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[Barlow, William]. Magneticall Advertisements: Or, Divers Pertinent Observations, and Approved Experiments Concerning the Nature and Properties of the Load-Stone: Very Pleasant for Knowledge, and Most Needfull for Practise, of Travelling, or Framing of Instruments fit for Travellers both by Sea and Land, 1st ed., 1616, 80 pp. only (of 86 pp., lacking N1-4 & O1), woodcut headpieces and initials, illustrations, occasional light soiling, a few frayed foredges, previous owner signature to title, modern cloth, small 4to. STC 1442. Contains Barlow’s discovery of the directional properties of the compass-needle. The book’s publication was the subject of a dispute with Mark Ridley, who had published his own A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions in 1613. (1).
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Brown (Thomas). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, 5th ed., 1669, three parts in one, folding portrait frontis. (repair to verso), two engraved plates, p.6 lower corner torn away (affecting marginal note), marginal wormtracks, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, 4to, together with Experimenta, Atque Observationes quibus Electricitas Vindex Late Constituitur, Atque Explicatur, Augustae Taurinorum, [Torino, 1769], 66 pp., folding table (repair to verso), folding engraved plate, occasional light spotting, modern wrapper, 4to, plus The Principles of Analytical Calculation, by Robert Woodhouse, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1803, 219 pp., one or two repaired tears, small marginal burnhole, modern marbled wrapper, 4to, with others including Francis Maseres’ Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley’s, Mr. Raphson’s and Sir Isaac Newton’s Methods of Approximation, 1800 (author’s presentation copy), William Nicholson’s The First Principles of Chemistry, 1790 and John Astruc’s A Treatise of the Venereal Disease, in Six Books, 2 vols., 1737. (33).
Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 3rd ed., with Additions and Corrections, John Murray, 1861, folding diagramatic plate, 2 pp. pubs. list at end, one or two faint spots, light brown chalk-glazed endpapers (some adhesions marks at front and rear due to label removal), original green blindstamped cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed (generally a very good copy), 8vo. Freeman 381. 2000 copies printed. This edition extensively altered by the author, with the addition of a table of differences between it and the second edition, and the important Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species. (1).
Ellis (George Edward). Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices of his Daughter, 5 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1876, engraved illustrations, occasional light toning and spotting, Royal Engineers Library stamps to titles, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with The Life and Letters of Faraday, by Dr. Bence Jones, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1870, b & w illustrations, a few spots, original cloth, spines faded with short splits to joints, 8vo, with others related including Bence Jones’ The Royal Institution: Its Founder and its First Professors, 1871, Michael Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity, vols. II & III only, 1844-55 and Michael Faraday’s Chemical Manipulation, Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration or of Research with Accuracy and Success, new ed., 1830. (approx 60).
Euler (Leonhard). Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy. Addressed to a German Princess. Translated from the French by Henry Hunter D.D. With Original Notes, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1802, half titles, 20 engraved plates, occasional light spotting and offsetting, contemporary tree calf, spines and edges rubbed, 8vo. (2).
Jamieson (Alexander). A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps Illustrated by Scientific Descriptions of their Contents, and Accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises, 1822, engraved calligraphic title and dedication, engraved plate and 30 engraved celestial maps, plate III with marginal loss and fraying, occasional light spotting and offsetting, contemporary half calf, paper label to upper cover, rebacked, light edge wear, oblong 4to. (1).
Linnaeus (Carl). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis, vol. I only (of 2), 10th ed., Stockholm, 1758, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, edges rubbed, 8vo. The 10th edition was the begining of zoological nomenclature, with the Animal Kingdom divided into six classes, the first, Mammalia including whales and the West Indian Manatee (originally classified among Fishes in the first edition of 1735). (1).
Paris (John Ayrton). The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, 1st ed., 2 vols., 1831, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, folding facsimile plate to vol. II, occasional light spotting, Radcliffe Observatory Oxford inkstamps at front, previous owner signatures, original boards, neat calf reback, 8vo, together with Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart, by his Brother, John Davy, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1836, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I (offsetting to title), 16 pp. pubs. list at front of vol. I, some light spotting and toning, original boards, neat calf reback, 8vo. (4).
Partridge (Seth). The Description and Use of an Instrument, Called the Double Scale of Proportion. By which Instrument, all Questions in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Geography, Navigation, Fortification, Gunnery, Gaging Vessels, Dialing, may be most Accurately and Speedily Performed, without the Assistance of either Pen or Compasses, 1st ed., 1661, two diagramatic plates (one folding), contemporary replacement advert. pasted over printed advert. on final leaf, one or two leaves mispaginated, occasional light soiling, previous owner inscription to front blank, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, 12mo. Wing 630A. Scarce, no copies recorded at auction. “The first complete duplex slide rule was made in 1657 by Seth Partridge. The rule consisted of two strips of wood held together by bridging cleats with a third strip sliding freely between them. This rule carried the numbers and trigonometric scales on both faces.” (Derrenberger, A History of the Slide Rule, April 1939). (1).
Bindings. The Plays of William Shakespeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy left by the Late George Steevens, 10 vols., new ed., 1823, half titles, portrait frontispiece to vol. I, a few light spots, armorial bookplates of Lord Battersea, a.e.g., contemporary claret red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt lyre and corner pieces enclosed by blind anthemion rolls, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 12mo. (10).
Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 12th ed., 1925; Winnie-The-Pooh, 2nd ed., 1926; Now We Are Six, 1st ed., 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, occasional light fingermarks, presentation inscriptions, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, spines rubbed at ends and three faded, 8vo, together with Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller: With Remarks on the Country, its Arts, Literature, and Politics, and on the Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants, [by Louis Simond], 2 vols., 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1815, 21 tinted aquatint plates, two folding tables, one or two tears, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, covers detached, vertical splits along spines, rubbed, 8vo, with others including divs. II & III of The Fruit Grower’s Guide, by John Wright, 1890’s and three Florence K. Upton Golliwogg books (in poor condition) (a carton).
Warren (B. H.). Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, 1st ed., Harrisburg, 1888, fifty coloured litho. plts. after Audubon, some marks and light soiling to endpapers, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo (Nissen 972), together with Dresser (Christopher), Principles of Decorative Design, 1st ed., pub. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1873], two chromo. plts. (of which one is loose), b&w illusts. to text, orig. brown cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, with fraying to head and foot of spine and outer corners, small 4to, plus other miscellaneous literature, illustrated books, art reference, etc., including several issues of Alphabet and Image, W. B. Yeats, Collected Plays, 1st ed., 1934, several Faber and Faber Ariel Poems, a bound volume of ‘Old Jonathan’, or The District and Parish Helper, September 1859-August 1864, T. A. Coward, The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs, Series I-III, etc. (3 shelves).
Davis (Lindsey). A Dying Light in Cordoba, with An Appreciation by Peter Lovesey/A Time to Depart, with an Appreciation by Ellis Peters, both pub. Scorpion Press, Blakeney, Glos., 1995, orig. quarter morocco gilt (both limited edition, nos. 56 & 47 of 99 copies, signed by the author), plus O’Connell (Carol), Killing Critics, with an Appreciation by Barry Maitland, 1995, orig. quarter morocco gilt (limited edition 53/85, signed by the author), and Booth (Stephen), Blood on the Tongue, with an Appreciation by Reginald Hill, 2002, orig. quarter morocco gilt (limited edition 47/80, signed by the author), and Cleverly (Barbara), Ragtime in Simla, with an Appreciation by H.R.F. Keating, 2002, orig. quarter morocco gilt (limited edition 30/80, signed by the author), all 8vo, and other recent crime fiction, some signed by the author, all orig. hardback publications in d.j., VG (6 shelves).
[Bennett, Samuel]. The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation, parts I-V [all published], Sydney, 1865, lithographed title (cropped at foot affecting imprint), five tinted plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus African Fragments: Comprising Mr. WM. Lee’s Narrative of two Expeditions into the Interior of Africa; The Travels of a Tartar to Timbuctoo; Sketch of Whydah; Customs of the Gold Coast, and Other Articles by Capt. Pierce, of Cape Coast, Africa, Designed as an Appendix to Museum Africanum, by Charles Hulbert, Shrewsbury, 1826, double-page engraved map, one or two spots, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, plus The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature, by Alfred Wallace, 6th ed., 1877, two folding maps, b & w illustrations, occasional spotting, prize label, original green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with others including The Adventures of Robert Drury, During Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar., 1807 and A Few Words, on the Encouragement Given to Slavery and the Slave Trade, by Recent Measures, and Chiefly by the Sugar Bill of 1846, by Stephen Cave, 2nd ed., 1849, inscribed by the author. (9).
Bougard (Rene). The Little Sea Torch: or True Guide for Coasting Pilots: by which they are clearly instructed how to navigate along the coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sicily; The Isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia and others in the Straits; and of The Coast of Barbary from Cape Bon to Cape de Verd. Enriched with Upwards of One Hundred Appearances of Head-Lands and Light Houses together with Plans of the Principal Harbours, also a Table of Soundings and Various Explanatory Remarks., Translated from the French of Le Sieur Bougard with Corrections and Additions by J.T.Serres, published for the Author by J.Debrett, 1801, title page, dedication and list of subscribers, 130 pps. of descriptive text with occ. near contemp. pencil marginalia, pp. 134 with repaired closed tear, 137 hand coloured aquatint plates of land profiles on twenty sheets, half title with list of charts on verso, twenty-four engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring (on twelve sheets), complete as lists, table of soundings and index at rear, contemp. marbled boards with modern half calf, gilt dec. spine, boards rubbed and worn, folio. Abbey Life. 344. The first and only English edition translated by Serres from Rene Bougard’s ‘Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer’. (1).
Brown (Thomas). A General Atlas, Being a Collection of Maps of the World & Quarters, the Various Empires, Kingdoms & States in the Known World, Edinburgh, [1814], calligraphic title, 33 hand-coloured engraved maps (of 36, lacking World Hemisphere, Mercator’s Projection and Turkey in Asia), Jamaica & Egypt with some loss at inner margin, occasional light spotting and soiling, some show-through, contemporary morocco-backed boards, boards detached, some wear, 4to. Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return. (1).
Keppel (Captain the Hon. Henry). A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. Ship Maeander, with portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1853, eight tinted lithograph plates, folding map contained in vol. I rear pocket, a few light spots, contemporary previous owner signatures, original red cloth gilt, vol. I spine ends with chips and tears, spines faded, 8vo. (2).
Pardoe (Julia). The Beauties of the Bosphorus, 1838, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, map and 78 engraved views after William Bartlett, occasional light spotting, disbound, upper cover and part of spine only, 4to, together with Denmark Delineated; or, Sketches of the Present State of that Country, by A. Andersen Feldborg, Edinburgh, 1824, additional engraved title, 22 (of 23 plates, lacking Cronburg Castle), titles misbound, a few spots, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo. (2).
Philby (H. St. J.B.). The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel & Exploration, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1922, two folding maps (one with marginal tear), b & w illustrations, vol. I lacking half title and front endpaper, occasional light spotting, library stamps and labels, endpapers browned (vol. I rear torn with loss), original green cloth, spines a little rubbed with shelf numbers erased, 8vo. (2).
Smith (George). A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, 1st ed., 1847, double-page colour map, 12 lithographed plates, a few tinted, occasional water stains and spotting, title detaching, modern brown cloth, 8vo, together with A Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite, by John Lee Scott, 1st ed., 1841, four engraved plates, light water stain to frontispiece, occasional soiling, original cloth gilt, upper joint splitting, small repair to spine, 8vo, plus The Life and Opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., Missionary to China, Illustrated by Biographical Annals of Asiatic Missions, from Primitve to Protestant Times; Intended as a Guide to Missionary Spirit, by Robert Philip, 1st ed., 1840, engraved frontispiece, pubs. ads. at front, occasional spotting, presentation inscription to title, front hinge broken, original cloth, spine detached with loss, 8vo, with M. Geraldine Guinness’ The Story of the China Inland Mission, 2 vols., 1893. (5).
Survey of Western Palestine. Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology, by Lieut. C.R. Conder and Lieut. H.H. Kitchener, 3 vols., 1881-83, lithographed maps, plates and plans, colour frontis. to vol. III, scattered light spotting, original burgundy cloth, upper cover with gilt Jerusalem Cross, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to, together with Special Papers on Topography, Archaeology, Manners and Customs etc., 1881, map frontis., some spotting, uniform cloth, small splits to joints, 4to, plus Jerusalem, by Col. Sir Charles Warren & Capt. Claude Reignier Conder, 1884, maps and illustrations, occasional spotting, rear hinge tender, uniform cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, with The Fauna and Flora of Palestine, by H.B. Tristram, 1884, 20 lithograhed plates (13 hand-coloured), first few leaves loosening, a few spots, uniform cloth, light dampstains, 4to, with Memoir of the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Adjoining Districts, by Edward Hull, 1888, Arabic and English Name Lists, Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer, 1881, A General Index, Compiled by Henry C. Stewardson, 1888, Archaeological Researches in Palestine During the Years 1873-1874, by Charles Clermont-Ganneau, 2 vols., 1896-99, The Survey of Eastern Palestine, Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, Archaeology, by Major C.R. Conder’s 1889, vol. I [all published], 1889 and Trelawney Saunders’ An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands, 1881. (13).
Symons (G.J., ed.). The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, 1888, two chromo. frontispieces, colour plates, folding tables, maps and charts, a few light spots, original cloth, upper joint splitting, spine a little faded and torn at ends, 4to. (1).
Younghusband (Captain Frank E.). The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894, 4th ed., 1897, b&w illusts., mostly after photos., four folding maps, including map of the North Western Frontier of India in pocket at rear, orig. green cloth, rubbed and some minor marks to extrems., together with Stein (Sir Aurel). On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, 1st ed., 1933, some colour and numerous b&w plts., incl. some folding, map at end, torn to folds with some sellotape repairs, orig. cloth, rubbed, with some fraying and sl. wear, plus Calvert (Albert F.). The Exploration of Australia, 2. vols., 1st ed., 1895/96, b&w frontis. to first vol., folding coloured map (torn without loss), b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. two-tone cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and some light soiling, 4to, together with The Discovery of Australia, 2nd ed., pub. Dean & Son, 1902, half-title, b&w frontis., b&w plts., a.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, 4to, plus Meredith (Louise Anne Twamley), Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844, 1st ed., pub. John Murray, 1844, half-title not present, 164. pp., near-contemp. green full morocco, gilt dec. spines, a few minor marks, small 8vo, and other travel, including S. W. Christian, The Caroline Islands, 1899, Henning Haslund, Tents in Mongolia, 1st ed., 1934, & Men and Gods in Mongolia, 1st ed., 1935 (inscribed by the author), Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History & Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage around the World on HMS Beagle, new ed., 1890, etc., all 8vo. (12).
Ackermann (Rudolph). A History of The University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings, pub. R.Ackermann, 2 vols. 1814, addn. half title to each vol., eng. b & w portrait frontis. to vol. 1, dedication and list of subscribers, 114 engraved and aquatint plates (including the thirty-three founders plates) all with contemp. hand colouring (complete as lists), some offsetting mainly from plates to text, very occ. light spotting, armorial book plate of E.W.Wynne Pendarves to each vol., a.e.g., gilt ruled dentelles, contemp. gilt dec. diced calf by C.Hering, hinges and joints weak, 4to. Abbey Scenery no. 278. Tooley, no.5. A handsome set. (1).
Calvert (F., and Roberts, P.E.). The Isle of Wight Illustrated, in a Series of Coloured Views. Accompanied by a Succinct Historical, Geographical, and Topographical Description of the Island, 1st ed., G.H. Davidson, 1846, half-title present, tinted litho. frontis. (margins foxed and water-stain to blank fore-margin), hand-col. eng. map, twenty fine hand-col. aqua. views, with tissue guards, occn. minor marks to margins, and some light off-setting of plts. to text, but generally a clean copy, hinges split, a.e.g., orig. green cloth, elaborately gilt dec. spine and upper cover (former faded), rear cover blocked in blind, some minor marks, but overall a bright copy, slim 4to. Abbey, Scenery, 352. (1).
Everard (Anne). Flowers From Nature, With the Botanical Name, Class, and Order; and Instructions for Copying, pub. Joseph Dickenson, 1835, thirteen fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, including frontispiece, some light overall spotting to frontis., bookplates 11 & 12 with some light scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. embossed patterned cloth, rubbed and some wear to spine, with loss to head and foot, outer corners bumped, folio (375 x 270mm) (1).
Loudon (Jane). The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, 1st ed., 1840, half-title, forty-eight hand-col. litho plts., occasional offsetting & light toning, together with The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, 1st ed., 1841, fifty-eight hand-col. litho plts., without half-title, closed-tear to N4, occasional spotting, with The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials, 2 vols., mixed eds., 1843-49, ninety-six hand-col. litho plts., without half-titles, a.e.g., modern uniform gilt dec. green morocco by Papuchyan H & H Bindery, contrasting morocco labels to spines, 4to. Nissen 1234, 1235 & 1237. (4).
Ward (Rowland). The English Angler in Florida, with some Descriptive Notes of the Game Animals and Birds, 1st ed., 1898, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, spotting front and rear, bookplate, original red cloth, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing them and Practical Experiences of their Use, by Frederic M. Halford, 1st ed., 1910, portrait frontispiece, colour charts and illustrations of flies, photogravure plates, a few light spots, t.e.g., original cloth, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus James G. Bertram’s The Harvest of the Sea. A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food Fishes, 1865. (3).
Persia. Arrowsmith (Aaron), Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South, Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm Knight of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion and Sun, By John Macdonald Kinneir, pub. A.Arrowsmith. 1813, engraved folding map, sectionalised and laid on linen, on two sheets, contemp. outline colouring, some offsetting, slight staining and dust soiling, each sheet approx. 945 x 645mm, both inscribed on verso in near contemp. ink manuscript ‘Major Wyndham 67th Foot, 1822’. Colonel Charles Wyndham was commissioned into the army as Cornet with the 10th Light Dragoons in 1811. On the 20th December 1821 he was promoted to Major in the 67th Regiment of Foot. He served under Lord Wellington between 1812 and 1813 during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. (1).
Calligraphy. Four extremely well executed sheets of calligraphy and geographical tables, drawn by James Fuller and dated 1824-1826, pen & ink, two sheets drawn on Bristol board, two drawn on thick wove paper, comprising a sheet advertising the calligraphic instruction of Mr Fuller, a sheet displaying specimens of various typefaces, a sheet displaying the points of the compass and degrees of the sun, and a sheet of geographical charts showing the relative size of mountains and rivers, 56.3 x 45.5cm or 51.5 x 40.5cm, some light dust-soiling and marks. See the manuscript map in this sale, also by James Fuller. (4).
Chinese rice paper drawings. A group of five watercolour drawings of Chinese trades and street sellers, 19th c., watercolour on rice paper, each showing two figures at work, some light soiling, and one or two paper splits, each approx. 27 x 17cm (10.5 x 6.5ins) and similar, individually framed and glazed (5).
Piranesi (Giovanni Battista). Vedute di Roma, c.1760’s, a collection of ten small-scale etched views of ancient buildings in Rome, plate size approx. 13 x 19cm, sheet size 17 x 26.5cm, some light spotting, light vertical crease to each where previously folded. The views are: Fontana d’Acqua Felice, S. Stefano Rotondo, Palazzo degl’ Ambasciatori di Venezia, Palazzo Pontifico etc., Villa Lodovisi, Chiesa di S. Paolo fuori delle Mura, Belvedere in Vaticano, Chiesa ed Ospedale di Santo Spirito, Chiesa di S. Carlino alle Quattro Fontane, & Arco degli Argentieri (by Bellicard). (1).
British Royalty. A group of twenty letters by and relating to Queen Victoria and family, c. 1850s/1880s, including an autograph letter signed ‘Albert’ from Prince Albert to the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Buckingham Palace, 16th May 1854, concerning Cardwell’s Department of Practical Art and its fitness for inspection, 3 pp., light toning to right margin, together with the original envelope also signed ‘Albert’, together with an autograph note unsigned from Queen Victoria, Osborne, 22nd July 1879, congratulating Mr Dalton on the boys’ successful examination, royal monogram, black border, 1 p. plus integral blank, both 8vo, plus three autograph letters signed ‘George’, from the future King George V, 1865/71, all brief notes to Cardwell, a total of 5 pp., 8vo, plus an autograph letter initialled from Albert Edward, Jockey Club, Newmarket, 5th May 1885, 3 pp., 8vo, plus orig. initialled envelope front from the same letter to J.N. Dalton, plus further letters to Dalton and Smith, including six relating to Prince Edward at Cambridge and two signed by Ponsomby (20).
Stanley (Henry Morton, 1841-1904). Autograph letter signed (twice), ‘Henry M. Stanley’, Camp at Mikesse, 26th November 1889, to Messrs. Smith, McKenzie &c towards the end of the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, ‘We have been able to advance much more rapidly than I thought we would have done. If nothing happens to disturb the arrangement our movements hence will be as follows.’ and giving a list of places including MSWA, Bagamoyo as arrival in Zanzibar expected on 5th December, continuing, ‘We are all disappointed at not having any letters or newspapers, or any kind of greeting from you at Zanizbar. We know that Wissman must have reached the coast about the 1st November - and by the 10th November we should have heard from you - but it is now the 26th November but three days march of for couriers. We have been indebted to Capt. Wissman for bountious supplies of good things, but we have been unable to get even a newspaper from you, what is the matter? Every mail you send to Africa has been lost and now then when we are within touch of you we cannot get a word. 2 years and 11 months are a long time to wait.’, with an initialled ps. in gratitude for Wissman’s gifts of meats and wines, with an ensuing longer ps. dated 27th November making amends for the ‘above scrawl’, ‘2 hours beyond Mikesse your four couriers handed me one letter from Mr. C. S. Smith and one from Mr. Nicol. The contents have been understood. Another mail lost! It does not matter - we hope to be at Zanzibar before we die. But we looked eagerly through your list - a noble list it is too - to see if you had shoved in a packet of old newspapers, even a lot of old advertisements, any ancient printed matter, a dime novel, or a penny dreadful - would have answered. You have heard of the traveller’s parched with thirst pointing to his naked throat for water - but you perhaps have never heard of the dessicated brain. Well we suffer from that complaint. Wissman has sent champagnes and beers. and a princely supply of animal food, but the Samaritan to relieve charitably the stress of the mind has not appeared. we all rejoiced to hear that the good Queen reigns yet, and that Europe has refrained from suicide, but a thousand and thousand incidents of her life we have yet to learn. Our Pasha is all in a quiver that something good said to him by Mr. Portal.’, 3 pp., strong vertical fold, split along leaf fold, 4to, together with a related draft of a telegram from Stanley to the Queen on his arrival at Zanzibar, 6th December 1889, probably in the hand of Charles Stewart Smith (1859-1934, second son of Archibald Smith), ‘Please tell the Queen that Mr. Stanley and his officers thank Her Majesty for her remembrance of them and that Emmin Pasha is rather better though badly hurt. It is thought his skull is not fractured’, beneath which is written the text of the telegram sent (?), ‘Please inform Her Majesty - message given to Mr. Stanley. He wishes me to say he and officers are profoundly touched by it and sent most devoted thanks. Emmin’s condition is much better. Surgeon Parke who was left in attendance at Bagawoyo with German surgeons is sanguine as to his recovery. Even the German surgeons who yesterday feared the worst are more hopeful’, one page on light blue paper, watermarked 1888, folio (2).
Thomson (William, First Baron Kelvin of Largs, 1824-1907). Autograph letter signed, ‘W. Thomson’, 15 Union Place, Aberdeen, 16 September 1859, to [Archibald] Smith, telling that he will not be in Arran til the week after next, then writing of G. B. Airy’s concerns ‘that no iron ship is safe til she has encountered a chopping sea in the Channel! I coroborrated his opinion by reference to the Tagleur (?). He said that his systems of adjustment is perfect and that no ship which has come under his notice has ever shown more than 5 degrees of error even in southern latitudes. (How many iron ships can have come under his notice?). Admiral Fitzroy said Airy’s mathematical theory is absolutely perfect.’, written in a sometimes scrawly hand, brown stain to lower margin, not affecting legibility, together with a second autograph letter signed, 26th June 1859, also to Smith, concerning cable laying, with mentions of Pritchard and Burt, concerning various problems, light dust soiling to first page, both 4 pp., 8vo. (2).
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Crimea Diary. Manuscript or Diary of a Soldier, George Page, No. 7 Company, 3rd Regiment of Infantry, The Buffs [so titled], a total of seventy-five leaves of neatly written manuscript on light blue paper, the purpose that the account is written up for his sister, then beginning with his enlistment into the 3rd Buffs at Leamington on 28th June 1854 at the age of 16 years and 6 months, from there the Regiment goes to Ireland where George is taken ill and undergoes an operation under chloroform, in February 1855 setting sail for the Crimea aboard a steamer and then into fighting in the siege of Sebastopol, ‘I heard a gun shot and looking up saw something flying through the air. I stepped smartly two or three paces to my left. If I had stood still it would have cut me to pieces’, at the end of the summer and the end of the siege George’s Regiment sails for Corfu where they experience an earthquake, two years later they move on to India, from there and by now a Corporal, the Buffs went on to China, George working in the kitchens preparing meat, but also seeing action when some 200 were killed fighting off a charge of Chinese cavalry, returning to England in 1860 via Hong Kong and Capetown, the whole written up in 1863, final leaf detached, later gift inscription to Fred Hughes from C.A.N., dated 1910, contemp. vellum, sl. soiled, 4to. (1).
A Collection of First World War Ephemera, relating to Ply 618 (S) Corporal Allan Mearing Butler, Royal Marine Light Infantry, including a postcard album containing approximately 85 postcards, and a document case containing Trench Standing Orders, three annotated folding pocket maps, typed notices etc; Six First World War Embroidered Silk Postcards, mounted in a glazed oak display frame (3)
A Quantity of Militaria, including six books -The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division by Inglefield, Jungle Warfare by Cross, Second to None The Royal Scots Greys 1919-1945, Practical Air Navigation, First Aid in the Royal Navy and a Flight Test Schedule; four folders of cloth badges, British Armed Forces £1.00 notes, military ephemera and research material; a watercolour sketch of RNLB Phil Mead by J Hendry, a group photograph taken at Chatham barracks, three other prints and photographs and two copies of Collectors` Coins GB 2008 price guide
A Second World War Durham Light Infantry Officer`s Peaked Cap, number 2 dress, with bronze cap badge, leather chin strap and sweatband; a French Brass Legion d`Honeur Plaque, of canted rectangular form, - possibly a mount from a Memorial cemetery cross; three Fibreglass Copies:- a shako plate 1800-1812 the 4th Foot (King`s Own Regiment), a Waterloo pattern shako plate to the Lancashire Militia and a shoulder belt plate to the 2nd Lancashire Militia (5)
A Victorian Durham Light Infantry Forage Cap, of black melton cloth, the flat top set with a white raised boss on a black braided rosette, the black acorn and oak leaf hat band set below a white cord, with silver metal thread strung bugle badge, the black patent leather peak with silver metal thread edge, with leather sweatband and crimson silk liner with maker`s name in gilt Hobson & Sons Lexington Street.
A 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Trooper`s Sword, with 81cm plain single edge slightly curved fullered steel blade, steel stirrup hilt with one langet missing, ribbed leather grip and steel scabbard; a Victorian 1822 Pattern Sword, with rusted pipe back steel blade, brass gothic hilt, lacks scabbard (2)
A Victorian 1854 Pattern Infantry Officer`s Sword, the 81.5cm single edge fullered steel blade etched with Royal cypher and foliage by Mann & Sons, the gilt brass gothic hilt pierced with Royal cypher, wire bound fish skin grip, with white leather sword knot and steel scabbard; a George V 1895 Pattern Sword to the Ceylon Light Infantry, the plated hilt with wire bound fish skin grip and leather service scabbard (2)
A Pair of Early 19th Century Flintlock Officer`s Pistols by Clark of London, each with 20cm steel barrel engraved on the top flat with maker`s name, with two platinum lines and touch hole, foliate engraved sighted tang, signed foliate engraved lock plate and cock with slide safety (one lacking), walnut full stock with foliate engraved blued steel trigger guard, ramrod pipe with swivel ramrod, and belt hook, the chequered bag butt inset with silver escutcheon initialled RHF below the gauntleted right-hand fist crest of the Fitzherbert Family, in an oak fitted case, the hinged cover with inset brass carrying handle, the backplate engraved ``H S Davis Esquire, 52 Light Infantry``, the green baize lined interior with a paper label to the inner cover R Essel, No.224 Strand, London **Provenance - Purchased or acquired at some time from Lieut Davies by Lt. Colonel Richard Henry FitzHerbert Rifle Brigade, Born 1809, died 1896 , The Hall, Somersal Herbert, in Derbyshire, and thence by descent
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