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

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s, 31 January 1958. 16 x 21 inches, impressed Royal seal, folded, in superb clean condition. An early signature of Queen Elizabeth II on a document in pristine condition.

Undated. 8 x 12 inches, roughly opened, in good clean condition, complete royal seal in black wax. King William IV (reigned 1830-1837) signs as Duke of Clarence.

Windsor, 13 December 1785. 3 x 7 inches, neatly laid down. An attractive display piece signed by King George III (reigned 1760-1820).

St James, 30 July 1796. 2 pages 9 x 7 inches, plus integral address leaf, gilt edges, in fine fresh and attractive condition, bearing two seals in red wax with ends of red silk ties, SIGNED BY A RELUCTANT GEORGE III ON BEHALF OF HIS FORMER MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES. The bearer of this letter, George Hammond, had returned to England after serving as the first British Minister to the United States of America in 1795. He was then promoted by George Grenville, the Foreign Secretary, to act as his senior Under-Secretary with George Canning serving as the second. Meanwhile, faced with Napoleon's victories in Italy and the Rhineland, Pitt's First Coalition was facing collapse. Grenville, keen on an alliance with Prussia, proposed that her support could be ensured by giving her a free hand in annexing either of the Belgic provinces or extensive domains in Germany; a plan that was turned down by George III with the cutting observation that 'Italian politics are too complicated for my… Read More

Queens House, 14 January 1781 “52 m[inutes] p[as]t 5 P.M.”. 2 lines on 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in very good condition, with an integral blank leaf. King George III (reigned 1760-1820). Sir Stanier Porter, diplomat and courtier. Frederick North (1732-92), known as Lord North, was Prime Minister from 1770-1782 and was largely responsible for the measures which led to the loss of America.

Karrachee, 30 September 1846. 10 pp. 9 x 7 inches, legible and in good condition, with the address panel (also signed by Napier), red oval KARRACHEE postmark, G.P.O. receiver. General Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853), Governor of Sind (1843-47), Commander in Chief in India (1849-50). “There is a great deal of ingenuity used in this world to make mischief and to prevent it I have always found that, 9 times in 10, the shortest cut is the best, so I write to you at once. There is here a ‘dead set’ going on against Major Leeson, perfectly ruinous to Discipline ...”

Camp 12 miles between Mooltye & Britool [India], 13 October 1817. 5 pp. 9 x 7 inches, fine, disbound, about 800 words. With a complete typed transcript. Major-General John Briggs (1785-1875) entered the Madras Army in 1801, served in the Mahratta Wars, accompanied Sir John Malcolm on his mission to Persia (1810). “As far as military spirit goes I imagine there never was a time when it was more fervent than at present in our troops who look to actual service as some claim to the distressing listlessness and disappointment of the late defensive system. The troops are well commanded in detail and the Artillery is excellent. The Engineers are all that science can make them alltho’ the long period since the war with the Murhilttas and Seringapatam have afforded them little opportunity of practical knowledge, our Chief Captain Davies was however with the blockading squadron and taken with Captain Willoughby at the Isle of France, has been in the field for the last six years and is an… Read More

Delhi Palace, 27 September 1857. 12 pp. (over 2000 words) 7 x 4 inches, fine and legible, with the accompanying coloured map (9 x 8 inches). An authoritative contemporary account of the decisive recapture of Delhi by the British forces. “The King of Delhi was taken by Hodson 1st B.E.fusiliers, a most active officer. The Begum was also with him. He is an old man, very much crippled & can hardly walk. His life alone was promised, & on this he gave himself up; he had been deserted by nearly all his attendants. He was first taken to a house in the city, & I saw the first guard placed over him; since then he has been brought into the palace, but as a prisoner. The General, I think quite rightly declines seeing him, and hands over the whole of his management to the Civil Authorities ...”

Imp. d’Extreme-Orient, Hanoi, October 1913. 8 pp. pamphlet, staples removed, in good clean condition, 10 x 4 inches.

Undated. 2 stanzas on 1 page 5 x 4½ inches, laid down. Jean Ingelow (1820-97), poet, published several volumes of verse (Poems, 1863) and stories for children (Mopsa the Fairy, 1869).

Newbury, 11 November 1874. 3 pp. 4½ x 3½ inches, second leaf laid down on part of album page. Sarson C.Ingham, woman novelist, author of Adelaide’s Treasure (1880), Eleanor’s Ambition (1885), Esther Lovell (1890), etc. “If you will come and have a cup of tea with me at five o’clock we can chat over as much congenial rubbish as we like, for neither Papa nor Mamma will be in.”

Northallerton, April 1855. 1 letter (some toning) + 1 printed prospectus.

Trinity College Oxford, 11 January 1843. 4 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, folds, in good condition. James Ingram (1774-1850), Anglo-Saxon scholar and President of Trinity College Oxford. His publications included an edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1823), an edition of Quintilian (1809) and Memorials of Oxford (3 volumes, 1832 to 1837) with 100 illustrations by John Le Keux.

Liverpool, 7 April 1848. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, light toning only. Thomas Inman (1820 –1876) was a house-surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. In his lifetime he had numerous medical papers published. He was also an amateur mythologist, and wrote Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism, first published in 1869 and then again in 1875. In it he elucidated the origins of common symbols, some of them medical. Many of the symbols he discusses are in use today.

London, 1862. 6 x 10 inches, in good condition, mounted on an album page. From the collection of Leone Levi (1821–1888), jurist, political economist, and statistician, author of the History of British Commerce (1872).

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

Croydon, 15 August 1796. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, with a copper portrait engraving by Stow. John Ireland (1761-1842), Dean of Westminster. He was vicar of Croydon, south of London, between 1793 and 1816. Some of his sermons from his time in Croydon were published in 1796 as Five Discourses... for and against the Reception of Christianity by the Antient Jews and Greeks.

Lyceum Theatre, 15 October 189?. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, corner creases, otherwise good. Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905), the English actor. “You will be glad to hear that Bancroft still lives - though I am told that I have some sinister & deadly intent against him.”

Undated. 1 page 8 x 5 inches, in good condition. Sir James Ivory (1765-1842), mathematician. He published in the Philosophical Transactions several important memoirs, which earned for him the Copley Medal in 1814 and ensured his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. Of special importance in the history of attractions is the first of these earlier memoirs (Phil. Trans., 1809), in which the problem of the attraction of a homogeneous ellipsoid upon an external point is reduced to the simpler case of the attraction of another but related ellipsoid upon a corresponding point interior to it. This theorem is known as Ivory's theorem.