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

Southampton Place, 1 March 1834. 2 pp. 9 x 7½ inches, in good condition, with the integral address leaf. William Finden (1787-1852), engraver, and younger brother, Edward Francis Finden (1791–1857), became known for the their great series of steel engravings such as Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Life and Works of Byron (1832), popular works such as Finden's Gallery of the Graces (1832–4), and their most ambitious production, the folio-size Royal Gallery of British Art (1838–40).

10 Abingdon Mansions, Kensington, 21 March 1903. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Emma Brooke (1844 – 1926), novelist and a campaigner for the rights of women and workers. Her most famous novel, A Superfluous Woman, was published in 1894. This was the first of Brooke's "New Woman" novels. Brooke saw this novel and The Woman Who Did as important in trying to resolve the "Sex Question" which she thought dominated debate in the 1880s and 1890s.

Cambridge House, 9 November 1813. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), tenth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. In 1816 the Duke of Cambridge, on behalf of King William IV, was appointed to the viceroyalty of Hanover, which at the treaty of Vienna (1814) had been elevated from an electorate to a kingdom. His discreet administration helped to preserve the Hanoverian crown for his family. On the death of King William IV, the throne of Hanover passed to the Duke of Cumberland. “The great success of the Armies of the Allies has so altered the Situation of Germany that it is very probable I may soon be ordered to leave this Country ...”

Rotterdam, 4 May 1852. In French. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in fine condition, tipped on to part of an old album page. Johan Eliza de Vrij (1813-1898), pharmacologist and quinologist, worked first as a pharmacist in Rotterdam from 1832, and then as a chemist in plant experiments in Java, relating particularly to the extraction of medical compounds from plants, the preparation of quinine compounds, etc. Some of his reports are in the India Office Library.

Machrie Bay, Isle of Arran, 7 June 1891. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Colin Bent Phillip (1855-1932), the son of John “Spanish” Phillip, studied art at the Lambeth School of Art, in Edinburgh, and under David Farquharson. From 1882 he exhibited at most of the principal London galleries and was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1890 and to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1898. He specialised in Highland subjects.

Westbourne Park Road, 23 September, no year given. 3 pp. 7 x 5 inches, in good condition. Katharine Goodson (1872 – 1958), English pianist. Her London debut took place on 16 January 1897. The tours of Europe which followed placed her in the front rank of British female pianists of the era. Goodson made her American debut on 18 January 1907, appearing as soloist with the Boston Symphony in a concert in the orchestra's home city.

28 Hyde Park Place, 1 June 1868. 4 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Alexander Kinglake (1809-1891), historian, author of The Invasion of the Crimea. “The working classes have been so besprinkled with ‘tracts’ & other indoctrinating publications that I imagine they have a not unwise suspicion, by this time, of every publication presented to them gratuitously.”

19 N W Circus Place, 19 April 1847. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Uncommon. William Shiels (1785-1857), genre and animal painter. “A curious circumstance has taken place. I painted a picture of an old Man Dressing, it was exhibited in 1810 and sold to Lord Elchin, it passed to several hands, at last it came into the hands of O’Neale in London, who sold it to Napier, Engineer Glasgow, for £315 and the picture is now engraving in London, my name was taken out and Wilkie’s put in. I mean to claim the copy right. This is quite public.”

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.”

Paris, 18 March 1902. In French. 1½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Ernest Daudet (1837-1921), French writer.

Manchester, 20 March 1873. 4½ pages 6 x 4 inches, in good condition. Dr. David Little (1840-1902), House Surgeon, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. Jabez Hogg (1817–1899), ophthalmic surgeon.

National Portrait Gallery, 4 May 1891. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, with the original envelope. Sir George Scharf KCB (1820 –1895), art critic, illustrator, and director of the National Portrait Gallery. “I do not hesitate to tell you that the picture was not deemed satisfactory either as a likeness or as a Work of Art,”

Glasgow, 28 February 1862. 4 pp. 6 x 4 inches, in good condition. Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867), historian, author of the History of Europe. His Life of Castlereagh caused much hostility because Alison refused to ‘worship the Dagon of Liberalism’. In this letter Alison explains the actions of his critics: ‘they have simply transferred Man’s ill Nature from the Statesman to the writer’.

Hackwood, Basingstoke, 26 February 1911. 6 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925), Viceroy of India.

Saturday, 9 October, no year given. In French. 1 page 7 x 5 inches, light toning, small filing hole. Emile Barateau (1792-1870), poet and lyricist.

32 rue des Mathurins [Paris], 18 August 1886. In German. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Uncommon. Clotilde Kleeberg-Samuel (1866-1909), French pianist. Sir Augustus Manns (1825-1907), German conductor, cellist and violinist.

London, 18 November 1875. Printed envelope in good condition.