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* Essex - Manuden. Manuscript indenture between William of Steretforde, (Stortford) Prior of the monastery of Thremhale and John Bataille of Manewedene, May 1330, brown ink on parchment with attached Prior's wax sealQTY: (1)NOTE:The Prior grants all lands and tenements that the monastery holds in the parish of Manewedene and Starteforde, messuages, curtilages, gardens, a mill, etc. for fifteen years at an annual rent of £4.10.0. The Prior undertakes to supply stones for the Mill, and the tenant undertakes to make winter, spring and summer sowings in his last year, for the Prior's use, and also to return four sheep, two oxen, a plough team with a plough, a coulter (the cutting blade) and a ploughshare, and a brass pot. for the potagium (a drink tax). The names of witnesses listed were Sir William de Rochford, Thomas de Bellocamp (Beauchamp), Robert of Pynchepol, John le Saussemer, John Neweman of Maneweden and Peter Aunsel.

* George II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1727-1760. Document Signed, 'George R', Kensington, 10 September 1727, manuscript commission on vellum appointing Angus Macleod to be Captain in Lord Molesworth's Regiment of Foot in Ireland, signed by the King upper left and countersigned 'Carteret' by John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763) as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland lower right, some general spotting and light browning not affecting legibility, 1 page, oblong folio (31 x 41 cm)QTY: (1)

* Cricket & Cookery. A manuscript volume titled ‘Cricket Book. 1st Battn. 5th Fusiliers. Mauritius’ to upper cover, c. 1847, mostly written in ink in several legible hands, the initial leaves including juvenile scribbles and drawings including ‘The Charlotte in Mauritius Harbour – December 46’, 4 pages recording a cricket match, the two innings of the 5th Fusiliers vs 35th Regiment, 29 December 1847, giving the names of the batsmen, runs, dismissals and laid out with totals in the form of a modern score card; also noting Government Officers, List of books, followed by approx. 50 pp cookery receipts with the some blank leaves at centre of volume, recipes include for tiffin, bread & cheese-porter, lamb cutlets, hare, to pot beef, oysters scalloped, ginger beer, to make brawn, partridge pie, marmalade, bridal cake, various puddings and cakes etc., including some loose recipes and receipts, including for chilblains, a receipt to dress rice written in pidgin English, ownership inscription of Victoria Hamilton to rear pastedown, some spotting and occasional marginal damp stains and minor fraying, inner hinges cracked, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled with vertical creases to both boards, 4to (216 x 164 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:The opening batsman for the 5th Fusiliers was Captain [Bryan] Milman, who in June 1848 was conspicuous for an act of great bravery in saving the lives of five fellow soldiers by swimming to shore in the dark and raising the alarm. A Creole boatman was killed in the attempt. For a fuller account see the Royal Humane Society, published in The Strand Magazine, volume V, Jan-June 1983, pp. 446-7.

* Dudley (Edmund, c. 1462-1510), English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. Document Signed by Piers Assheton, 18 December 1507, manuscript on laid paper, a receipt from Piers Assheton for borrowing £10 from Edmund Dudley, to be repaid ‘in the feast of Saint Martin [11 November] in the winter next coming after the date thereof’, signed ‘Peter Assheton’ at foot with his papered seal to lower right margin, brief manuscript endorsement to verso, pinhead-size hole underneath final line of main text, 120 x 170 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Dudley was made the President of the King’s Council in 1506 and oversaw the payment of dues and fines for lawbreaking. He also assisted the King in carrying out several unpopular policies. In the process of doing so, he amassed a huge personal fortune and became greatly disliked by the people of England. After the death of Henry VII in 1509, Dudley was imprisoned and convicted of treason. While in the Tower of London, Dudley wrote The Tree of Commonwealth, a work that insisted on the absoluteness of monarchy, in a possible attempt to win over the favour of the new King, Henry VIII. It did not work and Dudley was executed on 17 August 1510. Because Dudley was executed soon after the lending of £10 to Assheton, the debt had to be paid to Henry VIII. Assheton is mentioned in a list of loan repayments (p.1484) in Recognizances for the Repayment of Loans, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 1515-1518, London: J. S. Brewer, 1864. 

* Scrap Album. An Early Victorian Scrap Album, manuscript calligraphic title page 'Anthology or Miscellaneous Selections in Prose and Verse', containing 47 watercolours, pen & ink and pencil drawings of botanical studies, landscapes and topographical views, portraits, butterflies, birds and genre scenes, mostly preceding lines of poetry and verse, a few pages excised, text block a little loose, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary ornate gilt calf, rubbed and worn, 4toQTY: (1)

* Dugdale (William, 1605-1686), English antiquary and herald. Illustrated Autograph Document Signed, ‘Willm Dugdale’, c. 1662, a hand-painted coat of arms for William Sale of Barrow upon Trent, Derbyshire (1591-1663) painted in red, black and other colours on vellum, inscribed in the hand of William Dugdale with identification at head and further details at foot, (9 Augusti A[nn]o D.1662 in the Visitation of Derbyshire at Derby. This coat and [?crest] was seen and allowed by me. Willm Dugdale, Norroy king of Armes’, some age soiling and horizontal creasing, the heaviest affecting three words as noted, two tiny holes to right margin, verso blank, 230 x 157 mm, together with another unrelated hand-painted coat of arms with manuscript details for ‘Nicholas Mosley’ [c. 1527-1612]. Cloth worker. Alderman of the Warde of Aldersgate…’, [1595], but probably c. 1700, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper with folio number ‘29’ upper right, some browning, verso blank, 265 x 192 mm QTY: (2)NOTE:At the Restoration in 1660 Dugdale obtained the office of Norroy King of Arms and in that office undertook heraldic visitations of the counties north of the River Trent.

* Scrap Album. A scrap album, containing manuscript prose and original illustrations, probably by a member of the Strachey family, circa 1889, comprising 36 leaves, mainly written to rectos only, containing 11 watercolours and 15 black and white illustrations, drawn in a humorous style, first page with an acrostic poem spelling Jennie Strachey, including sections of nonsense verse by Edward Lear, all brown ink in the same hand (except one page at the rear dated 2 August 1889), original decorative boards, lacks spine, 4to, together with 8 other albums, comprising 4 small sketchbooks, 1839-1923, and 4 scrapbooks containing various illustrations including chromolithographic scraps, various sizes and conditionQTY: (9)

* The Koh-I-Noor diamond and Siege of Delhi. [Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe], Autograph Document, unsigned, 6 pages from a document (pages 1,2,4,5,9 and 10), recording the way the Koh-I-Noor diamond was looked after while in India and detailing life during the Siege of Delhi, including: ‘half unconsciously he [John Lawrence] thrust it wrapped in numerous folds of rag? into his waistcoat pocket… six weeks afterwards a message came from Lord Dalhousie the G.G. that the Queen had ordered the jewel to be at once transmitted to her… John said quietly ‘’Send for it at once’’ why you’ve got it said Sir Henry. In a moment the fact of his carelessness flashed across him.’; ‘That day a wholesale massacre of European men, women & children was carried on in the City. Not even the [?]static Christians were spared… Their wives & children all shared their fate.'; 'The telegraph doubtless under God saved the country – the last message which flashed from the office reached Lahore the capital of the Punjab in the Northern part of India, where I was then stationed, early on the morning of Tuesday May 12th’, ‘The siege of Lucknow lasted from the 30th May to the 17th of November – a weary 5 months and a half – that of Cawnpore only 20 days…in both cases life was much the same heat intense, smells from putrid carcasses, disease, cholera, small pox, dysentery, flies-mosquitoes-dust absence of all news from home. No letters!’, some overall spotting, 8vo, together with Gough (Viscount Hugh, 1779-1869). Commander in Chief, India, A group of 3 Autograph Letters, Signed, ‘Gough’, 1-5 July 1858, one addressed to Edward P. Hathaway Esq., discussing his whereabouts and thanking Hathaway for his letters, in one he writes his views on India and mentions Sir Henry Lawrence ‘I felt it a privilege to be in constant intercourse with that great and good man’; ‘I am therefore in a position to form a just opinion of the loss the Government of India, and the Indian Army - I may confidently add, - The Nation at large, have sustained - and I feel afterward that my Countryman will not let an institution so philanthropic, and so essential to the best interests of that army…fall into decay,’ 8vo, plus other Autograph Letters from various military figures, comprising: Edward Henry Stanley (5 letters), George Nathaniel Curzon (3 letters), Edward Law (1 letter), Viscount Henry Hardinge (1 letter), Charles Hardinge (2 letters), Major General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (2 letters), Thomas Valpy French (1 letter), and a further 16 pages of letters in various hands, all addressed to Edward P Hathaway, including: Sidney Herbert (1810-1861) and John Marshman, all 8voQTY: (24)NOTE:Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe (1828-1883) attended Addiscombe Military Seminary in Croydon but later moved to the East India Company College after an illness cost him the used of his right eye. In 1848 he joined the Bengal Civil Service and was active during the Seige of Delhi bringing information to Delhi that mutineers were approaching, aided the escape of European inhabitants and then diverted guides into punitive attacks on villages.In 1849, as part of the preparations for sending the Koh-I-Noor diamond to England, Lord Dalhousie tasked Metcalfe with writing a history of the Koh-I-Noor. The manuscript could be from notes taken while Metcalfe was collecting and recording this. His report formed the basis for most histories of the famous diamond.

* Tobago. A small archive of letters dated 1851-1862 sent from Kaye Dowland (1802-1872) and addressed to Bruce Campbell, approximately 120 manuscript letters, some on mourning stationery, others with blind embossed crest, sent from a variety of locations including Welbeck Tobago, Langwith Mansfield, Mia Tuscany, Southampton and others, variety of subjects including reports on the condition of the Caribbean Colonies, health, domestic issues and instruction for payments   QTY: (approx. 120 )NOTE:Kaye Dowland (1802-1872) was the owner of the Adelphi Estate, in the Parish of St. George, Tobago and former Stipendiary Magistrate of the Leeward District. Dowlan's reports provided insight into the period of transition after emancipation. These letters, among other subjects, include records of the living conditions and economic issues of Tobago and surrounding islands:'The cholera is keeping close to us and such is the condition of our colony from misrule that I see nothing but ruin before us. Our population is on the move for Trinidad where Capitol is upgraded and wages more liberally and regularly paid''The heat and humidity just now is very great which is causing much sickness such as fever and ague and diarrhoea, but thank God he has not as yet infected upon us that awful scourge Cholera. In Bridgetown Barbados, the people are said to be dying by hundreds daily. The calamity is most grievous and the scenes too awful to attempt a description''many people here have portions of family in Barbados, the judge amongst the rest and they are in much anxiety, whilst others are in grief for the departed. Our last accounts are very frightful and being so near to us to as have reason to tremble. The doctor here do not consider it contagious, however, we have adopted a quarantine against all ships from Barbados, and all letters from them by packet will be fumigated, we have only a population of 1400 souls, and until vegetables ripen in August, the most of them are half starved for want of food... we have upwards of 50 prisoners crowded int he gaol... cannot get food for them nor money to pay for this, and this governor has tied his own hands behind him. I am inspector(?) and am called upon to report to the Governor in Chief the state of the Gaol which I am now going to do, it is, however, a delicate matter as I fear I must tread on our Lt. Governor's tender toes.' 

* Dutch East Indies. A large presentation album containing 68 photographs, early 20th century, gelatin silver prints, scenes including Indonesian architecture, outdoor views relating to the Dutch East India company, including Tanjung, Priok, Batavia, Weltevreden, Koningsplein, Parapatan, Meester Cornelis, the volcanic crater at Tangkuban Perahu, Borobadur Temple Scenes, a classical Javanese Wayang wong performance group, a group portrait of Minangkabau men and children in West Sumatra, etc., images from 212 x 275 mm to 115 x 156 mm, mostly mounted singly (and some as pairs) to rectos of stiff card leaves, neat ink manuscript captions in Dutch beneath, all edges gilt, contemporary grey-painted pictorial leather boards, oblong folio, 375 x 490 mm overallQTY: (4)NOTE:Photographers include Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, a Dutch photographer based in Padang, West Sumatra, and Kurkdjian Studio.The album belonged to Abraham Cornelis Mees (1864-1950), director of the International Credit Trade Association, Rotterdam. For a time he was based in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia and various other locations under Dutch colonial rule in the East Indies. Two contemporary photographs of Mees are included with the lot, along with an anniversary copy NV International Credit and Trade Association Rotterdam, 75th anniversary commemorative booklet, 1938.

* George IV (1762-1830), King of the United Kingdom 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George R’, St James, 7 April 1829, manuscript on laid paper, granting a free pardon to Thomas Tomlinson, boldly signed at head by the king, papered seal to left margin, (some see-through to second and third pages), countersigned by Robert Peel as Home Secretary at foot, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, endorsed, some dust-soiling to final page, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The text of the document gives details of the crime and ensuing pardon: ‘Whereas Thomas Tomlinson was… tried and convicted of wilfully and maliciously shooting at a person with intent to murder, and had judgement of death recorded against him for the same but afterwards received a pardon on condition of being transported for life … we were graciously pleased to further commute the sentence… to three years imprisonment. We in consideration of some circumstances hereby represented unto us are graciously pleased to extend our further grace and mercy on to him and grant him our free pardon for his said crime…’.The case of the accused, Thomas Tomlinson, appeared in the Morning Chronicle in London, 26 March 1827, p. 4: ‘Thomas Tomlinson, aged 41, and Thomas Stone, aged 57, two gatekeepers to Robert Fletcher Bradshaw Esq., of Holton Hall in this county were indicted for maliciously shooting at William Caton, with attempt to murder him. There were other counts in the indictment, varying the offence.’

WITH THE LINCOLNSHIRE YEOMANRY IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE A MANUSCRIPT BY TOM WINTRINGHAM 1898 -1952. A manuscript by Colonel John Workman Wintringham DSO. A foreword by Colonel J.W. Wintringham, Part 1, The Lincolnshire Yeomanry 1914-1918 'I joined the Yeomanry as a 2nd Lieut. in the autumn of 1913 ....'. Part II The Trip to Jerusalem. Followed by what seems to be a personal recollection of Tom Winteringham with various copied letters at the end. Some 44 pages. This appears to be a manuscript for a book of the same title by J.W. Wintringham published by Lincolnshire Life ltd, Grimsby, 1979. With many first hand accounts of action in the First World War and personal views on the running of the Home Guard in the Second this makes a very interesting document. *CR Cover slightly tatty, generally good condition.

A quantity of C19th and C20th delicate aged books, including Common Prayer, Love Poetry and a tooled leather volume of VISIT OF COLONIAL PREMIERS AND THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT TO PORTSMOUTH, MAY 1907, with detailed plates of ships; and a fabric bound small book of a manuscript, and this is POSSIBLY relating to letters to the British Library about information concerning a manuscript; and a quantity of old black and white portrait photographs; see all images

Order of The Legion Of Honour. a silver Grand Officer's breast badge, facetted double ended five pointed star with ball finials, the centre with portrait of a dexter facing Marianna surrounded by legend 'Republique Francaise 1870, Honneur et patrie', the reverse with a pin and two hooks, applied manuscript label inscribed with maker Arthur Bertrand & Cie, 8.5cm width

A WWII RAF group of four to Flight Officer P F L Nickless, 143686, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal and War Medal, together with a WWII German ID tag section stamped '1023 Stalag Luft Barth- Vogelsang', a small brass Spitfire brooch and several photographs of recipient, also a later manuscript description of Stalag Barth -Vogelsang and F/O Nickless POW No. 1023.

Three RAF manuscript technical notebooks, belonging to '1161253 C Turner' dated an inscribed to end paper 'Horfield barracks, 21st Aug, 1942' each illuminated with technical and circuit diagrams.

Of WWII Interest. Three manuscript notebook diaries of David S Pitman, dating from 25/7/42 to 13/8/44, together with a photograph alum of the recipient 1942-45 covering Durban, Jerusalem, and Aden, also a collection of postcards and related ephemera.

Great Britain 1958-66 group of 4 OHMS official paid income tax envelopes all returned with a variety of stamped and Manuscript Gone Away address unknown annotations. One stating absconded

Canada postal History 1840 EL 1st Dec 1840 posted Halifax Nova Scotia to Clitheroe Lance. Halifax Nova Scotia cancel Dec 3 1840 1/- manuscript

Great Britain 1936 Taunton picture postcard cancelled 14.9.1936 with a Taunton machine cancel on SG 458 1d stamp. Manuscript annotation 1st King Edward VIII on stamp. 1st day of issue

Great Britain 1958 pair of Yorkshire Insurance Co., envelopes with different red 3d meter postage rate. 1) 20.3.1958 Peterborough posted to Newmarket manuscript gone away and stamped return to sender. Sealed with P665 officially sealed by Post Office label, 2 company. 2)As above cancelled 28.8.1958 London

Great Britain 1918 Michel Eu27 Pre-Paid registered Envelope posted to Norwich, cancelled 17.7.18 Registered on 3.1/2d Blue postal rate, SG 357 1d and manuscript 'Fee Paid' 3d. Bank Wax Seal

Bible, Greek: Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum, juxta Exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, London: Roger Daniel, for John Martin and Jacob Allestrye, 1653, 8vo, later polished blue calf, gilt stamped spine with title and date, aeg, title in red and black with engraved printer's device, text in Greek, double column. final page 1056 with manuscript lettering to end; lacking later sections to 1279 and second section of ScholiaOmbersley Court, WorcestershireThe rare first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek, made in the third century BC. The text was edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-1662), who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious opinions. "Roger Daniel's version of the text of the Sixtine edition [was] prepared for the use of the scholars at Westminster School. This appeared in 1653 and was edited by the Socinian John Biddle. Its publication may have owed something to the interest in the Septuagint generated by Codex Alexandrinus and the frustration produced by the failure of Young's attempts to edit it" (S. Mandelbrote, "English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament", p. 87). [Darlow & Moule 4692; Wing B-2178; S. Mandelbrote, "English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament. 1620-1720. The Impact of the Codex Alexandrinus", in: A. Hessayon - N. Keene (eds.), Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England, Aldershot 2006, pp. 74-93.]Later calf binding in good condition with a little rubbing and wear to joints and some scuffs and scratches. Corners bumped, later marbled endpapers, pages toned and a little scattered foxing. Should run to 1279pp but ends at p. 1056. Lacking second Scholia section of 186pp. Not collated.

Tattoo ephemera, early 20th Century, collected by Robert Andrew Scott MacFie to include various contemporary flyers for tattoo artists, a leaflet on The Life of Madame Elia: The Wonderful and most Marvellous Tattooed Lady, manuscript notes; a manuscript letter by Sutherland MacDonald, Tattoo Artist in Jermyn Street, London, signed on letterhead paper, regarding the use of client images in a lecture to be given by MacFie (qty) Robert Andrew Scott MacFie was the financial sponsor and the catalyst that revitalised the development of the Gypsy Lore Society in 1907. MacFie was meticulous in the running of the GLS, storing all incoming correspondence in letterbooks, and keeping a copy of all his replies, using a Watt Copying Machine. He claimed that he had filled at least ten letterbooks, each of a thousand pages. He also catalogued a library of books, press clippings and other ephemera of which the current lot appears to be a part. Many of these documents are now in the University of Liverpool’s Special Collections and Archives.Beneath his meticulous attention to details and apparent conformity, MacFie also had a Bohemian streak, for he had the arms and motto of MacFie of Dreghorn tattooed on his chest, which he frequently displayed for the Gypsies in Bulgaria.MacFie spent time in the bohemian circle of both John Sampson and Augustus John, see: Augustus John and Liverpool’s Gypsy Lore Society

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY a manuscript in Arabic, an opeing double page decorated in gold and colour, the text composed in 18 lines in fine naskh, marginal markers in gold an colour throughout, verse markers in gold, the text within double gold and blue line margins, later binding, folio 23.3 by 13.6 cm., text 16.9 by 8.2 cm., approximately 250 ff.

Three finely painted Mughai manuscript miniatures, 17th-early 18th century, framed by the Messis Picture Gallery, Bondi, New South Wales, Australia.

An interesting WWI manuscript album, containing messages, sketches and related, mostly military, to include convalescent hospital example.

JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) - Jerry Maguire's (Tom Cruise) Framed Pair of Business Cards - Jerry Maguire's (Tom Cruise) framed pair of business cards from Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire. After Sports Management International (SMI) let him go for disseminating a mission manuscript to change the business, Maguire started his own company, the Jerry Maguire Company Sports Management Consultants, for which he had new business cards made.This lot consists of one custom cardstock SMI business card and one from the Jerry Maguire Company, both mounted in a custom black wooden frame labelled with the film's title alongside a colour-printed colour image of the poster. The title exhibits fading colour and the frame exhibits minor scuffing from handling. Dimensions: 38 cm x 30 cm x 1.5 cm (15" x 11.75" x 0.5")Estimate: £800 - 1,600 Ω Bidding for this lot will end on Sunday, November 17th. The auction will begin at 3:00 PM GMT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 14th, Friday, November 15th, or Saturday, November 16th.

Moryson (Fynes) An Itinerary Written ... first in the Latine Tongue ...containing his Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland, first edition, double-page title, first word of title within woodcut entablature, verso of 2nd f. of title with imprimatur surmounted by royal arms by John Beale, historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces, woodcut maps and plans in text, second title trimmed at foot with neat old restoration, lacking initial and final blanks as usual, first 3 ff. with small hole just touching odd letter, one or two marginal ink notes in an early hand (trimmed), 2Q4-2R4 with tiny worming affecting odd letter, 2K2 with tiny hole affecting odd letter, 2V5 & 3E6 with small marginal hole, 3B1 & 3H6 with tear to bottom edge just touching text, scattered faint spotting and staining, bookplate, later diced calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners, [Blackmer 1159; Atabey 841], folio, 1617. *** "First edition of this important work translated from the Latin manuscript by Moryson himself. Moryson was one of the most important of the Elizabethan travellers; he made two long journeys to various countries of Europe between 1591 and 1595, and to the Levant from November, 1595 to July 1597. Much of the material on Europe remained in manuscript until 1903, but the section on the Levant is complete here."(Atabey). 

Benjamin of Tudela. Voyages de Rabbi Benjamin ... en Europe, en Asie & en Afrique, 2 vol. bound as 1, engraved frontispiece, titles in red and black, Amsterdam, de la Compagnie, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, near contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 12mo, 1734.

Dandini (Girolamo) Voyage du Mont Liban, additional engraved title, I4 with small loss to fore-edge affecting text, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, near contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 12mo, Paris, Louis Billaine, 1685.

Bartholdy (Jakob Ludwig Salomon) Voyage en Grèce dait dans les années 1803 et 1804, 2 vol., first French edition, half-titles, 14 engraved plates, of which 10 hand-coloured, 2 folding plates of music, one large folding map, scattered very faint spotting, contemporary boards, lightly sunned spine, titles in manuscript to spines, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 87], 8vo, 1807. *** "The Prussian diplomat Bartholdy was the first important German to travel in Greece after Riedesel. He later became Prussian consul-general in Rome, where he spent the remainder of his life." (Blackmer)

Hughes (Rev. Thomas Smart) Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania, 2 vol., first edition, 12 engraved plates, 2 engraved maps, one double-page plans, 3pp. manuscript notes on the death of Ali Pacha loosely inserted, scattered spotting, bookplate, later marbled boards, title in manuscript to spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1820. *** Provenance: Bookplate of Alexander Mountbatten to front free endpaper verso of volume one.

Andreossy (Antoine François) Constantinople et Le Bosphore de Thrace, 2 vol. inc. Atlas, first edition, half-title to text vol. only, 10 engraved or lithographed plates, this copy bound without map, Atlas lacking letterpress title, title given in manuscript to front free endpaper verso, scattered spotting, text vol. in contemporary crushed morocco backed boards, atlas in contemporary half crushed morocco, both a little rubbed with slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 33], 8vo & oblong folio, Paris, 1828. *** The Blackmer copy includes a map, but notes that this was not included in the Atlas contents so may well have been intended for inclusion in the text volume. 

SCRAP ALBUMS: group of 3 19thc albums containing prints, manuscript and watercolours, some contents excised, 4to. (3)

MANUSCRIPT MAP: 'Plan of Property in the Parishes of Botley and Bishops-Waltham belonging to the Rev'd Dr Jenkyns': circa 1880, approx 153 x 95cm, some tears and damp soiling, laid onto canvas and rolled. (1)

DOCUMENTS: mixed collection of approx 200 printed and manuscript documents, largely 19th century, some earlier, paper and parchment, mostly English with a few continental, various sizes and subjects, generally in good condition, many with accompanying research notes. (Box)

MANUSCRIPT: 19TH CENTURY GUNNERY NOTES: neatly written manuscript dated 1867, approx 245pp relating to naval gunnery practice, including double-page watercolour diagram of naval iron clad bearing confederate flag and receiving shells from a union coastal battery, chapters on manufacture of powders, rockets, mortar platforms, etc., contained in black half morocco commonplace book of period, light external wear, square 8vo. (1)

VELLUM DOCUMENTS: a large collection of approx 100 manuscript documents on vellum, mostly 17th-19thc, various sizes, some browning and dust soiling, to include probate of Mr Isaac Bate, watchmaker, 1885. (Box)

FOLIO SOCIETY: CARROLL (Lewis): 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & 'Through the Looking-Glass': Folio Society, 1961-2: original pink cloth gilt, slipcases, 8vo: together with Folio Society edition of The Nonsense Books: plus British Library reprint of the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground, 2008, No. 3194/3750 copies bound in full Nigerian goatskin, with accompanying booklet in blue solander box. (5)

MATHEMATICS: HILL (John): 'Arithmetic, both in the theory and practice, made plain and easy in all the common and useful rules, both in whole numbers and fractions vulgar and decimal...': London, printed by T W for D Midwinter, 1739: 6th Edition: wormtracks through upper margin, later half-calf gilt over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered and ruled direct, 8vo in fours: together with a manuscript arithmetic workbook by one Thomas Hunt dated 1802. (2)

WILLIAM WOODCOCK, FARMER: manuscript account book, c.1848-72: details noted include expenses at Lutterworth Market 1s 9d: 2 year old Welsh colt of Mr Ladkin £12, the leaves sporadically filled, later recording some recipes and treatments for animals, ruled vellum covers of period, 8vo. (1)

MISCELLANEOUS, 19TH CENTURY:  a quantity in box, to include chromolithographic music covers: scrap and manuscript albums, several attractive blank commonplace books, books, periodicals, etc. (Box)

MISCELLANEOUS EPHEMERA: small quantity in tray, to include a few 18th-early 19thc manuscript documents: small group of CDV: photographs, postcards and sundry. (Tray)

LIBER AMICORUM: small format mid-19thc continental scrapbook, including 2 fine examples of pin-prick work, chromolithographic scraps and some manuscript etc: together with 4 other liber amicorum of similar type and period. (5)

MANUSCRIPT: City of London Clerk of Works Minute Book, 1762-63. With list of the commissioners followed by minutes of meetings etc, ownership signature of Mr Townshend, prob. Thomas Townshend, one of the commissioners: contemporary marbled paper wrappers, sm.8vo: together with an unrelated book of accounts for one Henry Chetwynd, circa 1811, vellum bound, 8vo. (2)

SCRAP ALBUM: mid-19thc album, embossed burgundy card covers, spine gilt, rubbed and scuffed, 4to, contains misc. printed and manuscript material, drawings, decoupage and sundry: together with a second album, later 19thc, largely pasted-in greetings and botanical engravings, misc. fashion plates loosely inserted: together with a carton of mixed other books and ephemera. (Sm.Box)

GALLIMAUFREY: a small box containing misc. printed and manuscript ephemera, pamphlets 18thc and later, etc. (Box)

SCOTTISH TRIALS: manuscript accounts of various trials, c.86pp filled: 'Anne Sommervielle was indicted for child-murder 4th June 1821': in Inverness a certain 'Ross was indicted for the crime of wilful fire-raising' whilst 'James Bartholomew & others were indicted for culpable & furious driving of a cart along the king's highway'. In Stirling, autumn 1825, Janet Ramage 'was indicted for attempt to murder by administering poison', whilst on June 21st 1819 George Campbell faced 'a charge of violating or attempting to violate the sepulchres of the dead & the attempting to raise & carry away dead bodies': contained in half-morocco commonplace book of period, rubbed with spine deficient, 8vo. (1)

SCRAP ALBUM: Margaret Jordan: album amicorum of watercolours, prints and poetry, 1829 and later: containing 20 watercolours, 5 pencil drawings, 10 pith pictures, manuscript poetry and printed matter, contemporary black calf gilt, aeg, 4to. (1)

MANUSCRIPT FORTIFICATION PLANS: a collection of 9 neatly executed ink and watercolour plans of military fortifications and related by one Captain William Terry, Royal Regiment of Horse Guards circa 1910, largest approx 125 x 77cm: with another plan unrelated, all rolled. (10)

LIBRARY CATALOGUE: manuscript catalogue of books, The Manor House, Sandford Orcas, 19th century, some later editions loosely inserted: contemporary half-calf with gilt label to front board, recased preserving backstrip, 4to. (1)

J HANFORD & SON, AUCTIONEERS, CHULMLEIGH DEVON: 38 manuscript catalogues of auction sales, account books and ephemera, covering period 1877-1900: a comprehensive record of a provincial firm of auctioneers presiding over sales of wood, cattle, household goods and books. October 5th 1893 'Particulars of Sale of Wood at Eggesford and Chawleigh for the Earl of Portsmouth': June 29th, 1893: 'Particulars of Sale of Books & Furniture at The Mitre, Withering': 128 lots of books, including 'Views of America' and 'Ceylon by Knox', to include a quantity of tickets for the Chumleigh Poultry, Pigeon, Cage Bird and Rabbit Show. (Sm.Box)

PAKISTAN: small format snapshot album, British military in Kohat, Quetta, etc., circa 1920, approx 94 images with manuscript captions to borders, green cloth album with some damp marking, 8vo: with 6 other mixed photograph albums, a bundle of Ordnance Survey maps plus a file box of mixed late 19th-early 20thc photographs. (One shelf)

FLOUNDER FISHING: a thick alphabetised file of typescript and manuscript correspondence, largely 1950s-60s period, relating to sea angling, and more particularly the subject of baited-spoon fishing for flounders: together with a quantity of issues of 'The Fishing Gazette', 1920s, plus misc. other circulars and publications. (Box) See also Lots: 262 & 273.

SHIPPAM'S OF CHICHESTER: Visitors Book, with manuscript entries covering period 1913-24: columnised entries in ink and some in pencil, red morocco gilt covers, upper joint cracked, oblong 8vo: together with ms. Minute Book, covering period 1913-25: circa 400 pages filled in neat clerical hand, comprising minutes of directors and shareholders meetings: folio-size ledger of red calf, upper board gilt lettered, external wear and scuffing but generally in good condition. (2)

LOGBOOK, SOLENT & ISLE OF WIGHT: a lively manuscript logbook covering period 1920s-1950s, chiefly detailing fishing exploits and boat maintenance of 6 vessels owned during the period, sailing exploits round the Solent and Isle of Wight, with hand drawn map and tipped-in photographic illustrations across some 100pp filled, old cloth bound ledger with manuscript labels, folio. (1)

A Qur'an bifolio, North Africa or Near East, 10th/11th century, Text: Surah Ta-Ha (XX), from middle v.24 to v.38 (f.1); v. 72 to middle v.76 (f.2)Arabic manuscript on parchment, 8 lines to the page written in Kufic in dark brown ink, vowels in red, verse marked with gold pointersEach leaf: 17 x 11.5cmThe bifolio: 34.3 x 11.5cm      Condition Report: The first leaf with considerable losses on the upper left corner, overall several stains and losses, some mould, a tape running on the upper section, traces of pencil marks and stains. Condition Report Disclaimer

Three calligraphic album pages with poetry, India and Persia, 17th century and later, Persian manuscript, ink, watercolour and gold on paper; including a quatrain from Sadi's Golestan signed 'Ali, one quatrain signed Anwar Sayyed Yusef and another unrecorded dated 1068 (?) AH, The largest page: 44.5 x 30.3cm        Condition Report: one the album page backed on newspaper, with several losses to the painting and the margins, smudges and losses to the calligraphy and minor stains; the other two leaves with some smudges and minor losses to the text areas and some creases.Condition Report Disclaimer

A Persian manuscript, ink, opaque pigments and gold on paper, including a page from Jami's Yusuf wa Zuleykha, an album page depicting a meeting near a tree and a manuscript page, possibly from Nizami's Khamsa, The largest (with frame): 43.5 x 30.5cm Condition Report: Various stains and smudges, some rubbing and creases and occasional repainting; the page from Jami's Yusuf wa Zuleykha is likely associated, the painting not relating to the text; the painting of Nizami's manuscript is likely a later addition; it has not been possible to inspect the reverse.  Condition Report Disclaimer