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NO RESERVE Burma.- Burmese prayer leaf, manuscript on paper, 3 watercolours, 3 small holes, corner torn away, slightly stained, browned, 155 x 400mm., n.d. [c. 1900]; and 10 others Burmese, some with watercolours, most on paper, a few on palm leaves, v.s., v.d. (11 pieces).

Wales.- Abstracts of the titles of [Sir] Mark Wood Esq. of Piercefield in the County of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, manuscript, 346pp., contemporary vellum, titled in ink, metal clasps, little soiled, small 4to, [c.1850].⁂ Wood was a British army officer and engineer, who had a distinguished career in India.

Anatomy.- Collection of 10 folding engraved anatomical plates, first 4 by Spadaccini after Marchini, each c.400 x 280mm., occasional spotting and light staining, folding into contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, no place, no printer, [c.1750]. ⁂ Rare. A manuscript held at the University of Florence has the first four plates bound in.

Sermons.- Irvine (John, Consular Chaplain at Genoa & Sardinia, d.1851) Sermons Preached at Genoa 1845-1846, manuscript in English, 463pp., occasional spotting, lightly browned, binder's ticket of Luigi Demartini to inner front cover, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, edges and corners worn, rubbed, small 4to, Genoa, 1845-1846.

Illuminated Manuscript Facsimile.- Liber Bestiarum, 2 vol., number 66 of 1980 copies, facsimile edition, illustrations, original Nigerian goatskin by Brian Settle of Ludlow and blocked with a design by David Eccles, The Folio Society, 2008; de Hamel (Christopher) Liber Bestiarum: Translation and Commentary, original cloth, The Folio Society, 2008, housed together as issued in original cloth drop-back box, ; and another similar, folio & 8vo (3)

NO RESERVE Bianco (Pamela) Flora, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, frontispiece becoming loose, original decorative boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing and chipping to corners and extremities, 1919 § Perez (Jizchok-Leib) Gleichnisse, lithograph frontispiece and 7 plates by Jakob Steinhardt, occasional faint spotting, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Berlin, 1920 § Shakespeare (William) Romeo and Juliet, frontispiece and plates by Oliver Messel, one plate creased at edge. previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, small loss to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, 1936 § Foster (Myles Birket) Pictures of English Landscape, India Proofs, one of 1000 copies, 30 plates on India paper, titles in manuscript to verso, occasional faint spotting, original decorative vellum, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [1881]; and 11 others, all illustrated, 4to & folio (14)

Medicine.- Medical degree for Antonio Badii of Castelfiorentino from the University of Pisa, manuscript in Latin on vellum, 8pp., some lettering in gilt, first recto with coat of arms in colours and gilt at head and a decorative initial in gilt, small marginal hole to head of final f., water-stained, browned, modern binding using old decorative paper, small 4to, Pisa, 24th March, 1633.⁂ Includes an official declaration at end dated 30th March, 1633, which states that the graduate will be placed on the register of those licensed to practice medicine at Florence. At the time of the granting of this degree the head of the examining board at Pisa was Scipione Chiaramonti, an adversary of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.

Gallimaufry.- A small group of manuscript and printed leaves and fragments, &c., including a fragment of a 15th century ms. in an attractive hand, a title page from an ms. account 'Relatione di Firenze', and 2 ms. folio bifolia from a work of Serlio, [c. 1550]; and c. 20 others, [c.1550-1780] (c.23) sold not subject to return.

[MILITARY] Succession List of the Officers of the Fifth Regiment (Northumberland Fusiliers), from 1st January, 1754, to 30th April, 1888, by Wright, Colchester, no date [circa 1888], full dark green leather gilt presentation binding dated 1889, all edges gilt, inside dentelles, marbled endpapers, octavo; together with a manuscript letter, accompanying the original presentation, from Lieut.-Col. Charles Hackett, Northumberland Fusiliers, to Rev. John Bent, dated 1889. Condition Report : Spine rubbed and slightly scuffed. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.

H.M.S. INVINCIBLE: GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS, 1906 manuscript on linen, large folding title with yard stamp for 'Sir W.G. Armstong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd' dated 16.3.06 and comprising 16 large 1/16in: 1ft scale folding profile plans, signature at beginning and end of Eng. Lieut. Frank Goodwin of the 'Invincible', bound with contemporary sheep (head and foot of spine worn) -- 8 x 5¼in. (20.3 x 13.5cm.)Footnote: Admiral Fisher's concept of the battle cruiser was brought to fruition by the completion of H.M.S. Invincible in March of 1908. Laid down with her sister ships Inflexible and Indomitable in 1906, Invincible was the first to enter service. Each 530 feet long, displacing 17,250 tons, these were the initial trio of battle cruisers equivalent to the Dreadnought, though the Invincible class was built for speed. A logical successor to the previous classes of armoured cruisers, these new cruisers had all-round improvements in speed, gun power and range, with no sacrifice in protection. Judged harshly later on, the only drawback was the cost to build, which was nearly 50 per cent more than the Dreadnought class. Able to reach 25 knots, these cruisers were impressively armed with eight 12in. guns. Sent to seek and destroy von Spee's squadron, Invincible and Inflexible met the opposing forces off the Falklands on 8 December 1914, when the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were sunk. Invincible then joined the Grand Fleet in March 1915 and was made flagship to the 3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron in May. At Jutland, Rear-Admiral Hood led his ships into action just before 6.30 p.m. on 31 May and Invincible was hit several times in a few minutes. One shell hit the 'Q' turret causing the magazine to explode, which broke the ship in two. She sank immediately and only five of the ship's company of 1,031 survived.

A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK PLATING MODEL FOR THE MERSEY FERRY OVERCHURCH, BUILT BY CAMMELL LAIRD FOR THE BIRKENHEAD CORPORATION, 1962 the 38in. hull carved from laminated pine, originally painted white with technical manuscript and specification overall, mounted on display board – 8 x 43½in. (18 x 110.5cm.)

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER OF WAR BONE SPINNING JENNY AND WOODEN BOX with single character 'Jenny' seated on a red painted chair on platform over bone mechanism and contained within probably original box with manuscript provenance label and later note inscribed 'made by Lefevre', box -- 5in. (12.5cm.) high

A WHITE 'BATTLE' ENSIGN FLOWN BY H.M.S. EXETER DURING THE ACTION AGAINST S.M.S. ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE AT THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE, 13TH DECEMBER, 1939of regulation pattern, constructed in stitched bunting with canvas sleeve threaded with rope lanyard (scattered holes and staining throughout) -- 73 x 147in. (185 x 373cm.); together with a quantity of ephemera including a letter on Exeter stationery from Captain F.S. Bell; and a manuscript memoir by Lanning which mentions the presentation of the ensign in 1940(a lot)Provenance: Joseph P. Lanning (1898-1989), Harbour Master, Port Stanley (1939) and thence by descent.A Falkland Islander by birth, by 1939 Joseph Lanning held several positions within the community including that of a part-time harbour master and a police constable. He also happened to be Master of the ‘official’ steam trawler Port Richard and consequently was heavily involved when Commodore Harwood's badly damaged flagship limped into Port Stanley shortly after their dramatic action with Admiral Graf Spee. After escorting Exeter to a safe mooring, the Port Richard was pressed into service as tender (Exeter's boats having all succumbed in action) and having to cope with her crew of 660 of which 63 had been killed and a further 23 seriously wounded. Exeter herself was little more than a floating ruin and required emergency repairs sufficient to get her back to the UK for a full refit. A short while later, H.M.S. Ajax arrived to refuel and also have her wounded attended to and so Lanning now had responsibility for yet another ship full of exhausted and wounded men. In a memoir composed in retirement, he noted, somewhat ruefully, that after his supreme efforts All I got was a White Ensign she had flown in battle, although the captain of Exeter and the Falkland Island's governor also wrote personal notes of effusive thanks. The Port Richard was transferred to the Royal Navy as H.M. Trawler Afterglow, with Lanning retained as skipper, but she was damaged in the Reef Channel and laid up in Port Stanley before being driven ashore and wrecked in a gale. Later in life, Lanning moved to the UK and proudly retained Exeter's ensign and the union flag from Afterglow as souvenirs.

A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK PLATING MODEL FOR THE MERSEY FERRY MOUNTWOOD, BUILT BY PHILIPS OF DARTMOUTH FOR THE MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TPT EXECUTIVE, 1959 the 38in. hull carved from laminated pine, painted white with technical manuscript and specification overall, mounted on display board – 7 x 40in. (18.5 x 101.5cm.); together with two engine room log books from the S.S. Zealandia, 1932-33 (3)

A MANUSCRIPT NAVAL SHIPBUILDER'S APPRENTICE NOTE AND TECHNICAL DRAWING BOOK, CIRCA 1918 compiled by C.E. Clews, 4th Year Shipwright Apprentice and comprising 90 pages of notes with numerous diagrams for all aspects of battleship shipbuilding, with cross-section views and highlighted components etc., bound within quarter calf marbled boards with owner's label pasted to cover -- 8½ x 12in. (21.5 x 30.5cm.)Condition report: some wear to spine and corners, contents very good, small qty of w/c diagrams loose (owner had not pasted them in)

A SAILING DIAGNOSTIC SAILING PLAN FOR H.M.S. VINDICTIVE, CIRCA 1810 with scaled profile of full hull with sailing plan over, and manuscript specification signed J. Weeks on single sheet of woven paper watermarked and dated for James Whatman, Turkey Mill, Kent 1809, titled overleaf sketch of H.M.S. Vindictive of 74 guns – 28½ x 35½in. (72.5 x 90cm.); together with plans and dimensions for finding the centre of gravity and metacentre for Vindictive on a single sheet of wove paper with watermark for J Whatman, 1804 (2)

A BURMESE KAMMAVACA MANUSCRIPT Red lacquer and gilt decoration 5cm high x 61cm wide x 14cm deep Condition: Minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use

Marlow & neighbourhood.- [Volume of a lady's domestic accounts], manuscript, 260pp. (many entries half a page), ruled in red, slightly browned, original vellum, slightly soiled, sm. 4to, 1834-51.⁂ Includes detailed entries for purchases of clothing, charitable donations etc., including two visits to the Great Exhibition,

Paint Tubes.- Rand (John Goffe, American painter and inventor, 1801-73).- Letters Patent awarded to Rand for his invention of the collapsible paint tube, patented in Ireland for 14 years, manuscript on vellum, large engraved border with portrait of Queen Victoria, lacks Great Seal, tear at tail, folds, browned, 700 x 670mm., 1843.⁂ The paint tube allowed unused oil paint to be stored and used later without drying out. Renoir said, "Without tubes of paint, there would have been no Impressionism."

Dumas (Alexander, père) Autograph manuscript on classical themes, 1p. on blue paper, 280 x 220mm., a few chips and repairs, [c.1850].⁂ With a few corrections. References Agrippina, Theseus, Seneca and Domitius.

NO RESERVE Surrey.- Barlow (Lyonell, solicitor, son of Rev. John Mount Barlow, of Ewhurst, 1859-1929) Notes on the Natural History of Ewhurst, autograph manuscript, title and 35pp. excluding blanks, original half straight-grain morocco, rubbed, joints splitting, spine rubbed, lacks head and tail of spine, 4to, Guildford, Ewhurst Rectory, 1875.

Potter (Beatrix, artist, children's writer and sheep breeder, 1866-1943).- Graf (Mabel Elizabeth, nurse, served in WW I, of Hobart, fl. 1925) Australian... Commercial Diary No. 9 [of life in Australia and a visit to England], autograph manuscript, 119pp. (102pp. diary & 17pp. accounts), signed by Graf at head of title, original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, 8vo, 1925.⁂ Lunch with Beatrix Potter. "Monday 29 June 1925. Went with Chick to lunch with Miss Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm Sawrey (near Hawkshead). Had a most interesting day & she gave me 'Tom Kitten' & a photo of her house. Her husband took us back to Hawkshead in his car & showed us the Grasmere school etc. (Mr Heelis)." The diary begins with a visit to the second test match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground, financial matters, social matters, registering to become a nurse etc. At the end of March Graf sails to England on the SS Ceramic (Adelaide, Durban, Cape Town, Tenriffe), arriving at Southampton. In early June she meets "the Borthwicks at Aus[tralia] House", and visits Ascot for the races. After visiting Beatrix Potter she spends time in London before travelling on the continent, to France, Switzerland and Italy, where they attended an audience with Pope Pius XI, "the Pope came & sat on throne & said a few words & blessed the people in Italian". Graf comes back to London and stays at the United Nursing Services Club at 34 Cavendish Square.

de Serres (John) A General Inventorie of the History of France, woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, early ink ownership inscription to title, some marginal annotations, lacking 5X6 London, 4H3 & 4H4 defective with loss of text, a few small marginal defects (not affecting text), occasional spotting and staining, endpapers creased and coming loose, contemporary calf, joints worn but firm, [STC 22244], George Eld, 1607 § Boccacio (Giovanni) The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, engraved portrait frontispiece, ink annotations (including to title and frontispiece), small hole slight loss of text D1, marginal wormhole K-L2, marginal tear (no text loss) 2N, lacking 3K3-4 and final blank, foxing and spotting, contemporary calf, covers detached, covers and spine worn, [Wing B3378], Awnsham Churchill, 1684 § Drayton (Michael) Poly-Olbion, engraved pictorial title, 5 pages of manuscript notes in a contemporary Secretary hand (all one hand) and other manuscript notes in various hands, two dated 1694 and 1735, lacking plates and maps, some light damp-staining lower edge, some spotting and finger soiling, lacking covers, spine worn, [STC 7226], for M. Lownes et al., [1612]; and c.115 others, mainly literature and history C17th-19th, v.s. (c.120)

England.- Tanner (Rev. Thomas) Notitia Monastica: or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers heretofore in England and Wales, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, lacking o2 (blank), medieval matrix wax impression to final leaf verso, one or two marginal manuscript notes, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio, 1744.

Kent.- Philipott (Thomas) Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated, first edition, large folding double-page map hand-coloured in outline, engraved illustrations, corrections inserted by hand, one or two ink annotations in various hands, bookplate, manuscript notes loosely inserted, Z1 with small hole affecting odd letter, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, [Wing P1989], small folio, by William Godbid, 1659.

NO RESERVE [Doyle (James E., 1822-1892)] The Adventures of the Last Abencerrage, 13 original drawings cut from an illustrated manuscript, comprising title with scene outside a castle and knight in a doorway and 11 other scenes, all pen & ink, 7 with additional watercolour, some with portions of manuscript text in ink, framed and glazed, two double-sided, v.s., [mid-19th century] (4 frames)⁂ The text is a translation of the tale by François René de Chateaubriand about Aben-Hamet, the last of a tribe of Moors that were exiled from their original home in Spain. The young members of the Doyle family were encouraged to produce these illustrated manuscripts, several of which have survived, mainly unfinished, in the present cut-up form. The text was first published in French in 1826 and translated into English the following year. James Doyle may have taken the text when it appeared in Bentley's Standard Novels series in 1835.

Smallpox.- [Belgium].- Ordonnance Additionelle... concernant l'Inoculation de la Petite Vérole, printed broadside, woodcut decoration at head, manuscript in Franch at head and tail, folds, browned, edges chipped with small loss affecting manuscript, folio, Mons, M.J. Wilmet, 3rd January 1788.⁂ Regulations for inoculating against smallpox in modern day Belgium.

Inscribed to the binder Paul Bonet.- Vertès (Marcel, illustrator).- Hesse (Raymond) L'Age d'or, one of 38 copies on Hollande, in an edition of 250 copies, this a signed presentation copy to Paul Bonet ('un de nos meilleurs et très grand relieurs d'art...'), 11 lithographed plates printed in colours by Marcel Vertès, with an additional suite of plain plates at end, loosely inserted are three pages of the original manuscript, the suppressed plate (in two states), an additional signed lithograph, and other related material, original printed wrappers, some staining, lightly browned, [Carteret IV, p. 202: 'Édition recherchée'], small 4to, Paris, La Roseraie, 1926.

Law.- Legal notes on case of Fletcher vs Potter, manuscript in Latin, 3pp., docket title, folds, water-stain at foot, causing loss of part of text of last line, some soiling, unbound, small 4to, 1631.

Newcastle Druggist.- Doughty (John, druggist, dealer and chapman) Appraisment of the Stock in Trade of J Doughty... G. Parker, manuscript, 25pp., slightly browned, folds, original wrappers, defective, ledger folio (410 x 165mm.), 1772; and a small quantity of accounts and deeds relating to Doughty's business, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

Mascarade.- A prologue to the Caesar Devil. An Historical Farce, manuscript, bifolium, 3pp. of text, lightly stained, small 4to, [c.1805].⁂ 'The above lines were written by Mr. William Spencer, and spoken at a mascarade by Mr. Champneys in a double mask; one side a complete likeness of ?Buonoparte, & the other Milton's Beelzebb'.

NAPOLEON AT SCHÖNBRUNNEngraved Imperial Decree with manuscript insertions, signed ('Charles Maurice'), prince de Talleyrand, as 'Vice-Grand-Electeur' and ('Fouche'), duc d'Otrante, as Minister of the Interior, appointing Paul Cadroy, Mayor of Landes, to the Assembly in the canton of Aire, arrondissement of St. Sever, docketed on reverse, on one sheet of vellum, light dust staining on outer portion where folded but otherwise in clean, fresh condition, folio, (410 x 530mm.), Schoënbrunn, 20 June 1809Footnotes:NAPOLEON CONDUCTS IMPERIAL BUSINESS FROM HIS TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRIA & APPOINTS A NOTORIOUS REVOLUTIONARY TO THE ASSEMBLY.Napoleon occupied the Hapsburg palace of Schonbrunn in Vienna on two occasions, for a few days in late 1805 after his victory at Austerlitz and again for several months from May 1809, during which time he signed the eponymous treaty with Austria in October of that year. Documents issued from this palace therefore are relatively uncommon. Whilst enjoying the regal opulence of the palace and attending performances at the palace theatre, Napoleon also narrowly missed an assassination attempt at Schonbrunn by one Friedrich Saps, a pastor's son from Erfurt, who tried to stab the Emperor whilst reviewing the troops from the palace steps. Paul Cadroy (1751-1813) was a lawyer before the Revolution but after being elected to represent Landes in the National Convention and then Bouches-du-Rhône and Var, he soon 'earned a notorious reputation as a Reactionary in that region. While he denounced royalists in the Convention, in the Midi he offered them his protection. He organized his Company of Jesus, which terrorized and pursued republicans throughout the Midi, and he played a leading role in organizing many of the prison massacres in the region (especially the massacre at Fort St. Jean). Afterwards, he returned to Paris where he faced several denunciations for his actions in the Midi, particularly after he was elected to serve in the Council of 500. Having earned a detestable reputation in Paris, he became part of the Clichy Club. Sentenced to deportation in September 1796, he escaped abroad and returned to France at the end of 1799. During the Empire, he served as mayor of Saint-Server, where he died on 9 October 1813' (Karen L. Greene, The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary: The Political Career of Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, Representative on Mission and Conventionnel, 1754-1802, 2004, PhD thesis online).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NELSON'S NAVY – WOUND CERTIFICATESManuscript wound certificate, signed by Captain John Conn of HMS Dreadnought, certifying that James Whitworth, a Marine aged about twenty-six, 'was wounded onboard His Majesty's Ship the Dreadnought by receiving a Gun shot Wound occasioning the loss of his left Arm and also severely wounding him in the left Thigh and knee from which wounds he suffered much pain and distress on the twenty first of October in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Five, being then actually upon His Majestys Service in Action', submitted to 'the Worshipful the Governors of the Chest at Greenwich, for the relief of hurt and wounded Seamen in His Majesty's Service'; also signed by the ship's Lieutenant, Master, Surgeon, Purser, Boatswain, Gunner and Carpenter; with the subsequent docket: '1806 1 July: James Whitworth appeared & is found to have lost his left arm below the elbow & recover'd of a considerable Wound of the left thigh', for which he has been awarded £6-13s-4d per annum and an immediate grant of £3-6s-8d; annotated at the foot: 'NB There not being any Smart Tickets in the Agents Office at Gibraltar - Written Certificates are substituted', one page, on paper (rather than the more usual vellum, see annotation above), minor tears backed at the head, slight dust-staining, folio (295 x 200mm.), ,[Gibraltar], 7 February 1806; with another wound certificate signed by Edward Rotherham as Captain of the Dreadnought, for a wound ('of the little finger of the left hand') sustained by Able Seaman David Arthur on 7 August 1805, during the Dreadnought's cruise off Cadiz, dated 6 September 1806, both framed and glazed (unexamined out of frames) (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Bonhams, Nelson & The Royal Navy 1750-1815, 5 July 2005, lot 195Private collection UK'BEING THEN ACTUALLY UPON HIS MAJESTYS SERVICE IN ACTION'John Conn was, as a cousin by marriage, one of Nelson's protégés. He was with Nelson during his last days ashore, and took out Collingwood's flagship the Royal Sovereign to the fleet off Cadiz. He was then given command of the Dreadnought when Edward Rotherham transferred to the Royal Sovereign to serve as Collingwood's flag captain. As the annotation at the foot explains, this certificate is written on paper rather than the more usual vellum. The second certificate included in the lot is an example of a 'Smart Ticket', engraved on vellum with manuscript insertions.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BREVETNAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Document signed ('Napoleon'), being a brevet granting arms and the title Baron of the Empire to Colonel Marc Nicolas Louis Pécheux, counter-signed by the Arch-Chamberlain de Cambaceres; engraved imperial heading and text, with manuscript insertions, gouache depiction of the arms upper left, docketed and annotated at upper corners on verso with details of transmission to the Sénat and entry into the Sénat register, on one skin of vellum with large pendant imperial wax seal, 460 x 610mm., framed and glazed, 'Notre Camp Impérial à Burgo' [Burgos, northern Spain], 22 November 1808; together with the metal skippet-cum-tube that contained the brevet, an 1812 official document relating to his lands in Westphalia, and a vellum document promoting him to Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1817 (4)Footnotes:Pécheux (1769-1831) led the 95th regiment of infantry at Austerlitz, and following further successes during the Napoleonic Wars, he was posted to Spain in 1808. He and his regiment took the plateau at Spinoza, leading Napoleon to give him a barony whilst at his encampment at Burgos during his residency in Spain between late October 1808 and January 1809.Colonel Pécheux was promoted to General in 1810 and later led a division at Waterloo. His name is inscribed on the west face of the Arc de Triomphe.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BREVETNAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Document signed ('Napoleon'), being a brevet authorizing the pension of 200 francs to be paid to François Bouvier, counter-signed by the Arch-Chamberlain de Cambaceres; engraved imperial heading and text, with manuscript insertions, docketted on reverse detailing payment instalments, on one skin of vellum, 320 x 412mm., Tuileries, 1 March 1808Footnotes:Documents signed by Napoleon with his full signature are uncommon. The recipient of the pension had attended Napoleon in 1807 when he crossed the Alps – for what was to be the last time – at Mont Cenis.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NELSON'S HAIRSeveral strands of hair believed to be that of Admiral Lord Nelson, contained in a paper packet bearing the manuscript inscription 'The Hair of Admiral Lord Nelson sent by Lady Hamilton after the death of the Hero to The Prince of Wales 17th February 1806', paper watermarked 'W King/ 1840', folded packet 60 x 102mm.; with a priced catalogue for the Portesham House sale, 17 June 1938 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839)Thence by descentAccording to the inscription on the packet, presumably written by a member of the Hardy family, the enclosed strands of reddish-brown hair touched with grey were originally sent to the Prince of Wales by Emma Hamilton. Surgeon William Beatty records in his 'Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson' that Nelson requested that Lady Hamilton should have his hair, and it was Captain Thomas Hardy who was charged with this task after Trafalgar. The remnants of the pigtail are now held at the National Maritime Museum. The watermark on the paper dating it to 1840 would indicate that the strands were probably returned to Vice Admiral Hardy after the death of George IV in 1830, and subsequently packaged up and docketed during an inventory of Hardy's possessions after his death in 1839. It was offered in the sale held by Dukes at the Hardy family home, Portesham House, Dorset, on 17 June 1938 as lot 146 and was one of the more expensive lots in the sale, selling at £11. However, according to a note in the catalogue (a copy of which is included in the lot) the sale was cancelled and it was returned to the family ('Refudiated by bidder as wrapping paper is watermarked date 1840. He was under the impression that this was the lock of hair from Mr Bridge's sale at Puddletrenthide [sic] in 1911'). The sale he refers to is the sale of works of art and historical relics of John Bridges and John Gawler Bridge, The Manor House, Piddletrenthide, 20 September 1911.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BILL FOR NAPOLEON'S STOCKINGS'Panier, Bonnetier de S. M. L'Empereur et Roi', manuscript bill with letterpress heading and armorial device within woodcut border, made out to 'Sa Majesté L'Empereur et Roy' for 36 pairs of silk stockings and 72 pairs of fine Segovia wool slippers ('chaussons en Ségovie') for the total price of 828 francs, signed by Panier and dated 22 September 1806, endorsed below by Auguste Laurent, Comte de Remusat (1762-1823) as 'Le Premier Chambellan' and master of the imperial wardrobe, approving payment, signed and dated by him 'le 27 février 1807', 1 page, 8vo (235 x 178mm.), Paris, 1806-1807Footnotes:Silk stockings would have provided valuable insulation during the winter campaign between October 1806 and February 1807 when Napoleon's army defeated the forces of the Fourth Coalition and advanced to the Russian frontier.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album titled 'Gallipoli 1915' containing 21 tipped-in photographs relating to Gallipoli during the first world war, photographs 14.5cm x 25.5cm, the majority captioned in manuscript below the image.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

The Great War - A collection of WWI ephemera to include a speech given by Robert M Pringle to his Church chronicling his wartime experiences. A war diary manuscript (Ypres 1914/5) by poet/mountaineer Geoffrey Winthrop Young recording his experiences in the Friends Ambulance Unit, a copy of 'It's Only Me' signed by the daughter of the Reverend Theodore Bayley Hardy V.C., D.S.O., M.C. and the author J. David Raw together with mixed commemorative items, postcards (coloured, b/w and silk/ embroidered), a WWI 'customs of the Army' officer's guide , Ypres souvenir picture book, petrol ration coupons, various letters and a quantity of The Illustrated War News and related books to include The Wonder Book of Soldiers, The First Year Of War In Pictures, Britains Merchant Navy and othersLocation: 1:2

Worldwide accumulation in an oversize carton and 3 clear tubs, a mass of material from a half-tonne estate, one of the tubs being France/Colonies from classics onwards in 10 vols, incl. a Lighthouse album housing decent used collection with 1929 Le Havre ovpt (toned) and good range of charity sets, airmail high values, etc. plus a mostly empty two-volume Yvert edition. Another of the tubs is all US including 19th century postal history. Then the large carton with over a dozen albums incl. China with Hwangshan landscapes part-set used, an inner tub with good loose from 19th century onwards. Then the strong third tub packed with cards, album pages, small albums and loose, noted Boer War cover with manuscript 'on active service - no stamps available', Netherlands Indies censor cover via Hawaii, Lithuania 1920s correspondence, 1960s/70s commercial correspondence incl. Brunei, Qatar, Saudia Arabia, Thailand, etc., through to world new issues. Great potential here once organised - this one will keep you busy over the winter!

20TH CENTURY GLAZED MANUSCRIPT FOLIO CHEST

Book - Japanese Marks and Seals by James Lord Bowes, published Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1882; also 1920's magazine Present-Day Japan Overseas Trade Number, English Supplement of the Osaka Asahi and The Tokyo Asahi 1929, the cover inscribed Mr Bass Christmas present 1929 Shinroku Nukao Engineer Sumitomof.w.ltd.japan. Condition report:Japanese marks - Ex library. Marked on bottom of spine, label removed. Binding sound but stained and marked. Rebacked using original boards. Damp staining and browning throughout. some taped repairs, chipping and splits to pages. Bound in press cuttings and a few pages of manuscript re: enamelling.Magazine - Browning, chipping and some small tears. 

19th century Indo-Tibetan prayer book with various manuscript leaves held between two wooden boards, 7cm long.

JERZY MAREK (POLISH 1925-2014). Sunset rendezvous. Oil on board. 22cm x 33.5cm. Signed, inscribed verso with title, dates 1987 to 1994 with typed biography, further manuscript inscription by the artist.

HAMNETT, Nina, “Laughing Torso”, publ. 1932; SITWELL, Osbert, “Three-Quarter Length Portrait of Michael Arlen”, signed by the author, No. 220 of 520 copies, Windmill Press (1930); “Sitwelliana, 1915-1927”, Curwen Press 1928; & High House Press, Dorset: “Rymes of the Minstrels, Selected From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century”, No. 91 of 230 copies, publ. 1927.

FULLER MAITLAN, J.A. (Editor). “English Carols of the Fifteenth Century, From a Ms Roll in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge”, (n.d.), circa 1891, Leadenhall Press, gilt lettered green cloth; BIRMINGHAM ART SCHOOL “A Book of Pictured Carols”, 2nd edn. publ. 1896; KELLEHER, D.L. “An Anthology of Christmas Prose & Verse…”, Cresset Press 1928; GILPIN, Eva M. “A Nativity, Drawn From the Old French Noels & with Appropriate Music”, one of 100 copies, Constable & Co., 1925; & WRIGHT, Thomas “Songs And Carols, Now First Printed From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century”, printed 1847 for the Percy Society, quarter calf with gilt tooled spine (disbound).

MANUSCRIPT /INDENTURES, a large Manuscript accredited to Governor Willington 1861 and four 17th Century Indentures from Edwade Cockayne of Pooley

Kodak works FIRE BRIGADE, St. Albans: 1878 Manuscript volume: report book, 32pp. Plus a Minutes’ book of meetings, c30pp; Plus a PHOTO of the St. Alban’s city fire brigade, July 1903. (Local photographer), mounted on card; Photograph: fire brigade, Kodak works, 1915; Ration book, St. Albans, 8-7-1940; Air raid precaution handbook No. 1, 1938, 2nd. Edn. Plus: Manuscript book: September 1915 to August 1918. C170 pages. (Qty)

Manuscript, documents, etc. including: Documents in transcription illustrative of the reign of Leopold I (Emperor), Rome, 1687- early 18th. century, (26pp), including transcriptions of official letters to the college of cardinals; A folder of mostly water colour drawings of ornaments, Arms, Armour, etc (c40pp); A printed letter, dated Dacca, 26 July, 1927, from members of the Decca district village union Association to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honorable Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, Governor of the presidency of Bengal; in its original velvet covered tube; etc. (qty.)

A fine and unusual double-sided album page from the Imperial Mughal Library during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb, with scenes from the life of the Sufi Shaykh Majd al-Din Baghdadi Herat, 16th Century, with Deccani and Mughal additions of the second half of the 17th Centuryrecto, six scenes in gouache and gold on paper, perhaps excised from a manuscript of Jami's Nafahat al-Uns, laid down on an album page with an inner silver-sprinkled light blue border, nasta'liq inscriptions within gold cloudbands in upper and lower border, outer border with undulating foliate motifs in gold on a light pink ground, seal impression of Mughal Imperial Librarian at lower right corner; verso, a circular painting of a noblewoman, Mughal, late 17th Century, laid down on sections from Deccani and Mughal gilt-decorated album page borders of the late 17th-early 18th Century, gold-sprinkled inner borders, fine marbled border outside these, upper outer border with nasta'liq inscription, lower border with two lines of text in nagari script in gold (trimmed at right-hand edge), perhaps later, numbered 69 in Arabic at lower left corner each scene recto 100 x 95 mm. and slightly smaller; painting verso 103 mm. diam.; album page 390 x 278 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Imperial Mughal Library, apparently during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb (reg. 1658-1707).Private US collection, early 1970s-present.The seal impression in the lower right corner (recto) is that of a Mughal official, and reads: sohrab khan khaneh zad-e 'alamgir padshah, 'Sohrab Khan, born in the household of 'Alamgir Padshah'. The date is not clear, but it is clearly from the reign of Aurangzeb/'Alamgir I (1658-1707), and judging by the terminology, probably the early years of his reign. The seal impression of Sohrab Khan is found on other album pages including one in the Philadelphia Museum, while another was on a portrait of the Mughal nobleman Farrukh Fal, dated 1650-75, with Francesca Galloway (Indian Miniatures, London 2005, pp. 16-17, no. 6). This also had the same kind of nagari inscription indicating a Rajput collection, perhaps Amber. An album page with Sohrab Khan's seal impression, depicting a Mughal nobleman recto and with calligraphy by Javaher Raqam verso, dated to the third quarter of the 17th Century, was sold at Sotheby's, The Khosrovani-Diba Collection, 19th October 2016, lot 15.The Persian text verso consists of a couplet in praise of the beauty of a lady (perhaps by implication, that depicted in the painting below). The nagari text at the bottom also praises her beauty, comparing it to spring.The fragments of plants on a gold ground are reminiscent of imaginary plant studies in a dispersed manuscript of Indian philosophy, the Aparoksha Siddhanta, produced in the Deccan, at Aurangbad, and dated 1669 (see Francesca Galloway, op. cit., pp. 4-7, nos. 1, 2; also N. Haidar, M. Sardar, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy, New York 2015, pp. 292-293, no. 169).Marbling is of course a technique strongly associated with the Deccan, and the example here in the outer border verso is particularly striking. The petal-like differentiated areas were probably created using some sort of stencil or resist-masking technique for blocking off sections (though there is some suggestion that the technique is decoupage). For examples of Deccani marbling, and a discussion of the technique, see Haidar and Sardar, op. cit., pp. 156-169, esp. p. 158.The absence of text makes it impossible to say if the paintings recto were excised from a manuscript of Jami's Nafahat al-Uns, or another text on Sufis, or were simply depictions of the life of Shaykh Majd al-Din, made in an album for a specific patron.Jami's Nafahat al-Uns told the lives of six hundred and eleven Sufi saints. Shaykh Majd al-Din Baghdadi was a pupil of Najm al-Din Kubra. Khwarazm Shah asked the Caliph of Baghdad to send him a physician and Majd al-Din was sent. The Khwarazm Shah threw him in dajlah (referring, it seems, to a river as large as the Tigris - a scene perhaps depicted at lower left). Examples of the complete text have appeared at auction a few times: the only illustrated instance was a single leaf, dated to Herat, circa 1500 (see Christie's South Kensington, Indian and Islamic Works of Art and Textiles, 11th April 2008, lot 102. For complete examples of the text, see: Christie's, Islamic, Indian and Armenian Art and Manuscripts, 12th October 1999, lot 80 (dated AH 910/AD 1504); Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 5th December 2002, lot 496 (Afghanistan or North India, 17th Century); Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 31st March 2009, lot 138A (a Turkish translation, dated 1520).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. 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Al-Sahifa al-Kamila, a collection of prayers including seven prayers to be recited according to the days of the week Persia, late Safavid, late 17th/early 18th CenturyArabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 241 leaves, approximately 9 lines to the page written in clear naskhi script in black ink with interlinear Persian translation written in smaller nasta'liq script in red ink, double interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords, headings of each prayer written in elegant thuluth in gold within a rectangle decorated with fine vegetal scrolling motifs in blue, numerous Persian commentaries written in nasta'liq script in black ink in outer margins, one fine double-page of illumination richly decorated with intertwining floral motifs in gold and some colour, the two pages interleaved with a blank page containing cartouches incorporating a reference in nasta'liq script to the fourth Imam, Zayn al-'Abidin (to whom al-Sahifa al-Kamila is attributed), red morocco, covers richly decorated with central medallions and cornerpieces incorporating intertwining floral motifs in colours and gold, on a red ground decorated with intertwining vegetal motifs in gold, with flap, doublures of green morocco gilt, lower cover detached 173 x 113 mm.Footnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A practice sheet (siyah mashq) in nasta'liq script on an illuminated album page Persia, 18th-19th CenturyPersian manuscript on paper, text written diagonally in large nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground and intertwined with stylised foliate motifs in gold, inner margins with floral motifs in gold on a light brown ground, outer borders with an undulating foliate motif in gold on a light green ground, laid down on later card 285 x 130 mm.Footnotes:There are three different notes in Persian on the reverse, all attributing the hand to that of the famous calligrapher 'Abd al-Rashid Daylami, whose recorded work is dated between AH 1030/AD 1620-21 and AH 1071/AD 1660-61. He died circa 1670. See M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. II, Tehran 1346sh, pp. 393-400.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maktabi Shirazi, Layla va Majnun, with eighteen illustrations, copied by Muhammad Husayn ibn Mirza Muhammad Mazandarani Persia, dated AH 1247/AD 1831-32Persian manuscript on paper, 104 leaves with two blanks, 11 lines to the page written two columns in nasta'liq script in black ink with many words in shikasteh, intercolumnar rules and inner margins ruled in gold, headings written in nasta'liq script in red, opening illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, 18 illustrations, Qajar lacquer floral binding, floral doublures 147 x 93 mm.Footnotes:The illustrations are as follows:1. Sayyid 'Amiri (Majnun's father) asks Layla's father for the hand of his daughter for his son.2. Majnun's father advises Majnun.3. Majnun and his father on the way to the Ka'ba.4. Majnun and his father at the Ka'ba.5. Story of lovers descried.???6. Majnun's mother advises her son.7. The old woman and Layla. 8. Layla & companions in a garden (seen by Ibn Salam).9. Majnun meets Nawfal.10. Battle of the two tribes.11. Majnun on his way to Layla's camp, hearing a noise from a well.12. Layla meets Majnun in the wilderness.13. A shepherd takes Majnun to Layla concealed in sheepskin.14. Majnun at his father's tomb.15. A messenger brings a letter from Layla.16. Majnun is told of his mother's tomb.17. Majnun watches Ibn Salam being killed by a beast.18. Majnun dies on Layla's dead body.Maktabi Shirazi was a poet of the late 15th-early 16th century, who composed his Layla and Majnun in AH 895/AD 1489-90, which he dedicated to Amir-zadeh Qasim. There is no record of his actual name, and he is recorded only by his pen name Maktabi, after his profession of teacher at a school (maktab). He is recorded as having travelled to Khorasan, India and Arabia. He died circa 1510 and is buried in Shiraz. (See F. Richard, Catalogue des Manuscripts Persans, vol. II, Le Supplement Persan, Rome 2013, pp. 851-2, no. 647).Rypka comments: 'Nizami found an uncommonly large number of imitators of his poem Layla u Majnun, in Iran and in the areas falling under the influence of Persian culture – in Turkey, Central Asia, India and so on. They imitate his form, choice of material, treatment of analogous and sometimes like subjects, preferably in the same Khamsa form. Amir Khusrau, the first in point of time, occupies a prominent place and he in his turn also influences his successors. Among these, Maktabi of Shiraz approaches his model most nearly in his admirable epic poem Layla u Majnun, which dates from AH 895/AD 1489–90 and is a work that even achieves new effects by means of lyrical ghazal insertions. Tremendous admiration for Nizami is reflected also in the miniatures and in the minor arts in general, where the themes are for the great part taken from the Khamsa.' See J. Rypka, History of Persian Literature, Dordrecht 1968, pp. 98 and 213. A fine version of this text was offered in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 24th April 2018, lot 144; and another, 26th October 2020, lot 48.The text (in a slightly casual nasta'liq, including many words in shikasteh) was copied by Muhammad Husayn ibn Mirza Muhammad Mazandarani in AH 1247/AD 1831-32. He is unrecorded. A manuscript of the Layla and Majnun (without giving the poet's name) in nasta'liq and signed by the same scribe as the present manuscript, but dated AH 1251/AD 1835-36, was offered at Sotheby's, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 28th April 1993, lot 145. It had 102 leaves, 11 lines of text to the page (as here), headings in red, and had thirteen illustrations.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A prisoner being chastised before a nobleman, a mullah or sufi attempting to prevent the ordeal Qajar Persia, circa 1880gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with illuminated and ruled inner margins, two cartouches containing inscriptions in nasta'liq script in gold, outer border richly decorated in colours and gold in Safavid style painting 120 x 197 mm.; album page 240 x 335 mm.Footnotes:The text in the cartouches, which seems to be unrelated to the painting and probably derives from another manuscript, consists of two couplets from the Mawa'iz (Counsels) of Sa'di.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Twenty illustrated leaves from a manuscript on horses Rajasthan, late 19th Centurynagari manuscript on paper, 20 leaves (6 with illustrations on both sides), 1-7 lines of text per leaf, illustrations in gouache, variously depicting horses standing alone, some with riders, grooms and a foal, yellow and black ruled inner margins, some leaves numbered in upper right corners, loose, not bound 230 x 315 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Ruth Prawer Jhabavala (1927-2013), novelist and screenwriter, best known for her Merchant Ivory collaborations.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Qur'an leaf written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, six lines written in kufic script in brown ink with diacritics in red, sura heading in gold, text interspersed with gold added later, trimmed and laid down within ruled margins in colours and gold area within margins 81 x 127 mm.; visible leaf total size 97 x 145 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceR. W. Tookey, employee of the British Bank of the Middle East, London EC2, 1969. (Spink invoice (for £350) dated 16th January 1969 attached to backboard).Private Scottish collection.TextQur'an, end of sura LXXIX, al-Naziat, most of verse 46, and sura LXXX, 'Abas, beginning of verse 1.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Four illuminated Qur'an leaves Persia, Herat, circa 1550Arabic manuscript on paper, four leaves mounted together in one frame, 15 lines to each page, first, eighth and fifteenth lines written in thuluth script in gold, remainder of text in smaller naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, gold and blue roundels between verses, naskhi text bordered by illuminated cusped vertical devices within side panels, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords in outer margins of two leaves each leaf 320 x 222 mm.; frame 113 x 95 cm.Footnotes:Text(upper left) Sura XI, Hud, The prophet Hud, bismallah, verse 1 to part of verse 10.(upper right) Sura VII, al-A'raf, The Heights, part of verse 184 to part of verse 194.(lower left) Sura VII, al-A'raf, The Heights, part of verse 143 to part of verse 150.(lower right) Sura VII, al-A'raf, The Heights, part of verse 164 to part of verse 172.Compare with an illuminated Qur'an, Herat, Afghanistan, 16th Century, in the British Library (MS 13087), with the area allotted to the text partitioned within a rectangular framework to enable the use of a number of scripts, and with similar illumination (see John Reeve (ed.), Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, London 2007, p. 113 & colour illustration).For a bifolium from the same manuscript, see Christie's South Kensington, Arts and Textiles of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 28th April 2017, lot 42. The format of this bifolium, with its three lines in gold and its panels of naskhi flanked by cusped vertical devices, is strikingly similar to that of a complete Qur'an, copied in Herat by Muhammad ibn Mirak, and dated AH 965/AD 1558, sold at Christie's, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 29th April 2003, lot 18. There is another Qur'an, ascribed to Herat or Tabriz, circa 1525-50, written in a very similar if not identical hand, and with identical verse-markers, in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection (see D. James, After Timur: Qur'ans of the 15th and 16th Centuries, London 1992, pp. 128-135, no. 35).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Muhammad Baqir Majlisi (d. 1110/1699), Miqbas al-Masabih, a text on prayers to be recited after daily prayers, copied for a certain Muhammad Quli Bikazadeh, by Muhammad Ibrahim Qumi, the well-known Safavid calligrapher, and formerly in the library of the Qajar Prince Farhad Mirza (1818-1888) Persia, dated Ramadan 1104/May-June 1693Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 84 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, gold roundels marking verse-endings, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, occasional significant words in red, one illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, with floral illumination to the borders of ff. 1v-2r probably added in the 19th Century, catchwords and marginal commentaries outlined within gold cartouches, Qajar lacquer binding with a pattern of gold strapwork superimposed on a ground of finer scrolling vegetal motifs, cloth covers 181 x 115 mm.Footnotes:As this copy was made during the life of Majlisi, it may be one of the earliest recorded copies of this text. The patron, Muhammad Quli Bikazadeh (or his father), have not been identified. The colophon reads: The Miqbas al-masabih was copied by the order of the one close to the monarch, Muhammad Quli Bikazadeh, the beloved son of 'Abbas Quli Bikazadeh by Muhammad Ibrahim al-Qumi in Ramadan 1104 (May-June 1693).The design on the binding is similar to that on a mid-19th Century bookcover in the Khalili Collection: see N. D. Khalili, B. W. Robinson, T. Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands: Part Two, London 1997, p. 197, no. 420.Hand-written notes record that the manuscript was in the library of Prince Farhad Mirza in Sha'ban 1293/August-September 1876 and then in that of his son, Ihtisham al-Dawlah after AH 1306/AD 1888-89.These various ownership notes in the front flyleaves are as follows in detail:A. 'In turn, it entered (my library) and I am the sinner servant (of God), Farhad son of the Crown Prince - may his grave be fragrant - in the honoured month of Sha'ban 1293 (August-September 1876)'.Farhad Mirza (1818-1888) was the 15th son of 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Saltanah and younger brother of Muhammad Shah. He is referred to as a Qajar Prince, Governor and bibliophile as well as a fine writer of the Persian language, with an excellent knowledge of Arabic. His love of collecting Persian and Arabic manuscripts is well-known and his library was considered as one of the best private libraries in Persia. His library was scattered after his death. For more on his political life and his achievements see M. Bamdad, op. cit., vol. iii, Tehran 1966, pp. 86-92; and Encyclopaedia Iranica (http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/farhad-mirza-motamad-al-dawla).B. 'In turn, it entered (my library) after my father's turn [...] and I am the servant of God, 'Abd al-'Ali Mirza Ihtisham al-Dawlah son of Farhad Mirza Mu'tamidal-Dawlah son of [...] Nayib al-Saltanah, the Crown Prince, 'Abbas Mirza - may their graves be fragrant. The oval seal impression reads 'Ihtisham al-Dawlah 1306 (1888-89).''Abd al-'Ali Ihtisham al-Dawlah (Ihtisham al-Mulk & Mu'tamid al-Dawlah) was the second son of Farhad Mirza. He received the title Ihtisham al-Dawlah after his father's death when his brother Uways Mirza received his father's title Mu'tamid al-Dawlah and 'Abd al-'Ali that of his brother's Ihisham al-Dawlah in AH 1305/AD 1887-88. He was Governor of Khamsah and Zanjan. He is first described as a young educated man and a poet but later on Bamdad comments: 'Despite being a literate and educated prince, he was self-satisfied, silly, undignified and a gambler'. (M. Bamdad, op. cit., vol. 2, Tehran, 1966, pp. 270-273).C. 'It is the hand of the deceased Aqa Ibrahim Qumi- may his grave be fragrant, there are eighty-four folios'.Muhammad Ibrahim Qumi was a calligrapher and illuminator of the Safavid period. Not much is known about him, though he is recorded as the teacher of Ahmad Nayrizi. The colophons of his works indicate that he copied a manuscript for Shah Sulayman. His recorded work, which includes manuscripts and lacquer illumination, is dated between AH 1070-1118/AD 1657-1706. See M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. 3, Tehran, 1348sh, pp. 625-626 and vol. 4, 1358 sh, pp. 127-129.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Al-Jazuli, Dala'il al-Khayrat wa shawariq al-anwar, prayers, with two coloured diagrams of the Tomb of the Prophet and the Mihrab in the Mosque of the Prophet at Medina North Africa, probably Morocco, 19th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, 273 leaves, 8 lines to the page written in maghribi script in brown ink, significant words in red and blue, inner margins ruled in red, one coloured headpiece, double-page coloured stylised diagram, chapter headings in red within coloured panel with device extending into margin, additional prayers at end in another, cursive hand, several pages left blank at beginning for insertion of the usual coloured and decorated opening pages, contemporary brown leather binding with central stamped medallions, with flap 103 x 115 mm.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

An illustrated leaf from from the Majalis al-'Ushshaq (Assemblies of Lovers) by Kamal al-Din Gazurgahi, depicting Shaykh Muhiyy al-Din A'rabi riding on a horse, coming across Sadr al-Din, with whom he was in love Persia, 16th CenturyPersian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 7 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink with one heading in gold, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, illustration in gouache and gold 207 x 110 mm. (sight)Footnotes:ProvenanceMaggs Bros., London, year unknown (but 1970s or early 1980s: catalogue entry pasted to reverse of frame).Private UK collection.To quote E. G. Browne's A Literary History of Persia, vol. III, London 1920, pp. 439-440: 'The Majalis al-'Ushshaq is a mixture of prose and verse which takes as its theme 'real' (i.e. ideal) and 'metaphorical' (i.e. material) love, and the latter considered as a bridge to the former'. The work consists of 76 sections on saints, mystics and noblemen, describing each person's passionate love. (This leaf is from the the twenty-fourth section). The text has sometimes been attributed to the Timurid Sultan Husain Bayqara (reg. 1469-1506), but some contemporary sources attribute it instead to a Herat courtier, Kamal al-Din Husain Gazarghi. For an example of the text copied in the Punjab or Afghanistan, 17th Century, see Sam Fogg, Islamic Manuscripts, London 2000, pp. 144-145, no. 50.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com