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Malthus (Thomas Robert). Essai sur le Principe de Population…, 4 volumes, 3rd revised French edition, Geneva & Paris: Abraham Cherbuliez, 1830, half-titles, some spotting or foxing throughout, uncut and unopened, original printed wrappers, a little chipped with minor blank paper losses, dust-soiled, manuscript paper labels at foot of spines (chipped with loss), spines, browned, 8vo, together with:Smith (Adam), Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations, traduit de l’anglais d’Adam Smith, par le citoyen Blavet, 4 volumes, Paris: Imprimerie de Laran, 1800-1801, half-title to each volume, occasional light browning (titles to volume 1 heavily browned), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled and decorated spines, rubbed, some edge and corner wear, 8voMichaelis (Johann David). Grammatica Syriaca, 1st edition, Halle: Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1784, printer’s woodcut device to title, Latin with Syriac type throughout, folding table, contemporary ink ownership name inscription of Bonaventura Guillaume to front endpaper and small oval ink library stamp tot title, contemporary half calf over boards, title label to spine, some edge wear, 4toGordon (William). The General Counting-House and Man of Business, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1770, heavy browning to lower outer corners of first sixty leaves affecting text, some spotting or light browning, lacks final blank, contemporary ownership ink inscription of Simeon Tisdale Carver of Taunton, 1792/1793, to first and last free endpapers, contemporary calf, leather spine label, rubbed, some edge wear and joints cracked, 8voFothergill (Samuel). Liberty, Licence and Prohibition: an Examination of the Arguments of John Stuart Mill, in his Work on Liberty, in Relation to the Liquor Traffic, 1st edition, Manchester: Tubbs & Brook; London: W. Tweedie, no date, c. 1870, 26 pp., ink library number at foot of title, recent cloth with paper spine label, 8voDygasinski (Adolf). Logica podlug Johna Stuarta Milla, 1st edition, Warsaw: Przeglad Tygodniowy, 1879, 354, [2] pp., spotting or browning throughout, evidence of ink library stamp erasure to title, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, some wear to joints, spine ends and extremities, covers faded, 4to, plus Collected Works of Nikolai Gavrilich Chernyshevzskii, volumes 3 & 4 (of 5) bound as one, Geneva: Elindina and Comtsany, 1869 & Geneva & Basel: H. George, 1870, Russian text throughout, some spotting or browning, ownership inscription in Yiddish to first title, contemporary cloth, modern calf gilt reback, 8voQTY: (14)

Pulton (Ferdinando). A Collection of sundrie Statutes, frequent in use: with Notes in the Margent, and References to the Booke Cases and Bookes of Entries and Registers, where they be treated of. Together with an Abridgement of the residue which be expired, repealed, altered, and worne out of use, or doe concerne privat persons, places, or things, and not the whole Commonwealth. Whereunto be added certaine materiall statutes, never printed before in English. Also a necessarie Table, or Kalender, is annexed hereunto, expressing in titles the most materiall branches of those Statutes in use, and practise. By Fardinando Pulton, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire, London: printed [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers, 1618, title within decorative woodcut border, text in black letter, second part bound without pages 119-368 (124 leaves, K6-2H4), some toning, early manuscript notes to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, modern reback, board corners repaired, folio (34.3 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 9328.

Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, final text leaf in old manuscript facsimile, armorial bookplate of Antonio Canovas del Castillo to front pastedown, early neat ink notation to verso of front free endpaper, a little spotted with a few leaves with small light damp-stains (mostly confined to last few leaves), early 19th-century half calf gilt, a little rubbed and marked, a little wear to fore-edge of upper cover, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Antonio Canovas del Castillo (1828-1897), Spanish Prime Minister (his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1975, lot 277).Palau 03651; Sabin 57524, "Rare"; Streit I:345.An exceedingly rare copy of Cevallos' account of his circumnavigation, the first to commence in the Americas. He travelled extensively in South America, before journeying to the Far East, including visits to the Philippines, China (including Macao) and Japan. It also serves as one of the earliest accounts of Bermuda prior to it being settled by the Somers Island Company in 1612.Apart from this copy, we can trace only one appearance at auction since 1948 (Christie's, 19 May 2000, lacking four leaves including portrait). A second edition was published in 1691, and extracts of this work were reprinted by De Bry, Purchas and Barlaeus.

* Southern Europe. Basire (J.), Plan of the Town and Harbour of Mahon, St. Philip's Castle and its Fortifications, published in 'Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapkin's History of England, circa 1750, hand-coloured engraved map, slight spotting, old folds, light overall toning, 365 x 615 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Jansson (Jan). Pontus Euxinus. Aequor Iasonio pulsatum remige primum ex Conatibus Arrahami Oertelii, Amsterdam: circa 1652, hand-coloured engraved map, slight creasing and toning, central fold with some strengthening and repairs, old manuscript number in the upper left margin, but not affecting the printed image, 375 x 480 mm, mounted, framed and glazed QTY: (2)

* Charles II - Scottish Privy Council broadside. A Proclamation, Anent the Sumptuary Act, 1684, Edinburgh: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1684, single sheet broadside, cropped at head with loss of armorial, manuscript annotation to right margin, two old horizontal folds, 29 x 28 cm, together with:James II - broadside. At the Court at Whitehall the 29th of June 1688. Present, the Kings most excellent Majesty, Lord Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, Lord Marquess of Powis, Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Huntingdon, Earl of Bathe, Earl of Craven, Earl of Berkeley, Earl of Melfort, Earl of Castlemain, Lord Bellasyse, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Nicholas Butler, Mr. Petre. Whereas by the late Act of Uniformity, which establisheth the liturgy of the Church of England, and enacts, that no form or order of Common Prayer, be openly used, other than what is prescribed and appointed to be used in and by the said book..., London: printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, 1688, woodcut armorial to upper margin and decorative initial, few repairs to margins, light dust-soiling, (37 x 29.5 cm),London Gazette. Five original issues from the London Gazette, numbers 2389, 2390, 2393-2395, October 8, 1688 - November 1, 1688, some toning occasional spotting, disbound, small folioQTY: (7)NOTE:1. ESTC R6602; Steele, III, 2565; Wing S1693. The broadside 'cites Acts against flowered, &c., silk stuffs, and against exorbitant expenses of marriages, &c., and penny weddings. Many women wear prohibited stuffs, calling them night-gowns, undresses, or mantois. Others wear long black mandel-coats (instead of prohibited mourning cloaks). These coats prohibited. Expensive coffins are forbidden. The laws are to be strictly enforced.' (Steele).The laws of sumptuary limited private expenditure on food and personal items, such as clothing.2. ESTC R2675; Wing E833. In this edition, the last word of line 33 is: King's. In another edition, the last word of line 33 is: Excellent.3. These issues of the London Gazette refer to some of events leading up to The Glorious Revolution, where James II and VII was replaced by his daughter Mary and husband William in November 1688 (Mary II & William III).

DAME LAURA KNIGHT, D.B.E., R.A., R.W.S. (ENGLISH, 1877-1970), ARTIST Three letters to Bibby Byrne, the first manuscript on headed notepaper and dated 27 Sept. 1937, one page; the second typed and dated 8 October 1942 (...'As for specs, they seem to be the rage at the moment: every one wears them, perhaps to enhance, perhaps to hide, perhaps just to see... We both are working hard as usual and count ourselves fortunate to be allowed to do our own work when all of you others are having to give up so much...'), two pages; the third manuscript and dated 4th June 1953 (...'I should have written before, but have been wrapped up in Coronation doings... I saw it all from the Foreign Office - what a spectacle an[d] what emotion - all under umbrellas with wet feet for most people - not damped in spirit however...'), two pages, with original postal envelope; together with a black and white group portrait photograph inscribed verso Cecily Byrne Dame Laura Knight / Bibby Byrne', 15cm x 19.5cm, (4).

Local History, Penzance. Roland Morris collection. A bound manuscript of minutes to meetings of the R.N.L.I Committee Members of the Penlee branch at 10 Parade Street from 30th January 1930 to 23rd October 1970. Includes salient press clippings and photographs. Condition report front and back end boards are off but present. staining and discolouration. Roland Morris was a well known maritime archeologist, historian, writer and entrepreneur based in Cornwall, particularly Penzance. His most famous discovery was the wreck of the Association also working on other major wrecks around the Cornish coast. He also opened the Admiral Benbow a much celebrated pub filled with nautical themed decoration.

Roland Morris collection. A William IV bound manuscript on Gunnery training Royal Navy H.M.S Excellent, detailing names of parts to cannons, guns and rockets, beautifully drafted diagrams and tables. The manuscript contains dates from 1834-1836. Approx 159 pages.  Condition report, front end board and first 16 leaves off but present, spine loose, slight water damage to end boards.  Roland Morris was a well known maritime archeologist, historian, writer and entrepreneur based in Cornwall, particularly Penzance. His most famous discovery was the wreck of the Association also working on other major wrecks around the Cornish coast. He also opened the Admiral Benbow a much celebrated pub filled with nautical themed decoration.

Winifred Wilson (1882-1973) - The Church Field, inscribed and titled manuscript label to verso, oil on board, 19.5 x 29cm Good condition

Nicholas Pocock (1741-1821) - Matlock from Hagwood, Derbyshire, signed, titled and dated June 6th 1794 to verso, watercolour, en grisaille, 15 x 28cm Good, untouched condition. Artist's manuscript inscription to verso showing in the upper-right margin of the sheet. One or two insignificant foxed spots.

J.W. Giles of Burghley Lane, Lincolnshire Naïve Artist, mid-19th century - Old Callis, St Peter's Hill, Stamford, contemporaneous manuscript label to verso inscribed, titled and dated November 1859, oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm, Barnby Bendall & Co of Cheltenham repository label to verso Stamford's current St Peter's Callis Almshouses are a Gothic Revival rebuilding of 1863, on the site of the earlier 15th century almshouse. It is thought to originally have been a pious establishment of the Merchants of the Staple of Calais, hence the name, although nothing is known to have survived from the original medieval building, and, in our cataloguing, we were unable to find another visual representation of the former structure. Discoloured/yellowed varnish, with some surface wear and dirt. Several patched repairs evident to verso, evident recto with affected portions touched-in with later pigments. Signs of former cleaning, but not scrubbing.

Art & Literature. Ruskin (John), Modern Painters, six volume set, large paper copy, Orpington: George Allen, 1888, black-ruled title-pages, broad margins, presentation bindings finely bound in blue morocco over boards, rubbed, the upper-covers blocked in gilt with the arms of the University of Oxford, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; idem., The Seven Lamps of Architecture, fifth edition, Oprington: George Allen, 1886, black-ruled title-page, full-page lithographed plates, contemporary blue panelled calf over boards, sunned spine, boards scuffed and rubbed in placed, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporaneous ink manuscript inscription, 8vo; Stevenson (Robert Louis), The Works, twenty-five volume set, the Swanston Edition, copy no. 737/2,060, London: Chatto and Windus, 1911, original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (32) Provenance: 1st: Provenance: Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (1863-1952), President of The British Academy (1917-21), Director and Principal Librarian of The British Museum (1909-30); his Chancellor's English Essay Prize, 1889, while fellow at Magdalen College, inscribed ffep and recto blank.

A pair of Indian illuminated manuscript leaves, 20th c, in the Mughal manner, double-column calligraphy, ink, watercolour and gouache, picked-out in gilt, 25 x 16cm; others, (5) Good condition

After a British Naïve Artist, mid-late 19th century - Pig Racing, a set of twelve, monogrammed M.B., dated 1879 and numbered 1-12 within the plates, the mounts inscribed and dated in manuscript Aneurin 1902, early 20th c photographic prints of slightly earlier pen-and-ink drawings, taken from originals possibly from a family album, each 19 x 28.5cm, mounted and framed in threes, (4) Good condition, signs of some wear, some toning and browning; unexamined out of frames.

Lincolnshire Country Houses. Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory, 4th Baronet, DL (1829-1898), his account of the rebuilding of Denton Hall, dated 1879, [8]ff of manuscript only, all to recto, with later parallel pencil additions by a descendant, one reasons he notes for replacing the Stuart Denton Hall with a completely new structure, to the designs of Sir Arthur Blomfield, is that his father become owner of all the "the movable contents of Harlaxton Manor House" and thus needed to enlarge his own country house, which was to built be in the character of the Old Hall, Harlaxton, the descendant concludes that "Sir William used his wife's money [Victoria, Lady Welby-Gregory (née Stuart-Wortley (1837-1912)] to tae down the fine old Stuart Hall which certainly was not ugly, and to build a Victorian eyesore of a house", contemporary calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, folio (33 x 22cm); Messrs. Jackson Stops & Staff:~ Harlaxton Manor Estate, Near Grantham, Illustrated Particulars and Conditions of Sale. The Above Attractive Sporting Estate [...] together with The Picturesque Village of Harlaxton, To be offered by Auction (unless previously sold by private treaty in 100 Lots, 28th September, 1937, complete with 10 tipped-in b/w photograph illustrations, 2 folding lithographed and coloured estate plans/maps loosely-inserted, original wrappers, folio (32 x 23cm), (2)

Theology & Medical. La Saincte Bible Contenant le Vieil et le Nouveau Testament Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures, Sacra Biblia [...], [Paris]: De l'imprimerie de Gérard Jollain, n.d. [1703], engraved title-page and approx. 250 plates of biblical scenes after Old Masters, annotated in a contemporary European and a later English hand in places, varying degrees of worming throughout, some leaves with marginal repairs, contemporary French red morocco boards, rebacked in 20th c calf, Mount Street Jesuits' book label, oblong 4to; KJV, The Holy Bible, two volumes of the Old Testament only: Genesis to II. Chronicles, & Ezra to Malachi, Cambridge: Printed at the Pitt Press; John William Parker, University Printer, 1838, title-page to the first volume only, black-ruled double-column, interleaved and sparsely annotated in manuscript, first volume [1]ff of manuscript to recto blank by S.H., dated Wimpole, [Cambridgeshire], January 1841, loosely-inserted notes, including one on the Yorke's crested writing-paper, contemporary burgundy morocco over thin boards, some scuffed wear, all edges gilt, 8vo; Methodism: Wesley (John), Sermons on Several Occasions, nine volumes, mixed edition, London: Printed for G. Whitfield, New-Chapel, City-Road, and sold at the Methodist-Preaching-Houses in Town and Country, et al, 1796-1800, uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines rubbed, worn, split and chipped in places, some detached, but all present, 12mo in 6s; Medicine: Plague epidemic: Pestalozzi (Jérôme Jean), Avis de precaution contre la maladie contagieuse de Marseille, first edition, Lyon: Les Frères Bruyset, 1721, former Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Library stamps in places, contemporary calf over marbled boards, covers detached, some chipped wear, 8vo; Journal de la Société Phrénologique de Paris, volumes I & III bound as one, Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1832 & 1832, half-titles and engraved plates, flyleaves with manuscript annotation, contemporary green calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo; Robertson (William) & Bell (Thomas), Tractatus medicus, inauguralis, quædam de Dieta, seu Materia Diaetetica [...], inscribed author's presentation copy, Edinburgi: Balfour et Smellie, 1783, half-title, original marbled wrappers, detached, Linnaean Society stamps, 8vo; Macnish (Robert), The Philosophy of Sleep, Glasgow: W.R. M'Phun, 1838, original publisher's cloth over boards, some worn losses, holding with some movement, uncut, 8vo; O'Dell (Stackpool E.), Phrenology, ?second edition, s.l., s.n., n.d. [?1892], lacking and apparently issued without a general title-page, in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Letter from George Combe to Francis Jeffrey, Esq. In Answer to his Criticism of Phrenology, Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1826, disbound, 8vo; Combe (George), Elements of Phrenology, eighth edition, Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1855, illustrated, publisher's adverts, some movement and splits, original publisher's cloth over papered boards, 12mo, (19)

Islamic Art in Yorkshire. Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (1879-1919), his restoration and embellishment of Sledmere House, c. 1913-19, a framed display of 5 b/w photographs of the Palladian country house embellished with Ottoman tiles during its restoration cum Islamification during the short tenure of the 6th baronet, with a foolscap of English and Arabic manuscript, the background sheet similarly inscribed, three monochrome images of calligraphic tilework numbered 1-5 are inscribed with stanzas of Ali ibn Abi Talib's teachings, the remaining two are ' [...] Too decoratively compiled to be able to transcribe into cursive script. Sir Mark Sykes's translation is:- "The Path of the Man who is truthful is free from Obstacles." ' [&] ' [...] Translation: "God is Great, is All-Powerful and above all." ', the lower margin of the sheet inscribed: ' The tile-work is an Arab inscriptions from the Koran, in Kufik (sic; Kufic) (after Kufa, on the Euphrates) character [...] These tiles were specially made for Sir Mark Sykes, by the Sultan's tiler in Constantinople. ', 55.5 x 50cm Sir Mark Sykes was an English traveller, politician, and diplomatic advisor, particularly with regard to the Middle East at the time of the First World War. He is associated with The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), drawn up during the war regarding the future partition of the Ottoman Empire by the Allied Powers, and was a key negotiator of the Balfour Declaration. Inheriting the title and Sledmere estate on the death of his father in 1913, he also lived the typical life of a Yorkshire grandee, even if with rather exotic interests and tastes. The house having suffered a major fire in 1911, Sykes, ensnared by Ottoman aesthetics, installed the Turk Room with 2,700 Iznik-style tiles from Kütahya and embellished the laundry, housekeeper's room and chapel (as shown in these images. Sir Mark died young, succumbing to Spanish Flu, and thus plans for a hamam were never realised. Stable condition: the images good, with slight ripple; the paper evidently browned, toned, and with some scuffs &/or small tears, the foolscap itself foxed and creased. Unexamined out of frame.

English Profilists, c. 1830 - Reverend James John West, Rector of Winchelsea, Sussex;  Fanny Ashburton West; Frederick West; William West; a family group of four, full-length, manuscript genealogical inscriptions to verso, black ink, two picked-out in gilt, the largest 27 x 18.5cm, (4) The Rev. James John West (1805-1872) was a High-Calvinist Anglican preacher. In 1831, he was appointed Rector of Winchelsea, Sussex, ministering in the parish church of Hurstpierpoint. Good, but mixed 'country house' condition. Some wear, some foxed spots.

A Medieval indenture, 14th/15th c, manuscript on parchment, 28 lines in total, recto signed, three-quarters of a wax seal extant, 17.5 x 20.5cm Unexamined out of 20th c glazed frame. Upper-left margin with small tear, but without loss to text; to the right of which, close to the margin, is a small holed loss, avoiding letters and thus with no loss of sense. Signs of former adhesion in places across the sheet, presumably to affix it in place within the Perspex, i.e. three points at the left and right margins, the top centre and the centre itself. Chipped loss to seal as catalogued.

Americana. Mark Twain's Sketches, Selected and Revised by the Author, Copyright Edition, first edition thus, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872, lacking map, contemporary or contemporaneous red cloth gilt, title-page with manuscript ownership inscriptions, 8vo; idem, Pleasure Trip on the Continent, first edition thus, London: John Camden Hotten, 1871, frontispiece, adverts and catalogues bound-in at front and rear, split with some light movement, but holding, original publisher's pictorial red papered blue cloth boards, chipped, 8vo; idem, The New Pilgrims' Progress, Author's English Edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, dated 1872, publisher's pictorial yellowback, heavy wear in places, 8vo; idem, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, first edition, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896, frontispiece and plates, original publisher's red cloth, some wear, 8vo; idem, How to Tell a Story, first edition, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897, original publisher's decorative red cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo; idem, Curious Dream, and other sketches, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, n.d. [c. 1880], publisher's red cloth, 8vo; idem et al, The Niagara Book, first edition, London: J.R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1893, ex-library copy, their quarter-cloth binding, enclosing original wrappers, 12mo; etc., (8)  Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

British School, mid-19th century - Busy Street Scenes, possibly Edinburgh, a pair, indistinct contemporaneous manuscript labels to verso, oil on mahogany panels, 15 x 23 and 14.5 x 23cm, (2) Good condition; discoloured/yellowed varnish and in need of a light clean. Their gilt softwood mounts with some worn losses.

"An Abridgement of the English and Prussian Military Exercise of the Foot" containing drill instructions and 10 engravings of drill manoeuvres, flyleaf marked "John Whaley-The gift of Thomas Halsell Esq 1759". Original leather binding. GC. Plus 11 other books including "Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte", preface by William Tegg 1878 (1882 School Prize), "Ten Years Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892" by Wingate from a manuscript by Father Joseph Ohrwalder, 1892 (school prize); "Coronation Durbar Delhi 1911 Official Directory with maps". Average GC (some water damaged or other faults). £60-80

The Galobart Books, limited edition of The Voynich Manuscript, the Never Deciphered Story, number 0833 of 4898, vellum bound, in original linen covered box, with illustrative scroll and postcards, complete with original packaging, as new condition.

James Aitken Wyllie (1808 - 1890). Manuscript compilation of sermons on Biblical texts written in a miniscule hand and arranged in dos-a -dos format over approximately 194 pages, October 5, 1831 -  28 June, 1833 and August 3, 1832 - August 10, 1833, in a small notebook, 19 x 12 cms., boards worn, front hinge cracked, with author's signature to front and rear blanks and bookplate of the Hope Trust. Wyllie studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and the University of St. Andrews before being ordained in 1831 at the Sacrament Church, Dollar, where he served as minister until 1846 when he left to take up the role of sub-editor of the Witness under Hugh Miller. He wrote extensively on ecclesiastical history and is best remembered for his The History of Protestantism (1878).

GRAFTON, Richard. Grafton’s Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande, newely corrected and augmented, to thys present yere of our Lord 1572. [London: Richard Tottell, 1572.] 8vo (138 x 89mm.) Title, woodcut initials, tables. (Lacking several leaves, including the illustration at Ee5v, 2 leaves to rear loose, last leaf Hh8, hole in E1, some manuscript annotation to margins, corner loss to title, occasional spotting.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine (worn). Note: the first pocket edition of Grafton’s chronicle was published in 1563. Based on John Harding’s 15th century text, Grafton compiled it while in prison. The pocket editions were published by Grafton’s son-in-law, Richard Tottel. Provenance: John Ishel [?] (contemporary ink name to title).

PRESSED FERNS. – [Mary ANN ARMSTRONG.] New Zealand Ferns. [Dunedin: n.p.: circa 1870’s.] Folio (304 x 252mm.) 56 botanical specimens mounted recto only on stiff card leaves, captioned in manuscript hand, maker’s label to front pastedown in the name ‘C.C. Armstrong’. (Some offsetting to verso, toning.) Contemporary black half morocco (extremities heavily rubbed, hinges weakened and lower cover detached). Note: Mary Ann Armstrong was a British-born botanical fern artist. Her work, while being an example of the 19th century decorative arts, was also exhibited at International and inter-colonial exhibitions in the 1880’s. The blending of the artistic and the scientific is shown in her use of mounted moss as a grounding for her specimens.

AIRSHIPS. – Alberto SANTOS-DUMONT. My Airships, the Story of My Life. London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition, 8vo (204 x 137mm.) Photographic illustrations, manuscript annotation to front-free endpaper and half-title by Lord Ventry. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original boards (lightly rubbed). Note: Lord Ventry co-wrote ‘Jane’s Pocket Book 7: Airship Development’ and he also set up the ‘The Airship Club’ in 1948 to fund the building of an airship. Eventually, Ventry’s airship – named ‘Bournemouth’ - had its first flight in 1951. It made eleven flights before crash landing in 1952. Provenance: Lord Ventry (ink annotation to preliminaries). – And a further twenty-five volumes related to airships, Zeppelins, ballooning and early aeronautics (Ernst A. Lehmann’s ‘Zeppelin. The Story of Lighter-than-air Craft’, 1937, 8vo and ‘The Hero of a Thousand Flights’, [1913], 4to, and Griffith Brewer’s ‘Theory of Ballooning’, 1918, 8vo, and ‘The Andree Diaries’, 1931, 8vo, and also a French cast paper-weight model of a De Dion Bouton single cylinder engine) (26).

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written administrative ledger and account book for the Rape of Arundel. N.p.:] Sussex: 1655-1663, manuscript, 4to (224 x 156mm.) 126pp. in a partly legible, mostly single hand relating to land contracts and borders with 17pp. bound-in at rear relating to tithes collected and expenditure, 5 blanks leaves to front and 15 to rear, several loose manuscript inserts with one relating to the Duke of Norfolk. (Loss to top corner of first thirty leaves, text affected, some damp-staining and browning, wormholes to first blank leaves.) Original vellum (minor wormholes to upper cover and spine).

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the families of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (347 x 209mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, loosely inserted manuscript pedigree of the ‘Polhill’ family. (Toning, occasional light spotting, blanks creased.) Original green boards, later paper label to spine (rebacked, extremities rubbed). – And a further fourteen volumes (‘Sussex Notes and Queries. A Quarterly Journal of the Sussex Archaeological Society’, 17 vols. in 14, 1927-1971, 8vo) (15).

MANUSCRIPT. – William IVORY. [A manuscript catalogue for William Ivory’s library at St. Roque House, Edinburgh. N.p.: circa 1862.] 474pp., manuscript, 8vo (313 x 183mm.) 211 leaves listing book titles and authors in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper, recto only, several leaves with annotations verso, 26 leaves blank. (Spotting to first and last leaves.) 18th century calf, t.e.g. (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Note: William Ivory was a lawyer and member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He was known for organising plant-finding expeditions and the catalogue contains several pages devoted to botanical books.

WESLEY, Samuel. – Robert Southey. The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism. London: Longman, Brown et al., 1858. 2 vols., including 5 manuscript letters relating to the Wesley family, 8vo (183 x 118mm.) (Toning.) Original green cloth (extremities rubbed, staining to covers). Note: comprises a later copy of John Wesley’s well-known letter to his wife regarding her duties, a 4pp. segment of an original letter dated ‘July 1807’ and signed ‘J. Wesley’, near contemporary copy of a letter from school from the grandson of Charles Wesley (‘Dear Aunt..’), an original letter signed ‘S. Wesley’ and dated 1807, most likely from Sarah Wesley (daughter of Charles and Sarah Wesley) to a sibling, and also an original 4pp. letter from Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, signed and dated ‘18th January 1797’ relating the terrible state of his marriage and the necessity of divorce from his wife, Charlotte (‘alas! What a poor mistaken creature she is! Where has she an enemy but in her own diabolical ungovernable, ferocious, ungrateful disposition… that she is incurable among Lunaticks we have long ago agreed… I am a dozen years older in constitution than I was before…she or I must drop’.) The letter is addressed to a ‘Mr. Kenton’, possibly a legal friend or associate. Samuel Wesley married Charlotte Louise Martin in 1793 and they had three children. The cause of all the tumult was Charlotte’s discovery of his affair with Sarah Suter, their teenage housekeeper. Samuel and Sarah went on to have four children together. – And a few other items related to the Wesley family (a framed original pencil portrait of Frances Martha Edlin (née Voysey), a ‘Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism’ medal, 1839, plus a manuscript legal contract relating to the removal of sand from a river, [1730], signed by ‘John Bainbridge’ and others (small quantity).

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: John Baskett, 1717-16. Folio (494 x 331mm.) Engraved additional title of Moses receiving the Law by C. Du-Bose, title in red and black with engraved vignette depicting Oxford churches by G. Vander Gucht, calendar in red and black, numerous engraved head and tail-pieces. (Additional title with marginal tears, images affected, tears to BC and O3, large tears to E6-F1, G3 with repair, Gg4 and Hh6 with tears, ZZ5 and last leaf are detached, A2-A4 of N.T. with large tears, several torn leaves with tipped-in manuscript overlays, G6 [with ‘Vinegar’] nearly detached, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf (free endpapers detached, pastedowns torn, boards detached). Note: with the ‘Vinegar’ mistake in the headline above Luke XX. The Bible that contained so many errors that it became known as ‘A Basket-ful of Errors’. [Herbert 942A.]

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written book of extensive student notes on a course of eighty-eight lectures on anatomy. N.p.:] October 1822, manuscript, 8vo (240 x 202mm.) Comprising 206pp. in a single legible hand on pre-ruled paper with an ‘1819’ watermark, written mostly recto with 24pp. to rear written verso too, several blank leaves to rear. (Toning.) Contemporary half calf (light rubbed, minor scuffing to spine). Note: while there’s no mention of a particular teacher or university or medical school, the student does refer to many contemporary teachers of anatomy such as Alexander Monroe, John Hunter, William Cooper, Edward Stanley and Percival Pott as well as medical scientists such as Jenner and Haller. These are comprehensive and detailed notes covering bones, the blood, the liver, the eyes, the brain, the veins, the thorax, the pelvis, as well as numerous case studies of accidents and diseases and their treatments. The notes have an immediacy that suggests they were written quickly, but overall the past tense is used so it’s not likely they were written while attending a live autopsy. Provenance: J. Parsons (ink name and address to initial blank).

MANUSCRIPT. – Jonathan PEEL. Youthful Reminiscences, a Memoir. [A hand-written account of the early years of the life of Jonathan Peel. N.p.:]1879. 228pp., 8vo (228 x 186mm.) A mostly legible account in manuscript divided into nineteen chapters with numerous literary epigraphs, several blank leaves to rear. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (extremities rubbed). Note: Jonathan Peel came from the ‘4th Branch’ of the Peel family. Thankfully, Jonathan outlines early on the geography of the many Peels in Lancashire and around Accrington. It’s a thoughtful and ruminative journal of a privileged, if repressed Victorian upbringing. He is tortured by the death of his younger brother, imagines him burning in hell because he died before being baptised. His mother (‘a truly devout woman’) inspires some morbidity, too (‘every day, every hour, nay every minute she used to tell me somebody was dying somewhere’). Nevertheless, there are stories of bull-baiting, cock-fighting, schoolboy japes and accidents (‘being dangled by an arm and a leg’ over a bridge on the Leeds-Liverpool canal). Somewhat sickly, he was given ‘incessant doses of James’ Powder, rhubarb, sulphur and treacle’ to strengthen him. However, it was a particular phial in the bathroom to which he was drawn (‘even to this day I delight in the scent and taste of opium… I could easily have become an opium-eater’). Eventually, he makes it to Cambridge. He married his cousin Anne and they had five children. – And a further twenty-four volumes relating to the Peel family, mainly diaries, [1857-1917], but also another journal of 44pp. in Jonathan Peel’s hand which has a pencil note at the front (‘Far far into the past I look’), two passports, and a ‘Family Record, 1835’, with genealogies in manuscript, and several letters loosely-inserted (25).

THEOLOGY. – Hermann WITSIUS. Exercitationes Sacrae in Symbolum Quod Apostolorum dicitur et in Orationem Dominicam. Franeker: Johannem Gyselaar, 1689. Second edition, 4to (198 x 151mm.) Title in red and black, 17pp. and 8pp. indices, text in Latin, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. (Toning, marginal tear to L1.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine (gash to upper cover, some dust-soiling). – And a further three volumes (including Lewis Mansey’s ‘The Practical Physician; or, Medical Instructor’, [1800], 8vo, and Richard Allestree’s ‘The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety’, 1679, 8vo) (4).

MANUSCRIPT. – J. WILKINSON. My First Trip to London, and Neighbourhood. [N.p.:] London: 7th- 15th July 1862. 47pp., manuscript, 8vo (181 x 115mm.) 24 leaves of clearly legible hand-written diary entries relating the experiences of a young woman and her sister visiting London by train from Liverpool, and her thoughts on seeing the ‘Great Exhibition’ in Crystal Palace and the ‘Great London Exposition’ of 1862, plus a trip to Brighton. (Toning.) Original card wrappers, title in manuscript to upper cover (some corner creasing, browning). Note: an evocative travel journal that lends a different perspective on the ‘Great Exhibition’. On seeing statues of the engineers that were three or four times life size the writer wonders if this is to emphasise the ‘great minds’ of these ‘great men’. They see the trees, the sugar cane, the endless ‘Picture Galleries’, the ‘figures of all the nations’ (‘from the Indian savage down to the civilised European’), and the model of the hugely symbolic ‘Koh-i-noor’ diamond, but it’s the sheer vastness of the industrial technology that renders her speechless. The following day, ‘the thought struck me that there is as much care taken, if not more, in making anything for the destruction of life and property, than for the preservation of the same’.

MANUSCRIPT. [A Persian manuscript in two parts, the second part based on Abu Yahya Zakariyya al-Qazwini’s ‘Aja’ib al-Makhlukat’ (The Wonders of Creation). N.p.: Kashmir, circa 1820.] 164pp., manuscript, 8vo (241 x 114mm.) 2 parts, being 16pp. and 148pp. in calligraphic Nastaliq in black ink on vellum paper, 17 lines to a page with 2 large decorated headpieces in blue, red and gilt to the first section, and 17 lines to a page and also 205 water-colour and ink illustrations with gum arabic to the second part. (Browned to margins.) Original blind-stamped limp calf (extremities rubbed, some loss to base of spine). Note: al-Qazwini compiled ‘The Wonders of Creation’ in Arabic in the 13th century. It was an entire cosmography containing information about the heavens, the earth, minerals, plants, birds and animals as well as imaginary and hybrid creatures as illustrated here. Provenance: Alfred Hutton, soldier, writer, fencer and antiquarian (ink name to front and rear blanks). Hutton was serving with the British cavalry in India in the early 1860s.

William Russell Flint Variations on a themeA printSigned in pencil to the margin together with two other signed William Russell Flint prints another William Russell Flint print, an illuminated manuscript and other pictures

A Middle Eastern Palm Leaf Manuscript, possibly Indonesian, with etched lettering to each leaf, 31cm in length

Watercolour and gouache "Glove of Mary Queen of Scots, given to her by Marmaduke Darell, on the occasion of her execution, 8th Feb 1586, framed and glazed, come with a manuscript note that it was gifted by Capt. J Darell Davies a descendant of Marmaduke Darell, August 1926 20cm x 25cm Provenance:- Seton family, by direct decent.

"Charles II, Coronation Glove", a seventeenth century embroidered gauntlet glove, reputedly given by King Charles the Second to Sir Alexander Seton, Lord Pitmedden at his Coronation. 23rd April 1661. , with manuscript note " Glove worn by King Charles II and given by him at his Coronation to Sir Alexander Seton, Lord Pitmedden". Length of glove 30cm Included with a manuscript Annotated Inventory of the Family Portraits, Relics, and some Articles of Furniture, &c. at Mounie. Compiled A.D. 1844. Revised 1860 Page 29 Relics. No II Lord Pitmedden Glove:- An old glove, long, of a gray colour, and embroidered. Substance resembling Chamois leather. Given to Alexander Seton, afterwards of Pitmedden, by King Charles II. The tradition is that when Charles 2nd came to Scotland Alexander Seton, then a youth was presented to him as the son of John Seton of Pitmedden who had fallen in the Royal cause in 1639, whereupon Charles gave the youth his glove as a token that, when his own fortunes brightened, he would not be unmindful of the services which the Seton family had rendered to his Majesty's late father. Provenance:- Seton family, by direct decent. Listed on page 491 Family Heirlooms, A History Of The Seton Family During Eight Centuries https://archive.org/details/historyoffamilv100seto/page/490/mode/2up Note not framed Condition Report: Small losses to silver filigree. Small hole to joint between index and middle finger. Brass rivet through edge with inventory number to the inside. Minor marks and wear consistent with age and use. Please see extra images on website.

An Islamic manuscript on paper, probably 18th C.ca. 20 x 13 cm (closed)

JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (1767-1855) | MANUSCRIPT (FRANCE / FRENCH) | profession: Painter | country: France | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Two-page manuscript in French | Lot information | Handwritten letter detailing his career and appointments to various positions within the French government.Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a renowned French painter and portraitist, was famous for his masterful works, particularly portraits of prominent figures. In this handwritten document, dated March 29, 1830, he meticulously describes his career and notable appointments, including his assignments to various governmental and cultural positions during the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and after his fall.This document provides a fascinating insight into Isabey's professional journey and his connections with the French political and cultural elite of the time.The letter is written in elegant handwritten French and offers valuable historical context regarding Isabey's career.

OSKAR NEDBAL (1874-1930) | HAND-SIGNED LETTER WITH MUSICAL NOTATION (CZECH/ BOHEMIAN) | 1915 | profession: Composer | country: Czechia | signature: Original signature | size: 210 x 160 mm | technique: Handwritten autograph and music notation by J. S. Bach: Andante | Lot information | Manuscript letter from Oskar Nedbal, a prominent Czech composer, conductor and cellist. This unique artefact contains not only his signature, but also the musical notation of a part of the composition. The text is dated 9 January 1915.Oskar Nedbal is known for his work in the field of Czech music, especially as the founder of the Czech Chamber Orchestra and the author of a number of operas, operettas and orchestral compositions. His manuscript documents, especially those containing musical notation, are valued for their historical value and rarity.

EMIL ZEGADLOWICZ (1888-1941) | HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH (POLAND / POLISH) | 1929 | profession: Writer | country: Poland | signature: Original signature | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Handwritten text with signature | Lot information | Handwritten manuscript signed by Polish writer, poet, and playwright Emil Zegadlowicz, dated in Prague on October 5, 1929. The document contains several lines of text written in the author's distinctive handwriting, whose work was a significant part of interwar Polish literature.Zegadlowicz was a member of the literary avant-garde, and his writing was influenced by expressionism and symbolism. He was also known for his controversial novels, such as Motory (1929) and Zmory (1935), which were censored during certain periods.This autograph is a rare example of the personal handwritten correspondence of one of the most prominent Polish literary figures of the first half of the 20th century.

GEORGES JOSEPH CHRISTIAN SIMENON (1903-1989) | DEDICATION WITH AUTOGRAPH (BELGIUM / BELGIAN) | 1964 | profession: Writer | country: Belgium | signature: Original signature | size: 130 x 165 mm | technique: Handwritten dedication with autograph | Lot information | Personal manuscript, dated 1964, from the famous Belgian writer. In the letter, Simenon expresses his gratitude for the friendship with young Czech readers, who remind him of his own childhood. The letter concludes with a warm signature from the author.

JERZY ZAGORSKI (1907-1984) | MANUSCRIPT WITH DEDICATION TO DIRECTOR BURIAN (POLAND / POLISH) | 1958 | profession: Poet | country: Poland | signature: Original signature | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Handwritten text with signature | Lot information | Handwritten note on the letterhead of the book Swieto Winkelrida by Andrzejewski and Zagorski, dated March 14, 1958, in Warsaw. Jerzy Zagorski addresses a personal dedication to director Burian, in which he praises his outstanding directorial work on the production of Romeo and Juliet, which left a deep impression on the audience.The text is signed by the author and includes his address in Warsaw (Zoliborz). This document is a remarkable collectible artifact reflecting cultural connections and the theatrical scene of the second half of the 20th century.

PAUL MAXIMILIEN LANDOWSKI (1875-1961) | POEM WITH DEDICATION AND SIGNATURE (POLAND / POLISH) | 1939 | profession: Sculptor | country: Poland / France | signature: Original signature | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Handwritten poem dedicated to Karel Safranek | Lot information |Handwritten poem dedicated to Czech sculptor Karel Safranek. The text reflects the strength of the human spirit and its resilience against obstacles, while also paying tribute to the art of sculpture. The author compares Safranek's work to the masterpiece of the divine Michelangelo and extends his admiration to other artists as well. This unique manuscript is not only a literary artifact but also a rare testament to the artistic connections between creators from different fields.

FRANS MASEREEL (1889-1972) | HANDWRITING ON ENVELOPE (BELGIUM / BELGIAN) | 1958 | profession: Painter | country: Belgium | signature: On the back, Masereela's address in Nice, France | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Manuscript on the cover | Lot information | Manuscript on letter envelope addressed to Czechoslovakia, bearing manuscript text and postmarks with postmark from 1958. This document documents Masereel's personal correspondence and his cultural ties.

MICHEL SEUPHOR (1901-1999) | LETTER WITH SIGNATURE (BELGIUM / BELGIAN) | 1974 | Michel Seuphor (Fernand Berckelaers ) | profession: Painter | country: Belgium | signature: Original signature | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Handwritten letter | Lot information | Handwritten letter on paper with the letterhead "MICHEL SEUPHOR, 83 avenue Emile-Zola, Paris 15". The letter is dated June 12, 1974, and addressed to "Vazeny pane" (Dear Sir). Michel Seuphor thanks for the letter, explaining that he no longer has a personal copy of the third volume of the book "L'Art Abstrait" (Abstract Art). Seuphor further writes that since the article on Czechoslovakia was written by Michel Ragon, he will pass the letter to him, hoping that he will be able to send the requested volume to the interested party. The letter ends with an expression of regret and a warm memory.This manuscript is a valuable testimony to the relationships between prominent artists and their memories of the Czechoslovak context in abstract art.

ROMAIN ROLLAND (1866-1944) | DEDICATION WITH SIGNATURE (FRANCE / FRENCH) | 1925 | profession: Writer | country: France | signature: Original signature | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Handwritten dedication in French | Lot information |Manuscript dedication by the distinguished French writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature, Romain Rolland, written on the title Im Anfang war die Liebe by Malwida von Meysenbug. Original text in French: "Au venerement aime petit-fils de Malwida, a celui dont elle aurait ete si heureuse de connaitre l'avenir intellectuel, la grande œuvre de science...." "A mon ami Edouard Monod-Herzen j'offre en son nom, ce livre auquel j'une...." Translation into English: "To the dearly beloved grandson of Malwida, to the one whose intellectual future would have delighted her, the great work of science...." "To my friend Edouard Monod-Herzen, I offer in his name this book, to which I am united...." Romain Rolland was a significant French writer, dramatist, music historian, and pacifist, known especially for his novel cycle Jean-Christophe and his active support for peace movements in Europe. His connection with Malwida von Meysenbug, the German writer and intellectual, was important in the context of European humanist thought.

FRANS MASEREEL (1889-1972) | LETTER WITH SIGNATURE (BELGIUM / BELGIAN) | 1958 | profession: Painter | country: Belgium | signature: Original signature on the back | size: 310 x 260 mm (size of the pad) | technique: Handwritten letter | Lot information | Handwritten letter dated January 20, 1958. Frans Masereel thanks Marie Rohlichova for her letter and expresses gratitude for her kind words. In the letter, he mentions that he is sending her "a small piece of wood" that he had given to a friend on the occasion of his life anniversary, hoping that this gift will bring her joy. The letter concludes with expressions of gratitude and well wishes.This manuscript is a beautiful personal testimony to Masereel's kindness and his friendly relationship with Mrs. Rohlichova.

[Caradoc (of Llancarfan, Saint)] [The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales], first edition, largely printed in black letter, lacking engraved title, now provided in manuscript and tipped-in, illustrations (portraits and coats-of-arms), initials and decorations, lacking 2G4 (final blank), ink marginalia in an early hand (trimmed in parts), C2-6 with tiny hole to bottom edge, K1 with small loss to bottom edge, 2F2 with small loss to fore-edge, spotting and staining, booksellers descriptions pasted in, bookplate, later calf, rebacked, lower board detached, rubbed and worn, [STC 4606; Sabin 40914], 4to, [Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham], [1584]. *** 'First and rarest of all editions' (Sabin). An important early history of Wales from Roman times down to 1282, which remained the standard work on the subject until the 20th century. Caradoc was 'one of the brilliant band of men of letters that gathered round Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I' (DNB). Sabin notes 'a special interest in this work for the American collector consists in its relation of the most ancient Voyage and Discovery of the West Indies, performed by Madoc, the sonne of Owen Guined, prince of North Wales, anno 1170'.

Wedlock & religious etc.- Spirituall Lessons for a Religious person by consideration of ye conditions of wedlocke... A waye for religious to exercise them perpetually in Noviship, manuscript in English, in a fine italic hand, 147pp. excluding blanks, on thick paper, old printed bookseller's description on fly-leaf,  20th century pencil and ink inscriptions presenting this volume to the Second Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary, original vellum, slightly soiled, remains of ties, 155 x 105mm., [English person in a convent in the Low Countries], [17th century]. *** Contents consist of Considerations of the Cardinal Virtues, the Seven Gifts of the Spirit, the Graces of Modesty, Humility, Poverty, Chastity, Virginity, Sobriety, Obedience etc. Provenance: (1). Presentation inscription from Fr. P. J. O'Reilly, London, to the Second Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary, 1902 (2). Parke Bernet, 1966. 

Sammelband.- Aristotle. Physicorum libri, collation: *-**8 a2 b-n8 o4, multiple ink ownership inscriptions to title in early hand and a library stamp, 1558, bound with De caelo libri quatuor, collation: a-g8 h2 *6 **4, 1553 and De generatione et corruptione libri duo, collation: aa-dd8 ee2, 1558 and Meteorologicorum libri quatuor, collation: A-K8, woodcut illustrations or diagrams, 1558 and De anima libri tres, collation: a-f8 g6, 1558 and De sensu et sensili, memoria et reminiscentia..., collation: a-i8 k6, lacking k6 (presumably blank), 1558, together 6 works in 1, all titles with woodcut printer's devices, occasional ink underlining or line markings and small notes to margins, more frequent to first work, works 2 & 3 with manuscript ink alteration to title imprint date, generally clean with occasional instances of light foxing, later ink inscription to front endpaper and pastedown, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, stamped in blind in a panel design surrounding a central oval of a male head in profile, presumably intended to be Aristotle, paper labels to spine, an instance of neat (?early) repair to lower cover, some staining, brass clasps, housed within a custom-made modern drop-back box, 8vo (c.163 x 108mm.), Lyon, Antoine Vincent. *** An excellent sammelband of six important Aristotelian works of natural philosophy and more scientific areas in an ornate contemporary binding, covering physics, the heavens, ontology and biology, meteorology, the soul, and the senses and memory among others. Seemingly a scarce imprint, all by  Calvinist bookseller Antoine Vincent in Lyon, with USTC listing no copies of any in the UK.

Cookery & Medical.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, in several hands, 58pp. excluding blanks, browned, most ff. loose, several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, disbound, later card wrappers, edges chipped, sm. 4to, n.d. [late 18th century - 19th century]. *** Recipes including: "Ginger Beer"; "Cream Sauce for fish"; "To make Lavender Water"; "Custards"; Raspberry Jam"; "Stomachic for a pain in the Bowels"; "An excellent receipt for a Cough... Mrs Tyrritt"; "A fumigation to prevent infection"; "To Clean Brittannia Metal Goods"; "Orange Marmalade"; "Bakewell Pudding" etc.

Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, bifolium, 4pp., "On Board R.M.S. Titanic" headed paper with red White Star Line burgee, 200 x 250mm., April 11th 1912, "Dear Mother & all at home. I am now taking the opportunity of sending you a few lines about how we started from Southhampton [sic]...We have been having very rough weather but the ship is so steady you would hardly know it was moving, was it not for the throbbing of the engines. We are now nearing Queenstown. The ship is like a magnificent palace. The lounge & dining hall are very beautiful. We are having excellent food. I have made friends with a young English gentleman and he is very nice indeed. The beds are very nice also with plenty of covering to keep warm also they have spring mattresses...Excuse writing as the ship is rolling a good bit. Now I must close. With love to all. I remain, your loving son Tom", photographic postcard of Thomas Mudd with embossed studio stamp of Maddison & Hind of St. Ives & Huntingdon to lower corner, ink manuscript note "Thomas Mudd (Tom) of Huntingfield and Halesworth Suffolk" to verso, letter and photograph presented together within one mount with verso of each partially exposed (letter with some words to p.2 & 3 hidden beneath the mount), both held with archival polyester clear corner tabs, letter with old folds with minor splitting to extremities, some signs of toning to edges, handling creases to both letter and photograph, a few scuffs and nicks to photograph, unexamined out of frame, modern box frame, 505 x 385mm. *** A rare and remarkable letter, seemingly unpublished, serving as a lasting testament to the most famous maritime disaster in recorded history. One of thirteen children, Thomas Cupper Mudd was born in Suffolk to Thomas and Elizabeth Coe Mudd of Huntingfield. Two of Thomas' older brothers had already emigrated to America by 1912. His brother James was the first to leave, sometime in 1907, settling in Radnor, Pennsylvania where he worked as a gardener, his brother George following in 1911. Thomas, working as a bookkeeper, booked a second-class ticket aboard the maiden voyage of the Titanic for £10, 10s (ticket number S.O./P.P. 3), which set sail on 10th April 1912. He wrote this letter to his mother while onboard a day later from Queenstown, Ireland, the last port of call before the ship's fateful collision in the final hour of 14th April. Thomas Mudd perished in the sinking, and his body, if recovered, was never identified. At only 16, he was one of the youngest victims of the Titanic disaster.

British Isles.- Collins (Capt. Greenville) Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. In Two Parts. Being a new and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, letterpress title printed in red & black, additional illustrated title with an inset map of the British Isles, dedications to the Master and Wardens of Trinity House, preface and general description, 45 uncoloured engraved charts only, mostly double-page, four folding (English Channel, Carlingford Loch, Scilly Isles and the River Thames), and two sheets of costal profiles, printed on thick paper, some heavy damp-stains and browning, some heavy off-setting and spotting throughout, the damp-stains and off-setting notably worse to charts in the first quarter, title pages and text with damp-stains and browning, rough edges, some of the folding maps with minor splits and nicks, modern endpapers, modern half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, folio, Mount & Page, 1781*** Greenville Collins was one of the most important English cartographers though little is known of the man himself. He was made a commander in 1679 and "Hydrographer to the King" by Charles II. In 1681 Charles II appointed Collins to "survey the seacoast of the kingdom by measuring all the sea coasts with a chain and taking all the bearings of the headlands". It took him from 1681-1688 to do this survey and he produced 120 manuscript draughts. In 1693 the charts were published in atlas form.

Ashendene Press.- Hornby (C.H.St.John) A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, number 385 of 390 copies signed by the author/printer, Ptolemy type, printed in red and black, plates, illustrations and specimen leaves, some folding, a few with initials supplied by hand by Graily Hewitt, with both errata leaves tipped in at end, the printer's own copy with a few neat annotations in red ink by Sydney Cockerell and A.L.s. from him to Hornby tipped in, with Hornby's complete manuscript draft of the text of the prospectus and other related material loosely inserted, Hornby library book-label and his wife Cicely's pencil signature to front pastedown, variant binding of original pigskin, [by Douglas Cockerell] at the W.H.Smith Bindery, press device in gilt to upper cover, spine titled in gilt with five shallow raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly rubbed and soiled, [Hornby XL; Franklin p.243], folio, Ashendene Press, 1935.*** Cockerell's letter is dated 1 March 1946 (Hornby died a few weeks later on April 26th). In it he describes that "I had a sudden impulse to treat myself to a feast of Ashendene books. I started by going all through the Bibliography. How very perfect it is both as an example of printing and as an exposition and compilation!...What  a row of typographical masterpieces...I got just as great a thrill as when they first came out...I felt positively exultant when I went late to bed. I add fresh congratulations and bravos to all those I have sent you in the past".The other loosely inserted material comprises: a copy of the printed prospectus, 2 A.Ls.s. from Viola Meynell to Cicely Hornby dated 1952 requesting and thanking for permission to publish Cockerell's letter, and an offprint from The Spectator May 10 1946 containing 'A Great Printer', Cockerell's tribute to Hornby (torn and repaired). The variant pigskin binding is much more durable than the usual russet calf.

Calligraphic Manuscript.- Church of England.- The Litany [&] Occasional Prayers..., [Dedicated] To the Reverend Haim Hillel de Medailliers Nathanson, finely illuminated manuscript in gold, blue, red and other colours, on thick vellum, 53pp., text in black and red ink, page of signatures as subscribers bound in at end, 1f. with small smudge and another f. browned, handsomely bound in full red morocco, gilt, crosses in black and gilt morocco onlays in each corner on upper cover, housed in a black morocco box, 322 x 247mm., n.d. [c. 1950]. *** An extremely fine calligraphic manuscript depicting King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and her young family and a host of other portraits, decorations and symbols.