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PALMERSTON VISCOUNT: (1784-1865) British Prime Minister 1855-58, 1859-65 & GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., Palmerston, at the foot and George R, as King, at the head, one page, folio, Court at Carlton Palace, 3rd April 1822. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is addressed to the Paymaster General of the Guards, Garrisons and Land Forces and directs that Joseph Osborne be paid the sum of five shillings a day, being his Half-Pay as `a reduced Captain of the Nova Scotia Volunteers, an American Provincial Corps, upon which we are pleased to allow him to be replaced` from 25th December 1815 to 8th June 1816. Boldly signed by both the King and Palmerston. With integral leaf. VG

SALISBURY MARQUIS OF: (1830-1903) British Prime Minister 1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902 & VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. Unusual D.S., Salisbury, and Victoria R I, as Queen, both at the foot, two pages, folio, Court at Windsor Castle, 14th July 1879. The manuscript document is addressed to the President of the Dominican Republic and officially acknowledges receipt of their letter informing the Queen that he had taken office as President on 27th February, `having previously taken the Constitutional Oath before the Congress of the Nation`. The Queen continues to offer her `sincere congratulations upon this signal mark of the confidence reposed in you by the Dominican People, as well as the assurance of our earnest desire for the Welfare and Prosperity of the Republic….` With blank integral leaf. Three letter red stamp to the first page, only just touching a couple of words of text. VG. Cesareo Guillermo (1847-1885) President of the Dominican Republic March-July 1878 and February-December 1879.

WALPOLE ROBERT: (1676-1745) British Prime Minister 1721-42. Ink signature (`R Walpole`) on a small 4to portion removed from a document, Treasury Chambers, April 1721. The manuscript document bears several partial lines of text. Signed by Walpole at the foot and countersigned by Sir Charles Turner (Walpole`s son-in-law) and George Baillie. About VG

PELHAM HENRY: (1694-1754) British Prime Minister 1743-54. D.S., H: Pelham, one page, small 4to, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 7th September 1743. The manuscript document is addressed to Robert Walpole and is a warrant ordering the payment of £385 to Lord Lionel Cranfield, Duke of Dorset, being one quarter of his annuity of £1545 per annum. Signed by Pelham at the foot. A couple of small neat splits in the folds to the right edge and a small area of paper loss in the lower right corner, only just touching the conclusion of Pelham`s signature. A good association between two Prime Ministers. G

NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. D.S., Bonaparte, two pages, folio, Milan, 13th Nivose Year 5 (2nd January 1797), to General Baraguay d’Hilliers, on the attractive engraved letterhead of the Republique Franciase. The manuscript document, in French, states, in part, ‘You would please, Citizen General, give the order to have the two pieces of light artillery which are in Bergamo returned to Milan….I give the order to the General Rey to send the 30 horses of the 8th Dragoon Regiment to Bergamo. The moment they arrive you will have the 50 men of the 3rd Dragoon leave to rejoin their regiment at Villefranche, You will arrange the lodgings for the commander of the fort. I wish for the 30 horses to stay in the fort also….Have correct inventories taken because here again is a good occasion for certain people to steal. Hurry up to arm the fort and the moment that it is ready you will be able to return to Milan.’ Signed by Napoleon at the conclusion in his capacity as Commanding General of The Italian Army. With integral address leaf bearing the remnants of a red wax seal. Some very light, minor age wear at the edges, otherwise VG

BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Autograph Manuscript Signed, with his initials BP, two pages, 4to, n.p. (Kenya), n.d. (1939). The manuscript, titled Summary of Lord B-P`s case, is a medical diagnosis, in part, `My reason for being in Kenya is, on doctor`s advice, to avoid work owing to "tired heart". My scalp has had a skin ailment for the past two years, resulting from an abrasion through entering a low roofed car. Left leg has suffered from irritant sore spots for the past 18 months. Before leaving England 28 Oct 38 Dr. H. Davis applied X Rays to these, and also Radium to my R. eye….4 March Eczema showed itself on back and right arm. Since then it has developed on both hands and arms….Last week the irritation in both arms and leg was very great: both hands inflamed and oozing….The application of…ointment has had a soothing effect on the hands and arms, and curative effect on the scalp….In other respects I am in good health and the heart seems in good order.` Some light age wear at the folds, about VG. Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and was buried in 1941.

[Platearius (Joannes)] The Greate Herball which g black letter woodcut on title (made good in lower portion) first 10 leaves repaired with loss of occasional letters the book numbered throughout and with a 9-page manuscript index in a nice contemporary English hand added at end (bottom margins folded in by binder to avoid trimming) after this there are 5 and a half lines in a difficult hand probably an apothecary`s receipe on verso an intriguing 4 lines “...To change the old and popish name of prechynge...” scattered medical notes (eg “To drye milke in womens breasts”) throughout in the index hand 16/17th century inscriptions on title “Sum Jo: Standby” & “Deborah Cholmeley” bought from Dawson in 1981 for

Pratt (Anne) Flowering Plants Grasses Sedges of publisher`s file copy with a note Mr Britten`s Revised Manuscript of Volume 1 with Mrs Peerless` (nee Pratt) Report on the Plates inserted in 3 binding cases (1 2 and 4) the first with dust-jacket (very rare) 8vo 1899-1905.*** Extensive and very interesting alterations both by Britten and by Pratt in the event the editing of this new edition was given to Edward Step and Britten`s alterations seem not to have been used. John Britten was later to write Pratt`s obituary (J. Bot. 1894). A number of letters are inserted and a pencil sketch of the title-page. (3)

Pulteney (Richard) A Catalogue of some of the more published in the 2d Edition of Hutchins` History of Dorsetshire copied in manuscript from the printed Edition by Wm Knott Surgeon Wimborne manuscript title and 146pp. excluding blanks title loose a few botanical specimens loosely preserved some browning contemporary half calf rubbed corners worn upper cover detached folio [1850s].

[Rake (T. Beaven)?] Venation in leaves. With Speci manuscript in ink upward of 300 nature printed plates of which some 60 are coloured by hand contemporary half calf front cover off bookplate of T. Beaven Rake with crest and motto “Semper virtute constans” by Dolby of Regent St. on front pastedown bought from Lawson in 1968 for

Botanic Society of London.- Sowerby (James De Carl Botanic Society of London.- Sowerby (James De Carle naturalist and artist 1787-1871) & others. [Subscription book for the foundation of the society] signed by Philip Barnes first Chairman of the society manuscript in several hands 79pp. excluding blanks reverse entries browned bookplate of W. Sowerby on front pastedown original green vellum soiled covers splayed red morocco label gilt rubbed 25th May 1838; Home (The) Scientific & Literary Society [Account and subscription book] manuscript 85pp. 1f. loose browned another small notebook relating to an earlier society and mentioning several members of the Sowerby family including George Brettingham Sowerby the second (1812-84) conchologist and artist loosely inserted hinges weak original straight-grain leather notebook rubbed spine with tears 1875-1900; small 4to & 8vo *** First mentioned: “Mr. [Philip] Barnes having shewn the importance and great want of Botanical Gardens in this Metropolis - proposed as the best means of supplying such a desideratum to all lovers of that branch of natural history... the formation of a Society for the purpose of establishing Botanical Gardens in the Inner Circle of Regents Park now occupied as a Nursery Ground by Mr. Jenkins... .” - Subscription Book. The Royal Botanical Society was founded in 1838 and “had gardens occupying a portion of the inner circle in Regent`s Park formerly Jenkins`s Nursery. They consisted of 18 acres and were laid out by Robert Marnock with rock winter and landscape gardens also a lake and an artificial mound all made in the style of the `natural` school. For 30 years the Society`s Secretary was J. de. C. Sowerby eldest son of the author of Sowerby`s English Botany.” - Weinreb and Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia. (3)

Salmon (J.D.) Flora of Surrey 3 copies 2 folding coloured maps original light or dark green cloth the third copy interleaved and extensively annotated by James Britten half calf broken 1863; Notes on the Botany of Surrey manuscript notebook c.60pp monogram W.S.C. to front pastedown this perhaps the author original cloth worn 1882 (c.60)

Selby Family.- Brodrick (Elizabeth ?member of the family of John Prideaux Selby 1788-1867) [Album] 111 watercolours of moths manuscript captions most in ink tissue guards loose autograph manuscript notebook 16pp. excluding blanks original limp roan loosely inserted in pocket at front also 2 other watercolours of moths loosely inserted original straight-grained morocco gilt rubbed corners and edges worn spine defective 4to n.d. [mid nineteenth century]. *** The notebook makes numerous references to Brodrick`s family and where she found various specimens: “Butterflies Drawn from my Mother`s Collection”; “Given to me by G. Selby”; “Given to me by Uncle Selby”; “Crocalis... taken by my Mother at Twizell [House Northumberland]”; “Bought of a poor Woman at Stockport 1850”; other places mentions include Rotherfield St. Leonards-on-Sea and Ramsgate.

Sheldrake (T.) Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of letterpress title 111 (of 118) engraved leaves each with hand-coloured floral roundel with text beneath according to Henrey the plates numbers are partly engraved partly in manuscript but there are none at all here (an inserted list suggests the missing plates are nos.4-6 87 89 95 & 105) also lacking the folding table half calf repaired folio [Henrey 1312] folio J. Millan [1759]. *** A work very prone to imperfection; of the copies sold at auction in the last 35 years only one was complete (Christies 2001 $30 000) the plate roster of the 6 others is 104 109 and 111 (4 copies). The work was issued in parts and 400 plates were advertised; perhaps the last 2 parts were not properly distributed as the work came to a premature end.

(Sir James Edward) Icones Pictae Plantarum Rarioru (Sir James Edward) Icones Pictae Plantarum Rariorum 18 fine hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby English text (the work was available with either Latin or English or both) early manuscript title (the work was never finished and a printed title is found only on the wrappers which are not present here) old marbled boards cloth spine somewhat worn folio [Henrey 1345] [London Impensis Auctoris] 1790-93.

(Mary Anne botanist and illustrator 1845-1927 w (Mary Anne botanist and illustrator 1845-1927 wife of T.R.R. Stebbing zoologist and Church of England clergyman 1835-1926) [2 Albums of seedlings] c.530 watercolours and drawings recording the growth of seedlings and cuttings autograph manuscript captions and many with notes giving a brief history of the seedlings mounted on album leaves most dated some with locations various sizes laid down 1 vol. ink inscription: “Mary A. Stebbing Ephraim Lodge on The Common Tunbridge Wells” slightly browned and foxed in a few places original half roan gilt corners and edges rubbed lacks spines oblong 4to 6th May 1882 - 29th May 1920. *** “Mary Anne Stebbing... a capable botanist and illustrator.” (Oxford DNB). Youngest daughter of W.W. Saunders author of Refugium botanicum was married to the zoologist T.R.R. Stebbing. She was one of the first women to become and FLS and was an enthusiastic botanist attempting to illustrate British flora in watercolour. Most of her drawings were destroyed by fire but there are some at Kew. The commonest caption is Tunbridge Wells several weeds were gathered at the High Rocks an attractive feature of the common. Other captions include: “sown in hot bed at Mrs. Coulson`s seeds from Ceylon”; “from Cyprus WPDS”; “4 Cleveland Gardens Ealing” “seeds from ditch nr. Ipswich” etc. Seedlings include: Plum Sloe Cherry Tree Lupin Acacia Laburnam Red Chestnut Geraneum etc Provenance: Bought from Wheldon & Wesley in 1986.

Strickland (Charlotte and Juliana Sabina of Apperley Court Deerhurst Gloucestershire c. 1759-1833 and c. 1765-1849) [Select] Specimens of British plants vol. 5 from a series of 12 53 fine botanical watercolours on `papier-velin` manuscript captions at head of watercolours tissue guards autograph manuscript 50pp. and 2pp. index very slight browning and offsetting original blue morocco gilt Greek key pattern border slightly rubbed and faded lettered as “British Botany vol. 5” on spine folio [c. 1797-1809]. *** “Select specimens of British plants is a large folio sized work dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. The editor Strickland Freeman intended that it should be issued in periodical numbers each to contain five plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress. Only two numbers appear to have been published. All the plates are by the editor`s sisters-in-law Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland.Regarding these illustrations Freeman tells us that some beautiful drawings of British plants executed by these two ladies had frequently attracted his attention. Strickland Freeman (1754-1821) lived at Fawley Court Hambledon Buckinghamshire and was the author of several books on horses and horsemanship. In 1781 he married his cousin Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Sir George Strickland Bart. of Boynton Yorkshire. His sisters-in-law Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland never married.At the beginning of the nineteenth century they left Boynton and established themselves at Apperley Court Gloucester where they remained until Charlotte died on 2 June 1833 and Juliana Sabina on 21 September 1849 at the ages of seventy-four and eighty-four respectively. The work of these two talented sisters was highly praised by Sir J.E. Smith who referred to `those exquisite elaborate plates published by Strickland Freeman Esq. and said to be the performances of two ladies who certainly rank as artists in the first line.`“ - Henrey.Another vol. located at The University of Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Taylor (George) A Collection of the Cryptogamia Cl made principally by Mr. Geo. Taylor Congleton in the years 1785 & 86 (when death obliged him to leave it imperfect) for the Rev. Jon[an]t[hon] Wilson who added a few more manuscript title signed by James Crabtree the scribe 2 leaves manuscript index 44 leaves with between 0 and 8 specimens each named contemporary quarter rough calf bit worn 8vo 1785 [- 90?] *** A Rev. Jonathan Wilson who was inducted to St. James Congleton in 1846 was perhaps a relative.

Tradescant (John) Musaeum Tradescantianum; or a C coat of arms frontispiece 2 portraits by Hollar obscure inscription dated 1657 on frontis verso Narcissus Luttrell`s copy with his cypher stamped on title verso date 1696 added in manuscript bookplate of Joshua Smith Stoke Park who may well have had the book bound bought at Lawson in 1980 (invoice inserted) early 19th century straight-grain red morocco g.e. a little rubbed 8vo [Wing 2005] 1656 ***Agrees with the Macclesfield copy (lot 2009) in having 24pp. prelims (A8 a4) rather than the 28pp. called for by ESTC which probably includes an alleged inital blank and the frontispiece.

Turner (William) A New Herball; The Seconde Parte joyned also a book of the bath of Baeth in Englande; [Brunschwig (Hieronymus)] A most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Apothcarye...translated out of the Almaine specehe into English by Jhon Hollybush 3 vol. in 1 black letter first title within fine woodcut border (just trimmed at head; as is the copy used for the Chapman & Tweddle reprint) with the reading `Cum` in the imprimatur (ESTC records only 2 copies thus probably due to incorrect reporting) 2nd part with the blank leaf but without the errata slip sometimes pasted in numerous text woodcuts of plants (copied from those in the octavo Fuchs of 1542) early manuscript prices of 20s and 5s on first title with 18th century name: John Howard on the last page of the Apothecary an index of diseases in a contemporary English hand few waterstains but nice copies 18th century English calf spine somewhat worn and chipped at head slightly wormed at foot folio [STC 24365; 24366; 13433; Henrey 366 & 367] London S. Mierdman [sold by John Gybken] 1551; Cologne [heirs of] Arnold Birckman 1562-61 (4) *** “Turner was the first in Britain to light his torch at the flame of the pioneer herbalists on the continent and breaking away from authority and supersition to describe British plants from his own observation and experience” J.S.L. Gilmour quoted by Henry p.21. According to Chapman and Tweddle in their recent reprint (a copy of which is included in the lot) for first records of British flora it is useless to go behind Turner and some 300 British plants were first described by him; “the father of British botany”. (4)

Witter (John Arthur 1830-95) Wild Flowers 3 vol. 276 botanical watercolours with manuscript captions calligraphic titles and 9pp. of contents some slightly browned original calf gilt rubbed 8vo 1871-95. *** “Preface. These flowers were painted by my father John Arthur Witter (1830-1895) during a period of 24 years the earlier ones being dated 1871 and the last bearing the date 1895 the year of his death. Most of the specimens were gathered in the Counties of Northumberland Durham and Cumberland. He took particular pains to show the root and the natural growth of the plant. I have included both the few garden flowers that he painted and some unfinished drawings. One or two paintings of my own that I have ventured to add are signed with my own initials H.Witter.”

Yorkshire & Elsewhere.- British Wild Flowers an album of 233 fine botanical watercolours with manuscript captions and some with notes many with place where recorded 2pp. of manuscript index all laid down a few with tissue guards some browning and soiling mostly at edges where glued a few with some foxing some ff. loose or working loose card of Dr. Herbert Towgood loosely inserted free endpapers loose original half calf extensively rubbed joints split spine worn 4to July 1845 - August 1847. *** The majority of the plants painted are in the area of Thornton-le-Dale in Yorkshire; other places include Goathland Hessle Scarborough Beverley (Yorkshire); Kingthorpe (Lincolnshire); Aylesbury Chipping Norton and Brighton.

Berlandier (Jean Louis) [Plant Specimens from his 2 large specimens contemporary manuscript labels collected in ‘nuevo Leon’ cloth box from the Sir Thomas Phillipps-Robinson collection sold at Chiswick Auctions in Jan. 2006 [Mexico 1844] *** Thomas Phillipps bought a large number of mss from the Berlandier collection sharing them (involuntarily) with the British Museum; see Munby Studies IV p.67. This is perhaps a stray from Phillipps MS. 15507 Botany of Mexico or 15527 Catalogue des plantes medicinales.

Flintoft (James) Specimens of British Mosses in th printed title 31 leaves with c.48 specimens manuscript captions original blue cloth gilt title on front cover by Charles Thurnam of Carlisle with his ticket spine a bit worn and repaired Keswick [c.1850].

[Collection of Birds Eggs] The Egg-Collector`s Ref 56 leaves printed with bird names in columns with `no. in clutch` etc. manuscript details of an extensive collection of birds` eggs (especially Cuckoos) original cloth backed printed boards between 1894-1906. *** The collector had a cast of a Great Auk and 70 Guillemots from Bempton Cliffs and St. Kilda. Compare the NHM who under the same title have “Two printed catalogues with manuscript notes in an unknown hand listing eggs collected in Beritan and Europe 1879-1908”.

(John naturalist of Uxbridge Middlesex 1821-19 (John naturalist of Uxbridge Middlesex 1821-1908) The Flora of Uxbridge & its Vicinity being a list of species gathered within a radius of 7 miles as the crow flies... arranged after Symes` Ed. of English Botany autograph manuscript signed by the author 201pp. (including 2pp. index) later ink inscription on fly-leaf slightly browned hinges weak later half sheep extensively rubbed spine defective head and tail of spine with loss sm. 4to Uxbridge Common 1844. *** “This MS. note-book of the Flora of Uxbridge and the neighbourhood written by my late uncle John Benbow F.L.S. was bought at the sale of his effects some months after his death in 1908 by my brother A.C. Bird and given to me by him. I have since had it bound. W.H.B. Bird.”

Bentham (G.) Handbook of the British Flora 1 vol. bound in 2 first edition interleaved throughout c.350 watercolours on the interleaves by the Rev. A.C. Smith (1822-98 Naturalist Rector of Yatesbury Wilts) with manuscript notes of date and location half calf rubbed 8vo 1858. *** For another book similarly extra-illustrated see first Walpole sale lot 50. Smith is best known as the author of The Birds of Wiltshire 1887. Many of the plants were named by the Rev. T.A. Preston author of The Flowering Plants of Wilts 1888.

Braithwaite (R.) Sphagnaceae Britannicae Exsiccata printed title and index facsimile dedication from author`s handwriting 53 leaves of actual specimens mounted on thick paper with manuscript labels original half red cloth by Fisher & Stidstone of 13 Moorgate St. with their label prospectus for Braithwaite`s book tipped in ties defective minor wear but in good state folio London Clapham Rise 1877. *** “The prospectus said there would be 50 copies at 25 shillings each though in the end there were 66 sets” - Sayre pp.184-5.

Callaway (Arthur) A Memorial of his First Botanica 40 hand-coloured plates by Sowerby interleaved with manuscript comments and quotations half leather rubbed bookplate of Cardross Grant with `stand sure` motto 8vo 1847. *** Subtitle; List of Forty of the Plants found near the Railway Station at Reigate. William Tiffin Iliff 1798-1876 MD FLS collected plants also in Syria and the West Indies which are at Kew.

Catalogus Plantarum manuscript title and 77pp. excluding blanks ruled in red and black throughout index tabs slightly browned original blind-stamped reverse calf extensively rubbed some surface wear joints splitting spine worn oblong 4to [late eighteenth century]. *** Areas include: Albury Burwood Park St. George`s Hill Kew Bridge in Surrey and other places including Windsor Weymouth Ilfracombe Quarr Abbey Isle of Wight etc.

(Charlotte B. watercolourist) Wild Flowers painte (Charlotte B. watercolourist) Wild Flowers painted from Nature... hand-coloured lithographed plate with presentation inscription from her sister Eliza and 64 watercolours of wild flowers (5 loose) and another loose watercolour in ?another hand most with manuscript captions some very slight browning and/or foxing affecting a very few pp. ink inscription on front free endpaper foxed and slightly dusty original half morocco rubbed 4to 1844-53. *** Painted in St. Leonards and “Up Park” in Sussex in Emsworth Leigh and Hayling Island in Hampshire Tenbury in Worcestershire Ludlow Castle in Shropshire and West Abbington Coombe Royal and Farringdon in Devon.Bought from Charles W. Traylen in 1981.

(John F.L.S. 1791-1862) Sketchbook of mostly Fre (John F.L.S. 1791-1862) Sketchbook of mostly French studies numerous landscapes figure and animals studies many of or around Nice including 3 finished watercolours another similar of Mont Blanc this also with a key overlay a double-page watercolour of Torquay and a finished botanical study of an arum arisarum a contemporary pencil sketch of the statue Venus Victrix de Milo which Curtis saw being unpacked in 1821 with 2 annotated manuscript plans of Nice and environs by Curtis autograph notes on colouring and his cut signature dated 1859 when he was already blind these loosely inserted over 80 watercolours and pencil sketches most mounted on album leaves some drawn on directly a few loosely inserted many captioned half-roan album over marbled boards worn backstrip splitting signed by Curtis on front pastedown small oblong 4to c.1820-1850s.

?D[alton] (S.) Weeds Drawn from Nature & Classed i 2 vol. autograph manuscript titles and 91pp. & 4pp. index 91 fine botanical watercolours all with Berkenhout references tissue guards vol.2 inner hinges weakening some slight foxing and browning vol.I bookplate of John Dalton (chemist and natural philosopher 1766-1844) front pastedown and another later bookplate of Thomas Folliott Powell (Captain 1817-85) on front free endpaper original vellum gilt soiled and slightly stained corners and edges rubbed rebacked with the original spines laid down labels with initials “S.D.” 4to 1790.

(Rev. Leicester perpetual curate of Criggion nea (Rev. Leicester perpetual curate of Criggion near Shrewsbury religious writer amateur naturalist contributed to J.E. Leefe`s paper “Salicetum Britannicum” 1813-97)] [Salices] 115 pencil drawings of willows most with autograph manuscript notes most tipped-in foxed and browned slightly soiled original straight-grain morocco gilt rubbed corners bumped 4to drawings dated 1858-62. *** Had a salicetum; plants and letters at Kew.

Dodoens (R.) A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plante title within woodcut border numerous woodcuts of plants misprints on title and colophon corrected by printer as usual (see Henrey) a somewhat soiled copy old tear on *6 and some letters made good in manuscript several leaves just trimmed margins of last few leaves of index a bit frayed last leaf with early inscriptions: by me John Gilpin and Bind & Clasp my 2560 later inscription Eliz. Peach on title verso bought from Hammond in 1973 (invoice and description inserted) 17th century English calf repaired clasps missing folio [Henrey 110; STC 6984] London [Antwerp] Dewes 1578. *** The second inscription is presumably a binder`s note with his order number; they occur from time to time usually at the end and often upside down; but I have never seen one as early as this.

Dutton (Thomas) British Phaenogamous Botany part 1 comprising Pen and and Ink Sketches...British Plants...Natural Orders Ranunculacae [etc.] c.150 sketches captioned and with manuscript index half roan worn contents lettered 4to 1851. *** We are unable to trace the author; he describes himself on title as MLBS perhaps a member of the London Botanical Society.

Flintoft (James) Specimens of British Mosses in th [a collection of different issues] 8 vol. 6 with printed titles numerous specimens manuscript captions loosely inserted a copy of N.F. Ellison`s paper on Flintoft original blue cloth gilt (one in red) titles on front covers 4to Keswick [c.1850-70]. *** Comprises 2 copies: title with “prepared by James Flintoft” plain blue cloth spines unlettered both with Charles Thurnam binder`s labels 30 and 50 leaves [c.1850]; 1 copy title with “prepared and arranged” and within border of type ornaments blue cloth with spine title front cover title within decorative border 1858; 3 copies title with “prepared and arranged” in old English type cloth blocked as preceeding 2 blue 1 red [c.1860-70]; and 2 others without titles one perhaps a very early example.(8)

[Forbes (James)] Salictum Woburnense: Or A Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign in the Collection of The Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey one of 50 copies folding lithographic frontispiece 140 hand-coloured plates presentation inscription of The Duke of Bedford and manuscript notes of William Adam dated 1830 to endpaper bookplate of William Patrick Adam Blair Adam Library to pastedown title and frontispiece spotted later half morocco gilt by Thomson of Edinburgh t.e.g. upper hinges cracked 4to [Nissen 642] 1829. *** William Adam (1751-1839) was a politician and advocate and from 1802 was an auditor to the sixth Duke of Bedford. (Oxford DNB)

Game Book.- P[ayne] (H[arry] A[lfred] of Elm House Enville Stourbridge South Staffordshire) Game Book manuscript numerous pp. a few photographs of gamekeepers loosely inserted slightly browned original calf gilt worn brass clasp and corner pieces lacks spine thick oblong 4to 13th December 1876 - 7th October 1922.

Gardiner (William) A Selection of British Ferns an manuscript half-title manuscript title with decorative fern bouquet list of contents 38 leaves of mounted specimens captions mostly with location and date in Gardiner`s hand contemporary half roan somewhat worn [Hall & Rickard pp.38-39 not seen cited from Simpson] folio Dundee 1848. *** Only the Kew copy on Copac (dated 1850 and one less specimen).

Gardiner (William) A Selection of British Ferns an manuscript half-title manuscript title with decorative fern bouquet manuscript list of contents 39 leaves of mounted specimens captions mostly with location and date in Gardiner`s hand contemporary half roan somewhat worn signature of Mrs. Baier Burman House Baldovan (outskirts of Dundee) bought from Maggs with their cost code at the end [Hall & Rickard pp. 38-39 not seen cited from Simpson] folio Dundee 1849. *** Only the Kew copy on Copac (dated 1850 and one less specimen).

Gardiner (William) The Flora of Forfarshire frontispiece original green cloth repaired London & Edinburgh 1848; Native Plants of Forfarshire to accompany the Flora manuscript title with floral decoration 38 leaves with numerous pressed plants ms. captions include dates and locations leaf of index at end original half roan worn Dundee 1848 folio (2)(2)

Gerard (John) Catalogus Arborum Fruticum ac Planta 13 leaves woodcut coat-of-arms of Sir Walter Raleigh the dedicatee on title verso a washed copy the text leaves skilfully repaired with some letters made good (see especially C2 & 4 D1) 19th century calf gilt rather worn [Henrey 153] 1599; and copies of two reprints folio *** Second edition of the first garden catalogue. Of the first edition 1596 only a single copy is known. Copac lists a second copy of this at NHM but this is a manuscript not the printed book.(3)

Gerard (John) --- 16th century English School John full length portrait of the herbalist in Elizabethan costume standing before a curtain his right hand holding three flowers and resting on a table upon which lies an open volume of a manuscript herbal next to a quill and inkwell titled as given upper left with Gerard`s arms and the date at upper right oil on wood panel 350 x 235mm. (13

Grey Family (of Bradgate Park Leicestershire) Game Book printed with manuscript insertions 381pp. excluding blanks 2ff. with tears slightly browned upper hinge broken A.L.s. from Edward Fines of Enville Hall loosely inserted original half morocco gilt rubbed oblong 4to 1st September 1821 - 14th December 1861 [probably 1850s]. *** Mentions the Earl of Stamford Grey General Heron Lord W. Thynne etc. shooting at Bradgate Park and elsewhere.

(Allan B. of Southfields Sowerby Thirsk) [Diary (Allan B. of Southfields Sowerby Thirsk) [Diary and Natural History Notes] autograph manuscript numerous pp. in ink and pencil a few ff. loose or working loose slightly foxed and browned hinges weak original cloth rubbed spine rubbed and splitting thick 8vo 1890-1906. *** Detailed obsservations by an amateur naturalist.Diary entries noting where numerous plants are to to be found in Scotland and the countryside around Thirsk the effect of the weather and local fauna “Wedny June 22. [c. 1895]. Fine day but a trifle dull without much wind. In the afternoon R & I went off... to Sutton Bank. Wild dog roses just coming into flower. Some lovely briars in full bloom especially near Kilburn Lane. First strawberry ripe in the garden.” Notes include: “Flora of Ben Lawers District”; “Flora of Silverdale & Arnside as found... 1889”; “English Lake District”; “Epping Forest”; “Thirsk Natlists Club” etc.

A Specimen of Sussex Plants or a Description of on A Specimen of Sussex Plants or a Description of one hundred Plants growing in this County autograph manuscript title and 260pp. Index 33pp. and Abbreviations 11pp. 100 monochrome wash watercolours of plants ink inscription on front free endpaper: ÒLeonora Markwick Dic: br 15th 1778Ó [later Mrs. John Tilden Sampson of Battle fl. 1778-1817] further ink inscription on front pastedown: ÒMr. John Addley. A gift from Mrs. Harriet England 1886Ó some foxing and browning heavy on a few ff. hinges a little weak and splitting original calf-backed boards extensively worn but holding joints splitting chipped at head and tail of spine spine cracking 4to 1778.

McNicoll (D.) A Handbook for Southport 3 copies second edition 1 hand-coloured plate (complete) (the first edition has 3 plates) original red or green cloth gilt rather worn 1861 ¤ Petty (Lister) Plants Noticed in the Neighbourhood of Broughton in Furness Flora manuscript on paper 12 folio leaves folded 1887; and a bundle of similar manuscripts including Silverdale; and 2 others similar 8vo (7)(7)

(Rev. William curate of Bottesford Leicestershir (Rev. William curate of Bottesford Leicestershire helped George Crabbe with his work on “The Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir” particularly fossils d. 1811) & George Crabbe (poet and Church of England clergyman 1754-1832)] Fossilia et Petrificata Leicestriensia... Zoolithus... Bivalviae... autograph manuscript in both hands most Mounsey 31pp. in ink and 1p. and notes in ?Crabbe`s hand in pencil pen and ink map of “Map of a few miles round Bottesford” and 87 pages of pencil drawings of fossils some ff. torn and repaired slightly browned later front endpaper loose with printed label of The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland later morocco extensively rubbed lacks upper cover small 4to [c.1780s - 90s]. *** William Mounsey numbers among the very few eighteenth century systematic palaeontologists and this manuscript must be a particularly early example of of this type of work. The fossils figured are mostly Jurassic vertebrates ammonites gastropods bivalves belemnites etc. but there are some Rhaetian fossils and a few which must come from the drift.

(M[ary 1814-98 and] E[mma 1822-77 flower painte (M[ary 1814-98 and] E[mma 1822-77 flower painters daughters of Robert Osborn nurserymanand seedsman of Fulham c. 1780-1868)] [An important collection of British Flowers] 4 vol.of watercolours (& others loose) & 1 vol. manuscript notebook with several other manuscriptnotes loosely inserted 541 highly accomplished and finely executed botanical watercolours(including 39 watercolours of Irises) 464 watercolours in four vol. and the rest loose with manuscript captions dates and some with initials “MO” and “EO” (most by Mary Osborn) some slightly browned and a notebook containing miscellaneous botanical notes and a manuscriptindex to the drawings (33pp. of notes and 61pp. of index) and another manuscript indexrecording the locality of the specimens and dates 27pp. vol. III & IV bookplates of Walpoleon front pastedowns original half calf extensively rubbed joints weak and workingloose folio 1839-67*** Identified by Michael Walpole as Mary and Emma Osborn hitherto unstudied this lot comeswith his extensive research notes. An exceptional series of watercolours complete with an index recording in most cases the locality of the specimens and dates collected.The manuscript index is a copy of the index to Withering (1830) and it would appear that as eachpainting was completed the volume and plate numbers were entered against the appropriateplant in the index. This complete index includes much information omitted from individualdrawings; especially locality details; “Arobranche minor 4.p. 97 In a geranium potFulham Nursery. Probably bought from Epping Forest or Wimbledon Common in the soil. May 21863.” Robert Osborn was gardener and land steward toJohn Penn of Stoke Park in Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire and all of his children were bornin the area. “Mary and Emma were to become well known as amateur flower painters.” (Willson. WestLondon Nursery Gardens). Osborn also was Penn`s steward of the Manor of Eton and there areseveral references by Emma and Mary to having collected plants in both of these areas and mostof which are undated but are probably prior to 1833 when Osborn became a partner with ReginalWhitley of the Fulham Nursery. After 1833 the records are mainly from the London and the southeast including 120 watercolours of plants cultivated in the nursery at Fulham. During the1850s plants were collected by them and on their behalf by Mr. Chowles Captain Crowther Mr. Donand Miss King areas including Box Hill in Surrey the New Forest and during the period1866-70 a number of Welsh localities are recorded. Emma`s last drawing is dated 1870 andMary`s 1880. “Whitley and Osborn received high praise from JCLoudon for the care with which they named their plants. In 1840 their catalogue contained 1 400species and varieties `of every one of which without a single exception they have plants intheir nursery or had at the time the Catalogue was published. Three years later Loudon commentedon their Catalogue of Hardy Trees and Shrubs as `Undoubtedly the most complete catalogue of hardytrees and shrubs that was ever published in this or in any other country`. Robert Osborn... diedaged eighty-three on February 23rd 1866... . In his obituary in The Gardener`s Chronicle... he isdescribed by one of his customers as `good kind upright Mr Osborn of Fulham... He was a perfectgentleman in mind and manner indeed in the highest sense of that word.`“ - Willson. WestLondon Nursery Gardens. Provenance: (1). Sotheby`s 1963; (2) Charles W.Traylen June 1964 (3) The loose botanical drawings were subsequently acquired from Mrs.A.M. and Miss B.M. Tomkins descendants of the Osborn family in late 1964.Condition report:(Mary 1814-98 and Emma 1822-77 daughters of Robert Osborn nursery and seedsman of Fulham c. 1780-1868) [An important collection of watercolours of British Flowers]

[Paley F.A.] The Wild Flowers of Dover the Cyril West-McLintock copy recent cloth Dover [1855]; Botany of Dover manuscript on paper c.80 leaves engraved maps tipped in wrappers worn 1847 (4)

GEORGE BORROW: ROMANTIC BALLADS TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, Norwich, 1826, 1st edn, inscr, hf ttl, subscribers list, manuscript translation of poem contained in the book loosely inserted, old hf cf, worn

JANE CROSFIELD: Two Victorian Manuscript Volumes, one titled GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES AND GLIMPSES OF THE ANCIENT EARTH, containing fine Copperplate manuscript, accompanied with well executed pen and ink drawings, the second Vol dated 1851 with similar fine Copperplate manuscript, pen, ink and wash, comparative charts, pen, ink and watercolour Geological Map of England and maps of Italy, Ireland, England, Wales, Sweden, Norway, Greece and further pencil drawings, etc, both Vols old hf cf, gt, worn and spines damages, (2)

DAVIES, Edwin, A General History of the County of Radnor, illus numerous engravings, compiled from manuscript of Rev Jonathon Williams, pub Brecknock 1905, cloth binding, poor condition (1)

A 16th Century Manuscript Indenture, possibly circa 1557, signed with a single seal (covered in paper), relating to land

A large 18th Century manuscript regarding a Mortgage held by Elizabeth Clarke and her daughter, Mary Clarke, signed with five seals (dated 18.5.1725)

THE MYSTERY OF THE BURNT COTTAGE, Sangorski and Sutcliffe presentation binding, half brown morocco over marbled boards together with eight other Five Finder-Outers Mystery Series titles, all in similar crimson and green presentation bindings, manuscript note in Enid Blyton`s writing laid into "The Mystery of the Strange Bundle", fine (9)

HOLLOW TREE HOUSE, ownership signature of "Gillian Darrell Waters" in her mother`s hand together with a handful of manuscript emendations possibly intended for a reprint, with sixty three other varied Enid Blyton stores, most with dustjackets, a handful with family ownership signatures (64)

A SMALL QUANTITY OF MUSIC owned by Gillian Baverstock, and a manuscript story by her interleaved into "Picture Posies"

GILLIAN BAVERSTOCK`S CHILDHOOD DIARY, small pre-printed five year Diary Book with manuscript entries from 1946-1950, the title page has Gillian Baverstock`s ownership signature, Gill Darrell Waters, entries begin on January 1st 1946 when Gillian Baverstock was thirteen, and the diary runs intermittently to July 1950. Maximum of four short lines per day with entries beginning childishly and maturing over the four years to 1950, thus birthday cards for "mummy" and a trip to see "National Velvet" replaced in time by young men with nice manners who dance well