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

Camden Town, 27 April 1842. 2 pp. 4½ x 3½ inches, two minor paper thins. James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), author and traveller. His works included Travels in Mesopotamia (1827), a number of accounts of travels in America and Canada, e.g. The Slave States of America (2 vols., 1842).

Imp. d’Extreme-Orient, Hanoi, October 1913. 8 pp. pamphlet, staples removed, in good clean condition, 10 x 4 inches.

Undated. 40 lines on 1 page 13 x 8 inches, with corrections, light creasing. Richard Cobden (1804-65), statesman. When Cobden visited Egypt in 1836, on behalf of a Lancashire calico factory, he wrote letters to his sisters and friends, extracts of which are printed in John Morley‘s Life of Richard Cobden. “I was startled too on observing that whilst the mouth, which was partially concealed beneath his white beard & moustache, put on the semblance of laughter, the eyes were all the while peering coldly from beneath their heavy brows with an expression quite opposite to that of unguarded mirth. The great size of his head accords, phrenologically, with the extraordinary force of character possessed by this successful soldier; whilst a broad & massive forehead harmonises with that subtlety & depth of intellect which he had evinced in his intrigues & schemes of personal aggrandisement. Upon the whole however - let me hasten to confess it - there is nothing remarkable in the… Read More

Trinity College Cambridge, Hermitage, University Club, 1823-24 & c.1830. 5 pages, seal tears, generally good. Typed transcript. Ex Michael Silverman Collection, Bonhams, 2011. Sir Thomas Erskine Perry (1806 – 1882), Liberal politician and judge in India. After serving as chief justice of the supreme court in Bombay and as a Member of Parliament in Britain, he served as a member of the Council of India for 21 years. “I must pay some of my bills in London, they are continually dunning me, and independently of the bore, it is rather a disgrace.” “I met Johny Dingwall & his wife the other day at the French play. The ‘sweet beef’ is more gross and greasy than ever, whilst his lady looks very charming and fascinating. The pair look like nothing else but a plat of fat boiling beef side by side to a delicate little entree of cotelettes d’agneau ...”

Kingston, Lewes, Lower Barracks; 1803-1808. 4 pp. 9 x 7½ inches, in good condition. General Sir William Augustus Pitt (c. 1728 - 1809) served in the Seven Years War, and was severely wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760. In 1794 he was given the shore command of the Portsmouth defences, a post he retained until 1809. “From a letter I have just recd. from Ensign Villiers of the New South Wales Corps, on board the Recovery at Portsmouth, I find Mr. Vernon the Taylor has taken out a writ against him for about £30 ...”

London, 1970. 188 pp. Blue cloth, in fine bright condition, with original dust wrapper. Over 400 facsimile signatures, including every British sovereign from Henry VIII, some 49 prime ministers, and a wide range of literary figures, soldiers, scientists, artists and others. This remains one of the most useful and reliable books about autograph collecting.

Cologne, 6 January 1886. In German. 1 page 9 x 6 inches, very good condition. Robert Heckmann (1848-1891), German violinist. From 1872 he was concertmaster in Cologne, solo violinist and principal of a famous string quartet.

18 Cavendish Square, 18 June 1873. 3 pp. 5 x 3 inches, in good condition. Sir George Burrows (1801-1887), President of the Royal College of Physicians, Lecturer on Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Montpelier Square, Brompton, 23 March 1848. 4 pp. 9 x 7 inches, in very good condition. The Rev. Dr John Morison (1791 - 1859) was a longstanding editor of the Evangelical Magazine & Missionary Chronicle, author of theological and biographical subjects, and a Congregational pastor at Trevor Chapel, Chelsea, London. He was known for his bold and fervid utterances on the platform, his enthusiastic advocacy of the work of the London Missionary Society, and support for the abolition of slavery in the USA. “A little circle of friends here all warmly attached to the London Missionary Society, have thought that the success of my son-in-law, Dr Legge, in the conversion of the three Chinese youths, who have soo beautifully sustained their Christian profession, was an event worthy of some specific memorial. Nothing so striking has hitherto occurred in the history of our Society.”

London, 5 November 1819. 3 pp. 9 x 8 inches, with the address panel, signed for free postage. William Smith (1756–1835) , abolitionist, Member of Parliament. He was a friend and close associate of William Wilberforce and a member of the Clapham Sect of social reformers, and was in the forefront of many of their campaigns for social justice, prison reform and philanthropic endeavour, most notably the abolition of slavery. He was the maternal grandfather of pioneer nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale. “... these mistakes, the having to think about them, & the chance of losing as well as not getting parts, as well as their running into endless length, have made me resolve almost never to subscribe to anything of the kind.”

St. Cloud, 7 May 1811. In French. 14 lines on 1 page, perfect for display, 9 x 7 inches, one pinhole, with the discreet authentication blindstamp of the Rossignol Napoleon Collection, Paris. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre (1765-1818), born of Irish parents, Minister of War from 1807, and Marshal of France. Napoleon came to depend on his authority and he was instrumental in organising the administration and building the Grande Armée in 1811-12.