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63-2652London: London Stereoscopic And Photographic Company ca. 1867. Print of Black and White Photograph Mounted on Card Stock 4 x 2.5 inches Very Good. London: London Stereoscopic And Photographic Company, [ca. 1867]. unknown
18701221870. Carrte de Visite. 97mm by 63mm. Henry Hawkins Q.C. later made Lord Brampton was the counsel against the Tichborne Claimant. CONDITION :Trimmed at bottom of card losing some of the text. unknown
187111211871. Albumen photograph. 100mm by 62mm. Roger C Tichborne Alleged to have been lost in the 'Bella'.'<br /> Photo of reverse available on request. Ink inscription on the reverse which reads 'Purchased in July 1871'.Roger Charles Doughty-Tichborne 1829-1854 was the eldest son of Sir James Tichborne 10th Bt and his wife Harriette-Felicite Roger was raised in Paris by his mother until his father brought him to England in 1845. Educated at Stonyhurst College he later joined the 6th Dragoon Guards. He spent his leave with his uncle Sir Edward Doughty 9th Bt and aunt Katherine at Tichborne House where he fell in love with his cousin Katherine 'Kattie' Doughty. Her parents resisted the romance and later suggested they wait until Kattie came of age. With this delay Roger left the army in 1853 to travel in South America. He was last seen boarding a ship the Bella bound for Kingston Jamaica from Rio de Janeiro in 1854. The ship was wrecked with no known survivors. unknown
187019981870. Albumen photograph. 100mm by 62mm. Lubbock was a banker Liberal politician philanthropist scientist and polymath. He took a keen interest in archaeology and evolutionary theory. He spoke in support of the evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley at the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate. CONDITION : Bottom slightly trimmed. unknown
46750Albumen print photograph carte de visite format 102 x 63 mm mount; recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. 'Robert Moffatt Ormiston East Lothian Scotland December 21 1795-Leigh Kent England August 8 1883 was a missionary and a linguist who worked in South Africa and Botswana for more than 60 years. Of modest parentage he had an elementary education and was raised as a Presbyterian on strict religious principles by his mother a Scotswoman née Anne Gardiner. He first worked as a gardener in Scotland and England. Influenced by Methodism he determined to become a missionary and in 1816 joined the London Missionary Society LMS. He had already met and become engaged to Mary Smith who came from Lancashire near Manchester. He was sent out to South Africa where he arrived in Cape Town on January 13 1817. His fiancée however due to her father’s objections did not join him for another three years. He was to begin his service in Great Namaqualand south of the Orange River but at first was refused permission to travel there by the local authorities. Therefore he began instead to study Dutch at Stellenbosch University until January 1818 when he began work in Great Namaqualand. He had an early success in the conversion of local ruler Jager Christian Afrikaner circa 1800-1823 a Hottentot freebooter this while traveling in South West Africa now Namibia and Bechuanaland now Botswana. In April 1819 in Cape Town he met with an LMS deputation investigating LMS work in Southern Africa. They invited him to act as their interpreter in Dutch. He traveled with them until the Fifth Frontier War of 1819 forced them to stop. At the same time his fiancée arrived from England and they were married in Cape Town in December 1819. She was to prove a strong loyal and dedicated companion. The delegation persuaded him to work amongst the Tswana Bechuana and he settled at first at Dithakong in 1821 among the Tlhaping a Tswana people. Unrest swept this region as a result of the wars of the Zulu Chief Shaka but invaders were driven off by armed Griquas led by Andries Waterboer. Unsettled conditions continued until 1829. At that time Moffatt baptized his first converts. In this same year he established what was to prove a lifelong friendship with Mzilikazi chief of the Matabele. Having moved to Kuruman he began to translate the Bible into the Tlhaping dialect. He took the manuscript to Cape Town where with his own hands he prepared it for printing on the government press. He then acquired a printing press which he took to Kuruman by ox-wagon where he produced more religious literature. He had however to travel to Britain to have his translation of the New Testament published in 1840. While in London in 1841 he met with David Livingstone whom he persuaded to travel to Africa. It was from Kuruman that Livingstone began his African travels in 1849. Meanwhile back in Kuruman he continued to translate and print the Old Testament. The result was the first translation of the Bible into any South African language. In 1857 he led a mission to meet with Mzilikazi in Matabeleland. Suspicious of his influence Afrikaner burghers prepared to attack Kuruman. A request to the British govemor at the Cape Sir George Grey led to a successful appeal to Pretorius not to make the attack. Moffatt then remained at Kuruman working on a translation of Pilgrim’s Progress. In 1870 Moffatt and his wife retired to England where she died at Brixton in 1871. He died in 1883. His son John Smith Moffatt continued his work in Botswana and his daughter Mary married David Livingstone. Kuruman had been the northernmost European outpost in southern Africa and played a key role in the establishment of relations with the more northerly peoples. Although involved with diplomatic relations Moffatt’s work was essentially evangelical in character.' Keith Irvine Dictionary of African Christian Biography   unknown
187212601872. Albumen photograph. 102mm by 62mm. Carte de visite portrait of Arthur Orton 1834-1898 The Tichborne Claimant. unknown
187211261872. Albumen photograph. 102mm by 65mm. Carte de visite portrait of Arthur Orton 1834-1898 The Tichborne Claimant.<br /> CONDITION : Some slight spotting and soiling. unknown
187212621872. Albumen photograph. 102mm by 62mm. Portrait of Sir Alfred Joseph Doughty-Tichborne 11th Bt 1839-1866. CONDITION : Faint foxing in title area. Trimmed very slightly on right hand side. unknown
18701161870. Albumen photograph. 100mm by 62mm. Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn 12th Baronet QC 1802-1880 was a Scottish lawyer politician and judge. As Lord Chief Justice he heard some of the leading causes celebres of the 19th century including the Tichborne Trial.<br /> CONDITION : Faint foxing in title area. unknown
184249144Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1842. No wrappers. In: In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" Ergänzungsband Nach Bd. LI einzuschalten Stück 1. With titlepage to the volume Erg.-Bd. Pp. 1-192 a. 3 plates. Entire issue offered. Wheatstones paper: pp. 1-48. Brownspots to inner margin on the first page otherwise clean. Stamp to titlepage and verso of plates. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in German of this classic paper in physiological optics in which Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic vison of the human eye.Stereopsis was first described by Wheatstone in 1838 published first in the Transactions. In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his explanation of binocular vision a research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view. Thus in the stereoscope an arrangement of lenses or mirrors two photographs of the same object taken from different points are so combined as to make the object stand out with a solid aspect. Sir David Brewster improved the stereoscope by dispensing with the mirrors and bringing it into its existing form with lenses."As the inventor of the stereoscope later developed by Brewster Wheatstone found himself - to his own surprise - the first since Leonardo da Vinvi to discuss depth perception in terms of the different image received by the eye."DSB XIV p. 290.Garrison & Morton No. 1498. Also with K.E. von baer "ueber das Klima von Sitcha und den russischen besitzungen an der Nordwestküste von Amerika" pp. 129-154. </em> unknown
183842847London Richard and John E. Taylor 1838 a. 1852. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1838 - Part II. Pp. 371-394 and 2 engraved plates. Light browning to plates. 1852- Part I. pp. 1-17 and 1 engraved plate. A dampstain to plate. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of these classic paper in physiological optics in which Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic vison of the human eye.Stereopsis was first described by Wheatstone in 1838 in the paper offered. In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his explanation of binocular vision a research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view. Thus in the stereoscope an arrangement of lenses or mirrors two photographs of the same object taken from different points are so combined as to make the object stand out with a solid aspect. Sir David Brewster improved the stereoscope by dispensing with the mirrors and bringing it into its existing form with lenses."As the inventor of the stereoscope later developed by Brewster Wheatstone found himself - to his own surprise - the first since Leonardo da Vinvi to discuss depth perception in terms of the different image received by the eye."DSB XIV p. 290.Garrison & Morton No. 1498. </em> unknown
