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A Rare Kriegsmarine Signal Book, German, 1940-1944,Signalbuch der Kriegsmarine, Berlin: Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, 1940, Third Reich Naval High Command BOUND WITH Marineliste 1944 (Kriegsliste) zum Signalbuch, Aufgestellt im Juli, 1944. Folio (315 x 240 pp); 117 pp; containing hundreds of hand-coloured signals and flags in text, numerous annotations, manuscript and paper corrections throughout. Laminated tabs in first work; some sections printed on pink paper. Some soiling to tabs of second work, commensurate with use. Original black leather over thick boards with metal studs and corners on both covers, spine title Signalbuch 1940 Nr. 2598. Footnotes:Used widely within the German Kriegsmarine and during WWII, these Codebooks were used aboard submersible boats to communicate with surface vessels and their shore bases. Common phrases can be substituted by a series of number or letter codes which were then transmitted via Morse Code. The present codebook was used aboard an S-212 Schnellboot, a fast attack craft with torpedo-firing capabilities referred to by Western Allies as an E-boat. The accompanying Marineliste is attached to the rest of the book with string, and would have been replaced with updated codes each year from 1940 onwards. The Allies were eventually able to locate E-boats by triangulating their signals, aided by numerous captured codebooks of this kind that would have been studied and used at Bletchley Park.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLOUGH PRESSThe Wakeman family collection of Plough Press books and pamphlets, comprising the near complete output of the Press (seemingly lacking only one pamphlet, 'Law & Ordure 1969. A Squib'), many illustrated with actual specimens of printing, most with prospectuses and other related ephemera inserted or loose in folders, together with correspondence etc., various bindings and sizes, 1968-2017Footnotes:The Plough Press was founded by Geoffrey Wakeman in 1967, the name deriving from a collection of blocks of ploughs brought back from Trinidad by Roderick Cave, and used in the first book issued by the press. 'Wakeman was a noted professor of printing history, author, and printer, and his work on papermaking, color illustration and printing processes, and binding techniques remains a lasting contribution to the study of print culture... The first book printed by the press was Share of Ploughs (1968), consisting of a series of color prints of plows with accompanying verses about plows and plowing. The first major Plough Press publication was XIX Century Illustration (1970). It describes sixteen printing processes with accompanying contemporary specimens. Such leaf books became a regular feature of Plough Press publications, as Wakeman believed the only way to properly study the history of paper and printing was by examining actual specimens' (University of Delaware website). The collection comprises:PLOUGH PRESS PUBLICATIONS BY GEOFFREY WAKEMAN:XIX Century Illustration. Some Methods Used in English books, NUMBER 1 OF 75 COPIES, with 2 original prospectuses and a bidding slip notice from Sotheby's dated June 1975 informing Geoffrey Wakeman of unsuccessful bids at auction, loose as issued in 15 fascicules preserved in linen-backed chemise and slipcase, folio, Loughborough, 1970 The Production of Nineteenth Century Colour Illustration, NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, original cloth-backed textured boards; another copy, NUMBER 17 OF 100 COPIES, red morocco-backed marbled boards (described in prospectus as 'Alternative binding by Gray's of Cambridge to order', additional £10 as opposed to £5 for the cloth binding), both with original prospectus, folio, Loughborough, 1976Plates To Accompany Victorian Book Illustration, NUMBER 1 OF 23 COPIES, with original prospectus slips, original morocco-backed marbled boards, slipcase, folio, Loughborough, 1974Victorian Colour Printing, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, with original prospectus, proof illustrations and other samples in pocket at rear, original morocco-backed marbled boards, small folio, Loughborough, 1981Graphic Methods in Book Illustration, NUMBER 1 OF 120 COPIES, printed on Golding Pearl and Albion hand presses, with prospectus, loose as issued in fascicules preserved in solander box, 4to, Loughborough, 1981English Hand Made Papers Suitable for Bookwork, NUMBER 1 OF 75 COPIES, numerous sample papers bound in, with prospectus and some other samples etc. loosely inserted, original red morocco-backed cloth, folio, Loughborough, 1972A Leaf History of British Printing from 1610 to 1774, NUMBER 1 OF 110 COPIES, tipped-in samples in fascicules, loose with original prospectuses in cloth solander box, folio, Kidlington, 1986; together with a second solander box containing archival material for the work, correspondence, invoices, loose sheets, prospectuses etc.English Marbled Papers. A Documentary History, NUMBER 1 OF 112 COPIES, ONE OF 10 with additional samples and bound in full morocco; another copy, NUMBER 110 OF 112 COPIES, morocco-backed cloth, both with prospectuses, 4to, Loughborough, n.d.The Literature of Letterpress Printing 1849-1900, NUMBER 1 OF 120 COPIES, ONE OF 30 in full morocco gilt and with slipcase; another copy, NUMBER 3 OF 120 COPIES, quarter morocco, both with prospectuses, 4to, Kidlington, 1986[with PAUL WAKEMAN] The Plough Press 1967-1981. Fifteen Years Printing in a Loughborough Garage, NUMBER 1 OF 120 COPIES, illustrations and tipped-in samples, with prospectus, quarter Morocco, 8vo, Kidlington, 1982Printing Relief Illustrations. Kirkall to the Line Block, NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, tipped-in samples, cloth, small 4to, Loughborough, 1977 Bradbuy & Evans Colour Printers, NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, ONE OF 25 in quarter morocco, with 'Books Forthcoming' from The Plough Press loosely inserted, 8vo, Kidlington, 1984Twentieth Century English Vat Paper Mills, NUMBER 1 OF 102 COPIES, with prospectus, additional samples in pocket at end, quarter Morocco, small 4to,Loughborough, 1980Nineteenth Century Trade Binding, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, with samples of binding materials and brass type in a separate folder, but without the decorative tool issued with the first c.45 copies, folder and text in uniform linen within single matching slipcase; another copy, ONE OF 150, unnumbered, with samples as above, both copies with prospectuses, 4to, Kidlington, 1983Loughborough Marble, NUMBER 1 OF 18 COPIES, printed on J. Green & Son's 'Cranmer' paper, comprising 5 samples tipped-in on a single leaf, folding concertina style into cloth folder, 110 x 84mm., [Loughborough], 1971[with GRAHAM POLLARD] Functional Developments in Bookbinding, NUMBER 1 OF 180 COPIES, ONE OF 35 in half morocco over marbled boards, illustrations in pockets at rear, with prospectus; another copy, NUMBER 36 OF 180, bound in linen, 4to, New Castle, Delaware and Kidlington, 1993The Art of Anastatic Printing. Three Mid 19th Century Accounts... introduction by Geoffrey Wakeman, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, comprising introduction, 3 facsimile pamphlets and one plate, loose with 2 prospectuses in quarter buckram folder, 4to, Kidlington, 1986PLOUGH PRESS - OTHER AUTHORS AND EPHEMERA:FRANCES DOCKER [MRS F.M. WAKEMAN] John Paas & James Cook. Provincial Bookbinding in the Eighteen thirties, NUMBER 1 OF 200 COPIES, ONE OF 25 in quarter morocco, with prospectus; another copy, ONE OF 200 COPIES, unnumbered, cloth, Loughborough, 1979ANNE MORRIS. The Private Press in Leicestershire, 2 copies, NUMBER 8 AND 'PRESENTATION COPY' OF 100 COPIES bound in full cloth, limited to 500 copies overall, one with prospectus, 4to, Loughborough, 1976; together with 2 copies of the trade edition, limited to 500 copies, wrappersBARRY MCKAY. Patterns and Pigments in English Marbled Papers, 2 copies, NUMBERS 1 AND 21 OF 160 COPIES, quarter morocco and cloth respectively, 4to, [Printed at the September Press], 1988Anaglyptography... Reprinted... from the Art Exemplar [1859] by William John Stannard, NUMBER 1 OF 200 COPIES, 2 plates, wrappers, 8vo, Loughborough, 1967The Printer, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, letterpress pamphlet, 8pp., printed wrappers, 4to, Kidlington, 1986The Paper Maker. Reprinted from the Book of Trades, NUMBER 1 OF 60 COPIES, with prospectuses, marbled paper wrappers, 8vo, Loughborough, 1971GAVIN BRIDSON and GEOFFREY WAKEMAN. Printmaking & Picture Printing: A Bibliographical Guide, cloth, dust-jacket, 4to Kidlington, 1984; and 2 other copies, one an unbound proof GAVIN BRIDSON and GEOFFREY WAKEMAN. A Guide to Nineteenth Century Colour Printers, cloth, dust-jacket; another copy, interleaved and annotated by GW, with loosely inserted correspondence and related ephemera, quarter cloth, 8vo, [Loughborough, 1975]C.W. WOOLNOUGH. The Whole Art Of Marbling, facsimile reprint of 1881 edition, with marbled paper samples by Katherine Davis of Payhembury, with her business card inserted (asking if the samples were acceptable) and 2 prospectuses, cloth, 8vo, Kidlington, 1985The Art of Making Paper Taken from The Universal Magazine, facsimile reprint by Skelton's Press, limited to 200 copies, with prospectuses, full buckram, 8vo, Loughborough,... 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PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, woodcut printer's device on title-page, double-column text with woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations (2 full-page, one with image shaved), 50 woodcut maps (49 double-page, mounted on guards), with colophon leaves n4 and [2]h6, text with dampstain in upper margins of first few gatherings and some light browning, occasional light foxing and browning to maps (no. 31 more heavily browned), old inscription and stamp erased from title-page, contemporary wallet-style blindstamped sheep, restored and rebacked preserving original backstrip, metal fasteners with silk ties [cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485], folio (400 x 270mm.), Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541Footnotes:The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus, many copies of which are said to have been destroyed on Calvin's orders at the time of the execution of Servetus.The maps are printed from unaltered woodblocks first used in Lorenz Fries's 1522 edition printed by Grüninger (the final map is captioned with this date and Fries's initials), then again in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525, and in the first Trechsel edition printed at Lyon in 1535. These double-page maps of the ancient and modern comprise: 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa, 12 of Asia, World map, New World, 2 further World maps and 19 others (including Britain and further maps of Africa, Asia and Europe, one with a single-page map on verso). The maps featuring the Americas comprise: Tabula terre nova, number 28, with an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus on the verso; Norbegia et Gottia, number 34, showing Greenland as a peninsula of Europe; Tabula nova orbis, number 49, attributed by some to Columbus and known as the 'Admiral's Map', and Tabula totius orbis, number 50, the celebrated new map of the world by Lorenz Fries, the first Ptolomeian map to use the name 'America', on a portion of the South American Continent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AGRICOLA (GIORGIUS)Opera... de l'arte de metalli partita in xii. libri, first Italian edition, translated by Michelangelo Florio, title with woodcut printer's device, numerous woodcut illustrations (some full-page, 2 folding, one of which slightly cropped), colophon leaf and leaf with printer's device at end, mostly light waterstaining and browning, 5 or 6 repairs to margins/blank areas including title and colophon leaf, later vellum, spine with 5 raised bands and titled in manuscript [Hoover 27; cf. Duveen pp.4-5 and Ferguson I, pp.9-11; PMM 79 (first edition)], folio (308 x 208mm.), Basel, Hieronymus Froben et Nicolaus Episcopius, [colophon: 1563]Footnotes:The first edition in Italian of the classic treatise on mining and metallurgy, 'one of the first technological books of modern times' (PMM). The fine woodcuts were the work of Rudolph Manuel Deutsch of Basel, and the volume, dedicated to Elizabeth I, also includes Agricola's De animantibus subterraneis.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay towards the Natural History of England, second edition, folding engraved map, 16 engraved plates, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, Oxford, Charles Brome, 1705--SKELTON (JOSEPH) Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, large paper copy, engraved frontispiece (with 'Subscription copy' printed at head), engraved title, county map and 49 plates, all on india paper, engraved illustrations to text, many plates foxed, nineteenth century half morocco, rubbed, 1823; Pietas oxoniensis, or Records of Oxford Founders, engraved frontispiece and 25 plates, all on india paper, light waterstain at head reaching text and images, occasional light foxing, later buckram, 1828, Oxford, J. Skelton, folio (3)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, John Frederick Head, bookplates; Second work, Henry Drummond of Albury Park, bookplate; Third work, Charles Buckeridge, ownership inscription on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY - RYDAL MOUNTBURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... Eighth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author, FROM WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY, engraved pictorial title-page incorporating a portrait of the author, letterpress 'Argument of the Frontispiece' before title, lacks 5 leaves at end (index, etc.), 2 leaves (pp.315-318) with long tear repaired with thread, fore-margin of pp.399 to end with minor rodent damage touching a few letters on a couple of pages, later boards, crudely rebacked, old lot label 'Lot 143' at foot of spine, worn [ESTC R10536], folio (325 x 200m.), Peter Parker, 1676, sold as an association itemFootnotes:Provenance: 'Bought at Rydal Mount. Westmorland/July 21st 1859', note in a nineteenth century hand on front paste-down, with large initials 'W.W.' in another hand on the half-title.The sale of Wordsworth's Library was undertaken by John Burton of Preston, and took place over three days from 19 to 21 June 1859. Lot 343 was a copy of Robert Burton's Anatomy, 1676, the catalogue description giving a long quote by Dibdin on the work but no information on the binding etc.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHARLES I - PRIVY COUNCILDocument signed by William Laud (Archbishop of Canterbury), John Montague, Earl of Manchester (Lord Privy Seal), Francis Cottingham, Baron Cottingham (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Francis Windebank (Secretary of State and Joint Postmaster General), to the Countess of Nottingham, regarding payment of an annual pension of six hundred pounds for her lifetime, mentioning payments owing and ordering 'Tallies to be strucken from time to time for the payment of said pension', with papered seal, docketed on verso, one page on a bifolium, dust staining particularly to verso where folded and exposed, adhesive marks where previously affixed to album, folio (295 x 205mm.), Whitehall, 8 June 1635Footnotes:Margaret Stewart, Countess of Nottingham (c.1591-1639) was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray. After the Union of 1603 she served as a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Denmark and in September of that year became the second wife of the much older Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624), Lord High Admiral and victor over the Spanish Armada under Elizabeth I. The marriage, seen an allegory of the union of England and Scotland, prompted much chatter among the court, with Anne writing to her husband King James I that it was a match between Mars and Venus. On her marriage she was given Chelsea Place and the annual pension of £600 mentioned here. Her brother was the sailor and patron of Ben Jonson, Sir Frances Stuart, and she married for a second time to the Regicide William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TURING (ALAN)School photograph depicting the boys of Westcott House, Sherborne School, 1930, including Alan Turing (second row, second from right) and his friend Victor Beuttell (third row, far right), with the housemaster Geoffrey O'Hanlon seated centre with his dog, mounted on board, 235 x286mm., Sherborne School, [Summer, 1930]; with autograph letter from Victor Beuttell signed ('With heaps of love/ Viccie') to his parents, reporting on his recent exam results and mentioning Turing several times ('...On the additional maths... I think, and so does Turing that at the least I got passing marks. I didn't like the paper... Chemistry. According to Turing, got 70% an easy credit... Physics... By mistake did 6 questions instead of 5... Even then I got a Pass according to Turing. Not so bad...'), on lined file paper, folio (325 x 210mm.), Westcott House, Sherborne, [no date] (2)Footnotes:Alan Turing attended Sherborne School from 1926-1931 and made an impression the moment he started his school career by cycling the 65 miles to the school from Southampton (where he had arrived from his parents' house in France during the General Strike), via an overnight stop at Blandford Forum, a feat that made the local paper. As his school reports reveal he showed '...considerable promise...' but his masters often complained that he failed to express himself adequately – his physics master Henry Shorland Gervis urged, '...Cambridge will want sound knowledge rather than vague ideas...'. Other influential figures at Sherborne were his mathematics tutors Dr Edwin Davis and Donald Eperson (his letter from Turing sold in these rooms 15 November 2017, lot 103), who instilled in the boys a love of problem solving and puzzles. Turing the schoolboy appears to have been an eccentric character but by no means the reclusive loner as he is sometimes portrayed: '...At Sherborne he became the 'Mathematician-in-ordinary' who would help boys with their homework, and in his penultimate term at Sherborne his housemaster wrote in this school report that 'He takes a fatherly interest in his dormitory, and no doubt imparts his learning and curiosity to them...' (Rachel Hassall, Vivat! Sherborne School magazine). This photograph was taken in July 1930 just six months after the sudden death of Turing's great friend Christopher Morcom - an event, it has been argued, that became the catalyst for his future achievements.One of the boys he helped was Victor Beuttell, son of the British inventor Alfred William Beuttell (see preceding lot), three years his junior, who mentions Turing three times in his letter home. Drawn together by a mutual sympathy (Turing was grieving for Christopher Morcom and Beuttell's mother was terminally ill), they were given special dispensation by the housemaster to spend time together. Victor was '...also one who neither conformed, nor rebelled, but dodged the system...' (Hodges, A., Alan Turing: The Enigma, 2014, p.72), and they bonded over a love of codes and ciphers, inspired by the book Mathematical Recreations and Essays, which Turing had chosen as his Christopher Morcom Prize, awarded in 1930. He was obliged to leave the school in the same year as Turing after his father suffered financial losses and having failed the School Certificate, '...telling Alan that it was because of too much time spent on chess and codes...' (Hodges, p.88) but they remained close. Victor was the one lasting friendship Turing retained from his time at Sherborne. Turing stayed with the family regularly and helped Victor's father Alfred with his work on lighting, with Victor in turn visiting Turing in Cambridge. Their last meeting was in 1943 when they met for lunch in London, but kept in touch for the remainder of Turing's life. Indeed, according to Victor's son, they spoke on the telephone just the night before he died in June 1954.Provenance: Victor Beuttell (1915-1993); and thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

EDWARD VIDocument bearing the King's stamped signature ['Edward'] at head and headed 'By the King', addressed to the Mayor and Sheriffs of the County of Chester, stating that a writ [not present] is being forwarded to them, that the seal should not be broken until the 'sixth daye of this moneth' and giving orders about carrying out the instructions therein ('...And upon your uttermost perill not to disclose to any maner person neither directly not indirectly the teno[ur] of the same writte...'), countersigned by seven Privy Councillors; Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (the King's uncle and former Lord Protector), Sir Richard Rich (Lord Chancellor), John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and later Duke of Northumberland (Lord President of the Council), William, Lord Paget (Comptroller of the King's Household), Thomas, Lord Darcy, Sir William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke (brother-in-law to Henry VIII) and John Gates (Vice Chamberlain), address panel and docket on verso, faint remains of paper seal, one page, some dust staining and other marks, repaired, oblong folio (210 x 314mm.), Westminster, 7 July [1551]Footnotes:'UPON YOUR UTTERMOST PERILL NOT TO DISCLOSE TO ANY MANER PERSON... THE TENOUR OF THE SAME WRITTE': EDWARD VI ORDERS THE DEBASEMENT OF THE COINAGE.These specific instructions, signed by three of the most powerful men in the land at this time (Somerset, Warwick and Rich), would appear to refer to a writ ordering the debasement of the coinage, whereby the value of the teston, or shilling, was reduced to 9d and the groat to 3d. This writ directed at the Sheriffs of Counties is recorded both in the Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1547-1580, 1856 (no.29, p.33) and the revised Calendar... Edward VI, 1992 (no.528, p.197). A further proclamation a month later reduced the value further. This would have been an unpopular policy, hence the need for secrecy until the county authorities had time to prepare for any possible unrest. The coinage was debased for the first time in around 400 years by Henry VIII and the practice was revoked in October 1551, just a few months after these instructions. Several copies of this document would have been issued for distribution to the various counties, hence the use of the Royal stamp to save the thirteen-year-old King time and effort. Amongst the signatures of the Privy Councillors is that of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and former Lord Protector, once the most powerful man in England, who signs here in the last months of his illustrious career. In February 1551 it was said he quarrelled with Warwick and rumour suggested he wished to regain his former power, but lack of support meant that by the summer he had abandoned any ambitions he might have. However, Warwick and his friends still saw him as a threat and caused him to be arrested for high treason and executed in October 1551. Warwick himself was executed in 1553 after his attempt to declare Lady Jane Grey as Queen on Edward's death.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HENRY VIIILetter signed and subscribed ('Vester bonus amicus Henry R') to Antoniotto Adorno, Duke of Genoa, in Latin, noting that he has heard of his longstanding goodwill and friendship through letters from his trusted and 'assiduous' secretary Richard Pace, that he has learnt '...from the Reverend Lord Cardinal of York [Thomas Wolsey], our intimate in everything, and from Master Bryan Tuke, our dear secretary and councillor, how greatly your Excellency has decided to support our understanding of what is fair to our secretary in his recovery of the taxes on woollen goods, and in the matter which we have often commended from our heart. In the hope of which, and confident of [your] goodwill, he freely requests the favour of submitting the whole question to be judged and decided by your Excellency...', ending by urging a successful outcome of the negotiations, papered seal, countersigned by the King's Latin secretary Peter Vannes ('Petrus vannes') at foot, docket at head ('1524. 14. July'), address panel on verso with date ('1514 14 Luglio') and endorsement in Italian, one page, dust staining particularly where folded and exposed, a few tears along folds and pinholes at joints, folio (392 x 340mm.), London, 14 July 1524Footnotes:'THE MATTER WHICH WE HAVE OFTEN COMMENDED FROM OUR HEART': Whilst ostensibly encouraging negotiations on the woollen trade, Henry's motive for writing this letter may well have been connected to the first, secret peace-making visit to England of the Genoese born French ambassador Giovanni Gioachino da Passano in June 1524. The previous year, Henry had allied with Emperor Charles V and Charles Duke of Bourbon in an unsuccessful attack on France. Bourbon retreated to Genoa where Henry's secretary Richard Pace (c.1482-1536) mentioned here, had persuaded him to attempt to make plans for another attack on France, despite Henry himself losing interest in the scheme. At the same time, Wolsey, Archbishop of York, appealed to the Pope to ask the French to send a peacemaker to England. Passano is supposed to have been an envoy from Louise of Savoy, the French Queen mother, but this letter implies that the Genoese government, allies of the Bourbons, were also parties to the peace-making move. As well as specifically mentioning 'the recovery of taxes on woollen goods', the following phrase 'and in the matter which we have often commented from our heart' would seem to allude to more secret matters which the King could not express in writing. The letter additionally mentions Brian Tuke, the King's French secretary (and Wolsey's former secretary). It is written in the fine italic hand of the King's Latin secretary Peter Vannes and bears his signature at the foot.Antoniotto II Adorno (c.1479-1528), an illustrious member of a distinguished Genoese family, held the post of Doge of the Republic of Genoa from 1522 to 1527, the last of the Genoese Doges to be elected for life.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HENRI IV OF FRANCEOrder signed ('Henry'), to the treasurer of the exchequer M. Estienne, in French, paying Seigneur de la Fontaine '...resident for our service in England the sum of one thousand ecus...' both for his services and his travel expenses whilst in the country, countersigned by the foreign minister ('Neufville'), incomplete docket on verso, on vellum, cut diagonally lower right with some loss to docket, staining, some discolouration to verso, two small holes, vertical fold, folio (222 x 315mm. at widest point), Fontainebleau, 2 June 1601Footnotes:PAYMENT IS MADE TO THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN LONDON. Robert de Maçon, Seigneur de la Fontaine (1534/5-1611), a prominent Huguenot, had fled to London after the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572. He became the French King's unofficial ambassador to England and a key diplomat in the coordination of the Anglo-French alliance against Spain in the 1590's. That Henri kept no official resident ambassador in London was a matter of great annoyance to the Queen: on 11 October 1597 he attended an audience with Elizabeth at Richmond, prompting Cobham to write the following day to Sir Robert Cecil: 'La Fontaine came yesterday from the Queen greatly discontented, as he conceives the Queen disdaineth his employment to her from the King; and he assureth me oftentimes she did repeat unto him the scorn that the King offered unto her in not having an ambassador resident here. The poor man is much perplexed and will procure his discharge with as much speed as he may' (The Elizabethan Court Day by Day, folgerpedia website). He cultivated a wide circle of trust and influence on all sides and was one of the few French negotiators who took part in drawing up the treaty of Greenwich in 1596. After the peace with Spain in 1598, he retired from active diplomacy but remained an important link between the French Huguenots and the English church. He was a minister of the French church in London's Threadneedle Street and the author of several books of instruction (Charles C.D. Littleton, ODNB). Nicolas de Neufville (1543-1617), the countersignatory of our document, held the powerful position of Secretary of State under four French Kings from Charles IX to Louis XIII and has been called 'the most distinguished of all sixteenth-century French secretaries'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TWEEDIE (WILLIAM)The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 26 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES printed on hand-made paper, half-title, 7 chromolithographed plates of horses, 30 other plates and illustrations (mostly on India proof paper), large folding colour-printed map ('country of the Arabian Horse') loose as issued in pocket at end, occasional light spotting, publisher's green half morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-stamped with a picture of an Arab horse, spine with pictorial design of a palm oasis, g.e., some mildew to side-panels, a few scuffmarks [Podeschi 258], folio (345 x 260mm.), Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1894Footnotes:LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES of a classic work devoted to the Arabian horse. Major Tweedie was for many years Consul-General at Baghdad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia, but had begun his study of Arab horses whilst serving with the British army in India, where Arab horses were highly prized as gifts amongst the native and colonial rulers.Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GEORGE IA Ceremonial for the Reception of His Most Sacred Majesty George... upon his Arrival from Holland to his Kingdom of Great Britain, drop-head title, stamp in purple ink 'G.A.J./ Sep 1886', unbound, creased at folds, edges frayed [ESTC T162870], folio (350 x 220mm.), Edinburgh, Robert Freebairn, 1714This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)Liber chronicarum, FIRST EDITION, 325 leaves (of 326, without final blank), 65 lines plus headline, gothic letter, woodcut title, approximately 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, comprising 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of the World [Shirley 19] and of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs, washed, title laid down, a handful of stains, a very few leaves shaved touching headline, occasional repaired tears at edges, reaching into text on 6 leaves, fol. 101 repaired at head of gutter with loss to a couple of words and border of illustration, fol. 129-130 mounted on guard, fol. 291 and 296 repaired at blank lower fore-corners, Europe map shaved at fore-edges and with cleanly-repaired tear lower left, sixteenth century blindstamped vellum, rubbed, one corner repaired, new endpapers [ISTC is00307000], folio (410 x 285mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493Footnotes:The Nuremberg Chronicle, a pictorial history of the world, is the most lavishly illustrated book of the incunable era. The twenty-nine large double-page city views, many illustrated for the first time, are accurate in depicting particular distinguished features of each city. In addition it includes many details of fifteenth-century daily life: carpenters with their tools, astronomers and their instruments, archers, bridges, derricks, dishes, furniture, windmills, ships, beds, houses, fortifications, weapons, tents, wharves, ferries, books, drawing materials, dogs, horses, and other animals, as well as costumes. Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle epitomizes 'the commercial sophistication, economic power and technical virtuosity that brought the art of print to this extraordinary climax' (Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, New Haven, 2011 p.42).Provenance: 'Joannis Baptista Gadii militis', ownership inscription on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CANADA – GEORGE IIIManuscript declaration headed 'The Humble Address of the Lieutenant Governor, Council and House of Assembly of Your Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia' to 'The Kings Most Excellent Majesty', congratulating him on the birth of '...the Prince Royal and Heir Apparent to Your Majesty's Dominions... an event so important and interesting to the liberties of mankind...', signed by Jonathan Belcher (Lieutenant Governor), John Collier (Speaker for the Council) and William Nesbitt (Speaker for the Assembly), dated and amended in another hand, docketed on verso, one page on a bifolium, some creases, small tears, dust staining and other marks, particularly on verso where folded and exposed, folio (312 x 202mm.), Halifax, 28 April 1763Footnotes:'AN EVENT SO IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING TO THE LIBERTIES OF MANKIND': Congratulations from the British colony of Nova Scotia on the birth of the future George IV. Within the space of a few months, George III had not only gained an heir to the throne but had also gained French colonial possessions in North America through the Treaty of Paris of February 1763, which formally ended the conflict between the two countries. Later in the year the Royal Proclamation forbade all settlement westwards, something which would lead to significant disputes between Britain and the colonies and thereby sowing the seeds of the American Revolution. The 'Prince Royal' was born on 12 August 1762 so it had taken some time for the news to reach Nova Scotia and for the legislature to issue their congratulations, just four months before the birth of the King's second son, Frederick Duke of York, in August 1763. Nova Scotia retained it's loyalty to the crown throughout the revolution and became a haven for loyalist settlers. The document is signed from the recently-created capital Halifax by the Lieutenant Governor Jonathan Belcher (1710-1776), son of the eponymous Governor of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Jersey. The first formally-trained law officer in Nova Scotia, he established the Supreme Court, promoted an English-style legal system and is credited with having drafted the laws passed by Nova Scotia's first and subsequent legislators. Belcher held the post of Governor from November 1761 until September 1763. 'Modern-day Nova Scotia owes much to this competent, proficient 'Chief of the North,' the founder of its legal system and father of its tradition of representative government' (belcherfoundation.org).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL)1577. The Firste [-Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, volume 1 lacking errata leaf r1, volume 2 with title, inserted leaf foliated 1593, map of Edinburgh, and final 4 leaves supplied in facsimile, side-notes and a few catchwords trimmed, nineteenth century diced calf, rebacked, rubbed [ESTC S121346; Pforzheimer 494], folio (275 x 185mm.), Imprinted [by Henry Bynneman] for John Harrison, [1577]Footnotes:Provenance: William, Thomas and Walter Hawes, early ownership inscriptions near end of volume 2; Silvanus Chirm, Kentish Town, stamped ownership mark on flyleaves dated 1785; George Wilbraham (1779-1852), bookplates. Silvanus Chirm was a bookseller who 'made an attempt to replace 'the deceitful Practice of stabbed Bindings' with books sewn on bands' (N. Pickwoad, 'Bookbinding in the eighteenth century,' Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 5. 1695–1830, p.287).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[CHIPPENDALE (THOMAS)The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture], 77 engraved plates only (comprising nos. 2-11, 13-15, 17, 19-25, 25bis, 28-77, 79-81, 83-85), the first and last defective, 7 damp stained, some spotting, lacks title and preliminaries, disbound, folio (455 x 290mm.), [c.1754]--[DARLY (MATTHIAS) The Ornamental Architect, or Young Artists Instructor... Publish'd by Matthias Darly], engraved dedication leaf addressed to 'the artists, manufacturers & mechanics of Great Britain & Ireland', index leaf, and 96 engraved plates (of 99, lacking nos. 99-100 and 102), 2 additional ?eighteenth century pen, watercolour and grey wash designs for pine cone ornaments (c.120 x 120mm.) tipped-in, lacks title and frontispiece, light dampstain in upper fore-corner of plates 14-19, small loss to fore-edge of plates 90 to end (touching imprint of plates 92-94 and 98, final 4 strengthened at margins on verso), occasional spotting, modern cloth [cf. ESTC T135950, citing 3 copies only; Harris 188 or 189], folio (415 x 260mm.), [?Robert Sayer, 1771] (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ELIZABETH IWarrant signed ('Elizabeth R') at head and headed 'By the Queene', to Valentyne Browne, Treasurer of Berwick, appointing William Drury to succeed Sir Thomas Dacre as Marshall of '...our Towne and garrison of Barwick...', and ordering the payment of one hundred pounds, requesting '...we be not dubble charged with the payment of ye wages of Sir Thomas Dacre and his Retynew above eight days or tenne at the most...', with three manuscript insertions in another neat italic scribal hand, integral address panel on verso ('To our Trusty and Wellbelovid Valentyne Browne esquire Treasorer of our Towne of Berwick or to any of his deputies'), with dockets, one page on a bifolium, dust staining and small pin holes at folds, oblong folio (210 x 260mm.) Windsor Castle, 21 February 1564Footnotes:'FOR SEEING IT UPON THE ARRIVAL OF HIM THITHER, WE BE NOT DUBBLE CHARGED': Queen Elizabeth replaces a catholic with a protestant in a key strategic post and keeps a tight rein on the finances.Berwick was the so-called 'listening post' for Scottish affairs, ideally placed for keeping the Queen and her council informed about developments across the border. Here she replaces the catholic Thomas Dacre (d.1565), who had served Queen Mary, with the staunch protestant and loyal servant to Henry VIII and Edward VI, Sir William Drury (1527-1579). Dacre had held the post since 1561 but '...His sojourn there was unhappy and he complained bitterly of arrears of payment. Described as 'old and weak' in June 1563... he was probably glad to be replaced on 26 February 1564...' (Henry Summerson, ODNB). Drury remained at Berwick until 1576 during which time he found himself in the thick of tensions in the borders – responsible for the region's security, he acted as special ambassador during the quelling of the northern uprising in 1569-70, escaped two assassination attempts, took part in punitive border raids, and headed the army that brought the siege of Edinburgh to a close (see Sean Kelsey, ODNB). His reports to Cecil on Scottish affairs are among the most important state documents of the period.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ELIZABETH I - PRIVY COUNCIL – LOW COUNTRIESLetter signed by five members of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, William Cecil, Lord Burghley (Lord High Treasurer), Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham (Lord High Admiral), Sir Thomas Bromley (Lord Chancellor), Sir Francis Knollys (Treasurer of the Royal Household) and Sir Christopher Hatton, to Sir Julius Caesar 'Judge of the Admiralty' asking for the assistance of John Awbrey, Mr Firthe & Mr Hamond to set out the Admiralty Court's views on the validity of placartes [edicts] made by the Dutch Estates, with later additional note ('Sir Tho Bromley Lord Chr/ died 1589 & succeeded/ by Sir Christopher Hatton'), integral address panel ('To our very loving friend/ Mr Doctor Cesar Judge/ of her Majesty's courte of the/ Admiralty'), ?seventeenth century docket on reverse ('28 December 1585/ My Lords of the Counsell/ to consider and make/ report of our opinions/ concerning the validity/ of the placart made/ by the Estates'), one page on a bifolium, lower portion of address leaf excised, dust staining, foxing and other marks, remains of guard, professionally repaired, folio (350 x 212mm.), Greenwich, 28 December 1585Footnotes:'SINCE THE DOUBT GROWETH APPACE THE PLACARTES GRANTED BY THE ESTATES – WE PRAY YOU TO CONSIDER OF THEIR VALIDITY': ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN THE NEW DUTCH REPUBLIC.This request from the Privy Council came at a period of temporary English influence in the politics of the United Provinces, which had formally declared their independence from Spanish rule in 1581, and at the very moment in December 1585 when Elizabeth's favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was offered the post of governor-general. Elizabeth had signed the Treaty of Nonsuch in August 1585, the first international treaty signed by the new Dutch republic, agreeing to supply soldiers and cavalry (led by Dudley) to attempt to lift the siege of Antwerp and in return receive the right to appoint two councillors to the Council of State of the United Provinces. Three of our signatories, Burleigh, Hatton and Howard had played prominent roles in the negotiation of this treaty.Robert Dudley had arrived at Flushing on 9 December, was delayed by fog, and finally arrived in The Hague on 20 December, whereupon he was greeted with great ceremony and the offer from the States General to accept the appointment of governor-general: '...It has been claimed that the grand reception he received went to his head, but the disputes over his role before he left England suggest that there was more design to it. The main justification [for accepting the role] was the belief held widely in both England and the Netherlands that the main weakness of Dutch government was the lack of a central authority...' (Simon Adams, ODNB). That the Privy Council is seeking the view of the Admiralty Courts on the validity of placartes (or decrees) issued by the new States General reflects this concern about the fragmented organisation of the Estates, particularly when the Dutch, free of Spanish rule, were turning more towards their mercantile interests.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

POTOCKI (JOSEPH)Sport in Somaliland, Being an Account of a Hunting Trip in that Region, NUMBER 186 OF 200 COPIES signed by the publisher, translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, 18 photogravure plates (6 double-page), large folding colour-printed map, numerous coloured illustrations in the text, tissue guards, frontispiece loose, one leaf of text (pp.69/70) re-inserted on stub, occasional light spotting, publisher's pictorial white cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., a few small marks but generally clean, folio (390 x 300mm.), Rowland Ward, 1900Footnotes:'One of the rarest of all African big game hunting books' (Czech), recording a hunting trip undertaken by Count Potocki (1862-1922) to the Haud and Ogaden regions of Somaliland in 1895.Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, bookplateThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JAMES IIDocument confirming John Hough as prebend to the cathedral church of Worcester, in Latin, elaborate foliate design on initial letter, contemporary docket 'A Donation of a prebend to the Cathedral Church of Worcester to John Hough, Mtre of Arts', signed 'Eddowes'; with complete Great Seal in brown wax affixed by a vellum tag (diameter 150mm.), on one skin of vellum, some dust staining particularly on verso, oblong folio (265 x 360mm.) Westminster, 4 March 1687/8Footnotes:Bearing a good impression of James II's Great Seal (which was supposedly thrown into the Thames on his flight in 1688), this document dates from the most controversial period of the life of John Hough (1651-1743), who was given the prebendary of Worcester in 1686 and became Bishop in 1717. He is most remembered for the political storm surrounding his election to the presidency of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1686, against the wishes of James II who wished to appoint a catholic to the post. After the furore 'Hough remained in London... during the winter of 1687–8 but, having the reputation of being 'a centre of correspondence' with 'disaffected' notables thought it more discreet to retire to Worcester, where he remained undisturbed in his prebend and where he preached in June 1688'. (Julian Lock, ODNB). He also held the Bishoprics of Oxford, Litchfield and Coventry and was generous benefactor in ensuring the upkeep of church buildings. Hough was buried in the cathedral in Worcester where he is commemorated by a fine monument by Roubiliac, his first major commission in England. The document also makes mention of Barnabus Oley, MA, who was made prebendary of the cathedral in 1660.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SOUTH SEA BUBBLEHet Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, FIRST EDITION, title page in red and black (in second state), 76 engraved plates (most folding), printed on various paper stocks, comprising Muller nos. 1-45 (one of the 4 parts of Muller 26 missing and replaced with a non-listed alternative), 47-70, 72-73, plus Muller supplementary numbers 2-4 and 7, with additional state of Muller 65, 8-page manuscript satirical poem in Dutch on rear fly-leaves, text lightly browned, a handful of small wormholes or trails at extremities just touching one letter of one plate, contemporary half vellum, rubbed, inner hinges cracked [Goldsmiths 5879; Kress 3211], folio (385 x 245mm.), [Netherlands], 1720Footnotes:First edition of The Great Mirror of Folly. 'Of the volume's significance in economic literature there can be no doubt.... In neither [England nor France] did there appear such a stout and extravagant piece as this Dutch volume. Constituted of folio size, its bulk is made up largely of satirical plates.... No two specimens, even of approximately the same actual issue date, are exactly the same' (Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly... an Economic-Bibliographical Study, 1949). Prints include portrait of John and Mrs Law, broadsides featuring images and poems, 'Missisippi of 't wydbefaamde Goudland' ('Mississippi, or the world-famous Goldland'), a fanciful map of Louisiana, and 3 sheets of playing cards.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories, 7 vol., fourth octavo edition, 500 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards (a few missing), some spotting throughout (mostly to text), light dampstain in lower fore-corner of a few opening leaves to volumes 2, 3 and 7, pp.71/72 text leaf in volume 1 with blank upper corner torn away, original blind-stamped brown morocco, lettered 'Bird of America' on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spines, g.e., some rubbing and abrasions, the spine of volume 6 heavily stained, large 8vo (268 x 170mm.), New York, V.G. Audubon, 1860Footnotes:The relatively rare fourth octavo edition differs from the first octavo edition of 1840-1844: 'The plain backgrounds of the original 8vo are replaced by tinted ones; those which were tinted are altered in tone or some minor detail. Many of the elaborate scenic backgrounds of the original folio, which were modified or eliminated in the first 8vo, have been replaced and in some cases the size of the figures has been altered in consequence' (Ayer/Zimmer). The text was reset from the first octavo edition, reduced down to five volumes with the intention of accompanying the 1860 large folio edition being prepared by Julius Bien.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FRINK (ELIZABETH, ILLUSTRATOR)Aesop's Fables, NUMBER 173 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED ON THE COLOPHON, WITH 4 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS SIGNED BY FRINK, and 46 illustrations by Frink, many full-page, uncut, original orange and yellow crushed morocco gilt by Mansell, slipcase, oblong folio (270 x 370mm.), Curwen Press, 1968This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SEUTTER (GEORG MATTHAUS)Atlas novus sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia, regna et provincias exhibentes..., engraved allegorical title-page by M.G. Grophius after J.C. Weiserman, 50 double-page engraved maps coloured in a contemporary hand, some decorated with allegorical scenes, some general finger-soiling and light staining (mainly towards lower edges/corners, as a result of page-turning, slightly affecting some maps), a few small old paper repairs in margins, contemporary wallet-style limp calf, lettered in blind ('Atlas. Novus. A.L. Mapp.') on upper cover, one leather strap intact, the other loosely inserted, spine and foot of flap restored [Phillips II, 593], folio (550 x 315mm.), Augsburg, Matthaus Seutter, [c.1740]Footnotes:A nice example of Seutter's world atlas in the original wallet-style binding. The maps include the twin-hemisphere World and 'Planispharium coeleste' maps, three of the Americas (including 'Novus orbis sive America meridionalis et septentrionalis'), Asia, and Africa. Seutter was apprenticed to J. B. Homann in 1687 in Nuremberg, then worked as an engraver for the publisher J. Wolff in Augsburg, before setting up his own map and globe business in the same city. Copies of the atlas were issued with very varying numbers of maps.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHARLES IIWarrant signed ('Charles R') at head, appointing Horatio, Lord Townshend, as Colonel of a Regiment of Foot consisting of ten companies each of 100 men, countersigned by 'Arlington', papered seal impressed with the King's coat of arms, on vellum, creased at folds, row of pin holes to vertical edges, some discolouration on verso where folded and exposed but otherwise in fine, fresh condition, folio (260 x 305mm), Whitehall, 13 June 1667Footnotes:'A gentleman of the greatest interest and credit' (according to Clarendon), Horatio Townshend, later 1st Viscount Townshend (1630-1687) of Raynham Hall in Norfolk sat briefly in the protectorate parliament but '...seems to have been ready to raise the county in 1659 if there was a successful royalist landing nearby... and was one of the twelve representatives from the Commons sent to escort Charles II from Breda...' (Stuart Handley, ODNB). Prior to that honour, he had also been arrested for attempting to seize King's Lynn for the crown. He held several local offices including Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk between 1660 and 1676, and in 1667, the date of our document, received a letter of thanks from the King for his services with the militia during the Second Anglo-Dutch war when the east coast of England was threatened with invasion. Townshend's regiment was one of twenty-two raised between 1665 and 1672 but few saw service in what were essentially naval battles and all were disbanded by 1674.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DE WIT (FREDERICK)Atlas, engraved title-page depicting Atlas on top of the World and 103 double-page engraved maps COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, most with decorative cartouches, ships and monsters in sea areas, letterpress index on verso of title listing 100 maps, light browning and foxing to some maps, a few old stains and creases, several maps slit at foot of central fold, a few tears and repairs, mostly short and in lower margins, original vellum with blindstamped central globe device surrounded by arabesque tooling, stained and worn at extremities [cf. Koeman Wit 9], folio (540 x 335mm.), Amsterdam, Frederick de Wit, [c.1688]Footnotes:A VERY GOOD COPY OF DE WIT'S ATLAS WITH BRIGHT CONTEMPORARY COLOURING.The fine and attractive double hemisphere world map, Nova orbis tabula, in Lucem edita, was first published in 1670 as a companion to De Wit's maritime map of 1668. Described by Shirley as 'one of the most attractive of its time', the map contains finely engraved and coloured allegorical vignettes depicting the four seasons, the elements and signs of the zodiac. Ours map corresponds to Shirley 451, state 2, with cherubs placed in the cusps and a border added.The map of the Americas, Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio, dating to around 1675 and replacing De Wit's earlier one of 1660, is notable for its inclusion of the five Great Lakes, which appear for the first time on a Dutch map. Burden has identified 9 states of the map, ours being placed somewhere between the second and fourth, with longitudinal numbers to the 10s, the Canaries re-engraved, no ships, and without the later additions in the Pacific.The number of maps and compilation of the atlas corresponds to Koeman Wit 9, but with the addition of a map of Prussia. In addition to the World map, there are: 4 maps of the Continents, 5 of Asia (2 Middle East and Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, Palestine) and 91 European area maps including Germany (20), Italy (10, Sicily with inset town views), Low Countries (18), Spain/Portugal (7), Greece, the Pelopennese (fine folding map with inset town views), Crete, Malta, Cyprus etc.Provenance: Franz Maximilian Hartmann von Klarstein (1662-1725), ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper and at head of engraved title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PAPERMAKINGFrances Wakeman's working library of books, writings and research notes on papermaking, including: CLAPPERTON (R.H.) Paper. An Historical Account of its Making by Hand, NUMBER 17 OF 50 COPIES specially printed by John Dickinson, plates and illustrations, publisher's brown linen with gilt leather title labels, folio, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1934--CAVE (RODERICK) Chinese Ceremonial Papers, number 116 of 200 copies, half-title 'Inscribed for Frances Wakeman in affection/ Roderick Cave', tipped-in samples, many colour, some with gold printing, one folding sheet in pocket at end, original half cloth, with another sample loose in card folder, together in slipcase, folio, Whittington Press, 2002--BAYLDON (OLIVER) The Paper Makers Craft... illustrations by Graham Rigby, number 336 of 'less than 400 copies' on hand-made paper signed by John Mason, original gilt-stamped boards, 4to, Leicester, printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press, 1965--Early American Papermaking: Two Treatises... introduction by John Bidwell, number 11 of 180 copies, being one of 35 with an original specimen in pocket, inscribed by John Bidwell to Frances Wakeman, 1992, publisher's quarter cloth, laid into original fitted larger solander box, 8vo, New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Books, 1990--[ELLIS (R.W.)] Handmade Paper Its Method of Manufacture. As Described in the Novel 'Storm in a Teacup' by Eden Phillpotts, limited edition, original wrappers, 8vo, New York, Japan Paper Company, 1932--MILANO FU FILIPPO (NICOLA) Della fabbricazione della carta in Amalfi, limited edition, full-page illustrations, publisher's printed wrappers, unopened, tears to spine, 4to, Amalfi, Stamperia De Luca, 1965--LE CLERT (LOUIS) Le Papier. Recherches et notes pour servir à l'histoire du papier... depuis le quatorzième siècle, 2 vol., limited to 711 copies, this unnumbered, plates, some colour, publisher's quarter roan, backstrips defective, folio, Paris, à l'enseigne du Pégase, 1926; together with a large sheet of 1825 Papeterie Johannot paper, with a Charles X of France medallion portrait watermark, a large framed woodcut by Fritz Eberhardt, 'Wasps making Paper' (note stating title and presentation are under mat), and a quantity of other books on paper, papermaking and papermills, together with loose issues of The Paper Maker, pamphlets, research materials, correspondence and numerous paper samples in folders and small boxes (large quantity)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO)De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by J.J. Sedelmayr after A.D. Bertoli, title printed in red and black with a vignette map of Vienna engraved by J.C. Winkler, 43 engraved folding plates, engraved illustrations (7 full-page), one engraved initial by Winkler, woodcut initials and head-pieces, with final errata and instructions to the binder in Latin and German leaf, some mold stains in blank upper margins, with the first few leaves restored, modern calf preserving some sections of original backstrip, red edges [Kenney, Catalogue of the Rare Astronomical Books in the San Diego State University Library, 115; Poggendorff II, 53; Riccardi II, 119, 'Bellissima ediz.'], Folio (346 x 245mm.), Vienna, Leopoldus Joannes Kaliwoda, 1745Footnotes:First edition of 'one of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed' (Kenney), describing and illustrating the astronomical instruments in the private Viennese observatory of G.J. Marinoni, mathematician and astronomer to the Imperial Court of Austria and geodetic surveyor. The observatory was one of the most beautiful and best equipped in Europe, and the instruments illustrated here include quadrants, telescopes, micrometers, an improved Graham pendulum, and a camera obscura.This copy is complete with the errata/instructions to the binder leaf at the end (Riccardi mistakenly calls for 2 leaves rather than pages, leading to some copies being described as lacking the second errata leaf).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALKER (JOHN & CHARLES)The British Atlas Comprising Separate Maps of Every County in England, each Riding in Yorkshire and North and South Wales, engraved title, 47 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, title creased, Cheshire very slightly bumped at fore-edge, contemporary cloth, rubbed, upper cover detached [Chubb CCCCLXXII], folio (415 x 340mm.), Longman, 1837This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLUTARCHVitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, title printed in red and black with large device, 78 woodcut illustrations, extensive early ink annotations throughout (marginal notes, underling and paragraph marks, pointing hands, full-page index of names on blank verso final leaf of printed text), without final blank, title strengthened with old paper at upper margin, worming in upper gutter margin of approximately 30 leaves, a small single worm hole touching a few letters (mostly side-notes) of fol. 26-41 and fol.354-360, fol.348 to end with some dampstains and 2 leaves heavily browned, final leaf (fol. 360) repaired with old paper at fore-margin resulting in small loss of side-notes, publisher's device at end, later stiff boards, rebacked in vellum, soiled, folio (310 x 215mm.), [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516]Footnotes:The most illustrated early Italian edition of Plutarch's 'Lives'. The woodcuts depict episodes from Greek and Roman history, and mythological scenes, and appear for the first time in this edition.Provenance: 'Canoniens Laurentius Troja[-], 1819', inscription on title, with earlier inscription obscured in upper margin.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE)Game Birds and Shooting-sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties Which Occur Amongst Them, half-title, frontispiece, chromolithographed plates after the author, some dampstaining to margins, contemporary red half morocco gilt, g.e., sides dampstained with cloth lifting, 1892; British Deer and Their Horns, photogravure plates, illustrations, some leaves working loose, publisher's pictorial cloth, soiled with damp spots on upper cover, 1897, folio, Henry Sotheran; The Wildfowler in Scotland, photogravure frontispiece, plates, publisher's parchment over boards, dust-jacket (short tears and losses), 4to, Longmans, 1901, FIRST EDITIONS (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ELIZABETH I - PRIVY COUNCIL & WALSINGHAMDocument signed by eight members of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Chancellor), Sir Francis Walsingham (First Secretary of State), Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln (Lord High Admiral), Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex (Lord President of the North), Sir Francis Knollys (Treasurer of the Royal Household), Sir James Croft (Controller of the Royal household), Sir Christopher Hatton (Vice Chamberlain of the Royal Household), Dr Thomas Wylson (Second Secretary of State), to the Treasurer and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, authorising payment to Robert Constable, Marshall of Berwick, the sum of one hundred marks '...for sending of divers packettes of letters both from Barwicke to her Majesty's Agentes for the time being in Scotlande, and also for them hither unto us...', one page, dust staining, foxing and other marks, old repair to verso reusing paper from another document, remains of guard, folio (310 x 210mm.), Richmond, 9 November 1578Footnotes:'THE SENDING OF DIVERS PACKETTES OF LETTERS': WALSINGHAM APPROVES PAYMENT FOR HIS AGENTS IN SCOTLAND.The strategic position of the town of Berwick was critical to the success of the English presence in the Border regions. Here the Privy Council orders payment for carrying 'divers packettes of letters' to and from the Queen's agents in Scotland, Walsingham's 'intelligencers' and part of a spy network that stretched across Europe.Walsingham's friend Robert Constable replaced Sir William Drury (see lot 55) as Marshall of Berwick in 1575, and at once experienced problems with receiving payments from London both for himself and the garrison. A year later he requested to be relieved of his office but stayed after the Queen resolved to send a new treasurer to the town. Suffering from ill health and injuries sustained in a riding accident, he again sought to resign his post because of the expense involved and was finally released in 1578. Indeed, Lord Burghley commented that Constable had been 'beggared' as a result of his time spent at Berwick (historyofparliament website).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA)De i discorsi di... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale, 2 vol., third Italian edition, title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within an elaborate border on k8v, over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, fish and insects, many by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, varying degrees of browning and staining, especially to volume 1, occasional small ink/oxidisation spots throughout, volume 1 with some repairs to worming (affecting text and illustration in one section), title and 2 other leaves repaired (former with some letters supplied in manuscript), volume 2 with final a1 and a6 repaired in margins, early vellum, some stains, spine ends and edges restored [Nissen BBI 1304; Pritzel 5988; Wellcome I, 4137], folio (350 x 240mm.), Venice, Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604Footnotes:The scarce and well regarded third Italian language edition of the 'great Mattioli', with the full series of magnificent large woodcuts. Mattioli (1500-1577) was a Sienese physician and distinguished phytologist, and, ostensibly translating Dioscorides, filled in the gaps, adding a vast commentary along with hundreds of new medicinal plants. The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech), and the 1563 New Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but this edition includes the equally fine cuts from the 1565 edition of the enlarged work which include zoological subjects. Included at the end is the 12-page Del modo di distillare le acque da tutte le piante et come vi si possino conservare i loro veri odori & sapori.Provenance: 'Ex libris Fisici [-Physici] Palearii', ownership inscriptions on title-page and front free nedpaper of volume 2.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGEMaps of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., 218 engraved maps (including 51 city plans and 6 celestial maps, 6 hand-coloured in outline, Geology of England fully hand-coloured), with additional maps of Kingdom of Netherlands and London not called for, 6 maps trimmed touching printed areas, contemporary half morocco, scuffed [Phillips 794], folio (410 x 335mm.), Chapman and Hall, 1844This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Theatrum orbis terrarum, 2 parts in 1 vol. (including Synonymia), fourth Latin edition, engraved architectural title and 70 double-page engraved maps, COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, light toning, occasional small patches of browning at foot, a few maps with repairs to foot of centrefold on recto, occasional small repairs at guards on versos, seventeenth century blindstamped vellum, worn, later endpapers, clasps broken, later paper labels on spine [Koeman Ort. 12], folio (420 x 280mm.), Antwerp, A. C. van Diest, 1574Footnotes:A VERY GOOD COLOURED COPY OF ORTELIUS'S LANDMARK ATLAS. First issued in 1570 with 53 maps, some forty further editions were produced in various languages until the final edition in 1612, which had no less than 150 maps.Provenance: Johann Peter Späth (1642/45–1701), inscription at foot of dedication leaf recording his gift to the Carmelite Monastery of Frankfurt; further inscription of the Monastery on title. Also known as Moses Germanus, Späth was an Austrian theologian who explored Lutheranism and was entered into the Carmelite order in Frankfurt—where he donated this volume—before eventually converting to Judaism.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CLARENDON (EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF)The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in 1641, 3 vol., mixed edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece portraits, engraved vignettes and decorations, some dampstaining to opening leaves (resulting in small losses to upper gutter border of half-title and title of volume 1, and repair with small loss to frontispiece of volume 1, contemporary uniform red morocco gilt, sides with elaborate panel design of various roll-tool borders enclosing central ownership name 'W. Culliford, Encombe, 1710', ornamental corner-pieces, spines tooled in 8 compartments within raised bands, t.e.g., worn, some scuffmarks to sides (obscuring some letters of text on 2 panels, one with small area gouged out), losses to extremities of spines, folio (445 x 280m.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1707[-1703-1704]; together with a manuscript indenture, with seal, signed and dated 10 December 1669 by Robert Culliford of Encombe, relating to dealings with Sir William Constantine of Morl, John Tregonwell of Anderson, and Thomas Baynard of Cliffe (4)Footnotes:QUEEN ANNE BINDINGS MADE FOR A DISTINGUISHED DORSET FAMILY, CELEBRATING THEIR LINKS TO CLARENDON AND THE ROYAL CAUSE. Provenance: William Culliford (c.1640-1723), gilt lettered 'W. Culliford 1710' on sides, with large contemporary letterpress label inside each volume, 'Part I. [-II-III]. All the parts of the Earl of Clarendon's History, bequeath'd by my will to my son John Culliford and his Heirs Male for ever, are to remain in this House of Encombe, in perpetual Memorial of the Unhappy Rebellion begun in 1641, and the sad and miserable effects is produced in this Kingdom.... Dated the 20th of September 1710. Will. Culliford'. Loosely inserted is a 2-page letter written, circa 1760, by another William Culliford to an unidentified recipient relating to these books and several paintings, contesting a claim that the recipient had either been gifted them by Culliford's father, or purchased them at auction. He demands 'that you will send me the Historys by the next... stage, and if you insist upon being paid for them... you shall be paid whatever a Bookseller in Southampton shall value them at...'.Culliford 'was the younger son of Robert Culliford (1617–1698), of a Dorset gentry family, and his wife, Elizabeth Lawrence. His father, a somewhat tepid royalist in the civil war, was a cousin of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, though whether this was the cause of William's first appointment, as an excise surveyor in 1666, is not known. His promotion to a more responsible post as register of seizures in the customs took place after Clarendon's fall...' (ODNB). Amongst other notable positions Culliford represented the seat of Corfe Castle, Dorset in Parliament between 1690 and 1699. The books did remain at Encombe, as shortly after William's death the estate was sold to the Pitt family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Queen Anne (1665-1714). A signed folio page document, ink on vellum,dated 1708 and appointing Simon Parry to be captain in a regiment of Portugese Foot, countersigned by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and James Taylor, Secretary at War,measures height 31cm, width 41cmCondition: ragged bottom edge and missing its papered seal to top left hand corner

[Equestrian and Sporting]The Anatomy of the Horse by George Stubbs, London, J. A. Allen & Co. Ltd, 1965, the 1766 edition and illustrations, with a modern veterinary paraphrase by James McCunn, folio, d.w., Roberts, Captain Edric G., Hunters' Moon and other Hunting Verse, eight tipped tipped in colour plates by Gilbert Holliday, Macdermot. E. T., The Devon and Somerset Staghounds 1907-1936, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, 1936, a/f d.w., Collyns, Charles Palk, Notes on The chase of the Wild Red Deer, 1902, dec. green cloth, Ogilvie, Will H., Scattered Scarlet illus. by Lionel Edwards, 1923, and W.J. Miles Modern Practical Farriery c.1880, (6)Condition: The Anatomy of the Horse by George Stubbs, D.W chips on edges and corners - contents clean Hunters' Moon - some light foxing Devon and Somerset Staghounds - D.w chipped foxed, stained and spine damaged. Contents clean with sporadic light foxing Notes on The Chase of the Wild Red Deer - Cloth spine cracked edges worn,foxing Scattered Scarlet - light foxing, red cloth faded Miles Modern Practical Farriery no frontis, contents with tears, marks etc. light foxing

A quantity of Folio Society books, subjects to include Fuller's Worthies, Bronte Sisters, Jane Austin, other classics, etc., and one volume of the Lincolnshire Doomsday and Lindsey survey, reprinted 1976.

Nine folio Society books including Grimms Fairy Tales with Rackham illustrations. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133

Two boxes of vintage mens bags to include; leather briefcases, four by 'The Bridge', one containing leather cased notebook, dark brown leather folio case with Antler label, two canvas Tarras style fishing bags, cable & wireless plc document wallet, a Deerhunter outdoor clothing laptop bag, a Valaguzza holdall and a Orvis Company Inc canvas backpack. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT) Tarras bags marked Barbour but unsure if genuine as trim not leather.

Welford (Richard), Pictures of Tyneside, or live and scenery on the River Tyne sixty years ago, large folio, quarter calf, illus with 33 engravings after John Wilson Carmichael, Newcastle 1881.

Gibson (C.O.P.) Index To Parish Maps of Northumberland 1913, obl. folio, half-calf, illus. with twenty-five coloured Ordnance Survey maps.

Bourne (Henry), The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, small folio, full calf, illus with woodcuts in the text and fold-out map, Newcastle 1736, with the bookplate of Charles Hunter Blair.

MacLauchlin (Henry), Memoir written during a survey of the Roman Wall, in the years 1852-1854, 8vo, half calf and printed boards; together with illustrations in large folio with matching bindings, printed for private circulation, 1857/1858, presentation copy to Edward Charlton from the Duke of Northumberland, signed an inscribed and bearing Charlton's bookplate.

Wood (John) Town Atlas of Northumberland & Durham, 1820-1827, folio, half-calf, illus., limited facsimile edition numbered 10/400, Frank Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991.

Raine (Rev. James), The History and Antiquities of North Durham, folio, half calf, illus with engravings, 1852.

Bruce (J. Collingwood), Incised Marking of Stone, found in the County of Northumberland, Argyleshire, etc..., from drawings made in the years 1863 and 1864 by direction of the Duke of Northumberland, folio, half-morocco, illus with lithographs, printed for private circulation, 1869.

White Lane Press, The Mary Notebook, 1998, hand-bound, limited edition of 350, elephant folio in red linen cloth, leather spine with gold lettering; White Lane Press, R.O. Lenkiewicz signed by the artist in pen.(2)

Manuscripts of Alnwick Castle, The Duke of Northumberland's own large-paper copy with extra manuscript pages tipped in, bearing the Duke's bookplate and another for Alfred Trago Butler, in folio boards, 1872.

Retschel (George) An Account of Certain Charities... of the Parish of Hexham, 12mo, paper covers, Hexham 1780; Another copy trimmed and bound in boards; Endowed Charities, in the County of Northumberland (compiled by Lord Robert Montagu) Ordered by The House of Commons 13th February 1873, half-calf folio bindings; and The Reports of the Commissioners...to Enquire Concerning Charities in Northumberland 1819-1837, folio, half morocco, Henry Gray, London n.d. (4)

Wood (John) Town Atlas of Northumberland & Durham, 1820-1824, folio boards, limited facsimile edition numbered 217/400, Frank Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991; and Spence (C.J.) Notes on the Plates and Maps of the Tyne in Gardner's England's Grievance Discovered 1655, 4to, quarter-calf, illus. with plates and maps, n.d. (2)

His Grace The Duke of Northumberland and MacLaughlan (Henry) The Eastern Branch of the Watling Street in the County of Northumberland..., folio, half-morocco, illus. with engravings and maps; together with a memoir written during a survey of the Eastern Branch of the Watling Street..., by direction of the Duke of Northumberland in the years 1857, 1858 and 1859, 8vo, half-morocco to match the previous volume, both printed for private distribution, Newcastle 1864; presentation copies signed and dedicated by the Duke of Northumberland. (2)

Richardson (Thomas Miles Snr.), Antiquities of the Border Counties from original drawing to which is added a re-print of Gray's Chorographia, folio, illus mezzotints, etchings, lithographs and aquatints, Newcastle 1881.

Richardson (T.M. snr.) Memorials of Old Newcastle upon Tyne, large folio, cloth, illus. with 42 original etchings, Newcastle 1897.

Buck (Samuel and Nathaniel), Famous Views of the old Castles in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, thirteen plus eleven engravings, oblong folio in half-calf and marbled boards, bearing the commemorative bookplate of John Fenwick, Attorney at Law, 1787-1814.

Bertram (R.J.S.), Old Newcastle: being a folio of fifteen prints, in original printed boards; A Catalogue and Particulars for the Sale by Auction of Outlying Portions of the Chillingham Estate by Messers Dunkin & Son, Newcastle 1913; and a Folio of antique engravings, various - mainly Northern Topography. (3)