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Pamphlets. A collection of approximately 70 pamphlets relating to politics & current affairs etc., mostly 18th & early 19th century, including: 1. Clinton (Henry). Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. relative to his conduct during part of his command of the King's Troops in North America; Particularly to that which respects the unfortunate issue of the Campaign in 1781. With an Appendix, containing copies and extracts of those parts of his correspondence with Lord George Germain, Earl Cornwallis, Rear Admiral Graves, &c..., London: J. Debrett, 1783, [2],115,[1]pp., disbound 8vo, 2. Priestley (Joseph). An Appeal to the Public, on the subject of the Riots in Birmingham, Part II. To which is added, a letter from W. Russell, Esq. to the Author, London: J. Johnson, 1792, [28],210pp., disbound 8vo, 3. [Douglas, John]. Six letters from A--d B--r [Archibald Bower] to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England; illustrated with several remarkable facts, tending to ascertain the authenticity of the said letters, and the true character of the writer, London: J. Morgan, 1756, [2],101,[1]pp., edges untrimmed, side stitched as issued, 8vo, 4. [Corbett, Thomas]. An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily, in the Years 1718, 1719 and 1720. Under the Command of Sir George Byng, Bart. (Afterwards Viscount Torrington) Admiral and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Fleet; and His Majesty's Commissary and Plenipotentiary to the several Princes and States of Italy. Collected from the Admiral's Manuscripts, and other Original Papers, London: J. and R. Tonson, 1739, [8],216pp., folding table, disbound 8vo, 5. [Sherlock, Thomas]. A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on Occasion of the late Earthquakes, London: printed by Vertue and Goadby, Stationers, of the Royal Exchange, for the Subscribers, 1750, 16pp., manuscript number to upper margin of title, some spotting and marks, disbound 8vo, 6. Pulteney (William). Memoirs of the life and conduct of William Pulteney, Esq : Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Heydon in Yorkshire ... To which, as an ornament, is annex'd, a particular and concise account of his political writings, London: J. Dix, 1731, 39[1]pp., few marks to title, disbound 4to, 7. [Morris, Corbyn]. A Letter from a By-stander to a Member of Parliament: Wherein is Examined what Necessity there is for the Maintenance of a Large Regular Land-Force in this Island, London: J. Roberts, 1741, 114,[2]pp., final blank present, edges untrimmed, disbound 8vo, and other 18th & 19th century pamphlets etc., mostly disbound 8vo & 4toQty: (a small carton)

Buckinghamshire. [Sammelband of enclosure acts], 18th-19th century, comprising: 1. An Act for Inclosing and Dividing the Common Fields, Wastes, and Uninclosed Grounds, within the Manor, Township, or Hamlet of Ashenden, [1738], 11 [1] pp., ESTC T64014 (5 copies world-wide), 2. An Act for Dividing and Inclosing the Open and Common Fields ... within the Parish of Aston Abbots, 1795, 30 [2] pp., ESTC T79709 (3 copies), 3. [...] Aston Clinton, 1813/14, 35 [1] pp., 4. [...] Aylesbury, 1771, 28 [2] pp., ESTC T69758 (3 copies), 5. [...] Bierton and Hulcot, 1779, 42 [2] pp., ESTC T76911 (3 copies), 6. [...] Chearsley, 1805, 22 [2] pp., 7. [...] Steeple Claydon, 1795, 29 [1] pp., ESTC T79142 (2 copies), 8. [...] Drayton Parslow, 1794, 33 [1] pp., ESTC T80922 (2 copies), 9. [...] Maidsmorton [...] Gawcott and Prebend-End, 1801, pp. 34 [2], 10. [...] North Marston, 1778, 36 [2] pp., ESTC T74826 (4 copies), 11. [...] Moulsoe, 1802, 12 [2] pp., 12. ]...] Mursley, 1812/13, 31 [1] pp., 13. [...] Padbury, 1795, 28 [2] pp., ESTC T79136 (4 copies), 14. [...] Preston-Bissett, 1781, 39 [1] pp., ESTC T75618 (1 copy). 15. [...] Turweston, 1812/13, 23 [1] pp., 16. [...] Waddesdon, 1774, 26 [2] pp., ESTC T28131 (4 copies), 17. [...] Wendover, 1794, 37 [1] pp., ESTC T77955 (3 copies), 18. [...] Weston Turville, 1798, 37 [1], ESTC T83180 (3 copies), each with typographic or woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title to final page, contemporary manuscript annotations (usually providing the date), faint transverse undulation throughout volume from folding at point of issue, most acts with concomitant dust-soiling and abrasions to final page (blank but for docket-title), a few other marks, 19th-century half sheep, rebacked, folio (32 x 19.5 cm), together with a volume of printed and manuscript notices, orders, summons and similar, apparently compiled for reference of Wootton Hundred (North Division) petty sessions, Oxfordshire, c.1830-40, 218 pp. (a few broadsides and manusript memoranda laid in), folioQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: David R. Wilson (1926-2020), bookseller and secretary of the British Trust for Ornithology.

Fittler (James, & John Claude Nattes). Scotia Depicta; or the Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, illustrated in a Series of Finished Etchings by James Fittler, from Accurate Drawings made on the Spot by John Claude Nattes, 1st edition, London: printed by T. Bensley, and published by W. Miller [and others], [1801]-1804, etched additional title-page, letterpress title-page, preface leaf, list of subscribers with contents verso, 48 etched plates each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, etched 'finispiece' including text, all bound in along top edge (the work issued in oblong folio format), light spotting to additional title-page, description leaf for plate 40 browned, contemporary diced russia gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, folio (40.4 x 27 cm), together with: [Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of]. Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland taken in MDCCCV, 1st edition, [London?: privately printed], 1807, 27 pp., half-title, etched title-page, 28 etched plates (a few with multiple images), etched vignettes in text, toning, occasional spotting, without portrait noted in some copies but apparently not called for, top edge gilt, later half morocco, folio (36.6 x 25.2 cm), Drummond (James). Sculptured Monuments in Iona and the West Highlands, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for the Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1881, numbered 54 on half-title, 99 tinted lithographic plates, lithographic title-vignette, top edge gilt, contemporary green quarter morocco, vellum tips, joints rubbed, folio (36.4 x 25.2 cm), Gordon (Sir Robert, of Gordonstoun, Bart). A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland, from its Origin to the Year 1630. With a Continuation to the Year 1651. Published from the Original Manuscript, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company, 1813, half-title, 3 engraved plates including frontispiece, plates offset, armorial plate damp-stained at foot, bookplate of the Earl of Zetland (earl's coronet with motto 'essayez'), top edge gilt, later 19th-century half morocco gilt, a few holes to front joint, folio (44.2 x 26.2 cm) White (Thomas Pilkington). Archaeological Sketches in Scotland. District of Kintyre, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873, 53 lithographic plates, map, text-leaves partly unopened, top edge gilt, later maroon quarter morocco, folio (38 x 26.4 cm)Qty: (5)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS

Harvie-Brown (John Alexander, editor). [A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland, extra-illustrated part set], 8 works in 9 volumes, 1st editions, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887-1904, comprising: A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty; The Outer Hebrides; Iona and Mull; The Orkney Islands; Argyll and the Outer Hebrides; The Moray Basin [in 2 volumes]; The Shetland Islands; The North-West Highlands and Skye, pictorial title-pages (some photographic), all plates and maps as called for, all volumes except Iona and Mull profusely extra-illustrated with contemporary original photographs (including albumen prints of which many signed in the negative by John Valentine or George Washington Wilson, gelatin silver prints, and platinum prints), together with other bound-in material including manuscript indices of extra illustrations, a few autograph letters (including Alfred Newton to 'My dear Buckley', probably T. E. Buckley, dated 15 December 1899, at rear of Shetland Islands), publisher's specimen pages, and mounted press cuttings, bookplates of M. Serjeantson, inner dentelles gilt, top edges gilt, contemporary red full morocco gilt by R. H. Porter, 8vo (22.1 x 14.8 cm)Qty: (9)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Mullens & Swann p. 282 (all works); Wood pp. 379 (Sutherland, Outer Hebrides, Argyll, Moray Basin and North-West Highlands and Skye), 366 (Iona and Mull), 267 (Orkney), 335 (Shetland). '[Harvie-Brown's] contributions to ornithological science are literally legion ... His greatest work, however, and the one that will form an imperishable monument to his name, is the series of volumes on the vertebrate fauna of Scotland, most of which were written either by himself, or in collaboration with other ornithologists' (Mullens & Swann). The other works in the series were The Tay Basin and Strathmore (1906), The Tweed Area (1911) and Forth (1935); the projected accounts of the Clyde and Solway areas do not seem to have materialised.

Bristol. Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 28 mixed issues, 5 May 1759 - 7 August 1802, together with The Bristol Journal, 7 mixed issues, 12 March 1763 - 19 November 1768, and Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal, 13 mixed issues, 10 February 1781 - 6 March 1790, each newspaper with central horizontal fold, few torn, folio, together with: Ibid., An Account of the Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and Public Schools, in Bristol, Bristol: H. Farley for T. Mills, 1775, title torn to lower half and provided in manuscript, many leaves torn and crudely repaired, dust-soiled, later wrappers, slim 4to, Ibid., The New History, Survey and Description of the City and Suburbs of Bristol, or Complete Guide..., Bristol: W. Matthews, 1794, old inscription to title, initial leaves detached, dust-soiled, disbound 8vo, Beddoes (Thomas & Watt, James), Considerations on the Medicinal use, and on the Production of Factitious Airs, 2nd edition, Bristol: Bulgin & Rosser for J. Johnson, 1795, 5 folding engraved plates some torn with loss, ownership signature to title, dust-soiled, disbound 8vo, Bristol, The Bristol Memorialist, Bristol: William Tyson, 1823, two folding engraved plans, some offsetting, toned, edges untrimmed, modern cloth-backed boards, 8vo, and other Bristol related, mostly 19th & 20th century publicationsQty: (2 cartons)

* Needham (Joseph). To the Directors of the Cornwall & South Devon Railways, This View of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, constructed from Wrought Iron from the designs of I. K. Brunel Esqre. F. R. S. is most respectfully inscribed by the Publisher, J. Heydon, Devonport, printed Day & Son, circa 1860, lithograph after C. A. Scott with contemporary hand colouring, dimensions of the bridge to either side of the title, very slight spotting, three repaired wormholes, 295 x 435 mm, mounted, together with Leslie (B. after). [Royal Albert Bridge General View of the Works from Cornwall Side Saltash], October 1854, lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, frayed and chipped with loss, laid on later card, manuscript title added to mount, 375 x 560 mm, mounted, with Newman (John & Co.). Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash on the Tamar, I. W. N. Keys, Plymouth, circa 1854, lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, 260 x 350 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (3)NOTESThe Royal Albert Bridge spans the River Tamar between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. Its unique design consists of two 455-foot lenticular iron trusses 100 feet above the water, with conventional plate-girder approach spans, with a total length of 2,187.5 feet. It carries the Cornish Main Line railway in and out of Cornwall. The bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and construction commenced in 1854. The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. Brunel died later that year and his name was then placed above the portals at either end of the bridge as a memorial.

Gladstone (Hugh S.). The Birds of Dumfriesshire, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1910, half-title, 24 halftone plates, folding map, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco, 8vo (21.2 x 14 cm), number 1 of 350 copies only, together with: Gray (Robert). [Sammelband of 20 ornithological papers and obituaries], c.1880, mainly offprints, possibly compiled by the author, and including The Great Auk (Alca Impennis), Edinburgh: printed by Neill & Co., 1880 (17 pp., 2 photolithographic plates), The Birds of Arran: Glasgow: Bell and Bain, 1872 (27 pp.), manuscript title-page (dated 1883) and contents leaf, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5 cm), ibid. The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1st edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, 1871, half-title, 15 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece, Bodleian Library stamp (cancelled) to title-page and p. 7, contemporary half calf, 8vo (21.4 x 13.2 cm) Macgillivray (William). The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar. Edited by Edwin Lankester, 1st edition, London: printed for private circulation, 1855, wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 plate, 2 folding maps, without dedication leaf, all edges gilt, contemporary red full morocco, 8vo (21.4 x 12.8 cm), Edmonston (Arthur). Observations on the Nature and Extent of the Cod Fishery, carried on off the Coasts of the Zetland and Orkney Islands, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for William Laing, 1820, pp. 38 [2], title-page browned, modern quarter leather, 8vo (21 x 21.5 cm) and 13 others, Scottish natural history, 19th and early-20th century, leather-bound, 8voQty: (18)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Mullens & Swann pp. 233 (Gladstone), 251 (Gray, Birds of the West of Scotland), 371-2 (MacGillivray); Wood pp. 360 (Gladstone), 368 (Gray, Birds of the West of Scotland), 446 (MacGillivray). MacGillivray's work was completed shortly before his death, after which the manuscript was purchased by Queen Victoria and 'printed at her command' (Wood).

Hockney (David). Secret Knowledge, Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, large 4to, together with; Pope-Hennessy (John), Paradiso, The Illuminations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Giovanni Di Paolo, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 1993, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, minor tear to head of the spine, large 4to, and Kren (Thomas & Scot McKendrick), The Renaissance, the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original wrappers, large 8vo, plus other art reference & related, some foreign language, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)

* Charles II (1630-1685), King of England, Scotland (1649-51) and Ireland 1660-85). Document Signed, ‘Charles R’, as King, Court at Whitehall, 13 June 1672, manuscript document addressed to the Attorney General, being a warrant for John Richards to be one of the Clerks of the Privy Seal 'next & immediately after the determination of Our Grants now in being to Hartgill Baron, Sr. Charles Bickerstaffe Knt., John Mathews & Thomas Watkins, Clerks of Our Privy Seale in possession, or any one of them, & ye same to execute by himself or his Sufficient Deputy, for & during his naturall life together with all offices, wages, Diets, profits & Priviledges to the said Offices or either of them, belonging or any wise appertaining, in as full & ample manner, to all intents & purposes, as the now Clerks of Our Privy Seale hold & enjoy….’, fine signature of the King at the head and countersigned at the foot by Henry Bennet (1618-1685, 1st Earl of Arlington, English Statesman, Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1662-74), some light age wear and minor dust staining at the folds, one page with integral blank leaf, folioQty: (1)

* Wells (Percy, fl. 1909-34), Head of Cabinet Making at the LCC Shoreditch Technical Institute. An archive of letters, photographs, drawings and printed matter relating to Arts and Crafts designer Percy Wells, c. 1900/1930s, including 10 sheets of sketches by Wells of church details at Long Melford, Kersey and Lavenham, plus 5 sheets of rubbings of incised oak made by Wells with his notes, a sketchbook of over 100 leaves, largely filled with pencil sketches and designs, ownership signature at front, contemporary quarter calf, worn, small 4to (23 x 18 cm), together with: a group of approximately 25 letters, mostly to Wells in connection with his work and teaching, writers include Ambrose Heal (2), Harry Hems (2), May Morris (on Kelmscott Manor letterhead), Selwyn Image, Gordon Russell, Harry Hems (2), Ernest Betjeman, Herbert Batsford, etc., plus a group of approximately 60 photographs, mostly showing single items of furniture, presumably designed by Percy Wells, plus a collection of printed items including a copy of Wells's book, Furniture for Small Houses, Batsford, [1920?], with presentation inscription for F.H.W. 'from the author, June 1920' to front free endpaper, original cloth, rubbed, large 8vo, plus other assorted pamphlets, press reviews, cuttings, etc., the collection partly contained in an old portfolio with manuscript label to upper coverQty: (a carton)NOTESBiographical information on Percy A. Wells (1867-1956) is surprisingly sketchy and this archive will help expand on those details.

Low (George). A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland. Containing Hints relative to their Ancient, Modern and Natural History collected in 1774, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879, half-title, 2 plates including frontispiece, folding map (with closed tear at intersection of folds), contemporary purple half calf gilt, 8vo (21.7 x 13.6 cm), together with: Dennison (Walter Traill). The Orcadian Sketch-Book, being Traits of Old Orkney Life written partly in the Orkney Dialect, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1880, gilt edges, contemporary blue morocco gilt, 8vo (18.4 x 11.9 cm), Malcolm (John). Poems, Tales and Sketches, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, [1878?], half-title, top edge gilt, contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo (18.2 x 11.8 cm), Webster (David). The History of the Kirkwall United Presbyterian Congregation, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1910, half-title, 21 halftone plates, browning to text-leaves adjacent to plates, contemporary green half calf, uneven fading to covers, 8vo (21.6 x 13.3 cm), Vedder (David). Orcadian Sketches; Legendary and Lyrical Pieces, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1832, half-title (with ink-stamp), untrimmed, original cloth, rebacked and relined, 8vo (18.5 x 11 cm), and 3 others, including James Athearn Jones, Conirdan: or, the St. Kildians. A Moral Tale, 1st edition, 1817 (half-title discarded, spotting and soiling, I6-7 torn with loss), a sammelband of papers and extracts on Orkney and Shetland (bookplate of W. Balfour Stewart, manuscript index, 20th-century half morocco gilt, spine-title 'Orkney and Shetland Antiquities', 4to), and Walter Scott, The Pirate, 3 volumes, 1822 (lacking at least volume 1 title-page)Qty: (10)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Freeman 2324 (Low); Mullens & Swann p. 362 (Low).

[Morgan, Thomas, attrib.]. Leycesters Common-Wealth: Conceived, spoken and published with most earnest protestation of all dutifull good will and affection towards this Realm ..., 1641, bound with Leycesters Ghost, 1641, blank facing title with tipped-in engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester by W. Marshall, a few minor spots, preliminary blank with ink manuscript notes and extract from a sale catalogue with 'Maggs 1958' added in pencil, armorial bookplate 'Kennet of the Dene' with ink manuscript 'Wayland emit MCMXLIV' to top margin, 19th century calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, decorative gilt roll to turn-ins, somewhat rubbed, front joint cracked, small 4to, together with: Jefferies (Richard), Bevis, the Story of a Boy, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882, half-title to volume 1 (as issued), some toning, scarce light spotting, each volume with armorial bookplate 'Kennet of the Dene', front free endpapers repaired with chips, that to volume 1 with embossed W.H. Smith library stamp, volume 1 rear free endpaper detached, hinges cracked, original green pictorial cloth, extremities a trifle worn, spines darkened, some marks and stains, 8vo, plus: Trollope (Anthony), He Knew He Was Right, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Strahan and Company, 1869, black & white plates and illustrations by Marcus Stone, half-titles, some minor spotting (mainly at front and rear), stitching strained, hinges cracked, original blind-stamped green cloth, worn, 8vo, with: Carroll (Lewis), Sylvie and Bruno [and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded], 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 [1893], black & white frontispieces and illustrations, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed with some minor marks, darkened spines with some fraying to ends (Concluded chipped at head), 8voQty: (8)NOTESFirst item: ESTC R200977. Second item: Sadleir 1305. Third item: Wolff 6780. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded: first edition first issue, with error in table of contents (chapter 8 incorrectly listed at page 110).

* George III Common Recovery. A vellum deed for the recovery of land in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, by John Warner against John Berry, Westminster, 13 May 1793, engraved heading and decorative borders with portrait of George III within capital initial upper left, red-ruled and written in a neat hand, some soiling and a little loss of legibility of a few words in final lines, 68 x 85 cm, wax Great Seal appended, rubbed and repaired with wax where previously cracked and broken, together with a related deed dated 18 April 1793, being a release for suffering a recovery of a messuage with the appurtenances in Chipping Campden and for declaring the use thereof to John Warner, the purchaser, from Thomas Whatcott to John Berry, manuscript on two stitched membranes with three red wax seals and signatures of Thomas Whatcott, Alice Whatcott and John Berry to lower margin, 59 x 74 cmQty: (2)NOTESThe second document identifies John Warner as 'watchmaker', a descendant of earlier celebrated members of the Warner family of clockmakers from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire.

Wilkins (John). Mathematical Magick: or, The Wonders that may be performed by Mechanichal [sic] Geometry. In two books. Concerning Mechanical Powers. Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful (and yet most neglected) part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language, London: Edw. Gellibrand, 1680, [14], 295, [1] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece a little frayed to margins and repair to verso, engraved illustrations and woodcut diagrams, title and following three leaves with tear hole to gutter margin (leaves A2-A5), cancel leaves E1 and K8, early manuscript and over-drawing to verso of E6 with some show through, dust-soiling and spotting, few leaves sprung and frayed to edges, later front endpaper, contemporary mottled sheep, joints cracking, spine and board corners worn, 8vo (Wing W2200, the first edition was published in 1648), together with: Potter (John), A System of Practical Mathematics: Containing Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots; Multiplication of Feet, Inches, and Parts; the Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, and all Sorts of Artificers Work..., London: printed for the author and sold by E. Comyns, Mess. Heath & Wing, and S. Parvish, 1753, [10], viii, 395, [137] pp., with an initial advertisement leaf for Elements of Algebra by Nathaniel Hammond (torn to upper outer blank corner), endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo (ESTC T95991), Euclid, The Elements of Euclid: with select theorems out of Archimedes. By the Learned Andrew Tacquet. To which are added, Practical Corollaries, shewing the Uses of many of the Propositions. By William Whiston, M. A. Mr. Lucas’s Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge. In this Eighth Edition is added an Appendix of Practical Geometry, with Forty New Figures, and a Brief and Independent Demonstration of certain Select and most useful Propositions. By S. F. [Samuel Fuller, schoolmaster and printer to the Society of Friends in Dublin], Dublin: I. Jackson, 1753, 288 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece (the first of the preliminary leaf is the frontispiece which forms part of the first gathering), title & 2nd part title with engraved illustration, six folding engraved diagrams, some spotting, toning & dust-soiling, modern half calf, 8vo (ESTC N31622), Euclid, Elementa Euclidea Geometriae Planae ac Solidae; et selecta ex Archimede Theoremata, quibus accedit Trigonometria, auctore Andrea Tacquet. Novissimam hanc editionem adornavit... & addidit Gulielmus Whiston, Amsterdam: apud Petrum de Coup 1725, title in red & black and with engraved illustration (with few scattered green paint/ink splashes), seven folding engraved diagrammatic plates, early manuscript note to upper pastedown, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, 8vo, and other 18th & 19th century mathematics relatedQty: (24)

Gale (Thomas). Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae, Scriptores XV..., 2 volumes, Oxford: e Theatro Shelsoniano, 1691/1687, half-title to volume 1 with early signature E. Elisha, engraved title vignette, title to volume 1 in red & black, early manuscript annotations and marginalia, 2 leaves at rear of volume 1 with long closed tears, near-contemporary sheep, boards to volume 1 detached, joints to volume 2 cracked, covers worn, folioQty: (2)

[Glencoe massacre]. An Impartial Account of some of the Transactions in Scotland, concerning the Earl of Broadalban, Viscount and Master of Stair, Glenco-Men, Bishop of Galloway, and Mr. Duncan Robertson. In a Letter from a Friend, 1st edition, London: printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1695, [2] 30 pp., errata slip pasted to title-page verso, browning and damp-staining, modern bookplate (David Murray), untrimmed, 19th-century red half morocco, title ('Massacre of Glencoe Etc. - 1695') gilt to spine, 4to (21 x 16.5 cm), together with: [Jacobite rebellion]. A Compleat History of the Rebellion, from its first Rise in 1745, to its total Suppression at the Glorious Battle of Culloden, in April 1746. By Mr. James Ray, of Whitehaven, Volunteer under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, 1st edition, Mancester: for the author by R. Whitworth, [1747?], pp. 408, a few light damp-stains, stab-holes visible in gutter, contemporary ownership inscriptions (Richard Widdowson of Thrumpton), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 12mo (16 x 9.5 cm), ibid. A Journey through Part of England and Scotland along with the Army under the Command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland ... By a Volunteer, 2nd edition, London: T. Osborne, 1747, worming, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 8vo (15.4 x 8.5 cm), Buchanan (George). Rerum Scoticarum historia. Ad optimam et castigatissimam Roberti Fribarnii editionem expressa, Edinburgh: Jo. Patoni, 1727, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, duplicate of leaf 2D3 bound in after 3G5, bookplate (Maitland), contemporary mottled calf, spine rubbed, 12mo (17.2 x 10 cm), [Lord's Prayer; polyglot]. Oratio dominica ... Nimirum, plus centum linguis, versionibus, aut characteribus reddita et expressa. Editio novissima, London: Dan. Brown & W. Keblewhite, 1700, half-title, engraved title-vignette, the text containing the Lord's Prayer printed in some 100 languages (including Arabic, Chinese, Orcadian, etc., mainly using proper types, a few specimens engraved, e.g. Georgian), book-label of abolitionist Mary Anne Rawson of Wincobank Hall, Sheffield (1801-1887), contemporary polished calf, gilt spine, front joint cracked, 4to (19.9 x 14.7 cm), Lambarde (William). The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other low and Lay Ministers of the peace ... now carefully corrected and profitably augmented, London: Miles Flesher, and Robert Young, the assigned of John More, 1640, damp-staining towards rear, initial binder's blank torn, contemporary mottled sheep, small 8vo (14.4 x 9 cm), and 2 others, including Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 3rd edition, 1631 (lacking engraved portrait; engraved title trimmed and mounted to front pastedown, contemporary manuscript genealogies in text, binding worn), and A Compleat History of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain against Dr. Henry Sacheverell, 1710 (lacking portrait; bookplate of Alexander Murray of Broughtoun)Qty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC R15762 (Glencoe massacre: nine UK copies), T118420 (Jacobite rebellion, first work), N6803 (Jacobite rebellion, second work: six UK copies), N13053 (Buchanan), R15295 (Lord's Prayer), S3976 (Lambarde: three copies); Wing I65 (Glencoe massacre), M2944 (Lord's Prayer); Sabin 57434 (Lord's Prayer).

* Joseph II (1741-1790), Holy Roman Emperor 1765-90, King of the Romans 1764-90 and King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia 1780-90. Document Signed, ‘Joseph’, as Emperor, Vienna, 31 July 1766, manuscript document, in German, addressed to Heinrich von Bibra announcing the appointment of Count von Pergen as a minister plenipotentiary and also stating, 'In his stead, the highborn, faithful Royal Count Leopold von Neipperg who loves Our Graceful Emperor and Our Empire will take the position as Our minister plenipotentiary' and requests that von Bibra grants the new minister 'the same access and attention as his predecessor, if he has something to bring forward from time to time’, countersigned at the conclusion by two individuals including Franz Georg von Leykam, a few neat slits and a lengthy, neat split to the central vertical fold, none affecting the text or signatures, 2 pages, folio, with the original folio envelope wrappers bearing a large blind embossed paper sealQty: (2)NOTESJoseph II was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, and the brother of Marie Antoinette. Heinrich von Bibra (1711-1788), Heinrich VIII of Fulda; Prince-Bishop of Fulda 1759-88. Johann Anton von Pergen (1725-1814), Austrian diplomat and statesman, one of the most influential individuals in the reformist administration of Joseph II. Count Leopold von Neipperg was an Austrian Diplomat who, in 1760, invented a letter-copying machine sometimes regarded as the first working typewriter.

[Moll, Herman]. Geographia Classica: The Geography of the Ancients so far describ'd as it is contain'd in the Greek and Latin Classicks, in Twenty-nine Maps of the Old World ... a collection long wanted, and now publish'd for the use of schools, 2nd edition, London: printed for C. Browne, 1717, 29 double-page engraved maps (one folding), 4 with near contemporary hand-colouring, title printed in red & black, some dampstaining at head and fore-edges, map 15 with tear to lower margin (just affecting map border), map 16 close-trimmed at foot and fore-edges (affecting border & 1 place name), final map with 2 tiny losses, front free endpaper deficient, contemporary red quarter morocco, worn, small 4to, together with: Butler (Samuel), An Atlas of Ancient Geography, London: Longman & Co., circa 1839, 22 double-page engraved maps (complete), all but one hand-coloured in outline, engraved calligraphic title, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at rear dated August 1839, a few minor spots or marks, 4 maps with some pale brown staining, 1 map with closed tear to lower corner (affecting map border), front free endpaper with ink manuscript ownership name, dated 1840, contemporary red half morocco, worn, front cover with original engraved paper label, small 4to, with 7 others similar (some defective), including Walker's Universal Atlas for the use of schools, 1823, and Maps and Plans Illustrative of Livy, published J. Vincent, Oxford, circa 1850?Qty: (9)NOTESFirst item: ESTC T222277.

Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry ... The sixth edition. Improv'd with large additions of many hundred coats of arms, under their respective bearings..., London: printed by T.W. for R. & J. Bonwicke, R. Wilkin, J. Walthoe & Tho. Ward, 1724, engraved armorial frontispiece (torn & frayed to lower outer corner with slight text loss and lined to verso), title in red & black, 64 engraved plates (including 17 portrait plates and 47 armorial plates), woodcut armorials to text, margins of 3H2 & 3H3 strengthened, one armorial plate torn to upper margin at head & repaired, some toning, dust-soiling, spotting & few marks, some dampstaining (particularly at rear), bookplates of F.J.W. Crowe and the Reverend Dr. G.B. Westwood to front endpaper, 19th century marbled endpapers with later cloth hinges, near-contemporary dark brown morocco, rebacked, lower joint cracked at foot, corners & board edges worn and showing (corners consolidated), boards scuffed, folio, together with: Phillipps (Thomas). Heralds Visitation Disclaimers, [Middle Hill, Worcestershire]: Ex zincographia Appelana, 1854, letterpress title (with few spots) and facsimile leaves of manuscript printed on blue paper, top edge gilt, armorial bookplates of Henry J.B. Clements and Rev. Dr. G.B. Westwood to front endpaper, late 19th century brown half morocco, gilt crest Henry Clements at foot of spine, slim folio (only three UK institutional locations found), Heraldry. Genealogical and Heraldic Notes from County Histories etc., by Jas. Eddes, circa 1900, volume containing 57 mounted reading room book request slips, each with detailed manuscript notes relating to genealogy & heraldic devices of various families, title in pencil at front and index at rear, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, bookplates of Frederick A. Heygate Lambert, Garratts Hall Library, and Rev. Dr. G.B. Westwood to front endpaper, contemporary half vellum (by F.A. Crisp) with gilt title to spine 'Armory (Thorpe. Dugdale. Blomefield &c)', some dust-soiling, 4to, Albums - crests & armorials, Two albums containing a selection of mounted crests, armorials and monograms etc. late 19th century, (possibly excised from letterheaded paper and envelopes), one volume with all edges gilt, and in contemporary gilt decorated morocco, rubbed, 4to and the other in late 19th century cloth, small 4to, Fox-Davies (Arthur Charles). Armorial Families, 2 volumes, 7th edition, London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., 1929, numerous armorials to text, top edge gilt, original cloth, large 8vo, [Stirling Maxwell, William], Examples of the Ornamental Heraldry of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1867, decorative title in red & black, numerous monochrome armorials throughout, top edge gilt, contemporary brown quarter morocco, cloth sides, folio, Purey-Cust (A.P.), The Heraldry of York Minster..., 2 volumes, Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1890, colour lithograph frontispiece to each, colour & uncoloured lithograph plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, modern cloth, with inset upper cover panel and spines preserved, folio, and other heraldry relatedQty: (15)NOTESProvenance: Rev. Dr. G.B. Westwood. (Guillim) - Rear free-endpaper with typed note "This book was discovered in PLas yn Llan (Nannerch Hall) probably in the mid-50s by the people then living there - Mrs J.C. Mather. It was re-backed about that time, probably by that family."

Wylly (Colonel H.C.). XVth (The King's) Hussars, 1759 to 1913, 1st edition, London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1914, 31 colour and black & white plates, 3 maps (one folding with short split to fold), some spotting to text, top edge gilt, original black morocco gilt, a trifle rubbed with some wear to extremities, joints strengthened, spine somewhat faded and marked, large 8vo, (limited edition, one of 250 copies), together with: Barrett (C. R. B., editor), The 85th King's Light Infantry ..., by "One of Them", 1st edition, London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1913, colour frontispiece and 41 colour and black & white plates, numerous monochrome letterpress illustrations and maps, some spotting (mainly to edges and at rear), original black half morocco gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, spine somewhat faded, 4to, plus: Wheater (W., compiler), Historial Record of the Seventh or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Leeds: Printed for Private Circulation, 1875, title with ink manuscript presentation inscription (to 'Kildare Street CLub') at head, 2 leaves at front with blind embossed stamp 'Kildare Street Club' to upper corner, first few leaves spotted, original embossed blue cloth gilt, rubbed and worn with some stains, folio, and a defective copy of The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers... by Walter Temple Willcox, 1908Qty: (4)

[Pepys, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688, 1st edition, 1st issue, [London]: Printed Anno MDCXC [1690], engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. White after G. Kneller, title printed in red and black, folding letterpress table, occasional manuscript corrections and neat underlining, shoulder note on p. 120 (with manuscript correction) shaved, small tear and marginal toning to endpapers, bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale (fifth Earl Lonsdale, 1857-1944), manuscript shelf number, contemporary mottled calf, old repairs to joints (now cracked), neat repairs to corners, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Bernard Quaritch pencilled collation note to rear pastedown. ESTC R13464; Pforzheimer 793 (for the regular edition); Wing P1449. The first issue, intended for presentation, with 'Printed Anno MDCXC' to title; the issue for public circulation has the imprint 'for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Sam. Keble, 1690'; there was also a large-paper issue, without the imprint. The present copy has the usual manuscript corrections to pages 11, 33, 39, 40, 42, 57, 70, 90, 92 and 103, which if not by Pepys himself were likely carried out under his direciton. Pepys was appointed Clerk to the Acts of the Navy in 1660, under the influence of his cousin Edward Montagu, later 1st Earl of Sandwich, and later became secretary to the Admiralty in 1673, instituting important naval reforms. 'This is the diarist's only acknowledged publication. Upon this he lavished a great deal of thought and care. It represents a side of Pepys's life which is apt to be ignored' (Pforzheimer).

Sibbald (Robert). Scotia illustrata sive prodromus historiae naturalis, 1st edition, Edinburgh: ex officina typographica Jacobi Kniblo, Josua Solingensis et Johannes Colmarii, 1684, pp. [10] 15 [15] 102 [12] 114 [12] 37 [7] 41-56 [4], initial engraved heraldic plate, 22 engraved natural history plates on 20 sheets, woodcut headpieces and initials, variable browning, small chip to lower fore corner of title-page, plates with contemporary manuscript captions in images, a few other marks, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining original label, covers scuffed, tips restored, folio (37.4 x 22.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Anker 471; ESTC R9747; Mullens & Swann pp. 534-5; Nissen ZBI 3847. Scotia illustrata is Sibbald's 'most elaborate work ... an essay on Scotland's natural history in the widest sense, from natural phenomena, through the plant and animal kingdoms, to human disease' (ODNB).

Railways. Her Majesty passing a Triumphal Arch on Her trip to Scotland on the Great Northern Railway, circa 1850, lithograph with original hand colouring, image 192 x 265 mm, sheet 212 x 277 mm, together with a tinted lithograph of 'The Royal Train, near Windsor, c.1845' (so captioned to window mount), original hand colouring, circular image 155 mm diameter, mounted, framed & glazed, Parker Gallery label to back board, together with: Reid (Andrew, publisher), Reid's Monthly Time Table and Advertiser, of the York, Newcastle, & Berwick Railway, nos. 1 & 2, April & May, 1849, Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, [1849], original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, 16mo, Great Western Railway, Experimental Trip of the "Great Western" New Locomotive Passenger Engine, made on the 13th June, 1846. Extracted from the Morning Herald of the 15th June, London: printed by W. Snell, [1846], title wrapper with blind stamp and manuscript calculations, hole to centre of initial two leaves slightly affecting text, some dampstains and marks, stitched as issued, slim 8vo, and other railway related pamphlets and ephemera, including a number of monochrome photographs of railway locomotives, model locomotive, steamships, traction engines etc. 1920s-60s, together with 2 cartons of The Railway Magazine, 1920s-80s,Qty: (3 cartons)

Hale (Matthew). Historia Placitorum Coronæ. The History of the Pleas of the Crown ... now first published from his Lordship's Original Manuscript, and the several References to the Records examined by the Originals, with large notes, by Sollom Emlyn ... To which is added a table of the principal matters, 2 volumes, In the Savoy [London]: printed by E. & R. Nutt and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer) for F. Gyles, T. Woodward, & C. Davis, 1736, lacking portrait frontispiece, ownership signature to title, some browning, 20th century buckram, skiver title label to spines, covers dust-soiled, folio, together with a large collection of Freemasonry related reference including: Hamill (John & Gilbert, Robert), Freemasonry, A Celebration of the Craft, 1st edition, London: Greenwich Editions, 1998, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, large 4to, Curl (James Stevens), The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry, an Introductory Study, 1st edition, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1991, monochrome illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, Yates (Martin), Freemasonry in the Province of Somerset from 1733, 1st edition, Wedmore, Somerset: Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset, 2010, colour and monochrome illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, and other similar Freemasonry related referenceQty: (2 cartons)

* Thorburn (Archibald, 1860 - 1935). The First Snow on the Tops, In the Peat Hag, Changing Quarters [and] After the Mist has Lifted, A Baird Carter, 1907, four colour photolithographs, each signed in pencil by the artist to the lower left below the image, displayed as two pairs in double aperture mounts with the titles added in contemporary manuscript below each image, slight spotting to mounts, each image 250 x 400 mm, framed and glazed in uniform contemporary stained wood mouldings with gold slipsQty: (2)

Map of Matrimony. Manuscript allegorical map, circa 1830, a manuscript ink and watercolour allegorical map of matrimony with eight lines of verse below the image, map size 75 x 90 mm, overall size 270 x 205 mm, old adhesion scars to versoQty: (1)NOTESThe adhesion scars on the verso of the sheet would indicate that the map was at some time, in an album.

* Heath (Archie Edward, 1887-1961). An archive of manuscript and typescript lecture notes, letters, printed articles and pamphlets by Archie Edward Heath, Professor of Philosophy at University College, Swansea from 1925 to 1952, together with an oil portrait of Archie Heath by Jean Creedy, circa 1950, including lecture notes, typescript and manuscript, many with his corrections with titles including 'The Physiological Approach: Body and Mind', 'Moral Values: The Rationalist View', 'The Philosopher as Critic', 'The Demand for Construction in Philosophy', 'Disunity in the Self: Control through Knowledge', 'A Rationalist Talks About Values', 'The Relation Between Aesthetic Appreciation and Objective Reality', 'A Scientific Basis for Freedom', 'The Basis of Freedom: An Essay in Scientific Method', 'Philosophy as Poet and Prophet, Reflection in the field of values', plus printed pamphlets 'Thinking Ahead. The Place of Reflection in Civilization' and 'A Psychological Approach to the Problems of Sexual Hygiene. II. The Game of Life and the Art of Love', a manuscript letter from Albert Mansbridge (1876-1952, educator, and pioneer of adult education), some correspondence with Jasmine Chatterton, literary advisors regarding the publication of his book 'Psychology Questions Answered', 1946, correspondence with Kodak Research Laboratory regarding printing a history chart, 1955, a Trinity College, Cambridge menu to commemorate the unveiling of a statue of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 19 October 1909, signed in pencil by Heath and others, some overall toning and a few tears and folds, staple rust, all loosely contained in contemporary folder with manuscript label (some spotting), the framed oil portrait of A.E. Heath by Jean Creedy (1920-2014) measuring 38 x 27.5 cmQty: (archive)NOTESArchie Edward Heath (1887-1961) was Professor of Philosophy at University College, Swansea from 1925 to 1952, a friend of Bertrand Russell and contemporary of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who much influenced the 'Swansea School of Philosophy', which included Wittgenstein's pupil Rush Rhees, Dewi Phillips and others.

Mackenzie (Murdoch). Orcades: or, a Geographic and Hydrographic Survey of the Orkney and Lewis Islands, in Eight Maps ... The third edition, with additional soundings, and some corrections, London: printed for the author, by M. Say, and sold by K. Mackenzie, 1776, [2] 6 pp., 8 engraved large folding maps by Emanuel Bowen after Murdoch Mackenzie (various dimensions: see note) each with title and dedication within separate rococo cartouches (map 1 title within figural cartouche), bar scales, and inset coastal profiles, text and maps all mounted on stubs, title-page with lower margin excised (removing an old inscription, the printed text unaffected), soiling, and short closed tear at lower inner corner, the maps with contemporary manuscript captions in black ink rectos (inside and outside plate-marks) and versos, variable light dust-soiling, browning, and offsetting, early paper-reinforcement along folds verso, maps 1-3 and 7 closely trimmed along at least one edge (to neat line in cases, cropping top neat-line in map 7), map 1 with shallow chip to left-hand edge affecting plate-mark but not neat line and with short closed tear to lower margin, short closed tear to lower inner corner of maps 2 and 6 affecting frame only, map 5 with outer section reattached at an early date with concomitant darkening and disruption to image, map 7 with short (3cm) split to foot of one old fold and a little fraying along close-trimmed top edge, minor paper-disruption and soiling along one fold of map 8 (the fold with old paper-reinforcement verso as noted), a few other marks, nicks and chips, modern red-brown half morocco binding, atlas folio (binding dimensions 62.2 x 42.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Very rare: not in ESTC, which cites only the first edition of 1750, for which six copies are traced. 'Mackenzie set new standards for hydrographic surveying in Britain' (ODNB). The maps are dated 1750 at the foot, indicating that the original plates were used; most are signed by Emanuel Bowen. Some of them bear interesting dedications: map 5 is dedicated to 'Alexander Mackenzie of Hampton in Virginia', map 7 to the governor and adventurers of the Hudson's Bay Company. Titles and dimensions are as follows: 1) The Orkney Islands (57.8 x 78 cm). 2) The South Isles of Orkney (60.2 x 67 cm). 3) Pomona or Main-Land (55.5 x 78 cm). 4) The North East Coast of Orkney (68 x 55.2 cm). 5) The North West Coast of Orkney (52.7 x 57 cm). 6) The Lewis, or North Part of Long-Island (58.7 x 65 cm). 7) The North Part of the Lewis (60 x 85 cm). 8) The South East Coast of the Lewis (63 x 60 cm).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, Edinburgh: printed by James Watson, Printed to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1722, general title in red & black and with woodcut royal armorial device, New Testament title with genealogical entries for members of the Bonnar family (entries dating from 1760s-70s), some browning, dust-soiling and spotting, bound with at rear The Psalms of David in Meter (caption title) with margins widened, browning, dust-soiling and spotting throughout, without front free endpaper, rear free endpaper detached and torn & frayed to margins (with two Bonnar family entries in manuscript), contemporary blind panelled calf, boards detached, worn, folio (445 x 280 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T90370; Herbert 959. The General Assembly of 1717 had instructed the Commission to take steps 'to get printing, vending, and importing of the incorrect copies of the Holy Scriptures stopped and prevented.' This edition is specially commended for its accuracy by Lee (Memorial, pp. 188–191); it contains, however, a misprint in Ps. liii l, 'on God for no God' (Herbert).

[Taylor, Thomas]. A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, Amsterdam[i.e. London]: printed for and sold by J. Weitstein, [1790?], title-page with author's name in manuscript, wide-margined text with early marginalia and underlinings in ink and pencil, first and final page a little dusty and marked, endpapers renewed, red sprinkled edges, 19th century calf gilt, extremities rubbed and 1 or 2 scuffs, tall 8vo, together with Aphorisms on Man: Translated from the Original Manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, 1788, engraved frontispiece and title-page browned, former with short tear in upper blank margin, text with early marginalia, bookplates of William Arnold and Walter Hirst, late 19th century calf gilt by Morrell, extremities rubbed, small 8voQty: (2)NOTESESTC N28570.

Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. An Account of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, From its commencement, in 1709. In which is included, the present state of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with regard to Religion, 1st edition, Edinburgh: A. Murray and J. Cochrane, 1774, engraved title-page, modern marbled quarter calf, 4to (24.9 x 19.4 cm), together with: Barry (George). The History of the Orkney Islands, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for the author by D. Willison, 1805, 11 engraved plates including frontispiece, folding map, retaining final leaf with directions to the binder and publisher's advertisement, plates and map spotted and offset, ink-stamp to title-page, short closed tear to inner fold of map, modern half calf, 4to (26.6 x 19.7 cm), Low (George). Fauna Orcadensis: or, the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, or Orkney and Shetland. From a Manuscript in the possession of Wm. Elford Leach, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company [and others], 1813, half-title, moderate browning, edges untrimmed, modern quarter calf, 4to (26.5 x 20.4 cm), and 3 others, including 2 other copies of Low, Fauna Orcadensis, both 1st editions, 1813 (one in c.1900 green half morocco by J. Leighton, with bookplate of J. Griffith Dearden of Walcot Hall, Stamford; the other in c.1900 blue half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, damp-stained)Qty: (6)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC T82929 (SSPCK); Freeman 206 (Barry), 2323 (Low); Mullens & Swann pp. 43-4 (Barry), 361-2 (Low). Chapter two of the first item (pp. 13-19) discusses the Society's activities in North America.

[Scotland; Convention of Estates]. The Acts made in the first Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraign, Charles the First ... Holden by himselfe, present in Person, with his three Estates at Edinburgh, upon the Twenty eight day of June, Anno Domini, 1633 [-The Laws and Acts made in the first Parliament of ... Charles the Second], Edinburgh: David Lindsay 1683, bound with: An Index of Abridgment to the Acts of Parliament made by J. James the I. and II. III. IV. V. Queen Mary, Ja. VI. K. Charles I. and Charles the II ... Digested into Heads, Edinburgh: John Reid, 1685, 2 works in 1 volume, tightly bound, first work without blank Z5, recent quarter calf, 12mo (14.2 x 7 cm), together with: Hall (James). Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route: with a Trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides, containing Hints for Improvements in Agriculture and Commerce, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: for J. Johnson, 1807, engraved folding map, 29 engraved plates, signature 2N5 (pp. 553/4) present in two settings (i.e. retaining cancelled leaf; each with portions of text deleted in manuscript by a contemporary hand), plates spotted, modern quarter calf, 8vo (23.1 x 14 cm), and 6 others (not collated), leather-bound: Miscellanea Scotica, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1818-20; Anderson, Scotland in Early Christian Times, 2 volumes, 1881; Basil Hall, Fragments of Voyages and Travels. Third Series, 3 volumes, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833; James Wilson, A Voyage Round the Coasts of Scotland the Isles, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1842; Charles St John, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1849; Sinclair, General Report of the Agricultural State and Political Circumstances of Scotland, 3 volumes and 2 appendix volumes, 1st editions, 1814, lacking volume 1 title-page, edges untrimmedQty: (21)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC R183958 (Scotland, Acts), R22587 (An Index ...).

American Stamp Act. Correct Copies of the Two Protests against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act, of Last Session. With lists of the Speakers and Voters, Paris [i.e. London]: chez J. W. imprimeur, Rue de Colombier Fauxbourg St. Germain, à L'hotel de Saxe, 1766, 24 pp., title with manuscript 'No. 5' to upper outer blank corner and '6' to lower left blank corner, disbound 8vo (Adams 66-27; Sabin 16839), together with: Ibid., A List of the Minority in the House of Commons, who Voted against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act, Paris [i.e. London]: chez J. W. imprimeur, Rue de Colombier Fauxbourg St. Germain, à L'hotel de Saxe, 1766, 8 pp., title with manuscript 'No. 6' to upper outer blank corner, disbound 8vo (Adams 66-26; Sabin 41453), [Knox, William], The Present State of the Nation: Particularly with respect to its Trade, Finances, &c. &c. Addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament, 1st edition, London: J. Almon, 1768, [3-5],6-100 pp., without half-title(?), manuscript 'No. 10' to upper outer blank corner and '10' to lower left blank corner of title, disbound 8vo, Wilkes (John), A Letter to His Grace the Duke of Grafton, First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, 2nd edition, London: J. Almon, 1767, 35, [3] pp., manuscript 'No. 9' & erased initials to upper outer blank corner and '9' to lower left blank corner of title, disbound 8vo, Draper (William), Colonel Draper's Answer, to the Spanish Arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing Payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila from Pillage and Destruction: in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department, London: J. Dodsley, 1764, [3-5],6-43 pp., without half-title(?), manuscript 'No. 11' to upper outer blank corner of title, gutter margin of final leaf torn, disbound 8vo,Qty: (5)

* Ernst I (1601-1675), Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1640-75) and Saxe-Attenburg (1672-75), known as ‘Ernest the Pious’. Document Signed, as Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Friedenstein, 26th July 1652, a brief manuscript document comprising five lines of text, being a money order, the lower half of the page features an eight-line holograph receipt, signed by Andreas Didelius, some minor age wear and uniform toning, 1 page, small 4toQty: (1)

* Newcastle (Duke of, 1693-1768), British Prime Minister 1754-56, 1757-62; AND North (Lord, 1732-1792), British Prime Minister 1770-82. Document Signed by both the Duke of Newcastle (‘Holles Newcastle’) and Lord North (‘North’), Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 29 June 1759, manuscript document addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in Scotland approving the application of John Taylor, a Landwaiter and Searcher at Port Glasgow, to be absent from his duty for three months, also directing ‘that no deduction shall be made from the salary of the said John Taylor on account of his absence during that time provided you have no objection thereto’, also countersigned at the foot by Robert Nugent, some very light age wear and a small closed tear at the centre, neatly repaired to the verso and not affecting any of the signatures. 1 page, folioQty: (1)NOTESLord North led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence. Robert Nugent (1709-1788), 1st Earl Nugent, Irish Politician & Poet, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1754-59.

Drummond (William). Poems, by that most famous wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden, '3rd' edition, London: printed by W.H. and are to be sold in the Company of Stationers, 1656, engraved portrait frontispiece by Richard Gaywood, 4 part titles, A4 surname initial 'P' completed in manuscript 'P[hilips]' marginal insect damage to A8 & F8, a few leaves shaved head and foot affecting headlines, pagination and register, some light spotting and toning, top edge gilt, later green morocco by R. Nelson, spine a little rubbed and faded to brown, 8voQty: (1)NOTESWing D2201. The first collected edition of William Drummond's works, edited by Edward Phillips, with each title dated 1656.

* Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745), British Prime Minister 1721-42. A very fine, rare Document Signed, ‘R Walpole’, as Prime Minister, Palace at Whitehall, 22 July 1740, manuscript document addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, being a warrant ordering the payment of two thousand one hundred and ten pounds eleven shillings and six pence to be made to Thomas Lowther without account, ‘that is to say, the sum of Two thousand pounds to reimburse the like sum by him Expended to answer a Bill of Exchange drawn from abroad for his Majesty’s Service, and the remaining sum… is to defray the Fees and Charges attending the Receipt thereof…’, countersigned at the foot by William Clayton (1671-1752, 1st Baron Sundon, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) and Thomas Winnington (1696-1746, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) and further countersigned at the head by 8 Lord Justices including two later Prime Ministers, some light age wear and a few small, neat splits at edges of some folds, 1 page with integral blank leaf, folio, (37 x 23 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe eight signatures of the Lord Justices are: Spencer Compton (c.1673-1743, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British Prime Minister 1742-43), Thomas Pelham Holles (1693-1768, 1st Duke of Newcastle, British Prime Minister 1757-62), John Potter (c.1674-1747, Archbishop of Canterbury 1737-47), Philip Yorke (1690-1764, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English Lawyer & Politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1737-56), Lionel Sackville (1688-1765, 1st Earl of Dorset, English Political Leader, Lord Steward 1725-30, 1737-44), Charles Lennox (1701-1750, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, British Nobleman, Peer & Politician, Master of the Horse 1735-50, remembered for his patronage of cricket), Charles Powlett (1685-1754, 3rd Duke of Bolton, British Politician & Lieutenant General) and John Montagu (1690-1749, 2nd Duke of Montagu, British Peer, Master of the Great Wardrobe 1709-49). Sir Thomas Lowther (1699-1745), English peer and landowner. Documents from this period featuring the signatures of three British Prime Ministers are rare.

Folding maps. A mixed collection of fourteen maps, mostly 19th century, including Lewis (Samuel). A Map of England & Wales Divided into Counties, Parliamentary Divisions & Dioceses..., 1847, large scale engraved map in four parts with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, large calligraphic cartouche, table of the Dioceses of Canturbury, table of explanation, large uncoloured vignette of the General Post Office in London, slight offsetting and staining, each sheet approximately 1045 x 865 mm, contemporary green morocco gilt boards lacking spines, one board detached from each section, worn and rubbed, together with Manuscript plan. Plan of the Parish of Pelynt in the County of Cornwall, circa 1860, unattributed pen and watercolour plan, sectionalised and laid on linen, later pencil annotations, slight overall toning, 760 x 1020 mm, with England & Wales. Cheffins (C. F. publisher). Cheffins's Map of the English & Scotch Railways, circa 1860, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset map of the 'Principal Railways of Scotland', slight dust soiling and toning, 680 x 575 mm, contemporary cloth boards with publisher's printed label to upper cover, with another copy similar, plus Environs of Bristol. A Map of the Country Eleven Miles round the City of Bristol, engraved for Chilcott's Guide to Bristol, Clifton and Hotwells and its Environs, By permission from McDonne's Map of the Country 21 Miles round the City, Sold in Bristol, Bath &c. by all the principal Booksellers, circa 1820, uncoloured engraved folding map, 235 x 215 mm, publisher's cloth boards with printed label to upper cover, and Donne (Benjamin). Donne's Map of the County Twenty Miles round the City of Bristol..., June 4th 1801, uncoloured engraved circular folding map, some fraying to margins, one ink stain affecting the printed surface, long splits along old folds, 365 x 360 mm, with others similar, various sizes and conditionQty: (14)

Harding (Silvester). The Biographical Mirrour, or, Connoiseur's Repertory; comprizing a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent ... persons ... engraved from original pictures or drawings, 3 volumes, London: E. and S. Harding, 1795-1810?, text by Francis Godolphin Waldron, volume 1 with additional title, numerous engraved portraits, variable spotting and offsetting, hinges strengthened, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spines rubbed, boards worn, 4to, together with: Glasse (Hannah), The Complete Confectioner; or the Whole Art of Confectionary made Plain and Easy ..., first edition, second issue, London: J. Cooke, c. 1765, Glasse's facsimile signature on pp.iv and 1, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (1st two leaves close-trimmed at foot affecting text), lightly toned throughout, front free endpaper deficient, each pastedown with an early ink manuscript ownership inscription, contemporary sheep, worn, boards detached, 8vo, plus: Encyclopedie Methodique, Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature, [Insectes], 2 volumes, [Paris: Agasse, 1797], 18th part, half-title, lacking title, but with title for 19th part, 267 (of 268) engraved plates (plate 268 deficient), rectos of title and plates 131, 132 & 267 each with circular ink ex-libris stamp, 1 plate in volume 2 partially coloured with light, neat red crayon, 6 plates with some small & neat red crayon underlining, both volumes with intermittent pale dampstaining to margins at head and fore-edge, somewhat affecting a few plates, hinges cracked, 19th century quarter morocco, somewhat rubbed, corners showing, 4to, with 16 other titles including: The Pleasures of Hope in two parts, by Thomas Campbell, 2nd edition, 1800; Tratado Elemental de Botanica Teorico-Practico, by Antonio Blanco, 2 volumes in 1, 1834; The Silver Swan, a fairy tale, by Madame de Chatelain, 1847Qty: (27)NOTESGlasse: Cagle 708; Maclean pp.61-62. The second issue of the first edition of circa 1760, with J. Cooke imprint. Encyclopedia Methodique: Nissen ZBI 4621.

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de). Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1st edition in English, London: C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733, [16],253,[19]pp., advertisement leaf present at end of preliminaries, 253pp. of main text, and index at rear, A4, G3, S1 & S8 cancels (with light offsetting), armorial bookplate of William Robert Hay to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, extremities slightly rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: William Robert Hay; John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; Thence by descent. Wallis 424; Babson 242. Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation contains many sentiments in praise of Sir Isaac Newton, including a retelling of Newton's inspirational observations on gravity born from the falling of fruit from trees. Translated into English, perhaps by John Lockman. Parts may have been written in English by Voltaire, and the great translated from the manuscript. Published prior to the French edition of 1734 (Wallis 412), the appearance of which forced Voltaire into exile for a second time.

Guiccardini (Francesco). L'histoire d'Italie. Translatée d'italien en françois, et presentée à tres vertueuse, tres haute, et trespuissante dame et princesse, Katherine de Medicis, royne de France, par Hierosme Chomedey, Paris: Bernard Turrisan, 1568, signatures a4 A-3Z6 [par.]8, [4] 414 [8] leaves (lacking one leaf: signature H6, i.e. folio 48), text in roman letter, side-notes in italic, large woodcut Aldine device to title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, red manuscript box-rules throughout, light browning, leaves a1-2 (a1=title-page) with restored loss to fore margins not affecting text, ownership inscription dated 1638 to head of title-page (another effaced), all edges gilt, later pigskin dyed black and tooled in gilt and blind, rebacked, rubbed, head of spine torn, folio (32.5 x 21.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThis edition not in Adams (cf. G1524-6 for later editions of Chomedey's translation); cf. PMM 85 for the first edition (published in Italian in 1561). First edition in French of 'the first history of Europe' (PMM).

* Illuminated & printed leaves. A collection of 16 manuscript and printed leaves, 12th-15th centuries, including three 12th century illuminated Bible leaf fragments on vellum (from 2 Thessalonians), approximately 10 x 75 mm, and four other 15th century manuscript leaf fragments, and nine early printed leaves including a leaf from The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, 2nd English edition, London: Wynkin de Worde, 1493, double-column text, leaf size 24 x 16 cm, framed & glazed, and a single leaf from Postilla Super Libros Sapientiae, by Robert Holkot, Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, 1494, double-column text, leaf size 23.5 x 17 cm, framed and glazedQty: (16)

Pair of signed manuscript letters from Alf Ramsey to Les Cocker, 8th and 11th August 1966, the first on Ramsey’s personal letterhead thanking him for his contribution to England's World Cup success, the second on F.A stationery covering official matters (2)Provenance: from the Les Cocker Collection.

Sir Alf Ramsey signed manuscript letter to Les Cocker, thanking Cocker for his support following his sacking by the FA in 1974, sold together with two F.A. Christmas cards signed by Sir Alf and sent to Cocker in 1969 and 1971 (3)Provenance: from the Les Cocker Collection.

Charlie Buchan signed manuscript letter, dated 12th May 1927, one manuscript page, possibly to a publisher who had enquired if Buchan was considering writing an autobiography, to which Buchan declines, saying “I would not consider a book by myself at present. I would not want such a book to appear until I was practically at the end of my playing days. I do not consider that time has arrived yet”; sold together with a signed copy of Charles Buchan's A Lifetime in Football, published by the Ferndale Book Co. Ltd, applied b&w photograph and signature to title page, with d/j, (2) For the record, Buchan played one more season, retiring a year after the date of this letter, and duly wrote his biography A Lifetime in Football in 1955. Charles (Charlie) Murray Buchan (1891-1960), played for England between 1913 and 1924 making six appearances and scoring four goals. His club career included spells at Woolwich Arsenal (1909-10), Leyton (1910-11), Sunderland (1911-25) and Arsenal (1925-28). After retiring, Buchan became a football journalist and commentator on the game for the BBC. In 1947 he co-founded the Football Writers' Association and in 1951 launched his highly successful Football Monthly magazine.

A SET OF FOUR MUGHAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT FOLIOS SHOWING COURT SCENES BY HAIDAR KASHMIRI, CIRCA 1600each ink and gold leaf on paper smallest: 31 x 17 cm (12 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.), largest: 34 x 22 cm (13 3/8 x 8 5/8 in.) [sight sheet size]PROVENANCEProperty of a Private Collection, Old Lyme, ConnecticutCONDITIONObserved in frame, the set is in overall very good condition. Beyond some light creasing and wear, no significant issues apparent to the naked eye. N.B. All lots are sold in as-is condition at the time of sale. Please note that any condition statement regarding works of art is given as a courtesy to our clients in order to assist them in assessing the condition. The report is a genuine opinion held by Shapiro Auctions and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report or a photograph does not preclude the absence of defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. Shapiro Auctions, LLC., including its consultants and agents, shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATOR (15TH CENTURY)Historiated initial 'T'(erribilis) est locus iste: hic dom[us Dei est], circa 1450 ink and gold leaf on vellum 14 x 12.7 cm (5 1/2 x 5 in.)LOT NOTESFor a historiated initial with the same iconography from an English manuscript dating to 1446, see: British Library, Arundel 109, f. 159vThe words Terribilis est locus iste: hic domus Dei est are the opening antiphon to a mass dedicated to the consecration of a church, as shown here with a bishop standing outside a cathedral with holy water. CONDITIONObserved outside the mat, the fragment is in overall very good age-appropriate condition. Some darkening and foxing apparent to the top margin. N.B. All lots are sold in as-is condition at the time of sale. Please note that any condition statement regarding works of art is given as a courtesy to our clients in order to assist them in assessing the condition. The report is a genuine opinion held by Shapiro Auctions and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report or a photograph does not preclude the absence of defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. Shapiro Auctions, LLC., including its consultants and agents, shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

Four French academic inscribed manuscript leaves on the Study of Astronomy and Geography.mid 19th century, each two sided sheet, with subjects : the plants, the sun, the moor and the earth's lines, signed 'Dufort'

[Ellison (Rev. Cuthbert)] "Q.Z.". A Most Pleasant Description of Benwel Village, in the County of Northumberland ... by Q. Z., first edition, 2 parts bound in 1, title torn, neatly restored, 7pp. manuscript notes on Ellison and manuscript label reading 'Earl of Northumberland 1856' bound at beginning, lightly browned, additional title to vol. 2 in alternate setting bound at end, later morocco-backed boards, 12mo, [Foxon E298], Newcastle upon Tyne, John White, 1726.⁂ A description of two excursions from Newcastle to the inn at Benwell, in verses of doggerel, including much on food, drink, agriculture and current affairs.

Astronomy.- Bonnycastle (John) An Introduction to Astronomy. In a Series of Letters ..., first edition, 20 engraved plates, 7 folding, one with tear repaired with scrap of manuscript vellum, small marginal loss (E2), tape repair, occasional faint pencil marginal markings, previous owner's ink signature to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1786.

Astronomy.- [Reynolds (James)] [Astronomical Diagrams], 16 educational plates, some hand-coloured, some with tissue-paper to be held up to the light, 2 movable horizons, occasional faint spotting, loosely inserted as issued, contemporary cloth portfolio, a little rubbed, c.1846-70, with 4 related pamphlets, manuscript notes and drawings loosely inserted, 8vo. ⁂ James Reynolds produced a collection of educational charts between approximately 1840 and 1870. They were mainly produced on a thick card, with some explanatory notes. The plates include: Chart of the Heavens; The Sun and Solar Phenomena; Transparent Solar System; Transparent Diagram of the Phases of the Moon; Eclipses and the Theory of Tides; Telescopic View of the Moon; The Earth and its Atmosphere; Waterfalls; Diagram of Meteorology; Methods of Ascertaining the Longitude; Comets; The Earth's Annual Revolution around the Sun; Methods of Ascertaining the Latitude; The Sun and Solar Phenomena; The Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac; The Planets

NO RESERVE Affo (Ireneo) Vita del graziosissimo pittore Francesco Mazzola detto Il Parmigianino, second edition, later small ink stamp of Dr. Hans Semper of Innsbruck at head of title, later vellum-backed boards, uncut, spine titled in manuscript, Parma, Filippo Carmignani, 1784 § Leoni (Michele) Pitture di Antonio Allegri da Corregio, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, Modena, 1841 § Mengz (Antonio Raffaele) Lettera...Primo Pittor di Camera di S.M.C. a Don Antonio Ponz, wood-engraved title-vignette, contemporary mottled wrappers, Turin, 1777 § Quilliet (F.) Dictionnaire des Peintres Espagnols, half-title signed by author on verso, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, Paris, 1816, some light foxing, a little rubbed, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ The first is one of the earliest biographies of the painter Il Parmigianino, by the ducal librarian at Parma, published a year after the first edition in Venice.

Cavalry.- Melzo (Lodovico, Italian cavalry officer, a Knight of St John of Jerusalem, fought against the Turks at the Siege of Rhodes and with the Spanish against the Calvinists in the Low Countries, 1567-1617) Traitté de la cavallerie du cavalier Melze..., manuscript in French, 64pp., drophead title, ruled throughout in red, f.25 small hole near head, affecting a few letters verso, without loss of sense, dark water-stain on upper corners, lighter staining within text, although more pronounced on last few pp., lightly browned, modern antique style boards, folio, [France], [early 17th century].⁂ An early French abridgement of Melzo's influential military cavalry treatise, Regoli militari sopra il governo e servitio della cavalleria (Antwerp, 1611). Also published in French in 1615 as Des règles militaires du chevalier Melzo, this manuscript is not a copy of either edition but probably a version compiled by a French military student. The manuscript follows the arrangement of the five books of the printed versions, but without the illustrations. The five books comprise, I. The composition of a cavalry regiment; II. Accompanying other regiments and companies; III. Orders; IV. Combat; V. Generalities.

South Africa.- Kruger (Paul, South African politician, 1825-1904).- Transvaal Flag, small piece of green flag torn and attached to an envelope with manuscript inscription, browned, 85 x 105mm., 1889.⁂ Inscription reads: "Transvaal Flag. Torn down by the Johannesburg mob while Kruger was in the town 1889."

Calligraphic manuscript.- Gadd (C. J.) To Edward Caulfield, calligraphic testimonial manuscript, manuscript on paper, title and 6ff., frontispiece, and first few ff. with illuminated decorations in gold, blue, pink and other colours, original morocco, ornately blind-stamped and gilt with inset coat of arms of Pope Leo XIII, inner dentelles and silk doublures, folio, housed in blind-stamped box., bound by Palmer, Howe and co., 1895.

Royal Navy during the First World War.- Goodenough (Sir William, naval officer, 1867-1945) Album of photographs, manuscript notes and ephemera relating to Goodenough's family and his service in the Royal Navy in the First World War, 58pp., photographs of navy service, warships, members of Goodenough's family and Admiralty House at Simonstown in South Africa, ephemera, including: a printed "Disposition of the Grand Fleet Escorting German High Seas Fleet into Firth of Forth", printed poem, "Woe to us when we lose the watery wall" inscribed "From Sir Jack" [Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, first Baron Fisher (1841-1920)], 2 Naval Signals regarding the surrendered German Fleet, 1 dated 14th November (3 days after the Armistice), Concert programme on HMS Nottingham (sunk by torpedoes on 19 August 1916), "A Musical Recital by the Dunfermline Select Choir Assisted by the Battle Cruise Fleet Band... In Memory Of the Officers and Men who Fell... 1916 [Battle of Jutland", 2 watercolour menus by Cecilia Goodenough, newspaper cuttings of the Battle of Jutland, browned, some ff. loose, others working loose, original half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, covers detached, spine defective, oblong 4to, 1912-20.

Royal Navy.- Wood (A.B., midshipman) Journal for the Use of Midshipmen, manuscript, title and 273pp., several maps and drawings of ships etc., slightly browned, original half buckram, slightly soiled, folio, printed paper label on upper cover, morocco label torn on spine, folio, 1938-39.⁂ Wood served on HMS Birmingham, HMS Enterprise and HMS Daring, travelling from Europe to Palestine and China, and took part in the China Fleet Annual Pulling Regatta, Palestine.

NO RESERVE Waterworks.- Fireworks.- Bate (John) [The Mysteries of Nature and Art. In foure severall parts. The first of water works. The second of fire works. The third of drawing washing, limming ..., engraved portrait (2 small holes), lacking title, ?A1 and A4, 2 engraved plates, illustrations, many full-page. occasional marginal holes, tears and loss, many expertly strengthened, affecting some text, 2Q3 lacking top half, occasional contemporary and near contemporary manuscript notes, occasional spotting and staining, bookplate, modern calf, [STC 1578], small 4to, Thomas Harper for Ralph Mabb, 1635; sold not subject to return

Georgian Fortune Telling.- Royal Gardens Vauxhall. Prophecy of the Anchorite. Planet 2, printed card with manuscript prophecy addressed to Georgiana, 3pp., first 2pp. perforated, folds, slightly browned, 176 x 117mm., 1822.

Baschet (Ludovic, editor) Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, 4 vol., mounted tinted portrait plates, some spotting and foxing, some bookplates to pastedown, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed, spine ends worn, one vol. with broken spine, some stickers with manuscript titles to upper covers, gilt, Paris, Ludovic Baschet, 1876-8.⁂ A selection from the famous Galerie Contemporaine, Litteraire, Artistique, published in 13 volumes between 1876-1884. This selection contains vol. premier année, premier semestre; deuxième année, premier semestre; deuxième année, deuxième semestre; and troisième année, deuxième semestre. Featuring portraits of Victor Hugo, Zola, Daudet, Jules Verne, Verdi, de Broglie etc. "The series provides us with some of the greatest permanent portraits of leading men of France during this particularly interesting time in its history, by some of its greatest photographic portraitists" - Blodgett, Photographs: A Collector's guide, 1797.