Adelaide queen (30 resultados)

Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 299 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners, mild shelf wear.Text block has cracked front hinge, frontispiece loose from binding, a few rough page fore edges. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Colum…

Army officer (1823-1902), nephew of Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV, and one of the young Queen Victoria's playfellows. Paper dimensions roughly 2 1/2 inches by 1 1/2. In good condition, although with two light creases. Reads 'Edd. Saxeweimar'. Small fragment of letter with mourning border on reverse. Docketed in heavy black…

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. 16 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery…

Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe (Boase), Lord Chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, 1830-31 and 1834-49. One page, 8vo, heavy glue staining toand bottom, not affecting text which is clear and complete, saying: "Lord Howe presents his Comps to Mrs Day, and is commanded by Queen Adelaide to convey Her Majesty's permission that the propo…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. With a facsimilie of her signature. The daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen, in 1818 married the Duke of Clarence, who in 1830 succeeded to the English throne as W…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. With a facsimilie of her signature. The daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen, in 1818 married the Duke of Clarence, who in 1830 succeeded to the English throne as W…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Handwritten biblical quotation on a card, dated 1841, written and initialled by Queen Adelaide. "Ps. XV. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies." Queen Adelaide (1792-1849), was wife to William IV, and survived him by some 12 years. W…

See Parris's entry in the Oxford DNB. The subject of the letter is his work 'restoring' James Thornhill's paintings inside the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. Beginning in 1853 and ending three years later, Parris worked on scaffolding he had designed for the purpose thirty years before. His efforts were not well received: he was a…

The two volumes folio, 20 pp, and folio, 18 pp. Both in the same neat hand and in uniform original bindings of green boards, with green cloth spines and white decoratively-cut paper labels on front covers, each carrying a description of the contents addressed to 'Königin Adelheid von Großbritannien'. The first account book (1844…

Zusammen 186 größtenteils beschr. Bll. Marmorierte Pappbände der Zeit. Kl.-4to. Die Tochter von Herzog Georg I. von Sachsen-Meiningen und Louise Eleonore von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, am 13. August 1792 als Prinzessin Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen geboren, ehelichte am 13. Juli 1818 in Kew Palace, Surrey, William Heinrich von Großb…

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. 31 lines of text. In fair condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Signed 'Mary Adelaide'. She has seen Russell's 'envoyé', who had 'planned a road, which he assures me cannot be objected to, and can easily be intro-duced [sic] into and carried out with your proposed alterati…

12mo, 1 p. Slight damage and loss at head, affecting one line of text. The seal, with a clear impression of a crown above the letters 'A R'., in a rectangle roughly 1 x 1.5 cm, adheres to the reverse of the second leaf of the bifolium, which also carries the name of the recipient, and has been repaired with tape along one edge o…

In 1858 her son Frederick married Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; her grandson was Kaiser Wilhem III. For Lady Ashbourne, see her husband's entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Before receiving Lady As…

See Clarke's entry in the Oxford DNB. The present letter, signed 'Charles Mansfield Clarke', was written (from Caston, where Clarke's son-in-law Walter Patridge was rector) a few weeks after the death on 3 July 1856 of Clarke's wife of fifty years, Mary Anna (née Squire), by whom he had two sons and five daughters. Lady Clarke's…

8vo. 1 page on bifolium. To a John Porter, with a promise to take care of a procurement for Miss Middlemass: "Being quite at a stand still at this place we have nothing worth showing to strangers [.] I shall be most happy to attend to your Acquisition for Miss Middlemass [.] (am only returned from Bushey to-day)". - Some duststa…