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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]

An Indian/Nepalese brown patinated bronze, of a deity, seated, holding cymbals, lotus base sealed with prayer manuscript, 13cm high, probably 19th century

Mathematics and Geometry - a set of three 19th century exercise books, inscribed in ink manuscript with problems, calculations, equations, tabulations and diagrams, various headings including, Measuration of Solids and Surveying, quarter-bound tooled and gilt morocco, green paper-lined boards printed with star diapers

Buckmaster's Cookery: [...] A Collection of Approved Recipes and Menus, London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d. 1874], contemporary cloth, 12mo; Dolby (Richard), The Cook's Dictionary, and Housekeeper's Dictionary: A New Family Manual of Confectionary [...], London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1833, engraved frontispiece, 7 full-page table settings chromolithographed in tones of green, loosely inserted MS receipt and newspaper clipping to verso, rebacked contemporary marbled boards, 8vo; Du Breuil [Alphonse], The Scientific and Profitable Culture of Fruit Trees [...], [London]: William Wesley, [1862], some engraved illustrations within text, contemporary green cloth, 8vo; a Victorian manuscript receipt/recipe book, inscribed in ink MS in two hands, 68ff and some loosely inserted receipts, contemporary green half-calf over tartan printed boards, all edges gilt, supplied by Morton, Stationer of Boston, their ticket, 8vo; Bibliography, Quayle (Eric), Old Cook Books: An Illustrated History [...], New York: A Brandywine Press Book, 1978, h/b, d/j, 4to; Mrs Beeton; Lloyds News Home Page, 1910-1914, the cuttings clipped-out and mounted to card leaves, board lever folio; another board lever folio conforming, including 19th century and later ink MS loose receipts, various; early 20th and later recipe booklets, various; etc

A 19th century and later drawing-room 'museum' or table-top wunderkammer, collected and/or gifted by E.G. Molyneux, among others, the case enclosing an interesting collection of antiquities, including Grand Tour momentos, curiosities and natural history specimens, each 'exhibit' accompanied by an ink manuscript collector's label, comprising an Ancient Egyptian faience amulet, of Anubis, glazed in monochrome and turquoise, and a similar bead, ?erroneously? labelled: Charms from body of a Russian soldier, Crimean War, Sebastopol [Sevastopol]; Granite [...] part of covering-stone of great Pyramid at Giza, [Egypt]; fragments from the Qutb Shahi Tombs at Golconda, Hyderabad , [India], 1863; Glass Tessera, St. Sophia, Constantinople [Istanbul]; Fragments of blue glass inlay, Alexandria?; a wax taper, Catacombs of St Callixtus, Rome, 1907; Piece of marble fragment from Palace of Augustus, Palatine, Rome; Colosseum, Rome; Piece of marble from Roman bridge over Anio at Tivoli [...]; Sherd from Monte Testaccio, Rome, 1923; Fragments of painted plaster from Pompeii; Tesserae, etc., from Pompeii; Fragment of vase from Salamis, [Cyrpus]; Fragments of flint found with "Coal Money" [...], Fragments of Roman pottery, Mammalian tooth [...], I[sle] of Purbeck, [Dorset]; Roman Pottery from [...] Villa N[orth] of Martyr Worthy, [Hampshire]; Romano-British Pottery: Kiln in Sloden Inclosure, New Forest, [Hampshire]; Tessera, Roman Villa, ?Brasling?; Fragment of Roman glass and lead seal; Piece of iron (spear-head?) picked on Salisbury Plain; Fragments of pottery from Silchester, [Hampshire]; Fragment of Neolithic pottery from Cissbury, [near Worthing, West Sussex]; Roman Pottery: Circular object; Cocoa & yippi-yappa seeds, Jamaica; dried leaves; the box 50.5cm wide, (collection)

A substantial Victorian desk-top manuscript accounts ledger, supplied by Wm. Townsend & Sons, Sheffield, their ticket to pastedown, inscribed in MS with mid-20th century and later accounts and records of tool, machine and agricultural equipment supplies, red-ruled throughout, reinforced contemporary reverse calf binding, gilt lettered spine, marbled edges and endpapers, folio (40cm x 30cm)

Royal Interest, Travel/Scandinavia and its Fjords - an early to mid-Victorian ink MS notebook, ?almost certainly the property of and kept by a Victorian courtier, a member of the Royal Household, or possibly a Royal Navy officer, partially filled and comprising, the recto: 51pp diary of a North Sea voyage from May 31 to June 28 1868, 5pp of a letter draft in pencil; the verso: 1pp Index, 1pp Books to Buy, 3pp Book from Library & 1pp Prices for Farm Work, the diary only being compiled for less than one month, but generally for every day, leads to the assumption the notebook was ostensibly purchased for the voyage alone, which is fortified by the presence of works on travel & exploration in the book indexes to verso, the journal commences at Portsmouth on May 31 1868 when our chronicler goes down - presumably from London - 'with C. Molyneux & lunched with Henry [...] [at one of his] houses [...] [later] cast net _ Dined with H.S.H. of Leinningen [Admiral Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen, (1830-1904), a cousin of the Royal Saxe-Coburg Gothas and commanding officer of the royal yachts HMS Magicienne and HMY Victoria and Albert until 1874] & smoked 2 cigarettes with success[!] Bed at 12 [...]'; the next day he (assumed geneder from the smoking and male company) goes 'on Shore visit with H.M. [Queen Victoria] & Law Bailie [...]'; later on June 7th, 'Church [...] at 10.30 a.m.[...] [with] P. of Wales [later Edward VII] [...]'; June 12 [...] 'English Schooner fired a Royal Salute with a musket! [...]'; the final entry, June 28 'At sea, dead calm [...]; the remaining entries with notices about the royals, breakfast, weather, fishing - generally without success, speed of travel and nautical facts, contemporary three-quarter oxblood morocco gilt over marbled boards, conforming endpapers, blue marbled edges, retailed by H. Rodrigues, 42 Piccadilly, [London], stamped, dated 1868, 12mo (16cm x 10.2cm) The manuscript diary of Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen, entitled Voyages of The Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert 1873-1877, was sold in these very rooms, Gentleman's Library Sale, 6th July 2016, Lot 3595.

[Jortin (John)], The Life of Erasmus, first edition, two-volume set, London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1758-1760, pp: [iii], iv-vi, [2], 630, [2]; [iv], 753, [1], lacking portrait frontispieces yet each volume illustrated with 2 full-page engraved manuscript facsimiles of Erasmus's and other humanists' handwriting, lacking portrait frontispieces, rebacked contemporary speckled calf boards, speckled red edges, contemporary Chippendale Armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: Southouse, 4to, [2]

An Islamic manuscript almanac, inscribed with calligraphy and painted on textile in pen and ink, gouache and gilt, 34cm x 22cm, 19th century; Persian School, a manuscript leaf, illustrated with scholarly figures, watercolour and gouache, 29cm x 18.5cm, [2]

An interesting Tudor ink MS on vellum or diploma, washed away initial letter with off-set shadow, indistinct script and fragmentary architectural wax seal, the manuscript 27cm x 50cm, mid-16th century Condition Report: Water damaged; initial letter largely washed away; seal damaged and cracked.

Microscopy - a collection of prepared microscope slides, various specimens of physiology, each label annotated in ink manuscript (qty)

Theology - Saint Irenaeus, First Bishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul, Prières et pratiques du séminaire de Saint-Irénée de Lyon, approuvées par Monseigneur l'Archevêque, Pair & Primat de France, Comte de Lyon, second edition, Lyon: De l'Imprimerie d'Aimé Delaroche, [n.d., 1739], pp: [iv], 268, xxxii, anachronistic woodcut printer's device to title-page, some headers, tacked contemporaneous vellum manuscript palimpsest covers, some inscriptions and various 18th century dates to each pastedown, 16mo (15.3cm x 8.8cm)No copies listed on Copac. Rare but arid.

A late 19th century Prisoner-of-War novelty glass bottle diorama, enclosing the Instruments of the Passion in softwood, the stopper with ink manuscript label inscribed: Presented to Mr & Mrs *** by Captain *** [...], 30.5cm high

A Victorian manuscript, Notes on Land Tenure in the Different Countries of Europe, 176ff inscribed in ink MS and some pages applied with contemporary newpspaer clippings viz. land reform, loosely inserted quire on English land holding and Francis Bacon 20ff, contemporary green cloth, printed paper label to spine: Land Tenure, folio (34.5cm x 22cm); a first-half 20th century hand-scrivened and illuminated manuscript, The Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), 18ff, a few rubricated colour initials, tipped-in pen and ink illustrations, red cloth, inscribed paper label to upper-cover, square 4to (24cm x 22.2cm); a late Victorian/early Edwardian leather bound address book, partially inscribed in ink MS, 12mo; early 20th century sketchbook, partially illustrated with pencil sketches of European travel, dated 1924, cloth, 12mo; etc., [5]

Militaria - World War Two, RAF, Photography, an album of b/w photographs of aircraft and pilots at action and ease, various, black leatherette album, oblong 4to; Medals, World War Two, RAF, local group of three, awarded to 133982, F/L C.H. Meads, Paplewick Waterworks, Linby, Notts, comprising 1939-1945 Star, Allied Victory and Defence Medals, O.H.M.S. box and ribbons en suite, his sterling silver identitiy bracelet, further badges, buttons, etc., his copy of - Air Navigation: Volume I, A.P. 1234, For Official Use, [London]: His Majesty's Office, 1941, contemporary cloth, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: F/O C.H. Meads, 8vo; Isothermal Calbiration Navigational Computer, Mk. III F*, Ref. No. 6B/214, 16cm x 14cm, crowned Air Ministry mark, c. 1939-1945; a contemporary typed manuscript, Orders For Pilot's and Navigator's Air Exercises; a World War Two period scrapbook of newspaper clippings; Ack-Ack, with Gun and Searchlight Crews at work and Play; a softwood carving, possibly Prisoner-of-War work, of a German infantry solider, square base, 32.5cm high, [collection]

A 19th century twenty-seven stick paper, bamboo and palmwood fan, each paper fold novelly inscribed and signed in ink manuscript, 29.5cm long, c. 1850

Derbyshire Policing History - a 19th century police station ledger, Smalley District Register of Convict License Holders, each page with sections for the details of returned convicts on license, filled out in ink manuscript, beginning with Samuel Bardell convicted of housebreaking at Derby on 16th October 1866 (sentenced to 8 years penal servitude) and ending with Allan Reeves's last report on the 9th March 1954, comprehensively annotated with personal information and descriptive details of released felons resident in the Derby area, with their various criminal histories and crimes, including Thomas Arthur Burton convicted of stealing oranges on 17th July 1879, Whitmore Leath, neglect of work 15th January 1872 and stealing books at Willenhall in 1878, several cases of rape, John Spalding given 7 years penal servitude for stealing a pair of boots, and the conviction of Florence May Cliffe on 15th/16th February 1944 for Using [an] instrument to procure miscarriage (2 cases), parcel index completed until 1893, disbound front board with a pasted-in fold-out form, County of Derby Division of Ilkeston Return J - Habitual Criminals at Large and Houses of Bad Character, dated 1928

Heraldry - Royalty - a 19th century album of crests and monograms, mostly Scottish, the pages illuminated, illustrated and pasted with cut-out armorials, various family, military regimental and institutional heraldry, many pages with a key, including Forfar and Kincardine Artillery, Scots Fusilier Guards, Earl of Eglinton, Earl of Strathmore, Countess of Gifton and many others, yap-edged leather binding, tooled and gilt J Macgregor to recto; a Buckingham Palace letter head, addressed to Mrs Ramsay and dated Nov. 21 1923; a card inscribed in hand manuscript Buckingham Palace - A few flowers from the Queen, so sorry to hear you are laid up. Dec 6 1923; other loose cards, insignia and ephemera

One page of EastEnders' original theme tune manuscript / score by Simon May, with letter of authenticity, plus later signed C.D "The Best of Simon May" featuring Cliff Richard, Marti Webb, Nick Berry, Simon May Orchestra. The "sketched" pages are from 1985 showing the original iconic theme tune.

Mexico : (SG 533-560) 1934 National University Fund Airmail Set of 8 values (Scott C54-61) 20c-20P very fine mint original gum - the rare 20P very light hinge, signed (light pencil manuscript) and exceptional centring to 10P and 20P. Scott cat US$2,685 (GBP£2,100), A RARE SET Cat £1500 (image available) [US2]

Switzerland : 1850-1990 an extensive and solid mint or used collection displayed in a DAVO hingeless printed album with slipcase, much of note with classic imperf issues incl. 1850 Rayon II 10r without frame to cross (2, one with red manuscript cross signed Kimmel, one on thick carton paper) each four margins, Strubel types (47) in mixed condition to 1f (5) used, one with four margins, 2r grey (3, two unused), Seated Helvetia types incl. 1862-64 plain paper 30c to 1f (7) used, 1867-78 to 50c (6, one mint), 1881 granite papers range, 1882-99 good range incl. 15c mint (2), 1882-1903 Standing Helvetia incl. 40c grey mint, to 3f used, 1908-40 to 1f mint, 1919-20 Air opts pair mint, most Pro Juventute and Pro Patria sets, 1945 Peace 10f cds used (corner crease), 1961 St Oswald's set unmounted mint, many other u/m sets in later period, and much else. (approx 1500 stamps). HEAVY LOT - OVERSEAS BIDDERS PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR SHIPPING COSTS [US3]

British Post Offices in Siam : (SG 20c) 1882-85 BANGKOK Double overprint 'B' 8c. Orange wmk Crown CA, Perf 14, 1882 Straits ovptd 'B' Type 1, variety overprint double, part Bangkok CDS used example, one of the rarest of the double overprints. An exceptionally difficult stamp to locate in cds condition, due to delicate colour, this being a particularly fine example, described on the BPA colour photo-certificate (2019) as bearing manuscript line at foot, creases (absolutely minimal), soiled (barely) and a little rubbed (hardly), is genuine - most of which, apart from the authenticity, is irrelevant because a better example hardly exists. Crucially, clearly defined double 'B' overprint. Exceptionally rare. Cat £4250 (image available)

Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG 182) 1883-84 10s cobalt, KD, crisp LIVERPOOL ST. STATION/GT. EASTERN RY cds of JY 4 84, with the day written in manuscript to correct black slug, a few very lightly toned perfs, o/wise fine used. RARE. Cat £8250 (image available)

Bradbury Wilkinson Collection : GREAT BRITAIN: 1918 Seahorse 2s.6d. Rough proof, imperf block of four, from the post 1927 plates, manuscript marks, fine. (image available) [US2]

Great Britain - QV (embossed) : (SG 57) 1847 10d deep brown, 3 margins, some old faded manuscript at top and bottom on reverse, very fresh m.m. SG Spec. H2(2). SCARCE. Cat £15000 (image available) [US5]

Brian Jabez Francis. Naturalistic Stone Foliage In English Gothic, manuscript with pen and ink illustrated plates, folio, cloth bound.

B Jabez Francis. The History And Development Of Oriental And European Harps and Lyres, manuscript with ink drawings, gilt tooled green morocco.

Hampshire, Odiham.- Charter, I John Robioye of Odiham attorney to Richard alias Swasshe and Thomas Knyth a grant to Robert Wayn a toft with garden and 12 acres in Odiham, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 5 lines, folds, slightly browned, red wax seal with fine impression, 60 x 285mm., 1434.

Churchill (Winston).- [Collection of press photographs featuring ...], 15 photographs with text on verso in pencil manuscript of typed captions pasted down, slight handling wear to edges, v.s., 1944-54.

Civil War.- Copy (A) of a List of all the Cavalliers, and brave Commanders of His Majesties Marching Army, with the number of Captaines, in each severall Regiment, and every Regiment containing about a thousand Soldiers, broadside, folds, title in contemporary manuscript on verso and initials "G.S." on recto, trimmed close to text but with portion on left-hand side remaining (folded), 2 short tears to left-hand edge, [Wing C6177], c.335 x 260mm., for Francis Wright, 1642.⁂ ESTC lists 6 UK copies (BL, Eton, Liverpool University, Oxford Christ Church and Bodleian, Society of Antiquaries) and only one copy in America (Yale).

Scotland.- Proclamation (A) anent Elders of Kirk Sessions, 1684, broadside, woodcut royal arms at head, signed "Will Paterson, Cls.Sti. Concilij." at foot, note in contemporary manuscript ?in Scots to verso, a little spotted and soiled, creased, central horizontal fold, [Wing S1630; Not in British Library], c.370 x 300mm., Edinburgh, by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, 1684.⁂ Concerning administration of external government of the church.Not in the British Library; ESTC lists a copy in the National Archives of Scotland, 4 copies in the National Library of Scotland, and 3 in America (California State Library and 2 at Harvard).

Phillpotts (Eden) The Girl and the Faun, one of 350 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author and artist, decorative title & frames to text printed in plate brown and tipped-in colour plates by Frank Brangwyn, later half green morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., others uncut, 1916 § Stevenson (R.L.) Prayers written at Vailima, printed in red and black with colours from an illuminated manuscript by Alberto Sangorski and heightened in gold, light spotting, handsomely bound in contemporary crushed purple morocco elaborately blocked in gilt with decorative corner-pieces and central lozenge, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1910 § Butterworth (A.M.) William Blake, Mystic: a Study, one of 250 copies, engraved illustrations, original buckram, uncut, spine browned, Liverpool & London, 1911 § Day (Lewis F.) Of William Morris and his work, Easter Art Annual, Art Journal Extra Number, colour plates, illustrations, advertisement for William Morris & Company bound in, modern half navy morocco, original pictorial wrappers bound in, uncut, 1899, 4to (4)

Asian languages.- Schlegel (Augustus William) Réflexions sur l'étude des langues asiatiques adressées à Sir James Mackintosh, suivies d'une lettre à M. Horace Hayman Wilson, first edition, presentation copy from the author, half-title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary wrappers, lacking backstrip, housed in a card chemise and board slip-case, 8vo, Bonn, 1832.⁂ Includes a prospectus for a plan to translate and publish relevant works on Eastern History, Science and Belles-Lettres that are still only available in manuscript in the BM, East-India House and the universities. The volume is presented to a Dr. Becker.

NO RESERVE India.- Tillotson (John) The Overland Route to India, Historical, Descriptive and Legendary, 21 wood-engraved plates only (of 32), water-staining, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, rubbed and stained, John Edward Lloyd, c.1870 § Meyer (J.) Meyer's Universum of Afbeelding van het Zienswaardigste en Merkwaardigste van Natuur en Kunst ..., 2 vol. bound in 1, 59 engraved plates only (of 65), 1 plate loose, manuscript list of plates loosely inserted, spotting, contemporary half calf, upper cover and 3 leaves detached, defective spine, very rubbed and worn, Amsterdam, 1834-36; and 2 others, 4to (4)

NO RESERVE George IV Coronation admission tickets.- Colour-printed and embossed admission ticket to Westminster Abbey, 1821; another similar, to Westminster Hall [for the banquet], the number filled in in manuscript and with embossed Royal Arms and "Not Transferable" printed at foot; and a duplicate of the Westminster Hall ticket, but not filled in and without the arms and text at foot; and 8 other similar embossed tickets to state events relating to William IV, Wellington (2), Grey, Brougham inter alia, soiled, v.s. (11)

London.- Over 200 manuscript property tenure diagrams, land registry documents, and street plans, 2 vol. largely covering properties in the areas surrounding Regent's Park, St John's Wood, and Camden Town, including properties on Primrose Hill Road, Barrow Hill in St John's Wood, and Portland-Town, originally in the parish of Marylebone, watercolour and pen and ink diagrams, each with extensive manuscript pen and ink annotations listing leasehold details, rental prices, present tenants, and some with insurance costs, other documents inserted, soiling and handling creases throughout, some with loss and minor tears, fire damage to lower edges of one of the albums, contemporary boards, spines splitting, heavily worn and rubbed, oblong 4to, 19th century and slightly later (2)

NO RESERVE Birds.- A small collection of engravings, illustrations, photographs, cuttings and other ephemera relating to caged birds including a small manuscript notice in ink advertising "In here A Large Assortment of Foreign Birds for sale at the lowest Prices..." c.1800, a flyer for Manning Thatcher of Brighton, Victoria, Australia selling songbirds, another for H.F.Stowell of Williamsport, Pa. selling poultry, a broadside for a Bird Show and an engraved receipt for a large cage from Eliz.th Aubery of the Strand, London for 10 guineas, loose in glacine sleeves in folder of original wrappers, 4to (sm.qty)

A Stranger in Distress.- Wilkinson (Thomas, lawyer and schoolmaster) A Paraphrase on Hor: Lib: 3. Ode 16, ?autograph manuscript, title, introduction and 4pp., foxed, browned and creased, title and last f. margins repaired with tape, unbound, sm. 4to, [c. 1750].⁂ A rare survival and possibly a unique work. The author in his introduction to the Rev. Mr Attwood gives a brief autobiography of his misfortunes. "Bred to the law" and practising as an attorney in London, Wilkinson was sued on behalf of a near relation and had to retire to Cornwall and work as a teacher, leaving his wife in London. In search of another more lucrative job and rejoined by his wife, Wilkinson returned to London and addressed this variation based on Horace to Attwood in the hope of some charity, naming himself as "A Stranger in Distress".

NO RESERVE Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 267pp. excluding blanks, in a variety of hands, some cookery recipes loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, sm. 4to, 1801-20.⁂ Recipes include: "To make Mead"; "Potatoe Bread"; "Swindon Syrrop of Quinces to flavour apple tarts"; "Ginger Bread Nuts"; "Chingford Sunday Pudding"; "Sloe Wine"; "Mrs Rogers's recipe for Cyder, and Raisin Wine"; "Dr Porterfields Eye Water"; "To make a Parsonage Pudding"; "Sally Luns"; "Soft Soap" etc.

NO RESERVE Limpenny (C., umbrella manufacturer of Plymouth) C.Limpenny's Descriptive Catalogue of his Cricket, Archery, Lawn Tennis, Foot Balls, Boxing Gloves, Raquets, Magic Lantern..., trade catalogue, original turquoise printed wrappers, slight browning to spine, Plymouth, [later 19th century] § Short (Bob) Hoyle Abridged. A Treatise on the Game of Draughts, original wrappers with printed label to upper cover and sticker with date in manuscript, a little rubbed and soiled, W.Wright, 1823, 12mo (2)⁂ The first is unrecorded on Library Hub; the second lists one copy only, in the National Library of Wales.

NO RESERVE Medical & Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, c. 150pp, with a 16pp. work by William Varley at beginning, together 176pp., in a variety of hands, 2 recipe manuscripts loosely inserted, browned, new endpapers, original reversed calf-backed boards, rubbed, 77 x 200mm., 1815.⁂ Includes at beginning a 16 page fair copy of a work by William Varley, A Few Observations on Art, published in 1816.Recipes include: "Elixir for the toothache"; "Saturnine Lotion - Dr. Bishop's receipt - Tenterden"; "Samson Maynard's Receipt from Mulled Wine"; "Ginger Wine"; "Soda Cake"; "Captn. Appleton's receipt for making Punch"; "Marmalade de Pompon - From Mr Ian Macey"; "Guernsey Hearts"; "Lobster Pudding"; "To fry salt Cod fish"; "Napoleon's Pectoral Pills"; "Sheep's head soup... (Cobbett)"; "Windsor Soap"; "Cholera Morbus" etc.

Kent, Penshurst.- Charter, I, Thomas le Horn have granted and confirmed to William de la Batherst a field called Haynes field in Rennesleigh [Penshurst], witnesses: Robert de Slegt, Thomas Calgar, Thomas de Bacherst and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 15 lines, large remains of red wax seal, two small holes, folds, slightly creased and browned, two small brown stains, large remains of red wax seal, 122 x 226mm., 1327.

London Grocer.- John Bradfeld [Bradfield] citizen and grocer of London has appointed John Wenryth attorney to act in my name with Master John Pokelynton [Pocklington] & John West of Westminster who have conceded and confirmed a messuage in Rochester, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 5 lines, in brown ink, small hole in left margin, lacks seal, folds and creased, 70 x 230mm., Rochester, 1398.

Kent, Denton.- Charter, I, Thomas Creppe tiler grants to Thomas Sedenore of Challokke and Richard Sedenore of Dover his brother all his lands and tenements in the town of Denton, Berham and Westlinghame, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 10 lines, remains of wax seal (cracked), later docket on verso, folds, slightly browned, 85 x 210mm., Denton, 22nd January 1403.

Kent.- Release by William Langley of Knowlton and his brother Edmund Langley to Gilbert Hegge of Tykenherst [Tickenhurst] of arable land in Pittedane in the tenure of Northbourne between the land of Master Richard Tykenherst in the West and the land of Walter Carpenter, jun. in the East, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 11 lines, in a handsome charter hand, large remains of two red wax seals, folds, slightly creased, 107 x 255mm., Tickenhurst, 7th April 1405.⁂ Northbourne near Deal in Kent.

NO RESERVE Dorset, Christchurch.- [Yes or No?], manuscript, 8pp., [c. 1845]; and 5 other pieces, including another manuscript version of the above, a printed version of the above, the manuscript version written on a printed broadside, An Appeal, from the Four in Chains to the Inhabitants of Christchurch, v .s., v.d. (6).⁂ Seemingly a polemic aimed at Sir George Rose, Lord of the Manor and others over the development of Portfield in Christchurch.

Kent, Tenterden.- Release by Henry Hampcok son and heir of John Hampcok of Tenterden to John Pyers vicar of the chapel at Tenterden of a messuage with garden attached and land called Goldyngeshamys, Kyrmont, le Ekre, le Rede bounded by Mennesden and Harnden, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 19 lines, dark red wax seal with fine image, folds, slightly browned, Tenterden, 16th March, 1449.

Kent, Birling.- Grant by William Pors of Birling to William Dank of Paddlesworth, William Pilghman & Stephen Wademan of Snodland the existing property in the parish of Birling, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 17 lines, lacks seal, folds, slightly creased, 190 x 235mm., 16th January 1535.

Heraldry.- Copy Letter of an order of James II and countersigned by Sunderland appointing Sir Thomas St George Garter Principal King of Arms and Sir John Dugdale Norroy King of Arms, manuscript, 2pp., browned, tears along central folds, disbound and with page numbers, sm. 4to, 1689.

Godalming.- Collection of papers relating to Councillor J.W. Verstage and members of the Verstage family, including: election material, invitations, municipal business, pamphlets etc., mostly printed, some manuscript, v.s., v.d., 1862-1910 (qty).

Formulae Remediorum ex D D Barbeirac praxt Depromptae, Tomus I, 1693, 12mo, 282pp pen and ink manuscript fair copy, bound with 'Novus de Morbis Venereis Tractatus de Gonorrhea', 109pp and index, some staining, early 20th century binding;HARVEY (William) Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Amsterdam: J. Ravesteynium 1662, 12mo, engraved title, contemporary calf; Culpepper (Nicholas) The English Physician Enlarged. For S.Ballard [&c.], 1741, small 8vo, somewhat age toned, contemporary calf with near detached boards; (3)

Vellum bound manuscript folio volume, 173pp, with 3 p. summary table and index at the start, of court sessions covering the Fens around Kings Lynn and Wisbech, written in a neat secretary-script style hand, probaly late 17th or early 18th century

History of the 12th Lancers, 1715-1832, small 8vo manuscript notebook written in a neat hand, c.55pp, binding broken; STEWART (Captain P F) The History of the XII Royal Lancers, 1715-1945, in 2 vols ., 1950, large 8vo, full dark red morocco; Historical Record---, 1842, 8vo, cloth; and one other history; SCOTT (Captain R F) Scott's Last Expedition, first edition, 2 vols. 1913, illustrated, slight foxing to outer margins, original blue cloth (vol. II lower cover stained) (7)

Plan of the Parish of Brancaster in the County of Norfolk 1829, 4to manuscript with 6 plans (5 of which hand-coloured), and tables of landowners etc, half calf

A Picture Song Book, ... the pictures by the Earl of Carlisle. London: Smith Elder & Co 1910, small 4to, 46 mounted plates, one of 250 copies, this marked 'presentation copy' and with inserted calling card with printed best wishes message from Queen Mary, with '+grateful thanks for kind present' added in ink manuscript, the title and first leaves lightly foxed, full vellum gilt with broken silk tie, and original box

Peter Le Lievre: watercolours, "The Quay with Glategny Esplanade in the Distance, Guernsey", manuscript verso, 12 1/2" x 10", in wash line mount and gilt frame

Collection of Pictures: British school, early 20th century watercolour of Peper Harow Park, coloured mezzontint of Lord Seaforth signed T Hamilton Crawford, a set of four caricature etchings after Dighton, five assorted engravings of Peper Harow Park, a steel engraving of Blenheim Palace, a lithograph after Bartolozzi of a mother and child, reproduction of an illustrated manuscript, British school, 20th century, 'still life within a window with a country house beyond' crayon, a reproduction print of a surreal beach scene and an oval antique mirror glass.

Persian book in Farsi and The Shahnameh of Ferdosi, The Baysonghori Period Manuscript

PRISCILLA GURNEY "Memoir of Priscilla Gurney" a handwritten manuscript in two volumes including subjects such as "Sketch of the Earlham Family", "Illness and death of their father", "Priscilla unites herself more closely to friends and becomes a minister", "Priscilla's account of the death of Henry Gurney", "Extracts from her letters to Maria Fox", "Marriage of her brother Joseph", etc. circa 1815-21 together with another volume of part-handwritten manuscript entitled "Stepping Stones to Heaven Oct 24th 1878" leather bound CONDITION REPORTS Unable to establish whether written personally by Priscilla Gurney or copied from her memoirs at a later date. Both are handwritten and in the same handwriting. The handwtiting in the third book is very similar but not as neat as the other two. No corrections to the written text.