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17TH CENTURY ACCOUNTS - OXFORDSHIRE. The manuscript account book of Christopher Kempston, presumably of Burford in Oxfordshire. Numerous entries on 71-pages narrow folio, written up between 1669 and 1704 in several hands. The entries include details of wages, e.g. for "all the woods done by Thomas Fowler and his men"; amounts paid for loads of mortar, sand, and "wallstones" also for hay, wheat and "pease"; charitable gifts e.g. "given to a poor man who was burnt out 0.0.6". He also records purchases, e.g. "then bargened with Tho. Jordan ffor a diall to shew 3 ways....west and south", to John Smith "paid him of and bargened with him ffor shooing and mending the plow irons" and Will. King "...made ffor me a pair of drawers, a vest and a pair of breeches, a coat and waistcoat, ffor my wife a gound, an underpeticoat and a waistcoat, for my daughter Martha a petticoat......". Only two towns are mentioned in the accounts, Burford and Abingdon. With a few late 18th Century entries. Narrow folio, full vellum. Together with a letter from the chairman of the Tolsey Museum, Burford, dated 1979, enquiring as to the possibility of acquiring "the Day book of Christopher Kempston" and mentioning that the museum's interests are "the activities which have gone on in Burford and with its leading citizens".
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EARLY 18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT COOKERY RECEIPTS & YOUNG LADY'S EXPENSES: A large folio vellum-bound volume comprising on 32-pages, 158 culinary receipts for all manner of dishes and beverages including, "Canded Orranges or lemons; Wine of Mary golds or Clouvejelliflowers; Hog's Puddings; Florentine of Calves feet; a Tanzy; To Roast Salmons; To make a frygazee of Rabets; a Shaking Pudding; a Quaking Pudding, etc. etc. These would appear to be late 17th Century / early 18th Century. There follows a 2-page very detailed account of "The Charge of building house in New Street" [Bideford, Devon]; details of "Charge of the hoaling stones", the carriage of stones to Bideford, unloading of boats, etc; 1.5 pages of details of horses employed and 2-pages detailing stones sold . This followed by details of "What has been received" and "What Mr Belton hath had of Simon Westick", mostly coal and wood but also "2 horses to carry syder". Together with 11-pages of detailed accounts of monies received from Nicholas Ellis for rent "for the ground of great littleham court" [Littleham Court farm near Bideford, Devon] 1714-1734; with details of disbursements relating to Littleham Court; a number of the receipts for rent paid signed by W. Webb or Jane Webb. The volume also includes 10-pages, ca. 1711-1715, of very detailed accounts - some 260 entries - under the headings, "Jane Cawsey's account" or "Jane's bill" listing monies either given or lent to her and for what purpose, e.g. "Paid Mr Irving for 2 aprons 0-7-0; Paid Mr Potter for your board 8-12-0; you had in money when you went to Bideford 0-2-6; paid for your dinner at Mary Bowman's when wee where theire to eat pigg 0-3.3; paid for your blew poplin cloths 3.3.0" etc. etc. Jane has also used the volume, accounting for her expenses in great detail, ca. 450-entries on 11.75 pages, under the heading, "What I lay out for my self" e.g. "3yd and a quarter of galloome at 2d yd; a fan 1.10; for half a quarter of bitter almonds 0.0.4; for bleeding 0.2.8; for a quarter of lemon bread 0.0.4; for ye musick when it was at our house 0.0.6; gave a mad woman 0-0-3; pd. Mrs Bullen for teaching me my stomacher; a whim 0.5.0" etc. etc. These entries ca. 1712 - 1717. The first 147-pages of the volume comprise a 17th Century manuscript account of the "Bishops and Popes of Rome". 70-pages relate to Littleham Court & Jane Cawsey's affairs, as above; the remainder of the volume, some 500-pages, is unused.
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AFRICA: A good album of original photographs compiled by an officer in the 7th Hussars including group portraits: "Officers 7th Hussars Bulawayo 1896"; "Officers Mashonaland 1897" (both 8.5 x 11.5 inches); "No.1 Troop 'A' (Q.O.) Hussars after 10 months campaigning in Rhodesia"; "B Squadron 7th (Q.O.) Hussars Pietermaritzburg 1895-6" (10 x 13.75 inches); and others of the Mountain Battery, Egyptian Horse artillery, a view of Omdurman, individual horse portraits, and four posed groups of Zulu warriors and beauties, three by J.W. Coney. Twenty-five photographs, together with ten slightly later equestrian photographs at end. Oblong folio, lacking backstrip, boards detached.
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HOLY LAND: An album of 35 full-plate photographs, each 8.75 x 10.75 inches, mostly signed "Bonfils" and captioned within the plate. Together with a panoramic view of Jerusalem, 8.5 x 33 inches, mounted on linen. The photographs depict architectural subjects, landscapes, street scenes, and portraits - "Jeune femme de Bethlehem" etc. Mounted to stout album leaves and with title printed in gold "Photographies de Terre Sainte - F. W. Marroum. Jerusalem". Oblong folio, morocco-backed carved & inlaid olivewood boards. 19th Century.
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INDIA: A good album of original photographs compiled by an officer in the 10th Hussars including the Meerut Tent Club Kadir Cup Meeting (pig-sticking), one being a large image showing signal elephants etc. with related ephemera. Together with 14 photographs, up to 11 x 8.5 inches, of polo matches at Poona, and others captioned "On the Chambal River, Central India - Manoeuvres Feb. '05", "Sailana Camp", "Khanker State C.P.", a good & large photograph of the future George V & Queen Mary in an open carriage, group portraits of officers, big game shooting in the Dhiraj Forest Chubrassie, individual portraits of polo ponies and two large photographs of the "Indian Inter-Regimental tournament 1907". 80 photographs. Oblong folio, half red morocco; rubbed. ca. 1904-1907.
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WALES ILLUSTRATED in a Series of Views comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities &c, Engraved on Steel from Original Drawings by Henry Gastineau, Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions, London, publ. Jones & Co, Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, in publisher's original gilt-stamped green morocco folio
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Wilson, Romer, The Hill of Cloves, London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1929, 4to (215 x 150mm.), half title, contemporary cloth backed spine, spine lettered in gilt, No. 66 of 750 Limited Edition copies signed by the author. Joyce, James, and Dodie Masterman (illustrator), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, London, The Folio Society, 1965, tall 8vo (220 x 135mm.), half title, frontispiece, original decorative cloth, slip-case. With a number of other works, including a cheap edition of Joyce's 'Ulysses' (London, 1949), and F. T. Prince 'Soldiers Bathing and other poems' (London, 1954).
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Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee 1897, London, Illustrated London News, 1897, folio (405 x 295mm.), chromolithographed frontispiece, title printed in red, plates, maps, and illustrations, text leaves within ornate borders, [bound with] 2 volumes of 'The Graphic', later green calf, front cover lettered in gilt. With a number of other works including Campbell Dodgson 'The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler' (London, 1922), and 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations by Richard Le Gallienne' (London, 1897)
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Serres, J., A General Inventorie of The History of France ... translated out of French into English by Edward Grimestone, London, George Eld., 1667, folio (325 x 210mm.), woodcut illustrated title, and 60 woodcut portraits of French Kings, lacking index leaf at end, contemporary vellum, bookplate of John Govan Stewart
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They Fell In The Battle A Roll of Honour of The Battle of Britian 10 July - 31 October 1940 - Royal Air Force Museums, Cambridge, by Will Carter at Rampant Lions Press, 1980, folio (375 x 255mm.), title printed in gilt and blue, original blue morocco gilt, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. slip-case, No. 43 of 80 Limited Edition copies signed by His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Bossert, H. Th., Ornament Two Thousand Decorative Motifs in Colour, Forming A Survey of the Applied Art of All Ages and All Countries, London, Ernest Benn, 1924, folio (385 x 280mm.), half title, 120 colour plates, a few images cut out, original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt
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Latham, Charles, The Gardens of Italy, London, Country Life, 1905, folio (400 x 265mm.), volume one only, half title, photographic frontispiece, illustrated title, plates, original blue cloth gilt, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With a number of other works including a two volume set of Alexander Charles Ewald's 'The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield ... and His Times' (London, 1881-1882)
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Billings, Robert William, & William Burn, The Royal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1848-1850, folio (330 x 240mm.), four volumes, 4 additional illustrated title, ca. 242 engraved plates, occasional spotting, contemporary half green morocco gilt, extremities rubbed
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Grose, Francis (1713?-1791), Supplement to The Antiquities of England and Wales, London, for S. Hooper, 1777, folio (320 x 225mm.), engraved frontispiece plate, illustrated title, 4 plates, 1 folding, folding map, coloured in outline, 31 in-laid maps, coloured in outline, ca. 120 illustrations, occasional offsetting, contemporary calf gilt, front cover detached, armorial bookplate of The Hon J. T. Townshend. With 'The Royal Atlas of England and Wales' (London, n.d.), & 'The Times Atlas' (London, 1900)
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Holme (Charles) (ed.) Modern Etchings, Mezzotints & Dry-points, 4to, cloth, illus., The Studio, 1913; Robinson (C.E.) A Royal Warren-All Picturesque Rambles in the Isle of Purbeck, lge. 4to, gilt cloth, illus. with etchings by Alfred Dawson, 1882; Sowerby's Pattern Book of Fancy Goods, 1882; and representative etchings by artists in America, folio, New York, 1887. (4)
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Lenygon (Francis); the Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the 17th & 18th Centuries, London 1909, small folio, cloth. Munro Bell (3); Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite Furniture Designers, London 1900, small folio, cloth, Clouston (K.W.); The Chippendale period in English Furniture, London 1897, and Chancellor (A.E.); Examples of Old Furniture, London 1898 (4)
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