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Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG (263)) 1902-10 DLR 5s, DIE PROOF in black on white glazed card, with manuscript initials and 25/11/01, hinge remains on reverse, fine. SCARCE. Cat £4250 (image available) [US1]

* [Peninsular War]. Group of autograph letters signed, 1810-12, comprising: 1. James Bathurst (1782-1850) as aide-de-camp to Wellington to [?]P. Kennedy, Alenquer, 17 November 1810, 'Sir, I am directed by Lord Wellington to desire that the number of blankets mentioned in the enclosed letter from Marshal Beresford may be given over for the Portuguese', 1 p., 4to, 2. Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1775-1842) as minister at Lisbon to John McDonnell (a functionary), Benfica, 28 August 1812, concerning a claim of 372 dollars made by 'Mr P. O'Connor of Madrid', possibly one of Stuart's informants, 1 p., folio, 3. Faustine Ferreira Silva to the secretary of Charles Stuart, 3 August 1812, in French, requesting the return of original certificates of good conduct in English service, 2 pp., folio, 4. A noblewoman (the 'Contesse de [?]Stendel') to Charles Stuart, Lisbon, 11 August 1812, in French, a plea to countermand the impressment or exile of her husband as ordered by Portuguese secretary for war Miguel de Forjaz ('mon mari est en danger d'être embarqué si M. Forjaz ne donne pas une ordre pour le détenir en prison ...'), 1 p., folio, 5. To Charles Stuart from his cousin (unidentified), HMS Pomone, Newfoundland, 9 October 1812, informing Stuart of his (the author's) promotion to lieutenant and transfer to HMS Antelope ('Nothing could be more welcome ... it is one of the most unpleasant of ships. Perhaps you may have heard of Captain Fane'), 3 pp., remains of seal, seal tear, one short split to fold, 4to, and 2 others, together with a Peninsular War manuscript memorandum with headings 'Cattle', 'Seed corn', 'Orphans', 'Medicine and Clothing', 'Prices at Guarda, 29 February 1812', etc., 12 pp., loose sheets or bifolia in wrapper titled 'Committee of Relief', folioQty: (8)NOTESSir Charles Stuart undertook intelligence gathering with the provincial juntas in French-occupied Spain (1808-10) and afterwards 'made himself indispensable to Wellington' as minister at Lisbon (1810-14) and member of the Portuguese regency council (ODNB). He later helped negotiate the treaty by which Brazil became independent from Portugal.

Stanley (Henry M.). The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: a Story of Work and Exploration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885, 42 wood-engraved plates (including volume I frontispiece), halftone frontispiece to volume II, 1 plan in text (listed as a plate), 5 folding maps, including 2 contained in rear pockets (1 with slight wear where folds cross), numerous black & white letterpress illustrations, publisher's catalogue at end of volume II, each with armorial bookplate of Sir T. F. Buxton, volume I front free endpaper verso with additional bookplate of the same plus ink manuscript signature 'Sir T. F. Buxton 1885', original pictorial cloth gilt, crudely rebacked with original (defective) spines relaid, some marks or stains, 8vo, together with: Allen (Captain William & Thomson, T. R. H.) , A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1848, engraved frontispiece to each, two folding maps (each with a short closed tear), 14 engraved plates, including one folding, 6 dampstained, black & white letterpress illustrations, some light spotting, each with armorial bookplate of Sir Edward N. Buxton, Bart., that to volume I with previous tears (caused when transferred to new endpapers), that to volume II defective, modern blue-black morocco, gilt-lettered spines, 8vo, and a copy of The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido ..., by Henry Keppel, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1846, in modern clothQty: (6)NOTESProvenance: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 3rd Baronet of Belfield (1837-1915) was the grandson of his namesake, the 1st Baronet (1786-1845) who had founded the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa in 1839. Through the Society, Buxton had promoted the Niger expedition of 1841. Sir Edward North Buxton, 2nd Baronet (1812-1858) was his son.

Walpoole (George Augustus). The New British Traveller; or, a Complete Modern Universal Display of Great-Britain and Ireland: being a new, complete, accurate, and extensive tour, London: Alex. Hogg, 1784, engraved frontispiece, 48 engraved maps on 23 sheets (including 2 folding) and 85 engraved plates (many with two views), blank leaf after title with early ink manuscript index on verso (continued on loosely inserted sheet), subscribers list at rear, folding maps creased with some closed tears, light scattered spotting and some scarce marks, pp.203-227 with worming (and single wormhole continuing to p.291) at head of gutter, scarce early ink annotations, 1 plate partly detached (with associated closed tear to margin), 19th century half calf, worn, boards (and endpapers) detached, spine deficient, folioQty: (1)NOTESSold as a collection of maps/plates, not subject to return.

Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds (Land & Water Birds), 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick, 1797-1804, half-title to volume 1 and bound with A Supplement to the History of British Birds, Parts I & II (Land & Water Birds), [2nd edition], Newcastle, 1821 [1822], numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, some scattered light spotting, armorial bookplate of James Richard Wigram to upper pastedowns and his signature to upper blank margins of general titles to each volume, all edges gilt, 19th century calf by Francis Bedford, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, upper joint of volume 1 & lower joint of volume 2 slightly cracked, 8voQty: (2)NOTESLand Birds - Roscoe 14b, price altered in manuscript from 13s to 18s. Water Birds - Roscoe 17b, variant A with vignettes at pp. 136, 269 & 359 in first state. Supplement to Land Birds - Roscoe 29b, includes green-headed bunting. Supplement to Water Birds - Roscoe 30b, includes young kittiwake.

* Indian snakes. Six watercolour studies of Indian snakes, circa 1850, watercolour on wove, including studies of spectacle snake, bull-headed snake, mourning snake, Peruvian snake, & spiral snake ('hydrus spiralis'), page numbers in manuscript to upper right corner, and caption & text written to verso of each, some light toning, leaf size 220 x 185 mm, together with a single issue of Nature, issue no. 620, vol. 24, Thurs. Sep 15, 1881Qty: (7)

Album. A Victorian album belonging to J. Coubrough, 1855, approximately 70 leaves, filled with original drawings, engravings, photographs, etc., including: 12 watercolours and 14 pen & ink drawings of shells, fruit, flowers, animals, costumes, flags, topographical scenes, etc., a number signed or initialled by the owner of the album and dated, e.g. a pencil drawing of soldiers and the wounded titled "War in Kaffirland"; an albumen print of the Louvre by Édouard Baldus, with signature stamp in black ink to lower right below image, and manuscript inscription to lower blank margin 'Paris '57. J.C.'; 14 other photographs, of Rome, Florence, Pompei, and Naples; 4 hand-coloured aquatints by Ernst Arnold, Dresden titled 'Ansicht der Elbe Brücke zu Dresden', 'Ansicht der Newmarkets zu Dresden mit der Frauenkirche', ' Vue de l'interieur du Zwinger à Dresde', 'Ansicht der katholischen Kirche zu Dresden'; and 110 embossed crests and monograms on 2 pages, album leaf size 25.7 x 33.4cm (10.25 x 13ins), front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Blanefield, front free endpaper inscribed 'J. Couborough A Christmas Present from Mrs. Gerson December 1855', original blind-stamped brown cloth, with 'Album' in gilt on front cover, spine ends frayed, corners showing, some marks, oblong folioQty: (1)NOTESThe Coubroughs were a Scottish family, one branch of which resided at Blanefield House, Strathblane, Stirlingshire. Blanefield Printworks in Strathblane was owned by an Anthony Park Coubrough for most of the second half of the 19th century, and the family played an active role in the life of the parish.

* Anne (1665-1714, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland). Two exemplifications of common recovery, 1710, concerning transactions in Lymington and perhaps Pollington (Yorkshire), each document a Latin manuscript in brown ink on single vellum membrane, written in a fine chancery hand, ruled in red ink, with engraved portrait of Anne top left and elaborate engraved headpiece incorporating royal arms, allegorical motifs and scrolling acanthus leaves, each retaining great seal and metal skippet, Lymington seal with loss to head but largely intact, the other document slightly soiled and the seal in fragments, approximate dimensions 57 x 74 cm and 47 x 87 cm, together with two other exemplifcations of common recovery (Charles II, with engraved headpiece, retaining fragment of great seal only and lacking skippet, and George III, 1787/8, concerning land in Boskenna, Cornwall, with engraved portrait and border, retaining entire seal but lacking skippet, the seal worn, with one crack, vellum tag reinforced with self-adhesive tape verso)Qty: (4)

Heraldry. Genealogical and Heraldic Notes from County Histories etc., by Jas. Eddes, circa 1900, volume containing 57 mounted reading room book request slips, each with detailed manuscript notes relating to genealogy & heraldic devices of various families, title in pencil at front and index at rear, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, bookplates of Frederick A. Heygate Lambert, Garratts Hall Library, and Rev. Dr. G.B. Westwood to front endpaper, contemporary half vellum (by F.A. Crisp) with gilt title to spine 'Armory (Thorpe. Dugdale. Blomefield &c)', some dust-soiling, 4to, together with: Albums - crests & armorials , Two albums containing a selection of mounted crests, armorials and monograms etc. late 19th century, (possibly excised from letterheaded paper and envelopes), one volume with all edges gilt, and in contemporary gilt decorated morocco, rubbed, 4to and the other in late 19th century cloth, small 4toQty: (3)

* The South Sea Bubble and the Trial of the Earl of Macclesfield. Summary of abstracts and accounts of the Masters and Usher of the court of Chancery in respect of money in the form of securities, annuities, bonds, etc. for various suitors, 1724, a clerical manuscript of 52 pages, (pp. 45-46 omitted from pagination but all bifolia intact with conjugate leaves), pp. 1-27 being a written summary address to 'Right Honoble the Lords of the Committee of His Majestys' most Honorable Privy Council' and with the names of 6 signatories (Jeff: Gilbert, Alex: Denton, Rob: Raymond, Nath: Gould, W: Thompson and John Hanger), dated 16 December 1724, followed by various tables, 'No. 1. A General Abstract of the Accompts delivered in by the Masters in Chancery and Usher of Securitys and Money remaining in their hands', 'No. 2. A Particular of the Several Species of Securitys the totals whereof are mentioned in the foregoing Abstract no. 1', 'No. 2. The Totals of the Several Species of securitys contained in the foregoing Particulars No. 2', 'No. 3. Particulars delivered in by the Masters and Usher to answer the ballance of cash in their respective hands', etc., the final leaf of text summary in the words of William Kynaston, one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, noting he 'maketh oath that he hath delivered a true and full account of all the causes in which he hath received money and securitys belonging to those causes to the best of his knowledge and belief... ', with names of signatories William Kynaston and Robert Halford at end, dated 11 December 1724, some spotting, browning and dust-soiling throughout, some corner curling, original marbled wrappers, stitched as issued, wrappers worn, split along spine and covers detached, folio (37 x 24 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAn extraordinary document, no doubt one of the copies prepared for the trial and impeachment of the lord chancellor, the Earl of Macclesfield, this details the eye-watering sums of money that were being invested through the masters and usher of the Court of Chancery, with frequent mention of South Sea stock, annuities and bonds. The South Sea Company was a British joint stock company founded in 1711 to reduce the cost of the national debt. The company's dubious business practices resulted in a financial bubble and market collapse in 1720, though the company continued to manage part of the British national debt until 1853 when it was disestablished. The South Sea Bubble has since become synonymous with the world's first great financial scandal. Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, 1667-1732, was a lawyer and English Whig politician. Made a Privy Counsellor in 1710, he was Lord Chief Justice from 1710 to 1718 and Lord Chancellor from 1718 to 1725. In 1725 he was impeached for taking bribes and tried in the House of Lords. He was convicted by a unanimous vote for taking bribes. He was removed from the Privy Council, required to forfeit £100,000, fined an additional £30,000 and placed in the Tower of London until these sums were paid. Ruined financially, he retired to his home, Shirburn Castle, where he spent the rest of his life, never again holding public office. His magnificent library was dispersed and offered for sale by Sotheby's in twelve parts between 2004 and 2008. 'For some time there had been disturbing rumours that the masters in chancery had been misusing suitors' money in their custody, a practice which Macclesfield himself was believed to have encouraged. In November 1724, seemingly in response to what had developed into a public outcry, Walpole instigated an inquiry by committee of the privy council and by mid-December had produced a report. Its exposure of considerable financial abuse in several of the masters' offices implicated Macclesfield deeply and unequivocally. Walpole was now only too willing to assuage the rising tide of public indignation by discarding Macclesfield, and there was emphasis upon the ministry's wish to avoid being seen to harbour or ‘screen’ a corrupt colleague. It was in any case clear on less partisan grounds that Macclesfield could not remain as lord chancellor in the light of such grave accusations. He himself quickly acknowledged this, and on 4 January 1725 he surrendered his seals of office. But amid pressing demands for the restitution of missing funds, estimated at £60,000, the ministry's opponents ensured that he did not escape parliamentary trial. The ministry was ready to assist in this process, anxious that further investigations be kept within acceptable limits. A petition to the Commons on 23 January complaining of the disappearance of large sums placed in chancery belonging to the estate of one of the suitors, the dowager duchess of Montagu, commenced the process that led to his impeachment' ( ODNB ). 'The trial commenced on 6 May 1725, and lasted thirteen days. It took place in the House of Lords, and was presided over by Lord-chief-justice King. The articles of impeachment, which were twenty-one in number, charged Macclesfield with selling masterships in chancery; with receiving bribes for agreeing to the sale and transfer of offices; with admitting to the office of master several persons ‘who were of small substance and ability, very unfit to be trusted with the great sums of money and other effects of the suitors;’ with suffering the fraudulent practice of masters paying for their places out of the money of the suitors; with endeavouring to conceal the delinquencies of one Fleetwood Dormer, an absconding master; with encouraging the masters to traffic with the money of the suitors; with making use of it himself ‘for his own private service and advantage;’ with persuading the masters ‘to make false representations of their circumstances’ at the inquiry; and with assuming ‘an unjust and unlimited power of dispensing with, suspending, and controlling the statutes of this realm'' ( DNB , vol. 43, p. 280). Interestingly, Dormer's name appears in the manuscript for two of the final tables in the manuscript which are titled: 'Money received by Henry Edwards Esq. towards answering the demands upon Mr. Dormer's office since his admittance which was on the 18th May 1721' and 'An accompt of what money has been paid to the suitors of the court that was due from Mr. Dormer on his separate account and the names of the several causes in which the same has been paid'. In each case the total sums involved were around £23,000.

* [Suffolk]. Group of medieval deeds on vellum, 14th-15th century, comprising: 1. Gift, dated Freston, twenty-fourth year of the reign of Edward III, i.e. 1350/1 , parties including William Adgor and John Softeman of Freston, lacking seal, 11.5 x 24 cm, 2. Lease, dated Stoke, forty-fifth year of the reign of Edward III, i.e. 1371/2, wavy top edge, remains of seal, 26 x 7.5 cm, 3. Quitclaim by Thomas Polaye of Stoke, dated Thornham Magna, seventh year of the reign of Henry IV, i.e. 1405/6, remains of seal, 8.5 x 29.5 cm, 4. Feoffment, dated Stoke, September, twelfth year of the reign of Henry VI i.e. 1433/4, parties including Robert ?Appeltweyth of Stoke juxta Eye and Robert ?Corald of Thornham Magna, witnesses including Simon Dale, John Gronger, and Henry ?Appeltweyth, 2 seals, 11.5 x 34.5 cm, 5. Feoffment, dated Thweyt [Thwaite], third year of the reign of Edward IV, i.e. 1463/4, parties including William Hastings, Simon Poley, and George Wysman, attached addendum, 7 seals (all but one intact), 28 x 17 cm, 6. Feoffment, dated Thornham, fifteenth year of Edward IV i.e. 1475/6, parties including John Gronger of Wykham [Wickham] and Simon Paley, remains of seal, 19th-century manuscript note stitched to margin, 17 x 28 cmQty: (6)NOTESFor William Adgor and John Softeman (item 1) see Suffolk in 1327. Being a Subsidy Return. Suffolk Green Books No. IX. Vol II (1906), p. 1.

* [Abolitionists]. Group of autograph manuscripts, early 19th century, comprising: 1. Opie (Amelia, 1769-1853). 'Song, & Chorus for the Bazaar for the Benefit of the Hull Infirmary', c.1800, autograph manuscript in brown ink on single sheet of pale blue wove paper (25 x 20 cm), written on both sides with different drafts of the same piece, each with corrections and deletions, recto with title 'Appeal to the public' and verso with title as above, recto annotated 'By Mrs Opie' in margin by a contemporary hand, the leaf tipped to a stub, 2. Roscoe (William, 1753-1831). 'Go suffering habitant of earth', 1818, autograph manuscript in brown ink on single sheet of wove paper (22.8 x 18.6 cm), annotated at head 'Hymn by Wm Roscoe, Esq. in his own hand-writing. Given to H. Taylor, 1818' in a contemporary hand, mounted on album leaf, 3. Smith (Sir James Edward, 1759-1829). 'Epitaph on Mrs Wm. Taylor', c.1811, autograph manuscript in brown ink on single sheet of wove paper (23 x 18.5 cm), annotated at foot 'composition & writing by Sir J. E. Smith' in a contemporary hand, tipped to album leaf, 4. Raffles (Thomas, 1788-1863). 'Emmaus', 1842, a hymn, auotgraph manuscript in black ink on single bifolium of wove paper with engraved vignette of Great George Street Congregational Church, written on 3 sides, signed by Raffles and annotated by him 'Written in 1814, copied ... 1842', 25.5 x 19.8 cm), and 1 other item ('The Progress of the Arts in Britain. Inscribed to the President of the Royal Academy, 1779, manuscript poem, title-leaf + 8 pp., 4to)Qty: (5)NOTESOpie, novelist and poet, Roscoe, historian and arts patron, and Smith, botanist and founding member of the Linnean Society, were all leading Norwich abolitionists, whereas Congregationalist minister Raffles was prominent in Liverpool's abolition movement. Smith's 'Epitaph on Mrs Wm. Taylor', concerning the mother of polymath William Taylor of Norwich (1765-1836), was published in Robberds, A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich (1843), volume 2, p. 391. The song by Opie appears to be unpublished.

* Hastings (Warren, 1732-1818). Document signed, Fort William [India], 30 November 1772, being a manuscript bill for £164 or rupees equivalent to Dr Tyso[e] Saul Hancock, made out to the East India Company, signed by Warren Hastings, R[ober]t Barker, W. Aldersey, Thomas Lane and James Harris, some browning and old damp staining, 23.5 x 37.5 cm, together with a letter signed by Warren Hastings as executor of Tysoe Saul Hancock, Calcutta, 23 April 1778, written in a secretarial hand, marked 'Duplicate' and addressed to Mr Austen [possibly William Austen, Hancock's father-in-law], noting that 'I observe that you have reimbursed yourself the whole of your demand upon the Estate, but as the Bond Creditors in India have an equal right with those in England, they would justly complain of any preference given to you. I must therefore request your compliance with my letter of the 20th March 1777 in which you are directed to pay the several bond creditors in England in equal proportions to the amount of twelve sixteenths of the principal of their bonds... ', 2 pp. with integral blank, some browning, dust-soiling and chipping to edges, 4toQty: (2)NOTESHastings was appointed to be Governor of Calcutta in 1771 and by the time of this second document was de facto Governor-General of India. Hastings was later famously impeached in 1785 after a series of attacks led by Edmund Burke.

* Kruger (Paul, 1825-1904, President of the Transvaal, 1883-1900). Document signed, Pretoria, 30 January 1894, a pre-printed receipt completed in manuscript, for 'tien shillings', signed by Kruger as President of the Independent South African Republic, two embossed blind stamps, a little browning and horizontal fold, one page, 13 x 21.5 cm, tipped on to an old album sheet, together with; Jameson (Leander Starr, 1853-1917) , autograph letter signed, 'L.S. Jameson', 2 Down Street, Piccadilly, no date, late 19th century, to (?)Smuts, saying that he is leaving in the morning for Wiesbaden and so won't have time to see him, asking whether he has seen Grey, Jones, Hawksley &c., ending with talk about clothes and saying that 'a rifle for game shooting is about the only extra necessary', 2 pages on the first and fourth page of a bifolium, 8vo, plus autographs of Willem Eduard Bok (1846-1904) and Willem Johannes Leyds (1859-1940), both items in Afrikaans, possibly both from the same document, August 1886, and signed as secretary of state and state attorney of the Independent Republic of South Africa respectivelyQty: (4)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues..., London: printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, 1697, head of general title with early ownership signature of Eliz. Dearsley and with manuscript genealogical entries to verso, leaves Z2-Z11 in Old Testament bound upside down, bound with at front, The Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, 1698, similar early ownership signature at head of title with upper right corner cut off with consequent text & signature loss, lower margin with signature J.[?] Kolthoff 1726 , bound with at rear, The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: printed for the Company of Stationers, 1698, margins close trimmed throughout volume with close trimming to text and some slight cropping, early 18th century half sheep, title label 'Engelisk Bibel' to spine, thick 12mo, together with: Simson (Robert) , Euclidis Elementorum libri priores sex, item undecimus et duodecimus..., Glasgow: Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1756, final leaf of Preface and A1 provided in photocopy facsimile loosely inserted, diagrams to text, occasional browning and spotting, edges untrimmed, modern half morocco, maroon title label to spine, 4to, and three other miscellaneous antiquarian volumesQty: (5)NOTESHoly Bible 1697 - Herbert 847, which refers to the copy held at the British Library has only the Old Testament present, ending on Ff4a.

Bodin (Jean). Les Six Livres de la Republique de I. Bodin Angeuin, a? Monseigneur du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, conseiller du roy en son conseil prive?, [Geneva: Claude Juge], 1577, early manuscript to title, some early marginalia and underscoring, leaf q6 torn to lower outer corner with loss of text, occasional dampstaining and few marks, contemporary limp vellum, loosely attached, some wear to joints, dust-soiled and few marks, without ties, 8voQty: (1)NOTESAdams B2233.

Darton and Co. (publisher). Household Stories, Translated from the German [of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and others], London, [1850], Darton's Holiday Library series, engraved frontispiece and additional title (toned and spotted), blank reverse to frontispiece with ink manuscript inscription, advertisement endpapers printed in blue, front free endpaper verso with calligraphic ink manuscript inscription dated 1861, front hinge cracked (previously repaired), original embossed red cloth gilt, somewhat rubbed and stained, spine ends frayed, rear cover with newspaper remnant adhered, small 8voQty: (1)NOTESDarton H722. Scarce: not in Gumuchian or Osborne.

Edmondson (Joseph). A Complete Body of Heraldry, 2 volumes, London: printed for the author by T. Spilsbury, 1780, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 24 engraved plates, some early marginalia to text and plate margins, one or two repaired closed tears, some toning and spotting, together with a third volume with 20th century manuscript titles within printed border 'Heraldry, Arms of Nations, Kings Boroughs, Cities, Colleges and Bishoprics, Insignia of Knighthood, Seals. &c' and Heraldry by Oswald Baron F.S.A. from the Encyclopaedia Britannica', comprising a selection of mounted armorials (mostly printed illustration cuttings, cigarette cards, and few bookplates etc.), armorial bookplate of the Reverend Dr. G.B. Westwood to front free endpapers, early 20th century maroon half morocco, gilt decorated spines, joints rubbed, folio, together with: Woodward (John) , A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1894, title in red & black with red ink stamp to lower margin, numerous chromolithograph plates, armorial bookplates of Jacob Murray Price and Rev. Dr. G.B. Westwood to front endpaper, top edge gilt, contemporary maroon half morocco, 8vo, ibid. , A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign with English and French Glossaries, 2 volumes, new & enlarged edition, Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1896, numerous chromolithograph plates, armorial bookplate of Rev. Dr. G.B. Westwood to front free endpaper, top edge gilt, contemporary maroon half morocco, volume 1 rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo (limited edition of 325 copies), and two others, The Rise of Great Families, other Essays, and Stories, by Sir Bernard Burke, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873, and A general and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, by John Burke, 5th edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1837 (title torn at head with loss)Qty: (8)

[Payne, William]. Maxims for Playing the Game of Whist; with all Necessary Calculations, and Laws of the Game, London: sold by T. Payne, 1773, [4],67,[1]pp., ink manuscript number at head and light vertical marks to title, bound with: Miscellany , A Micellany [sic], consisting of the following particulars, viz. I. Duke of Buckingham's Epitaph translated into English, ... IV. The Characters of the Duke of Marlborough's Four Daughters, [London?]: printed in the year 1753, 28pp., occasional annotations, bound with, [Harrison, Thomas] , Belteshazzar; or, The Heroic Jew: a Dramatic Poem, London: Theodore Sanders, 1727, engraved frontispiece, bound with four other similar works (one heavily cropped and another with misbound leaves), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, joints cracked, 12mo, together with: Aesop , Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections. By Sir Roger L'Estrange Kt., 8th edition corrected, London: A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch, G. Strahan, R. Gosling, et al., 1738, engraved portrait frontispiece (frayed to edges & lined to verso), light spotting, modern calf (with contemporary calf covered boards supplied), 8vo, Ovid , Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, avec des explications a la fin de chaque Fable, nouvelle traduction, 3 volumes, Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1693, additional engraved titles to each, engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, slight wear to extremities, 12mo, Dryden (John) , The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, 5th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1713, engraved frontispiece and plates, contemporary calf, upper board near detached, 24mo in 12s, [Knox, Vicesimus, edit.] , Elegant Epistles: or, a Copius Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters, selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, and for General Entertainment, London: Charles Dilly, 1790, worm trail to initial 7 leaves, signature to title, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting labels, upper joint cracked, 8vo, and other 18th & 19th century antiquarianQty: (17)NOTESPayne (William) - ESTC T39059, 4 UK institutional locations.

Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem, [by William Combe], early issue, London: R. Ackermann, circa 1812, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette , 30 hand-coloured plates by Thomas Rowlandson (complete), first issue text headed by 'Chapter I' (as opposed to 'Canto I' in the second issue), lacking 'directions to the binder leaf', plate 5, opposite p. 14 in the second state (with the girl on the donkey with raised bent arm), plate opposite p. 80 trimmed and laid down, plates opposite pp. 10 & 56 with repaired tears, a few plates close-trimmed shaving imprints, some light spotting and offsetting, p. iii of advertisement with early manuscript 'William Coombe' beneath 'The Author', presentation inscription dated 1944 to front endpaper, all edges gilt, later red straight-grained morocco gilt by Bayntun, Bath, spine slightly faded, joints lightly rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESTooley 427.

Southey (Robert). Madoc, A Poem, in two parts, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme; Edinburgh: A. Constable & Co., 1805, half-title, all edges gilt, contemporary red straight grain morocco, gilt decorated spine, joints rubbed and spine slightly faded, 4to, together with: Russell ( Rachel ) . Letters o f Lady Rachel Russell; from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Vindicating the Character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, London: Edward & Charles Dilly, 1773 , light scattered spotting, pencil note to front pastedown 'Belonging to Percy Salmons Library, lent to Mrs Lucas', contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine with gilt crest of an arm in armour embowed holding a club (possibly Cogger or Elsworth family), joints cracked, 4to, Churchill (Charles) , Poems, London: printed for the author, by Dryden Leach, 1763, some staining/browning to last few leaves, together with a second volume containing seven other poems by Churchill and others, initial leaves with some staining/browning, few leaves torn & frayed, bookplate of Hugh Williams of Ty-fry to upper pastedowns, contemporary uniform calf, morocco title labels to spines, upper joint of first volume cracked, 4toQty: (4)

Wallis (John, 1616-1703). ‘A Collection of Letters and other Papers, intercepted in Cipher, during the late warres in England. Deciphered by John Wallis D. D. Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Being a Transcript of a like Collection presented by him to the Bodleyan Library, in the University of Oxford', 1 July 1653, holograph manuscript in brown and red ink on laid paper (with stylised ‘Pot II’ watermark containing initials ‘EDC’), pp. [24] 1-221 [i.e. 223] + initial blank and 32 rear blanks, with box-rules, pagination and catch-words throughout, old staining to title-page, a little light browning to margins, contemporary mottled calf, twin rules gilt to spine-compartments and covers, extremities rubbed, headcap worn away, front joint cracked but firm, a few abrasions to rear cover, tips showing through, 4to (18.7 x 14 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Wallis, great-great-grandson of John Wallis, inscribed by him ‘I Wm Wallis had this book with some others from Mr Hayes executor to the late Taverner Wallis deceased, April 14 1784’ on the first rear blank. William wrote a lengthy biography of John, printed in the 1791 edition of John Wallis’s Sermons . For the will of Taverner (or Tavernor) Wallis, of Hampstead, Middlesex, see National Archives, Prob 11/1059/24. 2) 'No. 3 MSS of Dr Wallis’ (18th-century inscription to front pastedown). 3) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. 4) Thence by descent. A substantial and highly important document in the history of cryptography, an unpublished holograph manuscript by one of the leading mathematicians of the 17th century, revealing his sui generis contribution to the science of code-breaking and to the parliamentarian cause in the English civil war. Wallis, a clergyman’s son who claimed to be self-taught in mathematics, was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford in 1649, and keeper of the university archives in 1658, remaining in both posts until his death half a century later. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, and his published works, including Arithmetica infinitorum (1655), Mechanica (1670-71), and A Treatise of Algebra (1685) have established his reputation as the most important English mathematician before Newton, on whom his Arithmetica was a major influence. Wallis’s feats in cryptography provoked both hostility and admiration from his contemporaries, on the one side Thomas Hobbes, who accused him of having deciphered the King’s cabinet (captured after the battle of Naseby in 1645), and on the other, Leibniz, who made repeated attempts to persuade Wallis to reveal his methods to the wider world. In the third edition of his Clavis mathematicae (1652) William Oughtred made passing mention of Wallis’s skill in 'explicating secret writing hidden behind the most intricate ciphers', but Wallis himself appears never to have referred to such matters in print until his final years, when he included two examples of deciphered letters in the third volume of his Opera mathematica (1699, pp. 660-72), two years before he became the first to hold the position of official decipherer to the secretary of state. Leibniz saw an affinity between code-breaking and algebra, and modern scholars have identified a close relationship between Wallis’s cryptographic and mathematical techniques, in particular in the ‘ingenious series of interpolations’ in the Arithmetica by which he found an infinite series expressing the value of 4/? (Domenico Bertoloni Meli in ODNB ). Nevertheless it is an aspect of his career entirely ignored by his modern biographer, who remarks that ‘although Wallis’s deciphering activity would be a fascinating story, in the interests of space, it has been left out of this book’ (Rampelt, Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions: The Academic Life of John Wallis (1616-1703) (2009) p. 10). The manuscript begins with a remarkable introduction in which Wallis argues for the importance of ciphers, in particular during civil wars, ‘where the intermingling of opposite parties makes it difficult if not impossible to distinguish friends & foes’ (p. [i]). He outlines the history of his involvement in code-breaking, which began over supper at the residence of his spiritual charge Lady Mary Vere. The following transcriptions of fifty-three coded letters exchanged by royalists between 1640 and 1658 are all accompanied by the deciphered text and a detailed key, except for the last four, which are left unsolved as exercises for aspirant cryptographers. Wallis revealed in an autobiography written towards the end of his life that ‘of such deciphered Letters, there be copies of divers remaining in the Archives of the Bodleyan Library in Oxford ; and many more in my own Custody, and with the Secretaries of State’ (Scriba, ‘The Autobiography of John Wallis, F.R.S’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , Volume 25 Number 1, June 1970, p. 38) . His master copy of intercepted civil war letters is now Bodleian MS e Musaeo 203, and is titled ‘A Collection of Letters and Other Papers, which were at severall times intercepted, written in Cipher. Deciphered by John Wallis, Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Given to the Library there, Anno Domini, 1653’. In addition to our copy Wallis made another transcript which is now Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. e. 475, and which contains a note by Wallis recording its donation to the ‘Savilian mathematical study at Oxford’. Both the Bodleian manuscripts contain fifty-two letters; ours appears to be one he kept back for his own personal use, in light of its provenance to a descendant and the presence of a fifty-third letter evidently added later (‘A Letter from Flanders intercepted in May 1658’, by one Pe[ter] Townesend). The Bodleian holds a further volume by Wallis containing deciphered letters dating from 1669 to 1703 (MS Eng. misc. e. 382) and the annotation 'No. 4. Dr. Wallis's MSS' similar to that in our copy. There is also manuscript in the British Library titled ‘Letter Book of Dr. John Wallis, 1651-1701’ (Add. MS 32499), selections from which have been printed in Smith, ‘John Wallis as a Cryptographer’ ( Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 24, Number 2, 1917, pp. 82-96), some being letters from Wallis containing summaries of deciphered communications, but the coded originals (if any are present in the manuscript) are not included. In the ODNB it is implied that the present work was published by John Davys in An Essay on the Art of Decyphering (1737); in fact Davys included only Wallis’s introduction and the letter from Duke of Buckingham (the fifty-second in our manuscript) originally left unsolved. Further reading: Beeley, ‘Breaking the Code: John Wallis and the Politics of Concealment’, in Li and Noreik, eds, G. W. Leibniz und der Gelehrtenhabitus (2016), pp. 49-81. Please note this is an abridged description: for a full description please see the Dominic Winter website.

Halley (Edmond, editor). Menelai Sphaericorum libri III. Quos olim, collatis MSS. Hebraeis & Arabicis, typis exprimendos curavit vir cl. Ed. Hallerus L.L.D. R.S.S. & Geometriae Professor Savil. Oxoniensis. Praefationem addidit G. Costard, A.M., Oxford: Sumptibus Academicis, 1758, [2] vii 112 pp., diagrams throughout, initial blank (with inscription: see note) browned, with small tear affecting part of inscription 'Franklin' repaired verso, and printed slip reading 'Americana' mounted to head, numerous manuscript annotations in brown ink throughout (see note), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint split but firm, headcap worn away, wear to tips, 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), given by him to Scottish mathematician Robert Simson (1678-1768), inscribed by Simson 'Ex dono viri praestantissimi et mihi amicissimi Benjamin Franklin 12mo Martii A.D. 1760, Robert Simson' in brown ink on the initial blank. There are also numerous further annotations apparently by Simson, including an erratum to title-page verso, marginalia to pages vii, viii, 6, 17 and 18, and four full pages of annotations to rear blank, free endpaper and pastedown. For Simson's annotated copy of an edition of Pappus of Alexandria (Venice, 1589) see University of Glasgow MS Gen 1118 (viewable online). 2) William Spence of Greenock (1777-1815), Scottish mathematician, with his ink ownership inscription 'Willm Spence, Glasgow' to the front pastedown, and the ink-stamp of the Spence bequest to the Greenock Scientific Library to the title-page. 3) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. 4) Thence by descent. Robert Simson was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow in 1711, at which point he was pursuing a year's study in London, during which he 'made the acquaintance of several eminent mathematicians, among them Edmond Halley , whose influence perhaps reinforced his obsession with the works of the Greek geometers' (ODNB). He remained in post until his retirement in 1761, and his most important work is generally considered to be his edition of Euclid's Elements (1756). Franklin met Simson during his six-week tour of Scotland in 1759, undertaken during his 1757-62 stay in England as agent of the Pennsylvania assembly. The journey was something of a triumph: Franklin was granted a doctorate by the University of St Andrews together with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, and also met David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, and Lord Kames; he later recalled the tour as 'six weeks of the densest happiness I have known' (Fay, Adam Smith and the Scotland of his Day , 1956, p. 124). ESTC T124042. A posthumous Halley publication, this book is notably rare: we trace one other copy in auction records, lacking the title-page.

Astronomy manuscript. An illustrated student's astronomy manuscript by H.F. Pelerin, 1811, 440 numbered pages including approximately 168 blanks, the volume beginning with 4 mounted portraits en grisaille of Flamsteed, Roger Long, Laplace and Lalande, plus a mounted stipple-engraved portrait of Nevil Maskelyne, plus a total of 45 further full-page pen & ink illustrations, mostly with blue or sepia wash, illustrating the moon, star system, etc., the neatly-written text including table and calculations, plus a section entitled 'To Bring a Transit Instrument into the Meridian by Gavin Lowe of Islington', index at rear, closely trimmed at foremargins touching some lettering on leaves near centre of the volume, author's name inscription and date at front, contemporary bone set square by W. & S. Jones, 30 Holborn, London, in pocket to front pastedown, contemporary diced calf with gilt silver clasps, gilt-titled 'Stellae' to spine, heavily rubbed, some corner wear, joints weak, 8vo (15.5 x 11 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHenry Ferdinand Pelerin (c. 1772-1825) appears to have been a merchant or insurance broker, sometime based at Lloyd's Coffeehouse. Born at Hodimont in the parish of Vervier, in the province of Limbourg in the Austrian Netherlands, he married Sarah Ann Dawes in Camden, London (1796) and was naturalised British in 1798. He was possibly bankrupted in 1811, the year this manuscript is dated, but his scientific interests are evident from his membership of the Society of Arts. The illustrated manuscript was clearly a labour of love.

Macaulay (Thomas Babington). The Works of Lord Macaulay, 12 volumes, Albany edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898, half-titles, photogravure portrait frontispieces, titles in red & black, front blank to volume 1 inscribed "To the Earl of Rosebery, whose feeling for Macaulay has an infinite value to me, as justifying my own admiration and affection, from his lifelong friend George Otto Trevelyan", bookplate of the Earl of Rosebury to upper pastedowns, original maroon cloth gilt, dampstain and cockling to cloth on lower board of volume 9, 8vo, together with a manuscript letter on letter headed notepaper from George Bullough to Lord Rosebery dated 6, Connaught Place, W.2. June 3rd 1927, "My dear Lord Rosebery, Once again I must thank you for allowing my horses to stay at the Durdans [Epsom, Surrey]. It is very very kind of you & I can only express my gratitude"Qty: (13)NOTESSir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (1838- 1928) was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career extending to nearly 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery. Sir George Bullough, 1st Baronet (1870-1939) was a late Victorian playboy and an owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.

Anglo (Sydney) . The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, a collotype reproduction of the manuscript, 2 volumes, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968, 23 colour & monochrome plates with tissue guards, bookplates of 'The Reverend Dr. G. B. Westwood, MA' to the front endpapers, original cloth in price-clipped dust jackets in slipcase, spines lightly marked to foot, 8vo/oblong 4to, together with; Grazebrook (H. Sydney) , The Heraldry of Worcestershire;..., 2 volumes, John Russell Smith, 1873, monochrome half-title in volume 1, later inscriptions to head of the title-pages, bookplates to front endpapers, some light spotting & toning, publishers uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth, volume 2 front board & spine partially detached, spines slightly faded & rubbed, 4to, and Burke (John) , A Genealogical and Heraldic History of The Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland..., 4 volumes, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1977, 4 black & white frontispieces plus shield illustrations, bookplates of 'The Reverend Dr. G. B. Westwood, MA' to the front endpapers, publishers original green cloth, 8vo, plus other modern genealogy & heraldry reference & related, including The Ancestor, A Quarterly Review..., volumes 1-12, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1902-1905, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves)

Argentina. A series of 32 numbered photographic scrapbooks illustrating the construction of a barrage in Argentina, December 1973 to June 1979, each album with approximately 100 black & white photographs (10 x 17.5 cm), pasted in pairs to rectos of ruled sheets only with date stamps at head of page, entirely uncaptioned, uniform linen-backed wrappers with manuscript volume number and date to upper covers, a little wear, 4toQty: (32)

Bligh (William). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying of the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board said ship, and the subsequent voyage of the part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies, 1st Dublin edition, printed by H. Fitzpatrick, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne..., 1792, [xvi], 376, single engraved plate of the Bread Fruit, lacking the portrait frontispiece of Captain Bligh, early manuscript annotations and corrections, including crossing out, mostly in ink, but including some in pencil, associated minor marginal soiling and several small stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf with 20th century reback, rubbed and some marks, 8voQty: (1)NOTESFerguson 127; Sabin 5910. First Dublin edition of Bligh's official account of his voyage and the celebrated mutiny. The text was written and prepared by James Burney and Sir Joseph Banks from Bligh's journal, while the latter was on his second Bread Fruit voyage. The interesting manuscript annotations suggest that they were written by someone acquainted with the content of Bligh's journal, from which James Burney had prepared this abridgment.

* Canada. Journal of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and the Red River Settlement, [Manitoba, Canada], British North America, from May the 27th 1820 to May the 27th 1821, [by] John West, a manuscript journal on 23 folio pages, a total of approximately 8,000 words written in diary form with date entries for approximately 130 days of West's first missionary year, the entries of varying length, endorsed on final blank and addressed to the Rev Mr Pratt, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London, note on first page 'rec[eive]d October 20/[18]21', paper watermarked 'Snelgrove 1818' [a Somerset papermaker], a little spotting and soiling, some dust-soiling and browning to folds of final blank, stitched as issued, slim folio (30.5 x 18.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1923-2019), bookseller. The Manitoba Red River Colony, also known as the Selkirk Settlement, was founded in 1811 when Thomas Douglas, 5th Early of Selkirk, received a grant 120,000 square miles of land from the Hudson's Bay Company (known as the Selkirk Concession). On the west of the Selkirk Concession, it is roughly formed by the current boundary between Saskatchewan and Manitoba. John West (1778-1845) was the first Anglican priest in western Canada and a teacher, reformer and author. A missionary of the Church Missionary Society and a chaplain for the Hudson’s Bay Company. At the Red River Settlement West located his mission three miles north of Fort Douglas and here constructed a chapel, a school and residences for himself and his Indian pupils. The chapel would eventually come to be known as ‘The Upper Church’ and later as St John’s Cathedral. West returned to England in June 1823 and his account of his time was published as The Substance of a Journal during a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America; and Frequent Excursions among the North-West American Indians, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823 (1824). The account of this first year is covered in chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-60. While there are some identical sentences, the published account is not presented in such a specific diary form and differs greatly, some of the published account being more lengthy and descriptive of certain incidents. The journal ends before he was soon to mentor 'Henry Budd', the first North American Indian to be ordained to the ministry, in 1850. West's published Journal is dedicated to Budd. Josiah Pratt (1768-1844) was an English evangelical clergyman, involved in publications and the administration of missionary work. He was elected secretary of the Church Missionary Society on 8 December 1802 keeping that post until 23 April 1824. The journal begins with embarkation at Gravesend on board the Eddystone , with West travelling to take up an appointment as Chaplain to the Honourable the Hudson’s Bay Company, at the Red River Settlement [Manitoba], the journal continuing with entries from May, June and July as they sailed up the east coast of England and around the north coast of Scotland before leaving the Orkneys for Hudson’s Straits, the entry for Sunday 23rd July at the top of page 4 noting that they had entered Hudson’s Straits. For a selection of journal entries please see the extended description on the Dominic Winter website.

Dihlawi (Munshi Bulaqi Das Sahib). Tawarikh-i Ghuri [Urdu title, i.e. 'Histories of the Ghurids'], Delhi: Mayur Press, 1881, 48 pp. ( p. 20 misnumbered 28), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 9 albumen print photographs from miniatures of Indian sultans, each 10 x 6 cm and mounted on separate leaf within lithographic floral border and caption, and with rubricated manuscript title to head within lithographic cartouche, adhesive staining in gutter, a few other marks, text-block somewhat shaken and many leaves working loose at foot, modern annotations in English to front pastedown and free endpaper (free endpaper, chipped torn and crudely repaired), contemporary red cloth, embossed cloth panels onlaid to covers with traces of gilt, crude repairs to spine and inner hinges, 8vo (24.2 x 14.5 cm), together with: [Devi Mahatmya]. The Sapta-Shati, or Chandi-Pat; being a Portion of the Markandeya Puran; translated from the Sanskrit into English, wiht Explanatory Notes, by Cavali Venkar Ramasswami, Pandit. Reprinted by Janardan Ramchandraji, Bombay: printed at the "Frere" Press, 1868, pp. xii 44 viii, 13 albumen print photographs by Indian photographers M. R. Talpade and M. C. Settna from miniature paintings, each mounted to separate leaf with printed captions, first quire (4 leaves) detached, ex libris Meadville Theological School with bookplate to front pastedown and perforation stamps to title-page and pp. 43/4, original glazed pink printed boards, black cloth backstrip, contemporary ink inscription ('The editor, Bombay Gazette, with the publisher's compts') and modern shelfmark number to front cover, 8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), Kipling (John Lockwood, illustrator). T'alim ul Mubtadi, or Urdu Edition of the Indian Vernacular Series for Elementary Schools. Edited by Colonel W. R. M. Holroyd. The First Reader. Lahore: Government Central Book Depot, 1884, [1] 1-37 pp. Urdu text, lithographed throughout, 7 lithographic plates after John Lockwood Kipling printed on both sides, original wrappers with English and Urdu titles, English title with publisher's ink-stamp, paper perished along spine but binding sound, small 4to (17 x 13 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESThe first work is otherwise untraced, but the Digital Library of Pakistan holds a copy of another work by Munshi Bulaqi Das entitled Tarikh-i Nadir , which is probably a history of Nadir Shah (their catalogue number 48944). In spite of its title, only the first ruler depicted, Shihab al-Din Muhammad, was a member of the short-lived Ghurid dynasty. The other albumen prints depict Aram Shah, Shams al-Din Iltutmish, Mu'Izz al-Din Bahram, 'Ala' al-Din Mas'ud, Nasir al-Din and Muhammad Ghiyath al-Din Balban of the Mamluk dynasty, and Jalal al-Din and Qutb al-Din Mubarak of the Khilji dynasty that followed. For the second work we trace six copies in libraries world-wide, and none of the first edition; the slightly altered wording of the title on the front cover implies that the first edition was not illustrated. It is an unusual example of a work with photographs explicitly attributed to Indian photographers. The third work is the first known book wholly illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard and illustrator of The Jungle Book (see John Lockwood Kipling, Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London , p. 363).

* India. Group of signed letters and documents, 18th-20th century, including: 1) Cotton (Stapleton, 1st Viscount Combermere, 1773-1865). Printed document signed as commander-in-chief, India, 30 January 1828, commissioning H. W. Wood lieutenant 'in the King's Army in the East Indies only', splitting along folds, 2) Gholam Mohumed (1795-1872). Letter signed to political superintendent Colonel George Verner, Russapagla, 3 April 1872, ‘I have the honor to forward to you a copy of a trust deed which I have executed for and on account of the charitable fund and which I wish you to forward to the commissioners of Mysore to be deposited, as a record, in his office’, damp-staining, 3) Staveley (Samuel, ?-1762). Manuscript document signed as chaplain at Fort St George, Madras, 27 December 1758, last will and testament, naming Henry Vansittart and Daniel Morse as executors, remains of seal, browned, backed on clear plastic with clear tape-reinforcement along old folds, 4) Supreme Court of Judicature, Fort William, Calcutta. Manuscript petition relating to the estate of Carr Nimmo deceased, 3 May 1817, signed by Sir James Weir Hogg (1790-1876), Sir Edward Hyde East (1764-1847), and one other, ink corrosion, 5) Michell (William, ?-?). Manuscript document signed East India Company resident at Negapatam and Nagore, Negapatam, 21 December 1792, settling a property dispute involving the Dutch Orphan Society, illustrated with a relevant, diagram, ink corrosion, and 12 similar items, including a George Canning signed free front, two 18th-century letters in Dutch, and a few typed administrative letters from the 1930s, most items in the lot rather browned or stained, many with splits, tears, and other condition issues, foolscap and other formatsQty: (17)NOTESProvenance: private collection, India. Gholam Mohumed (see item 2) was a son of Tipu Sultan.

* Machell (Thomas, 1824-1862). Two autograph letters signed, 1850 & 1851, both written to Mrs John Ditmas, from Rooderpore Factory, Bongong: the first dated November 12th 1850, apologising for tardiness in writing, reminiscing that it was 2 years to the day since the writer was staying with Mrs Ditmas on his birthday, mentioning the enduring of trials, disappointments, and being "neglected and almost insulted by those at whose hands I had a right to expect at least courtesy", before detailing a change of fortune whereby "I am again an Indigo planter and have just been given the charge of six factories", going on to paint a picture in words of the remote terrain of plains, swamps, howling jackals, native huts, rice and indigo crops, with details such as a grim looking old alligator eyeing up the local children, and describing in detail the lonely life of the "much abused Planter" and his numerous responsibilities and yearnings for home, first page with border of vignettes in brown ink, depicting various sights pertaining to the writer's travels, including a tiger, a whale, elephants, a view of Tenerife, a large sailing ship in the Bay of Bengal, stormy seas at The Cape of Good Hope, etc., mostly captioned beneath, e.g. '"Adieu my native Land"', 'Land ho! Maderia', 'Round the Cape', etc., written in black ink to all 4 sides of a bifolium, several folds, with address 'Minster Yard, York, England' on final page, accompanied by various indistinct ink postal stamps, first leaf splitting slightly at one fold, second leaf with several small holes, and subsequent loss of a number of letters, leaf size 24.8 x 20cm, the second undated, but with ink postal stamp 'Bongong' dated 1 Decr 1851 in manuscript, and reference made to the letter again being written on 12th November, the writer's birthday, followed by childhood memories of "the young Machells" visiting the "little Miss Ditmases", and their antics in the nursery, e.g. hanging "their playfellows dolls out of the window", going on to write of the onerous duties of supervising a mixed race of "Mohammedans and Hindus" - "exercising an almost patriarchal sway over them I find myself in the position of Father Priest and Physician", and describing the widely varied nature and attitudes of his fellow Planters, first page headed with a pen, ink, & wash sketch of a large 2-storey thatched building with verandahs, beside a tree, written in brown ink to most of the 4 sides of a bifolium, with oval blindstamp 'Rolland Frères Fabr. Bordeaux', several folds, with address on final page as above, and ink postal stamps, including Calcutta and York, some small splits in folds, leaf size 26.6 x 21.2cmQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: Mrs Mary Ann Ditmas (born circa 1802), wife of John Ditmas; passed to her daughter Georgiana Townesend née Ditmas, wife of George Fyler Townesend; and thence by descent. These two interesting letters give a fascinating insight into the period explorer Thomas Machell spent as manager of the Rooderpore indigo estate in India in the middle of the 19th century. The British Library holds a collection of letters, many of them illustrated, written by Machell to his father over the course of his eventful lifetime of travel. These "Talking Papers" as Machell called them, totalling almost 3000 pages, describe such exploits as: witnessing the first Opium War in Hong Kong; a narrow escape from the wrath of a Polynesian cannibal whose daughter he had seduced on the Marquesas Islands; presiding over coffee plantations; travels with Muslim merchants; and managing bullock trains transporting goods across Central India. In these two letters to an old family friend, as well as describing details of the surrounding terrain and his occupation, the explorer writes sensitively about the indigenous people amongst whom he works, and wistfully of the people back home. Mrs Ditmas had two daughters who never married, Mary Henrietta and Fanny, both of whom lived with her all their lives as did her servant Mrs Radcliffe. All three are mentioned by Machell in his letters, and he seems to make especial mention of Fanny in particular. Thomas Machell would no doubt be delighted that these two letters have come to light; he had aspirations to be a travel writer, and had planned to write a book on indigo as well an autobiographical novel. Presciently, in 1851 he wrote: "…mayhap the words carelessly written at Rooderpore factory will be lighted upon in some musty library in the twentieth century". (Jenny Balfour-Paul, Deeper Than Indigo: Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer , 2015)

* Middle East, India & Far East. Group of documents and ephemera, 19th-20th century, comprising: 1. Nubar Pasha (1825-1890). Autograph letter signed in French, Paris, 12 June 1882, 2 pp., signed 'M. Nubar', mentioning French engineer Joseph-Pons d'Arnaud ('D'Arnaud Bey', 1811-1884), annotated at head 'Ecrit le 12 juine 1882 à M. D'Arnaud Bey à Chatou' (presumably by the recipient), 8vo, 2. Aga Khan III (1877-1957). Autograph sentiment signed, 'I am the same person as Aga Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan', 3. A single sheet with signatures in English and Persian of Nawab Mir Mookurrum Hussein Khan Bahadur, Nawab Mir Sufdar Hussein Khan Bahadur, and. Nawab Meer Ikram Hussein Khan Bahadur, all dated Park Hill, 1 October 1896, annotated in pencil 'Indian princes' 4. Seal impressions of Muhammad Jamal al-A'zam, Sultan of Sulu (r.1862-81), Philippines, and of Muhammad Badr al-Din, Sultan of Sulu (r. 1881-4), both in red ink, mounted, contemporary annotations in English to mount, and 9 others, including Persian manuscript document (with English docket 'From Gov. of Meshed to subordinate Gov. between Meshed and [?]Bijand'), a printed Ottoman tezkere (passport) to one Thomas Stevens (splits and repairs), a hand-coloured etched portrait of Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh (title 'A Reminiscence of Ferozepore'), and clipped signature in envelope with 19th-century inscription 'Autograph of Nana Sahib' (i.e. leader of the Sepoy Mutiny)Qty: (13)NOTESNubar Pasha was the first prime minister of Egypt. Regarding item 3, the Royal Collection (RCIN 2907531) holds a portrait photograph of a group of boys at Park Hill school (at Torquay according to their cataloguing, but in fact at Lyndhurst, Hampshire), dated January 1896 and including the three nawabs who have signed their names here, in addition to Charles Edward, Duke of Albany (1884-1954) and the children of other notables; their names suggest that they may have belonged to the ruling family of Bangapanalle.

The Harleian Miscellany A Collection of Scarce, Curious and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts as well as Manuscript as in Print selected from the Library of Edward Harley 2nd Earl of Oxford with Annotations and Additional Notes, comprising volumes 4-6 published 1809-1810 in three volumes bound in full (worn) leather (3)   

Biographia Britannica: or The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland from the Earliest Ages down to the Present Times, collected from the best Authorities both Printed and Manuscript and digested in the Manner of Mr Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary, Printed London 1747-1766 first edition, complete being volumes 1-6 bound in 7 volumes (second part of volume 6 from another set and therefore not in identical binding), title pages printed in red & black, folio set bound in full calf with raised bands (7)  

MUSIC MANUSCRIPT W. CUMBO MELITA MARCIA

Himalayan Art A rare large bronze figure of Manjushri NamasangitiNepal, 16th-17th century . . Cm 24,50 x 36,00 x 19,50. Noteworthy large bronze casting depicting the bodhisattva Manjushri in an extremely rare iconography taking the name of Namasangiti, the primordial Master. This representation is considered of great importance for all Nepalese Buddhism, as it is the spiritual progenitor of the five transcendent Buddhas and of the entire world of Buddhism. It is also peculiar to Nepal and there are few known representations of it, emphasising its importance.The character features a rich dark green patina and is seated in the canonical Padmasana cross-legged position. It is exceptional in that it features twelve arms: six at the front, four on the side and two at the rear. The two main front hands display an open variation of the vyakarana mudra. The underlying hands, positioned to pour ambrosia into the bowl below, are in tarpana mudra. The third front pair, in the samadhi mudra position, hold the container for the sacred amrita nectar. The two side pairs were supposed to hold the four symbols of Manjushri (the Khadga sword, the manuscript, the bow and the arrow) but these have been lost.The sixth and last pair of arms, in the background, are extended with the hands joined above the figure's head in vajrachakra mudra position, representing Mount Meru.Worthy of note is the piece's overall refined and well-proportioned workmanship. The circular face displays delicate and serene features, typical of the Newari style of the Kathmandu valley. It also features a conspicuous five-pointed crown and jewels embellishing the bust, ears and arms, containing hollow settings that probably housed precious stones. Given its size and the disc-shaped base which supports the entire figure, the work was probably originally placed on a column inside a temple or outside near sacred buildings, a typical custom in Nepal.Provenance: Private collection Milan, Italy.For close related example please see: Bonhams, “The Maitri Collection of Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art”, New York 20 Marzo 2018, lotto 3203 Bonhams, “Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art”, New York, 19 Marzo 2019, lotto 934Himalayan Art Resource, item no. 202977.This lot is provided with a temporary import license.

1310 AD Leaf From a Paris Manuscript Bible. Sheet size: 7.5 x 5 inches.Unframed.

Chris Calle (American, B. 1961) "Life of Sun Yat-sen - Mausoleum" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting was originally published on the Republic of the Marshall Islands Life of Sun Yat-sen $1.00 Sun Yat-sen and Mausoleum stamp issued November 12, 2000. Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing on March 12, 1925. In 1929, Sun's remains were transferred to a magnificent mausoleum constructed for him in Nanjing, the site of his first provisional government. Situated on the southern slopes of the Zijin Mountains, the memorial grounds cover 20 acres. A flight of 392 marble steps leads to the tomb. Inside, a seated statue of Sun is surrounded by black marble walls engraved with his quotations in gold letters. Behind the statue is a door that leads to a domed hall and a gallery where a recumbent marble statue of Sun lies over his remains. Many cultural relics are displayed in the mausoleum, including a manuscript of lectures on the principle of democracy, a draft of the speech on The Three Principles of the People, a copy of the Provisional Law of the Republic of China, and calligraphy and personal belongings of Sun. Image Size: 9 x 10.5 in. Overall Size: 14 x 17.5 in. Unframed. (B16890)

An early 20th Century and later small archive of ephemera pertaining to drapers / tailors A. Campbell Brown 'Gent's Wear Depot' 21 English Street, Carlisle, predominantly 1930s and later, including 'Special Order' ledger with alphabetically arranged manuscript entries, a quantity of personal letters of thanks from customers, a 'Day Book', tax ledger, British Linen Bank book, 1936 Reid and Taylor of Langholm illustrated 'Style Guide', and later Sumrie Clothes tweed swatches, style book and Simon tailored clothes catalogue of current styles etc.

A 1939 dated personal manuscript photograph and scrap album pertaining to LMS express passenger train "Coronation Scot" and its tour of America, compiled by the then secretary (and later wife) of the train's engineer Robert A. Riddles, containing photographs curated and hand-annotated, including interior images of the locomotive's compartments, First Class passengers enjoying the facilities such as the "Cocktail Lounge", newspaper clippings, and press stills, album 38 x 35 cm, in leather case with gilt initials 'R.A.R', together with a Spink gilt-metal medal from the Institution of Locomotive Engineers presented to " R. A. Riddles CBE, President, Session 1950-1951", in fitted case

W** M** Ennis [?] (19th Century) "Rydal Water from the low end looking at the right or south merging [?] with Knab Scaur and Knab Cottage", with manuscript title and signature in black paint verso, oil on canvas, framed, 49 x 75 cm

A family group of six 19th Century painted silhouettes, each incorporating a manuscript annotation regarding each sitter, included amongst the group are 'Paul Knellar Smith of Rivenhall Place in Suffolk and Cheltenham', 'Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Robert Knipe of Bury Lancashire, wife of John Cobbold of Holwells Ipswitch, b. 1765, d. 1824', 'John Cobbold of the Cliff and Holywells Ipswitch, married Elizabeth Clark, nee Knipe, b. 1746, d. 1835', and 'John Farr at 20, son of Lee Farr, married Emily Caroline Cobbold b. 1819, m. 1847, d. 1867', together with one further portrait of the above 'Mrs John Cobbold, Holywells Ipswitch, daughter of Mr Knipe', and her husband 'John Cobbold, Holywells, Ipswitch' annotated to the back, all framed under glass, 9 cm (3), 8.5 x 5.5 cm (1), and 6.5 x 5 cm (2) respectively

with twin slots and painted inscription 'Morning Visits & Evening Visits', complete with calling cards and small manuscript account book 15 x 27 x 16cmCondition report: extensive paint wear to sides, some scratches and chips to top

[18th century religious manuscript account] Wilson, William Memorial of Free Mercy containing 'The Particular account of the Year 1731' and running until 1756, 392 manuscript pp., ending with the lines (prior to an index): "This Day I commit, and refer myself, both soul and body, Books, Papers... wholly, solely and only to the wise providence of God...", 8vo, bound in contemporary quarter vellum over boards, some dust-soilingFootnote: Note: An account covering 25 years of a Scottish man's life in the mid-eighteenth century, presented as religious musings. Topics covered include: "an account of a Great Drought"; "An Invitation for the Lord Jesus Christ to return to Britain and Ireland, especially to Covenanted Scotland"; "Predictions of the French invading these Lands"; and the more mundane "of having sore Shoulders". More perplexing accounts include: "Upon the 26th Day of July, out of a tent before a large Congregation at Crawford John: Mr Alexander Marshall, in a ? of Malicious Jury, named me our name and sirname, Laid grievous things to my Charge falsely, and compared me to Elimas the sorcerer, who was a Child of the Devil..."Regarding the Jacobite uprising in 1745, he writes: "About this time, the young popish pretender was come to Scotland; and had a malignant army gathered together to set him upon the throne of Britain..." and subsequently mentions people "fleeing from Edinburgh and Glasgow &c. and peoples fleeing here and there to hide and keep their horses from the pretender's men."

Agreement between William ?Atbatago alias John Hadley & Alex Pym Sale to Thomas Tremyatt of manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 15 lines, folds, 3 wax seals (1 defective), 2 seals in excellent condition, 150 x 260mm., 27th April 1498

Archive of the Gill / Hutchison Family Including the naval adventures of Commander Thomas Gill, Typescript of the memoirs of the late Commander Gill, R.N., b.1774, dictated to his daughter, Emma, comprising 72 bound typed pages, signed in typescript by T. Hutchison (Emma's husband and nephew of William Wordsworth); Manuscript written by Commander Gill comprising pp.1-8 and 13-47 only of the complete document; Emma Gill Manuscript journal, dated 1840, describing a tour of the Isle of Wight and Sussex, accompanied by her father, 52pp., bound in wrappers; [Idem] Manuscript notebook and diary dated 1847, 22pp.; [Idem] Commonplace album in 19th century embossed plum calf; Nautical Sketches by the Ancient Mariner. Stockton: W. Robson, 1833. 12mo, original card wrappers, with the ownership inscription of Elizabeth Hutchison to the title-page; Pencil drawing of the Hutchison home, Grantsfield, in Leominster, along with three photocopied sheets listing the Grantsfield libraryFootnote: Note: Commander Gill's daughter, Emma, married T, Hutchison. Hutchison was the poet William Wordsworth's nephew. One of the books listed as having being in the Grantsfield library is accompanied by a note: "This Ed. of Shakespeare together with those of Chaucer, Spencer & Milton, was purchased by Charles Lamb for Dorothy Wordsworth, who, upon receiving her portion of the debt due from Lord Lonsdale's estate, wished to record the event by a gift to her friend Sarah Hutchison M.W. July 8th 52..." Commander Gill's typescript describes his life from his birth in 1774 at the Vicarage House of Newchurch, Isle of Wight and leads on to his naval career, beginning at the age of 15 when he boarded the Resolution, heading for Nevis. He was imprisoned by the French in Guadeloupe and subsequently taken on by an American ship. Following a brief stay in America, Gill boarded the Merchant, to return to Liverpool but was shipwrecked. Finally returning to London, Gill was press ganged and returned to sea eventually as Midshipman. Gill describes taking part in the Battle of St Vincent, under Captain George Murray on the Colossus, and then in the Siege of Cadiz and then in convoy service under Nelson. His naval career continued after this, until 1818, including being once again shipwrecked on board the Anson when it was wrecked in Mount's Bay in 1807. He died in 1841.

Edward (Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland, later Duke of York, son of Edmund of Langley, 1373?-1415) which Joan, widow of William Peytevyn, holds of the Earl for life, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 8 lines, dusty, large portion of a fine armorial wax seal with Edward Plantagenet's arms, 100 x 306mm, 12th June, 1401Footnote: Note: Cousin to both Richard II and Henry IV, Edward, Duke of York was killed commanding the right wing of the army at the battle of Agincourt.

Gaitens, Edward (1897-1966), short story writer & novelist Circa 60 typescript or manuscript James Birdie, Marjorie Wells, John Macrae, Marcus Lindsay, Magnus Magnusson, "H.W.", Allardyce Nicoll, Valentine Axarock, R.A. Scott-James, T.J. Honeyman, Sam Wanamaker, Moultrie R. Kelsall (BBC), C.S. Evans (William Heinemann), Lou Golding, Neil M. Gunn, Eric Linklater, Tyrone Guthrie, Compton Mackenzie, Douglas Young, George Blake, David Daiches, Lawrence Durrell, with one retained copy, discussing his short stories, novel Dance of the Apprentices, &c; Jamieson, Morley c. 26 letters, typed and manuscript to Jamieson, including 1 from Percy Muir and 2 from Willa Muir

Kent, Wingham - Agreement John Wylkes of Herne releases William Lambe, Wax Chandler, hes heirs and and garden situated in the "vico de Wyngham" [Wingham], the King's ?Street east-land of Lord Archbishop West - land of William Ryggedon north and land of Edmund Lambe south which John Wylkes lately had of the grant... of John Turner of Wyngham shoemaker, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 13 lines, docket on verso, folds, good wax seal with Star of David design, 124 x 257mm, 18th February, 1503/4 (18th February in the 19th year of Henry VII)Footnote: Note: Wingham, East Kent, six miles East of Canterbury.

Lancashire. Quitclaim relating to Duxbury, Addington and Chorley paid in lieu of fees to Hugh de manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 11 lines, folds, some surface wear, slightly stained, wax seal, 95 x 230mm, 10th June 1367Footnote: Note: A quitclaim is a legal instrument used to transfer interest in real property. The owner/grantor terminates (“quits”) any right and claim to the property, thereby allowing the right or claim to transfer to the recipient/grantee.

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.] A Guide to Contemporary Scottish Literature I 11pp., 4to, manuscript, signed at head, preserved in blue morocco-backed cloth folder

Nineteenth Century Recipe Book Mrs Buist, 1879 Comprising 180 manuscript pages with recipes (a few in a later hand), with additional contents and index leaves, recipes including Baked Raspberry Pudding, Diplomatic Pudding and Soufflé of Diced Haddock, contemporary maroon cloth, 16.5 x 10.5cm, a little dust-soiling in places, a few page corners chipped and torn slightly affecting text in places, food stains to a few leaves

West Lothian Manuscript Estate Plans The Lands of the Earl of Buchan at Drumshorlen, near Comprising: Plan of Drumshorlen Muir, May 30th 1776 by J. Udny(?), hand-coloured in outline; Plan of the March between the Earl of Buchans Lands of Clappertonhall and the Earl of Hopetouns Lands of Pampherston Mill and the Forth, June 1787; Plan of the Marches between the Earl of Buchans Lands, and the Earl of Hopetouns Lands of Niddry, July 1787; Plan of the Marches between the Earl of Buchan and the Earl of Hopetoun from Ecclesmachan , down the burn to the Lands of Niddry..., July 1787; and several other preparatory sketches, each plan 25 x 35cm and bound into a contemporary half calf volume, covers detached

Magic, Twentieth Century, a large collection comprising: Fischer, Ottokar, [compiled by and translated by Richard Hatch] The Magic of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser. 1985, dw.; Harbin, Robert . Early Harbin and Harbincadabra. New York, 2005, 2 vol., in slipcase; Minch, Stephen . Daryl’s Ambitious Card Omnibus, dw.; Elliott, B . Classic Secrets of Magic. 1953, dw.; Gordon, G . Magical Legacy. 1980, dw; Thompson, J.G . The Living End. 1972, wrappers; Walton, R . The Complete Walton. 1986, 2 volumes, dw.; Wright, Page . Notebook. 1933, wrappers; Alberice . Reel Magic. 1950, wrappers; “Reelistic Magic”, n.d., wrappers; Hugard, J . The Royal Road to Card Magic. 1948, dw; Hugard, J . Silken Sorcery; bound with 3 others, 1940’s, cloth; Teale, O.S . Higher Magic. 1920, cloth; Steinmeyer, J . Art & Artifice. 2006, wrappers; Acer, D . Natural Selections. 1995, dw; Wright, P . Page Wright’s Manuscript. 1991, dw; Jay, J . Session Magi of Joel Givens. 2007, wrappers, 2 vol; Carroll, J . 52 Lovers, vol. 2, 1991, wrappers; Gaultier, C . Magic without Apparatus. 1945, wrappers; Trost, N . The Card Magic of Nick Trost. 1997, dw; Wonder, T . The Book of Wonder. Vol. 2, dw; Tamariz, J . Verbal Magic. 2008, dw; Caveney, M . Harry Anderson Wise Guy. 1993, wrappers; Frost, R . Card Miracles. 2004, dw; Costi, D . Close-up Elegance. 2004, dw; Lorayne, H . Doug Edwards. 1997, wrappers; Hollingworth, G . Drawing Room Deceptions. [c. 2001], cloth; Sharpe, S.H . Neo-Magic Artistry. 2000, dw; Bamberg, T . Okito on Magic, 1973, dw; Frank, G . Tampa…. Magician. 2002, dw; Gloye, E . Harlan Tarbell, 1993, wrappers; Sawyer, T.A . SS Baldwin and the Press, 1993, cloth; Jarrett . The Complete Jarrett. 2001, cloth; Hugard, J . The Royal Road to Magic. 1954, cloth; Andros, J . Andros deals you in, 1956, signed, wrappers; Mole, H . Those Entertaining Years. 1949, wrappers; Le Grand David . Thirty years of Sustained Wonder. [n.d.], wrappers; Maskelyne, J . White Magic. [n.d.], dw; Dawes, E . Henri Robin, Expositor of Science. 1990, no. 44/230 copies, wrappers; Burrows, J.F . Programmes of Magicians. [n.d.], wrappers; Sharpe, A.C . Expert Hocus Pocus. 1973, wrappers; Witt, W . Cortini Manipulator, Illusionist. 1990, wrappers, inscribed copy; Steinmeyer, J . Impuzzibilities. 2002, wrappers; Black Herman ’s Secrets of Magic. 1938, wrappers; Holler, H . Europe’s Jewish Magicians 1933-45, 1999, wrappers; Maxwell, M . The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner. 1987, dw; Hilliard, J . Greater Magic + More Greater Magic, 1994, number 95/150 de luxe edition, signed, slipcase; Anmar, M . The Complete Cups and Balls. 1998, signed limited edition, in slipcase; Anmar, M . The Complete Cups and Balls, 1998, dw.; Marlo, Ed . M.I.N.T., 1988, 2 vol.; Marlo, E . Revolutionary Card Technique. 2003, dw; Hilliard, J . The Lost Notebooks. 2001, dw; Minch, Stephen . Ken Krenzel’s Close Up Impact. 1990, dw; Aronson, S.H . The Card Ideas. 1978, wrappers; Kaufman, R . New York Magic Symposium, numbers 2-5, 1983-86; Hartman, J.K . After Craft. 1995; Hartman, J.K . Trickery Treats, 1999; Hartman, J.K . Card Craft. Collected Trickery. 1991; Stott, R.T . Circus & Allied Arts. 1958, vol. 1; Marlo, E . Thirty Five Years Later. 1986, signed copy; A Tribute to Ed Marlo. The Sorcerer’s Eyes, 1981; McComb B . The Professional Touch. 2003, boards; James, W . Entertainments. 2004, dw; Dingle, D . Dingle’s Deceptions. [n.d.], wrappers; Vernon, Dai . Vernon’s Inner Secrets of Card Magic pt. 1, 1959, wrappers; Hilliard, J . Greater Magic. 1994, dw; all original cloth or boards unless stated; and a few pamphletsFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Davidson, Thomas Cantus, Songs and Fancies Aberdeen: John Forbes, 1666. Second edition, small oblong 4to, contemporary vellum, lacking seven leaves, some leaves torn with loss to text; Johnston, Arthur Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum. Amsterdam: Johannem Blaeu, 1637. 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary vellum with manuscript labels to spines (3)

Alphabetum Arabicum Rome, 1592 Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1592. First edition, 8vo, 64pp., woodcut device on title, title restored on verso at corner, some marginal manuscript translations of letters cropped by binder, somewhat dust-soiled, occasional dampstains, inner margin of p.25 and 63 torn, final leaf frayed, corner repaired and small hole with loss of a few letters, title with womhole on title after "Romae" affecting one word on verso, title almost detached, 19th century boards, worn & soiled, stitching weakFootnote: Note: The Medici Oriental Press, the first printing press in Europe dedicated to printing books in an Arabic typeface, was founded in Rome in 1584 under the direction of Giovanni Battista Raimondi and the patronage of Pope Gregory XIII.

Rae, W.F. Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: the Opposition under George the Third London: W. Ibister & Co., 1874. 3 volumes, 8vo, extra-illustrated with 2 volume title-pages in manuscript, 218 portraits and 70 topographical plates (including 10 coloured plates), with 2 ALS bound in: 1) from Philip Henry Stanhope, Lord Mahon, dated 6th June 1843; 2) from Colonel A'Court, dated 26th July 1798, in chocolate brown half crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun; Steinman, G. Steinman Some Particulars contributed towards a Memoir of Mrs. Myddelton, the great beauty of the time of Charles II. Privately printed, 1864. 8vo, extra-illustrated with 36 portraits, inscribed on the title-page with the author's regards, in deep blue crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, bookplate (4)

Coppard, A.E. 5 volumes signed by the author, comprising The Hundreth Story. Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Number 222 of 1000 copies, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, inscribed by Robert Gibbings to the Cliftons, original green morocco-backed patterned boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. t.e.g.; Easter Day. 1931, Number 77, signed by the author, with the verse on the last page in the author's hand & signed and dated by him, and a page of the original manuscript signed by him loosely inserted, original green cloth backed boards, a few spots to boards, slipcase discoloured and slightly rubbed; Emergency Exit. New York: Random House, 1934, limited to 350 copies, signed by the author on half-title, original buckram lettered in gilt; Nixey's Harlequin. London, 1931, number 97 of 304 copies signed by the author, original parchment, t.e.g.; Ring the Bells of Heaven. The White Owl Press, 1933, number 10 of 150 copies signed by the author, original cloth, very worn glassine wrapper (5)

Bosnia and Herzegovina Austro-Hungarian Military post 1900 SG148-149,151-152,154-156 158 used SG155 10h red manuscript cancelled (9)