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

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

12 Cardington Street, 18 July 1845. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Mason Jackson (1819 – 1903), wood-engraver. He was trained as a wood engraver by his brother, John Jackson, the author a Treatise on Wood Engraving. By 1836 he was sufficiently advanced to take part in the engraving of Richard Seymour's design for the green wrapper of the monthly parts of 'Pickwick Papers. In the middle of the 19th century his prints for The Art Union gave him a considerable reputation, along with Knight’s Shakespeare and other standard books. On the death of Herbert Ingram in 1860 he was appointed art editor of the Illustrated London News, a post he held for thirty years. He wrote a history of the rise and progress of illustrated journalism.

Kensington, 18 March 1819. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, address panel, torn at seal opening, otherwise fine. Uncommon. Vice-Admiral Robert Jackson (1765-1852) served in the West Indies, at the reduction of Martinique (1794), then on the Queen Charlotte (flagship of Admiral Keith), in the Mediterranean, the Egypt expedition, Flag-Captain to Lord Keith in the North Sea and Channel stations, and from 1812-15 in the SanJosef, Queen Charlotte and Ville de Paris.

Paris, 27 May 1867. In French. 3 pp. 10 x 8 inches, two clean tears neatly repaired, slight toning but generally good. Moritz Hermann (Boris Semyonovich) von Jacobi (1801 – 1874), Russo-German engineer and physicist born in Potsdam. Jacobi worked mainly in Russia. He furthered progress in galvanoplastics, electric motors, and wire telegraphy. He developed the maximum power theorem known as Jacobi’s Law. In 1838, he discovered galvanoplastics, or electrotyping, a method of making printing plates by electroplating. The stereotype was an impression taken from a form of movable lead type and used for printing instead of the original type. This technique is used in relief printing. He also worked on the development of the electric telegraph. In 1842-1845 he built a telegraph line between Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo using an underground cable. In 1867 he was a Russian delegate to the Commission on measurement units at the Paris World's Fair. He was a strong proponent of the metric system.

8 October 1867. In French. 1 page 8 x 5 inches, ink a little faded. Jacob Jacobs (11812-1879), Belgian landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style, with a preference for northern and oriental scenes.

Photograph undated. Some wear, light soiling, marginal tears. Preserved among the family papers. William James (1771-1837), railway projector. James's connection with the establishment of railways constitutes his chief claim to remembrance.

undated. 3½ pages, 7 x 4½ inches, light dust soiling. Anna Jameson (1794-1860), Irish art critic and author.

Little Chessel, undated. 3 pp. 4 x 4 inches, in good condition, light traces of former mounting at corners. Anna Jameson (1794-1860), Irish art critic and author.

Orthes, 28 January 1898. In French. 2 pp. 12 x 8 inches, with the frnked envelope. Francis Jammes (1868-1938), poet.

Michaelmas, 1719. Strip of paper 2½ x 10 inches. Sir Theodore Janssen (1658-1748), merchant, knighted by King Wiliam III, and a leading director of the South Sea Company. Sir Robert Walpole made scapegoats of the directors after the collapse of the South Sea Company, and Janssen was forced to hand over about a quarter of a million pounds. He was expelled from the House of Commons. Janssen was the author of a tract entitled ‘General Maxims in Trade...’ [1713], which was reproduced in the first volume of The British Merchant [1721].

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’.

London, February & August 1884. Original report, not a reprint. Printed Parliamentary Report. 2 vols. 94 pp. & 60 pp. 8vo. A fine set in the original blue printed wrappers. Part I contains a full report by Consul Robertson at Kanagawa in 1882 to Sir Harry Parkes, and the lengthy Report (50 pp.) by Mr. Gubbins on Taxation and Land Tenure in Japan. Part II contains the 1883 reports, with detailed trading returns, from the consuls at Hiogo, Osaka, Hakodate and Kanagawa.

HMS Ocean, Hiogo [Japan], 24 March 1868. 1 page 13 x 8 inches, folds, light stains. Captain Chandos Scudamore Stanhope (1823-1871), Royal Navy, received a Royal Humane Society Silver Medal in 1851 for a life-saving rescue of a seaman. Soon after his death a group of his friends formed a memorial in his honour and raised a large sum of money, to provide a fund for the award of the gold “Stanhope Medal”, to be awarded by the Royal Humane Society for gallantry. Stanhope served on the HMS Warspite 50-gun ship with captains Sir John Hay and Sir Provo William Parry Wallis. These ships served the North America, West Indies, and Mediterranean ports. He was appointed in December 1846 to the HMS Queen 110-gun ship of Sir John West at Devonport. Stanhope later served from August 1847 in the Pacific on the HMS Asia 84-gun ship commanded by Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby.[4] Stanhope became a Captain in October 1858. He commanded the ship HMS Ocean from Rio de Janeiro to Singapore in 1867. He died of… Read More

Jardine House, 1852. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Uncommon. Sir William Jardine (1800-1874), Scottish naturalist. Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing and issuing the hugely popular forty volumes of The Naturalist's Library (1833-1843). The series was divided into four main sections: Ornithology (14 volumes), Mammalia (13 volumes), Entomology (7 volumes), and Ichthyology (6 volumes); each prepared by a leading naturalist. James Duncan wrote the insect volumes. The artists responsible for the illustrations included Edward Lear.

Temple, 11 December 1834. 1 page 4to. Torn at seal without loss of text. Remains of guard along inner edge. David Jardine (1794-1860) was called to the bar in 1823. His works include several on criminal law and state trials.

Paris, 25 October 1826. 2 pp. 8½ x 7½ inches, integral address leaf, in good condition. Samuel Farmar Jarvis D.D. (1786-1851), professor of oriental literature at Trinity College Hartford, author of A Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church, A Discourse on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America, and other works.

Paris, 22 January 1855. In French. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, fine. Count Hippolyte François Jaubert (1798 – 1874), French politician and botanist.

24 Carlton Road, Maida Vale, 11 September 1872. 1 page 7 x 4 inches. John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831-1901), author. Fanny Aikin Kortright (1821–1900), author and anti-suffragist.

67 St Pauls Road, Canden Square,16 February 1877. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, some light stains, neatly mounted at corners. Uncommon. Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879), engraver, postage stamp designer. He started working for Perkins, Bacon & Co, being the junior engraving partner to William Humphrys. It is not always clear who engraved which stamps, but Jeens is thought to have been responsible for quite a few British Colonial stamps. The head of the 1859 Ceylon definitive was engraved by Jeens and placed in an existing frame from the Tasmania definitives. The same head would also be used for the 1859 definitives of the Ionian Islands. Another of Jeens' engraved portraits of Victoria was for the 1860 4d and 2s definitives of South Australia. Jeens worked not only for Perkins, Bacon & Co. It is also almost certain he did a few stamps for the National Bank Note Company of New York, engraving the 5c and 24c United States definitives of 1861. Outside Jeen's philatelic work, he also engraved… Read More

Spring Garden, 5 June 1826. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, with the signed address leaf. Joseph Jekyll (d.1837), lawyer, wit and politician. “[Sir Henry Halford] well knows that Medicine & Poetry have the same tutelary Deity & is too good a Classic to refuse a Consultation with those nine learned Ladies.”