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

7 Fitzroy Square, 5 June 1854. 1 page 4 x 3½ inches, in good condition, minor blemishes only. Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868), German art historian. A pamphlet on the brothers Van Eyck led to his appointment to the directorship of the newly founded Berlin Museum in 1832. The result of a journey to London and Paris was an important publication in three volumes, Kunstwerke und Künstler in England und Paris (Berlin, 1837-1839), which became the basis for his more important The Treasures of Art in Great Britain, translated by Elizabeth Eastlake, (4 vols, London, 1854 and 1857). This remains a key source for the provenance of paintings then in England.

10 Staple Inn, London, 19 December 1843. 1 page 6 x 4 inches, with a few lines and signature overleaf, integral blank leaf. Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth (1813-1884), scholar, linguist, astronomer (at the Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala, Sweden). He assumed the name Athanasius after his secession to the Roman Church.

15 Cambridge Street, 22 July 1910. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, fine. Samuel Waddington (1844-1923), poet.

Undated. 1 page 6 x 4 inches, traces of corner mounting on verso. Uncommon. Charles Edward Wagstaff (1808-1850), line, mezzotint and mixed-method engraver, specialising in portraits and historical and genre subjects, engraved after works by contemporary artists.

Paris, 15 June 1843. In French. 1 page 10 x 8 inches, with the address leaf, fine. Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852), French scientist and author, In 1839 he was appointed conservator for the Department of Maps at the Royal Library in Paris and in 1840 secretary for life in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He was one of the founders of the Société entomologique de France in 1832, and a "resident member" of the Société des observateurs de l'homme. He discovered the map of Juan de la Cosa, the oldest extant map that shows the American continent, and published La monde maritime (4 vols., 1818), Histoire générale des voyages (21 vols., 1826–1831) and Géographie ancienne, historique et comparée des Gaules (3 vols., 1839, new ed. 1862). He was also an entomologist and arachnologist who published, among other things, the Histoire naturelle des insectes (4 vols., 1836–1847) together with Paul Gervais.… Read More

64 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, 6 March 1861. 1½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. William Walker 1791 –1867), Scottish engraver. He is known for engravings of Sir Henry Raeburn's portraits of Sir Walter Scott and Raeburn himself, Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Lord Broughham (commissioned by Walker), and Alexander Nasmyth's portrait of Robert Burns.

Ardwick Green, Manchester, 4 January 1879. 1 page and 1 drawing 7 x 4 inches, a few blemishes. R.B.Wallace (?d.1893), artist. Tom Taylor (1817-80), critic, dramatist and editor of Punch.

32 Great Ormond Street, 5 October, no year given. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist and educationist, author of Human Nature in Politics (1908), one of the founding books of the modern study of political psychology, and its successors The Great Society (1914) and Our Social Heritage (1921).

Undated. 24 lines on 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. John Francis Waller (1810 - 1894), Irish poet and editor. He became a contributor to and ultimately editor of the Dublin University Magazine, usually writing under the pseudonym of "Jonathan Freke Slingsby". He published several volumes of poems and also wrote popular songs, including Cushla Ma Chree, The Spinning Wheel and Song of the Glass. He was responsible for the explanatory notes and a life of the author in a new edition of Gulliver's Travels.

The Grove, Ventnor [Isle of Wight], 18 June, no year given. In French. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Uncommon. Charles Waltner (1846-1925 ), French engraver and etcher.

The Vicarage, Chesterton, Cambridge, 22 March 1868. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. William Walton of Trinity, Cambridge, author of On The Differential Calculus (Cambridge, 1846).

Grosvenor Square, 12 November, no year given [probably c.1763]. 1 page 4 x 5 inches, neatly laid down on an album page beneath an engraved portrait of Warburton. William Warburton (1698-1779), bishop and scholar, defender of Pope’s Essay on Man, a controversialist who tackled Hume, the Deists, Voltaire and Wesley. We have been unable to trace this letter in the Oxford Bibliographical Society publication: Pope’s Literary Legacy: The Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton with other letters and documents, 1744-1780, Edited by Donald W.Nichol [1992]. Voltaire’s book, The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great, was published in its English translation in London by J.Nourse and P.Vallant in 1763. John Nourse (d.1780) was a London bookseller who specialized in French literature and scientific works. Warburton ordered many books from him.

Tunbridge Wells, 4 May 1847. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, laid down on an old album page. The Spirit of the Nation was a compilation of verses by contributors to the Nation newspaper, published in Dublin in 1844. George Drought Warburton (1816-1857), writer on Canada, author of Hochelaga; or England in the New World (1846 and later editions.

Arley, 1844-1846. 10½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, minor blemishes only, one letter cleanly torn along centre fold. Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1804-91), poet, author of Hunting Songs and Miscellaneous Verses (1846), etc. On the subject of proofs he writes, “The dead horse wants working up a great deal, pray speak seriously to Mr. L about this, as I am quite fearful that they will all appear to be very coarse and slightly finished.”

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

Athenaeum, undated [c.1875]. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, traces of corner mounts, otherwise good. Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879), Victorian narrative painter best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution. “I have humbly endeavoured to carry out by my pencil what you did so efficiently with your pen in what is and always was my view of the character of that greatest of our kings.”

Kent Villa, Lansdowne Road, Kensington Park, 5 November 1864. 2 pp. 6 x 4 inches, second page laid down, in good condition. Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879), Victorian narrative painter best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution.

6 Duke Street, Portland Place, 12 June 1876. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Uncommon. Lucy Geneviève Teresa Ward, Countess de Guerbel, DBE (1837 –1922), also known as Countess de Guerbel and, sometimes, albeit inaccurately, as Dame Geneviève Ward, was an American-born Russian soprano and actress. In 1856, aged 19, she married a Russian count, Constantine de Guerbel. After a few years' stay in Europe, the family returned to New York, and soon afterward made the acquaintance of Henriette Sontag, who encouraged Ward to study singing. When the Ward family returned to Europe, Sontag gave Geneviève a letter of introduction to the composer Rossini. In 1862, after Ward's last role in La Traviata, she retired due to vocal difficulties. Ward later became a stage actress, noted for dramatic roles. She toured Australia as an actress.

31 Fitzroy Square, March to August 1857. 10 pp., some very light foxing, generally in good condition, all tipped on to one old album page. George Raphael Ward (1799–1878), painter and engraver. Henry Mogford, exhibition organiser, was closely associated with the Crystal Palace. “We proposed paying a visit on Saturday next to the Crystal Palace as it is a long time since I paid a visit to that enchanting place...”

Glasgow, 23 April 1844. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, in good condition. Ralph Wardlaw (1779-1853), Scottish Congregational minister and theologian, slavery abolitionist. In May 1818 he travelled to London to preach one of the annual sermons on behalf of the London Missionary Society, which brought him acclaim from the English nonconformist community, and in September of that year he was granted a doctorate in divinity by Yale College in the United States. A long-standing opponent of slavery, Wardlaw was one of the founders of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society in 1823. He came to reject the moderate anti-slavery position that the abolition of slavery should be a gradual process. In November 1830 he delivered a powerful speech before the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society, in which he demanded the immediate abolition of slavery.