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.

Dun Eaglais, Kippen, Stirlingshire, 2 February 1911. 2 pp.7 x 4½ inches, fine. David Young Cameron (1865-1945), Scottish painter and etcher. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in the engraver class in 1911,

29 Grosvenor Street, London, 2 August, no year given [1847 or later]. 2½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, minor blemishes and light creases only. Samuel West (c.1810-c.1867), Irish painter of portraits and historical subjects. The painting mentioned in the letter was completed in 1847, and exhibited in Cork in 1852.

Glasgow, 23 April 1844. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, in good condition. Ralph Wardlaw (1779-1853), Scottish Congregational minister and theologian, slavery abolitionist. In May 1818 he travelled to London to preach one of the annual sermons on behalf of the London Missionary Society, which brought him acclaim from the English nonconformist community, and in September of that year he was granted a doctorate in divinity by Yale College in the United States. A long-standing opponent of slavery, Wardlaw was one of the founders of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society in 1823. He came to reject the moderate anti-slavery position that the abolition of slavery should be a gradual process. In November 1830 he delivered a powerful speech before the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society, in which he demanded the immediate abolition of slavery.

20 Arundel Gardens W., 17 June 1899. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, one filing hole, residue of mounting on verso.. Edward Hull FRS (1829 – 1917), Irish geologist and stratigrapher who held the position of Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. He also led an expedition to survey parts of Arabia Petraea and Palestine (1883).

Undated. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, address leaf (light traces of mounting). Uncommon. Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818 – 1866) was an Irish stage actor who enjoyed success in Ireland, England and Australia. On a return voyage to Australia in the S.S. London in 1866, the ship sank in a storm. Brooke toiled bravely at the pumps of the sinking vessel, and when all hope was gone was seen standing composedly by the companion way. As the last overcrowded lifeboat pulled away he called "Give my last farewell to the people of Melbourne".

43 Lancaster Gate, 27 January, no year given. 1 page 7 x 5 inches, in good condition. James Sant CVO RA (1820–1916), British painter specialising in portraits and known particularly for images of women and children.

Oxford, 18 February 1812. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, left margin ragged, otherwise good. Thomas Winstanley (1749-1823), scholar who edited Aristotle’s Poetics. He became Laudian Professor of Arabic.

Downing College, Cambridge, 8 July 1894. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, paper adhering to verso where formerly mounted. Sydney John Hickson (1859 – 1940), zoologist known for his groundbreaking research in evolution, embryology, genetics, and systematics. Hickson travelled in the Malay archipelago in 1885–1886. He was appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester in 1894. Author of A Naturalist in North Celebes. A narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with notices of the fauna, flora and ethnology of the districts visited. [1889]; The Fauna of the Deep Sea [1894].

Bonchurch, 2 December 1878. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Elizabeth Sewell (1815-1906), author (e.g. Ursula, 1858) and educationalist.

Cavers, 11 July 1858. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, light creasing, traces of former mounting. James Douglas of Cavers, author of The Truths of Religion (1831), The Advancement of Society in Knowledge and Religion, etc.

71 Cambridge St., 30 May, no year given, probably 1862, watermark 1860. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, small thin at centre fold, otherwise good. Thomas Nettleship Staley (1823–1898), first Anglican bishop of Honolulu. He was appointed by John Bird Sumner, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and consecrated on 15 December 1861, at the suggestion of Samuel Wilberforce and Queen Victoria, as the church's first bishop of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He and his wife departed on 17 August 1862 and arrived in Honolulu in October 1862, a few weeks after the death of Albert, Prince of Hawaii, the only son of King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma Kaleleon lani Na ea.

Oxford, 24 May 1842. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, neatly laid down. John Kidd (1776-1851), physician. He was appointed Radcliffe librarian in 1834. He was, too, physician to the Radcliffe infirmary from 1808 to 1826. He was selected to write one of the Bridgewater treatises, and his Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, 8vo. Lond. 1833, will bear comparison with any others of the series. He was also the author of The Outlines of Mineralogy. 2 vols. 8vo. 1820.

Goteborg, 21 August 1884. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. “I seem to have caught fresh vigor, and aspirations.” Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (1815 – 1900), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, friend of John Ruskin.

[In another hand] 14 June 1831. 4 x 10 inches, folds, in good condition. James Northcote (1746-1831), painter. Northcote also sought fame as an author, and his first essays were contributions to the Artist, edited by Prince Hoare. In 1813 he embodied his recollections of his old master in a Life of Reynolds. His Fables—the first series published in 1828, the second posthumously in 1833—were illustrated with woodcuts by Harvey from Northcote's own designs. In the production of his Life of Titian, his last work, which appeared in 1830, he was assisted by William Hazlitt, who previously, in 1826, had given to the public in the New Monthly Magazine his recollections of Northcote's pungent and cynical "conversations", causing some problems for the painter and his friends.

7 November, no year given. 1 page 9 x 5 inches, some light discolouration. Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-72), theologian, professor of Moral Theology at Cambridge.

Hampstead, 4 May 1883. 1 page 6 x 7½ inches, a few minor tears at folds. Carl Haag (1820-1915) was a German-born painter who became a naturalized British citizen, and court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He is known for his Oriental subjects. He was born in Erlangen (Bavaria), and was trained in the academies at Nuremberg and Munich. Haag practised first as an illustrator and as a painter, in oil, of portraits and architectural subjects; but after he settled in England, in 1847, he devoted himself to water colours, and was elected associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1850 and member in 1853. He travelled much, especially in the East, and made a considerable reputation by his firmly drawn and carefully elaborated paintings of Eastern subjects. Towards the end of his professional career Carl Haag quitted England and returned to Germany where he died in Oberwesel.