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* Claudet (Antoine François Jean, 1797-1867). A hand-tinted stereoscopic daguerreotype of Katherine Sarah Gurney, March 1857, black passepartout mount with Claudet's 107 Regent Street label to verso, contemporary manuscript note identifying the sitter with her birth date of 25 August 1837 and her marriage date as 14 April 1857QTY: (1)NOTE:A three-quarter length pose wearing a feathered hat, jacket and chequered dress.

* Claudet (Antoine François Jean, 1797-1867). A hand-tinted stereoscopic daguerreotype of Susan Maria Hamond, March 1857, black passepartout mount with Claudet's 107 Regent Street label to verso, subject identified in contemporary manuscript with date of birth 20 November 1832QTY: (1)NOTE:Susan Maria Hamond (1832-1927) was an older sister of Katherine Sarah. She married William Birkbeck in 1862 and spent most of her life in her home county of Norfolk. The pose here is half length in evening wear.

* Claudet (Antoine François Jean, 1797-1867). A hand-tinted stereoscopic daguerreotype of Mary Ann Hamond, March 1857, black passepartout mount with Claudet's 107 Regent Street label to verso, with manuscript details of the subject named Mary Ann Chaworth Musters who married Anthony Hamond of Westacre and dateQTY: (1)NOTE:Mary Ann Hamond (1808-?) of Annersley, Nottinghamshire, married Anthony Hamond (1806-?) of Nottingham, in 1828. They had two sons and four daughters. Mary Ann is seen in a half-length seated pose wearing a black lace shawl over a matching dress.

* Cricket Match Stereoview. An early stereoview of a cricket match at North Runcton Hall, Norfolk, c. 1859-60, a pair of mounted albumen prints showing a cricket match in progress with a small marquee and oak trees in the background, images positioned within gilt borders on thin white card, contemporary manuscript note to versoQTY: (1)NOTE:Early cricket photographs showing games in play are very rare. The earliest such photograph known to date is one taken by the celebrated Crimean War photographer Roger Fenton in 1857. In 2014 a photograph of I Zingari the Household Brigade taken at Lord's on 9 June 1859 came to light. A photograph of a cricket match at Eton from the early 1860s contained in a memorial album was sold in these rooms in 2015. The newly discovered stereoview offered here, which would appear to date from no later than 1860, is the latest addition to the early photographic history of cricket.

Charles II. The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charls [sic] II· King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland. As it was acted and done at Scoon, the first day of January, 1651. By Robert Dowglas minister at Edinburgh, London: Printed according to the authors own copy, to prevent any counterfeit, 1660, 24p., manuscript numerous to upper outer corners, light toning and occasional minor spotting, 20th-century cloth, 4to, together with:Morley (George), A Sermon preached at the Magnificent Coronation of the Most High and Mighty King Charles the IId ... at the Collegiate Church of S. Peter Westminster, the 23d of April, (being S. George's Day) 1661, 1st edition, printed by R. Norton for T. Garthwait, 1661, [8], 62p., two engraved plates before title (royal arms and portrait, both lined to verso), final blank I4 not present, light dust-soiling to verso of final leaf of text, modern blind panelled calf, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Wing D2032 & C5463.

Mary II (Queen of England, 1662-1694). A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Her late Majesty Queen Mary of ever blessed memory in the Abbey-Church in Westminster, upon March 5. 1694/5. By his Grace Thomas [Tenison] Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, London: Ri. Chiswell, 1695, [4],34,[2] p., imprimatur leaf present, few early ink markings to title, bound with Mary II, A Defence of the Arch-bishop’s Sermon on the Death of her late Majesty of blessed memory [by John Williams]: and of the Sermons of the late Arch-bishop, Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry, Bp. of Ely, Bp. of Salisbury; Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Wake, Mr. Fleetwood, &c. preach’d upon that, and several other solemn occasions. Being a vindication of the late Queen, His present Majesty, and the Government, from the malicious aspersions cast upon them in two late pamphlets; one entituled, Remarks on some late sermons, &c. the other, A letter to the author of a sermon preach’d at the funeral of her late Majesty Queen Mary, London: J. Harris & A. Bell, 1695, [2], 33, [1] p., advertisement to verso of final leaf, bound with Mary II, A Sermon Preach’d at the Temple-Church, December 30. 1694. Upon the sad occasion of the death of our Gracious Queen. And published at the earnest request of several Masters of the Bench of both Societies. By William Sherlock, D.D. Dean of St. Pauls, Master of the Temple, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, 4th edition, London: Will. Rogers, 1694, [4],27,[1] p., half-title, advertisement to verso of final leaf, bound with eight other similar pamphlets (mostly sermons) relating to the death of Mary II, also bound with Kettlewell (John), A Funeral Sermon for the Right Honourable, the Lady Frances Digby, who deceased at Coles-Hall in Warwickshire, on the 29th of September, 1684. By John Kettlewell, Vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwickshire, London: Robert Kettlewell, 1684, [6],33,[1]p., (Wing K368), bound with Kettlewell (John), A Sermon Preached at Coles-Hill in Warwickshire, January 24. 1685. On occasion of the death of the Right Honourable Simon Lord Digby, Baron Digby of Geashil in Ireland. Who deceased at Coles-Hall, Jan. 19. 1685..., London: Robert Kettlewell, 1686, [4],33,[3]p., (Wing K382), and bound with Scott (John), A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Sir John Chapman, late Lord Mayor of London at St Lawrence’s Church, March 27. 1689, London: Walter Kettilby & Thomas Horne, 1689, [4],32p., without imprimatur leaf and advert leaf, (Wing S2073), front free endpaper with contemporary manuscript list of the 14 pamphlets contained within the volume, contemporary panelled calf, joints split and some wear to extremities, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing T720; W2700; S3360 (first three listed titles).

Bell (John). Account of Queen Victoria passing through Newcastle upon Tyne, on Friday 28 September 1849, circa 1850, frontispiece, manuscript title with onlaid printed vignette, mounted newspaper articles throughout, numerous tipped-in folding broadsides, numerous lithograph illustrations, bookplates to front pastedown, light spotting and dust-soiling, hinges cracked, 20th-century burgundy half calf gilt over brown marbled boards, lightly rubbed, 4to, contained in custom slipcaseQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: John Bell, antiquary and surveyor, (1783-1864, his sale). Joseph Crawhall, artist (1861-1913, his sale). Matthew Mackey, bookplate. R.W. Martin, bookplate.An interesting volume compiled by John Bell for Queen Victoria's visit to Newcastle in 1849, containing a wide range of ephemeral items.

Maxwell (Herbert). Sixty Years a Queen. The Story of Her Majesty's Reign, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode for Harmsworth Bros., [1897], half title, colour portrait frontispiece, chromolithograph title, numerous half-tone illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, all edges gilt, original maroon morocco gilt, contained in original card box, a little rubbed with small stains, 4to, together with Brighton and the Golden Reign 1837-1897, Brighton: James Robertson, 1897, colour and monochrome illustrations, a little minor spotting, original cloth-backed boards, ink stain to part of spine and upper cover, some light toning, oblong 4to, plus Leach (Isaac). Rossendale Diamond Jubilee Portfolio, Waterfoot: Isaac Leach, 1897, monochrome illustrations, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, oblong folio, with four others: The Victoria Jubilee Folio, by Arthur Woodward, 1887, Key to the Picture of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee at St. Paul's Cathedral, 1897, a manuscript booklet titled '1897 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Commemoration. Ibstock Committee Minutes' and '1911 Coronation of H.M. King George V. Minutes of Committee for Ibstock Festivities', and The London Gazette Extraordinary, Monday, March 14, 1898QTY: (7)

Thomson (John). Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2nd 1897, a collection of portraits in costume of some of the guests, Hammersmith: Privately Printed, 1899, 286 photogravures, spotted (heavier to preliminary leaves), contemporary quarter calf gilt, worn and marked, 4to, together with:A Souvenir of Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, June the 22nd, 1897, and in commemoration of Her Majesty's Eightieth Birthday, May the 24th, 1899, circa 1899, 6 full-page photogravures, further smaller illustrations to text, silk pastedowns and endpapers (pastedowns detached and loose), spotted, hinges cracked, original red morocco gilt, worn, oblong folioRoyal Visits. Arrangements for the Queen's Visit to Sheffield, 1897, circa 1900, 59 mounted letters (both manuscript and typed) and telegrams, occasional light spotting and toning, hinges repaired, contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, worn, 4to QTY: (3)

King Edward VII. Visit of His Majesty King Edward VII and Her Majesty Queen Alexandra to Sheffield, 12 July, 1905, 20 photographic prints mounted on thick card, printed caption to lower margin, images 24 x 28.5 cm, a few light spots to margins, all edges gilt, original morocco gilt, small split to upper joints, joints and edges rubbed, oblong folio, 35.5 x 41.5 cm, together with Scrap Books 1890-1910-1913, compiled by Lt.-Colonel Edwin Berkeley Cook, M.V.O.(note at front), 23 thick card leaves with 144 photographs, mounted recto and verso, various sizes from 6.5 x 8 cm to 23.5 x 27 cm, one leaf detached, a few light stains to mounts, bookplate, original red half morocco gilt, rebacked, edges a little rubbed, oblong folio, 31 x 41.5 cm, plus The Programme (with local views) which was rendered by the Abercarn and District Male Voice Choir before His Most Excellent Majesty King Edward Seventh and T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales at St. James's Palace, London on St. David's Day, March 1st, 1902. Presented by his choir to The Honorable Mrs Herbert of Llanover as a souvenir of the occasion... 19 photographs on 11 leaves, mounted recto and verso, light spotting and toning to the manuscript leaves, original morocco gilt, Prince of Wales feathers stamped in gilt to upper cover, spine faded and rubbed, lower joint splitting, 4to, 32 x 23 cm, with 2 others: Coronation of King Edward VII, August 9th 1902, copyright photographs by Charles A. Brightman (with 12 mounted photographs on card, detached) and To Their Most Excellent Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra 25 Oct, 1902, book of seals from the Mayors, Aldermen and Councillors of London boroughs QTY: (5)NOTE:The scrap album was compiled by Lt.-Colonel Edwin Berkeley Cook, MVO., Commanding 1st Life Guards who died on 04 November 1914 from wounds received in action near Messines in Belgium.

* Boleyn (George, Viscount Rochford, c. 1504-1536). English courtier and diplomat, and brother of Anne Boleyn. Document Signed, ‘George Rocheford’, 21 February 1532, manuscript Latin deed on vellum, a bond in £300, George Bulleine, knight, Lord Rochford and Edward Bulleine, knight, to Brian Tuke, knight, treasurer of the king’s chamber; George Bulleine to repay to Sir Brian Tuke or his successor a sum of money for any unperformed service, in respect of which he has been paid £261 6s 8d for four years in advance; recites: royal warrant of 23 January 1532 for advance payment for four years’ service for the offices of cupbearer at £20 a year, the ‘room’ [position] of one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber £33 6s 8d, and for feeding the buckhounds at £12 a year; A proportion of the advance to be repaid by George Bulleine or his heirs should he die or leave any of the offices before the expiration of four years, signed by both ‘George Rocheford’ and ‘Edwarde Boleyn’ at foot of recto, no witnesses, seals removed, a little soiling, two pin holes and modern pencil annotations to left blank area of recto, 103 x 385 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A very rare Tudor Court autograph with no other examples offered for sale traced.These offices and payments are not included in the ODNB entry of George Boleyn; by the time of his death in 1536 the service in respect of which money had been paid in advance in February 1532 had presumably been performed.George Boleyn was the brother of Anne Boleyn, from 1533 the second wife of King Henry VIII, and thus the maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth I. Following his father's promotion in the peerage in 1529 to Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, he adopted his father's junior title Viscount Rochford as a courtesy title. After his sister Anne became established as the king’s favourite in 1527, George’s career accelerated rapidly and the Boleyns entrenched themselves at court. Though Anne agreed to marry Henry in 1527 they did not marry until 1533. When, a year later, Anne miscarried the son and heir, Henry became infatuated with her maid-of-honour, Jane Seymour, and wanted to be rid of his wife to be with her. Henry and his chief advisor, Thomas Cromwell, plotted to accuse Anne of adultery with five men, of whom George was one.‘As Anne began losing her grip on the king's affections, Rochford too inevitably began to slip. Opponents of the Boleyn faction at this point realized that any attempt to overthrow Anne Boleyn had to destroy her brother as well. Rochford had ability and energy and could be expected to mount a vigorous defence of his sister if left free. The plot was developed accordingly, and, it is said, with the active involvement of Jane Parker, his wife. Lady Rochford, according to Chapuys, was the source for the story that Henry's declining sexual capacities had become a matter of discussion in the queen's household. Even more damaging was the charge, raised by Bishop Burnet, that Lady Rochford had intimated that there was an incestuous familiarity between George and Anne.The trap was sprung on 1 May 1536. Rochford participated in a royal tournament in Greenwich from which the king precipitately withdrew. The next day he was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, accused with four other men of having committed adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn, his sister, an act 'most detestable against the law of God and nature also', and of conspiring to cause the king's death. No one has ever suggested that the charges against Rochford were sustainable. He was formally accused on one occasion of spending a long time in Anne's room and on another of claiming that the king was not Elizabeth's father. Rochford defended himself at his trial with energy and eloquence, blaming his wife for the accusation of incest. He denied all the articles brought against him, and his demeanour drew praise from many. People on the streets, it is said, offered long odds against his conviction. It was, however, a foregone political conclusion.Rochford was tried and convicted on 15 May 1536 and beheaded at Tower Hill two days later. Before he died he was allowed to speak. He did not say anything about the specific charges, but submitted himself to the law and the king's will. In a loud voice, it was reported, he said, 'I am come hither not to preach and make a sermon, but to die.' This he did, and his remains were buried, probably on the same day, in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower.’ (ODNB)George and Anne’s uncle Sir Edward Boleyn (1496-1571) was a younger brother of their father, Thomas Boleyn (c.1477-1539), of Hever Castle in Kent, an English diplomat and politician.Sir Brian Tuke (c. 1470-1545), famously the subject of a portrait by Hans Holbein, entered the household of Henry VII as a clerk of the spicery some time before 1506, when he was appointed feodary of Wallingford; by 1508 he was a signet clerk. On 13 April 1528 Tuke attained his highest office, with his appointment as treasurer of the chamber. From the mid-1520s onwards Tuke was afflicted with a succession of illnesses which incapacitated him for months at a time and placed him regularly in the care of physicians (who on one occasion included Henry VIII himself). His difficulties as treasurer of the chamber and the constant demands of royal creditors added to his woes, and in the summer of 1545 secretary Wriothesley reported that Tuke was 'run out of town [to Essex] … because he hath no money' (LP Henry VIII, 20/2, no. 453).

* Juxon (William, 1582-1663). Lord High Treasurer (1636-41), Bishop of London (1633-49), Archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), who attended King Charles I on the scaffold. Document Signed, ‘Guil: London’, Whitehall, 24 June 1640, manuscript lower portion only of a Treasury warrant, bearing the signatures of Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumberland, William Juxon (as Bishop of London), Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Francis Lord Cottington and Sir Francis Windebank, ‘1640’ in ink upper left and pencil notes added in recent times, light age wear and marginal fraying (one old closed tear repair to verso), old adhesion stain to right margin away from signatures and text, 1 page, 21 x 23.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Good examples of uncommon signatures including two Lord High Treasurers and a regicide.Sir Henry Vane, the younger (1613-62), statesman, colonist, author and friend of Milton. Vane was Governor of Massachusetts in the 1630s and at this time Treasurer of the Navy. A reluctant regicide, Sir Henry Vane the Younger served on the Council of State during the Interregnum even though he refused to take the oath which expressed approbation (approval) of the king's execution. At the restoration after much debate in Parliament, he was exempted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act. In 1662 he was tried for high treason, found guilty, and beheaded on Tower Hill on 14 June 1662.Francis Cottington, 1st Lord Cottington (1579-1652), Lord High Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1643-1646; Sir Francis Windebank (1582-1646), Secretary of State; Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland (1602-1668).

* Fiennes (William, 1582-1662). 1st Viscount Saye & Sele. Document Signed, ‘W. Say & Seale’, 1642, lower part of a manuscript Treasury warrant to pay Edward Fulham, bearing the signatures of four Lords of the Treasury, William Fiennes, Edward Littleton (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal), Edward Barrett (1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh), and Henry Montagu (as Earl of Manchester), a little soiling and some edge wear not affecting signatures or text, 1 page, 14 x 20.5 cm, laid down on a slightly larger old album leaf, together with an ink signature of 'T. Dorset, 18 March 1606' the signature and date on two small paper strips, pasted adjacent to form one piece, 11 x 97 mm, laid on a slightly larger piece of cardQTY: (2)NOTE:William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English nobleman and politician, known also for his involvement in several companies for setting up overseas colonies. He helped establish a company for the colonisation of Providence Island in 1630. In 1643 in England he was appointed a commissioner for the government of the plantations. A good example of his signature from during the English Civil War. Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, 1st Viscount Mandeville (c. 1563- 1642), Lord High Treasurer, 14 December 1620 to 29 September 1621. Edward Littleton, 1st Lord Littleton (1589-1645), Lord High Treasurer, 1641-1643.Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536-1608), English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer, 1599-1608.

* Capel (Arthur, 1632-1683). 1st Earl of Essex, politician and conspirator, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-1677, Lord High Treasurer, 26 March to 21 November 1679. Document Signed, ‘Essex’, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 26 June 1679, printed Treasury warrant, completed in manuscript, signed by the five Lords of the Treasury: Arthur Earl of Essex, Laurence Hyde (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir John Ernle, Sir Edward Dering and Sidney Godolphin, addressed to Sir Robert Howard, ordering the payment of £150 to Captain Richard Brewer, under the Act for Paying Off and Disbanding the Forces raised since the 29 September 1677, a few minor spots and light creases, ragged right edge, marginal tears (small tear to lower right corner with loss of the last two letters of Godolphin's signature), 1 page, folio (31 x 22 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:An interesting group of Restoration autographs includes a good example of the uncommon signature of Arthur Capel, first earl of Essex (1632-1683), politician and conspirator. Essex was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-1677, and in 1679 he became Lord High Treasurer. On the discovery of the Rye House Plot (1683) Essex was sent to the Tower, where he was found with his throat cut on 13 July 1683.Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1641-1711) served twice as Lord High Treasurer, 1679-1684 & 1685-1689; Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645-1712), served four terms as Lord High Treasurer, 1684-1685, 1690-1697, 1700-1701 & 1702-1710. Sir John Ernle (1620-1697), English politician and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer, a position he held from 2 May 1676 to 9 April 1689; Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet (1625-1684), English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1674.

* Lord High Treasurers. A group of 4 documents with autographs of Lord High Treasurers of England and Great Britain, 1679-1722, the first a Document Signed, ‘Latimer’, Wallingford House, 15 May 1679, being a manuscript warrant on paper for the payment of £300 to Sir Stephen Fox, a little spotting and soiling, small corner tear with blank paper loss lower right, 1 page with integral docketed blank, oblong 8vo, hinged onto card mount with old tape; a partial paper warrant, dated 24 June 1693, bearing the signatures of three Lords of the Treasury, Richard Hampden, Stephen Fox and Charles Montagu, cropped at left margin not affecting signatures, 11 x 29.5 cm, laid down on a larger sheet of paper with old ink notes in the left margin; a folded manuscript vellum indenture concerning land in Samford Peverell, Devon, 2 July 1722, signed by one of the parties, 1st Earl of Poulett at foot with appended red wax seal; plus autographs of ‘Godolphin’ and ‘H. Boyle’ on a treasury document fragment, 1704, 105 x 60 mm, laid down QTY: (4)NOTE:Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, Viscount Latimer (1632-1712), Lord High Treasurer, 1673-1679.Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1694-1699, First Lord of the Treasury, 1714-1715; Richard Hampden (1631-1695), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1690-1694; Stephen Fox (1627-1716), Commissioner of the Treasury, 1679-1702.John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (c. 1668-1743), Lord High Treasurer, 1710-1711.Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645-1712), Lord High Treasurer, 1684-1685, 1690-1697, 1700-1701 & 1702-1710; Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton (1669-1725), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1701-1708, Commissioner of the Treasury, 1697-1702.

* Harley (Robert, 1661-1724). 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, British statesman and Lord High Treasurer, 1711-1714. Document Signed, ‘Oxford’, as Lord High Treasurer, 21 February 1711/12 & 6 June 1712, manuscript Treasury order to pay George Lord Lansdowne £171 17s. 6d., for a half a year's rent of ‘Mole Park which was laid into Her Ma[jest]y’s Great Parke at Windsor’, signed in the right margin with countersignature of R[obert] Benson, with additional signatures of Fitzharding below, Halifax at foot and Lansdowne to verso, some light soiling and age wear, short marginal split close to Oxford’s signature, one page with integral blank tipped onto an old album leaf, folio (37 x 23.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Robert Harley was an English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig before defecting to a new Tory ministry. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721.Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley (1676-1731), English Tory politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1711 to 1713; George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c.?1684-1739, auditor of the Exchequer); John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge of Bruton, Somerset (1650-1712), English courtier, Treasury official, army officer and politician; George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735), English Tory politician. He was Secretary at War during the Harley administration from 1710 to 1712. He was also a noted poet and playwright.

* Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745). 1st Earl of Orford, first British Prime Minister, 1721-42. Document Signed, ‘R Walpole’, as Prime Minister, 15 August 1730, manuscript Treasury order to ‘deliver and pay of such His Ma[jest]y’s Treasure as remains in your Charge unto Benjamin Keene Esqr. the sum of three hundred and ninety eight pounds’ signed in the right margin, light age wear and a few short marginal splits and wear to folds not affecting signatures, small tear to upper left blank corner, 1 page, folio (31 x 23 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:The document is countersigned by George Bubb Doddington (1690/91-1762, politician and diarist), William Clayton (1671-1752, lord of the Treasury), William Yonge (c. 1693-1755, lord of the Treasury), and signed at foot by George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c.?1684-1739, auditor of the Exchequer).

* Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745). 1st Earl of Orford, first British Prime Minister, 1721-42. Document Signed, ‘R Walpole’, as Prime Minister, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 30 September 1741, manuscript warrant to Robert Walpole (1701-1751), Auditor of Receipts of His Majesty’s Exchequer, with an order to pay Lewis Grant the sum of £100 quarterly or £400 annually, light age wear and a few short marginal splits, small tear to lower right blank corner not affecting signature, tipped into an old album leaf with an engraved portrait of Walpole (Cadell & Davies, 1797) tipped onto lower half of sheet below horizontal sheet fold, some spotting and dust-soiling, marginal soiling and tears to mount, folio, together with autographs of all the other first four First Lords of the Treasury: part of an official paper document, 24 March 1697, bearing the signatures of Charles Montagu, Stephen Fox, John Smith, and the 1st Duke of Montagu, 185 x 70 mm; a partially cropped printed document on paper, 19 January 1701, completed in manuscript and bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to pay Martha Gillyflower £300, 18 x 22.5 cm, tipped onto a paper mount; a manuscript schedule of papers listed and signed by James Stanhope, a little soiling, 1 page, folio; a manuscript receipt on paper dated 28 January 1709/10, bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, slightly soiled, 90 x 175 mm, tipped onto a paper mount beneath an engraved portrait of the earl, together with autographs of all the other first four First Lords of the Treasury: part of an official paper document, 24 March 1697, bearing the signatures of Charles Montagu, Stephen Fox, John Smith, and the 1st Duke of Montagu, 185 x 70 mm; a partially cropped printed document on paper, 19 January 1701, completed in manuscript and bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to pay Martha Gillyflower £300, 18 x 22.5 cm, tipped onto a paper mount; a manuscript schedule of papers listed and signed by James Stanhope, a little soiling, 1 page, folio; a manuscript receipt on paper dated 28 January 1709/10, bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, slightly soiled, 90 x 175 mm, tipped onto a paper mount beneath an engraved portrait of the earlQTY: (9)NOTE:These autographs represent all of the first six First Lords of the Treasury, Walpole being the third and sixth (1715-1717 & 1721-1742).Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1694-1699, First Lord of the Treasury, 1714-1715; Stephen Fox (1627-1716), Commissioner of the Treasury, 1679-1702; John Smith (1656–1723), Commissioner of the Treasury, 1679-1701, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1699-1701 & 1708-1710.Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (c. 1669 – 1 May 1738), Lord High Treasurer, 1701-1702, First Lord of the Treasury, 1715; James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (c. 1673-1721), First Lord of the Treasury, 1717-1718; Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1675-1722), First Lord of the Treasury, 1718–1721.

* Compton (Spencer, c. 1674-1743). 1st Earl of Wilmington, British politician, Prime Minister, 1742-1743 & Pelham-Holles (Thomas, 1693-1768), 1st Duke of Newcastle, British politician, Prime Minister, 1754-1756, 1757-1762. Document Signed, ‘Wilmington, P.’ and ’Holles Newcastle’, c. 1742, upper section of a manuscript document, issued in the name of the Lords Justices, bearing eleven signatures, including those of Wilmington and Newcastle, a little light browning, inlaid into part of an album page with text to verso showing, 9 x 22.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:A fine array of 18th-century signatures bearing the signatures of two prime ministers and Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, (1690-1764), as Lord High Chancellor. The other signatures are: John Potter (c. 1674-1747), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1737-1747; William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (1698-1755); Admiral Sir Charles Wager (1666-1743); Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765); Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685-1754); Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701-1750); John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749).

* George II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1727-1760. Document Signed, ‘George R’, St James’s, 12 March 1750, manuscript warrant authorising the cessation of the annuity paid to Lionel Cranfield, Duke of Dorset, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden or Keeper of the Cinque Ports, signed at head by the king and countersigned at foot overleaf by three Lords of the Treasury, Henry Pelham, J[ohn?] Campbell and George Grenville, some spotting, a few old clear tape repairs to spine and internal horizontal centre folds, away from signatures and text, 2 pages with integral docketed blank, folio (37 x 22.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A document bearing the signatures of King George II and two prime ministers: Henry Pelham (1694-1754), British Whig statesman, Prime Minister, 1743-1754; George Grenville (1712-1770), British Whig statesman, Prime Minister, 1763-1765.Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765), British politician, who had been Lord Lieutenant in Ireland in 1730, and he was reappointed to that position in April 1750.

* Pulteney (William, 1684-1764). 1st Earl of Bath, British politician, sometimes stated to have been First Lord of the Treasury and British prime minister, for the shortest term ever, 10-12 February 1746. Document Signed, ‘Bath’, 20 November 1752, being a printed receipt for interest on the Loan on Salt, 1745, in the sum of £17 10 shillings, completed in manuscript and signed by the earl of Bath at foot, some old staining and small mostly marginal tears with discrete archival tissue repairs, signature unaffected, 1 page, folio (33.5 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:On 10 February 1746, Pelham's administration resigned en masse, and the king turned to Bath to form an alternative ministry. He accepted the seals of office and made nominations to the most senior posts, but it quickly became clear that he did not have enough support to form a viable government, and after ‘48 hours, three quarters, seven minutes, and eleven seconds’ he abandoned the attempt, forcing the king to accept Pelham's terms for resuming office. As the office of Prime Minister did not then officially exist, it is a matter of controversy whether Bath should be considered to have been Prime Minister by virtue of his two-day ministry.The official record for shortest-serving Prime Minister, at the time of going to print, belongs to Liz Truss, who resigned from office after 45 days, on 20 October 2022.

* Fitzroy (Augustus, 1735-1811). 3rd Duke of Grafton, British politician and Prime Minister, 1768-1770. Document Signed, ‘Grafton’, as Lord of the Treasury, Whitehall, 25 September 1767, manuscript document, approving the appointment of ‘John Hannay to be a Tidesman at Stranraer, at the Established Salary of Fifteen pounds p[er] Annum in the room of Gilbert Adair deceased’, the upper part of the document the presentation from the commissioners at the Custom House, Edinburgh, signed by Basil Cochrane, M. Cardonnel and Jn: West, the lower part the agreement signed by Grafton, George Onslow and Pryse Campbell, 1 page with docketed integral blank (separated), a little soiling and a few short marginal splits on fold lines not affecting signatures or text, folio (32 x 20.5 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (1731-1814), British peer and politician, junior Lord of the Treasury, 1765-1777; Pryse Campbell (1727-1768), Scottish politician, Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.

* [Madness of King George]. History of the Royal Malady, with Variety of Entertaining Anecdotes, to which are added, Strictures on the Declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq., Respecting "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales," Commonly called Mrs Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a regency. By a Page of the Presence [Philip Withers], London: Sold at No. 9 Queen-Street, Grosvenor-Square, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. Entered at Stationers-Hall, [1789], near-contemporary manuscript copy, paper watermarked 'J. Green, 1813', [70] pp., written in a fine copper-plate hand on ruled paper of a small notebook, remaining leaves blank, contemporary reversed calf, edge wear, spine deficient, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Apparently an exact transcription of ESTC T11274. After serious bouts of mental illness in 1788-89 and again in 1801, George III became permanently deranged in 1810. His eldest son, the later George IV, acted as Prince Regent from 1811 until his father's death in 1820. This manuscript copy would appear from the dated watermark to have been copied during this final decade of George III's lifetime.

* US Presidents Collection. A comprehensive collection of the autographs of all 46 presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden, (including Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States), 1764-2020, comprising 17 Documents Signed, 1 Typed Letter Signed and 1 Autograph Note Signed, 12 Signed Photographs and 1 signed engraved portrait, 14 signatures including six signed free fronts and four signed White House cards, plus an additional 9 autograph items for Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, George W. Bush and Joe BidenQTY: (55)NOTE:Provenance: a private British collector, all autographs guaranteed genuine.Full list:George Washington (1732-1799). 1st President of the United States, 1789-1797.Bold, dark ink signature, ‘Go: Washington’, 1768, on a clipped Mountain Road Lottery ticket with printed design and the date 1768, 2 x 1.5 cm, neatly laid down and with an extremely thin border of discoloration to extremities, only very slightly touching Washington’s signature, VGThe Mountain Road Lottery was organised in 1768 in order to fund the building of a road which would open a route to the west of Virginia. The project was of great importance to Washington.John Adams (1735-1826). 2nd President of the United States, 1797-1801.Autograph Document Signed, signed in the text, ‘John Adams’, 18 June 1764, a manuscript financial document, in full, ‘Braintree June 18, 1764. For value rec’d I promise to pay John Adams or his order One Pound Three Shillings and Eight Pence of lawful money on demand with lawful interest therefore till paid. Witness my hand’, signed at the conclusion by Matthew Pratt and John Vinton, in very good condition, with small split along intersecting folds, one fold passing through a single letter of signature, and scattered toning and edge wear, 9.5 x 15 cm, window-matted for display with an engraved portrait of Adams, framed and glazed, overall 47 x 30 cmThomas Jefferson (1743-1826). 3rd President of the United States, 1801-1809.Free-franked address panel signed, 22 April 1826, addressed in another hand to 'Messrs Cummings Hillian & Co', and franked in the upper left, 'Free Th: Jefferson', and bearing a red circular cancellation under signature, docketing above mailing fold on top bears a date of 22 April 1826, just three months before Jefferson’s death, in very good condition, with entire sheet having been professionally backed repairing vertical separations, scattered light toning and soiling, and some scattered foxing, Jefferson’s signature is crisp and largely unaffected by the flaws, 21 x 25 cm, and folded to an overall size of 11.5 x 10.5 cm, matted and displayed with a two dollar bill and reproduction portrait, 23 x 40 cm James Madison (1751-1836). 4th President of the United States, 1809-1817.Document Signed, as president, 15 December 1813, President Madison grants a tract of land in Ohio to Jonathan W. Condy, signed at the conclusion by Madison, and countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Madison's signature is fairly light, but mostly legible, two vertical folds, scattered creases, and several words of handwritten text professionally restored, otherwise very good condition, 1 page, 22.5 x 37 cm, matted, framed and glazed, 37 x 51 cmJames Monroe (1758-1831). 5th President of the United States, 1817-1825.Partly-printed Document Signed, as president, 26 June 1820, President Monroe grants 160 acres of land in Ohio to William Crooks, with heavy central vertical fold, several other lighter vertical folds, Monroe's signature a little lighter than the other ink, but completely legible, some scattered toning, soiling and creasing, white seal soiled and worn, but mostly intact, good condition, 1 page, 23 x 35 cmJohn Quincy Adams (1767-1848). 6th President of the United States, 1825-1829.Partly-printed Document Signed, ‘J. Q. Adams’, as president, 2 April 1825, President Adams grants James Coleman 80 acres of land in the Michigan territory, signed at the conclusion by Adams and countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office George Graham, in fine condition, with intersecting folds, some scattered light toning and soiling, white seal intact, oversized, 1 page, 24 x 38 cm, matted with a colour portrait of Adams, framed and glazed, 35 x 63 cmAndrew Jackson (1767-1845). 7th President of the United States, 1829-1837.Partly-printed Document Signed, as president, 1 February 1837, President Jackson appoints John Abercrombie a ‘Captain in the First Regiment of Infantry’, signed at the conclusion by Jackson and countersigned by Benjamin Franklin Butler, in place of the Secretary of War, in good to very good condition, with overall rippling and wrinkling, scattered toning, and previous storage folds, Jackson’s signature measures an impressive 15 cm long, 1 page, 40 x 32.5 cm, matted, framed and glazed, 59 x 51 cmMartin Van Buren (1782-1862). 8th President of the United States, 1837-1841.Free franked address panel, addressed in Van Buren’s hand to ‘W. C. Kinney & Saml. B. Chandler, Bellville, Illinois’, 24 June, [no year], and franked in the upper corner, 'Free M. Van Buren', panel also bears a June 24, St. Louis, Missouri, postmark, uniform toning, two light vertical creases, and an ink cancellation affecting last letter of signature, otherwise fine condition, 8 x 13 cmWilliam Henry Harrison (1773-1841). 9th President of the United States, March-April 1841.Ink signature, ‘W. H. Harrison, Clerk’, on an off-white slip, in fine condition, faint staining (?)from a red wax seal affecting top of a couple of letters of signature, 2 x 6 cm slip affixed to a 3.5 x 8.5 cm cardUnfortunately, there is insufficient capacity to list the remainder, for information on all the remaining US Presidents please visit this lot on the Dominic Winter website at www.dominicwinter.co.uk

* China. The Marble Boat, Summer Palace, Peking, c. 1900, gelatin silver print on card with manuscript dated inscription in French at foot, image 16 x 22 cm, together with: A group of 10 photographs of people in Canton, c. 1920, gelatin silver prints with crinkle cut edges on thin card, 15.5 x 12 cm, plusA group of camels near Peking, c. 1950s, vintage gelatin silver print, 19.5 x 25 cmQTY: (12)

* George III (1738-1820). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760-1820. Two Documents Signed, 'George R', St James's, 1799 & 1 February 1809, both pre-printed commissions on vellum with paper seals, completed in manuscript, the first appointing J.B. Hart to be ensign in the 52nd/or Oxfordshire/Regiment of Foot, signed by the King upper left and countersigned by 3rd Duke of Portland lower right, some soiling, 23.5 x 34 cm, the second also for Hart, appointing him Captain in the 95th Regiment of Foot, signed by the King upper left ('mad signature') and countersigned by 2nd Earl of Liverpool lower right, some spotting and staining, 30 x 40 cm, plus a third vellum commission appointing Alexander Maxton of HMS Carysfort to be 1st Lieutenant, 13 March 1772, signed by 2nd Viscount Palmerston, plus the Earl of Sandwich, Lisburne and J. Buller, split to left margin, some soiling, 28 x 33 cmQTY: (3)NOTE:The first two documents contain autographs of two British prime ministers: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), prime minister, 1783 & 1807-1809; Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), prime minister, 1812-1827.

* Napoleon I (1769-1821). Emperor of France, 1804-14, 1815. Document signed, 'Bonaparte', as first consul, Paris, as the French republican calendar 27 thermitor an VIII (15 August 1800), pre-printed document on vellum with manuscript insertions, being the grant of a 'Brevet d'honneur' to Marc Terpille of the 10th Cavalry Regiment who had on 18 messitor an 8 (8 July 1800) penetrated an enemy column in spite of infantry fire and forced the surrender of the superior officer commanding, engraved vignette at head, signed at foot by Bonaparte and countersigned by Karnot (Minister of War) and Maret (Secretary of State), embossed wafer seal, somewhat rubbed with some ink insertions legible but slightly indistinct, not affecting signatures, a little dust-soiling and marginal yellowing, one page, 35 x 44 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:An uncommon Napoleonic document, with a clear, bold signature of Bonaparte and counter signatures of Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite Carno (1753-1823) and Hugues-Bernard Maret (1763-1839), 1st Duke of Bassano.

* George III (1738-1820). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760-1820. Document Signed, 'George R', St James's, 22 January 1801, pre-printed commission on vellum with paper seal and duty stamp, completed in manuscript and appointing J.B. Hart Lieutenant in the 52nd/or Oxfordshire/Regiment of Foot, signed by the King upper left and countersigned by 3rd Duke of Portland lower right, some overall spotting and a few printed letters shaved at right margin, 23.5 x 34.5 cm, together with:William IV (1765-1837). King of the United Kingdom, 1830-1837. Document Signed, 'William R', St James's, 30 January 1832, pre-printed commission on vellum with paper seal and duty stamp, completed in manuscript and appointing John Richardson to be a Captain in the 40th or 2nd Somersetshire Regiment of Foot, signed in a large bold hand by the King to top margin and countersigned by 1st Viscount Goderich lower right, a little soiling, 30 x 40 cmQTY: (2)NOTE:These two documents also include autographs of two British prime ministers: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), prime minister, 1783 & 1807-1809; Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782-1859), 'the Viscount Goderich', prime minister, 1827-1828. Viscount Goderich is currently the third shortest-serving with a tenure of 144 days, only George Canning (119 days) and Liz Truss (49 days) being shorter.

* George IV (1762-1830). King of the United Kingdom, 18250-1830. Document Signed, 'George P R', as Prince Regent, Carlton House, 9 September 1813, together with another signed 'George R', as King, Carlton House, 21 June 1820, pre-printed military commissions on vellum, completed in manuscript, appointing Tathwell Baker Thawell to be Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, and then Captain of the same, both signed by the King upper left and countersigned by Viscount Sidmouth lower right, second document slightly yellowed, Royal Wafer Seal from first document missing, plus a third document appointing George Baker Tathwell to be Captain in the Royal South Lincoln Militia, 15 May 1846, Wafer Seals, signed by Viscount Brownlow, all docketed, various sizesQTY: (3)

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Anglo-Irish Field Marshal & British prime minister 1828-1830, 1834. Cheque signed 'Wellington', drawn on Messrs Coutts & Co., London, 25 July 1820, bank's pre-printed form on white paper, completed in manuscript, payable to the Duchess of Wellington, for the sum of £1,550, a little soiling and some browning from adhesion see-through where pasted at left margin to blank third page of another letter, signed short note in Wellington's hand to the back of the cheque (with some see-through to the front), requesting that the money be sent to the Duchess of Wellington 'in Bank post bills of five and two pounds... ', the letter attached being a short one-page autograph note signed by Wellington, Walmer Castle, 22 October 1844, thanking the correspondent (?Reverend W. Latham) for his report, some light creasing and soiling, one page with integral blank pasted to an old album leaf on blank final page, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Included with the lot is a letter from an archivist at Coutts & Co, 17 September 1970, addressed to K. Edwards and concerning the cheque. The archivist regrets to say that she has not been able to find out what the circumstances were for this large payment. She had discovered that there had been trouble between the Duke and the Duchess over money before 1815, 'but I do not know if the problem grew worse later. We have checked in our ledgers and it was unusual for the Duke to draw such large amounts'.

* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document Signed, 'Victoria RI', St James's, 5 February 1850, being a manuscript letter of appointment in favour of Thomas Maitland to be one of the Ordinary Lords of Session in Scotland, following the death of Francis Jeffrey, 3 pages with address panel, signed at head of first page by the Queen and at foot of third page by Sir George Grey, as Home Secretary, with further annotations and signatures at top and bottom of fourth page including one from the Lords Commissioners, some age wear and splitting along folds, folio, together with a contemporary annotated envelope for the documentQTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan (1792-1851) was a Scottish lawyer and judge. He was Solicitor General for Scotland, 1840-1841 & 1846-1850. In 1850, following Francis Jeffrey's death, he was named lord of the court of session, and took the title of Lord Dundrennan. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic.

* Pius IX (1792-1878. Pope, 1846-1878. Document Signed, 'Pius P.P. IX', 18 February 1869, being a request supplied by the Chapel and Castle of Aigremont and the friends of the supplicant for a Plenary Indulgence to be granted to Hyacinthe de Clercx d'Aigremont and her parents, manuscript document with signature and dated subscription beneath, 1 page with integral blank, folio, presented in a contemporary hinged red morocco folder with gilt papal crest to upper cover and gilt crown and monogram H.C.A. laid on to lower cover, 2 gilt clasps, slight edge wear, folio (40 x 27 cm) QTY: (2)

* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document signed, ‘Victoria RI’, St James's, 30 November 1899, being a pre-printed commission on linenised paper with manuscript insertions, appointing James McClay, Gentleman, as Quarter-Master, in the Land Forces, signed by the Queen upper left and countersigned by Lansdowne lower right, papered royal and duty seals to left margin, minor marks, 30 x 40 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:This would seem to be Major J. McClay of Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 17 January 1917 and is buried or commemorated at Fulford Cemetery (CWGC I. B. 44.).

* Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 & 1951-1955. Document Signed by King George V, 'George RI' (1865-1936) and Winston Churchill, 'W.S. Churchill', St James's, 11 March 1911, a pre-printed document on vellum with manuscript insertions, being a remission document for John Thirkell at Wakefield prison, 'who was at the Borough Sessions, Scarborough, on 28th October 1910, convicted of stealing and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour', embossed seal and duty stamp, a couple of light water spots not affecting signatures, signed at head by the King and at foot of page 2 by Churchill, as Home Secretary, 2 pages with integral blank, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare document double-signed by King George V, in the first year of his reign, and by Winston Churchill, during his brief tenure has home secretary, and just two months' after his involvement in the siege of Sidney Street.

* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of the United Kingdom, 1952-2022. The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael & St George CMG, Companion’s neck badge, silver gilt and enamel with neck cravat, in Garrard & Co. Ltd London case of issue, extremely fine, together with the original printed Order certificate, Saint James's, 1 January 1953, completed in manuscript in brown ink for Edward Reginald Greene, pre-printed blue ink signature of the queen at head, countersigned by Athlone and Clarendon, embossed wafer seal upper left, a little toning, framed and glazed, overall 42 x 34.5 cm, plus related items, a typed letter on Prime Minister letterhead, 3 December 1952, enquiring on behalf of the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill] if he will accept the proposed New Year Honour, with the accompanying postmarked envelope, plus the perforated pink ticket admitting one to witness the Investiture at Buckingham Palace on 17 February 1953QTY: (4)NOTE:Edward Reginald Greene, Esq., lately Director of the Coffee Division, Ministry of Food.

* Elizabeth II (1926-20220).Queen of Great Britain, 1952-2022. Document Signed, 1965, a pre-printed pardon, completed in manuscript, concerning Coleen Locke who was convicted of using apparatus for wireless telegraphy without a licence contrary to section 1 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 and was ordered to pay a fine of six pounds, being hereby pardoned and her fine remitted to her, signed by the Queen upper right (signature now faded to light brown), papered seal upper left, two punch holes to left margin away from text and signature, a little marginal light browning and minor creasing, countersigned by Roy Jenkins at foot of second page, 2 pages, folioQTY: (1)

* Elizabeth (1900-2002). Queen Consort to King George VI, 1936-1952 & Queen Mother, 1952-2002. Christmas and New Year card signed, 'Elizabeth R', 1972, folded white card with gilt embossed crown to upper cover, printed message and signature in blue ballpoint pen inside with a vintage photograph of the Queen Mother seated in an armchair on facing page, 23 x 18.5 cm, together with: Mountbatten (Louis, 1900-1979). 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Document Signed, 'Mountbatten of Burma', 7 November 1951, a pre-printed commission on thin card, completed in manuscript and appointing William Bearn Willder a Surgeon Lieutenant, countersigned in ink by A. Madden at foot with the King's stamped signature upper left, minor soiling and short split to left margin touching embossed Admiralty stamp, 31 x 36.5 cmQTY: (2)

* Napoleonic Wars. A Rough Manuscript Journal kept by a British Soldier named Frederick Shaw, probably a junior N.C.O., serving in the allied columns marching on Paris in 1814, France, c. 6 June 25 July 1814, describing in an interesting, semi-literate style the towns and villages through which they pass, their reception by the usually friendly local population, (Tours), 'me and two more of my friends went into one of their cook shops to get something to eat they brought us a plate of giblets worth about one shilling to the best of my opinion. We not being satisfied called for another which they brought we eat that and bread too and drank four bottles of beer and then called for the reckoning which was brought into our great astonishment was not less than nine shillings the beer at six pence per bottle. I told the woman I would take her to the Marie...', near Montreuil he sent off in the wake of Sargeant Major to collect 'billets' but goes many miles out of his way and is sent back by Lut. Col. Jenkinson 'Commandant of the Artillery of that collum'; Abbeville, 'was to have been our halting place but on the 3rd at night we received a fresh order for the whole of the German to proceed to Brussells on their way to Germany as we was informed that the Emperor of Austria would not suffer the allies to pass the Rhine but I cannot say that above his truth. I hope it is not but our small detachment being the only troops with the third collum was ordered to march the next morning to join the second collum which has been one days march in front all the way from Bourdeaux', 22 pages, some arithmetic on following page and remaining leaves blank, some browning to earlier leaves, first text leaf torn with slight loss, remains of stitching, upper wrapper with ownership inscription and various other names, stitching partly broken, final blank leaves somewhat ragged and torn, upper wrapper soiled, narrow folioQTY: (1)NOTE:An uncommon journal from a lower rank serving in the Napoleonic Wars. A handwritten transcription in pencil is included with the lot.

* Oxfordshire Light Infantry. A manuscript account of a meeting of the Officers of the 43rd Regiment in Vale Castle, Guernsey, 1 July 1801, at which Rules for the regular support of the Regimental Mess were agreed, there follows a list of 24 Rules together with the names and ranks of the 23 Officers forming the Mess, 7 pages on 2 bifolia, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The garrisoning of Vale Castle in Guernsey was an important link in the Blockade and Containment of France during the Napoleonic War.

Regimental Return. Returns of His Majesty's Land Forces, 1st April 1802, manuscript title and contents leaves followed by 43 pre-printed double-page forms completed in manuscript and including details of the regiments serving in Britain, Portugal, Canada, Egypt, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Bahamas, coast of Africa, Cape of Good Hope, East India, etc., recording numbers of officers and men, cavalry and infantry, invalids, etc., some light browning, all edges gilt, contemporary red straight-grained morocco with gilt-tooled borders and spine, 8vo QTY: (1)

Crimean War. ‘Log of the proceedings of Her Majesty's steam Frigate Sidon, George Goldsmith Esq., Captain, kept by George Tate Medd [1838-1907], midshipman’, manuscript, 1 January 1855 to 24 June 1857, a detailed log commencing off Sevastopol and continuing in the Black Sea for the next 18 months, most of the time anchored off Sevastopol or Balaclava or between the two, apart from voyages to Corfu transporting the 82nd Regt., and bringing back the 1st Royals, and to Malta for refitting, Medd meticulously records the comings & goings of vessels of all nationalities, notes troop movements and other military activities which he can see on shore (‘Russians throwing up earth works on N. side’), the taking on board British, French & Turkish troops and Russian prisoners, flags of truce and exchange of prisoners, crew training & discipline with fairly frequent floggings (usually 36 lashes) &c., &c., on 15 June 1856 the Crimean Medal is distributed to the ship's company, and on the 17th ‘Rec'd 24 officers & 714 rank & file of the 93rd Highlanders for passage to England’, arriving in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the Prince Regent hulk on 15 July, the troops are disembarked & the ship paid off; with various illustrations mainly from the 'Illustrated London News' (some annotated by Medd, e.g. ‘This is really a very fair birds eye view of Sebastopol as seen from the masthead of the old 'Sidon' steam frigate by me’), but including two drawings by Medd, one of which is a plan of the attack on Fort Kinburn on 17 October 1855 written on 148 pages; then on leaving the 'Sidon' the log continues with Medd's further service with two short spells on the 'Victory' in Portsmouth Harbour, mainly occupied in instructing boys in cutlass & gun drill, on 21 August 1856 a boy named George Reed is receiving 36 lashes at about the same time as Her Majesty is passing in the 'Fairy' to land at Clarence Yard; from 18 October 1856 to 12 February 1857 the volume records the voyage to and from Irish ports of H.M. steam sloop 'Driver', Ennis Chambers, commander, during which Medd exercises the watch and 'young gentlemen' at gun drill; ending with ‘Log of H.M.S. 'Sans-Pareil', Astley Cooper Key, captain, to Hong Kong’, the log of this 10-gun screw line of battle ship ends between the Cape of Good Hope & Singapore on 24 June, 1857, in all a total of approximately 248 pages of manuscript written in a standard-ruled log book, with various illustrations including wood engravings (cut from Illustrated London News) of 'Driver and 'Sans-Pareil', old boards with canvas covering, heavily soiled, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Sidon served in the Black Sea in the Crimean War, 1854-55, under the command of Captain George Goldsmith. In September 1854, in the Allied invasion of the Crimea, she was assigned to escorting the French troop transports, and assisted the French line-of-battleship Algiers, which had gone aground in Eupatoria Bay. She was then sent to monitor Russian movements around Odessa. William Simpson painted a scene titled 'Sebastopol from the Sea, Sketched from the Deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855', which was reproduced as one of the lithographs in The Seat of War in the East (1855-56).About ten years after this log was written Medd left the Navy as a Lieutenant and entered the Church, where he was eventually, for many years, Vicar of Whitchurch, Aylesbury.

* Davies (Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016). English composer and conductor, Master of the Queen's Music 2004-2014. A Puzzle-Canon for Gay News, [Woo 109 / J164, 1972], original pen and ink 'Puzzle Canon', written neatly in black ink on wove paper with musical score, Latin text, translation and instruction, two staves drawn as figurative illustrations, signed 'with Christmas greetings, Peter Maxwell Davies' lower right, one page, 25 x 20 cm, framed and glazedQTY: (1)NOTE:A Puzzle-Canon for Gay News was composed for four unaccompanied male voices with text in Latin. Maxwell Davies gives instructions in the lower left of the manuscript: 'The parts combine in any way; they can be superposed & reversed ad lib., A with itself in different ways, similarly with B, also with each other. I offer one possible solution, to 4 voices, & which combines each with the other. The canon has no ending - it weaves in perpetua.' It was reproduced in Gay News 13 December 1972, p. 13.Provenance: Peter Maxwell Davies sent this puzzle canon to Denis Lemon, the editor of Gay News, for inclusion in the magazine. The magazine had many famous supporters, most notably Graham Chapman from the Monty Python team and Peter Maxwell Davies. Denis Lemon kept the original and had it framed, leaving it to a close personal friend after his AIDS-related illness in 1994.

* Drinkwater (John, 1882-1937). English author, poet and playwright. An archive of autograph letters and documents by or to John Drinkwater, relating to his 1928 biography of Charles James Fox, comprising: Autograph Manuscript Signed (with initials), no place, 20 August 1928, being a list of 21 corrections to his biography of Charles James Fox, 1 page, 4to; Autograph Manuscript (unsigned), written on board the SS Olympic, in the form of a telegraph, being an extensive list of corrections and alternatives for the second edition of his Fox biography; Autograph fragment (unsigned), on a small piece of his letterhead in red pencil, all three with minor paperclip rust marks; a first edition of his biography of Fox, signed and dated 1928 above an autograph inscription, some staining to page edges, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus 10 further related mostly Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Marsh (1872-1953), Philippa and Francesca Stephenson (1858-1941), John Laurence Le Breton Hammond (1872-1949), Ernest Edward Kellett (1852-1941), Algernon Law (1856-1943) and Edward V.R. PowysQTY: (14)

* Durrell (Gerald, 1925-1995). British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist and cartoonist. An important and unusual collection of cartoons and other images (both real and imaginary, some described as ‘Doodles’) all drawn by Gerald Durrell (5 of them signed) together with a brief autograph manuscript, 16 pages, mainly folio, France, no date (one dated 1976), comprising a brief Autograph Manuscript Unsigned (43 words), being a humorous rhyming poem that Durrell is attempting to create and in which he mentions Joy Adamson, 1 page, 4to; an extremely large sheet with upwards of 50 multi-coloured images of animals (one crossed out by Durrell), humans, vegetation, a bizarre-looking embryo-like figure, as well as a house by the sea, with 2 cypress trees, drawn in felt tip, signed (‘Gerald Durrell, France, 1976’), some creasing to one side, 375 x 453 mm; plus 13 pages of other cartoons and drawings of various animals with some additional words, four sheets signed, plus a copy of a letter from Lee Durrell to the present owner about the archiveQTY: (12)

* Forester (Cecil Scott, 1899-1966). Pseudonym of Cecil Lewis Troughton-Smith, author of the Horatio Hornblower novels. A good series of 7 Autograph Letters Signed, 'C.S. Forester', East Dulwich & Ajaccio, (Corsica), 13 September 1929 to 5 January 1930, to Winifred Lydia Loraine, relating to Forester's play in U97 which was being written for the actor-manager and soldier, Robert Loraine, 11 pages, 4to, together with a small (?unpublished) vintage photograph of Forester sitting under a tree in Corsica, 55 x 80 mm, plus the original envelope used by Mrs Loraine for the letters, a printed share bond from Bombay, addressed to Mrs Loraine in an unidentified hand, plus 3 printed flyers and invitationsQTY: (6)NOTE:Winifred Lydia Loraine (1898-1986) was the second wife of Robert Loraine (1876-1935), flying ace and actor.U97 is a three-act play based on a real German U-boat (UB-116) and its attempted mission to decimate the British fleet. The play was apparently never performed in London, mostly likely because the British public then may not have warmed to a story of the U-boat war from the perspective of German officers. This revealing archive gives much information on the gestation of the manuscript.

* Historical Autographs. A miscellaneous selection of autograph letters, documents, a few clipped signatures, etc., 18th/20th century, signed by various notables, mainly British, including Queen Victoria, King George IV (individual signatures removed from the heads of documents, the latter as King), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Charlotte Knollys (3), Charles Carter Drury, Hugh Tyrwhitt, Thomas Style (Autograph Letter Signed referring to the controversial suicide of Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarborough; ‘Lrd. Scarborough shot himself you have heard long since. The ball was found in his brain. I hear no reason alledged for this, tis true he was to have married the Dutchess of Manchester in a few days but I believe he had no more an aversion to a pretty girl than yr Lordship yr self has’), Lord Liverpool, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (Document Signed whilst British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1801), Duke of Newcastle, Bertrand Stewart (a Typed Letter Signed by the British spy to an editor, urging him to publish an article entitled Germany and Ourselves and remarking ‘I may mention that the facts stated are drawn from my own personal experience. My secret trial and the two years which I spent in a German prison have given me an exceptional insight into the matters of which I write’, 12th June 1914), Thomas Sharp (signed manuscript list of a schedule of deeds belonging to Howick School, Northumberland, 1723-4), an Autograph Letter Signed by Rev. E. P. Flewelling to Harry George Grey (grandson of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey) regarding the adoption of his brother, Frederick Bryan Grey’s, five children, accompanied by a contemporary typed copy of the Deed of Adoption, 1914, a large folding plan of the islands in the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, in front of Harrison Township, 1928, annotated in pencil with various islands purchased by Lord Grey, William Gifford, small series of six contemporary manuscript copies of interesting letters originally authored by Benjamin Disraeli (1844-45), William Spooner, Isabella Bird, Thomas Aird, John Cairns, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, etc. QTY: (90)

* Historical Autographs. A miscellaneous selection of autograph letters, documents, a few signed photographs and some clipped signatures, etc., 19th/20th century, signed by various European notables including Princess Henriette of Belgium, Duchess of Vendome (3), Thilda Harlor (2), Louis-Ernest Dubois, Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart (2), Alphonse de Lamartine (2), Emile Deschamps, Francis Jammes, Andre Maurois, Xavier de Carvalho, Lucien Romier (3), Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin, Paul Delaroche, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (manuscript page of notes, unsigned), Francois Christophe de Kellerman, Georges Cuvier, Adolphe Thiers, Rene Clair, Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg, August Ludwig von Nostitz, Frederick William III of Prussia, Benito Mussolini (Document Signed, countersigned by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, 1936), etc.QTY: (31)NOTE:A number of the letters are accompanied by English translations.

* Milstein (Nathan, 1903-1992). Russian-American Violinist. An extremely rare and important Autograph Music Manuscript Signed twice (‘Nathan Milstein’ and once with initials ‘N.M’), Paris, 21 May 1964, of an apparently unpublished and undocumented realisation for violin and piano, of the Sonata in C minor Op. 2 no. 7 by Vivaldi, written in blue, black and red ink, with many autograph corrections, the full title being ‘Sonata VII’ Preludio, Allemande, Corrente, the Corrente written out again but with a slightly different realisation, and signed at the end, 11 pages, large folioQTY: (1)NOTE:This highly important manuscript highlights Milstein’s level of musicianship. Famous for his interpretations of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Milstein’s career lasted 72 years. He wrote a number of transcriptions and realisations throughout his life and this particular one is apparently unpublished and unrecorded. It is not mentioned in any of the available Milstein literature including Milstein’s autobiography From Russia to the West: The Musical Memoirs and Reminiscences of Nathan Milstein, which was co-written with Solomon Volkov.

* Musicians' Autographs. A group of 9 Autograph Musical Quotations Signed by various instrumentalists, 19th/20th century, comprising: Guilhermina Suggia (1885-1950, Portuguese cellist), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed ('Guilhermina Suggia’), from J. S. Bach’s 3rd Cello Suite; Paul Tortelier (1914-1990, French cellist and composer), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (‘Paul Tortelier’), c. 1973, and dedicated, from his Alla Maud, Valse for 2 Cellos and Piano (or String Orchestra), 8 bars, 3 staves on cream manuscript paper, 85 x 215 mm; August van Biene (1849-1913, Dutch cellist and composer), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, of 3 bars from his most famous work, ’The Broken Melody’; Solomon [a.k.a. Solomon Cutner] (1902-1988, British pianist and child prodigy), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed with a bold signature and dated in his hand (‘London Nov. 29. 1916’) on a cream album leaf, 145 x 180 mm, being 2 bars of a Gavotte in F major, the composer of which appears to be Emil Evers (both ‘Gavotte’ and ‘Evers’ have been written above the quotation by Solomon); Paul Kochanski (1887-1934), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (‘Paul Kochanski’), being 4 bars of the main theme from the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto; Ernest Pauer (1826-1905), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (‘Ernest Pauer’), being 2 bars in 6/8 time from an unidentified piano piece; Alberto Randegger (1832-1911), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (‘Alberto Randegger’), being 2 bars from the song ‘Only for One’; Hans Richter (1843-1916), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (‘Hans Richter), being 2 bars from an unidentified work, with bold signature of the writer Marie Corelli on the same page; Wilhelm Backhaus (1884-1969), Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (‘Wilhelm Backhaus’), being 2 long bars from the opening piano statement of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54QTY: (9)

* Rawsthorne (Alan (1906-1971). British composer. Autograph Manuscript Signed, ‘Alan Rawsthorne’, no place, no date, c. 1951, being a complete two piano version of the 3rd movement Intermezzo of Rawsthorne’s 2nd Piano Concerto (one part being an orchestral reduction), written in pencil in his calligraphic hand, on 2 or 4 staves as required and signed at the head of the first page, with a further annotation to the reverse of the final page by Sir Clifford Curzon (who gave the work’s first performance), slight soiling, corner wear and signs of use on first page which is also detached, otherwise in good condition, 9 pages, folio, together with a first edition printed copy of the full score, original wrappers, covers detached, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Rawsthorne wrote his Second Piano Concerto in 1951 and it received its first performance at the then new Festival Hall in June of that year, with Clifford Curzon as soloist. This arrangement, by the composer, of the third movement Intermezzo (effectively the slow movement) is beautifully written in pencil in his neat and meticulous hand. It is possible that Curzon himself owned this manuscript and from the signs of use (including indications of phrasing in the piano solo part) it is also possible that this was the score used by him to learn this particular movement; a short inscription on the final blank page of the manuscript in Curzon’s hand supports this view, (he went on to record the work for Decca a few months after its premiere).The manuscript appears to be just one section of a complete set of movements, as the pages are numbered 54 to 62 (the first movement in this form, is in the archive of Rawsthorne manuscripts held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; the 2nd and 4th movements being seemingly unaccounted for, and it is possible that Curzon owned those movements too). A timing of 6’45” has been written at the conclusion of the work, indicating that it may well have been used in the recording session in 1951. There are 2 further recordings of this work and it has come to be regarded as one of the composer's most successful compositions.

* Clarke (John, 1760-1815). Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians. Lectures on Midwifry on Diseases of Women & Children, &c by Doct[o]r Clarke, at No. 1, New Burlington Street, London, 1802 & 1803, by Samuel Head, manuscript lecture notes with sections on diseased menstruation, profuse menstruation, anatomy of female parts of generation and diseases thereof, physiology of generation, treatment of diseases during pregnancy, abortion, labour and difficult labours, preternatural labours, complex labours, diseases in consequence of parturition and the gravid uterus (?Mr Wilson's lectures), written in a neat hand with many rectos blank or partially completed with notes relating to facing page, index at rear with a final page on observations on puerperal fever by Dr Armstrong of Sunderland, a total of approximately 250 pages including index, mostly with folio numbers but sometimes marked with page numbers, one marginal tear with small loss (folio 18) and lower half of folio 37 torn away and missing, contemporary sheep, worn, spine broken and many gatherings and  leaves detached, 8vo (195 x 125 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:John Clarke was one of ten licentiates in midwifery at the College of Physicians. His publications include: An Essay on the Epidemic Disease of Lying-in Women, of the Years 1787 and 1788 (1788), Practical Essays on the Management of Pregnancy and Labour (1793) and the textbook, The London Practice of Midwifery, first published in 1803. Clarke gave courses on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with Dr Osborn, both at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at his home in New Burlington Street.The student who compiled these lecture notes was Samuel Head (c. 1773-1837), a Candian doctor, merchant and judge. Head was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. but received his medical training in England and in 1803 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. He moved back to Halifax where he started a practice in surgery and medicine in about 1804 where he also ran a pharmacy which had been established by his father before him.The Royal College of Surgeons of England have eleven manuscript notebooks of Dr John Clarke's lectures on midwifery kept by William Prosser, ref. MS0081/2.

Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, January the 24th, 1739-40, engraved and printed broadside keepsake, central letterpress panel with 6-line verse, 'Behold the Liquid Thames now frozen o'er! / That lately Ships of mighty Burden bore. / Here You may Print your Name, tho' cannot Write, / 'Cause numb'd with Cold: 'Tis done with great delight. / And lay it by; That Ages yet to come / May see what Things upon the Ice were done', with names of the recipients 'Thomas and Hannah Harrison' printed between two single rules below, printed heading above and imprint below, the panel with blue colour wash, printed within an engraved decorative border, the figure of Flora at head and vignettes of 'The Letter Press' and 'The Rolling Press' at foot, small contemporary manuscript initials 'T W' at top, some browning, creasing and associated age wear, a little soiling and a few marginal closed tears, plate impression 225 x 170 mm, sheet size 263 x 203 mm, laid on later boardQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: From the family of Thomas and Hannah Harrison by direct descent. Curiously, Thomas Harrison went on to establish the company of Harrison & Sons, becoming a major worldwide engraver and printer of postage stamps and banknotes. The company was established in 1750 in Warwick Lane, London; in 1839 Thomas Richard Harrison entered into partnership with John William Parker, creating Harrison and Co. It went through similar names and retained Harrison family ownership until 1979 when sold to Lonrho. Whether this printed piece of ephemera was the catalyst that persuaded Thomas to become a printer and engraver is a matter of conjecture but one that seems highly plausible.The winter of 1739, known as 'the hard winter', brought a severe frost starting on Christmas Day and continuing into February. During this time, numerous tents and booths were erected on the frozen Thames, with games and entertainments including football, rides on the ice, food stalls and temporary pubs. As a keepsake or memento of this remarkable occurrence, a printing press was set up on the ice to print these letterpress souvenirs for visitors, of which there are several variants, this being larger than many.

* The Wreck of the Glencairn. An original manuscript account describing the events of the wreck of the Glencairn, by apprentice seaman Colin C. Watson, c. 1907, written up after the event in a fair hand, describing the events from leaving Rochester bound for Portland, Oregon, striking a rock off Tierra del Fuego, losing two crew members and the ensuing events on shore, a little spotting and creasing, old pin to top corner, 13 pages (over 3,000 words) on 13 leaves, 4to, together with a testimonial for Colin C. Watson serving as an apprentice in the "Glencairn" and "Fifeshire" for a period of 12 months, signed by the Master, John Nichol, one page, 4to, plus a contemporary cabinet card photograph of the young Colin C. Watson in naval attire, slightly trimmed at foot of mountQTY: (3)NOTE:A harrowing eye-witness account of the wreck of the Glencairn by an apprentice on board. The Glencairn left Rochester on 9 May 1907, bound for Seattle, with twenty-five crew plus the Master's wife and child, the boat carrying 2,375 tons of cement. It struck rock off Tierra del Fuego and the party was forced to abandon ship, two crew members being lost when leaving. The letter carries on to describe Watson's version of the story until their fortuitous rescue by Lucas Bridges. Bridges gives his own account of events when he encountered the shipwrecked party in his autobiography 'Uttermost Part of the Earth' (1948). Chapter 46, pp. 463-72.Watson was to continue his naval career, serving as a P & O Captain for some thirty years. See following lot.A full transcription of this manuscript is available on request.Selected extracts:' We were to go through the Maine Strait between Hadon Island and the mainland (Tiera del Fuoga). I happened to be at the wheel at the time we were making the entrance of the strait. Suddenly a furious snow squall sprung up and the land was obliterated from view. I noticed a slight shock followed by a heavier one and say out to the Captain “We are on the ground Sir”. The next instant we had crashed upon a sunken ?, and the men came running aft in response to the shrill whistle of the First Mate summoning them. The squall was but the precursor of a typical Cape Horn Blow. Wind and sea increased rapidly and soon the decks were being swept by heavy seas which thundered over the poor old stricken ‘Glencairn’ smashing up rails, doors etc. and smashing everything moveable over the side. With terrible difficulty we succeeded in launching our two lifeboats. One was taken forward and then commenced the task of loading the boat. The Captains wife and child and the Stewardess were about to be lowered into the boat in which three men were busy fending her off the ships side when a huge sea capsized her carrying away the panels? by which she was secured to the ship. Powerless to help we saw one of our unfortunate shipmates drown before of our eyes, one man had disappeared entirely whilst the other had succeeded in clambering up on the overturned boats stern and sticking his feet in the lifelines clung desperately to the heel. He soon drifted out of sight into the whirly snowstorm.The Captain then called for volunteers to go off in the sole remaining lifeboat to attempt a rescue. The foreign element in the crew objected to this. I pleaded that it was madness to risk the lives of all in an attempt to recover one man. I pointed out that should the boat be lost we should all inevitably drown. They asked him if he wished to imperil the lives of his wife and child. He quietly replied that while there was a chance to save the man he would see that some effort was made and ordered away the boat in search. Then followed a scene which is terrible to relate. Half mad with fear and convinced of their doom they broke into a whisky case they had pilfered from the lazaretto? whilst provisioning the boats. Sea ? continues to sweep the decks and one by one they fell dead drunk their bodies washing about the decks.''The second mate explained the impossibility of landing, heavy seas and precipitous cliffs, and then for the first time did the Captains wife break down. Throughout all the previous horrors she had maintained a calm courage – an unwavering faith that God would save her and the dear ones - and now at last the appalling hours in the open boat, and the apparently hopeless possibility of being saved crushed her hitherto plucky spirit. Yet another ghastly night we spent, the vessel noticeably sinking beneath us. Early the next morning before daylight the first mate and I crawled down the fore hold? to see how the water was forward. It was a ghastly sight. Muddy dark water swishing about the hold and thousands of rats squealing with fear perched all round the slingers?. The feeble light from our lantern accentuated the horror of it - the rats did the rest. We both lost nerve and made a rush to get on deck again. When daylight broke we were labouring and wallowing in a still heavy sea and the water nearly up to our scuppers. We then launched the dinghy - a mere cockleshell - and one by one filled the lifeboat and the remainder by the dinghy. It was a dangerous business - poising oneself on the rail and then taking a flying leap into the boat.''To my astonishment I saw the Captain who was ahead of me endeavouring to make himself understood to a couple of natives. Huge fellows they were, both of them well over six feet; clad only in a guanaco skin - carrying bows and arrows, and accompanied by two exceedingly gaunt and hungry looking dogs. They were quite friendly - much to our relief – for we had understood that the natives had cannibalistic proclivities. They belonged to a wandering Tribe of Ona and their Chief being able to speak a little Argentine helped matters a lot, one of our crew being also able to speak the language. They conducted us to a gap in the cliffs and soon found ourselves at their encampment, consisting of a few wigwams and populated by about twenty natives - men women and children.''I was in the search party, going down to the shore was just in time to see our old ship break up. The foremast fell forward followed by the main. The riggers fell aft and an hour later the jigger disappeared. Then she broke up completely and by afternoon the shoreline a couple of miles was strewn with wreckage. I made an excellent “find” - a drowned hen, and a piece of salt pork which I carried in triumph to the camp. Unfortunately very little of an edible nature washed ashore. My only rival as a caterer being an A.B. who had got a dead pig.For a week we existed in this manner eking out our scanty stores with mussels and shell fish gathered on the rocks. We also killed a sea lion portions of which we ate. The natives were good to us and gave us portions of a guanaco they had shot. Our cooking was somewhat primitive. We cut sharp twigs? And sticking a piece of meat on the end held it in the fire and then holding it in our fingers gnawed the “charred” outside “raw inside” flesh. The shell fish soon became nauseous and the sodden biscuits were getting “horribly less” as the 2nd mate put it and so the Captain and his AB interpreter held a conversation with the natives. We then learnt that many miles up country lived a man named Bridges engaged in sheep farming. The 2nd mate and one AB, therefore set out with an Indian guide to endeavour to find this white man. Succour from the reward? was impossible and on the hope that these two would bring us help rested our hopes.'

* Quaker Marriage Certificate. Manuscript marriage certificate of John Martiall son of John Martiall of Lorton and Ann Fletcher daughter of Lancelot Fletcher late of Lamplugh, Cumbria, 25th June 1691, single sheet document, bearing 42 witness signatures and marks, being members of the Pardshaw Crag Meeting House, few tears to old foldsQTY: (1)NOTE:Witness signatures and marks include those of John Marshall's father & brother John; also that of Thomas Marshall, Ann Marshall, Jane Fletcher, Sarah Fletcher, Peter Head, John Robinson, Thomas Watson, Ann Watson, Mary Robinson, Thomas Tiffin, Sarah Tiffin, Peter Head and Priscilla Hall etc. The marriage certificate was formerly the property of the Rev. Cooper Abbs (1738-1800) and passed by descent to Kathleen Cooper Abbs, where it was aquired by the present owner from her estate.Quakers originally met for worship in the open air on Pardshaw Crag, a few hundred metres to the north-west of the current Pardshaw Crag meeting house, from the 1650s until 1672; George Fox attended meetings there in 1657 and 1663. In winter, Friends also met in houses at Pardshaw, Lamplugh, Whinfell and Eaglesfield. In 1672 the meeting moved to a purpose-built building, the site of which has not been identified, but it is believed to have been situated in a field to the north-west of the present meeting house. The present L-plan meeting house that replaced it was constructed in 1729 on a rectangular plot called The Guards in Pardshaw Hall. In 1731 an adjacent stable block was built; which incorporates a lintel dated 1672, which is said to have come from the first meeting house.

RAF Rudloe Manor. 10 Group Intel: D.I.O's log, 1 December 1940 to 1 December 1942, complete manuscript log book, mostly in blue fountain pen, mostly single-line entries with time in the left column and brief note in the right with some code words, a total of approximately 150 leaves, some loose insertions including poetry re: gremlins, operational reports and a typed letter initialled, 'E.F.L.', 18 October 1940, concerning a suspected spy, 4 pp. plus 2 related pages, original S.O. Book 120 cloth-backed ledger, heavily rubbed and slightly soiled, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:RAF Rudloe Manor was located near Bath, between Box and Corsham, in Wiltshire. The operations room was responsible for directing RAF aircraft in the No. 10 Group area which covered South West England and South Wales. No. 10 Group was disbanded in May 1945.

* Smethwick Soap Works. An interesting archive relating to the Smethwick Soap Works and the extensive property transactions of Mrs Harriet Perkins, mostly early 19th century, including accounts books of Henry Perkins from 1801 detailing household and business expenses, various letters and deeds plus a manuscript of lands in Smethwick, surveyed by James Sherriff, 22 October 1810, showing land owned by Mr Villers and Mr Brearly with the road from Smethwick to West Bromwich to the north and Birmingham Canal to the south, plus an engraved plan of Smethwick Soap Works as part of sales particulars, 2 pages, folioQTY: (a carton)

Springfield (Thomas Osborn, 1845-1920). A family archive of hunting logbooks and diaries, etc., 19th & 20th century, including 4 manuscript hunting journals with the Dunston Harriers, North Norfolk, 1898-1908, 3 earlier hunting diaries for 1857-8, 1861-2 and 1875, mentioning the Shotsham Harriers and the Clonmell Harriers, plus T.O. Springfield's personal diaries kept in uniform Lett's diaries, 1870-1916, lacking only 1899, some occasional damp staining, plus a manuscript book with some pharmacy receipts, Springfield's copy of Annals of Norfolk by Charles Mackey, 2 volumes, 1901, half morocco gilt, large 8vo, plus a 'Souvenir and List of Subscribers Presented to Mr T.O. Springfield... on his Retirement from the Dunston Harriers', July 1905, soiled and worn, plus a photograph album compiled by Springfield's son Maurice Osborn Springfield (1885-), gelatin silver prints on rectos and versos of 72 leaves, including hunting and otter hunting scenes, uncaptioned, oblong folio, plus a second empty photograph album with 10 studio photographs relating to Edmund Osborn Springfield (1892-1967) loosely inserted, plus an unrelated album of news cuttings and a group of sundry vellum and paper documents, several relating to Redenhall with Harleston, South NorfolkQTY: (2 cartons)NOTE:Thomas Osborn Springfield was huntsman to the Dunston Harriers, retiring in 1905. His son Maurice led the anti-opium squad in the Shanghai police and wrote a book about hunting in Shanghai. Another son, also by his second marriage, was Edmund, who was the Commissioner at Port Sudan.

Treasury Series, John Bradbury, watermarked paper for a pair of 5 Shilling notes, in original envelope with manuscript text ‘First 5/- note ever made/Made at Eynsford Mill /November 29th 1917’, the envelope somewhat handled, the watermarked pair extremely fine and very rare, probably unique EPM T21 for type £200-£300

Orange Free State Government, South Africa, part proof of £1, manuscript date August 29th 1866, printed on watermarked paper, only right half of note, extremely fine and scarce Pick S546 £100-£150

Fort Beaufort & Victoria Bank, part proof for £5, 18-, numerous manuscript annotations, dated ‘Aug 25 1860’, only left half of note, mounting traces, extremely fine, an incredibly interesting record of a extremely rare issuing authority, superb engraving! Pick S197 £200-£260