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

London, 1 June 1876. 5 x 8 inches, in good condition. Enrico Bevignani Modesto (b.Naples, 1841 - 1903), orchestral conductor, composer and theatrical impressario. In 1864 he moved to London, and from 1871 to 1878 he was the permanent conductor at Covent Garden. On March 17 1879 he conducted the world premiere of Eugene Onegin at the Maly Theatre in Moscow.

31 Fitzroy Square, March to August 1857. 10 pp., some very light foxing, generally in good condition, all tipped on to one old album page. George Raphael Ward (1799–1878), painter and engraver. Henry Mogford, exhibition organiser, was closely associated with the Crystal Palace. “We proposed paying a visit on Saturday next to the Crystal Palace as it is a long time since I paid a visit to that enchanting place...”

Arley, 1844-1846. 10½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, minor blemishes only, one letter cleanly torn along centre fold. Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1804-91), poet, author of Hunting Songs and Miscellaneous Verses (1846), etc. On the subject of proofs he writes, “The dead horse wants working up a great deal, pray speak seriously to Mr. L about this, as I am quite fearful that they will all appear to be very coarse and slightly finished.”

Undated. 4 x 4½ inches, laid down. Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938), doctor and psychologist, lunatic asylum superintendent, a pioneer of the early treatment of mental breakdown.

Venice, 26 June 1887. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, minor blemishes only. Giuseppe Da Pozzo (1844-1919), watercolour artist.

London, 1931. English edition. 247 pp., illustrated. Original blue cloth, some fading. Henri Fauconnier (1879 – 1973), French writer, known mainly for his novel Malaisie, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He developed rubber plantations in Malaya and elsewhere in the Far East.

Undated. 6 x 8 inches, in fine condition. Part album page from an album compiled by Leone Levi (1821–1888), political economist. Gregorio Benites (1834-1910), Paraguayan diplomat and author.

Switzerland, 27 February 1861; May to July, 1869. In French. 4 letters, 10 pp. folds, in good condition. Joseph Hornung (1792-1870), painter, was born in Geneva. He took drawing lessons with Constant Vaucher but was essentially self-taught in the French Romantic tradition. He was considered the leader of the Geneva school and the most representative painter of the Reformation. He exhibited at the Salon in the Musée Rath, Geneva, as early as 1826 and subsequently at the Royal Academy, London (1839) and the Paris Salon (1831, 1840, 1841, 1843 and 1847). He was praised by the critics and Louis-Philippe and Ary Scheffer were among his admirers.

Gli Scafari, Lerici, 1951-1953. 12 pp. 8 x 6 inches. Percy Lubbock (1879-1965), author and editor. “... old friends and young relations still make me a sort of daisy-chain of visits...” “I am much as saw me last, save that I am still more set fast in my chair and no sight left to speak of, but what of that, I have kind friends always at hand to do things that I cannot do for myself.”

London, 1862-1865. 6 letters, each neatly mounted along one edge on an album leaf, in good condition. Henry Ottley (1811-1878), author, lecturer, compiler of A Biographical and critical dictionary of recent and living painters and engravers forming a supplement to Bryan's directory of painters and engravers.

Westbourne Park Chapel & Maida Vale, 1888, 1889, 1891, 1912. 4 letters. 4 pp. John Clifford CH (1836-1923), British Baptist Nonconformist minister and politician, who became famous as the advocate of passive resistance to the Education Act 1902.

Wandsworth, c.1841. 4 letters, 13 pp. in good condition. Henry Moseley (1801-1872), mathematician and scientist. Among his main works was The Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture (London, 1843, 2nd edit. 1855). It was reprinted in America with notes by Dennis Hart Mahan for the use at West Point. Formulas published by Moseley became standard for calculations of the dynamical stability of warships. This work first appeared in a memoir On the Dynamical Stability and on the Oscillations of Floating Bodies, read before the Royal Society, and published in Philosophical Transactions in 1850. “My object in placing my indicator on your engine is to adjust it, as I would my watch by a chronometer, or my scales by a standard balance” and Moseley expects to be able “to measure out power by it as truly as time can be measured by one of these and weight by the other.”

Torquay, November 1875. 3 letters, 9 pp. in good condition. Arthur Roope Hunt (1843-1914), geologist and naturalist.

Coimbra, Badajos, Oporto, Castel Branco, Cartaxo, Vila Fermosa, Coimbra, etc.1809-1811. 12 letters, 50 pp. various sizes, a few defects with loss of a few words, in good condition, legible, with address panels. Samuel Briscall (1788-1848), military chaplain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War. The Duke of Wellington wrote in 1811: “I have one excellent young man in this army, Mr. Briscall, who is attached to headquarters, who has never been one moment absent from his duty.” Briscall writes on 30 September 1810: “On the 26th Loison attacked Crauford & drove him to our Position & that Evening a few shots were exchanged beween the Artillery, the Enemy’s Sharpshooters making a few lodgements in the Bottom of the Ravine in our Front, all this I saw - on the 27th at six o’clock began the Firing on both sides. Gen. Hill having left a small Force at the Ponte de Murcella corssed the Mondego & formed our Right. The French attacked Picton’s Division &… Read More

Paris, 1862 and undated. In English. 4 letters, neatly tipped on to an old album leaf, in good condition, minor blemishes only. Theodore Delemarre (18224-1883), French painter, known for his Chinese subjects. “However I am anxious to hear what’s become of my dear Chinamen and am rather desirous to know when they are coming, the celebrated Pinand waiting for the ocidentalist to make a splendid faience of it.”

Paris, 1871, 1878, 1884. In French. 4 letters, 6 pp., with four envelopes. In good condition. Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813 – 1900), French philosopher and archaeologist. Ravaisson's chief philosophical works are: "Les Fragments philosophiques de Hamilton" (in the Revue des Deux Mondes, November, 1840); Rapport sur le stoicisme (1851); La Philosophie en France au dix-neuvième siècle (1868; 3rd ed., 1889); Morale et métaphysique (1893). Eminent as a philosopher, Ravaisson was also an archaeologist, and contributed articles on ancient sculpture to the Revue Archéologique and the Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions. In 1871 he published a monograph on the Venus de Milo.

Various addresses, 1852-1853. 6 letters, 17 pp., in good condition, neatly mounted on an album page. George Howse (1800-1860), artist, asks for advice on pricing his drawings: “... you must be much better acquainted with the pockets of the Belgians than I am.”

Bromley, Kent, 1898 and undated. 6 letters, 17 pp., in good condition. J.A.Shepherd (b.1866), Strand illustrator, One of his teachers was Alfred Bryan, the Judy caricaturist. He was introduced to the Punch audience in the 1894 “Punch Almanac.” J. A. Shepherd was a regular contributor of illustrations to the Strand Magazine. He illustrated “Zig Zags at the Zoo” in 1894, “Zig Zag Fables” in 1897, “The Story of Chanticleer” in 1913, “Uncle Remus” in 1921, and “Songs of the Birds” in 1922.

1909-1948. 11 pp. 10 x 8 inches. Horace Annesley Vachell (1861 –1955), prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works.

44 Montpelier Road, Brighton, 1854-1855. 6 letters, 7 pp. in good condition, lightly tipped on to an old album page, overlapping. Frederick Nash (1782-1856), watercolour painter, architectural draughtsman. His published works include: A Series of Views of the Collegiate Chapel of St.George at Windsor [1805], Twelve Views of the Antiquities of London [1805-10], and some of the drawings which were engraved for Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford [1814].