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Ocean Mosses.- Album of 58 mounted dried specimens, mounted on paper and inserted into corner slots of blank leaves with manuscript captions, with one additional specimen loosely inserted, presentation copy from Edward & ?Gulielene Howland to their sister Susan with accompanying A.L.s. loosely inserted, subsequent presentation from George & Susan Howland of New Bedford, Mass. to Mary Malcolmson inscribed on front free endpaper, contemporary calf ruled and with small ornaments to corners in blind, roan label (slightly chipped), rubbed, small 4to, 1849.⁂ An attractive gift from a brother and sister to their sister in America, "these winter specimens of Ocean Mosses, which we have procured from our own shore; gathering them from the foaming surge as it came rolling in; their little fibres often stiffened by the floating ice, yet still retaining the delicacy of color & completeness of finish...". They go on to say that she is "at liberty to present them, from thyself to any one of the many kind friends whom thee has met with in that far distant land".

NO RESERVE Music manuscripts.- 2 booklets with printed staves and manuscript musical notation, original cloth-backed printed or pictorial wrappers, soiled, oblong 8vo, 19th century.

Music & Theatre.- A reminiscence of Chopin, manuscript, 11½pp., unbound, folio, [c. 1865]; and c. 110 letters and cut signatures of musicians and actors, including: Sir George Alexander (24 ALs.s.); Eva Maria Albanesi (2 ALs.s and 2 cards); Maggie Albanesi (9 ALs.s.); Benjamin Farjeon, Sir George Henschel, J.R. Anderson, Edith Evans, Flora Robson (cut signature); Marie Tempest (signed card); Yvonne Arnaud (signed card), v.s., v.d. (c. 110 pieces).

NO RESERVE World.- Glasgow Geography (The), containing a Physical, Political, and Statistical View of the ... Known World, 5 vol., vol. 1 with additional engraved title, 33 engraved folding maps, 34 engraved plates, scattered spotting, occasional off-setting, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, vol. 1 with upper cover detached, vol. 5 with lower cover detached, others with boards becoming detached, rubbed and worn, Glasgow, 1825 § Curtius Rufus (Quintus) Alexander Magnus, et In illum Commentarius Samuelis Pitisci ..., additional engraved title, 4 engraved folding maps, 12 engraved plates (6 folding), scattered faint spotting, a little rubbed, previous owner's ink signature to letterpress title, bookplate, contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, light spotting, The Hague, Pieter van Thol, 1708; and others similar, 8vo & 4to (25).

Bishop (William) "The Bishop of Bond Street".- Egan (Pierce) Fistiana; or, The Oracle of the Ring, sixth edition, engraved frontispiece, presentation inscription on front free endpaper "From The Bishop of Bond St. To His Friend Dr. Jones 1848", original limp cloth, spine dated in white ink, 1846; and a 2nd edition (1842) of the same with a manuscript 'sparring' list and folding printed list of bouts for the year at end, 12mo (2)⁂ William Bishop (1797-1871) was the famed 'Bishop of Bond Street', the de facto main salesman for gunsmith Westley Richards. He became renowned and well-respected amongst the gentlemen frequenting the fashionable West End and occasionally organised a rat hunt, cock fight or boxing match - hence the inscription.

Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old Testament and the New, both titles in heart-shaped centre within woodcut borders, NT and colophon both dated 1612, NT omitting "Appointed...", by Robert Barker, 1613 bound with Booke of Psalmes (The), lacking I4 (?final leaf), title with woodcut ornament, musical notation, for the Companie of Stationers, 1614 bound after Booke of Common Prayer (The), title with woodcut Royal coat-of-arms, by Robert Barker...and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1631, together 3 works in 1 vol., the last mentioned bound first, roman type, double-column, woodcut ornaments and initials, early 18th century family births recorded in manuscript to front free endpaper with a few annotations or underlinings to text, some soiling and water-staining, a few ink stains, cropped shaving some head-lines and side-notes, Oo1 of OT & [L]6 of NT lack lower outer corner with slight loss to text, also I3 of Psalmes, a few other minor tears or defects, contemporary calf elaborately stamped in blind, a little worn, lacking upper cover and most of clasps, 4to; sold not subject to return

NO RESERVE Middle East.- Saudi Arabia.- 8 albums of snapshots in Saudi Arabia, c.200 snapshots, each c.128 x 88m, one or two with captions in manuscript to verso, original wrappers, 'Venus Labs' in Arabic and English to covers, a little rubbed, small oblong 8vo, c.1970's-80's.⁂ A small collections of snapshots taken, possibly by a couple working in the oil refinery or petrochemical industry. These were taken in and around Yanbu in Saudi Arabia. Most showing family gatherings and dinner parties.

NO RESERVE Gray (Basil) An Album of Miniatures and Illuminations from the Bâysonghori Manuscript of the Shâhnâmeh of Ferdowski, limited edition, half-title, tipped-in colour frontispiece, colour plates, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping and creasing to corners and extremities, folio, Tehran, 1971.

* Cocking (Robert) - Parachute disaster. A small archive relating to the parachute disaster of Robert Cocking which ascended from Vauxhall Gardens, London on 24 July 1827, including a hand-coloured lithograph sketched on the spot by Wm. R. Browne, depicting the ascent of the Nassau Balloon, with the parachute attached, 24th July 1837 and showing the parachute with Mr Cocking in the three stages of the descent, repaired closed tear to left hand, some browning, 24.8 x 34.5 cm, together with a single-sheet letterpress notice regarding the case of the widow of the late Mr Cocking and the intention of John Cuthbert, Thomas Ensor, Charles Fergurson, Henry Morley, John Phillips and Edward Roberts to commence an appeal to raise funds for her (bearing the watermark Thomas & Co., 20 Cornhill, London, 1831), also mentioning 'after the preceding appeal was prepared for circulation, Messrs. Gye & Hughes, have granted in the handsomest manner, a free use of their Gardens at Vauxhall, as well as of their Nassau Balloon, for the entire benefit of the widow; and also Mr Green, the Aeronaut, has very benevolently tendered his gratuitous services. The Committee therefore have to announce that the Gardens will be open for the above purpose on Wednesday next, the 9th instant, at Two o'clock, and that the Ascent of the Balloon will take place at Six o'clock. Monday, August 7th, 1737', together with a manuscript list of payments and receipts for money raised bearing the signature of A. M. Cocking (Robert Cocking's widow Anna Maria Cocking, née Hooke, c.1786-1876) and George Roberts, with a single-page manuscript copy regarding the Committee's account in relation to subscriptions for the widow of the late Mr. Cocking, plus a four-page article from 'The Casket of Literature, Science, and Entertainment' no. 31, Aug 5, 1837, documenting the disaster and with full-page wood engraved illustration to first page, disbound, slim 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Robert Cocking (1776-1837) was a pioneer parachutist and artist who lived between Kennington and Stockwell. He died in the first parachute accident on 24 July 1837. He ascended from Vauxhall Gardens suspended below Charles Green's Great Nassau balloon (or ‘Royal Vauxhall’ balloon), piloted by Green and Edward Spencer. Cocking's experimental parachute was of his own design and construction. Cocking originally intended to be taken to 8000 feet, but due to flying conditions was taken aloft to 5000 feet when he released his parachute. Due to a mechanical error, the parachute failed and descended and crashed at Lee in South East London. Cocking died after hitting the ground. The small archive relates to an appeal to raise money to support Cocking's widow Anna Maria Cocking, née Hooke, (c.1786-1876).

* Siege of Paris Ballon Monté cover. Le General Faidherbe, 13 January 1871, folded letter on two sheets, addressed to Madame Chalret du Rieu, au Clos de Canou, par Fronsac, Libourne (Gironde), from her son, giving an account of events and news from besieged Paris, manuscript inscription 'par Ballon monté' to front, franked with 20c blue Laureated, cancelled by Rue Bonaparte departure postmark, three indistinct arrival postmarks to verso, size when folded 55 x 105 mm, together with Montgolfier Commemorative Medal. Jose et Etien Montgolfier, pour avoir rendu l'air navigable, by N. Gatteaux, 1783, AE medal, jugate heads left of the Montgolfier brothers, to obverse a view of the Champ-de-Mars in Paris under heavy rain, a hot air balloon above the clouds, below four lines in exergue: Experience du Champ de Mars 27 Aoust 1783 en vertu d'une souscription sous la direct de M. Faujas de St. Fond, very good, with rich brown patina, 41mm diameterQTY: (1)NOTE:The General Faidherbe landed near Sainte Foy la Grande, Gironde, carrying 60 kilos of mail.

* Hawker Typhoon. Part of the rudder pedal from MN206 which was shot down over Holland on 25 December 1944, in relic condition, numbered 1171 36 1, with the remains of the footrest, 18 cm long, with a manuscript collection labelQTY: (1)NOTE:The provenance has been confirmed by the AVOG Crash Museum in Holland, who also have relics from this aircraft in their collection which include part of a rudder and Napier Sabre engine.Hawker Typhoon MN206 of 266 (Rhodesian) Squadron, Royal Air Force was shot down over Winterswijk, Holland on 25 December 1944. The aircraft had been on an armed recce operation. The pilot Flight Sergeant Peter Charles Nightingale Green was killed. He was later found when the Dutch Air Force excavated the site in 1979.

* Ballooning Broadsides. Second and Last Ascent of the Vauxhall Balloon, Previously to its return to England. The Authoraties of Paris having most kindly once more ranted the use of the Barracks for this purpose, The Last Ascent of the Celebrated Vauxhall and Nassau Balloon Will take place, as before, at the Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere At One O'clock, Next Monday, January 9, 1837, There will be Seats for Ten Ladies and Gentlemen; To Be Conducted By Mr. Green. Being is 228th Ascent..., [Paris]: Julius Didot, Senior, 4, boulevard d'Enfer, [1837] printed broadside using a variety of typefaces on pale yellow wove paper, circular ink stamp to upper right, 41 x 25cm, in very good condition, together with Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea. Lessee, Mr. James Ellis. Open Every Day (Except Saturday, on which day the Establishment is entirely devoted to Tavern Purposes). Last Week But One! Grand Day Fete and Evening Ascent! Monday Sept. 20th [dated 1847 in contemporary ink manuscript], Lieut. G. B. Gale Will ascend in his novel Balloon the Prince of Wales, at Nine o'clock precisely, and when at an immense altitude, he will desent from the upper to the lower Car, and discharge a Grand Display of Fireworks! By that emient Pyrotechnist, Chevalier Mortram..., [1847], double page printed broadside on thin wove paper, 38 x 50cm, a few marginal closed tears and minor loss to head of fold, minor archival tissue repair, plus 4 other related Ballooning broadsides, circa.1837-47, including Balloons! Balloons! Monday August; 25th, 1845..., Mr Green will ascend in the Great Nassau Balloon from Cremorne Gardens..., August 27th Mr Green will make another Night Ascent at 10 o'clock amidst the effervescence of Fireworks..., [1845], printed broadside by S.G. Fairbrother, 31 Bow Street, Covent Garden, 25 x 11cm,Cremorne Gardens.Two Balloons. Balloon Race between Mr. Green's Balloons, the Albion and Coronation! The Latest Betting is 5 to 4 in favour of the old Coronation! Monday August 24th 1846, 25 x 13cm, Cremorne Gardens..., Nassau Balloon! and Monkey Race in Two Parachutes, Monday September 7th, 1846, 25 x 13cm, some loss to the word 'Cremorne' to upper left corner, Cremorne Gardens, on the banks of the Thames, Chelsea..., Fetes & Galas every day. On Monday, July 15th, a Balloon Night Ascent by Lieut. Gale and a Lady, and Superb Discharge of Fireworks from the Car by the Chevalier Mortram, circa 1840's, printed broadside by John K. Chapman, 5 Shoe Lane and Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, 37 x 13cm, and two small Balloon Ascent printed tickets, one for the Surrey Zoological Gardens Grand Victoria Fete July 17th 1837 and another for the Cremorne Gardens Balloon Ascent of "Le Geant" circa 1840 QTY: (8)

* Scott (Septimus Edwin, 1879-1962). Portrait of Thomas Reginald St Johnston, 1917(?), oil on canvas, half length, full face, wearing uniform, signed and dated lower right, 'Sep. E. Scott / BEF, [19]17(?)', 61 x 50 cm, artist's manuscript label to stretcher versoQTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas Reginald St Johnston (1881-1950), English colonial secretary. After studying law and medicine St Johnston 'became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. He worked briefly for the Local Government Board in 1906 before joining the Colonial Service the following year. From 1907 to 1917 he served in various judicial, medical and administrative appointments in Fiji, until he was seconded for war service in France. He was then attached to the War Office for special duty (for which he received the thanks of the Army Council) and was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel. In 1919 he was posted to the Falkland Islands as colonial secretary, and in effect acting governor as Sir Douglas Young was about to depart on retirement leave.' He published The Falkland Islands and Dependencies. An Illustrated Handbook (1920) and From a Colonial Governor's Notebook (1936). See Falklands Biographies online.

LACY (CAPTAIN RICHARD)The Modern Shooter, Birch Reynardson's copy interleafed throughout with some manuscript notes, engraved frontispiece and illustrations, bookplate of L.P. Unsworth, modern calf, spine tooled in gilt with sporting motifs, t.e.g., 1842; ibid., another copy, bookplates of D.J. Baker and L.P. Unsworth, modern half-moroco gilt, spine tooled in gilt with sporting motifs, t.e.g., 1842, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Offered with L.P. Unsworth's three-page typed biographical notes relating to Birch Reynardson (1772-1847), the famous wildfowlerFor a full account of Captain Richard Lacy see Arthur G. Credland, 'Richard Lacy (1796-1883), Sporting Author And Enthusiastic Wildfowler', J.A.A.S., Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (September 2022), pp. 186-204For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of Great Britain, 1952-2022. Document Signed, St James's, 26 August 1955, a pre-printed pardon, completed in manuscript, concerning Thomas Nicholls who was convicted of failing to pay National Insurance contributions and ordered to pay a fine of three pounds, being hereby pardoned and the fine remitted to him, signed by the Queen at head of first page adjacent to embossed stamp, minor marks, paperclip stain at head and three file holes to left margin, not affecting signature or text, 2 pages, folio, together with an unsigned copy of another pardon for an unidentified person concerning a traffic offence in 1954, filing holes and rusted staple marks, 2 pages, folioQTY: (2)

* Gordon (Charles George, 1833-1885). British Army officer and administrator. A small archive of documents and objects relating to Major-General Charles George Gordon, comprising two Bank of Egypt bills of exchange from January 1880 (one for £70 and made out to General Gordon, the other for £1078 to C. C. Thompson), a brief autograph note to his sister Augusta, a commemorative bust of General Gordon manufactured in 1885 by W. H. Goss, a horn drinking cup, a small Jerusalem olive wood tobacco barrel with inscription ?????????????? (‘Jerusalem’ in Hebrew), a carved wooden cigarette box, a cap badge for the Royal Engineers with manuscript note ‘worn in the Crimea’, a greetings card from New Year’s 1886 to Miss [Augusta] Gordon signed by William T. Stead (English newspaper editor and pioneer of investigative journalism] during his incarceration in Holloway prison, a framed photo of William T. Stead with inscription and signature to verso, a facsimile copy of a letter from Queen VictoriaQTY: (Approx. 14)NOTE:Provenance: Miss Harriet Hayter, a friend of Augusta Gordon (General Gordon’s sister), with whom Gordon lived in Southampton when he wasn’t abroad. Thence by descent to the present owner.

* George IV (1762-1830). King of Great Britain, 1820-30. Document Signed by King George IV, ‘George R’, and countersigned by the Duke of Wellington, ‘Wellington’, in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance, Windsor, 5 April 1827, a pre-printed commission on vellum, completed in manuscript, promoting George Wulff (d. 1846) to Colonel Commandant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, embossed paper duty stamp, a few contemporary official manuscript notes, some soiling, 30 x 39 cmQTY: (1)

* South American Diary. A manuscript diary of a voyage to the Amazon, kept by a sailor working in the engine room of the PSS Morana, during three years' service along the coasts and up the rivers of Brazil, Peru and Paraguay, 1862-65, written in a neat hand in reporter’s notebook format, approx. 106 leaves of which approximately 66 are completed, written from both ends with some entries in the middle, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf notebook (label of Parkins & Gotto, 25 Oxford Street) with clasp, slightly rubbed, oblong 8vo (110 x 185 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Titled ‘A Juvenile Log of 3 Years adventures in the P.S.S. Morana in the Amazon’ at head of first page, the diary was written at the time of the war between Brazil and Paraguay. It begins with the voyage from Greenhithe in Kent in September 1862. There then follows brief but lively entries describing daily engine room and maintenance duties, carnival and sport, the occasional gun battle up river, the arrival of the mail, wages sent home, deaths on board, royal salutes, local customs, etc. ‘Times of Running down to Para with the Pastaya, from Yquitos’, [20 July:] ‘Grand doings today. Launch of the Pattumayo from the Arsenal, had a huge party on board and the President of Para, got up steam, had a run as far as the fort and back, had a Brazilian band on board enjoyed ourselves first rate, got rather muzzy you had better believe it’.

* Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870). Cheque signed 'Charles Dickens', London, 14 January 1867, drawn on Messrs.Coutts & Co printed slip and completed in manuscript, paying Wm. Burton the sum of £7.15.9, embossed stamp upper right, with two vertical cross lines in manuscript and 'London and Westminster Bank Bloomsbury' blue ink stamp, a few light vertical folds and small pin holes to left side, 95 x 188 mmQTY: (1)

* George IV (1762-1830). King of Great Britain, 1820-30. A printed ticket for admission to Westminster Hall on the occasion of King George IV's Coronation, 19 July 1821, printed in pink, black and blue with blind-embossed border by Dobbs, inscribed for The Hon. Lt. Colonel Coventry, printed signature of Lord Gwydyr, and another ink signature to the lower margin adjacent to red wax seal, manuscript no. 3377 in right oval, a little general soiling, old adhesive damage to verso (not affecting the recto), 23.5 x 26cmQTY: (1)NOTE:There are two versions of this compound-plate printed ticket, one admitting to Westminster Abbey, the other to the banquet in the Hall. These were marked respectively 'Abbey' and 'Hall' in oval cut-outs to the left of the central motif. Seating in the Abbey was so crowded that only twenty-two and a half inches were allocated per person. The firm of H. Dobbs was founded in 1803 and pioneered the use of decorative blind-stamping for invitation cards.

Medieval Iberian History. An anonymous and untitled English notebook, dated '1834' on front pastedown, written in a neat right-sloping hand in reporter's notebook format, containing historical material relating to Portuguese and Spanish medieval history and royal genealogies, the contents including a list of 'Historians & Writers on Portugal &c.', including both printed and manuscript sources, genealogical tables, heraldic notes including 15 drawings of coats of arms, extracts taken from historical sources with 5 more coats of arms, a total of 90 leaves of which 59 contain text (written from both ends of the notebook), contemporary roan with brasp clasp, rubbed, oblong 8vo (95 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:An unusual manuscript that is indicative of the serious study of medieval Iberian history in England in the nineteenth century.

* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852). 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-30. Autograph Letter Signed in the third person, 'Duke of Wellington', London, 17 May 1828, presenting his compliments to Sir Charles Dalrymple and acknowledging receipt of his letter, 1 page with integral blank leaf, a little dust-soiling, 8vo, together with:Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745), British Prime Minister 1721-42. Two Documents Signed, 30 September 1715 & 3 October 1737, the first a printed order concerning the repayment of a loan on malt &c., manuscript annotations to recto and Walpole assigning and transferring his rights, title and interest, signed to verso, some soiling, marginal fraying and edge trimming with loss of signatures to recto (not affecting Walpole's signature), the second a treasury document requesting Charles Turner to pay an order, with payment acknowledged and signed for by Walpole, Wilmington and G. Earle to verso, some soiling and marginal fraying, both small folio, plus other miscellaneous autograph items including autograph letters signed from H.H. Asquith on 10 Downing Street headed paper, thanking Mrs Rawnsley for her touching lines, a printed facsimile letter from Winston Churchill, autograph letters signed from Sydney Cockerell, Charles Bramley, Luke Fieldes and Henry Ponsonby from Windsor Castle, etc.QTY: (10)

* Clay (Joseph Miles, 1881-1949). British Civil Servant in India and Magistrate. A small archive of material relating to Sir Joseph Miles Clay, late 19th to early 20th century, comprising 3 leather-bound notebooks with neat manuscript diary entries in ink, each with manuscript inscription to inside front free endpaper detailing locations and dates, ‘Diary of a trip to Oberammergau, the Rhine and Southern Germany. Augst 2nd to Aug. 20th 1900, J. M. Clay, Winchester College, Hants.’, ‘J. M. Clay, New College Oxford, Siena and Rome March 28th – April 17th, and a skirmish to Sicily April 19th – 23rd’, ‘Lucerne and the Italian Lakes, April 4th – 20th, 1905’, together with 4 albums and one folder comprising approximately 375 black and white photographs and colour postcards, corner-mounted or stuck down, of various topographical views of Britain, Europe and Northern Africa, including Paris, Marseilles, Italy, Egypt, Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Siena, San Gimignano, and Rome.QTY: (8)NOTE:After being educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, Sir Joseph Miles Clay worked in India for the Imperial Civil Service. He was awarded the KCIE in the 1936 King’s Birthday Honours List, and the OBE in 1952.

* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852). 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-30, 1834. Document Signed, ‘Wellington’, as Commander of his Majesty’s Forces in Spain and Portugal, Head Quarters [?Roman Camp at Orthez], 24 February 1814, a pay warrant authorising £22-17-6 to be paid to Thomas McWhirter, a Hospital Assistant, for ‘61 days from 25th October 1813 to 24th December following, both days inclusive, at the rate of 7/6 per day’, directed to the Deputy Pay-Master General, John Paramor Bays Esq., by ‘Field Marshall the Marquis of Wellington, Commanding His Majesty’s Forces in Spain and Portugal’, official text and manuscript notations to verso, printed by ‘Neves, Printer, Calçada do Duque No 51’, some staining and wear to folds, 1 page with printed docket to verso completed in manuscript, folioQTY: (1)

* Grant of Arms. Manuscript Grant of Arms for John Robinson Kay of Bass Lane House, in the Parish of Bury, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, 11 December 1855, illuminated manuscript on vellum, with 4 armorial bearings at head and heightened with gold, signed by Sir Charles George Young as Garter King of Arms and Robert Laurie as Norroy King of Arms, with 2 wax seals in brass skippets appended by navy silk tags, membrane 64.5 x 50 cm, contained in original hinged wooden box with black morocco covering, lid bearing three Queen Victoria gilt embossed VR monograms each surmounted by a crown, some edge wear neatly repaired, 55 x 14.5 x 6 cmQTY: (1)

* Napoleon I (1769-1821). Emperor of France, 1804-14, 1815. Autograph Endorsement Signature, Fontainebleau, 13 September 1810, signed 'Approuve, Np' on the verso of a fragment of a letter in French, the place and date entered in French adjacent in another contemporary hand, some light overall toning, 110 x 120 mm, together with:Talleyrand-Perigord (Charles Maurice de, 1754-1838), Prince of Talleyrand, French politician and diplomat, prime minister of France, 1815. Document Signed, 'Ch. Mau. Talleyrand', 2e. Division, Bureau de l'Artillerie, 26 germinal an vii [15 April 1799], completed in manuscript on a partly printed letterhead of 'Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies' with engraved vignette at head, being a notice of the order given to the central administration of Isere to deliver mines to Captain Loiseleau, signed in the minister's absence by Talleyrand in his capacity as 'Ministre des Relations extereures', minor soiling, 1 page, folioQTY: (2)

Beattie (James, 1735-1803). Scottish poet, moralist, and philosopher. Three manuscript volumes of Beattie’s philosophy lectures, plus Natural Philosophy lectures or notes from other sources, copied or transcribed by George Milne, Aberdeen, c. 1774-75, Volume 1 covering Beattie’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy, Simple Ethicks (including foundation of Particular Virtues, The Duty we owe to God), Jurisprudence (including Authority and Law, State of Nature, Absolute Duties), Oeconomicks (including the Relation of Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Master and Servant, Slavery), Politicks (including Democracy, Aristocracy, Monarchy, Despotism), Logik (including Mathematical Evidence, the Evidence of Christianity), 5, [1], 256 pp.; Volume 2 covering lectures on Psychology, Of External Sensations (including Taste and Smell, Touch, Seeing, Universal Grammar), Of Internal Sensations (Dreaming, Memory), Of our Speculative Powers (including Taste, Novelty, Harmony, Elegance, Beauty, Purity), Of our Active Powers (Liberty, Passions), Natural Theology (including Unity, Spirituality, Omnipotence, Eternity, Wisdom, Justice), 5, [1], 256 pp; Volume 3 with Introduction (signed ‘George Milne, 10 January 1774’), followed by a ‘Summary of the First Book of Cicero’s Offices by James Beattie LLD’; the volume concluding with material from one or more other spoken or written sources concerning post Newtonian natural philosophy of the period: Introduction to Natural Philosophy, Natural Philosophy (including Attraction, Repulsion, Motion, Wheels, Pendulum, Hydrostaticks, Fluids, Electrick and Non Electrick Bodies, Vision, Optical Instruments), 5 pen and ink plates (numbered I to V), 12, 35, [1], 38, [1], 125 pp; mid-19th-century polished calf (Seton & Mackenzie name stamp to front pastedowns) with contrasting spine labels for ‘Philosophy’ and volume number, rubbed, title spine labels of volumes 2 & 3 damaged, 4to (220 x 185 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:James Beattie (1735-1803) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. A philosopher and poet, he spent his entire academic as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal College in Aberdeen. His best known philosophical work, An Essay on The Nature and Immutability of Truth in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), affirmed the sovereignty of common sense while attacking David Hume (1711-1776). ‘In October 1760 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and logic at Marischal College … One sequel to his appointment was his election to the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, where he was able to sharpen his ideas by discussion with men of intellectual distinction, such as Thomas Reid, George Campbell, John Gregory, and Gerard. Much of Beattie's prose work, on philosophy and literature, was first presented there. Beattie held the chair until his death despite tempting and lucrative offers in the 1770s of a chair at Edinburgh and of two rich livings in the Church of England. He was a gifted and conscientious teacher, as shown by the surviving notes taken in his lectures by his students, by a journal he kept of exactly what he had taught in each session over a thirty-two-year period, and by testimonials from those whom he had taught, such as Alexander Chalmers. Beattie gave about 300 lectures annually to the arts class, in the final year of their four-year course, when the students were aged about seventeen. These discourses ranged widely over psychology, ethics, literary criticism, and natural religion. Elements of Moral Science (2 vols., 1790–93) is an abstract of his lecture course.’ (ODNB online)The Elements of Moral Science offers a more in-depth exploration of several topics only lightly touched upon in the Essay (e.g. perception, natural theology, and immortality), and offers sustained coverage of several areas, such as political philosophy and economics, that are not meaningfully discussed in the Essay. The identity of George Milne, whose name appears in the manuscript here, has not been ascertained and no lecturer or student by that name is known to have been at Marischal College during this period. It seems likely that Milne was therefore an amanuensis, transcribing or copying these lectures for someone else. Whether they were intended for publication, lecturing purposes or private use is not clear, though the pencil ownership signature of George Milne on the flyleaf of ‘volume 1’ suggests they were for himself, and neatly presented as it all is there are curiously no title-pages to front each volume.The content of the first two volumes bears a close relationship to the text and headings of The Elements and there can be no doubt that these are Beattie’s lecture notes. The spine label numbers appear to be wrongly assigned: volume 1 ends with ‘Finis, 1775’ and volume 2 with ‘vol. 1st’. The conclusion at the end of volume 1 [i.e. volume 2] gives suggestions of which authors to study from the Greek and Latin classics to his own times. David Hume’s name is conspicuous by its absence, while Thomas Reid and Francis Hutcheson get favourable mentions.The ‘third’ volume begins with an introduction and ‘Summary of the First Book of Cicero’s Offices by James Beattie LLD’ before continuing with another introduction and longer section on Natural Philosophy. This last part would not be taken from Beattie’s lectures and it is not clear whether these are lecture notes or original articles or copies of what would have been standard post-Newtonian science to be readily found in textbooks and encyclopedias of the time.The University of Aberdeen Special Collections owns a number of manuscripts of Beattie’s philosophy lectures, abstracted or transcribed by various students in the 1760s-1790s: GB 231 MS M 185 - 187; MS M 405; MS 30/1 - 53; MS 555; MS 2065; MS 2901; MS 3256; MS 3294; MS 3486; MS 3522.Important information: These manuscripts were loaned to the University of Aberdeen by the owner in 1985 and further information has now come to light from the correspondence with the deceased owner. George Milne was an alumnus of Marischal College, where he attended the second year of the Arts Course in 1775-6. The natural philosophy notes are from the lectures of Patrick Copland (1748-1822). In 1774 George Skene, Marischal’s professor of natural philosophy who had taught Copland as an undergraduate, made Copland his assistant. A year later, when Skene took on the professorship of Civil and Natural History, Copland stepped up and remained a professor at Marischal until he died in November 1822.

* Manuscript Menu.‘Tuesday November 10 day 1663 A diner For Mr Glandfild’,written in brown ink with a 4-line paragraph beneath the heading, listing dishes including ‘Beife, Turnips, goose, Rost Friggesy rabbitts ...dish Fish leg mutten, marowbons, rond dish ... Cold brest mutten, 2 Cop Rost cold Chicken, A bout cold Brest mutten to sett it out’, and in a menu listing below ‘2 corse’ and on 6 lines, ‘4 rost Partredg / Hurtigchokes boyld / Rost rabbitts / Butter tarts / 4 Rost Chickin / [?] Skeretts [water parsnips] Fryd, a little dust-soiling, 1 page with docketed blank, ‘bill of fare For Mr Glandfilld’, a few later arithmetic jottings to inside pages, small 8vo (155 x 100 mm) QTY: (1)

* Burma & Iraq. A pair of photograph albums, c. 1910s, the first containing approximately 140 sepia-toned gelatin silver prints, comprising images of local types, Gurkhas, river scenes and the Royal Engineers, etc., mostly postcard sizes and smaller and mounted to rectos of album leaves without captions, some evidence of pencil captions to photograph versos, the second album containing approximately 160 mostly small-format gelatin silver print photographs of Iraq, including British and local troops and people, plus some landscapes, river views, street scenes, etc., mostly postcard sizes and smaller but including 4 larger, later gelatin silver prints of Baghdad, captioned and initialled 'ZGD' in the negatives, mounted as multiples to rectos of album leaves with some evidence of occasional pencil captions to versos, matching contemporary black limp cloth, oblong folio, plus a manuscript drainage report for Chatham Barracks compiled by 2nd Lieutenant W. E. Perry, Royal EngineersQTY: (3)

* Ney (Michel, 1769-1815). 1st Duke of Elchingen, 1st Prince of the Moskva & French military commander. Document Signed, Sternay, 1 floreal an x [20 April 1802], being a 'Conge Absolu' to Augustin Joseph Martin, trumpeter in the 8th cavalry regiment, completed in manuscript on an engraved document (by Godefroy after Charles Vernet) with French Republic monument and military motifs, various signatures and stamps including remains of two wax seals, signed by Ney lower right, some general soiling and age wear with a few marginal nicks and splits and pin head hole in the centre of the document not affecting text, 25.5 x 33 cm, laid on to an old album leafQTY: (1)

* Louis XVI (King of France, 1754-1793). Manuscript letter, signed by Louis XVI, dated Paris, le 30 Juin 1792, handwritten in brown ink to recto only of a single folded sheet of laid paper, addressed to an unnamed recipient, but likely to be one of the generals or senior officers in the Army of the North: 'J'apprends Monsieur que plusieurs Officiers, Generaux et autres emploiés dans votre Armée veulent donner leur demission. dans les circonstances ou nous sommes vous vous servira sans doutte de toutte l'autorité que votre conduitte et vos principes vous donnent sur eux, pour leurs representer combien une telle demarche serait funeste a la chose publique, leur attachement pour moi devient une raison plus puissante qui dois les engager a rester au service, et a me seconder dans la resolution inébranlable ou je suis de defendre notre pays contre tous ses ennemies. Louis', 1 page, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Possibly addressed to one of the noblemen generals still in position in the Army.Effectively under house arrest at the time, Louis XVI continued to block the efforts of the Legislative Assembly to establish a constitutional monarchy in France. Outwardly he appeared to support the new constitution, but inwardly he hoped the revolution would fail, which gradually became apparent to the French public.Written at a time of heightened tension between the French king and the government, this rather breathless handwritten note indicates the degree to which support for the king in the army was starting to dissolve.'I learn Sir that several Officers, Generals and others employed in your Army wish to resign their commission. In the circumstances that we are in, you will avail yourself no doubt of all the authority that your conduct and your principles give you over them, to represent to them how much such an approach would be disastrous to the public good. Their commitment to me becomes a more powerful reason which must commit them to remain in service, and to aid the unshakeable resolution that I hold to defend our country against all its enemies, Louis'.Only ten days before this letter was written, the Tuileries palace had been invaded by a huge number of Parisians, demanding, for the last time by peaceful means, that Louis restore the Girondin ministers he had just dismissed, and allow the Assembly to enforce its rulings. These demands did not materialise, and a second invasion of the Tuileries took place on the 11th of August, leading directly to the abolition of the monarchy, the establishment of the French Republic, and the execution of the king by guillotine on 21 January 1793. His wife, Mary Antoinette, was executed in the same manner nine months later.

* Durham Mining Archive. An archive of mostly manuscript accounts and papers relating to collieries in Durham and the North East, 18th/19th century, including a manuscript account book containing 355 pages of accounts,1742-69, for colliery expenses on numerous sites including: Etherley, Bushblades, Tanfield Moor, Heaton, etc., computations of 'what will work one score of coal' including 'candles & oyl', the cost of sinking a new pit, servants wages, rent, etc., one pen and ink estate plan and one other rough sketch, a few leaves detached, original half morocco, some wear, 4to, together with a manuscript leaf showing Andrews House Success Pitt Bill ending 11 March 1767, slightly toned, 31.5 x 20 cm, framed and glazed, plus numerous other 19th-century deeds and agreements including: Report and Valuation of Colliery Coke Works...at Blaydon, Swallwell, Derwenthaugh, Bill Quay and Jarrow, belonging to Geo. Hepple Ramsay Esq., rate book from Winlaton, two account books from 1826 relating to establishing the new waggon way between Crawcrooke and Derwenthaugh, a Durham Coalfield map sectionalised on linen, plus a group of vellum deeds and other legal documents relating mostly to property and lands in South Shields and some in Middlesex, etc.QTY: (a carton)

* George II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1727-1760. Document Signed, 'George R', Kensington, 10 September 1727, manuscript commission on vellum appointing Angus Maceleod to be Captain in Lord Molesworth's Regiment of Foot in Ireland, signed by the King upper left and countersigned 'Carteret' by John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763) as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland lower right, some general spotting and light browning not affecting legibility, 1 page, 31 x 41 cmQTY: (1)

* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852). 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-30, 1834. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Wellington’, London, 25 January 1821, to Colonel Sir Robert Hill discussing at length the various appointments in the Royal Horse Guards, including Mr. Gilpin as Clothier, and a misunderstanding which subsequently led to Gilpin’s suspension. Wellington then comments on the appointment of the Adjutant as Paymaster: ‘Considering every thing I should prefer a separate person for paymaster …’, 6 pages with added manuscript note, ‘His Grace the Duke of Wellingtons Sanction to the appointment of the adj. being adj & paymaster to the Royal Horse Guards’, some dust-soiling, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Colonel Sir Robert Hill commanded the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues) during the Peninsular War. He led a brigade of cavalry at the 1813 Battle of Vitoria, and for this received the Army Gold Medal. At Waterloo, Hill, while commanding the Blues, was wounded when a musket ball entered his right shoulder. Despite the injury Hill remained on the battlefield until close to the completion of the action.

* Chinese Mortgage Deed. A printed deed completed in manuscript, Kee County, Shan Xi Province, 20 December 1924, decorative design printed in blue on thin laid paper, completed in black ink with eight stamps applied, 41.5 x 42 cm, framed and glazedQTY: (1)

Broadside - Vagabonds. Act of the Sheriff-Court of Haddingtoun, relating to the Vagrant Poor, and Vagabonds, Elvingston, 6th October 1750, single-sheet broadside regarding the poor of the county of East Lothian, referring to those who are lawfully entitled to maintenance, and ordering that all vagabonds, vagrant and sturdy beggars (the blind and lame not excepted) should leave the shire before the 1st day of December, or be apprehended and punished as the law directs, with the names in letterpress at foot of Will. Law, Subst. and Extracted by Geo. Heriot, Clk., with a near-contemporary manuscript inscription to verso relating to Andrew Mack & fiscal Agt. John Sanderson, 24 January 1760, sheet size 19 x 15 cmQTY: (1)

* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852). 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-30, 1834. Document Signed, ‘Wellington’, in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance, 27 June 1822, a pre-printed commission on vellum, completed in manuscript, appointing Ralph Gore to be storekeeper on the establishment of the Ordnance at Quebec, papered wax seal and duty stamp applied, a few contemporary official manuscript notes, light soiling, 30 x 39 cm, plus another similar, 7 March 1822, appointing Ralph Gore to be storekeeper on the establishment of the Ordnance at Guernsey, and a third dated 7 February 1826, appointing Richard M. Satchwell to be fourth clerk in establishment of the Ordnance at the Cape of Good Hope, both a little dust-soiled, last with ‘Wellington’ slightly faded and lacking papered wax seal, all 30 x 39 cm QTY: (3)

* Franz Joseph I (1830-1916). Emperor of Austria. Document Signed, 'Franz Joseph', Vienna, 29 December 1878, printed document on thick off-white paper, completed in manuscript and creating Johann Ptaschnik Knight of the Order of Franz Josef, signed by the Emperor under text, his embossed seal lower centre and countersigned in purple ink by an Order-Chancellor, lower half of verso somewhat browned and 3 old strips of tape strengthening fold into sections, 53 x 71 cm, together with albumen print cartes de visite of the Emperor and his wife, plus a later photographic postcard of the Emperor, postally unusedQTY: (4)

Leeds School of Medicine. Manuscript lecture notes compiled by F.M. Dowsland, pupil to Mr Wildsmith, c. 1832, containing neatly written notes on materia medica, on muscles, veins, and osteology with neatly drawn pen and ink wash diagrams plus some pencil diagrams and sketches and a few watercolours of faces and hands showing measles, printed prospectus with plan of lectures for 1832-3 at front of volume, 3 pp. with Dowsland's manuscript plan of lectures for 1831-2 written to blank fourth page, a total of 84 leaves, written from front and back of volume and including a total of approximately 30 blank pages, some soiling and stitching partly broken with contents coming loose, bookplate of Dowsland to front pastedown, hinges near broken, contemporary red half roan over marbled boards, rubbed and soiled and marbled paper partly missing, small 4to (200 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:The Leeds Medical School was set up on 6 June 1831 by six physicians and surgeons. It was one of ten provincial medical schools founded in the ten years between 1824 and 1834. The founders included Dr James Williamson, Dr Adam Hunter and William Hey III. The first premises were the Leeds Public Dispensary on North Street, moving to East Parade in 1834. Francis Marflitt Dowsland (1809-1872) was born in Wykeham, Yorkshire, and after qualification, practiced as a surgeon for many years in Weaverthorpe, Yorkshire.

* Britten (Benjamin, 1913-1976). English composer. Children's Crusade. Kinderkreuzzug, Op. 82. A Ballad for children's voices and orchestra. Words by Bertolt Brecht. Illustrations by Sidney Nolan, [London:] Faber Music, [1973], colour-printed illustrations, facsimile music score manuscript leaves, original morocco-backed boards, rubbed and a few marks, card slipcase (some splits), folio, (limited edition, 103/300 copies from a total edition of 1000 copies, signed by Britten and Nolan), together with 2 other Britten autograph items:Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Benjamin Britten’, Old Mill, Snape, 8 September 1944, to Mr Bolshaw, wishing him a speedy recovery, and sending his autograph, 1 page, 8vo, framed and glazed with a postcard from a photograph by Yousuf Karsh of Britten with his dachshund and a score of Gloriana, 330 x 385 mm overall; a Christmas card signed by both Britten and Peter Pears (‘Ben and Peter’), The Red House Aldeburgh, December; c. 1970, plus a copy of the libretto to Britten's Curlew River, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1964, signed by the librettist William Plomer, original printed wrapppers, slim 8voQTY: (4)

* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document Signed, 'Victoria RI', St James's, 21 May 1875, being a pre-printed remission document completed in manuscript, concerning Charles Taylor who was convicted of receiving stolen property and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at Aylesbury on 29 June 1874, requesting his immediate discharge, signed at head of first page, papered seal to left margin, countersigned by Richard Assheton Cross as Home Secretary, 2 page with blank integral leaf, final docketed page lightly browned and with 2 small closed tear repairs and remains of 2 hinges, together with the accompanying Whitehall discharge form addressed to the governor of the county prison, Aylesbury, and dated 31 May 1875, a little spotting and soiling, hinge remains to verso, both folioQTY: (2)

Manuscript Amateur Periodical. Here, There & Everywhere, a quarterly handwritten magazine in connection with the 'George Grace Branch' of 'The Scripture Union', edited by Rhoda N. Crisford, 50 manuscript volumes [complete], 1897-1910, each issue with approximately 100 neatly handwritten pages, a mixture of short stories (some serialised) and articles, illustrated with numerous original tipped-in watercolours, postcards and small photographs, watercolour headpiece decorations to some stories, non-fiction subjects include cookery, instructional articles, articles on history, subjects covered include Rome to Pompeii, Ancient Britons, Egyptian Tombs, Games for Children, Dependencies in East, Earthquake in Burma, Musical Characters, Pets and their Tricks, etc., plus poetry, editor and treasurer pages, criticisms, letters, voting pages, addresses of members, etc., a set of rules relating to the viewing of Here, There and Everywhere at front of volume 1 and forwarding addresses for each member at the rear of each volume, all bound in near-matching contemporary boards, handwritten title and illustration to upper covers, rubbed, some with spines crudely re-backed, small 4to, together with a separate alphabetised index covering principal items in the complete Here, There and Everywhere magazines, 8vo, plus Photographs from South Africa New Year's Supplement to Here, There and Everywhere containing 14 albumen prints, c. 1890s, and a photograph album compiled by Rhoda Crisford from Kingshill House, Swindon, July 1912, 16 leaves containing 42 photographs of contributors and members of the magazine with handwritten notes about each photograph and person, extra illustrated with watercolours, oblong 4to, and one other issue of a handwritten magazine entitled Ye Magazine of Ye Citie SparrowsQTY: (2 cartons)NOTE:An intriguing and unique set of this members' only handmade magazine, lovingly produced by a group of British men and women over 14 years at the turn of the last century. Rhoda Crisford set up Here, There and Everywhere in 1897. The yearly subscription for membership was 6d and each member was expected to make at least one contribution a year towards the magazine. The first volume had 19 subscribers, each of whom was allowed to keep the magazine for a maximum of two days before sending it onto the next member. Members of the magazine lived in various parts of England including Kent, Hertfordshire, Devon, Cornwall, London, Wiltshire, Cheshire, Manchester, Surrey and Birmingham.

* Lamb (Charles, 1775-1834). English essayist, poet and antiquarian. Autograph Manuscript Poem Signed, 'Charles Lamb', c. 1830, a 14-line sonnet titled 'Christian names of women / To Edith Southey' in the author's hand at head, written in black ink in a neat hand and typically sloping downwards to the right, signed at foot of sonnet, 1 page with integral address leaf, the address panel simply addressed 'Miss Southey' without any further marks, indistinct embossed stamp of a Bath paper manufacturer upper left, some light spotting, soiling and browning, a little creasing and original fold marks, 4to (230 x 185 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled cloth folderQTY: (1)NOTE:This is the original manuscript of Lamb's sonnet that was first printed in The Athenaeum, 9 March 1833, under the same title as here. The dedicatee and recipient of this manuscript was Edith Southey (1804-1871), eldest daughter of the poet Robert Southey. In 1834 Edith married the English cleric and antiquarian John Wood Warter (1806-1878), who is now best known as an editor of the works of his friend Robert Southey.Charles Lamb included this sonnet in a note he wrote to Charles Wentworth Dilke in February 1833. This letter [no. 540] and the sonnet are included in the various Works editions of Charles and Mary Lamb. The dedicatee of the sonnet as given in Lamb's note to Dilke is 'Edith S---' but is correctly identified in the editorial matter of the Works editions. There are two slight differences in the text as found in this original manuscript and the one included in Dilke's letter, the latter being the basis for all subsequent printed versions of the sonnet. In line 8 this manuscript has, 'Of Marthas, or of Abigails, few lines', the 'Dilke' version having 'and of Abigails'. The final line of the manuscript is written, 'All these, than Saxon Edith, please me less', the 'Dilke' version beginning the line 'These all... '.

Hudson's Bay Company. Auction catalogue for the sale of furs supplied by the Hudson's Bay Company, For Sale by Candle at the London Commercial Salerooms, Mincing Lane, [London], 4-5 March 1818, 38 pp., together with two continuation catalogues for the sale, 17-18 March 1819, all three printed in letterpress with prices and some purchasers names listed in manuscript, including 'Furskins Racoon 37760', 'Mink 9500', 'Fox 6700', 'Cat 3890', 'Wolf 3100', 'Marten 72,300', 'Otter 9920', 'Swan 6780', 'Bear 7400', 'Fisher 3400', 'Wolverine 850', purchasers' names including Oppenheim, Poland et al., all narrow follio, plus Hudson's Bay and Annings Ltd, Sale Catalogue of Lamb and Persian skins, 24 September 1936, 13 leaves printed to rectos only, each with manuscript prices and condition in ink and pencil, stapled to upper left corner (rusted), slim, small folio, plus a small quantity of related press photographs and pamphlets, all 20th century, with E. E. Rich's Hudson's Bay Company, 3 volumes, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960, original blue cloth, volumes 2 & 3 with dust jackets, 8voQTY: (a small carton)NOTE:Hudson's Bay Company is the largest and oldest Canadian corporation. These sales took place during the Pemmican War, a conflict fought between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company between 1812 and 1821 over land for fur trading. The war was brought to a close by a forced merger at the behest of the British government. The sales were held annually at the culmination of the hunting season. In 1820 the company issued its own paper currency to be circulated in the Red River Colony.

* Barrington Family Papers. An important and substantial archive of manuscript correspondence and documents, copybooks and some printed material relating to the Barrington Family of Beckett Hall, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, principally William Barrington (1717-1793), 2nd Viscount Barrington, twice Secretary at War (during the Seven Years' War, and the American War of Independence), and Chancellor of the Exchequer, his brother Admiral Samuel Barrington (1729-1800), and Shute Barrington (1734-1826), Bishop of Durham, and Major-General John Barrington (1722-1764), c. 1740s-1830s, including a significant archive of loose manuscript correspondence from William Barrington as Secretary at War, and as Chancellor, to various recipients including naval commanders and politicians regarding international relations and diplomacy during the Seven Years' War, c. 1756-57, important documents and correspondence during the 1760s relating to the British relationship with America (its provinces in Massachusetts, Quebec etc., reform of the Irish Army along the lines of its British equivalent, etc.), a large quantity of naval correspondence c. 1740 to 1780 on the Royal Navy, including events in the West Indies, the taking of St. Lucia, Gibraltar, comparative accounts of the state of the fleet (the number of ships in America in 1750, details of the French fleets 1749/50), and expenditure (debt of the navy in 1752, etc.), a plan to destroy Spanish ships at Cartagena, a proposal to blockade Quiberon, list of ships stationed in Africa 1720-39, restructuring and proposals regarding the design of naval vessels, accounts of court martials etc., also 5 folio copy letterbooks, two containing correspondence of Admiral Samuel Barrington relating to the West Indies (including Antigua, St. Lucia and Barbados) in 1759-71 (including memoranda and orders given by Samuel Barrington and others as commander aboard HMS Achilles, HMS Albion, HMS Venus, approx. 126 leaves), and 1778-82 (comprising 15 original letters, 6 copy letters and other miscellaneous entries, original letters include Lord Sandwich congratulating Barrington on repelling an attack in St Lucia; Sandwich offering Barrington Commander-in-Chief of the Western Squadron; Sir John Gay Alleyne (Barbadian politician) regretting the departure of the fleet and thus leaving some islands exposed; Lord Howe passing on the House of Lords acknowledgment of those involved in the Relief of Gibraltar, 42 manuscript leaves, one volume containing correspondence of Admiral John Barrington relating to the West Indies in 1759, and two miscellaneous copybooks for William Barrington, covering the years 1756-60 and 1760-66, mostly bound in reversed calf, a further folio manuscript volume bound in vellum, 305 pp., titled The Navy Board, containing neat copy of the old and new instructions for various posts in the navy including principal officers, store keepers, gunners, master shipwrights, etc., a large correspondence to the diplomat Robert Adair, c. 1800-1810, plus a printed Large Paper quarto copy of Shute Barrington's biography of his brother William Barrington (The Political Life of William Wildman Viscount Barrington, compiled from original papers by his brother, Shute, Bishop of Durham, London: W. Bulmer, 1814), a printed copy of The Case of Nicholas Nugent, Esq; Late Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Foot Guards..., 1776, bound in original plain wrappers, 8voQTY: (5 archive boxes)NOTE:Further documents in this collection include estate accounts, invoices, bills, wine drunk and left in the cellar at Beckett Hall, 1760s to 1770s, family correspondence, various recipes - wild sage tea for gout, anchovy sauce, salting salmon, potting eels, mutton barley broth, barley water, and remedies – for weak bowels, ague, wormwood draught for preserving teeth, etc., Shute Barrington's manuscript draft of an oration delivered at Oxford (1756) on objects of art being available for public viewing, leases and rents, income from property, the Mongewell Estate (Shute Barrington’s home), and his vellum document (in Latin) investing him as Visitor of Balliol College Oxford, with large wax seal in hallmarked silver box.The collection is organised into tied bundles and folders with alphanumeric codes on post-it notes for which a tabulated inventory spreadsheet is available from the auctioneers.

* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document Signed, 'Victoria RI', War Office, 28 March 1872, a manuscript document submitted to the Queen, 'That with the view to the convenience of the Service, the North and South Regiments of Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry be formed into one Corps, bearing the title of the "Shropshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry", and that the United Establishment be as follows... ', with a table drawn beneath showing the numbers of permanent staff, signed by Edward Cardwell (1813-1886) at foot, approved by the Queen with her autograph at head, 'App[rove]d / Victoria RI', printed red ledger leaf number '122' upper right, a little soiling and two small splits on folds not affecting text or signatures, folio (32.5 x 19 cm)QTY: (1)

* Wilberforce (William, 1759-1833). Politician, philanthropist and abolitionist. Autograph Letter Signed, 'W. Wilberforce', Broomfield, 14 July 1804, to a gentleman thanking him for his recent communication 'Sir, I return you thanks for your obliging communication & being much pressed for time can only add that I am Sir your most obedient W. Wilberforce', 1 page, old folds, 4to, together with Proxy form. A pre-printed proxy form signed, 'Rev. Flounder', 6 January 1812, and 'W. Wilberforce', Kensington, 10 January 1812, nominating William Wilberforce to vote on behalf of Rev. Mr. Flounder at the election of Deaf and Dumb Children into the Asylum, Fort Place, Bermondsey, 1812, 1 page, printed in red, completed in manuscript, 8.5 x 19.5 cmQTY: (2)

[Langhorne, Richard, 1654-1679]. Considerations touching ye great Question of the Kings Right in dispenseing gen[er]ally with Penall Lawes, manuscript, c. 1680s, 41 unnumbered pages, written in brown ink in a neat hand, initial blank and 4 blank leaves at rear (including final 2 lines of manuscript on recto of folio 22 and docketed on verso of final blank), conjugate of folio 9 a stub but manuscript complete and correct, docketed on final leaf verso, 'Considerations of ye Kings Right in dispensing with the Penal Laws, No. 61', some slight dust-soiling, old stitching, small 4to (210 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Richard Langhorne (c. 1624-1679), English barrister and Catholic martyr. Langhorne was executed on a false charge of treason as part of the fabricated Popish Plot. He fell under suspicion because he was a Roman Catholic and because he had acted as a legal adviser to the Jesuits at a time of acute anti-Catholic hysteria. He was beatified on 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. This work was written in defence of King Charles II's declaration of indulgence in 1672, edited by his son Richard and published to support James II's proclamations in 1687. The printed version exists in two issues (Wing L396 & L396a). This manuscript is near-identical to the published version (without preface) but has some variation in spelling and Arabic rather than roman numerals for the numbering of clauses within the text. This may well be a manuscript copy that was circulating before the publication, rather than one made afterwards. One other manuscript version of the text is located at BL Add.28.252, f114, and given a date of c. 1680.

* Ethiopic prayer book. A manuscript Ethiopic prayer book, probably 19th century, written in brown and some red ink longitudinally on 2 conjoined vellum membranes, slightly bruised to left margin near head of document, contained in a contemporary decorative tin cylinder with lid and three eyelets for carrying on a cord, document approximately 120 x 5 cm, together with 2 further Ethiopic prayer rolls or magic books, probably 20th century, brown and red ink on vellum with a few illustrations, 68 x 4 cm and 39 x 4 cmQTY: (4)

New York: Civil War Press, 1967. A Pictorial Narrative of The Civil War. Hardcover reprint of the 1896 original edition. 533-page, gray cloth binding with title printed in blue. An original manuscript is brought back to life in this reproduction of the Civil War treasure, and the book includes vivid photos, texts, and statements from generals and their wives. A complete pictorial history of the war published in one volume. Artist: Rossiter JohnsonIssued: 1967Dimensions: 10.25"W x 13.25"H x 1.5"DManufacturer: Civil War PressCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition Good.

New York: The Orion Press. c. 1958. Hardcover book, 356-page with 25 illustrations in full color from a fourteenth-century manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Blue cloth cover with gilt vignette. This edition tells readers of the wild and beautiful reigns that Marco Polo witnessed in Central Asia and the far East during the latter part of the 13th century. Issued: c. 1958Dimensions: 5.5"W x 8.5"H x 1.25"DManufacturer: The Orion PressCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition Good.

A collection on WWII German manuscript letters with post marks circa 1943, together with a collection of black and white photographs of Infantry, a collection of Third Reich Period coinage, a German Home Guard identity tag and two later Jersey souvenir lapel badges.

Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O. (1887-1976), a manuscript letter on headed paper dated 22nd February 1964:'My dear ScottThe Best; 10/-It was, I recall, your statement that Gerald Templer was a Brevet Lt-Col on or about 1st January 1925 & fear you lose! He was made a Brevet Lt-Col on 1-7-38. The date is taken from the Army Graduation List.I regret that i was betting on a certainty. He is one of my oldest and greatest friends. You must have been thinking of somebody else.I hope you got home safe in the new car.Yours sincerelyMontgomery of Alamein'

A George IV Royal National Institution For The Preservation of Life From Shipwreck Medal, 1824, obverse with portrait of George IV with legend as per title and 'Wyon Mint' beneath bust, reverse with a drowning seaman being rescued by three men in a boat with the motto 'Let not The Deep Swallow Me Up', together with a later manuscript letter detailing the award to Mr Andrew Lake Chief Petty Officer of Coast Guards, Wick, Scotland. For helping eleven people ashore from the Russian Brig 'St Nicolay' in 1828.

A Post-War linen doll of a geisha, reputedly made from medal ribbons, in traditional style dress on a wooden base, the base with manuscript inscription, 'Frank Carr. 25 Aug 1949. Good Luck to Little Marjorie, 28.8.49. Empire Trooper, 29.5cm high.

A collection of late 19th/early 20th century Westcountry manuscript business receipts, Exeter and environs, also Goldsmiths & Silversmith Hall, 1915 and others on headed paper ( approx 168 in total)

Scotland - The Lands & Mains of Edmonston 1615. Contract between John Edmonston & Thomas Hope. A very fine manuscript detailing a Lease, with the advice of John Sir John Cockburn of Ormiston, kt Senator of the College of Justice and Sir Archibald Stirling of Keir, kt, and Dame Grizzell Ross his wife. The Contract from Edmonston to Master Thomas Hope, advocate, and his eldest lawful son John Hope, relates to the estate of Edmonston, the Manor and Mansion House etc in the regalitie of Musselburgh. Measuring 13ft x 1ft, written in English/Scottish in a roll of several joined sheets of paper, a little dusty on the outside otherwise very clean and clearly written. Dated Edinburgh 5th April 1615. Signed - Edmonstoune; Thomas Hope, John Hope, Cockburn Ormiston. Archibald Sterling of Keir and 5 witnesses including S Wm Hart (of Prestoun kt). Notes: Thomas Hope was appointed Lord Advocate in 1626 and granted a Nova Scotia Baronetcy in 1628, his son John followed his father in the legal profession, and both were caught up in the political and religious upheavals during the reign of King Charles the first. Sir Archibald Stirling was appointed Admiral Depute of the West Seas and Lochs in 1606. Sir William Hart, a justice, was involved in the Scottish Witch Trials. A most impressive document with scope for much further research

Compulsory Vaccination Certificate Wakefield 1860. Detailed black printing with manuscript annotations - of interest listing names, addresses of Doctors & Public vaccinators in the district. On blue paper size 8.5" x 13.5"

Rochdale Canal Company Letter 1814 - Complete printed letter with manuscript annotations posted by shareholder from London to the Canal Company's Office in Rochdale making payment on his shares, size 7" x 9.75"

SEBASTIAN ERARD GRECIAN HARP WITH WELSH PROVENANCE with bird's eye maple frame, the gilded Corinthian column carved with Grecian figures and palmettes to the capital and base, fitted with eight pedals, on paw feet, engraved Sebastian Erard Harp & Pianoforte Maker in Ordinary to her Majesty and the Royal Family (on one brass arm plate) and further engraved Sebastian Erard Patent no 4963, 18 Great Marlborough St London (on the other side), circa 1830, 170cms h, 80cms wProvenance: former owner was the vendor's great-Uncle William (Wil) Jones (1910 – 1981) of Codau Mawr, Llangernyw, Abergele, and thence by descent.. The self-taught Wil Jones used to perform in Eisteddfod and chapels, he worked as a farmhand and worked in a quarry, also a keen poet and lyricist. To accompany a typed local history manuscript in Welsh, 'Cymeriad', with information on Wil Jones and his performances, also to accompany a bound Welsh music score 'Moliant Israel sef Crynoad o Donau a Dyganau Cynulledfaol Gwreiddiol a Dotholedig' (praise of Israel - a collection of original and selected congregational tunes and songs), inscribed in the fly-sheet by members of Wil's family and by Peter Parry with address in Llanelian, 1872, also various photographs of Wil and copies of a harpist manual 'Allwedd y Tannau', an old purse of English gut harp-strings and tools etc.Additional provenance added on 03/11/23 after catalogue printing: photographs / notice of rememberance / poem etcComments: gilt section overpainted in gold paint.