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Ibn Batuta. The Travels of Ibn Batuta; translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies... Rev. Samuel Lee, first English edition, half-title, presentation slip from the Oriental Translation Committee, library stamps, modern cloth, bookplate of Bath Library, 4to, London: Oriental Translation Committee, 1829

Koran. A manuscript in Nashki script, c.380 leaves, double-page illuminated opening, text and diacritics in black ink, gold ink border and highlights, marginal floriate medallions, a few leaves soiled and repaired, 8mm hole to one page of illuminations, early nineteenth century polished lacquer boards with floriate motifs, edges slightly knocked, morocco spine, 85mm x 143mm [c.1830] PROVENANCE: H. Kevorkian Collection (no.860)

CHARLES JAMES MCCALL (BRITISH, 1907-1989) St. Michael's Church, Chester Square, London, colour print heightened with gouache, 45.5cm x 31cm (horizontal and vertical fold lines); together with a manuscript letter to the vendor from the artist's wife (a family friend), dated 1989, stating that the print was never published, signed by both 'Charles' and 'Mitzi'.

Gaignol, Claude. Heures Nouvelles. Dedicated to the Duchess of Aiguillon, Manuscript, 1754. 8vo., cont. French red morocco gilt, a.e.g, pink silk endleaves. Early ms. bookplate and later bookplate of A. Brdemann Condition Report: NB. Books are not collated unless specified, and are sold 'as seen'

A 19th century chromolithograph showing a fox watching a pair of rabbits 35 x 30cm in moulded gilt frame together with two watercolours of Leeds Castle and Craigievar Castle both signed bottom right Neville Wilson, 30 x 40cm max approx size, a pair of coloured prints of botanical subjects from the Manuscript Collection by Quintessa Art, a black and white photograph of a young soldier and a coloured Vanity Fair print of a cricketer all framed

AN INDO PERSIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF DEPICTING A TIGER HUNT AND ANOTHER OF A COURTING COUPLE IN A HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE.

AN INDO PERSIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF DEPICTING A BATTLE SCENE WITH INSCRIPTIONS AND ANOTHER INDO PERSIAN WATERCOLOUR.

TWO EARLY TIBETAN MANUSCRIPT PAGESpossibly 18th century, with script overall, 54cm x 16cm (2)

THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND, FOLIO, LACKS TITLE, MANUSCRIPT INDEX AT END, HALF CALF, CIRCA LATE 18TH CENTURY, A COLLECTION OF LOOSE PLATES OF THE COSTUMES OF SWEDEN, HAND COLOURED AQUATINTS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, NICHOLSON (W), THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES... THIRD EDITION, FOLIO, LATER BOARDS 1736 WAF AND GUTCH [JOHN], THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COLLEGES AND HALLS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY ANTONY WOOD MA... WITH A CONTINUATION TO THE PRESENT TIME, LATER BOARDS, OXFORD 1786

A 17th century sheet of handwritten manuscript,8" x 8", in perspex display case.

Bodenehr (Gabriel). Atlas Curieux, oder neuer und compendieuser atlas in welchem auser den General Land Carten von America, Africa, Asia und Europa..., published Augsburg, circa 1715, double page title with later dated manuscript ownership signature (dated 1944), folding letterpress contents list, 102 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring (including ninety-four double page and folding) and three folding tables, very occasional staining, marbled endpapers, contemporary 'cats-paw' sheep with gilt decorated spine, a little bumped, slight wear to extremities, 4to (1)

Dictys (Cretensis, psued). Ditte Candiotto et Darete Frigio Della guerra Troiana, Tradotti per Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino...Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1570 title with engraved vignettes and neat early ink ownership initials at foot, lightly marked, p.47 with small closed tear to lower blank margin, front pastedown partly missing, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine, soiled and slight loss to foot of front cover, 4to Adams D437. (1)

*Opera. A group of autograph ephemera relating to operatic conductors, including 2 autograph letters signed from Bruno Walter, both 1931, written in English, both 1 page, 4to, plus a third letter by Bruno Walter in German, plus a two-page letter in French by Felix Weingartner, a 1-page letter by Hans Richter, 4-page letter in Italian by Michael Costa plus a signed manuscript engagement for Costa to perform at the Italian opera, London, 1845, a notecard by Hans Richter and the autograph of Arturo Toscanini (9)

Bible [English - New Testament]. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Newly translated out of the Original Greeke..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker... and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1636, title within decorative woodcut border (manuscript date at head of title & two closed tears), close-trimmed at head & foot with slight cropping, contemporary calf, blind decoration, white metal clasp, rubbed, 24mo in 12s, together with Devotional, A New-years-gift Composed of Prayers and Meditations, with Devotions for Several Occasions, 2 parts in one, London: Simon Neale, 1681, engraved frontispiece to each part (initial frontispiece torn to edges & repaired), cropping to first word of title, also to some running titles and fore-edges, some dust-soiling, lacking rear free marbled endpaper, contemporary morocco, elaborately gilt decorated, onlays to boards, joints cracked, worn, 24mo in 12s, plus a defective copy of The Doctrine of the Bible: or, Rules of Discipline: Briefly Gathered through the whole course of the Scripture, by way of Questions and Answers..., London: T. Snodham for Thomas Pauier, 1625 (3)

Stewart (Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, 1778-1854), A series of 41 original letters between the 3rd Lord Londonderry and Lord Burghersh, written 1814-1846, comprising 41 neatly written letters (over 165 pages, plus 2 defective letters), 28 of which concern the period 1814-24 when Vane was ambassador in Vienna, with two autograph draft replies by Burghersh, mid 19th century manuscript leaf numbering to upper outer corners, letters stitched together as volume (disbound from larger album) with manuscript title at front 'Letters Lord Stewart now Lord Londonderry to and from Lord Burghersh now Earl of Westmorland, 1814-1846. Arranged and bound in 1858', and three leaves of manuscript contents, mid 19th century half morocco over marbled boards, spine deficient, worn, 4to Charles William Stewart, later Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, (1778-1854) was a British soldier, politician and nobleman, the son (by his second wife) of the 1st Marquess of Londonderry, and half-brother to Lord Castlereagh. He had a highly distinguished career. Initially commissioned into the British Army as a Lieutenant at the age of 16, he saw service in Flanders in 1794, and was Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Tory representative for Thomastown, County Kilkenny two years later, and exchanged this seat for that of County Derry, representing the same constituency at Westminster after 1801. In 1803 Stewart was appointed aide-de-camp to King George III, and four years later became Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. In 1809 he was made Adjutant General to Sir John Moore with the British forces fighting in the Peninsular War. In 1813 he was made Colonel of the 25th Light Dragoons and until the end of the war was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, and also Military Commissioner with the allied armies. In 1814 he was made Ambassador to Vienna, a post he held for nine years, and was present at the Congress of Vienna with his half-brother Lord Castlereagh. In 1820 he was made colonel of the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars). Lord Stewart succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry in 1822. The following year being created Earl Vane and Viscount Seaham, of Seaham in the County of Durham. He became Governor of County Londonderry from 1823 and Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards in 1843. (1)

Le Clerc (Sebastien). Practical Geometry: Or, a New and Easy Method of Treating that Art, translated from the French of Monsieur S. Le Clerc, 3rd edition, 1727, 80 copper-engraved illustrations, first three letters of title overwritten in manuscript, occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine rubbed, 8vo, together with Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee, the Highland Clans, and the Massacre of Glenco: With an Accound of Dundee's Officers after they went over to France, by an Officer of the Army, 1st edition, 1714, manuscript poem 'An Epitaph on Dundee' to verso of His Epitaph leaf, some spotting, previous owner signature of Blackburne to title, bookplate, later panelled sheep, a little rubbed with small wormtracks, 8vo, plus Mordaunt Hall; Or, a September Night. A Novel, [by Anne Marsh, afterwards Anne Marsh-Caldwell], 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1849, a few light spots, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, with others including the Duke of Rochefoucault's Moral Maxims and Reflections, 2nd edition, 1706, Catherine Sinclair's Modern Flirtations, or a Month at Harrowgate, 3 volumes, 1841, Observations on the Trial by Jury, Particularly on the Unanimity Required in the Verdict, by John Longley, 1812, H.T. de la Beche's How to Observe Geology, 1835, Andrew Combe's The Physiology of Digestion, 1836 and Herbert Spencer's Social Statistics: Or the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of them Developed, 1851 (with manuscript note to title stating it was withdrawn) (34)

Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation, 3 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1830-33, engraved frontispiece to volume I, hand-coloured frontispieces to volumes II & III, four maps (two hand-coloured & two folding), four engraved plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, bound without half titles to volumes I & III and advertisements at front of volume I, some light offsetting and scattered spotting, Bedfordshire General Library ink stamps and manuscript shelf numbers to titles, hinges reinforced, booklabels of T. Elger, manuscript note 'Purchased at Library Sale (1868)' to volume I front pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and repaired, spines with red labels, 8vo, with a loose one page autograph letter signed by Charles Lyell, dated January 1851, giving a new address at Rivermead, Hampton Wick, mounted on pink paper with manuscript note beneath, old folds Dibner 96; Horblit 70; Norman 1398; PMM 344. Charles Lyell popularised the doctrine of uniformitarianism, first suggested by James Hutton, which presumes that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. The central argument in Principles, and one that had a notable influence on the young Charles Darwin, was that 'the present is the key to the past' and that geological remains from a distant past can be explained by reference to observable geological processes now in operation. (3)

Childrey (Joshua). Britannia Baconia: Or, the Natural Rarities of England, Scotland & Wales. According as they are to be found in every Shire, 1st edition, 1661, lacking blank A1 (as often), a few leaves mispaginated, manuscript annotations to rear blank, a few small corrections to text, some spotting and soiling, previous owner signature to title, manuscript shelf number to title verso, modern calf, 8vo Wing C3871. (1)

Trollope (Anthony). How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland, with illustrations by Mrs Hugh Blackburn, 1st edition, London: Virtue & Co. Ltd., 1878, colour lithograph map frontispiece, sixteen black & white plates (including 14 lithographs & 2 mounted photographic plates), all edges gilt, original gilt & blind blocked blue cloth, in bright condition, slightly rubbed at head & foot of spine & board edges, 4toThe vendor understands this copy probably came via Miss Campbell of Blythswood, one of the party. The volume contains a loosely inserted contemporary manuscript copy two page letter from Thora Pjettersen who is mentioned several times in the narrative, and also contains a page of tipped-in pressed fern frond specimens collected at Thingvalla, Iceland on Thursday July 4th 1878 (tipped-in to verso of map frontispiece). There is also a printed card list of the 'Mastiffs' pasted to the verso of the front free endpaper, and printed folding "Itinerary of the Mastiffs to the Geysers July 1st to 5th 1878" pasted to the rear free endpaper (plus one loose copy). (1)

The Suez Conflict of 1956. A group of 4 top secret operation orders and reports relating to Operation Musketeer, 6th October to 21st December 1956, all cyclostyled and with some manuscript amendments, the first numbered '003 First Draft', Operation Order no. 2, 6 October 1956, copy no. 9, the second Administrative Order no. 3, 28 October 1956, copy no. 24, the third Operation Order no. 3, 1 November 1956, the fourth titled Operation Musketeer Report, 21 December 1956, copy no. 43, all in original card folders, plus a fifth partly in manuscript and partly typed 14 page document giving a retrospective account of Operation Musketeer, loosely inserted into the folder of a printed restricted document titled Notes on Atomic Warfare: Distribution-Scale a (including T A), War Office, November 1954, a few maps and other inserts, all folio These reports and orders produced for 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines appear to have belonged to Captain Alexander Higson, whose name appears in two of the items. The Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. Its aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser from power. After the fighting had begun, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The Suez Canal was closed from October 1956 until March 1957. As a result of the conflict, the British prime minister Anthony Eden resigned. (5)

Sedgwick (Adam). Preface to the Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, [1872], some light fraying to margins, original wrappers, manuscript inscribed to upper cover "J.W. Judd with J.M.R. Hughes' kind regards" and with Judd Library ink stamp, dust-soiled and some spine & edge wear, slim 4to The author's final work. (1)

Raspe (Rudolph Erich). An Account of some German Volcanos, and their Productions. With a New Hypothesis of the Prismatical Basaltes; Established upon Facts. Being an Essay of Physical Geography for Philosophers and Miners. Published as Supplementary to Sir William Hamilton's Observations on the Italian Volcanos, 1st edition, 1776, two folding engraved plates, manuscript signature and note to title, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, rebacked, edges a little rubbed, 8vo Scarce. (1)

Barclay (John). Argenis, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Danielis & Davidis Aubriorum & Clementis Schleichii, 1623, printer's woodcut device to title, toning and some spotting, contemporary vellum (from reclaimed manuscript), loss at head & foot of spine, worn, 8vo, together with Euphormionis Lusinini, sive Jo. Barclaii, Satyricon, nunc primum castratum, castigatum, in sex partes dispertitum, & notis illustratum, cum clavi. Accessit Conspiratio Anglicana, Leiden: Ex officina Hackiana, et veneunt Parisiis apud Fredericum Leonard, 1674, additional engraved title, printer's woodcut device to letterpress title with signature to upper blank margin, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, gilt armorial and monogram of the Duke & Duchess of Saint-Maure de Montausier, Touraine & Normandy (identifying pencil note to upper pastedown), old reback, joints split, some wear mostly to extremities, 8vo, with Council of Trent, Sacrosancti et Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini sub Paulo III. Julio III. et Pio IV. Celebrati, Canones et Decreta. Cum indice librorum prohibitorum ex praescripto Concilii..., Cum notis Philippi Chiffletii..., Studio & opera Jacobi Quetif, Paris: N. Pepingue, 1674, additional engraved title, full-page engraved portrait, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked, and some wear to extremities, 12mo, and Da Bergamo (Gaetano-Marie), L'uomo Appostolico Istruito nella sua Vocazione al Confessionario..., Venice, 1750, title in red & black, contemporary vellum, 4to in 8s, plus two other 18th century volumes (including one odd volume) (6)

Leard (John). Leard's Pilot for Jamaica and the Windward Passages, surveyed by order of Vice Admiral Affleck and published by permission of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty, Mount and Davidson, circa 1793, title on printed label to upper board, title and front pastedown with slightly later manuscript ownership signature of Auguste Booquet Capn. au Long-cours, dated 1827, 14 (of fifteen) uncoloured engraved charts, including five double page and/or folding, slight spotting and water staining throughout, one map with short closed tear, hinges and joints cracked and weak, contemporary marbled boards, with large printed label to upper cover, some soiling and staining, and wear to edges, joints partly cracked, large slim folio (590 x 330 mm) Very rare pilot book. The last copy we can find recorded for sale in an auction was 1937. No institutional copies found, although the Library of Congress holds a pilot of fifteen maps with a different title. Examples of a few of the maps contained in this volume are held by the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid and the British National Archives but no complete example appears to exist. Admiral Philip Affleck was Rear Admiral of the White and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's naval contingent in Jamaica and Bermuda between 1789 and 1792. During his time in command Affleck undertook a comprehensive marine survey of Jamaica and its surroundings. He was assisted by John Leard and William Buller. Affleck did produce a very rare 115 page nautical guide titled 'Sailing directions for the island of Jamaica and St. Domingue, or Hispaniola, and the windward passages; to be used with the charts and plans that are published from surveys and observations, made by orderof Philip Affleck .... in part of the years 1789, 1790, 1791, and part of 1792 ... prepared with the assistance of Leard in 1792'. Two examples appear to survive: one in the collection of the American Philosophical Society and the other in the National Archives of Australia. This pilot may be part of that larger work. Provenance: French 'Long-Cours' Captain Auguste Booquet belonged to the elite master mariners of the sailing world, who undertook the long course or long haul route around Cape Horn in pursuance of their trade. The title was not introduced until 1825. It is possible that this pilot was acquired by a French man of war during the Napoleonic wars. (1)

[Brome, James]. An Historical Account of Mr. Rogers's Three Years Travels over England and Wales, 1st edition, printed and sold by J. Moxon, and B. Beardwell, 1694, folding engraved map at front, entitled 'A New Mapp of England & Wales' (soiled and with some loss and repairs to edges, relined), title with some soiling and restrengthened to lower half of fore-edge and towards upper inner margin, some marks and soiling to text, late 19th or early 20th century calf gilt, rubbed and some minor wear, small 8vo, together with [Clarke, Edward Daniel]. A Tour Through the South of England, Wales and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 1791, printed at the Minerva Press, 1793, 11 partly-folding tinted aquatint plates, some manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil and ink to verso of half-title and title page, signature of Anne Chatfield, 1793 to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked, plus Arbuthnot (John), The Miscellaneous Works of the late Dr. Arbuthnot, 2 volumes, Glasgow, James Carlile, 1751, modern antique-style quarter calf with black morocco spine labels, 8vo (4)

[Crouch, Nathaniel]. The General History of Earthquakes: Being an Account of the most Remarkable and Tremendous Earthquakes that have happened in divers Parts of the World, from the Creation to this Time; As they are recorded by Sacred and Common Authors; And particularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a Description of the famous burning Mount, Aetna, in that Island; And the Relation of the several dreadful Conflagrations and Fiery Irruptions thereof for many Ages. Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes, with the usual Signs and Prognosticks of their Approach; And the Consequences and Effects that have followed several of them. By R. B. [R. Burton, i.e. Nathaniel Crouch], 2nd edition, London: A. Bettesworth & J. Hodges, 1734, 177,[3]pp., without frontispiece, some leaves repaired at gutter margins, light dust-soiling, modern calf, 12mo, (collates as ESTC T71199 with 3 pages of adverts at rear, of 4?), together with [Bevis, John], The History and Philosophy of Earthquakes, from the Remotest to the Present Times: Collected from the best Writers on the Subject. With a Particular Account of the Phaenomena of the great one of November 1st 1755, in various parts of the Globe. By a member of the Royal-Academy of Berlin, 1st collected edition, London: J. Nourse, 1757, occasional spotting, contemporary quarter calf with vellum tipped boards, joints cracked, 8vo, plus Ordinaire (Claude Nicolas), Natural History of Volcanoes: including Submarine Volcanoes, and other Analogous Phenomena, translated from the original French Manuscript by R.C. Dallas, 1801, some abrasion & surface skinning to title (not affecting text), contemporary diced half calf, blind decorated spine, joints cracked, 8vo (3)

Smith (Robert). Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds, 1st edition, Cambridge: Bentham, 1749, twenty-five folding engraved diagrammatic plates, three folding tables, advertisement leaf at end, title with early ink ownership inscription at top, new endpapers with ink ownership inscription (dated 1977) on front pastedown, a later bookplate of Brook Gudzus loosely inserted, resewn on leather thongs, most plates re-guarded, bound in limp vellum using a 15th century polychrome music manuscript, 8vo (1)

Brion de la Tour (Louis). Atlas, et Tables ‚l‚mentaires de G‚ographie, ancienne et moderne; Adopt‚ par plusiuers Ecoles Royales Militaires, Nouvelle dition, published Paris, 1778, additional half title, title page with near contemporary manuscript owenership signature, twenty (complete as list) double page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, occasional spotting and staining, map of the world with split along central fold, one map near detached, hinges weak and cracked, old pencil annotations to front pastedown and front endpaper, contemporary marbled boards with manuscript label to upper board, lacking spine, rubbed, worn and frayed, 8vo (1)

Kollman (Augustus Frederick Christopher). An Essay on Practical Musical Composition, According to the Nature of that Science and the Principles of the Greatest Musical Authors, 1st edition, 1799, subscribers list, engraved leaves of music, final leaf with repaired tear to verso, occasional light soiling, contemporary half morocco, covers detached, rubbed with some wear to spine, 4to, signed at foot of title by the author, together with A New Theory of Musical Harmony, According to a Complete and Natural System of that Science, by Augustus Frederick Christopher Kollmann, 1st edition, 1806, engraved leaves of music, a few manuscript corrections (in accordance with the errata to preface leaf verso), contemporary ownership signature of G. Grierbach to title, some light offsetting and a few spots, title and dedication leaves detached, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached with oval piece of paper pasted at centre with manuscript title and owner signature, rubbed with some wear to spine, 4to (2)

Elzevir Press. C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum fragmentis, Leiden, 1634, engraved title, early ink ownership name to upper blank margin, lower blank margin repaired, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, front pastedown with engraved bookplate of Roger H. Laloy, contemporary vellum, with handwritten author and publisher on spine, 12mo, (Willems 412), together with Paterculus (M. Velleius), [Historiae Romanae], ...cum notis Gerardi Vossii G.F., Leiden, 1639, 1st edition with this date (with the dedication to G. Rataller Doublet dated 1639 'Pridie Kal. Majas'), engraved title, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary full calf gilt, joints rubbed, with small losses at front joint and top of spine, 12mo, (Willems 484), plus Grotius (Hugo), Epistolae ad Gallos, Secunda editio, priore auctior & emendatior, Leiden, 1650, title in red and black with engraved vignette, occasional light marks throughout, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary full calf gilt, slightly marked, spine (lightly rubbed) with contrasting label and an additional library label at foot (with ink manuscript number), 12mo, (Willems 682), plus seven other Elzevier Press publications: Respublica, sive Status Regni Scotiae et Hiberniae, diversorum autorum, Leiden, 1627, 1st edition with this date (Willems 287); Comenius (J.A.), Ianua Aurea Linguarum..., Amsterdam, 1642, 1st Elzevier edition (Willems 983); Barclay (J.), Argenis, Leiden, 1630, 3rd edition with this date (according to Willems the edition usually preferred: Willems 325); Erasmus (D.), Colloquia, Amsterdam, 1650, (Willems 1110, but this copy does not have either of the pagination errors listed); Curtius Rufus (Q.), Historiarum Libri, Amsterdam, 1650, (Willems 1103); Terentius (Pub.), Comoediae Sex, Amsterdam, 1661, (Willems 1275); Sulpicius (Severus), Opera Omnia..., 3rd edition, Amsterdam, 1665, (Willems 1363) (10)

Vertot (Rene Aubert, Abbe de). Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, Appellez Depuis les Chevaliers de Rhodes, et Aujourd'hui les Chevaliers de Malte, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Rollin, Quillau and Desaint, 1726, seventy-one engraved portrait plates, including frontispiece to first volume, five folding engraved maps and single-page Plan of Rhodes, engraved head and tail-pieces and initial letters, title-pages printed in red and black, that to first volume with early manuscript inscription partly removed with consequent slight loss to fore-margin (not affecting text), some toning, volumes 2 and 4 with some minor worming to lower blank margins, volumes 3 and 4 with first few leaves water-stained at head, endpapers renewed, bookplate of Sigrid Gutekunst on front pastedowns, red sprinkled edges, contemporary calf, mottled with consequent surface abrasion, gilt spines rubbed, and worn to extremities (with some repairs at ends), 4to First edition of Vertot's important historical work on the Order of Malta. (4)

Gregory I (Pope). Eximii ac Sanctissimi viri Diui Gregorii Papae In primo regum libro multiplex expositio..., Venice: In officina Diui Bernardini, 1538, woodcut device to title (& small ink mark), early underscoring and marginalia, early manuscript and stain to rear free blank, some damp staining throughout, contemporary vellum, 8vo, (no UK institutional location found), together with Aesop, Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, Elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantibus..., [Geneva]: Joan Tornaesium, 1605, woodcut device to title with ink stamp 'Museum Britannicum' & 'duplicate for sale 1769' ink stamps to verso (with few repairs to margins), numerous woodcut illustrations, some dust-soiling mostly to first & last few leaves, 19th century sheep, joints cracked and some wear, 16mo in 8s, with Pineau (Severin), De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis..., Leiden: Franciscum Hegerum, 1641, additional engraved title with early ink ownership to verso 'Sum Petrus Smidts Medicus', three engraved plates and two folding tables, woodcut illustrations, contemporary vellum, few marks and light wear, 12mo, with Seneca (Lucius Annaeus), Opera. Cum Emendationibus et Notis M. Antonii Mureti. Accedunt vita Senecae..., 2 volumes, [Geneva]: Joannem Le Preux, 1595, imprint to volume 2 dated 1594, occasional early underscoring & marginalia, contents of volume 2 shaken and few gathering loose, some light dust-soiling, contemporary limp vellum, ties deficient, dust-soiled, covers to volume 1 loose, 16mo in 8s, plus Aristotle, Aristotelis Stagiritae, Rhetoricorum, Artisque Poeticae libri, atque etiam Problematum Sectiones omnes, quibus Alexandri Aphrodisaei Omnia Problemata adiuncta fuere..., pars sexta, Venice: [ex officina Gasparis Bindoni], 1576, occasional early ink inscriptions to titles, contents shaken and few gatherings loose, some light dampstaining, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened and light wear, 16mo in 8s (6)

Joannes de Sancto Geminiano. Summa de Exemplis et rerum Similitudinibus Locupetissima. Verbi Dei concionatoribus, cunctisque litterarum studiosis maximo usui futura..., Antwerp: Petri Belleri, 1609, printer's woodcut device to title, some marginal dampstaining and mottling, contemporary vellum, light dust-soiling, ties deficient, 8vo, together with Becanus (Martinus), R.P. Martini Becani Societatis Jesu theologi, Opusculorum Theologicorum, volumes 1 & 2 only (of 5), Mainz: Joannis Albini, 1610, woodcut device to titles, early ownership inscription to titles, dampstaining and toning, near contemporary limp vellum with yapp fore-edges, light dust-soiling, ties deficient, 8vo, with Gavanti (Bartolommeo), Thesauri Sacrorum Rituum Epitome..., Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1651, printer's woodcut device to title, one folding engraved plate, contemporary vellum, spines deficient, light dust-soiling, 16mo in 8s, plus Muret (Marc-Antoine), Presbyteri et Cluis Romani Commentarii in Quinque Libros Annalium Cornelii Taciti..., 3 parts in one, Ingolstadt: Adami Sartorii, 1604, printer's woodcut device to title, occasional light dampstaining, contemporary limp vellum (covered in reclaimed manuscript), ties deficient, 8vo, plus one other vellum bound volume (6)

Dickens (Charles). Master Humphrey's Clock, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Chapman and Hall, 1840-41, frontispieces and illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, occasional light spotting and water stains, a few scribbles to volume I rear endpapers, contemporary green hlaf calf, edges rubbed, 8vo, together with The Comedies of William Congreve, English Classics, edited by W.E. Henley, 2 volumes, Methuen, 1895, portrait frontispiece to volume I, previous owner signature, top edge gilt, original boards, spines a little faded, a few light stains, 8vo, limited edition, 7/25 on Japanese vellum, plus Yarrow Revisited , and Other Poems, by William Wordsworth, 1st edition, 1835, half title, 4 page publisher's list at end, one or two manuscript corrections, scattered spotting, small hole to front endpapers, previous owner signature of Samuel Prince to title, original drab boards, joints splitting, some edge wear, contained in later cloth dropover box (small split along one fold), 8vo, with others including Oscar Wilde's Miscellanies, 1908 and John Gibson Lockhart's The Life of Sir Walter Scott, 10 volumes, Edinburgh, 1902-03, limited edition, 16/1040 (20)

Custos (Dominicus & Marcus Henning). Atrium Heroicum Caesarum, Regu, Aliarumqve Summatum ac Procerum, parts I & II only (of 4), Augustae Vindelicorum, Augsburg, 1600, engraved title, engraved coat-of-arms of Archduke Matthias of Austria, engraved vignette title to part 2, engraving to verso, 98 engraved portraits by Custos, woodcut devices to colophons, 18th century blank interleaves, one or two with marginal repairs to verso, occasional light water stains, mainly towards end, occasional light soiling and marginal wormholes, manuscript note in an early hand to front blank and title, 18th century half calf, spine rubbed with loss of first compartment at head, some edge wear, 4to Brunet II, 455. (1)

Ruskin (John). The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 5th edition, 1886, numerous engraved plates, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary full pigskin, gilt initials C.J.H.C. (for C.J. Harold Cooper of Bloomsbury Square, London) and date 1886 to upper cover, some soiling, large 4to, together with The Eagle's Nest. Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, given before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872, 3rd edition, 1894, manuscript ownership inscription to upper blank margin of title, top edge gilt, contemporary full pigskin, gilt title and embossed shield with initials C.J.H.C. to upper cover, light soiling, 8vo, with Anacreon, [Anakreontos Teiou mele]. Praefixo Commentario quo Poetae genus Traditur et Bibliotheca Anacreonteia Adumbratur. Additis var. Lect., Parma: in Aedibus Palatinis, [Bodoni], 1791, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated vellum, morocco title label to spine, slight wear at head of spine, 8vo, with [Coleridge, Sara, translated], The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests, & Prowess of the Chevalier Bayard..., by the Loyal Servant [i.e. Jacques de Mailles], 2 volumes, John Murray, 1825, bookplate of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire to upper pastedowns, contemporary green calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus one other odd volume (6)

Camden (William). Camden's Britannia, newly translated into English with large additions and Improvements, published Edmund Gibson of Queens College in Oxford..., 1695, engraved portrait frontispiece (with some creasing), printed title with book plate of Thomas Middleton to verso, eight engraved plates of coins and antiquities and twenty-four (only) engraved double page maps, occasional spotting and creasing, additional book plate and later manuscript signature to front pastedown, later endpapers, near contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired at corners, rubbed and worn, folio The remaining maps consist of:- Britannia Romana, Britannia Saxonica, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham, North Riding Yorkshire, East Riding Yorkshire and the Smaller British islands. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

[Serao, Francesco]. The Natural History of Mount Vesuvius, with the Explanation of the various Phenomena that usually attend the Eruptions of this celebrated Volcano. Translated from the Original Italian, composed by the Royal Academy of Science at Naples, by Order of the King of Two Sicilies, 1st English edition, London: E. Cave, 1743, two folding woodcut plates (one lined to verso & with closed tear to central fold), folding table, blind library stamp to title plates, few other leaves & free endpapers, ink library stamp to verso of title, occasional scattered spotting, ownership signature of John Wickins 1744 to front free endpaper, later quarter sheep, joints cracked, spine worn, 12mo in 6s, together with Winchilsea (Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of), [A True and Exact Relation of the Late Prodigious Earthquake & Eruption of Mount Aetna, or, Mount-Gibello; as it came in a Letter Written to His Majesty from Naples by the Right Honorable The Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late Ambassador at Constantinople, who in his Return from thence, Visiting Catania in the Island of Sicily, was an Ey-witness of that Dreadfull Spectacle. Together with a more particular Narrative of the same, as it is collected out of severall relations sent from Catania, Printed by T. Newcomb, 1669], folding engraved frontispiece present with few repairs to edges (dust-soiled and dampstained, old ink stamp to verso of Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Bequest), facsimile title and final leaf, first & last leaf repaired at gutter margin, spotting and dust-soiling, early 20th century wrappers with manuscript title and ink stamp to upper cover, slim 8vo, contained in modern portfolio, plus Hamilton (William), Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Royal Society, 2nd edition, 1773, five engraved plates and one folding map, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo, plus four 18th century disbound pamphlets (one defective), including A Sermon on the Late Earthquakes, More particularly that at Lisbon..., by Thomas Alcock, Oxford, 1756 (7)

Chodowiecki (Daniel Nikolaus, 1726-1801). An album of engravings, one hundred and five uncoloured engravings (on forty-one sheets) after Chodowieki, depicting historical scenes, topographical views, battles, religion, marine, musical instruments, circus skills, social scenes and mechanical and scientific diagrams, some marginal closed tears occasionally affecting image, some tears repaired on verso, some marginal dust and finger soiling, first leaf detached, contemporary sheep with the remains of a near contemporary manuscript label to upper board, upper board detached, rubbed, worn and frayed, oblong 8vo Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

British Touring Diary. A manuscript diary, possibly kept by Francis John Hext, (clerk, of Tredethy, rector of Helland, 1779-1842), March/April & July/August 1830, in the company of the author's niece Anne Kendall, the brief first pages concerning the start of the trip from Lostwithiel to Tavistock, Exeter, Wells and Bath, the main part of the journal beginning on 7th July in Tenby, including excursions and ongoing tour to Pembroke, Narberth, Milford Haven, Haverfordwest, St David's, Aberystwyth, Lancaster, the Lake District, Edinburgh, with descriptions of churches, castles, etc., some details of people met, geography, etc., a total of 167 pp. (including 3 pp. in pencil) written in a consistent but slightly difficult hand on unruled paper, contemporary sheep with gilt clasp, rubbed, oblong 8vo A ballpoint pen note to front free endpaper gives the name Samuel Hext [Major, 83rd Regiment, 1782-1822], but the handwriting is not the same. More likely, this would seem to be Samuel's older brother Francis John (or possibly younger brother William or George) travelling with his niece Anne, believed to be daughter of Francis's younger sister Anne, who married Charles Kendall. (1)

Hulle (Anselm van). Pacificatores Orbis Christiani, sive Icones Principum, Ducum, et Legatorum, qui Monasterii atque Osnabrug‘ Pacem Europ‘ Reconciliarunt..., Rotterdam: P. Vander Slaart, 1696, half-title with poem relating to engraved title on verso, additional engraved title, two letterpress titles (in Latin and Dutch), nine pages of text in both Latin and Dutch, 131 engraved plates after van Hulle, including one folding, each with a contemporary manuscript ink number, some soiling mainly to blank margins, several with closed tears to blank margins, some with repairs to verso, plate 1 with closed tear to lower blank margin extending 0.5ins into printed area, plate 22 laid down (repaired closed tear extending halfway up page), plate 46 with closed tear across top right corner of printed area (repaired on verso), plate 115 with 2ins closed tear to printed area (related to a paper fault), 4 plates with ink stamp to printed area 'Verein fr Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens Mnster', ink stamp also present on Latin title-page, engraved title (one stamp to blank margin and one on corner of image), and verso of half-title, front free flyleaf with early ink manuscript ownership annotation and marginal repairs, both free endpapers and rear pastedown with ink stamp 'A. Colin Cole Portcullis Pursuivant College of Arms' to upper corner of each, front free endpaper with short closed marginal tears, front pastedown with armorial bookplate 'Alexander Colin Cole CVO TD FSA Garter Principal King of Arms', hinges strengthened, contemporary calf, previously rebacked, spine deficient, boards worn with some losses to extremities, folio In 1648 Anselm van Hulle was sent by his patron the Prince of Orange to Mnster, there to make portait paintings of the delegates to the Peace of Mnster. The first group of portraits were published in 1648. This edition of 1696 was the first to contain his full collection of related portraits - 131 in all, plus an additional engraved title-page and additonal commentry in both Latin and Dutch. (1)

Luc (Jean Andre de). An Elementary Treatise on Geology: Determining Fundamental Points in that Science, and Containing an Examination of some Modern Geological Systems, and Particularly of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, translated from the French Manuscript by the Rev. Henry de la Fite, 1st English edition, 1809, bookplate of the Earl of Ilchester, contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Geological Travels, 3 volumes, 1st English edition, 1810-11, folding engraved plate, lacking engraved map, some spotting, British Geological Society of Cornwall ink stamps to front endpapers, contemporary half calf, spines a little rubbed, 8vo (4)

Jameson (Robert). An Outline of the Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands, and of the Island of Arran. With an Appendix; Containing Observations on Peat, Kelp and Coal, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1798, three engraved maps and plates, one folding, B4 with manuscript corrections in text, some offsetting and light soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo ESTC T147048. (1)

Phillips (John). Figures and Descriptions of the Palaeozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset; observed in the course of the ordnance geological survey of that district, 1st edition, 1841, monochrome lithographed plates, offsetting to pp. 120-121, contemporary previous owner signature, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying to joints, spine lightly sunned and chipped at head, 8vo, together with Kirwan (Richard), Geological Essays, 1st edition, 1799, light toning, occasional annotations, previous owner signature to title, modern half calf over marbled boards, 8vo, plus Luc (J.A. de), An Elementary Treatise on Geology... translated from the French Manuscript by the Re. Henry de la Fite, 1st English edition, 1809, untrimmed, bookplate, original boards, manuscript title to spine, some wear, 8vo, with four others related by William Knight, William Phillips, Granville Penn and William Thomas Brande (7)

Penn (Granville). A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies. Revised, and Enlarged with Relation to the Latest Publications on Geology, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1825, a few light spots, previous owner pencil signature of Huddleston to titles, a loose three page manuscript letter to the same, 1849, discussing the book, contemporary calf, volume 2 upper cover detached, a little rubbed with some loss to spines, 8vo, together with Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Figures and Descriptions Illustrative of British Organic Remains, Decades I-X, 2 volumes 1849-1852, titles for each part, lithographed plates, a few folding, occasional light soiling and small waterstains, presentation slips pasted at front to Richard Roper from Her Majesty's Government, his inkstamps, bookplates, contemporary red and brown half calf, some wear to volume I spine, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, plus John Phillips' Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames, 1st edition, Oxford, 1871 (marginal repair to title), 8vo (5)

Munting (Abraham). Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen, published Francois Halma & Pieter Van der Aa, Utrecht & Leiden, 1696, title printed in red & black with an additional letterpress title both with 19th century manuscript annotations and signature, additional decorative title, the decorative title with later hand colouring, 232 (of 243) engraved plates, 123 with sparse but crude later hand colouring, occasional marginal fraying and closed tears, one plate torn with loss, occasional marginalia, occasional spotting and water staining, index bound at rear, later endpapers, upper joint cracked, 19th century vellum with contrasting morocco labels to spine, manuscript monogram 'LN' to upper siding, vellum a little soiled, folio Nissen BBI 1428. Hunt 3961. Pritzel 6556. An expanded version of Munting's less copiously illustrated Waare of ening der planten (1672). The engraved plates 'are as curious as their subjects. They commonly present the plants far larger than life, oranges huge as pumpkins, cyclamens with heavy corms floating lightly in mid-air, genteel geraniums grown into giant trees. The effect is obtained through sketching in classical or idyllic or mountainous little landscapes below' (Hunt). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Roxburghe Club. The Mirroure of the Worlde, MS Bodley 283 (England c.1470-1480), The Physical Composition, Decoration and Illustration, with an introduction by Kathleen L. Scott, Oxford, Roxburghe Club, 1980, colour facsimile plates, top edge gilt, original quarter maroon morocco gilt, partly faded to upper portion of spine and upper cover, folio, together with an early Breton Gospel Book, a ninth-century manuscript from the collection of H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 1887-1965, by Francis Wormald, edited by Jonathan Alexander, Cambridge, Roxburghe Club, 1977, colour facsimile plates, top edge gilt, original quarter red morocco gilt, a few marks, folio, plus other Roxburghe Club publications, including The Roxburghe Club, Its History and Its Members 1812-1927 by Clive Bigham, 1928, Bibliotheca Lindesiana, by Nicolas Barker, 1977, The Sobieski Hours, by Eleanor P. Spencer, 1977, Aspects of French Eighteenth Century Typography, by John Dreyfus, 1982, A Tour in Scotland in 1863, 1984, Heraldo Memoriale or Memoirs of the College of Arms, by Stephen Martin Leake, edited by Anthony Richard Wagner, 1981, The Gardyners Passetaunce, edited by Franklin B. Williams, 1985 (2 copies), etc. Ex libris Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian. (12)

Paris (Matthew, 1200-1259). Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major. Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, Verbatm Recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri..., 2 parts in one, London: Richard Hodgkinson, 1640, title printed in red & black, separate title page to second part dated 1639, some dampstaining to lower outer corners, armorial bookplate of John Francis Basset to upper pastedown, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind & gilt panelled calf, gilt arabesque to centre of each board, rebacked and corners repaired, extremities lightly rubbed, folio, (STC 19210), together with Sermons, Certaine Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches, in the Time of the late Queene Elizabeth of famous memory. And now thought fit to bee reprinted by Authority from the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, London: Printed by John Bill, 1623, engraved portrait frontispiece remargined, title within decorative woodcut border, title strengthened to inner margin & following two leaves repaired to lower margins, contents leaf lined to verso, black letter text, manuscript notes to verso of final leaf, later endpapers cracked at hinges, contemporary calf, lacking clasps, rebacked, joints cracked at head, small folio, with Bentivoglio (Cardinal), The History of the Wars of Flanders..., Englished by the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Monmouth, 1678, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red & black, folding engraved map lined to verso, engraved portrait illustrations, some dust-soiling and few marks, modern half calf, small folio, plus to other 17th century folio volumes (5)

Hales (Stephen). Some Considerations on the Causes of Earthquakes. Which were read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750, 2nd edition, corrected, London: R. Manby & H.S. Cox, 1750, half-title present, bound with [Sherlock, Thomas], A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes, London: John Whiston, 1750, bound with A Supplement to the Bishop of London's Letter to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster, on Occasion of the late Earthquakes, 4th edition, revised & corrected, London: R. Griffiths, 1750, bound with Greene (John), A Discourse on the Favour of God to the Wicked, The Evil and Danger of abusing His Goodness, and not being reformed by His Judgments and Threatnings. On Occasion of the late Earthquakes, London: J. Buckland, [1752?, in pencil to title], 30pp., some page numbers cropped at head, occasional dampstaining, (no location found for this title), bound with Fleming (Robert), A Discourse on Earthquakes, as Supernatural and Premonitory Signs to a Nation, Especially as to what occurred in the Year 1692..., London: G. Terry, [1793], engraved portrait frontispiece with manuscript ownership inscriptions to verso, occasional spotting, contemporary marbled boards with modern calf reback, board corners & edges worn, 8vo, together with [Sherlock, Thomas], A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on Occasion of the Late Earthquakes, London: John Whiston, 1750, half-title present, some toning, disbound 4to, plus A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, on Occasion of His Lordship's late Letter to the Clergy and People of the Cities of London and Westminster, by a citizen of London, London: J. Robinson, 1750, light dust-soiling and few marks, edges untrimmed, modern boards, slim 8vo The pamphlets were in response to the earthquake that shook London on the 8th March 1750, which inspired considerable religious condemnation of London's citizens and their morals, and the republication of Flamsteed's A Letter concerning Earthquakes of 1693. (3)

Thompson (Thomas). Ocellum Promontorium, or Short Observations on the Ancient State of Holderness, 1st edition, Hull, 1821, frontispiece folding engraved map, one engraved plate and one full-page engraved illustration, cockled pages with spotting and discolouration (heavy towards rear of book), original paper wrappers (spine missing), with early ink manuscript title to front cover, stitching broken with final leaves nearly detached, 4to, together with Page (Edward), Holderness Drainage: the Report of Mr. Edward Page, upon the Better Drainage of the Lands within the Level of the Holderness Drainage, published Beverley, M. Turner, 1831, letterpress title, lacking folding map, three additional pages of contemporary manuscript notes at the end, signed by Thomas Hamer (surveyor of works of the Driffield Navigation) and on behalf of the author, followed by a handwritten statement of support signed by Thomas Hamer, page 15 with contemporary manuscript annotation to foot, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, contemporary half calf, 4to Ocellum Promontorium: A second volume was later published and the two are usually bound together. Extremely rare to find the first volume alone in its original paper wrappers. (2)

Lancashire. Hall (Elias), A Mineralogical and Geological Map of the Coalfield of Lancashire with parts of Yorkshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire, published Manchester, circa 1836, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche, geological cross section and table of explanation, ink manuscript ownership signature to upper margin, two splits to old linen folds, one crudely repaired with sellotape, green silk edging frayed with partial loss, green endpapers, 995 x 1275 mm, contained in contemporary diced cloth slipcase with ownership signature and morocco gilt label to upper board, slipcase worn and chipped (1)

Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - signed manuscript document dated 29th December, 1735.

CHURCHILL, Winston:Toby Jug: Original manuscript subscribers' book for the Churchill Toby Jug,Which in 1947 Lord Mackintosh of Halifax commissioned Leonard Jarvis to create in a limited edn. of 350. Original art work and gilt, glue and red lettering to front cover; with neatly drawn cells for the autographs of the recipient, numbered 1-260 and the rest up to 350 not numbered. Many of the boxes with the name of subscriber written in pencil by a clerical hand, and more than 50 of these with the actual autograph of the subscriber including: Mackintosh of Halifax (2), Electra W Bostwick (2), H A Pitkin, Nicholas Layzen, Ian D Hayward, Frank Partridge, W W Listor, Lt. Cdr. D Wallace Jones, D Bushell, Diana Beck, John K Garvey, G Lindo Ferguson(New Zealand), Una Cameron; etc. VG++

Roger Casement handwritten postcard to a colleague in the Colonial Service in the Niger Coast, 1893. Sent from Old Calabar River in the British Protectorate of Oil Rivers: a scarce overprinted postal stationery one penny card to H. Harrison, Warri, dated 6 January, wishing him "and Chambers" a Happy New Year, and mentioning the purchase of shoes in "Gaboon" on Harrison's account. A rare early manuscript from Casement, aged 28. In 1892 to 1895 Casement was a British customs official in the Niger Coast.

MASEFIELD (J), THE WILD SWAN, authors typed manuscript copy, dedicated on the title page 'For Sybil-Heriz Smith, the first Wild Swan, from John Masefield, June 16 1931', 9pp, typed on one side of the page only with annotations within the text, on the half title in pencil the author has written 'Masefield Boars Hill Oxford', the poem is a monologue in 26 + stanzas in epic style, original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A unique copy of a work believed never published. (1)John Edward Masefield (1878-1967) was Poet Laurite from 1930-1967 and known for his children's novels such as The Midnight Folk. This item came originally from the poet Edward Storey who had/has many famous literary connections. It is thought that it was dedicated to Masefield's long term secretary/ housekeeper however, it has also been suggested that the dedication is one of Masefield's actress'. This is possibly a reduced version of the full work.

DUKES (T), ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE FROM AN OLD MANUSCRIPT OF EDWARD LLOYD ESQ, pp xvii + 321 + lxxxiv (appendix) (unpaginated general index), engraved vignette to title, full tan calf - brown Morocco re-backed spine, Shrewsbury, Joh Eddowes, 1844, (ex library copy)

AN INTERESTING JAIN MANUSCRIPT LEAF PERTAINING TO COSMOLOGY ( SANGRAHANI SUTRA) 18TH CENTURY, A MEWAR DOUBLE SIDED MANUSCRIPT WITH ILLUSTRATION AND VARIOUS OTHERS.

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT PAGE SECTION OF LATIN PLAINSONG C. 1540 TOGTHER WITH A LARGE FOILIO ILLUMINATED DOUBLE VELLUM PAGE.

Opera Interest, a quantity of memorabilia relating to Rosa Ponselle, including signed photographs, a signed manuscript book of her biography by James Drake, unsigned postcard of Ponselle, a programme from the Baltimore concert 'a salute to Rosa Ponselle' etc.Note: The American soprano was born in 1897 and performed regularly at the New York Metropolitan Opera. She also appeared in productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden before retiring from the stage in 1937. Numerous recordings of her performances were produced and she is widely acknowledged as one of the great opera stars of the 20th century.

William Malkin (Edge Malkin & Co tile manufacturers): a collection of 5 manuscript notebooks containing glaze and enamel colour receipts, c. 1880