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

East Grinstead, 7 March 1890. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Edward Hull (1823-1906), painter and illustrator.

29 June 1897. 3 pp., 8 x 5 inches, in good condition, minor marginal tears. Dudley Hardy (1867-1922), painter and illustrator. His talents coincided with the boom in illustrated magazines and the power of the poster at the turn of the century. The most famous image is the Yellow Girl, which Hardy created to advertise the magazine Today. He designed many posters for the Savoy Theatre, including those for the D'Oyly Carte operas.

c.1870-1880. In French. 2 x 4 inches, in good condition. Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884), French chemist, prominent teacher and investigator, one of the first men in France to realize the importance of experimental laboratory teaching. In the Essai Statique Chimique (1841), he treated the chemistry of life, both plant and animal.

Baghdad, 28 July 1921. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, folded, creases in good condition. Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi (1883-1933), King of Iraq from 23 August 1921. Faisal sided with Great Britain in World War I and with the help of T. E. Lawrence organised a revolt against the Ottoman Empire. His correspondent is William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech KG GCMG PC (1885-1964). Ormsby-Gore was on active service in Egypt when in 1916 he joined the Arab bureau as an intelligence officer attached to the high commissioner, Sir A. Henry McMahon. In March 1921, at the Cairo Conference, the British decided that Faisal was a good candidate for ruling the British Mandate of Iraq because of his apparent conciliatory attitude towards the Great Powers and based on advice from T. E. Lawrence. Following a plebiscite showing 96% in favour, Faisal agreed to become king. On 23 August 1921, he was made King of Iraq. A few weeks before, he writes in this letter: “We are passing now through an… Read More

11 Bloomsbury Square, London 16 May 1848. 4 pp. 9 x 7 inches, folds, in good condition. Spencer Timothy Hall (1812-1885), known as the ‘Sherwood Forester’, mesmerist and miscellaneous writer. His letter includes mention of the poets Richard Howitt and Bernard Barton. “Alas for poor Walter Crisp Ellis, about whom you inquire! One Saturday last winter, he was negociating for me with my poor alienated wife, and fell dead whilst washing himself on the following Tuesday morning! I am mesmerising again, truly enough - and am as truly much engaged, just as you suppose; and, just as you also suppose, that is the only cause of my not writing more to my friends in whose kind remembrance and forgiveness I have perhaps more faith than I ought to have.”

Hartwell, Buckinghamshire, 26 February 1814. In French. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, fine. Annotated by Lord Keith on receipt. Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas d'Aulps, comte de Blacas (1771-1839), French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration. He accompanied into exile the Comte de Provence, later King Louis XVIII.

Royal Gardens, Kew, 13 August 1886. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. W.T.Thistleton Dyer (1843-1928), English botanist, assistant director and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Ingatestone, 4 October 1841. 4 pp. 4 x 3 inches, in good condition, remains of tape where formerly mounted. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776 –1847), English bibliographer.

Newman Street, 20 February 1815. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, in fine condition, traces of guard where formerly mounted. John Bacon (1777-1859), sculptor. His father died in 1799, and John Bacon, junior, succeeded to his business. He finished such works as he found in progress, including the well-known statue of Lord Cornwallis, and managed to secure ample patronage for himself. There are six of his monuments in St. Paul's Cathedral, and some in Westminster Abbey. “I should also take the liberty to ask for the inscription to Sir John Moore; but as that Monument will be placed upon the floor of the church, we are not impeded in the erection of that by the want of the inscription, as we are in the other instances referred to.”

23 Duke Street, British Museum, 27 April 1816. 2 pp. with address panel, 1 page inscription transcript, 10 x 8 inches, generally in good condition, a few blemishes. J.F. Lake Williams, author of An Historical Account of Inventions and Discoveries, 2 vols., 1820. Probably Adam Clarke (1762-1832), Wesleyan preacher, commentator and theological writer.

Edinburgh, 27 December 1764. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, one small area of weakness, otherwise very good. Basil Cochrane (1701-1788), Governor of the Isle of Man (1751-1761), then Commissioner of Excise in Scotland. He was the brother of James Boswell’s maternal grandmother, Euphemia. The Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765, also known as the Act of Revestment, purchased the feudal rights of the Dukes of Atholl as Lords of Man over the Isle of Man, and revested them into the British Crown. “... I have passed many hours thinking how to provide for the Worse. If the Government and his Grace comes to a fair Bargaine then I believe his Grace will have it in his power to doe for manny in the Island, if not I fear it will not be so. ...Write me often every thing that passeth, lett me hear what says the great ffolks, doe they expect to continue in the Island if matters goes Wrong ...”