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* Hyde (Edward, 1st earl of Clarendon, 1609-1674). English Statesman, Diplomat and Historian. The humble partition and adresse of Edward Earle of Clarendon, 1667, contemporary manuscript fair copy in Secretary hand, Hyde defending himself to parliament against the charges for which, in due course, he would be impeached, attainted and banished, the text beginning 'I cannot express the insupportable trouble & griefe of minde, I sustain under the apprehension of being misrepresented to your Lordshippes...', and ending '... when his majesties Justice to which I shall alwayes submitt myselfe may not be obstructed or Controuled by the Power & malice of those who have sworne by destruction, Clarendon', 5 pages on two bi-folia with docketed cover and blank 2nd and 8th pages, some slight browning and old damp staining, first (blank) leaf partly soiled and frayed with one long closed tear, folioQty: (1)NOTESAn impeachment was first presented to the House of Lords on 12 November 1667. Clarendon's ensuing flight to Calais on 29 November was seen as proof of his guilt and the Articles of Treason were exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon on 14 November 1667. Clarendon attempted to defend himself and procure the right to return with his 'Humble Partition and Address' of 3 December 1667. It was reprinted widely, sometimes as 'news from Dunkirk House: or, Claredon's Farewell to England Dec. 3 1667'.

* James II (1633-1701). King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Document Signed, 'James R', as King, at head, Whitehall, 2 August 1685, manuscript document on vellum, commissioning John Webb as a cornet 'of that Troop whereof Colonell Alexander Canan is Captain, in Our Royall Consort the Queen's Regiment of Dragoons commanded by Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin Charles [Seymour] Duke of Somersett', countersigned by Robert Spencer, second Earl of Sunderland (1641-1702) as Secretary of State, and in the margin by William Blathwayt (bap. 1650, d. 1717), as Secretary at War, traces of the king's signet, minor soiling, 1 page, oblong folio (26 x 35.5cm)Qty: (1)NOTESSigned in the first year of James II's brief reign. John Richmond Webb (1667–1724), army officer, was born at Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire, the son of Colonel Edmund Richmond alias Webb (c.1639–1705) and his first wife, Jane (1649–1669). 'Webb commented that he had served in the army since the age of sixteen. This would place his entry into military service during the last few days of 1683 or in 1684 and clearly differentiates him from a John Webb who had served in Virginia before being promoted to lieutenant in the first guards under Marlborough in the Low Countries in 1691. On 2 August 1685 he received a commission as cornet in the Queen's regiment of dragoon guards (later, the 3rd hussars)...' (ODNB). Alexander Cannon (1640-after 1708), was a Scottish professional soldier serving in the armies of William of Orange and James II. Cannon (or Cannan) remained loyal to James at the 1688 Glorious Revolution, accompanied him into exile and was appointed Major-General of Jacobite forces in Scotland after the death of Viscount Dundee in 1689. Charles Seymour, 6th duke of Somerset (1662–1748), politician and courtier, known as the Proud Duke. Somerset was named by James II as a gentleman of the bedchamber in May 1685 and colonel of the Queen's regiment of dragoons in August. As lord lieutenant of Somerset he also took part in the suppression of the duke of Monmouth's rising that year.

* Marlborough (Sarah Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744). Document signed, 9 April 1730, a pre-printed document completed in manuscript for the repayment of a loan of £5,000 to the Duchess of Marlborough, Francis Earl Godolphin, William Clayton and John Hanbury, executors of John late Duke of Marlborough, signed in right column by Ch. Turner, Geo. Doddington and Wm. Clayton, signed on verso and dated 7 July 1731 having received the full sum, by the Duchess of Marlborough 'S. Marlborough', Godolphin and J. Hanbury, document slightly frayed and browned with old tape repairs to both margins and a few fold repairs to verso barely affecting lettering, long brown ink tick to recto and small printed cutting pasted to verso adjacent to signatures, 4to (30 x 24 cm), together with: Campbell (John, 2nd Duke of Argyll, 1680-1743). Document Signed, 'Argyll & Greenwich', 6 January 1719, manuscript on laid paper, Argyll giving Power of Attorney to his attorney to collect all funds due to him as Steward of His Majesty's Household, 3 embossed VI pence stamps to blank upper margin, red wax seal adjacent to autograph, witness signatures of James Cockburn and Otto Foreman lower left, the document marked 'No. 2' upper right, some spotting and browning, slight old damp staining to left edge, two large pin holes to centre top and bottom not affecting text or signature, a little marginal fraying, one page, folio, tipped onto an album leaf at upper margin, plus two receipts, one a manuscript receipt signed by Sir Francis Child, 20 December 1701, the receipt of £70 from Sir William Trumbull for one year's rent for a house in Jermyn Street, dust soiling to left and right margins, 8 x 20 cm, tipped on to a paper mount, the second a pre-printed receipt completed in manuscript, being a signed subscriber's receipt made out to Denny Martin, 28 April 1720, the receipt for 'Half a Guinea, being the First Payment for Subscription to a Book of Doctor Fiddes his Life of Cardinal Wolsey...', signed 'Ri: Fiddes' lower right, 11 x 16 cmQty: (4)

* [South Sea Bubble]. An Autograph Note Signed from the Marquess Visconti, 1 December 1721, to Charles Lockier, 'Accomptant to the Company' asking that Mr John Hamilton be paid 'mein half year divident upon mein subscription due at midsummer last and his recept shal bi a sufficient discharge the stock is .. 1100 [?]', red wax seal beneath the signature, a little soiling, one page with integral blank leaf (numbered '1044' twice in manuscript), 4to, together with an Autograph Letter Signed from the Persian Ambassador to Queen Victoria, 11 Great Cumberland Place, [London], 16 June 1852, sending 'a receipt of 2 Casks Pickles they shipped from Bombay for his use to his address and requests Messrs C R Thompson &c to have the kindness of retiring them and have them sent to him free of Duty...', one page with integral blank, docketed, 8vo, plus Autograph Letters Signed from Anton Reinhard Falck (1777-1843), Netherland's Ambassador at London, 20 May 1825, relating to the readmission of two members to the Travellers Club, and the Count of Vistahermosa, Spanish Ambassador to Queen Victoria, 4 September 1867, thanking David Robertson for the grouse and haunch of venison, one & two pages, 4to/8vo, all tipped onto separate 4to album leaves at upper marginsQty: (4)NOTESVisconti was close with King George I and was acquainted with the composer Handel. Charles Lockier (died 1757), or Lockyer, MP, was chief accountant to the South Sea Company and gave evidence to the Secret Committee of the House of Commons into the South Sea Bubble.

* Tippett (Michael, 1905-1998). English Composer. Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed, 'Michael Tippett', circa 1984, scored on one side of a single sheet of music paper with printed staves, written in bold pencil and comprising an extensive number of bars of music across 8 staves, being Tippett’s rough manuscript sketches for part of his oratorio The Mask of Time, signed by Tippett in black ink with his name alone at the foot, 1 page, oblong folio (25 x 38cm), together with 2 Typed Letters Signed by Tippett's assistant Nicholas Wright, London, no date and 7 December 1984, concerning the manuscript and also providing some interesting biographical content relating to Tippett, in part, ‘He first decided to become a composer while at Stamford School and when he was aged about fourteen. He had heard an orchestral concert in Leicester, conducted by Malcolm Sargent and he was having piano lessons with a local teacher, Mrs. Tinkler, and decided that nothing would stand in the way of his becoming a composer! The composer to whose work he is very close is Beethoven, although he does not necessarily have one particular favourite piece of music. In answer to your question about where his ideas come from, he asks me to tell you ‘from everywhere!’ For example, in his Triple Concerto he is obviously influenced by music from the Far East which he heard on a tour over there…. I am also sending you a bit of rough MS, which has sketches for his new work The Mask of Time, which receives its first UK performance as the Proms on July 23rd…', both 1 page, 4toQty: (3)

* Wolsey (Thomas, 1470/71-1530). English archbishop, statesman and cardinal of the Catholic Church. Lord High Chancellor of England 1515-29. A very fine manuscript Document Signed, ‘Thomas Wulcy’, Richemount [Richmond], 25 November [1513], boldly penned in black ink in a secretarial hand on laid paper, being a Privy Council Warrant ordering [John Dauntesey] ‘Daunce’ to make payments in Flanders to Richard Fermour and William Brown, merchants of the Staple at Calais, of £1000 to be paid to William Copland for the purchase of ‘artillerye and other habilymentes of Warre’ and a further £1000 to be paid to Alan Kyng ‘for provision of Wyne for the kynges use’, a holograph receipt by Fermour and Brown (per me Rychard Fermer; per me Wyll[ia]m Browne junior) on the lower half of the document, dated 6 December 1513, Wolsey’s signature appears at the centre of the document alongside those of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443-1524, English soldier and statesman, Lord High Treasurer 1501-22, Earl Marshal 1509-24; signed ‘T. Norfolk’), Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (c.1460-1526, Lord Chamberlain 1509-26; signed ‘C. Som[m]ersete’), Richard Foxe (1447/88-1528, Bishop of Winchester 1501-28, Lord Privy Seal 1487-1516, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; signed ‘Ri Wynton’) and Sir Thomas Lovell (c. 1449-1524, English soldier and administrator, Speaker of the House of Commons and Treasurer of the royal household; signed ‘Thomas Lovell’), filing hole touching one letter in second line, incorrectly dated at the head of the document in a hand of c.1800, some light browning and overall age wear, one short split to left upper margin not touching text,1 page, 4to (210 x 180mm), endorsed: ex[aminat]ur p[er] Dalison (examined by Dalison) [George Dalison, Auditor of the Exchequer]Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: collection of Sir Joseph Dimsdale – ‘D’ (blind-stamp monogram collector’s mark with crest above to lower margin; not located in Lugt); subsequently part of the Ray Rawlins Collection of Historical Documents and Letters. The present document is illustrated in full in The Guinness Book of World Autographs by Rawlins (1977, p. 241). The document was included in the auction of the Rawlins Collection by Sotheby’s, June 1980 (Lot 67, £1,300, Thomas) and the small circular stamp of the Rawlins collection has been neatly removed from the lower left corner leaving a light, minor stain. Docketed in Rawlins’ hand in pencil to the verso as formerly part of the collection of Sir Joseph Dimsdale; XII 265; Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992) bookseller; Sotheby’s, London, 13 December 1993 (Lot 306, £2,000); International Autograph Auctions Ltd., 3 April 2011 (Lot 609, £5,600). In pencil, at top, c1850: Pl 2 No 1 implying illustration as Plate 2, number 1. The same hand has annotated the signatures of the privy councillors 1-5, and the same hand has written lines at right-angles below them, suggesting that the lower half of the document was not illustrated. Above the box formed by these lines is a short inscription of which only the words Thereabouts to be … can be made out. The left and bottom margins have been trimmed – note the straight cuts, the tightness of the trace of the circular stamp to the margin and the loss of a word in the left margin. Sir John Dauntsey (Daunce) (c.1484-1545) of Thame, Oxfordshire and London, rose from humble origins to the highest offices in King Henry VIII’s financial administration by way of the London company of Goldsmiths. ‘Richard Fermor (1480/84-1551) of Isham and Easton Neston, Northamptonshire and London, merchant of the Staple of Calais, merchant. Fermor was given a share in the contract for victualling the royal army during the Tournai campaign of 1513, and he exported large quantities of wheat, flour, beer barrels, cannonballs, harness, and saltpetre. As a reward he was given licences to export wool direct to Italy. … In 1524 Fermor was in Florence and gave financial assistance there to John Clerk, Wolsey's agent, who was negotiating for the cardinal's election to the papacy. At the time of his fall (1529), Wolsey owed Fermor £125 for various silks.’ For both Dauntsey and Fermor see History of Parliament Online for fuller details. George Dalison of Clothall in Hertfordshire, Cransley in Northamptonshire and Gray’s Inn, c.1480-1524. Gave 40 marks (£26 13s 4d) for the Auditorship of the Exchequer in 1507, and served in that office to 1521. Wolsey’s ability to keep a large number of troops supplied and equipped for the duration of the Anglo-French War (1512-14) was a major factor in its success. Wolsey also had a key role in negotiating the Anglo-French treaty of 1514, which secured a temporary peace between the two nations. Under this treaty the French king, Louis XII, would marry Henry VIII’s young sister, Mary. In addition, England was able to keep the captured city of Tournai and to secure an increase in the annual pension paid by France. The present document dates from the beginning of the power struggle between Wolsey and his co-signatory the Duke of Norfolk, who had fought for King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth (1485), and made an important contribution, as Earl Marshal, to the coronation of King Henry VIII. Norfolk challenged Wolsey in an attempt to become the new king’s first minister, although eventually accepted the cardinal’s supremacy. Two months before signing the present document Norfolk had been instrumental in crushing James IV’s forces at Flodden, 9 September 1513. His signature, T Norfolk, is anomalous since his father’s dukedom was not restored to him until 1 February 1514. It was also at the time of signing this document that Wolsey was given a significant opportunity to demonstrate his talents in the foreign policy arena. The war against France had begun in 1512 and, although the first campaign was not a success, Wolsey learned from his mistakes and in 1513, with Papal support, a joint attack on France was launched. Thomas Lovell, one of the privy councillors who signed the warrant, supervised the procurement of artillery and the fortification of Calais between 1511 and 1514 (ODNB). A handsome document of exceptional rarity.

* Anne (Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714). Manuscript Order issued by the Privy Council on behalf of Queen Anne regarding Scottish & catholic Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, 18th January, 1704 (i.e. 1705), single sheet written to one side in neat secretarial hand (approximately 350 words), with the signatures of each of the 8 members of the Privy Council including Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset (as Somerset); John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (as Buckingham C.P.S.); Sidney Godolphin (as Godolphin); Montagu Venables-Bertie, Earl of Abingdon (as Abingdon); Henry Grey, Duke of Kent (as Kent); Thomas Mansel (as T. Mansel); Sir Charles Hedges (as C. Hedges); and Col. John Granville (as Granville), with the addressee of the instruction being Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, light toning, few old folds, damp stain and fraying to right hand, laid down on album leaf, folio (35.5 x 23.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThis written instruction from the Privy Council of Queen Anne is addressed to Thomas Herbert, Lord Lieutenant of Wilts and Monmouth, who at this time (1704/05) was the 8th Earl of Pembroke and also Lord President of the Council. The date of the Privy Council instruction, 18th January 1704 coincides with the passing into English law of the Alien Act. The manuscript reads: "After our very hearty commendations to your Lordsp. Her Maty. having received an Address from the Lords Spirituall and Temporall in Parliamt. Assembled, setting forth that their Lordps. having taken into consideration, divers Acts of Parliamt. lately passed in Scotland, and the dangerous and pernicious effects that are likely to follow from thence, humbly offer their opinion, that in this present juncture of affairs, the laws against papists and persons refusing or neglecting to take the Oaths to her Majesty be effectually put in execution, we do therefore in her Maties. name and by her express command, pursuant to their Lordps. advice in the said Address, hereby pray and require yor. Lordp. forthwith to give the necessary directions to the proper Officers of the Militia - effectually to put the laws in execution against all papists and reputed papists, and all persons within yor. Lieutenancys refusing or neglecting to take the Oaths to her Majty. in respect to their Armes and Horses, by - seizing the said Armes with the assistance of a Constable, and the Horses in the presence of a Deputy Lieutent. or a Justice of the Peace, or a Commission Officer of the Militia, not under the Degree of a Lieutenant. And that yor. Lordp. do appoint 3 or more of your Deputy Lieutens. to dispose of all such Horses either by restoring them to the owners, if they shall conceive them to be unduly siez'd, or otherwise, as your Lordp. shall find best for her Maties. service, according to the Act of Parliamt. in that behalf. And of yor. Lorps. proceedings in the execution of these her Maties. commands you are to return an account to be laid before her Maty. at this Board without delay, to the end it may appear to her Maty. what persons have done their Duty. And so not doubting of yor. Lordps. particular care herein, we bid yor. Lordp. very heartily farewell from the Councill Chamber at St James's this 18th day of January 1704. Yor. Lordps. very loving Friends ...".

* [Henry VIII]. Draft document regarding arrangements for a royal procession, circa 1529, single sheet written to one side in an unidentified secretarial hand, regarding a procession, possibly for a funeral, entitled "The order in procedyng forme [from] the p[ar]lement howse to the masse ("Requiham" altered to) churche & in lyk wyse to the p[ar]lement chamber", undated but temp. Henry VIII, and from the reference to the mass, presumably before 1529, right edge slightly obscured by cloth tape, light dust-soiling and marginal fraying, laid down, folio (310 x 210 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe manuscript appears to be a herald's working paper for arranging a royal funeral (or state procession of some kind, as "the kinges highnes" is to participate in the procession) perhaps for one of the children of Catherine of Aragon. Following the King comes "the Cappe of Astate to be borne by [blank]/ The kinges sworde to be borne by [blank]/ The staf to be borne by therle m[ar]shall, and befor him garter, and befor hym tharchbishope of Caunturbury, and the lord Chauncellor of his lyft hand ... and so to procede to the quere to ye Mas of the holy ghoste..." Includes bookseller's catalogue description entry dated in pencil 5/11/73.

[Horseracing]. A group of 9 volumes of stud records and related for Cliveden Stud, [Taplow, Maidenhead, Berkshire], circa 1942-44, including Factor Book of Mares Not Bred at Cliveden, Factors: Maid of the Mist Family, Factor Books with Pedigrees, etc., plus two similar oblong folio manuscript ledgers, one gilt-titled 'Yearlings' to upper cover, plus three folio manuscript ledgers with racing records for 1942, 1943 & 1946, with horses' names thumb index, the two remaining volumes containing 45 mostly mounted gelatin silver print photographs of racehorses, circa 1920s and later, some names identified in the negative or on the mounts, images approximately 22 x 27 cm and smaller, mostly contemporary half morocco with general wear and one backstrip deficient, folio/oblong folioQty: (9)

* Lovell (Lovell Benjamin Badcock, 1786-1861). A collection of papers relating to Lovell's service in the Peninsular War with the 14th Light Dragoons and later, circa 1809-47, including a 14-page fair manuscript memoir with subjects including personal memoirs of the Peninsular War, a series of approximately 25 letters written to Lovell when serving in Portugal, 1830s, relating to diplomatic matters including relations with Spain, and including two letters of Henry Addington (later Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister), and four of Lord George William Russell as Minister to Lisbon, circa 1833, plus approximately 40 official letters and documents relating to General Lovell Lovell's orders and letters on administration of the Indian Army, 1839-1847, including a letter from Sir Robert Peel to the Master of the Rolls, plus approximately 16 mostly manuscript documents relating to drills and manoeuvres and a group of 7 further personal mostly manuscript documents, mostly folio and roughly grouped in four modern ring bindersQty: (4 ring binders)

* Recussancy & Bowls. Examination of an individual before a Recusancy session, circa 1630, single sheet with two pages of manuscript, recording an examination of someone before a Recusancy session (Recusancy was the secret practise of the outlawed Roman Catholic religion, commonly called papists), mention is made later in the text of the presence of Sir Thomas Tilsey, Sir G. Ellis, Sir H. Slingsby (1602-58), Royalist as councell at the session, mention is also made in passing to the playing of bowls (lines 4 & 21), light dust-soiling, old horizontal folds, few short closed tears and fraying to edges, folio (29.5 x 19 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTranscript of first 21 lines containing mention of bowls playing, "The passage before the L.P. was this. H.A. having occasion to goe unto some grounde he had upon the ninteinth of August last within the Lordship of Preston in Hoderness and his way lyinge thereon a pasture ground wherein their is a bowlinge green and understandinge that C.H. was their he went a little foorth of his way to salute him who tolde him he would goe homeward with him after he had bould a rubber or two which would take him some two howers time, at which time H.A. sayd he would returne from his grounde againe unto him, and so he did, and having with him one John Burrill a blacksmith upon occasion he had to use him he asked C.H. if he weere readie to goe, his answere was that he had nowe begun a rubber and he would not goe yet, but desired H.A. to stay awhile and then he would, but findinge no certainetie in him, and H.A. his busines calling him away, he tooke leave of him, (the Companie also he liked not for their were both papists and recusants their) and as he turned his horse the Smyth followinge him carried him to Headen John and make him drunke sayd a papist one Anthonie Nevill unto whome H.A. turned back and made answere unto him, that neither he nor all the papists in Holderness could make him drunke to which he replyed that his religion was as good as his and theirs H.A. left the boulers (bowlers)."

* Seven Years War. Autograph Letter Signed by Hans Stanley in his capacity as 'Chargé d'Affaires' reporting on the situation in Paris where he had been sent to negotiate a settlement of Peace in the Seven Years French Indian War, Paris, July 12th, 1761, 2 pages, integral blank leaf part torn away, folded, 4to, together with: Stanhope (William, Lord Harrington, 1719-1779), Autograph Letter Signed 'Harrington' to the Prime Minister Robert Walpole, Whitehall, 13 Nov, 1734, 4 page letter, in which he forwards dispatches received from the Prime Minister's brother Horatio Walpole in The Hague, and forwards copy of a letter he has written to the French envoy on the subject of the Peace Treaty for Walpole's approval or comment before sending, and includes comments on the various options and pitfalls of the ongoing negotiations for peace, folded, 4to, plus other miscellaneous letters, documents & ephemera etc., mostly 19th century, including a detailed 90 page manuscript account regarding the French siege & rebellion of Rome in 1848, entitled 'Expedition des Napolitains à Rome' which was supported by Garibaldi and led to the creation of the new Roman Republic and the flight of Pope Pius IX (the Pope appealed to Napoleon III, whose troops successfully attacked Rome in June 1849 and reinstated the Pope in the Vatican), disbound, 8voQty: (small carton)NOTESHans Stanley (c.1720-1780) was a friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole and M.P. for Southampton from 1754 until his death in 1780. He was a Lord of the Admiralty between 1757-65. The letter was written from Paris a few weeks after his arrival in the City as Chargé d'Affaires, a position appointed by William Pitt. He was tasked to negotiate the conclusion of the Seven Years War with France and the negotiations were later known as the Stanley-Bussey Talks, which proved to be unsuccessful.The identity of the recipient of the letter is not known, but the content of the letter suggests it may have been the Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, whose "partial indulgence" he had long enjoyed. Stanley writes of being received civilly in Paris, of finding the employment "fatiguing" and in fond remembrance of leisure hours spent at "that Palace at Eastbury" as a guest of its sociable Lord George Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe. A pencil note at the end of the letter states that the letter was sold at the "Dodington Sale 1910".

* Shakespeare (William & Phillipps, Thomas). Letter containing written transcript of the bond given at the time of obtaining a marriage licence for William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in 1582, sent to Sir Thomas Phillipps by James Davis (for W. Clifton) the Clerk of the Worcester Registrar's Office, 2nd June 1836, 4pp. (1835 watermarked laid paper), addressed to Thos. Phillips Bart, Middle Hill, Broadway, single page manuscript transcript of marriage bond, with pencil notes in Sir Thomas Phillipps' hand, red wax seal applied, folded and post markedQty: (1)NOTESThe letter reads "Registrars Office Worcester, 2 June 1836, Sir, On the other side I send you a copy of the bond given at the time of obtaining a marriage licence for William Shakespeare and Anne Hathwey. We have been very busy in preparing for the Bishops Visitations which commence on Tuesday next and end on the following Saturday after which time copies of the Wills you wrote for shall be sent, I am Sir (for W. Clifton) Your very obt. sevt. James Davis." The bond was discovered among the Registry archives by the antiquary Sir Thomas Phillipps and was one of the few surviving records containing information regarding Shakespeare's life and marriage, for which the discovery was of great importance. The original marriage bond, dated November 28, 1582 states that there was nothing to prevent William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s marriage from taking place and that the bishop of Worcester, who issued the marriage license would be safeguarded from any future possible objections. The bond is one of two documents recording the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway; however, the evidence appears to be confused. An entry, dated the day before the bond on November 27, 1582, in the bishop of Worcester’s register records that a license was granted to William Shakespeare for his marriage to Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, while this bond names the parties as William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway of Stratford-upon-Avon. The marriage bond is only one of three documents that might have been produced to secure the license (now lost). William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway late in November 1582. However, the marriage did not take place in the couple’s parish church at Stratford-upon-Avon and nor were the banns read there three times, as would normally have been required. Instead application was made to the bishop of Worcester, in whose diocese Stratford-upon-Avon then lay, for a license for the marriage to take place elsewhere after a single reading of banns. The license itself, which would have been addressed to the minister of the church at which the ceremony was to take place, is not extant. However, no existing surviving parish register records the event; therefore Shakespeare’s marriage may have taken place at any local church without a surviving register. Anne Hathaway was three months pregnant (the couple’s child being born the following May) and the couple’s relative ages were unusual for the time. William was 18 and Anne was eight years older than Shakespeare at the age of 26. Considering Anne’s pregnancy, scholars have argued that the couple may have been married by license due to insufficient time for the reading of banns three times before Advent began on December 2. Advent was a customary prohibited period for marriages, which lasted until eight days after Epiphany, observed 12 days after Christmas. (See: Robert Bearman, "The Shakespeare marriage bond," Shakespeare Documented, https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/shakespeare-marriage-bond).

* Theology manuscript. 'A Heroic Poem. On the Nativity of Christ or Christmas Day', c.1730? 4 pages, comprising 83 lines (approx. 700 words) written in a neat hand, containing four sacred texts 'A Heroic Poem. On the Nativity of Christ or Christmas Day' (19 lines), 'A Hymn. On the Circumcision of Christ. To the tune of the hundred Psalm' (9 four line verses), 'A Complement to my friend seeing me melancholy gave me share of a bowl punch' (12 lines) and 'On Contentment' (16 lines), fore-edge blank margin of first leaf torn, small folio (30 x 18.5 cm), together with: Funeral Sermon, Manuscript draft of a sermon to be preached 'At Mr Gould's Funeral January ye 15th 1704/05', 4 pages (approx. 600 words) written in one hand in English, few corrections, light dust-soiling, 4to (19.5 x 15.5 cm), Savoy Lutheran congregation, 'To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie. The humble Petition of the Ministers and Church-wardens in behalf of themselves and the Whole Lutheran Congregation in the Savoy', London, 12th Oct 1722, single page written to one side, old folds, dust-soiling, folio (27 x 20 cm), and two othersQty: (5)

Hahn (Cynthia). Portrayed on the Heart, Narrative Effects in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century, 1st edition, University of California Press, 2001, some colour plates, numerous monochrome illustrations, original red cloth gilt in dust wrapper, large 8vo, together with: Debby (Nirit Ben-Aryeh). The Cult of St. Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy, 1st edition, Ashgate Publishing, 2014, some colour and numerous monochrome illustrations, original black cloth gilt in dust wrapper, 8vo, plus: Lehmann (Klaus-Dieter, editor). Bibliotheca Publica Francofurtensis, Funfhundert Jahre Stadt- und Universitatsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, 2 volumes (text/plates), colour and monochrome illustrations, original uniform dark blue cloth gilt, large 4to, and others on medieval art and culture, including V. Pritchard, English Medieval Graffiti, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1967, Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, The Renaissance, The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, J. Paul Getty Museum/Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, Anna Seidel, Der Codex Montalto, Prasentation und Rezeption der Antikensammlung Peretti Montalto (Cyriacus. Studien zur Rezeption der Antike 8), Wiesbaden, Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2016, etc., original cloth/printed wrappers, some with dust wrappers, mostly 4to, generally G/VGQty: (27)

Barrett (William). The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol ..., Bristol: William Pine, [1789], folding engraved map, with short closed hanlding tear (with old repair), title with early ink mansucript name at head (George Cox) and small hole centrally (affecting one letter), 28 engraved plates (correct as list), including 14 folding, generally offset, with variable spotting and toning, one folding plate with dampstain to right blank area/margin and fore edge frayed, one index leaf nearly detached, blank area of final printed leaf plus rectos only of the two final blanks and rear free endpaper all with red & black ink manuscript continuation of the list of Mayors and Sheriffs, from 1789 until 1892-93, armorial bookpate of George Cox, hinges strengthened, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked and recornered, worn, with loosely inserted Christmas card from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Bristol, dated 1940, containing reproduction of a 1785 engraving, and an associated poem printed on a single sheet, 4to, together with: Evans (John), A Chronological Outline of the History of Bristol ..., Bristol: by the author, 1824, folding engraved map (offset), some spotting and toning, mainly at front, rear and fore-edge, armorial bookplate of William Long, front hinge cracked, contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, rubbed, two corner tips showing, spine faded and lacking label, 8vo, plus five late 19th-early 20th century London atlases, and 36 hand-coloured engravings, some window-mounted, including 29 published in Views of the Thames and Medway, by William Tombleson, 1834Qty: (43)

Arnauld (Agnès). Les Constitutions du Monastere de Port-Royal du Saint Sacrement, Paris: Guillaume Desprez & Jean Desessartz, 1721, black & white engraved title-page vignette, some minor toning, contemporary gilt decorated full leather, boards & spine slightly rubbed, front hinges cracked to head of the spine, small 8vo, together with; Bossuet (Jacques Benigne), Elevations A Dieu Sur Tous Les Mysteres de la Religion Chre'tienne,..., 2 volumes in 1, Paris: Jean Mariette, 1727, some light toning & spotting, later inscription to the front endpaper, marginal loss to foot of volume 1 pp.91, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine rubbed with minor loss to head of the spine, 8vo, An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church, in Matters of Controversy..., London, circa 1785, period inscription to head of the title-page, some minor toning, contemporary full calf with manuscript spine label, boards & spine slightly marked & rubbed, front hinges cracked, 8vo, and Gregorio (D. N.), Martrologium Romanum Gregorii XIII..., new edition, Mechliniae, printed for P. J. Hanicq, 1866, numerous period annotations & pasted down insert, some spotting throughout, all edges gilt, contemporary full morocco with brass clasps, boards & spines rubbed, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th-century theology, ecclesiastical & Port Royal reference & related, including De La Frequente Communion ou les Sentimens des Peres, des Papes et des Conciles,..., by Antoine Arnauld, new edition, Brussels: François Foppens, 1723, some leather bindings, some original cloth, overall condition is good/very good, 8voQty: (3 shelves)

British Isles. Blaeu (Johannes), Anglia Regnum, Amsterdam, circa 1662, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, slight spotting and dust soiling, upper margin strengthened on recto, 385 x 500 mm, Spanish text on verso, together with Blome (Richard). A Mapp of Staffordshire with its Hundreds, circa 1673, engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 330 x 245 mm, with Morden (Robert). Cheshire, circa 1705, uncoloured engraved map, 165 x 200 mm, plus Williams (G. Commander, surveyor). Isle of Man, Admiralty chart, 1846, last update 1977, colour photolithographic map, inset maps of Port Erin, Peel, Calf Sound, Castletown Bay, Ramsey Bay & Port St. Mary, the title of each inset map scored through in biro, old folds, slight browning, 1020 x 665 mm and Mount (William & Page Thomas). A New and Correct Draught of the Channell between England & France, shewing ye Sands, Shoales, depth of Water & Anchorage on ye said Coasts with the Setting of the Tydes and the time of High water as observed by Capt. Edm. Halley, circa 1748, an uncoloured engraved chart on two conjoined sheets, inset map of the Scilly Isles, horizon profiles to upper margin, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, old folds, heavily dust-soiled, some spotting and staining, near-contemporary manuscript annotations to verso, 450 x 815 mm, together with Faden (William). A Map of the Mediterranean Sea with the Adjacent Regions and Seas in Europe, Asia and Africa, 1785, engraved map with bright contemporary hand colouring, large uncoloured allegorical cartouche, 605 x 850 mmQty: (6)NOTESThe Mount and Page chart of the English Channel was an immediate reaction to Edmond Halley's 'Fundamental Thematic Map of the English Channel'. The importance of understanding longitude was well known, but the tidal flow of the seas and their unpredictability was a major navigational hazard resulting in heavy losses of vessels, especially on the approach to harbours and ports. Halley's voyage aboard the "Paramore" in 1701, enabled him to produce a map of the English Channel which for the first time, enabled a prediction of the tides. Its genius was that it made something that was extremely complicated, understandable by 18th-century mariners. Mount & Page published a derivative map in 1702 and this example was published in the 'English Pilot' of 1749.

Isle of Wight. Speed (John), Wight Island, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676 or later], engraved map with sparse contemporary outline colouring, large margins, slight spotting to margins, near contemporary manuscript title to margin on verso, 385 x 510 mm, no text to versoQty: (1)

* Poland. Blauvitz (Christoph), N - Ro I. Diese Carte zeiget uns dass Hoch Freiherrl. Fidei Comiss guth Praub mit dem herschafftlichen Schlob und forweds gebäuden auch Kirch und Pfarr haub sambt allen ... Und zu gehörigen Feldern..., A Manuscript plan of Prusy (Prauss) in Strzelin (Strehlen) County near Breslau, circa 1740, a pen and watercolour plan of the village of Prauss, a large decorative cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale showing a surveyor using a pair of dividers, old folds, some creasing, occasional repaired closed tears, 425 x 860 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESPrauss (now Prusy) is a village in South-west Poland. This plan was made during the First Silesian War (1740 - 42) between Prussia and Austria and the Prussian victory and the subsequent 'Peace of Breslau and the Treaty of Berlin resulted in the bulk of Silesia and the Bohemian County of Kladsko being ceded to the Prussians. This area was later consolidated as the Province of Silesia.

Broelmann (Stephan). Epideigma, sive specimen historiae vet[eris] omnis et purae, florentis. atq. amplae civitatis ubiorvm, et eorum ad Rhenum Agrippinensis oppidi, quod post Colonia Clavdia Avg. Agrippinensis, 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, Cologne: Gerard Grevenbruch for the Author, 1608, 36 unnumbered leaves including 2 frontispieces, 5 double-page maps including the Middle East with Cyprus and Crete, 4 double-page bird's-eye plans, 3 plates (2 double-page) of Roman antiquities, all with contemporary hand colour, errata leaf at rear present but lacks blanks before I1 & O1, title-page on thicker paper and with contemporary Latin presentation inscription at foot for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, following frontispiece and dedication leaves browned, some lighter, mostly marginal, browning throughout, bound with an additional 3 leaves of contemporary manuscript index (browned, some paper thinning with loss to outer margins of final leaf) and a hand-coloured double-page bird's-eye plan of Cologne from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum (c.1620), blank verso, 34 x 49 cm, contemporary limp vellum with small oval arabesque blind stamp and double rules to both covers, the upper cover inscribed neatly in brown ink, 'Ubiorum civitas et antiquitatum quaedam copia Scipioni Card[inali] Burghesio dicata 1813’ [the city of Cologne and its antiquities; a copy dedicated to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, 1813], with the initials 'A.D.R.' upper left, soiled, spine cracked and chipped with some loss, vertical crease-mark to upper cover, folio (30.5 x 19 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Scipioni Borghese (1577-1633), Italian cardinal, art collector and eminent patron of the arts (contemporary presentation inscription to title: ‘Ill[ustrissi]mo et R[everendissi]mo D[omi]no D[omino] Scipioni Bürghesio Cardinali’. The umlaut on Burghesio suggests that the inscription might have been written in Cologne, possibly by the author or the printer. 2) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. Meurer, Atlantes Colonienses, pp. 90 ff. A very rare hand-coloured presentation copy of the only edition of this work, and one of only a few copies with the errata leaf. Stephan Broelmann (1551-1622) wrote a detailed four-volume history of the city of Cologne, the only part published being this part containing the history of the city until the end of the Roman period. The manuscript index is not called for or found in other printed copies, the hand appearing to be the same author as that for the presentation inscription on the title-page (see note above).

Album. An 19th century album, containing 34 mounted or tipped-in prints and engravings, several taken from illustrated magazines or similar, and including 11 etched plates (trimmed and laid-down or tipped-in) taken from 'Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft, by Edward William Cooke, 1829 (although these plates are dated 1830, as usual), also including an attractive early 19th century pen, black ink & wash view of a park scene, with figures and carriages before a classically-fronted building, sheet size 175 x 235 mm (7 x 9.25 ins), occasional spotting or marks, stitching strained, front hinge cracked, contemporary cloth-backed boards, rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, spine with ink manuscript 'Gravures', oblong 8voQty: (1)NOTESThe plates by E.W. Cooke appear to be proof editions of 11 of the 12 (lacking no. 10) 'Brighton' plates that were added, along with 3 others, to his previous publication Fifty Plates of Shipping and Craft to create the new title Sixty Five Plates ... . There are slight differences between these proof plates and the final published versions. For example, plate 8, titled here 'Shoreham Harbour - Low water' later has the additional caption 'Billy-Boy unloading', while the proof of plate 3 simply reads 'At Rottingdean', whereas the published version is titled 'Lobster-boat at Rottingdean' and has an additional horizon with boats in the distance. Plus some of the standard edition plates have an added publisher's imprint which is lacking in these examples.

Hall (Sidney). [A New British Atlas Comprising a series of 54 Maps, Constructed from the most recent Surveys, published Chapman & Hall, 1834 or later], lacking title and preliminaries, near-contemporary manuscript pencil contents list to front blank, 53 uncoloured engraved regional and county maps, slight spotting and staining throughout, bookplate of R. H. Johnstone, hinges cracked, contemporary green cloth with gilt title to upper siding, worn, bumped and rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

* Ballooning. Vue d'optique, Expérience de la Machine Aréostatique de Mrs de Montgolfier d'Anonoai en Vivarais..., circa 1783, hand-coloured engraving, title repeated in German, some spotting and soiling to margins, margins frayed, 290 x 410 mm, mounted, together with Havell (Robert & Son). The Descent of Mr Livingston on the Coast of Baldoyle County of Dublin on Thursday the 27th June 1822 on which day he ascended from Porto Bello Barracks for the benefit of the suffering poor of the South & South West of Ireland, R. Havell, Oct. 1832, uncoloured aquatint after T. J. Mulvany, central fold, repaired closed tears affecting image, slight dust soiling and staining, 370 x 440 mm, mounted, with Le Noir (publisher). Expérience de la Machine Aréostatique de Mrs de Montgolfier d'Anonai en Vivarais..., Paris, 1783, uncoloured engraving, slight creasing and dust soiling, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, 400 x 290 mm, mounted, plus Continental School. Aerostat D'Aix, circa 1784, unattributed (possibly amateur) uncoloured etching on laid of the first manned balloon flight, title in ink manuscript, old folds, occasional marginal closed tears, 340 x 410 mm, and An exact representation of the first Aerial Ship "The Eagle" now exhibiting in the grounds of the Aeronautical Society, Victoria Road, facing Kensington Gardens, circa 1835, unattributed uncoloured lithograph with the dimensions below the image (the airship never flew as it was too heavy), dust-soiled and creased, 225 x 255 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Fournisseur (M. publisher). A Monsieur de Faujace de St Fond de Plusiers Accademies. Experience Aerostatique faite à Versailles le 19 Septembre 1783, en présence de leurs Majestés de la Famille Royale et de la plus de 130 milles spectateurs par Mrs. Montgolfier avec un Ballon de 57 pied de hauteur sur 41 de diamêtre..., 1874 but early 20th century impression, hand coloured print, 250 x 310 mm, framed and glazedQty: (6)

* London. Prior (T. A.). The Thames Embankment & Chelsea Bridge & Hospital, circa 1860, a pair of hand-coloured engravings on India wove after G. H. Andrews, both proof before title with the titles added in manuscript to the mounts, very slight spotting, 'Chelsea Bridge' with slight water staining, each approximately 235 x 445 mm, mounted, together with another nine coloured engravings from the same series but later 20th-century impressions, with Hawkins (George, lithographer). [Custom House, London], J. King, circa 1860, tint stone lithograph trimmed with loss of title, slight marginal staining, mounted, 300 x 445 mm, plus Bowles (Thomas). A View of Covent Garden London, Robert Sayer, circa 1760, hand-coloured engraving, title repeated in French, 265 x 405 mm, mounted, and Bluck (J.). West India Docks [and] Custom House from the River Thames, R. Ackermann, 1808, two aquatints after Pugin and T. Rowlandson, both with contemporary hand-colouring, slight spotting, each approximately 235 x 280 mm, mounted, with an unattributed lithograph of "This Birds Eye View of the London Grand Junction Railway", narrow margins, 255 x 345 mm, mounted, with another 7 engravings and lithographs of London, various sizes and conditionQty: (23)

* Paring machine. A Sharfix Paring Machine, with integral bench mounting clampQty: (1)NOTESIn excellent condition. Contained in original box with manuscript note to lid "Tony Cairns got it for F.S. when they just started to be used in UK".

Paper - Handmade. A folio volume of blank handmade paper, late 17th century, blank volume containing 178 leaves (including free endpapers) with unidentified armorial watermark (bearing elements similar to Heawood 649 to 675, front free endpaper with manuscript title "The Booke of Entry of the Corrections and Licences of Absences", few worm tracks to leaves towards rear of volume and also to pastedowns, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine & upper board, green fabric ties, binding dust-soiled, folio (leaf size 35.7 x 21.5 cm)Qty: (1)

Book of Hours (Use of Rome). Illuminated manuscript on prepared parchment in Latin, Northern France, circa 1450, 198 (of 199) leaves including 12 full-page decorative illuminations in liquid gold, blue, red, green, orange, pink and white, leaf size 98 x 72 mm, calendar with 17 lines per page in red and brown ink, with small initial to each month in liquid gold, blue, pink, and black pen outlines, lacking first leaf of manuscript calendar at front (calendar begins with February), main text with 13 lines per page in brown ink in a gothic textualis bookhand, with capitals in blue and red, or gold with pen-flourishing in black, and numerous small two-line initials in liquid gold, blue, red, white and black, first leaf with some light soiling, and first two leaves with some overall toning, generally in very good condition with no obvious defects, 20th century inscription to front endpaper 'B. N-B. from J.R. N-B. 1969', gilt-gauffered edges, early 20th century Arts & Crafts style plain brown full morocco (unsigned), spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt to spine Horae B.V.M., binding measures 104 x 80 mm (4.1 x 3.1 ins), housed in dark olive green cloth slipcaseQty: (1)NOTESContents: Calendar (folios 2-12), Hours of the Cross (folios 13-18), Mass for the Blessed Virgin Mary (folios 19-32), Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary- Matins (folios 33-57), Lauds (folios 58-72), Prime (folios 73-77), Terce (folios 78-83), Sext (folios 84-88), Nones (folios 89-93), Vespers (folios 94-103), Compline (folios 104-109), Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (said through Advent at Vespers, folios 110-123, including blank leaf at end), Seven Penitential Psalms (folios 124-144), and Office of the Dead, (folios 145-199). Provenance: Northern France, given the names of saints (and bishops) in the calendar associated with towns in northern France. The partially filled calendar includes the feast days of, among others, Blaise (3 February), Saint Valentine (14 February), Romain, Bishop of Rouen (28 February), Saint Benedict (21 May), Saint Germain, Bishop of Paris (28 May), Bishop Lambert of Liege (17 September), and Saint Remy or Remigius of Rheims (1 October). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, booksellers, London, in 1910 on the advice of S. C. Cockerell, and bound thereafter (according to 20th century handwritten note included with the volume). Attractive near-miniature book of hours designed for private devotion from Northern France.

* Illuminated leaf. Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours, probably northern France, 15th century, manuscript in brown ink on single vellum leaf, 17 lines, written in a fine gothic liturgical hand, 3-line illuminated initial in blue on gold ground with polychromatic floral infill, 5 smaller initials in red and blue, panel border comprising leaves in gold and colours on hairline stems, framed and glazed, mount aperture 15.5 x 10.5 cmQty: (1)

Paulus Venetus (1369-1429). Expositio in libros posterio[rum] Aristo[telis], Venice: Guliermu[s] de Mo[n]teferrato [i.e. Gulielmo 'Anima Mea'], 11 August 1486, 116 leaves (of 118: without blanks a1 and p6), 70 lines, double column, small worm-track in left-hand column of signatures a-g (obscuring a letter in some cases), larger worm-track in right-hand column in leaves a2-b6 (always shrinking), leaf a2 with a few additional holes in fore margin, leaves c1 and c8 loose, final signature (p) with small worm-track at head of gutter, ramifying into text in final extant leaf (p5), a little marginal spotting, marginal damp-staining towards rear (signature n-p), a few other marks, detailed contemporary marginalia in brown ink throughout in the same angular hand (shaved in places), slightly later manuscript section-numbering and headings in black ink, early manuscript catch-title to bottom edge, 16th-century binding of limp vellum (sewn on three thongs, bottom thong detached), stained, inked title within banderole to front cover, 19th-century shelfmark label to spine, ties perished, loss to rear cover, chancery folio in 8s (30.3 x 21.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 'Leo Roganus' (ink inscription to front cover), very likely to be Leone Rogano (d.1558), author of a commentary on Galen's De Pulsibus ad Tyrones (1556). ISTC ip00214000; Goff P214; GW M30307; Hain 12512. Paul of Venice was 'the most important Italian thinker of his times, and one of the most prominent and interesting logicians of the Middle Ages' (Stanford). His commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics was first printed in 1477, also in Venice.

Bible [English]. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places ... Whereunto is added the Psalter of the common translation agreeing with the booke of Common Prayer, Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, [1578], initial leaf 'of the incomparable treasure' not present (tipped-in replacement leaf provided from a later Bible, cut down and torn & frayed to margins), general title within decorative woodcut border (with overlaid imprint slip, date in manuscript & paper slip overlaying manuscript note to lower blank margin), New Testament title within decorative woodcut border and with dated imprint, double-column black letter text, few woodcut decorative initials and illustrations, printer's woodcut device at end of Old Testament Prophets & 2T6 after final leaf of New Testament, Apocrypha present, Old Testament leaves C5 & D5 with small rust hole affecting single letter of text, lower inner blank margins of 3F3 & 3F4 torn away (not affecting text), 3P2 torn to lower outer corner with slight text loss and repaired, some light damp staining (mostly at head), few discreet repairs mostly to lower blank margins, occasional marks including few old small ink marks and marginalia, final leaf of tables at rear of volume repaired to lower outer blank corner, occasional light dust-soiling and few marks mostly to first & last few leaves, minor marginal damp stains mostly to initial leaves, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843, 6th son of George III), cloth hinges to endpapers, 18th century blind panelled calf, old reback, joints slightly cracked, board edges worn and showing, folio (370 x 240mm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 154; Darlow & Moule 115; STC 2123. Geneva version. The first large folio edition. In this edition the Geneva and the Prayer Book versions of the Psalter appear side by side, the former in roman type and the latter in black-letter. This is the earliest Bible which contains the introductory verses, afterwards occurring so often: Here is the spring where waters flowe, to quenche our heate of sinne: Here is the tree where trueth doth grow, to leade our lives therein: etc, and the accompanying prayer. The Prayer Book included in the preliminary matter exhibits many peculiarities; the word Minister is substituted throughout for Priest, and some of the Offices are omitted. The title-border contains: above - the royal arms supported by two female figures, one carrying a sword and scales, the other a book and a sprig of heartsease; and below - a lion and a dragon on either side of a tablet containing the words Imprinted ... Maiestatis (these words are on a slip pasted over the original imprint, which omits the words Printer to the Queenes Maiestie and Regiae Maiestatis); the initials C B appear in the lower corners of the central space, and also at the base of the cut. The same border is used for the NT title; but the tablet in this case contains Prov. xxx. 5, 6. Fry states in a MS. note that the Prayer Book is generally missing from copies of this edition, as collectors of editions of the Book of the Book of Common Prayer are eager to acquire this peculiar variety, and often cut the leaves out of the Bible. (Herbert/ Darlow & Moule). Augustus Frederick (1773-1843) was the 9th child (& 6th son) of King George III and Queen Charlotte. He was tutored at home and then, in 1786, sent to the University of Göttingen in Germany. In 1793, while travelling in Italy, he met and married Lady Augusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore. On their return to England, they again married in secret, without the consent of the King. Since this was illegal under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, the marriage was annulled by the Prerogative Court in 1794, though Augustus Frederick continued to live with Lady Augusta until 1801 and they had two children. In November 1801, he was created Duke of Sussex. In 1831, he married a second time, again without the consent of the King. This marriage was to Lady Cecilia Buggin, daughter of the Earl of Arran. Augustus Frederick suffered from asthma, and therefore did not follow his brothers in pursuing a military or naval career but showed enthusiasm for learning and the arts, with a particular interest in biblical studies and Hebrew. He was elected president of the Society of Arts in 1816 and held this position till his death in 1843. Between 1830 and 1838, he was also president of the Royal Society. He assembled an outstanding library at Kensington Palace, containing around 50,000 books and manuscripts. All were individually selected to reflect the Prince’s interests, with over a quarter related to theology. After his death, the library was sold at auction by Messrs. Evans in 1844.

Bible [English]. [The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures, contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, Imprinted at London by the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595], without general title and two other leaves lacking, New Testament title within decorative woodcut border present (upper blank margin with ownership signature of Henry Christopher Barker 1846, manuscript to verso, small repair to fore-margin), Apocrypha present, double column black letter text, full-page woodcut illustration of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden (cropped at head, repaired to fore-margin and lower margin), few woodcut initials and illustrations, first leaf of Genesis torn & frayed at fore-edge (repaired to fore-margin and lower margin), early manuscript to final leaf of Prophets, single worm hole to lower blank margins, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other Rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, [Cambridge]: Printed by Thomas and John Buck, Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title and ownership signature of H. C. Barker, double-column roman text with few woodcut decorative initials, few ink stains to upper & fore-edge margins, bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meter by Thomas Sternh. John Hopkins and others: conferred with the Hebrue, with apt Notes to sing them with all, London: Printed by John Windet, for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1592, title within decorative border, occasional light marginal damp stains, last two leaves strengthened to gutter margins and final leaf repaired to lower outer blank corner, some dust-soiling and occasional toning throughout, front free endpaper with ownership inscriptions including Austin Maud his book 1788, & Austin Maud, Gainsbrough, Lincolnshire, March 13th 1790 and ink name stamp 'I. Wainwright' (leaf creased), upper pastedown with similar ownership and 20th century label of library of M.S. Carothers, without rear free endpaper, lower pastedown with similar manuscript ownership (red sealing wax to outer edges of upper & lower pastedowns), late 18th century half reversed calf, rubbed and worn, later morocco title label to spine, small folio in 6s (28 x 18.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 225; Darlow & Moule 173; ESTC S675; STC 2165. Geneva version with Tomson's New Testament. A close reprint of the 1591 edition (STC 2157).

Italian Wars 1494-1549. Manuscript letter-book, probably late 16th/early 17th century, 121 leaves (watermark a Latin cross within inverted oval with monogram 'B I' below; similar countermark; cf. Briquet 5677-5704), written in brown ink in the same fluent italic hand, 22 lines to the page, later foliation at foot, browning, closed tears in folios 42 and 91 and to margin of folio 83, the texts comprising: 1) Ill[ustrissi]mi et Ex[cellentissi]mi viri Alphonsi Davali Marchionis Vasti defensio et r[everendissim]os ill[ustrissi]mos ac potentissimos Sacri Rom[ani] Imperii electores et principes, in Latin, folios 1r.-12r., 1a) Del Marchese del Vasta agli Principi del Imperio, Italian, folios 12v.-21r. 2) Parere del Sig. Marchese del'Vasto alla M[ajes]ta del'imperatore Carlo Quinto intorno alla impresa di Provenza, Italian, folios 21v.-24r., 3) Literae Caroli Quinti Imp. ad Vittoriam Marchionissam Piscarie[m] post expugnatum et captum regem Francorum apud Papiam, Latin, dated 25 March 1525, folio 24v., 3a) Carolus divina Clementia Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus, Italian, folio 25 r., 4) Risposta di Vittoria Colonna Marchesa di Pescara a Carlo Quinto imperatore, Italian, dated 1 May 1525, folio 26, 5) Clementis Septimi litere seu breve adversus Carolum Cesarem huius nominis quintu, Latin, dated 23 June 1526, folios 27r.-31v., 6) Litere Caroli Cesaris adversas Clementem Septimum Pontificem, Latin, dated 17 September 1526 folios 32r.-71v. 7) L[ite]ra seu breve di Clementesettimo contra Carlo quinto Imperatore, Italian, dated 23 June 1526, folios 72r.-78 r., 8) Risposta di Carlo Quinto Imperatore a Papa Clemente Settimo, Italian, dated 17 September 1526, 78v.-121v., bound with a sequence of probably later manuscript fragments at rear (5 in total, the first 4 headed 'Discorso di Mons. Claudio Tolomei a Papa Paulo III', 'Aviso Della Morte d'il Sign. Pier Luigi Farnesi figlio di Papa Paulo III', 'Relatione di tutti se stati, sig. e prencipi d'Italia', 'Relatione della Republica Lucchese MDLXXXIII', these 4 all written in same hand, the first two with continuous later foliation 82-132, the third and fourth foliated 500-509 and 550-556 respectively; the fifth fragment in a different hand, 18 leaves), later manuscript indices tipped to front pastedown and initial blank, 18th-or 19th-century Italian half vellum binding, patterned sides, folio (30 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Rev. Walter Sneyd (1808-1889) (his bookplate 'Ex libris Gualteri Sneyd'; pencil annotation 'Sneyd sale lot 240'); see De Ricci, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts 1530-1930, pp. 136-7. 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. These letters may relate specifically to the War of the League of Cognac (1526-30).

Miraeus (Aubertus, editor). Rerum toto orbe gestarum chronica a Christo nato ad nostra usque tempora. Auctoribus Eusebio Caesariensis episcopo, B. Hieronymo presbytero, Sigeberto Gemblacensi monacho, Anselmo Gemblacensi abbate, Auberto Miraeo Bruxell. aliisq. Omnia ad antiquos codices mss. partim comparata, partim nunc primum in lucem edita, 1st edition, Antwerp: Jeroen Verdussen, 1608, signatures *4 *4 2*4 A-H4 +4 A-Y4 Z2 a-i4 k6 l-z4 Aa-Gg4, [96] 390 101-120 [4] pp., woodcut devices to main title-page and to 2 of 3 section-titles, woodcut initials and tailpieces, variably browned, short closed tear in 2*4, paper disruption to A2 affecting catchword, gilt edges, contemporary red goatskin, cipher of Jacques Auguste de Thou gilt to spine-compartments, his arms impaling those of his second wife Gasparde de la Chastre gilt to covers within French fillet frames, contemporary manuscript shelfmark to front cover and pastedown, joints rubbed and with wear in places, tips rubbed, 4to (26 x 17.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), French statesman and bibliophile, bound for him not before 1602 (his marriage to Gasparde de la Chastre). A large collection of books from de Thou's library is now held by the British Library; for another binding with his arms in the same style see British Library shelfmark c19c21. 2) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015; acquired by him from Tintagel Books, East Springfield, NY, in 1999.

Kilian (Ludwig & Wolfgang). Contrafehe der Herzn Fugger und Frawen Fuggerin wöllche in disem geschlect geporen worder oder zue demselben sich ehelich verpflichtet haben, Augsburg: Sara Mang, 1620 [verso of title dated 1619], [1] 1-127 [3] [1] leaves, including engraved title-page, large engraved arms of the house of Fugger, and an engraved portrait to recto of each leaf apart from the last (containing letterpress register only), lacking 8 leaves (3, 31, 32, 39, 44, 97, 102, 118) but extra-illustrated with 4 contemporary engraved portraits from other works (one bound in place of leaf 3, the other three each trimmed, mounted on separate sheet and bound at rear), toning, variable damp-staining to leaves 12-20, marginal spotting and other marks, leaves 35, 37-8 and 119 shorter in fore margins (possibly from a smaller copy), leaf 68 more strongly damp-stained, leaf 69 with extensive closed tear into image, leaf 108 trimmed and mounted on stub (with loss of headline and foliation of text verso), a few portraits with contemporary manuscript captions in brown ink added, bound with: Kilian (Lucas). Contrafäct dern aus Röm. Kaij. Maij. Caroli. V. allergnedigster Verordnung deß Heij. Reichß Statt Augspurg, von Anno 1548, bißhero fürgesezten Herren Pflegeren, [Augsburg: no printer], 1624, [3] 14 leaves, signatures A-H2 [I1], engraved title to A1 recto, 14 engraved portraits, extra-illustrated with engraved folding plate showing the arms of Augsburg noblemen (signed Joann Georg Manasser ... 1632), leaves 10-14 toned and spotted, 2 works in 1 volume, manuscript indices to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, contemporary reversed calf gilt, worming to spine, wear to foot of spine and to lower fore corners of boards, a few marks, folio (28.9 x 18.6 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Jean-Pierre-Marie du Ruolz (c.1670-1725; armorial binding). 2) Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), Franco-German banker and collector (bookplate). 3) Sotheby's, Printed Books and Maps, 17 February and 3-4 March 1993 (purchased by Whitby). 4) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Kress S480 (first work only); VD17 12:648635H & 23:690281V. First edition in German of the first work, and the third overall, greatly expanded and containing over 100 fine portraits of male and female members of the great Fugger banking family. The first iteration is considered to be a suite of 68 engravings by Dominicus Custos which appeared in 1593, and which appears to be rare and may not have been published in book form. Lucas and Wolfgang Kilian, Custos's sons-in-law, re-engraved and supplemented the original plates and issued them first in 1618 with Latin text and the title Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum quae in familia natae quaeve in familiam transierunt (see Lipperheide, 1965, Da8), then with German text as here.

[Cartwright, Thomas]. A Plaine Explanation of the Whole Revelation of Saint John. Very Necessary and Comfortable in these Dayes of Trouble and Affliction in the Church. Penned by a Faithfull Preacher, now with God, 1st edition, London: T. S. for Nathanial Newbery, 1622, pp. [4] 139 [1], large allegorical woodcut vignette to title-page, damp-staining, a little marginal softening and loss to lower fore corners of title-page and final text-leaf, more extensive loss to rear blank and endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, later manuscript spine-title, covers soiled and with loss to lower fore corners, 4to (18.6 x 14.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: David Talbot Rice (1903-1972), English archaeologist and Byzantinist, though unmarked as such; thence by descent. ESTC S124379; STC 4710.5. Rare: ESTC traces seven copies in libraries world-wide. Thomas Cartwright (1534/5-1603) is considered 'the true progenitor of English presbyterianism' (ODNB).

Harford (Ralph). A Gospel-Engine, or Streams of Love & Pity to quench and prevent New Flames in England, being a Petitionary Letter to the most active London Ministers, Subscribers of the Representation (by Letter to the Lord General,) or their Vindication, concerning their present actings in relation to the State, and their too frequent sowing Tares of Dissention for a Third War, without any other cause then their own Exorbitant Interests, viz: for Domination. Munday, March 5. 1649. Presented to them at their houses, by a friend who cordially wisheth the Kingdoms and their welfare, as his own. The particular Men, presented to, are named in the next page. 2 Martii 1648. Imprimatur, Gilb: Mabbot, London: Printed (to save transcribing) for R[apha]. H[arford]. in Queens-head Alley, Paternoster-row, 1649, 11, [1]pp., small label to lower outer corner of spine, signed at end: Rapha Harford, some toning and spotting, 20th century half morocco, 4to, together with: [Nortcliffe, Counsellor], An Argument in Defence of the Right of Patrons to Advousons. And incidently of the Right of Tythes in generall. As it was delivered to the Committee for Tythes, on Wednesday the 14 of September 1653 and taken exactly by one that hath skill in Tachygraphy or the Art of Short-writing, London: Edward Blackmore, 1653, 12pp., ink manuscript numbers to verso of title, some dust-soiling, light fraying to margins, old library label to upper pastedown, 20th century morocco-backed cloth, rebacked, library numbers at foot of spine, extremities rubbed, 4to, Streater (John), A Shield Against the Parthian Dart, or, A Word to the Purpose, Shot into Wallingford-House. Answered in Defence of the present Actions of State here in England, that produced the late Change of Government. By J.S., [London: s.n.]: Printed in the year, 1659, 23, [1]pp., first word of title and some page numbers slightly cropped at head, some toning, 20th century marbled wrappers, 4toQty: (3)NOTESA Gospel-Engine, 1649 - Wing H768; ESTC R234769. An Argument in Defence of the right of patrons, 1653 - Wing N1279; Thomason, E.713[14]; ESTC R207166. A Shield Against the Parthian Dart, 1659 - Wing S5950; Thomason, E.988[11]; ESTC R208075.

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1740 ANTIQUE MANUSCRIPT FOR ISAAC VAN SCHINNE WITH EMBOSSED SEAL ACCEPTABLE CONDITION APP.SIZE: 30cm x 21cm

RARE 1767 - 1768 HOUSE OF LORDS MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL NO COVERS, SOME PAGES MISSING  

Manuscript Workbook. Mathematics. No ownership markings, presumed late 18th century due to presence of date '1783' in examples of problem solving. Small quarto, measures approx. 20cm x 16cm. Approx. 155 pages. Contents comprise the study of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions in both basic and compound methods using goods, services and measurements of the period. Text is neat and legible, several leaves removed, some minor marginal tears. Contemporary binding, rubbed. (1)

Victorian leather bound photograph album well stocked with cabinet portraits and cartes de visites; Victorian leather bound album containing laid-in annotated pictures of European Royalty; Victorian desk blotter; two early 20th century autograph albums; two albums of laid-in postcards and photographs of cathedrals and abbeys; quantity of mounted photographic competition entries by K. Hollingsworth; and two manuscript music booksClick here to view further images, condition reports, sale times & delivery costs for this lot.

KOESTLER (ARTHUR)Von weissen Nächten und roten Tagen: 12 Reportagen aus den Sowjet-Peripherien, FIRST EDITION, 9 plates (2 folding), publisher's wrappers lettered in green and red, dust-jacket, yapp edges slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Staatsverlag d. nat. Minderheiten der USSR, 1934Footnotes:First and only edition of Koestler's first published book 'From White Nights and Red Days'. Koestler was embedded as a journalist in the 1931 Zeppelin Arctic expedition. He then travelled around Russia and what was then Soviet Central Asia. Von weissen Nächten und roten Tagen was intended for global publication by the Comintern, and several of the illustrations (after photographs) are propagandist in nature: 'Collective farmers go to their field work in an organized manner', shortly before the Soviet famine of 1932-3. Koesler would recall, however, that 'in spite of my numerous contracts... only one edition of Red Days did, in fact, appear. This was the Kharkov edition in German, intended for the German-speaking national minorities in the Ukraine. It is a thin, paperbound volume, so thoroughly expurgated that less than half of the original manuscript was allowed to stand' (his autobiography The Invisible Writing, 1954, pp.149, 153).Rare: WorldCat appears to locate only four copies (Edinburgh, BL, Frankfurt and Leipzig).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

ACHEBE (CHINUA)Things Fall Apart, FIRST EDITION, publisher's red cloth (spine slightly faded, slight shelf lean), pictorial dust-jacket designed by C.W. Bacon, uncut with price '15s. Net', Heinemann, 1958; Anthills of the Savannah, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 'For Gilbert [Phelps] who started me off with thanks, Chinua, March 4, [19]89' on the title-page, publisher's wrappers (age toned, small loss to upper cover just touching 'T' of first word of title, small loss to spine ends and a few other small nicks, lower cover browned with a few abrasions to blank areas, thread of loss along lower fold), Heinemann, [1988], 8vo (2)Footnotes:First edition of the Nigerian author's first novel, together with another of his books inscribed to Gilbert Phelps 'who started me off'.Provenance: Gilbert Phelps (1925-1993). Phelps, a published novelist and broadcaster, was head of the Staff Training Department at the BBC in London, when Achebe, working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation arrived in 1957. He told Phelps 'that he too wanted to be a novelist and produced an immense manuscript in a suitcase. Gilbert read it and told him he had not one novel, but six. Achebe duly carved shorter novels from it, the first being Things Fall Apart. The rest of his great trilogy followed - all from the material in the suitcase' (Obituary, Independent, 30 June 1993).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

AUDEN (WYSTAN HUGH)Autograph manuscript of his poem 'The Wanderer', headed with the Roman numeral 'I', comprising 29 lines in three stanzas of thirteen, seven and nine lines respectively, beginning 'Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle:/ Upon what man it fall/ In Spring, day-wishing flowers appearing...', and ending '...Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn.', one page, on feint-lined paper, creased at folds, dust-staining, slightly browned at edges with light damp stain on left side not affecting text, verso foxed, folio (330 x 205mm.), [1930]Footnotes:'DOOM IS DARK & DEEPER THAN ANY SEA-DINGLE': AUDEN'S HOMAGE TO ANGLO-SAXON POETRYAuden's untitled poem of 1930 was written whilst working as a schoolmaster at the Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh, Scotland. At the time he was revisiting the early English texts he had encountered at Oxford and was writing a now-lost play called The Fronny. Indeed, the compelling first line of the poem derives from a thirteenth-century prose piece called Sawles Warde - 'all the redes and the runes of God, and his dooms that dern be, and deeper than any sea-dingle'. Conor Leahey in his comprehensive discussion of Auden's debt to Middle English literature ('Middle English In Early Auden', The Review of English Studies, volume 70, issue 295, June 2019, pp.527–549), calls the poem 'one of his most mysterious and compelling early lyrics, originally referred to simply as 'Chorus from a Play'... It is this choric element, as well as the unpredictable rhythm of the poem's versification, that allows Auden to resolve these mixed affiliations into a voice that is uniquely his own... not an arcane miscellany of allusions, but an evocative and disarming lyric achievement... The poem has become emblematic of Auden's early manner, but in many ways it is an unlikely classic', using as it does Old English tropes such as the alliterative line, kenning ('houses for fishes' for example) and the tradition of riddles. The poem shares its title with an old English lament in the Exeter Book of c.970 where, as in Auden's poem, the wanderer wakes to a sight of 'bird-flocks nameless to him'. Auden also makes reference to his own early work, the poem's closing line, for instance, 'Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn' is adapted from the line 'Dawn leans across the sea' from a poem of 1927.Auden freely admitted his debt to the past, remarking in 1962 that 'I was spellbound. This poetry, I knew, was going to be my dish... Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry have been one of my strongest, most lasting influences', and he was not alone. Academics have identified a widespread phenomenon amongst early twentieth-century writers who looked to Old English as a compositional resource, citing C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and Ezra Pound, who translated The Seafarer from the Exeter Book in 1911, with its influence being felt as recently as 1999 with Seamus Heaney's widely-acclaimed translation of Beowulf. The poem was included in his influential collection Poems published by Faber under the auspices of T.S. Eliot, and was numbered 'II' in the 1933 second edition. Another manuscript of 'The Wanderer' is held in the Auden Papers in the New York Public Library (Berg Collection mss Auden). The present piece derives from a UK private collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MATHEMATICSSTIRLING (JAMES) The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series. Translated into English, with the Author's Approbation, by Francis Holliday, final leaf of advertisements at end, the translator's note 'to the Reader' misbound after preface, ink annotations and corrections by an early reader in the margins and text, library ink stamp on title and approximately 15 further leaves (mostly in blank borders), contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, worn at extremities, 4to (230 x 175mm.), E. Cave, 1749Footnotes:Rare first edition in English, only one copy traced at auction on Rare Book Hub, of 'Stirling's principal contribution to mathematics' (ODNB), first published in Latin as Methodus differentialis in 1730. Its introductory section contains Stirling's discussion of what are now called 'Stirling numbers' (important in modern combinatorial theory). The transation was made by Francis Holliday who is described on the title as 'master of the grammar Free-School at Haughton-Park, near Retford, Nottinghamshire'.This copy has annotations by an early, and obviously engaged reader, with many small corrections to the text (inserting missing words, striking through and replacing individual words), amending equations, and adding manuscript additions to the errata page.Provenance: Nottingham Public Library, ink stamps.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

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased and fore-edge strengthened on verso with tape, tears at head of fols. 13 and 209, the first touching text, lacking blank fol. 72, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (320 x 205mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1198 H [1784]Footnotes:After İbrahim Müteferrika died in 1745, his press fell into disuse, revived once in 1756 by his successors, but immediately abandoned once again until it was bought from his heirs by the present printers, two court secretaries. This work, a chronicle of the early and middle two decades of the century by official court historian Mehmed Subhi (combined with earlier histories by Sami and Şâkir), was the first production from this iteration of the press (see Gruber, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections, 2010).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

WORLD WAR I - MAURITIUSBLACKBURN (CYRIL ANDERSON, Lieutenant in His Majesty's Royal Artillery) Experiences of a Gunner Officer. Being a Tale of the World War, FIRST EDITION, ?THE AUTHOR'S COPY, additional pen and ink sketch of the Basilica at Albert, Somme (bombed with the damaged statue of Mary and Christ) by the author, captioned 'Albert 1916' and signed with initial ('C.A.B.') on the image pasted onto the second front free endpaper, large signature of the author on the first front free endpaper, 4-lines of text excised from foot of pp.393-4 (see footnote), contemporary red limp morocco, gilt lettered on spine, light rubbing, 8vo, Mauritius, The General Printing and Stationary CY. Ld, 1919; sold with an album containing 21 gelatin silver print photographs (?perhaps by Blackburn) mostly of trenches, a few of ruins at Ypres and elsewhere, images 85 x 135mm., mounted one per page recto only, most faced with pasted-in description in pen or pencil, 2 ink diagrams of trenches at Bellewaerde, nr. Ypres, cloth album, oblong 8vo, [c.1915-1919] (2)Footnotes:VERY RARE WORLD WAR I MEMOIR PRINTED IN MAURITIUS, with only the National Library of Australia copy recorded on WorldCat. Born in Beau Bassin, Mauritius (which was one of the Indian Ocean islands to show immediate allegiance to the allies) Blackburn was a student in England at the outbreak of the war, whereupon he joined the Royal Artillery. He served on the Western Front throughout the war, being awarded the Military Cross in 1917, before being invalided home after a battle near Colincamps, Somme when in August 1918 he returned home aboard H.M.S. Aquitania. Evidence suggests this copy, printed on cheap paper in Mauritius but bound in a gilt-lettered morocco binding, is the author's copy, signed by him and with the addition of an ink drawing pasted in as a frontispiece. Also on p. 394 three lines have been intriguingly excised from the text, following a passage reading 'I never quite recovered from the the awful strain while I was on the Front, but several months later...'. The album of photographs of (mostly) trenches, each with a manuscript leaf page of description evidently written by a soldier familiar with the actual trench depicted, could also have belonged to Blackburn.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

SCOTLAND - ROYAL BROADSIDE PROCLAMATIONSBy the Queen, a Proclamation, for a Publick Thanksgiving... for the safety of Our Realms, and the Liberties of Europe... by all our loving subects in Scotland... Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Twenty Sixth Day of September, 1710, broadside, black letter, Royal arms in upper margin, 12-line allegorical opening initial, CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT NOTE BY THE SHERIFF OFFICER OF LANARK relating to reading of the Proclamation 'at the mercatt cross of Lanark', a few small holes resulting in loss of several letters, loss to blank upper left section, archival tissue repairs [ESTC T19712, citing 3 copies only], folio (350 x 280mm.), Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1710--'By the King, a Proclamation, for a Publick Thanksgiving... for the disappointing the designs of the Pretender, and the wicked contrivances of his adherents... [to be] observed by all Our loving subjects in Scotland, on the said twentieth day of January next... Given... the Sixth Day of December, 1714', broadside, black letter, Royal arms in upper margin, 12-line allegorical opening initial, small paper flaw resulting in loss of 2 letters [ESTC T19494, citing BL and House of Lords Library copies only], folio (410 x 315mm.), John Baskett, Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1714 (2)Footnotes:Two scarce Royal Proclamations issued to be heard 'by all Our Loving Subjects in Scotland'. The first, relating to successes in the war with Spain, has a manuscript note on the verso by Mungo Humphray, Sheriff Officer of Lanark, recording that he had 'mounted the mercat cross [at Lanark] and after beating of drumbs I proclaimed...and afixt... and authentick printed coppy... upon the mercat croce so none may pretend ignorance...'.The Proclamation issued in 1714 offered thanksgiving for the 'disappointing the designs of the Pretender' in the aftermath of the ascension of King George I to the throne.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

MOSER-CHARLOTTENFELS (HENRI)Sammlung Henri Moser-Charlottenfels. Orientalische Waffen und Rüstungen [Oriental Arms and Armour], FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 58 OF 300 COPIES, this one of 125 copies with text in German, chromolithographed decorative frontispiece (reproducing a leaf of manuscript from the Gulistan of Sa'di showing the line 'our aim is to produce a work that outlives us'), 44 photolithographed plates (8 colour, including 3 after watercolours, all captioned in German, English and French), 18pp. text with 2 photographic illustrations (one of Moser in 'Oriental' dress), loose as issued in publisher's green cloth gilt portfolio, gilt-stamped decorative 'Arabic' panel design to upper cover, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, large folio (520 x 420mm.), Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1912Footnotes:Henri Moser (1844-1923), son of a watchmaker and industrialist, undertook several tours in Central Asia from the 1860s onwards. During one in 1883 he was received by the Emir of Bukhara, the Khan of Khiva and the Shah of Persia, which facilitated the expansion and depth of his large and important collection of Oriental arms and armour. Having exhibited his collection extensively throughout Germany and Switzerland, and catalogued it (with the help of his Persian assistant Mirza Yuhanna Dawud) at his Schloss Charlottenfels home, Moser donated it to the Historical Museum of Bern, Switzerland in 1914.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

ILLUMINATED MINIATUREKing David, kneeling in armour, handing the letter to Uriah, illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours, manuscript on vellum, the miniature (127 x 80mm.) within architectural border above 6-lines of text ('Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me', from Psalm 6), 31 lines of text on verso, gilt initials on alternate red and blue grounds, page size 210 x 125mm., [France, ?Rouen, c.1480]; and 4 other leaves from the same illuminated manuscript (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JUSTINIANInstitutiones Imperiales domini Justiniani, printed in red and black, title with printer's woodcut device, within wide decorative woodcut border, full-page woodcut 'Arbor civilis', fore-corners of opening few leaves strengthened with minor repairs (small loss to printed area of one corner of title), single wormhole in margin of approximately 40 leaves at end, extensive ink annotations in a sixteenth century minuscule hand in the margins of 35 leaves, fragments of leaves from a fourteenth/early fifteenth century illuminated manuscript antiphonal (rubricated in red and blue, each with a decorative initial and musical notations) used as pastedowns, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, old metal hasps (lacking straps), rebacked with major restorations to lower cover [OCLC 908634397], 4to (228 x 165mm.), Colophon: Paris, Parvus & Gromorsus, 23 June 1521Footnotes:Provenance: Ownership inscription dated 1577, and extensive early annotations in the margins; Sir Thomas Preston, armorial bookplate.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

[DAVIES (JOHN)]Antiquæ linguæ Britannicae, nunc vulgo dictae Cambro-Britannicae, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, second edition, VARIANT WITH THE RARE LEAF OF COMMENDATORY VERSES following 2*4, text in triple columns, woodcut device on title, royal coat of arms on verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light browning and occasional dampstaining, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, two 3-line FRAGMENTS OF A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN on vellum used as binder's waste at front and rear [cf. ESTC S122150; Rees 1551], folio, R. Young, 1632Footnotes:The second (first folio) edition of Davies' dictionary, with fine Welsh provenance and complete with the rarely found additional leaf headed 'Encomiastica'.Provenance: Edward Parry, Bridge Street, Chester (1798-1854, bookseller publisher and antiquary), ticket on front paste-down; Lewis Gilbertson (1814-1896, cleric, vice-principal of Jesus College, Oxford), signature on front free endpaper; his presentation label to S. Michael and All Angels' Theological College, Aberdare; St. Michael's Clergy School, Aberdare, ink stamp on title and final page.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

BURNS (ROBERT)Autograph manuscript of his song 'The Banks of the Cree', comprising sixteen lines in four stanzas of four lines each, beginning: 'Here is the glen & here the bower,/ All underneath the birchen shade,/ The village bell has told the hour,/ O, what can stay my lovely maid...', and ending '...And art thou come, & art thou true!/ O, welcome dear to love & me!/ And let us all our vows renew,/ Along the flowery banks of Cree.', with annotations in another hand 'by Burns' after the title and 'Written in Burns' own hand' at foot, one page, light dust-staining, page slightly trimmed at head, affixed to an album leaf surrounded by contemporary newspaper cuttings, one slightly overlapping the edge of the page, 4to (230 x 175mm.), album leaf 460 x 290mm., [1794]Footnotes:'AND LET US ALL OUR VOWS RENEW, ALONG THE FLOWERY BANKS OF CREE'.Also known as 'Here is the Glen', these romantic verses were written by Burns to a tune composed by Lady Elizabeth Heron (1745-1811), daughter of the 8th Earl of Dundonald and married to Patrick Heron of Heron (1736-1803) through whose estate, Kerroughtree near Galloway, ran the River Cree. Heron was an MP for Kircudbright in the decade before his death and Robert Burns, ever interested in local politics, wrote several satirical ballads to aid his election campaign in 1795, including Inscription for an Altar of Independence at Kerroughtree, the seat of Mr Heron. Burns visited Kerroughtree often, and family legend has it that he would often sit at the foot of the main stairs and recite his poetry. Here he has immortalised his friend Lady Elizabeth as the enchanting Maria. The verses were originally sent by Burns in a letter to his publisher, George Thomson on 7 May 1794, now in the Morgan Library (Dalhousie Manuscripts, MA.50.1), in which Burns noted, '...Now, and for six or seven months, I shall be quite in song, as you shall see by-and-by... I got an air, pretty enough, composed by Lady Elizabeth Heron, of Heron, which she calls 'The Banks of Cree.' - Cree is a beautiful romantic stream, and, as her ladyship is a particular friend of mine, I have written the following song to it:— Banks of Cree/ Here is the glen, and here the bower...' ending with the note '...The air I fear is not worth your while, else I would send it you...', which seems to infer that he was not overly impressed with Lady Elizabeth's composition. However, the literature surrounding these verses agrees that it was Thomson himself and not Burns who disapproved of Elizabeth Heron's setting and was allegedly 'always wanting to set Burns's words to tunes other than those they were written for...' and that Burns insisted they be 'printed to the air for which they were written, or else leave them out' (Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, second series, volume IV, 1929). They were printed in the second volume of Thomson's Original Scottish Airs in 1798 and have been included in many collections of Burns' works. As with so many original Burns manuscripts, as opposed to those produced by the likes of 'Antique' Smith, our fair copy of the verses is unsigned but is finished by a characteristic calligraphic flourish. It has one or two small differences in wording compared with the version in his original letter to Thomson, for example the title 'The Banks of the Cree' used here rather than 'Banks of Cree' and the use of 'thro' the grove' in our copy rather than 'in the grove' in Burns' letter. Provenance: These verses were rediscovered in an album originating from Denston Hall in Suffolk, the seat of Sir John Robinson (c.1757-1819), who married Rebecca Clive, daughter of Clive of India in 1782. Whether this version was written out for Elizabeth Heron herself is not known, neither is it clear how it came into the possession of John Robinson, but it was evidently added to the album only a few years after publication. Surrounding it, and on the reverse of the leaf, are a selection of newspaper cuttings which can give an approximate terminus ante quem for when our piece was pasted into the album - for example, the verses 'The Flight of King Joe' published in the Morning Post on 2 September 1808, and an account of the poisoning by champignons of a Mitcham woman, Mary Attwood, and her children reported in the Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle the following month. A skit on Bonaparte, and handwritten anti-French sentiments on the reverse all date it firmly to the first years of the nineteenth century.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CAMPANELLA (TOMMASO)A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. Wherein We Have a Political Glasse Representing Each Particular Country, Province, Kingdome, and Empire of the World, with Wayes of Government by Which They May be Kept in Obedience, first edition of English, a few pencil annotations and underlinings, contemporary blindstamped calf, red morocco gilt lettering label on spine, spine ends and upper joints worn with small loss, remnants of early illuminated manuscript (Latin text) used as binding waste at hinges [ESTC 006144087; Sabin 10198], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), Philemon Stephens, 1654Footnotes:First edition in English of Campanella's De monarchia Hispanica, written between 1600 and 1601 whilst the author was in prison accused of seeking to overthrow Spanish rule, and translated by Edmund Chilemad. Campanella envisages a unified peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy, and includes chapters on the British Isles, the Turkish or Moorish countries of North Africa, Persia, and 'two chapters treat of the other hemisphere, and of the New World and navigation... Campanella recommends castles and block-houses to be built at the mouths of all rivers and harbours in the New World 'lest the English should break in, and bring in heresy'' (Sabin)Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, library blindstamp.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

CHARLES IIManuscript copy of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham's memoir entitled 'A Short Character of Charles the Second King of England', 5 pages, written in brown and black ink, the last section seemingly completed in a different hand, bound in early blind-panelled calf, large gilt-blocked royal arms of King George I on each side, neatly rebacked to match with red morocco gilt lettering label, folio (294 X 184mm.), [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]Footnotes:'There was as much Laziness as of Love in all those hours he passed among his Mistresses, who after all, only serve to fill up his seraglio': a finely presented Georgian manuscript copy of the scurrilous memoir of King Charles II by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. First published anonymously in 1696, and rumoured to be written by John Dryden, the text had originally circulated in manuscript copies, with Sheffield's name only attached to it when it was reprinted in 1725.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

COMMONWEALTH ACTSA Collection of the Severall Acts, Ordinances, & Orders as Well of Parliament as of His Highness The Lord Protector... for the Levying of Monies by Way of Excise and New-impost, woodcut of the Commonwealth arms on opening leaf, title within 2-line fillet border, without final blank [ESTC R27333], John Maycock, and Gartrude Dawson, 1655; An Additional Act for the Better Improvement and Advancing the Receipts of the Excise and New-impost... the 17. Day of September, An. Dom. 1656, title within 2-line fillet border with woodcut of the Commonwealth arms, section for 'A book of values of merchandize imported' with separate dated title-page, duplicate of 2 leaves (pp.7-10, Ci-ii) bound in [ESTC R206322], Henry Hills, and John Fields, 1657; An Act and Declaration Touching Several Ordinances Made Since the Twentieth of April 1653 and before the Third of September 1654, and Other Acts, title within typographical border with woodcut of the Commonwealth arms, with final blank [cf. ESTC R228128, listing 3 variants of the title, but not this one, which on the title has the 'l' of 'several' above the 'n' in 'ordinances', p.1 signed 'I2', and the colophon printed in 4 lines], Henry Hills and John Field, 1657; An Act for the Improvement of the Revenue of the Customs and Excize, 4pp., caption title with woodcut Commonwealth arms [ESTC R13781; Goldsmith-Kress S.1133], [Henry Hills and John Field, 1657], 4 works bound in 1 vol., black and Roman letter, contemporary black morocco gilt, sides with 2-line fillet border and gilt fleuron corner-pieces, g.e., old manuscript ('Cromwell's Excise') label on spine, folio (270 x 175mm.)Footnotes:Acts issued under Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, in a contemporary morocco binding. It includes acts charging excise on tobacco brought from New England, prohibiting the planting of tobacco in England, and others relating to brewing and 'Spanish wines'.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

NEWTON (ISAAC)Manuscript notebook of John Wickins (d.1719), friend, collaborator and amanuensis of Isaac Newton, bearing ownership inscription on front endpaper, 'J. Wickins Trin: Coll Cant', containing transcripts of two commonplace lectures or sermons noted, in another hand, as given by Newton at Trinity College Chapel ('This on Rom.14.23 was composed by Sir Isaac Newton and used as a Common Place in Trin: Coll Chapel'), on the subject 'Whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin', and a further essay in Latin on morality, the volume ending with 'Coppies of Some Letters from my Chamberfellow Mr Isaac Newton when I was at Monmouth', comprising transcripts of three letters sent to Wickins by '...your very loving chamber-fellow/ Is. Newton...' from Cambridge, the first undated referring to Newton's dispute with the Jesuits at Liège ('...I unhappily burnt my papers about it... I sent 'em an Answer to the substance of their letters & laid upon their Shuffling Tricks - & so I think I have made an End of the Business...'), going on '...A Glasse-grinder in London had this Spring undertaken to make a two-foot telescope after my way but meeting with Mr Hook & some other of that sort of Virtuosi they dissuaded him from attempting it. So Cooper & I are going to work. Mr Cooper hath a tool made...', and asking him to send him '...two or 3 pounds of Iron Stone...'; the second letter dated 19 July 1677 discussing the historians of the early church and their writings ('...For the Times of the first 300 years Eusebius is the only Historian... If you would have all ecclesiastical history collected into one volume consult the Historia Magdeburgensis... I think not of the telescope...'), ending by confirming he has interceded with the Bishop of Salisbury on his behalf; the third dated 19 August 1682, explaining the difficulty of recommending books to him ('...for what pleases me may not after Perusal please you & then they will be but lumber to you...'), going on to discuss the best editions to be had ('...I will commend Erasmus's Paraphrase on the New Testament, & next the Criticks, not Pools Synopsis but the former Edition, which were it not for the Price I would commend to you in the first place... Feuardontius Edition (though he be a very hot Papist) is best and easiest to be had... Jerome is worth having for his learning though not for his religion...'); margins ruled in ink, notes on provenance in two other hands on recto and verso of first leaf ('...the handwriting is the handwriting of Mr John Wickins...'), 103 leaves, three-page provenance note on blue paper attached to first page, contemporary black morocco gilt, double-ruled gilt panels, cornerpieces with design of flowers, leaves and dots, spine gilt with decorated raised bands, flower and foliate decoration in compartments, g.e., marbled endpapers, later morocco-backed pull-off case, gilt panelled spine, red morocco spine label with lettering in gilt, 8vo (148 x 95mm.), late seventeenth centuryFootnotes:See www.bonhams.com/26772/73 for footnote.

A rare Island of Guernsey early passport 1833, Issued by Major General John Ross Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey and Alderney - Made out to a Miss Rachel Roberts aged 22 years. Royal Arms and Governor of Guernsey Arms at top, black printing with manuscript annotations and signatures, has franking stamps on reverse stating she was at Granville and Paris, 6 x 13¾in. (15.3 x 35cm.). * Major General John Ross served on the Spanish peninsula with Sir John Moore, the Walcheren Campaign and later in Portugal under the Duke of Wellington. He was Governor of Guernsey from 1828 to 1837.

Robert Joseph Farnon (Canada, 1917-2005) Composer and Conductor, original sheet music to 'How Beautiful is Night', compliment slip to verso 'Herewith original music manuscript for charity Auction on Saturday 23 March'.