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Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. A new and complete transcription edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 volumes, 1983 reprint, illustrations, original cloth gilt, dust jackets, 8vo, together with The Birds of the British Isles, by David Armitage Bannerman, 12 volumes, 1953, numerous colour plates, original green cloth, dust jackets, spines with some toning and chips, some manuscript notes, 4to, plus Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean", by John Henry Newman, 1st edition, 1864, some light spotting, hinges reinforced, original cloth, modern reback with original label relaid, 8vo, with others, a few leatherbound etc, including William Wordsworth's The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind, 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson's Island Nights' Entertainments, 1893, Charles Waterton's Wanderings in South America, 1891 and The Complete Poems of Emily Bront‰, edited by Clement Shorter, 1910 (6 shelves)

Hobson (Anthony). Apollo and Pegasus, An Enquiry into the formation and dispersal of a Renaissance Library, Amsterdam, 1975, two colour plates, numerous monochrome plates, author's presentation inscription to half-title 'For Cecil fellow work in Italian libraries, with best wishes from Anthony', original dark blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, large 4to, together with Adams (H.M.), Catalogue of Books printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600 in Cambridge Libraries, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1967, original green cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a little rubbed and some minor marks, thick 4to, plus Huygens (Constantyn), Catalogus der Bibliotheek, van Constantyn Huygens verkocht op de Groote Zaal van het hof te's-Gravenhage 1688, te's-Gravenhage, W.P. van Stockum & Zoon, 1903, untrimmed, original vellum-backed marble boards, a little rubbed, 4to, limited edition 76/100, and Catalogue of the Library at Chilston Park, April 1939, typescript catalogue, with manuscript editions in ink and pencil, all edges gilt, contemporary dark blue crushed full morocco (by Fazakerley, Liverpool), very slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, plus other bibliographical interest, including Hugh Davies, Catalogue of a Collection of Early French Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray, 2 volumes, Holland Press, 1961, De Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts (1530-1930) and their Marks of Ownership, Cambridge, 1930 (2 copies, including one annotated by Dr. C.F. Wright, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum), British Museum, Catalogue of German Books, Dutch Books, Italian Books, French Books, a full set of the British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books, Compact Edition, etc., mainly 20th century publications, 4to/8vo Provenance: Dr Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (6 shelves)

Wilkinson (Robert). A General Atlas, being a collection of maps of the world and quarters, the principal empires, kingdoms &c. with their several provinces & other subdivisions correctly delineated, 1794, decorative engraved title and contents, 48 engraved maps (complete as list), with contemporary hand colouring, (two double page), some maps water stained, some dust and finger soiling to margins, near contemporary manuscript numbers to upper right margins, endpapers frayed and chipped, rear hinge and joint cracked and crudely repaired, contemporary half calf, lacking upper board, 4to (1)

Brenton (Edward Pelham). The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII, 5 volumes, 1st edition, C. Rice, 1823-5, 10 mezzotint portraits including frontispieces, 3 stipple-engraved portrait plates, 9 lithographic views, 9 lithographic or engraved maps and plans (most of them folding), 1 engraved folding plate of the British fleet at Trafalgar, 1 leaf of manuscript facsimile, 2 folding letterpress tables, list of subscribers, errata and directions to the binder and errata leaves to each volume (no errata in volume 4, probably as issued), frontispieces and engraved folding plates variably browned and offset, bookplates of ecclesiastical and maritime lawyer Augustus Gostling (1782-1849), contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered to style in sheep retaining old spine-labels, sides slightly rubbed, 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), together with 'Addenda to the Naval History of Great Britain by Captain E. P. Brenton', 1827, 8 pp. pamphlet, stitched in plain paper wrappers, manuscript title on front wrapper, 8vo Sabin 7726 for the 1837 edition (erroneously dating the first edition to 1822); not in Abbey Life. The lithographs are from Brenton's own drawings and include views of St Lucia, Quiberon Bay, Bantry Bay, St John's harbour in Newfoundland, and elsewhere. (5)

Manuscript Log Book. Manuscript log book of Mr. C.R. Ingleby R.N., Midshipman, aboard H.M.S. Canopus and Glory, May 1905 to August 1906, calligraphic and printed title with watercolour illustrations and decorations, approximately 102 pages of neat manuscript sailing data with remarks, using the first part of a standard log book, 16 mostly tipped-in illustrations including: 13 pen & ink (some with watercolour) charts and drawings (some technical); one photographic print 'Signalmen in the Wireless Room'; two manuscript and watercolour 'certificates': one of a coaling contest amongst the crew, the second of a 'Prize Firing', also three newspaper clippings, occasional minor spots or marks, a few leaves with some insect damage to upper blank margins (mainly affecting unused leaves), original quarter reverse calf stationary binding, additional stitched calf cover, embossed with 'Mr. C.R. Ingleby R.N. Log Book, Period May 9th 1905- H.M.S. "Canopus" "Glory"' and with a maritime crest above, within a rope border, a little rubbed and marked, folio Places visited include: Gibralter, Malta, Suez canal, Yemen, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Scotland. H.M.S. Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class, H.M.S. Glory was also a member of the Canopus class. Canopus was commissioned into the fleet in December 1899, and Glory in November 1900. Both ships were assigned to the China Station, Glory from 1901-1905, and Canopus in 1905. However, Canopus was recalled partway through her journey to East Asia, due to an improvement in the political situation. Both ships then served with various fleet commands in British waters until 1907/8. After service with the Mediterranean Fleet, each was placed on reserve until the outbreak of the First World War when they were mobilised for service. The author is believed to be Clement Rolfe Ingleby, only son of Mr Holcome Ingelby MP for Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Clement left the Navy in 1906, after which he returned as an RNVR officer in 1914. A few months after becoming a prisoner of war in Holland he escaped, and on returning to England transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, becoming one of the first officers appointed to the newly formed Royal Air Force on 1st April 1918. Soon afterwards he wrote a poem 'Per Ardua ad Astra', published in Flight magazine June 6th 1918, in which he describes taking-off in a biplane. This becomes poignant in the light of an aeroplane accident the previous year, which resulted in a foot amputation, meaning Clement could no longer fly and became desk-bound in his work. In addition to his military career Clement is known for compiling 'A Supplement to Blomefield's Norfolk', published in 1929. (1)

Manuscript Ship's Log. The Proceedings of H.M.S. Diomede, kept by John Simon, Officer, 24th July 1810 - 13th April 1811, 54 leaves with handwritten text in brown ink to both sides, some dampstaining to fore-margins, with partial of legibility to first eight leaves, contemporary calf, rubbed and slight wear to extremities, folio (288mm x 238) HMS Diomede was a fourth rate 50-gun ship, launched in January 1798, winning battle honours at the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and then sold in 1815. The log commences at Bombay Harbour, with sailings to Penang and Madras (twice). Six sailors were given the lash for various crimes, usually drunkenness, and the captain Hugh Cooke laments the death of 25 crew members. Extensive meteorological observations, notes on provisions (the crew surviving on a diet of bread, vegetables, and beef), maintenance of the ship and other daily matters. (1)

Murray (Mungo). A Treatise on Ship-Building and Navigation ... to which is added by way of Appendix, an English Abridgement of another Treatise on Naval Architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, 1st edition, for the author, 1754, 3 parts in 1 volume, 18 engraved folding plates, 1 with volvelle, part 2 comprising numerous tables, mild spotting and toning to a few plates, and some slightly rumpled and soiled along fore margins, but generally a clean copy, leaf from a manuscript ship's log dated 11-14 June 1728 laid in (37 x 24 cm, slightly frayed in margins; see note), contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Hall Esq., contemporary sprinkled tan calf, red morocco label, slightly rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, 4to (25. 8 x 20 cm) Murray (c. 1705-1770) was at the time of writing a shipwright at Deptford Dockyard, and later served with Lord Howe on the Magnamine and then the Princess Amelia during the Seven Years' War. This copy contains a laid-in leaf from a manuscript log describing the passage of East India Company merchant vessel the Prince Augustus from St Helena to England in 1728, under the command of Francis Goslin. (1)

SMITH, ADAMAN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS London: T. Caddell and W. Davies, 1805. Eleventh edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue publisher's boards with manuscript titles to spines, half-titles to volumes 2 & 3 as usual, advertisement leaf in volume 3, some wear and loss to spines and covers, Q4 in volume 1 torn without loss, some very light dampstaining to a few pages in volumes 1 & 2, some foxing to volumes 2 & 3 (3)

VICTORIA, QUEENTULLOCH, W.W., WORKS WITH THE QUEEN'S MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS [Life of Queen Victoria. 1887] 2 volumes, 8vo, proof copy with manuscript corrections said to be in the hand of Queen Victoria (and seemingly to be in her hand); [Idem] The Story of the Life of the Prince Consort... London: James Nisbet & Co., 1887. 8vo, inscribed "For the Queen" to half-title, with several manuscript corrections, probably by Tulloch, with several bound-in notes; and a copy of Tulloch's 1887 The Story of the Life of Queen Victoria; Photograph album of the family of Principal John Tulloch, including several family photographs, but also photographs of Scottish scenes by James Valentine, various University professors, a golfing photograph including Tom Morris and photographs of Queen Victoria, Prince Alfred, the Prince and Princess of Wales and Balmoral Castle; Principal John Tulloch certificate appointing John Tulloch one of the Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland, dated 29th July 1859, signed by A. Carnegy Ritchie and George Dalziel, with red seal , framed and glazed (6)Provenance: From the family of the author, W. W. Tulloch.Note: The two volumes entitled "Life of Queen Victoria" subsequently became Tulloch's 1887 "The Story of the Life of Queen Victoria". Although the volumes are not signed by the Queen, several annotations seem to be hers. For example, in part iii "The Young Wife and Mother", the proof copy states on p.89: ...one of Her Majesty's ladies-in-waiting, writes "that the Queen's look and manners were very pleasing; her eyes much swollen with tears... The latter part of the sentence has been crossed through, and "omit not true" written in the outer margin. This section of the sentence does not appear in the final version. The second volume of the proof copy, containing a fuller version of the text, states on the title-page "This contains the Queens [sic.] own corrections and her own writing, WWT." This volume contains small corrections and annotations, such as a ruled through section on p.24 with the pencil note "a complete myth". Other notes, possibly in Tulloch's hand, are in ink. One such note reads: Would the Queen graciously permit the subsequent letter with which Her Majesty honoured Mr. Tulloch to appear here? A pencilled reply below reads: Certainly, with an indistinct initial, which may be "VR". Tulloch's connection to Queen Victoria may have developed through his father, Principal John Tulloch, who was one appointed of Her Majesty's Chaplains for Scotland. This led him to preach several sermons for the Queen. The accompanying photograph album and certificate of appointment relate to John Tulloch. He was evidently well connected - not only does the album feature photographs of the Queen and her family, but also of figures such as Tom Morris, playing golf at St Andrews, where Tulloch was principal of St Mary's College.

COOKERY -MANUSCRIPT RECIPE & GENERAL ACCOUNTS BOOK, C. 1690 Small 8vo, 4 Contents leaves & 90 pp. of recipes, including to "pickle cowcombers, Gingerbread, White meade, Oringe puding, good Cake, biskit puding, puff paste, Quince wine, Fryed Applepies, Cheesecakes, Rogoe of Rabbits... [&c.], also detailing Births and Deaths of children of Thomas Buckworth & Margret Thomson, late 17th century, contemporary calf, clasps, spine wornNote: The notability of the Buckworths dates from a 17th century bishop, Theophilus Buckworth, a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and Bishop of Dromore. The Buckworths held land in Moulton near Spalding. Lincolnshire and migrated to Canada in the 19th century where they played a formative role in the iron industry.

ERSKINE, JOHN, THE HONOURABLE COLONEL, OF CARNOCKJOURNAL, 18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION OF ERSKINE'S JOURNAL for the period 5 June 1683 - 26 May 1685, closely written in clean hand on the rectos and versos of 100 + leaves, 155 x 100mm., of a small oblong pocket notebook, half calf, slightly rubbedProvenance: From the collection of Larry HutchisonNote: Not published until the Scottish History Society edition of 1893, the Journal gives a detailed account of the period between the Restoration and the Revolution. As an aspirant to the Bar, Erskine attended the courts where those apprehended in the aftermath of the Battle of Bothwell Bridge were tried and sentenced to death or banishment.

LAUDER, SIR HARRYLETTERS AND DRAWINGS letter from Sir Harry Lauder to Mr Lockyer in New South Wales, Australia, dated August 13th 1925, 26 x 20cm, thanking Mr Lockyer, writing about his time in New Zealand, laid-down onto paper, some tears; [Idem] a notecard and franked addressed envelope to Mr Lockyer, the notecard with a manuscript New Year poem signed by Lauder, dated 1923-24, 8 x 13cm; [Idem] three further letters to Lockyer, signed by Lauder and dated 1924 & 1929; [Idem] Lauder's caricature and signature on a card, dated 1926, inscribed to Lockyer on the reverse; [Idem] and another caricature, signed by Lauder, laid onto paper; [Idem] a signed photograph of Sir Harry Lauder, inscribed to Lockyer, dated 1937, 20 x 15.5cm; five further photographs, probably of Lauder's family; and a programme for a performance by Sir Harry Lauder at Balmoral Castle on 5th September 1924

MARY TUDOR (MARY I OF ENGLAND)SIGNED LAND DEED WITH GREAT SEAL manuscript on vellum written in a secretarial hand with the seal attached, with the Queen's signature abovedocument 17 x 38cm; seal 13cm diameter

VISITORS' BOOK WITH SIGNATURESINCLUDING J.M. BARRIE Edwin Muir, Rudyard Kipling, Field Marshal Douglas Haig of Bermersyde, Stanley Baldwin & Henry Newbolt, 31 manuscript leaves in a red morocco gilt album, dating from 1922-1953Provenance: The initial leaf is inscribed to Mrs Blyth Webster from Charles Whitley. Margaret Blyth Webster was married to Adam Blyth Webster (1882-1956), a Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at St Andrews University in the 1930s. They lived at 56 South Street, St Andrews.

WORLD WAR I AUTOGRAPH BOOK& SHEPHERD, THOMAS belonging to F.J. Cameron, dated 1st August 1916, Glasgow, including 32 manuscript or illustrated pages, and several plain leaves, also including a pressed four-leaf clover 'picked in France July 1917', a sample of ribbon from a Distinguished Conduct medal and a pressed poppy 'Picked in France 1918', brushed calf, 15 x 12cm; Shepherd, Thomas H. Modern Athens, displayed in a Series of Views, or Edinburgh... [N.p., n.d.] 24 plates, contemporary quarter morocco rubbed, some plates trimmed, spotting (2)

MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREACOMMENTARII IN SEX LIBROS Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1565. Folio, portrait, woodcuts in text, 16th? century vellum with manuscript title to spine, neat bookplate reading 'GOM' to paste-down endpaper, occasional very light marginal dampstaining, early ownership signature, Fletcher, to title-page and a few neat annotations to text in an early hand, ties/clasps lacking, covers a little soiled, a few very small marginal wormholes, including to paste-down endpaper [USTC 841574 listing a collation as pp. [172] 1459 [13]; this copy collates [170] 1459 [13] suggesting an initial blank may be lacking; the collation matches that given in Hunt, 94]

CRAWHALL, JOSEPHBORDER NOTES & MIXTY-MAXTY. Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid for the Author, 1880. Limited to 50 copies of which 40 were for sale, small 4to, lithograph facsimile of the original manuscript, 5 hand-coloured plates, uncoloured plates and illustrations, some hand-coloured, publisher's brown half morocco and peacock-patterned cloth, with binder's ticket, brown morocco label gilt, a few light marks and spotsProvenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison

[SCOTTISH TARTANS] - STUART, JOHN SOBIESKIVESTIARIUM SCOTICUM. From the Manuscript formerly in the Library of the Scots College at Douay. Edinburgh: W. Tait, 1842. Folio, one hand-coloured plate and 75 mounted coloured plates of tartans, half red morocco gilt, some spotting to endpapers and fore-edges not affecting plates, binding slightly rubbed and slightly markedProvenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison

[FELIBIEN, ANDRÉ]DES PRINCIPES DE L'ARCHITECTURE... Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1676. First edition, 4to, engraved plates within pagination, contemporary speckled calf with gilt tooling to spine and coat of arms to covers of 'Ford Ward' flanked by winged horses, early manuscript library marking to free-endpaper, a little browning and slight offsetting, lower cover rubbed

Manuscript Provisionals: 1908 October 13 locally addressed envelope with 'GEORGE TOWN GRAND CAYMAN' cds, overwritten with m/s 'Pd ¼d W.G. McC' in red (SG MP2), a little soiling on the cover well clear of cds

Two 19th century manuscript mathmatics copy books, dated 1852, and a scrap album

A Crimean War medal group comprising Crimea medal with four clasps engraved to SERJT MATHW YOUNG SCOTS FS [? indistinct under glass] GDS, together with Sardinian issue Turkish Crimea Medal, in burr maple veneered framed and gilt mount under glass together with Colour Serjeants' bullion-embroidered rank insignia, marksman's badge and collar badges, also a portrait in oils (14.5 x 11 cm), service documents including Duplicate of Attestation, Parchment Certificate of Service, and Royal Hospital Chelsea admission certificate, four autograph manuscript testimonials from officers of the Regiment, and a Malacca cane with ivory pommel engraved SERT M Young. [4270 Matthew Young, of Riccarton, enlisted in 1852 at Kilmarnock, aged 17, he suffered frost bite and was discharged being unfit for further service in 1867 having served four years abroad, latterly in Canada as Hospital Steward following his injury, he was admitted to the Royal Hospital in 1867]

A Great War gallantry medal group, comprising Military Medal to 295011 C S MJR W Mair, 12 R Sc Fus, 1914-15 Star (920 Sjt W Mair, Ayr Yeo), British War and Victory Medals (as W O Cl I), and Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (Cpl), in handsome period bronzed strut frame together with enamelled 31st Division badge, the frame having Ayrshire Yeomanry enamelled badge set onto its crest, accompanying the group is a mounted certificate from Major General Campbell, Commander 31st Division, recording Mairs gallant conduct on 12th to 13th August 1918 [The division captured Vieux-Berquin on 13 August 1918], a photograph of Mair and fellow soldiers "taken in 1917 Dec", and another of Mair and two other soldiers of the Ayrshire Yeomanry mounted upon camels at Gizeh, Cairo, and an Ayrshire Yeomanry North African embroidery. Also part of the group is a twenty six page autograph manuscript memoir of Mair's experiences at Gallipoli, dated September 1915 which starts "It was always my intentions to keep a diary but some how or another I never got a start made, till I was left the Gallipoli Peninsula through sickness it was when I returned to the regiment that it came home to me that I would like to take note of some of the special doings and dates connected with the regiment the most that I have wrote is about the C-Squadron and my own personal experience as one can’t be with every detachment of the regiment it is now months past I am sorry to say I may make a few mistakes as regards dates as it is all from memory."

A 19th Century taxidermy fish preserved by J Cooper of 28 Radnor Street, London, bearing manuscript paper label 'Taken by Mr Payne at Amberley July 30th 1882 weight 2lbs 01/4ozs', presented in a naturalistic setting in a bow-fronted glazed display case, 50 x 15 x 32 cm high

Alchemy and distillation.- Barlet (Annibal) Le Vray et Methodique Cours de la Physique Resolutive Vulgairement dite Chymie... Pour Connoistre le Theotechnie Ergocosmique, c'est à dire, l'art de Dieu, en l'ouvrage de l'universe, first edition, woodcut frontispiece, 36 woodcuts in the text (one double-page) and 2 double-page tables (one of chemical symbols), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, ink stain to upper corner, largely restricted to extreme margins and first half of book, C,D and 2V-3C with worming, occasionally affecting letters with a few words supplied in manuscript facsimile,D3 woodcut torn and repaired, frontispiece lower margins backed and repaired with some loss (not affecting image), occasional spotting or browning, upper hinge tender, contemporary vellum, darkened and soiled, lower cover repaired, later endpapers, [cf. Duveen 44; Ferguson I, 72&73; Caillet I, 730], 4to, Paris, N. Charles, 1653.⁂ This richly illustrated work was intended to accompany lectures which Barlet gave in his laboratory at Paris, attended by John Evelyn in 1649.

Boccaccio (Giovanni). Genealogiae Deorum, additions by Dominicus Silvester and Raphael Zovenzonius, first edition, collation: [1-1210 1312 14-1810 196 20-2210 23-258 26-2910 3012+2], 295 leaves (of 296, lacking final blank but with fol. 25/8 blank present), text in single column, 41 lines, indices in double column, type: 1:110R, blank spaces for capitals, with guide letters, a few marginalia in two different hands, one datable to 16th century (somewhat trimmed), running number of books probably in the same hand, light foxing, sporadic finger marks, first leaf slightly dust-soiled, repair to lower blank margin, gutter of fol. 30/12 repaired, 16th-century limp vellum with yapp edges, smooth spine, early title inked on spine and front cover, earlier title inked at lower edge, endpapers renewed, folio (298 x 207 mm), Venice, Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.⁂ The first edition of Boccaccio's extraordinary sourcebook on classical mythology and the first scholarly work to quote passages from Homer. The Genealogiae Deorum gentilium is a remarkable encyclopaedic study of pagan mythology, featuring a total of 723 entries. The work was commissioned by Hugo IV, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem, who died in 1359, well before it was completed. This immense treatise is divided into fifteen books further subdivided into chapters, each of which shows the genealogy of various gods and goddesses, with the last two containing Boccaccio's apologia of his work, some interesting biographical information, and a defence of poetry. The Genealogy of the Pagan Gods does not merely list names but reveals Boccaccio's incredible breadth of reading and his ardent scholarly commitment. All entries are supplemented with detailed allegorical, historical, and scientific analyses, and more than 175 Latin and Greek authors are cited as sources. The Genealogy became the first influential work in modern European scholarship to include quotations, translations, and variegated analyses of passages from Greek literature, and it is the first scholarly work to make a significant use of Homer. For at least two centuries the work continued to be of great importance to writers and scholars, and the nine editions printed in the 15th century, including a French translation which appeared in 1498, are a testament to the magnitude and longevity of its popularity.After decades of preparation and study of ancient mythology, Boccaccio produced a manuscript (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana Plut. lii.9), the so-called Vulgate text of the Genealogy, which contains a series of designs of genealogical trees illustrating the text of the first thirteen chapters and constituting the first elaborated series of genealogical charts. The Venetian edition of 1472 reproduces the Vulgate text on the basis of an unidentified manuscript. The series of genealogical charts (possibly present in the manuscript which served as copy-text) are not reproduced, although Vindelinus left blank spaces for them which vary in size from two thirds to an entire page.There are at least two issues of this edition, distinguished by various misspellings in the title printed on fol. [2]/1r. The present copy belongs to the issue with the title containing the words 'gentilium' and 'prohȩminm'.Provenance: the Milanese historian Giuseppe Girolamo Semenzi (1645-1706; ownership inscription, 'D. Joseph Hieronymus Sementius Reg. Cong. Somaschae').Literature: HC 3315*; GW 4475; BMC v, 162; IGI 1796; Goff B-749; M. Pade, "The Fragments of Theodontius in Boccaccio's Genealogie Deorum gentilium Libri", Eadem et al. (eds.), Avignon & Naples. Italy in France - France in Italy in the Fourteenth Century, Rome 1997, pp. 149-166; G. Boccaccio, Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium, ed. V. Zaccaria, Milano 1998, esp. pp. 1587-1606; P. R. Schwertsik, Die Erschaffung des heidnischen Götterhimmels durch Boccaccio. Die Quellen der Genealogia Deorum Gentilium in Neapel, Paderborn 2014.

Erotica.- Baffo (Giorgio) Raccolta universale delle opere di Giorgio Baffo veneto, 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, each vol. with engraved architectural title, some spotting or staining, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt and with dark green leather labels, rubbed, [Gay-Lemonnyer III, 777; Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale 93], 8vo, Cosmopoli [i.e. London or Venice ?], no printer, 1789.⁂ The complete works. The Raccolta was published at expense of the Earl of Pembroke, was a great admirer of the poet, along with many other British travellers of the period. A number of Baffo's poems had an anonymous manuscript circulation, and have remained unpublished until today. It seems that in the last years of his life he also destroyed a great many of his papers.

Drinkwater (John, poet and playwright, 1882-1937) Burning Bush, autograph manuscript poem signed, 6pp., in pencil, some cancellations and corrections, first 2ff. creased, folds, loose, in a blue crushed morocco slip-case by Riviere & Sons, slightly rubbed, 205 x 130mm. & 174 x 101mm., n.d. [1922]; Preludes 1921-1922, number 40 of 125 signed copies, original blue vellum, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, sm. 4to, The Morland Press, 1922; Gold, autograph manuscript signed, 4pp., in pencil, folds, browned, loose, in a blue crushed morocco slip-case, by Riviere & Son, 185 x 115 and 92 x 69mm., v.s., 1922; and 3 others, printed poetry by Drinkwater, v.s., v.d. (6).⁂ First and third mentioned published in Preludes, 1922.

Drinkwater (John, poet and playwright, 1882-1937) Byron: A Conflict [published as The Pilgrim of Eternity: Byron-a conflict], autograph manuscript, 2 vol. only of a larger work, 347pp. only, numerous corrections and crossings out, engraved portrait of Byron loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, slip-case, [1925]; [Drinkwater's Telephone Directory], 34pp., alphabetised, [1930s]; and a small quantity of others, including: autograph manuscripts of Fox (No. 7 only), [1928], and From the German, poems, 1924, autographed drafts of poems etc., v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).⁂ Names and numbers listed in the telephone directory include: Peggy Ashcroft, Austen Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, EM Forster, D. Lloyd George, J. Ramsay Macdonald, Harold [&] Vita Nicolson, Laurence Olivier & Jil [Jill Esmond], Bernard Shaw, HG Wells etc.

Bible, Latin. [Leaf from Deuteronomy], manuscript in a Gothic bookhand, in black ink, double column, 56 lines, 2 pen and ink initials (visible) and strapwork decoration in red and blue, framed and glazed, Carthusian monastery of Villeneuve-les-Avignons [taken from label on verso], [c. 1270].

Staffordshire- Charter, grant by William de la Pirie of Ambrichton to his son Ralph of a tenement in the manor of Chatalene now occupied by his brother Thomas de la Pirie and Ada de la Pirie, in Ambrichton [Amerton/Chartley by Stowe], witnesses: Malcolm le Castanaye, John de Aston etc., manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 10 lines, in brown ink, in a cursive hand, 2 small flaws, small stain, folds, slightly creased, browned, remains of red wax seal with shield in centre, modern pencil inscriptions at tail: "17 July 1911" etc., 77 x 260mm., 13th May 1341; and another medieval deed relating to Ambrichton, v.s., v.d. (2).

Hampshire.- Charter, William Changgelton, Thomas Somer in the county of Sussex, grant to Thomas Arpole a tenement and land in the village of Haliborne [Holybourne, Hampshire], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 18 lines, indented at head, lacks seal, folds, yellowed, a few very small stains, in good condition, [Phillips no. 34141], 180 x 240mm., Tuesday before feast of Sts Simon and Jude, October 1380.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Medieval carpenter.- Charter, Thomas atte Hyle, carpenter of Melksham in Wiltshire grant to Peter Cheyne, vicar of Melksham of land in la Hyle, Halstock in Dorset], witnesses: Thomas Bingham, John de Wyk, Alys Ote and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 15 lines, lacks seal, folds, creased and browned, [Phillips no. 34301], 146 x 262mm., 1387.

Medieval arsenic poisoning.- Inquest held at Snayth [Snaith, East Yorkshire], William Relynbeke, chaplain, poisoned John Marten of Stapulton [?Stapleton, North Yorkshire] with a cup of new ale by the poison called "arsinyke", jury, including: Thomas Dylkoke, John de Pokenall, William de Lynlay, John Smith of Snayth, Atkyn Emson, John Rose of Balne and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 9 lines, first line and part of second line in another hand, remains of red wax seal, slight stain, small tear at head, folds, creased, slightly yellowed, 235 x 102mm., Snaith, 28th October 1410.

*** This lot is sold subject to the Manorial Documents Rules and may not be removed from England and Wales. ***Evesham Abbey Lands (Worcestershire).- Court Book of the Manors of South, Middle and North Littleton, containing numerous references to Evesham Abbey, manuscript in English and Latin, in a Tudor bookhand, 47pp. excluding blanks, 1p. in another hand, slightly browned, some edges chipped, original vellum covers, creased, lettered direct on lower cover, hand and flower watermark, folio, c. 1539/40 & 1558; and a small quantity of modern transcripts and notes; sold subject to the Manorial Documents Rules, this item may not be removed from England & Wales. ⁂ Includes a contemporary transcript of an indenture between Philip [Hawford [known as Ballard] (d. 1557), last abbot of Evesham and dean of Worcester], "Exempte Monasterii" of Evesham and John Aldington and his wife Margaret granting the Manor and mansion of of Middle Littleton. Another transcript mentions Sir George Throckmorton [Throgmorton], (c. 1489-1552), MP; opposed Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Philip Hawford, always called Ballard was a monk of obscure origins, rising to the position of cellarer of the abbey. In 1538, the incumbent abbot, Clement Lichfield resigned after alienating some of the abbey's property, and Hawford appointed in his place. Hawford was seen as Cromwell's man and did much to help in the dissolution of the abbey, partly in the hope that part of it may be preserved as a college for youth, but to no avail. The abbey was finally suppressed on the 30 January 1540.

17th & 18th century inventories.- An Inventarie taken of the goodes of James Parker pursor of his Maties Shipp called the Dreadnought..., manuscript on vellum, 2 membranes, a few small flaws, some surface wear but still legible, yellowed and slightly creased, 1010 x 120mm., 18th November 1646; and 4 others, including another 17th century inventory and 3 18th century inventories, all manuscripts on vellum, v.s., v.d. (5).⁂ First mentioned, Dreadnought was a 41-gun galleon of the Tudor navy, built by Mathew Baker and launched in 1573. She was a radical innovation over contemporary ships. Dreadnought took part in many of the naval engagements between Britain and Spain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Under Captain Thos. Fenner, she was part of Drake's fleet which "singed the King of Spain's Beard" with the raid on Cadiz in Spring 1587, and also took part with the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. Having been rebuilt at least twice Dreadnought was broken up in 1648.

James II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1633-1701).- Debates and Speeches made in the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament... Concerning the Militia, Supply for his Matie., New raisd Army & such Officers as have not taken ye Test [Act] &c., manuscript in Secretary hand, title and 45pp., ruled in red, slightly browned, engraved bookplate of George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham and Mark Dinelay on front pastedown, also ink stamp HHR&G on front pastedown, 18th century half calf marbled boards, rubbed and faded, rebacked in later moroc co, rubbed, folio, 1686.⁂ "Mr Pepis [Pepys] an Island may be attargu't not withstanding any ffleet, ours are much mended 1000 men daily at workever since we gave money for it, and not one man in it an officer that has not taken the Test."The celebrated first parliament of the reign of James II in which he was voted the same provision as his brother, Charles II.

Garrick (David, actor and playwright, 1717-79) The Charrader's Recantation to Sir Will.m Hamilton, autograph manuscript poem signed "DG", in 5 stanzas, 2pp., folds, small tear on both ff., tears starting along folds, browned, sm. 4to, Althorp [crossed out], 17th October 1776.⁂ Garrick was at Althorp in October 1776. It was usual for Garrick to endorse / summarize a copied letter on the exterior, as is done here.

Townshend (George, first Marquess Townshend, politician and caricaturist, 1724-1807) Letter Book, relating to the plight of American loyalists, military patronage, family matters (including discussion about his son Frederick, later declared insane for shooting his brother), bills for national defence, autograph manuscript, 32pp. excluding blanks, original wrappers, lettered direct on upper cover, sm. 4to, 1785.⁂ American loyalists plight after the Treaty of Paris. Correspondents include the Duke of Richmond, Sir William Fordyce, and Lord Sydney: "I have given one fourth of my Lot to the unfortunate American Loyalists and have paid some Money to this & other Grants I have received from the Crown; but this... is the only one which remains to me, the other having been precluded, with many more suffering subjects from His Majesty's protection by the late Treaty of Peace, where the British Governors under ministerial protection have made sufficient havoc." - Townshend. elating to military patronage, family matters (including discussion about his son Frederick, later declared insane for shooting his brother), bills for national defence,

Australia Pardon.- George III (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Pardon of John Raynand and John Bercham, convicted of of highway robbery and sentenced to death at the Norfolk Assizes, the sentence commuted to "their being transported for & during the Term of their natural lives to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales... or... Islands adjacent", granting them a pardon "on Condition of serving as Soldiers in the East India Company Service", D.s. "George R" and "Grenville", manuscript, 2pp., paper seal remounted, incomplete at end and with conjugate leaf removed, folds, browned, slightly faded, repaired, folio, 3rd February 1791.

Friend of Charlotte Brontë.- Nussey (Ellen, lifelong friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë and a major source for Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, 1817-97) [Commonplace book of sermons], autograph manuscript signed and inscribed, several pages inscribed across text, "Happiness", "Human Beings" etc., 20pp., 2 ff. loosely inserted, slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, oblong 4to, Brookroyd [House], [Birstall, Yorkshire], 12th June - 11th August 1836.⁂ Nussey's record of sermons heard at St. Peter's Church, Birstall. The initials, mostly W.H., probably William Margetson Heald (1803-75) vicar of Birstall.Ellen Nussey met Charlotte Brontë at Roe Head School in 1831 and they became lifelong friends. Later the friendship was extended to Charlotte's sisters, Emily and Anne. In 1836, the year this manuscript was written Charlotte was once again at Roe Head School, this time as a rather disaffected teacher. Charlotte, unlike Ellen was expected to earn her living, and for the daughter of a vicar, teaching was practically the only option, an occupation Charlotte loathed.

Queen Victoria visiting the Duke of Wellington at Stratfield Saye.- Heathcote (Sir William, fifth baronet, politician, friend of John Keble, of Hursley Park, Hampshire, 1801-81) An account of a visit by Heathcote to meet Queen Victoria at Stratfield Saye, autograph manuscript, 3pp., docket on verso, folds, folio, Hursley Park [Hampshire], 24th January 1845.⁂ "WH On Monday January 20th 1845, I went, by the invitation of Arthur, the great Duke of Wellington, to Stratfield Saye, to meet Queen Victoria, & Prince Albert... On Wednesday afternoon, being wet, they went into the tennis court, where Lord Charles Wellesley, & three... played a match to show them the game, and afterward the Prince spent some time (the Queen still looking on) in learning to play." - Heathcote.

Irish Civil War.- Furlong (Alice, Irish writer, poet and political activist, 1866-1946) Autograph Letter signed to Ignatius Mac Hugh, 4pp., 8vo, Tallaght, Co. Dublin, 22nd November 1922, thanking him for his appreciation of her poetry, "I am very glad you liked 'I will forget' so much. I could have had my poems gathered about last Spring, but I was so heartsick at the behaviour of our foolish people in letting down our glorious De Valera and his equally great colleagues... . I am so sick sick sick of everything now that I do not suppose I will ever gather my poems. They have killed that good man (as I for one believe him) Erskine Childers. Mary Mac Swiney starves in Mountjoy [Prison]. I just feel disgraced"; and 2 others, another ALs and an unpublished autograph manuscript poem by Furlong, The Ballad of Cuili, 2pp., n.d., folds, browned (3).

Rhys (Jean, author, 1890-1979) A small archive relating to an attempt to adapt Quartet for television, including 13 Autograph Letters signed to the director Patrick Garland, discussing living in Devon, the writing of the novel "I worried & worried for it was my first long novel. Then one day that the cinema... I saw it, walked back to the hotel & wrote it", its potential staging and characters; an unpublished autograph manuscript reworking of part of the novel as a play, 12pp.; and a small group of other items including 2 A.L.s. from Cecil Beaton, v.s., c.1970-72.⁂ An excellent archive, giving an insight into Rhys' working methods as well as her views of character and staging. Autograph material by Rhys is rare at auction.

Funeral ticket.- You are desired to meet at Mr. Larkin's at Puckridge, on Thursday the 1st day of May, 1740, at four o'clock in the afternoon, engraved funeral ticket with letterpress, black wax seal in margin, central fold, tears in margins starting along other folds, slightly creased, browned, 300 x 340mm., framed and glazed, engraver ?Jno Genrelin, 1st May 1740.⁂ Addressed in manuscript to "Madm", the legend reads: "To Accompany the Corps of Mrs. Lydia Benn, late Wife of William Benn, Esq; to the Parish-Church of Braughing in Hertfordshire."

Strachey (Lytton) The Fruit of the Tree, autograph manuscript short story, 9ff. written on one side only, signed at foot, original blank wrappers with title to upper cover, some foxing, folio, [Trinity College, Cambridge], June 4th 1901. ⁂ Unpublished short story by the 21 year-old Strachey, describing an adolescent passion for an older boy and parodying the writing style of Henry James. "He was perpetually magnificent, eternally superb; he soared. I, as I came upon him, found him like a mine, inexhaustible and glittering, before me, and felt, as I plunged deeper and deeper into his gorgeous recesses, all the joys of an intimate and an unending discovery." Strachey wrote the story a few days after sitting the first part of his History Tripos at the end of May 1901. The subject of the story was likely derived from his two teenage infatuations which proved formative for the young writer and "formed the pattern of much of his adult love-life." (Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self Portrait).SRN: This item was published in The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers in 1972.

Voyages.- Vancouver (Capt. George) A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World..., 3 text vol. (without folio Atlas), first edition, half-titles, engraved map and 17 plates by J. Landseer and others after W. Alexander, 3pp. errata at end of vol.3, occasional spotting or soiling, light marginal water-staining to plates, vol.2 with list of plates becoming loose, marginal tear to L4 and final leaf creased, contemporary ink manuscript lending list to front pastedown of vol.1, a good clean copy with wide margins, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, worn and stained, spines a little frayed and partly covered with old marbled paper (defective), [Ferguson 281; Hill 1753; Sabin 98443], 4to, for G. G. & J. Robinson, 1798.⁂ Vancouver had accompanied Cook on his second and third voyages and was sent on this expedition to explore the Pacific northwest coast of America to try and find a possible passage through to the Atlantic. "This voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge. Vancouver sailed by way of the Cape of Good Hope to Australia, where he discovered King George's Sound and Cape Hood, then to New Zealand, Hawaii, and the northwest coast of America. In three seasons' work Vancouver surveyed the coast of California, visited San Francisco and San Diego and other Spanish settlements in Alta California... investigated the Strait of Juan de Fuca, discovered the Strait of Georgia, circumnavigated Vancouver Island, and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay.'' Hill

17th century Barber Surgeon.- Napkyn (Hugh, Barber Surgeon, of St. Botolph without Aldgate, City of London, fl. 1617-39) A Booke Conteyning divers excellent & approoved Remedyes in Phisique - and Chyrugery, drawne from grave and learned Authors and experienced Phisitians, collected and gathered by ye paines and industrie of Hugh Napkyn Chyrugian and Maister in Anatomie..., ?autograph manuscript, title and 133pp. excluding blanks, title within an ink decorated border (small tear in lower margin), numerous blank ff. ruled in black but not used, later ink inscription of James Rowe dated 1680 on blank f., some later interpolations probably in the hand of James Rowe, slight stain at head of title and other early ff., a few small tears in margins, slightly browned, letter from Royal College of Surgeon dated 1954 with information about Hugh Napkyn tipped in before front free endpaper, several 17th century and later recipes mostly relating to Rowe loosely inserted, new endpapers, original vellum, gilt centre ornament with date 1631 on both covers, stained and soiled, lower cover with a few small holes, rebacked in modern vellum, folio, 1631.⁂ Unpublished. An important medical manuscript dated to the early years of the seventeenth century. Written out as if ready for publication but seemingly unpublished; there is no reference to this work in ESTC, Wellcome or the cataloguues of the Barber Surgeons or the Royal College of Surgeons. A compendium of remedies against a variety of ailments and diseases, drawing on Napkyn's own recipes and the work of numerous colleagues, including the plague, smallpox, balms for ""cold Aches & shrinking of Sinews"; unguents, "Cataplasme fold old sores..."; "A Powder for Warts... Hugh Napkin"; "For a Cancer in the Breast. Dr. Read"; "For the Fluxe"; "For a Gangrene. John Soare"; "Against the Greene sicknes"; "tooth-ache"; "Wartes"; "To make Mead"; "To make Biskit-bread"; "Against bleeding at the Nose. A charme" etc."A Medicine against the Plague. Dr. Burgis... Of Rue & Sage... Boyle them in 3 pintes of Malmsey till a pint be wasted... . It is not only good against the common Plague, but likewise the Small poxe, Meazells, Surphets, and divers other diseases... Another. Mr Snooke... A Medicine for one infected with the Plague to drive it from ye Hart... Take a living Pigeon, and skin him on the backe... ."Hugh Napkyn, Napkin or Napkine, was a barber surgeon living in 1632 in St Botolph without Aldgate, Portsoken Ward, a heavily built up area partly within the City and partly without the walls in East London. Napkin was involved in a legal dispute in 1627 when an unnamed accuser said that Napkyn had given the wife of Jeames Staffesmore, of St Clement Danes, three pills for a pain in the head, had incised her in three places, then given her three more pills. After treatment her face and body had swollen. Napkyn said he had only given pills to her after cutting her hair, and then only on Dr Rhead's advice. Dr. Rhead confirmed in writing that the giving of pills was his advice. The suit was to be withdrawn if Napkyn paid the charges and abstained from practice in future. There was a further charge in 1629 when Napkyn was charged over treatment of the late Mrs. Wale, but this charge seems also to have been dropped.One of the recipes loose in this volume is in the form of a letter sent to Robert Rowe, 14th February 1688, in which the sender adds a postscript on the political situation of the day, "... yesterday the Prince & Princess [William III & Mary II] ware proclaimed King & Queen the Duke of Grafton & Duke of Ormond are this day turned out of all there places some say for speaking in the convention in behalfe of the late King James the second here was great acclamations of joy last night carring ye Pope in procession & burning ye Pope... Ld. V."

Senegal.- [David (Pierre Félix-Barthélémy, Governor of Senegal for the East India Company, fl. 1740s)] Journal de mon voyage du Sénégal a Bambouc, manuscript in French, 135pp., slightly browned, some dampstaining and worming affecting upper and lower endpapers, old bookseller's description on front pastedown, original boards, ink marks, original ties, lacks lower half of spine, folio, [c. 1744].⁂ A voyage up the Senegal River in 1744.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Byzantine music.- [Collection of hymns, with late Byzantine musical notation], decorated manuscript on paper, i + 82 + iii leaves, (lacking some leaves at beginning and possibly others), text block: c. 130 x 85 mm., 22 lines average per page, (11 of text and 11 of musical notation), fol. 75r with two missing lines added by scribe in lower margin, written in a single hand in black ink with red marking and modal signatures, headings in red, numerous decorated initials in red, some with penwork extension or embellished with undulating wings, handsome head-pieces with intertwined ribbons in red and black, text overall clean and legible, stitching weak, numerous leaves loose, some marginal browning and spotting; some stains, especially to outer blank margin of last leaves, a few traces of mould at lower margin, some leaves soiled in gutter, contemporary limp brown leather over pasteboards, rather worn, front hinge broken with  upper cover detaching from volume, small 4to (168 x 118mm.), Greece, [after 1814].*** A fine, unsophisticated, albeit incomplete, sticherarion, i.e. a post-Byzantine manuscript used in the Greek Church for morning and evening services, and containing the musical setting of stichera or verses from texts or hymns arranged in the cycle of the liturgical Orthodox calendar. In this manuscript the musical notation is written above the text, and provides a good example of the elaborate late Byzantine Kalophonis style. The manuscript contains at least eight different texts: fols. 1r-8 (text is lacking the opening leaves); 9r-34v (ἦχος ... 'Κύριε ἐκέκραξα'); 34v-47v: (Ἀρχη τοῦ πλαγίου ἦχος πλ α ΠΑ); 47v-57r (Ἀρχη τοῦ πλαγίου ἦχος, πλ β ΠΑ); 57r-65r (Ἀρχη τοῦ βαρέος ἦχου, 'Κύριε ἐκέκραξα'); 65v-73r (Ἀρχη τοῦ πλαγίου πλ δ, 'Κύριε ἐκέκραξα'); 73r-77r (ἦχος... 'Εισ το o o o ρος τοις'); 77r-82v (Ἀρχη τοῦ τετάρτου ἦχου, 'Κύριε ἐκέκραξα'). The composers' names are not given, but some of these chants can possibly be ascribed to the renowned 18th-century composer and chanter Peter the Peloponnesian. The script of the codex does not indicate its precise origin, and it was possibly used (in a Greek monastery?) for learning the archaic style of singing, as the late 19th-century drawings in black and violet ink on the front endpaper, displaying two scales of eight modes, supplemented with brief explanations, seem to attest. Furthermore, on fol. 9r one of the 19th-century owners of the volume has added, in violet ink, a verse addition. The manuscript therefore shows the lasting interest in earlier notation and older melodies in spite of the introduction in 1814 of the much simplified notation by Bishop Chrisanthos of Madytos.Provenance: late 19th-century ownership inscriptions in violet ink on the endpapers, including 'Stylienos Capietekis', and the mention, in black ink, of a monastery (Hagios [?]), not entirely legible. Several 19th-century annotations in black ink on the endpapers and the rear pastedown, variously dated from 1839 to 1881. On the recto of the last rear endpaper a pencilled drawing depicting Christ Blessing; other rough ink drawings on the rear endpapers.

Maritime.- Ship Maria, manuscript account book, in several hands, 54pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, 1f. of a pen and ink watercolour of Samuel Bryant who saved a boy from drowning in Bristol dock loosely inserted, original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover, soiled, folio, 1793-96 & 1870-72.⁂ "Memorandon the Freight given Credit... is for 18 months... 1793 to say at the end of the Petersburgh Voyage, & beginning of the Ship entering into Governmen service... ."

Hunt (Leigh, poet, journalist, and literary critic, 1784-1859) The Examiner Newspaper Receipts, manuscript account book partly in the autograph of Leigh Hunt, title and 28pp., excluding blanks, ruled in red, original vellum, titled "Examiner Acct. Book" on upper cover, covers spotted and splayed, 1825-28; and another account book, sm. 4to & 8vo (2).

Kafiristan.- An account of Syed Shah's journey into Kafiristan, manuscript in at least two hands, 84pp., incomplete at end, folds, browned, edges chipped and with some tears, folio, [c. 1888].⁂ "Ghazabshal, a chief of the Kafars visited the village Afroo, where the people received him very kindly - He had with him 15 others, a goat was immediately killed & dressed and the Khan began to eat - I was also invited to join with him. I took the Holy Bible in my hand & praised it. The Khan was much pleased to hear me - I again explained to them of the justice, peace etc of the British rule and they patiently heard me - I explained to them of the benefit of education I told them they were ignorant people, they shd try to learn and thereby acquaint themselves with the Word of God."- Said.Syed Shah, or the Said, was a shadowy figure who had undertaken a journey with William McNair into Kafiristan, a part of Afghanistan in 1883. Kipling based his short story The Man Who Would Be King on their account of the journey.

Chocolate.- White (William, coffee dealer, of 8 Greek Street, Soho) To Make Sir Hans Sloane's Milk Chocolate in the Pot, printed broadside advertisement, tipped-in on a manuscript account leaf, [BL copy only], folio, n.d. [London, ?1788].

Euler (Leonhard) Institutiones Calculi Differentialis, first edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut decorations and initials, foxing and browning, singe-mark to upper margin of last quarter of book, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, a little rubbed and scuffed, spine ends chipped, small nick to spine label, 4to, [Honeyman 1069; S.S. Demidov, "Leonhard Euler. Treatise on the Differential Calculus (1755)", I. Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, Amsterdam 2005, pp. 191-198], Berlin, Officina Michaelis, impensis Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae, 1755.⁂ The first edition of the first complete textbook on differential calculus, a work of primary importance in the history of mathematics, and the last tile of Euler's trio devoted to this topics (see lots 000 and 000). The work represents the pinnacle of his studies on calculus, and, although printed in Berlin, its publication was financially promoted by the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the city in which Euler resided for periods in his life, receiving a pension from the Russian court. "The existence of an early Latin manuscript 'Calculi differentiali' conserved in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg [...] shows that Euler worked over a very long period to present his modern view of the differential calculus" (S.S. Demidov, Leonhard Euler, pp. 191-192).

Mechain (Pierre) and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Base du Systeme Metrique Decimal, ou Mesure de l'Arc du Meridien compris entre les Paralleles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 28 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and browning, uncut, vol.1 and 2 in original marbled boards, vol.3 in original marbled wrappers, vol.1 and 2 with printed paper spine labels (rubbed and torn), vol.3 with manuscript spine lettering, spines worn and torn, board corners and extremities worn, [Norman 1481; PMM 260], Paris, Baudouin, 1806-07-10 § Biot (Jean Baptiste) and Dominique Francois Jean Arago. Recueil d'Observations Geodesiques, Astronomiques et Physiques, first edition, half-title, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and light browning, first few leaves partially frayed and stained to upper edge and corner owing to lack of top half of upper wrapper, uncut in original wrappers, paper spine label rubbed, spine worn, Paris, Mme. Ve. Courcier, 1821, 4to (4)⁂ First edition of the work which marked the introduction of the international metric system. In 1792 the pre-eminent astronomers Pierre Méchain (1744-1804) and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) were charged with measuring an arc of the meridien from Dunkirk to Barcelona. The results were presented in this ground-breaking publication. "The length of a metre [...] was marked on a platinum bar, and the unit of weight was also constructed of platinum [...] These original bars remained the basic standards until 1875 and are still preserved in Paris" (PMM).The Recueil of 1821, compiled by Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) and François Arago (1786-1862) on behalf of the French Bureau des Longitudes, contains the extension of the arc to the Balearic Islands, and represents the supplement to the Méchain-Delambre mesaurements. The complete four-volume set rarely appears on the market, and is offered here in a particularly desirable copy in its original wrappers. Contemporary ticket on upper cover of the first 3 volumes of the bookseller and publisher Matteo Margaillan, originally from Briançon (Dauphine), active in Neuchâtel and later in Milan.

Continental School (19th century) - Female muse wearing robes and a turban, holding a musical manuscript, indistinctly signed, watercolour on ivory, 4" x 3" **Possibly after Hendrick ter Brugghen

A FACSIMILE OF AN EARLY HEBREW MANUSCRIPT obtained at the Jewish Synagogue in K'ae-Fung-Foo (Kaiefung China), George Smith, London Missionary Society 1851, 1 vol. of 4 Exodus. M.C.L. bound 1944, large 8vo. 21.5 x 18.7cm

BEVERIDGE, Sir William, 1879-1963 Economist and Social Reformer 'Pillars of Security' 1st Ed. George Allen and Unwin, London 1943, signed by the author, dark blue cloth, bumped, 19 x 13cm, together with a Smith Premier typewriter on which, by repute, the manuscript of 'Pillars of Security' was typed (provenance available)

A SMALL COLLECTION OF OLD NEWSPAPERS including WWII and The Morning Advertiser 1894 plus old town and road maps, and a poetry manuscript (qty)