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wILLIAMS, William (Speaker of the House of Commons). Votes of the House of Commons, London; Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1680, small folio, modern cloth with a few pages in facsimile; CARRUTHERS, S.W. Three Centuries of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, 1957, inscribed by the author to first leaf, edges slightly discoloured; Pollard & Redgrave. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Prints. 1475-1640, London 1926 (worn); PLOMER, H.R. et al. Dictionary of the Printers and BooksellersÉ 1557-1775, one vol. edition 1977; 2 others (6)
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cHESELDEN, William. Osteographia or the Anatomy of the Bones, London 1733, folio, vignette title, 86 various full page plates only, some soiling and staining, occasional library stamps, some leaves loose, later calf backed marbled boards, defective, ex Royal Medical Library Edinburgh, sold not subject to return
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aLBINUS, Bernard Siegfried. Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, London 1749, large folio, vignette title and 27 various plates (Muscles I-IX and XI - XXV; Skeleton I-III), ex. John Crerar Library Chicago with stamps, plate leaves loose in worn and defective later cloth binding, some staining and damage to plates and text, sold not subject to return
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hISSEY, J.J. and HUSON, T. Round About Snowdon, 1894, folio, 30 plates as required, some light spotting, in dusty cloth; SHORT, Frank. On the Making of Etchings, third edition 1898, 3 plates; MONKHOUSE, Cosmo. The Earlier English Watercolour Painters, 1890, engraved plates and others, pages loose, cloth gilt (3)
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rOUNDELL, Mrs Charles. Ham House its History and Art Treasures, 2 volumes, London 1904 folio, illustrated, some staining, half vellum gilt; BEAN, W.J. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 1908, 4to, plates, spotting, some wear to covers; STROUD, Dorothy, Capability Brown, first edition 1950, spotting in damaged dust jacket; NASH, J. The Mansions of England, 1906, worn
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Hinderwell's "History of Scarborough" 1798 collected and arranged by George Lord Beeforth, 1891, illustrated with many rare portraits, sketches, engravings, maps and plans, 3 volumes printed and published by John Hagyard, Scarborough, fully leather bound, gilt titles to front boards and spines, front board detached on volume one, large folio. (3).
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A collection of three folio size scrapbooks covering Welsh Rugby from the late 1930's to the late 1950's, to include photographs, match tickets, menu cards, letters, autographs, programmes and ephemera, (3). *** Items include menu card Ireland v Wales 1939; France v Wales 1957 menu card and match ticket; France v Wales 1959 match programme and ticket together with numerous menu cards and tickets from the Australian tour to U.K. 1957/58.
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Crane Walter. The First Of May A Fairy Masque. Presented in a Series of Fifty-Two Designs by Walter Crane. Henry Sotheran: London 1881. First Edition. Limited edition 51 of 200 copies signed by Crane. 57 india proofs (photo-engraved and printed by Goupil & Co. contemporary half green calf spine lettered in gilt oblong folio
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Col H Dainer, British School 19th century- 'Hotel and Head Quarters of the Duke of Wellington with the English Camp in the Champs Elisees Paris 1815 Lady Shelly'; watercolour, inscribed, bears stamp for 'Althorp', 33x52cm: together with seven other drawings and watercolours and one letter, seven in two shared mounts, all in a green folio and purpose built wooden fitted portfolio case, (a lot), (in wooden case)
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LODGE, Edmund-Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, 4 vols., 1st edition, London 1821-1834, 240 India proof steel engravings mounted on thick paper, tissue guards, subscribers list, contemp. three quarter morocco, extrem. worn, some spotting to plates throughout, book plate of Hugh Taylor, folio.
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Vilmorin (Auguste Lacoin de). De Paris a Bombay par La Perse, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1895,. half title, plts. and illusts., map, a.e.g., orig. cloth with gilt dec. morocco spine, lower corner of upper cover worn, 8vo, together with Dieulafoy (Marcel), L'Art Antique de la Perse, vols. 1 & 3 (of 5) only, Paris, 1884 85, two single page maps and eighteen heliogravure and half tone photographic plts. to vol. 1, nineteen mostly half tone photographic plts. on seventeen leaves to vol. 3, including one folding plt. and one col., a little foxing, contemp. morroco backed red cloth gilt, rubbed and scuffed, corners sl. frayed, folio (3)
![Wild (Charles). Wild's Foreign Cathedrals, [so titled to upper cover], 1826(?),. twelve hand col. aqua. plts., mounted on th](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2689839/113-53-10729_468x382.jpg)
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Wild (Charles). Wild's Foreign Cathedrals, [so titled to upper cover], 1826(?),. twelve hand col. aqua. plts., mounted on thick card within ink ruled border, each titled on verso in early ms., contemp. half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, folio Abbey, Travel, 93. Charles Wild followed close on the heels of Pugin, and like Pugin, devoted himself to spreading a knowledge of Gothic architecture. As a youth Wild was articled to Thomas Malton, Turner's master in perspective. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803, and in 1807 began studying English cathedrals for his published work on the subject, going abroad to make a similar study of cathedrals in Strasbourg, Cologne, Chartres, Beauvais, Rheims, Rouen and Amiens, for the present volume. See illustration inside rear cover of this catalogue. (1)
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Audebert (J.B & Vieillot, L.P.). Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux Mouches, Jacamars et Promerops, Paris, Desray, 1802, 156+ 8+ 36pp., 84 (of 85) fine engraved plates, lacking plate 8 from the final section, a few plates with some light hand colouring, some minor worming mainly to inner margins, contents partly loose, contemp. qtr. calf, badly worn and badly frayed to edges, folio Nissen 47. This work, together with the companion volume on Birds of Paradise (1800) was issued under the general title Oyseaux Dorés. Sold with all faults. (1)
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Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds, 2 vols., (Land Birds/Water Birds), Newcastle, 1832, numerous woodcut illusts. and vignettes throughout, early ms. name to head of titles, occn. light foxing and finger soiling, vol. 2 with edges a little marked, modern qtr. calf, 8vo, together with A History of British Birds, vol. 2 only (of 2), (Water Birds), Newcastle, 1805, numerous woodcut illusts., a.e.g., late 19th c. morocco gilt by Bickers, spine rubbed, 4to, plus Thomas Bewick, My Life, ed. Iain Bain, Folio Society, 1981, port. frontis., col. plts., and numerous vigns. to text, orig. cloth backed boards, 8vo (4)
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Desmarest (Anselme Gaëtan). Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers, avec Figures Imprimées en Couleur, d'après les Dessins de Mademoiselle Pauline de Courcelles, élève de Barraband, Paris, 1805, seventy one only (of 72) uncol. plts., lacking plt. 33 (Le Tangara du Mississipi à ailes verts), half title present, some foxing to first (text) leaves, water staining to latter half of vol., becoming progressively more intrusive, encroaching on image of approx. 24 of the plts. to varying degrees, stitching partially broken, untrimmed, orig. boards, detached and lacking spine, rubbed and marked in places, folio Nissen 238. Usually appears with coloured plates, and sometimes with a duplicate set of the plates uncoloured. (1)
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Dioscorides (Pedacius). In Dioscoridis Historiam Herbarum Certissima Adaptatio, cum Earundem Iconum Nomenclaturis Graecis, Latinis, & Germanicis. Der Kreuter Rechte Währhafftige Contrafactur..., 1st ed. in German, Joannes Schottanus, Strassburg, 1543,. woodcut armorial device to title, numerous woodcut botanical illusts. throughout volume, full page woodcut illust. to last leaf with small repair to lower right corner of image, occ. minor spotting & minor marks (pages washed), early 18th c. calf with gilt arabesque to centre of each board, modern reback with gilt dec. spine, board edges and corners neatly repaired, folio Nissen 495. (1)
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Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie, Very Much enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, 2nd ed., printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633,. lacking eng. title, 3 preliminary leaves and also 2 leaves of Table (which is misbound before main body of text), numerous botanical woodcuts to text, few marginal repairs to initial leaves, 19th c. half sheep, corners and extrems. slightly worn, folio STC 11751. (1)
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Millais (J.G.). Rhododendrons, in which is Set Forth an Account of all Species of the Genus Rhododendron (including Azaleas) and the Various Hybrids, 1917 24, title pages printed in black and red, thirty four col. plts., twenty eight collotype plts., and fifty two half tone plts., by Beatrice Parsons, Archibald Thorburn, etc., orig. cloth gilt, sl. damp mottled and marked, extrems. a little rubbed, folio Limited edition, 306/550 and 278/550 copies (first and second series respectively). (2)
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Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary. Containing, the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Pleasure Garden..., 6th ed., 1752, eng. frontis. and nine eng. plts., wood eng. head and tail pieces and initial letters, recent half morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered leather label in second compartment, folio (1)
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Morton (John). The Natural History of Northampton shire; with Some Account of the Antiquities, to which is Annex'd a Transcript of Doomsday Book, so far as it Relates to that County, 1st ed., 1712, folding eng. map lacking, and supplied in facsimile tipped in to front free endpaper, fourteen eng. plts., title page sl. creased and torn at lower outer corner (repair to verso), hinges strengthened, contemp. Cambridge pane calf, rubbed and scuffed, with corners showing, rebacked, orig. label relaid, folio (1)
![[Perrault, Claude]. Memoirs for Natural History of Animals. Containing the Anatomical Descriptions of Several Creatures Diss](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2689839/191-53-10729_468x382.jpg)
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[Perrault, Claude]. Memoirs for Natural History of Animals. Containing the Anatomical Descriptions of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Englished by Alexander Pitfeild..., to which is Added an Account of the Measure of a Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth..., by Richard Waller, 2 parts in one, 1st English ed., 1688, addn. eng. title, title printed in red & black, thirty five eng. plts., contemp. speckled calf, gilt dec. spine with later morocco title label, rebacked, folio Nissen 3125; Wing M1582A (Wing M1667). (1)
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Redoute (Pierre Joseph). Roses/Roses 2. Selected and Introduced by Eva Mannering, pub. Ariel Press, 1954 & 1956,. forty eight fine callotype col. plts., orig. printed wrappers (Roses 2 frayed and chipped at edges), together with Prevost (Jean Louis), Bouquets, Text and Introduction by Emy Pischel, pub. Macdonald, 1960, eighteen fine colotype col. plts. of flowers and fruit, orig. cloth, faded on spine, all slim folio (3)
![[Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf]. Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen Menschen und der Säugethiere, 2nd vol. only (of 2), J. Honegger,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2689839/195-53-10729_468x382.jpg)
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[Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf]. Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen Menschen und der Säugethiere, 2nd vol. only (of 2), J. Honegger, Zurich, [1840],. ninety litho. plts., half title creased, lightly foxed throughout, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and scratched, corners showing, folio Nissen ZBI 3673. (1)
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Willughby (Francis). The Ornithology... Wherein all the Birds Hitherto Known, Being Reduced into a Method Sutable to their Natures, are Accurately Described... , 3 parts in one vol., 1st ed. in English, 1678,. title in red and black, two letterpress tables and seventy eight eng. plts., lacks two plts. of bird trapping as sometimes, contemp. panelled calf, joints weak and some wear to extrems., folio Wing W2879; Nissen 991. (1)
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Winter (George Simon). Bellerophon, sive Eques Peritus. Hoc est: Artisequestris Accuratissima Institutio, Opera Bipartito, seu Duobus Libris, absoluta: Quorum Prior Modum Explicat..., Nuremberg, 1678, half title, eng. frontis. and sixty seven eng. plts. only of 170 (including 65 double page), occ. minor spotting and minor marks, few plts. with closed tears and discreet repairs, sewing broken, disbound folio Lipperheide 2913. (1)
![[Worlidge, John]. Systema Agriculturae, the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered; Wherein is Treated of the Several New and Most](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2689839/213-53-10729_468x382.jpg)
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[Worlidge, John]. Systema Agriculturae, the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered; Wherein is Treated of the Several New and Most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting..., all sorts of Gardens, Orchards..., and all sorts of Fruits, Corn..., Cattel, Fowl, Beasts, Bees, Silk worms..., with an Account of the Several Instruments and Engines useful in this Profession. To which is Added, Kalendarium Rusticum; or, The Husbandmans Monethly Directions..., 1st ed., 1669,. eng. frontis. and Explanation of the Frontispiece leaf present, woodcut illusts. to text, contemp. calf, joints slightly cracked & rubbed, later morocco title label to spine, folio Wing W3598; Kress 1251. (1)
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Zannichelli (Giovanni Girolamo). Istoria Delle Piante che Nascono ne'lidi Intorno a Venezia. Opera Postuma Accresciuta da Gian Jacopo Figliuolo dello Stesso, Venezia, 1735, 311 eng. botanical illusts. on seventy eight plts., lacks eng. port., title and all before a2 of Preface, some spotting to upper margins, final leaf creased, contemp. mottled calf, gilt dec. spine, some wear to joints, corners and head & foot of spine, folio Nissen 2192. (1)
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* Gould (John). Picus Leuconotus [White backed Woodpecker], Parus Ater [Coal Tit], Calamodyta Phragmitis [Sedge Warbler], Phyllopneuste Trochilus [Willow Warbler], Uria Troile [Guillemot], Emberiza Pusilla [Little Bunting], c.1870s, six fine hand coloured lithos., folio, mounted (6) (These Gould prints all have punch holes to the extreme left margin.)
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[Pick, Rudolf]. Jagden in Afrika und Asien, Tagebuch des Lord John W. Humbug von R. P., Vienna, n.d., c. 1900,. twelve hand col. litho. plts. (of an unknown number), each with the artist's printed initials and caption in German, some spotting, a little dust soiled and chipped at edges, loosely contained in orig. half leather portfolio with pict. upper cover, some wear, tall folio (1)
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Sepp (George & Jan Christiaen). Garrulus, ex Collectione plurimum reverendi Domini Adriani Buurt, V. P. Ministri Amstelaedamensis, n.d., c. 1770,. hand coloured copper engraving, plate size approx. 430 x 280 mm (17 x 11 ins), framed and glazed (1) #50-80-239. * Watercolour Album. An album containing approx. 80 well executed watercolour views, dated 1905 07,. including views in Scotland, South of France including Cap Martin, Swanage, Lymington, Poole, Porchester, Cherbourg, Rouen, etc., all images unsigned, sizes mostly 325 x 240 mm or 150 x 255 mm, some blank spaces, contemp. half morocco, worn with covers detached, oblong folio Provenance: The sketchbook of Sir Henry (b.1844) and Lady Emma (b.1853) Crichton of Netley Castle, Netley Abbey, Hampshire. Inherited by Mrs Louisa Charlotte Fanshawe, daughter of Sir Henry by his first wife, and passed to their son, Capt. Peter Fanshawe (d.1994) among whose effects it was discovered. See illustration inside rear cover of this catalogue. (1)
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Australasian Sketcher, bound volume containing nos. 87, 88, 96 100, 102 115, 118 130, 133 139, 1879 1881,. profusely illustrated with wood engravings including views, news events, Ned Kelly interest including a full page portrait, etc., a few tears, contemp. buckram gilt, some fraying to extrems., folio (1)
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Fashion. Art Gout Beauté, three orig. issues, September 1920, Christmas 1922, & November 1923,. tipped in hand stencilled colour plates to each, ads. etc., colour patterned endpapers, orig. printed wrappers, with mounted colour illusts. to upper cover of each, a little rubbed and some marks, slim folio, together with a collection of loose plates from Gazette du Bon Ton, including approx. sixty hand stencilled full page colour plates of fashions, c. 1920-21 and a quantity of illustrated leaves from various issues, c. 1921 24, contained in contemp. patterned chemise and slipcase, rubbed and marked, small 4to, plus Eva, two bound volumes of orig. issues of the Portuguese fashion journal, containing forty three orig. issues for 1933 and twenty eight orig. issues from April 1936 to February 1938, numerous col. and b&w illusts. of fashions, ads. etc., art deco style colour covers to each issue (a few covers missing), all bound in contemp. half blue cloth gilt, rubbed and marked to edges, folio (8)
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Vanity Fair Album, volume 35, 1903,. fifty three chromo. caricatures, incl. Mr. Samuel Mure Fergusson, Mr. Horace Harold Hilton, Mr. Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet, George Hirst, Mr. Pelham F. Warner, "Danny" Maher, John Evelyn Watts, 21pp. ads. at rear, gutter percha beginning to perish, and first few leaves near detached, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. green cloth, lightly damp marked in places, folio (1)
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* Henrietta Maria (Queen of Charles I & Her Son, Charles II, Prince). Document signed, Paris, 20th February 1647,. being a six page marriage contract between Charles de Lux and Henrietta Marie Coignet, signed at end 'Henrietta Marie R.', 'Charles P.', 'Charles de Lux', 'Henrietta Marie Coignet', and twenty five others, including members of the families of the bride and groom and members of the court, names including Marguerite Courtin, Elisabeth Garnier, Catherine Garnier, Louise Garnier, Ayloffe, Thomas Fermyn, Francois Demonbodiar, and others, a little minor spotting and soiling, first sheet of two partially split along vertical fold, folio Queen Henrietta Marie had escaped to France in 1644 fearing that she might be taken hostage in the Civil War then ensuing. Her son, Charles, Prince of Wales, left England in February 1646 and joined his mother at St. Germain in June. Curiously the bride and groom of this marriage at which the Queen and Prince were guests shared their first names. (1)
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* Montagu (Edward, First Earl of Sandwich, 1625 72). Letter in French signed on board the Naseby, 28th June 1659,. in which Montagu attempts to mediate a peaceful resolution between Sweden and Denmark, signed E. Montagu, 2 pp., integral blank, vertical fold of blank leaf sl. perished at head and foot, folio Montagu had been to the Baltic on board the Naseby earlier in the year on Richard Cromwell's instructions with the aim of mediating in the ongoing conflict between Sweden and Denmark, following the Treaty of Roskild the previous year. He returned to the Baltic following orders of the newly restored Rump Parliament but suspicions about his Royalist leanings and was distrusted by both sides. Later the same year he ceased to command at sea. (1)
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Churchill (Rt. Hon. Winston S., M.P. ). 'Winston', pub. Vanity Fair, September 27, 1900, orig. chromo. caricature by Spy, with part of associated leaf of text, folio Churchill was first caricatured by Spy when he was twenty seven, on the brink of a meteoric political career. The artist has portrayed him elegantly dressed, with arms akimbo and has captured the young politicians expression of engaging arrogance and liveliness. The text states: 'He can write and fight ... For himself, he has hankered after Politics since he was a small boy, and it is probable that his every effort, military or literary, has been made with political bent ... He is something of a sportsman: who prides himself on being practical rather than a dandy; he is ambitious; he means to get on, and he loves his country ...' (1)
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Dublin Gazette. Collection of eleven separate issues for 1795 , containing the printing of over fifty various printed proclaimations, including the transportation to America, Quarantine of ships from New York, Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore (owing to the plague), rewards for the capture of highwaymen, murderers, etc., bounties for seamen with listing of various bounties offered, armed attacks in Dublin and rewards for the capture of criminals, etc., folio (11)
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* Engraved Plans. Group of five multiple sheet vellum indentures detailing the sale of manors and estates, each having a large vellum sheet hand engraved colour wash map, 19th and early 20th c ., relating to Bagstone Manor and Elmbridge Court in Gloucestershire, Manor of Syderstrand in Norfolk, Framlingham in Suffolk, Winford in Somerset, together with four large folio hardback bound indentures, each containing plans of estates in Bishops Wearmouth, Southwick, High Hendon (9)
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* Execution Warrant. A manuscript execution warrant for Francis Henry De Lamotte, 23rd July 1781,. addressed to Thomas Sainsbury and William Crichton, Sheriff of the County of Middlesex, in the holograph of James Adair (Recorder) with his black wax seal and signature at foot, a little soiling, one page, folio Francois Henri de la Motte was an ex French Army officer executed in London for High Treason on 27th July 1781, as indicated in this document. He had been arrested in January 1781 on suspicion of being a spy and held for six months in the Tower of London. At an Old Bailey Trial on 23rd July he was found guilty of running an operation which sent secret Naval Intelligence to France, concerning British Fleet dispositions at Portsmouth and other British Ports. Though sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered he was spared to some extent and after one hour hanging he was taken down, his heart cut out and burned. A crowd of more than 80,000 people witnessed de la Motte's execution at Tyborn. (1)
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* Greetings cards. A late 19th century album containing approx. 100 chromo. greetings cards by Hildesheimer & Faulkner,. the cards artistically displayed on thirty nine thick card leaves (one side only), with dried flower and foliage arrangements, orig. dark green cloth, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., bearing printed label inside front cover 'Hildesheimer & Faulkner's Album Competition, Class A. Album No. 53N.', 4to, together with another similar album containing a large miscellaneous collection of greetings cards and chromo. scraps, c. 1890s 1907, pasted to both sides of thirty thick card leaves, orig. dark green card covers, worn on spine, thick folio See illustration inside rear cover of this catalogue. (2)
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* Hampshire. Large folio manuscript volume, 116 pp, commencing the 12th September 1840 , listing the rent charge in lieu of the tythes payable in the Parish of Odiham, Hampshire, detailing the names of the various land owners, who occupies the lands, names and description of lands and premises, state of cultivation, quantities in statute measure and amount payable (1)
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