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

25 November 1907. In German, as yet untranslated. 1 page 8 x 5 inches, in very fine clean condition. Wilhelm Raabe (1831 –1910), German novelist. His early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus.

Dated 1928. In French (with separate translation) on card, folio, in fine condition. “What woman wants, God wants (and that god is not the god of war! Since the desire of all women is for peace ... let peace reign! A woman: Rachilde.” [translation] Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860 – 1953), a French author. Dubbed “Mademoiselle Baudelaire” by Maurice Barres, she was called a pornographer by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly. Rachilde and her husband, Alfred Vallette, were some of the most influential people in the symbolist and decadent community in Paris. They started the Mercure de France and hosted salons every Tuesday afternoon where young artists could come and meet established writers, such as Oscar Wilde who was inspired in part by Rachilde's book Monsieur Venus. This presentation statement was prepared for publication in the famous anthology Pax Mundi. Livre D'or De La Paix (Geneva, 1932), which contained numerous autograph… Read More

3 May 1705. 4 x 6 inches, neatly trimmed and in good condition. From the Enys Collection, sold at Bonhams, London, in 2004. A good example of the uncommon signature of John Radcliffe (1650-1714), physician and philanthropist, one of the most famous doctors of his time, who bequeathed the bulk of his large property to the Radcliffe Library, Infirmary and Observatory, all named after him, and to University College Oxford and St.Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.

3 November 1819. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, in good condition. William Radclyffe (1783-1855), engraver, well known as an engraver of landscapes, making prints after David Cox, J. M. W. Turner and Peter De Wint and illustrating numerous works of travel literature.

Undated. Fine bold signature on paper 3 x 4 inches, laid down. In good condition. Joseph Wenzel von Radetzky (1766-1858), Austrian field marshal and and military reformer whose long record of victorious campaigns made him a national hero. The Radetzky March is named in his honour.

Upper Norwood, undated. 1 page, with two lines and signature on the second leaf. In good condition, a few minor blemishes. Uncommon. Henrietta Rae (1859-1928) was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is The Lady with the Lamp (1891); depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari. She married the painter Ernest Normand in 1884. Rae was a supporter of feminism and women's suffrage. In 1897 Rae organised an exhibition of the work of female artists for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The Tree Lover, 5 January 1932. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, fold marks, minor blemishes. Canon Lonsdale Ragg (1866-1945), author of Dante and his Italy (1907) and Things Seen In Venice (1912). Frederick Rolfe's The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, his autobiographical novel set in Venice, contains a merciless portrait of the Raggs as ‘Exeter and Emily Warden’.

10 January 1761. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, some light staining, generally good. Uncommon. James Ralph (1705 –1762), American-born English political writer, historian, reviewer, and Grub Street hack writer known for his works of history and his position in Alexander Pope's Dunciad B. His History of England in two volumes (1744–46) and The Case of the Authors by Profession of 1758 became the dominant narratives of their time.

Pentonville Prison, 18 November 1842. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. James Ralph, Chaplain of Pentonville Prison.

British Museum, 11 June 1874. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. William Ralston (1828-1889), Russian scholar, translator of Turgenev.

8 Alfred Place, Bedford Square, Xmas night 1879. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. With the original franked envelope. William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828–1889), scholar and translator of Russian. He made two or three journeys to Russia, formed numerous literary acquaintances there, and had a lasting friendship with Turgenev. His shyness “came down upon me when I got into the fog - especially when I saw a carriage drive up to your gates, with a vague gleam of radiant beings within. It seemed to me that I should be de trop, and I fled howling into the misty night.”

7 Portman Square, 9 June 1855. 1 page 8 x 5 inches, in good condition. Francis Henry Ramsbotham (1801-1858), medical writer, was appointed obstetric physician and lecturer on obstetric and forensic medicine at the London Hospital, and physician to the Royal Maternity Charity;

Glasgow, 13 September 1871. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, minor blemishes only. William John McQuorn Rankine (1820-1872), Scottish civil engineer and physicist, best known for researches into molecular physics.

Paris, 1871, 1878, 1884. In French. 4 letters, 6 pp., with four envelopes. In good condition. Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813 – 1900), French philosopher and archaeologist. Ravaisson's chief philosophical works are: "Les Fragments philosophiques de Hamilton" (in the Revue des Deux Mondes, November, 1840); Rapport sur le stoicisme (1851); La Philosophie en France au dix-neuvième siècle (1868; 3rd ed., 1889); Morale et métaphysique (1893). Eminent as a philosopher, Ravaisson was also an archaeologist, and contributed articles on ancient sculpture to the Revue Archéologique and the Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions. In 1871 he published a monograph on the Venus de Milo.

Audley Square, Wednesday 28 May. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition with the original envelope (flap bearing the initials E.A.R.) “I have some people to show them to if possible; but walking is quite out of the question!” Elizabeth Anne Rawdon (1793-1874), later Elizabeth, Lady William Russell. A beautiful and energetic cosmopolitan who had enjoyed a broad European education, she was praised by Lord Byron in Beppo as "[one] whose bloom could, after dancing, dare the dawn". However, her outspoken Tory sympathies won her few friends among her husband's Liberal circle. Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, described her as”that accursed woman”.

London, 1970. 188 pp. Blue cloth, in fine bright condition, with original dust wrapper. Over 400 facsimile signatures, including every British sovereign from Henry VIII, some 49 prime ministers, and a wide range of literary figures, soldiers, scientists, artists and others. This remains one of the most useful and reliable books about autograph collecting.

1 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, 25 May 1864. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895), Assyriologist, continued the excavations begun by Layard. He became British minister in Persia (1859-60). Rawlinson's published works include four volumes of cuneiform inscriptions, published under his direction between 1870 and 1884 by the trustees of the British Museum; The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun (1846–51) and Outline of the History of Assyria (1852), both reprinted from the Asiatic Society's journals; A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria (1850); Notes on the Early History of Babylonia (1854); and England and Russia in the East (1875). Rawlinson was appointed political agent at Kandahar in 1840. In that capacity he served for three years, his political labours being considered as meritorious as was his gallantry during various engagements in the course of the Afghan War; for these he was rewarded by the… Read More

Undated. 1 page 6 x 4 inches, with the address leaf, a few blemishes. James Grant Raymond (1771-1817), actor, manager of the English Opera. “If you cannot sing, you must perform the part without music - or we must close the Theatre - of course an apology will be necessary. What damned fortune attends our best exertions.”

38 Tavistock Street, Covent garden, undated. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Angus B.Reach (1821-1856), journalist, author of Clement Lorimer (illustrated by Cruickshank).

Paris, postmarked 12 May 1894. In French. 1 page 6½ x 5 inches, in good condition, with the original franked envelope. Rare. Hugues Rebell (1867-1905), author, exponent of Nietsche. Rebell is often dismissed as a failed author of pornography, remembered for only one title, Les nuits chaudes du Cap Français (1902), which won the Prix Nocturne in 1966. Rebell wrote a number of pornographic works under the group pseudonym "Jean de Villiot", a prolific contributor to early 20th century French spanking literature, published by Charles Carrington. He was also a poet, whose Les Chants de la pluie et du soleil, dedicated to his friend René Boylesve, inspired André Gide in Les Nourritures Terrestres.