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

Undated. 2 x 4½ inches, in good condition, removed from an album. George Gilfillan (1813-1878), Scottish author and poet. He was one of the spasmodic poets, and an editor and commentator of earlier British poetry. He is also remembered as the subject of An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan, the first of William McGonagall's poetic productions.

8 March 1763. Vellum, 8 x 10 inches, light dampstaining, minor defects, of good appearance. Offered with two pages of a full typed descrption and transcript, with historical notes. Halwill lies between Okehampton and Holsworthy in the north of the county of Devon. To the right of the signatures, where two seals would have been, a small strip of parchment has been cut away, probably as a formal act of cancellation on the discharge of the bond.

May 1814. 1 page 7 x 8 inches, in good condition. Rear-Admiral Alexander Renton Sharpe (1785-1860) had an adventurous career during the Napoleonic Wars, including the blockade of San Domingo (1803-04), the naval action near Corfu in March 1809, and the destruction of French store-ships in Sagone Bay, Corsica, in May 1811. From December 1812 to September 1818 Sharpe commanded HMS Hyacinth (24 guns) in the Mediterranean, North Sea, Channel and South America.