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

Bordeaux, 19 January 1896. In French. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Jean Cabrit (1845 - 1907), painter.

Edinburgh, 21 June 1825. 1 page 7½ x 7 inches, blank section trimmed away, in good condition. Robert Cadell (1788–1849) was a bookseller and publisher closely associated with Sir Walter Scott. Cadell took care of Scott in the writer's last years, profiting handsomely from arrangements made with Scott's family after his death such that they were absolved from debt in return for Cadell's exclusive right to republish Scott's novels and biographical material.

Theatre Francais, 23 February 1898. In French. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, vignette of a sailing boat, in good condition. Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (1848 – 1909), French actor. Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864. He played a great many parts, in both the classic and the modern repertoire, and also had much success in reciting monologues of his own composition. He wrote Le Livre des convalescents (1880), Le Monologue moderne (1881), Fairiboles (1882), Le Rire (1887), Pirouettes (1888).

Paris, undated. In French. A good one page example, with a separate cabinet photographic portrait of Coquelin, by Chalot. Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (1848 – 1909), French actor. Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864. He played a great many parts, in both the classic and the modern repertoire, and also had much success in reciting monologues of his own composition. He wrote Le Livre des convalescents (1880), Le Monologue moderne (1881), Fairiboles (1882), Le Rire (1887), Pirouettes (1888).

The Reform Club, 9 January 1898. A good one page example 7 x 4 inches. William Sproston Caine (1842 – 1903), British politician and temperance advocate. Due to his opposition to alcohol he was praised by Gandhi. It has been suggested that Caine was the model for the story "The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P." by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling notes that "Pagett" was a liberal supporter of A.O. Hume and particularly William Digby to whom Caine dedicated his 1890 guidebook Picturesque India.

Weston Lodge, 16 Grove End Road, Tuesday, undated. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. P.H.Calderon (1833-1898), painter. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy. From the beginning he was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, and some of his work showed the detail, deep colours, and realistic forms that characterize the style. Calderon became a leading member of the St John's Wood Clique, a group of artists interested in modern genre and historical subjects. Historical, biblical, and literary themes were common in Calderon's later work.

London, 13 November 1828. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, with the integral address leaf. Uncommon. Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779 – 1844), English landscape painter. There are qualities in Callcott's work which gained the admiration of J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard in his day. He married Maria Graham, a writer on art and travel. They resided at the Gravel Pits, Kensington.

Postmarked 5 March 1825. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, with the address panel (small tear at seal opening). Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779 – 1844), English landscape painter. There are qualities in Callcott's work which gained the admiration of J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard in his day. He married Maria Graham, a writer on art and travel. They resided at the Gravel Pits, Kensington. “I wish to God your copper was made of a lighter material. Is it quite out of the question your engaging a broad wheeld waggon to get it to the Gravel Pits for I long to see it and am anxious that you should lose no time in getting the biting in done as you propose ...” George Cooke (1781-1834), line engraver.

The Firs, Gt. Missenden, Buckinghamshire, 15 March 1887. A good one page example, 7 x 4½ inches. Uncommon. William Callow (1812–1908), English landscape painter, engraver and water colourist.

17 Devonshire Terrace, 15 August 1872. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, tipped on to part of an old album page. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), poet and wit, author of Translations into English and Latin (1866); Theocritus translated into English Verse in 1869; Fly Leaves (1872); and Literary Remains (1885).

Paris, 27 thermidor an 7e. [14 August 1799]. In french 1½ pages 9 x 7 inches, in fine condition, integral blank leaf. Printed heading. Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753-1824), duke of Parma, lawyer and statesman, concerned himself with legal and legislative work, even during the Terror. As Napoleon’s second consul he played an important part in drawing up the Civil Code, later called the Code Napoleon. He was Minister of Justice between July and December, 1799.

Paris, 29 Ventose, l’an 3me [19 March 1795]. In French, on the headed paper of Le Comite De Legislation. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, minor blemishes. With a separate engraved portrait of Cambacérès. Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753-1824), duke of Parma, lawyer and statesman, concerned himself with legal and legislative work, even during the Terror. As Napoleon’s second consul he played an important part in drawing up the Civil Code, later called the Code Napoleon. He was Minister of Justice between July and December, 1799.

London, 28 April 1906. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, light stains at left margin, otherwise good. Paul Cambon (1843-1924), French diplomat. In 1886 Cambon became French ambassador to Madrid; was transferred to Constantinople in 1890, and in 1898 to London, where he served until 1920. In London, Cambon quickly became an important figure, helping to negotiate the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France in 1904, and serving as the French representative at the London Conference which resolved the Balkan Wars between 1912 and 1913. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, Cambon helped secure British intervention on the French side. He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur, and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Trinity College Cambridge, 1811-1815. 6 letters 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, with the integral address leaves (postal markings). Thomas Robinson (1790-1873), Master of the Temple, and Arabic scholar, was educated at Rugby and at Trinity, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1813 as thirteenth wrangler and second classical medallist. He went out to India as a missionary priest, and there he began the translation of the Old Testament into Persian. He was chaplain to Reginald Heber, and was present at Trichinopoly on 2 April 1826 when Heber was drowned. In 1837 Robinson was appointed lord almoner’s professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

Postmarked London 6 January 1898. 3½ x 4½ inches, black edges, ducal monogram on flap, Salisbury backstamp, slightly worn. George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), the only son of George III’s seventh son, Adolphus Frederick. The Duke fought in the Crimea, and from 1856 to 1895 was commander-in-chief of the British Army.

Gloucester House, Park Lane, “Saturday morning”, probably December 1871. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, folds, in good condition. George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), the only son of George III’s seventh son, Adolphus Frederick. Sir William Withey Gull, first baronet (1816–1890), physician. (Gull was suggested in the past as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, related to an alleged royal/masonic conspiracy.) Gull attended the Prince of Wales during his severe illness from typhoid fever in 1871. The Prince began to recover on 14 December 1871. The Duke of Cambridge writes: “Gull telegraph to me from last night at 9.50: ‘No return of excess of fever tonight. Prince going on well as we ought to expect up to this time.’ This is more reassuring. I fear that on Thursday night he was in great danger but the crisis passed over.”

Undated. 2½ x 4 inches, in good condition, traces of mounting on verso. General Albert Cambriels (1816-1891) fought at the Battle of Sedan and throughout the Franco-German War of 1870/71.

Hastings, 5 March 1833. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, neatly tipped on to part of an old album page. “Lady Georgiana has taken to Drawing again, which I am very glad to see.” John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759 – 1840), known as The Earl Camden from 1794 to 1812, was a British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1795 and 1798 and as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1804 and 1805. Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of Roman Catholic emancipation and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, Camden's term of office was one of turbulence, culminating in the rebellion of 1798: his refusal to reprieve the United Irishman William Orr, convicted of treason on the word of one witness of dubious credit, aroused great public indignation.

Arlington Street, 10 April 1813. A good one page example, 9 x 7 inches. John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759 – 1840), known as The Earl Camden from 1794 to 1812, was a British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1795 and 1798 and as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1804 and 1805.

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,