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A collection of children's books, including:- Andersen, Hans - Little Thumb, illustrated with 9 chromolithographs by Laura Troubridge; Meggendorfer, Lothar - Hus Den Laben, with 8 'mechanica' coloured tab plates, c.1880; Mason G. Finch - Country Sketches, oblong folio, London [circa 1890] and 7 other children's books / pamphlets (10)
Stow, John - The Survey of London: containing the original, increase, moderne estate, and government of that City, methodically set downe ... (4th edition) completely finished by the study and labour of A.M.H.D. and others ... woodcut frontis, numbered armorials (some f-page), text decorations; old mottled calf (covers renewed), rebacked with panelled spine and red gilt label, folio, printed by Elizabeth Purslow, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne ... 1633 Quite a good repair job, inside some few usual marks, but good generally, paper repair fore-margin p.394, lower marginal tear pp.463/64 - not affecting text, index page tear affects only 1 number (13), 939, (28) pp and frontis; including part titles. Contemporary ownership - 'Robert Rowdon/ his Booke', and a related early 18th century inscription, late 19th century pictorial bookplate or Bernard Tennant.
Camden, William - Britannia, first Gibson Edition, folio, 1815 ink inscription to flyleaf, engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 maps by Robert Morden, including 48 double-page and two folding (some hand-coloured), eight plates of coins and one of curiosities and many black and white engraved illustrations throughout the text, full calf, 'printed by F. Collins for A. Swalle at the Unicorn...and A. J. Churchil at the Black Swan...', London 1695 (wear to binding)
PICTURESQUE EUROPE, THE BRITISH ISLES (2 VOLS.) THE CONTINENT (3 VOLS.) 1870'S, PUBLISHED BY CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN, LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK, LARGE QUARTO HARDCOVER, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL AND WOOD, GREEN CLOTH WITH GILT AND BLACK BLOCKING, ALL EDGES GILT. YRIART (CHARLES) VENICE, LONDON, 1880, FOLIO (6)
Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, La Grece. Vues Pittoresques et Topographiques, J F D'Ostervald, Paris, 1830, including three livraison / edition wrappers, two editions measuring 53 x 38 cm, one 80 x 53 cm, the former comprising title page (dated 1834), half title page, and seven divisional title pages, together with forty copperplate engraved landscape views, the larger folio containing twelve copperplate views
French Art Deco fashion publications, including the cover of "La Lingerie du Tres Parisien" Numero 1 - 1927, containing two graphite and gouache fashion studies dated 1922 and 1925, and 'La Palette de Dames' an extract from another publication regarding early make-up application, together with a folio of fabric swatches entitled "Arcadian Fabrics, Silk Novelties, Season 1937"
Two sets of sleeved Folio Society books to include 'The Story of the Renaissance' by G. R. Elton (2001) including 'The Florentine Renaissance', 'The Flowering of the Renaissance', 'The Renaissance Europe', 'Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance and 'Europe from Renaissance to Reformation', all illustrated with colour plates. Also included is 'The Adventures of the Five Children' by E. Nesbit (1994) including 'The Story of the Amulet', 'The Five Children and It' and 'The Pheonix and the Carpet' with illustrations.
Military History - an extensive collection of works, principally British Army, including Dress Regulations for the Army 1934, Official Copy, Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1934, various pictorial adverts, contemporary maroon cloth, 4to; A History of the 22nd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington), edited by Major Christopher Stone, D.S.O., M.C., Privately Printed for the Old Comrades Association of the Battalion, 1923, floppy reverse calf gilt, 12mo; The Transvaal War Album: The British Forces in South Africa, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., contemporary quarter stained black calf and buckram, folio; The King's Regulations and Orders for The Army, 1912; The Army List 1977, others similar, (3); The Royal Highland Fusiliers: Regimental Standing Orders, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo; others, including Coldstream Guards, 1933, Brigade of Guards, 1952 and others; Records and Badges of the British Army, 1970, contemporary cloth and buckram, large 8vo; The Register of the Victoria Cross, third edition, 1997, h/b, d/j, 8vo; The Regimental Records of the British Army 1660 - 1901, 194, h/b, d/j, small 8vo; An Assemblage of Indian Army Soldiers & Uniforms, 1973, h/b, d/j, 8vo; regimental histories and magazines, including Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs - The Duke of Albany's), other Scottish Regiments; Dawnay (Major Nicholas Payan), The Standards, Guidons and Colours of the Household Division 1660 - 1973, Midas Books, 1975, contemporary buckram, 8vo; few air forces, naval; Anglo-Zulu War; uniforms; models; histories; some world military; qty
Languages - Redhouse (Sir James), A Turkish and English Lexicon, Shewing (sic) in English the Significations of the Turkish Terms, harlequin two-volume set, Printed for the American Mission by A.H. Boyajian, Constantinople [Istanbul] 1890, contemporary half and quarter-calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered spines, 4to, (2); de Palencia (Alfonso), Universal Vocabulario en Latín y en Romance, Reproducción Facsimilar de la Edicón de Sevilla, 1490, volume I only, Comisión Permanente de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, Madrid 1967, contemporary crimson quarter-morocco and buckram boards, spine gilt within raised bands, marbled endpapers, small folio, [3]
Land Sale Catalogues, Local Interest - Messrs. Poot & Neale:~ Particulars of Sale of the West Leake Estate in the County of Nottingham [...], Freehold Estate, Containing Upwards of 1,600 Acres [...], to be Sold by Auction, at the George Hotel, Nottingham, 30th January 1867, lithographed pictorial paper upper cover by the "Daily Guardian" Office, Nottingham, floppy elephant folio; others, [...] Situate in the Parishes of South Leverton, Habblesthorpe, Sturton and Hayton, to be Sold by Auction, at the White Hart Inn, East Retford, 9th February 1867, conforming upper cover to the latter; Plans and Particulars of the Manor and Estate of Aylestone, and The "Rowley Fields", In the Manor of Braunstone, Leicestershire, A Splendid Freehold & Tithe-Free Estate, Comprising the Manor [...] and 1,489 Acres of Land, to be Sold by Auction, at the Temperance Hall, Leicester, 24th June 1869, terracotta covers and buckram strip spine; Plans and Particulars of an Important and Valuable Freehold Estate, the Manor of Lubbesthorpe, together with Lands in the Parish of Aylestone, Called the "Hat Hills Farm", Containing together 1,435 Acres, of Fine Grazing and Arable Land Divided into Eight Convenient Farms [...], to be Sold by Auction, at the Temperance Hall, Leicester, 24th June 1869, teal covers, [4]
Continental - [Marchantius (Jacobus)], Hortus Pastorum Sacræ Doctrinæ Floribus Polymitus [...], Joannis Molin [...], Jacobi Canier [...], Florii Martin, Lugduni [Lyon] 1668, title-page with woodblock vignette: De forti dulcedo, Judges 14:14, the lion and bees of Samson's enigma, contemporary full speckled calf, the spine with gilt tooled compartments within raised bands, crown folio; Arndt (Johann), Paradiesgärtlein aller christlichen Tugenden, Amsterdam 1666, engraved title-piece, vignette to title-page, contemporary calf (worn), thick 32mo; Carpzov (Johann Gottlob), Critica Sacra Veteris Testamenti [...], Jo. Christiani Martini, Lipsiæ [Leipzig] 1729, contemporary calf boards (upper detached), thick 8vo; Bottens (F. Fulgentium), Å’conomia Sacra: Sapientiæ Increatæ Sive, Dei cum Hominibus commercium, Mediante Scriptura Sacra [...], volume II only, Michaelis Masii, Gandavi [Ghent] 1691, engraved title-page by Michael Heylbroeck (1635 - 1733), rubbed calf spine only, 16mo; Bocquillot (Lazare-André), Traité Historique de la Liturgie Sacrée ou de la Messe, Anisson, Paris 1701, contemporary panelled vellum over boards, each cover centred by a blind tooled foliate cartouche, 19th century black morocco gilt lettered labels to spine, bookplate to pastedown with ink MS accession numbers: Bath Public Reference Library, The Gift of M. Oppenheim, Esq., M.R.C.S., 1919, 12mo; Witsius (Hermann), Exercitationes Sacræ In Symbolum Quod Apostolorum Dicitur, Johannem Gyselaar, Franequeræ [Franeker] 1681, panelled vellum over boards, small 8vo; Lettres de Pline le Jeune, Claude Barbin, Paris 1699, contemporary calf gilt, 12mo; le Placette (Jean), Traité de l'Autorité des Sens, G. Gallet, Amsterdam 1700, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, ink MS ownership inscription: Edwd. Tottenham 1832 Edinburgh, library plate to front cover: Bath Guildhall Library: Tottenham Collection, no. 637, 16mo; Oeuvres de Valentin Jamerai Duval, Précédées des Mémoires sur Savie, volume I only, J.G. Treuttel, St. Petersberg and Strasbourg, 1784, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1755 - 1830), contemporary calf (disbound), 8vo; etc
Bindings - Literature, Moore (Thomas), Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance, third edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London 1817, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, the spine gilt lettered and tooled, 8vo; Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, seven-volume set, Robert Cadell, Edinburgh 1837 - 1838, later 19th century crimson half-morocco and marbled boards, endpapers en suite, small 8vo; James [George Payne Rainsford], eight various novels, Simms and M'Intyre, London 1850 - 1852, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, gilt lettered and tooled spine, 16mo; Hallam (Henry), Introduction to the Literature Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, four-volume set, full contemporary Ballarat College gilt calf prize bindings, 12mo; Falconer (William), The Shipwreck, John Sharpe, London 1826, contemporary olive green morocco gilt, 18mo; The Flowers of the Forest, second edition, The Religious Tract Society, London 1832, contemporary green quarter-calf and marbled boards, conforming marbled endpapers, contemporary printed pink book label: Miss Caroline Tite, 18mo; Prize Bindings, St. Andrew's Southborough: Milton (John), Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Poems of Herbert, Blake, Tennyson and Whittier, full morocco bindings in alternating tones of blue and turquoise, gilt tooled with school arms and motto to upper covers, gilt lettered title-labels and tooling to spines, 18mo, (6); The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, seven-volume set, Edited, with Notes, by His Son, Edward Moxon & Co., London 1862, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 12mo; The Comic Almanack, for 1836 [...], [Illustrated] by George Cruikshank, Charles Tilt, London [1836], contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, 16mo; Ruskin (John), Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures, George Allen, London 1903, contemporary green half-morocco and marbled boards, gilt lettered and tooled spine within raised bands, marbled endpapers en suite, gilt edge, 12mo; Macaulay (Thomas Babington), Lays of Ancient Rome, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1851, contemporary calf, gilt trellis spine with lettered morocco title-label, 12mo; Poems of To-Day: Second Series, Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1922, contemporary green quarter-morocco and buckram gilt, marbled endpapers, pastedown with Golden Armorial bookplate: Aileen Mary, Countess Roberts of Kandahar, [India], 12mo; Sheet Music, Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures, The Subject taken from the Celebrated Lectures now pub[lished] in Punch [...], Published by B. Williams, London [n.d., 1845], pp: 3, [i], loose, small folio; further leather, vellum and other bindings; etc
Literature - The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life and a Criticsim of His Writings, sixth edition, four-volume set, T. Cadell and W. Davies, London 1809, fifth volume bound en suite: Reliques of Robert Burns, J. M'Creery, London 1808, contemporary marbled calf gilt, gilt lettered black morocco title and volume labels to spine, marbled endpapers, contemporary ink MS presentation inscription dated 1810, later Plain Armorial bookplates: Henry Birbeck, 8vo; Provincial Imprint, A Selection of Catches, Glees, &c., for the Use of the Members of the Bath York-House Catch-Club, Arranged Under the Names of the Respective Composers of the Music, Printed by R. Cruttwell, Bath 1804, contemporary publisher's boards, 16mo; Provincial Imprint, Morsels for Merry and Melancholy Mortals, Printed and Sold by J. Raw, Ipswich 1815, aquatint frontispiece, contemporaneous cloth, 12mo; Somerville (William, Esq.), The Chase; A Poem, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., London 1802, illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick (1753 - 1828), contemporary marbled boards (disbound), 8vo; The Merry Campaign; or, the Weftminfter (sic) and Green-Park Scuffle: A New Court Ballad, B. Dickinson, at Inigo Jones's Head, over againft (sic) Exeter-Change (sic) in the Strand, London [n.d., June 1732], pp: [6], loose sheets (31cm x 19.5cm), small folio; Pamphlet, Dickinson (Robert), A Parlour Companion (Gratis): To Prevent Difputes (sic) and Settle Differences in Private Families [...], Also A Description of the Means for Rendering us Pleasant to Ourselves and Agreeable to Others [...], London [n.d., c. 1794], disbound, 16mo; Musarum Deliciæ: or, The Muse's Recreation [...], two-volume set, T. Davison, London 1817, contemporary calf, cover with gilt double-fillet, the spines with lyres and gilt lettered black morocco labels, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Elegant Extracts, six-volume set, John Sharpe, London [n.d., 1810], contemporary quarter calf, 18mo; The Flowers of Literature [...], second edition, four-volume set, Thomas Tegg, London 1824, contemporary quarter-calf, 12mo; The Works of Peter Pindar [...], four-volume set, J. Walker [...], London 1809, contemporary calf gilt, 18mo; Bloomfield (Robert), The Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem, seventh edition, Vernor and Hood, London 1803, contemporary marbled calf, relaid spine retaining original gilt lettered red morocco title label, 16mo; bindings; etc
Topography - Antiquities of Shropshire, from An Old Manuscript of Edward Lloyd, Esq. of Drenewydd; Revised and Enlarged from Private and Other Manuscripts, With Illustrations by Thomas Farmer Dukes, Esq., F.S.A., John Eddowes, Shrewsbury 1844, line engraved named-view vignette to title-page, further line engravings illustrating text throughout, contemporary boards and strip by E. & J. Edwards, Binders, Dogpole, Shrewsbury, ticket to pastedown, later spine in-keeping and with gilt lettered red and green morocco labels, small folio; Cooke's Topographical Library, or British Traveller's Pocket County Directory: Cornwall, [London, n.d., c. 1810], engraved topographical frontispiece and plates, fold-out and hand-coloured map of England and Wales, contemporary cloth boards, later calf spine gilt with lettered title label, 16mo; Erdeswick (Sampson), A Survey of Staffordshire: Containing the Antiquities of that County, Collated with Manuscript Copies and With Additions and Corrections [...] by the Reverend Thomas Harwood, John Nichols and Son, Westminster 1820, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards (spine present but loosely inserted), 8vo; Warwickshire [...], from the Elaborate Work of Sir William Dugdale, And other later Authorities [...], Embellished with Engravings, And an accurate Map of the County, John Aston, Coventry 1817, embellished with further tipped-in and pasted antiquarian plates, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, 8vo; Hutchinson (William), The History of the County of Cumberland, two-volume set, F. Jollie, Carlisle 1794, volume II with worn detached mottled calf binding, volume I disbound, 4to, (faults); Hanshall (J.H.), The History of the County Palatine of Chester, John Fletcher, Chester 1817, full-page and further inserted plates, contemporary quarter-calf and buckram boards, 4to; Lowe (Captain Alfred Edward Lawson), History of Nottinghamshire [...], History of the Hundred of Broxtow (sic), Illustrated, Part I only, Richard Allen and Son, Nottingham [n.d., c. 1873], paper covers, floppy small folio; Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F.R.S., A.D. 1659 - 70, With Illustrations [...], Devizes 1862, period buckram, large 4to; Kelly's Directory of Hampshire, with Map, 1931, contemporary red buckram as issued, large 4to; Paterson's Roads in Great Britiain: fourth edition, 1778 and fifteenth edition, 1811, (faults), (2); Dublin, volume I only, 1818 [13]
World War II - Aviation - an interesting oblong folio scrap book, entitled Aircarft, Second World War 1939 - [45], comprising pasted cuttings illustrating military planes from the conflict, including Wellington, Blenheim, Baltimore, Spitfire, Mosquito, and others, on 163 numbered and annotated pages with table of contents
Local Interest - Cammell of Brookfield Manor, Hathersage, Derbyshire - a collection of 19th century and first half of the 20th century ephemera, including photograph albums, some postcard and manuscripts, including a late Victorian embossed leather photograph album of the house, garden, estate and the family at leisure and country pursuits, many taken by F. Arkwright and some dated 1887, each annotated in ink MS with scene and sitters; a late Victorian/Edwardian buckram album, Sunny Memories, similar to the former but with some additional interiors and Derbyshire topography; a holiday album, Relating how G.H. Cammell Esqr and Family went to Jersey and back in 1902, compiled, inscribed by Iris Cammell (presumed daughter), signed and titled, applied with b/w photographs and heavily annotated and inscribed throughout in ink manuscript, b/w photographs include fellow Derbyshire neighbour the Strutts who holidayed alongside, ships sailed, hotels, local characters and topography; accompanied by an ink manuscript on paper poem regarding the holiday, with references to travelling, scenes and attending Sherlock Holmes the play; a folio of watercolours, by I.G. Cammell (Iris?), including cowboys and fanciful scenes of the American West, Windsor Castle and presumed Derbyshire topography; late Victorian portrait silhouette of a lady; cabinet card and carte de visite portraits; later photograp albums; postcards; (archive)
The Illustrated London News: July to Dec 1851, contemporary green buckram centred by a gilt vignette of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, foliate blind stamped corners, medium folio; another run, July to Dec 1858, conforming binding, allegorical vignette of Britannia meeting a deputation from China, medium folio; further loose editions of periodicals, 19th century to second-quarter 20th century, various advertising plates and adverts throughout; The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, Volume II, July to September 1900 and Volume V, January to March 1901, each bound in faux 'morocco' maroon buckram with gilt pictorial design as issued, medium folios, (2), [qty]
Folio Society - Sayers (Dorothy L.), Crime Collection: Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors and Gaudy Night, (5) and Mysteries Collection: Whose Body?, Unnatural Death, Five Red Herrings and Busman's Honeymoon, (4); Twain (Mark), Collected Stories, (3); Waugh (Evelyn), Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender, (3); Collins (Wilkie), Four Mysteries: The Woman in White, Arma Dale, The Moon Stone and No Name, (4); Powell (Anthony), A Dance to the Music of Time, (4); Tolstoy (Count Leo), War and Peace, (2); other classics of literature, all h/b and slipcased, [35 cased works]
Theology - Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlafting (sic) Rest, four parts contemporaneously bound as one: first part, lacking title-page; second part, F. Tyton, 1676; third part, W.R., 1677; fourth part, F. Tyton and R. Boutler, 1677, contemporary diced calf, raised bands to spine, traces of ink MS title to spine, 8vo; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Teftament (sic) and the New, Newly tranflated (sic) out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Tranflations (sic) diligently Compared and Revifed (sic), With Marginal notes, fhewing (sic) Scripture to be the beft (sic) Interpreter of Scripture, [London], engraved architectural title-page dated 1682 with no further printing details, address To the Reader by John Canne, bound with A Small Cambridge Concordance to the Holy Bible [...] To which is Annexed Supplement [...], Printed to be bound up with Bible, Printed by John Hayes, Cambridge 1695, late 18th century black straight-grain morocco gilt (lacking upper cover), lettered spine, marbled endpapers, recto with late 18th/early 19th century ink MS annotations in mainly Greek but some English, ownership inscription: S.P. Hodgkins 1808, 16mo; Spencerus [Spencer] (Gulielmus [William]), Origenes Kata Kelsou, en tomois 8 ; tou autou: Origenis Contra Celsum, Libri Octo, ejusdem Philocalia, Joan. Field, Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] 1658, contemporary panelled calf upper board only (detached), square 8vo; Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, fourth revised and enlarged edition, J.M. for John Williams [...], London 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Frederick Hendrik Van Hove (1628 - 1698) after Willem Sonmans (fl. 1670 - 1708), contemporary speckled calf with losses and repairs, small folio; [Newman (Samuel)], A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures: With the Various Readings both of Text and Margin, In A more Exact Method than hath hitherto been Extant, third edition, John Hayes, Printer to the Univerfity (sic): For Hannah Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill in London, Cambridge 1682, contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooled spine, blind lettering, 4to [5]
Cartography - The Times Survey Atlas of the World [...], The Selfridge Edition, Prepared [...] under the direction of J.G. Bartholomew [...], Published by The Times, London 1922, contemporary half-green morocco and green buckram, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, medium folio; Index-Gazetteer to The Times Survey Atlas of the World [...], 1922, loosely inserted "The Times" Atlas Indexing Frame waxed sheet, contemporary red buckram, medium folio; "The Times" Atlas, Containing 117 Pages of Maps, and comprising 173 Maps and an Alphabetical Index to 130,000 Names, Published at The Office of "The Times", London 1897, contemporary quarter-calf and green buckram, crown folio; another, 1920, red-stained quarter-calf over metal ledger spine, red cloth boards (disbound), medium folio; The Universal Atlas, Containing 117 Pages of Maps, and an Alphabetical Index of 125,000 Names, Published for The Atlas Publishing Company, Limited, by Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1893, complete folio of one-page and two-fold terrestrial and celestial maps, accompanied by the floppy crown folio index, alternating contemporary mauve and blue buckram, [5]
A Folio of Shakespeare Engravings, taken from the Drawings by Henry William Bunbury [...], edited by John Bailey, with a foreword by Sir William Napier Bunbury, Bart., limited edition of 500, The Ariel Press Ltd, London 1978, contemporary oatmeal buckram, gilt spine, slipcased en suite, oblong medium folio; Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), by and after, William Shakespeare, His Method of Work, from The Poets Corner, London 1904, Giclée print, 37.5cm x 27cm, [2]
Leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England or Low Countries, reportedly for English market, last decades of the thirteenth century]Single leaf, with single column of 17 lines in an angular gothic bookhand, red rubric, one-line initials in gold or blue with contrasting penwork in red or blue (that in lowermost line extending in a foliate tendril down through entire border), one larger initial in blue with white circles enclosing foliage on a burnished gold ground, modern pencil folio numbers ‘121’ and ‘100’, trimmed at base, else excellent condition, 130 by 96mm.
Vishnu Reclining on the multi-headed serpent Shesha, with his wife Lakshimi over the cosmic ocean, scene from the Bhagatava Purana, Deccani school [possibly Nagpur, central India, early eighteenth century] Single folio, ink and gouache on card, heightened in gold and silver, some very slight surface rubbing, a few small scratches and chips to paint along upper edge of image (only affecting trees and skyline), image ruled in black and gold, border in red with lotus flowers decoratively adorning the margins, verso blank, 155 by 244mm.
Noblemen in discussion, with Ladies, Horsemen and Guardsmen also in the Royal Palace, Indian painting on card, Pahari School [Northern India, c. 1800] Single folio, ink and gouache heightened in gold, some very slight surface soiling, overall clean and bright condition, images framed within ornate floral vines against a striking navy ribbon, ruled in red, framed and glazed, c. 245 by 300mm.
Kanada Ragini, Death of the White Elephant, scene from a Ragamala series, Indian miniature on card, Deccani school [probably Hyderabad, India, late eighteenth century] Single folio, depicting a warrior prince seated high on a rocky outcrop above the slain elephant, ink and gouache on card, heightened in gold and silver, some light surface soiling, a few light creases, overall bright and attractive, images ruled in black and orange with red margins, ink inscriptions to verso, 298 by 222mm.
Leaf from a large and handsome Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, thirteenth century] Single leaf, with double column of 34 lines in a good German gothic bookhand, music in neumes arranged around coloured clef lines, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, large simple initials in red or blue, additional 6 lines of musical text added in bas-de-page of verso, original red folio number ‘ccxxxvii’ at foot of verso, small amount of later medieval marginalia, one small flaw in parchment with signs of medieval repair, slight discolouration overall, else in good and clean condition, 310 by 232mm.
Lady seated in a Palace Courtyard, holding a flower, Indian painting on card, Mughal school [Lucknow, Northern India, c. 1750] Single folio, ink and gouache on card, heightened in gold and silver, very fine painting of lady's face, some very slight loss to paint along upper edge of painting (to skyline), image ruled in black and silver, top edge of outer margins a little darkened, nineteenth-century Western ink inscription to verso, else blank, 207 by 158mm.
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