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Almanacs.- Rider's British Merlin..., in red and black, interleaved, manuscript notes in ink to endpapers and interleaves, later red morocco, gilt, ink date to covers, spine rubbed, iron clasps, g.e., R. Nutt, 1748 § The Court and City Register, third edition, by J. Barnes et al., 1757 bound with Rider's British Merlin..., in red and black, interleaved, 1 f. with lower fore-edge corner excised (loss to text), by R. Nutt, 1757, together 2 in 1, contemporary calf, extremities worn § Royal Kalendar..., contemporary calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid-down, extremities a little worn, for J. Almon, 1770; and c.70 other almanacs, eighteenth and nineteenth century, 8vo and 12mo (c.70) [sold not subject to return]⁂ Others include: Bengal and East India (1806) bound with some others; Cardanus Rider's Sheet Almanack; The London Calendar or Court and City Register; The English Registry, Dublin; The Treble Almanack, Dublin; The British Almanack and Universal Scots Register, Edinburgh; The British Imperial Calendar; The Edinburgh Almanack, and others.

Hartlib (Samuel).- Weston (Sir Richard) A Discours of Husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders, shewing the Wonderfull improvement of Land there; and serving as a pattern for our practice in this Common-wealth, first edition, first issue with title showing erroneous date (corrected in early ink manuscript), woodcut device on title and decorations and initials, lacking final blank, 18th century ink ownership inscription of Henry Streatfeild to head of title, edges of title and upper corners chipped and silked, with loss to a few words of D2, title soiled, a few small stains, modern half calf, spine and lower cover slightly sunned, [Fussell p.42; Wing W1482; cf. Hunt 249], 4to, 1605 [but 1650].⁂ Scarce work published by Hartlib without the author's consent.

NO RESERVE Glorious Revolution.- [Seller (Abednego)] The History of Passive Obedience since the Reformation, ex-library with ink-stamps to title verso, Amsterdam, for Theodore Johnson, 1689, bound before, A Continuation of the History of Passive Obedience since the Reformation, browned, lacking A4 (blank) as usual, Amsterdam, for Theodore Johnson, 1690, bound before, An Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled, the Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England, concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative; viz. in dispensing with the Penal-Laws ..., signature A2 mis-signed as A, for Ric. Chiswell, 1687, together 3 works bound as 1 vol., 8pp. manuscript index in an early hand at end, scattered spotting, new endpapers, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, a little rubbed, [Wing S2453; S2449; A3309], 4to.⁂ According to Wing, the first is 'Variant 2' with S3 with no signature and line 1 ending, 'absurd, and'.

Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, 1819-1901) Commission signed appointing John Alexander McMunn Assistant Surgeon on the Medial Establishment for the Military Department of the Ordnance, D.s. "Victoria" & Lord Raglan, printed commission with manuscript insertions, folds, small ink stain, browned, 277 x 405mm., 15th October 1853.⁂ Lord Raglan gave the order for the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.

English Monarchs.- History cards depicting an English monarch, 50 printed cards, most with a woodcut illustration of the appropriate monarch within a roundel at head, a few small marks, 1 with manuscript inscription on blank verso, housed in a contemporary roan card holder, cards 97 x 64mm., [c. 1820].

18th century Fire Insurance Broadside.- Proposals From the Sun-Fire-Office in Cornhill, printed broadside, manuscript insertion "301726 Mr Eyre... Mr Bridges" and a mathematical calculation at head, 2pp., circular woodcut at head, a few small holes along fold, folds, slightly browned, [ESTC T171611 lists the Guildhall copy only], R. Nutt, 16th January 1766; and another, a printed policy document from the Sun Fire-Office made out to "John Eyre of Sheffield... Dealer in Wines & Spirituous Liquors", engraved illustration at head, printed with manuscript insertions and signed, 1p., [not in ESTC], 29th September 1772, folio (2).⁂ First mentioned 'In this issue of the edition with a vertical twisted bar division rule separating columns of text on p. [1], the first line following "Proposals" ends: "Royal-Exchange,"; the second line ends: "and".' - ESTC.

Unrecorded detective story.- [Original story featuring detective "Victor Tremaine" and beginning "Countess Windermere"], manuscript, 77pp., with deletions and corrections, 1f. loose, others working loose, browned, original vellum, worn with loss, soiled, [early 19th century]; and another, sm. 8vo (2).

Scott (Sir Walter, poet and novelist, 1771-1832).- Ballantyne (John, publisher and literary agent, 1774-1821) Promissory note signed to pay Walter Scott £250, signed by Scott on verso, manuscript, folds, slightly browned, 87 x 200mm., 16th May 1814.

Portsmouth Surgeon.- Porter (Dr John Philip Peter, surgeon, first President of the Philosophical Society, of 25 St George's Square, Portsea, 1770-1852) Archive of correspondence and documents relating to Dr John Porter of Portsea and other members of the Porter, Elliott and Hollis families, including a reference to Lord Nelson, manuscripts, letters and documents in Italian, and English, numerous pp., some printed medical documents in Latin and Italian, folds, some browning, housed in a metal deed box, v.s., v.d., 1797 - late 19th century. (c. 145 pieces).⁂ Items, include:(a). Death and burial of an 18th century solicitor.- Elliott (Anne, wife of John Elliott, of 22 Penny Street, Portsmouth, d. 1765, 1718-84) Anne Elliott I... Request this Little Book may be carefully Read... at my Death so that every thing may be done for me as was for my Dear Husband, autograph manuscript, 9½pp., slightly browned, engraved bookplate laid down on card loosely inserted, original patterned card wrappers, autograph manuscript title stitched on to upper wrapper, 144 x 92mm., 28th November 1765.⁂ "My Dear Husband was siting up in his bed talking Most Affectly to me, we was alone in the back Chambr he asked me A Questn: but before I could say yes le laid his Head on my left Brest and departed this Life without a Grone... ." There follows an account of his last illness, his body laid in three coffins, mourning rings coming from London, the burial in the church at Portsmouth (now Portsmouth Cathedral), and the attendant costs. There is a memorial to the Elliotts and related families in the cathedral.(b). Lord Nelson.- Graves (G., Lieutenant, Royal Navy) Autograph Letter signed to Captain Thomas Fremantle, 1p. with conjugate blank, sm. 4to, Rome, 4th February 1797, "The bearer of this line is Mr. John Porter who Commodore Nelson is pleased to tell me, he has been so good to appoint Surgeons first mate of the Blanch frigate. He is a singular lerned surgeon with a diploma, & has since practiced under the most able surgeons in Rome", small tear along fold of conjugate blank.(c). Hotham (Sir Henry, naval officer, 1777-1833) Certificate signed, 20th August 1798, "These are to Certify the Principal officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy that Mr. Jno Porter served as (acting) Surgeons Mate on Board... Ship Blanche... during which time he behaved with diligence and Sobriety being also always Obedient to Command".(d). Australian Convict.- Perceval (George, convict transported to Australia for seven years for stealing money) Autograph Letter signed to Dr John Porter, The Hospital Ship, 9th November 1810, setting out the circumstances of his distress, "I was designed by my friends for the Navy, And through the Interests of Viscount Perceval I had the fairest prospect of rising... in the profession, But, Alas... 'One hour of Intoxication' - Has entirely blasted them... at Bath, last February... I got acquainted with Sir Henry Sheridan... [and] his friends. Among the number was a Mr Hitchcock a Banker... who invited us to go to the Play & afterwards sup with him at the Castle & Ball Inn... we sat up till 3 or four... in the morn[in]g - drinking... none of us were sober... in the Morning... I had a visit to pay... Happening to put my hand into my Pocket, I was surprized at taking out, a parcel of Notes rolled up, to the amount of 30£ which did not belong to me... ."Includes numerous letters and documents relating to the career of Dr John Porter of Portsea, including correspondence and manuscripts in Italian and Latin relating to his time studying medicine in Livorno and Rome (including an Archiater's medical printed diploma with manuscript insertions, bound in gilt leather, 1795), and later as a surgeon in Portsmouth. Also, some correspondence from Charles Elliott, surgeon, mostly on family matters, religion etc., mid-19th century.John Philip Peter Porter was born in Leghorn to John and Isabella Porter in 1770. In October 1778 he was admitted to the English College at Rome and left in 1789. He matriculated in Classe Medica in the Archigymnasium Romanum, called La Sapienza in 1790, and obtained his diploma in 1794. Left Rome and joined the British fleet in 1797, with a recommendation by Nelson to join HMS Blanche as surgeon's mate. In 1798 he passed at the Sick and Hurt Office qualifying as a surgeon for any Royal Navy vessel. In 1803, he commenced medical attendance on the convict hulks in Portsmouth Harbour, he joined Gosport Hospital in 1804. Thereafter, alongside his naval duties, Porter developed a civilian practice in St George's Square, Portsea.

NO RESERVE Commonplace Books.- Marsh (William) Select Thoughts, 3 vol., 3 manuscript commonplace books, numerous pp. excluding blanks, a few reverse entries, 1 vol. with 2 ink stamps "R Marsh" on front endpapers, slightly browned, original vellum, 1 vol. title lettered direct on upper cover, soiled, sm. 4to, 1799-1807.

Beethoven .- Small archive of manuscript and printed material relating to Ludwig van Beethoven and family, including a large manuscript genealogical table, 1p., 415 x 335mm., n.d. [late 19th / early 20th century], and Weilen (Josef) Prolog zur feier des hundertsten Geburtstages Beethoven's...gesprochen... von Prof. Josef Lewinsky, bifolium, folds, Vienna, 17th December, 1870; and c.23 others, related, including photographs, 1860-1931 (c.25 pieces)

Italy, Abruzzo.- Notarial instrument made in the town of Aquila recording a judgment by Lucius Petrucii de Aquila, described as 'iudex ad causas et contractis', settling a dispute between two men, Marcus and Cola, about a sum of money, 15 ?Venetian ducats of gold, notary Antonius (whose mark is at lower right, is just one of several witnesses, manuscript in Latin, on two pieces of vellum, slightly creased and yellowed, 28th March 1425.

NO RESERVE Music.- Beethoven (Ludwig van) Partitions des 6 premiers Quatuors (Oeuvre 18.) pour deux Violons, parts 2-6 only (of 6), lacking part 1, each title with printed paper label "Ausburg, bei Anton Böhm" to foot, a few gatherings working loose, ink stamps to upper cover and title, part 3 with a few chips to lower cover, loss to spine ends with joints starting, Offenbach, Jean André, [1829]; Opferlied, engraved throughout, ink stamp to first leaf, contents loose, various ink stamps and markings to upper cover, one partially obscuring title, Mainz, B. Schott Söhne, [c.1825], some light foxing, original wrappers, some rubbing and surface soiling; with 4 others, including 2 manuscript scores (1 containing part of Bellini's "Il Pirata"), and a manuscript copy of the preface to Haydn's "The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross", v.s. (10)

NO RESERVE Art.- Extracts and Memorandums chiefly relating to The Fine Arts... From Volpato and Morghen's Drawing Book, manuscript, title and 97pp. excluding a considerable nubmber of blank pp., some slight foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, upper cover detached, gilt spine, slightly dulled, sm. 4to, [late 18th century].

Legal.- Lawyer's letter book, manuscript drafts of letters, c. 400pp. excluding blanks, many letters with substantial alterations and corrections, browned, original boards, lettered direct on upper cover, rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, edges uncut, 4to, 1757-62.⁂ Many letters are to "his Lordship" John Roberts - probably the 18th century British politician and poet who was then MP for Harwich and was soon to be involved in the Stamp Tax crisis. 1757-1762.

Milborne Family (of Lincoln) The Pedegree of ye Millbornes hth came out of Lincone..., manuscript in English and Latin, 1p., laid down on paper, some holes in text, tears along folds, folds, creased, browned and partially stained, housed in a green morocco box, with internal glass lid, glass cover, by Riviere & Son, manuscript 380 x 310mm., [17th century]. ⁂ Includes a reference to John Milborne (c. 1404-35), of Gloucestershire; husband of Elizabeth Devereux; father of Agnes and Simon Milborne. Date cited in document is 1435, the date of John Milborne's death.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection.

Beckford (William).- [Sale Catalogue] Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey (The). A Catalogue of the Magnificent, Rare, and Valuable Library (of 20,000 Volumes)..., [including] The Unique and Splendid Effects of Fonthill Abbey [&] The Pictures and Miniatures at Fonthill Abbey, engraved frontispiece, detached along with front free endpaper, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, pp.3-5 with ink underlining and one buyer's name in manuscript, pp.6-7 with areas of abrasion affecting text, some foxing, original half morocco, upper cover with printed paper label, rubbed and soiled, lacking backstrip, covers detached, [Lugt 10510 & 10519], Phillips, 1823; with a sale catalogue for the Landsdowne collection of ancient marbles, 8vo (2)⁂ One of the most famous sales of the nineteenth century, necessitated by Beckford's diminished financial resources. The sale catalogue comprises the entire contents of Fonthill, offered at auction over thirty-seven days from 23rd September to 29th October, encompassing the library, furniture, pictures and prints. The catalogue is bound in chronological order according to the day's sale rather than the subject matter.

Hertfordshire, Stevenage.- Hellard's Almshouses.- The founding of the Almeshouse in Stevenage and guifts given to the same... The foundinge of the ffree Schoole of Stevenage..., manuscript with some later 18th century additions added to blank pages at end, together 25pp., slightly browned, loose, disbound, folio, [c. 1700 - 80].

Egerton (Ada Maud, OBE, married Sir Walter Egerton in 1905, after the death of her first husband Sir Charles W Sneyd Kynnersley, 1861-1934) & Sir Walter Egerton, KCMG, Governor of Lagos Colony (1904-1906), Southern Nigeria (1906-1912), and British Guiana (1912-1917, of Mayfield, Sussex, 1858-1947. Large archive of letters to Sir Walter and Lady Egerton, mainly family letters, including from and to their son, Thomas Ralf Sneyd Kynnersley (Tom) and ephemera, including: a manuscript article on "Gardening in the Tropics", 40pp. written while in Lagos, Southern Nigeria (incomplete at end); 2 letters (with one envelope dated 1913) from Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (granddaughter of Queen Victoria) to Lady Egerton; a letter to Lady Egerton from Downing St. March, 1918 asking her for a letter of acceptance of an OBE., and a telegraph about the same; Marriage certificate to Sir Walter Egerton, v.s., c. 1910s - 30s (lge. qty.)

Qur'an, manuscript in Arabic.- An Attractive Ottoman Qur'an, illuminated manuscript on paper (many leaves tinted yellow), in Arabic, single column, 15 lines black naskh script, illuminated borders to opening two pages of text, numerous floral border illuminations to borders marking important sections of the text, leaves ruled in gilt, catch-words throughout, contemporary calf over boards with flap, central medallions and corner-pieces in gilt, some light surface wear to one cover, 8vo, Ottoman Turkey, [mid-nineteenth century].

Hall (Joseph) The Works, 3 vol. bound as 2 with vol. 2 & 3 bound as 1, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette titles, vol. 2 engraved title with manuscript note dated 1661 at title foot, engraved initials and head-pieces, manuscript contents ff. dated 1666 bound at beginning vol. 1, occasional manuscript notes to vol. 2 'contents', one or two marginal holes and tears, occasionally touching text, neat repairs, scattered spotting and water-staining, one or two small rust-holes affecting odd letter, bookplate, later calf, rebacked, blind-stamped arms of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, to boards, slight bumping to extremities, [Wing H361B; STC 12640.7; Wing H381], folio, by Miles Flesher, 1647-34-62

Edicts.- Group of c.70 Austrian ordinances, orders and edicts etc., each numbered in manuscript at head, light foxing and browning, library stamp to first, 20th century cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, spine joints cracked but holding firm, tall 8vo, early and mid 19th century.

NO RESERVE Elice Hall.- Goodes at Elice Hall, manuscript inventory, on vellum, tear repaired with at head, creased, yellowed, 620 x 133mm., proved 14th May 1607.⁂ "Two Chambers adioyning together two beddsteeds, two feather beds... ix[l] x[s]."

Wales.- [Bower (Elizabeth, wife of John Sheldon Bower, of Crosby, Liverpool)] [Account of an excursion to North Wales and Cheshire], manuscript, 37pp., 4ff. loose, slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, 8vo, 1829.⁂ An account of an excursion by boat from Liverpool to Anglesey, across the Menai Straits on Telford's Bridge, to Conway, Penrhyn Castle, Chester and back to Crosby.

NO RESERVE Scotland, Selkirkshire.- Tweedaile and Lauderdaile And the Sheriffdomme of ye Forrest... Sibbald's Atlas Scoticus..., manuscript, together 68pp. excluding blanks, only written in left or right hand half of the pages, on white and blue paper, central folds, new endpapers, bookplate of Lord Napier on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, red and gilt morocco label on spine: "M.S. Accounts of Selkirkshire", folio, [early 19th century].

Music.- Dodd (Joseph Josiah, topographical artist & engraver, 1810-1894) Sacred Gleanings by J.J. Dodd, manuscript on paper of various colours, 90pp., excluding lined but unused ff., calligraphic title, neat tear to upper margin of this, some spotting, soiling or staining, lightly browned, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, flat spine in compartments, with floral decoration and title 'Music Vol.1', triangular floral red morocco corner-pieces, corners worn, soiled and rubbed, large 4to, Tunbridge, [c.1830].⁂ Dodd was born in 1810 in Liverpool. His family later moved to Tonbridge, Kent. During the 1830s he gained a reputation as a topographical artist and engraver. In 1835 Princess Victoria was presented with a volume of Dodd's watercolours of Tunbridge Wells when she visited the town. He taught drawing and architectural drawing at the Manchester School of Design in the 1840s, before moving his family to Bangor in about 1859. Here at the National Eisteddfod in 1874 he was initiated in to the Gorsedd in recognition of his contribution to various Eisteddfodau.

Royal Engineers.- Report on the Defences of the River Thames [& other Royal Engineers reports], manuscript copy reports, together c. 115pp., 5 pen and ink sketches (3 in manuscript reports and 2 loose and hand-coloured), slightly browned, unbound, 8vo, 1844.

NO RESERVE Transport.- Société Franco-Belge de Matériel de Chemins de Fer, photographic plates, ink ownership inscription to title, pages toned, scattered pencil manuscript annotations, original patterned boards, Brussels, [c.1920] § Dollfus (Charles) and Edgar de Geoffroy, Histoire de la Locomotion Terrestre, advertisement, pictorial title, frontispiece, numerous illustrations and plates, some tipped-in, some coloured, pictorial endpapers, some pages toned, original rexine, Paris, 1935; and c.23 other books and ephemera relating to transport, v.s. (c.25)

NO RESERVE Italy.- Cipriani (Giovanni Battista) Degli Edificj Antichi e Moderni di Roma Vedute in contorno, 2 vol., engraved titles, 140 engraved views, including 1 folding view 'Roma veduta per profilo dal Monte Mario', manuscript contents to each, scattered spotting and surface dirt, half vellum, gilt, morocco labels to spine, headband missing to one, scuffed and worn, oblong 8vo, 1817.

Veterinary.- The Pharmacopoeia of Royal Veterinary College London, manuscript, c.190pp., mostly in pencil, a few ff. loose, some staining or soiling, contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, rubbed and scuffed, small 8vo, no place, [c.1880].⁂ Mounted on front pastedown is a contemporary letterpress poem 'Hip, Hurrah! or, Nine Cheers for the girls we love'.

NO RESERVE A Stranger in Distress.- Wilkinson (Thomas, lawyer and schoolmaster) A Paraphrase on Hor: Lib: 3. Ode 16, autograph manuscript, title, introduction and 4pp., foxed, browned and creased, original paper covers, title and last f. margins crudely repaired with tape, browned, sm. 4to, [c. 1750].⁂ Wilkinson in his introduction to the Rev. Mr Attwood gives a brief autobiography of his misfortunes. "Bred to the law" and practising as an attorney in London, Wilkinson was sued on behalf of a relation and had to retire to Cornwall and work as a teacher, leaving his wife in London. In search of another more lucrative job and rejoined by his wife, Wilkinson returned to London and addressed this variation based on Horace to Attwood in the hope of some charity, naming himself as "A Stranger in Distress".

Southwark.- St Thomas's Poor Rate, manuscript signed, title and 11pp., slightly browned, original vellum, title above lettered direct on upper cover, soiled, 333 x 114mm., 1768; and 18 18th century receipts made out to Mrs Mary Harvey payments for Poor Rate, folds, v.s., v.d. (19 pieces).

Medical.- Lectures on the practice of Physic - delivered in the Summer of the year - 68 by Dr Cullen, manuscript, c. 100pp., later ownership inscription "W. Thomson 1798" on front pastedown, slightly browned, upper hinge broken, later patterned boards, joints splitting, spine with paper label, slightly chipped, sm. 4to, 1768.

Manchester, Chorlton-upon-Medlock.- A Plan of Building Lands in Chorlton Row in the County of Lancaster: The Property of Messrs, Cooper, Marslands & Duckworth, engraved map hand-coloured in outline and with manuscript insertions, on vellum, slightly creased, margins slightly soiled, 522 x 710mm., n.d., [c. 1820].

Commonplace Book.- H. (C.) Commonplace Book, extracts from Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Hemans, manuscript, 178pp., manuscript verse and letter loosely inserted, slightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, g.e., 1827 - c. 1838; and a small quantity of others, including: manuscript legal definitions, small correspondence of Gertrude Louisa Jacob to her brother Edgar Jacob, Bishop of St Albans (1844-1920) etc., v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

Albermarle (George Monck, first Duke of, army officer and naval officer, instrumental in the Restoration of Charles II, 1608-70) Warrant signed "Albermarle" & others to pay thirty thousand pounds to the Earl of Anglesey, "for the most necessary supply and strengthening of that Kingdome [Ireland] agt the Dutch..., manuscript, 1p., split along central food repaired, hole at tail not affecting text, folds, slightly creased and soiled, browned, folio, Whitehall, Trea[su]ry Chamb[er]s, 6th August 1667.⁂ Arthur Annesley, first earl of Anglesey (1614-86), politician.

NO RESERVE Turks Islands (Caribbean).- Symmer (Andrew, King's Agent for the Turks Islands) [Report on the dislocation of trade caused by the British government closing West Indian ports to French and Spanish ships], manuscript report, 2pp., folds, slightly browned, sm. 4to, [Turks Islands], [c. 1767].

Paxton (Joseph).- An Album of ephemera relating to the Paxton family, pasted onto c.184 leaves excluding blanks, mostly newspaper clippings relating to the family or current affairs, many with manuscript title or date in ink, other ephemera including a hand-coloured engraved view of the Great Exhibition, a menu for a Crystal Palace fête hosted by Sir Joseph Paxton in July 1858, 2 ink drawings of "Baron Adolph de Rothschilds House Geneva" signed G.H. Stokes Archt. and dated 1858, a calling note from Lord Carlisle, and a pencil drawing titled "Mr Paxton's House Chatsworth Derbyshire", occasional light spotting or soiling, contemporary half morocco, worn at corners, rubbed, folio, c.1851-85.⁂ A loosely inserted note identifies the album as belonging to Lady Paxton, the wife of Sir Joseph Paxton, continued by her daughter Victoria after her death. The two ink views of Château de Pregny, known as the Rothschild Castle, are signed by the architect George Henry Stokes, son-in-law of Joseph Paxton. The two men collaborated on the design for the château and its gardens in 1858, the same year of the drawings. Paxton and Stokes had previously designed Mentmore Towers for the Rothschild family in 1852-54.

Wales, Radnorshire.- Williams family.- Genealogical History and Pedegree of the families of Williams - Stevens - Clarke & Marsh - collected and arranged by N.D. Williams, manuscript, title and 4pp., unbound, folio, 1829; and a small collection of manuscript pedigrees, genealogical notes etc., relating to the Williams family, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

NO RESERVE Religious notes.- [Commonplace book of religious notes], manuscript in Latin and English, in several hands, extracts including Thomas Tully (College Head and religious controversialist, 1620-76) "Enchiridion Praecipuorum Theologice Capitum... Auct. T. Tullio", manuscript in Latin and English, in several hands, 137pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, later endpapers, pencil signature of Edith V. Dent on front pastedown, original vellum, yellowed and rubbed, rebacked in later reversed calf, HW Schroer and Pro Patria watermarks, folio, [18th century].

Indian poetry.- Jones (Sir William) A Hymn to Camdeo: translated from the Hindu language into Persian: Retranslated into English by Sir William Jones, manuscript fair copy, 10pp., final f. blank, trimmed at head, affecting pagination, occasional spotting, lightly browned, stitched, 8vo, 1784.⁂ Sir William Jones (1746-1794), British philologist, orientalist and scholar of ancient India. He was a judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. His A discourse on the institution of a society for enquiring into the history, civil and natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta, January 15th, 1784, was published in the same year, and includes our work.

Utamaro Kitagawa (Japanese Edo Period), after, Courtesans, Indian School, A Lion Hunt, gouache on linen, 34cm x 46cm; a pair of Islamic manuscript leaves, 19cm x 10cm; another, Procession with Elephants (5)

Antiquities - Roman London - an oyster shell, from the floor of the Roman Temple of Mithras, the museum type perspex collector’s case with manuscript label, collection date of 18/9/54 and newspaper cutting provenance to Mr William Grimes, London Museum director, 10.5cm high

An interesting framed Manuscript Request for ordnance ammunition for use on H.M.S. Tartar dated 1757 signed Samuel Hood, a framed Page of The Times Newspaper featuring Admiralty Report from Wednesday November 6th 1805 concerning action at Trafalgar, and a framed Engraving of The Fleet at Portsmouth 1755

Unusual Evald Nielsen art deco silver presentation model of the "Shredded Wheat" Grain Silo in Welwyn Garden City, presented as a 25th Anniversary gift to Peter Lind & Co. Ltd. 1915-1936, with three signatures to one end and a manuscript note under the base wrongly saying it was in Southall. Peter Lind was a Danish construction engineer who came to England when, in 1913 he was appointed designer for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company. His firm built the silos for The Shredded Wheat Company at Welwyn Garden City in 1926, the rebuilt Waterloo Bridge in 1945 and the Post Office tower in 1964. Lind lived at Hamstone House in Saint George's Hill and Art Deco masterpiece which he built in 1937.

Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan, born 1930)Untitled signed and dated 'Salahi/ 69' (lower right)pen, ink and wash on paper fixed to card 28.6 x 27.2cm (11 1/4 x 10 11/16in).(framed)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe collection of Ella Winter Stewart;A private US collection. Combining traditional forms of Islamic written language and calligraphy into his contemporary artworks, Ibrahim El-Salahi recounts his lineage while looking forward to the future, creating a new narrative of self representation. Born and brought up in a Muslim household from Sudan, the written word of the Quran held an ever presence throughout his childhood. Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of [the air and] the sky? Nothing holds them up but [the power of] Allah. Verily in this are signs for those who believe. (Quran, Chapter 16, Sūrat al-nahl [The Bees], Verse 79 , translated by Yusuf Ali).Indeed, the Arabic calligraphy would manifest itself within his work later on in his life. Upon his education in Fine Art received from both Gordon Memorial College from 1949-1950 and the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1954-1957, Salahi subsequently became exposed to modernist and art forms.Executed in 1969, the current work employs elements and motifs that are familiar to the artist's series By His Will, We Teach Birds How To Fly (1969). The late sixties was a period of creative freedom for the artist, whereby he felt that that he was able to let go of any formal training in favour of the freedom of immediate expression. The repetitive motif of a bird is used throughout this series, recalling the imagery that arose for the artist when observing his father at prayer; pointing his fingers out from clasped hands resembling a bird. Therefore, while the bird represents a self-presence of El-Salahi within his own works, it also displays a coherence with the new found artistic freedom that the artist was embarking upon.'I am very much obsessed with my work. I am a painter and have no other profession. I go to bed dreaming of figures, forms, and colours and wake up to translate my visions and dreams into works of art.' (Ibrahim El-Salahi in Salah Hassan, Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist, exhibition catalogue, (Museum of African Art, New York, 2012)).This work was originally owned by prominent German journalist Ella Winter Stewart who contributed to The Carmelite, a controversial and rebellious Californian newspaper for its time. Stewart wished to offer liberal and dynamic points of view against a singular vein of opinion that seemed to dominate 1920's America. Often criticised for her activist views, Ella also wrote on issues of racism and heightened the necessity for fair treatment of marginalised communities. Winter Stewart was the driving force behind the ground-breaking 1969 Camden Arts Centre exhibition, Contemporary African Art and also loaned works by El Salahi from her collection to the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington for their 1974 exhibition Contemporary African Art.BibliographyS. Hassan & T. Clarke, By His Will, We Teach Birds How to Fly, Ibrahim El-Salahi in Black and White, (London: Vigo Gallery, 2018).Donald Ogden Stewart and Ella Winter Papers, (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), online.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * AR* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BINDING. - [Frances G. KNOWLES-FOSTER.] 'F. Rylston Var'. The Witch of Knaresbro', an Historical Romance. Ripon and London: William Harrison and Son and Simpkin, Marshall et al., 1921. Second edition, 8vo (183 x 117mm.) Frontispiece of Knaresboro' Castle after Bernard Evans with tissue-guard, extra-illustrated with four further plates, bound-in 'Author's Note' in vari-coloured manuscript hand, red silk moiré covered endpapers. (Some spotting to title-page, toning.) Bound by Cedric Chivers, Bath, in red morocco with original hand-painted figure of the witch to the upper cover in red, black and green and gold with decorative gilt borders, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Note: in the 'Author's Note' Knowles-Foster writes that she was only a teenager when this novel was first published in 1904, and that subsequently she now feels able to use her own name rather than the pseudonym. She was also known as the 'yachting authoress' who often took her small yacht 'The Enchantress' up the Thames and was a friend to the novelist William Hope Hodgson. Provenance: Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (bookplate to the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [An apothecary's hand-written pharmacopeia. N.p.: circa early 19th century-late 19th century.] 228pp., manuscript, 8vo (178 x 113mm.) 26pp. unnumbered of tabulated index, 202pp. of chemical recipes and solutions used by a working apothecary in Chesterfield, and with additions and amendments throughout the 19th century. (Soiling, spillage and finger-marks throughout.) Contemporary calf (scuffing, light rubbing). Note: contains recipes for medicating both humans and animals ('diarrhoea in calves', 'pigs powders', 'infants carminative mixture', 'whooping cough', various remedies for 'toothache' and the overall less worrying 'hair oil scent'), as well mixtures for polishing wood. Provenance: George Sampson, chemist (stamp to initial blank); F.W. Dutton, chemist (stamp to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. - Harold LISTER. [Notes of the daily life in diary form of the heavyweight boxer Harold Lister. Bournemouth: N.p.:] 1938. 49pp., manuscript, 12mo (118 x 66mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single legible hand relating the daily activities and feelings of Harold Lister as he trains and begins his boxing career, several colour maps. (Toning, browning.) Original printed paper covers (marginal losses, minor soiling). Note: based in Bournemouth ('fed up and far from home') the young Harold Lister starts off the year fairly depressed, notes how often he goes drinking with or without others ('had a few convivial beers, solo'), but as the year goes on he trains regularly and goes to the pictures with Kathleen - during 'Mad About Music' there was an 'amorous interlude'- and while there are some trips to local sites (Studland Bay, Sandbanks, Corfe Castle) and an Evelyn Waugh novel ('Vile Bodies'), it's the training that matters. He has his first professional fight on July 1st, fights in Yeovil and the Isle of Wight and wins these first bouts. But on 9th November he suffers defeat, to Dick Weller, and notes that 'he felt down in the mouth' but vows 'I am going to train hard… [underlined]... I am going to get to the top'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ILLUMINATED LEAF. [A 15th century illuminated manuscript leaf in Latin]. Single leaf (123 x 100mm.) Brown ink on vellum, 6 initials, 3 line-end decorations, and a rectangular margin of foliate decoration in blue, green, red and yellow and with salmon-pink borders. (Mild toning.) Mounted and framed under glass in a faux-wood frame.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BIBLE, In Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script. N.p.: circa early 19th century.] 478pp., manuscript, 8vo (149 x 98mm.) 239 leaves with manuscript text in red and black, 3 initials in blue, red and yellow and 5 marginal decorations. (Soiling, some leaves adhering, marginal paper-repairs and numerous leaves with some textual loss, three leaves loose.) Contemporary blind-stamped wallet-style calf (lacking ties and strap, rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

COOKERY. - E. SMITH. The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion: Being a Collection of Upwards of Five Hundred of the most approved Receipts. London: J. and J. Pemberton, 1736. Seventh edition, 8vo (199 x 118mm.) A calligraphic name-plate in manuscript to the front pastedown. (Lacking all folding plates, lacking leaf A2, occasional spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf, blind-tooled, a later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: Henrietta Williams (name-plate in ink to the front pastedown); Elizabeth Nicholson (ink name inscribed to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HERBAL. - Nicholas CULPEPER. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London Dispensatory Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, now living of the said Colledg. London: Peter Cole, 1659. 'Sixt Edition', 8vo (170 x 116mm.) Title with double row of typographic ornament, separate title for 'Key to Galen's Method of Physick' dated 1658, also with double row of typographic ornament, 'Table of Compounds' and 'Table of Diseases' to rear, erratic pagination. (Lacking half-title, trimming to headlines with no loss, spotting to Gg6-Gg7, minor chipping to leaf margins, several ownership claims in late 17th century manuscript hand, rear blank with paper repair.) Contemporary calf (rebacked and corners repaired, endpapers replaced). Provenance: James Clarke (name ink inscribed to initial blank, and within text).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

[TYPESCRIPT.] - Havelock ELLIS. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1908.] Vol. 6, 'Sex in Relation to Society', 279pp., original typed manuscript, loose leaf (257 x 203mm.). Comprising the typed leaves of chapters I, 2, 4 and 5 of volume 6 of 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex', with ink annotations and two hand-written leaves, titles in manuscript hand to chapters 1 and 2. (Browning, chipping and minor creasing to margins, large tear to first two leaves of chapter 1.) Pin-bound to left corner. - And includes seven published booklets by Havelock Ellis, four of which are signed by him ('The Symbolism of Dreams', 1910, 8vo, 'Variation in Man and Woman', 1903, 8vo, 'Mescal: A Study of a Divine Plant', 1902, 8vo and 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Being the First Section of Volume Three', 1903, 8vo, and a further three unsigned booklets: two copies of 'The Sexual Impulse in Women', 1902, and 'The Conquest of the Venereal Diseases', 1908, 8vo). Also includes a 2pp. a.l.s. from Havelock Ellis to architect Maurice Bingham Adams. Note: Ellis and Adams were both early members of the socialist 'Fellowship of the New Life', a precursor to the Fabian Society. Ellis mentions the fellowship in the context of helping the husband of novelist Olive Schreiner write a biography of her.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [An account book for the Aldenham Estate, Hertforshire. N.p.: 1918-1939.] 526pp., manuscript, folio (432 x 275mm.) 24pp. of tabulated index in red and black, 502pp. in a single legible hand relating to rents, tithes, petty cash, repairs and to money spent on the woods and gardens. (Toning, paper label remains to front-free endpaper.) Contemporary reversed calf with brass trim to edges (worn). Note: Aldenham House was the seat of the Gibbs family . It was known especially for its gardens, its flowering trees and shrubs grown by Vicary Gibbs. After his death in 1932, the estate's huge collection of plants was auctioned by Sotheby's. The account book ends in 1939 when the house was requisitioned by the BBC as an overseas broadcasting station.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BUDGEN, Richard. The Passage of the Hurricane, from the Sea-side at Bexhill in Sussex, to Newingden-Level, the Twentieth Day of May 1729, between Nine and Ten in the Evening. London: John Senex, 1730. First edition, 4to (213 x 129mm.) Original card wrappers bound-in, manuscript titling to upper cover. (Toning, stamps to title and verso and margins of some leaves.) 20th century green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplate to front pastedown and stamps to margins). - And a further four volumes relating to Sussex (including 'A Tour to Worthing, or, Idle Hours Not Idly Spent, containing A Slight Sketch of the Country, Anecdotes, &c', 1805, 8vo) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. - Ina Mary WEBB. [A diary written by a student at boarding-school. Bedford: N.p.:] January-July 1902, 59pp., manuscript, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single legible and tightly written hand on lined paper detailing the daily activities of Ina and her friend's lives at Howard College, Bedford, numerous blank leaves to rear. (Toning, some offsetting of ink.) Original maroon buckram (sunned to spine, inner hinge weakening). Note: in addition to the daily whirl of school activities, Ina and her best friend Flossie have agreed to each keep a diary of their year at school. There are many certainties in their world, every hour is filled with improving lessons in needlework, music, Shakespeare and painting and any spare time is spent playing games of salta, whist and ping-pong. There is barely any time for reflection but occasionally Jamesian details seep through ('Mr Mott came to dinner. He had Harry Royce's umbrella with him'), occasionally the regressive drama of teenage life is expressed ('I went to bed at 8pm, found I wasn't well (how awful). I felt very much like dying, but got on alright'). On the 22nd of July the diary suddenly ends: 'Flossie's father was ill and she had been sent for so I helped her dress'. Maybe they both stopped writing their diaries after this news. Or, maybe, Ina stopped because, ever practical, she knew that on the 25th July, 'we go home'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

British School, c.1700Portrait of Richard Gibbon (d.1679),with biographical manuscript inscription, oil on canvas,73 x 62cms, framed.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (1775-1851) Chepstow Castle on the river Wye, Monmouthshire, Walessigned and dated 'Turner 1794' (lower left)watercolour on paper31 x 41.7cmProvenance:Collection of Dr Thomas Monro (1759-1833),His Sale, Christie's, London, 26th-28th June & 1st-2nd July 1833, 1st day of sale, lot 128;Collection of William Leaf (d.1874) of Park Hill, Streatham, by 1862,His Sale, Christie's, London, 7th May 1875, lot 376, bt. Agnew for £168;Collection of Sir Joseph Heron (1809-1889),His Sale, Christie's, London, 9th June 1890, lot 75, bt. Walford for £29 8s.;Collection of David Jardine (1827-1911) of High Lee, Woolton, Liverpool,His Sale, Christie's, London, 16th March 1917, lot 58, bt. "AJG" according to a label affixed to the reverse (possibly a member of the Gibson family);The Hon. Mrs Rupert Blyth (née Charlotte May Gibson, 1891-1956) by 1956, Acquired from her estate by the wife of her cousin George Cock Gibson, Mrs Angela Madeleine Gibson (1896-1993), for £280,Thence by family descentExhibited:London, The International Exhibition, 1st May-1st November 1862, no. 1041 as ‘Chepstow (drawing), lent by W. Leaf'Literature:cf. Copper-Plate Magazine, vol. 2, pl. 67, engraving of 'Chepstow' by J. Storer, published 1st November 1794;Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Art and Life, 1979, p. 311, not illustratedThe present watercolour can be identified with the one previously recorded by Alexander Joseph Finberg (1866-1939) and referred to in Wilton’s catalogue (see Literature, Wilton, p. 311), but which has until now been untraced. In his manuscript card index of Turner’s watercolours in private and public collections, now in the Print Room of the British Museum, Finberg recorded a drawing of this subject and of identical dimensions with provenance to Dr Monro, Leaf and Heron which clearly matches that of the present work. The subject of Chepstow Castle and bridge was one of sixteen scenes commissioned from Turner to be engraved for John Walker’s Copper-Plate Magazine between 1794 and 1798. This was the first time Turner was asked to supply a set of topographical views for a publication. Whilst Turner planned his Midland tour of 1794 with the intention to collect material for this venture, he would have equally drawn on landscape subjects from his earlier tours. No sketches of this composition are known, however, the Turner Bequest, now at Tate Britain, contains two pencil drawings of Chepstow (D40034, D00130) which are dated to Turner’s visit in 1792. The present view was therefore most likely inspired by Turner’s tour of Wales of June-July 1792, which could be considered his first independent tour, or his subsequent 1793 tour of the Welsh Marches which took him to many places he had visited the previous year, including the Wye valley. The tours provided Turner with the raw material from which he could develop his subjects in watercolour in his studio on his return to London. This composition is known to exist in two versions with significant variations - the present, larger and noticeably more finished version dated 1794; and another, smaller (20.3 x 29.7cm) and undated version which is now at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London (D.1974.STC.1). The differences can be observed in the arrangement of the boats, the detailing of the town and castle, and the position of the figures on the bridge. Both versions also appear to differ, to a varying extent, from the engraving of this subject by James Storer for the Copper-Plate Magazine (see Literature), though the Courtauld version is more like the subject for the engraving (see Wilton, p. 311). The present version, being large-scale and highly worked up, might have been intended as a presentation piece to a patron, such as Dr Thomas Monro who was to become one of Turner’s most important patrons. We are grateful to Andrew Wilton for confirming the attribution first hand and for his assistance with this catalogue entry. Examined out of frame.Some discolouration, especially in the sky area. Light, even fading. Paper is slightly cockled. Slight crease in the centre. Slight exposure mark and burn visible on two sides from old wood pulp mount. A few rust spots in the sky which have been retouched. A bit of skinning to the paper top right corner, which has been retouched. Masking tape used as dust seal from the glass round the back of the mount. Paper debris on the reverse. Small areas of skinning to the reverse. Inlaid into good quality paper. White pigment filler around the edges. Traces of gold around the edges indicate a past gold mount. Previously treated for foxing.Acid free mount. Low reflective glass. Very thin back mount. Poor quality frame backboard. Oil gilded wood frame by Walker's Galleries. Framed 51.5 x 61cm.

A collection of twelve late 19th /early 20th century ambrotype portraits all unidentified sitters, one with manuscript date 'July 3rd , 1860' another with photographer's label for ' Phoenix Photographers. W Hobbs, Whitechapel'