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Documents - Northumberland - Alnwick Castle. 1855. Original manuscript copy report & further copy by Henry Welch, County Surveyor for buildings & bridges, Newcastle, headed "Alnwick March 9th 1855", addressed to the Duke of Northumberland & being his report of the conditions of the walls in the dining room of Alnwick Castle & his suggested methods of repair.
Mr Punch`s Pocket Book Containing ... Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day of the Year. 3 editions. Each with hand col. fldg. frontis & hand col. pictorial title, other cartoon plates & illus. Orig. limp leather with closing flap, a.e.g. One with a few manuscript entries, the others unused. 1857, 1870 & 1878.
Two large City of London Imperial Volunteers ‘Welcome Home’ tribute addresses, Four City of London Imperial Volunteers group photographs, The City's Roll of Honour and Corporation of London CIV Welcome dinner menu. From the collection of Jack Webb. Large ornate tribute address on card backed manuscript, to Colonel Mackinnon and the City of London Imperial Volunteers from the Chairman and Members of the London County Council, offering, amongst other sentiments, ‘warmest congratulations on the distinguished services they have rendered to their country and a most cordial welcome home’. Signed by W. H. Dickinson, 27 October 1900, 560mm x 380mm; and a large mounted tribute address with ornate border, to Edward Beard from the Mayor and Corporation of the Borough of Chelmsford, on behalf of the inhabitants of the Borough, with lengthy address, extending, amongst other sentiments, a sincere and cordial welcome on his return from services in the South African War with the City Imperial Volunteers, expressing high appreciation of valuable services rendered and congratulations on a safe return. Signed by Adolphus G. Maskell, Mayor., 30 October 1900, 510mm x 360mm, one large tear to latter, this repaired, slightly torn and creased, otherwise good condition; Large mounted group photograph, 290mm x 230mm, of 22 men of the C.I.V. in uniform, slouch hats and puttees each with presentation C.I.V. swagger stick. Drummer on front row with C.I.V. badge clearly visible on shoulder strap, c.1901; a large mounted photograph, 290mm x 240mm of C.I.V. men on board a troopship, embarking for South Africa; a mounted photograph, 200mm x 150mm, showing men of “G” Company, C.I.V. boarding S.S. Armenian at Southampton on 27 January 1900; and a mounted photograph, 205mm x 150mm, of the C.I.V. Signalling Company (under the command of Lieut. J. Waley Cohen), 540mm x 365mm illustrated The City's Roll of Honour featuring the roll of the CIV (folded) and 178mm x 128mm City Imperial Volunteers Welcome by the Corporation of London (27th Oct 1900) menu with toast list and committee list (original ribbon present) generally good condition (8)
EPHEMERA. A collection of printed and manuscript ephemera relating to the illustrator Mary Tunbridge, including an album containing a folded 'Dig For Victory' poster and numerous examples of the artist's greetings cards, also including a few original works and preliminary drawings.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
MUSIC. A 7pp. manuscript music score by Heinz Tiessen 'Walzer Op. 29 d', dedicated to 'Meiner Freundin' Lucie Mannheim, 32.5cm x 25.5cm, together with a group of photographs of Lucie Mannheim.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Maps. A collection of approximately 135 British maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved maps of counties, countries, sea charts, manuscript estate plans, London ward plans and British Cities, with examples by or after Moll, Cole, Stowe, Faden, Pazzini, Greenville Collins, Nichols, Lewis, Archer, Kitchin and Morden, some duplicates, various sizes and conditionQTY: (approx. 135)
Griffith (Richard). Geological and Mining Survey of the Connaught Coal District in Ireland, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 1818, hand-coloured engraved folding section (some offsetting) and hand-coloured engraved folding map with 8cm repaired closed tear to left-hand, manuscript number to upper margin of title, final leaf of text strengthened to upper margin, some light offsetting, toning and occasional spotting, edges untrimmed, modern cloth-backed boards, 8voQTY: (1)
Bentley (Gerald Eades). William Blake, Vala or the Four Zoas. A facsimile of the manuscript, a transcript of the poem and a study of its growth and significance, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963, facsimile in monochrome, original cloth in torn dust jacket (with some adhesive tape repairs), folio, together with:Erdman (David, editor), A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake, 2 volumes, New York: Cornell University Press, 1967, original cloth, 8vo,Bentley (Gerald Eades), William Blake Writings, 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, browning to dust jacket spines, 8vo, and other William Blake reference including Blake (William), An Island in the Moon, A facsimile of the manuscript, introduced, transcribed, and annotated by Michael Phillips, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, original cloth in dust jacket, in browned slipcase, folio; Erdman (David, editor), The Notebook of William Blake, a photographic and typographic facsimile, revised edition, Readex Books, 1977, original cloth, large 4to; Damon (Samuel Forster), A Blake Dictionary. The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake, Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1965, ex-library copy with ink stamps to title, original cloth, some light discolouration, large 8vo, and other Blake literature and referenceQTY: (26)
* Bradbury (Emma Louise, 1866-1959). Washerwoman, Caudebec, Normandy, circa 1900, oil on canvas, signed lower right, with original artist's label to verso '22 Brixton Avenue, Withington, Manchester,' with title supplied in manuscript, canvas size 19.3 x 27 cm (7 5/8 x 10 5/8 ins), framed (31 x 39 cm), together with two watercolours by the same artist: 'Looking Outwards', watercolour, depicting a panelled hall with open door leading to a garden in sunlight, signed lower right, with handwritten label (presumably by the artist) to verso, mount aperture 24 x 35.2 cm (9 1/2 x 13 7/8 ins), framed and glazed (40 x 52 cm), and a watercolour on paper, laid onto card, depicting an interior scene with a seated man wearing a white smock smoking a pipe, signed lower right, sheet size 19.3 x 28.2 cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/8 ins)QTY: (3)
China. Wyld (James), Map of the Country between the Gulf of Pe-Tch-Li & Pekin shewing the Operations of the Allied Forces, circa 1860, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight dust and finger soiling, 380 x 525 mm, publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with printed label with a manuscript title to the upper cover, boards fadedQTY: (1)NOTE:A separately-published map detailing events and locations of the 1858-60 campaign by a British and French expeditionary force culminating in the capture of the Taku Forts, 21st. August 1860, and Lord Elgin's entry to Peking on 24th October, bringing an end to the Second Opium War.Only on institutional copy recorded (British Library).
* Belch (William). The Months of the Year (11 of 12, lacking December), circa 1820, eleven aquatints with contemporary hand colouring, some prints with manuscript text show-through, some staining and occasional spotting, January, June and August with repaired marginal tears, October trimmed to the image, each approximately 185 x 290 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. QTY: (11)NOTE:A rare collection, not recorded in COPAC.
* Scrap albums. A group of 3 Victorian scrap albums, containing numerous engravings, cuttings, chromo scraps, greetings cards, etc., plus a few manuscript items and one album with 2 Thomas French bank post bills for £4 and 4 guineas, dated 1814 & 1815, a few items loosely inserted but the majority pasted down on to rectos and versos throughout, various bindings, worn, folio/4toQTY: (3)
Folding Maps. A Collection of Seven Maps, mostly 19th century, including Smith (C.). A Physical and Topographical map of France, Describing the Post Roads & Relays with the Inland Navigation &c. 1st March 1824, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight offsetting, 800 x 810 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase with printed label to the upper cover, slight wear to extremities, together with Keller (Heinrich). Aussicht vom Weissenstein auf dem Jura, Cant. Solothurn, gezeichnet und herausgegehen van J. J. Scheurmann, Zurich, 1818, engraved panorama of the Alpes, with aquatint and contemporary outline colouring, 170 x 1900 mm, engraved aquatint view to rear pastedown, publishers marbled boards with contemporary printed labels to verso and recto, slight wear to extremities, with Gell (Sir William). Rome & its Environs from a Trigonometrical Survey, Sauders & Otley, 1834, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, two splits along old folds, slight staining, 725 x 975 mm, near contemporary dated ownership signature to verso, Estcourt library label to rear pastedown, bound in contemporary morocco gilt boards, plus Bacon (G. W. publisher). Bacon's Library Map of Yorkshire Reduced from the One-Inch Ordnance Survey to half the Scale - Two Miles to the Inch, circa 1870, large lithographic folding map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset plan of Leeds, calligraphic cartouche, short splits to old folds, 1275 x 1600 mm, marbled endpapers, bound in contemporary half sheep gilt, worn and frayed with some loss to the spine, and Wilson (Captain Charles W. under the Direction of Colonel Sir Henry James R. E. Director of Ordnance Survey). Ordnance Survey of Jersusalem, 1864 - 65, uncoloured engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1150 x 730 mm, contained in a contemporary blue cloth slipcase with printed label with manuscript title to the upper siding, very slight wear to extremities, with a folding map of India and one other similarQTY: (7)
GERMAN BERLIN CAST IRON STATUETTE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT MID-19TH CENTURY depicting the poet leaning against a stump draped in tartan holding a manuscript in his left hand, the front of the stepped base with a cartouche with initials 'WS', engraved on the back of the base with German inscription and signed by the Devaranne foundry, after the model by Johann Karl Wilhelm Kratzenberg circa 1834Dimensions:11cm wide, 24cm high, 10cm deep
JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART (1688-1766) CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT COPY OF HIS DECLARATION GIVEN AT ROME AS JAMES VIII, 23 DECEMBER 1743 12 pp. (numbered 3-14 but the text complete), 18.2 x 14.6cm, early wrappers, front wrapper verso with the early inscription 'This Declaration was read at the Cross at Edinburg, in 1745, when the Pretender had possessed himself of that city. It was the first of three there then read', bookplate of John Towneley (see note), first 2 leaves loose Provenance:Provenance:Property of a Gentleman – Previously from the collection of Sir Colin MacRae (1869-1952) of Feorlinn and Lady Margaret Crichton Stuart (1875-1964)John Towneley (1731-1818) was the member of a prominent English Jacobite family; an uncle was executed for his participation in the Jacobite rising of 1745. He inherited the family seat of Towneley Hall, Lancashire in 1808. After his death his library was sold by Evans as the Bibliotheca Towneleiana in two major sales conducted in 1814 and 1815. Note: Note: James promises a royal pardon to all transgressors against 'our royal father, or our-selves', to call a free parliament t'to repair the breeches [sic] caused by so long an usupration', to 'free our people from the unsupportable burthen of the malt-tax and all other hardships', and to guarantee the free exercise of religion for Protestants. The text was printed in A Collection of Declarations, Proclamations, and Other Valuable Papers. Published by authority at Edinburgh, in the years 1745 and 1746 (Edinburgh, 1748, ESTC T163990).
Cartography. Arlott (John, editor), John Speed's England: A coloured facsimile of the first edition, four-part set, London: Phoenix House Limited, 1953-54, original quarter-cloth over papered boards, slipcases en suite, folio, Curtis (Rev. J.), A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, first edition, Ashby-de-la-Zouche: W. Hextall, et al., 1831, hand-coloured double-page map, original publisher's cloth, split and twisted, 8vo, a mid-19th century schoolboy's exercise book, Georgie Peck, October 1859, illustrated with a double-page watercolour panorama of mountains, 13 world maps executed in pen-and-ink or pencil, some of which are tipped-in, further inscribed in manuscript with a historical timeline, original scarlet quarter-roan over marbled boards, worn with some losses, 4to, 1925 Atlas of Finland, original morocco over boards, ex-lib with expected wear and markings, folio, two volumes of Newbolt's Naval Operation Maps, ex-lib, their cloth, 8vo, Flight: The Aircraft Engineer, 1934, 1936-38 issues, original blue cloth, 4to, Aircraft Engineering, volume XI, 1939, ex-lib cloth, folio, (11)
Local Interest. Miscellaneous manuscripts and some printed ephemera, 18th c and later, including 12 quit notices and 3 corresponding letters relating to John Leacroft's property in Litchurch, Derby, all dated 1796, and before the estate was sold to Joseph Strutt, who later, along with other properties, created the Derby Arboretum there, a 1715 MS poor law examination of Francis Nallson of Bolsolver, Derbyshire, a former solider, examined before and signed by Lord James Cavendish as JP, 1770 Freedom of Perth for a Nottingham merchant, printed and hand-scrivened on vellum, with seal, The Humble Petition of the Innkeepers and Victuallers, of Nottingham, to the House of Commons, Sherborne: Cruttwell & Son, Printers, n.d. [1804], 2pp, folio, a 1776 legal bill of [2]pp of MS, a Victorian schoolboy's manuscript book of verse, Poetry [by] Master William Green, Park House Academy, Nottingham, 1873, [4]ff of MS, loose and loosening leaves, original wrappers, 4to, 1807 Nottingham Academy school bill, a 1788 certificate of bastardy, Sarah Heath of Leek, Staffordshire, signed by John Sneyd as JP, 1842 Royal Hospital Chelsea pensioner's questionnaire, an 1840s Derby Savings' Bank pocket book, split, original calf over printed papered boards, 12mo, 1862 printed and inscribed vellum freedom of the then town of Nottingham, an earlier burgher's certificate dated 1820 conforming, four 19th c indentures, etc
Politics Annotated with Poetry. A Copy of a Poll of the Burgesses and Freeholders Of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, For electing Two Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the said Town [...] April 1754; (in the exact Order they voted) before John Fellows and Thomas Sands, Gentlemen, Sheriffs. Candidates, [...] Lord Viscount Howe, Sir Wilughby (sic, i.e. Willoughby) Aston, Bart. [&] John Plumptree [...], Nottingham: Printed by Tho. Collyer, and sold by R. Ware on Ludgate-Hill London, et al., 1754, pp: [1], 76pp, interleaved, [4]ff of which between pages 2-9 are inscribed in contemporary ink manuscript with a 33-stanza poem, 'The Tories Lamentation' by J.D. of Leicester, the verse untraceable by us thus far, contemporary calf boards, rebacked and repaired, inner-margins reinforced, 8vo Provenance: 1) John Soare/Nottingham/1766; MS inscription to ffep. 2) John Walker. 1807/January 1* Bottle Lane; MS inscription to recto pastedown. 3) Frederic Arthur Wadsworth (1871-1943), Nottingham historian and book collector; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
An Ethiopian Coptic prayer or incantation scroll, 19th c, Ge'ez manuscript in red and black ink on sheepskin, illuminated with four vignettes of Michael the Archangel, the Seal of Solomon, a Coptic Crucifix and a further geometric device, over four sheets tacked together, 160.5 x 8cm Good condition, some light wear and very minor losses to pigments in places. Askew by nature of manufacture, some browning in portions but clearly legible.
Northumberland. Alnwick Items to 1881, a Victorian collection of earlier and contemporary ephemera, 121pp, tipped-in &/or pasted, comprising a late 18th/early 19th c printed bill from Andrew Henderson, Angle Inn, Alnwick, printed and inscribed with the recipient's account for breakfast, wine, brandy or rim, ale or porter, horses, hay & corn, another, similar, for Charles Turner, Queen's Head, Newcastle, an apprentice's indenture dated 1799, 1822 'advert' for Robert Finlay, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Narrowgate-Street, Alnwick, an 1817 militia summons to Robert Finlay, Junior, presumably the wine merchant's son, another Northumberland militia certificate, three albumen prints of the Mechanics' Institute's exhibition at the Alnwick Corn Exchange in 1872, an 1865 British passport, folding table of the Percy Artillery Volunteers/Strength of the Brigade for the Years 1871 and 1872, 1877 table of the 2nd Northumberland (The Percy) Artillery Volunteers, contemporary newspaper and periodical clippings mentioning The Percy Volunteers, extensive number of further clippings throughout, tls from the Duke of Northumberlan'd agent Charles R. Burnett viz. payment of rent and a tennants' dinner at Alnwick Castle, 1873 poster for the Election of Members of the Local Board of Health, for the District of the Townships of Alnwick and Canongate, 1873, a notice to the freemen of Alnwick for the aforementioned election, printed 1875 notice to the ratepayers, Alnwick Freemasons' Lodge invitation, vellum and parchment indentures, letters and other correspondence, Alnwick Mechanics' Institute Conversazione 1869, early 18th c newspaper, The Englishman's Evening Post, and Universal Advertiser (London), No. 1, Tuesday, January I. 1739-40, 2pp, further ephemera, including some advertising and 'broadsheets', etc., the whole prefixed by a partial manuscript index, contemporary green quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed, split and with some movement, marbled endpapaers, 4to The leaves and the tipped-in pieces of ephemera, some of which have losses, are in mixed condition. The binding rubbed, split and with some movement.
Local Interest. A collection of manuscript and printed coal mining ephemera, mostly 19th and early 20th c, including a [4]ff MS letter from John Fletcher, manager of the Ripley coalmine, to William Hunter Hunter, presumably a relative of the Henry Hunter noted for his connection to the Ripley and Hartshay coalmines, dated Ripley, 20 May 1808, the letter comprises a statement of accounts, etc., a 1921 miner's lock-out workmen's permit, eight pieces relating to Shipley Hall and its estate, the Miller Mundy family and Shipley Colleries, further correspondence, bills, etc., relating to the Manners, West Hallam, Cossall and Bestwood collieries, etc Mixed condition
Northumberland. Alnwick Board of Guardians, 1884-91, a Victorian collection of earlier and contemporary ephemera, approx. 200pp, tipped-in &/or pasted, comprising 1884 Alnwick Union Election of Guardians poster, another for 1885, notices of board dinners and their menus, 1885 Alnwick Conservative Association meeting, other political election posters, some large format and folding, expenditure tables and data, extensive newspaper and periodical clippings throughout, some letters and correspondence, further ephemera, including some advertising and 'broadsheets', etc., the whole prefixed by a partial manuscript index, contemporary claret quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed, marbled endpapaers, 4to The leaves and the tipped-in pieces of ephemera, some of which have losses, are in mixed condition. The binding rubbed.
The Cruise of the S.Y. "Calamara", 1899, a late Victorian album of 42 monochrome photographs, illustrating the private yacht's journey from Lisbon to Scotland's Inner Hebrides, including Portuguese ships and a man-of-war, Arosa Bay, Corcubión Bay, Ferrol and some real life scenes of Spanish locals, in-land Scottish travels, Inverary Castle and its estate, Skye topography, etc., named-view leaves annotated in manuscript, some sporadic foxing, contemporary black half-morocco gilt over cloth by Palmer Howe & Co., Manchester, signed ffep, rubbed in places, moiré endpapers, oblong 4to
A medieval biblical manuscript parchment fragment, probably 14th/15th c, two lines hand-scrivened with Exodus XII: 29, blue rubricated initial and illuminated ornament, 15mm x 165mm, mounted and framed, & General Sir Redvers Henry Buller VC, GCB, GCMG (1839 –1908), his autograph signature, two lines of ink MS, clipped from a letter, (2)
Jacobite Interest. The Whole Proceeding [...] of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King. In the Court of the King's-Bench at Westminster [...], London: Printed by S. Buckley in Amen-Corner, 1722, imprimatur leaf, black-ruled title, some foxing, ffep loose, contemporary calf, 19th c reback to style, rubbed, corners bumped, folio (35 x 23cm), [&] Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ. The posthumous works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt [...], With the Life of the Author. Oxford: Printed at the Theater (sic) for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1698, 2 folding pedigrees, infrequent manuscript glosses, foxed, 19th c half-morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, folio (32.2 x 21cm), [Wing S4930], (2) Provenance: 1st: William Vachell, probably the same WM of Coptfold Hall, Essex; 18th c Chippendale armorial bookplate to pastedown. 2nd: Lincoln's Inn Library, London, their 19th c sold duplicate stamp to verso of title-page.
Local Interest. Miscellaneous Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire manuscript and printed ephemera, 19th c and later, including a mid-Victorian mourning card, Maria Knighton, 1869, embossed and cut, black paper mounting, an 1852 Derby Guild of Literature and Art admittance card, etched by T.O. Barlow, 19 x 22.5cm, 1859 Derby Town & County Museum Grand Soirée invitation card, signed by Llewellyn Jewitt, 1826 ball admission ticket for the Exchange Rooms, Nottingham, a late Victorian election card, supporting the Conservative candidacy of Victor Cavendish, later 9th Duke of Devonshire, others, including Henry Fitzherbert Wright and Foster for Ilkeston, postal history, including two Penny Reds, two sepia cabinet cards of Ilkeston and its town hall, fourteen further photographs, including carte de visite and some Nottingham topography, 1865 Richard Evans of the Ilkeston Pottery billhead, further mid-19th c and later billheads, mostly Nottingham, including hatters and milliners, linen and wool drapers, bookbinders, cabinet-makers, etc., 1914 Royal Tour souvenir and programme, an accompanying ticket to the stand for the royal visit to Ilkeston, 1914 The Royal Likeness colour card, two World War One era colour cards, further World War One Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire borough cards to their fighting inhabitants, 1871 Inland Revenue horse or mule license, 1903 Nottingham motor cycle registration certificate, two of John Heywood's Recitation Cards, 19th c, further schoolroom didactics and some certificates, 19th c and later vaccination certificates, Freemasonry and Masonic interest, 19th c print of the Nottingham Dispensary, Justice of the Peace, vol. XXXIX, no. 27, 1875, early 20th c and later National Health Insurance and identity cards, etc Mixed condition
Local Interest. Law & Order: a collection of 18th and 19th c manuscripts and printed ephemera, including a George III deputy lord lieutenancy appointment, dated 18th May, 1775, Thomas Frost Esquire, as a deputy to Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, signed by the duke at Clumber, 34 x 42.5cm, an early 19th c officer's commission, n.d., manuscript on vellum, for Thomas Barber Esquire, Captain of the Watnall Troop of Nottinghamshire Yeomnary Cavalry, signed and sealed by Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle, as Lord Lieutenant, 30.5 x 41cm, a Victorian officer's commission, n.d., manuscript on vellum, for Thomas Barber the younger, Gentleman, for the Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper, as Lord Lieutenant of the county, 31 x 37cm, [vellum printing], broadside, Lent Assizes, 1835/Nottinghamshire, The Names of the Jurors to try the Issue joined between *** Thomas Barber and John Chamberlain/Debt [...], Nottingham: [Printed by] J. Hicklin and Co., 46 x 13.5cm, 1826 Derbyshire jailer's appointment, [3]pp of MS, signed by Sir Roger Gresley of Drakelow, High Sheriff, appointing Richard Eaton, Keeper of the County Gaol in Derby, an 1815 Sheriff of Nottingham's warrant, printed and inscribed vellum, another, similar, 1882 County Court of Derbyshire: Belper Division debtor's judgement for £20: 13: 6, etc Mixed condition.
Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts. Herbert (George), The Temple [...], eleventh edition, London: Printed for R.S. and are to be Sold by Richard Willington, 1695, [bound with] [Harvey (Christopher)], The Synagogue: or the Shadow of The Temple [...], In Imitation of Mr. George Herbert, sixth edition, London: Robert Stephens, 1673, first title split and loose at title-page, both titles uncollated and with defective leaves and further condition points, contemporary panelled calf, chipped and disbound, 12mo, [Shakespeare], Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed (sic) Hot-spur, parts I & II, London: J. Tonson, 1734, Part II defective, but with the sole frontispiece, both parts with some stains, disbound, 12mo, idem., three further plays as one, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, & The Tempest, London: J. Tonson, 1734, the second and third titles with frontispieces that are now loose, disbound, 12mo, Dodd's Beauties of Shakespeare, Chiswick Press: Printed by Charles Whittingham, 1818, lacking ffep, finely bound in contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 12mo, three early 19th c manuscript hymnals, Richard Brooke, dated 1817-18, inscribed in MS with hymns and musical notation, including Psalms, mixed bindings of calf, sheep and calf over boards, worn in places, oblong 4to & 8vo, another, barely-inscribed by J. Ward, 1826, marbled wrappers, 4to, Murray's History of British India, London: T. Nelson and Son, 1853, map and plates, finely bound in contemporary crimson morocco, gilt extra, all edges gilt, 8vo, Watson's Theological Tracts, six-volume set, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University, et al., 1785, contemporary mottled calf, worn, chipped and split, but holding, 8vo, Blomfield's Life of Christ, Bungay: C. Brightly, 1809, plates, contemporary mottled calf, 4to, Knight's Secret Societies of the Middle Ages, first edition, 1837, defective contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, The Jolly Angler, seventh edition, n.d. [c. 1850], cloth, 8vo, Stamford's Map of Africa, n.d. [19th c], original cloth boards, British India & the Raj, a photograph album of 10 b/w photographic prints, c. 1935, mostly Delhi, contemporary polychrome-decorated lacquer boards, cloth back, oblong folio, etc
Medical, Health & Wellbeing. [De Mediolano (Joannes, attrib.)] & Moreau (René, editor), Schola Salernitana [...], first edition thus, Parisiis: via Jacobaea, sumptibus Thomae Blasii, 1625, some 17th c English marginal manuscript annotations, lacking folding plate, upper-right margin somewhat tatty until signature D, signatures Rr4 onwards with inner-marginal worming with some loss of text, minimal by the end and just affecting one or two letters, 20th c black buckram, red-stained edges, 8vo
Early English Printing and Annotation. [De Hannapes (Nicholas, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem) & Paynell (Thomas, translator)], [The ensamples of vertue and vice, gathered oute of holye scripture. By Nicolas Hanape patriarch of Ierusalem. Very necessarye for all christen men and women to loke vpon. And Englyshed by Thomas Paynell], [London]: [John Tisdale], [1561], Gothic Black Letter, incomplete, signatures collating: D-2B⁸, 2C2-2Q1, 2Q4-2Z8, a⁸, b⁷, some tatty leaves, with some creased and chipped leaves, 2S3 onwards with a wormhole only affecting letters, 2H3 with loss of lower-right corner and six or so words, margin of F8 holed with no loss, 5 leaves on prayer and temptation (i.e. within signature G) extensively annotated in contemporaneous manuscript, some further notes and glosses, but less extensive, later 16th c style leather binding, 8vo Provenance: 1) John Vaughan, [?of Carmarthenshire, Wales], X8r with ink MS ownership inscription, repeated elsewhere and in one place dated 1627, ? his annotations. 2) Thomas Lloyd not his Book, 1692, 2X5r with ink inscription.
Phillipps MS 17606: The Tattersall family of Gatton, Surrey, [10]ff of MS legal documents, dated from 1768, and stemming from the contested will of James Maud (d. 1769), a wealthy London wine merchant, whose daughter Mary (d. 1800) married the Rev. John Tattersall (? d. 1768/69), and includes a long opinion by Alexander Wedderburn MP (1733-1805), later Lord Chancellor and created first Earl of Rosslyn, probably in a secretarial hand, 'signed' from Lincolns Inn and dated 16th April 1770, 19th c ?Middle Hill papered boards, chipped, loosening, foolscap folio (34 x 21.5cm), [&] a Victorian Royal Navy officer's minute book, dated 30th April 1870 to 27th November 1880, [26]ff only, with 10 pieces of bound-in connected ephemera, the manuscript being transcripts of directions from the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard, Deptford, and some from the Admiralty, contemporary hessian over reverse calf boards, worn and split, but holding, foolscap folio (32 x 20.6cm), (2) Provenance: 1st: Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliomaniac who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, whose dispersal, following his death, took over 100 years. The first leaf typically inscribed in ink manuscript: Phillipps MS/17606; further numbered 17606 Phi in pencil.
Staffordshire. A mid-Victorian parchment manuscript indenture, dated 8th March, 1865, between Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Angelsey (1797-1869), Michael Thomas Bass (1799-1884), brewer of the eponymous brewery and sometime MP, further luminaries of the Staffordshire town, and Job Hadfield, builder, for the lease of land on the west side of Princess Street, hand-scrivened, illustrated with a plan of the aforementioned land, signed and bearing red wax seals, 58 x 73cm, framed, a further twenty-five indentures, 19th c and later, manuscript and printed, principally viz. Burton, etc
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - The Flight into Egypt, [no. 14 from the 20 of the Life of the Virgin series], signed with initials AD only within the block, n.d., woodcut, trimmed, some losses repaired, mostly corners and margins, drawn-in in pen-and-ink, 30.2 x 21.5cm, subsequently laid on board, [attributed to the Meder G impression, label to verso], [&] The Men's Bath, n.d. [19th c], woodcut on a heavy stock of paper, 41.5 x 30cm, (2)Provenance: 1st: Page Fine Art, their headed paper inscribed in manuscript to verso, there attributing The Flight to impression Meder G. Condition:The Flight into Egypt trimmed to within the block-mark, some losses repaired and in places, mostly corners and margins, drawn-in in pen-and-ink.
[Polydore Vergil], Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Eiusdem in orationem dominicam commentariolum ; cum indice & rerum & verborum locupletissimo, [Geneva]: Typis Jacobi Stoer, Impensis Nicolai Bassej, 1590, incomplete, last signature index leaf [3B8], title-page soiled with slight loss, otherwise unexamined and sold as seen, contemporary limp vellum, contents basically disbound, covers with contemporary owner's monogram: M over I*E, spine later titled in manuscript, 16mo Provenance: 1) M/I*E, contemporary 16th/early 17th c monogrammed binding. 2) Johannis Johnston/Edinburgi/1836, ink MS ownership on recto pastedown, loosely-inserted MS scrap in which the then owner evidently confuses the previous owner with the earlier namesake and Scottish Latin poet (c. 1570-1611). 3) St Aloysius' College Library, Glasgow, the Jesuits' institutional stamp in several places.
Scotland, Borthwick of Crookston. A bundle of 17 manuscripts, early to mid 19th c, mostly accounts and discharges, as well as a letter from William Pitt Dundas to John Borthwick Esq:r of Atholl Crescent, dated 1839, inviting him and his wife to the burial of his and his wife's baby, 1pp of ink MS. on mourning paper, another letter to the same John Borwick from his mother, an incomplete manuscript biography, etc.
Local Interest. Nine pieces of printed &/or manuscript ephemera relating to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire canals, late 18th c and later, including a [2]ff MS letter from James Fletcher, manager of the Ripley coalmine, to William Hunter, of Kilburn Hall, Derbyshire, dated Codnor, 1st Jan:y 1817, viz. the Ripley mine being at a standstill due to the Cromford Canal being frozen, 4to, J. Smith (fl. 1776), A Plan of the Navigable Canal [...] from the River Trent to Langley Bridge, in the Counties of Derby and Nottingham; Survey'd in 1776, engraving, contemporaneously delineated in colour, trimmed, 25 x 30.5cm, six Nottingham Canal Company broadsides, dated 1815-1847, 'A List of the Proprietors of the Erewash Canal, April, 1833', Loughborough: D. Cartwright, Printer, 25.4 x 18.9cm, Cromford Canal permit, etc Mixed condition
Handwriting and Calligraphy. The manuscript archive and working specimen collection of John Le F. Dumpleton, pedagogue and calligraphic artist, including the 30pp manuscript to his The Art of Handwriting, his synopsis for Teach Yourself Handwriting, his scrap/commonplace book of calligraphy and fonts, approx. [50]ff, bundle of correspondence from his fellow calligraphers, including Robin Tanner, Reginald 'Reg' Piggott, Wilfrid Blunt at Eton, etc., some of the letters are incomplete, some letters lithographed as specimens and numbered accordingly, a bundle of rough pencil sketches and working drawings, presumably intended as book illustrations some Typographical Society Christmas cards, other Curwen Press cards, etc
Wales. The Reverend Francis Taynton (1799-1869/70), his manuscript pocket book cum diary, records and extracts dated from 1811-1870, approx. [105] ff of MS, compiled and inscribed while incumbent of the parishes of Ystradowen and Talygarn, Vale of Glamorgan, and later resident of Cowbridge, Taynton seems to have been an obsessive chronicler, as well as his clerical chronology 'Dates respecting my Profession', which includes being thwarted in a living by Bishop Copleston of Llandaff, further records pertain to his horse dealings, the dates and locations of his tours, operas, concerts, and plays attended and watched, as well as more mundane matters, e.g. his height and weight over his lifetime, the weather, his various crops and his income, as well as his mother's, more interesting financial details include the cost and employment of workmen, builders, painters and wallpaper. In 1853 the dreaded cholera strikes, which the vicar puts down to the impure air from the drains at the supper rooms at the Bear over the Stables [?pub], etc., some blank leaves, early 19th c sombre roan, blind-rolled anthemion border, some splits and losses, but holding, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, 12mo
Cookery. A 19th c manuscript anthology of recipes, 94pp, various early 19th c and later hands, some leaves with tipped-in MS and printed receipts, recipes include mince pies, pickling walnuts, damson cheese, mutton tea, desserts and puddings, etc,. some leaves repaired, most stained and chipped, but respectable, the whole prefixed by [52]pp of MS mathematics and calculations, notes on trade, etc., penned by Hannah Shipley, n.d. [early 19th c], 20th c papered boards, 4to
Heraldry. Millan (John, Bookseller), Arms of the English Nobility [...], [with] [...] the Scotch Nobility, [with] [...] the Irish Nobility, [&] Arms of the Baronets of England and Nova Scotia [...], four parts, London: John Millan near Whitehall, 1752-3, copperplate-printed, contemporary calf gilt, chipped, worn and split, but holding, lack ffeps, title-page with slightly later ink manuscript presentation inscription, 12mo Provenance: This book/Formerly Belonging to/Charles Delaet, Esq.,/of/Potterells, Herts./(Ob: 1792)/was brought from Potterells by/Coningsby C. Sibthorp/1889.; 19th c book label to pastedown.
Ireland. Two 18th c manuscript account books kept and inscribed by John Bayly, of Tolka Lodge, Finglas, Co. Dublin, and his heir or executor, each illustrating landownership and the expenses of a gentleman-farmer, the expenditure ledger dated from October 1786 to 1787, including a leaf of fruit preserved dated July 1788, approx. [77]ff, the deceased John Bayly's rental income and outgoings, dated from 1795, the year of his death, to 1800, approx. [45]ff, citing various names, including Robert Fowler, the Archbishop of Dublin, and other dignitaries of the Church of Ireland, loosely-inserted ALS and note by Cecil, 1st Baron Harmsworth (1869-1948), John Bayly's great-grandson, explaining the nature of each MS, harlequin contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards or wrappers, rubbed, split, and losses, almost disbound, 8vo, (2)
Private Press. Two copies of Weissenborn (Hellmuth, illustrator), Fantasy, limited to 100 copies only, these unnumbered and unsigned, London: The Acorn Press, 1978, Mono Plantin type, 21 hand-coloured linocuts, printed on Wookey Hole hand-made paper, original publisher's green papered boards, uncut, slipcases en suite, 4to, miscellaneous other books, including four mixed copies of Popper (Karl R.), Das Elend des Historizismus, comprising the 1st, two of the 2nd, and 5th German editions, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1965, 1969, & 1979, one 2nd edition extensively annotated, probably by an editor, in manuscript with revisions, plus some inserted type-script, mixed bindings, 8vo, Fraser (Lovat, illustrator), Pirates, London: Simpkin Marshall, et al., n.d. [c. 1920], illustrated, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, 8vo, Douglas Adams first edition, original dj over black cloth, 8vo, illustrated books, (10)
Food and Drink in Early 19th c Yorkshire. The Harrisons of Tibthorpe's manuscript accounts, presumably grocers or provision merchants, dated July 21st, 1827 to April 14th, 1830, approx. [27]ff only, verso with [14]ff of mercantile arithmetic by Master John Harrison of Hull, contemporary vellum, blind-ruled borders, split and loosening, but OK contents, foolscap folio (41.5 x 17cm)
Byron. Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 1792-1860), Hymn, dated 1859, [1ff] of autograph manuscript, comprising 12 stanzas of poetry, beginning: Go when the morning ***, ending: Of Mercy, Truth, and Love!, the verse formerly enclosed in a letter and now mounted and framed with the letter's finale signed and dated: Your friend/AI: Noel Byron/Aug 27. 1859, the foolscap sheet folded, browned and soiled in places, the surface of the sheet with some scuffed losses and chips, tipped-in/pasted on a later 19th c mount, the verso with a TLS of verification from T.A.J. Burnett, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, on their writing-paper, dated June 5th 1967, the sheet 37 x 24cm, 45.1 x 35.2cm overall Provenance: Mr. R. Packham of Balham, S.W.12; TLS letter addressed to him as the then owner from Burnett of The British Museum, who would later catalogue the Ashley Library of 17th c and later English poets' printed books and manuscripts, formed by Thomas James Wise, bibliophile and infamous forger.
Wales. A mid-18th c manuscript commonplace book/anthology of verse, probably the property of and inscribed by a member of the Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay, n.d., [13]ff in a uniform hand, including the astronomical poem On seeing a Comet, in the Year 1769. A Night-scene., the leaves disbound, chipped in places with some occasional light losses, as such a few poems are now possibly fragmentary, original marbled wrappers, worn, 4to, three loosely-inserted leaves in a hand uniform to the latter, taken from a smaller 12mo volume, inscribed with medical receipts, etc The provenance attribution of this lot is based on the manuscript having been removed from the bundle, also in this sale, that included two Williams-Wynn rental books. In addition, each poem here is monogrammed AW ; though only a singular W it does confirm with extant inscriptions, both manuscript and printed, of other Williams-Wynns in the 18th and first-half of the 19th c.
Textiles & Fashion. Teacher's Equipment 29406, dated 1914, a working dressmaker's needlework specimen didactic, dated 1914, [4]ff linen-backed and 'illustrated' with 10 tailored clothes samples, annotated with tacked-on manuscript notes, 4 loosely-inserted further textile scraps, further loosely-inserted manuscript diagrams, limp moiré covers, sunned, ties en suite, oblong folio (39 x 51.5cm) Provenance: the collection of Sally Tuffin (b. 1938), "Youthquake" fashion designer of the eponymous Foale and Tuffin.
Equatorial Africa, Anthropology and Language. [4]ff of foolscap folio, n.d. [early 20th c; a manuscript note suggests c. 1916], being sheets of translations from English into their equivalent tribal language/dialect, including Maka/Makaa, Njem/Njyem, and other tribes in and around Cameroon, a 1pp typed account of certain customs, a pen-and-ink map, 7.5 x 15cm, etc
Local Interest. Three 1706 Roman Catholic 'Papist' recusancy returns for the Nottinghamshire parishes of Great Drayton [i.e. East Drayton], Laneham and Askham, inscribed in manuscript and signed by the parish officers, mixed sizes, St. Nicholas Church, Nottingham, the 1699 accounts of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, [1]ff of foolscap MS, an early 19th c fragmentary broadside, 'On Sunday next, October 6th, 1816,/Two Sermons/will be preached/for the benefit of the/Sunday School,/at the/Independent Chapel,/Ilkeston,/By/The Rev. J. Slater, of Gosport,/(Previous to his leaving England as a Missionary to Surat, in theEast Indies,) [...], trimmed with loss, later mounted, the leaf formerly from a Victorian scrapbook, 24.5 x 19.5cm, further Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire church-related manuscripts and printed ephemera, including an 1843 Nottingham General Cemetery burial certificate, Ilkeston Cemetry, three Ilkeston Temperance Pledges, Ilkeston Sunday School Union 1849 hymn card and a later festival ticket, Primitive Methodist Connexion, other non-conformist interest, pamphlets, parish magazine, etc Mixed condition. Some MSS with archive repairs.
A mid-19th c manuscript notebook, tipped-in and inscribed pharmacopoeia receipts for cough medicines and dealing with rheumatism, loosely-inserted letterpress receipt: A Certain Cure for an Inveterate Cough, notes on scrofula, aka the 'Kings Evil', choler, others, biblical and devotional notes and commentary, some prayers, further typically inscribed with commonplace verse and maxims, including lines On the late W Hancock of Nottingham/Died 1805, loosely-inserted and tipped-in Victorian mourning cards, disbound contemporary sheep, perished spine, 8vo, Westmorland, a mid-18th c commonplace book, [15]ff only of manuscript and printed leaves viz. to the antiquities, history, topography, and ancient families of the county, interleaved blank leaves throughout, contemporary reverse calf, blind-rolled, chased clasps, chipped with some losses and movement, red-speckled edges, 8vo, The Polite Remembrancer, for 1797, kept and annotated by a Miss Ann Maria Langton, inscribed with her daily engagements, including walking to and/or taking tea at Wanley Hall, [?Leicestershire], some accounts, including for silk and the binding of her shoes, some entries blank, the 'diary' prefixed with a printed almanac as issued, original limp green morocco gilt, contemporary ticket to pastedown: J. New, Stationer, No. 8 Aldgate, 12mo, [&] The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas For the Year 1811, partially-inscribed, some torn losses, the internal sleeve with some loosely-inserted contemporaneous and later ephemera, including pencil sketches and University of Oxford papers, contemporary limp morocco, restrained by a white metal clasp, all edges gilt, marbled edges, contemporary ticket to pastedown: Staunton & Son, Stationers and Booksellers, 474 Strand, 12mo, (4) Provenance: 2nd: Edmond Lamplugh Irton (1761-1820), of Irton Hall, Cumbria; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, below a note citing the College of Arms. Presumably sold at the dispersal of his "fine library" at Irton, c. 1853.
Local Interest. The Particulars of the New Machine or Silk Mills for Working Italian Oragniz'd Silk/Erected at Derby by Mr Thomas and John Lombe: as in the following Scheme, verso docketed: Description of the Silk-Mills at Derby by Sir Tho: Perkyns, s.l., n.d. [c. 1721-32], [2]ff of MS, inscribed recto only, the manuscript tabulates the effects of the water wheel, the number of persons employed, the yards of silk worked in 24 hours, etc., the two sheets 30.6 x 51cm, etc Provenance: the Earls of Hardwicke, their manuscript collections purple ink stamp. The Silk Mill sheets of MS archive preserved following former damp damage.

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