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MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK: small volume of manuscript receipts compiled by H S Eyre, so inscribed to upper cover and dated June 1842, approx 33pp cookery, household and medical receipts, 3pp index at rear, contemporary red morocco covers, rubbed and separated from contents, a few other receipts loosely inserted, generally in good condition. (1)

ARGYLL CONSTABULARY: group of 3 printed and 1 manuscript documents related, 1840s-50s, old folds. (4)

SCOTLAND: small quantity of manuscript and printed ephemera related, largely mid 19thc, to include 'Rules of the Argyllshire Club' dated 1921, 16pp, red morocco covers, 12mo. (Small quantity)

ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY: printed receipt thereof, hand dated Oct 6/56, pencil entries to verso, old folds: together with other misc printed and manuscript ephemera, 19th century, to include several documents on vellum. (Small quantity)

CANALS: 'Statement in regard to the making of a ship canal from East to West Loch Tarbert, Argyll..': printed proposal on blue paper, 4pp bifolium, old folds, July 1859: together with another printed proposal on the same work and an ALS of same date from John Ramsay, to Sir John Campbell-Orde related: plus 4 printed and manuscript dockets relating to Birmingham canal schemes, 1870s. (Small quantity)

P LAWSON & SON, NURSERY & SEEDSMAN: receipt of purchases dated 19th Feb 1833, engraved billhead with extensive 2pp manuscript list of seeds and plants, folded as letter entire (wax seal torn away): together with 7 manuscript letters and lists relating to plants and horticultural products, 1830s-60s, all folded down, generally in good condition. (Small quantity)

PEPYS (Samuel, 1633-1703): manuscript warrant dated 17th May 1661, licensing one John Rudd boatswain of His Majesty's ship The Augustine to gather 'victualls for himselfe and his servant as is proper and usual...', signed by Samuel Pepys as naval secretary and two others, Woolwich Dockyard, foxed and with evidence of previous folding, the document approx 19.5 x 28cm within window mount, framed and glazed. (1)

FRENCH MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT: 16th century or later, document in French from a book of official records by 'Chevalier Le Huby', Marigny, France, framed and glazed within window mount. (1)

MANUSCRIPT: EUROPEAN TOUR:mid-19th century manuscript account of a European tour, diary format (fair copy?), chiefly description of travels through Italy in a good legible hand, approx 115pp filled wholly or partly, contained in 8vo commonplace book of period, morocco backed, spine worn with loss but contents generally sound. (1)

ARRAS, TRENCH MAP: Edition 7A, Ordnance Survey, March 1917: linen backed map folding into 32 sections, a few old pencil markings, spots and stains: together with a few other typed and manuscript letters of similar period. (Small quantity)

SCOTLAND: mixed collection of manuscript and printed ephemera related, largely 19thc, to include a selection of notices issued by the Grampian Club: printed folio notice 'List of Markets in the County of Argyll', old folds: manuscript list 'Contents of the Estate of Silveraigs belonging to James Campbell Esq', string tied to spine, folio, old folds: with a quantity of other letters and documents related. (Small carton)

EASTBOURNE GUN CLUB: Minutes Book of the Eastbourne Gun Club, c.1907-1915: 8vo commonplace book, vellum bound, manuscript entries with printed ephemera and notices tipped in, several items loosely inserted including rule book for 1908 in red printed wrappers, blank section toward rear partially torn away and several leaves thereafter loose. (1)

NAVAL INTEREST: Commander C G Chichester, 'Reminiscences 1880-1955': typescript, 96pp plus 2 manuscript diaries covering period July 1914-March 1916, 152 pages with photographs: inc. Admiral Beatty at surrender of German Fleet, stone elephant at Nankin as well as several images of various manoeuvres at sea. The typescript and 2 wartime diaries giving detailed and entertaining account of a distinguished naval officer's career, narrative commencing on the China station at Wei-Hai-Wei during the Russo-Japanese war outlining several skirmishes with the Japanese. He goes on to serve in the North Sea at Heligoland and is present at the Battle of Dogger Bank. Shortly after the battle a Zeppelin drops bombs on the ship...'we had a narrow escape, seven bombs dropped...' 1915, Chichester's ship HMS Forward sent to Mudros, naval base for the Gallipoli campaign, assisting in evacuation of troops from Cape Helles and Suvla, description of bombardment by Turkish guns, saved only by 'the failure of shells to explode'. The Greeks are unreliable hosts ...'the king of Greece is in the German pay, he's playing a double game...he thinks Germany will prevail.' Chichester manages to capture the tedium of war as well as its drama ..'I have come to the conclusion that, after the novelty has worn off, warfare especially naval is a dreary business..' the remainder of the Reminiscences deals with life after the war, including a memorable meeting with Thomas Hardy ...'when having tea one Sunday...I found myself sitting alongside Thomas Hardy...had a most interesting talk with the old man'. (3 Albums)

TRIP TO RUSSIA: Josephine Patricia Campbell, June 1955: typescript account of the journey, manuscript notes and travel ephemera/documents, a small bundle. Mrs Campbell notes how 'Russian women fight shy of personal adornment and take refuge in a matt black...'. She is unimpressed by 'the shoddy workmanship of the women masons'. She is watched at all times and every time she leaves her flat 'the guard telephones his HQ'. Queue jumping 'is compulsory for foreigners' whilst ordinary Russian women are obliged to queue 'for at least 2 hours in the street' . Most shocking is the contrast 'between the manner of living of the man in the street and the very few privileged members of society...'. She concludes by lamenting 'the drabness and sameness about the Russian people' far removed 'from the lofty ideal of the state'. A perceptive if unsophisticated account of a trip to Russia at the height of the Cold War. (A bundle)

SPANISH MANUSCRIPT: 'Ano Christiano en Decimas...': neatly executed manuscript on Spanish Days of the Saints, penned by one Francisco Saez, 1820: approx 320pp, contemporary Spanish calf gilt with green edges, 12mo, some worming to head of spine and general light wear, else generally very good. (1)

VICTORIAN MANUSCRIPT COOKERY: manuscript cookery receipts compiled by one Amelia Elliot, dated December 1st 1863 to front end leaf, approx 64pp, contained in period notebook, burgundy morocco covers, rubbed with spines sunned, 12mo. (1)

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK: 19c handwritten book of cookery receipts, approx 120+pp with other receipts loosely inserted, majority of entries seemingly in same hand, small 8vo ruled notebook of period, spine deficient and contents shaken: together with 2 other volumes of manuscript receipts, late 19th-early 20thc, culinary and medicinal receipts, both disbound and with obvious signs of use. (3)

GEORGIAN SCRAPBOOK: inscribed 'Hannah Sexton.. a birthday present from her father December 14th 1823..': thick 8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt, much wear with front board loose and lower deficient: numerous leaves of pasted in engravings, interspersed with some manuscript poetry and prose, floral drawings, some items loosely inserted. (1)

MANUSCRIPT: NOTES ON NAVIGATION AND PILOTAGE: late 19th-early 20thc manuscript, approx 120pp neatly filled in blue and red ink, numerous diagrams and charts (some in coloured pencil), contained in square 8vo ruled commonplace book of period, original red morocco gilt label to upper board so titled, later labels to spine, light external wear else generally in very good condition. (1)

SHELLS: WOOD (W): 'Index testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean System...', London, Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818: with 38 fine hand-coloured engraved plates: BOUND WITH: 'supplement to the index testaceologicus', 24pp text inc. title page in manuscript in a contemporary hand and 8 hand-coloured engraved plates, period diced calf boards recently rebacked, 8vo. (1)

AZORES, MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT C.1690: single folio sheet with manuscript to both sides, verso with bearings, vessel anchoring in 'Ye Island of St Michell': to recto details of the towns, anchorage, the fost and guns 'half dismounted'. Corn is the chief export, the fruit includes...'lemons, oranges, sweet & sour...': also an abundance of fish...'crawfish the best I ever saw...': some fraying to edges, general toning and creases. (1)

EPHEMERA AND DOCUMENTS: a large box, including manuscript material, printed documents and ephemera, prints and periodicals and miscellaneous other items. (Box)

MANUSCRIPT DIARIES: collection of 16 diaries covering period 1900-1919, written by one Marion Ann Clementson of Colchester, regular entries in legible hand detailing day to day business, trips away, visitors to the house, etc: together with a group of 7 diaries in another hand, Binyon Family of Suffolk covering years between c1860-90, plus 'Catalogue of My Library, Prints and Pictures', 78pp with entries to each page and 'List of Books Lent' circa 1920s and another small notebook marked 'Books' to upper cover, circa 1900, with notes on various authors/titles and a one page list of contemporary booksellers, including a few brief comments on them. (Small box)

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOKS: a comprehensive collection of manuscript cookery receipts in 8 volumes, compiled by one Mary Watson of Chepstow circa 1929, 2349 numbered pages of entries plus indexes at rear in legible hand, blue ink underlined in red, contained in red buckram bound notebooks of period, 12mo: together with 2 seemingly unrelated account books of earlier period. (10)

TOMLINSON (Henry Major): a pair of ALS from Tomlinson, the first of 3 sides to 'Dear Beresford' (Egan?), touching on literary matters and the Bloomsbury intellectuals, the second of 2 sides to one Miss Tyson dated 16 May 1948: together with a one side TLS from Godfrey Tearle on headed paper of Comedy Theatre: a 10 verse manuscript poem by William Kean Seymour dated June 15 1921, plus 2 other TLS unrelated. (Small quantity)

FRANCIS FRY: BIBLE IN ENGLISH: 'The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments.. newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised...', Edinburgh, printed by Andrew Anderson, 1676: small 8vo, contemporary black morocco gilt, aeg, rubbed, old facsimile title page, front pastedown with manuscript label by bibliographer Francis Fry, stating...'this is a very rare edition by Anderson. The title is a very exact facsimile from my copy. This copy belonged to the late celebrated James Lenox New York, the pencil writing on the flyleafs by him...'. (1)

ACHILLES: PROBST (Johann Balthasar, engraver, 1673-1750): 'Sive Feras Telis, Hostes Seu Sternere Ferro, Invictus Pugnis Pugnus Achillis Erat. So Wol Behertzte Feind, Als Wilde Thier Zu Fallen, Dursst Der Achilles Sich Stets Unbesiegt Darstellen...': Augsburg, 1721: a suite of 13 fine metal engraved plates by Probst, plus engraved title, mounted into an English devotional book of the period to recto of alternate leaves, some contemporary manuscript notes on the work below the initial page, contemporary sombre binding of blind tooled black morocco, green ornamental endpapers gilt, 8vo.  A rare series of engravings depicting the life of Achilles...the manuscript note comments...'the breadth of light & shadow are preserved in a masterly manner' (1) 

MATHMATICS: WINGATE (Edmund): 'A Plain and Familiar Method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetic..' London, J & P Knapton, 1751: 18th edition: 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, engraved frontispiece and diagrams within text, single leaf manuscript list of books in contemporary hand loosely inserted. (1)

ABERDEEN ALMANAC: 'The Aberdeen Almanac, for the year 1789...', Aberdeen: printed and sold by J Chalmers & Co: 12mo, contemporary sheep binding, period manuscript notes to flyleaves: together with 6 other Aberdeen almanacs, 19th century, plus 16 other volumes, including 'Tytler's History of Scotland' vols 1-9, 1841. (23)

An early 20th-century gilt-tooled Morocco manuscript book, travel journal/travelogue with the first dated 1904. Including travel tickets from destinations including Zeeland Steamship company and overland tickets including Basel, Interlaken, Scheidegg and also containing photographs and related ephemera relating to travels of Maj. The Hon Leonard Harrison Cripps? 16.5 cm x 20.5 cm Together with an early 20th-century Souvenir book of St Petersbourg.

A rare Bow figure group of the 'Fortune Teller', circa 1752By the 'Muses Modeller', a lady holding out her right hand for examination by a bearded palmist, a staff in her left hand, wearing a pale yellow coat lined in puce, white apron and a dress painted with sprays of flowers, the palmist wearing a pale pink washed long-sleeved coat edged in puce and lined in pale yellow, his iron-red boots enriched with gilding, a manuscript on the ground between them, on a shaped rocky base, 18cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceRous Lench Collection, Sotheby's sale, 1 July 1986, lot 188With Winifred WilliamsChristie's sale, 18 May 1992, lot 38Distinguished Private CollectionExhibitedAshmolean Museum, OxfordThis group is after a painting by François Boucher for a Beauvais tapestry in the 'Fêtes de Village à l'Italiennes' series, more widely known from a print titled 'La Bonne Aventure' by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline which first appeared in the Mercure de France in April 1738. The figure may have been inspired by the original painting or a copy of it, as it does not appear in reverse like the print, see Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (1981), p.144. Coloured and white examples of the Fortune Teller were produced at Bow and all are the work of the 'Muses Modeller', whose characteristics are unmistakable. A similar figure sold by Bonhams on 25 March 1977, lot 73 is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.127, no.196. Another is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz, Made at New Canton (2000), p.89, no.76. See also the example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc. no. MFA61.1282) illustrated by George Savage, 18th Century English Porcelain, pl.44. An example left in the white is illustrated by Adams and Redstone (1981), p.145, pl.70.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Taxidermy - a Victorian diorama, comprising a squirrel and a bantam cockerel, naturalistically mounted, the glazed ebonised case enclosing leaf of ink manuscript mentioning This Squirrel Shot By William Moythan on ** Farm, and that The Bantam Cock Gained the 1st Prize at the Birmingham Show Amongst ** Competition 1886, 49cm high, 46cm wide

Hogg, James Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, &c. Mostly written in the Dialect of the South. Edinburgh: Printed by John Taylor, Grassmarket, 1801. First edition, 8vo, [1-5], 6-62, with bound in 3pp. manuscript, not in Hogg's hand, probably in the hand of the former owner John Andrew, "Extracts from the Memoir of James Hogg... this manuscript was published in 1821", 19th century brown half morocco, armorial bookplate, inscribed at head of title "John Andrew, Newington, 1822", slightly rubbed. Rare

[Jacobite Interest] - The Battle of Inverurie Manuscript poem "Lord Luis [Lewis] Wieldry at Invary" 60 lines celebrating the actions of Lord Lewis Gordon at the Battle of Inverurie (confusingly called 'Invary' and 'Inverary' in the poem) on the 23rd December, 1745, 29 x 31cm, written in an 18th century handFootnote: Note: Supported by the French, Jacobite troops under the command of Lord Lewis Gordon, defeated the British government troops at the Battle of Inverurie in 1745.

[Manuscript Travel Journal] - Scotland Recollections of a Tour Through Scotland made in the Year the diary steam-boat and canal-boat trip, beginning around Oban and heading through Loch Linnhe, Loch Lochy and Loch Ness to Inverness, then around the Moray Firth and along the coast to Aberdeen and finally to Edinburgh before heading home to London, from the 22nd June - 3rd July 1839, comprising 88 manuscript pages, including several interesting descriptions of the scenery, the trip and the way of life of local people, with passages such as: "In coming away from the Chapel we met a number of barefooted little children going towards the Chapel to be taught English, as a party of them said who we stopped & questioned, about their books and learning, to all which they gave good answers in English and then the little rogues would talk directly to each other, in their own native tongue, and then they would laugh..." and "...we retired for the night, well pleased with the day, & Edinboro [sic.] - we could not fail to remark the great difference between a Sunday in Scotland, & England - here we saw it kept to all outward appearances with order & decency. No carriages driving about, not even a beast of burden to be seen. No groups of noisy talkers. No profane Language to be heard. This speaks well for the morals of the people." 19 x 12cm, green cloth

18th and 19th century albums and workbooks 7 volumes Mathematics workbook of Alexander Allardyce, 1792, containing 172 (of 180 original) manuscript pages, 24.5 x 19.5, contemporary half calf; Commonplace Book of Helen Marshall, of 10 Archibald Place, Edinburgh, dated from the 1840s, 19 x 13cm in green cloth; Vol. of Dr Henderson's MSS:- pulpit preparations from Miss Hay, Galashiels, 1865, notebook containing religious writings, 20.5 x 13.5cm; Sermons by the late Revd. Henry Francis, copied from the original manuscripts in the possession of Samuel Rolleston Esq. by John Bulley, 1799, 400 manuscript pp., with the bookplate of John Bulley and inscribed in pencil to Miss Rolleston; 19th century decorated album, containing poetry, drawings, and several damaged rice paper illustrations, 30 x 40cm, purple morocco gilt; Pendulograph album, containing 62 laid-in pendulograph illustrations and an explanatory guide, 24 x 19cm, green cloth; and another commonplace book, c.1835, containing a few poems and sketches in blue calf gilt (7)

A Highland Tour A manuscript account, mid-19th century "A sojourn in the Highlands...", comprising 227 manuscript pages by R. Geddes, addressed to 'My dear Mrs Haldane', with an additional 4 tipped-in manuscript sheets, bound into the recased covers of a copy of 'Loiterer in Argyllshire', 11 x 16cm; Carlyle, Alexander Journal of a Tour in the Highlands, August & September 1765, 109 typescript leaves, a contemporary copy of the original manuscript now in the National Library of Scotland [MS.23767], 18 x 21cm, in the original vellum covers, with several loosely inserted letters from a previous owner to the museum (2)

Hafez [Hafiz] [Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī] Divān-e-Hafez - a 19th century Indian 341 illuminated manuscript pages in nasta'liq script, 10 full-page miniatures, 12 x 19cm in 19th century calf, slight dust-soiling, joints splitting, a little internal dust-soilingProvenance: from the library of Sir Henry Evan Murchison James, Commissioner in Sind from 1891 to 1900. With a handwritten letter from the Hon. Mirza Abbas Ali Baig, member of the Indian Council, dated 1913, describing the manuscript in English.

MacDougall, John Orain Gha'elach agus Duain Coluinn le Iain Mac Dhughaill, Airdghobhair [Gaelic 42 manuscript pp. comprising a contents list and song lyrics in verse, late 18th or 19th century

MacLean, Sorley An early ALS discussing Scottish Literary Renaissance figures and work 6 manuscript pp. on 3 leaves, each 17.5 x 23cm, dated 25-9-41, signed 'Somhairle', addressed to Douglas [Young], discussing mutual acquaintances including Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmid ("...I am interested in your new opinion of Sydney. I was never quite sure myself. I have always liked him immensely and like him better as I know him better. He does have much of the Toller in him potentially but also a fair amount of what would be called the 'bourgeois-decedent' element. So has Grieve for the matter of that."), his own life, as he cites family concerns preventing him from participating in the Spanish Civil War, and giving feedback to Young on one of his translations from Gaelic to English; MacLean also expresses his worries relating to the war

Aou Tōkei Kokugun Zenzu - Atlas of the Provinces of Japan Osaka & Edo, 1837. One volume only, 20 x 28cm, with 41 coloured woodblock maps (on 82 pages) (the full 2 volumes contain 75 maps), original yellow wrappers without label, some rubbing to covers, a little internal spotting, ownership inscription in red pencil to one text leaf, English place names and compass in manuscript to initial map

Pennant, Thomas [J.A. Harvie-Brown's copy] British Zoology London: B. White, 1768-1768, vol. 3 Chester 1769, vol. 4 Chester 1770. 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, many of the birds coloured by hand, interleaved copy with interesting contemporary marginal notes probably by Rev. E.H.W. Way of Denham near Uxbridge, modern quarter calf, marbled sides, morocco labels, bookplate of J.A. Harvie-Brown re-inlaid to front endpaper, stamp on titles only of Royal Scottish Museum, with Cancelled stampFootnote: Note: An interesting copy, formerly belonging to J.A. Harvie-Brown. A manuscript letter bound in to J.A. Harvie Brown from Professor Alfred Newman of Magdalene College Cambridge, addressed to "my dear Brown", discusses the edition and the likely former owner who has annotated some of the interleaves. Newman believes on the evidence put forward presumably by Harvie Brown that the mostly likely former owner was the Rev. E.H.W. Way of Denham near Uxbridge. Newman states is that Denham is "where the Reed Warbler was first clearly recognised - see Yarrell, ed. 4, i. p.369" and enquires whether the present copy contains any mention of the fact. He also mentions that Gladstone visited the college the previous week where he planted a tree, which had been swiftly stolen. At the end a note from William Wesley to J.A. Harvie Brown regarding the book is bound in.

Finlay, Ian Hamilton [unpublished poem] Words from The Winter School "Snowball Books", 1982. 5 typed leaves in green card wrappers, 12.5 x 11cm, with printed inscription to final leaf: "Produced for Stephanie in an edition of one copy xxxx ['x's handwritten]"; [Idem] A Variation on a Poem by Pope, 2 typed pp. by Ian Hamilton Finlay, small manuscript correction to second leaf (2)

The Darwin Centenary 1909: A collection by Dr. R.S. Woodward: 27 items inc.: 'Notes on the Darwin Centenary' A5 manila envelope labelled in Woodward's hand. 7 sheets of yellow, lined foolscap notepaper containing 9 pages of Woodward's autograph account. Printed Ephemera: Darwin Commemoration June 22-24, 1909. Provisional Programme. [2] With oval stamp presumably on receipt at Woodward's office: 'Carnegie Institution Feb 15 1909 Washington'. A brief resume of events. 'University of Cambridge Darwin Celebration', A4 sized printed envelope issued on arrival in Cambridge to Woodward containing invitations etc. Printed with University Coat of Arms and 'Darwin Celebration' letterhead. 'Programme'. 4 page, quarto sized, printed bifolium with detailed programme of events, Tuesday June 22-Thursday June 24. Invitation to Reception in Fitwilliam Museum by Chancellor of the University. 'Order of Proceedings in the Senate House Wednesday, June 23, 1909', pp 12. Large quarto, sewn. Invitation, A5 size, to American delegates to the unveiling of bronze bust of Charles Darwin.' Notice to Delegates, small quarto size broadside with notice of a photograph of Delegates at Christ's College, Wednesday afternoon. Invitation, 'The Master and Fellows of Christ's College at Home'. Programme of Music, 'The Darwin Centenary 1909, Christ's College Garden'. Invitation to a 'Banquet in the New Examination Hall'. In his 'Notes' Woodward records the presence of the great and good at the banquet, including 'ten distinguished members of the Darwin family'. Note: The most complete ephemeral record of an unprecedented scientific celebration; formed by the American physicist and mathematician, Robert Simpson Woodward (then President of the Carnegie Institution. An archivist's dream, this collection is richer in ephemeral material than either the analogous archives held by Cambridge University Library or The Royal Society. He also wrote an (unpublished) manuscript account of his experience of the Darwin celebration which accompanies the archive.

Alps, Austrian Railways, Panorama - Ghega, Karl Ritter von Malerischer Atlas der Eisenhabh über den Vienna: Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1854. Oblong folio, 2 plans, 5 tinted lithographed plates and 18 sheet panorama, panorama detached in 2 places and with a few short tears in lower margin, slightly spotted, contemporary green embossed morocco, slightly rubbed, plate list supplied in early manuscript

Tours in Scotland 9 calf-bound volumes Skrine, Henry Three Successive Tours in the North of England and Great Part of Scotland. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1795. 4to, modern quarter calf gilt; Bristed, John Anthroplanomenos, or a Pedestrian Tour through Part of the Highlands of Scotland. London: J. Wallis, 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured frontispiece, contemporary calf very neatly rebacked with later spines; [Pennant, Thomas] A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX. London: B. White, 1772. 2 volumes [including 'Additions'], 18 engraved plates, manuscript ownership inscriptions and neat annotations of Weton Moseley, also bound with 21 engraved plates from the third edition, published Warrington, 1774, contemporary calf neatly rebacked; Walker, John An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland. Edinburgh: University Press, 1808. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt with green morocco gilt labels to spines, neat ownership inscriptions to titles; Leighton, John M. - Joseph Swan, engraver Swan's Views of the Lakes of Scotland... Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1837. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 55 engraved plates, contemporary green half calf gilt (9)

[James VII Broadside] A Proclamation concerning the persons who are lyable in the payment of Edinburgh: printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1688. Broadside, 35 x 45cm, early manuscript title and later provenance note to reverse, small hole to centre, some creasing [ESTC R18905 listing 8 copies]

Highland Clearances and Economy & Colonsay and Oronsay A collection of works [Manuscript ledger] Supplies given out for Highland Relief Committee, Glasgow Section. Folio, 1848-9, comprising 183 manuscript pp. with names and the quantities of oatmeal and cornmeal received; [Manuscript ledger] Pauper Meal Distributions from Local Mills 1850/51. Folio, 53 manuscript pp. with names or recipients and their residences; Somers, Robert Letters from the Highlands; or, the famine of 1847. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1848. 8vo, original purple cloth gilt; Loch, David Essays on the Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Thomas and Walter Ruddiman for the Author, 1778. 3 volumes, 12mo, original wrappers [ESTC T107026]; Sellar, Thomas The Sutherland Evictions of 1814. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1883. 8vo, folding map, original brown cloth gilt; McLeod, Donald Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland... Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1892. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Dempster, George A Discourse containing a Summary of the Proceedings of the...Society for extending the Fisheries...and some Thoughts on the present Emigrations from the Highlands. London: G. and T. Wilkie; and J. Debrett, 1789. 8vo, modern quarter calf; Ritchie, and others The Memorial of the Central Board of Management of the Fund raised for the Relief of the Destitute Inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; [bound with] Skene The Memorial of the Central Board of Management of the Fund raised for the Relief of the Destitute Inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 4to, purple half morocco; Alison, William Pulteney Observations on the Famine of 1846-7 in the Highlands of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. 8vo; Mackenzie, Alexander The Highland Clearances. Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, 1881. 8vo, blue cloth gilt; [Idem] An Analysis of The Report of the Crofter Riyal Commission... Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, [n.d.]. 8vo, blue cloth gilt; Pattison, Thomas The Western Highlands, a Lecture delivered before the Islay Association... Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1864. 8vo, original yellow wrappers; Campbell, John F. Report of the Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Islay Association. Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1878. 8vo; Gray, Alexander The History of Islay Place Names. Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, [n.d.] 8vo, green cloth; Loder, John de Vere Colonsay and Oronsay, in the Isles of Argyll. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1935. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Grieve, Symington The Book of Colonsay and Oronsay, 1923. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1923. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplates; McNeill, Murdoch Colonsay, one of the Hebrides. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Maclean, Magnus The Literature of the Highlands. London: Blackie and Son Limited, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by the author; Wheaton, Nathaniel S. A Journal of a Residence during several Months in London. Hartford: H. & F. J. Huntington, 1830. 8vomodern quarter calf; [MacLean, Lachlan] The Native Steam-Boat Companion. Edinburgh: Quentin Dalrymple, 1845. 12mo, original green cloth gilt, clamshell box; [Bell, C.S.] The Highlands of Scotland. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: W. & J. Bell, 1843. 8vo, contemporary green half calf, printed on blue paper, bookplate; and 5 others (29)

In 2° (302 x 190 mm); [8], 806, [10] pagine. Insegna xilografica dei reali d’Inghilterra sul frontespizio (bruniture.) Legatura coeva in bazzana con fregi a secco ai piatti e al dorso, titolo su tassello, tagli verdi.  Prima edizione, messa subito all’Indice. La posizione di Sarpi, già colpito da scomunica nel 1607, è fortemente critica nei confronti dell’operato della Chiesa e vicina di conseguenza alle posizioni eretiche dei riformati. PMM 118. - TAGS: Libri, libro, books, GeneraleLe carte a2-4 supplite in manoscritto. Leaves a2-4 supplied in manuscript.

'Der Goldene Psalter (Dagulf-Psalter)'Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Original-Format der Handschrift aus dem Besitz der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bde., Adeva Graz, 1980, 272/700 nummeriert, Codices selecti Vol. 69, Kommentar von Kurt Holter, mit O.-Schuber'Der Goldene Psalter (Dagulf Psalter)'Complete facsimile edition in original format of the manuscript in the Austrian National Library, includes facsimile and commentary in 2 vols., Adeva Graz, 1980, numbered 272/700, Codices selecti Vol. 69, commentary by Kurt Holter, with original slipcase

'L'Ystoire du bon roi Alexandre (Berliner Alexanderroman)'Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im O.-Format der Handschrift 78 C 1 aus dem Besitz des Kupferstichkabinetts Preißischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Faksimile und Begleitband in 2 Bde., Coron Verlag, 2002, O.-Samtkassette, 741/998 nummeriert, Begleitband von Angelica Rieger, 272 SS.'L'Ystoire du bon roi Alexandre (Berliner Alexanderroman)'Complete facsimile edition in original format of manuscript 78 C 1 from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, facsimile and accompanying text in 2 vols., Coron Verlag, 2002, original velvet case, numbered 741/998, accompanying text by Angelica Rieger, 272 pgs.

Russian handwritten manuscript, 1835, on two sides, having national eagle emblem on front page

A music manuscript by Edmond Missa, 'Legend Du Petit Navier'

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712- 1778)Autograph manuscript Extract from the Anabasis of Arrian, story of Alexander the Great, in Latin translation. Evoking the Amazons. As part of his work for Madame Dupin, who was preparing a book on women

CHARLES GOUNOD (1818-1893)Signed autograph musical manuscript entitled “Spring Song”. 9 systems of 3 staves for voice and piano and 10 staves for the singing of the 2nd and 3rd couplets. 5 pp. on 4 ff. in-4 oblong. Melody composed in 1849 on a poem by Eugène Tourneux, which would be published in 1860 by Meissonnier fils. Autograph signed «Ch. Gounod»: «to my dear pupil and friend Rosalie Jousset, 27th April 1856». (In French) This Rosalie remains famous as the dedicatee of the original melody of the Ave Maria composed by Charles Gounod after a prelude by Bach.

ERIC GEORGE MILLAR: DESCRIPTION OF AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE THEBAID OF STATIUS NOW MS 76 IN THE LIBRARY OF A CHESTER BEATTY, FSA, Oxford University Press, 1931, 1st edition, errata slip, 9 plates as called for, fo, original cloth

BIBLIA HEBRAEA CHALDAEA GRACA AND LATINA NOMINA VIVORUM MULAERUM POPULARUM IDOLORUM URBIUM FLUVIORUM MONTIUM CAETERORUMQUE LOCORUM QUAE IN BIBLIIS LEGUNTUR RESTITUTA CUM LATINA INTERPRETATIONE LOCORUM DESCRIPTIO E COSMOGRAPHIS..., Parisiis ex Officini Roberti Stephani..., 1540, 4 parts in one, part 3 published 1539, part 4 published 1538, title page damaged with losses, title page to third part with small part loss and following leaf with small part loss, final leaf detached with part loss at left margin, some old manuscript marginalia, publisher's name curiously inked out on title pages, lacks one preliminary leaf, collates [10] 268 104 [ie 103], 90, 92 leaves, some water staining, Robert Estiennes, 3rd folio bible being a reprint with additions and corrections of his 1528 edition, it became the foundation of the official Roman Vulgate, folio, old calf backed marbled boards, v worn, top board near detached

JAMES BUCKNILL (1928-2015): BRITISH FURNITURE 1851-1953, original manuscript with pen and ink and watercolour sketches created by him at Brighton College of Art, May 1953, 60 manuscript pages including title page, 4to, cloth backed decorative fabric covered boards worn

Blyton (Enid). The Enchanted Wood, reprint, 1942; The Magic Faraway Tree, 1st edition, 1943; The Folk of the Faraway Tree, 1st edition, 1946, all London: George Newnes, all inscribed by the author 'love from Enid Blyton' (Folk has 'Joy, love from Enid Blyton') on the front free endpaper, Enchanted and Magic front free endpapers with additional contemporary ink manuscript inscriptions relating to 'Joy', all with numerous illustrations, the majority with (generally neat) juvenile colouring, some marks and finger-soiling, occasional minor losses to blank margins, Enchanted generally toned throughout with dampstains to a few lower blank margins, some of Folk p.15 overwritten in a juvenile hand, Enchanted stitching strained, hinges cracked and cover loose, Magic hinges cracked, all original cloth, rubbed and marked, spines sunned, some corners lightly bumped, Enchanted spine cocked, Magic front cover somewhat creased and with short split to rear joint, 8vo, together with: Blyton (Enid, pseud. Mary Pollock), The Children of Kidillin, c.1941; Three Boys and a Circus, [1940]; The Secret of Cliff Castle, [1943]; Smuggler Ben, [1943]; Mischief at St. Rollo's, [1943], all 1st editions except Children (second impression), London: George Newnes, Childen and Three Boys both inscribed by the author 'love from Enid Blyton' on the front free endpaper, Secret with (probably) 'Mary Pollock' and Smuggler with 'love from Mary Pollock' (i.e. Enid Blyton) inscribed (but later covered with white correction fluid) on the front free endpaper, all front free endpapers with (additional) contemporary ink manuscript inscriptions relating to 'Joy' (see above), all with numerous illustrations, many with (generally neat) juvenile colouring, all except Three Boys generally toned throughout, occasional minor marks, Smuggler with some juvenile writing to one blank margin, and two leaves with loss to fore-margin (one with closed tears and larger loss affecting several lines of text), Mischief with a few closed tears and front hinge cracked after contents, original pictorial boards, worn, spines deficient (Three Boys spine mostly present but nearly detached), some fading and a few mostly minor marks, 8voQty: (8)

Blyton (Enid). The Twins at St. Clare's, 5th edition, 1943; The O'Sullivan Twins, 4th edition, 1943; Summer Term at St. Clare's, 2nd edition, 1943; The Second Form at St. Clare's, 1st edition, 1944; Claudine at St. Clare's, 1st edition, 1944; Fifth Formers of St. Clare's, 1st edition, 1945, London: Methuen, all inscribed by the author 'love from Enid Blyton' (Fifth Formers has 'Joy, love from Enid Blyton') on the front free endpaper, each front free endpaper with additional contemporary ink manuscript inscriptions relating to 'Joy', numerous illustrations, all with juvenile colouring (a few affecting facing pages), some marks and marginal tears, a few minor losses to blank corners, Twins with one leaf detached (torn away) and one loose, a few pages of Fifth with some words coloured yellow, O'Sullivan front hinge cracked after frontispiece, Summer hinges cracked, Fifth stitching strained, all original cloth, a little rubbed with some soiling and marks, spines faded (four slightly cocked), Summer & Fifth front covers creased, Fifth front cover design with juvenile colouring and additions, 8voQty: (6)NOTESProvenance: Joy Clark, thence by descent. Joy Clark (born 1937) grew up in Beaconsfield with her parents Isabella and Cecil Clark. The Clarks ran an ironmongers shop in the town and Enid Blyton was a regular customer. For many years whenever one of her books was published, Blyton would kindly sign and give a book to Joy, who was a small child at the time.