Search Results: Authors starting with O from Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

HM Store Ship Cormorant [Mediterranean], September 1812. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, in good condition. Captain Josiah Oake entered the Navy in 1806, witnessed the capture of Monte Video, and served in a number of ships on the Baltic, Lisbon, Mediterranean, and West India stations during the Napoleonic Wars. Later in his career he commanded the Ferret (6 guns) on the coast of Africa (1841-45), with the task of capturing slaver vessels.

Paris, 17 January 1883. In German. 1½ pages, 5 x 4 inches, in good condition. Charles Oberthür ( 1819-95) a German born harpist who settled in London in 1844 and was harpist to the Italian Opera in London.

14 June 1870. 1 page 6 x 4 inches, tipped on to part of an old album page. Charles Oberthür ( 1819-95) a German born harpist who settled in London in 1844 and was harpist to the Italian Opera in London.

London, 1 July 1839. 3 x 5 inches. William Smith O’Brien (1803–1864), Irish nationalist politician.

5 August 1839. 4 x 5½ inches, fine. John O'Connell (1810 – 1858) was one of seven children (the third of four sons) of the Irish Nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell and his wife Mary. He followed his father as a member of parliament and leader of the Repeal Association.

Millbank, 29 April, no year given. 2 sides, 3 x 4 inches, in good condition. Thomas Power O’Connor (1848–1929), Irish journalist and politician. As the voice of the Irish in Britain, his role was as mediator and ambassador for the cause of Irish nationalism. President of the Irish National League of Great Britain from 1883 to 1918, he played an important role in making links between Ireland and the Irish in Britain. He promoted Irish home rule policies in France, and raised funds for the Irish Parliamentary Party in America. His publications included T. P.'s Weekly (he was known familiarly as T. P.), a penny literary paper, The Parnell Movement (1886) and Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian (1929).

Croydon, undated. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. William Odling (1829–1921), chemist. Among his publications were A Course of Practical Chemistry (1854), A Manual of Chemistry, Descriptive and Theoretical (1861), and Outlines of Chemistry (1870). As the first medical officer of health for Lambeth he gained direct experience of cholera and other water-borne diseases. For drinking purposes, he concluded that well water, with possibilities of immediate pollution, was less desirable than river water, with its natural processes for purification. In chemistry, Odling’s lectures and writings played a considerable part in shaping fundamental chemical theory, and in several respects laid the foundations for the theory of valency, as defined by Edward Frankland and August Kekulé.

31 January 1739/40. 1 page, 8 x 6 inches, in good condition. Samuel Ogden (1716-1778), classical scholar and orientalist, was the same age as Thomas Ashton. They both went up to Kings College Cambridge in 1733, and both were ordained. However, the connection is not entirely proven. ‘...I beg my Crimes may be imputed to their real Cause. Do not think that a sign of Disrespect, which ten to one is a Proof of nothing but my late rising. I have often been displeas’d with myself; but never with you. Tho’ I am almost angry at you now, for thinking me so. Dear Ashton, yours ever, Ogden.’

Bowden. St. Boswells, 26 October 1910. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Uncommon. Will H. Ogilvie (1869 – 1963), Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover. He was also known as Will Ogilvie, by the pen names including 'Glenrowan' and the lesser 'Swingle-Bar', and by his initials, WHO. Ogilvie was part of the trio of Australian bush poets, with Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) and Henry Lawson (1867–1922). His Fair Girls and Gray Horses (1896) was considered second only to Banjo Paterson's Man from Snowy River (1895). A reader ballot in 1914 saw him placing seventh of Australia's twelve most favourite poets.

Royal Gardens Kew, 4 July 1879[?]. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Daniel Oliver (1830-1916), botanist. He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888.

6 Garway Road, 8 November, no year given. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, mounted on part of an old album page. Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817, Russia - 1880) was an historical genre painter and minor Victorian writer. O'Neil was a member of The Clique, a group of artists in the 1840s who, like the later Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, met regularly to discuss and criticize one another's works. The other members of The Clique were Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, Richard Dadd, William Powell Frith, John Phillip, Edward Matthew Ward. Most of the Clique opposed the Pre-Raphaelites, but O'Neil was the most virulent in his condemnation of the movement, attacking them in both paintings and writings. These included his futuristic fantasy Two Thousand Years Hence (1867), which portrayed Britain in the year 3867 as a frozen wasteland excavated by an archaeologist from New Zealand. The archaeologist uncovers evidence of the decline of British culture in the nineteenth century, allowing O'Neil… Read More

94 Mount Street, Monday, undated [c.1895]. In French. 2½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, fine. Louis Philippe Robert d’Orléans, duc d’Orléans (1869-1926), explorer, naturalist and author of several travel works including narratives of his Arctic voyages. He was a descendant of Louis Philippe. He was the Orléanist claimant to the throne of France under the name Philippe VIII from 1894 to 1926.

Villa St. Jean, Cannes, 30 March 1883. In English. 2 pp. 5 x 4 inches, fine. Embossed monogram and address. The Comte de Paris (1838-94), pretender to the crown of France and head of the legitimist party. Served in the American Civil War on McClellan’s staff.

Versailles, 26 January 1763. In French. 1 page 9 x 6 inches, corner clipped, in very good condition. With a typed English translation. Louis-Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère (1706-1788), Bishop of Orleans from 1757. “Well liked in court, he was appointed Minister of Profit Sheets and was responsible for distributing the revenues of the various abbeys, churches and their farmland from 1757 to 1771. During this period, 75 bishoprics and 337 abbeys are attributed, which alludes to the importance of this very coveted and lucrative position. The solicitors crowd around him. ... Finding church life mundane, he frequented salons earning a good living. Jarente was the victim of numerous pamphlets accusing him of having had for his mistress Guimard". Thus, at the end of the 1770s, Mlle. Guimard, who was in need of money, had the idea - which may have been suggested to him - to open an "income bureau", offering to forward Jarente requests from clergy for salary increases, these… Read More

33 Charles Street, 10 December [1874]. A good one page example, 7 x 4 inches. Uncommon. Rear-Admiral Sherard Osborn (1822-1875), author and explorer. His books included Quedah, or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters (1857). He served in China (1840-42 and 1857-58) and in the Crimea. He took a prominent part in 1849 in advocating a new search expedition for Sir John Franklin, and in 1850 was appointed to the command of the steam-tender Pioneer in the Arctic expedition under Horatio Thomas Austin, in the course of which he performed (1851) a remarkable sledge-journey to the western extremity of Prince of Wales Island. He published an account of this voyage, entitled Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal (1852). In the new expedition (1852–1854) under Sir Edward Belcher he again took part as commander of Pioneer. In 1856, he published the journals of Captain Robert McClure, giving a narrative of the discovery of the Northwest Passage.

20 Lower Seymour Street, 21 September, no year given. A good one page example, 7 x 4 inches. Emma Aline Osgood (1849-1911), American soprano remembered for her performances in oratorio.

Navy Office, 3 June 1812. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, folds, in good condition. Sir Francis Hartwell, 1st Baronet (1757 –1831), naval officer and Deputy Comptroller of the Navy from 1808 to 1814.In 1777 he was given command of the troopship Lord Amherst in Jamaica, but the ship was wrecked on Bermuda when transporting wounded soldiers back to England. He had better luck with his next command, the cutter Rattlesnake in the Channel fleet, when they captured a French West-Indiaman, after which he was promoted commander. He then took the Aetna 8 to Africa in 1779 and took part in the capture of the island of Gorée in Senegal from the French before sailing to the West Indies. There he was promoted captain and briefly given command of HMS Sphinx, a 20 gun six-rater before transferring to HMS Brune, 32-gun frigate, with which he captured a French ship, the Renard and the privateer Resolution.

Bath, 26 September 1814. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, with address panel, in good condition. Uncommon. Admiral William Albany Otway (1756-1815). In the 1770’s Otway served in the Lark frigate, Capt. Rd. Smith, on the American station. He was appointed to the command of the Goat Island battery, for the defence of the town and harbour of Newport; and for his meritorious conduct on this service, was honoured with the thanks of Lord Howe. He was present in different actions fought with Count de Grasse; was made post December 1, 1787; and in 1788 appointed to command the Pegasus on the Newfoundland Station. He commanded the Ganges in the battle of Copenhagen. In 1809 he was second in command on board the Caesar, under Sir Rd. J. Strachan, on the Scheldt expedition.

30 October, no year given. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, light traces of former mounting only, in good condition. Ouida, Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908), novelist. “I want very much to do so but I fear the cold. Do you think if I took great care I might venture over? I am anxious to see you once more & thank you viva voce for all yr kindness.”

Viareggio, 17 March, no year given. 4 pp. 8 x 6 inches, fine. A firm rebuttal by Ouida, Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908), novelist. “Now, unhappily, this is far from the case as you know, andI write to ask you to send to him some facts of the present time concerning this form of suffering ... You can say I have asked you to do this.” For many years Ouida lived in London, but about 1871 she moved to Italy. She rented Villa Farinola at Scandicci, Italy south of Bellosguardo near Florence.