Search Results: Authors starting with D from Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

Venice, 26 June 1887. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, minor blemishes only. Giuseppe Da Pozzo (1844-1919), watercolour artist.

The Tower House, Tite Street [London], 29 May 1890. 4 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. “...we are going (much against the grain) to offer our services in drawing rooms. I then do a short watering-places tour before leaving England - I hope for good.” Arthur James, known as Arthur Dacre (1840-1895), actor, formerly a physician. Amy and Arthur James, better known as Amy Roselle and Arthur Dacre, arrived in Australia in 1895. They had been suffering bad luck in England and thought that they could recoup their losses in the colony. But on 17 November 1895 they ended their lives in a real-life drama - the tragedy of a murder-suicide at their lodgings at 129 Macquarie Street, Sydney.

Breslau, undated. 2½ x 3½ inches, in good condition, a few marks. Felix Dahn (1834-1912), German nationalist and poet.

6 Hanover Square, 30 May, no year given. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Isabella Dallas [stage name Glyn] (1823-1889), Shakespearean actress. “Each visit to your performance makes one enjoy it more and more.”

1 May 1888. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, fine. Admiral Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay (1821-1912) entered the Royal Navy in 1834. During his naval career he was involved in the Sixth Xhosa War in South Africa and the war in Syria, being present when Beirut and St Jean d'Acre fell. He was also served in the successful operations against Chinese pirates in the 1840s. He commanded HMS Victory from 1854, commanded HMS Hannibal during the Crimean War and was decorated by the British and Turkish governments.

22 Gloucester Gardens, Camden Town, 2 July 1852. 2 pp. 5 x 4 inches, in good condition. James Francis Danby (1816-1875), artist, son of Francis Danby (1793-1861), Irish painter.

Norwich, 1 May 1834. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, with the address panel. Edward Thomas Daniell (1804 – 1842), landscape painter and etcher. He grew up in Norfolk and was ordained as a priest. He is best known for his drawings made on an expedition to Lycia, in the course of which he died. Inspired by the example of David Roberts, he set out for the East in 1840. He was in Greece at the end of the year, crossed to Egypt early in 1841, travelled up the Nile to Nubia, then from Egypt to Palestine, and on to Syria, reaching Beirut in October. In Smyrna he fell in with an English party on board H.M.S. Beacon, which had been sent by British Government to Lycia to bring home antiquities discovered by Sir Charles Fellows at Xanthos, for the British Museum. Daniell joined the expedition and spent the winter at Xanthos. When Fellows left, he remained behind to make a more thorough survey of the country. Daniell produced a series of sixty-four drawings, now in the British Museum, recording their journey.

12 Orme Square, 7 February, no year given. 2 pp.6 x 4 inches, light toning, otherwise good. Edward George Dannreuther 1844-1905, was a German pianist and writer on music.

Westminster, 3 March 1862. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, some annotations, old catalogue slip tipped to first page. Uncommon. Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), translator of folk tales and contributor to The Times. Perhaps his most well-known work, The Story of Burnt Njal, a translation of the Icelandic Njal's Saga that he had first attempted while in Stockholm, was issued in 1861. This was followed in 1861-1862 with a visit to Iceland, where he was hailed in Reykjavík as one of the saga lovers who had strengthened ties between the English and Norse. Subsequent to that visit, he published in 1866 his translation of Gisli the Outlaw from the Icelandic.

Undated. In French. 3 pp. 8 x 5 inches, black edges, in good condition. Gabrielle Anne Cisterne de Courtiras, vicomtesse de Saint-Mars (1804-1872), nom de plume Countess Dash, was a prolific French writer. After the loss of her fortune, she took to writing. On her remarking that she wished to write under a pseudonym, that of her favorite dog, “Dash,” was suggested, which she adopted.

Botanic Garden, Oxford, 25 April 1827. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, with address panel. Charles G.B.Daubeny (1795-1867), chemist, who applied his knowledge to geological and botanical studies. At Oxford, Daubeny became a professor of chemistry, botany and rural economy. He investigated the chemical nature of mineral and thermal waters and the conservability of seeds. One of his more important papers was ‘On the Action of Light upon Plants, and of Plants upon the Atmosphere’ [1836]. Soon after the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species, Daubeny gave it strong support in a paper ‘On the Sexuality of Plants’ read before the British Association in 1860. He was the author of a Journal of a Tour through the United States and in Canada, made during the Years, 1837-38.

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

Paris, 26 April 1903. In French. 1 page 4½ x 4½ inches, laid down, in good condition. Ernest Daudet (1837-1921), French writer.

Cambustay, Broughty Ferry, 25 December 1898. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. W.S.Davidson, artist or art dealer? In need of further research.

Wednesday evening, undated. 4 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, fine. Thomas Stephens Davies (1794?–1851), mathematician. Davies's principal area of research was geometry.Among the numerous subjects which engaged his attention were the properties of the trapezium, Pascal's hexagramme mystique, Brianchon's theorem, symmetrical properties of plane triangles, the geometry of three dimensions, and stereographic projection. In 1834 Davies was appointed one of the mathematical masters in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. While there, he helped to publish several useful textbooks for the use of its students.

Saturday morning, watermark 1854. A good one page example, 7 x 4 inches. Edward Thomson Davis (1833-1867), genre painter, active in Worcester.

Monday, undated. 5 x 11 inches, with the address panel, remains of guard where formerly mounted. Lady Jane Davy (1780-1855), wife of Sir Humphry Davy.

The Woodlands, 2 October [?1853]. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, some paper adhering to final blank. John Frederic Dawson (1802 –1870), English entomologist and taxonomist from 'The Woodlands' near Bedford best known for his work on the Carabidae beetles "Geodephaga Britannica; a Monograph of the Carnivorous Ground-Beetles indigenous to the British Isles" (London, 1854).

Undated. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, folds, a few minor creases James Dawson junior (1840-1906), lyric poet, son of a farmer at Hartshead, Lancashire, and a friend of Matthew Arnold. he wrote Facts and Fancies from the Farm; Lyrical Poems (1868).

31 Sloane Street, undated. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, a few traces of former mounting. Alexander Day (c. 1751 –1841), miniature painter and art dealer who worked mainly in Rome.