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LAKE DISTRICT - A MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY, of a "first visit to the lakes" by Edward Weller, 14 pages, 4to, disbound, 1841; together with a small travel diary by the same writer, dated 1849 (2).

MANOR OF NAMBOLL (CORNWALL) MANUSCRIPT COURT ROLL, on 21 leaves, on paper, vellum wrappers, 4to, 1720 - 1740. * The Manor Of Namboll is on the Lizard.

PLYMOUTH TOWN MISSION, 7 manuscript diaries of Robert A. Mack of the Plymouth Town Mission, half calf, marbled boards, 8vo, 1852 - 69. * This unique set of diaries with copious entries provides a rare insight into the Evangelical work of the Mission in Plymouth. Many entries relate to victims of the cholera epidemic (7).

WINKFIELD (BERKSHIRE) FIVE MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOKS FOR THE DRUCE FAMILY, BLACKSMITHS, the first contemporary vellum, the rest re-bound in cloth, over 2000 pages of entries, various sizes, 1865 - 1915.

WOODBURY MANUSCRIPT "Order Of Removal" to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor, broadsheet, 1790, together with a manuscript indenture dated 1604, relating to Kingswell, Devon (2).

LAMI (EUG.) AND MONNIER (H.) VOYAGE EN ANGLETERRE, 24 hand coloured lithographs, original printed wrappers. Bound by Durvand Thivet in scarlet half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands and lettered in gilt spine, folio, Paris and London, 1830. * Abbey, Scenery, 34, lists the title in manuscript, the Tingey copy with the wrappers bound in and used as the title would indicate there was no printed title published. * Scarce.

HUTCHISON (G. A.) EDITOR, INDOOR GAMES AND RECREATIONS, decorative cloth, gilt, 8vo, 1891; and a 19th Century album of manuscript poems and drawings, embossed morocco binding (2).

POTTER (BEATRIX) 1866 - 1943, CHILDREN'S AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, FAMOUS FOR HER PETER RABBIT CHARACTERS - A BRIEF MANUSCRIPT POSTCARD, of seven lines signed in her married name H. B. Heelis, postmarked 22 Dec '34. * Addressed to Mrs Benson, Beatrix promises "tell the little nephew I'll bring a picture book for him next time".

POTTER (BEATRIX) 1866 - 1943, CHILDREN'S AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, FAMOUS FOR HER PETER RABBIT CHARACTERS - A TWO PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER, signed in her married name H. B. Heelis, addressed from Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, March 25 '33. * A Letter of recommendation for Benjamin Dawson, who was her mother's gardener.

POTTER (BEATRIX) 1866 - 1943, CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR, FAMOUS FOR HER PETER RABBIT CHARACTERS, A GOOD FOUR PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER, signed Beatrix Potter, addressed c/o Messrs. F. Warne & Co., Sept. 26. '13, slight foxing. * A delightful letter to Joy Shapland which includes sketches of pigs. She writes of having been ill and her disappointment with her latest book (The Tale Of Pigling Bland), which her publishers insisted she wrote "the printers said all the little friends would be disappointed if I did not screw out my usual Christmas book".

R. N. OFFICERS MANUSCRIPT DIARY, over 100 closely written pages detailing daily accounts on board ships carrying troops, refugees, P.O.W.'s etc, written in a contemporary Field Message Book, wrappers, Circa 1940's.

A stained beech wood Railway Wall Timepiece. The 11.75in diameter painted dial signed 'N E R, P/1356' the Roman numerals, the single train wire fusee four pillar movement with anchor escapement and angled plates, the case with moulded dial surround. 15.25in diameter (with pendulum and crank winding key). The case bearing a printed LNER (N.E. Area) Label, inscribed in manuscript 'Beyth Staith mas. /c.g. 186.6.6 / P / 1356'

A leather bound Persian manuscript, possibly 16th century, Iran. The cover with traces of gilt tooling. The pages with black & red ink script, on wove paper panels, within laid paper borders.

*A leather bound, Persian manuscript, possibly 16th century. The front and back with leather embossed panels. Inside with with gilt tooled and painted motif decoration. Part wove and part laid paper,with red & black ink persian script, with gilt & polychrome highlight to some pages. The first page below the medallion, written in white on a gilt background 'Ketabe Yousof va Zulleykha'.

After Michelangelo, 'Moses Seated holding a large manuscript', a terracotta maquette, 19th century, 37cm high.

Burrill (Katharine and Booth, Annie M.). The Amateur Cook, illust. Mabel L. Attwell, n.d., c. 1905, b&w frontis., title and illusts. to text, orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed to extrems., 8vo, together with Lake (Nancy), Menus Made Easy, or, How to Order Dinner and Give the Dishes their French Names, 30th ed., revised and extended, 1924, orig. cloth, very sl. rubbed, 8vo, plus What One Can Do With A Chafing-Dish, a guide for amateur cooks, by H. L. S., New York, 1894, a few manuscript insertions, one or two marks to margins, orig. cloth backed boards, soiled and some wear to edges, oblong 8vo, and Young (Mrs. H. M., ed.), The Housewife's Manual of Domestic Cookery with Special Reference to Cooking by Gas, 8th ed., n.d., c. 1910, b&w illusts., ads. at front and rear, orig. cloth, a little rubbed and spines lightly darkened, 8vo, plus other various cookery interest, mostly late Victorian and Edwardian, mainly 8vo (approx. 80)

Cookery Ephemera. A good collection of printed ephemera relating to cookery and household management, mostly late 19th c./early 20th c., including advertising leaflets and brochures, manufacturers and charity cookery pamphlets of recipes (including twenty-two relating to specific localised areas of Great Britain), a few menus, business letterheads and receipts, etc., plus a William IV Malt Duty Bond for Thomas Claridge of Staffordshire, 1830, part-printed with manuscript insertions, signed and sealed by Claridge and two suretie, folio, plus a small framed and glazed printed broadside for E. Bryan, Bewdley, Agent to the London Genuine Tea Company, 23 Ludgate-Hill, London, 1819 (a carton)

Digby (Kenelm). The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened: Whereby is Discovered Several Ways for Making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &c. Together with Excellent Directions for Cookery, as Also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c., Published by His Son's Consent, 1st ed., 1669, pp.[4],312,[11], lacks port. frontis., lower corner of leaf L6 torn with loss of text, 19th c. manuscript notes to front free endpaper, 19th c. cloth, joints slightly worn, small 8vo Cagle 645a; Bitting p.124; Oxford p.34; Wing D1427. (1)

*Manuscript household accounts book, John Phillips, 92 Commercial St., Newport, entries dated 1847-56, c.300 pages in a neat ink hand, only six blank leaves, includes lists and prices of all manner of household items including coal, ale, rice, mustard, soap, butter, herrings, etc., contemp. vellum, some fraying to extrems., 165 x 106 mm (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, dated 1815 to front cover, with additions up to c.1940s, 97 numbered pages in neat ink script, 29 blank leaves, receipts include Cure for Tooth Ache, Lemon Cheescakes, To Make Rabbits Taste Like Hare, Lip Salve, Parsnip Wine, etc., contemp. vellum, 188 x 124 mm (1)

*Manuscript receipt book. 'Mrs. Parker, Wyken [Shropshire]. The Receipt Book of her late dear Mother, Mrs. Bach of Wyken, 1855' [as titled to pastedown], watermarked 1812, 120 numbered pages in a readable ink hand, 22 pp. thumb index contents section, with numerous other receipts loosely inserted, includes Pop, Wedding Cake, Cucumber Catchup, Minced Pies, Parisian Receipt for Perfume, Ointment for the Piles, 264 x 270 mm (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, Jane Edwards [née Short], Solihull, 1796, 80 numbered pages of ink receipts in a clear, readable hand, 25 blank leaves, receipts include To Stew Eels, A Sailors Punch, Calves Head Hash, To Clean Marble, Stilton Cheese, etc., orig. marbled boards, recent calf reback, 267 x 212 mm (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, 'Lord Bradford Rent Book 1742' [as titled in ink to upper cover], 63 pages of readable ink manuscript text, approx. 40 blank leaves, includes receipts for Pox, Veal Cutlets, Rhubarb Wine, Savoy Biscuits, Rock Cakes, Pigeons in a Hole, etc., a few leaves detached, contemp. vellum, some fraying to upper joint, 193 x 168 mm Judging by the slack in the spine this was probably once a thicker volume and may have began life as a rent book only to end up in the kitchens. (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, 1850s, 162 numbered pages of receipts in an ink readable hand with no blank leaves, some other receipts loosely inserted, includes French Tart, Tea Cakes, Sore Throat, Diarrhoea, Macaroni Milk, For a Sprain, etc., contemp. green vellum, some wear to extrems., 185 x 115 mm (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, Mary Hopecraft, Evenley [Northants], watermarked 1796, 56 pages of manuscript receipts in a neat hand, 30 blank leaves to rear, including Omelette Soufflee, Green Gooseberry Wine, Lemon Cheese Cake, etc., contemp. limp sheep, marked with some fraying to head and foot of spine, 185 x 114 mm (1)

*Manuscript receipt books, Mary Sykes, Cheadle, 1864, 86 numbered pages of ink manuscript receipts, 9 blank leaves, includes Calf's Foot Jelly, Everton Toffee, Mulled Ale, Hair Wash, Foot and Mouth Disease, etc., some printed receipts pasted in, contemp. sheep-backed cloth boards, spine defective and covers near detached, 230 x 187 mm, together with three other manuscript receipt books including an 1865 example with 42 pages of receipts including Plum Pudding and the ever present Cowslip Wine, a receipt book in German dated 1806 containing 106 pages of neat ink receipts, plus a 20th century example (4)

*Manuscript receipt books, c.1830s, 74 numbered pages of ink manuscript receipts, including Shrewsbury Cakes, Italian Cream, Hooping Cough, To Wash Silk or Satin, etc., contemp. calf-backed marbled boards, spine defective with some leaves loose, 200 x 157 mm, together with two other manuscript receipt books including an incomplete 18th century example with 54 pages of receipts bound in vellum, a 19th century book formerly the property of Many Turner and dated 1859 with 70 pages of manuscript receipts including Dutch Sauce, To Clean Paint, Pot Pourri, etc., bound in half sheep (3)

*Manuscript receipt books, E.A.L. Metcalfe, 1856, 173 numbered ink manuscript pages, includes Maccaroni Cheese, To Pickle Tomatos, To Keep up French Polished Furniture, some other receipts loosely inserted, contemp. blindstamped morocco, 190 x 118 mm, together with a thin volume formerly the possession of Mrs Stephens, Maidstone, 1855, containing 15 pages of manuscript receipts, plus one other similar (3)

*Manuscript receipt books, E. Lynes, 1884, 120 pages of ink manuscript receipts including To Clean Carpets, Furniture Polish, Crystal Tea Cakes, Curried Fish, etc., 25 blank leaves, contemp. limp plum morocco, 199 x 163 mm, together with two other manuscript receipt books including one formerly belonging to Mary Metcalfe, 1873, and another mid 19th century example bound in morocco-backed boards containing receipts including Orange Gin, Carrot Pudding, Crumpets, Buttered Eggs, etc. (3)

*Manuscript receipt book, early 18th c., 246 numbered pages of recipes, versos mostly blank, ms. thumb index to first eleven leaves, written throughout in a fine copperplate hand, several later leaves tipped-in following index, being a list of marriages, births and deaths (c.1774-1813), stitching strained, orig. vellum, soiled, contemp. ms. title 'Receipts' to upper cover, folio Provenance note tipped-in to front free endpaper: from the family of Thomas Cobb at Calthorpe House, Oxfordshire, from whence it passed to Caldicot Castle, Monmouthshire; it was purchased by Ross Old Books in 1998, who sold it to the present vendor. Containing such useful recipes and remedies as: green pease pottage, ribbon jelly, a quaking pudding, a purging diet-drink, white fricasee, to hash a calf's head, and Lady Wheeler's receipt for the worms. (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, early 18th c., 272 numbered pages, with recipes to rectos only, hinges reinforced, orig. panelled reversed calf, rebacked, folio Contains both culinary and medical receipts, for example: to make a neatsfoot pudding, to pott pidgeons, to make syrrup of violetts, to provoke urine, for the wind collick, for a womans after pains, and to make plague water. With two recent letters loosely inserted indicating a connection with Sherston, Wiltshire. (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, early 18th c., ms. dates of 1736 and 1737, 49 pages of recipes, several hands, some sl. later?, two index leaves at rear, approx. 24 blank leaves, orig. vellum, soiled and covers warped, silk ties (frayed), contemp. ms. title to upper cover 'Family Receipt Book Hayton', 4to Includes instructions to candy angelico, to make marmelet of quinces, to stew a calve head, to do smelts in jelly, to make sugar of roses, as well as a few medicinal cures, for ague, dropsy and colick etc. (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, early 19th c., front pastedown with ms. ownership name of Barbara Parkes, dated June 14th 1819, 142 numbered pages, some blank, but mostly with recipes to rectos and versos, followed by a few blank leaves and several more ms. recipes at rear, written in copperplate, in several hands, printed thumb index to first six leaves, three ms. leaves of recipes loosely inserted, orig. qtr. roan, rubbed, some loss to marbled paper on boards, folio Recipes such as: to bake a beefs cheek, codlin jelly, sollid syllabubs, milk punch, walnut catsup, everton toffe and real Indian pickle. Interspersed are a number of remedies, e.g.: to stop a too violent action of the bowels, for a consumptive cough, and for an ulcered throat. (1)

*Manuscript receipt book, late 18th c., 284 numbered pages of recipes, dates of 1777 and 1780, with dates 1807/08 to index at rear, 20 additional numbered pages of recipes sewn in at the front, dated 1811, with separate 'index to the new part of this book' (small piece torn away at gutter, with sl. loss to ms.), orig. vellum, soiled and with some wear, small 4to A variety of culinary, household and medicinal recipes, e.g.: to make a chartreuse, to pot lobsters, to salt tongues, to kill flys that get into bacon, a receipt for washing silk stockings, and Mrs. Rudd's remedy for the rheumatism. (1)

Cookery manuscript book, early 19th c., 38 numbered pages of savoury recipes at the front, and 48 numbered pages of sweet dishes at the rear, both preceded by an index leaf, and with a large quantity of blank leaves inbetween, ms. ownership name of Mrs. Henry Townes to front pastedown, dated 1836, stitching partially broken, orig. vellum, soiled and worn, with joints splitting and some loss to spine, 4to Including recipes for gravy soup, lemon brandy, hare soup, walnut catsup, bread jelly and rice flummery, as well as remedies for 'hooping' cough and cholera etc., and a few household tips, such as how to wash coloured silks. (1)

Manuscript receipt book, early 19th c., approx. 46 pages, with a similar number of blank leaves, orig. vellum, rubbed, 8vo, together with Cookery manuscript book, late 19th c., approx. 30 pages, plus numerous blank leaves, front free endpaper detached, orig. vellum, soiled, joints splitting at ends, and sl. wear to foot of spine, folio First item with assorted recipes, for dishes such as green pea soup, Dutch puffs, biscuit bread, the best ketchup in England, and Scotch woodcock. Second item with a number of household and culinary recipes, including furniture polish, boot varnish, tooth powder, spruce beer, Pocock's pickle and egg flip. (2)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipt Book of Madam Gresley of Overseile, c. 1820, 137 pp. including index, with recipes for Yorkshire Pudding, Macaroni, Currie, Cheese Fritters, Soups, Puddings, etc., 4 pp. ALS (in the same hand?), dated 1821 and describing a voyage from Havannah to Portsmouth loosely inserted, hinges broken, contemp. half roan with old paper wrapper, some soiling and wear, small 4to (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book of Frances Ball, 1793, 38 leaves including receipts for elderflower wine, tincture of rhubarb, worm powders, syrup of violets, brown wafers, cowslip wine, cherry brandy, dried cherries, various cakes and wines, numbered index of eighty-one recipes at front, heavily waterstained, page edges somewhat frayed and browned, hinges broken, contemp. vellum, rubbed and soiled, small 4to (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Cookery Book. A Manuscript Receipt Cookery Book, 19th c., comprising manuscript recipes by various hands of the 17th & 18th c., cut and pasted onto 103 leaves, including a few blank pages, the majority in a fair hand and including receipts for potting eels, whooping cough, mackrones, for the collak, Lady Lovelaces receipt for an orange pudding, to make veal or mutton cutlets a la Maintenon, to make ginger tablets for ye wind, apple pudding, custard pudding, marsh-mallow-syrup, a receipt for mellancholly, orange chipps, marmolet, to pickell cowcombers, to make the snaile drink, to make a ffrigcossee, etc., blank leaves at rear, hinges cracked, 19th c. vellum, rubbed, ties broken, folio (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Cookery Receipts Books, 19th c., including receipts for pickles, lemons, prussian pudding, spatchcock, Westphalia loaves, oyster soup, pickle salmon, walnut catsup, drinks including gooseberry champagne wine, syrup of violets, port wine, white currant cordial and Valencia wine, a few medical receipts including those for rheumatism, cholera, breast poultice, etc., approx. forty leaves, including some loosely inserted, some spotting and browning throughout, contemp. vellum, some soiling and wear, 4to (1)

Rorer (Mrs. Sarah Tyson). Mrs Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book. A Manual of Home Economies, Philadelphia, 1st ed., 1886, portrait frontis., included in the pagination are thirty-five blank pages for 'Additional Recipes', some with manuscript notes, orig. dec. red cloth, 8vo, together with Richards (Amy G.), Cookery, Montreal, Renouf, 1895, title somewhat browned, orig. red cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo First work, Bitting 405. (2)

[Salmon, William]. The Family - Dictionary; or, Houshold Companion: Wherein are Alphabetically laid down Exact Rules and Choice Physical Receipts for The Preservation of Health, Prevention of Sickness, and Curing the several Diseases, Distempers, and Grievances, incident to Men, Women, and Children Likewise, Directions for Cookery, in Dressing Flesh, Fish, Fowl, Seasoning, Garnishing, Sauces, and Serving-up in the Best and most acceptable Manner. The Whole Art of Pastry, Conserving, Preserving, Candying, Confectionery, &c. Also, The Way of Making all sorts of Perfumes, Beautifying-Waters, Pomatums, Washes, Sweet-Balls, Sweet-Bags, and Essences: Taking Spots, and Stains out of Garments, Linen, &c. and Preserving them from Moths, &c. Washing Point, Sarsnets, and Restoring Faded Linen; and Scowring, or Brightning Tarnished Gold, or Silver Lace, Plate, &c.Together, With the Art of Making all sorts of English Wines, as Currants, Cherries, Gooseberries,and Cyder, Mead, Metheglin, &c. And the Art of Fining, and Recovering Foul or Faded Wines. The Mystery of Pickling, and keeping all Sorts of Pickles throughout the Year. To which is Added, as an Appendix; The Explanation of Physical Terms, Bills of Fare in all Seasons of the Year. With the Art of Carving. And many other Useful Matters. By J. H., 1st ed., London, 1695, 189 leaves, unpaginated, title very slightly soiled, occasional minor staining, few top margins shaved, spine rebacked, boards slightly warped, but overall a good copy, 8vo Tipped-in is a manuscript letter by Arnold Whittaker Oxford, author of "English Cookery Books to the Year 1850", referring to the first edition of this work as being "very scarce".Oxford 45: Bitting 416; Cagle 981. (1)

Charms. A Manuscript of Medical Charms and Cures, 18th c., including seven charms couched in biblical language, against ague, festering, standing of the blood, toothache, thorn, canker, fich out fire (burns), plus approx. twenty-five cures against stings, sore throat, worms, skin disorders, fevers, snake bites and red eyes, piles, internal bleeding, heat of urine, worm in children, brakn beley (diarrhoea), whooping cough, etc., nineteen leaves, including some blank pages, some browning and soiling throughout, several leaves det. and frayed at edges, contemp. limp vellum wallet with broken clasp, soiled and worn, small 8vo, together with a modern transcription and notes to the work (1)

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie, Very Much enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, 2nd ed., printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633, eng. title, numerous botanical woodcuts to text, lacks first & last blanks, errata crossed-out with early manuscript ink scouring, lower outer corner of last leaf torn & repaired, slight damp staining mostly to margins, 19th c. calf with earlier leather laid-down to boards, elaborate gilt dec. spine, leather slightly torn at head, folio STC 11751. (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book kept by Bridget Domvile, dated 1695, twenty-one leaves of medical receipts, including the distilling of treackle water, a water for the stone and gravell, to make wormwood water, a tobaco for rhume, for a sore breast, recipes for scurvy, for the obstruction of the lungs, a powder to prevent miscaring ('Take dragons blood 1 dram powder of red corall 1 dram ambergreene the weight of 2 barley cornes make this into a powder and in a littill claret wine '), for the dropsie, malencloly water, for the biteing of an adder, and sixteen further leaves of cookery receipts inverted at rear of the volume, including recipes for seede cake, sacke poset, sugar cakes, white marmalad of quince, jely of lupins, sasages without skinnes, a hagis pudinge, veale pye, sage wine good for the head, white meade, etc., old burn mark at upper margin throughout affecting some recipe titles and text, professional archival repairs throughout, contemp. limp vellum with owners name and date to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, folio An Accompanying research note indicates that the name Domvile is most closely associated with Loughlinstown and Loughlinstown House in Ireland at this time but that no Bridget had been found at the right date. The authoress acknowledges some of her sauces for the receipts, names including Lady Warwick, Lady Digby, Lady North, Dr. Bates, Mrs Mild, Lady Trevor and Lady Sidenham. (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book, possibly by Richard Barnes, c. 1663, 232pp receipts, indexes of waters, physical receipts and diseases, num. blank leaves, receipts including those for a most excellent drinke for the bitinge of a mad dogge, of man or beast, a receipt to make snails milke, a medicine to take away any sore that groweth in the eyes, a medicine for an ague, for dimness of the sight, a medicine for the plague, cures for scurvie, consumption, etc., folio 75 dated 1663 as is a manuscript date at the rear of a volume with a vellum stub and ownership name of Richard Barnes tucked in, several leaves of receipts inverted at rear and possibly written at a later date, bookplate of Robert John Verney, [9th] Lord Willoughby de Broke to front pastedown, contemp. polished sheep gilt, rubbed and some slight wear, folio (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Medical Receipts Book by Elizabeth Dixon, 1772, containing fifty-seven neatly written pages of receipts, num. blank pages and twenty page index at rear, includes recipes for wind in the veins, Lord Hastings' cure for a consumption, a strengthening for a consumption, the Fryers balsom [from Mary Kettilby's 'receipt'], for yellow jaundice, for the dropsie, ownership signature and date to front free endpaper, contemp. calf, some corner wear, rebacked, with orig. lettering pieces "Physical Receipts" to spine, 4to (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book by Mary Andrews, early 18th c., thirty-eight leaves, including receipts for penny royal water, for the spleen, 'My dear mothers own surfeit poppy water the best that ever was tasted' (for indigestion), Lady Scudamore's convulsion water (for fits), Lady Digby's receipt for peils, the Countess of Northampton's balsame, to cure a cancer in a womans breast, to cure one that pisses blood, Mr George Metcalf for ye scurvy, 'an infallable glister for a purging or flux' (enema for diarrahoea), 'for rheumatick pains or wind in the veins', a receipt for consumption that includes house snails and a receipt for a child with fits, 'take store-horse dung hot in ye morning as it comes from him, let ye horse be one that is constantly kept in ye stable ', etc., the receipts in more than one hand, a little browned at lower right corner, orig. wrappers with ownership name of Mary Andrews to upper cover, covers det. and spine def., small 4to (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. Manuscript Receipt Book of Lady Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Panmure, 1695, 108pp with drop-head title 'Tippermallo's Cures', all written in a good clear hand with four-page index and calligraphic title with decorative pen work, including a dragon, includes remedies against falling of the haire, to hinder haire to grow ('pluck out the haire & anoint the place with the blood of a batt, or with the blood of a litel frogg, or with the oyll of hen baine '), for inveterat paine in the head, for the vertigo, against watching or to cause sleep, for the epilepsie or falling evill, to break rotten teeth, for falling of the uvula, for inflamation of the lights, for impotence to Venus games, for insatiable lust to venerie, for easie conceptione, to retain the birth & hinder abortion, for fevers, for byttings of venemous beasts, for the smallpox, for mischiveous arts & putting of devils to flight ('St Johns-Wort hung in ane house '), to destroy a cancer, to purge melancholie, for a cancer in the mouth, for a woman's two great breasts, for a cancer in the papes, ('water & red poppie, plantane & roses mixed with honey of roses applied'), for the pleurisie, for runing of the reynes or gonorea, etc., pp.37-38 torn at outer margin with loss not affecting text, final leaf of index det. and frayed at edges, contemp. speckled limp vellum, rubbed and some wear, 8vo This would appear to be all in the hand of Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Panmure (d. 1731). She is referred to in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography under the entry for Margaret Hamilton, Lady Belhaven and Stenton (c. 1625-94, royalist heroine and medical practitioner). 'The loss of her son was all the more poignant because Lady Belhaven was well known for her skills in medical matters, ailing relatives would invite themselves to stay with her so that they could enjoy the benefits of her nursing, and she made up her own herbal remedies. In the 1690s she tried very hard to help her great-niece, Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Panmure, to avoid miscarriages. She collected helpful recipes from friends and acquaintences like Lady Lauderale and Lady Ranelagh, sensibly advised against bleeding as a treatment, and told Margaret, "If my infirm old age could permit me to go from my chamber to the place where I make my [astringent] plasters at the season, no other should be employed" (NA Scot., Dalhousie muniments, GD45/26/131)'. Margaret Hamilton was married to James Maule, 4th earl of Panmure (1658-1723). (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book of Jane Harriott, 1687, approx. 80pp receipts, largely written to one side of leaf only, including recipes for cakes, distilled waters, fruit marmalades and conserves, fruit wines, creams, cookery recipes and pickles, with medical and household receipts at the end, some browning or dampstaining to upper margins throughout with paper loss affecting some headings and top most lines of receipts, expertly repaired throughout and preserved in restored old paper wrappers, 8vo, preserved with some related loose leaves and modern correspondence in a purpose-made cloth book-box The modern research correspondence tends to suggest that the authoress may have been from South Shropshire. (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book by Ann Ward, 1724, 254pp neatly written receipts including receipts for ale or beer against ffitt's, spleen, head ake, or the like, a ffrigasie of a rabitt's, to make waffers, to make lemmons ale, conserve of barberries, an exellent water against the winde, preserves, cordials and wines, for ye biting of a mad dog (which includes an historical account of a case of 1707 where the patient was affected by the full moon and new moon), to make ink, for the dropsie, the hoof ointment, bath buns, to draw gravy, for rheumatism, to make friar's balsam, to make mangoes by ye Indian method, to make plague water, etc., several hands towards the rear, some spotting and soiling, contemp. vellum, soiling and edgewear, modern reback, 4to (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Medical Receipt Book for humans, horses, sheep and cows, 1764, 116pp plus 60p index, including receipts for an ague, a rotten cow, a drink for the staggers, for the distemper among dogs, for the flux, for the yellows in a cow, a receipt to preserve men and beast from infection ('take of each of the following herbs, viz. lavender, rue, wormwood, and sage, a handfull, put them into a gallon of white wine vinegar, which set on wood ashes for four days '), for a sting in cattle by an adder, a method of curing diseases by electricity, for a broken-winded horse, the economy in bread, Indian pickle, etc., more than one hand to last few pages, many receipts giving acknowledgement to doctors, index and some other leaves det., hinges partly broken, contemp. qtr. calf, with ink title and date to upper cover, spine wormed and worn, 4to (1)

* A Manuscript Receipts Book by Elizabeth Phillips, 1822, 100pp, generally in a clear right-sloping hand, includes recipes for pies, soups, cakes, wines, plus medical receipts for impaired sight, chilblains, ear ache, rheumatism, gravel, dropsy, asthma, whooping cough, etc., some other cookery receipts interspersed, some spotting and soiling throughout, hinges partly broken, contemp. qtr. calf, some corner wear and spine defective, 4to (1)

*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Medical Receipt Book by Samuel Roberts, mid 18th c., 30pp and five further smaller leaves inserted, all written in a large hand and including receipts for consumption, gangrene or mortification, gall or bullock, pissing in bed, flatworm powder, stomach pain, phlegm in throat, lickpot for a cough, powder for bleeding, decoction of woodes, 'to cure one yet hath toads & frogs', the mercurial lotion, eyedrops, etc., plus various tinctures and ointments, all somewhat browned and some fraying of fore-margins affecting text, but overall legibility reasonably good, modern qtr. parchment, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to An accompanying letter to Dr. Young from R.F. Horner indicates that he originally acquired this as a loose sheath of papers in another manuscript of medical receipts entitled 'Samuel Robert's pocket book' and that the hand was the same. He believes that Samuel Roberts may have known John Wesley and that he may have come from the North Country. (1)

*Medical Receipts Book. A Medical Receipts and Prescriptions Book relating to the Morier Family, early 19th c., approx. 130pp manuscript prescriptions and treatments, 1826-54, including treatment for cholera and eight page account in French of the Cholera Morbus 'written by one of the ladies having in charge of one of the principal hospitals in Warsaw', at the rear of the book are approx. 60pp detailed manuscript diagnosis and treatments from 1824 to 1832, 'Should the pain of side of which Miss Morier complained return this evening so as to give as much uneasiness as last night, after putting the lower limbs into the horse radish foot bath for 3 or 4 minutes, rub the side with some of the following liniment ', and 'Nurse, give her a dessertspoonful of these drops in a small wineglassful of Pennyroyal water, called in French Eau de Pouliot, every morning', together with various loosely inserted prescriptions and receipts, some unrelated, contemp. green half morocco, rubbed and soiled, 8vo Possibly relating to the family of David Richard Moraer (1784-1877), and his only son Sir Robert Burnett David Morier, both diplomatists. The doctor may have been Sir Robert Alexander Chermside (1787-1860) who had moved to Paris and became a physician to the English Embassy. (1)

Swiss Costume. L'Ile de St. Pierre dite L'Ile de Rousseau, dans le lac de Bienne, [by Franz Sigismund Wagner], Berne, chez G. Lory et C. Rheiner Peintres, n.d., [c. 1810-15], addn. eng. title with uncol. aqua oval vign., two single page maps and plans, and ten uncol. aqua views by D. Lafon, F. Niklaus, König and G. Lory, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with three hand-col. miniature aquatint views of Geneva by Trachsler, Zurich, the Rheinfels and the Braubach, both by Riedel, of Nuremberg, a fine hand-col. aqua of female costume of Gouggisberg, Paysanne du Cton de Berne, by Madame Wisard, Berne (paper watermarked Whatman 1816), and twelve fine original watercolours of Swiss regional costume, each captioned in pencil to lower margin (Bern, Underwaldner, Luzern Azznngall, Solothurn, Bern, Berner Oberlander, Zurich, Entlibuch, Freijburg, Underwaldner and Ibry), 19th c. manuscript note tipped-in to front pastedown 'This book formerly belonged to my dear mother Susan Caroline Strickland. Walter C. Strickland, Capt.', contemp. red roan-backed boards, rubbed to extrems., small 4to The publisher Gabriel Lory is best-known for his Costumes Suisses of 1824. The original watercolours, of strikingly high quality and fine detail, were probably purchased - along with the published book by Wagner - by the original English owner, whilst travelling in Switzerland. See illustration on front cover of this catalogue. (1)

*Victoria (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland). Manuscript appointment of James Robert Gardiner, secretary to our dear son, Albert, given at Buckingham Palace on 1st April 1843 by Her Majesty's Command , for the pricipality of Scotland and also Chamberlain and Receiver General, etc., signed ("VictoriaR") at the head (1)

*Manuscript Law Book. A Manuscript Law Book entitled Explicatio in Zoesy Digesta, 17th c., approx. 500 pp., unpaginated, in four books entitled Justitia et Jure, De Jurisdictione, De Postulando De In Integrum Restitutione neatly written, some dampstaining to upper outer corners, contemp. vellum, soiled and some wear, 4to (1)

*Medieval Deed. Early French vellum manuscript, dated 19th June 1408 , Michel le Roy, keeper of the seal of the land of the religious order of St Denis of Nogent le Rotrou, being an exemplification of a sale at a rent of five sous of a close of land in the Parish of St Hilaire, near to the cowford (gue aux vaches), the river Doegne [now Delme], the grantors undertake, if in the future they dispose of the rent, to give ethe grante first refusal at the price that another would give, charged with ancient dues which the tenant and his successors undertake to pay and the tenent undertakes to build a house on the property within two years, with accompanying translation and notes on the Abbey The Abbey of Nogent le Rotrou is about halfway between Chatres and Le Mans and was founded between 1028 and 1030. (1)

Book of Hours. Two vellum leaves (1 bifolium) from an illuminated manuscript Latin Book of Hours, Paris (?), c.1490-1500, double-sided, 16 lines of single-column text, written in black, painted dec. initials and line-fillers heightened in gold, fore-edge margin of one side of each leaf with attractive floral border panel painted in red, green, blue and heightened in gold, leaf size approx. 180 x 130mm, text 120 x 75mm (1)