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* Wing Commander William Mayes Fry, M.C., Royal Flying Corps. An archive relating to his military service and personal life, including a WWI photograph album containing approximately 200 black and white photographs, all captioned for example No 8 Squadron, ruins of Matigny December 1917, aerial view of German Red Cross Hospital near Roulens, German gun position from E of Arras, Ypres from 3000 ft, September 1917, Hospital other photographs include airships, Ploegsteert Woods, Vickers, BE2C, Sopwith Sniper, SE5 aircraft, Bleriot at Dover and other related photographs, some pages cut and photographs removed, contained in a hardbound album, together with three albums for his time in Iraq, showing Arabs, biplanes and daily genre, a portrait photograph of Fry in RFC tunic with Somerset Light Infantry cap, plus other ephemera, mainly typescript documents and correspondence including: approximately 45 letters, plus copies, from and addressed to 'Willie', 1971-1989, signed from various people including: 'Grid' [K.L. Caldwell], Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Joe Warne, Michael Oakley, Philip Markham, AJ Bauer, A. Ed Ferko, David Luff, etc., typescript documents, some with manuscript editions, including: Willie's early life and career, William Avery Bishop VC, RAF Hawkinge, 1941/42, Henlow: Mobile Lighthouse, Return to Hinaidi, No.7 (Bomber) Squadron, Bircham Newton, Iraq (including rough draft intended for publisher), etc., and various related publications QTY: (5 boxes)NOTE:William Mayes Fry (1896-1992) was one of the few WWI airmen to survive to the 1990s. He was born in Twickenham and joined the army, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry in 1915 and later trained as a pilot, receiving his pilot license in 1916 and appointed Flying Officer with No 12 Squadron, and then No 11 Squadron, flying BE.2s over the Somme. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 31 October 1916.He joined No 60 Squadron where he flew Nieuport 17 and on 2 May 1917 scored his first aerial victory. Two days later, he shared a victory with Air Marshal William "Billy" Bishop, V.C., C.B., D.S.O. & Bar, M.C., D.F.C.On 13 and 19 May he claimed two more solo aerial victories and his fifth was whilst flying an Albatros D.III. which was driven down out of control on 16 June. He claimed this with Air Commodore Keith "Grid" Caldwell, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C. & Bar. One of Fry's squadron mates was Albert Ball.On 16 August 1917 Fry was awarded the Military Cross'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Diving to a very low altitude, and under heavy fire, he emptied all his ammunition into the retreating enemy. During the last month, he has brought down four hostile machines. He has done consistent good work as a pilot.'On 1 September 1917 he was appointed Flight Commander and transferred to No 23 Squadron to command "C" Flight. With two aerial victories on 20 November and 4 December 1917. Another on 4 January 1918 and on 6 January he and Frank Granger Quiglet jointly shot down and killed Pour le Merite winner Leutnant Walter von Bulow-Bothkamp and on the 23 January Fry claimed another victory by shooting down an Albatross.Fry transferred to No 79 Squadron and he claimed his final aerial victory whilst using a Sopwith Dolphin to take down a Fokker Dr.I on 11 May 1918.Fry continued his service post war and served in Egypt, being posted to the Depot at RAF Aboukir in 1931, he then moved to No 216 Squadron based at Heliopolis. Fry left the RAF om 1943 but re-engaged for service on the outbreak of WWII. He rose to the rank of Wing Commander and was mentioned in despatches. He retired from service in 1945 and retained the rank of Wing Commander.

* Spitfire Instruments. A Merlin compressor, inscribed in relief 'Type SH6/2/P Compressor 137G/3', with manuscript label inscribed 'FAO Fred Ballam' (Westland), together with an altitude meter scratch mark 2849/55, port and starboard brake indicator numbered 630/63 and other instruments, a metal 6 aperture instrument panel, a large black and white photograph laid on card showing a Spitfire cockpit, 26 x 29 cm, relics recovered from Spitfire JF318 which crashed over Amesbury, Wiltshire on 25 September 1944 including gun cartridge cases, two WWII RAF compases, P8 and P11, each in wooden transport case, a Marconi Crystal Junior and other related itemsQTY: (a carton)NOTE:Provenance: Norman Parker (1926-2024), Aviation Historian & Chairman of Amesbury History Society.

A 19th century Persian Iranian manuscript fragment from the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, by Ferdowsi. The fragment with central hand painted scene of Persian warriors, central warrior riding a horse whilst hunting a creature. The illustrated leaf framed by handwritten ink text in Farsi. Orange, black & gold border. Along with an Iranian 18th century pencil and ink drawing of a travelling dervish. The sketch depicting an itinerant fakir figure holding staff and bundle, dressed in robes and belt; the figure with Central Asian / Mongolian features. Cut from a larger manuscript album, with a clipping of the blue, green, gilt & orange coloured border beneath the traveller's bundle. Light spotting to upper left hand corner and the dervish's arms. Both mounted, framed & glazed.Manuscript fragment measures approx. 17.5cm x 10cm, sketch 21cm x 13cm at widest point, frames approx. 36cm x 26cm.

PEREGRINUS DE OPPELNSermones de tempore et de sanctis, 172 leaves, 39 lines, Gothic letter, red manuscript initials, occasional manuscript annotations in margins, loss to margin of A4 affecting text, upper right corner of B1, B5, B6 and B7 torn with lost text supplied in manuscript [ISTC ip00269000; Goff P269], [Strasbourg, Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], 4 September 1495--FABRIS (MELCHIOR DE) Von der Martins Gans, title in red and black, full-page woodcut illustration of St Martin on verso of title [cf. USTC 703601], Thierhaupten, Thierhaupten Klosterdruckerei, 1595, 2 works in 1 vol., modern ink annotations to blanks and to second title, spotting, toning and occasional soiling, heavier damp-staining to first leaves, later elaborately blind-stamped pigskin with nativity scene on central panel of upper cover and God overlooking Christ on central panel of lower cover, spine with raised bands, metal clasps, some wear and soiling, large 8vo (185 x 195mm.)Footnotes:Provenance: 'In usum Jacobi Kartl Gynzburgensis plebani in ?O[...], 1612', early ownership inscriptions on both title-pages; Alfred Konrad Volkert, bookplate; Buckfast Abbey.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JUNG (CARL)An archive of manuscript material, typescript lecture notes, books, etc. relating to Jung and his circle including Alice Lewisohn, Toni Wolff and C.A. Meier, from the collection of Walter Pickett Lewisohn, including:MANUSCRIPTSJUNG (CARL) Two typed letters signed ('C.G. Jung') to Mr. Lewisohn, mentioning in response to a request to be seen, that 'I only can spend a very restrictive amount of time on practical work, as I have to be careful with my health... I hope you don't expect too much!', and in the second letter thanking Lewisohn for sending 'a most amazing document' and proposing a meeting at Locarno, in both mentioning Alice Lewisohn ('Mrs Crowley'), 2 pages, 4.11.1946 and 17.3.1947MEIER (CARL A.) Six typed letters signed ('C.A. Meier) to Walter Lewisohn (with copies of his side of the correspondence), ranging from an interpretation of a dream ('The false teeth seem to indicate that you system of grasping things... no longer works'), Jung ('The boss is in good health since he became wise enough to take a vacation every now and then...'), a proposed film of Jung ('... excellent dialogue won't make a moovy'), UNESCO ('... certainly the most barbarous invention white humans ever made'), his involvement with 'the bloody C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich', etc., 6 pages, most on headed paper, 16.2.1948-5.12,1959 and 8.11.1971LEWISOHN (ALICE, Mrs. Crowley) Fourteen typed letters, and 7 letters signed ('Alice') to Walter Lewisohn ('Dear Walter'), or occasionally his wife Florence (with copies of Walter's side of correspondence), mostly written from Zurich, including news of Jung ('ungraspable fact that Toni Wolff had died suddenly.. a terrific shock for GJ who was just beginning to feel ever so much better', 'Mrs Jung has died... CG is wholly shattered'), plays and films ('The opening of To Kill a Mocking Bird with Gre. Peck is enchanting and the best job he has yet done...'), life in Zurich, Walter's proposed film, etc., approximately 55 pages, many in original envelopes, c.1947-1961WOLFF (TONI) Two typed letters signed ('Toni Wolff'), to Mr. Lewisohn, discussing a recent visit to America 'which was more than I could afford, psychologically and financially', introducing her student Nora Hoch ('... German and was in concentration camp for talking against the Nazis... she is very intuitive and understands the creative side from the inner level'), mentioning Alice Lewisohn, and offering insight into one of Lewisohn's dream which involved a 'six foot ball encrusted with jewels', 4pp., in original envelopes, Zurich, 30.11.1947-2.1.1948; with copies of Lewisohn's side of correspondence, and a typescript of Wolff's essay 'on the process of individuation in women'LEWISOHN (WALTER P.) Five autograph letters signed to his mother, written from Zurich whilst a patient of Jung (she was not supportive...), approximately 15 pages, original envelopes, March-May 1947; and several manuscript and typed essays relating to consultation with Jung, his dreams and interpretation of selfBOOKS AND TRANSCRIPTSJUNG (CARL G.) Interpretation of Visions. Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology, Parts 1-11 and atlas of plates, edited by Mary Foote, photographic plates 1-20 and 27-29 only (with duplicates of 1-20) loose in portfolio, paper shelf labels on spines, a couple of covers detached, Zurich, 1930-1934JUNG (CARL G.) Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process. Seminar Held at Baily Island, Maine, September 20 through 25 [Seminar Held in New York City October 16... 26, 1937], 2 vol., [1937-1938]HAUER (J.W.) AND C.G. JUNG. The Kundalini Yoga. Notes on the Seminar given by... Hauer with Psychological Commentary by Dr. C.J. Jung, new edition, 8 tipped-in photographic plates, Zurich, 1940HUTCHINS (MAUDE PHELPS) AND MORTIMER JEROME ADLER. Diagrammatics, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, illustrations, publisher's quarter cloth, New York, Random House, [1932], 4to; and 21 other volumes of 'Notes on Lectures' by Jung from circa 1928-1941 (Collection)Footnotes:An archive of autograph or typed letters signed by Jung and his followers Alice Lewisohn, C.A. Meier and Toni Wolff, together with volumes of Jung's lectures, mostly printed 'strictly for the use of members of the Seminar', given in New York and Zurich from the 1920s-1940s.In 1947 Walter Lewisohn, suffering from bouts of mental distress ('A great deal of trouble in my emotional life - something seems to have been killed in me...') travelled to Zurich to consult Jung as a patient, also seeing Toni Wolff ('She has been Jung's right hand woman for years... she's got a mind like a buzz-saw and is a heroic figure'), and Meier ('Am dining with the Meiers tonight and am off for a final session with Jung tomorrow morning. The fun is, you never know what is going to come up...', 9 May 1945).Provenance: Walter Pickett Lewisohn, nephew of Alice Lewisohn (1883-1972, founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and member of Jung's inner circle in Zurich). After graduating from Harvard he joined several expeditions of exploration, including that of Admiral Byrd to Antarctica, later finding a career as a documentary film maker, and helped to set up the WIM museum on St Croix US Virgin Islands. His collection of Americas folk art and films is now housed at the Center for Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; by descent to current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MISSAL, USE OF ROMEMissale Romanu[m] noviter impressum cu[m] annotationibus in margine ad facillime o[mn]ia que i[n] ipso ad alias paginas remittu[n]tur invenie[n]da, double column, printed in red and black, title within woodcut architectural border, numerous large and small woodcut illustrations, variable damp-staining, remnants of old tabs at some edges (one torn away with slight loss of blank margin), extensive manuscript additions in 2 later hands on 18 pages (3 blank pages before title, blank verso of final leaf (f.264), and 14 pages at end, 6 of which are in a neat ?seventeenth century hand, double column in red and blank ink, with 2 lines and 2 2-line initials supplied in liquid gold, another heading in blue), contemporary panelled calf gilt, upper cover lettered 'Missale Romanum', date 'MDXXVI' on lower cover, faded and worn, rebacked with later red morocco gilt spine label, later metal straps and catches [EDIT 16, CNCE 11533; Weale-Bohatta 1050], 4to (220 x 155mm.), [colophon:] Venice, Luc. Antonio Giunta, 8 March 1522Footnotes:Provenance: Buckfast Abbey.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARNIM (ELIZABETH VON)Archive relating to Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) and Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984), including unpublished correspondence recording their close relationship over twenty years, with two draft novels and personal photographs, comprising: i) Extensive correspondence of around 225 autograph letters, including 170 from Elizabeth von Arnim to Frere and 37 from Alexander Frere to von Arnim (the remainder from other correspondents), variously signed ('Elizabeth', 'E.A.', 'L.G.', 'Leiber Gott', 'Tuppence', 'Tup', '2d'), the majority dating from the height of their relationship c.1921-1922, beginning with her offer of employment in March 1920 ('...Would you like to arrange & catalogue books, stick in bookplates and be generally obliging & useful in a chalet up in the Swiss mountains... I feel already as if you are my right hand...'), Frere replying '...I only hope to be able to repay your trust, confidence and kindness...', continuing with a wide-ranging and intimate correspondence, revealing their feelings for each other, but also her struggles with writing ('...I am sticking to Vera, with the result that blackest dejection sits clutching on my soul... say prayers for the safe delivery of this book...'), Frere sending a verse by Alice Meynell ('... 'I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart'...') to which she replies ('...I wish the last line could come true! But it will someday...'), on Katherine Mansfield ('...when I think of her I am ashamed that I have too much happiness & light & warmth & love in my life...') and John Middleton Murry ('...He is by nature a sad man...'), with many amusing anecdotes ('...off I go, clutching my m.s. in one hand & my best bonnet in the other...'), on walking in the mountains ('...I start out... with a skirt on... I take it off directly I'm out of sight & stride about breeched...'), on depression and loneliness ('...I love to be pictured in someone's mind...'), much on her numerous dogs, her garden and her routine, mutual friends, travel, excursions, etc.; letters after 1936 mainly on publishing matters, on her fears of Hitler's rise to power ('...Incredible what a man can do in five years if he is entirely ruthless & has the gift of the gab...') and her plan if he invades ('...taking the five dogs to the vet to be put to sleep... putting myself to sleep in a full bath with a chloroform pad over my face... there'll be no real peace in the world until Franco's widow tells Stalin on his deathbed that Hitler was murdered at Mussolini's funeral...'), on her novel Mr Skeffington ('...I'm really distressed that you didn't like Mr Skeff... not a line of it has anything to do with me, or with you, or with anyone else... It is a good subject. And only a woman could treat it really thoroughly & truthfully...'), the last group including a telegram from Patricia Frere notifying Frere of Elizabeth's death ('Elizabeth died this morning in her quiet sleep'), some 440 pages, dust-staining, small tears, 4to and 8vo, Chateau Soleil, Whitehall Court, Cambridge, Portofino, Mas des Roses, USA and elsewhere, 17 March 1920 to July 1947ii) Manuscript draft of her novel Christopher & Columbus, incomplete, written in ink with many deletions, additions and corrections, leaves 4-30 and 102-197 present, plus 2 extra leaves at end, dust-staining, tears, some leaves loose, disbound, lower cover missing, 4to (219 x 142mm.), [c.1919]; with additional manuscript draft for the same novel, ink and pencil, 66 leaves, dust-staining, tears, some leaves loose, in a 'Glendower Bond' notebook, 220 x 164mm., [c.1919]; manuscript drafts of the beginning of a 'Novel in Letters', a correspondence between 'David Fellowes' and 'Anne Doughty' written by von Arnim and Frere, 19 leaves, 4to; further three typescript leaves of 'correspondence' between 'Mrs Denison' and 'William Brayton', [1922-1923]; manuscript draft of Elizabeth von Arnim's review of A Passage to India ('...Plot. A wretched one. The man Forster is a lover of men. He is also shy, fastidious, & therefore frightened of his public... the form of this wretched plot is good. Like a good tune...'), 3 pages, 337 x 215mm., [n.d.] iii) Around 100 photographs from Frere's collection, including von Arnim, Frere and guests at Chateau Soleil, skiing, landscapes, also of student life in Cambridge (punting, picnics), many annotated by Frere on reverse, 140 x 84mm. and smaller, [c.1920's]; and other material including printed pamphlet, 'Note on a Passage in Shelley's Ode to Liberty', The Doves Press, 1914, with accompanying letter of presentation from The Doves Press; Shelley's Poems, Canterbury Poets edition, with von Arnim's bookplate and presentation inscription to Frere, dated 29 September 1921; various notebooks, two in Frere's hand; correspondence between Frere and von Arnim's biographer, Karen Usborne, c.1978-1979, and much else   For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTCompendium, including Pseudo-Augustine (De spiritu et anima), Canon Law and Theology, on vellum, 208 leaves (incomplete), Gothic textualis and Gothic cursiva letters in several hands, brown and black ink, red and blue initials and rubrication throughout, with numerous elaborate flourishes, 3 larger historiated initials in blue, red, white and green ink, one incorporating a small face, several marginal annotations in Latin and English (and a couple of pictorial doodles) in various later hands, opening and closing leaves heavily browned, margins trimmed occasionally affecting annotations, loss to lower corner of final leaf, modern vellum, soiled, 8vo (135 x 100mm.), [?Northern Europe (possibly France), thirteenth century and later]Footnotes:THIRTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT COMPENDIUM OF THEOLOGY AND CANON LAW. Comprises:ff. 1r-22v, a later (probably fourteenth century) index.ff. 23r-186v, relates to Canon Law, with sections on apostasy ('De Apostatis'), murder ('De homicidio'), matrimony ('De matrimonio'). The text is divided in four books (numbered consecutively), it is written in two columns and it is incomplete - the numbering to the first columns present being 73, a portion missing in the centre (without columns 385 to 448), and concludes at column 912. It is followed by an index.ff. 187-202v, includes part of De spiritu et anima ('Incipt liber Sancti Augustini De Anima'), a treatise on the soul drawn from several authors (including Alcuin, Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine of Hippo, Boethius and Hugo of St Victor). At one time attributed to St. Augustine, or the twelfth-century Cistercian monk Alcherus of Clairvaux, it is now generally deemed to be a pseudo-Augustine of the twelfth century.ff. 203-208v, is a glossary of words and phrases from the Scriptures arranged alphabetically (lacking title and first and final sections) with references to the Books of the Bible noted in red. This compilation appears to be of French origin, as there are references to the French vernacular, 'gallice'.Provenance: M. Gaucci, Florence; Ia. Stewart, Rome, 1853; G.A. Watson, early ownership inscriptions to first fly-leaves.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, IN HEBREWDerech Ha'Kodesh [in Hebrew] Via sancta...sive Biblia Sacra eleganti et maiuscula characterum forma, edited by Elias Hutter, Roman and Hebrew types, general title-page, 2 tables, engraved head-pieces, occasional later manuscript annotations in English, some toning [Adams B1235; Darlow & Moule 5108], Hamburg, Johannes Saxon, 1587; Cubus alphabeticus sanctae Ebraeae linguae, light toning [USTC 625788], Hamburg, Jacobus Wlfius, 1588, 2 works in 1 vol., half vellum over marbled boards, morocco title label on spine, five raised bands on spine, some shelfwear and light soiling, joints a little cracked at head and foot of spine, folio (390 x 260mm.)Footnotes:Hutter's Hebrew Bible was the earliest production of a Hebrew press in Hamburg, cleverly printed using thick and hollow type, and superscript, to help students learn Hebrew grammar.Provenance: Buckfast Abbey, bookplate and inscription dated 1914.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTBook of Hours, use of Utrecht, text in Dutch, from translation by Geert Grote, on vellum, 191 leaves (including 4 blanks), Gothic script, 18 lines, black and red ink, 5 leaves with a large 6 or 7-line opening initial in blue and white with floral decoration on liquid gold background and a full border of acanthus leaves, flowers, fruits, animals and birds (bear, stag, cat with mouse, owl, stork, squirrel, parrot, lion, etc.), 6 leaves with 4-line initial of liquid gold on background of blue and pink with trailing flourishes in gilt and colours at inner border, smaller initials in alternate red and blue, with liquid gold details, some surface abrasions but generally bright, seventeenth century calf with central gilt arabesque roundel within one-line fillet border on covers, rebacked, corners repaired, some rubbing, 12mo (139 x 100mm.), [Netherlands, c.1450]Footnotes:ATTRACTIVELY DECORATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS made for the Dutch market, with the text translated into the vernacular by Geert Grote (1340-1384), the founder of the Devotio moderna, a popular devotional movement that emphasized solitary, personal meditation on Christ's passion.The presence of red letter days in the calendar for the feast days of St. Pancratius (May 12), St. Servatius (May 13), St. Boniface (June 4), St. Odulf of Utrecht (June 11), St. Lebuin (June 24), St. Martin (July 4), St. Lambert of Maastricht (September 17), St. Willibrord of Utrecht (November 7) point to the use of Utrecht.The marginal decoration on six leaves (ff. 14r, 40r, 80r, 132r, 150r) features historiated initials surrounded by decorations including acanthus leaves, flowers, fruits, birds and animals including a stag, a bear eating honey, a cat, squirrel and a lion. TEXT: ff. 1-12v Calendar in the use of Utrecht, f. 13 blank, ff. 14r-39v: Hours of the Holy Spirit (rubric: 'Hier beghint des heilighen gheistes getijde'); ff. 40r-79r: Hours of the Cross (rubric on f. 39v: 'Hier beghint die lange cruus gheti'); ff. 80r-131v: Hours of the Virgin (rubric: 'Hier beghint onser vrouwe ghetide'); ff. 132r-141v: The Seven Penitential Psalms (rubric: 'Hier beghint die .vij. psalm'); ff. 141v-149v: Litany and collects; ff. 150r-191v: Office of the Dead (rubric: 'Hier beghint die lange vighelie').Provenance: The current owner was presented with the Book of Hours on his first birthday, 3 April 1958, with a gilt lettered morocco label loosely inserted.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND – CONVICT SETTLEMENT & HUTT VALLEY CAMPAIGNManuscript journal of Cecil Rice Arney (1806-1852), wife of Major Charles Augustus Arney (1808-1879) of the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot ('The Black Cuffs'), a daily account describing in detail her voyage to Australia on board the convict ship Graton, to Van Diemen's Land, thence to Sydney, the convict settlement at Norfolk Island and on to Wellington, New Zealand; during the voyage noting the ships position, weather and wind speeds, commenting on the conditions on board ('...I had no idea that the dirt, irregularity and bad management could have prevailed to such a degree...'), and much annoyed by '...the screams of two boys (convicts) who were undergoing corporal punishment...'; landing at Van Diemen's Land ('...the shops are as good as could be expected in a new colony... the climate delightful...'), Christmas Day in Sydney ('...roast beef & plum pudding notwithstanding the heat...'), anniversary celebrations ('...a Regatta – for which this harbour is little suited... a grand entertainment was given to 300 of the elite of Sydney...'), trips to Windsor ('...No signs of Royalty...') and Botany Bay ('...remarkably white sand and fine mirtles [sic] to the waters edges... Cooks Well... where that celebrated man watered his fleet...'), commenting on extremes of weather ('...the long continued drought followed by frost has now destroyed almost every blade of grass... rain fell like a waterspout...'), hunting for kangaroos ('...much the taste of a hare but less dry...'), staying at an inn '...kept by a very notorious convict woman who had made a large fortune...'; deployment to the convict colony at Norfolk Island, juxtaposing the beautiful land ('...fertile almost beyond imagination... a second Eden...') with its inhabitants who '...instead of being... reformed here, become tenfold more reckless of all laws... transportation in all its horrors... What will not unprincipled men do, when they feel they have nothing to lose... their treatment increases their ferocity... after all the outcry of the slave trade, to allow any English subject to be placed in such a position is a crying evil...', noting her husband's dispute with the chaplin Thomas Naylor, several escape attempts, murder ('...the body of a convict employed as constable found murdered and frightfully mangled...'), fire at the barracks, sickness, news of disturbances with 'natives' in New Zealand ('...eating the body of poor Cap. Grant... they put on the uniform again and send it back...'); the regiment called to New Zealand, the voyage and arrival at Wellington in February 1846 ('...what could have induced the selection of such a spot for an infant colony!...'), much on skirmishes in the Hutt Valley ('...the Mowries continue plundering the settlers... to draw the settlers into an attack...'), report of the 'horrid' murder of a settler [Andrew Gillespie] and his son ('...distressingly mutilated by tomahawks in their beds...'), the 16 May attack on the camp in the Hutt Valley ('...The day has been marked by bloodshed!!!...six soldiers killed and four wounded... this species of attack most cowardly...'), ensuing rumour and panic in the town, flooding ('... no end of disasters in this benighted land...'), Māori ambushes ('...coming out from time to time to plunder or murder with impunity...'), arrest of the Māori chief Te Rauparaha at Pororua ('...I do not hear that there was a shot fired on either side...'), the flight of Te Rangihaeata, the birth of her daughter Augusta, court martial and punishment of the Māori rebels, ending with their departure in January 1847 ('...I have had some very rough work on your shore, still I can not leave you without regret...'), and much else, c.220 pages, numbered up to p.181, in ink and pencil, outer leaves with addresses, notes and doodles, dust-staining, discolouration, smudges, marks, small tears, tea stain covering first 18 leaves ('This day Nov 18 1843 breakfasted in bed and the first cup of tea brought to me was by a violent lurch of the vessel immediately thrown over this book and stained it as you see'), small part of lower first leaf and a few leaves at end excised, a few pages loose, marbled ends, blind-stamped maroon calf, worn with some loss to upper spine, 8vo (198 x 128mm.), At Sea, Sydney, Norfolk Island, Wellington, 9 July 1843 to 30 April 1849Footnotes:'HERE IS TO BE SEEN TRANSPORTATION IN ALL ITS HORRORS': A RARE ACCOUNT OF THE EXPERIENCES OF A COLONIAL ARMY WIFE IN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND.Between 1843 and 1845 nineteen convict ships departed from England and Ireland for Australia, upon which soldiers of the 58th regiment carried out guard duty. Our journal gives a rare glimpse into the life of one of the officers' wives, Cecil Arney. It is a lively, intelligent account of an intrepid journey, her religious faith very much to the fore and a source of great solace through her homesickness and the depravations of life in the rough and inhospitable places she finds herself ('...170 convicts were brought on board with shakles on – the thought that I was about to make so long a voyage with such a number of poor wretched creatures is not agreeable tho 'who maketh us to differ' may humble us and excite strong feelings of pity...'). She writes of her boredom in Sydney but not without humour ('...Nothing of late has occurred worth transcribing even in this stupid journal, day after day the same routine goes on, eating, drinking, sleeping, driving out in the bush, and occasional visit to my school – and from some neighbours... we called on the bride Mrs W – sort of scarecrow dressed up in lots of finery, who made a wretched attempt to appear interesting by affecting a lisp...'). In contrast she describes her fear and vulnerability at the isolated penal colony of Norfolk Island, reputedly one of the harshest in the British Empire ('...at the mercy of 1600 convicts, whose whole study is how they shall best destroy [us] and keep the island to themselves...') and is exasperated by the mismanagement of the authorities and Major Arney's dispute with the chaplin (discussed at length by historian Tim Causer, JACANZS, vol 3, pp.71-110 online). In February 1846, the 58th is called upon to support the settlers in New Zealand's Hutt Valley '...said to have been purchased by settlers, but now disputed and retaken possession of by the natives...'. She is critical of the Governor and touches on the increasing influence of the New Zealand Company. Towards the end of her account, on Christmas Day 1846, she writes '...for the last ten years of my life I think I have not spent Christmas day twice in the same place, latterly at very distant posts...'. A postscript sums up her travels until October 1848, which finds her back in Sydney in ill health. The Arneys evidently returned to England after that time, for she died in Marylebone, London, in 1852.Cecil Rice Arney (1806-1852) was the daughter of Hon. Rev. Edward Rice and Charlotte Lascelles of Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire. She married Charles Augustus Arney (1808-1879) of Gloucester on 4 January 1837 (their 10 year anniversary is noted in her journal). A typed transcript of the journal is included in the lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT[GRADUAL] Proprium de tempore, on vellum, in Latin, 215 leaves (only), 10 lines of alternate text and music on four-line red staves, red and blue floriated initials, unfinished larger capitals, contemporary manuscript foliation in lower margin of opening leaves (I-CLX, lacking one), catchwords mostly cropped, a few holes not affecting text (some repaired), eighteenth century deerskin over wooden boards, raised spine bands, occasional single wormholes, some wear and abrasions, clasps missing, folio (460 x 330mm.), [Northern Italy, fourteenth century]Footnotes:The Proprium de Tempore is the section of a Gradual which includes all the chants related to the moveable feasts of the year, from Advent to Easter. Provenance: Buckfast Abbey.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BEARDSLEY (AUBREY)Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley, half-length in tweed suit, by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, INSCRIBED BY THE SITTER 'To Mrs Underhill from Aubrey Beardsley' on the mount, platinum print, mounted on card, signed lower right of mount, some spotting to mount and a couple to image, pencil note by framer on verso, image 238 x 184mm., mount 300 x 250mm., [August/September 1896]; together withHOLLYER (FREDERICK) Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley, half-length leaning on a windowsill, platinum print, mounted on card, photographer's name and address ('Fredr. Hollyer, 9 Pembroke Sqre, Kensington W') in red ink, and Aubrey's name in his mother's hand on verso of mount, image 108 x 148, mount 116 x 160mm., [c.1890]DICKINS (FRANK) Cabinet portrait of Mabel Beardsley, albumen print on photographer's mount with name and address in gilt, sitter identified on verso by Beardsley's mother, image 140 x 100mm., [1890s]Three photographs of Aubrey Beardsley's mother Ellen, including one seated in a garden beside her daughter sister Mabel who is lying in an invalid bed (c.1905), one with 'Miss Dash' in 1929, and one aged 85 in 1931BEARDSLEY (ELLEN) Two autograph letters signed ('Ellen A. Beardsley' and 'E.A. Beardsley') to Mina ('Wilhemina', her cousin), in both reminiscing wistfully of her son Aubrey, and his grave at Menton, ('... I only pray that I may die the beautiful death he died. His patience during his long illness touched the hearts of all who lived in the house...', undated), ('My one long wish, which I fear will never be granted, is to see it [Aubrey's grave at Menton] again!', dated 15 October 1928), together 8 pages (one missing a page), 8vo, 29, St. George's Terrace, BrightonROSS (ROBERT) Aubrey Beardsley, inscribed 'with love from Aubrey's mother & sister, Xmas 1908' on front free endpaper, 16 plates, publisher's cloth, 8vo, John Lane, 1909SYMONS (ARTHUR) Aubrey Beardsley, one of 150 large paper copies, photogravure frontispiece, 17 plates, a few manuscript notes by Ellen Beardsley's mother loosely inserted, publisher's parchment-backed cloth, 4to, J.M. Dent, 1905 (small archive)Footnotes:Two fine photograph portraits of Aubrey Beardsley. The inscribed one is by Julia Margert Cameron's son Henry Hay Cameron, and was used as the frontispiece to A Book of Fifty Drawings published by Smithers in 1897. In a letter to Smithers of 11 September 1896, Beardsley commented 'Cameron photo is superb' (Letters, p.162). The other is by Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933) who, in his Pembroke Square studio, photographed a diverse group of artists 'encompassing members of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Aestheticism, Impressionism and the Royal Academy' (V & A Museum website).The Mrs. Underhill to whom Aubrey inscribed his portrait is believed to be Wilhemina Underhill, a cousin of Aubrey's mother Ellen. She is also presumably the 'Mina' to whom Ellen addresses the letters in this archive.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, IN LATIN[Biblia Latina] Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti, 408 leaves, 56 lines and headline, 2 columns, Gothic letter, large opening initial in red and blue, capital spaces filled in alternate red and blue, some with decorative flourishes, paragraph marks in red, opening leaf laid down with loss to blank fore-margin, paper flaw to margin of one leaf (Z1, with loss of a couple of letters), heavy dampstain to 4 leaves (Aa1-4), light dampstain to upper margin of approximately 20 leaves, single wormhole to opening few leaves, and a few single wormholes to index at end, strip of manuscript binder's waste visible after a8, a few minor ink annotations (mostly marginal) in several early hands, early blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, rebacked in vellum, covers soiled and without metal fittings [ISTC ib00593000; BMC III 695; Goff B593; GW 4270], folio (305 x 215mm.), [Freiburg im Breisgau, Kilianus Piscator (Fischer), c.1493-94] or [Basel, Johann Amerbach, c.1494-95]Footnotes:The identity of the printer of this Bible, only one copy of which has been traced at auction, has been the subject of some disagreement. It was traditionally ascribed to Amerbach at Basel, but BMC examined the different types used and attributed it to Freiburg's first printer, Kilianus Fischer, who is known to have relocated to Basel by 1497.Provenance: Raitenhaslach Abbey (Cistercian abbey, near Burghausen, Germany), ownership inscription in lower margin of a2; Leonard Lindsay, bookplate; Buckfast Abbey.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TRAQUAIR (PHOEBE ANNA) Finely preserved series of Arts and Crafts illuminations to illustrate Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese', 25 leaves (Sonnets numbered 1-14, 16-18, 20-25, 27 and 38, of a complete set of 44 leaves), ink and watercolour on vellum, the text in a Gothic-style hand in black and red, all but Sonnet 11 initialled by the artist lower left, numbers 1-4, 9 and 23 dated 1894, numbers 16-18, 20-22, 24-25, 27 and 38 dated 1895 (rest undated), EACH LEAF OF THE MANUSCRIPT TEXT EXQUISITELY ILLUMINATED TO A DIFFERENT DESIGN, headed by an initial letter in gold and colours, either large and historiated or extending down to a large miniature below (or as part of the border in one or two cases), the extensions and borders often incorporating mythical beasts, other animals or curling leafy tendrils, acanthus leaves etc. reminiscent of medieval French manuscripts, other smaller miniatures and numerous angels within the text, smaller initials and decorative line fillers throughout, mostly in blue and red, all leaves with pencil guidelines lines of varying faintness, Sonnet 2 inscribed on reverse in Traquair's hand 'There are several copies of this leaf. Holman Hunt has one', occasional slight crinkling and minor toning but overall in fine fresh condition, each leaf c.188 x 150mm., 1894-1895 (25)  For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PALESTINE - BRITISH MANDATEAn archive of 'Confidential' administrative reports, testimonies, correspondence with General Montgomery, photographs, and ephemera, from the archive of Morris Bailey O.B.E., District Commissioner in Haifa and Samaria during the British Mandate in Palestine, including: Approximately 20 mimeographed or typescript reports or copy correspondence relating to Bailey's role as administrator for the British Mandate, together approximately 100 pages, a few with manuscript annotations, several countersigned by Bailey with his initials or with his purple stamp, some headed 'Secret and Personal', 'Confidential', etc., 4to, c.1921-1944[Montgomery] Four autograph letters signed by General Montgomery ('B.L. Montgomery') to Bailey ('My dear Bailey'), relating to disagreements over how to 'quell the rebellion [by the local Arab population] - which is really the only thing that matters', Montgomery uncharacteristically stating that 'it was my fault' that their differences had escalated, and addressing Bailey's 'complaint about the incident at the B.S.S. I... have dealt with the office concerned, he will be wiser in future...', and promising to address 'municipal scavenging... Personally I object to dirty streets, and I shall therefore arrest the municipal workers whenever they go on strike', together 7 pages, paper headed 'Headquarter 8th Division, Haifa, Palestine', dated 17 January-1 April 1939; together with associated copy correspondence and reports'Changing Palestine', from National Geographic, specially bound 40-page article, inscribed to Bailey by the author, Edward Keith-Roach, District Commissioner of North Palestine, 1934[King Faisal I of Iraq] Items relating to the reception on 14 September 1933 of the body of King Faisal I of Iraq at Haifa, en route for Baghdad, aboard H.M.S. Despatch where 'the streets... were thronged throughout the night... many thousands of Arab spectators, drawn from all parts of Palestine and from Trans-Jordan...', including 5 press photographs (one showing Morris Bailey alongside Edward Keith-Roach), and a decorative metal nail removed from the coffin (to allow it to fit onto the aeroplane to Baghdad) made into a paperweight[Haile Selassie] Four photographs of Bailey welcoming the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie on his arrival in Haifa in 1935, together with a newspaper cutting of the occasionMargaret Bailey. Manuscript account of her life in the Holy Land in 1920s-40s, rich in detail of every day life, engagements with the Bedouin, Arab chiefs and militia, local women, and her husband Morris' work, approximately 200 pages, ink on paper, many corrections and some loose pages inserted, contemporary cloth, 4to, c.1945; 'Holy Week in Jerusalem [in 1940]' including a 14-page account with mention of her meeting with the 7-year old King Faisal II of Iraq; and 4 other typescript articles by Margaret on local ceremoniesEphemera, including a portrait photograph of Bailey, military commendations for his WWI actions, and newspaper cuttings relating to his service in Palestine, a collection of 10 folding maps, including sheets 1-6 of the Palestine Survey map of Palestine, c.1921-1944 (quantity)Footnotes:'THERE IS CONSIDERABLE APPREHENSION, FEAR AND DISMAY' - Confidential papers shedding a light on the conflicting interests of the British administration, Arab and Jewish populations during the British Mandate of the 1920-30s, from the archive of Morris Bailey, who in 1921 was Assistant Governor to Beersheba District, and was appointed as District Commissioner to the North Palestine regions in 1933. The earlier papers mostly relate to problems of the local economy ('The Fellaheen are virtually slaves of the money-lenders... [so] that on political as well as economic grounds the solution of the Usury problem is the most pressing need of the country') and its impact on local unrest.Bailey's insights on British governance are outlined in his response to a 'personal and confidential' questionnaire (24 June 1921) issued by the High Commissioner, and again in May 1936 when he reports on the fanning of civil unrest amongst both Arabs and Jews by newspaper propaganda, and another (7 June 1936) warning about the 'deep-rooted feeling of despair among all classes of Arabs that it is the intention of the Home Government to swamp them and eventually hand over the country to the Jews', and suggests that economic and political solutions should be prioritised over military ones to suppress strikes and unrest amongst the Arab population. In March 1937 his report on the security situation in Galilee Division states that 'the Safad Jews are hysterical... there is considerable apprehension, fear and dismay...', and suggests measures to prevent 'intimidation of both Arabs and Jews'. Bailey's views were critical of the increasingly punitive measures undertaken by the military to control both Arab and Jewish insurgencies, leading to clashes with General Bernard L. Montgomery, chief of the 8th Infantry Division at Haifa. Montgomery is forced to write an apology to Bailey ('I am glad we have made it up. It was my fault', 19 Jan. 1939), whilst Harold MacMichael, the British Commissioner at Government House, writes to Bailey stating that whilst his difference of opinion with Montgomery 'is perfectly legitimate... I do not like the way it is put. It is provocative' (16 January 1939).Provenance: Morris Bailey O.B.E, District Commissioner of the Northern District of Palestine. He died whilst serving in Palestine in 1944, Edward Keith-Roach noting in his funeral eulogy that Bailey had 'an unrivalled knowledge of peasant life... the many hours he spent on horseback up and down the country-side [led to] many a blood feud being settled due to this intervention and many murders prevented'. Included with the lot is document with the circular ink stamps of 29 mukhtars of the 'Jabal' villages of the Hebron Sub-District offering sympathy on his death, dated 6 January 1944; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

STEINBECK (JOHN)Carbon typescript of an unpublished short story, 'The Bettencourt/ A Christmas Story', inscribed at head in ink 'With Christmas/ wishes dear Frere/ from/ John Steinbeck/ 1956', with additional autograph note 'I hope the analogy and symbolism of the season are not too apparent to limit pleasure in the story for its own sake. J.S.' at end, four pages on flimsy copy paper, stapled top left corner, 4to (280 x 218mm.), [c.1955/1956]Footnotes:'EVERYONE KNEW THAT SOMETHING REMARKABLE HAD HAPPENED IN THE BOY'S TOILET': A rare unpublished manuscript presented to selected friends by Steinbeck for Christmas 1956 and 1957. Deemed unpublishable, even for someone of Steinbeck's literary stature, the story concerns children at an elementary school, their fascination with bodily functions and the hierarchy of the schoolroom. Provenance: From the papers of publisher Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984); thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATUREThe remaining papers of Alexander Stuart Frere of Heinemann, including author correspondence, draft manuscripts and photographs, comprising: J.B. Priestley: c.60 autograph and typed letters, much on novels and publishing ('...these long novels of mine are not a clever stunt and a sort of pastiche of the older novelists, but my natural way of expressing myself...'), the American Press ('...the attitude of the press here, particularly the stinking Hearst papers, towards England and the crisis is enough to make you sick...'), politics and the atomic bomb ('...very bad news... no real world machinery for making proper use of such power...'), discussing book rights, on Anthony Powell ('...it is a damned sight easier writing 12 novels about the same people than it is creating different sets of people for 12 different novels...'), his marriage, visits to the Freres ('...I left the cord of my dressing gown attached to the electric light in my bedroom... Could I have it please?...'); with thirty-five letters from Jacquetta Priestley, mostly letters of thanks, one asking Frere to contribute to C.N.D.; a number of Frere's copy replies; sheets of accounts for the Good Companions Trust, printed Homosexual Law Reform Society Annual Report, 1962-3, correspondence and photographs of his fortieth anniversary dinner hosted by Heinemann, 1962, over 120 pages, 4to and smaller, Isle of Wight, Devon, Hampstead, USA, Alveston, and elsewhere, January 1930 to October 1977; portrait photograph of Priestley as a young man, signed and inscribed 'A.S. Frere/ from his friend/ J.B. Priestley', framed and glazed, with frame 220 x 155mm.Rebecca West: c.17 autograph letters and postcards, sending corrections to proofs of Noël Coward's autobiography of 1937 ('...He seems to have heard of so little of what is going on in the world... quite staggering...'), long letter relating a conversation with H.G. Wells regarding their son Anthony ('...told me with the greatest sweetness, the greatest kindness, the greatest wisdom... he thought the boy had fallen into a silly set...') and justifying Anthony's behaviour, news of family and mutual friends, copy of letter from Harold Nicolson on his criticism of Edgar Wallace with additional comments by West ('...This means a lot from Harold...'), an angry letter regarding Elizabeth von Arnim's biographer, etc., c.32 pages, 4to, Tisbury, London, High Wycombe, 1937 to 1981; with manuscript review of William Gerhardie's novel Futility, 1922; photograph of West and her ?son, captioned June 1936 on reverseNoël Coward: Carbon typescript of his play Peace in Our Time, 80 leaves, buff wrappers, 4to (256 x 204mm.), [c.1946]; carbon typescript of his autobiography Future Indefinite, 500 leaves, pale blue wrappers, 4to (258 x 200mm.), [c.1954]; with a Christmas card signed 'Love to all Freres and Mice xxx Noël'Richard Church: Draft autobiography Over the Bridge, written in ink in ten manuscript notebooks, each with ownership inscription, c.580 pages, three green cloth with initials RC on upper cover, seven stapled green wrappers, 4to (206 x 128mm.), 1954; volume ten containing manuscript of 'The Nightingale', dated 10 February 1947 (10)W. Somerset Maugham: large quantity of material including over 25 autograph and typed letters, on various subjects including the death of Pat's brother in 1944, film rights, his health, invitations and thanks, 34 pages, 4to, [1934-1962]; with other papers including letters from Maugham's assistant Alan Searle, carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from Frere, various publishing and TV agreements, copies of essays, Maugham's biography, etc.; 18 black and white snapshots; album of 29 black and white press photographs of Somerset Maugham, ABC television interview, each 257 x 204mm., 14 October 1958; photostat typescript of Looking Back, with accompanying note by Frere on his refusal to publish, 7 August 1963; Gin & Bitters, by A. Riposte, Heinemann, 1931 with autograph note by Frere on inside front cover ('...This book is by Mrs Elinor Mordaunt... none but a few proof copies was ever printed. In a revised form it was subsequently published by Secker who yielded to pressure... & withdrew the book...'); with a copy of the American edition, Farrar & Reinhart, 1931; file of business papers (1940-1981) including Frere's copy correspondence, telegrams, financial papers regarding the estate of Alan Searle, various printed pamphlets, sale catalogues, etc.Correspondence from other authors to Frere and his wife, including George Millar (c.50); Hugh Walpole (c.35); Edith Sitwell (6, with a Christmas card); Tom MacGreevy; H.E. Bates; R.F. Delderfield; Elizabeth Enright; Victor Gollancz; John Masefield; John Middleton Murry (2); 'Pino' Orioli; C.P. Snow; Thornton Wilder, etc.; with menu for the Savoy Restaurant, 24 June 1930 signed by fifteen authors in pencil including H.G. Wells, Frank Swinnerton, John Drinkwater; Frere's list of Heinemann authors at the time of the Tilling takeover; presentation copy of T.H. White, Burke's Steeragei, Collins, 1938, inscribed by the author to Pat Wallace '...and this time she doesn't have to read it or pay for it...'; printed Air Force List, 1932, with spoof title page 'What's Wrong with the Air Force? By Pat Wallace', signed in pencil by 28 authors including H.G. Wells, Noel Streatfeild, J.B. Priestley; unpublished corrected typescript of Liza Maugham's memoirs, [c.1964/5] with associated correspondence (quantity)Footnotes:This lot forms part of an archive of letters and papers from the personal collection of publisher Alexander Stuart Frere-Reeves (1892-1984), known as 'Frere' to his friends, which brings together many of the most important authors of the twentieth-century, and demonstrates a wide web of influence and relationships. As managing editor of William Heinemann, he built up an extraordinary list of talent represented here in correspondence from, amongst others, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Rebecca West and her lover H.G. Wells, W. Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward, and J.B. Priestley, a lifelong friend with whom he edited Granta. Frere tended towards the younger, more 'modern' authors, several of whom became close friends, as is shown by these intimate letters, which blur the lines between personal and business relationships: '...He had a flair for detecting talent, and encouraging it, and the gift of establishing friendships with the people he liked and respected, among whom were most of his authors. He prided himself on publishing authors rather than books only...' (obituary, The Times, 6 October 1984). As a young man he had an intense relationship with the novelist Elizabeth von Arnim, nearly 30 years his senior, their hitherto unpublished correspondence also offered here (see lot 91). Many of our letters are addressed to his second wife Patricia Marion Caldecott Wallace (1907-1995), writer, theatre critic and daughter of the author Edgar Wallace, most notably some revealing correspondence from her close friend Daphne du Maurier (see lot 92).After leaving Christ's College, Cambridge, Frere's career began as a journalist on the London Evening News. He joined William Heinemann, a subsidiary of Doubleday, in 1923, rose rapidly within the firm and was made managing director in 1932 under the chairmanship of C.S. Evans when F.N. Doubleday sold his shares after the Wall Street crash. He resigned as president in 1961 and retired a year later to become advisor to The Bodley Head. His papers have remained in the family until now.Provenance: Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984); thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WORLD WAR II - D-DAY INVASIONGroup of top secret 'Bigot' maps, concertina photograph booklet and effects originating from the estate of D-day landings Commando Redevers Pryor, Beach Master for the 'Juno-Mike Red' section which was assaulted by the Canadian Forces as part of Operation Overlord, comprising:i) D-day landing chart of the 'Calgary' Section of Juno Beach, folding colour map headed 'Bigot Most Secret' (in red), scale '1:25,000 Bogus Map Sheet No.2', 'Calgary', 'Based on Edition of Jul 1943' and 'Neptune Copy No.', the areas 'Mike, Green /Red' (Prior was Beach Master for 'Mike Red') and 'Nan Green/White' marked out in black ink, coded place names (e.g. Burlington, Odessa, Albany, Madras, Dakota, Tokio, Hungary, Derna, Cape Town, Washington, Suez, Regina, Jordan, Columbia, Aden, Candy, Ottawa, Canberra and Aleppo), and extensive notes and defence positions overprinted in red, 490 x 610mm., printed March 1944ii) D-day landing chart of the 'Cairo' Section of Juno Beach, folding colour map headed 'Bigot Top Secret' (in red), scale '1:25,000 Bogus Map Sheet No.3', 'Cairo', 'Based on Edition of Jul 1943' and 'Neptune Copy No.', the area 'Nan Red' (the adjoining area to Prior's as Beach Master) marked out in black ink, coded printed place names (Madrid, Dresden, Vienna, Ganges, Lisbon, Tunis and Hamburg), and extensive notes and defence positions overprinted in red, 495 x 618mm., printed March 1944iii) D-day landing chart of the Juno Beach area, folding map printed in black and overprinted in red, headed ''Juno Area' Beach Chartlet Enlargement of Portion of F.1016... Soundings in fathoms... Scale 1/37,500... For Official Use Only... Its contents are not to be communicated either directly or indirectly, to the Press...', numbered F.1016B (the code for the area of Juno Beach), with the Mike Green/Red/White and Nan White/Red areas and 'conspicuous objects' in red, slightly soiled at folds, 580 x 480mm.,'Issued for Fleet purposes by the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty, 18th February 1944, under the Superintendence of Vice-Admiral Sir John Edgell'iv) Panoramic coastal reconnaissance photograph taken from sea level, titled 'France North Coast... Coastal silhouette from Haut Lion... to La Riviere... taken at zero feet and at right angles to the coast', montage consisting of 21 plates joined in panoramic form, each plate made from 3 or 4 joined images annotated with numbers and place names, worn at plate joints, folding into blue canvas covers with a photostat typed label on the upper cover, lettered 'J', giving the relevant Admiralty chart details, and noting that 'the silhouette is intended as an aid to coastal recognition and is NOT intended for navigational purposes' and that 'due to the overlap of photographs and divergences in scale, the background is repeated in some cases', each sheet c.214 x 300mm., 'I.S.T.D. 51, March 1944'v) Illustrated 'Journal for use of Midshipmen' kept by then R[edevers] Holland-Pryor, covering the first period of his service afloat aboard the dreadnought battleship Neptune in the lead up to the First World War, printed title-page with manuscript insertions, document appointing Holland-Pryor as Acting Sub-Lieutenant in May 1914 inserted at front, the journal written on 98 pages and illustrated with c.50 well executed pen and ink sketches, diagrams and maps, many with watercolour, some folding, modern half cloth preserving original gilt lettered spine label ('S. 519. Journal for Use of Junior Officer's Afloat'), folio, entries 12 January 1912 - 8 May 1914vi) Royal Navy 1827 Regulation Pattern Naval Officers Sword presented to Redevers Holland-Pryor, the blade with etched frosted details for the maker Henry Wilkinson and the recipient 'R.M.G. Holland-Pryor', the reverse of the blade with the recipient's unique issue number '44360', shagreen grip with brass guard and fouled anchor device, leather scabbard with all brass fittings and sword knot, contained in canvas sword bagvii) Group of Redever Pryor's miniature medals, comprising: Distinguished Service Order; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R. with second award bar; 1914 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal with M.I.D. oakleaves; 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War medal 1939-45 with M.I.D. oakleaf (9)Footnotes:RARE TOP SECRET 'BIGOT' MAPS, A PANORAMIC COASTAL PHOTOGRAPH AND MILITARY EFFECTS - FROM THE ESTATE OF A JUNO BEACH MASTER.'Top Secret – Bigot' was the Allies' highest level of secrecy during WWII, the Bigot List containing the individual names of those who were allowed to know the proposed sites and dates of the D-day landings. 'Juno' was the code name for one of the five beaches selected by the Allies for the invasion on 6 June 1944, and responsibility for its capture was given to the First Canadian Army, under the guidance of Commander Redevers Pryor and the other designated beach masters, and with support from the Canadian, British and other allied navies. The top secret landing charts for Juno Beach seem to have survived in smaller numbers than, for example, those for Omaha and Gold Beaches, rarely appearing on the auction market. Four were included in the papers of Lt. Cdr. B.C. Lambert RNVR, Redevers Pryor's commanding officer, which were sold in these rooms on 26 June 2019, lot 213.To back up these charts, landing craft commanders were issued with a booklet put together by the Inter Services Topographical Department (ISTD), containing a 26-foot long concertina photograph of the relevant coastal profile. Designed as visual aids to help the crews identify the correct place for landing the troops, they were composed of a large number of photographs joined together. The photographs are generally said to have been taken from low-flying Allied aircraft with automated cameras in their noses, but the wording 'taken at zero feet and at right angles to the coast', and the nature of the photographs, don't seem to suggest they were taken at such high speed, possibly giving countenance to the theory that they were taken from the 'midget submarines' which were used by Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP) during reconnaissance of the Normandy beaches in early 1944, and subsequently to help mark the limits of the Sword and Juno beaches during the D-Day invasion in June. Commander Redevers Michael Pryor DSO, DSC, M.P., RN (1893-1964, known as Michael Courtenay Holland-Pryor until 1924) had served as Submariner in the Great War, and was a veteran of five wartime beach assaults. He was first decorated with a Distinguished Service Cross for Dunkirk in May 1940, and having been promoted to Royal Navy Beach Commando on the unit's foundation in 1942, he acted as beach master to the Canadians in the raid on Dieppe, from where he escaped through occupied France to Spain, carrying with him the plans for the Atlantic Wall, and gaining a second Distinguished Service Order as a result.On his return to England he stood successfully as the Conservative candidate in the Birmingham Aston by-election, and gave a notable speech to Parliament on the subject of the war and his experiences of the Nazis, which earned him praise from Churchill and a role supplying information to Naval Intelligence. In 1944 he returned to the Commandos in time for the D-day landings, and was appointed Beach Master to Mike Red Sector on Juno Beach. He also led the Commandos ashore at Flushing for the assault on Walcheren in November 1944, and was duly awarded a second Distinguished Service Cross. After the War he stood down as M.P. but continued his work with the intelligence services during the beginnings of the Cold War.Provenance: Estate of Commander The Right Honourable Redvers Pryor; private UK collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TORQUEMADA (JUAN DE)Expositio regulae S. Benedicti, 159 leaves (of 160, without first blank), 50 lines, Gothic text, blue and red manuscript initials, numerous early marginal manuscript annotations in several hands, table of contents bound at front, k7 repaired in lower margin, v8 cut down to size and laid down without loss of text, some margins trimmed affecting manuscript annotations, light toning, later cats-paw calf gilt, red edges, rebacked, some shelfwear [ISTC it00516000; Goff T516], 4to (250 x 190mm.), [colophon:] Paris, Pierre Levet, for Nicolaus Militis, 4 May 1491Footnotes:Provenance: Buckfast Abbey, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

English School (19th century) Portrait of a Victorian Lady unsigned, manuscript to verso, dated ‘66, gouache on canvas, 90cm x 69cm

After Josef Karl Stieler,  German 1781-1858- Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven; watercolour on ivory, oval, bears signature 'Stieler' (lower right), 4.5 x 3.6 cm. Ivory submission reference: DG3N6TM8. Provenance:  Private Collection, UK. Note:  The present work is copy, executed in reverse, after Stieler's portrait of Beethoven (1770-1827) with the manuscript of the Missa Solemnis, now in the collection of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn [B 2389]. 

* Thatcher (Margaret, 1925-2013), British Prime Minister 1979-90. A group of 11 signed official Christmas greetings cards, c. 1970s/2000s, folded card with printed colour illustrations to the front covers including two from photographs pasted on and three from photographs of Margaret and her husband Denis (1915-2003), 5 cards signed individually by ‘Margaret’ and ‘Denis’ with the word ‘and’ written three times by Denis and twice by Margaret, 2 cards signed by Margaret Thatcher on behalf of both of them, ‘Margaret and Denis’, and 4 cards signed by ‘Margaret’ alone (one with light vertical crease to both boards), manuscript letter 'F' written in an unidentified hand to upper right corner above printed messages of 4 cards, together with:Heath (Edward, 1916-2005), British Prime Minister 1970-74. A group of 3 signed official Christmas greetings cards, c. 1970s/2000s, folded card, two with colour illustrations mounted to upper covers and printed 10 Downing Street address beneath blue ink autograph ‘from Edward Heath’, the third with colour illustration to front cover and printed House of Commons address beneath blue ink autograph, ‘Ted Heath’, all the cards without name of recipient or original envelopes, two of the rear covers of the Thatcher cards dated 1975 and 1978, the three Heath cards a little creased, a few scattered minor spots and marks but generally in excellent conditionQTY: (14)

* Warwickshire & Yorkshire. A manuscript Release and quitclaim for land at Ilmington, near Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, circa 1300, manuscript on vellum, from Isabella Geffrey of Ilmington to Robert de Val, relinquishing her right in a messuage and 1½ acres of land and a farthingdeal (ferendell) of meadow, namely: the messuage which Alice Hebbe long held in the vill and fields of Ilmington, one acre at Holdeforde, half an acre in the four acres (intefouracres), and the farthingdeal of meadow lies at Severode, witnesses: Henry Benet of Foxcote [in Ilmington], Gilbert Benet of Foxcote, Richard Geffrey of Ilmington, Gilbert Marescall of Ilmington, Gilbert Dyonis of Ilmington, with round white wax seal for Isabella Geffrey, the charge and legend indistinct, folded, overall size 9 .5 x 21 cm (not including seal), together with A stock deed for the manor of Bramcote in Warwickshire, circa 1280, by Willliam de Grendon, lord of Bramcote (Bromcote) [in Bulkington, Warwickshire], to William del Hul of Bramcote and his wife Margery, for his homage and service, and to their heirs in tail, reversion to William de Grendon, witnesses: John de Hurleie of Polesworth, William Gilot of Polesworth, William du Fon of Warton, William le Blund of Warton, William le Warner of Warton, Richard son of Jordan of Povele, William de Dodenhale, the messuage and half-virgate which William del Hul’s father Ralph del Hul formerly held, with rights of common in the places where the people of the vill of Bramcote have common, manuscript on vellum, folded, with dark green wax seal, showing a flower: S’ WILLELMI DE GRENDONE, overall size 20.5 x 24 cm (not including seal), plus Yorkshire. Exemplification of common recovery, 4 July 1520, for Hugh Clerke, Robert Hennege and Christopher Richardson, clerk (by their attorney Thomas Waldram) v John St Paul (Sayntpoll), esquire (by his attorney John Irby) the manor of Byram (Byrom) and 8 messuages, 240 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 30 acres of wood, 100 acres of marsh 12 shillings’ rent, the rent of a pair of horseshoes and of a pair of gilt spurs and a pound of pepper in Byram and Pool [in Brotherton, West Riding of] Yorkshire, vouchee: Thomas Fyssh, Before Sir Robert Brudenell and his fellows, justices of the bench, Trinity term 1520 rotulet 141, with fragment of the seal for sealing judicial writs out of the bench, tested by [William] Conyngesby [third prothonotary of the common bench], folded, overall size 24 x 44 cm (not including seal)  QTY: (3)NOTE:Ilmington is 2 1/2 miles north west of Shipston on Stour and 6 miles south of Stratford upon Avon. Foxcote was a hamlet 1 1/4 miles distant. It is possible to place the date of this document to the early part of the 14th century from research into the persons mentioned: Robert de Val was Lord of the Manor of nearby Compton Scorpion in 1316; an estate was conveyed by Geoffrey le Marshall to his son Gilbert in 1294. The Lordship of the Manor had been in the hands of the Harecourt family, but was granted by the King to Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester, whose descendant Peter de Montford held it at this time. The ancient measure of a virgate of land consists of about 30 acres. The messuage had 1 1/2 acres of meadowland attached whilst the seven virgates (210 acres) would be arable land in the open fields, a sizeable holding.

* Football. Two England football squad team sheets, May 1976 & 1979, plain white paper sheets, both multi-signed in blue ballpoint pen to one side only, the first with 26 England squad autographs including Kevin Keegan, Trevor Brooking, Ray Clemence, Don Revie and Peter Shilton, the second with 27 autographs including many on the 1976 squad sheet, plus Glenn Hoddle, Trevor Francis, etc., each with manuscript title and separate typed identification lists, sheets approx. 25 x 18 cm, together with a National Sporting Club Luncheon menu from the Café Royal, 25 November 1999, signed on the upper cover by both guest speakers George Best and Nobby Styles, plus a promotional photo card signed by Johan Cruyff, and four white index cards signed by Pelé, George Best, Alf Ramsey and Franz Beckenbauer QTY: (8)

* Derbyshire. A Terrier of ploughed land in the open fields of Barrow upon Trent, taken by William Starbuck and Roland Ragge, Derbyshire, 1590, manuscript roll in English on 6 stitched vellum membranes, 347 x 14 cm (narrowing to 10 cm at foot)QTY: (1)NOTE:The terrier includes a furlong by furlong survey of 72 acres in Loe Field, Middle Field and Sandy Field, naming the holders of the strips on either side, the alignment of the strips and the topographical features at either end onto which the strips ‘shoot’.

* Slavery in Jamaica. An abstract of title to a sugar plantation called Mount Charles (680 acres) and land known as Middleton Penn, in the parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica, owned by Augustin Gwyn, manuscript on paper, signed by Thomas Farqharson, 30 January 1775, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, some soiling, folio, together with a manuscript list of 233 slaves on the estate, small pen and ink plan, 3 pages, a little old staining and several small splits or holes with minor loss to text, written on 2 leaves with frayed silk tie, large 4to, plus manuscript certification signed by Richard Lewin, secretary and notary public, and Sir Basil Keith, Governor of Jamaica, 3 February 1775, 2 pages on first and third page of a bifolium with papered seal to third page, a little soiling, folio, plus a hand-coloured engraved map of Jamaica and Bermuda (Paris: Crepy, 1767)QTY: (4)NOTE:Mount Charles Estate, Jamaica was purchased in 1768 by Rev. Augustin Quinn (d. 1779), a slave owner and member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica.

* Scrap albums. A group of 16 assorted mostly Victorian scrap albums, containing watercolours, drawings, hand-coloured and plain engravings, chromo scraps and manuscript quotations and writings, etc., various bindings and sizes QTY: (a carton)

* Peninsular War. A manuscript account of the Storming of the Ciudad Rodrigo, [by Lieutenant William Mackie, 88th Connaught Rangers], paper watermarked 1837, addressed to ‘Sir’ [Lt.-Col. Charles James Napier, 1782-1853], addressing the incorrect recollection of the surrender of the Storming of the Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 19 January 1812, by Colonel John Gurwood [1788-1845], which omitted Lieutenant Mackie’s key role in being the first to accept a sword from the French army in signal of their surrender: ‘Immediately on entering I was hailed by a French Officer, asking for an English General to who they might surrender. Pointing to my epaulets … a sword presented to me in token of surrender, which I accordingly received.’; ‘My chagrin and disappointment may be easily imagined, when Lord Wellington’s dispatches reached the army from England to find my name altogether omitted.’; ‘I do declare on the word of a man of honour, that, I was the first individual, who effected the descent from the main breach into the streets of the town. That I preceded the advance into the body of the place, that I was the first who entered the Citadel, and that the Enemy there assembled had surrendered to myself and party before Lieut Gurwood came up.’; ‘I need not say that this danger is only the more imminent from his statement appearing in a work which, as being published under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington as well as of the Horse Guards, has at least the appearance of coming in the guise of an official authority,’ 17 pages, 8vo, together with:Address to Britannia, on the anniversary of the Battle of Buçaco 27th Sept 1816, a handwritten book of mainly poetry and some prose, by William Mackie, a total of 129 pages, signed to verso of front free endpaper, half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed with some corner wear, 4to, plusLife of Field-Marshall His Grace The Duke of Wellington, by W. H. Maxwell, 3 volumes, 4th edition, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845, including 3 volumes in defective bindings, 8vo, and Britannia Ingrata: A Tribute to the Peninsular Army, with an introduction and notes by Major William Mackie, London: T. & W. Boone, 1837, lithograph frontispiece, presentation inscription to half-title ‘To Agnes Jane Mackie, From her affectionate father John Mackie, 1st January 1862, Edinburgh’, upper hinge broken with text block detached from spine, all edges gilt, 4toQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: The vendor was given these items by the great grandson of Major William Mackie in 1979. This the first time they have been offered for sale. During the Peninsular War, the 88th ‘Devils Own’ Connaught Rangers established a reputation as one of the most fearsome battalions in Wellington’s army. The 88th was at the forefront of the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, which took place on 19 January 1812, when Lieutenant William Mackie, who volunteered to lead the 'forlorn hope', led the assault of the 3rd Division against the main breach, losing 63 officers and men. Mackie’s letter challenging Colonel Gurwood’s view of what happened seems to have had some effect on at least one subsequent publication. In The Duke of Wellington by W. H. Maxwell, volume 2, p. 439, it states that: ‘Mackie… reached the citadel; and his gallantry was rewarded by receiving there the submission of General Barrie and such of the garrison as it contained’. Maxwell also goes on to reference the letter: ‘Major Mackie addressed to Lieut.-Colonel Napier a modest but accurate statement of the part he had acted in storming Rodrigo, leaving the world - as I do - the task of deciding to whom, by right of conquest, the sword of General Barrie should have belonged’. Mackie's account has also influenced many modern historians including: Richard Holmes, Tim Saunders, William Grattan, etc.

* Charles II: Treaty with Tripoli. Articles of Peace and Commerce between ... Charles II. ... and ... Halil Bashaw, Ibraim Dey, Aga, Divan, and Governors of the noble City and Kingdom of Tripoli in Barbary; concluded by Sir John Narbrough ... on the fifth day of March, ... 1675/6, Published… 1676, manuscript fair copy, probably early 18th century, 15 pages including title, written in a very neat hand on laid paper with ruled borders, 2 blank leaves at rear, front endpaper browned and detached with large manuscript inscription ‘Treaty with Tripoli’ and written beneath in a later hand in blue ink, ‘Phillipps MSS 24706’, later sewing, modern plain boards, soiled and some wear, covers detached, small 4to, together with:Newgate. The Ordinary of Newgate's Account of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, of James Hayler and James Gallaker, who were executed at Tyburn, on Monday 29th October, for murder, being the 9th execution in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Sir Chris Gascoyne, Knt. and of the seven malafactors ..., 8 numbers bound and paginated as one, 1753-54, each number with separate title page (numbers 3-8 dated 1754), a little spotting, disbound, 4to, plus other assorted ephemera comprising an initialled prescription from James Young Simpson (1811-1870), c. 1860, prescribing a tincture of 30 drops to be taken three times daily, a little creased and soiled, 160 x 125 mm; an early copy of 'A Long Story' by Thomas Gray, a poem by Charles Doyne Sillery [1807-37], written for members of the Six Feet Club, a damaged and relaid 17th-century poem concerning the Popish plot, five mounted folio leaves of Italian, French and Latin poems, and including a list of Knights of the County of Durham in the time of Henry III, plus 2 autograph letters from Henry Irving, one dated 1913QTY: (14)NOTE:During the Third Anglo-Dutch War Admiral Sir John Narborough (c. 1640-1688) was second captain of the Lord High Admiral's ship, HMS Prince. He conducted himself with conspicuous valour at the Battle of Solebay in May 1672, after the death in action of his superior, Sir John Cox, and won approbation. Shortly after he was promoted to rear-admiral and knighted. In 1675 he was sent to suppress the Barbary piracies, and by despatching gun-boats into the harbour of Tripoli at midnight and burning the ships, he induced the Dey to agree to a treaty.

* Garston (Edgar, 1800-1873), British adventurer, translator and philhellene. A manuscript grant of arms for Edgar Garston in the parish of Childwall in Lancashire, ‘a knight of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece’, 30 December 1864, illuminated manuscript on vellum with 4 armorial bearings at head, heightened with gold, signed by Sir Charles George Young as Garter King of Arms and Walter Aston Blount as Norroy King of Arms, with 2 wax seals in brass skippets appended by tags, membrane 64 x 53 cm, contained in original hinged wooden box with black morocco covering, lid bearing 3 Queen Victoria gilt-embossed ‘VR’ monograms surmounted by a crown, rubbed, 57 x 15 x 6 cm, together with another copy of the same illuminated hand-painted grant of arms on board, 25 x 21 cm, framed and glazed, plus an accomplished head and shoulders oil portrait believed to be of Edgar Garston as a young man in fancy dress, c. 1830, oil on board, 18 x 15 cm, framed, plus an albumen print landscape carte-de-visite of Gurston in Hellenic attire, c. 1860s, studio stamp of Stortz to verso, and an Autograph Letter Signed from W. Beaumont Warrington, 12 January 1865, to Edgar, returning some diplomas (not here present) referring to the beautiful grant of arms and other heraldic matters, 4 pages, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Edgar Garston was born in Chester and travelled widely, becoming proficient in various languages including modern Greek. These linguistic skills earned him a position of French interpreter for Queen Caroline’s counsel during the divorce proceedings. In 1821 he translated Louise Demont’s Journal of the visit of Her Majesty the Queen, to Tunis, Greece and Palestine. He travelled to Greece in 1825 and witnessed the Revolution firsthand apparently fighting as a volunteer, earning honors from the Greek government after the war. He toured Greece and Egypt in 1840, publishing a partly retrospective account of the trip in 1842. Besides enjoying commercial success he was also associated with charitable causes including serving as one of the twelve members of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women under the presidency of his sister-in-law Josephine Butler.

* Historical Documents & Ephemera. An assorted collection of documents and ephemera, mostly 19th & 20th century, including 20+ vellum deeds, assorted letters, printed and manuscript items including a few scrap albums, postcards, etc.QTY: (2 cartons)

* Terry (Fred, 1863-1933). English actor and theatre manager. A group of 54 typescript Letters Signed, 'Fred Terry', mostly on personalised letterhead, 30 November 1915 - 24 November 1932, all to Mrs Stordy [Phyllis M. Stordy], discussing various topics in a friendly manner, including: 'You are right, I loathe cinemas, my eyes ache and knowing that the acting is sheer pantomime withought feeling or heart, I hate the thing altogether. It is a mechanical insult to fine acting', etc., some with manuscript annotations, some laid onto leaves of a disbound notebook, 8vo, together with 6 original illustrations (one signed P.M. Stordy), possibly by P.M. Stordy and sent with letters to be signed, comprising: 3 watercolour, and 3 pencil, showing Fred Terry and one of Julia Neilson, all in costume, signed and dated, plus 6 letters sent to 'Dear Mr Fred' from Phyllis M. Stordy, 8vo, and some other related ephemera QTY: (a folder)

* Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland. Exemplification of a fine, 31 May 1583, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in Secretary hand, 33 lines, fine pen and ink and watercolour wash portrait of Elizabeth I seated on her throne with sceptre and orb, within large initial ‘E’, with added cat and snail vignettes, the first line in large calligraphic script decorated above with a lion, crowned rose and dragon, some dust-soiling, tag but no seal present, 46 x 57 cm, together with a heavily rubbed Latin deed on vellum, c. 1631, with initial guide letter and largely complete but cracked and rubbed Great Seal of Charles I appended, 26 x 43 cmQTY: (2)

Manuscript Receipts Book. A manuscript book containing cookery and medical receipts, etc., late 18th & early 19th century, compiled in more than one hand, a total of [98] pages plus 4 pages of index after intervening blanks, receipts include mead, Dr. Willis’s Syrop of Sulphur, to pickle tongues, to pickle pigeons, tiblett pye, for scotch collops, gripes in horses, to clean cast ribbons, to whiten the teeth, for spots occasioned by small pox, to cure the most inveterate canker, the best buttlers ale, an excellent remedy for all wounds, Dr. Mead’s cure for the bite of a mad dog, yeast – as used in the Isle of Mann, to roast a hare, to make ink, compositions for lights, artificial snow, transparent paintings, the relevant mechanical effects of the human body laboring in various postures – by Robertson Buchanan engineer from the Repertory of 1801, Dr. George Fordyce’s method of assaying copper ores, for cleansing silk, to frost etc., a few pen and ink diagrams, some spotting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, folio (31 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)

* Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland. A small embroidery fragment believed to have been made by Queen Mary, c.1580, a white rose on a purple velvet background, approx. 70 x 80 mm overallQTY: (1)NOTE:This embroidered fragment was given as a souvenir to a visitor to Hardwick Hall and is accompanied by the recipient’s original manuscript note ‘Part of a chair cover worked by Mary Queen of Scots during her imprisonment at Hardwick Hall and made in the audience room of that place. In this room is a Tissue bed supposed to have been made many years prior to Mary’s imprison[ment].’On Queen Elizabeth I’s instruction Mary was imprisoned from 1568 to 1585, mostly at Tutbury Castle, Sheffield Castle and Manor, Wingfield Manor and Chatsworth, properties of the courtier, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The Earl’s wife, Bess of Hardwick, became a great friend of Mary and they whiled away many hours with embroidery work. Many of their embroideries survive in the great houses of Bess’s descendants (notably the Dukes of Devonshire), especially at Hardwick Hall.Although this embroidery was almost certainly made by Queen Mary whilst she was imprisoned in Derbyshire, it would have actually been sewn within the confines of Wingfield Manor (near Alfreton, Derbyshire) and then later preserved at Bess of Hardwick’s own home, Hardwick Hall.

*Watercolour Albums. An album of watercolours, pencil studies and copied manuscript verse by Charlotte Grimston, Countess of Verulam, 1826, consisting of a decorative pictorial title in pencil by Katherine Grimston (daughter of the Countess of Verulam), titled The Countess of Verulam 1826, 19 leaves of verse copied in manuscript (including Lines inscribed on a Tablet in Quidenham Church in memory of The Lady Sophia MacDonald who died September 29th 1824, aged 27, Stanzas inscribed to Lady William Russel, To Lady Mary Grimston-aged 6 years on giving the author a kettle-holder, To the Countess of V...M..etc.), 12 watercolour (and some pencil) studies by various hands, including Emily Mary Grimston, dated 1826, a pencil landscape with ruins by Henry Vincent, a small study of picturesque old buildings by M. J. Villiers, two pencil copies after Van Dyck by S. G. Lushington, and another of a hunting dog and pheasant by the same hand, a small architectural study by Richard Cavendish, a watercolour sketch of a Bermudian fisherman by F de Ros, a view of the island of Capri by Colonel Tisdall, a watercolour view of Drakenfelts initialled K.G.[Katherine Grimston] etc., all contained in a small album, all edges gilt, modern light brown quarter plain morocco, together with Gorhambury and some its Environs, Drawn by Katherine Grimston, circa 1846, an album containing 34 attractive watercolour views of Gorhambury House in Hertfordshire, with manuscript title in watercolour, heightened with gold, all by Katherine Grimston, daughter of James and Charlotte Grimston, Earl and Countess of Verulam, with Charlotte Verulam's signature to verso of front endpaper, a short manuscript preface by Charlotte Verulam dated September 1846 'To me, this book is deeply interesting, containing drawings all by my daughter Katherine Countess of Clarendon, of dear Gorhambury and its environs', the views include Northeast view of Gorhambury, Part of the interior of the hall at Gorhambury, West view of Gorhambury, The ruins of Lord Bacon's house at Gorhambury as it stood in the year 1832, The Kiss Oak at Gorhambury, The house at Gorhambury built by Sir Nicholas Bacon, South view of Gorhambury, Part of the Interior of the Library at Gorhambury, View from Still End, The Abbey and Tower of St. Albans, Gorhambury in the Evening, In the Library, Hatfield House, Verulam House, St. Albans Abbey and Sopwell Nunnery, all carefully captioned in ink, many album leaves at end unused, contemporary stationers ticket of Dobbs & Compy. Ornamental Stationers, 13 Soho Square to verso of front pastedown, modern dark green quarter morocco, small oblong 4to, plus a further album compiled by the Countess of Clarendon, containing approximately 70 various watercolour views and sketches, generally dated circa 1844-1853, some in pencil or pen & brown ink, including The Grove [Watford], Constance's Birthday 2 September 1846, two studies of a baby captioned Hyde, and dated 1846, three careful watercolour studies of butterflies inscribed 'from the ceiling of our room at Wiesbaden, 1844', Constance and Alice, 1847, various views of the Vice Regal Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin [where her husband George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon resided as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland], three miniature portraits of children (unidentified), two early photographs of an old lady and young child sitting in garden, several sketches by Villiers Lister, a few sketches of Dublin Bay and Dublin Castle, etc., several small engraved views of Dublin, and a few clipped autograph signatures (Earl of Clarendon, Wellington, the red seal of Prince Albert, etc.), and one other related album relating to the same family, containing 20 pages of manuscript diary commencing September 16th 1833 [author not identified], two original sketches of Lord Clarendon by his eldest daughter Lady Constance Villiers, and another similar of Lord John Russel (Earl Russel) asleep, dated 1840, both by Lady Constance Villers after Lady Derby, a printed programme for Grove Theatricals, Wednesday 7th January 1863, in which the actors are listed by name etc., the majority of the album left blank, modern quarter maroon plain morocco, oblong 4toQTY: (4)NOTES: An attractive group of four related albums compiled by Charlotte Grimston, Countess of Verulam (1783-1862), who wrote a History of Gorhambury, privately printed in 1821, and listed in Twyman, Early Lithographed Books. Charlotte married James Grimston, the 1st Earl of Verulam in 1807, and they had six sons, as well as four daughters (all of whom married Earls). One of these daughters was Katherine Villiers, née Grimston, Countess of Clarendon (1810-1874) who married George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon in 1839, and lived at the Grove, Watford. Amongst their children was Constance Villiers, later Countess of Derby, born in 1840.George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870), was a senior figure in the Liberal governments of the mid-19th century and served as President of the Board of Trade from 1846 to 1847, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1847 to 1852, and as Foreign Secretary on three occasions (1853-1858, 1865-1866, and 1868-1870).Gorhambury in Hertfordshire was the seat of the 3rd Viscount of Verulam, who lived there from 1784 to 1809. He was succeeded by his son James, created Earl of Verulam in 1815.

* Pinero (Sir Arthur Wing, playwright, 1855-1934). The Money-Spinner. Original Comedy in 2 Acts, 2 volumes, circa 1900, manuscript in 2 volumes, Act 1, 30 pp., Act 2 , 27 pp. each upper cover inscribed 'Return to E. A. Elton', some toning and light dust-soiling to covers, paper-fastened, small closed marginal tear to Act 2, 4to QTY: (2)NOTE:The play was first performed at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester on 5 November 1880 and again at St. James's Theatre, London on 08 January 1881. The manuscript has the play set in London instead of the published version, which was set in Rouen and first published circa 1900.E[rnest] A. Elton (fl. 1870s-1880s) was an actor, theatre company manager, director and playwright. He wrote the dramas King Lear and His Daughters Queer (burlesque, 1871), In Life or Death (1885), A Country Dance (1896), Diamond Queen, Haste to the Wedding, Master Passion, and Queen of Diamonds. In the late 1890s Elton was listed as a New York actor and director of plays.

* Commonwealth of England. Two Documents Signed by two eminent figures of the period, 1659/60, comprising:Monck (George, 1608-1670), 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and prominent military figure under the Commonwealth. Document Signed, ‘George Monck’, St James’s, 25 February 1659/60, manuscript commission on vellum, appointing Thomas Bullor to be ‘Lieutenant to Captain John Paddhonis Trooper of Horse in my regiment and of my command for the service of Parliament and Commonwealth of England’, signed lower right, papered seal upper left, a little dust-soiled, endorsed, 21 x 30 cmLenthall (William, 1591-1662), English politician of the Civil War period who served as Speaker of the House of Commons before and after the execution of King Charles I. Document Signed, ‘Wm Lenthall, Speaker’, Westminster, 11 August 1659, manuscript commission on vellum, appointing Robert Pelham Captain of a Troop of Horse in Dorset, signed lower right, four holes near leftmost vertical fold and one near right margin, affecting a few words including most of Robert Pelham’s name at start of second line of text, some dust-soiling, endorsed, 25.5 x 35 cmQTY: (2)NOTE:George Monck was a key figure in the Restoration of the monarchy to King Charles II in 1660. During the confusion which followed Oliver Cromwell's death on 3 September 1658, Monck remained silent and watchful from Edinburgh, careful only to secure his hold on his troops. At first he contemplated armed support of Richard Cromwell, but on realising the young man's incapacity for government, he gave up this idea and renewed his waiting policy. In July 1659 direct and tempting proposals were made to him by the future Charles II.

* Wiltshire Convicts & Transportation. A manuscript document concerning the convictions of various prisoners held at the gaol at new Sarum [Salisbury], Wiltshire, before Sir Richard Perryn and Francis Buller, &c, 11 March [1797], in a neat clerical hand on laid paper, seemingly in the hand of Jn. Follett, [Clerk of the Assizes, and Clerk of the Crown of Wiltshire] with his signature at foot, detailing the names of twenty-three people and eight cases, including William Jenkins and James Jenkins, ‘attainted of sheep stealing. Let them be severely hanged by the neck until they are dead’; Henry Peaple and John Taylor, ‘attainted of horse stealing. Let them be severely hanged by the neck until they are dead’, all four with ‘Reprieved’ in the left margin, other convicts include Richard Imber, John Shearing and Roger Moody, all convicted for grand larceny, to be ‘transported… for the term of seven years’, John Castle, ‘convicted of manslaughter… is fined sixpence…, Benjamin James, ‘Convicted of unlawfully attempting to commit beastiality with a mare. Let him be imprisoned in the Common Gaol for twelve months and then be discharged', another group of five men convicted of a riot and riotously assaulting Henry Brooke to be imprisoned for one month, three other men to be acquitted and the final group of six men to have their sentences remain, some marginal fraying affecting some words and a little legibility to first few lines, old clear tape repairs to verso, one page, folio (325 x 200 mm) QTY: (1)NOTE:James Jenkins (1776-1835) and his brother William, the first named convicts on this manuscript escaped hanging for stealing seven sheep but were subsequently given seven-year sentences. In the event they were transported as convicts aboard the Coromandel in 1802, with less than two years of their sentence left to serve. After arrival in Sydney James Jenkins established himself in boat building, stone masonry and farming, becoming one of the largest land owners in an area extending from Mona Vale to Manly Vale.

Herefordshire. Manuscript volume Herefordshire Miscellaneous Collections by John Allen jun., 1809, 73 leaves of alphabetically arranged information written in a legible hand, comprising lists of booksellers and printers in Herefordshire (leaves 1 & 2), Herefordshire references from the Gentleman's Magazine listing names of printers in 1628 and information regarding tradesmen's token (leaves 3-7), An account of the paintings in the various apartments of Hampton Court, Herefordshire as sent to R. Gough Esq. F.A.S. by me - J. Allen collected and given to me by Mr Harris, Leominster, 1807 (leaves 8-12 recto), and list of books written by Herefordshire authors, natives of the county or residents (leaves 12 to end), alphabetical thumb index to fore-margin, upper pastedown with old ink stamp of Hereford and Worcester County Libraries, contemporary half calf, wear at head and foot of spine, extremities rubbed, slim 4to (Phillips Manuscript no. 20988), together with A notebook recording Herefordshire deaths and national deaths from late 18th-early 19th centuries, 134 pp. of neatly written entries, contemporary sheep-backed boards, manuscript notes to covers, upper joint split and board loosening, worn, slim 4to, plus A notebook regarding the criteria for election of the Bishop of Hereford, 1st half 19th-century, 43 pp. of neatly written notes, contemporary marbled wrappers, spine worn, slim 4toQTY: (3)

* George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760-1820. A group of 3 documents signed, ‘George R’, St James’s, 25 May 1802, 21 November 1805 & 9 April 1807, pre-printed warrants on vellum, completed in manuscript and appointing John Hopkins Radford to be ‘assistant surgeon to our 14th’ (or the Duchess of York’s) Regiment of Light Dragoon, commanded by … Lieutenant General John William Egerton, ‘assistant surgeon to our Eighty Seventh’ (or the Prince of Wales’s) Irish regiment commanded by … Major General Sir John Doyle’, and ‘Surgeon of a recruiting district’, each signed at head by the king and countersigned at the foot by the Home Secretary, Thomas Pelham, Robert Jenkinson and Lord Hawkesbury, each with embossed paper seal and duty stamp to left margin, papered seal detached from first document, all somewhat dust-soiled and the first slightly stained without affecting legibility, 23.5 x 33 cm and similar, plus a fourth manuscript warrant from Henry Padget, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Stafford, appointing John Hopkins Radford to be surgeon to the Second Battalion of the Militia of the county of Stafford, commanded by Colonel Francis Percival Eliot, remains of wax seal upper left and duty stamps below, heavily browned, 34 x 37 cm QTY: (4)NOTE:John Hopkins Radford (1764-1848) began his career as a hospital mate in 1796. Later he served in Egypt and Malta before returning to England, retiring in 1815.

Irish Manuscript Receipts Book. A manuscript receipts book kept by Mary Sproule, [Athlone, Westmeath, Ireland], c. 1787-1816, [7, index], [3, blank], [130] pp., manuscript pagination with some errors and some leaves removed historically, written in more than one neat hand on laid paper, mostly cookery receipts and a few medicinal ones, some with names of the receipt-giver, including Sarah Newenham, Ann, Deborah and William Neale, Sarah and Solomon Sproule, Mrs Lombard and Ann Lawton, a few with place (Athlone) and dates, mostly late 1780s and 1790s but a few later entries at end, including: orange marmalade, calves foot pye, to make venison of mutton, fish sauce will keep 3 years, to make a plumb cake, force meat balls, to harrico mutton, to preserve mogul plumbs, Scotch collops, to make whigs, lobster sauce, quire of paper, to make crackers, almond flummery, scarlet beef, battalia pye, carrot pudding, dropsy, cold paste, candy'd orange chips, calves head hash, collar hogs head, Daffy's elixir, eel collar, green pea pudding, height of sugar, keep kidney beans, mangoe cucumbers, Naple biscuit, oyster loaves, pillau of fowl, snow cheese, quaking pudding, ratifia cake, ragout of pallets of sweetbreads sack posset, college dumplins, fairy butter, to make a Sally Lunn, method of perpetuating barm, and of baking with the same: by GN, breast-plaister, for the hoopingcough, Dr James Malone's receipt for a cold, etc., receipts for a valuable cement for tumurs &c., green-oil to prevent a cancer on final two leaves following numerous blanks, one additional receipt for 'hotch potch' given by Henry Pim on a loosely inserted octavo leaf, large manuscript ownership inscription to front pastedown, 'Mary Sproule's Receipt Book, 1787', some leaves partly sprung, contemporary green-stained vellum over boards, slightly rubbed and soiled with slight loss at head of spine, small 4to (200 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Mary Sproule, born c. 1768 in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Watson) Sproule, and sister of John Watson and Solomon. She married Anthony Pim on 25 May 1794 in Moate, County Westmeath, and had 5 children: William, Elizabeth, George, Sarah and Mary Anne. She died in Moate in 1851.

* China Diary. A manuscript diary written by Edgar Hamilton, concerning his life as a tea taster in Shanghai, 1866-1877, approx. 370 pages, in ink in a neat hand on ruled paper, after the long sea voyage Hamilton arrives in Canton in February 1866, ‘we had something to drink and walked on the Bund where we saw the beauty of Canton… the streets are about 6 feet wide and very uneven, it is very close and now and then you come across some bad smells’, with a friend he visits ‘the ruins of the old part of the town where the Europeans used to live, it is a mass of ruins’, he continues to explore Canton, ‘at five o clock we got into a boat and rowed up the river to a China man’s garden, it was very interesting, consisting of square ponds full of water lilies’, later that month Hamilton leaves Canton and begins work in Shanghai as a tea merchant, spending the mornings tasting and ordering various teas and in the afternoons ‘copying out contracts and composing tea letters’, ‘… weighed 2 chops of tea which we had bought of Long Hung’ (27 September), outside of work Hamilton’s favorite activities are typical of young European men in Shanghai, walking along the Bund, visiting the racecourse and hunting in the countryside on his favorite pony which he buys from the horse bazaar, on one occasion he attends a book sale and later buys a snake skin, on another occasion he attends the Chinese theatre, finding the acting very good, he visits one of the firms offices in Hangkow to which Hamilton regularly travels by steamer and notes, ‘I was struck by the largeness of the place, the country is very flat and ugly, nothing like ours here’, contemporary roan notebook, 8voQTY: (1)

Library catalogue. Manuscript catalogue of the library at Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, circa 1820, 36 leaves of tabulated lists recording the volumes contained in the library, noting title, author, editor or translator, size, number of volumes and general remarks (shelf location), arranged alphabetically and written in a neat hand on laid paper with bearing watermark dated 1818, alphabet thumb tabs to fore-edge, pencil annotation to front flyleaf 'Books at Hinton belonging to Mrs Day' (with Joseph Coles watermark), contemporary half calf, upper cover with 'Mrs Days Library List' written faintly in ink, gilt decoration to spine with gilt title 'M. S. Catalogue', extremities slightly rubbed, slim 4to, together with a collection of approximately 90 trade receipts etc. for purchases made by Miss [Helen Charlotte] Foxcroft of Hinton Charterhouse, dating from 1901-1924, predominantly made in Bath and LondonQTY: (a folder)NOTE:Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset is a fine country house dating from circa 1700 with later alterations. Samuel Day of Burnett, near Keynsham and his wife Mary (née Skurrey) acquired Hinton House on their marriage in 1786 or a few years after. Their son, Samuel Skurrey Day, was born in 1787 and later a daughter, Mary. In 1810 at the age of 23 Samuel Jun. married the Hon. Catherine Lister (aged 17), the daughter of Lord Ribblesdale. His mother handed over his inheritance on the occasion of his marriage where he commenced remodelling the house. His marriage to Catherine was unsuccessful and short-lived. His mother returned to Hinton after his wife left. Having created a new interior he bought new furniture, pictures and enhanced his library. The alterations to the house were not completed as he was thrown from his horse and killed in September 1816. In his will, he left everything to his mother requesting she leave the house and land to his friend Thomas Jones. Thomas was a lawyer, the son of a family she knew well. His mother being one of eight Foxcroft sisters from Halsteads in West Yorkshire. Mary Day died in 1846 at the age of 80 and Thomas Jones inherited the house. The house later passed through the interrelated families of Foxcroft and Robertson-Glasgow.Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (formerly Jones, 1865-1950) was a historian and literary editor. She was born at Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, being the eldest of the seven surviving children (two sons and five daughters) of Edward Talbot Day Jones (1837–1911) of Hinton House.

* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-1834. Two Autograph Letters Signed in the third person, ‘Duke of Wellington’, London, 24 February & 5 March 1845, both to Mr Thoyts of Sulhampstead, Berkshire, the first wishing to postpone the Thoyts’s visit to Stratfield Saye, ‘as the Duke’s brother the Earl of Mornington expired on the night before last’, one page, 8vo, a second in response to a note about an unspecified person and their character, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, 8vo, both loosely inserted into an autograph album containing tipped-in and loose autograph letters, envelopes and clipped signatures, etc., mostly Victorian including others addressed to the Thoyts family, but including a manuscript bill of exchange signed by the Marquess of Carmarthen, 5 May 1694, to pay William Vernon £100, somewhat browned, an Autograph Note from Queen Victoria (laid down), ‘The Queen approves of these 2 drafts and wishes to have copies of them. June 9’, an Autograph Letter Signed ‘Mary R’ from Mary of Teck on Sandringham headed paper, 27 January 1946, to Mrs Taylor sending condolences having heard the news of her loss, 2 pages, 8vo, the other letters mostly from nobility and gentry including Viscount Combermere, Duke of Westminster, William 3rd Baron Wynford, F. B. Hervey, various letters from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, a total of approx. 50 autograph items, some with annotations to mounts, contemporary morocco with stitched cloth wrapper, rubbed and soiled, 4toQTY: (1)

* Salar Jung I (Mir Turab Ali Kahn, 1829-1883). Portrait of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad State (1853-1883), c. 1870s, albumen print on thin card, tipped on to an old paper mount with manuscript caption in English beneath, image 212 x 167 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Known simply as Salar Jung I, he served as prime minister of Hyderabad State from 1853 until his death and also served as Regent for the 6th Nizam, Asaf Jah VI between 1869 and 1883. A caricature by Spy appeared in Vanity Fair with the caption 'An Indian Statesman'.

* Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France, 1643-1715. Document Signed, ‘Louis’, Versailles, 15 February 1671, manuscript on vellum with calligraphic flourishes to first line and hand-coloured royal crest near centre of page, giving permission to Joseph Stammetre, doctor extraordinary, to augment his ordinary arms with a gold crown and two lions, boldly signed at foot, some overall soiling and heavy central vertical crease line, one page, 43 x 53.5 cm, laid on board with lower blank margin partly folded overQTY: (1)

* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852). 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-30, 1834. Two Documents Signed, ‘Wellington’, in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance, 7 March 1822 & 7 February 1826, pre-printed commissions on vellum, completed in manuscript, the first appointing Ralph Gore to be storekeeper on the establishment of the Ordnance at Guernsey, the second appointing Richard M. Satchwell to be fourth clerk on the establishment of the Ordnance at the Cape of Good Hope, the first with papered wax seal and duty stamp applied, the second with duty stamp but lacking papered wax seal, both slightly soiled and dust-soiled, the second autograph slightly indistinct, both countersigned by Fitzroy Somerset, 30 x 39 cmQTY: (2)

* Cecil (William, 1520-1598), Lord Burleigh, English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. Document Signed, 'W. Burghley’, 29 June 1586, an instruction to pay Nowell Sotherton, Clerk of the estreats in the Exchequer, the sum of £6.8s.3d. for serving the Queen and collecting all the fines, issues and amerciaments in the 12 shires of Wales for the 28th year of Her Majesty’s reign [1585-86], 8 lines of manuscript in brown ink, signed below by Lord Burleigh and Sir Walter Mildmay (1520-1589, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth I, some light spotting, mounted below an engraved portrait of William Cecil by John Goldar (1784), modern black and gilt frame, glazed, with printed transcription of the document attached to verso (overall size 64 x 39 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Nowell Sotherton was appointed Warden of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1586 and became Master in 1597. He was Clerk of estreats in the Exchequer, and later cursitor baron of the Exchequer from July 1606. Sotherton was also a member of parliament for Dorchester in 1589, and St. Ives in 1593 and 1597. The document is signed by Sotherton's superiors in Elizabeth I's administration, Sir Walter Mildmay, chancellor of the Exchequer, and William Burleigh, Lord Cecil (1520-1598), diplomat, politician and administrator who was the principal adviser to Queen Elizabeth I for the majority of her reign.

* Manuscript Notebooks. An assorted group of 18 notebooks and related, c. 1826-1895, including one containing 11 leaves of medical reciepts, with neat handwritten notes for a variety of treatments and remedies for common illnesses, including: a poultice of almond paste for tumours, a bug wash for rheumatism or pain at heart, strengthening mixture for a cough, rose gargle, etc., ink title to front pastedown, original limp leather, slim 8vo, together with 8 volumes of diaries kept by Mrs Frances Mary Scudamore, covering 1846-47, 1873, 1887-88 and 1891-95, documenting the weather, letters sent and received, and notes about her day, plus 9 other manuscript notebooks covering various subjects including: Research on Herodotus, 1819; Course d’Etude Principes de Geographie, extracts of verse, prose and prayers; parcel receipt book, 1890; Victorian visitors' book; farming minutes, early 19th century; and ledgers from 1860, 1872 and 1914, various sizes and varied conditionQTY: (a carton)

* Historical Autographs. A collection of approx. 36 autograph letters and 6 further manuscript documents, c. 1640/1829, the oldest a document signed by John Bysse (c. 1602/1680), recorder of Dublin, concerning the examination before him of Margaret Floyd and Francis Banes, wives of servants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford], concerning the violent attack on Mary, the wife of Randall Udall, 2 January 1639/40, some fraying to upper margin with paper repairs to verso, one page, folio; articles of agreement for Thomas Pedler the younger to serve for four years as an indentured servant on William Gordon’s plantation, called Paisley Estate in the parish of St. James, Jamaica, 10 November 1788, a receipt written and signed by William Sancroft (1617-1693), Dean of St. Pauls, 6 November 1668; two letters from William Wilberforce (1759-1833), politician and anti-slavery campaigner, the first letter from Lowestoft, 31 August 1816, to an unidentified correspondent (name cut away at foot), regretting he cannot help in connection with colonel Burgess ‘of whom I entertain a very high opinion’, a second from Bath 14 October 1820, to his close friend John Scandrett Harvard (1785-1866), philanthropist and abolitionist, address leaf only on the end of the letter with a postscript relating to Wilberforce’s ill-health, one page, 4to; plus letters from Sir John Comyns (c. 1667-1740), judge, John Jeffreys (1706-1766), MP for Dartmouth, Watkin Williams (?1742-1808), MP for Montgomeryshire, Granville Sharp (1735-1813), anti-slavery campaigner, Samuel Parr (1747-1825), Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), MP, topographer and author, John Way (d. 1804), philanthropist, Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859), Superintendent of Indian Trade, Lady Fenn Eleenor (1744-1813), educationist and children’s author, Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869), principal librarian of the British Museum, Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838), antiquary, archaeologist and historian, John Cole (1792-1848), bookseller and antiquary, and others, some occasional browning or fraying and small tears, mostly one or two pages, 4to/8voQTY: (approx. 36)

* Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1837-1901. Document Signed, ‘Victoria RI’, Balmoral, 29 September 1855, manuscript warrant on vellum, appointing Philip Duggan ‘to be of the Legislative Council Newfoundland’, signed at head with papered wax seal adjacent, by William Molesworth as Colonial Secretary [less than one month before his death], 2 pages with integral blank leaf, endorsed, outer final page a little soiled and browned from where originally folded, folioQTY: (1)

* Hong Kong. Central Parade Grounds by Afong, c. 1890, albumen print signed by the photographer in capitals lower right, 210 x 267 mm, contemporary paper mount with manuscript title 'Hong Kong' to lower marginQTY: (1)

* Hastings (William, c. 1431-1483), 1st Baron Hastings, English nobleman, Lord Chamberlain 1461-1483. Document Signed, ‘Hastyngs’, unidentified location, 20 March 1475, manuscript indenture on vellum, being a mercenary contract to fight France and undertaking to pay 1s-6d per day for a full year to a royal mercenary, Sir Rauff Frannceys [Ralph Francis, 1450-1534] of Foremark, Derbyshire, who was to sail for France with Edward IV’s army, Francis was to bring two archers, who are each to be paid 6d per day, a contract covering such things as the route to be taken to France (via Portesdowne in Hampshire on 24 May 1475), death in service, foraging, plunder, procedures for prisoners of war, sending a substitute to serve, etc., signed lower right under fold and with Hastings' red wax seal appended (impression indistinct), some age soiling and small stains without loss of legibility, verso blank, 220 x 330 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare military indenture signed by Baron Hastings, a loyal follower of the Household of York and one of the most important courtiers of King Edward IV. He was executed following accusations of treason by Edward’s brother and ultimate successor, Richard III. He is portrayed in two of Shakespeare’s plays: Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III. These contracts would have been produced for each significant English soldier that signed up to fight with Hastings during King Edward IV’s Campaign in France in 1475. The king’s army comprised 13,000 men, Edward landing in Calais on 4 July. After marching around north-west France, Edward and Louis XI, King of France, agreed a truce on 18 August and this was soon followed by the Treaty of Picquigny, the treaty formally ending the Hundred Year’s War.

* Baillie (Isobel, 1895-1993), English Soprano. An archive of correspondence and ephemera relating to the English soprano Isobel Baillie, including an autograph letter signed by the composer Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), on letter headed paper, dated Coign, Woking, 30.8.23 'My dear Miss Baillie, I didn't half thank you last night - in my anguish at perhaps missing the train...I wish our songs hadn't come off in the saddest day of my life & one of the most deadly busy ones - I thought you sang them beautifully, & had studied so carefully. A rock of strength! My only hope is that you get a nice press - I never want to know... so never read it..., Yours sincerely, Ethel Smyth', an interesting series of 16 autograph letters signed by the composer Hamiton Harty to Isobel Baillie, dated 1926 to 1936 on various letterheads, plus 3 related concert programmes, including one signed by Hamilton Harty for a concert at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, April 9th 1922, a printed programme for the 7th Beethoven Concert at Queen's Hall, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini, 22 May 1939, signed in blue ink by Toscanini and dated below his portrait photograph inside the programme, two autograph letters signed by the composer Herbert Howells (1892-1983) and one by Dorothy Howells, dated 10 September 1950, 3 April 1957, and 15 September 1950 respectively, four autograph letters by Jessie Wood (1882-1979, widow of Sir Henry Wood), autograph letters from Norman Allin, Bernard Shore, and Stanford Robinson (1904-1984), a series of 9 typewritten letters and 2 handwritten postcards from Isobel Baillie to Bryan Crimp, 1978-82, a fair manuscript copy of the score for The Children of Lir, by Hamilton Harty, several L.P. recordings of Isobel Baillie, and a small black leather-bound notebook containing Baillie's singing repertoire, written in blue ink in her own hand, plus a copy of her autobiograhy Never Sing Louder Than Lovely (1982), inscribed by Isobel Baillie to Bryan CrimpQTY: (a carton)NOTE:Provenance: After leaving EMI one of Bryan Crimp’s projects was to work with Isobel Baillie on her autobiography, published in 1982 by Hutchinson. This surviving Isobel Baillie material was later gifted to Crimp in recognition of his participation.The leading British concert soprano of the first half of the 20th century, Isobel Baillie gave her first public performance of Handel's Messiah at the age of 15, and made her début with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester in 1921. Her career coincided with the great flowering of English music between the 1920s and 1950s, during which time she worked with some of the finest composers and conductors of the day, including Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells and Hamilton Harty, Henry Wood, Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Beecham. In oratorio, lieder as well as opera, she was renowned for her pure and clear style of singing. She was awarded a CBE, and a Damehood in 1978.

* Boer War Diary. 'Flashes of Thoughts for Spare Moments', by A. Melville 'Sapper' Gee, composed during the Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1900, 32 works of verse in black or blue ink, with titles such as 'Kruger was a Dutchman', 'When the War is O'er', 'Soldier's Xmas in S. Africa, 1900', 'Death of Queen Victoria', 'Both Sides' and 'The Pro-Boer', some works with newspaper cuttings with the work pasted to adjacent pages, a few autograph letters to the author stapled in, contemporary beige cloth, paper title label to upper cover (titles in manuscript), marked with some wear, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: A. Melville 'Sapper' Goodacre of Seaforth, Merseyside served in the Royal Engineers during the Boer War.

* Convict Transportation. A group of 3 orders of transportation, Lancaster, 8 April 1834, Wallingford, 3 July 1834 & Wells, 12 January 1835, pre-printed documents, completed in manuscript, the first for Patrick Fallan, convicted for ‘feloniously making and counterfeiting silver coin…’, the second for Henry Day for stealing knives, forks, and a copper kettle, and for Richard Snook , convicted for breaking and entering ‘a dwelling house and stealing goods therein after a previous conviction for felony’, the sentences for Fallan and Snook to be transported for their natural lives, and for Day to be transported for seven years, the first two with some spotting and browning and marginal chipping without loss, all one page with endorsements to verso, 4to/folioQTY: (3)NOTE:All three of these British convicts were transported, along with 303 other convicts, onboard the Mary Ann, which departed for New South Wales on 6 July 1835. Convict Transportation Registers [HO 11].

* Manuscript Books. An assorted collection of over 30 manuscript accounts books, exercise books, etc., mostly 19th century, various bindings and sizesQTY: (a carton)

* Indian Mutiny. A framed display of hand-painted button miniatures of 6 Indian leaders who escaped execution after the Indian mutiny, c. 1860, circular head and shoulders miniatures painted on mica and mounted on card, three with thick glass covers, (plus two of the three other glass covers detached but present), diameter of each 10mm, laid out in two rows on a contemporary manuscript page including numbered identification of the sitters and their fates, writing now partly indistinct but fairly legible, 75 x 105 mm, paper toned, laid on card, framed and glazed QTY: (1)NOTE:The portraits are 1 (Maun Singh ‘pardoned’; 2) [Ali Bahadur II] Nawab of Banda, ‘pardoned’; 3 (Ummer Sing[h], ‘still at large’; 4 ([Kuwar] Koor Sing[h] [Rajah of Jagdespur], ‘died of [?] after fighting very bravely against us’; 5 ([Bahadur Shah II] King of Delhi, ‘transported’; 6 ([Mirza Wajid Ali Shah], King of Oudh, ‘living in [?]abode in Calcutta…’.