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NELSON HORATIO: (1758-1805) British Admiral during the Napoleonic Wars, the victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. D.S., Nelson & Bronte, (a fine, bold example), two pages, folio, given on board the Victory, Lagos Bay, Portugal, 10th May 1805. The manuscript document is an Order addressed to the Masters of His Majesty`s ships Royal Sovereign, Decade and Martin, stating, `Captain Hardy of His Majesty`s ship Victory having represented to me by letter of this date that there are on board the said ship two Casks of Pease rotten and mouldy, also a quantity of Bread sour and mouldy and unfit for men to eat` further asking that the peas and bread be strictly surveyed and, if found as represented (`after the bread being pick`d, dried and sifted) they should be returned to His Majesty`s stores. In concluding Nelson asks for a report (`from under your hands a clear and correct account`) of their findings. Some light areas of discoloration, slightly affecting the text (although completely legible) and some minor age wear at the folds, G The document was issued by Nelson at a significant time; this was a time of decision for the Admiral. On the following day, 11th May 1805, he set sail for the West Indies in pursuit of the French fleet. He had sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar on 6th May, but information about the French fleet only reached Nelson on 9th May. He believed that the French were about a month ahead of him, but `chance may have given them a bad passage, me a good one`. The next day was spent preparing five months` provisions for his own fleet and, in this context, his instructions for the removal of mouldy rations takes on a new significance.

MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. D.S., Mussolini, three pages, folio, Rome, 16th February 1928, in Italian. The manuscript document, untranslated, lists various Italian soldiers. Signed at the conclusion by Mussolini and countersigned by King Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) King of Italy 1900-46. Some very small areas of paper loss to the left edge caused by previous filing, not affecting the text or signature, VG

MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. D.S., Mussolini, one page, folio, Rome, 26th February 1928, in Italian. The partially printed document, untranslated, relates to Ruggero Montellanico. Signed by Mussolini at the foot and countersigned by King Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) King of Italy 1900-46. Some very small areas of paper loss to the left edge caused by previous filing, not affecting the text or signature, about VG

MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. L.S., Mussolini, (a somewhat hurried and slightly truncated example), also signed by King Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) King of Italy 1900-46, one page, folio, San Rossore, 24th September 1936, to the President of Bolivia, in Italian. The untranslated manuscript letter refers to the appointment of the diplomat Dr. Luigi Mariani. With blank integral leaf. Some very light discoloration to the lower edge and a small tear, just affecting one letter of Mussolini`s signature. About VG

DOBSON ROY: (1891-1968) British Aircraft Designer of the Lancaster Bomber, one of the most successful aircraft of World War II. T.L.S., Roy H. Dobson, one page, 8vo, Middleton, Manchester, 16th November 1956, to Mr. S. Booth, on the printed stationery of A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd. Dobson thanks his correspondent for writing to him and requesting his autograph, `I was interested to know that you have a good collection which has been accumulated over the past thirty years.` Together with Charles Richard Fairey (1887-1956) British Aircraft Manufacturer. Fountain pen ink signature (`C R Fairey`) on a card. A minor area of discoloration only slightly affects the signature. Also including Robert H. Mayo (1891-1957) British Aircraft Designer, technical adviser to Imperial Airways. D.S., R H Mayo Capt., two pages, folio, n.p. (Air Ministry), 22nd June 1918, being an official typed report, `Twenty-Fourth Weekly Report on Armoured Machines. R.A.E. armoured two seater pusher "Ram"`, signed by Mayo to both pages, accompanied by a similar document signed by Alec Ogilvie (1882-1962) British Pioneer Aviator, British Aviators Certificate Number 7, 1910. G to VG, 4

BATTLE OF BRITAIN: PHILIP PRINCE (1921- ) Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. A fine book signed, a folio hardback edition entitled They Fell In The Battle, A Roll of Honour of The Battle of Britain, 10 July-31 October 1940, First Edition designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, on behalf of the Royal Air Force Museum, 1980. Limited Edition number 70 of 80. With a foreword by Prince Philip, signed in ink with his name alone at the foot in his capacity as Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Attractively printed on Arches Velin mould-made paper and bound in specially dyed goatskin with cross device stamped in gilt on the front board and titles stamped in gilt on the spine between two raised bands. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Lacking the original blue cloth slipcase. One slight indentation to the front board, otherwise EX A roll of honour commemorating the 435 pilots and 63 crew members of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm who lost their lives during the Battle of Britain.

ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on the moon. An extremely rare D.S., Neil Armstrong, one page, large folio (8.5 x 32), n.p. (London), 20th July 1969. The printed document is an original Reuters Press Agency Telex communication comprising eleven news flashes announcing the Apollo XI moon landing on 20th July 1969, in part, `Moon Descent: Houston, Texas, July 20, Reuter-Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin today began their hazardous eleven and a half minute final descent to the surface of the moon....Bogota, July 20, Reuter-The opening of Congress was postponed for an hour here today so that members of both houses could watch the Apollo moon landing on television....Urgent-Moon Descent 2 Houston: At 40,000 feet (13,000 metres) above the moon mission control old (sic, told) the moonship Eagle Everything is looking good to us. Aldrin replied Looks real good.....Moon Descent 3 Houston Mission Control: Eagle you are go to continue power descent. You are go to continue power descent (with seven minutes to go)..... Moon Descent 4 Houston (with five and a half minutes to touch down) Eagle: Got the moon right out our window....Even better than simulator....Moon Descent 5 Houston (with just over four minutes to go) Control: Altitude....6,500 metres You`re looking good Eagle. Two and a half minutes to go: Control 3,000 feet (1,000 metres) Eagle you`re looking great....you are go for landing....Flash: Astronauts landed on moon....Houston, Texas, July 20, Reuter-Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin today landed spaceship Eagle on the moon.` Signed (`Neil Armstrong`) in dark ink with his name alone to a clear area of the Telex, alongside Houston`s second report on the moon descent. An outstanding, and quite probably unique, signed document directly relating to the final stages of the historic Apollo XI moon landing. Some folds and light creasing, not affecting the signature, about VG Realising the historical significance of the Telex, the vendor, a journalist at Reuters, decided to keep the original document as a souvenir of the remarkable news stories he was witnessing. Later, the vendor`s wife attended a lecture given by Armstrong at the headquarters of General Time in Scotland, October 1974. The astronaut had been invited to launch a new watch made by Seth Thomas using quartz crystal. It was at this event that the signature of Armstrong was obtained on the Telex. Included in the lot is a General Time press release and original 6.5 x 8.5 photograph of Armstrong, originally included with the launch brochure.

TELEVISION: A remarkable and unique collection of over 150 vintage signed 2.5 x 3.5 photographs by a wide variety of television personalities from the 1950s, including news broadcasters, actors and entertainers, sports presenters and sportsmen, comedians, singers, political commentators etc., each of the original photographs having been produced from negatives of photographs taken by the collector, Jack Wright, directly from his television screen with very impressive degrees of clarity for the time. All are clearly signed to the lower white border and the signatories include Robert Dougall, Alvar Lidell, Richard Baker, Kenneth Kendall, Wallace Greenslade, Kenneth Matthews, Thomas Barman, Peter Dimmock, Kenneth Wolstenholme, David Coleman, Eddie Waring, Wally Barnes, Peter West, Raymond Glendenning, Jim Swanton, Richard Dimbleby, Cliff Michelmore, Peter Haigh, Sylvia Peters, Macdonald Hobley, Eamonn Andrews, Peter Scott, Ludwig Koch, David Attenborough, Wilfred Pickles, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, Peter Cushing, Stanley Baker, Martine Carol, Bernard Miles, Diana Dors, Forrest Tucker, Jack Buchanan, Clive Brook, Margaret Lockwood, Charlie Chester, Jimmy James, Mrs. Shufflewick, Harry Corbett & Sooty, Jimmy Edwards, Norman Evans, Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss (2), Elsie & Doris Waters, Terry Hall & Lenny the Lion, Benny Hill, Jon Pertwee, Hylda Baker, Norman Wisdom, Harry Secombe (2), Ronnie Ronalde, Liberace, Edmund Hockridge, Donald Peers, Tommy Steele, Anne Shelton, Petula Clark, Yana, Vera Lynn, Lita Roza, Ruby Murray, Rosemary Clooney, Tessie O`Shea, Alma Cogan, Shirley Bassey, Gracie Fields, Vic Oliver, Billy Cotton, Gilbert Harding, Jack Payne, Malcolm Muggeridge, John Betjeman, Bernard Braden & Barbara Kelly, Larry Adler, Hugh Gaitskell, Charles Hill, Lord Hailsham, Anthony Eden (signed sepia postcard photograph by Vivienne, 1957; the only photograph included in the album not produced by Jack Wright), Stanley Matthews, Stanley Rous, Don Revie, Stirling Moss, Gordon Pirie, Christopher Chataway, Tom Finney, Geoff Duke, Judy Grinham, Joe Davis, Ludovic Kennedy, Michael Holliday, Anona Winn, Jack Train, Kenneth Horne, Gilbert Harding etc. All of the photographs are neatly cornermounted and arranged to the pages of an oblong folio photograph album. Two photographs have rubber stamped signatures. Also including over 50 loosely inserted A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. etc., to Jack Wright, many congratulating him on the success of his photographs and some thanking him for sending copies for their own archives, including Kenneth Kendall (2, in part `I must congratulate you on the results, because I am sure it must be difficult to take photographs from the screen`), E W Swanton, Peter West, David Coleman, Cliff Michelmore, Jack Warner, David Attenborough, Peter Cushing (`Considering you took them almost at third hand I think they are jolly good!`), Bernard Miles (2), Diana Dors (A.L.S., Diana Dors Hamilton, one page, 4to, Maidenhead, n.d., to Mr. Wright, thanking him for the lovely photographs, `they were such a lovely surprise, & I will treasure them always as they are the only memories of the show I have & I am so delighted you took them.`), Norman Wisdom (2), Hylda Baker (2), Harry Secombe, Malcolm Muggeridge, Hugh Gaitskell, John Betjeman, Christopher Chataway, Stirling Moss, Stanley Rous etc. A very fine and unusual record of British television in the 1950s. VG

SINATRA FRANK: (1915-1998) American Singer & Actor, Academy Award winner. Programme signed, the printed folio programme for a Royal Gala Night performance by Sinatra at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 28th February 1977. Signed by Sinatra with his name alone to the pale blue border beneath his colour image on the front cover. The signature is a little light although completely legible. Together with a second printed programme for a performance by Sinatra at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 17th September 1984 (accompanied by the original ticket stub) signed to the front cover by actor Gregory Peck and television presenter Michael Parkinson, each with their names alone in blue ink to clear areas. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG, 2

KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907. D.S., Rudyard Kipling, one page, folio, n.p. (Sussex), 10th December 1926. The typed document is a memorandum of agreement between Kipling and the Rural District of Ticehurst regarding drainage works and the resulting effluent that the council wished to carry out on Kipling`s land at Batemans, Burwash. Signed by Kipling at the foot across a six pence revenue stamp. With integral leaf. VG

A folio of unframed pictures

Folio `British Sporting Prints` featuring Alben, Pollards, Barenger, Turner and Stubbs - the Ariel Press edition.

A collection of architectural watercolour drawings ,Cinema Percy road Whitton,library studies by the Northern Polytechnic and various prints,folio,unframed

Binyon (L),Japanese Artprinted by T Fisher Unwin 1909,folio a German book on Japanese prints,a reference book and cover and a collection of six folk tale and story books (9)

A folio containing assorted watercolours, pencils, studies and coloured prints

"Goulds` "Tropical Birds" and Von Riefel: "Folio of Fruit", Ariel Press

Ceri Geraldus Richards 1903-1971- "Violin d`Ingres"; screenprint in colours, signed, titled numbered 41/60 and dated 70 in pencil, 55x76cm: Josef Herman RA 1911-2000- Three farm workers and a donkey; lithograph printed in colours, signed and numbered 62/70 in pencil, 59x76.5cm: together with one other lithograph by the same hand of a single crouching figure, signed and numbered 26/70 in pencil, 59x76.5cm: Harold Cohen b.1928- "Richard H"; screenprint in silver, signed, titled, numbered 2/50 and dated 1967, 68.7x77cm: together with eleven further screenprints by Harold Cohen, all signed, numbered and dated in pencil: "First Folio F", 36/50 signed and dated 1965; "First Folio G", 36/50, signed and dated 1965; "First Folio C2, 27/50, signed and dated 1965; "#5", 5/70, signed and dated 1967; "#3", 14/70, signed and dated 1967; "#3", 35/70, signed and dated 1967` "#4", 1/70, signed and dated 1967; "#4", 14/70, signed and dated 1967; "#1", 10/70, signed and dated 1967; #2", 13/70, signed and dated 1967; 2#3", 13/70, signed and dated 1967, 68x68cm., (15) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)

MERCATOR, Gerard (1512-1594) -- HONDIUS, Jodocus (1563-1612). Americae Descrip. [?Amsterdam: J. Hondius, 1607 or later]. Hand-coloured engraved map, Latin text on verso, 162 x 207mm. From the Atlas Minor Geardi Mercatoris but copied cartographically from Hondius's 1606 folio map of America. The engraver's initial 'S' appears lower right. Burden 153. View on Christie's.com

[Books] Lalique, Marie Claude ‘Lalique’, numerous col. illus. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, dust jacket, in orig. card slipcase, folio, Geneva 1988; Vane, Christopher Vane ‘The glass of Lalique: a collector’s guide’, dust jacket, London 1977; Dawes, Nicholas M. ‘Lalique Glass’, dust jacket, London 1986; Rene Lalique et Cie. ‘Lalique Glass: The Complete Illustrated Catalogue for 1932’, paperback, Mineola, NY: Dover 1981; and three vols. on non Lalique glass (7)

Folio of various Vanity Fair plates including `The people`s William: Gladstone`, Spy March 21, 1895; Spy `Our youngest general`, `Argon` etc approx 39

Folio of mixed engravings relating to Italian cities

Mixed folio of mainly pencil drawings relating to Okefield House, Ober House, Corfe Castle etc etc

Mixed folio of pencil drawings and sketches of mainly European views

Mixed folio of engravings and prints etc

Mixed folio of engravings/plates/watercolours etc

Small folio of mainly colour plates and engravings

Mixed folio of colour plates, engravings, gallery labels, drawings etc

Mixed folio including Pears type print, engravings, prints, architectural plans etc

I.M. Charters - Rocks at Whitby, watercolour, signed, 16 x 23 cm to/w a folio book of watercolours (2)

BIBLE, in English. The Holy Bible. London: Thomas Baskett, and the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1753-54. 2 vols., large 2° (483 x 315mm). Text in double-columns, title in red and black, ruled in red throughout, 2 engraved headpieces, wood-engraved initials. (Lightly browned and spotted.) Contemporary blue morocco gilt, covers with wide gilt borders composed of foliate tools with the central arms gilt of George II, gilt spines with royal monograms, gilt edges, silk marker (lightly rubbed, lacking silk ties). Provenance: Thomas Robinson, second Baron Grantham (extensive genealogical notes to flyleaves; and then by descent to:) -- Thomas Philip de Grey (bookplate). A RARE BIBLE WITH DIPLOMATIC PROVENANCE. A note to flyleaf states that this Bible was part of the Chapel Furniture at the British Embassy in Madrid, where Thomas Robinson (1738-1786) was ambassador 1771-1779. There are three folio pages of manuscript notes regarding the Robinson family, including 6 inserted small quarto leaves regarding his baptism in Vienna in 1738. His son, Thomas Philip (1781-1859), became second Earl de Grey and assumed the surname de Grey in 1833. Thomas Philip served as First Lord of the Admiralty in Sir Robert Peel's Tory administration from 1834-5, later becoming Lord Lieutent of Ireland in 1841. Only 6 copies recorded in ESTC, and according to ABPC, only 2 copies have sold at auction since 1975. Not in Darlow & Moule or Herbert (but cf. 1091). (2) View on Christie's.com

BIBLE, in German, Luther's version. Biblia. Lüneburg: Cornelius Johann Stern, 1711. 3 parts in 1 vol., 2° (425 x 155mm). Engraved additional title, part titles, map of the Holy Land, folding plan of Jerusalem, map of the Mediterranean, and 259 engraved plates after Luyken, Meloni, and others, with bi-lingual Latin and German captions. (Without blank b8, a very few leaves creased, occasional light spotting and occasional light browning.) Contemporary morocco gilt, brass centrepieces of Moses holding the tablets on the upper board and Jesus holding the orb on the lower board, brass corner-pieces modelled with the evangelists, brass catches and clasps and leather and brass straps model with various figures including cherubs, gauffred gilt edges, bundpapier front endpapers (light wear, one strap perhaps repaired at an early date.) Provenance: 'B.C.' (and the date 1725 stamped in gilt on the upper board) -- a European Royal collection. An excellent example in contemporary binding of Stern's folio Luther bible reproducing Luyken's excellent engravings. View on Christie's.com

INCUNABULA -- ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.). Opera nonnulla. Translated by Johannes Argyropulus and others. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio for Benedictus Fontana, 13 July 1496. Small folio (289 x 198mm). 508 leaves, 44 lines and headline, types: 135 G., 110 R., woodcut diagrams, hand-coloured cardinals arms on aa3, woodcut initials, mostly ornamental but a few historiated, with the blank h6. (Title soiled and with a few small holes, colophon laid down on final blank with loss of some margin, stain across u6v ending on inner gutter of u7r, light spotting and browning, a few stains, a little, mainly faint, waterstaining). Later vellum, manuscript title on spine (vellum partly torn away in 2 compartments of spine). Provenance: Joseph Granate (inscription on title) -- an early reader (illegible title inscription). The only complete, unified edition of Aristotle's Works printed in the 15th century. BMC V 349; GW 2341; Hain *1659; Proctor 4552. View on Christie's.com

[ANON]. A compilation of maxims drawn from the classical authors on moral and historical subjects, on themes such as 'De Ambitione', 'De Crimine', 'De Senatu', 'De Augusto Cesare', etc, in Latin and Greek, the majority in a single neat late 17th-century English hand, arranged by subject in 69 numbered gatherings of two or more leaves, approximately 440 leaves, folio, index, blanks, loosely enclosed in 18th-century boards (worn, the lower board annotated 'S. 71 Anthony, Earl of Kent' in a 20th-century hand). View on Christie's.com

After Norman Howard rolls of newsprint at Manchester dock and unloading timber at a London dock coloured folio prints, and four others to include three notable ships, walking down at Southampton docks and launching a liner at a Clydebank ship yard (6)

A brochure titled "Some press opinions of the RMS Aquatania", the front page dated 1914, a Cunard White Star cruise brochure for 1935, a folio of prints of scenes on Cunard liners

Three "Romance of Motoring" posters, also a large quantity of assorted prints contained in a canvas folio.

How, G.E.P. & How, J. P. English and Scottish Silver Spoons, Mediaeval to Late Stuart, and Pre-Elizabethan Hall-Marks on English Plate, 3 vol., plates, original cloth, rubbed dust jackets, chipped at extremities, folio, privately printed, 1952-57

BARBARA MORRIS. Nude studies; pencil; folio

BARBARA MORRIS. Nude studies; pencil; folio

A folio of unframed watercolours and prints, 18" x 13 ½"

BOOKS THE COMPLETE WOODCUTS OF ALBRECHT DURER edited by Dr Willi Kurth, and published in America by the Crown Publishers, 1946, containing numerous plates, bearing the retail label Galloway & Porter of Cambridge, together with an incomplete FRENCH FOLIO OF DURER PRINTS from Paris in 1942

Ephemera – Railways an original copy of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Bill dated 1845 folio 7pp plus title disbound.

Ephemera – Canals printed prospectus putting forward the case for the Grand Western Canal to be built between Bridgewater and Taunton dated 1823 incorporating a fine miniature map showing the line of the proposed canal. The canal is currently being restored for leisure use. It was proposed to provide a water link between the Bristol Channel and the English Channel. Printed on 4pp folio a little creased but otherwise unblemished.

Maritime – Mauritius remarkable manuscript dated Melville In Port Louis Mauritius June 4th 1833 5pp folio with further ms diagram on a single leaf folio being orders for an attack on rebel forces on Mauritius : ‘...the boats with guns are to form in line abreast to the Southward of the Melville along the transporting buoys and the boats without guns but fitted with small arm men in a second line to the southward of those with guns in the first line are to be all the marines. ‘When these lines are formed they are to advance towards Coopers Island under cover of the Melville’s and Talbot’s fire and their own guns and on reaching the beach the marines and seamen are to land in as much order and as quickly as possible to form on the each and when ready to rush up the green bank where they must expect the enemy to oppose them and act accordingly...’ These appear to be the plan of attack against the armed Mauritius islanders who had been ordered by the Governor to disarm. In the event the plan was not needed as the island was returned to calm. Original battle plans such as this are rare on the market.

Civil War – passport – deed of banishment by Oliver Cromwell remarkable ms document being an obligation bond for William Frankland of Ellerton (N Yorks) dated July 18th 1656 written in English on a single page folio signed by Frankland and various witnesses to base. Frankland agrees by this document to pay the sum of 1000 pounds (say 1million in today’s money) as a bond to ensure that he has the liberty to ‘passe beyond the seas’ and that ‘he depart from ye Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging & doe not returne into any of them without licence first obtained from his Highnesse the Lord Protector (ie Cromwell) & the Councill and doe not either before or after his departure art or consent to arting of anything injudicial or against the son of his Highnesse nor the Commonwealthe...’ This document seems to act a dual purpose – in the first instance it is a very early example of a kind of passport – providing Frankland with safe passage beyond the seas. On another level it is also a deed of banishment ensuring that he gets out of the country and does not return. We have had considerable difficulty in pinpointing the identity of Frankland which seemed initially curious. He was obviously considered too dangerous to be allowed to stay in the Commonwealth which suggests immediately that he was a leading Royalist. However he was clearly evading punishment or execution and this document points to some sort of political ‘deal’ whereby he agrees to leave the country but still has his head intact ! Records show that there was a Sir William Frankland 1st Baronet who was created as such in 1660 – the year of the Restoration of Charles II. He was described as from Thirkelby North Yorks and he went on to be a long serving MP for Thirsk. There is every possibility that the two are the same. This document also seems to suggest that Frankland may have been involved in some sort of violent conduct by this curious reference to his agreement not to do anything injurious to Cromwell’s son. This is possibly a reference to Henry Cromwell a General in the New Model Army and by this time Lord Lieutenant in Ireland. If this is the case then it would seem that Frankland was too much of a threat to be allowed to remain in the Commonwealth but too important to be dealt with by punishment imprisonment or execution. It may be that Frankland was one of many Royalists who rallied to the edicts of the exiled Charles II to raise troops to fight against the Parliamentary forces. The fact that he received a hereditary title only a few months after Charles had been restored to the throne suggests that he was certainly rewarded for his services to the exiled King. Together with a ms family pedigree with a note relating to this document and the comment, even then that : ‘[this] is all we know of said Wm Frankland’. There is also the ms will of an Anthony Frankland dated 1714 – he appears to be a great grandson of William.

Crime and Punishment – A Northumberland Murder original copies of the depositions for the trial of Thomas Craig a miner for the murder of his wife Margaret in January 1901 13pp large legal folio written in a neat hand on tissue paper with a further group of ms dispositions written in ink on 19pp folio paper a page containing the charges against Craig and two further pages containing a full newspaper report on the Inquest which returned a verdict that Craig had murdered his wife. A particularly brutal murder. It appears that Craig had been drinking heavily and in a fit of anger had kicked his wife to death also assaulting her with a stool.

Ephemera – Broadside – Excisemen The Exciseman an Extract from Bell’s Life in London dated January 17th 1839. Broadside large folio woodcut border printed in double column on one side paper minor splits but in generally good condition. A satire on excisemen sketching out the various types described in a derogatory fashion

WWII – The Battle of Britain supplement to the London Gazette dated September 11th 1946 containing Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding’s official despatch on the Battle of Britain with two large folding plans showing the disposition of fighter command and the general RAF disposition at the time. 28pp folio in fine condition.

Scotland – the Highland Rebellion contemporaneous ms copy of the speeches of George II the House of Lord and the Commons at the height of the Highland Rebellion of 1745 dated October 17th of that year written in a legible hand on 6pp folio paper a little weakness where originally folded some fraying to edges one leaf split but clearly legible throughout. The watermark on the paper dates this copy to 1745 and it is likely that this was one of several copies made for rapid distribution such was the urgency of the action required to stem the advance of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Highland Army who by the date of this document were on the march south into England. The document provides the verbatim speech of the King calling for support from both the Lords and Commons together with their replies giving unequivocal support for the provision of men and arms. Contemporaneous manuscripts relating to the Highland Rebellion – the last such armed insurrection in the UK – are now excessively rare.

Murray (Gilbert) translator, The Plays of Euripides, two volumes, published by the Gregynog Press 1931, vellum bound, red cloth and gilt tooled, folio

A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVINGS after Landseer etc and a folio of engravings from the pictures of the National Gallery, all unframed

TWENTY TWO VARIOUS BOOKS MAINLY SLEEVED BY THE `FOLIO` INCLUDING THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, LORNA DOONE, RUMPOLE AND THE LOVED ONE.

Barrelier (Jacques) Plantae per Galliam engraved title (duplicated as usual) 334 engraved plates mostly of plants but including crabs star fish etc. minor water-stains contemporary English calf gilt spine bit worn and scuffed flyleaf with scribbled inscription that the book was bought for a guinea on 15 Dec. 1774 signed D[uke] of Ancaster and with 18th century Bertie bookplate (3 battering rams; motto “Virtus Arriete Fortior”) bought by MW from Halliday of Leicester in 1965 and original invoice inserted [Hunt 432] folio Paris 1714. ***”Barrelier a Dominican priest who botanized widely in France Spain and Italy collecting many unknown plants was preparing this edition for publication and already had the plates engraved in Rome (by an unknown artist) when he died suddenly in 1673. His manuscripts were later destroyed in a fire. Antoine de Jussieu discovered the plates nearly 40 years later and had them published with his own text” [S. Massey] Hoffman sale lot 187.

Bateman.Orchidaceae of Mexico/Guatemala. one of 125 copies lithographed title (foxed and frayed) 20 (of 40) fine hand-coloured lithographs (numbered I-XX; lacking the second half) with text some margins a bit frayed minor creasing original lithographed wrapper to part 3 bound in (this gives the limitation) marbled boards later cloth spine worn and loose cutting pasted inside front cover (lot 563; Hardwick Court Chepstow; the book was purchased by W&W for MW for £85 in 1963; letter inserted) large folio [1837].

Blunt (Wilfred) and W.T. Stearn. Captain Cook`s Fl original subscriber`s copy number 93 for Mike Walpole (subscribers` list loosely inserted) 30 plates printed from the original copper-plates original half black morocco by Zaehnsdorf cloth case folio Royal College of Art Lion and Unicorn Press 1973. ***Banks directed the preparation of the plates and had 3 sets of proofs pulled. These were used to make lithographic copies for Sir William Hooker`s Flora antarctica 1844-47. and James Britten`s IIlustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 1900-05. Apart from the proofs the present publication is the only authentic printing of these magnificent copper plates. The full set (apart from 5 lost by the Royal College) were subsequently printed by Editions Alecto as Banks` Florilegium 35 vol. 1980-90; but the nature of the plates makes it clear that the colour printing used in this edition is historically implausible; see Bridson Printmaking 19. The only occurrence of Banks` proofs for sale seems to be William Pamplin`s closing catalogue part III Feb.1863 item 405 a volume of 28 plates lettered “Botany Bay plants by Sir Joseph Banks” pencil notes by Brown. It did not sell at a guinea and was lot 562 in J.C. Stevens` sale of the remaining stock on 13/14 Oct. 1863.

Brunfels (Otto) Herbarum vivae eicones first edition of the first part title within allegorical border Strasburg coat of arms both printed in red and black 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves 86 full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz with the blank B4 but without the final blank minor repair to blank margin of first four leaves some minor water-stains generally a nice unsophisticated copy 17th(?) century signature of Miguel Bunillo on title (trimmed) bookplate of William Borrer (1781-1862 Sussex botanist) is possibly added old vellum bit worn ties partly defective invoice from Hammond (1976; £1400) inserted [Adams B2923] folio Strasburg Schott 1530. ***The bibliography of this great book seems somewhat unexplored. The Plesch copy for instance had the misprint Eiconeb on title and index printed in red; this copy has Eicones and index in red; the copy reproduced in Grolier 33a has Eicones and index in black. The second edition of 1532 is completely reset the most noticeable feature being the smaller gothic type used for the captions; why this was introduced is an interesting question. Stevenson in his cataloguing of the 1532 edition [Hunt 30] compared it with the 1530 edition in NY Academy of Medicine ; from which it is clear that there are text variants in the1530 since this copy does not entirely agree with the New York copy. He remarks that the book is “full of bibliographical puzzles which would take many months of research and comparing of copies to solve”. “Hans Weitz was a brilliant and original artist who set new standards of truth and beauty for the printed herbal...these vigorous well-observed drawings...remind us of Durer and much of Weiditz`s work has in fact been falsely attributed at one time or another to that great master or to Burgkmaier. “ -Blunt p. 62. .

Brunfels (Otto) Herbarum vivae eicones 2 vol. in 1 second editions first title within allegorical border Strassburg coat-of-arms both printed in black 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves 135 full-page or near full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz first vol. with the two blank leaves but without the final blank in the 2nd vol. few minor stains but a very nice set in contemporary Italian limp vellum lettered Herbario Duo on front cover slightly later paper label (Erbolario; in red and black) is perhaps German and there are a number of early ink class marks on preliminary blank which suggest a monastic library head of spine a bit frayed ties missing bought from Junk in 1977 with invoice inserted [Adams B2925 but without his 3rd vol.] folio Strassburg Schott 1532-36.

Coats (Alice) The book of flowers number 17 of 100 special copies plates full leather binding slip-case 1973 § Sitwell (S.) and W. Blunt. Great Flower Books number 90 of 295 special copies signed by the authors half morocco slip-case 1956; and others similar folio et infra(42)

Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis 6 parts in 3 vol. 435 hand-coloured plates on 432 sheets bound in systematic order second edition (using the Walpole criteria of the ornamental rules dividing the Latin and English descriptions) bound without some of the fasicule indices dedication to the Earl of Bute and the optional extras of subscribers` lists and the catalogue of Settle plants 1777-89; the same new edition edited by W.J. Hooker vol.IV 159 hand-coloured plates on 150 sheets (the last 6 are from vol.4) 1821 582 hand-coloured plates in total a few browned but generally in good condition the text in some places a bit worn used or repaired one leaf with portion torn away small holes and dust-soiling bound in four vol. mid 20th century half green morocco partly uncut probably a made up set bought from W&W in 1961 for £120 with two letters inserted folio ***The fourth volume supplies most (but not all) of the additional plates proper to the new edition. Mike Walpole`s paper Notes on Flora Londinensis (J. Soc. Bib. Nat Hist 1976) distinguishes for the first time a contemporary reprint of Curtis. “The copy at Sothebys this week fetched £200...a good deal more than we expected but we did in fact consider that the book was due for a rise. However the copy we are selling you was purchased from another bookseller at his price which was a good deal lower than we should have paid if it was up to us to name the price.” - HK Swann in one of the W&W letters.

Descole (H.R.) Genera et species plantarum Argenti 5 vol. in 7 all published 810 plates (156 coloured) original cloth folio Buenos Aires 1943-56.