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WEST, NATHANAEL. 1903-1940.Typed Manuscript with autograph corrections, 3 pp, being chapter 13 of A Cool Million, leaves browned and chipped.RARE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT CHAPTER WITH PENCILED CORRECTIONS IN WEST'S HAND. A Cool Million was West's third novel and was a satire of the Horatio Alger series with the main character, Lemuel Pitkin, encountering one tragedy after another. The above chapter covers an episode where Pitkin saves an old man and his daughter from a runaway horse and carriage only to injure his eye, loose his teeth and be berated by the father and daughter due to a misunderstanding. Rare Book Hub shows no examples of West manuscript material on the auction market.

WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. 1911-1983.Annotated Typescript Draft for The Municipal Abattoir (mistitled 'Municipal Abbatoir' at the head), with significant holograph corrections by Williams, 9 pp, numbered 1 - 9 in blue pencil lower left, the final sheet blank except for the holograph note 'Variations' writ large, on onion skin paper, late 1960s, minor creasing to corners.Provenance: The estate of Lee Hoiby.ANNOTATED DRAFT OF A LATER WILLIAMS PLAY, originally produced posthumously in 2004 at the Kennedy Center, taken from a script Lee Hoiby provided to Artistic Director Michael Kahn. In the 2005 book publication by New Directions, they note that their copy-text is taken from Hoiby's script given to Kahn, 'the only text of the play we know to be extant' (Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays, ND, 2005, 'Notes,' p 237). This is likely an earlier (presumably) draft of that manuscript of this darkly wry political gem.Lee Hoiby and Tennessee Williams worked together on the operatic setting of Summer and Smoke, with a libretto by Lanford Wilson, which premiered at the St Paul Opera in 1971. Williams had accompanied Hoiby to the opening night of his first full length opera A Month in the Country (then in an early version titled Natalie Petrovna) in September 1964. The finale of that work was widely praised, with Paul Hume of the Washington Post calling it 'an octet of overwhelming beauty.... This is a supreme moment in opera, and Hoiby's genius has done nothing finer.' Even Tennessee, who had a distinct dislike for opera, liked 'all those voices at the end singing together' and therefore offered Hoiby the highly coveted choice of any of his plays. 'Take your pick!'He chose the delicate Summer and Smoke, which is still the only play Williams allowed to be made into an opera. Hoiby was born in Wisconsin in 1926, becoming a bemused performer with Harry Partch at the University of Wisconsin, a student of Darius Milhaud and Egon Petri for composition and piano at Mills and Cornell, received a scholarship to the Curtis Institute to study composition with Menotti, and became a close associate of both Menotti and Barber. He received a fellowship at Yaddo, the MacDowell colony, and a Fulbright award to Rome, where he was refused entrance to classes at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia because his style was insufficiently radical. (With thanks to Mark Shulgasser for his notes and insights.)

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.The Waste Land. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. 8vo. Publisher's black flexible cloth, lettered in gilt, lacking dust jacket, spine lightly faded.'April is the cruelest month...'FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'mountain' correctly spelled on p 41 and number '482' (of 500 in the first state) on colophon 5 mm high. Upon reading the manuscript of The Waste Land, Ezra Pound wrote to John Quinn, 'About enough, Eliot's poem, to make the rest of us shut up shop.' A sharp copy without the rare dust jacket of perhaps the most important poem of the 20th-century.

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.Absalom! Absalom! New York: Random House, 1936. 8vo. Folding map of Yoknapatawpha County, after a drawing by Faulkner, at rear. Publisher's green-cloth backed patterned paper boards, top edges gilt, custom folding box, cloth lightly faded at spine, with rubbing at foot.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 160 of 300 copies, signed by Faulkner at the colophon. Perhaps best summed up by Faulkner himself, as he showed the manuscript to David Hempstead, 'I think it's the best novel yet written by an American' (Blotner, Faulkner, p 364). Petersen A17d.

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.WRIGHTSON, BERNI, Illustrator. The Stand. The Complete and Uncut Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990. 4to. Black morocco gilt, decorated in red and gilt, spine with 4 raised bands, black wooden box lined in red satin, edges gilt, original glassine jacket. DELUXE EDITION OF THE KING CLASSIC, number 454 of 1250 copies, signed by both King and Wrightson on the limitation page. This edition restores about 400 pages from King's original manuscript and adds the Wrightson illustrations.

POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. 8vo. Decorative initials by Dorothy Shakespear. Publisher's buckram cloth, lettered in red, spine and margins lightly toned. Provenance: Purchased from Newbegins Bookshop, San Francisco (bookseller's ticket, with manuscript note dated 11/15/30).FIRST EDITION of this extended Cantos, number 41 of 200 copies, beautifully printed by François Bernouard for Nancy Cunard's Hours Press on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M. R. V. Paper. 'It is in the minutiae—in the minute organization of the words and their relationships in a composition that the seriousness and value of a work of writing exist—not in the sentiments, ideas, schemes portrayed ... (W.C. Williams, 'A Draft of XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound,' Selected Essays, 1954). Gallup A31a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, printed red spine label, lettered in gilt, page edges red, original faux wood card slipcase, lacking glassine, rubbing to spine, and slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED BY STEINBECK at the colophon, and limited to 1500 copies. When Steinbeck completed the manuscript of East of Eden, he had it delivered to his editor Pascal Covici in a mahogany box, with a letter that would be adapted for the dedication, in part: 'Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts—the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.' Goldstone & Payne A32a.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company... et al, 1849. 8vo. 1 p terminal advertisement, 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, custom green cloth solander box, with morocco title label, light chipping at the corners of spine, light dampstain to final blanks.Provenance: Le Baron Russell (friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, pencil inscription of a descendant to endpaper); Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (bookseller's ticket).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THOREAU'S FIRST BOOK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Now considered a classic, Thoreau's first book was originally perhaps the most famous failure in publishing. After writing the original manuscript at Walden Pond from 1845-1847, Thoreau re-edited the manuscript as he worked on Walden for two years beginning in 1847. Not finding a publisher, Thoreau had the book printed at his own expense in 1849, but the book fared poorly, and just a few years later the publisher returned 706 copies of the 1000 printed. These copies would languish in Thoreau's closet until the bulk were purchased by Ticknor and Field and re-issued with a new title page in 1862. BAL 20104a. Borst A1.1.a1; Johnson High Spots, p 73.

[GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH. 1727-1793.]The Platonic Wife, a Comedy. London: W. Johnston, J. Dodsley and T. Davies, 1765. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Scattered spotting and staining.Provenance: The author (notation on title page); Richard Leonard Johnson (inscription on flyleaf dated 1790); Lord Wardington (loosely inserted note offering the book as a gift, dated 1977).FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A MANUSCRIPT EPILOGUE ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Signed by the author on the title page, with the notation 'Corrected by the Author' at the top margin. The front flyleaf is covered recto and verso with a manuscript epilogue in 28 lines, with the instruction 'to be Spoke by Mrs. Yates.' Mary Ann Yates was an actress who played the title role. There are further corrections and emendations throughout the text. Published as 'By a Lady,' Griffith's first play met with harsh criticism for its strong-willed female lead character. An important early woman's voice in English literature.

SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES.[IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. 1775-1835.] Two plays: 1. Vortigern, an Historical Tragedy. London: J. Barker, 1799. 8vo (206 x 131 mm). Modern half calf and marbled boards. Slightly rubbed, browning to title and last leaf.2. Henry II, an Historical Drama. London: J. Barker, 1799. 8vo (206 x 131 mm). Modern half calf and marbled boards. Slightly rubbed, scattered browning.Provenance: Joan Feisenberger (1910-1992, bookplates).Two interesting Shakespearean forgeries published by Ireland. In the first, Vortigern and Rowena, Ireland was unaware that his son had forged the manuscript. He then sold the production rights to Irish actor and theatrical producer Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who began to doubt that the work was genuine. Nonetheless, the play opened at the Drury Lane Theatre in April 1796, to only one performance. The second work, Henry II, was never performed.

JABLONSKI, PIERRE-CHARLES.LURÇAT, JEAN, illustrator. 1892-1966. Roger, ou Les a cote de l'ombrelle. Meudon [Paris]: Editions de l'Ombrelle, 1926. Small 4to. Facsimile manuscript frontispiece, astrological plate, engraved portrait, 5 hand-colored etched plates by Lurcat. Blue half morocco and marbled boards, original front wrapper bound in. Minimal wear.LIMITED EDITION, number 63 of 100 copies on Ingres paper, from a total edition of 112. Published secretly by Jeanne Bucher, without an author credit. A known annotated copy attributes the text to Polish-born philosopher Jablonski.

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.The Writings of Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. 37 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece illustration in each volume and additional engraved illustration plates. Blue morocco elaborately gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt. Upper cover of volume 1 is detached, spines sunned, tear through most of top half of tipped-in manuscript page.LIMITED 'MEMORIAL' EDITION, number 10 of 90 sets, with A PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT IN TWAIN'S HAND tipped to a blank leaf after the limitation page (as issued), being a page of dialogue from an unknown work, marked '95' at the top.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: W

MUSIC - A New Edition of Six Concertos For the Harpsicord[sic] or Organ, Compos'd by Mr. Handel. Price 5s. N.B. These Concertos were Originally Published by the Late Mr John Walsh, under the Inspection of the Author. London: "Printed for William Randall Successor to the late Mr. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand," [c.1776]. Engraved title and music [Bound with:] A Favorite[sic] Overture for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte, Composed by C. Vanhall. London: "Printed by Longman & Broderip, No. 26, Cheapside," [n.d.]. Engraved title and music. 2 works bound in one, 4to (302 x 225mm). Contemporary calf (joints split, rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped and worn). A few leaves of old unidentified manuscript music are bound in at the end. Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739-1813), variously called Vanhall, Vanhal and Van Hall, was a prolific Bohemian composer, highly regarded by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, who composed 100 quartets, 73 symphonies and 95 sacred works, amongst others.

ANIVITTI, G. "Saggi di Anotomia[sic] Pittorica. Per G. Anivitti." [No place:] Small 4to (196 x 135mm). [Undated but [?]early/mid 19th-century]. Extensive manuscript of an apparently unpublished treatise on anatomy in Italian comprising c. 107 leaves of densely-written text and c. 245 leaves of fine pen-and-ink or pencil anatomical drawings, some in red and black [?]by G. Anivitti (purple ink stain to blank margin of half of the manuscript). Old limp vellum (lacking ties, spine worn with upper half torn away, quite heavily stained). The author, and artist, of this extensive anatomical manuscript has not been identified with any certainty. The State Library of New South Wales [Mitchell Library] contains five sketchbooks by one Giulio Anivitti (1850-81) which contain a number of anatomical drawings but this artist who was born in Rome and emigrated from Italy to Australia in 1874 is better known as a portrait painter. The technical proficiency of the studies in the present manuscript suggest they are the work of a skilled anatomist. 4698

Al-BUSIRI (1211-94). Al-Kawakib Al-Durriya ... The Luminous Stars in Praise of the Best of All Creation Prophet Muhammed. A celebrated panegyric in praise of the Prophet Mohammed the Great Reformer and Lawgiver, accompanied by "Takhmis. The first complete Fine Art Facsimile Edition published by the authority of the Trustees of Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland. London: Recite Publications Inc., 1993. Folio (404 x 295mm). "Illuminated" and coloured facsimile manuscript. Original black leatherette by Hartnolls elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt edges, original black leatherette fitted silk-lined box elaborately decorated in gilt (some minor scuffing to edges of lid), black silk tie, publisher's pamphlet loosely-inserted. ONE OF 950 COPIES. 477

ART REFERENCE, miscellaneous - Sammlung Darmstaedter Berlin. Europäisches Porzellan des XVIII. Jahrhunderts. Bearbeitung von Prof. Dr. Schnorr von Carolsfeld ... Katalog. Berlin: Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 1933. Folio (304 x 232mm). 130 monochrome photographed plates, mounted on hinges at the end. Original vellum-backed paper boards with coloured illustration mounted on upper cover. Provenance: priced in old manuscript throughout, occasionally with buyer's names. With 10 other miscellaneous reference books, namely Paul Lacroix's Science and Literature in the Middle Ages (London, 1878, chromolithographed plates, half morocco), Albert Kretschmer's The Costumes of All Nations (London, 1882, coloured plates, cloth, rather worn), C. W. King's Handbook of Engraved Gems ... Second edition (London, 1885, buckram), R. L. Hobson's Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the ... British Museum (London, 1903, buckram), E. Alfred Jones' The Old Church Plate of the Isle of Man (London, 1907, buckram), Edward Andrews Downman's Blue Dash Chargers and Other Early English Tin Enamel Circular Dishes (London, 1919, parchment-backed paper boards), Herbert Kuhn's IPEK. Jahrbuch fur Prahistorische & Ethnographische Kunst (Leipzig, 1935, buckram, dust-jacket), M. H. Longhurst's English Ivories (London, 1926, buckram), A. J. Hipkins' Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique (London, 1945 [reprint of the 1888 edition], buckram) and Vernon C. Stoneman's John and Thomas Seymour. Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816 (Boston, 1959, buckram). The lot sold not subject to return. (11)

[BARROW, John (fl. 1735-74)]. A New Geographical Dictionary. Containing a Full and Accurate Account of the Several Parts of the Known World. London: Printed for J. Coote, 1760. Volume II (only, of 2). Folio (354 x 230mm). Title printed in red and black, 36 engraved topographical and costume plates, 44 engraved maps and plans (one plate with short tear without loss, some light spotting and staining). Contemporary reverse calf (foot of spine worn, joints split, rubbed and stained). Provenance: old manuscript index to the maps on rear pastedown. Sold not subject to return.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-67). [Petits poemes en prose; Les fleurs du mal; Les paradis artificiels], translated by Arthur Symons. [London:] The Casanova Society, 1925. Large 8vo (233 x 145mm). Frontispiece, title within woodcut border. Original vellum, spine lettered in gilt, uncut and partly unopened. Provenance: Geo. H. Brook (bookplate). LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 23 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR AND SPECIALLY BOUND. With Arnold Bennet's The Old Wives' Tale ... reproduced from the author's manuscript (London, 1927, 2 vols., ONE OF 500 COPIES, SIGNED by the author after the preliminary note, vellum-backed cloth), and 12 other miscellaneous early 20th-century books, most bound in vellum, and including some limited editions. (15)

BONNELL, James (1697-1774). A fine manuscript journal of travels in England between 10 August and [?]2 September 1717, titled: "An Account of a month's Travell Round the North West[sic] & South West of England from London to Oxford & Worcester & round to Chichester &c. In all Nine Citys. In a Continued Distance of 160 mile from London." 8vo (151 x 100mm). "Title" and 184-leaves, written in black ink on rectos only, with numerous blank leaves at the end interspersed with 18-pages of accounts relating to the tour. Bound in contemporary speckled calf (rubbed). Provenance: Harvey Bonnell (armorial bookplate); and thence by descent. A COLOURFUL ACCOUNT, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED, OF A YOUNG MAN'S TOUR FROM LONDON ACROSS THE WEST OF ENGLAND IN 1717. Taking in the attractions of Windsor, Oxford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Bath, Wells, Glastonbury, Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester, amongst many other places, the journal also provides detailed descriptions of the interiors and gardens of noteworthy houses along the way including Blenheim, Wilton and Dyrham Park; there are lively accounts of partying at Worcester and Bath, and numerous introductions and flirtations. In Henley: "... we had very good diversion with ye young Girls being for the most part of a very cheerfull disposition"; in Oxford, a service at the Cathedral "... was very indiferently performed, and the Church of a very indiferent structure"; Queen's College: "... is new and the fine Chapell not at this time finished"; in Worcester: "... a very genteel place and we had the fortune to be very well acquainted with all the best of ye city, as Miss Kitty Stevens, Fanny Paine, Sophia Sheldon, Molly Moore, 4 Miss Betsons, particularly pretty Miss [?]Ann, Sally Pansford, Sally Boostor, Miss Berkley, Miss Travil, Patty Carey di Twitty, Sicilia Twitty, wth. many others ... Memorandum - Mr Cooke, altho' I invited him to supper never asked me to drink a glass of wine. Memorandum - Mrs Cooke has a Beard, one inch long, all black ... we rose about Ten, I having not been very well"; on Bristol: "This City is the most dirty, noisy, drunken, ill-natured, homely place I ever met ... I think Wopin [ie Wapping] in London to most like it, tho' to its advantage"; in Bath, they hit the town: "... to ye Pump room, to prayers, walks, Dinner, Rafflin's room, & walks, & at Night, gaming room, & Ball, being Tuesdays, & Fridays. On Saturday evening we visited the Pump room & Walks so late yet no Company; we went to ye Billiard table, Hazard Table & Harrisons rooms, very full ..."; in Salisbury: "... after dinner we went to ye Master of St. Cross in a chariot for 5/ where Mr Thomas went to visit a Lady of his acquaintance, who made us very welcome, a dancing master being there, and the Children dancing - the Lady desire me to take out a Lady was visiting there, which I did, and danced a Minuet with her, and after that another ..." Meals en route are described in exhaustive detail; this, for example, at The Angel in Oxford (at the time the foremost coaching Inn of the city but demolished in 1876): "... we had this Night 2 Rabbits fricasied, with a Loin of Mutton, 2 fowls and half dozen tarts, and a handsome desart, 2 flasks of french wine, 1 of port, and a pint of Mountain with Lemons, etc"; and at Chichester: "... we had for Dinner at ye Upper end a noble Dish of Fish with Schrimps, & Oyster Sauce, at ye Bottom a Chine of Mutton - one one side some Pig, on tother, a most incomperable rich backed pudding, Pickles in ye middle - the first course ended, the table was a second time furnished with at ye Upper End, a Dish of Partridges, the lower end Artichokes, on one side Tarts, on tother Lobsters, these being taken away, ye next consisted of desert - in ye Middle Grapes - at upper end Nectralles, at lower, plumbs, in a row on one side Currants, & figs, tother Damsons & Peeches, being 7 dishes, from thence we went home ..." James Bonnell, who was about 19 and single when he kept this journal, was of Spring Gardens, Westminster. His sister, Sarah, left money in her will to found a school for poor girls in West Ham in 1769. 'The Sarah Bonnell School', one of the oldest schools for girls in England, still flourishes in Stratford, east London. Of James Bonnell's later life, not a great deal is known beyond some official records: he was Lord of the Manor of Purleigh, Essex, in 1759, and he purchased Pelling Place and adjoining land including Beaumont Lodge in Old Windsor, Berkshire. The Bonnell family memorial is in the Monoux chapel of St Mary's church, Walthamstow.

BONNELL, James (1697-1774). A manuscript journal of travels in Europe between 1718 and 1720 comprising 'The Grand Tour' and detailing visits to Dover, Calais, St. Omer, Boulogne, Paris, Lyon, Turin, Genoa, Parma, Bologna, Florence, Milan, and other towns and cities, and further trips to Holland and Belgium, large 8vo (245 x 150mm). c.85 leaves, with 13 written on both sides, the text preceded by 6 leaves of notes including the front endpaper, c. 9 blank leaves, followed by c.43 leaves detailing expenses of the trip, c. 37 of which written on both sides (possibly lacking some leaves, some fraying to lower fore-corner of first few leaves with slight loss). Bound in contemporary limp vellum wallet with tie, stitched (many leaves loose, binding partially detached). A DETAILED ACCOUNT, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED, OF A YOUNG MAN'S 'GRAND TOUR', INTERMINGLING CULTURAL SIGHTS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF CURIOSITIES, SOCIAL OBSERVATION AND PRACTICALITIES ALONG THE WAY. "[In St. Omer] Din'd at 2, and then proceeded to the Great church, called St Omer, where I observ'd a new organ plac'd over the Entrance at ye West Door of ye church, very magnificent ... At the Entrance of Montreville are four draw Bridges, & a large Handsome city being pav'd throughout ... on the way I mett thousands of women on Horseback a straddle, and some cows wch are in France but small, very small horns, bags, and teats ... Came to Paris Wednesday ye 3rd Septr O.S. 1718 - Lodge at Hotelle de Flamb'd - went on Friday to Invalids, an Hospital, saw the Hall to dine - beds for ye sick - beds for those in health - the chapel very fine ... went to ye opera ... very indifferent singing, good dancing, bad musick ... The dress of the French women is a head of hair much powder, a great pleated tail, no hoopes, a deal of furbelows, and altogether considered ugly ... Chambery is but an indifferent built city but walled all around, mostly paper windows, except in ye very best houses. Here I heard children of 4 years all sing tunes exactly right ... Turin is remarked for a thick air ... [it] is a City compleatly uniform, tho' small, most streets are contiguous, so that you have a prospect from one end of ye city to tother ... No Hackny Coaches, but Sedans & Boats rowed by women ... [In Genoa] Neuf Street the finest in ye world - Pritty broad & pav'd by ye Palace flat - mostly stone - Palaces uncarved, painted on outside - Mostly 4 story but as high as 7 ... [Parma] is counted Ye Capital city of ye Dutchy of Parma, there are some good pritty Churches wth good pictures, in them many fine Equipages, wch partake more of ye French fassion - ye nearer Rome, ye Duke has a sort of Menagerie where are Lions, Bears, a Tyger, wolf, eagles, a Porcupine, and a strange Beast in ye nature of a Baboon, viz Man Tyger ... Entd Florence Saturday 9 Oct 1718 - The Streets pav'd wth large ... stones all flat but large Separations ... The Cathedrall outside, all inlaid Marble, of various colours, excepting ye fronts, being painted plasture - the dome only brick - ye inside not very fine ... At Milan they've excellent Fish from ye Lakes - I found here no Gnats - they have a favourite Bird somewt less than a Quail ..." Provenance: "The Manuscript Journal of James Bonnell Esq. of Upton House Essex & Pall Mall, London, during a three years Foreign Tour, at that period supposed to be of the age of 21. - With two original letters [not included in the lot] written by him to his Sister Miss Sarah Bonnell while many besides, much more interesting written to the same Lady - were unfortunately (to the great regret of the surviving family) given away by his late Son James Beal Bonnell to Mr Cambridge of Twickenham Meadows, Middlesex" (later note, loosely-inserted). Please see the footnote to the previous lot for biographical information relating to James Bonnell.

BOOK OF HOURS, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum [The Netherlands, 15th-century, 2 "parts" bound in one]. 168 x 120mm. 189 vellum leaves, including one blank leaf, only (lacking at least 5 leaves), the leaf following the calendar with a large historiated initial in burnished gold and colours incorporating the Madonna and Child, foliate borders in gold and colours with 2 winged angels, the first 157 leaves with numerous initials in gold and colours, 19 lines to a page in a gothic bookhand in black, red, blue and gold, marginal foliate decoration to most leaves in gold and colours; the last 32 leaves extracted from another Book of Hours, in a different hand, with 21 lines to a page in a gothic bookhand in black, red and blue, initials in red, blue and green, without marginal decoration (some heavy marginal staining to the calendar leaves, lighter mainly marginal staining and spotting elsewhere). Old panelled and blindstamped calf over boards with 12 small circular head-and-shoulder portraits of the apostles on both covers, spine with raised bands, 2 old clasps, 3 later red silk markers, one with small metal anchor attached (erosion to corners and to head and foot of spine). Provenance: "JASPAER" (old inscription in black ink on blank verso of final leaf of first "part"); old printed bookseller's or auction catalogue description laid down on front pastedown with footnote stating, "The language of these early Belgian Hours is very important to the student tracing the Etymology of English words"; "To Nelson Burroughs, In thanksgiving for the many beautiful services we have had together, from Bob and Catherine Moriso, [illegible [?]house name], Clifton, August 18, 1949" (inscription on loosely-inserted slip)); "Mrs John Morison" (small label on inside of rear board). 5246

The Book of Psalms. From the Version of Miles Coverdale as Published in the "Great Bible" of 1539. With an Introduction by Francis Wormald ... and facsimile reproductions of eight illuminated folios from the fourteenth century manuscript known as Queen Mary's Psalter. London: Haymarket Press [Chipping Camden: Alcuin Press], 1930. Folio (347 x 215mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece, title and text printed in red and black, 7 mounted coloured plates, initials (some soiling mainly at inner margins). Original niger morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. NUMBER 7 OF 50 COPIES.

HERALDRY - David LAING (1793-1878, editor). Fac Simile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount. Lyon King of Armes 1542. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1878. Folio (352 x 260mm). Coloured lithographed title and facsimile leaves (some light staining and spotting). Contemporary morocco-backed cloth boards (extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: J. L. Hope Vere, Blackwood, 1884 (signature on front free endpaper). A cutting from an unidentified bookseller's catalogue [?1930] pasted-in at the front, suggests, "The impression of this valuable work was strictly limited to 250 copies" although no limitation is stated in the book itself. With 3 other related works in 4 vols., namely Edward Barrington de Fonblanque's Annals of the House of Percy (London, "For Private Circulation Only", 1887, 2 vols., chromolithographed frontispieces, plates, vellum, folding "pedigree" in pocket at end of vol. one, some pencil annotation), John Richard Magrath's The Obituary Book of Queen's College, Oxford [additional title, printed in red, green and black: Liber obituarius Aulae Reginae in Oxonia] (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1910, printed in colours, limp parchment) and Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of British Heraldic Art to the end of the Tudor Period (London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1916, buckram). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). "Our Lady of the Snows". Autograph poem, in purple ink, signed and dated "April 1897" at the foot, 6-stanzas, 48-lines, with 3-line quotation beneath the title, written on the rectos of both leaves of a bifolium. Kipling's famous poem was written in Torquay on 26 April 1897 whereupon it was telegraphed to Canada to be recited at a dinner there on the same day to mark the granting of the Canadian Preferential Tariff (the subject of the poem). It was published in The Times on April 27th, but the present manuscript's version is identical with the text printed in The Five Nations (1903) which includes minor variants of the version which appeared in The Times. Provenance: the manuscript was a gift to the vendor from his Great Uncle, William Saul, who died in 1960. As a young schoolmaster, William Saul had met Kipling in 1896 on a golf course in Torquay and they struck up a friendship. Kipling copied the poem for William and it passed, through his sister, to the vendor.

MISCELLANY - William Fletcher SHAW (1878-1961). Twenty-Five Years. The Story of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1954. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1954. 8vo (213 x 135mm). Half tone plates. Contemporary blue crushed morocco gilt with coat-of-arms of the College stamped in gilt on the upper cover gilt edges. PRESENTATION COPY, with an illuminated manuscript leaf inserted at the front reading, "To Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal [ie. Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897-1965)] on the occasion of Silver Jubilee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 1954", signed by the President of the College and the author. With 9 other miscellaneous books including C. A. Manning Press's Devon and Cornwall Leaders (London, [?1895], printed on thick paper, plates, buckram), Robert H. Sherard's Oscar Wilde. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (London, 1905, cloth), William Paton Ker's The Romanes Lecture. 1906. Sturla the Historian (Oxford, 1906, wrappers, PRESENTATION COPY, with a 2-page autograph letter from the author loosely-inserted), Karl von Schumacher's The Du Barry (London, 1932, attractively bound in dark blue half morocco by Hatchards, the front free endpaper inscribed "With Best Wishes" followed by ten unidentified signatures, most first-names only) and Peter West's Denis Compton (London, 1989, buckram, dust-jacket, slipcase, ONE OF 500 COPIES signed by Richard and Nicholas Compton). The lot sold not subject to return. (10)

"SOUTH SEA BUBBLE" & Accounts of the Court of Chancery - "To the Right Honoble the Lords of the Committee of his Majesties Most Honoble Privy Council. May it please Your Lordships. Having on the thirteenth of November last [1724] Received Your Lordships Orders to Inspect the Accounts Given in by the Masters and Usher of the Court of Chancery." A folio (370 x 240mm) manuscript account book on 52-pages (apparently lacking pp. 45 and 46). Contemporary marbled wrappers (rather worn). The accounts, written in the aftermath of "The South Sea Bubble", make frequent listings of and allusions to South Seas stock, annuities and bonds. The final page is signed by William Kynaston and Robert Holford and dated 11 December 1724.

The Towneley Lectionary. Illuminated for Cardinal Alessando Farnese by Giulio Clovio. The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Manuscript 91. Described by Jonathan J. G. Alexander. [Otley:] The Roxburghe Club, 1997. Large folio. Half title, title printed in red and black, coloured frontispiece and plates, monochrome illustrations. Original red cloth gilt. One of an unstated limitation "Dedicated and presented to The President and Members of The Roxburghe Club by Sir Simon Towneley 1997." With 2 other facsimile editions, namely Portolan Atlas von Battista Agnese (1546) (Austria, 1993, ONE OF 700 COPIES, [?]lacking the text vol.) and Neil MacGregor's Placet de l'officier Desbans (New York, 2007). (3)

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82). The Eustace Diamonds. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. 3 volumes, 8vo (181 x 118mm). (Without half titles.) Attractively bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: original Blackwell's Rare Books Invoice dated 19/12/85 for £320 loosely-inserted. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the third "Palliser" novel. Sadleir Trollope 39; Tinker 2224; Wolff 6775. With 2 other books including Jane Austen's Fragment of a Novel written ... January-March 1817. Now First Printed from the Manuscript (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925, original buckram-backed paper boards, ERIC WALTER WHITE'S COPY). (5)

 VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A good D.S., Victoria R I, as Queen, at the head, nine pages, folio, Court at Saint James’s, 23rd February 1876. The manuscript document is addressed to the Duke of Norfolk and concerns the Honourable Harry Tyrwhitt Tyrwhitt of Keythorpe Hall in Tugby, Leicestershire, being a Royal licence granting him to use the surname of Wilson only in lieu of that of Tyrwhitt and bear the Arms of Wilson and requiring the Duke of Norfolk to record the declaration in the College of Arms. Countersigned at the conclusion by Richard Assheton Cross (1823-1914) 1st Viscount Cross. British Statesman who served as Home Secretary 1874-80 & 1885-86. With blind embossed paper seal affixed and tied with a green ribbon. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG   Henry Fitzalan-Howard (1847-1917) 15th Duke of Norfolk. British Politician & Philanthropist who served as Earl Marshal 1860-1917.    Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt (1824-1894) 3rd Baron Berners. 

 VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A good D.S., Victoria R I, as Queen, at the head, five pages, folio, Court at Saint James’s, 13th September 1892, on the blind embossed stationery of the Secretary of State, Home Department. The manuscript document is addressed to the Duke of Norfolk and concerns the Honourable Raymond Robert Tyrwhitt of Keythorpe, Leicester, being a Royal licence granting him to take and use the surname of Wilson in addition to and after his own surname of Tyrwhitt and bear the Arms of Wilson and requiring the Duke of Norfolk to record the declaration in the College of Arms. Countersigned at the conclusion by H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) British Prime Minister 1908-16 and previously Home Secretary 1892-95. With blind embossed seal affixed and tied with a green ribbon. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG   Henry Fitzalan-Howard (1847-1917) 15th Duke of Norfolk. British Politician & Philanthropist who served as Earl Marshal 1860-1917.    Sir Raymond Robert Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1855-1918) 4th Baron Berners.  

EDWARD VIII (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. A rare D.S., Edward R I, as King, at the head, one page, oblong folio, Office of Admiralty, 2nd April 1936. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is a naval commission appointing David Jasper Godden to be a Sub-Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Fleet. Countersigned at the foot by Martin Dunbar-Nasmith (1883-1965) British Admiral, Victoria Cross winner for his actions in the Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles, June 1915; and Percy Noble (1880-1955) British Admiral. With blind embossed seal. Some very light, extremely minor creasing and foxing, otherwise VG

 BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A very fine, rare D.S., R Walpole, by Robert Walpole (1676-1745, British Prime Minister 1721-42), one page, folio, Palace at Whitehall, 22nd July 1740. The manuscript document is addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury and is a warrant ordering the payment of two thousand one hundred and ten pounds eleven shillings and six pence to be made to Thomas Lowther without account, ‘that is to say, the sum of Two thousand pounds to reimburse the like sum by him Expended to answer a Bill of Exchange drawn from abroad for his Majesty’s Service, and the remaining sum…..is to defray the Fees and Charges attending the Receipt thereof…..’. Countersigned at the foot by William Clayton (1671-1752, 1st Baron Sundon, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) and Thomas Winnington (1696-1746, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) and further countersigned at the head by eight Lord Justices comprising Spencer Compton (c.1673-1743, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British Prime Minister 1742-43), Thomas Pelham Holles (1693-1768, 1st Duke of Newcastle, British Prime Minister 1757-62), John Potter (c.1674-1747, Archbishop of Canterbury 1737-47), Philip Yorke (1690-1764, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English Lawyer & Politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1737-56), Lionel Sackville (1688-1765, 1st Earl of Dorset, English Political Leader, Lord Steward 1725-30, 1737-44), Charles Lennox (1701-1750, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, British Nobleman, Peer & Politician, Master of the Horse 1735-50, remembered for his patronage of cricket), Charles Powlett (1685-1754, 3rd Duke of Bolton, British Politician & Lieutenant General) and John Montagu (1690-1749, 2nd Duke of Montagu, British Peer, Master of the Great Wardrobe 1709-49). With blank integral leaf. Documents from this period featuring the signatures of three British Prime Ministers are rare and desirable. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a few small, neat splits at the edges of some folds, otherwise VG   Sir Thomas Lowther (1699-1745) English Peer and Landowner.  

NEWCASTLE & NORTH: NEWCASTLE DUKE OF: (1693-1768) British Prime Minister 1754-56, 1757-62 & NORTH LORD: (1732-1792) British Prime Minister 1770-82. North led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence. A good D.S. by both the Duke of Newcastle (‘Holles Newcastle’) and Lord North (‘North’) individually, one page, folio, Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 29th June 1759. The manuscript document is addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in Scotland and approves the application of John Taylor, a Landwaiter and Searcher at Port Glasgow, to be absent from his duty for three months, also directing ‘that no deduction shall be made from the salary of the said John Taylor on account of his absence during that time provided you have no objection thereto’. Also countersigned at the foot by Robert Nugent (1709-1788) 1st Earl Nugent. Irish Politician & Poet, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1754-59. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a small tear at the centre, neatly repaired to the verso and not affecting any of the signatures. About VG

NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A very fine L.S., Napol (a good example of the Emperor’s more complete signature, with a bold flourish), two pages, with gilt edges, 4to, Rambouillet, 10th September 1807, to Prince Eugene Napoleon (‘Mon fils’), in French. The manuscript letter is in the hand of Napoleon’s private secretary, Claude Francois de Meneval, and the Emperor states, ‘I see, according to your latest report, that the 4th regiment of riflemen has 58 horses present, the 9th has 68 horses present, the 25th has 63 horses present’ and continues to declare ‘I don’t know why these depots have so few horses when combined they have 674 men present’, adding ‘Nevertheless make sure you make as many of them as possible leave for Naples to strengthen the regiment there, and hasten their departure so that it can take place on the 1st of October’. Napoleon further asks his son to consider reinforcing the Naples army, instructing ‘Prepare for the following detachment: a captain, a lieutenant, a second-lieutenant, and 14 men from the Light Infantry Regiment. Same for the 1st Regiment of Line Infantry. I already gave you orders for the 6th regiment based in Corfu. Same for the 10th Line Infantry Regiment, for the 22nd and 20th Light Infantry, and for the 52nd, 62nd, 101st Regiments of the Foreign Legion, which will be 27000 men in total’ and concluding ‘I wish for these 27000 men to be ready on the 1st October, to go to Ancona, and from there to Naples. They can march with the 900 cavalry men’. With blank integral leaf. A letter of fine military content and good association and featuring a scarce example of Napoleon’s signature. About EX Eugene de Beauharnais (1781-1824) Duke of Leuchtenberg. French Prince, the first child and only son of Empress Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon I, by her marriage to Alexandre de Beauharnais. Napoleon formally adopted Eugene as his son. Regarded by historians as the ablest of Napoleon’s relatives, Prince Eugene commanded the Army of Italy and served as Viceroy of Italy under his stepfather.

 STADION JOHANN KASPAR VON: (1567-1641) Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights 1627-41 and President of the Privy Council of Emperor Ferdinand II. Ink signature (‘Jo: Caspar’) on a slim oblong 8vo piece evidently neatly removed from the conclusion of a document and with two lines of manuscript text, 4th July 1631. Lightly mounted at the left edge to a folio sheet beneath a similar piece neatly removed from the head of the document. About VG 

MCQUEEN STEVE: (1930-1980) American Actor. D.S., Steven T. McQueen, one page, 4to, n.p. (Los Angeles, California?), n.d. (c. May 1970). The typed document, with a minor manuscript insertion, is a waiver of notice and consent to the holding of a special meeting of the Board of Directors of Solar Plastics Engineering Company, advising that a special meeting will take place in Los Angeles, California, on 4th May 1970 for 'the purpose of electing officers and transacting such other business as may come before said meeting…..'. Signed by McQueen at the foot in his capacity as a director of the corporation and countersigned by two other directors, William J. Maher and Robert J. Schiller. Three file holes to the left edge and one very minor crease to the upper right corner, none of which affect the text or signatures. VG

 PROKOFIEFF SERGE: (1891-1953) Russian Composer and Pianist. A rare original manuscript score of Quintet in G Minor (Op.39, 1924 ‘Quintette’) signed by Serge Prokofieff, forty-eight pages, folio (manuscript paper), n.p. (Paris), 1924. The manuscript is penned in black fountain pen ink, with various annotations in blue indelible pencil and is signed (‘Serge Prokofieff’) in ink to the head of the first page and dated 1924 in his hand. Titled to the front and annotated at the head in Cyrillic as being Prokofieff’s personal copy. Together with a second manuscript score of The Fiery Angel (Op. 37, ‘Der Feurige Engel’), sixty-four pages, folio (manuscript paper), n.p., n.d. (circa 1927), penned in bold, dark fountain pen ink and titled in German at the head. Some light overall age wear, VG, 2   Quintet in G minor was scored by Prokofieff foroboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass and contains six movements. The work is closely related to the composer’s ballet Trapeze.   The Fiery Angel is an opera by Prokofieff which was first presented in Paris in November 1954 and first premiered at the Venice Festival in 1955.  

 GAINSBOROUGH THOMAS: (1727-1788) English Portrait & Landscape Painter, a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century, surpassing his rival Joshua Reynolds. An extremely rare D.S., Tho Gainsborough, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., 21st March 1768. The manuscript document, entirely in the hand of the painter, is a receipt for the sum of 'ten guineas' received from Sir John Sebright 'being half payment for a three quarter Portrait.' Signed by Gainsborough at the foot and docketed by Sebright to the verso. Very slightly irregularly torn to the right edge and lower right corner, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG   Sir John Sebright (1725-1794) British General and Politician, a close friend of the Irish statesman and writer Edmund Burke.    Gainsborough's portrait of Sebright was executed in oil on canvas, the image shown within an oval and depicting the subject in a three quarter length pose, wearing uniform, with his head turned towards the viewer. The portrait was exhibited by Sir Edgar Sebright (1854-1917) in the late 19th century and was more recently sold at Sotheby's in New York on 17th January 1992. Sir Edgar Sebright also owned portraits by Gainsborough's great rival, Joshua Reynolds.   Autographs of Gainsborough are extremely rare in any form and American Book Prices Current record only eleven examples having been sold at auction since 1975, only one of these being a similar receipt to the present lot.    It is also interesting to note that in the recently published biography Gainsborough: A Portrait, the author James Hamilton laments the fact that Gainsborough's letters and other papers were mostly destroyed after his death in 1788. 

 BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General who, in 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa, successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Later Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement. Autograph Manuscript signed, with his initials BP, three pages, 8vo, Waiho Gorge, Westland, New Zealand, n.d. (1934), in pencil, on the printed stationery of the Glacier Hotel at the Franz Josef Glacier. Baden-Powell's manuscript, with several corrections throughout, is entitled On a Glacier and states, in part, 'As I write this I am sitting on a bluff on the shoulder of one of the great mountains which rear their snowclad heads high above me on every side. In front and below me runs a wide valley which is filled from side to side with a vast white sheet of ice; not the sort of ice you know at home but a jumbled mess of blocks and waves and walls of ice. It is a glacier, or frozen stream, a mile wide and twelve miles long from where it starts…..I can see three tiny moving specks some two miles away on the glacier. These are my two daughters mountain climbing with their guide. Dressed in breeches and puttees and heavy iron-shod climbing boots and armed with ice axes for cutting steps in the ice and with goggles to escape the glare of the snow, they love the excitement of clambering over those great slippery crags…..As for me I am taking it easy, sitting on my bluff and gazing over this mighty frozen torrent. There is a steady rumbling hum in the air, just like the roar of the traffic in London as you hear it sitting in Hyde Park. This rumbling is the sound made by that vast mass of ice slowly, slowly grinding its way over the rocks and stones beneath it. Watching it and standing on it you can perceive no movement, but moving it is all the same…..It behaves just as a stream of water does in running down a steep water course, the difference being that it is all a solid block of ice….'  The final page is lightly and neatly laid down to a page most likely removed from a scrapbook and the first two pages are neatly laid down to the left edges alongside. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, about VG   The present manuscript was most likely written in preparation for Baden-Powell's book Scouting Round the World (1935) which records the Chief Scout's round-the-world voyage undertaken in 1934 in the company of his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, and their two daughters. The book features a description of his observations as his daughters climb the Franz Josef Glacier.  

DOUGLAS JAMES: (c.1516-1581) 4th Earl of Morton. Douglas served as the last of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of King James VI. An extremely rare D.S., James Regent, as Regent of Scotland, at the foot, one page, oblong folio, 30th September 1577. The manuscript document is a warrant issued in the name of the King and grants a licence to Sir Andrew Murray of Balvaird and Arngask to remain undisturbed ‘at hame’. With the remnants of a red wax seal to the left of the signature. Neatly mounted to the upper edge of the verso, otherwise VG Provenance: The present document was originally part of The Enys Collection of Autograph Manuscripts and was previously sold by Bonhams in London on 28th September 2004 (Lot 106).

GEORGE I: (1660-1727) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1714-27 & ADDISON JOSEPH (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet and Politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine. A good D.S. by both King George I (‘George R’, a good, bold example as King at the head) and Joseph Addison (‘J. Addison’, as Secretary of State for the Southern Department), one page (vellum), oblong folio, Court at Hampton Court, 8th September 1717. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is a military commission appointing Leonard Robison to be an Ensign in a Regiment of Foot commanded by Brigadier General Henry Grove. With the remnants of a red seal to the upper left corner. Some light overall creasing and age wear, about VG

 GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, one page, folio, Court at St. James's. 24th February 1797. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is addressed to John Charles Villiers and states, in part, 'These are to authorize you by beat of Drum or otherwise, to raise so many Men in any County......as are or shall be wanting to recruit & fill up the respective Troops of Our Regt. of Fencible Cavalry under your Command, to the numbers allowed upon the Establishment: And all Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, Constables, and other Our civil officers whom it may concern are hereby required to be assisting unto you in providing Quarters, Impressing Carriages and otherwise as there shall be Occasion......' Countersigned at the foot by William Windham (1750-1810) British Statesman, Secretary at War  1794-1801 and two other individuals. With a slim portion of the blank integral leaf. Some light age wear and a couple of minor, small neat splits at the edges of the folds, about VG   John Charles Villiers (1757-1838) 3rd Earl of Clarendon. British Peer and Politician. When the rise of the French Republic caused apprehensions in Great Britain, Villiers was appointed Colonel of the First Regiment of Fencible Cavalry on 14th March 1794.   Provenance: The present document was formerly part of the Ray Rawlins Collection of Historical Documents and was sold by Sotheby's in their sale of the Rawlins Collection on 2nd, 3rd and 4th June 1980 (Lot 114). It has not appeared on the market since.  

 GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. D.S., George R, a 'mad' example, as King, at the head, one page (vellum), oblong folio, Court at St. James's, 23rd May 1810. The manuscript document is a military commission appointing William Heydinger to be Deputy Assistant Commissary General to the Forces. Countersigned at the foot by Richard Ryder (1766-1832) British Politician, Home Secretary 1809-12 and also bearing the signatures of Thomas Butts (1757-1845) Chief Clerk to the Commissary General of Musters and William Blake's most important patron and Robert Lukin (1772-1835) First Clerk at the War Office. With blind embossed paper seal affixed. The document has a neat horizontal tear through the centre (somewhat crudely repaired to the verso) and with extensive mottling and age wear, affecting the text but not the King's signature. About G   Provenance: The present document was previously part of the collection of the British physician Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981). Along with his mother, Dr. Ida Macalpine, also a psychiatrist, he wrote several books including George III and the Mad Business (1969). 

 GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. A very fine D.S., George R, as King, at the head, two pages, folio, Court at Carlton House, 6th December 1823. The manuscript document is addressed to the Earl of Eldon and is a warrant for the affixing of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Ratification of a Convention between King George IV and the Emperor of Austria ‘for the definitive settlement of the Austrian Loan, concluded and signed at Vienna, on the Seventeenth day of November [1823]’. Countersigned at the conclusion by George Canning (1770-1827) British Prime Minister April - August 1827 and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1807-09, 1822-27. With a manuscript copy of the Convention annexed to the document, six pages, folio, in English and French, comprising five articles negotiated between Robert Gordon and Klemens von Metternich in which the Emperor of Austria agrees to repay the sum of ‘Two Millions Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling in satisfaction of the whole of the British Claims’. Neatly tied with a blue ribbon and with a blind embossed paper seal affixed. VG 

 GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, two pages, folio, Court at Carlton House, 13th April 1824. The manuscript document is addressed to James Scarlett and his Royal Licence to Plead, stating, in part, 'Whereas James Taggart hath by his Petition humbly represented unto Us, that on the twenty second day of October last there was an Indictment found by the Grand Jury of the City of London against James Taggart and Henry Baskcomb which was removed by Certiorari into Our Court of Kings Bench for an alledged offence of selling a Cadetship upon which the Petitioner and the said Henry Baskcomb are to be tried at the adjourned sittings for the City of London......and that it may be useful for the Petitioner in defending the said Indictment to have the assistance of James Scarlett one of Our Counsel learned in law.....' Countersigned at the conclusion by Robert Peel (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46 and Home Secretary 1822-27 & 1828-30. With a blind embossed paper seal affixed and blank integral leaf. Some very light staining and age wear, only very slightly affecting the text and signature, otherwise about VG   James Scarlett (1769-1844) 1st Baron Abinger. English Lawyer, Politician and Judge, one of the most successful lawyers at the bar who was particularly effective before a jury.  

BROCKETT JOHN T.  A Glossary of North Country Words ... from an Original Manuscript in the Library of John George Lambton ... with Considerable Addtions. Tape rep. to title. Pages interleaved with blanks. Nice rebound half calf, marbled brds. Newcastle, 1825.

GATTY ALFRED.  The Bell, Its Origin, History & Uses. Text illus. Orig. red cloth. 1848; also 2 manuscript leaves, c.1810, in a modern bdg. entitled Fellowship in Decimals & Vibration of Pendulums.  (2).

BURNS ROBERT.  The Complete Works. Very poor cond. but with tipped in manuscript letter from Lt. Col. James Burns (son of the poet), dated 15 Sept and relating to payments made in response to "a number of letters of various dates from Mr Armour".

(HOME HENRY, LORD KAMES).  Elements of Criticism ... With the Author's Last Corrections & Editions. 2 vols. Old calf, splitting. Extensive old manuscript biographical note to endpaper. 1785.

PICKERING WILLIAM (Pubs).  10 various vols., mid 19th cent.; also 2 others incl. William Sandys, Christmastide, Its History, Festivities & Carols, extra illus. & with 12 loose double column pages of manuscript French carols in a tiny hand, 1852.  (12).

COWBURN ELIZABETH.  Journal of a Tour to Scotland. Detailed manuscript account with sketches, tipped in engravings, detailed eyewitness descriptions, etc. July & August 1854; also a neatly written vellum bound manuscript book "Copied from a book called The Nursery Rhymes of England", 1844.  (2).

MANN KATHERINE (Of Bridge of Weir).  A bundle of theatrical ephemera incl. typescript plays & dramatic sketches incl. The Air Raid, The Scottish Emigrant & The Dream-Drug; 2 watercolour sketches of stage sets; a bundle of manuscript verses, etc.

Late Victorian Album.  A well worn quarto album containing pasted-in cuttings, manuscript notes, incl. Dumfries interest & a pasted-in Dumfries Commercial Bank 1 guinea banknote c.1880's; also another similar but smaller album, mainly of press cuttings.  (2).

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Interesting contemporary manuscript map of the approaches to Charleston S.C. Drawn by Chas. Follet? for Commodore Barrow April 9th 1863, on fine woven cloth 7 x 6 inches.Condition report: New images were taken 28th February. Small - map - good condition.

Gone Girl uncorrected manuscript proof paperback book published in 2012. Good condition, 415 pages. This lot is sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Hospice. Est.

ALBUM – NELSON, NIGHTINGALE AND OWEN'S ORANGUTANAlbum containing a series of clipped signatures of RN captains, including Horatio Nelson (with right hand), T.M. Hardy (with the Master and crew members of the Victory, 1804), Collingwood, St Vincent, Gambier and others; and letters etc. by Florence Nightingale (autograph letter in pencil, to Major-General Frederic Brine: 'I shall prove my gratitude for your most kind promise – more than kind – of 'true agency' -- -- by availing myself of it', 6 November 1876), General Sir Ralph Abercromby (fine letter signed by, writing from Marmorice Bay while preparing for his successful attack on Aboukir Bay, during which he was to be killed the following month, to Major Holloway RE, commanding the British Mission to the Grand Vizier, urging a Turkish advance into Egypt and complaining of the shambolic state of their army, 9 February 1801), Felicia Hemans (a half page from the autograph manuscript of her play The Vespers of Palermo, II 3, presented by her brother Sir Henry Browne), William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), A.H. Layard, J.D. Hooker, Richard Owen (British Museum, 11 October 1863: 'The absence of the nail on the thumb of the foot, though common, is not constant, in the female Orang-utan...'), George Everest, Thomas Woolner, and others, black morocco, stamped 'Autographs', worn, 4toThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

FUSSELL (L.)A Journey Round the Coast of Kent, folding engraved map, extra-illustrated with a total of 16 engraved plates (some mounted), later cloth, Baldwin, 1818--BOWEN (EMANUEL) An Accurate Map of the County of Kent Divided into its Lathes, folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected and laid on later linen, slipcase, 530 x 710mm., J. & C. Bowles and Sayer, [c.1750]--IRELAND (W.H.) England's Topographer, or a New and Complete History of the County of Kent, 4 vol., engraved title to volume 1, folding engraved map and numerous plates, occasional foxing, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, G. Virtue, 1828-1830--SOMNER (WILLIAM) The Antiquities of Canterbury. Or a Survey of that Ancient Citie, with the Suburbs, woodcut arms on verso of title, folding map and 2 plates (one repaired), some dampstaining, small hole in title just affecting imprint, last leaf repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S121902], 4to, J[ohn] L[egat] for Richard Thrale, 1640--KILBURNE (RICHARD) A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, A3 and much of 3H2 supplied in manuscript facsimile, one or two marginal tears and repairs, ownership signatures of John Austen and Arthur Hussey (1847), later calf gilt, rebacked [ESTC R11347], Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659, 8vo unless otherwise stated; and a quantity of others on Kent, and occasionally Sussex (quantity)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ROWZEE (LODOWICK)The Queenes Welles. That is, a Treatise of the Nature and Vertues of Tunbridge Water. Together, with an Enumeration of the Chiefest Diseases, which it is good for... and the Manner and Order of Taking it. By Lodwick Rowzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent, FIRST EDITION, woodcut head-pieces and initials, some soiling, repairs to corners of first and last few leaves (with loss of letter S in 'Queenes' on title), stitched in a contemporary limp vellum manuscript (indenture with text on inside covers), soiled, preserved in linen solander box [ESTC S116278], small 8vo, John Dawson, 1632This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

[SPRANGE (JASPER)]The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, FIRST EDITION, dated 1780 on title and on part title following p.68, engraved title, dedication and 3 plates (of 4?), tipped-in manuscript note concerning the Trust for the Preservation of Mount Sion Grove, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, Tunbridge Wells, J. Sprange, & London, T. Beecroft, 1780; idem, 2 further copies, one with 3 plates (untrimmed, dated 1782 on spine), the other lacking the plates, both modern calf; idem, another edition with part title following p.78 dated 1785, on large paper, 5 engraved plates, bookplates of William Cock, 1897, and Sir Thomas Neame, later half morocco, 1780 [but 1785?]; idem, another copy, 8 engraved plates (some folding), later half calf; and 8 other editions with varying numbers of plates, dated 1786 (3), 1797, 1801 (2, one with booklabels of Thomas Mantell and Siegfried Sassoon), 1811 and 1814, 12mo; sold not subject to return due to uncertainty of collation (13)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ARISTOPHANES???????? ?????... Comoediae novem. Plutus. Nebulae. Ranae. Equites. Acharnes. Vespae. Aves. Pax. Contionantes, second edition, text in Greek (part of title, and dedication in Latin), printer's device at end, some initials and border of title decorated in manuscript, blank lower corner of first 2 leaves repaired, modern morocco gilt [Adams A1705], 8vo, Florence, F. Giunta, 1515This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •