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

August, 1811. 7 x 2 inches, lightly mounted. Isaac Landmann (1741-1826), professor of artillery and fortification.

Undated, c.1892. 4½ x 7 inches, filing hole, in good condition. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827 –1904), lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition.

London, June 1884. Original report, not a reprint. Printed Parliamentary Report. 14 pp. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Fine. A short report to Earl Granville containing the ‘Memorandum by Mr. Gubbins on the Scheme for the Redemption of the Paper Issue of the National Banks’ and the ‘Memorandum by Mr. Gubbins respecting New Government Loans’.

[Mexico, 1826]. About 250 words. 2 pp. 12 x 8 inches, a few blemishes, mounted along upper edge only, on the distinctive blue paper of the album compiled by John Forbes Royle (1799-1858). George Francis Lyon FRS (1796 – 1832), English naval officer and explorer of Africa and the Arctic. This manuscript is an original draft (unsigned, but identified as autograph) of pages 223-225 of Lyon’s Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826, beginning “An intelligent Cura having given Mr. Tindal and myself some information respecting the ruins of an ancient Indian city about fourteen leagues to the southward of Zacatecas, on the road to Villa Nueva, we took advantage of a holiday and rode out to see them ...”