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NO RESERVE Spirits.- Henty & Constable Ltd, Westgate Brewery (of Westgate, Chichester, West Sussex) Account Book of Spirits Sent out of Stock, manuscript on printed pages, c. 260pp., 1f. and front free endpaper excised, original calf-backed boards, labels on covers (1 with address: "GE Borrall, 30 Grifford Road, New Bosham"), folio, 1947-48.⁂ Supplying pubs, the Royal British Legion etc.

David (Elizabeth).- Photographic portrait of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, signed by Elizabeth David verso, name of sitter pencilled at head of image, window-mounted, image 201 x 130mm., [?c.1930]; and a small quantity of others, David ephemera and photographs, including 9 'Gerard. Proofs of Leicester photographs', with autograph captions or notes, a scrap album relating to restaurants, and a manuscript menu for a remembrance picnic, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)

Crahan copy.- Kellet (Susanna, Elizabeth & Mary) A Complete collection of cookery receipts, (consisting of near four hundred,) which have been taught upwards of fifty years, with great reputation, first edition, dedication f. to the attendees of the Kellet's cookery school, list of subscribers, a few small marginal repairs, including to title, some water-staining, mostly at end, spotting and staining (including title), lightly browned, 6 later ink manuscript recipes loosely inserted, antique style pale calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with double red morocco labels, [Bitting p.256; Maclean p.79], 8vo, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Printed by T. Saint; and sold by W. Charnley, Whitfield and Co. and all the booksellers in town and country, 1780.⁂ Rare. Aside from this Crahan copy and that of Hroar Dege-Book for Cooks we can trace no others at auction. The authors, perhaps a mother and two daughters, or three sisters, ran a cookery school in the North of England. Provenance: Marcus Crahan, sold Sotheby's 9 & 10th October, 1984, lot 344 (bookplate), and again as the Crahan-Keck Day copy, Sotheby's, 25th November, 1986, lot 267, since which time the modern boards have been replaced by our binding; Mary Chadsey (bookplate).

Jones, (Owen) (1809-1874) 'The Preacher'. Longman London 1849. Chromo-lithographical pages in the style of an illuminated manuscript (300 x 210mm) bound in carved wooden boards by Edmonds & Remnant plus The Victoria Psalter dedicated to Queen Victoria. Fo. (440 x 320mm), relievo leather plus Humphreys, (Henry Noel). 'A Record of the Black Prince'. Longman et al, London 1849. Illuminated text in carved ebony binding with armorial, gilt edges (195 x 135mm). Fair condition for age (3)

Pickering, (William). The Book of Common Prayer, London 1844. Red and black print, uncut pages, full vellum. Thick Fo. (360 x 250mm). Back split s/c plus a Facsimile of The Original Manuscript of the Book of Common Prayer 1661/2, Eyre & Spottiswode & C.J. Clay, London 1891. Thick Fo. Full vellum (390 x 270mm) spotted, edges bumped (2)

A collection of c20 17th and 18th century Manuscript Documents on vellum and paper, some with seals (c20)

A manuscript or poetic diary dedicated to 'Antoinette' (Heckscher) Dec 20th 1911 - Jan 19th 1912. Finely bound in gilt tooled pale red Morocco with gilt edges (165 x 120mm). Some discolouration and bumps plus a m/s anthology entitled 'Minor Poets' in a sloping longhand', full tree calf with gilt edge (200 x 130mm) (2)

Mitford, (Mary Russell) 'Watlington Hill; A Poem'. Valpy London 1812. Full calf with red title (190 x 112mm) plus a manuscript description of Watlington in July. 5pp by Lionel Brett dated 23 March 1942. Cloth binding (225 x 145mm) (2)

Military Interest 'A List of the Officers of the Militia of the United Kingdom' War Office 15th June 1816, red Morocco, small format plus 'Coldstream Guards - Presentation of Colours to the First Battalion by His Majesty The King at Buckingham Palace' 29th May 1907, Ltd Ed to 250, Chiswick Press, ivory boards plus a typed manuscript 'Letters - Act. Corp. M.H. Jr. Fortbragg 1942', blue cloth plus one associated title, b/ps (4)

A pair of leather bound Hatchards albums 'Books Read', two volumes, 1928-1955, a m/s family diary 1915-1938, a sketch book with numerous pencil drawings binding dated 1831, a typed manuscript by Eleanor Esher and a notebook, b/ps (6)

Bernhardt (Sarah) French Actress (1844-1923). A manuscript letter dated 29th March 1916 on monogrammed notepaper addressed The Lord Mayor (of Liverpool) thanking him for the welcome to the city and acknowledging the united efforts of France and England in the 1st World War, signed with original envelope (1 +)

Crimea War Interest:- A manuscript letter, black ink, sloping long hand from William Todd No. 7195. 6th Company 3rd (?) Battalion Grenadier Guards to his sister dated 'Camp before Sebastopol 24th September 1855'. 2 sides (360 x 220mm) in ebonised frame, stained, holed, glass cracked etc

HISTORIC MANUSCRIPTS: Nantucket - United States of AmericaAn important hand written manuscript relating to the founding and early history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, compiled circa late 18th century,cloth cover bearing inscribed label 'Particulars of the Purchase and Settlement of the Island of Nantucket',the volume containing thirty-five pages describing events in the territory c. 1640 - 1792, including list of residents, text including transcribed information from Abigail Starbuck's memorandums the first settlers of the Starbucks, on the Island of Nantucket, with detailed history of family and their genealogy, an account of the houses and inhabitants of the island in 1764, the volume begins "1. The original Right of Nantucket was obtained by Thomas Mayhew, and Thomas Mayhew his Son, of James Forrett, Agent to William Earl of Sterling; the thirteenth of October 1641.....", additional pages include "21. The first Ancestors we known of the Coffin Family was Peter Coffin of Brixton, near Plymouth, Devonshire, Old England....", "34. An account of the Houses, and Inhabitants of the Island of Nantucket, in the year 1764...." including detailed information on prominent residents and their children and ancestors23.25cm x 18cmCondition: Covers worn and discoloured, pages general good some fading to ink and minor staining. The Starbuck Family thence by descent. The Starbuck's were an important family in the history of the island of Nantucket. Emigrating to America from Derbyshire in around 1635, the family eventually found fortune in the Whale oil industry. Edward Starbuck and his wife Katherine were amongst the first settlers on Nuntucket. Their son Nathaniel Starbuck married Mary (nee Coffin) (1645-c.1717) who were the first English couple to marry on the island. Mary Coffin Starbuck's father Tristam (c. 1609 - 1681) was one of a group of investors who purchased Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew (for thirty pound and two beaver hats) in 1659.

late 18th / early 19th century manuscript family trees relating to the Starbuck, Coffin, Wolger and Mayhew families of Nantucket from settlement until the early 19th century some on vellum with colouring, one including Benjamin Franklin, together with a watercolour armorial of the arms of the Folger family with motto 'By the name of Folger' with annotated notes Judith Mary the daughter of Samuel, drew this at Nantucket - her mother was Walter Folger's Daughter' verso dated 1825 'I took this to the ***** Office London where they told me there were not Arms recognised in England...', (qty)variousCondition: One tree is torn in half. otherwise in fair condition The Starbuck Family thence by descent.

Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)] Volume of manuscript notes from Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh, 1811 8vo, contemporary mottled half calf, title ('Notes of Hume's Lecture's') gilt to spine, 206 ff., written on rectos only, with headings including 'Introduction' (ff. 1-9), 'Of marriage' (9-70), 'Relation between Parent & Child' (70-101), 'Of Relation between Minors and their Tutors and Curators' (102-157, including a section on 'Curators to Lunatics'), 'Of Master and Servant' (158-173), 'Of Obligations in General' (174-181) and 'Contract of Sale' (181-206), edges untrimmed, binding rubbedNote: Note: David Hume (1757-1838), nephew of the philosopher, was appointed professor of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh in 1786. He was appointed Baron of the Exchequer in 1822, and is usually known as Baron Hume to distinguish him from his uncle. He was the outstanding law professor of his generation, and his lectures on private law, the subject of these notes, 'were highly praised and students flocked to them ... Hume forbade publication of his lectures, but copies circulated and they were cited in court, many of his pupils reaching the bench ... The lectures recast Scottish private law ready for the nineteenth century' (ODNB).

MacLellan, Bill, publisher (1919-1996) Hugh MacDiarmid and others Quantity of typed and a few manuscript submissions to Bill MacLellan, including autograph pp.2-8 of Hugh MacDiarmid article on the Scottish T.U.C., autograph pp.2-5 by MacDiarmid of an article on Prague, autograph 4pp. on "Frank Harris: My Life and Loves"; c. 7 other incomplete pages by MacDiarmid, Gunn, Neil. 6 page autograph letter to Tom Scott, containing biographical notes and several references to his novels and other works; typed letters to Neil Gunn from Tom Cottrell of the University of Stirling; and miscellaneous typed articles and poems submitted to Bill MacLellan for publication, 1940s and 50s, some with corrections in pencilNote: Note: Between 1941 and 1969 MacLellan published original poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, W. S. Graham, George Campbell Hay, George Bruce, Sydney Goodsir Smith and Maurice Lindsay, fiction by J.F. Hendrie, Edward Gaitens and Fionn MacColla, plays by Ewan MacColl and Robert McLellan (no relation) and books of Scottish history, art and folklore, the most notable being the Dewar Manuscripts.

Scottish history and law 16th-18th century works Boethius, Hector. [Scotorum historiae]. [Paris: Jodocus Badius], 1527. First edition, folio (32 x 21.5cm), later calf, signatures āēīō8 (-ā1) u10 a-z8 A-Z8 AA-BB8 2C6, main title-page (ā1) lacking, large woodcut criblé initials throughout, woodcut arms to ā2, second part with title-page incorporating elaborate woodcut border and central vignette of a printing shop, binding rubbed, joints cracked, rear board near detached, a few light damp-stains, wide margins [Adams B2308];Idem. Scotorum historiae prima gentis origine. Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1575 [colophon: Lausanne, François Le Preux at the expense of Jacques du Puys]. Folio (30.5 x 19cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked and relined, woodcut initials, bookplates, extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of Henricus Florent Laurin by Petrus de Jode after Abraham van Diepenbeeck (c.1662), contemporary marginalia, detailed contemporary annotations to two rear blanks, repaired losses to title-page, ink-stamp of the University of Edinburgh to foot of title, very occasional light damp-staining [Adams B2310];Scott, George (editor). The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: containing an Impartial Account of the most Remarkable Affairs of State ... relating to the Kingdoms of England of Scotland, under the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James. London: by E. H. for Robert Boulter, 1683. Folio, contemporary mottled calf, covers detached, two holes in 2P2 [ESTC R201];Lindsay, Robert. The History of Scotland; from 21 February, 1436 to March, 1565 ... To which is added, a Continuation, by Another Hand, till August 1604. Edinburgh: printed by Mr Baskett and Company, 1728. 2 copies, both first editions, folio, one in contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, joints cracked, spotting and browning, marginal tear to d1, 2Y2 closed marginal tear extending into text, the other in 19th-century half russia, covers detached, upper margin of title-page excised, spotting and browning, short closed tears in 2G1 and 2P2 [ESTC T87021];Skene, Sir John. Regiam Majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland. Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, 1609. First edition in Scots (and any vernacular; first published in Latin the same year), 2 copies, folio, first in copy 20th-century blue cloth, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials throughout, title-page dust-soiled and with small marginal hole, part 2 ff. A3-4 with partial loss of text from ink corrosion, X6 with short closed tear, repairs to final extant leaf 2H3 (2H4, blank, discarded), second copy in 20th-century black cloth, initial two quires with smaller margins and possibly supplied from another copy, title-page spotted and soiled, lacking index (3 leaves, H2-4) at end, damp-staining towards rear [ESTC S117424];Idem. Regiam Maiestatem Scotiae. London: John Bill, 1613. Folio, contemporary mottled calf, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials throughout, title-page with early inscriptions including 'Bibliotheca Colbertina' (i.e. the library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1619-1683, French statesman), manuscript catch-title to bottom edge, spine very worn, title-page with shallow chips along fore edge, stitching strained between part 2 quires F-G, leaves G2-5 loose, final 2 leaves working loose [ESTC S117425: 'A reissue, with cancel title, of the 1609 [Latin] edition'];Parliament of Scotland. The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his Succesours Kinges of Scotland. Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, 1597. First edition, 2 copies, folio, 20th-century blue and brown cloth respectively, both with letterpress title-page only (an engraved title-page was also issued but 'one of the title-pages is generally missing', ESTC), retaining all medial blanks (e1, h4, n2, 2D4, E6) and folding genealogical table (repaired in one copy, torn in the other), woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials throughout, first copy (blue cloth) with contemporary signature 'Jo. Skene' to end of Table (part 3 sig. E5), possibly the autograph of the compiler Sir John Skene, first leaf (pi1) containing explanatory verses laid down and remargined, second copy (brown cloth) 2G6 with ownership inscription 'George Wichtane notarie burges of Dondie is owner of this book the first of February anno Dom 1626', lacking pi1, part 2 sigs. T3-4, and all of De verborum significatione (sigs. H-T), title-page (pi2) soiled and with woodcut headpiece trimmed, pi4 torn with loss of woodcut headpiece [ESTC S116931];Spottiswoode, Sir Robert. Practicks of the Laws of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by James Watson, 1706. First edition, folio, contemporary mottled calf, from the library of David Erskine of Dun (1670-1758), Scottish advocate, with ownership inscription 'Ex libris Davidis Erskine' and engraved bookplate, front board detached, toning, spotting to outer leaves [ESTC T101198];and 2 others (a fragment of The Lawes of Actes of Parliament, containing De verborum significatione only, 1599, worming; Thomas Thomson, editor, A Collection of Inventories and Other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewlhouse; and of the Artillery and Munitioun [sic] in Some of the Royal Castles, Edinburgh: [privately printed], 1815, 4to, contemporary red quarter morocco, not collated)Note: Provenance: Dictionaries of the Scots Language (with associated bookplates).

Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) Document signed by Lord Nelson, Lady Emma Hamilton, Captain Thomas Hardy, and others certifying the marriage of William Compton and Anne Bottalin, HMS Foudroyant, Bay of Naples, 9 July 1799. Brown ink on single sheet of laid paper with Britannia watermark, remains of red wax seal, mounted (mount aperture 30.8 x 19.2cm). Old folds; paper worn away at intersections of a few folds; professional consolidation along folds and edges; a few spots and minute holes; line of offsetting around periphery from mount; old staining from wax seal.Main text reads 'This is to certify that, on board the Foudroyant lying in Naples Bay, on the ninth of July 1799 the marriage between William Compton & Mrs Anne Bottalin, widow, was solemnized by me S. G. Comyn HM. Chaplain to the Right Honble Lord Nelson, H.M.S. Foudroyant, in the presence of'. With the following autograph signatures:Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803);Lady Emma Hamilton (1765-1815);Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805);Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1747-1817);Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839);John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1769-1859);Josiah Nisbet (1780-1830);John Tyson;William Compton and Anne Bottalin;and 2 others.Mounted together with the document is a contemporary manuscript account of the wedding, headed 'Paragraph for the papers, sent to Messrs Coutts & Co with request to have it inserted'Note: Note: A spectacular document never before offered for sale, uniting Nelson with an astonishing array of characters in his story and providing a snapshot of a moment of sublime unreality amid a period of high tension in the contest for the Mediterranean, when dismayed observers perceived the judgment of the victor of the Nile to have been fatally disturbed by his pursuit of a scandalous love affair.Nelson's signature is juxtaposed with those of both Hamiltons and three of his fellow naval officers who had most to regret in his behaviour: Thomas Masterman Hardy, his flag-captain at Trafalgar and famed recipient of his near final words; Josiah Nisbet, his stepson and rescuer at Tenerife, where Nelson lost his right arm; and John Duckworth, who, recently promoted rear admiral, sailed to Naples to reinforce Nelson, and as his second in command was required to cover Minorca on his behalf. John Rushout, collector and connoisseur, was in Naples as attaché to Sir William Hamilton; John Tyson was Nelson's personal secretary on the Foudroyant.Hardy was the most junior of Nelson's 'band of brothers' who secured the decisive victory over Napoleon in the Battle of Nile in August 1798. He was then promoted to Nelson's flagship, the Vanguard, before moving with him to the Foudroyant. At Trafalgar he was with Nelson during his final hours. Nelson's last words to his flag-captain have gone down in naval folklore as 'Kiss me, Hardy'; less frequently remembered is his request immediately beforehand: 'Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy, take care of poor Lady Hamilton'. Hardy was appointed First Sea Lord in 1830 and oversaw the building of Nelson's Column. Nelson was fond of his stepson Josiah Nisbet, daughter of his Nevis-born wife Fanny from her first marriage, and took him to sea to train as a naval officer. They were side by side in the failed assault on Tenerife in 1797, when Nisbet applied a tourniquet to Nelson's wounded right arm, and got him back to the Theseus, where the arm was amputated. Between 1798 and 1800 he commanded the Thalia on the Mediterranean station, but according to the Royal Naval Biography fell out with his stepfather 'by remonstrating with him on his infatuated attachment to Lady Hamilton', and held no subsequent appointment.Nelson had been impressed by Lady Hamilton's bravery during the evacuation of the Neapolitan royal family to Palermo in December 1798, and by February the pair were lovers, with Sir William Hamilton, ambassador to Naples, a complaisant adjunct to the relationship. 'Vivacious and uninhibited even by the relaxed standards of the Bourbon court, [Hamilton] threw herself, and drew him, into an extravagant social round of spectacles, drinking, and gambling. Emma Hamilton's earlier career as a courtesan had taught her skills which might have overcome a more sophisticated and less vulnerable man than Nelson ... Her friendship with the queen [of Naples] and her intimacy with the hero of the hour placed her at the centre of affairs, and she relished the position' (ODNB).In June Nelson sailed for Naples to continue his expedition against the newly established French satellite republic. On 13 July he received the first of three orders from Lord Keith, commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, to sail to Minorca in anticipation of a Franco-Spanish assault, all of which he refused, and though he reasoned that Naples was of greater strategic importance, his conduct left the British fleet dangerously exposed.Dr William Compton, the chancellor of Ely and a relative of the earl of Northampton, and Anne Bottalin, daughter of a sometime mayor of Norwich, were both British residents of Naples who have otherwise left little mark in posterity. Their marriage onboard the Foudroyant, with Nelson himself giving away the bride, was a lavish affair, the accompanying despatch describing how '[they] were elegantly entertained at dinner & with music by Ld Nelson who did them the honor to accompany them in his own barge (which he had also sent for them) with Sir Wm & Ly Hamilton ... in the evening to Mr Compton's house at Posilipo'.Nelson's solicitude at such a juncture is picked out by his principal modern biographer John Sugden as evidence for a lesser-known side of his character: 'A man who invested time, effort and money into friendship, [Nelson] was hurt by anything resembling ingratitude. Even in these troubled times, we find him generous with now forgotten benefices. William Compton ... received "a great many favours and kindnesses" from Nelson, and most especially "the kind interest" taken in sealing his union with a wife who made him "the happiest of mortals". Anne, the aforesaid spouse, said that the admiral's "good heart" had made her "as happy as I can possibly be on this earth" ... Midshipman Parsons remembered those days nostalgically, noting the great improvement [King Ferdinand of Naples] made to the ship's mess, Emma's "graceful form" bending over her harp to bestow "heavenly music" upon the diners on the quarterdeck and the large-decked galley, flush with opera singers, that glided alongside to serenade the sunset of each day' (Nelson: The Sword of Albion, p. 255).Provenance:By direct descent from William Compton and Anne Bottalin to the vendor.

Qur'an Manuscript Qur'an, West Africa, c.1900 Arabic manuscript on laid paper (watermarks including triple crescent, probably Turkish), approx. 650 loose leaves, sudani script, mainly 14 lines to the page, rectos and versos, catchwords, main text in brown ink, surah-headings and tashkil in red, trefoil ayah-markings in red ink overpainted with yellow, first page (Fatihah) decorated with geometric panel and three overlapping roundels, large geometric panels in red and yellow to recto of first leaf of Surat al-Baqarah and to both sides of leaves preceding Surat al-A'raf, Surat Maryam and Surat Dawud, decorative roundels and penwork lozenges to margins throughout, housed in a contemporary leather carry-case with envelope flap

Australia manuscript - New South Wales - Tasmania Wentworth, William Charles 'A Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its dependent Settlements in Van Dieman's Land. With a particular enumeration of the advantages which these Colonies offer for emigration, and their superiority in many respects over those possessed by the United States of America. By W.C. Wentworth Esq., a native of the Colony. Printed for Whittaker, Ave. Maria Lane, London, 1819', 4to (21.5 x 18cm), manuscript copy (not autograph), manuscript throughout in a neat copperplate hand, pp. 449, [7 (index)], inscription on front endpaper 'Copied at Sea, W. Eldridge, 1819', these words scored through, and 'J.S. ?Min, Hooghly 1830', pp.1-414 on laid paper watermarked 'G. Pike 1814', 'G. Pike 1815', 'G. Pike 1817', 'C. Wilmott', and '1806', and pp. 415 to end on wove paper; a couple of tiny wormholes up to p.72, contemporary calf, slight worming to binding, head and base of spine worn, internally very cleanNote: Note: The present manuscript is a contemporary copy of Wentworth's work, not autograph.William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), explorer, author, barrister, landowner, and statesman, was the first to cross the Blue Mountains of Eastern Australia with Gregory Blaxland, founded the newspaper, The Australian, and campaigned for a free press, trial by jury and self-government. He played an important role in the Legislative Council, lent his support to squatters' demands for new land regulations, helped to establish state primary education in New South Wales, and played a major role in the establishment of the University of Sydney.The text of this manuscript up to p.448 appears to be identical to the printed edition up to p. 450 (and also p. 466 of the printed edition) published in 1819. After p. 449 the present manuscript is followed by, the Index (2pp.) and 'Observations' (5pp.). The paper is watermarked 'G. Pike 1814' and 'G. Pike 1815' and 'G. Pike 1817', 'C. Wilmott', '1806', these dates all preceding the publication date of the first edition (1819).Page 297 has a contemporary pencilled note initialled W.E. "June 1819 - a Bill is now in progress thro' parliament..." and there is a pencilled note at the very end 'Endeavour to procure a correct list of [--- ] to add to this with other observations. Also add on List of those in van Diemen's Land.'The stylistic similarities of the autograph between the present manuscript and the manuscript of Jeffreys's Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of Tasmania, commonly called Van Dieman's Land, one of the Southern Islands of Australia principally compiled from a Manuscript in the possession of Leiut. Jefferyes, Commander of H.N. Brig Kangaroo, [also in this booksale] imply that they were both written out by the same person.For a biography of William Charles Wentworth, see Australian Dictionary of Biography, William Charles Wentworth.For a biography of George William Evans, see Australian Dictionary of Biography, George William Evans.Provenance: William Macpherson, the son of Colonel Allan Macpherson who bought the Blairgowrie Estate which included Newton Castle. He was born in India in 1784 and came to Scotland at the age of three with his parents. He emigrated to Australia in 1829, having spent a decade growing cotton in Berbice in the West Indies. He was Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales and later served (for 24 years) as Clerk of the Councils in New South Wales. He left agents and members of the family in charge of Blairgowrie Estate. He died in 1866 having lived in New South Wales for more than thirty-six years. By descent to the vendor.

Qur'an Manuscript Qur'an, Ottoman Empire, 19th century Arabic manuscript in black ink on polished laid paper, approx. 283 ff., 17 x 11.8cm, naskh script, 15 lines to the page, illuminated opening spread incorporating floral headpieces, text within gold borders throughout, surah-headings in white thulth script on gold ground, roundel ayah-markers in gold, rubricated recitation markings, polychromatic floral juz' markers with penwork extensions to margins, contemporary dark red morocco filigree binding, waqf inscriptions, front board and first 8 leaves detached, opening spread smudged and soiled, f.8 torn at corner not affecting text, occasional smudging and soiling elsewhere. Together with 10 printed English-language books on religious topics, 18th century: Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1775, 4to, contemporary green morocco, covers gilt with Greek-key and urn rolls, front cover lettered 'Wycomb church', spine worn; John Stalham, The River Rebuker: or, a Re-inforcement of the Charge against the Quakers, 1657; George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. In Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, 1776; Emanuel Swedenborg, A General Explication of the Ten Precepts of the Decalogue, 1794, front cover detached; The Passion Personify'd in Familar Fables, [no date], front cover detached; Wellins Calcott, Thoughts Moral and Divine, Coventry, 1759, third edition; John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, 1751; and 3 others

Recipe Book, 1737 Recipe and Medicinal Cure Manuscript "Jane Kirby, her book, January 19th, 1737", [c.1737-1752], 132pp., 4to, comprising 25 pages of medicinal cures (including 1 for Blackin of Shoes), and 107 pages of recipes; medicinal cures including For the Kings Evil, Tea for ye Pox or Pains in ye Loynes, For ye Biting of a Mad Dog, A Milke Water Ante Scirbutick & Good for a Historical Fever, A Chollick Water, To Haisten Labour, To make Snail Water, Worm Powder, &c; recipes include To Make Queen Cakes, Cowslip Wine, Marmalade of Oranges, Rastberry Cakes, Oringe & Lemon Cakes, Carroway Cake, Candy any flowers, an Oatemeal Pudding, Almond Jumballs, Ise a Cake, Wiggs, Rice Pancakes, Egg Pye, Mead, Calves Foot Pye &c. , neatly written most of the way, messily written at the end, contemporary panelled vellum, later gift inscriptions to front endpaper and first leaf dated 1893 and 1895, binding lightly soiled

Boccaccio, Giovanni Il Decamerone, nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato Florence: heirs of Filippo di Giunta, 1527 [i.e. Venice: Stefano Orlandelli, with the types of Pasinello, at the expense of Stefano Ferrari, 1729]. 4to, contemporary marbled sheep gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, ff. [7] 284, title-page repaired and with 18th-century manuscript purchase note [cf. Gamba 156]Note: Note: Venetian facsimile edition of the famous Florentine edition of 1527, known as the 'Ventisettana'. According to Gamba 300 copies were printed.

'Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of Tasmania, commonly called Van Dieman's Land, one of the Southern Islands of Australia principally compiled from a Manuscript in the possession of Lieut. Jefferys, Commander of H.M. Brig Kangaroo'. Small 4to (195 x 150mm) Manuscript, 155 pages, in a neat copperplate hand. [paper watermarked 'G. Pike', '1815', '1817', '1814', 'C. Ansell' & '1818'], contemporary calf, spine gilt;Temple, 31st Dec. 1819' and 'Subsequently decided in favor of [ ] in the Court of Common Pleas, W.E.'Note: Charles Jeffreys's book with a slightly different title, Van Dieman's Land. Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman's Land, was published in 1820 in London by J.M. Richardson, as an octavo and comprised [vi], 168 pages.  'Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826), naval officer and author, was born on 16th October 1782 at Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, the son of Ninian and Mary Jeffreys. He joined the navy at 11 and served as midshipman in various ships before his passing certificate as lieutenant was issued by the Admiralty in August 1803. He was commissioned lieutenant in March 1805. In August 1810 at Lambeth, Surrey, he married Jane Gill of London. In January 1814 he arrived with her at Port Jackson in the brig Kangaroo.Jeffreys's first commission was to transport convicts and other passengers in the Kangaroo from Port Jackson to the Derwent. After an unsuccessful attempt in May 1814 he finally sailed for the Derwent in August and arrived at Hobart Town in October. Instructed to return to Port Jackson by way of Port Dalrymple to collect a cargo of wheat Jeffreys travelled overland, but though the Kangaroo sailed for Port Dalrymple later in October it did not re-enter Port Jackson until February 1815. Governor Lachlan Macquarie was dissatisfied with Jeffreys's explanation of the delay, wanted to send the brig back to England as unfit for service and to discharge Jeffreys, whom he thought a timid seaman and ignorant of his duties; however, in April he dispatched Jeffreys to Ceylon with the remainder of the 73rd Regiment. Whilst on this voyage Jeffreys named Molle Island in the Whitsunday Passage after Lieutenant-Governor George Molle, and Mount Jeffreys on Molle Island after himself. When sailing around Cape York Peninsula in May he discovered and named Princess Charlotte Bay. After his return to Port Jackson in 1816 he made two trips with convicts and stores to the Derwent, which he carried out satisfactorily, but in April 1817 the governor, still critical of Jeffreys's incompetence, reported that he was sending him in the Kangaroo to England. Macquarie instructed him not to touch at any port in either of the colonies, but Jeffreys disobeyed his instructions. He entered Hobart at the end of April under the pretext that he had lost a boat and suffered some damage, but with the real purpose of landing a large quantity of spirits. While the brig was in the Derwent it was learned that several prisoners were missing from Hobart, that two prisoners had been stowed at Port Jackson, and that the escaped Sydney merchant, Garnham Blaxcell, who owed a large sum of money to the government, was on board. When Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell ordered two boats to patrol the river on the evening of 6th May Jeffreys boarded one of them, beat and abused the commander, Captain Jones, and took him and other crew members on board the Kangaroo as prisoners. The captured men were released next day and Jeffreys sailed for England a week later. Macquarie hoped that Jeffreys would be suitably punished, but legal impediments prevented his trial in England; however, at least he had given the British government the means of successfully prosecuting its claims against Blaxcell.While in London Jeffreys arranged for publication of his Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Diemen's Land in 1820. Most of the information for his work was obtained from the manuscript of Surveyor George William Evans who had travelled in the Kangaroo between Van Diemen's Land and Port Jackson. The book, now rare, was the first of many guides for immigrants intending to settle in Van Diemen's Land.' [Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 2, 1967].Evans accused Jeffreys of plagiarism in his introduction to the second edition of Evans' own work, A Geographical, Historical and Topographical Description of Van Dieman's Land, with Important Hints to Emigrants, which was first published in 1822. It would appear that the present manuscript is a copy of the copy made by Jeffreys of Evan's manuscript purloined by Jeffreys whilst Evans was on board the Kangaroo. It is conceivable that it could be the actual copy made by Jeffreys (or at his order), with the title suitably worded to make it sound as though it was Jeffreys' own work, or at least with no reference to Evans as being the author. For a biography of George William Evans (1780-1852), see Australian Dictionary of Biography, George William Evans.See also the manuscript lot in this sale by W.C. Wentworth.In May 1820, Jeffreys and his wife returned to Hobart in the Saracen, and later obtained a grant at Pittwater of 800 acres (324 ha), which he named Frogmore. The first house and all its contents were destroyed by fire soon after being built, but he immediately laid the foundations of another. However, Jeffreys did not prosper as a farmer. He died on 6th May 1826 and was buried at Sorell. His widow remained in the colony, and was allowed an additional grant of 500 acres (202 ha).Provenance: William Macpherson, the son of Colonel Allan Macpherson who bought the Blairgowrie Estate which included Newton Castle. He was born in India in 1784 and came to Scotland at the age of three with his parents. He emigrated to Australia in 1829, having spent a decade growing cotton in Berbice in the West Indies. He was Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales, and later served (for 24 years) as Clerk of the Councils in New South Wales. He left agents and members of the family in charge of Blairgowrie Estate. He died in 1866 having lived in New South Wales for more than thirty-six years. By descent to the vendor.

Malthus, Thomas An Essay on the Principle of Population or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness ... A New Edition, very much enlarged. London: for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley, 1803. 4to (26.9 x 21cm), near-contemporary dark green straight-grain half roan, pebble-grain cloth sides, pp. viii [4] 610, spine and corners rubbed, variable spotting, closed tear to upper inner corner of 3A1, small chip to head of 4D2, neither affecting text, old manuscript library label to front pastedown [Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701]Note: Note: Second edition, though so extensively revised as to be regarded by the author as a substantially new work. Malthus's pioneering treatise was first published anonymously in 1798. In the preface to the second edition he plays down the originality of his central observation that population tends to outrun food supply, claiming to have deduced it from the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, and others. His findings were strongly criticised by literary contemporaries including Coleridge, Southey, and Cobbett, but Charles Darwin later acknowledged their influence on the development of his theory of natural selection. 'For today's readers, living in a post-Malthus era, the world's population problems are well known and serious, but no longer sensational. It is difficult therefore to appreciate the radical and controversial impact made by the Essay at the time of publication. It challenged the conventional notion that population growth is an unmixed blessing. It discussed prostitution, contraception, and other sexual matters. And it gave vivid descriptions of the horrendous consequences of overpopulation and of the brutal means by which populations are checked' (ODNB).All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to go to Oxfam UK.

Grew, Nehemiah Musaeum Regalis Societatis Or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins, 1681. First edition, folio (32 x 19cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and relined, edges dyed red, engraved portrait frontispiece, 31 engraved plates (one folding), retaining medial blank 3D3, contemporary manuscript corrections to pp. 62, 81, 282 and 312, binding slightly worn, front joint cracking at head and foot, light browning to contents, small worm-track to head of gutter appearing from quire 2E, a few small additional tracks in gutter of last few quires and plates, text or images never affected [ESTC R23326; Freeman 1464; Garrison-Morton 297; Heirs of Hippocrates 640; Nissen ZBI 1714; Wing G1952]Note: Note: 'Grew, secretary to the Royal Society, compiled this great illustrated catalogue of its museum, then housed at Gresham College. Published with the catalogue is Grew's study of the stomach organs, which is the first zoological book to have the term "comparative anatomy" on the title-page, and also the first attempt to deal with one system of organs only by the comparative method' (Garrison-Morton). It was also one of the first scientific books to be published in England using a subscription model to pay for its engraved illustrations.Provenance: 1) The library at Gaddesden Place, Hertfordshire, seat of the Halsey family (bookplate); 2) Joseph Lyon Miller MD (bookplate).

Baillie-Grohman, William A. and F. (editors) The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York The Oldest English Book on Hunting. With a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. London: published for the editors by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1904. First edition, one of 10 deluxe copies printed on Japanese vellum, large folio, original vellum gilt by Zaehnsdorf, colour frontispiece heightened in gold, 61 plates (mainly heliogravures from pages of the original manuscript), tissue-guards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding slightly soiled, spine rubbed, worn at head and foot, with a few small worm-tracks and attempted covering of blemishes on spine, onlaid gilt border to covers possibly a later embellishment, contents toned, marginal spotting, intermittent pinhole-sized worm-tracks in gutter and top margin, rear free endpaper creased [Schwerdt II p. 305: 'A magnificently got-up book, of which the introductory chapters and bibliographical notes are of the greatest interest']Note: Note: There were also 600 standard copies, printed on paper and bound in reversed calf.

Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al- Maqamat al-Hariri [Arabic title] Hariri eloquentiae Arabicae principis tres priores consessus. E codice manuscripto bilbiothecae Lugduno-Batavae pro specimine emissi, ac notis illustrati ab Alberto Schultens. [Part 2:] Consessus Hariri quartus, quintus et sextus. [Part 3:] Monumenta vetustiora Arabiae sive specimina quaedam illustria antiquae memoriae et linguae. Franeker [-Leiden]: Wibius Bleck [-Johannes Luzac], 1731-40-40. 3 parts in 1 volume, 4to (18.9 x 14.7cm), contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, woodcut devices to title-pages of parts 1 and 3, engraved device to title-page of part 2, Arabic and Hebrew types throughout, binding dust-soiled and marked, loss to vellum along fore edge of front board, small worm-track to fore margin of first few leaves, small hole in part 2 sig. A1Note: Note: First edition of any substantial portion of one of the most celebrated and ingenious works of early Arabic literature. Dating from c.1100, Hariri's Maqamat ('sessions' or 'assemblies') are a series of 50 picaresque vignettes written in virtuosic rhymed prose, recounting the exploits of wandering rogue Abu Zayd al-Saruji. A single maqamah was included in Fabricius's Specimen Arabicum, published in 1638. Schultens's edition contains the original Arabic text of the first six maqamat, each with a parallel Latin translation and detailed commentary.

Petre, Hon. Henry William An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company London: Smith, Elder, 1842. Fourth edition, 8vo, folding map and 2 plates, original blue cloth, with, tipped in at beginning:New Zealand Company. Small two-sided broadsheet advertising Terms of Purchase of Land in Nelson, Terms of Purchase of Land in New Plymouth, Sales in the Colony, Regulations for Free Emigrants, N. Armstrong, Agent for Ireland, Dublin, [undated], very rare;Gilpin, William. Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty... particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland. London, 1786, 2 volumes, 8vo, 28 sepia aquatint plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, a few leaves working loose, corners rubbed;Gilpin, William. Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales. London, 1800. 5th edition, 8vo, 17 sepia aquatint plates, modern half calf, spine gilt;Barber, J.T. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire. London, 1803. First edition, 8vo, double-page hand-coloured map and 20 sepia aquatint plates, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, bookplate of Bourne of Cowarne Court; Briggs, John. The Remains of John Briggs... containing Letters from the Lakes, Westmoreland as it was. Kirkby Lonsdale: A. Foster, 1825. 12mo, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;Moule, Thomas. The Landscape Album, or Great Britain Illustrated. London, 1832. 8vo, 60 engraved plates, contemporary embossed dark green calf, g.e.;Burns, Robert. Poems... with an Account of His Life, and Miscellaneous Remarks on his Writings, containing also many poems and letters not printed in Doctor Currie's edition. Edinburgh: Trustees of late James Morison, 1811. 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf, some soiling and spotting, rubbed;Cunningham, Allan. The Poems, Letters and Land of Robert Burns. London: G. Virtue, [1838], 2 volumes, 4to, additional engraved titles, numerous engraved plates after Bartlett, T. Allom. &c., contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, g.e.;North York Moors. [Addison], Richard, of Raindale. [i.e. Richard Addison of Levisham on the Wolds] Carmina Excerpta. Hull: J. Hutchinson, 1833. 8vo, frontispiece, with the addition of 170 pages of manuscript poetry, seemingly in 2 hands, with an index to the manuscript poems, contemporary half calf, worn; bound in before the list of subscribers is a slip noting 'Epitaph. Sacred to the memory of Rd. Addison, the 9th and youngest child of John and Charity Addison of Leavening born May 12th/ Died Feb. 7th 1845. He was eccentric, learned and religious and much esteemed by all who knew him. His death was sudden.', frontispiece, half-title and preface a little loose North York Moors: the final poem is on p.140. pages [141-146] is the list of subscribers. This is followed by the first leaf of manuscript poetry which is numbered 147-307. The first manuscript acrostic poem is to Miss Hannah Agar and one of the subscribers is a Mary Ann Agar. Another acrostic manuscript poem is to Miss Agar. Some of the poems are credited to other people - Maria Huon, a Friend, H.H., Charlotte Elizabeth, James Hurst, H. Montague, [John Byrom]; "composed by Miss Mary Ann Fothergill, in the 13th year of her age - on the death of Miss Ellen Richardson, York (Falcon Inn, Micklegate", Heu Smithers, Anne Aaulds, Caroline Fry, the Rev. Doctor Raffles, [Felicia Hemans], Thomas Moore, Miss Landon, Pollock, Rev. Dale, J. Montgomery, Southey, Wordsworth, "J.W.W.", one poem "To a Lady afraid of wasps". from 'The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction. (1823)Note: Notes: New Zealand Company: A fascinating broadsheet advertising in detail land for purchase in New Plymouth and Nelson, and the requirement for emigration.North York Moors: The final poem is on p.140. pages [141-146] is the list of subscribers. This is followed by the first leaf of manuscript poetry which is numbered 147-307. The first manuscript acrostic poem is to MissHannahAgar and one of the subscribers is a Mary Ann Agar. Another acrostic manuscript poem is to Miss Agar. Some of the poems are credited to other people - Maria Huon, a Friend, H.H., Charlotte Elizabeth, James Hurst, H. Montague, [John Byrom]; "composed by Miss Mary Ann Fothergill, in the 13th year of her age - on the death of Miss Ellen Richardson, York (Falcon Inn, Micklegate", Heu Smithers, Anne Aaulds, Caroline Fry, the Rev. Doctor Raffles, [Felicia Hemans], Thomas Moore, Miss Landon, Pollock, Rev. Dale, J. Montgomery, Southey, Wordsworth, "J.W.W.", one poem "To a Lady afraid of wasps". from 'The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction. (1823)Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Waring, Edward Scott A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad with Various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, and Literature of the Persians. To which is added a History of Persia. London: for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807. First UK edition, 4to, modern half leather, 2 engraved plates including frontispiece, browning, tide-marks to plates, frontispiece slightly frayed along fore edge, old ink-stamp and manuscript call number to title-page, closed tear in R2;Bouhours, Dominique. The Life of St. Francis Xavier of the Society of Jesus, Apostle of the Indies, and of Japan. Written in French. Translated into English. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1688. First edition in English, 8vo, recent half leather, engraved portrait frontispiece (apparently including in register), folding map of Asia, browning, variable marginal worming occasionally touching text, damp-staining to gutter of first few leaves, title-page with effaced ownership inscription (paper consequently worn through), spill-burn in 2Q3 [ESTC R15455];Hyde, Thomas. Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia. Oxford: e Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1760. Second edition, 4to, modern half leather, 20 engraved plates on 19 sheets of which 6 folding (plates 16 and 18 on one sheet), folding letterpress table, browning, worming, title-page strengthened in gutter and with manuscript call-number, [Persia]. The Compleat History of Thamas Kouli Kan, (Afterwards Schah Nadir) Late Sovereign of Persia, London: for J. Brindsley [and others], c.1750. 12mo, modern quarter calf by Atkinson, marbled sides, pp. [2] 163 140 [15], engraved folding map, occasional finger-soiling;Andrada, Jacino Friere de. Vida de D. Joao de Castro, quarto viso-rey da India. Nova ediçao emendada, e accrescentada com a vida do autor. Madrid: officina regia, 1802. 8vo, 19th-century cloth, rebacked, 497 pp., 4 engraved plates including frontispiece (one folding)

Manuscript estate plans, Perthshire, Forfarshire, and Fife Baikie, Brydieston, Cardean, Meigle Plan of the Estate of Baikie, the Property of Mr James Ogilvie, Merct. Dundee, by Thomas Allan, manuscript plan, [no date], 70 x 52.5cm, outline hand-colour, backed on linen, few small tears at either end, touching lettering but not affecting completeness, lightly dust-soiled;Outline plan of Brydieston Cardean and Meigle in the Counties of Forfar and Perth belonging to Patrick Murray, Esq. of Simprim, manuscript plan, [no date], 155 x 72cm, outline hand-colour, backed on linen, small split at left side (without loss), light dampstain to upper margin; Plan of Cardean, Bridieston & Baikie, Patrick Murray Esq., 1845, manuscript plan, 58 x 84cm, outline hand-colour, backed on linen, couple small tears extreme left (without loss), some light dust-soiling;Plan of the Starlands and Lands of Easter Dalginch in the County of Fife, the Property of Alexander Tours Esquire, Surveyed by John Home 1808, manuscript plan, 103 x 48cm, outline hand-coloured, backed on linen, a few small creases, some light dust-soiling

Seaforth Highlanders; India (North-West Frontier) and Egypt Photograph album, c.1879-1908 Large folio album, contemporary half skiver (backstrip detached and laid in), containing around 120 photographs in total, nearly all albumen prints (a few platinum or silver gelatin), most with dimensions of 21.5 x 27.5cm (4 larger, i.e. 27 x 37cm, a few smaller), mounted rectos and versos to stiff card leaves, contemporary manuscript captions throughout (many dated), ownership inscription dated Fort George, 1908 to front free endpaper. Contents comprise: 45 photographs of India and modern Pakistan including military operations (1891 Black Mountain/Hazara expedition), views (Abbottabad, Rawalpindi, Srinagar, Lucknow, and several of Murree and environs), group portraits (officers, non-commissioned officers, regimental sports teams, camp families, and children in fancy dress), regimental football matches at Murree, the 1894 Lahore durbar, officers' bungalows at Ferozepore and Rawalpindi, and similar; approx. 60 photographs of Egypt, most by Gabriel Lekegian (1853-c.1920) and signed and captioned in the negative, a few by Pascal Bonfils, including ethnographic types ('Harem lady going for drive', 'Dancing dervishes', 'Arab woman', 'Fellaheen', trades including market sellers, basket makers, prickly pear vendor, 'conjuror', 'seller of water chatties', and date gatherers, 'Group of fellaheen in Egyptian village’, ‘An Arab Sheikh’, ‘Arab women on typical Arab cart’, ‘Archbishop and priests of the Coptic Christian church’, ‘Type of Bedouin’, ‘Poor woman in gala costume, Egypt’, ‘Young peasant girl, Egypt’, ‘Bedouin from Mount Sinai’, and similar) and Cairo views and monuments (tombs, mosques of Muhammad Ali, al-Azhar, Qaitbey, and Sultan Hassan, Ezkebiyah gardens, Kasr el-Nil bridge, Abdin palace, Shepheard’s Hotel, Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and environs, and more);16 military group portraits at Fort George (Scotland) and Cairo;2 large-format photographs of drills at Cairo citadel and Fort George (27 x 37cm)

Edwardes, Herbert B. A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49 London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines transposed, half-titles, engraved frontispiece to volume 1, chromolithographic portrait frontispiece of Nuwab Bhawul Khan and Dewan Moolraj to volume 2, 2 further chromolithographic plates, 3 engraved plates including folding panorama, 2 folding plans, folding manuscript facsimile, 24 pp. advertisements, bookplates of Herbert Charles Fanshawe ICS (1840-1923), ownership inscription to endpapers, covers soiled, light spotting to chromolithographic plates;Napier, Sir William. The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier. London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition, 4 volumes, original green cloth, engraved portrait frontispieces (slightly spotted), bookplates and ownership inscriptions, spines faded;Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis. With the Turks in Thrace. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, folding map, bookplates and ownership inscriptions;Buxton, Noel & Harold. Travel and Politics in Armenia. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, folding map, plate facing p. 101 working loose, ownership inscriptions to endpapers;Thornton, Edward. The History of the British Empire in India. London: Wm. H. Allen, 1859. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map, loss to spine-ends, spotting;and 15 others (these not collated), including Gregor Alexinsky, Russia and Europe, 1917, Henry Morgenthau, Secrets of the Bosphrous, 1918, Lord Roberts, Forty-One Years in India, new edition, 1900, R. G. D. Laffan, The Guardians the Gate: Historical Lectures on the Serbs, 1918, and similar, early-20th-century travel and Indian interest, original cloth

India Collection of works Wilson, John. History of the Suppression of Infanticide in Western India, under the Government of Bombay. Bombay: Smith, Taylor and Co., 1855. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt (probably a native binding), rebacked with original spine laid down, moiré silk doublures, gilt edges, half-title, advertisement leaf, pp. 234-5 stained, pp. 235/6 upper fore corner torn away;Kincaid, C. A. The Outlaws of Kathiawar and Other Studies. Bombay: Times Press, 1905. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, edges untrimmed, occasional spotting;Baker, Sir Samuel W. The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 half morocco, half-title, 6 colour lithographic plates with tissue-guards, bookplate of Raja Ambikeshwar Pratap Singh Mankapur, joints rubbed, manuscript label pasted to foot of spine, worming to rear board, contents toned, occasional spotting, damp-staining to gutter of frontispiece, small marginal worm-track towards rear [Czech, Asia, p. 19: 'a cornerstone in the Asian big-game hunting library'];Johnson, Daniel. Sketches of Indian Field Sports. London: for the author, 1827. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, rebacked and relined retaining section of original spine, engraved frontispiece, 4 lithographic plates, retaining publisher's slip, binding worn, spotting and browning, frontispiece offset, manuscript numerals to title-page;Andrew, W. P. Memoir of the Euphrates Valley Route to India; with Official Correspondence and Maps. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1857. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, recased and relined, half-title, folding colour map, 3 + 7 pp. advertisements, inscribed on retained front free endpaper 'The Right Honble Edward [?] MP from the author';Latif, Syad Muhammad. Agra Historical and Descriptive, with an Account of Akbar and his Court and of the Modern City of Agra. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, lithographic folding map, 40 lithographic plates (of 47) including portraits and views, wear to spine-ends, inner hinges crackedNote: Note: Library Hub traces four copies of Kincaid's work in UK institutional collections.

Urdu lithographic printing Tarikh-i Rajastan [History of Rajasthan] Lucknow: Nawal Kishore Press, 1905. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary half morocco, rebacked, marbled sides, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, [2] 9 1-776 781-784 777-780 785-864, [2] 20 936 [12] pp., title-pages printed in red and green, floral borders to chapter headings, 45 lithographic plates (13 folding), bindings worn, contents toned, tears to a few plates (mostly small or closed), a few folding plates with sections detached but present, plates in volume 1 browned, volume 2 title-page repaired at head, pp. 221-224 damp-stained and repaired at foot, pp. 393-6 repaired, small marginal repair to final leafNote: Note: Imposing and richly illustrated Urdu edition of James Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, originally published in English in 1829-32. The plates include views and portraits of local rulers. 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).

Urdu lithographic printing Group of literary works all lithographed throughout, with text in Urdu:1) Kitab Mahabharat manzum bi'l-tasawir [The Mahabharata, in verse, illustrated]. [Lucknow?]: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880. Tall 8vo (25.8 x 15.5cm), contemporary red patterned boards, red calico backstrip, [2] 302 pp. (first leaf possibly a retained original wrapper), text in four columns, illustrated throughout in the style of Indian miniature painting, paper browned and somewhat brittle, occasional small tape-repairs to lower margins, last few leaves (from pp. 293/4) with central longitudinal crease and light paper disruption to gutter;2) Ramayan nazm Urdu [The Ramayana, in Urdu]. Kanpur: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880. 2 volumes in 1, tall 8vo (27 x 18cm), original wrappers (present for each volume), 1-2 1-6 1-158 3-4, 1-2 1-114 3-4 pp. (i.e. wrappers counted in pagination), text in four columns, illustrated throughout in the style of Indian miniature painting, decorative title-pages and section-titles, ownership inscription 'Chundoo Lall, Delhi 18/11/[18]86' to front wrapper, browning, front and rear wrapper damp-stained along edges, damp-related loss to lower fore corner of first 6 leaves;3) Ghiyas al-Lughat. [Lucknow]: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1875. 2 volumes in 1, large 4to recent boards, 4, 258, 260 pp., 2 decorative floral title-pages, similar head- and tailpieces, some 10 illustrations in the text including a depiction of the Zodiac (volume 2 p. 188), large folding map of Asia (bound in upside-down), staining to pp. 100-108, marginal damp-staining to final few leaves; 4) Divan-i Ghalib, Urdu. Kanpur: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880. Tall 8vo (25.5 x 16cm), original wrappers, 104 pp., stitching perished, leaves loose in quires, contemporary Indian bookseller's ink-stamp to front wrapper;5) Divan-i Zafar, c.1880. Tall 8vo, 72 pp., decorative title-page, lacking wrappers if issued, stitching perished and leaves loose in quires, possibly lacking text at end;and one other (Nuskhat 'Aql va-Shu'ur, 1863)Note: 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). Compiled in India in the 1820s by Ghiyas al-Din Muhammad Rampuri, the Ghiyas al-Lughat is considered 'one of the [most] authoritative dictionaries of the Persian language' (Encyclopaedia Iranica). It was probably first printed in Lucknow in 1847-8, and shaped the Persian lexicographical tradition during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Urdu lithographic printing Two veterinary treatises Tibb aspan [Treatment of horses]. Lahore: Nawal Kishore Steam Press, 1912. Large 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 296 pp., browning, wrappers with marginal chips, damp-stains and tissue-repairs;Tibb shutaran [Treatment of camels]. Lahore: Rifah-i 'Am Steam Press, 1906. Large 8vo, contemporary wrappers, 4 160 [4] pp., pictorial title-page, browning, front wrapper repaired, a few pencil markings to contentsNote: Note:The author of both works is named on the title-pages as one Khansahib Sayyid Sirdar Shah Gilani. No other copies traced; the work on camels is stated second edition on the title-page. The Rifah-i 'Am press in Lahore was established by Mumtaz Ali (1865-1915), an Islamic scholar remembered as a pioneering advocate of women's rights. 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).

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club Numbers 1-7 and 9-10 in the Bannatyne Club series all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), many with name of original subscriber Robert Graham picked out in red in list of Bannatyne Club members, bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:1) Vitae Dunkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcoporum ... ab Alexandro Myln ... Conscriptae, 1823. With 2 hand-coloured engraved plates of manuscript facsimile (heightened in gold), bookplate (Robert Maxtone Graham) [David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 45-6]1a) Vitae Dunkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcoporum ... editio altera, cui accedit appendix cum nominum et locorum indice, 1831. With 2 hand-coloured engraved plates of manuscript facsimile (heightened in gold), one further plate of manuscript facsimile [Laing p. 46];1b) Comptum magistri fabrice pontis Dunkeldensis M.D.XIII-M.D.XVI, 1831. Separate edition of the appendix included in the second edition (above), one of 80 copies, one plate of manuscript facsimile [Laing, p. 46];2) Poems by Sir David Murray of Gorthy, 1823. One of 72 copies, engraved title-page, facsimiles of original title-pages, relevant section and portrait from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing p. 46];3) The Buke of the Howlat. By Holland, 1823. One of 70 copies, etched pictorial title-page (offset), relevant section and portrait from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing p. 47];4) Tales of the Death of Alexander, Earle of Dunfermeling, Lord Chancellar of Scotland, 1823. One of 75 copies [Laing p. 47];5) Discours particulier d'Escosse: escrit ... par Messires Jacques Makgill clerc du registre, et Jean Bellended clerc de la justice. XI Janvier M.D.LIX, 1824. One of 52 copies ('a similar number [were printed] on paper of a larger but inferior quality'), later typescript index bound in at rear [Laing pp. 47-8];6) Robene and Makyne, and the Testament of Cresseid; by Robert Henryson, 1824. One of 65 copies, manuscript compliments slip tipped to front free endpaper [Laing pp. 47-8];7) Report by Thomas Tucker upon the Settlement of the Revenues of Excise and Customs in Scotland A. D. MDCLVI. One of 72 copies [Laing p. 48]9) Auld Robin Gray; a Ballad. By the Right Honourable Lady Anne Barnard, 1825. One of 65 copies, engraved frontispiece (offset) [Laing p. 49];10) Recit de l'expedition en Ecosse l'an M.D.XLVI. et de la battayle de Muscleburgh par le sieur Berteville au roy Edouard IV, 1825. One of 72 copies, engraved folding plate (spotted) [Laing p. 49]Note: Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club Numbers 11-25 in the Bannatyne Club series all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), first two with name of original subscriber Robert Graham picked out in red in list of Bannatyne Club members, bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:11) Hectoris Boetii ... Episcorum Vitae, iterum in lucem editae, 1825. One of 60 copies [David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, p. 50];12) An Apology for Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, President of the Session, by himself, 1825. Engraved folding portrait frontispiece [Laing, p. 50];13) The Historie and Life of King James the Sext, 1825. One of 52 copies for the Club [there were also 150 copies for sale, printed 'on paper of different and inferior quality', Laing, p. 50];14) The Discoverie and Historie of the Gold Mynes in Scotland. By Stephen Atkinson: written in the Year M.DC.XIX., 1825. One of 72 copies [Laing, p. 51];15) Letters of John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, with Illustrative Documents, 1826. [Laing, p. 51];16) De Vita et Morte Roberti Rollok, Academiae Edinburgenae Primarii, Narrationes, 1826. Extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing, p. 51];17) The Palice of Honour. By Gawyn Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1827. With manuscript compliments slip from Club member John Gardiner Kinnear mounted to front free endpaper [Laing, p. 52: 'Only two copies of [the original] edition [of 1579] are known];18) Memoirs of his own Life by Sir James Melville of Halhill. M.D.XLIX.-M.D.XCIII. From the Original Manuscripts, 1827. [Laing, p. 52];19) The Bannatyne Miscellany; containing Original Papers and Tracts, chiefly relating to the History and Literature of Scotland, 1827-36-55. 3 volumes [Laing, pp. 52-3];20) Chronicon Coenobii Sanctae Crucis Edinburgensis, iterum in lucem editum, 1828. Hand-coloured seal facsimile as frontispiece [Laing, p. 53];21) Thomae Dempsteri Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum, 1829. 2 volumes, together with the separately issued corrected sheets for volume 1 pp. 1-120 (in original drab wrappers), volume 2 damp-stained [Laing pp. 53-4: 'The impression of the work being enlarged after part of the first volume had been printed off, the first fifteen sheets were reprinted, with a few verbal corrections, and copies sent along with the Preface in 1829'];22) Extract from the Despatches of M. Courcelles, French Ambassador at the Court of Scotland. M.D.LXXXVI.-M.D.LXXXVII., 1828. [Laing, p. 54];23) Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh. M.DC.LXXXIX., 1828. Extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing, p. 54];24) Letters from the Lady Margaret Kennedy, to John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1828. [Laing, pp. 54-5];25) The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England, from M.DC.XXIV. to M.DC.XLV. By John Spalding, 1828. 2 volumes [Laing p. 55]Note: Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club Numbers 26-40 in the Bannatyne Club series all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:26) Papers Relative to the Marriage of King James the Sixth of Scotland, with the Princess Anna of Denmark, 1828;27) A Diary of the Proceedings in the Parliament and Privy Council of Scotland, May 21, MDCC. - March 7, MDCCVII. By Sir David Hume of Crossrigg, 1828;28) Memoirs of his own Life and Times by Sir James Turner M.DC.XXXII.-M.DC.LXX. From the Original Manuscript, 1829. One of 100 copies 'printed off on the Club paper, and purchased for the use of the members' (Laing)29) Les affaires du conte de Boduel. L'an M.D.LXVIII, 1829.30) Papers relative to the Regalia of Scotland, 1829. With engraved folding plates;31) The History of the House of Seytoun to the Year M.D.LIX. By Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, Knight., 1829. One of 'one hundred copies [which] were printed off, on Bannatyne Club paper, and purchased from the Maitland Club, Glasgow, at whose expense the volume was printed, but not for general sale' (Laing); largely unopened;32) Descrittione del Regno di Scotia di Petruccio Ubaldini, 1829;33) Letters from Archibald, Earl of Argyll, to John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1829. [Laing: 'One hundred copies of this volume, which was published for general sale, were purchased by the Club'];34) The Diary of Mr James Melvill 1556-1601, 1829;35) Memorials of George Bannatyne. M.D.XLV.-M.DC.VIII., 1829;36) The Anatomie of Humors, and the Passionate Sparke of a Relenting Minde, by Simion Grahame, 1830. Largely unopened, extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;37) A Relation of the Proceedings concerning the Affairs of the Kirk of Scotland, from August 1637 to July 1638. By John Earl of Rothes, 1830;38) The History of Scotland, from the Death of King James I. in the Year M.CCCC.XXXVI, to the Year M.D.LXI. By John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, 1830. One of 100 copies printed on Club paper for members (copies were also printed for sale, on ordinary paper);39) Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland. By David Moysie. MD.LXXVII.-M.DC.III. From Early Manuscripts, 1830;40) Trial of Duncan Terig Alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot. June, A. D. M.DCC.LIV., 1831.[David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 56-61]Note: Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club Numbers 41-55 in the Bannatyne Club series all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:41) Hymns and Sacred Songs, by Alexander Hume. Reprinted from the Edition of Waldegrave, 1599, 1832. Extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;42) Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland; compiled from the Original Records and MSS., with Historical Illustrations, etc. By Robert Pitcairn, 1833. 3 volumes in 7, one of 100 sets 'printed off on Club paper [and] purchased for the use of members. A few extra copies on Club paper were also printed, to supply members admitted to the Club after the time of publication' (Laing); the work was also published for general sale;43) A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents that have passed within the Country of Scotland since the Death of King James the Fourth till the Year M.D.LXXV. From a Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century, in the Possession of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, Baronet, 1833. With the glossary and index (both printed in 1938) bound in (these browned);44) Collection of Ancient Scottish Prophecies in Alliterative Verse: reprinted from Waldegrave's Edition, M.DC.III, 1833.45) Memoirs of the War carried on in Scotland and Ireland. M.DC.LXXXIX.-M.DC.XCI. By Major General Hugh Mackay, 1833. Largely unopened;46) The Buik of the most Noble and Vailze and Conquerour Alexander the Great, 1831 [but not circulated until 1834]. Largely unopened;47) Instrumenta Publica sive Processus super Fidelitatibus et Homagiis Scotorum Domino Regi Angliae factis A. D. MCCXCI-MCCXCVI, 1834.48) Letters and Papers relating to Patrick Master of Gray, afterwards Seventh Lord Gray, 1835. Largely unopened;49) Chronicae de Mailros, e codice unico, in Bibliotheca Cottoniana servato, nunc iterum in lucem edita, 1835.50) Philotus; a Comedy. Reprinted from the Edition of Robert Charteris, 1835. Largely unopened;51) Memorials of Transactions in Scotland, A. D. MDLXIX-A. D. MDLXXIII. By Richard Bannatyne, Secretary to John Knox, 1836. Largely unopened;52) A Diary of Public Transactions and Other Occurrences, chiefly in Scotland, from January 1650 to June 16667. By John Nicoll, 1836. Partly unopened;53) The Life of Lieut.-General Hugh Mackay, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland, 1689 and 1690. By John Mackay of Rockfield, Esq., 1836. One of 101 copies printed on ordinary paper and purchased for the Club, with an additional title-page (one leaf of manuscript facsimile laid in, not mentioned in Laing);54) Excerpta e Libris Domicilii Domini Jacobi Quinti Regis Scotorum MDXXV-MDXXXIII, 1836. Largely unopened;55) Davidis Buchanani de Scriptoribus Scotis Libri Duo, nunc primum editi, 1837. Largely unopened;[David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 61-68]Note: Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club Numbers 56-70 (except 67, Correspondence diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac), all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including lithographic or engraved facsimiles of original documents and similar), bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:56) Liber Sancte Marie de Melros. Munimenta Vetustiora Monasterii Cistercinsis de Melros, 1837. 2 volumes [Laing: 'In this splendid contribution, there are fifteen engraved plate of seals'];57) The Seven Sages, in Scotish [sic] Metre. By John Rolland of Dalkeith, 1837. Largely unopened, extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;58) Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, 1837.59) Ancient Scotish [sic] Melodies, from a Manuscript of the Reign of King James VI, 1838. One of 101 copies printed on Club paper and purchased for members; partly unopened [Laing: 'The work was also published for Subscribers, and for the Maitland Club'];60) Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford, 1838. Partly unopened;61) Syr Gawayne; a Collection of Ancient Romance-Poems, by Scotish and English Authors, relating to that Celebrated Knight of the Round Table, 1839. 62) De Arte Logistica Joannis Naperi Merchistonii Baronis, 1839. One of 101 copies printed on Club paper and purchased for members;63) Ferrerii Historia Abbatum de Kynlos, 1839.64) The Aeneid of Virgil, translated into Scottish Verse by Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1839. 2 volumes, largely unopened, extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front;65) Chronicon de Lanercost. M.CC.I.-M.CCC.XLVI. E codico Cottoniano nunc prium typis mandatum, 1839. 2 volumes, largely unopened;66) Historical Selections from the Manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall. Volume First, 1837. Together with the volume of additional sheets, in original drab wrappers, both largely unopened;68) Roman de la Manekine par Philippe de Reimes, trouvère du treizième siècle, 1840. Largely unopened;69) Liber Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia, 1841.70) Liber Cartarum Sance Crucis. Munimenta Ecclesie Sancte Crucis de Edwinesburg, 1840. Partly unopened;[David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 68-73]Note: Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club Collection of Bannatyne Club Garlands and related publications including:a) Garlands 1-10, bound in one volume (8vo, later green half morocco), comprising: 1) A Bannatyne Garland, quhairin the President Speaketh; 2) The Bannatyne Garland. Number Second; 3) Ane Right pithie and pleasant Ballat of Bannatyne; 4) A Bannatyne Garland, 23rd November, 1824; 5) Ane Bannatyne Garlande, brevit be Maister Patrick, of the Kingis Chekar, 1826; 6) A New Bannatyne Garland; compylit be Doctor Jehan of the Hall Ryal, 1828; 7) Ane New Bannatyne Garland, 1829; 8) Ane Merie Conceittit Geste, ryght iocund and ioyous (2 copies, one apparently a proof copy); 9) Two Bannatyne Garlands from Abbotsford, 1848; 10) Tears on the Death of Evander, 1848. With a copy of The Poems of George Bannatyne MDLXVIII, 1835 (not a Garland) bound in at rear.b) Additional copies of Garlands number 4 (wrappers), 5 (wrappers), 6 (wrappers), 7 (wrappers), and The Poems of George Bannatyne (marbled boards, bookplate of the Honourable William Carmichaell Esqr, book-label of J. L. Weir, contemporary annotation '40 copies printed' to initial blank);c) [Volume of Bannatyne Club Catalogues and Rules], 1830-54 (9 works in one volume, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, including Rules, 1823, printed on vellum, 7 pp., annotated in pencil 'one of three copies printed on vellum'); Rules of the Bannatyne Club, 1823 (2 copies, in wrappers and disbound); Catalogue of the Bannatyne Club publications, 1846 (marbled card wrappers).d) Folder of printed ephemera relating to the Bannatyne Club, including an autograph letter from Club secretary David Laing, dated 1830;e) Various related material:i) Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals ... by Henry Laing [see number 91]. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1866. 4to, original cloth, plates ii) Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club ... including Critiques on some of its Publications. Edinburgh: for private circulation, 1836. One of 50 copies only, 4to, original cloth, book-label of J. L. Weir;iii) Bannatyne Club. Abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts. M.D.CCC.XXII.-M.D.CCC.XXVIII., 1828. 4to, original quarter morocco;iv) The Bannatyne Manuscript compiled by George Bannatyne, 1568. [Glasgow]: for the Hunterian Club, 1873-94. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco by W. J. Askew of Plymouth;v) The Bannatyne Manuscript ... edited and Introduced by W. Tod Ritchie, 1934. 4 volumes, 8vo, original quarter skiver;vi) Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his Son, William, Third Earl of Lothian, 1875. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth;vii) Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Parish Churches of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1866-71. 6 volumes, 4to, original cloth, volume 1 spine defective;viii) The Buik of the Howlat. Edited by David Donaldson. Paisley: Alexander Gardner [for the New Club], 1882. One of 86 copies signed by the printer, 4to, original quarter clothNote: Note: 'The playful mode of identification with the past manifested in the Bannatyne [Club's] affiliation with George Bannatyne also finds expression in the Bannatyne Garlands, a series of ten occasional publications spanning 1823–48, printed in limited numbers of around forty copies each. Several Garlands mimic the appearance and language of early modern printed books' (Elliott, 'Walter Scott’s Bannatyne Club, Elite Male Associational Culture, and the Making of Identities', The Review of English Studies, volume 67, issue 281, September 2016, pp. 732–750).Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.

Royal Navy. Seven Years' War interest. A partially printed manuscript dated 30th June 1756 appointing Thomas Stanhope as Captain of HMS Swiftsure (1750)Counter-signed by then Senior Naval Lord (later Admiral of the Fleet) Sir William Rowley KB (c. 1690 – 1768) and Lord of the Admiralty, John Bateman, 2nd Viscount (1721 - 1802). With papered Admiralty seal and revenue stamps to the left side margin.Notes: HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1755 and in active service during the Seven Years' War. After a distinguished career at sea, she was decommissioned in 1763 and sold into private hands ten years later. Sold together with photocopied paperwork, including excerpts from The Barrington Papers, Vol. 77 detailing Swiftsure's crew complement of 520 men and 66 guns under Stanhope's command in 1762. Sir Thomas Stanhope was born in March 1718 in Mansfield, Nottingham and died in 1770. He passed his Lieutenant's examination in 1740. His first command was the British Sloop the Wolf in 1744, followed by several other subsequent commands before his eventual appointment to the Swiftsure, with which he took part in the Battles of Cartagena and Lagos Bay. In 1759, he was appointed Knight Bachelor and further took part in the battles of Quiberon Bay and the Expedition Against Belle Isle, again onboard the Swiftsure. Shortly before his death, he was further appointed as Colonel of the Marines.

A John Dovaston Signpost/Angle Barometer, English, Dated 1786,signed John Dovaston fecit 1786, the mahogany baseboard with turned wood cistern cover, mercury thermometer with silver scale and sliding pointer, weather silvered scale with slide and pointer, 33in (84cm) high Footnotes:Provenance:Property from the Stephen Edell Collection.John Dovaston (1740-1808) was a scientific instrument maker known to have produced barometers as well as table globes, among other instruments. For a full description see 'An 18th Century Yeoman-polymath and a Pair of Manuscript Globes, 'intended for the wife of his son'', Bulletin of the Science Instrument Society, No. 65, by Stephen Edell.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WITCHCRAFT: Hall, MP: 1- Codex Rosae Crucis, A Rare and Curious Manuscript of Rosicrucian Interest, Los Angeles (1971), Large 4to; 2- An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy. Los Angeles, 1977, Large 4to; PLUS 7 others on Witchcraft. (9)

Erik Nitsche (Swiss, 1908 - 1998) "Flowers - Manuscript Illumination" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood First Day Combination Cover for the Germany Medieval Manuscript Illumination stamps issued October 15, 1985. Amid a life of prayer, fasting and hard work, the monks of the Middle Ages found time to leave a magnificent artistic legacy for the entire world. Their artform, illumination, allowed the monks to transform simple, hand-copied pages into a treasure of artistry which has been handed down for generations. First came the artistic flourishes to the first letter in a paragraph. Marginal drawings explaining the Holy Scriptures followed and finally the artistic genius of the age burst forth in fantastic marginal landscapes, scrolling, vines, geometric shapes ... all embellished with gold and silver. Image Size: 12 x 14 in. Overall Size: 15 x 20 in. Unframed. (B09833)

Maritime Collection. A wooden chest containing numerous rolled navigational charts - backed on blue card. Dated early 19th century (1800-1815). Includes British coastal interest (6); North, Central and South America (6); North Sea, Baltic, Scandinavia (5); and 1 for the Azores. With; a manuscript geometry/trigonometry workbook of problem solving with a maritime/navigational theme, in marbled paper covers. With; a selection of early 19th century pilots, acts, and directions for sailing which relate to the rolled navigational charts. A fascinating collection of maritime ephemera from a period of British maritime dominance. Condition: mixed - several charts with tears to edges (see images) and some with staining. The manuscript booklet is in good condition. The pilots etc are again mixed, with some having edge wear, some have come loose from the covers etc. These items appear to have seen practical use.

Manuscript. Minutes of the Several Church Meetings held at the Vestry of the Meeting House in Halifax Lane, Nottingham. 1801-1830. 125 leaves of script. Original vellum covers, heavily soiled. With; an Abstract Title document relating to Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Dated 1839. (2)

DESCRITTIONE DELL' ISOLA DI SCOTIA, TOMASO PORCACCHI (1530-1585),circa 1572, manuscript leaf with later hand coloured illustrations, mounted, framed and under glass, 37cm x 27cm overall

ARCHIVE RELATING TO THE SCOTTISH POET HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL (1798-1870),including four manuscript poems, Heath from Culloden, Verses [...], Ode Addressed to William Irvine and another untitled, together with a series of manuscript letters, some featuring verses, many addressed to a William Irving from Caerlanrig and Teviothead where Riddell served as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland as well as additional material and newspaper clippings relating to Riddell; also a manuscript letter spuriously signed Robt. Burns.Footnote: Henry Scott Riddell is credited with writing Scotland Yet and The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow in the Scottish Orpheus and served as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland at Caerlanrig chapel, residing in Hawick and subsequently Teviothead until his death.Images added of the postmarks, some are more pronounced than others.Additional images of verse sections available, on further inspection that titled 'Verses...' appears to be by a different hand, possibly that of a W. Irving.

RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A DEVOTIONAL BOOK OF HOURS,circa 1510-1520, attributed to the workshop of Jean Coene, with twenty-two lines of handwritten gothic text, ruled in red with decorative opening initial 'D', with decorative border featuring strawberries (symobolic of perfect righteousness), red roses (symbolic of martyrdom) and columbine (symbol of the holy spirit), the leaf 16 x 10.8cm overall, with CoA issued by The Gallery of Bramley Rd, LondonFootnote: Jean Coene, also known as the Master of the Paris Entries, worked for the French court under Louis XII and Francis I; a master of miniatures, his work was in high demand among the French nobility of 16th century Paris.

BOECE (HECTOR)Scotorum historiae a prima gentis origine, cum aliarum et rerum et gentium illustratione non vulgari, woodcut title printed in red and black, second woodcut title on Fol. I, woodcut initials, minor marginal repairs to outer margin of last few leaves, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked and repaired at edges, early vellum manuscript leaves bound in as free endpapers, some wear [USTC 145871], folio (340 x 220mm.), [Paris], impressa Josse Bade [et] Hector Boethius, [1527]Footnotes:The second history of Scotland to appear in print, after that of John Major (1521). Written in the form of a dramatic narrative, it tells the story of the Scottish people from their earliest origins up until the death of James I: 'With some help from Tacitus, Boece presents the Scots as a people of antique virtue and unyielding independence, notably through an unbroken line of kings' (Oxford DNB).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

SCOTTISH FULL-SIZE VIOLIN BY JAMES WORKMAN OF KILMARNOCK,dated 1878 to manuscript label, with modern hard case

SCOTTISH FULL SIZE VIOLIN BY CHARLES E. PARKINSON,Edinburgh 1943, 'La Folia', manuscript label to interior, one piece back, casedVarnish damage but no cracks, repairs or restoration, additional images available

Stephen F. Geoffroy (1672-1731). 'A Treatise of the Fossil, Vegetable, and Animal Substances, That are made Use of in Physick...,' translated from manuscript copy of the authors lectures in paris by G. Douglas, first English edition, modern full calf, scarce, XXIV, 387pp, (13), W. Innys and R. Manby, London, 1736.

BREVIARY, use of Cologne, 14th Century. [A manuscript vellum leaf from a Breviary, use of Cologne. N.p.: n.d. but 14th Century], recto and verso, each with 31 lines of double-column text in brown and red ink, seven double-line historiated initials in red, blue or purple ink, some minor browning and soiling, heavy foxing to modern window mount, previous stock (Stock no MS 3216) of 'Folio Fine Art'.

Three works on Cornwall. 'John Norden's Manuscript Maps of Cornwall and its Nine Hundreds,' repoduced in facsimile Collotype in colour and gold with an introduction by William Ravenhill, original cloth with gold embossed decorations, plates, fine, University of Exeter, 1972; BERNARD HOLLOWOOD. 'Cornish Engineers,' illustrated by Terence Cuneo, quarter green goat, tissue gard to colour illustrations, some spotting, published for private circulation, Holman Brothers Ltd, Camborne, 1951; J. BRITTON & E. W. BRAYLEY. 'Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated,' a poor copy but redeemable, copious steel engravings, spotting, H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, London, 1832. (3)

C. M. SEYYPEL. 'He She It'. 'Eygyptian Court Chronicle B. C. 1302. A Veracious and Truthful Version Preserved and Transcribed by General Use by the Peerless Poet of His Late Majesty rhamp-Sinnit III,' bound in hessian sack cloth, with clay medallion to front cover, english text resembling Egyptian manuscript with bold illustrustions, Memphis Pyramid, Dusseldorf, 1883.

Framed page from an illuminated manuscript.