SOFIA BULGARIA Duck & Game Shooting BURMA Bagan CAPE COLONY SOUTH AFRICA
Original Antique Victorian Newspaper
Dated 1886
Sofia in Bulgaria - General Kaulbars at A Meeting. crowds shouting down the General - front page
Reception of Russian Agents - A Messenger of the Russian Consulate Thrown Out of a Coffee House in Sofia. front page
Shooting; full page of sketches by Charles Whymper engraved by Pearson:
Flight Shooting of Ducks etc. man and dog
Partridge Driving.
Brent Geese.
Dog Intruding on a Nest.
Woodcock and her Young Chick in Flight.
A Night Poacher.Sleekburnc.
A Plover and Its Young on its Back.
Two Men and A Dog Shooting On High Ground.
In The Marshes.
The Duke of Buccleuch's House at Richmond - View Looking Down the River with Richmond Bridge Beyond - - - The House from the River Thames - - - A View Looking Up the River - - - Views of the Grounds x2. full page print from engraving from sketches by W. H. J. Boot
On The Chindwin River in Burma -:
The Military Camp at Mingin.
Shooting Reive the Shoay-Gyee Whirlpools, Riverboat Approaching the Pools - - - The Hpai-Yai Whirlpool nr Kalaymyo - - - Stockade at Kendat.Full page of sketches by "An Irrawaddy Flotilla Officer Captain E. E. Rimmer of the Steamer Pathein "
Wandering Thoughts - A Lady Reading a Letter and Her Dog Sits Next to Her. full page print from engraving from a drawing by Edith Berkley
Full page of adverts - Streeter and Co. Goldsmiths - - Enos Fruit Salts
Chess Problem by B. G. Laws
Burma:
At Pagan - The Golden Pagoda.
Courtyard of the Golden pagoda.
Pagan - Officers Quarters.
Walking in Rangoon.
A Native Smoking.
The Officers Mess at Pagan.
Burmese Bells. Sleekburnc.
Full page print from engraving showing the architectural buildings and people of the area. Info. Bagan in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar
Statue of Sister Dora - The Late Miss Dorothy Wyndlow pattison of the Good Samaritans - by Mr F. Williamson.
The Dorsetshire Poet - The Late Reverend W. Barnes.
Marble Statuette - A Passing Cloud - by Mister George Halse.
The Indian and Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington - The Hyderabad Court.
Full page illustration for a Story By Walter Besant - Drawing by A. Forestier
The Exhibition at South Kensington - Washing for Diamonds and Diamond Cutting in the Cape Court.
The Cape Colony: Cradock - The Pulpit Rock - Capetown Harbour and Table Mountain - The Worcester Railway - Port Elizabeth - Near Graaf Reinet miel - Valley of Desolation. full page print from engraving showing the various views
Full page of adverts inc. Brookes Soap - The Prince Cart - Elimans Embrocation - etc
The Crisis In Bulgaria
The Court - Royal Comings and Goings
Ladies Column by Florence Fenwick Miller - with ref. to Dr Ross principal of the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College - - The Exclusion of Women from Educational Advantages - - Misses Mason and Yonge - Mr Arthur Balfour and Mr Stansfield
The Duke of Buccleuch's House at Richmond Bought by the Select Vestry of Richmond (kind of parish council I believe) Burmah
Music Column
Chess
Obituary includes:
The Honourable Thomas George Grosvenor died at St Petersburg
Mr CaledonGeorge Du Pre JP DL MP of Wilton Park In Buckinghamshire. c.keenlyside.
Mr George William Latham of Bradwall Hall Chelshire died at his Seat near Sandbach
Lieutenant General Charles Malcolm Barrow late of Bombay Corps died at 37 West Cromwell Road London
Deaths (short announcements) include:
Rev. William Barnes Rector of Winterbourne, Came - - - Hon. Thomas Knyvet Tyrwhitt of Stanley Hall Shropshire - - - Mister Robert James Wigram died at Davos Platz. Switzerland - - - Mister John Menzies Baillie of Culter Allers, died near Biggar NB (Scotland) - - - Colonel William Denny who served in the Canadian Revolt - - - The Very Rev. James B. Kavanagh of Kildare, Struck by a marble figure during mass sleekburnc.
David E. Cook Manager of Bathing Machines at Lowestoft, The Royal humane Society Award - small
The Late Rev. W. Barnes of Dorsetshire - Poet.
Twelve pages (24 sides). It measures 365 x 260 mm (14.25 x 10.25 ").The spine is loose with binding witness marks, some pages are loose. There is some age yellowing with some spotting. Some of the pages may be loose, and have minor cuts tears and blemishes due to their great age - anything more than minor will be mentioned in the main body of the description. The engravings vary in size. PLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there are no pages missing so if you are looking for something in particular in these pages PLEASE ASK. This item will be packaged in a tube unless otherwise requested.
"Info." in the description is my research, although relevant to the accompanying image or article, is not necessarily in the text.
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Product Code | 8742 SOLD |
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