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Judaica.- Heller (Marvin J.) Printing the Talmud: A History of the Earliest Printed Editions of the Talmud, illustrations, some full-page, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight scattered soiling to upper panel, Brooklyn, NY, Im Hasefer, 1992 § Beit-Arié (Malachi) The Only Dated Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Written in England (1189 CE) and the problem of pre-expulsion Anglo-Hebrew manuscripts, one of 500 numbered copies, plates, original printed boards, very slightly rubbed, Valmadonna Trust Library, 1985 § Goldschmidt (Lazarus) Hebrew Incunables, Hebrew ownership inscription to front free endpaper, the odd spot, original cloth, Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1948; and others of Jewish interest, several relating to Moses Montefiore, v.s. (c.25)

Salmon Clubs.- Ste. Marguerite Salmon Club, Canada.- [Photograph Album], 24 silver-gelatin prints, laid-down to thick grey boards one per page, with black paper surrounds, spotting to some photographs, later half morocco, gilt, housed within modern custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, [Wood BSS 157], photographs c.115 x 89mm. et infra, [c.1900]; An Original Share Certificate, 'one share no. 11', with a river scene vignette to centre, manuscript ink recipient name, date and signatures from president and secretary, Club stamp in blind to left corner, stuck-down along top edge to display card mount, housed within modern custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, (c.285 x 180mm.), December 1st 1885, v.s. (2)*** Photograph album likely by an amateur photographer member of the Club, images primarily of the wild and rugged setting of the club buildings and river's course, with a couple showing anglers in canoes and astream, and a horse-drawn canoe carrying-cart. The Ste. Marguerite River runs near Sacré-Coeur (Quebec, Canada) and salmon fishing is known to have taken place here since the 1860s. 

Poor & Poor Relief.- [Gilbert (Thomas)] A Plan of Police: exhibiting the Causes of the present Increase of the Poor, and proposing a Mode for their future more effectual Relief and Support, first edition, with "Oeconomical" added in manuscript before "effectual" in title, stitched, [Goldsmiths' 12216; Kress B.3666], n.p., [?1781] § Short View (A) of the Frauds, Abuses, and Impositions of Parish Officers, with some Considerations on the Laws relating to the Poor, first edition, a few contemporary ink annotations and A.L.s. concerning a debt loosely inserted, stitched in original blue wrappers, uncut, lightly water-stained, [Goldsmiths' 8087; Kress 4733], J.Stagg, 1744 § Davison (John) Considerations on the Poor Laws, second edition, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, [Goldsmiths' 22192], Oxford, 1818 § Smith (T.H.) Hints to the Church-Wardens, Overseers, and Rate-Payers, of Saint Mary's Parish, Nottingham...Alteration in the Poor Laws, first edition, folding table with manuscript extension attached, modern wrappers, Nottingham, 1834 § [Godfery (J.)] The Poor Man's Friend; or a Few Plain Words from a Plain Man, third edition [&] A Continuation of the Poor Man's Friend, together 2 vol., modern cloth, Lynn, 1835-36, some browning; and a bundle of other pamphlets on the poor, poor relief and poor laws, several with provincial imprints, 4to & 8vo (c.20)

French Drama.- Arthur Binville [&]  Le charme ou qui casse; les versets les paie, manuscript drafts in French, together c. 250pp., a few ink drawings in margins, numerous crossings out and corrections, first f. and a few other ff. with tears, browned, bound in contemporary paper wrappers, lacks upper wrapper (originally laid down on the title and advertisements of Master Humphrey's Clock), lower cover tears with loss, folio, [c. 1840s]. *** ?Unpublished.

Raising of King Charles II's restoration militia.- Townsend (Horatio, 1st Baron Townsend, 1630-1687) The Right Hon:[ora]ble L[or]d Townshend's Troope of Volunteers May 8 1661, manuscript on paper, 2pp.. docketed "A List of my Lord's Volunteere Troopes", folds, 4to, 8 May 1661.*** A unique list of the identities of a volunteer Restoration Militia assembled in Norfolk at the request of Charles II by Viscount Townsend, a Norfolk MP, and supporter of the King who played an important part in the restoration of the Monarchy.After the Restoration of the Monarchy, the English Militia was re-established by the Militia Act of 1661 as a protective 'constitutional force' to ensure the stability of the Crown with responsibility for home defence and internal security.The date of this document [8 May 1661] is notable as the very date of the commencement of the King's Sole Right over the Militia Act 1661 or the Militia Act 1661 that finally declared that the king alone, as head of the state, was in supreme command of the army and navy for the defence of the realm.Significantly, this document is evidence that the King had both commissioned and been assembling his Restoration Militia prior to the commencement of the Act that gave him the sole power to do so.

Isle of Wight.- Power of attorney, Alice and Joan Preston daughters and heiresses of John Preston of Stanwell, Middlesex appoint John Taylour, citizen of London, their attorney to take possession of meadows they have inherited from their father in the Isle of Wight and to complete the business... Because the seals of Alice and Joan are unknown to very many people they have sealed the deed with that of Robert Tattershall, citizen and alderman of London, signed by scribe "Kyngeston", manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 12 lines, slight stain, folds, slightly creased, remnants of seals, 104 x 380mm., London, 2nd August 1427.

Newbery (John) A New History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar... the Norman Conquest, in-text illustrations, occasional light staining, ink inscription to title verso, partial lack to backstrip, binding becoming broken, [Darton G701 (2)] for Darton and Harvey, 1797 § Le Petit Buffon des Enfans, ou Extrait d'histoire naturelle, 12 engraved plates, occasional surface soiling, browning and foxing, bookplate to front pastedown, spine lettered in manuscript, Lyon, Tournachon-Molin, 1817 § Scholz (J. editor) Aimons les Animaux!, second edition, 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates, foxing, bumping with loss to spine ends, wear to joints, Lausanne, 1863, original boards or wrappers, rubbed and worn; and c.30 others, mostly children's literature in French and Dutch, some in English, v.s. (c.30)*** The first is a scarce copy of this popular illustrated history for children. ETSC records 2 copies of this particular printing.

Davenant (Charles) Essays upon Peace at Home, and War Abroad, part I [all published], first edition, half-title, 7pp. advertisements at end, bookplate of Earl of Ilchester,  contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, James Knapton, 1704 § Society for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. Association Papers, ink inscriptions to front endpapers, original boards, uncut, a little worn and stained, 1793 § [Wade (John)] The Black Book; or, Corruption Unmasked!, original black glazed boards, uncut, rebacked preserving old spine, 1820 § [Grote (George)] Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform..., presentation copy from the author to Admiral Stirling inscribed at head of title, first and final leaf foxed, bound with 8 other pamphlets on parliamentary reform etc., bookplate of William George Prescott, later half vellum, spine titled in manuscript, 1821, rubbed; and a small quantity of others, politics, parliamentary reform, education etc., mostly pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.150)

Salem witchcraft figure & pirate hunter.- Sewall (Stephen, Major, Court Clerk at the Salem witchcraft trials, militia commander, county and court official, merchant and pirate hunter, 1657-1725) An Inventory of a parcell of Plunder Said to be taken by Capt Chadwell & Company in ye Sloop flying horse from on board a french Barque which they burnt & from some of ye Inhabitants of Port Royall... brought up to Salem..., D.s. "Stephen Sewall", manuscript on paper, small tear along fold, partially laid in paper, folds, slightly browned, 230 x 192mm., Salem, 17th April 1703. *** Contents of plundered French barque, "93 Beaver Skins... 12 baggs of feathers... ." Major Stephen Sewall was Clerk of the Court at the Salem Witch Trials. He was less convinced by the hysteria exhibited by other members of the court. The result of the trials resulted in the execution of nineteen people for witchcraft.  Captain Samuel Chadwell (c. 1675-1714/5), Commander of the Sloop Flying Horse.

Trials.- Some Particulars of the Conduct and of the Execution of [Thomas] Savidge and others, Nottingham, [1817] § Copious Report (A) of the Trial of Thomas Dewey, for the Wilful Murder of Maria Austin..., Nottingham, [1825] § Trial (The) of John Jones, alias Saml. Moore, for the Murder of Mary Hallam, at Mansfield..., Nottingham, 1842 § Tryal (The) and Condemnation of Arundel Coke alias Cooke Esq.; and of John Woodburne Labourer, for Felony, in Slitting the Nose of Edward Crisp Gent..., half-title, ex-library copy with stamps to endpapers, later cloth-backed boards, John Darby, 1723 § Trial (The) of William Lord Byron, Baron Byron of Rochdale, for the Murder of William Chaworth, Esq., some stains, title chipped and repaired at edges, later half calf, rebacked, for Samuel Billingsley, 1765 § Authentick Account (An) of the Life of Mr.Charles Drew, late of Long Melford...Suffolk, who was tried and convicted...for the Murder of his Father, Mr. Charle John Drew, old wrappers titled in manuscript, J.Applebee, 1740 § Confessions of Joseph Dale (The), who was Executed at Chester...for the Murder of Mr.Wood, stitched, Chester, [c.1824] § Trial (The) of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, William Wakefield, and Frances Wakefield...for a Conspiracy, and for the Abduction of Miss Ellen Turner, first edition, half-title (small tears repaired), with Appendix at end, original boards, uncut, rebacked, [Ferguson 1159], 1827, the first two ex-library copies with stamp to titles, unbound, some a little soiled; and a bundle of others, trials etc., v.s. (c.20)*** The last item is an account of one of the most celebrated English criminal trials of the 19th century. The Shrigley abduction was a case of forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15 year old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley, Cheshire. They were married in Gretna Green and reached Calais before her father was able to notify the police. The marriage was anulled by Parliament and Gibbon and his brother William were sentenced to three years each. After his release Edward Wakefield became involved in prison reform. He later had roles in the development of South Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Kent, Sundridge.- Charter of John Cowlard of Sundrysshe [Sundridge] husbandman, grant to John Fowrde and John Peeke one messuage and two pieces or parcels of land and wood called Burgeshillefeld and Bretherykkys under a close lying at Idehille in the parish of Sundridge. manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 15 lines, fine black wax seal with good impression, folds, mounted, 120 x 265mm., Sundridge, 1st October 1535.

Colonisation of North America & the Virginia Company of London.- Abbott (Sir Maurice, English merchant, Committee Member and Auditor of the Virginia Company of London, 1565-1642) Inscription in the hand of Sir Maurice Abbott on verso of document copy of a charter, granted in 1268 by Sir Henry Longchamp, to Philip Basset, (justiciar to Henry III and royalist nobleman, d. 1271) and Ela his wife the manor of Warneburng [South Warnborough, Hampshire], witnesses: Walter de Irton, Robert Walerand, (administrator at the court of Henry III, d. 1273), manuscript on paper in brown ink, folds, slightly browned, 295 x 193mm, [c.1625].*** Sir Maurice Abbott: English merchant, Committee Member and Auditor of the Virginia Company of London (1610-1620) Governor of the East India Company (1624–1638), Member of Parliament in the House of Commons (1621-1626); and Lord Mayor of London (1638).Abbott was a late 16th and early 17th century entrepreneur and politician who, despite his very humble beginnings, through the application hard work and enterprise amassed both enormous wealth and political power. He was a member and auditor of the Virginia Company of London which had responsibility for colonising parts of the East Coast of North America and established the Jamestown Settlement in the Colony of Virginia in 1607.

Pombal (Sebastiao José de, Marquis de) Estatutos dos Mercadores de Retalho, ?first edition, title with large woodcut arms of King Joseph I and woodcut initials, disbound, Lisbon, Miguel Rodrigues, 1757 § [Lainé (J.-H.-J.)] Rapport au Roi sur la Situation des Hospices, des Enfans Trouvés, des Aliénes, de la Mendicité et des Prisons, first edition, tables, original blue wrappers, printed paper label to upper cover, lightly soiled, spine faded, Paris, 1818 § Edit du Roy portant Augmentation des Droits du Papier Timbré..., title with woodcut royal arms, with final blank, bound with large broadside 'La Chambre des Comptes' 1749 and some contemporary manuscript leaves headed "Edits concernants le papier marqué le Tabellion et les Droits Notaires", soiled and stained, stitched, Chambery, Jaques Gorrin, 1742 § Lettres Curieuses touchant le Fils de la Marquise de Mailly de Neele, contemporary marbled wrappers, a little worn and frayed at edges, Paris, [c.1750] § Décret de la Convention Nationale, du 30 Octobre 1792, l'an Ier de la République Française. Prohibition de la sortie de toutes especes de viandes salées, No. 85, folded sheet, Bordeaux, Simon Lacourt, 1792; and 7 others, continental pamphlets and ephemera, including 2 Italian broadsides relating to Napoleon, folio & 4to (12) *** The first is an interesting example of the economic reforms put in place by the Marquis de Pombal, in this case codifying national regulations affecting the retail trade, shopkeepers and merchants. The second item describes efforts to deal with increasing numbers of abandoned children. 

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Myddelton (Mrs) [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, in several hands, c. 145pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with newspaper cuttings of recipes, 1p. with printed and manuscript label of "Insley Powell Cheese and Provision Merchant... R.B . Myddelton with R.M. Dymocks kind regards of Castle Street, Shrewsbury," several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, label: "Mrs Myddelton's Book" on front pastedown, original half calf, slightly rubbed, later rebacked, later label on spine, sm. 4to (206 x 166mm.), dated in text 1863. *** Recipes including: "Pig Sauce"; "A very good Plum pudding"; "Beautiful Ginger Beer"; "French Bread"; "Apple Pudding"; "From Caroline. Stilton Cheese. Mrs Wilsford"; "The Devils Pot - Mrs Mather... To Two quarts of good Ale..."; "Gloucester Cheese"; "Palestine Soup"; "From the head Gardener at Trentham [Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire]"; "How to Stop Bleeding"; "For the Hooping Cough"; "For Neuralgia - fm. Miss E. Williams - Bodelwyddan [north Wales]"; "Cure for Hydrophobia - Lady Vavasour" etc.

Montague Family.- Large collection of portraits, coats of arms, landscapes, and ephemera relating to the Montague family, engravings, etchings, lithographs, some pen and ink, one coat of arms design on vellum, various sizes between approx. 180 x 120 mm (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 in) and 570 x 440 mm (22 1/2 x 17 1/4 in), all loose and unframed, kept in brown paper wrappers with manuscript label to upper cover 'Dukes of Montagu', 17th to early 20th century (sm. qty.)

Derbyshire.- Power of attorney for John Worthington of Burton, 5 lines, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, red wax seal with fine impression, folds, slightly yellowed, 45 x 260mm, 1434/5.

West Yorkshire.- Charter, William de Boelay, clerk, confirms to William de la Grave, son of Adam all the land which John, my son and heir, has sold in Jordanwode and in parcels of land in Leptoun [Lepton], witnesses: John le Flaming, the son of the parson of Hetoun, William de Boelay, Henry de Leptoun, Adam de Boelay clerk [i.e scribe of this document], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 8 lines, a few very small holes, browned, seal wrapped in cloth, 55 x 170mm., [c. 1300].

Derbyshire.- Charter, grant by Robert Walker of Repyndon [Repton] to John Walker of Burton of arable land in the fields of Wylygmer [?Willington], witnesses: Henry Sadeley, William Sudbury and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 12 lines, 2 very small holes along folds, black wax seal with fine impression, folds, slightly yellowed, 145 x 230mm., September 1389.

London, Camberwell.- Release of land belonging to the Parish of Camberwell in Trust for the Benefit of the said parish [docket title], D.s., manuscript on vellum, small red wax seal, small hole at head, folds, yellowed, 660 x 820mm., 1779.

Miscellany.- Prytherge or Pretherch (William, ?son of Lewis, of St. Mary's, Anglesea, educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Magdalen College, Cambridge, 1641, ?perhaps rector of Llanllyfni, co. Carnarvon, 1661) The names of the bookes and Authors that are bound together, manuscript book list and 2 mathematical tables, together 4pp., 1648; and c. 20 others, including letters and documents relating to the earl of Northampton, ALs from the earl of Pembroke, 1777, "The American War hardly procures your Lordship a larger correspondence"; cut signature of Harley, Robert, first earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1661–1724), politician, 3 printed share certificates, v.s., v.d. (c. 20).

Warwickshire, Bulkington.- A deed for the manor of Bramcote in Warwickshire, by Willliam de Grendon, Lord of Bramcote, to William del Hul of Bramcote and his wife Margery, for his homage and service, and to their heirs in tail, reversion to William de Grendon, witnesses: John de Hurleie of Polesworth, William Gilot of Polesworth, William du Fon of Warton, William le Blund of Warton, William le Warner of Warton, Richard son of Jordan of Povele, William de Dodenhale, the messuage and half-virgate which William del Hul’s father Ralph del Hul formerly held, with rights of common in the places where the people of the vill of Bramcote have common, manuscript on vellum, with dark green wax seal, showing a flower and letters "S' WILLELMI DE GRENDONE", folds, 205 x 240mm. [c.1280].

Indictment for bestiality.- An indictment, Suffolk [assizes] 1682; Andrew Berry late of Westhorpe (Westropp) in Suffolk, labourer, for buggering a mare on 17 January 1682 "…and that mare he then and there feloniously carnally knew and that detestable sin not to be named among Christians in English called buggery with the aforesaid mare then and there did feloniously commit and perpetrate to the great displeasure of Almighty God in manifest violation of divine and human law to the evil and pernicious example of all other persons being delinquent in such a case and against the peace of the present lord king his crown and dignity and against the form of the statute in such case published and provided",(Annotated: puts himself [upon the verdict of a jury]; not guilty; nor did he abscond), endorsed: billa vera [found as a true bill by the grand jury], manuscript in Latin on vellum, a little soiled, central fold, 70 x 325 mm., 1682.

Anecdotes.- [Volume of anecdotes], manuscript, c. 90pp. (including index) excluding blanks, slightly browned, original half straight-grained morocco, rubbed, gilt lettered direct on spine, slightly rubbed, 240 x 195mm., n.d. [c. 1840]. *** "Dandy & the Sailor. A dandy fellow leaning on a capstan said to one of the ships company I say old chap quid est hoc pointing to the capstan the sailor turning his quid placed it on his hat and replied hoc est quid." 

WATSON JOHN.  The History & Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax. Extra illustrated with many neat manuscript annotations (probably by W. Priestley, Lightcliffe, whose bookplate is on the front paste-down). Quarto. Old diced calf. 1775; with slipped in ephemera & an original letter ref. Jerry Empsall & Lumb Stocks.

SACHEVERELL HENRY.  The Tryal of Doctor Henry Sacheverell Before the House of Peers for High Crimes & Misdemeanors. Manuscript annotations incl. detailed old manuscript notes to final leaves, these by John Jones of Lincoln College whose ownership inscription is to title. Folio. Recased calf with occasional repairs to leaves, damp stng. to some lower gutter margins. 1710.

HALSALL EDWARD.  Early 19th century manuscript mathematical text book, well written in ink with calligraphic headings & diagrams. Quarto. Old qtr. calf with top brd. det. but present. Label for Edward Halsall, 1825.

20th century A collection of framed Indo-Persian manuscript leaves To be sold without reserve

Persian (?) An illuminated manuscript Watercolour and pen on paper Dimensions: (Frame) 47.5 in. (H) x 30 in. (W) (Paper) 35.5 in. (H) x 21 in. (W)

Mary I (1516-1558), Queen of England and Ireland Letter signed 'Mary the quene' to William, Lord Paget, on the outbreak of Wyatt's Rebellion, 28th January 1554 Single bifolium (31.5 x 21.6cm), written on two sides in a neat and legible secretary hand, Mary's autograph signature at head, the body of the letter comprising in total some 650 words, conjugate leaf addressed in the same secretary hand ‘To our right trustie and right wellbeloved counsellour the lord Paget', contemporary manuscript endorsement and wafer seal, light damp-staining, a few small holes along folds With her regime and the fate of Catholic England in the balance, Mary issues her principal secular councillor with a decisive call to arms, setting out in vivid detail the identities and whereabouts of her enemies, her proposed military response, and her personal interpretation of the state of her realm, now facing its first existential threat:‘And whereas our traitor the Duke of Suffolk forgetting his naturall dutie of allegiaunce to god and us and our great mercie and grace lately shewed unto him in pardonying his horrible treatson perpetrated with the traitor the late Duke of Northumberland against our Royall personne, hath with John Graye and Thomas Graye his bretherne and the Carewes and Wyat of Kent with others conspired togithere to stirre our subjects in Kent and elsewhere to rebell against us pretending upon false rumors spredd that the prince of Spayne and the Spaniards shulde come in to conquer this realme, whiche the saide traitors make their onely grounde to buylde their onely treason on, tending thereby to blynde our good subjects while in very dede they trayterousely propose tadvaunce the Ladie Jane his daughter and Guldeford Dudley her husband, the saide Duke of Northumberlands son’.Wyatt’s rebellion was intended by its leaders, members of parliament alarmed by Mary’s imminent marriage to Prince Philip of Spain, as a series of four coordinated uprisings to take place in Devon, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, and Kent. The first of these, led by Sir Peter Carew, failed when the conspirators were discovered and fled, while the second never materialised; the Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey, attracted only a small number of followers in Leicestershire, leaving Sir Thomas Wyatt in Kent as the only conspirator with any chance of success, having gathered a force of some 3,000 men. Mary commands Paget to mobilise ‘all the power and force of horsemen and footemen that yow can possiblie make as well of your owne servants & frends & tenants as all other tenants under your rule’, and to place himself at the disposal of the Earl of Huntingdon in order to apprehend the Duke of Suffolk and his supporters.This letter is evidence that Mary took the threat of Wyatt’s rebellion extremely seriously, but was perhaps less successful in reflecting on its possible causes. Her assertion that the rebellion was sparked purely by a fear of foreign invasion, and her closing appeal to Paget to do his duty by the ‘true Catholique religion’, together imply a misunderstanding of the changes in the political and religious opinions of her subjects brought about by the Reformation, and the extent to which the two might be interlinked, so that the spectre of Spanish influence might be readily conflated with that of Catholic revanchism, regardless of the protections of Mary’s legal rights as queen secured by the marriage treaty which Paget and his colleagues had designed.Paget responded to Mary’s call to arms exactly as she wished, appearing ‘on horseback in arms at the muster in St James’ Field, and later bringing Wyatt as a prisoner to court’ (ODNB), though never fully secured her trust, alienating her with his recommendation of clemency for some of the rebel leaders, and proceeding to adopt an apparently obstructive stance to her religious programme. One of the great survivors of the Tudor era, he nonetheless outlived Mary and survived well into the reign of Elizabeth, dying an old man in 1563 after a gradual decline in health. A similar letter, written to Paget by the Duke of Somerset in the name of the boy-king Edward VI and requesting a unit of cavalry for the 1547 invasion of Scotland, was sold by Lyon & Turnbull on 19th September 2024 (lot 193), illustrating Paget's central role in the governments of successive Tudor monarchs, battling to secure the stability of their dynasty.

Manders, John, of Whitehaven and Andrew Steele Scott of Crosswoodhill and Edinburgh A collection of 7 Scottish manuscript notebooks Manders's books contain an assorted collection of anecdotes and stories, mostly copied from contemporary sources or hearsay, on a wide of topics and subjects, comprising 5 volumes numbered nos. 2, 7-9, 11, dated 1829-1848, contemporary boards in half calf, 4to; Andrew Scott, of 8 Lennox Street, Edinburgh. 2 volumes, from May 1882 to December 1905, in original calf-bound ledger volumes, containing details of daily life, the weather &co.; (7) From the library of the late Jack Hotson, sold in these rooms on the 23rd September, 2000.

Scottish antiquarianism Group of works in fine bindings [Laing, David, editor]. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland. Edinburgh: for Wm. & D. Laing; by Balfour and Clarke, 1822. First edition, one of 108 copies according to the author's advertisement, 4to, later cross-grain olive-green morocco by Clarke & Bedford, all edges gilt, half-title, woodcut vignette to title-page, gilt morocco book-label of esteemed collector Robert Samuel Turner (1818-1887) to front pastedown; Idem. The Knightly Tale of Golagrus and Gawane, and Other Ancient Poems. Printed at Edinburgh by W. Chepman and A. Myllar in the Year M.D.viii. Reprinted M.Dccc.xxvii. [Edinburgh: William and David Laing], 1827. One of 72 copies to survive a fire at the printer's warehouse and consequently with several leaves inlaid, 4to, contemporary half morocco, woodcut facsimile illustrations throughout, front pastedown with bookplate of Thomas Gaisford (possibly the English classicist, 1779-1855) and manuscript purchase note dated 1831 [Lowndes, 1858 ed., volume 2 p. 908]; Iona Club. Collectanae de Rebus Albanicis. Edited by the Iona Club. With the Transactions of the Club. Vol. I. Edinburgh: for the Iona Club, 1839. First edition, David Laing's copy, inscribed by him on an initial blank ‘D. Laing, Large paper copy, the impression limited to 30 copies’, with 3 receipts for his yearly Iona Club membership for 1834-6 tipped in at rear, and his ownership inscription to 3 front wrappers for the original parts bound in, large 8vo, large blue-green crushed morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; Monteith, Robert. An Theater of Mortality: or the Illustrious Inscriptions extant upon the several Monuments erected over the Dead Bodies … buried within the Gray-friars Church Yard; and other Churches and Burial-Places within the City of Edinburgh and Suburbs. [Bound with:] An Theater of Mortality: or, a Further Collection of Funeral-Inscriptions over Scotland. Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1704-13. 2 works in 1 volume, first editions, 8vo, [10 78 [2], [8] 279 [1] pp.,  c.1900 dark blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, first work with half-title and inserted leaf between pp. 18-19, bookplate of T. Dawson Brodie; Pont, Robert. De sabbaticorum annorum periodis chronologica a mundi exordio ad nostra usque secula et porro digestio. [London:] Gulielmum Jones, 1619. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, gilt arms to sides (attributed in pencilled note to Achille de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont), monogram gilt to spine compartments, wear to joints and head and foot of spine, M3-4 with old staining to lower fore corners; and 1 other similar (6) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.

Antiquarian literature Collection of English and French books, 16th-18th century William of Tyre. Histoire de la guerre saincte, dite proprement, la Franciade orientale … traduite en françois, par Gabriel du Preau. Paris: Nicols Chesneau, 1573. Folio, contemporary calf, gilt strapwork lozenges and monogram ‘R R’ to covers, title-page near detached, lacking free endpapers, a6 working loose [not in Adams]; Sandys, George (translator). Ovid's Metamorphosis. Englished, Mythologiz'd, and represented in FIgures. An Essay to the Translation of Virigl's Aeneis. Oxford: John Lichfield, 1632. Folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title-page, 14 engraved plates (of 15, lacking the plate for Book 9), spine defective, marginal fraying to first two quires including frontispiece and engraved title, a few plates similarly frayed [Sabin 57984; STC 18966]; Knolles, Richard. The Generall Historie of the Turkes. London: Adam Islip, 1603. Folio, contemporary calf, prelims incomplete, engraved title-page torn with loss, final leaf torn with loss, several leaves crudely repaired; Bion, Nicolas. The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments. London: by H. W. for John Senex, and William Taylor, 1723. First edition in English, folio, contemporary panelled calf, lacking several plates; and 5 other folios including Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works, [London: Bernard Linton, 1721] (folio, contemporary calf, covers detached, engraved portrait frontispiece, incomplete, title-page replaced in manuscript) (9) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Scottish Travel Diary Diary and Sketchbook - Oxford, J. A manuscript diary and sketchbook dated March 14th 1889 to May 1907, various high-quality sketches throughout including Cawdor Castle, Tulloch Castle, a trip up Arthur's Seat, the Forth Bridge under construction - “it looks extraordinary - they say it will be ready to use in October”, Edinburgh, contemporary morocco gilt; Etchings. A volume of etchings showing 57 views around Scotland, each 6.5 by 9cm, contemporary calf, boards and some pages loose (2) Sold in these rooms on the 16th September 2009.

Baker, Richard A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles & others. London: for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his shop, 1643. First edition, folio (33.5 x 21.5cm), [10] 181 [1] 163 [1] 108 163 [37] pp., contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page by William Hole, errata leaf present, printer's waste from a contemporary edition of the Bible (containing the Apocrypha) used as printer's waste, ownership inscription ‘A M’ (i.e. Anthony Murray of Dollerie) to head of title-page, early manuscript marginalia from pp. 1-42, early pen-and-ink sketch of a man-of-war to rear free endpaper, marginal loss to F1, damp-staining to index [Wing B501]; Camerarius, Philippius. The Living Librarie, or, Meditations and Observations Historical, Natural, Moral, Political, and Poetical. Done into English by John Molle. London: Adam Islip, 1621. Folio in sixes (29 x 19cm), [12] 403 [5] pp., contemporary calf with gilt armorial lozenges to covers (rubbed), title-page with woodcut strapwork border, initial and terminal blanks possibly original, vellum manuscript waste spine-lining, ownership inscriptions ‘Ex libris Jacobi Murravii 1701’ and ‘This book was read by Alexander Murray anno 1702’ to title-page and initial blank respectively, Hebrew annotations to front free endpaper, title-page slightly marked and with small hole to lower margin, closed tears to foot of A6 and Z1, a few other minor blemishes [STC 4529]; Douglas, Gawin (translator). Virgil's Aeneis, translated into Scottish Verse. A New Edition. Edinburgh: Andrew Symson, and Robert Freebairn, 1710. Folio (31 x 18cm), later calf, ownership inscription (Anthony Murray) to title-page, bookplate (Murray Esqre of Dollerie) to front pastedown, 1553 title-page bound after list of subscribers instead of in first gathering, bound without pi4 (blank), small hole to head of title-page, intermittent damp-staining (stronger to index); [Estienne, Charles]. Dictonarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum … Editio novissima, recensuit, supplevit, locisque pene infinits emaculavit Nicolaus Lloydius collegii Wadhami … socius. Oxford: ex typographeo Gulielmi Hall; impensis ejusdem, et Guilielmi Downing. Prostant Amstelodami, 1670. Folio, [8] 830 pp., contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, yapp edges, ownership inscription ‘A M’ to title-page, damp-staining, front free endpaper and initial blanks working loose; Calvinus, Johannes (c.1550-1614). Lexicon Juridicum Juris Caesaeri simul, et canonici. Geneva: apud Petrum Balduinum, 1622. Folio, 1047 pp., contemporary vellum (textblock loose in binding), ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray, Leyden 22 Feb 1700’ to initial blank, light marginal worming, damp-staining (5) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

McCance, William (1894-1970) Collection of books from the library of William McCance, Scottish artist and controller of the Gregynog Press Including: 9 books printed under McCance's supervision at Reading University School of Art (Muriel Kent, Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford, 1948, linocut frontispiece; J. M. R. Cormack, Notes on the History of the Inscribed Monuments of Aphrodisias, 1955, one of 250 copies; K. G. Burton, The Memorandums of John Watts Esq. Mayor of Reading 1722-23 and 1728-29, 1950, one of 120 copies, inscribed ‘Please return to W. McCance, Reading University’ on front pastedown; and similar); Gaudier Brzeska, a Memoir by Ezra Pound, 1916 (first edition, 4to, original green cloth, with William McCance's large linocut bookplate, designed and cut by himself, 12.5 x 9cm); The Fleuron No. 2, 1926 (4to, original quarter cloth, ownership inscription of William McCance to front free endpaper); Vincent Steer, Printing Design and Layout, c.1930 (4to, original cloth, ownership inscription ‘W McCance, Typography Dept’ to front free endpaper, annotations identifying typefaces to half-title and title-page, 2 leaves of manuscript notes laid in); and 27 others, general literature including paperbacks and reprints, either with McCance's ownership inscriptions or gift inscriptions to McCance (often naming him as ‘Mac’), 4 of which inscribed to McCance and his wife Agnes Miller Parker, one work (Robert Gibbings, Sweet Thames Run Softly, 1940) inscribed ‘To Willie, from Agnes, Xmas 1940’, together with one work (John Donne, Love Poems, Zodiac Books, 1950) inscribed ‘To Dearest Agnes, with much love Edna, Xmas 1952’ (40) Mrs Margaret McCance, second wife of William McCance. William McCance married Agnes Miller Parker in 1918. In 1930 he was appointed controller of the Gregynog Press, in Powys, Wales, remaining in the position for three years. In the 1940s and '50s he served as lecturer in typography and book production at the University of Reading, living during that period at Pheasant's Hill, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire.

Pufendorf, Samuel von De jure naturae et gentium libri octo Lund: sumtibus Adami Junghans imprimebat Vitus Haberegger, 1672. First edition, 4to (21 x 16.8cm), [20] 1227 [9] pp., contemporary vellum, with manuscript spine-title, title-page printed in red and black with printer's woodcut device, front inner hinge gone, title-page with two holes from erasure of ownership inscription and small spill-burn to head From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page and engraved bookplate (Murray Esqr of Crieff) to front pastedown. Known in English as Of the Law of Nature and of Nations, Pufendorf's great treatise on natural law was inspired by Grotius's De Jure Belli ac Pacis and provided a thorough critique of Hobbesian social theory. It proved hugely influential both in Europe and the New World, finding admirers in Locke and Rousseau, and becoming ‘part of the intellectual inheritance of the American Revolution and constitutionalism’ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Continental books Collection of editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th century Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-titles, ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray to title-page, titles include: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Tragoediae. J. F. Gronovius recenusuit. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1661. 8vo, contemporary vellum, engraved title-page (with amended imprint ‘Amstelodami, apud Judocum Pluymer MDCLXII’ on tipped-in slip-cancel), engravings in text, contemporary annotations to endpapers and margins, frequent underlining; Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolarum libri xvi. ad familiares. Amsterdam: apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1689. Large 12mo, engraved additional title-page, front free endpaper with early ownership inscription ‘Ce livre est à Abraham Janssen’ and 11-line macaronic manuscript poem; Aphthonius. Progymnasmata. Amsterdam: apud Joannem à Maanen, 1665. 12mo, engraved additional title-page; Sallustius, Caius Crispus. Opera omna quae exstant. Leidein: ex officina Hackiana, 1677. 8vo, engraved additional title-page; and 6 others similar (Ovid, Operum, Leiden: Hackiana, 1670, 3 volumes, 8vo; Terence, Comoediae sex, Leiden: Hackiana, 1669, 8vo, ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray Lug. Bat. 1701’; Cicero, Orationum, Venice, 1672, 3 volumes, 12mo; Lucan, De Bello Civili, 2 copies, Leiden, 1669, 8vo, and Amsterdam, 1627, 12mo; Ottaviano Mirandula, Illustrium Poetarum Flores, Cologne, 1616, 16mo, these not collated) (15) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Continental books Collection of works, 17th-18th century Diodorus Siculus. Bibliothecae historicae … ex interpretatione Laurentii Rhodomani. Hanover: typis Wechelianis, apud haeredes Joannis Aubrii, 1611. 8vo, [40] 1245 [65] pp., old calf (probably Dutch), ruled and decorated in blind, spine guarded with leaf of medieval manuscript waste on vellum, apparently in Dutch, final page of index with small area of adhesion to rear blank with loss of text; Buchanan, George. Rerum Scoticarum historia. Utrecht: apud Antonium Schouten, 1697. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf (probably British), ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray to endpapers endpaper and title-page (front free endpaper frayed), bound with Christopher Irvine, Historiae Scotiae Nomeclatura Latino-Vernacula, Edinburgh, 1697, at rear; Noodt, Gerhard. Probabilium libri tres. Leiden: ex officina Felicis Lopez, 1679. First edition, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page; Idem. De foenore et usuris libri tres. Leiden: apud Fredericum Haaring, 1698. First edition, 4to, 19th-century calf, engraved folding portrait, front joint cracked, manuscript initials of Anthony Murray dated 1705 to title-page; Virgil. [Opera] cum veterum omnium commentariis et selectis recentiorum notis nova editio. [Leiden]: ex officina Abrahami Commelini, 1647. 4to, contemporary calf, engraved title-page; and 11 others (not collated), contemporary bindings, similar ownership markings, including: Andrea Fachinei, Controversiarum juris libri decem, Cologne, 1604 (thick 4to, contemporary calf); Antonio Perez, Praelectiones in duodecim libro codicis Justiniani imp., Antwerp, 1695 (4to, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine); Dictionarium universale latino-gallicum, Paris, 1748 (4to, contemporary cat's-paw sheep, gilt spine, ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray Esq, Douay, 1789' to initial blank); John Barclay, Satyricon, Leiden, 1674 (8vo, engraved title-page); Corpus Juris Civilis editio nova, Amsterdam, 1664 (8vo, contemporary mottled sheep, worn, engraved title-page, vellum index tabs tipped to fore margins); Voltaire, Histoire de Charles XII roi de Suede, Basle, 1732 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, contemporary manuscript note on Voltaire to initial blank); John Lesley, De origine moribus et rebus gestis Scotorum libri decem, Rome, 1675 (4to, contemporary calf, dedication leaf loose); and similar (20) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Arvieux, Laurent d' The Travels of the Chevalier D'Arvieux in Arabia the Desart … to which is added, a General Description of Arabia, by Sultan Ishmael Abulfeda … Done into English by an Eminent Hand. London: for B. Barker; and C. King, 1732. Second edition, 12mo, [2] xvi [4] 358 [2] pp., old sprinkled calf, 5 engraved plates including frontispiece, frontispiece misbound after title-page, plate facing p. 7 with short closed tear to fore margin, N2 with closed tear to foot, tide-mark to head of last few leaves, a few marks From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to head of title-page; small manuscript shelfmark label pasted to foot of spine. First published in French in 1717, followed by the first edition in English in 1718; all early editions are uncommon.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius De officiis, libri tres … ex Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatione. London: excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, 1578. 8vo (14.2 x 9.5cm), 331 pp., contemporary limp vellum, vellum toned, soiled and crinkled, textblock detached from binding, first quire including title-page frayed and softened along fore edge, contemporary annotations in English to rear blank, ownership inscription ‘Ludovicus [?]’ to following blank, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray dated 1815 to initial blank, a few marginal markings in pen or pencil; Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura libri sex: quibus interpretationem et notas addidit Thomas Creech. Oxford: e theatro Sheldoniano, 1695. 8vo. [20] 367 94 pp., contemporary vellum, bifolium K2-3 loose, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page; Ross, Alexander. Virgilius triumphans, in tres libros dispartitus. Rotterdam: ex officinia Arnoldi Leers, 1661. 12mo,  [4] 328 pp., contemporary vellum, engraved additional title-page; Johnston, John. Thaumatographia naturalis. Amsterdam: apud Guilielum Blaeu, 1632. 12mo, [6] 501 [3] pp., contemporary vellum; Vives, Juan Luis. Colloquia, sive exercitatio Latinae linguae. Gouda: apud Françiscum Hoola, 1662. 8vo, [4] 246 [10] pp., woodcut vignette on title-page hand-coloured, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray, a few underlinings and annotations to text; Scaliger, Julius Caesar. Poemata omnia. [Heidelberg]: in bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1600. 8vo, 692 311 63 pp., contemporary limp vellum, intermittent damp-staining; and 2 others (not collated: Ravisi, Epitheta, 1606, 8vo, contemporary vellum, vellum manuscript waste spine-lining visible, and Henrich Smet, Prosodia, Amsterdam, 1658, 8vo, contemporary vellum) (8) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. This edition of Cicero is not mentioned in STC, where the earliest Vautrollier edition of De officiis cited is 1579.

Stanihurst, Richard De rebus in Hibernia gestis … omnia nunc primum in lucem edita. Leiden: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1584. First edition, 4to (20.9 x 14.9cm), 264 [8] pp., contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, remains of alum-tawed ties, woodcut Plantine device to title, woodcut initials, front inner hinge strained [Adams S1633] From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page. 'The second of Stanihurst's works devoted to Irish history and chorography, De rebus in Hibernia gestis, appeared from the Plantin press in Antwerp in 1584. In this more scientific treatment of Ireland, Stanihurst was anxious to reveal its merits to a continental as well as an Irish readership … From his vantage point in the Netherlands, Stanihurst was celebrating the political and cultural heritage conveyed to his own Old English community from Norman times. Also significant was the greater openness to the Gaelic Irish on the part of one who had previously been highly critical of their customs' (ODNB).

[Briscoe, John] A Discourse of Money Being an Essay on that Subject, Historically and Politically handled. With Reflections on the present evil state of the Coin of the Kingdom; and Proposals of a Method for the Remedy. In a Letter to a Nobleman, etc. London: for Sam. Briscoe, 1696. First edition, 8vo (17.7 x 11cm), [4] 204 pp., contemporary sheep ruled in blind, red-sprinkled edges, early ownership inscription (possibly ‘abundanly [sic] well handled, John Child’) to front free endpaper, light wear to binding, faint crease to title-page, a few other marks [Kress 1936] From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription ‘A M’ (i.e. Anthony Murray) to title-page and small manuscript shelfmark label ‘D2.10’ pasted to foot of spine.

Bannatyne Club Collection of works including editions of medieval literature, cartularies and similar all 4to, original cloth or boards, titles including: Syr Gawayne: a Collection of Ancient Romance-Poems by Scottish and English Authors, 1839, spotting; Vita Sancti Columbae, 1857, largely unopened; Ancient Scottish Melodies, from a Manuscript of the Reign of King James VI, 1838, largely unopened; The Buik of the most noble and valzeand Conquerour Alexander the Great, 1831, mottling to cloth; The Seven Sages, in Scottish Meter. By John Rolland of Dalkeith, 1837; The Aeneid of Virgil translated into Scottish Verse by Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld, 1839. 2 volumes, largely unopened; and approx. 30 others similar (approx. 46) 1. George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch (1813-1872), Scottish landowner and antiquarian (bookplates).2. The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.

Maitland Club Extensive collection of works Edinburgh or Glasgow: [for the Maitland Club], 19th century. All 4to, most in contemporary red quarter cloth with printed paper spine-labels, titles include: Narrative of the Prince of Wales' Expedition to Scotland in the Year 1745. By James Maxwell of Kirkconnell, Esq., 1841; Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland: from Original Documents, 1859; Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, compiled about M.DCC.X. by William Hamilton of Wishaw, 1831; Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow M.D.LXXIII-M.D.C.LXXXI, 1832; The Scottish Metrical Romance of Lancelot du Lak. Now first printed from a Manuscript of the Fifteenth century, 1839; and approx. 60 others (98) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.

Herberstein, Sigmund, Freiherr von (1486-1566) Comentari della Moscovia Venice: [Niccolò Bascarini, for] Giovanni Battista Pederzano, 1550. First Italian edition, 4to (20.5 x 15.5cm), title-page with Heberstein woodcut coat of arms, 6 full-page woodcuts on three leaves, lacking the map of Russia, contemporary vellum with ties, neat manuscript title to upper cover and spine in an early hand, neat early French library stamp to front free-endpaper, bookplate of Wed. Allen and their gift inscription to Walter Elliott, early ownership signature to title-page Early ownership inscription to title-page; library stamp of Bibliotheque C. Narischkine; bookplate of Wed. Allen; inscribed by Allen to Walter Elliott in 1934, Minister of Agriculture, then to Baroness Elliot of Harwood DBE and the Elliot of Harwood Trust by descent.

Travel Collection of works Kerr, Robert. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels. Edinburgh: for William Blackwood, 1811-17. First edition, volumes 1-17 only (of 18), 8vo, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum tips, numerous engraving maps and charts;  Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François. Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Maastricht: Jean-Edmé Dufour, 1774. Volumes 1 and 3-7 only, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece to each volume, 3 folding maps, worming to volumes 3 and 6; Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co., 1805. Second edition, 7 text volumes, 8vo, and plate volume, 4to, several covers of text volumes detached, plate volume lacking covers, natural history plate 14, third folding map (of 3) with substantial loss; [India]. Manuscript containing extracts from the Book of Genesis in Urdu and English, 18th or 19th century, 27 leaves (16.5 x 10.5cm), reversed calf binding; and others including: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Les six voyages qu'il a fait en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes … seconde partie [and:] Recueil de plusieurs relations relations et traitez singulier et curieux, [Amsterdam]: suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, 1679 (2 volumes of 3, 8vo, contemporary vellum, numerous engraved plates and maps, mostly folding), Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Edinburgh, 1776 (volumes 1-3 only, 8vo, folding map frontispieces, volume 1 frontispiece torn, volume 2 front board detached); and similar (approx. 40) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

[Fyffe, Dr William, attributed, and others] - English Civil War manuscript remedy and recipe book Mid-17th century Comprising 82 pages of remedies, at least 25 of these in Fyffe's hand (although further pages may be written by him in a slightly more scrawled hand) including “A digestive truection? for a Deep hollow Wound…”, “A very good Oyl for a wound”, “herb Oyntment, excellent for a Bruis…", “to Stoppe bleeding at ye Nose”, “A pocket perfume for to prevent ye Plague”, “A spetiall Antidote against ye Plague”, “To Make a Plague water”, “A broath for the bloody flux”, “A medicene for the Dropsie”, and others; [WITH] 60 pages of food and drink recipes, including “To make Lemon Cream”, “An orange pudding”, “Whildhall pancakes”, “To make Soop” and “to make chees cake”, the name Griselda Fletcher inscribed to final leaf; contemporary calf bound notebook with provincial gilt tooling, one clasp intact only, 15 x 10cm Dr William Fyffe, b.1615, of Parrox Hall, Lancashire (the probable author of the medical recipes), appointed Honorary Physician to the King for the County of Lancashire, and thence by descent. Fyffe was notably a signatory to the Loyal Address of 1660, calling for Charles II to return to England and reclaim the throne. Retained by the descendants of Dr. Fyffe for over three hundred years, this small yet fascinating manuscript has been referenced in the histories of Lancashire. Parrox Hall, Dr. William Fyffe's home-by-marriage, was host to a Royalist army in 1651, and many of the remedies for wounds are thought to date from this time. “Dr. Fyffe and his wife Ellen were in possession of Parrox Hall throughout [the English Civil War], and a fascinating record in the form of a handwritten notebook containing herbal medical recipes attributed to Dr. Fyffe, plus many culinary recipes, still survives in the Hall. The number of treatments for the plague and wounds caused by sword or gunshot date the work to this period, but remedies for many other kinds of ailment are also included and the book is written in several different hands.” Gordon Heald, Parrox Hall: The Best Kept Secret of Over Wyre.

Elzevir Press Collection of works, 17th century Contemporary vellum bindings, contemporary manuscript spine-titles, old manuscript shelfmark labels to feet of spines, titles include: Hobbes, Thomas. Elementa philosophica de cive. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1669. 12mo, [36] 403 pp., engraved title-page, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page, printed biography of Hobbes tipped to front pastedown; [Laet, Johannes de]. Hispania, sive, de regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 32mo, [16] 498 [2] pp., engraved title-page, vellum manuscript waste used as patch-lining for spine, manuscript initials of Anthony Murray to title-page; Rufus, Quintus Curtius. Historiarum libri, accuratissime editi. Leidein: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1653. 12mo, [12] 338 [19] pp., engraved title-page, engraved folding map, full-page woodcut, small worm-tracks to title-page, first leaf of text and margins of last few leaves, manuscript initials of Anthony Murray dated 1703 to title-page; and 6 others (not fully collated, including: Bernhardus Varenius, Geographia generalis, 1664, engraved title-page, 4 folding tables and one folding woodcut plate; Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, 1665, engraved title-page; and similar) (8) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Qur'an Miniature manuscript Qur'an, probably Ottoman territories, 19th century Arabic manuscript in black ink on lightweight wove paper, approx. 395 leaves (5.2 x 3.5cm), naskh script, 17 lines to the page, polychromatic floral border to opening bifolium, decorated throughout with surah-headings in red thuluth on gold ground, concentric panels around text in red, black and gold, and lobed marginal decorations including juz' markings, contemporary black shagreen binding decorated in gilt, first leaf with marginal loss

18th-century French and English history, military history and literature Collection of works Including: John Campbell, Lives of the British Admirals, London: J. Murray, 1785, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispieces, 6 engraved folding maps by John Lodge (West Indies; Europe; Asia; Africa; North America; South America), Europe and Asia with closed handling tears; Marquis de Bouillé, Memoirs relating to the French Revolution, London: Cadell and Davies, 1797, 8vo, later half sheep, worn, with the half-title; Madame de Stael, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution … Translated from the Original Manuscript, London: for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818, 3 volumes, 8vo, later half sheep, worn; John Andrews, Free Disquisitions on the Sentiments and Conduct requisite in a British Prince, in Order to Merit the Favourable Opinion of the Public, London: Blacks and Parry, 1805, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, half-title; The Trial, by Impeachment, of Henry Lord Viscount Melville, London: Longman [etc.], 1806, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, engraved portrait frontispieces, joints cracked; James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson … Sixth Edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813, 8vo, contemporary calf, front board near-detached; and 18 others similar (the lot not fully collated and sold as seen) (39) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Engraved bookplates of Murray Esqr of Crieff; ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray

Science Collection of works, English and Scottish, mainly 18th century Buchan, William. Domestic Medicine; or, the Family Physician. Edinburgh: Balfour, Auld, and Smellie, 1769. First edition, 8vo, xvi 624 pp., contemporary sheep, joints cracked; Saviard, Barthelémy. Observations in Surgery: being a Collection of One Hundred and Twenty Eight Different Cases. With Particular Remarks on each, for the Improvement of Young Students. Wherein not only the Method of Practice in Difficult Labours, but other Distempers incident of the Female Sex are copiously enlarged on … Written originally in French … [Translated by] J. S. Surgeon. London: J. Hodges, 1740. First edition in English, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, A2-7 near-detached (held by one cord only); Milnes, James. Sectionum Conicarum Elementa Nova Methodo Demonstrata. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1723. Third edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, engraved vignette to title-page, 21 engraved folding plates; Love, John. Geodaesia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring of Land made easy … Also, How to lay out New Lands in America, or elsewhere. London: for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and W. Innys, 1731. Fourth edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, lacking rear free endpaper; Coles, Elisha. An English Dictionary, explaining the Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Philosophy, Law, Navigaiton, Mathematicks, and other Arts and Sciences. London: for Peter Parker, 1696. First edition, 12mo, contemporary sheep, closed tear in S5; Priestley, Joseph. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. London: for J. Johnson, 1775. Volumes 1-2 only (of 3), second edition of volume 1, first edition of volume 2, 8vo, contemporary calf, volume 1 with 2 engraved  folding plates, volume 2 with 2 engraved plates only (apparently of 3), volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached; Carrick, Andrew. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de asthmate periodico. Edinburgh: Balfour and Smellie, 1787. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt; Keill, John. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: or, Philosophical Lectures read in the University of Oxford … To which are added, the Demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the Centrifugal Force and Circular Motion. London: for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, and T. Longman, 1726. Second edition, 8vo, xii 306 pp., contemporary panelled calf, woodcuts in text, advertisement leaf to rear; and 5 others similar (17) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. With various family ownership inscriptions to endpapers and title-pages; manuscript shelfmark labels pasted to feet of a few spines.

[Skene, Sir John, editor] - Golfing interest The Lawes and Actes of Parliament... Maid be King James the First, and his Successours Kinges of Scotland… Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, 1597. Folio, lacks engraved additional title, folding genealogical table, f.46 (from the first section), ff.160 (from the second section), and around 41 final pages, ff.9 and 10 in part 2 misbound but present, with 14 manuscript leaves written in an early Scottish secretarial hand, a signature seeming to read “A. Skene” to f.109 of the Roll of the Names (possibly Alexander Skene, a younger son of John Skene); [bound with] The Lawes and Acts of Parliament… since his Majesties XV. Parliament…1597. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1647; contemporary calf with remnants of clasps, some browning and spotting, covers rubbed and binding a little loose This work is notable for the appearance in print for only the second time of  laws regarding golf. item 65, In the reign of King James the Second, XIIII Parliament vi of March, 1457, “Item, It is Decreeted & ordained . . . that the Fute-ball and Golfe be utterly cryed downe, and not to be used”. Additional acts prohibiting football and golf were introduced during the reign of King James IV in 1491: item 32 in the Third Parliament xviii of Maij 1491: “Item, It is statute and ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used fute-ball, golfe, or uther sik unfrofitable sportes, for the common gud of the Realme & defense thereof."

Scotland 3 works Martin, Martin. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London: A. Bell, 1716. Second edition, 8vo, folding map, folding plate, additional leaf with pasted news clipping regarding the sale of “The Islands and Barony of Harries and St. Kilda”, another inserted manuscript leaf regarding “Rathry Isle” (presumably Rathlin), and a further two leaves with an article titled “Extract from an Expedition to the celebrated Island of Y-Columbkill", 20th-century calf gilt;[Burt] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London. London: S. Birt, 1754. 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece map, 8 plates, contemporary calf, Hopetoun bookplates, ownership stamps of Alex. D. Denny to free-endpaper / reverse of map;Ferguson, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Ferguson. Alnwick: W. Davison, [n.d.] 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth (5) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.

Mennie, Donald China North and South Second and Revised Edition. A Series of Vandyck Photogravures illustrating the Picturesque Aspect of Chinese Life and Surroundings. Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Co., c.1920. Oblong 4to, original boards, string-bound, 30 mounted photogravure plates, printed captions to mounts, boards damp-stained;Kerim, A[bdul]. Camera Studies in Iraq [cover-title]. Baghdad: Hasso, Bros, c.1930. Oblong 4to, original simulated crocodile skin covers, string-bound, 73 photogravures on 50 leaves, printed calligraphic captions;Shields, John. ‘A Photographic Record of a Trip to Tangier, Xmas 1909’. [And:] ‘Photographic Records of Visits to Seville and Niebla, 1910’. [Probably London: privately printed for or by the photographer, 1910]. 2 works, oblong 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco gilt by Sinclair of Haymarket, all edges gilt, calligraphic manuscript title-page to each work, 65 and 67 photogravures respectively, printed direct on card leaves, and including street scenes, views, people, architectural studies, pencilled captions in Seville album, Tangier album front cover detached (4) The Estate of Dorothy Bohm.

Ecole spéciale militaire de St-Cyr Portfolio of sketches and manuscript exercises by officer cadet Camille de Caix, Baron de Chaulieu, 1876-1877 15 diagrams of fortifications and geometric and topographical exercises, pen and ink, pencil and watercolour, mainly approx. 50 x 32cm, several smaller, one ('Attaque des places') larger (47 x 63cm) and folding, together with manuscript title-leaf ‘Album des travaux graphiques de topographie exécuté par l’elève de Caix Camille né le 5 mai 1857 à Caen (Calvados)', most with Ecole spéciale militaire oval blind stamp annotated with de Caix's name and date and several signed presumably by a supervising officer;3 large hypsometric colour maps of the eastern frontier of France, pen and ink and watercolour, 54.5 x 43cm;‘Cours de Fortification, Cahier de Croquis’, folio exercise book, 36 x 23cm, 8 ff., stitched in wrappers, manuscript title to front cover, containing annotated diagrams in ink and pencil,9 leaves of pencil sketches of landmarks (trees, hills, cottages, a ruin, etc.), various dimensions;4 engraved exercise sheets from the ‘Cours de topographie’ with details added in manuscript;large charcoal sketch of a nude man unsheathing a sword, signed ‘De Caix’, 56 x 29.5cm, with a large pencil sketch of a Greek soldier and lover (mounted);3 albumen-print photographic group portraits of schoolboys (quantity) An interesting collection of material providing an insight into the rebuilding of the French military establishment after the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War.

Bible; Latin; Estienne printing Biblia R. Stephanus Lectoris. En tibi Biblioru[m] vulgata editio, in qua juxta Hebraicorum versuum rationem singula capita versibus distincta sunt, numeris praefixis, qui versuum numeris quos in Concordantiis nostris novis et integris, post literas marginales A B C D E F G addidimus, respondent: ut quaerendi molestia leveris, quum tibi tanquam digito, quod quaris demonstrabunt. [Geneva]: Roberti Stephani [colophon: ‘excudebat Roberto Stephano Conradus Badius], 1555. 8vo (18 x 11cm), contemporary calf over reverse-bevelled wooden boards, covers decoratively tooled in blind with foliate roll, medallion profile portraits, acorns and fleurons, retaining medial blank 2p8, loss of leather to spine-ends and edges of boards, retaining brass catches but lacking clasps, intermittent damp-staining to lower margins, quire 2lz (ff. 257-264) misbound but all leaves present [Adams B1051; Darlow & Moule II 6135; Renouard 86:1] From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page and small manuscript shelfmark label ‘D2.9’ pasted to foot of spine. Robert Estienne's third octavo edition, 'generally considered to be the earliest Latin Bible to exhibit R. Stephanus' division of the text into numbered verses' (Darlow & Moule).

Glasgow manuscripts Including The Society of Glasgow for Promoting Religious Knowledge Among the Poor Committee book of the Society of Glasgow for promoting religious knowledge among the poor, 1758-65, 2 vol, 4to, in total c. 80pp., contemporary calf, worn, one cover detached; and 3 other manuscript volumes relating to the affairs of George Brown of Capelrig, an account of disbursements of James Graham, 1757-60; a volume of pressed flowers with Latin captions, contemporary half calf, rubbed; a copy correspondence volume on business matters, mainly regarding Clyde shipping, signed WC (possibly William Crichton of East Breast, Greenock) to William Bell, George Crichton, Messrs. Macfarlane & Virtue, and others (6) Sold in these rooms on 5th September 2007

Alberto Morrocco (Scottish 1917-1998) Collection of original sketches for Zodiac: Journal of Aberdeen University Medical Society, 1948-9 17 pen-and-ink sketches on paper or card, various dimensions (11.5 x 16cm to 19.5 x 25cm), variously signed ‘AM’, ‘Morrocco’, or A. Morrocco, several with editorial annotations in pencil or green ink, a few with corrections in white ink, corner-mounted to rectos of versos of card leaves in modern album, recent manuscript captions to mounts with details of the images' publication, 2 sketches with contemporary editorial annotations mounted below. Together with 3 similar sketches by another unidentified artist apparently for the same publication (bound into the same album), and an original copy of each Zodiac number (Vol. 1 Nos. 4-5) in which the sketches are published From the collection of A. T. Mennie, editor of Zodiac; thence by direct descent to the present owner. A substantial collection of original drawings by Morrocco, shedding light on an early and obscure chapter in his artistic career.

Music Collection of volumes of engraved music including Scottish Highland music, 18th-19th century Gow, Niel, of Dunkeld. A Collection of Strathspey Reels with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord. Edinburgh: printed for the author, c.1800. 36 pp., engraved throughout, bound with other works including: A New and Complete Collection of Scots Songs. Edinburgh: Corri & Sutherland, c.1790; A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs never hitherto published … by Patrick McDonald, Minister of Kilmore in Argyleshire, Edinburgh: for the publisher, c.1790; Urbani, Peter. A Selection of Scots Songs. Harmonized, improved with Simple and Adapted Graces. Book 1st [-2nd]. Edinburgh: printed for the author, [1792-4]. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio, contemporary half calf, book 1st list of subscribers repaired, bound with at rear, A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs for the Voice, London: Preston & Co., c.1800, and a fragment. Together with: 5 further volumes of music, including a volume containing Beethoven's Egmont Overture (Mainz: B. Schott, 19th century) and similar pieces, and a volume of manuscript music, a few covers detached; and 2 large-format 19th-century Murray family photograph albums (10) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Culloden Castle, Inverness 19th century manuscript recipe book Inscribed Donald Cameron, Cul[l]oden Castle, May 4th 1845 on front free endpaper, 8vo, 125 pages of culinary and medicinal recipes, including marrow custard, the American cure for rheumatism, bath cheese, for removing marks & stains from books, written in a number of different hands throughout, 19th century quarter calf, worn and stained Sold in these rooms on the 5th September 2007.