* Aviation. Walton (W. L. lithographer), By Permission of the Patentees, This Engraving of the First Carriage the "Ariel", is respectfully inscribed to the Directors of The Aerial Transit Company..., Ackermann & Co., March 28th,1843, uncoloured lithograph, slight staining and spotting but largely confined to margins, one crease to the lower left margin, 285 x 315 mm, together with Carlile (Alfred, lithographer). The New Flying Wonder, The Ariel, The first Carriage of the Aerial Transit Company, Royal Album no. 20, circa 1845, hand-coloured lithograph, 195 x 245 mm, with Sausinne (publishers). Concours D'Aviation, Paris, circa 1890, chromolithograph, old fold strengthened on verso205 x 505 mm, with The Boys Own Paper (publishers). Aeroplanes and Airships, [June 1916], chromolithograph, old folds, 270 x 570 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (4)NOTESThe first two prints described are rare depictions of William Henson's patented Aerial Steam Carriage. The design was one of the first to conceive of what a 'modern' aeroplane would look like and although plausible on paper - and several models were made - the finished machine never flew because the steam-powered engine proved too heavy. The prints were produced to encourage investors and there are several variants showing the plane flying over various parts of the world.
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Nodal (Bartolomé Garcia & Gonzalo de). Relacion del viage que por orden de su magestad, y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias, hicieron los capitanes Bartholome Garcia de Nodal, y Gonzalo de Nodal, hermanos, naturales de Pontevedra, al descrubimento del estrecho nuevo de San Vicente, que hoy es nombrado de Maire, y reconocimiento del de Magallanes, 2nd edition, Cadiz: reimpresso por Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, impressor de la Real Marina, [1769], bound with: Echevelar (Manuel de). J. M. Y J. Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas y navegaciones, que se execuan en todos tiempos en la America septentrional, de unos puertos à otros: con las advertencias de sondas, y notas, para ponerlas en pràctica, Cadiz: en la Real imprenta de Marina, 1753 [i.e. 1769?], 2 parts in 1 volume, Nodal: [20] 1-160 159-162 [4] pp., signatures pi2 [par.]-2[par.]4 A-X4 (2[par.]4 and X4 blank), woodcut initial and head-and tailpieces, engraved folding map (titled 'Reconocimiento de los estrechos de Magallanes y San Vicente ... por Don Pedro Texeira Ealbernas', dated 1769), woodcut vignettes in text at pp. 82-3 and 88, ink inscription to title-page verso (possibly a call number; visible recto), filled-in worm track to upper outer corners of signatures pi-E touching a few letters, headlines and page-numbers (the text neatly restored), similar minor repairs to fore margins of signature R-X not affecting text, Echevelar: 41 [3] pp., signatures A-E4 F2, repaired worming in fore margins touching decorative border of title-page, contents washed, bookplate of Kenn Back, 20th-century vellum by A. Cazares of Buenos Aires, 4to (19.3 x 13.6 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK Acquisition: Victor Aizenman, Buenos Aires, c.1997. Sabin 55935-6 (including the Instruccion); cf. Borba de Moraes II p. 102, Carter Brown II p. 156, Church 386 and Hill (1974) pp. 213-14 for the first edition (of Nodal only). Hill describes the first edition, printed at Madrid in 1621, as 'one of the rarest books on voyages of the seventeenth century ... Copies containing the map are so rare that it is believed to have been suppressed in accordance with the official Spanish policy of secrecy'. 'The work gives an account of the Spanish expedition sent out by order of Philip III, immediately after the return of Schouten's expedition, for the exploration of the Magellan Straits. The brothers Nodal sailed from Lisbon on the 27th of September, 1618, and did not return until July 9th of the following year ... The Strait Le Maire was rechristened S. Vincent, which name it retained for some time on Spanish maps' (Church).
Nordenskjöld (Nils Otto Gustav, & Johann Gunnar Andersson). Antarctica, or Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole, 1st edition in English, London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1905, xviii [2] 608 pp., half-title, frontispiece, 4 colour plates, 4 maps (3 folding), numerous illustrations in the text (most of them photographic; many full-page), half-title spotted, a few marginal spots elsewhere, closed handling tears to inside folds of folding maps, original green cloth, titles in gilt and penguin vignette in black to spine and front board, 8voQty: (1)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK First published in Swedish the previous year; all editions are uncommon, and the US issue of the English translation (Macmillan, 1905) appears to be more usually encountered than the present UK issue.
* English School. 12th Lancers circa 1814, watercolour on paper, unsigned, 20 x 15.5cm (8 x 6ins), period mahogany frame, glazed, together with a large collection of similar watercolours including after Spooner, Officer of the Grenadier Guards circa 1810, watercolour on paper, showing a First Footguards Officer in winter dress, unsigned, 20.5 x 15cm (8 x 6ins), oak frame, glazed, Smithermann (Philip Henry, 1910-1980), 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars circa 1950s, watercolour on paper, artist monogram lower right, 43.5 x 20cm (17 x 8ins), framed and glazed, Stadden (Charles C, 1912-2020), Grenadier of 71st Regiment 1806, circa 1950s, watercolour on paper, showing a Grenadier of the 71st / 74th, 1st Bn The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regt), signed and dated lower left, 20.5 x 18cm (8 x 7ins), framed and glazed, plus other watercolours including J.M. Farquhar (Royal Marines 1805), C. Conroy, pair (5th Foot, Officer Northumberland Fusiliers / 5th Foot, Sergeant, Northumberland Fusiliers) and othersQty: (12)
* English School. Knightsbridge Barracks, circa 1810, watercolour on card, showing the Governor's house, unsigned, 34 x 47.5cm (13.25 x 18.75ins), unframed, together with a collection of military uniform watercolours, mostly unsigned, 20th century comprising, 25th (Edinburgh) Foot (1770), 28 x 10cm (11 x 4ins), 92nd (Highland) Foot (1808), 58th Foot (1758-62), 12th Foot (1796), 43rd Foot (1823), 27th (Iniskilling) Foot (1751), South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (1803), 13th (First Somerset Light Infantry) Foot (1833), two by Smithermann (Philip Henry, 1910-1980), comprising The Royal Horse Guards Blue (1813), 42 x 26.5cm (16.5 x 10.5ins), 17th Queen's Own Light Dragoons Officer (1798), 39.5 x 22.5cm (15.5 x 8.75ins) and others, all unframedQty: (14)
* Harding (E.J., 19th century). Major General C.S. Hutchinson, C..B., Royal Engineers 1851, watercolour on card, signed and dated lower left, 23.5 x 18cm (9.25 x 7ins), octagonal mount aperture, period rosewood frame, glazedQty: (1)NOTESMajor General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., Royal Engineers (1826-1912) was born in Hythe, Kent, he obtained his first commission in 1843, becoming a substantive colonel in 1876, he retired from service in 1876 with the honorary rank of Major-General. From 1867 to 1895 he held the appointment of Inspector of Railways to the Board of Trade, he inspected notable works including the Tay and Forth bridges. Hutchinson was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1890.
* Castlereagh (Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822). Four letters written as foreign secretary to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay), 1812-15, i.e. 1) Foreign Office, 9 March 1812, a letter of introduction for ‘Mr Crosbie Moore of Mooresfort in the County of Monaghan’, 1 p., 4to, 2) London, c.1814, announcing the Duke of Cambridge’s readiness to move the Hanoverian army into Belgium, 2 pp., 4to, 3) London, 27 March c.1814, ‘May I beg you to give this letter to the Duke of Wellington on his arrival, I presume he is on his way to Brussels …’, no addressee but with contemporary manuscript pagination similar to that in letters 2) and 4), marked 'private', 2 pp., 8vo, 4) Foreign Office, 30 March 1815, letter of introduction for Mr Thomas Stackhouse of merchants Baker Mant & Page, 'who is going to Holland on important commercial concerns’, 1 p., 4to, the relevant letter from from Baker Mant & Page to Castlereagh enclosed (1 p., 4to), all autograph letters signed except perhaps 4), the letter possibly secretarial but with Castlereagh's autograph signatureQty: (5)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Castlereagh was foreign secretary from February 1812 until his death by suicide in 1822. He is remembered for his 'starring role' (ODNB) in negotiating the Treaty of Paris (1815) and for his post-war diplomacy, which secured lasting peace in Europe: 'In this respect he became a model of diplomacy and statesmanship for a century' (ibid.). Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
![* [Cryptography]. Collection of autograph letters signed from Francis James Jackson (1770-1814), British minister to Berlin,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/77bc0ec2-9b7d-4928-a674-acd400a80e4f/f6f3c846-d52c-433f-8ff5-acd400ed2a7c/468x382.jpg)
* [Cryptography]. Collection of autograph letters signed from Francis James Jackson (1770-1814), British minister to Berlin, to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay) as secretary of legation at Vienna, 1803-4, 11 autograph letters signed, on Franco-Russian relations including Napoleon's maltreatment of Russian envoy Markov and Alexander I's reported refusal 'to guarantee France against a continental attack', the French occupation of Hanover, French internal politics including the arrest of General Moreau (indicating 'the instability of Bonaparte's government') and reports that 'the Reign of Terror was completely restored at Paris, where two thousand people had been arrested on the 11th [March]', Russian manoeuvres ('the formation of an army of 10,000 men in Livonia ... Genl Bushöven & Valerian Souboff … are appointed to the command of it'), a Russian-Prussian treaty 'for the mutual exchange of civil & military deserters', Austrian refusal to mediate a peace between Britain and France, and similar matters, 7 of the letters written partly or largely in numerical cipher (the cipher apparently in a secretarial hand) of which 3 with interlinear transcriptions by Charles Stuart and 3 with a laid-in sheet or bifolium with Stuart's autograph notes (probably transcribing the cipher), all annotated by Stuart with date of receipt, all written on 2, 3 or 4 sides of a single bifolium (except one letter, on both sides of a single sheet), one bifolium separating along central fold, very good condition overall, 4to (23 x 18.8 cm)Qty: (11)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Francis James Jackson was appointed ambassador to Constantinople in 1797 and minister-plenipotentiary to Paris in 1801; he was minister-plenipotentiary to Berlin from 1802 to 1806, and to Washington from 1809 to 1811, leaving in advance of the War of 1812. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
![* [Cryptography]. Group of autograph letters from spymaster Francis Drake (1764-1821), British minister at Munich, to diploma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/77bc0ec2-9b7d-4928-a674-acd400a80e4f/77297228-0750-4945-a4cb-acd400ed2b1b/468x382.jpg)
* [Cryptography]. Group of autograph letters from spymaster Francis Drake (1764-1821), British minister at Munich, to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay) as secretary of legation at Vienna, 1803-4, 5 autograph letters (all but one signed), concerning an intercepted letter to Bonaparte ('I send you … a few copies … requesting you however not to mention from whom or from whence you received them'), Franco-Russian relations ('Buonaparte is desirous of having it believed that he is upon a good footing with the Emperor of Russia. This deception will avail him little in Germany as it will soon be seen through; but he may derive great advantage from it in those countries which are at too great a distance ... such as Constantinople, Naples, Madrid, Lisbon'), 'The very daring outrage recently committed by the French in Swabia' (with an accompanying secretarial copy letter from a British general to Archduke Charles referring to a series of French raids 'for the purpose of seizing several French emigrants who have sought an asylum there', 4 pp., folio), and other matters, 3 of the letters partly in cipher, one with Stuart's interlinear transcription, another with his autograph notes on a laid-in bifolium, each letter a single bifolium, one written on 2 sides, 8vo (18.8 x 11.8 cm), the others written on all 4 sides, 4to (23.4 x 18.8 cm) together with 3 similar letters, including an intelligence report from Alexander Horn (1762-1820), Scottish Benedictine monk and political agent (Regensburg, 1804, 3 pp., folio)Qty: (8)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Francis Drake was minister to the court of the Elector of Bavaria at Munich from 1799 to 1804, having previously served in Genoa, and became 'Britain's most experienced spymaster' (Clayton, This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon, unpaginated). He was expelled after his intelligence activities were exposed by a French sting operation, described in a published account by the responsible French agent Méhée De La Touche titled Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le Ministe?re anglais (1804), and lampooned in a caricature, 'Sir Francis Drake fuyant de Munich et retournant à Londres avec ses cartons, sa correspondance, ses encres sympathiques et ses clefs'. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Gentz (Friedrich von, 1764-1832). Substantial archive of autograph letters signed to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay) as secretary of the British legation at Vienna, c.1801-4, together 48 autograph letters signed 'Gentz' or 'G' and four unsigned autograph letters, all in French, addressed variously to 'Monsieur Charles Stuart', 'Monsieur Stuart', 'Mr Stuart', 'Cher Stuart', or 'Honourable Charles Stuart' either on verso or in the text (though many unaddressed), a few with dates (1802-4) but mostly undated (a few docketed by Stuart with date of receipt), all in dark brown ink on one or two sides of a single sheet or bifolium (except one letter in pencil, and one letter on three, another on four sides of a bifolium), many with Gentz's red wax seal (a few with concomitant seal tears), old folds, very good condition overall, generally 8vo or 4toQty: (52)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS An extensive archive illuminating the close personal relationship between the great Austrian political thinker and statesman Friedrich von Gentz, and Charles Stuart, the British diplomatist par excellence of the Napoleonic era. Friedrich von Gentz (1764-1832) studied under Immanuel Kant in Königsberg, but soon renounced his teacher's favourable view of the French revolution, and devoted his career to the defence of civil liberties and the equilibrium of powers in Europe against Napoleon's imperial project. He produced a German translation of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1793-4), and an important essay which was translated by John Quincy Adams and published in English as The Origins and Principles of the American Revolution, compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution (1800). He was appointed secretary in the Prussian war office at Berlin in 1793, but could not reconcile himself to a policy of neutrality towards France, and relocated to Vienna in 1802, becoming propagandist and confidential advisor to Metternich. As secretary-general in the great peace congresses of the 1810s he then played a central role in the formation of the post-Napoleonic order in Europe. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal. These letters reveal the human bonds often unseen beneath the transactions of high diplomacy. Written in an elegant French and leavened with faux rebukes ('Je vous trouve cruel de ne me rien communiquer'), they show Gentz and Stuart constantly exchanging and discussing books, pamphlets and newspapers, dining together and attending soirées, and gossiping confidentially about other luminaries of Viennese society. In several letters Gentz is preoccupied by a piece of William Cobbet's ('Je trouve, comme vous, ce cahier de Cobbet effrayant ... pour ce qu'il dit de l'état actuel des forces régulières ... je tremble pour l'Angleterre, et dans ce cas là le "Tin-man Ministry" pourroit se répentir un jour de toutes les injures qu'il a prodiguées'), and in return sends works including 'The Atrocious Life of Bonaparte' (probably J. H. Sarratt, Life of Bonaparte, 1804), presented as an exposée of Napoleon's crimes on 13 Vendémiare. Details such as a private conversation about Andrey Razumovsky, Russian ambassador and patron of Beethoven, positively demand further investigation ('J'ai passé la soirée avec A. et il m'a dit sur le sujet de Rasumoffski des nouvelles ... Probablement vous le savez déjà; en tout cas s'il vous en parle, ne faites pas semblant d'en avoir entendu quelque chose par moi'). The serious business of the Gentz-Stuart relationship is nonetheless in evidence throughout: Gentz forwards and comments on letters received from contacts including Austrian envoy to London Ludwig von Stahremberg and French émigrés such as the duc d'Orléans and the comte d'Ecquevilly; he provides intelligence from Berlin and elsewhere on the movements of Bonaparte and his generals ('Vous savez que Bonaparte a quitté Paris le 30 ... je m'attends de grandes nouvelles'), and sets Stuart up with potential informants ('L'homme en question s'appelle Rhems, il est établi à Strasbourg'). A letter written on Stuart's departure for St Petersburg, dated 11 June 1804 and giving instructions for distributing letters among various contacts in Dresden, Berlin and London including Metternich and Lord Hawkesbury, contains a noteworthy valediction which goes beyond diplomatic formalities: 'Vous connoissez depuis long tems mes sentimens pour vous, et la grande et honorable idée que je me suis formée de vos talens, de votre caractère, et des services éminens que vous rendrez infailliblemens à votre patrie, et à la cause commune de tout ce qui est encore noble, intéresssant, et digne d'être conservé sur la terre'.
* Mulgrave (Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of, 1755-1831). Group of autograph letters signed relating to preparations for Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom, written at Beverley, Yorkshire, 1803-4, to: 1) Major-General John Hope (1765-1823), later 4th Earl of Hopetoun, 26 November, 1803, on the problems of manning coastal artillery batteries in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 4 pp., 4to, 2) Major-General Robert Brownrigg (1759-1833), quartermaster-general, 27 & 29 January & 20 February 1804, 3 letters, all on munitions for the Royal Artillery at Hull and the construction of beacons in the West Riding, 2, 2 and 4 pp., folio, 3) Frederick, Duke of York (1763-1827), commander-in-chief of the army, 30 March 1804, a detailed report on the readiness of coastal defences and volunteer forces in Yorkshire, and a request for permission for 'the general assembly of the volunteer force of the West Riding at Wakefield', 6 pp., folio, together with a letter signed by Mulgrave to Lieutenant-General Lord Charles Henry Somerset (1767-1831), Office of Ordnance, 30 April 1811, on 'the field exercise of the troop of horse artillery at Lewes', 2 pp., 4to, and two documents (chits) signed by Mulgrave, both 1803Qty: (9)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Mulgrave entered the army in 1775 and reached full general rank by 1809. He was governor of Scarborough castle from 1796, and at the time of writing these letters held the rank of lieutenant-general. He was foreign secretary during the second Pitt ministry (1804-6), first lord of the Admiralty from 1807 to 1809, and master-general of the ordnance from 1810 to 1818.
* Peninsular War. Collection of letters and dispatches to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay), 1809-13, from: 1) Vaughan (Sir Charles Richard, 1774-1849), diplomatist, Oxford, 14 August 1809 & London, [1809], i.e. two letters, the first a detailed inquiry into Iberian politics and the activities of the provinicial juntas, and a summary of his intended book (i.e. Narrative of the Siege of Saragossa, 1809), the second on domestic politics including the appointment of Spencer Perceval as prime minister, 4 pp. and 2 pp., seal tears, 4to, 2) Stuart (John James, 1782-1811), Royal Navy officer and brother of Charles Stuart, Bothwell Castle, 21 August 1809, on Charles's illness, apparent criticism of his conduct by unnamed parties, the possible effect on his reputation of 'the narrative of Sir J[ohn] M[oore]'s campaign', and Wellington's prospects against the French, 4 pp., 4to, 3) Pierrepont (The Hon. Henry Manvers, 1780-1851), diplomatist, Portman Square, 20 December 1809, on Anglo-Ottoman relations and other matters, 4 pp., 8vo, 4) Rendlesham (John Thellusson, 2nd Baron, 1785-1832), Rendlesham, Suffolk, 24 August 1812, a florid letter of introduction ('My brother, George Thellusson, is about to join his regiment the 11th Lt. Dragoons in Spain ...'), 2 pp., 4to, all autograph letters signed, together with 9 others (comprising 6 autograph and 3 secretarial letters signed), written mainly from Lisbon or elsewhere in Portugal, 1811-13, all to Stuart from from various British agents, functionaries and soldiers, and concerning military, administrative, and financial matters, including a detailed letter on troop movements from a British lieutenant-general (signature illegible) at headquarters, Almada, 15 April 1811 ('In consequence of Lord Wellington's departure this day for the Alentejo, the command of the allied army upon this frontier has devolved upon me ...'), 2 pp., folio, a memorandum by one Thomas Wilson on the smuggling of American rum and gin into Lisbon and its prevention, Lisbon, 6 March 1812, 2 pp., folio, and similar, mainly folioQty: (14)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Stuart (Charles, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845). Collection of autograph letter drafts, Berlin and Vienna, c.1801-4, perhaps 10 discrete letters in all, including 5 addressed to Robert, Lord Hobart (later 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire) as secretary of state for war and the colonies, 1 addressed to 'My Dear Lord' (probably Hobart), and 4 either unaddressed or to 'Sir' or 'My Dear Sir', various extents, about 73 pp. in total, generally 4toQty: (-)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal. These drafts contain a wealth of confidential information and well-informed personal reflections on military affairs, the minutiae of diplomatic relations, and trends in the broader political situation. Of special interest is Stuart's scandalised interpretation of Napoleon's execution of the duc d'Enghien ('Without commenting upon the atrocity of this murder I shall detail a few facts which took place during Mr Pagets absence which induce me to suspect that an indirect communication from hence contributed to hasten the catastrophe'). His dispatch on 'the conquest of the Tyrol & the brilliant successes of the arch duke' (referring possibly to events in the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809) is a valuable attempt to see through the fog of war ('The exaggerations of the accounts received from the army in Germany renders it difficult to give a true version of the events whch really have taken place in Bavaria'). There are also noteworthy details on the fluctuating relations between France, Russia and Prussia, the relative position of the Ottoman Empire, and British military operations in South America ('Indian troops to rendezous at the Cape to meet 2 British regiments from home, hence to proceed & siege Monte Video on the River Plate … In this quarter it will be adviseable [sic] to employ black troops ie West Indian Regts').
* Stuart (Charles, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845). Collection of letters to Stuart from correspondents in England, 1801-5, 8 letters in total, from figures signed as John Ramsay, R. Shepherd, 'R. G' (i.e. Richard Gardiner), 'Haddon' and 'Ro. Stewart' (one signature illegible), all apparently part of Stuart's intelligence network, mainly written between the Treaty of Amiens (1802) and the renewal of war between Britain and France in 1803, the contents including well-informed reports and reflections on domestic politics in Britain and France, the balance of power in Europe, Napoleon's likely intentions and manoeuvres, British strategy (political and military), and social matters, one letter responding to Stuart's enquiry about three soldiers (one of whom 'dead of his wounds in Egypt'), the letters of various extents, 41 pp. in all, 4to, together with a 2 pp. fragment of an autograph letter apparently from C. R. Vaughan (1774-1849), written from All Souls, no dateQty: (9)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal. Stuart's correspondent John Ramsay, recently returned from France, opines that Napoleon 'disgusts so much by his hauteur, & his despotism, that I think he has little chance of remaining where he is', and following an rapprochement between Pitt and Grenville predicts the formation of a 'Talents' ministry ('there is a general annoyance created by the circumstance of so much of the talent of the country laying dormant at a time when it is so much required'). Shepherd has little good to say about Britain's politicians, recommends a strongly navalist strategy to defeat France, and ridicules Napoleon's superhuman pretensions ('none are equal to their situations but Lord Hawkesbury … [Pitt] likes too well the smack of the whip not to wish to take it in hand again, but I do not think with many that he will drive us into a new war ... If the continental powers find it their real interest to renew the [war], I trust we shall second them only by beaing the French out of every sea & ocean on the globe ... Bonaparte's Jacobinical admirers begin to ... doubt of the possibility of human perfection'). The letter from Stewart contains an interesting reflection on North America: 'What is your opinion; do you think it would be better for us that Louisiana should belong to France or to the Americans. It appears to me to be a point of great consequence, considering its situation relative to the West. India Islands'.
* Stuart (Charles, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845). Four autograph letters signed to diplomatist Charles Stuart from various British agents, 1802-9, i.e. 1) John Leard, British consul at Fiume (modern Rijeka, Croatia), 14 April 1809, an official dispatch written at the beginning of the War of the Fifth Coalition ('a war so very just and necessary for the delivery of afflicted Europe from the tyranny of Buonaparte and his banditti of robbers and assassins'), and concerning Leard's work in coordinating British and Austrian naval action, the weakness of the the Austrian navy, the blockade of Dalmatia and Venice, and similar, 4 pp., folio, 2) John Philip Morier (1778-1853), diplomat, Constantinople, 12 February 1802, on the British presence in Egypt ('I sincerely hope [Stratton] may succeed in reconciling the Turkish, British & Mamlouk interests, but I fear that our people have gone too far'), the potential re-establishment of the beys, and the conclusion of a treaty with Persia 'by which we hope to be secure from any invasion of the Affghauns', 4 pp., 4to, 3) Sir Alexander John Ball (1756-1809), naval officer and civil commissioner of Malta, Malta, 30 May 1809, 'It appears surprising that the Archduke Charles [of Austria] should not have been guarded against Buonaparte's making a similar effort to that which he made when he considered the Battle of Marengo lost until Desaix proposed charging at the head of the cavalry … I do not however despond as the Austrians have the advantages ... I send you a report of our glorious achievement in destroying the French Fleet in Basque Road ... We have reason to believe that Sir Harford Jones has succeeded in his Mission at the Court of Persia', 3 pp., 4to, 4) Edward Spencer Cowper (1779-1823), member of parliament for Hertford, Paris, 17 April 1802, on procuring fashionable clothing for Stuart from Parisian taylors, life in Paris, Easter celebrations at Notre Dame marking the official proclamation of the Concordat of 1801, and scurrilous rumours about the Queen of Naples ('To morrow will be a very grand day here & indeed a very celebrated one in the annals of French history - the First Consul [Napoleon] is to go in state to the Cathedral of Notre Dame; he will there hear high mass & the new archbishops & bishops will take the oath of allegiance to him in the same manner as to the kings of France ... The Queen of Naples has been very ill ... an enormous bunch of piles at her arse has been the cause of it. Is this true?'), 3 pp., 4toQty: (4)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS John Philip Morier accompanied the Turkish expedition to Egypt in 1799, 'with a secret mission to co-operate diplomatically with the Turks with a view to the expulsion of the French' (ODNB). He was taken prisoner by the French but, unusually, released, and published a well-received account of the campaign, titled Memoir of a Campaign with the Ottoman Army in Egypt from February to July 1800 (1801). Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Stuart (Charles, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845). Group of autograph letters signed to diplomatist Charles Stuart from British agents in Italy, 1803-9, i.e. 1) Thomas Jackson, British agent at Rome (sometime minister to Sardinia), Rome, 17 September and 24 December 1803, and Trieste, 30 April 1809, 3 letters: the first on Spain's stance towards France ('the Prince of Peace [i.e. Godoy] has declared to General Beurnonville that His Catholic Majesty was determined to remain neuter, and that if forced to take a part in the war it would be against France'), supply of troops, frigates and gunboats from the Italian Republic to France, French preparations for an expedition from Taranto; the second appraising Napoleon's chances of success in southern Italy ('The menaces of the French at Naples continue and increase … His Sicilian Majesty wards them off as well a he can, but he neither dismisses his minister nor disarms his subjects … Bonaparte seems to have a great mind to get a complete possession of the South of Italy, as he actually has of the North'); the third written at the beginning of the War of the Fifth Coalition and concerning reports of 'a great and decisive victory obtained by the A[rchduke] Charles over Bonaparte, Massena & Davourt', allied naval manoeuvres, and the Turkish invasion of Croatia ('probably at the instigation of Marmont'), 4 pp. and 3 pp., 4to, and 4 pp., 8vo, 2) John Watson, British consul at Venice, 21 January 1804, on censorship of diplomatic correspondence ('since the dispertion of Col. Wilson's observations on Bonaparte's atchievements in Egypt every letter belonging to particular persons is opened'), the arrival of HMS Monmouth and Agincourt at Trieste, Venetian shipbuilding, 1 p., 4to, 3) 'R. G.', Venice, 2 March 1804, and Vicenza, 31 May 1804, 2 letters, the first on difficulties of secure correspondence, Moreau's rivalry with Napoleon ('Private letters received here say that Massena joins with Moreau, and that the first consul [Napoleon] has quitted St Cloud for Malmaison … My only apprehension is that the whole is a scheme - an invention of Buonaparte to implicate Moreau'), and the interception of 'cyphered letters' from the enemy, the second letter partly in cipher and containing fierce criticism of British strategy and the treatment of a proposal of Stuart's ('Had it come from such pompous charlatans as Drake, Wickham, Smith and even the clear sighted Jackson, it would have instantly been attended to, but you having the enviable misfortune to be young, it has perhaps been treated as a little diplomatique emanation ... if England meant to extricate herself, and Europe, from the inevitable yoke, which Buonaparte is forming, her minister must give her money, and Russia, her men'), 3 pp. and 7 pp., 4to, together with a detailed autobiographical letter from naval or military officer possibly based in Corsica or Italy, seeking a pension, 9 pp., 4toQty: (7)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS The first letter from the correspondent signed only as 'R. G.' contains a wax seal with a name in Arabic characters transliterating possibly to Richard Gardiner or similar, and is dated 1803. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Group of Peninsular War autograph letters signed to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay) as minister at Lisbon, written from winter headquarters at Freineda, Portugal, 1811-13, 5 letters in total, i.e. 1) 29 October 1811, '[...] You will see by my letter to [the Portuguese government] yesterday that I have insisted upon their establishing the military chest although not prepared with other arrangements. My opinion upon this subject need not prevent you & Beresford from acting on it as you please', 1 p., secretarial annotations, 4to (23.1 x 18.9 cm) 2) 17 December 1811, instructing Stuart to purchase rice and grain from America, Brazil and Africa, 2 pp., secretarial annotations, 8vo (18.2 x 11.8 cm), 3) 3 February 1812, an official letter (addressed to 'Sir' not 'My dear Sir', and to 'His Excellency Charles Stuart' not 'C. Stuart Esq.' at foot), containing instructions for the handling of unspecified goods by Portuguese customs, 2 pp., small marginal hole and short split to head of central fold, folio (32.5 x 20.2 cm), 4) 1 December 1812, on the 'very great convenience ... felt at h[ea]d q[uarter]s from Mr Sodrey's absence' on a visit to Brazil, and the non-payment a $200,000 subsidy to the Portuguese, 2 pp., 4to (23.8 x 18.8 cm), 5) 15 February 1813, on the arrival of a 'Mr. Mackenzie' with an unexpected offer from Russia of military support in the Peninsula (15,000 men), 3 pp., 4to (23.8 x 18.8 cm),Qty: (5)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (1838), volume 8, pp. 363, 464, N/A, volume 9 pp. 590, N/A. The third and fifth letters are not in Gurwood's Dispatches and appear to remain unpublished. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Group of Peninsular War autograph letters signed to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay) as minister at Lisbon, written from headquarters, Cartaxo, 1810-11, 7 letters in total, i.e. 1) 12 December 1810, on a group of possibly disgraced or renegade Portuguese officers ('All that was required from the English government, was to allow them to remain in England during the existing crisis in Portugal. As, however, they have sent them back, it is a matter of indifference to me what becomes of them’), 3 pp., 2) 27 December 1810, a strong critique of the Portuguese government's incompetent management of transport and income tax ('The [income tax] system is so radically bad, that no person in Portugal pays one thousandth, instead of a tenth of this income'), 4 pp., 3) 6 February 1811, on a French intelligence post at Torres Novas run by turncoat Portuguese general Pamplona (1762-1832) ('This correspondence has been carried on principally through the means of persons who go into the enemy's lines with coffee, sugar, etc. ... and they generally carry a letter to or fro ... I have endeavoured to put a stop to these operations ... It is astonishing how accurately informed we find the enemy of every thing'), 5 pp. (on 2 bifolia, the second containing 2 lines of text and Wellington's signature only) 4) 8 February 1811, providing further information on the French intelligence post ('I have since discovered that it is carried on with a man by the name of Pindente, who resides at Torres Novas ... He has been seized once, and the foolish officer let him go; but I have directed that he may be seized again'), 2 pp., 5) 15 February 1811, on the inadequate provision of transport and related matters ('We are coming to a crisis in the affairs of the Portuguese government, that I fear I shall be inexcusable if I do not call the serious attention of the King's minister to what is going on here'), 4 pp., 6) 20 February 1811, on financial matters and a report from Marshal Beresford on the Abrantes, 3 pp., 7) 26 February 1811, enclosing and commenting on a report by Sir WIlliam Erskine on the insufficient provision of bread to the Portuguese infantry at Marmeleiro ('It was settled by Marshall [sic] Sir Wm Beresford that there should always be six days' bread for the troops in their cantonments'), all 4to except item 7 (an official dispatch), folioQty: (7)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (1837), volume 7, pp. 36-7, 73-4, 229-30, 236, 255-6, 270-1, 308-9. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Autograph letter signed to diplomatist Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay) as minister at Lisbon, dated 'Camp before Badajoz', 20 March 1812, single bifolium of laid paper watermarked 'Gater 1807', written on 2 sides, secretarial annotation at head, 4to (23.9 x 19 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESNAPOLEONIC MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM THE CHARLES STUART PAPERS Unpublished: not in Gurwood (first edition, 1837, or new edition, 1838). With the siege of Badajoz in full swing Wellington writes to his right-hand man in Lisbon, forwarding correspondence from Lord Liverpool and rejoicing 'that you stay in Portugal', Wellington having been under the impression following a recent meeting that Stuart was destined for America. At Badajoz the allied army suffered extremely heavy losses storming the walls, and ran riot through the city afterwards, with order not restored for days afterwards. Charles Stuart (1779-1845) entered the diplomatic service in 1801, serving first as secretary of legation at Vienna (1801-4), then secretary of embassy at St Petersburg (1804-8). He subsequently undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and made himself indispensable to Wellington as minister at Lisbon (1810-14); he was minister at the courts of both the king of the Netherlands and the exiled Louis XVIII during the 'Hundred Days', and at Paris from 1815 to 1824, and in 1825 helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1st Baron, 1857-1941). British Army Officer, Writer and Founder of the Scout Movement. Grim's Dyke, The House of the Dramatist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911, English Dramatist and Librettist), 15 May 1894, an original watercolour drawing of the gabled house exterior and garden, drawn on card with a dated signed presentation inscription by Baden Powell in brown ink, the date and first two lines at foot of drawing, continuing on to verso, 'A little bit of the happy retrospect that remains in my / mind - and will long remain there - of my delightful visit to Grims Dyke, RSS Baden Powell', 2 pp., 8vo, contemporary wooden desk frame, framed and partly double-glazed, overall size 20.5 x 16.5 cmQty: (1)NOTESFrom the Pamela Dugdale Collection. Pamela's great-aunt Lucy Agnes Blois Turner (1847-1936) was the wife of Gilbert. Lucy's brother Samuel Compton Turner (1846-1900) married Ellen Lake (b. 1850), their eldest daughter being Ellen Mabel Turner (1875-1958), mother of Pamela Dugdale (1911-2001). Grim's Dyke in Harrow Weald was the home of W.S. Gilbert for the last two decades of his life.
* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1st Baron, 1857-1941). British Army Officer, Writer and Founder of the Scout Movement. A group of four autograph letters signed, 'Wunhi', Meerut, N.W.P., 31 December 1897, 27 February 1898, 1 April 1898 & 10 December, no year, to Mrs [Compton] Turner, the first saying how much he enjoys her laughter and her family's company, the second referring to a Mrs Walker, Miss Malkham, the third referring to Major Edwards who 'having arrived and being in quarantine I sent down today letters, offers of house, of furniture, food, etc... roses for Mrs E and finally, breaking all quarantine regulations, went myself to find that - he was not there!', the final letter talking about the kindness of people, 'I'm just back from there oh! such a good time - to find my house furnished - with that beautiful and a splendid and exactly the lamp-shade I wanted, regretting in jest that Colonel Baden-Powell cannot accept the invitation to Friday evening dinner 'but he has reason to believe that that greedy beast Wunhi will be only too delighted to take his place', a total of 15 pages on 4 bifolia, some overall spotting and scattered browning, 8voQty: (4)NOTESProvenance: From the Pamela Dugdale Collection. Baden-Powell played the comic part of Wun-Hi in The Geisha in Meerut in 1897 with Mrs Ellen Turner's daughter, (also Ellen), playing the part of Molly Seamore. Thereafter, many of Baden-Powell's letters to mother and daughter were signed 'Wunhi'.
* Canadiana. An autograph letter signed, 'Nottingham', by Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, Whitehall, 14 November 1702, writing to Mr Blathwait in his capacity as Secretary of State to Queen Anne, testifying to the hardships faced by soldiers in early colonial Newfoundland and the difficulties of supply there, 'I understand why Captain Leake that the souldiers in Newfoundland want cloaths, and that it would be for the Queen's Service, that they should be relieved from time to time; Her Maj[es]ty would therefore have you take care, that a sufficient number be sent by the next Convoy to relieve those upon the place, with Orders to the Ships to bring home those now there, and this to be done from time to time every year or two at most. I have received from Captain Leake an Account of the State of Newfoundland, which I will send to the Councill of trade, in case the same account is not transmitted to them as I suppose it is', some browning and a little marginal splitting and fraying, one page with blank integral leaf, together with an autograph letter signed, 'Dufferin' from the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, no date, circa 1870, to Mr Hayes, saying that he shall be happy to give the vote to his candidate but has no voting paper and so asking for one to be sent, one page with blank integral leaf, both tipped onto later quarto album leavesQty: (2)NOTESDaniel Finch (1647-1730) served as Secretary of State twice, the second time in the ministry of Lord Godolphin, from 1702 to 1704. Lord Dufferin became Governor General of Canada in 1872 and was the first in that position to visit all the Canadian provinces.
Back (Eric Kenneth Prentice, 'Kenn', 1942–). 'A Record of the Climate and Inhabitants of Adelaide Island, Antarctica', 1963-6, manuscript log in black ink on ruled paper, approximately 280 pp., illustrated with 45 original photographs (most in black and white, a few in colour; most mounted on tipped-in leaves of india paper with Back's manuscript captions), 7 manuscript maps (on india paper, tipped in), 1 large folding manuscript diagram (titled 'Baratic analysis, 1200 G.M.T. 11 August 1964'), and 9 barograms or hygrograms, with frequent additional notes, tables and newspaper clippings tipped in, contemporary tan cloth binding with custom green cloth jacket stitched over, folio (32.2 x 20.3 cm), together with Kenn Back's manuscript log of his secondment to McGill University’s Knob Lake subarctic research laboratory at Schefferville, Quebec, 1967-9, approximately 126 pp., with 11 manuscript graphs and diagrams, 2 manuscript maps, and 1 large pre-printed surface analysis chart completed in manuscript, additional notes and photographs laid in, contemporary binding of roan-backed cloth with similar custom green cloth jacket stitched over, folio (32 x 20 cm), and assorted other personal effects including diaries, address books, and snapshot photographsQty: (-)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK Eric Kenneth Prentice Back (1942–), a descendant of Arctic explorer Captain George Back, joined the British Antarctic Survey in 1963, straight after graduating from Durham University with a degree in classics. Over the next twenty years he saw out eight Antarctic winters and served as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations; his three-year stint on Adelaide Island (at Station T, the BAS base), recorded in meticulous detail here, was his first posting. After an extended period of travel and itinerant work in Asia, Australasia and the south-west Pacific he returned to the BAS in 1999 as team leader at Port Lockroy in the Palmer Archipelago, taking statutory retirement three years later. He is one of a select group to have received both the Polar and Fuchs medals, and lives today in Montevideo, Uruguay.
* Education - Lancaster (Joseph). A printed flyer requesting subscriptions for a proposal to establish schools in villages & county towns for the education of ten thousand children, [1805], 'Repected Friends, The King, Queen, and Princesses, lately honored me with an audience at Weymouth, and after many enquiries respecting the mode of Education practised in my Institution, in the Borough Road, Southwark, expressed a benevolent desire to see the same benefit extended to the Country, and for this purpose began the following Subscription...,' single sheet, printed to one side, horizontal fold, 4to (23 x 18.5 cm), together with: ibid., Printed advertising flyer for a spelling book, [London, 1808?], 'Publishing by Subscription, by J. Lancaster, A Spelling Book, on a beautiful type, and new plan, that 500 Children may be taught to read from one book, instead of 500, as usually required for the same purpose; for the use of Schools, 5s, single sheet, printed to one side, 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm), [Mathias, Thomas James], A manuscript translation into English of excerpt verses of Petrarch undertaken by a student as an exercise for approval, circa 1790, 5 pages comprising 168 lines of neatly written verse, 3 blank pages, the recipient of the manuscript was Thomas Mathias, satirist & Latin scholar, and bears the name of the writer? "Mrs Wilmot", light toning, central horizontal folds, folio, and two others including an autograph letter from one teenage sister to another in which the writer discusses the typical occurrences of a young lady to another, Cambridge Jan. 12th, 1752, and a single sheet manuscript epitaph to the demise of 'Miss Colleton', circa 1795, and a single sheet manuscript note written by Sir George Pretyman-Tomline (1750-1827, tutor to William Pitt the Younger), to the bookseller-publishers Cadell & Davis ordering two publications which are to be sent 'as soon as may be convenient' by the Stamfords coach, Nov 16, 1802Qty: (6)NOTESThe first item is a rare item requesting donations to his scheme for educating children, by Joseph Lancaster, the pioneer of education.
Genealogical manuscript volume. 'Honorium et Nobilium Majorum in Anglia. The Royall Descent', early 18th century, manuscript volume showing pedigrees of 149 noble English families, neatly written on 286 pages (includes leaf of explanatory text and two leaves listing family pedigrees of Dukes, Earls, Viscounts & Barons contained within the volume), borders ruled in red, some blanks at rear, armorial bookplate to upper pastedown of William A. Cragg, Lincoln College, Oxford, contemporary calf, joints split, worn, folio (46 x 28.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESManuscript explanatory note to first leaf "This book was transcribed by William Burwell, Schoolmaster of Fiskarton, who not understanding one word of Latin has made many mistakes. The copy from which it is transcribed belongs to Christopher Rooe, Esq., of Normanton Turville, near Lester, which said book ... was copied from an original belonging to William Camden ... If this book was well corrected and fairly printed with a good index, it would make a usefull volume of English Antiquity." and with a later manuscript note to the same leaf "With submission, the author of this book cannot be Camden, as its contents & history extend to 1659 f.27. when it is known Camden died in 1623. It is therefore supposed to be Sr. W. Dugdale's who survived 1666. Comp. f.130 &c."
* George V (1865-1936). King of the United Kingdom 1910-36. Two signed Christmas cards, 1927 & 1930, both signed as King, the first 'from George R.I.' with date '1928' inserted into the greeting above, the second initialled 'G.R.I.' and addressed in the King's hand to Cecil Colville with the date '1930-1' added in adjacent to the printed greeting, both on inserted sheets in folded card with reproduction colour pictures of maritime subjects after Bernard Gribble, silk ties, a few light spots, 16 x 20.5 cm and slightly smaller, together with a third Christmas card for 1937-38, signed by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 'George R.I.' and 'Elizabeth R', folded sheet within folded card with colour reproduction print of the Spithead Coronation Review pasted to upper cover and frayed silk spine tie, light crease to upper right corner, 19 x 24.5 cm, with the original envelope addressed to Admiral The Hon. Sir Stanley Colville G.C.B. in the King's hand, registered postmarks and stamps, soiled, plus a group of approximately 16 documents and letters relating to Alec Henry Sharpe Broomfield (1897-1981), all WWI/WWII and a few inter-war items from Broomfield's time in the Hampshire 'Carabiniers' Yeomanry, initially and Home Guard latterly, including two commissions from 1915 and 1952 with facsimile signatures of the monarchs, plus unrelated groups of approximately 80 mostly manuscript receipts, circa 1870s/1900s, 10 legal and administrative letters, 1830s, plus 10 P&O menus and similar, 1975Qty: (approx. 120)NOTESAdmiral Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville (1861-1939) was a senior Royal Navy officer.
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* Gordon (Charles George, 1833-1885). Autograph letter signed, 'C.G. Gordon', Galatz [Galati], Romania, 4 February 1873, to Hughes, 'Here are the views of "Ani" I promised you. I have just come back from him', mentioning meeting Dallyell who 'said he would only stay a year more in these parts' and concluding that he will write again when he goes to Bucharest, one page, 8vo, slightly toned, tipped on to an old album sheet, together with: Napier (Robert, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, 1810-1890). Autograph letter signed, 'Napier of Magdala', Queen Anne's Mansion, 14 May, no year, to Colone Laurie, saying that it would give him great pleasure to inspect the regiment on 15th June if he should be in England at that time, and asking if he might furnish him with the particulars of the regiment and its history, 'then they may expect a few words of encouragement and at probation or advice', 3 pages, with embossed crest to upper left corner of first page, some spotting and slight dust soiling, 8vo, remains of mounting hinges to blank final pageQty: (2)
* Haile Selassie I (1892-1975). Emperor of Ethiopia 1930-1974. An audio interview conducted by a British reporter [David Holden] with Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa on the eve of the 40th anniversary of his Coronation, 1 November, 1970, the interview lasting 33 minutes and 33 seconds and recorded on Scotch Magnetic tape 215 (270m/900ft, 13cm/5in), on clear plastic spool in original printed card box with Haile Selassie name and the date inscribed to upper lid, a little soiled, spool size 13cm, together with a .wav file transfer of the interview on an 8GB memory stickQty: (1)NOTESThe interview was conducted by David Holden while preparing for his documentary 'Lion of Judah', and takes the form of five questions asked in English, followed by Haile Selassie's lengthy answers in Amharic, then followed by equally lengthy English translations by Haile Selassie's translator. There are occasional interjections by Haile Selassie and even a little English is spoken by him on request at the end of the interview. The interview begins with the question about what it was that Haile Selassie wanted to change when as a young man he first came to a position of power in Ethiopia. He answers that he believed in the values of traditional education and the moral values of his country with a modern education and that after his father's death he wanted to give Ethiopia its own constitution to safeguard rights of every citizen and their happiness. He describes how the implementation was not easy and how he fought to abolish slavery, fighting collaborators and officials. He managed to introduce education with great difficulty and for over 10 years he had the portfolio of education himself. He desired to give girls and boys free education to help serve their country the best the positive response he got from the people made him very happy. The other questions concern the period of his life with the invasion by the Italians in the 1930s and the failure of the League of Nations to protect Ethiopia, the interviewer asking him what affect that had had on his thinking about such organisations as the United Nations, etc., the third question to which Haile Selassie answers concerns the period of Italian occupation when he spent most of his time in England, asking him for his chief recollection and what he liked most and disliked most about the English. Haile Selassie speaks fondly of his time in Britain and his friendship with the British people, and describes the true friendship between British and Ethiopian people. The fourth question returns to education and refers to the student troubles in USA, France, Japan and United Kingdom. Haile Selassie describes how there had been a brief misunderstanding between university officials and government officials in Ethiopia, but students quickly realised that they were wrong and came to their senses. The final question is to ask if Haile Selassie would speak a sentence or two in English for the listeners to which Haile Selassie responded: 'You ask me really serious things. I see many changes in the world and hope always for peace'. He concludes that the world has changed many times since its inception and it's still changing and it can be better or for the worse and that one must do one's best to achieve peace, and talking is not enough. The interviewer thanks Haile Selassie and congratulates him on the 40th anniversary of his coronation the following day and hoping to be at the Parliament to see him give his speech. He asks whether it would be possible to take one photograph and gets a positive reply.
Lethbridge (Thomas Charles, 1901-1971). English Archaeologist, Parapsychologist and Explorer. A group of 23 autograph letters signed, 'Tom', mostly Branscombe, Dorset, 1955-1970, all addressed to C.F. 'Fred' Tebbutt, the Huntingdonshire Archaeologist, about various subjects including dowsing with a pendulum including claims he can date things with it, comments on the Gogmagog controversy, witches, reports on megalith dating, mentions of friends and various events including his various pendulum experiments, various lengths, 8vo, with original envelopes, together with a group of approximately 24 autograph letters signed from Tebbutt to Lethbridge, of similar date and covering shared interests and friendships, various lengths but mostly several pages in length, 8vo, together with a few related cuttings and photocopies, preserved in a quarter morocco gilt solander box with title label to spine, 4to, together with an unpublished typescript of a book by Lethbridge, circa 1950, comprising separately paginated chapters: introduction, Warfare on the Icknield Way (incomplete at end), the Influence of Thralls on Their Masters, Revivals of Roman Culture and The Survival of the Britons, plus a few additional orphaned leaves, some old damp staining throughout with some resultant ink bleeding and paper browning without loss of legibility, recent half morocco gilt, 4to, plus two further unpublished typescripts by Lethbridge, the first a collection of short stories (later reworked as 'Ghost & Ghoul'), written circa 1951, and Ivory Tower: Reminiscences of Archaeology at Cambridge 1920-1950, written circa 1971, recent uniform half morocco gilt, 4to, plus a catalogue of the Archaeology Library of Lethbridge produced by Commin's Bookshop, Bournemouth, compiled by J.R. Ruston, 1973, original pen and ink drawing by Lethbridge loosely inserted, modern calf gilt, 4to, plus a sammelband of 8 archaeological offprints by Lethbridge, circa 1929-31, guarded into a contemporary morocco binding by J.R. Wilson, heavily rubbed and slightly faded, 4toQty: (6)NOTESProvenance: Ex libris John Gadd. John visited Fred Tebbutt as his home in Surrey in 1981 in order to get some background information on Lethbridge, especially in the area of extrasensory perception. John's one-page note is pasted to the front pastedown of the box of letters included with the lot. Lethbridge was a specialist in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, serving as Honorary Keeper of Anglo-Saxon Antiquities at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from 1923 to 1957. He wrote 24 books on various subjects, becoming particularly well-known for his advocacy of dowsing. In 1957 Lethbridge left Cambridge and moved with his wife Mina to Branscombe, Devon. He devoted himself to researching paranormal phenomena, publishing a string of popular books. His research included the use of pendulums for dowsing, the witch-cult hypothesis of Margaret Murray, articulated the Stone Tape theory as an exploration for ghost sightings, and argued that as extraterrestrial species were involved in shaping human evolution. Often derided and ignored by the academic establishment, Lethbridge attracted a cult following, and his work was posthumously championed by esotericists like Colin Wilson and Julian Cope.
* Livingstone (David, 1813-1873). Autograph end of a letter signed, 'David Livingstone', no date, in full, 'all. Let me hear from you soon please and believe me ever yours, David Livingstone', taken from the foot of a letter with further autograph lines by Livingstone to verso, '... her for lately leaving Miss Mackenzie. PS. It may be well to recollect that if continuing to work connected with Government in the way proposed you would be in the way of being remembered should anything better turn up.', paper size 6 x 11.5 cmQty: (1)NOTESMiss Mackenzie is probably Ann Mackenzie (1818-1877), sister of Bishop Charles Mackenzie who became the first missionary bishop in Nyasaland following David Livingstone's request to Cambridge. Ann was to join her brother at mission schools in South Africa.
Shackleton (Ernest H.). Antarktis' Hjärta. Berättelsen om den Engelska Sydpolsexpeditionen 1907-1909. Öfversättning från författarens manuskript af Dr. Carl Forsstrand, 2 volumes, 1st edition in Swedish, Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söners, 1910, xlii 331; 408 pp., collotype frontispieces, numerous halftone or colour plates (all present as listed; a few folding), 3 folding maps, 1 folding plate and 1 folding diagram secured by card band to volume 2 rear pastedown as issued (rear inner hinge partially cracked in consequence), bookplates of Kenn Back, original light blue cloth, titles and a vignette of Shackleton raising the Union flag to spines and front boards, spines sunned, headcaps slightly rubbed, volume 1 sunned along top edge of each board, 8voQty: (2)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK Acquisition: Norli, Oslo, 1999. First edition in Swedish of The Heart of the Antarctic, in a bright example of what may be the publisher's deluxe binding, other copies being noted in plain green cloth.
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* McNally (Leonard). Village Lawyer a Farce, [Dublin?], circa 1785, manuscript comprising 21 pages including title with Dramatic Personae list to verso, written throughout in a neat hand, in original wrappers, side-stitched, light dust-soiling, title in manuscript to upper cover, slim 4to, together with: Bristol - Frenchay, A list of subscribers for building a Bridge across the river at Frenchay, making good the road on each side, January 31st , 1788, five pages of manuscript lists, numerous blank leaves, original wrappers, manuscript title to upper cover, slim 4to, with 12 pages 19th century of manuscript notes relating to the history of the Frenchay area, Tennyson (Charles), Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces, 1st edition, 1st issue, Cambridge: B. Bridges, Market Hill and sold by John Richardson, 91, Royal Exchange, London, 1830, half-title, edges untrimmed, original boards, spine rubbed, slim 12mo, and other miscellaneous manuscript material & broadsides etc.Qty: (a carton)NOTESThe first item appears to be an early English translation of the anonymous 15th century French farce "L'Arogate Pierre Pathelin". It was first adapted for the stage by David-Augustin De Brueys (1640-1723) and Jean de Palaprat (1650-1721) as "Avocat Patelin", first performed in 1706 and published in French in 1715. The title is clearly written as by "Leonard McNally". Leonard McNally (1752-1820) was a Dublin barrister, playwright, lyricist, founder member of the United Irishmen, informer and government agent. The play was extremely popular in Regency times, and adaptations were made by other others including Charles Lyon, George Coleman and William Macready.
* Pitt (William, the younger, 1759-1806). Manuscript note by William Pitt to the Irish M.P. William Burroughs during the Debate on the Duke of Atholl's Compensation Bill in 1805 on the question of the Duke's rights over lost revenues from the Isle of Man, together with William Burroughs' footnote, 1805, single sheet, with Pitt's six line note 'It might have been right to refer to Commiss. originally the Question of Fact what was the value of the Property - but the Question now is Question of Liberty which with all the Circumstances before us. We can but decide for ourselves', with explanatory footnote by the Irish M.P. William Burroughs (1752-1829), 'the foregoing Lines were written by Mr. Pitt, as a suggestion to me in debate on the question relative to the Duke of Atholl's Compensation Bill, in the year 1805', mounted on album leaf, together with: Peter the Wild Boy, Manuscript account of an extraordinary being in human shape cast in a wood in Germany & brought to England by King George I, 1785, 3 pages (approx. 350 words) written in a neat hand, with integral docketed page, 4to (20 x 15 cm), MacGillivray (Saunders & Applecross, Tom, pseud?), An Autograph letter written by Macgillivray & addressed to the editor of the Satirist in London on the result of the Parliamentary Election for the County of Ross, and enclosing the text of a poem written and issued after the Election by the losing Tory candidate, Dingwall, 29th Jan 1835, single sheet letter written to one side, with address to verso, which identifies the losing Tory candidate as a Mr McKenzie, 4to and single sheet poem written to both sides in a different hand, with heading 'To the Electors of Ross' and signed 'Tom Applecross, Fodderty, 27 Jan, 1835', folio, both tipped onto album sheet, Rippon (Cuthbert), An autograph letter addressed to Joseph Watson advising him that 'Joseph Pease would be able to take his parliamentary seat by affirmation (instead of by oath)' as M.P. for S. Durham, London, Feb. 11, 1833, single sheet with 15 lines text to one side and integral address leaf, seal and free postmark to verso, 8vo (18 x 11 cm), (Joseph Pease 1799-1872, was the first sitting Quaker M.P. & an early railway pioneer), and other manuscript letters etc. including autograph letter by Emily Lock on behalf of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Christian to Mrs Haly thanking her for sending the lines about her brother, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Dec. 1, 1885; collection of four autograph letters by Andrew Stone (1703-73, Secretary of State & tutor to George III) sent to different recipients in his capacity as Under Secretary of State to Lord Newcastle, Whitehall, 1783-39Qty: (18)
* Rouault (Georges, 1871-1958). French Painter. Signed postcard, 'Georges Rouault', no date, a vintage gelatin silver print photograph of Rouault by Yvonne Chevalier, head and shoulders pose in semi-profile, signed by the photographer lower left, and signed by the artist in blue ballpoint pen to plain back verso, 9 x 13.5 cm, together with: Delvaux (Paul, 1897-1994). Belgian Surrealist Painter. Signed and Inscribed Postcard, 'P. Delvaux', no date, a colour postcard with a reproduction of his work entitled 'La Ville Rouge', signed and inscribed by Delvaux in black ink to blank area of verso, light smudge slightly affecting final two letters of surname, 10.5 x 14.5 cm, plus: Hockney (David, 1937-). English Artist. First Day Cover, 1999, the postcard and stamp featuring Hockney's painting Salts Mill, Saltaire, (limited edition, 452/2000), artist's signed presentation inscription for James and Sally below limitation details, 10 x 21cm, Stella (Frank, 1936-). American painter. Signed postcard, circa 2000, showing a colour reproduction of Stella's painting Hyena Stomp, 1962, signed 'F. Stella' in blank ink to wide white margin beneath image, postally unused, 15 x 10.5cm, Cummings (Michael, 1919-1997). British Newspaper Cartoonist. Self-caricature, 1980, drawn in the centre of the paper in black marker pen and signed by Cummings, with a brief autograph note signed by Cummings in blue ballpoint pen to upper left corner, sending the cartoon and autograph, some overall light spotting, Daler Artboard, 36 x 47cm, plus 3 modern books signed by the British cartoonists Gerald Scarfe, Peter Brookes and Ralph Steadman, all VGQty: (8)
Royal Victorian Hairwork. Plaits made by Queen Victoria and Victoria, Princess Royal, circa 1857-60, the first by Queen Victoria from the light fair hair of her youngest child Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), some hairs dyed rose-pink, and then plaited into a tessellation of alternating pink and white triangles, 3 cm in length, the second and third plaits similarly tessellated with natural fair hair only, by Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901), from the hair of her eldest son Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the two strips measuring 3 cm & 6 cm in length, the three strips mounted on a contemporary scrap album leaf with contemporary ink identification in an unidentified hand at head of page, the remainder of the scrap album containing copies of poems, amateur verses, engravings and other illustrations including a few original drawings and watercolours, some signed or initialled by the authors and dated circa 1840s/1860s, a few leaves detached and frayed, calligraphic ownership name of Eliza-Maria Gray at front, a total of approximately 70 leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated morocco, covers and backstrip detached (but present), 4to (30 x 24 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe popular Victorian activity of hairwork and hair jewellery is more usually associated with mourning and death rather than, as here, birth and joy. The inscriptions at the head of the page with the hairwork reads I. Plaited by Her Majesty Queen Victoria on the birth of H.R.H. The Princess Beatrice. II. Plaited by The Crown Princess of Prussia (our own dear Princess Royal) on the birth of her son, and presented to the late Duchess of Kent [1786-1861, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld], on her birthday [17 August].'
* Sisley (Alfred, 1839-1899). Anglo-French Impressionist Painter. Autograph Note signed, 'A Sisley', Moret, 1 February 1891, to Monsieur Poitiere thanking him for the 100 Francs which he has received, 'Vous êtes bien gentil', marginal toning from previous framing, one page, 16mo (11.5 x 9 cm), together with: Dubuffet (Jean, 1901-1985). French Painter & Sculptor. Typed letter signed, 'Jean Dubuffet', Vence, 10 October 1959, to Georges Fall, in French, saying that his secretary Madame Neumann has written to him saying that Fall did not meet the sale of the album of colour lithographs which was delivered to him a few months ago, and this book embarrasses him, but that on the other hand, Dubuffet had his own and, on the contrary, several requests that he could not satisfy for lack of sufficient number of copies, and suggesting that Fall gives him this album which will then suit them both, then asking if this is agreeable he could let Madame Neumann know, a little creasing and short vertical closed tear to upper margin touching printed address, one page, 4to, plus: Knight (Laura,1877-1970). English Painter. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Laura Knight', St. John's Wood, London, no date, to Mr. Freeman, thanking her correspondent for their letter and enquires providing Whitney Smith's address in Hampstead and John Skeaping's in Belsize Park, 'I don't know his work, but hear it is exceptionally fine', 1 page, 8voQty: (3)NOTESDubuffet's letter no doubt refers to one of the Cahiers du Musée de Poche publications published by Georges Fall with Dubuffet reproductions. John Skeaping (1901-1980) English Sculptor, a member of the London Group and the first husband of Barbara Hepworth.
Shackleton (Ernest H.). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: William Heinemann, 1919, colour frontispiece, all halftone photographic plates as called for including double-page panorama, folding map, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, original dark blue cloth, spine letttered in silver, large pictorial block of the Endurance in silver to front board, upper fore corner of front board bumped, 8voQty: (1)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK The first impression of the previous month was printed on inferior paper which is invariably browned.
* Wilton (Ernest Colville Collins, 1870-1952). British Diplomat. A group of 7 appointments signed by King George V, Saint James, 1913/23, being appointments for Wilton to be Consul at Nanking (19 February 1913), Consul General for the Consular District of Chengtu (1 April 1917), Commissioner on the International Commission and the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary (10 January 1920), Consul General to reside at Korno (19 October 1920), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Esthonia and Latvia (1 March 1921), Member of the Second Class or Knights Commanders, (1 January 1923), Knight Commander (1 January 1923), all signed ‘George R.I.’ at head, the first 4 countersigned by the Foreign Secretaries Edward Grey, Arthur James Balfour and George Curzon (2), mostly vellum, various sizes, plus a small medallion photographic portrait of Wilton in full uniform, c.1910, gilt oval case with eyehook, 8 x 6cmQty: (8)NOTESProvenance: The British diplomat Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, KCMG (1870-1952).
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China Journal. A Trip in the Hills beyond Peking, September 1924 [so titled on upper cover], an illustrated manuscript account of a British hiking trip in rural China at a time of civil war, comprising 25 pages including 16 pages of a journal written in pencil and incorporating 2 sketches (‘one of the chief monks standing out to make a tour of the monastery’s demands’ and ‘old font in Guests’ Courtyard’) in an unidentified hand; a further 22 captioned and mounted black and white photographs of the trip on 6 pages, photographs include members of the party, several village scenes including Ho Pei and Hei Leung Kuan, images 8 x 5.5cm or 6 x 10.5cm; a full-page sketch map of the route in pencil with some additional red and blue watercolour; plus 2 full-page drawings, the first in pencil of the ‘Entrance to Ha Lung Kuan’, the second in watercolour and pencil of ‘Guests’ Quarters, Hsi Yu Sen’, small split to foremargins of 2 leaves not affecting text or drawings, contents partly detached in contemporary stapled printed wrappers (Manufactured by Tientsin Press Ltd) with manuscript title to upper wrapper, lacks lower wrapper, oblong small folio (19 x 27.5cm), together with: China, a small photograph album, circa 1916, containing 9 black and white snapshot photographs mounted on rectos, with ink captions and seemingly in the same hand as the journal, showing: Canton, [now Guangzhou] (December 1916), New Custom House under construction; British Consulate building damaged by floods; Chun family temple; Pagoda from British Yamen Gardens [Yamen, administrative offices]; The old British Yamen, now a mess for civil service students; The old British Yamen, grounds; crowded passenger junk; "The Dormouse", houseboat showing Ernest Wilton with others; Chinese servant with dogs; Man in soldier's uniform (pasted to final leaf verso), each 6 x 10.5cm, plus 7 mostly related loose photos but including one later one (creased) showing Indian soldiers in Hong Kong marching on King's Birthday in 1929, contemporary card covers with spine tie, 14.5 x 19.5cm, plus a small partly cut down studio photograph of Sir Edward Colville Collins Wilton, circa 1910, oval-matted in a small leather desk frame, 12.5 x 10cmQty: (3)NOTESProvenance: The British diplomat Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, KCMG (1870-1952), who would seem to be the author/photographer. Wilton had a 30-year relationship with Chinese affairs beginning in 1890. He was employed with the Mission to Tibet in 1903-04, as adviser to Francis Younghusband on Chinese affairs. At the time the photographs in the small album were taken Wilton would have been Acting Consul-General in Canton. By 1920 he had returned to Europe, becoming British Commissioner in Lithuania, and was later appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Estonia and Latvia. From 1923-26 he was Chief Foreign Inspector of the Chinese Salt Gabelle, and from 1927-32 he was President of the Saar Governing Commission, in Europe. The trip was certainly undertaken by some people in consular positions, and one photographed woman identified simply as ‘V’ may refer to Violet Evelyn Brown, who Wilton was to marry in 1927. The trip appears to have taken in what is known as The Fragrant Hills, written by an unidentified author. At the beginning the diarist worries that Chang Tso Lin [Zhang Zuolin, a Chinese warlord] will come into the Civil War [i.e. the conflict between Japanese-backed forces based in Manchuria, known as the Fengtians and the Zhili faction, backed by Anglo-US interests] leaving the trains between Peking and Mukden [Shenyang] affected, and thus delaying their trip into the Western hills near Beijing. Since the trains appear to be unaffected they decide their trip can go ahead in spite of all. There are mentions of Mrs Denham and her friend, Mrs Wheatcroft, an artist joining them, plus 'The Lucas''. The diary continues with lists of the provisions and supplies: bacon, whisky, pickles, etc., and a list of 'useful things Mrs Denham likes' including a piece of white linoleum to use as a tablecloth, 'paper napkins instead of linen ones'... The party take the train to Chang Tsin Tien where they change trains and begin their trip from Toli [photo of the travellers in a Toli teahouse] with a walk to Hei Lung Kwan crossing the Lu Li Ho river, and finding it hard going even with donkeys as the river has flooded and several bridges are down. Later they come to large village Nan Chiao 'where there is a good sized temple'. Their departure from the village draws a large crowd, ’foreigners are evidently a rarity in these parts'. 'One passes numerous little coal mines… and all the people are black with coal dust'. They eventually arrive at Chan Kow Yuen to find the temple in ruins. They find another at the other end of the village but it is full of soldiers. They head for a place called Hsi Yu Sen passing through prosperous countryside of buckwheat fields, and find the people friendly. Retracing their steps they see 'a curious little bit of country superstition' when they witness a little girl drop a baby while crossing a stream on stepping stones. When she picks it up she touches the stones and then the baby's head, an action repeated by the mother when she arrives. Their train is full with country people and soldiers 'all however quite well behaved’.
* Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935). Also known as the 'Nanking Warlord' or leader of the 'League of Five Provinces'. Three-quarter length portrait in military dress with military order and sword, circa 1920s, vintage gelatin silver print photograph, 25 x 19cm, original studio mount with imprint at foot, ink presentation inscription in Chinese characters to left and right margins, presented to the British diplomat Ernest Wilton, overall 40.5 x 28cmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: The British diplomat Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, KCMG (1870-1952). Sun Chuanfang, from Shandong Province, became an officer of the Beiyang Army and later joined the Zhili clique following the Xinhai Revolution. Sun became the military governor of Fujian in 1923 and in 1924 at the beginning of the First Jiangsu-Zhejiang War he commanded the 4th Army in Fujian Province. One of his first acts was to support his ally Qi Xieyuan, moving up from the south in a move that was responsible for the defeat of rival warlord Lu Yongxiang and the capture of Shanghai. He was subsequently rewarded with the military governorship of Zhejiang. The Northern Expedition ended his rule in 1926 and in 1935 he was assassinated in Tianjin by Shi Jiangqiao, the daughter of Shi Congbin, who ten years earlier had been commander of units in Shandong.
* WWI & Battle of Arras. First Army panorama no. P.111, B.20.b.00.45, sheet 51B, including a field of view of 83° from about 39° – 122° (approximate scale of degrees (1° = 1 inch), made from Vimy Ridge, 22 April 1917, panoramic gelatin silver print photograph on 4 joined sheets, place and building identification details clearly marked in the negative, printed labels to left margin, No. 2 Advanced Section Army Printing Stationery Services and 50th (S.A.) Brigade R.G.A. ink stamps to verso, some age soiling and creasing, overall 16 x 210 cm. together with a few miscellaneous military photographs including Hampshire Regiment interest, one captioned ‘Minden Day’, 1922, studio photographs of General Archibald Hunter by Bassano, weapon training staff, officers training school Mhow 1945, no. 22 class (T.C.) SME, Chatham, 19 July 1915, a group of 13 vintage RFC aerial black and white photographs, 1915, including Farnborough (3), Thames Ditton, Long Ditton, Oxford Aerodrome, etc, images 9 x 10.5 cm, 3 military cabinet cards, 3 small albums of Ogden’s photographic miniature cigarette cards including some military interest, 3 unconnected partially completed photo albums, each including some mostly WWI military interest, plus family snapshots, etc, plus a small quantity of printed and manuscript military ephemera relating to various families, 4 small boxes of lantern slides showing drawings of postal history interestQty: (a carton)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. 'Bob' Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019).
* WWI & WWII Letters. Three archives of British soldiers' letters from the First and Second World War, the first a small group of WWI letters and Field Service postcards sent by Herbert Arthur Stott (1892-1971), serving as a Private with the 14th Royal Welsh Fusiliers in France, to his future wife Grace Stephens, plus a few postcards including three real photo postcards featuring Stott and other NCOs and officers in uniform, plus a large bundle of approximately 200 further mostly contemporary letters sent to Grace by family and friends in England, some receipts and employment letters, motorcycle and registration papers, etc. for Herbert Stott, circa 1912-14, plus some related correspondence about the letters and an article he was writing in the 1980s, together with an archive of approximately 130 WWI letters, 1916-17, from Signaller Albert J. Taylor (2989), B Company, London Rifle Brigade based in Southwold, Suffolk and with 30th (City of London) Battalion in Guildford, Surrey & Colchester, Essex, February 1916-April 1917, to his wife ‘Tiny’ in Hackney, London, in pen and pencil, general family chit chat letters, many letters lengthy, 4to/8vo, together with some related family letters and documents, plus an archive of approximately 75 WWII letters from 76944 Private A. Menzies, W Platoon, 222 Corps Troops Camp Site Coy RASC, APO, 29 June 1944 (in France by 3 July), ending 29 July 1945 (expecting to be sent 'East'), to his sweetheart Miss Eileen Dooley, 34 Sussex Road, Tonbridge, Kent, mostly family chit chat, but one letter (30 April 1945) referring to the mass graves that they have discovered (location not given): ‘We have just come across another three of them [graves] and what a sight to see I hope that I never see anything like it again in each of the graves there was a thousand men and women all just thrown in these holes together after they had been killed I say killed Eileen because we all saw how they had been hit on the head I think that they had been killed about a week before we took the place and it was a bit of luck that they were found for with this heavy rain that we have had this week it had worked the bit of sand from off the top of the grave for they were hardly covered the hole itself was only about 6 feet x 4 and about 4 feet and in each hole like that was a hundred’, mostly several pages in ink, original postmarked envelopes with censor stampsQty: (3 folders)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. 'Bob' Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019).
Bagehot (Walter). Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen, 1st edition in book-form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1858, 2 pp. advertisements, original light brown pebble-grain cloth, 8vo, together with: Ruskin (John). The Political Economy of Art, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857, advertisement endpapers, original printed yellow cloth, darkened, spine rolled, closed tear to headcap, 16mo, Hardy (Thomas). Wessex Tales. Strange, Lively, and Commonplace, 1st US edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, contemporary red half cloth, 8vo, and 26 others, 19th-century literature in the original cloth, generally bright copies, including Washington Irving, Abbotsford, 1st edition, John Murray, 1835; Maurice Davies, Fun, Ancient and Modern, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1878; and similarQty: (35)NOTESPurdy p. 60 (Hardy: this US edition of Wessex Tales includes a portrait frontispiece of Hardy 'for the first time in any of his books').
Taylor (Griffith). With Scott: The Silver Lining, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1916, all plates as called for, 2 folding maps, half-title and title-page, spotted, library markings to a few pp. and to folding map verso, a few leaves clumsily opened, folding map with closed handling tear, endpapers renewed, bookplate of Kenn Back, original green pictorial cloth, library label removed from spine, partial loss of lettering on front cover, a few marks, 8vo, together with: Borchgrevink (C. E.). First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 32 pp. advertisements, pp. xv-16 loose, pp. 41/2 and 121/2 each with crudely repaired tear in gutter and contemporary annotations to margins, occasional pencil markings elsewhere, top edge gilt, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold and silver, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Cherry-Garrard (Apsley). The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, London: Constable and Company Limited, 1929, numerous plates and maps, spotting, bookplates of Kenn Back, original blue cloth, spines refurbished, 8vo, and 13 others, Antarctic exploration, original cloth (not collated), including Scott, Scott's Last Expedition, 1st edition, 1913 (covers badly water-damaged, staining to outer leaves, endpapers renewed), Joyce, The South Polar Trail, 1st edition, 1929, Hurley, Argonauts of the South, 1st US edition, 1925, Mill, The Siege of the South Pole, 1st edition, 1905, and similarQty: (18)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK
Bunyan (John). The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come ... The Nineteenth Edition, with Additions of New Cuts [... The Second Part ... The Tenth Edition, with Addition of Five Cuts], 2 volumes, London: for M. Boddington [volume 2: for N. and M. Boddington], 1718 & 1717, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, woodcuts throughout, light browning, a few marks, volume 1 without final advertisement leaf, contemporary manuscript genealogy to frontispiece recto, volume 2 closely trimmed at head and foot frequently cropping headlines, catch-words and the bottom line of text, frontispiece laid down, uniform late 19th or early 20th century sheep by Birdsall and Son, 12mo (14.1 x 8.4 cm), together with: Malvezzi (Virgilio). Romulus and Tarquin. First written in Italian. And now taught English by H. Ld Cary of Lepington, the Second Edition, London: by J. H. for John Benson, 1638, engraved title-page, lacking signature N1, closely trimmed frequently shaving box-rules, a few marks and stains, bookplate (Thomas Holley FSA), contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, 12mo (12.9 x 7.2 cm), Keach (Benjamin). The Progress of Sin; or the Travels of Ungodliness, wherein the Pedigree, Rise (or Original) Antiquity, Subtilty, Evil Nature, and prevailing Power of Sin, is fully Discovered; in an apt and Pleasant Allegory, 1st edition, London: for John Dunton, 1684, engraved frontispiece repaired in fore margin, lacking signatures E6-7, browning, a few marks, contemporary calf, rebacked (and tightly bound in the process), 12mo (14 x 8 cm), and 7 others (not collated): Keach, War with the Devil, New Edition, Leeds, 1795; Quarles, Boanerges and Barbanas, 6th edition, 1664 (with engraved portrait); The Oxford Sausage, A New Edition, [1780?]; Owen's Book of Fairs, 6th edition, [1756?]; A Collection of Occasional Papers for the Year 1716, 1716; Maurice, An Impartial Account of Mr John Mason of Water-Stratford and his Sentiments, 1st edition, 1695 (title-page badly frayed and soiled, modern boards); and Cowper, Poems, New Edition, 2 volumes, 1800Qty: (12)NOTESESTC T58896 (Bunyan, volume one: ten copies world-wide), T58926 (Bunyan, volume two: two copies world-wide) S111908 (Malvezzi: four copies in UK libraries) R11998 (Keach, The Progress of Sin: four UK copies); STC 17220 (Malvezzi); Wing K80 (Keach, The Progress of Sin).
Chadwick (Edwin). Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, 3 volumes, London: W. Clowes, 1842, lithographed maps and plates, Scotland volume with repaired title and contents leaves, some light spotting and toning, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, lacking the Supplementary volume '... the Practice of Interment in towns...', together with Creighton (Charles). A History of Epidemics in Britain, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1891-94, endpapers a little toned, previous owner signature to volume 2, original green cloth, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration ad Practical Operation of the Poor Laws, Published by Authority, London: R. Fellowes, 1834, some light spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, 8vo, with others on public health etc including Thomas Shapter's The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832, 1849, First [and Second] Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts, 4 volumes, 1844-45, J. Clarke Searle's An Essay on Cholera adapted for popular perusal, Bristol, 1831, Report on the Cholera Epidemic of 1866 in England. Supplement to the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, 1868 and English Sanitary Institutions, by Sir John Simon, 2nd edition, 1897Qty: (32)NOTESFirst work PMM 313.
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Charles I. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtracture of his Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, [London]: Reprinted in Regis memoriam, for John Williams, 1649, A1 present with 19th century annotation, folding engraved frontispiece, first two words of title in Greek characters (title in red & black), engraved portrait of Prince of Wales, few woodcut decorative initials, bound with The Papers which passed at New-Castle betwixt His Sacred Majestie and Mr Al. Henderson: concerning the change of Church-Government. Anno Domini 1646, London: R. Royston, 1649, some close-trimming & fraying to fore-edge throughout volume, occasional dust-soiling, contemporary calf, without title label and slight wear to spine, 24mo (97 x 49 mm), together with: ibid, England's black Tribunall. Set forth in the Triall of K. Charles, I. At a High Court of Justice at Westminster-Hall. Together with his last Speech when he was put to death on the Scaffold, January 30. 1648..., 4th edition, London: F. Playford, 1660, engraved portrait frontispiece, initial leaves with repaired worm holes to gutter margin, armorial bookplate to upper pastedown, 19th century sheep by R. Hynes of Dover, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco labels, extremities slightly rubbed, small 8voQty: (2)NOTESEikon Basilike - Almack 37; Madan 33; ESTC R40197; Wing E302. The Papers which passed - ESTC R221667; Wing C2535B. England's black Tribunall - ESTC R31429; Wing E2947.
Fox (John). The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Death of the Protestants in the Reign of Queen Mary the First ... Originally Written by Mr. John Fox: and now Revised and Corrected by an Impartial Hand, London: printed and sold by John Hart and John Lewis, 1732, engraved title (Birkbeck College Library blind stamp to lower blank corner), 30 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, engraved title, some light toning, marbled endpapers with printed ownership label of Thomas Seagood to upper pastedown, hinges split, contemporary blind panelled calf, neatly rebacked with elaborately gilt decorated spine and red morocco title label, board edges and corners repaired, folio (37.3 x 24 cm), together with: Strype (John), The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, the first Bishop of London, and the second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth..., in Two Books, London: John Hartley, 1710, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red & black, wide margins, contemporary blind panelled calf, modern reback and corner repairs, folio (45 x 28.5 cm)Qty: (2)
Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry ... to which is added a Treatise of Honour Military and Civil..., 3 parts in one, 5th edition, London: printed by S. Roycroft for R. Blome, 1679, title in red & black, 74 engraved plates (including 18 portrait plates, and over 400 armorials printed to both sides of plates), woodcut armorials to text, small rust hole to E2 & 2C1 (in first part) affecting a couple of letters of text and short closed tear to P2, short tear to L2 (second part), bookplate of John Bennet Laws of Rothamsted to upper pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, joints cracked and with old repairs, wear at head of spine, old repairs to corners with slight wear, folioQty: (1)NOTESWing G2222.
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Jonson (Benjamin). The Workes, [volume 1 of 3], London: printed by Richard Bishop and are sold by Andrew Crooke, 1640, [12], 668; 228 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece (repaired, re-margined to gutter & lower margin), engraved title with elaborate architectural border, A3 with strengthening repair to upper outer blank corner, occasional light dust-soiling, slight damp staining to some fore-edge margins, contemporary calf, old reback, boards detached, folioQty: (1)NOTESSTC 14753; ESTC S112456. The first volume, printed by Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, was a 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio with corrections; it has sometimes been termed "the second edition of the first folio." The second & third volumes were printed by James Dawson for Thomas Walkley in 1641.
Lilly (William). Anima Astrologiae: or, a Guide for Astrologers. Being the considerations of the Famous Guido Bonatus Faithfully rendred into English. As also the Choicest Aphorisms of Cardeans Seaven Segments, Translated, and methodically digested under their proper Heads. With a New Table of the fixed Stars, rectified for several years to come..., 2 parts in one, 1st edition, London: B. Harris, 1676, engraved frontispiece, folding table, first part with single worm hole to blank fore-margin of last few leaves, second part with single worm hole developing to worm trail towards rear of volume (affecting text), some light toning, near contemporary calf, upper board soiled, worm damage to lower board and spine, worn, 8voQty: (1)NOTESWing L2208. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
Mervyn (Audley). A Speech made before the Lords in the Upper House of Parliament in Ireland, by Captaine Audley Mervin. March the 4th, 1640. At the Impeachment of Sir Richard Bolton knight, L. Chancellour; John L. Bishop of Derry; Sir Gerrard Lowther knight, Lo. Chiefe Justice of His Maiesties Court of Common Pleas, and Sir George Ratcliffe knight, of High-Treason. By the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament: with the Articles against them. And a Schedule of those Grievances of that Kingdome, which were voted in the Lords House, this 18. of February, 1640, [London]: Printed in the yeare of our Lord, 1641, [2], 27, [1] pp., light damp staining & dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, side-stitched as issued, 4to (Wing M1888A), together with: Welwood (James), An Answer to the Late King Jame's Declaration to all his Pretended Subjects in the Kingdom of England, dated at Dublin-Castle, May 8, 1689. Ordered by a vote of the Right Honourable the House of Commons, to be burnt by the Common-Hangman, London: Dorman Newman, 1689, [4],31,[1] pp., small hole to half-title (marked), dust-soiled, edges untrimmed, side-stitched as issued, 4to (Wing W1298), Stephens (Edward), Reflections upon the Occurrences of the Last Year from 5 Nov. 1688 to 5 Nov. 1689. Wherein, the Happy Progress of the late Revolution, and the Unhappy Progress of Affairs since, are considered; the Original of the latter discovered, and the proper means for remedy proposed and recommended, London: Printed in the Year, 1689, 36 pp., worm trial at foot throughout, slight dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, side-stitched as issued, 4to (Wing S5437), [Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of], Remarkes upon a Pamphlet Stiled, A Letter to a Dissenter, &c. In another Letter to the same Dissenter, [London]: September 10, 1687, 12 pp., caption title, some soiling to first & last leaves, margins frayed, side-stitched as issued, 4to (Wing W127B), Ludlow (Edmund), A Letter from General Ludlow to Dr. Hollingworth, Their Majesties Chaplain at St. Botolph-Aldgate. Defending his former Letter to Sir E. S. [i.e. Edward Seymour] which compared the Tyranny of the first Four Years of King Charles the Martyr, with the Tyranny of the Four Years of the late Abdicated King. And vindicating the Parliament which began in Novemb. 1640. Occasioned by the Lies and Scandals of many bad Men of this Age, Amsterdam: Printed Anno Dom. 1692, viii, 72 pp., light damp staining & some dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, side-stitched as issued, 4to (Wing L1469), and seven others similar, few defectiveQty: (12)
Osler (William). The Principles and Practice of Medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine, 1st UK edition, Edinburgh & London: Young J. Pentland, 1892, some illustrations to text, 39 pp. advertisements at end, a little spotting and soiling, lacks front free endpaper with some ensuing dust soiling to title-page facing, title tipped onto dedication leaf stub, inner hinges cracked, original blue cloth gilt, some old dampstaining to boards and spine, a little frayed at head and foot, large 8voQty: (1)NOTESGarrison-Morton 2231; Norman 1612: 'One of the most influential textbooks of general medicine ever written'. Preceded by the New York edition of the same year, this is apparently the same text setting with a cancelled title-page and different adverts at the end. As with the first issue, the unfortunate spelling error of 'Georgias' for 'Gorgias' appears on the verso of the third leaf.
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[Pollexfen, John]. Of Trade ... also, of Coyn, Bullion, of improving our woollen manufacture ..., by J.P. Esq.; to which is annex'd The Arguement of the Late Lord Chief Justice Pollexphen ..., 2 parts in one, reissue, London: for John Baker, 1700, generally toned, some minor spotting or marks, lacking contents and errata leaves, part 2 title deficient, contemporary vellum, soiled and marked, darkened spine with early ink manuscript title, and with ink manuscript paper label (rubbed) and small typescript numeral paper label (chipped), 8vo, together with: Baldwin (publisher), The Life and Reign of Henry the Sixth, giving a full account of the English Glory Abroad ... and, the Civil Wars in England ..., London: for A. Baldwin, 1712, engraved portrait frontispiece (from another title), title lightly spotted, endpapers renewed (stained), all edges gilt, contemporay calf, worn, both covers detached and lightly bowed, the front cover with endpapers and frontispiece attached, slim 8voQty: (2)NOTESESTC R218994 & T76868 respectively. Of Trade: Wing (2nd edition) P2780. ESTC states that this printing is a reissue of the 1697 edition cited in Wing P2778, which itself appears to be a reissue of the first edition of the same year, with the addition of the second part. Henry the Sixth: The frontispiece depicting Henry VI, King of England is taken from a series of 29 portraits of the monarchs of England from William I to Charles I, sold by Robert Peake, titled Effigies Regum Anglorum A Wilhelmo Conquestore (c.1640-45).
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Raleigh (Sir Walter). The Historie of the World... [London: printed for H. Lownes, G. Latham and R. Young, 1628], letterpress title with engraved portrait, 5 folding engraved maps only (of 6, also lacking the additional engraved title and the 2 battle plans), maps detached, 'A Description of the Land of Gosen' map torn with some loss of text to top left, first map reinforced to verso, most with frayed margins, 'The Minde of the Front' leaf at front repaired, front endpaper repaired, small insect predation to title, occasional light spotting and soiling, first two leaves with water stains, early annotations to rear endpaper, later sprinkled calf, a little rubbed with small repairs, stains and wear to corners, folioQty: (1)NOTESSTC 20640. Sold with all faults not subject to return.
Wild (Frank). Shackleton's Last Voyage, 2nd edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923, half-title, colour frontispiece, 50 halftone photographic plates, occasional spotting to text, contemporary ownership inscription (L. Barclay) to half-title, bookplate of Kenn Back to front free endpaper, original blue pictorial cloth, spine slightly rolled, rear board slightly faded along fore edge, 8voQty: (1)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK This second edition appeared a month after the first.
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Temple (William). The Works [& Letters] of Sir William Temple..., to which is Prefix'd some account of the Life and Writings of the Author, 2 volumes, London: A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, et al., 1720, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf with gilt embossed monogram and globe crest to upper board, rebacked with attractive gilt decoration and contrasting morocco labels, board corners repaired, folio, together with: [Girard, Guillaume], The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon, the Great Favourite of France, Englished by Charles Cotton, 1st English edition, London: printed by E. Cotes & A. Clark for Henry Brome, 1670, one engraved portrait only (of 2), title in red & black, modern half calf, maroon morocco title label, vellum corners, marbled sides, folio, Church of Scotland, The Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh: printed by George Mosman, printer to the Church of Scotland and Her Assemblies, 1691-[1720], engraved illustration and early manuscript inscription to first title, general title and part titles with ink stamp to lower blank margins, ink stamp at foot of final leaf, Sandeman Public Library bookplate, contemporary calf gilt, morocco title label, library number to lower panel in white, lower joint split, board edges slightly worn, folio, with six other volumes relating to Acts of Parliament and Parliamentary votes etc., comprising five 18th century & one early 19th century publication, contemporary calf, some worn, folioQty: (10)
Trollope (Anthony). Cousin Henry, a Novel, 2 volumes, 1st UK bookform edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879, half-titles, volume 1 with 3pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, some finger-soiling, occasional short closed edge tears, volume 1 p.1 with long tear (previously repaired), stitching strained, rear pastedown with binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son, hinges cracked, original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, black and blind, circulating library labels removed from front covers (as often), darkened and soiled, lightly rubbed, somewhat cocked spines, with ends and front upper corners bumped, 3 corners showing, 8vo, together with: Ibid., Can You Forgive Her, 2 volumes, 1st bookform edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65, bound from the parts, half-titles, volume 1 with 20 etched illustrations by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", volume 2 with 20 wood-engraved illustrations by Miss Taylor, variable toning and spotting to plates (affecting adjacent leaves), volume 2 sewing broken in gathering N, volume 1 front & volume 2 rear hinges cracked, armorial bookplates of Charles Walter Lyon and David Talbot Rice to each, contemporary dark brown half morocco, spines with gilt lines and lettering, rubbed, volume 1 front lower corner bumped, 8vo, plus: Lever (Charles), The Daltons or Three Roads in Life, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1852, 48 etched plates by 'Phiz', including frontispiece (in volume 2) and additional title, a few plates toned, occasional light spotting, one plate in volume 2 with short closed edge tear, armorial bookplate of David Talbot Rice to each front pastedown, volume 1 cover detached at rear hinge (front hinge cracking), contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, spines with contrasting labels, 8vo, with: Edgeworth (Richard Lovell and Maria), Essay on Irish Bulls, 1st edition, London: for J. Johnson, 1802, 2 engraved vignettes, scarce light spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed with some wear to extremities, 8vo, and 10 others, including: Comic Dramas in Three Acts, by Maria Edgeworth, 1817, and The History of Pendennis, by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1849-50, 2 volumes (volume 1 spine deficient)Qty: (21)NOTESCousin Henry: Sadleir Trollope 56. Vol. 1 with p. 95, line 2 "bedside" instead of "beside", and p. 197, has running headline "ABEL" for "ISABEL", also with page-numbers for vol. 1, p. 114, and vol. 2, p. 84, in a larger type, as noted by Sadleir in some copies. Cousin Henry first appeared as a weekly serial in early 1879. This bookform edition was published in November 1879 and was preceded by the US edition of September 1879. Can You Forgive Her: Sadleir Trollope 19.
Laufer (Berthold). Archaic Chinese Jades Collected in China by A.W. Bahr, Now in Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, New York: Privately Printed for A.W. Bahr, 1927, 36 plates, including 3 colour, small ink stamp of A.W. Bahr to front endpaper, top edge gilt, original vellum, slight discolouration and bowing to covers, 4to, together with Webster (K. Athol). The Armytage Collection of Maori Jade, London: The Cable Press, 1948, 35 monochrome photographic plates by John Queenborough, original cloth-backed boards, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, with 7 others including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The H.O. Havemeyer Collection. A Catalogue of the Temporary Exhibition March 10-November 2, New York, 1930, Dr A A Breuer's The Influence of China on Laquer in Japan, reprinted from the Transactions of the Japan Society, Vol. XII, circa 1914, inscribed by the author, and Chinese Art. An Exhibition presented by the British Council in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy, The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1944, with a compliments slip from Major A.A. Longden to A.E. BahrQty: (9)NOTESFirst item possibly a unique copy bound in vellum for the Chinese art collector Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), the usual copies bound in cloth. Provenance: A.W. Bahr Collection. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), collector of Chinese art and antiquities, and Secretary of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. A.W. Bahr is the author of Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China, being descriptions and illustrations of articles selected from an exhibition held in Shanghai, November 1908, published in 1911. A survey of Chinese paintings in the Bahr Collection by Osvald Siren was published by the Chiswick Press in 1938.
Thomson (C. Wyville). The Voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic, a preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of HMS 'Challenger' during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan & Co, 1877, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and folding colour map frontispiece in volume 2, 43 plates, maps and charts, including some folding, wood-engraved illustrations to text, some spotting, lacks half-title to volume 1, large ink name stamp to frontispiece recto and half-title, with some see-through, original green cloth gilt, somewhat rubbed and soiled, frayed at spine ends and along lower joint of volume 1, large 8vo, together with: Spry (W.J.J.), The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship 'Challenger', Voyages over Many Seas, Scenes in Many Lands, 2nd edition, Sampson Low, 1877, folding engraved map and plates, inner hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed at spine ends and along lower joint, all 8vo, plus: A Narrative of the Loss of the Kent East Indiaman, by Fire, in the Bay of Biscay, on the 1st of March, 1825, in a letter to a friend, by a passenger, Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1825, 78 pp., untrimmed, a little spotting, contemporary presentation inscription to front flyleaf, contemporary boards, some soiling and edge wear, paper reback and title label to upper cover, 12mo, plus: Maxim (Hiram), A New System for Preventing Collisions at Sea, printed for the author by Cassell & Co, 1912, frontispiece and illustrations to text, three related leaflets at rear, tipped in and loose, signed presentation inscription from the author to J. Robinson, dated June 1914 and inscribed to front free endpaper, a little dampstaining to fore-margins of first few leaves, original cloth gilt, slim 8vo, and: Plimsoll (Samuel), Our Seamen, An Appeal, 1st edition, Virtue & Co, 1873, 58 heliotype plates including 4 supplied in facsimile, original cloth, soiling and edge wear, cloth reback, 4to, plus other maritime interest including three accounts of the sinking of the Titanic and various pamphlets and reportsQty: (44)
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