Miscellaneous - Photography, The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, Reproduced from Original Photographs by W. & D. Downey, Third Series, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892, illustrated with 36 tipped-in portrait of royals, aristocrats,statesmen and politicians, accompanying letter presses, contemporary cloth, 4to, (1); Children's Books, Lamb: (Charles) & (Mary), Tales from Shakespeare, Illustrated by George Soper, London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1929, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Binding, Bloomfield (Robert), Rurual Tales, Ballads, and Songs, seventh edition, London: Vernor [...], 1811, stipple engraved frontispiece, full-page woodcuts, contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt, all-edges gilt, drab endpapers, morocco book label, 12mo, (1); Williams (H. Noel), Last Loves of Henri of Navarre [...], London: Hutchinson & Co., [c. 1920], Hatchards three-quarter crimson morocco over cloth binding, stamped, top-edge gilt, 8vo, (1); Art Deco part-leather binding; others, various; Sporting Pictures, folio of caricatures; Folio Society, (2); Book Auction Records, (2); The Oxford Library of English Poetry, three-volume set, blue faux leather over cloth, slipcased, (3); bibliography and typography, history, poetry and literature, astrology, various dates, bindings and sizes, [qty]
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Genealogy - Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, four editions: 1891, 1897, 1925 & 1975, contemporary red cloth cloth as issued, large 8vo, (4); [Cokayne (George Edward)]: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct or Dormant, five-volume set, Alan Sutton: 1987, contemporary green wrappers, 8vo, (5), [&], The Complete Peerage, or a History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda, Sutton Publishing: 1998, contemporary green cloth gilt over boards, large 8vo, (1); The Report of the Trial of Sir R.C.D. Tichborne, Bart, volume I only, [London: ?1873], contemporary cloth, folio, (1), (faults), [11]
Art History, Rembrandt - Springer (Jaro) and Singer (Hans W.), Rembrandt's Sämtliche Radierungen, In Getreuen Nachbildungen Herausgegeben, limited edition numbered 32, two-volume set, München: Holbein=Verlag, [n.d. 1910], each folio composed of numerous full-page etchings of the Old Master's oeuvres and prints, vellum backed marbled green boards, the spines and upper-covers lettered in gilt, medium folios, [2] Condition Report: The majority of etchings present, some missing.
A collection of 30+ Folio Society hardcovers books to include The Odes of Horace, The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, A Portait of the artist as a Young Man, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and more.
A collection of 30+ Folio society hard cover books to include A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Shakespeares Life and World, The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, Short Stories by Maupasssant and more.
Various stamps and philately, First Australian's Collector Stamp booklet with small quantity of collectors stamps, Netherlands Triangular Collectable and other stamps, Svenska Year Book 88-89 in slip case, various other related stamps, ephemera, etc., folio, other stock books Egypt 1985, ephemera and stamps related to The Republic of Botswana, Algeria Collectors Stamps 1980s, Thailand, etc. (a quantity)
The Works of William Hogarth, by Rev. John Trusler, two half leather bound volumes published by E.T. Brain & Co., with steel engravings; Cathedrals Abbeys and Churches of England and Wales edited by Prof. T.G. Bonney (volume II only); volumes of the history of England; a folio of Hungarian prints
A late George II mahogany bookcaseCirca 1755, the broken triangular pediment with a Greek key moulded cornice, above a pair of geometric astragal glazed doors enclosing two adjustable shelves, over a pair of fielded panelled doors enclosing three folio slides, on bracket feet, 118cm wide x 61cm deep x 218cm high, (46in wide x 24in deep x 85 1/2in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A George IV mahogany library folio/print cabinet attributed to GillowsCirca 1830, the top with a gadrooned edge and acanthus carved front angles, above a slide to each end, over a pair of bead-and-reel moulded panelled doors each within a rosette-embedded lunette and leaf carved surround, flanked by two stiff-leaf capped and reeded engaged quarter columns, enclosing two adjustable slides, 172cm wide x 70cm deep x 92cm high, (67 1/2in wide x 27 1/2in deep x 36in high)Footnotes:The beautiful timber, distinctive type of gadroon and door panel mouldings, high quality of construction and restrained elegant design of the offered lot are all characteristics redolent of the finest furniture produced by the Gillows firm during the 1820s and 1830s.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Marilyn Monroe: a section of black nylon cut from an evening dress owned and worn by Marilyn Monroe, framed and glazed with photograph above, with a copy of a certificate from Collector Elaine Barrie Barrymore and Bruce Lee and I in Italy, a roll of forgotten film, four photographs of Bruce Lee taken by Chaplin Chang, in green folio, signed, inscribed and dated, 'Dear Toby, Here's another one for you, hope you'll love it. With best wishes, 10-Nov-99', limited number 2919 on folio and each photograph.
Ouless, Philip John Scenic Beauties of the Island of Jersey, exhibited in a series of views from the drawings of a native artist, to Which Is a Concise Notice, Explanatory & Descriptive of Each Portion of Scenery Portrayed, by the Rev. Edward Durell, pub. No.8 Royal Square, St. Helier, 1840, 21 lithographed plates and pictorial title by Ouless, some foxing, contemporary quarter red morocco with marbled boards and gilt title plate, folio, lacks double-page panorama of St. Aubin's Bay. *Condition: Heavy foxing to twelve of the plates (inc. title) and lighter foxing to the remainder. Also foxing and dark edge staining to end papers. Small loss from edge of two plates. Covers with heavy corner and spine wear to morocco, light water mark towards top of cover. Cover and borders of back cover sunned. Spine bumped.
Richard Lydekker London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1912 Small folio, viii + 105 pp, 50 plates, original cloth, light wear on boards, tanning on eps, mild foxing on introduction pages and light to mild throughout text, foxing on textblock edges, spine opening in one place in textblock, one plate with 3cm tear along hinge and 2cm into gutter, 4 consecutive pages with small tear in margin
![George French AngasCape Town: A A Balkema, 1974 FACSIMILE, LIMITED, number 770 of 950 copies, imperial folio, [xiv] + 133 pp,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/525caa29-f8db-4809-ac5b-abfa00886da0/7361021a-efef-4856-8b9b-abfa009c5a61/468x382.jpg)
George French AngasCape Town: A A Balkema, 1974 FACSIMILE, LIMITED, number 770 of 950 copies, imperial folio, [xiv] + 133 pp, 30 plates, original green faux leather, spine covering inexpertly re-glued, some insect damage and foxing on front eps A facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition of hand-coloured lithography with a new introduction by Frank R. Bradlow.
Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), The man that broke the back of Montenegro, initialled and inscribed, pen and ink, 34 x 23cm, together two signed pen and ink sketches by Frederick Henry Townsend, 'Kid Reviver', 22.5 x 15cm, and a gardener in a storm, dated 1917, 27 x 37cm (both unframed), and The Phil May Folio, No 208 of 250, The De La More Press, (4).
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ARR Graham Clarke (born 1941) - "History of England" - Set of eighteen artist proof etchings - Historical subjects, mostly 17ins x 13.5ins, signed in full in pencil, all in paper folders and with outer cloth covered folio, complete with letter from Graham Clarke, dated 2nd May 87 "To whom it may concern"
Richard Duppa (1770-1831)A Selection of Twelve Heads from the Last Judgement of Michael AngeloPublished as the Act directs by R Duppa, Jermyn Street, St James’s And G G & J Robinson, Paternoster Row 1801. London. Printed by T Bensley Bolt Court, Fleet StreetIncludes 12 life-size heads directly copied by Richard Duppa from Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Imperial folio 51cm x 65.5cm, rebound, Westminster Public Libraries bookplate to inside board (with cancelled stamp)
* Picart (Bernard, 1673-1733). Jesus with the Samaritan Woman at Jacob's Well, brown and grey wash and pencil with black ink, on pale cream laid paper, inscribed in pencil to verso in a later hand 'Jesus & la Samaritaine', sheet size 323 x 215 mm (12.75 x 8.5 ins), tipped-on to old laid paper backing sheet, with ruled wash border, watermarked D&C BLAUW IV [circa 1750 or later], inscribed in another later18th century or early 19th century hand to lower right corner 'B. Picart'Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Possibly Collection of Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), French cabinet maker, whose collections were sold in over twenty auction sales between 1920 and 1921 (later pencil inscription to lower left corner of backing sheet); Friedrich Winkler (1888-1965), German art historian, director of the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, later curator of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, and author of Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Durers (1936-39); Eva Winkler Dencker (1923-2017), Los Gatos, San Jose, California (information on the Winkler ownership supplied in the catalogue entry for this work by Swann Galleries, Old Master Drawings, November 5, 2019, lot 98). This accomplished wash drawing depicts the crucial moment in this famous bible story (St. John's Gospel, Chapter 4, Verses 1-40), when Jesus reveals himself to the Samaritan woman as the messiah, with her dawning realisation of his message as the disciples return with food from the nearby village of Sychar. The present drawing is likely to have been intended for engraving and subsequent publication, possibly in one of Picart's many folio historical publications, such as the Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses , published in Amsterdam between 1723 and 1743.
* English School. An album of pencil drawings, 1850-1885, 74 pencil drawings (a few with watercolour) on 25 leaves of thick coloured paper, mostly figure and costume studies, some annotated with initials J.W.L., date, titles, place names (e.g. Monmouth, Newhaven, Conway Castle, St. Paul's, Albert Hall), including 3 of a woman painting at an easel, several of cats, some of peasant labourers, tipped-in on rectos only, typically several to a page, 23 x 14 cm (9 x 5.5 ins) and smaller, album leaf 25.5 x 37 cm (10 x 14.5 ins), leaves hinged at gutter with brown adhesive tape, bookplate of H.H. Harrod designed by G. Ledward on inside front board (no pastedowns), makeshift binding of boards covered with old brown paper, that to upper cover with early manuscript shelfmark label, oblong folio, together with An album of watercolours and pencil drawings, 1823-1867, 67 pencil drawings (a number with watercolour, some sepia) on 24 card leaves, mostly topographical studies of English buildings and places, including some landscapes, a few with figures, many titled, and some dated, e.g.: Mickleham Church, Surrey; Taring, Sussex; Dorking, Surrey; Ashford, Kent; Sessions House, Horsham; Salcombe, Devon; Thomas à Becket's House, Tarring; Burnham, Somerset; Rectory, Brighton; Nelley Abbey, Hampshire; West Gate, Canterbury; Wimborne Minster, Dorset; Hampton Court Palace, generally toned throughout, mounted on rectos and versos, mostly 1 or 2 to a page, some tipped-in over another, approximately 21 x 26 cm (8.25 x 10.25 ins) and smaller, sheet size 36 x 26 cm (14.25 x 10.5 ins), original black half morocco, worn, with deficient spine and upper cover detached, boards covered with old brown paper, that to upper cover with early manuscript shelfmark label and historic lot number label, folioQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Henry H. Harrod was the author of several books of fairy tales, and son of the founder of Harrods, Charles Henry Harrod.
* English School. An album containing 41 studies of Continental & British landscapes etc., mid 19th century, including pencil views of the passes of the Alps, some after William Brockedon, such as Pass near La Thuille, View of Arc Valley from Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, the ascent of the Little St. Bernard, and British views including Ben Lomond & Loch Ard, Matlock High Tor Derbyshire, St. Constantine's Cell, Derwent Water, etc. and few pen & ink studies including Castle of Ashby and interior of the Newcastle Castle Chapel, plus five watercolour studies of plants including passion flower and ivy, etc., mostly on artist card or thick wove paper, many mounted into album (some loosely inserted), all edges gilt, contemporary red velvet, gilt & blind blocked decoration to boards, upper joint split and near detached, worn, decorative brass clasp, folio (images approximately 240 x 180 mm and smaller)Qty: (1)
Dorazio (Piero, 1927-2005). Pablo Neruda, "La Nave" e Altri Testi, introduction by Rafael Alberti, Milan: M'Arte Edizioni, 1973, 3 colour lithographs by Piero Dorazio, each signed and numbered by the artist, facsimile leaf numbered and signed by Alberti, contents loose as issued and contained in original wrapper, matching chemise and slipcase, 4to, 38.5 x 28.5 cm (15 x 11.25 in), limited edition 29/110, together with Sugai (Kumi, 1919-1996). Nathaniel Tarn, October: The Silence, Milan: M'Arte Edizioni, 1970, 2 colour lithographs, each signed and numbered by the artist, facsimile leaf signed by Tarn, lacking the 2 additional proofs of the lithographs, contents loose as issued and contained in original wrapper, matching chemise and slipcase, 4to, limited edition 26/30, from a total edition of 106, with two others: Bona de Pisis and Giuseppe Ungaretti, Croazia Segreta, M'Arte Edizioni, Milan, 1970, with two signed and numbered lithographs by De Pisis but lacking the additional 2 proof lithographs, limited edition 14/30, from a total edition of 119, and Rufino Tamayo and Miguel Angel Asturias, Amanecer en el Delta Parana, M'Arte Edizioni, 1972, lacking the lithographs by Tamayo, all folioQty: (4)
Boncompain (Pierre, 1938-). André Gide , Les Nourritures Terrestres , Lithographies O riginales de Pierre Boncompain , Paris: Editions Michele Trinckvel , 1990, 30 lithographs by Boncompain, including 10 in colour, 26 lithographed illustrations to text, original printed wrappers, contained in publisher's yellow cloth solander box decorated and lettered in black, large folio, additionally housed in publisher's cardboard box with printed label on sideQty: (1)NOTESLimited edition 236/300 copies, signed by the artist in pencil to colophon and to frontispiece.
ARR * Paolozzi (Eduardo, 1924-2005). Underground Design, Folio X, Architectural Association, 1986, the complete folio of 18 screenprints (thermographic prints), and one colour lithograph, signed and dated 1985 in pencil, each 305 x 305 mm (12 x 12 ins), all loosely contained in original publisher's black card drop-over bookbox, a few marks, bookbox 320 x 320 mm (12.5 x 12.5 ins)Qty: (1)
Tyson (Ian). Screens 1 - XIV, Kelpra Editions, 1976, 15 screen prints on 5 sheets (four bifolia), each sheet signed by the artist, with tissue guards, single sheet size 50 x 35 cm (19.5 x 13.75 ins), loosely contained (as issued) in card folder within black cloth-backed boards, and black cloth slipcase (latter marked and slightly rubbed), folioQty: (1)NOTESLimited edition, 7/50 copies, signed by the artist.
Tyson (Matthew, 1959-). A Wish, by Robert Creeley, 1994, six hand-painted illustrations in watercolour and gouache, sheet size 37 x 28cm, original green astro-turf binding, large 4to, numbered 2 from an edition of only 5 copies, signed by artist and author, together with an original printed card by the same artist, entitled 'Diversion', published Imprints, 1995, containing a screen print in silver, sheet size 25 x 16.5cm, signed by artist and numbered to verso 4/15 , together with: Grunberg (Maty, 1943-). T8 Colours Erosion-Grid, 1978, eight colour serigraphs, printed by Spinks Studios Ltd, London , each signed in pencil and marked A/P, a proof copy aside from the edition of only thirty numbered and signed copies, loosely contained in original printed wrappers, with black mock leather drop-over book box, lettered in silver, very slightly rubbed, square 4to (22 x 26 cm), and Preece (Lawrence, 1942-). Illuminations, Vittoria Pozzi, Stamperia Calcografica, circa 1980s, sixteen b&w aquatints (complete), each signed in pencil and numbered 5/10, sheet size 33 x 27.5cm, loose in original publisher's drop over book box, folioQty: (3)NOTESThe painter and printmaker Maty Grunberg was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia, in 1943, and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 1963 to 1966, where he was an assistant to the artist's Yaacov Agam, Danny Karavan and Igael Tumarkin, and later at the Central School of Art and Design in London, where he was taught by Norman Ackroyd (1969-1972). He was awarded the Prix du Salon for graphics in Paris in 1972. The artist's paper erosion works were exhibited in London at the Stefan Maltz Gallery (1977), Etra Arte, New York and Thumb Gallery, London (1978), and again at the Thumb Gallery, London, in 1981.
* Emanuel (Frank Lewis, 1866-1948). Sketchbook, circa 1930, 39 pencil drawings, each tipped-in singly on rectos, comprising landscapes and seascapes, some with figures and animals, some titled, 'La Bernerie', 'Port Bou', 'Kampueersche Toren Veere', 'Muiderberg', 'The Spanish House Zierikzee', some signed or initialed, one dated 1930, sheet size 18 x 27 cm (7 x 10.5 ins) and smaller, several spotted or lightly marked, page block loose in card and paper wrappers, slim folioQty: (1)NOTESLondon-born artist Frank Emanuel studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros, then at the Academie Julian, Paris, under Bouguereau.
Vintage Admiralty Charts- Folio of 56 British Admiralty charts in original linen folder labelled "Folio 1 Set No.107", comprising No.1 (L(D-MC) 2182a North Sea Southern Sheet (Sept 1975) to No. 48. (3741) Rivers Colne to Blackwater to Brightlingsea Harbour, (October 1974). Good condition, some creases along folds, and edges. 56 charts in total, c.1958-1975.(Nos.36, 40, 41, 43-45 missing). Provenance- from Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd vessels, they belonged to vendor's relative who worked in the Royal London, and East and West India Docks, London.
Vintage Admiralty Charts- Folio of 36 British Admiralty charts in original linen folder, labelled "Folio A Set No.7" comprising No.1 (L(D-MC)2182a North Sea Southern Sheet (Sept 1975) to No. 37 (2484) River Thames (1969). Good condition, some creases along folds, and edges. 36 charts in total, c.1969-75.(Nos.2, 4, 13, 23 and 26 missing). Provenance- from Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd vessels, they belonged to vendor's relative who worked in the Royal London, and East and West India Docks, London.
Vintage Admiralty Charts- Folio of 41 British Admiralty charts in original linen folder labelled "Folio A2 Set No.7", comprising No.4A (L(D10) 3708 Approaches to Oslo Fjord (Sept 1975) to No. 39 173 Porkkalenselka to Soderskar (Nov 1970). Excellent condition, some creases along folds, and edges. 41 charts in total, c.1970-1975.(Nos.1-3, 28, and 35 missing). Provenance- from Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd vessels, they belonged to vendor's relative who worked in the Royal London, and East and West India Docks, London.
Vintage Admiralty Charts- Folio of 48 British Admiralty charts in original linen folder labelled "Folio 8a", comprising No.1 (1665) Nisos Lesvos and Candali Korfezi (Sept 1974) to No. 49 (2237) Kerempe Burnu to Yasun Burnu (Oct 1974). Excellent condition, some creases along folds, and edges. 48 charts in total, c.1970-1975.(No. 45 and 48 missing).Provenance- from Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd vessels, they belonged to vendor's relative who worked in the Royal London, and East and West India Docks, London.
NO RESERVE Britain.- Arlott (John) John Speed's England A Coloured Facsimile of the First Edition, 4 vol., maps and illustrations, most in colour, 1 vol. with ink stamps to margins, original half cloth, slip-cases with paper book labels, rubbed, extremities a little worn, 1953-4; and 3 others British atlases by Bartholomew, folio (7)
Dante.- Microscopic typography.- Cossovel (Francesco) Divina Commedia. Trascritto micro calligrafico a mano libera senza uso di lente, single folio broadside with Dante's full text for The Divine Comedy, presented in three cantica within architectural frame, lithograph, sheet approx. 615 x 430 mm (24 1/4 x 17 in), laid onto card support, old folds and handling creases, some splitting and damage, notably in lower left corner, some even toning and surface dirt, unframed, 1888.⁂ After the pain for the death of his son, as written by Guido Manzini in 1963 on the magazine Studi Goriziani, Cossovel developed the ability to see very small objects: from this moment he made the decision to transcribe the work of Dante on a large vellum leaf - today lost - through a specially designed pen. The title specifies that the text is "composto di 14.233 versi, c.a. 96.000 parole., c.a 400.000 lettere.
Yorkshire, Wass & Byland.- [Record by Richard Barnes deputy of Marmaduke Wilson Collector in York of an agreement by Richard Vaughan buying land in Wass from Queen Elizabeth I for forty shillings], D.s. "Richard Barnes" and "John Jackson", manuscript, 1p., folio, 1588; and 9 other legal agreements relating to purchases of land in Yorkshire by Richard Vaughan of York, 1587-88, folds, browned and some staining, edges with small tears and chipped, folio (10 pieces).⁂ Wass, a small village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, a short distance from the village lie the ruins of Byland Abbey.
Heraldry & Genealogy.- Fortescue, manuscript index of names for a work of ?grants of arms or ?pedigrees, 23pp., first f. soiled and stained, small piece of lower right hand corner torn away, hinges strengthened, unbound, stitched as issued, Unicorn watermark, sm. folio, [c. 1610].⁂ An index, for a collection of grants or pedigrees perhaps compiled by a herald or someone in the legal profession. At the top of the first page may be instructions to a printer, in another hand, "from 45 to 93". Names, include: Bardolph, Cokayne, Clopton, Dethick, Essex, K. Henry 7, Jerningham, Kevelock baron, Sidney, Yelverton.
NO RESERVE Charles II.- Dering (Sir Edward, second Baronet, politician, 1625-84), Hyde (Laurence, first Earl of Rochester, politician, bap. 1642, d. 1711), Godolphin (Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin, politician, 1645-1712) and others. Treasury Warrant authorising Baptist May Keeper of the Privy Purse to pay £600 into the Exchequer from Customs and duties on wine, D.s., manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, small tear along central fold, folds, browned, folio, Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 9th July 1679; and another, part of a Treasury document dated 1717, v.s., v.d. (2).
NO RESERVE Hampshire.- Receipt by Richard Holt of Buriton of rent from John White for two messuages etc. in Portsmouth, D.S. "Richard Holt" and two others, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, margins creased, folio, 12th February 1682; and another, an ALs from John Lloyd of Poole, "Worthy Cosyn, I received the 50l. you sent me", 1622, v.s., v.d. (2 pieces).⁂ Buriton, two miles south of Petersfield.
NO RESERVE Chelsea Hospital.- Order to pay "Twelve hundred and foure poundes nineteen shillings... to the sevll. out penconers of Chelsy Hospitall...", 1p¼. with conjugate blank and docket, central fold strengthened with tape, 8th October 1706 § Barré (Isaac, army officer and politician, 1726-1802) Appointment of Frederick Vane "to receive and demand all such, Sums of Money... due to the Pensioners of His Majesty's Royal Hospital", 2pp., red wax seal, few small tears along folds, 1st August 1782, manuscripts, folds, browned, folio (2).⁂ First mentioned account for "Rent of Hackney Coaches 416.7.11½".
Cruizing against the Owlers.- Bush (Charles, Secretary of the Board of Ordnance) Letter signed to the Ordnance officers of Portsmouth, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, folio, [London], Office of Ordnance, 12th December 1751, an Order to remove "Guns Powder and Gunners Stores" from HMS Seahorse and the sloop Savage for storage during refit, these ships being employed "in cruizing against the Owlers", small hole in both ff., folds, browned.⁂ Owlers were smugglers, originally applied to smugglers of wool into France, and later a general term for smuggling including tobacco, tea and alcohol.
18th century Cavalry Officer.- McDowall (Captain) & KARR (Thomas, Sergeant) Account Book, 138 pp. excluding blanks, ruled throughout, some ff. excised at end, some heavy staining in places, browned, modern bookplate on front pastedown, original vellum, soiled, upper cover creased, later rebacked in reverse calf, folio, 1767-70.⁂ The accounts of a cavalry officer stationed at Gloucester in the years 1767-70. The manuscript commences with "Abstract of Capt: McDowall's Troops Rec.ts..." It is then followed by brief individuated accounts through to the end of 1770. Entries for payments including, "Surgeon and pay master 0-1-6", "To the Shoe Makers Bill 0-6-0", "To Black Ball in Wandsworth 0-1-10", "Duffa Breeches 0-5-3", "To yr. Wife 0-2-6", on behalf of Fran.s Lowther", "Serg.t Karr" (Sergeant Karr appears to have been the scribe of this manuscript), "John Coply Farrier", etc.
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