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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author [London, 1881] single volume, half-title inscribed and signed by Rossetti, publication page with ex-libris stamp, 4pp. autograph manuscript letter tipped-into end of volume (appearing before the advertisements), Chelsea Library ex-libris presentation bookplate to upper pastedown, original decorated cloth, spine and covers gilt, paper label pasted to spine,, bright and attractive copy, 8vo Provenance: Gifted by D.G. Rossetti to Norman MacColl (1843-1904, editor of the Athenaeum), in 1881. Then passed by descent to MacColl's nearest relative Alice Mabel Erskine Jackson, her autograph letter tipped into the end of the volume, dated 17 January 1926.

Illuminated manuscript - Limited edition facsimile (147/980) of 'The Bedford Hours', Lucerne, Switzerland; Faksimile Verlag Luzern 2006, having red velvet cover, gilt clasps and edges in gilt, with commentary volume, within Perspex box. This fine art facsimile volume is a complete and faithful recreation of the manuscript MS. Add.18850 preserved in the British Library, London. The binding is modelled on the binding executed for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford Condition: **General condition consistent with age - For a more detailed condition report please contact department

Russia 1937 Pushkin Exhibition Moscow SG733c miniature sheet used on piece; cancel 2 "dumb" strikes endorsed in Cyrillic manuscript Oct 1937, stamped red deceased

Russia 1923 inflated postal tariffs; Env registered cancel Moscow 23.4.1923 SG293 strip 5, SG304, SG305 strip 5 x 3, purple manuscript registered no 618, received 2.5.1923 Zurich; Env registered 24,4.1923 Yelizavetgrad SG295 strip 5, SG300 strip 5, SG310, 2 styles registration stamps Yelizavetgrad no 814 Moscow transit cancel 28.4.1923recived 5.5.1923 Zurich

JAMES PARDON (1792-1862)'Samuel'oil on canvas36 x 27 1/2 inProvenance: W. J. Clement. Esq ,MP William Hall, Wateridge & Owen, Auctioneers, Shrewsbury, November 10th 1881, Lot 25. £13 Anon W. Elsmere, Esq. Thence by descentA copy of the 1881 William Hall, Wateridge & Owen auction catalogue is sold with the painting; together with a manuscript letter from W. Elsmere dated 25/11/1881. That letter refers to Pardon's painting of Samuel and is addressed to the original purchaser at the 10 November 1881 auction. Elsmere writes..'I am obliged by your favour of this morning, but not being too much of a judge of pictures myself, I do not feel inclined to offer a fancy price for the painting alluded to. My sole reason for wishing to possess it is that a near relative of mine sat for that picture when a child...'James 'Canterbury' Pardon was trained at the R. A. Schools and initially exhibited at the Royal Academy from addresses in London and Canterbury where he was noted in a local Directory as 'a portrait painter and carver/gilder' of 51, St.Peter's Street, Canterbury. In about 1837 he moved to the Midlands, and in 1851 he opened a portrait studio in Shrewsbury. There he painted a number of local figures including RiceWynne, Mayor of Shrewsbury and Robert Darwin (father of Charles Darwin), then a doctor at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

A Burmese Kammavaca Pali Manuscript, Mandalay Period, late 19th Century, complete with 16 numbered leaves, some illustrated with celestial adorants, within two red and gold shwe zawa decorated wood covers, 5 x 22in.Footnote: Consisting of passages from the Buddhist canon Tipitaka, Kammavaca manuscripts are usually highly ornamental, with thickly applied lacquer and gilded decorations on both covers and leaves, and Pali text written in ornate Burmese characters, so-called 'tamarind-seed' script. They are often commissioned by lay patrons as gifts to monasteries.

An eastern illuminated manuscript page 20cm x 30cm.

ANONYMOUS COURT PAINTER (QIANLONG, DATED 1750-59) ALBUM LEAVES FROM THE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD REGULATIONS Twelve rare Chinese paintings, all with inscriptions from the Huang Chao Li Qi Tu Shi (The Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Present Dynasty), ink, colour and gilt on silk, eight of the double pages bear an explanatory text about the object on the right page, 41cm x 42.5cm. (10) Provenance: by repute, from the Imperial Library of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, acquired in 1860 by Captain William Gordon Chalmers (1835-1868) of the 15th Punjabees (Pioneers), later numbered 23rd. Acquired by the father of the current owner c.1950s directly from the family of Captain Chalmers. Captain William Gordon Chalmers was born in Monkshill, Aberdeen in 1835 and became a Lieutenant in the 51st Bengal Native Infantry on the 27th January 1857. In 1860, he served in the Second Opium War at the Taku Forts, Tianjin, and Beijing. Cf. I Clark, For Blessings and Guidance: the Qianlong Emperor's Design for State Sacrificial Vessels, p. 74, fig.35 for another leaf from the Huang Chao Li Qi Tu Shi in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing depicting a deng vessel of the same design. The author also describes this vessel which was used in the Temple to Imperial Ancestors. See also p.187, no.21 for a pair of deng vessels of the same design from the Huaihaitang Collection, no.18R10.11; see The Victoria and Albert Museum, London for similar album leaves, and Christie's Paris, 13th December 2017, lot 108 for related examples recently sold at auction. The Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Present Dynasty is a manuscript commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor. It was a major Imperial commission and as many as twenty-seven court painters and calligraphers worked on it between 1750 and 1759 under five editors including Yilu, Wang Youdin and Guanbao. The book is comprised of six parts: musical instruments, scientific equipment, ceremonial vessels, dress, weaponry and insignia. They contain more than thirteen hundred leaves of illustrations and texts explaining the specifications of paraphernalia used in the highly complex state ritual practices. There are many versions of this book but the leaves in this present lot are from the original edition kept at the Wenyuan Pavilion Library of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing.允祿、蔣溥、汪由敦等（清乾隆） 皇朝禮器圖式 十二開冊款識：1. 太廟後殿登圖，太廟後殿登，說見正殿。2. 職官甲二圖，職官甲二，謹按本朝定制職官甲前後及護肩各繡團蟒一裳幅團蟒二倶如職官甲一之制文三品以下驍騎恭領郡君額駙縣君額駙嚮君額駙直省副將以下皆被之。3. 皇帝大駕鹵簿九龍曲蓋圖，皇帝大駕鹵簿九龍曲蓋，謹按崔豹古今注太公因折蓋之形而製曲蓋自漢朝秉與用四，乾隆十三年，欽定大駕鹵簿九龍曲蓋黃緞為之通高一丈二尺二寸，蓋徑五尺，繡彩雲上冠金頂一尺一寸，垂幨三層各深一尺一寸，繡金龍九間以流雲火珠下綴金鈴各十五，旁垂彯帶二長三尺五寸濶二寸五分如蓋色亦繡彩雲綴鈴各三曲柄為木質塗金龍首徑二尺三寸上下攢竹髹朱上長三尺七寸下長五尺二寸圍四寸七分，鐓以銅鋄銀長八分。法架鹵簿九龍曲蓋同。4. 皇帝大駕鹵簿九龍蓋圖，皇帝大駕鹵簿九龍蓋，謹按遼史，儀衛志直柄華蓋乾隆十三年欽定大駕鹵簿九龍蓋黃緞為之直柄餘倶如九龍曲蓋之制法駕。鑾駕鹵簿九龍蓋皆同。5. 皇帝大駕鹵簿翠華蓋圖，皇帝大駕鹵簿翠華蓋，謹按揚雄甘泉賦，咸翠蓋而鸞旂李善注翠羽飾蓋宋元嘉起居注訶羅國奉孔雀蓋一具元史輿服志孔雀蓋朱漆竿首建小蓋蓋頂以孔雀毛徑尺許下垂孔雀毛尾，乾隆十三年，欽定大駕鹵簿翠華蓋綠緞為之通繡孔雀翎旁無彯帶餘倶如九龍曲蓋之制。法駕鹵簿翠華蓋同。6. 皇帝大駕鹵簿五色花改圖，皇帝大駕鹵簿五色花蓋，謹按崔豹古今注，華蓋黃帝所作也與蚩尤戰於逐鹿之野有五色雲氣金枝玉葉於帝上有花蘤之象故因而作華蓋唐書儀衛志花蓋二元史輿服志華蓋制如繖而圓頂隆起赤製繡雜花乾隆十三年，欽定大駕鹵簿五色花蓋五色緞為之各四每間以龍蓋二通繡雜花直柄餘倶如九龍曲蓋之制。法駕騎駕鹵簿五色花蓋皆同。7. 皇帝大駕鹵簿五色龍蓋圖，皇帝大駕鹵簿五色龍蓋，謹按桓譚新論三蓋之屬皆元黃五色乾隆十三年，欽定大駕鹵簿五色龍蓋五色緞為之各二與花蓋相間直柄餘倶如九龍曲蓋之制。法駕鹵簿五色龍蓋同。8. 皇帝大駕鹵簿紫芝蓋圖，皇帝大駕鹵簿紫芝蓋，謹按漢書揚雄傳翳華芝服虔注華芝華蓋也，張衡西京賦芝蓋九葩薛綜注以芝為蓋有九葩之采魏書禮志前驅芝蓋乾隆十三年，欽定大駕鹵簿紫芝蓋緞為之通繡五色芝二十四旁無彯帶餘倶如九龍曲蓋之制。法駕鹵簿紫芝蓋同。9. 皇帝大駕鹵簿方繖圖。皇帝大駕鹵簿方繖圖。10. 皇帝大駕鹵簿五色龍蓋圖。皇帝大駕鹵簿五色龍蓋圖。來源：1950年代由現藏家的父親從Chalmers軍官（1835-1868）處購得。1835年William Gordon Chalmers出生於阿伯丁，1857年1月27日晉升為中尉。縱觀中國文明歷史，有關祭禮的文字記錄最早可以追溯到東周的《周禮》及戰國時期的《禮記》。祭禮在中國文化中一直扮演著重要的角色，其作用為區分地位等級、規範禮制，從而鞏固國家統治。清代乾隆皇帝重視推行禮制改革，並下旨按新規格製作宮廷祭器及大禮用具，這些新的規章制度都記錄在《皇朝禮器圖式》中。《皇朝禮器圖式》是一部冊頁式的圖譜，乾隆十五年（1750）碩親王允祿（1695-1767）、蔣溥（1708-1761）、汪由敦（1692-1758）等禮部、兵部及工部奉敕纂修的記載各種清朝典章制度器物的政書，並與乾隆二十四年（1959）完成。全書共十八卷，分為六大部分：卷一、二為祭器，卷三為儀器，卷四至七為冠服，卷八、九為樂器，卷十至十二位滷簿，卷十三至十八位武備及繁複的清代宮廷祭典需要的各種用具。圖文並茂，共計1300幅圖，每件器物都有詳細尺寸、質地、紋樣以及相應官職品級的對照。全書是清朝皇庭對典章登記制度之嚴謹的直接寫照。此書有乾隆內府彩繪本、手抄本、乾隆三十一年（1766）武英殿刻本，清光緒重印本等。本次上拍的《皇朝禮器圖式》為曾藏於文苑閣內的清宮內府彩繪本中的十二開冊，其它部分散落各處，英國維多利亞與阿爾伯特博物館、大英圖書館、愛丁堡博物館及愛爾蘭博物館都有收藏。其中太廟後殿登圖中所描繪的黃地粉彩九龍穿雲紋登在香港中文大學文化館特展《皇朝禮器》中展出，由懷海棠收藏。

1888 New Howe Cycles. Published in 1887 for the 1888 season, a French text catalogue of 24pp and card cover. Excellent images of cross-framed Safety Bicycles, Ordinaries, Tricycles, Tandem Tricycles and Box Carrier. The cover a little soiled, blue ink manuscript date, otherwise clean and tidy.

+ An early 20th century leather Gladstone bag, by Harrods, containing various scales and tools, together with a 19th century auctioneer's leather money bag, engraved to the lock plate Messrs Fitch and GoodChild, containing two gavels and a manuscript on the Fitch family. Fitch & Goodchild preceded the auctioneer Charles Boardman, who took over the firm circa 1895

* Rolls-Royce. Instructions for Rolls-Royce Aero Engines, "Eagle" Series I. to VIII. "Falcon" Series I., II., and III., December, 1917, black & white illustrations and diagrams, ink stamp to title, some toning and spotting, original cloth, paper label & faint ring mark to upper cover, 8vo, together with Beardmore Aero Engine , Instrustions for Care and Management of the Beardmore Aero Engine, 4th edition, October, 1917, black & white diagrams, ink stamp and manuscript clasification to title, original printed wrappers, small paper label to upper cover, slim 8vo, with Clerget Patent Aero Engines , 9B-130 Horse, 9BF- 150 Horse, 1917, black & white diagrams, ink stamp and manuscript classification to front free endpaper, original blue leather grained cloth gilt, paper label to upper cover, slim 8vo, plus other aviation related booklets and pamphlets including, Specification of Rolls-Royce 270 Horse Power Aero Engine, September 1919 & November 1920; Rolls-Royce 360 Horse Power Aero Engine, September 1919 & November 1920; Rocketry at Rolls-Royce, 1964; Services Rendered 1939-1945, Rolls-Royce, c.1945 and various reprints from the Aeroplane magazine, published 1950s (Qty: 19)

British Troops in Austria. Exercise Highball DS issue, (Restricted) Austria, 26th to 30th July 1948, approximately 160 leaves printed to rectos only, some folding plans, some forms with typed details and a few minor manuscript marks, contents printed to front pastedown and 5 thumb tabs for separate parts, original cloth, some soiling and slightly split along joints, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESThis is the Directing Staff edition with additional matter not in the general issue (differentiated by being printed on pink paper) of this comprehensive series of study notes and directives for a major exercise relating to recent and possible future events in Palestine and the Suez Canal. One particular objective was to enable officers to 'study the latest machinery and technique' of Air Support, notably air movement of troops, air supply and offensive air support.

* [Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821]. An autograph letter signed by Napoleon Bonaparte's eldest brother Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844), together with an autograph letter signed Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), plus a printed & manuscript note signed by Napoleon's youngest brother Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846), together with a small sliver of wood, piece of cotton wool and tiny piece of fabric, identified in accompanying manuscript note written by a British soldier allegedly present on St. Helena when Napoleon's body was exhumed for return to France as being a piece of Napoleon's original coffin, a piece of the shroud which covered Napoleon's body at St Helena, and a piece of the cloth which covered the coffin, together with an autograph manuscript verse, circa 1815 entitled 'On Seeing a Panorama of Napoleon Bonaparte's Departure to St Helena', plus a printed copy of the Republican Constitution of France, plus a printed copy of a letter from Napoleon to Cardinal Camaceres dated 1800, plus Gallais (Jean Pierre). Histoire de la Révolution du 20 Mars 1815, ou Cinquiéme et Derniére Partie de L'Histoire du 18 Brumaire et de Buonaparte, Paris, 1815, half-title and errata leaf present, signature of R.H. Vivian to titlepage, contemp. half red sheep gilt, 8vo (Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, Baron, 1775-1842. With the Vivian armorial bookplate to upper pastedown) (Qty: 7)

World War II. RAF logbook of special operations in south-east Asia, 1943-5, belonging to Robert P. Lewis, flight engineer, aircraft type mainly Catalina, also Dominie and Lancaster, 959 hours logged (of which approx. 100 carried over, and 50 relating to post-war exercises), describing training exercises at RAF Killadeas, escort flights, then transit to Madras via Africa with 240 Squadron, operations commencing in February 1944 and including reconnaissance flights, sightings of Japanese submarines, and special operations ‘Balmoral’ (6 September), ‘Barn Owl’ I-III (2, 4, 27 October), ‘Biff’ I-II (29 & 31 October) and ‘Influx’ (30 January 1945), stamped and signed throughout by flight commander, various documents pasted in, including a typescript notice signed A. G. R. Garrod as deputy commander-in-chief, south-east Asia, offering congratulations for the success of the special operations, contemporary tan cloth binding, spine and front board lettered in manuscript, 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), together with: original typescript reports of operations Balmoral and Barn Owl I-II (7 foolscap sheets), and 2 further logbooks from Lewis, one a copy logbook recording Lewis’s transit across Africa to India, the other dated 6 October 1942-28 October 1943 and including gunnery training at Barrow-in-Furness in a Defiant, and training exercises at Killadeas in a Catalina, signed by course commander (flight lieutenant), one section loose (Qty: 4)NOTESRobert P. Lewis appears to have held the rank of leading aircraftman in October 1942 and to have been promoted warrant officer by 1944, though he is identified in the accompanying typescript reports on operations Barn Owl and Balmoral as holding the commissioned rank of flying officer, and names himself on the coer of his logbook as a flight lieutenant. According to the typescript reports the object of secret operation Barn Owl was 'To proceed to Bentinck Island ... in the Isthmus of Kra, and collect eight Japanese prisoners, who had stumbled on four British agents, under Capt. Nichols, of the Kachen Levies'; that of Balmoral was 'To proceed with two U. S. Army Lietuenants, and one Malay guide, and drop them on Davis Island, 16 miles to the S.W. of Victoria Point, on the Burmese Siam border. They were to send back movements and strength of Japanese convoys moving between Singapore and Rangoon. Secondarily, to chart the waters around the local islands and recco them with a view to future landings'.

World War II; Pacific Theatre. Small archive relating to a British naval officer's internment at Sham Shui Po POW camp, Hong Kong, c.1942-5, comprising: 1) 22 pencil or pen-and-ink sketches of camp scenes, including emaciated prisoners and caricatured Japanese guards, rectos only on 22 leaves of lined paper, wire-stitched with 3 further leaves of manuscript notes, small damp-stain to corners of outer leaves, 20 x 16 cm; 2) booklet of manuscript poetry, literary quotations and other aide-memoires, including a list of titles headed 'I remember books - keep mind sane', and apparently original poetry attributed to other inmates, 10 leaves each with printed Chinese caption within box recto, browned, creased from folding, 20.5 x 14 cm; 3) large manuscript folding map of Hong Kong, pencil with red and blue grease pen depicting troop movements and water bodies, linen-backed, a few holes to intersections of folds, opening to approx. 80 x 100 cm; 4) silver gelatin portrait print of naval officers, annotated verso '1951, Commissioned Masters-at-Arms Course. Royal Naval Regulating School, "H.M.S. Excellent"' with sitters identified, 19.5 x 22 cm; 5) a group of 4 near-contemporary photostats of Japanese propaganda, and 2 wire-stitched photostat booklets of typescript poetry apparently composed by prisoners of war during or after internment (Qty: qty)NOTESProvenance: Guildford Ronald Edwards RN (1921-1994), sometime provost marshall and lieutenant-commander; thence by descent. According the family Edwards would have compiled these sketches and notes while under psychiatric observation after the end of the war.

ARR* Beddoes (Ivor, 1909-1981). A rare group of 21 watercolour and pencil drawings on paper of scenes mostly from the London Blitz, many taken from life, 1940-41, including 14 drawings in watercolour and pencil on paper of the blitz from a series marked 'ARP', all 38 x 56 cm, together with a related charcoal drawing of the same size and 3 smaller watercolours of blitz scenes, plus 3 further watercolours from a series made by Beddoes in North Wales in February 1941, the majority of drawings in mounts with window apertures, and with pencil titles, notes and dates to margins, mounts and sheet versos, some signed or initialled by Beddoes in pencilNOTES1) Stretcher party - collecting bodies, Hampstead, depot 1 30 October 1940, ARP no. 2; 2) Rescue party cutting through to trapped people, Hampstead depot 1, memory drawing, 30 October 1940, ARP no. 3; 3) Incendiary bomb in the street, Westbere Road, NW2, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 4; 4) Stretcher bearers waiting for the mortuary van, Hampstead, Nov. 1940. ARP no. 6; 5) Scene sketched in Tube - Midnight, during London Blitz, Oct. 1940. ARP no. 7; 6) Memory drawing after the bomb, Nov. 1940. ARP no. 8; 7) Rescue party calling for the living, memory drawing, London, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 9; 8) Fordwich Road incident - taking body on stretcher over garden wall, Nov. 1940. ARP no. 10; 9) WVS Canteen giving tea, from notes made on the spot near Swiss Cottage station, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 11; 10) Recreational depot no. 1. SPs playing snooker, from notes made on the spot, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 12; 11) Another body, composite picture from rough notes taken when no one was looking, hospital in Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 13; 12) Depot lecture on incendiary bombs, memory drawing, Nov. 1940, ARP no. 18; 13) Drawing from rough notes made on the spot. RE removing DA bomb (Belsize Avenue - 11.40), Nov. 1940. ARP no. 19, 38 x 56 cm; 14) SP at work, Nov. 29 1940. ARP no. 20, all watercolour and pencil, 38 x 56 cm; 15) Smoke from fires, after raid, as seen from roof - Piccadilly Circus. Drawing started during actual raid, approx. 6 o'clock, 7 September 1940, charcoal drawing, 38 x 56 cm; 16) In the first two weeks after the declaration of the war 1939 ARP shelters were built with borough labour & civilian help, Finchley, North London, watercolour, 28 x 39 cm; 17 & 18) Two untitled drawings of sand bagging, green wash and pencil, 20 x 27 and 20 x 18 cm; 19) AC post observation, Prestatyn, 20 February 1941, 2nd STC series no. 1, watercolour and india ink, 23 x 25 cm; 20) Sand dunes and barbed wire looking towards Great Orme Head from Prestatyn, 2nd STC series no. 2, 23 February 1941, watercolour, 30 x 41 cm; 21) Rhyd Farm, North Wales, 2nd STC series no. 18, watercolour, 35 x 51 cm.Ivor William Gilmour Beddoes (1909-1981) was a British painter, sketch and storyboard artist, costume and set designer, dancer, composer and poet. He is best known for his film work, spanning more than thirty years, from Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes to Star Wars and Superman. Prior to his being called up at the end of 1940, and then serving with the Royal Signal Corps, Beddoes had been working at the Windmill Theatre in London's West End. In an autobiographical made some written shortly before his death, Beddoes wrote: 'one night in 1940 I walked off the stage to become a stretcher-bearer in the blitz on London. Then I went into the army. I never went back into the profession.' In a letter to the Artist's Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Information, (dated 10 October 1940), Beddoes explains how he came to make these remarkable drawings: '… [I] submit to you the accompanying sketches in the hope that they might be of use as documentary evidence or, in any other way that you might think useful. I am a scenic designer, and happened to be watching the raid last Saturday afternoon from the roof of a building in Piccadilly Circus. I was able to make a quick sketch of the effects of fires caused by the bombs dropped on South London, and again, later in the evening I made two sketches with colour notes of the fire, and added the colour afterwards. Should the sketches be of any use to you, I should be pleased if you would accept them and perhaps any future sketches I may make when I join the army in the very near future.'In 1999 Maggs Bros., London, issued Catalogue 1271, in which they offered the Ivor Beddoes El Alamein archive of 108 works on paper and noted, in reference to Beddoes' blitz drawings, that 'sadly, the sketches of that raid were not accepted and their whereabouts are unknown'. A copy of this catalogue is included with the lot, with Bob Wyatt's added manuscript footnote indicating that he now has these blitz drawings in his collection. NB. ARR will not apply to this lot.

Crimean War. Further correspondence relative to the military expedition to the East, parts 5 & 7-9 only, February 14 - June 30 1855 & October 1855 - August 1856, p rinted solely for the use of the Cabinet August 1855 - August 1856, printed on blue paper, 1 hand-coloured lithographic plate to volume 8 and 9 folding plates to volume 9, discreet embossed library stamp at foot of all plates, volumes 7-9 with armorial bookplate of the War Office Secretary of State's library, contemporary calf, white china ink manuscript markings and 'War Department' gilt titles at foot of spines, somewhere, upper cover to volume 9 detached, folio (Qty: 4)NOTESRare. Part of 5 - 8 are held by the University of London, Institute of Historical Research. A part (covering 1854 only) is in The National Archives.

Duke of Wellington. A composite album of caricatures, 1801 - 1842, an album of original and reproduction caricatures of the Duke of Wellington and his associates, interspersed with typed descriptions and provenance, including original caricatures - both with contemporary hand colouring and uncoloured - by William Heath, Thomas Jones, John Doyle, Charles Williams, Thomas Rowlandson, Henry Heath, Robert Seymour, R. Roberts, C. J. Grant and John Phillips (Sharpshooter), various sizes and condition, all bound in a mid twentieth century album with a manuscript title to upper board, worn and stained, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESThe album contains forty-two contemporary caricatures.

Edged Weapons Manuscript Catalogue. An archive of 51 spring-backed loose leaf volumes of original historical research and descriptions of swords, daggers, shafted weapons, etc., from 1600 to World War Two, compiled by A[rthur] N[oel] Ingram of Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, circa 1950, each volume containing between 100 and 200 leaves of typed (and some manuscript) notes and detailed and annotated pencil drawings of sword hilts, etc., numerous additional notes and occasional corrections, unpaginated but arranged systematically to include books or sections on English militia, infantry officers, heavy cavalry officer and non cavalry, bayonets, India, departmental, army pay corps, troopers, battleaxe, pike, etc., occasional printed material tipped in or inserted, leaf versos blank, ownership name of A.N. Ingram to front pastedowns of many volumes, contemporary cloth of varied colours, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (Qty: 51)NOTESA monumental, unpublished work by the seemingly unknown Arthur Noel Ingram (1889-1960). Ingram served in the 4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during World War One, being appointed Second Lieutenant on 14 October 1914. He was appointed Lieutenant with the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 18 December 1940 and Captain on 4 February 1941. In an initialled preface dated at Ewell, 1951, Ingram describes the scope of work: 'The object of this series of books, the first complete one of its kind, is to place on record an authentic and comprehensive catalogue of the swords used by our fighting men from the year 1600 AD to the present day... the author has been engaged in research for the last twenty-five years, and no illustration or detail appears which has not been taken from the actual weapon, and where the specimen is known to exist, that has not yet been examined, a space is left vacant, as it is hoped that some at any rate will eventually come to light and enable an illustration to be made and details ascertained for publication in supplement form subsequently. Further volumes will deal with - Household, Heavy, and Light Cavalry, Artillery, Infantry, Light Troops and Light Officers, Departmental, Bayonets, Band Swords and Swords of the East India Company'. Ingram acknowledges the friends who have assisted with the project, 'Particularly to Sir James Man, who made research at the Tower of London a real pleasure, the Library of the Royal United Services Institution, G.W. Latham Esq., of Wilkinson Sword Company, and to my very great friends Captain Newgent Bosanquet, CVO, RN and S. Dudley Ward whose invaluable help has made this work possible'. In a loose typed three-page preface Ingram notes: 'This work is altogether not intended as a comprehensive treatise, but primarily as a help to those collectors who may have acquired a piece which they prize as an exquisite work of art, but have no knowledge of the date of its manufacture, or the country of its origin, also whether it is in its complete form or whether a piece of the hilt is missing or - a question that occurs frequently - whether the shortness in the blade is due to accident or design, or what type of scabbard belongs to it'.

MacMunn (George & Falls, Cyril). History of the Great War based on official documents: military operations Egypt & Palestine, 5 volumes including 2 map volumes, 1928-30, numerous plates and maps including many folding, amount of volumes ex library with manuscript marks to cases, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, volume 1 (Text) in original dust jacket, slightly rubbed and soiled, together with 2 other sets from the history of the Great War series: Moberly (FJ), the campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-18, 4 volumes, 1923-27, plus Aspinall-Oglander (CF), military operations Gallipoli, 4 volumes including 2 maps volumes, 1929-32 plus 3 other individual volumes including 2 modern reprints from the series, numerous plates and folding maps, original cloth gilt, generally slightly rubbed and soiled and a few spines faded, 8vo (Qty: 16)

Volkswagen. Investigation into the design and performance of the Volkswagen or German people's car reported for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited, by British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, circa 1946, 137pp, numerous illustrations including some from photographs and some folding plans, some spotting throughout, original stapled wrappers, owner inscription of Major Hurst to upper wrapper, spotted and soiled, a little wear to spine, together with the War-Time Activities of Dr Ing. H.C. Porsche, K.G., (Restricted), published by Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, circa 1946, 424pp, numerous illustrations and plans including some folding, inhinges cracked, original linen backed printed boards, several old library stamps and manuscript marks, rubbed and soiled, spines slightly frayed, both 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESThe report was prepared in 1946 with the assistance of Ford and other car manufacturers using information gathered in occupied areas to access German expertise and manufacturing ability.

* Military ephemera. A large and varied group of military ephemera including some of Bob Wyatt's notes including manuscript and printed items, photographs, cloth badges, etc., largely of First World War interest, references including Volunteer Training Corps, 25th (Cyclist) Bn. the London Regiment, RFC training transfer card and related, etc. (Qty: a carton)

Military Scrap Albums. A group of 6 assorted scrap albums, late 19th and early 20th century, one album including some photographs and ephemera relating to the Second Boer War, mostly albums with cuttings, plus some photographs, and loose insertions, one manuscript album a register of A Squadron, West London Mounted Rifles, 1 September 1916, later used as a family diary on initial blank leaves, one album with technical drawings of a field fortification drawn by C.A. Gordon Clark in 1883, etc. (Qty: a carton)

* Air Race Paris - Rome - Turin. Original photographs & ephemera, 1911, A collection of approximately 21 sepia images of competitors readying for the start of this trans-europe air race, original press photographs, mostly 10 x 18 cm, lightly mounted on album sheets, also including a manuscript list of competitors, race numbers and aircraft types and newspaper cutting press printed list of entries with manuscript notation including Garros, Beaumont, Level, Frey, Bathiat, Savary, Kimmerling, Molla, Vedrines and aeroplanes of Bleriot, Sommer, Morane etc, also including a further group of seven later press photographs of an experimental prototype biplane with variable wing design by Messrs Latham, Levavasseur & Gastambide, c. 1920 (Qty: approx 21)

* French Aerial Derby Races & Events. circa 1909-1919, a collection of original press photographs depicting pioneer aviators and aeroplanes mainly of aviation meetings prior to the Great War, and including some later, personalities variously including Bleriot, Wynmalen. Prevost, Parmelin, Wright, Breguet, Dollfus, Lecomte, de Lesseps, Sommer, Dupont & others, many with photographers wet stamps including Le Journal, New York Times, Maurice Rol, Meurisse, Dumesnil, Veilles Tiges etc, mostly captioned, dated variously with press snipes & manuscript annotations, largest 20 x 26 cm (Qty: approx 30)

Two 20th century Thai paintings on manuscript paper to include the Earth Goddess and the good Luck Goddess both depicted posed and seated on plinths. Signed Kittisak. Framed and glazed. Measures 36 cm x 28 cm.

Persian manuscript on paper, 253 leaves (as numbered in pencil) plus 1 fly-leaf, each leaf with fourteen lines of black naskh script, with a dedication to Prince Muhammad Wali Mirza inscribed in gold on the second page, text within black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, with black and gold line around the margins, red thuluth script marginal marker at top, opening folio with gold floral illuminated margins and illuminated head piece preceded by an index, colophon elegantly signed, in stamped black morocco binding (Dimensions: Folio: 23.8cm x 14.7cm)(Folio: 23.8cm x 14.7cm)

A 1689 Maundy 4d and an 1840 Maundy penny: in old manuscript packets (2).

A WWI Canadian enlistment book for 'B' Company 54th Kootanay:, with manuscript entries for each member of the regiment, some with photographs beneath, also a typed Sargent Major Report for October 1st 1915 with notes on conduct and a copy of the The Times dated Saturday November 25 1944..

72nd Regiment of Foot, The Duke Of Albany's Own Highlanders. A Victorian gilt mounted Officer's dress dirk, dress sword, belt plate and plaid brooch belonging to Albert Jenner:, the dirk with acid etched blade decorated with battle honours, crown and 'VR' cipher signed 'Johnstone & Co' over wooden Celtic platted grip, inset brass studs and citrine pommel, in gilt brass mounted black leather scabbard with subsidiary knife and fork, (grip damaged with section missing), the sword decorated en suite and initialed 'AJ' with basket hilt and wire bound fish skin grip (lacks pommel), the belt plate with Regimental crest, the plaid brooch with inset citrine and engraved with battle honours, together with a hand coloured photograph of Albert Jenner in full dress uniform wearing the above, with manuscript biography to verso and a an associated silver plate mounted skean dhu. (6)

Bell (Allan, publisher). A New General Atlas being a Collection of Maps of the World & Quarters..., 1840, additional half title, forty double-page engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, each map with near contemporary manuscript number to upper right corner, slight spotting and offsetting, old newspaper cuttings laid on to front endpaper and front pastedown, quarter calf with paper title label to upper siding, re-backed, some wear to boards, 4to (Qty: 1)

East India Company. Artillery Orders, numbered and otherwise, from 1816 to 1831, [Madras]: published at the lithographic press at the artillery depôt, [c.1831], title-page and 103 pp. lithographic text , approx. 300 pp. manuscript continuation up to the year 1844 (pagination erratic: 87-123 [2] 123-339 338-341 [2] 342-361 [7] 369 [34] pp.), [4] pp. blank, 15 pp. lithographic index completed in manuscript, worming to outer leaves, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, folio (33 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe printed portion of this Madras Army order book is untraced in libraries, and it is likely that copies experienced a high attrition rate as working documents in subcontinental conditions. The orders, which include memoranda, minutes, circulars, despatches and templates for official forms and certificates, cover all conceivable aspects of regimental affairs. Pages 291-9 contain reports and despatches from the regiment's involvement in the First Opium War, in particular the capture of Zhoushan: 'Brigadier James Ketchen has again the pleasure to congratulate Captain and Brevet Major Philip Anstruther and the officers, non-c[ommission]d officers and men of every rank of the regiment now employed in the China expedition upon the handsome and complimentary manner, in which their services have been recorded in the despatches of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Gough [...]'.

East India Company. 'Copies of some Orders of Courts of the Old East India Company relateing to the Trustees of the said Company', c.1708, manuscript on paper, [10] 26 [56] pp., feint-ruled in red, a few pages left blank, several leaves apparently excised after p. 26, moderate spotting and browning, final leaf partly slit and near-detached, 20th-century ownership inscription and book-tickets to front pastedown, old limp blue paper boards, rebacked, worn and marked, folio (38.6 x 24.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Clive Milnes-Coates, 2nd Baronet (1879-1971), of Helperby Hall (ownership inscription dated 1948). All the documents (where dated) are dated 1708 and appear to relate to the merger of the old and new East India Companies to form the United East India Company, which was finalised in 1709. The title (provided on the first page of text following the index) appears to refer only to the first 24 pages; the documents transcribed on the following pages include 'The Award of the Lord High Treasurer concerning both Company's [sic]', 'The Agreement between the Company's about Salt Petre', tables of stock-holders, and other items.

Gamucci (Bernardo). Libri Quattro della Citta di Roma, 1st edition, Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1565, title with woodcut mermaid device, similar device to colophon at end, folding woodcut plan of Rome, 38 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, leaves Bb3-Bb4 (i.e. pp. 199/200 & 197/198) misbound after A3 & A1 respectively,a few minor spots to title, ink inscription 'Relic a Castres. 10br. 1653. par Des Bords (Bordes?)' binder note at foot of colophon, early signatures to head and foot of spine, 17th century vellum, manuscript title to spine, insect damage to upper cover fore and lower edges and lower joint of spine, some light soiling, small 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), his signature to rear pastedown.Scottish bibliophile, writer and politician and friend of the philosopher John Locke. He amassed some 6000 books in his library (partly sold in the 1960's) and spent half of his life travelling and visiting bookshops in search of works of interest across a wide range of subjects. Adams G203; Cicognara 3743. First edition of this popular guide to the antiquities of Rome.

Hastings (Warren, 1732-1818). [A Narrative of the Insurrection which happened in the Zemeedary of Banaris in the Month of August 1781, and of the Transactions of the Governor-General in that District], [Calcutta, 1782], secretarial manuscript copy, 688 pp., occasional manuscript rules in red ink, gilt edges, original marbled wrappers, manuscript paper label ('Copy, Governor General's Narrative of the Transactions at Benares') mounted to front cover, spine reinforced, rubbed overall, some wear and fraying to extremities, housed in custom half morocco solander box, folio (38 x 24.5 cm), together with: 1) contemporary manuscript folding map of Benares and environs (opening to 42 x 65 cm, split along transverse fold, old partial repairs verso), 2) letter signed from Henry Fletcher and Nathaniel Smith, dated 1782 (see note) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: With letter signed from Henry Fletcher (1727-1807) and Nathaniel Smith (1730-1794) of the East India Company to Thomas Townshend (1733-1800, later 1st Viscount Sydney) as secretary of state, Home Office, sent care of Evan Nepean (1752-1822) as under-secretary of state (addressed 'Evan Nepean Esq.' at foot) and dated 21 August 1782: 'Sir, we have the honor to transmit for the information of Mr. Secretary Townshend, Copy of the Governor General's Narrative of the Transactions at Benares'. Fletcher was chairman of the East India Company in 1782-3, and Smith was his immediate successor. Nepean later served as governor of Bombay (1812-19). Hasting's work was published at Calcutta the same year, and was one of the first books to be printed in the city. The final twelve pages (pp. 677-88) of this manuscript copy comprise a 'Minute of the Board' not apparently included in the printed edition.

Leeder (Ehrenfried & Schade Theodor). Illustrirter Handatlas zur Lander und Volkerkunde im verein mit Henrich Leutemann, Leipzig, 1866, additional half title, twenty-two (complete as list), engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, each surrounded by decorative vignettes, world map with juvenile scribbling and repaired closed tear, some spotting and staining throughout, later endpapers, modern half morocco with gilt morocco title label to upper board, folio, together with Cortambert (E.). Nouvel Atlas fr Géographie Moderne, Paris and Algiers, 1847, additional half title, forty (complete as list) lithographic maps and plans with contemporary hand colouring, later half calf but retaining original boards, near contemporary morocco gilt title label to upper siding, slim oblong 4to, with Houze (Antoine Philippe). Atlas Universel Historique et Géographique..., Paris, circa 1870, additional half title, 101 lithographic maps with contemporary hand colouring, each map with a near contemporary ink manuscript number to upper right, contents list with near contemporary red ink numbering and underlining, later endpapers, modern half calf gilt over marbled boards, 4to, plus Tunison (H. C. publisher). Tunisons Peerless Universal Atlas of the World, Jacksonville, New York, San Francisco, Chicago &c., circa 1890, allegorical title page ten plates and seventy wood engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards, later re-back in calf gilt, folio, and Cram (George Franklin). Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, Chicago, 1883, decorative title, ninety-four colour printed photo-lithographic maps, with additional diagrams and illustrations, later endpapers, later half morocco over publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt title to upper siding, folio (Qty: 5)

Pococke (Richard). Beschreibung des Morgenlandes und einiger anderer Länder, 3 volumes, 1st edition in German, Erlangen: Stifthaus, 1754-5, signatures )(3 [superscript 2])(3 2)(4 3)(2 A-3K4, a3 b-f4 A-3C4, pi3 )(2 2-3)(4 4)(2 A-3G4 2H2, 3 engraved frontispieces, 180 engraved plates and maps (numbered 1-32 34-76, 1-103, and including 2 unnumbered plates), many folding, mild damp-staining to foot of gutter towards rear of volume 1, all edges sprinkled red, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-titles, gilt supralibros of Magdeburg Cathedral library ('signetum biblioth. ecclesiae metropolit. Magdeburg') to front covers, rear board of volume 1 water-stained, 4to (24.2 x 19 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: 1) Library of Magdeburg Cathedral (armorial binding); 2) Königliche Dom-Gymnasium zu Magdeburg (ink-stamps to title-page and first page of text in each volume). Cobham-Jeffery p. 51; cf. Atabey 965 and Blackmer 1323 for the first edition ( A Description of the East , 1743-5). A very good copy. The plates include views, antiquities, costumes, architectural studies, botanical subjects and plans.

Duncan (James). A New Atlas of England and Wales; Consisting of a set of large County Travelling Maps..., and containing also the new District Divisions, Polling Places, Disfranchised and Enfranchised Boroughs &c. Agreeably to the Provisions of the Reform Bill, 1833, calligraphic title page with some creasing, double page table, index appears to be lacking and replaced with a near contemporary manuscript list, forty-four (complete as list) double page engraved maps with bright contemporary hand colouring, some off-setting, a few maps with later pencil annotations, contents disbound and loose, lacking spine, boards detached, contemporary half calf, worn and frayed, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Aldrovandi (Ulisse). Serpentum et Draconum Historiae libri duo, 1st edition, Bologna: Clementem Ferronium, 1640, half title, engraved title by Baptista Coriolanus, full-page woodcut illustrations of snakes, dragons and other fantastical creatures, errata leaf at end with colophon and printer's device verso, lacking front endpaper, small ink stamps to half title recto and verso, title verso and at foot of first dedication leaf, some mainly light spotting and toning, a few small marginal water stains, small bookplate, contemporary vellum, spine repaired with vellum overlay with manuscript title, lower joint splitting, further repair at head, some soiling and edge wear, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESNissen ZBI 78; Wood pp. 184-85: "This celebrated naturalist was born at Bologna of a noble family and devoted his life to lecturing, collecting specimens and in writing and illustrating numerous treatises on biological subjects." He founded the botanical garden in Bologna, one of the first in Europe.

Sowerby (James). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, to which will be added, Occasional Remarks [by James Edward Smith], 41 volumes bound in 25 (complete), 1790-1866, rebound from the parts in botanical order, according to 'Manual of British Botany' by Charles Cardale Babington, without original index volume, 2998 hand-coloured engraved plates including some folding, a few plates close-trimmed at fore-edge, affecting numbers (rarely clipping image), pale dampstaining to plate 1560, intermittent spotting or light browning, some text leaves (and few plates) with brown discolouration at head, each volume with ink manuscript title, volume two with original title and preface to volume one bound in (remaining printed titles discarded), volume one contains; a manuscript contents leaf; manuscript notes to the index; an index which combines the original printed plate numbers with the new manuscript enumeration according to Babington; a copy of Manual of British Botany; and the titles, prefaces, indices and errata to the first four Supplement volumes, the final volume (no. 25) contains the seven parts of the fifth Supplement and with the original blue (beige for no. 82) printed wrappers bound in, 20th century green cloth, spines gilt-lettered, lightly rubbed in places, light wear to a few board edges, volume 21 spine lightly creased, 8vo (Qty: 25)NOTESHenrey 1366-68; Nissen BBI 2225. A complete set of this important botanical periodical (excepting the index). Especially scarce with the complete copy of the final supplement, which according to Henrey: "Few copies of No.83 appear to exist. This number contains the description of plate 2995 (the plate having been published in No. 82) the descriptions and plates 2996-8, and the description only of plate 2999." Our copy has all the plates plus the wrappers for the final supplement parts. The original publication made no attempt to produce the plates in a systematic order, which clearly caused some frustration as Mr. Salter, the publisher for the final Supplement, offers on the rear wrappers of no.'s 81-83 to "rearrange sets... in the Natural Orders". In this set, volumes 2-15 contain the flowering plants, volumes 16-18 Musci, 19 Hepaticae, 20-22 Lichens, and 23-24 Algae.

Matthews (Andrew & Henry). 'The Birds of Oxfordshire and its Neighbourhood' [extracted from The Zoologist, London: John van Voorst, 1849-51], 2423-33, 2531-41, 2592-2603, 2623-6, 2736-9, 2982-3 pp., interleaved throughout and profusely annotated by Charles Matthew Prior (see note), his ink-stamps ('C. M. Prior, Trinity Hall, Cambridge') throughout, manuscript title-page, booklet of 25 autograph letters signed to Prior from various ornithologists and 2 leaves of further autograph notes by Prior laid in, contemporary pebble-grain maroon cloth (front inner hinge cracked), 8vo (22.2 x 13.6 cm), together with: Aplin (Frederick Charles, & others), A List of Birds of the Banbury District, 1st edition, Banbury: John Potts, 1882, original wrappers, inscribed to'C. Matthew Prior Esqre, with the author's compliments' on front wrapper, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Charles Matthew Prior (1861-1940), of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Adstock Manor, Buckinghamshire. Prior wrote 'three important studies' on thoroughbred horse breeding (Kent, ed., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science , volume 38, supplement 3, p. 198). Ballance p. 252 (Matthews). The laid-in booklet of 25 autograph letters to Prior includes two letters from each of Lord Lilford (1833-1896), J. E. Harting (1841-1928), and J. H. Gurney (1848-1922), all on ornithological subjects.

[Oology ]. 'The Nests and Eggs of British Birds. By S. U. Duer', 1878, manuscript on paper, 143 leaves (including title-leaf and 3 leaves of index index, foliation erratic, numbered 1-52 58-60 52-57 61-138), written on rectos only, 112 'plates' containing original watercolours of egg specimens (2 unnumbered, the rest numbered 1-110, number 58 omitted, but 2 plates numbered 83), multiple watercolours to most plates, contemporary dark blue half calf, wear to extremities, head of front joint cracked, 4to (30.6 x 24.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAn unpublished catalogue of oological specimens by an untraced ornithologist, illustrated with several hundred original watercolours.

[Oology] . 'Exotic Birds Eggs' [spine-title], 1919, 6 + 14 pp. manuscript text (in pencil and ink), 64 hand-coloured lithographic plates of eggs on 57 hand-numbered leaves, nearly all by E. Kemp, 2 separate plates to each of sheet numbers 17-21 (all by W. H. Wesley), 38 (by Kemp), and 48 (unsigned), tissue-guards with manuscript captions in pencil, plate 55 laid in, light spotting to a few plates, armorial bookplate of the compiler Thomas Prinsep Levett to front pastedown, typed letter signed to Levett from Henry Pearson, librarian of the Zoological Society of London, mounted to blank leaf, contemporary green half morocco, green cloth sides, slightly rubbed and marked, oblong folio (28 x 43 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESA volume of otherwise untraced attractive oological lithographs assembled and profusely annotated by clergyman and amateur zoologist Thomas Prinsep Levett, who lived at Richmond in Yorkshire. Levett's lengthy note at the beginning of the work explains: 'I bought these plates in 1906 from Mr. E. W. Swanton, the curator of the Museum, Hazlemere [sic] Surrey ... The curator told me that he was selling them at the above very low price [of 3/-], because ... they could not trace the work they belonged to ... The Librarian of the Zoological Soc of London ... told me he could find no work in the library there which contained similar plates ... He personally thought that they formed part of a projected monograph which owing to the great cost involved was never completed'.

[Oology]. Oeufs des principaux oiseaux de France. J. L. Fougère, C. Briquel, [?Lunéville, c.1880], pictorial title-page in opaque watercolour, additional manuscript title-page, 7 blue card leaves with list of orders and families in manuscript (rectos only), 10 leaves of manuscript index (rectos and versos), 62 card leaves with approximately 200 original watercolours of egg specimens, all with neat manuscript captions in brown ink and hand-numbered tissue-guard tipped along inner edge, small section of loss to lower inner corner of pictorial title-page, loose in later wrappers with mounted facsimile of pictorial title-page to front cover, housed in custom box, 4to (33 x 25 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Bloomsbury Auctions, 24 November 2010. An unpublished and highly accomplished catalogue of French bird-egg specimens. One other copy is known and appeared at auction in 2001. Briquel was a lawyer and naturalist from a prominent family in Lunéville. One member of the family, Emilie, is known to have been briefly involved with Joseph Conrad.

Steele-Elliott (Jannion). The Vertebrate Fauna of Bedfordshire. Printed for private circulation, 1st edition, Birmingham: Robert Birbeck & Sons, [1897-1901], presentation leaf inscribed by the author to front, manuscript index bound in to rear, contemporary maroon half morocco, number 74 of 150 copies only, together with: Milner (George), Studies of Nature on the Coast of Arran. With Illustrations by W. Noel Johnson, 1st edition, deluxe issue, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894, 10 photogravure plates, edges untrimmed, original boards, number 73 of 75 copies, Jourdain (Francis Charles Robert, & B. W. Tucker, editors), Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 1915-22 [-32], Oxford: for the Oxford Ornithological Society by J. Vincent, 1924-[32], 10 parts in one volume, autograph letter signed from Jourdain tipped in, contemporary orange cloth, Malan (Salamon Caesar), A Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds; arranged with a View to supersede the Use of Labels for Eggs, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1848, half-title, contemporary half calf, and 8 others, 19th and early-20th-century British ornithology, all 8vo (Qty: 12)NOTESMullens & Swann pp. 558 (Steele-Elliott), 376-7 (Malan).

* Geological cabinet. A 4-drawer Victorian cabinet of geological specimens and receipted bills relating to the estate of William Capel Clarke-Thornhill of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, 1850s/1860s, the top tray containing various dried exotic seed pods and fruits, with a shark’s tooth, rattlesnake tail with rattle, and others similar, lined with a sheet of 18th-century manuscript accounts, the second tray with approximately 100 receipted bills addressed to William Capel Clarke-Thornhill, the third tray with a quantity of approximately 60 shells, including top shells, scallops, cone shells, oysters, murexes, turbans, cowries, olives, turrets, clams, abalones, conches, and others, the bottom tray contains a selection of approximately 90 minerals, several with manuscript labels (several detached), dated 1851, 1852 etc., including: ‘Granulated copper’, ‘Fibrous manganese’ labelled on the rear ‘Cornwall’, ‘Green phosphate of lead, from… lead mine’, ‘Antimony from Sarawak, Borneo, bought by J. L. W. for Sir James Brooke’s store… 1850 - H.M.S Amazon, given to me Aug: 1851...’, the trays in a fitted contemporary mahogany box (key missing), 27 x 42 x 21 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESWilliam Capel Clarke-Thornhill (1832-1898) was a J.P., and Captain in the 23rd Regiment of Fusiliers. The agent for Clarke-Thornhill, whose name appears on a number of the bills, and who came into possession of the cabinet was John Higgins. John Higgins (1795/6-1872) had acted as Charles Darwin's land agent from 1845, when Robert Waring Darwin (Charles Darwin's father) bought, on Charles Darwin's behalf, a farm in Beesby, near Claythorpe and Alford in Lincolnshire. Higgins managed the farm and collected the rent for Charles Darwin. Higgins lived at Alford Manor House, Alford, Lincolnshire. He also acted as agent for Darwin's sister Susan and their father Robert. Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB (1803-1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868.

Crimean War. Plans of the Siege of Sebastopol, Engineers Operations, Maps and Plans, 1862, i ndex list and twenty (complete as list) lithographic plans, maps and views on seventeen sheets (as published), sparse contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, some dust soiling, various sizes but folded to a uniform 280 x 215 mm, contained in a contemporary cloth slipcase with gilt title to spine and a contemporary dated (1862) manuscript ownership signature to upper siding, some wear (Qty: 1)

Bucer (Martin). De regno Christi Jesu servatoris nostri, libri II, Ad Edwardum VI Angliae Regem, annis abhinc sex scripti: non solum Theologis atque Iurisperitis profuturi, uerum etiam cunctis Rempub. bene & feliciter administraturis cognitu cumprimis necessarii..., Basel: Ioannem Oporinum , [1557], woodcut device to title, upper outer blank corner torn away and repaired, decorative woodcut initials, light dust-soiling to title and colophon leaf, some dampstaining throughout, occasional fraying to lower outer corners, early manuscript fragment strip bound-in before title (formerly part of endpaper strengthening), endpapers replaced, near contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, small folio (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams B3032. Martin Bucer (1491-1551) was born in Strasbourg and entered the Dominican order. After converting to the reformed faith, his writings had a great influence on Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices. In April 1549 he left Strasbourg for England, where, at the invitation of the young Edward VI, he became Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. First published in the year of his death, and dedicated to Edward VI, De Regno Christi examines and addresses the true nature of monarchy in relation to the (reformed) church, and is thus an important intervention in English Reformation theology.

Cookery. A manuscript receipt book, with ownership names of Miss Hitch and Polley Lee, dated 1730 and 1733, 53 pages containing 153 numbered recipes in early hands, pages 5-6 not present (removed during compilation of book, as shown by numbering of later recipes), three pages of contents at rear, two unnumbered pages at rear containing approximately 10 medical recipes, first page with early ink manuscript ownership inscriptions, including an inscription 'Miss Hitch marry'd Capt. Jordon [?] Jan. 1730', a few loosely inserted leaves or scraps containing an additional four recipes and some embroidery designs, the whole wrapped in a sheet of 16th century manuscript on parchment, with some later doodles, some generally minor marks or spots, two leaves with closed edge tear at foot, final three leaves a little worn to lower outer corners, slightly affecting written content, wrapper somewhat spotted and stained, rear cover with some minor tears and small losses, 4to, together with A manuscript receipt book, with ownership names of Anne Jodrell, and others, dated 1776 and later, written from both ends of the book and so partially inverted, four pages of contents at front, followed by 88 pages of recipes in early hands, a manuscript letter dated 1766 bound in at rear (previously repaired to verso), followed by 50 (mostly numbered) pages of medical recipes in early hands, plus six tipped- or pinned-in leaves or scraps containing additional recipes, several leaves previously repaired (mainly to gutter), some leaves from front portion apparently lacking, front pastedown with early ink manuscript ownership name, bookplate of Frank Spicer, bookticket 'Westbury' with coronet (probably Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, 4th Baron Westbury, 1914-1961), and tipped-on leaf with several ink ownership inscriptions, apparently tracing a family ownership through several generations from Anne Jodrell who married Christopher Clitherow in 1776, through to her great great great grandson Lord Westbury in 1948, hinges strengthened, contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked, worn, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst item - recipes include: A Sack Posset; To Coller Pigg; Mead fair as Water; Soop Meager French (i.e. soup-meagre); To Make Breakfast Cakes, Lord Gallway; Veal Collops, Lady Gallway; To Pot Woodcock, Lady Ramsden; To Pickle Mushrooms, General Foulks; Spanish Cream, Mrs. Turner; For a Consumption, Lady Gallway; For the Jaundes, Lady Sherrard; For a Dropsey, Lady Ravansworth; A Cooling plaister, Mrs Cooke; a Plaister for ye Worms; To Make Whigs, Mrs Naylor. Second item - recipes include: Busbrige Pudings, Mrs Hulse; To Make Shrub, Mrs Wood; Almond flumery, Mrs Cooper; Syrup of Poppeys, Mrs Hulse; Currant wine, Mrs Lewise; Lip Salve; Pickell Lilla, Mary Cook; Calves feet jelly, Mrs Dudley; Turkish way of making coffee; To Sweeten ye Blood; For a Cancer of pain in ye Breast, Mrs Jodrell; The Duke of Portlands recpt for Gout; Dr Barry's Receipt for making Beef Tea; For ye Bite of a gnat, Lady P[?]; Fo an ulcerated cancer; Spermacete Emulsion.

Grummet (Christopher, attributed). Sanguis Naturae, or, A Manifest Declaration of the Sanguine and Solar Congealed Liquor of Nature. By Anonimus, printed for A.R. and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street, 1696, title, To the Reader leaf, and 112 pages, early ownership inscription to title 'George Sharpe His Booke', title and final leaf with some browning to outer margins, modern calf to style by Bernard Middleton, small 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESDuveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica 539; ESTC R9078; Wing G2164A. Rare. The last copy at auction Sotheby's London, 29-30 June, 1964. Isaac Newton owned a copy of this work with his manuscript inscription inserted 'Sanguis Naturae, at Sowles a Quaker Widdow in the White-Hart Court at ye upper end of Lombard Street' (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Memorial Library).

Stewart ( Dugald ). Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 2nd edition, corrected, 1802, half-title, scattered spotting, contemporary speckled calf gilt, morocco title label, joints cracked, spine rubbed, 8vo, together with Blair (Hugh) , Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters, 3 volumes, 5th edition, 1793, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (offset to title), contemporary calf gilt, spines rubbed, 8vo, plus Beattie (James) , An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism, 3rd edition, 1772, browning to first & last few leaves, bookplate of W. Priestley Lightcliffe to upper pastedown with red wax seal applied, contemporary calf, red morocco title label, 8vo, and Dubois (Jean Antoine) , Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India; and of their Institutions Religious and Civil, Translated from the French Manuscript, 1st English edition, London: Longman [&c.], 1817, heavy dampstaining particularly at front of volume, ink stamp to title, edges untrimmed, modern half sheep, 4to, plus other miscellaneous 19th century antiquarian (Qty: 15)

Palladio (Andrea). The Four Books of Architecture: by Andrea Palladio. Viz. Book I. Containing the Five Orders, ... Book IV. Describing and figuring the ancient Temples that are in Rome, and some others that are in Italy and out of Italy. Literally Translated from the Original Italian, by Isaac Ware, Esq; Particular care has been taken to preserve the proportions and measures from the original, all the plates being engraved by the author's own hand, [2nd edition], London: R. Ware, [1755], letterpress title in red & black, additional engraved general title and engraved titles to books 2, 3 & 4 (incorrect manuscript date to imprint of letterpress title and additional engraved title of 1738), few engraved illustrations to text, 205 engraved plates, two small worm holes to inner blank margins throughout volume, occasional minor spotting and marks, light damp stains to few leaves, early manuscript to front free endpaper including signature B. Burt 1784 and Theodore R. Saunders architect (1872-1917), additional front free endpaper removed, contemporary sheep backed marbled boards, spine worn with loss of leather mostly at head & foot, boards rubbed and worn, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESHarris 692; Fowler 229 (for 1738 edition). The 1755 edition published in parts starting in September 1753. In that year an undated title-page was issued not referring to a 'Second Edition' (Harris).

Scrap albums. A collection of 16 scrap albums, early 19th to early 20th century, containing numerous engraved or chromolithographed portraits, British and foreign topographical views, caricatures, cuttings from greetings cards and similar, plus newspaper clippings (often humorous or satirical), cartoon strips, advertising ephemera, etc., some with contemporary hand-colouring, also numerous ink manuscript riddles, verses, and prose, a few small pencil sketches and watercolours, some dried seaweeds and other botanical specimens, one album (circa 1930's) with a few small photographic images (mainly of unknown people), six pith paintings, some items loose or damaged, mixed bindings, some with boards or pages detached, various sizes (8vo up to large folio) and condition (Qty: 16)

Spooner (William). Spooner's Pictorial Map of England & Wales, Arranged as an Amusing and Instructive Game for Youth. Illustrated with upwards of one hundred & twenty views, London: William Spooner, Nov. 5th, 1844, folding hand-coloured lithograph map sectionalised on linen, light spotting, original cloth covers with uncoloured lithograph pictorial title to upper board, spine faded, tie broken & lacking, map dimensions approximately 62 x 51 cm, together with Bowles (Carington) , Bowles's New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster; with the Borough of Southwark: Comprehending the New Buildings and other Alterations to the Year 1789, folding hand-coloured engraved map sectionalised on linen, few ink marks, some dust-soiling and light wear, contained in original wallet case with printed title label (ink date written in manuscript), map dimensions approximately 48 x 94 cm, plus Phillips (William) , Outlines of Mineralogy and Geology, intended for the use of those who may desire to become Acquainted with the Elements of those Sciences; Especially of Young Persons, 3rd edition, 1818, 4 engraved plates (2 hand-coloured), edges untrimmed, original boards, 12mo, and [Anstey, Christopher] , The New Bath Guide: or Memoirs of the B.N.R.D. Family in a Series of Poetical Epistles, Bath, Printed and Published by John Browne, 1807, engraved title and 11 plates, some browning and spotting, original boards with later marbled paper adhered over, small 8vo, plus other miscellaneous 19th century antiquarian including a defective New National Encyclopaedia Atlas by William Mackenzie, 1868 and 11 odd volumes of Buffon's Natural History, published 1797-1808, etc. (Qty: a carton)

Herefordshire. Bill (John), Herefordshire, [1626 ], uncoloured engraved map, slight text show-through, 90 x 125 mm, English text on verso, together with Simmons (Matthew). H ereforshire with some confining Townes, [1635 or later], uncoloured engraved triangular mileage table with a simplified miniature map to lower right corner, engraved by Jacob Van Langeren, overall size 105 x 105 mm, near contemporary manuscript text to verso, with a later 1657 edition with the enlarged county map, with Ramble (Reuben). Herefordshire [1845], uncoloured map surrounded by lithographic topographical vignettes with contemporary hand colouring, overall size 190 x 155 mm, supplied with a page of contemporary descriptive text, plus Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Reduced Map of Herefordshire, [1785], uncoloured engraved map, 160 x 180 mm (Qty: 5)NOTESFive rare miniature maps of Herefordshire.

Approximately 30 manuscript vellum indentures/mortgages etc the earliest dated 1677

A 19th century manuscript "Preaching Register" Thomas Evans, Wesleyan Methodist born Llanwist, 1844, with entries for New Zealand & N. Wales with a cabinet portrait photograph

Three 19th century manuscript military service papers with transcripts and other military ephemera

'A REPORT ON THE BUILDING OF IRON VESSELS', CIRCA 1842 by Dupuy De Lome, England, 1842, manuscript on paper, 76ff. written on both sides of the paper without ‘A Book of Drawings on a Large Scale’ called for the introduction, contemporary half sheep, ( very rubbed ), bookplate of the Institution of Naval Architects, Scott Library Collection -- 12¾ x 8¼in. (32.5 x 21cm.)Footnote: An interesting manuscript, curiously written in English, in two parts, The first part presents the general consideration which they have adopted and employed in building Iron Vessels and the second part c ombines all the information necessary for their construction . The author visited Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow several times and mentions often those cities' ship builders. Although he alludes quite often to the S.S. Great Western , there is never a mention of Brunel. He describes several vessels containing parts to make further ships which was done in dockyards in the Seine, but dedicates his manuscript to those who can make ships from scratch.

NAVAL SIGNALS, CIRCA 1800 manuscript on paper, 80 leaves, mostly written on the recto and verso, numerous signals, a few in red or blue, a finely drawn illustration of a windlass on last page, lacks a few leaves, a few tears, very lightly browned, pocket book with contemporary sheep covers ( rather worn ), London, circa 1800 -- 4¼ x 3 5/8in. (11 x 9.5cm); together with a loosely inserted little signal book containing 114 signals, many in red or blue, a few leaves a little defective, contemporary marbled wrappers (2)Footnote: According to an inserted note, this signal book was used aboard H.M.S. Foudroyant , commanded for a while from 1798 by Lord Nelson.Condition report: very worn, some pages loose, time staining througout, old wear.