[GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain)]
'The Fleet Reviewed by His Majesty King GEORGE V at SPITHEAD'
to Celebrate the Coronation, including a fine Admiralty Chart, in full colours, 12½" x 21¾", showing the route of the Royal Yacht 'Victoria & Albert' from Portsmouth Harbour up and down the lines of the Royal Navy (named in red) to the centre of the line among the visiting foreign vessels (named in brown), the map takes in Portsmouth Town, Southsea, Gosport and Haslar on the north, Osborne Bay, Quarr Hill and all the creeks and sands to the south, the text lists the Flag Officers, (including Vice-Admiral Jellicoe, Atlantic Fleet), and their staffs, then all the fighting ships, British and Foreign, with their Type, Name, Commanding Officer, Date Launched, Displacement, Horsepower and Armament, 22 sides 10" x 6¾" in blue boards, upper cover with gilt title, published by Griffin & Co., 2 The Hard, Portsmouth, for 24th June
binding faded in patches without loss
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
55968
£375
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THE NEW KING ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER EDWARD VII
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain) and Edward GREY (1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 1862-1933, Liberal Statesman, Longest Serving Foreign Secretary 1905-1916, Ornithologist)
Finely clerk written document signed at the foot, countersigned by Edward GREYaddressed to the President of the Republic of Cuba, José Miguel GÓMEZ
(1858-1921, Cuban Politician and Revolutionary, leader of the Rebel Forces in the Cuban War of Independence, President from 1909 to 1913) sending greetings to "Our Good Friend! It is with the deepest affliction that We announce to You the decease of Our Most Honoured and Beloved Father, His Majesty King Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, of Blessed Memory, whom it pleased God to call from this world on the evening of the sixth ultimo, at a quarter to twelve o'clock, in the Tenth Year of His Reign. We communicate to You this mournful event, feeling convinced that you will participate in Our grief and in that of all Our subjects, for the loss of a Sovereign so justly esteemed and revered. In acquainting you at the same time with Our Accession to the Throne. We assure You that it will ever be Our most earnest desire to cultivate and to maintain the relations of Friendship and good understanding which so happily subsist between the two Countries, and that it will always affords Us the greatest pleasure to have fresh opportunity of proving the interest which We take in the welfare and prosperity of the Republic of Cuba. And so We commend you to the protection of the Almighty ...", 3 sides folio on black edged paper, Court at Saint James's, 20th June
lacking the black edging on the top side, the signatures somewhat faded
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
41606
£1750
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SUPERB PRESENTATION PORTRAITS IN LAFAYETTE FRAMES
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953)
Superb Pair of fine Imperial Cabinet photographs, the one of Queen Mary by Paul Boyer, Signed and dated, the Duke of York is by Lafayette,
as Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York, showing the Duke three quarter length, in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet, the Duchess full length, in a long white gown with puffed shoulders, seated in a chair with her hands folded in her lap, 8” x 5½”, each mounted in an ornate gilt-composition frame and velvet border, the ebonised frames with leather backboard with gilt-tooled lettering LAFAYETTE DUBLIN, 13” x 12”, no place, dated by the Duchess
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
41791
£975
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SIGNED BY THE MONARCH AND HIS PRIME MINISTER
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of England) & Stanley BALDWIN (1867-1947, Prime Minister)
Fine formal letter on behalf of the Prime Minister to the Monarch, with the King's autograph "appd G.R.I." at the head, and at the foot "Stanley Baldwin"
saying that he, "with his humble duty to the King respectfully recommends to His Majesty the appointment of the Reverend Tom Tilleard Haines ... Vicar of St James the Greater ... to the Vicarage of St John, Cinderford, to become vacant as the result of exchange of Livings between the Reverend Tom Tilleard Haines ... and the Reverend Cuthbert Paul Gliddon, Vicar of St. John, Cinderford ...", 1 side 4to., 10 Downing St headed paper with 'Prime Minister' stamp, 13th June
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
40727
£375
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SIGNED BY THE MONARCH AND MACDONALD IN PLACE OF HIS PRIME MINISTER
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & James Ramsay MACDONALD (1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine formal letter from the Prime Minister to the Monarch, with the King's autograph "appd G.R.I." and at the foot "J. Ramsay Macdonald"
saying that in "the absence of the Prime Minister, the Lord President of the Council, with his humble duty to the King, respectfully recommends to Your Majesty the appointment of the Reverend Herbert Woodford Orton ... Vicar of All Hallows, Southwark, to the Vicarage of St George, Truro, vacant by the resignation of the Reverend Albert Palmer ...", 1 side 4to., 10 Downing Street headed paper, with the Prime Minister's stamp, 20th August
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
40731
£525
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