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DREXEL (JEREMIAS)The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternitie, additional engraved title by William Marshall, 7 engraved plates, contemporary manuscript annotations throughout, margins shaved occasionally just touching text, loss repaired to lower portion of H2 affecting text, light toning and occasional spotting, modern half calf gilt, minor wear [ESTC S784], 12mo, Cambridge, printers to the University, 1636--AYRES (PHILIP) Emblemata Amatoria, 44 engraved emblems, title in red and black, text in French, English, Italian and Latin, lacking first free initial end-paper, one leaf loose, early manuscript inscriptions, some margins shaved, near contemporary calf, loss to spine, corners bumped [ESTC T87789], 8vo, W. Likely, 1714--KING (WILLIAM) An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes, illustrated frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, manuscript inscription on upper and lower pastedowns, light toning, calf soiled and worn, upper cover nearly detached [ESTC T134106], 12mo, Henry Lintot, 1736; and 4 others (7)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, William Knight 1641, ink inscription on title.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

CASTIGLIONE (BALDESSARE)Il libro del cortegiano, second (first 8vo) edition, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, light old stain to some leaves, early ink marginal note in 2 side-margins, small hole touching woodcut device on title and a couple of letters on leaf Aii, later vellum, retaining original final blank free endpaper with early ownership inscriptions, and binder's waste including 5-lines of an early 15th century illuminated manuscript [Adams C925; Olschki 17581], 8vo, Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, October 1528Footnotes:The scarce second edition of Castiglione's celebrated courtly manual. Giunta's octavo edition was printed in the same year as the Aldus folio edition, and is rare at auction. The work was written from the author's personal experience at the court of Urbino, and his description of the ideal courtier helped it become one of the most influential literary works of the High Renaissance.Provenance: Andrea Balestra, ink ownership inscription on binder's waste at front; Several verses, including 'O sfortunata Ricolina/non saro mai piu contenta', in an early Italian hand on final blank.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

BERTIUS (PETRUS)Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quinque, second edition, additional engraved title, 171 (of 175) engraved full-page maps, lacks final 5 leaves and index (the latter supplied in manuscript), title laid down, repairs touching text to *3, *4, B4, C8, D5, H4, tear to F2, damp-staining and occasional toning, trimmed, later calf, lacks ties, rubbed [Shirley 182 and 211], oblong 8vo (110 x 170mm.), Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz, 1603This 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

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINTHERRICK (ROBERT) One Hundred and Eleven Poems... Selected, Arranged & Illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint, NUMBER 103 OF 105 'SPECIAL' COPIES, with additional suite of 8 plates loose in separate sleeve, and signed on colophon by the artist, from an overall edition of 550 copies, numerous sepia collotypes after William Russell Flint, including 13 SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in blue ink beneath the image, original white sheepskin gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g. [Cock-A-Hoop 199], Golden Cockerel Press, 1955; together with 50 PROOF ILLLUSTRATIONS, including 8 SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, 2 copies of the prospectus, and a manuscript note of presentation from the artist, housed together in a purpose-made fabric-lined morocco-backed book box, gilt lettered with title, author, artist and 'Artist's Proofs' on spine (light mark on spine, small scuff on upper cover), folioFootnotes:ONE OF THE SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional 50 proof plates including some signed.Provenance: 'Here are some Herrick proofs with my compliments. These collotypes vary tremendously in quality. I have omitted quite a lot as I had no good, or passable proofs at all. I am sorry the set is incomplete... W. Russell Flint', ink note loosely inserted.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

DAVID (JOANNES)Veridicus Christianus, second edition, engraved title, 100 engraved plates by Philips Galler (with captions in Dutch, French and Latin), woodcut initials, printer's device at end, 2 other full-page illustrations (one with volvelle lacking moveable circle), occasional marginal manuscript annotations, repair to lower margin and inner gutter of title, light toning and occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, wear to spine and covers, crack at foot of spine [USTC 1009739; Landwehr 183], 4to, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1606Footnotes:Provenance: Count Johann Bernhard II von Herberstein (1630-1685), starosta of Glogow, Poland, ink inscription on lower margin of dedication 'Ex libris Illustrissimi Domini Joannis Bernardi Comitis ab Herberstein Capitanei Regii Glogloviensis'; Genevieve Ludlow Griscom, bookplate.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

TRADE - NINETEENTH CENTURY BILLS AND EPHEMERA Album of approximately 195 nineteenth century business trade invoices, mostly pictorial, others calligraphic, and 2 broadside advertisements, 28 loose, others mounted mostly between 2 and 4 per page, some full-page, others cut down to show heading only, some manuscript additions (goods, prices, buyers, dates), largest 185 x 230mm., and smaller, nineteenth century maroon morocco album, g.e., worn, folio, [c.1810-1870] Footnotes: Trades include tea dealers, operative chemists, haberdashers and linen drapers, boot and shoe manufacturers, glass manufacturers 'and dealers in China and Staffordshire Ware', silk mercers, hatters and hosiers, farm implements, watch and clock makers, florists and nurserymen, brush manufacturer and coopers, music and musical instrument sellers, pork butchers, and many others, mostly in London but some regional (Scarborough, Leamington Spa, Banbury). The broadsides are 'Directions for Giving Watson's Purging Paste to Horses, Dogs... Mr. Roope's, Druggist, Red Lion Street, Norwich', and 'J. Bernaby... Brush Maker, Turner & Cooper to the Queen. Italian, Oil, Pickle and Fish Sauce Warehouse...'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) and HAYDEN CHURCHArchive of correspondence, interviews and other material assembled by journalist Charles Hayden Church (1878-1956) during a long association with George Bernard Shaw over some twenty years, comprising:i) Articles and questionnaires, typed by Church and annotated with responses and extensive manuscript amendments by Shaw, giving his opinion on a wide variety of topics such as sex education in schools ('...Sex should not be discussed with children, either by parents or school teachers...'), his vegetarianism ('...I eat cheese, butter and eggs but no flesh, no fowl and no fish... I object to a carnivorous diet not only because I feel instinctively that it is abominable but because it involves a prodigious slavery of men to animals...'), prohibition in the US ('...It may be that life is so miserable in America that people cannot bear it without drugging themselves with alcohol...'), the economic future of England ('...If the Big Ship [Civilisation] goes down, England will go down with it...'), women's success in previously male preserves ('...Why shouldn't they? Miss Johnson did not fly to Australia: a machine did; and she hung on to it and steered it... several women had babies yesterday without any help from a machine. Prove to me that a man has achieved that amazing and arduous feat...'), on longevity ('...we die because we do not know how to live, and kill ourselves by lethal habits...'), suggesting future political programmes ('...I am not God Almighty disguised as GBS... I am advising women to demand the Coupled vote – One Couple One Vote... I advise the whole nation to put before every other reform the invention of an alphabet of at least 42 letters capable of indicating every sound in our speech...'), matrimony ('...a woman's right to motherhood should not be conditional on her taking on a husband...'), adding a scene to the film version of Pygmalion ('...the cinema can afford practically unlimited money...'), artificial insemination ('...raises many questions... I can not forsee what will happen...'), his 91st birthday ('...Birthday! Get out. Go. The man who ever utters the word Birthday in my presence is no friend of mine... Good afternoon. Don't come again...'), an amusing account of faking a séance ('...An evening of miracles followed... After that experience I could not discuss the subject with Oliver Lodge grieving for his lost son, nor with the infatuated author of Sherlock Holmes...'), on the partition of Palestine ('...The Jews and Arabs, backed by local Home Rulers and Imperialists, must fight it out until they are tired of bloodshed and financially bankrupt...'), writing ('...A slosher using ready made phrases and ideas and never stopping to think can write several thousand words a day... I can write the dialogue of a long play easily within two months if I stick at it... the stage business is pure drudgery...'), on Shakespeare ('...a volcano from whom plays burst like lava. I am by comparison a tidy old maid...'), inspiration ('...I can sit down without an idea in my head except that I must write a play; and a play comes. A good play too...'), and much else; with a typed article signed and dated ('G. Bernard Shaw/ 19 May 1933') explaining that his initial sympathies with the Nazi movement were soon expelled by Hitler's 'insanity' over the 'Jewish question': '...an epidemic of a very malignant disease... I appeal to Herr Hitler and Captain Goering to bear in mind that Judophobia is not a part of Fascism, but an incomprehensible excrescence on it... May I add that I am not a Jew? I belong to that still naively anti-Jewish nation, the Irish. The Irish do not know that Jesus Christ was a Jew. Probably ninety nine per cent of the Nazis are equally ignorant...', comments in red and black ink and pencil, c.70 pages, 4to and 8vo, [1930's/40's]ii) Autograph and typed letters, memos, and postcards signed ('G. Bernard Shaw', 'G.B.S.'), to Hayden Church, some marked 'Private', with typed letters from Hayden Church to George Bernard Shaw, returned with Shaw's responses, and three from his secretaries, with additional fragments, Shaw's comments mostly written in red ink, c.25 items on various subjects, including an early letter warning Church not to bother his wife ('...Do not exploit Ayot St Lawrence and Mrs Shaw any further... unless you want to have an implacable enemy always at my elbow take note to keep on the right side of her... Pardon the hint...'), his play On the Rocks ('...Provisionally you may call it Piffle...'), death ('...I am a member of the Cremation Society... earth burial should be made illegal. As to my ashes I do not care what becomes of them provided they are inseparably mixed with those of my wife...'), Napoleons inability to procreate ('...Something was too short and the seminal jet did not reach the effective place...'), on Elizabeth II ('...constitutional monarchy is one of the professions for which women are specially fitted...'), etc.; with six autograph envelopes, c.30 pages, 4to and 8vo, Ayot St Lawrence, Whitehall Court, SW1 and Malvern Hotel, Malvern, and elsewhere, [11 September 1930 to 4 August 1950 where dated]iii) Group of nine photographs taken by George Bernard Shaw, all but one annotated on reverse by Shaw in ink or pencil ('Ayot St Lawrence/ Shaw's Villa/ called Shaw's Corner', 'Jehanne la Pucelle/ watching for English soldiers/statue by Claire/ Winston', 'Shaw's mulberry tree/ There is another in Malvern but this is his home one', 'Shaw's favourite statue/ of Shakespeare/ 15' high/ bought by him in Frinton/ for twenty three/ shillings'), each with a typed caption by Church attached, 83 x 135mm. and smaller, [no date]iv) Album of press cuttings kept by Hayden Church ('Property of Hayden Church/ Liberal reward to finder'), including letters from John Galsworthy and George Moore, c.48 leaves, red cloth titled 'Scraps' on front board, worn and stained, binding loose, folio (282 x 225mm.), [1913-1917]; with additional loose cuttings of his articles on Shaw from Sunday Despatch, New York Times Magazine, Evening Standard etc., [1929-1947]; and a photograph of Hayden Church and his wife on camels in Egypt at the press opening to Tutankhamun's tomb, 1923; group of articles, writings and press cuttings relating to Church's other work such as 'The Real Annie Oakley' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Minor'; with a copy of George Bernard Shaw: Eight Interviews by Hayden Church selected by Edward Connery Lathem, The Perpetua Press, 2002, limited edition of 500 copies.v) The Plays of Bernard Shaw, 12 vol., inscribed beneath portrait frontispiece in Saint Joan 'G. Bernard Shaw to Hayden Church/ Ayot St. Lawrence 20th October 1945', publisher's limp blue leather, spines gilt (slightly worn at ends), housed in original hinged box with facsimile signature on lid (this near detached), small 8vo, Constable, 1926Footnotes:'I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ASSUMPTIONS. THE INTERVIEW IS AT AN END. GOODBYE': THE ARCHIVE OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S 'FAVORITE INTERVIEWER'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS (PEDRO)Viage del Mundo, FIRST EDITION, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, final leaf supplied in manuscript facsimile, soiling to title, occasional light damp-stains (mostly marginal to table at end), later half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [Palau 03651; Sabin 57524, 'Rare'; Streit I:345], small 4to, Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1614Footnotes:Scare first edition of this account by Ordonez de Cevallos' (c.1557-1635) of his circumnavigation of the world from 1589 to 1593, the first to commence from the Americas, when he travelled throughout the Spanish colonies there. He devotes two chapters to one of the earliest accounts of Bermuda before it was settled by the Somers Islands Company in 1612. Provenance: ?Eighteenth century ownership inscription to verso of the front free endpaper; Antonio Canovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian, statesman, and prime minister, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1975, lot 277.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

WORLD WAR I - SPORTSMAN'S BATTALION Album of manuscript and printed ephemera relating to the service career of Major Raymond Oliver Jourdain (1871-1942) of the 23rd (1st Sportsman's) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, from his enlistment in October 1914 to his demobilisation in April 1920, containing some 200 items, including four manuscript maps ('Plan of centre Section of Zr. (Cambrin)', 'Plan of Russell's Keep', 'Plan of Trenches at Givenchy'), manuals ('Some of the Many Questions a Platoon Commander should ask Himself on Taking over a Trench, and at Intervals Afterwards', 'Defensive measures Against Gas Attacks', 'Chilled Feet and Frostbite, Prevention of'), copies of battalion orders ('When a serious bombardment has taken place... you will report to the orderly room by wire'), photographs, concert programmes, certificates, membership cards, receipts, menus, postcards, Christmas cards, newspaper cuttings, medal ribbons and much else, on 30 album leaves, half calf with metal regimental badge on front board, oblong folio (265 x 350mm.), 1914-1920 Footnotes: 'I AM HERE FOR TWO PURPOSES – TO DO AS MUCH DAMAGE AS POSSIBLE TO THE ENEMY AND TO HOLD MY PART OF THE LINE AT ALL COSTS': RECORDS OF AN OFFCER IN THE 'SPORTSMAN'S' BATTALION. The Sportsman's Battalion was one of Kitchener's 'Pals' battalions formed in the early months of the First World War, in this case made up of men up to the age of 45 who had distinguished themselves on the sports field and included in their ranks a number of retired officers, members of the peerage and several professional footballers and first-class cricketers. Raymond Oliver Jourdain joined their ranks at the age of 43. He saw action in the trenches at Cambrin and Givenchy until he was, as material in this album shows, wounded on 11 February 1916 and invalided out. In December he was employed in Directorate of Mobilizations at the War Office. Jourdain was awarded the 'Cavalier' Italian Order of the Crown in 1919, the certificate for which is included in the album. 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

[SCUPOLI (LORENZO)]The Spiritual Conflict, second edition, half-title, printed title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, engraved illustrations throughout, lower margin shaved occasionally touching text, light age-toning, rebacked, some wear, 8vo, Paris, 1652--GOODWYN (THOMAS) Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, title-page repaired, early manuscript annotations, margins shaved occasionally touching text, some toning [ETSC R1855], Andrew Crook, 1671; Romanæ historiæ anthologia recognita et aucta, manuscript annotations, tear with loss of text to D7, light age-toning [ESTC R85], R. Chiswel and J. Wright, 1680; ROUS (FRANCIS) Archæologiæ Atticæ libri septem, light toning, Oxford, Richard Davis, 1675, 3 works bound in 1 vol., modern half calf, shelfwear, corners bumped, 4to, and 3 others (5)Footnotes:Provenance: Second item, Thomas Connolly, bookplate; Rev. Frank Parker MA, bequeathed to the Bishopric of Cornwall, 1883, bookplate.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

ALBUM – COLLECTIONTwo albums containing autograph letters, cut signatures, free fronts, and other material collected by the Hathaway family, some sewn in, others loose; the first album containing c.35 autograph letters including Warren Hastings (honoured to be made a governor of Christ's Hospital and arranging to be presented to the staff, 23 July 1795), Charles James Fox (making arrangements to be presented to the school governors, [n.d.]), George Canning (regretting he can not help, 5 October 1806), William Wilberforce (secretarial, 23 April 1806), Thomas Clarkson (3 pages, regarding a journey around the country gathering support for the abolitionist movement, 18 January 1804), other material and ephemera including manuscript notes (6 pages), probably by Charles Hathaway, describing the history of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond and how it was nearly lost, the Seige of Lucknow, a massacre of Europeans ('...some blackening their faces & putting on native dress to escape in disguise...'), with 12 pages taken from a travel log, printed note of thanks to William Silas Hathaway for his gift of Mr Pitt's Speeches, etc., original brown ruled calf with metal clasp stamped 'VR Patent London', 'Autographs' embossed in gilt on upper cover, worn, 4to (260 x 202mm.); the second containing c.160 cut signatures, free fronts and fragments including Walter Scott (from letter to his cousin William Scott of Raeburn), three notes from William Scott of Raeburn ('...I beg your acceptance of the enclosed autograph...'), Wellington, Charles Dickens, Lord Anson Byron, various bishops and clergy, nobility, politicians (Joseph Hume, Francis Burdett), royalty (Queen Victoria) etc., and 9 autograph letters including Richard Owen (making arrangements to dine), half calf, worn, 4to (238 x 135mm.), late eighteenth/nineteenth century (2)Footnotes:These albums, together with the letter from Isaac Newton to Samuel Pepys also included in this sale, come from descendants of Dr William Silas Hathaway (1783-1853) of Wimbledon, who collected and edited the speeches of the younger Pitt and was painted by Edmund Havell in 1847. His son Dr Charles Hathaway (1817-1903) joined the East India Company in 1843 and was promoted to Special Sanitary Commissioner for Calcutta 1861-64, during which time he corresponded with Florence Nightingale. For the last two years of his career from 1864-1866, he became private secretary to John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence and Viceroy of India. The addressee of several of the earlier letters contained in the album was Matthias Hathaway, who held the position of Steward at Christ's Hospital from 1790 to 1813, and is mentioned by Charles Lamb in his memoir 'Christ's Hospital Five & Thirty Years Ago'. Provenance: Matthias Hathaway, Steward at Christ's Hospital 1790 to 1813; Dr William Silas Hathaway (1783-1853); his son Dr Charles Hathaway (1817-1903); thence by descent to the present owner.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

A 17th century manuscript Commonplace book 101 numbered pages in a fairly illegible sloping longhand seemingly in Latin and English with intermittent dates throughout, perhaps a lawyer's notebook, vellum bound (295 x 190mm)

Norwich Antiquarian Interest A folio containing a collection of c.20 15th - 18th century manuscript vellum and paper documents, grants, petitions etc, some with original wax seals relating to Norwich Cathedral and associated subjects (c20)

A 19th century manuscript common place book by Agnes Robina McGeorge in a flowing longhand plus an extensive collection of c.50 well filled autograph albums, scrapbooks etc , in very mixed condition (c.50)

Mitford, Unity. 1914-1948. A manuscript two page (sides) letter written in faltering German on Hotel Palais D'Orsay (Paris) note paper dated 20 March 1935. The letter in faded blue ink is addressed to 'Herr Werlin' presumably Jakob Werlin (1886-1965) who supplied Mercedes Benz automobiles to the Nazi party. In the letter Mitford is asking Werlin to thank the 'Fuhrer' for his gift (presumably a car), 'it is my greatest treasure' and describes her journey to Paris. She concludes with the Nazi salutation. (210 x 135mm) Translation available.

Captain Richard Pierce, The Halsewell Tragedy 1786A 38pp manuscript document on watermarked paper entitled ‘These poems were composed and written by my dear lamented grandfather Captain Pierce who lost his life with two of his daughters and two nieces on board his Ship as well as several Passengers and Crew in the Halswell’ Black ink on paper, taped and torn edges, corners bent, damp stain (325 x 200mm)Note: The Halsewell was an East Indiaman launched in 1778. Under the command of Capt. Richard Pierce she set sail in January 1786 on her third voyage to India and foundered during a storm on rocks off the Isle of Purbeck with great loss of life including Capt. Pierce, his daughters and niecesNote: Charles Dickens recounts the tragedy in his short story ‘The Long Voyage’ 1853. The heroic efforts of the Captain to avert disaster created a sensation. King George III visited the scene, George Cruickshank published a portrait of Captain Pierce (1786), JMW Turner depicted the storm in the ‘Wreck of the Halsewell’ (c.1818) The document contains the following written in a good longhand:-pp. 1-6 ‘A Sonnet’, 30 versespp. 6-10 ‘Parting’, 33 versespp. 11-12 ‘Reflections at Sun-rise. Written in the N.E. Trade-winds’, 55 linespp. 13-15 ‘Reflections at Sun-Setting’, 82 linespp. 16 ‘An Epitaph on a Friend’, 28 linespp. 17-18 ‘A Monody’, 43 linespp. 19-25 An Elegiac Poem written in False Bay (South Africa) 1772, 212 lines(Titled). ‘Written on board the Asburnham (East Indiaman, Earl of Ashburham, launched 1761) occasioned by an abusive paragraph in the Weekly Chronicle of that Ship in answer to a hint that improper attention was shewn to a Young Lady under the Guardianship of the Author’pp. 26-28 A 17 verse Poem(Titled) ‘Written at the Top of a hill, In the village of Coldhorne near Bath. (from whence is a beautiful prospect over the adjacent country) where the author went to school pp. 29-33 A 21 verse poem(Titled) ‘A Copy of Verses sent to Humphrey Primatt. D.D. with two Java Sparrowspp. 34-35 An 7 verse poemNote 1: Humphrey Primatt (1734-1776?). Clergyman and animal rights pioneer. R.P. refers to this in a note at the bottom of p.34. ‘Dr Primatt has just published a treatise on mercy to brutes’. With a further note at the bottom of p.35. ‘The cruel distinction made by many in disfavour of the blacks was often a subject of his commiseration’(Titled) The following Lines were written on board the Halsewell By a private soldierpp. 36-38 67 line poemPasted on signature ‘Sophia Ricketts’

A collection of nine 18th century and later legal manuscript documents on vellum and paper, mainly East Anglian interest including bills of sale, lists of constables, petitions, indentures etc plus a group of six French manuscript legal documents (quantity)

'The Psalms of David' from a copy of the 'Matthew' Bugge Bible printed in May 1551 by Robert Toye and Nicholas Hyll. Complete but some initial letters removed, bound with twelve vellum pages of French language manuscript notes in different hands (305 x 210mm) plus eight leaves from a further copy of a 1551 Toye and Hyll 'Matthew' Bible plus a single leaf part of the First Epistle to Timothy plus a further fragment of a 16th century Bible in Gothic type (4)

A Florentine manuscript; a double sided page of Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences with coloured historiated first initials (265 x 195mm), framed

A 19th century manuscript copy of the Charter of Orford 1709 dedicated to the Earl of Orford by Josias Alsop, vellum bound (185 x 140mm) plus a collection of ephemera related to East Anglia including print, documents, sale prospect, maps etc (quantity)

An 18th century French manuscript journal of wine purchases 4th October 1775 - 6th June 1787 with detailed descriptions and costings in a sloping longhand with later additions, vellum bound (245 x 180mm)

17th / 18th Century manuscript documents, indentures etc, 3 on vellum and a copy of 'The Newry Examiner & Louth Advertiser', Dundalk Dec. 18 1861 (6)

Hill, David Octavius and Robert Adamson Portrait photograph of Robert Bryson, c.1843-8 salted paper print from a calotype negative, 20 x 14.9cm, mounted, framed and glazed, manuscript provenance note dated 1887 pasted to backboardProvenance: Note: Note: Robert Bryson FRSE (1778-1852) held the royal warrant for clockmaking in Scotland, and worked from premises at 66 Princes Street, Edinburgh, adjacent to Alexander Hill, brother and business partner of D. O. Hill.Provenance:1) Presented by Robert Bryson to Isabella Begg (née Burns, 1771-1858), sister of Robert Burns, the poet (her portrait taken by Hill and Adamson);2) By descent to Agnes (1800-1883; married name Brown) and Isabella Begg (1806-1886), daughters of Isabella Begg;3) Presented on the death of Isabella Begg to David Dunlop, solicitor, Ayr, executor;4) Presented by Dunlop to Robert Adam (fl. 1870s-80s), city chamberlain, Edinburgh, c.1887;5) With Lockharts, solicitors, Ayr.Literature:Sarah Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1981, p. 46 (version 'a')Colin Ford, An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1976, p. 357.Cf. David Bruce, Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes, 1973, pp. 180-1 for another version.

Iraq Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon by William Beaumont Selby, Commander, Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia. [Series title at head:] Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. No. LI.–New Series. Bombay: printed for government at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1859. First edition, 8 pp. text (single unsigned gathering, stitched as issued), 2 hand-coloured lithographic folding plans, 'Sheet I' dimensions 130 x 59 cm, with 2 inset views, 'Sheet II' dimensions 59 x 67cm, housed in original blue-green cloth chemise with printed label to front. Wear and worming to chemise, Foreign Office Library bookplate and pocket to inside cover, text with a few small worm-tracks, damp-staining and partial browning to title-page, manuscript shelfmark numbers to p. 3, both plans toned, 'Sheet I' with a few small worm-tracks, a few punctures along one transverse fold, strip of adhesive-related light browning along join of two sections, Sheet II' with a few minute worm-tracks, small tear at one intersectionNote: Note: No other copy traced in auction records.

Pornographic novel - circle of Oscar Wilde Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal A Physiological Romance for Today. Cosmopoli [probably Paris: Renaudie], 1906. 2 volumes in one, square 8vo (17.2 x 13cm), contemporary half japon, [4] 148, [4] 178 pp., title-pages printed in red and black, half-titles with limitation statements verso, endpapers renewed, wear to extremities, contents toned, title-pages and early leaves of each volume browned, volume 1 with repaired closed tears to margins of title-page and p. 20/21 and 21/22, pp. 129/30 with repaired tear through text, volume 2 title-page with ink-stamp 'London 1922' verso, pp. 31/2 with slight marginal loss, pp. 65 with repaired tear through text [Peter Mendes, Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800-1930, 87-B]Note: Note: Second edition, one of 200 copies, extremely rare, with no other copy traced in auction records, and one copy traced in institutions, at the British Library.First published in 1893 by Leonard Smithers, Teleny was the first novel in English 'in which the main story was concerned with homosexuality at its fullest extent [that is, in sexually explicit terms] ... The author, or authors, of Teleny were alone in their day in England in attempting to record the special atmosphere of homosexual intrigue and the emotions of men involved in … a liaison' (Reade, Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900, 1970, pp. 49-50).Charles Hirsch, owner of the Librairie Parisienne in London, recalled in his introduction to a French translation published in the 1930s that the manuscript was originally deposited at his shop by Oscar Wilde sometime in 1890. Wilde left instructions that the sealed parcel be held until requested by one of his friends, presenting his calling card. The process was repeated several times, with the parcel being retrieved and returned by different callers before finally being returned to Wilde. The extent of Wilde's personal contribution to the text has been debated, but the work is now thought to be the work of a number of authors in his circle, composing the text in the round-robin tradition (see Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, 2000 pp. 34-6).

[Jacobite Interest] Ascanius, or the young adventurer Manuscript copy after the edition: London: Printed for G. Smith, [n.d.] After 1746, 70 manuscript pp., in marbled paper wrappers, 20.5 x 16.5cm;[Idem] Ascanius; or the young adventurer... London: G. Smith, [n.d.] 8vo, 18th or 19th century red half morocco gilt, some dust-soiling [ESTC T22533];[Stuart, James Edward] Memoires du Chevalier de St. George... Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12mo, portrait, title-page in red and black, contemporary vellum, a little marginal dampstaining;[Mar, Robert Cochrane, Earl of] A Detection of the falsehood, abuse, and misrepresentations in the late libel, intitled, the life of Sir Robert Cochran, Prime Minister in Scotland, to James the third. London: T. Cooper, 1735. 8vo, modern wrappers [ESTC T31733];[Earbery, Matthias] An historical account of the advantages that have accrued to England by the succession in the illustrious House of Hanover. London: 1722. Parts 1 & 2, 8vo, disbound;A cabinet council; Or secret history of Lewis XIV... London: H. Woodgate and S. Brooke, 1757. 12mo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, some browning, early ownership stencil [ESTC T127892];Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs supplication; Or, the Scots hudibras. A mock poem. St Andrews: James Morison, 1796. 12mo, engraved title-page, plates, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC T140221];Forbes, J. MacBeth. Jacobite gleanings. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1903. 8vo, red cloth gilt, some dampstaining to title-page

Indian lithographic printing Volume of treatises on Arabic grammar Lucknow or Kanpur: Nawal Kishore, 1870s. 4 works in one volume, tall 8vo (27 x 17cm), contemporary red sheep with marbled paper onlays to sides, each work with decorative floral title-page, edges dyed yellow, ownership inscription dated 1294 AH to front free endpaper, worming to spine, loss to marbled paper on rear board. Titles comprise:1) Risalat-i Lamiyah wa-Fusul-i Akbari wa-Guhar-i Manzum ['The Epistle on the letter "L", The Chapters of Akbar, and the Versified Jewel'], [no date, c.1875]. In 3 parts, [1] 8, 94, 14 pp., in Persian, very light worming to upper fore corners, very small worm-hole in text never affecting legibility;2) Shafiyah [by Ibn al-Hajib, active c.1200-1250 CE], 1291 AH [1874/5 CE]. 184 pp., main text in Arabic;3) Kafiyah [by Ibn al-Hajib], 1875 CE [dated in colophon]. 110 pp., main text in Arabic;4) Sharh Kafiyah Manzum ['Explanation of the Kafiyah, in verse'], 1872 CE. 50 pp., in Persian, decorative floral title-page, browning to title-page, variable worming to margins, small repair to foot of last 3 leaves, final leaf tipped to endpaper with consequent paper disruption to gutter, and with additional repair to top edgeNote: Note: The Nawal Kishore Press, founded at Lucknow in 1858 by Hindu entrepreneur Nawal Kishore (1836-1895), 'grew into the largest Indian-owned printing and publishing firm in South Asia. Supported by colonial patronage, the firm published an estimated 5,000 titles in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit and Hindi during Nawal Kishore's lifetime, while it also served as an intellectual hub for scholars, poets and literati. As one observer noted: "No other press in India was fortunate to have such a large number of huffaz, scholars, historians, writers and poets as were gathered simultaneously at this press"' (Ulrike Stark, 'Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur'an Printing in Colonial India', in Reese, ed., Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition, 2002, p. 158).

Lusus Eton 1753 Latin school exercise book from Eton College Manuscript exercise book, vellum bound with the manuscript title: "Lusus Eton 1753" to the upper cover, comprising 3pp. contents followed by 77 manuscript pp. containing Latin poems and occasional prose, each with the name of an Eton College fellow, master or assistant master in the upper left, the masters include Lyne, Mr North, Arden, Reade, Reepe?, Burton, Ekins Majr., Ch. Berkley, Freind, Hervey, Cook, Evans, Edwards, Loddington, Olnsley, Sumner etc., many of the pieces of writing have not been traced elsewhere

Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or studio (fl. c. 1830-50) The Balfour album 26 watercolours on wove paper, each approx. 27 x 21cm (all portrait format except numbers 9, 12 and 25, landscape; numbers 8, 10, 18 and 24 with J. Whatman Turkey Mills watermarks visible), corner-mounted to varicoloured paper leaves in contemporary green half morocco album, contemporary manuscript titles in ink to foot, many additionally with contemporary English translations of the title in pencil to lower left (given below in round brackets where applicable; supplied titles in square brackets), all annotated lower right 'Shekh Mahomed Ameer, Calcutta at Karyah', 'S. Mohammed Ameer Painter, situated at Kurrya' or similar (except 'A teacher of Hindostanee', in the same style but not annotated). Contents comprise:1. Assabardar (Mace bearer)2. Sotaburdar (Mace bearer)3. Hooka burdar4. Serkar (Native clerk)5. Dewan (A landed proprietor)6. (A teacher of Hindostanee)7. Barber8. Chouruburdar [Fly-whisk wallah]9. Palankeen10. Matoy walla (Sweet meat seller)11. Burkundaz (Watchman)12. Hindoostany Carriage13. Dorcah (Dog keeper)14. Maytur[?] (House sweeper)15. B. Woman [Bengali water carrier]16. Estruwallah [Iron wallah]17. Dancing girl18. Grass cutter19. Abdawr (Wine cooler & table servant)20. Coachman21. Ayah (Ladies attendant)22. Serdawr Bearer (Body attendant & house servant)23. Hurkarah (Letter carrier or message bearer)24. Khansamah (Head table attendant)25. Karachee (Native carriage)26. Bheshtee (Water carrier).With a similar watercolour bound between numbers 22 and 23, titled Hindoostanee Lady, signed 'Zayn al-Abidin musawwir [painter]', 19 x 15.5cm, Qajar-style, heightened with gum arabicNote: Note: A major collection of watercolours by one of the leading practitioners of ‘Company School’ painting for European patrons in 19th-century India. The only sets of any comparable extent which we can identify are a group in the British Library comprising 17 pictures of servants, castes, and tradesmen (Add. Or. 171-187), and the famous Holroyd album, produced for Calcutta merchant Thomas Holroyd, given by him to the Oriental Club in 1839, sold by them in 1961 and now dispersed.Acknowledged as 'by far the most talented and original' of all Calcutta painters specialising in work for the British (Archer, 1972), Shaykh Muhammad enjoyed an enthusiastic following among the city's colonial elite in the second quarter of the 19th century. In 1844 the traveller Fanny Parkes purchased a set of paintings evidently similar to the present album, publishing versions of the serkar, burkundaz and the Bengali water carrier in her 1850 travel memoir, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque.In 2019-20 Shaykh Muhammad's work featured in the Forgotten Masters exhibition of Company School paintings at the Wallace Collection, London, at which six of his paintings were shown. William Dalrymple, historian of British India and curator of the exhibition, paid tribute to his inimitable fusion of European and Indian techniques:‘The Shaykh was equally at home painting a Palladian house or thoroughbred horse, a group of dhobis or a pair of dogs. His single figures are sometimes shown in the Mughal tradition, in profile … but when he wished to, the Shaykh could paint in a more European style than any of his rivals, with low horizons and expanses of blank white space that no Mughal artist would have allowed. He had completely mastered perspective, foreshortening and shading, giving his work a realism and naturalism unique among Indian artists of his generation. Yet while in anatomical accuracy his horse portraits can stand comparison even with Stubbs, there is still an indefinable Indian warmth about his work, a Mughal application of the heart as well as the head'.Unlike his contemporary in Vellore, Yellapah, Shaykh Muhammad is not known to have produced a self-portrait, and little is known of his life or background. His paintings, however, have provoked speculation on his potentially ambivalent attitude towards to his patrons, who are either omitted entirely or, if they are present, are shown with their faces artfully concealed. One such painting, his depiction of a palanquin with a partially visible British passenger, is found in the present album (item 9). If this figure is indeed Thomas Holroyd, as stated in the Forgotten Masters catalogue, Shaykh Muhammad apparently had no reservations about reproducing the likeness for other customers.Provenance: By family repute acquired by Edward Green Balfour (1813-1889), surgeon and naturalist in India; thence by descent. Balfour travelled to India in 1834 as an assistant surgeon in the Madras medical service, and ended his career as surgeon-general in the presidency. An acknowledged polymath, he wrote on subjects including Indian languages and literature and forestry in addition to medicine. His most influential work in his own day was his Enyclopaedia of India and Southern Asia, published at Madras in 1857. Today he is also remembered for his pioneering ecological writings, which explored what he believed to be the 'direct relationship between deforestation, climatic change, and environmental degradation' (ODNB).Literature:Mildred Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library (1972), p. 76, cf. catalogue numbers 59-61.idem, Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period (1992), cat. nos. 80-82.William Dalrymple, ed., Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company (2019), pp. 17 and 122-131, cat. nos. 66-71.

South Africa Two travel albums, early 20th century Album 1: beginning on a cruise onboard the Union Castle Line, SS "Gaul", December 1903 - February 1904, sailing to South Africa past Capo Verde, the album containing manuscript menus, 2 laid-in watercolours of Capo Verde, 6 watercolours of the South African coast including Table Bay, several South African ink sketches, various laid-in South African postcards, several watercolours of South African landscapes including three watercolours of plantations in the Drakenburg Mountains, many pressed botanical specimens, several photographs mostly depicting tourists but also with three showing a Zulu wedding with the wedding party, bridesmaids and the bride and groom, several botanical watercolours, documentation from travel on to Lourenço Marques (Maputo), Mozambique, and Tanganyika with several watercolours, botanical illustrations and photographs, some documentation from the return cruise on the RPD "Herzog" of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, with a watercolour painting of Bab-el-Mandeb, album 26.5 x 36.5cm, disboundAlbum 2: beginning on a cruise onboard the Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, RPD "Tabora", December 1913-April 1914, sailing to South Africa from Marseille via Corsica, Naples and Port Said, Aden and Somaliland (Somalia), with many watercolours of views seen on the journey, alongside paintings of life onboard ship (such as the Christmas ball), the ship arriving in Kenya on Christmas Eve 1914 and including four watercolours of Mombasa, the journey continues to Tanganyika with watercolours of a local house and a baobab tree, with several botanical specimens before moving onto Zanzibar and Mozambique, before arriving in South Africa in February 1914. The South African section of the album comprises 30 watercolours (including Drakensberg Mountains, Mooi River Falls, views in Kamberg, Karkloof Falls, a local hut, scenes in Johannesburg and Pretoria and Table Mountain), several original photographs (mainly of tourists but some images of horsemanship), and a collection of pressed botanical specimens. The return journey leads through Namibia (five watercolours) and the Canary Islands. A typed travelogue of the journey to South Africa is loosely inserted.Provenance:Provenance: A cabin ticket for Miss Smythe and Miss M. Boyle is pasted to the initial leaf of the second album. One or two watercolours are signed 'Boyle', while a loosely inserted letter is signed Effay Smythe.

Gill, Eric Wood-Engravings Being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood. Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1924. First edition, 4to, number 7 of 150 copies, original cream buckram, uncut, with manuscript addition 'No. 5' inserted between words 'first' and (Virgin and Child) on title

Pattern Book - Queen's Porcelain, Florence Works, Stoke-on-Trent Designs for cups and saucers Porcelain pattern book containing c.238 patterns, mostly for cups and saucers, first half of the 20th century, many designs hand-coloured with manuscript notes, others using transfer printed designs, the final items to be included are designs and transfers for porcelain celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, red half calf with 'PATTERN BOOK' in gilt lettering to upper cover, 31.5 x 26cm, some rubbing to covers, slight internal dust-soiling, some transfer prints a little rubbedProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collectorNote: Note: The Florence Works of Taylor & Kent were based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, from around 1876-1988. They (and the subsequent Churchill Group) were manufacturers of Queen's Porcelain - a cream-coloured style of earthenware - until the mid-1990s. It is notable that this pattern book of Queen's Ware also included designs for porcelain for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, dating the final leaves of the album to 1953.

Indian lithographic printing Tarikh-i darbar-i taj pushi ['History of the Coronation Durbar'] Lucknow: Nawal Kishore, c.1904. 4to, recent red leather binding with original gilt cloth sides laid down, 4 12 596 pp., 2 lithographic title-pages printed in red and green, 48 halftone photographic plates, mainly portraits of maharajas (also including portraits of Edward VII, Curzon, the Duke of the Kent and their families, and durbar scenes), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, cloth rubbed and mottled text-leaves toned, ink-stamps of one C. L. Agrawal to blanks and to margins of pp. 262 and 326Note: Note: Rare fully illustrated Urdu translation of Stephen Wheeler's History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar (1904), no other copy traced in libraries in or in commerce. The Nawal Kishore Press, founded at Lucknow in 1858 by Hindu entrepreneur Nawal Kishore (1836-1895), 'grew into the largest Indian-owned printing and publishing firm in South Asia. Supported by colonial patronage, the firm published an estimated 5,000 titles in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit and Hindi during Nawal Kishore's lifetime, while it also served as an intellectual hub for scholars, poets and literati. As one observer noted: "No other press in India was fortunate to have such a large number of huffaz, scholars, historians, writers and poets as were gathered simultaneously at this press"' (Ulrike Stark, 'Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur'an Printing in Colonial India', in Reese, ed., Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition, 2002, p. 158).

Robson, Francis The Life of Hyder Ally with an Account of his Usurpation of the Kingdom of Mysore, and other Contiguous Provinces. To which is annexed, a Genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the British Prisoners of War, taken by his Son, Tippoo Saib. London: S. Hooper, 1786. First edition, 8vo (20.9 x 12cm), contemporary marbled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, signed by the author at end of preface (p. vi), moderate browning, near-contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, effaced ownership inscription to initial blank bleeding through onto title-page, a few other marks [ESTC T100166: 8 copies in UK libraries];Kirkpatrick, William (editor). Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan to Various Public Functionaries. London: for Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; and for John Booth, 1811. First edition, 4to (26.4 x 20cm), later black half sheep (probably a native binding), 2 plates of engraved Persian manuscript facsimile, browning, worming towards front and rear, stitching split between signatures b and c, signatures a and b consequently tipped to front free endpaper with concomitant paper disruption in gutter;Salmond, James. A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result of the Decisive War with the Late Tippoo Sultaun, in Mysore, London, 1800. Second edition, 8vo (21.5 x 12.5cm), contemporary half sheep, frontispiece of Tipu's tiger lacking, folding leaf of Persian manuscript facsimile (sig. 4C), folding letterpress table (sig. 5E), leather detached from spine (fragments laid in), spotting and browning to contents [ESTC T133172: 5 copies in UK libraries]Note: Note: No other copies of Robson's work traced in auction records; Kirkpatrick's work is rare in commerce. There was a quarto edition of Salmond's work published in the same year and presumed to have priority over this octavo edition.

Bindings Set of Bibles and Books of Common Prayer in fine morocco 'sunburst' bindings 1) The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Charles Bill, 1706. Folio (31.5 x 20cm), near-contemporary red morocco, spine compartments and covers richly gilt with flower devices, flanged drawer-handle motifs, angels, doves and urns, covers with central sunburst motifs comprising concentric light and dark green morocco onlays within gilt corona, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates, a few light scores to front cover, lacking 3G3-4 (part of Daniel), 3I3-4 (Obadiah to Micah IV), 3S3-4 (part of Apocrypha), 4B3-5 (Matthew), all supplied in early manuscript, also lacking engraved additional title-page and New Testament letterpress title-page, manuscript genealogy (Smith family, St Martin's parish, Ludgate) to initial blanks, front free endpaper excised, old spotting and staining, occasional repairs, one plate (Jepthahs Vow) torn with partial loss of text [ESTC T89302];2) The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747. 4to (26 x 19cm), contemporary green morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, covers each with decorative gilt frame enclosing central onlaid red morocco sunburst motif incorporating Christogram and angel-heads, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates and maps from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible ... in above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engrav'd by J. Cole from Designs of ye best Masters (London: Richard Ware, c.1725), the engraved title-page to the work also bound in, several of the plates folding, BCP bound in at front (Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747), this extra-illustrated with engraved additional title-page by John Sturt (with imprint of Richard Ware and possibly issued as part of the Two Hundred Historys set), bookplate of J. F. Thomas-Peter, covers refurbished, occasional offsetting and spotting to text-leaves adjacent to plates [Darlow & Moule 1078; ESTC T184184; see ESTC T130293 for The History Part of the Holy Bible, tracing 10 separately bound copies world-wide];3) [The Holy Bible ... Oxford: printed by the University Printer, 1731]. 4to (23.8 x 18cm), contemporary red morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, broad gilt border to covers enclosing central green morocco sunburst motifs incorporating Christogram and angel-head devices, lacking general title-page (New Testament title-page with imprint London: assigns of His Majesty's printer, and Henry Hills deceased), extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible (see above), BCP (Oxford: John Baskett, 1728) bound in at front, itself extra-illustrated with same engraved additional title-page as above and an engraved portrait of George II, contemporary ownership inscriptions of Elizabeth Hamnett and others to initial blanks, covers refurbished, endpapers renewed, text slightly browned, occasional spotting, leaf Q4 repaired [ESTC T81355]4) The Book of Common Prayer. London: Thomas Baskett, 1741. 4to (23.4 x 18cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers incorporating Christogram, Psalms bound in at rear, binding slightly rubbed, gilt faded from edges of text-leaves, tips bumped, spotting and browning, small tear in M4, [ESTC T167430];5) The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768. 12mo (15 x 8.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers, one metal clasp (of two), extra-illustrated with suites of engraved plates by John Sturt (The Liturgy of the Church of England Adorn'd with 55 Historical Cuts, London: Richard Ware, no date) including portrait frontispiece of George II and additional title-page, Psalms bound in at rear, rubbing to spine and extremities [ESTC T87229]

Portolan chart Carte Particulieres de la Mer Mediterannée [sic]. Faict A Marseille par Bremond, 1663.Manuscript portolan chart in pen and ink and watercolour heightened in gold, on single sheet of vellum (54 x 78.5cm), showing the Mediterranean from Portugal in the west to the Levantine seaboard in the east, names of coastal settlements written perpendicular to coastline, rivers and deltas also included, 13 compass roses each with projecting rhumb lines, several with flourishes incorporating mascarons and foliate decoration, decorative title cartouche lower left with allegorical figures either side, decorative unnumbered scale bar lower right, captions 'Europa' and 'Grecia' within strapwork cartouches (the latter incorporating mascaron), inset view of Marseilles upper left, Habsburg coat of arms within Spanish landmass, vignette of a man-of-war in the Atlantic (adjacent to the straits of Gibraltar), vignettes of Islamic rulers in turbans and robes within the landmasses of Africa, Turkey and Egypt, those for Turkey and Egypt each with adjacent vignette of fanciful coat of arms incorporating crescent surmounted by a crown, vignette of Jerusalem cityscape and the three crosses of Calvary at a right angle to right-hand border, Red Sea picked out in red, broad red and green border around all sidesNote: Note: The Bremond family were a dynasty of cartographers active in Marseille in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The family member responsible for this example is likely to be Estienne: the Huntington Library holds a portolan chart of the Aegean Sea which bears the signature 'Facit a Marseille par Estienne Bremond, 1655' (mssHM 31); the University of Cambridge holds a similar chart, depicting the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, signed only with the initials 'E B' but now attributed to Estienne and dated to c.1650 (Maps.Ms.Plans.697); it is thought to be the only portolan in their collections. One notable feature of the present example is that that the place-names are in large part not in the forms standard to any one major language and in some cases appear to show an Occitan influence, such as Gibarta for Gibraltar, Antibou for Antibes, and Nisa for Nice. A descendant of Bremond, Laurent, published in the 1720s a collection of charts Recueil de plusieurs plans des ports et rades de la mer Mediterranée, describing himself on the title-page as 'Hydrographe du Roy et de la Ville'.Provenance: Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland.

Housman, Catherine Three Letters to a Friend London: A. J. Valpy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 155 2 pp., 8 plates (7 engraved of which 2 hand-coloured; one aquatint), slips tipped to plates facing pp. 78 and 80 and to p. 90, rubbing to joints and extremities;Rhind, William Graeme. The Creation, illustrated by Six Engravings on Steel. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1844. Second edition (same year as the first), small 4to, original cloth, xviii 399 pp., engraved frontispiece, 6 mezzotint plates depicting the stages of creation, tissue-guards, front free endpaper removed, damp-staining to binding, frontispiece and plates 5-6, old library stamp (Rake Lane Lending Library) to title-page;Anderson, J. W. The Manner pointed out in which the Common Prayer was read in Private by the late Mr. Garrick, for the Instruction of a Young Clergyman: from whose Manuscript Notes this Pamphlet is composed. London: J. Plymsell, 1797. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, short crack to head of front joint, spotting, half-title discarded [ESTC T171474: 9 copies in UK libraries];[Derbyshire Dissenters]. Forms of Prayer, for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Belper. Belper: S. Mason, 1823. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep, 106 pp., wear to head of spine, crack to foot of rear joint;[Hawks, Francis]. A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary tan half calf gilt, 286 [2] 332 pp., gift inscription to T. G. B. Estcourt (1775-1853), member of parliament for the University of Oxford, to binder's blank, Estcourt family bookplate, half-title discarded, part 1 leaf G4 repaired;Charke, Charlotte. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;). Containing ... Her Adventures in Mens Cloaths ... Her turning Pastry Cook, etc. in Wales. London: W. Reeve; A. Dodd; E. Cook, 1755. Second edition, 12mo, contemporary half sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title, covers and frontispiece detached [ESTC T68298: 2 copies in UK libraries];and 3 others (not collated, including Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the Prophecies, 1804, 2 volumes contemporary Brasenose College Oxford prize-bindings; and Lockwood, The Western Pioneers, 1881, original cloth)Note: Note: Library Hub traces four copies only for Mrs Housman's work, a defence of the Biblical account of creation in the form of a response to two works by Scottish churchman Alexander Keith which adopted an accommodating view of Newtonian physics and recent advances in geology. Two copies traced for the Belper Forms of Prayer (Oxford and Manchester).

India - Bhopal Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets Ali Hasan Khan ibn Muhammad Siddiq Hasan. Subh-i Gulshan ['The Morning Rose-Garden']. Bhopal: Matba' Fayd, 1295 AH [1878 CE];Muhammad Muzaffar Husayn Saba. Ruz-i Rawshan ['Bright Daylight']. Bhopal: Matba' Shahjahani, 1296 AH [1878/9 CE].Both 8vo, side-stitched in uniform contemporary red half leather bindings, manuscript paper spine-labels, marbled sides, decorative title-pages, text in Persian, lithographed throughout, Subh-i Gulshan 646 14 pp., pp. 351/2 and 349/50 transposed, light marginal worming to front and rear, lower fore corner of rear board detached (still present), Ruz-i Rawshan 868 17 pp., page numbers 173-4 used twice (text not duplicated), pp. 207/8 and 204/5 transposed, marginal worming to outer leaves, rear inner hinge split, front inner hinge startingNote: Note: First editions of these two biographical dictionaries of contemporary and historical Persian-language poets, commissioned by the Bhopal court, 'the last princely court in South Asia to fully invest itself in the production of tadhkiras of Persian poets' (Schwartz p. 122). The growth of the tadhkira genre in India in the 18th and 19th centuries has been linked to the decline of the Mughal empire, the rise in Persian prestige, and the dispersal of Delhi elites to regional centres after the sack of the city in 1739. By the late 19th century, however, Persian was itself becoming marginalised by the rise of Urdu as a literary language. Persian tadhkiras produced by other courts, such as Arcot, focused on local poets, whereas the Bhopal offerings sought to be comprehensive. The author of Subh-i Gulshan has been identified as a son of Siddiq Hasan Khan (1832-1890), leading Islamic scholar and, via his second marriage, consort of Shahjahan, Begum of Bhopal. See further: Kevin J. Schwartz, 'A Transregional Persianate Library: the Production and Circulation of Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 18th and 19th Centuries', International Journal of Middle East Studies 52 (2020), 109-135.

Whitehead, Alfred North [Graeme Haldane] 8 volumes The Concept of Nature. Cambridge, 1920. First editions, 2 copies, one inscribed in pencil 'Haldane', one inscribed 'T.N.G. Haldane July 1920' with 10pp. manuscript essay, possibly by T.N.G. Haldane, "Dr. Whitehead's Concept of Nature" loosely inserted;An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge, 1919. 2 copies, First editions, original cloth;The Principle of Relativity with applications to Physical Science. Cambridge, 1922. First edition, original cloth;Science and the Modern World. Cambridge, 1926. 2 copies, First editions, original cloth, one with occasional light marginal pencil scoring, other with bookplate of Humphry Davy Rolleston, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge;Eddington, A.S. Stars and Atoms. Oxford, 1927. First edition, inscribed 'T.G.N. Haldane' in pencil on front endpaper

[Egyptology] - Memphis Palace Manuscript plan of Memphis Palace Balcony possibly by Alan Gardiner ink on linen paper in black with hieroglyphs added in blue ink, 56 x 44cm, a few small splits, one repaired with tape to reverse, initialled 'A.G.' to lower right corner

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (1819-1901) Document signed, 28th June 1875 commissioning Frank Paton lieutenant in the 1st Forfarshire Rifle Corps, lithographic document on linen, 30 x 40cm, completed in manuscript, signed 'Victoria R' upper left, countersigned by Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy (later 1st Earl of Cranbrook) as secretary of state for war, wafer seal, folded, pin-holes to corners, recto with a few faint spots and marks, verso with spotting and soiling to panel outermost when folded. Together with Frank Paton's commission as sub-lieutenant in the same unit, 3rd June 1874, signed by Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904) as commander-in-chief ('George'), countersigned by Gathorne-Hardy

Brown, George Mackay A collection of manuscript and typed material 1) Sanatorium 1941. 20pp. manuscript account of Brown's tuberculosis diagnosis until his assessment for fitness to fight in the Second World War (which he was to fail), dated 25/7/8- and initialled 'GMB';2) Acrostic poem entitled: Brian Murray: 13th March 1994, manuscript, initialled GMB and inscribed 'A HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN from George'; and another, undated;3) Acrostic poem entitled: Elisa Murray: 22nd January 1992, manuscript, inscribed 'Happy birthday, Elisa, Love, George'; and another, dated 1995;4) 2 typed copies of 'A Silver Calendar (to Nora), 1977;5) 2 handmade printed Christmas cards, inscribed from George Mackay Brown;6) 2 drafts of a letter written 'To second year pupils, Sacred Heart Academy, Girvan, Ayrshire', 2nd August 1988, each signed George Mackay Brown

Brown, George Mackay A collection signed or annotated works An Orkney Tapestry. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1969. 8vo, proof copy with jacket signed by George Mackay Brown, with pencil corrections and notes in his hand;Poems, new and selected. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. 8vo, inscribed: "To Derrick & Susie, from George, Christmas 1973", original brown cloth, dust-jacket;Greenvoe. London: The Hogarth Press, 1972. 8vo, signed and dated by George Mackay Brown to title-page, original purple cloth, spine lacking; and the 1989 'Scotnotes' on Greenvoe, inscribed by George Mackay Brown;Andrina, and other stories. London: Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press, 1983. 8vo, inscribed: "To John, from George, 17th February 1983", original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket;The Golden Bird. Two Orkney Stories. London: John Murray, 1987. 8vo, signed by George Mackay Brown on the title-page, original white cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Beloit Fiction Journal, Volume 5, Number 1, Scottish writers, feat. Betty Corrigall by George Mackay Brown, inscribed: to Brian Murray, great five-setter & errand boy and poster of letters, from GMB, Stromness, Orkney, 17th July 1990, and signed by George Mackay Brown on the story itself, 8vo, original wrappers;Babel IX, feat., Homily by George Mackay Brown, 1990. 8vo, inscribed "to Brian from George, 27th November 1995", with an additional signature to contents leaf, original wrappers;Rockpools and Daffodils, an Orcadian Diary 1979-1991. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1992. 8vo, signed and dated by George Mackay Brown to title-page;Winter Tales. London: John Murray, 1995. 8vo, inscribed: "To Brian, good proof-vender, good cataloguer of books & manuscripts, from George, 27th July 1994, Stromness", original blue cloth, dust-jacket;A Calendar of Love. London: Flamingo, 1996. 8vo, paperback, signed and inscribed by George Mackay Brown;For the Islands I Sing. London: John Murray, 1998. 8vo, proof copy of the paperback edition with manuscript notes and corrections by George Mackay Brown

Government of India Alqabnamah [Title at head:] List showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, etc., having Relations with the Indian Government. Corrected up to the 5th October 1935. New Delhi: printed by the manager, Government of India Press, 1935. Folio, original printed blue paper boards, rebacked and recornered, [4] iii [2] 2-118 pp., updated throughout in manuscript (red and black inks) and with tipped-in printed slips, printed insert tipped to p. 108, covers marked, title-page, pp. 21/2 and 117/18 heavily washed and reinserted, uniform browning to other text-leaves, small abrasion to first page of index from adhesion to facing page, pencilled shelfmark to verso of title-page, Government of India ink-stamp to verso of final blankNote: Note: Marked 'confidential', this is the only edition of the work we have traced, and in institutional terms is present in one other copy, at the British Library (shelfmark IOR/R/15/1/734), with no copies traced in auction records.The work covers the protocols of addressing the ruling princes and chiefs of India, in addition to the rulers of independent states, including Tibet, Nepal and Siam, 'miscellaneous states', including Zanzibar, Muhammerah (modern Iran), Indore, Arcot and Bombay, and protectorate rulers. This last group includes the sultan of Muscat and Oman, the rulers of various sultanates in modern-day Yemen, and the shaykhs of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and of each the Trucial States, that is, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain.Each ruler is listed under seven headings: Name of state or place of residences; Name and address in English; Commencement and conclusion of letter in English and colour of crest; Highest British authority by whom hitherto addressed; Name and address in Persian or Arabic; No. of Guns [for salutes]; Remarks. The profuse additions to this copy (in the form of printed slips and manuscript annotations) both record rulers' deaths and the identities of the successors, and illustrate changes in the status of rulers while still living: the shaykhs of Bahrain and Kuwait are both noted as being promoted from the title of Excellency to Highness, while the raja of even a minor Indian state, Talcher, is recorded as receiving the new title of Raja Bahadur 'as a personal distinction'.

Ferdowsi (940-1019/25 CE) Shahnameh, Iran or Central Asia, 1503 CE 17th Jumada al-Thani 909 AH.Persian manuscript on burnished and sized paper, approx. 462 leaves, 31 x 21cm, main text in black ink, nasta'liq script, 25 lines to the page, in 4 columns, each column separately ruled in gilt, all enclosed by single outer frame in blue, headings in red, blue or gold ink, ta'liq script, catchwords throughout, f. [1] verso with polychromatic floral roundel incorporating title ('Kitab-i Shahnameh') in white thuluth, 2 similar headpieces to f. [1] recto and f. [7] recto (with text in eastern Kufic and thuluth respectively), 32 miniatures in gouache heightened with gold (possibly Indian, 19th century, in a 16th-century Persian style), all approx. 16 x 9cm.Binding: later shagreen, rebacked, covers decorated in blind red leather doublures.Condition: f. [1] repaired, with small hole in roundel and later Persian ownership inscriptions (one dated 1257, i.e 1841/2 CE), extensive marginal repairs from f. 400 to end, occasionally affecting text, these final 60 or leaves also browned, closed tear in penultimate leaf, final leaf laid down, one leaf extensive repaired tear through miniature, occasional repairs elsewhere (chiefly marginal extensions), customary finger-soiling to margins, a few old stains, attempted erasure of faces in several miniatures, one miniature with small section detached but present, ff. [17-18], [40-41] and [147-8] catchwords not continuous, a few other catchwords cropped, missing or concealed by repairNote: Note: An imposing manuscript copy of the Persian national epic, of a notably early and auspicious date, completed two years after the foundation of the Safavid dynasty by Shah Isma'il I in 1501, which re-established Persia as an independent political entity for the first time since the Arab conquest. Shah Isma'il sought to model his rule on the representation of Persian kingship found in the Shahnameh, and had the work recited to his troops before battle during the ensuing war against the ruling Aq Qoyunlu tribal confederacy.'Isma'il's vision of the state was neither purely messianic nor juristic; it was primarily based on the Persian model of kingship ... In the tradition of the Timurid rulers of Iran and the Turkmen dynasties before him, he was an avid connoisseur of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and other Persian poetic narratives, which helped him portray himself as the heir to the Persian tradition of kingship. He patronized the production of great, illustrated copies of these works ... Fascinated by Persian national legends, Isma'il named three of his four sons after legendary heroes of the Shahnameh ... And Isma'il had good incentive to envision himself as a Shahnameh: perhaps a Kaykhosrow, the prototype of the great Persian king who vanquished the Turanic king Afrasiyab' (Amanat, Iran: A Modern History, 2017, p. 61).

India - Sanskrit printing Hitopadesa, or Salutary Instruction. In the original Sanscrit [Part 2:] Dasa Cumara Charita, abridged by Apayya]. [Part 3:] Three Satacas, or Centuries of Verses, by Bhartri Hari. Serampore: [Serampore Mission Press], 1804 [Sanskrit title-page dated 1803]. 4to (20.5 x 19cm), modern cloth, xv [1] 160 [3], [5] 4-22 [2], [5] 26-111 [5] pp., title-page, part-titles, errata leaves and introduction (pp. xv) in English, remaining text in Sanskrit, spotting to front and rear, first part second errata leaf laid down, ink annotations in Sanskrit to p. 101, a few pencilled annotations elsewhereNote: Note: Editio princeps, and the first book in Sanskrit printed with Devanagari types, perhaps one of 100 copies, no other copy traced in auction records.A collection of animal fables believed to date from the 12th century CE or earlier, the Hitopadesa was derived partly from the Panchatantra, which was translated into Arabic via Persian to become the fable cycle Kalila wa-Dimna. The Serampore Baptist Mission and its associated press were founded in 1800 by missionary and translator William Carey (1761-1834), who had established himself in Danish-controlled Serampore in response to the ban on missionary activity in the territory of the East India Company. In 1801 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit, Marathi and Bengali at the Company's Fort William College, at whose behest he prepared this edition of the Hitopadesa from six manuscript copies. The introduction is by the pioneering Sanskritist Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837). A Bengali edition was published by the Press in 1801.Literature:Johanes Hertel (ed.), The Panchatantra (Harvard, 1908), p. xxii;Rosane & Ludo Rocher, The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company (2014) p. 73.Provenance: East India Company library (ink-stamps to title-page, first page of the second part, and terminal errata leaf of the third part).

South American botanical album Including several ferns 21 botanical specimens, many labelled in manuscript, laid into an album 43.5 x 30cm, 18th century red half morocco gilt

Eminent Georgians and Victorians The Page family autograph album containing approx. 300 autograph letters signed, signed documents and sentiments, and clipped signatures.Complete autograph letters signed (all 1 p. unless otherwise stated) include:Richard Wagner (1813-1883), composer, Lucerne, 1868, to Mr Matthieu, in German, concerning the payment of a bill or debt, signed 'Rich. Wagner', partially browned;Henry James (1843-1916), novelist, 13 De Vere Mansions, London, undated, to Mrs Stevenson, recommending American dentists, 4 pp. (final page pasted down);Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), novelist, to Miss Hall, accepting an invitation, 2 pp.;Josef Ludwig von Armansberg (1787-1853), Bavarian statesman and regent of Greece, 1852, in German;Joseph Lister (1827-1912), pioneer of antiseptic surgery, 1883, accepting an invitation;Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Skerryvore, 1886, presenting his autograph;William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), mathematician and physicist, Roxburgh Hotel, Edinburgh, 1892, to Miss Fuller, fondly recalling meetings with her relatives (the letter annotated in pencil 'My uncle Frederick Fuller'), 3 pp.;Sir Francis Chantrey (1781-1841), sculptor, 1836, concerning his proposed design for a monument to Colonel Page;William Ellis (1794-1872), missionary in Hawaii, Polynesia and Madagascar, 1839, 3 pp.;Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), poet, 1871, presenting his autograph;Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), prime minister 1801-4, York House, 1825, in the third person, thanking Colonel Page for his pamphlet on the poor laws;Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), prime minister, signed 'Cranborne', 2 pp.,Lord John Russell (1792-1878), prime minister, 2 pp.;Lady Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth (1750-1828), travel writer and society hostess, Florence, 28 September 1785, to Mrs Page, an impromptu letter of condolence on the death of her husband, signed 'E Craven', 3 pp.;Robert Moffat (1795-1883), missionary in Africa, 1871, 3 pp.;and others including: John Tyndall, physicist and discoverer of the greenhouse effect), to Mr Jones, on his (Tyndall's) marriage; John Everett Millais (artist); A. H. Sayce (Assyriologist); Dawson Turner (botanist and antiquary); Agnes Weston (Royal Navy philanthropist), 3 letters; Edmund Gosse (man of letters); Constance F. Gordon Cumming (traveller); Lord Carnarvon, politician (2 letters, to Colonel Page); Marquess of Lansdowne, politician; Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle, chancellor of the exchequer; Cardinal Vaughan; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and similar.Documents signed: Queen Victoria (1819-1901), manuscript document appointing George Fuller professor of civil engineering, Queen's College, Belfast, 1873, signed 'Victoria R' at head; Lord Castlereagh, printed passport issued to Colonel Page, 1814, signed by Castlereagh as foreign secretary, docketed 'Seen at the British Embassy, to go to England by order of H.E. The Duke of Wellington'.Clipped signatures: George III; William IV; George Canning; Robert Peel; Cardinal Newman; William Holman Hunt; Sir Samuel W. Baker; E. F. Benson; Napier of Magdala; and similar.Clipped sentiments, fragments of letters, and other items, signed: Charles Dickens (autograph envelope addressed to George Walter Thornbury, biographer of J. M. W. Turner, 1870); John Ruskin; Andrew Lang; Florence Nightingale; Thomas Carlyle; Coventry Patmore; and similar.4to album, decorative cloth, spine defective, endpapers and a few initial leaves loose, related newspaper cuttings and photographs also pasted in, manuscript captions throughoutNote: Provenance: ‘This album was compiled largely from documents left by Colonel Page, by my aunt, Miss Eliza Fuller, born 1822, who resided for many years at 14 Belmont, Bath, where she died on 31st Oct 1904, aged 82’ (manuscript note to front free endpaper). The letter from Viscount Sidmouth allows Colonel Page to be identified as the Frederick Page of Goldwell Park, Speen, Berkshire, who served as a deputy lieutenant for Berkshire and wrote the 1822 work The Principle of the English Poor Laws.

Fergusson, James Tree and Serpent Worship or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ. From the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati ... Second Edition, revised, corrected, and in great part re-written. London: India Museum, 1873. 4to (33 x 24cm), original red half morocco gilt, xvi 274 pp., lithographic frontispiece, 101 plates numbered 1-100 (including 10A), albumen print photographs or lithographs, photographs mounted as issued (often one on each side of a single leaf, numbered in all cases as separate plates), publisher's postscript slip, joints cracked with front board remaining attached only via new endpapers, frontispiece, title-page and first leaf of text strengthened in gutter, dust-soiling and a few spots to top edges of mounts, numerical ink-stamp to margin of p. 33, mount for photographic plates 95 and 96 creased across upper fore corner [Gernsheim 419];Malcolm, John. Malcolm's History of Persia (Modern) edited and adapted to the Persian Translation of Mirza Hairat, with Notes and Dissertations by Lieut.-Colonel M. H. Court, 15th Bengal Cavalry. Lahore: printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, Lahore, 1888. Folio (32.5 x 20cm), modern half leather, [2] ix [3] 290, title-page slightly nicked and marked and with small annotation to upper inner corner, light marginal soiling elsewhere, last 2 leaves slightly nicked and with damp-staining to corners;Kaye, G. R (editor). The Bakhshali Manuscript. A Study in Medieval Mathematics. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch [volume 2, Delhi: Manager of Publications], 1927-33. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue quarter morocco, photogravure plate (spotted), 47 ?collotype plates, volume 2 spine rubbedNote: Note: James Fergusson travelled to India after leaving school, and within ten years as an indigo planter in Bengal had made a sufficient fortune to dedicate himself to the study of art and architecture. Sanchi, near Bhopal in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, is the oldest Buddhist sanctuary in existence, dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. The stupa at Amaravati, in what is now Andhra Pradesh, was founded around 200 BC. Fergusson's account was first published in 1868. The photographs are by W. H. Griggs and James S. Waterhouse; Waterhouse eventually became surveyor-general to the Monumental Photographic Survey of India. The Civil and Military Gazette, publishers of this edition of Malcolm's Persia, was where Rudyard Kipling began his professional life in India, joining as a sub-editor in 1882.

Cheetham, A. Hand-compiled ceramics collection catalogue in 8 volumes each volume 25.5 x 21cm in original buff wrappers with typed labels to upper covers listing contents, dating from the 1940s, the volumes comprising:1) Chelsea & Bow2) Bristol, Coalport, Davenport, Liverpool, Lowestoft, Langton Hall, Longport, Minton, Nantgraw, Newhall, Pinxton3) Rockingham, Salopian (Caughley), Spode, Staffordshire, Swansea4) Whieldon, Martin Ware5) Chelsea Derby, Derby, Worcester6) Chinese, Japanese7) Astbury, Black Ware, Castleford, Doulton, Delft, Elers Ware, Fulham, Leeds, Lustre, Miscellaneous, Pratt Ware, Ralph Wood, Ruskin Pottery, Salt Glaze, Wilson Ware, Wedgwood8) Berlin, Continental (various), Dresden, Hochst, Jacob Petit, Paris, Sevres, TourneyWith manuscript descriptions of each item and a large quantity of original photographs tipped-in with photo cornersProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collectorNote: Note: A meticulously compiled catalogue in 8 volumes by the collector, Albert Cheetham. Cheetham's collection was sold by Sotheby's in 1945, following his death.

Libertinism Records of the Most Ancient and Puissant Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland, Anstruther [Bound with:] Supplement to the Historical Portion of the "Records of the ... Beggar's Benison ... being an Account of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Society, together with Excerpts from the Toasts, Recitations, Stories, Bon-Mots, Speeches, and Songs delivered thereat. Anstruther [i.e. London]: printed for private distribution only [by J. Lewis, Wardour Street], 1892. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (20.7 x 13cm), near-contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, [10] 30 [2], 91 [3] pp., half-title, 9 photographic plates showing the society's paraphernalia, pamphlet (Notes on "The Records of the Beggar's Benison Society ...", 1892, 16 pp.) tipped to front pastedown, 2 additional photographs of society paraphernalia tipped to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, bookplates, faint spots to covers, a few spots and marks to contents. Together with an original Beggar's Benison diploma of membership, 1759, granted by Robert Lumsden of Invergelly, admitting Ralph Teesdale, Captain, Royal Marines as member of the Edinburgh branch, manuscript on vellum, 16.8 x 31cm, signed by Walter Ferguson, recorder of the Edinburgh branch of the Beggar's Benison, folded, retaining original pink ribbon, remains of red wax sealNote: Note: First edition, one of 250 copies only. The Beggar's Benison, a gentlemen's sex club, was founded in Anstruther, Fife, in 1732 and is believed to have continued until the 1830s. The group's recorded practices include a phallocentric initiation rite, ritualised onanism, inspections of nude female models, and sexualised toasts and readings. The present work is the principal source for the group's activities and contains photographs of its paraphernalia including drinking goblets, medallions and its notorious 'testing platter', all decorated with priapic motifs. No other copy traced in auction records, apart from an incomplete copy offered Hodgson's, London, in 1965, lacking three plates.

India - Bengal Presidency Collection of Calcutta imprints Directions for Revenue Officers in the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency ... New Edition. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1858. 4to, later cloth, [4] 566 [2] pp., 4 lithographic folding maps (2 hand-coloured), 6 folding letterpress tables (counted in pagination and register), uniform moderate browning (stronger to title-page), very small worm-track to upper fore corner of initial leaves;The Journals of Major James Rennell, First Surveyor-General of India. Written for the Information of the Governors of Bengal during his Surveys of the Ganges and Brahamputra Rivers 1764 to 1767. Edited by T. H. D. La Touche. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by the Asiatic Society, 1910. 4to, later cloth, portrait frontispiece, folding plate of manuscript facsimile (torn along fold), folding map of Bengal and Bihar to rear, uniform moderate browning;and 4 others (these not collated): The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1832, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., Bengal Hurkaru Press, c. 1832 (8vo, contemporary red half sheep, folding map with short closed tear, lacking pp. 173/4; The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842, Vol. I, Calcutta: William Rushton an[d] Co., c.1842 (8vo, contemporary half roan by the Government Press, Allahabad, 3 folding maps and folding diagram, first folding map (frontispiece) torn, binding worn, browning; The Bengal Almanac for 1848 ... compiled and arranged by Samuel Smith and Co., Calcutta, 1848 (8vo, contemporary boards, red sheep backstrip, binding worn and worn, rear inner hinge gone); Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-West Provinces 1818-1820, Calcutta: Military Orphan Press, 1866 (8vo, original cloth, binding defective)Note: Note: Library Hub traces two copies for the Directions for Revenue Officers (NLS and Cambridge).

Diaries, 19th century Including two Scottish works 1) Sophia Leonora Clough Taylor. Journal in Scotland, 1866: beginning July 25th, detailing a journey heading up from York to the west coast of Scotland (Loch Broom) and a family holiday in the area, comprising 66 manuscript pages (including several amusing ink sketches), and several other small sketches laid-in, album 12 x 18cm;2) Scottish Journal. Beginning September 1866, Inverary, 236 manuscript pages, 10 x 16cm;3) ? Matilda Harrison. Beginning October 27th 1855, diary based around Kirkham, York, 232 manuscript pages, 12 x 18cm

Phoebe Anna Traquair (1853-1936) Sonnet 19 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1895 illuminated manuscript, watercolour on vellum, framed signed with monogram and dated 15.5 x 13cm (image)   Provenance The Scottish Sale, Bonham's 14th October 2020, lot 38.

An ebony and brass parallel rule from the Cunard liner RMS 'Queen Mary': maker B J Hall & Co Ltd, London, with manuscript inscription to one end 'RMS Queen Mary 1948', contained within an oak case.

A mid-20th century manuscript log book for the sailing yacht 'Sylvia' of Colchester, 1952 to 1961: together with photograph album for 'Sylvia' and a log book for the sailing yacht 'Bob 'O 'Link', May 1946. (3)

An HM Coast Guard Ensign: 80 x 184cm, with manuscript note 'This ensign was a gift from Her Majesty's Coast Guard for the 'Shipmates' restaurant , Wells Next To The Sea, Norfolk'

An Edwardian manuscript journal for a voyage to Egypt dated November 4th 1904 to 22nd April 1905, by the valet of Evelyn Barring, Egyptian Consul-General 1883-1907: signed 'H.G.C' in gilt tooled black leather binding with initials and dates to cover. The journal begins with the departure by train from Glasgow to London and subsequent entries describing scenes and culture encountered in Egypt.

HMS 'Queen Elizabeth'. An early 20th century midshipman's journal by A K Copland 1919-1920: together with a later collection of manuscript letters for Able Seaman Norman Clark aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth circa 1941.

Of HMS Exeter Interest. A collection of manuscript letters, photographs and related ephemera for Cpl A J Spendlove, Royal Marines: comprising letters to and from his brother and sister, including an HMS Exeter retuned envelope with missing on active service label.*Notes- Aubrey Spendlove survived the sinking of HMS Exeter on the 1st March 1942 and was taken POW by the Japanese.