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Lot 156
Jacobites An Act against Corresponding with the late King James and his Adherents Printed Act of Parliament dated 1697 7pp folio plus title disbound. Despite the victory of William III against his father in law James II at the Battle of the Boyne the Jacobite threat remained as strong as ever and of course was to continue until the draconian suppression of the Highlands in the wake of the Battle of Culloden 50 years later. This Act made it an offence of High Treason to have anything to do with the exiled King James.
Lot 157
Crime and Punishment – ‘The Staines Tragedy’ remarkable hand written account identified as in the hand of W H Bailey detailing the entire case of the abduction and subsequent death of Edith Neale aged five whose body was found in a cornfield near Staines in 1911. The account written in a neat hand on 43pp large folio also contains contemporaneous press cuttings relating to the tragedy. Edith Neale was abducted while walking along a country lane by an unidentified man. Her body was eventually found after more than 2000 local people joined Police in searching for her. William Standing was subsequently arrested and picked out of an identity parade by three witnesses. However the Police could not provide enough evidence to convict him of murder and he was eventually convicted on a manslaughter charge for being responsible for the girl wandering off into the field. He was sentenced to 12 years hard labour but enraged everyone by his jocular greeting of the sentence. The account also contains two original witness summonses issued to a housemaid named Sarah Bailey – and it is logical to assume that the writer of this account was connected to her.
Lot 167
Ecclesiastical – manuscript c1740 a manuscript collection of annotations on the New Testament compiled by Timothy Mauleverer approx 718 pp folio plus indexes and appendices reverse calf binding slightly distressed but interior contents appear good throughout. A fine and extensive early 18thc ecclesiastical manuscript compiled by a meticulous person written in a small but legible hand.
Lot 193
Autograph – Albert VII Archduke of Austria letter signed dated March 18th 1615 1p folio erosion to right hand margin affecting a few words but clear signature. Albert had taken part in the Spanish Armada and later became co-sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands appointed by Spain. His wife was the Infanta Isabella daughter of Philip II. The letter appears to be addressed to an advisor in foreign affairs in Paris and the subject matter appears to be Albert’s questioning of France’s neutrality in a conflict and the answer that was given to that question by the French Parliament in Paris.
Lot 260
Ephemera – travel diary the diary of Howard Beadle on his voyage around the world between September 19th 1896 and March 24th 1897 written in a neat hand in a hard backed folio book approx 81pp with a bundle of loosely inserted further pages some of which are photocopies. The diary is particularly notable for his observations in the USA – he witnesses the building work on the tomb of U S Grant for example. He then comments extensively on the celebrations on the election of President MacKinlay ‘...ladies and gentlemen all dressed out in evening dress & low necked dresses seemed to have crowed to the hall of this hotel armed with all the most objectionable sounding musical instruments to hear the result of the Presidential election... returns came in every few minutes from all over the states...about 11 o’clock there came the returns from one of the large cities. Never have I heard the like to the din after that was given out. The whole hall was raving for two or three minutes... this continued until 1 am when the gentleman who read out the results said ‘gentlemen I mean ladies & gentlemen I will keep you no longer MacKinlay is undoubtedly elected.’ The brought a blast & rattle that would far surpass the one that knocked down the wall of Jericho...’ President MacKinlay was one of the four US Presidents to be assassinated in office.
Lot 273
Scotland An inventory of the Title Deeds of the Lands and barony of Ingliston belonging to William Mitchell Innes Esq of Parsons Green1844. Manuscript listing 25 parcels of land and titles between 1572 and 1804. Full contemporary calf with raised bands on spine front hinge weak but holding and calf missing to top panel of spine but the contents are crisp and clear. 75pp folio.
Lot 291
Autographs – Paul Valery – League of Nations The Palace of the League of Nations by Louis Cheronnet Paris: L’Illustration 1938. Folio. 72 pages. First edition. An illustrated book on the Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva. Sections of the large beaux art building were designed by many different architects emblematic of the good and bad points of the League itself. Included are several proposed designs which were not used. Illustrated in colour and black and white. This was a souvenir presentation to Miss K J Stafford who served the League of Nations from 1919-1939 and inside the front cover is tipped in six folio leaves bearing a considerable number of signatures of the League’s Secretariat. Included is an autograph sentiment by the French writer and philosopher Paul Valery who was a French Representative at the League. This volume thus provides a unique compilation of signatures of the people who were operating the League at its very end. Formed in 1919 as an attempt to ensure that the world never again fell into a World War the League became defunct in December 1939 after the activities of Hitler and Mussolini rendered its high ideals totally irrelevant. Its failure however led to the eventual establishment of the United Nations.
Lot 303
Maritime – Nelson Margett’s Longitude Tables for correcting the effect of Parallax and Refraction ...London 1794. Elephant folio calf boards detached interior contents generally in good order. Old auctioneer’s catalogue description (probably Sotheby’s late 19th/early 20th c) pasted to inside front cover as well as label of James Hatton ‘Chronometer Maker to the Honourable East India Company St Michaels Alley Cornhill’. This book bears the signature ‘Horatio Nelson’ to top of title page.
Lot 385
Lincolnshire – Laughton fine document undated but probably 18thc being a petition from tenants in Laughton to Lord Irwin concerning the state of the sluice on the River Trent needed to drain the fen lands which had fallen into disrepair and asking for assistance in rebuilding it – signed by a total of 17 petitioners to base written on one side of a folio leaf of paper a few minor close tears to edges but otherwise in fine condition together with a small bundle of other ms manorial documents relating to Laughton.
Lot 387
Dorset – Bourton indenture on 18 pp folio dated 1887 being the lease of the Bourton Foundry between Oliver Maggs and E S Hindley with three ms plans showing the foundry and the sources of water. The Bourton Foundry was once a mill which boasted the largest water wheel in Europe. As a foundry it produced some of the world’s first steam driven cars.
Lot 390
Cornwall fine ms document dated 1708 being the inventory of the property of Richard Saltorn deceased late of Linkinhorn Cornwall written on 2 1/4 pp folio in fine condition. A particularly informative document of the property of a Cornish yeoman farmer whose total estate was worth more than £1100 – a vast sum for the time.
Lot 404
Autograph Maritime - Horatio Nelson hero of Trafalgar fine ms document signed ‘Nelson & Bronte’ with the left hand (fine bold signature) given on board the Amphion off Toulon the 17th day of July 1803 being a list of rendezvous signals written in a neat secretarial hand on 1p folio (of a bifolium) three slips of adhesive paper attached to the document affecting a few words but not the signature. Overall slight browning consistent with age but the document is otherwise in fine condition. Nelson joined the fleet off Toulon on July 6th where he maintained a blockade of the port until December 1804.
Lot 405
Autograph – Maritime – Cuthbert Collingwood Admiral assumed command at Trafalgar after the death of Nelson autograph letter signed to Admiral Sir Charles Cotton dated Ocean at Malta January 24th 1809 commenting on the ‘unhappy people’ of Portugal ‘who are captive at Algier... no people at Algier suffer so much as the Portuguese from the total want of relief by their Government the affairs of Portugal have been so deranged of late that it accounts for their omission but I hope in the present state the Ministers may be at leisure to advent to a subject in which the national character is involved...’ 1p folio. The salutation and signature of this letter were cut from the letter at some stage in the past and mounted with a print of Collingwood as a display item. Thankfully whoever did this retained the letter within the framed ensemble and it is our view that both the letter and the cut out signature can now be successfully restored.
Lot 414
Newspaper – London Gazette for June 28th July 1st 1675 carrying news of Charles II amongst other reports. An advertisement on the back promotes the geographical publications and globes of Robert Morden. 2pp folio slight fraying to edges but otherwise in good condition. Rare. Newspapers from such an early date are now becoming scarce on the market.
Lot 1509
EAST INDIA COMPANY. Two bound vols manuscript copy letters written by A. Lambert, an official and merchant with The First East India Company based at Calcutta. to family at Alnwick Castle and to many other correspondents. Good detail army campaigns (25 page plus letter on Tippoo Sultan). Detail regarding all sorts of goods, merchandising, shipping, sugar re. West Indian Slave Trade. Domestic arrangements in India. The two volumes orig roan, folio, May 1788-March 1798. Altogether 750 close written pages.
Lot 76
[Bird (Charles)] Picturesque Old Bristol 26 original parts “Lettered Proof” edition 53 etched plates by Bird printed in sepia and labelled “third state” some foxing loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers rubbed and spotted Bristol Frost & Reed 1886 § Skelton (Joseph) Etchings of the Antiquities of Bristol engraved pictorial title and 54 plates only (of 55) one plate defective at upper outer corner not affecting image contemporary roan-backed cloth spine worn and defective [c.1825] § Ecclesiae Bristolianae; being Views...of the Churches of Bristol engraved plates after John Willis all on india paper and mounted some foxed original cloth rebacked rubbed Bristol [c.1850]; and 2 others similar folio & 4to(c.30)
Lot 84
Imperial Map of England and Wales c.1860 17 linen-backed sheets hand-coloured in outline occasional water-staining mostly marginal original half morocco gilt corners worn rubbed and scuffed [c.1860]; and 2 others Continental Atlases (one military one Genealogical and Historical) folio et infra(3)
Lot 94
Trench Lithographic...North Bank of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge shewing the Proposed Quay and some other improvements suggested by Lieut.-Colonel Trench prospectus and 10 plates forming a continuous panorama including folding plan folding plan lithograph by T.M. Baynes each section c.220 x 565mm. but the final section 220 x 355mm. contemporary inscription the rear wrapper slight attendant browning surface dirt and slight spotting to fore-edges creases to first few leaves at fore-edge stitched into original wrapper title label to upper [cf. Abbey Life 496] oblong folio Hurst and Robinson 1825.
Lot 110
Lizars.Edinburgh Geographical/Historical Atlas large folding table of Mountain Chains with engraved vignette 68 folding and/or double-page maps on 58 sheets (no map 32 as correct) all hand-coloured or partly so and mounted on stubs rather browned with some soiling and staining table World map & Asia torn and partly repaired (Asia map split and remounted on stubs) a few other tears and minor defects text foxed and with some tears and repairs old ink signature on title contemporary half morocco rubbed spine worn at head upper joint split folio Edinburgh John Hamilton...successor to Daniel Lizars [c.1830]; sold not subject to return
Lot 111
Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Kn 2 vol. 145 maps hand-coloured in outline only (of 152 vol.1 lacking 2 Mercator`s Projection 2 Ancient World Europe general Asia general Arabia & Egypt) 2 maps of Ireland joined together vol.2 with 32 partly hand-coloured city plans (3 double-page) and 6 hand-coloured maps of the stars 2 Hemisphere maps and first few leaves in vol.1 torn and frayed at edges small ink stain to Canals & Railways of England & Wales vol.2 lacking title light staining and one or two small tears to edges of London plan some other light soiling or staining mostly marginal some maps and leaves loose hinges broken contemporary half morocco worn vol.1 lacking lower cover spines torn folio 1848-46; sold not subject to return.
Lot 112
Stanford.University Atlas..Classical/Mod.Geog. 53 double-page maps hand-coloured in outline with double-page map of Livingstone`s discoveries with routes in red tipped in at beginning Livingstone map lightly spotted otherwise clean loose in binding where gutta percha perished contemporary half morocco g.e. rather worn small folio Edward Stanford 1874.
Lot 151
Cook.New Hist..Voyage Round the World 1794 drop-head title 36 engraved plates and charts one chart folding and creased & stained at fore-edge (also defective at upper outer corner but not affecting image) a few plates shaved a little foxing and staining mostly marginal old cloth rubbed [Ferguson I 192] folio [Alex. Hogg] [1794]. ***Extract (pp.5-650 the complete section on Cook) from Portlock`s A New Complete and Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels to all the Various Parts of the World. “Additional matter relating to Cook his officers and his voyages not found elsewhere is also included.” - Ferguson..
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Lot 210
Trade Catalogues.- Tiles 12 cats. [c.1900] for Burmantofts T. & R.Boote Ltd. Minton Carter & Co. Woolliscroft Mansfield Bros. Heather Brick Co. plates and illustrations many chromolithographed some photographic a few folding some spotting and soiling one or two plates loose and frayed at edges Burmantofts catalogue original morocco-backed cloth lacking spine the rest original printed wrappers or boards some cloth-backed all rubbed or worn one lacking lower wrapper folio & 4to [late 19th & early 20th century]; sold not subject to return(12)
Lot 215
Perrier Segmenta Nobilium Signorum engraved title 100 plates (2 double page) and 2 pp. of index occasional spotting later marbled calf spine gilt little rubbed folio [Brunet IV 512 5th state of title] Rome & Paris chez la veuse de deffunct Perrier...chez la ve. de E. Chereau 1638 [but later].
Lot 220
Richebourcq Ultima Verba Factaque... 2 vol. titles in red and black double column slightly browned ink signature on front free endpaper of 1 vol. contemporary calf slightly rubbed red morocco labels on spines old lot number of spine of vol.I folio Amsterdam & Antwerp Johannus Franciscus Lucas 1721.
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