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Lot 167
Dugdale (Sir William) The Life, Diary, and Correspondence, edited by William Hamper, engraved portraits, engraved sheet of facsimile signatures, 2 double-page genealogical tables, occasional light foxing, contemporary diced calf, extremities rubbed, sympathetically rebacked, 1827 § De Bausset (M. L. F.) The Life of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, occasional foxing or browning, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with black and red morocco labels, 1810; and 3 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (6)
Lot 38
Courtesy of an Annonymous donor A Fortnum & Mason bespoke Provisions Pantry Hamper, a perfect way to replenish the pantry while we are all confined to quarters, containing no fewer than thirty goodies! The hamper will be shipped directly from Fortnum & Mason to the successful bidder on a date of their choosing. In the heart of a house is its kitchen, then the heart of any kitchen is a pantry. And packed inside this hamper is every delicious necessity for feasts and beyond Contents: Sandringham Blend Coffee Tin 250g, After Dinner Blend Coffee Tin 250g, Earl Grey Classic, 50 Tea Bag Tin, Breakfast Blend, 50 Tea Bag Tin, Piccadilly Stem Ginger Biscuits 200g Tin, Piccadilly Chocolate Pearl biscuits 200g Tin, Fortnum's Traditional Demerara Sugar Shortbread Rounds 125g Tin, Fortnum's Chocolate Dipped Clotted Cream Digestive Biscuits 135g Tin, Fortnum's Butter Crackers 115g, Fortnum's Walnut & Seed Crackers 115g, Fortnum's Hot Horseradish 200g, Fortnum's Mint Sauce 220g, Fortnum's Apple Sauce 250g, Fortnum's Beef Extract 198g - (During The Crimea War, Fortnum & Mason received an order from Queen Victoria "To despatch without delay 250 Lbs of Beef tea to Miss Nightingale for succour of the Queens troops), Fortnum's Quince Cheese 120g, Fortnum's Hot England Mustard 200g, Fortnum's Piccadilly Wholemeal Mustard 200g, Extra Virgin Olive Oil 100ml Bottle, Balsamic Jelly 100g, Mint - tin No 14, Verrigni Penne Rigate 500g, Fortnum's Jamboree Olives 215g, Fortnum's Antipasti Olives 218g, Sir Nigel's Orange Marmalade 340g, Fortnum's Raspberry Preserve 340g, Fortnum's Strawberry Preserve 340g, Fortnum's Stem Ginger In Syrup, Fortnum's Marc de Champagne Truffle Drum 250g, Fortnum's Potted Welsh rarebit 250g, Waxed Cheddar Truckle 400g all contained in a large F&M Wicker Hamper
Lot 136
NO RESERVE Warwickshire.- Dugdale (Sir William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, Dr. William Hamper's interleaved and extra-illustrated copy bound in 4 vol., engraved plates and folding maps, interleaves with occasional manuscript notes, some light foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, slightly rubbed and 2 spine ends chipped, Coventry, John Jones, 1765; and a copy of Hamper's The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 1827, folio and 4to (5)⁂ William Hamper (1776-1831) was a noted Warwickshire businessman and antiquary. J.A. Langford's A Century of Birmingham Life...1741-1841, includes a list of 140 ways to spell 'Birmingham' compiled by Hamper.
Lot 41
HANAPER OFFICE – THE DUKE OF CHANDOS AND CORONATION OF GEORGE IIAbstract of accounts and record of warrants issued during the years 1728 to 1733, comprising Lord Chancellor King's allowances, warrants signed by him for the Hanaper Office, Clerk of the Crowns and of Parliament warrants, Usher of the Rolls warrants, Messenger warrants, warrants for parchment, 'The Embroiders Warrant for a New Purse for the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor', stationers' warrants for the House of Peers, stationers' warrants for almanacs supplied to the Privy Council, allowance craved from the Senior Clerk of the Petty Bag for making out writs for the new parliament, Pronotary's arrant for money owning to Matthew Snow 'for his Expences & Pains in Writing, Inrolling & Expediting' nearly sixty specified treaties and the like with foreign powers, Lord Chancellor's warrant in settlement of the account submitted by Jacob Tonson (£287-7s 'to be paid unto Jacob Tonson Stationer for paper Books papers penns Ink & diverse other Necessaries'), with Tonson's itemised account (opening: 'To the Right Honorable Peter Lord King Baron of Ockham Lord High Chancellor of Great Brittain Goods deliverd for the Use of the Great Seal by Jacob Tonson from the 1st of June 1731 to the 1st of June 1732/ One Quart of Shining Ink & Bottle, One Hundred Superfine Dutch penns, One Penknife with a folding Stick Handle, One Box large Wafers...'), further itemised accounts submitted by the stationers Henry Weston, Thomas Woodford, Vigerus Edwards, Thomas Martin, Samuel Hetherington, Henry Bendish, the Rev Dr Henry Gally, Walter Edwards, William Freeman, John Hickes, Francis Jephson, William Shaw, Benjamin Whiten, J. Goodwin and William Cook, Usher of the Halls' warrant for cleaner's the lord Chancellor's house (including £8-2s to the 'Herbe Woman' and 2/10½d 'For Mending two Lanthornes'), riding warrants for sundry messengers, warrants for the chafe wax and for the sealer of the Great Seal, and for the sweeper of Westminster Hall, etc.; with contents list and indices, 116 numbered pages, on paper bearing a fleur-de-lis watermark, ruled in red throughout, gilt edges, contemporary black morocco, tooled in gilt, red morocco label on upper cover stamped in gilt 'Hanaper', some usual dust-staining, etc., folio, Hanaper Office, 1727-1734 [compiled c.1734/5]Footnotes:'FOR INGROSSING THE DECLARATION & THE KING'S CORONATION OATH... FOR HIS MAJESTY TO SIGN' – ACCOUNTS KEPT FOR HANDEL'S PATRON, WILLIAM BRYDGES, DUKE OF CHANDOS, in his capacity as Clerk of the Hanaper (he is named on p.39 under a warrant of 14 June 1733: 'His Grace the Duke of Chandos Clerk or Keeper of His Majesty's Hanaper in Chancery Craves the Usual Allowance of Parchment'). Chandos had bought the reversion of the office in 1715 for his life and those of his two sons, the grant maturing on 30 July 1728. His Deputy is named, in a claim for stationery made at Michaelmas 1732, as Thomas More.The Hanaper Officer (the word deriving from the wicker hamper in which writs and the like were originally stored) was the department, under the Clerk of the Hanaper, of the Chancery into which were paid fees for the sealing of charters, patents, etc., and which was responsible for issuing certain writs under the Great Seal; the office of Clerk being abolished in 1832. The records of the Hanaper from 1752 to 1830 are held by the National Archives, Kew; while Chandos's own papers migrated to Stowe and are now held at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.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
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