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Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852) - a Coutts & Co. Cheque, dated 17th November 1825, pre-printed form, completed in manuscript, payable to himself, for £50, single filing hole and cross-hatching made by the bank by way of cancellation, 8cm x 17cm, framed with monochrome print of the Duke, 44cm x 27cm

Indian / Mughal empire interest 20th Century gouache on paper painting after Shah-Jahan hunting in an agrarian landscape painted in a Padshahnama manuscript (in the Royal Collection).

Explanation of The Lord's Prayer pen and ink manuscript for 'Wendover School' dated 1830, maple framed

Historical rarity. Appointment document of Jean Baptiste de MacMahon chevalier marquis D’Equilly. 4 leaves folded. Manuscript dated 1771, signed by MacMahon and Griffier. Wonderful red seal of the O’Brien-MacMahon family. ‘MacMahon, Knight, Lord overlord of the towns, countries, castles and lands of Feenish, Inisch, Arovan, Ylan-Magrath, Ing, located in the County of Clare and the island of Finis, of the city and country of and several lands in Limerick County, Marquis of Éguilly. MacMahon born in Limerick, became naturalised in France and was the distinguished head of the illustrious MacMahon clan in France.

John P. Prendergast. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. 1875. Litho manuscript frontispiece

Rare Latin manuscript indenture concerning the recovery of Tithes in the parish of Rathoat, Co. Meath dated 20th June,1664. At top of indenture is an original pen & ink sketch of Charles 11 signed "Plunkett". Framed and glazed in a fine Hogart frame, provenance "The Countess of Westmeath". Size 65 X 33cms.

Photographs - Challenger Expedition. ‘Views taken during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger’. An oblong quarto album containing eighty-one photographs taken during the first stage of the 1872-76 Challenger Expedition, a joint venture between the Royal Society of London and the British Admiralty to carry out an oceanographic circumnavigation. The photographic collection commences with a photograph of the members of the Royal Society at Sheerness, followed by two groups of Officers then views of Lisbon (7), a photograph of a drawing of a Naturalist’s room, Gibraltar (2 panoramic and 10 single), Madeira (1 panoramic and 5 single), Teneriffe (2 panoramic and 4 single), St. Thomas’s Island, West Indies (1 panoramic and 11 single), Bermuda (1 panoramic and 30 single including a monument erected by the ship for a Naval Schoolmaster and a ‘Boy, First Class killed by accident March 25th 1873’ *), three photographs of an Ocean Section, a biological specimen and a Cricketing Party from H.M.S, Challenger. (*An account of the accident which occurred during dredging appears in Lord John Campbell’s Log-Letters from ‘The Challenger’, 1877.) 1872-3, various sizes including 140mm x 185mm, 134mm x 187mm, 150mm x 200mm, panoramas vary from two sheet 145mm x 387mm to six sheet, 130mm x 1120mm, mounted on both sides of card leaves with manuscript captions below. Some creasing to panoramas and foxing to mounts. All edges gilt, worn diced calf binding with brass corners and clasp mounts (clasp not present), brass monogram to upper board - ‘J.B.’, possibly the album of John Young Buchanan (1844-1925), chemist to the expedition. [Departing from Britain in December 1872, ‘Challenger sounded, dredged and trawled the floors of the world’s oceans at no fewer than 362 locations, before returning in June 1876. The results of the voyage, encompassing the physical, chemical, geological, zoological and botanical dimensions of the ocean were published in fifty quarto volumes.’ ‘The Challenger Expedition established the foundations of oceanography and is second only to Darwin’s voyage aboard the Beagle for its contribution to nineteenth-century science’. Rehbock (P.F.), At Sea with the Scientifics. 1992].[Provenance by repute - Sotheby's, Groombridge Place, Kent, 15/9/92]

Photographs.An outstanding collection of 19th century photographs, comprising:Windsor and Eton - thirty-five photographs including many views of Eton College, the River Thames at Windsor and two views of the compiler’s room (one stained and chipped). Various sizes from 195mm x 280mm and 203mm x 270mm to 98mm x 60mm, each with manuscript caption.With a further seven composite photographs with adult heads on different bodies (one with a watercolour background) and two large photographs of pupils with Rev. C.C. James dated 1871 and 1872 (pupils named);Trinity College, Cambridge - nineteen photographs depicting Trinity College, ‘The Backs’, the library, the ‘Avenue’, Neville’s Court, Masters Court, etc.Various sizes from 266mm x 210mm to 135mm x 102mm;Switzerland - thirty-five smaller format photographs, views of Lucerne, Lausanne, Geneva. traditional costumes, etc.Several smaller photographs appear to be of engravings or artwork, Various sizes from 140mm x 225mm to 57mm x 77mm. Gibraltar - two photographs.Malta - nine photographs including four large folding panoramic photographs of Valletta Harbour each composed of three, four or five photographs.Individual photographs from 218mm x 270mm to 180mm x 227mm, panoramas up to 145mm x 1200mm.Miscellaneous, twenty-six smaller format photographs, mainly topographical including Stratford, Tintern Abbey, the Giant’s Causeway and Norwich.Large oblong folio album, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled full morocco binding with elaborate brass initials to upper board.[Rev C.C. James was an assistant master at Eton College].

Blue Coat School, Kendal.A Manuscript Work Book compiled by Christopher P. Shaw of Blue Coat School, commencing August 1864, the subjects covered comprise Mensuration and Superficies (with fifteen problems and their rules); Bricklayers’ Work; Masons’ Work; Carpenter’s and Joiners’ Work (with two hand-coloured diagrams of a hipped roof); Slaters and Tilers Work; Plasterers Work; Painters Work; Glaziers Work; Plumbers’ Work; Pavers’ Work and Vaulted and Arched Roofs. Approx 116 pages, with four leaves glued into two. Page size 223mm x 190mm, cloth-backed boards (binding weak).[Christopher P[earson] Shaw became an architect in Kendal. Copies of various census records are included with the lot];Broadside, ‘Blue-Coat Schools, Kendal. On Sunday Morning, October 26th, 1823, an Occasional Sermon will be Preached in the Parish Church of Kendal ….. A Collection will be made for Benefit of the Blue-Coat Charity Schools ….Lacking imprint, 382mm x 240mm, Blue-Coat Schools title on reverse, folds, small tape stain towards middle with full width stain to lower edge. ‘ES 1822’ watermark. (2)

Facsimile Manuscript.The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold.Folio Society, 2001, numbered limited edition of 1000 copies, colour facsimile, all edges gilt, full morocco gilt binding. [with] 'Commentary' by Andrew Prescott, original cloth-backed boards. Housed together in original solander box.Minor dust marks to box, otherwise Fine.

Charles Coote, The Duke of Devonshire and Charles Dickens. An interesting archive of letters and ephemera belonging to the composer Charles Coote, personal pianist of the 6th Duke of Devonshire, comprising:Three Autograph Letters Signed from Catherine Dickens (4 page, Feb 1853; 1 page, Jan 1854; 2 page, Dec 1856); One page ALS from Charles Dickens (31st Jan, 1860); Four page ALS from Georgina Hogarth at Tavistock House (Dickens’ sister-in-law and housekeeper); Five envelopes signed by Charles Dickens (1850s); Over eighty ALS, mainly addressed to Charles Coote, including six letters from his brother in India, four letters in three envelopes with the seal of the Surveyor General of Prisons, one arranging a visit to Pentonville Prison and a series of thirteen ALS relating to a ‘Guild of Literature’ tour including letters from the Duke of Devonshire and E. Bulwer Lytton; Five copy letters to the Duke of Devonshire; Seventeen manuscript notes; Two theatre posters, one for Bulwer Lytton’s comedy ‘Not So Bad As We Seem’ with Charles Dickens playing ‘Lord Wilmot’ (1851); Several items of ephemera including the visiting card of William Harwood, Executioner; a band payment table (1838); a Burial notice and a worn musical score for Coote’s quadrille ‘The Lights O’ London’.[Charles Coote ‘was associated with Chatsworth and the Duke of Devonshire for around thirty years. As well as leading the Duke’s private orchestra, he was ‘loaned out’ by the Duke on a number of occasions to the author Charles Dickens to play for various productions across England’. (Elizabeth French - See ‘Music from the Archives’ June 2023, a blog on the Chatsworth Website)].[Provenance - family descent from Charles Coote]

Holy Bible with additional New Testament.The Bible: That Is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke …… The New Testament of Our Lord …. Englished by L. Tomson. The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, Geneva or ‘Breeches’ bible, quarto in eights, [3], 190, 127, 129-197; 116, 11 leaves, lacking A1 before title page, bound without blank leaves before Apocrypha and NT. Maps and other illustrations present within text, [Herbert 226, (194 for collation)]. Title pages present for Old and New Testaments. Some staining and age tanning, occasional marginal notes, marginal wear, tear to inside corner of second leaf 127 (2Q7) with loss, hole in leaves 29 and 30 with some loss of text, some marginal worm tracks. Followed by a second New Testament without title page, comprising three preliminary leaves (*ii-iv), leaves numbered 441-554, (leaf 441 is the first page of St Matthew’s Gospel, with signature 3K1, no colophon at end), Worm track to head of leaves in first half of this NT, entering text in places;Preceded byCommon Prayer, The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, of that Translation which is appointed to be used in Churches.The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, quarto in eights, comprising title and seven calendar pages (heavily worn and restored), then leaves A-E8;and R.F.H., Two Right Profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall …The Deputies of Christopher Barker, no date, leaves A-K8, L2, some marginal annotation; And followed byPsalms, The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others …Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1594, quarto in eights, [10], 97, [98-110] pages, worming and wear to final leaves.Two pages of manuscript laid down on front pastedown and fly leaf, manuscript on two worn blank leaves at end of book, contemporary calf binding with brass lozenges and bossed corners, clasp plates without clasps, sympathetically restored or re-bound, retaining original leather, new endpapers. Later spine label, old worm holes, splits/wear to original leather over new calf.

Prophecies - Manuscript. Propheties Perpetu’les depuis l’an 1521 jusqu’à la fin du monde nouveer pour le cabinet de M’ De Pouvoir après sa mort, et expérimentés par L’academie des Sciences. Par Monsieur Jean, Moult. No date, ink manuscript on paper, [ii], 80 pages, printed portrait and epitaph tipped-in as frontis, woodcut of Garde du Tombeau mounted on front free endpaper verso, symbolic bookplate of Daniel Ruzo, Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus collector, notes in pencil to fly leaf which mentions the French Revolution, Nostradamus and Thomas Joseph Moult. Marbled paper endpapers, worn calf gilt, believed eighteenth century. [The dates in the manuscript are arranged in blocks of 21, each date separated by 28 years. In Thomas Joseph Moult’s work ‘Prophéties perpétuelles, très-curieuses et très certaines de Thomas-Joseph Moult’, the dates are also separated by 28 years, though in blocks of nine.]. [Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library].

Magic, Prophecy, Hermetics and the Occult.Bennett (Sir Ernest), Apparitions and Haunted Houses, A Survey of Evidence.Faber and Faber, August 1939, first edition, foxing to endapers, contents VG, original cloth (spine slightly faded, top edge dust marked).Grant (Kenneth & Steffi), Hidden Lore, The Carfax Monographs.Skoob, 1989, numbered limited edition of 1000, folio, ten mounted colour plates, Fine, original cloth gilt.Vaughan (Thomas) & Waite (Arthur Edward), The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan …George Redway, 1888, first edition thus, large taped repair to page 5, marginal tears, tanning, front endpaper split at hinge, Perkins Collection bookplate, original cloth dust marked with darkened spine;Gettings (Fred), Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils.Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, first edition, ex public library copy from the collection of the author, dust jacket;Barrett (Francis), The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer, Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy .... Volumes 1 - 9.Helios, 1964-66, numbered limited edition of 200, nine volumes, illustrated, original cloth-backed boards (some foxing to covers and edges);Steiner (Dr. Rudolf), A small collection of lectures given in 1924, typescript with colour illustrations, a 'Private Manuscript' for members of the Anthroposophical Society, worn wraps; with a small quantity of others.[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (qty)

Milton (John).Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Bently and Jacob Tonson, 1688, fourth edition, folio in fours, [4], 250, 151-197, 298-343, [7] pages, irregular pagination but text and register complete, engraved portrait frontis, twelve engraved plates, manuscript notes on Milton to reverse of plate I, armorial bookplate, attractive full morocco gilt binding.Some foxing, occasional light staining to inner margins, ink and pencil lines to several margins, minor tear in 2R1, small hole on 2R3 with smudged ink inscription in head margin verso, offset title to 2K4v, repaired tear to plate IV, some plates trimmed quite close to head and fore-edge margins, couple of pencil inscriptions to page margins, bookplate of Ethel Mary Portal, no ownership inscriptions found.

Nostradamus (Michel).Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [36], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, gutter gaping in places, front endpaper creased, manuscript on rear pastedown, small bookplate to front pastedown with name scratched off, worn calf gilt (backstrip partially detached with loss to head);idem, Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [34], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, lacking a preliminary leaf (a11), small hole in frontis, obscured annotation to title and frontis recto, vellum binding, modern slipcase;idem, Les Vraies Centuries, Presages et Predictions de Maitre Michel Nostradamus …Anvers: Peter wan Duren, 1792, French text, x, [2], xii, 136, xxii, 137-312 pages, some foxing/staining, small bookplate to title verso, marbled endpapers, quarter calf binding;With a modern facsimile of the 1557 first edition in faux leather binding with slipcase.[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (4)

WWI Pilot’s Flying Log Book.Strettell Miller (Flight Lieutenant W. H.), Royal Naval Air Service.A flying log commencing with a course at White City on the 24th March, 1916. Actual flying commences at R.N. Air Station, Chingford on the 2nd June 1916 with circuits up to 3000ft.The log records date and time, wind direction, machine number, passenger, time in air, height and course. In August, after 11 hours, 39 minutes of flying time, Strettell Miller moved on to Cranwell and in November, after increasing his flying time to over 47 hours, he moved via Paris to R.N.A.S. Vendome in northern France. During his time here most of the remarks are ‘instruction’ or ‘testing’ and include his first flight in a Bristol Scout. The instruction flights are with passengers, and given the flight hours, it is assumed that Strettell Miller was instructing rather than instructed. In June 1917, after almost 226 flight hours, he moved back to R.N.A.S. Chingford for more instructing and testing. In February 1918, he moved to No. 2 Wing, Eastern-Mediterranean Squadron where he flew Sopwith Pups and Camels, using a Camera Gun for reconnaissance missions. On April 1st 1918, (with 463 flying hours) he joined No 62 Wing of the newly formed RAF (British Aegean Group), flying Sopwith Camels and the Airco DH6. After photo-reconnaissance, bombing practice (including attacking a dummy submarine), formation flying, etc., bombing raids were commenced. In April he bombed Gallipoli Town and in May flew ‘To bomb Hun aerodrome at Drama. Several hits. Attacked two H.A. but they dived away showing no flight’ as well as searching the Theso-Bulgar coast ‘for hostile boats and supposed submarine base’. The final entry is for a Sopwith Camel flight on the 23rd May (written April) ‘20 Hun Seaplanes at Nagara, Dardanelles. F.St ?Whinbush? shot down off Straits’.Printed columns and titles, manuscript entries on approx 107 pages. Quarter morocco binding with worn gilt-lettered cloth.[Flight Lieutenant William Hogarth Strettell Miller, b.1893, gazetted Lieutenant (RNVS) 17 August, 1915].

Holy Bible - Bishop’s Version. [The Holy Byble, conteyning the olde Testament and the New. Set foorth by aucthoritie … ]. 1575, ‘Bishops version’ Bible, folio in eights, lacking General title page, date from NT title, commences with A1, the First book of Moses (Genesis). Register A-M8, N6, 2A-2T8, 3A-3S8, T6, 3V6, 4A-4M8, 4N7; NT. A-R8. Text maps and illustrations. Lacking all preliminary leaves, also lacking 4N8 (possibly a blank as no obvious loss) and NT R9-10 (no obvious loss, possibly a colophon), [register compared with Herbert 139]. Some staining and tanning, Margins trimmed close with some cropping of marginal notes and head titles, NT G7 trimmed into bottom line of text. A1 parted from text block, 3A2 3J1 and NT A2 torn with loss, loss to NT A8 replaced by manuscript. Marginal tears, some entering text, occasional loss of marginal notes, loss to very bottom edge of 4K1, small hole in 2J2 and 4J4. Minor annotation to 2K1, 2M2, 2O8, 2P8, 2Q1, 2R2-4, 3A8, 3G6, NT F8, M4 and R8, heavier annotation to blank leaf 2T8, blank verso of Apocrypha title and blank area of NT C1. [Bound with] Sternhold (Thomas) and Hopkins (John), The Whole Booke of Psalmes … Companie of Stationers, 1625, A-O6, P1 plus two worn leaves (incomplete after P1), tanning and marginal staining, annotation to blank A4v, hole in G4. Well worn panelled leather binding, back-strip disintegrating, upper board held by strings.

Watson (John).The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire.T. Lowndes, 1775, quarto, portrait frontis, copper plates as called for [Boyne p.93], two variants of thefirst folding view (one with cropped margin), three other extra plates, manuscript notes and pedigrees loosely inserted, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, full morocco gilt binding (Blackwell’s label).

Photographs. A collection of photographs in two albums: Album 1 - An interesting collection of large photographs, believed 19th century, including approx. 25 photographs of Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, etc. some with titles including: ‘H4 Picking Tea Leaves; Q80 Saruhashi, Koshu; H40 View of Miyajima; B71 Matsushima, Inland Sea …; 737 View of otoik [Kyoto] City. (twelve coloured, sizes include 200mm x 265mm; 205mm x 258mm; 205mm x 268mm, etc. removable from album, a couple with corner creasing) an image of a group of tennis players (monochrome, 206mm x 271mm); four interiors of a house (monochrome 210mm x 285/280mm); two views of a ?colonial settlement, (sepia 223mm x 283/285mm). Photograph of a school loosely inserted. Worn half morocco album; Album 2 - Record of a ‘Round the World’ cruise on board R.M.S. Rangitiki (New Zealand Line), leaving London, January 1934, crossing the Atlantic to Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to the Pitcairn Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Ceylon, Suez, returning to Southampton May 1934. Approx 137 monochrome photographs, generally mounted two or three to the page with manuscript descriptions below, various sizes including 95mm x 142mm, 142mm x 88mm, 80mm x 112mm, etc. Cloth album. (2)

Illuminated Manuscript. Single Leaf from a Breviary of Benedictine Use. North Italy, later 15th century, latin manuscript on both sides of the leaf, double column of 24 lines, black and red ink on parchment, three gold initials verso, one recto, two and three line, each on purple and blue background, one with green centre, script area approx. 128mm x 100, sheet size 200mm x 155mm, hinged in folding mount. [Provenance - label of the Folio [Fine Art] Society to rear of mount - MS2135]

Bewick (Thomas and John).[Bell (John Gray)*], A Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of Works, Illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, Wood Engravers, of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; with an Appendix of their Miscellaneous Engravings, Brief Sketches of their Lives, and Notices of the Pupils of Thomas Bewick.John Gray Bell, 1851, large paper subscriber’s copy, folio in fours, viii, 77 pages plus 8 page errata and addenda loosely inserted (including portrait of Rev. Farrer), 382mm x 273mm, three plates, manuscript note by the publisher to front pastedown ‘Subscription Copy, Large Paper. No 6. J.G.B.’ ‘Bookplate’ of Joseph Cowen, faded original cloth gilt, front hinge split, offsetting to title page of a portrait not present. As Bell was known to add illustrations to customers' requirements, an authoritative collation has not been found. This copy is therefore sold as described.[*Sometimes attributed to E.J. Selwyn, see Roscoe p.xxi]. [Sir Joseph Cowen 1800-1873, born in Greenside, County Durham. Colliery owner having inherited Blaydon Burn. Elected Liberal MP for Newcastle at the 1865 election. Buried in Winlaton]

Armorial Pedigree.The Pedigree and Descent of the Right Honourable, Edward, Earl of Worcester, Lord Herbert, Baron of Chepstow, Ragland, and Gower, Earl Marshiall, of England, Master of his Majesties Horse, Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and of his Highnesses most Honourable Privy Council. And also the Pedigree of the Noble and Ancient family of Sir Thomas Cornwall Knight, Baron of Burford, Livng Anno 1615 being both linealy descended from Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou.Unusually large manuscript pedigree with hand-coloured arms, commencing with Geoffrey Plantagenet and ending with Edmund Cornwall, 4th son of Sir Thomas Cornwall. No date. Five joined sheets, apparently laid down with additional pedigree at base (the descendents of Sir Thomas Read). Approx 168cm x 41.5cm. Heavy foxing, framed and glazed (not examined out of frame).[Provenance - Sir James Harman, Lord Mayor of London, 1963]

Dickens (Charles).A cheque signed by Charles Dickens, 4th September 1866, drawn on Messrs Coutts & Comp., paying the Rev. William C. Sawyer, fifty pounds, eighteen shillings and sixpence, blue printed cheque, completed in manuscript, with one penny blindstamp and watermark, two vertical folds, pin hole to left side, 87mm x 183mm visible, mounted, framed, glazed front and rear.

Langley (B.).The Young Builder’s Rudiments ….J. Millan, 1730, quarto, [viii], 130, [2] pages, frontis. and twenty-eight plates (mis-numbered, as called for), frontis laid down, additional folding plate (manuscript) bound in, name to head of title page, half calf binding. [Archer 175.1];Langley (B. & T.), The Builder’s Jewel: or, The Youth’s Instructor, and Workman’s Remembrancer …[1746], small quarto, 34, [2] pages, 94 plates of 100 (lacking plates 16, 28, 38, 55, 56, and 100). Repair to lower part of title page with loss of imprint, date from introduction, ink annotation to reverse of several plates, edges shaved and stained, sheep binding (stained). [Not found in Archer]

Nostradamus.Du Vignois (Elisee), Notre Histoire Racontee a L'avance par Nostradamus, Noyon, 1911, top edge gilt, half leather binding; Le Pelletier (Anatole), Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame …Paris, 1867, two volumes bound as one, quarter calf binding; Torne-Chavigny (H.), Reedition du Livre de Prophetis de Nostradamus …Bordeaux, 1862, interleaved, additional press cuttings etc. added, extensive manuscript ‘Dictionnaire de Concordance’ bound in at rear, worn morocco binding;Fleuriot (Zenaide), Monsieur Nostradamus,Paris, 1875, half morocco binding; Bouys (Theodore), Nouvelle Considerations …..Les Oracles …et Particulièrement sur Nostradamus …Paris, 1806, worn half calf binding;Bareste (Eugene), Nostradamus.Paris, 1840, original wraps;Bonnellier (Hippolyte), Nostradamus.Abel Ledoux, 1834, two volumes, boards.[Not collated. Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library.] (8)

A PAIR OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PAGES late 15th/early 16th century, each a page taken from a Latin mass, 11.5cm x 9.5cm and 10.5cm x 8.5cm, each double- mounted and framed (2)

Urbain-Alexandre-Henri, Count Greffulhe (1815-1879), President of the General Council of Seine-et-Marne, French politician and Senator for life. Probate of the last Will and Testament, a manuscript copy translated from the French into English, 27 May 1879, granting the estate to his brother, Count Charles Greffulhe [Louis-Charles, Count Greffulhe (1814-1888)], bearing embossed blue revenue stamps of £6,000 (two at £3,000 each), on vellum

A group of 7 invoices of Thomas Cooke & Thomas Hanwell & others, all dated 1650-51, ink written manuscript. Still grouped with original pin inc one for the sum of £3 0s 0d for a burial and a 41 itemised bill for clothing and repairs? Various lengths, 1650-51. (7) 

NATURAL HISTORY & ORNITHOLOGY. SCHLEGEL, Hermann. De Vogels van Nederland, plates only, comprising 362 hand-coloured lithographs of birds in two octavo volumes bound in half crushed morocco, most plates well-preserved with vibrant colours, some toned with spotting, sold with all faults, [Leiden: P. W. M. Trap, 1854-58]. Together with Oudheden en Gestichten van Vriesland [Antiquities and Asylums of Vriesland], second part only, full vellum with manuscript title to spine, Leiden: Christiaan Vermey, 1723, and Rimen ind Teltsjes fen de Broarren Halbertsma [Rhymes and Tales of the Brothers Halbertsma], 1887 (4)

An autograph album, 1920s, signed by Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor); Sir Hamilton Harty (composer); Agnes Nicholls Harty (soprano); Myra Hess (pianist); Arthur Catterall (violinist); Harold Williams (Australian baritone); Miriam Licette (soprano); Frank Mullings (tenor); Horace E. Stevens (Australian bass-baritone); Sir Henry Joseph Wood (conductor); Harvey Spencer Lewis (Rosicrucian author & occultist, founder in US and first Imperator of the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosae Crucis); Algernon Blackwood (ghost story writer); Robert Radford (bass singer), and others, some of the pages with manuscript musical quotations, including later newspaper facsimiles of astronaut autographs, in a reverse calf binding lettered in gilt

PHILLIPS, William Francis. [Seaman, HMS Calypso]. A manuscript journal of a training voyage to the West Indies in 1890 with entries recorded in ink & pencil across 58 pages, worn binding with loose pages, together with a scrapbook housing 24 pasted photographs & albumen prints depicting Boer War scenes, ethnographic portraits, and Egyptian views inc. pyramids of Giza (remainder of scrapbook re-started with royal cuttings and various greetings cards by a family member during 1950s), the photographs with creasing/cockling, sold with all faults (2)

Education. A collection of three manuscript workbooks comprising: 1. Miss Eliza Clare, 1819, 'English Exercises', filled to end with 111 manuscript pages, comprising 34pp. writing exercises, dated Feb-Jun 1819, each entry with cross-written date and occasional marking notes such as 'Very well indeed, Miss Clare!' and 'Much better, and neatly written,' 44pp. French & Greek exercises, and 33pp. of later manuscript verse dated 1840, small quarto, 23.5cm, half straight-grain morocco with marbled boards; 2. John Oslar Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, 1806, manuscript workbook, filled to end, 34 pages of writing exercises, fables and verse, each entry signed & dated, small quarto, 24cm, marbled paper covers, contemporary bookkeeping notes to endpapers; 3. Elizabeth Poole, Lymm [Cheshire], 1878, 53 pages of manuscript verse on subjects such as 'The Mersey', 'Far From Home', 'Hidden Flowers', pastel coloured pages in pink, yellow, blue, a third of the book filled, remainder unused, small quarto, 23cm, maroon pebble-cloth lettered in gilt, loose, all edges gilt (3)

Antique Anglo Indian framed manuscript with watercolour of deity, 9 x 29cm

Fourteen football programmes for International matches 1949-66 including England v Ireland Youth International at Boothferry Park Hull May 14th 1949; eight England v Scotland at Wembley, Hampden Park, Newcastle etc; England v Portugal October 25th 1961; England v Austria May 10th 1967 etc (14)Condition Report: Condition varies but most in good condition with usual slight rusting of staples and some manuscript team changes.Two signatures to Hampden Park programme cover.

STARK FREYA.  Manuscript signed letter in ink on two sides of a single sheet. From 67 Beaumont Street, 7.6.36. - "... to tell you how much it pleased me to hear that a 'Dunsterville' has been enjoying my book ... to feel that one has brought the picture of that strange and lovely country back to someone who really likes it ...".

DIONYSIUS THE CARTHUSIAN.  Opus Commentariorum in Psalmos Omnes Davidicos. Eng. title vignette, wood eng. illus. to reverse of title (representing Dionysius at the feet of the Virgin with Child) & eng. opening capital. 790pp (conforms to Adams D562), text in double column. Large engraved rebus bookplate of Monasterii Murensis (Benedictine Abbey at Muri in Switzerland). Old stamp & erased inscription to title (the latter showing through). Folio. Early embossed vellum covered brds. with clasps, top brd. detached but present. Cologne, Heirs of Ioannis Quentelii & Geruinum Calenium, 1558 (Calend Septembribus). To the front free endpaper is a rubricated manuscript scribal verse  of 7 lines, commencing "Virginitas flos et Virginis aurea dos". Below the engraved bookplate is a manuscript gift inscription to "Johannes Mason Neale", Anglican Priest & Scholar & writer of  hymns including "Good King Wenceslas".Condition report:Staining and cracking to velum cover with signs of worm across cover. Front board seperated from spine. Annotations in Latin to end paper and fifth page. Title page yellowed with library stamp to top-left corner. Pages yellowed through-out and wormholes present (although mostly de-fined to margins) 

COPLAND JOHN.  From Eden to Olivet with Essays & Notes Thereon, A Moral Journey which takes the Christian Reader from the Expulsion of Our First Parents from Eden to the Ascension of Jesus Christ. Manuscript throughout on one side only of each leaf. 320pp. Small quarto in rubbed leather. 1918. John Copland of Dundrennan, (1854-1929), was an artist, photographer & historian in Dumfries & Galloway.

STURLSON SNORRI (Icelandic, 1197 - 1241) Heimskringla edr Noregs Konunga Sögor, af Snorra Sturlusyni. Ed. by Gerhard Schoning. 3 vols. 3 eng. title vignettes. Eng. introductory capitals. 3 fldg. eng. maps. 8 genealogical tables. Folio. Rebacked calf.  Copenhagen (Havniae), 1777 -1783. Sagas of the Norse Kings. Multi-lingual text, partially in double column, in Danish. Old Norse and Latin. To free end-paper is a pasted-in manuscript sheet of presentation of the work to Lord Rawdon (later 1st Marquis of Hastings), 1787, with, below, a manuscript note of provenance including purchase at Marquis of Hastings` sale, 1869.

SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM.  6 vols. re. Shakespeare & his works, incl. More About Shakespeare "Forgeries", 1913, ex Libris Sir Sidney Lee with a manuscript letter to him from its author Ernest Law (ex A College Library with labels & stamps).

Mathematics & Calligraphy.  Three well written 19th century manuscript school books. One dated 1845.

MACINTOSH JOHN.  Chronicles of the Clan, the Story of the Macintosh Family & Their Friends During 1937. Photograph frontis. Typescript throughout. Manuscript leaf at commencement. Quarto. Two tone morocco type cloth. 1938. The author was the son of Harold Macintosh, First Viscount Macintosh of Halifax, the owner of the famed confectionery business.

Hayton National School.  General Cash Account. 2 manuscript cash books with well written detailed entries. 1819-1890; also a volume of music & a part filled newspaper cutting album incl. Arthuret & Netherby interest.  (4).

HOLLAND P.  Select Views of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, from Drawings made by P. Holland, Engraved by C. Rosenberg, (dedicated to) Daniel Daulby Esq., a Lover of the Arts. This Daulby`s copy with his bookplate of an artist reclining in a garden. 3 sets, each of 21 aquatint plates, the first with title "The Only Set of Proofs Extant" (these being proofs before letters), the 2nd set, again with title, being a "Pick`d set, one of thirty, before the line with the dates" & the 3rd set with title being "A pick`d set in brown, the plates retouched and finished". The latter interspersed with the relevant text leaves. Manuscript final leaf with notes & index. Oblong quarto. Red Russia. Liverpool, 1792. Daulby, the dedicatee, a brewer & collector, hailed from Liverpool as did Holland, and was married to the only sister of William Roscoe. Daulby retired to Rydal Mount in 1796. He was a compiler of a catalogue of Rembrandt etchings.  After his death, his collection took up eight days of auction sales in Liverpool and four in London. Condition report:Scuffing to front and rear cover. Spine cracked and dried with traces of gilt lettering remaining. Yellowing to interior pages with foxing towards front section of book, plates appear unaffected.

The Hall Baronetcy, of Dunglass (Baronetage of Nova Scotia, 1687) Instrument of the Baronies of Dunglass in favour of Sir John Hall and James Hall dated 6th April 1688, recorded as a sasine by Sir John Foulis, Edinburgh, 25th May 1688, extensive 10 page Latin manuscript bound with silk cord secured by a carved horn or bone toggle in the form of a fish

O'CONNELL, Daniel 1775-1847 (Irish Nationalist Leader, named 'The Liberator' ) The O’Connell plate, an Imari plate by repute from a service used by him during his three month stay at Richmond Bridewell Prison, Dublin, for three months in 1844 after his proposed 'monster meeting' at Clontarf in favour of Repeal of the Union, or Irish self-government, had been declared illegal. With a manuscript ink letter of provenance dated 1890 from Mrs E Rothe, one time Lady Superintendent of *Grangegorman Prison prior to 1890, and a printed copy of a testimonial address given to her on her retirement (3) *Grangegorman Prison held female prisoners, alongside the Richmond Bridewell, a male prison. O'Connell was said to have had a comfortable stay in the Governor's quarters, and had plenty of visitors, hence the need to have suitable table ware for dining purposes.

Literature, various. ARISTOTLE / AVERROES. Stagiritae.., [and other works]. Vols. 2,3 4,5, 7-11, bound in 5 tomes, Venice apud Juntas 1550-52, folio, some damp and other staining, worn vellum; MOSES (Henry) Retsch's Series of Twenty-Six Outlines illustrative of ... Faust, 1820, 4to, light foxing, damaged calf; MILTON (J) Facsimile of the Manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems, 1899, folio, plain binding; PERCY (T) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vols., 1886, large 8vo, cloth; HORATIUS. Opera, 1699, 4to, browned, detached front board. Sold not subject to return.

FOX-STRANGWAYS (Henry T) 2nd Earl of Ilchester, 1747-1802 and Rev. James MORRICE, vicar of Flore, Northants and Betteshanger, Kent, married Maria Ducarel, governess to the children of Clive of India, 1739-1815. Manuscript book of rents as sold in 1788, 18pp., with other items inserted or tipped in, marbled wraps; with a legal manuscript and an unrelated 4pp. 17th century manuscript rebutting an accusation of papism, signed Sims

Literature, various. PRONTI (Domenico) Nuova Raccolta della Citta di Roma, 2 parts in one, no date, part 1 lacks title page, 85 engraved plates (2 images per plate), paper wrappers, variable foxing and staining; TAUNTON (T H) Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries, 4 vols. 1887-88, 4to, plates, some toning, modern green cloth binding; FRANKAU (Ronald) Diversion Rhymed, colour illustrated by Laurie Tayler, no date, [circa 1940], Raphael Tuck & Sons, boards; an ink manuscript book written between 1803 and 1805, with numerous extracts from published travel works, including from J. T. Dillon's Travels through Spain, Pallas's Russia, Mackenzie's Voyage (1801), Hodges's Travels in India (1794), etc., with subject index at end, front board detached; The Florist and Pomologist, 3 vols., 1871, 1876 and 1877, 8vo, colour plates, some foxing and toning, worn cloth backed boards; BLACKMORE (R D) Lorna Doone, 1921 reprint, 8vo, colour plates, half calf; 4 others including odd volumes. Sold not subject to return. (15)

Literature, various. GOLDSMITH (Oliver) Il Viaggiatore, printed for J. Rodwell 1832, 8vo, 'not published', Oscar Browning stencilled name and envelope inserted, calf, chip to lower spine; JOHNSON (Samuel) Prayers and Meditations, 2nd edition 1785, 8vo, light foxing to title, sporadic slight toning or staining, 4pp. ink manuscript biographical notes at the start, half calf, rubbed; CHAPMAN (R W) The Letters of Samuel Johnson, 3 vols., 1952; HILL (G B) Boswell's Life of Johnson, in 6 vols., 1934-50; GRANT (John) The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, 3 vols. 1927; BROWNING (R) The Ring and the Book, 3 vols, 1889, 8vo, publisher's cloth; POPE (A) The Works, in nine volumes, 1757, small 8vo, worn calf

A manuscript travel album circa 1830s, small 4to, 'Notes on crossing the Isthmus of Darien', with neat ink descriptive accounts of places, and 24 pencil illustrations by 'F.L.' of views of Jamaica (5), Trinidad and Belize (3), Honduras (2) and Curacao, Santa Marta, Cartagena (3), Omoa, Santiago de Cuba (2), Campeche, Aquadilla, Porto Rico, Haiti, San Pedro Cathedral in Panama, and City of Panama; with one watercolour of St Andrews, JamaicaAbout 76 text pages, full and part page writings. Also a few pasted in small Victorian line engravings of literary figures and scenes which don't relate to the album.

WATERTON (Charles) Wanderings in South America..., 1st edition, London 1825, 4to, portrait frontis, lacking half title, half red morocco with good reback preserving spine strip, a manuscript note signed by Waterton loosely inserted

Roman Missal, French text, Tours: Mame et Fils 1892, small square 8vo, illuminated colour illustrations and text borders throughout, full morocco; MUCHLER (Carl) Zwolf Deutsche Lieder, watercolour bowl of flowers motif 'Auguste Bressel' frontis, 24pp. of manuscript music and verses in German, oblong card wrapper; a mid-19th century album of verses in German script; a 19th century autograph book for 'C E Cossmann 1829' with contemporary and later inscriptions by friends in various languages, marbled binding in slip case, and a small German birthday book, circa 1900, cloth

An illuminated vellum manuscript presented to Sir James and Lady Bruton by the Gloucester Amateur Operatic Society, extensively illustrated with scenes from various operatic productions, highlighted in gold, signed ‘Norman T. James, Gloucester, 1922’, 32 x 45cm (framed)

A Medieval musical manuscript leaf on vellum, with mention of the Archangel Michael, 16 lines in double column, elaborate capitals with one drawn as a grotesque face, some rubbing, 35 x 25cm; with a woodcut of dancing skeletons, f.CCLXXIIII, Latin text below, 30 x 23cm (2)

Two Medieval vellum leaves, each circa 13.5 x 10cm, with decorative manuscript text highlighted in gold, mounted together in a double glazed modern oak frame, 50 x 28cm (framed)

WHITE (Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841) Three letters from Spain, by Don Leucadio Doblado, autograph manuscript, with some revisions and deletions, c.60pp., old half morocco, 4to, Holland House bookplate, gilt lettered label to front board.Note: White's Letters from Spain originally appeared in the "New Monthly Magazine" being published as a separate volume in 1822; the letters are addressed to Lady Holland.

VINYL LPS: CLASSICAL and ROCK/CLASSICAL CROSSOVERS. Leonard BERNSTEIN, 'Mahler Symphony No. 2 "RESURRECTION"', CBS 77203 (boxed); SUSSKIND, Walter, 'The Messiah The Original Manuscript', ASC-10033-3, Audio Spectrum; EXSEPTION 00.04 (the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) Philips 6423019; Henry WOOLF and Nancy HEMMINGS, 'Tibetan Bells', Island HELP 3; Ravi SHANKAR 'Music of India' HMV ALP 1893 Mono 1962; CLASSICAL HEADS, CAS-1008, Charisma (narration John Neville), 1970; RENAISSANCE, 'Prologue', Sovereign SVNA 7253; and ISLAND ILPS 9114; with four others.

Three Indian Manuscript Pages Depicting the Jain Hell. Gujarat, 16th Century.The rare manuscript hand painted pages depicting various scenes of the Jain hell, including demons and lions torturing souls depicted in black, one page with script on the top left corner, with old label sale lot number 115. Very intriguing and rare. Provenance: From a British private collection since 1960’s. Condition: Good, with vibrant colours. Each page: 25x11cm Framed: 43x33cm Good, with vibrant colours.

A collection of Alecto Historial Editions facsimiles of Great Domeday to include two volumes bound between oak boards with a leather spine in the manner of the original manuscript and one volume inset with William I silver penny and a specially struck 1986 bronze penny, together with two translation folios, maps and indices