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Estienne (Henri) L'introduction au traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes. Ou, traité preparatif à l'Apologie pour Herodote, first edition, second issue, woodcut printer's device to title (Schreiber 12), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final 2 ff. blank, later ink underlining and marginalia, including a few manicules, lacking p4&5, worm trace at head of sigs. m-x, occasionally affecting a letter of headline, lower margins water-stained, late medieval manuscript used as rear endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, leather ties, lightly soiled, [Renouard, Estienne, 126:7; Schreiber 161; cf. Adams S1771], 8vo, [Geneva], [Henri Estienne], November, 1566.⁂ Ostensibly written in praise of Herodotus, but in fact a satire of the Roman Catholic Church and contemporary society. Provenance: Elizabeth Armstrong, Estienne scholar, author of Robert Estienne Royal Printer, 1954 (20th century book label to front pastedown).

NO RESERVE Music.- Sullivan (Sir Arthur) The Light of the World, an Oratorio, signed presentation inscription from the composer to head of title, dated 27. Aug 1873, 2pp. blank manuscript paper bound in after preliminaries, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, including circular ink-stamp to foot of title, occasional correction and annotation in pencil and ink, seemingly in a couple of hands, some spotting, mainly to peripheral leaves, bound in navy morocco, gilt, by Townsend, library marking to spine foot, rubbed, particularly at spine ends and corners, g.e., 4to, [c.1873].

Binding.- Hawthorne (Nathaniel) Transformation, or, The romance of Monte Beni, 2 vol. in 1, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, occasional spotting, endpapers spotted, contemporary vellum, upper cover with central manuscript title in red and black, enclosed by ornate hand-painted floral and foliage decoration in black, purple, blue, green, pink, and orange, flower heads highlighted with gilt studs (1 missing), lower cover with ornamental floral and foliage design in gilt outlined in red or blue, within a double gilt filet border, spine with manuscript author's name and title with initials in red and black, lightly soiled and marked, top edge gauffered gilt, 8vo (binding 162 x 122mm.), Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. sold as a binding and not subject to return.

NO RESERVE Pius IX (Pope, 1792-1878) Papal Bull, D.s., decorated initials at head and tail, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 14 lines, folds, lead bulla, 246 x 435mm., February 1848; and another, a document in Spanish relating to Abbott Alexandro de Turre, manuscript in Spanish, on vellum, 1725, v.s., v.d. (2).

NO RESERVE Nottingham.- Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Nottingham Artizans' Library, interleaved with blanks, early blank neatly strengthened at edges, manuscript notes and insertions throughout, occasional light soiling, ex-library with occasional neat ink-stamps, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, modern cloth, Nottingham, 1859 § Johnson (Richard) Cursus Equestris Nottinghamiensis. Carmen Hexametrum, spotting, ex-library with usual labels, bookplate, later half-calf, a little rubbed, Johan. Matthews, 1709; Noctes Nottinghamicae; or Cursory Objections against the Syntax of the Common Grammar ..., ex-library with usual labels and ink-stamps, modern morocco-backed boards, library blind-stamp to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1814; 8vo (3)

NO RESERVE United States Mail Coach.- Way Bill from Boston to Groton and Keene [Connecticut and Massachusetts]... by Geo Hims Driver, printed document with manuscript insertions, some slight foxing and creasing, 233 x 360mm., 11th April 1842.⁂ "Passengers' Names M Binchard X Seats Where from. Keene Where to. Boston 2 Dolls. 50 Cts."

NO RESERVE African explorer.- Bathurst (Walter Dundas, Officer of the Association Internationale du Congo (AIC), 1883-86, 1859-1940) "Extract from my diary... 1885 at Mikunga on Stanley Pool... When drinking Malafu...", manuscript, 2 sides, 160 x 95mm., 19th August 1920; and another, a 4pp. poem "A Sketch" sent to Bathurst, manuscript, folio, n.d. (2).

SCOTT M.  Sections of the Howden Engine Pit, Percy Main Colliery, Copied from a Drawing Made by William Oliver by M. Scott, Royal Arcade, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Tall hand col. manuscript drawing, approx. 60" x 17". Rolled. May the 4th 1841.

NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTIONS, 1826.  Correspondence. 2 thick bundles of folded manuscript letters & manuscript contemporary file copies of letters relating to these elections, with a few other items including manuscript notes of expenditure, etc..

PLENMELLER COLLIERIES LIMITED.  Correspondence of this Haltwhistle based company covering the period December 1915 to March 1918. Contained in two thick ring binders, this very extensive typescript & manuscript correspondence record provides a comprehensive picture of the day-to-day operation of a North of England colliery business of the period.

DAUMAS E.  The Horses of the Sahara & the Manners of the Desert ... Translated from the French by James Hutton. Advert leaf. Orig. pict. green cloth gilt, rubbing & wear, Many manuscript notes, annotations & pasted-in press cuttings, particularly to the endpapers, possibly by or in the ownership of Captain W. A. Kerr VC. 1863. Kerr, a native of Melrose, was a Scottish soldier, writer & recipient of the Victoria Cross, near Kolapore, 1857. The old manuscript notes on the front free endpaper are headed by his name.

NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTIONS, 1826.  "Mr Bell's Check Poll Book". 6 vols. For Castle Ward, Tindale Ward, Morpeth Ward, Glendale Ward, Coquetdale Ward & Bamborough Ward. Folio in rubbed calf with wear & loss to backs. Each neatly completed in manuscript with columns for Freeholders Names, Place of Abode, Place of Freehold, Of What Consisting & Occupiers, together with a note of their vote on the respective days. Of electoral & local historical & family history significance.

NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTIONS, 1826.  Three folio albums, modern half calf in marbled boards containing a fine collection of pasted-in printed election ephemera, approx. 250 items plus many newspaper cuttings & leaves. Includes daily poll summaries, broadsheets, handbills, posters, addresses, periodicals, poetical & other squibs, a few engravings & engraved vignettes; also manuscript returns from the various wards & an 18 line signed manuscript letter from Matthew Bell.  A magnificent collection of electoral, as well as typographical, historical interest.

One volume "Bass Verse Anthems" over 290 handwritten sides of musical manuscript after many composers including Blake, Croft, Broderip, Clarke, Greene, James Kent, Christopher Gibbons, John Blow, Hawkins, Aldrich, Henry Purcell, Boyce, Bacon, Charles Stroude, William Raylton, Charles King, George Loofemore, Weldon, Bird, Rogers, John Weldon appearing to be a handwritten 19th Century manuscript, leather bound 31 cm x 24 cm x 3.5 cm together with one volume "Convito Armonico - a collection of madrigals, elegies, glees, canons, catches and duets selected from the works of the most eminent composers ..." by Samuel Webbe Junior, volume one, published Chapel & Co, London (volumes one and two bound as one), marbled paper board bound 37 cm x 27.5 cm, one volume "Beethoven Quartets for two violins, viola and violoncello" published Augener Ltd London "Violin One" paper board bound and one volume EDWARD MACDOWELL "Woodland sketches for the pianoforte" paper bound (poor condition)

“Miss Pearce” Manuscript atlas – “England Delineated” “With outline maps of all the counties”, 1817. Compiled at Mrs Keeble’s School, Camberwell, comprising a manuscript title-page, 99 manuscript pages of description and 43 hand-drawn and coloured maps of English counties (and North and South Wales), 23 x 18.5cm, contemporary green half morocco, a little dust soiling and occasional spotting in placesNote: Note: A meticulous schoolgirl project, this small atlas covers England and Wales by county, describing each county, their principal towns, rivers, hills and manufacturing productions. Created as a geography exercise, this book gives a glimpse of each county’s economic output in the early 19th century.

Mandeville, Sir John The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Islands and Countries. London: J. Wooman, D. Lyon & C. Davis, 1725. 8vo, [xvi], [viii], 384, [vii]; title page printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, upper board detached, slight wear to upper cornersNote: Note: Fine 18th-century English edition of the classic, though partly fictional, 14th-century account of the voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Persia, Arabia, India and the East Indies, published from a 15th-century manuscript in the Cottonian Library. Printed by William Bowyer whose records show a print run of just 350 copies. ESTC T100822.

Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland Autograph letter signed as Lord Protector to his son Henry Cromwell as commander-in-chief in Ireland, 21st April 1656 2 leaves (29.5 x 20cm), written on 3 sides, containing some 400 words in total, addressed to 'Harrye' at head, signed 'Oliver P' at foot and with postscript ('My love to my dear Daughter ...'), verso of second leaf with autograph address panel 'For my Sonn Harry Cromwell', red wax seal, endorsement ('Ld Protector, 21 Aprill 1656', with '(Me)' added in a contemporary hand), and later manuscript calculation Note: Note: A remarkable and historically important letter of fatherly advice from Cromwell as lord protector to his son Henry (1628-1674) as commander-in-chief in Ireland, identified by Henry's modern biographer as one of 'the few surviving letters from Oliver Cromwell to his son over this period' (Peter Gaunt in ODNB), and a fascinating primary source for Cromwell's statecraft and the vexed history of Anglo-Irish relations.Henry, the lord protector's only surviving son after Richard, was appointed major-general of the forces in Ireland in July 1655, though from the departure of his brother-in-law Charles Fleetwood in September 1655 until June 1659 he was also the country's de facto chief administrator. Setting out to crush opposition to the protectorate, his first objective was to break the hold which the Baptists had gained over the English army and the civil administration, rightly suspecting that Baptist beliefs often provided a front for republican sentiment; at the same time he sought to conciliate the established protestant community with a rule 'marked by moderation, civilianization, a return to some of the traditional forms, and a greater sensitivity to the needs of the "old protestants", whatever their former allegiance' (ibid.). In this strategy he encountered opposition from Fleetwood, who despite his return to England remained lord deputy of Ireland until 1657, and from the Irish council. By the summer of 1656, despondent at a perceived lack of support for his leadership, he wrote his father two letters of resignation, which were rebuffed.The lord protector's advice in this instance is unlikely to have been what Henry wanted to hear. He does not deny the difficulty of Henry's situation, but counsels moderation in his dealings with the Baptists, warns him against the excessive accumulation of personal property, and amid conventional pieties strikes an uncharacteristically irenic note, urging his son to turn the other cheek:'Harrye, I have receaved yr letters ... and am sufficiently satisfied of your burthen, and that if the Lord bee not with you, to enable you to beare it, you are in a very sad condition ... Crye to the Lord to give you a plaine, single heart. Take heede of being over zealous, lest your apprehensions of others, cause you to offend, knowe that uprightnesse will preserve you, in this bee confidence against men. I thinke the Anabaptists are too blame in not beinge pleased wth you, thats their fault, it will not reach you whilst you wth singlenesse of heart, make the glory of the Lord, your ayme. Take heede of professinge religion wthout the power, that will teach you to love all whoe are after the similutude of Christ. Take [care] of makinge it a businesse to bee hard for the men whoe contest wth you, beinge over concerned may trayne you into a snare ... Lastlye take heede of studyinge to lay for your selfe ye foundation of a great estate. It wilbe a snare to you, they will watch you, bad men wilbe confirmed in covetousnesse, the thinge is an evil wch God abhors. I pray you thinke of mee in this ...'Henry's rule in Ireland was not without its successes, but did not survive the collapse of the protectorate. At the Restoration he was included in the general pardon and retained a considerable portion of his Irish and English estates, dying on ancestral home ground in Cambridgeshire in 1674.Published: Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin, 1846), volume 1, pp. 125-7; The writings and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, ed. W. C. Abbott and C. D. Crane, (Cambridge MA, 1937-47), volume 4, p. 416.

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969. First india-paper edition, 8vo, original black cloth decorated in silver and gilt, 2 folding maps, full-page map in text, spine very slightly sunned, slipcase rubbed [Hammond A5h];Stevenson, Robert Louis. Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of the Beach of Falesa. The Bottle Imp. The Isle of Voices. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1893. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, colour map, 26 plates (counted in pagination), price on list of publications facing half-title amended in manuscript;Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818 [c.1900]. Facsimile edition, 8vo, original cloth, paper spine-label, largely unopened;Henley, W. E. (editor). Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello. Translated into English by Geffraie Fenton anno 1567. With an Introduction by Robert Langton Douglas. London: David Nutt, 1898. One of 18 copies on Japanese paper, this copy 'marked 'File copy' on limitation page, 2 volumes, 4to, original white glazed paper boards, unopened, wear to spine-ends and joints, covers slightly soiled;Burton, Richard F (translator). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose. London: printed for the translators ... for private subscribers only, 1894. One of 1,000 copies on hand-made paper, 8vo, original quarter japon, spine discoloured, wear to tips;Baillie-Grohman, William A. & F (editors). The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. 8vo, original vellum gilt, 24 plates, occasional spotting to text;and 4 others including D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, [Paris]: privately printed, 1929, author's unabridged popular edition, contemporary cloth, retaining original wrappers

Tibet Who's Who in Tibet corrected to the Autumn of 1937, with a few subsequent additions up to February 1938. Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1938. 8vo, original yellow cloth, [2] 79 pp., label of the private secretary to the viceroy mounted to head of front cover, laid-in amendments leaf dated 1940, manuscript correction to p. 68., binding marked, worn in places, light worming to covers and text, textblock loose in bindingNote: Note: Marked 'confidential'; the printer's slug at the end of the text suggests that 100 copies were printed. We have been unable to trace any copy other than that held by the British Library as part of the Indian Office Records collection (IOR/L/P&S/12/4185 A).

Arnot, Hugo (1749-1786) Autograph letter, signed to William Strahan, on the 11th March 1779, regarding the printing and publication of a London edition of Arnot's The History of Edinburgh, Arnot writes: "Several years have elapsed since Mr Creech & I made an agreement concerning the publication of The History of Edinburgh, a work, which I have been long engaged in composing. As I had a personal acquaintance & friendship with Mr. J. Murray of Fleet Street, Bookseller, we never looked for a London publisher, it being always understood that Mr. Murray was to be the person...the book was to be published here on Saturday last, bearing to be printed for W. Creech Edin., & T. Murray London. But last night Mr. Creech received a letter from Mr. Murray, which amounts clearly to this,, That if the Book is to be sent to Mr. Murray, the reverse may be expected of what an author or proprietor would wish from the publisher of his work...It was proposed that 300 of the first edition should be sent to the London publisher at the price of £0:19:0. each and these are the terms upon which Mr. Creech and I wish you to publish the work...Mr. Creech and I will entertain a grateful sense of your becoming publisher at a crisis when we have been disappointed...The title page may be cancelled & reprinted either here or in London." 3 manuscript pp., 22 x 18cmNote: Note: A fascinating letter in which the Scottish writer, and historian, begs the publisher, William Strahan, to be the London publisher of his renowned History of Edinburgh. With erased words and small additions, it is easy to imagine that this note was written in a hurry, perhaps by candlelight, as Arnot desperately sought a replacement publisher for John Murray, who seems to have rescinded on his agreement to publish the work at the last minute. Copies of the work with J. Murray listed as the London publisher are still commonly found, suggesting that the title-pages were never cancelled (as mentioned in the letter), or perhaps Murray had a change of heart? No copies of the work have been traced with Strahan listed as the London publisher.

East India Company Illustrated manuscript notebook of J. Longden, surgeon on East Indiaman Protector, 1837-8 4to, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, 266 pp. (pagination irregular but no leaves apparently excised; many pages left blank), on wove paper watermarked 1833, with numerous full-page sketches in pencil and/or watercolour, including some 10 views of coastlines and ships (of which 3 in watercolour), many captioned with details of subject, coordinates and date ('E. I. Ship Protector, T. Buttenshaw, Commander, outward bound. Thursday April 6th 1837'; 'Island of Trinidada bearing W by S. 1/2 S, sketched April 6th 37 by J. Longden ...'; 'St Antonio one of the Cape Verd Isles ...'; 'The Protector coming to an anchor at Rankafullah Pagoda in the river Hooghly Sept 8th 37'), a pencil sketch of a busy harbour against a mountainous backdrop (possibly Hong Kong), 10 anatomical studies, 5 studies of animals, fruit and plants (including a coloured sketch of flowers from Mauritius, lychees, and a walrus, etc.), and several others including various preparatory or unfinished sketches, the text including a lengthy verse account of the voyage to ('bound to Bengal and China', see p. 266; headed 'The Departure' and 'The Passage Out', written in rhyming couplets), medical notes on diseases including cholera and scurvy, including an account of an emergency on ship ('When in Calcutta ... I had some singular cases one which ran thus: Mr Clark a stout florid healthy man a Scotchman by birth was attacked one day at 1P.M. while in the heat ... with ... rigid spasms'), notes on fellow crew members ('To Captn Buttenshaw I am greatly indebted not only for giving me my berth without a moments hesitation or asking to see even a certificate of qualification but also for his great kindness to me during my illness in Calcutta'; 'Mr Brooks held the double situation of 3rd mate and sailmaker, he was a man who had risen from before the mast and had been nearly all over the world a first rate seaman ... he spoke French and Spanish and a little Italian and Bengali', etc.), poems addressed to family members (variously signed 'off the coast of Sumatra', 'Bay of Bengal', and 'Diamond Harbour, River Ganges'), an extensive section titled 'Chemical Notes from a Course of Study under Professor Everitt', and quotations from classical authorsNote: Provenance: Acquired by the vendor from Richard Miles Antiques, Holbein Place, London, 1990 (with copied invoice).

Illuminated manuscript leaves Group of leaves from liturgical manuscripts France or northern Europe, probably 15th century unless otherwise suggested, all on vellum, mounted, framed and glazed (not examined out of frames), comprising:1) 'Per adventum spiritus sancti paracliti ... ' (Litany of the Saints), possibly 14th century, rotunda script, 12 lines, 7 initials in red and blue, mount aperture 8 x 6.4cm.2) 'Beati quorum remiss[a]e sunt iniquitates ... ' (Psalm XXXI), quadrata script, 15 lines, 2-line initial 'B' in blue on gold ground with two extenders flourishing into broad penwork foliate border in gold and colours, 4 single-line initials all in gold on red and blue ground, 17 x 11cm;3) 'Putruerunt et corrupt[a]e sunt cicatrices meae' (Psalm XXXVII), quadrata script, 15 lines, 5 intitials in gold on red and blue ground, broad penwork foliate border in gold and colours, 11 x 11cm;4) 'Et dixit ut dispideret eos ...' (Psalm CV), possibly 13th/14th century, semi-quadrata script, 16 lines, 6 initials alternately in red or blue, decorative line-fillers in red and blue, 15 x 11.4cm;5) 'Obsecro te ...' ('I beseech you', Marian prayer, probably from a book of hours), quadrata script, 16 lines, large initial in gold on blue red and blue ground with marginal extenders terminating in foliate finials, one further initial in blue with red penwork infill and surround, rubricated heading, 16.3 x 11cm;6) 'Verba mea auribus percipe ... ' (Psalm V), semi-quadrata (perhaps with elements of lettre bâtarde), 22 lines, one 2-line initial in white bodycolour on gold ground with floral infill, 7 further one-line initials in gold on blue or red ground, similar line-fillers, large polychromatic border on right-hand side containing foliate scroll and flowers, 16.4 x 11.4cm7) 'Ipsi vero i[n] vanum qu[a]esierunt ...' (Psalm LXII), lettre bâtarde, 13.7 x 9.4cm, 3 initials in gold on red and blue ground, polychromatic penwork border on left-hand side;8) 'Et exprobravit incredulitatem ...' (Mark 16), lettre bâtarde, 14 lines, 4 initials (2 in gold with black penwork surround, 2 in blue with red penwork surround), 9 x 7.5cm

Calvin, John Two rare 16th century English editions [The Institution of Christian Religion]. [London: Richard Harrison, 1562]. Second edition in English, folio in eights (26.8 x 17.5cm), 19th-century 'divinity' calf over bevelled boards, spine and covers decorated in gilt and blind, edges dyed red, signatures [superscript pi]A8 ²pi1 3T-3X8 A-2S1 2T4 2V-3R8 3S4, text in black letter, lacking title-page (pi1: replaced with early calligraphic manuscript title in red and black dated 1578, with later restoration to upper fore corner), preliminary quire [superscript pi] A damp-stained and with several repairs, ²pi1 silked, 3T-3X ('The Table') bound at front between ²pi1 and A1, damp-stained at foot with concomitant softening and fraying along bottom edges, occasional light damp-staining thereafter, becoming slightly stronger towards rear, old repairs to L4 and margin of 2U8, 3M-3S (i.e. terminal quires as bound) with small worm-track in lower margins, bookplate [ESTC S107157; STC 4416];Sermons, upon the Booke of Job. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding. London: for George Byshop and Thomas Woodcocke, 1579. Third edition in English, folio in eights (33 x 22cm), modern blue skiver, signatures [superscript pi]A4 *6 2*8 (2*8=blank) A-Y8 2A-2Y8 3A-3C8, text in roman letter, double column, elaborate architectonic woodcut border to title-page, woodcut initials, early manuscript recipe to verso of medial blank 2*8, worm-track to lower inner corner of text in first 20 or so leaves, marginal damp-staining towards front and rear, worming in gutter, very small worm-track in gutter at centre of volume (text never affected), title-page laid down, second leaf A2 chipped along top edge, 2C4-5 loose, closed tear in 2D5, rust-hole in 3B4, final quire 3C damp-stained and chipped, leaf 3C1 loosening, bookplate [ESTC S116835; STC 4446]Note: Note: The first edition in English of Calvin's Institutes appeared the previous year; for this second edition ESTC traces six copies only in UK libraries. The first edition in English of his Sermons, upon the Booke of Job was published in 1574, with another edition following in the same year. This third edition is especially rare, ESTC tracing four copies world-wide; there was a subsequent re-issue with a cancel title-page dated 1580 as in the colophon.

Thornhill, R. B. The Shooting Directory London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, second issue (with 2E4-2F2, pp. 215-220, cancelled), 4to, modern half leather, half-title discarded, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved plates (one folding), 3 folding tables, contemporary manuscript annotations to initial blank containing 'Extracts from General George Hanger's ... treatise on sporting, 1814', marginal repair to 2B2 [Chute 532; Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];Grose, Francis. Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. A New Edition with Material Additions and Improvements. London: T. Egerton, 1801. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary russia, rebacked, volume 2 in 2 parts, engraved title-page to each part, 139 engraved plates (of 141: lacking plates 28-9 in second part, 'A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons');Idem. A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons. London: S. Hooper, 1786. 4to, contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered in sheep, engraved frontispiece, title-page and 48 plates (plate 49, mentioned in text, apparently never issued), spotting and browning;[Magné de Marolles, Gervais-François]. An Essay on Shooting. London: T. Cadell, 1791. Second edition in English, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title, bookplate, a very good copy [ESTC T64643];Bland, Humphrey. A Treatise of Military Discipline ... The Eighth Edition, revised, corrected, and altered to the Present Practice of the Army. London: R. Baldwin [and others], 1759. 8vo, 20th-century half roan, 7 engraved folding plates, imprimatur leaf, ownership inscription of D. Dundas, identified in a laid-in note as General Sir David Dundas (1735-1820), author of The Principles of Military Movement [ESTC T122214];Montagu, George. The Sportsman's Directory: or, Tractate on Gunpowder, founded on a Series of Experiments, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking frontispiece [ESTC T33010: 4 copies world-wide];and 3 others including Guillaume Le Blond, A Treatise of Artillery, 1746, first edition in English, 15 engraved plates, lacking final 3 text-leaves and advertisement leaf, and John Muller, A Treatise of Artillery, 1780, third edition (these not collated)

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt edges, frontispiece and text-illustrations, binding rubbed and marked, slightly shaken, lacking pp. 153-6, pp. 149-52 loose, occasional finger-soiling, marginal tear to pp. 133/4 old manuscript note tipped to front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank. Together with 8 others including A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (first edition, 1928, original cloth, dust jacket), Winnie-the-Pooh, (second edition, 1926, original cloth, dust jacket, Now We Are Six (2 copies, second and third editions, both 1927, original cloth, third edition with dust jacket), When We Were Very Young (2 copies, thirteenth and sixteenth editions, 1926-7, original cloth, sixteenth edition with dust jacket)

Alighieiri, Dante La Comedia di Dante Alighieri con la nova espositione de Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marconi for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. Large 8vo, 87 wood-engraved illustrations, 3 of them full-page, title partly laid down, ?17th century vellum, repairs to lower margin of AA2 and AA3 verso, dampstain to inner margin and some text at beginning, heavier dampstaining at end, a few marginal manuscript pointing fingers and a few marginal notes in an early hand, binding worn

Rabelais, François Oeuvres de Maitre François Rabelais, avec des Remarques Historiques et Critiques Amsterdam: Jean Fredrick Bernard, 1741. 4to, 3 volumes, engraved allegorical frontispieces in volumes 1 and 3, engraved portrait in volume 2, 18 plates including map, contemporary calf, spines gilt, hinges slightly split, red ownership stamps to title-pages with initials 'RK', neat early manuscript inscription to title page of volume 2, some dampstains to the top edge of paper not affecting text

Folio Society Group of deluxe manuscript facsimiles The Luttrell Psalter, 2006. One of 1480 copies, folio, original blue goatskin over bevelled boards with design from the manuscript blocked to front board in gilt and colours, with commentary volume in original solander box;Liber Bestiarum, 2008. One of 1980 copies, small folio, original orange goatskin over bevelled boards, gilt pictorial blocks to spine-compartments and front board, all edges gilt, with commentary volume in original solander box;The Holkham Bible, 2007. One of 1750 copies, 4to, original blue half goatskin, all edges gilt, with commentary volume in original solander box;The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours, 2009. One of 1180 copies, 8vo, original full silk brocade, housed with commentary volume in original solander box.Together with: L'Apocalypse de Jean. Paris: Musée du livre, 1981, one of 3900 copies, folio, original calf richly gilt overall including arabesque centrepieces and spandrels to covers, original leather-entry slipcase, with the commentary volume, folio, original quarter calf, in separate leather-entry slipcase; and one other

Watercolours, sketches and photographs 19th century portfolio, including West Indies and North America interest contents include:'Sketch of the Soufriere Mountain, Island of St Vincent, By Lieut Rob[er]t Hor[ati]o Minty, 1st W.I.R.', watercolour, 46 x 60cm, a few tears around edge, with an accompanying manuscript note in pencil on a single bifolium, including an additional diagram;Panorama probably of Niagara Falls, watercolour, on 2 sheets, backed on linen, 21 x 105cm, some chipping to extremities;7 further watercolour views of various landscapes;'Falls of Nagara and country around from the grand bank, June 1815', pencil and grey wash, on 2 sheets, 21 x 147cm, chipped, a few spots, adhesive staining where sheets conjoined;12 additional pencil sketches including 'Vale of Festiniog', 'Pont Aberglaslyn, North Wales, August 1806', 'Loch Ness, August 1803', 'Carnarvon Castle, August 1806', 'Loch Lomond, August 1804';9 albumen print photographs including views in Caithness and of steam engines;together with an oblong folio photograph album containing 28 albumen print photographs, c.1880, 20 x 27cm, mainly studio photographs of Algiers and environs, and ethnographic 'types', also naval interest (HMS Victory, Golden Jubilee review at Spithead, 1887), 2 group portraits of a Scottish army regiment, etc.Note: Note: Robert Horatio Minty of the 1st West India Regiment of Foot (gazetted captain 6th December 1844) was the father of Robert Horatio George Minty (1831-1906), who was commissioned into the regiment in 1848 and subsequently emigrated to the United States, serving with distinction as a cavalry officer in the Union army in the American Civil War, and later achieving pre-eminence as a railroad executive.

Oriental languages Manuscript commonplace book of R. M. Binning, c.1870 4to (19.4 x 15cm), contemporary straight-grain black roan album, rebacked, retaining brass class and catch, signed 'R. M. Binning' on one leaf, contents include:1) 12 Qajar School gouache roundels of the signs of the Zodiac, each approx. 3.5cm in diameter, clipped retaining Persian captions and mounted, together with a similar large sun emblem in gouache heightened in gilt, 11 x 11cm;2) 3 Persian calligraphic panels in nastal'iq script, 13 x 8cm, 17.5 x 13cm, and 17 x 11 cm (at intervals through the album);3) Notes on languages including Hebrew, Kaithi, Avestan, Telugu, Runic, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, Arabic, etc., concerning alphabets, numerals and grammar, in the form of manuscript notes and extracts from printed books or pamphlets, variously mounted direct on album leaves or tipped to stubs;4) Transcripts of Bible verses in English, with Persian translations, approx. 260 pp.;5) Transcripts of Qur'anic verses and other maxims in Arabic, with English translations, 16 pp.;6) 2 Qajar School gouache portraits, depicting a seated warrior and a man smoking a hookah, both approx. 15 x 10cm;7) Transcripts of Persian poetry, including from Sa'di's Gulistan and Bustan, with English translations, approx. 70 pp., including approx. 14 clippings or whole leaves from decorative Persian manuscripts, mounted;8) Transcripts of proverbs in Urdu, Hindi, French, Latin, Arabic and Persian, with English translations, approx. 50 pp.;9) Various mounted chromolithographs, engravings, and albumen-print photographs (from life and from paintings)Note: Note: Robert Blair Munro Binning (1814-1891) was employed by the Madras Civil Service from 1833 until retiring on health grounds in 1861, having held positions including sub-collector of Arcot and magistrate of Chittoor district. He was the author of A Grammar, with a Selection of Dialogues and Familiar Phrases, and a Short Vocabulary in Modern Arabic (1849), and A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc. (London, 1857). He was a prolific collector of oriental manuscripts, most of which, including an important 14th-century copy of Biruni's 'Chronology of Ancient Nations', he donated to what is now the University of Edinburgh, where a selection of his notebooks and papers is today also held. His manuscript dictionary of the Deccani language appeared for sale in the US in 2012.

Rare Oxfordshire poetry Original Rhymes by T. S. Allen Bampton: printed and sold for the author, by W. Holloway and Sons, 1826. First and only edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the initial blank, 8vo (17.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue straight-grain calf gilt, [4] ii [2] 78 [2] pp., p. 62 with additional autograph stanza by the author, spine sunned, worn at head.Together with 5 manuscript items, comprising: 1) Notebook including 'An Adventure with the "Press-gang" in Shetland in 1805, narrated verbatim by the Rev. Sinclair Thomson of Dunrossness, one of the principal actors, Edinburgh, 17 Septr 1862', 'Tacitus on Orkney and Shetland', 'Rosslyn, a Commemoration Sketch', 'To the editor of the Shetland Advertiser', verse, notes on classical authors, etc., 8vo, contemporary quarter skiver; 2) Manuscript hymn-book, 1805, containing words and scores, oblong 8vo, contemporary red roan gilt, watercolour vignette title-page, approx. 16 ff.; 3) Early-18th-century Scottish manuscript including 'The Scot Litany' and other poems, 6 ff.; 4 & 5) Two early-20th-century autograph/friendship albumsNote: Note: Two institutional copies traced (British Library and Bodleian). Contents include 'The Cambrian Excursion' and 'On Hearing the Nightingale, in a Thicket, near Black Bourton, Oxon'.

Sadi (1210-1292 CE) Gulistan [and:] Bustan سعدي شيرازي - گلستان وبستان Persia, possibly 18th century. Persian manuscript in black ink on polished wove paper, 136 ff. (15.7 x 9.5cm), Gulistan at ff. 1-45a and Bustan ff. 45b-136a, text in twin columns within gilt frames, 16 lines to the page, rubricated headings, illuminated headpiece to each work, contemporary red goatskin binding, covers with filigree decoration and hand-painted borders and embellishments, blue paper doublures. Variable soiling and damp-staining, first page of Gulistan (with headpiece) and second page of Bustan heavily smudged, binding rebacked, endpapers renewed and leaves discreetly strengthened in gutter throughout, additional marginal repairs to final leaf, annotations to terminal blank including date 1272 (i.e. 1855-6) Note: Note: Sadi, a Persian poet of the 13th century, is 'widely recognised as one of the greatest masters of the classical literary tradition' (Encyclopaedia Iranica); Gulistan and Bustan are his two best-known works.Provenance: From the library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden, though not marked as such. Anthony Eden studied Persian and Arabic at the University of Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in 1922.

Fife Collection of works Fraser, Sir William. Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. First edition, one of 100 copies (according to other records), 3 volumes, 4to, original red quarter morocco gilt by C. S. Smith of Edinburgh, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative title-pages, 33 colour lithographic plates reproducing original charters, letters and other documents, wood-engraved illustrations of seals and signatures in text, volume 1 with presentation plate to front pastedown, largely effaced but name of recipient William Blackwood Esq. (presumably the famous publisher) visible, volumes 2-3 with bookplates of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, spines rubbed, peripheral mottling to covers, volume 2 with split to foot of spine;Idem. Illustrations of the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, containing duplicates of the title-pages, colour plates and other illustrations from the Memorials, one copy with bookplate of Innes of Learney to front pastedown and later colour print mounted to front free endpaper, the other with bookplate of Francis James Grant, Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, second copy with wear to spine-ends mottling to covers;Idem. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [colophon:] by T. and A. Constable, at the Edinburgh University Press, 1890. First edition, one of 150 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, rebacked in red morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 41 plates including photogravures or lithographs from portrait paintings (many on india paper, mounted) and colour lithographic facsimiles of historical documents, printed presentation plate addressed in manuscript to Archibald Stirling of Keir to front pastedown of volume 1;Idem. Introductions and Illustrations in the Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1890. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, plates, one copy inscribed by William Fraser to David Chalmers of Redhall (1820-1899), Scottish industrialist, with a letter from Fraser to Chalmers in original envelope mounted to endpaper, and Chalmers's bookplate;Patrick, John (1831-1923). Photographic Views of the Fife Coast, c.1870. 8vo, original green cloth, 13 albumen-print photographs (10.7 x 18cm), on card mounts backed onto continuous sheet of linen folded in leporello format, printed border and captions to mounts, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, modern bookplate to rear, light soiling to mounts, ties detached or gone;Fife Tales by Photo. Part I. Contents. I. The Mother's Fault. II. The Gowks. III. The Minstrel. With a Calotype [sic] of Macduff's Castle. Leven: John Patrick, 1861. 12mo, 74 pp., original glazed yellow printed wrappers, albumen-print photographic frontispiece, wrappers chipped and soiled, attempted adhesive-repair to spine, closed tear in index leaf, occasional soiling to contents;Limekilns. Its Antiquities and Church Landowners, Harbours, Ships, Shipmasters and Shipments, and Passagium Reginae. Compiled under the Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Wavertree of Delamere. Edinburgh: for private circulations, 1929. First edition, one of 215 copies, large folio, original cloth, 20 plates, front free endpaper excised, pen-marks to endpapers, mark to foot of p. 88;Watson, Charles Brodie Boog. Alexander Cowan of Moray House and Valleyfield (Founder of A. Cowan & Sons), his Kinsfolk and Connections. Perth: D. Leslie (Watson & Annandale), privately printed, 1915. Folio, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece from a painting, 2 double-page plates, without genealogical tables listed in contents, inscribed by the author, together with a separate issue of the final part ('Some Notes on Moray House'), folio, original cloth, with plates as in the preceding work, inscribed by the author;Mackay, Aeneas J. G. A History of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies, 4to, original black cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map, bookplates (R. Y. Pickering, dated 1895, and the Barons Glenconner);and 4 others including William Gifford of Joppa, An Ancient Seaport on the Shores of the Forth, Dunfermline: Journal Printing Works, 1914Note: Note: John Patrick was originally a baker in his native Buckhaven before becoming a commercial photographer, working first in Kirkcaldy and subsequently Edinburgh; his famous images include a portrait of Thomas Carlyle taken during Carlyle's visit to Kirkcaldy in 1874. No other copy of Fife Tales by Photo traced.

Bible; Old Testament; Hebrew Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum cum variis lectionibus. Edidit Benjaminus Kennicott. Oxford: e Typographeo Sheldoniano, 1776-80. 2 volumes, large folio (43.6 x 26cm), contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked with restoration to extremities, xxiii [1] viii 684 [2], [4] 732 129 [7] pp., occasional light browning, volume 1 sig. 7D spotted [ESTC T147508]Note: Note: First edition of a major scholarly recension of the Hebrew Bible, which established its compiler, the Oxford Hebraist Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), as a scholar of international standing in Enlightenment Europe. 'The greater part of [Kennicott's] life was spent in the collation of Hebrew manuscripts with the object of producing a definitive original text of the Old Testament ... With his formidable knowledge of Syriac, early Latin, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch it was recognized that he was very well qualified for the task ... Kennicott's labours culminated in the production of his Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum cum variis lectionibus, the first volume published at Oxford in 1776, the second in 1780. These were two superb folios complete with parallel Samaritan and Hebrew texts and apparatus criticus ... The scale of textual criticism (he had consulted and collated 615 manuscript versions and 52 printed editions) gave Kennicott a European reputation that transcended national and denominational boundaries, his labours constituting a milestone "in a more systematic and comprehensive examination of the formation of the biblical text and canon by subsequent scholars"' (ODNB).

Pompeii and Herculaneum Mosaics and paintings, an album of painted copies Mid-19th century, comprising 48 watercolour and egg tempera paintings each laid down onto an album leaf, including a scene of an animal sacrifice and serpents from a larium, cupids at work and play and a cat and quail mosaic from the House of the Faun (with the caption 'Mosaico Museo Borbonico', the name of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples until 1861), and three albumen prints at the rear of the album, album 38 x 28.5cm, 19th century green half morocco with manuscript paper label to spine Note: Note: About one in the afternoon, my mother pointed out a cloud with an odd size and appearance that had just formed. From that distance it was not clear from which mountain the cloud was rising, although it was found afterwards to be Vesuvius. The cloud could best be described as more like an umbrella pine than any other tree, because it rose high up in a kind of trunk and then divided into branches. I imagine that this was because it was thrust up by the initial blast until its power weakened and it was left unsupported and spread out sideways under its own weight. Sometimes it looked light coloured, sometimes it looked mottled and dirty with the earth and ash it had carried up. [Pliny the Younger VI:16]Pliny the Younger's accounts of the eruption of Vesuvius reflect the terror encountered by the residents of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the surrounding villages in the Autumn of 79AD. The towns were, in fact, never named in Pliny's texts, and their exact location was unknown until 1709, when a worker building a well hit several artefacts from the town of Herculaneum. Excavations began and continued throughout the 18th century. Following minor discoveries in 1592 and 1689, excavations at Pompeii were underway from the mid-18th century. Vesuvius became an almost-mandatory stopping point on the Grand Tour, and the excavations added fuel to the mounting interest in the Classical world in the 18th century, inspiring the Neo-Classical movement.The present album dates from the mid-late 19th century (the final painting is captioned Mosaico Museo Borbonico, existing in this form from 1816-1861) and is likely to be a product of the Grand Tour. The paintings are finely made and have not been disturbed since they were placed into the album. It is possible that they were purchased as ready-made paintings for the tourist market, or that they were painted by a finely skilled tourist themself.

[Palatine Refugees] Proposal for the Taking off and Providing for Two thousand of the Poor Palatine Refugees Draft manuscript in 30 lines: "There being a tract of very good improveable Land in Lancashire of about 6000 Acres in One Entire Property Extra Parochial...in a fruitful and cheap Country for all the necessaries of Life; The Undertakers humbly propose to the Honble. Commrs. for Disposing of the Poor Palatine lately arrived in England, That they will take off Two thousand of them Entirely, and wholly maintain and provide for them...", bifolium leaf 30 x 19cm, the date 1773 added later in pencil to the upper right corner, with two small purple Tudor rose stamps, possibly a copy of an earlier documentNote: Note: The Palatine refugee crisis began in 1709, as thousands of Protestants (and some Catholics) fled poverty, famine and religious persecution on the continent. Many of these people were from the Palatinate region of today's Germany, however others came from across Central Europe. Known as the "Poor Palatines", many of these refugees wished to travel on to America, however they soon began to arrive in such large numbers that this became impossible. Although Protestant refugees had been welcomed by Queen Anne, the British State struggled to provide for all the arrivals. Much like today, debate raged about the status of these refugees, with some arguing that they would become a burden on the economy and others, such as Daniel Defoe, suggesting that they would contribute to society and productivity. Eventually, 3000 refugees were given passage to America, over 2000 were sent to Ireland and further refugees were resettled in England. In the Autumn of 1709, ships carrying German immigrants were banned from coming to Britain. This document (probably a later copy if the 1773 attribution is correct) proposes resettling 2000 refugees in Lancashire, where they would be given land to farm and a Church to congregate in. The proposed site is Martin Mere - described in the document as "Draind several years ago". Today, this is a wetland bird reserve surrounded by arable land. The area was not successfully drained until the 1780s, although various attempts had been made prior to this.

Mary Ann Evans(19th Century British School)"North America", a pre-Civil War manuscript map; depicting areas such as 'British America', 'United States', 'Russian America', and 'New California',signed and dated 'Mary Ann Evans, June 17th, 1851',pen and ink with watercolour,29.5 x 22cms, in frame.

After Jules Georges Redon(French, 1869-1943)"L'Esperance", and "La Foi"; two 1920s luncheon menus for Memes Maisons ('Cafe de Paris', 'Pre Catelan', 'Armenonville', and 'Fouquet's), with manuscript menu options,signed and dated 1922 within the work,colour offset-lithographs, with pen and ink inscriptions,32.5 x 24cms, in frame.

1885 edition of the novel L'Epave du Cynthia by French writer Jules Verne (1814-1886) after a manuscript by Andre Laurie (Jean Francois Paschal Grousset, 1844-1909) with illustrations by George Roux. Collection Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation with a blue and brown cover a la fougere, gild accents and floral designs, published by Pierre Jules Hetzel et Cie, Paris. Artist: Jules Verne and Andre LaurieIssued: 1885Dimensions: 6.75"W x 9.75"H x 1.40"DEdition Number: First edition Manufacturer: HetzelCountry of Origin: FranceProvenance: Collection of Marie-Claude Lalique Condition: Very good.

First edition a la fougere bicolore of the novel L'Epave du Cynthia by French writer Jules Verne (1814-1886) after a manuscript by Andre Laurie (Jean Francois Paschal Grousset, 1844-1909) with illustrations by George Roux. Collection Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation with a brown and green cover, gild accents and floral designs, published by Pierre Jules Hetzel et Cie, Paris. Includes the Ex Libris Docteur et Madame Camplez. Artist: Jules Verne and Andre LaurieIssued: 1885Dimensions: 6.75"W x 9.75"H x 1.40"DEdition Number: First edition Manufacturer: HetzelCountry of Origin: FranceProvenance: Collection of Marie-Claude Lalique Condition: Very good.

An 18th/19th century carved and painted eastern figure 13cm wide 32cm high together with a manuscript.Rot to base paint loss and cracks

A Victorian photographic album of Royal Personages with manuscript titles. Effingham Wilson London. Owners signature for Robert Owen, Jesus College Oxford, September 4 1862. Leather bound with clasp (145 x 115mm) plus six Victorian leather albums with brass clasps (7)

A 19th century manuscript song book with seventeen songs each with musical score in a fine sloping long hand, end paper with engraved portrait of a lute player, songs include 'The Light Guitar', 'March to the Battlefield', 'Le Troubadour', 'Kathleen O'Moore', indistinctly signed 'Mary... Trincomalee (Ceylon) May 26th 1837'. Half calf marbled boards, much worn (280 x 200mm)

English School (19th century) Portrait of a Musician or Composer, seated with manuscript sheet music and the frontispiece Comic Songsoil on canvas; another, Portrait of a Lady (2)

Guernsey interest - A collection of antique legal documents and ephemera etc To include a 1682 manuscript in Norman-French on vellum, black wax seal, from Amice Andros, Seigneur of Fief De Saumarez; 1686 manuscript in Norman-French on vellum, black wax seal, from Eleanor Le Marchant, Bailiff of Guernsey; 1764 handwritten account of the sale of furniture and effects of Jean Ingrouille; 1821 Rent Bill; 1845 Royal Exchange Assurance Home Insurance Certificate; 1872 letter from four residents of L’Eree (Thomas Priaulx, James Priaulx, Jean Corbin, John Corbin) to the Douzeniers and Constables of St. Peter’s, warning against the ruinous effect on families of the granting of licenses to sell spirits; 1904 handwritten note from Court of the Fief Beuval in St. Peter’s, to Mr George Frederick Alles, together with a 1897 ‘The Royal Family of Great Britain’ family portrait photograph. Along with a bronze Medallion. (9)

Strickland (Algernon), Manuscript log of HMS Undaunted under Captain Edward Harvey, Log of HMS Undaunted Kept by A Strickland Commencing 25th December 1831 ending 10th February 1834, including hand-drawn map of Africa and India; with 249 pages on 125 leaves in manuscript, 4to; together with 5 volumes of drawings and sketches by Algernon Strickland in pen, pencil and watercolour, predominantly of ships and coastal landscapes dated 1828, 1829, 1830/Note: HMS Undaunted was a Lively-class fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the island of Elba in early 1814. In November 1831 she was recommissioned under Captain Edward Harvey. Undaunted was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, on the African and East India stations, during which Harvey commanded a squadron at the time of an insurrection on the Île de France. The ship eventually returned to England on 1 February 1834, the Undaunted ran aground off Selsey Bill, West Sussex. Algernon Strickland (?-1853) was the son of Henry Eustatius Strickland (1777-1865) CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

A page from a medieval manuscript, ink on vellum highlighted in gilt, 8.25cm x 6.5cm CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Manuscript House Books of various sizes relating to the Strickland family of Apperley Court, Gloucestershire; the first with entries from 1812 to 1822 relating to Hugh Edwin Strickland and Arthur Strickland and containing accounts of purchases and expenditure; at the beginning noting Caythorpe Farm, Vellum bound Folio (41cm x 26.5cm); an account book for 1858-1869, 8vo, vellum bound; an account book with E.L Strickland to cover, 1752-1765, 4to (33cm x 21cm) vellum bound; and another similar 1766-1778, 4to (33cm x 21cm) vellum bound; with another smaller vellum bound volume titled '1858 Letters From' and a volume of manuscript extracts of books inscribed for 'Julia Eustacia Strickland from my aunt Frances 1835' with 57 pages in manuscript with a few loose leaf notes inserted (6) CONDITION REPORT: 1 x Volume of manuscript Letters, partially completed, dated 18581 x volume manuscript House Book 1858-18691 x volume manuscript Extracts from Literature1 x volume Account Book 1812-18221 x volume Account book Titled E.L.Strickland 1752-1765 1 x volume Account Book 1766-1780The books are in various conditions with scuffs, corners bumps and minor soiling, endpapers browned in part, Some light smudging and marking to pages. Vellum covers warped. For condition reports on specific volume please contact us.

Manuscript Cookery Book, A late 18th Century manuscript book hand titled to cover 'Receipts in Cookery', comprising 31 pages of recipes and an alphabetical index written on 23 leaves in manuscript, with further blank leaves. With several loose leaves inserted for further recipes, some received by letter; one letter addressed to 'J Strickland, Apperley Court, Tewkesbury' with a franked Penny red stamp mark BA; 8vo (21cm x 17cm), vellum/Note: Likely by Juliana Strickland (1765-1849), daughter of Sir George Strickland Bt. of Boynton, Yorkshire. From the early 1800s she lived at Apperley Court (the home of their brother Henry Eustachius Strickland. Juliana is best known for her work as an artist and illustrator./The manuscript book contains a large quantity of recipes savoury, sweet as well as jams, preserves and wines, including Royston Pudding, Lemon Custards, Blanc Mange, Tansie Pudding, To pickle Broom buds, Amlet of Eggs, Almond Custards, Orange Shrub, Raisin Wine, Muffins, Calves Ears, Trifle, Sugar Tops, Artificial Turtle, Bullofs Cheese, Green Pease Soup without Meat, Minces Pyes, Minced Pies without Meat, Cake without Butter, Bottle Gooseberries, Raspberry Jam, Sauce for Boiled Carp, Trembling Beef, India Pickle, Blue Boars Head, Egg Cheese, Floating Island, Cream Deloutee with Pistachios, Turkey a la Daube, Pigeons in Surprise, Calves Chaldron, Goose Giblets, Sou Meagre, Pickle Pigeons, Everlasting Syllabub, Diet Bread Cake, Savoy & Naples Biskets, Indian Pickled Cabbage, Mint Cakes, To make Potato Yeast and a loose leaf 'Cure for Ague', a printed recipe for Brawn sold by Griffin Hggs, Cook of Queen's-College, Oxford, A recipe for Yeast by Mrs Lockhart, etc. CONDITION REPORT: Vellum boards slightly warped. Some speckling, discolouration and edgewear. Corners bumped. Foxing throughout and some light smudging and browning. Loose leaf manuscript inserts with foxing, browning and minor tears. Binding good, No excised pages visible.

Manuscript Volume of Letters relating to Lady Dacre, An early 20th Century manuscript note book containing transcribed family letters from Lady Dacre to her nephew George Peter Tyler with other family letters from 1775 to 1824, comprising 316 pages in manuscript in a neat hand, transcribed and inscribed by Emilia J Bruce, granddaughter of Admiral Sir Charles Tyler of Cottrell, Glamorganshire, 1906 for her son Francis Villiers Bruce, 8VO, ruled notebook with watered silk cover with red leather spine and marbled page edges; together with a late 19th Century fan in purple leather and with photographic ovals containing family pictures (2) CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Manuscript catalogue of the Library at Apperley Court, in two volumes, in manuscript, 8vo (24.5cm x 20cm), Contemporary calf notebooks, marbled endpapers, updated up to circa 1860; includes an explanation of the catalogue outlining how the books were arranged in the library at Apperley and where they were located in the house; pasted label to inside front cover of volume 1: "From the library of a German Prince, v. IV, p. 169 The alphabetical catalogue of the Cathedral Library at York is arranged as follows" (with a graph following); the catalogue also detailing letters in possession of the family/Footnote: This is an intriguing insight into a country house library and its evolution over time. The division of the indexed book between Classes of titles and Books according to their places is fascinating and undoubtedly the work of a member of the Strickland family devoted to books and their care. CONDITION REPORT: Volume 1, 134 page filled in. No excised pages visible. Front cover detached. Covers and spine in worn condition with scuffs and bumps. Title block worn, head and foot of spine worn. Spine stitched through as pictured. Binding poor with several pages loose from binding. Some browning to page edges. Ink smudges in part. Later pencil marks. Endpapers worn. Volume 2, 73 pages filled in. No excised pages visible, Spine has completely split the book into two parts, some loose pages. Text smudged in part as pictured. Edges of endpapers rubbed and worn, page edges tanned,. Cover in poor condition with scuffs, edgewear and marks.

Strickland (Algernon), Manuscript Log of the HMS Rainbow commencing 11th February 1834 and ending February 18th 1835, 122 pages on 61 leaves in manuscript, with two inserted hand drawn maps, one titled: 'Tracks of HMS Rainbow amongst the Eastern Caribee Islands in the Year 1834,35' the other titled 'Tracks of HMS Rainbow in June and December 1834 through the Crooked Island Passage'; Vellum bound, 4to (32cm x 20.5cm), with sketch of the ship in ink to the cover/Footnote: This volume mostly records the author's duties on ship, weather information and other observations. HMS Rainbow (1823) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1823 and sold in 1838. It was commanded by Henry John Rous from 1825 to 1829. It appears to have been captained by Capt. Sir J. Franklin after 1830 and sailed to Malta, Corfu, Jamaica, Barbados, St Kitts, St Vincent, Port Royal, Leeward Isles, Bermuda. It was assigned to suppress the slave trade after 1836 CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Manuscript Cookery Book, A mid to late 18th Century manuscript book hand titled to cover 'Eliz'a Let'a Strickland', comprising 54 pages of recipes in manuscripts on 27 leaves, with further blank pages and 7 leaves of alphabetical index to the back. With two loose leaf insertions for further recipes, 8vo, vellum binding/Relating to Elizabeth Leticia Strickland (1733 - 1813) of Apperley Court, Gloucestershire. The manuscript book contains a large quantity of recipes including Ginger Beer, Calfes Head Hash, Beef Tremblant, Frangus Incapades, To Jugg a Hare, Crawfish Soop, Indian Rice Pudding, American Cake, White Hoggs Pudding, etc.Vellum boards warped, stained and scuffed. Corners bumped and with edgewear. Back cover stained with a larger dark mark as pictured. Endpapers & pages browned and spotted. Hinges starting to crack. Cut to front endpaper. Page edges worn and browned. Scattered foxing throughout. Old worm damage to latter part of book (blank pages) after receipe entries Page after last receipt has been torn out. CONDITION REPORT: Vellum boards warped, stained and scuffed. Corners bumped and with edgewear. Back cover stained with a larger dark mark as pictured. Endpapers & pages browned and spotted. Hinges starting to crack. Cut to front endpaper. Page edges worn and browned. Scattered foxing throughout. Old worm damage to latter part of book (blank pages) after receipe entries Page after last receipt has been torn out.

Manuscript relating to the laws of London and Richard Hoare, An early 18th manuscript book of the 'Powers, Jurisdiction, Rights, Privileges & Functions of of [sic] the Mayor's Commonalty of Citizens of the City of London', comprising 58 leaves in manuscript; in several hands, the earliest hand with 31 numbered pages and further unnumbered in the same hand, with additional later manuscripts pages; front endpapers with manuscript title and followed by a preface on 'The Clauses of all the Acts of Parliament relating to the Power, Jurisdictions, Rights, Privileges and Franchises granted to the Mayor, Aldermen, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'; at the end of the two page preface noted in pencil and signed "R. Hoare, Lord Mayor of London 1713", with a loose leaf inset dated March 1681/Slim folio (33.5cm x 21.5 cm), contemporary boards with remnants of leather binding and bands to spine/Note:The manuscript book contains extracts of the laws and acts of parliament relating to the city of London and is divided predominantly into short paragraphs of subjects in alphabetical order including Aliens, Bridges of Fulham and Westminster, Brasiers and Pewterers, Hackney Coaches, Garbler, Gun-Powder, Fish and Fisheries, Lamps, Leather, Misdemeanors Nonconformists, Oil, Orphan's Fund, Pavement of the Streets Scavengers & Sewers, Victuallers, Watchmen and Beadles, Weights and Measures, etc., with three index leaves and several leaf inserts of notes. The text crossed in parts and annotated. One leaf signed William Deards with a flourish below, Sir Richard Hoare (1648-1719) trained as a silversmith and became the founder of C. Hoare & Co., the oldest surviving bank in the United Kingdom. Hoare became mayor of London in 1712. CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Stricklands of Apperley Court, various volumes of drawings and manuscript notebooks to include a small leather bound volume on Egypt in manuscript copper plate inscribed Eliza Strickland 1773; a leather bound volume of decorative motifs; an album of flower illustrations by Frances Strickland; two volumes of juvenile illustrations by Algernon Strickland; a folio of loose drawings by various members of the Strickland family including a drawing of Boynton Hall, a drawing of a fish by Hugh Edwin Strickland and a folder of loose newspaper clippings (7) CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Manuscript Journal on Taxidermy, Zoology and Travel, A 19th Century manuscript note book relating to the Strickland family, comprising 32 leaves in a neat hand variously in ink and pencil, with several loose leaf inserts and further blank leaves and pages, likely by Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853), the English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Strickland, through the British Association proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as the Strickland Code that was a precursor of later codes for nomenclature./12MO (18.5cm x 10.5cm), Stitched leather binding/The notebook contains several recipes and processes relating to taxidermy, listing chemical and processes for the successful preparation of specimens. Headings include 'Manner of skinning birds'. Further entries relate to travel to Africa such as a letter drafted 'Remarks on the Coast of Africa', referencing Sir F Collyer - the author refers to his travels and a mysterious fever that affected the crew on the ship 'Sybille'. In the letter he refers to slavers, tornadoes, travel to Sierra Leone, Lagos, etc./ Further entries on Zoology, 'Class 2nd G. Graves …1st Landbirds, Order 1st Rapacious …' followed by several pages of entries of bird names, e.g. Alanda (Lark) and Didus Dodo (annotated "doubtful")/Another chapter entitled 'Birds that I have obs'd off the Cape at different times', followed by pencil pages entitled 'Prospectus of a plan for An Expedition into Central Africa', followed by 'At the ordinary meeting of the South African Secretary & Scientific Institution …on the 5th June 1833. Followed by a list of shells and their description, classed into Bivalves and multivalves. Also listed shells observed at St Helena, Sierra Leone and other locations. Followed by 'Hints and Memoranda relative to the collecting and preserving objects of Natural History'. With one page of a list of books, a list of preservatives, followed by hints on catching certain birds and bats "Goatsuckers or Night Hawks may be taken by … a beetle on a hook attached to a small line across the branch of a tree"…. The last page with a pencil drawing in outline of a bosun's whistle. CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

A Manuscript copy of the History of Little Fanny, hand written and illustrated and exemplified in a series of figures; this manuscript dated March 24 1849 with an illustrated cover with holly and ivy garlands enclosing figures of a dog and two figures of a young girl in a cloak and bonnet; includes handmade slipcase with the calligraphic initials "A J L" (?); the binding with indigo ribbon and tie, watercolour cut out figures after the original with attachable head to the figures; Dimensions: 11.4cm x 7.8cm /Footnote: The earliest published paper doll set for children, The History of Little Fanny exemplified in a Series of Figures includes the storybook describing seven vignettes from Fanny's life along with Fanny and her seven costumes. The volume was attributed to author Amelia Troward Girdlestone./This copy is hand illustrated and written in tiny copperplate - presumably by a young girl or governess for her charge CONDITION REPORT: The cover with Ink smudge to top and back cover. Slipcase worn with foxing and edgewear. The illustrated figures clean and crisp with some wear verso. The paper to attach the head to each figure missing on some figures and worn.

Manuscript Cookery Book, A 19th Century manuscript book hand titled 'Receipts in Cookery' comprising 113 pages of recipes in manuscript on 57 leaves, with further blank pages and 6 leaves of alphabetical index to the back. With multiple loose leaf insertions for further recipes, 8vo, vellum binding later pasted with marbled paper covers/Relating to the Strickland family of Apperley Court, Gloucestershire. Some of the loose leaf recipes received by letter addressed to Miss Strickland and Mrs Freeman, The manuscript book contains a large quantity of recipes and household cures including: The Process for making Parmesan Cheese as seen at a Farm near Milan, To pickle Pork, Ox Pith, Pigeons in Surprise, Scotch Collops, Cowslip Wine, Oyster Sausages, etc. CONDITION REPORT: Cover very worn, marble paper wrap with losses, discolouration and marks. Spine worn and exposed. Foxing throughout. Several loose or detached pages. Back pastedown detaching as pictured. Cut marks to back cover. Loose insert manuscripts pages with minor tears, edgewear and smudges in part.

Strickland Family, Several volumes on the Pedigree of the Strickland Family to include, a 19th century Manuscript notebook with research in copper plate by Henrietta Strickland including loose leaf notes and letters, 8vo; a large printed volume on the Strickland family bound in watered silk, Folio; Linen printed Pedigree of Strickland of Boynton, London: Joseph Foster, 1875, 4to; 2 copies of Whitmore (W), Ancestral tablets, London: Elliot Stock, 1885, 4to, completed for the Strickland family and with loose leaf 19th century notes and letters (5) CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection

Indentures Four early manuscript indentures, ink on vellum, including a 1675 agreement, believed to relate to land in Yorkshire (multiple signatures and wax seals) and a 1664 agreement between residents of Lancashire (Penington, etc.), together with a bundle of nineteenth century manuscript sermons, (ink on paper) and a four page publication on one sheet, relating to the impact of the Militia Act on the Quakers (1762). (qty)