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Book of Hours 15th Cent illuminated manuscript on vellum in Latin apart from French Calendar 130 ff. only incomplete lacking several ff. through the manuscript and incomplete at the end and aparently misbound written in dark brown ink in a handsome gothic book-hand 3 full-page miniatures only in full borders of fruit flowers and foliage in colours on gold and white backgrounds 4 small miniatures (c. 35 x 40 mm.) with similar borders on fore-edge margins only many 1 or 2-line initials and a few slightly larger in gold on red or blue backgrounds similar line-fillers rubricated Calendar fully completed in gold and red with a few feasts in blue first f. with fore-edge margin crudely restored and with recto so badly browned as to be virtually illegible as is verso of last f. some soiling and marking elsewhere 2 miniatures scuffed modern vellum 152 x 105 mm. Northern France or Flanders mid-fifteenth century. ***The subjects of the large initials are (f. 49v) Adoration of the Magi the Virgin and Child seated under a red and gold canopy (f. 55v) Flight into Egypt the Virgin and Child on a donkey with Joseph on foot in front of a large rock in a landscape with a building in the distance (f. 61v) Coronation of the Virgin the Virgin kneeling before God seated under a green canopy with a red and gold wall behind The small miniatures depict (f. 13r) St. Luke with the Virgin and Child (f. 14v) St. Matthew with an angel (f. 16r) St Luke with his lion (f. 17r) the Virgin and Child enthroned.

Malory.History..Prince Arthur 1634 .as also all the Noble Acts and Heroicke Deeds of his Valiant Knights of the Round Table 3 parts in 1 each with woodcut frontispiece depicting Arthur and his knights at the round table printed in black letter lacking I4-5 & R4 from Part I and P4 (final leaf) from Part III (all supplied in neat 19th century manuscript) preliminaries of Parts II & III (Contents) misbound (transposed) P3 of Part II defective at lower outer corner with slight loss to last 6 lines some contemporary ink annotations and scribblings very browned slight marginal worming to a few leaves first frontispiece and final 2 leaves a little frayed and reinforced at edges (very slight loss to caption at head of frontispiece) 19th century reversed calf (rebound 1888) rebacked preserving old spine red roan labels a little worn upper cover detached [STC 806] small 4to William Stansby for Jacob Bloome 1634; sold not subject to return ***The sixth edition of Malory`s work the next was not published until 1816.

Cater (Gerrard) [On The Crowing Cock] lacking all except B3&4 the following 7pp. supplied in early manuscript soiled frayed at edges unbound [ESTC R175694] § Brerewood (Edward) A Learned Treatise of the Sabbath 2 parts in 1 second edition printer`s device on title some light water-staining worm-hole throughout affecting text unbound Oxford by John Lichfield for Thomas Huggins 1631 § Brumhall (John) A Fair Warning for England... edges frayed closed tear to title and some following leaves unbound [ESTC R4624] [1661]; and 4 others 17th century pamphlets most defective 4to & 8vo (7)

Wren (Christopher) Parentalia: or Memoirs of the first edition frontispiece engraved dedication 3 portraits and 8 plates including one folding not called for lacking list of subscribers copy of a letter of Sir Christopher Wren in manuscript to font endpaper full dark brown morocco by J.Mackenzie gilt g.e. rubbed [Harris 949] folio 1750.

Manuscript Catalogue-Library of R. E. Lambton manuscript title (printed) index and 89pp. a few pencil annotations contemporary crushed morocco by Riviere & Son t.e.g. gilt slightly rubbed 4to 1911.

* Gooderham (Norman). Something Beautiful, 2004, orig. oil on canvas showing Alex Henshaw in the Mewgull over Namibia Desert on his record-breaking flight from London to Capetown in 1939, signed and dated lower right, 61 x 76cm, framed, artist’s printed address label and printed label completed in manuscript for the Guild of Aviation Artists 2005 Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries to verso (1)

* WWI. de Havilland Aircraft Co. A group of original hand-drawn plans for aircraft of the RFC during the Great War 1917-1918, small-format scale-drawn depictions of aircraft types including DH2, DH4, DH5, DH6, DH9, DH9A (with engine variants) and DH10, each drawn in pencil on art-paper from front and profile perspective, with specifications of measurement, flying-surface area, engine types etc, each initialled by the draftsman “CESL” and manuscript captioned “The Aircraft Manufacturing Co” and variously dated 1917 & 1918, some additionally annotated with mathematical calculations etc., clear imagery, comprising 4 double-spread-sheets and a larger single-sheet, largest 16 x 30in (41 x 76cm) (5)

* James Hallowes DFC, DFM. An autographed signed photograph of this Battle of Britain pilot (later Wing Commander), c. 1941, depicting the pilot beside his Spitfire named “City of Bombay I”, when Flight-Commander after the “battle” serving with 122 Squadron based at Tangmere, together with a manuscript letter of provenance to Bill Little, Tangmere and aviation historian collector (1)

* Delmar-Williamson (George Frank, 1899-1918). A small group of photos and artefacts, c. 1916-18, including a mounted photograph of Delmar-Williamson in military dress, with a cane, RFC wings and enamalled lapel badge surmounted above, and a small contemporary obituary pasted at foot, his birth and death dates noted in manuscript at foot of photograph, overall 28 x 20cm, together with a real photograph postcard of him as a college cadet in Cheltenham, signed in lower blank area, some spotting and soiling, sellotape marks to verso, plus a group of three postcard-size photos of his funeral mounted on a piece of card, some sl. creasing and a few closed tears, plus a further album leaf with obituaries and newscuttings including reproductions of the three photos noted, plus two further related photos, a few minor marks. Lieutenant G. F. Delmar-Williamson of the Blackwatch and RAF was killed on July 12th 1918 whilst flying over Wiltshire with a fellow Cheltonian Officer, Captain Gabell, RAF. The accident was caused by the new aeroplane collapsing while being tested. Both officers were skilled aviators, having seen considerable service over the Western Front. Lieutenant Delmar-Williamson was buried at Leckhampton on 17th July, Captain Gabell having been buried the previous day at Swindon. (3)

* Graf Zeppelin. An extremely rare original passenger ticket (no. 5254), Hamburg-Amerika Linie, issued in the name of Ignaz Anton Tierne(?), for a round trip flight from Pernambuco, [Brazil], starting on 21 October 1931, printed in blue and black, with manuscript additions, creased where previously folded, split along centrefold with old sellotape stains, 31 x 19cm. Count Von Zeppelin, the inventor of the rigid airship, was almost 62 when his LZ1 first flew on 2 July 1900. When LZ127 appeared in 1928, the new liner of the air was called Graf Zeppelin in his memory. For almost a decade, this giant carried passengers and cargo, crossing the Atlantic many times and, in 1929 flew around the world at an average speed of 113 kph (70 mph). (1)

Hispano-Suiza. “Instructions for the Care and Operation of Aeronautical Engines”, Series No 3A, pub. Wright-Martin Corporation of America, 1918, a very scarce original handbook, decorative gold-tooled hardback cloth covers, 44 pp. with printed text & diagrams, spare parts & components listing, pull-out blue-print and scale sectional drawings etc, having manuscript approbation in black ink to front inside cover inscribed “Mr James H. Lynch, Aviation Repair Depot, Dallas Texas - Mr. R.J. Harrison Foreman Motor Repair Dept”, further dated in ink 1919 (1)

Pilot’s Log Book - Airways India & Indian Overseas Airways. An unusual manuscript flight-ledger for Flying Officer Jeffrey Ronald Bearcroft ex-RAF 1944-46, comprising Civilian Pilot record 1946-1950, giving full details of military record of types flown including Tiger-Moth, Harvard, Hurricane & Spitfires VIII & XIV, and hours served, and assessment as “Above Average” and principally logging the complete flight-record for his activities with the Indian Airways giving aircraft-types flown including Cessna Crane, DH82, Dakota, L-5, Dove, Liberator etc., during which time after initial training he was upgraded from trainee to Co-Pilot (on the Calcutta-Vizagapatam-Madras-Bangalore Route during monsoons!) to Senior-Pilot and later Captain. Provides a fascinating insight into aviation activities in the immediate aftermath of WWII and the transitional period to Indian Independence etc. (1)

* RAF - 610 Squadron. A contemporary manuscript record of the victories and losses of 610 Squadron, compiled by aircraftsman W. E. Lally, 27th May 1940 to 24 April 1943, a total of 21 leaves with plain rectos completed in a neat hand in blue ink arranged in a day to day format with the names of the pilots given for both victories and those who went missing, also noting decorations received, numerous related news cuttings, included many tipped onto graph paper versos of completed leaves, many of the news cuttings with group photos have name identifications inked on, remaining half of notebook blank, hinges cracked, contemp. linen-backed boards with printed RAF notebook label to upper cover, rubbed, 4to, together with W. E. Lally’s record of kit dated 6th September 1939, plus nineteen b&w photos relating to 610 Squadron, including five larger photos (15 x 20cm), including two of 610 Squadron pilots in a mess hall with other personnel, and three photos of the Tangmere Wing showing personnel and spitfires, each with RAF Tangmere wetstamps to versos, dated 14th-23rd August 1941, plus four real photograph postcards of 610 Squadron aircraftsmen, one identified in pencil as Joe Pegge standing next to his spitfire “Bettykins”, and the nine smaller box brownie photos (6 x 8cm and smaller) including four showing spitfires after landing mishaps and five with personnel, three identified in ink to versos and taken at Prestwick, 1940. An interesting small archive covering the period from Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain and beyond. RAF 610 Squadron was initially based at Prestwick, but came south to Biggin Hill, and eventually became part of Douglas Bader’s Tangmere Wing. There are numerous newspaper cuttings relating to Bader being shot down. Of the five largest photos, the one dated 23rd August 1941 shows either 616 Squadron or just the pilots of the Bader Wing, with Bader sitting in the middle. Though the photograph has an inkstamp of 23rd August, like the other two photos it was probably taken at Westhampnet, Tangmere’s satellite airfield, the one showing Douglas Bader probably taken on 7th August 1941, two days before he was shot down. (approx. 20)

Silverstone “The First 50 Years”. Special edition published by the British Racing Driver’s Club 1998, numbered 519 of 1500 copies to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the circuit 1949-1998, for distribution through membership of the BRDC, marbled end-papers, with applied manuscript numerated edition label, green cloth bindings and with impressed gilt-tooling to leather-bound spine, together with BRDC Yearbook 2003-04 in celebration of 75th Anniversary of the Club 1928-2003, green cloth hard-covers, published by the club to membership only, fully illustrated with members listing etc., also with Members Bulletin Vol 30 No.1 Spring 2009 (3)

* Blueprints. A collection of approx. forty blue prints for naval armaments, n.d. c. 1955, manuscript drawings on waxed paper, old folds, various sizes and condition. The documents were made for Vickers-Armstrong and show various parts of the British 4.0 and 4.5 inch Mark Q, Quick firing (QF) gun. Used primarily by the Royal Navy as an anti-aircraft weapon and sometimes referred to as the “pom-pom” gun. The date would indicate that these are designs for the Mark 6 version of this weapon. (approx.40)

* Sopwith Aviation. A Sopwith Aviation archive photograph album of archive b&w photos for the Dove, Gnu, Antelope, Rainbow, and the Sopwith Schneider 1919 Seaplane, all c. 1919, containing fifty-four photos relating to the Dove biplane on 17 leaves, these including thirty-one photos of flight testing, seven photos of the aircraft on the ground and thirteen technical photos, followed by twenty-one photographs relating to the Gnu on 12 leaves, these including eleven relating to flight tests and ten with technical details, followed by one photograph of the Antelope transport aircraft on the ground and six related technial photos, on 3 leaves, one photograph of the Sopwith Rainbow on the ground, forty-six photos relating to the 1919 Schneider Cup including two photos of the aircraft on the ground, eight technical photos, thirteen flight testing photos and twenty-three related photos relating to the race and testing, some showing figures and crowds, the majority captioned and some dated in the negative, the larger images approx. 22 x 29cm and similar, the smaller (mostly flight testing and Schneider Trophy crowd scenes) largely approx. 8.5 x 13cm and similar, and mounted as multiples to a page, tissue guards largely det. and some now missing, contemp. half morocco over cloth boards, with manuscript paper label to upper cover marked Book 7, some wear, oblong folio (1)

* Sopwith Aviation. A Sopwith Aviation Archive photograph album relating to the Sopwith Wallaby biplane, 1919-20, photographic map frontis. showing the proposed route from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Brooklands, London, six photos of the Wallaby on the ground, twenty technical photos, mostly approx. 24 x 29cm and similar, mounted one to a page with printed captions in the negative, plus a further thirty-four smaller format images showing flight tests, figures and three of wreckage, mostly numbered and captioned in the negative, approx. 8 x 13cm and similar, some mounts chipped and damaged, not affecting photos, tissue guards det., and some def., ownership signature of S. C. Goodenough [Contracts Manager], to front pastedown, contemp. half morocco over cloth boards, with manuscript paper label marked Book 6 now det. from upper cover, worn, oblong folio. The Wallaby registered G-EAKS was designed to compete in an Australian Government prize for an England to Australia flight. It departed Hounslow on 21 October 1919 and on 17 April 1920 it crashed on the Island of Bali, from where it was shipped to Australia and rebuilt as an 8-seater transport. (1)

* Sopwith Aviation. A Sopwith Aviation archive photograph album relating to the Snapper, Snark, Cobham triplane and Grasshopper, c. 1919-20, the majority of photos larger format (approx. 24 x 29cm and similar), with printed captions in the negative and mounted one to a page, including six technical photos of the Snapper biplane (and one smaller image of the aircraft in flight), two photos of the Snark triplane on the ground, plus five related technical photos, three photos of the Cobham triplane bomber on the ground, twenty-two related technical photos, two photos showing the aircraft inside the factory and two smaller photos of the aircraft in flight, plus two photos of the Grasshopper biplane on the ground with five related technical photos, tissue guards largely det. and some def., mounts somewhat brittled and a few chipped, ownership signature of S. C. Goodenough [Contracts Manager] to front pastedown, contemp. half morocco over cloth boards with manuscript title label to upper cover, marked Book 8, some wear, oblong folio (1)

Buffier (Claude). Geographie Universelle Exposee dans les Diferentes methodes qui peuvent abreger l’etude & faciliter l’usage de cette sience, 7th. ed., Paris, 1752, half title and title page with near contemp. ink manuscript annotations, lacking frontis. (?), eighteen engraved b & w folding maps, pp. 183 with closed tear, early prize label to front paste down, contemp. marbled calf gilt, rubbed and worn, 8vo. (1)

Pinto (Major Serpa). How I Crossed Africa: From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, Through Unknown Countries; Discovery of the Great Zambesi Affluents, Translated from the Author’s Manuscript by Alfred Elwes, 2 vols., 1st U.S. ed., Philadelphia, 1881, folding map frontispiece and folding map in rear pocket of vol. I, seven other maps, numerous wood-engraved plates and illustrations, a few leaves at end of vol. I neatly repaired, original green pictorial cloth gilt, minor shelf wear, 8vo. (2)

Cary (John). Cary’s Traveller’s Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, shewing the immediate Rout to every Market and borough Town throughout the Kingdom. Laid down from the best Authorities on a New set of County Maps, 1791, calligraphic title page with near contemp. manuscript ownership inscription, advertisement and contents leaf, forty-three engraved county maps with original outline colouring, printed back to back (complete as list), folding map of Yorkshire with some fraying to margins and folds strengthened on verso (as usual), contemp. mottled calf gilt, re-backed, 12mo. Chubb 274. (1)

Cary (John). Cary’s Traveller’s Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales shewing the immediate Rout to every market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdon, 1791, calligraphic title page, toned and dust soiled with old sellotape staining and near contemp. manuscript ownership inscription, advertisement and contents leaves, forty-three engraved maps with original outline colouring (complete as list) printed back to back, folding map of Yorkshire trimmed to neat line (as usual), very occ. spotting and offsetting, bound with, Cary’s New Itinerary or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross, Throughout England and Wales, with many of the Principal Roads in Scotland, 1802, calligraphic title and dedication page, two engraved folding maps with original hand colouring, both strengthened on verso, new end papers, modern qtr. morocco gilt, 8vo. (1)

Dugdale (Sir William). Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French Monasteries as were in any Manner Connected with Religious Houses in England, 6 vols. in 9, new ed., pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees..., 1817-30, numerous eng. plts. some double-page, manuscript note to first leaf of plate list in vol. 1, some occ. scattered spotting, leather hinged endpapers (some cracked), contemp. diced calf, gilt dec. spines, gilt panelled boards incorporating blind fan gothic style corner decoration, few joints slightly cracked, folio. A handsome set. (9)

Hutton (William). An History of Birmingham, 2nd ed., Birmingham, 1783, folding eng. frontis., folding eng. map (with closed-tear to central fold) and folding eng. plan, seventeen eng. plts. (two folding), few leaves loose, mispaginated and corrected in manuscript, contemp. qtr. calf, rubbed and some wear, 8vo in 4s, together with an incomplete 3rd ed. of the same work, and Scarse (Charles E.), Birmingham 120 Years Ago..., Pub. Birmingham, 1896, orig. qtr. japanese vellum, rubbed and slightly marked, 8vo, (limited ed. of 250 copies printed), plus other Birmingham related (19)

London. The Grand Panorama of London from the River Thames, pub. Charles Evans, n.d. c.1850, uncoloured wood engraved panorama, folded concertina style, stretching from the Western Stone Wharf to the Royal Victualling Office, old folds occ. strengthened on verso, 160mm x 5250mm, near contemp. manuscript ink ownership inscription to rear of final leaf, printed title to front paste down, bound in contemp. blind embossed calf with gilt title to upper board, a little faded (1)

Voet (Johan Eusebius). Catalogus Systematticus Coleopterorum, 2 parts in one, Atlas vol. only, The Hague, 1806, without the text vols., two engraved titles in Latin, French and Dutch, 105 mounted hand-coloured engraved plates, loose, some with manuscript titles, previous owner inscription and red ink stamp to first title, one other marginal stamp, one or two light spots, contemporary half calf, lacking ties, some wear, 4to. One of the finest entomological works published in the Netherlands. Nissen 4259.. (1)

Estate Plan. Richardson (John), Plan of Estates in the Manor Hutton Lowcross & Pinchinthorp in the North Riding in the County of York, belonging to Her Majesty, John Richardson, Land Surveyor &c. Barnsley, 1862, large manuscript estate plan on six sheets conjoined, original wash colouring, laid on linen, calligraphic title, scale of chains and compass rose, some repairs and strengthening to upper margin, title repeated on verso, 1950 x 1300mm (1)

Estate Plan. A Map of the Estate of Sir Walter Rawlinson at Stowlangtoft in the County of Suffolk, surveyed by James Parker of Thelford Norfolk, February 1778, pen, ink and water colour manuscript estate map on vellum, decorative cartouche, compass rose and scale of chains and furlongs, one marginal closed tear, 645 x 575mm (500)

Ordnance Survey. Country Around Faringdon, 1887, engraved map with original outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, from Charlbury in the North to Swindon in the South and from Oxford in the East to Cirencester in the West, slight marginal staining, 680 x 980mm, contemp. red morocco gilt boards with gilt title and later label to upper board, together with Dorset, 1811, uncoloured engraved map of the country around Sherbourne, 630 x 795mm, with, Smith (C.), A New Map of the County of Devon Divided into its Hundreds, Jan. 6th. 1804, engraved map sectionalised and laid on linen, original hand colouring, 450 x 495mm, contemp. printers label to end paper, contained in near contemp. card slip case with printed label at foot, with, Hickman and Kinch (pubs.), A Guide to Henley-on-Thames and its Vicinity, 1850, contemp. manuscript ownership inscriptions to front paste down and first free end paper, hinges weak, contemp. cloth gilt, worn and faded, 8vo, with, Rocque (John), A Topographical Map of the County of Berks, by John Rocque, Topographer to his Majesty, 1761, facsimile ed. pub. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, 1973, dec. folding title page, half title, general map of Berkshire with inset town plan of Oxford & eighteen folding map sheets, pubs. cloth boards with printed label to upper board, folio (5)

Oxfordshire. Kitchin (Thomas), A New Improved map of Oxfordshire from the best Surveys and Intelligence Divided into its Hundreds, pub. Carington Bowles [c.1776], engraved map with orig. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on hessian, elaborate b & w cartouche, two French library stamps to image, manuscript numeral in red wax crayon to upper left corner, near contemp. manuscript label to verso, 730 x 530mm, together with Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of the County of Worcester Divided into its Hundreds and drawn from the best Authorities, pub. R.Sayer, [c.1776], engraved map with orig. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, three French library stamps to image, manuscript numeral in red wax crayon in upper left corner, near contemp maunscript label to verso, 535 x 700mm, with Kitchin (Thomas), A New and Accurate Map of Warwickshire Drawn from the best Surveys and Intelligence Divided into its Hundreds, pub. Robt. Sayer, [c.1776], engraved map with orig. outline colouring, inset views of Tamworth, Guy’s Cliff and Warwick Castle, inset plan of Kenilworth Castle, sectionalised and laid on hessian, three French library stamps to image, manuscript numeral in red wax crayon to upper left corner, near contemp. manuscript label to verso, 675 x 525mm, with Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of Shropshire Divided into its Hundreds, Drawn and Compiled from the most Approved Maps and Surveys, pub. John Bowles, [c.1776], engraved map with orig. outline colouring, elaborate cartouche, sectionalised and laid on hessian, three French library stamps, manuscript numeral in red wax crayon to upper left corner, near contemp. manuscript label to verso, 535 x 710mm (4)

* Repton (Humphry, 1752-1818). A group of thirty-four original wash drawings by Repton made for Peacock’s Polite Repository, [1794-1808], neatly fixed on to two boards with self-adhesive conservation tape, arranged chronologically with alternate rows of five spaces left for the matching engraving as made for the Repository by John Peltro, with only fifteen of the thirty-four engravings to match the original watercolours present, each watercolour approx. 30 x 60mm and many mounted on close-fitting old board, neat pencil captions and dates by Nigel Temple to the mounts beneath each watercolour, the engravings of similar size with printed captions beneath, the lower half of the second board containing a further two original wash drawings by Humphry Repton not used in the Repositories, one titled in manuscript `Romford as it appeared in 1786’, the other in a different hand `Keeper’s Lodge in Cobham Park’, both of similar sizes to the above within two pen and ink borders on slightly larger pieces of paper and arranged with eighteen further engravings of various subjects from the Repositories, plus a third similarly arranged board with fifty cut vignette engravings from Peacock’s Polite Repository and other similar diaries published by Peacock, etc., the three boards uniformly arranged with protective archival polyester and board with window mounts cut out to display drawings and engravings beneath, each board approx. 47 x 42cm. Ex-libris Dr. Nigel Temple (1926-2003). Among Temple’s many interests as artist, lecturer, writer and collector he was an authority of the picturesque movement, writing several books and extensively in learned journals. (3)

* East Indies Log Book. A manuscript log book and journal kept by Lieutenant Keppel Garnier on board HMS Ocean, Rodney and Salamis, 1867-69, voyaging to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama, Bangkok, Sarowak, etc., the first thirty printed tabular leaves completed in manuscript with date, courses, currents, wind and weather, bearing and distance details, a further thirty leaves completed in diary style, including a description of an audience at Osaka with the Mikado (Japanese Emperor), `The Mikado himself I stared at with all my eyes, but I brought away a very shadowy impression of what he was like. He received us standing I think, but anyhow the top of his head was hardly visible as a gauze screen came down so as almost to hide it’, game shooting in Possiette Bay, dinner in a monastery, near Manilla, running aground, going with Lady Keppel to Yedo, etc., remaining leaves blank, contemp. half morocco, rubbed and joints sl. cracked, 4to. Commander Keppel Garnier (died 1891) was the son of Thomas Garnier, Dean of Winchester.. (1)

* Fezandie (Clement). An archive of manuscript and typescript articles, together with a quantity of manuscript notes, cuttings and ephemera, c. 1890-1930, including a holograph manuscript entitled `Cipher Messages’, 39 pp., a final fair copy with a few corrections, 4to, plus a holograph draft manuscript of Cipher Dispatches Messages, 21 pp. with added sections of text on separate leaves and num. manuscript corrections, approx. 20 pp. of related notes, plus three cyclostyled typescripts, one titled `Two Hundred Forfeits for Evening Entertainments’, 60 pp., `How to Play Billiards’, 16 pp., and one untitled relating to forfeits and incomplete, 83 pp., plus related manuscript notes on a wide range of games, plus related cuttings, etc. Clement FŽzandie (1865-1959) was a New York teacher and businessman who is best remembered for his science fiction writing. He was author of `Through the Earth’, a fantasy novel of 1898, under the name Dr Hackenshaw contributed stories to Science & Invention and two articles for Amazing Stories. This archive indicates that he was also a writer for periodicals on a range of subjects. (a folder)

Manuscript journal. A diary of a voyage from Scotland to Canada and America, written by Andrew B. Nielson of Fitzroy Place, Glasgow, 1860-61, approx. 150 leaves, approx. half filled with manuscript diary notes, newspaper cuttings, population censuses, a list of Americanisms, a couple of sketches, etc., describing the voyage from Glasgow on the Bohemian with a log of distance covered each day, arrival in Quebec, and subsequent travels, incl. Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara, Guelph, and the western states of America, orig. brown moirŽ cloth, spine faded, 8vo. Two pages of manuscript are given over to the famous extradition case of John Anderson, an African American slave who escaped to Canada: `This extradition slave case was creating excitement when I came to Toronto’. Nielson goes on to describe how Anderson, while on the run had killed Seneca Diggs, a farmer from Howard County, Missouri, who tried to recapture him. Anderson lived and worked in Canada West from 1854 to April 1860, managing to keep a low profile. He was eventually arrested and held by magistrate William Matthews in Brantford. The Anderson case took place in Canada West from 1860-1861. The case dealt with whether or not to extradite an escaped slave to the United States on the charge of murder. The British Court of Queens Bench attempted to interfere by sending a writ of habeas corpus for him to appear before a court in London. This ignited a media, legal, and political frenzy, and had a profound impact on Canada’s future relationship with Britain. The issue with the English writ, and the negative reaction to it, uncovered the need for written clarification of the relationship between English and Canadian courts. As one result, the Habeas Corpus Act was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1862, which denied British courts the right to issue writs of habeas corpus for British colonies or dominions with their own courts capable of doing so. It reaffirmed that Canadian jurisdictions had become self-sufficient and did not take kindly to interferences in their judicial system. Anderson was eventually released on a technicality (the faulty wording of a warrant), and Nielson ends his description of the case with the folowing entry: `July 16th. This case was decided today and Anderson has been released. What is the poor fellow now to do?’. (1)

* Plantation Agent’s Ledger. A manuscript ledger of R[obert] Raper, 1776-78, a total of thirty leaves plus two leaves of index at front containing thirty-six names, names include Margaret Colleton, Thomas Boone, Captain George Hooper, Sarah Rutledge, Robert Bruce and Samuel Shoemaker, including entries for rent, bonds, umbrellas, wine casks, empty casks, `to my share of a Prise in the last Lottery of your Letter £50’, rope, salt, `35 pair of negro shoes at 25 shillings’, sail cloth, `paid Doctor Hardcastle for attending all ye Negroes one year to April last £130’ `for a Bridle for plantation use’ `for Negroes £531 6s 8d’, `ordinary Rum for your Negroes’, `paid for advertising Negroe [?] run away’, barrel of pitch for the boat, brown sugar for plantations, carpenter’s tools, millstones, etc., a few entries dated and placed at Charlestown, South Carolina, approx. 90 leaves blank, ownership signature of R Raper dated 1776 to front pastedown, contmep. vellum, rubbed and soiled with Raper’s monogram initials to upper cover, folio (1)

* Russian Travel Journal. 108-page manuscript entitled `A Journey Through Russia’ Aug/Sep 1911-Aug 1912, neatly written by an unknown male, accompanied by his wife, commencing in Moscow, via Hamburg, to the Caspian Sea, Georgia, Armenia and the Caucasus, across to Constantinople and back via Montenegro and Bosnia, ruled notebook, a few spots, original black morocco, slightly rubbed, 4to. Interesting topographical and social pre-First World War account of Russia and the Caucasus.. (1)

* Tovey Family Archive. An archive of twenty-one documents, 1775-1911, including eleven military commissions, the earliest five relating to John Tovey (1753-1841), dated 1775-95, signed by the Earls or Dukes of Hertford, Weymouth, Suffolk and Portland, the last three additionally signed by King George III at head, two relating to posts in the 70th Regiment Foot and two in the Stirling Corps of Volunteers, all a little dampstained or soiled with some loss to wax seals, the third with rodent damage to lower margin affecting some lettering and the fifth with rodent damage to upper margin affecting the Monarch’s signature, the following five commissions relating to John’s eldest son Hamilton (later Tovey-Tennent, 1782-1866), dated 1799-1820, and signed by Jonathan Duncan, J. Hewett, Mount Stewart Elphinstone, and Hastings, with appointments in the Infantry in Bombay and the East Indies, the final two commissions for John’s grandson Hamilton Tovey, 1871 & 1879 to be Captain of our Corps of Royal Engineers and Major, Land Forces, both signed by George (Duke of Cambridge), the other documents being a handwritten copy of the will of William Tovey (John’s father, 1719-75) made by his younger son John Tovey in the year 1811 with a handwritten memorandum, dated Stirling, 7th February 1811, signed by John Tovey, a printed Act of Parliament, dated 1795, by which John Tovey’s elder brother William obtained authorisation to appoint new Trustees and was enabled to break the entail on the Estate he had inherited at Erdington (Sutton Coldfield), a letter from the London Navy Pay Office, dated 17th January 1809, addressed to Captain John Tovey of Stirling relating to a cheque, being the share of Prize Money due to William, killed in action off the coast of India on 14th February 1805, an original issue of the London Gazette, 14th February 1832, containing a Proclamation granting Hamilton Tovey of Pynnacles in the Parish of Great Stanmore, Middlesex, to use the surname of Tennent, a document signed by King William IV, dated 3rd February 1832, addressed to Bernard, Duke of Norfolk, detailing the circumstances of Hamilton Tovey’s request and it having been granted, counter-signed Melbourne, a handwritten account of property owned by the Tennent family entitled `Inventory of the title deeds of the lands of Pool, 1791’, with some later additions, a probate of the will of Rose Irvine Tovey, John’s granddaughter, 25th April 1877, a conveyance dated 1911 from Mrs M. E. Tovey to the Royal District Council of Horsham and the manuscript journal of John Tovey’s voyage to India on board the Prince of Wales, 31st August to 17th December 1847, noting weather, distances travelled, some on-board gossip, meals, etc., a total of approx. 60 leaves including miscellaneous extracts and drafts at rear, contemp. limp morocco, some wear, 8vo. A typed annotated list of the documents and family background is included with modern copies of supporting documents. Provenance: By family descent through to Maria Elizabeth Tovey (died 1926, widow of Colonel Hamilton Tovey, Royal Engineers)... (a bundle)

Book of Hours.. An illuminated vellum manuscript Book of Hours in Latin, probably Italian, mid-15th c., ninety leaves only, all with sixteen lines per page (except for three leaves: one blank; one with one line of ms.; and one with ten lines of ms.), written in red and brown ink, most leaves with large (approx. 100 in all) and numerous small decorative initials in burnished gold, blue, and red, with red and blue penwork gothic extensions branching into the margins, line fillers in blue and gold, occn. soiling, first two leaves wormed, and first seven leaves with marginal spotting, one leaf trimmed and window mounted (just clipping ms.), penultimate leaf with an initial excised, final leaf with 18th c. ownership name of Giuseppe Lagomarvin[o], and his annotations in brown ink to lower blank margin of 32pp., another 11pp. with his annotations erased, leaf size 109 x 77mm (4.25 x 3ins), armorial bookplate of Thos. Blayds on front pastedown and his ms. ownership name on front free endpaper, red edges, early 19th c. marbled sheep gilt, 12mo. (1)

Binding. The Roots of the Mountains, wherein is told somewhat of the lives of the men of Burgdale, their friends, their neighbours, their foemen and their fellows in arms, by William Morris, 1st ed., printed by the Chiswick Press, pub. Reeves and Turner, 1890, half-title, front free endpaper with manuscript inscription `A. W. Pollard, given me by Mrs. Proctor’, wide turn-ins with gilt double fillet border, with three gilt dots to corners, a.e.g., contemp. tan morocco by Douglas Cockerell (rear turn-in signed with Cockerell’s monogram and dated 1901), spine very lightly faded, raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder gilt panelled with double-line border and gilt dots between, date lettered direct at foot, covers with gilt double and single fillet border, interlocking at corners to form a square, with dots at intervals, and four heart-shaped leaves at the intersections, some minor marks, 8vo. Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945) was apprenticed in 1893 to the newly opened Doves Bindery in Hammersmith, established by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. From Cobden-Sanderson, Cockerell learned the importance of combining quality materials with technical skill and creativity, and he went on to develop his own distinctive style. In 1897, he launched his own bindery in London and started his highly influential teaching career at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts, where George Sutcliffe and Francis Sangorski were among his first students. (1)

Binding. Embroidered Prayer Book. The Psalmes or, Prayers, taken out of the holy scripture, commonly called, the Kings Psalmes, [translated from the Latin and edited by St. John Fisher], printed by Valentine Simmes, [1594], separate title to second part (`The Queenes prayers, or meditations’, dated 1594) black letter text and decorative woodcut borders throughout, unpaginated but signed continuously, woodcut initials, small water stain at foot of leaf e11, closely trimmed touching border extremities at upper and foremargins throughout, small worm hole to inner upper margin at rear touching border decoration of final two leaves, medieval manuscript leaf with Latin text inserted as rear endpaper, a.e.g., contemp. canvas over boards in a simple repeating floral pattern of chequered yellow, white and silver threads, rubbed with some discoloration and loss of silver thread and clasps, 12mo (115 x 60mm). Signatures: a-m12. STC 3011.5. (1)

Foxe (John). An abridgement of the booke of Acts and monumentes of the church..., and Now Abridged by Timothe Bright..., 1589, woodcut illust. to title, printed in black letter throughout, leaves E3 & L7 torn with slight loss and lacks leaf S6 (pp.281/282), contents incomplete at rear lacking last 20pp., few old manuscript notes, few closed-tears etc., dust soiling and some fraying to edges, 19th c. cloth covered boards very loosely attached with fabric tape, worn, square 8vo, (STC 11229), together with Chamberlain (Richard), The Complete Justice, being a Compendious and Exact Collection out of all such Statutes and Authors as may any ways concern the Office of a Justice of Peace..., 2nd ed., 1681, eng. frontis. (ink stained and slightly torn to inner margin), occ. spotting & some browning to pages, contemp. calf, upper joint slightly cracked, some wear, 8vo, plus a defective copy of Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer by Sir Richard Baker, 1636. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (3)

An autographed manuscript letter from the English cricketer & Hollywood actor C. Aubrey Smith to fellow English actor O.B. Clarence, addressed from 11 Portland Place, London, W1, and dated 17 July 1938, in ink and reading DEAR CHARLIE, EVER SO MANY THANKS FOR YOUR WIRE LAST NIGHT, SORRY YOU COULDN’T BE THERE. WE HAD A VERY JOLLY TIME TILL ABOUT 3 A.M. AND I DON’T FEEL TOO WOOLLY THIS MORNING; complete with original envelope postmarked 18 July 1938 and addressed to O.B. Clarence in Golders Green; and Aubrey Smith’s printed invitation for his supper at the Green Room Club, Leicester Square, on 16th July, for which Clarence had wired his apologies (3). After a first-class cricket career for Cambridge University, Sussex, England (1 test) and Transvaal, C Aubrey Smith (1863-1948) made a highly successful transition into acting where he established himself in roles as the stereotypical stiff upper lip Englishman working with Hollywood greats such as Greta Garbo, Douglas Fairbanks jnr. and Shirley Temple. Around Hollywood, he was perhaps best known as the captain of the Hollywood Cricket Club. He was knighted in 1944 for services to Anglo-American amity. O B Clarence (1870-1955) appeared in many notable films including The Scarlet Pimpernel, On Approval, The Inheritance, Pygmalion, Uncle Silas and Great Expectations. He became somewhat typecast in roles described by critics as “benevolent, doddering, benign old duffers.”

* An official record book for the Slazenger Lawn Tennis Tournament, in the form of a manuscript ledger with details of the tournament and competitors between 1959 and 1964, and containing the signature of every single player in this period, also additional information regarding gate receipts, expenses, sales of equipment etc.; the lot also including a signed photograph of the American tennis player Vincent Richards greeting Queen Mary on the Centre Court at Wimbledon (2)

A period photograph of the world heavyweight boxing champion Staff Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow [Joe Louis] in United States Army Uniform in London in 1944, the 8 by 6in. b&w photograph laid down on a mount above a dated manuscript legend, framed

AN EARLY 19TH C GRAND TOURISTS SET OF PLASTER CASTS OF THE WORKS OF CANOVA AND THORWALDSEN MOUNTED IN THE ORIGINAL WOODEN BOX WITH MANUSCRIPT TITLE LIST THE UNDERSIDE OF THE LID

The Coniston Copper Mines Letters of John Barratt, 1823-1834, manuscript letter copy book, bound in half morocco by Bernard C. Middleton [Although Copper has been mined at Coniston since as early as 1800BC, it was on a very small scale and in the late 18th century went into serious decline. In the 1830s John Barratt opened up the mines on an industrial scale, new deep shafts were sunk and the use of gunpowder brought about significant growth. The workforce rapidly increased from 20 men in 1820 to 5-600. A mineral line was opened in 1859 to carry the ore which had previously been boated down the lake. see lot 85]

The Coniston Copper Mine Cost Book No 2, 1838-43, folio accounts book, detailed manuscript entries, original reversed calf, 1851 letter to John Barratt regarding cobalt loosely inserted; A Cost Book for Threlkeld Mine, 1825-67, folio, half reversed calf; An unidentified mine account book, 1851-56 folio (worn and damp-stained;) with a small quantity of related papers and eight early 20th century photographs of Hodbarrow Mines (qty)

Greenaway (Kate) `This was their favourite amusement ...`, nd., initialled manuscript story [more naughty children] with watercolour sketch, on single side sheet, size 218mm x 207mm,

Greenaway (Kate) The Naughty Little Girl who went to see her Grandmama, [c1885], 4 page story, initialled manuscript, illustrated with 8 watercolour sketches, page size 203mm x 188mm, with 1 page presentation a.l.s. from Kate Greenaway to Miss Violet Severn of Brantwood, Coniston, William Morris Honeysuckle blocked linen binding, Brantwood label [note; Violet Severn was the daughter of Mrs Arthur Severn, Ruskin`s cousin and adopted daughter, cf. Spielmann (M.H.), Kate Greenaway p 140-141]

Sub-Lieut. Edward Hewlett Hext RN. Two albums of Naval interest, 1902-03 and 1903-06, 4to. & folio, containing photographs, postcards, certificates and letters specifically relating to Edward Hewlett Hext`s service with the Royal Navy, from Cadetship to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, including a manuscript `Account of the Montago, Wrecked on Lundy Island Wednesday 30th May 1906`, half calf bindings

Carte (Samuel) Miscellaneous Collections collection of manuscript documents and transcripts registers terriers witness depositions tithe lists & c. in many different hands several hundred pp. inscribed on fly leaf `Wm Hampfer Birmingham July 20th 1813 the Gift of John Nichols Esq. the Historian of Leicestershire` bookplate of Willm Hampfer` late eighteenth-century half calf worn spine damaged folio 18th century. ***Samuel Carte (1652-1740) cleric and antiquary. Material collected by him was used extensively by John Nichols in his History of Leicestershire but there are only a few references to that county in the present volume which is as a twentieth-century owner notes `an exceedingly mixed bag`. See also lot 13.

Blew.Quorn Hunt and its Masters 1899 hand-coloured plates after Henry Alken ink inscription to Sir John Gilmour Master of the Fife Fox Hounds on half-title original pictorial cloth gilt spine faded 1899 § Simpson (Charles) Leicestershire & its Hunts one of 75 copies with an additional photogravure and signed by the author original cloth-backed marbled boards t.e.g. others uncut rubbed and faded 1926 § de Lisle (Squire editor) The Operations of the Quorn Hounds 1869-1870: The Diary of Frank Gillard one of 350 copies signed by the editor on title original rexine gilt g.e. Wymondham Sycamore Press 1982 plates and illustrations some colour; and 4 others hunting including a bound calligraphic manuscript on vellum of names of landowners & subscribers to the Quorn Hunt presented to Sir Harold Nutting MFH in 1940 v.s.(7)

King (W.) A Map of a Tract of Country Surrounding ....Accurately laid down from a Survey taken in the Years 1804 5 & 6 engraved map with original hand-colouring dissected and linen-backed 1165 x 1440mm. slight browning and faint offsetting publisher`s label pasted on verso folding into contemporary marbled slipcase manuscript label pasted on W. Faden 1806. ***First issue of this apparently scarce map.

Leicestershire.- Copy of Hungerton Award manuscript transcript of document relating to the enclosure of common land at Hungerton Leicestershire 28 pp. loose in contemporary calf-backed boards worn small 4to [19th century] § Halliday (R.B.) Leicestershire Biography and Bibliography 75 ff. written on rectos only letters cuttings & c. tipped in or inserted contemporary cloth rubbed covers stained 4to [mid 20th century]; and a small collection of documents and letters most relating to Leicestershire v.s.(small qty)

Choirbook single leaf from a large liturgical manuscript on vellum in Latin 8-10 lines with music on a 4-line red stave written in black ink in a liturgical hand large initial `I` in black knotwork on a green wash background with head-and-shoulders drawing of a male saint in the act of blessing at foot a panel border with a snail and flowers in colours on a yellow wash background other initials in red blue or black stab-holes on lefthand margin two holes at foot little soiled and creased. 480 x 340 mm. ?Northern France or Flanders late 15th century.

Thompson (W. Harding) Devon 1932 1932 § Russell (Gyrth) Unknown Devon 1927 § Snell (F.J.) Memorials of Old Devonshire London & Derby 1904 § Chope (R.Pearse) The Book of Hartland Torquay 1940 § Ravenhill (M.R.) and M.R.Rowe. Devon Maps and Map-Makers: Manuscript Maps before 1840 2 vol. original wrappers slip-case Exeter 2002 maps plates and illustrations all but the last original cloth a little rubbed some spines a little faded; and a quantity of others mostly Devon and Cornwall including issues of Devon Notes & Queries and Devon and Cornwall Record Society(c.170)

Langlès.Alphabet Mantchou... 1807 third edition signed presentation copy from the author to Chs.Wilkinson inscribed on half-title 2 folding tables some spotting or browning original wrappers uncut spine reinforced and labelled in manuscript 8vo Paris 1807.

Landor (J.) Honourable East India Company Journal manuscript Journal of c.280pp. covering sea-service with the East India Company from 1788 until 1813. Subsequently written from the surviving original notes and incorporating 6 good quality watercolours apparently contemporary and removed from the original notes. Mainly covers the London to Madras to China to St. Helena to London route 19th. century half roan § Journal of a European Tour c.1834 100pp with the rest of the notebook containing geneological details of Admiral Christopher John Williams Nesham 1771-1853.(2)

Jansson. Tabula Itineraria.... Peutingerorum after Ortelius`s strip map from classical manuscript source of roads throughout the Roman empire from Europe and Africa to Sri Lanka engraved strip map in 8 panels over 4 double-page sheets unjoined each sheet c.415 x 515mm. French text verso slight marginal spotting Amsterdam c.1650.

32 manuscript English county maps including Dorsetshire Cumberland Devonshire and others finely drawn manuscript maps outline colour each c.225 x 135mm. or reverse gold edges minor finger-soiling and surface dirt c.1819(32)