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146. GROSSMITH, George and Weedon. The Diary of a nobody. Bristol. J.W Arrowsmith. 1892.
£998
8vo., original decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine. With illustrations by Weedon Grossmith. A very good copy in cloth chemise and slipcase.
First edition. Jerome Kern’s copy, inscribed to him by harry B Smith “To Jerome Kern fom the Smiths (Gross and harry B.) August 1926.”
A pleasing association. harry Bache Smith ( December 28, 1860 – January 1, 1936 ) was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Smith and Kern collaborated on several shows including The Doll Girl, The Laughing Husband and The Girl from Utah.
Kern also collaborated with George Grossmith Jr, the son of one of the authors of The Diary of a nobody on shows such as The Cabaret Girl and The Beauty Prize.
With the bookplate of Edward newman horn and Fort hill bookplate.
147. Guth. her majesty The Queen Empress. original lithograph, from the ‘vanity Fair’ series, published June 17th, 1897. 365 x 206 mm.
£75
KinG GEoRGE iii’S PhYSiciAn’S ESSAYS on inSAniTY, inScRiBED To GEoRGE iii’S Son
148. HALFORD, Sir Henry. Essays and orations, Read and Delivered at the Royal college of Physicians: to which is added An Account of the opening of the Tomb of King charles i. John Murray. 1831.
£998
8vo., original cloth with paper spine label. With an engraving of King charles i’s face, as it appears on the opening of his tomb in 1813. Spine and upper boards slightly sunned, otherwise a very good fresh, unopened, copy.
First edition. henry vaughan (1766-1844) took the name of halford in 1809, the year that he was knighted. he had been appointed physician- extraordinary to King George iii in 1793, and attended the king during his madness and final illness. The collection of essays includes Popular and Classical illustrations of insanity and On the influence of some Diseases of the Body on the Mind. he was President of the Royal college of Physicians from 1820 until his death, and also attended Kings George iv, William iv and Queen victoria, and the Duke of cumberland.
This copy is inscribed “from the author to his Royal highness the Duke of cumberland K.G. most respectfully”. Ernest Augustus (1771-1851) was the fifth son of George iii and Queen charlotte and was born at Buckingham house. his childhood was spent at Kew and in 1786 he was sent to study at the University of Gottingen. in 1790 he joined the 9th hanoverian hussars, and fought with great courage, losing his left eye at Tournai. he was created Duke of cumberland and Teviotdale, and Earl of Armagh in April 1799.
he did not always see eye to eye with his brother the Prince of Wales, the Prince Regent, and he was not overly popular with the British public. in
1815 he married his twice-widowed cousin, Friederike, and from 1818 to 1828 they lived in voluntary exile, mostly in Berlin.
Upon the death of his older brother William iv on 20 June 1837, he ascended the hanoverian throne as senior male heir because Queen victoria could not inherit under Salic Law that governed in the Germanic states. King Ernest was a popular monarch, and his equestrian statue, paid for by voluntary contributions after his death was inscribed “To the Father of his country from a Faithful People”.
149.HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE. GIPKENS, Julius. imperator. Hamburg-Amerika Linie. 1913.
£398
8vo., original blue silk backed paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on upper board with hamburg-Amirika gilt block on upper board. With illustrations by Julius Gipkens and black and white photographs. A lavish production printed by the fine printing firm h. G. Rahtgens.
A promotional 54 page pamphlet in German annnouncing the building of the liner imperator. At the time of her completion in June 1913, she was the largest passenger ship in the world, superseding the RmS Titanic and RmS olympic. The photographs show the majestic opulence of the super liner and the choice production of this brochure attests to the quality of design and furnishing of the ship. Among her luxurious features, imperator introduced a two-deck-high, Pompeiian-style swimming pool for her first- class passengers.
The imperator did not however have an easy life. on her initial sea trials, the ship ran aground on the Elbe river due to insufficient dredging and a flash fire in the engine room which resulted in eight crewmen being taken to hospital. on her official trials, she suffered overheating of the turbines and some stability issues were discovered. The trials were therefore abandoned and the builders were called in to carry out emergency work.
on her arrival in new York on her maiden voyage she was seen to list from side to side when the helm made changes to the ship’s direction. She was soon nicknamed “Limperator”. After the outbreak of the First World War the imperator was laid up at hamburg and remained inactive for more than four years, where she fell into a dilapidated state. Following the 11 november 1918 Armistice, imperator was taken over by the Allied Food Shipping and Finance Agreement, and allocated to the United States for temporary use as a transport alongside vaterland now renamed USS
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