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Click here to subscribeWith Manuscript Notes Throughout Cogan (Rev. A.) The Ecclesiastical History of the Diocese of Meath, Ancient and Modern, 3 vols. Dublin 1874-1870. Profusely annotated by an historian and with a very large amount of orig. manuscript notes added to text or on single sheets, tipped-in, and all in a most attractive legible hand. Orig. cloth. Rare. (3)
Rare Berkeley Publication Berkeley (George) A Treatise Concerning Principles of Human Knowledge - Part 1, [All Published] 8vo, D. (Aaron Rhames for Jeremy Pepyat) 1710, First Edn., 3pp dedit, Preface 2pps., errata on reverse, 214pps, (complete) [some mis-numbering] later manuscript notes throughout, lack front and back pastedowns, full blind panelled calf, gilt decor spine mor. label, worn. Scarce. (1) Lit: Keynes, Berkeley 5.
18th Century Legal Manuscript Co. Kerry: The answer of Daniel Mahony, dated 16 April 1737, to the bill of complaint of Dermod McCarthy regarding the tenure and rents of Claghanelynahane (Cloghanlinaghan), Co. Kerry, recording details of transactions from 4 May 1697, when the deponent’s father leased the premises to the complainant, and mentioning many local names. Contemporary manuscript copy, 26 pp. Folio, some damp damage & repairs. Bound in later cloth, with manuscript note dated Oct. 1910 by Rev. John Begley (historian of the diocese of Limerick) recounting the purchase of this and other manuscripts from a city dealer. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1)
R.I.A. Hardinge (W.H.) On Manuscript and Other Townland Surveys in Ireland of a Public Character, embracing the Gross, Civil, and Down Surveys from 1640 to 1688, Lg. 4to 1862, Bound with sim. vol. for (1688-1864), 1865, and bound with On the Irish Transplantation of 1653-54, lg. 4to Dublin 1866. Cont. hf. mor. raised bands, mor. label. Good. (1)
Oath taken by a Scholar of Winchester College An 18th Century Manuscript text of oath taken by Jonathan Cope (Jonathan Cope of Ranton Abbey, 1664-1694, MP for Stafford?) on being admitted a Scholar of “St Mary’s College by Winchester”. Contains some quaint clauses – he swears not to reveal any secrets about the college to strangers, not to be a detractor or talebearer, not to make any unlawful confederacies or conspiracies, not to molest the warden &c. or to enlist the help of courts or princes if he is expelled. With a note that “in Oliver’s days” a parliamentary officer who was a former scholar ensured that when Winchester was sacked (in 1645) the college was spared. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
One of 30 Copies Heaney (Seamus) The Singer's House, broadside, Limited Edn. No. 6/30 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, David Hammond, & James Allen, illustrated with facsimile manuscript by Heaney along the bottom, approx. 66cms x 82cms (26" x 32"), mounted and framed. (1) [Brandes & Durkan AA43]
Fermoy District during the Famine Year of 1847 Manuscripts: Collecting Books for the Poor Rate, Fermoy Electoral Division, dated 15 Sept. 1847 and 28 Sept. 1859, with printed columns containing manuscript entries for each holding, listing description of property, names of occupier and lessor, details of valuation and assessment for tax, and “observations”. The first, printed in Fermoy, contains 43 ff for the town and 24 for the rest of the division; the second, printed in Dublin, has a total 62 ff. Folio, printed and manuscript. (2) The first Book is of particular significance as it was compiled during the worst year of the Famine. It is signed by (among others) William Cooke-Collis of Castle Cooke, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and Roderick O’Flanagan, Clerk of the Union and author of The River Blackwater in Munster. Historian Edward Garner concludes his account of the Famine in this area: “It will have to be said that, had the Fermoy Poor Law Union not possessed the Board it did, then it would have joined the ranks of Skibbereen and Bantry. Fermoy escaped by the skin of its teeth.” (To die by inches: The Famine in North-East Cork, Éigse Books, 1986). * Highly important Records, with information not found elsewhere.
Co. Kerry Valuation: with Numerous Manuscript Additions & Notes: Griffith (Rich.) Co. Kerry - Barony of Iraghticonnor, Unions of Glin and Listowel; and Barony of Clanmaurice, Unions of Listowel and Tralee, 2 vols. folio Dublin 1851-1852. Both vols. interleaved, & with a wealth of additional manuscript material, notes etc., cont. hf. mor. badly worn. Those probably for official use. V. Scarce. (2)
Personalised Limited Subscribers Edition Bindings: Lamb - The Life and Works of Charles Lamb, 12 vols. roy 8vo New York (Lamb Publishing Company) n.d. India House Edition,Limited to 130 Sets, this set, No. 25 & Printed for Lillian Russell, identified in a manuscript panel, with blue watercolour background. Port. frontis Vol. I, hf. titles, red & bl. titles, plates, uncut, and in magnificent full mottled calf, tooled floral gilt doublures, and large elaborated tooled gilt corner decorations, & similarly decor. spines, with raised bands. Extremely fine copy. (8)
Important Broadside Testimonials Tributes To Talbot Family, Co. Wexford Co. Wexford: Two large and elaborate original manuscript Broadsides, each approx. 94cms x 60cms ) 37” x 24”, executed in a most competent hand by A Patrick O’Bryan, 1829, all delightfully coloured, and with extensive address & numerous in set captions, ‘Talbot for Ever – Talbot and Independence,” – “Triumph of Benevolence” “Repeal of the Union” – “Talbot and Erin go Bragh,” and many others. The first is directed to John Hyacinth Talbot, (1794-1868) of Castle Talbot, Talbot Hall, & Ballytrent, Co. Wexford. The Second “A Testimony of esteem to the memory of the late Mrs. Talbot,” with verse down each side. “To John H. Talbot Esq. Honoured Sir, Although it being the will of Providence that I should Be placed in that humble station in society, which might render it Presumption in me to address a gentleman in this manner, Yet Sir I do hope that your exalted virtues and affable demeanour And your sublime humility, will pardon the presumption of an inferior, on The present occasion. Honourable Sir, it is not your exalted station in society But your acknowledged talents, your public and private worth (with those Of your late ever to be lamented lady) and the exalted character, both you And her ever bore, have induced me now to lay before your honour This humble testimony of my respect and esteem (for the memory Of her, whose handsomest virtues and mild demeanour have endeared her To all ranks and stations in life) and an humble but inadequate Testimonial of that respect and esteem in which you are held, not Only by your own tenantry, but by those whose misfortune it Is, to be obliged to drag out their existence under the despotic yoke Of fanatic intolerance and protestant ascendancy. Honourable Sir, if you will design favourably to accept this Humble testimony of my respect and esteem (the greatest that I Can offer), it will be one of the greatest favours that can Be conferred on him who most humbly but yet most Respectfully begs leave to subscribe [crease] with the most [crease] respect, honourable Sir, Your most obedient And very humble servant. As a manuscript, unique and highly important pair, w.a.f. (2) John Hyacinth Talbot (1794-1868) of Castle Talbot, Talbot Hall and Ballytrent, County Wexford, was the son of Matthew Talbot of Ballynamony, County Wexford and Jane, Countess d'Arcy, and educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire. Talbot was first elected Repeal Association MP for New Ross at the 1832 general election and held the seat until 1841, when he did not seek re-election. He sat again for the seat from 1847 to 1852 when, again, he did not seek re-election. He was selected as High Sheriff of Wexford for 1855. He was a member of the Reform Club. In 1837 he commissioned AWN Pugin to design the Catholic church in Bree; it was opened in 1839. In 1822, he married Anne Eliza Redmond, only daughter of Walter Redmond of Ballytrent (great-great-uncle of John Redmond, MP). She died 5 October 1826. They had 3 daughters, all of whom married. In 1851 he married Eliza, daughter of Sir John Power, Bt, with whom he had a son and a daughter. The son, John Hyacinth Talbot II, born in 1851, succeeded to the estate and died without issue in 1920. See pedigree in BIFR p. 929.
Clonmel Industrial Development Association Co. Tipperary: A manuscript Volume containing Record of monthly meetings from 19 Nov. 1917 to 10 June 1918. Anticipating the end of the Great War, prominent citizens of the town prepared to organise the development of existing industries and to attract new ones. An important record of local enterprise at a time when attention was mainly focused on political issues. A good social record. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1)
Original Seamus Heaney Manuscript Poem Heaney (Seamus) The Underground, single manuscript page, written on 'Folger Poetry Programs 1984-85' paper, inscribed at end 'Louis-this was done in Washington in May 1985,S' written in blue pen, housed in custom made clam shell box. Unique. (1) Note: In this Poem, Heaney recalls and dramatizes an incident from his Honeymoon in London, dissolving a panic rush into a version of the story of Orpheus & Eurydice.
Reports from Uruguay, 1894-1896 Harvey (John) of Malin, Co. Donegal - A hardbacked Letter-Book containing carbon copies of monthly reports from the London Times reporter in Montevideo to his editor from 2 May 1894 to 14 December 1896, commenting in detail on politics, personalities, trade, finances etc. The writer during most of this period was O. Schoones, succeeded on 7 May 1896 by John Harvey (from Malin Hall, Co. Donegal), who continued the series until his return to Ireland at the end of the year. Pp 1-212 plus several loose letters; rest of volume blank. Uruguay at this time had moved from military to civilian rule, but the policy of “collectivism” enabled President Juan Idiarte Borda to ensure that control of government remained within a cabal of the ruling Colorado party, to the exclusion of the opposition Blanco (National) party. At the same time, the country was rapidly modernising, with improved education, the development of the port of Montevideo, and the establishment of a state bank. These letters vividly chart the wobbly progress of a Latin-American state, still unsure of its course in a changing world (there was a Blanco uprising in March of the following year, and in August President Idiarte was assassinated). As a Manuscript Ledger, w.a.f. (1)
Castle Waller, Co. Tipperary Co. Tipperary: A manuscript "Account Book," containing receipts paid to George Gough and Richard Gason, executors of Col. Richard Waller (of Castle Waller, Co. Tipperary), 30th Oct. 1758 to 29th Jan. 1762, approx. 40pp, 8vo (oblong entries). With a later note, inserted, to Mr. Going, Coole Abbey, 1908, from Stephen Gordon, notary public, Dublin, sewn. A lot of different names, mostly for lettings etc., but one receipt 'for 7 barrels of ale, & the carriage of 'em, used at the funeral.' As a m/ss., sewn, w.a.f. (1)
A SAFAVID ALBUM PAGE WITH CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED BY SHAH MAHMUD NISHAPURI PERSIA, 16TH CENTURY AND LATER ink, gouache and gold on paper, comprising a calligraphic panel with seven diagonal lines in black nastaliq, the panel above with two lines in black nastaliq, the central panel with an early 20th century miniature painted in the Safavid style, two triangular illuminations, left hand corner with a small illumination panel, verso with two manuscript leaves inscribed in nastaliq 38.5cm x 25.5cm Shah Mahmud, known as Zarrin Qalam (“the Golden Pen”), was born around 1495 AD in Nishapur and learned calligraphy from his maternal uncle, Abdi Nishapuri and later from Sultan Muhammad Khandan.Though his very first dated writings (from 923 AH/ 1517 AD) relate to the reign of Shah Ismail I, it is very likely that in his youth he entered the court of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1576 AD). After living in Tabriz, when the Safavid capital moved from Tabriz to Qazvin, he immigrated to Mashhad where he lived and occupied himself with writing books in Nasta‘liq until the end of his life. He taught a number of students, among them Salim Nishapuri, Hājj Muhammad Tabrizi, Muhammad Husayn Bakhrazi, Sultan Mahmud Turbati and Qutb-al-Din Yazdi. Among his most important works are the first Qur’an copied in nasta‘liq (which is now kept in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul) and the Khamsa-ye Tahmāspi (which is held in the British Museum). The last of his dated works was written in 982 AH/1574 CE, evidence that he lived in Mashhad until that time.
A KUFIC QUR'AN LEAF ON VELLUM NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH/ 10TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on vellum, seven lines to the page written in bold kufic script in black ink, vowel points marked with red dots, small pyramids of gold dots marking verses, a large medallion in gold marking the tenth verse, consisting of the word ashr in kufic script with concentric lobed cartouches, decorated with coloured dots, inscribed with later pagination (177 and 129 on recto, 178 and 89 on verso), mounted, glazed and framed 23.1cm x 32.5cm Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 24th April 2012, lot 1. Text: Sura LXXVI, ad-Dahr, Time, or al-Insan, Man, part of verse 9-part of verse 13.This striking and fine leaf is one of several existent from the same Qur'an manuscript. One of its distinctive features is the horizontal stretching of the letters, known as mashq, regarded as the finest quality of calligraphy. Further leaves from this Qur'an manuscript are in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran (inv. 4289; illustrated in M. Lings, The Qur'anic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination, Westerham 1976, no. 5). Others have been offered at Christie's, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 27th April 2004, lot 14; Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, Doha, 19th March 2009, lot 303; and more recently, Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 6th October 2011, lots 1-3.
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A PERSIAN EPIC ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR: TWO WARRIORS IN COMBAT PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY gouache or acrylic on paper heightened with gold, laid down on card, depicting a warrior with a shield, bow and arrow, on a white horse, attacking his enemy on foot, soldiers looking on from behind the mountains 13.6cm x 16.6cm Mu'in Musavvir (c.1610s-1693) was one of the most significant and prolific painters of the Safavid period. Born in Isfahan were he spent most of his life, Musavvir studied under the great court painter Reza-I Abbasi who was considered the last great master of the Persian miniature. His reverence for his master is immortalised within a portrait which survives today in Princeton University Library. Musavvir’s long career (c.1635-1707) gave him the opportunity to produce a large body of work, and although much of it was concerned with traditional manuscript illustration, including several Shahnameh manuscripts, he also created refined single-page compositions. While his figural types relate closely to those of Reza-I-Abbassi, deviating only slightly in the treatment of eyes and mouths, his work resists western influences, remaining true to the traditional painting of the region. Musavvir is known as a master of illustration paintings, especially figural scenes and compositions depicting banquets and battles.
WWI Medals - medal pair issued to Second Lieutenant Cecil Victor Erwood of The King's Royal Rifle Corps, KIA 17th February 1917, near the village of Miraumont, France. Comprising War Medal (2. LIEUT. C. V. ERWOOD) and Victory Medal (ditto), with ribbons. Mounted alongside an original photograph and brief service history. Framed. Supplied with much research, including a copy of the book 'For King And Country - Edwardian On The Front' which features the life and letters of Erwood, a self-published manuscript 'School And Somme - The Letters OF Cecil Victor Erwood', and a folder of copied service documents, photographs of his memorial, and other documents. Erwood was born in Oldfield Road, Bath. His father, Harry Erwood was a well known local builder in the firm Erwood & Morris. When war broke out, Erwood was desperate to enlist but permission was refused because he had just joined the National Provincial Bank. In June 1915, without permission, he joined the Inns Of Court OTC and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 17th November 1915. Previously he had played Cricket for Bath and belonged to the Bath Operatic & Dramatic Society. Killed in action around 6am on 17th February 1917, with his last letter home being noted as the previous day. The attack in which he died is well documented in the book.
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TWO PERSIAN FRAMED ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PAINTINGS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY. In gouache and gilding on paper. One depicting a man seated on a mule wearing a large plumed turban, in mountainous landscape, the blue ground painted with birds, a waterfall and trees, the other with a lady seated beside a tree, a gentleman approaching, on a gilt ground, the remaining background with a waterfall and trees, 32.5cm x 21.5cm (2) Overall in good order. the example with the man riding a mule has some brown discolouration overall. There is some very slight wear and surface scratching to each. One with some losses to frame, some wear to frame overall.
AN EARLY-17th CENTURY FRENCH MANUSCRIPT BOOK Kept by a Monsieur Mignonnac, apparently a notary or solicitor, with the first entry dated December 1606, bound in a recycled vellum leaf, 4to; together with a later French manuscript book, with entries dated from 1772 to circa-1810, with a variety of documents and correspondence loosely inserted, including an election ballot paper for Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III), similarly bound in a recycled vellum leaf, 12mo (2) Condition Report:Available upon request
SIR GEORGE AIRY'S TRANSIT OF VENUS 1874 EXPEDITION - A VICTORIAN BRASS-BOUND ROSEWOOD TWO-DAY OBSERVATORY CHRONOMETERBy Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London, No. 3178, Circa 1860In a two-tier brass-bound rosewood box (missing hinged upper lid), with glazed observation panel, the front with circular maker's ivory roundel, above a shaped brass escutcheon and further ivory roundel engraved with an arrow and 'TWO DAYS', a brass carrying handle to the left side (the right side missing), the inner case with screwed quarter-mouldings and brass gimbals, the bowl numbered inside the base, with a bevelled glazed bezel, above the signed silvered dial detailed With Airy's Compensation and with Up/Down power-reserve indicator below the XII and seconds subsidiary, with government arrow in the centre above the VI, fine blued steel hands, the stone-spotted movement signed Charles Frodsham, London and with government arrow, the free-sprung balance with diamond end-stone and blued helical spring, above Airy's subsidiary compensation bar with a spring and small brass weight to the inner rim of the bi-metallic compensated balance, chain fusée movement with maintaining power and Earnshaw detent escapement17cm squareCONDITION REPORTWith tipsy winding key. The chronometer runs when wound. As noted in the cataloguing it is missing the lid. The right hand carrying handle is lost but should be replaceable. The screw attaching the brass lid stop is lost. There are two breaks to the wooden surface in the glazed lid just under the cut outs for the upper hinge lids where I suspect that lid was forced at some time. The case has a pleasing colour with some marks and knocks as would be expected with its age. This Observatory chronometer was used as the 'mean solar half-seconds chronometer' on Kerguelen Island for the Transit of Venus Observations on 8 December 1874. This expedition was led by Rev. S. J. Perry, FRS. It was one of five expeditions to create observatories in different locations, including to Hawaii, Egypt, Rodriguez Island and New Zealand. These were formed by the Astronomer Royal Sir George Biddell Airy and planning began many years prior. Captain George Tupman, the chief organiser of the expeditions, lists the chronometers required, including Frodsham 3178, for the expeditions in his manuscript notebook dated 31 May 1874, which is at the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO 59/58).The Transit of Venus, seen passing between the sun and the earth, is a rare astronomical event, occuring in pairs, separated by 6 years every 100 years. A full account by Airy was published in 1881.LITERATURERoyal Observatory Archives, Greenwich, Transit of Venus, Tupman notebook (RGO 59/58)https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RGO-00059-00058/3Account of observations of the Transit of Venus 1874, December 8, made under the authority of the British Government: and of the reduction of the observations, Edited by Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer Royal, London 1881.IMPORTANT NOTICEThis lot contains ivory and has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section 10). Reference No. BFREL6MN.Prospective buyers should be aware that some countries have limitations on importing items made from endangered species, including materials such as coral, ivory, and tortoiseshell. Therefore, it is advisable for potential buyers to familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations before placing bids, particularly if they intend to import this lot into another country.
A rare Gallé carved, enamelled and gilt Historicist glass vase, circa 1900, designed by Louis Hestaux, the clear cylindrical body with shaded brown to green mottled internal colouring and external staining, with pinched trefoil shaped rim, carved in relief with the title of Villon's poem 'La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis', beside and beneath an enamelled figure and illuminated manuscript style text, also incorporating a shield with entwined 'EG' monogram and Cross of Lorraine, cameo mark to side 'Gallé 1884-1900', height 21.5cm. Note: François Villon is the best-known French poet of the late Middle Ages. This vase is one of a series which was based on Villon's poem and includes amongst the decoration the question 'Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?', taken from 'La Ballade des dames du Temps Jadis' and translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as 'Where are the snows of yesteryear?' This is one of the most famous lines of translated secular poetry in the English-speaking world.
Illuminated manuscript Pater Noster [Lord's Prayer] in Latin on vellum, Baroque, decorated with floral scrolls and classical motifs including a warrior's head within a laurel wreath, possibly Italian, 18th century, slight splitting/wear at top edge, otherwise very well-preserved, set within the covers of a later gilt-embossed calf portfolio lined with embroidered silk and block-printed paper, possibly for housing folio manuscripts or music, 46.5cm x 38.5cm
PARANORMAL & SUPERNATURAL. A 239-year-old manuscript account of a "visitation" from a ghost at Seighford Hall, Staffordshire, in the early hours of Tuesday 29 March 1785, together with an accompanying witness statement, and correspondence concerning the apparition, addressed to Rev. Townson of Malpas, Cheshire. "Mr. [Francis] Eld junior of Seighford [Hall] having walked from Newport (in Shropshire) found himself fatigued, and in such a case is not apt to sleep. His wife being lately brought to bed, he lay in a room by himself, with a fire in it. Within this room was a Smaller [presumably a type of cot], in which lay a little daughter of his, whom in the night he heard crying. He called and spoke to her, and the child became pacified. Presently after he felt as it were a puff of air pass across his face, saw a sort of cloud or vapour, and heard a voice out of it, 'My child, be not grieved, I am dead, but happy.' This he knew to be the voice of his mother [Catherine Elde], and was a good deal terrified. While he was reflecting on the incident, he heard his little girl cry again, and supposed she might have been disturbed by the appearance which he had seen. He sat up in bed, and spoke to her again, but perceived that she had not seen or heard anything of the sort. While in this posture he once more saw the cloud in the form of a little woman with a resemblance of his mother, and heard the same words repeated to him." Being able to "bear it no longer", Mr. Eld visits his wife's apartment and relates the story to her, but she is "so terrified" that he stops and leaves the room. At this point, Mr. Eld is unaware that his mother has died [she is residing at Pit Place in Surrey with her husband John Elde of Dorking, a notable benefactor of Stafford General Infirmary whose portrait was painted by Thomas Gainsborough]. He spends the remainder of the night walking in the garden & pleasure grounds that his mother used to enjoy while living at Seighford, and spends time in her old bedchamber, but he sees no further apparitions. The following morning, fearing bad news, Mr. Eld orders his servant to accompany him to the Post Office in Stafford where he picks up a letter written by his father's housekeeper at Pit Place, dated Saturday 26 March, in which he learns that his mother is "tolerably well, & had eaten remarkably hearty of a Hare which had been sent to her from Seighford by her son". The letter briefly suppresses his anxiety until he realises that it was composed two days before the haunting. While returning to Seighford, he repeatedly tells his servant that he is "sure" he will "hear some bad news about his mother soon". The following Friday [1 April], Mr. Eld returns anxiously to Stafford and receives a letter informing him that his mother died on the preceding Monday night or Tuesday morning [i.e. 28/29 March], coinciding perfectly with the time of his vision. This realisation causes him to "faint away" in shock. "He [Mr. Eld] attended the Body day & night from the 7th to the 9th when her remains were deposited in their family vault at Seighford. Upon his relating this story to his father [John Elde of Dorking] who attended the funeral, 'His father seemed to be turned into jelly.'" The three manuscripts comprise: a letter from Thomas Whitby of Creswell to Rev. Townson of Malpas, 13 December 1785, seeking Townson's "sentiments on this very uncommon event"; a 2pp. handwritten account of Mr. Eld's experiences with questions in pencil from Rev. Townson in the margins; and a 4pp. handwritten account from Mr. Eld's servant, taken down by Thomas Whitby. In the first letter, Whitby assures Townson of the reliability of the servant, "the man is not a common menial servant but one who rents a small farm in the neighbourhood, & is employed by Mr. Eld to take care of his Woods & Game, & when he comes to Seighford for the Hunting Season this man attends him in his sports, the man is more sensible & intelligent than persons of his situation usually are, vis Bold & Resolute, & so that I think one may venture to depend upon the accuracy of his Relation." While recording his account, Whitby says the servant "had not either then or now any doubt of the truth of what his Master related". Together with an archive of Whitby family papers (in which we discovered the above), 1610-1830. The documents concern Thomas Whitby (junior & senior), John Whitby, and Edward Whitby, and include deeds, indentures, receipts, and invoices relating to Haywood, Shugborough, Colwich, Seighford, and Creswell. The archive includes a document from Granville Earl Gower appointing Thomas Whitby as Deputy Lieutenant of Stafford, signed & sealed by Gower, 1769; numerous receipts for Customary Payments from the Rectory of Creswell, most signed by Edward Whitby (Rector), 1760-1830; numerous canonical documents, including the Bishop of Lichfield ordaining Edward Whitby of Trinity College into the Holy Order of Priesthood, 1780, plus another for the Holy Order of Deacons, 1799; manuscript accounts for Thomas Whitby senior in 5pp., 1610-1613; numerous invoices & receipts for building work; several 17th-century vellum indentures relating to John Crompton and the Church of Creswell; an indenture between John Horne & Elizabeth Crompton, Burton-on-Trent, 1686; an indenture between members of the Nicolls family of Oxford, Liverpool, London and Stafford, 1772, bearing six signatures & wax seals; Translation of Grant in the Manor of Haywood & Shugborough, William Whitmore & Jonas Verdon, 1616; a 20pp. manuscript by Madame Dupré, "Hints given previous to a departure for Paris,1819", giving advice on dining, travelling by coach and sending mail
LARKIN, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings, first edition, first printing, hardcover with unclipped dust-jacket (priced 12s, 6d), internally well-preserved, clean & bright, owner inscription on ffep, "Mary Hodgson, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, March 1964", a few incredibly faint spots to endleaves, binding tight & square, jacket good with some general toning & light surface scuffs, slight loss at top of spine, overall very good, London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Together with The Less Deceived, first edition, second issue [with "sea" showing correctly on p.38], again inscribed by Mary Hodgson, September 1956, and with her manuscript copies of An Arundel Tomb and Self's the Man on rear blanks (which she records as being copied from The Observer on 22 March 1959), also a tipped-in copy of The Whitsun Weddings on rear free endpapers (extracted from Encounter, June 1959), plain card in publisher's captioned wrappers, Hessle: The Marvell Press, 1955; Poetry, Vol. 102, No. 5, August 1963, featuring the first publication of Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath (Fever 103° and Purdah also featured); New Poetry 1964, featuring Daddy by Sylvia Plath [pre-dating its publication in Ariel]; The Critical Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1964, featuring Dice by Ted Hughes (5)
"SALLUST" (86-35BCE). De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac bello Iugurthino historiæ, Lyon, 1545, 8vo, woodcut printer's devices and initials (some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary vellum."SALLUST" [i.e. Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE)]. De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac bello Iugurthino historiæ, nunc denuo, adhibitis aliquot uenerandæ uetustatis exemplaribus, iisq; manuscriptis, quanta fieri potuit cura emendatæ. Cum aliis quibusdam, quæ sequens indicabit pagella. Lyon: "Apud Seb. Gryphium," 1545. 8vo (162 x 110mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and on the verso of the final leaf, initials (some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots and stains). Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript on the spine (inner hinges split, some erosion to the head of the spine and one corner). Provenance: [?]"L' Etendier" (two old signatures on title). Brunet IV, 183 (citing Lyon "Gryphium" editions of 1529, 1536, "etc").
MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest ... The Third Edition, London, 1665, 8vo, printed in black letter (mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning), contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). With 2 defective books. (3)MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest, Wherein is declaered not onely those Laws, as they are now in force, but also the Original and beginning of Forests; and what a Forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a Chase, a Park, or a Warren ... Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what a Pourallee is, how the same first began, what a Pourallee-man may do, how he may hunt and use his own Pourallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his own Chase; together with the limits and bounds, as well of the Forest, as the Pourallee ... The Third Edition Corrected, and much Inlarged. London: "Printed for the Company of Stationers," 1665. 8vo (178 x135mm). Printed in black letter, woodcut headpieces and initials (lacks a1 [?blank], i.e. all before title, title spotted and shaved at foot, variable mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary full calf (rebacked, quite heavily rubbed and scuffed, a few old repairs, new endpapers). Provenance: some later mainly pencil annotation. Cf. Goldsmiths' 284; Kress 207; Schwerdt II, p.7; Wing M554. See DNB for a list of the various editions of "this excellent work", including the first which was printed for private circulation in 1592. The author is described in the same reference work as "... a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, gamekeeper of Waltham Forest, and justice of the New Forest." With 2 other books, namely Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland ... Written first in Latine by William Camden ... Translated newly into English by Philemon Holland ... Finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry Additions by the said Author (London, "Impensis Georgii Bishop", 1610, folio, lacks all the maps, defective, contemporary reverse calf) and The Book of Common-Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments (London, 1662, folio, fine engraved architectural title, black letter, elaborate woodcut initials and decorations, prayers for "Gunpowder. Treason" at the end, many repairs, with some sections supplied in manuscript, later annotation, modern old-style half calf. The lot sold not subject to return. (3)
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). "Old". The original file copy of the poem in the form of a computer print-out, 47 lines on 2 sheets of A4, SIGNED "Charles Bukowski, 12-29-91"; with another similar. Please see the full description below.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). "Old". The original file copy of the poem in the form of a computer print-out, 47 lines in 5 stanzas, printed on the rectos only of 2 sheets of A4, SIGNED "Charles Bukowski, 12-29-91", with minor annotations in the poet's hand (for instance, "Cont[inue]. same stanza" at the foot of the first sheet). Included with the poem is a formal letter with the printed heading "The Abandoned Planet Bookstore ... San Francisco", dated March 4, 2002, guaranteeing the poem's authenticity and stating: "Sold to [name of purchaser, redacted in our illustration]. The manuscript/file copy of Charles Bukowski's poem, 'old'. This poem Bukowski, [sic] signed, dated and mailed in for publication. The date, hand writing and signature are ORIGINAL and in Charles Bukowski's OWN HAND. This was the copy sent by him for consideration for publication. I will guarantee its authenticity." The letter is signed by the bookstore's proprietor, Scott Harrison. The poem was apparently unpublished, at least in its present form. With Charles Bukowski's poem "the condition book", the original file copy of the poem in the form of a computer print-out, 22 lines, in one stanza, printed on the recto only of one sheet of A4, SIGNED "Charles Bukowski, 11-10-92", with another formal letter of authentication from "The Abandoned Planet Bookstore" which states, "... This is computer printed but this was the copy that Bukowski sent in for publication. This was the normal manner in which Bukowski submitted his work at the time ... To my knowledge, this was the only copy of this poem signed and dated by Charles Bukowski", dated January 20, 2004, and signed by Scott Harrison. "The condition book" was first published in issue 132 of the Wormwood Review (1993). (5)
EUCLID (fl. 300 BC) & Christopher CLAVIUS (1538-1612). Euclidis elementorum libri XV, Cologne, 1591, 2 volumes bound in one, folio, 2 titles within elaborate woodcut borders, woodcut diagrams (some browning and staining), contemporary limp vellum.EUCLID (fl. 300 BC) & Christopher CLAVIUS (1538-1612). Euclidis elementorum libri XV. [Second volume: Euclidis posteriores libri IX] Accessit XVI. de Solidorum regularium cuius libet intra quodlibet comparatione. Omnes perspicius demonstrationibus, accuratisque scholiis illustrati, ac multarum rerum accessione locupletati: nunc tertio editi, summaq, diligentia recogniti, atque emendati. Cologne: "Expensis Joh. Baptistae Ciotti," 1591. 2 volumes bound in one, folio (326 x 210mm). Two title pages within elaborate woodcut baroque borders incorporating the figures of Euclid and Archimedes, woodcut diagrams, tables, initials and ornaments (waterstaining throughout, including to both titles, with variable, and sometimes quite heavy, browning and other staining, a few leaves heavily browned, some wormholes and wormtracks mainly towards the end, occasionally affecting letters). Contemporary full limp vellum, title in old manuscript on the spine (heavy stain to lower cover, some other staining). Provenance: Professor Crivelli (his name inscribed on the front free endpaper and with his signature on the first title); Antonio Frigerio (ex-libris sticker); later library shelf-mark label at foot of spine; modern (cancelled) institutional library label on front free endpaper); later illegible stamps on front free endpaper and title. The first edition of this work was published in Rome in 1574. Known as 'The Euclid of the 16th-Century', Clavius was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was instrumental in the Vatican's adoption of the Gregorian calendar, a pioneer of the use of the decimal point, and, in his lifetime, the most highly respected astronomer in Europe. Despite the fact that, for most of his life, he was a proponent, albeit a conflicted one, of the geocentric model of the solar system, he was hugely influential as a writer and teacher and was much admired by Galileo, with whom he maintained a long correspondence. One of the largest crater formations on the moon is named after him. Adams E-988; Brunet II, 1089; Graesse II, 512; Poggendorff I, 455; Thomas-Stanford 23.
LISZT, Franz (1811-86). Autograph letter, signed ("F. Liszt"), to Hector Berlioz, Eiken, 20 August 1851. In French. Three-pages, 209 x 134mm, on blue paper, bifolium, on staging Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" at Weimar.LISZT, Franz (1811-86). Autograph letter, signed ("F. Liszt"), to Hector Berlioz, Eiken, 20 August 1851. In French. Three-pages, 209 x 134mm, on blue paper, bifolium; [with] a letter addressed to Liszt by "M. Oustinoff", 12/24 June 1847, offering him a room at the Russian Embassy [in Constantinople] for a charity concert in aid of the poor of Pera. Liszt to Berlioz, on staging the latter's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" at Weimar the following winter. Liszt is delighted to hear that Berlioz approves of his plan to stage the opera and looks forward to receiving the score so he can have it translated and copied. The most likely date for performance will be 16 February 1852, during the birthday celebrations for the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, when a prestigious audience will be present. Liszt reassures Berlioz of the care he will take over rehearsals; as he has only one copyist he trusts he will have the separate voice and orchestral parts copied first, before the full score, but he is still confident he will be able to return Berlioz's own manuscript before the performances. "Je suis très charmé d’ apprendre que mon projet de faire représenter Benvenuto Cellini dans le courant de l’ hiver prochain à Weymar te convient, et j’ attends l’ arrivée de la Partition afin de mettre aussitôt à l’ œuvre traducteur, copiste, etc. … Il n’ est guère besoin je pense de te rassurer sur le soin et le zèle que je porterai aux répétitions et tu peux tenir pour très certain que Benvenuto Cellini sera representé à notre théâtre d’ une manière convenable et satisfaisante." The close personal and musical relationship between Liszt and Berlioz dated back to 1830 when Liszt attended the first performance of the "Symphonie Fantastique". In his role in Weimar, where he settled in 1848, Liszt made vigorous efforts to foster his friend's career, and especially to promote Berlioz's first full-length opera "Benvenuto Cellini", which had been a failure at its first performance in Paris in 1838. Liszt staged the work in Weimar in March and November 1852, and again in 1856 in a version revised by Berlioz in part on Liszt's recommendations. Provenance: "Property of a Lady", Christie's, 21 June 1989, lot 183.
SANSOVINO, Francesco (1521-83). Historia Universale dell' Origine, et Imperio de' Turchi, Venice, 1582, 4to, 14 woodcut illustrations of Turkish costume (variable browning and staining), contemporary full vellum.SANSOVINO, Francesco (1521-83). Historia Universale dell' Origine, et Imperio de' Turchi ... Et riformata in molte sue parti per ordine della Santa Inquisitione. Nella quale si contengeno le leggi, gli offici, i costumi, & la militia di quella natione; con tutti le cose fatte da loro per terra, & per mare. Con la vita particolare de Prncipi Othomani; cominciando dal primo fondator di quell' Imperio, fino al presente Amorath. 1582. Con le Figure in Disegno de Gli Habiti, & dell' armature de soldati d' esso gran Turco. Venice: Presso Altobello Salicato, 1582. 4to (198 x 150mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, headpieces and ornaments, 14 woodcut illustrations of Turkish costumes at the end (lacks all before title and after the final text leaf (i.e. ?blanks), small repair to margin of title, Rrr2 torn without loss, a few small rustholes and isolated darker stains affecting letters, marginal stain affecting first 22 leaves at the front, variable browning throughout, some mainly marginal staining, final leaf partially detached with some wormtracks affecting letters in one corner and a closed tear). Contemporary full vellum, title in early manuscript on the spine (some staining, bumped and rubbed at corners, lower inner hinges split). Provenance: modern (cancelled) institutional library label; old illegible inscription on front pastedown and on title; "Sac. Attilio Cordignano Parroco, Fusine in Valmorana" (later stamp on title); later library labels on the upper cover and at foot of spine. First published in 1560. Atabey 1088; Blackmer 1487: "The work contains an importantcollection of source material of the Turksedited by Sansovino. It includes thereport by Bishop Leonard of Chioson the fall of Constantinople, writtenonly a few weeks after the Turks tookover the city, and also the importantwork by Spandugino comprising theearliest description of Ottoman manners,religion and government. Excerpts fromMenavino, Cambini, Giovio andBarletius are also included"; not in Brunet; Cicogna Iscrizioni Veneziane IV, 47.22.
CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT - A sammelband consisting of 207 fine original watercolours of Turkish and Levantine figures, and 3 related 17th- and 18th-century printed works, including fine hand-coloured Chinese costume plates, folio, contemporary calf.CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT - A sammelband consisting of 207 fine original watercolours and 3 printed works, comprising: 207 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS OF MAINLY TURKISH AND LEVANTINE FIGURES, many heightened in gold, consisting of 1) 160 watercolours, trimmed and laid down, four to a page, captioned in early French manuscript, each c.130 x c.85mm, 18th - early-19th-century; and 2) 47 watercolours in a different hand, including 2 folding, trimmed and laid down, four to a page, captioned in early French manuscript, each c.170 x c.110mm, 18th-early 19th-century;[With:] [Jacques LE HAY (c.1645-c.1713) & Charles de FERRIOL (1652-1722). Recueil de Cent Estampes Representant Differentes Nations du Levant Peintes d' aprés Nature en Mil Sept Cens Sept, & Mil Sept Cens Huit, par les Ordres de M. de Ferriol, Ambassadeur du Roy a la Porte, et Gravées en 1712 & 1713 par les Soins de Mr. Le Hay. Paris: Le Hay & Duchange, 1714]. 100 fine engraved plates by P. Simmoneau, G. Scotin, J. Haussard, C. N. Cochin, C. du Bose, B. Baron, J. De Franssieres and P. Rochefort after Jean-Baptiste Van Mour, one plate double-page and captioned "Mariage Turc" (lacks the letterpress title [but supplied in neat early manuscript] and without the text leaves, also lacking the 2 later unnumbered double-page plates and the leaf of engraved music found in some copies [see Brunet, note], the blank corner of plate 85 torn away, without loss) Atabey 430; Blackmer 591: "This publication certainly contained the most popular and influential illustrations of Turkish dress to date. Its use as a source book was widespread"; Brunet III, 85: "Ce recueil parut d'abord, en 1714, composé de 100 pl. seulement, sans explication. En 1715 on y ajouta l'explication impr. et deux nouvelles planches ... On y joignit en même temps une pl. de musique. Ces 3 dernières pl. manquent souvent [as here]"; Cohen-de Ricci 392l; Colas 1819-20; Koç 105a; Lewine pp.184-185 (citing the 1714-15 edition); Lipperheide 413.[And:] Georges de LA CHAPELLE (d.1655). Receul [sic] de Divers Portraits des Principales Dames de la Porte du Grand Turc, Tirée au naturel sur les lieux. Paris: "chez le Blond," [c.1648]. Elaborate engraved figural title incorporating portraits of Sultan Hebrain and Sultan Amurat and smaller scenes of executions and punishments in the lower border, 12 fine engraved plates of Turkish costumes by Georges de la Chapelle, trimmed and laid down, two to a page (some marginal soiling to the title, some very light marginal staining to the plates, without the text leaves). Atabey 648; Blackmer 935; Colas 1697. [And:] [Joachim BOUVET (1656-1730) & Pierre GIFFART (c.1631-1723, engraver). L' Estat Present de la Chine. Paris: Pierre Giffart, 1697]. 59 fine engraved plates only, comprising plates 1 - 43, all of which HAND-COLOURED and heightened in gold, and plates 45 - 56 and 59 - 62, all uncoloured, depicting Chinese costumes, trades, punishments, etc. (i.e. lacking plates numbered 44 and 57 - 58, but including all the hand-coloured plates as called for in Brunet, without the title and text leaves). Bobins I, 169; Brunet I, 440: "Volume contenant 43 pl. color"; Colas 417; Cordier III, 1858; Vinet 2354. Please see the link below for additional illustrations of the hand-coloured plates of Chinese costumes.AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ORIGINAL COSTUME WATERCOLOURS AND ENGRAVED COSTUME PLATES, SOME HAND-COLOURED, OF CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT, MOST 17TH-18TH CENTURY, the whole bound in one volume, large folio (490 x 330mm). Contemporary calf, marbled endpapers (worn, joints and spine split). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.For more images of this lot please click here:
TARTAGLIA, Nicolo (c.1499-1557). La Nova Scientia, Venice, 1558, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and initials [bound with 2 other works by the same author], 4to, contemporary vellum. Please see the full description below.TARTAGLIA, Nicolo (c.1499-1557). La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo Libro. Venice: [no publisher], 1558. Full-page woodcut allegorical illustration on the title, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and initials. Adams T-191; Norman 2053; PMM 66: "Tartaglia's 'The New Science' stands at the threshold of a new age in the history of mechanics ... [The author] deals with ballistics, surveying, engineering and fortification ..."; Riccardi I, 496; Sander 7191. The work was first published in 1537. [Bound with:] Quesiti, et Inventioni Diverse ... Sopra gli Tiri delle Artiglierie, et altri suoi varii accidenti. [No place: no date]. Woodcut illustrations, diagrams and initials (lacking the first signature (A1-4), including the title, the work commencing at B1 (paginated "5") and ending at AA4 (paginated "94")). Adams T-183; Norman 2055. [And:] Regola Generale di Solevare Ogni fondata Naue & nauilii con Ragione. Venice: "Per Curtio Troiano de i Nauò," 1562. Adams T-186; Norman 2056. A richly-illustrated work on the salvaging of shipwrecks. 3 works bound in one volume, 4to (208 x 155mm). Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, titles in later manuscript on the spine (stained, with some worming). Provenance: old illegible library stamps; old illegible signature on first title; old stub at the front with shelf numbers; modern institutional label on front pastedown; modern library shelf label at the foot of the spine.
BURTON, Richard (translator). Tales From Gulistan, or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa’di of Shiraz. London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1928. Limited edition, this being number 3 of 100 large paper copies, 4to (262 x 187mm.) 9 plates by John Kettelwell. (Toning.) Original blue cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine. Note: the limitation number written in manuscript by the artist, John Kettelwell. – And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Ashley Gibson and Justin Pieris’ ‘The Death of the Lion’, limited edition, being one of only 275 copies, 1935, 4to, and The Folio Society publication of ‘The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night’, 4 vols., 1959, 8vo, and Stella Benson’s ‘Hope Against Hope, and Other Stories’, limited edition, being one of 670 copies, 1931, 4to) (12).
BIBLE, In Greek. Tes Kaines Diathekes. [The New Testament.] London: Richard Whittaker [Leiden: B. and A. Elzevir], 1633. 8vo (167 x 111mm.) Title in Greek and Latin, title-page with woodcut printer’s device, double-column, text in Greek, commentary in Latin to rear, text interleaved with numerous 18th century manuscript notes in a single hand. (Toning, browning, marginal annotation and underlining to text, densely filled annotation to initial blanks and interleaved leaves.) Near contemporary calf (some loss to spine panel, extremities rubbed). Provenance: ‘T.B’ (ink inscribed to initial blank); Thomas Smith, Oxon (ink inscribed to title-page); J.F. Twigge (ink inscribed to title-page).
ILLUMINATED LEAVES. [Three early 16th century illuminated manuscript leaves in Latin, from Italy, possibly central.] Three single leaves (678 x 480mm.) Three large vari-coloured historiated initials of the Pentecost, staves in red and black, five further decorative initials, manuscript numbering to upper margins. (Marginal paper repair to one leaf, margins yellowed, one leaf fading and dust-soiled). Note: with thanks to Peter Kidd for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: John Baskett, 1717-16. Folio (494 x 331mm.) Engraved additional title of Moses receiving the Law by C. Du-Bose, title in red and black with engraved vignette depicting Oxford churches by G. Vander Gucht, calendar in red and black, numerous engraved head and tail-pieces. (Additional title with marginal tears, images affected, tears to BC and O3, large tears to E6-F1, G3 with repair, Gg4 and Hh6 with tears, ZZ5 and last leaf are detached, A2-A4 of N.T with large tears, several torn leaves with tipped-in manuscript overlays, G6 [with ‘Vinegar’] nearly detached, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf (free endpapers detached, pastedowns torn, worn). Note: with the ‘Vinegar’ mistake in the headline above Luke XX. The Bible that contained so many errors that it became knows as ‘A Baskett-ful of Errors’. [Herbert 942A.]
MANUSCRIPT LEAF. [A late 15th – early 16th century leaf from a choir psalter, in Latin, from Spain.] Single leaf (558 x 415mm.) Elaborate penwork initial in red and blue for Psalm 38, decorative border, 5 further decorative initials verso. (Browned verso and to lower edge, fading to the black lettering, roughly cut margin.) Note: with thanks to Peter Kidd for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
DICKENS, Charles. The Christmas Carol… a Facsimile Reproduction of the Author’s Original MS. London: Elliot Stock, 1890. 4to (283 x 217mm.) Introduction by F.G. Kitton. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, occasionally thereafter.) Original half calf over paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to upper cover, t.e.g. (covers darkened, staining to upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed). – And a further fourteen volumes related to Charles Dickens (including ‘A Christmas Carol, a Facsimile of the Original Manuscript’, [1898], 4to, and ‘The Trial of John Jaspar… Heard by Mr. Justice Gilbert Keith Chesterton’, 1914, 4to, and John H. Stonehouse’s ‘Green Leaves: New Chapters in the Life of Charles Dickens’, 5 parts, 1931, 8vo) (15).
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written compendium of random excerpts from contemporary journals, newspapers, gazettes. N.p.: 1823-1824.] 311pp., manuscript, 8vo (198 x 159mm.) 155 leaves of densely written excerpts in a single legible hand, including 26pp. to rear of genealogical information relating to the Le Geyt and Delafaye families, a mounted contemporary article relating Brunel’s plans for the ‘Thames Tunnel’ in 1823. (Toning, occasional browning.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to upper cover and spine (stained and discoloured). Note: contains a profusion of subjects, many of international interest, including reports on the death of a 1000 ‘Witches in Central India’ over the last thirty years, ‘The Condition of Women in Turkey’ (where its noted that most of them spend a good portion of every day in the public baths), the building of a 23-mile long canal in China, ‘Italian Manners’, as well as literary, political and articles about English and world history, there’s medical matters like ‘The Durability of Human Teeth’, or utterly random like ‘Shop Signs’, ‘Beards’ and ‘Water Pipes’, all of these taken from a variety of contemporary sources. Provenance: Le Geyt family (ink ownership to upper cover).
WILME, B.P. A Manual of Writing and Printing Characters, both Ancient and Modern, for the Use of Architects, Engineers and Surveyors, Engravers, Printers, Decorators, and Draughtsmen. London: for the Author by John Weale, 1845. 4to (274 x 221mm.) 25 plates, 4 folding, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Browning and dust-soiling to margins, tape repair verso one plate, scattered spotting.) Original black cloth (hinges cracked, worn). – And a further fourteen related volumes (including F. Delamotte’s ‘The Book of Ornamental Alphabets Ancient and Medieval from the Eighth Century, with Numerals’, 1863, oblong 4to, and W.R. Tymms and M. Digby Wyatt’s ‘The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times’, 1860, 4to, and John Ruskin’s ‘Lectures on Architecture and Painting’, second edition, 1855, 8vo, and a manuscript folder of ecclesiastical ornament and design drawings, [circa 1870]) (15).
PROHIBITED BOOKS. [Index Librorum Prohibitorum et Expurgatorum… D. Bernardi de Sandoval & Roxus… |De consillio supremi senatus s. generalis inquisitionis Hispaniarum. Geneva: J. Crispinus, 1620.] 4to (233 x 165mm.) Half-title, 2 parts in 1, woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces, text in Latin, some sections headed in Spanish, last leaf errata at kkkii. (Browning, light spotting throughout, lacking title and pp.1-4 and pp.13-16.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to the spine (dust-soiled, small splits to spine ends). Note: first published in 1536, this list of prohibited works was revised by the Council of Trent and regularly updated until it was itself suppressed after the Vatican II in 1966. Provenance: C. Stratford (ink name to the half-title); Douai Bibliothèque Publique (stamps to the half-title); Gavin Henderson (manuscript plate to front pastedown).
SMITH, William. The History of the Holy Jesus. Containing a Brief Account of the Birth and Life, the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Blessed Saviour. London: Eben Tracy, 1717. 12mo (138 x 87mm.) 11 woodcut illustrations in the text. (Last leaf G10, lacking last twelve leaves, G5-G6 loose, damp-stained A2-F.) Contemporary calf (partially lacking spine, heavily rubbed, lower cover loosened). – And a further seven volumes (including John Dryden’s ‘Original Poems’, 2 vols., 1756, 8vo, and, published by John Baskett, ‘The Book of Common Prayer’, [lacking covers], 1717, 8vo, and a manuscript ‘Confessions’ book, [circa 1882]) (8).
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. – The Canterbury Tales. London: [Riccardi Press] Philip Lee Warner, 1913. 3 vols., limited edition, this being number 56 of 500 copies only, 4to (267 x 196mm.) 36 mounted colour plates by William Russell Flint, captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, spotting to pp.27-29 of vol. 1.) Original cloth-backed boards, mounted paper labels to spines and upper covers, t.e.g. (spines browned, some loss to top of spine of vol. 2), dust-jackets to vols. 1 and 2 (browned, brittle, with some loss to spine panels, the number ‘56’ in manuscript to spine panels) (3).
Manuscript Minutes of meetings of the committee of The Commissioners for Lighting, Cleansing, and Watching for the Town of Tralee (involving Gas Works for Tralee) Over 400 pages of detailed minutes . First entry September 1946 (Famine Years). Members of the committee included Henry Blennerhassett, Chairman and Cornelius McGillicuddy. Unique
Listowel Interest - A manuscript letter from T F Culhane (Kerry author) whilst living in Melbourne to a Dr. Maurice McKenna (Listowel). Airmail letter which details "The big strike is settled, J. J. Brown seems to be the big power in the land now"; "If you see any likely lads (suitable for police work), you should refer them to Gerald Fitzgerald, Migration Office, London"; Kerry Archaeological Journal; Donal O'Sullivan, editor of the Irish Folk Song Journal etc. etc. A most interesting item of Kerry local history.
Irish Mapping interest. The Landscape of Clonmacnoise by John Feehan; The Queen’s Last Map-maker. Richard Bartlett in Ireland 1600-03. 50-100; Catalogue of Maps of Estates of Archbishops of Dublin 1654-1850 by Refaussé and Clark; Cartography Map-making as Artform. Crawford Art Gallery. 2007; Concluding Memoir on Manuscript Mapped and other Townland Surveys in Ireland 1688-1864 by Hardinge. RIA. 186. Contemporary cloth. 5 attractive large format hardbacks
Austin Stack: Manuscript Letter dated 8/4/1918 on headed note paper of The Clarence Hotel in which he mentions 'John Dillion', 'up for the evening from Tullamore' and ' The fear is that they (the Anglo Irish) wull not give us a fight. We will give them a thorough thrashing should they do so' . Unique
Savoy Hours, Die.: The Savoy Hours. Les Heures de Savoy. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 390. Faksimile Luzern, Quaternio Verlag (2017). 8° (Faksimile) Orig.-Maroquinlederband mit reicher Rücken- u. Deckelvergoldung in Leinenkassette. Eines von 680 num. Exemplaren. - "Die Savoy Hours bzw. der Teil, der nach fast 600 Jahren von ihnen übriggeblieben ist, begeistert den Betrachter mit herrlichster Buchmalerei. Wunderbare Farben, funkelndes Gold, elegante Proportionen. In den 50 Miniaturen agieren feingliedrige Figuren vor abwechslungsreichen Hintergründen, die durch goldene Gitter, Linien, Rauten, Ranken und Quadrate verziert sind. Vom Werkstattnachfolger des berühmten Pariser Buchmalers Jean Pucelle wurden sie geschaffen. Buchkunst, die bis heute fasziniert und Begehrlichkeiten weckt! Als bibliophiles Buchobjekt kommen die Savoy Hours in einem goldgeprägten Gewand daher das prächtigste Fragment eines verlorenen Meisterwerks" (Roger S. Wieck, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York). - Hint. Innendeckel mit aufgeklebt. Zettel: Gift Yale University Library.
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