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January 17th
'Burgher Fingoes on the frontier of Cape Colony'
The Kaffir War: 'East London : Buffalo Mouth, from the West'
'HMS Alban rescueing a part of the crew of an American Brigantine in Serranilla Keys'
'Great running match in Copenhagen fields'
'The North London School of Drawing and Modelling, Camden Town
' Removal; of the inscription "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" in Paris'
'State visit of the French President Louis Napoleon to the Opera - a private performance of Meyerbeer's Prophete'
'A Brisk Gale at Sea - by Backhuysen'
'Meeting of the operative engineers in St Martins Hall ( Long Acre)'
The Great Exhibition items 'Enamelled gold vase made by Seymour and son - Woodcarving by Wallis, Louth - Toilet glass, made for the Duchess of Sutherland, by Potts of Birmingham - and Her Majesty's Cinque-cento jewel case designed by Gruner, manufactured by Elkington'Most ancient fossil reptile yet discovered ( Nr Elgin in Morayshire)'
A small scene from the christmas pantomime at the Olympic Theatre - Red Rufus or Harlequin Fact fiction and fantasy
Small view of a House at Chelsea in which died J M W Turner
'Inkstand Presented to Lieutenant Colonel Biddulph by His Brother Officers of the 1st Life Guards'
'The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, An Oxford ( university ) Freshman by Cuthbert Bede BA part II'
Plus much more in the supplement
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Also articles (no engravings) icluding 'Foreign and Colonial News'
The new dock at Southampton
The primates of England on the Royal Supremacy
Proclamation of Louis Napoleon to the French people
News from the River Plate
The Australian Gold fields
Piracy and Murder in the Indian Archipelago
Mr Aguilars soirees classiques
General CavaignacChess problem number 417
The late J M W Turner - small article
'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir David Baird bart- Sir F W Dunbar bart - Sir Richard St George bart - Prince Amadeus de Broglie- General Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson G C B - Lt Col Fordyce of Berwick - Robert Grahame esq - William Brough C E - Mrs Harlowe actress - Thomas Dickinson of Upper Holloway
The search for Sir John Franklin -long article
January 24th
'Arrival of The Government Conveyance at The Colonial Treasury, Sydney, on August 21, 1851, From a sketch by Marshall Claxton'
'Bathurst Plains, From the White Rock School House' Australia
'Coombing Sydney, Forty Miles Beyond Bathurst, Where Gold Was Found in 1849'
'Elswick Four Miles From Sydney, On the Great Western Road'
'The Californian Gold District, Kanaha Bar, on a Tributary of the Sacramento, Where Gold was First Found,: Miners Working The Bed of the American River' Full page
'Landells Safety Boat Sling
'The Burning of The Amazon Royal West India Mail Steam Ship, Escape of Mr Neilson and Other Survivors in The Life Boat' - - 'Mast Presumed of The Amazon, Drifted Ashore at Dartmouth'
'Grand Panorama of The Great Exhibition No Viii, North West Portion of the Nave' Wonderful doube page engraving
'Grand Panorama of The Great Exhibition, No. VII, North West Portion of the Nave' another wonderful double page engraving
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This second part of the description features items of news but have no images
associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-
''The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor Castle'
Ingenious application of Gutta Percha (False Teeth)
Stothard, his genius and his career
The Engineers strike
The English Protestant congregation at Rome
Gold in California
Kanaha Bar
January 31st
February 7th
February 14th
price sixpence.
It features articles with prints from engravings including:
February 21st
'Execution of Merino, Outside the gate Toledo, At Madrid'
'Albacete Poignard, With Wich Merino Attempted to Assassinate the Queen of Spain'
' The Burning of the Body of Merino Outside the Gate of Bilboa, At Madrid'
'Costume of the French Senators and Councillors of State'
'Canoes Crossing The River St. Lawrence'
'Commencement of the Quebec and Richmond Railway'
'The Aberdeen Clipper Built Barque, Phoenician'
'Grand Ball Given at Kandy to The Governor of Ceylon, Decoration of the Library'
'Sir charles Barry RA Architect of the New Houses of Parliament'
'Museum of Practical Geology - Dr Lyton Playfair's Lecture'
'The Happy Family' a cage full of animals including Cat Monkey Rabbit Dog Birds etc
'The Lake of Thun'
'London Temperance League: Great Juvenille Gathering of Bands of Hope etc in Exeter Hall'
'Miss Crichton of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane'
'French Plays, Scene from The Marquis de Lauzan'
Also articles, no engravings, including:
'The Militia and the National Defences'
'Foreign and Colonial News'
' 'Naval and Military Intelligence'
'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir William Millieken Napier, Bart at his residence Milliken, Renfrewshire - Sir Edmund Stephen Thomas, Bart died suddenly at Cork aged 42 - William Lewis Lord Dinorben - Hugh Jackson, Esq of Duddington and Wisbech'
March 6th price sixpence.
It features articles with prints from engravings including:
March 13th
'Burmese Costumes - Road in Moulmein '
'View in The Iles Du Salut in French Guiana - Ile St Joseph - Ile Royale - Ile Du Diable '
'M. De Casabianca The French Minister of State'
'Village of Kourou in French Guiana '
The New Houses of Parliament - 'Lobby of The New House of Commons ' - - - 'Statue of Geoffrey De Mandeville, House of Lords, J. S. westmacott, Sculptor' - - - 'Chandelier in Corridor of the New House of Commons' - - - 'Statue of St George in Niche of the Victoria Tower, J. Thomas Sculptor'
'Spring Painted by Sidney R. Percy' Exhibition of the British Institution'
'Sallyport of Windsor Castle, Just Discovered'
'Chess'
'Commencement of The New Docks at Swansea, The Ceremony in Burrows Square '
'Scene I, Act I., From The Game of Speculation At the Lyceum theatre' with Mr Charles Mathews and Mrs Horn'
'The Point Lace Chamber From the "Prince of Happy Land" at the Lyceum Theatre'
A Pianoforte donated by Broadwoods at The Royal Society of Musicians
'Destruction of Lagos on The West Coast of Africa by The Britisyh Squadron '
'Uniform of The Metropolitan Rifle Club'
'Launch of The Countess of Ellesmere Steamer at Birkenhead'
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The New Ministry and Its Opponents' with reference to Lord Derby
'The War in Kaffraria'
'Foreign and Colonial News'
'Church Universities &c'
'Clandestine and Irregular Marriages in The Diocese of London'
'India - The Burmese War'
'The Military Colonisation of French Guina'
'Court and Haut Ton at Osborne etc'
'Country News'
'Litereary Forgeries and The Shelley Letters published by Mr Moxon '
'Election Intelligence'
'Metropolitan News' includes Royal Orthopaedic Hospital for the Cure of Club Foot - - - Asylum for Idiots - - - City Slaughter Houses and Commn Lodging Houses - - - The Pauper Establishment at Edmonton - - - The Bluecoat Boys
'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes The Rev Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart., at his seat Black Rock House Co Dublin - - - Sir William Jackson Homan, Bart., at his seat in The County of Waterford - - - Vcie Admiral Sir William Augustus Maontague KNT KCH CB - - - Major Wilmot of Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire in the dreadful Kaffir Warfare'
'The Engineers Strike '
'Mutiny and Sanguinary Affay' in The Mersey on board the American emigrant ship "The Queen of the West" ..'
'The Great Sea Serpent Caught at Last' A letter printed in The New York Tribune from Charles Seabury, master of the whale ship Monongahela
April10th
The Illustrated london News in 1852 (July to December) 588 p (16 pages per week)
July 3rd Whitby (1/2p engraving), Eastbourne (1/2p engraving), The Australian Gold Rush- Mt Alexander - Pt Philip
Ship collision off Northfleet Point
King of Gold Nuggets (Australia) 27lb 6oz
The General Election and results (engravings) 2p
The Riots at Stockport s The English v The Irish
July 17th
The ex Rajah of Coory
Testing anchors at Sheerness Docks
Royal Agricutural Society meeting at Lewes
Deeside Railway cutting
The Burmese War report
Re- cutting the Koo I Noor diamond
The General election drawings by Phiz The Chepstow suspension bridge
' Building Used as the Field Hospital During the Storming of Rangoon '
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' The Stamford Race Cup '
' The Jersey Race Cup '
' The Aeolian Vase Presented by Queen Victoria to the Royal Yacht Club '
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' Re-Cutting of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond ' - Kohinoor
' Elevation of Part of The Diamond Cutting Machine '
' Parts of the Diamond Cutting Machine '
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The Kilkenny Election
' Canvassing for Votes '
' Peasantry Reading the Candidates Addresses '
' The Successful Candidate ' a drawing by Phiz
' The Rejected Candidate ' Drawn by Phiz
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' Chess Problem by the Rev. H. Steventon '
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Royal Agricultural Societys Show at Lewes
' Hereford Bull Class I - First Prize ' - - - ' Short Horn Class I - First Prize '
' Kentish Sheep Class I - Second prize ' - - - ' Southdowns Fist Class - First prize ' - - - ' Kentish Sheep Class I - First prize '
' Devon Bull Class I First Prize ' - - - ' Sussex Bull Second Prize '
' Prize Poultry - Cochin China - White Cochin China ( rare ) - Poland '
' The Chepstow Tubular Suspension Bridge and Junction of the Wye and Severn Rivers - The South Wales Railway ' a wonderful view from a hill
' Plan of the Chepstow Tubular Suspension Bridge ' plus a diagram
' The Bucks Election - Mister Disraeli Addressing the Electors in the County Hall At Aylesbury '
' Rainsford Mill at Colchester Struck by Lightning ...'
' Her Majestys Cruise - The Royal Squadron Leaving the Isle of Wight ' the ships named
This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but
have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They
include :-
The President on the Rhine
Foreign and Colonial New includes France - - - United States with reference ty Judge preston of the Supreme Court - The Steam Ship Philadelphia Steam Ship and a Cholera Outbreak - Dr George A. Gardiner - Henry Clay - - - West Indies '
Burmese War
Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Sir John Lambton Loraine of Kirke Harle (possibly Kirkharle ) Northumberland - - - The Rev. Edward Murray late rector of Northolt - - - Thomas Gisborne Esq at his residence Yoxall Lodge Staffs
The Recutting of th eKoh-I-Noor Diamond
Fatal Accident at the Star Inn Bolton - apprx 120 words
The Weather
Artificial Production of Fish
Recent Collision and Sinking of the Duchess of KEnt Steamer - Inquest on the body of Mr John Sard
Metropolitan News includes - The Shoeblack's Society - - St Katharines Dock Company - - and more
Mr. Mechi's Farming
Prices of Coffee
The Stockport Riots
Marriage of Miss Georgiana Caroline Lascelles Daughter of the Late Rt. Hon. W. Lascelles MP to Mr Grenfell MP
Matlock Bath
Fetes at Strasbourg + Literature Arts and Science supplementThe Great Fire at Montreal
The Great Palm House at Kew ()
Cork Harbour Regatta
A Temperance procession Dumfries
The "Lizzie Webber" 1st emigrant ship to sail from Sunderland to Australia
Musical fete at Watcombe, Torquay
The Old and New Crystal Palaces
Start of St Andrews, Quebec railway
Sketches from the Turon gold fields NSW Australia
Queen Victorias Visit to Antwerp
Planting the Blue Flag on Cross Fell, Cumberland
Sketches in Burmah
The Kaffir War
The New Crystal palace
pages 141 - 146 missing
The Botallack Mine - Cornwall
The fatal election riot, six mile bridge, Clare, Ireland
Departure of the SS Great Britain from Liverpool to Australia
Gigantic telescope on Wandsworth common + supplement Queen Victoria at Osborne, Winterhalter
' Leeds - The Statue of the Late Sir Robert Peel ...'
' Cornwall - The Botallack Mine '
' The Royal Italian Opera - Scene from Pietro il Grande ...'
' Newark - Beaumonts Cross ' - I think this should read Beaumond Cross
' Newark Church - St Mary Magdalene ' a view looking down a street with shops and hotels
' The Great Hall Newstead Abbey - the British Archaeological Association '
' Interior of Southwell Church ( Minster ).. '
Chess Problem by ECB of Princeton USA
' Galway - Meeting of th eRoyal Agricultural Society '
' Presentation of the Address to the Lord Lieutenant and Countess Eglinton at the College, Galway'
' The SS Great Britain Leaving Prince's Pier, Liverpool for Australia ' steamship
' The Ballengeich or Ballangeich Emigrant Ship Leaving Southampton For Australia - Mrs Chisholms Farewell ' both spellings are in the feature
Wandsworth Common - the Gigantic Craig Telescope Just Erected '
' Henley Upon Thames - A Cedar Tree Struck by Lightning in the grounds of ParK Place'
' Mr J. P. Hind of Mr Bishops Observatory Regents Park Discovers Another Planet ..'
Illustrated Londn New Supplement
' Cowherds and Cattle in Evening Painted by Cuyp '
Her Majesty Queen Victoria and The Infant Prince Arthur From a Painting by Winterhalter ' a beautiful full page print from engraving - engraved by George Zobel
' Osborne House Isle of Wight - From the park '
' The Lodge at Osborne House ...'
' Horticultural Society at Chiswick - Ewings Patent Glass Wall '
........ And much more.
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Also articles ( no prints/photos etc unless listed above) including
Railway Amalgamations with reference to Mr Glyn the Chairman of London and North Western Railway Co.
' Foreign and Colonial News includes Political intelligence from Paris - - The United States and The Fisheries Question with reference to r Webster - Commodore M'Anley
Cholera
Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Alexander Hamiliton Douglas Duke of Hamiliton died at his mansion in Portman Square London
Jeffery Hart Bent Chief Justice of British Guiana
Dr Herbert Mayo late Senior Surgeon at Middlesex Hospital and Professor at Kings College, died at Bad Weilbach near Mayence on the Rhine
Wills include Silvestre de Souza Telles of Lisbon - - - Lord Wenlock - - - Miss Abigail Pratten late of New Road Marylebone
Law and Police Intelligence includes The Wreckers at the Nore, The Southend Boatmen - - - Clergyman Charged With Forgery The Rev James Nisbett
Newcastle Screw Collier John Bowes
The Court and Haut Ton - At Osborne etc
Metropolitan News includes Family Colonization at Clapham - - - The Proposed Water Sources for the Metropolis Conveyance of Patients Having Contagious Diseases in Public Carriages - - - And More
British Archaeological Association at Newark with reference to Duke of Newcastle - Lord Robert Clinton MP - Sir W. C. Anstruther - Rear Admiral Sir W. H. Dillon - Sir Oswald Moseley - and others
Naval and Military Intelligence includes The Duke of Wellington - - East Yorki Militia - - Berkshire Militia - - New Iron War Vessels - - Court Martial at Chatham of Lance Corporal William Maurice Jackson
Country News includes The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce - - New Free Library at Manchester - - Discovery of Old Canoes on the River Clyde above Govan - - The Late Holmfirth Deluge ( flood ) - - Smuggling On Board the Royal Squadron at Portsmouth
Monetary Transactions for th eWeek
Commercial Adverts of the Day
List of Publications of the Month
L Popular Science includes the Scientific Balloon Ascent by the Kew Observatory - - Salt and Th eDigestion - - New Plastic Material by M. Duthoit - - Bells Reaping Machine - - Gas Oven - - The Vastness of Icebergs - - To Preserve Cut Flowers - - Improved Lucifer Matches
Photography - Its Origin, Progress and Present State
Birmingham, England the Town Hall
Opening of the Manchester Free library
The Giants Causeway
The Seaweed harvest of Guernsey
Fete at Calais
New Harbour at Jersey
Ladychapel, Hexham Church
The Roman Wall of London
Hereford Cathedral interior
Mount Etna in Eruption
staue of Robert Peel, Bury
Koh I Noor diamond
Report of the death of Duke of Wellington
Floods in Worcestershire
Launch of HMS Windsor Castle
opening of the Morayshire Railway at Lossiemouth (p235 -236 half missing) + supplement Life of the Duke of Wellington (p231 - p232 missing)
descent of Greens balloon, Guildford
September 18th number 579 From this date
The following numbers 579, 580, 581, 582, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 596 and 597. Published September to December 1852. All are issues or supplements covering the death of Wellington, his life 15 pages, battles, honours, his death (with room plan), music sheets Mourn for the Mighty, Funeral March, funeral proccession, laying in state, home life, there is a fold-out mounted on linen approx. 22 x 33 inches, of the service in Saint Pauls. Plus another of this funeral car same size on linen plus full page funeral carriage of Nelson, 1805 and another of General Monks carriage, 1670. Dozens of articles nearly 100 illustrations many full page all on Wellington. The most comprehensive cover of Wellingtons life and death you can find written by people who were there as it happened. A total of 327 pages on one of England's greatest soldiers.
The Dukes funeral
RedHill farm Harvest home
opening of South Wales railway Camarthen
Prize poultry at Gt Yarmouth + another supplement of Duke of Wellington
Louis Napoleans travels through europe
Strathfieldsay - seat of the Duke of Wellington
Wreck of the English brig"Hebe" in Ceylon
Devon and Cornwall archery club, Teignmouth
Exhibition in the Temperance Hall, Bolton, lancs
The "Peru" emigrant ship leaving Cork
Manchester and Liverpool agricultural show, Gt Homer Street, liverpool + supplement
October 16th
' Louis Napoleon at Aix - Les Jeux de la Fete Dieu '
' Fete at Inglismaldie to Celebrate the Birth of Lord Inverury
' The Organ at St James's Church Piccadilly, Originaly Constructed for King James II '
' Mary Elizabeth Squirrell ' of Shottisham Near Ipswich '
' Squirrel's Cottage at Shottisham NEar Ipswich '
' The Right Hon. General Lord Viscount Hardinge GCB Commanding in Chief Her Majestys Forces, Painted by Sir w. C. Ross RA '
'Exhibition of the Horticultural Society at Montreal '
' The Late Captain General Castanos, Duke of Baylen ' Francis Zavier Castanos
' Festival of the Perahera in Ceylon ' Sri Lanka
' Chess Problem by Herr Lowenthal '
The Duke of Wellington - ' Ruins of Dangan Castle ' Ireland
The Duke of Wellington - ' Kilmore Church onthe Dangan Estate '
The Duke of Wellington - ' The Duke at the Soiree of the Royal Academy '
The Duke of Wellington - ' The Dukes House at Walmer '
' Oxford and Birmingham Railway - Cutting at Harbury '
' Bridge Over The Reservoir at Solihull '
' The Leamington Station '
' Flood on the Great Northern Railway Between Darlington and Ferry Hill Stations '
' Extreme Peril of the " Castors " Launch Sent to Survey The Birkenhead Rock '
' Meteor Seen inn the Isle of Wight October 5 '
' The Planet Saturn With Its Third Ring, As Seen Through The Craig Telescope '
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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
Louis Napoleon on the Establishement of the French Empire
Foreign and Colonial News
National Sports
The Arctic Expedition with reference to Sir John Franklin
Boston and Midland Counties Railway Application for Shares
The Illustrated London NEws Editorial with reference to the US etc
Her Majestys Visit to North Wales - with reference to the Britannia Bridge and Mr Stephenson and more
Idolatrous Festival of the Perahera in Ceylon
theTheatres
Naval ANd Military Intelligence
Mr Petroffs Chess Games
Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes: William Lewis Second Lord Dinorben died at Kinmel Park Denbighshire age 31 - - - Sir Edward Thomas Trourbridge - Bart., Rear Admiral of the Red CB - - - Sir Juckes Granville Juckes Clifton Bart., of Clifton, Notts died at his seat Clifton Hall - - - William Lord Rollo of Duncrub in the county of Perth
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