Lord Brougham, Signed (7 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Illustrated Third Edition. Three titles bound together as one. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed and signed by this rather eccentric author. Thick octavo in original gilt decorated green cloth over bevelled edge boards. Front cover ruled in black with elaborate gilt emblem, spine lettered in gilt, gilt top edge. Illustrated with numerous engravings, photographs, and folding plates. Fraying at spine ends, two inch tear in spine cloth. Front hinge starting. In need of some minor restoration. Internally very good. "Charles Ottley Groom Napier also known as C. O. G Napier FGS FLS (1839 - 1894) was a natural historian, geologist, mineral collector, as well a writer on vegetarianism, ornithology and an early proponent of British Israelism. He was most well known for his eccentric claims of ancestry."--Wikipedia. Signed.

8 pamphlets bound in one volume. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). 19th Century striking half purple calf, marbled boards, spine extravagantly & unusually gilt with crimson lettering piece. The volume contains:WILSON, JOSHUA. English Presbyterian Chapels proved to have been Orthodox Foundations, appropriated to Trinitarian Worship.pages: iv:36. London: Jackson & Walford, 1844. Inscribed and signed by the author on title.HADFIELD, GEORGE. An Address intended to have been delivered on the occasion of laying the Foundation Stone of the Lancashire Independent College at Withington, near Manchester on the 23rd September, 1840. pages: iv:78. London: Hamilton Adams, 1841. (The address intended for the laying of the Stone was not accomplished due to the collapse of a platform during the ceremony and the consequent injury of many of those attending).BROUGHAM, LORD. Letters on Law Reform to the Right Hon. Sir J. R. G. Graham. 87-pages. London: James Ridgway, 1843.EVANS, JAMES COOK. Letter to Sir James Graham.on the Education Clauses of the Factory Bill.Seventh Thousand. 12-pages. London: Ward & Co. 1843.TALFOURD, THOMAS NOON. Speech for the Defendant, in the prosecution of The Queen v. Moxon, for the Publication of Shelley's Works. Delivered in the Court of Queen's Bench, June 23, 1841, and revised by T.N. Talfourd, Sergeant at Law. 58-pages. London: Edward Moxon, 1841. (inscription from the author's wife on upper margin of the half-title partly trimmed by the binder).SHEPPARD, JOHN. A Lecture on Christian Missions to the Heathen delivered at the request of the.Baptist Missionary Society. 47-pages, with the half-title. London: Jackson & Walford, 1843.WILSON, JOSHUA. Are Unitarians Christians? The Judgement of Baxter and the English Presbyterian Fathers and Founders. pages: (2):52. London: Ball, Arnold, 1839. Inscription from the author at head of title partly trimmed by the binder.GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT. A Lecture on the Progress of Physical Science since the opening of the London Institution. Delivered on Wednesday, the 19th of January, 1842. Title vignette of the Institution. pages: iv:5-46. Printed by Order of the Managers [Not Published], 1842.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Two volumes in publisher's original stamped cloth with paper spine labels. Both volumes with the ownership SIGNATURE on the title pages "C. C. Moore" by Clement C. Moore, the author of "The Night Before Christmas." On the front pastedown of each volume is the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Also tipped to the pastedown of the first volume is an old catalog description of these books. Mild toning to paper; light wear to cloth. Near Fine.

Condition: Fine. Caldesi Blanford (illustrator). SIGNED original carte de visit of Henry, Lord Brougham seated on chair with table at rear. Signed "BROUGHAM" on verso, by Caldesi Blanford, London. Fine. Signed by Lord Brougham.

Condition: Fine. England, 1839. Two rare and important SIGNED MANUSCRIPT letters addressed to John Watt, son of James Watt, at Aston Hall, Birmingham by Lord Brougham at Brougham Castle, 1839. One a query as to who was the first to weigh the water produced by the combination of the two airs. Red seal. The other from London on Arago (the French astronomer, Francois Arago) and the Watt memorial. Both attended this event in Paris. Each letter one page, folded, dated and signed by Lord Brougham. Signed.

unbound. 1 page, 5 x 4.5 inches, no place, no date, circa 1820 -- a conclusion of a handwritten letter with a postscript (but complete in itself), in full: "Yours Truly, H. Brougham. You had better make your corrections of the proportion on a separate paper." Boldly signed and in near fine condition. British statesman and Lord Chancellor. He also designed the One Horse Brougham.

Single Page. Condition: Fine. March 4th 1833, Autograph letter by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux to a Mr. Beaumont of Bradford. Written in the 3rd person, consistent with Brougham's style, this original letter presents his compliments to Beaumont and acknowledges receipt of a Petition from Bradford for the abolition of slavery. The Chancellor (Brougham) will take an early opportunity to present the petition to the House of Lords. Brougham was Lord Chancellor of England from 1830-1834 and is most well-known for being instrumental in passing the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in August, which abolished slavery throughout the British Empire, 1833, a few months after writing this letter. Fine. Size: 4.5 x 7". Signed by Author.