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[WILDE OSCAR]: (1854-1900) Irish poet and playwright. WILDE DOROTHY (1895-1941) English socialite, the niece of Oscar Wilde. Dolly Wilde, a lesbian, alcoholic and heroin addict, had a reputation as a charming and witty conversationalist and this, along with her famous family connections, made her a popular guest at salons in Paris. A rare autograph poem signed, with her initials D.W., one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., in bold pencil. The manuscript poem celebrates the American writer Edgar Allan Poe and commences ´O Poe! O magic two syllables/ Beginning of the word most divine/ Poetry! Such a name as was thine/ Was written on dismal twelve tables´ and concludes with the lines ´Nothing else but ashes hear below/ But, above, a winged great shadow/ Which covers thy starry native land/ "Encomium!" says thine owns high clamour/ And Europe, from afar, says: "Honour"!´. Some creasing, light overall dust staining and a few minor, light brown stains, about G

LOUIS XIV: (1638-1715) Also known as Louis the Great or The Sun King. King of France 1643-1715. Son of Louis XIII. His reign of more than 72 years is the longest recorded of any monarch in European history. An extremely rare Autograph Letter Signed, `Louis´, two pages, 8vo, n.p. [Versailles], `A 10 heures´ ("At 10h"), in French. The King has received a courier from Spain he was waiting for and is in hurry to check what has arrived. The full manuscript letter, boldly written in the King´s hand, in his childish way, with corrections, states in full `Il est arrivé d´Espagne un courier que nous cherchont. J´ay pris tous nos paquets et je les ay ouvers, je n´ay fait que les parcourir, il me paraist qu´il n´y a rien de si considerable que je croiais, personne n´a vu nos lettres que moi même, et ce soir je veux me rendre compte de ce qui sera le plus considérable que je n´ay pu voir si precipitament´ (Translation: "A courier arrived from Spain that we were looking for. I took all our packages and opened them, I only looked through them, it seemed to me that there was nothing as important as I thought, no one saw our letters except myself , and this evening I want to realize what will be the most considerable that I was not able to see so hastily") With blank integral leaf. G to VG

STRINDBERG AUGUST: (1849-1912) Swedish playwright, novelist & poet. A.L.S., August Strindberg, one page, 8vo, n.p., 22nd March 1902, to Emil Schering, in Swedish. Strinderg asks his correspondent if he knows a particular gentleman and also enquires as to whether a translation of a manuscript has been completed. Some very light, minimal age wear and some very minor traces of former mounting to the right edge of the verso, VGEmil Schering (1873-1951) German writer, translator, publisher and editor.

LOWE HUDSON: (1769-1844) Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Saint Helena 1816-21 where he was the 'gaoler' of Emperor Napoleon. D.S., H: Lowe, M: General, two pages, folio, Marseille, 14th July 1815. The manuscript document represents a set of accounts, being the ´Return of 200 days Bat, Baggage & Forage money for the Royal Marine Battalion attached to the force under the command of Major General Sir Hudson Lowe from the 13th February to 31st August 1815´, listing the various relevant amounts of each allowance for one Major, three Captains, six Subalterns, one Adjutant, one Quarter-Master, one Assistant Surgeon and two absent Captains, all of whom are listed by name to the second page, totalling 311.5.0 Pounds Sterling. Signed by Lowe at the foot with an autograph minute indicating his approval of the document, and countersigned by Major Charles Pratt. Some light age wear and a few small tears to the edges, and with a thin strip of staining to the edge of the second page, evidently caused by previous mounting. About VGLowe served as Quartermaster-General of the army in the Netherlands from 1814-15 and was about to take part in the Belgian campaign when he was offered the command of the British troops at Genoa; however while still in the south of France he received (on 1st August 1815, shortly after signing the present document) news of his appointment to the position of custodian of Napoleon, Emperor of the French, who had surrendered to HMS Bellerophon, off Rochefort.

Books. Half a shelf of illuminated manuscript and paleography reference, early 20th c and later, including Alexander (J.J.G.) & Mare (A.C. de la), The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey, Faber & Faber, 1969, illustrated, dj, hb, 4to; two editions of Salmi's Italian Miniatures, dj, hb, 4to; one volume of Biblioteca Laurenziana Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, loose gatherings and plates as issued, cloth, 8vo; Horst (Koert van der), Illuminated and Decorated Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht, 1990, dj, hb, 4to; Lindisfarne Gospels; etc

John Speed - Lancaster, double page engraved map, c1646, hand coloured, manuscript alphabet around image, 40.5 x 52.5cm Tears and repairs along fold

An early 20th century Burmese Pali manuscript, gilt lacquered manuscript composed of seven red lacquered and gilded enamelled leaves bound. Lacking string.Measures approx. 56cm long x 12cm wide.

Writing Pens, including Parker, Cross, Manuscript. Pencils, seal, lacquered box and tray, etc:- One Tray.

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Mort (Alexander) Madam Dorothy Kenyon's Booke Written by Her Cosin Alexande: Mort..., [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, title, 8pp. index and 259pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red throughout, slightly browned, original green vellum, slightly marked, corners bumped, sm. 4to (210 x 167mm.), 1683. *** Recipes including: "To make Paiste Royall"; "A Haggus or Puddinge"; "To Poll Beefe of Mutton"; "To make an Olio"; "To Boyle Salmon Morts with Hearbes"; "To make Gillyflower Wine"; "To make Aqua Mirabilis"; "The Lady Allen's Cordiall Water for the Stomache Small Pox Surfett of feaver"; "Widow ffarrington's Cordiall Water"; "To Preserve Damzens"; "To make Marmulet of Oranges or Lemmons"; "To make Sugar Cakes"; "Fora Quartan Ague"; "To make the Countess of Kent's Powder (Take Correll pearle Crabs eyes in fine powder...)"; "To make an Oyntment for a Scald (Take a Pound of fresh Butter and halfe a handfull of Sheepe dung...)" etc. Alexander Mort was probably the descendant of Adam Mort who bought the estate of Damhouse of Astley and Tyldesley, near Manchester.

Yorkshire Farming.- Wage Books relating to labour at Laxton and Saltmarshe farms [East Riding], 3 vol., printed volumes with manuscript insertions, together c. 320pp. excluding blanks, original straight-grained morocco-backed boards, printed labels "Taylor's Improved Farmer's Account Book" on each covers, folio, 1857-60. *** Details given include workmen's names (also female labour) rates of pay and amounts earned, types of job, deductions for living in, extra for attending cattle on Sundays etc. Men average 2/3 per day increasing to 4/- during threshing (less 7/6 per week for board); women about 10d per day, increasing to 1/- during potato picking.  

Indenture of a future Lord Mayor of London.- Apprentice Indenture of Frederick Bull to Richard Cooper, a salter, for a term of seven years, printed document with manuscript insertions, printed arms of Salters' Company to head, stamps to margin and verso, signed by Frederick Bull and witnessed by Richard Lechmere a Master Salter of London, light soiling, corners repaired, 150 x 180mm., 17th December 1729.*** From these very humble beginnings, Frederick Bull would go on to have an extraordinarily successful public and political career. He became the Sheriff of London, an Alderman, the Lord Mayor of London and a member of the House of Commons for the City of London. He also became the first president of the Royal Humane Society.

Cromwell meeting George Fox at Hampton Court.- [Spence (Robert, painter and etcher, 1871-1964)] "Taking Boat, I went down to Kingston, and from thence went toward Hampton Court, to speak with the Protector about the Sufferings of Friends. I met him Riding into the Park and as he rode in the Head of his Lifeguard I saw and felt a Waft (or Apparition) of Death go forth against him: and when I came to him, he look'd like a dead Man... 1658", original copper plate of the etching, 178 x 228mm., [c. 1900]; and another, a calligraphic manuscript of William Blake's poem, "The Echoing Green", framed and glazed, n.d. (2). 

Cornwall, St Wenn.- Charter, John Penlegen of Wrelagge of the Parish of Seynt Nyghton indenture confirms to John son of Juliane daughter of Richard Carvargh all my tenements in the village of ?Pincave and in the village of Penhelek in the Parish of Seynt Wenna, witnesses: John Porth and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 12 lines, indented at head, lacks seal, a few small brown marks, folds, creased, slightly browned, 130 x 263mm., 1451/52. 

Law.- Institutionem Liber Secundus, manuscript in Latin and English, title and c. 130pp. excluding blanks, slightly foxed and browned, original vellum, slightly yellowed and soiled, small ink stain on title, Pro Patria watermark, sm. 4to (203 x 170mm), [England], [early 18th century]. *** "The three objects of ye Civil law are Persons Things & Actions i.e. Judicature."

Heraldry.- [Milles (Thomas)] The Catalogue of Honor, first edition, engraved architectural title [by Renold Elstracke], 9 engraved illustrations, of which two whole page, numerous woodcut coats-of-arms throughout, lacking initial blank A1 but with blank 2V8, 3 column errata at end, title trimmed to border and edges supplied in paper (including lower fore-edge corner with loss of artistic attribution), whole first gathering reinforced onto linen stubs, 3S4 with the usual portion excised but neatly supplied in manuscript facsimile (lettering mimicking typed letters), A3 & 3S5 small paper repair to lower corner, annotations and redactions in modern blue ink (?biro) scattered but more frequent to second half, a few other ink notes in earlier hand as well, occasional damp-stains and other soiling, contemporary calf with central gilt arms to covers, rebacked preserving original spine label, corners slightly worn, [STC 17926], folio, William Jaggard, 1610.*** The portion usually excised or 'mutilated' (as often described) from 3S4 bears reference to Charles Blount's illegitimate children.

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands (mostly in one hand), 150pp., ruled throughout, slightly browned, original vellum, rubbed, soiled and marked, lower cover corner creased, sm. 4to (203 x 165mm.), n.d. [c. 1760]. *** Recipes including: "A Excellent Recept for a mad Dogg to cure or Prevent madness"; "A good way to Kill the Ratts"; "To Preserve Oringes and Lemons the Lady Overburghs way"; "Mr Hill to stew a Carp or tench"; "To make Ginder Bread"; "To Make a Hearb Pye"; "To Make Black pudding"; "Mr Hill sauce for ffish in perticuler for a Barble or Pearch"; "To make Whitt Methugelum or Mead"; "A rare Recept for a Cough of the Lunges or a Consumtion though ill but never soe violent"; "Mr Hobby for the small pox in the throat and allow to draw them out of the Laungs and Inward parts"; "Red Poppy Water" etc.

Westbury-Elizabeth David copy.- Viard (Alexandre) & M. Pierhugue. Le Cuisinier royal, ou l'art de faire la cuisine et la pâtisserie, pour toutes les fortunes...Suivie d'une notice sur les vins, 'ninth edition', half-title, manuscript notes to rear endpaper, pp.vii/viii of contents with paper flaw in lower margin, occasional spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, flat richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, joints just starting, but holding firm, spine faded, rubbed, [Bitting p.478 (note); Cagle 434; Simon BG 1565; Vicaire 860-861 (note); cf. Oberlé Fastes 168], 8vo, Paris, Barba, 1817.  *** Originally published as Le Cuisinier imperial in 1806, this ninth edition saw a title change and the addition of the section on wine by the sommelier to the King. Provenance: Leaton Knolls (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Lord Westbury (book label to front pastedown); bought by Elizabeth David at his sale, Sotheby's, 15th & 16th February, 1965, first mentioned of lot 498, paid £16 (does not have her bookplate).  

Walpole (Sir Robert, first Earl of Orford, Prime Minister, 1676-1745) Treasury Order authorising payment of £25 pension to "Janet Smith Widow", D.s. "Walpole" and countersigned "Halifax", manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, tears along folds, folds, browned, 7th October 1730.

Commonplace Book, manuscript, 105pp. of poetry and prose, 7 drawings/watercolours including: Minster Church, Isle of Thanet; Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield; "Glengarry's Bowling Green from Loch Oonigan" etc., original half straight-grained morocco, edges rubbed, 205 x 135mm., 1820-31; and another, v.s., v.d. (2).

Manuscript.- Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 63pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, original vellum, soiled and stained, sm. 4to (195 x 170mm.), [early 20th century]; and 8 other cookery manuscripts mostly late 19th century (3 in broken bindings and 2 disbound) and a small packet of loose recipes, v.s., v.d. (9 & small qty). *** First mentioned recipes including: "Milk Jelly"; "Honeycomb Pudding"; "Bread Pudding"; "Shrewsbury Biscuits"; "Rose-hip jam" etc. 

Middle East.- Palestine.- Archive of a Police Constable in Palestine, including: Saunders (A. Inspector-General) Reward poster issued for information leading to the arrest of Hamad Daoud el Judeh Zawata, text in English, Arabic and Hebrew, light central fold, a few light spots and stains, 2 small ink marks to verso, some minor worming and fraying to edges, 395 x 260mm, Jerusalem, The Palestine Police Force, 4th September 1943; Palestine Photograph Album, c.150 original photographic prints, mounted on thin card, captioned by hand, tissue-guards, some prints loose, several leaves loose, guards creased and frayed, original decorative boards, [1940s]; Manuscript Map of Palestine, a few tears affecting image, edges creased and frayed, 360 x 250mm, [nineteenth-century]; and other items directly linked to police constable H.B. Courtney such as a Palestine Police Force Certificate of Appointment, a British Passport and several photographs and newspaper cuttings, v.s. (12) *** Hamad Daoud el Judeh Zawata attained prominence in 1938 as a rebel section leader, with the reward for his capture being raised to LP. 500 after he participated in the murder of the Masri family on Mount Ebal in October 1939, and again in October 1943 after murdering two British constables. Provenance: H.B. Courteney was born in Sussex in 1911 but trained and worked as a police constable in Palestine, earning his appointment in 1943. The album's photographs depict the police training depot in Jerusalem but also horses, Bedouins, views of Cairo, and views of Jerusalem.

Collection of original poems, stories and small essays, manuscript in various unidentified hands, 24pp., disbound, some corner creasing, 4to, 18th-19th century.*** Including excerpts of Congreve, Cicero and Washington Irving. Worthy of further research.

Lincolnshire, Wrawby & Brigg (Glanford Brigg).- Document relating to William Horvel and William Stow "surrogatus" and Wrawby and Brigg including seating plans in both churches, D.s. "Guil: Stow...", manuscript in Latin and English, on vellum, 2 sheets, folds, creased, lacks seal, 290 x 415mm. & 235 x 415mm., 1680.

Manuscript.- Cookery.- [Collection of recipes including desserts and wines], manuscript, in several hands, 64pp., first f. slightly creased, recipe laid down on verso of first f., newspaper cuttings on front pastedown, hinges weak, original morocco-backed board, extensively rubbed, lacks head of spine, sm. 4to (200 x 165mm.), 1850. *** Recipes including: "To make College Puddings"; "Citron Cheesecakes"; "To make Cyder"; "Lemon Biscuits"; "Orange Jelly"; "Apple Cheesecake"; "Ginger Beer"; "Bridlington Cakes"; "Cowslip Wine" etc.

German/Italian Letters.- Boon (Adrian, Senator of Hamburg).- Beii den Ittalianeren feind 20 Buch staben, manuscript in German and Italian (including 2 dedication ff. to Adrian Boon), folding sepia drawing of a town, pen and ink decoration at beginning and end, c. 140pp., browned, original calf, gilt, rubbed, corners bumped, lacks part of spine, g.e., 167 x 110mm., 19th January 1692.

Emblemata.- Wither (George) A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne..., 4 parts in 1, engraved additional pictorial title by William Marshall, engraved portrait of author, engraved circular emblems after Crispijn van de Passe the elder, with final leaf of two woodcut dials but lacking volvelles, lacking initial 'Preposition to this frontispiece' leaf, initial 7ff. (including titles) with small paper repair to gutter foot, 3 ff. trimmed and paper repairs to edges but not affecting engravings (A3, B3 & 2L1), 2M1 small marginal defect at foot affecting ruled border, final woodcut leaf with 2 paper repairs to verso (lower woodcut small portion supplied in manuscript facsimile), occasional water-stains or other instances of soiling, endpapers defective or renewed, contemporary calf, repairs to lower joint and spine ends, upper cracked but firm, [STC 25900], folio, A[ugustine] M[atthewes] for Robert Allot, 1635.

Charles II.- Turnor (Sir Edward, MP, of Great Hallingbury, c. 1646-1721) Draft petition of Sir Edward Turnor asking the king to settle a debt of one thousand pounds owed to his father, Sir Edward Turnor, Speaker of the House of Commons, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, numerous corrections, folds, [c. 1680s]; and 2 others, Sir Edward Turnor, v.s., v.d. (3).

Gardening.- Seedsman.- Bought of James Gordon Seeds-Man at the Thistle & Crown, No. 25 in Fenchurch Street, engraved billhead with manuscript insertions, engraved arms at head, top half mounted on card, folds, lightly browned, no printer, 3rd April, 1770; and 22 others, billheads with manuscript insertions for seedsmen, a few 18th century, the majority 19th century, v.s. (23) *** Includes 'Round & French spinach'; 'Green & white endive'; 'Windsor beans' and 'Dwarf marrow'. 

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Myddelton (Mrs) [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, in several hands, c. 145pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with newspaper cuttings of recipes, 1p. with printed and manuscript label of "Insley Powell Cheese and Provision Merchant... R.B . Myddelton with R.M. Dymocks kind regards of Castle Street, Shrewsbury," several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, label: "Mrs Myddelton's Book" on front pastedown, original half calf, slightly rubbed, later rebacked, later label on spine, sm. 4to (206 x 166mm.), dated in text 1863. *** Recipes including: "Pig Sauce"; "A very good Plum pudding"; "Beautiful Ginger Beer"; "French Bread"; "Apple Pudding"; "From Caroline. Stilton Cheese. Mrs Wilsford"; "The Devils Pot - Mrs Mather... To Two quarts of good Ale..."; "Gloucester Cheese"; "Palestine Soup"; "From the head Gardener at Trentham [Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire]"; "How to Stop Bleeding"; "For the Hooping Cough"; "For Neuralgia - fm. Miss E. Williams - Bodelwyddan [north Wales]"; "Cure for Hydrophobia - Lady Vavasour" etc.

Tudor Genealogy & Heraldry.- Index of Grants of Arms/ Pedigrees titled "Fortescue", manuscript, 21pp., piece torn from corner of first f. slightly affecting a few words of text, first f. foxed, some soiling and slight staining throughout, spine strengthened, disbound, Unicorn watermark, 255 x 170mm., [?Essex], [c. 1600]. *** Interesting early manuscript index of grants of arms/pedigrees relating probably to the Fortescue family, listing some 1500 names with relevant references. Occasionally dates appear to be listed for such as Baron Kyme 1354, William De Kyme, second Baron Kyme. Some places are mentioned, including two references to Essex. Another entry lists heraldic terms. The index is presumably intended for a heraldic or genealogical work.

Manuscript.- Cookery.- [Collection of recipes including desserts, biscuits and wines], manuscript, in two hands, together 172pp. (18th century 82pp. & 19th century 90pp. including index), most pp. ruled in red, 1f. at beginning and 14ff. at end loose, first f. small piece torn away from lower margin, foxed and browned, 19th century manuscript recipes tipped-in on upper pastedown, The Family Guide (engraved broadside detailing the cuts of meat of Beef, Veal, Mutton and Pork) on lower pastedown, original panelled vellum, slightly rubbed, soiled and stained, brass clasps (1 loose), sm. 4to (243 x 187mm.), n.d. [c. 1780 & early 19th century]. *** Recipes including: "To Make Cherry Wine"; "To make Quidony or Jelly of Pippins"; "To make Elderberry Wine"; "To Candy Angellico"; "To Make the Kings Mead"; "To put up Roses to Still at Christmas"; "To make Orange Biskett"; "To make Spansh Butter"; "To make Wine of Dryed Cowslips"; "To make Ebulo (Elderberry spiced beer)"; "Roast Bullock Heart"; "New College Pudding" etc.

Barclay (John) Argenis, or the Loves of Polyarchus & Argenis, first illustrated edition, translated by Kingsmill Long, engraved architectural title, numerous whole-page engraved illustrations (including a portrait of the author), woodcut head-pieces and initials, title slightly browned and frayed, tiny hole B4 & 2D8 (no text loss), 2Z4 closed tear affecting text but no loss, otherwise light browning and some minor soiling, remains of an old manuscript document to reinforce spine, lacking front endpaper and modern typed slip tipped-onto pastedown, contemporary calf, later paper label to spine, some repairs to joints, spine ends and joints otherwise cracked or worn, [STC 1392.5], 4to, for Henry Seile, 1636.*** The second, but first illustrated, edition; the text originally appeared two years earlier. 

Guernsey.- Grant in ther court of the Bailly of Guernsey, William le Pelley in right of his wife Jehanette to Collas de Garys all houses, lands or rents in Guernsey for the price of three bushels of wheat as an annual rent, manuscript in French, on vellum, 15 lines, remains of wax seal, folds, slightly creased and browned, 100 x 264mm., 26th February 1573; and 2 others including a document in French, Mary ffontaine, inventory, 1630, v.s., v.d. (3).

Sermon.- Ecles: 7:1 A good name is better than preceous oyntment & the day of death then the day of ones birth, manuscript, 14pp., browned, disbound, 205 x 155mm., n.d. [late 18th century]; and another, religious, v.s., v.d. (2).

Yorkshire.- The Value of Oake Wood in  Mr. Rockley's Ground att Grange by George Beaumont..., manuscript, 79pp. excluding blanks, some ff. loose, central folds, original wrappers, 220 x 170mm., 1717.

Westminster Abbey.- Ireland (John, 1761-1842, Dean of Westminster Abbey) Indenture signed between the Very Reverend John Ireland the Dean of Westminster and Dr John Soper, manuscript in English on vellum, 7th September, 1836; and a conveyance signed and sealed between the Very Reverend John Ireland the Dean of Westminster and Edwarde Tucker, v.s. (2)*** Ireland was installed as Dean of Westminster Abbey in February 1816. In addition, he was Dean of the Order of the Bath and rector of Islip, Oxfordshire. As Dean, he had the right of carrying the crown at the coronation service; he did so in 1821 for George IV and in 1831 for William IV. He was too ill for this role in 1838, when Victoria was crowned, and his place was taken by the subdean. Ireland remained Dean of Westminster until his death in 1842.

World.- Zappullo (Michele) Historie di quattro principali Città del Mondo, Gerusalemme, Roma, Napoli, e Venetia, woodcut publisher's device to title, short tear at fore-edge, woodcut initials and head-pieces, woodcut diagrams and tables at end, previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, one or two ff. slightly frayed at edges, D5-E3 with tiny marginal worming, scattered faint spotting and staining, contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, a little rubbed, [Sabin 1106254], 4to, Venice, Giorgio Greco, 1603.

World's End Public House, Newington Causeway, Southwark, London.- Indenture quadrupartite between Messrs Middlemore and another to Mr Lewis release... Writings of the Worlds End public House and 12 other Houses on Newington Causeway, [docket title], D.s., manuscript, on vellum, 4 sheets, ruled in red, 605 x 705mm., 4th November 1766; and 7 other documents, including 2 17th century documents relating to Jersey and 4 18th century Settlement documents, v.s., v.d. (8). *** First mentioned with later docket: "This Deed was covenanted to be produced to the London Chatham and Dover Railway Company by Thomas Frederick Marson of Highfield Park Winchfield... Hants... 1863."

Manuscript.- Cookery.- A booke of Confectionary set downe for Preserveinge dryinge or Candyinge of any sortes of plomes ore of frutes whatsoever and for makinge of all Sortes of dryed pastes or any other kind of Sugar woorkes be Lening to ye Arte of a Confectionary or Comfitt maker as ye Recetes in ye Booke followinge will derecte you [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, 104pp. excluding blanks, a few reverse entries, ruled throughout, f. excised at beginning, some ink stains, slightly browned, some later pencil titles and page numbers, ownership signatures of "Eliz Strangways" and in the same hand with probably her married name "Eliz Boynton Book", "Cath Caylery", "Judith Robinson" and "Agnes Legard" on last f., original vellum, rubbed, soiled and marked, lacks lower cover, further bound in 20th century rexine with 1920s ownership letterhead of Agnes Phoebe Legard on upper cover recording the descent of ownership of the manuscript, sm. 4to (189 x 155mm.), n.d. [c. 1740]. *** With several references to the "duchess" and one to the Duchess of Buckingham, possibly a reference to Mary Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham who died in 1704, but more probably, Lady Catherine Sheffield (c. 1681-1743), natural daughter of James II, married to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721). Recipes including: "how to make Byskitt"; "ye Lade Cotler's reset to make common wine red or white or gousbery or rasbery wine"; "to make Bisketelles ye duchess"; "to make red marmelate of quinches"; "to candy margerum"; "Cosin Edmons way to drie all sorts of plomes"; "how to preserve Apricocks my cosn marys way"; "To preserve Corans or Barberryes ye Duchess of B"; "to preserve damsons ye Dchs way"; "ye Cleare Rock candye ye Duchs of Buckingham way" etc. 

Great Fire of London.- A True and Faithfull account of The Severall Informations Exhibited to the honourable Committee appointed by the parliament to inquire into the late Dreadful burning of the City of London..., manuscript, title and 61pp., pamphlet text ends on verso of upper wrapper, a few small holes, browned extensively in places, original wrappers, stitched as issued, edges chipped, 200 x 160mm., 1667; and another, an incomplete copy of the printed pamphlet of the same title, v.s. (2). *** Probably copied as an exercise by a juvenile of a printed pamphlet.

Ephemera.- Finsbury Chapel.- Certificate of one share of Ten Pounds owned by Samuel Leach Junior in Finsbury Chapel, Finsbury Circus, printed certificate with manuscript insertions, folds, slightly browned, 130 x 235mm., 25th December 1826; and a small quantity of ephemera, pamphlets etc., including a printed plan of the Uplands Estate, Fareham, with manuscript notes, 480 x 610mm., 1925 & 5 duplicates of the same, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

Norfolk Lighthouse.- Mr Gores Patent for the Lighthouses [at Winterton Ness] for 50 years, [docket title], manuscript, 10½pp., folds, browned, a few edges chipped, 370 x 300mm., dated 1637 but later [18th century]; and 2 others, including an 1803 indenture, Phillipps MSS 17194, v.s., v.d. (3).

Military.- Alexander (Sir James Edward, army officer, 1803-85) Skirmish in Persia, manuscript, 8pp., n.d., [19th century]; and a small quantity of others, letters from military officers, including: Lieutenant Henry Dugdale from Galway, Captain John Cosnan, Proby, naval officer in Gibraltar etc., v.s., v.d. (sm. qty). *** First mentioned: "[Alexander] As aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, he was present with the Persian army during the war of 1826 with Russia, and received the Persian order of the Lion and Sun (second class). On 26 October 1827 he was gazetted to the 16th lancers. He went to the Balkans during the Russo-Turkish War of 1829, and received the Turkish order of the Crescent (second class)." - Oxford DNB.

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Danver (Mrs Alice) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, in three hands, calligraphic title, together 147pp. (including 5pp. index), most pp. ruled in red, title soiled, some text foxed and browned (some large brown spots), original vellum, rubbed, soiled and stained, edges chipped, folio (320 x 205mm.), n.d. [c. 1750 & 1780]. *** Recipes including: "To make Bottle ale or Beer"; "To make Rasberry Cakes"; "To make Biskett Cakes"; "To Candy Cowslips & Elderflowrs. Archangel or Burrage Flowrs"; "To make Buttered Cream"; "To make Almond Florrendine"; "To make a Powder for Sweet Baggs"; "To make a Sack Possett"; "To cure the Sciatia or Rheumatism"; "The Powder used for ye Inflamation of the Throat"; "To make Aquacelestis"; "Water to drive out the Plague or any other Infection Whatsoever & to Cure a Feaver , Called the Feaver Water"; "For the Biteing of a Mad Dogg"; "Dr. Gascons Powder or the Bishop of Worcesters"; "An aproved water for ye Stone and Collick"; "For the Scurvy" etc.

City of London, Gutter Lane.- Order signed by Martha Fletcher to Mr Bryan Stevens Mr Vere & Mr Uriah Webb advising them she has sold her messuage in Gutter Lane and that they must pay arrears of rent to the new owner Mr Sherbrook, manuscript, 156 x 182mm., 31st January 1688; and a quantity of other documents, mostly receipts from the Earl of Guildford to Lady Kaye, c. 1740s - 60s, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

18 century gardener & naturalist.- [Journal of gardening and natural history observations], manuscript, 72pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red throughout, slightly browned, letter from Chr Cookson regarding subscriptions to a savings club loosely inserted, original calf-backed boards, rubbed and marked, spine worn with small loss, sm. 4to (205 x 165mm.), 1755 & 1787-93. *** "22 May. 1788. 10 o'clock - worcest now & then, Aberley Hills clear"; "January 30 1792. Skylarks sing. Willow in hedge... a few male nut catkins open'd in sheltered places "; 20 April "cuckoo heard at Mr Rogers... straw coloured & white butterflies appear.". A collection of observations on science, garden plants and natural history. The journal records visibility (seeing the Abberley Hills), plants (planting, varieties of , flowering etc) and natural history (swallows and martins nesting etc) with general nature notes in the manner of Gilbert White. The earliest and smallest section (2pp.) is titled: "Leafing of trees & shrubs in Norfolk 1755" & "The order of flowring of Bulbous plants in borders... ." The main manuscript, without titles, appears to have been written in Worcestershire, probably between the Abberley Hiills and Droitwich Spa.

Pope (Alexander) Copy letter and dedicatory poem to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford & Earl of Mortimer, concerning publishing the late Thomas Parnell, manuscript, 3pp., 21st October, 1721 [but c.1721]; together with a copy of Harley's 1p. reply of 6th November, 1721, 4to, no place, "Poor Parnell before he dyed, left me the charge of publishing these few Remains of his: I have a strong desire to make them, their author, and their publisher more considerable by addressing & dedicating 'em all to you.", folds, some spotting and light soiling, lightly browned, stitched with a light blue ribbon.  *** Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman, and friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Pope edited and had published 'Poems on several occasions. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell.'. 

Grey (Elizabeth, Countess of Kent) A Choice Manual, or Rare Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery...as also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying, &c., 2 parts in 1, nineteenth edition, woodcut head-pieces, lacking frontispiece portrait (supplied in facsimile), E3 and final f. S6 (supplied in facsimile), title torn with loss of text, supplied in later manuscript, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in modern lighter brown speckled calf in compartments, rubbed, [Bitting p.201 (note; Notaker 530 (note); Oxford pp.22-23 (note)], Printed for Henry Mortlock, 1687; and a defective copy of Muffett's Healths Improvement, 1655, 12mo & small 4to (2) sold not subject to return. 

Manuscript.- Cookery.- [Anonymous] & later Hendren (Ann) The Compleat Cook [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her autograph manuscript notes loosely inserted, manuscript in several hands (mostly in one hand), 176pp., small tear on f. at end, some other small tears, browned, numerous ink signatures of Ann Hendren and an inscription Ann Hendren Wrote by her Son Patrick Hendren" on endpapers, watermark maker's mark "RS", bound in contemporary cloth covered limp boards, stained and marked, in resilient condition, folio (325 x 215mm.), [c. 1750] & dated at end 1778-94. *** Recipes including: "A Hare Pye"; "To Roast Lobster"; "To Dress Pigs Petty toes"; "Soup Lorrain"; "Shrewsbury Cakes"; "Naple Bisketts"; "A Rice Pudding"; "To Clarrafied Suggar"; "Jack Possett"; "To preserve the Kings, Queens & Catherines pears"; "Lemon or Orange Wine"; "To Make Ginger Bread"; "To Make a Quaking Pudding"; "A Bread Pudding"; "To Make French Bread"; "To Dress Rumps of Mutton a La Sauce Robart" etc

Aphorisms.- Commonplace book of aphorisms & diary, manuscript, 29pp., some crossings out, mostly interleaved with blotting paper, a few stubs, browned, original roan, rubbed, 100 x 70mm., 1821-23. *** A miniature manuscript commonplace book containing a variety of aphorisms, some seemingly original. Combined with a short diary entry covering a single day , 6 June 1823, describing arrival at Pickle Herring Starirs in Southwark by wherry followed by poetic epitaphs.

Manuscript.- American Cookery.- Appleton (Mrs W.S., of Ellicutts Mills, Baltimore Co, Maryland, USA) [Collection of recipes], manuscript in two hands, 49pp. excluding blanks, some ff. loose, others working loose, slightly browned, edges chipped, original morocco-backed boards, rubbed, corners worn, spine worn with loss to head and tail, sm. 4to (240 x 190mm.), dated variously in text 1857, 1873 & 1876; Hopper (Rachel, ?of Philadelphia) Receipts for Making Cakes, Jellys &c. [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, 19pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, manuscript label on upper cover, sm. 4to (195 x 162mm.), Kimber & Conrad, 93 Market-Street [Philadelphia, USA], 1822; and and 2 others, comprising another Amercan cookery manuscript and a German cookery manuscript, 1811, sm. 4to (4). *** First mentioned recipes including: "Admiral Pococks Receipt for curing Beef"; "Chicken Pudding"; "Cup Cakes"; "To Stew Black Fish"; "Black Cake"; "Green Tomato Pickel" etc.

England & Wales.- Miniature almanac.- Common Notes..., engraved title and text, 18pp., manuscript 16pp., original wrappers, corners and edges creased, lacks paper on spine, silk tie, housed in a morocco and gilt slip-case for another work, 51 x 30mm., 1732. *** The manuscript notes are written by a person living in Chester who travels across Shropshire and Wales, "Oct 18th Mrs Pugh [Elizabeth Salesbury married Rowland Pugh] of Rug [Rhug] & Miss Pughs & 9 breakfasted at Mr Griffiths Curate." Other places visited include Oswestry, Llangollen, Llangedwyn, Penybont etc.

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, 29pp. excluding blanks (cookery 19pp., medical 10pp.), slightly browned, arms of Amsterdam watermark, original patterned calf, rubbed, folio (310 x 197mm.), n.d. [c. 1750]. *** Recipes including: "To make syrop of Mullberries"; "To make Syrop of oreng or lemons"; "To make Jelly of pippins"; "To Make portugall Cakes"; "To make a Cream Cheese"; "How to Make a Butter milk Cheese"; "To macke Goosbery wyne"; "Recept of my Lady Kincairdens Pills"; "An Excellent balsom for persons in a Consumption or haveing the gravel"; "A Plaister for Wormes in Children"; "The diet drink"; "A Syrop for the King Cost"; "Doctor Pitcairne ordinary Tentell Purg" etc.

Howell (James) Dendrologia [graece]. Dodona's Grove, or, the Vocall Forrest, first edition, engraved frontispiece, title with large engraved vignette of gardeners and typographical border, 2 engraved plates, all by M. Merian, woodcut head-pieces and initials, a few ink notes to margins in later hand and single leaf manuscript list in later hand mounted on stub to endpaper, frontispiece with closed tear or incision to gutter margin, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine ends chipped and upper cover corners repaired, rubbed, [STC 13872; Pforzheimer 512], folio, by T[homas] B[adger] for H. Moseley, 1640.*** A clean first edition copy of Howell's elaborate arboreal allegory. A second part was published in 1650 encompassing up to date events, in 8vo, as were all subsequent editions.

(Heraldry.) A circa late C19th/early C20th album containing examples of finely executed manuscript pen & ink heraldic crests & arms, comprising 1 page hand coloured illuminated examples, Standard of Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire 1509, and 9 Stafford badges, plus 41 pages predominantly pen & ink examples crests, arms, crowns etc, 1 example in pencil, 1 in speia watercolour, armorial bookplate "William Clafton. Arms Painter. Arms & Crests illuminated on vellum. Family Pedigrees engrossed and illustrated. Bookplates Designed, Etched or Engraved. Illuminated Addresses. 95 Wiverton Road, Sydenham", oblong album (18 x 26cm), old cloth

Assorted ephemera, including an early 20th Century commonplace album containing manuscript pen & ink sketches and other written entries, c.1911-1920, many of the sketches and entries stated as being done on board the steam ocean liner RMS Osterley 1911-1912, which operated a passenger service from London to Australia via the Suez Canal, contemporary calf gilt; a 19th Century leatherbound album with gilt title to front cover "Confessions", each leaf with printed questions and with manuscript pen & ink responses/answers from various different people, printed questions include "Your favourite virtue", "Your favourite qualities in man" "... in woman", "Your chief characteristic", "Your idea of happiness", "Your idea of misery", "Your favourite poets", "...prose authors", "...painters and composers", "...heroes in real life", "...heroes in fiction", "...heroines in fiction", "...food and drink" etc etc, 40+ pages with manuscript answers to questions filled in, dated c.1879-1905, some responses sincere/serious, some sarcastic/humourous, contemporary calf gilt worn; plus a 1920's/30's cruise liner snapshot photograph album with some relevant ephemera inserted, and a folder and small album of sketches c.1930's-40's

Walt Whitman: 'Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855. 1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.). Portraits from Life. Autograph', [Philadelphia, for the author, 1888], number 548 of 600 copies printed for the author's personal use signed by Whitman ("Walt Whitman") beneath text on the printed title page of Leaves of Grass, and with the limitation statement added in manuscript by Horace Traubel, Whitman's literary executor and biographer "Edition: six hundred Number five hundred forty-eight", Photographic title-page with oval profile portrait (Linton engraving after G.C. Potter photograph), tissue guarded engraved portrait of Whitman as a young man (used as frontispiece in the 1855 Leaves) bound in at p.28, from the Maynard and Outram Smith Library, with unobtrusive circular inkstamp to FFEP and reference number at foot of spine, and J. Outram Smith signature on front pastedown. Rev. Herbert Maynard Smith (1869-1949) was a member of the Anglican clergy and a published author on theological and historical subjects as well as the writer of a series of detective novels. Rev. J. Outram Smith (1871-1954) followed his older brother into the clergy and maintained a special interest in missionary work. Original polished buckram gilt, top edge gilt. The definitive edition of Whitman's work issued in his lifetime, published just three years before his death.

A visitor book, Fern Cottage, Horning, Norfolk Broads, numerous entries 1920's-1960's, including Arthur Henry Patterson (1857-1935), Broadland naturalist and writer, manuscript entry by him, dated May 15 1924, signed "A.H. Patterson ("John Knowlittle") Yarmouth, author "The Cruise of the Walrus" on the Broads. &c &c", and with 2 small pen & ink sketches by Patterson; plus also with 1920's entries/signatures of H.M. Bateman (1887-1970), with humourous pen & ink sketch by him of a man fishing a pike, W.E. Hayter Preston (1891–1964), Sir Edward Paulet Stracey, 7th Baronet (1871–1949) of Rackheath Park, Norfolk, Henry Michael Collins (1844–1928), Reuter's agent, Elizabeth Cator (1899-1959), of Woodbastwick, Horace Sequeira (1887-1973), and many others, photographic postcard of Fern Cottage Horning, and b/w photograph of Arthur Henry Patterson in front of Fern Cottage, mounted to inside front cover, contemporary calf gilt album (worn)

E.C. Gaskell: 'The Life of Charlotte Brontë, author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," "Villette," &c.', London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1857, 1st edition, 2 volumes, engraved frontispieces (portrait of Charlotte Brontë to vol. I, Haworth Church and Parsonage to vol. II), plus facsimile of manuscript plate complete, volume I small amount of relevant material tipped in at front, fine half morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments, marbled paper covered boards & EP's (2)

An early 19th Century German music manuscript album, manuscript pen & ink title: 'Zwolt Deutscher Lieder, von Carl Muechler, mit Begleitung des Fortepiano's oder der Guitarre von Carl Friedrich Ebers.', following leaf with pen, ink and watercolour illustration and m/s name above "Auguste Bretsel", followed by 24 pages of m/s musical notation and lyrics, oblong (20 x 33cm), contemporary card wraps, with a corresponding manuscript invitation card dated 1829; together with a manuscript album written by friends on leaving Germany circa 1830, and a finely bound manuscript album with various dates to contents in German, all relating to Cossmann family, who appear to have emigrated from Germany to Nova Scotia circa 1830's (3)