Search Results: Titles starting with A from Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

London, 10 August 1840. Printed Act. 32 pp. 12 x 7 inches, in good condition, stitched (disbound from a larger volume of Acts). An important original Act, covering many subjects including postal rates, weight limitations, inland, colonial and foreign letters, ship letters, Parliamentary proceedings, Stamped Covers, underpaid letters, Forging or fraudulently using Dies or Plates, Contracts for paper, Money Orders, Registration, etc.

London, 1862. 6 x 10 inches, in good condition, mounted on an album page. From the collection of Leone Levi (1821–1888), jurist, political economist, and statistician, author of the History of British Commerce (1872).

Undated. 4 x 7 inches, lightly tipped on to part of a Victorian album leaf, identified beneath by the first owner, now confirmed by reference to extant letters by Palgrave. William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveller and Arabic scholar, author of A Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863).

Hillhead, 31 March 1902. 3 pp. 8 x 5 inches, remains of guard, in good condition. F.O.Bower (1855-1948), Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, author of many books on botany.

London, 17 January 1837. 2 pp. 4to, first page torn without loss of text. Sir Charles George Young (1795-1869), Garter king-of-arms.

Braunschweig, 7 September 1906. 1 page 11 x 8½ inches, folds, in good condition. Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934), humorous writer as F.Anstey, author of Vice Versa. “...the only story of mine which has appeared in French is ‘The Black Poodle’.”

40 Jermyn Street, 8 October 1855. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, occasional light marginal soiling, otherwise good. Frank E.Smedley (1818-64), novelist, author of Frank Fairlegh, or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. The first edition of Harry Coverdale’s Courtship appeared in 1855, as did Smedley’s Mirth and Metre.

Undated. In French. 2½ pages, in clean condition, light creasing overall. Henri de Bornier (1825-1901), French poet and dramatist, critic of the Nouvelle Revue (1879-1887). His drama Les Noces d’Attila was first performed in 1880.

18 Chesham Place, undated. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, integral blank leaf mounted on part album leaf. Catherine Sinclair (1800-64), novelist, and author of works on female education, Scotland, short stories, ‘Modern Flirtations, or a Month at Harrowgate’ [1841], etc. One of the drinking fountains in Edinburgh bears her name, on account of her philanthropic exertions in that city.

London, 27 March 1839. 1 page 7 x 4.5 inches, integral blank, in good condition. Sir George Sinclair (1790-1868), author, friend of Byron (who described him as ‘the prodigy of our school-days’). In Parliament he advocated catholic emancipation and the emancipation of the West India slaves.

Brighton, 19 June [no year given]. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Lydia Foote (1844-1892), actress.

59 rue du bac, Paris, 4 April 1850. In French. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, in good condition. Charles Blanc (1813-1882) was a French art critic, brother of Louis Blanc. After the February Revolution of 1848, he was director of the department for the visual arts at the ministry of the interior. He published the Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles (Par. 1849-69, 14 Vols.), which was translated into English and German. Other works included L'œuvre complet de Rembrandt (4. Aufl. 1873, 2 Vols.), and Voyage de la Haute-Egypte, observations sur les arts égyptien et arabe (1876).

Board of Trade, 10 July 1889. A good one page example, 7 x 4½ inches, Major Philip Cardew, Royal Engineers (1851-1910), inventor of the voltmeter, the vibratory transmitter for telegraphy, and other electrical devices. Cardew's invention of the vibratory transmitter for telegraphy was perhaps his most important, and in the case of faulty lines it proved useful not only on active service overseas but also during heavy snowstorms at home. He received a money reward for this from the imperial and Indian governments. The utility of the invention was greatly extended by his further invention of ‘separators’, consisting of a combination of choking coil and two condensers. These instruments enabled a vibrating telegraph circuit to be superimposed on an ordinary Morse circuit without interference between the two, thus doubling the message-carrying capability of the line. His apparatus for testing lightning conductors was adopted by the war department. [DNB]

17 January 1809. 1 page 10 x 8 inches, integral address leaf. Sir William Blizard (1744-1835), surgeon. As a young man Blizard involved himself in radical politics and became a supporter of John Wilkes. He founded the Samaritan Society in 1791, he knew Jonas Hanway, having worked with him in the Marine Society, and had interests in prison reform, and in ensuring the respectful treatment of dead bodies. Among Blizard's writings were Suggestions for the Improvement of Hospitals and other Charitable Institutions (1796) and papers in the London Medical Journal, between 1789 and 1790.

41 Guilford Street, Russell Square [London], 10 July 1873. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Dr. Urban Pritchard (1845-1925), Professor of Aural Surgery at King’s College London, author of the Handbook of Diseases of the Ear : for the use of students and practitioners. “I propose showing some nitrate of silver preparations, and some others stained by my new modification of the carmine process.”

Hampstead, 12 January 1771. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, in good condition. Colonel William Faucitt of the Guards, translator of the Regulations of the Prussian Infantry, was employed in Germany in 1775 raising troops for service in the Mediterranean and later in America. “When I was in Town yesterday, I hunted after a little news for you, but cou’d pick up none that was material. Nobody cou’d tell me, who wou’d succeed Lord Sandwich, as Secretary of State, tho’ there was a Report about, that Lord Suffolk had been sollicited to take it, which very few gave credit to. The great question, whether Peace of War, still undecided. I am so starv’d with Cold, I can hardly hold my Pen.”

Felpham, 11 April 1812. 3½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, in fine condition. Dr. Cyril Jackson (1746-1819), Dean of Christ Church.

Undated, probably 1890s. In French. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. With a separate original cabinet portrait photograph of Raphaele Sisos, by Nadar. Catherine Raphaele Sisos, French actress.

Bayonne, 8 October 1863. In Spanish. A good one page example, 8 x 5 inches, mounted at corners on an old album page. Uncommon. Matamoros Manuel Garcia (1834-1866) was convicted and later exiled for the dissemination of Protestantism in Spain.

Goeschenen, 21 April 1904. 3½ x 5½ inches, in good condition, one corner crease. Ernst Zahn (1867-1952), Swiss author.