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George IV.- The Duke of Kent's Observations on the Excess in... The Princess of Wales's Expenditure and the mode of preventing the same in future, manuscript document, 3pp., folds, browned, watermarked 1799, [c. 1801] § Cornwallis (Charles Cornwallis, first Marquess Cornwallis, Governor-General of India and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1738-1805) Autograph Letter signed to the Prince of Wales, 4pp., Calcutta, 1st November 1788, reporting on the state of India, "The times for making rapid fortunes in India are past and it will now be easy only by the industry and economy of a course of years, that a Servant of the Company [East India Company] who conducts himself like a man of honour, will be enabled to return with a competency to his native country", folds, browned; and a small quantity of others, including 4 other pieces relating to George IV as Prince of Wales, and 4 Autograph Letters signed from Howe Peter Browne, second Marquess of Sligo to William Brown Ffolkes, friend of Byron, 1808-10, folds, browned (8 pieces).⁂ First mentioned setting out the poor state of Princess Caroline's finances, and the duke's suggestions to mitigate them.

French Folk Songs.- [Songs with lyrics and musical notation], manuscript in French, in a fine miniscule hand, 78pp., slightly browned, watermarked "Napoléon Empereur de Français, Roi d'Italie (used by several of Napoleon's consuls), Grosclaude label on front pastedown, original red straight-grained morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, spine decorated in gilt with Napoleonic bees and roses in alternating panels, rubbed, g.e., by Grosclaude, Metz, sm. 8vo, n.d. [c. 1812].⁂ A collection of thirty folk songs written out with the piano accompaniment and the singer's line above.

Patron of the Arts.- Roscoe (William, historian and patron of the arts, 1753-1831) 5 Autograph Letters signed to various recipients, including Jean-Charles Léonard de Sismondi, together 11pp. with conjugate blanks and address panels, 1 with pencil portrait of Roscoe, Allerton & Liverpool, 1813-26, introductions, sending manuscripts to Dawson Turner etc., a few tears along folds, browned; and 5 others, manuscript and printed, "The First Proposal for a Monument to Roscoe" etc., v.s., v.d. (10 pieces).

Poetry.- [Opie (Amelia, novelist and poet, 1769-1853)] Song, & Chorus, for the Bazaar for the Benefit of the Hall Infirmary, or Hospital [&] Appeal to the Public, 2 autograph draft poems on 2pp., tipped-in on stub, slightly browned, n.d. [c. 1820]; and 3 others, including: a manuscript fair copy by Sir Abraham Hume, The Progress of the Arts in Britain. Inscribed to the President of the Royal Academy..., 1779, and 2 autograph hymns by William Roscoe, folds, browned, v.s., v.d., (3 pieces).⁂ First mentioned first poem seemingly unpublished. The verses were written for a specific occasion, demonstrating Opie's Christian and abolitionist beliefs by urging people to buy and help the sick. One side gives a more or less complete version, the other is in draft form with a number of of variant lives offered for consideration. The piece may have been intended for a bazaar in Opie's home town of Norwich, but the emphasis on colour and creed points towards a port city such as Liverpool where a new hospital was built in 1823. Ascribed in a contemporary hand to Mrs Opie.

British Poets.- ?Gorton (John G., compiler of reference works and translator , ?d.1835) Biography of the British Poets, manuscript, 136pp. excluding blanks, on blue paper, original calf, gilt, blind-stamped border, slightly rubbed, 8vo, [c. 1830s].

NO RESERVE Denmark.- [History of the kings of Denmark], manuscript in German, 111pp., extensively browne, extensively stained in places, original blind-stamped boards, edges and corners rubbed, lacks most of spine, sm. 4to, n.d. [1850].

Medical.- Medical conditions, manuscript, 196pp (including 2pp. index), browned, original morocco-backed cloth, spine torn with loss and crudely repaired, 8vo, "London Hospital", 1870.⁂ Condition includes: "Sunstroke"; "Softening of Brain"; "Phthisis"; "Cancer of Stomach" etc.

Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester a facsimile of the original manuscript, limited edition in cloth, The Tale of the Faithful Dove 1971 illustrated by Marie Angel with copy of Peter Rabbit A Play 1936 in original wrappers (3)

Buddhist Pali manuscript, the text incised on rectangular gilt edged palm leaves and contained between two red lacquered sandalwood boards, 49cm long and a smaller manuscript contained between pair plain wood boards (2)

A framed illuminated Arabic manuscript and another smaller one width 31cm height 27cm width 31cm height 50cm

A volume, (Salmon) The New London . Dispensatory, no date, circa 1670s, lacks title, manuscript notes in rear, of farmer owner, poor condition.

John Parkin, Santa Maria, three studies of tall ships framed as one, watercolour; a 20th century Islamic illuminated manuscript; the South East view of Norham Castle, further prints, and a coastal watercolour (qty)

NORFOLK - Heraldic Collection; a folio. manuscript volume of 37ff., with details of later 17th cent. Funerals; well-illustrated with pen & ink sketches of armorials, hatchments, banners, helms, etc.; signed at commencement - 'Thomas Starling / Norwich . . . 1686' * much of interest - with eschuteon details, a processional list etc., whilst 2 (of the approx. 20 funerals) were served by heralds; bookplate of the 19th cent. Norfolk antiquary Alfred Wm. Morant, & loosely inserted a 2pp. als. from the East Anglian local historian Wm. H. Cooke to Prince Frederick Duleep Singh (see lot 956).

WORLD WAR 1 - Western Front, manuscript combat diary possibly written by an Officer of the Third Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, covering August 1914 - June 1915, when the Battalion (as part of the 9th Infantry Brigade) were engaged at Neuve Chapelle & the 1st Battle of Ypres.. 93 closely written pages of diary entries (in black ink) & 69pp. of copies of his letters home (in red ink). * the diary commences on 10th August with entrainment at Newcastle-On Tyne for Southampton, with later embarkation on board SS. Minneapolis, arriving St. Nazaire 24/9/14. The Battalion in action at Pernes, Bes Plomeran, Herlies, Petre, Bailleul (Neuve Chapelle) & Hooge, Hermitage Chateau, Kemmel, Rosendaal Chateau (1st Battle of Ypres); a most detailed daily account of harrowing trench life warfare which include his comrades being killed in front of him, endless mud & rain, informative notes on other units in the Brigade etc., yet elements of humour shine through - 'billeted at Rosendaal Chateau, whole place shelled to pieces . . . had very fine Louis XV chairs to sit in & lovely china . . . a strange contrast!'; & on the Front Line - ' in one place they have a sort of understanding, and show their heads over the top . . . and when the Germans get word from their gunners our trenches are going to be shelled, they sign over to us, and the Brits do the same. General HQ would be pretty sick if they knew this. Illustrated

MANUSCRIPT BOOKS - 2 closely written volumes, apparently of a Philosophical / Theological interest, early 19th cent., approx. 330 & 185pp. each, old quarter leather & marbled boards. * both latin text.

CARDINAL ALESSANDRO FARNESE (1520 - 1589) - manuscript letter, 13 lines on foolscap paper, signature beneath (?1586) * possibly writing to Pope Sixtus V, regarding the imprisonment of his nephew (Ranuccio) in the Castel. San. Angelo, following a breach of protocol when appearing before the pontiff.

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - Festival Stikherarion, Russian Old Believer, in Church Slavonic. illustrated manuscript on paper, 252ff., after 12 prelim. leaves, text commences with full-page illuminated title in red, green & gold, other large decorative & coloured headpieces, some coloured initial letters; contemp. blind-stamped calf, folio. [Russia, early 19th cent.] * hymns for the major feasts of the Church.

AN ARCHIVE RELATING TO JOHN HAMPTON CHADWICK, POET & THE CUNARD STEAM SHIP COMPANY comprising a manuscript poem 'King and Country', of four verses, to a card headed 'Cunard Roll of Honour', 11.25cm x 8.75cm; a folding card depicting The Cunard Building, dated Christmas 1916, with a printed poem by Chadwick; and a card admitting the bearer to a Marine Display aboard the S.S. Mauretania, on the occasion of the Visit of His Majesty the King, 11th July 1913, (3).

A 19th Century lady's manuscript of original poetry, dedications and instructions for various parlour games, Miss M. Parkin, Kilburn, Derbyshire

Richard Doyle (1824 - 1883)Pied Piper of HamelinWatercolour, 51 x 77cm (20 x 30¼)Signed Exhibited: The works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., and a collection of drawings by the late Richard Doyle, The Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1885, no. 287 in the catalogue, lent by A. H Christie, esq of East Runton, Norfolk. From an early age Richard Doyle or ‘Dickie Doyle’ as he was affectionately known, showed a natural ability for creating original and humorous designs. A consummate draughtsman, during his teenage years he kept a manuscript journal, now housed in the Print department of the British Museum, which consists of 156 pages of pen and ink sketches. He developed a successful career as an book illustrator with William Thackeray declaring on the advent of a new translation of Brother Grimm’s fairytales ‘The Fairy Ring’ in 1846, that he was the new ‘master of the fairyland’ supplanting the artist George Cruikshank. (The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Russell Miller, 2010). Doyle also worked for many years as an illustrator for the satirical magazine Punch (1841 - 2002), designing their first cover and masthead and producing more than one thousand drawings during his seven years of employment. A staunch Catholic all his life, his relationship with Punch came to a drastic end in 1850 when he resigned due to their hostility towards the current Pope. From this point onwards there is a significant shift in the trajectory of his artistic career. Although he continued to provide fantastical illustrations for books, such as his celebrated 'In Fairyland' (1869), by the mid-1870s, he had begun to experiment with larger scale works in watercolour, such as the present example. It is important to note he never had any formal training in the medium; these works were therefore technically experimental. This unconventional approach, lends itself to these mythological subjects in which he imbued them with a surreal or dreamlike quality. He exhibited in 1868 and 1871 with the RA and two years following his death in 1883, the Grosvenor Gallery in London exhibited a collection of his drawings in which The Pied Piper of Hamelin was included. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a particularly interesting subject to depict, as there are numerous contradictory endings to the story. The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, and tells the tale of people of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, whose city is suffering from a plague of rats. The Pied Piper is hired by the mayor to lure the rats away with his magical instrument, in return for payment. However, when he has accomplished his task, the mayor reneges on their agreement. It is at this point that the sequence of events becomes confused. In certain versions, the piper takes revenge on the town by returning and in the same manner and luring all of the children, bar three, from the town to the Weser River, to their death. In others, again he transfixes them with his music but leads them instead to the beautiful lands surrounding the Koppenberg Mountain. In this more pleasant account, once his debt has been paid he returns all of the children unharmed. It is difficult to ascertain from Doyle’s work which version of events he has decided to depict. What fate lies just beyond the frame for the innocent children of Hamelin The two figures closest to the Piper seem to belie a more sinister turn of events, as they hold onto one another turning away from the music in fear. Their newfound understanding is visually contrasted with the hoards of smiling children behind them, blindly following the Piper. They have not yet crossed the town’s threshold, here a physical as well as metaphorical space, that seems to illustrate the moment in our lives in which our childhood innocence is lost to the cruel adult world. This is further heightened by the anguish and torment of the parents in the distance calling in desperation after their lost children.It could be argued that Doyle’s resignation from Punch, due to his dislike of their contemporary politics, made him outdated for the period in which he was working, a time of great turmoil and change in British and Irish society. His commitment to depicting the fantastical, through traditional forms of story telling, could be read as mere romantic folly. However, to a higher degree, mythology had been used for centuries by societies to make sense of the world in which they lived. Doyle’s work was concerned with awakening the viewer's imagination and challenging conventional ways of seeing by drawing their attention to the ambiguity of everyday experience. Contemporary European and Anglo-Irish literature was often a vital resource for artists of a Romantic tradition, which celebrated the natural over the rational. Worlds represented in the stories and poems in which Doyle illustrated were not ordered, they were filled with wonderful and at times, in the case of the town of Hamelin, terrifying phenomena. Niamh Corcoran

Four Mughal Style watercolours, 20th Century, some painted onto earlier manuscript pages, 24.5cm x 16cm and smaller

MOSTLY BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS, A FASCINATING COLLECTION OF BOUND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HANDWRITTEN TEXTS IN JOURNAL FORM 1.The initial page entitled 'A Short COMPENDIUM of Mirch'ts Accounts' by William Williams 1685 and the first seven pages being an inventory of transactions for the years 1684/5 in respect of mortgages, funerals, servants wages, household goods, cloth, wheat and sugar etc. 2.The next short section of the journal being a Biblical passage before a new title 'A Mystery for some to understand & others to mock: vix Three Birds Dialoguing' The Eagle, the Dove & the Raven or A Token of Recommendation to the Brittains Anno 1643, before the Coming of 666, the mystical number - written in welch by M lloyd of Wrexham - translated by Caleb Williams 1675 - Rewritten by W W begun 1684 Jun 22', this title then relates to the next section of handwritten passages within 208 numbered pages (each with the title 'A Dialogue Between Two Birds'). 3. This then proceeded by the next title 'A Short and Wonderfull Account of the Life & Visions of Hans Englebrecht - A German: 1662 Taken out of A Large Treatise Which Was Written by Himself in the German Tongue - Translated into English by Cochyne', the bottom of the same page is then signed Anne Jones, the next page Thomas Jones and dated 1720 and 1730, the next fifteen pages of the manuscript relate to Englebrecht. 4.The journal for approximately 21 pages is then a Welsh transcription of 'Llythr ir Cymru Cariadus' (a published work by the Welsh literature figure Morgan Llwyd) it is then signed off 'Morgan Lloyd' twice (the English translation of Morgan Llwyd). The pages then continue with an English translation of the same passages by Llwyd and ending 'Note the Epistle was printed in Welsh (M Ll Author) & now translated into English by W Wms Sept 5 Ano 1686'. 5.The next long section (believed approx 100 pages) of the journal is an English transcript of the Ancient Greek text 'Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus'. The journal then concludes with mainly English but also Welsh various shorter passages of poetry, texts in morality etc and including 'Tidings of a Certain Welshman' 'Sir Henry Vane's Face of the Times', ' Prophwydoliaeth' etc

19th-early 20th century AD. A group of twenty manuscript pages with Arabic script in black ink, some with annotated notes in red ink. 51 grams total, 11-22cm (4 1/4 - 8 3/4"). Property of an Canadian lady; acquired 1970s-1990s. [20, No Reserve] Fine condition.

WALLACE Edgar, 40 signed manuscript letters, to Mrs Mabel Wood (31), sister of his first wife, and her twin daughters Ray and May (9), his God-children. The letters were written between 1925 and 1928, and comprise over 100 pages. They are all signed 'Dick' or 'Uncle Dick', his first name being Richard. The letters include details of his hectic work schedule, his plays running in the West End, and the people he meets such as James Cochran. Without modesty, he talks about the money he's earning in royalties and his extravagant lifestyle - lunches at the Savoy, a box at Ascot, buying a Buick for the 'family', and a £2,500 Rolls Royce that will do 75mph on the open road. Also included is a letter from his second wife to Mrs Wood, inviting the God-children to stay in Switzerland, and one to Edgar Wallace from the theatrical producer Ryland Hicks (42). Extra images are available upon request.Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932). Born in poverty, he became a most prolific writer; best remembered for his crime fiction, but he also wrote in other genres and was a successful playwright. He is remembered too for the creation of King Kong, and scripted the film in Hollywood shortly before his death. He made a fortune, but due to extravagance died in debt; mainly to his bookmakers.

HORROX, Rosemany, and HAMMOND, P.W. (Editors), British Library Harleian Manuscript 433, Richard III Society 1979-1982, 3 vols, 4to, half blue morrocco presentation set, each volume signed and inscribed by editors; together with two binders of typescript pages 251 to 340 (5)

A mid-19th century scrapbook, with manuscript entries in different hands; a country house manuscript recipe book with 19th century and early 20th century entries; and a manuscript book of WWI poetry (3)

A manuscript book of Williams family history, tracing the line back to Sir Nicholas Bacon born 1510, with tipped-in Victorian photographs; WRIGHT, William Ball, Ball Family Records, York 1908, 4to cloth (2)

FOUR INDO PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS AND MANUSCRIPT PAGES AND A PAIR OF ORIENTAL PORTRAITS FRAMED AS ONE. (5)

Birmingham History Interest: Original architectural plans relating to the Day Continuation School in Bournville, Birmingham (the school was opened in 1925 to continue the education of young Cadbury workers), two sheets, hand-coloured, with attached documentation/notes bearing signatures, The Council of the City of Birmingham, 1937. Together with a poster for the 'Proposed Airport' in Birmingham, bearing stamp to verso: 'Office Copy - Please Return to Town Planning Department', and a manuscript sheet, heightened with gold, for 'Sir Robert Peel Baronet, President of the Fazeley Cricket Club, dated April 1909, signed E. Morton, 14 New Street, Birmingham. (3)Provenance: Vendor's mother worked with Sir Michael Cadbury within the Community Committee.

John Ruskin interest: A collection of printed material and ephemera relating to the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. To include exhibition and auction catalogues, private invitations to events, clippings/cuttings/prints from various publications. The collection includes a Fine Art Society exhibition catalogue from March/April 1907, together with invitation; 'Catalogue of the Sketches and Drawings of J. M. W. Turner', by John Ruskin, London: Spottiswoode, 1858; various Sotheby catalogues, including 'The Collection of Prints and Drawings formerly the property of the late Professor John Ruskin' (others dealing with Ruskin's library, manuscripts, collection of porcelain); an original catalogue, 'Under Revision: The Grosvenor Gallery, New Bond Street. Exhibition of the Works of Sir John E. Millais', 1886, London: Henry Good & Son. The collection includes a colour manuscript sheet: 'Miscellanea relating to John Ruskin, Collected by Auberon E Ward, Attercliffe, Sheffield'.

Medical interest: 'On the History and Physical and Chemical Properties of the Swietenia Febrifuga and of its comparative Effects with those of the Peruvian Bark, and Remarks and Observations on the Efficacy of the Bark of the Punica Granatum in Expelling Taenia', by Peter Breton, surgeon in the service of the Honourable East India Company, printed at the Asiatic Lithographic Press, no date but c.1811, the entire text produced by lithography (recreating handwritten manuscript), half-calf and marbled boards.

A very large collection of vellum indentures, 18th and 19th Century, relating to Sheepy in Leicestershire. The documents include leases, settlements, conveyances, mortgages; most refer to land or estates in Great Sheepy / Sheepy Magna. One document features a little hand-coloured manuscript map of 'Allotments at Atherston in the County of Warwick 1765'. To include a Victorian auction poster advertising 'Valuable Freehold Land at Great Sheepy, in the County of Leicester, to be Sold at Auction by Mr Ralph Crisp at the Red Lion Hotel in Atherstone' (printed by Davis, Atherstone). Approximately 100 indentures.

Somerset Estate Maps.- Ilett (P.B., surveyor, of Taunton) Map of the Parish of Broadway Somerset, 380 x 655mm., n.d. [c. 1820s]; Map of the Forest Grounds and Broadway Common... Copied from a Survey made by Mr Chilcott, 670 x 680mm., 1823, manuscript watercolour estate maps on vellum, folds, soiled and browned; and 3 others, Broadway area, v.s., v.d. (5).⁂ Broadway, near Ilminster.

Somerset.- Broadside.- The Sorrowful Lamentation of Chas. and Matt. Wednore, now lying under Sentence of Ieath [sic.], in Taunton Gaol, 250 x 179mm., Bristol, John Chapman, 1850 § A Calendar of the Prisoners for the Michaelmas Session, to be Holden at the Castle, Taunton on Monday, the 14th Day of October, wood-engraved arms, drop-head title, manuscript recordings of verdicts and sentences, folds, contemporary drab wrappers, Yeovil, 1833; and 6 others, Somerset, v.s. (8)

Persian manuscript.- 'Adel ibn 'Ali bin 'Adel al Shirazi. Al-Arba'inat al-thalath, [a compilation of 120 hadith, Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad], 64pp., manuscript on paper, Arabic and Persian text written in muhaqqaq and naskhi scripts, illuminated heading on first page in blue and gold, written in black ink with a few words in red, most leaves with marginal repairs, occasionally touching ruled border but generally not affecting text, p.2 with some surface abrasions causing loss of text, some staining, later limp black morocco, gilt, foot of spine torn, 8vo 139 x 84mm., probably Shiraz, ?1454⁂ The compiler and translator al-Shirazi states in the preface that he picked the 120 Sayings of the Prophet from the two monumental compilations, Sahih, of the Imams Abi Abdullah Muhammad bin Isma'il al-Bukhari and Abi al-Husain Musalam bin al-Hajaj al-Nishaburi.Provenance: The inventory number 28470 - 46 written in blue crayon on the front flyleaf indicates that this manuscript is probably from the Hagop Kevorkian Collection, New York, dispersed in the 1970s and early 80s, mainly through Sotheby's, London.

Sussex, Westmeston.- Charter by John Pelham, William Pelham & John Wodye junior, enfeoff to the freeman William Quetowne and Joan his wife all lands and tenements, meadows and pasture with their appurtenances in the Parish of Westmeston, witnesses: William Breche, William Bedyll, James Cook, Simon Fayrgo, John Mayhew and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 7 lines, in brown ink, 3 red wax seals (1 cracked) with good impressions, folds, slightly browned, 83 x 298mm., Westmeston, 26th March 1465; and another, a medieval French document, 1380 (2).

The Kingmaker's Brother.- Neville (John, as Earl of Northumberland, later Marquess Montagu, magnate, c. 1431-1471).- Charter by Margaret Sayvill, late wife of Thomas Sayvill of Copley [Yorkshire], in her widowhood grants to John Neville, Earl of Northumberland, Lord Montagu and Warden of the East March towards Scotland, all her lands in Halifax and Heptonstall [West Riding] during the minority of her son Henry Sayvill, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 9 lines, without seal, yellowed and creased, 99 x 265mm., Halifax, 2nd January 1466; and 5 other medieval documents relating to the Sayvill family of Skyrcote etc., v.s., v.d. (6).⁂ First mentioned Neville was the younger brother of Richard Neville, known to history as Warwick the Kingmaker.

Heraldry.- Cooke (Robert, herald, d. 1593) The Armes of the Nobility of England R. Cooke Clarencieusx 1572 XIIII Eliz., manuscript, title and 167pp. excluding blanks, 6pp. index, main body of the work in a fine Elizabethan hand, interpolations in a later hand, probably late 18th century, section at end recording coats of arms from the reign of James I, numerous pen and ink drawings of coats of arms with embellishments, ruled in red throughout, 18pp. of printed blank shields (19 shields filled in with pen and ink coats of arms) loosely inserted, [late 17th century], slightly browned, edges chipped, most Nicolas Lebe watermark and later paper United Provinces watermark, modern bookplate on front pastedown, 18th century vellum, yellowed, soiled and marked, spine split with loss, but cords still holding strong, modern box, folio, 1572-[1800].⁂ "As well as heraldic compilations, visitations, precedencies, heraldry treatises, and ordinaries of arms, Cooke wrote 'The armorie of nobiliti' on the English baronage with Robert Glover of Somerset and Thomas Lant... ." - Oxford DNB.

Italy.- Letter Book, manuscript in Italian, 189pp., in several hands, browned, original vellum, creased and soiled, original vellum tie, 114 x 80mm., 1586-1613; and another, 8vo (2).⁂ First mentioned ncludes some letters to Marietta Corsini telling her that that he has accounted with Piero di Giovani their worker in Valdarno and that the account and balance is well.

Medieval Escheats for Norfolk and Suffolk.- [List of Escheats to the crown from the reigns of Henry III to Henry VI/Edward IV (1216-1460) for Norfolk and Suffolk], manuscript, 351pp. excluding blanks, in two neat legal hands in single columns (most in 1 hand), margins ruled in red throughout, slightly browned, contemporary full vellum, gilt arabesque centre ornaments on both covers, single line gilt borders, holes for ties on covers, slightly soiled, gilt spine with remains of paper labels, sm. 4to, [c. 1600].⁂ Written by a legal clerk, this work is an unusually detailed and precise listing of references to inquisitions carried out by the Crown's escheators for Norfolk and Suffolk, forming in effect an index, part at least taken from the Charter Rolls. A few references are no longer extant, i.e., from the Charter Rolls, today are extant for 11-17 (not 18), 19-26, (not 27), 28-34 etc. (not 38 & 40) Henry III.. The work comprises alphabetical lists of places arranged by regnal years with references to shelf-marks, with at end an index listing manors, chapels and abbeys and another in regnal order listing private persons."Escheats. An 'incident' of feudal law, whereby a fief reverted to the lord when the tenant died without leaving a successor qualified to inherit under the original grant. Hence, the lapsing of land to the Crown, or to the lord of the manor, on the death of the owner intestate without heirs." - OED.

Elizabethan author and Jacobean agent.- Dickenson (John, author and government official, c. 1570-1635/6) List of expenses submitted to the Privy Seal, incurred accompanying the Princess Elizabeth from Arnhem to Cologne, and other diplomatic expenses, signed "John Dickenson" and ?"Tenffolke", manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, foxed and browned, January 1614, bound in an album of miscellaneous collection of orders, receipts and warrants for payment issued by the Exchequer, letters to coachmen etc., including: free franks (to the India Board and the Board of Trade), receipts, correspondence relating to payments by bankers drafts, signed orders and talleys, treasury receipts, including: Order signed "Middelsex" by Lionel Cranfield, first Earl of Middlesex (1575-1645), merchant and politician to Sir Robert Pye ordering the payment of a pension awarded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1623; later document signed by Robert Walpole etc., letters from Lord Townshend, Peel, George Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe (1690/91-1762), politician and diarist, Viscount Sidmouth, Charles Kean etc., letters to William Leader, coachmaker to the Prince of Wales [George IV], & Mr Lucas, both of 37 Liquor Pond Street, Holborn "Lady Poulett has sent her Coach to Mr Leaders & beg to know what is absolutely necessary to be done..."), Samuel Whitbread (1764-1815), politician (ALs, "The Dashing Iron to my travelling coach is again broke..."), Richard Cobden; William Smyth (1765-1849), poet and historian, "Verses on Charity to the Blind"; letters to the editor of the Globe Journal etc., together c. 150 pieces, most laid down, many treasury documents cut preserving signatures, folds, browned, 19th century half calf album, rubbed, v.s., v.d., 4to album, 1614-1849.⁂ Escorting The Winter Queen. Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662), Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine, consort of Frederick V, eldest and only surviving daughter of James I (1566-1625) and his wife, Anne of Denmark (1574-1619)."John Dickenson his Maties late Agent wth the Princes possessors of Cleve and Juliers [princes possessioners of Jülich-Cleves], humblie craveth allowance... for these extraordinarie disbursemts... . ffor his expence in travell attending the Lady Elizabeth... from Arneham & Curren together wth the charges of procuring three safe conducts for her highnesse and traine [£]70... ."John Dickenson was probably educated at Clare College, Cambridge in the 1580s. In the 1590s and until the early years of the seventeenth century he published a number of works, including, Arisbas, 1594, The Shepheardes Complaint, [?1596], and Greene in Conceipt, 1598, "now remembered for its title-page depiction of Robert Greene scribbling in his winding-sheet" [Oxford DNB]. In 1598 Dickenson published for Adam Islip a translation of Aristotle's Politiques and shortly after, perhaps through the influence of Sir Robert Sidney, became secretary to George Gilpin, Queen Elizabeth's agent at The Hague. Thereafter Dickenson became a much valued agent of the crown in the Low Countries and Germany, undertaking several diplomatic journeys including escorting Princess Elizabeth from Arnhem to Cologne, and later to Sigismund III in Poland. In later years he returned to London and served as a clerk of the privy council extraordinary, though he still undertook several diplomatic missions abroad. "Learned and analytical, Dickenson is in his literary writings as in his political letters a master of the small details... his ability to unpick the wording of treaties, where ambiguous syntax and confusions of translation were rife, and his insightful analyses of people and politics, were valued." - Oxford DNB.

Dialling.- [Martindale (Adam, nonconformist minister and mathematics instructor, 1623-86)] A description of a plaine instrument, that with much ease and exactness will discover the situation of any vertical plane, howsoever inclining, reclining, or declining, and how to draw a diall upon any such plane, or upon the face of any vertical body how irregular soever, together with several other things requiset to the arte of dialling, manuscript, 14pp. [ESTC cites 2 copies only of this work], [c. 1670] bound with [Leybourn (William, mathematician and land surveyor, 1626-1716)] The Art of dialling Arithmetically performed: By the Canons; or Tables of Artificiall sines & Tangents, manuscript, 22pp., [c. 1670], bound in reverse order, 3 pen and ink drawings of dials, some ff. loose, browned, unbound.⁂ "In 1668... [Martindale] published The Description of a Plain Instrument, in which he described the uses of a scientific instrument designed for geometric and navigational measurement." - Oxford DNB.

Medical.- Elementes, ou Principies de Cirugia, 2 parts in 1, manuscript in Portugese, 96pp. & 110pp. of related student notes in two hands at end, first work with decorated titles, some soiling, browned, hinges weak, original calf, rubbed, spine worn with holes and extensively rubbed, sm. 4to, [late 17th/early 18th century].⁂ A medical manual for students at a hospital in Porto.

Kent Estate Map.- Brazier (John, surveyor) A Plan of Bradbourn Farm in the Parishes of Sevenoaks and Otford Kent belonging to Sir Chas. Farnaby Radcliffe Bart., manuscript watercolour estate map on vellum, foxed, browned and slightly creased, on wooden battens at head and tail, 570 x 380mm., 1702.⁂ Bradbourne, near the village of East Malling, Kent.

Evesham.- Moore (R., antiquary) The History of the Monastery of Evesham. from an old Popish Manuscript, manuscript in a fine calligraphic hand, title, 2 subtitles and 94pp., titles ruled, some staining at head, some foxing, slightly browned, pencil inscription on front free endpaper and fly-leaf, inner hinges strengthened, original calf, gilt border and corner pieces, edges slightly rubbed, rebacked in modern calf, sm. 8vo, [c. 1750].⁂ Dedicated to Mr Ramell, "a Hampton (Evesham) man", this work is partly original, and partly taken from Dugdale. Pencil inscription: "Purchased from Thorp St Martin's Lane London WC in July 1916. This book was brought to my knowledge by Sir Edward Elgar. EAB B[arnard]."

Winchester College.- Stevens (Thomas Horton, student at Winchester College, 1755-71) The Order of Morning and Evening Prayer, sentences of Scripture, or more, to be read by the Minister, autograph manuscript signed and dated at end, title and headings in longhand and text in shorthand, 248pp., text ruled, slightly browned, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper "T.H. Lowth Winch: Coll:", Phillipps manuscript 2720 with ink stamp on free endpaper and pencil class mark on front pastedown, original reversed calf, corners bumped and rubbed, paper label "2720" Phillipps no. at tail of spine, edges uncut, 8vo, Winchester College, 1768.⁂ A poignant manuscript indicative of the Christian faith promulgated at one of England's leading public schools. Stevens died at Winchester College in his sixteenth year, and the volume is next recorded as being owned by Thomas Henry Lowth (1754-78), a fellow pupil from the same year. Lowth, the son of a famous bishop of London, became a student and fellow of New College, Oxford, before dying young himself in 1778.

Chatterton (Thomas, poet, 1752-70).- ?Draft of the Preface to Chatterton's Poems, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, slightly browned, Britannia watermark, sm. 8vo, n.d. [1777].⁂ Part of the preface, with a few changes, first printed in 1777, and credited as having been written by Chatterton's friend George Calcott.

Songs.- Receuil De Chansons, manuscript in French, title and 118pp. (including lower pastedown), 1½pp. musical notation, browned, some ink marks, some ff. working loose, ?ink name Oliarnier on front pastedown, original calf, rubbed, corners and edges worn, spine torn with loss at head of spine, sm. 8vo, 1780.⁂ A collection of songs with one put to music. Titles, include: "la lumiere la plus pure"; "Chanson le loup Garoux"; "Mahomet"; "L'amour"; "Venus Pelerine"; "Chanson de la Laitiere" etc.

Ireland.- Co. Down.- Valuation of the Parish of Saul [&] Kilmegan, 2 vol., manuscript, together 128pp. excluding blanks, printed pages with manuscript insertions, original roan, 1 vol. repaired with tape, sm. 4to, 1839; and 3 others, including: a printed valuation, and 2 printed Council Books of Youghal and Kinsale, v.s., v.d. (5).

Ireland.- [Tour of Ireland], manuscript, 247pp., map of Ireland tipped-in at front and 2pp. of newspaper cuttings at end, slightly browned, last f. edges chipped, original green morocco, gilt, gilt spine slightly faded, g.e., sm. 4to, 3rd June - 20th November 1840.⁂ "Achill Island... a Printing Press has been established two years, every thing under the denotion of Mr Nangle [Rev. Edward Nangle & the Achill Island Mission, 1800-83]... I out to the schools with much interest, and saw all the Children at dinner on Potatoes & Meat gruel and their bed rooms very clean and comfortable. I attended evening Prayers, read by Mrs Nangles assistant a Lecture on being re-born of the spirit as necessary for Eternal Salvation I though too deep for the Congregation."An account of an Englishman touring Ireland in 1840, firstly travelling through England (Castle Ashby, Birmingham etc.) to Liverpool and then to Palmerstown, Dublin, Slane, Bangor, Larne, Ballycastle, Bushmills, Londonderry, Ballyshannon, Lisadell, Rockingham, Achill Island, Killarney, Cork, Lismore, Cashell, Clonmell etc.

Ireland.- Dublin Police.- Flint (John, Police Inspector and Secretary to the Police Grievance Association) The Dublin Police, and the Police System..., printed text, manuscript text and Memorials by John Flint to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Lord Mayor of London [Sir Arthur Guinness], manuscript 84pp., letter from Flint tipped-in at end, slightly browned, bookplate of Lady Ardilaun on front pastedown, original cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded, modern slip-case, sm. 4to, 1847.

Ireland.- Children's Songs & Nursery Rhymes.- Cather (Margaret, of Newtonlimavady, fl. 1850s) [Collection of Traditional children's songs and nursery rhymes] Margaret Helen Tyler from Her Attached Cousin Margaret Cather, autograph manuscript, calligraphic title and 11pp., 10 original illustrations (5 watercolour illustrations, 5 pen and ink illustrations and watercolour "Finis" decoration at end and), original yellow wrappers with pen and ink illustrations on upper cover, slightly soiled, 8vo, 5th April 1853.

Ireland.- Education .- Foster (Vere Henry Louis, philanthropist and educationist, 1819-1900) Vere Foster's Copy Books, original designs for the "National School Copy Books", c. 180pp. of italic specimens to be copied, and 27pp. of Roman, italic, Irish and ornamental alphabets and penmanship, manuscript insertions, some pages with editorial markings, slightly soiled and stained, inner hinges strengthened, original cloth, gilt, rebacked, modern slip-case, oblong 8vo, n.d. [c. 1865]. ⁂ "[Foster] designed and organized the printing of a series of writing and drawing copybooks, which were the mainstay of Irish education for half a century. Profits from the sales of these books were channelled back into educational charities." - Oxford DNB.

Ireland.- Donegal.- Shane (Elizabeth, pseudonym of Gertrude Elizabeth Heron Hind, poet, musician and dramatist, 1877-1951) 2 albums of watercolour views of Donegal, 46 watercolours (all but two laid down), manuscript captions, manuscript inscription name and address of Hind at her Bath address, original card wrappers, stitched as issued, preserved in a modern cloth portfolio, 130 x 179mm. & v.s., n.d. [c. 1910].

Ireland.- Folklorist.- Bigger (Francis Joseph, antiquarian and folklorist, 1863 - 1926) Aneas O'Haughan or, The Outlaw of Squire's Hill, autograph manuscript signed introduction and printed proof with autograph manuscript corrections, illustrations, foxed and browned, letters to Bigger tipped-in at end, original cloth wrappers, 1895; and 3 other pieces including another corrected proof of the same story, modern cloth portfolio, 4to (4 pieces).

Irish Cookery Recipes.- [Collection of recipes, mostly desserts], manuscript, 85pp. excluding blanks, stain at head of first 16pp., slightly browned, pp. looseor working loose, ink recipe for making 18 gallons of beer loosely inserted, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine split, 8vo, dated in text 1813.⁂ Recipes, include: "To make a Carrot Pudding Miss B"; "To make a boil'd Custard Pudding"; "A Butter Milk Pudding - Mrs Scott"; "To make a baked Rice Pudding"; "To make an Apple Pudding"; "A good Bread Pudding Mrs. Eyre"; "A Potatoe Pudding - Mrs. Pigott"; "A Plumb Pudding - Mrs Eyre"; "Oatmeal Pudding"; "A charlott of apples - Mrs Bates"; "To Make a French Cheese"; "Lemon Cream in clear Jelly"; "To Make a Floating Island Mrs. Eyer"; "Fancy Work - To make best Spirit Varnish... Mem - there is no place in Dublin so certain of getting the ingredients, free from adulteration, as the Apothecaries Hall, in Mary's Street - for if there is the Least Adulteration the varnish will never mix - or if there is least Compliment of any thing more - than what is mention'd" etc.

Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.- Account Book relating to the Parker family of Browsholme Hall, Lancashire, manuscript in 2 hands (mostly 1 hand), c. 160pp., a few pieces of related ephemera loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, folio, 1833-40; and 2 others, including, The Charter of Hereford in English [&] King William ye Third Confirmation, [18th century], v.s., v.d. (3).⁂ First mentioned: "D.r Edw. Parker for Monies received on and since his taking possession of Browsholme the 24th August 1833."

Pennsylvania Farm Boy.- Taylor (Eli, of a farm at East Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1814-1903) Diary, autograph manuscript, c. 175pp., 1f. half torn away, extensively water-stained, small hole repaired affecting numerous pp., browned, contemporary pictorial card wrappers, rubbed and browned, upper cover detaching, sm. 4to, 1833-34.⁂ Eli Taylor manages, at best two or three months of school in Winter, and spends the rest of the year on his parents farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Taylor records a barn being built, a well being dug, thatching, digging potatoes, visits to the Mill and to the Smith etc. Also details of cider making, to the Mill for sausage making and a cheese being pressed at a neighbour's.

Brussels, Waterloo & the Rhine.- Boger (Walter Deeble, Barrister-at-Law, High Sheriff of Cornwall, of Wolsdon, Antony, Cornwall, married Amelia Harriet Bosworth, b. 1832) [Journal of an eight month stay in Brussels], autograph manuscript, 213pp. excluding blanks, numerous pen and ink sketches in the text, a letter from the Commissionaire of Police in place of a passport for travelling in the Rhine, printed programme of a concert at Académie Royale, Brussels, tipped-in, and a printed programme of a Fêtes to celebrate Belgian Independence September 1849 tipped-in, a few pp. of expences, last f. in pencil, 1f. loose, browned, original boards, slightly rubbed, rebacked in modern morocco, sm. 4to, 30th April - 14th December 1849.⁂ A young expatriate Englishman living for eight months in Brussels in the middle of the nineteenth century.Battle of Waterloo. "Wednesday 28th September [1849]. We went to Waterloo. We went over the ground with a guide called Martin Pirsor successor to Sergeant Major Cotton, who described the battle & the positions of the troops & as he was describing he mentioned the name of General Maitland [Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777-1854), commander of the 1st brigade of guards in 1815 at Quatre Bras and Waterloo], & said that's where he was stationed & a gentleman in another party just behind us smiled & said 'Yes you're right. There's where I was.' It was General Maitland himself who went over the field & explained to his son who was with him the whole battle. At least we saw him pointing out different places." - W.D. Boger.Acquaintance of the Brontës in Brussels. "Mr Jenkins the Clergyman of the Protestant Church called this afternoon. I have heard a very bad character of him that he is imprisoned for debt generally once a month, when the Protestants club together to get him out, that he is fond of his bottle & that last Sunday instead of preaching he wished to marry all the people. He is the queerest looking old fellow I ever saw & it was by the greatest efforts I managed to restrain my laughter at many things he said." - W.D. Boger. [The Jenkins family played an important role in the Brontë Brussels story, introducing Emily and Charlotte to the Hegers and their Pensionnat].Other items recorded in the journal, include: Princess Hohenloh [Hohenlohe] on the steamer from Dover; saw Houdin perform at the Theatre St Hubert; reads Martin Chuzzlewit; taught art by François Stroobant (1819-1916), Belgian painter, engraver, draftsman , lithographer and watercolourist; visits Clairefontaine; visits the Palais de Justice to watch a trial with large pen and ink sketch of the courtroom; visits Treves (Triers) in Germany and Arlon with pen and ink map of Arlon; visits Metz and Nancy; met Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (1802-61), French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist; visits the Rhine, travels to Coblentz, receives a letter from "Mr Coleridge"; fete day in Brussels, tumblers, soldiers etc.

Unpublished Play.- Taylor (Charles Western, actor and dramatist, wrote one of the first stage adaptations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", c. 1800-74) Rosalind or the Cottage of Love a Comedy in Three Acts, written expressly for Miss Mary Wells by C.W. Taylor Esq.,, autograph manuscript signed, title and 76pp., ruled in red, some ff. loose and working loose, slightly browned, endpapers loose, perforated stamps on various ff. and bookplate on front pastedown of Brooklyn Public Library, original half roan, worn, morocco label on upper cover, lacks spine, folio, 1853.⁂ Included with this lot is a printed email from Brooklyn Public Library giving permission to sell this work.