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WELLESLEY, ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852) FIELD MARSHAL AND PRIME MINISTER AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("WELLINGTON"), TO [HIS SISTER IN LAW] MRS STEWART [née Elizabeth Pakenham (1769-1851)], thanking her for her kind note of the 9th 'and for your congratulations upon my son Charles' Marriage, which is highly satisfactory', 1 page, with integral blank, 8vo, together with a franked Penny Red envelope with wax seal, addressed to Mrs Stewart in Dublin, clearly in the Duke's hand but with an earlier postmark from February 1843; Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington Autograph letter signed, to Miss Georgina Harcourt, politely declining an invitation to luncheon, with integral address leaf with remnants of red wax weal and Penny Black postage stamp, some writing slightly obscured where previously mounted in an album; Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington. Document signed in the name of George IV, October 30th 1831, signed by The Duke of Wellington, Lords Bathurst and Cholmondely & the Archbishop of Canterbury in their capacity as "The Lord's Justices", raising Major General John Barlow to be a Lieutenant General in the Army, printed document with manuscript insertions, laid on a larger piece of card, folio (3, & envelope)

MACANDREW, ROBERT, FRS [1802-1873]: NORWAY AND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE NOTES ON A DREDGING EXCURSION TO THE NORTH CAPE an 18pp. manuscript account written by MacAndrew detailing his voyage to the North Cape, Norway, in 1855, 333 x 211mm, a few corrections

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, 4 BOOKS COMPRISING SPARK, MURIEL The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1961. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, gift inscription to free-endpaper; Banks, Iain The Wasp Factory. London: Macmillan, 1984. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some slight soiling to endpapers; Kelman, James How Late it Was. London: Secker & Warburg, 1994. 8vo, signed by Kelman to title-page, with an accompanying manuscript quotation, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Rankin, Ian The Flood. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1986. First edition, paperback, signed by Rankin to endpaper, original card covers, a little edgewear to covers (4)

CORELLI, ARCANGELO PARTE PRIMA SONATE A VIOLINO E VIOLONE O CIMBALO … Opera Quinta - [Parte Seconda]. [Rome:] Pasquino all' Insegna della Stella da Filippo Farinelli, [1700]. First edition, small oblong folio (350 x 245mm), both parts in one volume, engraved frontispiece, contemporary vellum, some chipping, upper cover a little loose, early ownership signature to paste-down endpaper, manuscript title to upper cover, manuscript notes regarding Corelli to dedication verso, occasional neat manuscript annotations, occasional neat repairs not affecting music

Williams, Charles Memoirs of the Family Williams of Newcastle upon Tyne manuscript album, c.515 pp., dated 1775, giving an account of family memoirs and various travels, including an account of an excursion to France in 1767, with two manuscript hand-coloured maps of parts of Wales and Northern England/Scotland, contemporary calf boards, lacking spine, disbound; and three 19th century commonplace albums, two belonging to the Inglis family in late 19th century brown embossed morocco, and the third presented to: "Mary Helen Henderson from her Loving Matthew, Xmas1893" in red calf gilt, each containing poetry, family signatures and sketches (4)

JACOBITE PAMPHLETS 1715-1717 9 ITEMS, COMPRISING: [Andews, Charles] A Full and Authentick Narrative of the Intended Horrid Conspiracy and Invasion. London: J. Roberts, 1715. 8vo, [2], 38pp., modern boards, [ESTC T40289]; Leslie, Charles. Mr Leslie to the Lord Bishop of Sarum. [London, 1715], 8vo, 20pp., drop-head title, stapled, disbound, [T149709, 4 copies UK, 3 N. America]; [Burnet, Archibald] [A Paper left by Mr Burnet of Carlops some time before he was executed for being in arms at Preston. Paris, 1717], manuscript copy, 18th century, 19th century half calf, spine worn, [ESTC T170832, 2 copies UK]; [Anon.] A Dialogue between a Whit and a Jacobite, upon the Subject of the late Rebellion. London: J. ROberts, 1716. Third edition, 8vo, 32pp., quarter calf, upper cover detached, [ESTC T180021, 4 copies UK, 3 N. America]; [Anon.] A Journal of the Earl of Marr's Proceedings. Reprinted in London: J. Baker, [1716], 8vo, xvi, 32pp., modern boards, [ESTC T69396]; [Anon.] The Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate. London: A. Dodd & J. Harrison, [1717], 8vo, 48pp., half calf, some spotting, armorial bookplate of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, [ESTC T172450, 7 copies UK, 3 N. America]; [Defoe, Daniel] Secret Memoirs of a Treasonable Conference at S.... House. London: J. More, 1717. 8vo, [2], 78pp, calf, slightly spotted, lacks lower cover, upper cover detached [ESTC T69391]; Gyllenborg, Carl Letters which passed between Count Gyllenborg... relating to the Design of Raising a Rebellion in Her Majesty's Dominions. London: S. Buckley, 1717. Folio, modern boards, [ESTC T61824]; Forster, Thomas A Letter from Fr. Forster to his Acquaintance in London. London: T. Warner, 1717. 8vo, [2], 22pp., sellotape to spine, title browned, disbound, [ESTC T195387, 3 copies UK, 2 N. America] (9)

HENRY BENEDICT STUART, CARDINAL DUKE OF YORK DIARIO PER L'ANNO MDCCLXXXVIII DI ENRICO BENEDETTO CARDINALE DUCA EI YORCK Chiswick Press, 1876. First edition, 4to, 1 of 75 copies, presentation copy to B. Mitford from the editor, engraved portrait frontispiece & 1 plate, engraved illustrations, contemporary red morocco gilt, t.e.g., uncut, bookplate of Bertram Freeman-Mitford; [Borgia, Stefano] Letters from the Cardinal Borgia, and the Cardinal of York. 1799-1800. 4to, [2], 14, 3 engraved facsimiles of letters, with 3 manuscript copies of letters from Lord Minto to the Cardinal of York, Cardinal of York to Lord Minto, and from Sir J.C. Hippisley Bt. to the Cardinal of York, contemporary calf, some dampstaining, binding worn (2)

[DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, GUY, COMTE DE] [TRAITÉ SUR LA CAVALERIE] [Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1776] Large folio, atlas volume (text volume not present), containing 31 numbered double page plates (plate 2 is lacking), 2 unnumbered double page plates and 6 unnumbered single page plates after Ridinger, engraved by Vindel, from his Riding School series: "Ein Pferd wie es mit der Blinden aufgeführet wird..." 1744, "Ein Pferd zwischen den Pillars an die Trömel..." 1744, "Pasagiren auf volte mit der Croupe gegen der Soeule" [n.d.], "Die Anweisung die Zügel..." [n.d.], "Ein Pferd von der freyen hand lauffen zu lasen...", 1776, "Capriole oder das Übersetzen..." 1776, contemporary boards with manuscript label to upper cover reading "Ecole de Cavalerie militaire française", some light dampstaining, plate 5 repaired to lower right corner, a few small repairs including one to plate 29, slight marginal worming to final plate, joints split, some parts of spine detaching

Stuart, Henry Benedict, Cardinal, Duke of York 2 documents signed in his capacity as Cardinal of Frascati, 1796 and 6 September 1770, one document incorporating his engraved coat-of-arms, 55 x 41cm., and 42 x 55cm.; together with a manuscript "Licentia celebrandi ad altare Maximum Basilice Principi Aptorium die Festo Cathedre Sancti Petri pro Card[ina]li Duce Eboracensis ejusdem Basilice Archipresbitero", 2pp., folio, integral blank, undated; and a late 18th century "Extract of a a Letter from Sir John Cox Hippisley Bart. to Andrew Stuart Esq. dated 24 Oct. 1799"; and a ms. "Extract of a letter from Andrew Stuart Esq., M.P., to Mr. Secretary Dundas, 30 Oct. 1799" (5)

Australian Legal History Interest. Plunkett's Australian Magistrate, Sydney: J. J. Moore, 1866, extensive manuscript notes and contemporary newspaper clippings pasted over title and sporadically throughout text, bearing ownership stamps for 'J. Palmer Abbott, Solicitor, Murrurundi' [Joseph Palmer Abbott KCMG (1842-1901), Australian politician and solicitor], contemporary half-calf, worn with loss at spine. Together with Reports of Cases Before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, Vol. V, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1909 (2)

French Revolutionary Wars Interest. Manuscript document on laid/chain-lined paper bearing wax seal, issued by the 15th Regiment of Cavalry, featuring 19 signatures of officers of the regiment, being a declaration of their appreciation of Regimental Commander Alexandre Frere, document headed 'Liberte Egalite'. Framed & glazed, 32cm by 21cm

18th-century book of service lists and pay for the British army & navy, comprising two manuscript Contents pages, owner inscription to front pastedown for Thomas Maunsell, London, 1741, and six folding charts (engraved by G. Child), for example: 'The Pay of the Garrisons in Ireland Gibraltar Minorca & ye Plantations'; 'The Pay & Subsistence of his Majesty's Land Forces on the British & Irish Establishment 1741', 'The Pay of the Officers and Men in ye Royal Navy, together with the Number in each Rate, and their Daily Allowance of Provisions and ye Number of Ships', 'A List of his Majesties Royal Navy, Shewing when they were Built and Rebuilt, their several Dimensions and Tonnage, with their highest & lowest Compliment of Men, ye Number, nature, length & weight of Guns on ye several Decks of each Rate'. Full contemporary calf, worn with splitting to joints. Contents generally good and bright, one folding plate torn across central fold-lines 

A 19th century South East Asian Buddhist manuscript on palm leaves, with wooden covers, 11 1/2" l

Folio Society. Tractatus de Herbis, limited edition numbered 162 of 1000, facsimile edition reproduced from the manuscript Egerton MS 747 in The British Library, printed by Bath Press on Phoenix Motion Xenon paper, bound in full goatskin leather by Smith Settle of Otley blocked with a design by David Eccles, together with Commentary, housed in publisher's green solander box. Excellent condition, binding tight and solid, contents clean and vibrant; solander box with a few scuffs/knocks

[Illuminated] The Lorsch Gospels being a Facsimile edition of the Manuscript comprising colour-printed and monochrome plates published by George Braziller 1967, limited edition folio bound in quarter vellum with gilt title and a separate pamphlet of commentary, both housed in original slip-case.

A 17th century vellum legal manuscript dated Feb 1656, framed, lacks seal 42cm x 66cm

A Louis XV carved and blue painted corner bergere, mid 18th century, the moulded arched scrolling frame with gold velvet upholstery above a serpentine rocaille apron on cabriole legs and leaf carved scroll feet, bearing a paper an old auction room label ‘OTTO & ROSONI/ ROMA/ 154’ together with the manuscript ‘Di Benuarito Rome’, one seat rail with the handwritten number 5665 above an indistinct stencil mark, 85cm high, 112cm wide

CHARADES A fan with plain wood guards and sticks, glazed paper leaves with manuscript verses on both sides to be read for the benefit of participants in the game, late 18th century; 28.5 cms 

A Persian manuscript, with hand-painted miniature of a nobleman and his attendants, and bearing Arabic text, with further text to verso, glazed to both sides, in gilt frame, 23.5 x 18cm

A 16th century vellum indenture manuscript document dated 1598 and another dated 1717

BLACKIE & SON DECORATIVE PANEL,handpainted in the style of an illustrated manuscript, framed and under glass, 85cm x 74cm overallNote: Celebrating the centenary of the Blackie & Son Publishing House 1809-1909. Note this is signed on behalf of the staff of the London branch of the firm.

An early Victorian manuscript book of sermons, the leather-bound top board embossed "Sermons, C W Imray", the first leaf inscribed "Charles William Imray, October 20th 1843", the book having 284 pages of sermons in neat copperplate, 23 cm x 20 cm

Hampshire, Kent & elsewhere.- Eden (Anna Maria, maiden name Kelham, married firstly Henry Yelverton nineteenth Lord Ruthin, married secondly Rev. Hon. William Eden, mother of Barbara Rawdon Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings and suo jure Baroness Grey of Ruthin, fossil collector and geological author, 1810-58, 1792-1875) Hampshire Tour August 1842 [with lists of expenses], autograph manuscript, 77pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original vellum, slightly soiled, lettered direct on spine, 132 x 85mm., 1st - 12th August 1842.⁂ A lively account of tours through Kent (Sittingbourne, Tunbridge Wells), Surrey (meeting Reverend Charles Fox Chawner, Rector of Bletchingley), and Hampshire (election at Southampton, Lyndhurst, New Forest, Cowes, Ryde, Winchester etc.), and several trips to London, travelling by coach and train. In Hampshire Eden visits Beaulieu and William Tyrrell, first Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales and leaving their eldest son Arthur as a pupil with him. On their journey Eden meets J P Maunoir, Professor of surgery at Geneva and his charge, George Henry Sumner, son of the Bishop of Winchester and hears of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and the extent of his estate. Also, meeting on a train two men who talk of Canada and Jamaica. Back in London, Eden hurries to the bedside of her daughter, Barbara, Baroness Grey of Ruthin for the birth of her son, Henry Rawdon, fourth Marquess of Hastings (1842-68), a notorious rake.A transcript is available with this lot.

Scotland.- Mure [Muir] (Sir John) Order to Jas. Loch Treasurer to pay Two Hundred Marks for the repair of North Berwick Harbour, manuscript, 1p., folds, creased, slightly browned, folio, 1633; and 5 others, Scottish documents, variously dated, 1633, 1636, 1638 & 1644, v.s., v.d. (6 pieces).

Royal Navy.- Letter-book from HMS Royal William, manuscript, 177pp. excluding blanks, extensively damp-stained, some ff. working loose, browned, original panelled reversed calf, worn, head and tail of spine chipped, folio, 1812.⁂ Correspondence in answer to orders issued. "Royal William 23 March 1812. Sir/ The men named in the Margin being all Danish subjects having applied to me to be sent to Prison rather than serve in the Royal Navy... ."

NO RESERVE Blank paper.- binding.- An album of c.84 sheets of plain, light blue and buff paper, plus c.15 sheets previously used, several with manuscript notes, each f. c.280 x 376mm., occasional spotting, engraved armorial bookplate of Hon. Russell Barrington, contemporary richly gilt vellum, soiled and rubbed, oblong 4to, [c.1830].

NO RESERVE Cluny Abbey.- Saint Odilo of Cluny, fifth Abbot of Cluny, c. 962-1049).- Jotsaldus (Cluniac monk) The Life of St Odilo Abbot of Cluny. By Lotsaldus or Jotsaldus Monk, manuscript, 85pp., slightly browned, original roan-backed boards, slightly rubbed, folio, n.d. [c. 1850].⁂ An unpublished translation of Jotsaldus's Life of St Odilo.

Lovelace.- Review of the Agricultural Statistics of France, 2 vol., 9 ALs to the Earl of Lovelace loosely inserted or tipped-in, 1 folding plate, short tear, illustrations, 2 newspaper articles tipped-in and loosely inserted, contents in manuscript, ink underlining and annotations, occasional faint spotting, bookplate and ink-stamp, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1848; and 6 others, incomplete copies of 'The Liberal' and 'Voyage de Gulliver', 8vo &12mo, (8)⁂ The first includes letters from Rubichon and Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland.

Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.- [Account Book relating to the Parker family of Browsholme Hall & Inventory of Browshole Hall], manuscript in several hands, 39pp. excluding blanks, further 9pp. loosely inserted, together 48pp., ruled in red, 2ff. with small tear, slightly browned, 11 linen labels of various rooms in Browsholme Hall loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, lettered direct on upper cover "The Posting Book 1760 to 1761", worn, spine torn with some loss, ledger folio, 21st March 1778 - 25th November 1790 [& c. 1830s].⁂ A full inventory of an English country house. Rooms including: "Large Drawing Room"; "Engavings"; "Furniture Blue Room"; "Oak Drawing Room" etc.

Berkshire Estate map.- The Plan of John Glover's Farm Lying in the Parish of Sulhamstead Bannester Stratfield Mortimer and Burfield, manuscript estate map with gold decorated floral watercolour wash cartouche and gold decorated compasses, watercolour wash map in green and pink, on vellum, title within cartouche, all within a green watercolour wash border, left corner torn and repaired, some slight creasing and soiling to edges, 520 x 655mm., [c. 1750].

Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshire Estate Map.- Hailey (John, surveyor of Amersham) A Map of an Estate Lying in the Parishes of Standen & Chesham and in the County of Hertford and Buckingham Known or called b y the Name of Martins End Late Mr. Richard Princes Decd..., manuscript estate map with watercolour wash, on vellum, title within cartouche, all within a green watercolour wash border, some creasing, some slight surface wear in margins, 540 x 630mm., 1743.

Miller (M.) Letters Written During a Captivity of upwards of Six Years in France, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, dedication signed by author, manuscript note about 'The Loss of the Wolverine' loosely inserted, occasional faint spotting, ink inscription, modern morocco backed boards, 24mo, Yeovil, 1814.⁂ Scarce, one of only 7 copies, all in the UK.

First World War Pigeon Post.- Pigeon Post message, "Gods sake lift Barrage A.I.Z. send reinforcements cut off one officer two... C.O.s. 75 other Ranks", printed form with manuscript insertions, edges torn with small loss, folds, creased, slightly browned, 180 x 92mm., 2nd June 1918; and metal message holder, v.s., v.d. (2 pieces).

1666 London.- Bill, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, slightly creased and browned, 250 x 180mm., London, 7th July 1666.⁂ Just under two months before the Great Fire of London on 2 September 1666.

Easter Day Calendar.- A Scheme To find Easter day, both according to the old Stile and New from 1700 to 1800, manuscript table, on vellum, blind-stamp coat of arms in corner, folds, slightly creased and yellowed, 455 x 475mm., latest date in text 1728.⁂ "Find the Golden Number and Dominical Letter of the year given in the Table . Where they coincide in the Table B you have the number of Direction. And under that Number in the Circle of Direction you have Easter day." - Calendar.

* World Travel. A group of 6,880 35mm colour slides, circa 1960s/1970s, scenes and views in Great Britain, Europe and around the world, including China, Hong Kong, India, North and South America, Morocco, etc., contained in organised and numbered plastic slide boxes, together with a manuscript index, Great Britain organised by county, and most countries alphabetically by place within country, contained in a rexine ring binder (Qty: 2 cartons)

* Singapore. A group of 100 photographs of Singapore by Julius Friend (1898-1982), circa 1930s, gelatin silver prints, portraits of Singapore people, scenes and some genre subjects, approximately 60 photographs with Friend's copyright stamp or manuscript name details to verso, many with captions to versos, probably in Friend's hand, various sizes but mostly 21 x 16 cm and similar (Qty: 100)NOTESSee also lots 122, 164 and 171.

India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73-6 41-72 [77]-144 147-246 251-4, lithographic Urdu text without hand-coloured oval cartouches, 74 albumen print portrait photographs (9 x 5 cm) mounted to card leaves with Urdu captions (either in manuscript or on mounted lithographic slips), mounts on stubs throughout, 1 similar portrait (uncaptioned but evidently from the same series) laid in, both parts lacking the title-page and apparently the first leaf of text, one card mount (Moinuddin Mohammed Farrukhsiyar) with caption but lacking photograph, part 1 text-leaves and mounts brittle and browned, fore margins chipped and extensively consolidated with tissue-paper, similar repairs to a few leaves extending into text, a few card mounts detached or detaching from stubs (Babur, Humayun, Jahangir/Akbar, the latter both mounted either side of the same sheet), part 2 with water-damage to pp. 133-44 and 3 intervening plates, stabilised with tissue-paper, the repair just touching one corner of 2 photographs (Nawabs of Juagadh and Balasinor), the third (Maharaja of Travancore) repaired with loss, 1 other photograph (Nawab of Palanpur) with extensive loss and attempted repair, card mounts in part 2 otherwise only with variable and generally minor water-staining to fore margins (lower outer corners sometimes discreetly consolidated with tissue), contemporary red morocco binding with broad roll-tool borders gilt, rebacked with red fabric, folio (29.5 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of photo-historian Brij Sharma. An apparently near-complete copy of an extremely rare Indian publication. We trace a fragment containing six photographic portraits and their associated biographies only, catalogued as being part of a larger work titled Muraqqa' Jahan Numa ('World-Mirror Album') by Munshi Bulaqi Das, printed at Delhi's Mayur Press circa 1880. The first part contains 25 albumen prints from miniatures of Mughal rulers and their antecedents, from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second part concerns the rulers of the Princely States and associated potentates including the sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar. It contains 50 albumen prints (including the loose, uncaptioned image), of which 39 are from life, and consequently provides original likenesses of numerous princes not otherwise well-represented in the photographic record. The quality of the paper and the adverse climate of the Subcontinent appear to have assured the work's rarity in any condition. A full list list of the figures depicted is available on request.

* East Africa. Portrait of a young male Masai by Hass-Halver Kassel, 1930s, vintage gelatin silver print, ink stamp and manuscript details to verso, 22.5 x 17 cm, together with a photograph of a group of tribal dancers in East Africa, 1950s, gelatin silver print, United Press International wet stamp to verso, 24.5 x 19.5 cm (Qty: 2)

Coronation of Haile Selassie I. Emperor of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa , 2 November 1930, a personal photographically-illustrated scrap album of the occasion compiled by Major E.O. Springfield, a member of the delegation sent to accompany the Duke of Gloucester at the coronation, containing a total of 32 gelatin silver print photographs, 35 leaves of news cuttings and related, a manuscript pass, menu, seat ticket and seating plan, three ambassadorial letters, an invitation card to the ceremony and one for the dinner, plus an 11-page typescript account of the occasion as recalled by Springfield, Springfield's ownership signature and address, 'The Palace, Khartoum, Sudan' to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards with lithographically-printed title to upper cover, some rubbing and soiling, slight edge and joint wear and a little loss of cloth to top and bottom of lower joint, folio (38 x 31cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the great-nephew of E.O. Springfield. The first photograph in the album shows the Duke of Gloucester and the rest of the British delegation standing on the steps of the British Legation in Addis Ababa. Captain Springfield was comptroller to the Governor General of Sudan and is seen second from the left in the second row from the back. Standing next to him on his left in a top hat is the young explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who had been given a personal invitation to the coronation by Haile Selassie. This photograph measures 19 x 24cm, the majority of other photographs being postcard-size and similar of western and African officials in respective ceremonial dress. However there are further larger images including one of African chiefs demonstrating a machine gun.

* Hong Kong, Philippines & Indonesia. A group of 22 photographs by Julius Friend (1898-1982), gelatin silver prints, circa 1930s, together with a group of 15 further photographs of India and Ceylon by Friend, images of local people, scenes and genre subjects, a total of 27 with Friend's copyright wet stamp to verso and many with manuscript captions, probably in Friend's hand, various sizes but mostly 21 x 16 cm and similar, plus a group of 132 small format photographs by Friend of Singapore (48), Indonesia (72), and the Philippines (12), circa 1930s, corner mounted as multiples of 12 on seven card sheets with white china ink captions to mounts, images 5.5 x 5 cm (Qty: a folder)NOTESSee also lots 122, 170 and 171.

Great Britain. Dupe (William Henry, 1824-1901, butler at Thenford, Northamptonshire). A photograph album of approximately 260 photographs, c.1850s-1860s and some later, including approximately 200 albumen prints by or attributed to W.H. Dupe, including three unusual large albumen print photogenic drawings of ferns on separate sheets (27.5 x 24 cm, 25 x 21 cm and 23 x 22cm), the sheets larger than the album and loosely inserted with 16 similar loose smaller albumen print photogenic drawings of ferns (9 x 6 cm and smaller including two cut-outs), all c.1860s, the remaining album contents including many of places and people (gentry and household members of older age) in Thenford and Wallop, Northamptonshire, and Evercreech, Somerset, and surrounding areas, ink or pencil captions include 'Evercreech Sunday School in Olden Times 1825', 'All the Old People of Thenford', 'Ann Butler Aged 79', 'Happy Moments', and 'The Clown', plus a number of commercial European views including Venice and Pompeii, plus several pencil and pen sketches by the photographer of churches, studies of artefacts within churches, a tree, and an Ancient Greek soldier with a winged horse, various manuscript and printed items, some relating to Mr & Mrs Severne, owners of the Thenford estate, the photographs and other items largely mounted as multiples to rectos and versos of a total of 116 leaves, many leaves detached and some with excisions from earlier removals, ownership signature of W.H. Dupe to front pastedown, inner hinges broken, contemporary skiver, rubbed and slightly soiled, 4to (33 x 28 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAn extraordinary archive of early photographs taken by a domestic servant and amateur photographer. The little-known William Henry Dupe (1824-1901) was born in Evercreech, Somerset. He married Eleanor Bowen in Fulham, London, in 1856, and their two children were born in Thenford, South Northamptonshire in 1857 and 1860. It would have been highly unusual for an uneducated person without good financial means to have taken up photography in the 1850s. But somehow Dupe did come by a camera and sufficient technical expertise to take, develop and print photographs while working as a servant from the mid-1850s onwards. During the 1860s he worked as a butler for the Severne family at Thenford, and while doing so took photographs of the village and surroundings and their inhabitants, paying as much attention to recording images of his fellow workers and the elderly as the gentry. It appears that he left service at Thenford to become a full-time photographer, even winning prizes in Switzerland and, according to one cutting in the album, New South Wales. He died in Brackley, Northamptonshire, in 1901, just five months after his wife passed away. The album is assembled as a utilitarian scrap album with his own unacknowledged photographs mixed in with commercial photos, standard studio portraits, various sketches, manuscript items and news cuttings. Most of the photographs by and attributed to Dupe, including the three large and beautiful ‘photogenic drawings’ of ferns, would appear to date from the 1860s, though photographs of Evercreech in Somerset suggest that he already had the camera and was taking photographs in the mid-1850s, so before he arrived at Thenford. Dupe is mentioned, and some of his photographs reproduced, in Michael and Anne Heseltine, Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden, Head of Zeus, 2016. A copy of the book is included with the lot.

* Africa. A collection of 210 photographs, predominantly of West Africa, by Julius Friend (1898-1982), circa 1941, gelatin silver prints, mostly people, scenes, views and some genre subjects in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, but also including photographs of Port Sudan, approximately 120 with Friend's copyright wet stamp or manuscript name to verso, and some with captions, probably in Friend's hand, various sizes but many 21 x 16 cm and similar, together with Major Julius F[rederick] Friend's typescript account of a trip to West Africa titled 'African Journey', early 1940s, [4], 109 leaves typed to rectos only, scattered manuscript corrections, title and preliminary leaves slightly soiled, punch holes with tie, original soiled and worn plain wrappers with manuscript title retained, folio, plus a small group of 14 miscellaneous photographs, various cuttings, featuring Friend's photographs, etc. (Qty: approx. 230)NOTESSee also lots 164, 170 & 171.

Civil Engineering. 'A Collection of Views of Bridges & Viaducts in Wrought & Cast Iron, Timber & Steel, in Different Countries. Collected and Arranged by Herbert W. Anderson, Engineer, London, 12 West Hill, Sydenham, January 1881 [and later]', 40 linen-hinged stiff card leaves, title-page and index-page in watercolour, approximately 150 albumen print photographs mounted rectos and versos, prints of various dimensions (the smallest 5 x 9.5 cm; many full-page i.e. approx. 25 x 18 cm; a few double-page i.e. 25 x 35 cm), framed in red, detailed manuscript captions to mounts, manuscript numbering to mounts and occasionally in prints, a few pen-and-ink diagrams to margins (some with watercolour), 2 further albumen prints mounted on thick card and an original watercolour laid in, a little light spotting, chiefly to mounts, contemporary black half morocco album, lettered 'Bridges' on front cover, slightly rubbed, 4to (29 x 23.5 cm), (Qty: 1)NOTESMeticulously compiled visual record of bridges and aqueducts in the United Kingdom (including London), Europe, America and Australia. Notable examples include the Iron Cove Bridge and Hawkesworth Railway Bridge, both in New South Wales, Chestnut Street Bridge in Philadelphia, the Northern Pacific Railway bridge over the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, and an elevated railway in New York City.

India & Afghanistan. An album of photographs taken in India by L. Long (of the Royal Flying Corps), Richmond, Surrey, circa 1916-19, a total of 216 small format gelatin silver print photographs, mounted as multiples on rectos and versos of 29 stiff card leaves, mostly 6 x 9.5 cm and similar sizes, the majority neatly captioned in white china ink to lower mounts, scenes include a merchant on a journey into Chatril with armed followers, Mardan bazar, Peshawar, Pathans, native cavalry soldiers in Risalpur, street scenes, 'native studies', views in and around Benares, Taxila, Murree Hills, Afghan delegates who attended the Peace Conference at Ruwal-Pindi, August 1919 (16 x 21 cm), a view of the Khyber Pass of similar size, aerial views of Risalpur with RFC sheds, various scenes in Bombay and at sea, manuscript title page, contents loose in contemporary quarter roan, slight wear to spine ends, small oblong folio, together with a related album containing 129 mounted small format gelatin silver print photographs of India, including views and scenes in Risalpur, Kabul, Peshawar, various photographs with figures including local types and British Forces, photographs mostly 5.5 x 7.5 cm and mounted as multiples to rectos of 40 stiff card leaves, entirely uncaptioned but with a neat list of brief pencil captions loosely inserted, contemporary quarter roan, slightly frayed at head and foot of spine, 4to (Qty: 2)

India & Pakistan. Album of big-game hunting photographs, 1903-c.1914, 164 gelatin silver prints (various dimensions, approx. 7 x 7 cm to 17 x 23 cm), mounted rectos and versos to line-hinged card leaves, manuscript captions and dates in black ink, a little light spotting and dust-soiling to mounts, 7 additional photographs laid in, contemporary telegram mounted to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary black half morocco album, wear to spine-ends, oblong 4to (22.2 x 26 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe album consists mainly of personal snapshots from hunting expeditions in places including Cawnpore, Kashmir, Skardu, the Shigar Valley and the Burzil Pass, depicting views, local shikaris with specimens including tiger, black bear, warthog and ibex, informal group portraits, horses, elephants fording a river, and similar subjects. Eight of the photographs are arranged to form two mountain panoramas, presumably of the Karakoram. There are also photographs of military parades and local architecture in Delhi and Agra, of which one is captioned '74th Battery R.F.A [i.e. Royal Field Artillery] marching past at Agra Review, Jan 1907', and numerous snapshots and a few studio photographs of family life and hunting back in Britain.

MACPHERSON (Robert, 1811-1872) Vatican Sculptures, 1868, 129 small albumen prints, mounted to rectos only, with pencil manuscript numbers below each work, printed index at front, bound in vellum gilt, AEG red

A grant of lands in The High Street of Beverley, Yorkshire by William Garton of Beverley to a draper named Richard Bothe, in Latin, manuscript document on parchment, dated 21 September 1518. 

MILITARIA - AUTOGRAPHS - FIELD MARSHAL BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY, 1ST VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O., P.C., D.L. (1887-1976), SENIOR BRITISH ARMY OFFICER A Union-Castle Line dinner menu, the cover signed 'To: Caroline / Montgomery of Alamein / F.M. / 15-1-62 / Stirling Castle'; together with an unrelated manuscript note, on crossed-through Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine headed paper: 'War Office / Military Attache / Berme / Will you please post this / on for me. / Montgomery of Alamein / Field-Marshal', (2).

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS, ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, LONDON, 1907, GEIKIE (SIR. ARCHIBOLD), LANDSCAPE HISTORY AND OTHER ESSAYS, LONDON, 1905, POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT IN ONE VOLUME, EDINBURGH, 1854 AND A MANUSCRIPT DIARY, EARLY 19TH C

Six 19th century Indian leaves from a manuscript, each 5 1/2" x 3 1/2", framed and glazed

A 19th century South East Asian Buddhist manuscript on palm leaves, with wooden covers, 11 1/2" l

A fine French Empire ormolu and breccia marble figural mantel clock ‘Homage to Josephine’ The movement by Marchand, the case possibly by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, Paris, circa 1805 The circular two train bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by disc bob pendulum with silk suspension, the 5.25 inch circular white enamel Roman numeral convex dial signed Marchand, Paris to centre with concentric date-of-the-month between the hour numerals and minute ring and with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll pierced and engraved gilt hour and minute hands and steel calendar hand set behind hinged convex glazed cast gilt brass bezel, the case surmounted with a seated Classical female harpist with a flaming gueridon at her feet opposing winged Amour with quiver of arrows slung over his shoulder and gesturing towards a manuscript inscribed Bouton de rose next to an X-frame table with book resting on top, the dial with elaborate draped lambrequin cast with tassels beneath flanked by stepped D-ended plinth, the upper stage panel-cast with stylised Grecian masks flanked by alternating palmette and foliate scroll decoration to ends over breakfronted marble lower stage applied with mounts cast as putto terms holding aloft floral wreaths over gilt fillet moulding, on platform base with cast bun feet, 46.5cm (18.25ins) high. The movement of the current lot is probably by Charles-Frédéric Marchand who is recorded in Tardy DICTIONNAIRES DES HORLOGERS FRANCAIS as becoming a Paris maître in 1777 and working at Rue St. Martin the following year. Pierre-Philippe Thomire (born 1751) was one of the most important bronze casters of 18th century France, and was later granted the title Ciseleur de l’Empereur (chaser to the Emperor) by Napoleon Bonaparte. Early on in his career he worked for Pierre Gouthière, ciseleur-fondeur du roi, and toward the mid-1770’s began working with Louis Prieur. After the Revolution, he purchased the stock of Martin-Eloi Lignereux, thus becoming the most important suppliers of furniture bronzes for châteaux and Imperial Palaces. His prolific firm not only produced bronze ornaments, but also created mounts for furniture and porcelain, collaborating for example with the renowned manufactory of Sèvres. Thomire retired in 1827 and died in 1843. The design of the current clock was inspired by a poem entitled ‘Bouton de rose’ (rosebud), by Constance-Marie de Théis, Princess de Salm-Dyck (1767-1845). Published in 1785 in the Almanach des Grâces the poem became famous during the latter part of the 18th century, when it was set to music by the composer Louis-Barthélémy Pradher (1782-1843). The popular singer Pierre-Jean Garat (1762-1823) sang it in fashionable Salons, dedicating it to the beauty of Josephine, the wife of the future Emperor Napoleon.

ϒA fine and potentially historically important architectural table timepiece of three-month duration with silent-pull quarter repeat Robert Seignior, London, circa 1680 and later The substantial seven finned and latched pillar single fusee movement with plates measuring 10 by 7 inches enclosing a spring barrel of approximately 4 inches in diameter driving a five-wheel train with verge escapement regulated by short bob pendulum, the silent-pull quarter repeat train of the type first used by Joseph Knibb fitted to the top left hand corner of the movement and powered by a large curved leaf spring mounted on the backplate, sounding the quarters on a graduated pair of small bells followed by the hours on a single larger bell on demand only, now with a 10 inch square gilt brass dial with unusual sculpted silvered brass hinged lambrequin inscribed Robert Seignior, London revealing the single winding hole behind to the rose engraved and finely matted centre, within narrow silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised trident half hour markers and Arabic five minutes within the outer minute track, with finely pierced and sculpted steel hands and crisply cast gilt winged cherub head spandrels, in a gilt brass ebony veneered case reconstructed using period elements with fine large gilt flambeau urn cast brass finial to the plinth-centred open arch pediment over crisply moulded entablature and Corinthian three-quarter columns with gilt multi-piece capitals and bases applied to the glazed front door, the sides veneered with rectangular panels and the rear with conforming entablature and three quarter columns flanking panel veneered door set within the frame of the case, the base with projecting plinths for the columns at the corners over crisply moulded shallow skirt, 59cm (23.25ins) high excluding finial; 68cm (26.75ins) high overall. Robert Seignio(u)r is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as apprenticed to John Nicasius gaining his Freedom of the Clockmaker’s Company in 1667. He worked in Exchange Alley and was often at loggerheads with the Clockmaker’s Company who called him to account for ‘contemptible words’ he had used to and about Thomas Claxton, the Master. He was also fined 20 shillings in October 1671 for calling the Clockmakers ‘a company of cheating knaves’. In August 1674 Robert Seignior was appointed the King’s Clock and Watchmaker ‘without fee’ until the death or surrender of office by Edward East, presumably to ensure succession of the role in the event of East`s demise. This appointment however was never formally fulfilled as East outlived Seignior who died in 1686; his premises at Exchange alley was subsequently taken-on by Daniel Quare. Due to Seignior not being able to formally fulfil his appointment as Royal clockmaker there is no mention of any specific Royal commissions except for one which is discussed in Jagger, Cedric ROYAL CLOCKS on page 31. In his text Jagger highlights an entry dated 9th December 1682 in a manuscript of a ‘Schedule of Receipts and Payments by Henry Guy Esq.., for the Secret services of His late Majesty King Charles the Second’: To Robert Seignior, For a clock bought of him and sett up in the Trea’ry Chambers, for the use of the Commissioners of His said Maj’ties Trea’ry…..£20. This being Seigniors only recorded Royal commission would have no doubt resulted in him producing something special. Indeed with the Treasury historically dividing yearly activity into quarters then what would be more appropriate than having a clock which you only had to wind at the end of each quarter With this question in mind then it may be appropriate to speculate that the movement of the current lot could possibly be from this long Commission. When the current lot was discovered abroad around fifteen years ago it sported an altered dial signed ‘Robert Seignior, London’. Examination of the trains and plates indicated that the timepiece was commensurate with early examples from his workshop and was originally of rare three-month duration with the repeat work being almost certainly an early addition to the movement. With early long duration spring clocks being extremely rare (indeed the current lot could even be the earliest surviving three month spring movement) the vendor chose to go to great lengths and expense to preserve the timepiece by reinstating an appropriate dial to enable it to be housed in a case rebuilt for the purpose from the remnants of a surviving period example. As such the current lot presents as an impressive architecturally perfect object which befits the movement’s rare and highly desirable specification. ϒ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.

Ge'ez manuscript. Religious manuscript on parchment, Ethiopia, early 20th century, 37 leaves, collates i6 ii8 iii10 iv8 v5, mainly 20-22 lines to the page, single column, frequent rubrication, quire i partly in a different hand, decorative harag to ii1, moderate soiling, sewn on 4 cords (bottom 2 perished) 'Coptic'-style in wooden boards, cloth covering, leather carry-case with sleeve, small 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe work is possibly a prayer book, as these are typically written in single column.

Aquinas (St. Thomas). Summa Theologica cum commentariis Thomae De Vio Card. Cajetani, et Elucidationibus Litteralibus P. Seraphini Capponi a Porrecta, Editio Novissima in Decem Tomos distributa, ad Patavinam An. MDCXCVIII. Ad Amussim exacta, sed nunc primum Accuratius a mendis expurgata..., 10 volumes, Rome, 1773, title to each volume printed in red and black, with large copper engraved vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, text in double column, occasional marginal spotting, contemporary uniform vellum, with manuscript titles in brown ink to spine of each volume, a little rubbed and slight wear to extremities, folio (Qty: 10)

* Hebrew manuscript. Megillat Esther, possibly 19th century, Hebrew manuscript in black ink on 9 vellum membranes sewn together and rolled into a scroll, 30 columns, each of 12 lines, occasional rubrication, a few old marks, opening to 300 x 9 cm (Qty: 1)

Hanway (Jonas). Advice from Farmer Trueman , to his Daughter Mary, Upon her going to Service. In a Series of Discourses, designed to Promote the Welfare and True Interest of Servants, with Reflections of no less importance to Masters and Mistresses, 1792, occasional spotting, short paper fault tear to lower outer blank corner of T1, manuscript ownership label of Betty Johnson of Eccleston to front pastedown, rear free marbled endpaper replaced, cloth hinges, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, recent green morocco spine labels, 12mo in 6s, together with More (Hannah) , Christian Morals, 2 volumes, 1813, closed tear to H10 in volume 1, contemporary half calf gilt, 12mo, plus Sharp (Granville) , A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a share in the Legislature; which is the Fundamental Principle of the British Constitution of State, 2nd edition, 1775, half-title, ink stamp at foot of first leaf of preface and to verso of final leaf of text, edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked preserving original printed title label, 8vo (Qty: 4)

Fontaine (Nicolas, Sieur de Royaumont). The History of the Old and New Testament..., 2nd edition Corrected and Enlarged, printed for R. Blome [etc.], 1701, 240 engraved plates including frontispieces, nearly all after G. Freeman by Kip and others, many printed back-to-back, 5 double-page maps, most plates and maps (and some text leaves) with marginal tears and old repairs, a few with long tears (and old repairs), one map (Jerusalem) close-trimmed at foot, affecting lower vignettes, some generally light toning, spotting or soiling, preliminary blank with mounted large (30.5 x 21.5 cm) calligraphic ownership inscription, executed in red and blue inks, 'Richard Chad His Book Nov: The XXVth Ann MDCC', somewhat soiled, with old repaired tear to right hand side, modern quarter calf gilt, large folio, together with Rushworth (John) , The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford..., 1st edition, for John Wright and Richard Chiswell, 1680, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacking front and rear blanks, some spotting and minor marks, modern quarter calf gilt, folio, plus Sarpi (Paolo) , The Historie of the Councel of Trent, conteining eight Bookes ... faithfully translated into English by Nathanael Brent, 1st edition in English, 1620, bound with the colophon leaf and the terminal blanks (lacking initial blanks), woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorative initials, occasional early ink manuscript marginalia, some dampstaining to lower outer corners, modern quarter calf gilt, folio, with two others similar (one defective) (Qty: 10)

* Darwin (Charles, 1809-1822). Autograph letter signed, 'Charles Darwin', Down, Beckenham, Kent, 26 April 1876, t o J.E. Harting, thanking him for his kind offers of help and for the manuscript notes, continuing 'As far as I can tell I do not intend to work again on the subjects on which I have published, but reserve the little thought which has left me for somewhat new matter', one page with integral blank, letter page slightly toned and a little dust soiled, pin pricks below date upper left, with the (original) envelope addressed to J.E. Harting in Darwin's hand, Beckenham, Down, and London franking stamps dated 3 & 4 May 1880, a little spotting and dust soiling, together with The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection..., (forty-ninth thousand), John Murray, 1897, folding table, top edge gilt, contemporary prize binding of blue calf gilt by Baker & Son, Clifton, with the headmaster of Clifton College's prize bookplate to front pastedown, awarded to A.D. Jaffé, Form VI for Chemistry (special set), Midsummer 1898, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Dorothea Jaffé. James Edmund Fotheringham Harting (1841-1928) was an English ornithologist and naturalist. From 1869 onwards he was a prolific contributor to T he Field , and later edited The Zoologist, from 1877 to 1896. Darwin Correspondence Project "Letter no. 10474 F"; also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24.