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[Shelley (Lady Jane, née Gibson, married Sir Percy Florence Shelley, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, 1820-99)] Diary: [Cruise to Scotland]; 2nd Cruize of the Guinerva; Our First Cruize in the Flirt, autograph manuscript, 95pp., excluding blanks, also 2pp. of an unpublished poem by Jane Shelley signed "J.S.", 2pp. poem "Shadows on the Water - Written by Florence Trevor at the age of 18", 1848, and "Lines Written at Boscombe" by Richard Garnett, friend of the Shelley's, illustrated with 20 watercolour sketches, most in text, some laid down, 1 loose, and 1 pen and ink illustration in the text, 1 pressed flower "gathered from Sir John Moore's tomb given to me by little Floss [the Shelley's adopted daughter Bessie Florence Gibson (1852-1934), a few ff. excised at beginning, slightly browned, original morocco, rubbed, brass clasp with key, spine rubbed, tail of spine torn with small loss, sm. 4to, 1853 & 1860.⁂ Jane Shelley's spiritualism. "Tuesday Oct 16th [1853] After lessons Percy, Madlle Kitty, went on shore - Floss & self remained to walk about the deck they returned late for dinner - devoted some few hours to spiritual drawing - this astonishes me more & more - read Swedenborg & letters on the character of Mary Wollestonecraft - Percy brought me a little paper knife & book keeper with a view of Mount Edgecumbe." - Jane Shelley. Jane Shelley was intensely interested in spiritualism and spent a great deal of time practising automatic writing in which she would attempt to contact Mary Shelley who would give approbation to her own view of the Shelley's posthumous reputations.Percy Florence Shelley was a keen sailor like his father, and was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. These cruises, mainly about the Mediterranean include visits to: Gibraltar, Messina, Naples, Palermo, Corfu, Athens, Constantinople etc.

Herefordshire Diary.- Biscoe (Annie Elizabeth, of Whitbourne, Herefordshire, daughter of the Rev Robert Biscoe, rector of Whitbourne, b. 1834) Diary, 3 vol., autograph manuscript, 280pp., slightly browned, original roan, 1 vol. spine with small surface wear, 8vo, 1855-57; and 4 other manuscript diaries, 3 by Edie Still, of Addington near Croydon (mentioning the Smith family of Downe Court) & 1 by her companion, Mary Lee, 1888, 1889, 1891 & 1895 (7). ⁂ Oxford. "Early breakfast & off with Cissey F[reeman] to the theatre, got good seats, beautiful light: Prince Albert... then afterwards to luncheon at All Souls... ."First mentioned the diary of a young woman living in the rectory at Whitbourne, Herefordshire. Biscoe visits her brother, Vincent, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford. Pursuits include: going to a dance at her Aunt's in Malvern (a failure as no men came), visits London (Kew Gardens, Zoological Gardens, Crystal Palace), walking in Badley Woods, walking to Gaines, meetings with the Palmer and Dorney families, visits to Knightwick, Edvin, Worcester, Malvern, local cricket matches, Captain Inglis taking photographs, long visit to Boulogne and shorter visit to Paris, papa taking John with 2 policeman to the Abergavenny Lunatic Asylum etc.

Poetry.- Cook (Eliza, poet and journalist, 1812-89) Poems by Eliza Cook, manuscript fair copy, title and 354pp., slightly browned, hinges a little weak, original morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed, sm. 4to, [c. 1860]; and 3 other manuscripts, comprising a manuscript concerning ailments in horses and cattle in Derbyshire, 1830s, and a child's manuscript hand-writing book exercise book, [early 19th century] etc., v.s., v.d. (4).⁂ First mentioned a substantial manuscript collection of Cook's verse, 141 poems in total.

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, 1807-82).- 2 Victorian scrap books, c. 580pp., numerous manuscript poems and prose, and engravings (some hand-coloured), original red morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, 1844-65.⁂ Includes an autograph signed poem by Longfellow, beginning, "The night shall be filled with music", and decorated with leaves from the tombs of Goethe and Schiller.

Ladies of Llangollen.- The Right Honrbl Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby. The Ladies of Llangollen... [by]... J.F.G., pencil drawing, 1866, in an album compiled by Mary Burton of Clifden House, Corofin, Co. Clare, numerous pen and ink and watercolours, manuscript poetry, together c. 130pp., including a watercolour of Lady Hester Stanhope and a watercolour by Sir Frederick William Burton, Director of the National Gallery of London, original emerald straight-grained morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, g.e., sm. 4to, 1833-66.

Italy, France & Switzerland.- Journal of two tours to Italy and France & Switzerland, manuscript, 27pp. excluding blanks, 30 photographs (7 loose), slightly browned, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, oblong 4to (230 x 310mm.), 1873; and another, manuscript commonplace book by J.H. Barland and mentioning Dr Payne of Newhill Hall, Yorkshire, v.s., v.d. (2).⁂ A journal, probably by a British army officer based in Malta, of two tours in 1873, including: Syracuse, Messina, Naples, Vesuvius, Capri, Pompeii, "You enter by the old gate in the old wall by the road paved with large irregular blocks of lava. It is terrible to see the bodies though they are very shapeless the attitudes are expressive of fearful agony & terror", Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald, the Reichenbach Falls etc.

Italy (Bellagio, Florence, Naples and Rome).- ?Hearn (W., companion to the Misses Drake's, of 16 Charles Terrace, ?London) Diary of a tour to Italy, autograph manuscript, 178pp., 2ff. loose, slightly browned, original morocco wrappers, 8vo, 1879-80.⁂ The detailed diary of a young woman working as a companion to Julie Drake and another Miss Drake as they make a tour through Turin, Lugano, Bellagio (Lake Como, where she spots a local looking at the keyhole of her bedroom), Bologna, Florence, "In Florence there is a long established order of Bretheren called the Misericordia or Brothers of Mercy who are frequently seen in the streets garbed in their black robes with cowls covering the head & leaving apertures for the eyes only while engaged in their missions of mercy... they were really horrible to behold... when they got to the door they put down their beir & instead of being a coffin which they had carried it was a cosy little bed covered with black oil silk in which they were going to carry sick person to the Hospital", Naples and Rome.

Germany.- Bagley (E.T.) Journal of a tour to Germany, manuscript, 161pp., numerous pen and ink sketches, slightly browned, inner hinges weak, original morocco, gilt, rubbed and slightly faded, g.e., 8vo, 1888; and another, a manuscript diary by Joyce Watney, daughter of Norman Watney, head of the brewery firm, of Valence House, Westerham, Kent, v.s., v.d.(2).⁂ Places visited, include: Cologne, Bonn, Liebenstein, Bingen, Heidelberg Castle, Baden Baden etc. Includes an account of German students duelling clubs, under the headings, "Students colours" and "Lager beer exploits".

Heraldry & Genealogy.- Burke (Sir Henry Farnham, as Somerset Herald, 1859-1930) Ancestors of Alexander Haslop Leigh, manuscript on vellum, title and 69pp., large watercolour coat of arms at beginning and numerous small coats of arms, some heightened with gold, large folding pedigree at end, wax seal in metal skippet appended, slightly browned, handsomely bound in red morocco, gilt, upper cover very slightly scuffed, housed in a modern custom made box, folio, 3rd August 1902.

Cryptography.- Breithaupt (Christian) Ars decifratoria sive scientia occultas scripturas solvendi et legendi, title with engraved vignette, folding table, woodcut ornaments and one or two illustrations or diagrams, light foxing and browning, contemporary limp boards, spine lettered in manuscript, rubbed and soiled, spine frayed at foot, 8vo, Helmstadt, C.F.Weygand, 1737.

Medical Recipes.- [Collection of recipes, mostly medicinal], manuscript, 132pp. excluding blanks, in several hands, numerous manuscript recipes (1 in a letter to Sir Jonathan Coryton) loosely inserted or held in place by pins, slightly browned, Arms of Amsterdam watermark, loose in original vellum, soiled and yellowed, upper cover stained and splitting along upper edge, corners worn, sm. folio, n.d., dated in text 1725 & first half of the 18th century.⁂ Recipes include: "For ye biting of a mad dog, given me by Mr Parson N.B.: this receipt was taken out of Cathorp [Caythorpe] Church in Lincolnshire, ye whole town being bitten by a mad dog, & all that took the medecin did well, & ye Rest dyed madd"; "To make oyle of Charity"; "A water for ye stone"; "To make ye snaile wate"; "To prevent Miscaredg"; "For the Yellow and Black Jaundies"; "To make ye Deans pouder I had it of Madum Bregintine"; "ffor the Small Pox" etc.

Blake (William).- Catullus (Gaius Valerius) The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, In English Verse, [translated and edited by Dr. John Nott], 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces by William Blake, 2 errata ff., light offsetting on titles, some spotting, front free endpaper becoming loose (vol. 1), 19th Century manuscript notes loosely inserted, occasional marginal pencil markings, contemporary calf, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Bentley 441], 8vo, Printed for J. Johnson, 1795.⁂ First edition of the first attempt to publish a complete English translation of Catullus, with plates by William Blake.

Newton (Sir Isaac) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, vol.2 only (of 2), first edition in English, lacking engraved frontispiece, with 22 folding engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, 2 engraved head-pieces by A.Motte, with the 13pp. Index and 8pp. Appendix but without the 71pp. 'The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity' by John Machin usually bound at end, cropped shaving first engraved head-piece, very light damp-staining to title, last couple of leaves and 4 folding plates at end, small yellow stain to first leaf, contemporary ink manuscript notes to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate (with name scored out), contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, lacking labels, rubbed, boards a little scuffed, spine ends worn, headband detached, split to upper joint, [PMM 161], 8vo, for Benjamin Motte, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, 1729.⁂ First English edition of vol.2 of Newton's Principia, the most important work in the history of science, and including Newton's System of the World as Book 3. Machin's work is usually bound at the end of this volume but is occasionally found at the end of vol.1.

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852).- Arthur Duke of Wellington, extra-illustrated by the insertion of numerous items and a number of artifacts relating to Wellington, including: 3 ALs.s. and 1 autographed envelope by Wellington, a piece of Wellington's marble sarcophagus, a medallion commemorating Wellington, a piece of the Guard chain of Wellington (these 3 artifacts inset into gilt morocco doublure at beginning), admission ticket to Wellington's funeral, double-page lithograph of Copenhagen, manuscript pedigree, watercolour of the sarcophagus, print of the catafalque, 5 more medallions inset in lower doublure etc., original morocco, gilt, upper cover slightly scuffed, g.e., 4to, 1852.

Magic & Conjuring.- Houdini (Harry).- Maggi (Girolamo) De tintinnabulis liber postumus...de equuleo liber, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red and black, 21 engraved plates or full-page illustrations, 3 folding, old ink signature to title and with manuscript note to front free endpaper, Harry Houdini's copy with pencil note by James Steven Cox "From Harry Houdini's collection bought 1930 in USA JSC" on front pastedown and old typed bookseller's slip priced $7.50 and annotated in pencil "Bought from Ted Pullman 1930 USA JSCox" tipped in at beginning, contemporary calf, spine gilt, marbled edges, rubbed, slight wear to corners and foot of spine, worming to foot of lower joint, 12mo, Amsterdam, H. Wetstein, 1689.⁂ The author was a military engineer who was captured by the Turks in 1571 while working on fortifications at the fortress of Famagouste in Cyprus. While in prison in Constantinople he wrote these two treatises, one on bells, the other on torture. It is intriguing to speculate on which subject particularly interested Houdini.

Alchemy.- Bacon (Roger) and others. Le Miroir d'Alquimie ; Des Choses Merveilleuses en Nature... ; De l'Admirable Pouvoir et Puissance de l'Art, & de Nature... ; L'Elixir des Philosophes, autrement l'Art Transmutatoire..., together 4 parts in 1, collation: A-H8, I4 ; a-m8 ; a-f8 ; a-m8, n8, first edition in French, woodcut device on titles, ornaments and initials, lacking B1 & C1 in first part and m8 in fourth part, all supplied in neat 18th century manuscript, first part with otherwise blank colophon leaf at end but fourth lacking final blank (n8), part 4 with woodcut illustrations, some ink underlinings, a little browned, a few stains, cropped shaving a few leaves, slight marginal worming to part 3, part 4 with small hole to m3 affecting a couple of letters and n3 frayed at lower outer corner, engraved armorial bookplate of P.N.Hemey, 18th century calf, gilt, spine gilt with morocco label, rubbed, corners, joints and head of spine worn, [Not in Adams; Caillet 624], small 8vo, Lyons, Macé Bonhomme, 1557.⁂ Very rare collection of works on alchemy, issued in four parts, each with a separate title-page. This was the first work by Bacon to be printed, first appearing in Latin in Nuremberg in 1541 and the first edition in English in 1597. Nicolas Bernard translated parts one and four, and Jacques Girard parts two and three. Caillet mentions the last copy at auction being the Yemeniz copy in 1867 when it fetched 85 francs.

Cookery & Medical recipes.- Hutson (Mrs Beulah) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 82pp. excluding blanks, in at least three hands (most in the hand of Beulah Hutson), inscribed at beginning: "Mrs Beulah Hutson Her Booke", ?Strasbourg Lily watermark, foxed and browned, original gilt panelled calf, rubbed, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1680].⁂ Recipes include: "To Make Paste Royall"; "To Make Custards"; "Orange Tarts in Puff Paste"; "Artificiall Sturgeon"; "To make Rare Wiggs"; "To make Rasberry Wine"; "To make Quince Cream"; "The most precious water Called Aqua Mirabilis"; "A drinke to prevent Miscarrying"; "A Rare drinke to Stopp Vomiting"; "A receipt good against the Gout" etc.

Fireworks & Mines.- Jones (Capt. Robert) Artificial Fireworks, improved to the Modern Practice, second edition, corrected, 11 folding engraved plates, 1p. advertisements at end, lacking initial and final blanks, title cropped at foot with loss of date, contemporary ink inscription of Henry Case of Suffolk with manuscript notes concerning fireworks on front free endpaper, browned, pencil annotations to plates, lightly offset and with one or two stains, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, for J.Millan, 1776 § Barba (Albaro Alonso) A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals, second edition, engraved frontispiece (offsetting from title), 1p. advertisements at end, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, [Ferguson I p.170; Norman 115], for J.Hodges, 1740, 8vo & 12mo⁂ The manuscript notes in the first list the cost of fireworks including rockets and roman candles. It also includes sections by Belidor and Valliere on mines. The second work is the second collected edition of "the first significant treatise on metals to be written in Spanish" (Norman). It includes Gabriel Plattes's Discovery of subterraneal treasure and Houghton's Compleat Miner.

Medicine.- Cordus (Valerius) Dispensatorium, hoc est pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio, collation: a-z, A-G8, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, with final blank, contemporary ink manuscript note in English at end of contents and another longer in Latin on front free endpaper, some underlinings in red, light water-staining, slight worming to lower margin, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties, a little rubbed and soiled, [Not in Adams], 16mo, Lyons, Theobaldus Paganus [Thibaud Payen], 1556.⁂ Rare early edition of essentially the first pharmacopoeia, first published in 1535.

Cookery recipes.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 141pp. excluding blanks, in four hands, slightly foxed and browned, original gilt panelled calf, rubbed, upper joint splitting but still strong, g.e., sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1700].⁂ Recipes include: "To make A Harty Choke Pye"; "To stew Oysters"; "To make Almond Butter"; "To make Lemon Creame"; "To Sowse a Pigg"; "To make Portingall Cakes"; "To make Chocolate Cakes"; "To make an Oring Puding"; "To make a Bred & Butter Puding"; "To make Burch wine"; "Mrs Boswells Eye Water" etc. Mentions a cousin called Grace Butler.

Physiognomy.- [Della Rocca (Bartolomeo)], "Cocles". La Physionomie Naturelle et la Chiromance, numerous woodcuts of faces and hands, 2 full-page, a little soiled and stained, bookplate of George Charles Bright M.D., contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine worn and slightly defective, Rouen, Jean-B. Besongne, 1698 § Mimique: L'Art de connaitre els Hommes sur leurs attitudes, leurs gestes et leurs démarches, d'après Lavater, second edition, 32 hand-coloured engraved plates, half-title with pencil signature and soiled, manuscript verses to inside rear cover, original wrappers, uncut, lacking upper wrapper, spine worn, Paris, 1813, 12mo (2)⁂ The first is a guide to physiognomy and chiromancy, the arts of determining character and temperament through the study of faces and hands respectively.George Charles Bright (1840-1922), physician, son of Richard Bright who identified the disease named after him.Chiromancy - see also lot 20

Toxicology.- Nicander, of Colophon. Theriaca. Eiusdem Alexipharmaca [graece]. Interpretatio innominati autoris in Theriaca..., collation: [Aa]2, Bb-Oo4, title in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, 1530; Theriaca et Alexipharmaca, cum scholiis, edited by Joannes Lonicer, collation: a-p4, with final blank, Latin text, 1531, 2 works in 1 vol., titles with woodcut device, with enlarged version on final leaf of first work, large woodcut historiated initials, some spotting and browning, particularly to second work, contemporary limp vellum with ties (all but one lacking), rubbed and a little stained, pastedowns from a manuscript Italian Latin Bible (Book of Jeremiah Ch.29 & 30, c.1400) written in rounded Gothic hand, [Adams N209-210], 4to, Cologne, J.Soter⁂ Two famous 2nd century Greek poems, the first works on toxicology, both third editions. Both describe the symptoms of poisoning: Theriaca concerning the bites of venomous animals, Alexipharmaca poisons and their antidotes.

Cookery recipes.- Farrow (Mary) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 80pp. excluding blanks, in at least three hands (1 hand late 18th century and most early in a 19th century), foxed and browned, numerous cookery recipes loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, upper cover stained, corners worn, sm. 4to, 1822 & earlier.⁂ Recipes include: "Rout Cakes"; "A Hunters Pudding"; "Bread Sauce"; "To Candy Lemon Pies"; "Damson Cheese"; "A Charlotte"; "Blancmange"; "Mince Pies"; "Gingerbread" etc.

Africa.- [Lobo (Jeronimo)] A short Relation of the River Nile, of its Sourse and Current; of its Overflowing the Campagna of Aegypt..., translated by Sir Peter Wyche, second English edition, initial imprimatur leaf, pencil signature of C.Waring at head of title with several marginal and notes on rear free endpaper, a little browned, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Wing L2734], small 8vo, for John Martin, 1673.⁂ Account of a Jesuit missionary's travels in Ethiopia from 1625 to 1633; originally written in Portuguese it was translated from the manuscript by Sir Peter Wyche for the Royal Society. It includes descriptions of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, Arab shipping, Prester John and "the famous Unicorne".

Food & Drink.- Chacon (Pedro) De triclinio, sive, de modo convivandi apud priscos Romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu, collation: *2, A-M8, N6, second edition, woodcut device on title, 4 large woodcut illustrations, title soiled and with old price in ink manuscript at head, lightly browned and water-stained, modern half calf, spine gilt, g.e., spine very slightly faded, [Adams C1630; Vicaire 174], 8vo, Heidelberg [Officina Sanctandreana], 1590.⁂ Scarce treatise, first published in 1588, on the dining habits of the Romans.

Food & Drink.- [Kettilby (Mary, compiler)] A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, first edition, half-title, rather browned, light water-staining, contemporary calf, worn, joints split, spine slightly defective, [Maclean p.79; Oxford p.54; Simon BG 904 (note)], for Richard Wilkin, 1714 § Barra (Pierre) L'Usage de la Glace, de la Neige et du Froid, title with woodcut device, browned, contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript, Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1675 [Wooley (Hannah)] The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight, in Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery, seventh edition, engraved portrait and additional pictorial title, lacking D4, D6 & E1, browned and stained, cropped with occasional loss, modern half calf, [Wing W3273], by B.Harris, 1696; and 2 others, cookery, 8vo et infra (5)

Alps.- Stumpf (Johann Rudolph) Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckern Chronicwirdiger thaaten beschreibung, 13 parts in 1, collation: **8, †-††6, †††4, ††††6, a-z, A-Z, Aa-Zz, AA-ZZ, AAa-ZZz, AAA-GGG6, third edition (second folio edition), title in red and black with woodcut printer's device, with blank **8, 5 double-page woodcut maps of Europe, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Eydgnoschafft mounted on stubs, 13 part-titles with woodcut armorial borders, numerous woodcut illustrations in text (maps, town views, military scenes, portrait medallions, animals & birds, coats-of-arms etc.), some light soiling and browning but generally clean, title a little soiled and with small holes not affecting text, ink stain to g2, contemporary ink inscriptions to front pastedown, some crossed out or erased, contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, elaborately stamped in blind with central panels surrounded by borders of the Christian virtues, with brass clasps, paper label on spine in ink manuscript, a little rubbed and soiled, [Perret 4160; Not in Adams], folio, Zurich, Froschauer, 1586.⁂ An excellent copy of the important Swiss chronicle, first published in 1548, also by Froschauer (plus an abridged 8vo edition titled Schwytzer Chronika in 1554). A large part of the work is devoted to the Valais, with some descriptions of valleys and mountains.

World.- Apianus (Petrus) La Cosmographia, corregida y añadida por Gemma Frisio, collation: A-Y4, title with large woodcut of globe, numerous woodcut illustrations and initials including 4 volvelles (C2v, D1v, I1v & P3r), woodcut on C3v lacking thread pointer, folding woodcut map of world, contemporary ink manuscript notes on verso of title, foot of first leaf, verso of final leaf and one or two margins, dedication (A2) misbound between A3 & A4, title with large holes either side of woodcut causing loss to notes on verso (repaired), title and dedication lacking small strip at head of each leaf not affecting text (repaired), a little soiled and browned, light water-staining towards end, later tree sheep, rubbed, slight worming to lower joint, [Not in Adams], 4to, Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen, 1575.⁂ Including material by Dr. Francisque Lopez de Gomara concerning America at end, and with folding woodcut map featuring North America as a strip, the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola very large and showing the mountains of the Moon as the source of the River Nile.

Ireland.- Allen (H.J.) In Erin's Isle, autograph manuscript, gilt decorated title, half-title and c. 80pp., numerous pen and ink illustrations, ruled in red throughout, 6 photographs, note on front free endpaper, original green morocco, gilt, spine slightly marked, g.e., sm. 8vo, 1891 § [Bax (Sir Arnold Edward Trevor, composer, 1883-1953)], "Dermot O'Byrne." Déirdre A Saga Drama, author's copy with his signature, manuscript title and 128pp. typescript, slightly foxed, inner hinges strengthened, modern half calf, gilt spine, 30th November 1907; and another, an illuminated address, v.s., v.d. (3).⁂ Note reads: "To Mr and Mrs John Allen on the Silver Twenty Fifth anniversary of their wedding day from their veldest son H.J.A. 1892."

Mary (Queen of Scots, 1542-87).- [The trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots], manuscript in Secretary hand, 78pp., incomplete at beginning (affecting sermon which opened the trial), slightly stained in places, browned, 1 burn hole, stitched, unbound, loosely inserted in modern wrappers, sm. 4to, n.d. [must be dated after 1605 as Robert Cecil is referred to as Earl of Salisbury], [c. 1610].⁂ Murder of Queen Elizabeth. "... for the dispatch of ye usurper, from the obedience of whom we are by the excommunication of her made free. There be six noble gent[lemen]... who... will undertake that tragicall execution."- Anthony Babington.An interesting manuscript detailing the trial of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay and execution and aftermath. The manuscript shows the lay out of the court, reproduces some of the incriminating correspondence between Queen Mary and Anthony Babington (whose plot was the first to encompass the death of Queen Elizabeth from the beginning), an account of her apparel and her execution. The work also includes a copy of the sermon preached to Queen Elizabeth after the execution ("the angell of the Lorde appeared to Josephe in a dreame in Egypt" by Richard Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough), the funeral of Queen Mary at Peterborough Cathedral (her body was moved to Westminster Abbey by her son James I), a piece on Sir Francis Walsingham, and at the end, Burghley's "Precepts to His Son", Robert Cecil, originally written in 1584.Provenance: Modern pencil inscription: "From Shapwick Manor, Somerset 1950 Strangways family."

Ireland.- Lombard (Peter) De regno Hiberniae Sanctorum Insula Commentarius, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, foxed and browned, slight worming at beginning and end, affecting a few letters of text, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, remains of 2 ties, ink inscription crossed out at head of title, Louvain, Apud viduam Steph. Martini, 1632.⁂ Very rare and important account of 16th century Ireland, suppressed by the English authorities. A letter to the Lord Deputy of Ireland from Secretary Windebank dated 20 Nov. 1633 states "His Majesty understanding that there is one Petrus Lombardus, or that calls himself so, who hath lately published a dangerous book, in three parts, concerning O'Neale, requires your lordship to suppress the book, and send some of the copies to my Lord of Canterbury, and to call the author to account for it." (Letters of Strafford, vol.1, p.161). There are two states of the title-page - this copy would appear to be from the earlier of the two. Lombard wrote the work in 1600, a year before his appointment as Catholic Archbishop of Armagh. Originally it circulated in manuscript copies and Moran describes its importance thus: " It details the many resources of our island, its manufactures, mines, natural wealth, fisheries, &c; it commemorates the sanctity and labours of our Apostle, and those holy men who made Ireland an insula sanctorum; it presents a faithful sketch of the apostolate of Irish missionaries on the Continent; it describes the leading features of the English invasion, and the attempts to impose the so-called Reformation on the Catholics of this country; but more important than all this is the accurate and detailed narrative which it presents to us of the thrilling contemporary events which marked the last years of the sixteenth century in Ireland."

Ireland.- Spenser (Edmund) A View of the State of Ireland, 3 parts in 1, first edition, 2 woodcut architectural titles, the first laid down and with corner defective, second part without separate title but each part separately paginated, first part with 8pp. "Certaine verses [of the Faerie Queene]" bound at end ?denoting "A" issue, a few small holes with occasional slight loss, a couple of tears, part 2 water-stained, some soiling and browning, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, [see STC 25067], folio, Dublin, Printed by the Society of Stationers, 1633.⁂ Rare work by Spenser written while at his home at Kilcoleman, c.1596. It remained in manuscript in Archbishop Usher's Library until published by Sir J. Ware in 1633. This copy appears to collate complete: [8], 120, +8pp. Certaine verses; 223 + 2pp blank; 12, 138, 2pp.Provenance: old ink signature scribbled out from first title, Daniel Jeffers (ink inscriptions on verso of final leaf "Faults escaped"; old library shelf sticker "FFd" on front pastedown.

Novel.- Fielding (Sarah) The Adventures of David Simple, 2 vol., first edition, contemporary calf, gilt, joints cracking, a little rubbed, bookplate of John Conyers of Walthamstow, 8vo, for A. Millar, 1744.⁂ Sarah Fielding's first novel, written with some assistance from her brother Henry who corrected the manuscript and later added a preface to the second edition.

18th century Commonplace Book.- Major (John Henniker-, second Baron Henniker, politician and antiquary, of Stratford House, West Ham, and Newton Hall, Dunmow, Essex, 1752-1821) Commonplace book, autograph manuscript, 90pp., reverse entries, browned, original marbled wrappers, ink inscription on upper cover: "Recipes & Memmos 1784", rebacked, rubbed, covers loose, 8vo, 1784.⁂ Includes: "Agreement read to my Coachman... Call the horses by their names... never alter your pace for any other driving agt. you... do not drive into the pond on coming home from London..."; recipes for Curry Powder, Buttered Lobster, "Lord Nugent for the Lumbago"; "A tea spoonful of Gunpowder in a Glass of water or wine good for strains or bruises taken inwardly"; various, "Monody on the much lamented Lady Henniker Wife of Sir John Henniker in the Morning Chronicle" etc.

Java.- [Taylor (Thomas William)] The Lay Of Corneelis: in Three Cantos, first edition, central folds, slightly browned, manuscript errata leaf laid down on front free endpaper, account of the battle and full-page watercolour map of the battle loosely inserted, bookplate of Richard Strachey of Ashwick House on front pastedown, original printed wrappers (creased) bound in contemporary half morocco, rebacked in modern morocco, gilt spine, 8vo, Calcutta, Printed at the Telegraph Press, 1812.⁂ "Col. Gibbs to the right stormed No. 1 which he carried but which was mined & blown up immediately on its being taken. We lost many lives at this time. Coll. McLeod proceeded to No 2 which his party stormed & carried, the Coll being killed in the assault." - From the Honble. J.E. Elliot.A poem celebrating Sir Robert Gillespie's attack on Java in 1811 against the Dutch East Indian Company during the Napoleonic Wars. An expedition was dispatched from India in April 1811, while a small squadron of frigates was ordered to patrol off the island, raiding shipping and launching assaults against various targets. Troops were landed on 4 August, and by 8 August the undefended city of Batavia capitulated. The defenders withdrew to a previously prepared fortified position, Fort Cornelis, which the British besieged, capturing it early in the morning of 26 August.

Play.- Balfe (Michael William, composer, 1808-70) The Siege of Rochelle or the Trials of Principle, ?autograph manuscript, presentation copy from the author to Frances Maria Kelly, title and 48pp., slightly browned, original wrappers, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1835].⁂ Inscribed to "Miss Kelly", but almost certainly Frances Maria Kelly [Fanny] (1790-1882), actress and singer. Adapted from Madam Genlis.

Dickens (Charles).- An Entirely New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, by Mr. Wilkie Collins, called The Frozen Deep... In Rememberance of the Late Mr. Douglas Jerrold [at the] Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, Under the Management of Mr. Charles Dickens. On Saturday evening, July 11th, 1857... To Conclude with the Face, in One Act, Two O'Clock in the Morning, playbill printed in red and black, Charles Dickens' own copy with his ink annotations to recto and verso, bottom 1/4 cut off and re-attached, creases and folds, tipped onto a large page from an album with ink notes in another hand, playbill 395 x 240mm., 11th July, 1857.⁂ Rare playbill for the first public performance of The Frozen Deep with Dickens' manuscript amendations.Dickens' friend and sometime co-star Douglas Jerrold died on 8th June 1857. Dickens subsequently devoted a great deal of time and energy to raising money for his widow and family, including giving public readings as wells as staging The Frozen Deep in public for the first time. The cutting off of the bottom of the playbill (comprising the second performance given that evening) was likely done by Dickens himself or another member of the production. Dickens then crosses through the title of the proposed performance of Two O'clock in the Morning, adds a note 'see back' and on the verso provides the title and cast for the play Uncle John, comprising himself, Wilkie Collins, Frederick Evans, Young Charles (Charles Dickens Jr.), Mark Lemon, Miss Hogarth, Miss Kate and Miss Mary. Uncle John would become the companion piece for this play for the remaining 2 performances in London as well as the thee given in Manchester, all to raise money for the family of Douglas Jerrold.

Khayyam, Omar, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by A. C. Benson, reproduced from a calligraphic manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, Siegle, Hill & Co., London, engraved & printed by André Sleigh Ltd., Bushey, Herts, cream cloth gilt with peacock motif; together with brown suede pocket fourth edition, with illustrations by Gilbert James, pub. Barse & Hopkins, New York. (2)* Condition: Large copy in good condition, with light staining to cover. Pocket version with damage to suede.  

Congdon(Colonel Arthur Edmund, 1861-1924, Colonel, Royal Munster Fusiliers). An important album of service drawings, comprising c.30 printed cuttings from The Graphic, The Illustrated London News, etc. and c. 25 originals, mostly in black and white but some colour used, the locations Halifax(Nova Scotia), Upper Burma, and India, the NW Frontier, mostly with captions, some in manuscript, presumably by Congdon (e.g. “Sketches of Kashmir”) pasted in a contemporary cloth album, worn, backstrip missing, c. 1885-95. Colonel Congdon's medals were recently sold but there seem to be no record of any other drawings. He was the dedicatee of Mary Coker's book The Road to Mandalay, 1917

Bible, Authorised version, with the Apocrypha, Index and Downame's Concordance(latter title dated 1726), numerous woodcut initials, without the plates ”sometimes found”(ESTC), rather browned in places, contemporary English black morocco, gilt, g.e. silver coloured metal clasps( probably of Dutch origin) with crowned initials JJC, from the library of Ralph Willett of Merly House , the only surviving book from “the finest library ever to be collected in Dorset”(Alan Thomas, article on Willett, enclosed with other cuttings and notes; his booklable on flyleaf), 3pp. manuscript family notes on flyleaves, John Baskett and others, 1723[Thomas spent many years searching for Willett memorabilia, but this family Bible was his only catch; he had it rebacked by Bernard Middleton(invoice enclosed) and it remained in his private library until sold as lot 468 in his posthumous sale on 21/6/1993]

A WWII British 1941 pattern Sidcot Flying suit, a G type oxygen mask, and a Battle damaged MG 15 magazine relic apparently recovered from the wreck of a German Dornier 17, the flying suite with press stud connector panels, zip front and map breast pocket, with ordinance stamped label ' size 3, stores reference 22C/775, breast 34/36' Air Ministry stamped zips, non detachable collar and belt to the back; with g pattern oxygen mask and Relic G15 twin drum magazine with attached manuscript label , 'MG 15 Ammo drum of 9/KG 76 shot down by Spitfires, September 10th 1940, taken at the time by Charlie Brown, Nutfield Cottage, Chapel Lane, Horsted Keynes, East Sussex (3)The Sidcot flying suite was designed by Sidney Cotton in conjunction with Robinson Cleaver Ltd. and first produced in 1917. Zips-some seized and need of attention

MARKHAM SIR CLEMENTS ROBERT. MEMORIALS OF DAVID MARKHAM. A handwritten biography (& Markham family history) of David Frederick Markham (1800-1853) by his son Clements Robert Markham, the explorer, geographer & author who was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society & responsible for organising Scott's Antarctic Expedition. 6 vols. Quarto. Some 600/700 manuscript text pages (readily readable), circa 165 pasted in photographs together with prints, pedigrees & family trees. Defective bdgs. with gilt crest to upper brds. The volumes have been broken for removal of watercolour plates, consequently some 40 text pages are lacking, however there is a wealth of personal & family history & ancestry relative to the Markhams as far back as the 11th century. A unique research resource. The lot also includes 9 orig. letters addressed to David, his nephew William Wickham & to Sir Clements Markham, together with a transcription of an epitaph. David Markham was a Canon to the Royal Family including the young Queen Victoria. He was a writer, illustrator & extensive traveller. His son, the writer of this work, Clements Markham had a remarkable career. He sailed to the Arctic as a Midshipman in the search for Franklin's expedition; he was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society & latterly its president; he was heavily involved with the career of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (Mount Markham in Antarctica is named for him) & he was an explorer & a prolific author. Condition Report. All vols disbound. Some discolouration / staining but generally legible. see images

PLANTIN (Pubs). Martyrologium Romanum. Title vignette & rubricated text. Antwerp, 1746. Between the body of the text & the index are some 30 leaves of a calendar written in manuscript Latin in red & black. Old leather, the vol. is well worn & damp damaged, sold as seen.

CALVIN JOHN. Institutio Christianae Religionis. Profile port. to title. Thick 8vo. Old vellum, tending to split, manuscript title to back. Ex lib. with old label to upper brd. & inside of same, no. to back & stamps to title, reverse of title & final leaf but text otherwise appears free of stamps. Geneva, 1612.

HAZIF (1325/6- 1389/96) PERSIAN POET. Bound volume of Manuscript Persian Poetry. Probably the Works of Hafiz. The oblong leaves with illuminated manuscript poetry laid onto the recto and verso of each leaf. Coming loose. eighteenth or nineteenth century (?). Cont. Binding (1)

An antique Persian manuscript page in gilt frame. With two bands of script and six hunting scenes between, 25cm x 14cm. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Good condition.

Scrap albums.- An album with twenty original drawings and watercolours, the majority of British landscapes, by various hands, some initialled and dated, including a pen and ink drawing of a beggar outsides a church by M. Brewer, 1832, and with many leafs with neat manuscript poetry and verse, pen and ink, watercolours, graphite, album leaves watermarked 'B&T Sweetapple/ 1829', some on various papers tipped into album, each leaf approx. 230 x 180 mm. (9 x 7 1/8 in), occasional spotting and browning, some minor nicks and loss, light damp-stains, contemporary gilt tooled calf, upper and lower covers detached, loss to spine, worn, small 4to, [circa 1829-1835]; together with another album of four landscapes of Wales, showing 'Cader Idris from Arthog', 'Barmouth', Harlech', 'Criccith', with a dedication leaf inscribed 'To Mr & Mrs Charles Rowley/ From Mr & Mrs Richard Glazier & Daughters./ June 11 1912.', watercolours, each approx. 90 x 150 mm. (3 1/2 x 5 7/8 in), vellum boards, gilt, worn, oblong small 4to, 1912, (2).

Britain.- Camden (William) Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements ... by Edmund Gibson, 4 engraved plates of coins and 50 maps by Robert Morden, 2 folding (Kent & Norfolk) and the rest double-page mounted on stubs, engraved and woodcut illustrations (one or two full page), Durham bound in upside down, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, several marginal tears throughout, water-staining, several leaves and maps repaired or reinforced, spotting and soiling, several small holes (affecting text), marginal worm damage affecting some text and 1 map (3C1-4H2), manuscript bookplate and inscription, later half calf, rubbed, cracked joints, lacking spine foot, [Wing C359], folio, by F. Collins, for A. Swalle ... and A. & J. Churchil, 1695.

Medway to Pamplona.- Pringle (Major I.W., active 1810-1813) An album of watercolours illustrating a journey from Medway, Kent, to Pamplona, Spain, with landscapes of Fort Pitt, Chatham, Rochester, Lower Upnor, Miranda de Ebro, Pamplona, Burgos, Bern, Chamonix, Lausanne, and Geneva, watercolours, touches of graphite, many inscribed with locations in pencil, some dated, various sizes, on wove papers watermarked 'Ancey', neatly tipped onto album leaves, each leaf approx. 355 x 220 mm. (14 x 8 3/4 in), occasional minor spotting and light browning, original paper wrappers with manuscript label on upper cover inscribed 'Sketches and/ Scraps by I.W.P.' with 'Major Pringle/ c.1810' in another hand, worn, large 4to, [circa 1810-1813].

Wine Merchant.- Michie (Jonathan, wine merchant, of 35 Craven Street, Strand, d. 1802) Account Book with Goslings & Sharpe bank, manuscript, 56pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, 4 bank receipts loosely inserted at wallet at end, original vellum, ink inscription on upper cover, yellowed, covers splayed, 8vo, 1789-1800.⁂ Dealings with the dukes of Bedford and Buccleuch; Michie was perhaps the son of John Michie (d. 1788), director of the East India Company.

RAF Flying Logs.- Vernon (Frederick Edward, pilot, Air Commodore, 1899-1963) Pilot's Flying Log Book, 2 vol., together c. 300pp., printed pages with manuscript insertions, some ink stamps, original cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo, 1930-33 & 1934-49.⁂ Includes flying during the Second World War, including: Liberators, Sunderlands, Horsa Gliders, Wellingtons, Dakotas, BOAC Flying Boats etc.

Lanquet (Thomas) [An Epitome of Cronicles], black letter, lacking title and all before preliminary leaf c4, also lacking 4S2 and all after B4 at end, Gg1 with repaired tear, B4 with upper corner defective with loss of a couple of words, title supplied in 19th century pen and ink facsimile, some early ink marginalia, later blind-stamped calf, worn, [STC 15217], 4to, Thomas Cooper, 1569; sold not subject to returnPlease note this is actually the 1560 edition  STC 15218 with the wrong title supplied in manuscript. It is still lacking the leaves mentioned. 

NO RESERVE British Isles.- Camden (William) Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, 7 engraved plates of coins only (of 8, lacking plate VII) and 12 double-page and/or folding maps by Robert Morden only (of 50, lacking most of the county maps), the 3 general maps (Britannia Romana, Britannia Saxonica and England) and map of Rutland all with outline hand-colouring), engraved and woodcut illustrations, one or two full-page, title with pencil signature of M.A.Cook, plate IV of coins with contemporary manuscript "A Correct Table of ?Areas of Circles for Ale and Beer" in ink on verso, occasional light soiling or browning but generally very clean, plate IV of coins with small tear repaired, one or two other small tears or marginal defects, contemporary calf ruled in blind, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed, [Wing C359], folio, by F. Collins for A.Swale...and A & J Churchill, 1695; sold not subject to return⁂ First edition of Gibson's translation and the first with Morden's maps

NO RESERVE Antiquities.- Windus (Thomas) A New Elucidation of the...Portland Vase..., 10 lithographed plates, 4 of the vase printed in black and blue, illustrations, water-staining, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, worn and stained, spine defective, folio, 1845⁂ A manuscript note on the front free endpaper records that No.5 of the first 50 copies of the vase by Wedgwood sold at Christie's in 1877 for £273.

Australasia.- Caire (Nicolas, photographer) Aborigines of Australia; Scenes on the River Murray; Melbourne Scenery, 3 albumen prints, each c.155 x 200mm., tipped to brown paper mounts with printed captions in gold or silver, all a little faded, South Yarra, Victoria, [?1880s]; with c.40 other photographs from an album featuring Australia (manuscript captions including "A Blackfellow's Camp", "A Ford on the Watts River" & "An Australian Country House"), Boston, Quebec, Niagara Falls and other subjects, most mounted on loose thick paper leaves, some captioned in manuscript, most rather faded, [?1880s] § Stevens Cox (James, editor) Australian Aborigines drawn from Life by Captain Tetley c.1805, one of only 30 specially-bound copies, plates, original morocco-backed boards, St. Peter Port, Toucan Press, 1977 § Domestic Scenes in New Zealand, folding map, illustrations, spotted, ex-library copy with labels and stamps, original cloth, label to upper cover, spine faded and chipped at head, 1857, v.s. (sm.qty)

[Siddons (Capt. George John, 1785-1848)] A scrap album with over 90 original drawings and watercolours, some travel subjects of India, Pakistan, and China, including Pagoda Island, Canton River, Peshawar, and others, with the majority of other unrelated subjects including caricatures and portraits, probably by different hands, a few with initials and signatures, several dated, and with many manuscript poems and sonnets throughout with an ode by Siddons to his wife, the album also includes several inserted documents to and from Henry George Impey Siddons, pen and ink, watercolours, some pencil, the majority neatly tipped into album, some loose, occasional spotting and browning, handling creases, into contemporary half-roan boards, spine split, very worn, 4to, [circa 1825-1846].Provenance:Henry George Impey Siddons (1851-1936)⁂ Captain George John Siddons was the son of actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831).

Scottish School (19th century), a double silhouette, Henrietta and Elizabeth, Daughters of George Ross of Woodburn, watercolour heightened in gilt, each 8cm x 5cm, the mount 11.5cm x 15cm overall, ebonised frame, manuscript genealogy to verso

A George III silkwork map, A Map of England and Wales, embroidered by A. Baggley, Walton School, 1798, worked in coloured silk threads and delineated with counties, Scotland and Ireland, surrounding bodies of water, France to lower margin, Britannia and composition title to upper-right, signed and dated within the framework garland of bellhusks, laurels and foliage, the margin with indistinct ink manuscript inscription, oval, 52cm x 42cm, ebonised and gilt frame

Continental School, a portrait miniature, of Marie Antoinette, after Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun, half-length, turning to dexter, watercolour, oval, 8cm x 6.5cm, rope twist brass frame; another, indistinctly signed, watercolour, oval, 8cm x 6.5cm, fragmentary vellum manuscript to verso, similarly framed (2)

Ephemera - Anonymous [Combe (William)], The Diaboliad: A Poem Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominions, Also, The Diabo-Lady: Or, A Match In Hell, first Dublin edition, 1777, disbound, 12mo; The Report of the Commissioners of the Church: Of their Proceedings with His Majefty (sic) at the Hague, Made in the General Assembly, July 10, 1649, 14pp, pamhplet, 12mo; Anonymous [attributed to John Wilkes], A Letter to a Member of the Club, in Albemarle-Street, first edition, G. Kearsly, London 1764, 22pp, disbound 4to; Anonymous [William King, Jacobite], Aviti Epistola Ad Perillam, Virginem Scotam: Editoris Ecphrasi et Annotationibus Illustrata, first edition, London 1760; a mid-18th century manuscript medical receipt, A Plaister (sic) for The Rheumatism or Gout; Temple (Sir William), Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands, A. Churchill and J. Tonfon (sic), London 1720, 77pp, disbound, 4to; A List of the Honourable United East-India Company's Covenanted Civil Servants on the Fort St. George Establishment, 1806, disbound, 16mo; Journal de Paris, various issues, mainly 1784; 18th century French pamphlets, various; a mid-Victorian sketchbook, containing pencil sketches and drawings, one page inscribed Railway Sketches, floppy oblong 32mo; Miniature Almanack, For the Year of Our Lord 1831, Being 3d after Bissextile or Leap Year, Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, Boston 1831, [28pp], marbled covers, floppy 64mo; an early 19th century scrapbook of verse and prose, ink 'palimpsest' manuscript beneath some 'scraps', marbled covers, the front with armorial presentation bookplate: Colston's Girls' School, Bristol, The Bequest of Charles Julius Ryland 1909, floppy 12mo; A List of Veterinary Preparations, Prepared by W.T. Clark, Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, pamphlet 39pp; Martin (Sir Theodore), Horace and his Friends: Two Lectures Delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Instiution, 1881; Leaf (Walter), pamphlets, Notes on Homeric Armour and The Homeric Chariot (2); Russell (Bertrand), Education for Democracy, pamphlet; Sir Emery Walker: Master of Typography, 1851 - 1933, privately printed anthology of newspaper obituaries; Play Titles Bottled by Worthington (3); chap books; photographs, 19th century cabinet cards and carte de visites; etc