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Titanic interest, Naval Engineering.- Blake (Frederick John. RNR); an illustrated manuscript manual and diary relating to engines and boilers of naval ships, circa 1901, including HMS Grafton, HMS Bacchante, HMS Scout and HMS Scylla, together with details of torpedoes and warheads, containing hand coloured technical drawings, written in very neat hand, half morocco over patterned boards, oblong, 4to. Frederick John Blake R.B., R.N.R., was the Superintendent Engineer of The White Star Line at Southampton. He oversaw the engineering activities of the Company and the engineering departments of Company ships from Southampton. Blake selected the engineering crew members for The Titanic including his good friend, the Chief Engineer Joseph Bell, He was responsible for informing the families of engineering staff of their loss. Frederick John Blake's grave at Compton, near Winchester, is modelled in The Titanic Engineers Memorial in Southampton's East Park.

Fraser (James Baillie). Views in the Himala Mountains, Rodwell & Martin, 1820, hand-coloured aquatint title and 20 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell & Son after J.B. Fraser, versos with brushstroke marks from old adhesion, all plates reguarded at gutter margins, occasional small wormholes to margins, several plates with archival marginal repairs: plate VIII (Valley of Jumna) with longer closed tear repaired to right margin, plate XII (Assemblage of Hillmen) with small repaired tear to lower left corner, not affecting image, plate XV (Temple of Mangnee) with repaired long vertical crease to left side of the image, plate XVII (Junction of the Touse) with two small repaired patches to left hand blank margin, not affecting image, and plate XX (Jumnotree the Source of the River Jumna) with minor repairs to blank margins, plates interleaved with good quality thick wove paper, modern red half morocco gilt, upper cover with red morocco gilt label, sheet size 675 x 485 mm, elephant folio Provenance: Penelope Chetwode, Lady Betjeman (1910-1986), manuscript note at front presenting the book to her friend John Nankivell (b. 1941, architectural artist), in memory of their first Himalayan Temple trek, April-September 1971. Abbey Travel 498. "Among the finest aquatints of mountain scenery ever produced" (Godrej & Rohatgi). Rarely found complete. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scottish traveller and artist, who, following the end of the war with Nepal in 1815 travelled with his brother William to the Himalayas, spending two months exploring the region. They became the first Europeans to reach the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. Tutored by the artist George Chinnery, Fraser was encouraged by William Havell to publish his sketches upon his return to Calcutta. Fraser's account of his travels was separately published as 'Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges', with a map in the same year. "It is interesting, also, that Rodwell and Martin take the pains to say that the work is uniform with the Daniell (1795-1807) and the Salt (1809), neither of which folios was published by them." (Abbey). (1)

Lugard (Captain F.D.). The Rise of Our East African Empire, Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda, 2 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1893, half-titles present, portrait frontispiece to each, nine coloured maps, five folding (each spotted and with short closed handling tear), illustrations and maps to text, volume 1 with contemporary manuscript inscription on preliminary blank, endpapers and edges marbled, near contemporary dark blue calf prize bindings by Mudie, with his ink stamp on verso of front free endpaper, a trifle rubbed and spines slightly faded, gilt decorated spines with raised bands and matching labels, front covers lettered in gilt 'The Butcher Prize', 8vo (2)

Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel). An untitled collection of fifty-one engraved city panoramas, 1734 - 1743, fifty-one uncoloured engraved city and town prospects and panoramas, and one engaved view of Bristol High Cross, very occasional spotting, Salisbury bound in upside down, later ink manuscript list to front endpapers, book plate of Sir Robert Grosvenor of Eaton Hall, near contemporary gilt speckled calf, upper board detached, heavily worn and frayed, oblong folio The panoramas consist of :- Reading, St. Michael's Mount from the South West, St. Michael's Mount from the South East, Exeter from the South West, Exeter from the West, Plymouth from the North East, Plymouth from the West, Colchester, Gloucester, Winchester, Hereford, Deptford, Greewich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Sheerness, Chatham, Rochester, Maidstone, Canterbury, Dover, Norwich from the South East, Norwich from the North East, Lynn-Regis (Kings Lynn), Yarmouth, Northampton, Peterborough, Lincoln, Stamford, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Bridgenorth, Bristol from the North West, Bristol from the South East, Bath, Wells, Burton-upon-Trent, Lichfield, Ipswich, St Edmunds Bury, Guildford, Chichester, Warwick, Coventry, Birmingham, Salisbury, Worcester, Cambridge, Ely, Nottingham [and] Leicester. (1)

Deering (Charles). Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova or an Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham, 1st edition, Nottingham, 1751, folding engraved frontispiece, 24 copper-engraved plates and plans, some folding, extra-illustrated with two engravings, some light spotting and toning, bookplate, modern antique-style calf, red label to spine, 4to, with a 2 page manuscript note in the hand of the author describing the town's main produce of coals and malt, a manuscript list of the plates dated 1881 and later related notes (1)

Victoria County Histories. A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 6 volumes, 1900-1914, numerous plates, maps and plans, some folding, illustrations, New University Club Library blindstamps, original red cloth gilt, volumes IV & V spines defective, 4to, together with The Beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations. Hampshire, 2 volumes, 1805, double page engraved map with colour outline (trimmed at lower margin shaving imprint), extra-illustrated with over 100 engravings, some folding and trimmed, manuscript list front and rear, some offsetting, toning and a few spots, contemporary green half morocco, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus The Beauties of England and Wales: Or Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive, volume XV, Wiltshire, by John Britton, 2 volumes, 1814, folding engraved maps, extra-illustrated with some 100 engravings, some folding, occasional offsetting and a few spots, top edges gilt, contemporary morocco, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with others related including William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1859 and The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House, by G.N. Godwin, new and revised edition, Southampton, 1904 (24)

Hogg (Robert & Moore Thomas). The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture, volume 2 (only), 1863, title and dedication, twenty-four lithographic plates with contemporary hand colouring, each with tissue guard, slight spotting, contemporary half calf, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with Step (Edward),Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, volume 2 (only), 1897, additional half title, seventy-eight (only of seventy-nine) chromolithographic plates, top edge gilt, publisher's green cloth gilt, worn and rubbed, 8vo, with Phillips (Henry),Floral Emblems, 1825, additional decorative title with near contemporary ownership signature and twenty lithographic plates with contemporary hand colouring, ownership signatures to front pastedown and front endpaper, contemporary cloth, rubbed, worn and stained, 8vo, plus a collection of thirty dried flower specimens (on fourteen sheets) with manuscript descriptive text on facing page, bound in a small oblong 8vo volume title 'Flora Alpina' to upper board, and Lindley (John),Ladies Botany: or a familiar introduction to the study of a Natural System of Botany..., volume 2 (only), 2nd. edition, circa 1850, additional half title, twenty-five engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, contents shaken and loose, some water staining to endpapers and pastedowns, front endpaper torn with loss, contemporary cloth, stained and worn, 8vo Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (5)

Salisbury (W.). Hortus Siccus Gramineus, or, A Collection of Dried Specimens of British Grasses with their Latin and English names..., sold at the Botanic Garden and by John Harding, 1812, printed title, advertisement with contents list printed on verso, 119 dried grass specimens each with letterpress title (with one in manuscript), each mounted on white paper and then corner mounted onto blue paper, occasional slight staining, later endpapers, bookplates of Earl Fitzwilliam and Norman Douglas Simpson, hinges strengthened, contemporary half morocco gilt, spine cracked and worn with joints repaired, later ribbon ties, folio Only one copy has appeared in auction in the last twenty years. Copac has no institutional copies listed. (1)

[Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation., 3rd edition, 1661], engraved illustrations in the text, lacks title and leaf O2, bound with [Cotton, Charles], The Compleat Angler... Part II, 1st edition, [1676], licence leaf, lacks C4-5, bound with, [Venables, Robert], The Experienc'd Angler: or Angling Improv'd, 1st edition, 1662, letterpress title within typographical border (bound at front of volume, fore-margin cropped), engraved illustrations in the text, lacks additional engraved title and 3 leaves at end (final leaf H5), bound with [Nobbes, Robert], The Compleat Troller, or, the Art of Trolling, 1st edition, 1682, 2 woodcut illustrations, 2 corners torn away, four works bound in one, some side- and headlines shaved, some marks to text, 'Isaac Walton, Cotton and Nobbs Angling. First edition' printed card exhibition label, with circular manuscript number "A913" pasted inside upper cover beside a manuscript note and cutting, 19th-century half calf, rubbed, small 8vo (138 x 83mm) Sold not subject to return. Wing W663, C6381, V183, N1193. (1)

Cary (John). Cary's New Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland on which are laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals..., 1st edition, 1794, engraved title, general map of England & Wales and table of explanation, seventy-seven engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, long near contemporary manuscript note to verso of the last map, some ink and pencil marginalia, dust and finger soiled throughout, occasional closed tears, occasional spotting and staining, stiching broken, contents shaken and loose, contemporary half calf, lacking spine, boards detached, heavily worn and frayed, 4to Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

England & Wales. Hollar (Wenceslaus), The Kingdome of England & Principality of Wales, exactly describe with every Sheere & the small Townes in every one of them, in Six Mappes, Portable for every Mans Pocket, published John Garrett, circa 1688, folding title, six (complete) uncoloured engraved folding maps, old folds strengthened on verso, occasional closed tears and splits along old folds, some dust soiling, near contemporary manuscript title on verso of each map, later marbled endpapers, library label to front endpaper, early 19th century blind and gilt decorated calf with relief panels, blind embossed armorial depicting a Talbot's head crest (for the Travers family) to upper board, upper hinge cracked, contrasting morocco label to spine, worn at head and foot of spine with a little wear at extremities, binding size 220 x 95 mm R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, no.537. Often called 'The Quartermaster's Map', Sheets 1, 2, 4 & 5 are from 1676 and sheets 3 & 6 from the1688 state.The map aquired its moniker owing to its usefulness to 'all Commanders for Quarteringe of Souldiers, & all sorts of Persons, that would be informed, Where the Armies be; never so Commodiously drawne before this.' It was used widely during the English Civil War particularly by the Parliamentarians with whom the publisher Thomas Jenner's sympathies lay. Jenner was a print and map seller who set up in business at the White Bear in Cornhill about 1618. Until the impending Civil War Jenner was not known for cartographic material. Then in 1643 he published a revised edition of the 'Direction for the English Traviller' whose plates he had acquired from his printer Matthew Simmons. Jenner had timed his move perfectly. The demand for maps to help the large numbers of people moving about the country at the time of the Civil War was on the increase. The market for the little atlas clearly proved so great that he was attracted to do more. He engaged the services of the noted engraver Wenceslaus Hollar to etch a reduction of Christopher Saxton's great wall map of 1583, therby enabling his customers to have a more detailed and yet still portable map of England and Wales. Its sucess can be measured by how often it was re-printed; however its portability probably resulted in the destruction of most examples and complete copies such as this example are rare. (1)

India - Kheda. Plan of the Works of Kaira [Kheda], by Captain Cowper Royal Engineers, circa 1810, manuscript pen and ink and wash plan (5 inches: 300 yards), showing the Gurreh, Ahmedabad, Ballapur, Poorah and Water Gates and Well, together with a duplicate manuscript plan, both on laid paper, one sheet with watermark date of 1802, a little dust-soiled, each approximately 48 x 30 cm The Marathas ceded the district of Kheda (or Kaira) to the British in 1803, and it became part of the Bombay Presidency of British India. It was a large military station until 1830. It is on the bank of the river Vatrak, shown on these plans as 'Waartroog'. (2)

*Reynolds (Samuel William I). The Falconer, published J.R.Smith, 1797, uncoloured mezzotint after James Northcote, manuscript addition of 'Mr Samuel Northcote' below plate mark, title space with open roulette work, 505 x 355 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

Binding. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, with a preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, George Allen, 1894, numerous black and white illustrations, original green cloth front cover and spine with gilt Peacock design bound in at rear, salmon pink silk doublures, manuscript bookplate with decorative border, gilt gauffered edges, near contemporary dark blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, neatly rebacked with decorative gilt spine relaid, front board with design showing a peacock on a pedestal in inlays and onlays, the eye represented by a semi-precious stone, surrounded by gilt tooled designs and borders, gilt tooled borders and decorations to back board and turn-ins, 8vo (1)

Cassianus (Joannes). De incarnatione Domini libri VII iam recens aediti. Item Beati Cyrilli sermo, de eo quòd verbum dei factum sit homo, [Basel: Andreas Cratander, 1534], woodcut device to title, imprint from colophon, some dampstaining, few leaves loose and frayed to margins, hinges broken, contemporary limp vellum, using early manuscript, some dust-soiling, 8vo, together with Fenestella (Lucius), Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori suo restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem De magistratibus & sacerdotijs & praeterea de diuersis legib. Romanorum, Venice: Apud Fabiu[m], & August. Zoppinos, 1583, woodcut device to title (with round ink stamp), some dampstaining and spotting, contemporary vellum, marked, 12mo, plus de Salas (Pedro), Thesaurus Poetarum. Continens: Syllabarum quantitatem omnium, & totam versificandi rationem, epitheta, illustrium poetarum phrases, & epigrammata, & epitomem rhetorices..., Lyon: Philip Borde, Laurent Arnaud, & Cl. Rigaud, 1653, woodcut device to title, sewing weak and few leaves loose & frayed to margins, some dampstaining, contemporary limp vellum, marked and some wear, 12mo (3)

*Broadsides & Ephemera. London, Winchester, Southampton, Romsey, Lymington, Ringwood, Fordingbridge, and Poole, Common Stage Waggons..., Performed by James Brookman, Jun. Winchester, printed Bucknell, Winton [Winchester], circa 1800, printed broadside, manuscript annotation at lower margin, 28 x 22 cm, together with a printed broadside for the Battle of Trafalgar as shown at the Panorama, Leicester Square, [published J. Adlard], circa 1806, large circular wood-engraved illustration, some damp fraying to right margin and torn with some loss, 42 x 33 cm, plus By the King. A Proclamation for Restraint of Killing, Dressing, and Eating of Flesh in Lent, or on Fish-days, Appointed by the Law to be Observed, 1663/64, 4 printed sheets, printed in black letter, each approximately 27.5 x 34 cm and mounted on modern board, a little toning and small ink library stamp of Bibliotheca Lindesiana to each corner, manuscript numbering upper right corner, plus 9 engraved sheets of various sizes on the Princes of Venice, published by Gio. Batt. Mazza & Gasparo Uccelli, circa 1600, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian printed and manuscript ephemera (approx. 20)

Dardenne (Pierre Denis). Traite d'Osteologie contenant la maladie des os et les accidents qui leur arrivent tire de la chirurgie complette de M. Dionis, avec un traite des simples le plus en usage, manuscript, [France], 1725, title in red and black ink (soiled), approximately 280pp. numbered in two sequences, contemporary calf gilt, some edge wear, together with another French medical manuscript in another hand, drop-title to first page 'Receuil de Chirurgie, 1775', approximately 532 numbered pages plus Index, armorial bookplate of Allan Pollok Morris of Craig to front pastedown, contemporary polished sheep, heavily rubbed, calf reback and corner repairs, both 4to (2)

Ethiopian Prayer Book. An Ethiopic prayer book, 20th century, 139 vellum leaves, manuscript text in red and black, some soiling and a few holes in vellum (from manufacture), stitch holes to outer margins, seven watercolour illuminations front and rear of St. George and the Dragon, Madonna and Child, the Crucifixion, saints and angels, stitching breaking at end, contemporary blindstamped calf over boards, small split at head of spine, a little rubbed, 173 x 122 mm, small 4to (1)NB - We now believe this prayer book to be 20th century, it was described initially as early 19th century

Heraldry. Armorial Register of the Order of the Garter, [London]: A.P. Harrison and Son, circa 1845, lithograph title, patronage leaf, dedication leaf, forty-six plates (including portrait frontispiece & numerous armorials), all with original skilful hand-colouring and gilding, each leaf of plates interleaved with protective blanks, fifteen leaves of tables at rear, with four additional lines of manuscript entries to final leaf, front pastedown with contemporary inscription 'The Marquess of Westminster, Grosvenor House', all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated navy straight grain morocco, gilt dentelles to turn-ins, lightly rubbed to joints and extremities, 4to (1)

Lalande (Jerome). Exposition du calcul astronomique, 1st edition, Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1762, title within decorative typographic border, 3 folding engraved plates, occasional minor spotting or browning, recent quarter calf gilt over marbled boards, 12mo, together with Leadbetter (Charles), A Treatise of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, for Thirty-Five Years, Commencing Anno 1715, 2nd edition, 1731, woodcut illustrations to text, advert leaf bound at end of preliminaries, some spotting and a few closed tear repairs, small old owner's name stamp to title, contemporary sheep, rubbed and some edge wear, rebacked, 8vo, plus West (William), Mathematics, with Eleven Copper-Plates, Revised by John Rowe, 1st edition, 1762, 4pp. subscribers, 11 folding engraved plates at rear, manuscript footnote initialled by Rowe to page 77, light browning to preliminaries, recent boards, 8vo 1) Rare first edition of Lalande's second publication which contains tables of the movements of planets and an engraved map of the moon. Houzeau-Lancaster I, 11802. 2) Leadbetter gained fame for his accurate prediction of the 1715 total solar eclipse. 3) Little is known of William West of Exeter, this rare and posthumously published text being his only known work. (3)

*Manuscript Frisket sheet fragments. A pair of fragments from a Missale Romanum, from the memorial 'Pius episcopus...ad perpetuam res memoriam', probably France 15th century; subsequently reused as a printing mask 'Frisket' and overprinted in red ink in the early 16th century, comprising two vellum fragments cut from a larger leaf, recto with a total of 10 lines of manuscript text in black & red, one initial in blue and one larger initial in red, with six lines of music on 4-line red staves, verso with 17 lines of manuscript text in black, with three lines of music on 4-line red staves, the reverse also heavily overprinted with letterpress text in red ink when reused as a frisket mask, and subsequently cut into strips (two in this case) and reused as strengthening in a binding, maximum dimensions of each fragment 215 x 48mm (approximately 8.5 x 1.75 inches) and 212 x 43mm (approximately 8.25 x 1.75 inches), combined maximum dimensions 232 x 90mm (approximately 9.25 x 3.5 inches) This pair of fragments were discovered in a folio 3 volume Greek & Latin Bible, "Vetus Testamentum..." published Paris: Nicolaum Buon, 1628 (Darlow & Moule 4674), when undergoing restoration in the 1990s. See Margaret M. Smith, "Fragments used for 'Servile' Purposes: The St Bride Library Frisket for Early Red Printing," in Linda L. Brownrigg and Margaret M. Smith, eds., Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books (Los Altos Hills, Calif.: Red Gull Press, 2000), pp.177-188; and noted by Smith in the St. Bride Journal 'Ultrabold 3' (2007): "The Red-Printing Frisket at St. Bride Library." Elizabeth Savage (Upper). "Red Frisket Sheets, c.1490-1700: The Earliest Artefacts of Colour Printing in the West." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108, no. 4 (December 2014): pp.477-522. "This complex object, a manuscript leaf that was re-used first as a frisket sheet for printing selected text in red in one book and then in the pasteboard in the binding of another, is the earliest artifact of any color printing process in the West." (2)

Newton (Isaac). Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John, in Two Parts, 1st edition, 1733, closed tear to inner margin of title-page and dedication leaves without loss, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, together with a French manuscript, circa 1780, containing exercises and notes on geography, the use of globes, astronomy, a few pen and ink diagrams, a total of 90 (shorter pages bound in at front) and 298 numbered pages including some blank, written in a neat and legible hand, contemporary calf, spine gilt-titled 'Usage des Globes', worn, both 4to Newton: Babson 224. (2)

*Scottish Manuscript album. Scrap book compiled by E.M.G. Colquhoun, circa 1838, 243 pages of carefully handwritten text in brown ink, illustrated with numerous pen and brown ink drawings of antiquities, church architecture, historical objects, figures, etc., and many musical transcriptions of ballads, waltzes and other songs, numerous poems and prose pieces, some selected from journals of the day, many poems signed 'Helen' at end, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, folio A carefully compiled album of historical and some contemporary items of interest, including much relating to Scotland. The preface is dated Edinburgh 17 September 1838, and it would appear that E.M.G. Colquhoun was a Scottish advocate. (1)

Staffordshire - Madeley Colliery. Three manuscript books by James Kirkwood, Mining Surveyor, containing detailed plans of Madeley Colliery, 1866-1878, together with another, circa 1890, containing plans of the Bullhurst seam that was damaged in 1883, resulting in Kirkwood's death, manuscript text and plans, a total of approximately 400 pp. including several blanks, some finger soiling throughout, contemporary roan/limp cloth, rubbed and some wear, 8vo/oblong 8vo A few years after the three manuscript books by James Kirkwood were written an explosion occurred on the evening of 21 October 1882 at the Fair Lady Pit. Due to gas a gob fire had broken out in the Bullhurst seam. Among the six victims of the accident was James Kirkwood, then aged 23 and married with one child. (4)

Tabernaemontanus (Jacobus Theodorus). Eicones plantarum, seu stirpium, arborum nempe, fructicum, herbarum, fructum, lignorum, radicum, omnis generis quae partim Germania sponte producit, 3 parts in one, Frankfurt: Nicolaus Basseus, 1590, woodcuts throughout, title-page chipped with loss to lower outer corner, old manuscript names of Tobias Faber and Thom. Reins[?] beneath, relaid and with armorial bookplate of Lorenz Heister (1683-1758, anatomist, surgeon and botanist) to verso, following two dedication leaves repaired at lower margin, several leaves with old ink pen or pencil marginalia, some spotting and browning with light brown stain to lower blank margin throughout, lacks leaves T2 and 2S6, 18th-century calf, rebacked and corners restored, oblong folio Jacobus Theodorus, called Tabernaemontanus (1525-1590), was a physician and an early botanist and herbalist, the 'father of German botany' whose illustrated 'Neuwe Kreuterbuch' (1588) or 'Eicones Plantarum' (1590) was the result of a lifetime's plant study and medical practice. It provided unacknowledged material for John Gerarde's better-known 'Herball' (1597) and was reprinted in Germany throughout the 17th century. Tabernaemontanus began as a student of the pioneer of Renaissance botany, Hieronymus Bock. Nissen BBI 1932; Pritzel 9094. (1)

Valerius Maximus (Gaius). Dictorum et factorum meorabilum tam Romanorum, quam extremorum Collectanea... , Paris: Jean Petit for [Ambroise Girault], 1535, title-page within woodcut architectural border and with printer's woodcut device, woodcut floral criblé initials throughout, amateur paper repair to lower outer margin of title with paper loss touching printed border only, some wormholes to lower outer corners throughout with running wormhole slightly affecting some text and side-notes of early leaves, scattered light browning and minor damp fraying to extremities of a few early leaves, old manuscript provenance note to front free endpaper, 'Bought at Sotheby's - from the library of Archbishop Tenison, 1862', armorial bookplate of John Ynyr Burges to front pastedown, contemporary(?) Venetian gilt-panelled calf with central interlaced arabesque design with scalloped corner-pieces, professional modern reback and corner restoration, folio Thomas Tenison, Archbishop 1694-1715, was a notable benefactor of libraries, and the founder of Archbishop Tenison's Library at St Martin-in-the-Fields. His Library was sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson, 3-8 June 1861. (1)

Bailey (John & Culley, George). General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cumberland, with Observations on the Means of Improvement, 1st edition, 1794, bound with General View of the Agriculture of the County of Derby..., by Thomas Brown, 1st edition, 1794, folding map of rivers, without county map, bound with General View of the County of Devon..., by Robert Fraser, 1st edition, 1794, folding engraved map, bound with General View of the Agriculture in the County of Dorset..., by John Claridge, 1st edition, 1793, lacks half-title, bound with 6 further items from the same series, all 1st editions, 1794, including Durham (hand-coloured map, 2 folding tables (one split) and 2 folding plates; lacks half-title, small hole to blank area of main title), Essex (lacks half-title), Gloucester, Hants (including Isle of Wight), Hereford and Huntingdon (1793), a little scattered spotting and marginal dust-soiling, contemporary paper-backed stiff blue grey wrappers, soiled and worn, covers detached and manuscript spine largely perished, 4to (1)

Robertson (George). General View of the Agriculture of the County of Mid-Lothian: With Observations on the Means of its Improvement; Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, from the Communications of George Robertson Farmer, at Granton, near Edinburgh, with Additional Remarks of several respectable Gentlemen and Farmers in the County, Edinburgh, 1795, folding hand-coloured engraved map, 11 engraved plates, scattered light spotting, top corner of front endpaper torn away, original paper-backed boards, manuscript title to spine, a few tears, 8vo, together with General View of the Agriculture, State of Property, and Improvements, in the County of Dumfries, by Dr Singer, Edinburgh, 1812, folding hand-coloured map, eight engraved plates and plans, a few folding, including four hand-coloured plates of bulls and cows, occasional light waterstain and a few spots, original paper-backed boards, a few tears and stains, 8vo, plus General View of the Agriculture of the County of Inverness, by James Robertson, 1813, two folding engraved maps of the Soil of Invernessshire and Intended Caledonian Canal (detached), a few spots, original boards, joints splitting, losses at spine ends, 8vo, with 12 other Scottish General View of Agricultures, including Perth, 1799, Roxburgh and Selkirk, 1813, Nairn and Moray, 1813, Argyle, 1813, Clydesdale, 1813, East Lothian, 1813, Kincardineshire, or the Mearns, 1813 and Peebles, 1814 (15)

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, from the Old French retold by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], thirty tipped-in colour plates, some creasing, tissue guards, D2 with short closed tear in upper blank margin, hinges split, contemporary manuscript inscription on front free endpaper, shaken and stitching strained, original gilt decorated terracotta cloth, rubbed and marked, foot of spine slightly frayed, 4to, together with Goble (Warwick, illustrator), Stories from the Pentamerone, by Giambattista Basile, selected and edited by E.F. Strange, Macmillan, 1911, thirty-two colour plates, captioned tissue guards, occasional spotting, endpapers toned, original gilt decorated red cloth, soiled, spine faded and frayed at ends, 4to, plus Crane (Walter), A Book of Old Songs, newly arranged & with accompaniments by Theo: Marzials, George Routledge, 1883, musical notation with colour illustrations and decorations throughout, some light toning and marks, hinges split, front free endpaper with ownership signature of Morrell, Garsington, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges showing, oblong 4to, plus twenty-one other illustrated children's books, a number of them in French, including Cecil Aldin, Willebeek Le Mair, M.B. de Monvel, and A.A. Milne (24)

Opium. The Opium Trade; Including a Sketch of its History, Extent, Effects, etc., as carried on in India and China, by Nathan Allen, 2nd edition, 1853, faint ink stamps to title, original printed wrappers, somewhat browned and slightly chipped, 2 autograph letters signed from the author loosely inserted, together with Sultzberger (Hartmann Henry, editor), All About Opium, 1st edition, 1884, original cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, spine faded, plus Kane (H.H.), Opium-Smoking in America and China..., New York, 1882, ink library stamp to title, a little dust-soiling and lower corner of title slightly creased, front free endpaper detached, inner hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, all 8vo, plus other opium interest including a French 8-page folio manuscript, possibly by Armand Seguin, 1804, with notes on the opium trade from various sources, plus 11 League of Nations reports, 1929/32, The Royal Commission on Opium, 1893-1895, 6 volume fascimile reprint, 2003, etc. (28)

Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, Frederick Warne, 1903, twenty-seven colour illustrations, contemporary manuscript inscription on reverse of frontispiece, final text leaf with short closed tears at gutter, pictorial endpapers, upper hinge split, original maroon boards with pictorial panel inset to upper cover, rubbed and faded in places, spine frayed at ends, 16mo, together with five other Beatrix Potter 1st editions, worn, four with spine lacking or detached (6)

Commander Eric Tuffnell - "The SS Great Britain ashore at Dundrum Bay in 1846" and "Great Britain at sea 1843", signed, inscribed and dated 1975, watercolours, 25.5 x 36.5cms; 10 x 14 1/4in; 37 x 49cms; 14 1/2 x 19 1/4in; sold together with two manuscript letters from the Artist to the Vendor. (2)

A 33FT:1IN. SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE FAMOUS FOUR-MASTED BARQUE ARCHIBALD RUSSELL, BUILT TO SPECIAL ORDER BY BASSETT-LOWKE, 1934, the carved hull with scored decks, deck rails, capstan, spare anchor, lighthouses, companionways, covered hatches, deck houses, covered lifeboats, open bridge with binnacle and aft helm, masts and yards with standing and running rigging and furled sails, depicted at anchor in a calm moulded sea within oak-framed glazed case with manuscript maker's label underneath with details etc, signed Model made by G. Sell of Bassett-Lowke Lrd to special order, 1934. overall measurements -- 5½ x 15 x 5½in. (14 x 38 x 14cm.); together with seven other waterline Bassett-Lowke-style models in a glazed wooden case and two contemporary Bassett-Lowke catalogues, (a lot), Built by Scott's of Greenock in 1905, the Archibald Russell was one of the last large steel sailing barques constructed. After a successful career carrying mixed cargoes, she was sold in 1923 becoming a grain carrier. As War approached, the Hon. Company of Master Mariners almost bought her to become their floating Livery Hall, a rôle that was ultimately fulfilled post-War by H.M.S. Wellington. The Archibald Russell was broken up in 1949.

A UNIQUE ALBUM OF CONTEMPORARY WATERCOLOURS OF THE FRIGATE H.M.S. JASON BY THE SHIP'S CARPENTER, AND BOUND IN MONKEY SKIN, CIRCA 1805, compiled by Thomas Harris and comprising ships drawings, manuscript on paper, 7 watercolour drawings of ships' details, the second one with a Union Jack and an early 19th century pen and ink drawing of a figure, and 5pp describing ordnance Dementions of 1st Rate 110 Guns 2764 Tons, etc. Bound exotically in monkey skin, a little worn, contained in a recessed space in a modern green morocco chemise, c.1805. With an inscription on the inside cover of the book: This book was written and drawn by Thomas Harris cabinet maker, of Shrewsbury. He was formally ship carpenter to the Jason frigate and made a model of it which I bought. He gave me this book at that time about June 1836. The binding is made of the skin of a monkey be brought from Jamaica -- 4½ x 3¾in. (11.5 x 9.5cm.), The Jason was a 32-gun fifth rate Thames Class frigate, launched Woolwich 1804, she became flagship to Admiral Alexandre Cochrane in June 1805 and, serving in the Leeward Islands, enjoyed a lively career. Capturing several French and Spanish vessels (including the Naiade after a nine hour chase), she was handed over to Capt. Thomas John Cochrane (the Admiral's son) and continued much as before. Frigate actions, reducing batteries, and surviving an attempted mutiny whilst in New York, her last acts were to serve as escorts to the restored French King, Louis XVIII, and the Prussian and Russian Emperors during the peace negotiations that heralded the end of the Wars in 1815. Worn out, she was broken up shortly afterwards.

A manuscript letter featuring the full signature of Bill Shankly circa 1937,one page letter, in ink, written in response to a fan while at Preston North End, signed "Yours very sincerely, William Shankly"

Two match reports compiled by the Leeds United assistant-manager Les Cocker,the first in manuscript for Leeds 1-0 victory at Manchester City on Boxing Day 1975, Cocker critiques a selection of opposition and his own team's players, Watson "not very impressive, again!", Tueart "the outstanding attacking player in this match", Cherry "did a great job on Royle", Clarke "very disappointing and easily conceded possession" etc.; the other typescript after he had been assigned to watch the Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur game 4th September 1976, where he critiques a selection of players, Greenhoff "Brian will never be good in the air ... his asset to United was his general reading of play and situations", Pearson "Like Coppell - magnificent in the first half - faded alarmingly in the second half", Hoddle "Showed a lot of craft and ability in getting attacks going ... half-hearted confronting opposition players, without menace of intent" etc.

Collection of Newbury races member's badges,a run of a single badge for 1909 to 1914, then 1919, then a run of two badges for 1921 to 1926, a single for 1927, the two for 1929, 1930 & 1931, mounted on card with manuscript legend below, revealing that there would have been a second badge for 1927 originally (26)

Collection of 12 racecourse member's badges,Manchester & Counties 1913-14, 1920 & 1925; Read's Stand Doncaster 1931, Newmarket 1923, High Gosforth Park (Newcastle) 1913, Lothians Racing Club 1924 & 1929, Hurst Park 1922, Lanark Race Club 1924 & Royal Calcutta Turf Club 1922-23 & 1927-28, mounted on card with manuscript legend below

Andrew Archer Gamley R.S.W. (1869-1949)No.1 FAIRWAY GULLANEsigned golfing watercolour, circa 1920s, manuscript title to label on the backboard, the image 25.5 by 38cm., mounted, framed & glazed, overall 50 by 64cm.Gamley was a Scottish artist for studied at RSA Schools (First Carnegie travelling Scholarship and Keith Prize). He became a member of Royals Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, exhibited at The Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, A.R., Walker Art Gallery, Glasgow Institute of Fine Art and elsewhere.

Peter O'Sullevan BBC broadcasting commentary card for Pentire's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes in 1996,with hand-drawn racing colours on white stickers applied next to printed entries for each runner cut & pasted from Timeform, extensive manuscript notes and facts, plus pasted printed information regarding the trophies and prize moneyThe race was won by Pentire, owned by Mollers Racing, trained by Geoff Wragg and ridden by Michael Hills.The proceeds of this lot are being donated to the Peter O'Sullevan Charitable Trust

Signed manuscript letter from Muhammad Ali 18th August 1968,two-pages of lined paper in blue ink, addressed to a Danish sports reporter and being a warm hearted thank you letter to the journalist expressing how pleased he was with the newspaper article that was written about him, signed YOUR PERSONAL FRIEND ALWAYS, MUHAMMAD ALI, WORLD HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION, eleven years later Ali and the journalist met face-to-face and Ali has a hand written an addition along the lower and lower right margins, AT LAST MAY 25-19-79, IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU, MUHAMMAD ALI; the letter comes with the original envelope front from his Chicago Office addressed in Ali's hand; and a card folder signed MUHAMMAD ALI, THREE TIMES CHAMP, all with old browned sellotape marks

Signed manuscript letter from the tennis champion Bill Tilden to the celebrated American contralto Marian Anderson,complete with original envelope addressed to her Hollywood home, postmarked Omaha 2nd June 1949, 1 sheet of lined writing paper written both sides in pencil

Early item of Duncan Edwards memorabilia: an English Schools' F.A. 'Schools Internationals' certificate for The Victory Shield Competition in May 1951, completed in beautiful manuscript calligraphy, named to D. EDWARDS and certifying that he was selected LEFT HALF FOR ENGLAND v N IRELAND, BELFAST, 11th MAY 1951, signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the English Schools F.A., the crests of the four home nations schools' F.A.'s decorate each corner, 20 by 33cm. Duncan Edwards is the only England schoolboy international to have played over the course of three years, 1950, 1951 & 1952 at U-15 level. His debut for England Boys was v. N. Ireland at Oldham 6 May 1950, at the age of 13. He made four further appearances in 1951, four appearances in 1952, and his ninth and final match was on 1st September 1952, precisely a calendar month before his 16th birthday.

19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER ARABIC MANUSCRIPT BOOKpaper pages with handwritten red and black Arabic script text, missing front cover and first page but with annotated back cover, 11.5cm high

Muller H. : Badische Fursten Bildnisse ( Portraits of Baden Royalty ), 1888. Vol. 1. Large folio Hb, brown textured cloth. Plates featuring reproductions of engravings. The volume also features a tipped in manuscript note on the fep, "These volumes were presented to me by her Royal Highness Luise Maria Elisabeth, Grand Duchess of Baden in September 1894. Mary Burrell, nee Banks" together with an embossed wax seal. Together with : Branston F. : Holy Gospels Illustrated, 1865. Folio Hb. with an elaborately decorative red cloth binding, gilt, aeg. Wood engraved illustrations. CONDITION REPORT: Fursten Bildnisse generally vg+. Holy gospels with darkening to the binding and wear to the ext. Text block generally very clean and tight with one gathering loosening.

'Breeches' Bible, 1608. Small qto. Old Testament, Apocrypha, New Testament, Two right profitable and fruitful Concordances. Printed by Christopher Barker. Engraved Old & New Testament Title pages ( dated 1608 ) and historiated initial letters together with selected head and tail pieces. This copy also features some early manuscript annotations at the end of some books together with a contemporary draft Codicil to be attached to a Will of Jane Lewis which reads as follows : " Be it known unto all men by these presents that I Jane Lewis of the Parish of Cawston in the County of Glamorganshire, Spinster, do acknowledge and confess myself to owe and stand duly indebted unto George Williams of the town of Cardiff.... in the full and sole sum of three pounds, ten shillings, six pence to ...Well and truly to be made...and my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns firmly by these presents in witness ... of I put my hand and seal"The Bible is actually signed by its owner John Williams presumably a relative of George Williams ( mentioned in the Codicil ) and appears to be dated 5th.July 1614. The draft Codicil has clearly been drawn up by a professional Scribe or Copyist as the hand writing is the same throughout, even for the witnesses. CONDITION REPORT: This copy lacks the original boards and only the original calf spine remains. The text block has been somewhat protected by the provision of two formica boards which are not attached. The initial prelims before the OT title page are missing. The OT title is very darkened and has minor chips all round the edges with slight loss with some creases and closed tears although virtually the entirety of the engraved image is present. The text block shows evidence of being cropped but no substantial loss - mostly slight sporadic loss of headings at the top of pages. There is mild sporadic foxing throughout. There are other manuscript annotations at the end of some books. Please see additional images.

Adams F. : History of Toddington, 1894. 12mo Hb. Cloth - very scarce. Together with a small 12mo Manuscript volume : ' A Few remarks upon the so called History of Toddington by Rev. F. Adams' dated 1894 - clearly a unique document. CONDITION REPORT: Both items in vg condition.

Economical and Financial Delegation of the Kingdom of the Serbians, Croatians and Slovenes to the Peace Conference. To the Commission for Reparation of Damages at the Peace Conference. ( Text of speeches made at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 together with clauses to be inserted into the Treaty ). This small 8vo Hb Booklet also has a manuscript addition at the top of the cover which reads " The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill M.P. secretaire el etat pour guerre" ( possibly/probably not his own handwriting ). CONDITION REPORT: This Lot is part of a substantial collection of books and ephemera consigned to auction by the Imperial War Museum which represent duplicates of items already in their collection. The material covers the 1st. & 2nd. World Wars, other areas of 20th.C. Military History and more general, related subjects. It will therefore bear evidence of this fact to varying degrees in the form of library stamps, booking sheets etc. Evidence of this provenance varies considerably. A number of books have a standard library binding. A substantial number retain the original binding. In the context of its status as an ex-library collection the condition of individual Lots varies - some might be considered 'poor' (though scarce), most are 'good' to 'very good'. Interested buyers/bidders are advised to make their own physical checks on Lots prior to submitting or making bids well before the day of the sale.

Engraved Book Plates Archive and Reference Volumes. Lots 718 - . A substantial collection of mounted engraved Book Plates housed in a buckram lined drop box together with a manuscript annotated index volume. CONDITION REPORT: Carefully mounted on card with manuscript annotations referring to the family name. Some sporadic foxing o/w vg. Some damage to the drop box but repairable.

Viner G. : A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bookplates Designed and Etched by George W. Eve, R.E. American Bookplate Society, 1916. Limited edition of 250 copies. Portrait frontis & plate. In addition, some original engraved plates by Mary Lawson mounted on the paste down and fep - 1st. & 2nd. State with manuscript annotations relating to their production. Very scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Faux vellum binding discoloured with minor damage and loss to the spine o/w basically sound.

Walker A. : A Complete System of Family Book-Keeping with the Family Book itself ready Ruled and Titled, 1758. Folio Hb., full calf, gilt. An original, printed family account book with an introductory printed text explaining its purpose and use together with pages printed with headings ( such as 'Bread', 'Groceries', 'Butchers Meat' etc ) and various columns featuring date, article, cost etc at the head. A number of these pages have contemporary manuscript entries, some in an accomplished hand others with less skill. A very scarce item. CONDITION REPORT: Very well preserved.

Manuscript legal document 1587, commencing with the word 'Omnibus Fidelibus' ( All Believers ) together with original seals tagged and attached. Mounted, framed and glazed. CONDITION REPORT: Script a little faded but still clearly legible.

Manuscript Financial Inventory, 1811. Written in French and having an official seal marked with the abbreviations 'Emp. Fran.'. Mounted, framed & glazed. CONDITION REPORT: Vg

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), the celebrated bibliophile, portrait, seated at table with two books, mounted on card, ink inscription recto ‘Sir Thomas Phillipps Bart’, image size 150mm x 190mm, F-G, with document relating to his father (died 1818), vellum manuscript, pp 8, the ‘Probate of the Will of Thomas Phillipps Esq deceased Dated 14th February 1819, Extracted by Messrs Nicholl & Bishop’, F, and sixteenth-plate daguerreotype double portrait gold-metal brooch, P, and cabinet/carte-de-visite album, F

William Friese-Greene (1855-1921), The Magic Box’ - the film biography of William Friese-Greene, starring Robert Donat, made as the British film industry’s star-studded principal contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain - Final Script by Eric Ambler, December 1950, with manuscript alteration of title from The Shining Light to The Magic Box, with annotation to title page by Peter Friese-Greene, and World Premiere Programme, 18th September 1951, G (2)

MANUSCRIPT. Specimens of Mapping and Calligraphy by William Weaver. Oblong 4to, early 19th century (paper is watermarked 1816). With 7 maps, some hand-coloured, including a map of the Manor of North Hill (Somerset) and a map of Chalk Farm and Hawthorn Upper Farm (near Chirk). With 5 grey wash drawings of castles etc and 13 pages of calligraphy. Worn half calf.

Warwickshire Yeomanry Officer’s Shabraque. Horse Saddle Cloth A rare and good example of dark blue cloth with rounded corners, edged with wide silver oakleaf lace of Regimental pattern. The front corners plain, rear corners bearing Queen Victoria Crown over initials WYC in silver embroidery. Moleskin lining, inscribed in manuscript “Vet Sgn Hill WYC”, with American cloth lining to corners and black worsted binding to edges. Minor moth, otherwise GC. A shabraque of this pattern is shown in a photograph of a Warwickshire Yeo. officer in 1899 which appears in Smith & Knight’s “Uniforms of the late Victorian Yeomanry Cavalry 1880-1899”

MANUSCRIPT MUSIC. A leather-bound album of manuscript music inscribed 'Rob't Frost His Book, June 22, 1814', leaves approx 28 x 22cm.

EPHEMERA. A collection of ephemera, including a group of letters relating to Lancashire, one by Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker of manuscript sermons, a further group of letters, photographs of authors, some signed, a crest and monogram album and a Lawson Wood calendar for 1938.

[MARIANA OF AUSTRIA]: (1634-1696) Queen Consort of Spain 1649-65, second wife of King Philip IV. Manuscript Document, bearing a stamped signature (´Yo La Reyna´), one page, folio, Madrid, 20th September 1666, in Spanish. The document is addressed to Don Rodrigo de Borja Lanzol, Captain General in Mallorca. The Queen refers to the decisions taken at the Supreme Council, and reports that it has been approved that in two months time all salaries and other amounts dues and approved will have to be paid to the Ministers and members of the Supreme Council. With a paper seal affixed, and several countersignatures at the base of the document. Very few small holes, none affecting the signature. G £100-120