Russell odo (14 risultati)

11,5 x 10,5 cm. Aus einer illustrierten Zeitschrift, Rückseite mit Text. [SW - Portrait, Porträt, Lord Ampthill].

Condizione: Very Good Condition. 9 pages with some illustrations. 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. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Bildgröße 13x11 cm.

Hardcover. 1st edition. xl, [1], 474 p.: front. (port.) & 30 illus., double-page line map of Italy in 1858; 22 cm. -- 536 items; index, p. [460]-473. [A later series of Odo Russell's dispatches, ed. by Paul Knaplund, was published in, Letters from the Berlin embassy: selections from the private correspondence of British representatives at Berlin. 1944.] Good orig. black cloth, front edge sl. spotted, in illus. dj.…

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38.5 x 26cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. First. A fine original colour lithograph from Vanity Fair, a magazine which was published from 1869-1914, featuring a large caricature portrait each week. These were drawn by various artists, the most famous of whom was Leslie Ward who used the 'nom de crayon' of "Spy". This portrait will come mounted/matted and ready to frame using archivist quality materials, mount size 18 x 12 inches, 47 x 31 cms. It will be presented in a cellophane wrapper with our label guaranteeing authenticity. We pack very well, between sheets of hardboard. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of the Rt Hon Lord Odo William Leopold Russell, GCB, with the caption "Odo". With a one page biographical sheet. Drawn By Spy (illustratore).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. First. A fine original colour lithograph from Vanity Fair, a magazine which was published from 1869-1914, featuring a large caricature portrait each week. These were drawn by various artists, the most famous of whom was Leslie Ward who used the 'nom de crayon' of "Spy". This portrait will come mounted/matted and ready to frame using archivist quality materials, mount size 18 x 12 inches, 47 x 31 cms. It will be presented in a cellophane wrapper with our label guaranteeing authenticity. We pack very well, between sheets of hardboard. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of the Rt Hon Lord Odo William Leopold Russell, GCB, with the caption "Odo". With a one page biographical sheet. Drawn By Spy (illustratore).…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. A privately printed facsimile reprint of the original 1938 publication. Undated but from appearances circa 1980. 136pp. Stiff card covers with stiff, clear Perspex bound over the front panel. 8vo. Some shelf wear to Perspex, and the rear cover is a little creased and bumped around edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An inscribed compliment's slip from the author's grandson loosely laid in, referring to his 'grandpa's book' and explaining the faults in the production. This would appear to be a facsimile copy of the 1938 original publication, arranged for by the author's family and reproduced from a family held copy. Sir Odo Russell (1870-1951) the second son of the first Lord Ampthill, was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Switzerland, the Vatican and the Netherlands. These are his memoirs.…

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and worn, with glue stains and slight damage to second leaf from mounting. At the time of writing Cox was curate at Wantage. Russell begins the letter by stating that he will be visiting his mother and will not 'return to Watford before Friday night. - On Saturday morning I hope I may have the good fortune of finding you at home to talk over matters in connexion with my marriage on the 5th. of May.' (to Lady Emily Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon). He thanks him for taking his room at the Clarendon Hotel, before concluding.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Begins: 'Dear Princess Charlotte. | May I venture to ask Your Royal Highness's acceptance of a small wedding present from my husband and myself with our most sincere and heartfelt good wishes for Your Royal Highness's future happiness and prosperity.' The present is 'the newest style of Minton's china and this is the first specimen of the kind'. She concludes in conventional style. Beneath the signature, in a contemporary hand (that of the Princess?): 'Lady Ampthill the Wife of the Late Ambassador in Berlin.' The recipient Princess Charlotte of Prussia (Viktoria Elisabeth Auguste Charlotte), married her second cousin Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen in 1878, becoming his Duchess Consort. She was a daughter of the Hohenzollern Prince Frederick of Prussia, and through her mother Victoria, Princess Royal, she was the eldest granddaughter of the British monarch Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.…

hardback, large 8vo, 68pp, signed by the author on endpaper ('Theo'), inscribed to Sir Cecil Dormer, with a handwritten note laid in, some light foxing, text clean and binding sound, pebbled blue cloth gilt, slightly marked, Good condition.

1 S. Qu.-schmal-gr.-8vo. His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught Hohenzollern Stiege Schloss". Odo Russell war an den britischen Gesandtschaften in Paris, Wien, Konstantinopel, Washington und Florenz tätig und wurde 1871 Botschafter am Berliner Hof; 1878 vertrat er Großbritannien als dritter Bevollmächtigter auf dem Berliner Kongreß. Etwas gebräunt und angestaubt und mit kleineren Randläsuren sowie einer alt montierten Notiz zu Provenienz und Verfasser.…

8vo. 1 p. Gedr. Briefkopf British Embassy, Berlin." Trauerrand. An den Lieben Graf Herbert" (d.i. Herbert von Bismarck): Wenn Sie heute Abend frei sind und nichts andres vorhaben wollen Sie bi uns um 7 1/2 Uh speisen?" Odo Russell betrat schon 1849 als Attaché der britischen Gesandtschaft in Wien die diplomatische Laufbahn. Im Jahr 1850 nach England zurückgekehrt, arbeitete er zunächst zwei Jahre im Auswärtigen Amt, war dann nacheinander bei den Gesandtschaften in Paris, Wien, Konstantinopel und Washington, D. C. tätig. Russel wurde 1858 zum Attaché der britischen Gesandtschaft in Florenz ernannt mit der Instruktion, das Vereinigte Königreich in offiziöser Stellung bei der päpstlichen Kurie zu vertreten, mit der die britische Regierung keine offiziellen Beziehungen unterhielt.In Rom blieb er auch, nachdem er 1860 zum Gesandten im Königreich Neapel befördert worden war. Im Jahr 1870 wurde er Unterstaatssekretär im Foreign and Commonwealth Office, begab sich dann für einige Monate als Vertreter Englands ins deutsche Hauptquartier in Versailles, um auf die Friedensverhandlungen mit Frankreich mildernd einzuwirken, was freilich erfolglos war. 1871 wurde er zum Botschafter am Berliner Hof ernannt.…

8vo. 4 pp. Doppelblatt. Gedr. Briefkopf British Embassy, Berlin." Gebräunt. An einen namentlich nicht genannten Empfänger wegen einer Fischlieferung: Soeben erhielt ich Ihr gefälliges Telegramm und beeilte mich Sie zu bitten die Fische noch nicht abzuschicken, da ich, sowie auch mein Bruder, noch nicht im Stande sind die Besorgung und den Empfang der Fische zu unternehmen. - Mein Bruder braucht noch vierzehn Tage um Alles in Ordnung zu bringen. Ich habe, wie ich die Ehre hatte Ihnen zu schreiben, niemand den ich nicht mit dieser Besorgung beauftragen kann, - und wenn es Ihr Fischmeister, den Sie so freundlichen waren, mir dazu anzutragen, nicht allein übernehmen kann so habe ich wirklich in diesem Augenblick niemand der ihn begleiten könnte. - Wenn der Transport nicht mit Überlegung, Muße und sorgfältiger Organisation unternommen wird, so verlieren wir die Fische wie es beim ersten Transport der Fall war. []".…