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MUSIC. - William KITCHINER. The Loyal and National Songs of England, for One, Two, and Three Voices, Selected from Original Manuscripts and Early Printed Copies. London: Hurst, Robinson and Company, 1823. Folio (376 x 250mm.) Title, lithographic dedication leaf in colour. (Occasional browning, faint spotting, damp-staining to blanks.) Contemporary boards, later paper label to spine, title in manuscript to upper cover (rebacked with cloth tape, rubbing to extremities, minor marks). Provenance: W. Bennett (name inscribed to on dedication leaf). Note: in the introduction Kitchiner makes the point that 'if English ballads are not so highly esteemed as the Scotch, - Irish, - and Welsh, it can only be, because their beauties…are not so much known'.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 Catalogue of the Books at Worth Park. [West Sussex, Crawley: N.p.:] 1888. 280pp., manuscript, 4to (301 x 226mm.) Title, 'Index' of rooms, hand-written titles in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper, 13pp. blank to rear. (Toning.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities). Note: Francis Abraham Montefiore inherited the Worth Park Estate from his father, Joseph Montefiore, in 1880. He re-modelled the house and gardens from designs by the company of James Pulham and Sons, who had also designed elements of the gardens at Buckingham Palace and Sandringham House.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 young woman's dairy written during a stay in British-ruled 'Ceylon' in the months before and after the start of the First World War. N.p.:] Ceylon, February- November 1914. 99pp., manuscript, (203 x 160mm.) Mostly legible hand-written leaves relating the life of a young woman living in various DWP bungalows, mostly relating to her social life. (Mild toning.) Original black wrappers (surface marks). Note: the unnamed writer describes a frenetic whirl of social activities, tennis, bridge, golf, with occasional references to the wild-life, Hindu temples, a wedding, a conversation with the Hindu 'boy' about reincarnation and the 120-year life span of all human beings. There is a partner- or husband- Denys, but he appears to be working all the time, inspecting DWP buildings. On her birthday, the emotion finally spills: 'I felt horrid all the day. Called on the Vaughans'. On August 5th, while playing tennis, they hear that England has declared war on Germany. Her last entry, on leaving Aden, and returning to England, becomes unexpectedly transcendent: 'the sea was oily calm, so much so that the reflection of the stars in the water was most noticeable…zodiacal light'.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 liturgical hymn in Latin with musical notion made by the Community of the Convent of Saint Isabel in Cuéllar in Northern Spain. N.p:] 1797. 40pp., manuscript, folio (485 x 323mm.) A dedication leaf in Spanish with hand-painted initial and decorative stenciled border, hymn in Latin with hand-drawn staves in red with musical notation in black, capitals in red, elaborate initials in red, blue and yellow. (Browning and chipping to margins, a four-inch tear to one leaf, some insect-damage to initial blank, some leaves loosening.) Original hand-painted stencilled boards (heavily rubbed, some surface loss to extremities). Note: the Convent of Saint Isabel [Convento da Santa Ana] was established in 1571. In the 17th century it had a community of thirty nuns but went into decline after 1775.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.

[GLASSE, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. London: A. Millar, circa 1767.] 8vo (195 x 121mm.) With 48pp. appendix and 23pp. index to rear. (Lacking title-page and all before A3, browning, moderate spotting throughout.) Near contemporary diced calf (upper cover nearly detached, rubbing, blanks replaced). Provenance: J. Humphrey (paper name-plate in manuscript mounted on front blank). - And a related volume (a manuscript of recipes, 22 leaves [1875-1877], 8vo) (2).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.

Two bifolia from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in Eastern kufic script on vellum Persia or Mesopotamia, 11th-12th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, two bifolia mounted and framed together, seven lines to the page written in eastern kufic script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, two leaves with sura headings in gold with a stylised floret in gold with blue highlights extending into outer margin, circular marginal devices in gold and blue each leaf 107 x 93 mm.; each bifolium 107 x 187 mm.; frame 33.5 x 28 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceMilo Cleveland Beach: acquired in the late 1960s from the heirs of Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, Cambridge, Massachusetts.TextUpper bifolium (recto):Right:Sura LXXXII, al-Infitar, The Cleaving Asunder, part of verse 15 to end of verse 19 (end of sura). Left: Sura LXXXV, al-Buruj, Signs of the Zodiac, part of verse 9 to part of verse 11. Lower bifolium (recto): Right: Sura LXXXVI, al-Tariq, The Night Visitor, last two words of verse 17 (end of sura); Sura LXXXVII, al-A'la, The Most High, verses 1 to part of verse 5.Left: Sura LXXXIX (89), al-Fajr, The Break of Day, part of verse 15 to end of verse 18.Bifolia apparently from the same manuscript were offered at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic Worlds, 5th October 2011, lot 53; 25th April 2012, lot 405; and at Christie's, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, 7th April 2006, lot 397.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dervishes seated beneath a tree in a landscape, attributed to Mir Yusuf al-Husaini Persia, probably Isfahan, circa 1640-50drawing with some gouache on paper, nasta'liq attribution inscription at lower centre, laid down on an album page with gilt-decorated blue borders with medallions of light pink and buff paper, red outer border with ruled margins, verso a leaf from a manuscript of Persian poetry in nasta'liq script in four columns drawing 170 x 80 mm.; album page 328 x 212 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 3rd May 2001, lot 60.The inscription reads: 'Its painter, Mir Yusuf al-Husaini'. Karimzadeh Tabrizi records him as a student of Reza 'Abbasi, working in the style of his master and of Mu'in Musavvir, and attributes some of the paintings in the Forty Column Palace in Isfahan to him. His recorded work dates to between AH 1040/AD 1630-31 and AH 1068/AD 1657-58, and this and the use of the attribute 'Abbasi in one of his works, perhaps suggests that he was working at the court of Shah 'Abbas II. A work by him signed similarly to the present lot, depicting a youth in European dress holding a bottle, is in the British Museum (1948, 1211,0.15; illustrated in S. Canby, The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501-1722, London 1999, p. 139, fig. 129). See Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 3, 1991, pp. 1111-14.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Nizami, Khamsa, copied by ibn Husain Murad 'Ali Damavandi, with 29 illustrations Persia, dated Thursday, the beginning of Rabi' I 1061/23rd February 1651Persian manuscript on paper, 303 leaves, 25 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, coloured intercolumnar rules, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, headings written in red ink, opening illuminated headpiece, five further illuminated headpieces, 29 illustrations in gouache and gold, brown morocco with central lacquered medallions 370 x 220 mm.Footnotes:The scribe is not recorded, other than being listed as katibeh-negar (a scribe of inscriptions on monuments (see http://damavandfamous.blogfa.com, retrieved on 13 February 2022).The manuscript was in the library of the Qajar Prince Farhad Mirza (grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah and brother of Muhammad Shah), who wrote that it entered his library on 15th Shawwal 1298/10th September 1881. He gives his name as 'Farhad son of the Crown Prince' (i.e. 'Abbas Mirza). Another note, not written by Farhad Mirza, says that the manuscript was bought from Qizi in Shawwal 1298/1880-81. There is also a note by another owner:'Muhammad [...] in the capital Tehran. The oval seal impression of a certain 'Abdullah appears twice next to the colophon.The illustrations, it has been suggested, are by an artist in the school of Muhammad Zaman and his pupils, e.g. 'Ali Quli Jabbadar. The scene of four maidens picknicking is strikingly similar in terms of composition and dress to an illustration from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, dated to the middle of Rajab 1071/March-April 1661, with illustrations close to the manner of Mu'in Mussavir, offered at Christie's Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 20th October 2016, lot 41 (illus.).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A drawing of a Qajar prince, standing in a forest, attributed to Mirza Abu'l Hasan Ghaffari, Sani al-Mulk Persia, dated AH 1260/AD 1844-45pencil on paper, signed and dated lower left in nasta'liq script 433 x 317 mm.Footnotes:The signature reads: 'The work of Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Ghaffari, the year 1260/1844-45'.Abu'l-Hasan Khan Ghaffari, Sani' al-Mulk (1814-66) studied in Italy and was appointed the Chief Painter (naqqash-bashi) in AH 1267/AD 1850 and titled Sani' al-Mulk in AH 1277/AD 1860-61. He is most celebrated as a painter for his work and supervision of the production of the One Thousand and One Nights manuscript in the Gulistan Palace Library and the murals of the Nizamieh Palace. He was also involved with the College of Arts (dar al-funun) in Tehran and with the illustrations of the official newspaper of the time, in which he did the portraits of many high officials which were produced in lithograph forms. His recorded work is dated between AH 1258/AD 1842 and 1278/1862. (For more on him and his works, see: B. W. Robinson, N. D. Khalili, T. Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic World: Part II, London 1997,p. 154; and M. A. Karimzadeh-Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, Vol. I, London 1985, pp. 23-34; and the article by B. W. Robinson in Encyclopaedia Iranica.The figure has not been securely identified, but one possible candidate is Dust 'Ali Khan, Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik (1819-73), a prominent courtier and Court Treasurer, who appears in a fine portrait in watercolour by Ghaffari, dated to 1845-55 (see Christie's South Kensington, The Saeed Motamed Collection, Part I, 22nd April 2013, lot 248; a portrait of him dated 1846 by Mirza Baba al-Isfahani al-Imami is illustrated and discussed in L. Diba (ed.), Royal Persian Paintings: the Qajar Epoch 1785-1925, Brooklyn 1999, pp. 226-227, no. 68.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large collection of 79 manuscript documents consisting of correspondence from the archive of the French legation to Persia during the reigns of Fath 'Ali Shah, Muhammad Shah and Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar Persia, circa 1810 to 1870consisting of 79 manuscript edicts, letters and notes in Persian, mostly in nasta'liq or cursive scripts, and some French, many with seal impressions, in modern lever-arch file the smallest 153 x 74 mm.; the largest 605 x 440 mm.; folder 32 x 29 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection, 1998-present.The subject matter of the documents range from mundane small notes such as arranging a meeting or enquiring about the receiver's health, to discussion of important political issues. The documents provide a glimpse of diplomatic etiquette in Persia during the first half of the 19th century and shed light on some of the incidents and events of the period. The senders include the Persian monarchs, crown princes, and many of the prominent Persian statesmen of the period. The recipients include all the French Minister Plenipotentiaries as well as minor diplomats of the period. This correspondence was kept in the French embassy in Constantinople until 1873, when Rene Davy de Chavigne de Balloy started his first tour of duty in Persia, and established an archive in Tehran.Items of particular interest, or peculiarity, and which give an idea of the range of subjects, include:(6) A letter from the Crown Prince Nasir al-Din Mirza to his father Muhammad Shah, reporting on problems on the estates in Azerbaijan belonging to the Shah's wife (the Crown Prince's mother), Malek Jahan Khanum, and stating that Ali Quli Mirza has arrived and dealt with the problems. He was the 47th son of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar and was factotum to Malek Jahan Khanum. He later became a minister of science and education, and accompanied the Shah on his trip to Europe in 1873. No date (but circa 1840-45), seal of the Crown Prince at upper right.(10) A letter from Asadullah, Wakil al-Mulk, the Persian Plenipotentiary to Russia, and later to Ottoman Turkey, to an official at the Ottoman Embassy, concerning a certain Mashhadi 'Ali Baba Dehbashi, who had taken bast in the Turkish Embassy, dated 25th Jumadi I 1274/11th January 1858.(22) A letter from Asadullah, Wakil al-Mulk, the Persian Plenipotentiary to Russia, to an Ottoman official, informing him of events in Persia, including the arrival of Aqa Sayyid Hashim at the Ottoman Embassy, and the hostility of the Persian Prime Minister towards the clergy - as well as requesting the purchase and delivery of knife and pen sharpeners, and seeds for flowers, dated 7th Rajab 1274/21st February 1858.(23) A letter from Asadullah, Wakil al-Mulk, the Persian Plenipotentiary to Russia, complaining about the lack of response to previous letters, dated 17th Jumadi II 1274/2nd February 1858.(52) A note from a certain Ibrahim to a foreign diplomat regarding his presence at an audience with Prince Muzaffar al-Din to express joy on the occasion of the birthday of Nasir al-Din Shah, dated 5th Safar 1287/7th May 1870.(65) A cursive note, apparently written by someone illiterate, regarding the matter of water reaching the addressee's garden, no date.(66) A letter from Sa'id Ansari, the Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Haydar Efendi, the Ottoman Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, expressing his pleasure at the way Mirza Ahmad Khan, the Minister Resident in Istanbul, and Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim Khan, the First Attache, have been looked after, dated 15th Jumadi II 1274/31st January 1858.(67) A letter from a certain Hashim (perhaps an Ottoman Turk, at the Ottoman Embassy), stationed in Kermanshah (where he has been for seven years), stating that he is now at the Embassy in Tehran, where Tawfiq Efendi (the Charge d'Affaires) has been very kind to him. He goes on to deny what Haji 'Aziz 'Arab and Hasan Aqa have said about him, and asks for forgiveness, dated 7th Rajab 1274/21st February 1858.(73) A rough draft of the firman of Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, appointing Prince Muhammad Qasim Khan Amir Nizam as his Crown Prince, with Mirza Aqa Khan, the Prime Minister, as the Prince's guardian, dated 14th Rabi' I 1274/2nd November 1857.(76) A copy of an edict, perhaps of Fath 'Ali Shah, to M. Vidal, the French consul in Baghdad (1807-28), recommended by Mulla 'Abdul-Aziz, the Persian Charge d'Affaires there, undated but bearing the tughra of Fath 'Ali Shah.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Hafiz, Divan, with an extended prose preface Qajar Persia, dated three times, Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859; Rajab 1275/February-March 1859; and again, Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859Persian manuscript on paper, 222 leaves, 17 lines to the page written in fine nasta'liq script in black ink in two columns with headings and significant phrases in red, green and blue, inner margins ruled in black and gold, three illuminated headpieces, several smaller illuminated headings, prose preface (4 leaves), lacquer binding with front and back covers with designs of a butterfly perched amidst flowering plants, with red leather slipcase, with flap 220 x 137 mm. Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Property of a Lady.The descendants of Begum Iskandar Mirza, wife of Iskandar Ali Mirza, first President of Pakistan (1899-1969, president 1956-58).The usual text of the Divan here has an extended version of a prose preface attributed to a certain Muhammad Gol Andam, apparently a contemporary of Hafiz. The added text is in praise of the Prophet and Imam 'Ali. In addition, the poems start with the qasa'id instead of ghazals.It is dated three times: at the end of the preface Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859; at the end of the ghazals, Rajab 1275/February-March 1859; and in the final colophon Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859. Therefore the preface was copied after the entire text was completed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual group of 38 album pages illustrating scenes from Firdausi's Shahnama, Nizami's Khamsa, Jami's Haft Awrang and other texts Persia, late 18th/19th Centurypaintings in gouache and some gold, most with identifying inscriptions in nasta'liq script, gold- and silver-decorated coloured inner borders, outer borders of each variously decorated with stylised floral designs or more naturalistic floral and vegetal motifs, on grounds of several different colours, each framed separately paintings approximately 240 x 170 mm. and slightly smaller; album pages 330 x 230 mm.(38)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe collection of Bryan Wilkins (1950-2021), son of Fraser Wilkins (1908-89), Inspector-General of the US Foreign Service 1964-71, US Ambassador to Cyprus 1960-64.The subjects are as follows:From Firdausi's Shahnama1: Two young boys before Jamshid, inscribed: The image of Jamshid-e jam.2: Afrasiyab bound and brought before Kay Khosraw and Rustam, inscribed: The image of Kay Khusraw [and] Rustam son of Zal and the killing of Afrasiyab.3: Kay Kavous in his flying machine, inscribed: Kay Kavous, known as Nimrud, flying to the sky.4: Faridun places a crown over his son's head, inscribed: The image of Faridun and him rewarding his sons with crowns. Two figures at the back are identified as 'Salm' and 'Tur'.5: The Indian Raj before Nushirvan, inscribed: The image of Nushirvan. The young Indian is described as the Indian Raj.6: Rustam about to break the ring with one hand, inscribed Rustam son of Zal breaks the ring, with the one-handed Rustam.7: Giv and Nawdhar before Siyavash and Rustam, inscribed: Image of Siyavakhsh [sic] with Rustam the crown-giver. The two figures are identified as Giv ibn Gudarz and Bahram ibn Gudarz.8: Bijan and Manijeh in bed, inscribed: The image of Bijan son of Giv with Manijah, the daughter of Afrasiyab.9: Brains of youths being prepared to feed the snakes on Zahhak's shoulders, inscribed: The image of Zahhak, the one with snakes on his shoulder and food [remainder illegible].From Nizami's Khamsa10: Shirin visits Farhad in Bistun (from Khosraw and Shirin), inscribed: Shirin and Farhad. 11: Gol Andam comes across Bahram hunting (from Haft Paykar), inscribed: The image of Bahram and Gol Andam.12. Bahram-e Gur amazed at seeing Gol Andam carrying an ox with ease on her shoulder up a flight of stairs (from the Haft Paykar). Caption: 'Image of Bahram and Gol Andam'. Hoping to regain Bahram's favour, she practices carrying a newborn ox up a flight of stairs on her shoulders.13: Layla goes to see Majnun in the wilderness (from Layla and Majnun), inscribed: The image of Layla and Majnun.14: Bahram-e Gur seizes the crown that had been placed between two lions and prepares to kill the second lion (from Haft Paykar), inscribed: Bahram taking the crown placed between two lions.15: Khusraw out hunting observes Shirin bathing (from Khusraw and Shirin), no inscription. For this scene, with a very similar composition, used on the lacquer binding of a manuscript of Nizami's Khusraw va Shirin, dated to the beginning of the 19th Century, see G. Fellinger (ed.), L'Empire des Roses: chefs d'oeuvre de l'art persan du XIXe siecle, Lens 2018, p. 264, no. 253.From Jami's Haft Awrang16: Yusuf is offered for sale in the market and Zulaykha bids for him (from Yusuf and Zulaykha), inscribed: Selling of Yusuf - peace be upon him – in the city of Misr.17: Women guests cut their fingers instead of oranges at seeing Yusuf (from Yusuf and Zulaykha), inscribed: The image of the cutting of oranges of Yusuf and Zulaykha. The original text features lemons.From Muhammad Quli Salim Tehrani's Qada va qadar, on predestination (2)18: Exact subject unknown. Caption: 'Qada and Qadar'.19: A figure pulled from the sea: exact subject unknown. Caption: 'Qada and Qadar of Muhammad Quli Salim'.From 'Attar's Mantiq al-Tayr20: Shaykh San'an goes to see the Christian maiden, inscribed: The image of Shaykh San'an.21: The Christian maid offers wine to Shaykh San'an, inscribed: The image of Shaykh San'an.From 'Ayyuqi's Varqah and Golshah22: Golshah offers wine to Varqah, inscribed: The image of Varqah and Golshah.From 'Unsuri's Wamiq and 'Adhra 23: 'Adhra receives Wamiq and embraces him, inscribed: The image of Wamiq and 'Adhra. From Naw'i Khabushani's Suz and Godaz24: The husband is being prevented from throwing himself into the fire after the death of his wife, inscribed: Suz and Godaz. However, in the original text, it is the wife who throws herself into the fire after the husband's death.Two scenes depicting Seljuk rulers25: Alb Arsalan, inscribed: The image of Alb Arsalan, the Sal Juqi [sic].26: Three youths before Sultan Malik Shah, inscribed: The image of Sultan Malik Shah, the Sal Juqi [sic].Two scenes depicting Timur and his son Shahrukh27: Timur gives a spear to a young boy, inscribed: The image of Amir Timur Gurkani. The name Timur is misspelt.28: Shahrukh watches men wrestling, inscribed: Shahrokh ibn Amir Timur.A scene from the Mehr and Mah of Hamid ibn Fadlluh Jamali (d. AH 942/AD 1535-36) 29: Mah dreams of being with Mehr [?], inscribed: The image of Mehr and Mah.A scene from the Hamzeh-nameh30: Hamzah and Mehr Negar, Nushrivan's daughter, meet while 'Umar is playing an instrument for Bozorgmehr, inscribed: The image of Hamzah and Mehr Negar/Baba 'Umar/Buzorjmehr.Miscellaneous:31. Ahmad-e Jam, the Sufi, author and poet (d. 1141), riding a lion, holding snakes in his hands as reins and whip. The subject sometimes appears in falnamehs. Caption: 'Zheneh Pir Ahmad-e Jami'.32. A man and a youth counting grapes before Pharaoh, as scene from the Bible [?]. Caption: 'The image of Pharaoh and the Satan'. The youth in the window is perhaps Satan.33. A young prince offering wine to a young lady, Sayf al-Muluk, the son of the king of Egypt and the princess Badi' al-Jamal depicted sitting on a throne, a story from the Thousand Nights and One Night. Caption: 'Sayf al-Muluk [and] Badi' al-Jamal Pari'. Sayf al-Muluk is misspelt.34. A young man killing a man. Caption: 'The mad Qandaruz [?] being killed by Badi' al-Zaman [?]' (spelled as Badi'ad zaman). Text unidentified.35. A man (Mulla Nasr al-Din) leading two men and a dog on leads. Caption: 'Mulla Nasir al-Din'. Exact subject unknown.36. A young man feeding a dragon with a deer before a king, while cutting its horns off. No caption, exact subject unknown.37. Two figures before a seated figure, identified as Rustam son of Zal (the young boy) and Zal son of Sam (the old bearded man) before Sam son of Nariman (the seated figure). These are characters from Firdausi's Shahnama, but this does not appear to correspond with a known scene.38. A young boy offering food to a man lying ill in bed. Exact subject unknown.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two Qajar calligraphic exercises from an album Qajar Persia, 19th CenturyPersian manuscript on paper, each consisting of a quatrain written diagonally in nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, these within panels against a ground of foliate motifs in gold on a pale ground, coloured inner borders, pink-orange outer borders, numbered 35 and 36 in Arabic each 317 x 198 mm.(2)Footnotes:One page consists of a quatrain in Persian, the poet unidentified. The second has a version of a quatrain by Rumi.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Persian translation of The History of Alexander, originally made for Prince 'Abbas Mirza, Governor of Adharbayjan, and son of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar, by an Englishman, James Campbell, in his service in AH 1228/AD 1813, with unusual finely marbled borders Afghanistan, Kabul, copied by ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali, dated Monday 8th Rabi' II 1291/25th May 1874Persian manuscript on paper, 119 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in neat nasta'liq script in black ink, occasional headings and significant words in blue, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, outer borders throughout decorated with fine marbling, one illuminated opening headpiece, one further illuminated heading, burgundy leather binding 336 x 230 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Property of a Lady.The descendants of Begum Iskandar Mirza, wife of Iskandar Ali Mirza, first President of Pakistan (1899-1969, president 1956-58).The manuscript was copied by Ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali in Kabul on Monday 8th Rabi' II 1291/25th May 1874. The name Safdar 'Ali is given on the opening page in a different hand: 'By Safdar 'Ali, the calligrapher (khosh-navis)'. The preface states that Ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali is to produce this text as well as the History of Peter the Great. Mehdi Bayani records the scribe as an obscure nasta'liq calligrapher of the 19th Century, with his only recorded work being a calligraphic page in the Archaeological Museum in Delhi, signed Sayyid Safdar 'Ali (see M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. 2, Tehran 1346sh, p. 330).The text deals with Alexander the Great, starting with his origins in Macedonia, his conquests, from Egypt to parts of India and Turkestan, and his burial in Alexandria.James Campbell was an assistant surgeon in the East India Company, and went to Persia with Sir John Malcolm. From 1810 to 1814 he was surgeon to Prince Abbas Mirza, son of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar, and who was then Governor of Adharbayjan. He accompanied Sir Gore Ousley to Russia in 1814. There is a record of an application of 'Mr Assistant Surgeon Campbell to be permitted to draw (with arrears) his field pay and allowances in addition to the salary he receives as being attached to His Royal Highness Prince Abbas Mirza in Persia.' For a very similar manuscript see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 26th October 2017, lot 123, with the same fine, distinctive marbled borders, and eleven lines of text to the page. This is a translation of Voltaire's Histoire de l'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand (as well as his Histoire de Charles XII, roi du Suede), and so very possibly the text mentioned in the preface of our manuscript), copied by the same scribe, Safdar 'Ali. (It was catalogued as 'Qajar' rather than having been copied in Afghanistan, and the scribe is not mentioned). From the catalogue photographs it also bears the seal impression of an Afghan library, though this has not been possible to confirm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine double-page illuminated frontispiece, consisting of the opening to the Guy va chawgan, The Ball and the Polo Stick (also known as Hal-nameh, Book of Ecstasy), by Mahmud ibn Muhammad 'Arifi Heravi (d. AH 853/AD 1449-50) Persia, circa 1500Persian manuscript on paper, each leaf with five lines of text in nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, text in stylised kufic script in white within illuminated cartouches above and below main text panel, ruled inner margins in colours and gold, profuse illumination in colours and gold flanking text panel and in outer margins, seal impression in upper border of right-hand leaf, in mount, framed each leaf 195 x 120 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Sir Bernard Eckstein (1894-1948).Sotheby's, Extremely Fine Persian and Moghul Miniatures, Oriental Manuscripts, etc., The Property of the Late Sir Bernard Eckstein, Bt., 7th February 1949, lot 13.Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008), until the late 1960s.Milo Cleveland Beach: acquired from Welch in the late 1960s, until the present.ExhibitedWilliams College Museum of Art (temporary loan, label on backboard).M. C. Beach taught at Williams College between 1969 and 1984, and the piece was loaned to the College for teaching purposes and not for a particular exhibition.The seal impression reads: 'His [God's] hoping servant, Sultan Mas'ud, AH 1259/AD 1843-44'. (This does not refer to Sultan Mas'ud Mirza, later titled Zill al-Sultan, and a son of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar, born in 1850.The text, Guy va Chawgan, or Hal-nameh, is a mystical poem by 'Arifi (d. circa 1449), which hinges on the metaphor of the polo ball and the mallet of the rider as a representation of the lover's yearning for and being spurned by the beloved.For a manuscript of 14 leaves consisting of selections from the Guy va Chawgan, copied by Muhammad Husain al-Husaini, dated AH 965/AD 1557-58, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 8th April 2008, lot 205.There are various handwritten notes on the backboard of the frame. The note at the upper left was written by M. C. Beach, as were the comparisons at lower right. The remainder, including the sketch, are by Cary Welch.Sir Bernard Eckstein (1894-1948)Sir Bernard Eckstein was a connoisseur and collector of wide interests, whose family wealth derived from Sudanese cotton and mining interests in South Africa. He became a director of various companies involved in these areas. He bought widely and was able to donate works of art to various institutions, such as the National Gallery, London, and Persian drawings and miniatures to the British Museum, the acquisition of which were said to have 'undoubtedly immensely increased [the national collection's] importance and interest'. These bequests scarcely dented his extensive collections, which were auctioned (mainly by Sotheby's) in a series of sales during 1948 and the two following years: paintings (8 December 1948), Chinese jade and hardstone carvings (9 December), books (24 January 1949), autograph letters and documents (25 January), Persian and Mughal miniatures (7 February), silver (10 February), clocks, furniture and tapestries (25 February), English pottery and porcelain (29 March) – by which time the Eckstein collections had realised £196,000 - equivalent to a present day value of some £6,300,000.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A manuscript text related to the Nala-Damayanti story, in Urdu, with 17 illustrations, copied by Mirza Amir Bayg, resident at the mosque of Vazir Khan Lahore, dated 9 Rajab 1275/12th February 1859Urdu manuscript on paper, 62 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in two columns in nasta'liq script in black ink, headings written in red, inner margins ruled in red, yellow, black and blue, catchwords, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, 17 illustrations in gouache and gold, green cloth binding 317 x 200 mm.Footnotes:The colophon states that the book of Nal Damatni [sic] was completed by Mirza Amir Bayg, resident at the mosque of Vazir Khan, which is in Lahore, on 9 Rajab 1275 (12 February 1859). The scribe is not recorded.The date AH 1244/AD 1828-29 also appears above the colophon, which perhaps records the date of composition of the Urdu version of the text, though it is not clear.The story of Nala and Damayanti is recounted by the Pandava brothers in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. They were happily married to each other, until an evil King seeking revenge entered Nala's body and altered his benevolent personality. As a result of Nala's subsequent misdeeds, they lost their possessions and were driven into exile. The 12th Century poem, Naishadha Charita, which expands upon the love of Nala and his wife Damayanti first detailed in the Mahabharata, is often illustrated in Pahari paintings.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

An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, depicting Yazdgerd out hunting with the harp player Persia, 17th Centurygouache and gold on paper, retouched, text written in four columns of nasta'liq script in black ink, intercolumnar rules in gold, inner margins ruled in blue and gold text area within margins 150 x 120 mm.; 380 x 225 mm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † R† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Sa'di, Kulliyat, copied by Muhammad al-Qawam al-Shirazi Persia, probably Shiraz, circa 1550-70Persian manuscript on paper, 374 leaves, 12 lines to the page written in fine nasta'liq script in black ink, further text written diagonally within inner margins, certain words and phrases written in blue and red, central text panel edged with gold-sprinkled border, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, triangular decorative illuminated panels containing flowers on a gold ground, headings written in white nasta'liq on a gold ground within panels, illuminated double-page frontispiece in colours and gold, preceded by a double-page index with titles in gold and white nasta'liq on gold or sky-blue grounds within cartouches (one leaf detached), seven further illuminated double-pages marking beginnings of books with headpieces and text written within cloudbands on a gold ground, endleaves with later inscriptions and stamps, Qajar painted lacquer floral binding 302 x 210 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Qajar Royal Library from 1851 until at least 1891.Private collection, USA: acquired by the seller's grandmother in the USA prior to 1969 (perhaps in Cleveland, Ohio); subsequently in the Florida collection of her mother since at least 1985, where it remained.The scribe is Muhammad Qawam al-Shirazi, who is likely to be the same as the one known by the attribute al-Hammami. He was a 16th Century scribe of Shiraz, whose recorded work is dated between AH 950/AD 1543-44 and AH 967/AD 1559-60. See M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. 3, Tehran, 1348sh, pp. 814-16. Another manuscript by the scribe, the Silsilat al-Dhahab of Jami, second half of the 16th Century, was at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World and India, 1st April 2020, lot 30.According to a note on an endleaf, the manuscript was bought in Tehran and entered the Qajar Royal Library on the first of Rabi' II 1267/3 February 1851. It also bears two inspection seal impressions of the Qajar Royal Library dated AH 1308/AD 1890-91. There is also a marginal record of the birth of Ibrahim on 12 Muharram 1238/29th September 1822.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large composite album page with two sections from illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, with illustrations attributed to Mu'in Mussavir, depicting Kay Khusraw giving audience to Rustam, and Rustam celebrating his defeat of Afrasiyab, the page with later borders in the manner of Imami Persia, 17th Century and late 19th Centurygouache and gold on paper, text written in nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, one heading written in red, two sections excised from manuscripts and laid down, one above the other, and laid down on an album page in Safavid style, late 19th Century, with borders depicting animals in their natural habitat, and youths and maidens picknicking in a landscape central painting and text area 280 x 165 mm.; album page 470 x 310 mm.Footnotes:For a similarly excised manuscript illustration by Mu'in, laid down on card and lacquered, as in the present lot, see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 5th October 2011, lot 129.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † R† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

REGRA DO | GLORIOSO PATRI- | ARCHA SAM BENTO, TIRADA DE | Latim em lingoaje Portuguesa, por industria do | muito R. P. F. Placido Villalobos Geral | nesta Congregação de Portugal.- Foi impressa em Lisboa: por Antonio Ribeiro, 1586.- [4], 49, [1] p.: il.; 19 cm.- E., First edition published in the same year as the Latin version. The translation was, in fact, carried out by Fr. João Pinto OSB, and by him dedicated to the General of the Order. It was reprinted in Coimbra, by Nicolau Carvalho, in 1632. It includes, on the title page, a small engraving of the saint repeated on the last folio above the printer's mark. On the verso, a composition of six xilographic plates, four of which were used in the princeps edition of “Os Lusíadas” (including the pediment with the pelican facing the viewer’s left). Copy a little cropped (washed?), with old manuscript ownership on the title page: [illegible] from the collegio of St. Joseph Discalced Carmelites. Last sheet with reconstructed margins; slight tidal stain on the lower outer corner of the first leaves. Overall, however, a clean, solid, and complete copy. Recent binding, full parchment, with full blind stamped on the covers (multiple ornamental borders and central diamond) and gold tooling on the spine. Inocêncio, VII, p. 60. Anselmo, 972. National Library (16th century), 79. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, 54.

Indian School, Figures playing castanets, framed gouache manuscript, writing verso,14 cms wide x 24 cms high.

Antiphona, circa 1400–1440, large impressive sheet of Choral music with finely detailed initial letters in blue and red. Entirely manuscript on Vellum, 30cm x 44.5cm (An interesting early example of four ruled lines for music instead of later five ruled lines)

Das Moskauer Stundenbuch, FAKSIMILE - Stundenbuch um 1470 in Paris enstanden als anonyme Auftragsarbeit zur privaten Andacht. Faksimile der prachtvollen Handschrift mit etlichen Miniaturen. Das Original befindet sich in der Russischen Staatsbibliothek Moskau. Ledereinband mit Goldprägung, Goldschnitt. Mit wissenschaftlichem Kommentarband. In Aufbewahrungskassette mit Metallbeschlag des Moskauer Stadtwappens. Limitierte Luxusausgabe Nr. 603/ 980 des Coron Exclusiv Verlags 2007. Mit Alters-und Gebrauchsspuren.| The Moscow Book of Hours, FACSIMILE - Book of Hours produced around 1470 in Paris as a anonymous commissioned work for private devotion. Facsimile of the magnificent manuscript with several miniatures. The original is in the Russian State Library in Moscow. Leather binding with gold embossing, gilt edges. With scholarly commentary volume. In storage case with metal fitting of the Moscow city coat of arms. Limited luxury edition no. 603/980 of the Coron Exclusiv Verlag 2007. With signs of age and usage.

Gaston Phoebus, Das Buch der Jagd, FAKSIMILE - Handschrift über die Jagd, mittelalterliches Standardwerk, Ende 14.Jh. verfasst von Graf von Foix und Vicomte von Béarn, gewidmet Philipp dem Kühnen, Anfang 15.Jh. an Philipps Hof mit prachtvollen Miniaturen verziert. Im mit goldfarben bestickten, hellblauen Halbpergamentseideneinband. Das Original befindet sich in der Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Mit 2 Kommentarbänden, frz./dt. In Aufbewahrungskassette, z.T. aus Ahornholz. Limitierte Edition Nr. 671/980 Faksimile Verlag Luzern 2005. Mit Alters-und Gebrauchsspuren.| Gaston Phoebus, The Book of the Hunt, FACSIMILE - Manuscript on hunting, medieval standard work, written at the end of the 14th century by Count of Foix and Viscount of Béarn, dedicated to Philip the Bold, decorated with magnificent miniatures at Philip's court at the beginning of the 15th century. In a light blue half-parchment silk binding embroidered in gold. The original is in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. With 2 commentary volumes, French/German. In storage case, partly of maple wood. Limited edition no. 671/980 Facsimile Publishers Lucerne 2005. With signs of age and usage.

Vita Della Serafica Vergine, E Gloriosa Madre Santa Teresa Digesu .... 1747 Venezia Presso Andrea Poletti. Engraved frontispiece; and Iusti Lipsi Diva Sichemiensis fiue Aspricollis: Nouaeius Beneficia & Admiranda. 1605 Antwerpiae Ex officina Plantiniana. Engraved title page. Both with full vellum binding (2)Condition Report:Not collated so completeness unknown.Iusti partially disbound with some loose pages at the back. Considerable underlining of text and manuscript notes in margins.Teresa has top of title page clipped to remove former owner's name.Otherwise both in reasonable condition for age.

Arabische Handschrift, 19. Jh., geprägter Ledereinband, umfangreiche handgeschriebene religiöse Texte, l. Alters- und Gebr.-schäden, Seiten z.T. lose, ca.18 x 26 cmArabian manuscript, 19th c., embossed leather binding, extensive handwritten religious sacred words, minor damages of age and usage, sides partly loose, approx.18 x 26 cm

NO RESERVE Geology.- Société Géologique de France. Membership certificate for a Mr. Gilbertson, engraved, 365 x 261mm., ink manuscript insertions and signatures, mounted on wooden frame, browned, some spotting and staining, [Paris], Firmin-Didot, March, 1836.⁂ An early certificate from the society, which was founded in 1830.

Drummond (William, of Hawthornden, poet and pamphleteer, 1585-1649) [XXII A Translation printed in Madrigals and Epigramms], manuscript, 9 lines, inscribed "W. Drummond of Hawthornden in his poems", in a 17th century hand, browned, edges chipped with small loss, 110 x 190mm., n.d. [17th century].⁂ Differs considerably with 5 lines omitted or with extensive changes from the printed version of 1832.

Louis XIV (King of France, 1638-1715) Warrant letter signed "Louis" for the Duc de Pomponne to be admitted to the Bastille to question the Abbé de Lacy in prison, D.s. "Louis", manuscript in French, 1p., folds, slightly browned, folio, 7th July 1667.⁂ De Lacy was imprisoned in 1667 as abbot of the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal in Paris.Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, Marquis of Pomponne (1618-99), French diplomat and minister.

Accounts.- Alexander (Thomas) Journals A.B. & C. - Waste Book A - Ledger B, 3 vol., manuscript account books, c. 180pp., ruled in red, browned, small quantity of printed banking and share brokers documents loosely inserted, original wrappers, soiled and marked, lettered direct on upper covers, folio, 1829.⁂ Includes: "Adventure to Lisbon"; "Adventure to Leghorn"; "Adventure to Hamburgh".

Erotica.- 37 drawings of an erotic nature, on 24 sheets, each c.180 x 110mm., opaque pigments on paper, with pen and ink, [India], [probably late 19th or early 20th century] bound with ?Lizut-u-Nifsa, manuscript on the relationship between man and woman and sexual matters, 16pp., [late 19th century], occasional spotting or light staining / water-staining, 20th century morocco, rubbed, small 4to⁂ Provenance: 'These pictures were procured to give some idea of the absurd & ridiculous notions & practices of the Mahomitans [sic] in India'. .

Attributed to John Henry Campbell (1757 - 1829)  'Wicklow Mountains from the Phoenix Park,' sepia and watercolour, approx. 18cms x 26cms (7' x 10'), with contemporary manuscript note on mount, in gilt frame. (1)

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT 1882Manuscript petition presented by Harriet and George Grote 'To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled, The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Western Postal District of London. Sheweth that the law concerning the property of married women is unjust in principle', signed ('H: Grote' and Geo: Grote') at foot, one page, written in brown ink on vellum, small stain at head, slight dust-staining at edges, tall folio (380 x 202mm.) [c.1860-1870]Footnotes:EARLY PETITION FOR GENDER EQUALITY, presented by Harriet and George Grote in support of what would become the Married Women's Property Act of 1882. The first attempt at legislation, the similarly-named 1870 Act, allowed for married women to keep their wages and investments independent of their husbands, inherit small sums, and to hold property. But it was seen by many as a feeble compromise and the Married Women's Property Committee campaigned for further reform, eventually leading to the 1882 Act whereby women were allowed to own, buy and sell property, keep any income from the property or an occupation, and keep any inheritance. At the same time they would be liable for their own debts.Harriet Grote, host to the Philosophical Radicals and writer, was married to the co-signatory, the politician George Grote. Her wide social circle included John Stuart Mill, Helen Taylor, Barbara Bodichon, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind. She was one of the signatories of the 1866 Petition (see previous lot), and spoke at the first public meeting of the Millicent Fawcett's London National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1869.The date of the present petition is unclear. It demands 'that property, personal or otherwise, belonging to the woman at marriage, or which she might subsequently acquire... should be under her control...' and that 'the earnings of a married woman obtained by separate occupation or trade should legally belong to her...', and, as George was to die in June 1871, may predate the 1870 Act. Whilst Harriet remained active until her death in 1878, she did not live to see the reforms fully enacted.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

COOKERY & MEDICINEManuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book written in several hands, containing some 250 receipts, including 'For Minst Pyes', 'To make Cleave Cakes', 'For Griping in the Guts', 'Aunt C's raisen wine', 'How to make Aquamirabilis', 'A Plaister for a Sore-Throat', 'An Excellent Receipt for the Gravel or Stone from Dr Hebbin', 'To make the oyle of Swallowes' ('...Take twenty four Swallowes all a line...'), 'The Weapon Salve' ('...if the wound be done with the thrust of a weapon, anoint from the hilt or hand of the weapon towards the point, if it be made by a blow or cutt then from the back to the edge...'), 'Kings Evill' ('...tryed... especially by a gentlewoman upon a man desperately fare spent which the Doctors had given over to death...'), 'A Quakeing Pudding', 'A Cure for an Epidemical Distemper. Anno Domini 1741', 'A Receipt for a cake to be kept halfe a year', 'How to make Gumbles', some with names of contributors ('W. Briggs', 'Mrs Ward' 'Mrs Bertie', 'My Lady Jenkinson'), pen trials and figurative drawings on recto of last leaf with ownership inscription 'Grace Briggs her recete Book/ Eliz. Briggs rote this March 17456/ March 10 17456', including other names ('Joseph Briggs', 'Mary Howard'), c.122 numbered leaves (inconsistent), three leaves excised, dust-staining and marks, edges frayed with some small tears, one long tear to p.114, original calf gilt, worn with losses, holes for ties but lacking ties, 4to (207 x 150mm.), eighteenth centuryFootnotes:'IF THE WOUND BE DONE WITH THE THRUST OF A WEAPON, ANOINT FROM THE HILT': THE RECEIPT BOOK OF GRACE AND ELIZABETH BRIGGS.Amongst more unusual cures included here is one for the 'Weapon Salve', a remedy that healed a wound by treating the weapon that made it, hence the instruction here to 'anoint from the hilt'. Among the ingredients called for is a '...pint of knotted worms... the braines of a boar dried... the bloodstone called Hamatite all finly powdered... half an ounce or more of a dead mans scull...'. If the weapon is not to hand, it is suggested that a willow stick be thrust into the wound, advising '...if it be a great and dangerous wound then the weapon is to be anointed every day...'. It was a method first attributed to the Swiss physician Paracelsus in the sixteenth century and expanded upon by Sir Kenelm Digby who coined the phrase 'Powder of Sympathy' for the cure in the mid seventeenth century. Whether it was a natural or demonic process was widely discussed among physicians and clergy, who held that the cure was wrought by magic, a view compounded by William Foster in his Hoplocrisma Spongus, or a Sponge to Wipe away the Weapon-Salve of 1631. Our compiler assures the reader, however, that '...this salve have noe affinity with witchcraft or inchantment but worketh the effect or cure by Loadstone like virtue which it receives from the Starres and communicaties it by and through the agres, it cures all wounds of all Creatures haveing flesh and bones... although the party be many miles distant...'. 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

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, second or third edition, lower section of title-page restored with loss of imprint, modern calf-backed cloth, gilt lettered spine [ESTC T6723 or T140074], 8vo, [J. Johnson, 1792 or 1796]Footnotes:Second or third edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work on feminism, education and human rights. The loss of the lower section of the title-page makes it impossible to determine if this is the second edition of 1792, with the author's revised dedication to Talleyrand but the same pagination as the first edition, or the 1796 third edition, which was the same as the second but with the title-page amended.Provenance: Gilbert Coleridge, 1900, signature at head of title-page, and manuscript purchase note (also speculating on the edition) on the restored section below.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

TIGHE (MARY)Manuscript notebook titled 'Sonnets', on the first leaf, containing some 140 poems, written in ink in a fine closely written hand, including poems from 'Verses Transcribed for H.T.' and later works, beginning with 'Composed on the White Sands near Arklow', 'Written at Scarborough 1799', 'Written in Autumn 1795', 'Written in the Church yard at Malvern', 'Addressed to the Ladies of Llangollen Vale', 'Written for Angela 1802', 'The Vartree', 'A Faithfull Friend is the Medicine of Life', 'To the Memory of Margaret Tighe', 'Verses written in Solitude', her long ballads 'Cluen – An Elegy' and 'Bryan Byrne of Glenmalure' and ending with translations from Horace, Catullus and Petrarch, etc., with numerous amendments and additions, index, inscribed in pencil on flyleaf in another hand 'from The Library/ Rosanagh/ Co. Wicklow' with light pencil markings throughout, 396 numbered pages, one extra half leaf tipped in, bookplate of Henry Tighe, marbled endpapers, contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, rubbed, small nick in spine, upper cover soiled at corner, g.e., 16mo (118 x 94mm.), [n.p.], c.1806Footnotes:'OH THOU! WHOM NE'ER MY CONSTANT HEART/ ONE MOMENT HATH FORGOT/ THO' FATE SEVERE HAS BID US PART/ YET STILL FORGET ME NOT': A rediscovered notebook from the poet who inspired Keats.Irish poet Mary Tighe (1772-1810) '...was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. With remarkable vitality and virtuosity, her poetry engaged the central issues of the period, often in advance of writers now considered canonical, and commanded the attention and respect of her contemporaries....These poems demonstrate the technical virtuosity with which Tighe movingly wrote about the tensions between love and loss, duty and desire, the spiritual and the sensuous, loyalty and betrayal, nation and family, the Irish and the British, and much more, while struggling with debilitating illness...' (Paula R. Feldman & Brian C. Cooney, The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe, 2016, p.1). The majority of the poems in our volume are included in 'Verses Transcribed for H.T.', an illustrated manuscript in two volumes dedicated and presented to her husband (and cousin) Henry Tighe, now held in the National Library of Ireland as part of the Hamilton of Hamworth Papers (MS 49, 155/2). These volumes were copied out by the poet sometime between 1803 and June 1808 and incorporate fair copies of her poems written at Brompton, London, where she spent the winter of 1804 to the summer of 1805 with beautifully drawn calligraphic headings and pen and ink vignettes. This manuscript is seen, until now, as the most authoritative text for most of Tighe's shorter poems: 'She carefully chose their arrangement; for example, she grouped all of her sonnets together, and she did not use strict chronology. Some of her extant poems were absent, but these omissions may have been a result of her not having them immediately at hand... Poems composed very late in her life are also not included...' (Feldman & Cooney, p.17). It may be that she used our volume as a source for the 'Verses' and, rather than the poems being not available to her, she made the editorial decision to leave them out.Much of the content tallies with that of the 'Verses' but with notable differences in the order. The first thirty or so poems follow the same order as the 'Sonnets' section of Volume I but 'Written on the acquittal of Hardy' is included before 'Addressed to the Ladies of Llangollen Vale', thus causing a change to the numbering. In the final version of 'Verses' she moves the Hardy poem to Volume II. Whilst the 'Verses' include 113 poems, our manuscript has around 140, and includes additional material from what bibliographers Feldman and Cooney call her 'Late Poems & Fugitive Verse', such as 'Eclipse', 'In Memory of Margaret Tighe taken from us June 7th 1804' and 'Verses written in Solitude'. She ends our manuscript by showing off her extensive classical education encouraged by her mother Theodosia Tighe (Methodist leader, friend of John Wesley, and co-founder of the Dublin House of Refuge) with translations from Horace, Catullus and Petrarch. The Tighes were living in times of great upheaval in Ireland and much of her work is highly political – included here her long ballad 'Bryan Byrne' which was based on real people and events.Our manuscript appears to be a working document with many amendments and neat crossings out – a half leaf with three additional verses has been bound into the poem 'Bryan Byrne' for example. In several places the poet has made corrections to our manuscript which made their way into the finished NLI manuscript (in 'Adorea' she replaces 'soothed and enraptured' with 'soothed or enraptured' for example – and in 'Pleasure', her note on the Senegal River has been much amended). In addition, some poems are lacking the titles that would be included in the final version. There would thus seem to be new material here which would bear much further research.Tighe published only one work in her lifetime, Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, which was put out in a private edition of fifty copies for the benefit of family and friends in 1805. However, whilst having many admirers amongst her literary circle (including Thomas Moore, Joseph Cooper Walker and the Ladies of Llangollen) it was the posthumous publication of Psyche, with Other Poems, in 1811 and in several later editions, that made her name widely known and established her literary reputation. Whilst she became to be seen as '...an exemplar of patiently (and picturesquely) long-suffering femininity...' (Pam Perkins, ODNB), Tighe's work was an influence on several better-known writers such as John Keats, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and Felicia Hemans. After a hiatus in the twentieth century, her poems are once again enjoying recognition and it was only recently, in 2012, that her novel Selena was finally published for the first time. Tighe is now 'recognised as a great romantic-era woman poet of the sublime, who offered a complex, sophisticated, and aesthetically rich portrait of female sense and sensibility in her work' (Harriet Kramer Linkin, DIB). There is no volume matching the description of ours listed in the definitive Bibliography of Manuscript Sources in the latest Collected Poetry, so it could therefore be supposed that ours is a hitherto unknown, or at least rediscovered manuscript. The National Library of Ireland, Dublin holds the greater proportion of her extant manuscript works in the form of notebooks and fair copies of her poems, including 'Verses Transcribed for H.T.'. The family destroyed her journals after her death, but other manuscript material can be found in various commonplace books held elsewhere. Provenance: Henry Tighe (1771-1836) of Rosanna, Co. Wicklow (bookplate); thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AUSTEN (JANE)Autograph letter signed ('Yours affec.ey/ J. Austen') to 'My Dear Anna [Lefroy]', informing her niece that 'Your Grandmama is very much obliged to you for the turkey, but cannot help grieving that you should not keep it for yourselves. Such High-mindedness is almost more than she can bear. She will be very glad of better weather that she may see you again, & so we shall all', one page, written in brown ink on a bifolium watermarked [Ga]ter [18]15, small stain in top right corner, folded and addressed on reverse to 'Mrs B. Lefroy/ Wyards' (panel above cut away), contained in envelope inscribed 'Autograph of Jane Austen' and with blue Lefroy family crest incorporating motto 'Mutare sperno' stamped on flap, 24mo (111 x 94mm.) [Chawton], Thursday [December? 1816]Footnotes:'YOUR GRANDMAMA IS VERY MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU FOR THE TURKEY': A REDISCOVERED JANE AUSTEN LETTER WRITTEN AT THE TIME OF HER LAST CHRISTMAS.Anna Austen Lefroy (Jane Anna Elizabeth Austen, 1793-1872), the author's niece, was the daughter of Jane's brother James, and his first wife Anne Mathew. As a child she was very close to her aunt, and after her mother's death she stayed with Jane for two years at Steventon, before her father remarried. Anna married Benjamin Lefroy in 1814 and the following August the couple moved to Wyards, a farmhouse a mile from Chawton. Anna and Jane were frequent correspondents throughout the author's life and the letters they exchanged are often very revealing. Anna also became an important contributor to the Austen life story through the so-called Lefroy MS.Despite the support and encouragement of her aunt, Anna's own literary ambitions remained largely frustrated. But she did contribute to a continuation of an early Austen story called Evelyn, as well as the author's unfinished Sanditon, the manuscript of which she inherited. Although she never managed to complete the novel she was writing, the progress of which she shared with her aunt, Anna did publish two children's books, The Winter's Tale: To Which is Added Little Bertram's Dream (1841) and Springtide (1842). An anonymous story called Mary Hamilton, written by 'A Niece of the late Miss Austen' and published in a periodical in 1834, has also been attributed to her (see https://jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number19/sabor-james-cavan.pdf).'Grandmama', the grateful recipient of the turkey, is Jane's mother and Anna's grandmother, Cassandra Austen (1739-1827), who was living at Chawton with her daughters and was to survive Jane by some ten years despite her own ill health. The year before Jane had spent Christmas sending out presentation copies of Emma, but by the autumn of 1816 she was visibly unwell with what is now thought to have been Addison's Disease. Although she made little of her illness to her friends, and sacrificed her own needs for comfort to those of her mother, she did talk to her sister Cassandra of her backaches, nausea and tiredness. Few letters from that period are known (or were perhaps written), but on December 16, her birthday, she wrote at length to her brother Edward, barely mentioning her own situation. Apart from the present letter, only a New Year note survives from that Christmas of 1816, which was to be Jane's last. In January 1817 she recovered sufficiently to start work on Sanditon, but by the end of March she had stopped writing, was moved to Winchester in May, and on 18 July she died.Our letter is on paper watermarked [Ga]ter [18]15, from the Hampshire firm of John and William Gater, Up Mills, West End, South Stoneham. The Morgan Library has several Jane Austen letters on Gater's paper, one to Cassandra from the same period, 8 January 1817, the remainder from 1808-1809. This, along with the fact that Anna Lefroy moved to Wyards in 1815 and that Jane was in London rather than Chawton that December, helps to confirm that our letter was written the following Christmas.The text of the letter was first published by R.W. Chapman in Jane Austen's Letters to her Cassandra and Others, OUP, 1932 & 1952 (no. 185), and was taken from a copy in the possession of Miss Mary Isabella Lefroy, Anna's grand-daughter, who donated the manuscript of Sanditon to King's College, Cambridge. Chapman describes the version he saw thus: 'Copy by Anna Lefroy (on paper with watermark dated 1854), who adds: 'This note was written the winter of 1816 & the original is in the possession of W. Chambers Lefroy the Grandson of the Receiver''.Dierdre Le Faye (Jane Austen's Letters, OUP, 2011, no. 147(C) and note on p.461) still found the 'original MS untraced', and records the copy and the comment as being by Anna's daughter Fanny-Caroline Lefroy, made in her mother's volume of family history notes, the Lefroy MS. It was also transcribed in Fanny-Caroline Lefroy's own family history manuscript. The original autograph letter offered here was rediscovered last year in a box containing papers of a descendant of the Lefroy family.Provenance: Anna Lefroy; and thence by decent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Prometheus Bound. Translated from the Greek of Aeschylus. And Miscellaneous Poems by the Translator, FIRST EDITION, half-title with short tear, contemporary manuscript note tipped-in to front paste-down, publisher's dark blue patterned cloth, slightly marked, spine slightly faded and paper label browned [Barnes A3], 12mo, A. J. Valpy, 1833Footnotes:Browning's third book, especially scarce in the original cloth.Provenance: James Stevens Cox.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

GREENAWAY (KATE)'This was their favourite amusement', autograph manuscript illustrated with original watercolour, initialled 'KG' at end', pencil and watercolour drawing with pencil text below, lightly toned, sheet 220 x 210mm., [c.1885]Footnotes:A charming self-contained story produced for Violet Severn, the daughter of Ruskin's cousin - believed to be unpublished. The image echoes the illustrations for the two poems 'On the Wall Top' in Greenaway's Marigold Garden (1885). The present story begins, 'This was their favourite amusement - to run backwards and forwards along the wall top', and closes with a list of the children's names: 'the last one was called - Violet like yourself'.Provenance: Violet Severn (1880-1940); Hext family of Holywath, Coniston; Hext sale, Tennant's, 8 May 2010, lot 101.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREENAWAY - EPHEMERAA large quantity of ephemera, including:Manuscript material: autograph letter signed to Lady Maria Ponsonby, thanking her for having her in Bournemouth and regretting her return to the 'squalid sheets', 'dirt and dinginess' of Hampstead, 19 October 1893; forgery of an autograph letter to 'my very dear Dolly', with 3 ink sketches of scenes of the seaside, 6 September 1895; SEVERN (JOAN RUSKIN, cousin of John Ruskin and friend of Greenaway) 2 inscribed photographs, 1909 and 1911Proofs: colour printed proofs of 3 of the 4 plates in 'Kate Greenaway's Carols' [Schuster & Engen 329], plus 2 duplicate proofs, bound together in patterned fabric-covered boards, together with a full set of the 4 final printed cards; various unbound sheets from Marigold Garden and Under the Window in different formats, possibly proofs; frontispiece to the Girl's Own Annual for 1886 in several proof states; uncoloured and coloured proof sheets of 'Goodall No. 501' or '502' greetings cards, with Schuster's notes on a mistake in the bibliography [266 or 267]Greetings cards: upwards of 100 greetings cards, the following in complete sets: 'Wedgwood'-style [271], many copies; 'Figures in Snow Scenes' [257]; 'Goodall No. 503' [269]; 'Page Boy Set' [280]; 'Children on Flowers' [246]; 'Reward of Merit Cards' [293]; 'Story of Little Red Riding Hood's Christmas' [292]; 'Robin Hood and the Blackbird' [294]; 'Going to the Party' [264]Doilies: 17 lace doilies with pen and ink Greenaway-style designsObjects: folding fan with printed design of children playing badminton; small wooden hinged-lid box with child-like farmers on the lid; 'Kate Greenaway's Alphabet on Wooden Blocks', toy published by Frederick Warne in original boxAnd myriad other items such as news-clippings, advertisements, 4 framed prints, several drawings erroneously attributed to Greenaway, 9 copies of the bibliography Printed Kate Greenaway, etc. (quantity)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MUSIC - YORKSHIRE FESTIVAL 1823-1825A bound volume of printed programmes (approx. 13), tickets (3, one issued J.L. Raper, Chairman of the Festival Committee), Festival Regulations for 1823 and other printed ephemera, engraved and lithographed prints, etc., early half calf over marbled boards, rebacked preserving some of the original spine and gilt lettered spine labels ('Yorkshire Musical Festival' and '1823-25'), worn, 4to, [1823-1825]Footnotes:A bound volume of rare daily programmes (listing all the soloists, musicians etc.), tickets, printed ephemera, and views of the Yorkshire Grand Music Festivals of 1823 and 1825. IncludesProgrammes: Yorkshire Grand Musical Festival, 1823. First Day, 4pp. [25 Sept. 1823]; 'Scheme of the Evening's Performances, broadside, 23 September 1823, both printed by W. Storey, York; Yorkshire... Festival 1823, for the Benefit of the York County Hospital, and of the General Infirmaries of Leeds, Sheffield, and Hull. Grand Selection of Music to Be Performed... Tuesday, September 23, [1823];... Miscellaneous Selection, for the First Grand Concert... with errata slip, [1823];... The Messiah, a Sacred Oratorio, Composed by Handel, and to Be Performed in York Minster, on Wednesday, September 24, [1823]; ... Miscellaneous Selection, for the Second Grand Concert... On Thursday, September 23 [1823]; Grand Selection of Sacred Music.. in York Minster, on Thursday, September 25, [1823]; idem... on Friday, September 24, [1823], various York printers; The Second Yorkshire Musical Festival, Held on the 13th... and 16th of September, 1825, in York Minster, 7 programmes, York, Printed by W. Blanchard [-W. Storry]-[J. Wolstenholme], [1825].Festival tickets include: 'Single Ticket. Tuesday. Aisle' for J.L. Raper, [1823]; 'Creation. Thursday 15. September 1825', and 'Fancy Dress Ball. Friday. September 16th 1825'.Printed ephemera: 'Yorkshire Musical Festival, 1813. Regulations', broadside, York, J. Wolstenholme, [1823]; 'The Messiah; A Sacred Oratorio: As Performed in the Cathedral of York, Wednesday, August 17, 1791. Set to Music by Mr. Handel', title only (with 'List of Patrons' on verso, annotated in pencil), York, Wilson, Spence and Mawman, 1791; newspaper cuttings and reviews.Illustrations: Madame Catalani, hand-coloured engraving after Buck, cut down 1807, with accompanying manuscript note on her performing history, which included the 1823 Yorkshire Festival; Two hand-coloured lithographed views of the interior of York Minster as it appeared for the musical festival of 1823, both by T.M. Baynes after J. Brown of York, one dedicated to J.L. Raper (see provenance note), and one to Jonathan Gray, sheet size 305 x 330mm., folded, John Wolstenholme, 24 September 1823[-1824]; 5 earlier folded engraved views of Cathedral interiors arranged for performances by Handel.Provenance: ?John Lamplugh Raper, Chairman of the Committee of Management for the Yorkshire Musical Festivals, his name on the ticket ('Tuesday. Aisle') pasted on the front free endpaper, and a lithographed view the interior of York Minster dedicated to him in his role as Chairman bound in; Sold on behalf of Oxfam.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

FLEMING (IAN)From Russia With Love, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SECRETARY, 'To Una who will at last get to the end! from Ian Fleming' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, upper cover stamped with gun and rose design in silver and metallic red, dust-jacket (spine soiled with small losses at ends, joints worn) [Gilbert Aa (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1957]Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS REAL LIFE 'MISS MONEYPENNY', Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No.Una started work, in 1948, at the Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times, where she was soon appointed as secretary to Ian Fleming, for whom she continued to work throughout the 1950s. She recalled that Fleming 'always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself'. He would write the Bond novels during his annual stays at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, thereafter sending the manuscript to Una for typing up. In 1958 she was shown with Fleming in a photograph taken for the Daily Express. The character in Dr. No named after Una is Mary Trueblood, secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service's Caribbean station, a position echoing that of Una to Fleming. Mary however met a gruesome end, stabbed to death. Recalling a visit to Una made in 2008 the writer Adam Thorpe noted that 'The fictional Mary Trueblood has many features in common with her real-life namesake; she's described in Dr No (1958) as 'elegant' (three times), 'pretty' and a 'good-looker'' (TLS, April 2008).Provenance: Una Trueblood (1930-2020). Fleming's continued admiration for Una is reflected in a letter (retained by the family) written to her, on 23 December 1963, from Fleming's current secretary in which she states 'I know that he [Fleming] would like to see you. Even now on occasions I hear 'Una would not have made that mistake!...'; by family descent to current vendor.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

FLEMING (IAN)Goldfinger, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Una, who again wrote the whole thing! from Ian Fleming' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, upper cover stamped design of a skull in gold and blind, dust-jacket (spine soiled with small losses to head and foot) [Gilbert A7a], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1959]Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS REAL LIFE 'MISS MONEYPENNY' 'WHO WROTE THE WHOLE THING!', Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No.Una started work, in 1948, at Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times where she was soon appointed as secretary to Ian Fleming, for whom he worked throughout the 1950s. She recalled that Fleming 'always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself'. He would write the Bond novels during his annual stays at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, thereafter sending the manuscript to Una for typing up. This important role is recognised in Fleming's warm inscription in this copy. The character in Dr. No named after Una is Mary Trueblood, secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service's Caribbean station, a position echoing that of Una to Fleming. Mary however met a gruesome end, stabbed to death. Recalling a visit to Una made in 2008 the writer Adam Thorpe noted that 'The fictional Mary Trueblood has many features in common with her real-life namesake; she's described in Dr No (1958) as 'elegant' (three times), 'pretty' and a 'good-looker' (TLS, April 2008).Provenance: Una Trueblood (1930-2020). Fleming's continued admiration for Una is reflected in a letter (retained by the family) written to her, on 23 December 1963, from Fleming's current secretary in which she states 'I know that he [Fleming] would like to see you. Even now on occasions I hear 'Una would not have made that mistake!...'; by family descent to current vendor.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

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSSWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Lucretia Borgia: The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei... Engravings by Reynolds Stone, NUMBER 8 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with the additional collotype facsimile leaves of Swinburne manuscript, wood-engraved illustrations, original pigskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt design on upper cover, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1942; Hymn to Proserpine, number 340 of 350 copies, illustrated by John Buckland-Wright, publisher's cloth, 8vo, 1944--LUCAS (F.L., editor & translator) The Golden Cockerel Greek Anthology, number 34 of 74 copies on handmade paper with 20 illustrations by Lettice Sandford, original half pigskin by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1937, Golden Cockerel Press (3)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

NAPOLEON BONAPARTEDocument signed ('Bonaparte'), being an order authorizing the payment of 240 francs to be sent by courier; engraved Republique Française heading and text, with manuscript insertions, one page, dust-staining and spotting, edges frayed, folio (320 x 205mm.), Camp d'acre, 'le 16 floreál an 7' [5 May 1799]Footnotes:An order signed towards the end of Napoleon's unsuccessful siege of the Ottoman city of Acre (March to May 1799). The siege was viewed as the turning point of French fortunes in Egypt and Syria and was the third tactical defeat of his career. After a final abortive assault on the city on 10 May, he withdrew to Egypt eleven days later. The hill on which Napoleon set his camp, south-east of the city walls, is still known as Napoleon's Hill.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WORLD WAR II - OPERATION NEPTUNE - D-DAY LANDINGSTop Secret... Operation Neptune - Force 'S' Orders, 9 parts (of 11), each part numbered 'Copy 397', 8 maps (5 folding), one large folding map ('Area Sword. Showing Area Juno') printed on greased paper, diagrams and illustrations in the text, MANUSCRIPT AMENDMENTS THROUGHOUT in blue ink, each section in parts wrappers (printed on upper cover) with split pins fasteners, together as issued in cloth-backed portfolio, original printed 'Top Secret' printed label on upper cover (short tear to blank area), printed 'Certificate of Insertion of Amendments' (with manuscript entry dated 5 June 1944 signed by a sub-lieutenant of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve), ties (one shortened), small folio (345 x 215mm.), 21 May 1944Footnotes:'TOP SECRET' - D-DAY LANDING OPERATION NEPTUNE FORCE 'S' ORDERS ISSUED ON 21 MAY, WITH MANUSCRIPT AMENDMENTS ADDED ON 5 JUNE 1944, THE DAY BEFORE THE NORMANDY LANDINGS.Sections comprise: 'State of Contents. Distribution List', 'Minesweeping and Danlaying' [sic], 'The Passage', 'The Assault', 'Orders for Close Support', 'Conduct of Ships and Craft After the Assault', 'The Build-Up', 'Swept Channels and Routing', 'National Data'. This set does not include the sections on 'Loading and Assembly' and 'Bombardment Orders'.Provenance: Lt. Ian Nagle Douglas Cox, DSC, RN. (1915-1990). At the time of the D-Day Landings Cox was Commanding Officer of the HMS Middleton. The destroyer was nominated for service in Force S of Eastern Task Force. On the night of June 5-6, 1944, HMS Middleton escorted the convoys across the English Channel to Sword Beach and participated, on D-Day, in support of the landing troops. The position of landing for HMS Middleton is identified on one of the maps in the 'Passage' section. Following the Normandy landings, it patrolled in the Bay of Seine in search of possible German submarines and speed boats; by family descent to current vendor.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

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912TADA (KEIICHI) Nankyoku Tanken Nikki, text in Japanese, one photographic plate only, 15 pages of advertisements at end, publisher's stiff wrappers printed in red, black and brown with illustration the expedition ship ('Kainan Maru') on the upper cover, worn, spine soiled with small losses at extremities [cf. Ross 1.3.1, calling for 19 pages of advertisements], 8vo, Tokyo, Maekdawa Bunoeikaku, 1912; and a punch-hole bound collection of 12 images relating to the Antarctic Expedition, 8 photographic, 4 after watercolours by Tada, one of which coloured, on 8 sheets, bound in red-printed note paper captioned in ink, in Japanese, 'Antarctic Expedition Diary' 8vo, c.1912 (2)Footnotes:This copy of Keiichi Tada's rare second book devoted to the Japanese Antarctic Expedition is bound without the title-page, dedication leaf and all but one of the plates, but includes more advertisements than Ross calls for. Sold with it is a suite of plates, intended for the book but separately bound with manuscript identifying them as relating to Tada's 'Diary'.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

[MERIAN (MATTHIAS)][LUDWIG I, PRINCE OF ANHALT-KOTHEN] Der fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft nahmen, vorhaben Gemälde und Wörter, 4 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved titles, 400 engraved plates by Merian, 2ff. of letterpress, additional 36-pages of manuscript index at end of sections, a few leaves working loose, early vellum, soiled [Nissen BBI 1343; Landwehr (German) 402; Praz, p.142], 4to, Frankfurt, Matthias Merian, 1646Footnotes:'A FINE 17TH CENTURY HERBAL AND... CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVED BOOKS OF THE 17TH CENTURY' (Praz). The first edition of the only florilegium with plates by Matthias Merian. Each plate depicts a flower, fruit or tree against a different landscape background, mostly views of German towns or gardens.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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, general and NT titles within wide historiated woodcut borders, mostly black letter, bound with the genealogies (one leaf with loss) and an incomplete 'Whole Booke of Psalmes' (1626), full-page manuscript notes on blank versos of both titles and final leaf of text, shaved touching a few catchwords, some soiling and spotting, nineteenth century blind- and gilt-stamped calf, g.e., rubbed [ESTC S102055], small 4to (208 x 140mm.), Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625Footnotes:Provenance: Henry, Thomas, and Anne Fearon, seventeenth and early eighteeenth century family ownership inscriptions on various pages; P.M. Laws, old display label ('Family Bible... Loaned by...') loosely inserted, and family names on front free endpaper.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

BROADSIDE DOCUMENT - TREASURYAfter our hearty commendations; whereas by the Act of Parliament..., for granting a supply to His Majesty of 206462 l.17s. 3d. for paying off, and disbanding the forces raised since the 29th of September 1677, we are authorized to issue the money.., printed broadside with manuscript insertions, authorising payment to Sir Thomas Player and Robert Whitley, signed by Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, Sir Edward Dering, Sir John Ernle, Sidney, Earl of Goldolphin, and Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, mounted, framed and glazed [ESTC R231746], folio (image to view 340 x 215mm.), 'Whitehall Treasury Chambers the XXVIth day of June, 1679'Footnotes:A document authorising the payment by the Treasury of moneys to Sir Thomas Player following the 'Act of Disbanding the Forces', boldly signed by Essex, Godolphin, Dering, Ernle, and Hyde.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

FITZHERBERT FAMILYArchive of letters, documents and other papers pertaining to the FitzHerbert family of Tissington Hall, Derbyshire, including: i) Letter signed and subscribed ('Monsieur Mon Frere/ Votre bon Frere/ George R') to Louis XVI of France ('Le Roi Très Chretien'), in French, confirming Alleyne FitzHerbert as his Minister Plenipotentiary and asking him to trust everything he reports, assuring him of his esteem and enduring friendship, one pages on a bifolium, two red wax seals, marks, torn along fold, 4to (240 x 190mm.), St. James, 27 July 1782; ii) Notebook titled 'Judith FitzHerbert. Afghan War of 1878, 1879', containing transcriptions of letters home from Major Walter Hepburn Melitas FitzHerbert (1842-1930) of the Rifle Brigade during the second Anglo-Afghan war, describing his experiences on the hard march through the Khyber Pass in November 1878, talking of a different style of fighting in Afghanistan ('...Instead of acting like the Romans in a barbarous hill country, or like Cromwell in the Highlands we behave too much as if we were fighting against a civilized enemy... We should have no trouble in quieting the hill tribes if we went about it the right way...'), with copies of newspaper reports, list of officers killed, etc., 40 pages, marbled paper cover, 4to, 1878-1879;iii) Autograph letters and ephemera, including a manuscript design for a chair for Lady FitzHerbert ('These are the exact sizes of the seat & back frames'); map showing the track of various ships to Canada, 1835; seventeen leaves from an eighteenth-century scrapbook with various newspaper cuttings, engravings, receipts etc, pasted in; historical notes, receipt book of Robert Dove, 1857, other receipts, 'Prices of Turkey Carpets at the Levant Warehouse... 1839', 'List of Treasures at Tissington Hall, 1896', knitting instructions for a baby's sock and other items, printed playbill advertising The Wife's Secret (with Charles Kean, 1848), printed sermons, advertisements etc., three cabinet photographs and three carte de visite, various envelopes, etc.; with over 25 autograph letters and postcards to and from the FitzHerberts at Tissington Hall and elsewhere from around the world, the majority concerned with family matters, c.80 pages, various sizes, early to mid nineteenth century; four commissions addressed to Richard Henry FitzHerbert, one signed 'William R', three signed 'Victoria R', on vellum, the last paper, with paper seals and duty stamps, c.290 x 390mm. and smaller, 1833, 1839, 1848, 1856; with three passports (R.H. FitzHerbert, 1836, with European stamps, Richard Henry FitzHerbert and daughter, 1870, Richard Arkwright FitzHerbert, 1907, with stamps for Peking and Russia);iv) Printed playscript, The Man of the World, A Comedy by Mr Charles Macklin, with manuscript list of subscribers dated 20 February 1794 bound into front ('...Mr Fitzherbert this Book to be kept 4 Days...'), original paper wrappers, 8vo, printed by John Bell, London, 1793; Manuscript notebook containing standing orders for parliament, 186 numbered pages, in ink with red rules, inscribed 'St Helens 1803' on first leaf, marbled ends, red calf gilt with cipher of George III on front board, titled 'Standing Orders' on spine, slight wear, 4to, c.1803; Goldsmith's Almanac for 1813 with manuscript notes mentioning Bonaparte and Wellington's victories, dark blue calf, 12mo; Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae. Or the Works of that Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charls the I, manuscript annotations to first leaf, ownership inscription 'W FitzHerbert. This book was thus bound & mounted by Annie FitzHerbert His late dear Wife. Tissington Hall. Feb 12 1865', blue velvet with metal edges and clasp, portrait of Charles I on front board, printed by Samuel Browne, Hague, 1650, etc.Footnotes:The FitzHerbert family owned property at Tissington and throughout Derbyshire, with estates in Kent, Nottinghamshire, Surrey and Lincolnshire. Tissington Hall remains in the family to this day. The Baronetcy was conferred on Sir William FitzHerbert (1748-1791) in 1784 by George III for his role as 'Gentleman Usher to the King' and through his marriage to Sarah Perrin inherited five plantations in Jamaica. His younger brother Alleyne FitzHerbert (1753-1839) had a long and successful career as a diplomat, firstly as minister at Brussels and in 1782, as our letter of appointment from George III shows, was despatched to Paris as plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace with France and Spain and with the States General of the United Provinces at the end of the American War of Independence. He continued his career at the court of Catherine the Great at St Petersburg and as Chief Secretary for Ireland. Much of the archive dates from the nineteenth century and includes first-hand accounts of the Afghan War and much family material.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HALL (JOSEPH)The Works, title within wide woodcut architectural border, lacks portrait and blank 3H5, endpapers creased, contemporary calf, sides with single gilt rule border enclosing central gilt and blind-stamped arabesque, old manuscript vellum used as binder's waste, worn, losses to spine, Melton Literary Institution label on upper cover [ESTC S92832], folio, Nath. Butter, 1635; Episcopacie by Divine Right Asserted, with opening blank, contemporary calf, red edges to text block, 2 old worm trails to spine [ESTC S103631], small 4to, R.B. for Nathanael Butter, 1640--CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike [in Greek] The Works, second edition, additional engraved title incorporating a portrait, and Royal arms, lacking the 2 plates and lower free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked [ESTC R6734], folio, Richard Chiswell, 1687--LAUD (WILLIAM) The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait on verso of half-title (slightly shorter, repaired in blank horizontal margins) [ESTC R354], R. Chiswell, 1695; Second Volume of the Remains, [ESTC R200966], Sam. Keble, 1700, 2 works bound in 1 vol., later polished calf, gilt spine with morocco label, joints weakened, folio; and another, by Joseph Hall (5)Footnotes:Provenance: First, Revd. William Woodcote, bequeathed to his cousin Cheevor Woodcote and friend William Latham, by whom given to the 'Melton Institutional Library... he died in the West Indies Oct. 8th 1857', manuscript note inside the upper cover; Third, Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, bookplate; Third, Nicolas Docton, ownership inscription dated 1708 on second volume of Laud; J. Brown Craven, Bibliotheca Lavdiana, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HERALDRYGroup of 5 manuscript volumes with numerous hand-painted armorials, comprising: 'The Armes Crestes (Names & Highest Titles of Honour) of all the present Nobility of Engla[nd] Truly Blazoned according to their respective Precedencies 1688', 159pp. (numbered 1-159, including some blank or partially filled leaves), 18pp. 'Table of the Armes' at end, 92 x 64mm.; '... Scotland... 1688', 88pp. of armorials (a few partially filled or blank), 88 x 53mm.; '... Ireland... 1688', 65pp. of armorials (a few unfilled, plus blanks), 87 x 53mm., together 3 vol., uniformly bound in contemporary sheep, rubbed, lacking ties, the second worn at head of spine, 1688; [untitled volume], 53pp. of armorials, some heightened in gold or silver, some headings cropped, pagination on first few leaves painted over, contemporary sheep with silver clasps, upper cover and spine defective, 88 x 55mm., [late seventeenth century]; 'Table of the Baronets of this Kingdom From the first creation of that Dignity until the death of K. Charles IId.' [title of Table at end], c.300 pages of armorials, (numbered 7-306 including many blank or partially filled pages), 36pp. index at end, nineteenth century calf, rubbed, 114 x 70mm., [late seventeenth century], manuscript titles where given, hand-painted armorials throughout (5)Footnotes:A charming group of heraldic manuscript volumes, the first four dated the year of the Glorious Revolution and seemingly in the same hand. The fourth of these opens in the style of the first and has some heightening in silver and gold.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

NEWTON (ISAAC)Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. The Third Edition, Corrected, JOHN DAVIES' COPY, ANNOTATED AND WITH ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT MEMOIR BOUND IN, 12 folding engraved plates (one slightly shaved touching neatline, 2 with minor archival repair to fore-edge), 13 full-page manuscript notes before title, approximately 20 side-notes or minor annotations, modern blindstamped calf antique, red gilt morocco spine label [Babson 135], 8vo, William and John Innys, 1721Footnotes:The enlarged third, and last lifetime, edition of Newton's Opticks, which 'did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely, placed it on a scientific basis' (Babson, quoting Prof. E.W. Brown of Yale University), inscribed, annotated, and with inserted manuscript material by John Davies (1679-1732). Educated at the Charterhouse School, and then Queens' College, Cambridge, for which he was made President in 1717, and vice-chancellor in 1726. It seems probable that Davies would have crossed paths with Newton, as 'the world of scientific learning... did not forget that a man of superlative quality lived and worked in Cambridge' (ODNB) as his reputation grew.Davies was a close friend of the classical scholar Richard Bentley, and an editor of the works of Cicero, Caesar, Lactantius, Minucius Felix, and Maximus of Tyre. He has signed and dated this volume ('I. Davies / 1725') in a practised print hand, and mingled that hand with a fine neat italic elsewhere (for comparison, see British Library MS Stowe 750, fol. 252), in particular for the biographical material. His annotations in Opticks show a close reading of the text, referencing in his side-notes to works by John Locke (Concerning Human Understanding), George Cheyne (An Essay on Health, 1724), John Ray, and the Dutch mathematician Willem Jacob 's Gravesande. Beneath his signature, Davies writes a preliminary comment concerning Newton's notes on colours, sunlight and refractions (citing his chapter on 'Homogeneal light', pp.106-108). Evidence of Davies' reading beyond the text is indicated with long quotation from Swift's Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue (1712), and a couplet from Roscommon's translation of Horace ('Such secrets are not easily found out; But, once discovered, leaves no room for doubt'), and, more obviously related to Newton, on the rear pastedown a two-line 'Epitaph' on Newton copied from a periodical of 1731, and two printed memorial clippings.Of particular interest is Davies's twelve-page manuscript memoir of Newton bound in at the front. This is based very closely on two printed sources, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's Éloge de Newton (in its English translation of 1728), and the biographical preface to Henry Pemberton's View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy (1728). But Davies revises, corrects, rearranges, and selects from the former, eliminating almost everything regarding the Principia, and adds additional information (e.g., the dates of Newton's Cambridge degrees, the name of Newton's mother – not 'Anne' Ayscough but 'Hannah'). Davies also includes a reference, seemingly absent from both Fontenelle and Pemberton's accounts, to the fact that 'Sr. Isaac in one of his private letters, was of Opinion that the Frame of Nature may be nothing but various Contexture of aetherial Spirits or Vapours condens'd as it were by precipitation...'. This famous speculation is actually not found in a 'private letter', but in Newton's Hypothesis Explaining the Properties of Light discoursed of in my several Papers, as sent to Royal Society, in January 1675/6, and first printed by the Society in December 1675, an indication that Davies was engaging with Newton's writings beyond the more commonly available sources.For a recently-discovered manuscript of another Cambridge man close to Newton, see the notebook of his amanuensis John Wickins sold in these rooms on 31 March 2021.Provenance: John Davies (1679-1732), ownership inscription (dated 1725), notes and annotations; Robert Aytoun, ownership inscription (dated 1820) at inner margin of title-page.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

WHITE (GILBERT), SELBORNE AND THE HOLT-WHITE FAMILYAn archive of books, watercolour and scrap albums, photographs, portrait miniatures, silver and other ephemera relating to the White, and Holt-White families, including: HOLT-WHITE (RASHLEIGH) The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne, 2 vol., AUTHOR'S COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.55 additional plates (of which approx. 20 photographic, including images of the Selborne Great Oak, the house, etc.), several autograph letters by later family members, and manuscript receipts of eighteenth century, green half morocco gilt, by F.T. Neale of Hastings, John Murray, 1901Silver tray, with the arms of Rebecca White (nee Luckin, 1664-1755) who married the vicar of Selborne in 1687, together the grandparents of Gilbert White (1720-1793), diameter 256mm., hallmarked John Robinson, 1746Album, with artwork attributable to Mary (b.1809), Caroline (b.1811) and Anna Holt-White (b.1813) and other family members, approx. 42 pencil drawings, 18 watercolours (botanical, costume, portraits), of which many signed with initials, 1 gouache of Switzerland, 4 watercolours on rice paper, mostly mounted one per page, contemporary morocco, covers detached, 4to, [c.1832-1840]Album, belonging to Louisa Rose White (1804-1870), approx. 155 mounted engraved or lithographed views of British scenes (including one of White's residence at Selborne), loosely inserted a lithographed plan with view of the Selborne Estate issued for the auction held by George Robins on 28 July 1840, contemporary half morocco, rebacked, folio, [c.1840]Album, associated with Algernon Holt-White (1807-1880), with newspaper cuttings, printed ephemera (electioneering, schools projects, etc), architectural drawings (including 'Plan of the Intended Lodge at... Clements Hall, the Residence of A.W. Holt' signed by G.B. Crowes, Surveyor, 1842), all loose, original calf, worn, folio, [1840/50s]A collection of approximately nine portrait miniatures, mostly of members of the Holt-White family, mostly mounted, framed and glazed, various sizes, [late nineteenth-early twentieth century]Miscellaneous others, including 2 twentieth century albums of watercolours, an album of nineteenth century cuttings with a signed document by Leon Gambetta, approximately 40 albumen and silver gelatin photographs, etc. (collection)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Second World War Pathfinder’s D.F.M. group of eight awarded to Master Engineer A. J. White, Royal Air Force, who completed over 50 operational sorties in Halifaxes and Lancasters of No. 35 and No. 635 Squadrons, often as a member of the Master Bomber’s crew, before notching up many hours in the Berlin Airlift and seeing further active service in Cyprus and Borneo Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1403524 F./Sgt. A. J. White, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (M. Eng. A. J. White (1403524) R.A.F.); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (M. Eng. A. J. White (1403524) R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (M. Eng. A. J. White (1403524) R.A.F.), together with metalled Path Finder Force Badges (2), and Warrant Officer’s Crown rank insignia, one or two edge bruises, otherwise generally very fine or better (11) £4,000-£5,000 --- D.F.M. London Gazette 27 March 1945. The original Recommendation states: ‘This N.C.O. has participated in many attacks against heavily defended enemy objectives, including Berlin. His cheerfulness, courage and confidence, coupled with his sound knowledge of his own particular role, have been most inspiring.’ Alan John White commenced his training as a Flight Engineer in summer of 1943 and, having converted to Halifaxes, joined No. 35 (Path Finder Force) Squadron at Graveley, Huntingdonshire, at the year’s end. Having then participated in strikes against Berlin and Schweinfurt, he joined the crew of Squadron Leader E. K. Creswell, D.F.C., in March 1944, when the unit was re-equipped with Lancasters and, over the coming six months acted as the latter’s Flight Engineer in a flurry of operations, often as Deputy or Master Bomber - Creswell would add a D.S.O. and Bar to his accolades in the same period. Completing their first sortie together on 18 March, when they were compelled to return early from Frankfurt owing to a fire in the port outer engine, they acted as Primary Visual Marker in a return trip to the same city a few nights later, and in a similar capacity in strikes against Berlin and Nuremberg before the month’s end, the latter trip resulting in an emergency landing at Ford owing to ‘petrol shortage and enemy action’. In the last week of April, Creswell’s crew flew no less than five sorties, one of them as Primary Visual Marker to Karlsruhe, another as Deputy Master Bomber to Laon, and the others as Master Bomber to Villenouve, Friedrichshaven and Acheres - thereafter, with one exception, it was always as Master Bomber until White’s transfer to No. 635 Squadron in August. Thus four such sorties against French targets in May, including Boulogne, and three more in June, including Rennes. Indeed targets in support of the Normandy landings were very much on the agenda throughout this period, including two daylight strikes in the Caen battle area on 7 July and a night operation against Tours on the 12th, from which White’s Lancaster returned on three engines; for further details see Creswell’s manuscript in the archive collection of the Imperial War Museum (Catalogue No. 8286), in which he describes his time in No. 35 Squadron in the period March-July 1944. This latter operation having marked the end of Creswell’s tour of operations, White flew two more sorties to France with different pilots before being posted to newly formed No. 635 Squadron, another Lancaster and Path Finder Force unit, at Downham Market, Norfolk. Here, having flown sorties against Le Havre, Gelsenkirchen and Kiel, he joined the crew of Wing Commander H. J. F. Le Good, A.F.C., in mid-September - another distinguished Path Finder Force C.O. who would add the D.S.O. and D.F.C. to his accolades before the War’s end. Opening their account with a strike against Calais as ‘Supporter’ on 20 September, White and his crew went on to share in the trial and tribulations of at least 25 sorties before the year’s end, several of them of a daytime nature and latterly in the role of ‘Visual Backer Up’, including strikes against Cologne and Duisburg on three occasions, and Gelsenkirchen and Sterkrade on two occasions. White was recommended for his D.F.M. on 20 December 1944, by which date he had flown 49 sorties, but he added further operations against Cologne, St. Vith, Troisdorf, Hanau and Gelsenkirchen to his tally before being grounded and ‘rested’ in January 1945. Post-war, White attended a conversion unit at Dishforth in September 1948, prior to attending a Long Range Course and being posted to No. 59 Squadron in January 1949, and between then and September he completed numerous trips as Flight Engineer in the unit’s Yorks during the Berlin Airlift. And he witnessed further active service in Shackletons of No. 37 Squadron in Cyprus in the mid-1950s and in Argosy aircraft of No. 215 Squadron in Borneo in the early 1960s, prior to his retirement in May 1966. Sold with a complete run of the recipient’s original R.A.F. Flying Log Books, comprising Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s, Form 1767 types (3), with entries covering the periods October 1943 to July 1950, August 1950 to March 1957, and April 1957 to September 1962, together with Aircrew Flying Log Books, Form 1767 Types, covering the periods September 1962 to September 1965 and October 1965 to May 1966, a letter confirming his qualification for the Path Finder Force Badge, dated 6 July 1944 and one or two career photographs.

Power & Patronage in Georgian England - a George III ink manuscript contract of clerical appointment, signed and sealed by William Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst (later the 1st Earl, a Colonial administrator in China and India; 1773-1857), naming the Reverend Edward Chaplin (?1771-1858) his "domestic Chaplain that he may by virtue hereof have hold possess and enjoy all he privileges, benefits, immunities and advantages which may or do of right belong to the Chaplains of the Peers of this Realm by the laws and statutes thereof [...]", dated 9th March, 1798, witnessed by Calv. Clapham, and registered at the Office of Faculties by George Moore, Reg:r, retaining the full armorial wax seal impression of Amehurst, 31cm x 19.5cm, framedBoth Amehurst and Chaplin are recorded as having been at Westminster; so presumably they were school fellows before Chaplin enjoyed the second baron's patronage on succeeding his father in 1797.

Five mixed pens Waterman A ladies Ideal fountain pen the barrel and cap in rose lacquer, the nib marked Waterman Canada, A waterman roller ball pen with gold clip to cap, a Manuscript fountain pen and two others.Condition Report: Ewbanks does not guarantee the authenticity of any individual component parts since subsequent repairs and restoration work may have resulted in the replacement of original parts

Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), by Abd Al-Rahman Jami, handwritten and illuminated manuscript page, 1614, 18cm x 11cm, and a sheet of Safaivid text circa 1610, framed (2)

A sheet of handwritten and illuminated manuscript, Mathnavi Persia 1778/9, 18cm x 9.5cm, and a handwritten page from the Koran, Kashmir 1843, framed (2)