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

Dated in another hand 1776. 4 x 8 inches, folds. Uncommon. Adam Ferguson (1723 – 1816), Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment, author of An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

France, 1920’s. Visiting card 4 x 2.5 inches, in fine clean condition. Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934), French statesman and writer, 9th President of the Republic.

[Australia, undated]. Black edged envelope, opened, seal possibly cut from verso. Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy (1796-1858), colonial governor. Sir Charles was chosen as the tenth Governor of the colony of New South Wales by Lord Stanley in 1845. Robert Allwood (1803–1891) was an English-born cleric, and academic in colonial Sydney, who served as rector of St James' Church, Sydney for 44 years.

Postmarked Quebec 25 April 1861, London arrival cds. 2 x 4 inches, irregularly trimmed, in clean condition, laid down. 6d. Stg. Paid marking. Sir Edmund Walker Head (1805-1868) was simultaneously Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1854-1861) and formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1847-1854).

Undated. 4 x 8 inches, in good condition. Adelaide, later Queen Dowager (1792-1849), married the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, in 1818.

Undated. 2¾ x 4¾ inches, laid down on part of an album page, traces of mounting on verso, other minor blemishes. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), tenth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. In 1816 the Duke of Cambridge, on behalf of King William IV, was appointed to the viceroyalty of Hanover, which at the treaty of Vienna (1814) had been elevated from an electorate to a kingdom. His discreet administration helped to preserve the Hanoverian crown for his family.

13 March 1858. 3½ x 8½ inches, marked On Her Majesty’s Service, with a weak strike of HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, London arrival cds. George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby (1819 – 1890), styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863, was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor of Nova Scotia, Queensland, New Zealand and Victoria. He was the 32nd Governor of Nova Scotia, in office from 15 February 1858 to 17 September 1863.

Postmarked Brussels, November 1883. 4 x 5 inches. George Augustus Sala (1828-1895), journalist and novelist, special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, 4 August 1897. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Cosmo Rowe (1877-1952), born William John Monkhouse Rowe, but always known as Cosmo, painter and illustrator. Cosmo was a friend of H.G. Wells and William Morris. Rowe provided the illustrations for Wells's 'War of the Worlds'. Rowe was Literature Secretary of Morris's Hammersmith Socialist Society, as well as painter of the sign which hung outside the room where the Society met. He also worked in the United States.

6 C.G. [Carlton Gardens], 7 May 1852. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, folds. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) who became Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94.

Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1 November 1850. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Sir James Paget (1814 – 1899), surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease, and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.

Undated. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, minor blemishes, some paper adhering to right edge. John Ruskin (1819-1900), author, painter and art critic. “There are now no private days - suppose we say Friday at two? How shall I meet you?” The Ruskins were good friends with Robert and Mary Cockburn. Mrs Cockburn was the Mary Duff of Lachin-y-Gair, a distant cousin of Byron, and reputedly the first of his loves.

South Weald near Brentwood, 13 April [1784 in a later hand, in pencil]. 1 page 9 x 7½ inches, in good condition, a few minor blemishes only. Admiral John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent (1735-1823). “May I trouble you when you have a moments leisure, to send me the best information you can obtain, touching the regulations of your Houses of Industry, how they succeed and in what proportion the poor Rates are reduc’d by them.”