Islandkatalog der Universitätsbibliothek Kiel und der Universitäts- und Satdtbibliothek Köln.

Rev Charles William Shepherd, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Alpine Club [G G Fowler; H M Upcher; Iceland]:Biblio.com

Iceland Expedition Itemised financial accounts in Shepherd's hand and initialled by him 'C. Wm. S.' for the expedition described by him in his book 'The North-West Peninsula of Iceland'.

8965Dated from 14 June to 7 July 1862. 4to 5 pp on five loose and uniform leaves. Very good on lightly aged paper. The first leaf is headed 'C. W. S. Acc' and is initialled at the foot 'Rt C. Wm. S.' The second is headed 'Sheet 2' with the rest numbered 3 to 5. It is clear from sheets 2 to 5 that one leaf - what should have been 'Sheet 1' - is lacking. Provides a fascinating insight into the practicalities of British nineteenth-century exploration and compliments Shepherd's 'The North-West Peninsula of Iceland: being the journal of a tour in Iceland in the spring and summer of 1862' published by Longmans Green and Co. in 1867. In April of 1862 with 'certain ornithological inquiries in view' Shepherd travelled from England to Iceland on the Arcturus 'in the company of my friends Mr. H. M. Upcher of Sherringham Hall Norfolk and Mr. G. G. Fowler of Gunton Hall Suffolk'. The accounts include advances 'To Fowler' and 'To Upcher'. The first page carries columns of credits and debits including £8 0s 1d received 'from the Sale of Ponies'. Shepherd's book ends with a description of the sale of 'our stud' but does not give the total fetched by the sale. The other four pages provide itemised entries around 25 to a page for the expenditure on the trip. These include £5 to 'Frenchman and Man to row us ashore' £6 'To men who rowed to Surtobrand and took us on board the Metha' £1 to 'Boy with eggs at Holar' £14 to 'Exchange horse that fell into the river at <Reakeavik>' 3s to 'Boy for lost Tackle Bag' and on the group's return 2s 6d for 'Beer at Adelphi'. From the Shepherd family archives. Dated from 14 June to 7 July [1862]. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni250,00 £GB≈ 285,45 €

[The British Legation, Reykjavik, Iceland; Icelandic; The Blitz, 1940; Rev Dr John Charles Fulton Hood (1884-1964), editor of 'TBiblio.com

Long telegram to the British Legation in Reykjavik from the Home Office in Whitehall instructing them on position to take with the press depending on the result of the impending 'GERMAN AIROFFENSIVE CONTRABRITAIN' i.e. the Blitz.

11803On 'Landssimi Islands' telegram form. From London to 'PRODROME REYKJAVIK' on 19 August 1940. From the papers of Rev. J. C. Fulton Hood who having been Chief Chaplain British Forces in Norway in 1940 worked in Iceland between 1940 and 1941. A pencil note on the telegram see below refers to 'The Midnight Sun' the troops’ newspaper in Norway and Iceland which Hood founded and edited. He was made a Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in 1949. The telegram is in good condition on lightly-aged paper and bears an oval blue 'LANDSSIMINN' stamp. It is headed 'PRESSE PRODROME REYKJAVIK' 'Prodrome Reykjavik' being the British Icelandic Legation's telegraph address. It reads as follows: 'MOIPCB LONDON OBGS R146 77W 1902 19 = = CIRCULAR GUIDANCE STOP TIS IMPORTANT YOU SHOULD TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY NOW EMPHASISE CRITICAL NATURE PRESENT GERMAN AIROFFENSIVE CONTRABRITAIN SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF WHICH WILL CONSTITUTE MAJOR TURNING POINT WARWARDS STOP IF AND WHEN AS RESULT HEAVY LOSSES GERMAS COMPELLED OFFCALL OFFENSIVE YOULL THEN BE POSITIONWARDS TO POINT ITS CESSATION AS MAJOR BRITISH VICTORY AND EXPOSE GERMAN ATTEMPTS CONCEAL FAILURE BY PASSING OFF AS SIDESHOW OR MASKING WITH SPECTACULAR ADVANCE SOME OTHER POINT = EMPAX 577'. In pencil in the top right-hand corner of the telegram is the following pencil note referring to Hood's newspaper 'The Midnight Sun': 'Could Hood get this over in his paper signed C.M. 20/8'. Between July and September 1940 the Luftwaffe attacked RAF Fighter Command to gain air superiority as a prelude to invasion bombing English Channel convoys ports and RAF airfields and supporting industries; the Blitz began in earnest on 7 September. On 'Landssimi Islands' telegram form. From London to 'PRODROME REYKJAVIK' on 19 August 1940. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni320,00 £GB≈ 365,38 €

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