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Fletcher (James Phillips ). Narrative of a Two Years’ Residence at Nineveh, and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1850, scarce minor spots or marks, volume 1 preliminary blank (spotted) with near contemporary ink manuscript presentation inscription, each front pastedown with book ticket of John Wycliffe Wilson, Sheffield, front hinges cracked after endpapers, contemporary green half calf, rubbed with some wear, spines darkened, volume 1 joints cracking at head, front cover creased at foot, 8voQty: (2)NOTESBlackmer 608. The first edition of this work was published in the same year under the title 'Notes from Nineveh and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria and Syria'.

Bristol. A commonplace book, by W.P., compiled between 1816-1850, approx. 239 pages of manuscript writings, written from both ends of the book and so partially inverted, p.1 (at front) with manuscript date '1816' at head, comprising: approx. 61pp. extracts from the Mayor's Calendar [of Bristol] including ones dated 1076-1709; approx. 58pp. chronology of Bristol and national events 1816-1850, apparently written by the owner of the book, including descriptions of: a new invention the 'Pedestrian Curricle' exhibited at the Assembly Rooms in 1819, the Bristol riots of 1831, and the trial of Mary Ann Burdock in 1835, etc., plus occasional notes on the weather; 5pp. extracts from the Bristol Quarter Sessions books 1681-1684; 1p. conundrums; 18pp. European events 1812-1815; 20pp. extracts from a work on singing, with a few lines of manuscript music; 16pp. notes on the writer's beliefs as a Unitarian, proverbs, etc.; 9pp. three letters addressed 'To the editor of the Christian Reformer', both initialled W.P. (the 2nd dated 1818), each with a note stating when they appeared in the above publication under the name 'Juvenis'; 11pp. notes on medical ailments and treatments, 2 leaves cracking at gutter, a few later manuscript anotations, a few leaves from rear portion apparently removed, sewing broken at front (first few leaves detached), front pastdown with modern ink ownership stamp, free endpapers deficient, contemporary half reverse calf, worn, front cover nearly detached, spine deficient, front cover with ink manuscript title 'The Mayor's Calendar', small 4to, together with: Album, compiled by Jane Blythe, compiled between 1831-1871, calligraphic title dated 1831, with ink manuscript note pinned to verso, regarding the baptism of Jane Blythe in 1807, approx. 66 pages of manuscript poems and verses in various hands (with additional blank pages), some dated, many initialled or signed, titles include: The Farewell, Puzzle to a Lady, Creation, To a Firstborn Child, A Tale of Waterloo, To a Lock of Hair, Epitaph on Miss Ellen A... , etc., also 5 cartes de visite mounted onto blank leaves (two marked Preston [Photo], Leeds), 1 pencil sketch of St. Mary's Abbey York, 5pp. mounted chromolithographed greetings cards at rear, preliminary blank with mounted mourning card dated 1871, sewing broken, rear hinge cracked, contemporary maroon half morocco, worn, front cover detached, spine deficient, rear cover loose, small 4to, plus: Commonplace book, a commonplace book, compiled between 1st January-26th December 1835, 407 pages of manuscript writings, all apparently in the same hand, covering a wide range of subjects including language, classics, poetry, novels, astrology & horology, medicine and other science-related, including extracts from 'A Course of Lectures on the Modern Discoveries in Astronomy by Dr. Lardner delivered before the "Leicester Mechanic's Institute"', additionally several loosely inserted newclippings, mostly comprising engraved portraits, views, antiquities, scenes (including hunting, racing, etc.), also a couple of pencil sketches, one being of two Chinese men walking on stilts, scarce minor spotting, one leaf with long horizontal closed tear, both hinges cracked after endpapers, contemporary half sheep, worn, hinges cracked, spine deficient, folio, with: Clifton College, a photograph album, c.1890s, containing approx. 31 albumen print photographs, several relating to Clifton School (Clifton College), including photos of the pupils in houses such as North Town and Browns, with early ink manuscript titles and names of sitters to some, and an image of the cricket team playing in front of the college, various conditions, support leaves soiled and spotted, original black half morocco gilt, oblong 4toQty: (4)

Dublin. A manuscript lawyer's copy book, relating to the firm of attorneys Arthur Jones, Francis Prendergast, and others, Dublin, 1811-1829, approx. 330 pages, written in neat ink manuscript hands, in two parts, the first 56pp. comprising records of notes sent in 1811 regarding various cases, especially that of James Covey vs. Newburgh Minors & Others, many sent to the Master of the Rolls or the Lord Chancellor (of Ireland), the 2nd part comprising records of letters relating to mainly land disputes in various parts of Ireland, dated between 1822-1829, including a dispute relating to Lord Longford, and several letters relating to a dispute between Arthur & Thomas Baker and their younger siblings, contemporary ink manuscript lettering to top edge: Letters from 1822 to 1829, contemporary half calf, rubbed and marked with a little wear to extremities, neatly rebacked, typescript copies of several letters (those relating to the Baker vs Baker case) plus additional typed and manuscript research notes loosely inserted, folioQty: (1)NOTESThe attorney (solicitor) Arthur Jones and others were apparently based in North Great George Street in Dublin, later moving to Dominick Street. The Baker vs Baker case seems to involve a dispute that began when the father of the Baker family, Henry Baker died. It seems that he had been the Treasurer of the county of Dublin, and it appears that his two eldest sons, Thomas and Arthur disputed Henry's will, which resulted in delays to payments due their younger siblings, some of whom are described as infants, resulting in their struggling 'to procure the common necessities of life'. Apparently their mother had already died, as it seems likely that their elder sister Elizabeth had been appointed their guardian, but sadly during the protracted course of this case she died and the guardianship passed on to a certain Matilda Onge[?]. As the years pass by, the tone of Arthur Jones' letters become more frustrated, as he speaks of the 'extreme distress' of the children, and how shamefully they have been deserted 'by those they had every reason to expect kindness from', his own labours in calling on and writing to the various parties day after day, and the trifling and petty nature of the affair.

* Heraldry. Grant of arms of Joseph Griggs of Loughborough, Leicestershire, Alderman & First Mayor of the Borough of Loughborough, 1889, manuscript on vellum, hand-painted and illuminated armorials at head, signatures of Sir Albert William Woods, Garter King of Arms, and Walter Aston Blount, Clarenceaux King of Arms to lower margin, with attached red wax seals in brass skippets, neatly display mounted with skippet lids present, 760 x 520 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESAlderman Joseph Griggs, J.P., D.L., (1835-1909) was a timber merchant who became the first mayor of Loughborough in November 1888. Loughborough became a municipal borough in 1888 and thus, for the first time, had an efficient system of government. Alderman Griggs was noted for his public spirit and the Loughborough Herald of 1889 states that ‘his popularity is equally as great with the toilers as it is with the gentry’. His home, ‘Mountfields’, Forest Road, Loughborough was built for him in 1878 and became famous for its garden parties, to which ‘the worthy burgesses and county friends of the town’ were invited. Alderman Griggs most enduring monument was his donation of the Queen’s Memorial Baths (now Charnwood Museum) in Granby Street which cost £4000 to build and which he presented to the town in 1898.

Kent. 'A Booke of Receipts of all the Quitt rents, Heriott, Alienations, Reliefes, Amercements and other Perquisites belonging to the Mannour of Sunderidge in ye County of Kent', 1677-1717, manuscript in brown ink ruled in red throughout, pp. [2] 1-110 113-146 151-156 156-167, an extra quire containing 10 pp. laid in, pp. 23-6 loose, contemporary vellum, soiled and worn, tall narrow folio (39.6 x 15.5 cm)Qty: (1)Amendment 11/02/2021:It has been noted that the above item may contain manorial documents, which are subject to the Manorial Documents Rules 1959, 1963 and 1967, administered by The Historical Manuscripts Commission at The National Archives on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. Accordingly, the purchasers of the documents must notify the Secretary of the Commission of their acquisition and provide details of where they will be kept. They may in no circumstances be removed from England and Wales without the prior consent of the Master of the Rolls. Every change of ownership must be reported. The Secretary of the Commission can be contacted by e-mail at mdr@nationalarchives.gov.uk, or by post as Head of Archive Sector Development, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

Victorian scrap album containing approx. 160 pages, each with one or more mounted (adhered) items comprising: engraved and lithographed portraits (approx. 32), engraved and lithographed views & historical & architectural scenes (approx. 36), some with hand-colouring, 23 hand-coloured engravings of world costumes, several cut-out and hand-coloured lithographs of birds or butterflies, some chromolithographs (most cut-out), numerous newsclippings (often humorous or riddles), several miniature engraved scenes, a few watercolours (most monochrome) and pencil sketches, including a large sketch of Belem Castle, Lisbon, one trompe l’oeil watercolour, plus several ink manuscript lines and verses, such as ‘Lymington Gunmakers’, ‘Similes since the flood’, ‘On parting’ by Lord Byron, ‘German proverb’, ‘On going to church’, ‘Woman’, ‘To Myself’, a riddle ‘game’, and a few autographs excised from letters, including Charlotte Chatterton & others, variable spotting and toning, one costume engraving with a couple of short tears (one centrally), a few edge tears or chips to support leaves, front free endpaper with mounted large (18cm/7”) silhouette of a lady (remainder of leaf cropped), stitching showing but firm, hinges cracked, original maroon morocco, elaborate embossed designs to covers and spine, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, 4to, together with: An Edwardian sketch album, containing approx. 28 pages (and numerous blanks), with items including ink manuscript verses, pencil sketches, and other mounted (some adhered) items, often humorous, including approx. 7 pen & ink drawings, approx. 8 pencil sketches (some rough), and 5 watercolours, the watercolours include a Broadland windmill scene signed W. Leslie Rachkam, a loosely inserted head and shoulders of an oriental man, signed C. M. Achond 1908, a shaped woodland scene, signed W. Perry Cooper ’07, and a humerous picture (pen & ink and watercolour) titled 'Bill Bailey' (possibly related to the 1902 popular song ‘Bill Bailey won’t you please come home’), the pencil sketches include a woman, signed W. Leslie Rackham 1907, the pen & ink drawings include a golfer, and a barefoot man in patched trousers smoking a pipe, both dated 1907 and initialled ?EP, one page with the title ‘A lady’s Dressing Case’ contains 9 lift-flaps, with ink manuscript descriptions, for example ‘Best white paint’, lifts to reveal ‘Innocence’, some spotting, stitching broken with some leaves detached, front free endpaper with ink manuscript signature Mabel Gundry-White 9/12/04, and with book sellers ticket Jarrold & Sons, Great Yarmouth, all edges gilt, original cloth, worn, spine deficient, small 4toQty: (2)NOTESSecond item: William Leslie Rackham (1864-1944) lived in Norwich for much of his life and was known for painting Broadland landscapes.

Bible [English]. The Self Interpreting Family Bible, with an evangelical commentary by the late Revd. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington, containing marginal references & reflections. Embellished with Elegant Engravings, London, Thomas Kelly, circa 1870, numerous full-page engraved plates, with decorative borders, some with light spotting, family register leaf with manuscript insertions bound in after engraved title, contemporary full brown calf, rubbed and some wear, with upper cover detached, large thick folio, together with other antiquarian theology and literature, mostly 19th century, including Henry Southwell, The New and Complete Book of Martyrs, for Christian Martyrology, printed for C. Cooke, 17 Pater-Noster Row, circa 1790, John Tillotson, An Exposition of the Creed, 10th edition, revised and corrected, 1715, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, 4 volumes, Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1866-68, text in double column throughout, contemporary half calf, heavily rubbed and marked, thick 8vo, etc., mostly leather bound, various sizesQty: (a carton)

Binding. The Birth and Triumph of Love. A Poem, by James Bland Burges, London: printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, 1796, engraved portrait frontispiece with gilt line borders, 25 engraved plates including dedication, blind stamp of Salford Borough Royal Museum & Library at foot of frontispiece and lower outer corners of some plates and text, manuscript 'XI' at foot of title, some spotting, marks and finger soiling mostly to margins, pale blue moire silk doublure endpapers with decorative gilt borders & dentelles (free endpapers slightly frayed to edges), bookplate and shelf label of Salford Borough Royal Museum & Library to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary maroon morocco possibly by Christian Samuel Kalthoeber (fl. 1775-1817, unsigned/unmarked), elaborate gilt decoration, rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spine, extremities rubbed, board corners worn & showing, 4to, together with: Taylor (Charles, Engraver), The Cabinet of Genius Containing Frontispieces and Characters adapted to the most Popular Poems..., vol. 1 only (of 2), London: C. Taylor, 1787, engraved title, 52 engraved plates (of 58?), strong white adhesive tape at gutter & adjoining to front blank and also to gutter margin of B1 and facing plate (with consequent adhesive show-through), occasional offsetting and some light dampstaining to margins, initial leaves loose, contemporary half sheep, upper board near detached, lower joint split, worn, small 4toQty: (2)

Butler (Samuel). Hudibras. A Poem Written in the Time of the Civil Wars, 3 volumes, London, 1757, titles & text in English & French, 15 engraved plates (including portrait & 3 folding), bookplates of Lytton Stachey (1880-1932), Fletcher of Ashford?, Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire, and the Brother Julian Collection, to front endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines without labels, joints cracked and some wear to extremities, 12mo, together with: ibid., Hudibras, the Third and last Part, written by the author of the first and second parts, 1st edition, London: for Simon Miller, 1678, title with early ink manuscript signature, generally toned, front endpapers with early ink manuscript inscriptions and pen trials, also armorial bookplate of Ralph Bates Esqr. 6th Dragoons 1787, rear free endpaper with early ink manuscript pen trials, contemporary mottled calf, worn, rear cover nearly detached, front cover and first 2 gatherings detached, with remnants of old repairs to spine area, 8vo, plus: ibid., Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars, 3 parts in 2, Glasgow: Foulis, 1774, 2nd volume with front free endpapers detached and with bookplate of the Brother Julian Collection, contemporary calf, worn, first volume lacking front cover, remaining covers loose, 12mo, and: ibid., The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras ..., with notes by R. Thyer, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: for J. and R. Tonson, 1759, subscribers list, volume 1 title with closed tear at gutter, each volume with bookplate of the Brother Julian Collection, volume 1 with engraved and ink manuscript armorial presentation label from Trinity College Dublin, dated 1779, contemporary calf gilt, worn, front and rear covers with gilt-stamped arms of Trinity College Dublin, volume 1 front cover detached (with title attached), rear joint cracked, volume 2 with clear adhesive tape over cracked spine, 8vo, with 4 other 12mo antiquarian (some defective)Qty: (12)

Darton and Harvey (publishers). The New Children's Friend: or, Pleasing Incitements to Wisdom and Virtue; conveyed through the medium of anecdote, tale, and adventure, calculated to entertain, fortify, and improve the Juvenile Mind, translated chiefly from the German, 4th edition, London: for Vernor and Wood ... and Darton and Harvey, 1800, engraved frontispiece after Kirk, some pale spotting or toning at front, contemporary parchment-backed marbled boards, worn, front joint with split at head, 12mo, together with: Albert (B.), L'Art du Cuisinier Parisien, ou Mnauel Complet D'Economie Domestique, Paris: chez Emile Babeuf, 1822, 4 engraved plates, some spotting, front hinge cracked, contemporary half calf gilt, worn, front joint cracked, 8vo, plus: Lee (R.), Trees, Plants and Flowers, second thousand, London: Griffith and Farran, 1859, 8 hand-coloured lithgraphed plates by James Andrews, title with ink manuscript ownership name at head, some spotting, front free endpaper excised, hinges cracked, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated cloth, rubbed and soiled, darkened spine with a little fraying to ends, each joint with a short split, 8vo, with: ["Stendhal", Marie-Henri Beyle], The Lives of Haydn and Mozart, with observations on Metastasio ..., translated from the French of L.A.C. Bombet, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1818, some spotting, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, front joint with short split at head, 8vo, and 17 others, mainly 18th and 19th century, some defective, including: European Ferns, by James Britten, c.1880; and L'Histoire du Cardinal Duc de Joyeuse, by Antoine Aubery, 1654, (lacking title)Qty: (21)

Defoe (Daniel). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, where-in all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates, 3rd edition, London: printed for W. Taylor, 1719 [but a facsimile edition circa 1880], engraved frontispiece by Clark and Pine, 2 pp. advertisements at end, a little light spotting to frontispiece and advertisements, modern panelled calf, red label to spine, 8vo, together with The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 3 volumes, Cooke's edition, London: C. Cooke, [1793], titles with engraved vignettes, 6 engraved plates dated 1793, one or two small manuscript corrections, occasional light spotting, previous owner ink stamp 'H. Carwardine' at head of titles, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, a little rubbed, 12mo, plus The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. With an account of his travels round three parts of the globe, 2 volumes, Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1822, titles with wood-engraved vignettes, illustrations, a little minor spotting and small water stain, contemporary blindstamped calf gilt, one spine label partially wormed, 12mo, with other editions of Robinson Crusoe including The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 3 volumes, Edinburgh, 1810, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London, Harvey and Darton, 1831, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2 volumes, London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831, illustrated editions by Cassell, etcQty: (29)

[Dugdale, William]. A Short View of the Late Troubles in England; Briefly setting forth, their rise, growth and tragical conclusion. As also, some parallel thereof with the Barons-Wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the Reign of Henry III. and Henry IV. late Kings of that Realm. To which is added a perfect narrative of the Treaty at Uxbridge in an. 1644, 1st edition, Oxford: at the Theater for Moses Pitt, 1681, 2 parts in one, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, lacking the portrait frontispiece of King Charles I, Bedfordshire General Library ink stamps (1830) to title and a few margins, manuscript shelf number at head of title, one or two small marginal holes, occasional minor soiling, later calf-backed boards by Blair Jeary, red label to spine, folioQty: (1)NOTESESTC R18097; Wing D2492.

Grose (Francis). A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, printed for S. Hooper, 1788, title and final leaf lightly browned, occasional light spotting, modern antique-style half calf gilt, 8vo, together with: [Collier, Jane]. An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with proper rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art. Humbly addressed, in the first part, to the master, husband, &c., in the second part to the wife, friend, &c., with some general instructions for plaguing all your acquaintance, 2nd edition, corrected, printed for A. Millar, 1757, engraved frontispiece by William Hogarth, contemporary ownership signature of Frances Ackland to title, contemporary calf, with modern antique-style reback, 8vo, plus: Herbert (George). A Priest to the Temple. Or, The Country Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life, 2nd edition, with a new preface by B.O., printed by T. Roycroft, for Benj. Tooke, 1671, imprimatur leaf (A1) before title, single-page advertisement leaf (O7) at rear, without final blank (O8), 17th century ink manuscript list of book titles to the lower portion of a title leaf from a1641 English bible loosely inserted at rear, 20th century bookplate of Reverend Douglas G. Matthews, Southover Rectory, Lewes, Sussex to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, 20th century reback with outer corners repaired, small 8vo, and: Waller (Edmond). Poems, &c. written upon several Occasions, and to several Persons, seventh edition, with several additions, never before printed, printed by T. W. for the Assignes of H.H. and sold by J. Thonson, 1705, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by P. Vanderbank, 20th century light brown half calf, 8voQty: (4)

Pamphlets. A collection of approx. 50 pamphlets and other ephemera (one 17th century, three 20th century, the remainder 18th-19th century), including: 1. Advice to the Nobility, Gentry, & Commonalty of this Nation in the qualifications and election of their knights and burgesses, their representatives in parliament, by Robert Tell-Truth, [London, 1679], 4pp., disbound, some loss at head (clipping some letters), ESTC R19296, Wing A660, 2. A Present for an Apprentice, London: for Williams and Smith, 1806, 12pp., engraved vignette to title, disbound, 3. Memorial and Letter of the Baptist Church at New Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the Senate of Hamburgh, and the King of Denmark, in Favour of their Persecuted Brethren in Hamburgh and Copenhagen, Newcastle: by M. A. Richardson, 1843, 20pp., additional engraved vignette title printed in red & black, some toning in places, original printed wrappers (dust-soiled), 4. The Rise and Fall of the late projected Excise, impartially consider'd, by a Friend to the English Constitution, London: for J. Peele, 1733, 61pp., disbound, ESTC T63487, 5. Convention between His Britannick Majesty and the Empress of Russia ..., published by Authority, London: by Edward Johnston, 1793, 8pp., original wrappers (soiled, torn and mostly detached), ESTC T84784, other subjects include: approx. 14 politics, trade & law, approx. 13 religious, plus medicine, education, history, theatre, etc., most disbound, some in original wrappers, and other ephemera including a manuscript letter dated 1850 'Report by James Sims Esq. on the state of the Engines at Edmonstone Colliery'Qty: (Approx. 50)

Person (David). Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters, necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall Heads of diverse Sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of Naturall things unfoulded, &c., 1st edition, Printed by Richard Badger, for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the grene-dragon, 1635, A1 present before title, with near-contemporary ink ownership inscription 'E Libris Hugonis Walsh 1669', title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut head-pieces, etc., early brown ink manuscript note on slip of paper, describing the difference between a partial and total eclipse, bound in after final leaf of text, and further contemporary ink manuscript to verso of blank leaf at rear, giving computations of the circumference of the earth, the distance from the earth and the sun, etc., small area of worming to head of inner margin at front of volume, and one or two wormholes to margins elsewhere, none affecting text, lacks signatures Mm-Nn4 (pages 87-102) from the separately paginated fifth part of the text, B8 misbound after B1 to first part of the volume, occasional pale waterstain (text block otherwise generally in good condition), marbled edges and endpapers, 19th-century blind-decorated full calf, spine lettered in gilt, a little wear to joints and head and foot of spine, small area of surface leather to upper cover lifted, small 4to (binding measures 185 x 140 mm, 7.25 x 5.5 ins), together with: Royal Society, The Philosophical Transactions from the year MDCC. (where Mr. Lowthorp ends) to the year MDCCXX. abridg'd, and dispos'd under general heads, by Benj. Motte., volume 1 only (of 2), London: R. Wilkin, R. Robinson, S. Ballard, et al., 1721, imprimatur leaf before title, numerous folding engraved plates and diagrams, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints split, worn to extremities, 4to, Bartholinus (Thomas), Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartolini parentis institutionibus, The Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1655, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait and numerous full-page illustrations, eight folding plate plates, leaf D4 torn to lower outer corner with text loss (repaired, with text provided in manuscript), R8 & 2C3 torn to fore-edge blank margin, occasional light damp staining, contemporary calf, two old paper labels to spine, joints split and some wear, and others including an incomplete & wormed volume of Horological dialogues, by John Smith, 1675Qty: (6)NOTESSTC 19781; ESTC S114573; Wellcome 4918. The only published work of David Person, or Pierson 'of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman', being a series of five treatises on the physical and natural sciences: the nature and effect of the sun, moon and stars, circumference of the globe, the causes of meteors, comets, and weather, battles and combats, happiness, sleep and dreams, and miracles, prodigies, the philosopher's stone and metaphysics. Person "held that celestial bodies are incorruptible and did not believe that new stars were natural phenomena. Instead, they were 'extraordinary works of the great maker, threatening mortalls by their frownings'... He rejected Copernicus on the ground that the universe, as it resolves, must have an immovable centre which is the earth" (Dobrzycki, The Reception of Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory, 1973).

Hutchinson (William). A View of Northumberland. With an Excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newcastle: by T. Saint, for W. Charnley, and Messrs Vesey & Whitfield, 1778, engraved title-pages, engraved dedication leaf, folding genealogical table, 23 engraved plates, incomplete (lacking at least volume 1 quire S, i.e. 2 leaves, replaced in near-contemporary manuscript), variable spotting and browning, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, rubbed, 4to, together with: Wallis (John). The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland, 2 volumes, London: for the author, 1759, errata leaf to rear of each volume, spotting, modern tan half morocco, 4to, Scott (Walter). The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition, London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-17, half-title, 95 engraved plates (including vignette title-pages), all hand-coloured, contemporary red morocco gilt, rebacked, 4to, Bartlett (W. H., illustrator). The Danube, London: Virtue and Co., c.1850, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette title-page, 2 maps, 79 plates, spotting to plate margins, modern tan half morocco, 4to, and 2 others (Mackenzie, View of the County of Northumberland, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1825; Pugin & Heath, Paris, 2 volumes in 1, 1831)Qty: (9)NOTESESTC T99506 (Hutchinson), ESTC T145681 (Wallis); Upcott pp. 1028-31 (Hutchinson).

* Trams. A group of approximately 840 photographs of British trams, mostly postcard-size modern prints from older negatives, all loose or corner mounted, including postcards and many with copyright stamp of W.J. Haynes of Lewisham, London, to versos, manuscript indexes loosely inserted with photographs numbered 3216-4058, 6 modern plastic ring binders with clear sleeves, 4toQty: (approx. 840)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of the tram historian and author Ronald Samuel Ely of Ripley, Derbyshire and formerly the Isle of Man.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, 1620, general title within woodcut border (frayed to fore-edge and with early manuscript to verso including 'William Smallwood his Booke'), lacking New Testament title (3E3), double column black letter text, Apocrypha present, Revelation incomplete ate rear, final leaves frayed and with closed tears, incomplete tables, Psalms and woodcut genealogies bound-in at front, margins frayed, dust-soiling throughout and some marks, sewing weak and some leaves detached, contemporary boards (lacking leather) detached, worn, 4to, together with: Bible [English], The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, London & New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, circa 1880, wood engraved frontispiece and illustrations, all edges gilt contemporary black diced calf, extremities rubbed, large 4to, Dickens (Charles), Works, 13 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, circa 1870, numerous engraved plates, contemporary red half morocco by Harrison of Pall Mall, London, gilt decorated spines, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous items, including six framed 19th century broadsides for theatrical performances etc.,Qty: (a carton)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.

Williamson (George C.). Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke & Montgomery. 1590-1676. Her Life, Letters and Work..., Kendal, Titus Wilson and Son, 1922, 53 black & white plates, bookplate to front pastedown, limitation plate to front endpaper, some minor marginal toning, publishers original quarter vellum, spine lightly spotted, 8vo, limited edition 94/250, together with; Weddell (George), Arrana Fairfaxiana Manuscripta, A manuscript volume of Apothecaries' Lore and Housewifery nearly three centuries old, used, and partly written, by the Fairfax Family, facsimile edition, Elliot Stock, 1890, numerous black & white facsimile pages, period inscription to the front endpaper, some light spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated full morocco, spine lightly & rubbed to foot, 4to, and Thomas (J.), The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, 4 volumes, new edition, J. S. Virtue & Co., circa 1880, some light toning & spotting, top edges gilt, publishers uniform original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th century literature, poetry & reference, including One Hundred and Eleven Poems, by Robert Herrick, illustrated by William Russell Flint, limited edition, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955, 8vo, 457/550, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )

Cary (John). Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, on which are carefully laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals..., 1st edition, 1794, printed title and dedication, engraved reticulated map of England and Wales with contemporary hand colouring, table of explanation and 76 (complete) engraved map sheets (numbered 1 - 81 and omitting 62/63, 71/72 & 80 as intended), all with contemporary outline colouring, two maps with small ink stains, index and list of subscribers bound at rear, near-contemporary ink manuscript ownership signature to verso of title, contemporary tree-calf gilt, bound 'envelope style' with linen ties, worn and frayed along the front edge of the binding, overall size 330 x 260 mmQty: (1)

* Botanical drawings. A collection of 47 watercolours of flowers and fruit, 19th-early 20th century, comprising 36 watercolours of flowers, including fuchsias, roses, primroses, carnations, heartsease, geraniums, tulips, honeysuckles, etc., 3 of ferns, heather and other vegetation, 4 of fruit, including a fig, gooseberries, and cherries, and a monochrome watercolour of strawberries, plus 3 small hand-coloured engravings related, some annotated in contemporary manuscript, a few cut out, and some mounted on album leaves, various sizes and conditionQty: (47)

Group of four Indo-Persian manuscript illuminations, two with script borders, 18 x 8cm, the other two depiction of a hunting scene, and lovers in a garden, all in conforming glazed gilt frames

Norfolk interest ephemera, a snapshot photograph album 1929-1931, 75 topographical and architectural views including Shimpling, Mildenhall, Fersfield, Mettingham, Baconsthorpe, Langley Staithe, Colegate, Eaton Grove, Opie Street, Houghton Hall, Brisley, Walsingham, Deopham, many country houses and some churches, some other parts of UK, images 7 X 10cm, oblong, original cloth gilt ; South Norfolk Women's Unionist Association, Eastern Branch Earsham, book of manuscript notes/minutes from meetings 1929-1967 good quality manuscript and some typed notes at end, notes signed by A. Howe & Grace D Meade and dated throughout, old quarter cloth; an old ledger containing local interest news cuttings mainly, circa 1940's/1950's, large folio, full calf gilt (worn) (3)

A local interest early 20th Century manuscript ledger/account book, 450+numbered pages, but approx. half of those pages with manuscript entries dated 1906-1922, mainly relating to building materials, farming, etc., places mentioned including Banham, Shropham, East Harling, Besthorpe, Thetford, Bunwell, Deopham, Hingham, Norwich, etc., etc., old half calf gilt (very worn)

A collection of 80+ mainly Norwich and Norfolk related billheads/bills circa 1860's-1930's, many for Coachbuilders, Engineers, Founders, Saddlers etc, majority with engraved vignette illustrations at head and with manuscript dates, description of goods and prices detailed, including "Robert Bacon, Barn Tavern, St. Benedict's Gates, Licensed to Let horses, cabs...Funeral Cars, Closed Hearses, Black Coaches...", bill for a funeral car and 2 mourning carriages, April 15th 1891, for Mr Bussey (possibly linked to Busseys coachbuilders of Norwich), engraved vignette illustration of coach and horse at head; W.S. Boulton, Manufacturers etc, Rose Lane Foundry & Iron Works Norwich, 1865; Boulton & Paul, Rose Lane Foundry & Iron Works Norwich, 1894 & 1909 (2); Edgar Watts Coach Builder, Corn Hall, Bungay, 1911; A. Cuddon, Carriage Builder, Bungay, 1911; W.W. Rogers, Coach Builder, Cromer, 1924; Grace Cuddon, Coach Builders, Bungay, 1906; H. Arthurton, Collar, Saddle and Harness Maker, 1899; G.S. Knights, Saddler, Ludham, 1927 (2); James Branford, Saddler, Bungay, 1893 & 1894 (2); P. Wilkinson & Son, Saddle and Harness Manufacturers, St. Giles' St. Norwich, 1893; Crowe & Son's, Removal & Warehousing, St. Stephen's St. Norwich, 1888; Holmes & Sons, Engineers, Iron Founders, and Machine Manufacturers, Prospect Place Works, Castle Hill, Norwich, 1882 (2), 1891, 1899 & 1902 (5 in total); T. Smithdale & Son, Engineers, Millwrights, Iron & Brass Founders, Acle, 1892 & 1903 (2); W.E. Wigg & Sons, Agricultural & Motor Engineers, Tractor Agents, Barnby Foundry, Nr. Beccles, (4), no dates or m/s entries, circa early 1900's; James Lambert & Sons, Motor Car Proprietors, Ditchingham, 1925; Jewson & Sons, Norwich & Yarmouth, 1888; William Parson, Gun Maker, Swaffham, circa 1880-1900; Ruymp & Son, Horticultural & Builders' Merchant, St. George's Bridge Wharf, Norwich, 1901 (3); Samuel Darby, Coal, Slate & Timber Merchant, Beccles, 1888, 1893 & 1908 x 2 (4); plus others T. Pank, West Runton; Daniel A. Cameron, Bungay; Edward Gibbs, Reepham; John Browne, Phoenix Foundry Norwich, 1813, etc etc, mainly all tipped in at corners onto later 20th Century manila card wallets and housed in a blue binder

Arthur Henry Patterson, 3 titles: 'A Norfolk Naturalist', 1930, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to FFEP, original cloth gilt; 'Nature in Eastern Norfolk', 1905, 1st edition, pencil ownership signature of Naturalist and Wildlife Photographer Richard Kearton (1862-1928), to front pastedown, original cloth gilt; 'Notes of an East Coast Naturalist', 1904, 1st edition, some contemporary pen and ink manuscript notes on Patterson at back by an ''E.D.P.'', original cloth gilt; Sterland & Whitaker: 'A Descriptive list of the Birds of Nottinghamshire', Mansfield, 1879, signed and inscribed from Whitaker to Arthur Henry Patterson, with further Autograph Letter Signed to Patterson from Whitaker loosely inserted, original cloth, manuscript titled erroneously to spine "List - Birds of Northamptonshire"; plus P.H. Emerson: 'Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland', 1895, 2nd issue, original pictorial cloth (VGC copy) (5)

Henry Stevenson & Thomas Southwell: 'The Birds of Norfolk', London & Norwich, 1866-1890, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Volume 1 inscribed presentation copy by the author to title page, portrait plate + 4 coloured plates + 4 tinted plates, ownership signature of Col. Edward A.E Bulwer (1864-1934) of Quebec House and Heydon Grange, Norfolk, to half title, Vol 1, plus some manuscript notes and annotations by him re numbers of Sand Grouse being shot, Virginian Quail nest found on Heydon Estate etc. Original cloth gilt, Vol 3 cloth worn and soiled and inner joints totally split. (3)

A manuscript students album of natural history observations and well executed watercolour sketches of flora and fauna dated 1901 and bearing the name Lillian Lees, 150+ pages of m/s entries in diary form and relating to excursions in the Lake District and Isle of Man, good number of well executed botanical watercolours throughout including Norway Maple, Groundsel, Pistillate Willow, Sorrel, Larch Rose, Pink Campion, Buttercup, Scorpion Grass etc, plus a few other watercolour sketches of butterflies, frogs, snakes etc, manuscript tables with monthly numbers of species of flora and fauna observed etc, original cloth, printed label to top board with manuscript details "Lillian Lees-Student-House of Education Ambleside Nature Diary"

John Aubrey: 'Monumenta Britannica, or A Miscellany of British Antiquities' edited John Fowles, annotated Rodney Legg, 1980-82, 1st edition, parts 1-3 and index in two volumes, limited edition of 595 subscription copies, first publication of the manuscript compiled by Aubrey mainly between the years 1665-1693, original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (2)

William Marwood, (1820-1883), public executioner, his "card" bearing inkstamp "Wm Marwood Executioner, Church Lane, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England." and with manuscript beneath "Given to C.H.S.P by W. Marwood in 1880". Born at Horncastle, Lincolnshire, in 1820, Marwood was by trade a cobbler, but turned his attention early to the subject of executions. He developed the more humane "long drop" technique of hanging, ensuring that the prisoners' neck was broken instantly at the end of the drop, undoubtedly kinder than the slow death by strangulation caused by the "short drop" method, which was particularly distressing to prison governors and staff required to witness executions at close distance following the abolition of public executions in 1868. In his nine years as a hangman, Marwood executed 178 people, among the more celebrated criminals whom he put to death were Charles Peace, Percy Lefroy Mapleton, Dr. Lamson, and Kate Webster. Card approx 5.5 x 8cm

A 1793 Poor Law Parish indenture for an apprenticeship in husbandry, Little Dorrington, Devon. At this time State support for poor children was controlled by the Act of 1601, which had placed the burden on each parish, requiring it to elect Overseers of the Poor with power to levy a local poor rate. For children, the simple solution was that the parish officials - the Overseers and the Churchwardens - had absolute power to decide whether parents could maintain their children and if not, the duty to remove the child to the care and cost of any parishioner they may select who in the officials' absolute opinion, fell within the categories of clergyman, gentleman, farmer or trader. The means to do so was this indenture, subject to the consent of the local justices of peace. Until 1816 there was no minimum age, (which was then fixed at nine), and unlike voluntary trade apprenticeships and despite the wording, there was no requirement to teach a trade. Printed and manuscript document with various signatures and wax seal, apporx size 21 x 33cm.

A circa late 18th/early 19th Century manuscript school child's exercise book, 72 pages of manuscript pen & ink mathematical based entries in neat copperplate handwriting, entries include interest, equation of payment, weights & measures, comparative arithmetic, geometrical progression, permutation etc., contemporary card wraps, later brown paper protective cover

A disbound manuscript receipt book circa 1891, 118 pages of manuscript cookery recipe entries, majority pen & ink but some in pencil, recipes include "Potage a la Rockaway", "Spanish Custard", "Chartreuse de Volaille a la Victoria", Brandy Snaps, Sponge fingers, Simnel cake, "Supreme of Pheasant a la Dijon", Shortbread, Gingerbread, Madeleines, Stuffed beef etc., etc., plus a small quantity of loose manuscript receipts and a couple of leaves of mounted contemporary printed, receipts, disbound, housed in packet

A 1930's snapshot photo album containing a good quantity of images depicting girl guides camps and girl guides posing, activities etc, compiled by an R.V. Stiles, 7th Cambridge Guide Company, together with an album of manuscript Girl Guides and other songs interspersed with mounted photos and postcards etc, also compiled by R.V Stiles, 111 m/s numbered pages and index of camps at end 1933-1939 including Felixstowe, Morecombelake, East Runton etc (2)

"Danske sange med guitar ledsagelse", an album of manuscript Danish songs 1870-1911, printed staffs throughout but 243 numbered pages of neat manuscript musical scores and accompanying lyrics, manuscript title page and 7 pages manuscript index, original half calf titled and monogrammed E.O. by the author in gilt, the authors name written on the title page but indecipherable (Edw. Orlved?) and a cabinet card portrait photo (presumably author) loosely inserted

George Orwell: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript', edited Peter Davison, London, Secker & Warburg, 1984, 1st edition, folio, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; plus a penguin paperback reprint of 'Animal Farm', 1959, original wraps (2)

A collection of 70+ books and booklets on The Gambia and West Africa, ex libris Sir Phillip Rodney Bridges (1922-2007) Chief Justice of the Gambia from 1968-1983, many with his ownership signatures and inscriptions/ book plates/ ink stamps to top page edges, plus nine volumes of typed selected judgements from the Supreme Court of the Gambia 1968-1982, each with Bridges' signature and manuscript title on top wrap and his manuscript indexes at front, three folders typed notes similar, books include Francis Bisset Archer: 'The Gambia Colony and Protectorate: An Official Handbook', London, St Bride's Press, [1905], 1st edition, port frontis and two folding maps and numerous illustrations throughout as called for, 364pp, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt; 1967 new impression of the same work, two folding maps, folding table and illustrations as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, Bridge's ownership ink stamp to dust wrapper, ownership signature and inscription to FFEP and book plate to front paste down; 'The Gambia Currency Board', bound volume containing First Issue of Currency Notes, 5th October, 1964, six bank notes mounted on printed card leaves, oblong, crushed green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in original printed envelope marked for Bridges; Gamble: 'Notes on Mandinka', Bathurst, 1949, original printed wraps; H.R. Palmer: 'The Carthaginian Voyage to West Africa in 500 B.C.', Bathurst, 1931, xiii, 51pp, original cloth backed boards; plus numerous others folktales, Mandingo Kingdoms of the Senegambia, Wolof language, Krio-English dictionary, Ornithology, West African Law, Atlas of Gold Coast, Acora, 1945, plus W. African folding map, 1966, Gambian History, religion etc, plus a packet containing a quantity of Gambian stamp covers, Sir Phillip Bridges served in the Royal Artillery circa 1940-46, was attached to the RWAFF and served with them in Burma, and fought in the Arakan campaign involving a five month journey crossing ten rivers. After military service he was posted to the Gambia as a lands officer, becoming Attorney General in 1964, he helped draft the Gambian constitution prior to independence in 1965, remaining in his post until 1968 being the only European in the Gambian cabinet after independence. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Gambia in 1968 and earned a reputation for fairness, tolerance and kindness. He retired to England in 1983 and died in December 2007 in Suffolk

(Diss Interest). Dr Thomas Amyot, of Diss; 'Verses and Ballads', Norwich, Goose, 1897, 3 illustrations as called for, manuscript family pedigree to FFEP by Stephen Govier, original paper covered boards gilt (worn); plus Douglas Pluck: 'The River Waveney, its Watermills and Navigation', Bungay, 1994 original cloth, dust wrapper (2)

IRAN - VISIT OF SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY AND LISTERVIK SISTERSIlluminated decorative presentation sheet, central rectangular panel (280 x 135mm.) with border ruled in red, blue and gold with large decorative ornament in upper section of all over design of trailing vines, flowers and petals in gold, pinks, reds and blues against a background of blue, signed beneath by Crown Prince Gustav, the future Gustav VI of Sweden, and his wife the Crown Princess Louise (née Mountbatten), the verso with 4-line border in red, gold and blue enclosing a manuscript quote from the Qur'an (chapter XLIII, part of verse 71) dated 13 dey 1312 (22 December 1933), above the signatures of Mahmud Djam (Iranian Prime Minister 1935-1939), his son Ferydoun Djam, and 2 others; beneath this a 3-line note expressing thanks (?possibly for those signed above) for the attention given to an unspecified matter, dated 25 farvardin 1313 (14 April 1934); and beneath the signatures of Swedish sisters Lisbeth and Greta Listervik dated 6 November 1938, window-mounted, framed and glazed, 322 x 215mm., 1930sFootnotes:An attractive illuminated sheet relating to the visit in 1934 of Crown Prince Gustav (later King Gustav VI) to Iran in 1934. A keen amateur archaeologist, the Prince visited Persepolis, where he was gifted two sculptural fragments from the Central Palace (now housed in the Museum of Antiquities, Stockholm). On the reverse it is signed by Mahmud Djam, future President of Iran beneath a verse from the Qu'ran. At a later date it was signed by Swedish sisters Lisbeth and Greta Listervik who, in May 1938, set out in a bid to walk around the world, hiking through Europe, Persia and India before finally arriving in Australia. Lisbeth published an account of the voyage, 'Jorden runt på alla fyra; systrarna Listerviks fotvandring runt världen, Stockholm, 1947.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHAMPLAIN (SAMUEL DE)Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, second issue with cancelled leaves D2-3 replacing the offensive passage regarding Richelieu, with inserted folding map of Canada by Champlain dated 1664, hand-coloured in outline, 6 large engravings in the text (2 full-page), woodcut map and one woodcut text diagram, numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials, light browning and foxing, some rust-marks to C3 at end, contemporary brown stained limp vellum, vellum spine label with manuscript title in ink (chipped), covers crinkled, remains of shelf label at foot of spine, preserved in cloth solander box with gilt lettered leather spine labels [Sabin 11839], 4to (226 x 162mm.), Paris, Claude Collet, 1632Footnotes:'LA PERE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE': the most complete edition of the Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), navigator, cartographer, explorer and founder of Quebec.A key figure in the history of Canada, Champlain crossed the Atlantic more than twenty times, founding Quebec and New France on 3 July 1608. From there, he explored the surrounding territory, allied himself with the Hurons and the Algonquins, and took part in the first Mass on the island of Montreal. He also created the first accurate coastal map during his explorations, and founded various colonial settlements.The work describes all of the preceding French expeditions to the New World as well as his own, with a history of Canada from 1619 to 1632. It also 'gives us the first accurate accounts we have of the Indians of the interior of the present State of New York. The most remarkable event in Indian history was caused by Champlain's first visit to the shores of the lake bearing his name. In a conflict between the two named races of savages, he gave the victory to his friends the Abnaquis, by the use of his musket. The Iroquois never forgave the injury, and thousands of Frenchmen were slaughtered to avenge it' (Thomas W. Field, An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography, 1991, no. 268).The present copy has a large hand-coloured map of Canada, drawn by Champlain in 1616 and printed by Pierre Duval in 1664, inserted in place of the 1632 map which is missing in most copies. The eight illustrations include a map, natives in war dress, a village attack, a hunting scene, native women, a religious ceremony and a funeral rite. The text is complete with the 8-page map table, the Traitté de la marine et du devoir d'un bon marinier, and the final De la Doctrine chrestienne du R.P. Ledesme, not found in some copies.Provenance: François de La Poterie, former librarian to Cardinal Jules Mazarin, ownership signature ('La Poterye') at foot of title-page; Seminary of Sainte Magloire, inscription recording Poterie's gift at head of title-page ('ex libris Oratorii Sammagloriani. Ex dono Domini de la Poterye'). Sainte Maglore, founded in 1618, was the only seminary in Paris during the seventeenth century, and was a fertile training ground for future bishops. In the eighteenth century it became an active hotbed of Jansenism and, during the Revolution, the state seminary of Paris; unidentified old red stamp on title and last 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

ZANZIBAR, MUSCAT AND RIGBYFRERE (HENRY BARTLE EDWARD) Autograph letter signed ('H.B.E. Frere'), to Christopher Palmer Rigby ('My dear Rigby') explaining that 'it occurred to me that a letter to Muscat' would be the best route to communicate with Rigby, asking for his news, and if he should have any shells ('Zanzibar is one of the localities named as likely to afford good ones'), 4 pages, in original envelope addressed to 'Capt. Rigby, Zanzibar, via Muscat', signed by Frere ('Commissioner in Sind'), line of text in Arabic, and illegible red ink postal stamp, noted in ink on verso 'Rcd 26 Novm./59 from Muscat', Kurachee [Karachi], 20 July 1859--COLQUHOUN (ROBERT GILMOUR, Consul-General in Egypt, 1859-1865) Autograph letter signed ('R.G. Colquhoun'), to Rigby ('My dear Rigby'), sympathising with his posting to 'such an out of the way place as Zanzibar', bemoaning the cost of living and poor company ('over run with Nile travellers') in Cairo, confirming that he'd given instructions 'to greet Capt. Speke & Grant on reaching the Egyptian frontier' but that John Petherick 'had charged to Gondokoro to meet them', gossiping about Petherick's 'Bucksome wife!' and in passing mentioning Samuel White Baker's 'charming little woman', 8 pages, 8vo, Alexandria, 20 July 1861--'Letter from Zanzibar Envoys inviting me to come to Langham Hotel and Receive £200 - 1868', written in Arabic, one page, in original envelope with Arabic address [with note in English above], Langham Hotel headed paper, [1868]; and 2 others, one a manuscript announcement of Rigby's departure from Zanzibar as published in Hansard (15 July 1861), the other a letter from a Mr. Churchill in Cape Town that he will be delivering to Rigby a Sword of Honour on behalf of the Sultan of Zanzibar, 8 pages, in original envelope, 18 May 1869 (5)Footnotes:Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DEVEREUX (WILLIAM COPE)A Cruise in the Gorgon, or, Eighteen Months on H.M.S. Gorgon, engaged in the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa, including a Trip up the Zambesi with Dr Livingstone, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'C.P. Rigby from the author' on the title-page, half-title, hand-coloured folding engraved map 'showing the Seat of the Slave Trade at Zanzibar', a few names added in manuscript (identifying persons only noted by their initials in the printed text, one being Rigby), one gathering working loose, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed [Czech, p.48], 8vo, Bell and Daldy, 1869Footnotes:A fine association copy gifted by Devereux to C.P. Rigby, British Consul at Zanzibar from 1858-61, at the time that the H.M.S. Gorgon undertook its mission to suppress the slave trade on the East coast of Africa. The ship stopped twice at Zanzibar (chapters 7 and 23), the author noting that here 'especially Englishmen are appreciated... thanks to Colonel Rigby, H.M.'s Consul, who, during a residence of three years, not only did much improve the morale of the place, but emancipated no less than 8000 slaves with his own hand' (Devereux, p.115).Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885), inscription noting gifted from the author.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

FREZIER (AMÉDÉE FRANÇOIS)A Voyage to the South-Sea, and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714... with a Postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley, first edition in English, title printed in red and black, 37 engraved maps, charts and plates (many folding), by J. Senex, J.B. Scotin, N. Guérard and others after Frézier, some spotting, contemporary panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, spine cracked and crudely repaired at joints, rubbed [Borba de Moraes I, p.329; Hill 654; Nissen ZBI 1433; Sabin 25926], 4to, Jonah Bowyer, 1717Footnotes:'This first English translation contains the same engravings as the French original [1716], but is preferred to the latter because it contains a postscript by Edmund Halley... which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier' (Hill).Provenance: R. Roredin, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, with additional manuscript index added on final blank.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

RIGBY (CHRISTOPHER PALMER)Manuscript autobiographical journal covering his family history, career in Persia, Zanzibar and India, travels in Europe, and other important family events, INCLUDING A LETTER TO HIM FROM THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR, and additional materials relating to Rigby's relations with the explorer Richard Burton, in ink, approximately 400 pages (360 by Rigby, 40 by his son Gerard Christopher), the letter from Majid bin Said of Zanzibar ('written to me by the Sultan Sayid... in his own hand writing, during the rebellion of the tribes', in colloquial Arabic, in highly cursive hand, dated Ramadan 1277/ A.D. 1860-61), a 4-page letter written to Rigby announcing the discovery at the Royal Asiatic Society archives in Bombay of Richard Burton's field and sketch books (dated 6 February 1865), a duplicate of the document signed by H.C.L. Anderson, Chief Secretary of the Bombay Government, authorising Rigby to instigate his plans to suppress the slave trade (10 November 1860), several newspaper cuttings, and two obituaries pasted or tipped-in, front free endpaper loose, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., rubbed with a few scuffmarks, small folio; and a small bundle of other materials relating to Christopher Palmer Rigby, and his family (small quantity)Footnotes:'WE RECEIVED NEWS THAT A POWERFUL FLEET WAS BEING EQUIPPED BY SAYID THOWENEE OF SULTAN OF MUSCAT FOR THE INVASION OF ZANZIBAR': vividly written autograph memoir of Christopher Palmer Rigby, produced for the benefit of his children. Born in Hampshire in 1820, Rigby's early years were ones of Dickensian misery, consisting of neglect at home ('I never remember during my whole childhood the slightest caress or affection from her [his mother]... I always dreaded his [father's] return knowing the beating in store for me...'), then from the age of eight three years without a holiday at a school in Yorkshire reminiscent of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby ('each morning the Master went round the boys' bed rooms with a birch rod and severely flogged any of the little boys who had wetted their beds...'). In 1834, aged fourteen, he joined the Military College, and in 1836 he was posted to India, attached to the 5th Regiment Native Infantry at Poona, beginning an extraordinary career in Colonial service. Due to his language skills (he was fluent in Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Mahratta, Canarese and Guzeratti) he rose quickly, becoming by the 1850s Superintendent of the Revenue Survey in Deccan, then in 1857 Superintendent of Police with the Field Expeditionary Force which captured Bushire [Bushehr, modern-day Iran], which 'I certainly never expected to leave alive'. Forming a police force from local Persians he instigated a ban on alcohol, and freed all slaves. He also undertook to prevent the local Jewish and Armenian women from being abused in the street, by procuring 'the disguise of a Persian lady - high yellow boots, loose trousers, and Yashmuk covering the body - I mixed with a party of Armenian ladies, and followed by two of my police in disguise with a rope and cat'o'nine tails, strolled through the main street. Any Persian using insulting language found himself suddenly seized from behind, tied up the nearest door post, & punished with 2 dozen lashes...'. The core of the narrative relates to his posting, from July 1858 to September 1861, as H.M. Consul to Zanzibar and Muscat, during which time he received the explorers Richard Burton, John Speke and John Grant; he also tried, found guilty and hung the murderers of Dr. Roscher, and suppressed an insurrection undertaken by the Sultan of Zanzibar's brothers, Barghash and Thuwaini, who 'had collected an armed force of fanatical Arabs from Oman and the Persian Gulf' (Royal Geographical Society, obituary of Rigby, June 1885). This force was intercepted at sea and as Rigby succinctly noted 'invited under threat of force to return to Muscat'. Rigby's successful attempts to convince the Sultan to help end the slave trade, not just amongst Arabic traders, but also 'British subjects residing in the Zanzibar dominions... in the habit of buying and selling Africans as slaves', are obviously one of the author's proudest achievements: '...The sight of one of the wealthiest and most influential Hindoo merchants being marched through the town in irons for refusing to emancipate his slaves caused very great excitement... these methods soon began to produce effect...'. Prior to his retirement, Rigby spent three years from 1864 back in India undertaking negotiations of various boundary disputes between neighbouring princely rulers, whilst continuing his fight against slavery, this time at Kutch and Kattiawar. At the end of the album Rigby's son Gerard has pasted in obituaries of his father, and transcribed 'notes and copies of letters from my father's papers referring to the case of Sir R. Burton', this relating to the statements contained in Burton's The Lake Regions of Central Africa in which he maliciously accused Rigby of carelessness in his duties as Consul. Writing in 1923, the centenary of Burton's birth, Gerard is scathing of his 'Celebrity', elaborates on his serious defects of character' and sets the record straight 'for the information of my father's descendants'. Other materials in the lot include: four diary journals written during Rigby's extensive travels through Europe (Hungary, Poland, Russia, as well as more traditional 'Grand Tour' destinations) during his furlough period from service in Persia and Africa; his daily diary for 1883, mentioning regular visits to the Geographical Society, Anti-slavery Society, the Rio Tinto Company, Royal Academy Exhibition ('very poor'), auctions at Bonhams and Phillips, etc.; a group of letters to Rigby, including from his father (7, c.1853-1855), General Outram relating to Persia (1857), Henry Rawlinson on Geographical Society matters (1872); and miscellaneous items relating to family history.Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).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

RIGBY (CHRISTOPHER PALMER)Album containing manuscript copy documents relating to appointments, promotions, correspondence with other officials, approximately 23 documents on different stock papers, [c.1843-1861]; 8-page letterpress reports relating to the capture of Bushire [Bushehr] by the British Expeditionary Force, [1856]; Broadside of the 'Monthly Meteorological Table for the Station of Zanzibar', 1850; long 3-column newspaper cutting ('Trade of Zanzibar') by Rigby, 1860; two letters in Arabic (one dated 26 June 1861, mentioning the port of Bombay, 310 x 178mm.; one, gold-sprinkled, from unnamed person to unnamed addressee, announcing that he had arrived at the port of Surat [Gujerat] and four days later, the wife of Mir 'Ali Akbar Khan daughter of Nawwab Qamar al-Dawlah had died, also thanking the recipient for sending the second volume of the Rawdat al-Safa, 400 x 195mm., [?mid-nineteenth century], most pasted into album, a few loose, nineteenth century half vellum over marbled boards, folio, [c.1843-1861]; together with 2 carte-de-visite portrait photographs, one depicting Rigby in ceremonial dress with sword, the other of two English children in 'Arabic' dress (3)Footnotes:Album containing Rigby's retained manuscript copies of important official correspondence relating to his career, from passing Arabic language exams for the Bombay Colonial Office (1843), thanks from the Magistrate and Collector of Khandehar for his report on the Akranee Purzunnah region of India (1849), appointment as Bazaar Master to the British Expeditionary Force to engage 'in the Persian Gulf' (1856), an account of the campaign at Bushehr (1857), recommendations from H.L. Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay (1858), and acknowledging receipt of Rigby's account of 'the rebellion of [sultan] Syed Burghash' (1859), and from Brigadier Coghlan, of the Muscat Zanzibar Commission thanking Rigby for helping with his visit to Zanzibar (1860).Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).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

CONTINENTAL DOCUMENTS: group of 9 items, including French manuscript on vellum dated 1645: unaddressed ALS from widow of General Hoche, 1816: 16pp handwritten document, Rouen 1774, four Revenue stamps and several signatures; and others. (9)

RAILWAY EPHEMERA: collection of approx 10 items, railway ephemera, to include: manuscript agreement relating to Trent Valley railway, folded: printed prospectus for London, Oxford & Cheltenham railway, 1846 (2 copies): The Railway Times, 2 issues, 1852, disbound: report from the select committee on railway bills, 7 June 1847, old folds, etc. (10)

CANAL MAP, POSTED, 1830: 'Sketch of the Canals Lanarkshire Railways Firth of Forth & River Clyde shewing the intended railway from the harbour of Glasgow to connect the same...' engraved by Kirkwood & Son, Edinburgh, 1829: copper engraved map utilised as letter entire, approx 24.5 x 38cm, some hand-colouring and few manuscript amendments, folded and postally used, addressed to 'His Grace The Duke of Hamilton at Hotel d'Alberg, Paris, Feb 12th 1830', short note in ink from sender J. Montgomery Cunningham, Geneva, wax seal, one edge torn with portion of loss, some browning. (1)

19TH CENTURY LETTERS & MANUSCRIPT: collection of approx 35 items, 19th century and a few later, letters and manuscript extracts, to include ALS from Bishop Stanley to J W Jenkins, April 29 1863 touching on the health of the army in India: other letters from Sir John Lubbock, Sir Robert Montgomery: Viscount Edward Cardwell: Sir Edward George Clarke, and others. (Small quantity)

SHIPS TONNAGE, MANUSCRIPT LOG: manuscript log of tonnage notes, approx 300pp, detailed entries and diagrams for numerous ships, related ephemera and blueprints loosely inserted, circa 1900, contained in ruled blue paper log of period, boards heavily worn and spine deficient, contents generally sound. (1)

MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY: collection of approx 18 items, manuscripts on paper, 17th to early 19th century, documents, letters and fragments, English and Continental. (Small quantity)

MANUSCRIPTS, 17TH-18TH CENTURY: group of 6 items, to include letter entire dated 25.7.1714, addressed to one Edward Rooper 'at the Golden Ball over against the Royall Exchange, Cornhill...': manuscript order in Dutch from William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, 1700: with other letters and documents. (6)

LETTERS, SIGNATURES, MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY: a collection of over 45 items, largely 19th and early 20thc, to include ALS from historian Henry Thomas Buckle: freefront in hand of Sir John Malcolm: short ALS from Lord Essex, mounted: mounted portion of letter from Lord Lonsdale, 1822: and others similar. (A bundle)

KENT: 'The History and Antiquities of Maidstone, the County-Town of Kent...from the manuscript collections of William Newton...', London, printed for the author, 1741: 8vo, recent quarter calf, light sunning to spine and scattered foxing, else VG: RUSSELL (J M): 'The History of Maidstone...', Maidstone, William S Vivish, 1881: 8vo, contemp half morocco, light wear and sunning: with 2 other vols, including a disbound Maidstone guide of 1839. (4)

MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY: a group of approx 27 items, largely 19thc ALS from nobility, churchmen, politicians and others. (Sm. quantity)

MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS, 17TH & 18THC: a group of 6, to include 34 line witness account of an assault following trespass, Ashford area, signed John Dodd, ?1632: James II exchequer receipt, 1687: statement of costs for vessel 'The London', 1790-91: order for receiving into store '5 chests containing paper cartridges' to Major Samuel Cleveland, Fort St Davids, 10th Feb 1748, and others. (6)

HORSE RACING: a collection of 19 form books with manuscript entries, yearly volumes 1960s-80s, detailed entries: together with a quantity of related books over 2 shelves, approx 44 vols including 'Dams of Winners' (6 vols covering 1915-1984), F A Cook's 'History of the English Turf', 2 vols, etc, some vols with wear but generally in good condition. (Quantity)

MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY: collection of ALS and cut signatures, to include 2 side letter from conductor and tenor Thomas Simpson Cooke, 16 June 1842: ALS from Theodore Martin, 1880: Forbes Robertson, actor: Anne Humby, actress, mid-19thc: and others, to include lengthy 4 page letter entire addressed to Mrs Augustus Hare. (Small quantity)

PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT EPHEMERA: a bundle, to include typescript valuations of pictures in the Macclesfield Museum, 1915: signature of Andrey Vyshinsky, 23.11.1943, to reverse of card for Yarkon Hotel, Tel Aviv: 19thc release document on vellum: printed certificate of recommendation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, made out for Rev. Dr James Parker, 1769: and others. (A bundle)

NAVAL ORDERS: collection of 3 late 18th century manuscript naval orders, variable condition, together with a damaged printed example, laid down and with losses. (4)