Travel & Exploration from Sophie Dupre

showing her head and shoulders in her Cosmonaut's helmet, 6½" x 4½", together with an accompanying Typed letter Signed from E. Markosova, Assistant President of the Soviet Women's Committee, to Mr David Milner in Yorkshire sending him "an autographed photo of the world's first and only woman-cosmonaut...", 1 side A4, 6 Rue Nemirovitch, Dantchenko, 30th September She… Read more about this item

on a piece of paper, 5" x 2", no place, 2nd August Livingstone came to have a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. As a result, Livingstone became one of… Read more about this item

(1820-1899, Scottish Minister, Writer, Biographer and Temperance Reformer), saying that "On Friday or Saturday I hope to send you my first paper on the Sandwich Islands. I hope the sub-editor will not take this as any encouragement to put in unwarranted announcements for the future, and that you will regard it as a work of most meritorious supererogation! We… Read more about this item

next to the picture of the Splashdown in the Atlantic, together with the insert giving the Timing Sequence for the parachute subsystem, 6½" x 3½", postmarked Patrick Air Force Base, 22nd October Eisele occupied the command module pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force in… Read more about this item

showing her in a skirt but with a flying helmet and jacket, standing next to her Miles Satyr plane which, at the time when the photograph was taken, was the smallest bi-plane in the world, 5½" x 3½", no place, no date but circa Bruce borrowed an AC Six car from Selwyn Edge, and started the 1927… Read more about this item

thanking him for his letter about her "exploits and adventures. I think, of all my records, the two that pleased me the most, and probably will be the best remembered, are the twenty-four hour record at Montlhéry in a Bentley in 1927, and the World Flight in 1930... As to a photograph, I am enclosing one of myself with… Read more about this item

(1869-1954, Music Hall Comedian) telling. him that he has "received the cheque for £100 that you asked Mr Morgan to forward to me. I hardly know how to thank you for so great a kindness. After all that you had done, in entering the aeroplane for the Kings Cup, it was a kindness that I had never anticipated, &… Read more about this item

British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13" on a card 3½" x 2¼", no place but circa He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic… Read more about this item

(1795-1883, Missionary-Explorer in Bechuanaland, Father-in-Law of Livingstone) saying that he was "much vexed when I received your letter to think I should not again have the pleasure of again seeing Mrs M & yourself before you left for the Cape. I had calculated upon having much conversation with you while in Town toward which I proceed d.v. on… Read more about this item

Hi, Love from the Moon", showing him full length in his space suit, on the surface of the moon saluting the United States flag at the Hadley-Apennine Landing site, 10" x 8", no place, no date, former damp staining on the verso Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the United States' Apollo program, the fourth to… Read more about this item

thanking him for his "request and I have pleasure in sending you my autograph herewith. Very truly yours, H. G. Ponting...", 1 side A4, 44 Oxford Mansion, Oxford Circus, London W.1., 10th April He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South… Read more about this item

Apollo 17", showing him three quarters length in his space suit, 10" x 8", no place, no date He is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent person living to have walked on the Moon. Schmitt is the last surviving crew member of Apollo 17. … Read more about this item

saying that he would "so much have liked to come to your Ball but unfortunately I shall not be in London until the end of the month - shall you still be there then I wonder, that I may come & see you. I have been spending a winter of busy idleness all at one in these deserts,… Read more about this item

To David", showing him head and shoulders, smiling broadly, 10" x 8", no place, no date He was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served… Read more about this item

inscribed "To David Milner with best wishes", showing him three quarters length in his space suit with his helmet, 10" x 8", no place, no date but original photo October He is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and, as Lunar Module Eagle… Read more about this item

with a small biography printed on the verso, 2¾" x 1¼", no place, circa

with "yours sincerely", 4" x 2", no place, no date

with a stamp "To Pay 1d only", 4½" x 3", Kendal, 6th September

saying he is "distressed to learn about the trouble you have been having and the fact you were in hospital. A torn retina is a very serious matter. You may remember my dear wife suddenly developed a torn retina whilst we were in the West Indies. It is a pity you could not get… Read more about this item

thanking him "for the copy of Weekly News Annual 1962. It is filled with tremendously interesting and beautiful spots in New Zealand and brings back many memories of our trip to New Zealand last summer. I am taking it home.. to show Mrs Rickenbacker...", 1 side A4, Eastern Air Lines headed paper, New York, 7th November … Read more about this item