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*Cornwall & Devon, etc. Forty-four glass negatives of Devon and Cornwall etc., including three of Guernsey and one early motor vehicle, early 20th century, 8 x 10.5cm, contained in contemp. fitted wooden box with manuscript list pasted inside the lid (1)

*India - Big Game Shooting. An unpublished original typescript of a big game shooting diary, 1904-22, written by Brigadier Frederick George Gillies of the Indian Army, and typed up in the late 1930s, largely concerning a major trip in 1904, 1907 & 1911, in the Kashmir, Ladaka and Tibet Regions, but also concerning the Central Provinces, and the Kanara Jungles, Bombay Presidency, giving a good diary account of his observations, travels and animals shot, etc., contents leaf at front, 2 pp. neat manuscript detailing the marches in 1904 and 1907 (a total of 1,054 miles), 165 pp. neatly close-typed text (estimated 80,000 words), some very neat amendments in the authors holograph, a typed list of seven animal skins and fifty-three heads presented to the British Museum in 1938 and 1939, together with the British Museum (Natural History) receipt for the skins of two tigers, two leopards, two sloth bears and a Himalayan black bear, authors ownership name at front, the whole neatly inserted into a plastic ring binder, together with approx. 200 negatives of photos taken by Gillies on these trips, the majority meticulously identified in the authors holograph with photo details and date, showing views, local people, big game and fish kills, good quality, plus a full set of modern black and white photo reproductions from the negatives, 9 x 12cm, mostly numbered and with printed details beneath, plus two of Gillies original cameras (Kodak folding Brownie Six - 20 & Kodak Six - 20 Junior), both seemingly in good order in orig. pouches, plus a pair of his army issue aluminium folding binoculars by Aitchison & Co.. Brigadier Frederick George Gillies, C. B., O.B.E., (1881-1955) was educated at Tonbridge and after attending Sandhurst he was gazetted in 1900. His first Regiment was the 33rd Queen Victorias Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army, and later he served in the Poona Horse and the Royal Garhwal Rifles. He attended the Staff College, Quetta, in 1913 and during World War One took part in the campaign in Mesopotamia, being mentioned twice in Dispatches. He was also mentioned in Dispatches for his services in Southern Persia in 1918 and in Waziristan in 1919 for which he was appointed O.B.E. Later he commanded the Royal Garhwal Rifles and then held command of the Ambala Brigade from 1932 to 1934. Copyright for the diary and photographs transfers to the buyer of this lot. Please note that further fishing diaries, photographs and related will be offered for sale by auction in our sale on 25th July. (-)

*Lincoln. An album of twenty-one large gelatin silver prints of the town of Lincoln, 1904, showing street scenes, buildings, etc., 21.5 x 28cm and similar, mounted back to back with manuscript captions beneath, inscription at front To A. Pitt Cary, as a slight memento of his visit to Lincoln, June 1904, orig. straight-grained red morocco gilt, worn, oblong folio (1)

De La Beche (Henry T.). Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset. Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majestys Treasury, 1839, folding hand-col. litho map frontis., ink stamp to title, eight litho plts. (inc. 5 folding), two folding maps and one folding facsimile manuscript plt., bound with Index to the Report on the geology of Cornwall... The index compiled by Clement Reid, F.R.S., 1903,20th c. qtr. calf gilt, 8vo (1)

Greirson (James). Saint Andrews as it was, and as it is; Being the Third Edition of Dr. Griersons Delineations, containing much Curious and Valuable Information Never Before Printed, pub. Joseph Cook, St. Andrews, 1849, twelve eng. plts. (one loose), a.e.g., orig. blind stamped cloth, gilt dec. spine, small 8vo, together with Votiva Tabella. A Memorial Volume of St. Andrews University in Connection with its Quincentenary Festival, 1411-1911, pub. 1911, half-title, col. frontis. of armorials, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. gilt dec. off-white cloth, 4to, plus Loveday (John), Diary of a Tour in 1732 Through Parts of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, made by John Loveday of Caversham, and now for the first time printed from a manuscript in the possession of his Great Grandson, John Edward Taylor Loveday, privately printed for the Roxburghe Club, Edinburgh, 1890, t.e.g., orig. qtr. morocco gilt, rubbed and somewhat scratched (75 copies printed), 4to, and others The first volume includes a brief history of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club, a list of medal holders and details of a gold medal presented to the Society of Golfers by William IV. (10)

CURTIS, Samuel. General Index to the Plants contained in the First fifty-three volumes of the Botanical Magazine. London: 1828. 8vo (229 x 138mm.) Portrait frontispiece and a 27pp. manuscript index of volumes after 54. Contemporary half-calf (worn, upper cover detached). – And two other volumes of related interest (3).

HORSHAM. – George Bax HOLMES. (translator). Schiller’s Poems. Horsham: [n.d.] 4to (317 x 253mm.) Manuscript throughout. (Some spotting.) Contemporary half-calf (worn). – And one other volume containing manuscript entries by Holmes. Note: Quaker, George Bax Holmes, discovered the world’s largest Iguanodon dinosaur in 1840 on the site of St Mark’s Church, Horsham (2).

Sura, a commentary on the Koran, manuscript in Arabic, some old damages and repairs, in a part leather binding.

FRAGMENT OF A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF VITRUVIUS.The lot comprises eight sheets of paper of varying sizes containing fragments of an illustrated Italian translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture. Both the drawings and the writings are in the same brown ink, and appear to be by a single hand, mid sixteenth-century in character. Part of a watermark on Fragment 2 appears to be an anchor in a circle with a six-pointed star, a very common type in Italy throughout the sixteenth century. There is no other watermark evidence. Shreds of paper and glue stains towards the corners and edges of several fragments (such as 1r and 8v) indicate that after cutting down they were laid down in an album. Frag. 1 appears to retain the full width of the original page (c. 275 mm), while the height can be estimated from frag. 6 and frag. 7 to be about 400 mm (see below).Vitruvius' Ten Books, written c. 30-20 B.C. is the only substantive classical text on architecture, and became of critical importance in the Italian Renaissance when architects strove to revive architecture all'antica. This was not an easy task since Vitruvius looked to Greece for many of his exemplars and used many Greek architectural terms, which were not always applicable when understanding Roman ruins, as became apparent with the publication of the first illustrated edition by Fra Giovanni Giocondo of Verona in 1511. Giocondo's humanist scholarship is impeccable and his interpretation of Vitruvius' temple types follows the text to the letter, and yet the result for the in antis temple is nothing like the reality we know from the physical evidence. Already by 1520, the manuscript translation, prepared by the humanist Fabio Calvo for Raphael, included a plan correctly interpreting the in antis temple, and others appear in the drawings by Giovanni Battista da Sangallo added to a 1486 first edition of Vitruvius around 1530. Had the great project outlined in the famous letter of 1542 by Agostino de'Landi for a Vitruvian Academy to prepare a multi-volume critical edition, translation and commentary of the Ten Books been realised, Giocondo's errors may have been exposed sooner. However, the fact that his interpretations were followed in the great Italian translation and commentary of Daniele Barbaro of 1556, with illustrations by Andrea Palladio, ensured that they became virtually canonical until the eighteenth century.The present fragments all belong to the first three books of Vitruvius, and the drawings of the in antis temple are similar to those in Giocondo and Barbaro, although it is not clear if our fragments pre- or post-date the latter. That the artist was translating from the Giocondo edition or one of its successors is confirmed by the tree labeled 'suera' on frag. 5r, since it is the cork oak or quercus suber, which does not occur in printed editions earlier than 1511.Of particular interest are the views of Alexandria and Athens on frags 2v and 4v, both clearly modelled on ancient Rome, with buildings like the Colosseum and the Pantheon figuring in each. What at first sight appears to be the Castel S. Angelo on frag. 2v is probably intended to represent the Pharos at the harbour of Alexandria. The many apparent obelisks in the surrounding countryside are really pyramids. The artist certainly seems to have had direct knowledge of Rome, judging from the views of the in antis and prostyle temples in frags 6r and 7r. Vitruvius gives as his exemplar of a prostyle temple one dedicated to Jupiter and Faunus on the Tiber Island. Our artist labels the in antis 'Fauno' and the prostyle 'Giove' and among the buildings in the background are recognizable the two bridges to the island, the Ponte Cestio and the Ponte Fabricio.Of the seven temple types described in Vitruvius Bk. 2, chap. 3, four are represented here. Because the text for the prostyle temple appears on frag. 6r and the drawings on frag. 7r, while the drawings and text of the peripteral temple extend across frags 6v and 7v, we can be confident that the fragments originally formed part of the same folio. Equally, the absence of drawings of the amphiprostyle and pseudodipteral temples (for which the texts are at the bottom of frags 7r and 7v respectively) allows us to infer that the lower part of the folio is missing, while the last temple type, the hypaethral, would probably have been below the present frag. 8r.One feature of the style of architectural representation to which attention should be drawn is the use of perspective in the plans on frag. 6r and frag. 8v. Baldassare Peruzzi (who is said to have begun a commentary on Vitruvius himself) had experimented with perspectival plans in his project drawings for New St Peter's and his pupil, Sebastiano Serlio, gives instructions for constructing them in his Second Book: On Perspective, published in 1545. Another associate of Peruzzi, Antonio Labacco, makes use of them in his Libro appartenente all'architettura of 1552, before orthogonal plans became normative. It is possible, therefore that the artist may belong to the circle of Peruzzi, although there is nothing to prove a direct connection.We are grateful to Ian Campbell, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Edinburgh College of Art for the research and catalogue entry of the above lot.

LADIES COMMONPLACE BOOK, circa1830, containing watercolours, manuscript material etc, old cf gt worn, top bd detchd + 8 assorted other items (9)

MACHINE GUN SCHOOL MACHINE GUN TRAINING CENTRE OFFICERS COURSE SYLLABUS OF WORK, 1917, with good quantity manuscript material and drawings, obl, orig binder gt + 1 other machine gun interest notebook + LIEUT J BOSTOCK (ED): THE MACHINE GUNNERS HANDBOOK, 1917, 11TH edn, orig cl (3)

WWII MANUSCRIPT DIARY COMPILED BY MRS SHEILA STOPFORD OF SAXHAM WIFE OF CAPTAIN STOPFORD RN COVERING THE PERIOD JUNE 17TH 1941 TO NOVEMBER 30TH 1942, 4to, orig cl bkd bds + THREE “EVENING STANDARD” WWII PERIOD POSTERS + TRIUMPHAL MARCH OF THE LONDON TROOPS, 1919, official programme, orig wraps + 6th VOLUNTEER BATTALION THE ESSEX REGIMENT: SOUVENIR OF OFFICERS DINNER AND COLCHESTER TOWN HALL, 1919, orig wraps (6)

MRS CHILD: THE FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE, 1839, 16 mo, orig blind stpd cl soiled + MANUSCRIPT GAME BOOK WITH ENTRIES FROM SEPTEMBER 1844, orig crimson mor gt (2)

EDWARDIAN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL CIRCA 1909 “THE B H B ON TOUR” INCLUDING SOME MOUNTED PHOTOS AND PEN AND INK DRAWINGS

Hakluyt Society. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century. Comprising, the Treatise 'Of the Russe Common Wealth', by Dr Giles Fletcher; and the Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, Ant., now for the First Time Printed Entire from his own Manuscript, Edited Edward A. Bond, 1856, two copies, one bound in contemp. olive half morocco gilt, a little frayed at head of spine, the other bound in orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little worn on spine, together with The Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson, Traveller to India, written by Himself and Completed about 1661... Translated from the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal, by Bertha S. Phillopotts, vols. 1 & 2, 1923 & 1933, b & w illusts., folding map, both orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt (vol. 2 in d.j., faded on spine), plus The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as Narrated in his Journal and Correspondence, edited from Contemporary Records, by William Foster, 2 vols., 1899, port. frontis. to each, folding map, uncut and largely unopened, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, faded and rubbed on spines, and other Hakluyt Society publications, (mostly more recent), many in d.j.s (74)

Sykes (Major P.M.). The Glory of the Shia World. The Tale of a Pilgrimage, Translated and Edited from a Persian Manuscript by Major P.M. Sykes, Assisted by Khan Bahadur Ahmad Din Khan, 1st ed., 1910, half-title present, four col. plts., b & w illusts., orig. dec. cloth gilt, torn on spine, together with The Caliphs' Last Heritage. A Short History of the Turkish Empire, 1st ed., 1915, twenty-seven maps, mostly folding (incl. three contained in rear pocket), all cmplete as listed, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, plus The Right Honourable Sir Mortimer Durand P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. A Biography, 1st ed., 1926, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, three maps contained in rear pocket, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, a little rubbed, and The Quest for Cathay, 1st ed., A. & C. Black, 1936, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, nine folding maps, orig. cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, all 8vo (4)

Germany - Magdeburg. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg, Franz), Magdeburgum, [1582], uncoloured engraved plan, atractive title cartouche, sl. toned to central fold, river name written in ink manuscript, 323 x 436 mm (1)

* Northumberland. Large miscellaneous collection of papers, documents, etc., 18th & 19th c., mainly relating to the Alnwick area, including tithe receipts, agreements, letters, some with early postal frankings, bills, copies of wills, valuations, various manuscript books containing entries pertaining to poor rates, sales of livestock, household furniture, husbandry, poor rate collections, parish valuations, etc. (-)

* Victoria (Queen of Great Britain & Ireland). Manuscript six page warrant dated 22nd February 1844, for regulating the number of clerks to be employed in the Office of Duchy of Cornwall, with the amount of salary assigned to each, with fine bold signature of the Queen at head of first page (1)

Missals. Missale Cartusiani ordinis, ex ordinatione capituli generalis, anno domini MDCII celebrati, sub R.P.D. Brunone Daffringues, Paris, 1603, title printed in red and black, with eng. full length portrait of St. Bruno, cropped to top margin, just touching first word of title, text printed in red and black throughout, numerous large woodcut initials, one or two minor repairs, contemp. calf, worn with portion missing to head and foot of spine, string showing, folio, together with Caeremoniale Episcoporum iussu Clementis VIII Pont. Max. reformatum, Paris, 1633, eng. title (a little soiled and marginal marks), printed in red and black throughout, numerous engraved illusts., initials, etc., contemp. calf, some wear, mainly to edges and extrems., folio, plus five other folios, similar, including Missale Romanum, Rome, 1662, Missale Sanctae Ecclesiae Trecensis, ed. J. B. Bossuet, 1736 (bound in attractive 19th c. gilt dec green full morocco), and a manuscript Officium Septem Dolorum B. M. Virginis ad vesperas Antiphona, dated 1773 (7)

Platina (Bartolomeo de Sacchi). Le vite di Tutti i Pontefici da S. Piero in qua, Ridotte in Epitome da Tomaso Costo Napoletano, & Accademico Fiorentino, Secondo la Descrizzione del Platina Corretta dal Panvinio..., Appresso Bernardo Basa, & Barezzo Barezzi, Venice, 1692, pp.[40],320, woodcut device to title, numerous woodcut port. illusts., 19th c. panelled sheep, boards near detached, rubbed, 8vo, Breviary, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis a Mendis Exacte Repurgatum, pub. George Lombart, Paris, 1600, title with hand-col. woodcut armorial, woodcut illust. and full-page woodcut illust. to final leaf, text printed in red & black throughout, 8pp. early manuscript notes bound-in at front and 25pp. manuscript notes at rear, contemp. blind stamped calf, recased, 8vo (2)

Agricola (Georgius). De Re Metallica libri XII Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia..., 2nd Latin ed., pub. Froben, Basle, 1561, printer's woodcut device to title and colophon leaf verso at rear, two engraved plates (between h6/i1 and i2/3) incl. one part folding, and 273 mostly full-p. woodcuts in the text, by R. Deutsch after B. Wefring, occ. minor marginal pencil marks and notes, some scattered very monor spotting or soiling and light dampstaining to marginal extremities, old manuscript note in Latin by FB on (later) front free endpaper indicating that they bought the book in Verona on 23rd May 1656, bookplate of William Henry Fitton, MD, marbled edges, 19th-c. calf, covers det. and spine deficient, folio (page size 328 x 220 mm). Adams A350. PMM 79 (1st ed., 1556). A very clean and fresh copy. William Henry Fitton, 1780-1861, physician and geologist, was born in Dublin and studied at Trinity College. He published various works on mineralogy and in 1815 he was elected FRS and, in 1816, a member of the Geological Society and FRCS. (1)

Reil (Johann Christian). Rhapsodieen uber die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerruttungen, 2nd ed., Halle, 1818, minor spotting, ink stamp to fron endpaper, contemp. boards with later manuscript paper labels to spine, rubbed and chipped on spine, 8vo. Garrison Morton 4923 & Norman 1821 (first edition, 1803). (1)

A b&w photograph of the crowd at the Chelsea v Stockport County match at Stamford Bridge 2nd September 1911, a 10 by 12in. period photograph, mounted, framed & double glazed revealing the manuscript caption to the reverse of the photograph

A framed postcard display titled Burnley FC English Cup Winners 1913-14', mounted with 13 real photo portrait postcards of Edwards (trainer), Boyle (captain), Dawson, Sewell, Bamford, Taylor, Halley, Watson, Lindley, Hodgson, Nesbit, Freeman and Mosscrop all with manuscript identification, and a further card of the F.A. Cup trophy, in its original oak frame under glass, 74 by 53.5cm., 29 by 21in.

A scrapbook compiled by the 1920s Manchester United manager John Chapman, beginning with an abc manuscript record of players signings, press cuttings firstly relating to Airdrionians and Scottish football, then turning to Manchester United and including good quality press photos, a signed postcard of Jack Mew wearing an England shirt and cap, two pencil drawn caricatures by 'Blossom', and other miscellaneous items. John A. Chapman was the sixth manager in the history of Manchester United FC. His term commenced in 1921 after Jack Robson fell ill. Mysteriously on 8th October 1927 United received a telegram from the Football Association saying that Chapman had been suspended from managing. No reason was ever given. Shortly after Lal Hilditch took charge. Chapman came to United from Airdrieonians, where as a young man he was a player with Airdrie Amateurs as a speedy outside right. He later settled in Plymouth and run the local greyhound stadium. John Chapman died in 1949.

A period photograph of the New Zealand rugby team in Paris on New Year's Day 1906, with manuscript legend to lower mount, published by Fulimo Chiesi, Palais Royal, Paris, unframed, overall 24 by 31cm., 9 1/2 by 12 1/4in.

Flesher (M. printer) The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized....by a Fellow of the College of Physicians, London, 1692, (plates incomplete), Turner (Daniel) The Art of Surgery, 1722, Volume II only, James (R) Pharmacopoeia Universalis or A New Universal English Dispensatory, 2nd edition (incomplete) and a book of manuscript notes on Medical Jurisprudence, Toxology and Public Health. Litttlejohn, inscribed C J Lewis, Edinburgh, circa 1900

Tranter, Nigel Author's typescript of The Riven Realm, manuscript title, signed by the author, dated 1984, punched and strung together with card outers, approx 20.5 x 26cm

Alexander I, Tsar- Coulon de Thévenot, Jean Félicité Manuscript entitled Essai d'une Législation de Bienfaisance, addressed to Tsar Alexander I, signed Coulon de Thévenot, auteur de la tachygraphie, Rue D'Argenteuil Butte St. Roux, No. 19 A Paris, and below Mme. Marnier née Coulon de Thévenot, Rue de bac 36 bis, Paris, [c.1801], 4to [26 x 20 cm], 65 pages, on paper, contemporary pink boards, olive morocco gilt label lettered Pour S.M. Imperiale Alexandre Ier Empereur des Russies on upper cover, boards rubbed Note: Alexander I succeeded to the throne in 1801 and one of his immediate concerns was the emancipation of the serfs, as is acknowledged by Coulon de Thévenot at the beginning of his proposal for charitable legislation, une entreprise trop genereuse et trop sublime pour ne pas exciter l'admiration et la reconnaissance envers le souverain. He continues to discuss religious confraternities, workers' friendly societies, hospices, public works, soup-kitchens and other charitable organisations. The emancipation of the serfs did not finally come about until 1861. Jean Félicité Coulon de Thévenot (1754-1813) invented the first significant system of shorthand in France, which he presented to the Académie royale in 1776. In 1787 he was appointed shorthand secretary to Louis XVI, and after the Revolution used his shorthand to transcribe the proceedings of the Convention. His daughter, Marie Félicité Victoire (1796-1869), married a sieur Marnier, and published her own Les Etrennes du tachygraphe in 1807.

Arabic Manuscript Dala 'il al -Khairat. Dased: 1199 A. H. miniature Arabic manuscript on glazed paper. Binding 3 tall x 2 wide, 166 leaves of text plus 4 rear endpapers written over in a non-scribal hand, text mainly in red and black within double ruled red border, occasional orange, purple and blue, two full pages with most attractive architectural illustration (gilded), a few lines of text from time to time within gilded cartouches, in original morocco, pretty arabesque-shaped central panel depicting various flowers on each cover, one joint cracked Note: Pilgrims' guide, of some sophistication and charmingly bound, dating from the end of the 18th century.

Early 19th Century Manuscript Recipe Book Ms recipe book, dated May 1st 1812, Edinburgh, on second leaf, 8vo, 3 pages of inventory listing of china, cutlery, etc, 102 pages of culinary and medicinal recipes, including Shrewsbury cakes, ginger beer, for a sore throat, for fleas, original boards, paper cover

Galilei, Galileo - Benedetto Averani (1645-1707) Manuscript copy of Averani's La Difesa di Galileo, entitled Lettera Apologetica del Galileo, 4to (222 x 155mm.), 26 leaves, [a]8 [b]10 [c]8, verso of title and of last leaf blank, written in one hand, [c.1700], smoke stained? and slightly brittle, backstrip with tape repair Note: Four copies of this work in manuscript are recorded by Favaro, who printed a text based on those at Florence and Pisa. It has been suggested that it was made in connection with a plan to erect a statue or monument to Galileo.

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936), author The Ballad of East and West; The Explanation; The Legend of Evil, original illuminated manuscript by Rev. W. Taylor, 3 poems, titles decorated in red blue and gold, illuminated decorative initials, together 18 pages, brown reversed calf with initials OBC on upper cover, slightly worn at spine, inscribed To Olive. Being a Promise Fulfilled, Rev. W. Taylor, 26 x 17cm, [c.1920]

Landor, Walter Savage Autograph letter signed to Leigh Hunt, postmarked May 1836, apologising for the delayed response to a previous note from Mr Hunt, c.19 x 23cm, address on reverse, postmarked, some wax seal remaining; Ibid. Autograph letter signed, undated, responding to an appeal for money and outlining his own financial circumstances, c.12 x 18cm, three sides of manuscript; Colin Campbell, 18th century merchant Two A.L.S. from Colin Campbell referring to Aberdeen, offering assistance in relation to his iron, we have sold all the cargo & pacotally of the Calmar, our tea tho' good sold but very indifferently, the Bohea... & the other tea... as little damaged goods in this cargo I hope the ship will yield a tolerable dividend.. the teas sent to Holland have sold miserably & to great loss, referring to merchant ships The Adolph Frederick and The Prince Greslaf, and to Tar Tinqua's circumstances still very dubious tho' it seems the merchants at Canton can do nothing without him, two pages and one page, Gott, both 1748; and a similar letter from Hugh Campbell to Charles Irvine, Merchant in Edinburgh, 1748 (5)

Praetorius, Johann (1537-1616) of Joachimsthal [Nova Calendarii Forma]. [begin F. IR:] [Amplissmis prudentissmis dominis patronis observantissmis S.P.] Inserunt... ut novi calendarij formam diligenter perpenderem, et inde dicerem, an talis correctio necessaria sit... [end F. 6V:] Haec ad mandata v.a. respondere in Praesentia visum est, submittere oro, ut v.a. hanc meam tenuitatem horis consutlant & mea servitia sibi commendata habeant i.p. Altdorf, 1582, 4to (200 x 152mm.), manuscript on paper, 8 leaves, blank 7r (p. 13) and 8v (except for inscription), sewn, without covers Provenance: Endorsed on verso of last leaf, R[everendo] Domino M. Leonharto mittit Nicolaus Ludovicus: amicitiae causa; German cat. ref. RB XIX 330199 Note: The subject of Calendar Reform had by this date become something of grave concern to the Church; it was widely discussed, and in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII had promulgated a reform (largely the work of the Jesuit Clavius) which came into force on 15 October 1582, and was given printed form. This manuscript contains a work addressed to the worthies of Nuremberg by Praetorius, written as a response. Pages [1-12] contain the text of Praetorius's proposals, and pages [14-15] his letter to the Hungarian humanist Andreas Dudith enclosing the same.

Scottish carriage and chaise makers, c. 1790 Alphabetic manuscript listing the two and four wheel chaises ordered by clients, together with details of the coats-of-arms to be painted on the carriage work, with occasional notes, eg. Ferguson, Wm., Esq. of Raith, part: Abbotshall, Co. Fife, a four wheel coach, ditto chaise, He is worth £300,000 Stg., 8vo, 375pp., tree calf, rebacked with new calf, red morocco label

Spanish peninsula war Memorandum of peninsula war, war in Southern France, and home leave covering the period 13 October 1812 - July 1814, 4to, c.180 leaves including hand-coloured manuscript plan of Busacco (1810, copied from Elliot's Portugal) and of the ground at San Munos 17 Nov. 1812, a few leaves frayed or nibbled at edge with slight loss of text, occasional light spotting or dust-soiling, loose in a worn portfolio Note: Detailed memoranda of the campaign in northern Spain and southern France headed Meimento, battle of Busaco, Miranda da douro, Barrioplano, Mt Estevan, Echalar, St, Jean de Luz and Bordeaux.

Turner, Rev. Thomas, Turner, Rev Francis, Bishop of Rochester & Goulston, Richard Manuscript volume of the letters of the Revd Thomas Turner , [Dean of Canterbury], and his wife Margaret, the Revd Francis Turner, Bishop of Rochester and Ely, and Richard Goulston Esq. of Widdial and Margaret Goulston, his wife... copied from the originals preserved in the Bodleian Library 1669-1714. Circa, late 19th Century, 376 pages of manuscript [some blanks], half red morocco gilt, some slight rubbing

World War I - Allan, Private James Diary of the Great War, Private James Allan 2/1 Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, Home Unit 29th January 1917 to 14th October 1917, Overseas unit 8th Batt. Black Watch (9th Division) 15th October 1917 to 21st April 1919, approx 13 x 21.5cm, 27 pages of manuscript text, pasted in postcards, illustrations and photographs, identity discs and kilt sample pasted onto front pastedown, original cloth, rubbed, some chipping to page edges Note: An detailed diary of the life of Private James Allan of the 8th Black Watch (9th Divison) overseas in Germany the later years of First World War. Private Allan made an effort to record a clear, factual account of his time overseas, from his arrival in Boulogne in October 1917 to his demobilisation in April 21st 1919 with harrowing descriptions of movements on the front line, 20th July [1918] 7am. Barrage starts. Troops over. Machine guns, shells, etc, men dropping thick. Barbed wire uncut. Solitary German approaches Hand's up at the double. Drops dead, shot from his Kamerads. Alarming toll of machine guns, few men left. Advance of 200yds. Wheatfield reached, supposed objective... Three stragglers arrive take shelter in the wheatsheaves 5 yds in front of trench. One shot through the head. Another in the knee, third man rushes for the trench and falls dead head first into the trench.

Alchemy Artephius, his secret book, manuscript, 47pp., inscribed To Sorar S.M.J. from Fra. L.F.P., Xmas 1947; Aureus of Hermes Trismegistus, manuscript by Leonard F. Pembroke, stapled, [no date]; Dee, J. La monade hieroglyphique, 1925, typescript, 49pp.; The true & perfect preparation of the philosophical stone, typescript of translation, [c.1940]; An hundred aphorisms containing ye whole body of natural magic, manuscript by L.F. Pembroke, 1947; Parney, M. An elucidation of Ripley's compound of alchemy, typescript, 22pp., [c.1947]; Arcanum hermeticae philosophicae opus, manuscript copy, c.50pp., 1941, all half calf; and c.55 photocopied works and critical essays, some of articles published by Ambix, relating to alchemy, magic, John Dee, bound in plywood boards or cloth (quantity)

Aristotle, Spanish manuscript Philosophiae totius juxta mentem Aristotelis institutio, Latin manuscript, c.1670, c.657pp., 8vo, diagrams in the text, contemporary vellum, worming largely in inner margin, occasionally affecting text, occasional minor spotting, small stain to title, binding slightly wormed, spine torn, hinges broken Note: Dated to c. 1670 on the basis of the predictions of future eclipses on pp.82-85. The work is most probably notes from lectures at a Jesuit college in Spain. On page 20 Riccioli's confutation of Copernicus is put down as verum. Provenance:Purchased at Venice in 1888, manuscript note; D. J. Arkell, 1922, inscription.

Bacon, Roger Opus majus ad Clementem quartum, pontificem Romanum. Ex MS Codice Dubliniensi, cum aliis quibusdam collato, nunc primum edidit S.Jebb. London: typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1733. First edition, folio, titlepage in red and black, folding table and two plates, contemporary mottled, rebacked, joints split, edges rubbed, titlepage and last leaf a little dusty, marginal tear in p. 123 (no loss), some internal stains Note: Dibner 76; Norman 99; Thorndike II, pp. 616-691 The first appearance in print of Bacon's principal scientific work, and one of the most important works of medieval science, written in 1266-1267. Jebb published the manuscript at Trinity College the most complete then known, containing six parts - a seventh part was later discovered but not published until 1860.

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius cum triplici commento. De disciplina scholarium. [Lyon], Jean Marion for Simon Vincent, 1521. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, title in red & black with woodcut border, woodcuts & diagrams in text, some initial strokes in red, later cloth-backed boards, slight worming in 1st few leaves., short tear in i7, slight damage to inner margin of some leaves affecting a few letters, contemporary manuscript ownership inscriptions in red ink Note: Renouard II, p.212, 23; Adams B2291

Dickinson, Emily Poems. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891, later cloth; Ibid. Letters, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894, 2 volumes, original green cloth; another issue, 1894, brown cloth lettered in silver; Roberts Brothers, publishers A masque of poets, Boston, 1878, original cloth, extremities chipped; Franklin, R.W. The manuscript books of Emily Dickinson, Harvard, 1981, 2 volumes, 8vo, slipcase; Jenkins, MacGregor Emily Dickinson, Boston, 1930, dust-jacket; Hitchcock, Frederick The handbook of Amherst, Massachusetts. Amherst, 1891, 8vo, contains poems by Emily Dickinson [pp.21], original cloth gilt, front endpaper loose; and a quantity of modern critical books relating to Emily Dickinson

Durand, David La vie et les sentiments de Lucilio Vanini. Rotterdam: Gaspar Fritch, 1717, first edition, 8vo, engraved vignette on title-page, title in red and black, four line autograph dedication by the author to Mons. l'Apotre(?) on title and numerous manuscript corrections in the author's hand, early ninteeenth century citron morocco, crest of Baron Northwick on upper cover, a little light spotting Note: The margins contain numerous corrections and additions, and in the autograph dedication Durand requests Je prie Mons. l'Apotre(?) d'accepter cet exemplaire de mon Vanini corrigé de ma main et augmenté en divers endroits comme une marque de mon estime et une preuve de ma part Reconnaissance D. Durand. On the flyleaf is a manuscript list of six periodicals of 1717-18 which mention this work. The work is dedicated to William North, sixth Baron North (1678-1734). Caillet 3430 Provenance: Spencer-Churchill library, armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick on upper cover, and J.S. on lower cover; Jack Wallis, bookplate.

Euclid The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the English toung, by H. Billingsley... with a very fruitfull preface made by M.I. Dee. [London: John Daye, 1570], folio, title-page within decorative border, printer's device on final verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, woodcut diagrams, contemporary calf, lacking a1 of Preface, half of the folding Groundplat leaf, overslips to Booke XI (issued as a set of 60 on 12 leaves) and final blank leaf EEE4, title, portrait and some initials crudely hand-coloured, title soiled, repaired and torn with loss of imprint and woodcut at foot, two leaves of Translator to the Reader soiled and repaired, last two leaves repaired with loss of text and woodcut frame of Dee's portrait, waterstained and soiled throughout, heavily at beginning and end, two single wormholes occasionally affecting sidenotes, rebacked, sides worn, manuscript poem on title verso Note: First edition of the first English translation of Euclid. STC 10560; Steck III.79; Thomas-Stanford, Euclid's Elements, 41 Provenance: J. Belchier, 18th century inscription on title;

Facsimile & Limited editions - Annigoni, Pietro Elogio della follia. Rome, 1978, folio, number 1110 of 2565 copies, original embossed calf, slipcase, a fine copy; Dee, John A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr John Dee and some spirits. Glasgow, 1974, folio, 2 copies, each one of 500 copies in calf, panelled calf gilt, slipcase, another limited 1974 edition and a 1992 facsimile; Josten, C.H. (ed.) Elias Ashmole. Oxford, 1966, 8vo, 5 volumes, original cloth, dustwrappers; Evelyn, John The diary and correspondance of... London, 1854, 8vo, 4 volumes, original cloth gilt, some foxing; Ovid The metamorhoses of Ovid. Cambridge, 1968, 4to, 2 volumes, [Vol. I: Books 1-9, The Phillipps Manuscript; Vol. II: Books 10-15, The Pepys Manuscript], original binding, slipcase; Domesday Domesday book studies. London, 1987, folio, 3 volumes, slipcase, a fine copy; and a quantity of other material on John Dee, alchemy [including a collection of typescript and photocopied articles bound in plywood] (quantity)

Ferguson, Adam Notes of Dr. Ferguson's lectures on moral philosophy, volume II, Edinburgh Jan. MDCCLXXXIII-I, manuscript, 162 pp. and blanks, 4to, later boards Note: An unusual record and insight into Ferguson's lectures as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh between February 1st and March 28th 1785. The lectures cover logic, the existence of God, the proprierty or impropriety of introducing speeches into history, the death and character of Epaminondas and the history of philosophy. The manuscript also comprises translations from Longinus, commentaries on Hebrews &c.

Forbes, Sir William An account of the life and writings of James Beattie. Edinburgh, 1806. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, portrait frontispiece after Reynolds, 8 plates of facsimile manuscript and music, contemporary polished tree-calf gilt, joints cracked, offsetting to title, some foxing and browning; Beattie, James An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. Edinburgh, 1771, second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, front free endpapers removed, some browning to edges of title, contemporary ink inscription of William Duff on title; copy of the fourth edition [1773], contemporary calf gilt, upper board loose, endpapers lacking, staining throughout; a copy of the eighth edition [1812], contemporary calf gilt, foxing (5)

French astrology manuscript Traité des interrogations et des errerus des astrologues, 8vo, 107 pages, contemporary vellum, early 18th century, some pages browned Note: The author discusses in detail the three types of errors which result from either the question posed, the astrologer himself, or the heavenly bodies themsleves. He then sets out rules to be followed, describes astrological symbols and discusses astrology with especial reference to journeys and thefts.

German philosophical manuscript Oeconomica, medica, physica, misteriosa, magica, ex variis authoribus Latinis, Germanis, Gallis et Hispanis, optima fide excepta, per A.A., 4 volumes, small 4to, Latin titles, German text, approximately 440 pages, 1791-1796, modern calf, spines gilt

Glanvill, Joseph Sadducismus triumphatus, or, a full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. London: A. Bettesworth..., 1726, fourth edition, 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, title in red and black, 2 frontispieces and one plate, one advert leaf at rear, contemporary panelled calf gilt, textblock split in two, upper cover detached, rubbed Note: Pasted onto the endleaves are a number of articles and manuscript notes on the ghost drummer or demon of Tidworth or Tedworth. Caillet 4562.

Hume, David Essays and treatises on several subjects. London: T. Cadell, 1772, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-title in volume 2, contemporary calf, B1 volume 1 with 3 letters supplied in manuscript facsimile, neatly rebacked, raised bands, morocco labels Provenance: P. Vernon, 1779, inscription on title of volume 2

Italian alchemical manuscript Secretum secretorum secretissimum sive thesaurus sapientae prophetis a de revelatus, et per Sybillam Eritrheam in numerus doctrina solus prestantionibus concessus omnia manifestans, Italian manuscript, small 4to, 72 folios, plus two loose inserted fragments, largely from 1740-60, with some later additions up to 1808, containing a variety of simple vaticinatory/cryptographic games, referred to as Cabala, based on basic literal-numeral substitutions, the first 12 pages in Latin, the remainder in Italian Note: Much of the notebook is devoted to using vaticinatory methods to predict winning names or numbers of lotteries (Estrazioni). Reference is made to Giovanni Caramuel Bishop of Vigevano, a cabala used by St. Malachi, St. John of Capistrano and Abbot Joachim di Fiore, and the numbers of the lottery printed in Venice by the publisher Cenzo, 1800.

Magnetism and hypnotic trance, manuscript 240pp, manuscript in English, recording a series of visions received by a group working in Alexandria, North Egypt in 1797-1798, 4to, modern panelled sprinkled calf, c.1802; and a small manuscript volume entitled Hours of sunshine by George Hutchinson Swain, with references to vampires, c.236pp., 12mo, old calf, c.1822-23 (2) Note: The visions were achieved by means of Magnetic Sleep, i.e. hypnotic trance, which points to the influence of Franz Mesmer and his pupil the Marquis de Puysegur. The medium, an Italian called Cesare, had magnetic passes made over his body by Baldvino, perceives visions of the Elysium fields and encounters various Gods and Godddesses, primarily from the Greek pantheon. The scenes he sees witnessed are narrated by a chorus and climax in a particular vision called the Coronation of Silene. Actual members of the party in Alexandria also appear in the visions, namely Tirsi and Nice. During the Coronation of Silence the group is instructed that Cesare will relinquish his role as medium, to be replaced by Clio. The group is very aware of the astronomical correlates of the deities they are dealing with, and the visions directly relate to astrological aspects. The manuscript would appear to be an English translation from Italian, and has been corrected in another hand with a view to publication, as was instructed, but the work was never published. A striking aspect is the use of magnetic sleep to achieve clairvoyance about twenty years before Mesmer died. Their 'sessions' sound akin to seances yet they were working fifty years prior to the start of the modern spiritualist movement. The notion that human beings can encounter and have dealings with Gods and Goddesses underlies much twentieth century occultism.

Manuscript bible commentary Trãc. De. Dõ. Uõ. Dspão. Prõals. De. Tlgio. necessitate p priabus et objectd.., eighteenth-century bible commentary, brown ink, same hand throughout, Latin text, some Greek, 24-31 lines, 8vo, pages 1-554 (543-546 missing), in older vellum binding, some underlining, binding slightly soiled;[English epitaphs] Manuscript collection of English epitaphs, inscribed John Frize His Book Was Made the 29th day of October Anno. Dom 1745, oblong 8vo, 84 pages, old boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, some light soiling of text (2) Note: Eighteenth-century bible commentary, summary of the saints and history of the church and reformation in England, with references to Henry VIII, Elizabeth, Charles II, Miles Coverdale, Zwingli and others. John Frize may have been a gravestone stonemason as a number of the epitaphs are marked as old man's verse, young woman's verse &c. and on the endpaper there are precise measurements for headstones. John Frize has added his own quatrain for posterity: This Little Book my name shall have When I am Dead and Laid in grave When Greedy worms have Eaten me then here you all my name shall see

Manuscript, Tractatus de horologiis sciatericis Seventeenth-century manuscript, Latin, 326pp., 2 folding tables, diagrams, contemporary vellum, inscription dated 1683 on p. 261, 12mo, slight damp-staining in inner margin at end, upper hinge broken

Philosophy manuscript Eighteeenth century philosophical manuscript, in English, covering moral philosophy, ethics, the influence of virtue upon happiness, moral and intellectual virtues, duties, moral culture, principles of jurisprudence, politics, forms of government and logic, 4to, 362 and 130pp., contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners, uncut, rubbed, joints cracked Note: The manuscript refers to Thomas Reid's Inquiry into the human mind, published in 1764, but was clearly written before the French Revolution. The author would appear to be a deist for he quotes William Wollaston (1659-1724) and Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) and refers to God as the Deity. The work refers to the ideas of Descartes, Locke and Barclay, as well as Dryden, Pope, Addison and Swift.

Portuguese astronomy Diaologo epistolar sobre el cometa apparecido em Lamego a 7 de abril observado ate o dia 9 de 1766. St. Helena, illustration of a comet on title, small folio, manuscript, 8 leaves original marbled wrappers, worn Note: Manuscript report by two brothers Joao and Joze de Souza y Araujo de Borges da Veiga, recording their observations of a comet over St. Helena from 7-9 April 1766, addressed to the Rev. Padre Maestro Mel da Mae de Deus. The authors quote not only the classics but also the modern astronomers David Gregory, Dominic Cassini, Wilhelm Homberg, Kepler, Hevelius, Gassendi and Newton.