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The archive of the rectory of Llanegryn, Merionethshire, Wales, five manuscript documents in English on parchment[west Wales (Merionethshire) or England, dated 1634, 1654, 1655, 1667 and 1753] Five single-sheet documents: (i) Letters Patent of Theophilus, earl of Suffolk, for the release of Francis and Margaret Herbert, concerning the rectory at Llanegryn, on 57 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, with important words in more formal display script, one large penwork initial, an oval red wax seal attached (crowned coat-of-arms of earl of Suffolk), 490 by 720mm., dated 4 November 1634; (ii) judgement of the Court of Sessions held at Dolgellau, Merionethshire, before William Littleton and Edward Bulstrode, being a final concord between Sir Henry Herbert and Richard Owen and others, concerning the rectory at Llanegryn, on 30 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, one large penwork initial, with a round black wax seal attached (the Seal of the Commonwealth, with the map of England and Ireland on reverse, and the Parliament on obverse; diameter 100mm.), seal tag partly torn through due to weight of seal, 360 by 550mm., dated Dolgellau, 9 September 1654; (iii) exemplification of a fine by Richard Herbert of the rectory of Llanegryn, on 21 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, one line in formal display script, with a printed upper border of the royal arms of Charles II enclosed by red lines, remains of a round black wax seal (the great seal of the Charles II with the royal arms; original diameter c. 100mm.), 450 by 660mm., dated Bala, Merionethshire, 15 September 1667; (iv) charter of Thomas Lloyd of Fernhill, Shropshire, acknowledging a debt to Thomas Perryn of "Dollerin" in Montgomeryshire, on 23 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, with part of red wax seal, 200 by 210mm., dated Fernhill, Shropshire, April 1655; (v) indenture between Henry Arthur Herbert, earl of Powis and Viscount Ludlow, and Richard Herbert of Oakly Park (near Ludlow), for sale of the rectory of Llanegryn, on 51 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, with printed royal arms of George II and stamped seals of earl of Powys (black wax), and others (all red wax), 640 by 75mm., dated 11 August 1753; some folds, spots and stains, all in an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century wooden box lined with marbled paper, and covered with leather recovered from an earlier stamped book binding (thus cuts and scuffs visible where leather once covered the spine), this leather covering worn and damaged and coming loose at extremities, small printed number '30' on paper label pasted to front of box  Provenance:1. Francis and Margaret Herbert, and their descendants, the rectory of Llanegryn, Merionethshire, Wales. Francis Herbert was the son of Matthew Herbert, MP. and sheriff of Merionethshire (d. 1611), who himself held extensive estates in Cyfeiliog and Machynlleth in Montgomeryshire, and rights and fishing interests in the Dovey in Merioneth, as well as the tithes of Llanegryn rectory.2. Henry Arthur Herbert (c. 1700-1772) of Dolgellau and Oakly Park, earl of Powis and son of Francis Herbert, MP. for Ludlow from 1727, then Lord Herbert of Cherbury from 1743, and Baron Powis and Viscount Ludlow from 1748.3. These charters are then likely to have remained in the archive of Oakly Park, in Bromfield, near Ludlow, Shropshire, after the sale of the estate by Henry Arthur Herbert to Robert Clive (1725-1774; 'Clive of India'), whose son in turn married Henry Arthur Herbert's daughter. 4. E.H. Dring (1863-1928), the first managing director of Quaritch, passing in turn to his son E.M. Dring (1906-1990), himself manager of Quaritch from 1960: a note in the hand of E.H. Dring on a brown foolscap envelope once used to store the documents, reading, "Deeds relating to the Rectory of Llanegryn, formerly in the possession of the Herbert Family, and release of same to Mr Som. Davis in 1753. The original lease is framed in Drawing Room". Acquired by E.H. Dring in or immediately before 1918.5. Quaritch of London; this archive passing to them in 1983 along with the vast Dring fragment collection and other charters.6. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS. 1623/1-5, acquired from Quaritch in August 1992.

A small secular archive of charters from the Abbey of Inchaffray, Perth, Scotland, five manuscript documents in Latin on parchment [Scotland (Inchaffray, near Perth and Edinburgh), sixteenth century (dated 31 March 1565, 3 and 4 February 1566, 1569, 12 May 1587 and 12 May 1587)] Five associated charters: (a) large charter issued by the Abbey of Inchaffray and its commendator, Alexander Gordon, to confirm purchase of lands at Thornyhill and elsewhere by Patrick Murray of Newraw, on 66 long lines in a secretarial hand, one initial with penwork decoration, numerous signatures following that of Alexander Gordon, stains and folds, splits to edges, no seals or seal tags, 510+25 by 560mm., dated Inchaffray, 31 March 1565; (b) unusually tall charter, with agreement between David, Lord Drummond (appointed commendator of the Abbey of Inchaffray by Mary, queen of Scots, on 26 July 1565, without apparent papal approval), William Lindesay and Patrick Murray of Newraw for the sale of land near Woodend, on 74 long lines of secretarial hand, initial with penwork decoration, folds and small amount of cockling to one corner, seal and seal tag wanting, 430+20 by 310mm., Inchaffray, dated 3 and 4 February 1566; (c) large charter of the Abbey of Inchaffray and its abbot, James Drummond, confirming the sale of lands to Patrick Murray of Newraw, on 43 long lines of secretarial hand, ornamental cadels to letters in uppermost lines, penwork initial, large round seal in brown wax showing the arcaded front of the church of the Abbey of Inchaffray and St. John, on reverse an eagle (70mm. in diameter), folds and small spots, mounted in a large red case with Perspex front, 280+16 by 480mm., Inchaffray, dated 1569 (with spaces left for numeral of day and month); (d) Royal Charter of King James VI of Scotland in confirmation of a charter of Alexander Gordon, Commendator of the Abbey of Inchaffray concerning sale of lands of the Abbey of Inchaffray to Patrick Murray of Newraw (that dated 30 April 1559), on 78 long lines of secretarial hand, three calligraphic penwork initials, seal tag but no seal, with witnesses of John, duke of Hamilton and commendator of the Abbey of Arbroath, Lord Archibald Angusie, Patrick Adamson, the bishop of St. Andrews, Walter Stewart, the prior and commendator of the Abbey of Blantyre, John Maitland, the chancellor of Thirlestane, Justice Louis Belenden and Alexander Hay the keeper of the Rolls and of the King's Council, folds, else near-pristine, 405+40 by 523mm., Edinburgh, dated 12 May 1587; and (e) Royal Charter of King James VI of Scotland, in confirmation of a charter of the Abbey of Inchaffray and Abbot James Drummond, concerning sale of land at "Tullithandich" to Patrick Murray of Newraw, on 50 long lines of secretarial hand, initial and ascenders in the first line with penwork decoration, by the same scribe as the previous document and with the same witnesses, small space left for placename, one large natural flaw in blank margin of parchment, some folds and small stains along those, seal tags but no seal, else good, 280+35 by 580mm., Edinburgh, dated 12 May 1587 Provenance: 1. Most probably forming the private secular archive of Patrick Murray (1535-1590) of Newraw and Woodend, both in the parish of Madderty, Perthshire. His great-grandfather had been knighted at the coronation of James I in 1424, and the Murrays held sway over large parts of Perthshire until the seventeenth century, when they took on the title of Baron Strange in 1627 and then Earl Strange from 1786. The Augustinian Abbey of St. Mary and St. John, Inchaffray, was founded as a priory on a site midway between Perth and Crieff in Strathearn, by the Earl of Stratthearn and his wife c. 1200. It was under the rule of the Augustinians of Scone Abbey. Under Strathearn and royal patronage it grew wealthy, and during an assessment in 1275 to fund a crusade, it ranked fourth among the Scottish Augustinian houses, after only St Andrews, Scone and Holyrood. Its abbot carried the relics of St. Fillan ahead of the Scottish army to Bannockburn in 1314. However, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century its fortunes declined and in 1556 it was converted without much objection to a secular lordship for the Drummond family, and then the earls of Kinnoull (who still own both surviving chartularies of the community). What remained of the abbey was cleared during the creation of a road in 1816, and all that now remains is a mound and some small walls. 2. Alan Rankin, Edinburgh bookseller.3. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 1690/1-5, acquired from Rankin in July 1993. Text:Medieval Scottish manuscripts and records are of some rarity on the market, and those that have survived outside of religious institutions are exceptionally so. As W.A. Lindsey, J. Dowden and J.M. Thomson explain in the introduction to Charters, bulls and other documents relating to the abbey of Inchaffray, chiefly from the originals in the charter chest of the Earl of Kinnoull (1908, p. v), the Inchaffray cartulary held by the Earl of Kinnoull was published in 1847, followed in 1908 by the publication of some boxes of charters from the Kinnoull archive relating to the abbey, many of which were not represented in the cartulary. Likewise, all of the documents here are completely unknown and unstudied.

Ɵ Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, in Latin, in Visigothic minuscule, decorated manuscript on parchment[northern Spain (perhaps Silos), first half of the tenth century] Near-complete leaf, with remains of two columns of 29 lines (with parts of ch. III:6-10 of text, with occasional scribal errors, apparently involving eye-skip as well as textual misunderstandings), with margins at head and foot and thus no lines lost there from trimming, written in brown ink in a fine and early Visigothic minuscule, rubrics in alternate lines of burgundy-red and normal brown pen, two large initials with penwork compartments infilled with burgundy wash, one initial terminating in a spiky foliate tip, some natural flaws in parchment (these written around by the original scribe), a few erasures, offset in places from another leaf of same, some scrawled numbers on one side from reuse as later binding material, slightly scuffed, a few wormholes, and trimmed on one side (removing outer half of one column), 274 by 150mm.; in cloth-covered card binding This is an extremely early and important witness to a key Carolingian text, produced most probably through imperial pressure to reunite Western monasticism behind a correct and correctly interpreted copy of the Benedictine Rule; and in addition, it is in the earliest and most visually appealing example of Visigothic minuscule to come to the market in decades Provenance:1. Written and decorated in the first half of the tenth century in Visigothic Spain, perhaps in Silos in Burgos province in northeastern Castile and Léon. A bifolium from the prologue of the same parent volume is Beinecke Library, MS. 447, with inscriptions suggesting that the parent volume was cut up in 1612, and reused as binding material then (B. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, 1987, II, p. 398). This is consistent with the seventeenth-century scrawled columns of numbers added to one side of the present leaf after its reuse as a binding.2. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, Califonia; his 'I/162', acquired in October 1963. With Bernard Bischoff's typed letter to Rosenthal about this fragment, dated 10 May 1964, and an undated note by Rosenthal erroneously claiming it is not from the same parent manuscript as the Lansburgh fragment (now Beinecke, MS. 447).3. Quaritch of London, their cat. 1088, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, III (1988), no. 12, and with a copy of their cataloguing and correspondence about the fragment enclosed.4. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo; their MS. 73, acquired directly from Quaritch. Text:Smaragdus (fl. 809-26) was a Benedictine monk and scholar, and one of the handful of authors who helped shape the earliest phases of the Carolingian renaissance. Very little information survives about him. He was once thought to be Irish, but this was questioned by Bernhard Bischoff ('Muridac doctissimus plebis, ein irischer Grammatiker des IX. Jahrhunderts', Celtica, 5, 1960, pp. 40-44). Other scholars followed, noting Smaragdus' use of Visigothic examples in his writing on patronyms (L. Holtz, '(Nouveaux) prolégomènes à l'édition du Liber in partibus Donati de Smaragde de Saint-Mihiel', Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, 1983, pp. 157-170), and his knowledge of obscure Spanish texts such as the Sententiae of Taio of Saragossa (F. Rädle, Studien zu Smaragd, 1974, pp. 75-77). It now seems certain that Smaragdus came from Visigothic Spain, and may have held office as the abbot of Silos. He perhaps fled northwards into the Carolingian Empire ahead of the Islamic advance through Spain in the late eighth century. He appears first in the historical record in the first decade of the ninth century as master of the school of Castillio, a monastery dedicated to St. Michael ('Mihiel') in the diocese of Verdun in southern France.This is one of the earliest witnesses to the oldest known commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, allowing us to come into contact with the textual fervour of the Carolingian period as well as Benedict's original sixth-century text. The Benedictine Rule was as much an answer to Charlemagne's scholarly call to arms, as the production of the Tours Bibles. It was the foundation stone of all Western monasticism, and was adopted in 816 at a council called by Emperor Louis the Pious at Aachen, as the rule to be followed in all monasteries throughout the Empire. An eye-witness to this imperial council, Benedict of Aniane, records that the entire text of the rule was discussed there, with debate clarifying obscure or vague passages and removing errors from the text. As L. Traube has noted, it is clear that the scholars of the Carolingian court used a copy made at Charlemagne's request from an old manuscript in use at Montecassino, believing that to be St. Benedict's original (Textgeschichte der "Regula S. Benedicti", 1898). Moreover, St. Gallen, MS. 914 has a letter at its beginning stating that that authorative court copy was its exemplar, and it is likely that Smaragdus used that crucial manuscript as well to produce this text - indeed, in quoting the text of the rule, Smaragdus, often favours the original sixth-century Latin forms over those updated for the ninth century. With this blend of antiquarianism and reestablishment of a correct guide for European monasticism, this text exemplified the Carolingian ideals. Indeed, it may have been commissioned by Louis the Pious himself.In addition, this leaf and its sister-leaf in Yale are among the very earliest witnesses to the text. A. Spannagel lists fifty-five extant manuscripts, of which only five definitely predate the present example (British Library, Addit. 16961, from Stavelot, late ninth century; Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale 230 (201), from France, mid-ninth century; BnF. lat. 4213, from France, late ninth century; Valenciennes, Bibliotheque municipale 285 (275), from France, late ninth century; John Rylands, MS. lat. 104 (116), from Spain, probably Cardeña, late ninth century; and Silos, Archivo del Monasterio 1 and 5-16, from Spain and probably from the monastery itself, late ninth century + Madrid, Archivio Historico National, Clero. Capeta 1030, num. 24, most probably from the same parent codex) as well as two examples of c. 900 (Paris, BnF. lat. 4212, from France; and Vienna, ÖNB, Ser. nov. 4267), and eight of the tenth century (Berlin, Staatsbibl., theol. lat. fol. 339, from Cologne; Cambridge University Library, Ee.2.4, from England; Poland, Kórnik, Biblioteca Kórnicka, from France; BnF. lat. 4210, France; British Library, Addit. 16961, from Cardeña; Madrid, Biblioteca de la Real Academia, 26, from Spain; Montserrat, Biblioteca del Monestir 793-I, from Spain; and Valvanera, Archivo del Monasterio, s.n., from Spain, dated 954: see Smaragdi Abbatis Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti, 1974, pp. xv-xx). In fact, a distribution pattern emerges when we look at these witnesses, with an initial ninth-century burst of copying of the text in France, ending in two late ninth-century copies from Spain in the John Rylands and Silos+ Madrid, Archivio Historico National manuscripts.  Read more...

Charter recording the sale of land from Thomasse, daughter of James le Mesurier and wife of Nicholas Le Feyure, to Pierre le Mesurier of the Parish of St. Peter du Bois, issued in the name of Amice de Carteret, the Bailiff of Guernsey, in French, manuscript document on parchment[Guernsey, dated 12 January 1612] Single-sheet document, on 22 long lines of a cursive and informal French secretarial hand, opening words in larger version of same, modern pencil note at head with date of issue, seal once suspended from foot on tag cut horizontally from base of document (now wanting), endorsed in contemporary hand on reverse and with two crude crosses, some modern dealer marks in pencil, some folds and small areas of discolouration, overall excellent condition, 150 by 270mm. Provenance:1. Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), London bookdealer: with his typed description, and his dealer marks in pencil on reverse. 2. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 1874, acquired June 1994 from Thomas' estate. Text:Amice de Carteret (1559-1631) was the founder of the line of de Carterets of Trinity, who served as a Jurat of Jersey's Royal Court and then as bailiff and lieut-governor of Guernsey. He was a renowned opponent of witchcraft and allegedly tried seventy-seven witches, ordering thirty-four of those to be burned alive. As noted in the previous lot, manuscripts from the Channel Islands are of extreme rarity on the market.

Ɵ Cutting from a leaf of Pseudo-Hegesippus, De Bello Judaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae, a Latin adaptation of Josephus Flavius, The Jewish War, in early Beneventan script, manuscript on parchment[central Italy (Montecassino), early eleventh century (before 1030)] Cutting fashioned to use as the board-support of a later bookbinding (rectangular, with two channels cut into section to be pasted around spine of later book to allow for sewing stations), remains of double column of 13 lines in a fine and accomplished transitional Beneventan minuscule (with I.2.10, I.3.5, and I.1.7, 9 of the text), remains of blank margin on one vertical side, the other trimmed with loss of a few characters from the column-edge there, stains to the sections once around spine of later binding, a few wormholes, scuffed in places to reverse (but mostly legible), 128 by 285mm.; in cloth-covered card binding This fragment is an early and important witness to this strange text, a late fourth-century Latin adaptation of Josephus, The Jewish War; here in Beneventan script and securely from the medieval library of the grand Benedictine foundation abbey of Montecassino Provenance: 1. From a parent codex produced in the celebrated abbey of Montecassino in the first few decades of the eleventh century, and used there in their medieval library. At the close of the Middle Ages it was cut up and reused as binding material, and another 71 leaves and fragments remain in Montecassino, Compactio III and VIII, with this cutting fitting together with one in Compactio VIII (on the cuttings in Montecassino, see V. Ussani, 'Un ignoto codice cassinese del cosi detto Egesippo e i suoi affini', in Casinensia. Miscellanea di studi cassinesi, 1929, pp. 601-614; and V. Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (I)', Mediaeval Studies, 40, 1978, p. 262).2. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, California.3. Quaritch of London, their cat. 1128, Bookhands of the Middle Ages IV: Beneventan Script (1990), no. 1 (the earliest item in that catalogue, and singled out by Brown in her introduction alongside the Vergil, later sold in Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 18, as "particularly important").4. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 183. Text:Pseudo-Hegesippus lived in the fourth century, but beyond this we know almost nothing of him. His name may be a misunderstanding of 'Iosippus' (for Josephus) whose work he drew on, or a false attribution to Hegesippus the Nazarene (d. 180 AD.) to give the work authority. Alternatively, some manuscripts attribute it to Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397) and some commentators to a converted Jew named Isaac, producing it for European Jewish populations who could no longer read Greek. The author is often thought of a simple Latin translator of Josephus' The Jewish War, but his work is more of a history of the period, drawing its material mainly from Josephus' works, as well as from Virgil, Sallust, Tacitus, Ammianus, Suetonius, Quintilian and Cicero, and deserves to be seen as a work in its own right. Surprisingly, it almost never draws on the Bible for its material, and this is all the more startling for the fact it adopts an overt Christian tone and the statement of the author that it was to be used for the peaceful convertion of medieval Jews. An apparent allusion to the recent reconquest of Britain by Theodosius c. 370, but the author's lack of knowledge of the defeats of the Roman Empire in 378 and 410, has been used to date its composition to between those years. The text was wildly popular, and for much of the Middle Ages was the version of Josephus' work most well known in Europe, producing nearly forty recorded medieval manuscripts, a large number of citations and rhymed and metrical versions in manuscripts from Tegernsee (E. Dümmler, 'Gedichte aus Münchener Handschriften', Neues Archiv, VII, 1881, pp. 608-613) and England (see Dom G. Morin, 'Hégésippe en rimes latine', Revue Bénédictine, 31, 1914-1919, pp. 174-178). The present manuscript and its sister leaves stand among the early and important witnesses to the text. The earliest is a series of palimpsest fragments of the text of the sixth century originally from Bobbio, now held in the Biblioteca Ambroisiana in Milan (C. 105 inf: CLA III, no. 323a). Copies of the seventh century (Paris, BnF., lat. 13,367), and ninth century (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 170; Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 180; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. Perg. LXXXII; Innsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol, frag. 72; and Kassel, Landesbibiothek, theol. 65) follow. Three tenth-century copies are recorded (Leiden, Voss. Lat. F 17; Turin, Bibl. Univ., D IV 7; and Paris, BnF. lat. 12513), as well as three of c. 1000 (Besancon, Bibl. mun., 833; Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale 678; and Chartres, Médiathèque, 117). Only seven other eleventh-century manuscripts are recorded (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 149; Cherbourg, Médiathèque, 51; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. Perg. CI; Koblenz, Landeshauptarchiv, Best. 701, Nr. 759, 22; Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, 403 bis; Leiden, Bibliotheek der Universiteit, B.P.L. 21; and Paris, BnF, lat. 12512). Loew notes that another copy of the text, also of the early eleventh century, was at Montecassino, and was once used by Boccaccio and is now Florence, Laurenziana, MS. 66.1 (Beneventan Script, 1914, p. 71).Script:Beneventan script, the most well known of the local hands of the Early Middle Ages, refused to be swept away by the Carolingian script reforms of the late eighth and ninth centuries, and stalwartly continued like a paleographical 'living fossil' in Montecassino and its dependant houses in southern and central Italy and coastal Dalmatia through to the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, with a final appearances in the sixteenth century. On first glance, it appears illegible, a mass of swirling letterforms, broken penstrokes and archaic letters inherited from Roman cursive hands. However, it also delights and fascinates the eye, and has remained close to Martin Schøyen's bibliophilic heart since he acquired the entire stock en bloc of Quaritch's 'Beneventan Hands' catalogue in 1990. In order to reflect the range of Beneventan holdings in his library we offer five examples here.It is quite remarkable that this text here is copied here in Beneventan script. Even a brief glance at Lowe's and Brown's lists of Beneventan manuscripts shows that overwhelmingly this script was used for Biblical, liturgical and patristic books (of the 600 manuscripts listed by Lowe, over 90% fit into these categories), but Montecassino played an important role in the preservation of several important historical and Classical texts. They rarely come to the market, with noteworthy examples the Orosius fragments now in Yale, MS. 1023 and the Virgil, Georgics, once Schøyen Collection MS. 61, and sold in their first sale at Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 18, for £32,000 hammer. Published: V. Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (III)', Mediaeval Studies, 56 (1994), p. 316.BMB. Bibliografia dei manuscritti in scrittura beneventana, 1993-1995, 2000-2001, no. SPS 183 (but reported in error there as in Norway).And noted online in the Mirabile website's listing manuscripts of the text, augmenting the list of manuscripts in V. Ussani, Hegesippi qui dicitur historiae libri V (1932 and 1960).

Ɵ Leaf from a sermon collection, with parts of a tractate and a sermon by Augustine and an anonymous sermon probably composed by a fifth-century African bishop, in Beneventan minuscule and with two fine penwork initials, manuscript in Latin on parchment[Italy (almost certainly Abruzzo, or just perhaps in Montecassino by an Abruzzi scribe), late twelfth century] Most of a large leaf, trimmed at top and bottom with losses of a few lines of text there, double columns of 35 remaining lines in a distinctively short and leftward leaning Beneventan minuscule, with the descenders of the letters 'p', 'q' and 's' swinging to the left strongly suggesting an Abruzzi origin, capitals touched in red and dull earthy yellow wash, opening words of each section in ornamental capitals touched in red, bright red rubrics, two large penwork initials formed of parallel bands and ornate interlace with geometric knots at their terminals, corners and midpoints, as well as some simple acanthus leaf shoots at their extremities, recovered from a binding and hence with folds, small stains, thumbed areas and darkened edges, overall good condition, 314 by 306mm.; in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: 1. From a finely decorated Beneventan sermon collection, written in the late twelfth century in either Abruzzo (which as F. Newton has shown had a regular flow and exchange of monastic personnel and books with the Beneventan mother house of Montecassino: The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino Under the Abbots Desiderius and Oderisius I, 1999, pp. 240-241 and 246-247), or in Montecassino itself by a scribe trained in Abruzzo. From the eleventh century onwards, a large number of the abbots of Montecassino came from the Abruzzo, and numerous members of the community came from the nobility of that region, and on occasion are recorded as going back there regularly (ibid., p. 241). A sister leaf, with text preceding that here was sold by Bernard Rosenthal to University of Kansas in Lawrence, and is their Spencer Research Library J6:3:A2.2. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, California, his 'I/237', acquired May 1975.3. Quaritch of London, their cat. 1128, Bookhands of the Middle Ages IV: Beneventan Script (1990), no. 18.4. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 53. Text:The text here is composed of three sermons by or usually associated with Augustine of Hippo. The first is his Tractatus in Iohannem 124:7-8, followed by a sermon opening "Fratres Karissimi, ait spiritus sanctus per salamonem ...". The last, a sermon in honour of the Holy Innocents, opening "David propheta sanctissimus loquitur ...", is ascribed here to John Chrysostom, but is usually erroneously included among Augustine's works. It is thought by modern scholarship to be Roman North African in origin, and the work of a Donatist bishop of that region from the opening years of the fifth century, who cited Vetus Latina readings for Matthew 2:19-23 (see E. Dekkers, Clavis Patrum Latinorum, 1961, p. 204, no. 920, also cited as pseudo-Chrysostom there; and R. Gryson, Vetus Latina: die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel, I, 2007, p. 145, citing B. Löfstedt, Sedulius Scottus: Kommentar zum Evangelium nach Matthäum, 1989; however, the sole Biblical quotation here is from Psalm 8:3, and that consistent with the Vulgate).  Decoration:The initials here are of a rare type for twelfth-century Italy, evidently inspired along with white-vine initials from the geometric initials of the Tours Bibles, and yet with more exaggerated geometric strapwork than their peers to compensate for the stripping away of the use of multi-colour washes (as in white-vine initials). Similar examples for Beneventan manuscripts can be found in a copy of the works of Virgil, in Beneventan minuscule, produced in Naples in the eleventh century (now BnF, Latin 10308: F. Avril and Y. Zaluska, Manuscrits enluminés d'origine Italienne, 1980, no. 30; note in particular the bulging domed buds with a dot at their centre in pl. VI), but they can also be found in isolated examples further afield in Italy. A notably similar initial with geometric knots at the head of its ascender appear in a copy of the works of Horace, made in Central Italy in the second quarter of the twelfth century (ibid., no. 44: now BnF., Latin 10401). Published: F. Mottolo, 'I frammenti in beneventana e Carolina nell'archivio di Corfinio', in Scrittura e produzione documentaria el Mezzogiorno, 1991, p. 115.Répertoire des catalogues de manuscrits en ecriture latine anterieurs a 1600, List no. 10, 1990, p. 8, no. 42.BMB. Bibliografia dei manuscritti in scrittura beneventana, 1993-1995, 2000, 2013, no. SPS 53 (but reported in error there as in Norway).

Ɵ Leaf from a Bible, with Proverbs 29:15-30:20, manuscript in fine Montecassino Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, on parchment[central Italy, c. 1200] Single leaf, with single column of 27 lines in a mature Beneventan minuscule of Montecassino type, initials in larger calligraphic letters, reused in seventeenth century on accounts for years "1611 al 1619" (inscription with those dates where spine would have been on later binding and on backboard, and "C Fc" at head of what would have been the front board), other scrawls with numbers and sums, some folds and small stains, a few small holes, else good condition, 320 by 220mm.; in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: 1. Copied as part of an impressive Bible manuscript, c. 1200, in Montecassino in central Italy, the grand foundation abbey of the entire Benedictine Order. Later reused as the binding of accounts dated 1611-1619.2. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, California; sold to Mark Lansburgh (1925-2013) of Santa Barbara, California, the department store magnate, art historian and manuscript leaf collector: his inkstamp on verso enclosing a penwork 'xii', and then later bought back by Rosenthal in June 1966. Then Rosenthal's 'I/200'.3. Quaritch of London, their cat. 1128, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, IV: Beneventan Script (1990), no. 19.4. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 57. Script:Much about the script on this handsome leaf suggests the second half of the twelfth century, but the pronounced angularity indicates that it was written in the opening years of the thirteenth century. An origin in Montecassino itself is indicated by the interrogative zigzag sign like a '2' placed in the last lines of the verso and answered with a similar symbol over two points at the end of each clause. Published: V. Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (II)', Mediaeval Studies, 50 (1988), p. 615.Répertoire des catalogues de manuscrits en ecriture latine anterieurs a 1600, list no. 10, 1990, p. 8 no 42. BMB. Bibliografia dei manuscritti in scrittura beneventana, 1993-1995, 2000-2001, 2007, 2014, 2018, no. SPS 57 (but reported in error there as in Norway).

All First Edns - Some Signed Copies  Donleavy (J.P.) Fairy Tales of New York, N.Y. (Random House) 1961, First Edn., Signed, d.w.; A Singular Man, L. (Bodley) 1964, First Edn, d.w. Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule, L. (Bodley Head) 1965, First Edn., d.w.; The Ginger Man, N.Y.  McDowell, Obolsensky 1958, Revised Edn., The Saddest Summer of Samuel S., N.Y. (Delacorte Press) 1966. First Edn., Signed Twice, & with manuscript verse in author's hand, pict. d.w.; The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B., Lond. 1969. First Edn., d.w.; A Fairy Tale of New York, Lond. 1973. First Edn., d.w.; The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman, Lond. 1978. First Lond. Edn., d.w.; & That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman, Lond. 1990, First Edn., d.w. All v. good. (9)

In Fine Craft Binding O'Curry (Eugene) Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, 8vo D. 1861. First Edn., hf. title, 26 fac-simile plts., recent full green mor. gilt fillet borders, doublures & gilt Celtic designed spine in panels, by Bayntun Riviere, in slipcase. V. desirable copy. (1)

Henry Bradshaw Society Warren (F.E)ed. The Antiphonary of Bangor, An early Irish Manuscript in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, 2 vols. folio Lond. 1893 First Edn., A Complete Facsimile. In a very fine recent professional hf. calf binding, blind and gilt tooled decoration. V. good. (2)

The Book of Kells - Most Sumptuous Edition Facsimile - Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION, published by Authority of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin. Lg. thick 4to, Luzern 1990, LIMITED EDN. (1480), in fine white tawed leather over wooden boards. Contained in a specially created presentation box, the embossed surface with blind & gilt tooled Celtic decoration and silver and brass mounts. Together with a large Commentary Volume, with illus., leather backed cloth, and orig. advertising portfolio. An unique opportunity to acquire a complete facsimile of one of the Worlds greatest Art Treasures. As a lot. (1)

Rare Hunting Manuscript The Genesis of The Galway Blazers Co. Galway: Rules to be observed by the Birmingham Hunt, A large manuscript poster type document, outlining the rules, cost of membership & listing approx. 42 gentlemen including Wm. & John Birmingham, Denis and Dominic Daly, five members of the Kirwin family, five Blakes, The Earl of Louth, Lord St. Lawrence, others include various members of the French's, the Burke's, the Bodkins, Lynch's & Mahon's and others. A single sheet, approx. 18" x 12" (46cms x 30cms), no date (c. 1800), paper watermarked 'R. Nun'. Unique item. V. Rare. (1)

Dublin Commerce for a Century [Bank of Ireland.]  A large thick folio Manuscript lined Ledger, 1819 to circa 1908, c. 350 numbered pages, recording details of various accounts and other matters, including salaries, wages, rents and taxes, the Dublin Port and Docks Boards etc. Very strongly bound in full reversed leather with strapwork panels on heavy boards, somewhat worn but holding firmly. A cornucopia of information covering almost a century. (1)

Short Writings of a Victorian Literary Figure, with extra Manuscript Material Taylor (Tom)ed. Pen Sketches by a vanished hand, from the papers of the late Mortimer Collins, with notes by the editor and Mrs Mortimer Collins.  London. 1879.  2 vols, clothbound 20 x 14 cm.    Armorial bookplates of [Lord] Cotton.  Frontispiece portrait.  Several letters pasted or tipped in. (1) The Poet and Novelist Edward James Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) was the author of sparkling lyrics and whimsical novels.  The short pieces in these volumes were edited by his widow, the novelist Frances Dunn, and the prolific dramatist, critic and editor of Punch, Tom Taylor (1817-1880).  The inserts include letters to Mrs Collins from (among others) the poet and essayist Austin Dobson and a printed dedication signed by the poet and critic Edmund Gosse.

Northern Ireland Interest - Manuscript:  Institute of Journalists - Ulster District Honorary Treasurer's Records for the Years 1890-1931, manuscript notebook, 8vo, over 275pp of entries, recording income and expenditure, and with an extensive index at front, cloth & paper cover. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)

Signed by the Liberator [Daniel O'Connell] A mounted Collage, including German Print of O'Connell, with manuscript signature inset dated March 12th, 1839. (1)

A fine and important collection of Ulster Wit Belfast Political Scrapbook, 19th century A large folio Scrapbook, in marbled boards, by Marcus Ward of Belfast, containing a fine and important collection of over 60 cartoons and lampoons, circa 1830-80, mainly concerning Ulster elections and political controversies, including a group referring to Daniel O’Connell featuring Church-State conflicts (‘Pills for Protestants by The Leading Repealer’; ‘The Derrynane Beagle-Hunt’, ‘O’Connell’s Departure from Belfast’, ‘Dan’s Last Flutter’), etc.,  also sardonic cartoons and caricatures featuring candidates in various elections, e.g. Lisburn election 1853, Harbour Board election 1857,  ‘A Lot of Belfast Jackasses Fond of Scotch ‘Hay’, being fed by a Liberal Candidate’ (1865), Belfast Election 1868, ‘A Calm Judicial Inquiry’ (Portadown 1869), Belfast Election 1974, Belfast Election 1878, General Election 1880, several featuring Gladstone, etc. There are also posters and mock announcements (‘Grand & Novel Entertainment in the County of Down’, tickets may be had of Guy Fawkes at the Sign of the Three Rats near Comber), poems including ‘Elegy Written in a Country Back-Yard’,  ‘A Tale of the Radical Party and its Melancholy Fate’ (1857),  ‘The Ballyweaney Boanerges’,  a column headed ‘Sale of Lord Pisswick’s Conservative Stud’ with names written in manuscript beside some of the paragraphs;  ‘To the No-Bill-I-Tie and Shareholders of the County Down Railway’,  and other cartoons and lampoons whose application will be clear to students of the period. The prints are in various sizes, many around 10 x 14 ins, some larger, mostly on flimsy paper, generally unsigned and with no printer named.  They are evidently extracted from contemporary newspapers, many issued as supplements.  They are neatly tipped in, and while there is some damage and soiling, condition is generally good.  The spine of the volume has been neatly strengthened. A splendid anthology of sardonic Ulster Wit,  probably unique in its range and certainly impossible to duplicate. As an Album, w.a.f. 

Irish National Aid and Volunteers Dependent's Fund Catalogue of Gift Sale, Mansion House, Dublin 20 - 21st April (no year but probably 1917). With addenda added in manuscript. 8vo coloured printed wrappers. (1) * Some pieces added in pencil, including 2.4 shillings for files of 'United Irishmen,' 'Irish Freedom' & 'Irish Felon'

Republican Broadsides & Ballads: A very comprehensive Republican Scrap Album containing many rare broadsides, ballads, illustrated portraits, together with several typescript additions, & a large amount of manuscript material. Broadsides include, T. Mc Donagh's 'Last & Inspiring Address' which was suppressed by The Military; P.H. Pearses 'Last Letter'; also 'The Last Poem of Thomas Ashe (Lewes Prison); 'The Pig Push' dedicated to Diarmuid Lynch; 'Irish Emigrants and English Mobs,' by Bishop of Limerick, 1915, etc. printed poems & ballads by Peadar Kearney, Maeve Cavanagh etc. In a 4to Album, over 150pp, tightly packed with a multiplicity of articles in print & manuscript, much of which might not be available elsewhere. As an Album, w.a.f. An important collection. (1)

Guarding the Frontiers of the United States American Revolution. Chittenden (Thomas) President of the Council of Safety, Manuscript Document signed as President of the Council of Safety, Bennington, Vermont, March 2 1778, a military warrant to Isaac Clark: 'You are hereby required .. to enlist fifty ablebodied effective ...' countersigned by Joseph Fay, Secretary. One page, folds expertly repaired on blank verso. With a typescript biography of Joseph Fay.  Revolutionary material from the State of Vermont is now rare. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)

Manuscript Plan:  Valence assiegee par l'Armee du Roi de Sardoigne du 22 Avril 1746, A coloured hand drawn battle plan, approx. 27cms x 37.5cms (10 1/2" x 14 1/2), single sheet. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)

The Atlas that Changed the World Ortelius (Abraham)  ?Theatrum Orbis Terrarum?, folio, Antwerp (Aegidius Coppenius Diesth) 1570, First Edition (Second Issue) [?Catalogus auctorum with 91 names] 14pps, 53 double-page engraved Maps, contemporary hand colouring, and manuscript notes in borders on reverse, hand coloured architectural title page (loose and cut-down border), the maps include the following : 1.       Typus Orbis Terrarum; 2.       Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova descriptio; 3.       ?Asia Nova Descriptio?; 4.       ?Africa?, Cae Ta Bula Nova; 5.       ?Europae?; 6.       ?Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae Sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio ;  7.       ? Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editiones Locupleissi Ma Descriptio?; 8.       ?Portugalliae que olim Lusitania nouissima et exactisima desriptio Auctore Vernando Aluara Secco; 9.       ?Galliae Regni Potentiss : Nova Descriptio Joanne Joliveto Auctore?; 10.    ?Biturigum Regio?, and ?Limanla? 11.    ?Caletes et Bononienses? and ?Veromandui? ; 12.    ?Galliae Nar Bonensis ora Maritima? and ?Burgundiae Comitatus?; 13.    ?Germania?; 14.    ?Descrip Tio Germania Inferioris?; 15.    ?Gelriae, Cliviae, Fini Timorumque Locorum Verissima Desriptio Christiano Schnot, Auctore?; 16.    ?Brabantiae, Germaniae Inferioris Nobilissimae Provinciae de Scriptio?; 17.    ?Flandria? 18.    ?Zelandicarum Insularum Exactissima et Nova descriptio,Auctore D. Jaobo A. Daventria, 19.    ?Hollandia Anti Quorum Catthorum Sedis Nova descriptio, Auctore J.A. Daventria?; 20.    ?Utriusque Frisiorum Regionis Novis Descriptio (1568); 21.    ?Daniae Regni Typus?; 22.    ?Thietmarsia? & Prussia?; 23.    ?Saxoniae Misniae, Thuringiae, Nova Exactissimaq Descriptio?; 24.    ?Franconia? and ?Monasteriensis? 25.    ?Regni Bohemiae Descriptio? 26.    ?Silesiae Typus Descriptus et Editus Martino Heil Wig Neisense et Nobili Viro Nicolao Rhedinger dedicatus  (Anno 1561); 27. "Austriae Ducatus Chorographia, Wolf Gango Lazio Auctore" 28. "Salisburgensis Iurisdictionjs, Locorumingue, Vicinorum, Vera descripto Auctore Marco  S. Salisburgense?; 29.    ?Tipus Vindeliciae Sive Utriusque Bavariae Secundum? [dated 1533]; 30.    ?Nortgoia vel Bavariae Palatinatus? and ?Wirtenbergensis Ducatus?; 31.    ?Helvetia?; 32.    ?Italia Novissima Descriptio Auctore J.C. Pedemontano?; 33.    ?Mediolanensis Ducatus?; 34.    ?Pedemontana Regio?; 35.    ?Lacus Comensis Olim Larius?, ?Forum Iula? and ?Romae Territorium?; 36.    ?Thusciae Descriptio Descriptio Auctore Hieronymo Bellarmato?; 37.    ?Regnum Neapolitanum?; 38.    ?Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio? (Sardinia, Malta, Corfu, Sicily, Zerbi and Elba) 39.    ?Cyprus Insula? and ?Candia, Olim Creta?; 40.   ?Graeciae Universiae Secundum Hodieanum Sitcum Neoterica Descriptio?; 41.   ?Sclavonia? 42.   ?Hungariae Descriptio Wolfgango Lazio Auct.?; 43.   ?Transsylvania?; 44.   ?Poloniae Regnum?; 45.   ?Scandia Siue Regones Septentrionales?; 46.   ?Russia Aut potius Magni Ducis Moscoviae Imperium?; 47.   ?Tartaria siue Magni Chami Imperium?; 48.   ?Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus" ; 49.   ?Persia Regnum Siue Sophorum Imperium"; 50.   ?Turcicum Imperium"; 51.   ? Palaestina Vel Terra Sancta"; 52.   ?Natolia Olim Asia Minor?, ?Aegyptus?, and ?Carthaginensis Portus?; 53.   ?Barbariae et Biledulgerid Nova Descriptio?, All contemporary hand coloured, 60pps text at end (including Colophon) in somewhat later full leather gilt decorated armorial binding, with crest to front cover and back (thought to be that of Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Grandson of Louis XIV known as the 'Petit Dauphin' (the Little Dolphin). He became heir to the French Throne in 1711 on the death of his father, but subsequently died the following year. The spine with raised bands, and fleur de ly panels. Some slight wear but otherwise tight and v. good. A most attractive volume. (1)     Reference: Koeman III ort 1A; Van der Krogt 31:001A: Shirley, British Library T.ort ? 1A.                                                                                          

Wilson (Florence M), Ulster Poet (c. 1870-1946).  A binder containing fourteen original poems, mostly typescript with two manuscript, some signed or with m/ss. corrections, many of them about children or written in a child?s voice, some probably unpublished. The last poem here is dated Jan. 1 1916. A few sheets fragile and strengthened to rear.  With a folder containing a printed copy of The Hearthstone, The Story Magazine of Ireland, Vol.1 no 3, July 1922, containing Florence Wilson?s best known work, the ballad ?The Man from God Knows Where? (about the 1798 leader Thomas Russell). Florence Wilson published only one collection, The Coming of the Earls and Other Verse (Candle Press 1918).  She was a friend of Alice Milligan and of Alice Stopford Green.

The Republican Poetess Cavanagh MacDowell (Maeve) A folder containing a large collection of her original poetry, many signed, probably intended for a collected edition, with about 75 pages typescript (some duplication), including a poem in memory of Hermann Goertz,  and about 15 items in manuscript, some signed, many with corrections, also a typescript list of her works and some other items.   * The folder also includes a sheet in Cavanagh's hand headed 'The night before 1916  in Liberty Hall', giving an important eyewitness account of  the scene in Liberty Hall as Connolly tried to reassure Citizen Army members that the planned Rising had only been postponed.  'I remember how indignantly they exclaimed "Ah they'll never do anything". But Connolly soothed them down and told us all things would go on and it would be only a part postponement.  He then showed us along the passages & into one of the rooms, the girls were still venting their disappointment. Dr. Lynn was there - Helena Molony & Mary Perotz ..'  [See  R.M. Fox's chapter on Cavanagh in his 'Rebel Irishwomen', elsewhere in this sale, where some of this account is confirmed]. The  folder also contains an incomplete letter in an unknown hand, apparently referring to an  occasion when Mary MacSwiney prevented a letter from [Michael] Collins being given to [her brother] Terry, then towards the end of his hunger strike. [It has been reported elsewhere that Collins urged MacSwiney to call off his strike].  There is also a letter or draft letter in Cavanagh's hand  to a newspaper about cock-fighting, and a few childish letters addressed to 'Dear Nan'. The poetry is of mixed  quality.  Cavanagh was not a major poet, but she was not without talent, and the best items in this collection are certainly worth preserving.  Maeve Cavanagh was an early member of the Gaelic League in Dublin; later she moved to Sligo and Derry.  She began writing verses for 'The Peasant', edited by W.P. Ryan, and wrote for various Republican and left-wing papers after her  return to Dublin around 1910. She was often in  Liberty Hall, and on Easter Monday  morning, 1916, she was sent to Waterford with James Connolly's message, 'We fight at noon'. By the time she  was able to return to Dublin, it was all over. Her brother, Ernest Cavanagh, drew cartoons for 'The Irish Worker', for which Maeve wrote the captions.  He was shot dead by a British soldier while standing unarmed on the  steps of Liberty Hall on Easter Tuesday 1916.  As a  collection, w.a.f.  (1) Provenance:   From the Family of Austin Stack.

Yeats (W.B.) A mounted Collage, including a black and white Photograph of W.B. Yeats, seated reading a book, inset with manuscript signature 'W.B. Yeats, May 25, 1923'. Nice Presentation Item. (1)

Unique Copy with a Profusion of Extra Manuscript Notes Smith (Charles) The Ancient and Present of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1750. First Edn., Engd. port. frontis Vol. I, list of subscribers, lg. fold. map of the County, & 12 engd. pls. some lg. fold.) complete, annotated by a contemporary hand thro-out, & with extra notes, cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. V. good. (2) * A most interesting copy, with considerable additions, local observations and corrections from the Collections of John Lodge Esq. & others. Together with the numerous annotations and comments in the margins, there are also 55 tipped in manuscript notes (some full page) thro-out the text, plus 2 extra engd. plates. A unique and highly important copy. 

the heart-shaped glazed locket containing a pleated lock of hair, the seed pearl set border with pearl and ruby set intertwined suspenderLength: 2.5cmFootnote: Notes:With accompanying early 19th century manuscript note reading ‘This brooch in which is Prince Charles Edwards hair was given to Sir William Napier’s mother by Flora MacDonald’s niece the hair in the brooch is Prince Charles Edwards’.It is believed the Sir William Napier the note refers is the General who served with distinction in Wellingtons army in the peninsula wars. Not only a renowned military figure he was an avid historian publishing widely on army history

DIARIES : A collection of over EIGHTY manuscript diaries of the Simpson family ( Edith Mary, and F.R.B ) of Maypool: An extensive record of country life during the first half of the twentieth century, with copious entries during the war period. The earliest diary is 1898, they don't seem to go beyond WW11.

MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP : " Plan of Upper Nappers Coppice the Property of A. Mellersh Esq." Size : 520 x 285 mm. Surveyed by W. Shorto, Midhurst, 1859. F & G.

MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK & WILL : *This book contains (copious) entries regarding the Will and Codicils of the late Francis Russell." 545 pages stuffed full of entries in various legible hands. Vellum. The total value of the will and property was just short of £50,000. The gentleman had property at Westminster and Basingstoke. 1799.

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK : Neatly written cookery book which includes well over 500 recipes, leather, 8vo, c1890 ? with another crammed full of recipes cut out of newspapers and magazines as untidy as the other one is tidy. Also a "Motor Records" full of manuscript entries circa 1900s.(3)

PAUL DU PONT [1603-1668] after van Dyck- a portrait engraving of Henricus Steenwyck, together with a similar portrait of Nicolas Fabricius de Peirese by Vorsterman, one other engraving by Richard Blome of Gods Fighting dedicated to Sir Henry Hobart, a 19th Century theatre engraving by D.Smith for All's Right at the Haymarket, a George II manuscript contract and a 1927 National Tea Co. share certificate. [6]

GRAND TOUR : A neat legible manuscript notebook of forty pages, "Mary H. Dendy from A. H. Dendy. March 15th 1877. Illustrated with seven small photographs, 8vo, flexible cloth. 1877.* On the yacht "Star of the Sea." Plymouth through the Bay of Biscay to Gibraltar into the Mediterranean to Algeria (the most interesting part) then on to Naples Bay)

MANUSCRIPT BOOKS : Five hand made books with illustrations by A. W. Hartley of the Tenth Finchley Boy Scouts. The 'tours' were to Scotland (1923), Jersey (1924), Pyrenees and Paris (1926), Austria (1936), Austria (1936). Various sizes and bindings. Beautiful calligraphy illustrated with exquisite little water colours throughout.* Interesting descriptions of the Hitler Jugend, presumably a fore runner of the Hitler youth.(5)

BLACKSTONE, Sir William - Commentaries on the Laws of England : 4 vols, eng. portrait frontispiece, folding genealogical plate, half calf extra gilt spines morocco labels, marbled boards 8vo, 16th edition ... with notes by John Taylor Coleridge, 1825. * A good set, includes two letters from Lord Gifford Rolle. Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) was a judge, was the nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He wrote the "notes" for this edition. This copy has many neat manuscript annotations in the margins and on blanks at the rear presumably in the hand of Sir John. Association copy presented by him to his wife Mary Coleridge.

POLK, President James, K : Manuscript Pre-emption document U.S.A. Land Registry signed by President James K. Polk, 1848.

MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP : " Map of Broadfield Court Estate in the Parishes of Godeaham and Peacombe in the County of Hereford," Surveyed by John Martin 1829 Size : 520 x 420 mm, some damage, F & G,

AUSTEN, Jane - Pride And Prejudice: illustrated by Charles E Brock, org. dark red cloth a little stained and rubbed on the spine, blind stamped in lower corner of the title-page, neat manuscript entry on the final text page, 8vo, Macmillan, first thus,1895.

ATTLEE, Clement Richard Earl : (1883-1967) British reforming politician, long standing leader, Prime Minister of a post War Labour government.A two page manuscript letter on House of Lords headed notepaper dated 27 February 1963. With three letters from Violet Attlee, two of which are on 10 Downing Street headed notepaper. With two other ALs and two TLs from Attlee. With two signed Christmas cards, the one for 1949 shows the pair together. All addressed to "Laura".

A MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL: 'A TRIP ROUND THE WORLD' BY ALLAN GILMOUR JUNIOR, and other handwritten journals from 1879-1880 (3)

° [Walch, Johann. Decas Fabularum Humani Generis Sortem...]lacks title, supplied in old manuscript. 2 engraved plates (1 folded) and 8 text illus.; (28), 393pp. old calf and marbled boards, sm. 4to. (Strassburg, 1609)

° Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscript 6 vols. 24 engraved portraits; 19th cent. half morocco and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spines, gilt tops and marbled e/ps. 1840; together with the following letter series - uniformly bound with the above; Letters of Horace Walpole....to Sir Horace Mann.....now first published from the original mss....4 vols. 7 engraved portraits 1843-44; The Correspondence of Horace Walpole.... and the Rev. William Mason. Edited, with notes, by the Rev. J. Mitford. 2 vols. 1851; Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory... now first printed from the original mss. Edited, with notes, by the Rt. Hon. R. Vernon Smith....2nd edition, 2 vols. 2 portraits and a text engraving 1848.

A SECOND WORLD WAR & LATER GROUP OF FIVE MEDALS TO CAPTAIN W.A.R. WORSLEY, ROYAL ARTILLERY comprising the 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 (all unnamed as issued) and General Service Medal, Geo. VI, single clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (CAPT. W.A.R. WORSLEY. R.A.), officially impressed, all unmounted; together with uniform ribbons, cloth insignia, brass buttons, Soldier's Service & Pay Book, ephemera, photographs, and a twenty-three page manuscript account of his service overseas in the Far East.

Yeats (William Butler) The Lake Isle of Innisfree... also an Appreciative Note by George Sterling, printed in red and black, borders decorated in green and gilt, tipped in manuscript facsimile frontispiece, original green boards, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, [Wade 143], folio, San Francisco, John Henry Nash, 1924.⁂ Scarce.

Burton (Richard) and others.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, 40 vol., (including a commentary by R. Ridley, lacking 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'Funeral Eulogy'), c.15 vol. signed by actors including Richard Burton, Michael Redgrave and others (see below), a few with ink ownership inscriptions, original cloth, gilt, 'Hamlet' spine head slightly chipped, some spines slightly sunned, a few small marks to covers, 12mo, 1934-50.⁂ Signatures include Tony Britton, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Robert Hardy (Twelfth Night), Tony Britton, Donald Pleasance, Michael Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Anthony Quale and many others; over 60 in total. In some cases a manuscript ink note of the production is also present.

Carlson (P. M.) Renowned Be They Grave, 1998 § Collins (Max Allan) Kisses of Death, 2001 § Lewin (Michael Z.) The Reluctant Detective, 2001, first editions, each one of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author, original cloth, dust-jackets, the last with some light creasing at spine head, otherwise fine copies, Norfolk (VA), Crippen and Landru; and 16 others, first editions, 7 signed and numbered by the author, all fine copies, 8vo (19) ⁂ Crippen and Landru are a North American specialist publisher of crime fiction. They publish predominantly American authors, with a few British exceptions, and concentrate on publishing volumes of short stories not previously available in book form. Each copy of the limited editions also includes a page from the author's original typed manuscript.

Pritchett (Sir Victor Sawdon, writer and critic, 1900-97) [Gentleman's Agreement] Dear Scott/Dear Max, autograph manuscript of a review in the New Statesman of "Dear Max: The Fitzgerald Perkins Correspondence", 5pp., together with typescript with autograph corrections of the above, (5pp.), a corrected galley proof of the same and an ALs from Pritchett, (1p.), 1973 & 1992; and 6 others, comprising: C.P. Snow (ALs & photograph), and Laurie Lee (6 Autograph Notes signed), v.s., v.d. (10).

Murdoch (Dame Iris, novelist and philosopher, 1919-99) Autograph manuscript early drafts signed from "Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals", 3½pp., [c. 1990]; and 2 others, comprising: autograph manuscript card of the opening of her novel, The Bell, and an Autograph Note signed, n.d., folio & v.s. (5 pieces).⁂ Part of an early draft published as pp. 115 & 116 and part of Chapter Nine."In Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992), which wrote up the Gifford lectures she had given in 1982, Murdoch spoke of positive icons like objects of prayer: objects, persons, events whose contemplation bought an access of good spiritual energy. It was received with a certain baffled respect." - Oxford DNB.

NO RESERVE Hill (Susan) The Man in the Cage, a play, duplicated typescript signed by the author, title and 25pp., manuscript corrections and cuts for original production in another hand, folds, slightly browned, unbound, 1961; and 3 others, drafts of Plomer Revisited, (1 autograph, 2 duplicated typescripts), 1970, 4to (4).

English Provincial School, 1612, Portrait of Mrs Smyth and her young son, Inscribed and dated 1612, Oil on panel, 66 x 53 cm.The portrait almost certainly depicts the wife and son of John Smyth (1567-1641), historian and author of The Berkeley Manuscript.The work was published under the title The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives Of The Berkeleys, Lords Of The Honour, Castle And Manor Of Berkeley, In The County Of Gloucester, From 1066 To 1618, With A Description Of The Hundred Of Berkeley And Of Its Inhabitants.Smyth wrote the manuscripts for the Berkeley family who retain their seat at Berkeley Castle to this day, in an unbroken line of more than 850 years.The Manuscript details the lives of people that Smyth himself would have known and is credited with providing an extraordinary insight to the lives and times of the 1500s and 1600s.Smyth also completed two other important works: The Lives of the Berkeleys and Men and Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608.The child in this portrait is John Smyth the Younger (1611-92), who followed his father as steward of the Gloucestershire lands of Lord Berkeley and continued his practice of writing and archiving papers. The inscription above the childs head in the portrait notes that he is pictured in his first year, which tallies with the 1612 date inscribed opposite.For the practical purpose of toilet training, from the mid 16th to late 19th century, it was the custom of well-to-do families to dress all young children in gowns like this until the age of six or seven when they were breeched or first put in trousers.Smyth the Youngers writing shed light on how families were reluctant to take sides in the Civil War.J.H. Cooke, referred to on the auction catalogue cutting pasted to the verso, was James Herbert Cooke, Land Steward to the Right Honourable Lord Fitzhardinge, the illegitimate grandson of the 5th Earl of Berkeley. Cooke was also the Local Secretary of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, founded in 1876, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.In 1873 he published the book A Sketch of the History of Berkeley, and was author of other books too.He is credited with writing a number of articles for the society, including On the Great Berkeley Law-Suit of the 15th and 16th Centuries, A Chapter of Gloucestershie History (1878-79), and Wanswell Court, and its Occupants for Seven Centuries (1881). The articles appear in Volumes 3 and 6, respectively of the societys Transactions and both draw on the Smyth papers.Provenance: A label on the reverse suggests the picture belonged to a J. H. Cooke Esq, and was included in his collection sale held on March 24th 1886, lot no 120.Condition Report: General wear to the picture, consistent with age, with small surface scratches across much of the board. Chipping and cracks to back of the board and edges. Approximately 1cm deep indentation along all edges of the board, indicating previous framing. Long, thin vertical crack from top to bottom of the left-hand side of the board, with accompanying vertical section of canvas lining to reverse of the picture, indicating repair work.

John Norden's Manuscript Maps of Cornwall and Its Nine Hundreds, one vol, illus 1972

An 1851 rent charge manuscript book relating to rent of properties in the Wendron, Porkellis and Helston areas with details of all tenants

YUNGE-BATEMAN (JOHN) - ORIGINAL ARTWORKThree large illustrations of insects (Ruby Tail Wasp; Icheumon wasp; ?purple winged damselflies on a yellow lily), pen, watercolour and gouache on artist's pasteboard, 2 with the artist's name on verso (one with his address of 'The Long House, Angley Park, Cranbrook, Kent'), all with stamp of the 'B.L. Kearley Ltd.' agency, damselfly 390 x 275mm., others 380 x 260mm., undated; [BEES] 'What Insects Do', a complete manuscript maquette of a picture book on bees, attributable to Yunge-Bateman, 46 pages (including pictorial title, double-page map 'Where to look for...[17 types of bees and wasps]', endpapers, etc.), each with illustrations of bees or wasps, 10 in ink with watercolour and gouache, the remainder in pencil, original cloth, 4to (250 x 170mm.), [?1950s/early 60s] (4)Footnotes:Yunge-Bateman (1897-1971) is perhaps best known for the artwork he provided for several Golden Cockerel Press publications (including the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam), but from the late 1940s onwards illustrated many children's natural history books, including two devoted to the subject of the bee, as in this mock-up for a book seemingly never to come to press.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIRMINGHAM & LIVERPOOL CANALCUBITT (WILLIAM) A Report on the Financial State of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal... With an Appendix of Correspondence and Calculations Relating Thereto. March 1834, 1834; A Second Report... July 1836, 3 folding letterpress tables, 1836, FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOSEPH BAXENDALE INSCRIBED 'To Baxendale Esq.re with Mr. Cubitt's Compts.' on the first title-page, 2 pages of contemporary manuscript notes of amendments, comments, etc. relating to the reports loosely inserted, early half calf, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, 8vo, Printed by Roake and Varty--'... A List of Subscribers to the Proposed Portrait of Joseph Baxendale... by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A.', listing 56 named subscribers (mostly Pickford agents and employees), their years of service (between 46 and 2), and amount subscribed (from £10.10s £2.2s), 2-page circular with conjugate blank, lithographed, 'London, 30 July 1846'--Collection of 25 photographic carte-de-visite portraits of Pickford agents and employees (many of whom were subscribers to the painting years earlier), albumen prints by various photographers, most of the sitters identified on verso or with cut signature kept with image, usually approx. 95 x 60mm. , [1860s] (small collection)Footnotes:Reports on the finances of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, inscribed by the engineer William Cubitt to his close friend Joseph Baxendale (1785-1872), the transport entrepreneur who was managing director of Pickford & Co. from 1817 to 1847, at which time a portrait of him was commissioned to mark his retirement from the role (moving to that of Chairman), painted by the Royal Academy artist Henry William Pickergill.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)Autograph manuscript questionnaire annotated and signed '...'First Serial Right' exclusive to Mr F. V. Connolly/ George Bernard Shaw/ 4/7/1947...', answering six handwritten questions on the Paris Conference, the Marshall Plan, and the Soviets, his answers in red ink, commenting '...There has been no failure, only a great success for Mr Bevin, who has promptly got going full steam ahead and left Comrade Molotoff out in the cold... All this cackle about failure is only another bellyful of the east wind... Mr Marshall has not offered any plan. He has invited Europe to plan its economic future, and intimated that when a sound plan is forthcoming the U.S.A. may finance it... Russia has not refused to co-operate... But Mr Molotoff has raised difficulties about the agenda, apparently because Trotsky would have approved of it...', the last question on whether Eastern European countries are dominated against their will by the Soviets ('...Not necessarily... There is a fundamental division of opinion in the world... But neither side wants more war, nor dare they provoke it while capitalist America has the atomic bomb in its pocket...'); with a badly-typed transcription possibly by Shaw, headed by the address of F. V. Connolly, Highbury, N1., and envelope addressed to E.C. Tora Esq., postmarked October [19]58, 12 leaves written on verso only, dust-staining and marks, creased, held by old paperclip, 4to (250 x 204mm.), [n.p.], 4 July 1947Footnotes:'ALL THIS CACKLE ABOUT FAILURE IS ONLY ANOTHER BELLYFUL OF THE EAST WIND': George Bernard Shaw on the success of the Paris Conference of 1947 and support for Ernest Bevin, America's Marshall Plan, U.S. labour legislation and the Soviets.Shaw's answers to this questionnaire were syndicated through Reuters and published in The Palestine Post of 14 July 1947 under the headline 'There is No Marshall Plan – G.B. Shaw on Bevin' and with the introduction: 'Alone (as usual) among commentators, George Bernard Shaw sees no failure in the Paris Conference. But he does envisage the possibility of another civil war in the USA as the result of the passage of the anti-labour legislation, in his answers to this series of questions put to him by J.V. [sic] Connolly. Shaw wrote the answers himself'. The editor of this article erroneously mentions the name of J. V. Connolly, the President of the International News Service, King Features, who had died in 1945. It is known that Shaw corresponded with F. V. Conolly, an English correspondent of the American Press Association living in London, in 1919 (letter sold in these rooms, 17 December 2000, lot 265) so it is feasible that he is still writing to the same journalist (despite the difference in spelling) some thirty years later.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEWIS (CLIVE STAPLES)Series of four autograph letters signed ('C.S. Lewis') to Anthony Spearing ('Dear Spearing', 'Dear Mr Spearing'), the first congratulating him on his fellowship and commenting on Spearing's essay on Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, beginning by apologising ('...'He's a fool without his Book', said Caliban, and you catch me without most of mine. The best I can do by Dead Reckoning is as follows... I'm sorry I can't give you anything better...'); the remaining three making arrangements for tutorials ('...I gather I have been inflicted on you as a 'supervisor' so I suppose we ought to meet...') and for dinner ('...dinner-jacket and rendez-vous in my rooms at 7.30...'), with a comment on Spearing's work ('...Most interesting and an interpretation (whether one finally agrees with it or no) certainly worth powder and shot...'); with two leaves headed 'Notes' consisting of twenty-eight densely written points of analysis on Piers Plowman, 8 pages, some creasing, 4to (255 x 205mm.) and 8vo (205 x 130mm.), The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge, [November 1957 to 1960]Footnotes:'HE'S A FOOL WITHOUT HIS BOOK... AND YOU CATCH ME WITHOUT MOST OF MINE': C.S. Lewis comments on a student's work with a reference from The Tempest, and encourages a long career in academia.The recipient of these letters, Anthony Colin Spearing (b.1936) was awarded his fellowship at Queen's College in 1960 and embarked on a long career as a well-respected academic. He is the author of numerous books and papers on mediaeval English literature and a collection of essays in his honour was published in 2016. A manuscript copy of his Part II English Tripos essay entitled 'The Translation of Old English Verse', written whilst a student at Jesus College in 1957, including annotations by Lewis in the margin, is also included in the lot. In a memoir of his time at Cambridge with C.S. Lewis as his supervisor he writes: '...On this first visit to Lewis I was in a state of nervous awe... I couldn't help being conscious of his scholarly eminence... a shortish, stout, balding, middle-aged, bespectacled, red-faced man, dressed, as he usually was, in a shabby tweed jacket and well-worn flannel trousers that didn't quite fit him... he loved Cambridge... because it reminded him of the unspoiled Oxford of his youth... what mattered greatly is that he did not simply dismiss my callow efforts, but treated them seriously and was willing to argue with me about them...'. They are not published in C.S. Lewis Collected Letters, ed. Walter Hooper, 2006.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAVAL - MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOKManuscript exercise book, written in a fine italic hand, embellished with elaborate calligraphic headings and approximately 30 ink drawings or diagrams (several full- or half-page, including 'Mariners Compass', 'Chart from England to the Cape Verd Islands...', several in grey watercolour wash), approximately 180pp., on paper watermarked 'Allee 1828', some underlining in red ink, original vellum, soiled, folio (320 x 210mm.) c.1828-1829Footnotes:An attractively presented Georgian naval exercise book, decorated with pen, ink and wash illustrations. Exercises include 'Navigation', 'Log-line and Half-minute Glass', 'Mariners Compass', 'Plane Sailing', 'Compound Plane Sailing', 'Traverse sailing', 'Middle Latitude Sailing', 'Mercator's Sailing', 'Double Altitudes', and 'A Journal of a Voyage from England to Madeira in the Ship Albion... Kept by Wm. Cogar, Mate'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAVALA Collection of Signals for the Use of the Ships in the Service of the United East India Company, title and 30pp., hand-coloured engraved plate depicting 35 maps tipped inside upper cover, loosely inserted eighteenth/early nineteenth century manuscript sheet of expenditures (slates, lamp oil, seeds, et.), contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, printed label ('Signals for East-India Ships') on upper cover with ink annotation 'To be sent to the Secretary', some loss to extremities of spine, 4to (270 x 200mm.), London, [no publisher], 1790Footnotes:RARE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SIGNAL BOOK for use by the 'East-India Ships', and annotated 'to be sent to the Secretary', most probably of the Admiralty.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PETRARCA (FRANCESO)Librorum...impressorum annotatio, 2 parts in 1 vol. (including 'Bucolicum Carmen'), A1r within a woodcut border, woodcut device at end of part 1, capital spaces blank, old ink numeral in upper corner of each page, and annotations concerning the contents on the opening title-page, later boards covered in a vellum manuscript leaf from a large ?sixteenth century Choral in red and black ink with musical staves and large initial in blue, red and black, 3 bookmarks cut from a similar sheet loosely inserted [Adams P774; cf. ISTC ip00370000], folio (308 x 205mm.), [Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 15 July 1503]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, in LatinManuscript on vellum, 308 (of 310) leaves, plus one paper flyleaf, text in 2 columns, each of 60 lines, numerous decorative initials, modern pencil foliation (followed here), early eighteenth-century panelled vellum gilt, title in later manuscript to spine, recent endpapers, folio (301 x 202mm.), [England or Northern France, mid-thirteenth century]Footnotes:An impressive large format thirteenth-century Bible, substantially complete, with an early English provenance (probably London) and extensive medieval annotation. The folio size and the multiple annotations suggests that this was a study bible associated with a religious house rather than a book for personal reading and devotion, while the ownership inscription of Thomas Graunt (d. 1474) may place it successively at St. Paul's (London) and (possibly) Syon Abbey in the fifteenth century.Text: The Old and New Testaments in the Latin Vulgate version, with the Psalms and the Prologues of Saint Jerome. Following the first of these prologues the book of Genesis begins on f. 2v; the Psalms on 231 and the Gospels on 249. It is textually almost complete, except for the loss of two leaves towards the end: one after the current f. 275 with part of John 20 from chapter 17 (immediately after 'noli me tangere') to chapter 21 and most of Acts chapter I; and another after f. 277 with Acts chapter 8. 32 to chapter 12.Decoration: 71 decorative initials of four to six lines, in red, blue and green with additional penwork, often with 'puzzle' ornament, many with extended bar borders; numerous two-line initials with penwork decoration; initials, running title and chapter numbering in red and blue; regular red and blue capitals. The first two leaves of the text bear additional (perhaps slightly later) ascending 'standard' ornaments in brown ink in the lower margins.Glosses and annotation: A few leaves have early glosses in small, neat hand, but these have in some case been cropped with some loss of words and sense. Elsewhere is a range of different Latin annotations in ink and leadpoint in numerous medieval hands, some of which are recognisably English, probably ranging in date from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Some are neat and formal, others hasty and untidy. Some are now faint, especially those in leadpoint, but most are decipherable. There is also a range of textual markers in the form of neumes and extended brackets, some of which may be very early. The final two leaves bear more extensive notes in fourteenth or fifteenth century hands, including a diagrammatic list of contents and other biblical explanations. There are attractive thumbnail drawings of ships to two borders and various other doodles. Overall, the annotations give the impression of a book well-used over a long period of time in specialist theological environments.Condition: The book has been cropped, perhaps more than once, for rebinding. The upper margins have suffered most, with some running headlines cropped or, in some cases lost. The outer and lower margins bearing most of the annotation have survived better, though here again the earlier annotations are partially affected and a few decorative bar borders are truncated at their foot. There are signs of some further annotations to the inner margins, though these are occasionally obscured and perhaps cropped closest to the gutter. There are numerous parchment repairs, usually marginal, probably dating from the modern era or perhaps the time of binding in the early eighteenth century, and only occasionally affect the text itself. In approximately 40 cases there has been significant repair to corners or entire margins by replacing or adding strips of parchment.Provenance: Whether the book's origins were in France or England, it was in England by the fifteenth century. The thirteenth-century colophon includes the text: 'Hec est bibliotheca thome [...]' with a surname scraped away and the name 'Graunt' added in a fifteenth-century hand. This is almost certainly Thomas Graunt (?1425-1474), theologian, fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and later treasurer of St. Paul's, London. It is possible that this bible was therefore among the books he bequeathed to Syon Abbey on his death, though it has remained unrecognised as such. The later paper flyleaf, contemporary with the binding, bears an elaborate inscription recording the later gift of the book by John Grove to the grammar school at Southton (Southampton) in 1708, and the school's engraved bookplate is on the reverse. Grove was a prominent merchant and burgess of the city and was its mayor in 1726. The binding is probably contemporary with Grove's ownership or donation.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com