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* Convict Transportation. A printed order of transportation, Croydon, Surrey, 20 August 1829, a pre-printed document, completed in manuscript, concerning William Rose, aged 26, convicted and attainted of horsebreaking and larceny, to be 'transported to New South Wales, or Van Dieman's Land, or some one or other of the Islands adjacent thereto, for the Term of his natural Life', together with another similar, Worcester, 31 March 1834, concerning William Beavan, 'who has been indicted and tried for stealing two gallons of vinegar of the value of one shilling and two gallons of cyder of the value of one shilling of the goods and chattels of Thomas Horton his Master and found guilty be transported', both slightly frayed, 1 page, folio, both endorsed, plus a manuscript gaoler's report, Isle of Man, 8 November 1834, concerning Thomas Lynchey and Sarah Lynchey's conviction for stealing money and to be transported, 'Received on board the Ganymede Hulk, Woolwich, 13 May 1834', 6 pages with endorsed cover, some dust soiling and fraying, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:William Rose was one of 167 convicts transported on the Adrian, 13 April 1830, arriving in New South Wales. William Beavan was one of 306 convicts transported on the Mary Ann, 6 July 1835, arriving New South Wales. Thomas Lynchey was one of 280 convicts transported on the Norfolk, 4 July 1834, arriving at Van Diemen's Land. (Convict Transportation Registers [HO 11].

* George IV (George Augustus Frederick, 1762-1830), King of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed 'George V' as Prince Regent, Court at Carlton House, 16 August 1817, printed document completed in manuscript, addressed to Rt Hon. Charles Long and Rt Hon. Frederick John Robinson, Joint Paymasters General of His Majesty's Guards, a warrant for the pay of the Isles Regiment of Fencible Infantry totalling £24,097.3.3, countersigned by Viscount Palmerston, 1 page with endorsed blank integral leaf, some spotting and fold wear, folio, together with:Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex. Document Signed, 'Augustus Frederick', 1 April 1815, manuscript on paper, appointing Herbert Hill as a chaplain, signed at foot with remains of red wax seal, 1 page with registration note to verso, integral blank with mounting remains to outer corners, folio, plus 3 sets of paired autographs of Prince George, Duke of York (later King George V) and Victoria Mary, 6 February 1906, on The Residency, Bangalore headed paper; Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor on an album leaf; and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and his wife Louise Margaret, both dated 1887, on her monogrammed stationery, all 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

* George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert, 1865-1936), King of the United Kingdom, 1910-1936. Document Signed, 'George RI', Court at St James's, 24 June 1910, a pre-printed document, completed in calligraphic manuscript, granting a Companion (Military Division) of the Order of the Bath to Surgeon-General Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd, VC, signed at head adjacent to papered seal, a little spotting at extremities, 2 pp. with integral blank leaf, folio, together with blue ink signatures of Edward, Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) and his wife Wallis Windsor on an off-white album leaf, plus cut ink signatures of George VI and his wife Elizabeth mounted on off-white card, 'George RI, 1940' and 'Elizabeth R'QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

Midshipman’s Journal. Manuscript journal kept by J[ames] A[ngus] Douglas-Hamilton (1890-1972), on board H.M.S. King Alfred, Andromeda, Duncan, and Cornwallis, from 1 September 1908 to 15 March 1910, approximately 58 leaves in manuscript and approximately 75 blank leaves, neatly written weather observations, concise diary entries of events and routine whilst at sea and in port, 24 tipped-in hand coloured maps, plans and technical drawings, including Gibraltar, Korea and Japan, Wei-Hai-Wei, Cambodia and Borneo, Approaches to Hong Kong, Amoy, the Suez Canal, engine, hull, stringer plate and bulk-head cross-sections, amateur canvas covers over boards with marbled endpapers, manuscript title to upper cover and partially over spine, 4to (32 x 22 cm) QTY: (1)

Chester Diocesan Training College Notebook. A manuscript volume containing notes taken at the Training College Chester, compiled by W[illia]m Parry, 1858-59, approximately 200 pages of neatly written manuscript in the same hand throughout, containing notes on: scripture, history, teaching arithmetic, mechanics, science, geography, and school management, including example timetables for a mixed school, plans for laying out school rooms, some fine technical drawings, tables and diagrams, half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, corners bumped and showing, spine with small loss to foot, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Chester Training College was founded in 1839 by a group of distinguished founders including the Earl of Derby and future Prime Minister William Gladstone. In 1840 it moved into the first purpose-built teacher training building in the UK. Its 'Advanced Institute in Applied Technology' laboratory was described as being 'the finest outside of London'. In 1842 there were 50 trainees and the college included a fully functioning school which comprised fee paying students, scholarship pupils and some local children attending for free. Today the buildings are part of the University of Chester.

* [Penn, William]. The Testimonies of several Friends in London & Bristol relating to Charles Marshall's Medicines, Bristol, 2 October 1681 & London, 17 October 1681, contemporary manuscript copy giving testimonials for Charles Marshall from various Quakers, including Charles Jones, Richard Smead, Thomas Callowhill, Charles Jones Jr, with a codicil, 'Having perused ye above recommendation, I must needs say, it answer'd my frequent thoughts about those medicines: for, I must say, I have on myself in a peculiar manner, and on others, experimented by ye Blessing of ye Lord, a speedy and effectual relief, William Penn', further names added to testimonials include John Staples, John Harris, Richard Whitpane and Philip Theodore Lehmann, 2 pages with blank integral leaf and later ink docket, some dust-soiling and remains of album guard to inner margin of first page, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866). Medicine was one of the few professions open to Quakers and Charles Marshall (1637-1698) exemplified the Quaker involvement in medicine based on cures derived from natural products. It is thought that some of these testimonials may have been used in a printed broadsheet of 1681 promoting Marshall's products.

* Literary Autographs. A collection of 35 literary autographs, mostly 20th century and a few 19th century, including: Iris Murdoch, Autograph Letter Signed; Mary Louisa Molesworth, Cabinet Photograph Signed; Harold Pinter, Biography with photograph signed; Lady Diana Cooper, 3 Autograph Letters Signed; Margaret Irwin, Autograph Letter Signed; Andre Maurois, Autograph Letter Signed in English; Guy Boothby, Autograph Letter Signed mentioning Dr Nikola; Richard Harris Barham (a.k.a. Thomas Ingoldsby), Autograph Letter Signed; Stephen McKenna, 4 Autograph Letters Signed; Arnold J Toynbee, Autograph Letter Signed; Marion St John Webb, Autograph Letter Signed about ‘The Littlest One’; A. Leslie Morton, Autograph Letter Signed; Edward Carpenter, Autograph Letter Signed; J. B. Priestley, Jacquetta Hawkes, John Gardener, Madelaine Duke, Dick Francis, Mary Francis, John Bingham with 17 other signatures on a Crime Writers Dinner Menu at the Alveston Manor Hotel; together with a further 21 autograph items (letters, signatures, photographs etc.), by P D James (photograph), James E Muddock (mystery writer signature), Frederick Forsyth, Alan Bleasdale, Joseph Wechsberg, Thomas Moult, Victor MacClure (Autograph Manuscript and Autograph Letter Signed), Philip Gibbs, John Drinkwater (Autograph Note Signed with initials), Raphael Sabatini (Autograph Letter Signed), Czeslaw Milosz (Printed poem signed), etc.QTY: (46)

* Berthier (Louis-Alexandre, 1753-1815). Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram and Minister of War. Document Signed, 'Mal. Berthier', Paris, 14 Germinal an 13 (14 April 1805), authorising an officer of the 8th Hussars to be attached to the staff of Marshal Kellerman for 3 months, written in brown ink on laid paper with watermark 'Ministre de la Guerre', official blindstamp and ink stamp to lower half of document not affecting text or signature, a little creasing at head of leaf, 1 page, folio, together with:Kellermann (Francois-Etienne-Christophe, 1735-1820). 1st Duke of Valmy, Marshal of the Empire. Letter Signed, 'Duc de Valmy', Mayence, 19 November 1808, a few small tears to top and bottom margins without loss of text, Bibliotheca Lindesiana stamp lower left, 2 pages, folio, plus Soult (Jean-de-Dieu, 1769-1851). 1st Duke of Dalmatia, French general and Marshal of the Empire. Document Signed, 'M. Duc de Dalmatie', 20 February 1815, pre-printed document in French on vellum with manuscript insertions, being a military commission appointing Pierre Hippolite Amillet, Captain in the 'Corps Royal du Genie', ink stamp, papered seal deficient, some browning, 1 page, oblong folioQTY: (3)

* Christina of Denmark (1522-1590), daughter of Christian II, King of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and later Duchess of Lorraine. Document Signed, 'Crestienne', 17 July 1546, manuscript document in Latin on laid paper, conferring on Francois Cliquot a prebend in the collegiate church of Saint-Die-des-Vosges, signed beneath text and additionally signed by Nicolas de Lorraine, Bishop of Verdun and Metz and afterwards Duke of Mercoeur (1524-1577), both as Regents of Lorraine, also signed at foot by Christophe Didelot, ducal secretary and treasurer, 1 page with integral blank leaf, minor toning, tipped on to an old album leaf, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Christina of Denmark is the subject of the celebrated Holbein portrait painted for Henry VIII in 1538 when he was considering Christina as a potential bride.

Aphorisms. An alphabetical manuscript volume of aphorisms and quotations, mid 18th century, contemporary and older quotes David Hartley, Thomas Reid, William Godwin, Lord Byron, John Dryden, William Channing, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hobbes and numerous others, 198 leaves in a neat hand, some missing and cut-out pages at front, some spotting, contemporary calf with monogram C. P. B. to upper cover, some wear, folioQTY: (1)

* Scott (Robert Falcon, 1868-1912), British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Robt. F. Scott', 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea Embankment, 21 February 1905, to an unidentified recipient, [possibly his lecture agent Gerald Christy],in black ink on personal stationery, declining an invitation to lecture in East London, ''My engagements are so numerous and pressing that I fear it will be quite improbable to arrange a date for lecturing in East London. You will I hope understand that such a refusal is from no count of sympathy with your objects which must appeal to all', endorsement date beneath original date at head and near-contemporary manuscript in red ink at foot identifying the signer as 'Capt. Scott of the Great Polar Expedition', a little dust-soiled, 2 pp., 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:During Scott's few years between his two major expeditions he was heavily occupied with invitations to public receptions, lectures and the writing of the expedition record, The Voyage of the Discovery (1905).

Manuscript Alphabet of Arms & Armorials. A volume containing Alphabet of Arms, copy of Grant of Arms and sketches of armorial shields, late 16th century, written in ink on laid paper, folios 1-20 which comprising an alphabet of arms M-W; folios 21-24 sketches (not tricks) of armorial shields; folios 24v-33 blank pen & ink shields; folios 34-37 blank leaves; folio 38 a contemporary copy of a grant of arms to William Haynes dated 1578 by Robert Cooke; folio 39 (unnumbered) part of Cooke's Nobility(?); folio 40 pen and ink sketches of armorial shields numbered 150-233 (lower line cropped with loses), folios 41-43 blank pen & ink shields; folios 44-47v part of an alphabet of arms A-B (a few lightly painted); folio 48av a copy of a grant of arms to Henry Brodbridge 1577 by Sir Gilbert Dethick; folio 48b blank; folios 49-54 part of a baronage or nobility (probably that originally prepared by Cooke), some leaves repaired to edges, lined with tissue and few lined to verso on paper, old limp vellum covers, tall 8vo (39 x 15 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Folio 20 bearing inscription 'p[er] Alexander Evesham Anno Elizabethe Regina 19 Anno[que] domini 1577. This is the noted copyist, the brother of the sculptor Epiphanius Evesham, who died in 1592. There are three listed manuscripts associated with him:1. Harl. Ms. 615 'Genealogyes of Gentlemen of Hereford, Wooster, Gloster, & Shropshere At the Chardge of me Alexander EEvesham'.2. Harl. Ms. 214 'Proterologos, or the Nobilitie described ... are plainlie set down by me Alexander Evesham'.3. College of Arm Ms. A.9. Heraldic and historical commonplace book containing painted arms of the barons of England from the Conquerir onwards, written and painted by Alexander Evesham begun 1583 and finished in London 1585. (This may be a copy of Cooke's Nobility.)

* Clare (John, 1793-1864), English poet. Autograph Manuscript Poem, [Northampton Lunatic Asylum], c. early 1840s, titled ‘Song’ (first line: ‘A Shepherd from the mountain braes’), 32 lines in pencil, in 4 eight-line stanzas, 2 holograph amendments to line 13, unsigned, with a footnote in pencil in another hand, ‘J Clare the peasant poet written in the Asylum’, and with another pencil note beneath, ‘This is in his own hand writing I give it as a curiosity but trust to your own good feeling not to publish it’, signed ‘TOP’ [Thomas Octavius Prichard, Superintendent of the Northampton Asylum, 1842-5], a little creasing and spotting, light browning to upper half of first page and darker vertical brown streak to full length of verso with no legibility affected, 2 pages, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).First published from this manuscript in Eric Robinson & David Powell (editors), The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864, (Clarendon Press, 1984), I.259-60. Barbara Rosenbaum & Pamela White, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Vol. IV, 1800-1900. Part I: Arnold-Gissing (Mansell, 1982).Included with the lot is a news cutting about Clare from the Worcester Journal, August 1844, by J[ohn] N[oakes], and a group of eight letters from Eric Robinson (5) and David Powell (3), 1966-81, to Martin Colman, concerning the two manuscript John Clare poems in his possession now offered here. In one letter, dated 1 December 1967, Eric Robinson notes that he owns the copyright for all unpublished John Clare poems, and of this poem writes: ‘The poem comes from the same period as MS.110 in Northampton Public Library … Like many of his Scottish pastiche poems it is not Clare at its best but has a psychological interest. It also represents one of the few Clare poems outside his early period in private hands and therefore has some commercial value.’

* Trollope (Colonel Charles, 1808-1888). British Army Officer. 10 letters and notes addressed to Trollope, 1849, written by British soldiers during the man-hunt for rebels, following an insurrection on the island of Cephalonia in August 1849, including 6 letters from Major John Symonds (1813-1852), Resident Advisor on the island, on the hunt for one Theodore Vlacco and associates, wanted for the murder of a local dignitary, ‘I am glad to inform you that my ?? Party have taken [Anastasio] Boboti alive and are after Papa Listi. I am off to Lixouri to be in at the death, where I shall meet Brockman’s party, who I am sure will terminate this despicable business’ and revealing a tendency for summary justice - ‘I much regret I cannot consent to your request, as the man in question has been tried by me, and I find him to be such a blackguard as to decide me not to give another chance of escape, or to assist his protege Vlacco.’, together with a manuscript report by Brockman on the geography of the island, 4 reports in Greek covering the period of the man-hunt, 2 letters, one in Italian, from the family of Dr Giroloma Tipaldo Pretenderi, protesting his innocence, and a later letter by Trollope, discussing events on the island in that yearQTY: (19)

* William IV (1765-1837), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, 1830-1837. Document Signed, 'William R', as King, Court at St James's, 14 June 1837, a manuscript warrant on paper giving a free pardon to Abraham Bilbie who, along with others, had been under sentence of transportation in the General Penitentiary, having been convicted of felony, boldly signed at head by the King with papered seal to left margin,and countersigned at conclusion by Lord John Russell (1792-1878) as Secretary of State for the Home Department, a little soiling and toning, 2 pages with blank integral leaf, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).A late William IV signed document, dated just six days before his death on 20 June 1837.

* Keats (John, 1795-1821), English poet. Autograph Address Slip, c. 1818-20, inscribed ‘Wentworth Place / near Pond Street / Downshire Hill’ in brown ink on three lines on a small slip of laid paper, the last two address lines bracketed after the word ‘near’, indistinct pencil inscription ‘John Keats’ in a later hand at foot, small brown mark to upper left corner, 45 x 80 mm, tipped onto an old album leaf with two Keats-related news-cuttings and a manuscript identification labelQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).A very rare specimen of Keats’s handwriting giving the address of the house where he lived from December 1818 until he left for Rome in September 1820. It is at Wentworth Palce that he wrote much of his most admired poetry, including ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, and also where he fell deeply in love with a neighbour, Fanny Brawne. A ‘blue plaque’ was erected at the house in 1896 to acknowledge Keats’s residence there. In 1920, the house was threatened with demolition so that a block of flats could be built on the land, but a Memorial Committee managed to raise enough money to buy the house in 1921, and restore it as a museum in honour of the poet. Now known as Keats House, it was opened to the public on 9 May 1925.

* William IV (1765-1837). King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1830-37. Document Signed, 'William R', Saint James's, 16 December 1831, pre-printed form on vellum with manuscript insertions, appointing John Kenneth Mackenzie as Second Lieutenant in the 21st Regiment of Foot, countersigned by Lord Melbourne, papered seal and duty stamp applied to left margin, light soiling, 23.5 x 34 cm, together with:Seven Years War (1756-63). A letter written by a Captain of Marines on board the Portland off Cape St. Vincent to the Earl of Lauderdale of Hatton, giving details of an action four days previously, c. 1758, 3-page letter detailing the attack made by Admiral Boscowen's fleet when at anchor in Gibraltar Bay against a French squadron, the writer of the letter took part in the battle and gives information regarding other actions between Lagos and Cape St. Vincent, verso of letter address to the Rt. Hon. Lord Lauderdale at Hatton near Edinburgh, and bears a London postal Bishop Mark stamp 11/SE,Wellesley (Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852). Corrected Authorized and Official Programme of the State Funeral Procession of the Late Field Marshall Arthur Duke of Wellington, K. G. to be solemnized in Saint Paul's Cathedral, on Thursday, the 18th day of November, 1852, including the Earl Marshal's instructions to persons joining in the procession, and having tickets for the Cathedral, London: John Limbird, [1852], 8 pp., light dust-soiling, slim 8vo,George II Proclamation. By the King, A Proclamation ... the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, that a day of fasting and humiliation may be observed throughout that part of our kingdom of Great Britain..., Edinburgh: Printed by John Mosman and William Brown, the Assigns of James Watson deceased, 1726, single-sheet broadside printed to one side, upper blank margin with contemporary annotation 'Shire of Lanark', light spotting and damp mottling, frayed at head and foot and few closed tears, folio (41 x 31.5 cm), plus approximately 40 other miscellaneous 17th-19th century ephemeral items including letters, documents, mounted clipped signatures of Robert Peel & Henry James, and few early 19th-century newspapers, etc., loosely contained in plastic sleeves in modern ring binderQTY: (a folder)

* Anne (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland, 1702-1707 and Queen of the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1707-1714. Document Signed, 'Anne R', as Queen, Court at St James's, 18 February 1712/13, a manuscript warrant in English on laid paper, to Thomas Byde, Judge Advocate General of Our Forces, or his Deputy, asking that a court-martial be held to judge on 'received information of the misbehaviour of Alexander Butler a private Gentleman of Our First Troop of Horse Guards towards Lieutenant Col. Floyer of Our First Regiment of Foot Guards', signed at head by the Queen adjacent to papered seal, and countersigned at foot, 'Bolingbroke' (Henry St John, 1678-1751, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State), a little spotting and minor wear to horizontal fold with album adhesion remains to verso, not affecting text or signatures, 1 page, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

* Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901. Document Signed, ‘Victoria R.I.’, St James’s, 17th September 1897, being a pre-printed document on vellum completed in manuscript, a Letters Patent, appointing Sir Edmund John Monson as Commissioner, Procurator and Plenipotentiary, giving him all manner of power and authority to ‘Treat, adjust, and conclude, with such Minister or Ministers as may be vested with similar power and authority on the part of the President of the French republic, any Treaty, Convention, or Agreement, between Us and Our said Good Friend’, 39.5 x 54 cm, wax great seal appended by silk cord and contained in a hinged gilt skippet, with two pendent red silk and silver tassels, the whole folded and preserved in a hinged cloth box with eye and hook fastener, 21 x 29 x 6 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).Edmund John Monson (1834-1909) was a British diplomat and minister or ambassador to several countries. ‘Monson took over the Paris embassy at a very difficult period in Anglo-French relations. France’s colonial expansion had brought it into conflict with Britain in several parts of the world, and the rivalry between the two countries had been embittered by the Egyptian question, as no French government could reconcile itself to the fact that Britain would not leave the Nile. Complaining that French interests in Egypt were being unfairly treated, the French demanded the end of British occupation there’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

* George III (1738-1820), King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. Document Signed, ‘George R’, 1798, manuscript document on laid paper with watermark, completed in a neat clerical hand and titled ‘The Word for July 1798’, with three columns for ‘Days’, ‘For the Court’ and ‘For the City’, the second and third columns with names of English and Welsh towns and cities, bold ink signature of the monarch at head, a little toning and a few short closed tears to horizontal folds, 1 page, folio (37 x 25 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

Nightingale (Florence, 1820-1910), English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Storm Warriors; or Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands, by the Rev. John Gilmore, M.A., Fifth Thousand, London: Macmillan and Co., 1875, wood-engraved frontispiece, 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, signed and dated manuscript poem in black ink for Miss Rye from Florence Nightingale to front free endpaper verso (somewhat spotted), additionally inscribed in pencil by Florence Nightingale on the facing page (frontispiece recto), ‘Miss Rye: Sister of Magdalen Ward’, inner hinges cracked, original blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, spine darkened, minor fraying to spine ends, 8vo, preserved in a 20th-century cloth book box with two spine labels, rubbedQTY: (1)NOTE:An unusual and affectionate presentation inscription to an early nursing sister on Magdalen ward at St Thomas’s Hospital. Florence Nightingale’s signed presentation inscription reads:’Miss Rye:God help the ‘forlorn hope’!God protect the poor womenin a worse ship wreck than these!God bless their dear ‘Sister’, and helper!their good ‘Life-boat’!And God prosper the good cause!Florence NightingaleFeb 1/77’Miss Rye was Mary Ann Cubitt Rye (1837-1919), better known as Annie Rye. She was one of the early trainees at the Nightingale Nursing School at St Thomas’s Hospital, who began training there in 1876 at the age of 38. She stayed on as sister in charge of the Magdalen ward, resigning in 1881 to join her older sister Maria in Canada. Maria Susan Rye (1829-1903) was a leading figure in the mid-19th-century women’s movement in England, serving as secretary of the association that promoted the Married Women’s Property Bill and as a founding member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. She was honorary secretary of the Female Middle-Class Emigration Society, and through this work turned her attention to the rescue of poorhouse and orphaned children, the work for which she is best known in Canada. Annie died a spinster in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in 1919.It is unclear why Florence Nightingale chose to give Annie Rye this specific book about lifeboat stories that happened off the Kent coast, though Nightingale’s brief original verse suggests she is comparing the life-saving role of hospital sisters to that of lifeboats. The first verse alludes to the old sense of a ‘forlorn hope’, that is a band of soldiers chosen to take the vanguard in an often suicidal assault or rearguard defence, where casualties could be high. The ‘poor women in a worse ship wreck than these’ may reference the female patients or, more likely, the trainee nurses working under Miss Rye, many of whom were learning a new profession and redeeming themselves from terrible lives.Provenance: The family of Geraldine Howard La Coste Temperley (1914-1997), Florence Nightingale’s first cousin twice removed and one of the first close family members to train as a nurse, attending the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’s Hospital, completing her training in 1939. 

* Hyde (Laurence, 1642-1711), 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman and writer. Document Signed, 'Hyde', Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 29 November 1681, a manuscript warrant on laid paper, assigning the sum of £25 pension to be paid to Eleanor Mather, widow of Captain William Mather, signed in the right margin at foot by Hyde and three other High Treasurers comprising Edward Dering (1598-1644), John Ernle (1620-1697) and Stephen Fox (1627-1716), 1 page with integral blank leaf (endorsed), some soiling and marginal fraying, not affecting text or signatures, together with a vellum warrant appointing Richard Leake to be Castle Greene and Collector of all events in Alnwick, Northumberland, manuscript on vellum, signed at foot by 'Essex' (Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex, 1631-1683), William Pierrepont and Robert Leigh, some age wear and overall heavy soiling, lacks seals, 19 x 31 cm, plus a highly defective document on paper, Whitehall, 4 February 1600/1601, being articles of agreement, the 4 signatures at foot still clear and present, Charles Howard (1536-1624), 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, 'Nottingham'; Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), Baron Buckhurst, 'T. Buckhurst'; J. Fortescu (1531?-1607), Chancellor of the Exchequer and Ro. Cecill (1563?-1612), Earl of Salisbury, Secretary of State, overall spotting and marginal fraying with large loss of text to upper right two-thirds of document, relaid, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

* Edward VIII (1894-1972), Prince of Wales, King of the United Kingdom January to December 1936, later Duke of Windsor. Autograph Postcard Signed, 'Edward', HQ, Guards Div., 28 December 1915, to Douglas-Hamilton, thanking him for his letter and good wishes, 'I can assure you I am not to be envied out here in the mud of Flanders and its too beastly[? ink smudge] dull for words. No, I wld far rather be at sea but preferably in a Destroyer and not in a big ship!! Rather nice being with a lot of old "Hindoos"!! I heard from Fisher to-day!! It was a fine thing yr uncle getting the V.C. I remember it at the time for of course Gds. Div. was at Hill 70 too!! We've had a fairly cheery Xmas on the whole', with subscription and signature signed vertically top left, the picture side being a colour lithographic Christmas greeting from the 1st or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, completed in manuscript by Edward, 'Xmas 1915' and adding 'a happier New Year in 1916' beneath printed greeting, accompanied by the original postally used envelope addressed and initialled in Edward's hand to Hamilton on board HMS "Milne", 10th Destroyer Flotilla, somewhat frayed and partially pasted on to an old album pageQTY: (2)NOTE:James Angus Douglas-Hamilton (1890-1972) gained the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy, serving in World War One and retiring in 1933.

* Clare (John, 1793-1864), English poet. Autograph Manuscript Poem Signed, ‘John Clare’, [Northampton Lunatic Asylum], 9 November 1843, titled ‘Song on Spring’ (first line: ’The daiseys golden eye’), 30 lines in brown ink, in 5 six-line stanzas, Clare’s holograph amendments to three words in lines 12 and 19, a few minor ink smudges, not affecting signature, 1 page and six lines on first leaf of a bifolium with integral Autograph Letter Signed on the second leaf, from James Atkins, Priory Cottage, Northampton, 11 November 1843, to Jane Milner of Warrington, Lancashire, gifting the poem from Clare to her friend M[artha] Spriggs, ‘John Clare the Northamptonshi[re] peasant poet, now confined in our Lunatic Asylum has at last fulfilled his promise by bringing me the anexed which hope will be acceptable to thy friend M[artha] Sprig[g]s – there are some good ideas evident in the composition tho’ from the present state of his mind are not properly expressed or carried out…’, 1 page with address panel to verso, seal tear and two circular Northampton and Warrington cancels dated 11 November 1843, four small paper spot adhesion remains to blank inner margin of final page, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).The variant wording of this manuscript is identified (along with another manuscript at the New York Public Library Berg Collection) in the notes to Eric Robinson & David Powell (editors), The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864, (Clarendon Press, 1984), I.328-30. Transcript: Northampton Public Library, Knight Transcripts I.52-3. Printed in J. L. Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare (1873). Barbara Rosenbaum & Pamela White, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Vol. IV, 1800-1900. Part I: Arnold-Gissing (Mansell, 1982). Only this manuscript is titled ‘Song on Spring’, the other versions simply titled ‘Song’.The author of the letter, James Atkins, was a Northampton nurseryman, Secretary of the Northamptonshire Horticultural Society, and a leading Quaker in the town. Priory cottage was near the entrance to the asylum. The recipient was Jane Milner (née Fell, 1813-1847), who also came from a Quaker family. In 1836 Jane had married another Quaker, William Edward Milner (1805-1851), a woollen draper and tailor who had a shop in Warrington.

* Offenbach (Jacques, 1819-1880). French composer. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Jacques Offenbach', Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens letterhead, 1 August, no year, c. 1860, to Gustave Bock, in German and French, concerning musical matters including the singer Clara Schüler, a little creasing and short split at foot of centrefold, 2 pp. with integral blank, 8vo, together with 2 signed receipts, 'Jacques Offenbach', the first for royalties of 3 operettas, Orpheus in the Underworld, A Marriage by Lantern-Light and Pepito, dated at Berlin, 12 March 1859, 1 page, 8vo, the second for royalties for Fortunio and Ba-ta-clan, dated at Berlin 22 January 1861, 1 page, narrow oblong folio, together with a pair of manuscript agreements signed, 'Jacques Offenbach', Paris, 24 March 1866 & 16 February 1867, the first an agreement between Offenbach and the German publishers Bote & Bock of Berlin, for the sale of the German rights in 'Barbe bleue' (Bluebeard), 'Coscoletto' and 'Les Bergers', the second for the German performance rights for 'La Grand-Duchesse de Gerolstein', some red pencil underscoring, duty stamps to left margins, both signed by both parties at foot of agreement, a little soiling and age wear and paperclip mark to upper left corner of each agreement not affecting text or signatures, each 2 pp., large 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Offenbach was amorously involved with the singer Clara Schüler and his Schüler-Polka, 1860, was dedicated to her.

 Welsh Manuscript. A manuscript almanack in the hand of Edward Williams, Llansilin, Montgomeryshire, 1666-1667,approximately 128 numbered leaves, containing tables, notes, accounts, prose, calendars, etc., including one calendar for 1667 noting important dates and weather '8th October strong blasts of air', '1st August night hot & dri', occasional amendments, additions and crossings out, written in the same hand throughout, majority written in Welsh, contemporary brown sheep, some wear, clasp missing, 16moQTY: (1)NOTE:Edward Williams is believed to have been the Church Warden at St Silin's Church in Llansilin, Montgomeryshire, Wales between 1666-1678.

* Charles II (1630-1685), King of Scotland (1649-1651) and King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-1685). Document Signed, ‘Charles R’, Whitehall, 13 July 1670, manuscript sign-manual warrant on paper, to the Commissioners of the Treasury for the payment of £150 to the king’s jeweller Isaac le Gooch, to pay £150 (out of the £10,000 designed for such services under a privy seal dormant of 27 July 1669) to the king’s jeweller Isaac Le Gooch (Le Gouse) for a diamond ring to be presented to Baron Delwes, resident from the Duke of Hanover, countersigned at foot by [Henry Bennett, earl of] Arlington [1618-1685, Secretary of State], entered in the Treasury of Receipt J[ohn] Duncombe and enrolled in the office of the Clerk of the Pells, 11 August 1670, some spotting, marginal fraying and old dampstaining, without loss of text and not affecting legibility or signatures, 1 page, folio (35 x 22 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).The recipient of the ring can almost certainly be identified as Friedrich Casimir zu Eltz, who was appointed Kammer- und Hofrat (chamber and privy counsellor) of the Duke of Brundwick-Luneburg in 1662/1663 (NLA HA, Celle Br. 44, Nr. 118). He was a member of the noble family Eltz (the protestant branch), which became Freiherren (or barons) in the Holy Roman Empire in 1646, and died as a kind of bailiff (Berghauptmann, responsible for the mining in the Harz mountains) in the service of the Duke of Bunswick-Luneburg in 1682. Is it possible that Friedrich Casmir called himself Baron d’Elt or Baron d’Eltz, and that the clerk mangled the name as Baron Delwes. Although there is no evidence that he visited England in 1670 it is not unlikely, because he was sent to different courts by the Dukes of Brundwick-Luneburg in the 1660s and 1670s, for example Berlin in 1665 (NLA HA, Celle Br. 22, Nr. 886), Brunswick (NLA HA, Cal. Br. 22, Nr. 893) and Cologne in 1670 (NLA HA, Cal. Br. 24, Nr. 1187) and Mainz in 1675 (NLA HA, Cal. Br. 22, Nr. 626/1).With thanks to Dr Christian Helbich of the Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Abteilung Hannover for his research assistance.For Isaac Le Gooch (1628-1685), a Dutch émigré jeweller, who died at his home Hyde Lodge in Hammersmith at the age of 57 on 18 August 1685, see William Wheatley, Isaac Le Gooch, the King’s Jeweller and Latymer Benefactor; Hammersmith Local History Group, 1964, and Survey of London 6: Hammersmith (LCC 1915), 81-3.On the same day Isaac Le Gooch was commissioned to supply another diamond ring, of the value of £350, to be presented to Monsieur Flamery, envoy from Monsieur, the French King's brother, sent to condole on the death of Madame, Duchess of Orleans: Calendar of Treasury Books 3, 1669-1672, 623.

* Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), King of Sweden 1611-1632. Document Signed, Darsau, 26 September 1627, manuscript document on vellum with illuminated borders in colours and gold, granting an augmentation of honour to Henry St George, a vignette of the King's head and the British royal coat of arms within decoration of left border, the awarded coat of arms with six charges in the centre of the document, the Swedish royal coat of arms at the bottom or right border, signed by the King lower left (signature slightly indistinct), some heavy spotting and browning (ink iron gall burns) largely affecting text but not legibility, some damage to central decoration of right border, multiple small holes to marginal extremities from rusted nail heads, red wax seal in tin skippet with frayed cords tacked down and appended at foot with some resultant browning of vellum, the seal impression indistinct, 41 x 52 cm, framed and glazed, 55 x 67 cm overallQTY: (1)NOTE:Sir Henry St George (1581-1644) was an English Officer of arms. 'In 1625 he and William Le Neve, Mowbray herald-extraordinary, were sent to France to bring Queen Henrietta Maria to England; the king of France was so pleased with the way in which they performed their mission that he gave them 1000 French crowns. In 1627 he was a member of a mission to invest the king of Sweden with the Order of the Garter. The king knighted him on 23 September 1627 in his military camp at Darsau in Prussia and gave him an augmentation to his arms of the royal arms of Sweden on a gold canton; this was one of the last cases of an augmentation of English arms by a foreign sovereign.' (ODNB)

* Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901. Document Signed, 20 September 1876, Letters Patent pre-printed document completed in manuscript, for John Field Swinburn of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Gun Manufacturer, of an invention for 'An improvement or improvements in breech loading small arms, 2 papered seals and no. 3689 upper left, framed and double glazed, 57 x 82 cm overall, the damaged but largely complete wax Great Seal separately framed and double glazed in a wooden box with two eye hooks, 26 x 26 cm overallQTY: (2)NOTE:John Field Swinburn was part of the gun-making firm Swinburn & Son which had been established in 1832 with a partnership between John Field and Charles Philip Swinburn. John Field Swinburn joined in 1851 and was granted a number of British firearms patents during his working career.

The Berkeley Music ManuscriptsA country house music collection of particularly large extent, Victorian and earlier, comprising both printed and manuscript music for piano, harp, flute, violin and other instruments as well as for voice, most bound (4to, several bindings decayed but the contents in good clean condition), 48 volumes with a few loose leaf printed and manuscripts scores, One volume [first half 19th century] containing Hindustani scores with scales and annotations of names: Naturel Malabar Gammott, Malavagunla (the natural key), Goula, Bouvely, Salaganata, Malaheary, Combacambody, etc. with Names and Scales [sic] for every tone and a neat copperplate descriptionTwo Manuscript Opera Scores of particular interest are the full scores of operas each on paper watermarked GR above a crowned fleur de lis (circa 1770-1800):Domenicao Cimarosa (1749-1801) Il Matrimonio Segreto, 1792, first performed in England in 1794, full score in manuscript of Acts 1 and 2 (two volumes complete)Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) Elfrida 1792, full score, 2 Acts (two volumes complete) dated in ink Napoli, S. Paolo 1792Additional images downloadable here Spetchley Park, Worcestershire An extensive collection displaying the musical abilities of several members of the Berkeley family, mostly women, and the Berkeley’s relations, including Miss McDonald of Valley, Mrs Bagot and Mrs O’Reilly (three volumes of largely Scottish music), Henrietta Benfield (17 volumes). Much of the manuscript music, some of it quite extensive, is presumably in the hands of the various performers but the two opera scores in particular are in a more professional and practised hand, perhaps continental.It is difficult to date much of the music as the printed material is generally not dated, although the publishers and their addresses are always prominently advertised, e.g. Goulding, Phipps & D’Almaine of 76 St James’s Street, publishers to the Prince & Princess of Wales (before 1820).Similar scores can be found in the Bodleian Library among the Tenbury manuscripts.Other (printed) dramatic music includes The Haunted Tower, by Stephen Storace; The Duenna by Thomas Linley and Rosina, by William Shield (1771/2, first performed 1782), pub. by J. Dale

 A 15th century German illuminated manuscript page, from the book of hours, framed and mounted26.5cm wide x 34.5cm high

Six illustrated palm-leaf manuscript leaves from the Ramayana Orissa, late 17th CenturyOriya script incised on to palm leaves, double-sided, 6-8 lines of text to the page, all with incised illustrations with some use of colour, central piercing for thread tie, unbound, between perspex sheets 4.3 x 39 cm. and slightly smaller(6)Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly with M. Desai (February 1993).Distinguished European collection.The earliest known Orissan palm leaf manuscript dates to circa 1690, for which see S. C. Welch, India: Art and Culture, 1300-1900, New York 1985, pp. 62-63, no. 26, as well as a discussion of the type in general. For three examples in the British Library, see J. P. Losty, The Art of the Book in India, London 1982,pp. 137-138, nos. 115-118: a Gitagovinda, a Radhakrishnakeli, and two manuscripts of the tenth canto of the Bhagavata Purana, all late 17th or 18th Century).Palm leaves were dried, flattened and then polished and burnished. The text and illustrations were incised into the surface with great skill and care, since the stylus had to be applied with the right amount of pressure to avoid breaking the leaf. The incisions were then often rubbed with soot or charcoal, and colour was then added. See L. Y. Leach, Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 238-241, no. 96, for a double-sided illustrated leaf from a manuscript of the Ramayana, dated to the late 18th Century.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana, depicting Kamsa seizing Vasudeva and Devaki's daughter Nepal, 19th Centuryink, gouache and gold on paper 184 x 296 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceSigfred Taubert (1914-2008), Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1958-1973.The inscription describing the scene is in Nepali, written in nagari script. The inscription verso is a note of some kind, probably referring to the order of the pages, with the number 11.In the Bhagavata Purana, Kamsa was the tyrant ruler of the Vrishni kingdom with its capital at Mathura. He is variously described as a demon (asura) or a demon reborn in human form. After overthrowing his father he became king, but a prophecy predicted that the eighth son of Vasudeva and Devaki would kill him, despite Devaki being his relative. He therefore killed all six of their children, but Krishna, their eighth son, after various adventures, ultimately slayed his uncle.In this illustration the imprisoned Vasudeva and Devaki are seated on a bed, their hands raised to their faces in horror at the murder of one of their sons in front of their eyes. Kamsa, the blue-skinned crowned figure in court dress appears twice, first grasping the child by his ankles and then on the right, killing him by bludgeoning him against a rock.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum North Africa or Andalusia, 9th-10th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, 14 lines to the page written in elegant kufic script in brown ink with vowel points in red, pyramids of gold dots marking the verse-endings, khams marker a gold cusped roundel with coloured dots 245 x 330 mm.Footnotes:TextQur'an, sura VII, al-A'raf, parts of verse 49 to most of verse 56.A bifolium from this same Qur'an manuscript was sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 26th April 2012, lot 55; and a single leaf on 27th April 2017, lot 23; and single leaf at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World and India, 30th March 2022, lot 3.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Prince Kamrup at the head of a troop of cavalry attacking a demon Bengal, circa 1780gouache and gold on paper, inscribed verso in Persian and English 175 x 250 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Scottish collection until 2014.Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 5th November 2014, lot 379.With Francesca Galloway, Into the Indian Mind, London 2015, no. 22.Private UK collection.The Persian inscription verso reads tasvir-i Kamrup, 'picture of Kamrup', and the English transliteration Kamroop.The unusual and dramatic subject derives from an Indian romance in which Prince Kamrup seeks out his beloved, Princess Kamalata, over the course of various adventures, battles and shipwrecks. They are finally united. Persian and Urdu versions of such Indian stories became popular, especially in Bengal. An illustrated manuscript of the text Dastur-i Himmat, The Model of Resolution, originally composed in 1685, was produced in Bengal circa 1760, containing 209 paintings (now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin: see L. Y. Leach, Mughal and other Indian Paintings in the Chester Beatty Library, London 1995, pp. 623-654). Some elements of such work, the product of the Bengal courts, appear in our painting, such as the figures and their profiles against a plain ground.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A firman awarding the 5th Class of the Mecidiye Order to Lieutenant Colonel William Samuel Newton of the Coldstream Guards for his bravery in battle during the Crimean War Ottoman Turkey, dated to the beginning of the month of Rabi' II 1274/early 1857Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, partially lithographed text, four lines of text in divani script in black ink, tughra of Sultan Abdulmajid (reg. 1839-61) in gold at top 560 x 350 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection: presented to the current owner by his uncle, a military historian, in the late 1980s or early 1990s.William Newton (1816-1889) was Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coldstream Guards in 1860 and 1861.The Order of the Mecidi Nişan, modelled on the French Legion d'Honneur, was instituted in 1852 by Sultan Abdulmajid I in five classes and could be awarded to men and women, both Turkish and foreign, military and civil for meritorious service. The Order was abolished in 1923 with the establishment of the Turkish Republic.The Fifth Class, the lowest, had an order in silver, and was awarded to a number of foreign participants in the Crimean War, for example, Eugene Chauffeur, a French army officer who was at the Siege of Sevastopol, and Lt. Col. Alfred Tippinge (1817-98) of the Grenadier Guards, who was also at Sevastopol, as well as the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman (and who was in addition awarded the French Legion d'Honneur).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Zayd revives the fainting Layla and Majnun, sprinkling them with the water of life Mughal, Oudh, attributed to Mir Kalan Khan, circa 1770gouache and gold on paper, laid down on a trimmed album page with gold-decorated inner borders and ruled inner margins, verso three couplets from a Divan of poetry written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, gold-decorated and gold-sprinkled margins painting 122 x 70 mm.; with borders 208 x 146 mm.Footnotes:In Nizami's poem, when reunited in the wilderness, Layla and Majnun were so overcome with joy that they fainted. The subject appears in Safavid manuscript illustrations, but the popularity of the story in general continued with Mughal artists.Mir Kalan Khan began his career in the imperial studio in Delhi during the reign of Muhammad Shah, but then moved to Oudh in the 1760s, changing his style somewhat. For a painting in the British Museum (Johnson Album 66, 7) depicting the death of Farhad on Mount Bistun, attributed to Mir Kalan Khan, Faizabad, circa 1770, with a similar almost fantastic mountainous landscape, deriving from European prints, with the same distinctive outcrop at upper left, see J. P. Losty, M. Roy, Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, London 2012, pp. 195-196, fig. 137; see pp. 187-196 in general for discussion of the artist and several examples.For a related composition, depicting Shirin in mourning for Farhad in a mountainous landscape, attributed to Mir Kalan Khan, Delhi or Lucknow, see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 25th October 2017, lot 60.The calligraphic text verso appears to derive from the closing lines of a Divan of poetry by an Indian poet. It contains Hindi words, but the language is not clear (it is not Urdu).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illuminated Ottoman Qur'an, attributed to the scribe Hasan Uskudari (d. 1614) Turkey, Constantinople, late 16th Century/early 17th Century, bearing the date AH 1012/AD 1604-05Arabic manuscript on paper, 540 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in large naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, verse-endings marked with gold roundels with blue and orange dots, inner margins ruled in black and gold, illuminated double-page frontispiece in colours and gold, sura headings written in naskhi script in red within ruled panels, marginal decorations probably added later, last leaf with attribution to Hasan Uskudari and dated AH 1012/AD 1604-05 apparently added in a different hand, but probably roughly contemporary with the manuscript, contemporary Ottoman leather binding with embossed gold medallions, with flap with embossed line of Arabic in thuluth script in a gold cartouche, doublures of marbled paper 225 x 160 mm.Footnotes:The last leaf bears the following sentence, apparently added in a different hand, but probably roughly contemporary with the rest of the manuscript:katabahu hasan uskudari ghafara dhunubahu amin sanah 1012 h'Hasan Uskudari [Üsküdari] wrote it, may [God] forgive his sins, Amen, the year 1012 h [1603-04].Hasan Üsküdari (d. AH 1023/AD 1614) was born in Üsküdar, an area of Constantinople, where he lived for his entire life, and where he was the calligraphy teacher at the Ayazma School. He studied with his relative Pir Mehmed Efendi, who was himself a grandson of the great calligrapher Shaykh Hamdullah, as well as with another grandson of Hamdullah, Dervish Mehmed Sa'id.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A palm-leaf manuscript of the Gita Govinda, with 27 illustrations Orissa, late 17th Centurycomplete, 24 leaves and one blank, double-sided, incised Oriya script, 8 lines to the page, 27 illustrations in gouache, each leaf pierced with central hole for connecting length of string, between wood covers painted with floral motifs 4 x 23.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceChristian Humann (1921-81).Pan-Asian Collection.Robert Ellsworth (1929-2014), New York, July 1993.Formerly on loan to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (registration number L.76.24258).Distinguished European collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two painted and lacquered wood manuscript covers, depicting Siva and Parvati with Nandi, and a nobleman with musicians and other attendants Rajasthan, perhaps Bundi or Kotah, late 18th/early 19th Centurygouache on wood, red borders, reverse decorated with stylised floral motifs 110 x 275 mm.(2)Footnotes:ProvenanceChristian Humann (1921-81).Pan-Asian Collection.Robert Ellsworth (1929-2014), New York, July 1993.Formerly on loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (registration number L.76.24.242 a&b).Distinguished European collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illuminated Ottoman firman concerning the arrears to be paid to a certain A'isha Usta bint 'Abd Allah for the job of prayer reciting (du'a-gu'i), funded by the Sultan Ghawri waqf in Aleppo Ottoman Empire, probably Aleppo, dated 4th Dhu'l-Qa'da 1213/9th April 1799Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper laid down on modern board, 11 lines of divani kirmasi script in black ink, the illuminated tughra of Sultan Selim III (reg. 1789-1807) at top 660 x 540 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection, in the same family since at least the 1950s.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illustrated leaf, and a text leaf, from Nizami's Kherad-nameh, the second book of the Iskandar-nameh, depicting Plato seated in the desert, attracting wild animals with his music Persia, perhaps Qazwin, late 16th Centurytwo leaves, framed together, the illustration in gouache and gold with some text above and below, text leaf written in four columns in nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands, outer margins of both leaves with wild beasts and mythical creatures amidst illuminated floral and vegetal motifs leaves 308 x 175 mm. eachFootnotes:For an illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Nizami's Kherad-nameh, the second book of the Iskandar-nameh, depicting Iskandar's meeting with the Seven philosophers, Persia, late 15th Century, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art Online Sale, 18th-26th May 2022, lot 7.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large illuminated Qur'an, copied by Muhammad Rida Qajar Persia, dated 14th Jumada II 1245/11th December 1829Arabic manuscript on paper, 291 leaves (as numbered), 14 lines to the page written in black naskhi script with Persian interlinear translation in nasta'liq script in red, inner margins ruled in gold, blue and black, sura headings written in thuluth script in red ink, catchwords, double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, floral lacquer binding 405 x 275 mm.Footnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illuminated manuscript of Al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, prayers, in a contemporary decorated leather carrying case Sub-Saharan Africa (from the Sudan to Nigeria), circa 1900, colophon dated simply 'Wednesday, in the afternoon'Arabic manuscript on paper, perhaps European (approximately 70 leaves with a partial watermark), misbound and uncollated, approximately 160 leaves, 9 lines to the page (one leaf with 13 lines) written in a compact regional version of maghribi script in dark brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, significant words and phrases in red edged with yellow, verse-endings marked with stylised shapes in yellow, numerous circular and cruciform marginal devices in red-brown and yellow, beginnings and ends of sections marked with geometric and patterned designs in black, ochre and yellow, two highly stylised diagrams in the same style, apparently representing the holy sites at Mecca and Medina usually found in this text, loose between card boards with a wraparound tie attached to one, in box-like leather carrying case with protective inner flaps, exterior with diamond-shaped and circular applied designs in green and black, with flap secured by a toggle, leather attachment loops at upper corners manuscript 170 x 120 mm.; case 155 x 180 x 60 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Twice in the course of the text it is referred to as al-Dalil al-Khayr, presumably a regional variant of al-Jazuli's title. The colophon (of the first section) just gives the date as 'Wednesday in the afternoon'.The thickening of the horizontal lines seen in the calligraphy of this text can be seen in an even more exaggerated form in a prayer book of the early 20th Century from Nigeria (see Sam Fogg, Islamic Manuscripts, no. 22, 2000, pp. 190-191, no. 68. For a discussion of a two-volume sub-Saharan Qur'an of the 19th Century, in carrying pouches, see pp. 56-57, no. 22).For two sub-Saharan Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection, ascribed to western Sudan, 19th Century, see M. Bayani, A. Contadini, T. Stanley, The Decorated Word: Part One, 1999, pp. 35-39, nos. 6 and 7. The 'outstanding quality and inventiveness' of the illumination of no. 7 is there noted, in the browns, reds and yellows, and the patterning seen in our manuscript.For very similar decoration on the carrying case of a Sub-Saharan prayer book, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 23rd October 2018, lot 27. There is also similar decoration on the satchel of a manuscript in the library of Trinity College Dublin (TCD MS 11266) described as Yemeni, 18th Century ('The Book of Utilities and Prayers, religious discourse on Arab religious customs & commentary upon them, as expounded by the early teachers of Islamic traditions, in the provinces of Yemen').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A lady seated on a terrace holding a narcissus, with an attendant Mughal, attributed to Muhammad Reza-i-Hindi, circa 1760-63gouache and gold on paper, gold and coloured inner borders and margin rules, plain outer border, verso eight lines of Persian and Arabic texts written in naskhi script, excised from different manuscripts, 15th-16th Century, red and blue paper borders painting 185 x 135 mm.; with borders 303 x 252 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePerhaps from an album produced for Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774-1849), circa 1790.Colonel Sir John Forbes, DSO, DL, Bt. Perhaps Sotheby's, 10th December 1962.See the following lot in this sale (149) for a painting from the Forbes collection. Muhammad Reza-i-Hindi (perhaps so called because he went, or was taken, to Persia, and so was working outside India), was active within the provincial Mughal courts in the mid-18th Century, and was certainly active in around 1760, when he produced several paintings, signed and unsigned, which were part of an album produced for Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774-1849). This album, offered by Colonel Sir John Forbes, DSO, DL, Bt. was sold at Sotheby's in 1962 and dispersed). Several of these paintings have appeared and have been published: see for example, E. Binney, Indian Miniature Painting from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, Portland 1973, p. 109, no. 86 (signed and dated AH 1175/AD 1761); Sotheby's, Fine Oriental Miniatures, Manuscripts, Qajar Paintings and Lacquer, 4th May 1977, lot 347; Simon Ray, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, April 2006, pp. 128-129, no. 60 (signed and dated AH 1175/AD 1761); Bonhams New York, Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas Online, 17th-24th September 2021, lot 1232.See also T. Falk & M. Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London 1981, no. 211; and the David Collection, Copenhagen (12/2002).The calligraphy on the reverse of the above lot is of a similar type to the Bonhams New York example cited above, and also has almost identical maroon, gold and blue paper borders. The calligraphy here consists of sections excised from at least two different manuscripts, one from a 15th century Persian manuscript of Kalilah va Dimnah, and the rest in Arabic, 15-16th century, comprising sections of text said to be from a letter of Imam 'Ali to his son Hasan.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illuminated Qur'an, commissioned by Amir Guneh Khan Qajar, and completed for his son Nasrullah Qajar, copied by Ibn Muhammad Shafi' al-Tabrizi Qajar Persia, dated 20th Shawwal 1239/30th June 1823, interlinear translation and marginal commentaries dated 13th Safar 1252/30th May 1836Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 383 leaves, 12 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, interlinear Persian translation written in nasta'liq script in red ink, interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, gold roundels with blue dots marking verse-endings, illuminated marginal devices, marginal commentary written in shikasteh script throughout, sura headings written in gold thuluth within illuminated panels, fine double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, preceded by a double-page with illuminated shamsas, contemporary floral lacquer binding, lacquer doublures with calligraphic medallions on a floral ground 258 x 170 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 22nd April 1999, lot 17, where acquired by the current owner.This Qur'an was commissioned by Amir Guneh Khan Qajar, known as Amir Khan Sardar, an uncle of 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Saltanah, known for his involvement in the wars against Russia. The main text was copied by Muhammad Shafi' al-Tabrizi, son of Muhammad 'Ali on 20th Shawwal 1238/30th June 1823. The interlinear Persian translations and marginal commentaries, in clear shikasteh, were commissioned by Nasrullah Khan Qajar (the son of Amir Guneh) and copied by the scribe 'Abdullah (or perhaps 'Aynullah), a resident of Tabriz, on 13th Safar 1252/30th May 1836 (not identified). The lacquered covers were also commissioned by Nasrullah Khan, referred to here as the Chief Commander of the Qajar tribes and the Chief of the Guards (sar-keshik-bashi), with no date given.The scribe, Muhammad Shafi' al-Tabrizi, son of Muhammad 'Ali, is recorded as one of the best naskhi scribes of the Qajar period. His recorded works, which include Qur'ans, prayer books and calligraphic pieces, with many in the Royal Library in Tehran, are dated between AH 1217/AD 1802-03 and AH 1262/AD 1845-46. See Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Athar-e Khoshnavisan, vol. 4, Tehran 1358 sh/1979, pp. 163-165. For other recorded work by him, see Hamidreza Ghelichkhani, Fifty Years with the Legacy of Dr. Mahdi Bayani (1968-2018), National Library and Archives of I. R. Iran, 2018, p. 86-87. Nasrullah Khan Qajar, a son of Amir Guneh, known as Amir Khan Sardar, was one of the officials of the Muhammad Shah period and held the post of the Chief of Guards (sar-keshik-bashi). He was sent by Muhammad Shah to quell rebellions in Kashan and Isfahan, given the title Sahib Ikhtiyar and appointed Governor of Fars in late AH 1255/AD 1839-40, shortly before his death. See Bamdad, Dictionary of National Biography of Iran, 1700-1900, vol. 4, Tehran, 1966, pp. 244-245.A note on f. 1r by Bayan al-Saltanah states that this Qur'an was purchased in Tehran, and that he gives it to his daughter Fakhri Jahan, dated 12th Jumadi I, 1327/1st June 1909.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Box of ephemera, including a manuscript book and a signed photograph of Lorraine Kelly

[MISCELLANEOUS]. INDIAN INTEREST Naidu, Sarojini. The Bird of Time. Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, new edition, Heinemann, London, 1914, original quarter green cloth and mulberry boards, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, with a SIGNED MANUSCRIPT POEM BY THE AUTHOR to the front free endpaper, octavo.

Indian school - manuscript page in gouache, the full sheet 21 x 12.5cm, in gilded glazed frame

After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) Portrait of Sir Robert Peel seated in a chair, holding a manuscript Oil on board or possibly paper laid/card laid onto board, inscribed verso Sir Robert Peel after Sir Thomas Lawrence (taken from extant engraving), 54cm by 44cm A composite milled board, painted on the reverse. Damages to the corners and to all edges. Loose in frame and the board is sitting behind one nail at the bottom edge. There is damage to the front of the board at the top left corner, and minor scuffs and damages to all edges.There is a fine network of cracks throughout, with larger cracks top right quadrant. All stable with no elevation. There is a crizzled/degraded varnish which makes the surface layers fairly opaque, scattering light and difficult to see the paint layers below. The varnish is fairly matt and yellowed, and there is a thick layer of surface dirt and accretions, including white powdery deposits in places. A few brown flyspots in the lighter areas, and a few small scattered unrestored losses, one possibly retouched in the coat tails.

Estate PlanThe Map of the part of the Lordship of Darrington, situate in the West Riding of the County of York belonging to Willm. Sotheron...Surveyd in the Year 1757 by John Lund.Large manuscript estate plan in ink and watercolour on four conjoined sheets of vellum, with cartouche, explanation, coloured armorial, scale, and compass, creased, some tears, particularly at the extremities, some affecting the image, some browning and dust staining, approx. 1140mm x 1290mm; together with thirteen associated plans relating to Darrington, 19th century, various dimensions, rolled.

Ephemera.A large collection of ephemera relating to the Childe-Freeman and Harman Families.A variety of material including a 1963 Christmas card from HR Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) to the Lord Mayor of London (Sir C. James Harman), WWI photographs, cabinet cards, photograph albums, an invitation to the funeral of HM George VI with booklets etc., newspapers including news on the funeral and the news of the first moon landing, Kyre Park material, a manuscript account of Abigail Childe's tour of Australia, Tasmania and Canada (1910), scrap books, etc. (2 boxes)

A BURMESE PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPT WITH COVERS, LATE 18TH CENTURY. Red lacquered wooden covers with a quantity of palm leaf sheets with gilt and lacquer sides etched with Pali script. 49cm length. Provenance: From a local estate. The set was taken to The British Museum, London 1949 by the vendors family to be authenticated. A dated letter describing the items, noting a date 'given in the colophon of 1155 of the Burmese era, corresponding to AD 1793', dated 9th June 1949 from the Department of Oriental P.B. & Mss.Some script faded to some pages.

A 19TH CENTURY PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. Depicting a dancer and musicians within an interior, within a broad border of scrolling foliage reserved against blue and red ground, 19.5cm x 29.5cmSome small patches of rubbing and wear, predominately effecting the faces and so areas of the blue ground border, some minor wear overall.Provenance: Property of a local lady. Inherited from her grandparents whose families were part of the British Indian Army in the 1920s. The items were bought back to the UK one their return. 

Two 18th - 19th century Old Turkish Ottoman manuscript leaves, one illuminated. The lot to comprise a manuscript leaf with red ruled margins featuring an illuminated painting of warriors fighting tigers, light worming to illumination, tipped in to a protective sleeve (measures approx. 25cm x 16cm), and a Persian manuscript leaf with illuminated header, the content believed religious, slight loss visible to edge and apparent restoration to borders (measures approx. 33.5cm x 23cm).

A Charles II 17th century needlework stumpwork embroidery panel. The embroidery backed on silk featuring two figures to the centre, one playing a lute, surrounded by sewn animals, insects and foliage, including a moth, squirrel, deer, caterpillar, birds, pear trees, a rabbit, and fruiting plants. With a sun emerging behind clouds at the top centre. The picture after the depictions of Orpheus with his lyre charming animals. Historic worm damage to the silk not affecting the stumpwork, silk discoloured commensurate with age with original green colour visible beneath frame. Framed and glazed in maple frame; frame also with age, featuring the remnants of a manuscript label to verso. Stumpwork measures approx. 31cm x 23cm, 40.5cm x 33cm including frame.

Clocks in the British Museum, Hugh Tait, 1968History of the hour, Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, 1996British skeleton clocks, Derek Roberts, 1987Weight-driven Chamber Clocks, Ernest L. Edwardes, 1965The Almanus manuscript, J.H. Leopold, 1971Lotto non suscettibile di restituzione. This lot cannot be returned. LOT OF FIVE WATCH-CLOCK BOOKS IN ENGLISH

[Wood, Anthony]. Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1st edition, Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1674, additional engraved title, title with vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre, folding engraved plan (with closed tears at foot), water stains and small marginal tears throughout, Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, rubbed with some stains and edge wear, folio, together with:Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the county of Dorset..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, London, W. Bower and J. Nichols. 1774, folding frontispiece map of Dorset by J. Bayly, 1773 plus 38 engraved maps, views, plans, pedigrees and others (some folding), previous ownership inscription to top of title page and bookplate of D Okeden to front pastedown to each volume, some manuscript annotations to a few margins, additions and corrections bound to rear, contemporary calf rebacked preserving boards, contrasting title labels to spine, scuffed and rubbed with small areas of loss, corners bumped, folio, plusThoresby (Ralph). Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populus Town and Parish of Leeds and Parts Adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York..., 1st edition, London: Printed for Maurice Atkins, 1715, engraved portrait frontispiece,12 engraved maps, plates and views (some folding, some spotted and many with reinforced folds), contemporary manuscript annotation to foot of title page, juvenile scribing to page 426, lacking B2, contemporary blind embossed calf, hinges and joints cracked and worn, rubbed and worn, corners bumped, small folio and other British topography by or after S. C. Hall, John Gorton, Dugdale, Throsbys, John Ogilby, John Mackay Wilson, Illustrated London News and others, various sizes and condition QTY: (43 )NOTE:Sold as a collection of prints not subject to return.

Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo). [Sermones sancti Augustini ad heremitas, Paris: de Marnef, 1519], lacking title (A1), leaf A2 and C7, first leaf of text with decorative initial (with small worm hole) and lower margin with early ownership signature 'Methas', double-column gothic text throughout, old manuscript annotation to verso of final leaf under colophon, light damp-staining at gutter of some leaves, some toning and occasional dust-soiling, later front free endpaper with title written in manuscript, near contemporary vellum, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:No UK institutional location found, with five UK locations of electronic copy of original example held at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.Colophon reads: 'Aurelii Augustini ad fr[atr]es in mo[n]te finiu[n]t sermones Parisius imp[re]ssi Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo q[ui]ngentesimo XIX tertia vero die mensis Aprilis'

Cartographic Ephemera. Maps, Valentines and Postcards, late 19th and early 20th-century, a collection relating to love, marriage and courtship, including; Land of Matrimony. circa 1850, pen and watercolour allegorical map by an unknown artist, laid on later card, 105 x 325 mm together with; Beeching (G. S.). Map of Matrimony, circa 1880, colour lithograph allegorical map on card, trimmed close to printed edge, 80 x 120 mm, Nister-Dutton. Cupid's Railway Map, circa 1920, chromolighograph folding valentine card, size when open 70 x 250 mm (with reproduction of the same), Photochrom Co Ltd. Map of Marriageland, circa 1905, chromolighograph postcard, used, a few small areas of loss, 90 x 140 mm, Mappa do Coração. an unattributed colour lithograph showing an allegorical island of love in the shape of a heart in Portuguese, 140 x 90 mm, Knight Bros. (publishers). Chart of Betrothal Bay shewing the Male Route to Churchdoor, tinted lithographic postcard in the form of an allegorical map of the route to marriage, used, light spotting to verso, 90 x 140 mm, Knight Bros. (publishers). Truelove River. colour lithograph postcard showing an allegorical map and poem, 140 x 90 mm, Valentine's card. circa 1903, chromolighograph card with a manuscript map of lovers' route to bliss, light spotting, overall size 100 x 100 mm and 3 others related, various sizes and condition QTY: (12)