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A large scrapbook relating to the XXV String Orchestra of Leeds, 1922-1930, well executed manuscript pen, ink and watercolour title page heightened in gilt, numerous tipped in photos, programmes, cuttings etc, contemporary cloth album very worn

A manuscript receipt book dated 1841, numerous cookery receipts and medical remedies, plus some other prose and extracts at end, approx 32 pages of manuscript recipe entries including "Essence of ginger for spasms", "Antibilious Powders", "Recipes for whooping cough" etc plus "Lemon Puffs" "Baked Aplle Pudding", "Syllacbus", "Potted Shrimps" "An experiment for ascertaining the saltiness of the sea ?" etc etc, plus some other receipts loosely inserted, old calf backed boards (worn)

A 19th Century school child's excercise book, manuscript pen, ink and watercolour decorative title page "Walstan White - Cossey School - May 1856", manuscript pen and ink entries for Divison of Money etc, the titles of each section in colourful watercolour

[RUSKIN'S LAST AUTOGRAPH?]. 'The Portrait birthday-book of famous names', Seeley & Co, circa 1880. A 19th Century autograph album containing signatures of over 80 notable Victorian personages in the fields of Literature, the Arts etc, compiled by W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow who apparently distributed the pages of the book to various eminent people inviting them to write against the date of their birth. Entries include John Ruskin, Linley Sambourne (with caricature self-portrait & illustrated letter), Henry Irving, James McNeill Whistler (with his butterfly signature beneath), Ellen Terry, Richard Le Gallienne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Douglas Hyde, Edward Grey, W.E. Gladstone (with autograph postcard from his son W.H. Gladstone), Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.H. Hudson, Wallace Bruce (with ALS from the US consulate in Edinburgh). The main strength of the album being the Ruskin contribution, who was visited by Angus's friend William SInclair, Secretary of the Glasgow Ruskin Society: "I put before Mr & Mrs Severn the request of my friend Mr Craibe angus for the autograph of the Master. Mrs Severn looked puzzled and said that the Master had not signed his name for over three years, and she was not hopeful that he could use a pen...taking with her the Album, Mrs Severn promised to do her best for me. On returning from the Drawing Room...she said, 'Well he has done it but it is a very feeble attempt'. We examined the autograph with the melancholy foreboding that it might be the last penned by the hand that wrote 'Modern Painters'. [Signed] William Sinclair. (Ruskin died five months later. This account of Sinclair's visit and a transcript of a subsequent letter from Mrs Severn to Angus, are finely inscribed in a manuscript border around the relevant opening. also tipped in is part of an earlier ALS written by Ruskin in 1868. The album c.250pp + 19pp index, each opening covering 3 days with space for autographs on facing pages, decorative borders & miniature portraits in line throughout; uncut in handsome brown crushed morocco ruled and titled in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. Further list of signatures included available on request.

JOHN BULLOCH: 'George Jamesone The Scottish Vandyck, Edinburgh, 1885, limited edition, (181/250), signed in initials by the author and numbered, 2 heliogravure plates by George Reid and folding pedigree as called for, some old manuscript notes and marginalia and relevant cuttings, original cloth gilt, together with George Reid (illustrated): Johnny Gribb of Gushetneuk in the Parish of Pyketillim, Edinburgh, 1880, 20 heliogravure illustrations as called for, original buckram, printed paper label to spine (2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 10 works including first editions, comprising: 'The Scarlet Letter', London, 1851, 1st UK edition, rebound (not recent) cloth gilt; 'The House of The Seven Gables', Boston, Ticknor et al, 1851, 1st edition, ads at front dated November 1850, original cloth gilt; 'The Blithedale Romance', Boston, Ticknor et al, 1852, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; 'Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni', London, 1860, 3rd edition, 3 volumes, association copy with circa 80 mounted albumen print photographs including portrait of Hawthorne (frontis volume I) and views of Rome etc, plus 2 mounted pen, ink and watercolour illustrations, plus manuscript note from the sculptor John Gibson R.A. who died in Rome January 1866 (volume I), and a note from a Cardinal (volume III) etc, uniform crimson morocco gilt; 'Snow Image', 1851, 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt; 'Mosses From an Old Manse', 1846, 1st UK edition, 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, etc etc (13)

Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Ballads', London, 1899, 4th edition, 2pp of autograph manuscript by Stevenson bound in before half title, rebound (not recent) full morocco gilt (worn), top edge gilt, by Bumpus Ltd

Harry Brittain: 'Notes on the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk & Suffolk', Norwich, circa 1890, 5th edition, ownership signature of Herbert Woods (1891-1954), founder of the Herbert Woods boatyard of Potter Heigham in 1929 and designer of the revolutionary Broads light Cruiser 'Speed of Light', with an earlier manuscript pen and ink log of a trip in 1891 on board "Driven Mist" from Loynes at Wroxham. John Loynes may also have been aboard on this trip, the m/s crew list including a "J.M.L.", rebound cloth gilt, original wraps bound in, lacks title page, together with another copy of the same work, [1887], contemporary half calf gilt, plus George Christopher Davies: 'Jarrolds' Illustrated Guide to The Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk', 45th edition, circa 1900, folding map and illustrations as called for, original pictorial boards (3)

Geo A. Stephen: 'Books on the Broads, A Chronological Bibliography', Norwich, 1921, Frank C. Chambers copy, interleaved with numerous additional manuscript entries by him, plus relevant printed cuttings pasted in, marginalia etc, rebound cloth; David Clarke: 'The Broads in Print', 2010, 1st edition, original pictorial wraps, some leaves loose; plus Darroch & Taylor: 'A Bibilography of Norfolk History - ...II 1974-1988', 1975, 1991, 2 volumes, each original cloth gilt (4)

Harleston, Norfolk. Sale particulars for The Dove House Estate 1869 (hand coloured), with a manuscript Plan of Mendham, 1838 (actually Harleston). Also seven handbills for Penny Readings at the Corn Hall, Harleston, March 1861

A ledger for a William Cox of Alburgh, Norfolk, entries dating 1920's/30's and Blacksmith, Wheelwright etc related, three other similar disbound manuscript account books circa 1895-1920, entries relating to Blacksmithing etc, Alburgh, Redenhall, Denton, Starston etc

'A Map of the Country of London Showing the Boundary of the Jurisdiction of The London County Council', London Edward Stanford, Feb 1st 1892, engraved coloured folding map backed onto linen, later manuscript added place names and crude white bordering, printed area approx 66 x 100cm, original cloth, printed paper label to front cover

Gilbert White: 'The Natural History of Selborne', Chiswick Press for J. & A. Arch et al, 1837, new edition, association copy with Gilbert White five line autograph note signed, a manuscript pen and ink copy of receipt for a half years rent due, dated April 12 1746 and signed "By me Gil. White", this loosely inserted along with several early 20th Century autograph letters signed and other correspondence from Rashleigh Holt-White, (Great Grand Nephew of Gilbert White, author of 'The Life and Letters of Gilbert White', 1901), to an S. Cartmell of Carlisle, with a manuscript inscription to first blank leaf at end by Cartmell stating "This book was given to me (along with the autograph at the back...) by Rashleigh Holt-White...in exchange for a copy of the same edition...which belonged to his father Algernon Holt-White containing numerous pencilled notes and family details. S Cartmell 1 Oct 1902. Contemporary half black morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt

Thomas Campbell Eyton: 'A History of the Rarer British Birds', London, 1836, 1st edition, one of 100 large paper copies only, 101;67pp, 2 parts in 1, engravings throughout, well executed hand drawn and painted depiction of a Crossbill loosely inserted, signed verso "Chas M. Curtis del: Nov. 1835", this from which the engraving of a Crossbill in the book (p.21) was obviously copied, with some further later manuscript research notes regarding the drawing inserted, contemporary cloth, printed paper label to spine

Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood', London, Taylor & Francis, inscribed by author inside front cover "Lilford Working Copy Nov. 83", interleaved with numerous manuscript pen and ink annotations throughout by author, imprint at foot of title page '1880 83.' crossed out by author and with his manuscript pen and ink date beneath "1880-1893", original cloth gilt; Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Ornithology of Northamptonshire 1879-1886', London, Porter, 1886, reprinted from 'The Zoologist', interleaved with blank pages, one of which with pencil notes in unknown hand, contemporary quarter leather gilt (worn); Henry Graves Bull: 'Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire', London & Hereford, 1888, 1st edition, copy of Lord Lilford with his ownership signature and dtaed 1888 beneath in his hand to front pastedown, mounted portrait photo frontis, original pictorial cloth gilt (3)

Mendham (Edith).- Hood (Thomas) Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, manuscript calligraphic text and 33 original watercolour illustrations artistically incorporating the text, 1p. with light soiling, the odd spot, 20th century crushed brown morocco, gilt, by Roger de Coverly, spine richly gilt in compartments, light rubbing to joints, g.e., oblong folio, [c.1890].⁂ A handsome turn of the century manuscript work, richly illustrated with original watercolour drawings, by the little known late Victorian female artist, Edith Mendham (fl. 1888-1911). Few works by Mendham are known but the present album suggests she was a highly competent and skilled illustrator. Provenance: Christie's sale, 29th January 1979, lot 36 (lot slip loosely inserted).

East India Company & African Company.- Keate (Sir Jonathan, first Baronet, of The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts, 1633-1700) Account of Receipts and Disbursm.ts of the Personall Estate of his Testator George Keate Esqr. besides the Stockes of his m the Eat India and Affrican Company, manuscript, title and 8pp., 1f. blank at end, folds, browned, title soiled, stitched, unbound, large folio, 25th February 1695.⁂ Keate served as an assessment commissioner in 1648; he fined for alderman in 1650. As a merchant he chartered ships to the Commonwealth and Protectorate. He also became a merchant, and during the Interregnum imported sugar from Barbados. He retired from business after his wife inherited the Hoo estate, rebuilt the mansion there, and later acquired two adjacent manors.

Bristol.- Poll Book, manuscript, 129pp., last 3pp. in a later hand, a few ink marks, browned, original vellum-backed marbled boards, extensively rubbed, spine creased and worn, modern card slipcase, sm. 4to, [1781].

Wheatley (Dennis, writer, 1897-1977) An archive of manuscripts, typescripts and others including Wheatley's unpublished first novel "Julie's Lovers", 14 vol., comprising: Julie's Lovers, 2 vol., typescript, original rexine; Julie's Lovers, book I, chapters VII - XIII only in autograph manuscript, original boards; The Perfume Garden, translated by Dennis Wheatley, with notes, unpublished autograph manuscript, original cloth-backed boards; 3 autograph notebooks; 5 vol. relating to the inventory, insurance and sale of various houses owned by Wheatley; 3 vol. of press cuttings, photographs and bibliographical listings relating to Wheatley, v.s., v.d.⁂ A fascinating archive, Wheatley wrote Julie's Lovers whilst serving in the 36th Ulster Division in the First World War. His father arranged for the novel (a romance with a military setting) to be typed up but did not succeed in finding a publisher. The rest of the archive exemplifies Wheatley's meticulous noting and cataloguing both of his own ideas as well as the voluminous contents of his houses.

Alnesbourne Priory, Suffolk.- Charter, Roger de Suerdell and Galiena his wife grant to Alnesbourne Priory of land at Hahill [Hayhill, Ipswich], witnesses: Simon de Hedset, Henry le arblatt and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 15 lines, a few small wormholes, folds, three small brown stairs, slightly creased and yellowed, lacks seal, housed in a custom made box, docket and Phillipps manuscript no. 31166 on verso, 146 x 183mm., [1199].⁂ Alnesbourne Priory, an Augustinian monastic house in Suffolk; annexed by the monks of Woodbridge Priory in the 15th Century.

Hackney Coaches.- Blake (Daniel) & others. Orders, By-Laws, and Ordinances, for the Good Government and Regulating of the Persons Licensed to Keep and Drive Hackney-Coaches within the Cities of London and Westminster..., broadside, title in contemporary manuscript to verso, a little spotted and browned, folds, a couple of holes to folds with slight loss to text, [Wing O396bA], c.430 x 330mm., n.p., 1697 [but 1698].⁂ Rare; only one copy listed by ESTC (Guildhall Library); not in the British Library.

Regicide.- Norton (Sir Gregory, first Baronet, politician and regicide, c. 1603-52).- To the right honourable the Comittee of Parliament to whome the bill of attainting of Oliver Cromwell & others..., manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank and docket mostly in a 19th century hand, folds, browned, folio, [c. 1660].⁂ A petition for mercy made at the Restoration, to parliament on behalf of Lady Norton, daughter-in-law of Sir Gregory Norton, whose husband had been imprisoned because of his father's attainder as one of the regicides of Charles I. Norton's estate, which included the royal manor of Richmond, was forfeited to the crown. Norton's son Henry, had been disinherited by his father as an "unnaturally disobedient son".

Bedfordshire, Arlesey.- Charter, I Odo Burnard have conceded and confirmed to Radulphus Squier land in Arlesey, near the land of Warun Kokerel and to the west of the land of William Blyth for a farthing payable annually at the Feast of St Martin, witnesses: Roger Burbaud, Richard de Bankedich and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a fine charter hand, 15 lines, folds, slightly creased and browned, lacks seal, housed in a custom made box, 110 x 145mm., n.d. [c. 1220].

Franciscan Poverty.- [Bartolus de Saxoferrato (continental jurist of Medieval Roman Law, 1313-57)] [Tractatus minoricarum], manuscript in Latin, on paper, 19½pp., c. 43 lines, in brown ink, in a cursive continental bookhand, ruled in brown ink, foliated in a later hand in red ink, inner margins repaired, slightly browned, later endpapers, 19 century boards, folio, edges uncut, [?Germany], [c. 1450].⁂ Tractatus Minoricarum, a treatise on the legal aspects of Franciscan poverty.

Shropshire.- Charter, I, Geoffrey of Criddon grant and confirm to Robert le Heyt of Criddon of land in the village of Criddon, near the house of Elyas, witnesses: William de Upton, Philipp de Sydenhale and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 10 lines, black wax seal with good impression of Geoffrey of Criddon, small brown stain in right margin, small hole affecting one word, folds, slightly creased, housed in a custom made box, 80 x 190mm., [c. 1240].

Anglo-Irish Game.- Excursion through England & Wales. A New Game, manuscript, title and 43pp., pen and ink decorated title and illustrations in the text, original patterned card boards, 8vo, Ballylin, [Donegal], 1848.⁂ "Rules of the Game. The players spin a telotum numbered from 1 to 8, and whoever gains the highest number, begins, by placing his traveller on the corresponding number on the map... .

Antiphoner, manuscript in a Gothic hand, on vellum, 10pp., initials in red or blue with marginal flourishes, 8 lines and 8 staves of music, head of manuscript cut slightly affecting text, part of 2 lines blanked out, browned, disbound, 147 x 107mm., [?France], [c. 1480].

Cornwall.- Buller (Rev. Richard, rector of Lanreath, Cornwall, 1804-83) The Cornish Clown, autograph manuscript poem signed, title and 12pp., a few corrections, slightly browned, central folds, 8vo, 1857; and another, a Commonplace book of poetry, compiled by his wife Elizabeth Hornby, 8vo & 4to (2). ⁂ First mentioned unpublished.

Hawking & Hunting.- Turberville (George) The Booke of Falconrie or Hawking..., second edition, issue with catchword "of" on A1r, 1611; The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, second edition, 1611, together 2 works in 1 vol., printed in black letter, woodcut title vignettes, the first showing the Earl of Warwick in hunting costume, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page, the first work with final blank, the second with initial blank and 4pp. bugle calls with musical notation at end, with contemporary ink manuscript recipes to endpapers and a few annotations to text (first leaf frayed and defective), both titles cropped affecting imprint (loss of date to first, shaved on second), first title with ink smudge, occasional browning or soiling, some light water-staining, becoming loose in binding, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and slightly stained, preserved in old cloth drop-back box (rubbed & repaired), [Schwerdt II, 271-272; STC 24325 & 24329], 4to, by Thomas Purfoot⁂ Two of the most important hawking and hunting works of the 16th century, first published in 1575, and nearly always found together. The first work is an adaptation of the works of Giorgi, Carcano, Tardif and Artelouche; the second (sometimes attributed to George Gascoigne) is essentially a translation of Du Fouilloux's La Venerie. Some of the woodcuts contain portraits of the monarch and these have been altered from Queen Elizabeth I in the 1575 editions to King James I in those of 1611, although that on p.112 of the first work still features part of Elizabeth's riding habit.

Shaw (George Bernard, playwright and polemicist, 1856-1950).- Candida... Theatre Royal, South Shields... Special Matineee, printed playbill, with manuscript admission ticket, all laid down on card, folds, browned, 257 x 203mm. & 60 x 92mm., 30th March 1895; and another a signed photograph portrait of Bernard Shaw, v.s., v.d. (2).⁂ The first performance of the play. Albert Edward Drinkwater (Drinkwater's father) starred in the production.

Ogilby (John) The Relation of His Majestie's Entertainment passing through the City of London, to his Coronation: with a description of the Triumphal Arches, and Solemnity, first edition, second state without dedication and final list of committee members, with initial licence leaf, lightly damp-stained, stitched, first and last leaves soiled, first with title in contemporary manuscript, [Wing O181], by Tho. Roycroft, for Rich. Marriott, 1661 § Digges (Thomas) Englands Defence. A Treatise concerning Invasion..., light damp-staining, stab-holes, loose, [Wing D1471], for F.Haley, 1680 § Grimalkin, or, the Rebel-Cat: a Novel. Representing the Unwearied Attempts of the Beasts of his Faction against Sovereignty and Succession since the Death of the Lyons in the Tower, first edition, state A, [Wing G2026], for the Author, 1681 § Tell-Truth (Robert) Advice to the Nobility, Gentry, & Commonalty of this Nation in the Qualifications and Election of their Knights and Burgesses, their Representatives in Parliament, 4pp., drop-head title, [Wing A660], n.p., [1679] § Charles II, King of England. His Majesties Gracious Speech...to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 23d of May, 1678, title with woodcut royal arms, [Wing C3085], by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1678 § Officers Address (The) to the Ladies. To their Brightnesses the Ladies of Great-Britain..., 4pp., drop-head title, water-stained, by A.Baldwin, [1710], some a little browned or soiled, all but the first disbound; and 4 others, similar, folio (10)⁂ The third mentioned, Grimalkin, is a satire on the intrigues of the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth to alter the succession; the last refers to the Sacheverell trial, ESTC lists only 2 copies (BL & Trinity College Dublin).

First New Testament printed at Oxford.- Bible, Turkish.- Domini nostri Iesu Christi Testamentum Novum. Turcice redditum, translated by William Seaman, general title in Latin, followed by a title and text in Turkish Arabic, title with woodcut printer's device, some spotting, occasional causing loss of the odd letter, lightly browned at edges, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [D&M 9345; Madan 2727; Wing B2813], small 4to, Oxford, excudebat H. Hall Academiæ typographus, 1666.⁂ William Seaman (1606-1680) orientalist and first translator of the New Testament into Turkish, which was was printed at the expense of Robert Boyle and the Levant Company. In about 1630 Seaman travelled to Constantinople and entered the service of the English ambassador Sir Peter Wyche. Provenance: The Earls of Macclesfield (engraved armorial bookplate and blind-stamps). Our copy bears manuscript corrections to the text and numerous dots placed in the fore-margin. One possible candidate for these is the English orientalist Edward Pococke, who was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor of Arabic there. The inside rear covers bears the initials EP in a couple of combinations.

Middle Eastern ms.- Kamal al-Din Vahshi Baqfi (c.1532-83). Farhad u Shirin, Persian manuscript on paper, 20 leaves and 2 blanks, text written horizontally and diagonally in two central columns and in outer margins of each page in elegant shikasteh script in black ink, each line contained within a gilt cloudband, richly decorated with floral and vegetal motifs in gold throughout, loose within contemporary limp roan, stamped in gilt and red, a little rubbed and some wear to fore-edge of upper cover, 8vo, 162 x 115mm., Persia, c.1800.⁂ A lovely manuscript poem about the tragic love affair of the sculptor Farhad and the Armenian princess Shirin, written in the meter of Nizami's Khusrau u Shirin. The author was born in the agricultural town of Baqf and died in nearby Yazd. Provenance: late 19th century inscription "Capt Mignon 15" on first blank page.

Surrey.- Charter, I, Walter son of Eilwaker of Mapeldrex [Mapledrakes near Ewhurst] quitclaim to William Mapeldrex relating to Gomesulue [?Gomshall], witnesses: John de la Hale, Henry de la Breth, Edmund de Gomesulue and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 9 lines, a few small wormholes, lacks seal, folds, 99 x 195mm., [c. 1240].

Marriage.- Raymond of Peñafort. Summa de casibus poenitentiae et matrimonio, manuscript on vellum, double column, text c.129 x 95mm.; 253 ff. (lacking 3 ff., i.e the first f. of each of books I-III), 26 lines, one illuminated historiated initial depicting a priest blessing the marriage of a man and woman, who stand before him holding hands, initials in red with blue penwork or vice versa, paraphs and running titles alternately in red or blue, capitals stroked in red (with guides to the rubricator by the scribe in a cursive script often surviving in lower margin), Table with f.4 stitched repair to lower margin and f.5 with marginal hole, text f.19 hole to lower blank corner, f.37 hole to lower blank corner, f.42, 45 & 92 hole within text, f.162 tear within text without loss, f.205 small hole at foot of first column, just touching the odd letter, some staining, mostly marginal, 16th century blind-tooled calf, 13th century ms. used in spine and a 15th century ms. used in covers, lacking ties, extremities worn, rubbed and scuffed, housed in a modern cloth chemise and morocco-backed cloth slipcase, spine gilt, binding, 138 x 100mm., [?Paris or Burgundy], [c.1270].⁂ A comprehensive summary of the teaching of marriage, written to aid his Dominican brothers in the hearing of confessions where numerous problems touching on marriage would have been encountered. He deals with the ideas of engagement and marriage, and thereafter treats of the impediments to marriage. These included the use of force in giving consent, and the impossibility of sexual intercourse. The work concludes with an overview of procedures for obtaining a separation because of adultery; the legitimacy of children, and dowries. Provenance: 'Ex libris ?Müllerieis / ?Treviris sub signo S. Michaelis' (17th century inscription); 'I/F' (?18th century small paper label at foot of spine); 'Gift of Mrs. Davie' (20th century pencil inscription); Cathedral Library, Washington D.C. (de-accessioned).

Hardy (Thomas).- Drinkwater (Albert Edwin, schoolmaster and actor, 1852-1923) The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy presented by the O.U.D.S. & Produced by A.E. Drinkwater..., presentation inscription from the OUDS to Drinkwater, manuscript title and 29 large photographic stills of members of the cast each signed, margins browned, John Drinkwater's bookplate on front pastedown, original half morocco album, gilt, rubbed, g.e., each photograph 215 x 290mm., oblong 4to, 1920. ⁂ The first play by a living author to be staged by the Oxford Union Dramatic Society.

Astronomical manuscript.- Kalendarium cum Tabulis Astronomicis; Tabula Regionum; Tabula Eclipsium Solis et Lunae; and other astronomical texts, manuscript on paper and vellum, 61ff., initials in red and blue, 2 full-page vellum diagrams (one retaining its moveable volvelle, the other apparently without), one quadrans drawn on vellum, 10 full-page illustrations of eclipses (for the time period 1475-1530), together with a number of tables, 36 lines written in dark brown ink, ruled in light brown, worming to blanks, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary boards, ownership inscription to cover, rebacked, covers wormed, sm 4to, [?Northern Italy (possibly Verona or Bologna), c.1470].⁂ A unique compendium of astronomical texts, including significant portions of Regiomontanus' Kalendarium together with other prognostic texts. The various texts have original composition dates that range from the 12th through the 15th century. The Regiomantine text contains small, but significant, differences from the printed version, suggesting that the manuscript precedes the printed text. The contemporary inscription on the rear cover would indicate that the manuscript was perhaps used with the context of the university of Bologna.A complete listing of the contents is available upon request.Provenance: Joseff Gregri Da Bologna (early inscription to back cover); Samuel Nerplanck Hoffman (armorial bookplate); Sir Thomas Phillips (inscription to front pastedown).

Dallington (Sir Robert) Aphorismes ciuill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine, 2 parts in 1, first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, first title first word is xylographic and with engraved portrait of dedicatee Prince Charles verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blanks, title trimmed and window mounted with portrait verso visible, 2L-2N2 thin worm trace to side-notes column, occasionally just touching part of the odd letter of text, occasional staining to lower margins, contemporary limp vellum, ms. ink title to spine, lacking ties, a little staining, [STC 6197], folio, [R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613.⁂ In 1609 Dallington presented Prince Henry with a manuscript Aphorismes civill and militarie, comprising pieces selected from the Italian historian Guicciardini. Following the prince's death in 1612 Dallington reworked these, which were published in 1613 with a new dedication to Prince Charles, later King Charles I. Provenance: 'William ?' (two contemporary ink signatures to B1).

Henry V (King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, 1386-1422).- Letters from Michael Guernier, Baillie of Maine and Meulan for the King of France and England [Henry V], stating that by order of Sir Walter Hungerford, Sir John Tiptoft, Jehan le Feron, Estiennot Vincent and others and their aides have been sent to Meulan to make a barrier from the causeway of the pool to the river Seine for the lodging and security of the sovereign and for the placing of his garrison, manuscript in French, on vellum, 14 lines, lacks seal, folds, slightly creased and browned, ink no. 19 at head, ink stamp of a star at tail, 115 x 230mm., 19th July 1419.⁂ Meulan was a vulnerable point on the water transport link between Paris and Rouen and with a bridge over the Seine. Walter Hungerford, first Baron Hungerford (1378-1449), soldier, administrator, and speaker of the House of Commons; served at the sieges of Caen and Falaise (1417), Cherbourg (1418), Rouen (1418-19), and Melun (1420); and at the long siege of Meaux (1421-22).John Tiptoft, first Baron Tiptoft (c. 1378-1443), administrator and speaker of the House of Commons.

Kent.- Charter, grant by Hamo de Pirifield [alias Ousden in the parish of Pluckley] to the prior and convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, annual rents of three shillings and a halfpenny from a holding in Farleigh [?East and West Farleigh near Maidstone] and land in Crullesland, for Grot Teaghe, for land in Pirifield, witnesses: Walter de la Dene, Henry parson of Drieregate, Anselm de Stokeby, Pagan de la Hale and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a fine charter hand, a few lines lines underlined in red, 3 brown stains not affecting legibility, contemporary docket on verso and later ownership mark of Sir Edward Dering, red wax seal with fine impression, housed in a custom made box, 80 x 200mm., recorded in the court ['curia'] of Farleigh, 1235.⁂ Provenance: Sir Edward Dering first baronet (1598-1644), Kentish antiquarian and book collector: ownership mark on verso.

Erasmus (Desiderius) Apophthegmes, that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious sayinges, translated by Nicolas Udall, first edition in English, black letter, crible initials, title supplied in excellent manuscript facsimile, lacking final index leaf and 3 blanks at end,*2-4 neatly repaired and possibly supplied from another copy, outer margin shaved, occasionally touching side-notes, occasional light foxing, bookplates to pastedown and endpaper, 19th century period-style calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, preserving original backstrip, g.e., [STC 10443], 8vo, Richard Grafton, September, 1542.⁂ An attractive copy of a rare and important work. Composed for the moral education of the young Prince William of Cleves. This work is a monumental collection of pithy sayings and anecdotes collections from Greek and Latin literature. Putarch's ancient collection of apothegms appears to be a primary source; Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great are frequently referenced.

Fell (John, Bishop of Oxford, 1625-86), William Jane, Church of England clergyman, bap. 1645, d. 1707) & Henry Compton, Bishop of London, 1631/2-1713) Reference in favour of Robert Farrow, Master of Arts & Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, D.s. "Jo. Oxon", "William Jane" & "H: London", manuscript, slight stain at head and tail, laid down on card, folds, slightly browned, folio, 20th May 1685.⁂ "The rhyme,I do not love thee Dr FellThe reason why I cannot tell;But this I know and know full well,I do not love thee Dr Fell,the result of a mischievous translation of a Martial epigram by a disciplined student, Thomas Brown, stuck in the popular memory longer than the preoccupations of the man to whom it refers. It seems to touch a truth about the energetic, determined, effective, partisan, and sometimes sanctimonious man who made a profound contribution to Restoration Anglicanism and who in many respects was Restoration Oxford." - Oxford DNB.Robert Farrow (1655-93), son of Francis Farrow, of Thingdon, Northants, fellow of Lincoln Coll.

NO RESERVE Photographs.- Canada.- [?Notman (William, photographer)] Victoria Bridge, Montreal under construction, albumen print, c.205 x 285mm., "Victoria Bridge...early in Feb. 1859" in ink manuscript on verso, a little faded, folds (some tears along folds), [1859].⁂ The Victoria Bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson and Alexander McKenzie Ross, and the chief engineer was James Hodges. The first bridge to span the St.Lawrence River, it was the longest in the world at the time of its construction and described as the Eighth Wonder of the World. Construction began in 1854 and the first train crossed in December 1859, with the official inauguration by the Prince of Wales in August 1860. Originally a tubular bridge of prefabricated wrought iron sections made in England, it was later replaced with metal trusses in 1897-98 using the same stone piers and is still in use today.William Notman (1826-91) was a Scottish-born successful photographer in Montreal who was commissioned by the engineer James Hodges to record the construction of the bridge and this is possibly one of his many studies available for purchase by the public.

House of Lords.- Remembrances for Order and decency to be kept in the Upper house of Parliament by the Lords, when His Majesty is not there, manuscript in an attractive Italic hand, 77pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, engraved bookplate of John Gordon, Earl of Sutherland on front pastedown, modern bookseller's description tipped-in on blank fly-leaf, original red gilt panelled morocco, corners slightly bumped, gilt panelled spine with gilt floral decoration, a little rubbed, g.e., 8vo, [c. 1714].⁂ John Sutherland, sixteenth Earl of Sutherland (bap. 1661, d. 1733), army officer and politician; a commissioner for the union of England and Scotland; a Scottish representative peer in four parliaments, president of the Board of Trade and manufactures, and lord-lieutenant of the eight northern counties of Scotland; aided in putting down the Jacobite Rising of 1715. In 1719 his men took part in the battle at Glensheil, which brought to a close the first Jacobite rising.

Drinkwater (John, poet and playwright, 1882-1937) David and Jonathan, calligraphic manuscript, decorated title cut and loosely inserted, drophead title in red, text in black and blue ink, original card wrappers, calligraphic manuscript title label laid down on upper cover, [Published in Preludes..., 1922]; and an archive of articles, letters and newspaper clippings etc., including: autograph manuscript of John Bull article "The King This Week", on the brief reign of Edward VIII and Abdication, initialled "JD" (not complete), 1936; unfinished typescript of vol. III of Drinkwater's memoirs, selections of essays, typescripts, newspaper clippings, original watercolour design for Drinkwater's first vol. of autobiography Inheritance (framed and glazed) etc., 1920s - 30s; and a small quantity of typescripts of plays by Winifred Gwynn Jeffreys, v.s., v.d. (qty).

17th century shuffle ball.- The ?examynation of John Wilcope, late of Wylbee, taken before John Drake and Walter Young, D.s. "John Drake" and "Walter Young", manuscript, 160 x 190mm., 14th August 1622; and 3 others, 17th century, v.s., v.d. (4 pieces).⁂ First mentioned: "... on Mondaie he [John Wilcope] and one John York came unto Thomas Hewetts house at Wylbe [Devon] where they called for a jugge of beer or two wh. they drank in a chamber where stoode a shuffle boule, whereat they played for the said beer...".

Church architecture.- Gloucestershire.- Clarke (Joseph, British Gothic revival architect, 1819-1888) Nine drawings of St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve, showing various facades and architectural details, both of the interior and exterior, presented in an album with manuscript title page that reads 'Bishop's Cleeve Church, Gloucestershire/ Sketches by J. Clarke. Archt. for Mr Britton [John Britton, see provenance]', with an additional watercolour by R. Kitton of a church monument within the same church, and another of Wheatsheaf Inn, Tewkesbury, inscribed 'J.R. Thompson from a study by J. Britton', watercolours over graphite, various inscriptions, sizes from 40 x 105 mm. (1 1/2 x 4 1/4 x in) to 235 x 130 mm. (9 1/4 x 5 1/8 in), on wove papers without watermarks, one sheet inscribed '1831' verso, neatly tipped onto album leaves, plain boards, spine split, very rubbed and worn, folio, [circa 1830s].Provenance:John Britton (1771-1857), English antiquary, topographer, author and editor, and the sole author of the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (9 vols, 1805-1814) and Cathedral Antiquities of England (14 vols, 1814-1835).

Canon Law.- [Laurentius Puldericus (clericus Neapolitanus)] [Breviarum decreti], manuscript in Latin, on paper, 105pp., between 49-53 lines, in brown ink, in a cursive continental bookhand,some sidenotes, a few in another contemporary hand, later endpapers, 19th century boards, edges rubbed, folio, [?Germany], [c. 1450].⁂ A version of Gratian's Decretals, the great corpus of ecclesiastical law, partially based on Roman law, with additions from the Church fathers.Johannes Gratian was born probably at Chiusi, in Tuscany. He became a monk and taught at Bologna in the monastery of SS. Felix and Nabor. He compiled the Decretum in c. 1140, shortly after the Second Lateran Council held in that year. Gratian died before the Third Lateran Council (1179).

Shipwreck.- Fellowes (William Dorset) A Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Packet The Lady Hobart on an island of ice in the Atlantic Ocean..., sixth edition, the author's copy with some corrections to text and with his extensive manuscript annotations in ink commenting on the text, mostly on interleaves, signed and inscribed by him to "...his esteemed friend James Hooper as a testimony of his regard. W.D.Fellowes, August 1850" on front pastedown, light foxing and soiling and marginal water-staining, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, 8vo, 1803.⁂ Fellowes was in command of The Lady Hobart sailing from Halifax to England when she struck an iceberg and sank, forcing the crew to abandon ship and crowd into two lifeboats with very few supplies. They landed near St.John's eight days later, having suffered dreadful hardship from hunger and frostbite. As he comments opposite p.22, "I had no time to take any precautions myself, I refused to put on my uniform coat, and foolishly threw it from me, having gold lace so unsuited to our position - consequently I had no other covering than a thin bleu jacket - no hat, neither shoes, or stockings, and only a pair of thin loose bleu trousers, without drawers - so equipped, it may be easily imagined what I suffered!". At the end of the work is a list of the crew and Fellowes adds below, "The surgeon (luckily for him) was left on shore the night of our putting to sea, so sudden was the execution of my orders to do so".

Inner Temple and Middle Temple.- [?Wallop (Richard, lawyer, bap. 1616, d. 1697)] Concerning the Temples, manuscript, title and 39pp., title loose, extensively browned, stitched, disbound, folio, [c. 1680].⁂ No mention of any printed work by Wallop recorded in ESTC. Mentions Paul Micklethwaite (1588/9-1639), Church of England clergyman, Master of the Middle Temple.

Illuminated Book of Hours leaf.- Leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours with the Four Evangelists, single leaf 155 x 110mm., in Latin, on parchment, single column, the first 4 lines of John's Gospel on the recto, ruled in brown ink, written in textura in brown ink, the 2-line heading in red ink, on the recto, a large miniature divided into four vignettes and two registers, showing the Evangelists, within a full border of swirling leaves, flowers, fruits, and inhabited by a peacock; one decorated illuminated 2-line initial 'I', leaf in very fresh condition, in a richly carved gold frame under museum glass, minor losses of pigments and smudging in places, Northern France (possibly Rouen), [c.1480].⁂ A lavishly illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours produced in the 1480s, and associable to the workshop, or a close follower of the highly esteemed Maître de l'Échevinage.The miniature displays iconographical features characteristic of this artist, named Master of the Échevinage after a group of manuscripts he illuminated for the Council of Aldermen (échevins) of Rouen, and now in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, and also known as Master of Latini Geneva, from a manuscript of Brunetto Latini's Trèsor of the Genevan Library. He worked in Rouen from 1450 to about 1485, and his influence was immense. Generally, this miniature shows striking similarities with that opening the Gospel Lessons in a Book of Hours held in the Morgan Library in New York (MS M. 1093, fol. 13r), produced by the same Master and his workshop in ca. 1470.Literature: R.S. Wieck, Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, London 1988; C. Rabel, "Artiste et clientèle à la fin du Moyen Age. Les manuscrits profanes du Maître de l'Échevinage de Rouen", Revue de l'Art, 84 (1989), pp. 48-60; Ead., "Master of the Rouen Échevinage", J. Turner (ed.), The Dictionary of Art, London 1996, vol. 20, s.v.; R.S. Wieck, Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art, New York 1997, p. 69.

RIDER HAGGARD HENRY.  A four line manuscript autograph postcard from North Lodge, St. Leonard's on Sea, 1920; also a dedication leaf with annotations in Rider Haggard's hand & 3 double spaced folio typescript sheets entitled "Heu-Heu or the Monster, the storm" with ink annotations & corrections in what certainly appears to be Rider Haggard's hand.

CANNON HALL, BARNSLEY.  An Account of the Improvements in the Gardens & Park at Cannonhall. 18th century manuscript notebook, the early leaves dated c.1760-1765, describe the work done & expenditure thereon followed by later manuscript updates, 1870's to 1913. At the end of the volume is a 13 page catalogue of fruit trees, plants & seeds planted or sown in 1761. Dark morocco gilt, wear & rubbing, one or two leaves loose or detached.Condition report:Circa 18th century 38 pages front and 13 pages back.21 pages re 1870s onwards.Approx. 30 blank leaves (60 pages) and a few more blank pages through.As images 

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. A SINGLE LEAF FROM A PSALTER, 16.5 X 11.5CM IN WINDOW MOUNT

Two postcard albums chronicling the Russian/Japanese war, early 20th century, various cards showing the Russian Black Sea fleet anchored at Vladivostok, postcard of Admiral Togo with manuscript note, various other cards, views of damaged Russian trawler signed Tokyo, 11/2/1904, Russian artillery Port Arthur, Japanese cards including execution of three Japanese spies and views of Japanese Russian war dead, Japanese Infantry etc, two albums with approx 160 cards in total. Note: M/S notes on some cards suggest that they were sent by a European resident in Tokyo circa 1904.

A 16TH/17TH CENTURY OTTOMAN OR PERSIAN ILLUMINATED DOUBLE-SIDED MANUSCRIPT PAGE, 19.5cm x 11.5cm.

A Collection of incunabulum, including a bible leaf from Corinthians I, printed in 1480 by Ottaviano Scoto in Venice (with certificate of authenticity by Bill Marger); a leaf from Sermons de Laudibus Sanctorium, printed by Robertus Carracciolus, Paris 1489; two sheets of Gregorian chant, printed in black and red; a Florentine order of service, 1545; two other early printed sheets, possibly French; a German illuminated manuscript, in gilt and blue; and a page from The Historyes of Troye, William Morris's Kelmscott Press (9)

A Persian manuscript page representing a courtesan scene, framed and glazed, 30 x 22 cm

T. Leonard Evans (Welsh 1926-1990), 'Eilean Donan Castle', signed and dated 1916, watercolour, 40cm x 60xm, together with a manuscript history of the castle inscribed in ink by the artist and separately framed (2)

A near pair of Indian gilt-patinated bronze figural panels, each cast with an armed deity beneath a cobra, traces of gilding, the largest 23cm x 12cm, later mounted for the collector in hardwood niches, the borders carved with flowers and scrolling foliage, 29.5cm x 24cm, the frames c. 1880, the shrine bronzes 19th century or earlier, probably Deccan, South-West India; an Indian manuscript leaf, painted with a demon, calligraphy to verso, 9.6cm x 8.4cm, [3]