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Northern Nigeria1898 (Nov.) officer's envelope (face panel rather stained) to England, marked "No stamps at Kyoma, Borgu. West Africa BRMG Comp" with "2d/466" tax h.s. with manuscript "½" added at right, the reverse with a largely fine strike of the Burutu boxed d.s. (Sacher Type 10) for 10 November alongside Liverpool Br. Packet (5.12) and Alton (7.12) c.d.s. Photo Note: "Kyoma" is probably KaimaSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) Nyasaland1899 (13 Nov.) bi-lingually addressed envelope from a Sikh soldier (possibly of the King's Rifles) at Zomba to Cape Nowshera, Punjab, bearing 1d. tied by manuscript "Stamped", pen strokes and Zomba c.d.s., the reverse with Chinde (21.9), Sea Post Office (1.1) and arrival (9.1) c.d.s. A very rare cover from one of a handful of Indian soldier's serving with the British Forces in Northern Rhodesia to rid the area of slavers. Photo provenance:Soli Contractor, December 1999Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

MACMILLAN, Harold. A group of three t.l.s. from Macmillan, all dated 1952, (190 x 122mm.), one with manuscript salutation addressed to Flight Lieutenant Potts.

ADAMS, John (artist). A watercolour and ink `Plan of Estates belonging to the Revd John Austen in Tenterden & High Halden, Kent`, dated 1825 (497 x 635mm.), together with another similar manuscript plan.

LEGAL DOCUMENTS & PARTICULARS. A large quantity of printed and manuscript ephemera, mostly 19th and 20th Century, including deeds, indentures, house and estate particulars, cheques, share certificates, receipt books and plans, the majority relating to Oxfordshire, but also Berkshire, London, Essex and elsewhere, all contained within twelve painted tin boxes with unrelated estate names and one other box.

Henry VII – Norfolk – Medieval document 1502 manuscript document on a slip of vellum a total of seven lines in Latin dated ‘Thursday after the feast of Ascension^1502’ being a surrender of land between Hedingham and Ersham between Robert Manchopp (or Manshippe) to Robert Colman. The area lies in Norfolk.

Canals – Monmouthshire Canal a fine archive of documents chronicling the development and running of the Monmouthshire Canal^ including printed annual returns late 18th/early 19th c^ including a copy of the printed Act of Parliament of 1797 for extending the canal^ a group of approx 40 printed annual returns for the canal giving extensive information on the accounts of the company^ various printed notices for shareholders^ one of which is in the name of Josiah Wedgwood as Chairman^ manuscript documents^ a copy of the printed Act of Parliament of 1802 for the creation of the tramway to connect the ironworks of South Wales to the canal^ a printed list of the proprietors and committee of the company dated 1796^ and a small group of printed and ms documents relating to the take over of the canal company by the Great Western Railway. A fine archive which will doubtless yield considerable information on the operation of the canal company and its history. The Monmouthshire Canal was built to link the industrial activities of South Wales with the River Usk at Newport – and thence provide a highway to the world. A section of the canal is still in existence today as a pleasure waterway linking Brecon with Abergavenny.

Wellington – Brunel – The SS Great Britain printed invitation to the launch of the SS Great Britain featuring a woodcut of the ship by J L Marcke^ made out in manuscript to Wellington^ and bearing Wellington’s autograph draft of reply. Dated ‘Great Western Steam-Ship Office^ Bristol^ June 19th 1843. Printed on two conjoined leaves of 4to paper^ original folds^ but otherwise in excellent condition. The text invites Wellington to the launch and a banquet to be given on the occasion ‘which His Royal Highness Prince Albert will honour with his presence’. It also mentions the arrangement of special trains to arrive in time for the Banquet and departures back to London after the event. Replies to the invitation were to be sent to a Captain Claxton RN. Wellington’s draft reply in his somewhat illegible hand appears to read ‘.the D of Welln to Capt Claxton.it is unfortunately impossible for the D of W to [leave ?] London.W’ A remarkable and extremely rare item. No copy has been located in either COPAC or OCLC World Cat.

Autograph - Royalty – Queen Victoria document signed dated February 15th 1869 being a warrant issued to the Duke of Norfolk for George Whitaker of Pershore^ Worcestershire to take the name ‘Whitaker-Wilson’^ manuscript document on eight pp folio^ with fine signature of Queen Victoria to head^ good example of an embossed Royal Seal^ signed by Albert Woods^ Lancaster Herald and Registrar to base

Autograph – Royalty – Queen Victoria document signed dated July 24th 1874 being a licence for George Whitaker of Pershore^ Worcestershire to take the name ‘Whitaker-Wilson’^ manuscript document on six pp folio^ with fine signature of Queen Victoria to head^ good example of an embossed Royal Seal

Autograph – literature – Rudyard Kipling two documents signed ^ being receipts from the London City and Midland Bank dated 1910 and 1912 respectively (the former one with a manuscript amendment in Kipling’s hand and the latter one signed twice by Kipling) together with a letter from the Bank to Kipling. The documents concern Kipling’s shareholdings in the Kansas City Railroad Co.

Persian Islamic Manuscript 1474 page of Islamic script taken from a Dewan which was dated ‘Ramadan AD879’ [ie 1474/5]^ written in two sets of double columns^ framed and glazed^ ms size approx 16x8cm^ overall size approx 28x23cm. The author of the manuscript was Mohammed Sam sod-Din Hafez (1325-1399)^ a Sufi Muslim who practiced a mystical form of Islam. He was one of Persia’s finest lyrical poets writing in the sophisticated ‘Ghazal’ manner. A rare manuscript fragment^ dating from only 21 years after the fall of Constantinople.

Persian Islamic Manuscript fine ms page of Islamic script^ no date but clearly very early. Framed and glazed^ ms dimensions approx 18x9cm^ overall size approx 26x158cm

Islamic Koran – 18/19th century Manuscript – dis-bound 100 leaves plus^ staining and wear. Most pages illuminated. Possibly Persian or Middle Eastern.

ENGLISH NAVAL SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY, Six pen, ink and watercolour views of Portugal, including two of the Belem Tower, two topographical views from the Tagus and two more, most approximately 5 x 8in. mounted on paper with manuscript titles -- mount size 10 x 12in. (25.5 x 30.5cm.), (6)

AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF QUEEN ANNE-PERIOD NAVAL AUTOGRAPH ORDERS, twelve, composed between 1706 and 1711 and written in secretarial hands, autographed by relevant officers and admirals including The Earl of Sunderland; George Byng; Lord Dartmouth and others, with an array of fleet orders, many pertaining to protecting British trading routes with Europe: ...you are required and directed forthwith upon your receipt hereof, to give strict orders to the respective Capts of her Majesty`s Ships which are or shall be under your Command, to seize all shipps belonging to the Republick of Genoa... (29th November 1709); together with a manuscript letter from `W Collingwood` for 1698, written in a florid hand, most laid on brown archive card , (13)

A FLEET LEDGER FOR THE BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD. CIRCA 1930, with manuscript entries listing details for approximately 115 vessels entered alphabetically, 23 of them with additional handwritten reports, contained within heavy leather removable covers, the front embossed R.W. O`BEIRNE B.I.S.N. CO. LTD. -- 14½ x 20in. (37 x 51cm.)

THE HIGLEY & DENNIS HALLIDAY `ARCHIVE`, comprising approximately 650 assorted photographs spanning approximately 1895-1965, including private and professional images, some annotated or in albums, marked envelopes, others loose, some duplicates; together with a large amount of documentation, mostly professional, including note books for vessel designs including three for Thompson`s 40ft Hydroplane for 1907-9; the S.Y. Varuna (1896-97); S.Y. Gunilda (1897); two notebooks dating 1900-1904 connected to Thornycroft; assorted pre-War sales brochures for Thornycroft; Dixon & Halliday etc.; copies of yachting publications reviewing their products; a quantity of material pertaining to Iris and HH`s single-handed voyage from Southampton to Gravesend in 1905; several manuscript blue prints and some pinned loose notes made for various small craft approx. 1900-1940; a copy book for a number of craft dating from 1954-56; company deeds and documents; client correspondence; relevant magazines and papers containing news and reviews of the company or its personnel etc; and a quantity of papers and photographs concerning the early history of Little Ship Club, London of which HH was a founder member and lecturer, (a lot - sold not subject to return)Property from the estate of the late Dennis Halliday, Edmund Walter Higley Halliday (1875-1962), born in Reading, Berkshire, was a recognised naval architect and marine motor engineer with a prolific career that spans from 1902 until the early 1950s. He was one of the founder members of the Little Ship Club and was actively involved in providing shore based training in the late 1920s and 1930s to members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve during The Second World War. He started his career at the famous Thornycroft ship building works in Church Warf, Chiswick, with the design of the firm`s 40 ft. 1904 motorboat Champak and only one year later entered into partnership with Geale Dickson trading as "Dickson & Halliday Naval Architects & Marine Motor Engineers" in Southampton. In April 1905 he designed and built the Iris for Messrs Perman & Co Ltd. and accepted a wager to run it single handed and non-stop from Southampton to London Bridge, an adventure which was extensively reported in the national press. During these years Dickson & Halliday enjoyed some success at a competitive level. The partnership dissolved in 1907 with Halliday returning to Chiswick and trading from 1909 as "Higley Halliday, Naval Architect & Marine Motor Engineer" where he developed a close working relationship with Frank Maynard who built many of his designs. During the First World War he designed cane and canvas collapsible boats for the War Office, but it was in the 1920s when he resumed his association with Maynard that marked the peak of his career with a variety of designs including harbour launches with fitted petrol/paraffin motors of between 20ft. and 30 ft; experimental steam patrol launches, air-propelled hydroplanes (1925), hydraulic propelled launch (1923) and tug (1923) and an electric launch (1924). By the late `20s and early `30s he was focusing much more on his role as teacher and consultant. A founder-member of the Little Ship Club, he was appointed honorary instructor in seamanship in 1929, where his cheery personality and his aptitude for dealing thoroughly and in an easily understood manner with any branch of the subject led him to lecturing to sometimes up to 120 people - including a strong female following, whilst his interest in motor boats, made him very popular among the younger members of the Club. During this same period, his designs also shifted from bespoke to smaller standardised motor yachts, becoming a popular and affordable option for the mass market and included "Nanona" (1927), "Maralia" (1927), "Sport" (1928) and "Spray" (1930). Kept busy during World War II, his motor yachts Karen II and Bendor were requisitioned as `Little Ships` in Operation Dynamo, Halliday became a central figure as an instructor to the amateur yachtsmen who formed the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (subsequently the London Flotilla) at the Little Ship Club. He was appointed Lieutenant and a "Four Striper" in the R.N.V.R. Sea Cadet Corps and club members presented him with an onyx cigarette box by way of thanks for his services to the club (see lot 230). After the war he retired from an active role although he remained a member of the Thames Ship-lover`s Society and The World Ship Society. He died on 27 December 1962 aged 87.

IMBARD, ETIENNE F: `DE LA MESURE DU TEMPS, ET DESCRIPTION DE LA MERIDIENNE VERTICALE PORTATIVE..` , Versailles: "chez les principaux Libraires et Horlogers," 1828. 12mo (145 x 90mm). Half title, tables, folding engraved plate (mainly marginal spotting and staining throughout). Contemporary wrappers, titled in early manuscript.

An unusual 19th century manuscript album of musings, illusions, proverbs, etc circa 1880, to/w an Edwardian album of drawings Condition Report Both have some foxed pages and wear to spine and cover

JANE AUSTEN "Fragment of a novel written by Jane Austen January-March 1817, now first printed from the manuscript", published The Clarendon Press Oxford 1925, paper board bound with cloth board spine, inscribed on paper label "Sanditon"

Antique Persian Illuminated Manuscript Entirely Handwritten and Decorated. 70 Pages. Good to Very Good Condition. Book Measures 6-1/4 Inches by 3-7/8 Inches. Shipping $26.00 Starting Price: $500.00

An early 19th century scroll manuscript map detailing the areas of Charlton, Blendworth and Idsworth, in the County of Southampton, hand coloured and printed on six joined sheets of vellum detailing the various escapes and land owners names, dated 1816, 5ft 7in. x 3ft 6in.

COWPER, WILLIAM (1568-1619) - A MIRROUR OF MERCIE OR THE PRODIGALS CONVERSION, 16mo, vellum bound, manuscript title in ink to spine, lacks all after leaf N4 (p.272), browned throughout, London 1615

WAUGH, EVELYN - LABELS, A MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL, 1st edition, number 2 of 110 copies, signed, with a leaf of manuscript bound in, London 1930

CARMERDINE, H.H. - A MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOK OF GEOMETRY, with a printed `Arithetical Table` bound in, vellum dated 5th June, 1793

Two unrelated illuminated leaves on vellum form 16th century French books of hours, each in Latin manuscript, 7.5 x 6in. and 6.5in. x 4.5in.

AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817) - An autograph manuscript fragment, comprising four lines, attached to another leaf bearing authentication, in turn attached to a letter from her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, written on paper bearing watermark date 1868, at Bray Vicarage, February 7, 1870, presenting the fragment to Rev. G. C. Berkeley: `Men may get into the habit of repeating the words of our Prayers by rote, perhaps without thoroughly understanding - certainly without thoroughly feeling their full force and meaning.` All attached to the title page of a copy of Austen-Leigh`s `A Memoir of Jane Austen...` fragment approximately 1.75 x 6in.

A manuscript telegram sent at the start of World War II, on printed Naval Message paper, marked "Most Immediate" and addressed to "General No 23 from C in CP", message reads "All concerned Home and Abroad from Admiralty. Commence Hostilities at once with Germany. Tel TOR 1146 11.17 3/9/39, indistinctly signed ***Provenance: see attached letter and image***

Noble (John) THE CAPE AND ITS PEOPLE AND OTHER ESSAYS (Presentation copy from Maclear to Herschel) by South African Writers. viii + 408 pages, original pebble-grained cloth, titled gilt on the spine, with the binder’s ticket of Saul Solomon, 40 St. George’s Street, Cape Town, at the bottom of the front paste-down endpaper, front hinge cracked but holding firmly on the ties. Presentation inscription on the second free endpaper, ‘With compliments from Sir Thos, Maclear’ and the pencil signature of Sir John Herschel at the top of the page. Stamp of the Herschel Library, Collingwood on the title page. Sir Thomas Maclear’s article entitled ‘Earth Measurements in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern,’ is the last in the volume (pages 381 – 408). Herschel has made several manuscript annotations and diagrams in the margins of this essay. Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) and his farther Sir William before him, formed a considerable library at his home ‘Collingwood’ near Hawkhurst in Kent. Condition: Good Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: J.C. Juta Publication Date: 1869 Size: 8vo (190 x 130 mm) Reserve: $500 Click here to view further details and to bid

Frazer, Sir James George (arranged and edited by Robert Angus Downie) The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar Frazer was 36 when he wrote `The Golden Bough` (variously referred to as `A Study in Comparative Religion` or `A Study in Magic and Religion`), which was said have influenced the work of writers as different as Jung, the Swiss philosopher; T S Eliot, the English/American poet; and James Joyce, the Irish writer. However, it was not until 47 years later, when he was 83, that Frazer decided to publish selections from his forty or so thick quarto notebooks on the anthropological writings of others. A year later, in 1938, `The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar` was published as the first of the series - `Anthologia Anthropologica`. The result was `A Copious Selection of Passages for the Study of Social Anthropology from the Manuscript Notebooks of [J G Frazer] Arranged and Edited from the MSS by Robert Angus Downie`. In his own introduction, Downie describes how he went about his work (see also one of the images), sorting, arranging and copying the extracts according to continent (Africa first), and then region and race. Frazer lived to see the full series published - after Africa, Australia, followed by Asia and Europe, and, finally, America, with the last three all published 1939 - all under Downie`s editorship and in a uniform edition from the same publisher. [A reasonable set of the four first edition volumes is quoted on the internet at about $750.] The current book reproduces 234 extracts, some very long and some much shorter, and mainly, but not only, in English. The book is substantial: xiv + 571 pp of double-column text and index + frontispiece + one of Frazer`s manuscript pages in facsimile + seven maps showing the languages, races and tribes of Africa and Madagascar. The book is also comprehensive: it deals with Bushmen, Hottentots and a dozen other races in Southern Africa, and almost another one hundred races in the rest of the continent. Full references to the sources of the extracts are given at the end of each entry. The dustjacket of our copy (few of the available copies have dustjackets, in any condition) has been repaired and is now Good. The original turquoise cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, are marred only by two small nicks at the head of the spine and an early sign of shelf-wear at the foot of the spine. The plain endpapers are Fine: there is a small green sticker of a Pretoria bookseller on the front paste-down and an owner`s signature and date on the front free endpaper.(*) The text and illustrations are all present, unmarked and unfoxed or otherwise discoloured. The page edges are uniformly sunned. In other words, the overall description `Very Good` is conservative. (*)The first owner, and the only one with his name in the book, was `D Ziervogel, UP, 28-8-1940`. Ziervogel bought the book when he was an M A student at the University of Pretoria. He went on to become one of South Africa`s leading writers on anthropology.   Condition: Very Good Publisher Place: London Publisher: Percy Lund Humphries Publication Date: 1938 Size: 375 x 220 x 60; weight 1.7 kg Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid

[Waterhouse (Gilbert) Editor:] SIMON VAN DER STEL`S JOURNEY TO NAMAQUALAND IN 1685 – 86 Edited from the manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. With forty-four plates and a sketch map. With the Supplement: Addenda and Corrigenda, 19 pages, (1953). Frontispiece, 183 pages of letterpress and 43 black & white plates, original green cloth gilt, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy, unusual with the supplement. Condition: Very Good Publisher Place: London and Dublin Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., & Hodges, Figgis and Co. Publication Date: 1932 Size: Tall 8vo (273 x 183 mm) Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid

Alberti, Ludwig Ludwig Alberti`s account of the tribal life & customs of the Xhosa in 1807 (Limited Edition) Alberti`s Account of the Xhosa in 1807, being a translation from the original German manuscript by Dr William Fehr, with 4 colour plates and 3 engravings. Preface by Frank Bradlow, biographical sketch by Dr W.J. de Kock. Hard cover, pp. 117, Full leather, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. De Luxe binding, Limited Edition 24/100. Condition: Very Good Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: AA Balkema Publication Date: 1968 Size: 23x14.5cm Reserve: $25 Click here to view further details and to bid

Cortemunde, Jan Pietersz An Adventure at the Cape of Good Hope, December 1672 Transcribed and edited from the original manuscript in the Royal Library, Copenhagen by Henning Henningsen and translated and annotated with additional material by Douglas and Vera Varley. Hard cover, pp. v + 29, blue cloth binding on spine. Condition: Fine Publisher Place: Cape Town Publisher: Friends of the SA Public Library Publication Date: 1962 Size: 16.5x24cm Reserve: $20 Click here to view further details and to bid

Valette, Robert D, "Deux Fatrasies", 10 March 1963, printers Ateliers d`Art `Ryp` à Cannes, including "Deux Fatrasies" (Two Farragos) (M&L 87-90) four etchings by Salvador Dali, of which three are 22.5x14.5cm (plate) and one is a vignette 8x10cm (plate), the justification numbered 52 from the edition of 99, with 70 on Arches numbered 16-85, signed by Salvador Dali and Robert D Valette and dated 1963 in pencil, also including two inscribed manuscript pages by the author, (book)

"John Roby (English banker, poet & writer) - manuscript poem `Something Oiginal`, signed & inscribed Rochdale, 22 January 1840; and `The Ave Fall at Kandrie`?, watercolour, signed `John Roby Junr` * John Roby was the author of `Lancashire Sketches` and `The Traditions of Lancashire`, 1829"

Wilhelm II (German Emperor), Commission, signed, 1889, Military Appointment, lithographed with manuscript insertions, impressed seal, framed and glazed

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650 - 1722), Soldier and Statesman. It was during Queen Anne's Reign that he secured his fame and fortune. Ancestor of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Manuscript document signed Marlborough, one page paper and wax seal, 1703. Document appoints Robert Fitch Senior and Junior as Master Bricklayers in her Majesty's Service. Two horizontal folds plus a repaired fold, some tears to folds, some edge clipping

The Victorian game of Squails with treen pieces, a measuring board and manuscript instructions, together with a Victorian version of Solitaire with a pierced hardwood octagonal "bat" and bone pegs, together with other games.

Bank of the United States. Manuscript agreement to purchase 35 Subscriptions. December 9th, 1791. 20.5cm x 8cm. Issued to Daniel C. Verplanck. $135 per subscription. Payable December 26th, 1791. Signed by Bernard Hart, one of the original signers of the Buttonwood Agreement. VF-EF. The text reads as follows:"On the twenty sixth day of Dec. Inst I promise to receive from Daniel C. Verplank Esq or order Thirty Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States & to Pay him or order at the rate of one hundred & thirty five Dollars per Subscrip New York Dec. 9th 1791." Signed Bernard Hart.Bernard Hart (1764-1855): There were five Jews among the signers of the Buttonwood Agreement - Benjamin Seixas, Ephraim Hart, Bernard Hart, Isaac M. Gomez, and Alexander Zuntz, a Hessian soldier who had worked for the British during the American Revolution.Bernard Hart came to New York from Bavaria in 1780. He became a successful businessman, an active member of the Jewish Synagogue, a member of the Black Friar's Society, the House of Lords, and the St. George's Society. Hart was a partner in the firm of Lispenard & Hart. He married Zipporah Seixas, the daughter of one of the other Jewish signers of the Buttonwood Agreement, Benjamin Seixas.Bank of United States "Scrips" (Subscriptions)In December 1790 Alexander Hamilton asked Congress to incorporate a Bank of the United States. One quarter of the subscription price was to be paid in gold or silver coins, bullion, or plate. The remainder was to be payable in U.S. debt securities obtained by trading old debt for new debt.In early 1791, both houses of Congress passed the Bank bill. After a great deal of debate on the constitutionality of the bill, George Washington signed it in late February. The intial public offering for Bank of the US "scrips" took place on July 4, 1791. Investors paid $25 in specie (gold, silver) per scrip. A $100 was due on January 1, 1792. Another $100 was then due on July 1, 1792. A payment of $100 was due on January 1, 1793, and a final payment of $75 was due on July 1, 1793. The total price per share was $400.The scrips were soon the target of intense speculation. They went from $25 to $50 in the first few weeks. The scrips rose from $50 to over $300 each, then the bubble burst and they declined back down to the $120-$130 range. At this point, Verplank optained an obtion from Bernard Hart.On December 9th, 1791 Bernard Hart promised to purchase from Daniel C. Verplank thirty-five Bank of the United States subscriptions at $135 each, if received on December 26th, 1791. If Verplanck obtained his scrips through the initial public offering he stood to gain $110 per scrip by excercising his option. The fact that this document remained among Verplanck's business papers indicates Verplanck did not execrcise the option. The reason is almost certainly due to the fact that Bank of the US scrip prices rose throughout December of 1791. This superb example of a stock transaction between a wealthy New York real estate investor, and one of the signers of the Buttonwood Agreement, will be a prize piece for any advanced collector of early American financial history.

Bank of the United States. Manuscript agreement to purchase 20 "Scrips." December 9th, 1791. 20mm x 8.5mm. Similar to the previous lot and issued on the same day. Issued to Daniel C. Verplanck. $128 per subscription. Payable December 26th, 1791. Signed by Gabriel Furman. Very Fine. The text reads:"On the twenty sixth day of this month of December I promise to Receive from Daniel C. Verplank or order twenty Scrips of the National Bank Stock of the United States and to pay him or order at the rate of one hundred & twenty eight Dollars for each Scrip. / 20 Scrips at 128 Dollars / New York Dec. 9th 1791." Signed Gabriel Furman.

Napoleonic Wars, Irish and British History: Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount (1769-1822). Second Marquess of Londonderry, Irish-British statesman, played a key role in crushing the Irish Rebellion in 1798, Member of the House of Commons for Down, lobbied and intrigued for the Act of Union with Ireland to be passed, promoted to Secretary of State for War and for the Colonies in 1804, served as William Pitts' political deputy, later served as British Foreign Secretary (1812-1822); Pitt would be the principal British diplomat at the Congress of Vienna. Autograph Manuscript Letter Signed "Castlereagh" as Secretary for War and the Colonies. Two pages, 4to, Downing Street [London] 10th of October 1805. Addressing the Commander-in-Chief [of the King's German Legion, Prince Adolphus, the Duke of Cambridge], Castlereagh communicates King George the Third's "Royal Pleasure that you do issue the necessary orders for the Hanoverian Legion, consisting of the Force in the Margin mentioned, to be marched to the neighbourhood of Dover in order to be embarked for foreign Service. Your Royal Highness will receive His Majesty's Pleasure for appointing a Lieutenant General and a suitable staff for the said Corps. And…have the necessary arrangements made so that the Corps may be provided with Camp Equipage, Ordnance and Ammunition, to enable it to take the Field if necessary upon its' arrival on the Continent…" In the left margin of the first page is a list of the divisions that will make up the legion, totaling 6,080 troops. The Hanoverian Legion - not to be confused with Napoleon's troops of the same name - was the only German force that fought consistently against the French in the Napoleonic Wars. It was formed from officers of the Hanoverian army after the French occupied the principality in 1803, and usually broken up into smaller units that served separately through the final victory at Waterloo. It was disbanded in 1816, with some of its members folding back into the restored Hanoverian army. Separation at left side fold and paper loss in blank top margin of first page repaired with matching paper, otherwise Very Good. Matted with a printed image of Castlereagh and contained under double glass to show both pages in a wooden frame, two brass suspension loops at top.

Ephemera: A small album of cabinet views of London, scrapbook dated 1831 containing later drawings, watercolours, manuscript, prints and scraps and a late Victorian scrap album with many scraps (gen gd)

[BRIXIENSIS, Guiliemus. Illustrium Medicorum Adunamquamque egritudinem a capite and pedes practica. N.p.:] Bonetus Locatellus, [n.d. but 1508.] Hand-coloured initials, printer`s device to final leaf. (Lacking all leaves prior to A2, A7-A8, B7-G1 and H4-H7, p. 161 torn and repaired, some minor marginal tears, some browning, occasional damp-staining, some marginal manuscript notes by an unidentified hand.) Contemporary limp vellum (somewhat affected by damp).

ORDNANCE SURVEY (publisher). [Plans of Brighton. N.p. but Southampton: ‘surveyed in 1875’.] Folio (690 x 510mm.) 55 double-page plans backed onto linen, double-page manuscript alphabetical index, 1 key to the maps. (Somewhat soiled and frayed, torn with loss to edges, old creasing.) Modern cloth (extremities scuffed, covers blistered, 1 map bound inverted).

(Religion) - Fragment van een 15de eeuws Vlaams middelnederlands gebedenboekje op perkament, met randdecoratie. In-16° (13 x 10 cm, schriftspiegel 8,5 x 6 cm) : [8] bln (eerste bln licht vervuild, 2 perforaties in blad 4, recto van dezelfde gedeeltelijk uitgeveegd en moeilijk leesbaar). Moderne band van herbruikt perkament (kort afgesneden met minimaal verlies langs de bovenzijde, nauw ingebonden). Est. : 250/ 300 € Bevat o.m. : "Dat heylich cruus cort ghetide", "De prime tide", "Salve Regina", "Onser vrouwen bliscap i" en "Onser vrouwen vii bliscappen haer mede te groeten". Goed leesbaar manuscript in een regelmatige bastarda met rode en blauwe lombarden, dito lettrines met penwerk, enkele vergulde initialen en 4 bladen met randdecoratie van fijne, veelkleurige bloemranken met gouden bladeren waartussen één enkele vos te voorschijn komt. ▲ Herkomst : Jules Peeters (modern ex-libris). ¶ Fragment d`un petit livre de prières manuscrit flamand du XVe siècle, orné de baguettes et de lettrines à l`encre rouge et bleue, de quelques initiales décorées et dorées, comportant 4 ff. avec bordures à guirlandes fleuries rehaussées d`or. Plein vélin de récupération (qqs ff. lég. salis, 1 p. lég. éffacée, 2 perforations ibidem, faiblement rogné en haut).

(Religion) - MARIA van JESUS van AGREDA.- "Misticke Stadt Godts [...] Goddelijcke historie ende leven vande alderh. Maghet ende Moeder Godts Maria [...]. Eerste deel". Z.p., 1709. In-f° : frontispies-[4]-1/169-[1]-170/337 pp. (lege cartouche gekleefd op v° p. 169, stempel van kloosterbibliotheek op titel). Eigentijdse band : kalfsleder, rug met ribben (gebreken aan kapitaal, bovenste scharnier gedeeltelijk gesplit, gewreven platten met versleten hoeken). Est. : 200/ 250 € Handschriftelijke kopij van de Nederlandse vertaling van het 1ste deel (van 8) met de levensbeschrijving van O.L.Vrouw door Maria de Jesu (1602-1665), abdis der franciscanessen te Agreda (Spanje). Deze genoot grote bekendheid voor haar extases en visioenen waarin haar de Onbevlekte Ontvangenis van de Maagd werd geopenbaard. Volgens de titel werd onze vertaling bezorgd door priester frater "H.V.R.C." maar meestal is ze van de hand van Hieronymus vanden Kerkhoven, prior der capucijnen te Antwerpen. Het manuscript werd gecopieerd door Franciscus Ignatius Scheerlynck zoals blijkt uit de invulling van de grote gegraveerde cartouche die als frontispice vooraan werd ingevoegd. De eerste Spaanse uitgave is gedateerd 1670. Bij ons liet Hieronymus Verdussen in 1722 eveens een spaanstalige editie van de persen rollen. no. Van den Gheyn 2452-2454 (soortgelijke hss kopieën bewaard in de KB Brussel). ¶ Copie manuscrite de la traduction de l`espagnol d`une "biographie" de la Sainte Vierge par la mystique Marie de Jésus, abbesse des franciscaines d`Agreda en Espagne. Plein veau de l`ép. (tampon sur titre, rel. us.).

(Religion) - SMETS, Servatius.- "Eenighe Sermoenen ghepreckt [...]". (Mechelen, 28 juni 1641). In-4° : 838-[13] pp. (onregelmatige paginering). Eigentijdse band : bruin kalfsleder op houten platten, rug met ribben, platten met blindgestempelde lijnenkaders, rolfileten en een centraal medaillon met voorstelling van de Calvarie, messing beslag van hoeken en sluitingen (1 hoek en beide sluitklampen ontbreken, onderste kapitaal ingescheurd en gelost, centraal medaillon op 2de plat weggesneden, verticale smalle strook leder ibidem ontbreekt, scharnieren gebroken, binnenzijde platten ontbloot...). Est. : 300/ 400 € Belangrijk handschrift met 31 predikaties bestemd voor de augustinessen van Thabor te Mechelen. Enkele titels : "de kennisse sijns selfs", "[over het kloosterleven] om allen jaren ten minsten eens inden refter gelesen te worden", "op den goddelijcken dienst der ghetijden", "op den goddelijcken lofsangh Te Deum Laudanum" en "op den feestdach van de h. Maghet ende martelaersse Agnes onse s. geminde Patronesse". In de nota van visitator Alexander Vanderlaen in fine, gedateerd 24 november 1642, wordt Servatius Smets, subprior van het klooster der augustijnen binnen Mechelen en "pater [= rector] van het clooster Thabor", als auteur genoemd. Verzorgd manuscript in bruine inkt, titels in rode pen, tekst gerubriceerd met enkele sierelementen en bloemen in rode en groene inkt. Dubbele colofoon met datum en naam van de kopiiste : "28 juni 1640" (p. 738) en "suster Chatarina [sic] de Flouwij, 28 juni 1641" (in fine). ▲ Herkomst : Frans Buelens (Van de Leur), Rossem (Wolverthem) (hs aantekening). ¶ Important recueil de 31 prédications sur différents aspects de la vie monastique, les heures, la fête de Sainte Agnès, etc., destinées aux augustines de Malines. Manuscrit soigné, titres à l`encre rouge, quelques ornements à l`encre rouge et verte. Une annotation du visitateur donne le lieu et le nom de l`auteur, le colophon le nom de la copiste et la date. Plein veau décoré à froid de l`ép. (us. et manques à la rel.).

(Religion) - "De Zeve Getiden, van onse L. Vrouwe. Naer `t Roomsch gebruijk met de Zielen-Vigilien, Verciert met Schoone Plaeten". (Hoogstraten (?), c. 1735). In-12° (14,5 x 9,2 cm) : [12]-380 pp.; 17 platen. 19de eeuwse band : rood marokijn, rug met ribben, goudstempeling en groen titelschild, platten met vergulde omijsting, goud op sneden, in modern foedraal. Est. : 1.000/ 1.200 € Mooi en uitstekend bewaard devotioneel manuscript uit het bezit van verschillende begijnen. Bevat een kalender en de Mariagetijden in een zeer verzorgd en regelmatig, goed leesbaar handschrift in bruine inkt. Tekst integraal gerubriceerd, elk tekstblad voorzien van een dubbel lijnenkader in rode inkt. Titel en 17 gegraveerde platen gevat in een omlijsting van ranken in rood penwerk. Prenten met Latijnse of Duitse bijschriften; 1 getekend T. Scheffler en 1 gedateerd 1690. Gebonden met (samen 3 stukken van dezelfde hand en uitgevoerd in dezelfde stijl) : "Gebedt om van Godt te versoeken de Gratie van een ware en volkomen Bekeeringe". [47] pp.— "Eenige Regels dienende onderhouden te worden om het oprechtelijk met de H. Roomsche kercke te houden. Getrockken uijt het Boeck der geestelijke Exercitien van den Heilighen Ignatius de Loyola [...]". [13] pp. ▲ Herkomst : "Catharina Josefa De Wijse, begijntie, voor een gedagtenis gekrege van Johanna Luijbe begijntie gestorve den 21 meert A° 1739. Tot Hoogstrate"; Maria Catharina van den Goorbergh, begijn; Maria Christina van den Goorbergh, kapucines te Bourbourg, 1924 (hs aantekeningen op de schutbladen). ¶ Manuscrit de dévotion, très soigné et très bien conservé, ayant successivement appartenu à 3 béguines de Hoogstraten (Campine) et à 1 religieuse de Bourbourg. Comprend un calendrier, les heures de la Vierge et 2 autres prières. Illustré de 17 planches montées dans des encadrements ornementés à l`encre rouge. Plein maroquin rouge du 19e s., emboîtage moderne.

(Breviariu[m] iuxta ritu[m] et co[n]suetudinem sacrosancte Coloniensis ecclesie maioris [...]. Coloniae [i.e. Venice ?], Johannis vulgo dictum Hertzog. Impensis Gerardi cluen de Amersfort, Anno saluti 1492 18 kal octobris). In-8° : [8]-4-9/342-351/506-[4] lvs (title-page, lvs 5-8 and 343-350 lacking, copy slightly browned, some lvs dirty, tears sometimes with lacks or repaired, handwritten notes). Contemporary binding : pigskin on wooden boards, sides decorated with blind fillets, roll-stamps and central medallion, ribbed spine, red edges (soiled, some small lacks of leather, wormholes, clasps lacking, edges and corners dulled, stamp and label stuck on the inside of upper board). Est. : 800/ 1.000 € Only copy recorded of this breviary following the use of Cologne, apparently printed in Venice. Johann Hertzog, also known as Johann Hamman, native of Landau in Germany was mainly active in Venice between 1482 and 1509. In the years 1492-1493, he published the "Tabulae astronomicae" by Alphonsus, the "Ephemerides" by Müller and three liturgical works ("Breviarum Eboracense", "Missale Romanum" and "Officium B.V. Mariae"). In 1504, Gerard Cluen of Amersfoort edited in London, in cooperation with Francis Byrckman from Cologne, a "Missale ad usum Sarum" which was printed in Paris by Wolfgang Hopyl. Typography in red and black on two columns, some large initials with pen, handwritten running titles and manuscript index and notes in Latin on the last four leaves. no. Polain 4251 (our copy, some errors in the collation); no. GW online 530910N (our copy); no. http://www.archiefeemland.nl; no. not in Hain, BMC (p. 422-425 : J. Hamman), Goff, Stillwell. ¶ Seul exemplaire connu de ce bréviaire suivant les usages de Cologne apparemment imprimé à Venise par J. Hamman pour Gerard Cluen de Amersfoort. Pleine peau de truie sur ais de bois (titre, ff. 5-8 et 343-350 manquants, qqs pp. salies, rel. défraîchie, qqs trous et gal. de vers).

x Merchants Bank of Halifax, a specimen sheet comprising 2 x $5, Halifax, 1 July 1880, blue serial number 0000, black, pink and green, maiden spinning (Industry) at left in oval frame, bank building at right, steamship at centre, blue overprint top centre, `The Agency at Hamilton, Bermuda, will exchange this note for` and low centre continuation in blue ONE POUND ONE SHILLING STG.`, blue overeprint over value top left and right, one printed signature of Kenny low right, reverse brown, value at left and right, blue `ONE POUND ONE SHILLING STERLING AT BERMUDA at centre (Aspen page 104/105, Pick S1184 (Canada), Charlton 24-02S), the Aspen plate example. Perforated and red manuscript date `Oct 6th 1882` between the two notes, good extremely fine, attractive and extremely rare VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Government, £1, Hamilton, 2 December 1914, red serial number 002746, black and pale green, the crest of Bermuda with motto `QUO FATA FERUNT`, (Whither the Fates direct) at left, value right centre and at each corner, manuscript signature of J.T.Gilbert low left, printed signature of Allan F. Smith low right, reverse green, value at left and right, bank title at centre (Pick 1, BG B1, Aspen p.51/52), An ABNC engraving. VG, rare VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Government, £1, Hamilton, 2 December 1914, red serial number 002498, black and pale green, the crest of Bermuda with motto `QUO FATA FERUNT`, (Whither the Fates direct) at left, value right centre and at each corner, manuscript signature of J.T.Gilbert low left, printed signature of Allan F. Smith low right, reverse green, value at left and right, bank title at centre (Pick 1, BG B1, Aspen p.51/52), an ABNC engraving. Ex Mel Steinberg, a fresh and original good very fine thus very rare and desirable VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Government, £1, Hamilton, 2 December 1914, red serial number 017227, black and pale green, the crest of Bermuda with motto `QUO FATA FERUNT`, (Whither the Fates direct) at left, value right centre and at each corner, manuscript signature of J.T.Gilbert low left, printed signature of Allan F. Smith low right, reverse green, value at left and right, bank title at centre (Pick 1, BG B1, Aspen p.51/52), ex Bill Christensen collection, Spink 2009. An ABNC engraving, fine and very rare VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Government, £1, Hamilton, 2 December 1914, red serial number 025562, black and pale green, the crest of Bermuda with motto `QUO FATA FERUNT`, (Whither the Fates direct) at left, value right centre and at each corner, manuscript signature of J.T.Gilbert low left, printed signature of Allan F. Smith low right, reverse green, value at left and right, bank title at centre (Pick 1, BG B1, Aspen p.51/52), An ABNC engraving, poor, rare VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Monetary Authority, specimen $5, 24 May 2000, serial number C/1 000000, purple, violet and pale green, Elizabeth II at right wearing tiara, conch shell at centre, signatures of Cheryl-Anne Lister and Myron Simmons, reverse purple and blue-green, the lighthouse on Saint David`s island, Saint George harbour at right, also $5 (3), serial numbers C/1 000100,000310,000550, also specimen $5 (2), prefix C/2, also issued $5 (4), serial numbers C/2 000121/122/123 and 364000, also $5 (2), serial numbers C/3 000050 and 000100 (Pick 51as,a,BMA B23as,a), uncirculated, the first specimen with manuscript initials of Cheryl-Anne Lister, a scarce group of intersting numbers (12) VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Government, $1, 6 February 1970, serial number A/1 000035 blue and green, Elizabeth II at right, Bermuda Petrel (cahow) at centre, printed signatures of John Sharpe and C.Winston Kempe, reverse blue, Bermuda fitted dinghy`s, also $1 (2), both prefix A/2 (Pick 23a, BG B24a), all manuscript signature of John H.Sharpe in field, one A/2 about extremely fine, others uncirculated (3) VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Monetary Authority, $1, 1 July 1975, serial number A/1 000005 blue and green, Elizabeth II at right, Bermuda Petrel (cahow) at centre, printed signatures of Dudley Butterfield and Michael Gough, reverse blue, Bermuda fitted dinghy`s, also replacement $1, prefix Z/1, (Pick 28a, BG B1a), both manuscript signature of Dudley Butterfield in field, uncirculated and a very low serial number VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Monetary Authority, $1, 1 December 1976, serial number A/2 000005 blue and green, Elizabeth II at right, Bermuda Petrel (cahow) at centre, printed signatures of Dudley Butterfield and Michael Gough, reverse blue, Bermuda fitted dinghy`s, also replacement $1, prefix Z/1, also $1 (3), 1 April 1978, prefixes A/3,A/4 and Z/1 together with $1 (2), 1 September 1979, prefix A/5, Z/1,all same design as previous and Butterfield and Humphreys signatures (Pick 23a,b, BMA B1b,c,d), all manuscript signature of Dudley Butterfield in field, uncirculated, last note about very fine. The 1976 first prefix A/2 thus a very low number for issue (7) VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions

x Bermuda Monetary Authority, $1 (4), 1 May 1984, serial number A/7 000038, blue and green, Elizabeth II at right, Bermuda Petrel (cahow) at centre, A/7 first prefix for issue, printed signatures of J.David Gibbons and Stephen Flett, reverse blue, Bermuda fitted dinghy`s, also replacement $1, prefix Z/1, also $1 (2), 1 January 1986, serial number A/8 000008 (first prefix for issue) and a replacement with prefix Z/1, signatures of J.David Gibbons and Lucelle Cooke (Pick 23a, BG B24a), first two manuscript signature of J.David Gibbons, last two manuscript signatures of both J.David Gibbons and Lucelle Cooke. First replacement very fine, balance uncirculated and the `8` a very low number for issue. Interesting to note the amended signature of J.David Gibbons (4) VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions