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Cooke (John H). The Diamond Jubilee in Chesire, Mackie & Co, 1899, black and white frontispiece after photograph, black and white illustrations after photographs throughout, small ownership inscription to front free endpaper upper margin, hinges cracked, original dark red morocco gilt, worn, with loss to spine head and tail, small sticker to front board, folio, 30 of 50 crown folio copies, together with:The House of Windsor, A Book of Portraits, London: Methuen and Company, 1937, half-title, 17 mounted portraits, captioned tissue guards, silk endpapers and pastedowns, lightly spotted, gilt turn-ins, original vellum gilt, lightly marked, folio, 13 of 100 on handmade paper, withThe Proclamation of King Edward VII, an account of the ceremony at Ipswich on the XXV January MDCCCCI, London: For Private Circulation by Joseph Causton and Sons, circa 1901, mounted portrait frontispieces, 4 mounted black and white illustrations after photographs, a few leaves lightly damp-stained to outer margin, hinges repaired, original vellum gilt, rubbed and marked, folio, 60 of 97 copies with 13 others relatedQTY: (16)

* Ceylon, Algeria & Ireland. An album containing 80 mounted albumen and some gelatin silver prints, c. 1880-1900, including full-plate albumen print views of Ceylon (7, including 6 by Scowen & Co.), Algeria (24, including 6 x Freres Neurdein (ND)), Ireland (16, mostly by William Lawrence (W.L.) or [Francis] Guy), plus other miscellaneous full and half-plate views of Gibraltar, Genova, Madeira, etc., mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves throughout, all edges gilt, contemporary blue morocco with inner dentelles gilt, rubbed, oblong folioQTY: (1)

Thomson (John). Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2nd 1897, a collection of portraits in costume of some of the guests, Hammersmith: Privately Printed, 1899, 286 photogravures, spotted (heavier to preliminary leaves), contemporary quarter calf gilt, worn and marked, 4to, together with:A Souvenir of Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, June the 22nd, 1897, and in commemoration of Her Majesty's Eightieth Birthday, May the 24th, 1899, circa 1899, 6 full-page photogravures, further smaller illustrations to text, silk pastedowns and endpapers (pastedowns detached and loose), spotted, hinges cracked, original red morocco gilt, worn, oblong folioRoyal Visits. Arrangements for the Queen's Visit to Sheffield, 1897, circa 1900, 59 mounted letters (both manuscript and typed) and telegrams, occasional light spotting and toning, hinges repaired, contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, worn, 4to QTY: (3)

King Edward VII - Liverpool binding. A Record of the Rejoicings and Proceedings of the First Visit of Their Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra to the City of Liverpool on the Occasion of the Foundation Stone of the Liverpool Cathedral 19th July 1904, Liverpool: for the Committee by the P.P. Press, 1907, title printed in black and red, 32 collotypes by Mowll and Morrison, one plate with mounted luncheon menu and embossed silver-gilt paper commemorative medals, a few light spots, all edges gilt, original red half morocco over moire boards by Fazakerley, Liverpool, upper cover titled in gilt within foliate border headed by the arms of the City, Tudor rose in gilt to spine compartments, edges slightly rubbed, oblong folio, 49.5 x 36.5 cm, together with 2 others: Coronation of King Edward VII (so titled to upper cover, containing photographic prints, various invitations from the Earl Marshal, procession details from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, letters and other ephemera), and Royal Visit to Sheffield July 1905. Selected newspapers and specimens of stationary etc QTY: (3)

King Edward VII. Visit of His Majesty King Edward VII and Her Majesty Queen Alexandra to Sheffield, 12 July, 1905, 20 photographic prints mounted on thick card, printed caption to lower margin, images 24 x 28.5 cm, a few light spots to margins, all edges gilt, original morocco gilt, small split to upper joints, joints and edges rubbed, oblong folio, 35.5 x 41.5 cm, together with Scrap Books 1890-1910-1913, compiled by Lt.-Colonel Edwin Berkeley Cook, M.V.O.(note at front), 23 thick card leaves with 144 photographs, mounted recto and verso, various sizes from 6.5 x 8 cm to 23.5 x 27 cm, one leaf detached, a few light stains to mounts, bookplate, original red half morocco gilt, rebacked, edges a little rubbed, oblong folio, 31 x 41.5 cm, plus The Programme (with local views) which was rendered by the Abercarn and District Male Voice Choir before His Most Excellent Majesty King Edward Seventh and T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales at St. James's Palace, London on St. David's Day, March 1st, 1902. Presented by his choir to The Honorable Mrs Herbert of Llanover as a souvenir of the occasion... 19 photographs on 11 leaves, mounted recto and verso, light spotting and toning to the manuscript leaves, original morocco gilt, Prince of Wales feathers stamped in gilt to upper cover, spine faded and rubbed, lower joint splitting, 4to, 32 x 23 cm, with 2 others: Coronation of King Edward VII, August 9th 1902, copyright photographs by Charles A. Brightman (with 12 mounted photographs on card, detached) and To Their Most Excellent Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra 25 Oct, 1902, book of seals from the Mayors, Aldermen and Councillors of London boroughs QTY: (5)NOTE:The scrap album was compiled by Lt.-Colonel Edwin Berkeley Cook, MVO., Commanding 1st Life Guards who died on 04 November 1914 from wounds received in action near Messines in Belgium.

* Elizabeth II. The Coronation Album, published The Collector's Book Club, 1953, containing mounted photographs and reproductions mounted alongside text on stiff card leaves, and a folder at rear containing UK coins and first day covers, introduction signed by the Marquess of Aberdeen at end, original crushed blue morocco gilt with the crowned ER monogram to upper cover and spine, a little rubbed, oblong folio, together with:Photograph Album. Visit of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh to International Aeradio Limited, Southall on 12th July 1966, 22 mounted gelatin silver prints with tissue guards (190 x 240 mm), silk front pastedown, blue morocco gilt, some wear, oblong 4to, withVisit of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G. to Fischer Bearings Company Limited Wolverhampton, Thursday December 16th, 1948, 6 gelatin silver prints (90 x 128 mm), images inset on thick card, broad blue morocco turn ins with gilt double border incorporating foliate cornerpieces, original blue morocco gilt, rubbed, oblong 4to, with 4 20th-century albums of cuttings and 2 photo albums relating to royal visits by George VQTY: (9)

* Devereux (Robert, 2nd earl of Essex, 1565–1601). Soldier and politician. Favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Letter Signed, ‘Essex’, Courte at Thiballs [Theobalds], 25 June 1594, to Richard Bagotte, Esquire, asking if he will send a buck to Mr Bowyer, Her Majesty’s Usher, in return for another one at a later date, in full, ‘I am requested, and very willing to bestowed, a bucke upon Mr Bowier her Ma[je]sties gentleman usher, in some place of that countrye[.] But because mine owne groundes are unfurnished, I must desire yo[u]r healp; and do therefore praye yow to supplye this turne for mee, and to cause a good Bucke to be delivered to him selfe or this bearer for him. You shall do me an acceptable courtesie; and I will pleasure anie frend of yours with the lyke whensoever yow desire it. So I bid yow hartily well to fare’, 8 lines in a clear hand at top of page, with signed sentiment below, ‘y[ou]r most assured frend / Essex’, 1 page on laid paper with integral address leaf, endorsed ‘My Lord of Essex cr[av]es for a buck, to Mr Bowyer her majesty's usher, bestowed upon Mr Symon Weston’, minor soiling and seal tear, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:An unusual document in excellent condition with the rare autograph of Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite courtier of the time. After a brilliant career Essex was involved in a plot to dismiss the queen’s Councillors and so was executed for treason in 1601.Richard Bagot (c. 1530-1597) of Bagot's Bromley and Blithfield, Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Guardian of Mary Queen of Scots from 1569 to 1570 and from 1585 to 1586. Bagot was on friendly terms with the first two Devereux earls of Essex, William and his son Robert, who had a Staffordshire seat at Chartley, some 3 miles from Blithfield. Richard’s younger son Anthony was a member of Robert Devereux's household from 1579 and took part in the earl's rising of 1601, being pardoned in 1602.Simon Bowyer (1550-1606), Member of the Parliament of England for Great Bedwyn for the parliament of 1572, gentleman usher to Elizabeth I, 1569-97. One of Bowyer’s duties as a gentleman usher was to prevent unauthorised entry to Privy Council meetings. On one occasion he offended the Earl of Leicester by turning away one of his henchmen, and was supported by the Queen in the ensuing dispute.Theobalds at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was the country seat of the Lord Treasurer, William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley (c.1520-1598). Both Elizabeth and Essex had both been visiting Theobalds at the time of this letter and Essex is likely wanting to give Bowyer the buck as a gift for his services there.

* Capel (Arthur, 1632-1683). 1st Earl of Essex, politician and conspirator, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-1677, Lord High Treasurer, 26 March to 21 November 1679. Document Signed, ‘Essex’, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 26 June 1679, printed Treasury warrant, completed in manuscript, signed by the five Lords of the Treasury: Arthur Earl of Essex, Laurence Hyde (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir John Ernle, Sir Edward Dering and Sidney Godolphin, addressed to Sir Robert Howard, ordering the payment of £150 to Captain Richard Brewer, under the Act for Paying Off and Disbanding the Forces raised since the 29 September 1677, a few minor spots and light creases, ragged right edge, marginal tears (small tear to lower right corner with loss of the last two letters of Godolphin's signature), 1 page, folio (31 x 22 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:An interesting group of Restoration autographs includes a good example of the uncommon signature of Arthur Capel, first earl of Essex (1632-1683), politician and conspirator. Essex was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-1677, and in 1679 he became Lord High Treasurer. On the discovery of the Rye House Plot (1683) Essex was sent to the Tower, where he was found with his throat cut on 13 July 1683.Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1641-1711) served twice as Lord High Treasurer, 1679-1684 & 1685-1689; Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645-1712), served four terms as Lord High Treasurer, 1684-1685, 1690-1697, 1700-1701 & 1702-1710. Sir John Ernle (1620-1697), English politician and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer, a position he held from 2 May 1676 to 9 April 1689; Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet (1625-1684), English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1674.

* Harley (Robert, 1661-1724). 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, British statesman and Lord High Treasurer, 1711-1714. Document Signed, ‘Oxford’, as Lord High Treasurer, 21 February 1711/12 & 6 June 1712, manuscript Treasury order to pay George Lord Lansdowne £171 17s. 6d., for a half a year's rent of ‘Mole Park which was laid into Her Ma[jest]y’s Great Parke at Windsor’, signed in the right margin with countersignature of R[obert] Benson, with additional signatures of Fitzharding below, Halifax at foot and Lansdowne to verso, some light soiling and age wear, short marginal split close to Oxford’s signature, one page with integral blank tipped onto an old album leaf, folio (37 x 23.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Robert Harley was an English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig before defecting to a new Tory ministry. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721.Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley (1676-1731), English Tory politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1711 to 1713; George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c.?1684-1739, auditor of the Exchequer); John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge of Bruton, Somerset (1650-1712), English courtier, Treasury official, army officer and politician; George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735), English Tory politician. He was Secretary at War during the Harley administration from 1710 to 1712. He was also a noted poet and playwright.

* Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745). 1st Earl of Orford, first British Prime Minister, 1721-42. Document Signed, ‘R Walpole’, as Prime Minister, 15 August 1730, manuscript Treasury order to ‘deliver and pay of such His Ma[jest]y’s Treasure as remains in your Charge unto Benjamin Keene Esqr. the sum of three hundred and ninety eight pounds’ signed in the right margin, light age wear and a few short marginal splits and wear to folds not affecting signatures, small tear to upper left blank corner, 1 page, folio (31 x 23 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:The document is countersigned by George Bubb Doddington (1690/91-1762, politician and diarist), William Clayton (1671-1752, lord of the Treasury), William Yonge (c. 1693-1755, lord of the Treasury), and signed at foot by George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c.?1684-1739, auditor of the Exchequer).

* Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745). 1st Earl of Orford, first British Prime Minister, 1721-42. Document Signed, ‘R Walpole’, as Prime Minister, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 30 September 1741, manuscript warrant to Robert Walpole (1701-1751), Auditor of Receipts of His Majesty’s Exchequer, with an order to pay Lewis Grant the sum of £100 quarterly or £400 annually, light age wear and a few short marginal splits, small tear to lower right blank corner not affecting signature, tipped into an old album leaf with an engraved portrait of Walpole (Cadell & Davies, 1797) tipped onto lower half of sheet below horizontal sheet fold, some spotting and dust-soiling, marginal soiling and tears to mount, folio, together with autographs of all the other first four First Lords of the Treasury: part of an official paper document, 24 March 1697, bearing the signatures of Charles Montagu, Stephen Fox, John Smith, and the 1st Duke of Montagu, 185 x 70 mm; a partially cropped printed document on paper, 19 January 1701, completed in manuscript and bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to pay Martha Gillyflower £300, 18 x 22.5 cm, tipped onto a paper mount; a manuscript schedule of papers listed and signed by James Stanhope, a little soiling, 1 page, folio; a manuscript receipt on paper dated 28 January 1709/10, bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, slightly soiled, 90 x 175 mm, tipped onto a paper mount beneath an engraved portrait of the earl, together with autographs of all the other first four First Lords of the Treasury: part of an official paper document, 24 March 1697, bearing the signatures of Charles Montagu, Stephen Fox, John Smith, and the 1st Duke of Montagu, 185 x 70 mm; a partially cropped printed document on paper, 19 January 1701, completed in manuscript and bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to pay Martha Gillyflower £300, 18 x 22.5 cm, tipped onto a paper mount; a manuscript schedule of papers listed and signed by James Stanhope, a little soiling, 1 page, folio; a manuscript receipt on paper dated 28 January 1709/10, bearing the signature of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, slightly soiled, 90 x 175 mm, tipped onto a paper mount beneath an engraved portrait of the earlQTY: (9)NOTE:These autographs represent all of the first six First Lords of the Treasury, Walpole being the third and sixth (1715-1717 & 1721-1742).Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1694-1699, First Lord of the Treasury, 1714-1715; Stephen Fox (1627-1716), Commissioner of the Treasury, 1679-1702; John Smith (1656–1723), Commissioner of the Treasury, 1679-1701, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1699-1701 & 1708-1710.Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (c. 1669 – 1 May 1738), Lord High Treasurer, 1701-1702, First Lord of the Treasury, 1715; James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (c. 1673-1721), First Lord of the Treasury, 1717-1718; Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1675-1722), First Lord of the Treasury, 1718–1721.

* China and the Far East. A group of 7 incomplete photograph albums relating to China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaya, Singapore, etc., gelatin silver prints, various views and scenes, including snapshots, mostly window-mounted but some pasted in and including one broken album of a tour of HMS Hawkins to China Station, 1919, including approximately 300 postcard-size photos with printed captions to mounts, bindings all broken and many photos loose, oblong folioQTY: (a carton)

* George II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1727-1760. Document Signed, ‘George R’, St James’s, 12 March 1750, manuscript warrant authorising the cessation of the annuity paid to Lionel Cranfield, Duke of Dorset, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden or Keeper of the Cinque Ports, signed at head by the king and countersigned at foot overleaf by three Lords of the Treasury, Henry Pelham, J[ohn?] Campbell and George Grenville, some spotting, a few old clear tape repairs to spine and internal horizontal centre folds, away from signatures and text, 2 pages with integral docketed blank, folio (37 x 22.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A document bearing the signatures of King George II and two prime ministers: Henry Pelham (1694-1754), British Whig statesman, Prime Minister, 1743-1754; George Grenville (1712-1770), British Whig statesman, Prime Minister, 1763-1765.Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765), British politician, who had been Lord Lieutenant in Ireland in 1730, and he was reappointed to that position in April 1750.

* Pulteney (William, 1684-1764). 1st Earl of Bath, British politician, sometimes stated to have been First Lord of the Treasury and British prime minister, for the shortest term ever, 10-12 February 1746. Document Signed, ‘Bath’, 20 November 1752, being a printed receipt for interest on the Loan on Salt, 1745, in the sum of £17 10 shillings, completed in manuscript and signed by the earl of Bath at foot, some old staining and small mostly marginal tears with discrete archival tissue repairs, signature unaffected, 1 page, folio (33.5 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:On 10 February 1746, Pelham's administration resigned en masse, and the king turned to Bath to form an alternative ministry. He accepted the seals of office and made nominations to the most senior posts, but it quickly became clear that he did not have enough support to form a viable government, and after ‘48 hours, three quarters, seven minutes, and eleven seconds’ he abandoned the attempt, forcing the king to accept Pelham's terms for resuming office. As the office of Prime Minister did not then officially exist, it is a matter of controversy whether Bath should be considered to have been Prime Minister by virtue of his two-day ministry.The official record for shortest-serving Prime Minister, at the time of going to print, belongs to Liz Truss, who resigned from office after 45 days, on 20 October 2022.

* Fitzroy (Augustus, 1735-1811). 3rd Duke of Grafton, British politician and Prime Minister, 1768-1770. Document Signed, ‘Grafton’, as Lord of the Treasury, Whitehall, 25 September 1767, manuscript document, approving the appointment of ‘John Hannay to be a Tidesman at Stranraer, at the Established Salary of Fifteen pounds p[er] Annum in the room of Gilbert Adair deceased’, the upper part of the document the presentation from the commissioners at the Custom House, Edinburgh, signed by Basil Cochrane, M. Cardonnel and Jn: West, the lower part the agreement signed by Grafton, George Onslow and Pryse Campbell, 1 page with docketed integral blank (separated), a little soiling and a few short marginal splits on fold lines not affecting signatures or text, folio (32 x 20.5 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (1731-1814), British peer and politician, junior Lord of the Treasury, 1765-1777; Pryse Campbell (1727-1768), Scottish politician, Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.

* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document Signed, 'Victoria RI', St James's, 5 February 1850, being a manuscript letter of appointment in favour of Thomas Maitland to be one of the Ordinary Lords of Session in Scotland, following the death of Francis Jeffrey, 3 pages with address panel, signed at head of first page by the Queen and at foot of third page by Sir George Grey, as Home Secretary, with further annotations and signatures at top and bottom of fourth page including one from the Lords Commissioners, some age wear and splitting along folds, folio, together with a contemporary annotated envelope for the documentQTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan (1792-1851) was a Scottish lawyer and judge. He was Solicitor General for Scotland, 1840-1841 & 1846-1850. In 1850, following Francis Jeffrey's death, he was named lord of the court of session, and took the title of Lord Dundrennan. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic.

* Pius IX (1792-1878. Pope, 1846-1878. Document Signed, 'Pius P.P. IX', 18 February 1869, being a request supplied by the Chapel and Castle of Aigremont and the friends of the supplicant for a Plenary Indulgence to be granted to Hyacinthe de Clercx d'Aigremont and her parents, manuscript document with signature and dated subscription beneath, 1 page with integral blank, folio, presented in a contemporary hinged red morocco folder with gilt papal crest to upper cover and gilt crown and monogram H.C.A. laid on to lower cover, 2 gilt clasps, slight edge wear, folio (40 x 27 cm) QTY: (2)

* Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 & 1951-1955. Document Signed by King George V, 'George RI' (1865-1936) and Winston Churchill, 'W.S. Churchill', St James's, 11 March 1911, a pre-printed document on vellum with manuscript insertions, being a remission document for John Thirkell at Wakefield prison, 'who was at the Borough Sessions, Scarborough, on 28th October 1910, convicted of stealing and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour', embossed seal and duty stamp, a couple of light water spots not affecting signatures, signed at head by the King and at foot of page 2 by Churchill, as Home Secretary, 2 pages with integral blank, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare document double-signed by King George V, in the first year of his reign, and by Winston Churchill, during his brief tenure has home secretary, and just two months' after his involvement in the siege of Sidney Street.

* Elizabeth II (1926-20220).Queen of Great Britain, 1952-2022. Document Signed, 1965, a pre-printed pardon, completed in manuscript, concerning Coleen Locke who was convicted of using apparatus for wireless telegraphy without a licence contrary to section 1 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 and was ordered to pay a fine of six pounds, being hereby pardoned and her fine remitted to her, signed by the Queen upper right (signature now faded to light brown), papered seal upper left, two punch holes to left margin away from text and signature, a little marginal light browning and minor creasing, countersigned by Roy Jenkins at foot of second page, 2 pages, folioQTY: (1)

* Battle of Nivelle. A Good Autograph Letter Signed from Patrick Bain, ensign 38th Regiment, Guetry, 3 miles from Bayonne, 21 November 1813, neatly cross-written letter describing the battle of Nivelle to his brother Robert Bain, giving vivid details, '...this arrangement being made, we were ordered to advance in close column of regiments and if possible to get under the enemies gun batteries before daylight in order that we might get undercover before they could be made acquainted with our different movements, but scarcely had we got half our distance when we receive a grand salute from their different batteries as much as to say we were welcome, and for which we returned them a compliment of three cheers. However, this was a proper signal to commence operations on our part and the artillery who had been previously posted on the heights in our rear thought it high time to begin their business, and gave them quite a different sort of return to what we gave them, our light troops also commenced at the same time. Then nothing was to be heard all day long (whenever daylight made its way until late in the evening) but the roaring of cannon and musketry, enough to terrify a man, who had never seen or heard the like before, out of his senses, for person whether in column or otherwise could warrant himself safe for a single moment let him go where he may, the shells and shot from musketry were continually whizzing about one's ears. To tell the truth, I was a little startled at the first commencements of the business but before a quarter of an hour had passed thought little more about it...' and later, '...in short, I could not wish my greatest enemy to experience such work as this, indeed it will be much easier for you to conceive what we have come through within these eight days than I can sufficiently describe to you at this distance. Several of the officers who have been with the army since the commencement of the campaign said they had not experienced such difficulties during the campaign as they did that eight days we were on the move. The roads in consequence of the heavy rains certainly surpassed anything I ever saw, for here you would have seen 20 at a time stuck in the muck up to their knees and getting themselves extricated with a loss of a pair of shoes and perhaps stockings...', a total of approximately 1,500 words written on 4 pages with integral address panel, minor soiling, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Patrick Bain was promoted Lieutenant on 3 June 1818, again on 25 March 1824 in the 13th Light Infantry, dying in 1825.The Battle of Nivelle (10 November 1813) took place near the end of the Peninsular War. Wellington's troops attacked those of Marshal Sault, splitting his army in two. Sault was forced to retreat and so lost another battle on French soil. Casualties were high with the French losing 4,500 men to Wellington's 5,500. A typed transcript is included with the lot.

* Hoste (William, 1780-1828). Royal Navy captain and one of Lord Nelson's protégés. A group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed, 'W. Hoste', various ships, 1802-09, the earliest to his father from Greyhound, Malta, 10 August 1802, 'Being sent to the archipelago and afterwards "God only knows"; have been here so long people thing I am a pilot; maybe Lord Elgin wants me to take him home; remember me to Lord Nelson''; the second letter addressed to his mother from Greyhound, Gibraltar, 22 December 1802, expressing pleasure at receiving letters from home and very much wishing to be back in Norfolk, 'Sir J. Saumenez is coming out so should be back in the summer; want to get clear of "this old wooden box"; want Mr Coke to pull strings'; the third letter from Amphion off Cadiz, 1 April 1806, to his father, 'Napoleon v. successful except "on our element"; enemy fleet repairs after Trafalgar should be complete soon; nearly lost HMS Eurydice; recently got £40 prize money; news of "my aunt's protégé"', the fourth letter from Amphion, Malta, 27 December 1806, to his father, saying that they are badly in need of prize money and mentioning news about George who Sir J. Moore likes; the fifth letter from Amphion, Trieste, 27 July 1809, 'Blockading Trieste; we are getting contradictory news about military events; have heard about fighting on the Danube; not getting any prize money', a total of 19 pp. including address panels, 4to, together with a small collection of related items including a 9-page document from an agent, Mr Woodhead, regarding the question of granting of licences in Malta, (sent to Hoste in Malta, 20 April 1813), folio, 6 short documents by the agent, Woodhead, relating to prize money due for the capture of the Caroline, 'An account of prize money paid to the company of His Majesty's sloop Redwing 29 January 1809', 2 pp., folio, a list of Sir Williiam Hoste's correspondents probably drawn up by Lady Hoste on Sir William's death or someone acting on her instruction, 13 pp., written to rectos only, 8vo, plus 5 other sundry lettersQTY: (19)

* Napoleonic Wars – Eygpt. Five Autograph Letters Signed, from Charles Lewis Parker, surgeon to the 25th Foot, 'Camp before Alexandria', 18 July-9 October 1801, to his wife at Plymouth, giving an interesting picture of conditions in the British army in Egypt during the period between the Battle of Alexandria (21 March 1801) and the actual surrender of the city by the French (31 August 1801), well describing the boredom and frustration of the officers and men, and with interesting details, e.g. daily rations per man, eventually the city is taken without too much resistance, described by Parker on the following day (1 September) ‘.... I am sorry to say poor Mr. Hawkins and a private of the 25th Regt. lost a leg each, both of whom would not suffer anyone to touch him till I came up. They were so much shatter'd that I was under the necessity of amputating both legs on the spot, they are likely I am rejoiced to say to do very well....’, the last letter ( 9 October) referring to the departure of the army to Malta, Parker himself being left in Alexandria with the wounded, 20 pages (one page defective, archival tissue repairs), plus a further Autograph Letter Signed ‘Parker’ to his wife from Yarmouth ("this abominable town"), August 1799, a letter from Lt. Col. Forster to Parker dated Camp before Alexandria, 13 Aug. 1801, highly praising his services, and a contemporary copy of Parker's service record, address panels, postmarks (Ship Letter, Portsmouth, etc.), 4to/folioQTY: (8)

* Napoleonic Wars. A Rough Manuscript Journal kept by a British Soldier named Frederick Shaw, probably a junior N.C.O., serving in the allied columns marching on Paris in 1814, France, c. 6 June 25 July 1814, describing in an interesting, semi-literate style the towns and villages through which they pass, their reception by the usually friendly local population, (Tours), 'me and two more of my friends went into one of their cook shops to get something to eat they brought us a plate of giblets worth about one shilling to the best of my opinion. We not being satisfied called for another which they brought we eat that and bread too and drank four bottles of beer and then called for the reckoning which was brought into our great astonishment was not less than nine shillings the beer at six pence per bottle. I told the woman I would take her to the Marie...', near Montreuil he sent off in the wake of Sargeant Major to collect 'billets' but goes many miles out of his way and is sent back by Lut. Col. Jenkinson 'Commandant of the Artillery of that collum'; Abbeville, 'was to have been our halting place but on the 3rd at night we received a fresh order for the whole of the German to proceed to Brussells on their way to Germany as we was informed that the Emperor of Austria would not suffer the allies to pass the Rhine but I cannot say that above his truth. I hope it is not but our small detachment being the only troops with the third collum was ordered to march the next morning to join the second collum which has been one days march in front all the way from Bourdeaux', 22 pages, some arithmetic on following page and remaining leaves blank, some browning to earlier leaves, first text leaf torn with slight loss, remains of stitching, upper wrapper with ownership inscription and various other names, stitching partly broken, final blank leaves somewhat ragged and torn, upper wrapper soiled, narrow folioQTY: (1)NOTE:An uncommon journal from a lower rank serving in the Napoleonic Wars. A handwritten transcription in pencil is included with the lot.

* Oxfordshire Light Infantry. A manuscript account of a meeting of the Officers of the 43rd Regiment in Vale Castle, Guernsey, 1 July 1801, at which Rules for the regular support of the Regimental Mess were agreed, there follows a list of 24 Rules together with the names and ranks of the 23 Officers forming the Mess, 7 pages on 2 bifolia, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The garrisoning of Vale Castle in Guernsey was an important link in the Blockade and Containment of France during the Napoleonic War.

* Peninsular War. A collection of 33 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘S. Briscall’, the Duke of Wellington's chaplain, written from the Peninsula between 1808-1814, approximately 120 pages in all, occasional chips or tears to edges (affecting a few words), some browning to the edges, some folds repaired where formerly bound, but most in good condition and in a legible hand, small 4to and folioQTY: (33)NOTE:‘I have one excellent young man in this army, Mr Briscall, who is attached to head quarters, who has never been one moment absent from his duty,’ wrote the Duke of Wellington in 1811. Three years later, Wellington made Briscall his personal chaplain, and on the return of the army from France, offered him the curacy at Stratfield Saye.Reverend Samuel Briscall's letters in this collection are written to his father, to his sister, or to a family friend, Colonel Williams, who had given him an introduction to Sir John Moore. Having joined the army as a chaplain, Briscall arrived in Portugal in August, 1808. The first five letters recounting his initial experiences, end with a letter dated Corunna, Jan 13, 1809: "The Troops have had most uncommonly hard Fatigues & long Marches in their Retreat . . I went to Out Posts this morning the French . . . receive hourly Reinforcements. Our line is [a] Hill about 2 ½ Miles from this & consists [of a] Brigade of Infantry & six Field Pieces…’.The next 23 letters were written from July, 1809, to October, 1811. After being attached to Craufurd's and Bentinck's brigades, Briscall was promoted to Chaplain to the Headquarters of the army in 1810, in effect becoming the senior chaplain in the Peninsula. There is a good letter dated Oct 4th, 1810, describing the battle of Busaco. The final five letters (June, 1813 to 22 April, 1814) cover Nivelle and Nive: ‘The army is very busy and I am writing under a heavy canonade’.Written in a familiar, unpretentious style to his family and friend, this excellent archive was once owned by the historian Michael Glover, and includes some of his research notes on Briscall.

* Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed from 'James Carrigan, Band 95th Regiment', Campo Miore, [Portugal], 7 November 1809, to his brother James in the 3rd Battalion 93rd Regiment, but the letter addressed to Jeny, 'We had a very long march after we landed in this country and went within eighteen leagues of Madrid to a place called Tullavera where the French and Our Army had a Great Engagement’, also ‘Our Band is greatly reduced since poor Cairns and Smith died’, some overall spotting and a little fore-edge fraying, 3 pages with integral address panel, faint London Paid marking and indistinct Falmouth mileage mark, folioQTY: (1)

* Peninsular War. A series of 33 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Scrope Hutchinson’, surgeon of the 52nd Regiment, 4 May to 24 December 1808, to his wife Anne, closely written, giving detailed accounts of his experiences during the Swedish and Peninsular campaigns of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, Yarmouth Roads, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Alcantara, Estramoz, Salamanca and elsewhere, together with 4 other letters to Hutchinson's wife before their marriage (1804-1805) and to his family, some notes on "Rational Recreations" and the probate copy of his will (1848), address panels, seal tears, some other tears and wear, slight browning, postmarks, approximately 130 pages in all, folio and 4toQTY: (33)NOTE:This lengthy, often intimate and highly articulate correspondence (some 60,000 words) documents the two military ventures of Sir John Moore in 1808. The first series, covering May to July 1808, was written by Scrope Hutchinson while accompanying the British force sent with Moore to Sweden ostensibly to help Gustavus IV against France, Russia and Denmark. Hutchinson gives in detail his impressions of Gothenburg, where the force waited while Moore conducted negotiations in Stockholm, and of the social life there, and he reports on the day-to-day rumours of the progress of the negotiations, culminating, on 30 June, in the news of Moore's escape from Gustavus’ in plain Cloaths, rather shabbily dressed’ with the realisation that the expedition has been a wild-goose chase, ‘…the King of Sweden . . . certainly wished us to undertake something truly ridiculous The Genl. however contrived to get off in plain Cloaths the same night, & travelled to Gottenburg with a Messenger... he is highly enraged & indignant, and says the King of Sweden is certainly mad…’.The second series, from 31 July to 24 December 1808, documents the progress of Hutchinson's regiment during the Peninsular War, the series concluding shortly before the Battle of Corunna in which Sir John Moore was killed. Hutchinson describes in detail the movement of the British Army through Portugal, its invasion of Spain, its successive advance from Corunna and tactical retreat towards the coast following the French capture of Madrid. He describes the French army in Lisbon after Junot's capitulation, when they were being evacuated by sea. Hutchinson also comments at great length on the Army's conditions, food, accommodation, morale, and social life, gives his impressions of Lisbon and other towns and of the Portuguese and Spanish peoples, and remarks on the theatre and social mores encountered. He passes on the day-to-day rumours and contradictory reports as to what is happening, comments on Wellesley, ‘a fine fellow and most deservedly beloved by all the Army’, and on Moore, ‘a person who will possess [the Army's] fullest confidence’, criticises the ‘haughty & overbearing manner which is too evidently the predominant feature of the English Character’, remarks on the ‘poor women’ of the regiment, ‘almost the whole of them are in the family way’, passes favourable judgment on Spanish hospitals, and offers a variety of anecdotes about persons and incidents encountered. He also details the hardships of the Army's winter march and much else besides.The correspondence bears a number of maritime mail handstamps of interest to the postal historian including three examples of the oval 'Ship Lte/ Penzance' (Robertson Type S.2), four examples of a similar mark for Portsmouth (Type S.10) and others.‘... Sir Jno. Moore wished to have fallen in with this Corps, as he is apprehensive that they may follow our track, & prove extremely troublesome to us on our retreat... I sincerely hope we shall turn our faces towards the Sea, for as to doing any thing effectual in Spain, it is totally out of the question-and by partial actions we shall certainly lose a number of men, and be encumbered by others wounded, with out any other good resulting from them, except that of proving to the French that we are not afraid of them...’.

* Peninsular War. Two important campaign letters from Alexander Steele describing the actions at El Boden (1811) and Salamanca (1812), in his first letter (Ginaldo, 13 October 1811) Steele gives a full account of events leading to the action at El Boden, how Marmont surprised Wellington with his divisions scattered, the Light Division was cut off by the French advance, Steele describes their escape, 'Gen'l Crauford saw that he had no time to lose in getting away, therefore on the same night we were ordered to make fires along our lines and to leave wooden sentries with a stick and bayonet on top of it... ', some spotting and browning, a few old small tape repairs and slight marginal loss from seal tear etc., 4 pages including address panel, folio; in the second letter from Salamanca (dated 25 June, and later 25 July) Steele describes the approach of the Army towards Salamanca, and then the great battle itself, 'a most glorious day for the British Army', some spotting and browning, a few old clear tape repairs to folds, some small text loss from seal tear, 4 pages including address panel, 4to; together with an earlier letter (Plymouth Dock, 1 November 1808), addressed to his parents in Halifax, Yorkshire, 2 pages with integral address leaf, small seal tears, various postal markings, 4toQTY: (3)NOTE:Alexander Steele became an ensign in 43rd Foot 14 December 1809; Lieutenant in 43rd Foot 7 November 1811.

Waterloo. The London Gazette Extraordinary, Thursday, June 22, 1815, original issue giving a printed account of the Battle of Waterloo in the form of a dispatch from the Duke of Wellington, list of officers killed and wounded at end, red ink duty stamp to lower corner of first page, a little age wear and dust soiling, 4pp, slim folio, together with 4 other printed commemorative: A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God... for the late signal and important victory obtained by his Majesty's ships of war, under the command of the late Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, over the combined fleets of France and Spain, 1805; A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God; for the repeated successes obtained over the French army in Spain by the allied forces under the command of the most Honourable Arthur Marquess of Wellington; and especially for the signal victory obtained on the twenty-first day of June, in the neighborhood of Vittoria, 1813; A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God; for the glorious victory obtained over the French on Sunday eighteenth day of June, at Waterloo..., 1815; Service and Anthems to be used upon Thursday the 18th day of November 1852, being the day appointed for the public funeral of his Grace Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington..., 1852, all folded or stitched as issued, slim 4toQTY: (5)

Crimean War. ‘Log of the proceedings of Her Majesty's steam Frigate Sidon, George Goldsmith Esq., Captain, kept by George Tate Medd [1838-1907], midshipman’, manuscript, 1 January 1855 to 24 June 1857, a detailed log commencing off Sevastopol and continuing in the Black Sea for the next 18 months, most of the time anchored off Sevastopol or Balaclava or between the two, apart from voyages to Corfu transporting the 82nd Regt., and bringing back the 1st Royals, and to Malta for refitting, Medd meticulously records the comings & goings of vessels of all nationalities, notes troop movements and other military activities which he can see on shore (‘Russians throwing up earth works on N. side’), the taking on board British, French & Turkish troops and Russian prisoners, flags of truce and exchange of prisoners, crew training & discipline with fairly frequent floggings (usually 36 lashes) &c., &c., on 15 June 1856 the Crimean Medal is distributed to the ship's company, and on the 17th ‘Rec'd 24 officers & 714 rank & file of the 93rd Highlanders for passage to England’, arriving in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the Prince Regent hulk on 15 July, the troops are disembarked & the ship paid off; with various illustrations mainly from the 'Illustrated London News' (some annotated by Medd, e.g. ‘This is really a very fair birds eye view of Sebastopol as seen from the masthead of the old 'Sidon' steam frigate by me’), but including two drawings by Medd, one of which is a plan of the attack on Fort Kinburn on 17 October 1855 written on 148 pages; then on leaving the 'Sidon' the log continues with Medd's further service with two short spells on the 'Victory' in Portsmouth Harbour, mainly occupied in instructing boys in cutlass & gun drill, on 21 August 1856 a boy named George Reed is receiving 36 lashes at about the same time as Her Majesty is passing in the 'Fairy' to land at Clarence Yard; from 18 October 1856 to 12 February 1857 the volume records the voyage to and from Irish ports of H.M. steam sloop 'Driver', Ennis Chambers, commander, during which Medd exercises the watch and 'young gentlemen' at gun drill; ending with ‘Log of H.M.S. 'Sans-Pareil', Astley Cooper Key, captain, to Hong Kong’, the log of this 10-gun screw line of battle ship ends between the Cape of Good Hope & Singapore on 24 June, 1857, in all a total of approximately 248 pages of manuscript written in a standard-ruled log book, with various illustrations including wood engravings (cut from Illustrated London News) of 'Driver and 'Sans-Pareil', old boards with canvas covering, heavily soiled, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Sidon served in the Black Sea in the Crimean War, 1854-55, under the command of Captain George Goldsmith. In September 1854, in the Allied invasion of the Crimea, she was assigned to escorting the French troop transports, and assisted the French line-of-battleship Algiers, which had gone aground in Eupatoria Bay. She was then sent to monitor Russian movements around Odessa. William Simpson painted a scene titled 'Sebastopol from the Sea, Sketched from the Deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855', which was reproduced as one of the lithographs in The Seat of War in the East (1855-56).About ten years after this log was written Medd left the Navy as a Lieutenant and entered the Church, where he was eventually, for many years, Vicar of Whitchurch, Aylesbury.

* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A sketch of a native fruit seller by General Sir R. Baden-Powell at Barbadoes [so titled on mount], c. 1912, watercolour on paper, signed 'R. Badenpowell' at foot, 135 x 90 mm, laid on to a piece of old album mount, contemporary inscription in a contemporary hand to mount, together with a pencil caricature of an unidentified gentleman with chest puffed out, drawn on ruled paper, signed 'Badenpowell' in pencil lower right, image size 17 x 10 cm, a little dust soiling, 1 page with integral blank, folio, plus a small drawing of a young woman with walking stick, jacket and hat drawn on a folded piece of South Africa Constabulary, Johannesburg, letterhead, signed twice in pencil at foot, 'RSS Badenpowell', some spotting and toning, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, plus a watercolour of a woman riding with two horses, titled in the lower margin 'A.B-P. [Agnes Baden-Powell, younger sister] Riding Tandem, Malta 1892', some spotting, contemporary paper mount of the same size, 11.5 x 17.5 cmQTY: (4)

Mafeking Mail. Special Siege Slip, Issued Daily, Shells Permitting, edited by G.N.H. Whales, numbers 1-152, 159, 171 and 321, November 1st 1899 - May 31st 1900, June 8th 1900, June 22nd 1900 & December 17th 1900, single leaf or double-page, printed on various mostly thin papers including pink, brown and blue, together with a general preface leaf to the series dated Mafeking July 1900, a single-sheet printed list of garrison forces (as at May 17th 1900) and town guard (to October 12th 1900), printed explanation for the unissued number 56, and twelve other duplicate issues of the Mafeking Mail, occasional marginal fraying and tears without loss, folioQTY: (approximately 165)NOTE:Mendelssohn 967.Issued daily, 'shells permitting', by the Mafeking publisher Townshend & Son, Market Square. From 5 January 1900, the 86th day, up to the 16 May 1900, the 216th and last day of the siege, the newspaper included the number of days under siege in its heading. The Special Siege Slip had to be suspended from the 17-20 January 1900 due to heavy bombing. Paper shortages led to the newspaper being printed on several different coloured papers.

* Durrell (Gerald, 1925-1995). British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist and cartoonist. An important and unusual collection of cartoons and other images (both real and imaginary, some described as ‘Doodles’) all drawn by Gerald Durrell (5 of them signed) together with a brief autograph manuscript, 16 pages, mainly folio, France, no date (one dated 1976), comprising a brief Autograph Manuscript Unsigned (43 words), being a humorous rhyming poem that Durrell is attempting to create and in which he mentions Joy Adamson, 1 page, 4to; an extremely large sheet with upwards of 50 multi-coloured images of animals (one crossed out by Durrell), humans, vegetation, a bizarre-looking embryo-like figure, as well as a house by the sea, with 2 cypress trees, drawn in felt tip, signed (‘Gerald Durrell, France, 1976’), some creasing to one side, 375 x 453 mm; plus 13 pages of other cartoons and drawings of various animals with some additional words, four sheets signed, plus a copy of a letter from Lee Durrell to the present owner about the archiveQTY: (12)

* French Military Autographs. A collection of autograph letters and signatures of French military personnel, mostly 19th & 20th century, including autograph letters by Georges Ernest Boulanger (1837-1891), Louis-Victor de Caux de Blacquetot (1775-1845), Nicolas Anne Théodule Changarnier, Armand-Octave-Marie d'Allonville (1809-1867), Charles Auguste Frossard (1807-1875), Henri Gouraud (1867-1946), General Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Fay Latour-Maubourg (1768-1801), Edmund Lyons (1790-1858), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653-1734), Document Signed, 1731, Victor-Maurice de Broglie (1647-1727), Autograph Letter Signed, 1719, Léonor Marie du Maine du Bourg (1655-1739), Document Signed, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Francois Desmarets (1682-1762), a total of approximately 80 letters, 8 documents and 14 signatures, contained in 2 modern plastic albums with accompanying biographical print outs, folioQTY: (2 folders)

* Herrmann (Bernard, 1911-1975). Composer of film music, most notably for the Alfred Hitchcock film ‘Psycho’. A small archive of material signed by Herrmann together with an unsigned score, comprising: a copy of Roloff Beny’s book A Time of Gods, 1st edition, Viking Press. 1962. signed and inscribed by Bernard Herrmann to Ursula Vaughan Williams with an Autograph Musical Quotation (opening 4 bars of his cantata Moby Dick), ‘Merry Christmas / to Ursula / “a real voyager” / from Bernard and Norma / Dec 25 / [19]74’, inscribed on the same page by Ursula Vaughan Williams, ‘Bernard and Norma Herrmann’, original cloth in dust jacket, some wear; together with:Jean Phillipe Rameau’s Pieces de Clavecin, Barenreiter 1940, signed ‘Bernard Herrmann’ in red ink on the title page, with a further 15 pages annotated by Herrmann either with text (c. 45 words) or musical additions (4 pages with various notes and phrasing added), [from Herrmann’s personal library which was sold by his wife Norma], plus a series of four LP Proof Pressings signed or inscribed by Herrmann as either conductor or composer: Lyrita recording of Cyril Scott’s Piano Concerto no 1; Lyrita recording of Cyril Scott’s Piano Concerto no 2; Bernard Herrmann - Music by Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud; The Unicorn recording Bernard Herrmann's Piano Quintet, the first two signed and inscribed on the inner sleeve, the third inscribed on the inner sleeve and the last inscribed on the upper cover; plus a rare copy of the Vocal score (unsigned) of Herrmann’s opera Wuthering Heights, original printed wrappers, split on joints and partially detached, folioQTY: (7)

* Milstein (Nathan, 1903-1992). Russian-American Violinist. An extremely rare and important Autograph Music Manuscript Signed twice (‘Nathan Milstein’ and once with initials ‘N.M’), Paris, 21 May 1964, of an apparently unpublished and undocumented realisation for violin and piano, of the Sonata in C minor Op. 2 no. 7 by Vivaldi, written in blue, black and red ink, with many autograph corrections, the full title being ‘Sonata VII’ Preludio, Allemande, Corrente, the Corrente written out again but with a slightly different realisation, and signed at the end, 11 pages, large folioQTY: (1)NOTE:This highly important manuscript highlights Milstein’s level of musicianship. Famous for his interpretations of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Milstein’s career lasted 72 years. He wrote a number of transcriptions and realisations throughout his life and this particular one is apparently unpublished and unrecorded. It is not mentioned in any of the available Milstein literature including Milstein’s autobiography From Russia to the West: The Musical Memoirs and Reminiscences of Nathan Milstein, which was co-written with Solomon Volkov.

* Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703). English diarist and naval administrator. Document Signed, ‘Samuell Pepys’, Navy Office, 5 April 1661, warrant addressed to William Sheldon, Clerk of the Cheque of the naval yard at Woolwich, for an order from his Royal Highness James Duke of York &c. Lord High Adm[ira]l of England, ‘dat[ed] 3rd instant These are to pray and require you to enter Dan[ie]l Kempe boatswaine of his Ma[jest]ys Shipp the Yarmouth with such allowance of wages and victuals for himselfe and his servant as is usuall and propper for the Boatswaine of his Ma[jest]ys, said shipp…’, signed at foot of text by Pepys and three others, Robert Slingesby, William Batten and William Penn, some spotting and light old dampstaining (affecting Penn’s autograph), 1 page with integral blank, endorsed, tipped onto a paper mount, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Signed by Pepys, (unusually with his full first name), as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board. Pepys’s Diary (pepysdiary.com) for 5 April 1661 reads:‘Up among my workmen and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Pen’s with the other Sir William and Sir John Lawson to dinner, and after that, with them to Mr. Lucy’s, a merchant, where much good company, and there drank a great deal of wine, and in discourse fell to talk of the weight of people, which did occasion some wagers, and where, among others, I won half a piece to be spent.Then home, and at night to Sir W. Batten’s, and there very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present life I lead.Home and to bed.’Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet (1611–1661), naval commander and Comptroller of the Navy, and in his last years a much-loved colleague of Samuel Pepys.Sir William Batten (1601-1667), naval officer and administrator. As Surveyor of the Navy he was a colleague of Samuel Pepys, who mentions him frequently in his ‘Diary’, often to his detriment.Sir William Penn (1621-1670), English admiral and politician. In 1660 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy Board where he worked with Pepys. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.

* Rawsthorne (Alan (1906-1971). British composer. Autograph Manuscript Signed, ‘Alan Rawsthorne’, no place, no date, c. 1951, being a complete two piano version of the 3rd movement Intermezzo of Rawsthorne’s 2nd Piano Concerto (one part being an orchestral reduction), written in pencil in his calligraphic hand, on 2 or 4 staves as required and signed at the head of the first page, with a further annotation to the reverse of the final page by Sir Clifford Curzon (who gave the work’s first performance), slight soiling, corner wear and signs of use on first page which is also detached, otherwise in good condition, 9 pages, folio, together with a first edition printed copy of the full score, original wrappers, covers detached, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Rawsthorne wrote his Second Piano Concerto in 1951 and it received its first performance at the then new Festival Hall in June of that year, with Clifford Curzon as soloist. This arrangement, by the composer, of the third movement Intermezzo (effectively the slow movement) is beautifully written in pencil in his neat and meticulous hand. It is possible that Curzon himself owned this manuscript and from the signs of use (including indications of phrasing in the piano solo part) it is also possible that this was the score used by him to learn this particular movement; a short inscription on the final blank page of the manuscript in Curzon’s hand supports this view, (he went on to record the work for Decca a few months after its premiere).The manuscript appears to be just one section of a complete set of movements, as the pages are numbered 54 to 62 (the first movement in this form, is in the archive of Rawsthorne manuscripts held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; the 2nd and 4th movements being seemingly unaccounted for, and it is possible that Curzon owned those movements too). A timing of 6’45” has been written at the conclusion of the work, indicating that it may well have been used in the recording session in 1951. There are 2 further recordings of this work and it has come to be regarded as one of the composer's most successful compositions.

* Vandenbergh (Raymond J.). A collection of autographs and signatures, largely Victorian, collected by Raymond J. Vandenbergh and his grandfather John Vandenbergh, neatly arranged with gummed paper hinges to rectos of an album with neat pencil captions and typed contents list at front, arranged by professions including actors, artists, army and navy, authors, science, royalty and titled people, etc., many signatures now missing, but including autograph letters from Arthur Stirling, Arthur O'Leary, T. Creswick, James D. Linton, Arthur Wardell, Fred Taylor, Lt. Gen. Irwin Williams, Major H.B. Mortimer, General Greenaway, Sir George Harris, Agnes Strickland, Richard Garnet, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Edwin Bending, J. Hummel, George Payne, S.P. Thompson, Earl of Mornington, Lord Iddesleigh, Lord Kimberley, etc., a total of approximately 230 autograph pieces, 20th-century two-tone cloth, folio, plus 2 albums containing approximately 120 autograph letters and related, sent to Alexander Tudor-Craig, c. 1910s/1930s, tipped on to album leaves with caption headings, autographs including Arthur James Balfour (TLS), Earl of Cromer, Alfred Harmsworth, Gerald Du Maurier, Marie Tempest, Henry Irving, Cyril Maude, Johnston Forbes Robertson, 2 contemporary cloth spring binders, rubbed and corners damp stained, 4toQTY: (1)

* Chinese Export School. An album of 12 pith paintings of Chinese junks and sailing vessels, 19th century, ink and gouache on pith paper, mounted within blue silk borders, a few scattered small chips and splits, images 19.5 x 32 cm, contemporary full patterned silk over limp boards, some fraying and wear, oblong folio (24 x 37 cm)QTY: (1)

* Clarke (John, 1760-1815). Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians. Lectures on Midwifry on Diseases of Women & Children, &c by Doct[o]r Clarke, at No. 1, New Burlington Street, London, 1802 & 1803, by Samuel Head, manuscript lecture notes with sections on diseased menstruation, profuse menstruation, anatomy of female parts of generation and diseases thereof, physiology of generation, treatment of diseases during pregnancy, abortion, labour and difficult labours, preternatural labours, complex labours, diseases in consequence of parturition and the gravid uterus (?Mr Wilson's lectures), written in a neat hand with many rectos blank or partially completed with notes relating to facing page, index at rear with a final page on observations on puerperal fever by Dr Armstrong of Sunderland, a total of approximately 250 pages including index, mostly with folio numbers but sometimes marked with page numbers, one marginal tear with small loss (folio 18) and lower half of folio 37 torn away and missing, contemporary sheep, worn, spine broken and many gatherings and  leaves detached, 8vo (195 x 125 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:John Clarke was one of ten licentiates in midwifery at the College of Physicians. His publications include: An Essay on the Epidemic Disease of Lying-in Women, of the Years 1787 and 1788 (1788), Practical Essays on the Management of Pregnancy and Labour (1793) and the textbook, The London Practice of Midwifery, first published in 1803. Clarke gave courses on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with Dr Osborn, both at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at his home in New Burlington Street.The student who compiled these lecture notes was Samuel Head (c. 1773-1837), a Candian doctor, merchant and judge. Head was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. but received his medical training in England and in 1803 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. He moved back to Halifax where he started a practice in surgery and medicine in about 1804 where he also ran a pharmacy which had been established by his father before him.The Royal College of Surgeons of England have eleven manuscript notebooks of Dr John Clarke's lectures on midwifery kept by William Prosser, ref. MS0081/2.

* Marconi Wireless Telegraph Archive. An important archive of ledgers, committee books and notebooks for Marconi Wireless Telegraph (M.W.T.), 1897/1970s, including 28 volumes of registers of agreements, 1897/1955; 3 notebooks for meetings of directors, (in the notebook for 1927-36 Marconi has signed his name as present some 60 times); a seal book, 1920-21, with signatures of Alfonso Marconi; a minutes book, 1917-20, with further signatures of Alfonso Marconi; and a register of seals and a meeting of board directors book for Marconi (China) Ltd, 1943-1976, a total of 35 ledgers and notebooks, mostly full/half morocco or cloth, some rubbing, but generally sound and in good condition, folio/oblong folio and 8vo, plus 2 modern albums with approximately 100 photographs from Marconi Research Station at Great BaddowQTY: (37)NOTE:Contents list:Register of Agreements, 28 volumes: 1-7, 9, 11-30, 1897-1923, 1924-1925, 1925-1955, each volume 160pp. + index of handwritten entries (vol. 30 is 176pp. and typewritten), uniform original full burgundy morocco (vol. 30 cloth), oblong folioM.W.T. Co., Ltd. Special Meeting of Directors, 10 February 1927 - 24 November 1936, [136]pp., original full black limp morocco lettered gilt on upper cover, 8voMarconi was present at some of the meetings and has signed his name some 60 times. His last signature is on 26 November 1935. It also includes the signatures of all the other directors who attended the meetings. Together with 2 further notebook of meetings of the Boards of Directors London, from 1937 to 1959, signed by those present on each occasion, including J. C. Denison-Pender and F. R. S. Balfour.Seal Book. No. 10, January 1920 - April 1921, 101pp., original full burgundy morocco (uniform with Register of Agreements volumes), oblong folioEach handwritten entry is signed by several or more attesting directors and an officer including Alfonso Marconi (younger brother of Guglielmo who had helped with early experiments in Italy). The content lists documents concerning foreign patent applications, ordinary and preference share certificates, ordinary share warrants, and other business mattersM.W.T. Co. Ld. Committee Minute Book No. 6, 31 July 1917 - 5 July 1920, 242pp + blank index, tipped-in duplicated list of share certificates, original burgundy half morocco, folioShare certificate documents and patents and other business transactions signed during committee meetings, the minutes signed off by Alfonso Marconi and others.Marconi (China) Limited. Register of Seals, 8 March 1943 - 31 March 1976, 39pp. but largely blank except for 2 double pages + blank index, original burgundy half morocco, folioIncludes power of attorney agreements, share certificate transfers and other business matters. Loosely inserted is a duplicated power of attorney agreement for Ivor George Gardner to act on behalf of the company in Hong Kong, 5pp., stapled, signed by one of the directors.Marconi (China) Limited. Meeting of Board of Directors, 1943-1970, unpaginated but with first 36pp. completed from 1943 to 1970, signed by the 2, 3 or 4 directors present on each occasion, 8voMarconi Research Station at Great Baddow. Two large modern albums, 1970s, containing approximately 100 large photographs showing giant receivers in various remote parts of the world and other equipment and Marconi enterprisesGuglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian inventor, electrical engineer and diplomat. He is known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Regarded as the inventor of radio he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with one of his closest rivals in the field, Karl Ferdinand Braun, 'in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy'. In 1897 Marconi founded the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (later the Marconi Company). Its aim was to develop the Marconi apparatus commercially; the first manufacturing works were established in Chelmsford in an old silk factory. Over the next few years the Company rented land and buildings in London, Cornwall, North America and elsewhere. In 1901, Marconi achieved communication over 198 miles between the Isle of Wight and the Lizard in Cornwall. In December of the same year, history was made when Marconi transmitted the letter S of the Morse code (three dots) across the Atlantic from Poldhu in Cornwall to Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland. He had taken on John Ambrose Fleming, a brilliant scholar and a skilled practical engineer who had been an electrical advisor to Thomas Edison; Fleming proved invaluable at Poldhu, designing and operating the generator. One of Marconi's ambitions was to give sailors and passengers in challenging or potentially disastrous situations at sea the means to communicate - most clearly demonstrated when the 'Titanic' sank: the distress calls from Marconi's wireless installation on 'Titanic' saved 700 lives.During the 1920s, assisted by C. S. Franklin, an eminent engineer, Marconi turned his attention to short-wave directional transmissions, known as the 'Empire Beam' system. This met with a favourable response and Marconi's dream of global radio communication was established. The company was also involved in the beginnings of public broadcasting in England, the first being a recital performed by the singer Dame Nellie Melba in 1920. A couple of years later the British Broadcasting Company (later 'Corporation') was born and the population could now enjoy radio and later television in their own homes. Marconi believed that wireless would save lives and hoped it would help to bring peace to the world. Shortly before he died he was made Lord Rector of St Andrews University and was heard to say 'Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?' What began as pioneering experiments in the Italian countryside had, in his lifetime, grown to an international company with many subsidiaries all over the world.The present important archive shows the astounding and rapid expansion of one of the world's great business enterprises in a field that has now assumed global significance - engineering, communications, wireless telegraphy, communications, electronics. The 28 volumes comprising the Register of Agreements cover company business ranging from the purchasing of patents, patent applications and licences, broadcasting licences, tenancy, land and property agreements and bank and company agreements from the very first day of business on July 22 1897. There are also agreements regarding the construction of telegraph stations, inventions, wireless equipment and hire purchase.Five of the volumes in the archive bear the multiple signatures of Guglielmo Marconi, his brother Alfonso, and those of other directors and secretaries in the Company: Henry W. Allen, W. W. Bradfield, M. A Bramston, S. Geoghegan, Godfrey C. Isaacs, Alfonso Marconi, H. Riall Sankey, Henry S. Saunders, S. St. J. Steadman and Sir Charles J. Stewart.

RMS Titanic. Proceedings before the Right Hon. Lord Mersey, with Rear Admiral the Hon. S. A. Gough Calthorpe, C.V.O., R.N., Captain A. W. Clarke, Commander F. C. A. Lyon R.N.R., Professor J. H. Biles LL.D., D.Sc., Mr. E. C. Chaston on a Formal Investigation ordered by the Board of Trade into the Loss of the S.S. “Titanic.” Transcribed from the Shorthand Notes of W. B. Gurney & Sons, 26 Abingdon Street, Westminster S.W. London, 36 Numbers, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1912, 959 pp., one ownership inscription of Sir Ellis Cunliffe, solicitor to the Board of Trade and numerous ownership inscriptions (he writes 'Marconi' on two occasions) of G. E. Turnbull, Marconi International's deputy manager and a witness at the enquiry; No. 1 blue crayon inscription on first page, large horizontal tears affecting all leaves of text, some edge wear, blue crayon references on first page of Nos. 11, 26, 30 & 31; Nos. 2 & 3 uncorrected proofs, No. 18 final leaf loose, No. 36 small vertical tear to outer margin, bound in 36 original sewn numbers with continuous pagination, slim folioQTY: (36)

RAF Rudloe Manor. 10 Group Intel: D.I.O's log, 1 December 1940 to 1 December 1942, complete manuscript log book, mostly in blue fountain pen, mostly single-line entries with time in the left column and brief note in the right with some code words, a total of approximately 150 leaves, some loose insertions including poetry re: gremlins, operational reports and a typed letter initialled, 'E.F.L.', 18 October 1940, concerning a suspected spy, 4 pp. plus 2 related pages, original S.O. Book 120 cloth-backed ledger, heavily rubbed and slightly soiled, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:RAF Rudloe Manor was located near Bath, between Box and Corsham, in Wiltshire. The operations room was responsible for directing RAF aircraft in the No. 10 Group area which covered South West England and South Wales. No. 10 Group was disbanded in May 1945.

* Smethwick Soap Works. An interesting archive relating to the Smethwick Soap Works and the extensive property transactions of Mrs Harriet Perkins, mostly early 19th century, including accounts books of Henry Perkins from 1801 detailing household and business expenses, various letters and deeds plus a manuscript of lands in Smethwick, surveyed by James Sherriff, 22 October 1810, showing land owned by Mr Villers and Mr Brearly with the road from Smethwick to West Bromwich to the north and Birmingham Canal to the south, plus an engraved plan of Smethwick Soap Works as part of sales particulars, 2 pages, folioQTY: (a carton)

Springfield (Thomas Osborn, 1845-1920). A family archive of hunting logbooks and diaries, etc., 19th & 20th century, including 4 manuscript hunting journals with the Dunston Harriers, North Norfolk, 1898-1908, 3 earlier hunting diaries for 1857-8, 1861-2 and 1875, mentioning the Shotsham Harriers and the Clonmell Harriers, plus T.O. Springfield's personal diaries kept in uniform Lett's diaries, 1870-1916, lacking only 1899, some occasional damp staining, plus a manuscript book with some pharmacy receipts, Springfield's copy of Annals of Norfolk by Charles Mackey, 2 volumes, 1901, half morocco gilt, large 8vo, plus a 'Souvenir and List of Subscribers Presented to Mr T.O. Springfield... on his Retirement from the Dunston Harriers', July 1905, soiled and worn, plus a photograph album compiled by Springfield's son Maurice Osborn Springfield (1885-), gelatin silver prints on rectos and versos of 72 leaves, including hunting and otter hunting scenes, uncaptioned, oblong folio, plus a second empty photograph album with 10 studio photographs relating to Edmund Osborn Springfield (1892-1967) loosely inserted, plus an unrelated album of news cuttings and a group of sundry vellum and paper documents, several relating to Redenhall with Harleston, South NorfolkQTY: (2 cartons)NOTE:Thomas Osborn Springfield was huntsman to the Dunston Harriers, retiring in 1905. His son Maurice led the anti-opium squad in the Shanghai police and wrote a book about hunting in Shanghai. Another son, also by his second marriage, was Edmund, who was the Commissioner at Port Sudan.

* Egypt. An album containing 90 mounted photographs by Arnoux, Zangaki, Bonfils et al., c. 1890s, albumen prints, portraits, scenes and views in Port Said, Cairo, Alexandria, etc., many with credits in the negative, tipped on to rectos and versos of album leaves throughout, numerous splits and tears and most photographs now lifting, images 21 x 28 cm and very similar, contemporary half morocco, some wear, lacks backstrip, oblong folioQTY: (1)

* Egypt. An Album containing 30 photographs of Egypt by Sebah and others, c.1880s, albumen prints, including views and scenes, portraits studies, and Egyptian artifacts, some titled and signed in the negative, images mostly 20 x 26 cm and similar sizes, mounted back to back on stiff card leaves, remaining leaves blank, contemporary half morocco, worn, covers detached, oblong folioQTY: (1)

* Glamour. A group of 5 albums of glamour and pin-up photographs of female nudes, c. 1960s, gelatin silver prints, neatly pasted or corner-mounted into 5 albums, images 28 x 19.5 cm and smaller, many postcard sizes, a total of approximately 120 photographs, contemporary card/cloth, folio/oblong folio, together with a series of 35mm black & white negative strips of further glamour models, 1967, with models identified as Jenny Lane (Jennifer Jacobs), Judith Jackson, Tania Laurence and Nadier Baker (Russian-Belgian - married)QTY: (9)

* Great Britain & Europe. An assorted collection of 15 photograph albums, mostly late 19th century, including topographical views in Britain and Europe, various bindings, some wear, folio/4toQTY: (15)

* Great Britain. An album containing approximately 70 photographs of Great Britain and Europe, c. 1860s/1870s, mostly topographical views of carte-de-visite sizes plus some larger including Oxford colleges interest with some groups, mostly mounted as multiples to album leaf rectos with neat ink captions to mounts, contemporary half morocco, some wear, 4to, together with a later photograph album containing over 200 albumen print and gelatin silver prints, late 19th and early 20th century, mostly British views and scenes including Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames (one view of Kingston High Street during the flood of 1894), numerous smaller-format snapshots and some postcards, mounted singly and mostly as multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves throughout, largely captioned in ink on mounts, contemporary half morocco, worn, folioQTY: (2)

H[ogarth] (TB, R.A.). The Griffinage of the Hon. Newman Strange. An Indian Story, in twenty-one episodes, photographed from the original drawings by J. Hogarth, Jun., London: J. Hogarth, 1862, twenty-one mounted albumen print photographs of drawings, 16 x 22 cm, each with accompanying text leaf, two later inscriptions to half-title, a little finger-soiling throughout, hinges slightly cracked, contemporary cloth, some restoration and new endpapers, oblong folioQTY: (1)

* Holy Land Panoramas. A ten-part panorama of Jerusalem, c. 1920, folding collotype, in original printed wrappers, image 14 x 220 cm, together with 2 similar, larger panoramas of Nazareth and Bethlehem, both c. 1920, the first five parts, 23.5 x 180 cm, the second in four parts, 23.5 x 160 cm, both with printed key loose and present at rear, original printed wrappers, a little soiling and wear, oblong folioQTY: (3)

* India & Middle East. An album containing approximately 76 photographs, c. 1890s, albumen and gelatin silver prints, including images of native officers and members of Sir Robert Sandeman's escort at Kej Mekran, Baluchistan, 2 photographs of the Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, views of Kalat, Suez Canal, Bijapur, Poona, Malta, etc., images 24 x 29 cm and smaller, mounted singly and as multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, many with ink captions to mounts, some spotting and general fading, contemporary half morocco, worn, covers detached, oblong folioQTY: (1)

* India. Souvenir Album Descriptive of the Indian Tour of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, November 1905 to March 1906, Madras: Higginbotham & Co., [1906], numerous collotype plates from photographs by Wiele & Klein, letterpress leaves heavily spotted and very minor worming to lower margins of first few leaves not affecting text, original half roan over cloth, gilt-titled upper cover, rubbed, some loss at head of spine, small oblong folioQTY: (1)

* India. A group of 3 photograph albums of India, c. 1880s/1930s, the first album containing approximately 60 albumen and gelatin silver prints of views and scenes including British and Indian groups, images 22 x 29 cm and smaller, mounted to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with sporadic pencil annotations to mounts, the second album containing over 100 largely uncaptioned gelatin silver print photographs including river scenes with elephants, British residences, etc., mostly mounted to rectos, the third album late 1920s/early 1930s, containing over 200 mounted mostly medium and small-format gelatin silver prints including initially some India interest and 5 platinum prints of the Khyber Pass by R.B. Holmes, some white china ink captions to mounts, various bindings, folio/oblong folio QTY: (3)

* India. An album containing approximately 40 corner-mounted photographs of northern India including the Punjab, c. 1880s, albumen prints, various scenes and views, some captioned in the negatives, 29 x 21 cm and smaller, contemporary half morocco, a little rubbed, folioQTY: (1)

* Italy. A group of 80 photographs of Pompeii, Rome, Naples, c. 1860s, many of sculptures, bronzes and frescoes, 17 x 24 cm and smaller, many carte-de-visite sizes, mounted neatly on rectos of 27 leaves with neat ink captions to mounts, preceded by a further group of albumen prints of Italian artwork, 3 hand-painted lithographs of frescoes from Pompeii (21 x 15 cm) and a gouache of Jupiter and Juno, a Pompeii fresco, 32 x 22 cm, armorial bookplate of Edward Robson Whitwell, contemporary half morocco, worn, folio (41 x 33 cm)QTY: (1)

* Japan. An album containing approximately 170 photographs of Japanese people, c. 1900-1920, including several of Yasushi Ohashi (1910-2004, Japanese baseball player), and other unidentified men and women, mostly in traditional dress, postcard and smaller sizes, mounted as multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves without captions, contemporary boards with cloth spine tie, a little rubbed, oblong small folio, together with a group of approximately 30 studio portraits from Japanese studios, 1920s/1930s, and a negative wallet with many Japanese imagesQTY: (approx. 30)

* Japan. An album containing approximately 78 photographs, late 19th and early 20th century, including 45 colour-tinted albumen print views of temples and scenes, mostly with English credits in the negatives, each approximately 20 x 25.5 cm, mostly tipped in with hinges to corners, many lifting and some tears and creasing throughout the album, plus a large gelatin silver print photograph of a Japanese military group, 27 x 41 cm, an albumen print of members of Divinity School, 21 x 27 cm, and 30 smaller albumen prints and gelatin silver print photographs including Rev. A.E. Webb's Sunday School, Shiba Park, Tokyo, 14 x 22 cm; 8 photographs of Ainu people including 4 albumen print cabinet cards, the other gelatin silver prints of similar size and/or pasted to album leaves, plus other magazine cuttings and printed ephemera tipped in and loose at rear, pencil captions to mounts throughout, contemporary half roan over cloth, worn and covers near detached, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Gertrude J. Woodd of Eastbourne (pencil inscription to front pastedown), with a note that the photographs were sent from Japan by C.H.B. Woodd. A printed flyer tipped in to the album is for a book by Rev. John Batchelor, The Ainu and their Folk-lore, to be published by the Religious Tract Society 25 November 1901 with photographs taken by the author. Some of the photographs of Ainu in this album may be by Batchelor who features in the centre of one group with Ainu converts.