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

Admiralty, 14 February 1793. Vellum 10.5 x 12.5 inches, seal affixed, fold marks, in good clean condition. Admiralty wafer seal affixed. Research suggests that young Thackeray died in August 1794. Admiral Sir Samuel Hood (1762-1814), a relative of Admiral Viscount Hood (1724-1816), entered the Navy in 1776. He fought at Martinique (1781), and in May 1790 he commissioned the Juno, a 32 gun frigate, in which he went to Jamaica. In 1797 he acted under Nelson in the attack of Tenerife; and, in 1798, he served on board the Zealous at the Battle of the Nile. He fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars, losing an arm in a naval skirmish in September 1805, until his appointment as commander in chief in the East Indies (1812),

London, 1896. 4th edition. Map, 23 woodcuts. 268 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, in good condition, a few minor abrasions only. Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903), writer.

[London: A. Hogg, c.1782.]. Original copper engraving, 11¼ x 7" within platemark. In good condition. Whales being harpooned by whaling parties form small boats launched from larger ships, in Arctic waters; polar bears on ice flows in foreground, and a walrus being shot. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782. Thornton sculp.

Postmarked Grasse, 28 November 1889. With the original autograph envelope, franked. Jules Francois Camille Ferry (1832-1893), French statesman, premier of France (1880-81, 1883-85), who pursued a vigorous colonial policy extending French possessions in Africa and Asia. He was assassinated by a madman with a revolver.

22 November 1934. With the original envelope, addressed to General Edmund Ironside, Army Headquarters, India. Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud (November 17, 1867–September 16, 1946) was a French general, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War. In 1911, after attending the centre des Hautes études militaires in France, colonel Gouraud was stationed in Morocco, where he was promoted to général de brigade. He was placed in command of the Fez military region, and in 1914 in command of all French troops in western Morocco. As commander of the French forces committed in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 (Battle of Gallipoli) he lost his right arm. From July of 1917 until the end of the war he commanded the Fourth Army on the Western Front, where he gained distinction for his use of elastic defense during the Second Battle of the Marne. After the war, Gouraud served from 1919 to 1923 as representative of the French Government in… Read More