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Click here to subscribeMeteorology.- Kupffer (A. T.) Tables Psychrométriques et Barométriques a l'usage des Observatoires Météorologiques, half-title, heavily annotated with neat manuscript additions to most tables, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine extremities, cracked upper hinge, 8vo, St. Pétersbourg, L'Académie Impériale des Science, 1841.⁂ Scarce. Only one copy of Library Hub at the University of Cambridge.
NO RESERVE India.- Krishnamurti (B.H.) and J. P. L. Gwynn. A Grammar of Modern Telugu, publication correspondence loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little marked, spine ends bumped, Delhi, 1985 § Mandeswara Roa (V.) Modern Poetry in Telugu, original wrappers, a little creased, Hyderabad, 1999; and c.85 others, India, Indian literature and dictionaries, including some 19th and 20th century manuscript material, v.s. (c.80)
Epping Forest.- Driver (Robert, surveyor) Plan in Four Parts of Waste Lands in the Northern Portion of Epping Forest, within the Meaning of the Epping Forest Act, 1871, partially coloured map divided into four sections, mounted on linen and folding, each section 640 x 440 mm. (25 x 17.5 inches), overall 50 x 35 inches, on a scale of 6.4 inches to 1 mile, plans 3 and 4 water-stained, affecting colour of linen more than map surface, which is lightly stained; Plan in Three Parts of Waste Lands in the Southern Portion of Epping Forest, three sections mounted on linen and folding, each 820 x 320 mm. (33 x 12.5 inches), overall 33 x 37.5 inches, the seven parts each folding into cloth covers and together in one cloth slip-case, 8vo, [c.1880].⁂ Very scarce. The maps were produced as part of the negotiations in which the City of London took over the forest to protect it from development and to open it to the public. They provide a very detailed survey of the whole of the forest, not just the nominal waste land. Although the maps are not dated, surrounding developments suggest a date of around 1880, and this is consistent with a related manuscript map in the Public Record Office signed by Driver and dated 1882. Driver was a founder member and one-time President of the RICS, greatly concerned with the interests of the poorer members of society.
Huntingdonshire.- Hare (Edward, surveyor, of Castor, near Peterborough, 1741-1816) A Survey of the Estates of Carrier Tompson in the Parishes of Woodstone Fletton Standground and Farcett in the County of Huntingdon..., manuscript, title and 49pp., original roan, worn, wormtracks with loss, remains of brass clasps, 8vo, 1787; and c. 30 others, including a printed Enclosure Act of Fletton, indentures etc., v.s., v.d. (c. 30).⁂ Fletton and Stanground are now southern suburbs of Peterborough.
Derbyshire.- Gratrix Farm.- [Farm & Household Accounts in Derbyshire], manuscript, c. 175pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, 2ff. cut in half, some ff. excised, front endpapers loose, inner hinges broken, original reversed calf, morocco and gilt label of Gratrix Farm on upper cover, rubbed and marked, corners worn, sm. 4to, 1796-1841.⁂ Mentions "Mr Arkwright", rents from the Duke of Devonshire and places including: Wormhill, Needham, Chapel [en-le-Frith] etc.
Commonplace Book, manuscript commonplace book, c. 200pp., original roan- backed marbled boards, slight wear to the head and tail of spine, and crease to the front board, sm. 4to, 1832-43.⁂ The entries are predominantly religious, instructional or devotional, with extracts from Bradley's Sermons, Jeremy Taylor, James on the Collects, Caroline Fry, Life of Thomason, Wilberforce, Memoirs of Port Royal (Wollstonecraft), White's Meditations. An inserted note is headed 'Lecture on Popery', and the volume may have been used in preparation for teaching.
NO RESERVE Australia.- [Truell (Henrietta Montana Ogle, née Moore, of Ballyhenry, Ireland, and Bath, 1837-1926)] Diary, autograph manuscript, c. 95pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original cloth, gilt, 1886; and 11 others, including 9 other diaries by Henrietta Truell and Mary Fowler, both of 11 Forester Road, Bath, 1912-25, sm. 8vo & smaller (12).⁂ The diary of Henrietta Truell recording a visit to Sydney and Melbourne and return in 1886. Truell was the second wife of Robert Vesey Truell (1828-67), marrying him in 1867 on his deathbed. She became the stepmother to Louisa Anne Truell (1859-86), whose death in Sydney is recorded in this diary, and Phoebe Editha Truell (1862-1948) who married Robert Vesey Stoney of Rosturk Castle, Co. Mayo (1841-1924).
NO RESERVE Cleveland (John) The Works of ..., containing his Poems, Orations and Epistles, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacking initial leaf (?blank), one or two manuscript insertions (author's names & attributions), occasional discreet blind-stamps, occasional marginal spotting, bookplate, previous owner's signature to title, joints strengthened, later calf, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Wing C4655], 8vo, for O. B., and are to be sold by J. Sprint, 1699.
Shenstone (William) The Works in Verse and Prose..., 2 vol., engraved portrait, frontispiece, title-vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and folding plan of the Leasowes garden, some light spotting or browning, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, for R. & J.Dodsley, 1764 § Foote (Samuel) The Minor, a Comedy, second edition, engraved frontispiece, stitched in original wrappers, contemporary ink manuscript list of names to upper wrapper, rubbed and soiled, by J.Coote, 1760 § Irving (David) The Lives of the Scotish Poets, 2 vol.., errata leaf in each vol., contemporary book-label of Robert Davidson, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, upper joint of vol.1 split, Edinburgh, 1804; and another, Shenstone, 8vo & 12mo (6)⁂ The first includes Dodsley's 'Description of the Leasowes, the Seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq.', an important early natural landscape garden. A third volume of Shenstone's letters was published in 1769.
An illuminated Persian or Islamic manuscript Quran page with thirteen lines of black Nashki script and marginal roundels within a gold border to recto, fifteen lines to verso, unframed, 12 by 6.5cms (4.7 by 2.5ins) the page overall 15.5 b y 10.5cms (6.1 by 4.1ins).Condition ReportProbably late 18th / early 19th century
A Kelly's Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk 1929, 2 folding maps as called for (VGC), original cloth gilt; plus a Victorian junior students examination certificate 1887 for a William Arthur Warnes & Shimpling Place, Scole, printed and manuscript, framed and glazed; plus a framed picture of a waterside cottage (3)
ALBUM - SIGNATURESNineteenth century album of over 150 cut signatures, and some autograph letters, from British and European artists, musicians, writers, and politicians, including David Livingstone, Victor Hugo, John Ruskin (autograph letter to S.C.Hall, expressing pleasure that his wife is recovered), W.M. Thackeray, George MacDonald, Charles Lyell (autograph letter requesting that he be sent a map of Belgium, 22 June 1869), Charles Kingsley, S.C. Hall, Matthew Arnold (autograph letter accepting a lunch invitation, 11 March 1871), William Etty, Landseer, John Linnell, James Nasmyth, Joseph Joachim, Arthur Sullivan, Maria Krebs, William Gladstone, John Bright, James Martineau and Lionel de Rothschild, most mounted, a few loose, pages loose in nineteenth century red morocco gilt album, [c.1850-1890]--ILLUMINATED ADDRESS 'To The Rev. Stephen Bridge M.A. on his Relinquishing the Incumbency of St. Matthew's, Denmark Hill, 1868', manuscript on vellum, 11 sheets, 2 ornamental opening pages in coloured and gilt inks, each page within gilt border, decorative red morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, blue watered silk doublures and front free endpapers, g.e., rubbed, folio, 'Designed & Executed by Witherby & Co., London', [1868]; and 8 others, miscellaneous manuscripts (10)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
IRELAND - 4TH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS'Lieutenant General The Earl of Ross's Report on the First Regiment of Horse Reviewed by Him in Dublin on the 2nd Day of July 1783', 5 sheet report comprising a manuscript summary signed by Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross ('Ross Lieut. General'), and 4 engraved sheets ('General Return...', 'Return of the Arms...', numbered 1-4), with all the details neatly completed in manuscript, stitched, folio (528 x 358mm.), [1783]Footnotes:'This Regiment is composed of a very fine body of men but not so fit for service as the other Regiments of Cavalry that I have received' - a full and detailed review undertaken in Dublin by the Earl Ross, Lieutenant General of the First Regiment of Horse, which in 1788 was renamed the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards. Commanded at the time of the review by George Warde, the review is generally positive with some caveats ('Horses - In pretty good condition.... tolerably well fitted'; 'Arms - clean, but 28 carbines... 11 swords bad, 5 carbines, 4 pair pistols, and 6 swords wanting'). Includes a full record of the nationalities, ages and service history of all ranks of the regiment, a stocktake of horses, clothing, weaponry, and a 'Stock Purse Account'.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
ANGELUS DE CLAVASIOSumma Angelica de casibus conscientie [with additions of Hieronymus Torniello], 310 numbered leaves, 61 lines plus headline, 2 columns, gothic letter, rubricated throughout, initials supplied in alternating blue and red, incipit with 20-line supplied initial A in blue on red foliate background, without initial and final blanks, ink splash causing hole in lower margin of L1, contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, original clasps, clasps attachments renewed, rebacked preserving original spine [ISTC ia00722000; BMC II, 434; Goff A-722; HC 5395*; GW 1933], folio (303 x 200mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 February 1492Footnotes:Provenance: Early manuscript note on front free endpaper and ownership inscription inked over; Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), his bookplate and notes 'C.P. A.E.'.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
GIDE (ANDRÉ)Autograph manuscript, section of a draft article on the difficulties of Belgian refugees at the Foyer Franco-Belge in obtaining suitable clothing, arguing forcefully that 'la philanthropie n'a souvent qu'un lointain rapport avec la véritable charité', complaining that whilst some refugees are still waiting for clothing other skilful beggars are adding to the fortune of second hand clothes dealers, and generally railing against the practice of 'unclothing Peter to clothe Paul' whilst the right hand takes what is given with the left, titled at head in blue crayon 'projet d'article', with crossings-out and additions, including several sentences in the margin of the first page, 2 pages, in brown ink on one bifolium of laid paper watermarked Polleri, short tears and fraying at top edge, folio (330 x 220mm.), [Paris?, 1914-1916]; together with a small collection of autograph letters from French and Belgian authors, including Alfred Tarde (writing with his co-author Henri Massis to Alfred Vallette, proposing timescales for their L'Esprit de la nouvelle Sorbonne, November 1910), Georges Rodenbach (of Bruges-la-Morte fame, 5 letters, and 19 by his wife Anna), Francis Jammes, Maurice Maeterlinck, Robert de Montesquiou (gushing thanks for compliments on his verses from one 'avec votre spirituelle verve et votre brilliante veine'), and others, mostly 8vo, 1890s to 1930s (collection)Footnotes:During the First World War, medically exempt from military service, Gide instead became vice-chairman of the Foyer Franco-Belge which worked to find employment, food and housing for the Franco-Belgian refugees who had arrived in Paris following the German invasion of Belgium. Here he drafts an article expressing frustration at their suffering.Provenance: Charles Stuart Barr, author of André Gide: Critic of His Contemporaries (1963); by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAFPierre Bersuire reading, miniature on a leaf of Livy's Histoire Romaine, in the French translation of Pierre Bersuire, ILLUMINATED BY PERRIN REMIET, 45 lines in a lettre bâtarde in brown ink on vellum, in 2 columns, running title ('Cy comence le premier livre de la tierce des cade') and rubrics in red, 2 2-line and one 4-line decorative initial, the last with trailing ivy in the margin, 440 x 310mm., [Paris, c.1390]Footnotes:Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362) translated into French Petrarch's reassembly (in Latin) of Livy's history of Rome, Ab urbe condita - the first translation of any major classical author into French. By his own testimony, Bersuire undertook the translation on the command of King John II of France, who, like 'tous excellens princes' wished to 'encercher et savoir les vertueus fais et les notables euvres des princes anciens... par lesquelles ils conquisirent jadis les pays... ediffierent empires et royaumes... et deffendirent et gouvernerent et tinrent par grans successions et par longues durees' (preface to the Histoire). This courtly taste for historical literature continued into the period of Charles VI, when the present manuscript was produced.The style of this miniature can be identified with that of Perrin Remiet, an illuminator who was in the service of Charles V by 1368 and was still working for his son Louis d'Orléans in 1398.Similar leaves from this or a related manuscript of the Histoire Romaine are known: Bonham's, 28 March 1974, lot 71; Christie's, 24 November-3 December 2015, lot 15; Les Enluminures I (1992), no 21. Further copies of the text, issued from Remiet's workshop at various points of his career, have been identified: Christie's, The Library of William Foyle, 11-13 July 2000, lot 84; a complete copy of the text that was owned by Jeanne de Navarre, daughter of Charles VI of France and wife of Henry IV of England (Paris, BnF, Ms 269-272); and a copy of Decades II and III that was owned by Jacques, grandson of Louis de Bourbon (Paris, BnF, Ms fr.268).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
IRELAND - ECONOMICSSTACPOOLE (GEORGE) Historical Anecdotes with Remarks, Relative to Ireland... Part I (all published), FIRST EDITION, title page with 3-line contemporary ink note beneath the imprint (last two numerals of the date erased, see footnote), contemporary calf, 2-line gilt fillet border on sides, spine with gilt ornament in six compartments with raised bands, worn with some old stains [ESTC T102872], 8vo, Cork, Printed by Eugene Swiney, 17[62]Footnotes:Printed in Cork, this treatise is a strident call for the 'Liberty of Trade' in Ireland, arguing that despite benefitting from 'a soil fertile, and large ports open for traffick, particularly the West India-Trade... Many restrictions in our Trade... have hitherto rendered this proximity of situation of little use...'. Intended to be published in 4 parts, only the first was printed. Beneath the imprint on the title is a manuscript note claiming that 'The author has erased the dates of publication as so long an interval without part the 2d being sent to the press'.Provenance: Patrick Heron of Heron (c.1672-1761), armorial bookplate; unidentified late nineteenth/early twentieth century owner, with a few pencil annotations in margins including 'oh party party! great evil in all times' beside a paragraph in the text stating that Richard, Duke of York 'could have passed many Laws conducing to... the general Benefit of the Kingdom, but he turned all his thoughts on the making of a particular party...'.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 LEAFThe people of Locri handing over the keys of their city, miniature on a leaf of Livy's Histoire Romaine, in the French translation of Pierre Bersuire, ILLUMINATED BY PERRIN REMIET, 43 lines in a lettre bâtarde in brown ink on vellum, in 2 columns, running title ('Cy comence le quart livre de la seconde des cade') and rubrics in red, one 3-line decorative initial with trailing ivy in the margin, 440 x 310mm., [Paris, c.1390]Footnotes:Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362) translated into French Petrarch's reassembly (in Latin) of Livy's history of Rome, Ab urbe condita - the first translation of any major classical author into French. By his own testimony, Bersuire undertook the translation on the command of King John II of France, who, like 'tous excellens princes' wished to 'encercher et savoir les vertueus fais et les notables euvres des princes anciens... par lesquelles ils conquisirent jadis les pays... ediffierent empires et royaumes... et deffendirent et gouvernerent et tinrent par grans successions et par longues durees' (preface to the Histoire). This courtly taste for historical literature continued into the period of Charles VI, when the present manuscript was produced.The style of this miniature can be identified with that of Perrin Remiet, an illuminator who was in the service of Charles V by 1368 and was still working for his son Louis d'Orléans in 1398.Similar leaves from this or a related manuscript of the Histoire Romaine are known: Bonham's, 28 March 1974, lot 71; Christie's, 24 November-3 December 2015, lot 15; Les Enluminures I (1992), no 21. Further copies of the text, issued from Remiet's workshop at various points of his career, have been identified: Christie's, The Library of William Foyle, 11-13 July 2000, lot 84; a complete copy of the text that was owned by Jeanne de Navarre, daughter of Charles VI of France and wife of Henry IV of England (Paris, BnF, Ms 269-272); and a copy of Decades II and III that was owned by Jacques, grandson of Louis de Bourbon (Paris, BnF, Ms fr.268).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAFGaius Canuleius, a tribune of the plebs, introducing a law allowing intermarriage between patricians and plebeians, miniature on a leaf of Livy's Histoire Romaine, in the French translation of Pierre Bersuire, ILLUMINATED BY PERRIN REMIET, 48 lines in a lettre bâtarde in brown ink on vellum, in 2 columns, running title ('Le quart livre de la premier des cade') and rubrics in red, one 5-line initial with trailing ivy in the margin, 440 x 300mm., [Paris, c.1390]Footnotes:Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362) translated into French Petrarch's reassembly (in Latin) of Livy's history of Rome, Ab urbe condita - the first translation of any major classical author into French. By his own testimony, Bersuire undertook the translation on the command of King John II of France, who, like 'tous excellens princes' wished to 'encercher et savoir les vertueus fais et les notables euvres des princes anciens... par lesquelles ils conquisirent jadis les pays... ediffierent empires et royaumes... et deffendirent et gouvernerent et tinrent par grans successions et par longues durees' (preface to the Histoire). This courtly taste for historical literature continued into the period of Charles VI, when the present manuscript was produced.The style of this miniature can be identified with that of Perrin Remiet, an illuminator who was in the service of Charles V by 1368 and was still working for his son Louis d'Orléans in 1398.Similar leaves from this or a related manuscript of the Histoire Romaine are known: Bonham's, 28 March 1974, lot 71; Christie's, 24 November-3 December 2015, lot 15; Les Enluminures I (1992), no 21. Further copies of the text, issued from Remiet's workshop at various points of his career, have been identified: Christie's, The Library of William Foyle, 11-13 July 2000, lot 84; a complete copy of the text that was owned by Jeanne de Navarre, daughter of Charles VI of France and wife of Henry IV of England (Paris, BnF, Ms 269-272); and a copy of Decades II and III that was owned by Jacques, grandson of Louis de Bourbon (Paris, BnF, Ms fr.268).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAFThe Death of Hasdrubal, miniature on a leaf of Livy's Histoire Romaine, in the French translation of Pierre Bersuire, ILLUMINATED BY PERRIN REMIET, 44 lines in a lettre bâtarde in brown ink on vellum, in 2 columns, running title ('Cy comence le premier livre de la seconde des cade') and rubrics in red, 5 3-line and one 8-line decorative initial, the last with trailing ivy in the margin, 440 x 305mm., [Paris, c.1390]Footnotes:Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362) translated into French Petrarch's reassembly (in Latin) of Livy's history of Rome, Ab urbe condita - the first translation of any major classical author into French. By his own testimony, Bersuire undertook the translation on the command of King John II of France, who, like 'tous excellens princes' wished to 'encercher et savoir les vertueus fais et les notables euvres des princes anciens... par lesquelles ils conquisirent jadis les pays... ediffierent empires et royaumes... et deffendirent et gouvernerent et tinrent par grans successions et par longues durees' (preface to the Histoire). This courtly taste for historical literature continued into the period of Charles VI, when the present manuscript was produced.The style of this miniature can be identified with that of Perrin Remiet, an illuminator who was in the service of Charles V by 1368 and was still working for his son Louis d'Orléans in 1398.Similar leaves from this or a related manuscript of the Histoire Romaine are known: Bonham's, 28 March 1974, lot 71; Christie's, 24 November-3 December 2015, lot 15; Les Enluminures I (1992), no 21. Further copies of the text, issued from Remiet's workshop at various points of his career, have been identified: Christie's, The Library of William Foyle, 11-13 July 2000, lot 84; a complete copy of the text that was owned by Jeanne de Navarre, daughter of Charles VI of France and wife of Henry IV of England (Paris, BnF, Ms 269-272); and a copy of Decades II and III that was owned by Jacques, grandson of Louis de Bourbon (Paris, BnF, Ms fr.268).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LAW - MANUSCRIPT DICTIONARYSeventeenth century manuscript dictionary of legal and theological terms, in Latin, black in on paper, approximately 700 pages (some blank), early vellum wallet-style binding, with leather ties, folio (280 x 220mm.), [?Paris, 1622]--[POUILLY (LEVESQUE DE)] Vie de Michel de L'Hôpital, chancellier de France, engraved frontispiece, David Wilson, 1764--[LA MONNOYE (BERNARD DE) Noei Borguignon de Gui Barozai, fourth edition, Abran Lyon de Modene, 1720--[DU CUMMON (JEAN PIERRE NICHOLAS)] Les yeux, ouvrage curieux et galant, title printed in red and black, Amsterdam, Jean Paul, 1760--HARDOUIN DE PEREFIXE. Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand, Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1662--LOUVET (PIERRE) Histoire de Villefranche, capitale de Beaviolois, engraved frontispiece, Lyon, Daniel Gayet, 1671, contemporary calf, some rubbing, 8vo; and 11 others (17)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
ROUSSELET (JEAN-PIERRE)Prières de la messe écrites par Rousselet, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT on paper, in French, 39 leaves, 12 lines plus heading, written in black ink in a fine regular rounded roman hand, the headings in red (Italic script) and blue (roman), illuminated initials throughout in blue and white on highly burnished gold and red grounds, each page within border of burnished gold and red, title within decorative ornamental borer decorated with a basket and cornucopias of flowers, 2 full-page miniatures (Agony in the Garden and Crucifixion) within ornamental borders, 2 part titles with ornamental borders incorporating a vignette (Papal tiara beneath heavenly canopy and Christ administering the Sacrament), 2 large decorative tailpieces (the second incorporating the Holy dove), nineteenth century French morocco gilt in fanfare style, the covers with wide border of leaf sprays, stars, dots and flower corner-pieces enclosing a large central panel of repeated flower sprays, red morocco doublures with gilt dentelles, vellum free endpapers bordered in gilt, g.e., 8vo (220 x 140mm.), [Paris, c.1720-1730]Footnotes:A FINELY EXECUTED ROCOCO ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BY JEAN-PIERRE ROUSSELET, in an elaborately decorated binding. Active in Paris 1677-1736, Rousselet followed very much in the tradition of Nicolas Jarry. A skilled calligrapher and painter to King Louis XIV, he also worked for rich and influential patrons such as the Duke of Richelieu and the Pontchartrain family, his numerous commissions including Le Labyrinthe de Versailles, l'Office de la Sainte Chapelle, le livre de mariage de Marie Leszczynska, and a number of Prières de la messe. 'Un charmant calligraphe... Il était de plus remarquable ornemaniste, décorant lui-meme ses manuscripts qui sont d'une grande richesse' (Roger Portalis, 'Nicolas Jarry et la calligraphie au XVIIe siècle' in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1896-1897). The present volume is a new addition to the twenty or so known Prières de la messe manuscripts listed by Portalis and on Rousselet's Wikipedia page.Provenance: Randle Leigh, M.D., armorial bookstamp on rear free endpaper; Cyril Sturla (1887-1956), bookplate; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SMITH (ADAM)Investigacion de la naturaleza y causas de la riqueza de las naciones, 4 vol., FIRST SPANISH EDITION, translated by Josef Alonso Ortiz, half-title in volume 1 (all called for), occasional spotting, small light dampstain in upper fore-corner of title and 8 preliminary leaves of volume 1, upper corner of pp.163-4 of volume 2 torn away (but present, ink page number and 2 words added in margin), contemporary vellum, lettered and numbered in ink on spines, some soiling and light spotting [Goldsmiths 15932; Kress B.2832], 4to (203 x 143mm.), Valladolid, Viuda e hijos de Santander, 1794Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, translated by Josef Alonso Ortiz, who adds an appendix on the Spanish National Bank (established in Madrid in 1783) in volume 2. The French translation of Wealth of Nations had been placed on the Inquisition's Index of Prohibited Books, so when Ortiz presented his Spanish translation to the Inquisition in 1793, he did so with extreme care. Noting that his translation was from the English edition (which was not on the Index), Ortiz further argued that he had purged 'it of various impious proposals... and eliminating entirely an article... in which the author favors tolerance on points of religion, so that it stands cleansed of anything that could lead to error or relaxation in moral and religious matters.' He had to submit the manuscript twice before it was accepted for publication. It remained the only Spanish translation for 150 years. See R.S. Smith, 'The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America, 1780-1830', Journal of Political Economy, 65(2), 1957, pp.104-125.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
WEST (LEONARD)Original artwork by Leonard West for his angling classic The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation (1912), comprising: final artwork for the plates 1-9, 14, 15 and 16 (as used in the 1912 edition), and plates 1A and 17 (drawn in ink for the 1921 revised edition), and the originals for plates 10 ('Hackle Feathers, Poultry, &c.') and 13 ('Feathers for Flies' Wings') comprising of actual mounted samples, all on thick paper, some with proof annotations and notes, the original ink numerals (from first edition) erased and replaced as they appear in the second edition, the plates with mounted samples accompanied by West's ink identification key, images approximately 300 x 200mm.; an ink preliminary drawing (with overslip noting in pencil 'Diptera. This plate was redrawn, elaborated & coloured') of Plate 1; 2 variant 4-page prospectuses for the first edition of The Natural Trout Fly (one illustrating plate 6, one plate 8), and samples of each printed plate from the first edition of the book; 2 typed letters from P.P. Press Art Printers, dated 24 March and 11 August 1920, relating to printing costs and artwork; 2 original pen and ink drawings by West of pond beetles (both signed with initials 'L.W.', each with accompanying published print) for an unrelated publication, a few items loose otherwise bound together in contemporary green half morocco, gilt lettered 'Drawings. Leonard West' on upper cover, small folio, [c. 1912-1920]--'The St. Helens Fly Fishers Club. Second Annual Dinner and Smoking Concert at the Red Lion Hotel on Thursday Nov. 26th, 1908'; another, for the 'Third Annual Dinner... November 25th, 1909', pen and ink artwork depicting angling (and eating) scene caricatures by West, each on stiff card, 240 x 165mm., and slightly smaller, [1908-1909], with 2 further angling related caricature ink drawings, one a trial menu card; further material including approximately 15 original artworks (of which 4 fine fully-realised watercolours) of aquatic entomological subjects; 2 gelatin silver photographs of dragon flies (seemingly used as guide material for one of the watercolours); 12 pages of typescript notes, with some manuscript corrections, for an article (or ?unrealised book) relating to trout fishing, and other ephemeral materials, loose in 2 contemporary cloth portfolios, one labelled 'Aquatic Plants', one 'Gnats' (collection)Footnotes:LEONARD WEST'S ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE NATURAL TROUT FLY AND ITS IMITATIONS (1912), with materials related to the publishing of the second edition (1921), artwork for St. Helens' Fly-fisher's Club dinners, and watercolours and ink drawings for articles on aquatic entomology. West was a stalwart of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society (and President for 1916) and founding member of the St. Helen's Fly-fisher's Club. In 1912 he published his classic The Natural Trout Fly 'with considerable diffidence... The notes and observations contained in it were made for private use only, but owing to the persuasion of a friend, the Author has decided to give them a wider circulation' (Foreword). His approach to fly-fishing was based on the premise that 'the angler with a knowledge of entomology, possesses a great advantage, and is able readily to select a fly' (Introduction). Provenance: Leonard West, and by family descent to current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHALON (ALFRED EDWARD AND JOHN JAMES)'Sketches by A.E.C. & J.J.C. The Etchings by F[rancis] S[tevens] from Mr. Standerts' [sic] Poem of the Winter's Night, or the Admiral, the Farmer & the Old Marine. June 1818', manuscript title in ink, 6 original sepia ink and wash illustrations by A.E. and J.J. Chalon, 6 etchings (initialled 'F.S.' and numbered 1-6 in the plate), each mounted one per page (recto only) on original blue-grey paper, loose in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, original red morocco gilt lettering label on upper cover, covers loose, no spine, images approx. 115 x 88mm., [c.1818]Footnotes:Alfred Edward and John James Chalon, both Royal Academicians, were founder members with Francis Stevens of the 'The Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design', later known as the 'Chalon Sketching Club', which first met in Stevens' home on January 6, 1808. 'The member at whose house the meeting was held provided paper stained on drawing frames, pencils and sepia. The subjects selected as a theme, chiefly from the ancient classics, were chosen by the host, who prepared written extracts, on separate slips, for the members, with each artist treating the subject according to his own conception' (Luke A. Dowle, Unveiling the Sketching Society (1799-1851), MPhil(R) thesis, Glasgow, online). The Winter's Night by Hugh Standish (not 'Standert' as given on our title) was a poem for juveniles published, with five plates, in Taunton in 1815.Provenance: Francis Stevens (1781-1823), bookplate (with pencil note 'Lot 37').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
FRACASTORO (GIROLAMO)De Sympathia & Antipathia rerum. De Contagione & Contagiosis Morbis & eorum curatione, second edition, early marginalia, underlinings, and notes on endpapers (including passage on Aristotle in Greek), indistinct small oval inkstamp on verso of title, contemporary blindstamped vellum, covers with roll-tooled border of alternating heads and coats of arms, upper cover lettered 'O.M.' and '1551', vellum spine labels titled in manuscript, fragment of old vellum manuscript used as binder's waste, rubbed [cf. Adams F821; cf. Garrison-Morton 2528; cf. Norman 827; cf. Osler 2652; cf. Waller 3163; cf. Wellcome I, p.2393], 12mo, Lyon, Gulielmus Gazeius, 1550Footnotes:Fracastoro's most important scientific work, forming 'the foundation of all modern views on the nature of infectious diseases' (Heirs of Hippocrates). In it he identified the means by which diseases are spread, centuries before the discovery of micro-organisms.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
MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased and fore-edge strengthened on verso with tape, tears at head of fols. 13 and 209, the first touching text, lacking blank fol. 72, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (320 x 205mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1198 H [1784]Footnotes:After İbrahim Müteferrika died in 1745, his press fell into disuse, revived once in 1756 by his successors, but immediately abandoned once again until it was bought from his heirs by the present printers, two court secretaries. This work, a chronicle of the early and middle two decades of the century by official court historian Mehmed Subhi (combined with earlier histories by Sami and Şâkir), was the first production from this iteration of the press (see Gruber, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections, 2010).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
BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)[SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER)] Heart's Desire. Inscribed by Me: Chrysilla von Dansdorf, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES ONLY, this copy unnumbered, title printed in purple, engraved vignette and 7 engraved plates by and after John Buckland Wright, one word pencil amendment to final leaf of text, contemporary quarter maroon calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered title on spine, t.e.g., spine rubbed and faded, small stain on upper cover [Reid A30], small 4to, Paris, for Private Circulation Only [London, printed by the Tintern Press, and A. Alexander & Sons, 1939]Footnotes:THE ONLY EDITION, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES. An erotic tale of lesbian love purporting to have been translated from a Greek manuscript, but actually written by Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NAPOLEON BONAPARTESpecial Licence signed ('Np'), allowing an unnamed ship to make one voyage from Caen to England, for the payment of 40 Napoleons, under the surety of Ruinart, Père et fils, Rheims, with a cargo of premier crus champagne, silk, books, porcelain, 'library papers' and furniture from the Empire, to be traded for fish oil, leather, saffron from the Indies and other goods, valid for six months, name of ship, tonnage and captain's name not completed, countersigned by four officials, 1 page, printed document with manuscript insertions, blindstamp imperial seal, indented at left margin, creased and stained, old paper repairs to reverse, remains of backing where removed from an album, double folio, Dresden, 14 May 1813For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LAWRENCE (T.E.)Portrait by Eric Kennington, collotype reproduction, NUMBER 11 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the printed title label, mounted, framed and glazed, image 460 x 370mm., Oxford University Press, [1935]Footnotes:The striking 'Ghost portrait' of T.E. Lawrence by Kennington, illustrator and art editor of Seven Pillars, originally drawn in about 1920. Ronald Storrs described how he remembered that Kennington 'put the drawing-board on the floor, and two or three sheets of paper on the surface of the drawing and walked on it for a minute. This, he found, greatly improved it, and gave him two portraits, the second faint and in reverse. Number 2 was unexpected and revealed something not in the original. He put it away and forgot it for fourteen years... After Lawrence's death, Kennington was impressed both by its spiritual vitality and by the chance stigmata-like wounds on the forehead.'. The original now resides at All Souls College, Oxford.Provenance: Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), described by Lawrence in Seven Pillars as 'the first, and the great man among us', manuscript note in Storrs' hand 'Left to Lucy Morton R.S. 257152'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
OMAR KHAYYAMRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám... with Illustrations by Willy Pogany, NUMBER 648 OF 750 COPIES, 12 tipped-in colour plates, additional engraved frontispiece signed by the artist, contemporary morocco gilt, t.e.g., spine slightly rubbed, small folio, George G. Harrap, 1930; Rubaiyat... Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, NUMBER 441 OF 550 COPIES, signed by the artists on the colophon, colour illustrations and decorations, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., folio, Siegle, Hill & Co., [1911] (2)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
WORLD WAR I - BAGHDAD AND MESOPOTAMIAArchive relating to the British transport corps ('Remount Depot', and 'Mule Column') centred at Baghdad, comprising Lieutenant Ralph Smith's diary for 1918; his manuscript account fund book for 'No. 3 Mule Column' (1917-1920); his letterbook (Mesopotamia, May 1919-June, 1920), with related telegrams, photographs, and ephemera; small group of official correspondence relating to Gunner Harry Dryburgh of the Remount Depot, Baghdad (mostly relating to travel permissions), c.1918-1919; three programmes for theatrical performances held at the M.T. Depot Theatre (1918-1919), and cinema programme for the Olympia Cinema, 31 May to 4 June 1919, the diary disbound, others original bindings, ephemera loose, the theatrical programmes printed on coloured paper, various sizes, [c.1917-1922]Footnotes:'NEVER SHALL I FORGET THE PAIN & TERROR IN THAT POOR LITTLE THING'S FACE. I had nothing to help it & they were miles from any habitation... without food and medicine' (13 May, near Qara Tappah) - an evocative diary kept by Lieutenant Smith, capturing both the horror and beauty of his daily life. It was written whilst serving he with the No. 3 Mule Column, a section of the Transport Corps stationed in Mesopotamia, to which he was assigned in June 1917. The diary includes mentions of Qara Tappah, Baguba, Abu Jisra, Hillah (March 3, visiting 'the house built by the German excavators who have done so much here...' and the Babylonian remains, which Gertrude Bell had visited in January), Abu Saida (31 March, 'I killed 1000 flies in my tent...'; April 5, 'Changed into my light underwear...'; April 17, '...Saw streams of Kurds & Arabs on the road... on the trek with camels'; April 23, '... held a court martial... of Hazzat Shah... for theft from a mail bag, found him guilty & sentenced him to 30 lashes...'), Table mountain (trip with his orderly, Mohammed Qasim, whose photograph is included), Kifri and environs of Baghdad (29 April, 'Tuz Khurmatli [Khurma] was taken today and nearly the whole of the Turkish force killed or taken prisoners'; 2 May, 'Passed the 2 lots of Turkish prisoners... one prisoner of the first lot died on the way... they are evidently hungry and tired...'). The majority of Smith's letter book correspondence relates to his ordering books on India from Mudie's Select Library, Higginbotham in Madras (from where he purchased his Lett's Diary) and elsewhere, or selling others (12 April 1920, placing an advert in the Baghdad Times, 'For Sale. Palmer's Arabic Grammar...'). Smith's record of the No.3 Mule Column Fund records Receipts ('Sale of a consignment of cigarettes for the column', 'Proceeds of the sale of parts of two Turkish carts...') and Expenditure ('Football, 2 bladders & one tube cement', 'Sweets for the the Peace celebrations'). The entertainment programmes include pantomimes ('Red Riding Hood', 'A Gipsy Romance' by the Advaxeliers at the Baghdad Depot Theatre), and an Olympia Cinema listing printed by the Dangor Press, Baghdad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COOKERY MANUSCRIPTCulinary recipe book, written in several hands, with over 100 receipts including 'Sauce for wild Ducks', 'For a goos and greats', 'To pickle larg Cookombers like mangoes', 'To pickle littel cuckombours', 'To dress a pig after ye new mode', 'To make a goos-gibblet pye', 'To make a chicken pye sweet', 'To make a very good cake' ('...beat...not too light, for then it may deceive you and make the cake heavy...'), 'Sauce for all sorts of fresh fish', 'Sauce for larks or any other small birds', 'Codling Cream', 'Queen Cakes', 'To Colour a H. head of Brandy', two medicinal receipts inserted at end, ink blots and a few pen trials throughout, 84 pages, browned and stained, edges frayed, contemporary ruled vellum, worn, 4to (184 x 150mm.), mid eighteenth centuryThis 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
WINCHESTER COLLEGE - MANUSCRIPT 'NOTIONS BOOK''Compendium quorundam verborum quae in his et priscis temporibus Collegii Wykhamici commensalibus precipue usitata sint. MDCCCXLIV', MANUSCRIPT, ink on paper, 232 pages (approximately 90 blank), titles, part-titles and caption alphabet letters in red ink, remainder in black ink, approximately 96 small ink illustrations, 2 full-page ink elevations of the school ('Winchester College, from Blackridge'; 'Commoners. Winton'), 2 full-page maps hand-coloured in red, green and blue, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with red morocco spine label, 8vo, [1844]Footnotes:FINELY ILLUSTRATED NOTIONS BOOK, COMPILED BY A WINCHESTER COLLEGE PUPIL. 'Over the years, particular words and phrases have developed at Winchester. These are known as Notions. Some are very old in origin (from Latin, Middle English or Anglo-Saxon) and some have been absorbed from schoolboy slang' (Winchester College, website). Although some of the vocabulary was shared with other colleges, such as Eton and Charterhouse, the term 'notions' is used only by Wykehamists. Organised alphabetically, each word in the volume is given alongside a short definition, and in approximately 80 cases, a charming ink illustration. Words and images relate to sporting activities (mostly football), teachers and learning ('books up to...', 'Trencher caps'), punishments (such as 'funding... a licking on the back with a ground ash', and 'scrubbing... a corporal punishment of 4 cuts'), fagging ('Bread picker', 'Butter washing', 'Turf keeper', 'Tege... any one to whom kindness has been shown... generally a younger boy, when he first becomes befriended by an older'), local place names, and localised slang ('Jubilee...a period when there is nothing to do', 'Joel. The nickname of the under porter of the college...', 'Cargo... a basket of eatables sent from home', 'Bees-waxers, thick soled half boots worn at football', 'Rabbited, a blow on the back of the head...'). Provenance: George Parker Heathcote (1828-1871), bookplate. Parker attended Winchester College from 1842, later attaining the rank of Captain in the 52nd Light Infantry; Gilbert V. Heathcote, inscribed 'Feb 20 1871. In memoriam G.P.H.[eathcote]' on the front free endpaper, and 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
CHARLES I AND II - STONEYWOOD BIBLEThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, OT and NT titles within typographical border, lacks additional engraved title [ESTC S122140; Herbert 513], Cambridge, Thomas Buck and Roger Daniels, Printers to the Universitie, 1637; The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, title within typographical border with decorative ornament, double-page map of Canaan, 2 leaves frayed at fore-margin [ESTC S124878], [Printed by Felix Kingston, 1632-1635?]; The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Metre, title within typographical border, lacks final leaf [ESTC S122393], Cambridge, Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1637, bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer, together 4 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary embroidered binding with stumpwork design in silver thread on blue velvet, central panel with the Prince of Wales' feathers and crown within Garter badge, incorporating a banner with the motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' surmounted by a large crown flanked by the initials 'C.P.' (altered to 'C.R.'), and with rose and thistle at lower inner corners, embroidered palmette design outer order, spine comprising six compartments with floral embroidery in each, rebacked retaining original spine, some wear (mostly to central banner with loss of some of the lettering to the motto), rear pastedown with remnants of eighteenth century notes (including unclear mention of names Jean Erskine and 'Moire'), loosely inserted a blue silk bookmark with a design in silver and gold thread (split at centre with some loss); housed in a nineteenth century velvet-lined morocco case, covers with 3-line fillet border, gilt roll tool inner border and thistle cornerpieces, simple lozenge centre panel with circular decorative border enclosing a large device of an upturned crown, broken sceptre and axe above a banner proclaiming 'Remember', the decorative gilt spine lettered 'Holy Bible 1637. Charles Rex. Beheaded 30th Jany. 1647', with Scottish thistle and English rose devices, and the crown and axe emblem (as on cover), edges fully gilt, rubbed, small losses to leather on spine, without key and lock-catch, the whole preserved in a nineteenth century glass-panelled display case by Drew & Cadman, Holborn (signed on handle), 4to (the Bible 220 x 155mm.), sold as an association itemFootnotes:'THE BIBLE OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST USED BY HIM ON THE SCAFFOLD DURING HIS LAST MOMENTS...' - THE STONEYWOOD BIBLE, BOUND FOR KING CHARLES II, but long reputed to have belonged to Charles I, and to have been presented by him 'upon that awful occasion to Juxon, Bishop of London who assisted the devotions of his unfortunate Monarch' (manuscript note on box). The Royal Collection holds a 1638 Book of Common Prayer with an almost identical binding, described as 'bound for King Charles II when he was Prince of Wales...' (RCIN 1047677, see Royal Collection Trust website for image, noting that Queen Victoria loaned the volume to the Burlington Fine Art Club Exhibition of Fine Binding, 1891).The Bible is in an exceptionally fine embroidered binding, decorated with the emblem of the Prince of Wales and the initials 'C.P.' (altered to 'C.R.', for Carolus Rex'), and passed through generations of the Moir and Skene families (see below), during which time several narratives, recorded in The Story of the Stoneywood Bible (1949), were attached to it: 'The Bible was kept in the chest of Stoneywood [near Aberdeen]. One day it disappeared. With it went the 'luck' of the Moirs... One of the family's maid-servants was the thief... but [whilst other valuables were lost]... the Bible was secretly returned... One morning it was found under a chestnut tree near the entrance to the Moir mansion'. A further adventure is recorded in a note, probably by its nineteenth century owner James Skene, a close friend of Sir Walter Scott, pasted to the box in which the Bible is housed: '...The Bible remained in perfect preservation untill [sic] the Rebellion [of] 1745 when it was stolen, and afterwards found in the its present dilapidated state concealed in a hole underground'.In his Horae subsecivae (1858) the celebrated Scottish essayist John Burns noted 'The family of Stoneywood seem from the earliest record down to their close, to have been devotedly attached to the house of Stuart. In the old house there long hung a portrait of Bishop Juxon, who attended Charles 1. on the scaffold, and through this prelate must have come a still more precious relic, long preserved in the family, and which is now before us, the Bible which the doomed King put into the hands of the Bishop on the scaffold, with the word 'Remember,' having beforehand taken off his cloak and presented it and the insignia of the Garter to the same faithful minister and friend... We have the sacred and royal book before us now,—a quarto, printed in 1637, bound in blue velvet, and richly embroidered and embossed with gold and silver lace. There is the crown and the Prince of Wales' feathers, showing it had belonged to Charles II when prince. He must have given it to his hapless father, as the C.P. is changed into C.R.'.Further literature: Charles Roach Smith reproduced an image of the Bible in his Collectanea Antiqua (1848-1880), stating 'There is so much external evidence of the genuineness of this very beautiful and interesting relique, that no doubt that no doubt can exist to its perfect authenticity'. This image, and a version of the story, also appeared in The Illustrated London News, 26 January 1850, at which time the Bible was in the possession of Robert Skene, of Rubislaw; Illustrated (captioned 'Prayerbook of Charles I') in Felicia Skewes of Oxford. A Memoir by E.C. Rickards, 1902; A manuscript (MS. 20478), titled 'Reminiscences and notes concerning the Moir family Bible which had belonged to Charles I' by James Skene is held by the National Library of Scotland.Provenance: Bound for Charles II, when Prince of Wales; reputedly given by Charles I to William Juxon (1582-1663), Bishop of London; bequeathed by him to Patrick Scougall [or 'Scorgie'] (1607-1682), Bishop of Aberdeen, as told in The Story of The Stoneywood Bible, reprinted from The Aberdeen Press and Journal, 26 January 1949 (a copy of which is included with the lot); William Scroogie, Bishop of Argyle, whose daughter Mary married James Moir II, of Stoneywood (1659-1739) in 1683; Moir family, subsequently through the marriage of Jean Moir to George Skene (1736-1776) of Rubislaw, Aberdeen; James Skene (1775-1864); by descent to the present owners.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
COOKERYManuscript recipe book of Richard Scarborough, brown ink on paper, 23 pages including recipes for 'Ginger Wine', 'Brandy Toast', and 'Lemon Cheesecakes', some leaves excised, LEATHER BOOK-LABEL OF RAYMOND OLIVER, contemporary vellum, inscribed 'Scarborough's Book' and 'Prescriptions 1783. London. Ricd. Scarborh.' on upper cover, preserved in solander box, 4to (188 x 153mm.), 1783--[GLASSE (HANNAH) The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy... One Hundred and Fifty New and Usefil Receipts, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn [Vicaire 414], A. Millar, 1767--FARLEY (JOHN) The London Art of Cookery, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, some light foxing and dampstaining, manuscript recipe for Quince Brandy on reverse of frontispiece, bookplate of Antoine Tavera, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, corners worn, James Scatcherd etc., 1800, 8vo (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MORE (THOMAS)A Frutefull Pleasaunt, & Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, called Utopia... translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, second edition in English, undetermined state, black letter, ornamental initials, occasional light soiling and light dampstaining but mostly clean and fresh, lacks the final 5 unnumbered leaves with colophon, contemporary blind-panelled calf, restored with some cracks, wear to lower cover and loss to spine [ESTC S112887 or S103392; Pforzheimer 740], small 8vo (140 x 95mm.), [Richard Tottel for] Abraham Vele, dwellinge in Pauls churchyarde, at the signe of the Lambe, [1556]Footnotes:THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION OF MORE'S VISIONARY MASTERPIECE, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Utopia, described in Printing and the Mind of Man as a 'tract for the times', was written in Latin for the benefit of the literati and first published in Louvain in 1516. However, it wasn't until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England by Abraham Vele, in a translation by Ralph Robinson. This second edition followed five years later, in the year of Cranmer's execution, and was the one William Morris used for the Kelmscott Press printing. Although the present copy lacks the last five unnumbered leaves (containing dedications and a supplementary verse), it is extremely rare in a contemporary binding, the only other example listed in auction records being a copy bound in vellum which was sold at Bonhams New York on 22 September 2015 ($38,000).The contemporary binder's waste used in this copy provide a tantalising glimpse into the world of the London printing and binding trade. They comprise fragments of an early manuscript on vellum, along with two printed pages (used as front flyleaves and rear pastedown) which appear to be trial or rejected sheets from Girolamo Ruscelli's The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng Excellent Remedies against Divers Diseases, Woundes, and other Accidents (specifically leaves B3 & 4 in the 'First booke of Secretes'), printed 'by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde, 1558'. One can only speculate how the sheets may have found their way from one St Paul's printer to the other's shop, or to the binder.Provenance: Private collection, UK.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
CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE) An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. With Numerous Illustrations of His Works, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED AND EXPANDED TO FILL 4 VOLUMES, with a total of over 420 etchings and wood-engravings (many hand-coloured, mostly mounted full-page, a few double-page), including some title-pages and other ephemera, each volume with additional calligraphic title-page ('An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank... Illustrated with Several Hundred Etchings & Wood-Engravings Selected from His Works From 1810 to 1875') and 2- or 3-page manuscript list of contents, the text cut down and window mounted, full panelled citron morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, sides with central panels enclosing elaborate floral inner cornerpieces with small blue leather oval inlays, and thistle tools at outer corners, outer roll-toll and double line borders, the spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the other compartments with repeat pattern of ornate floral tools on and around small black circular leather inlays, crimson watered silk endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., some joints a little rubbed in places, 4to (300 x 225mm.), Henry Hooper, 1840Footnotes:HANDSOME EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY, EXTENDED TO FOUR LARGE VOLUMES with the insertion of over 400 etchings and wood-engravings from Cruikshank's works from 1810 to 1875, including numerous complete series. Thackeray's essay originally appeared in the Westminster Review in June of 1840.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
RORKE'S DRIFT - JOHN CHARD'S MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT'Rorke's Drift. 22-23 Jany. 1879', Chard's autograph draft of the account of Rorke's Drift which he wrote and presented to Queen Victoria, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 40 pages, mostly written in brown ink with the corrections and annotations (in the text and margins) in blue and brown ink, one ink sketch of a mountain range (besides a description of a scene viewed through field glasses, '... and could see the enemy moving in the distant hills & apparently in large force - Large numbers of them moving to my left until Lion Hill of Isandlwana...'), and a similar pencil sketch on final page, the sheets (all bifolia) loose in contemporary paper wrappers, titled in red and black ink on upper cover (light soiling, 2 tears in blank area of upper cover), the first 16 pages 8vo, the remainder folio, [c.1879-1880]; together with a manuscript sketch by Chard of Rorke's Drift, on tracing paper, black ink with foliage and trees in green, major sites (numbered 1-15) identified in red ink, with key beneath image, frayed with short tears at edges, 210 x 320mm., [c.1879-1880] (2)Footnotes:'AS DARKNESS CAME ON WE WERE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED...' - JOHN CHARD'S 40-PAGE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF RORKE'S DRIFT ON 22 JANUARY 1879. An extensively annotated and corrected full draft of the account that Chard presented to Queen Victoria, together with an accompanying sketch of the battlefield. John Chard (1847-1897) was sent to serve in the Anglo-Zulu War with the 5th company, Royal Engineers, arriving at Durban on 4 January 1879. The company moved to Rorke's Drift, a post consisting of a kraal, a commissariat store, and a small hospital building close to a crossing on the Buffalo River. On the afternoon of 22 January, the very day on which Chard was left in charge of the station, whilst his superiors left to hurry forward a company of the 24th regiment, news arrived of the massacre of British troops at Isandlwana the day before. In consultation with Lieutenant G. Bromhead and other officers, Chard 'counselled against retreat in favour of defence... and defensive positions were prepared. The store and hospital buildings were loopholed and barricaded, and connected by walls constructed with mealie bags and a couple of wagons' (ODNB), the garrison consisting of eight officers and 131 non-commissioned officers and men (of whom thirty-five were sick in the hospital). Attacked by a force of some 3000 Zulus, the garrison survived a dramatic night, the unfolding events vividly recounted in Chard's manuscript account. By the time of the enemy retreat, more than 370 Zulus were dead, and the British force had lost fifteen men with twelve wounded. Immediately recognised as an event of enormous personal bravery and political importance for the British Empire's standing (coming so soon after the heavy losses at Isandlwana), the action resulted in the presentation of a record eleven Victoria Cross medals. Chard, forever afterwards known as one of 'The Heroes of Rorke's Drift' (along with Bromhead), was presented with his medal by Sir Garnet Wolseley on 16 July. Immortalised in the film Zulu, starring Stanley Baker as Chard and Michael Caine as Lieutenant Bromhead, Rorke's Drift has remained one of the most famous single battles in the course of British military history.Arriving back in England on 2 October Chard, already the recipient of the Order of the Victoria Cross, was met with a summons to visit the Queen at Balmoral Castle on 13 October. She was enormously impressed with Chard the man (she sent a laurel wreath to his funeral in 1897), and his description of the events in which he played such a crucial role, so much so that she requested that he put down on paper his account of the battle. This Chard did, signing and dating the neatly written-up final version in January 1880. This was presented to her on Chard's behalf by Captain Fleetwood Isham Edwards, the Queen's Groom-in-Waiting, at Windsor Castle on 21 February 1880. In an accompanying note Edwards described the account as 'a simple soldier like account of very gallant deeds, & a thrilling record of a terrible night's work', continuing 'Major Chard much regrets the unavoidable delay which has occurred in its preparation, but, as perhaps your Majesty may remember, he lost most of his notes'.Provenance: John Chard V.C, R.E.; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHARD (JOHN)Autograph letter signed ('John R.M. Chard'), to John Emmett, C.A. Barrett, and Thos. F. De La Mare 'on behalf of the Inhabitants of Harrismith [Orange Free State]', thanking them 'on behalf of the defenders of Rorke's Drift for your complimentary address... we deeply appreciate the great honour done to us by this kindly expression...', 1 page, laid down on an album sheet (with an vintage albumen print view of Isandlwana by Lloyd of Natal mounted on verso), print, 8vo, Conference Hill, Transvaal, 22 May 1879; together with the aforementioned calligraphic manuscript address presented by the town to Chard, Bromhead 'and other Officers and Men who defended 'Rorke's Drift'...', one sheet, on vellum, 425 x 240mm., [1879]Footnotes:John Chard, writing from the British encampment at Conference Hill, thanks the inhabitants of Harrismith, Orange Free State, on behalf of the defenders of Rorke's Drift, for an address presented to them by the town. The address gave thanks for their actions, stating 'We believe that your gallant conduct has been the means of averting much bloodshed throughout South Africa..., & that Her Majesty & Her Government will be pleased to give such recognition to your services, as we believe you are entitled to receive'. Of course by 22 May, when Chard wrote his thanks, he and ten others from the action had already been cited for the award of the Victoria Cross.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHARD'S HOMECOMING - ILLUMINATED ADDRESSESIlluminated address presented to John Chard R.E., V.C. by the 'Inhabitants of North Curry, Othery [Somerset] and Neighbourhood, with which you and your family have been and are connected.... expression our heartfelt admiration of your self-devotion, talent and gallantry in the Zulu War, particularly during that trying night at Rorkes Drift... [where] you kept at bay an almost overpowering force of the enemy, and... saved the Colony of Natal from destruction and defended the honour of your Country... Presented the 3rd Day of October 1879', manuscript on vellum, black ink, with heading ('To Major John Rouse Merriott Chard...'), opening sentences and important words ('Rorkes Drift', 'Zulu War', 'Colony of Natal', 'Victoria Cross') illuminated in red, blue, purple and gold inks, the text within border of red and blue, with decoration in each corner of a Zulu shield and spears, and ornament of army pith helmet with crossed Union Jack flags in lower margin, signed by 32 persons (including the Chairman, Rev. Browne), in 5 columns beneath address, mounted on original wooden rollers, within original purple morocco cylinder case, address approximately 530 x 430mm., 1879--[TAUNTON] Manuscript address to John Chard V.C., from 'the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Taunton', praising his role at Rorke's Drift, ink on vellum, signed by Meyer Jacobs, Mayor of Taunton, and the town clerk, with the Common Seal of the Borough of Taunton in red wax, old folds, 365 x 285mm., 3 October 1879; together with a decorative illuminated address presented by 'The Borough of Langport, Eastover [Somerset], 1st November, 1879', the address framed and glazed, with the original silk-lined presentation case [1879] (3)Footnotes:CHARD'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN HOME TO SOMERSET, the day after his arrival back from South Africa, on 3 October 1879. As announced in the local newspaper 'The hero of Rorke's Drift met with a cordial reception yesterday at North Curry, near Taunton. Nearly 4000 people assembled to welcome his arrival on a visit to his brother-in-law, Major Barrret. An illuminated address of congratulation and welcome was presented to Major Chard by the rector... a procession was then formed, and its line of march led through the village, which was profusely decorated with flags, flowers and arches of garlands'. Earlier in the day his train had been met at Taunton by the Mayor and with equally large crowds of well-wishers, before he travelled a few miles to North Curry (close to his sister's home at Moredon), the first stop of his unofficial tour of the country.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHARD RECEPTION - MASONIC LODGE, EXETERIlluminated address presented by the Master Wardens and Brethren of Saint Georges Lodge No. 112 [Exeter] to 'Brother John Rouse Merriot Chard' for his 'courage and gallantry' at Rorke's Drift, manuscript on thick paper, black ink, with important words in blue, red, green, and yellow, illuminated with decorative border incorporating an image of Zulu shield, spears and clubs in vertical margins, large Royal arms in upper, and Lodge arms in lower margins, each surrounded by acanthus leaves and flourishes, 600 x 480mm., [14 November 1879]Footnotes:'When, on 3 May 1877, a 30-year-old army officer was initiated into the Lodge, no-one dreamed that two years later he would be acclaimed a national hero and be awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery in battle. The young Mason was John Rouse Marriott Chard who, from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1868. He served in the Zulu War and distinguished himself... When the news reached England, the Lodge prepared an illuminated address of congratulations signed by all the members' (extract from the history of St. George's Lodge, cited on 1879Zuluward.com). This was presented to him at a Lodge of Emergency on 14 November 1879.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E., presented by the Masonic Lodge, Exeter; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYAL ENGINEERS, CHATHAMJohn Chard's surveying and drawing instrument wooden case, with 6 instruments on purple velveteen-covered tray (others missing), box in mahogany, lid with inset metal panel stamped 'Major Chard V.C. Royal Engineers', brass corner-pieces and decorations, with key (working), 165 x 210 x 60mm.--MANUSCRIPT ADDRESS TO 'MAJOR CHARD R.E. V.C.', from 'The High Constable and Court Leet of the ancient Manor of Chatham', expressing on behalf of the inhabitants of Chatham their 'profound admiration and warmest appreciation of the cool judgment, consumate skill, and heroic valour....' shown by Chard at Rorke's Drift, and noting their pride that Chard 'received part of your military education at the School of Engineering in this neighbourhood...', ink on paper, 2 pages on a bifolium with conjugate blank, signed by G.H. Delabour (High Constable), Edward Winch (Foreman), and George Winch (Steward), folio (375 x 245mm.), 9 November 1879 (2)Footnotes:John Chard passed through the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, before being commissioned lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 15 July 1868, after which he spent two years training at their Chatham headquarters, prior to his first posting to Bermuda in October 1870. In his address of thanks to Chard for heroism at Rorke's Drift the High Constable of Chatham proclaimed 'It is gratifying to us to recollect that you received part of your military education at the School of Engineering in this neighbourhood, and that your training there contributed in some degree to the valuable services you rendered to your Queen and country [at Rorke's Drift]'.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLANDLeaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN CHARD, inscribed 'To Major John Chard R.E., V.C. on his return from Zululand from Victoria, Balmoral Oct: 13 1879', 2 engraved plates, original green morocco gilt, g.e., 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1868; together with a manuscript copy of a telegram, on Royal Engineers headed paper, sent by the Director General of the R.E. to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Portsmouth, announcing that 'Major Chard is expected to arrive at Portsmouth on board Egypt this morning. Direct him to send his address immediately to Colonel Pickard, Balmoral, and inform him the Queen intends to invite him... soon after his arrival', 2 pages, folio, 1 October 1879 (2)Footnotes:QUEEN VICTORIA'S GIFT TO THE HERO OF RORKE'S DRIFT - On his triumphant arrival back from South Africa at Spithead on 2 October 1879, John Chard V.C. was welcomed in person by the Duke of Cambridge with an invitation to an audience with Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle. Just two weeks later, on 13 October he visited 'to recount the battle to the Queen, who had followed the progress of the Anglo-Zulu War with great interest' (Royal Collection Trust, website). The following year Chard personally presented to the queen, at her request, a written account on the Defence of Rorke's Drift (see lot 61), and her continued interest in him is testified by her sending to his funeral in 1897 a laurel wreath with the inscription 'A mark of admiration and regard for a brave soldier from his sovereign'.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E., presentation inscription from Queen Victoria; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RORKE'S DRIFT - 'THE CHARD REPORT''Rorke's Drift - Jan 22nd-23rd 1879', manuscript copy (probably written out by one of Chard's sisters or sisters-in-law), black ink on paper, 14 leaves with text on verso only, wrappers with ink title and decoration of a feather in red ink on the upper cover, stitched as pamphlet (thread loose), 8vo, [c.1879]Footnotes:A transcription, probably written out by one of Chard's close female relatives, of the official report sent by John Chard from Rorke's Drift on 25 January 1879, two days after the battle, to Col. Glyn, Commander of the 3rd Column. It was forwarded by Lord Chelmsford on 12 February to the Inspector General of Fortifications at the War Office in London, with a covering note stating 'There is little doubt, but, that for the splendid defence made by Lieut. Chard and the Officers and men under his command; that the whole of the column would have been destroyed, and all the upper portion of Natal laid open to attack from the Zulus'. This report by Chard, much shorter than that he wrote up for Queen Victoria on his return to England (see lot 61), 'is remarkable for its simplicity and modesty: it was observed that he spoke of everyone but himself. The defence of Rorke's Drift did much to allay the despondency caused by the Isandlwana disaster' (ODNB).Provenance: Family of John Chard V.C., R.E, and by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JOHN CHARD - RORKE'S DRIFT, SOMERSET AND FAMILYA small archive of material relating to John Chard V.C.'s career and family, including: Newspaper Cuttings 'collected for J.R.M.C[hard] by his brother W[illiam] W[heaton] C[hard]' (in ink), album of 150 pages, filled with pasted-in newspaper cuttings relating to Chard (one concerning the 'Chard Report' annotated in the margin by W.W. Chard noting 'On seeing this article J[ohn] telegraphed to the editor [of] Daily News pointing out...'), also a small collection of printed ephemera relating to Rorke's Drift (see footnote), original red half morocco, captioned 'Major J.R.M. Chard, V.C., R.E.' and 'The Moment of Danger is the Opportunity of Heroes' in gilt on the upper cover, [11 Feb. 1879-21 Aug.1880]--Album of news cuttings and ephemera, compiled by Florence Chard (John's sister), including many articles about Chard's career, the ephemera mostly concerning Florence's husband Rev. Robert Latham Browne's church activities relating to North Curry, and Moredon, Somerset, contemporary cloth gilt, worn, [1879-1890]--A small group of vintage albumen print photographs, including 4 showing the triumphal arches erected in North Curry, Somerset for the home coming reception of Chard on 3 October 1879, the largest 182 x 225mm.; Florence Chard's wedding at Moredon on 8 October 1879, showing all the family including John Chard V.C.; ephemera including programme for the reception of Chard at Plymouth; a printed poem 'In Memory of the Officers of Non-Commissioned Officers... Who Fell January 21st 1879...' inscribed to Chard by the author H.B. Worth of Brighton, and several other items, held in a modern album--CHARD (JOHN) A group of 3 autograph letters signed ('J.R.M. Chard') to his brother Wheaton, concerning financial circumstances of their youngest sister Margaret, together 24 pages, Fulwood, Preston, 1886-1887, stitched at corner with several letters by other family members on the same subject; Portrait of J.R.M. Chard by C.W. Walton after a photograph, tinted lithograph, marked 'Proof' with facsimile signature of Chard in lower margin, some spotting and toning, mounted framed and glazed, sheet 480 x 380mm. to view, [c.1879-1880]; together with several related printed and ephemeral items relating to the John Chard and his family (collection)Footnotes:A collection including three autograph letters by John Chard to his brother, photographs of the triumphant arches erected in North Curry, Somerset on Chard's return from South Africa, family albums of cuttings and ephemera relating to Rorke's Drift including printed song sheets, and celebratory poems.The ephemera includes a hand-coloured lithographed map plan of Rorke's Drift by Chard; a presentation copy of W.C. Bennett's 'Songs for Soldiers' [including one titled 'Chard & Bromhead at Rorke's Drift'], March 1879; broadside captioned 'Limassol Spring Meeting. 10th and 11th March 1885. Cyprus' (naming Chard as the 'Starter' and 'Steward'); 'Isandula' Impromptu by a Soldier's Daughter' [including a song 'On the Defence of Rorke's Drift Camp']; 'A Recitation on the Defence of Rorke's Drift' by S. Rowland with accompanying autograph letter from the author's wife explaining that her husband had 'composed it for your reception in Plymouth but thinking it not quite so good as he whished [sic] defused sending it...'; two manuscript poems dedicated to Chard concerning R.D. and Isandula with accompanying autograph letters from their amateur authors.Provenance: Chard family, including John's brothers and sisters; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
INDIAN MUTINY AND WORLD WAR IPapers of Patrick Whelan, senior administrator for the British army in India, including letters by his friend and colleague Major-General William Riddell Birdwood, several written from the Anzac Corps on the Western Front, together with papers acquired by his forebears at the time of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, comprising:i) Eight autograph and typed letters signed ('W.R. Birdwood'), six to Patrick Whelan ('My dear Whelan'), and two to his wife, letters of thanks and congratulations; one on Birdwood's departure for Egypt to command the Anzac troops training there; another from the Front ('...Things are going well but slowly, as is only natural, for the Germans have very strong positions in front of us, and fight stubbornly. I hope though that we have killed a good many of them in the last few days, and we have had quite a successful haul of guns. I have lately taken my troops out of the trenches, and while there I am glad to say they succeeded in bayonetting some three hundred Germans by raiding across no man's land into their trenches at night, and establishing a feeling of holy terror in consequence. Now, however, we are called upon to take a much larger part in the game, when we must I fear naturally expect to have heavy casualties...'; hoping to get him a post with the Mesopotamian commission; his opinion of said commission ('...How they have formed a committee without any knowledge of India seems astounding...'), mentioning preparations for an attack north-east of Pozières in early August 1916 ('...I have had a terrible lot of hard fighting with my Australians here all this last month... they have done excellently, and quite lived up to their old Peninsula reputation...'), 25 pages in all, 8vo and 4to, Kohat, NW Frontier Province, Bombay, 1st Anzac Corps, France, 5 May [19]11 to 25 August 1916ii) Papers relating to military operations during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, comprising a manuscript list titled 'Distribution of European Troops & Sikhs on the banks of the Ganges', Koladque, 26 August 1857; with a manuscript copy (docketed 'Extract copy') of a letter from Colonel Robert Napier, chief engineer and military and adjutant general to Sir James Outram, written in several hands, reporting on the massing of troops and preparations prior to the first relief of Lucknow in September 1857, dated 27 August [1857]iii) Six warrants of authority each signed at head ('William R'), addressed to 'The General or Officer Commanding Our Forces', authorising the bearer to convene or cause to be convened a General Courts Martial should the occasion arise, in Bengal and the East Indies, three engraved with manuscript insertions, three manuscript, four countersigned by Melbourne, two by Russell, 15 pages, paper seals, dust-stained, various marks, tears, small holes, some losses, one extensively damaged, folio, Windsor, 26 March 1834 and 19 April 1837Footnotes:Patrick Whelan was born into a long line of British civil servants and administrators in India and was clearly held in high esteem, as these letters from the then Major-General Birdwood show. After seeing action with Kitchener during the Second Boer War, Birdwood commanded the Anzacs at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army during the closing stages of the war and returning to India in 1920. These papers have remained in the family until now and are being sold by the granddaughter of Patrick Whelan.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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