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Scotland.- Campbell (Colin, sixth Earl of Argyll, magnate, c. 1542-1584) Document relating to the Earl of Argyll, manuscript in Scots English and Latin, Secretary hand, 1p., tears with slight loss in left margin not affecting text, folds, browned, Hand & Flower watermark, sm. 4to, 1574.

Marriage.- Compendium tractatus de matrimonio, manuscript in French, 144pp., browned, bound in the remains of a medieval music manuscript on vellum, defective with tears, 8vo, [France], [18th century].

Philosophy.- Cours de Philosophie, title from spine label, manuscript in French, 218pp., slightly browned, original leather-backed boards, edges uncut, [?late 18th century]; and another manuscript in French, "Mélanges", sm. 4to (2).

Royal Navy.- [Ship's Personnel], manuscript, 19pp. excluding blank, ruled in red, central folds, last 2ff. small hole, slightly browned, disbound, 116 x 98mm., [c. 1810-20].⁂ Lists gunners, top sail men, carpenters etc. Mentions Lieutenant Ormond, possibly Francis Ormond, lieutenant on several Royal Navy vessels in the early nineteenth century.

Vaudeville.- Pain (Marie Joseph, French playwright, poet and essayist, 1773-1830) & Pierre-Ange Vieillard, French poet, playwright and literary critic, 1778-1862. [Brutal ou] Il vaut mieux tard que Jamais. Proverbe: Vaudeville en un Acte, manuscript in French, title and 46pp., slightly browned, original wrappers, [c. 1820]; and 2 other French Plays (1 play in 7 acts), sm. 4to (9 pieces).

Royal Navy.- Morris (Henry Gage Morris, Admiral, joined HMS Glasgow 1826, served at Battle of Navarino 1827, and in China 1842, author of "Forty-five Predictions of the Old Testament," 1855, 1811-91) Log of the Proceedings of HMS Glasgow... J.A. Maude Captain, manuscript, title and 178pp., 3 pen and ink maps (1 with watercolour wash decoration), slightly browned, original half vellum, covers with tears and small loss, folio, 1826-28.⁂ James Ashley Maude, appointed Captain of HMS Glasgow, a frigate, one of the British squadron at the battle of Navarino, Oct. 20, 1827, during the Greek War of Independence.

NO RESERVE Victorian Girl's Education.- Thoughts & Extracts on the Education of a Daughter, manuscript, 41pp. & 6pp., together 47pp., original straight-grain morocco, edges rubbed, 8vo, 1857.

Unpublished Novel.- Belaney (Archibald, Scottish-born merchant and ship-broker, 1824-65) Complete working manuscript of his unpublished novel "Mammon-Court, being the history of Sundry persons Belonging there," autograph manuscript, 1172pp., on blue paper, mostly written on rectos only, with corrections, excisions and additions, some white marks, ink inscription with address on front free endpaper, original half roan, worn, upper joints weak, 4to, Croydon, [?c. 1860].⁂ Archibald Belaney (1824-1865), Scottish-born merchant and ship-broker. In 1858 Belaney published a long poem called The hundred days of Napoleon: a poem in five cantos. He gives his address here as "Langton House, The Crescent, Croydon." "Mammon-Court" begins with a shipwreck off the coast of Northumberland, and the rescue of the passengers and crew by Grace Darling and her father William. The real Grace Darling (1815-42) achieved lasting fame when in 1838 she rescued nine people who were stranded on rocks when the steamer Forfarshire was wrecked in the Outer Farne Islands, close to the lighthouse kept by her father. Belaney's grandson was the impostor "Grey Owl," also born Archibald Belaney. Fascinated from an early age by the North American Indian, Belaney left England in 1906 bound for Canada, and spent the rest of his life as a trapper and guide, and later conservationist, writing a number of popular books on the North American wilderness.

Sumner Family of Princes Risborough and Grasmere.- Collection of manuscript and typescript short stories by Lily Sumner, ?unpublished) and correspondence with other members of the Sumner family, of Princes Risborough and Kelbarrow, Grasmere, some addressed to the Bishop of Jerusalem, numerous pp., folds, browned, v.s., v.d., 1863-1910; and a small quantity of correspondence relating to the daughter of Sir Herbert Griffin (1889-1969), campaigner for conservation, v.s., v.d. (qty).

German Songs.- Traxler (Fr.) 67 Lieder und Gesänge, vol. 4 only, manuscript music, c. 190pp., slightly browned, original cloth-backed boards, manuscript paper label on upper cover, 1868; and another, printed music, oblong 4to & folio (2).

Royal Flying Corps.- Morris (Francis St. Vincent, pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, war poet, buried at the British Military Cemetry at St. Sever, Rouen, son of Rev. Ernest Edwin Morris, Canon of Southwell Cathedral, Vicar of Ashbourne with Mapleton, 1854-1924) Hints for Huns, autograph manuscript initialled, 17pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, Royal Flying Corps Graduation Certificate 1916, Northern Command School of Scouting and Sniping Certificate 1916, and a photograph of Francis Morris loosely inserted, original morocco, corners rubbed, lacks spine, 1917; and another, a manuscript collection of prayers compiled by Mary Evelyn Morris, Deaconess, (1887-1978), sister of the first mentioned, sm. 4to & 8vo (2).⁂ First mentioned a humorous collection of prose and poetry relating to Morris's experiences learning to fly in the Royal Flying Corps."Of the height you were up/In a Sopwith Pup/Or the stunts you did on a Bristol/Or the Vickers Scout/Which buzzes about/Like a shot from a Browning Pistol... ." - Morris.Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896-1917), known to his family as "Vin", was born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was educated at Brighton College and Wadham College, Oxford. Morris was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Sherwood Foresters Regiment in 1915, and transferred to the 3rd Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps in early 1917. He was posted to France, where he had two flying accidents due to poor weather. In the same year his plane crashed near Vimy Ridge in a snow storm, and was badly wounded and died on 29th April 1917. Some of Morris's poetry (of a more serious nature than the above) was published by Blackwell's in 1917, and his poems were included in several World War I anthologies.

NO RESERVE Essex, Dedham village during the Second World War.- Dedham War Work Rooms Minutes, manuscript, title and 73pp., slightly browned, original morocco-backed cloth, slightly rubbed, sm. 4to, 1939-46.

NO RESERVE Manuscript Collections.- 3 Short Stories.- The Ruby Ring: The Spirit of the Orange Tree: The discontented Girl, manuscript, 51pp., slightly browned, original wrappers, manuscript label on upper cover, covers worn and detached, sm. 4to, [19th century] § Riddles, manuscript, 57pp., watercolour decoration, pencil inscription on fly-leaf: "Lotty, Nelly & Issy from Lady Digby 1862", 1f. with tear, slightly browned, modern inscription on front pastedown: "From Collection Hon. John Fox Strangway Abbotsbury", original half morocco, gilt, corners bumped, 1862; and c. 15 others, v.s., v.d. (c. 15).

NO RESERVE Wounded in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.- Fido (Thomas, surgeon, of Exeter) To Thomas Carew Esqr Judge of the Sessions and to... fellow Justices att ye Castle of Exon... Whereas I have searched the Woonds wch Humphry Wilkins received in the late warr Against the dutch by order from y e Justices... and doe find that he is very Much disabled by a Shott in both his thighs for to gett a liuelyehood, D.s. "Tho. Fido Chyrurgeon" and others, manuscript, 1p., folds, slightly browned, a few small tears at tail, folio, 26th September 1667.

NO RESERVE Church of England, Province of Canterbury. Convocation. An order for publike Prayers to be used on Wednesdayes and frydayes in every Parish Church within the Province of Canterburie..., 48pp., title with historiated woodcut border and Royal arms on verso, decorative woodcut initials, black letter, small holes to lower margin of title, stitched in plain wrappers, [STC 4587], Christopher Barker, [1586] § [Ashe (John)] A Perfect Relation of all the passages and proccedings of the Marquesse Hartford, the Lord Paulet, and the rest of the Cavelleers that were with them in Wels, 8pp., title with ornamental border, contemporary signature "Geo. Kenyon" at foot, small tear to title where folded, cropped shaving border and a few lines of final leaf, later wrappers, [Wing A3945], for Joseph Hunscot, and I.Wright, 1642 § K[illigrew] (H[enry]) A Sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at Oxford, 22pp. (of 24, lacking A1 containing woodcut portrait of Charles I), browned, slightly frayed at edges, disbound, [Wing K445], Oxford, for W.Web, 1643 § D'Auvergne (Edward) The History of the Last Campagne in the Spanish Netherlands. Anno Dom.1693, folding engraved battle plan (some tears to folds), browned, broken and loose, [Wing D299], for John Newton, 1693 § Monmouth (Robert Carey, Earl of) Memoirs of the Life...from an original Manuscript in the Custody of John Earl of Corke and Orrery, second edition, engraved frontispiece of procession of Elizabeth I, contemporary ink signature "Robt. Sutton" to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, roan label, rubbed, joints split, R. & J.Dodsley, 1759; and another, small 4to & 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Board of Ordnance.- Bridges (William, politician, a member of the Board of Ordnance, d. 1714) Certificate, Thomas jenkins Ma[ste]r of ye Griffin Pink tender on her Mat:ies Ship Suffolk hath given an account of the Expence of ye Stores comitted to his Charge, D.s. "Wm Bridges", "Ja: Lowther", "C Musgrave" & "J. Pulteney", manuscript, 1p., piece of corner torn away, browned, laid down on card, folio, 23rd April 1703; and 7 other documents, 6 documents relating to the Board of Ordnance and the Navy Office, folio, v.d. (8).

Battle of Guadeloupe.- Royal Navy Log.- Simms (Thomas, midshipman) Journal of Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Vengeance Command'd by Comm.r Hotham Sam.l Appleby Capt..., autograph manuscript, title and 60pp., slightly browned, last f. small stain in corner, later endpapers, 20th century half morocco, gilt spine, folio, 1st August 1779 - 31st July 1780.⁂ An eye witness account of an action in the Battle of Guadeloupe."Wednesday 22nd [1779] Still in chase at 8 P.M. the Magnificent fir'd several shot and Bro.t too La Blanche a french Frigate of 32 Guns, Orderd us to stay by her... 12 Seamen a Serjeant, Corp.s & 10 Marines on Board and rec.d several Prisoners at heard the Report of several Guns in the NE at 6 AM Joind ye Adms. La Fortune a french Frigate of 40 Guns the Magnificent and Sterling Castle still in chase in Company with ye Admr. and 2 Prizes... for all Cruizers." - Simms.

NO RESERVE Painting.- Process of Painting, manuscript, title and 6pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, stitched, unbound, 118 x 90mm., [c. 1800].

NO RESERVE Porson (Richard, classical scholar, 1759-1808) Porson's Book Notes, 4 ?autograph manuscript notes (1 page of Anacreon and another titled "A Watch Paper"), 2 in Greek and 2 in English in miniscule writing, browned, laid down on card, v.s., v.d. [c. 1800] (4 pieces).⁂ "Perhaps Porson's most lasting legacy resides in that most characteristic expression of his better self-his Greek handwriting. It is elegant, it is sensitive, it is self-confident, it is a visual embodiment of all the best which the reader hopes from the best ideas within the text. Porson type is now the most commonly printed font for classical Greek text in the English-speaking world and is likely to continue as such for centuries." - Oxford DNB.

NO RESERVE Genealogy.- Cowper (William, physician and antiquary, bap. 1701, d. 1767) Parentalia... A Genealogical Account of the Family of Cowper, manuscript, 25pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, manuscript paper label on upper cover, 8vo, dated in text 1811.

NO RESERVE Channel Islands.- English School (19th century) Views in Jersey, 13 views and landscapes, with manuscript title inscribed 'Given to us on leaving Jersey in 1836', 5 executed in [?] tempera or watercolour, the others in chalks, pencil or pen and inks, each approx. 110 x 150 mm (4 1/4 x 5 7/8 in), or the reverse, neatly mounted on album leaves with locations inscribed below, some surface dirt and discolouration to pigments, oval profile portrait of Frencg General Charles-Francois du Perier Dumouriez inserted in album, cloth boards, spine splitting, rubbed and worn, oblong 8vo, [circa 1835]; together with a bill poster relating to Daniel de Lisle Brock, the Lieutenant-Bailiff of Guernsey, unframed, 1832 (2)

NO RESERVE History of Kings and Queens of England.- [Question cards for children on English royal history], manuscript, 55 sides on cards, loose, slightly browned, unbound, 125 x 80mm., [c. 1840].

Valentine. Collection of three Victorian Valentines, comprising: 1) Manuscript romantic verse (beginning, 'On this day the turtle dove, Looks about to find its love'), with envelope addressed to Miss Wakefield, Thomas Attwood Esquire, Harrogate, stamped with Penny Red, 1847. 2) 'A Love Token for My Favorite', Dobbs embossed paper lace with dried grasses, original envelope addressed to Miss Maria Williams, Penton House, Newington Butts, stamped and postmarked London, 15 February 1860. 3) Kershaw paper lace, central metal mirror (3)

Grant of Arms for Ashby-de-la-Zouch Rural District Council, 1956, recorded in the College of Arms, London, various signatures including Anthony R. Wagner, Richmond Herald. Manuscript on vellum with with hand-painted heraldic devices embellished with gilt, the wax seals within gilt metal casings, the whole housed in its original red cloth case bearing gilt royal cypher

Meir School, Longton, Stoke on Trent, manuscript log book recording events and goings on at the school in detail, including block printed programmes for plays, 1928-1948 (taking in WW2 period), half calf

Black Prince- Edward, (Prince of Aquitaine and Wales, 1330-76) "The Black Prince" Charter granting to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Mary's, Silver Maior [Notre Dame de la Sauve-Majeure in the Gironde, founded 1077], rights relating to a weekly market, held on Thursdays, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 9 lines, a little surface wear though still legible, folds, cut at foot, some wear and staining, vellum losses, ?lacks signature, 134 x 325mm, 30th July 1365; and attached to the remains of a larger document in French related to the same grant, v.s. Note: Edward, the Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III was created Prince of Aquitaine in 1362. Internal disputes between various lords in Aquitaine often resulted in appeals to King Edward or his liege lord, Charles V in Paris. In 1366 Prince Edward embarked upon a successful campaign to restore Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Castile but during the campaign the Prince was struck down with chronic dysentery and returned to Bordeaux a sick man. In 1370 due to yet another dispute Charles V of France invaded Aquitaine and the prince insisted, ill as he was, in take part in the fighting. During the ensuing war he besieged Limoges and massacred the inhabitants. He returned to England in 1371 and handed back the principality to his father in 1372.

Crimean War Journal of a wounded officer and a collection of letters, 1855-56 A collection of items, including: Manuscript journal recording an injured British Lieutenant Colonel's (initialled (?)"AGB") return from the Crimea on the ship Thames , commencing with his departure on 24 November 1855, describing time spent in Constantinople and Malta, his thoughts on his own mortality and the progress of the war ("...The army will under God's blessing get on very well through the winter, but the drunkenness among the men is shocking..."), a visit to Renkioi Hospital in the Dardenelles ("...a fine well ordered hospital ... a covered passage leads between the rows of huts in each of which a nurse is to be found ... the Patients are not very numerous at present - they looked very comfortable in their white not blue dressing gowns. They are of course wounded & sick soldiers..."), reflections prompted by a visit to Troy comparing the Iliad with the Crimea ("...we agreed that Nestor had a close resemblance to Lord Raglan, whose opinion always had the greatest weight..."), details of other wounded officers with whom he shared quarters, and ending with his return to England and reception at Woolwich, 22 pages, folio with a final 8vo leaf, blue paper, roughly stitched but the final leaf loose, dated at the end, Belmount, Nightingale Vale, [Woolwich, London], 23 December 1855; [AND] A file of correspondence and papers relating to the Cavalry Division in the Crimea, including letters sent to the divisional headquarters, mostly by senior officers, copies of letters to others but about divisional affairs, and memoranda, on subjects including appointments, supplies, the provision of interpreters, winter quarters, veterinary appointments and reports on cavalry horses, and personnel matters including complaints from an officer about accusations of cowardice at the Battle of Balaclava and the theft of money from a French soldier whilst sleeping off drink in the guards tent of the 13th Light Dragoons, many with marginal comments and docketing, c.34 items, chiefly folio, c.50 pages, March 1855 to April 1856

de' Nerli, Filippo Comentari delle cose di Firenze Folio, scribal manuscript on paper, c.1720, [18], 597 pp., 290 x 200mm, title-page written in capitals within an ink frame, contemporary calf, green edges, some show-through (particularly in headlines), rebacked Provenance: [George Berkeley] Note: Despite being composed in the mid-sixteenth century, Nerli's history of Florence from 1215 to the battle of Montemurlo in 1537 was not published until 1728 in Augsburg, alongside other works of Florentine history by Varchi and Segni. Nerli's nephew presented a copy of his manuscript to Francesco de' Medici in 1574 (the dedication is included in the present manuscript). This manuscript was apparently commissioned by the philosopher George Berkeley while in Florence in January 1720, together with a manuscript of Bernardino Segni's Storie fiorentine, which was also in the Ombersley library. Berkeley accompanied St George Ashe on his Grand Tour from 1717 to 1720, spending most of the year 1720 in Florence, acquiring works of art.

Derbyshire - Stanton by Bridge - Staunton & Peverell Families Genealogical pedigree Relating to the descent of the advowson on "the church of Stonistanton [Stanton by Bridge] next to Swerkeston Brydge" and the decision of the Chancellor Lichfield, Dr. David Pole, manuscript, 1p., folds, 1 corner slightly creased, some light soiling mostly to edges, 400 x 282mm [c. 1545]; and 5 other documents relating to the church, its vicars, v.s., v.d. (6 documents in 2 folders) Note: The pedigree traces down members of the Staunton and Peverell families, with allusions to an agreement to present by turn in 1276, as far as Ralph Peverell, who is noted (in a different mid 16th century document) to have granted to Robert Fraunceys de Fornewerk in 1355. An advowson is the right of presentation to a benefice - a church living. Davd Pole (d. 1568), Bishop of Peterborough 1557-59, variously Canon of Lichfield 1531; vicar general and official principal of Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield 1534 and again in 1543. Pole was a persecutor of protestants and served on the panel that condemned Latimer, Ridley, Hooper and Cranmer.

French erotic manuscript Les Dames Fessues ou Lettres de Cunégonde a Emélie Paris, 1730 [but later], comprising 166 manuscript pp. in the form of fictionalised 'letters' from 'Cunégonde' to 'Emélie' discussing her exploits with gentlemen, with three engraved plates bound in, late 18th or 19th century quarter morocco gilt over gilt embossed blue boards

Lindsay, Patrick, Archbishop of Glasgow (1566-1644) Charter granter and confirming to "Johanis Barteo" of Land in Hallhill [Fife], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 325 x 555mm., 1636, large oval red wax archiepiscopal seal, a good impression, folds, slightly creased along folds, two tiny holes at folds, browned

Paulet, William, 1st Marquis of Winchester (c.1483-1572) Aston Tirrold and East Hendred, Berkshire/Oxfordshire Document signed, c. 1550, a Particular of the [?] Hee Farm Rents of the Manor & Lands of Aston Tirrold and East Hendred, tall manuscript on vellum, 27 x 82cm., signed at foot "Winchester" Note: William Paulet, 1st Marquis of Winchester, close adviser of Henry VIII, Lord Treasurer to Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth.

Sackville Sir Richard (c. 1507-1566), English administrator and M.P. Fine Document signed ('Ry Sakevyle'), the text in another hand being an order to pay Richard Mynsterly, a messenger, for riding from London to Colchester. [London?, July 1561], manuscript in ink, one page, folio (310 x 215mm.), creased with slight tears at folds and very slight fraying at ends and a couple of very small holes; pot watermark with initials (illegible) Note: A good document signed by the father of Thomas Sackville (c. 1536-1608), 1st Earl of Dorset. Sir Richard Sackville, a cousin of Anne Boleyn on his mother's side, was an MP and successful administrator in Tudor England, and a committed Protestant.. The present document is a signed order to pay one Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen's Chamber, for riding by Sackville's request from London to Sir William Cecil who was in attendance to the Queen at Colchester. This service is to be charged at 2s. 8d. per day, which for three days' work amounted to a total of 8s.; with a hand-written transcription.

Scottish Manuscripts Inveresragan, Argyll and Bute & Thurso, Caithness 5 Autograph Letters, 2 from Robin Hunter to Colin Campbell of Inveresragan, at Greenock, 1 from Edward Nixon, relating to Hunter, 1 from Jon. Innes to Colin Campbell, 1 from John Glasgow, Irvine, to Colin Campbell, 1733-39, relating to cargoes of timber to Port Glasgow, trade in herrings, coal for the garrison of For William, herring fishing at Port Nessock; with 2 envelope fronts "Toe be forwarded by the Postmaster of Inverary" & "Via Inverary"; William Henderson of Thurso 5 manuscript letters to his son John, 1814-1826, the first to John when a student of Mr Mackinlay's of The Academy Tain, later ones to lodgings in Edinburgh, when John had become a Law student. The first letter extols the virtues of good spelling and punctuation and the avoidance of "habitual drinking", the second letter requests John to take the "John O'Groat" out of Leith, the third refers to a dispute between the people of Wick and the court officials of Thurso which might go to "The House of Peers", via the "Court of Session". The fourth letter recommends the son to investigate both Tories and Whigs, the final letter details with financial matters and grouse shooting rights. Three weeks after the last letter William died (10) Note: Colin Campbell carried on the business of a general store at Inveresragan, near Ardchattan on Loch Etive. This involved the acquisition and delivery of a variety of goods from several sources. Some research notes relating to the letters are included.

Tudor History Document signed by various prominent Tudors one page folio, 17th September 1560. The manuscript document is lacking the first few lines of text at the head (professionally repaired) although continues with six lines of full text, authorising the payment of 'fiftie oon poundies foure shillinge eight pence' for 'the cotes and conducte of two captains and three hundred soldyers' sent from Gloucester to Portsmouth. Individually signed at the conclusion by William Cecil, Ist Baron Burghley (1520-1598, English Statesman, chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I), Francis Knollys (c.1514-1596, English Courtier, Treasurer of the Royal Household to Queen Elizabeth I), Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel (c.1511-1580, English Nobleman), Thomas Parry (c.1515-1560, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Elizabeth I), Ambrose Cave (d. 1568, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) and John Mason (1503-1566, English Diplomat and Spy), with partial integral leaf, some small tears and minor areas of paper loss at the edges and folds, not affecting the signatures

Burns, Robert Autograph Envelope and Part of letter consisting of a folded post marked envelope addressed in Burns' hand to John Ballantine Esq., Banker, Ayr, and a folded strip cut from a letter (receipt unknown) with three lines on each side in Burns' hand. Envelope sheet with two pieces torn from it. Manuscript note inside records it having been given to one George Neill, bookseller in Haddington, by Burns' brother Gilbert of Grants Brae. This is followed by lines written by Robert Hood, Deputy Sheriff Clerk of Haddington, certifying the note about the donation to be in Neill's handwriting. Gilbert Burns was factor at Lennoxlove, Haddington, and lived latterly at Grants Brae. The folded strip in Burns' hand refers to Burns having sold Gilbert's grey (horse), Will[ia]m the saddler and having visited the 'Isle-house, the place where you are to reside a little time'

Burns, Robert Autograph letter signed ('Robt. Burns') To Captain Francis Grose, Ellisland, 1 Dec. 1790, 2 pages, 4to, (190 x 121mm), bifolium, docket (traces of paste where previously pasted into an album), about sending the manuscript for Tam O'Shanter. Opening with a graceful excuse for a hurried letter ('I am not, God knows, vain of my composition, & if you like intellectual food more substantial than the whipt syllabub of epistolary compliment'), Burns refers to the enclosure which originally accompanied the letter of 'one of the Aloway Kirk stories, done in Scots verse. Should you think it worthy a place in your Scots Antiquities, it will lengthen not a little the altitude of my Muse's pride.' He request's Grose's discretion in reproducing his work, noting that 'Authors have too often very little to say in the disposal of this world's affairs, but it would be very hard if they should not be absolute in their own works'. Grose's 'draft of Kilwinning is finished, but not come to hand. I shall send it you the minute it reaches me.' Note: The 'Scots verse' referred to is none other than Burns's great mock-heroic narrative poem, Tam o'Shanter: a Tale , composed to accompany the entry for Alloway Kirk in the second volume of The Antiquities of Scotland, published by Grose in 1791. Burns's 'kind funny friend', Francis Grose (d.1791) - immortalised by the poet in On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland - was an early recorder of ruins and archaeological remains north of the border; the extent of the collaboration between the two is apparent from the reference to Kilwinning Abbey, which features in the same volume. Composed towards the end of Burns's tenure at Ellisland farm - a creatively fertile period during which he also produced Auld Lang Syne - and marked by Burns's deft use of Hudibrastic verse and idiosyncratic mixing of Scots and English, Tam o'Shanter is often considered to be his finest poetic creation. A Biography of Robert Burns (1993), p.463

Burns, Robert Autograph verse, working draft, entitled 'Sonnet' and beginning 'No more, ye warblers of the wood, no more' nine lines (one scored through), with corrections, on one page, 115 x 205mm, cut from a larger leaf with trace of mount, browned, docketed on recto 'Cv2 fo 266j' and on verso '18. Sonnet on the Death of Mr Riddel; Copied by W.C.C.' Burns had made manuscript corrections to two lines. In line 2, he has altered 'Nor pour your grating descant on my ear' to 'Nor pour your descant grating on my ear'; and the last (eighth) line has been altered from 'Poured round th'untimely tomb where Riddell lowly lies' to 'That strain pours round th'untimely tomb where Riddell lies'. The text of this sonnet published in James Kinsley, ed, The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, Oxford, 1968, continues with a quatrain and concluding couplet. A comparison between his text and the present manuscript with several variant readings suggest that this was an early version of the sonnet. Note: On the day after Robert Riddell died on 20 April 1794 at the age of thirty-nine, Burns sent the sonnet to John Clarke of Locherwoods, 'a small heart-felt tribute to the memory of the man I loved . I shall send it to some Newspaper with my name.' The text of this sonnet published in Kinsley is taken from Currie, 1801 (iv. 368-9), collated with the Dumfries Journal, 22 April 1794 (where it was first published), the Morning Chronicle, 5 May 1794 and other journals. Burns's tribute to one of his greatest friends. Robert Riddell (1755-94) was the eldest son of Walter Riddell of Glenriddell, in the parish of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire. In 1784 he married Elizabeth Kennedy of Manchester and settled on the estate of Friars Carse, about six miles north of Dumfries. Both Robert Riddell and Riddell's brother Walter, together with their wives, became intimate friends of Burns. Robert Riddell was a country gentleman of convivial habits, an amateur musician and an antiquary. He collected and published Scottish music for piano, harpsichord and violin. At some undetermined date, apparently in the latter part of December 1793, Burns was guilty of some drunken offence against Elizabeth which resulted in his writing the famous 'letter from hell' and led to his estrangement from the family. Walter Riddell's wife Maria, a woman of charm, wit and intelligence forgave Burns in 1795 both for his drunken behaviour and for the unfortunate lampoon he wrote during the estrangement. His enthusiastic admiration of her and the chequered course of their friendship are recorded in their letters. Robert Riddell's sudden death prevented Burns from effecting a reconciliation. The Glenriddell MSS in the National Library of Scotland, a collection of manuscript verse and transcripts of letters, was made by Burns for Robert Riddell in 1791.

Beerbohm, Max - Maugham, W. Somerset Collection of 8 volumes, comprising Beerbohm, Max Zuleika Dobson. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, publisher's advertisements, half-title printed in brown, title page printed in black and brown, original brown cloth; Maugham, W. Somerset Don Fernando. William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. First edition, limited issue, on large paper, number 40 of 175 copies signed by the author, original green buckram; Don Fernando William Heinemann Ltd, 1935, first edition, half-title, black cloth; [Idem] Strictly Personal. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1941. First edition, number 75 of 115 copies signed by the author, half-title, photogravure portrait, original plum buckram boards; [Idem] A Writer’s Notebook. William Heinemann Ltd, 1949. First edition, number 121 of 1,000 copies signed by the author, original half vellum with navy blue buckram boards; [Idem] Cakes and Ale. New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Green cloth boards, dust-jacket; [Idem] The Vagrant Mood. William Heinemann Ltd, 1952. First edition, number 4 of 500 copies signed by the author, original half mushroom calf, navy blue calf, top edge gilt, glassine wrappers, slipcase, rubbed; [Idem] Cakes And Ale. William Heinemann Ltd, [1954]. "Eightieth Birthday" edition, number 286 of 1000 signed by author and artist, original lithograph and decorations by Graham Sutherland, facsimile reproduction of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript, half mushroom calf, navy blue calf boards; all 12mo or 8vo (8)

Jeppe, F. - C.F.W. Jeppe Map of the Transvaal or S.A. Republic and Surrounding Territories Winterthur: Wurster, Randegger & Co., (J. Schlumpf), [1899]. 6 sheets printed on silk, each 67 x 97cm, original case with contemporary manuscript inscription, rubbed, upper cover detached

Sitwell, Edith Gold Coast Customs London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition, [one of 1500 copies], 8vo, portrait frontispiece with Sitwell's signature beneath, presentation copy to Fytton Armstrong [the poet John Gawsworth], dated March 1930, with on the free endpapers, covering both sides, Edith Sitwell's holograph manuscript, signed, 26 lines, headed "the ending of Gold Coast Customs", these final lines not printed until in The Collected Poems of 1930 [June], also with holograph note on p. 28, original black cloth lettered in red, cloth upper cover slightly faded/marked, very slight wear at spine ends

Italy, Switzerland, Germany and North America Impressive Illuminated 19th Century Album of the XII Royal Lancers The illuminated title-page with the crest of the Royal Lancers, many leaves delicately captioned in illuminated manuscript, 102 albumen prints ranging in size between 34 x 42cm and 17 x 13cm, including 16 photographs of Rome, 2 of the Falls of Tivoli, 2 of Florence, 2 of Pisa, 6 showing Naples and Pompeii, 1 if Genoa, 2 showing Milan, 2 showing Heidelberg, 11 showing Venice, 8 showing North American waterfalls, 29 showing photographs of famous artworks and 17 others, predominantly showing North American scenes, all contained in an impressive burgundy panelled morocco gilt album measuring 55 x 40cm

Tragara Press, Edinburgh A collection of 12 publications Comprising: O'Sullivan, Vincent Some letters ... to A.J.A. Symons. 1975, number 86 of 130 copies; Wilde, Oscar Hellenism. 1979, number 65 of 95 copies, blue cloth; Symons, Julian The Modern Crime Story. 1980, number 57 of 125 copies; Johnson, Lionel Poetry & Fiction. 1982, number 26 of 95 copies; Fuller, Roy Twelfth Night. 1985, number 41 of 135 copies; Reed, Jeremy Baron Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen. 1997, number 62 of 75 copies, unsigned, original gold wrappers; Mason, Jeremy Oscar Wilde: Graham Hill. 1982, number 6 of 75 copies; [Various authors] My Favorite Purchase from George Sims. 1998, one of 20 copies; O'Sullivan, Vincent Marcel Schwob. Memories and Letters. 2004, limited to 60 copies, this one a printer's proof copy; Anderson, Alan The Tragara Press 1954-1979. 1979, number 11 of 135 copies, signed, quarter cloth; The Tragara Press 1979-1991. 1991, 2nd impression, limited to 50 copies; Gising, George By the Ionian Sea. 1992, page proofs, with a few manuscript corrections, unbound (12)

Fowling Perkins, Francis A Prognostication for the year of our Lord God, 1668. London: Robert White, 1668. Small 8vo, unbound, preserved in a morocco-backed marbled box, spine gilt, pp. 48, includes a section entitled "The Anatomy of Man's Body, as the parts thereof are governed by the Twelve Signs" with a woodcut illustration, the first 14pp are printed in red and black, some sections are in black letter, first leaf torn and worn, some chipping and loss, some leaves browned or stained; with a fascinating manuscript diary of 11 pages, dealing with sporting activities and with fowling in particular "Killed with GF two b[race] of P[artridge], one in Coxes further ground near Rad-Meddow, another beyond Fernall Heath near Nurtons.." Note: Although it is not possible to identify the sportsman, he seems to have been a country Vicar as he periodically makes mention of the texts on which he has preached. The location seems to be Gloucestershire as the village of Dumbleton is mentioned. This edition does not appear in ESTC. A transcript of the diary is provided.

de Turrecremata, Johannes Expositio super toto psalterio [Basel: Johann Amerbach , not after 1482] Folio, 124 leaves in double column, 40 lines plus headline, gothic type, initial spaces, contemporary calf over wooden boards, last few leaves with a small area of dampstaining, a few blank leaves removed at beginning and at end, spine covering torn with slight loss at head and foot, pastedowns lifted [ISTC it00530000] Provenance: "Sanctus Sixtus", early manuscript note on flyleaf; "I.W.", initials at head of first leaf Note: There is no catchplate on this volume, though there is the trace of a metal fixture in the centre of the lower cover, which may have been the pin for a long strap on the binding, rather than a clasp. Long strap bindings were common in romanesque bindings but were supplanted by straps with hooks and catchplates by the end of the fifteenth century.

[Napier, William, 9th Lord Napier] 3 works, including Lectures on Logarithms addressed to the Scholars of Merchiston Academy, by one of "Neper's Bones". Edinburgh, 1866. 6 lectures bound in one volume, bound with 2 others, maroon half morocco gilt; One extract and several printed letters to newspapers relating to Edinburgh Castle, one by Lord Napier and Ettrick and 3 manuscript letters loose at end, including one to Horatia [Stafford] from Lord Napier relating to Queen Victoria's invitation to a banquet in honour of the Empress of Russia, maroon half morocco gilt, Lord Napier's bookplate; Bridgman, Elijah C. A Funeral Sermon, occasioned by the Death of the Right Honorable Lord Napier. Canton, 1834, half calf, bookplate of Lord Napier, slightly rubbed (3)

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER: APHORISMS ON MAN, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, London, T Bensley for J Johnson, 1789, 2nd edition vol 1, (vol 2 never published), engraved frontis by William Blake, half title, contemporary half calf worn

CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF PICTURES, WORKS OF ART AND DECORATIVE OBJECTS THE PROPERTY OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF HAMILTON, KT, 1882, non-illustrated catalogue of the 17 day sale, some manuscript prices realised and buyers in pencil, original red cloth gilt worn and soiled, split at spine

GREAT YARMOUTH, A CATALOGUE OF THE EXTREMELY VALUABLE AND INTERESTING COLLECTION OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN INCLUDING A SERIES OF MAGNIFICENT ORIENTAL BOTTLES AND VASES...WHICH MESSRS SPELMAN HAVE RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM JOHN OWLES ESQ..., Yarmouth, Denew, 1872 auction catalogue, 12 photograph plates as called for, manuscript prices realised and purchasers, autograph letter signed from Owles to James Reeve tipped in together with 1873 memoriam card for John Owles with the original envelope addressed to James Reeve, Curator, Museum Norwich, 4to, contemporary cloth, 1 copy on COPAC, from the collection of the late Ron Fiske of Morningthorpe Manor

WALTER RYE: CARROW ABBEY, OTHERWISE CARROW PRIORY..., Norwich, Agas H Goose, 1889 (12), 1st edition, specimen copy, numbered 1, introduction with 2 manuscript corrections which were rectified in the "Standard" edition, 9 plates, 2 full page ills as list, 4to, original cloth gilt, armorial bookplate of J J Colman (1830-1890) who paid for the work to be done, from the collection of the late Ron Fiske of Morningthorpe Manor

WALTER RYE: NORFOLK FAMILIES, Norwich, Goose & Son, 1913-15, 1st edition, 6 parts complete in two, issued to subscribers, ex-collection of the late Captain Anthony Hammond with some manuscript amendments and additions with a quantity of relevant items loosely inserted, original wraps bound in at end, old half calf, marbled boards, previously sold in these rooms to the late Ron Fiske of Morningthorpe Manor (2)

WILLIAM THOMAS: A SURVEY OF THE CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF WORCESTER, London, 1737, printed for the author, engraved folding plan, folding North prospect of the cathedral, 13 plates including 10 printed on both sides, 12 full page plates, index at end with 4 pages supplied with manuscript, 4to, disbound + VALENTINE GREEN: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS OF WORCESTER, London, W Bulmer & Co, 1796, 1st edition, 2 vols in 1, printed for the author, engraved vignette titles, folding plan loose and separated into three parts, lacks plate of Bishop Madox's monument at page 161 of vol 1, otherwise complete as lists, additional plate of internal view of Worcester Cathedral at page 135 vol 1, 4to, disbound + FREDERICK THOMAS MARSH: ANNALS OF THE HOSPITAL OF S. WOLSTAN OR THE COMMANDERY IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER..., Worcester and London, 1890, 1st edition, 11 plates as list, 4to, original cloth gilt, ex-lib + J M WOODWARD: THE HISTORY OF BORDESLEY ABBEY IN THE VALLEY OF THE ARROW NEAR REDDITCH, WORCESTERSHIRE, London and Oxford, J H & J Parker, Birmingham Corns and Bartleet, 1866, 1st edition, 3 plates including frontis and 1 plan as list, 4to, original cloth gilt, ex-lib + HENRY CARD: A DISSERTATION ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT MALVERN IN WORCESTERSHIRE, London for J G & F Rivington, 1831, 1st edition, engraved frontis, 1pp adverts at end, foxing, 4to, original boards, rebacked + EDWIN LEES: THE FOREST AND CHACE OF MALVERN..., Worcester, The Herald Office, 1877, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, 11 plates, lacks map, original limp cloth gilt (6)

*An engraved passport issued by The British Consulate Buenos Aires issued to a Miss Muriel de Rouvron Rendle, a trainee nurse, dated 8th October 1914, manuscript authorisation to embark on RMS Arlanza for England, approx 390 x 280mm

THOMAS COOPER GOTCH. Various items including a hand written manuscript by T.C. Gotch on the subject of 'Life: An Art'. Also, a hand written speech by T.C. Gotch on the opening of a gallery & miscellania including invitation cards to & from Gotch & an envelope addressed to Gotch at the New Dudley Gallery, Piccadilly. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from T.C. Gotch's granddaughter, Deirdre McLellan.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT.  PLEASE NOTE: Due to Covid-19 staff shielding, we are operating a queue system for dispatch based on payment completion. Therefore, our usual speed of dispatch will be slower than normal. Also there may be carrier delays beyond our control. : We reserve the right to not ship multiple lot purchases if they are too heavy or bulky.

THOMAS COOPER GOTCH. A hand written manuscript by T.C. Gotch on 'Progress in Art and The New English Art Club'. Also, a typewritten Charter of Incorporation of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, 1909, in envelope addressed to T.C. Gotch at Trewarveneth, Newlyn. In addition, a printed document dated 1921 announcing that HRH The Prince of Wales accepting the position of society Honorary President, whilst Gotch was President of the Society. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from T.C. Gotch's granddaughter, Deirdre McLellan.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT.  PLEASE NOTE: Due to Covid-19 staff shielding, we are operating a queue system for dispatch based on payment completion. Therefore, our usual speed of dispatch will be slower than normal. Also there may be carrier delays beyond our control. : We reserve the right to not ship multiple lot purchases if they are too heavy or bulky.

A fine mid-19th Century Andrew Ross lacquered brass Large No. 1 Compound Binocular Bar-Limb Polarising Microscope, serial no. 1958, with binocular and monocular body-tubes and Wenham prism, eyepiece -'A' pair, 'B' pair, 'C Kellner's Orthoscopic' pair, D and E, objectives - ¼in with correction collar, ½in with correction collar, 1½in and 3in, in cans, Lieberkuhn, periphery-geared mechanical stage, stage bull's-eye condenser and forceps, sub-stage condenser with Wenham's Paraboloid Condenser, light modifier, Gillett's illuminator/condenser, signed 'A. Rofs' and spot lens, plano-concave mirror, and flat Y-shaped base signed 'Ross, London, 1958', with eight Ross slides, lens/eyepiece part-manuscript instructions, Gillett's illuminator instructions, bull's-eye condenser on stand, and other items, in mahogany case, 580mm high, late 1850s, overall G, some corrosion or oxidisation to steel and unlacquered brass parts from long-term storage, case lock replaced; provenance - from same family descent as Lot 185 and Lot 186

A 19th Century mahogany Microscope Slide Cabinet, twenty-one drawers, with glazed door, each drawer with manuscript titles, including natural history specimens, two large human cerebrum slides, beetles, photomicrographs, including The Moon, diatoms, transparent and injections, preparers including Topping, Enock, Bourgogne, Smith, Beck & Beck, Dancer, Ross and Norman, many paper-covered, some engraved, 300mm high, circa 1860s-1870s, G, cabinet G, part of top section edge and escutcheon missing; provenance - from same family descent as Lot 184 and Lot 186

A 19th Century mahogany Microscope Slide Case, contents neatly enumerated on case with ink inscriptions, in or near period, with associated manuscript key titled 'Catalogue of Objects', preparers - most by Smith, Beck & Beck, others including Bourgogne, some paper-covered, G (96), with case of 35 paper-covered slides and one other, probably earlier, and case of pipettes, G; provenance - from same family descent as Lot 184 and Lot 185

A late 19th Century black leather-covered mahogany quarter-plate Perken Son & Rayment Optimus 'Ubique' Hand/Magazine Camera, original camera circa 1890, with numerous advisory manuscript notes from Godfrey Batting including card 'Perken Son & Rayment's Optimus Ubique ¼pt Hand Camera purchased by A G Batting in 1895 & first used to photograph the Duchess of Teck on her visit to TW [Queen Mary's mother visited Tunbridge Wells on 20 May 1896]. Used as experimental camera with AGB's Patent Focusing Lens Holder', camera now fitted with brass Wray 6½ x 8½in f/8 lens in Batting's focusing flanges, cylindrical adjuster-tube tool with two protrusions for adjusting internal threaded lens flanges, with original interior removed, with six dds, and atttachable viewfinder, P-F, front door re-fixed (see previous lot)

A 19th Century mahogany and brass Thomas Collodion Wet-Plate Dipping or Sensitising Bath, the glass chamber mounted in mahogany case, with folding stand, with maker's plate 'R W Thomas, Chemist, 10 Pall Mall, London', with brass adjusters to sealing clamp to top, 10½in x 15in, F-G, collodion stained; with manuscript card '....Presented by the late Mr A W Pierson'