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Late 18th Century, Portrait a of elegant lady holding a white vail above her head, oval oil on metal 7" x 8.5", (18x21.5cm).

Norman Lloyd (20th Century) Portrait of a young girl with long black hair, oil on canvas, signed, 16" x 13", (40.5x33cm).

Attributed to Joseph Mikhailovich Levin (1894-1979) Russian, Portrait of a woman wearing a head scarf, oil on canvas, singed, label verso, 18.75" x 15", (48x38cm) (unframed).

English School, Circa 1800, a portrait of a seated gentleman holding a book, oil on canvas, 48.75" x 40" (124 x 102cm) (unframed).

Benziger (19th Century) Portrait of a seated lady wearing a yellow dress holding a fan, oil on panel, possibly over a photographic base, signed and dated '93, 13" x 9.25", (33x23.5cm).

Mid-19th Century English School, a portrait of a young gentleman with top hat and cane accompanied by his dog and horse, oil on canvas, indistinctly signed ..... Martin..., 16" x 12" (41 x 30cm).

The unique 4-clasp Army of India medal to Lieutenant-Colonel William Cunninghame, Deputy Quarter-Master General on Sir Arthur Wellesley’s Staff, who was present at the capture of Seringapatam for which he received the gold medal
 Army of India 1799-1826, 4 clasps, Assye, Asseerghur, Argaum, Gawilghur (Captn. Wm. Cunninghame, Depy. Qr. Mr. Genl.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, extremely fine £10,000-£14,000 --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004. Approximately 87 clasps for Assye, 48 clasps for Asseerghur, 126 clasps for Argaum, and 110 clasps for Gawilghur, issued to European recipients. Only 23 medals issued with four clasps, this being the only medal with Assye in combination with Asseerghur issued to an officer and therefore unique. 
William Cunninghame was born in Edinburgh in about 1763 or 1764, the younger son of James Cunninghame of Hyndhope and his wife Euphemia, sixth and youngest daughter of Rev. William Robertson, the historian. He enlisted into the Honourable East India Company’s army in 1781, aged 17 years, embarking from England aboard the Earl of Chesterfield on 26 June 1781. On arrival in India he was appointed an Ensign in the Madras Presidency, becoming Lieutenant in November 1788, and Captain in September 1798.

Cunninghame took part in the campaign against Tipu Sultan in 1799 and was at the capture of Seringapatam, for which he subsequently received the gold medal. During the Mahratta War of 1803-04, he served on the staff of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) with the rank of Captain as Deputy Quarter-Master General; correspondence between the two is known to exist. He took part in Wellesley’s famous victory at the battle of Assye in September 1803 (where he was wounded according to unsubstantiated accompanying research); and with Colonel Stevenson’s force at the capture of Asseerghur in October 1803, presumably in some special capacity. Having re-joined the main force under Wellesley again, Cunninghame was next engaged at the battle of Argaum in November 1803, and at the siege and capture of the fortress of Gawilghur in December 1803.

It is noted that Cunninghame served for thirty years in India with only one spell of leave home in 1801. He retired in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 29 June 1808, and returned to his native Edinburgh, where he died, unmarried, on 20 April 1851.

A portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Cunninghame painted by Raeburn, together with a letter to him from Wellington, was presented by his great-great-great niece to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Museum, in August 1958. Note: Cunninghame’s name is spelt ‘Cunninghaeme’ in error on the published roll. One other medal with this combination of clasps has been confirmed to Fifer John Jones, 12th Madras N.I. but only the two latter clasps are confirmed on the published roll (see D.N.W. 4 July 2001).

An inter-War C.B., Great War C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Major-General W. S. Anthony, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, who served as Director of Veterinary Services to Indian Expeditionary Force “D” in Mesopotamia during the Great War, was three times Mentioned in Despatches, and was later Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Veterinary Corps The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Vety. Ltt. W. S. Anthony A.V. Deptt.); 1914-15 Star (Major W. S. Anthony. A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. W. S. Anthony.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style for display purposes, nearly extremely fine (9) £2,400-£2,800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004. C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1930. C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1919. William Samuel Anthony was born in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, on 3 January 1874. Commissioned into the Army Veterinary Department, he served with them in the operations on the Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Medal with clasp). Promoted Captain in October 1903, and Major, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, in October 1911, he served during the Great War with the Indian Expeditionary Force “D” in Mesopotamia from November 1914 to June 1917, at various times as Deputy Director, Assistant Director, and Director of Veterinary Services in that theatre. For his services during the Great War he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 5 April 1916, 19 October 1916, and 15 August 1917); was promoted brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Post-War, Anthony was advanced Major-General, and was appointed Director-General, Army Veterinary Services at the War Office in 1929, being appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the following year’s New Year’s Honours’ list. He transferred to the Retired List in 1933, and the following year he became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. He died in Surrey on 15 November 1943. Sold with a portrait photographic image of the recipient; and copied research. For the recipient’s related miniature awards, see Lot 533.

Six: Group Captain W. N. Elwy-Jones, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya (Flt. Lt. W. N. Elwy-Jones. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted as originally worn, suspension re-affixed on GSM, otherwise good very fine (6) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004. Walter Nigel Elwy-Jones, who was born at Llanishen, Cardiff in August 1912, attended Loughborough Technical College before joining the Royal Air Force on a short service commission in April 1931. Having gained his “Wings”, he was initially posted to No. 54 Squadron at Hornchurch in March 1932, but, in the following year, he commenced a tour of duty in the Middle East that would include active service in Palestine. Originally, however, he joined No. 45 Squadron at Kelwan in Egypt, with whom he served on “aerial policing” duties which involved the occasional bombing run. He also flew a couple of times as ‘Escort to H.E. The Governor General of Sudan’. Then in March 1934, he joined No. 47 Squadron at Khartoum, another Fairey IIIF unit, this time flying patrols in conjunction with the Sudan Defence Force. In early 1936 Elwy-Jones transferred to No. 216 Squadron, famed for its Cairo-Baghdad mail run, but in the following July, on gaining a permanent commission as a Flight Lieutenant, he was ordered to attend the Air Armament School back in the U.K. This latter course led to his appointment, in December 1938, in the rank of Squadron Leader, to Senior Armament Staff Officer of No. 1 Group, and, in September 1939, and by now an Acting Wing Commander, he joined the Advanced Air Striking Force out in France as its Senior Armament Officer. Elwy-Jones returned to the U.K. at the end of the year, and, according to accompanying documentation, was hospitalised. In February 1940, however, he returned to duty in the appointment of Senior Armament Staff Officer at H.Q. No. 41 Group, where he remained until May 1944, when he joined H.Q., A.D.G.B. Then, in the following October, he was appointed Command Armament Officer, Fighter Command, a position of great responsibility at the best of times, but even more so with the North-West Europe operations in full swing. During the course of the war Elwy-Jones flew many aircraft types, including Spitfires on a regular basis, and, more unusually, in March 1941, he even piloted a captured Me. 108. His post-war career, which witnessed his advancement to Group Captain in March 1952, included service as Command Weapons Officer Far East in Malaya 1948-50, and Command Armament Officer of Bomber Command 1951-54. Elwy-Jones retired in November 1957. Sold with the recipient’s four original Flying Log Books, covering the periods April 1931 to March 1932, March 1932 to July 1934, January 1938 to October 1945, and November 1945 to July 1955, together with a fifth “Rough Log” with assorted entries from the 1930s; together with other original documentation, including Air Ministry pilot’s licence, with portrait photograph, issued in May 1938, assorted career photographs and an admission ticket for the funeral of George VI.

The Great War trio to Second Lieutenant J. C. Barber, 10th (Scottish) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, who prior to the outbreak of war was a witness to the insurrection in Vera Cruz, Mexico, in April 1914 when the U.S. Marines landed and put it down with the resultant death of some 300 Mexicans and 18 Americans; Second Lieutenant Barber was killed in action in the charge at Hooge on 16 June 1915, shortly after an encounter with Captain Noel Chevasse who went on to win the V.C. & Bar, and M.C. before his own heroic death 1914 Star (3043 Cpl. J. C. Barber. 10/L’pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. C. Barber.) the first very fine, otherwise extremely fine (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Medals to the Liverpool Regiment from the Collection of Hal Giblin, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004 (£1200 hammer). Second Lieutenant John Christian Barber was born at New Brighton, Cheshire in August 1892, and educated at the Leas School, Hoylake and at Uppingham. After leaving school he secured a position with T. & J. Harrison, one of Liverpool’s leading shipping lines. He was sent out to Mexico and was in Vera Cruz in that country when the U.S. Marines landed to quell the insurrection in April 1914. Newspapers carried his personal account of his experiences: ‘Word passed around that the American Marines were about to land and take the port, no resistance was expected. I saw a small body of Marines going at the double towards the Post Office and the Custom House. The crowd began to yell and jumped on the tramcars. Mexican soldiers assembled at the street corners, and a company of 25 or so took up their positions on the roof and front balconies of our hotel to our horror! There were 30 or 40 foreigners in the hotel. Firing started about noon and I watched with an American from my room for a little while, but it very soon got too hot to stay there with safety. Soon afterwards the first man on the roof was hit badly, and he died about 20 minutes later. The nursing of the dying and the wounded is still a terrible nightmare. Some were shot on the balconies, but the majority on the roof, altogether there were three killed and ten wounded in the hotel, horrible wounds and no trained nurse or a doctor to be had. The streets were impassable for the Mexican Red Cross Corps. We did what we could - disinfecting, plugging and bandaging the wounds. The supply of brandy soon gave out, and some of the poor wretches suffered agonies. Night brought us no rest and although the firing lessened there was no news of the Americans’ progress and the streets were still too dangerous for the ambulance. The whole thing was horrible owing in a large degree to the fact that a few hundred criminals, probably life-sentenced men, were let loose and armed, and they shot at anybody, and also very many of the Mexican officers got very drunk. Looting and drinking, with occasional shooting, went on all night. So far as the Americans were concerned, it transpired that they did not at first land sufficient men, and accordingly could not fight their way into the town until reinforcements had arrived the following day. Short as the battle then was, the din and the damage done were terrific, and the streets were covered with dead. In all some 300 Mexicans and 18 Americans were killed, and it was with great relief that I was able at last to get aboard the Esperanza for Galveston, which normally carried about 150 passengers, but which was now crowded with 400 American refugees from Vera Cruz.’ When he returned in June 1914 he joined the family firm in Liverpool. Volunteering the day after war was declared, he was soon promoted to Corporal in which rank he accompanied the first contingent to France aboard the S.S. Maidan in November 1914. After sterling work in the trenches he was commissioned in the field, rising from the ranks to command a platoon in March 1915. Second Lieutenant Barber was killed in action on 16 June 1915 during the charge at Hooge when he was hit by a shell whilst leading his men. His name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. The following is extracted from The Liverpool Scroll of Fame: ‘Captain Noel Chavasse, who won the V.C. and Bar before he met his own heroic death ministering to the wounded quite regardless of danger, left a brief tribute to Barber’s splendid conduct at Hooge. He met him, it seemed, on his way up to the trenches before the attack, and he was then in the best of spirits. They even joked together, although quite conscious of the grim work before the battalion, and equally conscious that that might be their last meeting. Soon afterwards Barber was fatally hit by a shell whilst leading his men towards the enemy’s trenches with the utmost gallantry. The Germans, unfortunately recaptured the advanced ground where he fell in a counter-attack, and his chum was thus unable to recover his body.’ A superb three-quarter length oil painting of recipient was displayed in the now-defunct Liverpool Scottish Museum, Botanic Road, Liverpool. Sold with copied research and two coloured photographs of the above portrait, one a head and shoulders enlargement.

The presentation copy of de Ruvigny’s The Roll of Honour, Volume V, given to the family of Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Brodie, V.C., M.C., Highland Light Infantry Compiled by the Marquis de Ruvigny, being a biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, published by The Standard Art Book Company, London, this copy being the original presentation volume for the family of Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Brodie, V.C., M.C., Highland Light Infantry, the frontispiece with the original portrait photograph of Brodie, with original red morocco covers, the front cover embossed with the cap badge of the Highland Light Infantry, very good condition £100-£140 --- ‘Brodie, Walter Lorrain, V.C., M.C., Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. (74th Foot) The Highland Light Infantry, 2nd s. of John Wilson Brodie, of 23, Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, C.A., by his wife, Grace Mary, dau. of Walter Scott Lorrain; b. Edinburgh, 28 July, 1884; educ. Edinburgh Academy, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Highland Light Infantry 2 March, 1904; promoted Lieut. 19 June, 1908, Capt. 10 Sept. 1914, Brevet-Major and Lieut. Col. in 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Aug. 1914, and was killed in action 23 Aug. 1918. Buried at Bienvillers-au-Bois. The General Commanding the Division wrote: “Brodie’s death was a blow to us all; a better Commanding Officer I never wanted, and his battalion has been doing magnificent work in the recent operations”; and the Brigadier-General: “Although he had been only a few months with the brigade which I command, I had ample opportunities for knowing him well and appreciating his fine soldierly qualities. We feel the loss of him greatly in the brigade as a friend as well as a fine officer. He was gallantly leading his men when killed in the action which was subsequently a complete success.” A Colonel of the Highland Light Infantry wrote: “No man ever had a more loyal, capable or gallant Staff Officer or a better or more cheery companion... Only a few days ago I had a letter from him, telling me in what a splendid condition the 2nd Battn. was, and I had heard so from other sources, and also what a success he was in command, as I knew he would be. He must have gone far had he lived”; and an ex-Commanding Officer of the 2nd Highland Light Infantry: “He was, I knew from personal experience, a splendid officer and a gallant one. In gaining the V.C. he has done the Highland Light Infantry the highest honour possible, and his loss to them is quite irreparable, and I know how very much he will be missed by all who served with him.” A Major also wrote: “He was a very great example to all of us, and that example will live for ever.” Lieut.-Col. Brodie was twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazettes, 12 Dec. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915] by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was also awarded the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 12 Dec. 1914], for conspicuous bravery near Becelaere on 11 Nov. 1914, in clearing the enemy out of a portion of the British trenches which they had succeeded in occupying. Heading the charge, he bayoneted several of the enemy, and thereby relieved a dangerous situation. As a result of Lieut.-Col. Brodie’s promptitude 80 of the enemy were killed and 51 taken prisoners. He was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1917], for bravery in the field. He was a keen sportsman, a good shot, and, when opportunity offered, a keen follower to hounds; unm.’

A most unusual family group to the three Hamilton brothers, all of whom were killed or died in the Boer War Pair: Lieutenant Alastair Hamilton, Royal Irish Fusiliers, wounded in the action at Pieter’s Hill and later killed by lightning at Machadodorp in December 1902
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Lieut: A. Hamilton, Rl. Irish Fus:) officially impressed naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. A. Hamilton. Rl. Irish Fus.) officially engraved naming, extremely fine The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Trooper Kenneth Hamilton, Ceylon Mounted Infantry, who died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein in May 1900
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein (299 Trpr: K. Hamilton, Ceylon M.I.) officially impressed naming, extremely fine The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Trooper Ernest Hamilton, Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, who was killed in action at Sheeper’s Nek on 20 May 1900
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (631 Tpr: E. Hamilton. Bethune’s M.I.) officially impressed naming, all contained in an attractive contemporary fitted leather breakfront glazed display case with ivorine name labels, extremely fine, the group as a whole very rare (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012. Lieutenant Alastair Hamilton was wounded in the fierce fighting at Pieter’s Hill on 27 February 1900, the capture of which cleared the way for the relief of Ladysmith by the cavalry the following day. His medals are accompanied by a contemporary hand-written transcript of a letter to his mother, written during the action whilst he lay wounded, describing the attack: ‘My dear Mother
We advanced today about 9 a.m. to take a hill to our front, which we did without much trouble, only losing a few men.
About 5.15 p.m. we advanced to take a small hill to our right which was strongly held. The Dublin Fusiliers being unable to manage it, we had to advance about half a mile over an open space under a heavy fire. A shell burst about ten yards from me and knocked over one of the men, but he was not hurt. We lay down to get our wind and a shell hit the handle of my knob carry and smashed the knob in three places and made a great gravel rush in my wrist, but there was not much blood.
Then we advanced about 700 yards to a small kopie where the D.F’s were. We again rested, then we advanced over another open bit and about half way I was hit in the ankle, at about 6 p.m., and am now lagging behind and am with bullets dropping round me pretty thick. The Company is about 100 yards in front under a stone wall. We were first in, and no one else has gone in passed me, but now they come. I was afraid they were going to give it up, but they are going up splendidly under a heavy fire. I am not 500 yards from the hill it is hard not to be able to go in as I had hoped, but no such luck. I am not in much pain, but hope I shall not have to crawl in, as I do not think the bullet came out as there is only one hole in my boot, so the least movement hurts a bit. We seem to be making a turning movement there are a lot of our men returning on my right under a heavy fire which makes a cross fire for me, I shall not be hit again I feel sure, but the bullets throw dust and stones over me every now and then. I expect you will get a wire tonight, I hope they will only put slight, as I am sure it is not bad. The evening star has just come out, so it will soon be dark, we must be doing well as the firing is not nearly so heavy, but may break out again at any moment. I am very sick at being hit, but must make the best of it. I think we are getting in but I wish I could hear them cheer. Well it is getting dark and the firing less and our men out of sight. I shall soon make tracks and hope soon to fall in with the stretcher bearers so good bye. 7 p.m.’ Alastair Hamilton was killed by lightning at Machadodorp on 5 December 1902. Trooper Kenneth Hamilton, Ceylon Contingent, died of enteric at Bloemfontein on 13 May 1900. Trooper Ernest Hamilton, H Squadron, Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, was killed in action at Sheeper’s Nek on 20 May 1900. There is a marble cross in the cemetery at Machadodorp dedicated to these three brothers:
"In loving memory Alistair Hamilton, late Royal Irish Fusiliers. Killed by lightning Dec. 5th 1902. Aged 28 years.
Also of Ernest. Killed in Action at Vryheid May 20th 1900. Aged 22 years.
Also of Kenneth. Died at Bloemfontein May 16th 1900. Aged 24 years.” This group is also accompanied by a contemporary cutting from the Black and White Budget, or similar, with portrait photographs of “Four Fighting Brothers”. The fourth brother was Sub-Inspector J. Hamilton, Natal Mounted Police. There was a fifth brother, Patrick, a Captain in the Worcestershire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who was killed on flying manoeuvres during Military Trials, when his machine fell from some 500 feet in Graveley, near Stevenage, Herts, on 6 September 1912. He was aged 30 years.

A Selection of Books on the Victoria Cross. The Register of the Victoria Cross, published by This England, 1981, 303pp, with photographs of the majority of recipients, hard-back, with dust jacket, a number of annotations throughout, including many that have been erased, therefore fair condition The Victoria Cross 1856-1920, edited by Sir O’Moore Creagh, V.C., originally published as Volume 1 of ‘The V.C. and D.S.O.’ and republished by Hayward & Son, 1985, 336pp, with photographs of many of the recipients and index, hard-back, with dust jacket, very good condition The Story of the Victoria Cross 1856-1963, by Brigadier Sir John Smyth, Bt., V.C., Frederick Muller, 1963, 596pp, with photographic plates and index; together with the abridged version, 221pp, both volumes hard-back, with dust jackets, reasonable condition The Victoria Cross- the Empire’s Roll of Valour, compiled by Colonel Rupert Stewart, Hutchinson, 1928, 469pp, with index, hard-back, reasonable condition Monuments to Courage - Victoria Cross Headstones & Memorials, compiled by David Harvey, privately published, 1999, 2 Volumes, 416pp + 433pp, with photographs throughout, hard-back, with dust jackets, both volumes contained in a slip case, signed by the author, very good condition The Zulu War VCs, by James W. Bancroft, 1992, 147pp, with photographs and index, hard-back, with dust jacket, good condition Victoria Cross of the Anglo-Boer War, by Ian Uys, Fortress, 2000, 127pp, with photographs, soft-back, good condition V.C.s of the Somme - A Biographical Portrait, by Gerald Gliddon, privately published, 1991, 212pp, with photographs, hard-back, with dust jacket, good condition Victoria Cross Battle of the Second World War, by C. E. Lucas Philips, Pan Books, 1975, 292pp, soft-back, reasonable condition The Victoria Cross at Sea, by John Winton, Michael Joseph, 1978, 256pp, with photographic plates and index, hard-back, with dust jacket, reasonable condition For Valour - The History of Southern Africa’s Victoria Cross Heroes, by Ian Uys, privately published, 1973, 398pp, with photographs and index, reasonable condition The V.C. and G.C. recipients of the Honourable East India Company and the Indian Army, compiled by Chris Kempton, Military Press, 2001, 82pp, soft-back, excellent condition For Valour - The Victoria Cross, Courage in action, by John Percival, Thames Methuen, 1985, 257pp, with photographic plates and index, hard-back, with dust jacket, reasonable condition Victoria Cross Bibliography, compiled by John Mulholland & Alan Jordan, Spink, 1999, 217pp, hard-back, with dust jacket, good condition (lot) £80-£100 --- Sold together with six books on individual Victoria Cross recipients William Barker, Billy Bishop, Leonard Cheshire, Roden Cutler, George Henderson, and Rex Warnford. Please note that a number of the books in this lot contain ex libris stamps, minor annotations, and other minor defects. This lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement with Christopher Mellor-Hill.

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Kilner, Royal Field Artillery, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Paardeberg, Cape Colony, Belfast, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps (Major. C. H. Kilner, 62/Bty., R.F.A.) engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. C. H. Kilner.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted (the DSO in gold and the clasps on the miniature QSA in the correct order) and both housed in a fitted case, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Charles Harold Kilner was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 15 August 1864 and was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery on 5 July 1884 and was posted to the 1/1 North Irish Battery, serving with them in India from September 1885. He was promoted Captain in August 1893 and having returned to the U.K. took part in the Jubilee celebrations whilst serving with 86th Battery, R.F.A. Kilner served with both the 62nd and 129th Batteries in South Africa during the Boer War, and as Second-in-Command at Paardeberg witnessed the guns of the 62nd being used to fire into Cronje’s laager. He saw further action at Poplar Grove (12 March 1900), Vet River (5-6 May 1900), Zand River, and Belfast (26-27 August 1900). Whilst in South Africa he was promoted Major on 15 March 1900. Having transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Kilner was recalled for service at the start of the Great War and was employed initially at the Cable Census Office from 9 August 1914, until volunteering for front-line service in October 1915. Granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, he was given command of 186th Battery, and served with them on the Western Front from March 1916. He served with this Battery during both the Somme campaign and later at Passchendaele (where he was recommended for promotion to Brigadier), and for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 14 December 1917). He returned to England in November 1917, and having been awarded the D.S.O. was subsequently employed as Assistant Manager, Inspection Department, Ministry of Munitions. Kilner died in Southsea, Hampshire, on 2 August 1936. His son Hew Ross Kilner, also had a distinguished career in the Royal Field Artillery, and was awarded the Military Cross in the same Gazette that his father was awarded his D.S.O. Sold with the recipient’s personal leather bound journal giving details of his life in the Army; the recipient’s Commission Document, dated 1884; Certificate for Special Promotion, dated 1887; Veterinary Course Certificate, dated 1891; a Great War Trench Map (Violaines ands Rue de Marais sector), with positions of 186 Battery during the Somme campaign marked; the recipient’s Passport, dated 1921; various contemporary portrait and group photographs and photographic images; other documents and ephemera; and copied research.

Three: Warrant Officer Class II A. W. Ganley, Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (16716 W.O. Cl. II. A. W. Ganley. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (16716 Cpl. A. W. Ganley. R.G.A.); Memorial Plaque (Alfred William Ganley) in card envelope, good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Alfred William Ganley attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery and served as a Battery Sergeant Major with the 146th Siege Battery during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 23 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Sold with the recipient’s Account Book; various Gunlaying Certificates; and a damaged portrait photograph of the recipient.

Four: Private A. J. Hewitt, 17th Lancers, late 21st Lancers, a member of ‘B’ Squadron who charged at Omdurman, 2 September 1898, and had his horse wounded Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3399 P’te J. Hewitt 21/L’crs) note initial ‘J’ but as per medal roll; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (5130 Pte. A. Hewitt. 17/Lcrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5130 Pte. A. J. Hewitt. 17th Lancers.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (3399 Pte. A. Hewitt 21st Lcrs.) light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £3,000-£4,000 --- Confirmed on all rolls as a ‘charger’ in Roy Dutton’s Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman. The following article with a portrait of Hewitt wearing his four medals was copied from an unknown source and is also reproduced in the above publication: ‘In the cavalry, transfers are of a more frequent occurrence than in the infantry, and we often find mounted men who have served in three or four different corps. It is thus that Mr. A. Hewitt has the Soudan medals, although the 17th Lancers were not in that campaign. He enlisted for the 21st Hussars in 1892, and went to India the following year. After some time they went to Egypt and were ordered to take part in Lord Kitchener’s advance against the Khalifa. Mr. Hewitt has been good enough to describe the Omdurman charge from his personal point of view, and we cannot do better than quote his own story. “During the charge,” he said, “I sat firm and tight in my saddle, with lance in hand, getting a pierce in when and where I could, using the weapon to the best advantage. We were in a fine line, and worked up to a good speed before the shock; fit to take anything in front, so it would have taken something rather solid to stop us. My horse, No. 2, of ‘B’ Squadron, a grey Arab, which I rode that day, got a nasty sword-cut in the fetlock, but I managed to come through safely, though many of our poor fellows were not so fortunate. “Upon drawing rein after the charge we saw the havoc we had made of the Dervishes. Capt. Kenna, who was afterwards awarded the V.C., asked for volunteers to pick out our dead and wounded from the battle-ground. Some of our poor chaps were cut about terribly, some with arms or legs off, others with heads split open. We laid out all the dead in a row. That is the time when a man feels for his comrades, more than I can express on paper.” After the entry into Khartoum the Lancers were ordered down country. Mr. Hewitt, en route, contracted enteric fever, and after some time in hospital was invalided home. Shortly after he was transferred to the Army Reserve, on the expiration of his colour service. Seven months later the South African war recalled the Reservists to the colours, and Mr. Hewitt joined the 17th Lancers for service in the Transvaal. He went out on the “Victorian” and on arrival at Bloemfontein took part in the general advance under Lord Roberts to Pretoria. He was present at the actions of Diamond Hill, Wittebergen and Johannesburg. as well as several smaller affairs. On one occasion a Boer bullet splintered his lance and bruised his arm, otherwise he was fortunate enough to come through without any ill results. Upon the declaration of peace Mr. Hewitt was discharged.’ Arthur James Hewitt was born in the Parish of St Peter’s, Ramsgate, Kent, and enlisted into the 21st Hussars at Canterbury on 6 January 1892, aged 18 years 4 month, a brickmaker by trade. He served overseas in India from September 1893 to October 1896, then moved to Egypt until May 1899, during which time he took part in the Soudan campaign of 1898, including the battle of Omdurman. Invalided to the U.K., he was discharged to the Army Reserve in June 1899. Recalled in December 1899, he served with the 17th Lancers in South Africa (No. 5130), he was discharged at Ballincollig on 31 March 1902. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.

Hill, David Octavius and Robert Adamson Portrait photograph of Robert Bryson, c.1843-8 salted paper print from a calotype negative, 20 x 14.9cm, mounted, framed and glazed, manuscript provenance note dated 1887 pasted to backboardProvenance: Note: Note: Robert Bryson FRSE (1778-1852) held the royal warrant for clockmaking in Scotland, and worked from premises at 66 Princes Street, Edinburgh, adjacent to Alexander Hill, brother and business partner of D. O. Hill.Provenance:1) Presented by Robert Bryson to Isabella Begg (née Burns, 1771-1858), sister of Robert Burns, the poet (her portrait taken by Hill and Adamson);2) By descent to Agnes (1800-1883; married name Brown) and Isabella Begg (1806-1886), daughters of Isabella Begg;3) Presented on the death of Isabella Begg to David Dunlop, solicitor, Ayr, executor;4) Presented by Dunlop to Robert Adam (fl. 1870s-80s), city chamberlain, Edinburgh, c.1887;5) With Lockharts, solicitors, Ayr.Literature:Sarah Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1981, p. 46 (version 'a')Colin Ford, An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1976, p. 357.Cf. David Bruce, Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes, 1973, pp. 180-1 for another version.

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1996) Three first editions from the library of his lover Joyce Gill Decline and Fall, an Illustrated Novelette; Black Mischief; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928-32-57. 3 works, first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original cloth, Pinfold with dust jacket, Decline and Fall and Black Mischief each with ownership inscription 'Joyce Gill, 10 Pitt St, W8' and Pinfold with gift inscription 'Joyce, for her birthday, with love from Louis, 1957' to front free endpaper. Decline and Fall: spine rolled, fraying to spine-ends, Mudie's Select Library label to front cover, tips bumped, textblock toned, abrasion to front pastedown, cut-out magazine portrait of Waugh pasted to half-title, half-title spotted, small marginal hole to pp. 31-4, small closed to pp. 93/4, old adhesive repair to rear inner hinge, a few other marks. Black Mischief spine rolled, rear joint split, light spotting to front. Pinfold: spine rolled, light spotting to outer leaves, dust jacket spotted and chipped.Together with a collection of Evelyn Waugh first editions from the library of Joyce's son (Dominic Gill): Basil Seal Rides Again, 1963, 2 copies, respectively one of 1,000 for the USA and 750 for the UK and rest of the world, both signed by the author, UK issue spine sunned; Scoop, 1938, 2 copies, spines sunned, one spine also marked; Black Mischief, 1932, spine sunned and rolled, spotting to outer leaves; Put Out More Flags, 1942 (with dust jacket); and 9 others (Remote People; Love Among the Ruins, 2 copies, with dust jackets; Men at Arms; Put Out More Flags; Remote People; Labels; A Tourist in Africa, with dust jacket; Waugh in Abyssinia, rebound, ex-library; and Helena, first US edition)Note: Note: Joyce Gill (née Fagan) was a long-standing friend of Waugh's with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner ('She-Evelyn').A sometime music-hall performer, and later secretary and assistant to the author Clifford Bax, Joyce was introduced to Evelyn by his brother Alec at the Cave of Harmony nightclub, Fitzrovia, around Christmas 1923. She was enchanted by his stories of Oxford life, and once term restarted she was invited to a party hosted by Evelyn in Oxford, successfully dressing as a man in order to evade the attentions of the university proctors. From that point they maintained a flirtatious if casual friendship. In 1928, following Joyce's marriage to American businessman Donald Gill and Evelyn's to Gardner, the Waughs lived in Joyce's flat on Canonbury Square — their first marital home.Though the full nature of Joyce and Evelyn's relationship remains obscure, a letter written to Evelyn by Joyce in 1938 after his second marriage and excerpted in Selina Hastings's 1994 biography is evidence of a powerful and enduring connection. According to Hastings, ‘Joyce was lively, attractive, intelligent, and fun. Half Irish and a couple of years older, she could hardly have been more different from Evelyn in taste and temperament: very musical, a committed socialist, an agnostic briskly dismissive of religion, she was unconventional even by the standards of the bohemian world in which she moved … Whatever happened between Evelyn and Joyce must have come to a head during the summer of 1935, for shortly before his departure for Abyssinia Evelyn asked Joyce to leave her husband and go with him. The probability is that although deeply in love with Laura, Evelyn was overwhelmed by the depressing likelihood that he would never be able to marry her. On the point of going abroad for an indefinite period, in a state of heightened emotional and physical responsiveness, the temptation of an affair with Joyce was irresistible ... It was, she later told one of her daughters-in-law, the most painful decision of her life: the affair was a passionate one, the prospect of adventure extremely tempting; but she loved her husband, by whom she now had two little boys, and so decided against running off with Waugh’ (Evelyn Waugh, pp. 328-9).The 'Louis' who inscribed this copy of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold for Joyce was the man of letters Louis Wilkinson (1881-1966), best known under his pseudonym Louis Marlow, and remembered as a champion of Oscar Wilde and for his association with the Powys brothers and Aleister Crowley.Provenance: By direct descent from Joyce Gill (first three items).

Holbein, Hans Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII engraved in imitation of the original drawings. London: William Bulmer, 1828, small folio, portrait of Holbein and his wife, and 82 engraved plates on white and pink paper, list of portraits, contemporary red half morocco, g.e., accompanying text description lacking for some plates, rubbed, bookplate of the Glasgow Art ClubProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: for the author, 1787. First Edinburgh edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xlviii, 9-368, engraved frontispiece portrait, list of subscribers, modern period-style panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece, some light dust-soiling, p. xlvii with small strip torn from blank fore margin, closed tear to p. 159 and 317, a few short closed marginal tears

[Jacobite Interest] Ascanius, or the young adventurer Manuscript copy after the edition: London: Printed for G. Smith, [n.d.] After 1746, 70 manuscript pp., in marbled paper wrappers, 20.5 x 16.5cm;[Idem] Ascanius; or the young adventurer... London: G. Smith, [n.d.] 8vo, 18th or 19th century red half morocco gilt, some dust-soiling [ESTC T22533];[Stuart, James Edward] Memoires du Chevalier de St. George... Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12mo, portrait, title-page in red and black, contemporary vellum, a little marginal dampstaining;[Mar, Robert Cochrane, Earl of] A Detection of the falsehood, abuse, and misrepresentations in the late libel, intitled, the life of Sir Robert Cochran, Prime Minister in Scotland, to James the third. London: T. Cooper, 1735. 8vo, modern wrappers [ESTC T31733];[Earbery, Matthias] An historical account of the advantages that have accrued to England by the succession in the illustrious House of Hanover. London: 1722. Parts 1 & 2, 8vo, disbound;A cabinet council; Or secret history of Lewis XIV... London: H. Woodgate and S. Brooke, 1757. 12mo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, some browning, early ownership stencil [ESTC T127892];Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs supplication; Or, the Scots hudibras. A mock poem. St Andrews: James Morison, 1796. 12mo, engraved title-page, plates, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC T140221];Forbes, J. MacBeth. Jacobite gleanings. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1903. 8vo, red cloth gilt, some dampstaining to title-page

Golf Collection of rare biographies, manuals and club histories Tulloch, W. W. The Life of Tom Morris, with Glimpses of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities. London: T. Werner Laurie, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 25 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece (listed as 27, with 2 plates each containing 2 images), spine rolled, binding slightly rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, occasional spotting to text-block;Idem. The Life of Tom Morris. London: Ellesborough Press, 1982. Facsimile edition, one of 100 copies signed by J. H. Neill, captain, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1981-2, 8vo, original green morocco, all edges gilt, slipcase, spine sunned, section of discolouration to upper inner corner of front board;Forgan, Robert. The Golfer's Manual, including History and Rules of the Game, with Hints to Beginners. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. (Limited), c.1907. Presumed seventh edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 8 halftone photographic plates (including a portrait of 'Old Tom Morris' as frontispiece), 4 pp. advertisements to rear, with the 'Rules of Golf' section dated 1904, and notice of James Anderson's record round on St Andrew's Links in 1906 to verso of contents page;Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife. Edinburgh: published at the office of Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, 7 halftone photographic plates, pale mottling to covers, blind stamp (Broadleys, Crail, Fife) to title-page;[Knight, William Angus, editor]. On the Links. Being Golfing Stories by Various Hands. With Shakespeare on Golf. By a Novice. Also, Two Rhymes on Golf by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 8 pp. advertisements, custom case;Flint, Violet. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil on the Links of St Andrews. St Andrews: W. C. Henderson & Co, 1897. Third edition, 4to, later cloth, 8 plates, text spotted;and 12 others, including: J. B. Salmond, The Story of the R. & A., 1956 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, torn dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the title-page, signed by various R & A members on the front free endpaper including Ferguson Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton, Charles MacAndrew, Baron Macandrew, and similar); The Book of St Andrews Links, Ellesborough Press, 1984 (facsimile edition, one of 200 copies signed by golfer J. Stewart Lawson, 8vo, original green morocco, spine sunned, slipcase); Robert Forgan, The Golfer's Manual, c.1980 (facsimile edition of the 1897 edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andra Kirkaldy, Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andrew Lang & others, A Batch of Golfing Papers, c.1892 (original cloth, ex library); Violet Flint, A Golfing Idyll, 1978 (facsimile edition, of 150 copies); 2 others editions of Lang's work; and similar

Simpson, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986) & Edward, Duke of Windsor (1894-1972) Royal memorabilia Coins and medals: Edward VIII coronation medal; British West Africa one penny dated 1936; a cameograph 'coin' bearing Edward's profile; a few other old British coins;Stamps: Stamp book with EviiiR monogram containing three red 1d stamps bearing the portrait of Edward VIII and six green halfpenny stamps bearing the portrait of Edward VIII with inverted watermarks; 20th century world stamp album;Sitwell, Osbert. Rat Week, typed poem on 2 leaves, each 20 x 25cm, the uncensored version mentioning the 'rats' by name;Edward VIII Prince of Wales Aluminium Ashtray: produced by R.W. Coan with a relief image of Edward smoking in military uniform and the text: "Our Prince of Sports", presented at a dinner in 1922 attended by The Prince of Wales by the President of the aluminium foundry, Robert W. Coan;Royal train post bag: Stencilled with "No 6 ROYAL TRAIN"; Passenger plan for the Royal train and Pilot train, 50 x 19.5cm, with possible date of 13/2/34 on the reverse in pencil, passenger allocation marked in ink on printed planH.M. King Edward VIII: Printed glass coronation beaker, with the text "12th May Coronation 1937" and a portrait of the King, 11cm tall; accompanied by two metal beakers commemorating the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, a printed glass beaker with the portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (also with the 12th May coronation date) and a small coffee cup commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II Provenance:Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

Polar exploration Collection of works Evans, Edward. South with Scott. London: W. Collins son & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, fifth impression, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by Evans 'To Mr & Mrs H. D. C. Jones with nicest thoughts from the author, 1923' on the front free endpaper, 3 maps (of 4: lacking 'Track Chart'), cloth cockled and mottled, spotting to outer leaves [Rosove 117.A5];Borchgrevink, C. E. First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, endpapers renewed [Rosove 45.A1.b: 'Presumably a secondary binding, and considerably scarcer'];Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, folding map, 2 further maps and numerous illustrations in the text, binding rubbed and marked, labels and markings of Mudie's Select Library to front cover and endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked;Worsley, Frank. Under Sail in the Frozen North. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original light blue cloth (probably a secondary binding: usually in dark blue), 32 photographic plates (many with blue tint), folding map;Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, mottling to lower fore corners of boards [Rosove 178.A1];and approx. 40 others (these not collated), including: Richard E. Byrd, Discovery, New York, 1935 (first edition, original cloth); Robert E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907 (first UK edition, original cloth, spine defective); Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 (first edition, 2 volumes, volume 1 in contemporary half morocco, volume 2 in original cloth); Herbert Ponting, The Great White South, 1930 (original cloth); Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World, 1952 ('one volume edition', 1952, original cloth, ex-library); Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Friendly Arctic, New York, 1921 (first edition, original cloth); F. Spencer Chapman, Northern Lights: the Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-31, 1934 (original cloth); Hugh Robert Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1923 (first edition, original cloth); Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight across the Polar Sea, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1927] (first edition, original cloth), and similar

A group of leather-bound 19th century books 58 volumes Elton, J. Frederic. Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. London: John Murray, 1879. 8vo, frontispiece, portrait, 3 maps, 12 plates (including 1 folding plate), contemporary calf;Kingsman, A. Over Volcanoes... London: Henry S. King & Co., 1872. 8vo, contemporary school prize calf binding;Burns, Robert. The Works... London: T. Cadell, 1813. 5 volumes (including the Reliques of Robert Burns), 8vo, portrait, contemporary calf, joints split;Verne, Jules. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. London: Griffith and Farran, 1876. 8vo, contemporary calf; and another copy;Prescott, William H. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain. London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, portrait, contemporary school prize calf binding;Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., [n.d.] 8vo, portrait, 7 plates, contemporary calf;Anderson, William. Sketches of the History and Present State of The Russian Empire. London: Gale, Curtis and Fenner, 1815. 8vo, contemporary calf;Tandon, Moquin. The World of the Sea. London: Cassell, Petter, and Gilpin, [n.d.] 8vo, contemporary school prize calf binding;MacDonald, George. The Vicar's Daughter. Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1872. 8vo, contemporary red half morocco; with 13 other uniform volumes: Ouida. Strathmore; Linton. Under Which Lord; Mathers. Comin' Thro' the Rye; Ouida. Chandos; Black. A Prince of Thule; Broughton. Doctor Cupid; MacDonald. David Elginbrod; Deland. John Ward, Preacher; Oliphant. The Story of Valentine; Craik. A Legacy; Black. Strange Adventure of a House Boat; Gray. the Silence of Dean Maitland; Oliphant. A Country Gentleman and his Family;Byron, George Gordon, Lord. The Works. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [n.d.] 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half morocco; and 29 others (including one volume with a 'secret hiding place' cut into all leaves, sold not subject to return

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Autograph letter signed Addressed to his 'Sister Dupont' (Sarah), dated 29th September 1783, 2pp, 18.5 x 22.5 and 18.5 x 20cmThe letter refers to Gainsborough's brother, John, known to the family as 'Scheming Jack' due to his unreliable nature and constant failed attempts at moneymaking schemes ["Gainsborough - A Portrait", Hamilton, 2017]. Gainsborough asks his sister to be the caretaker of half a crown per week for their brother: "I promised John when he did me the honor of a visit in Town, to allow him half a Crown a week; which with what his good Cousin Gainsbro: allow him, and sister Gibbon, I hope will (if applied properly to his own use) render the remainder of his old age tolerably comfortable; for Villainously old he is indeed grown – I have herewith sent you 3 Guineas, with which I beg the favor of you to supply him for half a year..." A post-script gives news of Gainsborough's wife and beloved daughter visiting family in Bath; split along the fold of one sheet, some slight foxing and a light dampstain to upper cornerNote: Note: A highly unusual letter signed by Thomas Gainsborough, giving a touching insight into his family life.

[Dusart, Cornelis (1660-1704) and Jacob Gole (1660-1724)] Les héros de la ligue ou la procession monacale. Conduitte par Louis XIV, pour la conversions des Protestans de son royaume. Paris [Amsterdam?]: Pere Peters, 1691. 4to (22.5 x 16.5cm), contemporary vellum, engraved arms of the dukes of Queensberry gilt to boards, engraved title-page, 20 mezzotint roundel caricatures (of 24), engraved leaf of text ('Sonnet'), bookplate of John Erskine Esqr, Advocate, boards sprung and marked, variable spotting and soiling to contents, contemporary inscription to head of title-page, closed marginal tear to 'Le roy de France' plate, 'Le père Petres' with repaired closed tear to gutter just extending into platemarkNote: Note: Rare collection of grotesque caricatures of figures implicated in the repression of French Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Each portrait is accompanied by a satirical quatrain. Sold as a collection of prints.

Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or studio (fl. c. 1830-50) The Balfour album 26 watercolours on wove paper, each approx. 27 x 21cm (all portrait format except numbers 9, 12 and 25, landscape; numbers 8, 10, 18 and 24 with J. Whatman Turkey Mills watermarks visible), corner-mounted to varicoloured paper leaves in contemporary green half morocco album, contemporary manuscript titles in ink to foot, many additionally with contemporary English translations of the title in pencil to lower left (given below in round brackets where applicable; supplied titles in square brackets), all annotated lower right 'Shekh Mahomed Ameer, Calcutta at Karyah', 'S. Mohammed Ameer Painter, situated at Kurrya' or similar (except 'A teacher of Hindostanee', in the same style but not annotated). Contents comprise:1. Assabardar (Mace bearer)2. Sotaburdar (Mace bearer)3. Hooka burdar4. Serkar (Native clerk)5. Dewan (A landed proprietor)6. (A teacher of Hindostanee)7. Barber8. Chouruburdar [Fly-whisk wallah]9. Palankeen10. Matoy walla (Sweet meat seller)11. Burkundaz (Watchman)12. Hindoostany Carriage13. Dorcah (Dog keeper)14. Maytur[?] (House sweeper)15. B. Woman [Bengali water carrier]16. Estruwallah [Iron wallah]17. Dancing girl18. Grass cutter19. Abdawr (Wine cooler & table servant)20. Coachman21. Ayah (Ladies attendant)22. Serdawr Bearer (Body attendant & house servant)23. Hurkarah (Letter carrier or message bearer)24. Khansamah (Head table attendant)25. Karachee (Native carriage)26. Bheshtee (Water carrier).With a similar watercolour bound between numbers 22 and 23, titled Hindoostanee Lady, signed 'Zayn al-Abidin musawwir [painter]', 19 x 15.5cm, Qajar-style, heightened with gum arabicNote: Note: A major collection of watercolours by one of the leading practitioners of ‘Company School’ painting for European patrons in 19th-century India. The only sets of any comparable extent which we can identify are a group in the British Library comprising 17 pictures of servants, castes, and tradesmen (Add. Or. 171-187), and the famous Holroyd album, produced for Calcutta merchant Thomas Holroyd, given by him to the Oriental Club in 1839, sold by them in 1961 and now dispersed.Acknowledged as 'by far the most talented and original' of all Calcutta painters specialising in work for the British (Archer, 1972), Shaykh Muhammad enjoyed an enthusiastic following among the city's colonial elite in the second quarter of the 19th century. In 1844 the traveller Fanny Parkes purchased a set of paintings evidently similar to the present album, publishing versions of the serkar, burkundaz and the Bengali water carrier in her 1850 travel memoir, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque.In 2019-20 Shaykh Muhammad's work featured in the Forgotten Masters exhibition of Company School paintings at the Wallace Collection, London, at which six of his paintings were shown. William Dalrymple, historian of British India and curator of the exhibition, paid tribute to his inimitable fusion of European and Indian techniques:‘The Shaykh was equally at home painting a Palladian house or thoroughbred horse, a group of dhobis or a pair of dogs. His single figures are sometimes shown in the Mughal tradition, in profile … but when he wished to, the Shaykh could paint in a more European style than any of his rivals, with low horizons and expanses of blank white space that no Mughal artist would have allowed. He had completely mastered perspective, foreshortening and shading, giving his work a realism and naturalism unique among Indian artists of his generation. Yet while in anatomical accuracy his horse portraits can stand comparison even with Stubbs, there is still an indefinable Indian warmth about his work, a Mughal application of the heart as well as the head'.Unlike his contemporary in Vellore, Yellapah, Shaykh Muhammad is not known to have produced a self-portrait, and little is known of his life or background. His paintings, however, have provoked speculation on his potentially ambivalent attitude towards to his patrons, who are either omitted entirely or, if they are present, are shown with their faces artfully concealed. One such painting, his depiction of a palanquin with a partially visible British passenger, is found in the present album (item 9). If this figure is indeed Thomas Holroyd, as stated in the Forgotten Masters catalogue, Shaykh Muhammad apparently had no reservations about reproducing the likeness for other customers.Provenance: By family repute acquired by Edward Green Balfour (1813-1889), surgeon and naturalist in India; thence by descent. Balfour travelled to India in 1834 as an assistant surgeon in the Madras medical service, and ended his career as surgeon-general in the presidency. An acknowledged polymath, he wrote on subjects including Indian languages and literature and forestry in addition to medicine. His most influential work in his own day was his Enyclopaedia of India and Southern Asia, published at Madras in 1857. Today he is also remembered for his pioneering ecological writings, which explored what he believed to be the 'direct relationship between deforestation, climatic change, and environmental degradation' (ODNB).Literature:Mildred Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library (1972), p. 76, cf. catalogue numbers 59-61.idem, Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period (1992), cat. nos. 80-82.William Dalrymple, ed., Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company (2019), pp. 17 and 122-131, cat. nos. 66-71.

Antiquarian literature Collection of works, 18th century Warton, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1748. [Bound with:] Richer, Henri. The Life of Maecenas ... Translated by R. Schomberg. London: for A. Millar, 1748. 2 works in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, contemporary sheep, slightly worn, very small worm-track to lower margins in second half of volume, staining to Warton pp. 181-5 [ESTC T125430 & T120687: 10 copies traced world-wide for the second work];Bishop, Samuel. Feriae poeticae: sive carmina anglicana elegiaci plerumque argumenti Latine reddita. London: printed by D. Leach, to be sold by J. Newbery and J. Walter, 1766. 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, 18th-century ownership inscription of original subscriber Henry Case, later Henry Case-Morewood (c.1747-1825), of Christ's College, Cambridge, clergyman [ESTC T76163: 7 copies in UK libraries];Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry ... The Second Edition, corrected and improved. London: for C. Hitch [and others], 1762. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, 6 engraved plates (of which 4 folding), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Bryan Cooke of Owston (1756-1821), member of parliament for Malton, Yorkshire, title-page with ownership inscription of his wife Frances Puleston (1765-1818), local philanthropist (her portrait painted by George Romney, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), front joint cracked but holding, rear joint cracked at foot, tips worn, uniform moderate browning, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [ESTC T82192];Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. A New Edition, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by Ralph Church, M. A. Late Student of Christ Church, Oxon. London: William Faden, 1758-9. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled in compartments, errata leaf to each volume, list of subscribers in volume 4, wear to spine-ends, joints variably cracked but firm [ESTC T135123];and 2 others (Cowel, A Law Dictionary, 1708, folio, covers detached, and Journal of the House of Lords for 1818, large folio)Note: Note: The list of subscribers to Warton's work mentions a 'Mr Johnson', believed to be Samuel Johnson (see Eddy & Fleeman 66), and contemporaries including William Blackstone.

Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 of an unspecified limitation, inscribed by the author to Frau Martha Loewe on the limitation page, 4to, original quarter cloth, mimeographed typescript, [1] 43 [3] leaves, 11 gelatin silver print photographs on 8 stiff card mounts with typescript captions (6 of them 20 x 15.5cm, the others smaller), plain paper dust jacket;Colebrooke, H. T. Miscellaneous Essays. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, later quarter cloth, 7 folding lithographic plates (facsimiles of ancient Indian documents and inscriptions), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Pandit Sundar Lal, advocate, high court, Allahabad, worming, plates browned, plate 1 torn along stub;Hasegawa, Denziro. Travel to India with Leica, Tokyo: Meguro Shoten, 1939 (first edition, 4to, original yellow hessian lettered in brown, 213 pp., text in Japanese and English, 192 halftone photographs (on pp. 1-124), folding map, spine rubbed); and 4 others: E. F. Burton, Reminiscences of Sport in India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, spine rolled, lending library label to front board, 8 lithographic plates, pp. 207/8 and 289/90 loose, a few blemishes and marks); J. D. Rees, H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India, with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1891 (4to, recent red cloth, top edge gilt, xvi 213 pp., 5 autotype photographic portrait plates including frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates, folding map, text-leaves partly unopened, browning, worming (stronger towards front of volume, reducing towards middle), plate facing p. 74 chipped along fore edge, text-leaf I1 with closed marginal tears); Wibraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ... exhibited at the India Museum, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1880 (first edition, 4to, later cloth, folding map, 15 lithographic plates of which 2 in colours and several folding, original front wrapper bound in, lacking final leaf of index, spotting, tape repairs to half-title and index); and Sir John Malcolm, The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London: John Murray, 1836 (first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map, ex-library, not collated)Note: Note: Konrad Wrede was a German army officer, collector and arts patron. No copies of Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt traced in libraries. WorldCat cites three copies only of Hasegawa's work in libraries world-wide, with none in the United Kingdom.

Indian lithographic printing Group of works on science and medicine all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising:Kuhne, Louis. Sayins af fayshal iksprishin [Title in English, transliterated into Urdu, i.e. The Science of Facial Expression]. Meerut: Swami Press, 1925. 6 177 pp. only (lacking at least one leaf at rear and rear wrapper, the final page cited by index being p. 179), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 20 plates (counted in pagination), of which one folding, stitching fragile and contents working loose, front wrapper and text-leaves browned, plate at pp. 145/6 with closed tear, folding plate bound in upside-down;?Rockwell, G. W. Frinuluji ... musannifuhu Miknesh Sahib ki Urdu tarjuma [Phrenology, translated into Urdu by Miknesh Sahib]. Lahore: Munshi Mahbub 'Alim, 1895. 8vo, contemporary blue half cloth, marbled sides, 184 pp., lithographic illustrations in the text including a portrait of Franz Josef Gall, putative head shapes, cranial conditions (e.g. hydrocephaly), original wrappers bound in, browning, light worming not affecting legibility, bound with 3 other Urdu texts at rear including a trade catalogue of clocks and watches, in English and Urdu, illustrated, 28 pp.);Ram, Beli. Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, in Urdu, by Beli Ram, L. M. S., Assistant Surgeon, in Charge of the Kasur Dispensary. Lahore: Empress Press, 1882. First edition (stated on title-page), 8vo, recent boards, 400 [4] pp., title-pages in English and Urdu, text mainly in Urdu, illustrations in text (occasionally hand-coloured), paper browned and friable, title-pages spotted and slightly chipped, pp. 121-4 misprinted (leaves numbered 123/2 121/4, pp. 123/2 chipped with loss of text, pp. 121/4 repaired), minor paper disruption to pp. 213/14, pp. 325-8 crudely repaired, closed tear to head of last few leaves;[Medicine]. Tibb shihabi manzum Hindi [i.e. Shifa' al-marad by Shihab al-Din al-Nagawri, 14th-century Persian physician, on the treatment of illnesses, translated into Urdu verse]. Daftar Hikmat Hindi. Mumbai: Matba' Haydari, 1300 AH [1883 CE]. 8vo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, 64 pp. in 2 parts, text-block detached from binding, browning, light marginal worming, bound with a similar text at rear, Mufid al-ajsam ma'hu fawa'id 'ajabiya, 1883 CENote: Note: Louis Kuhne (1835-1901) was a German naturopath known for his advocacy of vegetarianism and hydropathy; The Science of Facial Expression appears to have been first published in 1917.

Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906) Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric Allahabad: printed at the "Indian Press", 1894. First edition, 4to, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [2] 10 6 23 [1] 191 [1] 40 6 2 5 9 pp., text in Hindi within decorative pictorial border, title-page in Hindi and English with decorative floral border, 41 halftone plates from photographic portraits or Indian miniature paintings including portrait frontispiece, presentation plate from the author to Norwich Public Library to front pastedown, shelfmark in white ink to spine, spine faded, corners of boards bumped, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, title-page wit closed tear to head extending into border, and small section at lower inner corner detached but presentNote: Note: Rare in commerce. Library records call for 38 or 40 plates; the latter count may exclude the frontispiece.

Bryans, William Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of 'Birth-place of Bishop Wilson' (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of 'Waberton Church' (no. 9), 'Tarvin Church' (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to 'South Doorway, Edstaston Church' (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated

Classical authors 16 volumes Polydor Vergil. De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle: per Thomas Guarinum [publisher from Colophon], 1570. 16mo, woodcut device on title, and leaf with Guérin's device following colophon, contemporary embossed calf, title with small excision at top corner, title slightly dust-soiled, some light dampstaining, binding worn;Aristotle. De Mundo Aristotelis Lib. I, Philonis Lib II, Gulielmo Budaeo interprete. Paris [Widow of C. Neobar or J. Bogardus], 1541. 16mo, 54 leaves, [ii - blank], edited by Guillaume Budé, printer's device on title-page, [Adams A1800], early inscription at head of title 'Fa dono Ill. & erud. divi d.d. Gaillardi genuensis 1646'; bound with Aristotle. Aristotelous kai Philonos per kosmou [Greek]. Paris: Conrad Néobar, 1540 [the date on the title page is wrongly printed M.D.L.X (altered by hand in present copy). 16mo, 60 leaves, 18th century calf, slightly rubbed;Virgil. P. Virgilius Maro Iam emendatior. Amsterdam: Apud Ioannem Iansonium, 1650. 16mo, engraved title page, bound in a piece of old liturgical vellum;Hippocrates. Aphorismi Hippocratis accurante Theodoro Janssonio ab Almeloveen. Amsterdam: apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685. 16mo, additional title with engraved portrait vignette, contemporary calf, rubbed;Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiarum libri de vita et expeditione Alexandri Magni. Utrecht: ex officina Gisbert Zylii, 1666. 12mo, engraved title laid down, woodcut(s) in text, contemporary vellum, early inscription on endpaper 'ex libris Caroli Nisbet 13th Januarii 1753' and later inscriptions of Lorimers,Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiarum libri accuratissime editi. Amsterdam: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1670. 16mo, engraved title, contemporary sheep, a little light dust-soiling, rubbed;Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Justinus ex Marci Zverii Boxhornii, nova recensione. Amsterdam: apud Ioan. Ianssonium, 1660. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, a few light marginal stains, inscription by members of Lorimer family to endpaper;Herodotus. He Tou Herodotus Halikarnasseos Historia: Herodoti Halicarnassensis Historia, ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1761. 9 volumes, 12mo, Greek text, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco lettering pieces, early inscription '? Rose Price' to free endpapers, small stamp 'E. Maltby' to free endpapers

India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots;2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4;3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, "Cambrian" Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original cloth-covered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece;4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to 'Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London' on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends;Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: "Raj" Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps)Note: Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).

India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties adopted by Certain Native States in the Province of Kattywar. Rajkot: printed at the Kattywar Agency Gazette Press by D. Sealy, 1864. Folio, 20 pp., stitched, title-pages in English and Gujarati, remainder of text in Gujarati, light damp-staining and soiling to outer leaves, faint transverse central crease where previously folded, slightly nicked along fore-edges, short closed tear to Gujarati title-page;2) Jeypore Exhibition, 1883 [cover-title]. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1883. Folio, original wrappers, 64 pp., 2 folding plans, restitched, wrappers and last few text-leaves chipped;3) Philology of Upper Indian Dialects by Pandit Guruprasad, Head Pandit, Oriental College, Lahore, published under the Auspices of the Punjab University. [Lahore:] Anjumani Punjab Press, 1885. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 63 pp., folding tables, apparently in Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), lithographed throughout, wrappers slightly chipped;4) [?Compendium of legal rulings or specimen legal texts issued by the court of Madho Singh II, Maharajadhiraja of Jaipur], Jaipur: Raj Press, 1893. Folio, 111 pp., lithographed throughout, Urdu and Hindi text in double column, minor loss to lower fore corners of first few leaves, occasional soiling);and a chromolithographic portrait on card of Henry Hardinge as governor-general of India, [Bombay:] Ravi Varma Press, c.1900, 35 x 25cm, small chip to one cornerNote: Note: No other copy of any of these items traced. The main contributor to the account of the 1893 Jeypore Exhibition is Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard; there are also a few entries by his wife and Rudyard's mother Alice.

Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States of America Collection of material including invitation to the Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States of America, 20th January 1965, framed and glazed; Typed letter from W. Marvin Watson, Special Assistant to the President, on The White House headed paper, to Mr Claude E. Hooton, enclosing a copy of a photograph 'of the first Presidential family portrait with their grandchild. It comes to you with the President's gratitude for your friendship', 8th Sept. 1967, with large coloured photograph 25 x 20cm;Folding card from Ethel and Bob Kennedy, showing images of Michael, Kerry and Courtney, David, Bobby, Kathleen and Joe, undated;Johnson, Lyndon B. The Arthur K. Salomon Lecture. America Tomorrow: Will we hang together or hang separately ? New York, 1971. 8vo, original blue cloth, with enclosed note from the Office of Lyndon B. Johnson, offering 'this little booklet for your library', and visiting card of 'Mr Lyndon Baines Johnson'

India Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century 1) Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Practice of Physic. By Kaviraj Russick Lal Gupta. Calcutta: S. C. Addy, 1892. First edition, 8vo, contemporary orange cloth, [4] 209 pp., front inner hinge partly cracked, uniform moderate browning, coloured pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in pp. 87/8, pp. 141/2 transposed;2) The Betal Punchabinsati, translated into English by Adalut Khan, a College Moonshee. Calcutta: I. C. Bose & Co., 1864. [Bound with:] A Tale from the Sakuntala of Kalidasa by Iswara Chandra Vidyasagara. Calcutta: Sanskrit Press, 1862. 2 works in 1 volume, first and sixth editions, 8vo, modern wrappers, [2] ii 143, 4 102 pp., second work in Sanskrit, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page;3) Ex-King Edward's Diary of the Ten Eventful Days by Khwaja Hasan Nizami. English Translation by M. Fazl-i-Hamid. Delhi: Munadi Publishing Co., 1937. First edition, 8vo, original printed wrappers, [6] 116 pp., photographic portrait of Nizami, errata leaf at rear, gift inscription to title-page, wrappers sunned and slightly marked, chipped at spine-ends, section of loss to rear wrapper, contents moderately browned, portrait and following text-leaf spotted;4) Bhut Nibandh: An Essay, Descriptive of the Demonology and Other Popular Superstitions of Guzerat. Being the Prize Essay of the Guzerat Vernacular Society for the Year 1849. By Dalpatram Daya. Translated by Alexander Kinloch Forbes, Secretary to the Society. Bombay: "Bombay Gazette" Press, c.1849. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers, cloth backstrip (repaired at foot), xv 95 pp., illustrations in text, variable browning and damp-staining, light marginal worming, prelims (including title-page) strengthened in cutter with clear tape, title-page with small circular mark, pp. xi-xiv loose at foot, bookplates (with Zoroastrian maxim 'Humata Hukhta Hvarshta' but owner's name effaced)5) [Urdu title:] Maqasid-i 'ulum. A Treatise on the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science. By Lord Brougham, Translated into Urdu by Syed Mohomed Meer. A Native of Lucknow. Calcutta: printed for the Calcutta School-Book Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1841. 8vo, contemporary cloth, paper backstrip, 139 pp., printed with Urdu types, wear to binding, contents browned, pp. 29-32 working looseNote: Note: No copies of Hindu Anatomy or Ex-King-Edward's Diary traced in UK libraries; the latter is a satirical work purporting to be the journal of the former Edward VIII, and was written in Urdu by Sufi poet Khwaja Hasan Nizami, who despite knowing no English, claims in the preface to 'understand the language of Ex-King Edward's heart and mind'. Library Hub cites one institutional copy only for each of Betal Punchabinsati (University of Manchester) and the Urdu translation of Lord Brougham's work (British Library).

Bindings Set of Bibles and Books of Common Prayer in fine morocco 'sunburst' bindings 1) The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Charles Bill, 1706. Folio (31.5 x 20cm), near-contemporary red morocco, spine compartments and covers richly gilt with flower devices, flanged drawer-handle motifs, angels, doves and urns, covers with central sunburst motifs comprising concentric light and dark green morocco onlays within gilt corona, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates, a few light scores to front cover, lacking 3G3-4 (part of Daniel), 3I3-4 (Obadiah to Micah IV), 3S3-4 (part of Apocrypha), 4B3-5 (Matthew), all supplied in early manuscript, also lacking engraved additional title-page and New Testament letterpress title-page, manuscript genealogy (Smith family, St Martin's parish, Ludgate) to initial blanks, front free endpaper excised, old spotting and staining, occasional repairs, one plate (Jepthahs Vow) torn with partial loss of text [ESTC T89302];2) The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747. 4to (26 x 19cm), contemporary green morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, covers each with decorative gilt frame enclosing central onlaid red morocco sunburst motif incorporating Christogram and angel-heads, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates and maps from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible ... in above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engrav'd by J. Cole from Designs of ye best Masters (London: Richard Ware, c.1725), the engraved title-page to the work also bound in, several of the plates folding, BCP bound in at front (Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747), this extra-illustrated with engraved additional title-page by John Sturt (with imprint of Richard Ware and possibly issued as part of the Two Hundred Historys set), bookplate of J. F. Thomas-Peter, covers refurbished, occasional offsetting and spotting to text-leaves adjacent to plates [Darlow & Moule 1078; ESTC T184184; see ESTC T130293 for The History Part of the Holy Bible, tracing 10 separately bound copies world-wide];3) [The Holy Bible ... Oxford: printed by the University Printer, 1731]. 4to (23.8 x 18cm), contemporary red morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, broad gilt border to covers enclosing central green morocco sunburst motifs incorporating Christogram and angel-head devices, lacking general title-page (New Testament title-page with imprint London: assigns of His Majesty's printer, and Henry Hills deceased), extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible (see above), BCP (Oxford: John Baskett, 1728) bound in at front, itself extra-illustrated with same engraved additional title-page as above and an engraved portrait of George II, contemporary ownership inscriptions of Elizabeth Hamnett and others to initial blanks, covers refurbished, endpapers renewed, text slightly browned, occasional spotting, leaf Q4 repaired [ESTC T81355]4) The Book of Common Prayer. London: Thomas Baskett, 1741. 4to (23.4 x 18cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers incorporating Christogram, Psalms bound in at rear, binding slightly rubbed, gilt faded from edges of text-leaves, tips bumped, spotting and browning, small tear in M4, [ESTC T167430];5) The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768. 12mo (15 x 8.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers, one metal clasp (of two), extra-illustrated with suites of engraved plates by John Sturt (The Liturgy of the Church of England Adorn'd with 55 Historical Cuts, London: Richard Ware, no date) including portrait frontispiece of George II and additional title-page, Psalms bound in at rear, rubbing to spine and extremities [ESTC T87229]

Housman, Catherine Three Letters to a Friend London: A. J. Valpy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 155 2 pp., 8 plates (7 engraved of which 2 hand-coloured; one aquatint), slips tipped to plates facing pp. 78 and 80 and to p. 90, rubbing to joints and extremities;Rhind, William Graeme. The Creation, illustrated by Six Engravings on Steel. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1844. Second edition (same year as the first), small 4to, original cloth, xviii 399 pp., engraved frontispiece, 6 mezzotint plates depicting the stages of creation, tissue-guards, front free endpaper removed, damp-staining to binding, frontispiece and plates 5-6, old library stamp (Rake Lane Lending Library) to title-page;Anderson, J. W. The Manner pointed out in which the Common Prayer was read in Private by the late Mr. Garrick, for the Instruction of a Young Clergyman: from whose Manuscript Notes this Pamphlet is composed. London: J. Plymsell, 1797. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, short crack to head of front joint, spotting, half-title discarded [ESTC T171474: 9 copies in UK libraries];[Derbyshire Dissenters]. Forms of Prayer, for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Belper. Belper: S. Mason, 1823. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep, 106 pp., wear to head of spine, crack to foot of rear joint;[Hawks, Francis]. A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary tan half calf gilt, 286 [2] 332 pp., gift inscription to T. G. B. Estcourt (1775-1853), member of parliament for the University of Oxford, to binder's blank, Estcourt family bookplate, half-title discarded, part 1 leaf G4 repaired;Charke, Charlotte. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;). Containing ... Her Adventures in Mens Cloaths ... Her turning Pastry Cook, etc. in Wales. London: W. Reeve; A. Dodd; E. Cook, 1755. Second edition, 12mo, contemporary half sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title, covers and frontispiece detached [ESTC T68298: 2 copies in UK libraries];and 3 others (not collated, including Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the Prophecies, 1804, 2 volumes contemporary Brasenose College Oxford prize-bindings; and Lockwood, The Western Pioneers, 1881, original cloth)Note: Note: Library Hub traces four copies only for Mrs Housman's work, a defence of the Biblical account of creation in the form of a response to two works by Scottish churchman Alexander Keith which adopted an accommodating view of Newtonian physics and recent advances in geology. Two copies traced for the Belper Forms of Prayer (Oxford and Manchester).

Wheeler, Stephen History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar held on the first of January 1903 to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII Emperor of India. London: John Murray, 1904, 4to, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 48 plates (20 photogravure), 5 maps and plans (2 folding), inscribed on front endpaper 'W.C. Macpherson, C.S.I., from his grateful friend, A.H. L. F., 12th Nov. 1904', original red decorative cloth gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, binding slightly markedNote: Provenance: William Charles Macpherson, 4th of Blairgowrie (1855-1936), Indian Civil Service, Justice of the Peace, member of the Bengal Legislative Council between 1902 and 1911, appointed Companion, Order of the Star of India (C.S.I.) in 1903, member of the Board of Revenue of Calcutta between 1906 and 1911.

Shakespeare, William The Works London: H. Woodfall..., 1767. 8 volumes, 12mo, portrait, 35 plates, cotemporary calf, joints worn, rubbed

Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: printed for author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, half-title, without the portrait, bookplate of H. M. Brower and printed catalogue description mounted to front pastedown, craquelure and score-marks to bindings, general light soiling to contents, A2-3 chipped along edges and therefore slightly shorter, closed tear in lower margins of quires F-G and Y, similar tear in Q2 extending into text, T1 signature-mark punched through, 2S4 with repaired closed tear to head, housed in a custom brown linen slipcase and chemise [ESTC T91547; cf. Rothschild 556] Note: Note: First Edinburgh edition, the second overall, second issue, with the correct reading of 'stinking' in 'To a Haggis' on p. 263. According to Rothschild 3,000 copies were printed.

Grace Darling - Thomasin Darling Grace Darling: Her True Story From Unpublished Papers in Possession of her Family. Hamilton: Adams, [1880].8vo, author's presentation copy inscribed to D.H. Atkinson (Bamburgh, 1880), annotated and with passages marked by Thomasin Darling, frontispiece portrait, 2 locks of Grace's hair loose in an envelope tipped-in, a sample of her, and her father William's, handwriting, and woodbury-types of the houses in which Grace was born and died tipped-in, several items of related ephemera loosely inserted, publisher's morocco giltNote: Note: In 1880 Thomasin, having received her newly-published book, sends this copy to the co-author, Daniel Atkinson, with her own markings or added comments. The book is marked in the margins in pencil many times, to emphasise a passage or to add brief notes. Along with the above inscription it is clear that the annotations are written by Thomas Darling herself.Forty years later, how this hair and the book came together is unclear. It may have been acquired many years earlier and simply attached to this unique book for posterity. Or it is possible that Thomasin had kept some locks of hair to be gifted to special people such as Daniel Atkinson and it was sent to him along with the personally annotated book as a gesture and as a keepsake.Inside the book cover is pasted a small envelope. Written in ink on the flap of the envelope is 'Lock of Grace Darling's hair'.Inside, contained in a piece of folded paper, is a small lock of hair bound with a piece of black cotton. The slip of paper reads "Longstone Light. Jan 7th 1839", written in Grace Darling's own hand.Also inside the envelope with the lock of hair is a small piece of notepaper that reads: 'An old naval Captain whom I met said to me - 'I am well acquainted with all the incidents of Grace Darling's history, and there is no exaggeration in this little book which is written according to fact" (Rev. A.O. Medd, to Miss Sarah Atkinson). Rev. Arthur O. Medd M.A. was the vicar of St. Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, in 1842 at the time of Grace Darling's death. He officiated at her funeral. This slip of paper, written 40 years later, supports the story as told by Thomasin.

Mary, Queen of Scots Engraved portrait by the Wierix Brothers, 16th century Bust-length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, 26.5 x 35cm, trimmed, not laid-downNote: An unusual portrait engraving of Mary, Queen of Scots, attributed to the Flemish Wierix family. Another copy can be found in the Royal Collections.

India - Bengal Presidency Collection of Calcutta imprints Directions for Revenue Officers in the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency ... New Edition. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1858. 4to, later cloth, [4] 566 [2] pp., 4 lithographic folding maps (2 hand-coloured), 6 folding letterpress tables (counted in pagination and register), uniform moderate browning (stronger to title-page), very small worm-track to upper fore corner of initial leaves;The Journals of Major James Rennell, First Surveyor-General of India. Written for the Information of the Governors of Bengal during his Surveys of the Ganges and Brahamputra Rivers 1764 to 1767. Edited by T. H. D. La Touche. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by the Asiatic Society, 1910. 4to, later cloth, portrait frontispiece, folding plate of manuscript facsimile (torn along fold), folding map of Bengal and Bihar to rear, uniform moderate browning;and 4 others (these not collated): The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1832, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., Bengal Hurkaru Press, c. 1832 (8vo, contemporary red half sheep, folding map with short closed tear, lacking pp. 173/4; The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842, Vol. I, Calcutta: William Rushton an[d] Co., c.1842 (8vo, contemporary half roan by the Government Press, Allahabad, 3 folding maps and folding diagram, first folding map (frontispiece) torn, binding worn, browning; The Bengal Almanac for 1848 ... compiled and arranged by Samuel Smith and Co., Calcutta, 1848 (8vo, contemporary boards, red sheep backstrip, binding worn and worn, rear inner hinge gone); Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-West Provinces 1818-1820, Calcutta: Military Orphan Press, 1866 (8vo, original cloth, binding defective)Note: Note: Library Hub traces two copies for the Directions for Revenue Officers (NLS and Cambridge).

Palladio, Andrea - Giocomo Leoni, editor The Architecture of A. Palladio, in four books London: John Watts, 1715. Books 1-3 (of 4), bound in 2, frontispiece, portrait, all plates and illustrations present, near-uniform contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, second volume with bookplate of Sir George Nugent and signature of R. Hesketh

India Quantity of works, including Indian imprints Firminger, Rev. W.K., editor. Bengal Past and Present. Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society; Volumes:I. No. 1, July-December 1907, 4to, blue half morocco;II. No. 1 and 2, January-December 1908, 2 volumes, blue half morocco;III. No. 1 and 2 (Serial No. 7-8), January-June 1909, 2 copies;IV. (Serial No. 9), July-December 1909, 2 copies;VIII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 15-16), January-June 1914;IX. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No 17-18), July-December 1914;X. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 19-20), January-June 1915;XI. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 21-22), July-December 1915;XII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 23-24), April-June 1916;XIII. Part 2 (Serial No. 26), October-December 1916;XIV. Part 2 (Serial No. 28), April-June 1917;Grierson, George A. Bihar Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885. 8vo, map, lithographed plates, contemporary half calf, binding (only) lightly wormed;Mukerji, Nitya Gopal. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture. Calcutta, 1901. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author, illustrations, contemporary half calf;M'Cann, Hugh W. Report on the Dyes and Tans of Bengal. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1883. 8vo, original brown cloth;Anderson, J.D. A Collection of Kachari Folk-Tales and Ryhmes. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1895. 8vo, original cloth-backed blue boards, slightly rubbed;Hume, Allan. List of the Birds of India, Reference Edition, corrected to 1st March 1879. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Co., 1879. 8vo, title from upper board, original cloth-backed boards;Bengal Camp Guide. Coronation Durbar at Delhi. Notes and Information for the use of the Guests of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Small 4to, photographic plates, 7 folding plans in pocket at end, original blue cloth gilt;Hunter, William Wilson. North-Eastern Frontier. Political Dissertation prefixed to a Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company Limited, 1869, 8vo, original wrappers slightly stained and small hole without loss, spine worn; RARE;Sastri, Pandit Sivanath. Remtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer, a History of the Renaissance in Bengal. London: Sonnenschein; Calcutta: S.K. Lahiri, 1907, presentation copy to the Honble. W.C. Macpherson Esq. from S.K. Lahiri, plates, original cloth;Bradley-Birt, F.B. Chota Nagpore, a little known province of the Empire. 1903. 8vo, presentation copy from the author, plates, folding map, original red cloth gilt, slightly marked;Pennell, T.L. Amongst the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. 1909. 8vo, plates, spine faded;Russell, William Howard. My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9. 1860. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, a little dampstaining or spotting, rubbed, hinges weak;Crawford, Arthur. Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan. 1897, 8vo, original cloth;Foster, William. The English Factories in India 1618-1621 [1622-23], Oxford, 1906-08, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.;Neve, Major Arthur. The Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Khardo, &c, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette, 1918. 8vo, 11th edition, folding maps, original cloth-backed boards;Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923. 8vo, plates, original cloth;Beveridge, Henry. A Comprehensive History of India. 1842, 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;Fraser, Sir Andrew H.L. Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. London, 1911, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded;Carstairs, R. The Little World of an Indian District Officer. 1912, 8vo, original cloth;Hoernle, A.F.R. A History of India. Cuttack: Orissa Mission Press, 1909. 8vo, original cloth;O'Malley, L.S.S. Bengal District Gazetteers. Saran. Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1908. 8vo, original blue cloth;Thornton, Thomas Henry. General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India. London, 1898, original cloth;Case, Mrs. Day by Day at Lucknow. A Journal of the Siege. London, 1858. 8vo, original cloth;Fay, Mrs Eliza. The Original Letters from India. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1908. 8vo, original cloth;Younghusband, Sir Francis. Kashmir. A. & C. Black, 1917, original pictorial cloth;Penny, F.E. Southern India, painted by Lady Lawley. A & C. Black, 1914, original pictorial cloth;Shakespear, John. Dictionary of Hindustani & English. London, 1849, 4to, contemporary half calf, lacks title page, margins of dedication leaf repaired;Roberts of Kandahar, Lord. Forty-one Years in India. 1902, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;[Rousseau, Samuel]. A Dictionary of Words used in the East Indies... the leading word of each article being printed in a New Nustaleek type, to which is added, Mohammedan Law & Bengal Revenue Terms. London: for James Asperne, 1805. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners neatly repaired, extensively annotated;Smith, R. Bosworth. Life of Lord Lawrence. 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, worn;Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end, on linen), folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, 2 tinted lithographs, 20 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding plan, original brown cloth, neatly recased, hinges strengthened, bookplate of George Armistead;and a quantity of later, India-related volumes; sold as a collection not subject to return

Sermons and Theology Sterne, Lawrence The Sermons of Mr Yorick. London: W. Strahan [&c.], 1777-776, 6 volumes, 12mo, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, rubbed; [Curate, Jacob.] The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence... second edition. London: R. Taylor, 1693. 4to, 19th century tooled calf, [ESTC R4863];Keith, Rev. Robert. An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops down to the year 1688. Edinburgh, 1824. 8vo, frontispiece, brown half morocco;Renwick, James. An Informatory Vindication of Poor, Wasted, Misrepresented, Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-Popish, Anti-Prelatick, Anti-Erastian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland. [? Edinburgh], Anno MDCCVII. 8vo, 232,[24],233-278p. [ESTC T184567], bound with: Eschol Grapes, or Some of the Ancient Boundaries and Covenanted March Stones, set up by Kirk and State, in the Days when they Acted for the Lord. [?Edinburgh]: Printed in the year MDCCVIII, [ESTC N9286]; bound with The National Covenant, or the Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland. [Edinburgh ?] Re-printed in the year. [?1660], 8vo, 40pp., [ESTC R231460]; 3 works in one volume, contemporary calf, some dampstaining;Renwick, Rev. James. A Choice Collection of very valuable Prefaces, Lectures, and Sermons. Glasgow: J. Bryce, 1776. 8vo, contemporary calf, rather dust-soiled; [Forbes, Duncan]. Memoirs of the Life of the late Right Honourable Duncan Forbes Esq. of Culloden. London: for the author, 1748, 8vo, half calf, [ESTC T67757], slightly rubbed;Burnet, Gilbert. A Sermon preached in the Chappel of St. James's before his Highness the Prince of Orange. London: R. Chiswell, 1689. 4to, quarter morocco, [[ESTC R25955], rubbed;Guthrie, James. A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Sermons. Edinburgh: R. Menzies, 1814. 12mo, contemporary half cloth;Hickes, George. Devotions in the Antient Ways of Offices. London, 1717. 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary calf, corners worn

Middle East Collection of works Eleftériadès, Eleuthère. Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban. Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1944. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to 'A son Excellence Monsieur Béchara El-Khoury, Président de la République Libanaise, hommage respectueux de l'auteur, Beyrouth, le 17 juin 1944, Eletfériadès' on the initial blank, 4to (23.5 x 16cm), contemporary half morocco, 7 halftone photographic plates (printed on both sides and numbered 1-14), folding table, 2 maps on one folding plate at rear, 9 graphs in text, original paper covers and spine bound in, plates spotted;Marchebeus, Jean-Baptiste. Voyage de Paris à Constantinople par bateau à vapeur. Paris: Artus Bertrand, Amiot, l'auteur, 1839. First edition, tall 8vo (25 x 15.5cm), contemporary quarter morocco, half-title, 24 engraved plates, engraved folding map, bookplate of Archives et temps modernes, their ink-stamp to title-page, spotting [Blackmer 1075];Ruete, Emily (née Salimah bint Sa'id), Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. Mémoires d'une princesse Arabe. Traduit de l'allemand par L. Lindsay. Paris: Dujarric, 1905. First edition in French, 8vo (18.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue quarter morocco, [6] 330 pp., original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, contents browned, half-title and title-page loose and slightly chipped;Laurier, Jean-Philippe. Observations sur les Pyramides. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1960. First edition, inscribed on the half-title 'A Monsieur Guy Abela, en souvenir de son passage à ma maison de Sakkarah, le 5-3-67 et en cordial hommage, J. P. Laurier', 4to (28 x 19.8cm), contemporary quarter morocco, 13 plates, original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, staining to half-title;Guyard, Stanislas. Un grand maître des assassins au temps de Saladin. Extrait du Journal asiatique. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1877. 8vo (22 x 13.4cm), contemporary blue half morocco by the bindery of the Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut, text in French and Arabic, spotting;'Arfa al-Dawlah Mirza Riza Khan Danesh (1846-1937). Perles d'Orient. Paris: Dujarric et Cie, 1905. Second edition, tall 8vo (24 x 15cm), original cloth, rebacked in morocco, endpapers renewed, 129 [3] pp., half-title, 4 halftone photographic plates, text-leaves browned;Musil, Alois. The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. First edition, large 8vo (24.5 x 16.5cm), contemporary orange full morocco gilt, photographic portrait frontispiece, photographic illustrations in the text, joints and extremities rubbed, spotting to rear board and edges, pp. 450-600 with occasional abrasions and repairs (pp. 532-3 marginally abraded, marginal repairs to pp. 557/8 and 559/60, 580/1 abraded with partial loss of text, similar abrasions and staining to pp. 588-600, pp. 589/90 repaired, etc.)Note: Note: Bechara El Khoury (1890-1964) was the first president of the newly independent Republic of Lebanon, serving from 1943 until his resignation in 1952; Library Hub traces two copies of Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban in UK libraries (British Library and Oxford). Marchebeus's work is an account of 'the first organised steamer cruise in the Mediterranean ... [which] visited Sicily, Malta, the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor and the Archipelago' (Blackmer). Emily Ruete's work was first published in German in 1888; it has been described as the first published autobiography by an Arab or African woman. 'Arfah al-Dawlah, known as 'Danesh', was a Persian diplomatist of the late Qajar period. Perles d'Orient is a collection of poems and memoirs. Library Hub traces one copy only in UK libraries (Cambridge), and two of the first edition, printed at Constantinople the previous year.Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile, with his gilt stamp to foot of spines and ownership inscriptions to various preliminary leaves.

Tillotson, John [Collected sermons, finely bound] Published from the Originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D., Chaplain to his Grace. London: Richard Chiswell, 1700-4. 14 volumes, 8vo (18.4 x 11cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, a few volumes with half-title printed on recto of frontispiece, early ownership inscriptions (Selina Skipwith, dated 1785, and U. Cartwright) to initial blanks, bookplates of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford, occasional spotting, volume 10 frontispiece offset, volume 13 with wear to head of spine, volume 14 sunned or perhaps bound in non-uniform orange morocco but with the same toolingNote: Note: John Tillotson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694. This collected edition of his sermons does not contain a series-title or have its own entry on ESTC, but statements on the title-pages indicate that it was issued as a discreet set complete in fourteen volumes.

A small naive portrait of Queen Victoria in state robes holding a sceptre, oil on board, 26cm x 18.5cm, in frame

A black painted metal angle poise lamp, a presentation mantel clock; small framed portrait of a lady and other items

A Victorian £5 coin, dated 1887, within 9ct gold pendant mount, total weight approx 46gCondition:Large deep scratch to the portrait side, some compression to the 9ct gold mount, general wear, refer to images

ARR Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) Anima / Mania, Meissen terracotta medallion, 9.8 cm diameter, in a clear standAnima seemingly depicts an artist at work on a portrait, and on the verso is the contrasting Mania scene showing two figures in an intimate embrace. The two contrasting scenes reflecting upon two very different juxtaposing emotional states and activities.Provenance: Presented to composer Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998) by the artist following the performance of his oratorio A Child of Our Time at a benefit in aid of the Children of Warsaw held at the Royal Albert Hall in 1945. Artists Augustus John (1878-1961) and Oskar Kokoschka both donated drawings which were sold to raise money for the cause. Gifted by Tippett to his secretary Nicholas Wright and thence by descent.

A small 19th century Bohemian glass spill vase, decorated with an oval portrait and three Continental porcelain groups (4)

19th century school, oil on canvas, unsigned, 'Quarter length portrait of a lady', 25cm x 19cm

ENGLISH SCHOOL, c.1916. Portrait of Chief Petty Officer Walter Nineham, half-length, wearing naval uniform, oil on canvas, unframed, 25¼ x 20in. A card accompanying the painting states that the sitter perished whilst serving on the cruiser Hampshire, when the ship was sunk on 5th June 1916. Only 12 men survived from a crew of 655 men. The ship was also carrying Lord Kitchener who also lost his life. A photo accompanies the picture which is believed to depict the Ratings of H.M.S. Hampshire

FRANK OWEN SALISBURY RP (1874-1962). Portrait of Miss Beatrice Hampson playing a cello, signed and dated 1944, oil on canvas, 56½x 40in. Exhibited : Society of Portrait Painters; Russell Cotes Museum and Art Gallery, BournemouthOne of the exhibition labels on the reverse of the painting somewhat enigmatically titled Pietro & Beatrice. 'Pietro' being a reference to Beatrice's cello which was made by Pietro Guarneri (Pietro da Venezia, 1695-1762) Beatrice Harrison was an English Cellist, and sister of the violinist May Harrison. A Life-long friend of the composer Frederick Delius, many of whose works for the instrument were written for her.Beatrice studied at the High School of Music, Berlin, under Hugo Becker.In 1910 she won the Mendelssohn award. Later she became Edward Elgar's preferred soloist for his Cello Concerto , which she recorded twice with Elgar in 1919 and 1928.In 1921 she gave the first festival performance of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto outside London at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford. In 1924 Beatrice was the subject of the first ever BBC live outside broadcast when she played the cello in her Surrey Garden , seemingly performing with an accompaniment of nightingales. In 1944 (the year in which this portrait was painted) Beatrice is said to have played a particularly memorable solo in a concert during Sir Henry Wood's final season in London.

FOLLOWER OF JOHN LINNELL (1792-1882). Portrait of a Gentleman, head and shoulders, wearing a black coat, oil on canvas, laid on panel, 7½ x 6¼in