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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) AN CAPALLEN BAN with A SIGNED MANUSCRIPT LETTER, letter is signed and framed as one with the oil sketch, oil on canvas laid on board, 9 by 11cm., 3.5 by 4.5in. €1500-€2000

ASHOVER PARISH [interest] - Original Manuscript, a 300 + page handwritten manuscript of parish records and accounts dating from the late 17th century up to mid 19th century, thick 4to, bound in cont reverse calf, binding tight, sl damage to spine top and tail

SHAFTESBURY The major portion of the Town of Shaftesbury Dorsetshire. Auction sale May 27th-29th 1919. Folio, orig. roan backed printed boards (some wear to spine). With sale details completed in manuscript. Photographic illustrations, and maps in pocket at end.

[GUTHRIE, WILLIAM Atlas to Guthrie's Geographical Grammar]. No title or text. Folio, cont. half calf (some wear to spine). 24 hinged engraved maps, hand coloured in outline, double page, four of them folding. Engraved plate of Armillary Sphere. Manuscript list of maps on verso of upper cover. Maps mostly with imprints of Dilly and Robinson, 1785-92 (No. 21 with short tear affecting sea area and small split at centrefold).

MILITARY Regimental Standing Orders: Issued by The Colonel to be observed by the 17th, or Royal Meath Regiment of Militia. Cork, 1796 8vo, cont. calf with red morocco label gilt on upper cover. Three folding printed forms at end. Interspersed with blanks, 2pp. in manuscript and a few additions in the text (broken in binding). -- Leslie, Lt. Col. Chas. A Treatise on the Employment of Light Troops on Actual Service. William Clowes, 1843. 8vo.,(4)

ANGLO-PORTUGUESE TRADE Parry, Francis. English Resident in Oporto during the reign of Charles II. A collection of seven manuscript documents or letters in Portuguese concerning relations between the two countries; English merchants in Portugal, etc. Two of the documents signed by Parry dated 1675. 15pp., folio, in various hands; one signed by the Marquez de Marialva. (7)

DEVON Manuscript on vellum, framed indenture, lease on a cottage at Bridford, 1705, with seal.

FORBES, Admiral JOHN (1714-96). Contemporary manuscript copy of Admiral Forbes' remonstrance against the execution of Admiral Byng. 3pp., folio. "Signed the 16th Feb 1757 at the Admiralty J.F." on verso of final leaf.

FRANCE Four manuscript documents, including a copy of an ecclesiastical document relating to Le Barp in the Gironde, ? 17th c., in Latin; mid-18th c. plea to the King by the Marquis de Forbin, probably a draft, requesting him to quash various court judgements; educational accounts for two pupils, board and lodging, clothing expenses etc., 1778; and another, the last three in French. (4)

FRENCH 17th c. HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY Manuscript document "Estat des Meubles et linges que Monsieur de Labouchere a porte dans la maison de Najmes, ou il sert retire depuis le 2 May 1685 . . ." 3pp., 4to. Listing some 45 numbered items including, "Un lit de cadis violer en housse avec la contrepointe de mesme, un autre piquee de toille blanche . . . Item six cheses en menuserie garnier de paille .". with other linen clothing, cutlery, a cooking pot etc. signed at end by M de Labouchere and others

ITALIAN GENEALOGY Fedeni, Federico. Scruttinio della Nobilita Ligustica. Folio, cont. calf (rebacked). Manuscript in Italian concerning families in and around Genoa, including the Grimaldi, Cattanei, Garibaldi, Pallavicini, Doria and Vivaldi families [c.1700 ?]. Approx. 394 pp. (text stained). With a further manuscript insert, probably earlier.

SOMERSET. POULETT FAMILY Undated manuscript inventory, 19th c., of Heirlooms at Hinton St. George, the property of Earl Poulett, with brief lists of paintings, furniture, tapestries, china etc., including 2164 unnamed books in the library; and similar typed inventory of the Furniture and Household Appointments . . . the property of Countess Poulett, 1897. Both folio, orig. cloth or leather. (2)

VILLARS, CLAUDE LOUIS HECTOR, Duke de, Marshall General and Peer of France (1653-1734) Memoirs. Translated from the French by Lt. Col. Francis Maule. Manuscript in ink, 257pp. Folio, orig. wraps [19th c.].

LIBRARY CATALOGUE Manuscript "Catalogue of Books in the Library Witton House". Completed Jan. 1st 1898. Folio, cont. half russia (rubbed). 190pp. Many of the books listed are included in this sale.

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, The Printed by His Maties. Printers, 1669. Folio, cont. calf, gilt royal arms on upper cover (worn, upper cover detached). Engraved title. Black letter. Manuscript additions in the text (some leaves browned, six leaves loose at end). Wing B3635. Bookplate of George Becher Blomfield, With pencil notes on flyleaf suggesting that this edition was issued after the death of Charles II since the king's name has been left blank and James has been added.

SACRA INSTITUTIO BAPTIZANDI IUXTA ritum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae ex decreto Concilii Tridentini restituta. Paris, Jacob Keruer, 1575. Small 8vo., old calf, spine gilt. Woodcut device on title. Printed in red and black with some musical notation. One full page woodcut, initials, text illustrations and headpieces, including the months of the year (U7 with 10 line section cut away and carefully replaced in manuscript).

COMMONPLACE BOOK Small 4to, full cont. blue morocco gilt, a.e.g., compiled by Ellen Clayton, with her name and date May 1814 on front endleaf. With bookplate of the same. Containing manuscript verse, and illustrated with topographical views, mostly in pencil, and two botanical subjects. With another album, containing small photographic views. (2)

EUROPEAN TOUR: A manuscript journal commencing, 8th August n.d. but ca. 1880, "Left London with L. at 6.30 after dining in the Strand: down to New Haven with a very pretty Anglo-Franco Governess, with whom L. did sentiment". The journal describing their journey through France to Strasbourg where it ends on 17th August; ca. 30-pages. Illustrated throughout with amateur but amusing pen & ink drawings. 8vo, half-cloth. Inscribed in pencil "W.B.Harris" at front.

INDIA: The correspondence and photographs of Ernest Knight, a Congregational missionary. The correspondence seemingly both personal and relating to church matters. The photographs, some 300, are generally small sepia snapshots, taken in Darjeeling, Calcutta, and elsewhere in India, ca. 1912-18 and include groups, children, temples, fakirs, scenery etc. Approximately 100 mounted in an album the remainder loose. Together with his wife's manuscript journal of their voyage from Australia in 1912, and a string of native beads. All in a somewhat disordered state.

MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS: A bound volume of manuscript medical notes commencing with 14-pages under the heading "Medical Observations George & Jean armed Ship" and dated January 1st 1780. These notes concerning cases of rheumatism amongst the crew with detailed descriptions of symptoms and treatments, one patient eventually being "dismissed to Deal hospital". Under the heading "Ship employed in Cartel " the writer records that "on the 14th Feb. anchored within the Texel in Holland in company with two other ships in the same service. And the 3rd day after our arrival took in 100 Prisoners who had been taken by Paul Jones"; this followed by a lengthy description of the fever amongst them. This earlier part of the MS ending abruptly. There follows 95-pages of early 19th Century medical notes on opthalmia, lumbago, psoropthalmia, diabetes, dropsy etc. and a 4-page account of the small-pox in Edinburgh with the symptoms of various children affected. 8vo, old marbled boards, loose, boards detached. With the label of "Professor Balfour, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh" on front pastedown.

VICTORIAN VALENTINES: An album containing 112 19th Century greetings cards including 23 'paper lace' Valentines, some with lifting flaps and applied decoration. Together with a few photographs, prints, scraps, and manuscript verse. 4to, contemporary half morocco; spine worn. 1871 and later.

A Jamaican hardwood workbox; with the original manuscript 'key' to the woods employed in the construction of the box, especially the marquetry design to the underside of the lid, this utilizing "Bloodwood, Ebony, Satinwood, Cocoanut, Date", etc. The key inscribed 'Work Box inlaid with the Island Woods manufactured by Turnbull &Lee, Kingston, Jamaica, January 1852", 12.75in x 9.5in, 5.25in high.

AN ACCUMULATION OF PAPERS, NOTES AND NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS, etc, many in manuscript of typescript, and including abstracts from various printed and other sources, perhaps collected towards a history of the Boers in the Cape Colony for Natural Government purposes. Includes Notes by Franz Matthys Wolhuter on life there circa 1840; The History of the Great Boer Trek by the late Hon. Henry Cloete, from 1828; Correspondence relating to Proposed additions of Territory to Natal, 1901-02; The Garden Colony, the story of Natal, by Robert Russell, with maps, The Race Conflict in South Africa, 1894, etc; Notes on the Battlefields of Natal etc, (on "Natal Government" watermarked paper), typescript, concerning Colenso, Tugela Ferry, etc; A first hand account by Joseph Brown, Bugler, 27th Foot, (later killed at Congelle 23rd May 1842) of events of May 12th, 1842, during a military expedition to Natal; Extract from a letter of Captain Lonsdale, 27th Regiment (who was severely wounded on 23rd May, 1842) to his mother, 1842; Many cuttings from The Natal Mercury, circa 1909, regarding military matters, in Natal; a lot.

Zulu Wars: A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS PAPERS, NOTES, AND NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS, etc, mainly in typescript, concerning the Zulu Wars and later, c.1870s - early 20th Century, including Sir Garnet Wolseley's Address to Zulu Chiefs 1879, which marked the end of the first Zulu war signed G. Wolseley, 1879; Durban Light Infantry, extracts from records, 1854; Proverbs of the Zulus (Zulu Izaga), 1880; Historical summary, (manuscript), 1841-1907, by year; Historical Abstract of the Colony of Natal, 1820-1906, (typescript) which includes accountsof the defeat of the British under Colonel Durnford by 10,000 Zulus at Isandhlwana, under Chief Chtshwayo, and the epic defence of Rourke's Drift by 139 men (including 35 sick) under Lt. Chard, against nearly 4000 Zulus, in 1879. [The 2/24th South Wales Borders were awarded 11 VCs for this action]; a lot.

[Berwick Saint Leonard] Award of the Commissioners under an Act of Parliament for Enclosing and Exonerating from Tithes, Lands in the Parish of Berwick Saint Leonard in the County of Wilts. 1840. Folio manuscript, 18 pages on vellum, written in black ink, the pages rubricated in red ink. Double page manuscript "Map of the Parish of Berwick St. Leonard in the County of Wilts referred to by the annexed Award." By "Graves and Fox, Surveyors, Warminster." The relevant sections of the map hand-coloured. With other relevant vellum documents wax sealed to the reverse of the title-page. Contemporary full calf binding, rubbed, with a gilt morocco title label on the upper cover, the inner hinges weak.

Burmese Costumes. A folding panoramic manuscript consisting of 39 double page leaves, each approximate 16in by 14in depicting the costumes and accoutrements of five ranks of officers. The first on 8 leaves, the remainder on 6 leaves each, with 2 blank leaves at the start, on between each section and one at the end. Watercolour and gouache over Indian ink and traces of pencil, the lower edge with a green border and some descriptive text. A note in pencil on the last leaf "Pictures of Dresses &c of Mendoor King ...... & Thibaw ...... Mandalay (18)88". The contents generally slightly grubby with some alterations and erasing in Chinese white.

LA GALLIENNE, Richard - Littler Ghost in the Garden, original manuscript, 4 pages, signed at end, deletions/corrections, unbound, fitted blue quarter leather slipcase.

Dodds (Edwin) and Robinson (J.W.) Register of St. John's Church, Garrigill, Cumberland, 6 vols. in 1, folio, cloth, 1908; Draper (John W.) A Century of Broadside Elegies, lg. 4to, original boards and d.w., limited edition of 275 numbered copies, 1928; and a mid 19th Century manuscript ledger concerning correspondence and events relating to Alston and Garrigill. (3)

A mid 19th Century cut and etched glass large rummer, etched to depict a sailing ship under a large bridge, span 236 feet, height 100 feet and with presentation inscription further inscribed "Norwich 1854", 20cm high and sold with a manuscript of sailor's songs and jigs. (2)

Migliorato (editor), Souvenirs de Naples, Naples, [n.p.], ca.1846, Oblong 4to (260 x 190mm.), 58 hand-coloured lithographs within black ruled borders, each plate with manuscript description underneath, contemporary brown calf gilt, red morocco title in-laid onto front cover.

Johnson, Charles Plumptre, Hints to Collectors of original editions of the works of Charles Dickens, London, George Redway, 1885, 8vo (195 x 125mm.), half title, advertisement leaves, manuscript annotations in pencil, original vellum gilt, One of 150 limited edition copies, Large paper copy.

An Album containing a quantity of watercolours, hand-coloured prints, prints, and rice paper pictures, manuscript copies of period poetry and correspondences, of mixed subject to include landscapes, genre pictures, botanical studies, still lives, and marine studies, 4to (225 x 280mm.), ca. 1890's, contemporary red morocco backed spine, marbled boards.

Kent, Charles, Charles Dickens as a Reader, London, Chapman & Hall, 1872, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), facsimile manuscript plates of Dickens annotations, contemporary calf gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., bookplate of C. E. Stewart, and bookplate bearing 'Sub Robore Virtus', First Edition.

AFTER CARLE VERNET (1758-1836) CHASSEUR EGARE; CHEVAL EFFRAYE PAR LA FOUDRE A pair, mezzotints by P. L. Debucourt, published by Rolland, Paris, manuscript paper mounts overlying the original margins Each 52 x 62.5cm. (2) ++ Apparently good overall (not examined out of frames)

AN ILLUMINATED PRESENTATION MANUSCRIPT to Howard Henry Howard Vyse, Birmingham 1879, 26in. (66cm.) x 21in. (53cm.)

Manuscript of Latin, psalms and music on two sides of a vellum leaf, decorative capitals, possibly 15th Century.

Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974), TWELVE ASSORTED PRINTS AND A PROOF PRINTING OF ONE OF THE ARTIST'S POEMS, each of the 12 prints signed and some dated [1955-1962]; the poem with manuscript alterations and additions, black & white linocuts and lithographs, some mounted on card, various sizes ranging from 3.5 x 2.5 inches to 5.75 x 6.25 inches, €1500-€2000

WILTSHIRE COMMONPLACE BOOKS, being the "Cherished Memories and Associations" of William Small (b. 1820) compiled in 1881 & later. Two thick narrow folio vellum bound volumes of manuscript entries largely relating to Salisbury and the surrounding villages, e.g. a memoir of John Berry, Glazier of the Close; Harnham Cliffs House; of Mr. Brownjohn, auctioneer of New Street; & of other residents of Salisbury. Also much history of his own family and autobiographical notes, topographical notices, some verse, etc. With a few diary entries interspersed. Backstrips worn, one crudely repaired.

EUROPEAN TOUR: The manuscript journal of an unidentified traveller who departs London on 21st July 1869 for Ostend, St.Moritz, Lausanne , Geneva, Paris, & Le Havre. Returning to Southampton and thence to the Isle of Wight, Oxford, Worcester, Malvern, & London on 24th Oct. The writer, traveling in the company of one Mary Digby, has charmingly illustrated the journal with 92 sepia pen & wash drawings of scenes and events en route . 184-pages, small 8vo, contemporary quarter roan.

BERLIN, SVEN (1911- 1999). The original illustrated manuscript of his unpublished book "Genesis 80" comprising illustrated title in pen & ink and 61 largely full-page watercolour drawings incorporating manuscript verse. Together with 1 double-page watercolour, and at end, the 6-page manuscript "Colophon" - "The Root of Genesis "80". Signed boldly on title and signed and dated "Gaunts, Dorset, "83" at end. The leaves perforated on inner margin; two leaves removed and two leaves re-attached on inner margin with cellulose tape by the artist, occasional deletion in correction fluid by the artist. 12 x 8 inches, original grained black boards decorated and lettered in gilt; the spine lettered "Original - Genesis 80- - Sven Berlin". An exhibition catalogue of Berlin's work (1981), 1 of a limited edition of 35, signed and with an original drawing tipped-in, is included with the above.

*Sparrow, Anthony. A Rationale upon the Book of Common-Prayer, 2 parts in one volume, 1 engraved title & 2 engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf, worn, 12mo, R. Pawlet, 1672; ANOTHER EDITION, engraved frontispiece and title, contemporary calf, worn, 12mo, B. Pawlet, 1684; Bennett, T. A Confutation of Quakerism, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge, 1705; Toland, J. Nazarenus with the relation of an Irish Manuscript of the Four Gospels, 2 parts in one volume, contemporary calf, 8vo, 1718; Sherlock, W. A Practical Discourse of Religious Assemblies, contemporary calf, worn, one cover detached, 8vo, 1700; Hammond, H. A Practical Catechism, engraved frontispiece, some spotting & soiling, old calf-backed boards, one cover detached, 8vo, R. Davis, 1677; and 1 other (7)

Victorian Scrap Book, with engravings, hand-coloured lithographs and aquatints pasted in, manuscript poems, contemporary half calf, worn, 4to, [circa 1800-1830]

Holy Bible, Hebrew. Lacks title, manuscript title frayed, repaired and loosely inserted, some early marginal annotations in Latin, damp-stained, margins of first few leaves repaired without loss, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, 4to, [? Antwerp, ?1580]

Prayer Book. Facsimile of the Black-letter Prayer-book containing manuscript alterations and additions made in the year 1661, original cloth, worn, spine repaired, folio, 1871; Kempis, Thomas a. The Imitation of Christ, a facsimile reproduction of the first edition, original wrappers, uncut, repaired, rubbed, 4to, 1893 (2)

Duffin, Ellen. An illustrated quarto manuscript of the mid-19th century by an Edinburgh Lady, full bound, and 2 other MS books (3)

Duffin, Ellen. An illustrated quarto manuscript of the mid-19th century by an Edinburgh Lady, full bound, and 2 other MS books (3)

Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942), STEPPING OUT AT TALLOW FAIR, signed lower left; signed, inscribed and dated [1992] on reverse, oil on board, 60 by 44cm. 23.5 by 17.5in. Accompanied by a signed manuscript letter from the artist, explaining that the work was featured on RTE's television programme, 'The Pure Drop' in November (c.1992), and that it received "favourable comments" the following morning on Gay Byrne's radio show. €2,000-€2,500

Thomas Ryan PPRHA (b.1929), THE TWELVE BENS NEAR ROUNDSTONE, CONNEMARA, signed lower left; inscribed on reverse, oil on canvas laid on board, 20 by 30cm. 8 by 12in. With a signed manuscript letter attached, written on Ryan's personal notepaper and dated 23 November 1978, describing the topography of the area depicted in the painting. €800-€1,000

Sir William Orpen RA RI HRHA (1878-1931), Signed manuscript letter to William E. Preston. A signed business letter, dated 24 September 1926, to the Director of the Corporation Art Gallery and Museum in Bradford, thanking Preston for an earlier letter and consenting for one of his paintings to be included in an exhibition the following spring. With the original stamped, postmarked envelope. €120-€150

Brendan Behan (1923-1964), Signed manuscript letter. Notecard dated 12 October 1961, inscribed: "This is the game of twenty toes/thats played all over town/The girls play it with ten toes up-/And the Boys with ten toes down-/Much love and admiration/Brendan Behan/Cille Manntainain 1961". €200-€300

PRINTING. A Collection of Facsimiles of The Types, Woodcuts and Capital Letters, Used by Early Printers. London 1840. Folio, orig. wraps (old reback). 42 lithographic plates. No title or text. With several portraits and other items loosely inserted. Sold with a folder of similar material, including two early manuscript fragments on vellum, one relating to Spalding, 1583.(2)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. A collection of 15 vols., including an album of original illustrated manuscript verse after Lear and Struwelpeter, in pen and ink and watercolour, mounted on 13 leaves (c.1920s); a Third Edition of Ruskin's The King of the Golden River, 1951 (lacks backstrip); and the Leadenhall Press edition of The Cowslip. With four Japanese illustrations and two photographs.(21)

DICKINSON, WILLIAM. Antiquities Historical, Architectural, Chorographical, and Itinerary, in Nottinghamshire and the Adjacent Counties Comprising the History of Southwell . . . and of Newark. Vol. 1 Parts 1 & 2. Newark 1801-03. Part 1: Engraved portrait, folding map and 11 plates. Part 2: 10 engraved plates, and 17 folding pedigrees. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 7 lithographic plates, mostly by T. H. Clarke, dated 1838. UPCOTT Vol. 2, pp.1062-64. Cont. half calf; THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE TOWN OF NEWARK . . ., 1819. (Originally published as Part 3 of the above in 1806.) 13 engraved plates, one of them folding, 9 pedigrees, and several pages of manuscript additions. Half page printed advert. leaf. Cont. half red morocco (rubbed). See Upcott Vol. 2, pp.1064-65, which lists the 1806 edition. Both 4to.(2). Apparently scarce, not found in auction records over the past 23 years.

ROBERTS, GEORGE. The History of Lyme-Regis, Dorset . . ., Sherborne, Printed for the Author, 1823. First Edition. 16mo., cont. tree calf (old reback). Two folding hand coloured lithographic plates after T. M. Baynes. Manuscript list, before Index, of the Patrons and Vicars of Lyme Regis, taken from Hutchins's Dorset, apparently in the hand of the author, signed and dated 1823. Loosely tipped in at end is an announcement of the publication of A History of the Borough of Lyme Regis & Charmouth, issued by Landray, printer, Lyme. A pencil note on the flyleaf states that 'This one of 10 copies with coloured plates'.

NEW ZEALAND. A Statement of the Objects of the New Zealand Association. London: Published for the Association, Black and Armstrong. 1837. 8vo., cont. half blue stained calf, spine gilt with red morocco label (small abrasion to head of spine). Two engraved maps. Several additional blank leaves bound in at end, one with list of the members of the Committee of the New Zealand Society, London, June 14, 1837, in manuscript. With annotations and underlinings in the text, probably by one of the Committee.

AMERICA. A.L.S. from Joseph King to his parents in Yorkshire, from Jefferson, Ohio, 1809. 3pp., folio, with integral address panel and indistinct franking. Concerning his purchase of "between 3 & 400 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Jefferson with 2 town lotts in the town which we have cleared and are going to build upon and when John calculates to begin the Hatting business next winter the prospect being considerably flattering". with other news about the weather, the price of land and wheat etc. (some damages). - Long A.L.S. from J. I. C. Ireland to his sister in Gloucestershire, from Catskill Mountain House, August 14th, n.y. (late 1820s). 4pp., 4to., but also written across. After the oppressive heat of New York, he writes, "If I wished to add a new curse to Dr. Flors' catalogue in Tristram Shandy it should run thus 'may you spend next August in New York' and (if he were a consumptive shivering sort of person) 'the following January' ". He describes the journey up the Hudson river, the scenery, the story of Major Andre, and the social life at the hotel, with observations on American women, "if you sit one down at the piano she sings till she is hoarse . . .". with manuscript transcription.(2)

AMERICA, TRANSPORTATION. Manuscript document, one page, small folio, 4th December 1767 relating to the transportation of 194 persons from gaols in London and the home counties to the colonies or plantations in America, authorising payment at a cost of £5 a head. Signed by Lord North, Pryse Campbell and C. Jenkinson. With witness signatures on reverse (some browning, two small holes, probably originally part of a longer document).

BETTING, Lewes, Sussex. Legal document on paper, manuscript, 3pp., 4to., June 1757 (some damage), concerning a bet relating to the equestrian statue of Charles I at Charing Cross.

COLERIDGE, WILLIAM HART, Bp. of Barbadoes (1789-1849). Manuscript address to the clergy there, "My Reverend Bretheren", 18pp., with additions and corrections, etc., 4to., stitched, n.d. (c.1824).

GRANT OF ARMS. In respect of Robert Chaffey of Stoke under Hamdon, Somerset, signed by Sir Charles George Young, Garter King of Arms and Francis Martin, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1846. Manuscript on vellum, with four hand coloured armorial shields. In original blue morocco gilt fitted box, with wax seals on ribbons in gilt metal boxes.