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Oxfordshire Quakers.- Collection of documents mostly relating to Joseph Edward Tyler, Grocer of Charlbury and Lydia his wife, of Hook Norton, manuscripts and printed certificates with manuscript insertions, on vellum and paper, folds, v.s., v.d., 1796-1871 (c. 20 pieces).

NO RESERVE Georgian Education.- Heptenstall (John) Mathematical exercise book, some calligraphic decorated subtitles, manuscript, c. 130pp., original morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed, corners bumped, spine torn with loss, sm. 4to, [c. 1820].

Poetry.- Cargill (James, teacher, of Leith) The Poetical Cabinet, manuscript, 81pp., in a fine calligraphic hand, with decoration, some ff. foxed, original red morocco gilt with blind-stamped centre decoration, g.e., 8vo, Leith, 1841.⁂ This volume contains mostly unattributed poetry, but also works by Walter Scott, James Hogg, Percival, Gilmour and others.Provenance: Owned by a member of the Cavendish family, Chatsworth house with ink inscription on front free endpaper.

Poetry.- Smith (Oswald, & other members of the Smith family, of Blendon Hall, Bexleyheath, 1794-1863) Very Original Family Poetry. Blendon Hall..., manuscript, title and 112pp. excluding blanks, 1 pen and ink illustration and 1 monochrome watercolour wash both tipped-in, 3 poems tipped-in at end, some other manuscript poetry loosely inserted, original blue morocco, gilt, gilt panelled spine slightly dulled, g.e., sm. 4to, 1841.⁂ Includes: "Elegiac Stanza's on a deceased Goat by his disconsolate Mistriss"; "Impromptu by mrs Marten on the Christmas Festivities at Blendon Hall... 1841."

American Negro Poet.- Russell (Irwin, poet, 1853-79) A Negro Sermon, manuscript, 2pp., sepia watercolour portrait laid down on second page, slightly browned, folio, [c. 1876].

Menu.- India in London. Portland Hall, Langham Place, W. Indian Tiffin, colour printed menu, laid down on card with manuscript note, menu 8vo, card folio, 4th February 1886; and another, a document requesting permission from the King of Oudh "for Mr & Mrs Henderson visiting the Menagerie", large tear, folio, 9th April 1883 (2).⁂ First mentioned: "We hope to have liked some of this Menu but alack it was all hot & spice, & rice also black grocers currants - we came empty away (Dora & self)."

NO RESERVE Illuminated manuscript.- Birmingham.- Morton (Edward, illuminator) To Mr and Mrs James Byers on their leaving Birmingham for Annan. June 1892, manuscript on vellum, 7ff., recto only, 1f. with fine vignette of Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, coats of arms, moiré silk endpapers, original blue morocco, richly gilt, preserved in original oak box (lacking key), 1 side come away at joints, scratches, small folio (343 x 270mm.), Birmingham, 1892.⁂ A fine example of a High Victorian luxury illuminated testimonial, with Morton's ticket to inner front cover.

Scotland.- Three Days in the Vale of Yarrow, By Two Pedestrians, manuscript, title and 32pp., 16 watercolours and 2 drawings (10 sepia wash and loose), text slightly browned, unbound, sm. 4to, [c. 1900].

First World War.- Rutherford (William McConnell, 2nd Lt., East Yorkshire Regiment, buried in Wimereux Cemetery, France, 1881-1918) A Ramble Round the Trenches, autograph manuscript, 4½pp., in pencil, folds, browned, sm. 4to, [1917]; and 4 A.Ls.s. to Fred, one of his pupils, together 5pp., in pencil, 1918, v.s. (5).⁂ First mentioned: "Finally, you reach the... trenches... till you bump into the Front Line & can't go any further. If you climb up on the Fire-Step & peep over, or if you're frightened to do that look through the periscope, you'll see a whole lot of barbed wire about 20 or 30 yards out. Beyond that is No Man's Land, the land that neither side can claim; then Bosche barbed wire, & beyond that Bosche trenches very like ours. At night, you may have to go out on patrol, to creep up to the Bosche wire & try to find out what he is doing. Its awfully important to know the best way of creeping... such as you learn in 'The Boy Scouts'." - Rutherford.

Manuscript Facsimile.- Great Domesday Book, 6 vol. comprising: 2 vol. manuscript facsimile, 2 vol. translation, introductory/index vol., and a drop-back box of maps, millennium edition, one of 450 copies, 2 vol. manuscript facsimile, original calf, blind-stamped in the design of the Winton Domesday, very lightly rubbed, each with limp calf slip-case, other vol. in original cloth-backed boards, very lightly rubbed with occasional finger-soiling, spines slightly sunned, Alecto Historical Editions, 1992-2000; with a copy of the prospectus, folio (7)

NO RESERVE High Treason.- Collection (A) of the several Statutes, and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, relating to High Treason, and Misprision of High Treason, second printing, initial imprimatur leaf, contemporary panelled calf, small manuscript label to spine, a little rubbed, by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1709 § Warrington (Henry Booth, Earl of) The Works, first edition, 10pp. advertisements at end, light browned, engraved bookplate of Newburgh Hamilton mounted on verso of title, ex-library copy with a few stamps, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [Wing D873], for John Lawrence...and John Dunton, 1694, 8vo et infra (2)

Cookery & Crafts.- Valuable Secrets in Arts and Trades, 3pp. advertisements at end of Preface, light spotting and soiling, contemporary manuscript recipe to front free endpaper, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, corners repaired, for J.Barker..., 1800 § Tingry (P.F.) The Painter and Varnisher's Guide, second edition, 2 engraved plates (one folding), folding letterpress table, 4pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink signature to front pastedown and manuscript recipe for making "an excellent azure" to front free endpaper and others to rear, P5 & 6 torn, some light water-staining, original boards, uncut, a little rubbed, rebacked, 1816, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is a compendium of recipes and methods for making dishes, preserves, wines, oils, and vinegars, mixing paints and glues, preparing building materials, dyeing fabrics, successful engraving and casting, stain removal etc. ESTC lists only 2 copies of this edition (BL and Wellcome).

NO RESERVE Ephemera.- A quantity of Pictorial and Printed Ephemera, including: 7 ff. from a ?C17th Bible (Book of Ecclesiastes), folio, dis-bound; a broadside with hieroglyphs; a multi ff. printed epistle; a May 1926 copy of the British Worker Official Strike New Bulletin, browned; a handful of title pages and bookplates, some C18th, some in red and black, loose; a quantity of plates, both engraved and in colour, some loose and some laid down; photographic and press clippings, laid down to album pages, C19th and C20th (mainly loose); Victorian and later scraps, a few greeting cards and similar cuttings, some laid down, some in plastic sheathes, most likely C19th and C20th; a blank scrap album with coloured pages; several original water colours, loose or in small sketchbook; a small quantity of early photographs, people and scenery, mainly loose, c.1900; several architectural floor and garden plans on loose sheets; some manuscript and typed documents, a few on vellum, mainly early C20th and 3 small fabric samples from [?ancient] Egypt, v.s., v.d., [c.1880-1950] (qty)

NO RESERVE India.- Stone monoliths of Willong Khullen.- Map of Uilong [Guilongmei] Monoliths. Manipur, unusual manuscript traced map, pen and ink, inscribed with names of tracers in lower right, dated '15/8/30', sheet 500 x 710 mm (19 3/4 x 28 in), spotting and signs of old water damage and staining throughout, unframed, 1930.

NO RESERVE Illumination.- Todd (Rev. James Henthorn) Descriptive Remarks on Illuminations in Certain Ancient Irish Manuscripts, first edition, 4 chromolithographed plates, original printed wrappers, spine slightly frayed, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, Society of Antiquaries, 1869 § Pollard (Alfred W., editor) Bibliographica, 12 parts in 3 vol., plates and illustrations, some colour, modern half morocco, original wrappers bound in at end, 1895-1897 § Liverpool Sunday School Union. Illuminated Testimonial to George Bevan Heyworth, manuscript on vellum, written in red & black ink on two facing leaves, initials in red/blue and gold with decorative floral borders in pen & ink and watercolour, signed by the officers at end, mounted in handsome burgundy morocco with Heyworth's initials to upper cover and floral corner-pieces in gilt, bevelled edges, original cloth drop-back box, 1926; and 4 others, mostly on illuminated manuscripts, v.s. (9)

GEORGIAN MANUSCRIPT CHILDREN'S BOOK: a charming small format manuscript children's book, circa 1825, attributed in later provenance note on endpapers to one Paul Treby, the illustrations by Anne or Blanche Treby, comprising some 12 leaves of manuscript poetry accompanied by 11 ink, pencil and wash illustrations relating to daily family life, captions include Boys Washing: The Boys going to School: Boys at School: Schoolboys at Play: Hugh & Montagu at home enjoying themselves: Paul & Walter at Play, etc. approx 10 x 9cm, contained in a later calf binding with ribbon tie and marbled endpapers (executed by a descendant of the compilers), some browning and smudges, nicks to edges but generally in good condition. (1)

OLIVER BECKETT: a collection of manuscript music, letters and ephemera, 1940s period, relating to various productions by Oliver Beckett, including 'Arts Burlesque' 1947, contained in period green card folder. (A folder)

BILLHEADS: group of 12 printed commercial billheads, 18th-19th century, all with manuscript additions, including a receipt for a silver watch bought from William Addis, Birchin Lane London, 1772. (12)

DWARVES: 'Piccadilly Hall...Gen. Mite & Millie Edwards...midgets at home': printed flyer, manuscript date Dec 1882 at head, approx 22 x 14cm: together with a smaller flyer advertising another dwarf spectacle at the Piccadilly Hall. (2)

BILLHEADS: a group of 19 printed commercial billheads and advertisements for various trades, mostly 19th century all with manuscript entries, various sizes and condition. (19)

MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK, VET AND FARM: a pair of 19thc manuscript volumes, relating to veterinary care and management of livestock on the farm, contemporary half morocco commonplace books, light wear, 8vo: together with a carton of misc. pencil diaries/notebooks of same period, photography etc. (Box)

MANUSCRIPT GUN MANUAL: HMS EXCELLENT: a hardback manuscript manual completed by Lieut. G G Wingate RNVR Gunnery Officer who trained at HMS Excellent, Portsmouth: entries completed in a neat hand with a few pasted-in diagrams throughout. (1)

WORLD WAR II: an interesting group of ephemera, largely relating to Lieut. G G Wingate WWII period, to include: a manuscript day log from HMS Beech Nov 1939-Jan 1940: a Naval Aircraft Recognition Manual: a handwritten manual 'Signals & Seamanship': a further manuscript log of journey on HMS Mull of Kintyre from Liverpool to Halifax to Vancouver to England (via Panama and New York): a group of official naval messages 1939-1940, to include two dated Dec 41, one issued from ?Falmouth ...'state of war will exist with Hungary Roumania and Finland from 0101 BST 7th December'; and another 'commence hostilities against Japan repeat Japan at once',  together with a further message 'HM Government have announced the Japanese have surrendered'; two 'Spot at Sight' charts No.1&2, each 37 x 25.5cm; a further group of miscellaneous ephemera to include ration book, photographs, personal and official correspondence, greetings cards, etc. (Large Qty)

MOTOR CAR REPLACES THE COUNCIL HORSE: an interesting manuscript ledger, covering period c.1912-1960s: initial 66 pages containing entries relating to purchase, upkeep and retirement of council horses: last equine entry dated 1938: remainder of album, 1960s period relating to council motor vehicles and their drivers: early c20 half red morocco ledger, gilt ruled, contents generally sound. (1)

MANUSCRIPT: 6TH DRAGOONS HORSES: manuscript ledger covering period 1829-43, gilt morocco label to upper board 'Description of Horses A.Troop 6th Dragoons', containing 12pp with approx 140 entries (remainder blank), relating to the horses serving in A troop, 6th (Inskilling) Regiment of Dragoons, with details of colours, sex, age, height, marks and related comments, small folio, half calf over marbled boards, spine rubbed with loss. (1)

OXFORD: 'Photographic Views of Oxford...December 1866': ornate manuscript title page in colours and gilt, 23 large format albumen print photographs tipped onto card leaves, each with neat manuscript captions in black and red ink, handsome full red morocco ornately gilt with 5 raised bands, aeg, a little rubbed, oblong 4to. (1)

SEAGO (Ted): GREETINGS CARDS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON: a group of 15 greetings cards from Edward Seago to Henry Williamson, printed cards with design to Seago to front panel, each signed 'Ted' to lower panel, a few with manuscript notes inside, contained in three original envelopes addressed to Williamson in Seago's hand, generally in good condition. (15)

FORTIFICATION: 'Treatises on Mechanical Drawings: on the arms in use: on permanent fortification: the attack and defence of fortresses: and on military mines..', Woolwich, printed by E Jones, January 1847: 144pp text, folding plates at rear with partial colouring, bound after 46pp manuscript on field profiles in a contemporary hand: ex-Croydon Public Libraries with associated marks and stamps, contemporary plum half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn. (1)

SLEIDANUS (Johannes, 1506?-56): 'De Statu Religionis et Reipublicae..': Strassburg, 1559: title page with large woodcut printer's device and 2 early manuscript ownership marks, fo.342 plus index at rear, early vellum covered boards, dust soiled: together with a Blaeu edition of Grotius 'De Rebus Belgicis', Amsterdam 1657. (2)

MUSIC. - John PARRY (editor). The London Collection of Glees, Duets & Catches. Comprising the Established Compositions of the Old Masters. London: Goulding D' Almaine, [circa 1820.] Oblong 4to (158 x 240mm.) Comprising 2 'Numbers', separate engraved title for second part, continuous pagination. (Browning, occasional minor soiling.) Later boards, mounted paper label to upper cover with 'Glees' in manuscript (endpapers replaced, light rubbing). - And a further fourteen volumes related to music (15).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majesty is not there. [N.p.: circa 1730.] 75pp., manuscript, 8vo (187 x 119mm.) A detailed guide to Parliamentary protocol, especially the House of Lords, written in a single legible hand on paper with red borders, 28pp. blank to rear and a 2pp. index of subjects, with marginal annotations in the same hand. (Toning.) Contemporary red morocco with the Royal coat-of-arms in gilt with a chain-link border and repeating fleur-de-lis within another gilt border, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (some loss to top of spine, rubbing to extremities). Note: contains detail on rolls of standing orders, the duties of Lord Chancellor, the King's Privy Council, the passing of bills and also a section on the proroguing of parliament.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [Three exercise books containing hand-written copies of letters from a woman to her sister. N.p.: 1819-1820.] 3 vols., 150pp., manuscript, 8vo (228 x 180mm.) Copies of letters sent from 'E.P.' to her sister 'Jane', mainly relating to a tour of Scotland and the north of England, written in a single partly legible hand, with occasional redactions in ink. (Toning.) Original wrappers (minor rubbing, slight corner creasing). Note: with a breathless enthusiasm, the writer sounds like a young woman experiencing things for the first time, reconstructing the interesting and the prosaic with equal passion. She describes landscape, wildlife, churches, a Shakespeare performance ('the display of fireworks in the closing scene was beyond…'), all with wonderment, often diverting from 'the object of my narration'. There are some social occasions, with hosts and others, some breakfasts with suitors ('but do not ask if my head was turned') (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. Recollections of a Course of Lectures on Familiar Philosophy delivered by Dean Walker Esq. at Fulham in May and June 1815 by The Young Ladies at Miss Ball & Mrs Baird's School, Little Chelsea. [N.p.: circa 1815.] 150pp., manuscript, 8vo (220 x 182mm.) Calligraphic title, 135pp. of hand-written, unnumbered leaves in a legible hand relating a course of 12 lectures on scientific subjects, 15pp. of hand-drawn objects showing experiments relating to and referenced by the text. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary black morocco-backed boards (worn). Note: the lecture headings are 'On Matter and Magnetism', 'Mechanics', 'Chymistry', 'Pneumatics' x 2, 'Hydrostatics', 'Electricity', 'Galvanism', 'Optics', and 'Astronomy' x 3. The description of 'Galvanism' describes Luigi Galvini's experiments with dead frogs, reanimating their muscles with an electrical current- the experiment that influenced Mary Shelley in writing 'Frankenstein'. There are fairly detailed descriptions of experiments, such as the test for chalk in the water of the Thames, the diving bell sent to the bottom of the ocean, the changing effect of the light as seen from a balloon, plus a long description of the moon- 'our satellite'- its phases and the nature of an 'annular eclipse…caused by the moon passing so near the sun to obscure it's body except a ring of fire around it, and for this reason it is called annular'. Provenance: Edward Cleasby (name-plate to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and With the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. London: Charles Bill, 1706. 4to (268 x 195mm.) Engraved additional title, historiated initials, titles ruled in red and black, separate NT title, text ruled in red, with Apocrypha, genealogical notes in manuscript to initial blank, 27pp. index to rear. (Toning, spotting to blank, lacking rear blank.) Early 19th century black morocco, gilt rectangles with corner-pieces to covers, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Bracebridge, Atherstone Hall (bookplates to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [A book of original hand-coloured botanical watercolours with hand-written descriptions. N.p.: circa 1900.] 246pp., 8vo (177 x 115mm.) 226 hand-drawn and coloured botanical watercolours on numbered leaves, recto only, 6pp. hand-written botanical description and classification, 70pp. blank to rear, 13pp. bound-in hand-written index of names. (Toning to margins, an 'Order' stamp to every leaf.) Contemporary black morocco (worn). Note: the 'Order' stamp suggests the collection was put together for retail purposes.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HADDON, Walter. Poematum Gvalteri Haddoni, Legum Doctoris, Sparsim Collectorum, Libri Duo. London: Richard Yardley and Peter Short, 1592. Small 8vo (146 x 78mm.) Engraved device to title-page, Roman and italic letter. (Occasional soiling, corner creases throughout, lacking blanks?) Near contemporary sewn wrappers (creasing, minor soiling, near contemporary manuscript notes verso the wrappers). Note: first edition was published in 1567. Walter Haddon served under three monarchs, including Queen Elizabeth I, for whom he wrote a reply to Jerome Osorio da Fonesco, the Portuguese historian and priest who had exhorted Elizabeth to return to the Catholic church. This, and Haddon's reply, became known as the most significant religious polemical exchange in the second half of the sixteenth century. Haddon is less known for his lyrical Latinate poetry.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written 'Log of Proceedings' from six naval vessels written by William Chimmo R.N. during the Opium Wars. N.p.:] April 1841-November 1844. 74pp., manuscript, disbound (317 x 199mm.) 38 leaves of partly legible log-book entries relating to William Chimmo's service on H.M.S. Cornwallis, H.M.S. Rose, H.M.S. Modeste, H.M.S. Castor, and H.M.S. Agincourt during the years of the Opium Wars with China, including 14 ink drawings of vessels including Chinese Junks, 2 topographical views, 1 view of the 'Assault on the City of Chang Jiang', and 1 drawing of a crane ('Hoisting on board a mortar at Madras'), 1p. of coloured naval flags, and descriptions of weather, dates, duties and events on board. (Browning, some leaves damp-stained, chipping to margins.) Disbound. Note: Chimmo wrote these log entries as a teenage boy, aged 13-16. There are many entries relating his daily employment, the refitting of the steamers, the rigging, the gun carriages, lashes for desertion, references to Robert Peel. Chimmo served twice on H.M.S. Cornwallis but missed the signing of the Treaty of Nanking on that vessel, because he'd been put on a return journey to England on H.M.S. Modeste three days earlier. However, he gives an hourly account of the action at Chang Jiang: '4am: Daylight landed 4500 troops, by the steamers, from the troop ships. 7am: All troops landed and marched to the hill… 11.45am: Troops gained the rampart and gradually drove the enemy from their retreat. 12pm: Magazine blew up the city… 6pm: Departed this life- Major--- from a Coup au Soliel [sic]'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

DILLON, Harold Arthur Lee. An Almain Armourer's Album. Selections from an Original Manuscript in Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Folio (497 x 313mm.) 31 colour plates of armour, 4 additional plates including 1 folding and 1 double-paged. (Toning, occasional spotting, marginal stamps to plates, corner crease to plate 23.) Near contemporary blue calf-backed white buckram (minor soiling to covers, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns and stamps to plates); E.W. Margesson (presentation label from on front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HANHAM, Frederick (editor). Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses. Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846. First edition, 4to (308 x 204mm.) 61 mounted dried specimens of grass on separate leaves. (Lacking 1 specimen 'Bromus Secalinus', 3 are partially lacking, and 3 loose, offsetting to descriptive leaves, occasional soiling and creasing.) Original blue silk moiré boards bound by Astle & Sons, gilt decoration to covers (heavily rubbed, spine panel worn with loss). Provenance: Dawson of Low Wray (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). - And six related volumes (including an album of approximately 225 botanical specimens from North Yorkshire mounted on 29 leaves, all numbered and titled with Latin and common names in pink and blue manuscript hand, 1928-1933, small folio). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BIBLE, In Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script. N.p.: circa early 19th century.] 200pp., manuscript, 8vo (183 x 162mm.) 20 quires of 100 vellum leaves with manuscript text in red and black. (Heavily browned, occasional moderate soiling, squiggles and drawings in a child's hand to first and last blank leaves.) Original wooden boards, string-bound (light rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written rhyming sexain poem of 41 stanzas relating the death King William Rufus by William Tyrrel in the New Forest in the year 1100. N.p.: circa 1880.] 16pp., manuscript, disbound (233 x 189mm.) Titled 'The Red King', 246 hand-written lines of rhyming poetry in a legible hand on 'Bath' embossed paper relating the death of 'The Red King', 1 intricately hand-drawn headpiece. (Corner creasing, a tear to p.1, minor soiling.) Disbound. Note: very likely influenced by Charles Kingsley's poem on the same subject, this version has many motifs of the time: a raven, a dream of pre-cognition, a rural idyll of mist, mellowness, foreboding, and death.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

LLOYD, David. Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages, that Suffered by Death, Sequestrations, Decimation, or otherwise for the Protestant Religion, And the great Principle thereof, Allegiance to their Soveraigne, in our late Intestine Wars, from the Year 1637, to the Year 1660. With the Life and Martyrdom of King Charles I. London: Samuel Speed, 1668. First edition, 4to (294 x 178mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 8pp. 'Table' bordered in black, advertisement leaf to rear. (Browning to margins, notes in manuscript hand to rear blank, lacking front blank.) Contemporary calf, black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

COOKERY. - Catherine Frances FRERE (editor). The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. Limited edition, this being number 16 of 25 copies on hand-made paper, 4to (218 x 140mm.) 2 engraved photogravures with tissue-guards, including portrait frontispiece. (Toning, uncut leaves, browning to pastedowns.) Original tan buckram, t.e.g. (light rubbing, minor spotting to margins and lower cover). Note: compiled after Lady Clark's death by her friend Catherine Frere who arranged it from a mass of nearly 3000 manuscript pages from sixteen note-books. Lady Clark began her note-books in 1841 after her mother, Lady Coltman, had compiled one in 1839.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. A Thanks-Giving Sermon. [N.p.: circa 1746.] 26pp., manuscript, 12mo (159 x 97mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single, legible hand being a sermon in praise of God for his intercession in the downfall of the last Jacobite rising of 1745. (Occasional spotting, minor chipping.) Original wrappers, title in manuscript to upper cover (stained). Note: the writer offers fervent praise to God for suppressing 'the late unnatural rebellion' by the Jacobite Charles Edward Stuart. He also sees the death of the King of Spain and the recent military victories of the King of Sardinia ('Our firm friend and ally') as proof that God is supporting 'His Majesty and his allies' in the ongoing war against the French ('a haughty tyrannical people (I say) who have ruined many other countries as well as their own'. - And a further three volumes (including a Bible in Greek 'He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum', 1752, 12mo, and an early 19th century Common Place Book) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [A collection of hand-written documents relating to the Lee family of Pinchinthorpe Hall, Yorkshire. N.p.: circa 1780s-1920s.] 134pp., manuscript, 4to (322 x 198mm.) Comprising numerous bound-in hand-written documents, mostly early 20th century copied extracts from the wills and probate in York registry relating to the Lee Family, also copied extracts of baptisms, tomb inscriptions, 3 mounted post-cards, a baptism certificate from 1827. (Browning, occasional spotting.) 20th century blue half morocco bound by Truslove & Hanson. Note: contains genealogical information relating to the Lee family back to the 15th century. The family bought Pinchinthorpe Hall in the late 16th century, and left in 1836 after the suspected suicide of John Lee. Includes a note from Roger Lee: 'Sir, my father tells me that his grandfather was left the whole Estate of Hatfield, but was disinherited by reason that he went beyond sense to study the Philosopher's Stone'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BIBLE, In Latin. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Sixti V. Pont. Max. Ivssv Recognita atque edita. Lyon: Claud Bourgeat, 1669. 8vo (276 x 200mm.) Title in red and black with engraved vignette, additional engraved title, index, several bound-in notes in manuscript hand. (Chipping to margins of additional title, damp-staining from *1 to D7, browning, creasing to rear leaves.) 20th century half sheep (creasing to spine). Provenance: T.F. Sablon (name inscribed to title). - And a further nine related volumes (including 'The Book of Common Prayer', 1769, 8vo) (10).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written and illustrated hymn-book written in Church Slavonic for the Festal Stikherarion, Russian Old Believer. N.p.: early 19th century.] 264pp., manuscript, folio (255 x 201mm.) 12 preliminary leaves with text in black and red, 1 full page illuminated title in red, green, gold and black, 252 leaves of text in black and red in semi-uncial script, 8 coloured decorative headpieces, 7 marginal coloured decorations, 7 elaborately decorated initials including 1 eight-line initial, 1 six-line and 4 five-line initials. (Browning, occasional paper repair, some minor soiling.) Blind-stamped calf over (possibly) earlier wooden boards (rebacked, some loss to extremities, some insect damage to pastedowns).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANUSCRIPT. A Tour from Rotterdam to Bergen opt Zoom, Antwerp, Mecklin, & Brussells [sic]. [Brussels: N.p.:] June 6th 1753. 31pp., manuscript, 8vo (206 x 158mm.) Hand-numbered pages in a single, densely written legible hand relating a tour of the Netherlands, including numerous military, cultural, religious, and architectural observations. (Toning, minor spotting, slight creasing.) Original wrappers, title in manuscript to upper cover (damp-stained, chipping to extremities). Note: a week-long tour undertaken by several members of the 'Browne' family. Having paid eleven guilders for the use of a 'yacht' the writer records in meticulous detail the fortifications of various cities, noting that Bergen op Zoom had been taken by the French 'six or seven years hence' and, although much of it rebuilt, retained 'marks of violence'. He learns the manner of 'springing a mine' and notes the architecture of fortification. There are many visits to churches, nunneries and monasteries, many abounding in paintings by Rubens. He is especially struck by seeing Rubens' 'Elevation of the Cross'. In Brussels (where much 'bigotry abounds') he is impressed by the beer ('the best table beer…that we met anywhere'), and describes the tapestries and a visit to where they were made. It's a busy tour with considerable detail. At the ends he admits they'd hired a man in each city ('for two shillings a day') to be their tour guide.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

NELSON. - Nicholas Harris NICOLAS. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. London: Henry Colburn, 1845. 4 vols. (of 7), first editions, 8vo (218 x 134mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved folding facsimiles, 1 engraved folding plan. (Spotting to frontispiece, toning throughout, some pencil underlining, manuscript notes in pencil and ink to rear leaves.) Original blind-stamped cloth (rebacked with original spine laid-down, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy [1900-1946], (library labels to the front pastedowns). - And a further fourteen volumes relating to Nelson and naval history (including A.T. Mahan's 'The Life of Nelson', 2 vols., 1897, 8vo, and the second edition of John Campbell's 'Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen', 8 vols., 1750, 8vo) (18).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

° ° Thomas Marcel. Les Grandes Heures de Jean Duc de Berry. Folio, London, 1971. Longnon, Jean. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Musée Condé, Chantilly. 4to., 1969. Original cloth binding in slipcase. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Late Fourteenth Century and Patronage of the Duke. 2 volumes, 1969; James R. [Ed.] Leaves of Gold. Manuscript Illuminations from Philadelphia Collections. Small folio, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002. Cockerell, Sydney C. Old Testament Miniatures. A Medieval Picture Book with 283 Paintings From The Creation to The Story of David. Folio, London n.d. [1969] All in their original cloth bindings and dust wrappers. Together with eleven other books about European book illumination. (16).

Manuscript leaf from a book of hours illuminated in blue, red, rose, green and gilt; perhaps English, third quarter of the 14th century, parchment, 173 x 245 mm; headed in blue ink, c1840: 19th Psalm; attached at the foot: two tin or zinc roundels embossed with an image of a dove carrying an olive branch (Genesis 8.11)the text begins in universa terra, the ending of the first verse of Psalm 8 – [Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum] in universa terra – here used as an introit. After a Gloria is the rubricated word Psalmus; there follow the first 11 and a fragment of the 12th verse of Psalm 18 – Celi enarrant gloriam dei to desiderabilia super aurum et [lapidem pretiosum multum, et dulciora super mel et favum].The illuminated line-fillers – beaded horizontal lines in gold and blue – and the combined blue, rose and gilt treatment of the C of Celi – both resemble the equivalent text of British Library Add MS 44949, produced in the north of England in the third quarter of the 14th century.

Manuscript leaf from a book of hours illuminated in blue, red and gilt; French, second quarter of the 15th century, parchment, 126 x 179 mm; contemporary foliation xiiij (which also appears, for the guidance of the rubricator, at the very foot of the folio); at foot, in pencil, c1930: 500, perhaps the price in francs; card mount, endorsed, c1930: Manuscrit enlumine sur velin XIVe siècle garantithe text begins with the opening and closing verses of Psalm 20, followed by Gloria tibi trinitas and the first 25 verses of Psalm 21, to Timeat eum omne semen [Israel]The illumination resembles British Library Add MS 16997, a Book of Hours of the Use of Paris attributed to the first quarter of the 15th century, but the use of a cursive hand for the text perhaps suggests a later date.

° ° An early 20th century album of manuscript poetry and verse, in a fine calligraphic hand, mainly in black ink, with rubricated capitals, interspersed with 18 comical caricatures, drawn in black, red and blue pen and ink, some coloured, in a 17th century Italian vellum binding, 26 x 21cms.

Bone (Gertrude), Children's Children, a hand-written manuscript with pencil drawing of Gertrude with a very young Stephen Bone, drawn by Muirhead Bone and pen & ink vignette at end of book, 108pp, ge, black mor binding by J & E Bumpus, 4to, nd.

MONTBLANC "QUEEN ELISABETH I" FOUNTAIN PEN. Body in lacquered silver and gold plated. Gold nib 18 Kts. Limited edition. No box. Measures: 14,5 cm length; 16,95 mm diameter. Elizabeth I was born in Reenwich on September 7, 1533 and died in Richmond on March 24, 1603. She was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until the day of her death. She was the fifth monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The queen took the step of separating from the church of Rome by establishing a Protestant church, currently the "church of England". During her reign, England had a great cultural splendor, with figures such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Drake and John Hawkins, among others. Montblanc, on the occasion of the founding of "Montblanc de la culture" in 2010 launches the fountain pen "Elisabeth I", in a limited edition of 4810 units worldwide. The pen is made of silver with gold-plated finishes, the body and cap in black lacquer with gold trim. The fine engravings on the cap and the lower part of the barrel are inspired by the artistic filigree on the cover of the book "The miroir of glasse of the synneful soul", a manuscript that Elizabeth I received from her stepmother Katherine Parr (hence the initials on the cover) and which she herself translated from French rhyme into English prose with prayers and meditations and embroidered on its binding when she was only 11 years old. The loading system is by plunger. The central ring is engraved "Video et Taceo", Spanish for "I see it and say nothing", a strategy frowned upon by his advisors but which often saved him from unfavorable political and civil alliances. The clip is set with an emerald green synthetic garnet and the cross, reminiscent of the elements of the queen's crown. The nib is handmade in 18 carat gold, on it is engraved the crown of England and the years 1558 - 1603, these numbers indicate the year of coronation of Elisabeth I and the year of her death.

Faksimile "Der Codex Gisle" , mittelalterliches Musikmanuskript - Faksimile im Klappschuber, Kommentarband, weiterer Band "Singen wie die Engel, Eine Einführung in den Codex Gisle und seine Gesänge mit CD" sowie großformatige Dokumentationsmappe mit 2 Faksimilieblättern zur Erstansicht, Quaternio Verlag Luzern 2014. Prachtvolles mittelalterliches Gesangbuch/Graduale des Chors des Zisterzienserinnnenordens in Kloster Marienbrunn bei Osnabrück. Anfang des 14.Jhs von der Chorleiterin Gisela von Kerssenbrock geschaffen. Limitierte Auflage Nr. 480/233. Das Original befindet sich im Bistumsarchiv in Osnabrück. Mit Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren, handschriftliche Notizen.| Facsimile "The Codex Gisle" , medieval music manuscript - Facsimile in gatefold slipcase, commentary volume, further volume "Singing like the Angels, An Introduction to the Codex Gisle and its Chants with CD" and large-format documentation folder with 2 facsimile leaves for first viewing, Quaternio Verlag Luzern 2014. Splendid medieval hymnal/gradual of the choir of the Cistercian Order in Marienbrunn Abbey near Osnabrück. Created at the beginning of the 14th century by the choir leader Gisela von Kerssenbrock. Limited edition no. 480/233. The original is in the diocesan archives in Osnabrück. With signs of age and usage, handwritten notes.

Memorial for the Bible Societies in Scotland containing remarks on the: Complaint of His Majesty's Printers against the Marquis of Huntly and others with an Appendix Consisting of Various Papers. Edinburgh, Printed for The Edinburgh Bible Society, 1826. A fundamentally important case concerning the attempt of the King's Printers to protect their monopoly of Bible printing in Scotland. The appendix in this copy has been enlarged from that found in other versions and two very useful Bibliographies (of Bibles printed, available and in use) have been added. A tipped-in manuscript note explains that "This is the most rare of the editions...having been printed for the use of the Counsel...". With the bookplate of John Lee, Principal of Edinburgh University and one of the defendants in the case. A pristine copy of a most important work.

Miller, Arthur.: Resurrection Blues. 2002, inscribed presentation copy; and Stallworthy, Jon. Wings, inscribed presentation copy; and Spender, Stephen. The Temple, proof copy with manuscript amendments; and several others.

A quantity of old bottles including two Robertson's manuscript ink bottles (full), Hansard glass bottle from Abergavenny, etc.

Eric Hosking OBE Hon. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)Set of original photographs, c.1935-55. 5 large gelatin silver prints of birds of prey, portrait and landscape, 370 x 295 mm or reverse, each separately mounted, framed and glazed, signed by Eric Hosking on mount, titles comprising: Sparrow Hawk with young; Marsh Harrier hovering over nest with food in talon; Montagu's Harriers at nest; Buzzard with chicks; Kestrel and young (first four titles provided in manuscript on mount; Kestrel and young thus titled in printed label on verso) (qty: 5)