* Giffard (Henri, 1825-1882). Le Ballon de Mr. H. Giffard, 1878, cabinet card photograph, mounted on card, with outer ruled border and title in red, 16 x 10.75 cm, together with another carte-de-visite photograph of Giffard's Balloon by René Dagron, circa 1878, with photographers name and address printed in purple to verso, Photographie Dagron, 1, Rue d'Hauteville, 34 Boulevard, Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, Photographie Microscopique, 10.5 x 6.5 cm, plus four other early ballooning photographs, including a carte-de-visite portrait of Léon Gambetta, by Etienne Carjat & Cie. circa 1870, a large photograph of passengfers in a hot air balloon by J. Beau, Photographie Hippique et Vélocipedique, 51 Roue de Passy, Paris, 24 x 16 cm, a carte-de-visite photographic reproduction of the Crystal Palace by T. Wright, an amateur photograph of an American airship taking its first flight at Pittsburg in 1908, with original inscription in ink to verso 'Taken in Schenley Park on October 3, 1908, its first ascention in Pittsburg length 71 ft. dia. 8 ft. weight 500lbs, frame work made of (white pine) balloon (oiled silk) 32 coats of linseed oil motor (four cylinders) run by gasoline', 15 x 17.5 cm, a stereocard photograph, circa 1880s, titled in ink to verso Avenue des Cerises a Paris, the yellow card surround stamped E.L., plusTissandier (Gaston). Le Grande Ballon Captif a Vapeur de M. Henry Giffard, Cour des Tuileries - Paris, 1878, avec de nom breuses illustrations par M. Albert Tissandier, Paris: G. Masson, editeur, Juillet 1878, wood engraved illustrations, some spotting, original pale green printed wrappers, with glassine overwrapper, a little frayed, 8vo, and a 1909 glass lantern slide of the Clément-Bayard Dirigible, entitled Take me up DearyQTY: (9)NOTE:Henri Giffard also ordered the Legion d'Honneur in 1863 for his work on steam engines, but he is best known as the inventor of the Ballon Captif a Vapeur, or hot air balloon that was exhibited during the 1878 Paris Exposition, during which passengers could experience a panorama of Paris seen from the basket, 'a panorama of Paris, seen from the basket of the large Captif Steam balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries'. The balloon ascended to heights of 500 or 600 metres. Twelve ascents took place each day, which each ascent taking up to forty passengers.The photographic portrait of Léon Gambetta was probably published around 1870, following the Minister for Home Affairs escape from the Siege of Paris in 1870 by Balloon, becoming a French national hero as a consequence.
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T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, Angling in the Stream, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.49, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, ‘ANGLING IN THE STREAM. Not a ripple stirs over the face of the stream, Not a sheltering cloud from the sun's darting beam Is abroad in the sky-not a nibble is made, Yet all, save the angler, creep into the shade.’, with a stamp for ‘London Stereoscopic Company’ Condition: card good and clean slight finger marks Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, Rick Making, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.27, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, ‘RICK MAKING. The produce of the earth How bountiful it pours, Even from our birth, Its riches to our doors! The granaries are filled And the rick-yard has its store, For the earth that has been tilled May now be tilled once more.’ Condition: card with minor finger marks, corners bumped. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, The Straw Yard, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.52, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, ‘THE STRAW YARD. Now that at length his harvest work is done, His straw-yard yielding shelter from the sun Of summer, and of winter's frost and snows; His shed, his pump, his barrow, and his ground, The worth of each, how well the farmer knows, And well they harmonize with all around. Condition: card good and clean, minor foxing. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, Little Mary and her Magpie, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.37, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, ‘LITTLE MARY AND HER MAGPIE. All must love something-it is nature's will, And nature ever will be nature still; Men love their dogs, and, at a certain age, Maidens love cats, and parrots in their cage; Why, then, should not our little Mary set Her heart upon her pretty magpie pet. Condition: card finger marks minor foxing , images good & strong. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, Done for To-Day, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.51, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, "DONE FOR TO-DAY." None but the wearied know how rich the draught At evening's close, by honest labour quaffed. When wheresoever our lot on earth be cast, We find a flavour in a plain repast.’ Condition: card with minor finger marks, images good. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, A Cottage on the Banks of the River, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.43, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, ‘A COTTAGE ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER. How peacefully the quiet streamlet glides, Yet ripples gently on the shelving sides, Or slumbers where the sunbeam never glows, Beneath the cottage walls in calm repose.’, with a stamp for ‘London Stereoscopic Company’ Condition: card good and clean slight finger marks Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, The Wear-Another Way, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.46, text to reverse reads SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE, ‘THE WEAR-ANOTHER VIEW. There fishermen resort, for there 'tis thought, The choicest produce of the stream are caught; And there, like those in Isaac Walton's book, Are fishes found, they say, who "love the hook.", stamp for ‘London Stereoscopic Company’ Condition: card good and clean,. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, Dame Edmund’s Talkative Daughter, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.29, text to reverse reads 'SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE. DAME EDMUNDS' TALKATIVE DAUGHTER. “Stranger or neighbour, which it matters not, But whosoever nears the well-known spot Is caught-forsooth a gossip ever will, Morning and noon and evening gossip still."with stamp for London Stereoscopic Company Condition: card with minor finger marks, images good. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, My Summer Haunt, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No. 4a, label to reverse reads 'My Summer Haunt, "So sweet a spot of Earth, you might I ween, Have guessed some congregation of Elves,To sport by summer moons had shaped it for themselves.", stamped 'The London Stereoscope Company' Condition: slight foxing to card image good. Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, The Last Load-Gleaners Waiting at the Gate, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village,No.20, text to reverse reads 'SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE. THE LAST LOAD-GLEANER'S WAITING AT THE GATE. No rake takes here what heaven to all bestows Children of want! for you the bounty flows, And every cottage from the plenteous store Receives a burden nightly at its door.’ Stamp for ‘London Stereoscope Company’ Condition: card good, images clear and strong . Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, The Turnpike to the Hamlet, T. R. Williams Stereocard, Scenes in Our Village, No.41, text to reverse reads 'SCENES IN OUR VILLAGE. THE TURNPIKE TO THE HAMLET. None pass unchallenged! so thro' life can none Without a sorrow hope their race to run; Each has some weight that presses on his soul, Each hour its trouble-here, it is the toll!." Condition: card stained, corners chipped, slight foxing, images ok but a little faded . Note: These 1850's views are of the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire and are considered to be Williams's masterpiece. They were the subject of the book 'A Village Lost and Found', by Brian May & Elena Vidal, published 2009.
THIRD REICH IN STEREOVIEW: 'Grosdeutschlands Wiedergeburt Weltgeschichtliche Stunden an der Donau...', publisher's cloth backed thick red boards, 6 inset compartments to pastedowns containing stereocard views of the Third Reich and a folding viewer, 80pp of text with illustrations, good condition. (1)
ZEISS; a stereoviewer and light box O Contaflex in box, a Niida stereoviewer model SV-1 for reversal colour slides automatically lumiNated with colour adjustments holding a double colour slides in box, a Greenkat-SR 8+-25+ zoom telescope and a Glorious Britain stereocard series with Army Club cigarettes.
WW1 MARK VI 130 'NELSON' TANK BANK MODEL, a rare articulated WWI folk 'trench' art hand-painted, wood model of the Mark VI 130 'Nelson' Trafalgar Square fundraising tank, with string hand pulley for moving the two guns - this model was probably made in late 1917 or early 1918, lot includes a postcard, stereocard and London News magazine cover 43cm long 'Tank Banks' was the name given to a World War I fundraising campaign by the British Government. Six Mark VI make tanks toured towns and cities of England, Scotland and Wales, the primary purpose of the campaign being to promote the sale of government war bonds and war savings certificates.
Aviation and war, two large format photographs of a bi-plane, early 20th century, two of airships, one a stereocard, a gravure of a pilot waiting at Bomber Station by George Rodger, signed by the photographer and others various. First world War destruction in the Somme, two large panoramas showing the devastation and flattening of buildings caused by shelling of two towns, " Montdider, and Artois-Bapaume", 20 x 55cm, mounted (quantity)
STEREO CARDS - THE YELLOWSTONE PARK THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE A complete boxed set of stereocard views, numbered 1-30, published by Underwood and Underwood, New York, 1904. Stereoscopic images on stiff mounts with image descriptions to the reverse, housed in the original cloth-bound box++Stereocard images all in very good condition, original box with light rubbing to extremities, gilt lettering to the box 'spines' a little dulled
STEREO CARDS - YOSEMITE VALLEY THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE A complete boxed set of stereocard views, numbered 1-24, published by Underwood and Underwood, New York, 1902. Stereoscopic images on stiff mounts with image descriptions to the reverse, housed in the original cloth-bound box++Stereocard images all in very good condition, original box with light rubbing to extremities, gilt lettering to the box 'spines' a little dulled
*Army Medical Museum, USA. A surgical photograph of a bullet hole through a human spine, Fort Yuma, California, 1873, albumen print photograph, on original mount for the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, descriptive text above and below, printed descriptive label to verso, water damage to lower part of mount, away from image though affecting some text, image 180 x 150mm, together with a large anatomical stereocard, 1870s, and three later anatomical gelatin silver prints of a human foetus, human brain and skull of a python The label to the mount verso of the first item reads: 'Photograph no. 349. Shot Fracture of Vertebrae. Private W. Castle, 6, 23rd Infantry, was shot at Fort Yuma, California, while drunk, by an acting sergeant of the guard, September 24th 1873'. (5)
*Stereoscopic ambrotype. A hand-coloured stereoscopic ambrotype of an officer of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 1860s, in folding morocco stereoscopic viewing case with two gilt clasps, together with a similar folding morocco stereoscopic viewing case with reproduction stereocard inserted (2)
Der Erfte Grossdeutche Reichskriegertag - A Third Reich Period Stereocard Album, containing colour plates and ninety-six black and white cards, each inscribed, complete with viewer. Unser Weg Zum Meer Kriegserlebnisee, Einer Deutschen Infanterie=Division, containing colour and black and white plates.
* Boer War. A group of sixty-three (of 100) photographic stereocards from South African War through the Stereoscope by Underwood & Underwood, 1900-1901, together with twenty-two related collotype stereocards from the ÒB-PÓ series published by W. Tylar of Birmingham, all contained in remnants of orig. Underwood & Underwood stereocard box (85)
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859) - Robert HOWLETT & George DOWNES (photographers). A stereoscopic photograph of Brunel before the Leviathan Steam Ship, circa 1856-1857, overall card size 84 x 173mm. (images with arched top 76 x 71mm), together with five other related images (stereocard views of the Great Eastern, some with pink card labels verso).
*Stereocards. A group of approx. seventy stereocard photographic views, late 19th and early 20th c., including approx. 35 cards of the Holy Land, together with a group of approx. fifty topographical cartes-de-visite, forty cabinet cards, including military, topographical and theatrical interest and a bygone metal stereocard viewer in working order, the stereo cards in a wooden box. (-)
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