![* [Jane Austen]. A small group of ephemera relating to Francis Motley Austen (1747-1815) and his sons Francis Lucius Austen (](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/ea471210-d6f8-407b-9537-abb400fc8acc/468x382.jpg)
* [Jane Austen]. A small group of ephemera relating to Francis Motley Austen (1747-1815) and his sons Francis Lucius Austen (1773-1815) and George Lennard Austen (1786-1845), 1830s, comprising: a manuscript Deed of Release, dated 15th November 1804, titled 'F.M. Austen and J.L. Austen Esqrs to Mr. Charles Jones, Attested copy Release to make a Tenant to the Precipe and The sd F.M. Austen to Jno Austen, M. Lambard Esqrs', ff.25, laid paper, with oval Britannia and crown watermark of Woodfull dated 1830, blind and ink duty stamps to left-hand margins, original green silk tie to upper left corner, some minor fraying to fore-edges, one fold, sheet size 41 x 33.5 cm; the Last Will and Testament of Francis Motley Austen, dated 1812-15, titled 'Copy Will and Codicils of Francis M. Austen Esqr.', ff. 40, laid paper, with oval lion rampant and crown watermark of C. Wilmot dated 1830, original pink silk tie to upper left corner, one fold, 39.5 x 32 cm; and the manuscript Declaration of George Lennard Austen of Sevenoaks in Kent, stating that he is the Executor named in the last Will and Testament of Francis Lucius Austen, eldest son of Francis Motley Austen, dated 15 Oct 1832, large laid paper bifolium, with oval Britannia and crown watermark of John Hall dated 1830, signed by G.L. Austen, 2 folds (Qty: 3)NOTESFrancis Motley Austen was first cousin once removed to novelist Jane Austen; his father, wealthy lawyer and landowner Francis Austen (1698-1791) of Sevenoaks, was the brother of William Austen, Jane's paternal grandfather. Francis Motley Austen married Elizabeth Wilson in 1772; they had 11 children and lived at Kippington near Sevenoakes, Kent. Francis Lucius was their eldest son and he and his wife produced two daughters. He subsequently went mad and was disinherited by Act of Parliament. His younger brother, Thomas Austen, inherited on his father's death in 1815, moving to Kippington on his mother's death in 1817. Jane Austen's immediate family had close ties with the family of Francis Motley Austen: Francis's late mother, Jane Austen née Chadwick (1758-1782), had been Jane's godmother, and his father had provided the necessary funds for Jane's own father, George Austen, to attend Tonbridge Grammar School and St John’s College, Oxford. In July 1788, Jane Austen, aged 12½, travelled with her parents, and sister, Cassandra, to stay at Red House in Sevenoaks, the impressive brick town house of her 90-year-old great uncle Francis Austen. A large family luncheon was held on their arrival, and it is likely that Francis Motley and his family were in attendance. It is thought that this family visit to Sevenoaks and area could have lasted from mid July to the end of the month. Such a prolonged excursion must have been a formative experience for the young Jane, introduced as she was to her family's venerable benefactor and his large elegant house, which was somewhat removed from the humble rectory she was used to, and possibly seeing something of the huge estate of Knole which is located close to Red House. Her fertile young imagination must surely have had much to absorb during this time, and certainly only about a month after this visit Jane wrote a short story for her brother Charles titled 'Sir William Montague', in which she satirised an aristocratic family and estate most reminiscent of the Sackvilles and Knole.
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* Northamptonshire & Surrounding Counties. Saxton (Christopher), Northamton, Bedfordiae, Cantabrigiae, Huntingdoniae et Rutlandiae, Comitatuum Vicinarumq. Regionum partium adiacent nova veraq. Descriptio. A. D. 1576, [1579], engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, strapwork title cartouche surmounted by the royal arms to upper left, arms of Thomas Seckford lower left, mileage scale surmounted by dividers, one small printer's fold, 405 x 525 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESThe first printed map of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and Rutland.
Bristol. A collection of 24 broadsides, tracts and pamphlets relating to Bristol, 18th & 19th century, including: Bristol Institution, for the Promotion of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts, Founded February 29, 1820. Sixth Exhibition of Pictures, Opened August 15th, 1831, Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office, 1831, [2],10pp., some dampstains, original printed wrappers torn at spine edge and loose, slim 4to; Catalogue of the First Exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, held by Permission of the Committee, at the Institution, Park Street, 1832, Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office by John Taylor, 1832, 12pp., some browning to corners and margins, side stitched as issued, slim 4to; Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, at the Institution, Park Street, 1833, Bristol: Printed by Mills & Son, [1833], 12pp., two small holes to title and few short closed tears to margins, some soiling and dampstaining, side stitched as issued, slim 4to; An Act for the better Preserving the Navigation of the Rivers Avon and Froome, and for Cleansing, Paving and Inlightning the Streets of the City of Bristol, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and Executrix of Thomas Newcombe, 1700, [2], 379-396pp., some toning, slim disbound folio; Theatre Royal, Bristol. This present Monday the 14th of Oct. 1805, will be presented, Shakespeare's Historical Tragedy, of King Richard III..., [Bristol]: Catherine Routh, Printer, 18, Bridge Street, [1805], broadside laid-down onto card, browned, 23.5 x 17.5 cm; Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company, memorandum in connection with obtaining incorporation by Act of Parliament, 1823, 4pp., disbound folio, plus 18 other Bristol related, etc., contained together in modern ring binder folder (Qty: a folder)
* Court Roll: Bampton , Devon. Court roll of the Court Leet of Bampton in Devon, 1 8 August 1547 (unfinished), an undated court, a court of 19 Mar 1548, and of a Borough Court, 23 May 1548, manuscript on two rolled vellum membranes, stitched at head, the dorse of second membrane blank, some light rubbing and soiling, the first membrane 50 x 22 cm, the second membrane 22 x 20 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESThe membrane has been trimmed with the loss of the conclusion of the court of 18 August 1547 and the beginning of an undated court, the revenue from which amounts to 6s 6d. It is clear (see below) that very little is missing of the proceedings of the two defective courts. The first court begins with the names of the jury of 12; a presentment by the ale-tasters of 12 brewers, each for a single brewing, and their amercement of 3d each; the entry of a plea of debt; the presentment by the constables of the peace of a servant ‘of bad conversation’, interference with the constable, an assault with a cutting knyff and that Alice, wife of William Bowbeare the elder is a communis scandalozatrix to the nuisance of her neighbours; William Bowbeare the younger is amerced 4d for allowing people to play at dice and cards in his house on feast-days and at night. The Portreeve presents 13 people for allowing their pigs to wander in the streets – they are amerced 4d each; the bailiff presents default of suit of court by 19 individuals or groups. The jury confirms the presentments, and makes appointments to the offices of constables of the peace, borough reeves and ale-tasters; they present a list of people who have not been sworn to the king’s assize, an assault and a sale of ale by unlawful measures and without displaying a sign. Finally they present that [ blank ] Twygg, a free tenant holding a burgage, has died since the last court. This last entry has been trimmed. It is clear that another court was entered, beginning either at the foot of the face of the membrane or at the head of its dorse. The revenue from that court amounted to 6s 6d, of which 5s 0d can be accounted for from the marginalized amercements which survive. The court’s business consists of the presentment of ale-tasters, proceedings in three private suits, and orders of distraint against three men and two women in pleas of trespass brought by the lord. The court of 19 March 1548 begins with the names of the jury, ale-tasters’ presentments against 27 individuals for brewing whose amercements add up to 7s 6d; the Portreeve presents 20 people for allowing their pigs to wander in the streets – they are amerced 4d each; the constables of the peace present assaults, one with a thrasshell and a billhook; there follow two entries of process in private litigation, and the jury’s presentment of a mutual assault with fists; the court produced 16s 11d for the lord. The borough court includes the presentment by the ale-tasters of 12 brewers, each for a single brewing, and their amercement of 3d each; a plea of trespass with an inserted note of its compromise and the defendant’s amercement in 3s; the amercement of the bailiff for having failed to distrain two men and two women against whom the lord had brought pleas of trespass; and a plea of debt of 39s 11½d, the hallmark of an action in a local court where the limit was usually 40 shillings. The borough court produced 4s 3d for the lord; the total for the courts held in 1547-1548 is left blank. Bampton in Devon emerged as a borough between 1180 and 1210. A fair on St Luke’s day was granted to the rector in 1258, and a market and fair on the same day were granted to the lord of the manor in 1267. The few surviving manorial documents – and estreat roll of 1538-1541, a court book of 1850-1913 and a rent book of 1915-1926 – are all held by the Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust).This lot is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules 1959, 1963 and 1967, administered by The Historical Manuscripts Commission at The National Archives on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. Accordingly the purchasers of the documents lie under an obligation to notify the Secretary of the Commission of their acquisition and to provide details of where they will be kept. They may in no circumstances be removed from England and Wales without the prior consent of the Master of the Rolls.
![* Northamptonshire. Smith (William), Northamptoniae Comitatus Descriptio....., J.Overton [1675 or later], engraved map with c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/0e2ddf88-9169-4a73-bc82-abb400fad2cd/468x382.jpg)
* Northamptonshire. Smith (William), Northamptoniae Comitatus Descriptio....., J.Overton [1675 or later], engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 365 x 480 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESWilliam Smith was an antiquary who was a contemporary of Christopher Saxton. He only completed twelve maps which were probably intended for an uncompleted English atlas. The maps were individually first published in 1602, and the plates were acquired by John Overton in 1670. Until comparatively recently their authorship was doubtful and they were known as the 'Anonymous Maps'. All of William Smith's maps are considered scarce.
* Great Seals of King William IV & Queen Victoria. A reversionary lease of Methwold Warren lands &c. in the county of Norfolk, 13 December 1834, manuscript on two vellum membranes together with another related, a licence to assign a farm at Methwold, 16 October 1852, the first from King William IV to William Flatt, the second from Queen Victoria to Robert Flatt, the first on two membranes, both with red wax Great Seals appended in tin skippets, the first of Wlliam IV in fine condition, the second of Queen Victoria split across lower half with a little loss (Qty: 2)
![* Lincolnshire Deeds, 1513 & 1548. Covenant after arbitration; 16 February 1513, Thomas [Howard] Earl of Surrey to Richar](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/8d2f118f-a4b2-4f94-9f5d-abb400fc9f4b/468x382.jpg)
* Lincolnshire Deeds, 1513 & 1548. Covenant after arbitration; 16 February 1513, Thomas [Howard] Earl of Surrey to Richard Littilbury, esq., rent charges of 10 marks (£6 13s 4d) and 5 marks (£3 6s 8d) issuing out of Richard’s lands at Tidd St Mary in Lincolnshire; the earl covenants to release his rights before Whitsun 1513 at Richard’s cost; Richard covenants to grant the earl for life a rent of £10 charged on his lands in Lincolnshire worth 20 marks (£13 6s 8d) or £12 or more, with a clause of distress; the first payment to be made on 22 Feb 1513; Richard also covenants to pay £10 for the arrears of the rents before Easter 1513; the earl covenants that on such payment Richard’s bond in £200 shall be void, some old damp staining, cracked red wax seal [presumably Littilbury's] appended, 17 x 35 cm, together with: Grant; 1 August 1548, John Hamby otherwise Hanby and John Rice (signs Ryce ) of London, gentlemen, to John Bellowe of Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire, esquire; the rectory and church of North Elkington in Lincolnshire, formerly belonging to the dissolved [Cistercian] priory of Nun Appleton in Yorkshire, with the advowson of the vicarage of North Elkington and all messuages, buildings, barns, dovehouses, ponds, fishponds, glebe lands, tithes, offerings, pensions, portions and other profits belonging to it; which they lately had, with other property, by the grant of William Romsden of Longley in Yorkshire, gentleman, John Wyse and Roger Wyse son of Ralph Wyse late of Redhouse in York, gentlemen, deceased, 23 December 1545; to hold of the king of his manor of Pontefract by fealty only and not in chief by a rent of 16 pence to the Court of Augmentations; John Hamby and John Ryce appoint John Skipwith of Utterby, esquire, and Robert Wyndell, yeoman, their attorneys to deliver seisin, some slight damp staining, small hole to lower margin, two near-complete but rubbed red wax seals appended, 29 x 44 cm (Qty: 2)NOTESThomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (c.1452-1524), fought for King Richard III at Bosworth; imprisoned in the Tower by Henry VII but later recovered his estates. Lord Treasurer 1501-22; won Battle of Flodden, 1513; created Duke of Norfolk, 1514; MP Norfolk, 1478 and long after; Earl Marshal, 1510-24. Richard Littlebury was born 1473/74, the first son of Humphrey Littlebury (d. 1486) of Kirton-in-Holland, Lincolnshire. He was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn on 6 July 1493, served as escheator in Lincolnshire 1514-15 and died 26 February 1522. J. H. Baker, The Men of Court, 1440-1550 , 1019.
Manuscript Commonplace Book. A manuscript commonplace book, probably written by a young woman, circa 1730-40, 79 leaves of neat handwritten manuscript text in brown ink, plus 12 blank leaves, including first and last leaf, consisting of 48 numbered leaves of extracts from the Universal Spectator (founded in 1728 by Daniel Defoe and his son-in-law Henry Baker) from May 24 1729 to August 8 1730, each extract initialled APC at end, a second section of 13 leaves (21 pages), containing a variety of poems, including 'The House Furnish'd, A Sort of Epic Poem, By a Lady' [apparently unpublished], 'Fortune' [apparently unpublished], 'An Account of a Journey to Paris, in a Letter from a Country Squire to his Papa]', 'A Soliloqui Written in a Country Churchyard', [by Robert Blair], 'Written in a Cottage Garden, at a Village in Lorrain; and occasioned by a Tradition concerning a Tree of Rosemary' [published in Poetical Collections], 'The Old Fashion'd Lover' & 'The New Fashion'd Lover' [both published in The World], plus a third section, written in the reverse direction from the end of the volume, entitled 'A Ladies Adventures, a story strange as true', 23 pages, signed at the end 'Maria' [serialised in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1737], two or three further unrelated manuscript leaves, including one leaf titled 'A Receipt for a Cough', contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, heavily rubbed and somewhat worn, small 4to (20 x 15 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESGiven the subject matter of the majority of the contents of this volume, it is very likely to have been written by a young woman (initials A.P.C.). The transcription of the story entitled The Lady's Adventures is in a different hand to the rest of the volume, and is signed at end 'Maria'.
* Recipe for Brewing Ale. Manuscript titled 'A Receipt for Yest', circa 1790, 28 lines, written in a neat hand on a single sheet, '1lb of hops, 32 quarts of water boil it 21/2 hours, strain the same when the scalding heat is gone off add 2 gallons ground malt, let this remain 31/2 hours again, strain it, set it with 2 quarts yest either the same sort or good home brewed, The first head that rises be sure to strain off and throw away. Be careful not to set the yeast to[o] warm', horizontally split in two at lower fold,, folds, slight toning, watermarked 'Pro Patria', folio, 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 12 in), together with Recipe for Mustard Whey to relieve ailments. Manuscript titled 'To Make Mustard Whey', circa 1800, 14 lines, written in a neat hand on a single sheet, 'Take milk and water of each half a pint, bruised mustard seed an ounce and half, boil them together till the curd is perfectly separated; afterwards strain the whey through a cloth... and promotes the different secretions, hence in the low state of nervous fevers, it will supply the place of wine, it is of singular use in the chronic rheumatism, palsy, dropsy...', folds, one or two small stains, small 4to Coaching Inn Bill. Manuscript bill issued to Mr Morgan from R. Griffiths for meals and services provided at the West Gate House Inn, Newport, Monmouthshire, 6 August 1795, 11 suppers, 7 breakfasts, Beer, Cyder & Porter, sugar & lemon, servants eating & liquor, hay & corn, barber', the bill totals £4-0-10 reduced to £3-5-10 due to 5 bottles being refunded, folds, small splits, some soiling, small 4to, plus four others: A manuscript clothiers bill from Gilbert Rowe to Robert Childs for the supply of shoes and garters, 1703; A manuscript receipt for washing gloves. circa 1780; A manuscript receipt for artists to clean oil paintings and to make copel varnish, circa 1810 and a manuscript wine bill from wine merchant Cornelius Dutch to Hannah Munday for the supply of canary wine, old hock, champaine, maderia, totalling £3-9-9, folds, some light soiling (Qty: 7)
* Surrey Deeds, 1572/1617. Settlement (feoffment); 24 January 1572, Joan Balchilde on Cranley in Surrey, widow, one of the sisters and coheirs of John Astrete, deceased, brother and heir of Richard Astrete, deceased, sons and heirs of William Astrete of Shalford in Surrey, husbandman, to Thomas Mellershe of Nower [near Leatherhead], Robert Upfolde of Cranley and John Mower of Monnynghill , yeomen, in trust for Joan for life…; all in the parishes of Shalford and Hascombe, which were allotted to her in satisfaction of her share of the estate of her brother John Astrete in Cranley, Hascombe and Shalford by a tripartite indenture of 31 October 1571, 23 x 35 cm, together with: Exemplification of common recovery; 29 November 1613, Richard Evelyn, gent, and John Lillye v Richard Lillye; a messuage, a toft and 2 gardens in Dorking, Surrey; first vouchees: Thomas Marter and his wife Elizabeth; second vouchee: Edward Howse; on 29 November 1613 the sheriff Edward Goringe, esq, returned that he had put Richard and John in seisin on 25 Nov 1613; exemplified from the plea roll of the court of Common Pleas for Michaelmas Term 1613, rotulet 90, large callligraphic initial letter, 30 x 56 cm, a few fragments of wax seal loosely retained, plus vellum deeds for land in Bicester (Oxon, 1598), Rotherhithe (1599), Alford (1607) and Chobham (1617), all but one in Surrey, each with slightly damaged red wax seals appended (Qty: 6)
![* [Victorian Education]. An archive of approximately 250 autograph letters, c.1850-95, mostly addressed to the teacher Freder](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/15816428-5b42-4747-8907-abb400fca990/468x382.jpg)
* [Victorian Education]. An archive of approximately 250 autograph letters, c.1850-95, mostly addressed to the teacher Frederic Nash and largely relating to his time as a teacher in India and England, the correspondence from parents, staff and former pupils, etc., covering his time at Vepery Grammar School, Madras, (which was supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts), a school at Ootachamund, Neilgherries, and then, from about 1861, in London and at his home, ’Farrington’, Beckenham, Kent, the collection including 3 autograph letters signed from the British colonial governor Sir Arthur Havelock (1844-1908), 1891, 1895 & 1896, the first fondly recollecting Nash’s teaching at Farrington, ‘… I have not only a distinct and agreeable recollection of my school, but also a most grateful one. Such a success as I have made of life, I attribute in a large degree, to the sound and thorough teaching and to the training in method, accuracy and punctuality which I received from you…’, together with sundry related copy letters, notes and receipts, various sizes but mostly 2 to 4 pages, 8vo, occasional spotting and marginal fraying, the collection guarded in two home-made cloth-bound volumes with manuscript paper labels titled ‘From or about Schoolboys D to H’ and ‘Not from or about Schoolboys A to F’, rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 2)
* Anglo-Savoyard Alliance. An important manuscript letter from Victor-Amedee Seyssel d'Aix, Marquis de Sommariva (1679-1754), Ambassador to London for the King of Sardinia, to Victor Amadeus II of Piedmont-Savoy, King of Sardinia (1675-1730), dated Londres Ce 21 Juillet 1727, a lengthy report in French of the Ambassador's meeting with the newly elected King George II, the Queen and Secretary of State Lord Townshend, on 6 folio leaves of laid paper, watermarked with Strasburg lily with shield and letters L V G (Van Gerrevink), containing 9 pages of handwritten text in French in brown ink, plus 3 integral blank pages, with final page docketed 'Copie d'une' Lettre du Marquis D'Aix au Roy de Sardaigne', signed 'Seyssel D'Aix' at end, minor marginal soiling to first page, and lightly creased where previously folded, folio (32.5 x 21.3 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESA significant manuscript copy letter written by the Savoyard ambassador to London, in which he describes his meeting with King George II, Queen Caroline, and the foreign secretary Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674-1738). Seyssel d'Aix informs the King of Sardinia of the assurances he has received from the English King regarding the continued good relations and political alliance between the two powers. The ambassador states on behalf of the King of Sardinia that their troops were in a state of readiness to assist His Britannic Majesty in case of war, underpinned by the Quadruple Alliance. The last 4 pages give an account of the audience between the Savoyard ambassador and the foreign secretary Lord Townshend, the latter expressing his surprise that the King had not taken advantage of the current political situation to annex the Austrian-held town of Vigevano, south-west of Milan, since France, England and Holland were all in agreement on the matter, to which Seyssel d'Aix replies that this would only have been considered in time of war, and that such a move might easily result in war breaking out. Townshend points out that given the campaign lately undertaken in France, to which the 'Sieur Armstrong' had assisted, it would have been possible to occupy some parts of the Austrian empire with 150,000 men, against which the Viennese court would only have been able, he claims, to assemble an army of 50,000 men. As for the Congress of Vienna, Townshend states that nothing firm had been decided. He also raises once more the issue of the edict of the King of Sardinia touching English woollen goods. Viscount Townshend directed British foreign policy between 1721 and 1730 in collaboration with his brother-in-law, the Prime Minister Robert Walpole, but relations between the two ministers gradually deterioriated, especially regarding the policy to be adopted towards Austria - Townshend being opposed to any rapprochement with the Austrian power. He was out-manoeuvred by Walpole, and in consequence retired in 1730, thus removing the last obstacle to the sealing of the Anglo-Austrian Alliance, ratified by the Treaty of Vienna signed on 16th March 1731, which became the centrepiece of George II's foreign policy. The kingdom of Sardinia at this time included a large swathe of south-eastern France and north-western Italy, including Savoy, Piedmont and Nice. Vigevano was later ceded to Sardinia by the Treaty of Worms in 1743.
* Berkeley (Sir George Cranfield, 1753-1818). Four letters to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon, 1811-12, comprising: 1. Autograph letter signed as commander-in-chief on the coast of Portugal, [no place], 7 April 1811, on subversive activity at the Portuguese court in exile at Rio de Janeiro ('I have just recieved letters from Rio Janeiro in which I find that Sousa has stated to his brother, who has suggested it with too much success to the Prince [the future King João VI], that the interference of the English relative to the deportees is a direct infringement of his royal prerogative ...', unaddressed but evidently to Charles Stuart, marked 'private', single sheet written on both sides, 4to (23.8 x 18.3 cm), 2. Letter signed as as commander-in-chief on the coast of Portugal, Lisbon, 9 April 1811, returning 'a copy of a letter you had received from [Portuguese general and secretary for war] D[om] M[iguel] Forjaz together with the various orders transmitted to General Trant at Porto, relative to the Danish Vessels at that place ...', addressed at foot 'His Excellency the Right Hble Charles Stuart', single sheet written on one side, remnant of seal verso, folio (32 x 19.6 cm), 3. Autograph letter signed as commander-in-chief on the coast of Portugal, [no place], 27 April 1811, requesting a reference for an unknown visitor to HMS Barfleur and seeking a meeting ( 'I have received some very particular intelligence, which I want to communicate to you in private ...'), addressed verso to 'His Excelcy Rt Honble C Stuart' with wax seal extant (showing through recto), single sheet written on one side, small chip at one corner, 4to (19.7 x 16 cm), 4. Autograph letter signed, Wood End, Chichester, 23 August 1812, apparently Berkeley's first letter to Stuart following his retirement and return to Britain, discussing the victory at Salamanca, the possibility of honours for Berkeley and Stuart, audiences with Lord Castlereagh, and social matters, addressed to 'His Exclcy Rt Hoble C Stuart', marked 'private' at head, single bifolium, written on all 4 sides, toned, browned along edges of first leaf recto, 4to (23.9 x 20.2 cm) (Qty: 4)NOTESBerkeley was appointed commander-in-chief on the coast of Portugal in December 1808; in July 1810 he was promoted admiral and named lord high admiral of Portugal by its prince regent. His actions in support of Cradock and then Wellington were instrumental in the allied defeat of the French in the Peninsular War. Sir Charles Stuart undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and afterwards 'made himself indispensable to Wellington' as minister at Lisbon (1810-14) and member of the Portuguese regency council. He later helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
* Croft (Sir John 'Jack', 1st Baronet, 1778-1862). Autograph letter to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon, Sabugal, 6 March, 1812, 2 pp., '... the militiamen and persons non military of the Districts of Sabugal y Touro entitled to participate in the distribution of cattle have this day received their proportion of the number allocated to the Commarca of Castello Branco. There is not any civil hospital in this town or Touro. The inhabitants of these districts have not yet received their proportion of the seed corn designed for the Commarca of Castello Branco. Their proportion of the money for orphan children is not yet arrived. I return to Guarda tomorrow', the first letter with some light marginal toning and small chips and tears, folds, together with a 3 pp. letter from Frederick Croft to a Mr Hamilton, 15 October 1813, regarding an account for wine sent to Sir Charles Stuart, and a bill for three hogsheads (£90), folio (Qty: 3)NOTESJohn 'Jack' Croft, a member of the House of Croft port-wine merchants, initially embarked upon a scientific career, first assisting Humphry Davy and then botanist Joseph Banks in 1803, and was later admitted to the Royal Society. He met Sir Charles Stuart (1779-1845), British envoy to Portugal, in 1810 during the Peninsular War and was recruited to gather intelligence on French troop movements along the north coast of Spain, from Corunna to the French border. He travelled incognito and set up a network of agents who submitted reports which were then couriered back to Stuart, sorted and passed on to the Duke of Wellington. In 1811 Croft was appointed joint leader of the Distribution Fund, set up by the British Government to provide relief to villagers in the war-torn areas of Portugal. For this he was awarded the Order of the Tower and Sword in 1814 by the Portuguese regent and made a baronet four years later.
Desbrière (Édouard). The Naval Campaign of 1805. Trafalgar, translated and edited by Constance Eastwick, 1st English edition, 2 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1933, frontispiece to volume I, 19 folding maps contained in rear pockets, light offsetting to half titles, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed at spine ends else bright copy, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst published in Paris in 1907. Regarded as the defining account of the Battle of Trafalgar, with volume II containing reports and letters from the French and Spanish officers.
* First Anglo-Dutch War. Manuscript précis in Spanish and Italian of the Treaty of Westminster (agreed between Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth, and the States General of the United Netherlands, signed in April 1654), titled 'Capitolazioni della Pace fra L'Inghilterra, e L'Olanda', & 'Le Propositni.di Pace, che fa La Republica d'Orlanda alla Repca. d'Inghilterra', circa 1654, two folded sheets of folio contemporary laid paper, each bearing the same continental watermark, the first written in brown ink in Spanish and headed 'Nuevas', written to one side only, docketed to verso, the second sheet written in Italian in brown ink to two sides of the folded sheet, and docketed to reverse of the second sheet, each additionally numbered to upper right corner 81 and 83 in brown ink in a contemporary hand, sheet size 305 x 205 mm (12 x 8 ins), together with: Strode (Sir John, 1624-1679, Commissioner during both the Civil War and Restoration, who became Commissioner for pressing seamen in 1665). Autograph letter signed, dated 25 September 1669, a ddressed to 'the Right Honorable his Majies Commissioners of His Name', offering a ship to carry victuals to Lisbon: 'Gent, Mr. Wrem tells me that you have asked for a shipp for Lisbone, which makes me recommend unto you Mr Jacobs & his Ship the Marie a new Shipp of a good force and a shipp I am concerned in, he shall serve you as cheepe as any and you will buy it extremely oblidge him who is, yr most humble servant, John Strode', handwritten in brown ink to a single folded sheet of laid paper with similar watermark to the documents described above, creased where previously folded, and with red seal to verso, the upper leaf with later restrengthening to verso of fore edge, sheet size 300 x 207 mm (11.8 x 8.2 ins) (Qty: 3)NOTESThese two summaries in Spanish and Italian of the main points of the peace treaty which ended the First Anglo-Dutch War were likely to have been distributed to a member of the delegations involved in the negotiations. These two documents are likely to have been drawn up by an Italian diplomat or translator, possibly attached to one of the delegations involved in the negotiations. The Spanish version includes the stipulation that Dutch ships are required to lower their flags to the English when in English waters, in recognition of the Navigation Act of 1651. The Italian text refers to the payment of one million scudi by the Dutch to cover the cost of the war, and to trade routes with both the West and East Indies, the text ending 'Questo e quello che mi raccordo di piu d'Importanza.'.
* France under Napoleon. Manuscript report in French on the current state of France, entitled 'Considerations sur l'Etat present de la France, ce 1er Juin 1803', contemporary manuscript in French on 12 large folio pages, handwritten in brown ink on a total of three folded sheets of laid paper, each watermarked with Strasburg lily and posthorn D & C BLAUW, and countermark BA, sheet size when folded 38 x 24 cm (15 x 9.5 ins) (Qty: 1)NOTESA major document written at the height of the threat of the invasion of Great Britain by Napoleon's Armée d'Angleterre, or Armée des cotes de l'Ocean, which numbered as many as 200,000 men gathered along the French coast at Boulogne. Napoleon's invasion armay was financed by the sale of France's North American lands to the United States in 1803, called the Louisiana Purchase. So sure were the French of victory that a triumphal column was erected at Boulogne in anticipation of the successful invasion. Britain had resumed war with France in May of 1803, thereby breaking with the Treaty of Amiens signed on 25th March 1802, following repeated infringements of the peace treaty by Napoleon. England, and London in particular, had been a haven ever since the French Revolution of 1789 for emigré French royalists and noblemen, who assisted the British with several attempts to overthrow Napoleon during the mid to late 1790s and early 1800s. During this period, a complex spy network was organised on the continent by Sir Francis Drake, British Ambassador to Bavaria, and the British Government received much useful information in this way. Although the present manuscript document is unsigned, it is written in an elegant educated French italic hand. At this time (June 1803), the British were providing assistance to French royalists in England in the organisation of an assassination plot on Napoleon masterminded by General Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804) and General Georges Cadoudal (1771-1804), known as the Pichegru Conspiracy. The plot was uncovered by French secret police in early 1804, and they were both arrested on February 28th and March 9th 1804 respectively. Pichegru was found strangled in his cell on April 5th 1804, and Cadoudal was executed on June 28th. This extensive report provides detailed information on the state of the current government under Napoleon as Premier Consul, the structure of French society, the army, and French public opinion on the current war with England. The text is divided into chapters (Gouvernement, Peuple, L'Armée, Religion, Moeurs, L'Education, Agriculture, Finances, plus a final section entitled Opinion publique sur la guerre actuelle avec l'Angleterre). The first and third chapters (Gouvernement and L'Armée) are the longest in length. Chapter 1 provides character assessments of various ministers: Cambaceres ('peu d'aptitude aux affaires'), Le Brun ('grand travailleur, est sans credit. Le 1er Consul a eu soin de l'isoler'), Talleyrand ('le 1er Consul a besoin de lui, mais foncierement il ne l'aime ni l'estime a cause de sa grande immoralté'), Regnier ('une honnette homme... il jouit de l'estime de la majeure partie de la nation'), and Francois de Barbé-Marbois, the Finance Minister, ('jouit de peu de constance et de peu de credit, attendu que jusqu'a present ces travaux n'ont presenté aucune resultat avantageux'). The text then goes into great detail describing the despotic character of Napoleon: 'Le Gouvernement, reduit residant exclusivement dans la Personne de Bonaparte; il devient necessaire de s'etendre un peu sur le caractere et sur les moyens de ce chef de la Republique. Il y auroit une partialité puerile a lui refuser des talens. L'experience et l'usage des affaires lui ont donné de la penetration et un coup d'oeil juste. The writer states 'Il est d'un caractere decidé et absolu, dans toutes les choses qu'il juge pouvoir forcei par son autorité, ou par la peur, mais ce caractere l'abandonne des qu'il croit la sureté de sa personne, ou celle de ses interets, compromises', and provides examples of apparent conflict in Napoleon's interactions with other revolutionary leaders ('les chefs des Jacobins'), such as Jourdan and Angerau, and goes on to say that it could be argued that Bonaparte is detested by all parties. 'La France desire en générale un autre ordre de choses, mais l'impression du regime sanguinaire des premieres années de la Revolution est encore trop recente a sa memorie pour que le peuple ose faire la moindre tentative: Il est dans cet etat de la peur et d'apathie qui produit toujours une revolution aussi longue et aussi sanglante que l'a été celle de la France. Le 1er Consul n'ignore point cette indisposition generale des esprits contre lui, et ce sentiment lui fait prendre des mesures, des precautions pour la sureté de sa personne, qui tiennent a la pusillanimité, et dont le motif n'echappe a personne'. The final section of this report on the state of public opinion regarding the war with England, points out that the French newspapers had been forced by order of the Government to announce that the people supported the current war, and that Napoleon had found it necessary, in order to calm and reassure the people, to post a broadside in every commune in the land, in which he declared that the other continental powers would not take any part in this new war that he was going to have with England, whereas common opinion believed that Russia was working to form a coalition against France. The text ends 'Il est de l'interet le plus puissant pour le 1er Consul qu'il n'eprouve point de revers. S'il en avoit, ce peuple que ne l'aime point et qui ne tolere patiemment l'ordre actuel de choses, que pour l'amour de la tranquilité individuelles, perdrait patience et on verrait la France livrée a des nouvelles secousses'. The author of this important secret report must have been a royalist opponent of Napoleon, and if not written by Pichegru or Cadoudal themselves, could be by a prominent fellow emigré such as the Comte d'Antraigues, then residing in Saxony, a diplomat, spy, and political agitator against Napoleon.
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[Lawrence, T.E.]. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby, July 1917 to October 1918, second edition, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919, photographic portrait frontispiece of General Allenby with facsimile signature,113 pages of main text, and 56 single-page colour printed maps, with further descriptive text to each map printed to facing leaf, small area of browning (from an old newspaper cutting) to inner margin of preface leaf (verso) and contents leaf (recto), original grey-blue cloth-backed printed boards, generally a good copy, 4to, together with Thompson (Lieut.-Col. R. R.). The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918, 1st edition, Glasgow, 1923, colour frontispiece, 15 maps, including 13 folding (of which 11 are bound at rear of the volume), numerous monochrome plates after photographs, partly untrimmed, original blue cloth gilt, a very good copy, thick 8vo, plus Howie (David). History of the 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers: with list of officers, prize winners, men present at Royal Reviews, &c., 1st edition, Glasgow, 1887, viii, 448pp., 3 photogravure portrait plates, original dark green cloth gilt with regimental armorial to upper cover, a very good copy, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESOBrien, T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography (2000), A 011. A Brief Record is a thorough account of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from July 1917 and the end of October 1918, containing many short articles, two of which (the text facing plates 49 and 50, "Sherifian Co-operation in September", and plates 51-53, "Story of the Arab Movement") are by T. E. Lawrence, though unattributed. These were compiled from his notes written originally for the Arab Bureau, which, along with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and The Times, are Lawrence's first published accounts of the Arab campaign. This second edition is the first to be published in England, following the edition issued by the Palestine News in Cairo earlier in the same year.
* Military & Naval Autographs. An assorted collection of approximately 120 autograph letters and signatures, 18th & 19th century, including Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Onslow (1741-1817), Letter Signed, on board HMS Cambridge, 6 July 1796, to Captain Durham of HMS Anson, directing him to make a survey of the ship’s clothes, 1 page, folio; William Roy (1726-1790), Major-General Royal Engineers, 2 autograph letters signed, 1778, to Simon Frazer, the first directing to reduce the supply of the two Camps of Cocksheath and Warley Common from two weeks’ supply to one and that the surplus be sold immediately at auction, the second concerning rations of wood and coal, both 1 page, some soiling and marginal fraying, folio, plus the draft of a reply to Roy; and a large group of assorted mostly military and naval letters and signatures, including autograph letters (some in the third person) from Brigadier General R. Stewart to Sir John Moore, 1808, Sir William Johnston, 1802, Lieutenant T. Hinton x 4, 1806-07, Major General Sir John Lambert x 2, 1816 & 1817, Sir Daniel Lysons, 1896, Angus MacDonald, 1815, Major A. Moncrieff, 1871, General Melville, 1797, Major Thomas Metcalfe, 1806, Sir Charles Middleton, 1803, and cut signatures including FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Charles Beresford, Major F.M. Alison, Marquis of Anglesey, Admiral Keith (cover), John Lawrence x 3, Edward Lugard, Stephen Rumbold, Lord Lynedoch, Charles Napier x 4, Lord Raglan, etc., plus some related engraved portraits, etc. (Qty: approx. 120)
* Nelson (Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1758-1805). A ticket for Admiral Lord Nelson's Funeral Procession, 9 January 1806, issued to Doctor Lind, signed by Sir Isaac Heard, Garter Principal King of Arms, his black wax seal, numbered in ink '1102' within a copper engraved border with Fame and two trumpets at head and tomb with crossed palms at foot, printed on stiff card with full margins, slight toning, small nick and a few small marginal spots, 16 x 18.3 cm, laid down on modern paper and hinge-mounted on a later plain paper sheet, with a facsimile note to Mr Kee, navy agent, to Mr Surridge recommending young Horatio Nelson to Captain Suckling, captain of the Seahorse, October 1772, hinge mounted on the same sheet, with a portrait of Nelson and cut facsimile signature 'Nelson & Bronte' beneath (Qty: 1)NOTESAdmiral Lord Nelson was buried in a state funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806, following a procession by barge from Greenwich, where he was lying in state, to the Admiralty and then a spectacular procession by land to St. Paul's which took almost four hours to arrive. Doctor Lind may possibly be James Lind (1736-1812), Scottish physician and co-founder of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. He journeyed to Iceland with Joseph Banks in 1772 and later became physician to the royal household. He mentored the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Eton in 1809, and is alluded to in his poems. Lind's cousin was James Lind (1716-1794), pioneering naval physician who conducted a control experiment in 1747, the first systematic experiment of its of kind in medicine, to prove citrus fruits can cure scurvy.
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* [Peninsular War]. Three autograph letters signed from Jonathan Jeffery, British official at Lisbon, 1812-13, i.e. , 1. Two letters to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon, 17 October 1812 & 28 March 1813, the first enclosing 'the papers which you requested me to get translated ...' (not present), the second concerning the implementation of a tariff on British goods imposed by Lord Castlereagh, foreign secretary ('I ... will endeavour to comply with your Lordship's instructions, by submitting these Papers to a Committee of British Merchants to be formed according to the terms of the 15th Article of the Treaty'), 2. Letter to 'Hamilton Hamilton Esqr', 26 October 1812, 'Being wholly ignorant of the proceedings against Jones, having only recommended the Judge Conservator's attention to the case at the request of Major General Peacock, I must beg to refer the consideration of making application in his behalf to His Excellency [i.e. Sir Charles Stuart]', each letter a single sheet, 1, 2, 1 p., browned, first letter (17 October 1812) with a few nicks, folio (32.5 x 20.6 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESSir Charles Stuart undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and afterwards 'made himself indispensable to Wellington' as minister at Lisbon (1810-14) and member of the Portuguese regency council. He later helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal. Jonathan Jeffery appears to have been one of his officials. Hamilton Hamilton was later minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Aires and subsequently Rio de Janeiro; the 'proceedings against Jones' mentioned in his letter may be the court martial of Lieutenant John Jones held at Lisbon on 29 March 1813 (see James, A Collection of the Charges, Opinions, and Sentences of General Courts Martial , 1820, pp. 509-11).
* Trant (Nicholas, 1769-1839). Autograph letter signed as brigadier general to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1842) as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon, 'Cimo[?] Villas, 1 1/2 leagues from Almeida', 4 April 1811, single bifolium written on 3 sides, 4to (25.3 x 20 cm), together with 2 other autograph letters signed from Trant, both to 'My D. Sir', probably Sir Charles Stuart, Porto, 15 March & 30 August 1812, the first enclosing an English newspaper ('on a presumption that none of so recent a date has reached Lisbon and submitting to your opinion to send it to Lord Wellington'), single sheet written on one side, toned, folio (32 x 20.3 cm), the second enclosing unidentified papers, with postscript 'Genl Leith & Col. Arbuthnot are arrived here - they sail for Lisbon on Sunday', single bifolium written on one side, slightly browned, ink splashes, 4to (25.2 x 20.2 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESTrant writes to Wellington's right-hand man Sir Charles Stuart a week before the the ill-fated blockade of Almeida (11 April-10 May 1811), reporting his (Trant's) manoeuvres, probable French tactics ('I am persuaded however that Genl Brenier is instructed to evacuated Almeida when the mines ... will be in readiness for explosion'), and the disposition and movements of French troops; the combined Anglo-Portuguese force would fail to prevent a French escape, to Wellington's fury. Trant was made governor of Porto after the recapture of the city in 1809, and Wellington later interceded twice to help him retain his dual position in British and Portuguese service, on the grounds that 'there was no officer the loss of whose services in Portugal would be more felt' (ODNB). Sir Charles Stuart undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and afterwards 'made himself indispensable to Wellington' as minister at Lisbon (1810-14) and member of the Portuguese regency council. He later helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.
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Ogilby (John). The Road from Oxford to Bristol [and] The Road from Oxford to Coventry continued to Darby 1675 or later, two hand coloured strip road maps, first map with two worm holes repaired on verso, the second map with slight creasing, each approximately 330 x 445 mm, mounted (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first map runs from Oxford through Faringdon, Highworth, Purton, Malmsbury and ends at Bristol. The second map starts at Oxford and runs through Dedington, Banbury, Coventry, Nuneaton, Atherstone, Ashby de la Zouch and ends at Derby.
Royle (Charles). The Egyptian Campaigns, 1882 to 1885, and the events which led to them, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hurst and Blackett, 1886, 3 maps, including 2 folding, to first volume, and one folding map and 6 map illustrations to text to second volume, contemporary ownership signature of J.F.M. Prinsep to half title of each volume, some marks and minor damp staining to margins of front and rear endpapers, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks and spines lightly faded, second volume with some restoration to rear inner hinge, together with Barttelot (Walter George). The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain and Brevet-Major Royal Fusiliers, Commander of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, being an account of his services for the relief of Kandahar, of Gordon, and of Emin, from his letters and diary, 1st edition, Richard Bentley and Son, 1890, monochrome illustrations, including two folding maps at rear, recent blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, minor damp marking to lower edges of covers and endpapers, 8vo, plus three others related: Story of the Soudan War. From the rise of the revolt July, 1881, to the fall of Khartoum and death of Gordon, Jan. 1885, by W. Melville Pimblett, 1885, The Egyptian Soudan, its loss and recovery, including I.-A Rapid Sketch of the History of the Soudan, II.-A Narrative of the Dongola Expedition, 1896, III.-A Full Account of the Nile Expeditions, 1897-8, by Henry S.L. Alford, and W. Dennistoun Sword, 1898, and Recollections and Reflections by Coles Pasha, C.M.G., late Insepctor-General of Prisons, Egypt, St. Catherine Press, circa 1918, all original cloth, the first two titles with soiling and some damp marking to covers, slightly affecting preliminary leaves, all 8vo (Qty: 6)
Lucas (Sir Charles). The Empire at War edited for the Royal Colonial Institute, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1921-26, numerous monochrome plates after photographs, maps, etc., including some folding, original uniform blue cloth gilt, first, third and fourth volumes lightly faded to spines (generally in good bright condition), 8vo (Qty: 5)
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Ogilby (John). The Road from the City of Salisbury Com Wilts. to Campden com Gloc. circa 1698 [and] The Continuation of ye Road from London to Aberistwith, Plate ye Second commencing at Islip com Oxford & Extending to Bramyard com Hereford, two hand coloured engraved strip road maps, both with central folds strengthened on verso, each approximately 325 x 445 mm (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first map is sheet 85 and starts at Salisbury and runs through Everley, Marlborough, Highworth, Lechlade, Burford and Stow-on-the-Wold and ends at Chipping Campden. The second map, sheet 2, starts at Islip and runs through Enstone, Chipping Norton, Moreton-in-Marsh, Pershore and Worcester and ends at Bromyard
Guizot (François). History of Oliver Cromwell and the English Commonwealth, from the execution of Charles the First to the death of Cromwell, translated by Andrew R. Scoble, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Richard Bentley, 1854, original blind-stamped cloth gilt, spines lightly faded (otherwise generally in clean condition), 8vo, together with: Dalton (Charles) , George the First's Army 1714-1727, 2 volumes, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1910, monochrome plates, occasional minor spotting, ex-library copy with ink stamps to both titles, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying to joints and head and foot of spine, classification number in black ink and gold ink to foot of spine of each volume, large 8vo, Broadley (A.M.) , The Royal Miracle, A Collection of Rare Tracts, Broadsides, Letters, Prints, & Ballads concerning the wanderings of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester, 1st edition, 1912, monochrome plates, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, large 8vo, plus other English Civil War, Restoration, and Scottish Rebellion history and related, mostly 19th and early 20th-century publications, mainly bound in original cloth, 8vo (Qty: 70)
Churchill (Winston Spencer). Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan & Co., 1906, monochrome plates, some scattered spotting, original maroon cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, together with: Marlborough, His Life and Times, 3 volumes, 1st edition (second volume reprinted), 1933-36, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, top edge gilt, original maroon cloth gilt, first volume in original dust wrapper (torn with some loss to foot of spine), second and third volumes lightly faded to spines, plus other Winston S. Churchill interest, including The World Crisis 1911-1918, abridged and revised edition, 1932, The Aftermath being a sequel to The World Crisis, reprinted 1944 (in dust wrapper), The Great War, 3 volumes, George Newnes Ltd., circa 1920, in original publisher's half red morocco gilt, Curt J. Zoller, Annotated Bibliography of works about Sir Winston Churchill, 2004, Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998, The Second World War (Chartwell Edition), 6 volumes, Educational Book Company, circa 1960, etc., mostly original cloth, some in dust wrappers, 8vo (Qty: 44)
Kinglake (Alexander William). The Invasion of the Crimea: Its origin, and an account of its progress down to the death of Lord Raglan, 8 volumes, 1st edition (except second volume, 3rd edition), William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-87, 65 plates, including maps and plans (some folding), lithographed views, etc., some inner hinges cracked, original publisher's cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks and minor fraying to head and foot of spines, 8th volume with some damp staining to board edges, 8vo, together with Taylor (George Cavendish). Journal of Adventures with the British Army, from the commencement of the war to the taking of Sebastopol, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hurst & Blackett, 1856, 24-page publisher's catalogue at rear of first volume, original brown chalk-glazed endpapers, with bookseller's ticket of R. Hickson, Bridlington to front pastedown of first volume, original blindstamped red cloth gilt, lightly rubbed and soiled, with minor damp marking to extremities (otherwise a good copy), 8vo, plus Simpson (F.A.). The Rise of Louis Napoleon/Louis Napoleon & The Recovery of France 1848-1856, 3rd impression/2nd edition respectively, Longmans, Green & Co., 1929/30, monochrome plates, some light spotting to preliminary leaves, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, and other 19th century military history, biographies, strategy and engineering, including An Artillery Officer in the Mexican War 1846-7, Letters of Robert Anderson, 1911, The Problem of the Army, by L.S. Amery, 1903 (inscribed in pencil by the author to H.A. Sargeaunt to front endpaper), Instruction in Military Engineering, Volume 1 (Parts I-V) compiled at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, 1870, The Water Supply of Barracks and Cantonments by Major G.K. Scott Moncrieff, 1896, The War in Italy from Drawings by Carlo Bossoli, 1860, 31 (of 40) hand-coloured lithographed plates (some marks and marginal defects, text ends on page 70), The Army and Navy Magazine, Volumes 1, 3, 6-7, 9-11, November 1880-April 1881, January-June 1882, May 1883-April 1884, November 1884-April 1886 (all except two bound in contemporary half-calf), A Great Adventuress, Lady Hamilton and The Revolution in Naples (1753-1815) by Joseph Turquan and Jules D'Auriac, 1914 (fine copy), etc., mostly late 19th and early 20th century publications, mainly original cloth, 8vo (Qty: approximately 100)
Bacon (Admiral Sir Reginald). The Dover Patrol 1915-1917, 2 volumes, 1st edition, ?1917, numerous monochrome plates after photographs, plans, etc., frontispiece to first volume loose, original dark blue cloth gilt, generally in bright condition, 8vo, together with "Griff", Surrendered, Some Naval War Secrets, 1st edition, Twickenham, published by the author, 1918?, monochrome plates after photographs, original blue cloth gilt, generally in good condition, 4to, plus The Fighting at Jutland, the personal experiences of sixty officers and men of the British Fleet, 1st edition, [1920/21?], numerous monochrome plates, mostly after photographs, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some minor marks, 4to, and others on First World War naval history, Jutland, submarines, including The German Submarine War 1914-1918 by R.H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast, 1931, Mystery Ships (Trapping the "U" Boat), by Alfred Noyes, 1916, The Riddle of Jutland, an authentic history, by Langhorne Gibson and Vice-Admiral J.E.T. Harper, 1934, This Great Harbour, Scapa Flow, by W.S. Hewison, 2nd edition, Orkney Press, 1990, Falklands, Jutland and The Bight by Commander the Hon. Barry Bingham, 1919, The Motor Launch Patrol by Gordon S. Maxwell, 1st edition, 1920, The Crisis of the Naval War, by Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 1920, etc., mostly original cloth, some in dust wrappers, 8vo (Qty: 40)
Nicolas (Sir Nicholas Harris). The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Henry Colburn, 1844, engraved portrait frontispiece of Nelson after F.L. Abbot, folding facsimile letter to front of second volume, original publisher's blindstamped blue cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, spines somewhat fade, 8vo, together with Bourchier (Lady), Memoir of the Life of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. With selections from his public and private correspondence, edited by his daughter Lady Bourchier, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green & Co., 1873, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, several maps, plans, etc., original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks with puncture to centre of spine of first volume, upper inner hinges to each volume loosened, large armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Uniacke Penrose FitzGerald Bart to front pastedown of each volume, with autograph letter from Geoffrey Codrington, presenting the books to a Mr Wynne, dated 28 December 1950, loosely inserted at front of first volume, plus Gamlin (Hilda). Nelson's Friendships, 2 volumes, Hutchinson & Co., 1899, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, and other British naval history of the 18th and 19th century, including Oliver Warner, Nelson's Battles, Batsford, 1965, Captain Barrie Kent, Signal! A history of signalling in the Royal Navy, 1993, Geoffrey Wilson, The Old Telegraphs, 1976, Edward Clarence Paget, Memoir of the Honble. Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839, Longmans, 1913, A collection of works by Alexander Kent, George P. B. Naish, Nelson's Letters to His Wife and Other Documents, 1785-1831, Navy Record Society, 1958, etc., all original cloth, many in dust wrappers, 8vo (Qty: 70)
Healy (Timothy Michael). Stolen Waters, A Page in the Conquest of Ulster, 1st edition, Longman, Green & Co., 1913, errata slip pasted in before first leaf of main text, a few light spots to preliminary leaves, original dark green cloth gilt, a few minor marks (generally a good copy), together with [Street, Cecil John Charles]. The Administration of Ireland, 1920. By 'I.O.', 1st edition, Philip Allan & Co., April 1921, monochrome portrait frontispiece of Sir Hamar Greenwood, a few light spots to preliminary leaves, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, plus Handbook of the Ulster Question. Issued by the North Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1st ediiton, Dublin, Stationery Office, 1923, folding maps, one text leaf (pages 105/106 torn without loss), original cloth-backed boards with colour pictorial upper cover designed by Theodora Harrison, lightly rubbed and outer corners a little bumped, 8vo, and Dunsany (Lord). Tales of War, 1st edition, Dublin, Talbot Press, 1918, light browning to endpapers, original dark blue cloth-backed boards, plus others on the history of Ireland and the Irish struggle for independence, including The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell 1846-1891, by R. Barry O'Brien, 2 volumes, 1898, The Complete Works of Padraic H. Pearse, 2 volumes & Patrick H. Pearse, by Louis N. Le Roux, together 3 volumes, Phoenix Publishing Co., circa 1920, The Ulster Land War of 1770 (The Hearts of Steel), by Francis Joseph Bigger, 1st editon, Dublin, 1910, Life and Letters of George Wyndham, by J.W. Mackail and Guy Wyndham, 2 volumes, circa 1905, The Germans in Cork, being the letters of His Excellency The Baron von Kartoffel, reprinted, December 1917, The Last Independent Parliament of Ireland, by George Sigerson, Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, 1918, etc., all early to mid-20th century publications, mostly original cloth, some in dustwrappers, all 8vo (Qty: approximately 60)
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Ogilby (John). The Roads from York to Whitby and Scarborough in Yorkshi...., [and] The Road from York to West-Chester, circa 1680, two hand coloured engraved strip road maps, the first with some minor surface abrasion and the second with a small closed tear affecting image, each approximately 335 x 445 mm (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first map commences at York and passes through Stockton on the Moor, New Malton and Pickering and ends at Whitby with a secondary road starting at New Malton and passing through Rillington and Willerby and ends at Scarborough. The second map commences at York and passes through Tadcaster, Leeds, Birstall , Rochdale and Manchester and ends at Warrington
Naval & Military Despatches relating to Operations in the War, 10 Parts bound in 2 volumes, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914-1919, several folding maps, contemporary black cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Downes (Captain W.D.). With the Nigerians in German East Africa, 1st edition, Methuen & Co., 1919, monochrome illustrations, folding map at rear, original red cloth gilt, lightly faded, plus Chasseaud (Peter). Artillery's Astrologers, A History of British Survey & Mapping on the Western Front 1914-1918, Lewes Mapbooks, 1999, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, folio, VG, and others on the history of the First World War, including From the Australian Front, Cassell & Company, 1917 & Australian War Photographs, a pictorial record from November 1917 to the end of the war, edited by Captain Geo. H. Wilkins, A.I.F. Publications Section, 1919, Hubert P. Van Tuyll van Serooskerken, The Netherlands and World War I (History of Warfare, Volume 7), Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival, Leiden, Brill, 2001, several monochrome plates and illustrations, original printed boards, British Politics and the Great War, Coalition and Conflict 1915-1918, by John Turner, Yale University Press, 1992, etc., all 20th century publications, mostly original cloth, some in dust wrappers, mostly 8vo (Qty: 120)
Graham (Stephen). A Private in the Guards, 1st edition, Macmillan & Co., reprinted November 1919, original blue cloth gilt, one or two minor marks, together with Howell (Major P.), The Campaign in Thrace 1912, Six Lectures, 1st edition, Hugh Rees, 1913, folding maps, original red cloth gilt, plus Mann (A.J.). The Salonika Front, painted by William T. Wood, 1st edition, A. & C. Black, 1920, colour plates, original blue cloth gilt, in dust wrapper, some marks, and Gliddon (Gerald). The Aristocracy and the War, 1st edition, Gliddon Books, 2002, monochrome illustrations, original red cloth gilt in dust wrapper, and others on the history of the First World War, including James Neidpath, The Sinagpore Naval Base and the Defence of Britain's Eastern Empire 1919-1941, Oxford University Press, 1981, Robert T. Foley, Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings, 1st edition, Frank Cass, 2003, G.P. Gouch and Harold Temperley, editors, British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, volumes I-III & XI, H.M.S.O., 1927-26, Notes for Commanding Officers issued to students at the Senior Officers' School, Aldershot, 1918, Gale and Polden, 1918, Canada in Khaki, a tribute to the officers and men now serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, numbers I-III, 1917-1919, etc., mostly original cloth, some in dust wrappers, mainly 8vo/4to (Qty: 120)
Churchill (Winston Spencer). War Speeches, 6 volumes (Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation & Victory), mixed editions (fourth, fifth and sixth volumes 1st editions), 1943-1946, all original blue cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a few marks and minor loss to foot of spine of fifth volume, together with: Secret Session Speeches, 1st edition, 1946, The Sinews of Peace, Post-War Speeches, by Winston S. Churchill, 1st edition, 1948, both original cloth in dust wrappers, The Second World War, 6 volumes, 1st edition, 1948-54, near-contemporary ownership signature to half-title of first and second volumes, all original black cloth gilt in dust wrappers, spines a little faded, The War Speeches of the Rt Hon Winston S. Churchill, compiled by Charles Eade, 3 volumes, Cassell & Company, 1951, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrappers, minor fraying to extremities, spines lightly faded, large 8vo (Qty: 17)
Webster (Sir Charles and Frankland, Noble). The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany in 1939-1945, 4 volumes, 1st edition, H.M.S.O., 1961, monochrome plates after photographs, folding maps, etc., original green cloth gilt in dust wrappers, first three volumes somewhat toned to spines, together with Roskill (Captain S.W.). The War at Sea 1939-1945, 3 volumes bound in 4, H.M.S.O., 1954-61, monochrome plates after photographs, numerous folding maps, original green cloth gilt in dust wrappers, large 8vo, and NurembergTrials. The Trial of German Major War Criminals, Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremberg. Part 1 (Nov. & Dec. 1945) - Part 21 & Part 23 (Index), HMSO, 1945-1951, plus 1 volume of Speeches, a near-complete set lacking only volume 22, 2 volumes of Speeches and the Judgement volume, original printed wrappers, some fraying, large 8vo, plus Craven (Wesley Frank and Cate, James Lea). The Army Air Forces in World War II, 3 volumes, University of Chicago Press, 1949-52, monochrome illustrations after photographs, maps, including some folding, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrappers, large thick 8vo, plus Jervois (Brigadier W.J.). The History of the Northamptonshire Regiment: 1934-1948, Regimental History Committee, 1953, folding maps, monochrome plates, etc., original black cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, large 8vo, and others on the history of the Second World War, including Charles B. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign (United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations), Washington, 1963, Hugh M. Cole, The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge (United States Army World War II, The European Theater of Operations), Washington, 1988, History of the First Division, Florence to Monte Grande, August 1944-January 1945, Cairo, Schindler's Press, [1947], Nuremberg Trials Proceedings, 22 parts (partially incomplete), The Civil Engineer in War, a symposium of papers, 3 volumes, 1948, etc., original cloth/original wrappers, 8vo (including some 4to) (Qty: approx. 110)
Army Lists. A List of the Officers of the Army and the Marines; with an Index: a Succession of Colonels; and a List of the Officers of the Army and Marines on Half-Pay, also with an Index, War Office, February 1800, together with: volumes published 1 September 1801, 14 February 1806, 1 January 1808, 1 January 1810 & 14 February 1818, together 6 volumes, some spotting, contemporary non-uniform calf (1806 quarter calf), all rubbed and somewhat worn, joints cracked, covers to first volume and spine to last volume detached, 8vo (Qty: 6)
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Army Lists. The Army List, for January [-December] 1818, 12 monthly issues bound in 2 volumes, original printed pink wrappers retained, modern buckram gilt, together with: The Army List, for April [-June], 1820, bound as one volume, original wrappers not retained, contemporary boards, soiled and worn, covers detached, plus 12 further Monthly Army Lists for March 1826, February 1827, January 1834, September 1837, April 1855, April 1859, January 1860, September 1860, February 1861, January 1862, January 1865 & April 1872, some dust-soiling and occasional marginal fraying, last volume lacks pp. 369-76, several crude sellotape repairs, all original printed wrappers (April 1855 lacks wrappers), soiling and wear, first 4 issues with modern paper repairs, last volume with adhesive plastic covering, all small 8vo (Qty: 15)
Ogilby (John). The Road from Bristoll to Worcester, The Continuation of the Road from London to Holyhead..., Plate 2 Commencing at Towcester in com. Northton & extending to the City of Lichfield [and] The Continuation of the Road from London to Aberistwith..., plate 3rd and last commencing at Bramyard com Heref. & extending to Aberistwith, circa 1680, together three hand coloured engraved strip road maps, each approximately 315 x 455 mm (Qty: 3)NOTESThe first map commences at Bristol and runs through Dursley, Gloucester and Tewkesbury and ends at Worcester. The second map commences at Towcester and runs through Daventry, Dunchurch, Coventry and Coleshall and ends at Lichfield. The third map commences at Bromyard and runs through Leominster, Prestatyn and Rhayader and ends at Aberystwyth.
Army Lists. The New Army List, Exhibiting the Rank, Standing, and Various Services of every Regimental Officer in the Army... , by Captain H.G. Hart, nos. 36, 85, 102, 117 & 127, October 1847, January 1860, April 1864, January 1868 & July 1870, together 5 volumes, first volume original cloth gilt, rubbed, second volume contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, third volume original printed upper wrapper only, some soiling, several leaves frayed and detached, fourth volume contemporary boards with modern cloth reback, fifth volume later red half morocco gilt, rubbed, all 8vo (Qty: 5)
Army Lists. The Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's and the Honorable Company's Forces on the Bengal Establishment... , Corrected to 8th April 1856, to which is added a List of Civil Servants in Bengal and the North-Western Provinces, Calcutta, 1856, a little spotting, one leaf near detached, contemporary half calf gilt, together with: a facsimile of the 1859 edition, published Selous Books, 1997, original rexine gilt, large 8vo, The Indian Army and Civil Service List, July 1865 & January 1866, a few light ink library stamps to first volume, both original limp cloth lettered in black, slightly rubbed and soiled, small 8vo, Hodson (V.C.P.) , List of the Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834, parts 1-3 only (A-R), 1927-46, some spotting, original cloth gilt, first volume rebacked, plus Hodson's proof pages of parts 2 & 3 (D-G & L-M), marginal ink proof corrections to both volumes, contemporary cloth spring binders, rubbed, Anderson (T.C.) , Ubique: All Services of all the Officers of HM's Bengal Army, Exhibiting the Rank and various Services of every Officer in the Army... , Calcutta, [1863], some spotting, modern amateur half morocco gilt, all 8vo (Qty: 10)
Army Lists. The New Annual Army List, and Militia List, for 1860, 1878, 1884, 1886, 1899, 1900 & 1906, by H.G. Hart, published John Murray, 1860/1906, together 7 volumes, first, third and fourth volumes contemporary calf gilt, heavily rubbed and faded on spines, 1878 volume original cloth, rebacked with remains of original spine relaid, 1899 volume contemporary half calf, covers detached and crudely repaired with brown tape, 1900 & 1906 volumes original cloth, some wear and faded on spines, all large 8vo (Qty: 7)
Army Lists. The Monthly Army List for November, 1890, together with: Monthly Army Lists for January 1892, June 1894, February 1895 & January 1897, ink library stamp to first and final 2 volumes, all old cloth gilt (soiling and wear) except June 1894 contemporary red morocco gilt with original printed pink wrappers retained, 8vo (Qty: 5)
* Oxfordshire. Plot (Robert), The Map of Oxfordshire, circa 1677, hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, mileage scale, table of explanation and compass rose, old folds, slight creasing, 500 x 480 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESCreated by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford and decorated with 172 coats of arms of the county's gentry, Oxford colleges, the city and the four county towns. One of the most decorative maps of Oxfordshire ever produced.
Indian Army Lists. The Indian Army List October 1924, Calcutta, 1924, some soiling and marginal fraying at front and rear, modern buckram with original printed wrappers retained, together with: The Half-Yearly Indian Army List, April 1946, 2 parts in 2 volumes, Delhi, 1946, a few library markings, a little soiling and slight fraying to first and final leaves, modern buckram, original printed wrappers retained, rubbed and slightly soiled, slightly split at head of spines, all thick large 8vo (Qty: 3)
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Mercer ( W.H . & Collins, A.E .). The Colonial Office List for 1908[-1911]: Comprising Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the Colonial Dependencies of Great Britain, An Account of the Services of the Officers in the Colonial Service, a Transcript of the Colonial Regulations, and other Information, 4 volumes, [1908-11], folding maps, commercial adverts, together with: The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for 1922, The War Office List 1925 & 1926, all with commercial advert endpapers, some library stamps, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and dust-soiled, evidence of spine label removal from first 5 volumes, 8vo (Qty: 7)
Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal, volumes 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 34, 1893/1904, together with New series, volumes 1-18, 20-28, 30-37, 39-45, 47 & 50, 1905/1936, plus Supplement to volumes 1-30 bound in twos, the first six volumes in various bindings, all somewhat worn and several covers detached, folio, main series volumes 1-36 plus Supplements contemporary half calf, rubbed and some general wear, volumes 37/50 in various bindings, rubbed, all large 8vo, Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 26 volumes from various series, 1861/1904 plus Index for 1837 to 1872, various bindings, mostly worn, several covers detached and two spines deficient, 8vo (Qty: approx. 90)
Blackmore (John & Carmichael, J.W.). Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Newcastle, Carlisle & London, 1839, large paper copy, 23 engraved plates after J.W. Carmichael, all proofs before letters printed on mounted india paper, lacks additional engraved vignette title, original printed blue wrappers from parts edition (1836-38) bound in, spotting throughout, largely affecting plate mounts, some marginal fraying and old tape repairs (mostly to wrappers), modern half morocco and marbled boards, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESOttley 7096. The Newcastle and Carlisle was the first railway across England.
Fairey Campania Seaplane. Built by Barclay Curle & Co. Ltd, Jordanvale Yard, Whiteinch, Glasgow, 1918, an official company album with 20 mounted gelatin silver print photographs including name plate mounted as ‘title-page’ (7 x 11 cm), the remaining photographs showing the construction of the aircraft and test flights, each 16 x 21 cm, all pasted to rectos of stiff card leaves with neat ink captions in block capitals beneath, name card of Leonard R. Mackay tipped in at front with complimentary presentation inscription, original cloth, upper cover decorated in gilt and blind relief, rubbed, oblong folio (22 x 38 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe Fairey Campania was a British ship-borne, patrol and reconnaissance aircraft that was the first ever designed specifically for carrier operations. On 1 August 1918, during the North Russia Campaign in support of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War, Campanias from Nairana participated in what was probably the first fully combined air, sea, and land military operation in history, joining Allied ground forces and ships in driving Bolsheviks out of their fortifications on Modyugski Island, then scouting ahead of the Allied force as it proceeded up the channel to Arkhangelsk.
Monza ( Eni Circuit). Programa Ufficiale Circuito di Milano . Gran Premio dell' A. C. Italia 1922, Edizione Speciale della Rivista 'Il Moto', 1st edition, Milan, [1922], 48 pp., two folding tables with names of cars and drivers, illustration and adverts to text, a few scattered pencil marks and notes, original colour pictorial wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, vertical crease line, small 4to, together with: Pianta e piccola guida del circuito di Milano nel Reale Parco di Monza 3.8.10 Octtembre 1922, published by G. Ragazzoni & Guerzoni, [1922], 32 pp., folding plan printed in red and green at rear, original printed wrappers, a little chipped and soiled, small 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first Monza circuit racetrack was built from May to July 1922 by 3,500 workers, financed by the Milan Automobile Club. The track was officially opened on 3 September 1922, with the maiden race the second Italian Grand Prix held on 10 September 1922.
Railways. Tredgold on the Steam Engine. Locomotive and Stationary Engines: the Principles and Practice of their Construction, Exemplified in Numerous Examples, James S. Virtue, c.1850, 61 plates including some folding, spotting and some finger soiling, marginal repairs to title, modern cloth with remains of original leather spine relaid, folio, together with: [Tredgold, Thomas], The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation on the Several Lines of Railway. Completing Division A. and forming the first volume of the new edition of Tredgold on the steam engine., John Weale, 1850, 40 mostly folding plates, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 4to, plus Whishaw (Francis), The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, Simpkin, Marshall, 1840, large folding map and 16 mostly double-page or folding plates (many chipped and with occasional tears and repairs with some loss), folding tables, original cloth, crudely rebacked and recornered, 4to (Qty: 3)NOTESSold with all faults not subject to return.
Poland. Bowles (John), Poland Subdivided according to the extent of its Severall Palatinates, circa 1744, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured cartouche, additional title above map, old folds, short splits to old folds, folds strengthened on verso, 570 x 860 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESRare unrecorded state of William Berry's two sheet map of Poland originally published in about 1683 in London. William Berry's map of Poland was the first large scale map of Poland to be published in England and whilst the map credits Nicholas Sanson's earlier map as its source the map is actually drawn from Hubert Jaillot's map of Poland published about ten years earlier in Amsterdam. The first edition has a dedication to Charles II whereas this edition acknowledges the present king, George II. The scarce second state bears the publishing imprint of Thomas Taylor, Philip Overton and John Lenthall. We have been unable to locate another example of this map and this example was catalogued by Ashley Baynton Williams for the London Antiquarian Book Fair of 2013.
Hearne (Thomas). Guilielmi Neubrigensis Historia sive Chronica Rerum Anglicarum, libris quinque. E Codice MS. pervetusto, in Bibliotheca praenobilis Domini Thomae Sebright, Baronetti, Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719, list of subscribers to pages cxxiii-cxxxiv, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little wear, with joints cracked, large 8vo, together with: Scottish Law. Proof, in the conjoined processes, George-James Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton, and their Tutors, and Sir Huw Dalrymple of Northberwick, Baronet, Pursuers, against the person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas, only son now on life of the marriage between Colonel John Stewart... and Lady Jane Douglas..., printed in obedience to two interlocutors of the Lords of Session, of date December 19, 1765, and February 5, 1766, 1054 pages of main text, plus appendices, contemporary half calf, worn with covers detached, thick 4to, plus: A' Costa (Girolamo) , Istoria dell' Origine e del Progresso delle Rendite Ecclesiastiche..., 2 volumes bound in 1, Venice, 1768, engraved frontispiece to first volume, ink stamp to foot of first volume title page, contemporary full vellum,spine label a little rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including St. John Chrysostom, Opera, Volume 1 only, Basel, Officina Hervagiana, 1539, title with woodcut vignette, some early ink marginalia, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, portion of the general index to the full work bound in at front (first leaf soiled), disbound without covers, folio, Sir George Staunton, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, volume 1 only, 2nd edition, corrected, 1798, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, worn with covers detached, 4to, mostly 18th and 19th century works, some odd volumes and part-sets, mainly leather bound, 8vo, 4to, & folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
Constantin (Robert). Lexicon Graecolatinum Rob. Constantini. Secunda hac editione, partim ipsius authoris, partim Francisci Porti & aliorum additionibus plurimum auctum, [Geneva], Heirs of Eustace Vignon & Johann Stoer, 1592, title printed in red and black, with printer's woodcut device, text printed in double-column, very slight water stain to extreme margins to final leaves (generally a clean copy), 18th century full diced calf gilt, joints cracked with upper cover detached, leather split (but mainly without loss) at head and foot of spine, thick folio, together with: Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books..., Whereunto is added in this edition, The Life and Tryal of the Author, printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke, etc., 1687, additional engraved title, with printed leaf The Mind of the Front trimmed and mounted to facing leaf, printed title in red and black, first leaf of preface with upper portion missing, 6 double-page engraved plates, including 4 maps (includes Arabia & India, The Middle East, Holy Land, and Sicily), some marks and minor defects, near-contemporary calf, worn, folio (with all faults), plus three further editions of the same work (1652, 1665 and 1677), each defective, but with some plates and maps remaining, worn in contemporary bindings, folio, plus other various antiquarian, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Chastillon sur Loin, Gouverneur pour le Roi de l'Isle de France & de Picardie, Colonel General de l'Infanterie Francoise, & Amiral de France, Cologne, 1686, Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Fifteen Books. A New Translation, by Several Hands, adorn'd with cuts, 2 volumes, printed for A. Bettesworth and W. Taylor, E. Curll, and J. Browne, 1717 (first volume lacking upper cover), Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects, 6th edition, corrected, 1709, Tournefort, A Voyage into The Levant, volume 1 (of 3) only, 1741 (with numerous engraved maps and plates), Colonel Atwell Lake, Kars and Our Captivity in Russia, 1st edition, 1856 (bound in contemporary calf), John M'Gregor, British America, volume II only, 2nd edition, 1833 (with several folding maps of Quebec), R.C. Dallas, The History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone: including the Expedition to Cuba, volume II only, 1803, Clericus & Mangetus, Bibliotheca Anatomica, volume II only, Geneva, 1699, etc., all leather-bound, mostly 8vo, but including 11 folios (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESSold as seen, not subject to return.
Morison (Stanley) . John Fell, The University Press and the 'Fell' Types..., 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1967, 22 plates including colour frontispiece, publishers original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & rubbed with small tears to head & foot of spine, folio, together with: Symonds (John Addington). The Letters of John Addington Symonds, edited by Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, 3 volumes, Detroit, 1967-69, monochrome plates, original uniform green cloth gilt in dust wrappers, thick 8vo, plus: The Cambridge History of the British Empire, edited by J. Holland Rose, A.P. Newton and E.A. Benians, 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1929/40 respectively, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrappers, rubbed and spine somewhat dulled, thick 8vo, and other history and related, mostly academic publications, including Emma Cownie , Religious Patronage In Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135, 1998, Lesley Smith & Benedicta Ward, Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages, 1992, S.A. Skilliter, William Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578-1582, 1977, Bertram D. Wolfe, Diego Rivera, His Life and Times, New York, 1939, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, 1936 (rebound), etc., mostly original cloth in dust wrappers, all 8vo (except first title folio) (Qty: 6 shelves)
Oman (Charles) . A History of the Peninsular War, 7 volumes, reprinted Greenhill Books/AMS, 1980-96, monochrome illustrations and maps, original uniform red cloth, the first 5 volumes in dust wrappers, 8vo, together with; Oman (Charles). A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, 2 volumes, Greenhill Books, 1991, original cloth in dust wrappers, 8vo, plus Haig (Major-General Douglas) . Cavalry Studies Strategical and Tactical, 1st edition, Hugh Rees, 1907, numerous folding maps, some underlining in red ink, original red cloth gilt, rubbed and a little wear to joints, 8vo, and Webster (Charles & Frankland, Noble) , The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945 (History of the Second World War), 4 volumes, H.M.S.O., 1961, colour maps, monochrome illustrations, original publisher's cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a little rubbed and some marks and toning to spines, large 8vo, plus other military history, all 20th century publications in dust wrappers, including Marcus Cunliffe, Soldiers & Civilians, The Martial Spirit in America 1775-1865, 1969, Richard Hill, The Prizes of War, The Naval Prize System in the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, 1998, John S.G. Blair, In Arduis Fidelis, Centenary History of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Scottish Academic Press, 1998, etc., all 8vo, VG (Qty: 6 shelves)
Rowling (J. K.) . Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 5th edition, 1998, ...and the Chamber of Secrets, 4th edition, 1998, ...and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 3rd edition, 1999, ...and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, ...and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, ...and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005, ...and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, all 1st editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, some spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with: Deighton (Len) , Horse under Water, 1st edition, 1963, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine slightly toned, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Francis (Dick) , For Kicks, 1st edition, 1965, some minor toning, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, covers with repaired minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, plus other first editions and modern fiction, including Ngaio Marsh, Patrick Ness, Mo Hayder, Ian Rankin, Lee Child, G/VG, 8vo (Qty: 6 shelves)Please note that the first four Harry Potter books in this lot are all later impressions of The Book People editions
Poland. Hondius (J.), Nova Poloniae delineatio, Amsterdam, circa 1630, hand coloured engraved carte-a figures map with six costumed figures to vertical margins and seven oval vignette views to horizontal borders, large strapwork cartouche, trimmed to neatline on three margins and laid on later paper, 415 x 565 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESFirst and only state with borders. The town views depict Danzig, Krakow, Breslau, Posnan, Sandomierz, Crosno and Biecz.
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