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North of Scotland & Town & County Bank Limited, £1, 1 March 1918, serial number C 0893/0096, Stuart signature and an additional manuscript signature, lightly pressed, fine and scarce PMS NS 26c £200-£260

Clydesdale Bank Limited, £1, 4 November 1914, serial number A0853893, Dewar signature and an additional manuscript signature, very fine, with very nice original paper, scarce PMS CL 14b, Pick 181b £150-£200

Ulster Bank Limited, £5, 1 June 1929, serial number 58366, manuscript Gore signature, one pair of staple holes, clean and attractive, about very fine PMI UB 48a, Pick 307 £100-£150

International Bank, Jersey, £1, 9 November 1865, serial number 2173, manuscript signature at low right, original about very fine McCammon JN99 £80-£120

Douglas Heron & Company, £1, 28 September 1772, serial number 331/2043, two manuscript signatures, later ink date on reverse ‘17 July 1916’, tear in lower margin, but overall in remarkable condition, with embossing still evident in all printed areas, fine and very rare PMS DH 1 £1,400-£1,800

Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, £5, 2 January 1912, serial number 13/B 137/121, manuscript Mackay and one additional manuscript signature, great paper quality, original good fine, scarce PMS CO 57a, Pick S324 £300-£400

Provincial Bank of Ireland Ltd, £1, 1 June 1901, serial number A/2 96750, manuscript signature, very minor graffiti, mainly on reverse, exceptional paper, technically a good fine, but a much nicer note than this would suggest, and actually one of the finest extant examples, especially given that it has not been cut and rejoined PMI PR 58, Pick 331a £800-£1,200

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £50, 3 December 1963, serial number B.8366, manuscript Williamson signature, minor graffiti on reverse, good fine and a scarce final date of issue for this design PMI BB 85, Pick 130d £300-£400

Ulster Bank Limited, £50, 1 June 1929, serial number 68, manuscript Lester signature, one tiny element of graffiti on obverse, original about fine, an attractive example PMI UB 51, Pick 310 £200-£260

Royal Bank of Scotland, £1, 20 February 1922, serial number E 415/433, Speed and one additional manuscript signature, pressed fine, scarce PMS RB 53g, Pick 316e £80-£120

Provincial Bank of Ireland Ltd, £1, 1 November 1920, serial number 90836, manuscript signature, very good, but the first of only two dates for this very scarce type PMI PR 74, Pick 346a £400-£500

British Linen Bank, £1, 5th April 1918, serial number F 224/696, signatures of Galletly on behalf of manager and an additional manuscript signature, purple handstamp on reverse, very fine and scarce PMS BL 59a £150-£200

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £20, 3 February 1943, serial number E5196, manuscript McFadden signature, original paper, about very fine and scarce PMI BB 79, Pick 129c £150-£200

North of Scotland & Town & County Bank Limited, £5, 1 March 1921, serial number A 0392/0878, two manuscript signatures, with additonal handstamp ‘now the North of Scotland Bank Limited’ at centre, fine and a much rarer type PMS NS 33b £800-£1,200

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £100, 3 January 1923, serial number A.4318, manuscript Smyth signature, about uncirculated to uncirculated, a simply wonderful example of this first date of issue PMI BB 87, Pick 131a £800-£1,200

Ulster Bank Limited, £10, 1 June 1929, serial number 3655, manuscript Harrison signature, one small pair of staple holes, original good fine and an attractive example PMI UB 49a, Pick 308 £120-£160

Ulster Bank Limited, £10, 1 May 1933, serial number 27812, manuscript Clark signature, a few pinholes, original good fine PMI UB 49b, Pick 308 £100-£150

Ulster Bank Limited, £100, 1 June 1929, serial number 238, manuscript Patton signature, original paper, low right corner tip missing, a clean and attractive fine, very scarce PMI UB 52, Pick 311 £340-£400

Bank of England, Matthew Marshall, £5, 4 August 1855, serial number I/R 42032, cut and rejoined, red ‘m’ handstamp on obverse, graffiti and manuscript date ‘2/1/56’ at left, note still retains good paper quality, pinholes, good fine and a very scarce early example EPM B203b £5,000-£6,000

Ulster Bank Limited, £5, 6 May 1929, serial number 9954, manuscript Gore signature, lightly pressed, an attractive good fine example PMI UB 48a, Pick 307 £80-£120

Bank of England, Henry Hase, £5, 15 September 1814, printed serial number 7414, manuscript signature low right, pinholes, some damage to left, tears in body of note, an overall decent appearance, very good and rare EPM B201g £2,600-£3,600

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £5, 7 September 1927, serial number B/Q 3699, manuscript Keith signature and £20, 3 February 1943, serial number E2896, Knott signature, both with pinholes, fine (2 notes) PMI BB 68, 79, £200-£300

A 19th century Persian illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript, depicting a skirmish on horseback, the page with script below, gouache on paper, 24x17cm

DODSLEY, R. The Oeconomy of Human Life... Translated from an Indian Manuscript... 1765, Glasgow, 12mo cont. fl. cf. engrvd. frontis. last leaf det with v. slight loss to inside edge

MONTBLANC, DONATION PEN, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH A LIMITED EDITION FOUNTAIN PEN, 09810/12000Cap and Barrel: orange resin cap with facsimile signature and gilt clef clip and note inscribed band, with dark brown resin barrel Nib and Filling System: medium yellow gold coloured nib stamped 18K and 750, piston filling system, uninkedAccessories: original Montblanc box, Johann Sebastian Bach Special Edition booklet, facsimile manuscript, Service Guide and white outer card boxCondition Report: As new condition, some signs of storage to the outer card boxCondition Report Disclaimer

FIVE JAIN CLOTH MANUSCRIPT COVERS, GUJARAT, 19TH CENTURY each of rectangular form with smaller folding back flap, two with embroidered floral and figural designs, the other three with silver thread and applique decoration 17 x 29cm approx. each For two similar Jain bookcovers, see Subashini Aryan, "Unknown Masterpieces of Indian Folk and Tribal Art", Gurgaon 2005, p.141.

AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT FOLIO, NEPAL, 18TH CENTURY gouache with gold on paper, depicting a king with his son and consorts making offerings to Vajradharma, each figure labled in devanagari script, six lines of newari script on the reverse 11 x 27.5cm

A FOLIO FROM A BUDDHIST MANUSCRIPT, TIBET, 13TH / 14TH CENTURY gouache and gold on paper, of long horizontal rectangular form, five lines of alternating gold and umber Tibetan script on each side, three illuminations on one side depicting Samantabhadra with his consort, Maitreya Buddha and Heruka in yab-yum 11 x 32cm This folio is the introductory page of a work probably devoted to a mandala or mandalas.

A GILT-LACQUER MANUSCRIPT (KAMAWA-SA), BURMA, CIRCA 1900 the seven folios with applied brown lacquer in stylised Burmese script on sgraffito decorated gilt ground, each with twin piercings for binding, a pair of lacquered wood covers (kyan) decorated with a series of roundels 8 x 52.5cm (each folio)

Dillon (Viscount)An Almain Armourer's Album, Selections from an original manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, coloured lithographic plates, one folding, original vellum gilt, t.e.g. (minor foxing not affecting the plates), folio, LondonFootnotes:For another copy sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 31 July 2013, lot 499For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three framed and glazed Indo-Persian manuscript illustrations and a Chinese watercolour.

American Civil War. Collection of memoirs, biographies and letters, including:1) Davis (Varina Jefferson). Jefferson Davis. Ex-President of the Confederate States of America. A Memoir by his Wife, 1st edition, New York: Belford Company, 1890. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, photogravure portrait frontispieces, numerous halftone photographic plates, folding map, bindings rubbed,2) Grant (Ulysses S.). Personal Memoirs, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, 3 engraved plates including frontispieces, 3 plates of manuscript facsimile, folding map, numerous maps in text, spines sunned and nicked, volume 2 largely unopened,3) Sheridan (P. H.). Personal Memoirs, 1st UK edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, engraved frontispieces, 11 folding maps,4) Thompson (Robert Means, & Richard Wainwright). Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistance Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865, 1st edition, number 625 of 1200 copies 'for the society only', New York: for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, 1918. 2 volumes, 8vo, original half vellum, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 3 photogravure plates including frontispieces, retaining one slipcase (of two),and 12 others, including: Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, 1st edition, Norwood, MA: privately issued, 1917 (5 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General United States Army, 1st edition, New York, 1908 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army, 1st edition, New York, 1913 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); A. L. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 1st edition, New York, 1887 (8vo, modern cloth); and similar, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen (qty: 38)

Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991). Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 5 large gelatin silver prints of game birds, landscape, 295 x 370 mm, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking and with manuscript title on mount, titles comprising: Red-legged partridge; English partridges; Greyhen at nest; Capercaillie; Woodcock approaching chicks - a flashlight photograph (qty: 5)THE LIBRARY, PICTURES & CAMERA COLLECTION OF ERIC HOSKING OBE HON. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)Footnote: Sold to benefit the Eric Hosking Charitable Trust, together with a complimentary copy of Eric Hosking's Classic Birds (London: HarperCollins, 1993), one of 1000 copies signed by co-author David Hosking.

Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991). Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 5 large gelatin silver prints of birds of prey, portrait and landscape, 370 x 295 mm or reverse, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking on mount, titles comprising: Sparrow Hawk with young; Marsh Harrier hovering over nest with food in talon; Montagu's Harriers at nest; Buzzard with chicks; Kestrel and young (first four titles provided in manuscript on mount; Kestrel and young thus titled in printed label on verso) (qty: 5)THE LIBRARY, PICTURES & CAMERA COLLECTION OF ERIC HOSKING OBE HON. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)Footnote: Sold to benefit the Eric Hosking Charitable Trust, together with a complimentary copy of Eric Hosking's Classic Birds (London: HarperCollins, 1993), one of 1000 copies signed by co-author David Hosking.

Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991). Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 8 large gelatin silver prints of waders or waterfowl, portrait and landscape, 370 x 295 mm or reverse, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking on mount, most also with manuscript titles, titles or subjects comprising: Avocet - aggressive display [2 versions]; Avocet with young; Heron, spreading wings while sunbathing; Red-breaster merganser; Wigeon; Black-tailed godwit; and [Stone curlews]; together with 3 additional framed and glazed montages each of 4 smaller prints (150 x 200 mm), titled 'Stone curlew - attitudes while brooding', 'Stone curlew - last scenes at the nest', and 'Male dotterel' (qty: 11)THE LIBRARY, PICTURES & CAMERA COLLECTION OF ERIC HOSKING OBE HON. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)Footnote: Sold to benefit the Eric Hosking Charitable Trust, together with a complimentary copy of Eric Hosking's Classic Birds (London: HarperCollins, 1993), one of 1000 copies signed by co-author David Hosking.

Bible (English; Authorised). [The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament, and the New ... London: Robert Barker, 1613]. Folio in sixes (385 x 225 mm), contemporary sheep (worn), signatures C6 D4 B4 A-4M6 (-E1, E6) 4N4 (-4N4), i.e. lacking 7 leaves (A1-4 including general title-page, E1, E6, and NT 4N4, i.e. final leaf; OT quire B, 'To the Reader', misbound after D), main text in black letter, double column, 72 lines, retaining New Testament title-page with historiated woodcut border (3T6), woodcut headpieces and initials, almanac and calendar printed in red and black, John Speed's genealogies bound in at front (34 pp., lacking pp. 5/6 and 9/10, pp. 3/4 loose and defective, 7/8 and 13/14 torn and frayed), side-notes frequently shaved, many leaves reinforced in gutter (probably in the 19th century), scattered marks and staining, marginal loss to A1, small holes in D3, T6, U5 and 2O, Y4, 2F3-4 and 3Q3-4 loose, tears with loss of text to 2P5, 3U5 and 4N3, closed tears to 2S4, 3H6 and 3I3, NT title-page (3T6) with closed tear in gutter and shallow chip to top edge, a few other flaws, manuscript genealogies to versos of 3T5 (Apocrypha final leaf) and NT title-page (qty: 1)Footnote: Darlow & Moule (1903 ed.) 249; ESTC S122066.Third folio edition of the King James Bible, 'easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type' (Darlow & Moule). This edition contains the reading 'and she went into the city' at Ruth III 15, as in the 'Great She Bible', but the reading of Judas for Jesus at Matthew XXVI 36 has been corrected.

Egypt. Three photograph albums of RAF service in Egypt, c.1937-8. 3 albums, oblong folio (various dimensions), one in simulated snakeskin (some wear), two in limp tan leather with coloured Egyptian-themed vignettes to front covers (the Pyramids of Giza and the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at Port Said), containing in total approx. 390 gelatin silver prints corner-mounted rectos and versos on black card album leaves, personal snapshots and studio prints, various dimensions (90 x 60 mm to 240 x 180 mm), manuscript captions in white ink to mounts throughout, a few RAF menus also included, and 10 related photographs and a gilt-braided RAF cap badge laid in (qty: 3)Footnote: The photographer was evidently stationed at RAF Abu Sueir near Port Said. The photographs depict views, street scenes and the photographer’s fellow officers in Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, Karnak, Lake Timsah, Ismailia; many show life on base in Abu Sueir. There are numerous photographs of crashed planes, two images captioned ‘Natives of the Ghikuyo tribe’, and two captioned ‘Headhunters and some native girls’. There are also coastal views of Malta.

Craig (Sir Thomas). Scotland's Soveraignty Asserted ... Translated from the Latin Manuscript ... by Geo. Ridpath, 1st edition, London: printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey, 1695. 8vo (180 x 105 mm), 19th-century 'divinity' calf, rubbed, title-page laid down, bound without pi2 (probably an advertisement leaf as in the variant imprint), leaves F3-4 transposed, 2E3 misbound after 2E5, together with:Foulis Press. Le Siège de Calais, tragédie. Par M. de Belloy. Représentée pour la première fois par les comédiens français ordinaires du roi, le 13 février 1765, 1st Foulis edition, Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1765. Small 8vo (156 x 90 mm), contemporary calf, advertisement leaf to rear, rear blank and free endpaper working loose,and 6 other works (not collated), including Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, Dublin, 1781 (2 volumes, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked), Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha ... 6th edition, London, 1783 (4 volumes, contemporary calf, covers detached, engraved plates, book-labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft, c.1765-1821), D. J. Thomson Gray, The Dogs of Scotland, 1st edition, Dundee, 1891 (original cloth), and similar (qty: 13)Footnote: ESTC R228219 (Craig: seven copies in UK libraries), T174176 (Foulis Press, rare: six copies in libraries world-wide).

Hebraica & Judaica. Johannis Buxtorfi. Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum, Basel: Johann Philipp Richter heirs, 1710. 8vo (160 x 90 mm), contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, text in Hebrew and Latin, printed back to front in the manner of a Hebrew book, edges dyed blue, title-page closely trimmed at head, closed tear in 2A2, small chip in 2S3 (qty: 1)

Keltie (John S.). A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, Glasgow: McGready, Thomson, & Niven, 1879. 4to (264 x 178 mm), contemporary maroon half sheep, 2 maps, 18 engraved plates, lithographic plate, 30 chromolithographic tartan specimens (mounted), spines rubbed and sunned, volume 2 front joint partly cracked,Hutchinson (Lucy). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. 4to (293 x 124 mm), contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, endpapers renewed, 2 engraved plates including frontispiece (both spotted and offset), engraved plan, aquatint plate, plate of manuscript facsimile, folding letterpress pedigree,and 7 others similar (not collated: Macaulay, The History of England, mixed editions, 1839-61, 5 volumes, later half morocco; Chambers, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, 1855, 5 volumes, near-contemporary red half calf, gilt spines, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down; Bisset, History of the Commonwealth of England, 1867, 2 volumes, later half vellum; Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, 1905, 2 volumes, contemporary half calf; Ritchie, The Life and Times of Lord Palmerston, c.1860, 2 volumes, contemporary half calf; Hush, Memoirs of Her Late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1818, contemporary tree calf; and Gifford, History of the Wars occasioned by the French Revolution, 1817, 2 volumes, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked in blue morocco with gilt anchor devices, lacking 2 maps) (qty: 22)Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat (a few works with his armorial bookplate).

Maclaurin (Colin). An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books. Published from the Author's Manuscript Papers, by Patrick Murdoch, 1st edition, London: printed for the author's children, and sold by A. Millar [and others], 1748. 4to (254 x 192 mm), modern sheep with contemporary calf sides laid down, pp. [8] xx [20] 392, retaining half-title, 6 engraved folding plates (plate 5 bound between 2 and 3), very light worming in lower margins at front, first few leaves slightly browned, shallow marginal chips to initial blank, half-title, title-page and final leaf, title-page also dust-soiled, with date added in arabic numerals in blue pencil, and with small chip to upper inner corner (qty: 1)Footnote: Babson 85; ESTC T81914.

Medieval English manuscript. Illuminated folding almanac on vellum, southern England, c.1425. In Latin, written in a small legible bookhand in brown and red ink on 6 vellum leaves (folded dimensions approx. 135 x 40 mm, each except perhaps f. 5 opening ideally into six panels, dimensions when opened 270 x 120 mm), ruled in brown ink, prick-marks in margins, all leaves stitched together at foot and attached to alum-tawed leather thong, retaining but detached from original silk-lined leather covering (probably deerskin), a few small holes, mainly to intersections of folds.Contents and illumination:ff. 1-3: calendar of saints' days for March-September (i.e. only half of f.1 extant, lacking the half with January-February on flesh and hair sides respectively, leaf for October-December not present), divided into columns showing times of sunrise and sunset, sun's position in the Zodiac, Dominical letters for days of the week, and saints' days and festivals, illustrated with a total of 7 illuminated initials in gold on red and blue ground (20 x 15 mm; one for each month extant), one panel of each leaf with headings in red or brown ink incorporating decorative initials in blue amid penwork surrounds in red,ff. 4-5: tables of solar and lunar eclipses, with 64 diagrams in red, blue and gold (each approx. 16 mm in diameter), one panel of each leaf with headings as above,f. 6: large illuminated miniature of the Zodiac man (image rubbed and marked, leaf retaining only two panels apparently of six, but with only minor loss of image, the three missing upper panels presumably containing text only) (qty: 1)Provenance: available on request.Footnote: An extremely rare survival, one of perhaps 30 examples of an English folding almanac known to be extant, nearly all of which are confined to major institutional collections; intended for practical use by physicians, who used astrological calculations to establish prognoses and the most auspicious timings for medical interventions, their form allowed them to be suspended from the waist for quick reference, hence the alternative name of 'girdle book'.'From an analysis of the saints' days and festivals it would appear that [the present] calendar was made for use in the Canterbury diocese (thus confirming the south England emphasis of the astronomical calculations' e.g. St Augustine of Canterbury, in red, on 26th May, the Translation of the relics of St Thomas on 7th July, St David 1st March, St Chad, 2nd March (both of whose feasts were made obligatory in 1398), St Dunstan, on 19th May, St John of Beverley on 7th March [sic: really 7th May], and other English saints' (J. P. Harthan, Assistant Keeper of the Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, typescript description, 1960, provided with the lot).'Folded almanacs must have been common in later medieval England; however, few still exist, because of their small size and the wear and tear caused by folding and unfolding them. Most of those that do survive seem to have been intended for physicians, yet others seem to have been produced for less sophisticated users ... Astrology had a vital role in medieval medicine, because an understanding of the stars was believed to be essential to determine the best timing for various medical procedures' (Pamela Robinson, 'A "very curious Almanack": the gift of Sir Robert Moray FRS, 1668', Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2008), Vol. 62, pp. 301-314).Further reading: Cornelius O'Boyle, 'Astrology and Medicine in Later Medieval England: The Calendars of John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn', Sudhoffs Archiv 2005), Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 1–22; C. H. Talbot, 'A Mediaeval Physician's Vade Mecum', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 3 (July, 1961), pp. 213-233.Condition report: It appears that the manuscript is lacking:Half the first leaf of the calendar (i.e. three panels, containing January-February)The entire fourth leaf (containing October-December)Four of six panels from the final leaf (Zodiac man)The fifth leaf (showing lunar eclipses) is in three panels only but it is unclear what if anything is absent.

Gloucestershire. Group of vellum indentures relating to the Earls Fortescue and Earls St Aldwyn, 19th century, comprising:1) Appointment of Hugh Viscount Ebrington [later second Earl Fortescue] as a new trustee by Lord and Lady Nugent in pursuance of a power in their marriage settlement, 1833,2) The Hon. John William Fortescue, mortgage of a reversionary interest in £10,000 ... to Walpole Eyre Esq., 1856,3) Direction by ... Hugh Second Earl Fortescue that a sum of £10,000 ... shall be raised in the Earl's lifetime, 1860,4) Declaration of Trust by ... Hugh Viscount Ebrington and ... Isaac Newton Earl of Portsmouth, 1860,5) The Trusts of the Settlement made after the marriage of Matthew Fortescue Esq. and Erskine his wife, 1869,6) Settlement of Estates in the counties of Gloucester and Wilts, the property of the Right Honorable Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach Baronet [later first Earl St Aldwyn] on his marriage with Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue, 1874,7) Settlement on the part of Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue on her marriage with the Right Honorable Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach Baronet MP, 1874,all on multiple membranes (item 6 on 22) and signed by the relevant parties, together with 3 unrelated vellum documents, approx. 10 mainly manuscript documents on paper (transcripts of wills, etc., Yorkshire-related), a lithographic estate plan of Tatham Common, Lancashire (on glazed linen), and similar items (qty: -)

Lake District. Highway-rate ledger for the upper division of the township of Lowick, near Ulverston, Lancashire (now Cumbria), 1838-9. Manuscript, approx. 75 ff. + blanks (224 x 177 mm), including 'Length of the Highways in the upper division of Lowick' at rear, contemporary vellum binding, inner hinges gone (remaining secured by cords), together with a volume of transcribed documents relating to Lowick, c.1750 and later (the originals dating from 1601 and later), approx. 75 ff., contemporary blind-ruled calf binding (spine worn, front inner hinge cracked but held by cords,, contents shaken, a few leaves loose), and an indenture on vellum (1641) (qty: 3)

Lincolnshire; James VI and I (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1566-1625). Deed concerning property in Culverthorpe, Lincolnshire, c.1603-25. Latin manuscript in black ink on vellum, in a court hand, 25 lines, elaborate penwork initial J, with the great seal of James VI and I appended, 145 mm, obverse showing James seated under a canopy, reverse with James on a horse, sword raised, his face rubbed in each case, slight loss along top edge, together with 7 further documents on vellum, comprising: Elizabeth I, letters patent, 1583 (with elaborate floral initial and headpiece in pen-and-ink with grey wash, incorporating Tudor rose, royal crown and fleur-de-lys motifs; remains of seal); Elizabeth I deed and indenture, both relating to property in Lincolnshire, the latter an agreement between John Bait of Barton and William Edwards of South Rawsbie [Rauceby]; 2 Charles I indentures relating to Lincolnshire; and 2 Commonwealth deeds (both relating to a fine concerning the Blunt or Blount family, in English, in a court hand, with elaborate penwork initial and headpiece) (qty: 8)

Cookery. Manuscript recipe book, c.1839-1844. 4to (202 x 160 mm), contemporary marbled boards, pp. [2] 1-24 [2] 25-78 [9], written in various hands, first page with title 'Recipes, 1839' within decorative penwork surround and ownership inscription 'Mrs Willey', index with page references to rear, spine perished and replaced with brown paper backstrip, several leaves loose (qty: 1)Footnote: Includes recipes for puddings and cakes, wines (ginger, lemon, elder, orange, parsnip) and champagne, as well as medical remedies such as 'ointment for the piles' and 'for hydrophobia'. The names of sources are often identified (e.g. Aunt Smith, Mrs Bendy, etc.).

Engineering. Set of manuscript ledgers and minute-books kept by Crofts Engineers of Thornbury, Bradford, 1908-c.1950. 5 volumes, folio, leather bindings (sheep and morocco), 2 volumes retaining working lock mechanism and key (qty: 5)

Ephemera. Collection of printed and manuscript ephemera, 18th-20th century, including:1) A Catalogue of the Orleans' Italian Pictures, which will be exhibited for sale by Private Contract, on Wednesday, the 26th of December, 1798, and the Following Days, at Mr. Bryan's Gallery, No. 88, Pall Mall [-the Lyceum in the Strand], London: Sampson Low, 1798. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers, 14 + 14 pp., half-title to first part, marked up with prices and purchasers,2) Manuscript commonplace book. 4to, contemporary straight-grain green morocco decorated in gilt and blind, approx. 380 pp., with some 25 original sketches (pencil or pen-and-ink) and watercolours, including portraits of Lord Byron, a female beauty in a headdress, various castles, botanical and ornithological studies, front joint cracked, front inner hinge reinforced at an early date,3) 'Le Diable amoureux, nouvelle espagnole' [contemporary manuscript copy of a novel first published in 1777]. 4to, contemporary tree sheep, pp. [5] 90, front board detached,together with numerous other items including: 5 indentures on vellum, 1741-1802, all relating to Blackburn, Lancashire; mathematical manuscript exercise book, c.1830 (4to, red half sheep, approx. 90 pp.); album of paper-lace keepsakes and other sketches including a manuscript map of 'Hindoostan', c.1830 (4to, contents loose in contemporary green blind-stamped morocco covers); early newspapers including the Preston Chronicle, 1818-24; 2 Japanese hand-coloured woodblock books; vintage real-photo postcards and Christmas cards in japon wrappers; and more (qty: a carton)Footnote: ESTC T82429 & T82430 (A Catalogue, both parts; six and eight copies in UK libraries).

Ge’ez manuscript. Religious manuscript on parchment, Ethiopia, probably 19th century. 176 ff., (110 x 83 mm), in red and black ink, mainly 20 lines to the page, later double-page polychromatic miniature in gouache to rear depicting the Adoration of the Magi, 5 decorative harags, 5 ff. at front and back left partly blank or with later annotations in Ge’ez, Coptic-style binding of blind-tooled red leather over wooden boards (spine with craquelure and minor surface-loss), with contemporary leather carry-case (qty: 1)

Hebraica & Judaica. Megillat Esther, probably 19th century. Hebrew manuscript in black ink on three conjoined vellum membranes, 360 x 1785 mm, dust-soiled, a few patched marginal holes (apparently undertaken at time of manufacture), rolled and housed in contemporary pewter case with lid

Keate (George). An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journal and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, 1st edition, London: G. Nicol, 1788. 4to (287 x 230 mm), contemporary half calf, xxvii 378 [2] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 charts (one folding), 14 plates (including folding panorama), errata leaf, front board near-detached (just held by top cord), plates facing pp. 105 and 127 transposed, a few marks,Williams (John). A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, 1st edition, 6th thousand, London: for the author, 1837. 8vo (216 x 132 mm), contemporary half calf, xviii [2] 590 pp., chromolithographic frontispiece, vignette title-page, folding map, 6 engraved plates, frontispiece spotted and offset,Ellis (William). Polynesian Researches, being a Residence of nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwick Islands, 2nd edition ('enlarged and improved'), London: Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1832. 4 volumes, small 8vo (158 x 98 mm), contemporary marbled sheep, engraved vignette title-page to each volume, 5 plates including 3 frontispieces, 3 folding maps, 1 folding manuscript facsimile (not listed), advertisement leaf to rear of volumes 1-2, some wear to bindings,and 5 others, travel, leather-bound (Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1st edition, 1857; Meredith, My Home in Tasmania, 1st edition, 1852, 2 volumes in 1; Trollope, The West Indies and the Spanish Main, 2nd edition, 1860; Lyall, The Life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, 1st edition, 1905, 2 volumes; Russell, History and Present Condition of the Barbary States, 1st edition, 1835; these not collated) (qty: 12)Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat (armorial bookplates).Footnote: ESTC T122142 (Keate).

Hebraica & Judaica. Megillat Esther, probably 20th century. Hebrew manuscript in black ink on 6 conjoined membranes of tanned sheepskin, approx. 210 x 2200 mm, attached to turned wooden spool, a few blemishes (qty: 1)

Littler (Sir John Hunter, 1783-1856). 'Diaries of Sea Voyages in 1824 & 1826' [cover-title]. Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper (watermarked C Wilmott 1814'), 44 ff. + initial blank, 360 x 235 mm, approx. 35-40 lines to the page, contemporary card covers (inscribed on front 'Lt. Genl. Sir John Hunter Littler G.C.B.') detached, spine perished, many leaves loose (qty: 1)Provenance: James Tregaskis (1850-1926), bookseller (with clipped catalogue description, price £1 10 0).Footnote: Sir John Hunter Littler was a decorated East India Company army officer best remembered for his actions in the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). 'At the close of the campaign he was appointed to command at Lahore. In 1848 he was appointed to the supreme council of India, and was made GCB and deputy governor of Bengal' (ODNB), retiring in 1851 as lieutenant-general. At the time of these voyages he held the rank of major. The first is from Calcutta to England (January-June 1824) on the ship Palmire, and the second is the return voyage from Gravesend to India on the Malcolm under one Captain Eyles (though the diary ends on 20 October 1826 before landfall is made, three months after setting out in June). In daily entries there is substantial description of conditions, wildlife sightings (including gannets, albatrosses, flying fish, porpoises, dolphins, sperm whales), on-board accidents and repairs, and encounters with other ships. The Palmire rounds the Cape of Good Hope on 24 March, shortly after which Littler is set ashore at Jamestown, St Helena ('Whilst Mr Harvey transacted business with Mr Solomon's House, Capt. S. & myself strolled about the town - being Sunday all shops were shut, & very few of the inhabitants visible'); on 24 April he visits Ascension and provides an extensive (4 pp.) description of the island's topography, the British garrison and a recent outbreak of yellow fever. The return journey includes a landfall at Funchal (10 July) and a detailed account of an affray between three private soldiers (12 July), about which Littler reflects that 'these petty disputes amongst the men which almost always commence by playing & jesting with each other, leading to practical jokes & terminating in blows, might be prevented by the non commission'd officers if timely noticed & check'd'.

Near East. Album of photographs, c.1920. Oblong folio album, containing 37 large-format gelatin silver prints (230 x 295 mm and similar), depicting scenes in Samaria, Tyre, Hama, 'Moselmieh, beehive village near Baghdad railway', Aleppo, Palmyra, Jerash, Amman and elsewhere, mounted rectos only to heavy black paper stock, manuscript captions in white ink, string-bound in contemporary buckram covers, together with 6 further photograph albums, c.1880 and later, mainly containing studio photographs of architecture, antiquities, works of art and views in Italy, Belgium, Norway and Spain (the Norway views signed in the negative 'J. V'., i.e. John Valentine), one album mainly containing photographs of Spain also with 5 North African street scenes and 2 related ethnographic 'types' (albumen prints, 240 x 190 mm), wear to bindings (qty: 7)Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat.Footnote: The dry-plate negatives for many of the photographs in the Near East album can be found in the G. Eric and Edith Matson photograph collection at the Library of Congress (see e.g. call number LC-M32- 1775 [P&P] for 'Moselmieh, beehive village near Baghdad railway').

Richardson (Joseph). Furness Past and Present: its History and Antiquities, 1st edition, Barrow-in-Furness: J. Richardson, 1880. 2 volumes, 4to, original red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece and chromolithographic dedication leaf to each volume, chromolithographic title-page to volume 1 (none apparently issued for volume 2; wording in list ambiguous), 2 maps, 68 plates (mainly dual-tint lithographic views, also including 5 plates of coats of arms heightened in gold and silver; many folding), spotting towards front, Rimmer (Alfred). Rambles round Eton and Harrow, 1st edition, deluxe issue, number 193 of 250 copies only, London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 4to, original quarter japon (rubbed and darkened), wood-engraved plates and vignettes on india paper, mounted, laid-in manuscript note reading 'Mrs Wordsworth, with very kind regards and pleasant memories of days at Eton, and in the Lake District, from W. E. Buckley, June 5 1883',Housman (John). A Descriptive Tour, and Guide to the Lakes, Caves, Mountains, and Other Natural Curiosities, in Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, and a Part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 2nd edition, Carlisle: F. Jollie, 1802. 8vo (208 x 122 mm), contemporary half calf (rubbed), engraved folding map, 10 plates (2 folding), toning, a few damp-stains,and 13 others (not collated), including Pye (ed.), The Sportsman's Dictionary, 5th edition, Stockdale, 1807 (4to, with plates), Lysons, Magna Britannia ... Volume the Fourth ... Cumberland, 1st edition, 1816 (plates), The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, 1st edition, Ulverston, 1902, and similar (qty: 17)

[Worlidge, John]. Systema Horti-culturae: or, the Art of Gardening, London: for Tho. Burrell, and Will. Hensman, 1677. 8vo (184 x 112 mm), contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked, pp. [24] 285 [19], engraved additional title-page and 3 plates by F. H. van Houe, covers pitted, contents toned, moderate spotting, staining and finger-soiling, several leaves sometime dog-eared, binder's blank (with manuscript calculations recto and ownership inscription 'John Cadmene, Book, 1731' verso) torn, engraved title-page with scored-out contemporary ownership inscription 'Rose Gregorye', ink-transfer from inscription on the blank, and very light fraying along fore edge, letterpress title-page with short closed tear to top margin just extending into frame (qty: 1)Footnote: ESTC R34757 (eleven copies world-wide).First edition; the work was apparently intended as a companion to the author's Systema agriculturae (1669), and its rarity may account for its omission from Worlidge's entry in the ODNB. A fourth edition appeared by 1700.

Meinertzhagen (Richard). Nicoll's Birds of Egypt; Birds of Arabia; Kenya Diary 1902-1906; Pirates and Predators, the Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds; Middle East Diary 1917-1956, 5 works, 1st editions, London: [various publishers], 1930-59. 4to or 8vo, all in original cloth, all except Nicoll's Birds of Egypt with the dust jackets, all plates and maps as called for (including the folding map in end-pocket of Birds of Arabia), bookplates of Eric Hosking, Birds of Arabia with Eric Hosking's manuscript list of birds sighted laid in, Nicoll's Birds of Egypt with linen tape-supports to inner hinges, marginal tape-repair to plate facing p. 273, Birds of Arabia dust jacket frayed along top edge, Kenya Diary spine rolled, dust jacket spine-panel nicked, Pirates and Predators dust jacket rear panel nicked and finger-marked, Middle East Diary with variable spotting to edges and dust jacket, jacket with a few minor nicks (qty: 6)THE LIBRARY, PICTURES & CAMERA COLLECTION OF ERIC HOSKING OBE HON. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)Footnote: Birds of Arabia and Kenya Diary 1902-1906 each signed and dated by the author ('R Meinertzhagen, 1957') on the verso of the half-title.

Three Dehua figures of GuanyinChinese, 19th centurycomprising of a standing figure, her arms together at the centre standing on a rocky outcrop, 33cm high, a crackleware glazed figure holding her child, sitting on a rocky base, 35cm high and another crackleware figure holding a manuscript to one hand, 25.5cm high (3)Condition report: The large crackleware figure has many firing imperfections to the glaze along with firing cracks and chips. The other tall figure has had her hands restored along with minor chips. The other figure has glaze loss.

1842 Dated Handwritten Letter Signed By Duke of Wellington three page, handwritten letter to Miss Harcourt, about a friend's brother who was being stationed in India and if Wellington could help by writing to Lord Marlborough about changing his posting.  Together with a typed manuscript.  

Japanese School, 19th Century, Buddha and children, colour woodblock, signed and sealed and with ink manuscript inscription in left margin, 13.25" x 10", (unframed).