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Machiavelli (Niccolo) Historiae Florentinae…libri octo device on title, portrait on verso, marginal worming at start, name on title, manuscript index on fly-leaf, contemporary vellum, marked, 8vo, Strasbourg, Lazarus Zetznerus, 1610.

[James II] At the Council-Chamber in Whitehall, Monday the 22 of October, 1688. This day an Extraordinary Council met…, drop-head title, later title in manuscript, slightly browned, later half calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, Charles Bill, Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, 1688.

Hughes (Ted) Seneca`s Oedipus, [2 copies], first paperback editions (issued simultaneously with hardback edition), both with long inscription from the author on half-titles (the second slightly smudged and blotted on facing flap, original wrappers, both slightly rubbed, 1969; another copy, working rehearsal typescript, presentation copy from the author to his sister Olwyn but with inscription obscured by address label pasted over it, with one or two manuscript corrections (possibly in Hughes` hand), stapled in wrappers, soiled, 1967-68; and an uncorrected proof copy of the first, 8vo & 4to (4) *** The inscription to the first copy reads, "To Michael - Xmas 69 Greetings from Ted. Those who marry their mothers/ Are not as lucky as others./ Those who murder their father/ Disappear into self deception, self-justification & general blather. / Those who search for a wife in some other land/ Find their mother incognito, I understand./ Those who bump off the strangest stranger they ever meet/ Stretch their own father dead at their feet./ Best to be born without cock or hands, this story says - / Then you`ll go to heaven with eyes wide open one of these days." And in the second copy, "July 23rd To Mike Book II - same as Book I, to be read in immediate succession, top speed, without pause, one hundred yard dash, without breath taken, combusting bones, gall, kidneys arriving weightless & white-hot. from Ted". (4)

2ND LIEUTENANT W. P. DUNBAR, ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT: MUSKETRY NOTES, DATED 14TH DECEMBER 1915 hand written manuscript with illustrations and diagrams, bound

[Beckford (William Thomas)]. An Arabian Tale from an unpublished Manuscript with notes critical and explanatory First Edition second issue with p.48 correctly numbered ownership signature of H. Hill on the title and a note about the translation in a different hand contemporary mottled calf slightly rubbed bookplate [Rothschild 352] 1786* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.

Charles II Manuscript Recovery document with elaborate initial `C` and decorated engraved coat-of-arms at the head relating to John Wheeler some wear at folds seal not present c.54 x 74cm 1675* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.

Manuscript Music - Drinkell (John. Divine Musick being a collection of Anthems ... from the most eminent masters viz ... Handall ... Purcell etc. mostly transcribed from the original c.699pp. musical notations throughout some dampstaining title slightly soiled and creased original reverse calf spine defective folio 1768* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.

Manuscript Navigator`s Book including `A Journal of a Voyage from the Lizard to Madeira and Teneriffe kept by James McAlister` c.93 leaves beginning with 3 full-page watercolours of ships numerous calculations of positions by various methods original calf-backed boards remnants of ties upper cover worn (overall 190 x 150mm) . c.1840 - together with Dictionnaire Géographique Portatif Paris 1767 (2)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.

Manuscript Recipe Book signed on the first leaf `Mary Holtum her Book Oct 20 1818` 27 leaves of recipes remedies and other notes including Gingerbread Nuts Pound Cake etc. earlier lapover vellum binding (overall 182 x 125mm) c.1818* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.

Hampshire Stockbridge - Manuscript Surveys Randall (Richard). A Plan of the Borough of Stockbridge in the County of Southampton ink and wash survey showing fields and dwellings with a manuscript index alongside some chipping to edges and one or two tears linen-backed and attached to wooden roller 1790 - and another similar but smaller also of Stockbridge with wooden case (2)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.

A Single Qur`an Leaf, Iranian, 19th century, manuscript on paper, 46x28cm., (unframed)

Two Illuminated Manuscript Leaves From The Aja`ib al-Makhluqat, Iran 17th century, decorated with mythical beasts, 26x15.5cm., ea., (2) (unframed)

An Indian Illuminated Manuscript Leaf, 19th century, depicting three figures, hunting scene, ink, gold and opaque colour, 25x16cm: together with another Indian Illuminated Manuscript Leaf, depicting a scene of falconry and an Indian Miniature Painting, a traveller standing under a tree, 24.5x13.5 and 13x16.5cm., respectively, (3).

* A Pair of Indian Miniature Paintings, Safavid style, 19th/20th century, illuminated manuscript leaves depicting figures presenting alms to a noble man in a courtyard with attendants, 32.2x20cm (each), (2).

An autographed sheet of letterhead paper from Eric Spear, composer of the theme music for "Coronation Street", including manuscript musical notation for the opening bars of Coronation Street and three other compositions, including "The Grove Family" and "Meet Mister Callaghan"; dated 1963 and addressed from Les Fontaines, his Guernsey home. NB: Eric Spear was born in Croydon in 1908 and died in Southampton in 1966. He is best known for composing the original theme tune for Coronation Street for which he was paid £6.

MANUSCRIPT. A VICTORIAN POCKET BOOK CONTAINING "AN ACCOUNT OF MY VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO PORT NATAL SOUTH AFRICA" PUT DOWN DAILY [FROM JUNE 14TH 1860] BY JAMES ELLIS AND WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A LETTER IN A LEGIBLE HAND IN INK IN A LEATHER NOTE BOOK

Bretby a pottery model of a horse, eight others, money box in the form of a elephant, silk work, postcards, and a manuscript a visit to Chatsworth.

BIBLE, in English. London: Robert Barker, 1613-1611. 2° (389 x 250mm). 59 lines, double column, New Testament title within a large woodcut border, woodcut headbands and initials. (Lacking a total of 18 leaves and the map, that is: the preliminaries lack the general title and leaves A4, B1-4, C1-6, A2-3 present but detached and worn; 'Genealogies' lacks the map and C1-5; 'New Testament' lacks the last leaf Aa6; faint dampstain throughout, G1 in O.T. and T1 in N.T. with long tears, some leaves detached and creased these with some tears and small losses.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf (worn, dampstained, somewhat defective). Provenance: Alkin family (front endpaper inscribed by various owners c.17-19th century) SECOND FOLIO EDITION OF THE KING JAMES'S BIBLE, also known as the 'Great She Bible' for the more correct reading 'She went into the citie' in Ruth iii 15; and with the misprint in Matt xxvi 36, reading 'Judas' (here corrected 'Jesus' in manuscript). This Authorised Version, the work of over 40 translators divided into five committees based at Oxford, Cambridge and London, undoubtedly has had a greater influence on written and spoken English than any other book. No new English translation was produced until the Revised Version of 1881. Herbert 319; STC 2224. View on Christie's.com

DONNE, John (1573-1631). Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise. London: John Dawson [1647]. 4° (191 x 140mm). Without initial blank. (First 3 leaves with repair to margin, light marginal browning.) Contemporary panelled calf (expertly rebacked preserving old spine, new spine label, rear free endpaper renewed with the original now bound at front). Provenance: early readers (annotations on title and front free endpaper) -- Everard Meynell (bookplate laid in). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the title undated, of the earliest of Donne's controversial writings, published posthumously. Donne had always been reluctant to publish and was content to let the work, which expressed his doubts about the absolute sinfulness of suicide, circulate in manuscript. Keynes 47; Wing D-1848. View on Christie's.com

DUMAS, Alexandre (fils, 1824-1895). L'étrangère comédie en cinq actes. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1877. 8° (227 x 146mm). Half-title. (Occasional faint spotting.) Contemporary red crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt in second compartment, initials 'S[arah] B[ernhardt] at foot of spine, gilt turn-ins, ivory-coloured silk liners (extremtities very lightly rubbed, liners starting to lift). Provenance: AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY (ink manuscript to half-title presenting the book to:) -- SARAH BERNHARDT. VIAUD, Julien [pseud. Pierre LOTI, 1850-1923]. Ramuntcho. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1897. 8° (182 x 118mm). Half-title. Contemporary quarter vellum, gilt spine, initialled 'B[ernhardt] at foot of spine (lightly soiled). PRESENTATION COPY (ink manuscript to half-title presenting the book to:) -- SARAH BERNHARDT. (2) View on Christie's.com

AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei. Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90. Super-chancery 2° (309 x 213mm). Gothic types, full-page woodcut on A1v, publisher's device at end. (Light spotting, occasional worming.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard, blue edges, later manuscript title on spine (a little rubbed and stained). Provenance: Joannes Zurlus, April 1528 and Ch[ristophorus] Stephanus, 1537 (deleted inscription on A2r) -- newspaper cutting from Il Corriere del Mattino dated 1879 reporting book news (front pastedown) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 13). The full-page woodcut is the first known work attributable to the Master of Haintz-Narr, considered by Winkler to be the best woodcut artist in Basel before Dürer (F. Winkler, Dürer, 1951). HC 2065; GW 2889; BMC V 437; BSB-Ink A-862; Bod-inc A-531; Goff A-1245. View on Christie's.com

BRACK, Wenceslaus (d. 1495). Vocabularius rerum, in Latin and German. - ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiae lib. X. - BRACK. De verbis; De modo epistolandi. - HUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE. Didascalicon de studio legendi. [Augsburg: Anton Sorg]: 14 September 1487. Chancery 4° (190 x 134mm). Gothic types, rubricated. (Paper flaw in one corner.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine with later lettering, 2 fore-edge claps, flyleaves from a Bible manuscript on vellum, printed fragments as pastedowns (lightly rubbed); modern folding box. Provenance: early monastic inscription erased; annotations -- J. Kemp Waldie (20th-century bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer, 2003, no. 34). Fifth edition of a Latin-German compendium of practical knowledge, ranging from medicine to agriculture, food and wine, navigation, etc. Brack wrote it for his students at the cathedral school at Constance to enhance their broad, humanist education. Brack was a medical doctor and personal physician to the Hapsburg Kaiser Friedrich III and Archbishop of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach. Among the medical subjects treated are bathing, bleeding, cupping, diseases, and medical practice. A fresh copy with strong impressions. All 15th-century editions of the work are rare on the market and many institutional copies are imperfect. Cf. N. Pleuger, Der Vocabularius rerum von Wenzeslaus Brack, 2005. H *3703; BMC II, 352 (IA.6004); BSB-Ink B-795; Bod-inc B-499; Klebs 207.5; Goff B-1062. View on Christie's.com

PAMPHLETS -- [HEAD, Richard (?1637-1686)]. O-Brazile, or the inchanted Island being a perfect relation of the late discovery and wonderful dis-inchantement of an island on the north of Ireland: with an account of the riches and commodities thereof. Edinburgh: re-printed 1675. 8pp. (Upper margin closely shaved, lightly soiled.) A RARE WORK describing an imaginary island off the cost of Ulster. This is the second edition, known in only 2 other copies (BL and NLS); the first and third editions, also printed in 1675, are also rare and no copy of any edition has sold at auction in over 35 years. The work is dated and pseudonymously signed by Richard Head: Londonderry, March 14. 1674. Wing H1270. Bound with 10 other pamphlets, including: BURNET, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5825. -- BURNET, Gilbert. The Unreasonableness and Impiety of Popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5935. -- BURNET, Gilbert. A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France by the papists, in the year 1572. London 1678. Wing R814. -- USSHER, James (1581-1656). Strange and remarkable prophefies and predictions of the holy, learned and excellent James Usher. Licensed, November the 16th. Printed 1681. Wing U226. -- [?HUBERT, William] The Puritan Convert or, a discourse by the way of a letter. 1676. Half-title. Wing H3246A. -- BOLDE, Samuel (1649-1737). A Sermon against persecution and the time when the brief for the persecuted protestants in France, was read in the parish church. London, 1682. Fourth edition. Wing B3491. -- [?PEARSON, Anthony] Of Tything amongst the Iewes, 37pp., added before is a manuscript page: 'Anthonie Pe[a]rson's Booke against Tithes who turning Quaker afterward turned so carnall as I was certainly informed that he died in agonies of conscience.' -- BRITTEN, William (d.1669). Silent Meeting, a wonder to the world; yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of god, scornfully called Quakers. London, 1660. Wing B4825. -- [SMITH, William (d.1673)]. An Holy Kiss of Peace, sent from the Seed of Life. London,1660. Drop-head title. Wing S4307. 11 pamphlets in one volume, 4° (183 x 142mm). (Some browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, quite rubbed). Provenance: 2-page manuscript letter by ?T. Cuthur to T. Hodgkin (tipped-in on front endpaper, dated Newcastle, 23 August 96, explaining that Mr Cuthur is giving this book to T. Hodgkin as a thank you because Mr Hodgkin helped him financially sometime back) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate). View on Christie's.com

PANTALEON, Heinrich (1522-1595). Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium... Historia nova. Basel: [Thomas Guarinus], 1581. 2° (330 x 200mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut illustrations throughout, including maps, views and portraits, some full-page. (Light browning, faint dampstain in the last few gatherings, a few short marginal tears, occasional spotting.) Near-contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some soiling, one turn-in lifting). Provenance: Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps). FIRST EDITION of Pantaleon's history of the Christian orders and their deeds against Turks, Arabs, and others in various theatres. The woodcuts include views of Jerusalem, Tyre, and Damascus, maps of the Holy Land, Cyprus, the Nile delta, Greece, and the Balkans, and plans of Constantinople and other cities. Not in Atabey. Adams P-178. View on Christie's.com

TURKEY -- WOLF, Hieronymus (ed.). Historia Rerum in Oriente Gestarum ab exordio mundi et orbe condito ad nostra haec usque tempora. Frankfurt: Sigismund Feyrabend, 1587. 2° (347 x 229mm). Woodcut device on the title and colophon, arms of Nidhard Thungen on the dedication leaf (occasional minor spotting, occasional faint marginal dampstain.) Near contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (light soiling). Provenance: William H. Morley (1815-1860, title-stamps, inscriptions) -- Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps, shelf label on the spine). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this important compilation of early sources on Turkey and the Islamic world, including Chalcocondylas, Zonaras, Laocitas, Gregoras and Nicetas. From the library of the orientalist and lawyer William Hook Morley. In 1838, the same year this book came into his library, Morley distinguished himself by discovering Jami Al Tawarikh, a lost manuscript of Rashidudin, and entered the Middle Temple. Later in life he became librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society. Katip Celebi translated part of this History for his own Rawnaq al Sultana. Atabey 582; Blackmer 819. View on Christie's.com

MALAXOS, Nikolaos (protopapas of Nauplion, mid 16th-century). Hymni in Honorem B.V.M., in Greek, calligraphic manuscript on paper, [Greece, 1636] 210 x 145mm. 24 leaves. Red initials and border decorations with extensive flourishing in red, headings and responses in red, 23 lines in a 17th-century Greek cursive bookhand (verso of final leaf in a different hand), colophon on final leaf dated June 1636 by the hieromonk, archbishop and archimandrite Auxentios [of Karpathos], deckle edges (light soiling, occasional wormholes, a few edges slightly frayed, quires strengthened at hinge). Modern boards (light stains on upper cover). Provenance: J.P.R. Lyell (1871-1948, bookplate). Nikolaos Malaxos was a 16th-century hymnographer and editor of hymnographical texts. The present manuscript contains a series of hymns addressed to the Virgin Mary and formed part of the library of the renowned book collector and bibliographer James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell. View on Christie's.com

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION -- OXFORDSHIRE. A memoranda book, possibly of deputy Rodolph Warcuppe, c.1580, containing transcripts (or possibly drafts) of approximately ten texts on the BREEDING AND KEEPING OF HORSES in Oxfordshire, including a commission of Elizabeth I, [1580] appointing commissioners to enquire into the breeding and keeping of horses for the defence of the realm, and affording them powers to appoint deputies; a letter to the deputies in the county of Oxon with itemised instructions on the same subject; 'A newe rate for the keping of horses in the County of Oxon' with names of those owning 'dimilaunces' and 'Light horses'; 'A new Improvement for the keping of horses in the County of Oxon' and 'a certificate of the parks, pastures and commons', with numerous entries listing the names of those owning horses, including Thomas Knollys and Elizabeth I's favourite Sir Henry Lee, and the places where horses are kept, arranged by Hundreds ('Woodstocke parke contayninge in circuit vii myles dothe appertayne to the Quenes ma[jes]tie Sr Henrye Lee Knight is lieutenant thereof, who kepethe a stallion, and xiiii mares of xv and xvi handfulls highe'), together 32½ pages, folio (some spotting, browning or wear to edges, inner edges laid down onto paper hinges); with two other contemporary manuscripts relating to the provisioning of the Queen's household from Oxfordshire, and a printed pamphlet, The Unfortunate Family, or, The Oxfordshire Wonder, London: J. Bradford, 1710. 8 pages, octavo (title frayed at margins, browned at edges). Modern wrappers. NOT IN ESTC. Provenance: the memoranda book ex-lot 241 in a catalogue of P.M. Barnard, bookseller. (4) View on Christie's.com

[CHARLES II -- THE ROYAL FISHING]. Letters patent issued by Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms, 13 December 1664, grant of arms to the 'Governor and Company of the Royall Fishing of Great Britain and Ireland', in English, illuminated manuscript on vellum, with arms of the company, three-sided foliate border with Walker's arms, large foliate initial and opening letters in gold, on one membrane, 560 x 805mm, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame, small hole affecting text, some slight cockling and fading of ink). Provenance: Frederick Arthur Crisp (1851-1922, antiquarian and publisher); sold Sotheby's, 5 December 1922, lot 409A (accompanying Lever Brothers Ltd correspondence recording the purchase, along with a catalogue entry dated 27 February [n.y.], lot 493A); private collection. The short-lived Company of the Royal Fishing had been incorporated by Charles II on 8 April in the same year, the first governor being his brother, James, Duke of York (Samuel Pepys was a founding member): its privileges included the sole power of licensing lotteries. The issuing herald, Sir Edward Walker (1612-1677), was briefly an owner of New Place, Shakespeare's house in Stratford, which he bought from the estate of the poet's granddaughter in 1675. View on Christie's.com

DOUGLAS, Norman (1868-1952). Autograph manuscript, n.d. [c.1941 and later], concerning his relations with D.H. Lawrence, 5½ pages, 4to, in half columns, cloth-covered portfolio. Douglas's article responds to a passage concerning him in Richard Aldington's Life for Life's Sake (1941) and revisits the controversy of his controversial 1925 article, D.H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: a Plea for Better Manners: Douglas denies that this was a response to Lawrence's 'playful caricature' of him in Aaron's Rod, 'I am far too tough to care tuppence what Lawrence or anybody else likes to say about me ... If I took notice of such low-class familiarities I should have more cause to be annoyed with Aldington himself who, in a recent novel, pictures me and another person ... as engaged (under the thinnest of disguises) in so disgusting a transaction that this old and intimate friend, more sensitive than myself, promptly broke off relations with him'. A further note resumes the subject at a later date in response to an article by Aldington in The Queen. View on Christie's.com

GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN. Autograph manuscript journal of Midshipman T.M. Taylor, H.M.S. Minerva, 3 January - 16 June 1915, describing the Eclipse class cruiser's operations on the Suez Canal Front, with the fleet operating off the Dardanelles, the 'Attack on the Narrows' (18 March), the blockade in the Gulf of Smyrna (April), the trapping of the torpedo boat Demir Hissar following its attack on the troop ship Manitou (16 April) and actions on attachment to the First Battle Squadron of the Gallipoli Fleet, supporting the attack on the southern end of the peninsula, 13 nautical charts and maps in pen and coloured inks tipped in or loosely inserted, including Dahab, the Gulf of Akaba (2), Tor, the Suez Canal (showing the position of allied warships and enemy troops, 4 February), Lemnos Island (Port Mudros), the Gallipoli Pensinsula, 'The Defence of the Dardanelles', 'Chase and Destruction of Turkish Torpedo-Boat "Timur Hissar" [sic] April 16th 1915 after her escape from Smyrna', the Gallipoli Peninsula (Southern Portion), the 'Daily Position of Southern Allied Line', and a drawing of a Sopwith Hydro-Biplane (occasional light spotting), 125 pages, folio, Stationer's Office Journal in regulation cloth, lettering piece 'S. 519 Journal For Use of Junior Officers Afloat' (slight wear). View on Christie's.com

[MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (founder of pathological anatomy, 1682-1771)] -- UNIVERSITY OF PADUA. Document conferring a doctorate in medicine on Carolus Antonius Gracius of Jadera, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, Padua, 4 April 1744. 241 x 173mm. 4 folios, text in black and gold, f.1v with recipient's armorial within full-page border of flowers and peacocks and crowned double-headed eagle, f.2 with similar full-page border and the lion of Venice, endorsements added on ff.3v-4 by university officials including Morgagni as holder of the first chair of anatomy (a few small wormholes). 18th-century Italian calf gilt (rebacked, light wear). With (loosely inserted): diploma granting a doctorate in jurisprudence to Carolus Venturini, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, University of Padua, 25 February 1715, 3 folios, issued in the name of Giovanni II Cornaro (1647-1722), Doge of Venice, with armorial and two full-page borders (some marginal worming), and, diploma attesting the doctorate of Johannes Antonius Casser, University of Padua, 30 March 1771, on a bifolium. (3) View on Christie's.com

SPENDER, Stephen (1909-1995). Collection of one autograph manuscript and six typescripts with autograph signatures or emendations, of poems, [c.1929], comprising 'MARSTON, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe' (title 'For J.M.F.' in autograph, signed), 'Elegy Lying awake at night' (signed), 'Hearing from its cage' (signed), 'ACTS thrust beyond the boundary of mere wishing' (emendations, signed), 'You that were constant April' (autograph), 'That girl who laughed and had black eyes' (inscribed 'For Douglas Jay from Stephen'), 'Saying "Good morning" becomes painful' (noted 'June 12. W.L.'), together 7 pages, 4to; with 10 further poems in unamended carbon copies, 9 on uniform folio leaves with title page 'Poems Stephen Spender', including one apparently unpublished poem, 'They went off six in the car and two on the running board' (minor wear and soiling at margins). The first four poems comprised Spender's contribution to Oxford Poetry, 1929 (under his own editorship); all, with the stated exception, were included in the privately-printed Twenty Poems (1930). The present texts show a number of variants from the published versions. View on Christie's.com

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Alice's Adventures Under Ground. [Camden, New Jersey: printed for Eldridge R. Johnson by Max Jaffe, Vienna, 1936]. 8° (186 x 118 mm). 37 illustrations by the author, 14 of these full-page, photographic portrait of Alice mounted on final leaf; loosely inserted leaf providing alternative ending of the text. Original limp green morocco gilt, original green slipcase (foot of spine chipped, joints rubbed, slipcase lightly rubbed). A PERFECT PRINTED FACSIMILE OF CARROLL'S FAMOUS MANUSCRIPT. In 1936 the American collector Eldridge R. Johnson arranged for this collotype facsimile of the original manuscript (which he purchased at auction in 1928 through Rosenbach) to be printed privately in a very limited run for presentation to friends. 'It is not too extravagant to say that this production is as near perfection as is possible for a printed facsimile' (Selwyn Goodacre and Denis Crutch in Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society, Autumn 1978). Following Johnson's death in 1944, the manuscript was offered again at auction and was again purchased by Rosenbach, who arranged for it to be presented to the British Nation through contributions from American subscribers. See Diane Waggoner, The Advent of Alice (Philadelphia, 1999) no. 10, pp. 17-18. View on Christie's.com

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Formulae. (Group C.). [Oxford: c.1878.] Cyclostyled bifolium (222 x 142mm). (A very few spots.) Without wrappers, as issued. RARE CYLOSTYLED PAMPHLET, WITH CARROLL'S MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN HIS CHARACTERISTIC PURPLE INK. ABPC records only the Falletta copy selling at auction in the past 30 years (Christie's 30 November 2005, lot 79). The formulas correspond to the topics in sections G and L of A Guide to the Mathematical Student in Reading, Reviewing, and Working Examples. All Dodgson's cyclostyle pamphlets were produced in unknown but small numbers. Mathematical Pamphlets 6; not in Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch. View on Christie's.com

CLEOMEDES (1st century or early 2nd century AD). \KKuklikh Qewria Eie Biblia B\k. Nunc primum typis excusa prodit. Paris: Conrad Neobarius [colophon: J. Lodoicus and D. Jacobus], 1539. Small 4° (191 x 143mm). (Some stains to early quires, quire \Ki\k misbound, spotting to final leaves, block split.) 19th-century limp boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Provenance: one early manuscript correction and a few pen marks. FIRST EDITION of Cleomedes's elementary two-part handbook of astronomy ('Circular Theory of the Heavens'). Using Posidonius as it's main authority, it describes the stoic view of the spherical cosmos, permeated by "pneuma" and surrounded by the limitless void ... with the spherical earth stationary at the centre' (DSB III, pp. 318-20). Adams C-2175. View on Christie's.com

GERSON, Johannes (1363-1429). De pollutione nocturna. [Cologne: Johann Guldenschaff, ca. 1480]. Chancery 4° (202 x 145mm). [A-B8], 1611. (the first blank), type 1:110G. Initial spaces, early underlining in red. (Grey staining to first 2 and last 6 leaves, some spotting, one corner torn, old repair to blank.) Late 19th-century cloth-backed boards (rubbed, endpapers stained). Provenance: Paul Graf von Hoensbroech (bookplate and blindstamp). One of Gerson's two treatises on sexual matters. The 15th-century manuscript title on the front blank of this copy lists the titles of both, indicating that it was at one time bound with De Pollutionibus Diuris (VK 490). Copinger 2691; Klebs 459.8; NLM 210; Polain 1629; VK 481; Wellcome 258; Goff G-260; not in BL. View on Christie's.com

JURIN, James (1684-1750). An Account of the Success of Inoculating the Small Pox in Great Britain, for the Year 1724. London: for J. Peele, [1725]. 8° (215 x 130mm). Half-title. (Somewhat creased.) Stitched as issued in contemporary marbled paper wrappers (creased), uncut -- An Essay concerning the Nature, Origin, and Progress of the Human Affections, tending to shew that they are not innate but acquired. London: sold by J. Newbery, 1758. 8° (218 x 142mm). Stitched in 20th-century blue paper wrappers, uncut. FIRST EDITION. ESTC N52639 recording two copies -- HENRY, Thomas (1734-1816). An Account of a Method of preserving Water, at Sea, from Putrefaction. Warrington: by W. Eyres for J. Johnson, 1781. 8° (225 x 145mm). Half-title inscribed 'From the author', 3 folding engraved plates, final two advert leaves. Stitched as issued in original marbled paper wrappers, uncut -- BOYLE, James. A Treatise on Syphilis. London: for Callow and Wilson, 1824. 8° (225 x 140mm). Final advert leaf. Original brown paper boads, uncut. Front endpaper inscribed 'To the Honble. Mr. Lumley with Mr. Boyle's compliments'; and 4 other scientific pamphlets, including a manuscript transcription. View on Christie's.com

PICASSO, Pablo. Le désir attrapé par la queue. Paris: by the author, 1941. 2° (315 x 238mm). Illustrated throughout. (Dampstain in the bottom margin affecting a few words in the bottom line of some leaves.) Original wrappers (staples detached, faint dampstain), early, possibly original glassine (worn and stained). Picasso's signature in pencil on the front blank. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY PICASSO. Published by the artist in small number of copies for friends and associates, and reproducing Picasso's manuscript and drawings for his first play, written during the first winter of the German occupation of Paris. Brassaï remarked that here Picasso 'gave free rein to dreams, obsessions, unavowed desires, comical connections between ideas and words, everyday banalities, the absurd. In it, Picasso's humor and inexhaustible spirit are displayed in their pure state.' (in Conversations with Picasso, Chicago, 1999, p. 200). The Germans authorities had forbidden Picasso to perform it, and it was at some risk that friends organized private performances in the apartment of Michel Leiris on 19 March 1944. Zanie de Campan took the leading female role, and other parts were read by Sartre, de Beauvoir, Raymond Queneau, and others, with Albert Camus directing. Gallimard published a trade edition in 1945. With: a program, with long introduction by Roland Penrose, for the October 1950 production at London's Watergate Theatre. View on Christie's.com

ZAMIRAILO, Viktor Dmitrevich (1868-1939). A pen and ink drawing for Evgenii Ivanov's Kot-Kolobrod i krysy [Tomcat and the Rats], 1928. Pen and ink on paper (155 x 220mm), a cat confronting a group of rats, captioned in ink 'ris.4 Dolgo kot i krycy staiali v takoe poze...', and another pencilled caption 'k rasskazu Kot-Kolobrod'. (Crease not affecting the image, light soiling on the verso.) Provenance: Lengiz Khudozhestvennoe Otdel (inventory stamp numbered 1725 in manuscript). Together with a first edition of Ivanov's book (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1928) reproducing the drawing on page 9. Rats Collection 219 (for the edition). View on Christie's.com

IVAN IV -- Sudebnik Gosudaria Tsaria i Velikago Kniazia Ioanna Vasil'evicha. [The Law Code of Ivan Vasilievich.] Moscow: at the Imperial University Press, 1768. 4° (240 x 190mm). (Light spotting.) Contemporary Russian mottled calf (spine caps chipped, corners rubbed). Provenance: Aleksandr Ivanovich Ivanov (stamps) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps) . FIRST EDITION. Ivan IV's reform of the law code shifted power from the aristocracy to State and local institutions. This edition was prepared by G.F. Miller from the manuscript owned by Vasilii Tatishchev. Bitovt 1638; SK 6936; Sopikov 11593. View on Christie's.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir -- ZIMMER, Dieter E. Vladimir Nabokov. Bibliographie des Gesamtwerks. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1963. 8° (190 x 115mm). Original wrappers (small round sticker on the front wrapper). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (presentation inscription to:) -- Dmitri Nabokov. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NABOKOV TO HIS SON DMITRI WITH A LONG MANUSCRIPT POEM. Nabokov inscribed this copy twice, at Christmas 1959 and Christmas 1963, once quoting Pasternak's 'Ia ves mir zastavil plakat' and once with a variant of his own poem that opens: 'Kakoe sdelal ia durnoe delo i ia-li razvratitel i zlodei Ia, zastavliaiushchii mechtat mir tselyi o bednoi devochke moei?' Zimmer's is the first comprehensive bibliography of Nabokov's works. View on Christie's.com

[Mordaunt (Elinor)] “A. Riposte”. Gin and Bitters first edition heavily marked up in pencil by the author with tipped-in sheet of autograph amendments original cloth New York Farrar & Rinehart 1931; and a copy of the withdrawn UK edition with inscription from the publisher Martin Secker on front free endpaper [Stott F30] housed together in custom morocco-backed cloth drop-back box 8vo (2) *** A fascinating work and even more intriguing publishing history. Gin and Bitters was published in America in 1931 a thinly veiled attack on Somerset Maugham via its central character Leverson Hurle a famous novelist who had travelled extensively in the Far East the title of the book itself an overt pastiche of Cakes and Ale. The book was published pseudonymously not long after Cakes and Ale and many initially assumed that it was written by Hugh Walpole in retaliation to Somerset Maugham`s caricaturing of him in that work. Walpole immediately wrote Somerset Maugham denying this and it seems the latter was relatively untroubled by the publication. However when it was announced that the work was to be published in the UK initially by Somerset Maugham`s own publishers Heinemann then Martin Secker he took the advice of his brother Frederic and issued a writ which was brought to bear upon the publishers and the book was withdrawn despite considerable alteration by Mordaunt. This lot comprises a copy of the original US edition with Mordaunt`s revisions and notes for the UK edition including a new working title (firstly apparently Traveller`s Tale) and a copy of the UK edition which has a manuscript note at the front by Martin Secker detailing the history of the work its withdrawal and the destruction of the remaining stock. Stott refers directly to this copy of Gin and Bitters and explains that most likely the author was motivated by her friendship with Thomas Hardy`s second wife who along with her husband was referred to unfavourably in Cakes and Ale as evidenced by some of the marginalia in this marked-up copy.(2)

Maugham (Robin) Conversations with Willie 2 vol. autograph manuscript drafts in lined ledgers original boards preserved in later red morocco-backed cloth slip-case [1977]; and a typescript précis for the same work with autograph corrections similarly bound plus a small group of file copy letters relating to the book folio (sm.qty) *** Robin Maugham`s own notes and drafts written in green & blue for the book Conversations with Willie with two working titles given: Behind the Mask: Conversations with Willie and Willie: Conversations with Somerset Maugham. These came from Peter Burton to whom the published version was dedicated.(sm.qty)

JAMES KIRKUP: THE SENSE OF THE VISIT, Sceptre Press 1984, 1st edn, orig wraps; together with a quantity of manuscript proofs with some correspondence between the editor Martin Booth, the publisher and the author

EDWARD LOWBURY: MASADA BYZANTIUM SELLE, ill John Bratby, Sceptre Press 1985, 1st edn, orig pict wraps + assorted manuscript proofs, agreements and correspondence with AL sigd from the author and a copy of the limited edn of this collection No 33 of 75 sigd by author and artist

J DRANE, NORWICH: CARBROOKE, manuscript and watercolour map 19th Century, 29 ½” x 18” + PLAN OF PART OF THE LAND OF THE LATE RICHARD WALKER WHICH IS TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT THE LIVERPOOL ARMS IN CASTLE STREET, manuscript plan circa 1802, approximately 14” x 17”, laid down + two relevant ptd and manuscript conditions of sale (4)

A 19th Century and earlier manuscript Cookery Book containing a large and varied assortment of culinary recipes + a few handwritten sheets loosely inserted, orig hf cf gt, edges slightly rubbed

A small Manuscript Notebook detailing a trip to Switzerland July-August 1910 by Felicia Spencer of Bridgeport, orig two-tone cl

(Aleister [formerly Edward Alexander] author and (Aleister [formerly Edward Alexander] author and occultist 1875-1947) Rondels & Songs &c. autograph manuscript signed miniature notebook in pencil 65pp. excluding blanks reverse entries autograph pencil inscriptions: “About 1898. or earlier AC.” and “E. Aleister Crowley fecit” and inscriptions in another hand: “Bought in Amsterdam?” in pencil and “Very early MSS by A.C./Early MSS A.C.” 1f. loose some slight browning upper hinges split original roan rubbed remains of paper on covers tail of spine chipped g.e. 70 x 48mm. [c. 1898]. *** Unpublished homoerotic verse by `The Great Beast` as a young man. Perhaps connected with or inspired by Jerome Pollitt Crowley`s intimate at Cambridge. “At the age of twenty [1895] Crowley went up to Trinity College Cambridge to study for the natural sciences tripos. . In October 1897 a fevered vision convinced him that all human endeavours are ephemeral with one exception - the magical tradition. He dedicated himself to esoteric studies and sought initiation by genuine magi. Poetry greatly attracted him and it was probably Shelley`s Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude that inspired Crowley to call himself Aleister a deliberate repudiation of his given name. In White Stains Crowley exhibited homosexual sentiments. He was intimate with Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt a young stage performer who came to mistrust Crowley`s `spiritual` ambition; they separated in 1898.” (Oxford DNB). Crowley still prefixes “Aleister” with “E[dward]”.

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) “Lewis Carroll”. Catal (Rev. C.L. Dodgson M.A.) [Sale Catalogue] title browned soiled and slightly stained 1 corner small piece torn away laid down lacks last f. replaced in facsimile a few pencil prices many ff. interleaved central folds new endpapers modern half cloth [Williams Madan Green & Crutch 502] 8vo [1898]. *** “The sale was well attended and successful: it occupied two days (lots 1-300 301-963) the books being sold on the second but the drawings and engravings were in the latter part of the first portion. Two copies of the 1865 Alice are lots 680 and 681 the former (with a twelve-line manuscript poem to M.A.B.) falling to Mrs. Bickmore for £50 the second fetching £24. The groups relating to Dodgson are lots 237-259a 680-726. Among the personal effects are a chronometer telescope chessmen a human skull a nyctograph and many of his photographs as well as a camera and fancy costumes for photographic purposes.” - Crutch.

Fougêre (J.L.) and C. Briquet. Oeufs des principau Fougêre (J.L.) and C. Briquet. Oeufs des principaux Oiseaux de France pictorial title in original watercolour ink and gouache manuscript tables of contents and 62 original watercolour illustrations all captioned in ink numbered tissue guards one detached facsimile of title mounted on chemise preserved in a modern drop-back cloth box offset lithographic pictorial title mounted on cover 4to France later 19th century.

(Sir Isaac) The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Se (Sir Isaac) The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series; with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-Lines translated and with commentary by John Colson first edition engraved plate (bound as frontispiece) errata f. with advertisement verso at end diagrams in the text 19th century ink ownership inscriptions to head of title and A2 hinges strengthened contemporary mottled calf rebacked preserving majority of original gilt backstrip in compartments spine ends restored to style crackling to covers [Babson 171; Gray 232; Norman 1595] a very good copy 4to Henry Woodfall 1736. *** `I thought it highly injurious to the memory and reputation of the great Author as well as invidious to the glory of our own Nation that so curious and useful a piece should be any longer suppress`d and confined to a few private hands` (Colson in his preface to the present work). Newton`s Methodus Fluxionum was originally written in 1671 but the Latin manuscript which before his death he entrusted to Dr. Henry Pemberton remained unpublished until Colson`s translation. In it Newton presents a method of determining the magnitudes of finite quantities by the velocities of their generating motions. Provenance: James Hamilton of Cornacassa Co. Monaghan; Dacre Hamiton of New Park Co. Monaghan (19th century ink inscriptions to title and A2).

Wilberforce (William philanthropist a leader of the anti-slavery movement 1759-1833) Autograph Letter signed to Thomas Harrison 2pp. with conjugate blank 8vo Suffolk Head 18th July 1812 “It is owing to a Succession of Hindrances which I have not time to detail to you... that on Thursday night very late it was agreed we should see Ld Bathurst today - I gave Notices myself fearful I could not convey them through Mr Stokes in due time. I rather wish`d to confer with you before our interview & perhaps it would have been as well to have you to accompany us but I cannot wait. I should have sent to you early this Mg & waited for you but for... vexations... alluded to in the Beginning of my Note” § Macaulay (Zachary slavery abolitionist 1768-1838) Autograph Letter signed to Thomas Harrison 3pp. 8vo Clapham 22nd October 1814 “A Second Edition of Mr. Wilberforce`s letter will be ready to send off on Tuesday. I will write to the printer about the mistake in Park`s name. There is however a much more material mistake in two places on which I wrote to the Duke of Wellington and Treullel & Wurtz begging they might either be corrected by a pen or the sheets might be cancelled. Mr Wilberforce wished a copy of his letter to go to said Ministers as Lord Liverpool & who are not members of our Institution” folds; and 2 others including: an original sketch by Thomas Stothard with ink inscriptions: “An Original Sketch by Thos Stothard - belonging to Chas. Aug. Tulk given me by my dear Mother 1859. C.L. Harrison”; Poem manuscript 1p. pencil inscription on accompanying sheet: “Lines Addressed to my Mother by the Poet W. Cunninghame” n.d. folds browned (4). (4)

(Charles poet and writer 1812-89) The Salamandri (Charles poet and writer 1812-89) The Salamandrine or Love and Immortality: a Romance autograph manuscript corrected by the author title and 150pp. written on rectos only numerous ink corrections slightly browned bookplate with initials CM on front pastedown original calf gilt rubbed sm. 4to last section inscription: “June 13th 20 minutes to three PM” 14th August 1841. *** `The Poet of the People` “Mackay believed passionately that poetry conveyed truths superior to those of political economy had an exalted view of his own calling as poet and looking back on his career in 1887 wrote that he was `painfully conscious` that his `worst` literary work had been the most popular while the best had received `slight or no recognition` (Mackay Through the Long Day 2.394).” - Oxford DNB.

ROBERT BURNS-ARRAN Distilled and bottled by Arran Distillers Ltd. Bottled to commemorate Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd. becoming Patron of the Robert Burns World Federation Limited on 25th January 2001. In original wooden presentation casewith Robert Burns manuscript "Scotch Drink". Single malt whisky, 70cl, 40% volume.

Burnett (M.A.) Plantae utiliores; or Illustrations vol.1-3 only (of 4) 192 hand-coloured lithographed plates (?of 240) list of subscribers in each vol. also manuscript index in contemporary hand bound in at beginning occasional spotting one plate in vol.1 foxed and torn (loose) contemporary ink signature at head of titles original cloth gilt g.e. a little rubbed spines faded lower joints of vol.1 split [Nissen 305] 4to 1842-45-[47].

Hewitson (William C.) Coloured Illustrations of th with Descriptions of Their Nests and Nidification 2 vol. with 353 original watercolour drawings of eggs on 307 sheets actual size neatly captioned in ink below with details of nest and typical number of eggs some foxing (more prevalent in vol.2) 3ff. letterpress Index printed on rectos only bound in at beginning of vol.1 also 2 manuscript leaves with title and verses Charles Browett`s copy with his name and address cut from envelope and mounted on front free endpaper magnificent contemporary red morocco with elaborate gilt borders spines gilt in compartments g.e. inner gilt dentelles slightly rubbed at edges joints and spine ends preserved in contemporary red roan dust-jackets spines titled in gilt spines and corners rubbed folio [c.1850].

(Sir John) The British Herbal: an History of Plant (Sir John) The British Herbal: an History of Plants and Trees Natives of Britain... engraved frontispiece title in red and black with engraved vignette 75 engraved plates illustrating numerous specimens manuscript index in contemporary hand on rear free endpaper crease to frontispiece some plates lightly offset but generally very clean contemporary reversed calf rubbed rebacked new red morocco label [Hunt 557; Nissen 881] folio T. Osborne and J. Shipton [&c.] 1756.

(Sir John) The Family Herbal 54 hand-coloured eng (Sir John) The Family Herbal 54 hand-coloured engraved plates a little browned some plates lightly offset onto facing ones old manuscript remedy for sprains rheumatism etc. loosly inserted contemporary tree calf upper joint split Bungay 1812 § Twining (Elizabeth) Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants... 2 vol. second edition 160 chromolithographed plates occasional foxing vol. 1 broken and loose original morocco-backed cloth gilt spines worn 1868 § Anderson (James editor) The New Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist 24 chromolithographed plates only (of 27) and 12 plain plates 7 double-page some spotting and soiling contemporary half morocco [c.1875] § Strutt (J.G.) Sylva Britannica engraved additional vignette title and 49 plates all on india paper and mounted foxed mostly to mounts inscription cut away from head of additional title and front free endpaper contemporary half morocco spine gilt for the author [1836] all rubbed or worn; and 2 others on gardening 8vo & 4to (7)(7)

Knowles (G.B.) and Frederic Westcott. The Floral C parts of the 3 vol. only with additional hand-coloured pictorial title title to vol.1 and 64 hand-coloured lithographed plates only 5 double-page tissue guards new pagination in manuscript foxing to a few plates modern morocco-backed cloth spine gilt [Nissen 2229] 4to 1837; sold not subject to return