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Lethem Jedburgh.  Three manuscript sheep clipping books for 1859, 1851 & 1852 & a catalogue of the books in the library, 15pp, 1839. Brown paper wrappers.  (4).

MESSRS. OLIVER & ELLIOTT, Writers, Hawick.  Copy Books. 5 thick folio manuscript vols. of copy legal documents, detailed indices. Early 1820's; also Extraet Decreet of the Court of Session & Decreet Arbitral, Hawick, 1848 & 5 other folio & quarto manuscript legal vols., copy books, books of account & rental records, Hawick & Borders interest.  (11).

Thorlieshope Lime Works.  2 folio manuscript account books. C.1860's-1870's.

Manuscript Account Book for Transactions with Farmers & others in Tweedsmuir incl. Birthwood, Crook, Stanhope, Linfoots, Falla, Harthope, Patervan, Hearston, Glenrath, etc., covering contracting & agricultural work. Manuscript. Folio. 250pp. Well worn bdg. 1760's-1792.

Hawick - Charter of Adjudication.  Manuscript on vellum. Folio. Rubbed qtr. calf. Each leaf signed by the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry. 1866; also Decree of Declavator in Favour of the Burgh of Hawick, manuscript folio Court of Session Extract, 1866.  (2).

Commonplace Book.  18th cent., closely written manuscript in thick 12mo vol. (6" x 3.75") in rebacked quarter calf. Subdivided into 7 "volumes" of "Miscellaneous Anecdotes" with some indices. Massive range of subjects covered incl. history, travel, genealogy, economics, politics, agriculture, wine, astrological symbols, historical dates etc. There is an emphasis on Scotland so presumably the author was Scottish. Pencil note to endpaper indicates that the book was borrowed by Lord Rosebery in the 1880s. 1st. leaf "Anno 1764".

Roxburghshire & Selkirkshire - Elections.  Bundle of ephemera incl. posters & handbills, list of Roxburgh voters, 1841, manuscript & prntd. records, etc.; also one or two items ref. Northumberland elections.

Scottish Borders.  Folio manuscript account book, mainly Cove & Linhead farms, c.1860's/70's & a folio manuscript "property ledger", 1820's/1860's ref. ownership of property in Edinburgh & elsewhere".  (2).

OLIVER & ELLIOT, Writers, Hawick.  Scrolls of deeds. Manuscript. 771pp. Folio in worn bdg. C.1820's.

Valuation of Farms in the Parishes of Hawick, Teviothead, Roberton & Wilton in the County of Roxburgh, the Property of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. 2 vols. Detailed well written manuscript. Folio. Limp bdgs., mixed cond. 1857 & 1860.

Hawick - Tower Hotel.  A folder of old invoices, manuscript accounts, etc. relative to the Tower Hotel, Hawick. 19th cent.; also a few items relative to the "Newton Don Case". 

Southdean - Account & Sheep Books.  2 manuscript quarto vols. 1870's/1880's; also 2 other manuscript agricultural account books, mid 19th cent., & Record of Sale of Sheep by Public Roup at the Farm of Southdean, November 1849, 1850, 1854 & 1955, each manuscript quarto in paper wrappers.  (8).

ROXBURGHSHIRE COUNTY ROAD TRUST.  Minute books for Hawick District & Liddesdale District. Manuscript folio reverse calf, each the first minute books of these committees & commencing 1883.  (2).

CHISHOLM GEORGE.  Memorandum Book for Nursery. Manuscript, 14pp, with details of tree species, suppliers, etc. Brown paper wrappers. November 1793.

OFFICE FOR TAXES, Edinburgh.  Pre-ruled survey books completed in manuscript with details of names & addresses of parties with their servants, carriages, horses, dogs, etc., for Roxburghshire, Burgh of Jedburgh, Town of Hawick, Kelso District, Hawick District, etc. 7 vols., varying cond. C.1816-1830. A detailed & fascinating record of the people of the time & their appertuances. 

CHISHOLM OF STIRCHES.  Account of Charge & Discharge with Oliver & Elliot, Writers in Hawick. Manuscript folio. 1820's-1831; also "Rental Book of Stirches" containing details of the rents of the Stirches grass parks & a few farms in Ettrick, 1820's; also 2 others & a large bundle of manuscript documents, Hawick, Melrose interest, etc., mainly early to mid 19th cent.

Borders - Sheep & Account Books.  Four manuscript notebooks incl. sheep records for 1770's/1780's.

HEISSMARS(?) GEORGE.  A Copy Upon the Views of Sheep & Sheep Farming at the Request of Sir John Sinkler(sic). 11pp. Manuscript. Quarto. Edinburgh, May, 1797; also John Robinson, Surveyor-General of Woods & Forests, Letter to Sir John Sinclar, prntd., 72pp, disbound but with half title, 1794.  (2).

Beef Shorthorns.  "A Copy from a Catalogue of Mr. Jobling's Stock". Well written contemporary manuscript on a folded folio sheet with full details incl. pedigrees, prices & purchasers of stock from the sale catalogue of Mr. Jobling of Newton Hall, 1810.

CHISHOLM GILBERT, of Stirches.  Minute Book of the Trustees Acting under the Settlement. Manuscript. Folio. Half reverse calf, from 1828.

Duke of Buccleuch - Buccleuch Estates.  Sederunt Book. Detailed manuscript notes on transactions with tenants, lettings of farms, distribution of fields & other related matters with the Duke's decisions thereon. Small folio. Leather backed marbled card brds. 1840's/1850's; also Buccleuch Estates copy letter book, 1838-1842 with some useful manuscript transcriptions.  (2).

Hawick - Land Tax.  Manuscript. Worn qtr. calf. A record of collections from 1814 to 1817 preceded by printed "Instructions to be Observed by the Collectors".

Duke of Argyll - Argyll Estates.  Tacks (Lettings). Manuscript copies of leases between the Argyll Estates & their tenants. 342pp. Neatly written manuscript. Folio. Well worn bdgs. Early 1800's to 1833.

TEVIOTDALE FARMERS CLUB.  Minute Book. Detailed manuscript with press cuttings pasted in. Folio. Half reverse leather with red morocco title label. Hawick, 1859-1898.

Commonplace Book.  Small quarto commonplace book in well worn vellum covered brds. 144pp, closely written manuscript (in more than one hand) in Latin & English. Includes chemical references incl. tests for gold, along with much philosophy, theological quotes, language & grammar, literary & legal comment, a reference to Mrs Foster of Witney. Probably late 17th cent. (references to Prince of Orange, Robertson`s Lexicon, Burnet`s  de Resurrection etc). With a late 19th/early 20th cent. manuscript note reading "Note on the left hand page a gold test. This book was taken to Ballaratt, Australia upon the discovery of gold by ... Snowdon of 161 High Street, Redcar, the same man sent home the brooch with Ballaratt gold". The name W.S. Snowdons is recorded as a signatory to the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields petition.  Presumably the book was taken to Australia because of its reference to testing for gold?

* Robinson (E., 19th century). Arsenius the Humble, oil on canvas, head and shoulders portrait, half-profile to right, of a venerable bearded man wearing a black koukoulion and embroidered red mantle, with Greek inscription upper right, artist's name on verso of canvas in black ink in large letters, stretcher with taped provenance label and early manuscript label: 'Arsenius - the Humble - Metropolitan of Thebes', 76.2 x 63.7 cm (30 x 25 ins), framed (82.2 x 69.2 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Right Reverend David Loveday, Wardington House, Oxfordshire.

* After Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). The Virgin Among a Multitude of Animals, circa 1607, oil on copper, with applied decorative painted border, containing faint lettering (very indistinct) to bottom centre (possibly including the words 'Gio Batt' and a date 1607?), 13cm pale scratch to upper centre, lightly rubbed, verso with faint ink manuscript annotations, including possibly 'Gio. Battista De Rosa', 36.1 x 28.2 cm (14 1/4 x 11 1/4 ins), old gilt frame with brown ink manuscript label (possibly 18th century) to upper edge verso 'Giovanni Battista de Rosa 1607' (some loss to edges), 45 x 37 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Downside Abbey, Somerset, UK.A early copy of Durer's famous drawing of the same subject. By 1600 Dürer's original drawing was in the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) in Prague Castle. He commissioned a number of artists to make copies and adaptations of the work, including an engraving by Aegidius Sadeler II (published circa 1597) and an oil painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1604). None of the other copies seen, nor the original watercolour, has the ornate decorative border included in the present work. Dürer's original watercolour measures 31.9 x 24.1 cm and is now in the collection of the Albertina in Vienna. A similar oil on copper version, heavily simplified (without the angels & shepherds and most of the animals) is in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

* Melehi (Mohamed, 1936-2020). Composition, circa 1980s, cellulose paint and spray paint on thick wood panel, of a wave motif in yellow, pink and purple on a dark blue background, with original printed label to verso of Art and Design Consultants label with 'artist: Melehi, reference number: 55, dimensions: 400 cms L x 236 cms H and specifications: enamel steel' in manuscript to verso, some minor chips to lower edge, 29.5 x 45 cm (11 5/8 x 17 3/4 ins)QTY: (1)NOTE:The present work may have been submitted as a small-scale sample for the large mural by Mohamed Melehi commissioned by Jeddah Airport in the 1980's. The label to verso refers to the suggested size of the completed work: 4 metres x 2.36 metres.Melehi was born in Asilah, Morocco, in 1936. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Tétouan in Morocco from 1953–1955, and in Seville, Madrid, Rome and Paris before crossing the Atlantic to Minneapolis and New York, spending time at Columbia University with a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship. He returned to Morocco in 1964 and was an influential teacher at the School of Art in Casablanca as well as a founder member of the ‘Casablanca group’ of artists that included Farid Belkahia and Mohamed Chabâa. He was also arts director at Morocco’s Ministry of Culture (1985–1992) and a cultural consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (1999–2002). His work has encompassed being a publisher, graphic designer, sculptor, painter, muralist, teacher, organiser of exhibitions and festivals. He is regarded as a major figure of postcolonial Moroccan art and of modernism in the Global South.

* Italian School. Plaster Commemoration Tablet, after a medieval Italian original dated 1296, a plaster copy after the original marble in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 20.5 x 37.6 cm (8 x 14 3/4 ins), in original wood frame with manuscript title to wooden baton below, remains of an original label dated 1923 to verso,(27.5 x 41 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:The tablet bears an inscription referring to the foundation in 1296 of an oratory to St Thomas and the Virgin, by Tommaso Andrei, bishop of Pistoia (1285-1303). This was located at his birthplace, Casole d'Elsa, near Siena. Oratories were buildings, separate to churches, that were designated by the church as suitable for prayers and celebrating Mass. This oratory was no longer in existence by 1833.

* Nash (John, 1893-1977). Flower Drawings, published by Warren Editions, 1969, contents leaf, 12 black & white plates, all full-page (except final illustration printed as a vignette to the colophon), each image signed in pencil and all full-page plates numbered 30/65, contents loosely contained in original lilac cloth-backed portfolio with ties, John Nash obituary newspaper cutting taped to front pastedown, manuscript title to upper cover in ink 'John Nash Pictures', slim folio, together with two letters from Phillida Gili to Mrs Temperley about purchasing the publication, and a prospectus advertising the portfolioQTY: (1 folio)NOTE:Limited edition, 30/65 copies.Provenance: Purchased directly from the publisher and thence by family descent.

* Whatley (H. M., 20th century). Hilly Landscape, oil on board, depicting possibly the Marlborough Downs, signed lower left 'H M Whatley', board size 61 x 81 cm (24 x 31 7/8 ins), framed (63 x 83.5 cm), together with Martinsell Hill, oil on board, signed lower right 'H M Whatley', board size 50.5 x 61 cm (19 3/4 x 24 ins), manuscript label to verso with title and name of artist, framed (53 x 63 cm)QTY: (2)

* Manner of Ernst Barlach (1870-1938). Saint Figure, circa 1920, aluminium sculpture of a female saint, 49.5 x 12 cm (19 1/2 x 4 3/4 ins), with original polished slate backplate plinth with hook for hanging the figure, broken in two horizontally, 85 x 15 cm (33.5 x 6 ins) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Downside Abbey, Somerset, UK.With manuscript note in German stating that the artwork was a gift from Lawrence Bloom-Davis, and that at the time of writing (July 2017) was located at Downside.

* [Baker, Samuel Henry, 1824-1909]. An album of greetings cards, postcards, letters, and original artwork, relating to the Birmingham artist Samuel Baker, 1887-89, 32 leaves, most with printed and manuscript matter in the form of greetings cards and letters, mounted or tipped-in to rectos and versos, including cards from Walter Langley, George Albert Reynolds, Harry Foster Newey, Westley Horton, William Jabez Muckley, William John Wainwright, Edward Richard Taylor, and other Birmingham School artists, some inscribed by the artist, others identified in pencil to album leaf, but also including several watercolours and drawings: 2 sepia watercolour Christmas cards, one initialled E.C.B. and dated 1888, the other initialled MB; a watercolour of a small colourful bird in flight by Joseph Powell Williams MP; 2 grisaille miniature landscapes by W. Johnson; a watercolour Christmas card monogrammed AJS; and 2 unidentified pen & ink Christmas cards, a few leaves blank, some toning and foxing, occasional items missing and tears to album leaves, upper hinge splitting, original half black morocco, marked and some wear to edges, oblong 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Landscape artist Samuel Henry Baker was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE). He was born in Birmingham and apprenticed to James Chaplin, a magic lantern slide painter, and trained at Birmingham School of Design as well as under the landscape painter Joseph Paul Pettitt who had been a pupil of Joseph Vincent Barber. He exhibited over 500 paintings at the RBSA from 1848 to 1909 and was elected a member in 1868.

* Melehi (Mohamed, 1936-2020). Composition, circa 1980s, cellulose paint on thick wood panel, of a wave motif in orange and grey colours on a light blue background, with original printed label to verso of Art and Design Consultants with artist: Melehi, reference number: 53, dimensions: 400 cms L x 236 cm H, and specifications: enamel steel in manuscript to verso, a few minor surface marks, 29.7 x 45 cm (11 5/8 x 17 3/4 ins)QTY: (1)NOTE:The present work may have been submitted as a small-scale sample for the large mural by Mohamed Melehi commissioned by Jeddah Airport in the 1980's. The label to verso refers to the suggested size of the completed work: 4 metres x 2.36 metres.Melehi was born in Asilah, Morocco, in 1936. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Tétouan in Morocco from 1953–1955, and in Seville, Madrid, Rome and Paris before crossing the Atlantic to Minneapolis and New York, spending time at Columbia University with a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship. He returned to Morocco in 1964 and was an influential teacher at the School of Art in Casablanca as well as a founder member of the ‘Casablanca group’ of artists that included Farid Belkahia and Mohamed Chabâa. He was also arts director at Morocco’s Ministry of Culture (1985–1992) and a cultural consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (1999–2002). His work has encompassed being a publisher, graphic designer, sculptor, painter, muralist, teacher, organiser of exhibitions and festivals. He is regarded as a major figure of postcolonial Moroccan art and of modernism in the Global South.

* Brangwyn (Frank, 1867-1956). Via Dolorosa, 1923, etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, signed in pencil to lower margin, plate size 38 x 35.1 cm (15 x 13 3/4 ins), sheet size 63.7 x 45.6 cm (25 x 18 ins), together with: Tramps Resting, 1923, etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, signed in pencil to lower margin, plate size 30.4 x 37.7 cm (12 x 14 7/8 ins), sheet size 45.5 x 62.7 cm (18 x 24 5/8 ins), plus: Men with Performing Animals, 1911, etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, signed in pencil to lower margin, plate size 27.9 x 36.6 cm (11 x 14 3/8 ins), sheet size 45.6 x 63.5 cm (18 x 25 ins), the etchings contained in (partial) Brangwyn Portfolio, by E.F. D'Alignan & Paul Turpin, 1927, with illustrated title on cover, text by Steinlen in French and English, list of illustrations (of the first part I-L only) in French and English, 12 illustrations only, including the 3 listed etchings, also including one original lithograph: Revolt 1920, the remainder being lithographic reproductions of watercolours, drawings & pastels, many with stencil-added chalk or watercolour, plus: Catalogue of Ninety-Six Etching by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., London: The Fine Art Society, January 1912, 12pp., two etching titles added in contemporary ink manuscript to final leaf, lightly foxed, original printed wrappers (toned), slim 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The three etchings are listed in the Catalogue Raisonne as E938, E937 and E837 respectively (numbers 84, 90 & 77 in the portfolio). The lithograph Revolt is P1328 (portfolio number 46). The other illustrations present are portfolio numbers 26, 28, 34, 41, 51, 61, 65 & 87.

* Attributed to Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840). Glen Quaich, Perthshire, oil on canvas, re-lined, depicting a mountainous landscape, with snaking river, rocky outcrops, and trees, some craquelure, early pencil inscription and remains of manuscript label on stretcher with title and attribution, 48.5 x 65 cm (19 x 25 1/2 ins), framed (61.5 x 78 cm)QTY: (1)Provenance: British Conservative politician and barrister Peter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees of Goytre, PC, QC (1926-2008).

Group of three antiphonary manuscript pages on vellum with Latin text and illuminated capital letters.Unframed; height ranges from 17 in to 21 1/4 in; width ranges from 13 1/2 in to 14 1/2 in. Framed; height ranges from 20 3/4 in to 30 1/4 in; width ranges from 16 3/4 in to 23 3/4 in.Condition: Wrinkles, creases, small tears and losses throughout. Some fading to the ink and color. The vellum is somewhat toned. Wear as expected from age and use.

Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, later Duchess of Sutherland (1765-1839)"A Monastery by a River"Attributed and titled to the mount;watercolour,19.5 x 26.5cms, in frame.together with a British Museum photograph inscribed on the reverse "Drawn by the Countess of Sutherland-- Ex Thomas Girtin folio, Featherstone Castle."and manuscript letter on House of Lords notepaper, dated 1969, providing a family provenance and a reference to a folio of Girtin works from Featherstone Castle.NB The Duchess of Sutherland was said to have been a most able pupil of Thomas Girtin and was also his patron.Provenance: select items removed from Carrycoats Hall, Northumberland.

19th Century British School"A Portrait of Mary at the Age of Three",oil on canvas,52 x 41.5cms, in frame. Notes:Canvas stencil for Dimes and Elam from 1845-56.Partial manuscript note adhered to the stretcher provides background to the sitter; 'She married George Milburn [...] Newsham Park"

19th Century BritishThe British Expedition to Abyssinia,oil on canvas,70 x 90cms, in frame.Notes:Partial manuscript note on the stretcher reads; "To the left - the mountains of [...] the Abyssinians coming down Theodore's mount[ain]... in the centre of the foreground the 4th (King's Own) [...] the Sudanese Rifles [...] the left - in the foreground the 1st Baluch Battalion..'

Camden (William) b. 1597- d. 1623, a manuscript album, gilt armorial calf, folio-bound, containing hand-drawn and coloured illustrations of the heraldic arms of the nobility of England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th Century, inscribed on the inside cover "The Arms of The Duke's, Earls and Barrons or Lords of England with the time of their first Creation and Decents since the Conquest Collected by Clarencieux Herald of Arms, about 1606". N.B. William Camden the English antiquarian, topographer and herald best known as the Author of Britannia and the Annales or History of Queen Elizabeth's Reign was appointed by the College of Arms as Clarenceux King of Arms in 1597; this lot sold to include a watercolour and a pencil sketch both depicting a country house presumably associated with the album.

Boyle (J. R.), Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, 4to., quarter morocco bound, illustrated by W. H. Knowles, R. W. Martin bookplate and additional manuscript ephemera tipped in, Andrew Reid Sons and Company, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1890.

* Illuminated Leaf. A leaf from a manuscript psalter on vellum, Italian, circa 1450, text in Latin on recto and verso, large illuminated initial 'L' with incorporated blue, green and gold foliate devices on a red ground, initial exterior border of gold with green, blue and red foliage extending into margin with small gold roundels, text lettered in red, blue and black, light soiling to inner margin, small portion of wear to head (affecting a few letters along second line), initial 7.5 x 8 cm, sheet size 44.5 x 34 cmQTY: (1)

* Secret Writing. Table of cypher substitutes issued by Sir Charles Hedges (1650-1714), Secretary of State for the Northern Department, [to Edmund Poley (1655-1714), diplomat, in preparation for his embassy to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg], 2 November 1703, manuscript list in the hand of Edmund Poley on laid paper bifolium with watermarks of hunting horn with ‘WR’ and ‘GTM’ motifs, the first sheet containing cypher substitutes (two columns on recto, single column to verso), numbered 2-139, 150, 200, 300, 350, 500, 1000, 1500, 1501-1504, representing persons and classes of persons, places, subjects and phrases, categories including 50 Secretary of State, 55 King of Denmark, 65 The Queen [Anne], 91 House of Commons, 123 Judges, 15 Holland, 28 The Army, 134 Very well, 135 Very ill, 136 Dangerous, 1503 Ill consequence, 1504 Great consequence, etc., integral blank leaf endorsed [by Edmund Poley], ‘A Private Cypher between me and the secretary of state Sir Charles Hedges; given me by him the 2nd November 1703’, partially browned with some tears to fold intersections affecting a few letters without loss of sense, folio (310 x 235 mm), together with 2 contemporary clerical copies of letters from Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714), Hannover, 14 July 1705 & Herenhausen, 9 September 1705, in Latin and French respectively, 2pp. each, both endorsed on blank integral leaf as 'Mr [Edmund] Poley's Recredentialls from the Electrice of Hanover', folio & 4to, plus a contemporary clerical copy in German, giving tables and lists with numbers of Allied army soldiers killed or wounded at the Battle of Blenheim, 13 August 1704, on two facing pages of a bifolium, docketed in French, folioQTY: (4)NOTE:Sir Charles Hedges served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department, the overseas duties of which covered The Empire, Holland, Scandinavia, Poland and Russia, between May 1702 and May 1704.The list is arranged as a decyphering key so anyone using it to encypher has to remember the location of the desired name. A convenient encyphering arrangement (e.g. names in alphabetical order) was labour-intensive to compile and (with two copies of essentially the same information in circulation) no doubt discouraged on security grounds.The list omits the ordinary cypher elements which would be essential in any workable system: equivalents for single letters, syllables, and longer words. It is possible that members of the Northern Department may have shared the same repertoire of basic equivalents. If so, this document may most likely to have been by way of an up-to-date supplement compiled as circumstances required.This cypher was evidently constructed to accommodate the political preoccupations of the autumn of 1703: the question of the succession [86] to the English throne following the death of William III in 1702, when Princess Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg [1000] became the immediate heir; and the campaign of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough [93] against the French army in Germany [300]. In September 1703 the government in London ordered three of Marlborough's regiments to be detached from his army [28] to prepare for service in Portugal [16].The name of the career diplomat Edmund Poley (1655-1714) appears flatteringly near the top of the list at number 8. Out of favour for nearly ten years, he had previous experience in Sweden and the German states and was recalled in August 1703 to be envoy to Brunswick-Lüneburg. On 11 August he was issued with his credentials and received his instructions on 17 August, so there was no need for a cypher with his name on it any earlier than that. He is not known to have been in Hanover until 17 December 1703 (dates in D. B. Horn’s list of British diplomats). Horn’s list contains no other envoy who fits the bill, most of them having already been in post in 1702 or sent out earlier in 1703. When a Secretary of State gave an envoy a personal cypher it was an intimate gesture of trust usually delivered immediately before departure. Even on 2 November Poley would have had plenty of time to get to Hanover and report back in mid-December.Other examples of Poley’s hand can be found among the archive of William Blathwayt (1650-1717), Secretary at War, see Yale University, Beinecke Library OSB MSS 2, Series 1; Box 6 Folder 142, Edmund Poley to William Blathwayt, 11 June 1693.

* Illuminated initials. Two illuminated leaf cuttings with initials on vellum, Italian, circa 1450, illuminated 'O' and 'S', 'S' on red ground with white tracing, initial in gold, enclosed in green and blue leaves, two foliate infills in pink, blue, green and gold, with blue and gold foliage extending to margins with small gold roundels at ends, verso with manuscript sheet music with large 'H' initial in blue ink, lightly dust-soiled, initial size 9 x 8 cm, sheet size 27.5 x 12.5 cm, 'O' on blue ground with white tracing, initial in orange with foliate edges embellished in gold, two foliate infills in pink, blue, green and gold, large elaborate foliate decoration to inner margin in pink, blue, green and gold with black tracing, verso with manuscript sheet music, initial size 9 x 8 cm, sheet size 19 x 13 cmQTY: (2)

* Rosenberg (Frederick). The Mail Coach in a Flood, [1827], aquatint after J. Pollard with bright contemporary hand-colouring, proof before title and letters, slight soiling to the margins, 335 x 450 mm, title in manuscript on a gilt plaque attached to the frame, mounted, framed and glazed QTY: (1)

Ogilby (John). The Relation of His Majestie’s Entertainment Passing through the City of London, to His Coronation: with a Description of the Triumphal Arches, and Solemnity, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for Rich. Marriott, in St Dunstan’s Church-Yard in Fleet-Street, 1661, [6], 35, [1] pp., leaf A1 bears a license to print with early manuscript to verso, leaf *a1 (a dedication to the Lord Mayor) present (bound without L1 list of names of the committee for arrangements appointed by the Common Council), lower outer corner of E1 torn away with loss of to last letter of catchword, early manuscript to verso of final leaf, light dust-soiling to fist and last leaves, old plain wrappers, small slim folio (27 x 18 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R235404; Wing O181.In this edition the heading on B1r is "ENTERTAINMENTS" and there is a six-line woodcut initial; the description on B1v begins with "MUNDAY"; G1r has a five-line woodcut initial; and on K1r "CAVAL CADE" is spelt with a hyphen following the "L". The first and the second edition were each issued in two states: 1) with or 2) without leaves *a1 (a dedication to the Lord Mayor) and L1 (beginning with a list of names of the committee for arrangements appointed by the Common Council). The version appears to be the first edition, state 1 with *a1 present but bound without L1.

Priestley (Joseph). Experiments and Observations on different kinds of Air, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: J. Johnson, 1774-1777, 6 engraved plates including frontispieces (3 plates folding), half-title and errata leaf to volume 1 present, also with advert leaf at rear of volume 1 and two advert leaves at rear of volumes 2 and 3 present, short closed tear to title page of volume 3, slight offsetting, occasional toning and light spotting, edges untrimmed, original boards, manuscript title labels to spines, paper covering mostly to boards of first volume torn with some loss, worn, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Duveen p. 484; Grolier/Horblit 85; Norman 1750.The first edition of Priestley's three volume work detailing his further pneumatic experiments, including the discovery of oxygen and some of its properties. In August 1774, Priestley heated mercuric oxide by focusing light from a burning glass on it. The gas released from this experiment he called 'dephlogisticated air.' Priestley became famous for his discovery, and Antoine Lavoisier later gave the substance its modern name of oxygen.

Herbarium. Alpen Flora, 2 volumes, c. 1900, a collection of dried plant specimens mounted on the rectos of approximately 250 numbered leaves (some leaves blank), with neat ink captions throughout, generally well preserved and seemingly complete, neat manuscript indexes on rectos of ruled leaves at front of each volume, ownership inscription of Arthur P. Baines, Adel, Leeds, to front free endpaper and initialled note on the collection by Baines dated 20 November 1906 tipped in before index at front of volume 1, contemporary morocco-backed cloth gilt with folding protective cloth flaps to edges, joints cracked, spine of volume 1 browned, rubbed and a little chipped at edges, folio (360 x 230 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:According to the note this collection was mounted by Arthur P[aine] Baines, noting that he is 'greatly indebted to Sir William Gowers and Mr R. Benson Jowitt for their generosity in supplying me with excellent specimens, many of which were gathered by the latter gentleman to bear his initials and the locality from whence they were taken by him'.Robert Benson Jowitt (1839-1914) was a life governor of Yorkshire College and part of the Robert Jowitt wool merchants' enterprise. Arthur Paine Baines (1848-1918) who assembled the collection was his brother-in-law, having married Jowitt's sister Florence in 1889. Sir William Gowers is presumably the great British neurologist (1845-1915) who lived and worked in London and had wide interests including language, mathematics and botany.Please note that export and import rules may apply to this lot.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). An embroidered baby cap worn by the Duke of Wellington, circa 1769, whitework fine cotton lawn bonnet, delicately hand-worked with eyelets and satin stitch leaf pairs, further embellished with fine piping and buttonhole loops, with drawstring at nape, lightly toned, some period darns, 16 x 16 cm (6.25 x 6.25 ins), mounted on grey-blue fabric over board, and labelled in an early 20th century hand 'This Cap was worn by the great Duke of Wellington. (1769)', framed together with a number of items of early lace, 2 dated ('about 1650' and 'about 1680'), and one labelled 'Old Italian Rose Point 1760. Edged with Brussels Rose Point', overall size of display 55.5 x 44.5 cm (22 x 17.5 ins), glazed gilt moulded frame (62.5 x 51 cm), with old manuscript label attached ' Lent by Mrs. Holloway, Townsend House, Curry Rivel, Somerset'QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Mrs Kate Holloway (1855-1952), great great aunt of the vendor.Catherine Holloway, or Kate as she was known in the family, was born in Narbeth, Pembrokeshire. Her father, Thomas Davies, was in the leather business and by 1861 the family were living in Bristol. Her older brother, William Howell Davies, was a very successful leather merchant who became Mayor of Bristol and later a Liberal MP; he was knighted in 1908. In 1894 Catherine married Frank Herbert Holloway, a wholesale stationer and printer. The wedding was reported in the local paper which said “the bride and bridegroom belong to families well known in commercial circles in the city”. The couple subsequently lived in Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, and Langport in Somerset.

* Mulready Cover. A Mulready one penny envelope with added manuscript caricatures and verse, [third Sunday] 24 May 1840, used from Maidstone to Knightsbridge, with fine clear double-arc despatch date stamp in black and cancelled with fine strike of the red Maltese Cross, two partial red transit date only stamps for 25 May to right blank panel of reverse, neatly addressed to David Power, Esq., Sloane St., Knightsbridge, Middlesex, numeral ‘160’ written adjacent, with additional pen and ink caricatures of three men with speech bubbles to front panel and manuscript verse to upper blank panel of the reverse, remains of red wax seal, fully opened in a diamond shape and laid down on a cut-down contemporary album leaf, envelope measuring 177 x 277 mm from tip to tipQTY: (1)NOTE:Mulready letter sheets and envelopes were introduced as part of the British Post Office postal reforms of 1840. They went on sale on 1 May 1840, and were valid for use from 6 May. Sunday postmarks are the scarcest and this is a very rare, and possibly unique, manuscript comic Mulready envelope with verse, sent on the third Sunday of 24 May. Mulreadys, which came in one and two penny value versions, were instantly derided by the general public who universally took to the gummed stamp Penny Black alternatives. Printed caricature versions of the Mulreadys quickly appeared on the market and these too have become collectable items from the Mulreadys’ brief one-year history. This is a highly unusual manuscript version, and while it may have been drawn by the recipient after receipt, rather than by the sender, it was clearly done at the time. The inverted manuscript verse on the upper flap appears may suggest this was written before posting but the speech bubble outline of the seated man and his neat positioning appear to indicate this was done after receipt. The Mehmet Ali reference is directly contemporary. The neat pen and ink illustrations show two men standing on the left and a third man seated below the despatch stamp on the right with the following text: [Caption below Britannia:]HIC JACET GLORIA BRITANNIAE[Here lies the glory of Britain] [Standing man on far left:]Lord ha' mercy has the Queen got all them children already [Man standing to his right and pointing:]You lubber! Them flying cats be'nt children. Don't you see as how it's a hallegory, & that's Britannia, a'sending out declarations of war to all the world, and there's the Chinamen & old Mahomet Ali a'reading of theirs & a'writing an answer [Man seated on right:]But who is to pay for all these wars? [Manuscript verse written on upper flap:]Explanation of the HieroglyphicBritannia's fame is taking its flightAnd her lion is dying for any spiteWhile her once proud navy is dwindled awayTo the size of yonder Laplander's sleighAnd she sits alone in sorrow & careAnd cries, "where are my friends"? Echoanswers--"Where?"--

Moll, (Herman). A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales &c. with the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads &c. Shewing the Computed Miles from Town to Town. A Work long wanted, and very useful for all Gentlemen that Travel to any Part of England..., Sold by H. Moll, Tho. & J. Bowles,1724, double-page engraved letter-press title, fifty engraved maps with bright contemporary outline colouring, each map surrounded by uncoloured engraved vignettes of antiquities, each map with a small manuscript number to the margins on the verso and recto, very occasional staining, book plate of R. H. Johnstone, modern quarter calf with a gilt morocco contrasting label to the spine, retaining the contemporary boards, some wear to the extremities, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Chubb CLXI. An unrecorded intermediate state, lacking the bracketed numbers normally found on the 2nd state.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of). A collection of printed and manuscript material, largely relating to the Duke of Wellington, c. 1830s and later, manuscript items including 3 letters written by the Duke of Wellington's valet Christopher Collins, re: the Duke's waistcoats, 1843; a manuscript note [by H.W. Brooke] describing the conversation made by a fellow guest, Mr Croker, at Walmer Castle; another letter by John Watts, 20 May 1867, concerning a dinner at which Watts was present held at Walmer Castle in 1838, during which the Duke gave an account of the attempt to assassinate him in Paris, with a related item; an autograph letter from the Duke of Wellington in the third person, Hatfield House, presenting his compliments to Mr Collett and telling him that he has no desire to sell his property in Belgium, the printed items including concert programmes, leaflets, a few photographs, etc., plus a large group of ring binders containing modern correspondence, research and invoices relating to collecting Duke of Wellington memorabilia, plus 5 framed and glazed itemsQTY: (a carton)

* Malan (Solomon Caesar, 1812-1894). 'The Sea of Galilee from a sketch done on the spot' and 'Beer or berejeek on the Euphrates the place from whence the Expedition started from a sketch done on the spot', c. 1850, 2 pencil and watercolour sketches on wove paper, both initialled in pencil by the artist to lower margins and one titled 'Berejick on the Euphrates', each 165 x 235 mm, laid down on old and chipped album leaves with manuscript captions in another hand to lower mountsQTY: (2)NOTE:Malan, a Geneva-born Anglican divine, polyglot and Orientalist, first travelled to Palestine in the early 1840s, documenting his journey with sketches and watercolours. He accompanied Layard for parts of his Nineveh journey and a number of plates in his books are based on Malan's drawings.

* Gillray (James). A Tube for a Whale! representing an Empty-Barrel tossed out to amuse great Leviathan-John-Bull, in order to divert him from instantly laying violent hands upon ye new Coalition Packet, H. Humphrey, March 14th 1806, etching with contemporary hand-colouring, small areas of adhesion scaring to the verso, an old ink manuscript price of 2/6 to the lower left margin, 250 x 260 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:BM Satires 10543. A giant sea monster (John Bull) threatens a barely seaworthy ship, crewed by the new and unpopular 'broad-bottom' administration, including Erskine, Sheridan, Petty, Grenville (dressed as a naval officer), Windham, Spencer, Fox, Grey, and at the tiller, Lord Ellenborough in wig and gown. The ship has a broomstick for a mast and is propelled by the breath of the Prince of Wales. The disreputable crew have just thrown a barrel over the side, marked 'Real Constitutional Spirits', hoping the distract the giant leviathan.

Parkinson (John). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world..., Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein. Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist..., London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640, initial blank and additional engraved title not present, letterpress title with several manuscript inscriptions 'A good edition of a curious work, invaluable as the plates are all coloured by some private hand well worth 3-3-0', with partially inked out inscription 'Michel Pierre, ce 26/16 October 1689 pore 03 pièce moins 3 lint(?)', and 'Job Lousley's Book Hampstead Norris Berks 1854', woodcut botanical illustrations throughout with near-contemporary hand-colouring, decorative initials, headpieces, chapter line breaks also with near-contemporary hand-colouring, lower outer corner of N4 with short closed tear and slight printing fault (not affecting meaning of text), closed tear to L5 partially repaired, 2X5 & 2X6 damp stained, short closed tear at foot of 4B6 and repaired closed tear to 5P4, first leaf of 'The Table of the English Names' (7H1) at rear of volume frayed to edges, errata leaf present at rear, occasional light dust-soiling to margins, slight marginal damp staining to few leaves, late 20th-century endpapers with 18th-century armorial bookplate of Henri-Joseph Rega (1690-1754) relaid to front pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving morocco title label, board corners neatly repaired, folio (33.4 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S121875; STC 19302.Henri-Joseph Rega (1690–1754) was a professor of medicine and rector of Leuven University, in the Habsburg Netherlands, where he established a botanical garden, laboratories for chemistry and physics, and an anatomical theatre, as well as adding a new wing to the University Hall (originally Leuven's medieval cloth hall).Job Lousley (1790-1855) was born in South Moreton, Berkshire and lived in Blewbury and Hampstead Norris, near Newbury. He was an avid book collector and published widely on agricultural, botanical and historical matters relating to Berkshire.

* Tamil Prayer Book. Manuscript of palm leaves, probably 20th century, a total of 100 leaves (plus 3 blanks at rear), the first leaf with pen and ink geometric diagrams, the remaining leaves written to rectos and versos, threaded together with two string cords and to wooden battens, leaf size 46 x 4 cmQTY: (1)

Mason (William). Arts Advancement or the most Exact, Lineal, Swift, Short, and Easy method of Short-hand-Writing hitherto Extant, is now after a view of all others, and twenty eight years practice) raised to a higher degree of perfection than any as yet published, 3rd edition, corrected and enlarged, [London]: Printed for the Author, 1687, 24 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title within architectural border, engraved text to one side of leaf printed within decorative border, leaf 3 with early ink doodle and leaf 21 with early manuscript, occasional fraying to margins, some light dust-soiling, front free endpaper with early manuscript calculation in brown ink and note 'S. Lowdell from Mrs Phillips', contemporary sheep, joints slightly cracked at head and foot, lightly scuffed, slim 12mo (14.4 x 6.9 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R23530; Wing M942. Wing gives format 16mo.Scarce, only two UK institutional copies found (Edinburgh Central Library and Senate House Library, University of London), and four copies in US institutional libraries found (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, New York Public Library, Newberry Library, Yale University and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).William Mason (fl. 1672-1709; d. 1719?) issued three influential treatises on shorthand: the present work, first published in 1682, and the more romantically titled "A Pen Pluck'd from an Eagles Wing" (1672) and "La Plume Volante" ("The Flying Pen") of 1707. Developed over half a century, Mason's system used 423 characters, and words were written as they sound, a fact that makes it of interest to modern linguists for the light it can shed on 17th-century English pronunciation. Mason's system was adapted by Thomas Gurney for use as the official shorthand of the criminal courts at the Old Bailey, his influence on stenography stretched into the 19th century. Mason's one-shilling publications both supplemented his income and promoted his services as an instructor of stenography; the title page here advertises lessons available at his "Writing School, the Hand and Pen in Grace-Church Street."

* Missal Leaves. Six manuscript missal leaves on vellum, Italian, circa 1350, text in red and black and to both recto and verso (apart from final leaf), each leaf with decorative initials in blue and red ink infill and with marginal flourishes, some letters enlarged in red or blue ink, a few small portions of damp-staining to margins, disbound, sheet size 34.5 x 23 cmQTY: (6)

Weever (John). Ancient Funerall Monuments within the united Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the dissolued Monasteries therein contained..., 1st edition, London: Thomas Harper, 1631, engraved portrait frontispiece with early manuscript annotation at foot (lined to verso), additional engraved title with early/mid 20th-century library ink stamp to verso, some toning and occasional spotting, upper pastedown with 19th-century bookplate bearing initials J. M. and later ink stamp, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and corners repaired, folio (STC 25223), together with:Stirling (William Alexander, Earl of), Recreations with the Muses, London: Printed by Tho. Harper, 1637, title within decorative woodcut border with ink obscured early signature of Roger Gibson, (frayed to margins with slight loss, dust-soiled and marked, lined to verso), I5 with short closed tear at foot, leaf T3 with hole and slight text loss, final leaf of text strengthened to fore-margin, without initial and final blanks (A1 & 2E8), damp staining to margins, some worming mostly to margins, later endpapers with bookplate of Paulin Martin of Abingdon to upper pastedown, hinges split, contemporary calf, rebacked, board corners worn, folio (Pforzheimer, 5; STC 347),Luis (de Granada), Quartus Tomus Concionum de Tempore, quae post festum sacratissimi Corporis Christi, usque ad initium Dominici Aduentus in Ecclesia habentur, Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1581, printer's woodcut device to title (with ink smudge over old indistinct signature), some damp staining at foot mostly at front and rear of volume, contemporary limp vellum with yapp fore-edges, lacking ties, 8vo QTY: (3)