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

30 October 1869. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, centre fold split, with traces of former mounting. Thomas Page (1803-1877), civil engineer who made designs for the Embankment and for Westminster Bridge. Early in his career Page was one of the assistant engineers on the Thames Tunnel under Brunel.

Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1 November 1850. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Sir James Paget (1814 – 1899), surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease, and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.

Westwood Park, Droitwich, 15 August 1856. 3 pp.7 x 4 inches, fine. John Somerset Pakington [formerly Russell), first Baron Hampton (1799–1880), politician. Pakington became first lord of the Admiralty in Lord Derby's second administration (1858).

Dover, 4 October 1852,. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, fine. Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815-1888), classical scholar.

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).

Norwich, 1 November 1868. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, with blemishes, one edge ragged. 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).

Reading, undated. 6 x 4 inches, inlaid to mount. On the verso is a signed photograph of T.G.Dodson (Lord Monk-Bretton, statesman). George Palmer (1818-1897) was a proprietor of Huntley & Palmers, biscuit manufacturers of Reading.

C.G. [Carlton Gardens], 20 March 1849. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, clean tears along upper and lower edges (see below), integral blank leaf docketed on receipt. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), Prime Minister (1855-58, 1859-65). “The lady is amorous no doubt but I daresay her legs are not so black as they are described ...” Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1797-1880) was minister plenipotentiary to Portugal (1847-1851), residing in Lisbon. It is likely that the clean tears along the edges are disinfection slits.

Whitehall, 5 April 1712. 2 pp. 11½ x 7 inches, in good condition. With the integral blank leaf. Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes (d.1719), noted favourite general of the Duke of Marlborough. Palmes assumed command of his regiment at the Battle of Blenheim. Reports from the battle state that 'hardly anyone was more instrumental to the success of that day' than Palmes. From February 1708 Palmes travelled extensively, undertaking mission to the United Provinces, Hanover, Prussia, Vienna and Savoy in order to concert measures with the allies. He was promoted to lieutenant-general in the Army in 1709 and became envoy to Poland in 1718. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 – 1751), English politician, government official and political philosopher.

British Museum, 23 January 1861. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, foxing along folds only, otherwise in good condition. Docketed by Hawes “Stewart Medal of 1750”. Sir Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), Italian bibliographer, chief librarian of the British Museum from 1856. On the integral leaf is a letter from Samuel Birch, Keeper of Antiquities, to Panizzi: “The medal offered by Sir Benjamin Hawes is in the Collections of the Museum. Mr [Edward] Hawkins (1780-1867, numismatist) informs me that it was engraved in England by Pingo and that he has published an account of it in Notes & Queries ... where will be found an account of a number struck in this country, and the prices paid.”

83 Gower Street, 11 June 1844[or 1842]. 2 pp. 10 x 8 inches, in good condition. Edgar George Papworth (1809–1866), sculptor. His Original Sculptural Designs were published as a volume of engravings in 1840. Papworth's sculpture is characterized by its careful carving and marks a transition from neoclassical idealism to Victorian realism. The former is evident in his Wellington monument design, which was strongly influenced by Antonio Canova.

Undated. 4 stanzas of 8 lines, on both sides of one leaf 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Julia Pardoe (1806-62), author of The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks (1837). “Oh! think not she was happy / Her crime had paid its price. / She shrank before his calm still tone / Before his look of ice.”

St. Leonards on Sea, 15 May 1873. 10 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), minister at Buenos Ayres, author of ‘Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of Rio de la Plata’ (1839). Leone Levi (1821–1888), jurist, political economist, and statistician, author of the History of British Commerce (1872); Gregorio Benites (1834-1910), Paraguayan diplomat and author, had engaged Levi as his lawyer.

Hammersmith, 1 September 1856. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, neatly laid down and mounted on part album leaf. Henry Perlee Parker (1785–1873) was an artist who specialised in portrait and genre paintings.He made his mark in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1820s through patronage by wealthy landowners and through paintings of large-scale events of civic pride. Over a period of forty years his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution in London. Coastal scenes of fisherfolk and smugglers were a popular specialism. Through the distribution and sale of mezzotint prints of subjects such as William and Grace Darling Going to the Rescue of the SS Forfarshire, Parker became one of the north-east's best-known nineteenth-century artists.

Undated. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Edmund Alexander Parkes (1819 – 1876), physician, known as a hygienist, particularly in the military context. In 1855 he was selected by the government to travel to Turkey to select a site for, organise, and superintend a large civil hospital to relieve the pressure on the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean War. He selected Renkioi, on the Asiatic bank of the Dardanelles, and remained there until the end of the war in 1856. This was the site of the 1,000 patient prefabricated timber Renkioi Hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In 1864 Parkes published the first edition of the Manual of Practical Hygiene; it reached during his lifetime a fourth edition, an eighth edition in 1891, and was translated into many languages. It used a traditional airs, waters and places structure, going back to Hippocrates, and this persisted for a generation.

Florence, 3 August 1847. In Italian. 1 page 11 x 8 inches, right margin slightly worn, otherwise good, with the address leaf. Filippo Parlatore (1816 – 1877), Italian botanist. He published numerous treatises on botanical subjects,---discussing questions of system, organography, physiology, plant geography, and paleontology---in various periodicals, chiefly in the Giornale botanico Italiano (1844-), which he founded.His lifework in botany was Flora Italiana, of which five volumes appeared between 1848 and 1874.

18 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington, 27 November 1902. 4 pp. 6 x 4 inches. Fine. Louisa Parr (d.1903), novelist.

5 Aubrey Villas, Notting Hill, 7 April 1853. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, small central filing holes. Edmund Thomas Parris (1793 –1873), English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer. He was appointed history painter to Queen Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, and painted Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838 and the Duke of Wellington's funeral in 1852. He supervised the painting of the huge panorama in the London Colosseum in Regent's Park, London, and was the inventor of "Parris's medium" In 1852, he painted the Duke of Wellington's funeral. Also in that year, the proposal to restore Thornhill's paintings in St. Paul's was revived and the commission given to Parris, who, bringing into use the scaffold he had designed for the purpose nearly thirty years before, commenced the task in 1853, and completed it in July 1856.

1827. About 2 x 4 inches, laid down. Discovered in Victorian album. Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855), rear-admiral and Arctic explorer. His 1819 voyage through the Parry Channel was probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage. In 1827 he attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole. He reached 82°45 North latitude, setting the record for human exploration farthest North that stood for nearly five decades before being surpassed at 83°20 26 by Albert Hastings Markham in 1875–1876.

54 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, 28 October 1908. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Alfred Parsons RA (1847–1920), artist: illustrator, landscape painter and garden designer, and author of Notes In Japan (1895). He was elected Associate Member of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1897 and Royal Academician (RA) in 1911. “... one particular view remains in my memory, seen from the Great Western Railway between Shepton Mallet & Wells, where beyond fold after fold of wooded & grassy hills Glastonbury Torr stands up against the sky in distance, a combination of rich pastoral landscape with historic interest which cannot easily be surpassed.”