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An early 20th century green morocco commonplace book or album, illustrated with various children's cartoons and illustrations in pen & ink and watercolour, inscribed in ink manuscript with select verse and prose, friends' wit and best wishes, dated from 1914 - 1922, 8vo

Local Interest - Geology, Mineralogy and Mining - an early 19th century vellum accounts book, inscribed and tabulated in ink manuscript with [...] the General Mineral Account Current of Anthy. Alsop [of Wensley, Derbyshire] with his Grace the Duke of Devonshire [William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, aka 'The Bachelor Duke'], 32 pages of the book with accounts from 31st December 1820 to 31st December 1830, [4] unassociated further inscribed pages, the accounts pertaining to tithes, salaries, rates, bills and charges pertaining to Winster, Taddington, Ashford, Moniash (sic, Monyash), Hassop, etc., 8vo; [Mander (James)], Steward of the 'Great [Baronial] Courts for the Duke of Rutland, Author of the Derbyshire Miners Glossary 1854', a George III ink manuscript accounts ledger and working anthology of legal rights, including a titled '[...] plan of Some Lead Mines in Derbyshire' and illustrated with a full-page hand-scrivened and hand-coloured plan of strata and seams (pages 291 - 293), the whole bound and inscribed with 17th century and later 18th century titles, deed, rights, customs, etc., highlighting Derbyshire and Peak District locations, each page numbered with Arabic numerals, the endpaper signed and dated J. Mander, 1790, floppy vellum crown folio, [2]

Music - a set of three late Victorian folio sammelbands of sheet and song music, each volume prefixed by an ink manuscript contents page, some with chromolithographic title-piece, bound by Alfred Tacey, Leicester, contemporary quarter-green or quarter-blue leather and buckram board bindings, marbled endpapers, the spines titled and gilt-embossed: Music or Songs, each en suite with the other, crown folios, [c. 1900], (3); Haydn's Oratorio: The Creation [...], In Vocal Score, With A Separate Accompaniment For The Organ or Pianoforte, Arranged by Vincent Novello, Novello, Ewer and Co., London [c. 1870], contemporary quarter-leather and watered buckram boards, the spine embossed with lyres, small 4to; The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular, Volume XX, Novello, Ewer & Co., London 1879, contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards, 4to; The Strand Musical, [London c. 1890], contemporary quarter-leather and purple buckram, 4to; de Béranger, contemporary calf spines and marbled boards, (3), [9]

Music - Clark (Thomas, of Canterbury), A Sett (sic) of Psalm & Hymn Tunes with Some Select Pieces and an Anthem, Composed in a Familiar Style and Figured for the Organ, Pianoforte & c, Printed for the Author, & Sold by J. Peck [...], London [dated 1800], [iii], 58pp, subscribers' page [ii], contemporary recycling of a Restoration calf binding, stitched spine, manuscript palimpsest endpapers, ink manuscript ownership inscription: John Pay His Book 1800, oblong 16mo

MANUSCRIPT VERSE : by Emily Trevenen (with a few additions by E.H. Coleridge) - cloth, 8vo, first half of the 19th cent, together with a volume published by Emily Trevenen and a portrait, possibly Emily Trevenen (3)*Notes Emily Trevener was a member of the family of the Rev Derwent Coleridge. In the Romantic Poets circle. Visited the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount in September 1829. Noted for the 'Emily Trevenen Album', in the Wordsworth collection.

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOKS: one by Martha Fricker, dated January 1st, 1814. With two others, and a published example by Emily Trevenen.(4)*Notes Martha Fricker (1777-1850) was a member of the Coleridge family.

FIRST WORLD WAR EPHEMERA : an interesting collection inc. anonymous manuscript poem (1916); other poetry; letter to Capt. S.W.Wingfield, with his notes, orders and designs for sanitary appliances in the field, etc; pen sketches; folding maps; notebook of Harold J. Carr (1914); service certificates; etc.

SIGNALS BOOK : manuscript on 40 pages, hand coloured flags, contemporary marbled wrappers in modern custom made solander box, small 4to, c1782.* The manuscript was compiled in 1782, for the fleet which Lord Howe took to the third relief of Gibraltar. He was interested in signals and reformed the naval system later.

HOLY BOOK : An Arabic manuscript leaf from an Islamic book of Prayers, on 18 lines written in red and black with a gilt border, f & g, Persia, c1680s ?

KIT KAT PAPERS : Vols 1 - 8 a run in manuscript, hand painted covers, 4to, January 1891 - February 1892. With one other.(9)

LEGAL MANUSCRIPT : of Thomas Mauleverer, 500 pages, cont. calf, folio, c1723.* Included is an article, ' The Etimologie, Antiquitie, Dignitie Office and Authoritie of Sheriffes and their Deputies.'

INDIA : 3 manuscript maps, one title, ' Sketch Map Shewing the Principal Roads, Civil, Military and Stations under The Three Residences of Fort William, Fort of George and Bombay, AD 1828." 690 x 540 mm, hand coloured, and mounted on linen. (no cartographer). With other European maps (one in manuscript) and battle plans of a similar period.(9)

Collection of Ephemera to 183097 Capt Frederick K Forrester, MBE plus an incomplete manuscript by Lt Edward Rhodes, Pioneer Corps. Warrant to Capt Forrester for his OBE 19/04/1945 and letter for his MBE 25/02/1947. Folder containing newspaper and magazine cuttings, with a focus on the Italian campaign and many on the theme of post-war careers and teaching. Copy of 8th Army News for 03/05/1945 ‘Italy War Over, Hitler is Dead’. Inter-war photo (c.8” x 6”) Chigwell School OTC, Pioneer Corps NCO group photo (c.12” x 8”) signed Maj Spooner 7.10.40, 2 x officer grouping Pioneer Corps photo (c.8” x 6”). 8th Army pamphlets ‘The Post War Training of Teachers’ and ‘Summary of Recommendations of the McNair Report . Supply, Recruitment and Training on Teachers..’, ‘Lecture Notes, Background to the Allies’ from 1944, Ministry of Education wartime pamphlets ‘Notes for Intended Teachers’. War Office booklet Notes on Map Reading 1929 with Amendments to 1939. Army notebook inscribed S/O Forrester, F K, No 13033458 plus several military training pamphlets. Defence Medal Army Form with summary of his wartime service. Letter dated 09/05/1946 confirming Maj Forrester’s appointment to DADL 3 District (Deputy Assistant Director of Labour) in Italy. Envelope of photos from cattle farming family member in Australia, most annotated on reverse. Envelope with unattributed photos of a sinking ship rescue at sea. An incomplete 70pp typed foolscap manuscript telling the story of 142073 L/Cpl Edward Rhodes, later an officer. A senior soldier at the outbreak of war, he had served in WWI, he started in the ranks of the Royal Artillery at a coastal battery in Cornwall. Late 1940 he was selected for officer training and joined the Pioneer Corps, serving in Algeria and Italy with 307 Coy. He writes a series of humorous recollections and reflections on his army service; one being a highly evocative description of Battery night watch on the coast during a bitterly cold, soaking wet, ‘bloody’ night.

THE STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT. By Francis Henry with photography by John Kennedy. TheGreen Studio, Dublin. Printed and bound by Conzett and Huber, Zurich. 13.5" (34cm)h x10.5" (27cm)w. (1)

J. Martin Leake(?): 1792-1794 A Hand written Latin/Italian and English manuscript: C55 pages, writing with a neat hand to recto only. First part c20 pages in Latin/Italian and the rest in English, including one titled: The Mathematical Doctrine of the Rain-Bow. Folio, full vellum, with front blank page inscribed: J. Martin Leake and dated 1792, 1793, 1794. ((John Martin Leake?? (1739 - 1836) was one of the younger Pitt's' new administrators' and an important Treasury official; his wife, Mary Calvert, inherited several farms around Bishops Stortford from her Calvert and Tooke relations. They lived mainly at Old Windsor, but on the death of her elder brother, Stephen, John inherited the family property and bought out the shares of his brothers and sisters in Marshalls)).

Twelve Indian miniatures,early 19th century, each with figures, some with original Urdu descriptions, apparently cut from a manuscript,largest 10.5 x 14cm (12)

Six manuscript illustrations of birds,mid-19th century, including two quail and an ibis, andthree further smaller watercolours,text verso,largest 26 x 15cm (9)

Eric Craig (1829-1923) New Zealand Fern Specimens, each dried specimen mounted on card, 210mm x 140mm, taxonomy in letterpress recto for each, purple stamp verso 'New Zealand Ferns mounted by Eric Craig, Princes St, Auckland, sold wholesale and retail' (23), in Kauri wood box, with manuscript label inside lid 'New Zealand, Feb. 89, from Miss McHarry (?)', overall G, some degradation of some specimens, box F, rear edge of lid partly missing

[JAMES BOND]: JENKINS GEOFFREY (1920-2001) South African Novelist, Screenwriter & Journalist. Jenkins was commissioned to write a James Bond novel following Ian Fleming's death and he completed a manuscript entitled Per Fine Ounce, however the work was rejected by Gildrose Productions and is now believed to be lost with the exception of eighteen pages, only two of which have ever been released to the public. T.L.S., Geoffrey Jenkins, one page, 4to, Pretoria, South Africa, 6th November 1964, to Miss. Eileen M. Cond. Jenkins explains that the long delay in replying to his correspondent's letter has been due to the overwhelming success of The River of Diamonds, remarking 'It has been a runaway best-seller both in Britain and the United States - in fact, it is outselling A Twist of Sand, which is really quite something'. Jenkins further adds that Columbia are making a film of the story and that he has just returned from a 'long and exciting trip' to the location, also adding 'Charles Scheener is also making a film of a screenplay of mine (no book) called The Fifth Paw of the Lion, and locations for this have taken me away to Zululand for this too. It is the story of the sinking of the German cruiser Konigsberg in World War I by the chief scout to General Smuts, a famous hunter called Pretorius. Both films will be shot in South Africa, starting in February'. Together with a second T.L.S., Geoffrey Jenkins, one page, 4to, Pretoria, South Africa, 12th December 1966, also to Miss. Eileen M. Cond. Jenkins states that he has been tardy in replying to his correspondent's letter, explaining that he has been putting the finishing touches to his next novel, and continues 'I hope you enjoyed Hunter-Killer, which has been extremely successful in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth; it comes out next month in the United States, where it has already had a blaze of advance publicity'. Some very light, extremely minor creasing to both letters and a few very light stains to the first letter, otherwise VG, 2

Ephemera - Large Illustrated People's Bible, Victorian and Later Children's Annuals, Late 19th / Early 20th century Ledger, Book Manuscript, Postcards, etc

*Russia and Ukraine. Photographic archive compiled by a British dental surgeon serving at the Anglo-Russian Hospital and on the Eastern Front, 1916, Oblong Russian-purchase brown morocco album (24 x 16 cm), containing 219 gelatin silver prints, mostly original snapshots measuring between 4 x 6 cm and 6 x 8 cm, all tipped rectos and versos to stiff card leaves, including street scenes and views in Petrograd, Moscow and Kiev, staff and inspections at the Anglo-Russian Hospital (one captioned 'Tzar at review'), operations at Rojitche, Lutsk and 'Icherookov' (probably Cherykaw in modern Belarus), these including numerous images of artillery pieces, trenches, troop inspections, bomb damage and similar, inked manuscript captions throughout, large group photograph with mid-size photographed tipped verso loosely inserted, together with: string-bound elephant folio scrapbook containing approximately 30 further original photographs (most of them 14.5 x 9 cm) depicting the Anglo-Russian Hospital, Lutsk and Dubno, and including a few possible portraits of the compiler, in addition to approximately 100 photographic postcards sent by him from various locations including Russia, some minor wear; wrappered souvenir exhbition catalogue titled The Anglo Russian Hospitals with the Russian Army, a Series of Twelve Views reproduced in Photogravure, inscribed 'Presented to W. Harrison by Lady Muriel Paget, May 16, 1917'; 4 additional medium size-photographs of ARH staff and visitors including the Tsarina, creased and frayed; and a collection of the compiler's personal documents including passport British dental surgeon Walter Harold Harrison is recored as graduating LDS from Guy's Hospital in 1910. He travelled to Russia to work at the Anglo-Russian Hospital, in Petrograd, founded in 1915 by Lady Muriel Paget and Lady Sybil Grey. In 1916 he appears to have accompanied the Russian advance through Volhynia. The following year he published an article in the British Dental Journal entitled A Dental Surgeon in Russia. (1 carton)

*Roth (Sanford, 1906-1962). The Magic of Stravinsky, 1952, vintage gelatin silver print, right-hand corners bumped, press caption, marks and stamps to verso including Magnum Photo stamp with photographer completed in manuscript, plus Illustrated Magazine stamp dated 7 June 1952, 25.5 x 20cm (1)

*Beard (Richard, 1801-1885). A hand-coloured salted paper print photograph of an elderly woman, 31 King William Street, London Bridge, 1850s, image 145 x 110mm, oval gilt-edged aperture in original Beard mount with blind stamp at foot and printed back board including address, royal arms and manuscript negative number 1173, back board lacking part of left edge, overall 300 x 265mm (1)

*Female Surgeons. A collection of approximately 70 photographs and 200 negatives of surgical procedures, 1940s-1950s, the photographs taken by Andrew Quilliam, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Embryology, University College London, the surgical procedures given by male and female surgeons, some of the photographs presented in four small albums, images mostly 6 x 8cm but some larger One of the albums with approximately 30 photographs of surgical procedures is titled in manuscript 'An abridged collection of photographs taken in various departments of some of the hospitals which I have attended whilst a student 1940-1943'; a further album contains 20 photographs of surgical images titled 'UCH Obstetric Hospital': 1. Labour Ward, 2. Gynaecological Theatre... Gynaecological Ops by Miss Dearnley, Dr Bell, Dr Politzer; another album of 22 photographs of operations by Miss Barnes, Miss Dodds and others. One album in not annotated, but a good proportion of the negatives are identified. (a small carton)

*Cartes de visite. A Victorian cartes-de-visite album, late 19th century, containing 60 window-mounted cartes de visite and 16 cabinet cards, all single subject portraits including many of actresses and performers, many by Elliott & Fry and W. & D. Downie, the majority with contemporary manuscript identification of subjects tipped in, subjects include Ellen Terry, Madame Albani, Sarah Bernhardt, Adelina Patti, Henry Irving, Mr & Mrs Kendall, Mrs Bancroft, etc., many of the cabinet cards garishly hand tinted, chromolithographically decorated mounts, a few windows slightly torn and several mounts detached, contemporary calf, embossed in gilt and blind, heavily rubbed, lacks clasp, 4to (1)

Philippines. Personal photograph album of the Philippines under American occupation, c. 1915, 260 silver gelatin prints mounted rectos and versos to black thick-paper leaves, various dimensions (approximate ranges 6 x 4 cm to 12 x 9 cm or reverse), including landscapes, street scenes, typhoon damage, and photographs of the compiler and his associates, 6 images with later manuscript captions in borders (of which 2 dated 1915), 2 captioned in the negative, several others with catalogue numbers in the negative, pale water-staining to last 10 leaves, post-bound in slightly later black cloth, oblong quarto (17.5 x 26.5 cm) The photographs with manuscript captions depict Cebu, Luzon and Manila; the professional photographs with captions in the negative depict a male Igorot and the Pagsanjan Gorge. The compiler may have been an American soldier or other functionary. (1)

*Bourne (Samuel, 1834-1912). Pathans, Peshawar Valley, India, 1860s, albumen print photograph, showing a young boy, a young prince alongside and further men with weapons standing around, numbered 1389 in the negative and with manuscript caption to mount, 20.5 x 28cm, together with five further large Bourne views plus five small-format views and an albumen print of a carriage and pair by Shepherd and Robertson (negative number 1128), 18.5 x 23cm, all on individual mounts (except two back to back and neatly titled in ink to lower margins) (12)

Civil Engineering. Photographic archive of various engineering projects undertaken by Brims & Co. Ltd: 'NW Quay (Riverside Quay), Tyne Dock' and 'Sutherland Quay, Tyne Dock', 2 volumes, 1939-42; 'London-Yorkshire Motorway, River Trent Bridges', 2 volumes, 1963-4; 'Darlington By-Pass, Bridges', 2 volumes, 1963-4, 'NW Quay, Tyne Dock' and 'Riverside Quay, Tyne Dock' respectively containing 47 and 36 gelatin silver prints (20 x 25.5 cm; image size 15.5 x 21 cm), dated in the negative, blind- and wet stamps of W. H. Elliott of North Shields, each set loose in photographer's original brown cloth-backed portfolio with pencilled titles to front boards and mild wear to extremities, oblong 4to and 4to; 'London-Yorkshire Motorway, River Trent Bridges' and 'Darling By-Pass Bridges' containing in total approximately 380 gelatin silver prints, 6 colour photographs and 2 printed plans, including some 120 in large format (approximately 21 x 16 cm) of which 3 loosely inserted, 250 in small format (12 x 9 cm), and a few of intermediate size, all corner-mounted rectos and versos to black light card leaves, wet stamps and negative numbers of G. Hewson or W. E. Middleton and Sons (both of Nottingham) on versos, neat manuscript captions throughout in white ink, each work ring-bound in 2 snakeskin-effect black cloth albums (4 in total), a few leaves loose and 4 captioned prints lacking in Trent Bridges volume 2, oblong folio Well-preserved visual record of the expansion of the Tyne Dock during the Second World War by Newcastle engineering firm Brims & Co. Ltd, and of their involvement in the construction of the M1 and upgrading of the A1 at Darlington twenty years later. The four albums relating to these last two projects appear to have been compiled as the company's official record of proceedings. Brims & Co. Ltd was wound up in 1993 but recommenced trading in 2006 as Brims Construction Limited, now based in Sunderland. (4)

Ascension Postal History. 1914 commercial Myerscough 3d registered postal stationery envelope (1d postage, 2d registration) with 24 NO 14 CDS. Registration label Type B, perf 14 x 13½, also with CDS of that date. Plymouth and Paddington transits on front, Putney arrival on reverse (10 DE 24). Endorsed 'Ascension' in blue manuscript crayon on front. Censorship had not been introduced at this time

Pahang. 1897 2ct on half of 5ct bisected diagonally, used with manuscript surcharge in red, the lower right half showing the '5' deleted. RPS Certificate (1976). SG 18 (£400)

Pahang. 1897 3ct on half of 5ct bisected diagonally, used with manuscript surcharge in red, on a very small piece. Sismondo Certificate (2007). SG 18d (£400)

Ascension Postal History. 1916 registered envelope to Ewen's with correct 3d franking, CDS of 17 FE, with another strike on a Type B registration label. The number on the label has a manuscript 'A' appended, apparently an indication of a bulk mailing. Dull blue Type 1 CENSORED handstamp without the usual censor's initials. Just a little rust. SG Z44

Malaya Japanese Occupation. Negri Sembilan. 1942 30ct dull purple and orange, Chop H in brown, used. Toothed double-ring violet cancel showing (YUB)IN KYOKU at base. A scarce stamp but thinned, and with a manuscript marking at top left. SG J171a (£1500)

New Zealand. Postal Fiscals. 1931-40 35/- orange-yellow, single watermark on Cowan paper. Fiscally-used example with manuscript blue crayon and 3mm punch hole, short perf at upper left. Catalogued £6500 when postally used and scarce even in this state. SG F161

Ascension Postal History. 1924 1½d rose-red on unusual-sized envelope to Slough, R2/6 zig-zag flaw, tied by 1 JA 28 CDS. Underpaid by ½d, so bears the Ascension 'T' mark with 10c in manuscript. Endorsed '1d F.B.' on arrival at London and the charge collected by means of a GB 1d Postage Due stamp. An attractive little cover. SG 12

Ascension Postal History. 1850 incoming letter from Bath to 'Lieut. John Townsend, H.M.S. Tortoise, Ascension, West Coast of Africa'. Manuscript 'P. Paid Oct. 30 1850', 'By H.M. Steamer "Wasp", '25' (no doubt in a sequence of letters), and Bath CDS of Oc. 30, all on the front. Sealed with wax imprint of 'Numbers VI 24-6'. No arrival backstamp since there was no postmarking device on the island until 1858

*English school. Portrait of Robert Hardy, circa 1780, half-length oil on canvas portrait of a seated gentleman in powdered wig, wearing brown coat, resting his hand on an open volume, recently professionally cleaned and also lined to verso (conservation reports included), retained manuscript caption label to verso, 75.5 x 64cm (29.75 x 25.25ins), gilt moulded frame Robert Hardy of Westmorland (1758-1788), married Jane Nicoll (1749-1826). They had a number of children including Edmund Hardy (see lot 225). Jane was 8 years older than her husband Robert, who died at the age of 30. There are two known tales which suggest a cause of death, one is a cold and the other is as a consequence of a fall from slipping on an orange skin while helping a lady into her carriage. The portrait was tracked down in Argentina by Robert Hardy (the great great grandson of the sitter) and shipped back and restored. (1)

*English school. Portrait of Edmund Hardy, circa 1810, half-length oil on canvas portrait, recently professionally cleaned and also lined to verso (conservation reports included), retained manuscript caption label to verso 76 x 63.5cm (30 x 25ins), gilt moulded frame Edmund Hardy (1785-1848) was the son of Robert Hardy (1758-1788, see lot 224) and Jane Nicoll (1749-1826). He married Grace Armitage (1801-1853), daughter of Eleanora Haistwell and Whaley Armitage. The caption label states "Edmund Hardy, Colonel Bombay Artillery, Born 4th February 1786, Died 28th March 1848, Married Grace Armitage 6th May 1823." The portrait was tracked down in Argentina by Robert Hardy (the great grandson of the sitter) and shipped back and restored. (1)

*Album. An album of watercolour designs for porcelain by Ellen Theophila Simpson, circa 1888, 32 pages of finely executed watercolour designs for china (plus a number of blank leaves), some to rectos only, others to recto and verso, each page covered with numerous motifs, mostly floral, but also including moths, insects, birds, and border designs, some specifying in neat manuscript 'centre of saucer', 'cup', etc., one page with manuscript maker's mark 'KPM' with orb above, several leaves with a fish emblem in blue ink, Whatman paper watermarked 1888, some light finger-soiling and marks, one leaf detached, leaf size 15 x 22.5cm (6 x 9ins), inscribed in pencil on front pastedown 'Designs for China Painting, Ellen Theophila Simpson, my Father's mother, N. Douglas Simpson', original quarter black morocco, spine rubbed, corners showing, elastic closure broken, oblong 8vo, together with another album with a number of leaves of similar watercolour designs, probably by the same hand, as well as other original drawings, including thirty pages with carefully executed silhouettes painted in black, of courting couples, children at play, animals, fairy folk, etc., and twenty-one pencil drawings, for example portraits, studies after Old Master works, animal studies, a design of fairies for a tapestry, etc., toned, stitching partially broken and a number of leaves detached, front free endpaper inscribed in pencil 'M. Simpson, Wiesbaden 1884, Maud Penny [...?] Simpson, my Father's youngest sister, N.D. Simpson', original cloth, lettered on upper cover 'Skizzenbuch', a little rubbed and marked in places, remains of cloth ties, oblong 8vo (2)

*Jayne Vickers (M., 19th century). A Scene at Eynsford, Kent, circa 1850s, oil on board, showing a rural landscape with cows and a figure by a bridge, artist and title on manuscript label verso, 22.5 x 30.5cm (8.75 x 12ins), with Barnard & Son's London label verso, gilt moulded frame (1)

*La Pira (Gioacchino, active 1839-1870). Napoli, gouache on paper, depicting fishermen at their nets in a boat, with a panoramic view of Naples and other boating vessels behind, titled and signed lower right, 18 x 31.5cm (7 x 12.5ins), gilt frame, glazed, large title 'Bay of Naples' in contemporary manuscript on backboard (1)

*Blackley (Alexander, 19th c.). Dowager Lady Townsend Farquhar, 1842, pencil on paper with touches of pastel and bodycolour, half-length portrait of a lady seated, signed and dated lower right, lightly toned, some faint damp-staining to edges, 42.5 x 32.5cm (16.75 x 12.75ins), framed and glazed, with contemporary manuscript label on backboard with name of sitter, and later note above 'Bought at Christie's sale of contents of Cullen House, Banff c.1975 in a job lot' Erica Catherine (nee Mackay), Lady Townsend-Farquhar (1818-1899) married Sir Walter Minto Townsend-Farquhar in 1835. (1)

*Indian Miniatures. Krishna playing the flute to a maiden with cows and peacock, 20th century gouache miniature on pale brown paper, heightened with gold, image size 13.5 x 18 cm (5.3 x 7.1 ins), with margins, with paper mount, together with three other good quality 20th century Indian miniature paintings on old manuscript paper, gouache heightened with gold, showing a prince with harem, a group of huntsmen in a landscape, and a female on an elephant, image size 16.8 x 27.5 cm (6.6 x 10.75 ins) and slightly smaller (4)

*@Gere (Margaret, 1878-1965). The Simplon Glacier, 1922, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed and dated '22 lower right, signed and inscribed with title on backboard, and with old ink manuscript label giving artist's name and title of the work, with the date 1931, and bearing the name A.N. Sturt, 23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed Provenance: A.N. Sturt; Katherine Sturt ?; Alan Tucker, Stroud, near Cheltenham. Margaret Gere trained at Birmingham School of Art and the Slade. She regularly accompanied her half-brother, the artist Charles Gere on painting trips abroad (to France, Switzerland and Italy). Margaret Gere's oil painting Nuns on the Simplon (1923, private collection) was exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1929. A similar oil of the Kaltwasser Glacier by Margaret Gere, dated 1923, was recently sold by Sarah Colegrave Fine Art, London. (1)

*[Henrietta, Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, 1609-69]. Embroidered apron panel, English, early-mid 17th century, a large portion of early embroidery on cream silk, silk ground toned, sometime neatly stitched at edge to a linen backing and with a number of carefully stitched repairs, elaborately worked design with various floral, foliate, and lattice motifs, incorporating entwining stems and tendrils, in coloured silks (a little faded), metal threads, and sequins, using satin stitch, long and short stitch, couching, and bullion stitch, creases along top edge where previously gathered at waist, 53.5 x 101cm (21 x 39.75ins), framed, with manuscript label on verso in an early 20th century hand The label on the verso reads "Apron from Rushbrooke Park thought to have belonged to Queen Henrietta Maria who went there after Charles' death. Two Laburnham wood cabinets & several other things bearing Charles' [...?] initials were also left at Rushbrooke, the old House of Mabel Davies Cooke's mother (Fanny Louisa Eyres) who was born there, her mother being Louisa Elizabeth Rushbrooke. The Cabinets are now in State Apartments at Windsor.' Highly decorated aprons like this one were not intended to be protective garments; rather they were an opportunity to add an element of sumptuous embellishment which could both demonstrate the fine sewing skills of the wearer and indicate her wealth and position in society. The Jermyns of Rushbrooke Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, were a prominent Royalist family. Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573-1645) was Comptroller of the Household between 1639 and 1641, and his son Henry Lord Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans (1605-1684) was a life-long friend of Queen Henrietta Maria, fulfilling variously the roles of Vice-Chamberlain, Master of the Horse and Lord Chamberlain. He was at her side throughout the various campaigns of the Civil War, and it was even rumoured that the pair were married in secret, with a contemporary report asserting that all the Queen's children were Jermyn's bastards. It is believed that the aforementioned cabinets were presented by Henrietta Maria to Lord Jermyn in 1665. On his death his will directed that the cabinets be taken to Rushbrooke Hall, the then residence of his nephew Sir Thomas Jermyn, where they were noted in an inventory of 1759. They were sold at Christie's in 1910 to Lord Rothschild and his brothers, who presented them to King George V and Queen Mary shortly after their Coronation, and today they reside in The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace. (1)

Italian School Hand Colored Engraving Of Blue Coral On 18th Century Manuscript. Visible date of 1768. Toning from age, nicely framed. Document measures 12-1/4" x 8-1/2", frame measures 18" x 14". Shipping $115.00 (estimate $200-$400)

Italian School Hand Colored Engraving Of Red Coral On 18th Century Manuscript. Visible date of 1768. Toning from age, nicely framed. Document measures 12-1/4" x 8-1/2", frame measures 18" x 14". Shipping $115.00 (estimate $200-$400)

Armstrong (Mrs C.C.) New Zealand Ferns, nd. (presentation inscription dated 1882), Dunedin, twenty four leaves with mounted botanical specimens of ferns, alternate leaves have a centrally mounted albumen print depicting New Zealand street scenes, surrounded by ornately arranged specimens. On the other leaves, the specimens are named in manuscript, quarto half roan album with the compiler's label to pastedown

Manuscripts Forbes (Alex) [Agent], two page signed letter, in a secretarial hand, to Commodore John Thomas Duckworth, 15th August 1796, Kingston, Jamaica, regarding the provision of perishables to his Majesties ships and army Bromley (Wm.) [Sec. of State], one page A.L.S. to the Duke of Ormond, 16th November, 1713, Whitehall, a covering letter regarding documentation sent 'in behalf of the Holstein Troops'; Thomas (William), one page manuscript bond, 1730, signed and sealed; with two American manuscript promissory notes dated 1817 and 1850 (5)

Ephemera An interesting collection including an article by Edmund Halley on the calculation of England's acreage by weighing the map on which the country is printed; early manuscript letters, sealed indentures, an original pencil sketch, 19th cent. ms. letters relating to South African Mining from John and Mary Munro (the former a mining Industrialist and President of the Chamber of Mines), manuscript 'Story of a Municipal Operation in New South Wales', etc., personal inspection recommended (qty)

Faraday (Michael) Autograph Letter Signed from Faraday at the Royal Institution to Lord Dundas, 23rd April, 1819, discussing the results of his analysis of salts sent by Lord Dundas, these included aluminate of potash, sulphate of potash and sulphate of lime, one page, folded with worn edges Wallich [Nathaniel], List of Plants put up in a covered Chest for Lord Dundas, 10th December, 1818, Botanic Garden, Calcutta, two page manuscript list of species, 'Put up at the request of and forwarded by Capt. Jackson of the Charles Mills', sources of the plants include Mauritius, Napal [sic] and China, torn at folds and edge; Ledger, believed to record the trading of the New Moor Pottery of Evenwood, Bishop Auckland, [c1877-1887], customers for garden pots, etc., include the Duke of Cleveland, John Bowes at Streatlam, the Bishop of Durham and Sussex Milbank of Barningham, ledger in distressed state with torn pages, pencil scribbles and detached boards. Recent research on the pottery is included. (3)

Homer Ilias & Odyssea et in easdem scholia sive interpretatio Ddymi [Iliad and Odyssey], 1656, Leiden; Hackium, two volumes, quarto, (?large paper), two frontispieces after Schivonetti bound in, engraved titles, various manuscript notes to preliminary leaves including contribution by Henry Drury and Janus Broukhusius, all edges gilt, full morocco gilt [White Knight's Library, No 1956]

Teal (Jonat'n) A Survey Book and Valuation of all and every the Messuages, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, Tithes and Hereditaments, in the Township of Hunton in the Parishes of Hornby and Patrick Brompton in the North Riding of the County of York ..., 1810, folio, manuscript, worn reversed calf binding

Attributed to Sir Frederic William Burton, RHA Irish (1816 - 1900)A fine Preparatory Study, "The Meeting on the Turret Stairs," Hellelil and Hildebrand (Ireland 1864) watercolour on paper, approx. 31cms x 20cms (12" x 8"), framed. (1)* Provenance: Manuscript note on reverse, inscribed: "Original study by Sir Burton for a picture which is in the National Gallery Dublin, the study was given by Sir Burton to his cousin, Dr. C.E. Fitzgerald who gave it to G.P.? (George Prescott)".Provenance: Important Private Irish Collection.* The original of the above painting was voted the most admired picture in Ireland.

17th Century, after Brueghel or Von Bloemen"Classical Landscape with figures by a pool," O.O.P., 24cms x 32cms (9 1/2" x 12 1/2"), unframed, with printed description and manuscript notes on reverse. (1)Provenance: Judge James Murnaghan.

*Fairland (Thomas). Peter Simple by Arbutus (Grey), Dam by Sir Malagigi, published Mr. T. Walker, Grantham, 1841, hand coloured lithograph of a grey racehorse with jockey up after J. Fernely, proof before title and letters, legends added below image in pencil, title in manuscript in mount aperture, image size 420 x 540 mm, mounted, framed and glazed A scarce racing portrait, possibly commissioned by the owner - Mr T. Walker - of Barnaby cottage, Grantham, Lincolnshire. The horse ran in six Grand Nationals between 1841 and 1846. It never won but finished second in 1845 and 3rd in 1841 and 1842. (1)

Faden (William, publisher). Atlas Minimus Universalis, or A Geographical Abridgement Ancient and Modern of the several parts of the earth in fifty-five maps..., Jany. 1st. 1798, calligraphic title, two indexes, twelve 'historical' engraved maps and forty-three 'modern' engraved maps, all with contemporary outline colouring, occasional staining and finger soiling, later manuscript numbers to upper right of each map, contemporary calf, worn and frayed, oblong 8vo (1)

*London. London. Morden (Robert & Lea Philip), This Actuale Survey of London, Westminster, Southwark is Humbly Dedicated to ye Ld. Major et Court of Alderman, [published Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, Amsterdam, circa 1710,] uncoloured engraved map on two conjoined sheets, title written in manuscript and repeated in French, neat manuscript additions to map identifying points of interest, 615 x 990 mm, framed and glazed James Howgego. Printed Maps of London, no. 42. The title in French and English, the spelling of 'Actuale' and the completed shield would indicate state 2 but this appears to be a proof state with no completed key below the map, no letters or publisher and the title ribbon completed in manuscript. (1)

London. Fairburn (John), Fairburn's Map of the Country Twelve Miles round London, second edition with additions, published September 1st. 1800, engraved circular map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, ribbon cartouche, two uncoloured engraved vignettes of Greenwich Hospital and Chelsea Hospital on the lower left and right spandrels, some staining and dust soiling, later manuscript ownership address to verso, 560 x 520 mm, supplied with contemporary card slipcase with printed label to upper board. heavily worn and frayed Howgego. Printed Maps of London, no. 216, state 2. (1)

Manuscript maps. Flint (A.), A Book of Maps containing Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Norway, [and] Four Astronomical Diagrams shewing the Copernican Ptolemaic systems &c. [plus] A Book of Maps containing Travels of the Apostles, Canaan, Missionary Stations, Europe, circa 1820, together three books containing a calligraphic manuscript title and a total of twelve pen, ink and watercolour maps and charts, each bound in contemporary marbled paper with ribbon ties to spine, oblong quarto (270 x 380 mm) These appear to be the work of a highly competent student, skilled in both cartography and calligraphy. (3)