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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

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). Autograph manuscript lessons in calculus, trigonometry and physics, November 1922 to February 1924, a remarkable series of bespoke lessons devised for Wallis's future wife Molly, written as part of their courtship and sent in chapter form over the course of 16 months, divided into courses on Calculus and Trigonometry, each in 9 chapters, plus 2 stand-alone chapters on 'Note on Potential Charge & Capacity' and 'Electrostatic Induction', written on the rectos (and a few versos) of quarto sheets in Wallis's neat italic hand with occasional diagrams, the Introduction and chapters 1 and 2 of Calculus (7 pages) written out in Molly's hand and taken from letters sent to her by Barnes, but otherwise in Wallis's hand, a total of 248 pages (Calculus 81 pp.; Trigonometry 112 pp.; Physics 35 pp.), plus a further 6 pages (3 leaves) of Molly's answers to the calculus questions set by Barnes appended to the final chapter, with Wallis's red ink corrections and encouraging comments, the Trigonometry course with an additional diagram leaf and 4 chapter cover notes by Wallis, one initialled and two signed 'Barnes', a little scattered marginal creasing and fraying and a little dust-soiling, some horizontal folds throughout, occasional closed tears to folds and the chapter 'Notes on Potential Charge & Capacity' heavily split along lower horizontal folds, 4to/folioQty: (a folder)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. In 1922 Barnes Wallis, aged 35, fell in love with his cousin Molly Bloxam. Molly was just 17 and setting off to study science at University College London. Her father decreed that the two could correspond only if Barnes taught Molly mathematics in his letters. When they met, Wallis was out of work, the closing of airship production having made him redundant. He began working for a London External B.Sc. but then suddenly landed a job teaching in a young gentlemen's academy in Chillon, Switzerland, taking on the post and leaving for Chillon in September 1922. This sudden disruption of the burgeoning friendship with Molly was alleviated by their correspondence which had the cautious approval of Mr Bloxham with certain caveats. However, Mr Bloxam became unhappy with Wallis thinking that the letters had strayed emotionally and not kept to a formal nature that he intended. Then mathematics came to Wallis's aid. Molly had to pass her exams and needed help from somewhere so he offered his services. Over the course of the next 15 months he posted these mathematics lessons in separate envelopes to the fortnightly personal letters and all was well. The personal letters between the two (which are not offered here) include mathematical references to the lessons but gradually became more personal, and Wallis proposed marriage on Molly's twentieth birthday. They were married on 23 April 1925, and remained so for 54 years until Wallis's death in 1979. They had four children - Barnes, Mary, Elisabeth and Christopher - and also adopted Molly's sister's children John and Robert McCormick when their parents were killed in an air raid. Their eldest daughter Mary (1927-2019) later married Harry Stopes-Roe, a son of Marie Stopes. These mathematics lessons in their entirety (with minor omissions) were published in Marie Stopes-Roe, Mathematics With Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, (Macmillan, 2005), especially pp. 11-250. The book is interspersed with transcriptions of the personal letters with editorial comment, and takes the story as far as 12 September 1924, Molly's 20th birthday and the day she accepted their engagement.

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). A lengthy Autograph Manuscript in the form of a discontinuous 'letter', 22 October 1949 to 28 October 1972, effectively a journal written in the form of a series of dated fair copy letters from Barnes Wallis to his wife Molly, the first letter signed 'Barnes', but thereafter the letters run on near continuously, giving details of his life away from home and his work, principally about the evolution of Wild Goose, Swallow and subsequent projects, a few diagrams included including 2 on separate sheets, various page numberings including a later series in pencil, 1a-1i, 1-22 and 1-100 (with 2 misnumberings and 2 additional illustrated leaves), a total of 134 pages written neatly to rectos of foolscap folio leaves, principally written horizontally across the page but some leaves written vertically, hole punches to left edge of most leaves, occasionally catching lettering but usually in blank margins, a little minor corner curling and fraying but generally very goodQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. An extraordinary autograph 'autobiography', covering over 20 years of Wallis's post-war working life away from home and giving much detail about his various projects.

* Roe (Humphrey Verdon, 1878-1949). A collection of curiosities from the Stopes-Roe Estate, comprising a piece of brick with a manuscript letter inscribed 'Piece of Brick from the wall at Waterloo which was fired at for a long time by the French ...', a card box containing Boer War period cartridge cases and .303 cases, shrapnel, regimental buttons of the Liverpool Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, collar badges, Manchester Regiment brass shoulder titles and other items, together with a Crimean War cannonball, with a label inscribed 'cast iron spherical 'common' explosive shell 4 1/2 6.6lbs British, found Sebastopol Ukraine Crimean War 1855-56 2013 Oct', 11cm across (the latter is not from the Stopes-Roe Estate but was purchased in the same West Midlands auction)Qty: (small box )NOTESHumphrey Verdon Roe (1878-1949) was born in Manchester, enlisted as an officer in the Manchester Regiment and served in the Boer War. He returned to England in 1902 and took over his uncle's business manufacturing webbing. After several years of running a successful business, Roe invested in his brother Alliott's aeronautical inventions and the firm was registered in 1913 under the name A.V. Roe and Company, better known as Avro. Roe became director of the company and flew the aircraft as did his brother. At the outbreak of WWI he re-engaged for service in Royal Flying Corps. The letter included in the lot is written on the back of a piece of notepaper inscribed Roe and AVRO with various calculations

* WWI. An archive relating to Major Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1877-1952), comprising: a typescript history of the family written by the Major entitled 'A "Gunner" Family', ff.30, with genealogy frontispiece, bound in a spring back cloth binder, slim folio, with author's original manuscript and notes loosely inserted; a 3pp. typescript curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation (including a typescript letter signed from General Sir George F. Milne); a printed bifolium certificate completed in manuscript awarding the Order of the British Empire, dated 1919, with circular embossed seal, and signature of George V, folio; a printed paper commission document completed in black ink, appointing Charles Hodgkinson Smith Second Lieutenant in the Land Forces, dated 1900, with most of wax seal lacking, signed by Edward VII 'Edward R&I' to upper margin, vertical folds as issued, toned, 30 x 40 cm (12 x 15.75 ins); a printed paper commission document completed in black ink, appointing the same to rank of Lieutenant in the Land Forces, dated 1914, embossed blue paper seal to left margin, vertical folds as issued, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 ins), and another commission document similar, stamped in red 'Temporary', appointing the same to rank of Captain in the Royal Air Force, dated 1918; a printed copy of Seniority and Distribution Lists of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, No. 548, Woolwich, November 1900, folded into printed blue paper wrappers; and various newspaper cuttings, army papers, personal family correspondence, certificates (including 3 framed certificates pertaining to gallant and distinguished services during WWI), and other ephemera, together with: A cavalry sketching board, London: Houghton-Butcher, 1915, wooden sketching board with compass, integrated clinometer and swivelling leather arm strap with buckle to reverse, original squared paper roll still attached to side rollers bearing a pencilled diagram and annotations, 25 x 18.5 cm (10 x 7.25 ins)Qty: (-)NOTESMajor Charles Hodgkinson Smith was the eldest son of Major General Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1826-1897) and the last of six successive generations of the same family to serve in the Royal Artillery, five of which were documented by him. The Major's military career commenced in 1899 when he joined the yeoman cavalry at the start of the Boer War, receiving a commission in the Royal Artillery the following year and serving until 1904, when he retired in favour of agricultural pursuits. During the Boer War Charles saw action at Sand River, Wittebergen, Slaapkrantz, and Bothaville, and was involved in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. In his history of the family he describes his experiences of guerilla warfare during which he endured: "constant flank and rear-guard actions, long hours in the saddle, extremities of heat and cold, often sleeping on sodden ground and sometimes for weeks living on nothing but bully-beef and dry biscuits ... ". At the outbreak of the First World War he rejoined the Royal Artillery (Reserve of Officers), and served in the Second Battle of Ypres as Captain, and subesquently commanded the Brigade Ammunition Column before Armentières, Boise Grenier, and Péronne, south of the Somme. In 1916 he was invalided home, although he was later sent to Egypt with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, and then to the Balkans where he took part in operations, including the two battles of Doiran. Immediately after the Armistice Charles was appointed Commandant of the Royal Air Force of the Alexandria and Aboukir District in Egypt. He therefore served in three branches of the armed forces - the Cavalry, the Artillery and the Air Force. He was awarded a number of medals, including two South African medals, the Victory Medal and the Croix de Guerre, and was also made a Member of the British Empire. Major Charles appears to have been a sporting all-rounder, excelling in football, tennis, golf, rowing, and billiards, as well as polo, skating, skiing and other winter sports. One of the testimonials, dated 1919, describe him as "an excellent officer ... His personal habits are those of an English country gentleman. He is a good sportsman, of almost gigantic proportions, full of physical fitness, and just the sort of Englishman for a Colonial appointment." Charles married and had one daughter, but no son to carry on the family tradition of serving in the Royal Artillery.

* Hitler Youth. A photograph album entitled 'Meine zeit under AHS Dresden' 1940-1942, with a pencilled swastika beneath pencil manuscript title, a Hitler Youth membership card for Sven Ludowig loosely inserted, containing approx. 68 monochrome photographs, mounted (a few with photo corners) to both sides of album leaves, comprising images relating to the Hitler Youth, such as a Landjahr camp, with several photos of individuals and groups of young men in uniform, sometimes marching, doing sports and other activities, shooting practice, ceremonies, officers giving speeches, the final filled page with the manuscript caption 'Die AHS bestanden und zum ein mitglied in der SS' and a photograph of a young man in SS uniform (head and shoulders portrait), occasional discolouration, contemporary cloth with spine tie, a little wear to extremities, small oblong folio, together with: BDM, A photograph album with a pencil manuscript title relating to the BDM in Dresden, containing approx. 38 monochrome photographs, with the pencilled date 1934 to 1st leaf, several images of a young girl on her own or with others, taking part in dancing, exercises, washing, doing gymnastic-style movements, and other activities (some nude), also at ceremonies, some images of the 1936? Olympic Games, a few photographs of a young girl costumed in a long dress with the Olympic Rings visible on the dress and also on her headdress, some discolouration generally, especially to margins, contemporary cloth with spine tie, rear cover with round stain, front cover with applied cloth letters 'E K' and applied cloth Hitler Youth symbol (lightly spotted and dust-soiled), rear cover with plastic ring and elastic closure, fixing to metal hook on front cover (elastic stretched), oblong 8vo, plus a third photograph album, dated ...Dresden 1939, comprising numerous monochrome photographs in and around Dresden and the wider area (including family photos, mountain scenes, city scenes etc), none labelled, the first page with a photograph of German soldiers, contemporary cloth with spine tie, small oblong folio, and several items of ephemera relating to Dresden, comprising: a baptism certificate for Gerry? Zimmermann, son of Maria Zimmermann, 1919 (1914?) in Dresden; a Guidebook for the Green Vault museum, 1930s; several Dresden gas, water and electricity bills, all 1935; a single-page leaflet for a Christmas Party 1918, in the Herzogin Garten, Dresden; a 'Zenfurbuch', or school report book, for Maria Grodn???, for the years 1916-1924; and a front cover (only) of a ReichskarteQty: (13)

* Japanese Instrument of Surrender. Lithographically-printed document completed and signed in manuscript on board HMAS Burdekin [in Makassar Strait], 8 September 1945, being the Instrument of Surrender by which all Japanese troops in Borneo surrender to Major Edward James Milford (1894-1972), Commander Seventh Australian Division, the two date lines completed in manuscript in calligraphic black ink, and signed in black ink in Japanese characters by Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada as Commander 22 Base Force Dutch Borneo, and signed in blue ink below the second date line by Milford, some overall creasing, a few minor marginal splits and a little spotting, mostly to lower area of document but not affecting signatures, 60.5 x 38 cmQty: (1)NOTESWith the cessation of hostilities in August 1945, HMAS Burdekin was one of a number of ships that made unsuccessful attempts to contact Japanese forces on the island of Ambon. Shortly afterwards, on board ship on 8 September 1945, the surrender of Dutch Borneo by the Japanese was accepted by Major E.J. Milford from Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada. A surrender table was arranged on the quarterdeck and the Japanese were received on board whereupon a number of questions were put to Admiral Kamada, and when the matter of signing the surrender was raised he said that he would sign on behalf of the Japanese Navy only. However, General Milford would not accept this, the instrument of surrender was produced and Vice-Admiral Kamada signed. At the conclusion of the ceremony in which Vice-Admiral Kamada also surrendered his sword, Kamada and his staff disembarked. A similar instrument of surrender in which the Japanese surrendered to the Australian general Sir Vernon Sturdee in the South Pacific was controversially sold at auction for AUD $102,000 in 2009. That instrument of surrender was one of three copies made: one for the ship on which it was signed, HMS Glory, one for the Japanese and one for the Australians. It is thought that the copy sold at auction was the Australians' copy and was considered to be a document of the Crown. The Australian War Memorial has in its collection both an original and a copy of this instrument of surrender and it is believed that this is also one of three original copies and therefore in all probability the copy made for the ship on which it was signed, HMS Burdekin. The ceremony of the surrender marked the high point of Milford's military career. Wrongly diagnosed as having prostate cancer, he was placed on the Retired List on 23 April 1948, but lived until 1972. Michiaki Kamada (1890-1947) was tried in a Dutch military court in Pontianak which convicted him of war crimes for the executions of 1,500 West Borneo natives in 1944 and the ill treatment of 2,000 Dutch P.O.W.s held on Flores Island. He was sentenced to death and was executed on 18 October 1947.

* Marlborough (John Churchill, 1650-1722, First Duke of). An indenture on vellum, signed by the Duke of Marlborough, 2nd November 1714, indenture in brown ink on vellum, an agreement between John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, George Townesend of Lincolnes Inne, and Edward Bearcroft, Gentleman, St. Andrew Holborn, for the sale of land in south-west london, including parts of Nonsuch Great Park and Little Park [the former site of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace, demolished by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine in 1683-84, after the site had been given to her by Charles II in 1670], signed by the Duke of Marlborough, George Townesend and Edward Bearcroft, witnesses Oximbridge Harwood and Richard Phillips, sealed and delivered in the presence of G. Widmore, A. Isaakson, and Lan. Jones, the document now divided and cut up into 10 portions which have been inlaid to a late 19th century folio album (showing both sides of each portion), with extensive biographical manuscript notes by J. C. Westley, dated 1898, including a transcript of most of the text of the indenture, the original document with some marks and stains, some words faded or not legible (sold with all faults), together with Churchill (Sarah, 1660-1744, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the first Duke of Marlborough). A manuscript and printed document, signed by the Duchess of Marlborough and others, for the repayment by King George II, of a loan of £5000 from the executors of John, Duke of Marlborough, dated 9th May 1727, printed document on laid paper, addressed at head of the document in ink to 'The most noble Sarah, Dutchess Dowager of Marlborough, the Right Honorable Francis Earl of Godolphin, William Clayton and John Hanbury Esqrs. Executors in trust of the noble John Duke of Marlborough', with similar manuscript insertion to the text, signed by Robert Walpole, William Yonge, and George Dod[d]ington, additionally annotated and signed at foot by Lord William Powlett for the payment in full of the loan and interest (dated 19 and 20 September 1728), and signed in brown ink to verso '25 Sepr. 1728. Recd in full S: Marlborough, Godolphin, J. Hanbury', the document cut into two portions, the lower half laid down on later album leaf, the upper portion inlaid to album leaf to show both sides, with further extensive biographical notes by J. C. Westley, the whole album comprising 44 leaves in total, including an article from Pall Mall Magazine for August 1894, entitled Blenheim and its Memories on 12 leaves, an autograph letter by the 9th Duke of Marlborough, on Trinity College cambridge headed paper, dated March 7th 1893, to a Mr. Gilderd, and a printed article from The Graphic, Saturday November 9, 1895, on the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt (pasted on 5 leaves), outer paper wrappers with maroon morocco spine, manuscript title to upper cover, some light soiling, folio (34 x 21 cm, 13.2 x 8.25 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Each of the three documents in the album (Duke of Marlborough signed indenture, Duchess of Marlborough signed document, and 9th Duke of Marlborough autograph letter) has a signed declaration of gift pasted into the album, from Henry Thomas Scott, M.D., Oxford, dated 1898 or 1897, to Revd. J. C. Westley, of New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guiana. The first item being obtained from the collection of Colonel Mollineaux of Warren Lodge, Wokingham, the second from John Waller Esq of Westbourne Grove, and the third from Mr. A. C. Lewis of Craven Park Road, London. The second document provides evidence of the reliance of King George II on the financial assistance of the duke of Marlborough. On the duke's death his property and investments were estimated to be worth about £1,000,000, half of which was invested in short-term loans to the exchequer; this sum remained in a trust managed after his death by trustees, who included the duchess, Marlborough's two former business associates, William Clayton and William Guidot, and his three sons-in-law: the earl of Sunderland, the duke of Bridgewater, and the duke of Montagu.

* Aviation Postcards. A loose-leaf postcard album of approximately 86 postcards, early 20th century, contained in transparent pockets (1 or 2 per pocket), the 1st pocket containing an admittance card for the October 1911 Concours d'Aeroplanes Militaires de Rheims, the collection comprises monochrome photographic images of the Concours, including the hangars, the aerodrome, onlookers, and the various aircraft and pilots involved, plus numerous other monochrome images of early French aviators and aircraft, including: Roger Sommer, a Maurice Farman biplane, Louis Bleriot, a Bleriot monoplane with Gnome 100 HP engine and another with a Gnome 140 HP engine, several postcards recording the death of Rene Bedel (with newsclipping adhered to one verso), Voisin biplanes, Hubert Latham, Maurice Prévost in the monoplane 'Deperdussin', Jules Védrines, Charles Terres Weymann in the monoplane 'Nieuport', and in a Farman biplane, the 'monoplane cuirasse Antoinnette' or Antoinette military monoplane, a Breguet biplane, a Hanriot monoplane, the Paulhan triplane, a Wright biplane, the airship 'Colonel Renard'a hot air balloon, and other similar images, many unidentified, some appear to be original photographs, one with postage stamp on image side (not unusual for the time) and ink manuscript on verso, most unused, some spotted or with variable surface damage, a few with brown stain to lower edges, the album lacking its front coverQty: (1)

* Schneider Trophy. A Schneider Trophy 1931 programme together with a mixed collection of aviation ephemera, comprising Zeppelin 1934 South America timetable; Zeppelin blank invoice for "Bodensee"; Zeppelin, Deutsche Zeppelin - Reederie blank note paper; Instone Air Line original letter dated 16 February 1922; a manuscript letter written by "The Flying Duchess" Mary Duchess of Bedford (1865-1937), an interesting letter on Woburn Abbey headed note paper in which Mary complains that a Woburn estate worker might have endangered her plane by obstruction as she was landing back to her Woburn hangar (transcribed) plus a typed account of the 1936 Calcutta to Heston, solo by Major Eric Stephenson in a a De Havilland open cockpit Moth Major in which it took him 25 days plus a collection of 73 mixed airline luggage labels including KLM, BEA etcQty: (80)

* Smith (Major General Charles Hodgkinson, 1826-1897). An archive of documents and ephemera, comprising: 8 commission documents, pre-printed on vellum or paper and completed in brown ink, appointing Charles Hodgkinson Smith to various military positions, dated 1845-1877, with embossed paper seals, 5 signed upper left by Queen Victoria, vertical folds as issued, 2 dust-soiled and rubbed, one spotted and toned, approximately 30 x 40 cm (12 x 15.75 ins); an albumen print photograph of 4 soldiers beside a field gun (Charles on left), circa 1860, frayed and marked, trimmed along left-hand edge; a photographic studio portrait of Charles in cravat and bowler hat in later years; a pre-printed letter completed in brown ink dated 27 May 1841, accepting Charles for admission to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; and the related commission document dated 1 August 1841 admitting Charles as a Gentleman Cadet in the Royal Artillery, large bifolium, pre-printed and completed in brown ink, horizontal folds as issued, watermarked 'Joseph Coles 1837', together with: Smith (Captain John Weatherell, 1790-1839). An archive of documents and ephemera, comprising: 5 commission documents pre-printed on vellum and completed in brown ink, appointing John Weatherell Smith to various military positions, dated 1807-1832, with embossed paper seals, variously signed upper left by George III, George IV, or William IV, vertical folds as issued, some light dust-soiling and creasing but generally in good condition, approximately 29 x 39 cm (11.5 x 15.25 ins); and 8 items of correspondence, mostly relating to the Captain's retirement, including a printed document stipulating in detail the uniform to be worn whilst on half pay, dated 25th March 1833, and a bifolium written in manuscript entitled 'The Memorial of John Weatherell Smith, Second Captain and Adjutant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery'Qty: (-)NOTESMajor General Charles Hodgkinson Smith was the only son of Captain John Weatherall Smith (1790-1839), grandson of General Sir John Smith (1754-1837), Governor of Gibraltar, and the fifth of six successive generations of one family to serve in the Royal Artillery (of which five are documented). He entered the Royal Artillery in 1845 and saw a great deal of active service overseas whilst serving in the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, Australia and New Zealand. He was by all accounts a brave and flamboyant young gentleman, apparently risking his own life when cholera was rife during the Crimea, by visiting his men in hospital and rubbing their stomachs to try and relieve their suffering. He was a magnificent horseman and a fine shot, and at one time he owned a famous race horse called Muster Roll. Charles is remembered for his nerves of steel, particularly evident in an incident documented by his cousin: on one occasion, when crossing a narrow bridge over a deep gorge, his nervous charger reared up and pivoted round to face oncoming troops in the opposite direction, necessitating him to force the horse onto its hind legs again and repeat the manoeuvre. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and was awarded the Crimean Medal, the Turkish Medal and the Indian Mutiny Medal. John Weatherall Smith was the father of Major General Charles Hodgkinson Smith, and the son of General Sir John Smith, and was therefore the fourth of six successive generations of one family to serve in the Royal Artillery. He entered that regiment in 1807 and in 1810 he served as aide-de-camp under his father in Gibraltar. He subsequently saw active service in the Peninsular War, after which he served in Gibraltar under his father again between 1812 and 1814. Here he suffered a severe attack of the prevailing fever; he survived and went on to fulfil the role of Permanent Adjutant of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, but he never recovered from the effects of the fever, and died a comparatively young man.

* Wyatt (Henry, 1794-1840). General Sir John Smith (1754-1837), G.C.B., K.G.C.H., Royal Artillery 1768-1837, Governor of Gibraltar 1813-1814, 1832, oil on canvas, half-length half-profile portrait to left of a grey-haired gentleman in military dress comprising a scarlet coat, green silk sash, and gold epaulettes, and wearing the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, indistinctly signed and dated lower left, some craquelure, professionally restored (Cardiff Museum, 1936), 30.5 x 25.5 cm (12 x 10 ins), gilt moulded frame with title plaque, and old manuscript label on verso 'The Property of Charles Hodgkinson Smith 1915'Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, London; sometime given to the family and thence by descent. General Sir John Smith was the only son of Captain John Smith (1722-1783). He fought in the American War of Independence, during which he was captured and imprisoned by the Americans. When he was finally released, after nine strenuous years in America, he was ship-wrecked on the way home and nearly drowned. He took part in a number of further campaigns, and was instrumental in expanding the British Empire in the West Indies. He served in Gibraltar from 1804 to 1814, the last two years as Governor. Sir John was a personal friend of George III, George IV and William IV, and he received the Order of the Bath as well as being made a Knight of the Grand Cross of Hanover. Apparently towards the end of his life William IV used to send a daily messenger to Sir John's residence in Woolwich to enquire after his health, and sometimes visited in person, on one occasion presenting him with a silver snuff box. According to at least one account Sir John appears to have been somewhat of a dandy: "The late Father of the Regiment, General Sir John Smith, when a Lieutenant Colonel was an amazing Beau and flattered himself he had a good leg. Of course his boots used to fit like gloves." (Captain R.J. Macdonald, The History of the Dress of the Royal Artillery, 1899)

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). Autograph notes, 29 April 1968, an incomplete account in blue ballpoint pen, dated and titled 'En route from Scampton to Wisley, after witnessing the Ceremonial Stand-Down of Bomber Command', in full, 'How can one very simple unworthy person express all that this day has signified to the hundreds of people who were present at this historic ceremony - impossible of course to do more than tell the effect on myself - impressionable, emotional, and now alas old. To begin with this is no well-thought-out carefully planned description; it is only a simple record of my thoughts, as they come into my mind. Why was I asked? Why do I seem to receive so much credit (?) honour (?) respect from all whom I meet and know in the RAF. I am, and know I am, and who could know better a very simple, rather slow, and, inside, I think a genuinely humble man, stumbling along as best I can, doing what I know. Norbert Rowe would describe as the Will of the Holy Spirit and what I think Leonard Cheshire would describe in the same way. How can one explain in any other way why or how ideas come into my mind? What makes me so desperately keen to continue their fulfilment? What is the force that drives me on? Sometimes boasting that this or that can be done, when I have no firm idea as to how the desired result can be contrived. As I so often say "if a thing is obvious, and easy, and something that man needs, and would be the better for having then it would have been" ending abruptly, one page, a little creasing, foolscap folio, together with 5 further foolscap folio sheets with autograph fragments by Barnes Wallis, one an opening paragraph for an attempt at an autobiography, beginning 'How I wonder does one write an autobiography?', another a first page draft of a letter to Victor about airships, 'It did not require any mystic prescience for any level-headed and sane person to realise that R101 was doomed from the start. To begin with Richmond was a dope expert whose only experience of airships (as far as I know) was with small non-rigids, and some purely theoretical articles that he had written; and how misleading they can be... ', plus 3 further sheets of unrelated notes, all struck through with pencil, plus a 3-page manuscript inventory of articles taken by Barnes Wallis to Camp in 1951, written on rectos of 3 foolscap folio sheetsQty: (9 leaves)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. A small but revealing group of fragmentary notes and thoughts, offering good insights into the character and personality of Barnes Wallis.

* Wyatt (Henry, 1794-1840). Captain John Weatherall Smith (1790-1839), Royal Artillery 1807-1837, 1833, oil on canvas, half-length half-profile portrait to right of a dark curly-haired young gentleman in military dress comprising a navy blue coat and gold epaulettes, indistinctly signed and dated in red lower right, some craquelure, professionally restored (Cardiff Museum, 1936), 30.5 x 25.5 cm (12 x 10 ins), gilt moulded frame with title plaque, and old manuscript label on verso 'The Property of Charles Hodgkinson Smith 1915', stretcher with ink inscription in an early hand 'H. Wyatt 1833 pinxit'Qty: (1)NOTESJohn Weatherall Smith was the son of General Sir John Smith (1754-1837) whom he served as aide-de-camp in Gibraltar in 1810. He subsequently saw active service in the Peninsular War, after which he served in Gibraltar under his father again between 1812 and 1814. Here he suffered a severe attack of the prevailing fever; he survived and went on to fulfill the role of Permanent Adjutant of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, but he never recovered from the effects of the fever, and died a comparatively young man.

* Smith (General Sir John, 1754-1837, Governor of Gibraltar). An archive of documents and ephemera, comprising: a 2pp. letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lt. General Smith, dated 17th December 1821, written in a secretarial hand and signed by the Duke 'Wellington', asking the recipient to forward details of military services rendered requisite for the award of Order of the Bath, one folded 4to sheet, watermarked 'J. Budgen 1821', several folds (with a few associated small holes), final page (with direction) toned; 16 commission documents, pre-printed on vellum and completed in brown ink, appointing John Smith to various military positions, dated 1771-1837, with embossed paper seals, variously signed upper left by George III, George IV, and William IV, vertical folds as issued, a few dusty or marked, but generally in good condition, approximately 35 x 35 cm (13.25 x 16 ins), and slightly smaller; and various other official and personal papers and correspondence, including: a folded paper commission, pre-printed and completed in brown ink, appointing John Smith as Gentleman Cadet in the Royal Artillery, dated 1768, with embossed paper seal, somewhat torn; several folded paper Statements of the Services of Lieut-General Sir John Smith, pre-printed and completed in ink, one torn and with piece excised from lower right corner; two 10pp. manuscript narratives of the Services of Sir John Smith from 1771-1834 (one a copy of the other); several manuscript lists of officers served under; a manuscript note 'Memorandum for the Inscription to be Engraved on my Tombstone'; and a copy of a letter from Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, on Sir John's appointment to the command of the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar in 1804Qty: (-)NOTESGeneral Sir John Smith (1754-1837) was the only son of Captain John Smith (1722-1783) and the third of six successive generations of one family to serve in the Royal Artillery (of which five are documented). He fought in the American War of Independence, during which he was captured and imprisoned by the Americans. When he was finally released, after nine strenuous years in America, he was ship-wrecked on the way home and nearly drowned. He took part in a number of further campaigns, and was instrumental in expanding the British Empire in the West Indies. He served in Gibraltar from 1804 to 1814, including as Acting Governor and subsequently Governor. He became Colonel-Commandant of the 7th Battalion, Royal Horse Artillery in 1815, and was promoted to General in 1837. The unusually large number of preserved commission documents pertaining to this family were apparently kept in three specially constructed metal cases, which kept the documents well-preserved, despite their inevitable travels to various parts of the globe. Sir John's portrait was painted in oils by Henry Wyatt, a pupil of Thomas Lawrence, and it hung in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich for a time, until given to the family. Sir John was a personal friend of George III, George IV and William IV, and he received the Order of the Bath (after apparently prompting the Duke of Wellington on the subject - see letter above), as well as being made a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Hanovarian Guelphic Order. Apparently towards the end of the General's life William IV used to send a daily messenger to Sir John's residence in Woolwich to enquire after his health, and sometimes visited in person, on one occasion presenting him with a silver snuff box. According to at least one account Sir John appears to have been somewhat of a dandy: "The late Father of the Regiment, General Sir John Smith, when a Lieutenant Colonel was an amazing Beau and flattered himself he had a good leg. Of course his boots used to fit like gloves" (Captain R.J. Macdonald, The History of the Dress of the Royal Artillery, 1899). The memorandum regarding his epitaph requested that the inscription on his tomb include the following: "Sacred To the Memory of General Sir John Smith G.C.H., Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery and Father of the Corps - after serving as an Officer in three quarters of the Globe 64 years - Honoured by his Sovereign - respected by all Ranks of the Army he had served with, beloved by his Friends and revered by his Family, His private life afforded an Example to all who love goodness, honour and and benevolence". His great grandson notes in the family history "His successors did not carry out his wishes".

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The People's Rights, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], half title,152 pp., some toning to textblock (as usual), manuscript shelf numbers to title verso and at end, bookplate, bound without the wrappers in contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine and edges a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Woods A16; Cohen A31. 2a. Second state copy of the wrapper-bound edition, with page number 71 corrected (not page 1 as in the first issue) and with the index replaced with Appendix II, 'Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance'. The wrapper-bound edition was published simultaneously with the hardback edition in 1910, and according to Cohen "All issues of The People's Rights are extremely scarce", despite some 40,000 copies printed, due to it being produced on cheap and fragile paper.

* [Churchill, Winston Spencer]. Collection of letters, photographs and ephemera from the papers of Charles Barker, chief clerk, 10 Downing Street, 1940-45, comprising: 1. Colville (Sir Jock, 1915-1987), wartime Assistant Private Secretary to Churchill, later his Joint Principal Private Secretary (1951-55). Five autograph letters and one typed letter signed to Barker, 1947-52, i.e., a. 1947, on Foreign Office Stationery, on leaving the FO for a new post as private secretary to Princess Elizabeth (‘The foreign scene is dismal in these days and one’s soul shrivels before the negative, endlessly uncreative and relentless obstructed policy which our gallant Allies oblige us to pursue. It will be a relief to devote one’s energies to other tasks … From all accounts my quote Mistress unquote is a young lady of great vivacity and charm combined with a most precocious sense of responsibility’), b. 1947, typed, Buckingham Palace stationery (‘I showed your letter of the 30th October to The Princess Elizabeth who was delighted that her speech at Clydeside should have had such an admirable affect [sic] in Germany’), c. 1948, Buckingham Palace Stationery, retaining envelope, on Colville’s marriage to Lady Margaret Egerton, d. 1948, personal stationery (4 Mulberry Walk, SW3), thanking Barker for his wedding present, e. 1951, 10 Downing Street stationery, retaining envelope, on Colville’s return to Churchill’s employ (‘The old man is full of vigour but more benign than ever’), f. 1952, 10 Downing Street stationery, retaining envelope, 2. Martin (Sir John), wartime Principal Private Secretary to Churchill. Two autograph letters signed to Barker, 1952 & 1953, on Colonial Office and personal stationery, the former reading ‘The recent happenings at No 10 take one back to battles long ago …’, 3. Bracken (Brendan, 1901-1958). Typed letter signed to Barker, 1947, offering a job with Lord Camrose ‘partly as an adviser to him about furniture’, 4. Five other letters to Barker including from Anthony Bevin (Private Secretary to Churchill), 1952, ‘I am - & have been, worried about [Churchill’s wartime stenographer] Pat Kinna, but I’ve been away much in these last two years …’, 5. Sixteen press photographs (10’’ x 8’’) depicting Churchill and others at the Quebec conference, Yalta, and elsewhere, and Churchill and Clementine in later years, with agency wet-stamps ([Canadian] National Film Board; [US] Signal Corps Photo; Keystone Press; Barratt’s; Essex Press) versos, 6. Eleven further photographs (including 2 real-photo postcards) of Churchill and others, including a group photograph of Churchill and his secretarial staff including Barker in the garden of 10 Downing Street on 29 September 1941 (typescript label verso), a photograph of General Maitland-Wilson inspecting the French Foreign Legion, signed by Maitland-Wilson, and similar 7. Ephemera including: Order of service for Churchill’s funeral; Barker’s ticket for Churchill’s funeral (North Aisle, Block D, Row 4); Barker’s pass for the Quebec conference (1944); Churchill compliments slip; 3 x blank 10 Downing Street letterheads; 4 envelopes addressed to Churchill as prime minister, 8. A set of Churchill's The Second World War, with manuscript facsimile compliments slips ('WIth all good wishes from Winston S. Churchill'), volumes 1, 2 and 4 annotated in pencil 'Charles Barker's copy'Qty: (1 folder & 6 volumes)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Acquired by Major Alan Taylor-Smith at an auction in Battle, East Sussex at an unspecified date (according to Taylor-Smith's word-processed notes and biography of Charles Barker which accompany the lot).

[Royal Navy]. Officer’s manuscript journal of service on HMS Resistance and HMS Agincourt, Mediterranean Station and Home Waters, 1870-2, including visits to Madeira, Gibraltar, Vigo, Lisbon, and Malta, approx. 174 pp. + blanks, printed title-page and headings, pencilled ownership inscription ‘Harvey’ to initial blank, contemporary black half roan lettered in gilt, rubbed, 4to (22.7 x 18.7 cm), together with: [Royal Engineers]. ‘Captain E. H. Harvey R.E . Some Notes, & Record of service, 1886–1908-9’ [cover-title], manuscript, approx. 280 pp. + blanks, a few pen-and-ink diagrams, various ephemera tipped- or laid in, including a programme for a showing of HMS Pinafore in 1887, with George Grossmith as Sir Joseph Porter (8 pp., annotated ‘First efforts of George Grossmith’), the contents of the journal including a leave of absence in Cape Colony (1889), mention of the Fashoda incident (1898), and service in Singapore (1905-1908: 15 pp.), contemporary quarter cloth, 4to (20.8 x 16 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESThe author of the naval journal appears to have joined the Agincourt in September 1871, shortly after it had run aground on Pearl Rock near Gibraltar in July of that year, resulting in a court martial. Captain E. H. Harvey is recorded as author of several contributions to the Royal Engineers Journal, including ‘R. E. Works Abroad’ (1927) and ‘Motor Fire Brigade Apparatus’ (1912).

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898, half-title, halftone portrait frontispiece, 6 maps of which 2 folding, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, black endpapers, front inner hinge tender, half-title browned, text-block toned and spotted, damp-stain to head of non-folding maps, occasional corrections to spellings of non-English names in purple pencil, further manuscript corrections in standard pencil to pp. 30, 119, 225, 239, original green cloth, rubbed and slightly marked, spine rolled, 8voQty: (1 volume with folder)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Langworth pp. 12-14; Woods A1a. First edition, home issue, first state (without the errata slip), one of 2,000 copies. With manuscript corrections attributed to Churchill by the Churchill Archives Centre in an accompanying typed note signed by Katharine Thomson, archivist, Churchil Archives Centre, 8 June 2004, reading: 'I have checked this copy of Winston Churchill's "The Story of the Malakand Field Force", and I think the annotations in ordinary lead (particularly on page 119) are probably in Churchill's own hand'. The book is also accompanied by a typed affidavit signed by one James Hugh Munro of Rondebosch, South Africa, dated 26 May 2004, reading: 'This book was given to me in the late 1950's by Mrs Gericke, the elderly widow of Dr O M Gericke. She told me that the corrections had been made personally by Churchill when [s]he and her husband were passengers together ona boat between India an England shortly after the publication of the book'. Other correspondence sold with this copy indicates that it was acquired by Alan Taylor-Smith from one Kate Philipson of Rondenbosch (of the neighbouring address to Munro's) in June 2005.

* Yates (Frederic, 1854-1919). Major Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1877-1952), pastel on paper, head and shoulders half-profile portrait to right, of a WWI military gentleman in uniform, signed in pencil lower left, some spotting to background, 58.5 x 48 cm (23 x 19 ins), framed and glazed, manuscript note on backboard pertaining to the sitterQty: (1)NOTESMajor Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1877-1952) was the eldest son of Major General Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1826-1897), who was in command of the Horse Artillery, London District at the time of his son's birth. The Major's military career commenced in 1899 when he joined the yeoman cavalry at the start of the Boer War, receiving a commission in the Royal Artillery the following year and serving until 1904, when he retired in favour of agricultural pursuits. At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 he rejoined the Royal Artillery (Reserve of Officers), and fought at Ypres, amongst other places. In 1916 he was invalided home, although he was later sent to Egypt with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. He served, therefore, in three branches of the armed forces - the Cavalry, the Artillery and the Air Force - and saw a great deal of active service. He was awarded a number of medals, including two South African medals, the Victory Medal and the Croix de Guerre, and was also made a Member of the British Empire. He married and had one daughter, but no son to carry on the family tradition of serving in the Royal Artillery.

A large collection  Auction Catalogues for Antiques Auctions held by major UK Auction House, Sothebys, mostly from the early 1990s to about 2005 - the most recent 'Golden Age' of British auction sales.    None are damp, none are stained, all have their original covers and very few have any corner bumps.  Some have printed auction house loose results pages, some have prices achieved written in manuscript - some have neither - an absolute fund of prices, information and images.. whilst bulky and heavy could be of great interest to a private buyer or a dealer.  Many are for Decorative Arts but also include Furniture, Paintings, Judaica, Ceramic etc.  

Wine trade.- Manuscript bill for Port, Madeira and Mountain from Evans & Thomas, wine merchants, Bath, engraved heading, 190 x 183 mm. (7 ½ x 7 ¼ in.), endorsed as received verso, old folds, small burn holes, 1748.

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Conway (Fanny) [Volume of poetry from various authors], manuscript, 180pp., slightly browned, original half straight-grained morocco, rubbed, joints splitting , spine lifting, sm. 4to, 1808.

19th century Poem.- The Dying Student [&] The Dream, manuscript poems, together 23pp., ?incomplete, first f. small tear in corner, browned, disbound, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1830].

Cousin of Jane Austen.- Austen (Francis Motley, son of Francis Austen and Anne Motley, of Kippington, Kent, 1747-1815) Copy Will and Codicils of Francis M Austen, manuscript copy, 39pp. excluding final blank, tied at head, central folds, final blank small piece torn away and soiled, 4to, watermark C Wilmot 1830.⁂ Francis Motley's father, Francis, was uncle of George Austen, father of Jane Austen. When Francis Austen died in 1791 there was considerable bitterness amongst the poorer members of the extended Austen family when the bulk of his estate was inherited by his son, Francis Motley, who was already wealthy.

Aberdeen.- Fordyce (Capt. Alexander Dingwall of Culsh and Brucklay, R.N., M.P., naval officer and whig politician, 1800-1864) List of Household Furniture in Captain Fordyce's House in 6 Albyn Place, 20+3pp manuscript inventory, each page initialed by the surveyor J.H. Hill, contemporary marbled wrappers, 4to, Aberdeen, June 1st 1856.

European Travel Diaries.- Diary of a Tour to Italy and Germany, 2 vol., manuscript in ink and pencil, 32pp., 21pp. of drawings (1 watercolour of Cromer Church), some ff. excised, original morocco-backed cloth, slightly rubbed, 130 x 95mm., 1886-93.⁂ Includes Venice and Stuttgart.

NO RESERVE Arabic manuscript.- [Illuminated manuscript in Arabic], text in red and black, single leaf, 35.5 x 8.5 cm, mounted and framed, 55 x 40.5 cm, n.d.

Naogeorgus (Thomas Kirchmeyer) The Popish Kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist... englyshed by Barnabe Googe, black letter, title supplied in facsimile, lacking [A]2 dedication (text supplied in 19th century manuscript on front endpaper), 2B1 with loss to fore-margin affecting a few words of text, 2B2-4 with significant loss, a few early ink inscriptions, 19th century ink inscriptions to endpapers, bookplate, 19th century calf, light rubbing to extremities, [STC 15011], small 4to, by Henrie Denham, for Richarde Watkins, 1570.⁂ Rare translation of this work by the German dramatist and theologian. The final section includes a translation of Naogeorgus' Agricultura sacra (Spiritual Husbandry). We can trace no copy at auction since 1955.Provenance: Thomas Edward Garbeyd; Godfray Cobb (ink inscriptions, the latter with a published in Thomas Protcor's A Gorgious Gallery (1578), titled "Of Beauty and Chastity"); M. H. Bloxam (bookplate).

NO RESERVE Massinger (Philip) The Dramatick Works ..., 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, half-titles, previous owner's ink signature, one or two manuscript notes, contemporary review bound at end (pagination in manuscript), bookplates, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1779.

Bookplates.- Collection of c.1500 bookplates and book-labels including duplicates, engraved, etched or lithographed, most removed from books with abrasion marks to verso, some mounted, some institutional bookplates with small ink-stamps, a few with tears or small loss, some with manuscript insertions, occasional spotting and marking, v.s., v.d., [18th - 20th centuries].

Education.- Edgeworth (Richard Lovell) Essays on Professional Education, first edition, occasional spotting, contemporary ink manuscript list of borrowers from a lending library to front free endpaper, modern half calf over marbled boards in antique style, spine gilt, uncut, 4to, 1809.⁂ Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817), father of 22 children by four wives, was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer, inventor, and member of the Lunar Society with Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley and James Watt amongst others. His main writings were on education, most notably the progressive Practical Education of 1798 with his daughter, the novelist Maria Edgeworth. In the present work he discusses the education of people entering the the professions such as the law, military, government and the church.

Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". War Cartoons from "The Evening News", presentation inscription to half-title, illustrations, occasional spotting, one or two marginal tears, original paper wrappers, detached, rubbed and stained, becoming disbound, [1915]; Pearson's, No. 220 & 227, 2 vol. only, illustrations, original paper wrappers, small tears to edges, manuscript page references to upper covers noting where Poy's illustrations are, April & November 1914; The Royal Magazine, illustrations, original pictorial paper wrappers, upper cover becoming detached, rubbed and worn, pencil page reference to upper cover noting where Poy's illustrations are, November 1928; The Strand Magazine, illustrations, original paper wrappers, chipping and small loss to spine extremities, manuscript page reference to upper cover noting where Poy's illustrations are, May 1914; and a small quantity of others, newspaper clippings, periodicals and ephemera including a silk handkerchief with 'Poy' stitched into the corner, all relating to Poy, v.s. (small qty).

North America.- Brown (C.) A Geographic Table of N. America, engraving, early manuscript title "America in Miniature: or," to top edge, 118 x 200 mm (4 ¾ x 7 7/8 in.), trimmed close to borderline leaving Brown's name and "Facing Appendix" on tabs at bottom right corner, 15 mm. split at bottom edge, a few light creases, corner-mounted on old album leaf, [c.1770].⁂ An eccentric schematic chart from an unidentified source. The top half follows the coast from Labrador south to Florida and the lower half from the Gulf of Mexico north to Quebec, with a table of distances, notes on Indian Nations, numbers of inhabitants etc.

Astronomy.- Bonnycastle (John) An Introduction to Astronomy. In a Series of Letters ..., first edition, lacking frontispiece, 20 engraved plates, 7 folding, one with tear repaired with scrap of manuscript vellum, small marginal loss (E2), tape repair, occasional faint pencil marginal markings, previous owner's ink signature to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1786.

Quetelet (M. A.) A Treatise on Man and the Development of his Faculties, first English edition, 6 plates, previous owner's ink signature to title, manuscript notes to contents, 1842, bound before Combe (Andrew) The Principles of Physiology applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education, illustrations, Edinburgh, 1843, together 2 vol. in 1, near contemporary half-calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, small loss to extremities, 8vo.

Vellum bindings.- Digestum Nouum, seu Pandectarum Ivris Civilis, vol. 3 only (of 6), 2pp. index in manuscript at beginning, double-page table, double-column, occasional marginal manuscript notes, worming occasionally affecting text, lacking front free endpaper, 2H2 & 2H6, staining and soiling, near contemporary limp vellum, manuscript notes to boards and pastedowns, rubbed and worn, Lugduni, Jacobi Cardon & Petri Cauellat, 1627; and others similar, all in vellum bindings, v.s (c.75)

* Candler Family Archive. A collection of 2 quarter-plate and 3 ninth-plate daguerreotypes plus 22 mostly sixth-plate ambrotypes of the Candler family, c. 1852 and later, some identified with manuscript labels loosely inserted or pasted to lids, some half case and some full case images, 5 in passepartout mounts, framed and glazed, but 2 with seals broken and contents detached, plus a related complete carte-de-visite album containing 50 portraits of the Candler family and related, c. 1860s and later, window mounted with pencil captions to mounts beneath, contemporary morocco with gilt clasp, worn, contents partly detached, oblong 8voQty: (a small carton)

* Cartes de visite. A cartes-de-visite album, c. 1860s/1880s, containing 50 window-mounted albumen print portraits of clergy, artists and literary figures, including David Livingstone, Cardinal Wiseman, John Leech, Martin Tupper, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alexandre Dumas, plus numerous bishops and deans, two not from life, pencil identifications to many mounts, contemporary embossed morocco with gilt clasps, spine cracked and split along joints, small 8vo, together with a similar album containing 40 photographic cartes de visite from life of British and French subjects, a few in military dress and some identified on mounts, contemporary embossed morocco with gilt and bone clasps, rubbed, small 8vo, preserved in contemporary card box with marbled sides and contemporary manuscript labelQty: (2)

* Three-quarter-plate daguerreotype of a military and family group outdoors, Calcutta, February 1847, a group of five British men including three officers standing informally around a seated elderly lady, photographed in a compound courtyard with sunlit trees seen through the archway behind them, slight edge tarnish, hinged leather case with broken fasteners, heavily rubbed, 17 x 13 cmQty: (1)NOTESJack Webb (1923-2019) was a well-known North London antiques dealer for 70 years and a passionate collector of antiques and militaria. We were delighted to sell his extraordinary collection of antiques and militaria in sales earlier this year, while his prestigious collection of medals of the Middlesex Regiment were sold in a special summer sale by Dix Noonan Webb. Jack also had a passion for military photographs, especially daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and cartes de visite and we are pleased to offer this final part of Jack's collection here. Jack kept most of the cased images in a glass display cabinet in his 'Museum Room' at home in Islington, London. While he cherished these images he never attempted to clean or restore them and bidders should be aware that our photographs show these cased images as found and that many of the items would improve with professional cleaning. A rare outdoor military daguerreotype by an unidentified photographer. A contemporary manuscript note is included with the photograph and identifies the army officers as, [left to right], Lieutenant [John?] Staples, Brigadier General [Richard] Powney and Captain [Francis Claude?] Burnet[t] with ‘My dear Father, Mother & myself. Taken in Capt Burnet’s compound in Dum Dum Artillery Station, Nr. Calcutta in February 1847, J.F.C.’. Richard Powney (1786-1865) of the Bengal Artillery was stationed at Dum Dum c. 1831-33. He is listed as Lieutenant General of 24th Brigade, Royal Artillery in his death notice. The identity of J.F.C. and his parents has not been established. J.F.C.'s father appears to wear a uniform cap but is otherwise in civilian dress and may be a chaplain, surgeon, judge or some other sort of administrator.

* Quarter-plate ambrotype of a Captain of the Staffordshire Militia, c.1860, three-quarter length and seated, with a shako on the table. hand-coloured red tunic, gilt and white highlights, studio backdrop of a pillar and blue sky with white clouds, desk frame, glazedQty: (1)NOTESA small contemporary clipped manuscript label tucked in the frame identifies the sitter as ‘David [?]Doore, Captain, Staffordshire Militia’.

* Rifle Brigade & King's Royal Rifle Corps. A good photograph album of regimental portraits, circa early 1860s, containing albumen prints of Winchester barracks, 1850, oval print, 15 x 20 cm, and Officers' Quarters, Winchester, 1860, 15.5 x 22 cm, together with 11 oval mostly cabinet-card-size portraits (14 x 11 cm and similar) and 37 carte-de-visite-size or similar portraits of regimental soldiers and officers, mostly identified as from the Rifle Brigade and 60th Regiment of Foot, pasted singly and as multiples on rectos of 29 numbered leaves (2-13, 15, 16, 19-29), contemporary ink captions to mounts and 6-page index in the same hand at front, several blank leaves after folio 29 and including 11 further contemporary albumen prints pasted to rectos of 5 leaves, 5 of Rangoon including one showing 'The Pagoda Guard [and] 3rd Battn 60th Rifles', 9.5 x 12.5 cm, the final 6 images of sculptures at the International Exhibition 1862, including 5 probably stereo halves by London Stereoscopic Company, captioned on mounts, contemporary leather with partly legible manuscript title to spine dated 1862, rubbed and small loss at head of spine (27 x 22 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESJack Webb's typed index is included with the lot. It identifies Claud Thomas Burchier VC and Charles Henry Spencer-Churchill and twelve other soldiers involved in campaigns including the Indian Mutiny and the Crimea.

* 57th & 77th (West and East Middlesex) Regiments of Foot. A cabinet card and carte-de-visite album, circa 1870s/1880s, containing 15 cabinet cards, 3 cabinet-size cards and 28 cartes de visite, all portraits of uniformed soldiers, window-mounted and many with name identification to mounts or versos and some with additional manuscript notes loosely inserted on slips of paper, the highest-ranking officer being General Sir George Harry Smith Willis, KCB, being a cabinet card by Stereoscopic Company showing him with full medals, contemporary embossed padded morocco with broken clasp, some wear, backstrip relaid, 4toQty: (1)

* Cartes de Visite. An albumen print carte de visite of Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn VC, c.1864, full length and standing in uniform with cap of 33rd Foot tucked under one arm, wearing two medals, some spotting, plain card back, presented in an embossed leather desk frame, stand partly broken, together with a hand-coloured carte de visite of a Hungarian hussar, full length and standing, some spotting, printed paper label of the Hungarian photographer Abrahamovits Ferenc pasted to card mount verso, worn leather half case with gilt-embossed studio name of Mayall to base, plus 2 ninth-plate cartes de visite, one of a seated British officer, slightly cracked and scratched in lower corners, leather half case, the other identified in contemporary ink manuscript to lower mount and paper seal verso as Don Theodosio Noeli y White, a major with the Spanish Artillery at Fernando Po [West Africa] in 1862, gilt case, plus a half-length portrait of a young man in a suit [Thomas Sweetingham, c.1881-1902, 1st Tower Hamlet Rifles and No. D100 City Imperial Volunteers], gelatin silver print, creased and split, 9 x 6 cm, laid down and window-mounted in a small leather carte-de-visite desk frame, all glazed, plus A hand-painted salt print of a British Naval Officer, c.1840s, three-quarter length and standing, hand-coloured in gilt, silver, red and blue against a brown ground, wearing Naval Long Service medal and possibly St Jean d’Acre medal, contemporary manuscript colour details to card verso and possibly with the sitter’s name trimmed at head (?’Admiral Harvey’), 10.5 x 8.5 cm, contemporary blind-stamped morocco case with gilt clasp, glass looseQty: (6)NOTESAlexander Roberts Dunn VC (1833–1868) was the first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross. He was born in York (later Toronto) in 1833, and in 1852 he purchased a commission in the Hussars. Dunn was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 when he was 21 years of age and serving in the 11th Hussars. Dunn rescued a sergeant by cutting down two or three Russian lancers who had attacked from the rear. Later in the battle he killed another Russian who had been attacking a private. He sold his commission at the end of the Crimean War but rejoined the Army in 1858 as a major in the 100th Regiment of Foot. He exchanged into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1864, in which regiment he remained until his death in the Abyssinian War.

* Westmacott (Richard, 1775-1856). A family photograph album of the Westmacott family, 1860s, containing a total of 160 carte-de-visite and similar size albumen print portraits of members of the Westmacott and related families, plus further miniature and gem-size cut-out vignettes of heads, mounted mostly on rectos of 46 stiff paper leaves, the majority captioned in ink in a neat gothic hand, the early leaves with some pen and ink and wash or pencil floral decorations, the portrait frontispice of Sir Richard Westmacott dated 1851, evidence of a few excisions, contemporary morocco gilt with monogram 'I.W.' to upper cover, covers near detached, spine defective, 4toQty: (1)NOTESSir Richard Westmacott was a sculptor and this album of family portraits would appear to have been compiled by Isabel Westmacott (1847-1900), granddaughter of Sir Richard and daughter of Reverend Horatio Westmacott (1806-1862; married Penelope S. Ruscombe Poole). Further manuscript notes and an indexed family tree are included with the album. Other family names featured include Anstice, Clifford (including Colonel the Honourable H.H. Clifford VC (for Inkerman)), Luttrell and Jeremy.

* The Tirah Expedition 1897[-98]. An album of 170 window-mounted photographs, probably by René Bull, showing British and Indian soldiers at camps, marching and fighting with occasional smoke from artillery and burning buildings, images 7 x 10 cm, entirely uncaptioned and window-mounted four to a page, neat ink manuscript title in the hand of René Bull with his signed inscription to lower right corner, 'From René Bull, [18]98, special war artist, "Black & White"', some spotting to mounts throughout, contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, a little wear to extremities, oblong folio (24 x 29 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESRené Bull (1872-1942) was an illustrator who contributed sketches and political cartoons to various publications, and worked for Black & White illustrated newspaper as a special artist and photographer. He is best known today as an illustrator of books including The Arabian Nights (1912), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1913) and Andersen's Fairy Tales (1928). The Tirah Campaign was an Indian frontier campaign in 1897-1898, fought in the mountainous country of what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

* Nigeria. A small album with photographs, letters and cuttings, seemingly compiled by Frank Wilson, Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul at Fernando Poo [now called Bioko, Equatorial Guinea], West Africa, c. 1860s, the album largely blank but including 2 cut autographs of King Eyo Honesty III [died 1861], one dated 8 May 1961 and pasted at the foot of a manuscript declaration of allegiance to Queen Victoria, written in an unidentified hand on blue paper and tipped in to album, one page, oblong 8vo, the undated cut signature pasted to a pencil note, possibly in the king's hand, hoping to see Captain McKinon(?) and Mr Wilson and asking to 'please bring me some dry tea and sugar', the remaining album containing 3 pasted in cyanotype river views, one showing a small islet with habitation, 11.5 x 15.5 cm and one slightly smaller, plus 3 pressed flowers, 8 pages of printed cuttings and 3 narrow sheets of manuscript geography lessons, one further small cyanotype of a house now completely faded, contemporary roan, worn, 8vo, the rest of the material loosely inserted including a group of 4 further cyanotypes, including 2 small ones of pressed flowers (one torn and faded), one a portrait of a western man in jacket and tie, 13 x 9 cm, and one mounted village scene with posing inhabitants, 11 x 15.5 cm, the mount verso with pencil inscription, 'Owned by Frank Wilson, Consul at Fernando Po, c. 1870-80', 3 amateur pencil sketches of African figures, 9 x 5.5 cm, and a series of 7 letters to Frank Wilson, all from 1869Qty: (approx. 15)NOTESThe letters contained in the lot are in chronological order: 1) George Pepple [Perekule VII, (1849-1888), ruler of the Kingdom of Bonny], autograph letter signed, 'Geo Pepple Rex', Bonny Town, 18 January 1869, concerning a desire to delay a meeting with tribal chiefs, 2 pages with partial remains of integral blank; 2) George Pepple, autograph letter signed, 'Geo Pepple Rex', Bonny Town, 19 January 1869, agreeing that they will attend the meeting at the specified time, one page, 8vo; 3) King Ashbong II [a.k.a. Eyo Asibong II of Akwa Akpa, ruled 1859-1872], letter signed, Duke Town, Old Calabar, 1 February 1869, sending his compliments, one page, 8vo; 4) King Archibong II, letter signed, Duke Town, Old Calabar, 2 February 1869, saying that he will be glad to see Wilson tomorrow, one page, 8vo; 5) King Archibong II, letter signed, Duke Town, Old Calabar, 2 February 1869, concerning protocols of signals of ships with cargo, one page, 8vo; 6) King Eyo Honesty VI, autograph letter signed, Creek Town, 4 February 1869, concerning a promise and hoping to keep the peace of the river, one page, 8vo; 7) Charles Livingstone (1821-1873, brother of David Livingstone), autograph letter signed, Hadleigh House, Highbury New Park, London, 9 March 1869, with general news about his circumstances and the possibility of returning to Fernando Po, collecting payment from the Foreign Office for Wilson, etc., 4 pages, old browning from dampstaining, with original postmarked envelope (dampstained).

* Sandhurst. A military photograph album compiled by Hugh Frederic Stoneham, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1909, as a cadet in E Company and some later material as captain of 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, a total of 33 gelatin silver print photographs pasted on to stiff card leaves, including group activities, drills, sports, etc., various sizes, pasted on to stiff card album leaves and back to back with further ephemera including approximately 20 printed items, mostly RMC sports fixture lists plus a few matches and menus, a 1914 calendar, etc., plus various related news cuttings, some pencil and ink captions to mounts with some names identified as killed in action (in the First World War), manuscript pedigrees of the Earle and Deacon families loosely inserted, bookplate of Stoneham to front pastedown with envelope pasted below containing fragments of 'white heather given to me by Queen Mary on her visit, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Milbank, September 1914', contemporary half roan, dampstained and worn, covers near detached and backstrip deficient, folio (36 x25 cm), together with 3 brass cap badges and an anchor badgeQty: (5)

* World War I. An album of military photographs with accompanying short journal, approximately 260 postcards, including approximately 120 photo postcards (and a few postcard-sized photos), mostly depicting scenes in India, including military personnel, topography and buildings, native people, etc., the majority with captions, and some dated 1909-1917, e.g. 'Company's marching off independently for Dismissal', 'A boy's Kitchen Agram Plain, Bangalore', 'A Bhisti or Indian Watercarrier', 'General Training Agram Plain Bangalore March/July 1916', 'Typical Mohammedan Schoolchildren', 'Making supplications to "Snake Stones" (Common practice in South India)', 'Dunmow Contigent', 'Hindu Priests, Bangalore 1916', 'The Bazaar Dagshai', slot mounted on album leaves, generally 3 to a page, several leaves detached, together with a printed announcement of the signing of the Armistice from The Pindi Mail, 12th November 1918, spotted, laid down on album leaf, and 7ff. manuscript journal bound in, written between 4th August 1914 and November 13th 1919, charting the writer's wartime experiences, from enlisting with the 25th Bn (Cyclists) London Regt., to sailing for Bombay on the H.M.T Ceramic, and his billets at various places including Bangalore, Peshawar, Shalabagh Ghat, Rawalpindi, etc., and finally his return to Dunmow and demobilisation, original black morocco-grain boards, with 'Album' within decorative border to upper cover, some wear to extremities, 4toQty: (1)

* Japan & China. A photograph album of Japan and China, early 1920s, comprising approximately 240 gelatin silver prints corner-mounted as multiples on rectos and versos of 47 leaves, the first photograph a panoramic image (7 x 23.5 cm) of the Eho Yuen Summer Palace near Peking, the remaining photographs include some views and scenes with people in Peking, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobe, but mostly of junks, small vessels and many of ships of the Admiral Orient line, mostly 7.5 x 10 cm but some postcard-sizes and larger, uncaptioned but the majority with manuscript alphanumeric reference codes to labels pasted beneath, contemporary limp cloth with crocodile-skin design, heavily rubbed, oblong folio (25 x 32 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe Admiral line operated five of the US Shipping Boards '535-ft.' Liners on the Seattle to Far East route. Admiral Oriental line was acquired by Dollar Line in 1922, and later renamed American Mail Line, becoming a subsidiary of American President Lines from 1938.

India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73-6 41-72 [77]-144 147-246 251-4, lithographic Urdu text within hand-coloured oval cartouches, 74 albumen print portrait photographs (9 x 5 cm) mounted to card leaves with Urdu captions (either in manuscript or on mounted lithographic slips), mounted on stubs throughout, 1 similar portrait (uncaptioned but evidently from the same series) laid in, both parts lacking the title-page and apparently the first leaf of text, one card mount (Moinuddin Mohammed Farrukhsiyar) with caption but lacking photograph, part 1 text-leaves and mounts brittle and browned, fore margins chipped and extensively consolidated with tissue-paper, similar repairs to a few leaves extending into text, a few card mounts detached or detaching from stubs (Babur, Humayun, Jahangir/Akbar, the latter both mounted either side of the same sheet), part 2 with water-damage to pp. 133-44 and 3 intervening plates, stabilised with tissue-paper, the repair just touching one corner of 2 photographs (Nawabs of Juagadh and Balasinor), the third (Maharaja of Travancore) repaired with loss, 1 other photograph (Nawab of Palanpur) with extensive loss and attempted repair, card mounts in part 2 otherwise only with variable and generally minor water-staining to fore margins (lower outer corners sometimes discreetly consolidated with tissue), contemporary red morocco binding with broad roll-tool borders gilt, rebacked with red fabric, folio (29.5 x 19 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of photo-historian Brij Sharma. An apparently near-complete copy of an extremely rare Indian publication. We trace a fragment containing six photographic portraits and their associated biographies only, catalogued as being part of a larger work titled Muraqqa' Jahan Numa ('World-Mirror Album') by Munshi Bulaqi Das, printed at Delhi's Mayur Press circa 1880. The first part contains 25 albumen prints from miniatures of Mughal rulers and their antecedents, from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second part concerns the rulers of the Princely States and associated potentates including MAHARAJA DULEEP SINGH and the sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar. It contains 50 albumen prints (including the loose, uncaptioned image), of which 39 are from life, and consequently provides original likenesses of numerous princes not otherwise well-represented in the photographic record. The quality of the paper and the adverse climate of the Subcontinent appear to have assured the work's rarity in any condition. A full list list of the figures depicted is available on request.

* Russian Punishment. 'Le Bagne en Transbaikalie', c. 1910, a group of 5 gelatin silver print photographs, corner-mounted to rectos of an album sheet with neat ink manuscript captions in French, depicting an executioner with his knout (a three-thonged whip), a man's back showing the effects of whipping with a knout, profile of a male convict, plus head-and-shoulders full face portraits of two further male and female convicts, the man's forearm with tattooed letters, images 12.5 x 9.5 cm and slightly smallerQty: (1)NOTESA rare group of photographs of Russian prisoners and punishments in Transbaikal (or Dauria) in eastern Russia. Knouts were used in Russia for flogging as formal corporal punishment of criminals and political offenders. Emperor Nicholas I abolished the punishment by knout in 1845, and replaced it with the pletei, lashes with three thongs which could end in lead balls. They were later abolished throughout Russia and reserved for the penal settlements, mainly in Siberia. Prisoners transported to Siberia in the late 19th century were sometimes branded on their foreheads with irons with letters identifying them as thief, robber and punished by the knout.

* Karsh (Yousuf, 1908-2002). Portrait of Dr D.A. Spencer FRPS, c. 1950, vintage gelatin silver print, signed in pencil by the photographer to lower margin left, 34 x 27cm, old adhesion marks to verso, loosely contained in contemporary Karsh Studio card folder with manuscript annotationsQty: (1)NOTESDr D. A. Spencer was author of Colour Photography in Practice, published by Pittman, 1948. This photograph, according to the inscription on the folder, was loaned by Pittman for the exhibition 'Hobbies and Reading', one of the National Book League touring exhibitions from the Festival of Britain, 1951.

* Levin (Richard, 1910-2000). A group of 14 photographs taken on set during the BBC Arts Programmes, c. 1960s, including photographs of James Stewart, David Frost, Stefan Grapelli, the Temperance Seven, Lulu, the Duke of Edinburgh, enlarged contact print strips of Duke Ellington, the Duke of Edinburgh and Spike Milligan, some with stamps to versos, the largest 40 x 50 cm, the smallest (Dudley Moore) 10 x 23 cm, together with a collection of approximately 60 photographs relating to Bert Matthews (Pearly King of Hampstead) and family, mostly vintage gelatin silver prints plus a few snapshots including some colour photos, various sizes, together with a copy of the TV script from his appearance on This is Your Life, 1964, 77 pages of typed A4 foolscap of his autobiography 'The Pearly Way' with some manuscript corrections and a slim scrapbook with photos and news cuttingsQty: (approx. 20)

A Victorian embossed leather album containing a selection of paintings including fourteen miniature watercolours recording a sea voyage through the Mediterranean 1869-70; Indian Elephant with howdah, painted on mica; manuscript verses, sketches, cartoons, Chinese and Japanese paintings and prints etc - approximately 35 hand-painted images

A Victorian hand-painted and manuscript Grant of Arms vellum scroll, to Captain Walter Henry Smith, HM Indian Military Forces, 1863 c/w gilt-cased wax seals and painted armorial, in Morocco-bound fitted case with VR cyphers, 57 cm wide

A late 19th /early 20th century silk cap, reputedly the property of W G Grace (1848-1915): with concentric bands of white, burgundy and blue silk , the lined interior with manuscript dates and scores 'WG 7 for 24 19/8/90', 'WG in 26-5-90 22 99N-0' . '10/6/90 8-41 29-T' and one other illegible score, (worn and holed with repairs), together with a blue and yellow silk handkerchief, reputedly the property of W G Grace. (2)

Assorted Motorsport Photographs. Housed in A4 clear pockets held in three red clip folders, a good selection of racing scenes of various periods, pits scenes, Brooklands, many monochrome copies from the Guy Griffiths and Klemantaski collections. Various sizes, most 5 x 8 ins (13 x 18 cms) with manuscript descriptions verso, some cuttings. About 300 images. (3)

Assorted Motorsport Photographs. Housed in A4 clear pockets held in three blue clip folders, a good selection of racing scenes of various periods to include pre-1910, pits scenes, Brooklands, personalities, many monochrome copies from the Guy Griffiths, Goddard and Fox collections. Various sizes, most 5 x 8 ins (13 x 18 cms) with manuscript descriptions verso, some cuttings. About 300 images. (3)