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Great Domesday Book, Penny Edition, one of 250 numbered sets, 2 vol., full colour continuous tone offset lithographic facsimile, original calf-backed polished antique oak boards, 2 coins inset in vol. 1 (silver penny of William I, and proof specimen of 1986 bronze penny of Elizabeth II), together with Great Domesday: Introduction and Contents of the Manuscript, signed by Baron Hailsham and G.H. Martin (keeper of public records), original calf-backed cloth, t.e.g., original calf-backed slip-cases, 1986; Domesday Book Studies, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards together with Maps, 28 numbered folding colour maps, morocco-backed drop-back box, 1987; Indices 33 parts, original wrappers, morocco-backed drop-back box, 1988-92; Translation, 2 vol., morocco-backed cloth, t.e.g., 1992; and 2 other Great Domesday slip-case sets relating to Yorkshire and Middlesex, very slight rubbing, folio, 1986-92 (8).  

Fishing Diaries & Logbooks.- Game & Fishing Book [River Lochy, Scotland], c.50ff. with manuscript entries and c.150ff. blank thereafter, hinges repaired, original straight-grain red morocco, gilt, g.e., 1926-35 § Tennant (Rt. Hon. Harold John), [Fishing Log, River Spey, Delfur Beat, Scotland], c.60ff with manuscript entries, only a couple of blank leaves at end, original morocco, gilt, 1920-26, both with most entries ?seemingly in same hand in various inks, multiple photographs inserted, some with corners through incisions in page, others stuck in [together Wood BSS 194 & 199] § List of Salmon of Salmon caught with the Fly at Alten in Lapland, single sheet, c.28 lines of manuscript entries in ink to verso only, fold lines, housed within modern custom-made portfolio and morocco-backed drop-back box, 1845; and 4 similar, v.s. (7)  *** A group of mostly early 20th century detailed and entertaining manuscript logbooks and fishing diaries of salmon fishing in Scotland and Canada, some charmingly illustrated with the addition of the photo snap-shots. The final item mentioned, however, is an astonishing record of the salmon caught on a trip to the Alten (Alta) River in Norway, 4th July-12th August 1845; 193 salmon are listed, average weight 14lb but the largest 40lb on 11th August.   

Salmon Clubs.- Moisie Salmon Club, Canada.- [A Group of 6 Unpublished Reports on the Water and Other Conditions in the Upper Reaches of the Moisie River 1914-53], one original typescript, four carbon copies and one photocopy facsimile, text verso only, all between 5-10ff, one with manuscript illustration (copy of original), one folded, housed loose within custom-made folding portfolio and morocco-backed slipcase, 1914-53 § Weeks (Edward) The Moisie Salmon Club. A Chronicle, from an edition limited to 1500 signed by the author, colour frontispiece, plain photographic illustrations, original cloth, silver gilt, original slipcase, Barre (MA), 1971, [together Wood BSS 153 & 145], 4to (2) *** First mentioned: four reports written by Club members, and 2 by the Club manager in 1952-53; they investigate not only conditions affecting the salmon, but also wildlife observations more broadly, naming of pools, regional transportation and other matters of pertinence to members of a club well-known for its monitoring of the river's water conditions. Second mentioned: described by Wood as 'the finest book ever written on a salmon club, and one of the best in the entire literature of salmon fishing'. 

Norway.- Andrews (George) A Second Salmon Fishing Trip to Norway, June 10 to July 29, 1953, inclusive, with thirty-four actual days of fishing in the Flam and Olden Rivers, signed presentation inscription from the author to dedication leaf, 33 leaf typescript, with type on versos only, numerous black and white photographs stuck-down as illustrations within text, one of which with manuscript caption in ink below, contemporary cloth-backed boards, housed within later morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, [Wood BSS 1], folio, [Strasbourg], [privately printed], 1953.*** A well written account of a family fishing trip to the Flam and Olden Rivers in Norway by George Andrews, member of the U.S Foreign Service stationed in Strasbourg. Andrews wrote "As everyone knows who has tried to do it, it is damn hard to find out about and to rent good salmon fishing in Norway at the right time for each river", but this trip was successful - wading in the Flam and both wading and boat fishing on the Olden, Andrews senior exclusively with flies and his son with spoons and spinning gear as well.  Likely reproduced from typescript copy by mimeograph or some similar process.

Broadsides.- Nottingham Elections.- Houldsworth (Thomas) To the Electors of the Northern Division of the County of Nottingham, creases, short marginal tears, laid onto paper, Retford, B. Dewhirst, 1832 § All or None. To the Freemen of Nottingham and the Inhabitants Generally, foldlines, laid onto paper, ex-library with manuscript presentation inscription to verso, Nottingham, T. Kirk, 1839 § Town of Nottingham, woodcut coat of arms at head, ex-Nottingham Library with neat blind-stamp at top, laid onto linen, Nottingham, Burbage and Stretton, 1800, printed broadsides, a little rubbed, each c.275 x 215 mm., (3). *** Rare. All seemingly unrecorded. 

Indonesia.- Batak Pustaha [Magic Book], manuscript in Batak script on bast, 24 leaves, text in black ink with numerous illustrations, loss to fore-edge of blank leaf at end, some light surface mottling or soiling, occasional splitting to joints and one repaired with red stitching, leaves folding concertina-style, one finely carved wooden cover preserved but with portion of loss (lacking other cover), housed within cloth drop-back box, each leaf c.112 x 122mm., [Sumatra], [19th century].  *** This manuscript contains numerous drawings of chickens (the most common sacrificial animal among the Bataks), accompanied by various symbols; the text presumably consists of interpretation of the chicken oracle. 

Rome architect.- Verzili (Giuseppe, architect and engineer, fl. 1873-81) [Essays on new buildings and architecture in Rome], 46 separate manuscript essays, c. 450pp., central folds, slightly browned, loose in a contemporary half cloth folder, edges uncut, 4to, 1873-81. ***Verzili was a regular contributor on archtectural topics to the literary and artistic periodical Il Buonarroti. This collection of the original manuscripts of his articles cover the architectural controversies of the day, grand new town houses, church architecture, public works etc.

Jesuits.- Monita privata societatis..., title in Latin and Spanish, manuscript text in Spanish, title and 93pp., 3-line ink borders on text, slightly browned, old bookseller's description with ink inscription "Cosens sale Sotheby July 1890" on front free endpaper, bookplate of Frederick Cosens with ink library stamp of Car. I. Taboris superimposed upon it, front free endpaper loose, original half patterned calf, upper cover detached, sm. 4to (220 x 170mm.), [18th century]. *** An anonymous work. Allegedly a code of instructions addressed to the superiors of the Jesuit order outlining various methods of advancing the influence of the Society and attacking its enemies. In reality the work is a fabrication attributed to a disaffected Polish Jesuit, Hieronim Zahorowski. First published under the title: Monita privata societatis Jesu, Notebrigae, 1612 (i.e. Cracow, 1614). Provenance: Frederick Cosens (1819-89), hispanist; collector of Spanish books and manuscripts. 

Photograph Album.- Canada & US.- [Set of 3 Albums recording Trout Fishing in Maine and Salmon Fishing in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Scotland], c.1000 black and white photographs, most mounted within album corner-pieces and set 4 per page, sometimes more, and albums 2 and 3 with several larger (whole page) photographs, album 1 also with several colour postcards, most images with manuscript captions in white, and each album with a contents list in ?same hand at start, generally clean but album 1 with some instances of soiling or chips to photograph edges, album 2 with a couple of loose leaves at start, album leaves generally slightly brittle at edges, all three within uniform drab cloth, with manuscript titles in white to spines, slightly worn, each housed within modern custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, [Wood BSS 186], photographs between 65 x 65mm. - 255 x 198mm., oblong 4to, [1919-29].*** A remarkable set of photograph albums with around 1000 snap shots of fishing life and scenes, complied by a "G.K.W.". In the first album (1919-26): trout fishing in Maine, mainly at York's Twin Pine Camps on Daicey Pond near Greenville.  The second (1927-28): salmon fishing in New Brunswick on the Rivers Cains, Miramichi, Tobique and Upsalquitch. The Cairns trip in May, fishing for the 'black' salmon, that had over wintered in the river. The third (1928-29): salmon fishing on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, the Margaree River and on the Grand Codroy River in Newfoundland, and finally a trip to the Aberdeenshire River Dee in Scotland. In among the fishing scenes, scattered 'turist' shots (or postcards, album 1) of scenes or family members.  

Norway.- Flury (Roy, editor.) Alten. Red Letter Days. The Diary of Colonel Dalrymple-Hamilton, number 5 of 5 copies, signed by Flury on front endpaper, colour frontispiece, most leaves manuscript facsimile, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded and ends very lightly bumped, Oxford, 'published privately', 1994; Alten. Red Letter Days..., number 1 of 60 deluxe edition copies, title in red and black, original dark green half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, housed within original presentation cloth slipcase, pictorial gilt, Cambridge (MA), privately printed by Charles B. Wood III, 2009, both copies with black and white illustrations, [Wood BSS 12 & 13], large 8vo (2)*** Two different reproductions of Colonel Dalrymple-Hamilton's remarkable fishing adventures; the first very rare being one of only 5 copies. The original diary is still owned by the family.

Photograph Album.- Canada.- Scenes of, and, in, near and roundabout Runnymede Lodge, Ristigouche River, New Brunswick, Canada, 160 photographs of views and the lodge, surroundings and life, black and white prints, some panoramas, stuck down with multiple photographs per page (between 2-5), most with neat manuscript captions in white, album leaves brittle, contemporary limp leather, now disbound (but with the bolts and cords in envelope), housed within modern custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, [Wood BSS 184], photographs generally between c.300 x 87mm. (panoramas) and 137 x 79mm., oblong folio, [c.1916-1920].*** A sharp, detailed photographic record of the famous salmon camp and river. Taken by Edward Alan Olds, Jr., son-in-law of the builder and then owner of the camp, Archibald Mitchell (1844-1923), shots capture the buildings inside and out, views up and down the river, anglers fishing from long lapstraked double-ended river boats, some fine fresh run June salmon, and a few more artistic shots of surroundings. 

Patron Saint of Artists.- Mansueti (Christoforo) Vita della Beata Caterina di Bologna, text in Italian, large portrait woodcut to title, ink ownership inscription to head, some decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, [Edit16 CNCE 64409; not in Adams], Bologna, Giovanni Battista Bellagamba, 1599, bound with Sommaire de la Vie Admirable de S. Aldegonde, 2 parts in 1, text in French, woodcut trigram of the Society of Jesus to main title, divisional title, typographic decorations, Liege, Jean Tournay, 1625, together 2 works in 1, contemporary vellum with manuscript lettering to spine, some toning and dust-soiling, yapp edges, blue stained edges, small 8vo.*** Scarce. Catherine of Bologna was a 15th century Poor Clare, renowned for her artistic accomplishments and long venerated in Bologna, who was canonised in 1712 and is now the female patron saint of artists. The ink title inscription is dated 1630 and seemingly by a member of the Society of Jesus; in combination with the Jesuit printing of the second work (also a female saint's life), this suggests the two works were purposefully bound together as a devotional volume for a specific individual around the time of the second being published. 

[Watson (Thomas, editor)] The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces, first edition, woodcut illustrations, ex-library with ink-stamp to pastedown, foxing, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, upper joint repaired affecting gilt to spine, lower joint cracked, front free endpapers renewed, for J. Fletcher and Co., 1764 § [Whyte (Samuel) and others] A Collection of Poems, The Productions of the Kingdom of Ireland: Selected from...The Shamrock; or, Hibernian Cresses, 19th century ownership inscriptions to pastedown and front free endpaper, a few manuscript annotations to Contents leaves, B4 very small marginal hole, browning to margins of first few leaves, some light browning and foxing elsewhere, contemporary calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, some loss to spine ends, corners quite worn, rubbed, upper joint split and with backstrip peeled away, for S. Bladon, 1773, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others 18th century, most poetry, v.s. (c.35) 

1731 | PUBLISHER: Vetero - Pragae, Matthias Hoger | NUMBER OF PAGES: 456 + 212 + 304 | LANGUAGE: Latvian, German, Czech | DIMENSIONS: 250 x 200 mm | THE FULL TITLE OF THE WORK: Rituale Romano - Pragense. Jussu et Authoritate Reverendissimi ac Celsissimi Principis, domini, domini Ferdinandi e Comitibus de Khunburg, Dei et Apostolicae sedis gratia Archi - Episcopi Pragensis, Legati Nati, Sacri Roman Imperij Principis.Inclyti Bohemiae Regni Primatis, nec con Carolo Ferdinandeae Universtatis Pragensis perpetui Cancellarij. | NOTE: full - page copperplate engravings | CONDITION: last 12 pages manuscript, pages 89 - 130 missing, light insect damage | Bidders are requested to inquire about the condition of the lot prior to the auction. Any complaints will be disregarded.

1763 | PUBLISHER: Venice | NUMBER OF PAGES: 602 + index | LANGUAGE: Latin | DIMENSIONS: 365 x 245 mm | THE FULL TITLE OF THE WORK: Biblia Sacra Veteris et Novi Foederis Versiculis distincta | NOTE: illustrations | CONDITION: insect damage, damp stains, title page and first six leaves replaced by manuscript | Bidders are requested to inquire about the condition of the lot prior to the auction. Any complaints will be disregarded.

NADIRA AZZOUZ (IRAQI 1927-2020) ⊕ LADY WITH MAID signed in Arabic Nadira lower left oil on paper 47.5 x 33cm; 18 3/4 x 13in 81 x 66cm; 32 x 30in (framed) Property from a Private Collection, UK Executed in 1987. Provenance Acquired from the artist by the present owner Sold with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Family Nadira Azzouz started painting from the age of six, later studying art at the School of Domestic Fine Arts in Baghdad and the Central School of Art in London. Akin to most Iraqi artists of her generation who similarly studied overseas, her work is informed by the canon of twentieth-century international art while simultaneously displaying its own distinctive, Iraqi identity as found in Sumerian and Assyrian sculptures, medieval Arab manuscript illumination and the folk motifs of handicrafts and rugs. Her works can be found in the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, as well as prominent private international collections.

Ceylon One of the better stockcards pulled from the previous lot, with an exciting array of imperfs used, all with four margins (save the 8d just touching frame), including two attractive examples of the 4d dull rose SG.4 of different shades, and equally nice 9d examples and 2/-. Also an unlisted 1861-64 2d green unused with manuscript 'Specimen'. Minimum catalogue on the nine listed stamps is over £15,000, though the 6d is likely to be a better shade. Possible repairs or hidden faults when properly expertized, so a pessimistic estimate, however these all look nice and the collector paid $895 for one of the 4d examples alone (first stamp in photo).

Ceylon Postal history group, the album of QV and KEVII stationery mainly unused in excellent quality (24 different), along with the earlier covers found in the collector's working holding including presumably doubtful 1859 4d imperf (SG.4) on large-part cover to Scotland (missing some of the back) in any case the stamp looking genuine with four margins; 1852 stampless cover to Scotland with arched 'Pusilawe Post' filled with manuscript date and 'Paid'; 1851 cover with several backstamps incl. 'Kandy Steamer' cds sent to London and redirected to Scotland with imperf 1d red applied; also a cover of 1874 from Ceylon to Glasgow bearing two 1872 48cts rose with watermarks inverted (SG.130w. cat. £665 for on cover plus single). 30 items total. Please inspect.

Switzerland The thematic sections of the collection written-up on pages in folders, in 30 box-files, virtually every aspect of Swiss culture including architecture and castles, alpine horn playing, costumes, flora and fauna, soldier stamps, railways with many tpo cancels, folder on chocolate includes 'Choco Suisse' sheet and 1873 commercial entire to Mr. Suchard with purple arrival pmk of the factory, emboidered stamps, Zieher-style postcards illustrated with classic stamps, all kinds of unusual cinderella, machine stamps, printer's test labels incl. full sheets, masses of postal history from 19th century onwards, high face value on 21st century mint blocks, etc. The UPU folder has a 1905 postcard to Amani in German East Africa with manuscript postage due, cited to be one of the two known items to GEA to that date. Requires thorough viewing. From the collection of Tony Hoyle, former President of the Helvetia Philatelic Society of Great Britain.

British Commonwealth Correspondence of more than a dozen covers retained by a Post Master General in Aden and Somaliland, with Aden 1951 surcharge set on FDC, first QEII pictorial set on FDC; Nyasaland incl. 30/5/1933 First Nyasaland Flight and 7/3/34 First Nyasaland-Southern Rhodesia Flight, KGVI pictorials with manuscript inserted Luchenza registration, etc; also a 1944 registered cover from Switzerland to Zomba via Blantyre with Olympics issues and German censor seal and postmarks.

Great Britain and Canada Two plastic crates of albums and accessories, the Great Britain including three penny blacks all with four margins and one very nice with wide margins on three sides and red MX, then other line-engraved incl. ½d plate 9, KEVII £1 green clean with quite attractive and unusual manuscript cancel, 1913 Waterlow 10/- seahorse, etc. as well as a useful range of mint from 19th century onwards, through to decimal issues with approx. £350 face value. The Canada also in mixed condition yet with useful items, please inspect.

Great Britain 1922 KGV 3/- booklets SG.BB22. Edition 25, precancelled London type I, last pane loose otherwise very fine quality (cat. £850). Edition 42 with first and second panes inverted wmks, trimmed perfs on most panes, neatly dated in manuscript on front otherwise pristine (cat. £2,400). Absolute minimum cat. for the panes alone is £1,690.

King, William The Art of Cookery, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With Some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others Printed for Bernard Lintott, London The Oeconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin Carter and Wilkinson, Providence, Rhode Island, 1795 (2) Condition Report:Available upon request

A 19th century patinated bronze desk weight, as William Shakespeare holding a manuscript, mounted on a bronze roundel decorated with scrolls, 12cm high overall

CORNALLI, Joan(n)is Jacobi [Piacenza, 15th century]. Christidis libri, manuscript on paper, circa late 1480s, in all likelihood the codex unicus, an epic poem in Latin hexameter in five books (in one vol.), a life of Christ, with diversions into other topics, scribe unknown, in a Rotunda (Italian or Southern Textualis) script, with decorated initials in red and blue, rubricated titles, and combining flourish-work borders at sections, 155 pages of script in single column ruled on 78 leaves (another unused ruled leaf at end), notations within text and marginalia in a humanistic hand, likely Cornalus’ own, parts of some marginalia and flourish-work trimmed, some evidence of damp at edges, spotting and soiling in parts, worm tracks, trimmed in circa 18th century Continental quarter-calf with paste paper boards and contemporaneous endpapers, backstrip mostly lacking, boards detached and very worn, 22cm x 16cm.Inscription to fep 'Bought at Nield's, Burlington Arcade, price 5s' (see William Nield, 46. Burlington Arcade in 'Notes and Queries', Nov. 24th 1849). Initials to ffep 'LLI Nov 28/41 ac/y' and later owner's name 'F. W. Lambton, 41 Chesham Place, Belgrave Square, Easter 1850.'Thence by descent through the family of F. W. (Francis William) Lambton.Together with an accompanying undated research note.We are grateful to Dr Hester Schadee of the University of Exeter for her research on this manuscript:Johannes Jacobus Cornalus was active in the late fifteenth century. Three incunables of other works by Cornalus in several poetic genres, plus a dialogue in prose, appeared in the 1490s: Ode dicolos de norma bene beateque vivendi (1493), Epigramma et Dialogus notabilis (1494), and Carmen de vitio tripudiandi (1495).However, Cornalus’ Christis has never been printed, and no other manuscript copies appear to exist: the present manuscript is thus a codex unicus. It is likely that the corrections in the manuscript (both in rasura and cancellations plus insertions) are in the author’s own hand, representing his revisions of the Christis rather than corrections of scribal errors.In Book II, Cornalus describes a recent long-lasting plague in his hometown Piacenza. This would seem to be the bubonic plague of 1477-1486 which struck the province of Lombardy, and presumably also the neighbouring Po valley cities of Piacenza, Cremona and Mantua mentioned as affected by Cornalus. This dates the Christis to the late 1480s.The metrical form (dactylic hexameter) and invocation of divine inspiration designate the Christis as an epic, albeit one of scant literary value. That said, Cornalus’ decision to cast the life of Christ in the form of an epic in the 1480s anticipates the celebrated epic Christias (1535) by Marco Girolamo Vida.The manuscript was in the possession of the great eighteenth-century French bibliophile Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière, who died in 1780. It is included in the catalogue drawn up for the sale of his collection: Catalogues de Livres de la Bibliotèque De Feu M. Le Duc de la Vallière, Part I, tome 2 (1783), p.125, #2599. Presumably the eighteenth-century rebinding and trimming of the manuscript is related to this sale. Part of this collection was purchased by Antoine-René de Voyer de Paulmy d’Argenson and incorporated into the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris, which became the royal library of King Charles X of France.However, it is unlikely that this applies to this manuscript, for it next appears in London. It features in the monumental Catalogue of Books (1841), p.1134, #13526 published by Henry George Bohn, who was a book dealer and printer based in Covent Garden, and future founder of the Bohn’s Libraries series. The manuscript is valued at 15s.It appears that the manuscript was sold that very year, for the front free endpaper bears the annotation LLI Nov 28/41 ac/y, to wit: acquisition year 1841, 28 November; LLI may be the initials of the purchaser. If so, LLI was employed at, or resold the manuscript to, Nield’s of 46 Burlington Arcade, London, where it was purchased for 5s (!), as reported on the front pastedown, by F. W. Lambton of 41 Chesham Place, Belgrave Square, whose name appears on the ffep with the date Easter 1850.

REGIMENTAL BADGES. A George III working manuscript copy book of shoulder plate badges of the British army regiments, Master Thomas Hill or Gill, dated October 17th 1794, Bench Book No. 4, Rubbings ranging from 1800 to 1820, pen & ink or pencil, often with watercolour, militias and colonial regiments to the rear, seems to be a reuse of a arithmetic copy book with the individual plates then pasted in, old wear, discolouration, some pages loose, wear and splits to covers, 8vo

AUTHOR SIGNED POETRY. A collection of works of poetry, most signed by the authors and inscribed to the poet Patricia Beer, including: VALENTINE, Jean. Ordinary Things, typed manuscript copy with some pencil and ink annotations, inscribed 'for Patricia, with thanks and admiration, and affection from Jean July 31st 1974', 47 sheets (US letter) in accogrip folder; TURNER, W. Price. The Rudiment of an Eye, London: Villiers 1955, signed and inscribed 'For Patricia with love Bill Turner 1st January '56', cloth, dj, 12mo; and numerous others including works by Harvey Shapiro, Arthur Sale, Mary Swander, Leonard Clark, Octavio Paz, Anthony Rye, Ronald Bottrall, Roger Brirely, Robert Lowell, Lawrence Sail, Laurence Lerner, Thomas Blackburn, Peter Redgrove, Robert Wells, Grace Schulman, John Mole, Wes Magee, Penelope Shuttle, Peter Meinke, C. H. Sisson, Michael Hoyland, Tom Lowenstein, Ridley Beeton, Elaine Ferinstein, Paul Roche, Edward Lowbury, Roy Fisher, Patricia Harrison, D. J. Enright, Herbert Woodward Martin, Umberto A. Bellini, works from 1946 to 1990, variously bound, almost all signed & inscribed. (51)Provenance: The library of the poet and critic Patricia Beer (1919-1999).

A mid 19th century Victorian album of definitive postage stamps. The album with manuscript calligraphy & stamps pasted in, appearing to be lacking maj. of original collection but still with two Penny Red stamps, Penny Lilacs & Edwardian GB issues; as well as issues from Belgium, Bavaria, Holland, France, German Empire, India, Australia, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. Along with 1863 A Hand Catalogue of Postage Stamps for the Use of Collectors by John Edward Gray, Second Edition publ. Robert Hardwicke (front board loose but present). Album with spine loose but present.

A LOOSE BIFOLIO FROM A MAGHRIBI QUR'AN North Africa, MENA region, 14th - 15th centuryArabic manuscript on vellum, 6ll. of linear sepia ink maghribi script to the folio, the verso of the first page with an elegant illuminated heading and marginal medallion in gold, blue, and red, a single verse marker on the verso of the second page as a gold lobed trefoil with washed green and red dots, diacritics and vocalisation in burgundy red and blue.14.7cm x 13.8cm the folio 14.7cm x 13.8cm the folio Qty: 1

A LARGE ILLUMINATED QAJAR OPENING BIFOLIO Qajar Iran, mid to late 19th centuryPersian manuscript on lined paper, the two rectangular text panels of the opening bifolio with 9ll. respectively of black ink nasta'liq script, clustered in cloudbands reserved against a bright, burnished gold ground, set within densely illuminated and polychrome-painted borders with cusped arabesque medallions in-filled with two-tone blue and pink roses issuing gilt scrolling meanders and floral interlace on a cobalt blue ground, the reverse with further 15ll. of black ink nasta'liq script and catchword on the recto and the verso unfinished, set in a white cardboard mount.40cm x 50cm including the mount 40cm x 50cm including the mount Qty: 1

AN INCOMPLETE LATE QAJAR QUR’AN: SURA QAF TO AN-NAS Iran, late 19th centurySura Fatiha (1), Qaf (50) to An-Nas (114), missing a few chapters in-between, accounting approximately 57 suras in total, Arabic manuscript on wove paper, 86ff. with 2 fly-leaves, with 10ll. of black ink riqa' script to the page, and interlinear Persian translation in red ink nasta'liq script, the opening bifolio illuminated and painted in blue, green and red, decorated with large cusped two-tone arches at the top of the page, in-filled with dense floral interlace and vegetal meanders, a similar decorative pattern repeated around the borders, ayat markers as gold roundels, the text of the opening bifolio clustered in cloudbands against a burnished gold ground, the first two sura title headings in gold, the remaining ones in green ink, with full diacritics, marginal notes, catchwords, and illuminated hizb markers, the text panel framed within red and blue rules, in a deep burgundy red morocco leather binding tooled with three cusped arabesque medallions on each side.22.5cm x 12cm the text panel30cm x 20cm the folio 22.5cm x 12cm the text panel, 30cm x 20cm the folio Qty: 1

AN ILLUMINATED DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT BY MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1465) Possibly Balkans, Western Ottoman Provinces, dated 1211 AH (1796 AD), signed by Muhammad Bin HassanArabic manuscript on European watermarked lined paper, 380ff. with 7 fly-leaves, with 27ll. of black ink naskh script to the page, the illuminated and polychrome-painted opening folio with a large, cusped arch in-filled with floral interlace, the text without diacritics, important passages underlined in red ink and marked with gold roundels, illustrated with an illuminated rectangular cartouche depicting a three-quarter aerial view of the two sacred enclosures of the holiest sites in Islam, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca with the black Ka'ba in the centre and the Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque, in Medina, the text set within black and red rules, and narrow gold borders, signed by Muhammad Bin Hassan and dated 1211 AH, accompanied by a note in French on one of the final fly-leaves referring to the location of its finding (Serbia), in a gilt printed brown calf leather binding with flap.16.3cm x 10.2cm the text panel23cm x 16.5cm the folio The handwritten French note accompanying this manuscript mentions that the tome was found in Serbia during WWI. It was retrieved by Maurice Guillier, the Lieutenant of the 260th Regiment, during the evacuation of the Serbian villages on the border with Ottoman territories in December 1915. The unusual horizontal format of the illuminated illustration of Mecca and Medina's sacred enclosures together with this provenance note raise interesting questions about the origins of this manuscript. The lack of diacritics in the text and rather plain naskh script point towards a provincial Ottoman production, perhaps in the Balkan regions, well before the rise of Balkan nationalism and independence movements, which triggered revolutions and anti-Islamic sentiments throughout the area from the early 19th century onwards. 16.3cm x 10.2cm the text panel, 23cm x 16.5cm the folio Qty: 1

A LOOSE BIFOLIO FROM A MAGHRIBI QUR'AN North Africa or Al-Andalus, Spain, 13th - 14th centuryArabic manuscript on vellum, 13ll. of slender sepia ink maghribi script to the folio, verse markers as gold lobed trefoils with red dots, a hizb marker as a circular medallion with red and blue dots, diacritics and vocalisation in burgundy red, blue, green and yellow.15.4cm x 13.5cm the folio 15.4cm x 13.5cm the folio Qty: 1

AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QUR’AN Ottoman Turkey, 19th centuryArabic manuscript on paper, 308.ff. with 2 fly-leaves, with 15ll. of black ink naskh script to the page, the illuminated and polychrome-painted opening bifolio and colophon decorated with typical motifs of Ottoman 19th-century manuscripts such as fleshy foliage, flower petals, rosettes sprays, large drop-shaped medallions in-filled with stylised blossoms, and vegetal sprays on the borders, all set against a burnished gold ground, sura headings in white on gold, ayat markers as gold roundels, full diacritics, catchwords, text amendments in red ink, illuminated marginal markers as composite flowers, the text set within black and red rules, the colophon with the calligrapher's name, Seyyed Mohammad Wasef, and the reciters' names, Mir Seyyed Mohammad Shaker and Abu al-Wasef, in a typical Ottoman tooled brown calf leather binding with flap on one side and cusped gilt arabesque medallions on each side.11cm x 6cm the text panel17cm x 10.5cm the folio 11cm x 6cm the text panel, 17cm x 10.5cm the folio Qty: 1

A CALLIGRAPHIC EXERCISE IN DEVANAGARI SCRIPT India, late 19th - early 20th centuryIndian manuscript on wove , silver-sprinkled paper, with 8ll. of bold, black ink Devanagari script to the page, the calligraphic exercise opening with a row of Indian alphabet vowels and proceeding with consonants and joint letters such as ksh, kr, and tr, on the lower right corner a string of decimal numerals from 1 to 11, the central field decorated with découpaged squares pasted in between the calligraphic lines, the composition encased within orange and brown-painted concentric borders.45cm x 31cm 45cm x 31cm Qty: 1

Clementine Spencer-Churchill (later Baroness): seven typed letters on Princess Gate headed stationary, dated between 4th March 1970 and 22nd November 1974, each boldly hand signed in blue ink, one on the reverse and a printed card, each expressing thanks (8) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political)* Clementine Spencer-Churchill (nee Hozier) married Winston Churchill in 1908. She died in 1977.

HM King Albert II of the Belgians: a card on Belvedere mourning stationary printed in French with thanks for sympathy on the death of Leopold III, autopen signed, 109 x 135mm, with envelope postmarked 20.10.83 (2)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Prince Albert of Monaco: a mourning card for Princess Grace signed in black biro with envelope and eleven Christmas cards from 1991 to 2007, each with printed signature, some with envelopes (a lot)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

HRH Crown Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden (later King Carl VI): nine various embossed cards expressing thanks, each autopen signed, another upon his engagement, jointly autopen signed with Silvia (10)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Rt Hon Harold Macmillan MP: an archive of seven typed letters spanning the years 22nd September 1969 to 22nd October 1980 on headed paper expressing thanks, each hand signed in ink, 203 x 127mm(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political)

Prince Rainier of Monaco: nine various Christmas cards with printed signatures and two others with printed signatures including those of his children, some with envelopes (a lot)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Deborah Kerr: a typed letter dated October 25th 1972 signed in blue felt tip, 203 x 153mm and two similarly signed cards (3) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript,celebrity, famous, actor)

Douglas Fairbanks Junior: an archive of ten letters on variously headed paper spanning the years February 27, 1975 to December 29, 1982 each hand signed in ink, some with handwritten salutation, one with corrections (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political)

HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor: a typed letter dated July 8 1969 on 4 Route du Champ d’Entrainement headed paper expressing thanks for birthday wishes, hand signed ‘E Duke of W’ in blue ink, 196 x 146mm (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

HRH Princess Desiree of Sweden, Baronesse Silfverschiold: a handwritten and signed card dated 16th Oct 1973 expressing thanks for sympathy together with the handwritten envelope in the same hand (2)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Rt Hon Tony Benn MP: two letters on Commons stationary, one typed one handwritten, both signed and another typed dated 16 May 2001, ink signed ‘Tony’, each A4, also one signed card on the subject of Iraq (4)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political)

HRH Prince Edward, second Duke of Kent: a letter on York House mourning stationary dated 4th September 1979 following the tragic death of Lord Mountbatten and another dated 12th June 1981 expressing thanks for good wishes on his wedding anniversary, both typed with hand written salutation and signature in black ink, 241 x 190mm, both neatly folded (2)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Rt Hon Harold Wilson MP: two typed letters on House of Commons stationary, both signed one with salutation and another dated 23rd May 1983 with salutation and signature, largest 251 x 200mm (3) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political)

Sir Hardy Amies: a typed letter dated 24th June 1977 on embossed stationary, hand signed, 203 x 152mm and Anthony Blunt: a typed letter on Courthauld Institute embossed paper dated 1st October 1973, signed in blue biro (2) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, dressmaker, spy)

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor: two notelets printed with thanks for Christmas wishes, each signed in felt tip pen, another with handwritten envelope and salutation dated 1977, another similar inscribed in blue biro and dated 1978, a notelet written in blue biro dated June 1977 together with the envelope, four printed Christmas notelets, four printed ‘thank you’ notelets, a printed mourning card with typed envelope, two typed letters signed by the private secretary and two envelopes (a lot)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Joyce Grenfell: an extensive archive of twenty-one letters and cards with some envelopes, spanning the years July 1970 to September 1979, mostly handwritten in ink and signed, referring to ‘Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure’ and ‘In Pleasant Places’, television, travel, South Africa, Australia and Aldeburgh Festival. (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political)

Lord Laurence Olivier: an archive if seventeen typed letters dated between 22nd June 1976 and 20th February 1981, each hand signed, also one card, all expressing thanks, mostly 176 x 140mm (18) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, actor)

Dame Sybil Thorndike Casson: an archive of twenty-five letters and six cards dated between August 15th 1969 and 24th Jan, 1975, mostly typed on Swan Court headed notepaper and hand signed, mostly 203 x 153mm (a lot) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous)

Charles Prince of Wales (later King Charles III): a typed letter dated 15th February 1985 on Kensington Palace stationery, 328 x 203mm and another typed letter dated 13th April 1995 on Highgrove stationary, 236 x 187mm with envelope, both expressing thanks, with handwritten salutation, wishes and signed in black ink, both neatly folded (3)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Alan Bennett: a handwritten letter 164 x 115mm, together with the envelope postmarked 14 March 1977 (2)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, author)

Sir Chris Bonnington: a letter dated 21st January. 1976 on A4 headed paper expressing thanks for congratulations on being appointed CBE, hand signed in black ink. Sir Ranulph Fiennes: a typed letter dated 11th April 1979 on Transglobe Expedition A4 headed paper expressing thanks and enclosing a brochure, hand signed in blue biro and another handwritten letter dated 12.11.82, with envelope and a typed letter dated 3rd March 2004 (7)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, explorer)

Rt Hon John Major MP and Norma Major: a handwritten and signed letter dated February12th (1981) regarding his recent appointment (as Parliamentary private secretary), with envelope, another typed on A4 paper, dated 19th June 2001, with handwritten salutation and signed. (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, political) 

Sir John Gielgud: a handwritten and signed letter on embossed stationary dated 6th July (1973) regarding the reprieve for The Coronet Theatre, 227 x 178mm, with postmarked envelope, another typed hand inscribed Chichester Aug 17th signed and a handwritten card with Munich hotel address dated December 16, 81 regarding his brother’s death (5) (signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, actor)

HM Queen Ingrid of Denmark: a printed letter and signature on Amalienborg stationary expressing thanks for sympathy following the death of King Frederick IX, 219 x 172mm, with envelope postmarked 21.2.72 (2)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, royalty)

Yehudi Menutin: eight letters and a postcard dated between 4th May 1970 and 29th April 1981, all typed except the postcard and hand signed expressing thanks for birthday wishes etc. also a hand signed letter from Mrs Yehudi Menuine dated 15th May 1973 on the subject of Highgate Cemetery, 228 x 176mm (a lot)(signed, autograph, letter, document, manuscript, celebrity, famous, musician)