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

17th Century. Phillipps MS 20392. 4 pp. 8 x 6 inches, wide margins ruled in pencil, fold marks, in good condition. Evidently passages extracted from the works of Caspar Schoppe (1576 – 1649), German controversialist and scholar, under six headings.

23 December 1878. Large Vellum Indenture, folded, in good clean condition, signed by John Wotherspoon as Master, with a fair example of the Leathersellers seal in red wax beneath.

Dated in another hand, 10 October 1805. Fragment only, 2 x 8 inches, in good condition. Abraham Newland (1730–1807), banking official. He became chief cashier of the Bank of England in 1782. His signature on Bank of England notes became so familiar that they were known as Abraham Newlands.

Paris, 1865. 339 pp. 8vo. Early quarter morocco gilt, marbled boards, rubbed. Occasional light foxing. Marbled endpapers.

Torino, 28 June 1861. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, minor marginal tears only. Vincenzo Niutta (1802-1867), Risorgimento politician, first president of the Supreme Court of Naples.

Versailles, 21 February 1784. In French. 1 page 9 x 8 inches, lower right corner clipped without loss of text, otherwise in good condition. Charles-Eugène-Gabriel de la Croix, Marquis de Castries (1727-1801), Marshal of France, fought in all the wars in Flanders and Germany from 1743 to 1763. He became Minister of the Navy in 1780, Marshal in 1783.

Modena, 21 May 1688. In Latin, untranslated. 2 pp. 10 x 8 inches, waterstained, with damage at centre fold, other blemishes at edges, worn, old repairs. Rinaldo d'Este (1655 –1737) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1695 until his death, as well as a member of the House of Este. Created cardinal on 2 September 1686, he left the ecclesiastical career in 1694 to succeed his nephew Francesco II as duke. He married Princess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671–1710), eldest daughter of Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate.

Paris, 28 December 1792. In French. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, some light stains, in good condition. A relic of one of the tragic figures of revolutionary France. Jean Marie Roland de la Platière (1734-1793), revolutionary, Minister of the Interior. In 1793 he attacked Robespierre and attempted to save the life of the King. He was forced to flee from Paris to Normandy. Roland committed suicide (November 15, 1793) when he learned of the sentence and execution of his wife.

2 August 1845. In Italian. 1 page 11 x 8 inches, in good condition, with address leaf. Giuseppe Gazzeri ( 1771-1847 ), Italian chemist.

Tapton House [near Chesterfield, Derbyshire], 19 December 1846. A good one page example, 7 x 4 inches, in fine condition. George Stephenson (1781-1848), English inventor of the locomotive. George Stephenson never went to school, and learnt to read and write with difficulty, in later life. His autograph is scarce, and is a desirable addition to any collection of Inventors.

Cape Town, 29 August 1842. Marked duplicate. 1 page 10 x 8 inches, remains of guard, in good condition. Annotated as received on 15 November 1842. The autograph of John Philip (1775-1851), Scottish missionary in South Africa. He tried to support independent native states against colonial aggression, and attempted to prevent the Kaffir War. He was the most prominent politician in Cape Colony for thirty years.

Firenze, 18 September 1802. In Italian. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, with the integral address leaf bearing his handstamp cypher RM. Raffaello Morghen (1758 –1833), Italian engraver.

Camp at Carresbrook [Isle of Wight], 26 July 1740. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition. Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart (1686–1740), was a distinguished military officer who had served with Marlborough in Flanders, and particularly at the Battle of Sheriffmuir during the 1715 Jacobite Rebeillion. He became a Major General in 1739 and in 1740 was appointed Commander-in-Chief of all British Forces in North America. He embarked at Spithead with his expeditionary force towards the end of 1740 but died at sea on 20 december. He is buried at Prince Rupert’s Bay, Dominica. In this letter Cathcart states that Joseph Wilson now belongs to Colonel Douglas’s Regiment of Marines under Cathcart’s command “in the present Expedition”, and asks his correspondent to give instructions to the Collector at Aldeburgh to send the money before Wilson proceeds.

Metropolis Roads Office, 1 May 1850. 1 page 10 x 8 inches, some stains and blemishes, filing hole. Uncommon. Sir James Nichol McAdam (1785-1852), Knight General Surveyor of Turnpikes, the "Colossus of Roads", was knighted for managing turnpike trusts. He was one of the three sons of John Loudon McAdam, the famous road builder.

Rome, 29 December 1739. In Italian. 1 page 10 x 8 inches, in very good condition. Cardinal Domenico Riviera (1671-1752), author and diplomat.

Ministry of War, Paris, 7 January 1835. In French. A good one page example, 12 x 8 inches, folds. Edouard Mortier, Duc de Trévise (1768-1835), Marshal of France, distinguished himself in Friedland (1807), in Spain (1808-09), and in the Russian campaign (1812) when he was appointed Governor of Moscow. Premier of France (1834-35). In 1835 he was killed by the terrorist Fieschi’s bomb at the National Guard review attended by Louis Philippe.

HM Ship Tyne, Islay [Peru], 12 August 1833. 1 page 11 x 8 inches, minor blemishes, lower section toned, otherwise good. Rear-Admiral Charles Hope (1798-1854), second son of Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland, was Captain of HMS Tyne on the South American station, 1830-1834. On 2 January 1833 Charles Hope in HMS Tyne had arrived (and joined HMS Clio) at Port Egmont to reassert the British claim to sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, and demanded that the Argentine (or Buenos Ayres) flag be lowered.

Paris, 29 Ventose, l’an 3me [19 March 1795]. In French, on the headed paper of Le Comite De Legislation. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, minor blemishes. With a separate engraved portrait of Cambacérès. Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753-1824), duke of Parma, lawyer and statesman, concerned himself with legal and legislative work, even during the Terror. As Napoleon’s second consul he played an important part in drawing up the Civil Code, later called the Code Napoleon. He was Minister of Justice between July and December, 1799.

24 Iverna Gardens, Kensington, 5 November 1906. 2 pp. 5 x 4 inches, in good condtion. Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952), actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette. Caroline Whitehead, Secretary of The Pioneer Club.

Santiago de Galicia, 1 December 1818. In French. 2¼ pages 8 x 6 inches, with the address panel, remains of guard, a few minor blemishes only. José Vazquez de Figueroa (1770-1855), Spanish naval officer who became Minister of the Navy in 1813 and again in 1816, when he tried to improve and reform the navy. In 1818 he was imprisoned at Santiago de Compostela. He resumed the Navy portfolio in 1834-35.