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

Ghent, Wednesday one a Clock in the afternoon, undated [c.1709-12]. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, lower edge ragged, minor tears, lightly toned. Sabine reports which regiments are in the town, and asserts “that I am not in the least apprehensive of their surprising the Castle, or shall it be in their Power, The Magistracy and Burghers hate the very Name of a Hollander and are entirely enclin’d for us.” General Joseph Sabine (1661-1739) fought at the Siege of Namur in 1695. He subsequently served in Flanders throughout the War of Spanish Succession, commanding his Regiment at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, at the Battle of Oudenarde in 1708 and then at the Siege of Lille later that year. He was given command of the Citadel at Ghent where he had to put down a mutiny in 1712. Then in 1716 he commanded a Brigade sent to confront the Pretender's Army at Perth. Later that year he became Commander of the British Army throughout Scotland.

Puttick and Simpson, Leicester Square, London, 21 April 1873. 22 pp. 8vo.

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

Cayenne, French Guiana, 17 June 1837. 11 x 7 inches, one small hole, occasional light stains only. Cayenne, a seaport and the capital of French Guiana, became a penal settlement for politicial offenders.

Vienna and Paris, 1897-1907. 10 pp. in good condition, with a long news cutting from Le Figaro about the Marquis de Reverseaux. Frederic Guéau, Marquis de Reverseaux de Rouvray (1845-1916), French ambassador in Vienna (1897-1907), and formerly in Tangier, Russia, Egypt and Spain.

Hatchlands Park, Surrey, 1784-1785. 180 itemised bills, unsorted, all manuscript, some on small scraps of paper, three with printed headings, different sizes, in clean legible condition William Brightwell Sumner (1720-1791), member of the Bengal Council, made a fortune serving under Clive in India. Sumner purchased Hatchlands Park from Fanny Boscawen in 1770. His family continued to live at Hatchlands for four generations. This collection, recently discovered, provides a snapshot of the household economy of an eighteenth century country house in 184-1785. Three have printed headings of London suppliers: Fitzwater, Confectioner; Lazenby’s Wax and Spermaceti Manufactory; Antrobus & Seaman, Tea-Men.

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.

Harrison and Sons, London [1865]. 119, 33, 38 pp. in one volume, disbound. In good condition. Letters between the British representatives in Monte Video etc. and the Admiralty and the Foreign Office, with translations of letters emanating from Buenos Ayres, regarding hostilities, diplomatic efforts, foreign vessels in the River Plate, and much else.

28 April 1900. In French. 3 x 4 inches, light creases only. Ernest Denis (1849 –1921), French historian. Denis became known as a specialist of Germany and Bohemia, and played a major role in the establishment of the Czechoslovak state in 1918. Along with Louis Léger, he is considered to be one of the most highly regarded 20th-century historians of the Slav world in France. Upon his death, the Czechoslovak state bought his residence in Paris in order to create an institute for Slavic studies.

Undated. 2 pp. 5 x 4 inches, decorated and perforated borders, integral blank leaf, in good condition. Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861), mother of Queen Victoria.

Chiswick House, Chiswick, 14 May 1872. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, second leaf neatly laid down on part of a Victorian album page. King George V (reigned 1910-1935).

583 San Vio, Venice, 23 February 1908. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Henry Woods (1846-1921), artist. Woods first went to Venice in 1876 on the recommendation of his lifelong friend, Luke Fildes. Most of his exhibited paintings are of Venetian scenes.

Villa Congreve, San Remo, 5 December 1870. 4 pp. 8 x 5 inches, legible and in good condition. The Rev. Brooke Lambert (1834-1901), social and educational reformer.

Scotland, 1902-1908. 8 letters, in good condition. John Joy Bell (1871 – 1934), known professionally as J.J. Bell, was a journalist and author.

1824-1869, most 1830s to 1840s. 16 letters, some dust soiling and stains, filing holes, generally good. “Mrs. Blane requests Mr. Wilson will send ten yards of the dimity like the pattern & One Piece of Shirting Calico for Boys Shirts. The parcel to be directed to Mrs. Blane, Winkfield Park, by the Windsor Coach to be left at the Coach office till called for. Winkfield Park, 11 December [1824].”

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1793-1803. 8 letters 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, with the address leaves (postal markings).

Venice, 29 January 1600. In Italian, 12 lines on 1 page, 12 x 8 inches, folded, in very good clean condition. In the 1980s the auction house Robson Lowe held a number of auctions of late sixteenth century correspondence sent to the Corsini family, the Florentine merchants. A proportion of these letters bear Merchant Guild Marks, evidence of the efficient European postal system set up by the merchant families.