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An early 20th century Ethiopian Coptic manuscript prayer book bound in hardwood boards with vellum leaves. Presented in a leather snakeskin pouch. Book to measure approx. 8.5 x 7cm.

17th Century Manuscript Indenture, 1692, concerning property in the City of Durham, on a street called Sadlergate, "the west end of Elvett Bridge", ink on vellum, framed and glazed, 35.5cm by 67.5cm visible.

An early 20th century album of local interest. Containing sketches, pen and ink, watercolours and manuscript messages.

A World War One bayonet and scabbard, a framed discharge manuscript presented to Gerald Ensley Moore and a print 'God have you in his keeping'. (3)

Nuremberger Schonbart. An original watercolour of a carnivalesque male figure with a pig's head and wolf's clothing, holding a small nude female human figure in one hand, probably Nuremberg, 17th century, watercolour on laid paper, bears indistinct watermark 'Meinert...nzel' (?) with two lines of manuscript text at head in German gothic script 'Mit meiner kleidung und rausen Waar/war ich eine zier im Vefonzdet', sheet size 31 x 20 cm), together with a large illuminated initial S on vellum, from a German antiphonal, circa 1500, depicting a saint in a yellow-brown robe with hands clasped in prayer, painted in gold and colours, with foliate illuminated side decoration, sheet size 21 x 15 cm, plus a German Roman Catholic pictorial souvenir on vellum, circa 1750, taken from the Book of Chronicles, depicting an interior of a church with the Book of the Law read to King Josiah, inscribed in gold to lower margin 'II Chronic: Liber Legis Josiae jussu Praei igitur. Cap: XXXIV', colour and gold gouache on vellum, some surface marks, 23 x 31.8 cmQTY: (3)NOTE:Known as the Nuremberger Schonbart, a carnival procession by the Nuremberg butchers' guild had taken place on Shrove Tuesday since 1449; the last Schonbart parade took place in 1539.

Downing (John). A Treatise on the Disorders Incident to Horned Cattle, comprising a description of their symptoms, and the most rational methods of cure, founded on long experience. To which are added, receipts for curing the gripes, staggers, and worms in horses; and an appendix, containing instructions for the extracting of calves, 1st edition, London: T. Hurst, Messrs. Longman and Rees, 1797, half-title, errata slip and subscribers list at rear, bound without H7 blank, early ownership inscription of Thomas Webb in brown ink to head of half-title, additional early ownership inscription of William Lane in brown ink to front pastedown, further marginalia to preliminary and rear leaves, scattered spotting, untrimmed, original pale blue paper boards, rebacked, some marks and wear, 8vo, contained in modern leather-backed solander box with gilt decorated spine, with additional early manuscript lists of medicines includedQTY: (1)NOTE:Smith II, p. 227.

* Illuminated Leaf. A leaf from a manuscript psalter on vellum, Italian, circa 1450, text in Latin on recto and verso, large illuminated initial 'L' with incorporated blue, green and gold foliate devices on a red ground, initial exterior border of gold with green, blue and red foliage extending into margin with small gold roundels, text lettered in red, blue and black, light soiling to inner margin, small portion of wear to head (affecting a few letters along second line), initial 7.5 x 8 cm, sheet size 44.5 x 34 cmQTY: (1)

London. Greenwood (C & J), Map of London from an actual survey made in the years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., Extended and Comprising the various improvements to 1830, Greenwood & Co, 31st August 1830, large scale map engraved by Josiah Neele with contemporary wash colouring and some later enhancement, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, inset views of St Pauls and Westminster, reference to the parishes and table of explanation, very slight spotting, 1260 x 1855 mm, later manuscript ownership signature to verso, contemporary sheep with gilt title to upper siding, heavily worn and frayed, spine partially detached, binding size 460 x 395 mm QTY: (1)NOTE:Howgego. Printed Maps of London, number 309, state 2.

Delaval (Edward Hussey). An Experimental Inquiry into the cause of the Permanent Colours of Opake Bodies, Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres, 1785, free endpapers discarded, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, decorative gilt motifs to spine, manuscript paper title label at head of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, minor wear to lower joint and board corners, 8vo QTY: (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Byble, conteynyng the Olde Testament, and the New. Set foorth by aucthoritie, Imprinted at London by the assignement of Christopher Barker, Her Maiesties prynter, 1578, general title with woodcut border (only original left-hand third of leaf present, remainder supplied in facsimile, lined to verso and remargined), New Testament title present with decorative woodcut border (some manuscript annotations, repaired at head with slight loss of decorative border and repaired to lower blank margin), double-column black letter text, few woodcut illustrations and initials, 'order of bookes' leaf and few other leaves with numerous annotations, several initial leaves with repairs mostly to margins, final 4 leaves repaired with last 2 leaves torn with text loss, occasional damp stains and few marks, modern panelled sheep, gilt decorated spine, folio (35 x 23.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Sold with all faults, not subject to return.Herbert 155; Darlow & Moule 116; STC 2124.Bishops' version. This edition, though the book was entirely reset and issued by another printer, agrees closely with No. 137 (the 1574 printing of the Bishop's version which is the 3rd folio edition).

[Dodsley, Robert]. The Oeconomy of Human Life. In Two Parts, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by a Chinese Philosopher, Newport [Isle of Wight]: Printed by J. Mallett, 1783, 141, [1] pp., ownership signature of Mary Ford dated 22 December 1811 to front flyleaf, a little minor spotting and soiling, contemporary sheep, rubbed, joints cracked and slight edge wear, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare printing undertaken by James Mallett in Newport on the Isle of Wight. ESTC lists only nine publications as Mallett, Newport, ranging in date from 1767 to 1789. The first part of this work was almost certainly written by Robert Dodsley, but sometimes attributed to P.D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; the second part is attributed to John Hill. ESTC T82533 (2 copies; British Library and Bodleian).

Anglesey & Caernarvon. Saxton (Christopher), Mone Insulae modo Anglesey et Caernarvans duorum borialis Cambriae comitatuum olim vene do cia L. Gwynedhia B. North Wales A, descriptio, Ano Dni 1578 [1579], hand-coloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche with the royal coat of arms of Elizabeth I and those of Thomas Seckford, the sea decorated with sailing ships, sea monsters and an amorous Neptune in an embrace with Salacia, large margins, slight dust soiling and staining to the margins but not affecting the printed image, slight mount staining, near-contemporary manuscript annotation to the right-hand margin and manuscript title to verso, 355 x 485 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The first printed map of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, with the bunch of grapes watermark.

[Saint German, Christopher]. Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a student in the lawes of England, newly corrected, with new additions, London: Company of Stationers, 1607, title within ornamental border, text mostly in black letter, some browning, light dust-soiling and spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, some wear mostly to extremities, 8vo (STC 21578), together with:Fortescue (John). De Laudibus Legum Angliae ... Hereto are added the two Sums of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Edward I. commonly called Hengham magna, & Hengham parva. With notes both on Fortescue and Hengham. By that famous and learned antiquarie John Selden, 3 parts in one, London: Printed for A. Raper 1660, title to third part with imprint dated 1616, front endpaper with armorial bookplates of Philip Southcote and Charles Lilburn, later rear endpaper, contemporary sheep, vertical crack to spine and upper joint slightly split, 8vo,[Wallace, William]. De Gestis Illustrissimi Herois Gulielmi Vallae Scotiae olim custodis, collectanea varia. Quorum, pleraque nunc primum è manuscriptis in lucem produent, Quae versa pagoma enumerantur, 3 parts in one, Edinburgh: M. Andreas Symson, 1705, some light dust-soiling, 9 leaves torn at fore-edge and repaired with lacking text provided in manuscript, light dust-soiling and toning, all edges gilt, 19th-century calf, joints cracked at head and foot, 8vo,Camden (William). Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, Leiden: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1625, engraved title, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, 8vo, plus other 16th and 17th-century antiquarian, some defectiveQTY: (21)

Teesdale (Henry, publisher). New British Atlas, Containing a Complete set of County Maps, on which are Delineated all the Principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns & most Considerable Villages, Parks, Rivers, Navigable Canals & Railways, Preceded by General Maps of England, Ireland, Scotland, North & South Wales....., 1829, calligraphic title with contemporary manuscript ownership signature, folding maps of England & Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 43 (only) engraved maps with contemporary wash colouring, several maps with closed tears, marginal fraying and occasional loss, tears crudely repaired with sellotape, a few maps torn with severe loss, map of Yorkshire with juvenile scribbling, text block detached with contents shaken and loose, contemporary half calf, very heavily worn and frayed, spine crudely repaired with tape, slim folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Calcott (Wellins). A Candid Disquisition of the principles and practices of the most ancient and honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons; together with some strictures on the origin, nature, and design of that institution, 1st edition, London: Printed for the Author, by Brother James Dixwell, 1769, cancelled ink stamp to verso of title, list of subscribers present, occasional light spotting, front pastedown with bookplate of The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland, contemporary marbled sheep, leather to upper board torn to lower quarter with loss, joints cracked, 8vo,Penington (Isaac). Letters of Isaac Penington, written to his relations and friends, now first published from manuscript copies. To which are added letters of Stephen Crisp, William Penn, R. Barclay, William Caton, Josiah Coale, and others, 1st edition, London: James Phillips, 1796, bookplate and ownership signatures of Nathaniel Morgan to front endpaper, contemporary sheep, 8vo,Gould (Robert Freke). The History of Freemasonry..., 3 volumes, London: Caxton Publishing Company, c.1900, photogravure portrait frontispieces, chromolithograph plates, all edges gilt, publisher's black half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt-blocked decoration, cloth to upper board of volume 2 lightly mottled, 4to, plus 5 others related, 18th-early 20th-century publicationsQTY: (10)

Napoleon I. Documens pour servir a? l'histoire de la captivite? de Napole?on Bonaparte a? Sainte-He?le?ne; ou, Recueil de faits curieux sur la vie qu'il y menait, sur sa maladie, et sur sa mort, Paris: Pillet Aine?, 1821, half-title, 3 hand-coloured aquatints (including frontispiece), hand-coloured engraved portrait plate and folding uncoloured lithograph plate, some spotting, toning and occasional marginal damp stains, modern light brown morocco-backed boards, red morocco title label to spine, 8vo, together with:Napoleon I. Carnet d'un Voyageur, ou recueil de notes curieuses sur la vie, les occupations, les habitudes de Buonaparte a Longwood, Paris: Pillet Ainé, 1819, half-title, 3 hand-coloured aquatints (including frontispiece), advertisement leaf at front, occasional spotting and few ink stains to margins (not affecting text), edges untrimmed, modern wrappers, 8vo,Cockburn (George). Buonaparte's voyage to St. Helena; comprising the diary of Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, during his passage from England to St. Helena, in 1815. From the original manuscript, in the handwriting of his private secretary, Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1833, half-title, 8 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, original cloth, printed paper label to spine, worn at head and foot of spine, covers discoloured, 8vo,Napoleon I. Ma?rkwa?rdiga handlingar ho?rande till historien om Napoleon Bonapartes fangenskap, sjukdom, sista stunder, do?d och begrafning pa St. Helena ... Fran franska autentika ka?llor, Stockholm: F.B. Nestius, 1822, lithograph portrait frontispiece (cropped to fore-edge with slight loss), some browning and damp staining, 20th-century half cloth, small 8vo,Gourgaud (Gaspard). Discours de Napole?on sur les ve?rite?s et les sentiments qu'il importe le plus d'inculquer aux hommes pour leur bonheur, Brussels: Grignon, 1826, half-title, scattered spotting throughout, edges untrimmed, original printed wrappers, 8vo, plus two others related including Warden (William). Letters written on board His Majesty's ship the Northumberland, and Saint Helena; in which the conduct and conversations of Napoleon Buonaparte, and his suite... are faithfully described and related, 3rd edition, London: Published for the author, by R. Ackermann, 1816, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, some spotting and few marks, edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked, board corners worn, 8vo, and Cockburn (George). Extract from a Diary of Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn, with particular reference to Gen. Napoleon Buonaparte, on passage from England to St. Helena, in 1815..., London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1888, original green cloth gilt, 8voQTY: (7)

* Early printed leaves. Original Leaves from Famous English Books, London: The Folio Society, [1963], 12 single printed leaves, 7 loosely contained in thick card window mounts (remainder without mounts), with single leaf of descriptive text (one paragraph skinned to printed surface), loose in original cloth book-box with torn maroon sheep label to spine, foot of box spine with classification number in white manuscript, hinges strengthened with adhesive tape, large folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Compiled by the Folio Society. The original leaves comprise Pynson's Froissart, 1523; Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1575; The King James Bible, 1611; The Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632; Clarendon's History, Oxford, 1701-4; Dr Johnson's Dictionary, 1756; The Baskerville Virgil, 1757; The Foulis Press Pope, 1785; Balmer's History of the River Thames, 1794-6; Chiswick Press: Book of Common Prayer, 1844; Kelmscott Press: The Well at the World's End, 1896; The Doves Press Milton, 1902-5.

D'Avity (Pierre d'). The Estates, Empires, & Principallities of the World, Represented by ye Description of Countries, Maners of Inhabitants, Riches of Provinces, Forces, Government, Religion; and the Princes that have governed in every Estate. With the Begin[n]ing of all Militarie and Religious Orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, Sargeant at Armes, 1st English edition, London: Printed by Adam Islip for Mathewe Lownes and John Bill, 1615, engraved title (with discreetly repaired closed tear, margins frayed), leaves 3L6 and 5H1 torn at head with small area of text loss (pp. 672/673 & 1177/1178, with photocopies of missing text loosely inserted), without blank leaf at front and rear, occasional light damp stains, early manuscript annotation to verso of final leaf, contemporary calf, joints split and board attachment weak (upper board attachment strengthened), worn to spine and extremities, folio (30.5 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 988.The work was first published in France in 1614.

Newcastle Upon Tyne. Oliver (Thomas), Plan of the Town & County of Newcastle Upon Tyne and the Borough of Gateshead with their respective Suburbs..., 1830, uncoloured city map of Newcastle upon Tyne engraved by W.H Lizars, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset vignette of Newcastle upon Tyne from the south, inset circular map of the plan of the Town Moor, compass rose, calligraphic title and dedication, slight staining and offsetting, unobtrusive near contemporary manuscript hatching to the printed surface, edged in green silk, later manuscript ownership signature to verso, contained within a contemporary gilt morocco book box, worn, rubbed and frayed, lacking the containing strips at the head and foot of the boxQTY: (1)

Le Clerc (Jean, publisher). Parterres et compartimens divers pour dresser en plusieurs agreables façons les Jardins des grandes et mediocres Maisons, [Paris]: Jean le Clerc, circa 1600, engraved title and 7 engraved plates of parterre garden designs, some soiling and marginal staining, early ink annotations to versos (one inscription reads: 'Louis Lasnier jardinier demeurant a Crut paroisse de Bery sur Vittiere 1739'), bound with several series of similar engraved designs, including a set of six engraved plates by Antoine Jacquard (of Poitevin, died 1652) of miniature oval designs for watch cases, [Paris], circa 1610-15, several unsigned series of engraved designs including six engraved designs of bouquets of flowers, one decorative floral pattern, four plates of designs for the seasons, four plates of circular designs (trimmed to lower edge of the leaf, touching image), and bound at end seven engraved plates from La Mode des Habits des Femmes, by Michel van Lochom (1601-1647), circa 1620-30, illustrating women's costume and hairstyles (including English, Italian, German, French, and Polish), most plates with old untidy manuscript annotations, and several visual doodles, some soiling, corners creased, light stain to lower margin, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and some wear, oblong 8vo (16 x 20.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A bound volume of 17th century small-scale French engraved designs, of particular interest for the set of designs for watch cases by Antoine Jacquard. The V & A Museum, London hold examples of the work of this designer; he also published a series of prints of inhabitants of the New World.

Cruikshank (George). Monstrosities [titled on upper cover], Thos. McLean, circa 1835, eighty-one uncoloured etched and aquatinted caricatures, printed on 68 sheets, including the 'medical ailment' caricatures, the set of ten 'Sailor's progress' and the series of six 'London Nuisance' etchings, one plate with long closed tear affecting the printed image, each sheet with a manuscript number to the upper right corner, slight spotting throughout, hinges and joints cracked and weak, rear board near detached, contemporary half morocco gilt, lacking spine, heavily worn and frayed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

Actius (Thomas). De Ludo Scacchorum in Legali Methodo Tractatus. Nunc primum in lucem editus cum summariis & indice. Ad serenissimum franciscum mariam II. Ducem Urbini VI, 1st edition, Pesaro: Hieronymum Concordiam, 1583, woodcut vignette to title, woodcut portrait of author, woodcut initials, errata leaf at rear, early notation in brown ink to title, discreet old paper repair to title lower blank margin, small closed tear to A3 outer blank margin, faint old damp-staining to many quires, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, a few small wormholes to spine, lower cover with faint damp-stain, lacking ties, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Brunet VI (suppl.), 635; Graesse I, 17; Zollinger 742.A rare early work on chess, using the game as a metaphor for society.

Arnott (Archibald). An Account of the Last Illness, decease, and Post Mortem Appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte ... to which is added a letter from Dr. Arnott to Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, K.C.B. &c. giving a succinct statement of Napoleon Bonaparte's disease and demise, London: John Murray, 1822, [4], 39, [9] pp., includes 8 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, top edge gilt, modern red half calf, gilt decorated spine, joints lightly rubbed, slim 8vo,Delbare (Francois-Thomas). Relation fide?le et de?taille?e de la dernie?re campagne de Buonaparte, termine?e par la Bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean, dite de Waterloo ou de la Belle-Alliance, 3rd edition, Paris: J. G. Dentu, 1815, upper margin of half-title with early ownership inscription 'Richard Sainthill N70 Borough London', 2 folding engraved maps, bound with Warden (William). Letters written on board His Majesty's ship the Northumberland, and Saint Helena; in which the conduct and conversations of Napoleon Buonaparte, and his suite, during the voyage, and the first month of his residence in that island, are faithfully described and related, 3rd edition, London: Published for the author, by R. Ackermann, 1816, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding facsimile manuscript plate, title and initial leaves loosening, armorial bookplate of Sainthill of Sainthill, Devon to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked, 8vo,Santini (Noel). De Sainte-He?le?ne aux Invalides, ou, Napole?on Ier prisonnier de Sainte-He?le?ne..., Paris: chez lez Principaux Libraires, [1856], lithograph portrait frontispiece, 10 wood engraved plates, ink stamp to title, some scattered spotting, 20th-century black morocco-backed cloth, 8vo, plus a hand-coloured aquatint portrait plate of Napoleon (probably after Denzil Ibbetson?), image 21 x 15.5 cm, mounted, ebonised frame, glazed (frame dimensions 40.5 x 33.5 cm), plus one other related framed and glazed etched plate depicting half-length portraits (after Ibbetson) of Napoleon and offices Gourgaud, Bertrand, Las Casas and Montholon, published London: J. Hassell, May 1, 1817, plate mark 16 x 34.5 cm, gilt frame, glazed (frame dimensions 34.5 x 51 cm)QTY: (5)

Lysons (Daniel). The Environs of London: Being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital, 6 volumes (including 1811 Supplement), London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell, 1792-1811, numerous engraved maps, plates and plans, some folding, a few colour, occasional light spotting and offsetting, manuscript note at front 'Clegg Collection August 1942', original cloth, spines faded with tears and splits, some edge wear, 4to, together with Hakewill (James). The History of Windsor, and its Neighbourhood, 1st edition, London: printed for Edmond Lloyd, 1813, half-title, 3 folding maps and plans, 18 engraved plates, some spotting and light offsetting, hinges reinforced, later cloth, a few marks, 4to, plus 2 others: Thomas Pennant's Some Account of London, 4th edition, 1805, and Walks through London, including Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, with the surrounding suburbs, by David Hughson, 2 volumes, 1817 (volume I upper cover detached), 8voQTY: (10)

Fox (George A. and St. John Hope, William Henry). Excavations on the Site of the Roman City at Silchester, Hants, in 1890 [-1909], 19 parts in one, London & Oxford: Nichol and Sons, and Society of Antiquaries, 1891-1910, numerous plates and plans, many folding including some chromolithograph, monochrome illustrations and plans to text, occasional light dust-soiling and minor spotting, 20th-century buckram, fading mostly to spine, large 4to (each part being extracts from Archaeologia volumes 52-62), together with: Thomson (James). A Great Free City: The Book of Silchester..., 2 volumes, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Ltd., H. O. Lloyd & Co. Ltd., 1924, monochrome plates and plans, original cloth-backed boards, large 8vo (limited edition 117/350),Davis (Frederick). The Romano-British City of Silchester, London: William Andrews & Co., 1898, upper margin of title inscribed by the author to James M. Moody and with loosely inserted manuscript note from the author to Moody, original cloth, slim 8vo, plus two others related including May (Thomas), The Pottery found at Silchester, Reading: E. Poynder & Son, Holybrook Press, 1916, and William-Freeman (John Peere), An Introduction to Field Archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co., 1915QTY: (6)

Venner (Tobias). Via Recta ad Vitam Longam: or, a Plaine Philosophicall demonstration of the Nature, faculties, and effects of all such things ... Whereunto is annexed a necessary and compendious Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe..., London: by Felix Kingston for Richard Moore, 1628, separate title, register and pagination to ‘Baths of Bathe’, some light old dampstaining to early leaves, contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties, manuscript title to spine, a little soiled, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 24645. ‘The Baths of Bathe’ was also issued separately as STC 24641.

Saunders (Richard). Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women. being delightful and profitable: with the subject of dreams made plain: whereunto is added the art of memory, 2nd edition very much enlarged by Richard Saunders, student in astrology and physick, London: Printed by H. Brugis, for Nathaniel Brook, 1671, [28], 160, [2], 155-156, 161-377, [13] pp., portrait frontispiece not present, woodcut illustrations to title and throughout volume, separate part titles present, 2 full-page engraved illustrations (one hand-coloured and the other with few ink marks and hole to image), one engraved plate, general title and following two leaves detached, with closed tear at gutter, frayed and torn margins, table to verso of leaf L1 with late manuscript entries in blue pencil, leaf 2Z1 with closed tear at head of gutter, without final blank 3E4, some browning, dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary calf, boards detached, rubbed and worn, folio (29 x 19.2 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Wing S755.'The second part, or second book: wherein is treated of physiognomy, metoposcopy, oneirocracy' and 'A treatise of the moles of the body of man & woman,' each have separate title page, with imprint 'for Nathaniel Brooks, 1670.', on leaves [Y]1r and 2S2r, respectively. With table of contents and advertisements at end of text.

Berdini (Vincenzo). Historia Dell' Antica, e Moderna Palestina, descritta in tre parti, nella quale si ha particolare descrittione de luoghi piu singolati del sito, qualita di effi, governo, costumi, guerre, riuolutioni, & altri successi notabili, 3 parts in 1, 2nd edition, Venice: Giovanni Battista Surian, 1642, half-title, woodcut vignette to title, woodcut initials, faintly damp-stained, endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, spine reinforced with central portion repaired, lightly marked, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Röhricht 1019; Tobler p.211. Röhricht describes the 1642 edition as the second edition. However we are unable to trace an earlier printing at auction.

Clement X (Pope). Breve SSmi. D. N. Clementis Papae X, Confirmationis, & novae Concessionis Indulgentiarum, &c. pro Archiconfraternitate Cincturatorum, & Cincturatarum nuncupata S. Augustini, & Sancte Monice sub Invocatione Beatae Virginis Marie de Consolatione Bononiae erecta in Ecclesia S. Jacobi, Rome: Ex Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, 1675, 24 unnumbered pages of printed text (A-C4), title with woodcut papal coat of arms and two figures of saints, signed at end in ink by a papal clerk, and dated 27 march 1675, with an additional two manuscript leaves on vellum bound in at front, and three manuscript leaves on vellum bound in at rear, the first leaf with illuminated miniature in gold and colours bearing the name 'Magister Fr. Fulgentius Travalloni a Monte Elparo Georginas totius ordinis Ff. Er. S. P. Augustini prior generalis', the manuscript text in brown and gold ink, the three manuscript leaves at rear with further confirmatory manuscript additions and signatures, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decoarated limp full vellum, with original silk ties, one or two minor marks, slim large 8vo (26 x 18 cm)QTY: (1)

Mercuriale (Girolamo). Praelectiones Pisanae Hieronymi Mercuralis Foroliviensis medicinam Pisis loco supraordinario vocato profitentis in epidemicas Hippocratis historias, non minus ad theoricam, atque practicam medicinam utiles, quàm ob eruditionem incundae. Nec non tractatus primo, De hominis generatione, secundo, De balneis Pisanis, tertio, De vino & aqua. Cum indice copioso eorum quae in his operibus continentur, 1st edition, Venice: Apud Juntas, 1597, text in double column, woodcut vignette to title, woodcut initials, errata leaf, final leaf unsigned, early ownership inscription 'Octaviani Galleppini?' in brown ink to title, small damp-stain to head of inner margin (affecting text to some leaves), first few gatherings with outer margin frayed with slight loss, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, old paper label with shelf number beneath, a few marked, lightly rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams M1333; CNCE 34142.First edition of a collection of lectures given at the University of Pisa by the Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), best known for his work on gymnastics, edited by Marco and Orazio Cornacchini. The greater part of the book contains a history of epidemics based on Hippocrates, and remarks on plague. Three shorter lectures deal with conception, the baths and mineral waters of Pisa, and the medicinal qualities of wine and water.

[Chaucer, Geoffrey]. [The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before, London: by Nicholas Hill, 1550?], double column, black letter, B1r with woodcut of the Knight before castle, E6v with woodcut of the Squire, woodcut decorative initials, 'The Romau[n]t of the Rose' with separate divisional title within woodcut architectural border, lacking all 8 preliminary leaves before f. 1 (B1), and last 9 leaves, ff. 348-55 plus blank (3P4-3Q6), some mostly marginal browning and old dampstaining and fraying to lower margins throughout, occasional closed marginal tears, first leaf rehinged and paper repairs to lower margins of B1-3, 3F3-4 and 3P1-3, with only small loss to letters of a few words at lower outer corner of final leaf, minor worm trail to blank upper margin of several early leaves, a few old brief, marginal ink inscriptions and pen trials, remains of old front endpaper relaid with 19th-century manuscript brief title giving the date as 1546, modern brown morocco with five raised bands, gilt title and date ‘1546’ at foot, folio (310 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 5071, 502, 5073 or 5074. This is one of four variants of the updated fourth collected edition, edited by William Thynne which was published simultaneously by four London booksellers (William Bonham, Richard Kele, Thomas Petit, and Robert Toye), each variant bearing a different colophon.

Napoleon I. Documens pour servir a? l'histoire de la captivite? de Napole?on Bonaparte a? Sainte-He?le?ne, ou, Recueil de faits curieux sur la vie qu'il y menait, sur sa maladie et sur sa mort, Paris: Pillet Aine?, 1822, 3 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece), hand-coloured engraved portrait plate and folding lithograph plate (strengthened to folds at verso), occasional light spotting, original printed front wrapper bound in at front, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with:[Maiseau, Raymond Balthasar]. Vie du mare?chal Ney, duc d'Elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa : comprenant le re?cit de toutes ses campagnes en Suisse, en Autriche, en Prusse, en Espagne, en Portugal, en Russie, etc., sa vie prive?e, l'histoire de son proce?s et un grand nombre d'anecdotes ine?dites, suivie de pie?ces justificatives, Paris: Pillet, 1816, half-title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, plate of facsimile manuscript, browning throughout and some marks, contemporary marbled sheep, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, joints worn, 8vo,Perin (Rene). Vie militaire de J. Lannes, maréchal de l'empire, duc de Montbello, 2nd edition, Paris: Delaunay, circa 1820, half-title, engraved frontispiece, scattered spotting and toning, near contemporary sheep-backed boards, extremities rubbed, 8vo,Barthe (Felix). Re?futation de la relation du Capitaine Maitland, commandant le Belle?rophon, touchant l'embarquement de Napole?on, Paris: Charles Bechet, 1827, half-title, engraved frontispiece, edges untrimmed, original printed wrappers, rebacked, 8vo and Staal (Gustave). Sainte-He?le?ne par E. Masselin, Paris: Henri Plon, 1862, wood engraved plates and few plans, scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, original printed wrappers, some wear, 8vo QTY: (5)

Bible [English]. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1608, general title within woodcut border (with partially strengthened long closed tear, lightly saved to border at head), New Testament title within woodcut border with early manuscript to recto and verso (including the names Mary Bull and also Isaack Johnson of Draycott) and with short closed tear, Apocrypha present, black letter text in double column, 2Z1 & 2Z2 torn with loss of lower half of leaf, closed tear to 3K5 and 3Y7, bound with an incomplete book of Psalms at front of volume (lacking title and several other leaves) with Bible general title bound-in at front, bound with Concordance. Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordance..., Collected by R. F. H., London: Robert Barker, 1608, title page torn to lower quarter of leaf with loss of imprint, occasional old repairs throughout volume and margins close trimmed with loss to running titles at head and shaving of some marginal notes, toned, dust-soiled and marked, 19th-century reversed calf, upper joint split, rubbed and some wear, 4to (21.2 x 15.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 293; Darlow & Moule 225; STC 2202.There are two varieties of this date. Variety A as in this example with General title: '... in the Epi | stle to the Reader' and Gen. i. 3: 'Then God Sayd ...' and variety B with General title: '... in the | Epistle to the Reader' and Gen. i. 3: 'Then sayd God...'.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised..., Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1620/21, general title within woodcut border (imprint dated 1620), New Testament also within woodcut border (imprint dated 1621), colophon dated 1621, Apocrypha present, black letter text in double-column, bound with at front Book of Common Prayer, The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, of that translation which is appointed to be used in Churches, Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1621, title printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border (border at gutter and gutter margin partly excised and repaired, dust-soiled), collects and Psalms in black letter, bound with [Speed, John], The Genealogies recorded in the sacred Scriptures, according to every familie and tribe. With the line of our Saviour Jesus Christ, observed from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary, by J[ohn]. S[peed]., [1620?], containing woodcut genealogies and woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, double-page woodcut map of the Canaan by Speed present, bound with at rear Concordance, Two Right profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or, large and ample tables alphabeticall..., collected by R. F. H., London: Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1619/20, title imprint dated 1619 and colophon dated 1620, bound with Book of Psalms, The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternehold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew..., London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1621, woodcut device to title surrounded by early marginal notes, incomplete at rear (lacking all after G6), some dust-soiling and toning throughout (mostly light), 3 leaves of 18th-century manuscript notes to blanks at front of volume, front free endpaper near detached, near-contemporary reversed calf, joints split, wear at head and foot of spine and to board corners, 4to (21.5 x 15.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 379; Darlow & Moule 292; STC 2262.Both titles omit the words Appointed...; heading on Ppp2 b, II. Coainthians; in Mark xiv. 46, on is omitted. The signature D4 is correctly printed D4 whereas in some examples it is printed C4.

[Dumez (A. & Chaulaire P.G.)]. Précis élémentaire et méthodique de la nouvelle Géographie de la France..., pour servir de Développement à l'Atlas national portatif de la France... par les Auteurs de l'Atlas national de France. Paris: Au Bureau de l'Atlas National, 1791, printed title and introduction, index and tables, contemporary manuscript contents list, additional decorative half-title of an outline map of France with a floriate border and 89 engraved maps of France and its departments, all with contemporary outline colouring, and an uncoloured map of the world on Mercator's projection, a few folding, slight dust soiling, contemporary half calf gilt with contrasting morocco label to the spine, some wear, oblong 4to QTY: (1)

MANUSCRIPT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY. MS title on front cover: 'Record of the British Chapel in Danzig begins 1706'. Folio, circa 131 hand-written pages, almost all in English, with a dozen or so other hand-written letters and documents tipped in or loosely inserted. Contains entries from 1706-1935. Includes a list of original subscribers with the amount subscribed towards building the church. Much detail on the appointment of successive ministers. Minutes include many references to current events, eg January 1797 mourning for the late Dowager Queen of Prussia; 1813 'the town became completely blockaded from 24 January but an amnesty being agreed on the Belligerent Powers & a Congress held in Prague things have remained quiet'; 1885 'The chapel is tolerated by the Prussian Government and is in the keeping of the British residents or rather mainly their descendants'.A loosely inserted letter from the BM in 1938 acknowledges the receipt of an offprint of an article by Martha Dunsby, 'Die Englische Kirke in Danzig'. Contemporary full vellum.

MANUSCRIPT. Marquis d'Argens (Jean Baptiste Boyer, 1704-71, free thinker) The Modern Legislator, or the Memoirs of the Chevalier de Mellincourt. According to a pencil note on the front blank, the work was transcribed by J F Drinkwater in 1849 and concerns the agnosticism of the Marquis d'Argens, author of 'Lettres Indies' which was refuted by his son Comte de Meillcourt. About 450 pages and 32,000 words. Half black calf. Not published.

MANUSCRIPT PEDIGREE OF THE OLDFIELD FAMILY. Late 17th or early 18th century. Three joined parchment sheets, overall 2200 mm by 650 mm (over 7' 7" by 2' 1") containing 113 coats of arms coloured by hand.About two thirds of the way down is written: "Ar on a bend gules, 3 crosses patee fitchée argent was confirmed by William Flower, Norry, 7 Feb 1578, 21 Eliz. to Philip Oldfield of Bradwall in the County of Chester Esqre". "Philip Oldfield died ye 15 December 1616 aged 75 & was buried at St Mary's in ye City of Chester, where there is erected a handsome monument to his memory. He was an eminent lawyer in ye Reign of James 1st". There are very few dates on the manuscript but the pedigree goes back 12 generations from Philip Oldfield who died in 1616, and covers 19 generations overall. Other surnames mentioned include Venables, Latham, Somerford and Berrington. Contained in a tin tube. Condition:Tear at top and some old water staining, fading to some colours

Group of three artworks including two Indian Jain manuscript pages and one painting. The manuscript paintings filled with text along the left side and with illuminations along the right. Possibly belonging to the Kalpa-sutra "Book of Ritual" meant to be read daily. The painting depicting three figures working in a field, possibly weaving.Provenance: From the collection of Frederick and Catherine Asher, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Frederick M. Asher and Catherine E. Asher were prominent scholars in the field of Art History. Both dedicated their lives to the education of students, teaching for many years as professors at the University of Minnesota. They both had a passion for South Asian art, traveling extensively throughout India, Asia, and the Middle East.(Painting) Sight; height: 5 1/4 in x width: 7 1/2 in. Framed; height: 10 in x width: 12 in. (Manuscript pages) Each, sight; height: 4 1/4 in x width: 10 in. Framed; height: 13 3/4 in x width: 15 1/4 in. />Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

TURING (ALAN)JAHNKE (EUGENE) AND FRITZ EMDE. Funktionentafeln Mit Formeln Und Kurven, ALAN TURING'S COPY, SIGNED 'A.M. Turing' on front free endpaper, and with a short pencil note ('Π = 4π.7 in cms') in his hand on p.152, second revised edition, illustrations and diagrams in the text, publisher's cloth, lacks spine, some soiling (cup stain on upper cover), 8vo, Leipzig and Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1933Footnotes:Turing's copy of Tables of Functions, published in 1933 whilst he was an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. This edition included a chapter on 'The Riemann Zeta-Function', about which Turing 'developed a life-long fascination. Though his research in this area was not a major thrust of his career, he did make a number of pioneering contributions. Most have now been superseded by later work, but one technique that he introduced is still a standard tool in the computational analysis of the zeta and related functions. It is known as Turing's method, and keeps his name alive in those areas' (D.A. Hejhal and A.M. Odlyzko. 'Alan Turing and the Riemann Zeta Function', 2011). On his return from Princeton to Cambridge in 1938 Turing had 'unusually for a mathematician... joined in Wittgenstein's classes, [and] unusually again he engineered a cogwheel machine to calculate the Riemann Zeta-function' (ODNB). A short bibliography of 'Useful books for the computer' is included at the end of Tables of Functions, and as Donald Bayley's note [see below] confirms, the book accompanied Turing to Hanslope Park where, during the war years, he worked with Bayley on the 'Delilah' project (see lot 45).Provenance: Alan Turing (1912-1954); Donald Bayley (1921-2020), manuscript note in his hand loosely inserted, 'This belonged to the famous AM Turing of Enigma fame. I saw it with his books when I first met him in Hanslope [Park] in 1944. I was much taken with the diagrams of complex functions - which I hadn't seen before. After his death Robin Gandy said I was to have any keepsake I wished (I'm not sure whether this was a bequest in AMT's will - Gandy was executor). Anyway, I asked for this. It should be kept for posterity D.B.... In this broken spine condition he had used it a lot'. Bayley was an electronic engineer who collaborated with Alan Turing on Delilah a functioning portable speech-encryption system, during the Second World War; thence by descent to the present owner.Saleroom notices:Title pages and text are in both English and German.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

BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD)Autograph letter signed ('Brn'), to John Murray ('Dear Sir'), thanking him for sending the sheets of '...the 'Intercepted etc.' which is a greater kindness than things of more importance would be...', and asking him if he attends to the printing, going on to speak of '...the wrath of the Courier...' and the proposed motion in the house, stating '...depend upon it – they shall not quell me into apology or submission...', docketed '1814 Feby 13th' and 'Jany 21/ Augustus de Stäel', manuscript note tipped onto third page 'This was addressed to Mr Murray by Lord Byron at the time there was a threat to arraign him for the libel in the lines addressed to the Princess Charlotte, beginning 'Weep, Daughter, of a Royal Line' and the injunction in the letter to Mr Murray has reference to that threat', integral address panel, 3 pages on a bifolium, remains of red wax seal, dust-staining, remains of guard where previously mounted, 8vo (185 x 117mm.), [n.p.], 13 February [1814]Footnotes:'THEY SHALL NOT QUELL ME INTO APOLOGY OR SUBMISSION': BYRON EMBROILED IN A ROYAL SCANDAL – A NEWLY DISCOVERED UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO HIS PUBLISHER.The note of explanation attached to Byron's letter refers to the furore in the press and the government stirred up by the re-publication of his Sympathetic Address to a Young Lady, penned two years earlier. He was responding at the time to a quatrain published in the Morning Chronicle on 6 March 1812, which commented on a recent incident at Carlton House. The incident in question took place at a dinner on 22 February 1812, at which the Prince Regent quarrelled with Lord Lauderdale over the unfavourable response from Lords Grey and Greville to his suggestion made to the Duke of York that there should be a united administration. It is said he abused them in such violent language that a teenage Princess Charlotte, upset by the abandonment of her father's Whig supporters in favour of the Tories, dropped her head and burst into tears, upon which the Prince ordered the ladies from the room. It was common knowledge that the Princess's childhood had been a difficult one, with her parents separated and on terms of mutual loathing (see lot 51).Byron's anonymous lines appeared on 7 March 1812:WEEP, daughter of a royal line,A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay;Ah! Happy if each tear of thineCould wash a Father's fault away!Two years later, in February 1814, 'either out of mere bravado or in an access of political rancour', the incident was brought up once again when the lines were reprinted with The Corsair in the Morning Chronicle, this time under Byron's own name and dedicated to Thomas Moore to whom the verses had been previously wrongly attributed. The publication led to vitriolic attacks on Byron and his friends in The Courier: '...Few of our readers have forgotten the disgust which this address excited. The author of it, however, unwilling that it should sleep in the oblivion to which it had been consigned with the other trash of that day, has republished it...'. The following day they continued their attack '...Lord Byron... has discovered and promulgated to the world in eight lines of choice doggerel, that the realm of England is in decay, that her Sovereign is disgraced, and that the situation of the country is one which claims the tears of all good patriots...'. This continued in similar vein throughout the greater part of February and March. Whilst Byron spoke lightly of the assaults, it is evident they annoyed him. On the 11th he wrote at length to Lady Melbourne on the press frenzy '...lampoons of all description, some good, and all hearty, the Regent (as reported) wroth... the Morning Post in hysterics; and the Courier in convulsions of criticism and contention... Did you know anything like this? At a time when peace and war, the Emperors and Napoleons... are trembling in the balance, the Government can devote half their attention... day after day, to 8 lines, written two years ago...'. His journal entry for 18 February on his return from Nottinghamshire notes: '...On my return I find all the newspapers in hysterics, and town in uproar... They are daily at it still;- some of the abuse good, all of it hearty. They talk of a motion in our House upon it – be it so...'.This unpublished letter sits between correspondence from Byron to his publisher John Murray dated 12 February 1814 (Rowland E. Prothero, The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, 1899, Vol. 3, p.35, no.406), and another of the 14 February (Prothero, p.35, no.407) in which he refers to our letter sent on the 13th ('...Before I left town yesterday, I wrote you a note, which I presume you received...'). On the 12th he requested Murray send Lady Holland a volume of the Intercepted Letters (a reference to Letters and Dispatches of the Generals, Ministers etc., at Paris, to the Emperor Napoleon, at Dresden; Intercepted by the Advanced Troops of the Allies in the North of Germany) which, according to our letter, he had received by the next day, and complains of Murray's suppression of the verses whilst he was away. His note of the 14th continues the conversation begun in our letter: '...I can have no objection to your stating, as distinctly and publicly as you please, your unwillingness to publish them, and my own obstinacy upon the subject...'. It is not known how the letter reached the collection, but it could have been either a gift from Mary Berry or from a friend who knew of Lady Lewis' passion for collecting. Provenance: Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (née Villiers) (1803-1865); her son Sir Thomas Villiers Lister (1832-1902); thence by descent.Lady Lewis' collection was initially formed through the amalgamation of two significant collections of letters: royal and political correspondence from that of her mother the Hon. Theresa Villiers (1775-1856), and that of her close friend, the writer Mary Berry (1763–1852). Mary Berry's bequest included correspondence from Horace Walpole, most notably his correspondence with Thomas Chatterton and David Hume, hitherto thought lost, and three poems dedicated to her. To this inheritance Lady Lewis subsequently added her own correspondence and collection of autographs gathered through her wide circle of social, political and literary connections entertained at her home, Kent House, St James's. Not seen outside the family until now, the collection is a remarkable survival and tells the story of a family at the heart of English society. An intricate web of connections and alliances is revealed, bringing together the worlds of royalty and politics, the arts and literature. It is also a story of influential women both as collectors and as correspondents: Theresa Villiers as keeper of royal secrets, Mary Berry and her circle of intellectuals, and, importantly, Lady Lewis as collector and salonnière bringing them all together in one extraordinary collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUGHES (TED)Animal Poems, UNIQUE PRESENTATION COPY, ONE OF SIX COPIES INTERLEAVED WITH ALL 14 POEMS WRITTEN OUT BY THE AUTHOR, AND AN ADDITIONAL 18 POEMS ADDED IN MANUSCRIPT, interleaved with 38 pages of manuscript poems, inscribed to the author's daughter, manuscript correction by Hughes to one printed poem ('Otter'), green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titled in gilt on spine, g.e., original morocco-lipped slipcase [Sagar/Tabor A13], 4to, [Richard Gilbertson, [1967]Footnotes:INCLUDES 32 MANUSCRIPT 'ANIMAL' POEMS BY HUGHES. Of these fourteen are written out by Hughes to face the poems in the printed text, and eighteen are additional ones, including: 'Swans', 'Mice we funny little creature', 'Eagle', 'View of a Pig', 'The Mosquito', 'A Mountain Lion', 'Little Whale Song', 'The Iron Wolf', 'Whiteness', 'Honey Bee', 'Woodpecker', 'Very New Foal' [beginning 'Moorland Mother, a dirty white...'], 'The Arctic Fox', 'A Tigress', 'The Brook Trout', 'Mooses', 'A Sparrow Hawk', and 'Amulet'.According to the colophon Animal Poems was published in an edition of overall of 100 copies, but Sagar and Tabor suggest that some of the proposed edition were never printed. As stated on the colophon this is one of six specially bound copies in which 'the poet has written out each of the thirteen [actually fourteen] poems in full...', but in this case with extra poems added.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, inscribed to her by Ted Hughes, 'For Frieda with love from Daddy, Christmas 1982'.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

ALBUM - WRITERS & SCIENTISTSAlbum of over 150 autograph letters from eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers, scientists, and other notables, from the collection of Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (née Villiers) (1803-1865), to Lady Lewis, Mary Berry and others, some loose, including:Horace Walpole, three autograph poems, the first titled 'To/ My Pen/ on my cessation of our correspondence/ by her...', 10 lines beginning 'Here rest thou faithful servant of my heart!', signed 'O', one page, affixed to an album leaf, 98 x 160mm.; the second 'To Miss Mary Berry', 8 lines beginning 'Thine Beauty, Learning, Eloquence/ With wry Grace of social sense...', one page, affixed to an album leaf, 115 x 165mm.; the third titled 'An Apology for her paleness', 9 lines beginning 'True, on her cheek the damask Rose/ Too seldom, or two faintly blows...', signed beneath 'By the Honble Horace Walpole/ December 1789', one page, loose, 120 x 194mm.Johann Wolfang von Goethe, two-line couplet from Angedenken an das Liebe ('Angedenken an das Liebe/ Glücklich! Wenn's lebendig bliebe!'), signed beneath ('Goethe'), one page, 100 x 170mm., Weimar, March 1826; presented on an album leaf with a printed notice of his death Edward Gibbon, unpublished autograph letter signed ('E.Gibbon') to Horace Walpole, thanking him for his '...elegant and entertaining present...' [Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting] and complimenting him on the contents, 2 pages, 4to (216 x 185mm.), Sheffield Place, 22 October 1780Charles Babbage, two autograph letters signed ('C. Babbage') to Mrs Lister, the first an invitation '...Lady Lovelace, Faraday and a few friends are coming to drink tea with me...', the second on the difficulties of translating his On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers into Spanish ('...they have adopted a very curious arithmetic...') and sending her a book, 2 pages, the second letter affixed to the second leaf of the first, 8vo, Dorset Place, 2 May and February/March 1836With many others including: Sheridan (regarding a legacy left by Edward Drakeford); Walter Scott (introducing Major Price Gordon); Sara Coleridge ('I am in sorry and anxiety now about dear Mr Wordsworth' March 1850); Thomas Moore; Thomas Talfourd; George Grote (2); James Mackintosh (3); Macaulay (4); Francois Guizot; Robert Ker Porter (2, regarding collection of rare seeds of the vegetable cow or Palo de Vaca 'when an incision is made in the bark, the milk flows very rapidly'); Joseph Dalton Hooker (2); William Empson (3, 'glad to kill a fatted calf for Macaulay on his return'); Robert Bunsen (2); Alexander Humboldt (autograph envelope addressed to George Cornewall Lewis); William Rowan Hamilton; Humphry Davy ('...The analyses have been made by Mr Faraday the operator of the Royal Institution upon whose accuracy Sir H. Davy can depend...'); John Horne Tooke (receipt for The Diversions of Purley); William Harrison Ainsworth; archaeologist A.H. Layard; the Duke of Wellington; Robert Southey (to Henry Taylor, '...I danced a solo round my room on Saturday upon writing end of the Second Volume...', October 1833); William Wilberforce (2, one sending an autograph); Frederic, Lord Leighton Group of correspondence to and from Mary Berry, including John Wilson Croker (anxious to know why she had not included Horace Walpole's 'Miscellaneous Antiquities' in the Works, '...I presume they were omitted for some good reason which if it lingers in Miss Berry's memory I should be anxious to know...'); R.D. Sharp (regarding the 'charlatan' Dr James Graham, '...he puffs his 'Celestial Bed' as the altar of health...'); Joseph Wolfe (listing places on his travels and wishing to talk about Jesus and the '...restoration of the Jews to their own land...'); Thomas Hope (asking for the return of his notebook); Benjamin Constant (3, in French); William Roscoe (2, discussing the four volumes of Madame du Deffand's letters, his visit to the real Castle of Otranto, offering fulsome praise of Horace Walpole); Mary Berry (2); two-page manuscript account, in French, on reading Mary Berry's works, published in Lady Lewis's Extracts, under the title 'Criticisms by M. Benjamin Constant' (Vol.3, p.375-376), with pencil annotations for the printer, etc.; interspersed with portrait prints and annotations by Lady Lewis, index titled 'Authors' on several loose pages of blue paper at front, c.300 leaves (some blank, some excised), half maroon roan gilt, decorative spine gilt stamped 'Autographs', worn, 4to (235 x 280mm.), [late eighteenth-/nineteenth-century]For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLATH (SYLVIA)Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, COPY NUMBER 1 OF 20 COPIES BOUND IN FULL VELLUM, from an overall edition of 400 copies, this copy with a manuscript poem by Ted Hughes on the front free endpaper, publisher's vellum, silk ties, original solander box [Tabor A9], 4to, The Rainbow Press, [1971]Footnotes:NUMBER 1 OF ONLY 20 COPIES BOUND IN VELLUM, THIS COPY WITH THE ADDITION OF A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN 3-STANZA POEM BY TED HUGHES, not found in the Collected Poems, added by Hughes to the front free endpaper. The poem begins 'Looking for the future's/Lovely features in a mirror/was an error...'. A selection of previously unpublished poems by Plath, chosen by Olwyn Hughes, this was the first book with the Rainbow Press imprint. The vellum bound copies were offered at £120, the standard copies at £21.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, ownership inscription on the half-title.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

HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBER III OF 10 COPIES RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, SIGNED, from an overall edition of 310, publisher's quarter morocco, Faber, [1998]; Tales from Ovid, 2 copies, SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBERS I AND 2 OF 10 COPIES RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, SIGNED, from an overall edition of 310, publisher's cloth-backed boards, Faber, [1998]; Earth-moon. Illustrated by the Author, LIMITED 226 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1975; Orts, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1978; Adam and the Sacred Nine, 4 copies, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1978, original blue calf, slipcases; Moortown Elegies, NUMBER 77 OF 175 COPIES, SIGNED, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., slipcase, 1978; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 140 COPIES SIGNED, publisher's limp calf, one in slipcase, 1973, Rainbow Press; A Solstice, ONE OF 350 COPIES, this copy 139, additionally inscribed 'Ted Hughes 9 August 78' on colophon, publisher's wrappers, Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1978; Animal Poems, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, SIGNED 'TED HUGHES 25TH SEPT 1971', loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, Crediton, Richard Gilbertson, 1971; Giant Dream of Elephants, 1982; Wolf-Watching, 1982; Mice Are Funny Creatures, 1983; Weasels at Work, 1983, EACH LIMITED TO 75 COPIES SIGNED, prospectus in each, publisher's wrappers, printed label on upper cover, Court Green, North Tawton; Moortown, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda and Des [Dawes] with lots of love from Dad, 10th Nov. 1979', errata slip with one line added in manuscript by Hughes loosely inserted, Faber, 1979; Flowers and Insects, FIRST EDITION, DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda with special love from Daddy, November 1986', 1986; Woolf Watching, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda and Clive [Anderson] with love Daddy, 9th October 1989, 1989; A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse... Selected by Ted Hughes, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda with love from Daddy, 7th November 1991. Number 115 [with a stanza marked in the text], publisher's wrappers, 1991; Shakespeare and the Goddess of Being, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda with love from Daddy, 1st April 1992' above a six line verse from the 'Brihadaranyaka Upanishad', 1992; Winter Pollen. Occasional Prose, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda - Keep this book from bandicoots, wombats, jippers and the laugher of Jackasses - it's the secret of life of your Daddy who sends it with love for April 1st, 1994 [Frieda's birthday]', 1994, Faber, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to; and approximately 40 others, of which 8 inscribed by Ted to Frieda (3 his own works, 5 by other authors, 6 signed limited editions), and others by Hughes (c.65)Footnotes:'FOR FRIEDA - KEEP THIS BOOK FROM BANDICOOTS, WOMBATS, JIPPERS AND THE LAUGHTER OF JACKASSES - IT'S THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR DADDY WHO SENDS HIS LOVE' - A collection of copies personally inscribed by Hughes to his daughter, of Private Press publications (Morragu, Rainbow, etc.) and others by Hughes.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, inscribed to her, or with her ownership inscription.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

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Bloomsbury, 1997, reverse of title-page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, the author's name given as 'Joanne Rowling' and no space between 'Taylor' and '1997', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, lower cover with misspelling 'philospher's' and 'Wizardry, and Witchcraft' reversed, with the usual light browning at the page edges, fine in publisher's pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded and bumped at ends [Errington A1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST HARDBACK PRINTING OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL, GIVEN BY CHRISTOPHER LITTLE TO THE AUTHOR WHO HAD HELPED LAUNCH HIS CAREER AS A LITERARY AGENT - A TACIT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH ULTIMATELY LED TO LITTLE'S DISCOVERY OF J.K. ROWLING. Provenance: Presented by Christopher Little to the author Philip Nicholson (1940-2005), better known as A.J. Quinnell; sold on behalf of Nicholson's last wife, Elsebeth Egholm Nicholson, Danish journalist and author of crime fiction novels, including the Dicte stories on which the television series was based.After working all over the world for many years, the Yorkshire-born Christopher Little had come to London in 1974. Finding the employment world very challenging, he decided to open his own recruitment agency. According to a newspaper article in 2007, Little's 'switch to the literary world happened by accident in 1979. A schoolfriend and fellow Hong Kong trader, Philip Nicholson, had written a thriller and was seeking representation. Little agreed to take him on and the book, Man on Fire, was published under the pseudonym AJ Quinnell. It went on to sell 7.5 million copies worldwide and become a Hollywood film...' (David Smith, The Guardian, 15 July 2007).The Christopher Little Literary Agency gradually grew alongside the recruitment business, and had some twenty authors on its books in 1992 when the recruitment arm was sold. 'In his only press interview, in 2003, Little recalled: 'The literary agency was really a hobby which started through an accident. I was helping an old friend in his writing career. I had been running as a full-time business for about six years when Harry Potter arrived'' (David Smith, op cit).And so it was that in 1995 Little received in the post three chapters of a manuscript from an unknown author named Joanne Rowling, who had apparently chosen the agency at random because the name sounded like a character in a children's story. And the rest, as we know, is publishing history.Meanwhile Little and Nicholson remained firm friends until the latter's death in 2005, and Little would remain close friends with Elsebeth Egholm until his own death in 2021.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

LEWIS (C.S.)A group of 14 works, including SEVEN INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, a few with manuscript notes, etc., comprising:Out of the Silent Planet, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'With Kindest regards and happiest recollections of a pleasant meeting, C.S. Lewis, March 1th 1939', 2 single page typed copy letters from Lewis to Knight (18 and 27 November 1938) discussing this book ('... Another thing I learn is that my sales are likely to be small since 'S-F-Fans' are clearly ante-Christian and most Christians are not space fans!...'), Bodley Head, 1938Prelandra. Novel, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis with kind regards, May 3rd 1943', NOTECARD SIGNED ('C.S. Lewis') to Knight, from Magdalen College saying '... I'm knocked up with a long spell of examining and a 100 horse-power cold', returning a pamphlet, and sending 'Xmas' wishes, one page tipped-inside upper cover, Bodley Head, 1943Christian Behaviour, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis' on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket, Geoffrey Bles, [1943]The Pilgrim's Regress, third edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis Xmas 1943' on the half-title, a 2-page letter written to Knight from a Canon in Southport discussing this title and Lewis's writing ('... as with so many other modern writers on the quest for Truth Lewis seem to me to be over-burdened... [and] feels under an obligation to give serious consideration to every writer who 'makes a noise'...') loosely inserted, Geoffrey Bles, [1943]That Hideous Strength, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis with kind regards, Aug. 1945' on author's compliments slip pasted on front free endpaper Bodley Head, [1945]Miracles, first US edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis Sept. 1947' on the front free endpaper, New York, Macmillan, 1947Mere Christianity, FIRST EDITION, POSTCARD SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ('C.S.L.', dated 18 Sept. 1952) to Knight telling him 'MC was 'for keep' and I only realised after I posted it that I'd forgotten to put your name in it' taped in on front free endpaper, Geoffrey Bles, 1952The Last Battle, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S.L. November 1956' by the recipient on front free endpaper, dust-jacket designed by Pauline Baynes (unclipped, spine soiled, toned), Bodley Head, 1956The Screwtape Letters, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, printed spine label, Geoffrey Bles, [March, 1943]publisher's cloth, slight rubbing, 8vo; and 5 others by C.S. Lewis (14)Footnotes:SEVEN INSCRIBED BOOKS AND TWO POSTCARDS FROM C.S. LEWIS TO AN EARLY READER, Lewis noting 'it is always very pleasant to find that one's book has been liked -- specially by a fellow Christian and a fellow Churchman'.Provenance: Francis H.P. Knight, Walsall, Lancs., inscriptions from the author, and/or ownership stamp or ink address. Knight corresponded with Lewis about his books, and according to the current owner 'used to come into the library where my grand-father, Francis Bowler, worked in Walsall', to whom they were left.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

SOANE (JOHN)Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, inscribed 'Received this book from Sir John Soane, July 14th 1834. Thos. Faulkner' on front free endpaper, half-title, 18 lithographed and engraved plates, with 6 additional plates (including hand-coloured frontispiece), 14 mounted back to back as issued, 2 wood-engraved illustrations on leaf of introduction, some spotting, contemporary boards, rebacked and sides papered in marbled paper (worn with a few losses to paper), 4to (320 x 245mm.), Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832Footnotes:A COPY GIVEN BY JOHN SOANE TO THOMAS FAULKNER, BOOKSELLER AND AUTHOR OF BOOKS ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF LONDON, of Soane's description of his celebrated house-cum-museum. First privately published in 1830, Soane had further copies printed by James Moyes in 1832, which were, as described on the John Soane's Museum Collection Online website, issued in a variety of slightly differing forms. This copy is one of the 'grangerized copies [which] have the misnumbered plate 14 corrected to 13 in manuscript, and may be regarded as a step towards the much larger 1835/36... these copies lack a frontispiece but have the hand-coloured aquatint of the Britton's Union bound to face the title-page'.Provenance: Thomas Faulkner (1777-1855).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

HUGHES (TED) - EMILY DICKINSON'Poems by Emily Dickinson', MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION BY HUGHES OF DICKINSON'S POEMS, title and presentation inscription in blue ink, 53 pages of poems in black ink, remainder blank, morocco-backed marbled boards, slightly worn, 8vo, 1974Footnotes:TED HUGHES' MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION OF APPROXIMATELY FIFTY POEMS BY EMILY DICKINSON, given to his daughter Frieda on her fourteenth birthday. Hughes edited a volume of selected poems by Dickinson, published by Faber and Faber, in 1968, noting that 'her poems record not only her ecstatic devotion, but her sharp, sceptic independence, her doubt, and what repeatedly opens her ecstasy - her despair'. Both Hughes and Sylvia Plath were great admirers, Sylvia herself being awarded a printed edition of Dickinson's poems as a sixteen year old at Wellesley High School in 1948 [See Bonhams, 21 March 2018, lot 304]. Inevitably Plath and Dickinson, as two great American female poets, have often been spoken of in the same breath; Ted himself writing in May 1966 that 'I've just finished re-reading all Emily Dickinson for a small selection, and my final feeling is that she comes quite a way behind Sylvia' (The Letters, vol. 1, Faber, 2007, p.258).Provenance: Frieda Hughes, inscribed to her by her father Ted Hughes on her fourteenth birthday, 1 April 1974. Frieda of course also became a published poet.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

GYNAECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS -- COUDRAY, A. M. LE BOURSIER DU. Abrégé de l'art des accouchements. Nouv. éd. Chalons-sur Marne, Bouchard, 1773. x, 185, (4) pp. W. front.-portr. & 26 handcold. engr. Sm-4°. Cont. red mor. w. gilt dec. spine w. green label, gilt dec. sides, gilt edges & marbled endpapers. (Spine faded, manuscript note on flyleaf, price on title-p. rubbed out, exlibris on paste-down, otherwise a very good, clean copy w. crisp colours). NOTE: Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1712?- 1794) was an influential and pioneering midwife and educator in scientific midwifery, a rare woman of influence in a time when men where taking over the field. From 1760 to 1783 she travelled France at the request of Louis XV; during this time she directly educated around 4000 midwives in the provinces. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angélique_du_Coudray).

EGYPT - SUDAN -- WINGATE, F.R. Ten years' captivity in the Mahdi's camp 1882-1892. From the original manuscript of Father Joseph Ohrwalder. Lond., 1892. 459 pp. W. many plates & photogr. lithographs in the text, and 3 fold. maps: Plan of Omdurman, Map of the Nile Basin, and Sketch map showing (…) Uganda. Ocl. (Shelfwear, some yellowing & foxing, maps delicate at attachment points). From the library of Arnold Toynbee w. his autograph on first free endpaper. -- R. SLATIN. Fire and sword in the Sudan. A personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes. 1879-1895. Lond., 1896. W. several plates & 2 fold. maps. Ocl. (Wear at extremities, first free endpaper and frontispiece detached, otherwise a clean copy). -- (2).

DORDRECHT -- DE KAT -- "VRAGT EN PROVISIE BOEK A° 1768 a 1812". Ms. on laid paper. (138) lvs., r° and v°. Fol. Cont. vellum bind. w. leather ties. NOTE: Alphabetically (by customer's name) and annually arranged administration by the Dordrecht 'beurtschipper' (bargeman) Otto de Kat (1737-1829), but seemingly with other, later hands as well. The manuscript records costs for the transport of goods on the one hand, and financial transactions on the other, i.a. with listings of the receipts of interest on bonds and stocks. Otto de Kat later founded the banking house 'Otto de Kat & Zn., kassiers te Dordrecht' in 1796. His son, Herman de Kat (1784-1851), co-founder of 'De Kat & Van der Linden, kassiers en commissionairs in effecten', became - next to being a succesful banker - an important art collector. 'Beurtvaart' was a form of shipping in which passengers, cargo and livestock were transported along a fixed route according to a timetable. It was the first public transport in the Netherlands and for centuries it was subject to permits and regulations of the cities. The word 'beurt' in this context refers to the regular order in which skippers had to sail. - Very important and interesting document containing lots of detailed financial transactions between De Kat and his customers. Also offering an insight into what was transported for whom in Dordrecht in the 18th century.

'S-GRAVENHAGE -- ALBUM HOESEECLUB/HOEZEECLUB. Album from the bowling club "Hoeseeclub". (1876-1938). Manuscript in different hands on 148 lvs. W. several illuminated/calligraphed leaves, cold. by hand and/or heighthened in gold/silver. Fol. In cont. h. mor. blind tooled red binding, w. gilt dec. on front side and gilt lettering "hoeseeclub", all edges gilt. (Extremities sl. dam./worn, some scratches on spine, bind. a bit shaky). NOTE: The "Hoeseeclub/Hoezeeclub" was a skittle club and it was part of "Sociëteit de Vereeniging". "De Vereeniging" was founded April 30th 1851 by 79 gentlemen from The Hague. This society was (and still is) housed in the Kazernestraat in the Hague (Villa "Welgelegen"). It arose from the need of a number of representatives of the 'well-to-do bourgeoisie' for a social home base to pursue their leisure activities. The "Hoeseeclub" is one of these leisure activities and was founded april 10th 1876. The album contains memberlists (i.a. Hendrikse, Mutters, Pander, Jongbloed, Lütkemeijer, Stutterheim), signatures, annual reports, minutes of meetings, etc. After 62 years the club was dissolved in 1938, but the "Vereeniging" still exists.

'S-GRAVENHAGE -- "KORTE NOTULEN en Aantekeningen Van't verhandelde in de resp. vergaderingen van de Ed. Agtbare Heren Schout, Burgemeesteren, Schepenen en Vroedschappen van S'Gravenhage sedert den 25 November 1748 [tot en met] 9 Julij 1770". Ms. on laid paper, (61) lvs. r° and v°, followed by 45 blanks. Bound in 4°, richly gilt dec. cf. 18th c. binding. NOTE: Manuscript with notes - most probably - by Carel de Lille (1721-1770), who joined the 'College van Burgemeesters' in 1748 and somewhat later became burgomaster of The Hague. The notes, which seem to have been made for private use, contain information on financial matters, appointments, events and daily life in the city. Containing intriguing observations, for example on April 15th 1768: "Verzoek van de Jooden om in het paruikemakers gilde te mogen worden geadmitteert, gelaten aan Burgemeesteren om te schikken". We are almost certain that the handwriting is by De Lille himself, because on the v° of the first free endpaper has been written: "Volgens aanteekening van mijn vader, is het wapen van De Lille (…)". The last note is dated July 9th 1770 (De Lille died on August 3rd 1770). In a very fine binding, 1 role resembling the one used by the Star-and-Rosette Bindery (Storm v. L. IIa, p. 55), but the other decorations which are applied unfortunately do not match this attribution.

HERALDRY - GENEALOGY -- "GENEALOGIE ofte Geslagt Register Van de Familie van Steelant" - "GENEALOGIE ofte geslagt register van de familie Van Nilo" - "GENEALOGIE ofte geslagt register van de familie Van der Walle" - (Netherlands, c. 1790-1873). 3 parts in 1 vol. Ms. on Dutch laid paper. W. tog. 282 family crests throughout, partly under tissue guards, incl. a beautifully executed larger one on a whole page of the Van Steelant Family, all drawn and cold. by hand (incidentally also heightened w. gold). Fol. In old linen bind. (Bind. a bit worn). NOTE: One person in particular intersperses the manuscript and may also be the driving force in bringing these three families together in this three-part genealogical manuscript: Johannes van Steelant (1659-1716), son of Simon van Steelant (1626-1701) and Petronella van der Walle (1631-1717). He entered the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), holding different important functions, particularly in India. Much attention was given to the execution of the crests in this ms. With wax seals on two double-page openings in the first part, sometimes with some offsetting on the verso of the leaves. Sometimes also some offsetting from the paint on the tissue guards. Loosely inserted are 12 pp. with explanations to the manuscript, probably written in the 20th c.

ZUYLEN van NIJEVELT FAMILY. Charming booklet. (18th c.). Manuscript in French on 109 lvs. (of which 8 blanks). With musical scores on v° and instructions/explanations of dance steps on r°. 24°-obl. In gilt dec. full vellum bind. w. all edges gilt and gauffered in the corners. (Bind. sl. worn, some minor foxing). NOTE: Very charming booklet deriving from "Huize de Ehze" from the Zuylen van Nijevelt family.

(PERRON, E. du). Manuscrit trouvé dans une poche. Chronique de la Conversion de Bodor Guíla, Étranger. N.pl. (= Bruxelles), Private publication (printed by C. Collignon), n.d. (=1923). 45, (3) pp. W. full-p. portr. by Creixams and a 'Certificat Médical' by L. Grattefesces (= E. du Perron). Owrps. (Spine broken (sides detached), quires loosening, outer corners front side chipped, owner's stamp on front side and on ti.). NOTE: Collection of modernist poems and prose fragments in French written in the style of the Dadaist/Surrealist movement and Du Perron's debut as a writer. The work was published on the writer's own expense in only 510 copies the majority of which were lost. This copy was, according to an entry written/stamped on the title-p., given by R. Blijstra to Halbo C. Kool on July 20th 1938. - Batten & Stols, Bibliogr. v.d. werken v. Ch.E. du Perron, 1 and 27; see also the introduction by J.H.W. Veenstra to the Dutch translation which appeared in 1988 'Manuscript in een jaszak gevonden. Kroniek van de bekering van Bodor Guila Buitenlander'.

FACSIMILE EDITIONS -- WYCLIFFE, J. A smaller Biblia Pauperum, conteynynge Thyrtie and Eyghte Wodecuttes illustratynge The life, Parablis, and Miraclis off Oure Blessid Lorde (…). Preface by A.P. Stanley. Lond., Unwin Brothers, 1884. lxxxii lvs. W. ti. printed in red & black, 38 woodcut plates, text within woodcut borders. Or. vellum dec. in brown, w. brass clasps and catches, top edge red, uncut. NOTE: There are altogether 78 subjects on the 38 never used woodblocks, probably from the end of the 15th century. The printed text of Wycliff with borders from a 1525 Paris Book of hours printed by T. Kerver. - Manuscript owner's entry in red and brown ink: Edward Whieldon, Bath, 1885, opposite title-page and in the same style. - Bookplate of A.W. Barten.

HEGIUS, A. Dialogi. De scientia et eo q[uo]d co[n]tra Academicos. De tribus anim[a]e generibus. De incarnationis misterio dialogi duo quib[us]. Dialogus physicus. De sensu et sensili. De arte et inertia. De rhetorica. De moralibus. Eiusde[m] Farrago cui addita invectiva eius in modos significandi. Epistola una et altera eius ceteris apud suos latentibus. (Ed. J. Faber). (Colophon: Deventer, Richard Pafraet, 31 Dec. 1503). (170) pp. With spaces left for 3- to 5-line manuscript initials (most with printed guide letters), printed in Gothic type. Sm-4°. Later h. vellum. (Some underl./marg. annot. in an old hand to first 8 lvs., sl. yellowed in places). NOTE: First edition of a collection of Latin dialogues and other short educational texts on religious and philosophical subjects by Alexander Hegius (ca. 1433/39?-1498), a pupil of Thomas à Kempis and Rudolph Agricola and since 1469 rector of the famous Illustre School at Deventer, where he shared quarters with the printer Pafraet, who published the book. Most of the dialogues were first printed in the present edition. - Fine copy of this rare work. Nijhoff/Kronenberg 1042; Adams H155.

LEONARDUS DE UTINO (c. 1400-1470). Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti. Vicenza, Stephan Koblinger, 24 November 1479. 404 lvs. (of which 16 in manuscript). Printed in 2 columns, 52 lines. Initials in red. Nicely rubricated in red. Fol. (290 x 200 mm). Old (contemporary?) monastic, austere calf binding over wooden brds. w. raised bands, brass protective strip on both hinges, 4 wooden bosses on both sides, both clasps present but loosely inserted. (16 lvs. replaced in manuscript, in very neat and old (monk's?) hand (12 of them rubricated in red and decorated with blue and red initials), 1st leaf pasted in (inner margin a bit dam.), some tiny marg. holes in last 2 lvs., some light marg. staining in a few places, else a clean copy). NOTE: Collation: a-s10 t8 v-y10 1-2(8) 3-19(10) (a1r blank, a1v table, a2r text, 19/10r dedicatory epistle from Matthaeus Pigafetta to Nicolaus Rubeus, colophon, 19/10v blank). The second of four books printed at Vicenza by the prototypographer of Vienna. This edition of the Udine Dominican Leonardo's popular sermons is a page-for-page reprint of the first edition, printed in 1473 at Venice by Franciscus Renner and Nicolaus de Frankfordia. Koblinger probably trained in Renner's office, since the material and texts of all three of Koblinger's signed Vicenza editions show connections with Renner, including the unusual method of signing using the alphabet (a-y) followed by arabic numerals. - Goff L-148; GW 17926. - From the library of the Minor Friars in Limburg (Maastricht), in old ms. on first leaf and on ti-p. Bookplate of Vloemans (1925) on paste down.