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Guicciardini (Francesco). The History of Italy, From the year 1490, to 1532, 10 volumes, 1st English language edition, London: printed by John Towers, 1753-56, Lord Camden bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light toning, marks & wear, tear from the margin to the middle of pp.151, some cracked guttering, contemporary uniform mottled full calf with gilt decorated red & green calf spine labels, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Boccaccio (Giovanni), Delle Opere Di M. Giovanni Boccacci cittadino fiorentino,..., 4 volumes, Florence: con licenza de' Superiori, 1723, previous owner blind stamps & inscriptions to the front endpapers, some minor toning & spotting, contemporary uniform full vellum, boards & spines slightly rubbed & toned, 8vo Manuscript. Indice Dei Libri Esistenti nell' Archivio del Monte Comune, circa 1825, a neatly handwritten manuscript in Italian containing 152 numbered & 11 un-numbered sheets, presentation bookplate to the front pastedown, some light spotting, toning & offsetting, some ink corrosion to the title page & verso, contemporary full vellum, boards & spine slightly rubbed & marked, folio, and other 18th & 19th-century reference & literature, including 2 volumes of bound miscellaneous late 19th & early 20th-century pamphlets, mostly original leather, some vellum bindings, some Latin & foreign language, overall condition generally G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves)

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Zaharoff, Basil,1849-1936]. Greek arms dealer and industrialist, described as a ‘mystery man of Europe’ and the likely primary inspiration for Ian Fleming’s fictional James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. A small archive of research documents, letters and other printed ephemera compiled by Donald McCormick during the early 1960s in relation to his biography of Basil Zaharoff, Pedlar of Death, featuring various Autograph Letters Signed and Typed Letters Signed to McCormick from a variety of individuals including Mario Modiano, a researcher in Athens, discussing Zaharoff’s birth date and whether he is regarded as a patriot to the Greeks, providing notes on a talk with Theodore Petrakopoulos, general manager of the Grande Bretagne hotel which Zaharoff patronised, including details of an affair ‘with the wife of a degenerate Spanish duke…(who)….was a homosexual and went off each night with Athenian coachmen. There were two children but it is not clear whose they were, Z’s or the duke’s’, Rosita Forbes (commenting that ‘Zaharov was the most fantastic & absorbing person I’ve ever met. Like a very aristocratic bat, in his elegant black cloak – a simple bat, I suppose, he had sucked life dry of all its possibilities, love, romance, wealth, power, dominance, knowledge & experience’), Haluk Durukal (discussing Zaharoff’s arms trade and the suggestion that he supplied weapons to both Turkey and Greece in 1921-22), David Compton (questioning whether Zaharoff received a GBE in 1918 as there is no record in the London Gazette, ‘This, of course, proves nothing, since there is a secret London Gazette kept for really significant espionage work’, accompanied by a typed carbon copy of McCormick’s reply commenting on Zaharoff’s spy ring, private police force, his association with David Lloyd George etc.), 15 pages of original typed manuscript, with various corrections, numbered 58-72 and including part of chapter IV (The Mystery of the Dead Convict), various newspaper clippings relating to Zaharoff etc., and a Typed Letter Signed, ‘Basil Zaharoff’, one page, 8vo, Paris, 6 June 1924, to the Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts in London, sending an annual subscriptionQty: (approx. 40)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming.

Albin (Eleazar). A Natural History of English Insects..., 1724, lacking title page and replaced in manuscript, 23 near-contemporary pages of descriptive manuscript text bound in before the title, 75 (only) engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring of moths and insects, very occasional spotting, text block broken, hinges and joints broken, boards near detached, lacking spine, near-contemporary marbled boards, 4toQty: (1)NOTESSold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

Nostitz (Pauline Mathilde). Travels of Doctor and Madame Helfer in Syria, Mesopotamia, Burmah and other lands, translated by Mrs George Sturge, 2 volumes in 1, 1st English edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1878, half titles, wood-engraved frontispiece, pp. 225-240 detaching (stitching breaking), a little minor spotting, manuscript Uxbridge School prize inscription, 1887 to front endpaper, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, spine a little faded with small stain, 8voQty: (1)NOTESUncommon one volume edition, usually found in two separate volumes.

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Kitchener, Herbert, 1850-1916, 1st Earl Kitchener]. British Field Marshal who played a central role in the early part of World War One. An archive of research documents and letters, etc., compiled by Donald McCormick in the late 1950s, in connection with his book The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death (1959) including an Autograph Letter Signed by Joe Angus, a Gunner with the Orkney Territorial Forces and the first person in authority to raise the alarm of the sinking of HMS Hampshire, in part, ‘I was sent to Birsay on patrol duty, as it happened I was on duty that memorable night from 8 pm until 12 o’clock midnight, when just before 9 pm a cruiser came in sight, I hadn’t been looking very long when all of a sudden a cloud of smoke & flame burst up from behind the bridge… The cruiser was passing Marwick Hd. when the explosion occurred, and she gradually sank down by the bow, when about fifteen minutes after she disappeared out of sight… I immediately reported the disaster… The news of the sinking was reported about 9 pm; it was after mid-night 12 o’clock before any vessel was sighted near where the cruiser went down. It was a stormy night for June… The sailors must have had a terrible night being cast adrift in such seas; quite a number reached the shore and were left to perish. There were only thirteen survivors and one died shortly after. Bodies came ashore for several weeks after…’, further letters (including a series from Ernest Marwick of the Orkney Herald) providing first-hand accounts of the events following the sinking and the questionable actions of the Admiralty in the immediate aftermath including the prevention of sending out a lifeboat (‘She was not launched, although Mr. Thomson was anxious to send her out. It is stated that Mr. Thomson met with the utmost discourtesy, some say abuse, from the authorities…’) and dismissing the story of a secret salvage of HMS Hampshire having taken place as a myth, a number of letters (most congratulatory although a few dismissing McCormick’s theories as poppycock) written following the publication of his work including 5 from Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, several from the politician Irene Ward (in one briefly referring to the Admiralty refusing McCormick access, and in another remarking ‘I think that for the record the Admiralty ought to be pressed to divulge what they know’), some correspondence regarding German U-boat captains, letters from the Admiralty (‘I am commanded… to inform you that if advantage is taken of the facilities offered… you will be required to submit the whole of your manuscript, and to amend any part of it for reasons of public interest, regardless of the source from which your information is obtained’), a small number of letters from Antony Terry, foreign correspondent and investigative journalist with The Sunday Times, various related newspaper clippings (one detailing Rasputin’s link with Kitchener’s death) etc., plus a first edition of The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, (Putnam, 1959)Qty: (approx. 85)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming. On 5 June 1916 Kitchener was making his way to Russia on HMS Hampshire to attend negotiations with Tsar Nicholas II when in bad weather the ship struck a German mine west of Orkney, Scotland, and sank. The Field Marshal was among 737 who died. Kitchener’s great fame, the suddenness of his death, and its apparently convenient timing for a number of parties gave almost immediate rise to a number of conspiracy theories about his death.

Bewick (Thomas). British Land Birds/British Water Birds/The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds, 3 volumes, Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, 1824-25, British Land Birds with title vignette, 156 wood-engraved leaves, each numbered in manuscript top right (134 numbered twice) and mostly named in English and Latin at lower margins in a neat contemporary hand, 6 wood-engravings with contemporary hand-colouring, a couple with additional information, i.e. wood-engraving numbered 148, Corncrake, 'Cold. from a fine specimen killed by W. Jordan Esq., wt. 8 oz. Tabley 2nd Sept. 1825', plate numbered 142 with some light offsetting, blank interleaves; British Water Birds with title vignette, 146 wood-engraved leaves, most named in contemporary manuscript at lower margins, including 9 hand-coloured, blank interleaves; The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds, 2nd edition, 1824 with title vignette, 224 wood-engraved leaves, blank interleaves, each volume without the text leaves as issued, occasional light spotting overall, some light offsetting to interleaves, bookplates of S.E. Widdrington, hinges reinforced, uniformly bound in contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, skillfully rebacked with original spines relaid, spines slightly faded, 4toQty: (3)NOTESRoscoe 43, 44 & 12. Each volume a limited edition of 100 copies. A handsome set. Roscoe quotes a letter from Bewick to J.F.M. Dovaston, dated 26 November 1825, in which he states 'I, last summer printed 100 Sets 4to of Birds & Quadrupeds, without Type for the sole use of Artists (& when interleaved) of Naturalists...'.

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Pigou, Arthur Cecil, 1877-1959]. English economist who taught at the University of Cambridge and was considered the most effective Russian spy in Great Britain for fifty years. An interesting archive of research documents and letters, etc., compiled by Donald McCormick in the late 1970s, in connection with his suppressed book The British Connection: Russia’s Manipulation of British Individuals and Institutions (1979) including 3 Typed Letters Signed by the Nobel prize winning economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, each 1 page, 4to (2) and 8vo (1), Freiburg, September – October 1984, each to Donald McCormick, stating ‘Having long been intrigued by the to me at first unbelievable stories that the late Professor A. C. Pigou was a Russian spy and having at last succeeded in obtaining a copy of your book The British Connection, I am at last more or less persuaded that you must be right. I not only knew Pigou probably better than any other person still living and not only had been staying with him in College, shared lectures with him (while I was with the L.S.E. evacuated to Cambridge during the war) played chess with him and even climbed with him in the Lake District, but as I now realize, was subject by him to exactly the tests which you described after I mentioned to him that I had without hesitation visited my native Austria when war was likely to break out any moment, because I knew that as an experienced Alpinist I should always be able to cross into Switzerland or Italy without difficulty. Also, characteristically, he dropped me as suddenly when he discovered that my political views made me wholly unsuitable for the purpose he evidently had in mind’ and further arranging a luncheon at the Reform Club in order to discuss Pigou and the suppression of McCormick’s book, further letters from individuals who knew or met Pigou, Wilfrid Noyce, Richard Terrell and others, including a lengthy correspondence with McCormick from Richard Holmes, another letter providing what limited details existed of Pigou’s service with the Friends Ambulance Unit in World War I, various pages of manuscript notes by McCormick relating to Pigou, a copy of his last will and testament, and a small 12mo pocket diary for 1905 believed by McCormick to have belonged to Pigou and with various entries written in pigpen cipherQty: (approx. 20)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming.

Chesney (Francis Rawdon). Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition carried on by order of the British Government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868, 45 lithograph plates, most tinted, a few folding, 2 maps (one folding with splits along folds in rear pocket), 24 pp. advertisements at end, a little light spotting and offsetting, contemporary ownership signature of C.F. Staunton M.D. at head of title, his inscription to half title, endpapers renewed, original cloth, spine faded and repaired at ends, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESAtabey 236: "This is the concluding portion of Chesney's account of the Euphrates Expedition, not a later edition of the first part. In addition to the reconstructed section of Chesney's original manuscript which had been lost in the 1830's, it contains the journals of Captain Charlewood and of General J.B.B. Estcourt, an account of Helfer's visit to the Arabian desert, and Ainsworth's account of Constantinople." Not in Abbey or Blackmer.

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Espionage]. A small archive of research documents, letters and other printed ephemera compiled by Donald McCormick during the 1970s and 1980s, in relation to his works on spies and espionage, many of the items relating in particular to the ‘ace of spies’, Sidney Reilly, including letters from Arden Winch (recalling an anecdote about Reilly supplied by MI6 agent Captain Stephen Alley, and further information relating to the intelligence officer George Alexander Hill), Natalie Wraga (relating to Lord Inverchapel and his valet), a dictated letter from Isaiah Berlin (also relating to Inverchapel’s valet, in part, ‘The rumour was that when Stalin asked Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, as he then was, when he was taking his leave as Ambassador, whether there was anything he, Stalin, could do for him, he was alleged to have asked for permission to take his masseur to his next post in Washington with him – and that this permission was in fact granted by Stalin’), a largely autograph manuscript relating to the Russian mathematician Revolt Pimenov and his interest in Reilly, also including an eight page Autograph Letter Signed in German from Karl Friedmann, the first husband of the Austrian Communist & Soviet agent Litzi Friedmann (who later became Kim Philby’s first wife) and 5 associated photographs, several letters and papers (some photocopies) relating to other Soviet spies including Nikolai Skoblin, Alexander Foote etc., as well as the University of Lund, an Autograph Letter Signed by the 7th Marquess of Anglesey etcQty: (approx. 50)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming. McCormick’s publications included Spyclopedia: The Comprehensive Handbook of Espionage (1987).

Chesney (Francis Rawdon). The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British Government in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus, in four volumes, 2 volumes [all published], 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850, half titles, 49 lithograph plates, most tinted, loose folding map (formerly contained in front pocket), folding tables, lacking the 13 additional maps in slipcases (as often), final index leaf of volume I repaired, some light spotting, toning and offsetting, bookplate of Stephen Tudsbery-Turner, contemporary half morocco, volume I upper cover detached, upper joint split, rubbed and scuffed, 4to,Qty: (2)NOTESAtabey 234; Blackmer 337. Originally intended to be published in four volumes, "Chesney was sent to China before he finished writing the history of the expedition and half of the manuscript was lost... In 1829 he set out for Constantinople intending to take part in the Russo-Turkish war; instead he made a tour of inspection in Syria and Egypt which had two results - the overland route to India and the Suez Canal (De Lesseps was led to attempt the enterprise after reading Chesney's report). In 1831 Chesney carried out his preliminary survey of the Euphrates alone, floating down the river on a raft. A parliamentary committee recommended a full-scale expedition, and two steamships were assembled near Bir in 1835, near the property of John Barker (q.v.). During the voyage the S.S. Tigris sank and after many difficulties the S.S. Euphrates finally reached Basra." (Blackmer).

* Wray (Sir Christopher, c.1522-1592). English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Patent of Arms by Robert Cooke, herald, Clarencieux King of Arms, to Christopher Wray, 30 December 1586, 22 lines of manuscript in brown ink on vellum in a very fine hand [?Robert Glover, Somerset Herald], with four-line initial ‘O’ in gold on a dark blue ground, a very large hand-painted coat of arms with bearings and decorations in gold and colours to left of text, conferring ‘… the following arms or emblems… the field Azure on a chief gold three martlets gules, mantled gules doubled argent, upon a helm on a wreath gold and gules a gold Ostrich as more plainly is depicted in the margin’, additional barley-twist decoration in red and blue to top and right margins of text, signed at end by Robert Cooke, Clarencieulx King of Arms, 285 x 490mmQty: (1)NOTESIn October 1586 Wray was present at Fotheringay Castle as one of the assessors to the tribunal before which Mary, Queen of Scots pleaded in vain for her life. Mary was executed at Fotheringay Castle on 8 February 1587. There is a copy of the patent in Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 834 I fo. 66b, which follows exactly the same wording save for a few minor differences in spelling. However, the date there is simply ‘die Februarij’ for the same year, the 29th of Elizabeth’s reign. Foster’s Grantees of Arms describes a quartered coat but this may be taken from Harl. MS. 1422, fo. 123 which gives the grant of arms date of 13 February 1592/3. A grant of the same arms was made to Leonard Wray, of Adwicke, Yorkshire, ‘fratri suo seniori’ of Christopher Wray, by William Flower, Norroy, and to Thomas Wray, of St Nicholas, Richmond, Yorkshire, brother german to Christopher Wray, both on 21 May 1587 (Harl. MS. 1507, folios 174, 369).

Walpole (Horace). A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life, London: for the Editor [G. Vertue], 1745, title with engraved portrait, addition of editor's name written in ink to imprint, early manuscript markings and entries to text and interspersed with additional leaves of manuscript notes, ownership name J. Barnard to title and few other leaves, some light toning and few marks, front blank repaired to margins and with manuscript note 'Robt. P. Roupell. Mr Barnards copy - with his mss notes and additions. His signatures on title and p.61, and also on the page following the dedication, and contains the descriptive table', modern blind & gilt panelled calf, gilt decorated spine, 4to, together with: Auction catalogue, The Collection of rare prints & illustrated works, removed from Strawberry Hill for sale in London. A Catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits... numerous manuscripts and books applying to the fine arts, &c. ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. George Robins, at his great rooms in Covent Garden, on Monday, the 13th day of June, 1842, and nine following days (Sunday exempted)..., [1842], contemporary manuscript entry against each lot detailing name of purchaser and price realised, late 19th / early 20th century marbled endpapers with manuscript note to verso of front free endpaper 'This catalogue was given to me by Mr Schulze, who had it from Mr Morgan, who had it from Smith of Lisle Street, the famous printseller, & friend of Beckford of Fonthill. I had it bound by Mr Bain of the Haymarket', top edge gilt, late 19th / early 20th century half calf, marbled sides, slim 4to, Walpole (Horace), A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue..., London: J. Dodsley, 1782, occasional spotting, modern half calf, 8vo, Britton (John), Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures belonging to the most honourable the Marquis of Stafford, in the Gallery of Cleveland House..., London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, & for the author, 1808, engraved frontispiece and plan, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (remargined), modern half calf, 8vo, and two others, British Galleries of Painting and Sculpture... by C.M. Westmacott, 1824; and South Kensington Museum, Dyce Collection, a catalogue of the paintings, miniatures, drawings..., bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1874Qty: (6)

Thesiger (Wilfred). Across the Empty Quarter (Geographical Journal, volume CXI, numbers 1-3), & Desert Borderlands of Oman (Geographical Journal, volume CXVI, numbers 4-6), London: The Geographical Journal, January-March 1948 & October-December 1950, 46 & 34pp. respectively, 4 maps (3 folding), 27 photographic illustrations, hinges repaired, manuscript contents page, ownership inscription of Edward Henderson to front free endpaper, contemporary black buckram gilt, boards slightly marked & rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESOffprints from the Geographical Journal which formed the basis of Thesiger's Arabian Sands.From the library of Edward Henderson (1917-1995), British diplomat and Ambassador to Qatar, a friend of Thesiger's.

Abernethie (Thomas). A Sketch of Charleston Harbour shewing the disposition of the British Fleet under the Command of Vice Adml. Mariot Arbuthnot in the Attack on Fort Moultrie on Sulivan Island in 1780, Charleston circa 1785, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, small repaired holes where old folds cross, folds strengthened and repaired on the verso, a few small holes along old folds, slight spotting and staining, early 19th-century manuscript annotations to the verso, 180 x 305 mmQty: (1)NOTESA scarce map of Charleston which was originally published in David Ramsay's 'History of the Revolution of South Carolina'. Ramsay's book has the distinction of being the first work granted a copyright in the United States and the map is one of the earliest battle plans of the Revolution to be engraved in America.

* Literary Autographs. A small selection of Autograph Letters Signed, Typed Letters Signed, a few pages of working manuscript etc., by various writers, poets & playwrights comprising John Betjeman (announcing the publication of his Collected Poems by John Murray, 1958; accompanied by the original envelope), Sacheverell Sitwell (offering to write a notice for a book on Cambridge and explaining ‘This is because I have just been there for the first time! Unlikely as it may seem; and can, therefore, see its buildings with an unprejudiced eye’, 1940), Roy Fuller (typed manuscript of his poem Family Christmas with various holograph corrections), Cecil Roberts (testy Typed Letter Signed lamenting the way in which he has been treated by officials and librarians in Nottingham and suggesting that England in general is now a Communist country ruled by trades union leaders, ‘Wilson is a cypher and the House of Commons is held in general contempt. The Conservative Party will disappear like the Liberal Party. To save a split it had to elect Mrs. Thatcher’, October 1975), Arnold Wesker, Hammond Innes, and Victor Canning (Autograph Letter Signed accompanied by two typed pages of working manuscript, with holograph additions and corrections, from Birds of a Feather, 1984)Qty: (8)

Watkins (John). Life, Poetry, and Letters of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer. With an abstract of his politics, 1st edition, London: John Mortimer, 1850, original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and some soiling, with a little fraying to head and foot of spine, ownership signature of Edgell Rickword, dated 31.3.39 to front endpaper, 8vo, together with: Walton (Izaak, and Charles Cotton). The Complete Angler, extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood, from original paintings and drawings, by first-rate artists. To which are added, an introductory essay... and illustrative notes, 3rd edition, London, J. Major, 1835, monochrome engraved plates (one re-hinged), all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated morocco, worn, with upper cover detached, and some loss to head of spine, 8vo Pocock (Noel). Below zero, A Travesty of Winter Sport, with verses adapted to the occasion by A. E. Johnson, London: Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1910, tipped-in colour plates, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and soiled, a little fraying to spine, 4to, and other antiquarian and illustrated books, some leather-bound, including Adam's Sinchronological Chart or Map of History, circa 1870, T. E. Lawrence, A Brief Record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1919, & Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 11th impression, 1938 (in worn dustwrapper), John Lovell, The Swiss Family Robinson, Cassell Petter and Galpin, circa 1860s (very good copy in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth), Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales, illustrated by Harry Clarke, London, George C. Harrap, re-printed 1931, original green cloth, spine somewhat faded and near-detached, 2 early to mid 19th-century scrap albums, containing drawings, watercolours, engravings and a few photographs with manuscript verse, The Duenna: A Comic Opera, London, printed for E. Johnson, 1776, etc.Qty: (3 or 4 cartons)

* American Literature. A selection of signed pieces, cards, Autograph Letters Signed, Typed Letters Signed, some pages of working manuscript, etc., by various American writers, novelists and poets, including Paddy Chayefsky (signed contract relating to the play These Important People, 1948), Damon Runyon, Joaquin Miller, Clarence Mulford, Sidney Howard, Rex Beach, Lillian Hellman, Eleanor Kirk, Charles Sheldon, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, May Swenson (Typed Letter Signed accompanied by signed typed and manuscript copies of her poem On Its Way), Jean Garrigue, Diane di Prima (two Typed Letters Signed and two pages of typed manuscript with corrections), LeRoi Jones (3, including two typed poems each signed as Amiri Baraka), Alex Haley, Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Saul Bellow, etc.Qty: (29)

Battle of Waterloo. Manuscript Map, circa 1815, pen and watercolour battle plan, martial cartouche, key plan in pencil, some spotting and staining, 380 x 470 mm, together with Gibraltar. North Front of Gibralter (sic), circa 1815, pen and watercolour plan of the fortifications, key plan, title below the image, some staining, 230 x 335 mmQty: (2)

Dallington (Sir Robert). Aphorismes civill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, 1st edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Edward Blount, 1613, engraved portrait of Prince Charles to title verso, woodcut printer's device on title, marginal damp-staining throughout (occasionally affecting text), lacking boards, spine extremities bumped with loss, lacking two raised bands, 4toQty: (1)STC 6197.Dallington first presented Prince Henry with Guicciardini's manuscript of Aphorisms in 1609. However after the Prince's untimely passing, Dallington edited the work, publishing it in 1613 with a new dedication to his younger brother Charles.

Segar (William). Baronagium Genealogicum: or The Pedigrees of the English Peers, deduced from the earliest times. Of which there are any attested accounts ... Originally compiled from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson, volume 1 only (of 6), Engraved and printed for the author, and sold by him, at his house in Warwick Street Golden Square; Messrs. Fletcher and Co. in St. Paul Church Yard; and all the booksellers of Great Britain & Ireland, [1764], engraved title, dedication leaf, 90 engraved plates of armorials and pedigrees (comprising 31 full-page armorials, 48 single-page pedigrees, & 11 double-page pedigrees), some pedigrees with manuscript additions, few double-page pedigrees with short closed tears at foot of central folds, occasional light offsetting & scattered spotting, few small worm holes to inner blank margins, marbled endpapers, upper pastedown with armorial bookplates of John Peyto Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke and Robert John Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting labels, boards detached, some wear mostly to extremities, large folio (55 x 36.5 cm)Qty: (1)

Dried specimens. Souvenir of the Rockies, Rocky Mountain Wild Flowers, 1895, album of 15 card leaves in the shape of a Maltese cross, comprising front cover, with inset circular colour illustration, lettered in silver above and below, a printed leaf 'Merry Xmas 1895 and Happy New Year 1896, RH', 12 leaves of pressed botanical specimens captioned in contemporary manuscript, and blank rear cover, tied with original twisted silk cord, occasional minor toning and 1 or 2 specimens with slight loss, front cover slightly dust-soiled and with a faint stain, 21.7 x 21.7cm (8.5 x 8.5ins)Qty: (1)NOTESExtremely rare; we have been unable to locate another copy. The botanical specimens are as follows: Columbine; Fern and Oenothera; Mertensia; Evening Star; Gentian; Fern and Tiger Lily; Indian Pink; Zygadine; Gailardie; Mariflora; Clematis and Penstemon; Thermopsis; and Aconite.

Scotland. An album containing 79 watercolours after William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', circa 1830, comprising 79 watercolour Scottish views on thin paper, mostly of coastal views (image size approximately 18 x 25 cm), each mounted onto larger album leaf (recto only), with ink manuscript caption to lower blank margins in a contemporary hand, and numbered to lower right corner, evidence of few other views sometime removed from volume, inner margins to first & last leaves strengthened with dark green bookcloth strips, pink silk moiré endpapers with dark green morocco hinges, gilt decorated turn-ins, all edges gilt, contemporary elaborately gilt decorated dark green morocco, centre of each board with unidentified gilt embossed armorial stamp depicting crown with lion passant above within garter bearing motto 'Desendue des rois', joints cracked and some wear mostly to extremities, oblong folio (26.2 x 34 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESViews include: Ben-more, from near Ulva House; Fin[d]later Castle, Banffshire; Stones of Stennis, Orkney; Dunsky Castle, near Port Patrick; Duff House, Banffshire; Port Patrick, Wigtonshire; steam boat on the Clyde near Dumbarton; Dunotter Castle, Kincardineshire; Isleonsay, Isle of Skye; Duntrune Castle; Pier at Ardrossan; Dunvegan Castle; Nelson's Tower, Forres; The Old Man of Hoy; Culzean Castle; Island of Staffa; Obelisk at Forres; Castle of Ellen Donan, etc. A Voyage Round Great Britain by William Daniell (1769-1837) was published by Longman in eight volumes over the period 1814 to 1825. His original intention was to make a coastal trip by sea, but it became clear early on in the venture that this was not practical, and most of the journey around the coast had to be made by road. The journey was completed in six separate trips, over the period 1813 to 1823. This volume of watercolours after William Daniell's aquatint views comprises areas of interest around the Scottish coast.

SHROPSHIRE MASONIC MANUSCRIPT. Minute book of the Loyal Hope of Netley Lodge from its foundation in 1840 to 1865. Small 4to. Circa 200 neat hand-written pages. Details fines and suspension of members. Sample entres: "John Jones Upper Pulley expelled for being convicted of taking game from the estate of Sir E Smith of Acton Burnell". "I did not know that Bro. Langford was in receipt of the sick gifts he was working in his own garden on the Saturday digging I saw him at 9 o'clock and then three & four in the evening. I saw him on the Monday following carrying implements of different description. P G Gamble did threaten to knock my head off my shoulders if I said any more about the case". "James Williams states that Thomas Heighway is living in adultery with a girl called Harriet Jones... It has been for years the talk of the country their co-habiting together when she lived a servant there" (7 pages of evidence). Joseph Hill is accused of falsely claiming sick pay. "I asked the woman where he lodged if he had been ill, she said no. I said I had been informed he had been three weeks in bed ill from injury he received from timber falling on his arm, she remarked, the lying old monkey he had not been ill. I asked if he had any doctor and she said no, the doctor called one day about buying some wood". (6 pages of evidence)

MANUSCRIPT RECIPE AND RECEIPT BOOK, mid 19th century. Circa 100 pages, with a few pasted-in cuttings of cures, and loosely inserted recipes

Small folio, printed and in manuscript from 1774 to 1819, comprising 17 manuscript and 34 printed leaves (many of the printed leaves with manuscript headings), 19th century half calf

Douglas, Sir Robert The Peerage of Scotland... revised by John Philip Wood. Edinburgh, 1813, 3 volumes, folio, plates, contemporary half calf, volume 1 lacks spine, several covers detached; The English Peerage London, 1790, 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf gilt; Nisbet, Alexander A System of Heraldry. Edinburgh, 1804, Second edition, 2 volumes, folio, engraved plates, contemporary embossed calf, spines gilt, lightly rubbed at head of spine; Lyndsay, Sir David Facsimile of an ancient Heraldic Manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay. 1823. Folio, hand-coloured title and hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed, upper hinge broken; Mackay, Robert History of the House and Clan of Mackay. Edinburgh, 1829, First edition, 4to, original cloth-backed boards, spine worn; Edmondson, Joseph The Present Peerages, with Plates of Arms. 1785, 8vo, engraved plates, original boards, uncut, rubbed and soiled; and others relating to Peerage & Baronetage, sold not subject to return (quantity)

di Dante Alighieri con la nova espositione de Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marconi for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. Large 8vo, 87 wood-engraved illustrations, 3 of them full-page, title partly laid down, ?17th century vellum, repairs to lower margin of AA2 and AA3 verso, dampstain to inner margin and some text at beginning, heavier dampstaining at end, a few marginal manuscript pointing fingers and a few marginal notes in an early hand, binding worn

designed to correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787. 8vo, original boards, some manuscript annotations in an early hand

Edinburgh: T. Longman, 1782. 8vo, contemporary reversed calf, numerous contemporary manuscript notes in the margin

English School, circa 1830, half length portrait of a Gentleman seated before an organ with music manuscript in hand, indistinctly inscribed in pencil verso, 30 x 23cm

EDISON ELECTRIC PEN, the nickel-plated flywheel with a cast iron frame, decorated with a red line detail, the electric motor formed with two electromagnetic coils over a knurled shaft and oscillating steel stylus, pen 5¾in. (14.5cm.) high, Patented Aug. 15. 1876 The Edison Electric Pen was a reprographic device designed to create manuscript stencils and was driven by a wet cell battery. The vibrating stylus impressed minute perforations in a special wax-coated paper and although it sold well, surviving examples are rare. It was quickly superseded by the typewriter but has gained notoriety as the predecessor to tattoo machines. A gentleman called Samuel O'Reilly discovered that Edison's oscillating pen could be used to inject ink into the skin and in 1891 he patented an add-on ink reservoir and supply tube for this use. Soon after, Thomas Riley of London improved the Edison/O'Reilly rotary version by patenting a single coil machine fashioned from a modified doorbell. However, the Edison pen is widely regarded as the first 'modern' tattooing device. PROVENANCE: The Collection of Stuart Eastman

Three early 20th Century botanical manuscript students exercise books by Joyce Hawkes, Nature Note Book, with 16 pages of manuscript entries including some pencil and coloured pencil sketches; Spring/Summer Term 1919 Botany with 31 pages of manuscript entries including good quantity pen & ink and pen, ink & watercolour sketches including Amaryllidaceae, stems, shoots, Cowslip, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae etc; Winter term 1919 Botany, with 24 pages of manuscript entries including good quantity pen & ink and pen, ink & watercolour sketches including fruits, stems, roots, shoots, flowers etc, each original marbled paper/limp cloth covers (3)

Norfolk interest, Manor Court Rolls, Court Baron, a vellum bound manuscript Court book, 'Manor of Ffoulden Latimers with the Members', entries dated from 4th April 1786-10th September 1909, 164 pages of manuscript entries on property, land, tenure etc, in the Manor of ffoulden Latimers (Foulden, SW of Swaffham, NW of Thetford, Breckland, South Norfolk), Court of William George Daniel Tyssen Esquire, all entries in English, plus 13 pages of manuscript rent tables & 12 pages manuscript index at end, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to covers and spine.***Sold Subject to the Manorial Document Rules these items may not be removed from England and Wales.

Inclosure Acts, 'North and South Lopham Award', a large folio volume circa 1812-1815, containing a long manuscript vellum legal document relating to land in North & South Lopham, Norfolk, the commissioners Thomas Lanchester of Coney Weston, Thomas Archer of Barton Mills, Harry Browne of Diss, and John Housman of North Lopham, the first meeting of the commissioners taking place at the White Horse Inn, South Lopham, 25th May 1812, two folding vellum documents at front signed by the aformentioned commissioners, preceding 108 vellum pages of manuscript entries re North & South Lopham land boundaries, public carriage roads & private roads, repairs of roads, public footways, allotment for the poor, allotment for public land and gravel pits, then listing allotments to proprietors, all listed by name in alphabetical order for North Lopham, then South Lopham, including at beginning "Allotment to the Most Noble Charles Duke of Norfolk for Rights of Soil in North Lopham", allotment exchanges between proprietors and said Feoffes, then at end adjudication, directions respecting fences, stewards fees, expenses, tables for N. & S. Lopham listing proprietors and proportionate amounts, plus large folding hand coloured manuscript plans of North & South Lopham at end titled "Map of the Parish of North Lopham in the County of Norfolk referring to the Award of 1815", scale 9 chains to an inch, Browne & Taylor, surveyors, and "Plan of South Lopham as refers to the Award annexed 1815", R Payne, Surveyor, each approx. 58 x 75cm, each signed Harry Browne & Thomas Archer verso, large folio (59 x 43cm), original reverse calf, morocco gilt title label to upper cover, metal clasps; plus Serpell: 'A History of the Lophams', 1980, 1st edition (2)

An illuminated leaf from a 15th Century French book of prayers, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 16 lines of single column Gothic Latin script to each side, 12 illuminated initials in total (5 gold, 7 red and blue), decorative line filler in blue, red and gold, text and border approx 10 x 7.5cm, leaf approx 16 x 10.5cm, loosely corner mounted in a card folder, together with a mounted 16th Century Italian manuscript Initial on vellum, burnished gold initial on a blue ground with foliate decoration and double line border, approx size 5.5 x 5.5cm

William Stevenson Fitch: 'Suffolk Manorial Registers, Royal Grants and Deeds, court-baron, Leet and Rent Rolls, Surveys, letters, papers, and Other Authentic documents: Manuscripts collected for the Purpose of a General History of Suffolk', 1843, Part I (all published), only 50 copies printed for private circulation, previously the copy of Suffolk antiquarian John Glyde, unique copy with 36 autograph letters signed bound in before and after the 50pp printed work, manuscript index of senders of autograph letters at end, with the names of those whom were subscribers asterixed, ALS's include John Henniker-Major, 4th Baron Henniker (1801-1870), Thornham Hall, Eye, October 22nd 1859; Lord Arthur Hervey (1808-1894), Sept. 23 1889; John P. Boileau, Ketteringham Park, Wymondham, 29 Oct. 1859; Jeremiah Head; Rev. Hugh Pigot; Charles Austin; John Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke (1794-1886); Samuel Tymms, Puttick & Simpson Auctioneers; Willis & Sotheran Booksellers, etc etc, bookplate of William Henry Booth, Felixstowe, 1910, with m/s note at foot "from John Glyde Sale 1910", several other relevant m/s pencil notes and cuttings at front, old half calf gilt

Jean Bodin: 'De la Demonomanie des Sorciers: A Monseigneur M. Chrestofle de Thou, Cheualier, Seigneur de Cœli, premier president en la Cour de Parlement, & Conseiller du Roy en son priue Conseil...', Paris, Jacques du Puy, 1587, Bodin's major and influential work on sorcery and the witchcraft persecutions. The book relates histories of sorcerers, and gives a report of a 1552 public exorcism in Paris, and of the case of Magdalena de la Cruz of Cordova, an abbess who had confessed to sexual relations with the Devil over three decades. Bodin cites Pierre Marner on werewolf accounts from Savoie, and denounces the works of Cornelius Agrippa, and the perceived traffic in "sorceries" carried out along the Spanish Road, running along eastern France for much of its length. Leaves numbered ff218-252 cover refutations of the opinions of Johann Weyer (1515-1588), Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Some internal browning, light waterstaining at top edge of some leaves, ff241 slight damage just affecting small part of text, "A.L.L.R." inkstamp to title page and manuscript pen and ink marginalia and annotations to several leaves throughout (circa 17th/18th Century, some slightly later to preface in brown pencil), final leaf numbered ff252, but 14 unnumbered leaves at front including title page, preface etc, before 256 numbered leaves (some mispagination including ff44 misnumbered 43, ff100 misnumbered 80, 2 x ff228, 3 leaves following ff243 and preceding ff244 incorrectly numbered 241,242 & 243, etc). Contemporary calf gilt (worn), inner joint at front reinforced (not recent), all edges marbled. A rare and important 16th Century work relating to demonology, witchcraft, occult, demonomania and magic.

A large 19th Century manuscript plan of Diss, Shelfanger, Winfarthing, The Heywood & environs, showing land divisions and land owners, hand colouring, scale 8 chains to an inch, signed John Josseyln [of Sproughton, Suffolk, land agent & surveyor], some wear/light waterstaining, tape repairs verso, approx. 131 x 77cm, rolled

'A Plan of the Parishes of Bressingham and Fersfield in the County of Norfolk 1804', large manuscript pen & ink plan on vellum, with hand colouring, showing land divisions and landowners, scale 5 chains to an inch, some one or two closed tears, some waterstaining, approx. 123 x 100cm, rolled

Henry Davy (1793-1865), a bound volume containing 35 etched plates of Suffolk, from 'A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk', the plates variously dated 1819-1823, including Framlingham Castle, Laxfield Church, Bury St Edmunds, Eye Church, Wingfield Castle, Leiston Abbey, Redisham Church, Orford Castle etc, ownership signature of Rev'd M.G. Edgar, 1823, of The Red House estate, Ipswich, Suffolk, underneath signature of Mrs [Elizabeth] Edgar, 1842 (2nd wife of M.G. Edgar), folio, recased half calf retaining contemporary marbled paper covered boards, bookplates, of Frederick Arthur Crisp (1851-1922) of Little Weham, Suffolk, and Anthony Copsey, of Sparrowes Nest, Ipswich, to front pastedown, old manuscript list of plates tipped in to front paper, m/s pencil note "N.B. Red House Binding" above

Three very scarce 19th Century Great Yarmouth seafaring/maritime/maritime disaster related titles, comprising: 'Description of Beeching's Northumberland Prize Life Boat, Designed and Built by Beeching and Sons, Boat-Builders, &c., Great Yarmouth.', Yarmouth, L.A. Meall, 1852, lithograph frontis depicting Beeching life boats sailing and rowing in roaring sea, 18pp, old cloth, original blue printed wraps bound in, very scarce, no copies on Copac/Jisc, 1 copy only on Worldcat located in Brown University Library, Providence R.I., USA; "A Southtown Resident": 'Yarmouth Sands, A Descriptive and Tragic Poem; The Banks of the Yare, and Other Subjects in Verse.', Yarmouth, for the author by B. Gooch & Son, 1852, 1st edition, iv,80,iipp, preface states "The principle subject in the miscellany now respectfully offered to the public, was suggested by a catastrophe which some years since, occurred off the Yarmouth shore, and which is yet generally, and painfully, remembered...", original blindstamped cloth gilt, all edges gilt, no copies on copac or worldcat; Rev. Henry MacKenzie: 'Three Ballads: The Beachman's Tale, The Loss of the "Phoenix" Yawl, and the East-Anglian Maiden', Yarmouth, W.D. Burton, 1860, signed by author to dedication page, The Beachman's Tale ballad referring to the miraculous escape from shipwreck of Samuel Brock, Yarmouth beachman, in 1835, manuscript note by author at beginning stating "..verse from the Story of Brock, previously published", 21pp, some pencil annotations to text, old cloth gilt, scarce; plus 'The Norfolk Sea Floods February, 1938', reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society', vol.14 pt.4 1938, 334-390pp booklet, orig. printed wraps (4)

Gawdy Hall Estate, near Redenhall/Harleston, South Norfolk, ledger titled "Gawdy Hall Estate Journal" to front cover, 12 pages of manuscript accounts entries re rent, farm rent, rates, cottage rents, service of cow, repairs, stone, royalties etc, folio, contemporary cloth, plus 14 large folding coloured maps of the estate, from 1938 sale particulars/sale catalogue, for sale by H.G. Apthorpe (15)

Norfolk interest, Manor Court Rolls, Court Baron, a vellum bound manuscript Court book, 'Rectoria East Braddenham', entries dated from 20th November 1724-4th January 1847, 161 pages of manuscript entries on property, land, tenure etc, in the Rectory of East Bradenham Manor (near Shipdham/East Dereham, Breckland, South Norfolk), initial entries pages 1-19 in Latin & English, pages 20-161 entries in English (20th October 1733 onwards), plus 5 page manuscript index at end, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to covers and spine.***Sold Subject to the Manorial Document Rules these items may not be removed from England and Wales.

Arthur Henry Patterson, 2 scarce titles: 'Sea-side Scribblings for visitors; or, how to make the most of a holiday jaunt', London, Jarrold and Sons, [1887], 1st edition, 139pp + [5]pp adverts at end, original pictorial paper covered card wraps (laminated, generally preserving the condition of the notoriously brittle wraps), 'Broadland Scribblings: A Leisure- Hour Book for the Holidays', 1892, 1st edition, signed by author to title page, 7 plates (one of which with manuscript correction in Patterson's hand, changing Moorhen to "coot" and Plover to "Dotterel", rebound half calf gilt

A manuscript recipe book, manuscript receipts in several different hands, circa late 17th/early 18th Century onwards, 277 m/s numbered pages (but about 170 pages completed with manuscript recipes), circa late 17th/early 18th Century calf binding (very worn), top board detached (but present), spine gilt in compartments, worn morocco gilt title label to spine "Cordial Waters & Surrups",  various medical and cookery recipes, including Aqua Mirabilis, Cherry Water, "The Hott Surfett Water", "An Approved Water to heal ye Lungs & to allay ye heat of a ffeavour & to help one of a consumption if it be not too far gone - Take ye liver of a lamb, and a piece of ye shoulder of the lamb and ye livers of 2 black rabbitts and the lungs of a ffox, and 2 sheeps hearts, a young red cock, half a pound of cap dates, half a pound of blow currants...cut your cock in pieces and croak the bones in pieces stone your dates and pith them...then pound your dates raisins currants in a mortar and then distill all those in a rosewater still, and when they are distilled put to them 2 pounds of browne sugar candy to sweeten it. Let the party drink of it six spoonfulls at a time every two hours for a month together cold. If the ffox lungs be dried you must coat them to powder before ye putt them into your still", to make preservative water, to make Dr Stephen his water, "Snail or Worms Water very good against a Hectick ffeavour...", "The Wind Water", "To Make Swallow Water - Take 50 or 60 Swallows when they are ready to ffly out of the nests, the more swallows you have ye better will your water be, crush them to a pap in a mortar ffeathers and all then add to them two ounces of castor in powder...Midsummer is the choisest time to make it...", the first 35 pages of m/s entries appear to be circa late 17th/early18th Century and in the same hand, these being for waters/syrups/cordials of a medical remedy nature, the following leaves of entries appear to be 18th and 19th Century, in different hands, and mainly cookery recipes, "Mary Frances Salmon 1813" in m/s pen & ink inside front coverNB - leaves at front loose (leaves preceding manuscript page numbered 34) 

Charles Dickens (1812-1870), and his circle, a collection of autograph letters signed, Cartes des Visites, Cabinet Cards, autograph fragments, clipped signatures, original sketches etc, relating to Charles Dickens, the foremost novelist of the 19th Century, and his extensive circle of friends and associates, which encompassed many eminent and influential figures of the Victorian age, including fellow writers, artists, illustrators, poets, social reformers etc, 50+ individual items, comprising Charles John Huffam Dickens 'Boz' (1812-1870), clipped signature, corner mounted onto card, printed biography to card mount, plus CdV by the London Stereographic & Photographic Company, circa 1860s, with facsimile signature at foot; John Leech (1817-1864), humourous artist, illustrator of 'Pickwick' after Seymour's death, personal friend of Dickens who contributed illustrations to all the 'Christmas Books', and sole illustrator of 'A Christmas Carol', Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs Taylor, 1 page 8vo, Brunswick Square, London, 6 March 1858, thanking her for a gift of music of a quality "which improves upon acquaintance. I value it highly", corner mounted to card backing, typed description to mount, plus an original pencil drawing by Leech, tipped onto card mount, together with original envelope and autograph note signed dated 1833, making Leech 16 years of age at the time, possibly to his college friend?; Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English novelist and playwright, contributed to 'Household Words' from 1855, collaborated with Dickens in 'The Lazy tour of Two Idle Apprentices' and 'A Message from the Sea', wrote, with Dickens, 'No Thoroughfare', 1867, by which time he had become a close friend of, and a strong influence upon, Dickens, his later novels include 'Armadale' and 'The Moonstone', autograph envelope signed, addressed to Mr C. Thomas at Messrs Robson & sons, printers, postally cancelled 18th July 1879, tiped onto card mount, plus CdV of Wilkie Collins, by Charles Watkins photographers circa 1860s; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), novelist, his most famous books being 'Vanity Fair', 'The Newcomes', 'The Virginians' etc, his reputation enhanced by the later 'Pendennis'. Dickens and he met in 'Pickwick' days, when Dickens was in search of an illustrator, and Thackeray always remembered offering him some drawings, "which, strange to say, he did not find suitable". In 1858 the pair quarelled over a critical comment on Thackeray by Edmund Yates, published in 'Town Talk'. Thackeray tried to get Yates removed from the Garrick CLub; Dickens defended Yates, and the two literary giants remained estranged until a wekk before Thackeray's death. Dickens was deeply shocked by the death, and paid warm tribute to Thackeray's genius, learning and humour. Autograph Note Signed by Thackeray, tipped onto card mount, printed biography beneath, plus CdV of Thackeray by Herbert Watkins of Regent Street London; George Cruikshank (1792-1878), artist and caricaturist, commissioned to illustrate 'Sketches by Boz', and later 'Oliver Twist', as well as 'Joseph Grimaldi' and 'The Mudfog Papers'. In 1847 Cruikshank published 'The Bottle', in 1848 'The Drunkard's Children', and his magnum opus 'The Worship of Bacchus' in 1862. Despite his fanaticism as a teetotaller, and his strange claims to have written 'Oliver Twist' and originated 'Pickwick', Dickens admired him and remained friendly with him. George Cruikshank Autograph Letter Signed, dated 24th September 1869, to Mr Hill, 263 Hampstead Road headed paper, 8vo leaf, folded, tipped onto card mount, typed biography to card mount. Plus a Cruikshank Autograph note Signed, tipped onto card, undated, approx size 18 x 11cm, plus autograph memo signed by R.J. Chillingworth addressed to "Geo. Cruikshank Esq Hampstead Road N.W.", 8th September 1874, 2 sides of m/s; Hablot Knight Browne 'Phiz' (1815-1882), painter and illustrator, first illustration for Dickens for 'Sunday under Three Heads', 1836, followed by 'Pickwick', continued to illustrate for Dickens for 23 years, ten of the novels being illustrated by him in etching or wood engraving, 'A Tale of Two Cities' being the last book for which he drew, his drawings notable for grotesquerie and strong characterisation. Autograph Letter Signed, August 4th 1875, headed Brunswick House, Marine Parade, Hastings, 8 lines plus signature, to W. Marshall, 17.5 x 11.5cm, tipped onto card mount, printed biography beneath; Marcus Stone (1840-1921), son of Frank Stone, with whom Dickens was warm friends, virtually Dicken's adopted son after Frank Stone's death in 1859, often spending weeks at Dickens' home, provide frontispieces for some volumes in the cheap edition before illustrating 'Our Mutual Friend'. By 1870, when Dickens was searching for an illustrator for Edwin Drood, Stone was enjoying considerable success with his paintings and no longer worked as an illustrator, Autograph Letter Signed from Stone to the young daughter of Dr. Doran, January 8th 1867, ipped onto card mount, with portrait engraving of Stone and transcript of letter, plus mounted Victorian photograph of Stone (approx 9 x 6cm), plus another ALS from Stone to Dr. Doran, January 31st 1867, tipped onto card leaf, with transcript; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 'L.E.L' (1802-1838), poetess, member of LAdy Blessington's circle, she was frequently at Gore House at the time when Dickens visited there, died mysteriously of poisoning in West Africa in 1838, unsigned autograph fragment, 7 lines, [nd], laid down and repaired, annotated in another hand above as a piece of her manuscript "Illustrations of Walter Scott's Female Characters", with printed transcript beneath; John Fraser (1812-1876), one of Dickens's closest friends, ALS dated 1855; Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), friend of Dickens's from Devonshire Terrace days, ALS, CdV by John Watkins, In Remembrance cabinet card published by Mendelssohn together with corresponding printed in memoriam pamphlet, 1873; Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), English philanthropist, friend of Charles Dickens, signed fragment of Autograph Letter plus CdV by London Stereoscopic Company; Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) CdV; Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) CdV; Washington Irving (1783-1859), author, man of letters, friend and in regular correspondence with Dickens c.1840-42, clipped signature; George Watson Pratt (1830-1861?), American Librettist, ALS addressed to Berger, last page mentions "I anticipate much pleasure in seeing you, Barker and Dickens again. I have not heard a word from Barker or Dickens - the next time you meet them please apply the following wishes to them...[there follows a list of supposedly humorous insults!]"; Alfred Crowquill [i.e. Alfred Henry Forrester], (1804-1872), ALS, mounted on card next to mounted 19th Century portrait engraving of Crowquill, transcript of letter loose in sleeve; William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), ALS dated 1845, plus engraved portrait illustration; Richard Bentley (1794-1871), publisher who collaborated with Dickens, ALS dated 1853; Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), friend of Dickens, founded Guild of Literature of Art with Dickens, fragment of an ALS; Thomas Talfourd (1795-1854), letter front signed; Leonardo Cattermole, son of George Cattermole, humorous pen & ink sketch, signed, Luke Fildes (1843-1927), ALS dated 1894 to Archibold Grove; Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857), ALS, autograph letter front + 2 CdV's; R.H. Barham [Thomas Ingoldsby] (1788-1845), ALS; ALS from Blanchard Jerrold to William Hall (of Chapman & Hall publishers), concerning his proposed biography of George Cruikshank; Mark Lemon (1809-1870), autograph ten lines of a poem, signed; plus CdV's of Charles Fechter & Daniel Maclise; plus seven photographic sheets of specimens of designs registered in England & America, unresearched, possibly a Dickens connection

Animal Medicine, Veterinary Remedies - A circa early 19th Century book of manuscript veterinary recipes, 51 pages of manuscript remedies for sick animals, mainly cattle, plus dogs, sheep and vermin control, cattle receipts include those for inflammation of the kidneys, for diarrhoea, for black water, fever, endemic cold or influenza, yellows or jaundice, inflammation of the brain, 'Black Garget', Colic, 'Staggers or Pertigo', plus how to extract a calf, how to extract the placenta after calving, 'The bite from Venemous Reptiles', mange, pneumonia, mange in dogs, 'To make rats and mice scabby', to kill rats or mice, to poison moles, to destroy weasels, to take a pole cat in a trap, to catch otter, some fishing bait receipts, some sheep receipts etc, book ends abruptly at m/s page 51, lacking leaves after, a/f contemporary half calf very worn, lacks lower board, top board detached, m/s title label to top board "Thurlton" [South Norfolk]

An 1894 Russian mourning telegram form to Queen Victoria, written and signed in the manuscript hand of the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), "The Queen Windsor Castle Last account's of Nicky's brother but we must not believe accounts in newspapers. Many thanks for letter and presents for tomorrow Albert Edward", this possibly referring to Nicky's (Nicholas II's) brother George, who died age 28 and whose poor health confined him to the Tsar's summer palace at Likani and so could not attend these events. Written and signed by Edward VII in pencil, telegraph form approx. 22 x 23cm

Norfolk interest, Manor Court Rolls, Court Baron, an 18th Century vellum bound manuscript Court book, 'The Manors of Snettisham Lancaster. On the parts of Dame Cicilys Rusten and Hackens in Norfolk', entries dated from 9th October 1730-11th December 1765, 352 pages of manuscript entries on property, land, tenure etc in the four manors of Snettisham (south of Hunstanton, north of Kings Lynn, Norfolk), pages 1-42 in Latin, pages 43-352 in English (5th April 1733 onwards), plus 11 page manuscript index at end, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to covers and spine.***Sold Subject to the Manorial Document Rules these items may not be removed from England and Wales.

Rev. F.O. Morris: 'A History of British Birds', London, Groombridge, [nd], circa 1880, 8 volumes, 358 hand coloured plates as called, all tissue guarded and clean/VGC, volume I with 14 page contemporary manuscript list of recorded birds species at end, uniform original cloth gilt (worn) (8)

An Edwardian commonplace album, circa 60 pages of manuscript entries, mainly poetry and prose excerpts, some pen & ink and watercolour sketches, full red leather gilt, all edges gilt

Francis Gladwin: 'A Compendious Vocabulary English and Persian, including all the Oriental Simples in the Materia Medica, employed in modern practice: with tables subjoined of the Successions of the Khaliffs, and of the Kings of Persia and Hindostan, compiled for the use of the Honorable East India Company', [Malda in Bengal: printed by Charles Wilkins], 1780, 1st edition, printer's entwined initials C. W. appear on the title page together with his name transliterated in Persian script, ends at p.164 (copies on worldcat state 178pp), interleaved copy, with a page near front of contemporary manuscript pen & ink entries in Persian & English, small number of other m/s entries to blank leaves, ex library, some old inkstamps "Crindlay & Co's East India Rooms, 8 St Martins Place", old quarter calf gilt (worn). Scarce work by Frances Gladwin (d. ca. 1813), lexicographer and prolific translator of Persian literature into Englishincludes printing in Persian (nasta'liq) script

A commonplace album circa 1880-1882, Stockwell College of Education (Teacher Training College in South London), 80+ pages of manuscript pen & ink entries, mainly extracts of poetry and prose and several sketches, including some pen, ink and watercolour, many of the entries signed by mainly female students, 4to (23 x 19cm), original cloth (covers slightly soiled)

1924 sale catalogue South Pickenham Hall, Norfolk, 'Illustrated Particulars and Plan of the Freehold, Residential, Sporting, and Agricultural Estate of South Pickenham Hall, Extending to an Area of About 4,871 Acres and Constituting one of the Finest Game Preserves in the Eastern Counties', Messrs. Osborn & Mercer, 10th July 1924, 31pp, 14 illustrations from photographs on 9 full page plates, lacks maps/plans in rear pocket, folio, original wraps (worn), plus a mid 19th Century Abstract of the title to the Manors or Lordships of Saham Toney Insoken and Outsoken in the County of Norfolk, 87 pages of manuscript entries covering period 1719-1838, plus an early 20th Century manuscript document "(Copy) Apportionment of the Rent Charge in lieu of Tithes in the Parish of Methwold in the County of Norfolk", 70+ pages of m/s entries, plain card covers (3)

Typography.- Printed in imitation of manuscript.- [Trusler (Rev. John, publisher)] On our Chimerical Schemes of future Happiness. Ecclesiastes, Chap. I, Verse, 9, signed by publisher at end, ink ms. corrections to text, water-stained, some foxing, later drab wrappers, [John Trusler], [c.1790]; and another similar, 'On Content', signed at end by Trusler, 8vo (2)⁂ Both unrecorded.

18th century Commonplace Book.- Planta (Rev. Peter Jacob, Moravian Minister, Missionary in Jamaica, of Ockbrook, Derbyshire, 1721-1815) & Benigna Planta, daughter of P.J. Planta. Medical & other useful Recipes & other writings, 2 parts in 1 vol., manuscript in several hands (?some autograph), title and 265pp., 1f. loose, browned, original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover "1827 B Planta 1789", soiled, sm. 4to, 1801-15.⁂ Contents, include:(1). Regarding his affairs in Jamaica; "Inventory of my whole Estate of the Many Goods & Debts belonging to me" etc.(2). Recipes, "Certain Cure for Corns"; "Different Wines"; "Huxhams Tincture of Bark"; "The Tincture of Opiom or, Laudanum" etc. (3). Literary compositions: an untitled love story [Prince Idra]; "Antediluvian Tales"; "Thomas Paine" "Dr Byron's Poetry"; "Memoirs of the Life of the late, Revd Peter Jacob Planta..." etc.

Beckford (William) An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, first edition, errata f., lacking final blank f., occasional foxing, attractive modern antique-style calf, spine gilt with black morocco label, [Rothschild 352], 8vo, for J. Johnson, 1786.⁂ Rare first edition of Beckford's influential gothic tale. This translation into English was prepared by Samuel Henley and published against Beckford's expressed wishes.

*** Please be aware that the description of this lot has changed *** Medieval Manuscript facsimile.- Beatus of Liebana. Commentaria in Apocalypsin, facsimile of the Codex of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, one of 987 copies, tipped-in certification leaf at end, colour illustrations, original blind-stamped calf, slip-case, with the accompanying Commentary volume by Vivancos and Franco, original cloth, dust-jacket, folio, Barcelona, Moleiro, 2003.⁂ Fine facsimile edition of this magnificent 11th century manuscript.

[Ussher (James, Bishop of Armagh)] The Judgement of the Late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf-backed boards, some light manuscript annotations to first few ff., for John Crook, 1657 § Toland (John) Christianity Not Mysterious: or, a Treatise Shewing there is nothing the Gospel Contrary to Reason, second edition, title in red & black, later calf, rebacked, g.e., 1696 § Tillotson (John) The Rule of Faith, contemporary morocco, spine gilt, joints rubbed, A. Maxwell for Sa, Gellibrand, 1666; and 13 others, similar, v.s. (16)

Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand, Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist, 1869-1948) Autograph album with signature of Gandhi, Muriel Lester and Mirabehn "Mira", also signed by Nellie and Violet Lansbury daughters of George Lansbury, on one 1 leaf, album of 19 signed pp., others blank, 1f. loose, original morocco, gilt, 130 x 195mm., 1919-31.⁂ Signed by Gandhi when he came to London in 1931 to attend a conference on the future of India. Instead of a hotel he stayed at Kingsley Hall in Bow, a small independent church run by sisters Muriel and Doris Lester. Also signed by Mirabehn, Madeleine Slade P. V. (1892-1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn; supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who in the 1920s left her home in England to live and work with Mohandas Gandhi. Manuscript note of provenance accompanies this lot.