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

1862, 1864 & 1867. 3 letters, 10 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. “You were right in hesitating to send him a chemical chest yet.” Frederick Temple (1821 – 1902), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1896.

Mornington Crescent, undated. 3 letters, 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, some traces of mounting, in good condition. Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1820-1900), historical painter.

12 Upper Berkeley Street, March & July 1886; October 1887. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, toned. Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906), journalist and author. He was correspondent of The Times at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia, in the camp of the insurgents at Warsaw (1862–63), and at German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War.

London. 3 pp. 6 x 5½ inches, in good condition. Leff Nicolas Pouishnoff (1891 – 1959), Ukrainian-born pianist and composer, who made his home in the United Kingdom and whose career was largely in the West, from the 1920s onwards. He was especially associated with performances of the works of Frédéric Chopin.

1 Robert Street, Adelphi, 1841-1843. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Henry Thomas Ryall (1811-1867), engraver and painter.

St. John’s College Cambridge, 1812 & 1817. Three letters 9 x 7 inches, minor blemishes only, integral address leaves (postal markings), one with the red wax seal reading De Loin Comme De Pres. Hastings Robinson (1792-1866), earnest evangelical churchman and scholar, author of works of church history.

undated. 3 separate pieces, about 4 x 7 inches, in good condition. Charles Ward (fl. 1826-1869), landscape artist.

Cawdor Castle, Nairn, 1847 & 1855. 3 letters, 16 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. William Alexander Stables (1810 – 1890), Scottish botanist and naturalist who collected spermatophytes and pteridophytes sporadically in Great Britain and Ireland between 1832 and 1862, with the odd specimen as late as 1882. He was the son of Alexander Stables, factor for Lord Cawdor, and later himself became factor. William Gourlie (1815-1856), botanist.

Orient, Balaklava, 31 January 1855; On board the Royal Albert, Katasol Bay, 17 February 1855; Star of the South, Balaklava, 21 September 1855. 3 letters. 14 pp., 8 x 5 inches, closely written, entirely legible, in very good condition. Superb descriptive campaign letters by William Simpson (1823-1899), artist and war correspondent, pioneer war artist during the Crimean War. Eighty of his Crimean drawings were lithographed in The Seat of War in the East (2 vols., 1855–6). “The Navies arrived yesterday and today I saw them at work on the railway just between the Road and the graves which you will notice in my sketch of the Burial at Balak ... they look very well, fine strong fellows, quite a contrast to our poor soldiers, in fact they will almost pass for officers out here. I have been often taken for an officer not only be our men but by the french as well.” “I have begun a drawing of the Admiral and his staff all standing on the poop of the Agamemnon so by this arrangement I give… Read More

Edinburgh, 1828-1829. 4 x 6 inches, fine. John Lizars FRSE (1792–1860), Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical author.

London, 1915 and undated. 2 letters, neatly tipped on to an old album page, in good condition. Henry Mayers Hyndman (1842-1921), socialist leader and Marxist, author of England for All (1881), A Summary of the Principles of Socialism (1884, with William Morris). His other works include The Historical Basis of Socialism (1883), The Economics of Socialism (2d ed. 1896), A Record of an Adventurous Life (1911), and Further Reminiscences (1912).

Fontainbleau, 2 & 19 June 1880. In French. 2 letters, 3 pp., 8 x 5 inches, in good condition. Honoré Bonhomme, editor and author.

Yew Cottage, Twickenham, 23 March 1831 and undated. Two letters, each one page, light water stains. Thomas Litchfield, Surgeon.

6 Chepstow Villas, Bayswater, June and July 1882. 2 letters, 5 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine, with separate card, and one envelope. Early letters by Elizabeth Margaret Jane (Eliza) Humphreys née Gollan (1850 – 1938), Scottish novelist who wrote 120 books, plays and essays, and founded the Writers’ Club for Women. She was raised and educated in Australia and used her experience of Australia to write a semi-autobiographical novel Sheba in 1889, using the pen-name ‘Rita’. These letters date from the period of her unhappy marriage to the musician, Karl Otto Edmund Booth. She later married the Anglo-Irish singer William Humphreys. Eliza Humphreys’ final book was an autobiography Recollections of a Literary Life (1936).

Oxford, 16 April 1858; Brompton, 23 June 1859. 2 letters, 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Robert Keeley (1793 – 1869), English actor-manager, comedian and female impersonator. In 1823 he originated the role of 'Fritz' in Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, the first known stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.

Rutgers College, New Brunswick, 9 June & 10 July 1893. 2 letters 8 x 5 inches, minor blemishes only. John Charles Van Dyke (1856-1932), art critic and librarian.

Paris & Les Pepinieres de Meaux, 24 April & 13 June 1855. In French. 3 pp. 8 x 5 inches, tears at centre fold, minor blemishes. With some old catalogue notes providing the historical background to these letters. Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire (1805 – 1895), French philosopher, journalist, statesman. In 1855 he went as member of the international commission to Egypt to report on the possibility of the proposed Suez canal, and by the articles which he wrote he contributed largely to making the project popular in France. On an integral leaf is an Autograph Letter Signed “Mutter” (Sarah Austin) to “Dear Child” about St. Hilaire’s visit to London.

1 Staple Inn, 10 & 11 November 1899. 2 letters, 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, minor blemishes only. Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928), friend of Samuel Butler, and editor of his works.

Buxton, 6 May 1872. 2 small pages, clean, but in purple ink now severely faded, though legible. Robert Moffat (1795-1883), Scottish missionary, father-in-law to David Livingstone, and author of Labours and Scenes in South Africa (1842). It was sometimes his custom to sign photographs, album specimens, and missionary meeting souvenirs with his birth year, as in “Robert Moffat 1795”.

May 1911. In French. 2 letters, 3 pp.7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, black borders. Charles Gide (1847–1932), leading French economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the University of Bordeaux, at Montpellier, at Université de Paris and finally at Collège de France. His nephew was the writer André Gide. A founder of the Revue d'économie politique in 1887, Gide was a proponent of the French historical approach to economics.