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Travel. Yorkshire: a Windsor clergyman's summer motoring holiday journal, The Rev. W.R. Flex, cleric, school master and sometime Eton beak, August 1932, 103 ff manuscript diary, principally to verso, with social, topographical and antiquarian observations, including the Weavers' Strike at Hebden Bridge, the leaves adjoining the narrative illustrated with 12 hand-drawn motoring and other maps, 35 b/w photographs and 7 loosely-inserted of local sites and his family, further printed ephemera, contemporary papered limp boards, some wear, but holding, 8vo; World War Two, South-East Asia: My Pencil, my Rifle, and Me, dated 1945, an army serviceman's unfinished memoir, [iii], [24]pp of MS only, 6 mixed media illustrations (of 7, apparently), including a pen-and-ink self-portrait of the author in military uniform, the extant narrative comprises an amusing, and at times, self-deprecating introduction and an account of the sea voyage only, inscribed in a contemporary Japanese ruled ledger, with a later tacked-on tan pigskin leather wrapper, the upper-cover lettered in blind relief, foolscap 4to (31 x 23cm), (2)

Bindings. [Manuscript]: The Book of Common Prayer/Holy Communion, E. Hornby, Christmas, 1859, red-ruled, [41]ff hand-scrivened in red and black ink From the Edition of 1662, according to the Sealed Copy in the Tower of London, finely bound in brown morocco over bevelled boards by Hayday, signed, upper-cover starting to split, red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, 8vo; [Saint Augustine of Hippo], S. Augustines Manuell (sic), facsimile of the 1577 edition, London: Spottiswoode and Shaw, 1850, Gothic black letter, printed in decorative historiated borders, contemporary binding of red calf over bevelled boards, gilt, by Josiah Westley, signed with his stamp and label, upper-cover detached, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1844, black-ruled, finely bound in gilt metal-mounted blue velvet over boards, lacking clasp, all edges gilt, 16mo; and another devotional, Kempis (Thomas à), Imitation de Jésus-Christ, Paris: J. Langlumé et Peltier, n.d. [c. 1810], contemporary Cathedral binding of olive calf gilt, repaired, worn and splitting at lower-joint, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo in 6s, (4)  Provenance: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023), bibliophile, President of The Private Libraries Association and benefactor to The British Museum; his book labels and/or loosely-inserted and other pencil bibliographic notes.

The Harington Baronets of Ridlington, Rutland. Sir John Edward Harington, 8th Bt (1760-1831), his account book, dated 1823-1829, ink manuscript, 41pp, prefixed with a contents leaf inscribed with his income, bank accounts, financial interests and shares, including rentals, Brazilian, Mexican, Peruvian, Colombian, Greek, Carnatic, Indian, and other stock, the Thames Tunnel, the Provincial Bank of Ireland, County Fire Office, Kennet & Avon Canal, Grand Junction Canal, Regent's and other canals, Westminster Gas, Light and Coke Company, Desperate Debts, annuities, interest, capital, etc., loosely-inserted manuscripts, contemporary vellum over boards, blind-ruled, yapped fore-edge, inscribed in manuscript, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; his son's bank passbook, Robert Harington (1801-1864), the account held with Messrs. Hammersley & Clarke, dated 1832-1840, 32pp, similar binding to the latter, 12mo; six volumes of Receipts of Disbursements, almost certainly those of Sir John, 8th Bt, dated December 1797 to January 1799, January 1811 to December 1812, January 1813 to December 1814, January 1815 to December 1816, January 1823 to March 1825, October 1828 to May 1831, mixed contemporary sheep over boards, various degrees of wear, mixed sizes of oblong 8vo, (8)

Wales. Madame de Sévigné and Her Contemporaries, two-volume set, first edition thus, London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1841, uniformly bound in contemporary red quarter-calf over marbled boards gilt, unusual sewn-in silk bookmarks, 8vo, (2) Provenance: Diana, Lady Hamlyn-Williams (née Whitaker; 1766-1849), married Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet (1765-1829), of Edwinsford, Carmarthenshire, and Clovelly Court, Devon, sometime MP and High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire; each pastedown with her monogrammed book label and with her ink manuscript ownership inscription: Lady Hamlyn-Williams/Norwood [Surrey] Jan:y 1842, the ffep of volume I with a pen-and-ink and pencil sketch of a cottage orné, almost certainly by her hand.

Miscellaneous Manuscript and Printed Ephemera, 15th/early 16th c and later, including an auction catalogue, Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley:~ 20, Hanover Sqaure, W. Catalogue of Family Portraits, Drawings, and the Library, from Aston Rowant House, Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire. By Direction of The Lady Vaux Harrowden [...], 30th November, 1917, original wrappers, 8vo; late 19th/early 20th c b/w photograph of an Eastern patriarch; a full-length portrait silhouette of a dandified gentleman, possibly Oscar Wilde; fragmentary leaves from a post-incunabulum, probably Italian, n.d. [15th/early 16th]; fragments from a 16th English Black Letter Bible, later used as binder's waste; pamphlets and monographs on fairy tales and folk lore; two early 20th c friendship albums, typically inscribed with sentiment, sometimes illustrated with original drawings, caricatures, flowers, animals, etc., executed in watercolour, pen-and-ink, and further media, mixed bindings and sizes; etc

Postal History & Miscellaneous Manuscripts. The courting 'love' letters of Brigadier-General Arthur Colville (1857-1942) and his future wife Olivia Spencer-Churchill (d. 1943), dated 1882-83, ALS on Rifle Brigades writing paper, mostly 4pp, chronicling Colville's garrisoning at Aldershot and Farnborough, some society snippets, all with their franked envelopes; two 2 & 3pp ALS from a member of the Colbert-Chabanais family, dated 6 & 16 September 1884, on Château de Mailloc writing paper, black mourning border; New Zealand On His Majesty's Service cover, ten harlequin value GVI stamps Onehunga franking; two letter fronts from Whig peers, John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, each 1837, mounted; and a French 4ff manuscript legal acquisition, Bernard & Jean Curaud, dated 18 May 1788, Bordeaux black stamp, (14)

Cartography. Jean Lattré (1743-1793; engraver and publisher), a cased collection of ten 18th c European maps, comprising five after Jean Janvier (fl. 1746-1776), the Northern and Southern parts of The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, Italy, and Corsica; five after Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736-1814), Portugal's Algarve with Gibraltar, another of the Algarve, Italy with Corsica and Sardinia, and Switzerland; Paris, some n.d. and others mixed, but all c. 1783, titled within the plates, engravings over six paper sheets, delineated in contemporary hand-colouring, and laid on dyed peach linen, each 33.2 x 47 or 47 x 33.2cm, docketed to verso with contemporary French manuscript short-title labels, contemporary polychrome papered card case, presumably Parisian, lettered in gilt: PAYS B./PROV. UNIES/ESPAGNE/PORTGUAL. 2./SUISSES/ITALIE 3./I DE CORSE/IO. F., the case The maps good, intact on their original backing. Some sheets somewhat toned: please see images. The case structurally sound, but with anticipated wear and light rubbed/chipped losses to decoration.

Autograph. Travel & Exploration: Frank Smythe (1900-1949), explorer and mountaineer, member of the failed 1936 British Mount Everest expedition, manuscript signature in black ink, the paper with an associated biographical inscription by a different contemporary hand, 9.5 x 15.5cm

Military. Gunpowder: An Abridgment and Abstract of the Laws Relating to the Ordnance, first edition, London: Printed by J. Tonson in the Strand, 1725, half-title, black-ruled title-page, [iv], 101, [7]pp (tables); [bound with] Articles of War/Rules and Articles For the better Government of our Horse and Foot-Guards, And all other Our Land-Forces In Our Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, And Dominions beyond the Seas, first edition, London: Printed by John Baskett, et al, 1725, half-title, black-ruled title-page, [viii], 38pp, the sammelband possibly a presentation copy, bound in contemporary armorial calf, the covers blocked in gilt with the Board of Ordnance/Ordnance Office's coat of arms, the boards split and crudely tacked-on with sellotape, some chipped losses, loosely-inserted printed and manuscript slip from Sotherans, 8vo Provenance: The Cottesloe Military Library; sold Sotheby's, London, 19th November 2019, lot 231 (1 of 10)

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. [Mathematics] The Rule of Three, 1696, [2]ff manuscript, arithmetic and pictorial decoration, trifle tatty, some marginal losses, yet no loss of sense, foolscap; Crests, a Victorian album, Charles C. Prickard, 16th July 1867, typically illustrated with cut and pasted crests, armorials, and monograms, contemporary mauve cloth, gilt-lettered, pastedown and ffeps with armorial bookplate and generational ownership inscriptions, 4to; four sheets of MS accounts, 18th c, including a Memorandum of a Collection made for The Singers in May 1767, others of a John Coysh of Ashcombe, Devon; early 19th c schoolboy's exercise book, Robert Coysh, Ashcombe, Devon, n.d., inscribed with calligraphic alphabet and sentence practice, wrappers, 4to; Adonis Brabbins, Northampton, 22/2/92, his foolscap notebook, approx. 25ff, various manuscript entries on photo-etching, printing, chemistry, etc., original marbled boards, split with some slight movement, folio (31.5 x 20cm); a Victorian cabinet card photograph of a thatched cottage, n.d., with a corresponding print of the same, dated 1902

An illustrated friendship album-commonplace book, Florence Hursthouse, n.d. [early 20th c and later], illustrated throughout, comprising five watercolours by Alfred Rawlings (1855-1939), including The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square, further watercolours, Constantinople From the deck of the "Belgerland" by John Badecock, pen-and-ink study of stick-men playing cricket, two landscapes of Hong-Kong, 21 other works on paper, various subjects, executed in pen-and-ink, pencil, or watercolour, some watercolour Christmas and greetings cards, chromolithographed Christmas and birthday, cards, a leaf illuminated with coats of arms in gouache and gilt, some b/w photographs, World War One RFC ace and wrecked zeppelin postcards, some further ephemera, occasionally inscribed with manuscript sentiment and extracts from belles-lettres, both rose and verse, sometimes in a calligraphic script, etc., contemporary red roan over boards, split and worn, but holding, 4to (25 x 19.5cm)

Art. [Aglionby (William)], Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing some Choice Observations upon the Art. Together with The Lives Of the Most Eminent Painters [...], With an Explanation of the Difficult Terms, second edition of the first systematic treatise on the history and criticism of painting in English: also containing the first English translation of eleven of Vasari's Lives, London: Printed by John Gain, for the Author, And are to be Sold by Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's Head, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1685, imprimatur leaf, black-ruled title-page printed in red and black, [38], 194pp, signatures collating: π⁵ a-c⁴ d² A-Z⁴ ²A-Z⁴ ³A-B⁴ ³C², all before [a4] repaired, some further discreet repairs in places throughout, some contemporary and later manuscript annotations and corrections in places throughout, in-keeping 20th c calf, panelled in blind, six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettering piece in the second, uncut, later endpapers, 4to Provenance: John Griffiths [of] Bickton (sic; Bicton, South Shropshire); title-page with contemporary 17th c ink MS ownership inscription, some of the annotation apparently in his hand.

Cookery. One box of printed and manuscript ephemera, 19th c and later, including approx. 25 manuscripts receipts, advertising, product, and other recipe books, pamphlets, off-prints, etc., including The Working Man's Family Recipe Book to Health, Denton: W.M. Knowles, 1888, original wrappers, chipped and worn, 8vo; Simon (André L., editor), Wine and Food: A Gastronomical Quarterly, No. 24: Winter Number 1939, original wrappers, 8vo; Good Housekeeping Institute's Book of Fish [...], c. 1955, original pictorial polychrome printed wrappers, 8vo; Fry's Chocolate Recipes, n.d., wrappers, folio; Angostura Bitters For Home Use, eighth edition, 1967, original wrappers, 8vo; Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans, third edition, 1936, pictorial wrappers, chipped, 8vo; etc

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), two autograph manuscript postcards, 1) photographic portrait of the man of letters, ink MS, dated 10 Adelphi Terrace, W.C.2., 31st October 1925, addressed to Madam van Raalte, 59 Ashbourne Avenue, Golders Green, N.W.11., inscribed 'à toi, Jeanette ' and signed G. Bernard Shaw ; 2) printed and written in an elderly hand, franked and dated Welwyn, 2pm, 26 Aug, 1946, pre-printed card supplied by and addressed to The Librarian, The Times Book Club, 42 Wigmore Street, London, W.1., inscribed with an enquiry as to the war-time suspension of the book club's services, (2) Good condition as evidenced by online images.

Travel. A family archive of photograph albums, travel journals and manuscript notebooks, early-mid 20th c, comprising a photograph album of a 1928 African cruise, 48 b/w annotated snapshots of Tunisia, contemporary blue half-cloth over faux alligator vinyl, 8vo; another contemporary album Algeria & Tunisia, 1928, 94 photographs, including Carthage and Roman ruins, cloth, oblong 4to; a photograph album of a 1934 American and Caribbean cruise, approx. 35 images of San Francisco - including the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Honolulu, Panama and Trinidad, original faux alligator effect cloth, oblong 4to; Peru, 1937, 33 b/w images, including the vessel, original pictorial wrappers, oblong 4to; Devon: Widecombe & Dartmoor, an Edwardian album of 51 photographs, c. 1960, roan over cloth, some wear, 8vo; France: Snapshots of Menton & Neighbourhood, 1920-21-23-25, 92 images, cloth, oblong 4to; Italy: Snapshots of Sicily [...] & Palermo, 1923-24, an album of approx. 35 images, cloth, 8vo; France, Spain and Portugal holiday, an album of approx. 100 images, c. 1930, oblong 4to;an Edwardian and later album, "Marina", dated 1901 and later, approx. 80 mixed format b/w images of a country house and its rock garden, quarter-cloth, 4to; an album of approx. 40 b/w snapshots of a Guernsey holiday, c. 1925, annotated with manuscript named-views, oblong 4to; an album of approx. 125 British topography and snapshots, c. 1920, roan over cloth, some losses, oblong 4to; a large format album of 180 b/w and colour postcards of European topography, cloth, oblong folio; miscellaneous mounted albumen prints; the whole supplemented by six manuscript travel journals, 1914 Rome, an unknown 1915 destination - presumably domestic GB, 1920 Italy, 1921 Rome, North Africa 1928, Cruise round South America 1939, the notebooks only partially-inscribed, mixed bindings and sizes; loose printed ephemera, including numerous "Arandora Star" Cruises passenger lists, postcards, etc

France. Van-Ess (Willem Lodewyk), The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte; [...] Including Memoirs and Original Anecdotes of the Imperial Family, and the Most Celebrated Characters that have appeared in France during the [French] Revolution. Illustrated with numerous Portraits, volumes I-VII, London: Printed by W. Davy and Co., [1806]-09, volume I with frontispiece, volume VII with further stipple engraved portraits, endpapers with contemporary manuscript annotations, some marginalia in places, contemporary mottled calf gilt, morocco labels, some wear, 12mo in 6s, (7)

Photography. Scotland, an album of named-view topographical albumen prints, n.d. [c. 1880], 29 ff, pasted onto card leaves annotated in manuscript, contemporary brown morocco over bevelled boards, panelled in blind, rubbed, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, 20th c bookplate, folio (34.5 x 26.5cm); another, similar, early 20th c, partially-illustrated with mixed sizes of albumen prints, illustrating European Grand Tour and British topography, the leaves mostly annotated, contemporary red roan over boards, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, oblong folio (28 x 39cm); and a mid-20th c family album of snapshots, informal larks and topography, original vinyl leatherette album, oblong folio (24 x 33.5cm), (3)

Senca & L'Estrange (Sir Roger, Knt, translator), Morals, By Way of Abstract. To which is added, A Discourse Under the Title of an After-Thought. London: Printed for E. Ballard, et al, 1775, engraved plates, 19th c pencilled manuscript annotations, contemporary sheep, rebacked and recornered in conforming 19th c sheep, split and holding, 12mo; Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, volume II only, fourth edition thus, Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1768, 20th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo in 4s; Dickens (Charles), The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first "Cheap" edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, double-column, half-title, lacking frontispiece, otherwise unexamined, contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, 8vo; Motte-Fouqué (Friedrich de la) & Montolieu (Isabelle, translator), Ondine [Undine], third French edition, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1822, finely bound in English Regency grey faux straight-grained morocco gilt, marbled edges, purple endpapers, contemporaneous printed calligraphic book label: C.J. Ellis, 8vo; Kipling's The Five Nations, first edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1903, fine binding of brown morocco gilt, splitting, some further wear, all edges gilt, doublures, marbled endpapers, 8vo; 1933 Surtees in Hatchards' red half-morocco, 8vo; Samuel Rogers; four odd volumes of Gibbon's Decline & Fall, 8vo; calculus; etc., miscellaneous leather and part-leather bindings, mixed sizes, (17)  Provenance: 1st: John Thomas Hope (1761-1854); armorial bookplate to pastedown, presumably his annotated marginalia.

India. An album of approx. 300 b/w photographs taken and compiled by a British Army family stationed in the then British Raj, dated 1925-1938, arranged over leaves annotated in manuscript, snapshots of Muttra (i.e. Mathura), Jubbulpore (i.e. Jabalpur), Delhi, Taxila and Quetta [both now Pakistan], illustrating the domestic and ceremonial life of an army officer, with family at home and socialising with friends, leisure scenes of polo, cricket matches, horses and dogs, elephants and camels, sport and camps, 4th Light Battery v. 88th Field Battery football match, as well as military parades, including mechanised armoured divisions, General Sir Roger Wilson KCB (1882-1966), etc., some postcards, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth boards, worn and soiled, perished spine but holding, folio (37.5 x 28cm)

Horticulture and Gardening. Stevenson (Rev. Mr. [Henry], of East Retford, Nottinghamshire), The Gentleman Gard'ner, Instructed in Sowing, Planting, Pruning & Grasting Seeds, Plants, Flowers and Trees; also In the Management of Bees. To which is added, The Gard'ner's Kalendar (sic), shewing (sic) The particular Work to be done every Month. In the Kitchen-Garden, Flower-Garden, and Orchard. The Third Edition, with many Additions. London: Printed for S. Austen, 1748, [ii], ix, [i], 312pp, decorative woodcut headers, later calf, mid-18th c ink manuscript ownership inscription from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, further MS inscriptions, 20th c calf, 12mo

Italy, Florence & the Medici. Regiae familiae Mediceorum Etruriae principum effigies, extra-illustrated copy, s.l., s.n., n.d., [Firenze: Typographia Allegrini, c. 1730/40], a large-margined copy, rubricated and etched allegorical title-page, illustrated with 46 portraits after various Old Masters, 43 of which are engraved by Adriaen Haelwegh, with 3 earlier engravings by Francesco Allegrini, the broad outer-margins numbered in ink manuscript from 1-46, in a contemporary fine binding of Italian two-tone speckled brown and onlays of tan calf gilt, the covers centred by a now indistinct armorial supralibros, seven-compartment spine, raised bands enclosing gilt fleurons, contemporary speckled edges, folio (47.5 x 37.5cm)

Children's Book. Blyton (Enid) & Evans (Treyer, illustrated), The Christmas Book, signed by the author and with related ALS, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1944, b/w frontispiece and in-text illustrations, half-title inscribed by the author: G.H. Gray/Best wishes from/Enid Blyton, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over green cloth gilt, slight wear, top edge stained a yuletide green, pictorial endpapers, 8vo, enclosing a loosely-inserted autograph letter signed by the author, manuscript on Green Hedges writing-paper, dated December 13. 44, thanking Gray for the copies of their poems, and for their letter which, judging by Blyton's reply, presumably was in praise of this book, before signing off  Yours sincerely/Enid Blyton, EB wishes the boy or a girl: a very happy Christmas, (2)

A Medieval illuminated manuscript leaf, probably from a Book of Hours, 15th c, black ink on vellum, some rubrication, hand-scrivened Latin text, scribal hand, red-ruled, 22 lines, polychrome foliate initials burnished in gilt, decorative in-fill lines, foliate tracery, 16 x 11.5cm Unexamined out of frame. Good condition.

Maritime. Americana: A partial voyage log of 'Eureka', kept by Emoy Nale, formerly of 'Glad Tidings', dated 7th January to 11th March, 1864, [7]ff of ink MS on blue paper, being the final part of the American barque's North Atlantic crossing from England to New York, that took 64 days, averaging 51 miles per day, while carrying a cargo of railroad steel, later 20th c red card covers, the pastedown with a later cargo receipt for 110 cases destined for the Spanish port Alicante, dated 1866, 8vo, loosely-inserted printed research; Royal Navy, HMS Benbow (1913): Anson (Capt. W.V., R.N.), Detail for the use of Officers of H.M. Ships, second edition, Portsmouth: Gieve's, London: John Hogg, n.d. [1914-15?], approx. 13 pages with pencil manuscript data, apparently recorded by F.J.C. Halahan (later Lt.-Commander, DSC), 11926 Lt. H44 Submariner 1st Class, as inscribed on ffep, original publisher's blue cloth over boards, some worn losses, 12mo, (2)

Two Views of Calcutta Indian from the titled Calcutta and its environs 1848 by Sir Charles D'Oyly, another print, a rugby game picture and a double sided Thai, Khom script Buddist Painting on older religious manuscript

Yorkshire Map, Township of Threshfield (Parish of Linton), W.R. York, large manuscript map, possibly tithe map, no date, some hand-colouring, linen-backed paper, rolled 124.5cm by 144cm; together with a large collection of Ordnance Survey maps, 20th century, rolled. (qty)Parish of Burnsall, township of Conistone, with Kilnsey Sutton in Craven, Crosshills, Gibside, Carleton, Skipton, Keighley, Cononley, Thonrton in Craven, Hebdon Moor

Potter (Beatrix) Ginger & Pickles, first edition, gift inscription on half-title, one or two foxing marks, original pictorial cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, [Linder p. 428; Quinby 17], 4to, 1909. *** The third of Potter's books to be printed in large format, Ginger and Pickles was developed from an original manuscript given to Louie Warne, Harold Warne's daughter, as a Christmas gift in 1908.

Conrad (Joseph) Typhoon, first edition, rare second impression with only 1p. publisher's advertisements at beginning and publisher's blind stamp to lower cover, 32pp. publisher's advertisements at end, first and last couple of leaves lightly spotted, book-label to front pastedown, endpapers foxed, edges spotted straying onto margins, original decorative cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, joints very slightly rubbed, otherwise cloth bright and excellent, 1903 § Orwell (George) Animal Farm, first American edition, one faint stain, original cloth, a few light stains, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, dust-jacket, a few short tears and one hole, some loss to spine ends and corners, joints and edges rubbed, flap corners clipped, New York, 1946 § Morrison (Toni) Beloved, first edition, second impression, signed by the author on front free endpaper, toned, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, flaps lightly spotted, 1988; and c.45 others, including a defective copy of Laurie Lee's A Rose For Winter together with 3 T.L.s. and one A.L.s. from John Lehmann to Laurie Lee and a series of manuscript poems in Spanish mentioned in the letters but not in Lee's hand, v.s. (c.50)

Joyce (James).- Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers, first and only edition, edited by Robert McAlmon, the odd faint spot, light marginal toning, original wrappers, a couple of bumps with very minor loss, heaviest to spine foot, upper joint partially broken, spine darkened, lightly spotted, small 4to, [Paris], [Contact Editions], [1925]. *** One of only 300 copies printed for Robert McAlmon's "Contact Editions" who separately published works by many of the Modernist writers converging in the Paris of the '20s. It was also McAlmon who personally typed and edited the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses by James Joyce with whom he had a friendship. Joyce's contribution here is Work in Progress which would later make up pp. 30-34 of Finnegans Wake. Other contributors include Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Norman Douglas, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams.

Armstrong, Neil Typed letter, signed Typed letter on University of Cincinnati headed paper, dated March 28, 1972, from Neil Armstrong to Mr Paul W. Millard, apologising that he was unable to visit Mr Millard's company during his visit to Scotland, 28 x 21.5cm;Swigert, Jack - Apollo XIII. Note, signed and inscribed, comprising a typed thanks for concern regarding the crew's welfare, with an additional manuscript note from Swigert: “Thank you so much for your thoughtful letter. Jack Swigert”, 10.5 x 14cm, in original franked envelope (2)

Le Carré, John Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, agent's proof copy [London: printed by Scripts Ltd for John Farquharson Ltd, c.1974]. 4to, [2] 492 leaves, printed on rectos only, post-bound in grey card wrappers with section cut away from front wrapper to reveal printed title on first leaf, printer's colophon leaf in orange to rear, manuscript amendments to epigram leaf and ff. 12, 76, 267 268a, 393, 406 and 454, front wrapper stained and nicked Provenance: The Estate of the late Lynette F. H. Cole, Rutherford House, Town Yetholm, Scottish BordersWith manuscript note ‘Given to Jeff by the author, sometime late 1980s’; the recipient Jeff Douglas (d. c.1990), late husband of Lynette Cole, was a friend of John Le Carré's. John Farquharson Ltd was a leading literary agency founded in 1919 and surviving until the 1980s, when it was bought out by Curtis Brown. Le Carré became one of Farquharson's authors following his marriage in 1972 to Jane Eustace, whose first job had been assisting the George Greenfield, the firm's managing director; at the same time Le Carré moved publishers to Hodder and Stoughton, his wife's new employer (The Times, obituary of Jane Cornwell, 9 March 2021).

Scrap and photograph albums Collection of albums, early 19th century and later Photograph album containing two early photographs, possibly salted paper prints from calotype negatives, c.1860, one depicting a pointed arch bridge over a river in a wooded landscape (17.5 x 14.8cm), another depicting a church with features including a porch with a crow-stepped gable (15.2 x 12.4cm), together with approx. 45 albumen-print photographs mainly of Aberdeenshire, Deeside, most signed in the negative by John Valentine or George Washington Wilson;Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, c.1800-1810, also including: The Praises of Aberdeen, sung by a Wandering Bard, viz. Logan Loveit, printed for the author, 8th October 1807 (printed broadside); ‘The Ladies Diary' (manuscript verse on 2 sheets); pen-and-ink sketch of a man-of-war; Explanation of the Beautiful View of Messina, in Sicily … now exhibiting in the great Rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: J. Adlard, [1811) (printed broadside, creased); and similar;Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, c.1810-20, in poor condition with much material loose, contents including: ‘Fanaticism, account of a sutee. By an eye witness. Burdwan, Nov 27th 1820’, manuscript, 2 pp.; several manuscript poems; hand-coloured etched caricatures including R. Dighton, ‘The Specious Orator’, 1794, ‘Poor John Bull, The Free Born Englishman, J. Bairburn, 1819’; stipple-engraved portraits of French statesmen and notables of the Napoleonic era.Together with: 5 other albums including: album of lithographs and etchings, mid-19th century, including William Heath, ‘We Have the Exhibition to Examine’, various costume prints, genre scenes, landscapes, etc. many hand-coloured; 2 photograph albums; Jerusalem tourist album of photogravures and flower cuttings; Straloch estate manuscript notebook, 1896-1930; and a folder of prints and watercolours, 19th century From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.

[Beckford, William] [Vathek.] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript with Notes Critical and Explanatory. London: for J. Johnson, 1786. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.9cm), vii 334 pp., later sprinkled calf gilt, neatly rebacked with richly gilt spine (ink-stamp ‘Bound by Riviere & Son’ to front free endpaper, perhaps referring to the rebacking only, the covers possibly earlier, the rear binder's blank watermarked 1809), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 5 woodcuts of fans in the text, final blank discarded [Rothschild 352] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman A classic work of Gothic fiction and oriental fantasy, Vathek was originally written by Beckford in French, then translated into English by his friend the Reverend Samuel Henley, who published his English version before the publication of an edition in the original French, contrary to Beckford's instructions. French editions were subsequently printed at Lausanne in December 1786 (dated 1787) and Paris in December 1787; it has been suggested that these editions were in fact retranslations of the English version.

East India Company Collection of official letters countersigned by Alexander Speirs, political resident at Gwalior then Nagpur, 1840s 5 manuscript documents, in Urdu or Persian, nasta'liq script, each on a single sheet of polished laid paper, 60 x 20cm or 45 x 20cm, decorated with gold leaf, each signed ‘Alex. Speirs, Resident' or ‘Alex. Speirs, Rest.’, together with 9 similar documents, including: 3 decorative documents, without Speirs's signature, 2 with dates (1844 and 1849), one undated but annotated in English ('[…] for office[?] of Scindiah'); one not decorated but signed ‘True Copy, A. Speirs, Rest’; and 3 others(a folder) Alexander Speirs joined the army of the East India Company as a cadet in 1805. As the company's agent at Sirohi and holding the rank of captain he negotiated a treaty with Rao Sheo Singh to bring the state under British control. He was the company's resident at the court of Gwalior, with the rank of colonel, and then Nagpur, and appears to have died in that city c.1847.

Jamaica - slavery - sugar trade Manuscript letter-book of plantation attorney William Shand of Fettercairn, 1826-7 Folio (31.5 x 20cm), contemporary vellum by G. Roake of London, [230] pp., written in various clerical hands, on laid paper watermarked Joseph Coles 1824, the letters to numerous correspondents, many evidently in Jamaica, and containing substantial detail on Shand's Jamaican estates (including disappointment at the poor yields of his estate at Killetts), the practicalities of sugar-cultivation, the shipment of sugar, coffee and rum from Jamaica to Trieste, the estate of his brother John Shand (also a Jamaica planter), and domestic matters, notable passages including:To Alexander McLeod (p. 89): ‘The West Indians [i.e. plantation owners] are again holding up their heads and matters look better. A favourable change has taken place in the sentiments of your ministers and of course many of their adherents in regard to the colonies, the coffers of our enemies are empty, and in consequence petitions against them are few … The West Indians are a mere rope of sand, and of themselves incapable of anything, they meet at the club, talk much, abuse each other, and do nothing’.To an unnamed recipient (p. 99), concerning the merchant brig ‘Rocket’: ‘The officers of the customs objected to grant a … certificate for this vessel to load out of the port of Kingston, at Clarendon Bay, altho the several acts of parliament … direct them to’.To James McDonald, p. 106: ‘On plantation affairs I shall not now trouble you much … When I return to Jamaica … I hope to find that measures of economy have been adopted and that amongst others progress has been made in breeding cattle for the estate … The effects of the floods and injury to the roads would I fear retard the carriage of produce and render it necessary to purchase a large proportion of produce for the cargo of the Rocket, had there been coffee at the market and it be not very high … I would at the same time like to encourage consignments of either coffee or sugar to Mr Borland if more of my own produce should be reserved for the second Bristol ship and another small vessel for Trieste’.To Alexander Bravo, p. 110  ‘I was in hope of receive ere now accounts of sales of coffee, sugar and rum sent from hence to Trieste’, the letter outlining in detail the advantages of ‘shipping direct from Jamaica to Trieste’.To Alexander Bayley (unpaginated): ‘From what you mention of your sugars being ill adapted for refining it is not probably they would command so much as otherwise in Trieste and I would not recommend that market for them …' From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association. William Shand ( (1776-1845), of Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire was 'a planting attorney with experience of managing 18,000 to 20,000 enslaved people in his time in Jamaica between 1791 and 1823 (he returned there between January 1825 and May 1826, presumably to deal with his and John Shand's affairs around the latter's death). It also emerged that he owned 1200 people as a result of purchase "about 1801" (UCL Centre for the Studies of the Legacies of British Slavery, online, accessed 12 July 2024).

Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg [& Charles Edward] Vestiarium Scoticum from the Manuscript formerly in the Library of the Scots College at Douay. With an Introduction and Notes. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1842. First edition, folio (36.8 x 26cm), original red morocco richly gilt overall including large block of the royal arms of Scotland to covers, all edges gilt, 109 pp., half-title, hand-coloured lithographic plate, 75 chromolithographic glazed plates of tartan patterns, mounted as issued, captioned tissue-guards, vellum presentation leaf to front lettered in gilt ‘The gift of the Honble Frances Fraser of Lovat on her marriage, from her grandmother Amelia Mary Fraser of Strichen, 1844’, plates offset onto tissue-guards, variable spotting to mounts The Library of a Scottish Gentleman One of 50 copies according to the ODNB. A notorious work of forgery and fantasy by the impostor Stuart brothers, Englishmen whose real surname was Allen, but who presented themselves (in good faith or otherwise) as illegitimate sons of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and set about producing works revealing the wealth, and strictly Catholic and Celtic character, of Scottish culture in the middle ages. Their claims that the Vestiarium Scoticum was based on a 15th-century manuscript in their possession were denounced by Walter Scott before his death as fraudulent, but the published work nevertheless had an enduring influence.

Dundee Collection of manuscripts by James Thomson of Dundee, mid-19th century all closely written in an italic hand, most works signed by James Thomson, a few (e.g. ‘The Houff’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains of Foo-Fozzle’) not signed but in the same hand, contents comprise: ‘The Last Literary Remains and Relics of the World-Renowned Foo-Foozle, D.D.D.D. and M.L. of Ching-Chang, and Mandarin of Ten Golden Buttons and Five Siler Tassel; in Joint Stock with those of the ever famous John Young, Late of Forebank, Esquire … Chang-Quang: Souchong, Printer. Young Hyson, Publisher. 14th Day, VIth Moon, Year 1845'. 4to, 206 pp., lined paper wrappers; ‘An Account of the Island of Icolmkill [Iona] as it was in the year 1771. A New Edition revised and corrected. J. Thomson, Scripsit’, Dundee, 15th June, 1852. 4to, green paper wrappers, 16 pp., old staining to rear; ‘Tour through Part of Perth and Fifeshires from Dundee by Ingergowrie, Foulis, Longforgan, Inchture, Dunsinane, Raitt, Errol, Abernethy, Abbey of Lindores and the Abbey of Balmerino to Newport in 1823. Also An Excursion from Dundee to Meigle in the same year … By James Thomson. Third Edition enlarged [sic]’, Dundee, 18232. 8vo, drab paper wrappers, 116 pp., ownership inscription of John Campbell dated Dundee 1837 to title-page; ‘Poems and Songs by Sigma. In Three Volumes, Volume First [ … Second … Third], 1828 [dated at rear]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 125, 43, 126 pp., inscribed on versos of title-page, ‘Dundee 21st July 1841, presented to Mr John Campbell by the author as a small mark of esteem after an acquaintanceship of sixteen years without a cross word occurring during that time to mar the friendship which endured in the course of these years, James Thomson’; 'Gildas Sapiens, de Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. Gildas the Wise, concerning the Subversion and Complaint of Britain; being the Historical Part or First Thirty-One Chapters of his Epistle, Modernised from the Translation made from the Original Latin, and published in 1638. With a New Introduction and Copious Notes. By James Thomson', Dundee, 15th July 1852. 8vo, marbled wrappers, 56 pp.; ‘The Houff: a Selection of the best Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern, in the Houff or Common Burying Ground, Dundee … By Old Mortality, Junior’, Dundee, 1834. 4to, contemporary limp marbled boards, 150 pp., together with another copy with a slightly variant title, disbound; ‘Narrative of Occurrences in the Parish of Newtyle at the Beginning of the 18th Century, as Illustrative of the Mourners of Former Times. With an Appendix of Select Excerpts from the Parish Register of Auchterhouse. By a Gleaner’, Dundee, 1842. Folio, 22 pp., with a pen-and-ink sketch of Newtyle Castle signed J. Thomson to title-page; ‘The Parish Register or Book of the Session, with Notes and an Appendix of Additional Curious Collections. The whole intended as Authentic Illustrations of Former Times. By James Thomson' [no date]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 211 pp., ownership inscription ‘John Campbell, Crichton Street, Dundee’ to p. 1; ‘The Parish Register or Parochial Annals, Being Extracts from the Records of Various Parishes selected as Illustrations of Ancient Manners’, 1828. 4to, blue paper wrappers, 178 pp.; ‘Supplement to the History of Dundee by James Thomson’, Dundee, 1847. Oblong 8vo, plain paper wrappers, 162 ff., written on rectos only; 'The Book of ye comoun Rentallis of the Burgh of Dundie, Almishous and Kirkwark thairof, this maid … in the tyme of Mr James Haliburtoun, Provost … Extracted from the Locked Book of Burgesses by James Thomson', Dundee, 1838. 8vo, 59 pp., blue paper wrappers (front wrapper missing, front blank detaching), inscription in a separate hand (presumably the recipient's) ‘To Mr J. Campbell from J. Thomson the editor … 1841’ on p. [3]; ‘Observations, Exclamations, and Narrations in Verse; being the Reveries, and Day-Dreams, of [symbols]. In six Cantos, by An Observer. Printed by _ And sold by all the Booksellers’. Dundee, 1825. 4to, plain paper wrappers, 40 pp..Together with a further volume of manuscript notes by Thomson (containing transcripts of 18th-century court of session hearings), and a related printed work (A Feast of Literary Crumbs … By Foo Foozle and Friends, Ancient Citizens of Dundee … Dundee: William Kidd, c.1880, no. 1 in the ‘Dundee Reprints’ series, front wrapper captioned ‘facsimile of original cover’ and including imprint J. Valentine, Dundee, 1848') (15) The author of these manuscripts can be identified with that of the published work The History of Dundee (Dundee, 1847; 2nd edition 1874) on the basis of the introduction to the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee by James Thomson’. A mixture of literary squibs, epic poetry in Byronic cantos, and thorough antiquarianism, they are presented in the style of printed books, with neatly arranged title-pages and in one case ('An Account of the Island of Icolmkill') mock printer's signature-marks to the lower margins. The National Library of Scotland holds a manuscript  by James Thomson of Dundee titled `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ and dated 1825 (Adv.MS.35.6.17). Dundee Central Library holds a small collection of manuscripts by him, including ‘The Houff’ (1835), ‘The Book of the Houff' (1838), and ‘Tours through Parts of Forfar, Perth, and Fifeshires’ (1833). It is possible that parts of the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains … of Foo-Foozle’ appear in printed form in the 1874 edition of The History of Dundee and A Feast of Literary Crumbs (op. cit.) respectively, but it is unclear whether any of the works in the lot have ever been published in their entirety.

Trollope, Anthony Collection of first editions all 8vo unless otherwise stated, comprising: The Warden. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Contemporary tan half calf (spine-labels renewed), iv 336 pp.; Barchester Towers. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 3 volumes, later half calf by J. D. Kennedy of Hawick (spine-labels renewed), viii 305, iv 299, iv 321, volume 1 bound without half-title and advertisements, each volume inscribed ‘Roberton Library’ on title-page, associated contemporary shelfmarks in manuscript to front pastedowns and gilt-stamped to spines, variable light soiling to contents; The Three Clerks. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. 8vo in 12s, 3 volumes, modern half morocco, iv 340, iv 322, iv 334 pp., browning to corners of title-pages from turn-ins of an earlier binding, volume 2 sigs. K-L lower corners creased;and 5 others (these not collated), comprising The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867 (2 volumes, modern half morocco), He Knew He Was Right, 1869 (2 volumes, later half roan, rebacked), Phineas Finn (2 volumes, modern half morocco), The Vicar of Bulhampton, 1870 (modern half morocco), and The Way We Live Now, 1875 (2 volumes, modern half morocco), together with a one-volume edition of Orley Farm, 1866 (original cloth, recased) (17)

Scottish poetry Collection of works, 19th-century, finely bound Burns, Robert. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added, Several other Pieces, not contained in any Former Edition of his Poems, and a Life of the Author. Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1801. First Glasgow edition, 12mo (16.9 x 9.8cm), c.1900 maroon half morocco, richly gilt spine, top edge gilt, xii 360 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding aquatint plate; Dunbar, William. The Poems of William Dunbar, now first collected. With Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing. Edinburgh: for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First collected edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, later red morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow; Tannahill, Robert. The Soldier's Return; a Scottish Interlude in Two Acts: with Other Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Paisley: Stephen Young, 1807. First edition, small 8vo in half-sheets, 175 pp., 20th-century marbled calf by Zaehnsdorf; Laing, David (editor). Various Pieces of Fugitive Scotish [sic] Poetry; principally of the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1825-53. First edition, volume 1 one of 72 copies printed and inscribed ‘To William Motherwell Esqre, Paisley (from the Editor)' on the half-title (limitation of volume 2 not stated), 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spines slightly faded; Idem. Early Metrical Tales; including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1826. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, bottom edges untrimmed; Scott, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Scott from George Bannatyne's Manuscript compiled A.D. 1658. Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1882. First edition, one of 50 copies only, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son for Pickering & Co., spine richly gilt in compartments, French fillet frames gilt to covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed(8)  The Library of a Scottish Gentleman William Motherwell, recipient of this copy of Laing's Fugitive Scotish Poetry, was a Glasgow-born poet and editor who lived and worked chiefly in Paisley.

Edinburgh Heather Club Collection of manuscript minute books, 1891-1940 4 volumes, 4to (27.5 x 21.5cm) or folio (33 x 29cm), half leather bindings with black cloth sides and canvas jackets with sections cut away from front covers to reveal red morocco labels, respectively covering 1891-1904, 1907-23, 1924-32, and 1932-40, first and third volumes paginated 480 pp., 478 pp., the remaining volumes unpaginated but of similar extents, with a large quantity of printed ephemera (laid, tipped or pasted in), including programmes for annual outings (booklets in decorative card covers incorporating a photographic portrait of the club captain), dinner menus and notices (including a notice of a dinner in honour of Sir Harry Lauder, 1933), lists of committee members, abstracts of accounts, correspondence, etc., notable contents including an account (with a printed notice and related newspaper cuttings including photographs) of Muriel Spark's receipt of the Heather Club Coronet for her poem ‘Out of a Book’ submitted for the club's poetry commemoration in commemoration of the death of Sir Walter Scott, 1932 (‘… the young poetess rose and made her way to the throne, placed above the stage. Here, Miss Esther Ralston the famous screen star and variety artist … placed the coronet on the head of Muriel Camberg, and kissed her …’). Together with an Edinburgh Heather Club manuscript ledger book of members, outings, etc., c.1898 (partly filled, contents water-stained) and an attendance book for the 1960s-70s (6) The Edinburgh Heather Club was founded in 1823 by Joseph Sutherland, a local merchant, originally as a walking club focused on outings in the Pentland Hills. The scope of the club's expedition expanded with the advent of the railway, and in time they also assumed a variety of social and charitable responsibilities, including a yearly poetry competition of which the 1932 edition was won by a young Muriel Camberg, known to posterity as Muriel Spark, who recalled the occasion in her 1992 autobiography Curriculum Vitae: ‘It was 1932, the year of the centenary of the death of Sir Walter Scott. A poetry competition was launched among the schools of Edinburgh by the Heather Club, a men’s club founded in 1823 (for what purpose I do not know, except that it was very Scottish). I won first prize with my poem about Sir Walter Scott, and another girl at Gillespie's got third prize. The school was doubly jubilant; everyone was delighted … I felt like the Dairy Queen of Dumfries, but I endured the experience and survived it'. An Edinburgh Heather Club captain's baton was sold by Lyon & Turnbull in our Scottish Works of Art and Whisky sale on 21 August 2021 (lot 243).

British rule in Ireland Collection of letters, 18th century all on single bifolium of laid paper (one folio, the rest 4to), most presumed to be addressed to Charles Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend as lord lieutenant of Ireland (in post 1767-72), and comprising:Charles Fitzroy, later 1st Baron Southampton (1737-1797), 4 autograph letters signed as regimental colonel of the 14th Light Dragoons, London, 1768-9, all to ‘My Lord’ regarding a request for preferment, etc., William Kerr, Earl of Ancram, later 4th Marquess of Lothian, (c.1710-1775), 3 autograph letters signed, Dublin and London, 1762-8, all to ‘My Lord’, on regimental matters, ‘I received a letter yesterday from Lord Shelburne to inform me that His Majesty had granted me leave of absence through your Lordship’s most obliging application', etc., all signed ‘Ancram’ (though the style technically incorrect following Ancram's succession to the marquessate in 1767);George Purdon, Limerick, 1772, 2 autograph letters signed evidently to Lord Townshend (referring to ‘your Lordship’s son my Lord Ferrars'), requesting preferment for his son, a cornet in the 4th Regiment of Horse);Thomas Vereker, autograph letter signed, Limerick, 1768, to ‘your Excellency’, a letter of recommendation for his brother, ‘lieutenant of dragoons on this establishment’;Amos Vereker, Athlone, 1772, ‘Sir, I Hope his Excellency will not censure me, for the freedom I take, in requesting, through you, the vacant place of barrack master for Youghall’;Edward Smith (identified in pencilled notes as lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Regiment of Horse); 2 similar letters;and manuscript memorandum concerning a skirmish at Elphin, 11 May 1795 ('a Party of the 10th Dragoons surprised them - killed upwards of Twenty - wounded many and drove sixteen into a river near the place where they were drowned …'), 2 pp., 4to(a folder)

[Johnson, Samuel] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland London: for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, first issue, with 12-line errata leaf and cancels D8 and *U4 (the latter with uncorrected pagination), 8vo (23.3 x 14.8cm), contemporary red linen, manuscript spine-label, edges untrimmed, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Persis Lens 1775’ to front free endpaper, 20th-century blue cloth slipcase [Rothschild 1256] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Bindings Collection of finely-bound library sets, early 19th century all 8vo, uniformly bound in later 19th-century tan calf over bevelled boards by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh, spines gilt in compartments with maroon leather labels to second and third, twin-fillet frames gilt to covers enclosing fleurons to corners gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, numerous engraved plates, titles comprise:Hume, David. The History of England. Oxford: published by William Pickering, London, 1826. 8 volumes;Smollett, Tobias. The History of England. Oxford: published by William Pickering, London, 1827. 5 volumes;Bacon, Francis. The Works. A New Edition by Basil Montagu. London: William Pickering, 1825-34. 16 volumes bound in 17;Robertson, William. The Works. Oxford: for William Pickering, London, 1825. 8 volumes;Goldsmith, Oliver. The Works, edited by Peter Cunningham. London: John Murray, 1854. 4 volumes, engraved additional vignette title-page to each volume;Hales, John W., & Frederick J. Furnivall. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. London: N Trübner, 1867. 3 volumes(45) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson With Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas. London: Henry Colburn, 1845-6. 7 volumes, second edition of volume 1, first editions of volumes 2-7, 8vo, original vertical-ribbed purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, decorative panels in blind to boards, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 4 folding plates of manuscript facsimile (bound in volumes 1 and 2 but not where stated in the contents lists), 3 battle plans (bound as frontispieces to volumes 3, 4 and 7), volume 1 frontispiece browned and damp-stained, the set entirely unopened. Together with William James, Naval History of Great Britain … New Edition, 1837 (6 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, plates, not collated) (13) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Australia Manuscript produced by convicts on the transport Clyde, 1863 Titled ‘The Clyde Journal, Literary and Miscellaneous … Published under the Patronage of Dr Wm Crawford R.N., Surgeon Superintendent, and H. S. Rosser Esqre, Religious Instructor. Edited by John Keeling, Published every Thursday Morning onboard the Ship “Clyde”’. Manuscript fair copy, containing 6 weekly numbers in 1 volume, folio (32.6 x 20.4cm), 42 ff., light blue wove paper with royal arms blind stamp to head, written in black ink in a single hand (possibly that of the editor John Keeling), calligraphic title-page, remaining text in double column, bound in contemporary green half roan, marbled sides, binding worn A rare primary source for the recreations and inner lives of transported convicts, dating from the relatively brief period of direct transportation to Western Australia, and a few years before the end of penal transportation in its entirety in 1868. The Glasgow-built Clyde left Portland in March 1863 carrying 320 convicts bound for the Swan River colony, Western Australia, arriving in Fremantle on 29 May. The editor and possible copyist John Keeling is recorded as a bookseller convicted for forgery at the Old Bailey in 1862. Contents include poems, stories, humorous vignettes, sanitary reports, jauntily-written accounts of onboard recreational activities (or the lack thereof), a register of births (and one death, the wife of one Corporal Webbe), and various miscellaneous pieces including ‘A Glimpse at the Ladies in the after part between decks. By one of themselves', ‘London and some of its Lights & Shadows’, and similar. The journal kept by the ship's surgeon William Crawford is held at the Public Record Office in Kew (accessible online via the National Library of Australia File 6. AJCP Reel No: 3181).SALEROOM NOTICE 13/09/2024: text ends abruptly on final page, indicating removal of at least one leaf at rear.

General antiquarian books Small group of works Sir John Scott, Lord Scotstarvit, (1585-1670, Scottish judge, writer and literary patron), section of manuscript document containing Scott's autograph signature, mounted to front pastedown of a copy of Scott's The Staggering State of the Scots Statesmen, Edinburgh, 1754; [Roman law], Pandectarum juris civilis pars tertia [and] quarta], Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1550 (2 volumes, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, gilt gauffered edges, earlier vellum manuscript waste fragments including red and blue initials with penwork flourishes used to line spines); Henry Sidgwick, The Elements of Politics, 1891 (first edition, octavo, original cloth, some wear to binding, ownership inscription of Earle Monteith Macphail 1861-1937, principal of Madras Christian College); Jean-Jacques Bourassé, La Touraine, histoire et monuments, Tours, 1855 (first edition, folio, contemporary purple morocco gilt by Henderson & Bisset, all edges gilt, chromolithographic frontispiece, engraved plates); and 17 others (22)

Lawrence, T. E. (1888-1935) Two autograph letters signed to William McCance, controller of the Gregynog Press, with associated correspondence RAF Mount Batten, Plymouth, 10 October 1932 and 8 February 1933, each written in black ink on both sides of a single sheet (22.8 x 17.9cm), respectively signed ‘T. E. S.’ and ‘T. E. Shaw’, both concerning Gregynog's publication of Sufism-inspired poem The Singing Caravan by Robert Vansittart ('I am so glad you are doing this book. H-S [Blair Hughes-Stanton] wrote to me that he did not like it: but then he is a person of unusual mind … Probably he dislikes meringues and eclairs, trifles and omlettes souflees [sic] … It flatters my conceit to fancy that I may have helped you to decide upon the Caravan for your press … I have ordered a copy, of course, and persuaded a few people to order one too'; ‘The Caravan delights me. The print is small & neat & fine: paper and binding all right; and the decoration most fitting … You must have got a Persian to do the cutting [of the lettering on the title-page]. I can’t read Arabic script so can only admire its decorative effect. My only reservation is the frontispiece … And oh, why, why, so much “Jap vellum” … which is neither vellum nor Japanese?'), also including a lengthy recommendation of Darrell Figgis's Children of Earth (1918) as another project for the press ('I know that Figgis was a queer flat fist … but Children of Earth is remarkable …'), and compliments on the press's edition of Erewhon.Together with: Robert Vansittart, 16 autograph letters signed to William McCance, 1932-4, discussing the publication of The Singing Caravan and Lawrence's refusal to provide a preface and a specimen of Arabic lettering; 1 autograph letter signed from Vansittart's wife to William McCance; William McCance, manuscript draft letter to T. E. Lawrence, 13 August 1932, 3 pp., on Gregynog stationery, concerning the design of The Singing Caravan, the ethos of ‘the Private Press movement’, the economics and process of letterpress printing; 5 further leaves of McCance's letters drafts; and a telegram from Vansittart to McCance (a folder) Mrs Margaret McCance, second wife of William McCance, controller of the Gregynog Press from 1930 to 1933.

Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher Fifty Comedies and Tragedies All in one Volume. Published by the Authors Original Copies, the Songs to each Play being added. London: by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679. Folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary calf, rebacked probably in the 18th or early 19th century, [10] 578 557 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, bookplate (Macdonald of Rammerscales), early manuscript correction to p. 151, binding rubbed, occasional light browning [Pforzheimer 54; Wing B1582] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Second collected edition, containing 52 plays and thus greatly expanded from the 1647 edition, which contained 35 only. This edition is especially notable for containing the first folio edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was co-written by Fletcher and Shakespeare.

National Covenant of Scotland Original manuscript copy of the National Covenant for the burgh of Peebles, 1638-9 manuscript, ink on single sheet of vellum (67.5 x 69.5cm), main declaration on recto and Glasgow Determination on verso, each written in a separate secretarial hand, autograph signatures of some 20 noblemen directly below main declaration including Rothes, Montrose, Eglinton, Cassilis, Home, Drumlangrig, Montgomery, Yester, Wemyss, Boyd, Flemyng, Forrester, Balcarres, Johnstoun, Balmerino, Lindesay, Elcho, Fraser, Dalzell and others, numerous further signatures including those of Peebles subscribers below both main declaration and Glasgow Determination, contemporary manuscript endorsement ‘The Confession of Faith for the Burgh of […]' (the final word illegible, an initial ‘P’ possibly present), the date ‘1638’ to endorsement and head of main declaration perhaps added later, two additional annotations (both 19th century) to verso recording provenance.Condition: dust-soiled, old stretch-holes to head from flaws in the vellum, a few other small holes, fading to signatures 1) Gavin Veitch of Peebles, by whom bequeathed in 1802 to 2) Thomas Henderson, ‘dissenting minister’, identified as Thomas Henderson (1757-1823), Reformed Presbyterian minister at Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire (see Couper, p. 89) 3) Adam Brown (c.1768-1834), Reformed Presbyterian minister at Crookedholm, then Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, son-in-law of Thomas Henderson via his marriage to Jessie Henderson, second daughter of Thomas Henderson (see Scots Magazine, LXXII, p. 958, and McKay p. 221), thence by descent to 4) James Brown of Kilmarnock, by whom sold in 1906 for £20 to 5) William Henderson Walker (1855-1923), of Chorlton Hall, Cheshire, chartered accountant and descendant of Thomas Henderson of Kilmacolm 6) Thence by descent  A rediscovered original copy of one of the principal documents in the history of Scotland, one of a handful remaining in private ownership, and the fourth known copy to appear at auction. After ‘foor principal copyes in parchment’ of the National Covenant were made during the night of 28 February and 1 March 1638, it was decreed on 2 March that further copies would be made for distribution to every shire, baillery and stewartry in Scotland, to be signed by the principal figures within each jurisdiction. Many hundreds were doubtless produced, but in the most recent census of surviving copies David Stevenson records a total of 74, all but 14 being in institutional collections, and nearly all in Scotland, noting that these ‘doubtless represent only a small fraction of the original total; to the normal ravages of time there must be assumed to have been added deliberate destruction of many when, after 1660, having signed the covenant became an embarrassment, retaining possession of a copy a liability’ (Stevenson, p. 260). The identities of the local notables subscribing to the present copy indicate that it was intended for the burgh of Peebles. The National Library of Scotland holds a copy of the National Covenant described as containing the signatures of the ‘provost, bailies, and councillors of the burgh of Peebles, [and the] burgesses of Jedburgh’ (Adv.MS.20.6.16). David Stevenson notes that David Laing in his 19th-century census ‘refers to a covenant “belonging to the burgh of Peebles” marked “For the Burgh of Peebles” which had been engraved in facsimile. The reference to a facsimile indicates that it is this covenant now in the NLS that Laing refers to, but the inscription … is not present, making it possible that there is – or was – a second Peebles covenant’ (Stevenson p. 271). The existence of two Peebles copies may be connected to the contested reception of the National Covenant in the region, illustrating that the document’s acceptance was not a foregone conclusion across Scotland, contrary to the drift of much subsequent historiography. As a leading modern historian of the covenanters has noted: ‘While some communities were enthusiastic early endorsers of the Covenant, others appear to have quietly ignored it until a decision was forced upon them … The presbytery of Peebles, in the Scottish borders, counted the earl of Traquair amongst its flock, and not surprisingly, became one of the comparatively few to endorse the rival king’s covenant in the autumn of 1638. The National Covenant was finally accepted in May 1639, but only after some of the brethren had insisted on “a sight” of the relevant acts of synod and general assembly’ (Stewart, p. 108). The Peebles subscribers whose signatures are visible on this copy include J. Peter, commissar of Peebles, various burgesses, baillies and counsellors, and several figures whose local status is not mentioned but who can be identified from secondary sources. Among the latter are two individuals of special interest, namely one Andrew Watson and one P. Purdie of Newlands. An Andrew Watson is recorded as vicar of Peebles and in 1652 received ‘£3 Scots as part payment due by the Presbytery for burning witches’ (Chambers, p. 166); Patrick Purdie, minister at Newlands from 1634 to 1681, was involved in at least three witch trials in the 1640s. In addition to the known extant copies of the National Covenant, Stevenson lists 20 under the heading ‘missing, lost or suppositious’. The present copy may account for that recorded as 16.19, described on the basis of letters in the Scottish Record Office (now the National Records of Scotland) as having been owned at some point in the 19th century by a Mrs Landells, wife of one Thomas Henderson, and eventually given to a ‘Mr Brown’, nephew of Thomas Henderson. Another copy, recorded as 16.1, is one apparently signed at Kilmarnock and seen in Cheshire; the report, described by Stevenson as ‘doubtful’, may be a confused account of the Kilmarnock-Cheshire provenance of the present copy. A copy of the National Covenant subscribed in Renfrew was sold by Lyon & Turnbull in 2009 (10 June lot 251). In 1977 Sotheby’s sold two copies: one subscribed in Echt, Aberdeenshire, and a decorative copy signed by the organising noblemen but not intended for local subscription. The lot sold with associated documents including: letter from Adam Brown to Thomas Henderson, Kilmarnock, 1830; Fr. Schenck, Fac-Simile of the National Covenant of Scotland, in its original form with the Autographs of the principal leading Personages (lithographic facsimile on paper, in 20 sections, laid on linen, folding into cloth covers, front cover detached); ‘The Confession of the Faith, or National Covenant of Scotland, contributed by Mrs. Brown, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire’ (printed exhibition caption, mid-19th century); receipt of payment of £20 from W H. Walker of Chorlton Hall to James H. Brown ‘for the national covenant’ dated 10/9/06. For a copy of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637, which precipitated the drawing up of the National Covenant, see lot 92. Literature: Chambers, William. A History of Peeblesshire, Edinburgh, 1864.Couper, W. J. The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1925.Goodare, Julian, et al. ‘The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563-1736’, online, accessed July 2024.Laing, David. ‘The Names of some of the Persons who have Original Copies of our Covenants, National and Solemn League’, Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, IV, Edinburgh, 1847, pp. 238-50.McKay, Archibald. History of Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock, 1864.Renwick, Robert. Gleanings from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Peebles, 1604-52, Peebles, 1892.Scots Magazine, LXXII, Edinburgh, 1811.Stevenson, David. ‘The National Covenant: A List of Known Copies’, Records of the Scottish Church History Society, XXIII, Edinburgh, 1988, pp. 255-299.Stewart, Laura A. M. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland 1637-1651, Oxford, 2016.

Bosworth, William The Chast and Lost Lovers Lively shadowed in the Persons of Arcadius and Sepha, and Illustrated with the severall Stories of Haemon and Antigone, Eramio and Amissa, Phaon and Sappho, Delithason and Verista: being a description of severall Lovers smiling with delight, and with hopes fresh as their youth, and fair as their beauties in the beginning of their Affections, and covered with Blood and Horror in the Conclusion. To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author to Aurora. Digested into three Poems. London: by F. L. for Laurence Blaiklock, 1651. First edition, first issue, 8vo (15.8 x 9cm), 18th-century calf, [16] 127 pp., type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initials, front board detached, title-page slightly marked and with two ownership inscriptions including ‘T Park’ (possibly Thomas Park, antiquary and bibliographer of poetry, 1758/9-1834), old marginal repairs to B1 and C8, B2 with lower fore corner restored with loss of text (several lines completed in manuscript, probably 18th century). Housed in a custom red cloth solander box [Wing B3799] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman The author's only known work, published posthumously. The epistle dedicatory by ‘R. C.' describes the book as ‘the work of a young Gentleman of 19 years of age, who had he lived, might have been as well the Wonder as the Delight of the Arts’. It was later reissued with a cancel title-page dated 1653.

[Vellum printing - heraldry] Fac Simile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount. Lyon King of Arms, 1542. Edited by David Laing. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1878. One of apparently 2 copies printed on vellum, folio (33.6 x 22cm), contemporary red morocco gilt by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh, inner dentelles gilt, vellum doublures, top edge gilt, chromolithographic title-page, [2] 21 pp. printed introductory text, 144 leaves of chromolithographic manuscript facsimiles (printed on rectos only, numbered 1-133, leaves 57, 77, 100, 101, 126, 127, 128 and 129 each with a bis leaf), joints and extremities rubbed The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Second edition (first published in 1822). According to a 20th-century century bookseller's catalogue description mounted to the front doublure, presumably referring to this copy, ‘only two copies were printed on vellum’; there were also 250 standard copies and 50 copies on large paper.

Cholera Collection of printed and manuscript documents, 19th century Two Central Board of Health daily reports of cholera cases, 15 November 1832. Pre-printed documents completed in manuscript, each a single sheet, 37.5 x 24cm, recording cholera cases in England and Wales on one document and Scotland on the other, the former signed at foot ‘W Maclean, Sec[retar]y’, staining;‘Stato Officiale del Cholera in Londra, e suoi Contorni del 7. Magio 1832’. Manuscript, single bifolium written on 2 sides, 32 x 20 pp., staining;Letter from the British consulate at Salonica to Ogilvie & Davies, Cardiff, concerning the death of one Captain Short from cholera, 1855, enclosing related documents (present) including ‘List of Clothes & Effects of the late Capt Short, Brig Mary Ann’, letter with numerous pin-holes;Four printed Custom House notices relating to cholera, London, 1832 (each a single sheet printed on recto only, 29.5 x 18.5cm;Two Latin documents, both pre-printed, completed in manuscripts, including a bill of health for the Marmora, sailing from Penzance to Naples, with 2 red wax seals;Manuscript petition submitted by the burgh of Annan to the privy council, 1832, concerning the spread of cholera to Annan ‘now that the disorder is at our very doors, for Carlisle, Whitehaven, and Maryport … are all at present affected’, single bifolium written on 3 sides,  31 x 19cm;Printed document in Swedish listing ports infected with cholera, 1832;and 3 similar items(a folder)

British military decorations Manuscript medal rolls for the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 and Army of India Medal 1799-1826 late 19th century, 2 volumes, folio (33 x 19.5cm), c.1900 brown pigskin ruled in blind by Baker & Son of Clifton, spines lettered in gilt, each volume written in brown ink in a uniform clerical hand on red-ruled ledger paper

Australia Album of photographic views of Tasmania, c.1890 Oblong folio album, contemporary half morocco with red morocco label to front board, 39 albumen-print photographs, 26.5 x 34cm or similar, including views of Hobart (street scenes, the harbour, etc.), New Norfolk, Mount Bischoff (tin mining), Launceston (River Tamar, municipal buildings), New Town, Bridgewater and Longford railway bridges, Deloraine, Lefroy, Latrobe, etc., pasted to rectos of thick card mounts, gilt frames, versos of mounts with manuscript and printed captions, two with photographer's printed gilt trademark of Anson Bros, Hobart to lower margin of mount, ink and blind stamps of Manchester Public Free Library, binding refurbished

Scotland Collection of manuscripts, letters and documents comprising:Volume of original letters to Alexander Dingwall, Aberdeen merchant, 18th century, folio album, 19th-century blue half roan with marbled sides, containing approx. 70 letters in total, from various family members and other associates, on family, social and business matters, Dingwall's marriage, family illnesses, etc., and including 3 from John Douglas as Bishop of Carlisle, dated Windsor Castle, 1789-91, signed ‘J. Carliol’, one of which concerning the appointment of one Mr Gordon to the Exuma Mission, Bahamas, all mounted rectos and versos, most with address panel mounted below, later annotations identifying authors, with a pictorial board game in watercolour loosely inserted, probably 19th century, the volume inscribed on front blank ‘To John Drysdale Esq of Castellan House Dunbar, E. Lothian, Old Family Letters chiefly addressed to his Great Grandfather Alexander Dingwall, Merchant, Aberdeen. From his affection Uncle A. Dingwall Fordyce, Fergus, Ontario, Canada, 1892’. Together with: Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce, in Aberdeenshire, 1885-8, first edition, the author's copy, with original photographs, annotations and newspaper cuttings mounted to interleaves and presentation inscription from him to John Drysdale (q.v.), 2 volumes, 8vo, bindings defective;Volume of commentaries on Bible verses, 19th century, 4to, contemporary half calf (binding loose), approx. 550 pp., in double column, in a neat italic hand;Fair copy manuscript journal, late 19th century, recent note laid in identifying author as ‘the Rev. George Gilfillan’;2 commonplace books, 19th century, including poems by Coleridge, Wordsworth, William Motherwell, etc., bindings broken;Large collection of approx. 100 letters and documents, 19th century, mainly relating to the Carruthers family of Moffat and the Rogerson family variously of Pearsbyhall (Ecclefechan), Fingland (Moffat), and elsewhere, including 2 documents with Quebec relevance (both appointing James Rogerson, merchant of the City of London, attorney to James Whyte, ‘purveyor of hospitals on half pay, residing in the city of Quebec’, copies of the Dumfries and Galloway Advertiser, etc.;and 4 other items similar

[Eglinton Tournament] 'Old Emblems and Heraldry and Tournament Horses prepared for the Eglinton Tournament' [manuscript cover-title], c.1839. Folio (46.5 x 33.5cm), contemporary cloth-backed wrappers, containing 25 original watercolours of coats of arms and designs for horse caparisons, 2 on vellum, the rest on paper, pasted to rectos only of green paper mounts, various dimensions, ranging from 13.5 x 7cm to 23 x 32.5cm, most designs annotated in ink, browning The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

[Korea and China] Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria compiled in Commemoration of the Decennial of the Bank of Chosen. Seoul: Bank of Chosen, 1919. First edition, 4to, original cloth, 316 pp., halftone photographic illustrations throughout, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with manuscript shelfmark to foot of spine, library plate to front pastedown, ink-stamps to title-page verso and a few text-leaves, cloth dust-soiled;Maudslay, Anne Cary & Alfred Percival. A Glimpse at Guatemala, and some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America. London: John Murray, 1899. First edition, 4to, original quarter cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, 44 plates (mainly photogravures), 10 lithographic plans, folding lithographic map to rear, photogravures, photogravures and tinted wood-engravings throughout the text, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with remnants of paper shelfmark label to spine, library plate and cancellation ink-stamps stamps to front pastedown and endpaper respectively, ink accession stamp to verso of title-page, and small ink-stamps to versos of plates and plans, binding dust-soiled, wear to extremities;Baddeley, John F. The Rugged Flanks of Caucasus. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1940. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, 36 photogravure plates including frontispieces, 9 folding maps, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with gilt shelfmarks to spines, plates and lending slips to endpapers, and ink-stamps to title-pages and to versos of plates, manuscript shelfmarks to dust jacket spine-panels, volume 2 dust jacket torn (4)

Mughal India Collection of manuscript documents, 18th century in Hindi and Persian or Urdu, the Persian or Urdu documents in nasta'liq script, and including: 3 in Persian or Urdu with large inked seals apparently of Asaf al-Dawlah, Nawab of Oudh (1748-1797), dated 1190 AH (1776/7 CE), these in fair condition, friable, with repairs, and one in two parts; 2 further documents in Persian or Urdu with similar seals, one evidently carrying the name of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II (1728-1806) to head but both largely illegible; and 7 others (a folder) Asaf al-Dawlah succeeded his father Shuja' al-Dawlah as Nawab of Oudh in 1775. His title as given on the two seals in this lot is ‘Wazir al Mamalik […] I'timad al-Dawlah [minister of the kingdoms … pivot of the state], Asaf Jah Burhan al-Mulk Shuja' al-Dawla Abu al-Mansur Safar Jang Yahya Khan Asaf al-Dawlah Bahadur […]'. 

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe R.A., R.E., A.R.C.A., O.B.E. (British 1901-1978) Printer's souvenir album of Tunnicliffe's illustrated calendar for Wadkin Ltd of Leicester, 1947 Folio (38.5 x 26cm), black thick-paper wrappers, string-bound, manuscript title-label to front wrapper, contents all mounted or tipped to black thick-paper leaves and comprising: 4 colour scraperboard prints (making up the complete calendar, with 3 months to a leaf), each signed by Tunnicliffe; 10 autograph letters and 1 typed letter signed by Tunnicliffe, all to the printers and concerning the production of the calendar; the leaves for July-September and October-December each in 6 successive states; calligraphic manuscript introduction and captions including the signature of the compiler, one Charles Bramley of Humberstone, Leicester.Together with 2 similar Wadkin Ltd souvenir albums of illustrated calendars, respectively by Rowland Hilder R.I., O.B.E. (1905-1993) for 1948, and Leonard R. Squirrell R.W.S., R.E. (1893-1979) for 1949, the Hilder album in 2 volumes and containing 3 autograph letters from Hilder, proof plates, and similar, the Squirrell album containing some 10 autograph letters signed from Squirrell, proof plates, and similar, a few items in both the Hilder and Squirrell albums now loose Wadkin Ltd were a firm of woodworking machinery engineers established in Leicester in 1897 and operating as an independent business until their absorption by Nottingham firm A. L. Dalton in 2010. The three calendars commemorated by these albums appear to have been conceived in part to showcase the firm's reprographic technology, the introduction to the Tunnicliffe album explaining that: ‘This attractive production forms an example of the satisfying result which can be obtained when a discriminating man of business commissions at artist of repute to help him. Having agreed to break away from photographic reproductions it was decided by Mr J. Holland Goddard, the governing director of the firm, after discussion with Mr H. Beeston, publicity manager, to commission an artist of front rank to make four drawings of subjects which would bear some reference to “wood”: wood denotes the countryside so the choice of Mr C. F. Tunnicliffe was inevitable as the wide range of his accomplishment in that sphere was acknowledged’.

McMillan, Edwin (1907-1991), and Philip Abelson (1913-2004) Collection of original material relating to the discovery of Neptunium ‘Radioactive Element 93’, typescript (possibly carbon) of the article published in Physical Review (57, 1185, 15 June 1940) announcing the discovery of Neptunium, 4 ff.;‘Growth of 2.3 day 93 from 23 min. U293/92’, manuscript graph by Philip Abelson showing the decay of Uranium 293 into Neptunium, in pencil on green graph paper, 28 x 21.5cm, with added pencil caption by Edwin McMillan at head, hole-punched in left-hand margin, the graph published as the figure to the above article;A printed version of the graph, possibly a cyanotype, 29.7 x 22cm;‘The Synchrotron - A Proposed High Energy Particle Accelerator’, carbon typescript, 4 ff., stapled at upper left corner;Autograph letter signed from Edwin McMillan to Dr Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1871) of the University of California, endocrinologist and co-discoverer of Vitamin E, 16 May 1946, ‘Dear Dr Evans, The nearest that I could find to the manuscript of the Np letter is the typed copy made at the time of writing, which is enclosed. The hand-written original was apparently destroyed. The graph also enclosed is an original; it was plotted by Abelson, and has a caption in his hand, and a notation at the top in mine. This graph was reproduced in the published letter. Finally, I am sending a typed copy of the Synchrotron MS; here again the original was destroyed' 1 p., signed ‘Edwin M. McMillan’;Typed letter signed from Daniel M. Wilkes (assistant to Edwin McMillan at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory) to Evans, 1963, requesting ‘perusal and possible duplication of the materials he has given you’ on ‘certain materials relating to the discovery of element 93’ (quantity) 1) Given by Edwin McMillan to Dr Herbert M. Evans in 1946; 2) With John Howell, bookseller, San Francisco, in 1974; 3) Private collection, Scotland. Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson's discovery of neptunium, the first transuranium element to be identified, was one of the major advances in chemistry and nuclear physics achieved in the 20th century, initiating a cascade of similar discoveries and securing McMillan the 1951 Nobel prize in the first discipline, which he shared with his Berkeley colleague Glenn Seaborg. The pair made the discovery at Berkeley's cyclotron by subjecting uranium 238 to slow neutron bombardment and detecting a substance with a beta-decay half-life of 2.3 days, differing from the known 23-minute half-life of uranium-239 and consequently attributable instead to an isotope of the next element, 93.