smith sir sidney (23 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Good. 1984. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Good. 1984. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing. . . . .

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. No dust jacket over the red cloth covered boards, Very little shelf and reading wear.

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 224p., maps, port. ; 23cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 219-220. Subjects; Smith, W. Sidney (William Sidney) Sir 1764-1840. Great Britain History, Naval 18th century ; Sources. Great Britain History, Naval 19th century ; Sources. 1 Kg.

New edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, blind-bordered cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii, 1 unnumbered page, 1, 456, 142 pages, 1 l ; 24 cm. Subjects: Biography; Dictionaries. 1 Kg.

1930 Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some staining to boards. Surface tear to spine cover. Front hinge starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1456 pages; 1456, 142 p. Subjects: Dictionary - Biography. Great Britain - Biography - Dictionaries. 1 Kg.

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Hard back binding in publisher's original Brunswick green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8v. 9½'' x 6½''. The 1920 Oxford reprint of this work, originally published in 1903, with index and Epitome to the Supplement originally published in 1913. A concise national biography up to 1911 edited by Sir Sidney Lee, an English biographer, writer, and critic. Contains (viii), 1456; 129 pp. From 'Morley Memorial College Library' with indigo stamps to the title and end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The concise dictionary of national biography from the beginnings to 1930; an epitome of volumes covering the beginnings to 1930. A dictionary in the publisher's original cloth binding. Library stamp to the rear free end paper. Blind stamp to the title page. A dictionary of national biography, containing an epitome of the main work and its supplement from the earliest times to 1900, and an epitome of the twentieth-century volumes covering 1901-1930 in one alphabet. This work contains a wealth of brief biographies of famous people, from missionaries to actors, and architects to earls, arranged alphabetically by surname. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with shelf wear to the spine and extremities. Discreet tape reinforcements to the hinges. Remnants of a bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Stipple engraving, a little spotting and off-setting,

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

This English naval commander took part in several engagement of the American Revolutionary War: hewent to the relief of Acre while plenipotentiary at Constantinople and compelled Napoleon to raise siege (1799); he destroyed the Turkish fleet off Abydos (1807); in 1810 he became vice admiral and in 1821 full admiral. Unsigned integral address portion, 3 3/4" X 6", n.p., n.y. Very good. Two original faint folds visible. At center of this address portion, Smith boldly addresses it to "Messrs. Eversfield & Horne / Smith Street / Westminster." Small illegible postal cancellation at right; fragments of red wax seal still present. Not signed, but an interesting, attractive handwriting example -- and inadvertently includes his last name.

An excellent letter, describing the state of affairs in Sicily during the period of British occupation, 1806-1814. The recipient Sir Sidney Smith (see Oxford DNB) was second in command to Sir Edward Pellew, head of the Mediterranean squadron which included Bromley's ship HMS America, a 76-gun third-rater, launched only three years before, in 1810. The present letter is written with the ship on the verge of a notable engagement (described in the European Magazine, March 1814, pp.245-247, quoting from the London Gazette). From Bromley's entry by P. R. Eldershaw in the Australian Dictionary of Biography it would appear that he was merely incompetent, and that the true embezzler of the £8388 Naval Office and Treasury funds discovered in 1824 was his convict clerk, Bartholomew Broughton. Bromley certainly did all he could to pay the money back. The present item is 4pp, 4to, on a bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with folds for postage. Signed 'E F. Bromley' and with valediction addressed to 'my Dear Sir Sidney'. Begns: 'My dear Sir: / by the return of the Thistle to the Fleet I embrace the opportunity of giving you my little Information of what is going on here: it would seem by the precautions taken that we are a little afraid. The Sicilians are not quite so well-disposed towards us as we could wish, - one Hundred Men as a Picquet from each of our Regts. mount Guard every night - the Artillery Horses are constantly kept saddled. and the troops told to hold themselves in readiness to turn out at a moments warning.' He continues: 'Their Parliament is now sitting - and have been extremely Violent on the Subject of Quarantine at Messina[.] Genl. Montreson [Sir Henry Tucker Montresor] had given their board of Health some cause of complaint resp[ectin]g his Interference, this came here officially, and they noted his conduct censurable, and that two of their Members should be sent to England with a Complaint to the Prince Regent, this was however lost in the House of Lords.' He reports that, 'such is their dread of the Plague', that the Sicilians would not allow the 'Horses lately arrived from Egypt' to land: 'they are gone to Spain - but to obviate the difficulty arising from the want of those Horses, they voted 15,000 Dollars for the purchase of others in this country'. The second half of the letter covers topics including Prince Belmonte's departure from office, the king never going 'to the city', the throwing open of 'all reserves res[pectin]g. Game' that do not have 'a wall of a certain Height around them', the ill effects of 'reg[ulatio]ns. resp[ecting]g the Necessaries of Life': 'Fish is hardly to be procured, - and yesterday not an Egg to be found in the Markett', a report from Naples of a renewal of the armistice, 'another from Messina Via Clabria says Austria has joined the Allies, and that Hostilities have recommenced'. Bromley concludes: 'all here looking out anxiously for the expected promotion - I am much afraid I shall loose [sic] my good Captain [the future admiral Sir Josias Rowley (1765-1842)] who most probably will be Included. This loss I shall feel in no trifling degree - for I have experienced the utmost kindness from him'. After a reference to 'Harris' he ends with 'respects to Captn. Smith'.

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A fine plan, so neatly and delicately drawn that it could easily pass for an engraving. The title concludes: '[.] its Defence under the Command of SIR SIDNEY SMITH. Kt. &ca. &ca. &ca. - on the 2nd: day of May 1799.' In landscape on one side of a piece of laid paper, 29 x 42cm, with the plan itself within a 19.5 x 32.5cm border. The drawing and the precise and detailed lettering are in ink, the whole coloured in grey, brown, pink and blue watercolour. On aged and lightly-creased paper, with a couple of small unobtrusive holes. On a scale of one and a half inches to half a mile. Nine ships are named, from the 'Torride' to the 'Mary Ann', with the depth in fathoms and dotted lines of fire. The position of the English around the besieged town is given, with an 'Aqueduct' and the 'Enemy's Trenches and Batteries'. A crude stylised representation of the 'Enemy's Camp' appears in the top left-hand corner. A nice memento to the battle and soldier (Smith) which Napoleon considered made him miss his 'destiny'.

Four pages, 4to, fair condition. Smith has crossed out page one, suggesting this was a draft. He regrets missing the Duke on whom he waited. He makes strenuous representations on behalf of Dr George Roddam, hoping that Buckingham will support Roddam with the new King (William). He discusses Roddam's experience as Royal Physician to "the late King" (GeorgeIV) and Charlotte, and his services to Smith himself on the "Antelope" and "Pompee", and in Rio de Janeiro.

Letter in copperplate signed by Smith and with the subscription (corrected) in his hand, three pages, folio, chipped, edges dingy, tear on fold of bifoliate, some marking, but minimal loss of text which is legible. He is promoting the "enlightened and benevolent views of the Chevalier Jullien towards the establishment and developement [sic, indicating a French writer?] of the most improved and simpmlified methods of Education". He hopes that he can persuade his correspondent to promote Jullien's system. "His political principles are those of a national lover of civil liberty consequently an opposer . . . of the Revolutionary Doctrines which as being antisocial and (to use one of their new fangled expressions) 'liberticide' were most obnoxious to him. Victim of those political principles under the reign of the Child and Champion of Jacobinism he sought his consolation in literary pursuits . . ." He describes his benevolent nationalism, and his looking "to the improvement of the rising generation by means of a rational and liberal education." The correction to the subscription involves a change for "your Royal Highness's most obedient servant" to "Your sincere friend & most, etc." (From a website): "Chevalier Jullien, regarded by many as the 'father of comparative education'". Note: This item was originally part of a massive archive of material acquired by Richard Bentley and made available to John Barrow for his biography of Smith.

One page, folio, good condition, laid down on part of an album page (verso has a newspaper clipping about "Wilson, the Pedestrian" c.1815 - possibly some indication of when the Copy Letter was made). Text: " My dear Aunt, | The recollection of my Situation must occasionally present itself to my Friends with redoubled anxiety when brought to Mind by the Accounts from Paris of tumults at the prison doors, Assassinations within the Walls & the whole train of mischief which the Daemon of Sedition & discord is perpetually Waking in this ill fated City! I therefore eagerly embrace an opportunity which offers to satisfy them of my Safety - My health wh. began to suffer from the close confinement I experienced in the Abbaye is reestablished since I have been allowed to take air & exercise in the Court Yard of this Prison which is a Palace in comparison to the former. I was transferred hither on the 3rd of July in conseuqnce of my representation of the badness of the Air at the Abbaye become insupportable [underlined] from the numbers thrown into it on the discovery of the Jacobin conspiracy - My Cell was a dark dismal Hole, I had a Lieutt of the Gendarmerie at my elbow 'pour garder le Monstre a Vue' - I was not allowed to shave myself, for fear I suppose that I shd cut my Throat. In short I underwent all the vigour of the Bastille without being able to extort a reason for such treatment from anybody who approached me. They were all either mute or assured me that it was entirely on account of the great consideration they had for me as I was not considered 'comme un Prisonnier ordinaire' - They were all very Civil and even respectful to me here!!! My Table is decently well furnished - My rooms are now Airy & gay being the Apartments of the former Keeper which were occupied by the Royal Family before their Separation [.]". See Image for the rest of the contents. Note: I've found no evidence that the original letter survives or was eventually published.

See John Barrow, "The LIfe and Correpondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith", Chapter XIII, pp.406-424 (Knights Templars etc.). ITEM 1: Holograph, one page, 18 x 23cms, aged but good condition double column, some additions and corrections, apparently a draft for a formal document giving details concerning the distinctions of Wiliiam Sidney Smith in both English and French as follows: "The undersigned Sir William Sidney Smith Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Britannic Majesty's Fleet, Knight Grand Prior of the Antient and most noble Order of the Temple, Commander Grand Cross of the Royal Military Orders of the Sword of Sweden, The Tower and Sword of Portugal, of Saint Ferdinand and Merit of Sicily and of the Antient Nobility of the Four Emperors of Germany, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath [Knight] of the Crescent of the Ottoman Porte, Knight of the Lion of Holstein, Doctor of Laws of the Univerities of Oxford and Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and President of the Knights Liberators of the Slaves of Africa Declares that all persons are bound to respect these prents the same being lawfully issued under and by virtue of the said Order of the Temple. | Given at Paris the 8th Nisan 705 (20th March 1823) | [Masonic symbol] f. Gulielmus Anglicanus [sketch of a seal]". This runs parallel to a translation into French. ITEM 2: One page, 12mo, "Nisan 1823", printed heading "Ordre du Temple", brief note with subscription and name I can't fathom (SEE Image), text as follows: "Laissez entrer Monsieur Le Grand Sieur d'Angleterre, Chevr. Sir Sydney Smith." From the archive of Richard Bentley & Son, material about Smith accumulated for John Barrow's biography. Notes: a. "The "Knights Liberators of the Slaves in Africa" was a knightly order founded by British Admiral Sir Sidney Smith around 1815, though it was more of a philanthropic and political campaign than a formal military order. Its stated goal was to end the enslavement of Europeans captured by Barbary corsairs and to publicize the cause of ending slavery more broadly in Africa. Smith used the organization and related events, such as a banquet at the Congress of Vienna, to bring attention to the issue and propose international action." [AI]; b. "Smith had managed to run up significant debts through his diplomatic expenses, which the British government proved to be very slow in reimbursing. He also lived the high life and his efforts to mobilise opinion against the slave trade had cost a good deal of money. In Britain, at that time debtors were often imprisoned until their debts were paid, so Smith moved his family to France, settling in Paris. Eventually the government did reimburse his expenditures and increased his pension, allowing him to live in some style. Despite frequent attempts to obtain a seagoing position, he was never to hold a command again. He died on 26 May 1840 of a stroke. He is buried with his wife in Père Lachaise Cemetery.".

Fo. Slightly browned, creases from old folds, beginning to split at the central fold, stab-holes from a former binding, fore-edges a little brittle and with some splits, but overall in reasonable repair. David Ramsay & Son, Edinburgh, A full column and a half contains the entirety of Smith's Despatch to Lord Keith as printed in the London Gazette. Not one of Smith's most notable successes, Keith explains the failure of the British Squadron to detain the enemy's flotilla at Flushing ". notwithstanding the vigorous measures that were used." on account of ". the numerous disadvantages to which His Majesty's ships were subjected in consequence of the shallowness of the water, and the effect of the enemy's field artillery and their batteries on the shore.".