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Bates (Herbert Ernest, writer, 1905-74) A Love of Flowers, autograph manuscript signed, c. 270pp., written on rectos, numerous corrections and revisions, some text duplicated in typescript (also with corrections), a few with small tears in corners where previously pinned, loose, housed in a modern morocco-backed box, 4to, n.d. [published 1971].⁂ H.E. Bates on his Kentish garden. With strong opinions on gardening, and the world of plants, including the use of Latin names for plants, instead of old English names. "Ruskin is dead. The compilers of catalogues, however, are still with us, still ready to out-Ruskin Ruskin. I observe that bell-flower isn't bad enough for one of them." - Bates.

Marriage.- [Fredoli (Berenger), attributed to] Summula in foro poenitentiali, fragment from a manuscript on vellum, in Latin, single column, 19-20 visible lines on both sides, written in brown ink in a cursive gothic hand, featuring the two-compartment 'a', rubrics and chapter headings in red, chapter numbering in the margins in the same hand, three 3-line initials painted in red, a line of stab holes to upper edge, a few stains and some marginal soiling, darkening and creasing from its use as a pastedown, last lines of text cropped, 111 x 168mm., ?Germany, [end of the 14th century].⁂ This partial leaf, recovered from a binding, originally formed part of a manuscript of the Summula in foro poenitentiali, a guide for the instruction of confessors generally attributed to the French canonist Berengarius Fredoli (Bérenger Frédol, c.1250-1323), cardinal of Tusculum and penitentiary at the papal court at Avignon, where he was involved in the proceedings against the Templars. The Summula is a substantial abridgment of the Summa de casibus poenitentiae written in 1224-1226 by the Catalan Dominican Raymond de Peñafort. Owing to its clarity, it circulated widely, and its text is known in two different redactions, both of which are still unpublished. The first one, of which c.50 manuscripts are listed, is divided into 110 chapters; the second and shorter redaction is recorded in only about 10 manuscripts. The present fragment belongs to the longer redaction, and includes a portion of the chapters devoted to marriage, a central concern in western canon law norms: more specifically, it comprises the complete text of chapters 'De foro matrimonii et sponsalium' on the original recto, and 'Quod sponsalia semel contracta de futuro semper tenant preterquam in octo casibus' on the reverse side. Of the chapters 'Qua etate sponsalia possunt contrahi' and 'Quod sit matrimonius' only the headings in red or a few lines have survived. Literature: A. Teetaert "La Summa de paenitentia: Quoniam circa confessiones du cardinal Béranger Frédol Senior", Miscellanea moralia Arthur Janssen, I-II, Louvain 1948, pp. 567-600; P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes de casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen âge (XII-XVI siècles), Louvain 1962, pp. 50-51; Id., "La 'Summula in foro poenitentiali' attribué à Bérenger Frédol", G. Forchielli, A.M. Stickler (eds.), Collectanea Stephan Kuttner, I, Bologna 1967, pp. 145-167; P. Biller, "Confessors' Manuals and the Avoiding of Offspring", P. Biller, A.J. Minnis (eds.), Handling Sin. Confession in the Middle Ages, York-Woodbridge 1998, pp. 173-183.

Wiltshire, ?Hindon.- Charter, grant by Gilbert Ode, rector of 'Sotesbrok Church', of a curtilage and house in Henton [Hindon], to John Holebrok son of Robert Holebrok next to the land of John Banastre, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 14 lines, in brown ink, in a neat bookhand, chirograph at head, lacks seal, 4 small holes, folds, slightly creased, 129 x 248mm., on the Sunday after the Feast of the Cicumcision, January 1333.

Leicestershire.- Henry VIII, "the Supp[re]me hedde of the ownly churche of England.- Indenture of a bargain and sale from Radulph ?Largeway shomaker and Agnes his wife of ?Upton and Richarde Wodbank and Jennted shomaker & Johane hidacyff "two of the daughters of & heyre of Thomas Blacke" of the one part and Everard Moncke of Gadysby [Gaddesby], Leicestershire], of land in Gaddysby, manuscript in Tudor English, in a cursive hand, 17 lines, indented at head, some surface wear affecting a few words in right margin, lacks seals, folds, creased and yellowed, 255 x 340mm., 5th September 1546; and 4 receipts (3 English 17 century), v.s., v.d. (5).

Medieval spurs as rent.- Charter, grant by Richard ?of Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, to William of land in Hetton, in fee and hereditarily for his homage and service, rent two "calcaria" [spurs], payable at the "nundinas" [market-day, i.e. feast-day] of St. Oswald, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 8 lines, slightly creased and yellowed, lacks seal, 60 x 450mm., [August], [c. 1200].⁂ Kirkheaton, three miles north east of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Anne (Queen).- The account of ye Coronation of Queen Anne, manuscript, 28pp., ruled in red, slightly browned and creased, original marbled wrappers, lacks lower wrapper, lettered direct in a later hand, preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth, slip-case, sm. 4to, [c. 1702].

Taurin (Saint, of Évreux, d. c. 410) [Miracles of St Taurin of Evreux], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, bifolium, 32 lines, in Carolingian miniscule, 4 one-line initials in red, trimmed at tail slightly affecting last lines of text, still legible, tears in left hand side of text, browned, 180 x 143mm., [France], [c. 1150-1200].⁂ This bifolium represents a considerable portion of the Acta Sanctorum text, corresponding to: (a) p. 641 col. b, §10, line -9 to 642a, §11, line -1; (b) p. 642a, §12, line 3 to 642a, §13, line 4; (c) p. 642a, §13, line 8 to 642b, §14, line -14; (d) p. 642b, §14, line -11 to 643a, §15, line 8.St Taurin (or Taurinus), who reputedly died in c. 410, was the first bishop of Evreux in Normandy. His Life, by Ps-Deodatus, was edited by Pierre Van den Bossche in the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum, Mensis Augusti, II (Antwerp, 1735), pp. 639-43 (followed by his Miracles and two Translations, pp. 643-56). His cult was taken up, as that of a combatant for Christianity, by the dukes of Normandy, especially in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. Duke Richard I (d. 996) founded the abbey of St-Taurin at Évreux. It seems likely that the Life was composed in the 1020s or 1030s; Ps-Deodatus alludes to his own authorship in e.g. chapter II, §13 ('Ego autem deodatus filiolus eius ...'; present here). A secondary translation of Taurin's remains took place in 1158, and it is possible that the present MS was written in the aftermath of that. See further S. Herrick, 'Heirs to the Apostles: Saintly Power and Ducal Authority in the Hagiography of Early Normandy', in The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350, ed. R.F. Berkhofer et al. (Aldershot etc., 2005), pp. 11-24, and the same author's Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 2007), esp. ch. 3, 'Imagining the Past of the Évrecin: The Vita Taurini' (pp. 51-73). In the latter, Herrick has listed the 23 MSS known to her: most are of the twelfth century, especially late twelfth century, and all are in libraries in France, Italy and Belgium (p. 212(-13), n. 1).

Papyrus fragment.- Dinarchus. In Demosthenem, 2 fragments from a papyrus scroll, parts of a speech from the Trial of Harpalus, chapters 58-59, remains of 9 lines in a Greek uncial hand, versos blank, soiled with parts of text obscured, set in perspex with printed caption on paper beneath, c.45 x 30mm. and c.20 x 18mm., probably Egypt, [1st or 2nd century BC].⁂ The earliest known manuscript fragments of one of Dinarchus' three speeches.The Greek orator Dinarchus was born in Corinth in the middle of the 4th century BC and became a pupil of Demetrius of Phaleron and Theophrastus after moving to Athens. In 324 BC he assisted at the trial of Harpalus, the treasurer of Alexander the Great, who stood accused of embezzling large sums of money from the imperial purse and then bribing Demosthenes and other government officials. Dinarchus wrote the present text - one of only three of his speeches to have survived (In Demosthenem, In Philoclem and In Aristogitonem) - from the trial proceedings. Following Alexander the Great's death, Dinarchus became the first Athenian orator, and died in 292 BC.Only four other ancient manuscripts of speeches by Dinarchus are recorded, all much later than this example. One is listed by J.W.B. Barns and H. Zilliacus, The Antinoopolis Papyri, Part II, no. 62 (and listed there as "the first example of a manuscript of Dinarchus from Egypt, apart from citations"). Another, once part of a parchment codex and from the third century AD., is recorded by R.A. Pack (The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt, 1964: P. Ant. II 81), and two further papyri exist among the Oxyrhynchus materials: P. Oxy. Flight. 49, 3436 and 3437, dated to the second and third centuries AD. respectively. The date of this example suggests it may have been copied within a matter of decades after the author's death.Provenance: From the collection of Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913-2011) the Egyptologist and prolific scholarly author, who joined the Egyptian department of the Louvre. She was the first female fellow of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale, and in 1938 the first woman to lead an archaeological dig. During WW2 she joined the French Resistance helping to hide the Louvre's Egyptian treasures. These fragments were part of her library in the Chateau de Mondemont by 1950.

Bates (Herbert Ernest, writer, 1905-74) Love for Lydia, autograph manuscript signed "H.E. Bates", c. 780pp. (comprising 700 numbered pages and 80 unnumbered pages with some text changed or not used), in blue ink, numerous corrections and crossings out and extensively revised throughout, on loose ff., written on rectos only, slightly browned, a few ff. a little creased, typed note from copy typist firm of pinned to first f., Ethel Christian Ltd. housed in a red morocco-backed cloth box, gilt spine, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slightly faded, 4to, [late 1951 - early 1952].⁂ H.E. Bates finest novel. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Bates novel "Love for Lydia... [as] perhaps his most accomplished"; and by Dean R. Baldwin, in H.E. Bates: A Literary Life: 'his best work is Love for Lydia... a novel of the jazz age set in a small midlands town... is far more than a romantic tale, more even than a commentary on the hedonistic mores of the 1920s." Set in the Northamptonshire of his childhood, Bates set a love story against a country changed by war and beset with the crumbling standards of a different age.

Bates (Herbert Ernest, writer, 1905-74) Collection of 11 manuscript magazine and newspaper articles, autograph manuscripts, all but three articles signed, 3 articles drafts, together 98pp., written on rectos, numerous corrections and revisions, some typescript copies included, loose, housed in a modern morocco-backed box, spine faded, 4to, [c. late 1960s - early 1970s].⁂ Manuscripts comprise: 3 untitled manuscript drafts unsigned [George Quantock], [Gardening], [Madeira]; "A Moment that Changed My Life" (2); "From My Garden: For Dictionary Read Bible"; "From My Garden: All Seeds Bright and Beautiful"; "Living: Madeira"; "Maurice Mason: a garden picture"; "You Stand or Fall"; "Westonbirt Arboretum".

TWO EARLY ILLUMINATED MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, POSSIBLY DOMINICAN VELLUM. 35 x 24cms.

Islamic Art An illustrated poetical manuscript India, late 19th century with later miniatures . . Cm 16,00 x 24,00. Ten miniature paintings. Restorations and woodworm holes.

Islamic Art A small talismanic manuscript Turkey or Levant, possibly 18th century . . Cm 6,00 x 8,00.

Indian Art Folio from a manuscript portraying Lord Vishnu Kashmir, 19th century . . Cm 12,00 x 7,50. . Frame present

Islamic Art A pair of illustrated drawings from a religious manuscript Levant, 18th century (?)Ink on paper . . Cm 15,00 x 23,00.

Islamic Art A 20th century pocket Qur'an on green paper . . Cm 4,00 x 5,00 x 2,00. Arabic manuscript on green, scented paper, composed of 133 folios containing 39 to 43 lines to the page impressivly written with silver ink. Sura headings within silver ground cartouches, double finely illuminated frontispiece. Green cover moulded with floral central medallion and four similar at the corners.Metal nielloed case. Manuscript measures: 5 X 3 cm

Islamic Art Ahmad Ebd Eissa A calendar manuscript with marbled paper cover Iran, dated 1241 AH (1826 AD) . . Cm 15,00 x 22,00.

Islamic Art An Ottoman manuscript about the war of BadrTurkey, mid 19th century . . Cm 9,50 x 15,00.

Islamic Art Sa'id Ahmad Hazem Fiq manuscript . . Cm 15,50 x 21,00.

Islamic Art Malik Al-VahabHafez diwanA Safavid manuscript with five miniatures Dated 956 AH (1549 AD). . Cm 12,20 x 20,00. Provenance: Private collection, Tuscany, Italy.

Islamic Art Ali Ebn Hussein Bahlami "Ravoyat Al Nur" or Dalail al Khayrat Pious manuscript, dated 1166 AH (1753 AD) . . Cm 12,50 x 20,50.

Islamic Art Persian manuscript dictionary of sayings Safavid Iran, 17th century . . Cm 17,00 x 27,50. Woodworm traces and restorations. The manuscript shows handwritten provenances on the paper of the binding which place it in the mid 17th century.

THE MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF MIDSHIPMAN I.B. Franks, HMS King Edward VII, 16 September 1910 to July 30th 1911, HMS Hercules July 30th 1911 - Sept 19th 1911, HMS Cochrane Oct 9 1911-1912, discontinued with diagrams and drawings, HMSO, bound in blue cloth. small Fo.

RAWLINSON, Christopher (1677-1733) English Antiquary and alumnus of The Queen's College Oxford, Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, Saxon Text in Junian Font... Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 1698 with portrait engraving after Van Dyk 198pp with errata later, calf bound for the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet with gilt device and red title. 8vo. (220 x 145mm), bumps and splits, Society b/p and Eric Gerald Stanley b/p; together with seemingly JOHN BOSWORTH own copy of the book with the first 18 pages in manuscript form with note of indebtedness from J.B. to J.S. Cardale Dsq dated 2/9/1822, 8vo. (230 x 150mm), marbled boards, 1/2 calf, red title damaged (2)

A MANUSCRIPT LETTER on blue paper with envelope dated 22nd April 1857 by Henry Waddington in Chunar, Uttar Pradesh, India to his mother in Whitby three weeks before the Indian Mutiny began on the 10th May 1857, with transcript and map, plus a contemporary hand-drawn map showing how the Relief of the Lucknow Residency was achieved by Lt. Gen. Colin Campbell in November 1857 plus FORBES-MITCHELL, William, The Relief of Lucknow, Folio Society, London 1962, blue cloth (5)

AN 18TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND MANUSCRIPT BOOK c.218. pp. in a fine small hand in black ink. much smudged. with index on front end paper dated 1711. titled 'The 6th Book' (185 x 120mm)

NEWMAN, Printer, 'The Economy of Human Life' translated from an Indian Manuscript, London 1813. miniature format (105 x 65mm) plus 14 other miniature titles, varying dates and condition (15)

Himalayan Art Six folios from a Nepalese holy manuscript Nepal, 19th century . . Cm 21,00 x 18,00. Frame present

18th CENTURY SCHOOL 'Portrait of a Lady Holding a Red Rose and a Manuscript, oil on canvas, 86cm x 66cm, framed.

FLORA VON ST. MORITZ, PONTRESINA UND UMGEBUNG, a book box containing floral samples of Switzerland, 100 dried samples mounted with tabs with manuscript descriptions

London 1825 EL-Lombard Street.XXX in black and Manuscript 2 and '7night'

A STEFAN NOWACKI PORCELAIN CABINET PLATE, of silver shape with gadrooned rim, raised gilding to the border interspersed with enamelled blue and turquoise panels and signed vignettes of musical motifs and flowers, the centre painted with a signed study of fruits, flowers, books, musical manuscript and a harp, gilt monogram mark verso, diameter 23cm, in a Hamilton porcelain box (condition: good condition, no sign of chips, cracks or restoration)

Battle of Waterloo interest: Major General Sir Colin Halkett, G.C.B., G.C.H. (1774-1856), Commander of the 5th Brigade in the 3rd Division, letterpress receipt completed in manuscript, signed by Halkett, from William Purdue Smith, Deputy Paymaster General, for the sum of £133:4:0, being staff pay as Commandant of the Fortress of Antwerp, for 148, days dated 26th July 1815, single sheet folded, 206mm x 350mm, completed by hand (NB: Wounded four times during the course of the battle); also Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.H., P.C., (1774-1850), letterpress receipt signed Adolphus Frederick and dated 24th October 1815, for the sum £416:11:1 being 61 days pay as General with four Aides de Camp, single sheet, folded, 323mm x 195mm (2)

Battle of Waterloo Interest: Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton G.C.B. (1758-1815), a letterpress receipt, completed in manuscript, from William Purdue Smith, Deputy Paymaster General, being 20 days' pay from 30th May 1815 to 18th June 1815, being a total of £85:7:0, single sheet folded, 155mm x 196mm, printed both sides and completed by hand, signed by his executor NB: Chiefly remembered for his exploits under Wellington in the Peninsular War 1807-1814, Picton was injured on 16th June and then fatally wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815.

Battle of Waterloo interest: Sir Thomas Reynell (1777-1848), 6th Bt., Lieutenant Colonel 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot, a letterpress receipt, completed in manuscript, signed by Reynell, dated 2nd October, 1815 for seven days' pay as Colonel commanding a brigade from 18th June to 24th June 1815, being a total of £6:6:0, single sheet, folded, 159mm x 200mm, payslip from William Purdue Smith, Deputy Paymaster General, printed both sides and completed by hand

Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Field Marshall and Prime Minister, a letterpress receipt, completed in manuscript, signed by Wellington, 29th August 1817, one sheet of folded paper, 155mm x 192mm, being a payslip completed by hand and printed on both sides, 'From William Purdue Smith Esq., Deputy Paymaster General to the Forces', the slip stating pay for 61 days' service as Field Marshall and Commander of the Forces with his Aides de Camp, being £1176:10:9

Miscellaneous Books - Illustrators: A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840, Illustrated with Several Hundred Sketches by the Author [...], second edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, lithograph printed manuscript pages with caricature cartoons accompanying narrative throughout, contemporary pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, 8vo; Modern Masters of Etching: Arthur Briscoe, Introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman, Number 23, London: The Studio Ltd., 1930, illustrated with mounted etchings, blue boards, oblong 4to; art and architectural history, various, mainly large h/b; Television Magazine 1947-1950, bound as one; erotica and sex, various; Dennis Wheatley; qty

Antique Hand Illuminated Persian Manuscript Painting. Image Size: 13.75 x 9.5 in. Unframed.

A Pair of George III Silver Spectacles, maker's mark IS incuse, London, 1792, with oval lenses and double hinged Ayscough-type arms, engraved with initials 'DE', in conforming shagreen spectacle case, with manuscript note describing the present glasses as 'Mrs Dodsons Eldred's', the case 13.5cm wide The present glasses may have belonged to Dinah Jarvis (1742-1821) of Overshot Mill, Middlesex. She married, in 1762, Dodson Eldred (1737-1816) and with him had 10 children. The Eldred family claimed to be connected to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and indeed their eldest son Edward Jarvis Eldred (1763-1847) himself went to America in 1798. James Ayscough (d.1759) was an optician as well as a being known as a maker of other scientific instruments. He is credited with the introduction of double hinged arms on spectacles such as the present pair. He is also thought to have created the idea of sunglasses through his use of tinted lenses.

Koran manuscript page Persia, 16th Century written in Naskh 23cm x 18cm

Manuscript page Persia, 19th Century depicting a picture page from Shahnameh (Book of the Kings), the picture showing the flight of Kay Khosrow with Turanians

An Indonesian palm leaf manuscript, Hindu text, Bali, enclosed by hardwood slats and tied with string, 16.5ins

Royal Air Force, Workshop and Laboratory Records, three notebooks with manuscript dealing with various subjects such as meteorology and ammunition, circa WWII/1940's (3)

The Himalayan Journal, Vol.I, No.1, April 1929. Loosely inserted manuscript map of Sikkim, a printed map, and an original photograph showing the view during an expedition. Good, clean, bright; opening pages present but detached

Collection of 14 indentures, mostly vellum, Elizabethan/Jacobean/Carolean/Commonwealth examples (1590s to 1650s), some later, predominantly relating to Lincolnshire, a couple of documents mentioning the Estate of Edlington (one dated 1595 between John Savill of York and Robert Cutt of London); one mortgage for the Treworgan Estate in Hereford, dated 1791, concerning Benjamin Biddulph ('an infant'), eldest son and heir of Benjamin Biddulph deceased; a 1651 document referring to John Tilson, Westminster and Lincoln; 1623 indenture concerning Edward Badby; a copy of Mr George Short's marriage settlement, East Keale; 1617 indenture between Stephen Phillips and Thomas Phillips of Lincoln; 1878 conveyance between Rev. Canon Marsden and John Cardinal (including manuscript estate plan/map); 1801 document mentioning James King and John Lowe, and others, signatures, wax seals, together with 20 scanned copies of the documents

Manuscript Recipe Book inscribed M. Duckering's Recipe Book, 1796, approximately 120 pages, sauces, stews, pies, tarts, picks and wines, binding poor and Manuscript Diary of Frederick D. Cook of Derby, commenced 1862 to 1872, notes of daily activities and interesting events, typescript of diary included.

Antique full size violin with 14" one piece back, bears manuscript label inscribed "Made by John (Banes?) 1788", in modern fitted hard case, no bow.

Indian Gazette [America] Manuscript copy of ''An Indian Gazette'', J. Whatman handmade paper, 1821, two sheets, folded, MSS on one side only, one with two columns of text, other with 10 hand-coloured drawings. This intriguing series of ideograms captures a small otherwise forgotten event in the French-Indian War, the war between Britain and France for control of Canada. A Canadian tribe assisting the French took up arms against a rival tribe supporting the British and won a decisive victory. The original depiction was (according to a note on the image) recorded by a French engineer in 1760. This engineer's copy was later printed by John Dunlap, an Irish printer best known for printing the Declaration of Independence, between 1770 and 1774. It was also reprinted by Isaiah Thomas in the Royal American Magazine, in an engraving originally attributed to Paul Revere, but likely by James Callendar. This version may have been copied from the Royal Female Magazine. It would seem likely that this copy was taken from one of these sources, but it is impossible to say as the ideograms may have appeared in European publications. The earliest date this could have been drawn (given the watermark) would appear to be 1821. The use of English paper is also not helpful, as Whatman paper was shipped worldwide - Napoleon and Washington are known to have used it. The manuscript is a lively and intriguing item, but ultimately a mystery copying a printing of a personal record of an oddity.

Timlin, William M. The Ship That Sailed to Mars. George G. Harrap & Co., 1923. 4to, org. parchment-backed boards; 48 tipped-in coloured plates. First edition. As with many children's' classics this was started by architect and illustrator Timlin as a diversion for his son. It grew into book form and Harrap, impressed by the beauty of design, decided to use the original manuscript for the text, rather than typesetting.Parchment a little dusty and boards scuffed at edges, pages cockled, with suggestions of damp at some point, a good copy of a rare classic.

Scrapbooks Album of Mary Shelly 1889 (owner's inscription on ffep), c.20 pages of drawings, cartoons, landscapes and similar, various mediums, variously signed (principally ''Evelyn Bott 1890'' and ''Mary Shelly''). With a scrapbook containing a wide variety of material, such as signatures from envelopes, business cards, manuscript poems, photographs, prints and drawings. There appears to be a German and diplomatic lean, with the cards of the British envoy to the King of Wurtemburg and the Prince of Waldburg-Wurzach, but there are other suggestive inclusions, like a drawing of a scene labelled 'Napoli de Romania' and of a Turkish soldier, dated 1883. And The Yateley Pictures - a short book of 11 leaves with cartoons in silhouette on the recto, describing a journey to see an Aunt in Yateley, 1903. A charming and attractive moment of family history full of delightful details, such as the children's hats or making boats out of chips with feathers stuck in them.

Firenzuola (Agnolo). I Lucidi Comedia. Di nuova ricorretta e ristampata, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1560, A-D12, tide-mark to fore margins, later vellum, 12mo (12.5 x 6.5 cm), together with: Petrarca (Francesco), Il Petrarca. Con nuove, e brevi dichiarationi, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1551, moderate browning, damp-staining and soiling, annotations to endpapers, gilt gauffered edges, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, soiled, later manuscript spine-title, 8vo (12 x 7.5 cm), [ Letter Book], Lettere di XIII huomini illustri allequali oltra tutte l'altre sin qui stampate, di nuovo ne sono state aggiunte molte da Tomaso Porcacchi, Venice: GIovanni Maria Bonelli heirs, 1571, occasional minor soiling, short slit in bottom edges of leaves R1-4, Italian ownership inscriptions and library plate (Biblioteca Banzi) to front pastedown and free endpaper, later vellum, 8vo (14.2 x 9.2 cm), Tolomei (Claudio), Delle Lettere libri VII. Con nuova aggiunta ristampati, e con somma diligenza da molti errori corretti, Venice: Altobellto Salicato, 1572, woodcut map of the Monte Argentario peninsula in Tuscany to folio 190 verso, a few spots, final blank (P8) not present, front free endpaper excised, ownership inscription dated 1764 to title-page, contemporary limp vellum, discoloured, old ownership inscriptions to front cover, ties perished, 8vo (14.8 x 10.3 cm), and Tasso (Bernardo), Le Lettere ... Di nuovo ristamptate, rivedute, e corrette con molta diligenza, Venice: Griffio, 1597, toning, title-page marked, some damp-stianing, later vellum, marked, 8vo (14.2 x 9.9 cm) (Qty: 5)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams T789 (Tolomei); cf. Adams P817 for a similar edition of Petrarch.

Bible [English]. The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers Languages..., Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589, woodcut decorative borders to general title and New Testament titles, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, small hole and slight paper thinning to New Testament title, bound with Book of Common Prayer before Genesis (BCP without title), bound with at rear Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances..., Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, [1589?], title with 18th century manuscript remarks to verso detailing events of the time including the loss of HMS Ramillies 1760 and Peace proclaimed with France & Spain 1763, and bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: Printed by John Wolfe, for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1586, black letter text, Psalms lacking final leaf (G8), some close-trimming and cropping to running titles at head and printed marginal notes, dust-soiled throughout, toned and few marks, late 19th century half calf, lower joint split, rubbed, 4to (leaf size 20.5 x 15.5cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 199; Darlow & Moule 153; STC 2150. There are three editions of this year, which while closely agreeing are yet distinct. This example includes the sentence from Certaine questions and answeres..., *iii b , 2nd column: Yea verily: that by sight, taste & feeling, / as wel as by hearing, we might be instruc- / ted, assured, and brought to obedience.

[Lando, Ortensio, editor]. Lettere do molte valorose Donne, nelle quali chiaramente appare non esser ne di eloquentia ne di dottrina alli huomini inferiori, 1st edition, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1549, title with woodcut device dated 1548, colophon with woodcut device and dated 1549, some early underlining and manuscript scoring and editorial marking throughout, occasional small water stains and light soiling, later half vellum, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESProfessor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. 'Letters of Many Brave Women', edited by Italian humanist and satirist Ortensio Lando.

Rubens (Peter Paul). Theorie de la Figure Humaine, consideree dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement, ouvrage traduit du la tin de Pierre-Paul Rubens , avec XLIV p la nches gravées par Pierre Aveline, d'après les de sseins de ce célèbre artiste, Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1773, half title bound after engraved portrait frontispiece (with water stain), 44 engraved plates by Pierre Aveline after Rubens, some light soiling, previous owner inscription, contemporary half sheep, spine and edges rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Brunet, IV 144 ; Cicognara 353; Cohen-De Ricci 915-16. First edition of this translation of Rubens' unpublished manuscript Super Figura Humana Discursus Cabbalisticus, left in the artist's studio following his death in 1640. Jombert's version, long thought to be misleading due to its inaccurate editing and incorporation of images taken from Leonardo, has recently been re-examined and vindicated as an important and unjustly overlooked source for the aesthetic and philosophical opinions of the artist. See Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, editor , Theorie de la Figure Humaine, Pierre Paul Rubens, Planches gravees par Pierre Aveline d'apres Rubens, Paris, Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2003.

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible; containing the Old Testament and the New ... With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance..., (Amsterdam?), 1683], general title lacking, New Testament title present, six engraved maps and plans by Nicolaes Visscher (plan of Jerusalem torn to left side & lower right corner with loss, and map of Canaan torn to left & right sides with loss), some maps and plans repaired & strengthened to folds etc. and with manuscript to verso, Apocrypha present, dedication leaf torn to fore-edge and repaired (18th century manuscript entries to verso), first leaf of Genesis detached, torn & frayed to edges, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, London: Company of Stationers, 1679, final leaf torn and with manuscript to verso, dampstaining, browning, dust-soiling, and some marks throughout volume, margins frayed, lacking free endpapers, pastedowns with 18th & 19th century manuscript entries including 'this book was given by Captain William Orton unto William Cooke ye brother of James Cooke & was given by William Cooke unto Robert Cooke the son of his brother James the day before his death which being ye 4th day of July in ye year of our Lord 1736' and 'Abraham Cooke the son of Robt. and Ann Cooke was born ye thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1740 about 35 minutes after 3 a clock in the morning' and 'Ridgway Forster 1792', contemporary blind panelled calf over wooden boards, blind embossed arabesque device to centre of each board, pierced & shaped brass corner pieces and clasp attachments (without clasps), rebacked, folio (leaf size 37.5 x 23.5cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 782; Darlow & Moule 616. King James Version, with Geneva notes, etc. Place and printer's name not given. Probably by, or for, Swart in Amsterdam.

[Godwin, Francis] . A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this Island, together with the brief history of their lives and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity, 1st edition, George Bishop, 1601, black letter, early annotations and underscoring throughout, lacks final two leaves (Chester, 3pp + 1 page blank), old damp staining to early leaves, closely trimmed at head occasional shaving running head, old pagination, title page dust soiled and first few leaves frayed at corners and foremargin, old partial manuscript index to front endpapers and armorial bookplate pastedown, contemporary quarter calf, worn, 4to, together with [Cary, Henry, Viscount Falkland] , The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II, King of England and Lord of Ireland, with the rise and fall of his great favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers, printed by J. C. for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce, in Fleet-street; Samuel Crouch, at the Princes Arms in Popes Head-Alley in Cornhil; and Thomas Fox, at The Angel in Westminster-hall, 1680, title printed in red and black, some browning, lacks portrait frontispiece, bookplate of William Perceval, contemporary calf, somewhere, upper cover detached, folio, plus Bacon (Francis & Godwin, Frances) , The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary, two parts in one, printed by W. G for R. Scot et al, 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of Francis Bacon, some spotting and browning, ownership signature of William Perceval to title (brown) verso and initials and shelf mark to recto, contemporary blind-panelled calf with gilt thistle motif and shelf number at foot of spine, somewhere, covers detached, folio, plus three other antiquarian history folios including two odd volumes (Qty: 6)NOTES1 (STC11937); 2) Wing F313; 3) Gibson 121; Wing B300.

Castiglione (Baldassare). Il Libro del Cortegiano novamente stampato et con somma diligentia corretto, Parma: Antonio de Viotti, 1532, woodcut Giuntine device to A1, woodcut border to A2, lacking 2 leaves (P1 and P8), front free endpaper excised, a little light spotting and soiling, stronger towards front and rear, woodcut on A1 partially rubbed away, small hole in A2 affecting a letter either side, edges dyed blue, c.1800 red goatskin gilt, spine rubbed, worn at head, 8vo (15.2 x 8.5 cm), together with: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Filocopo, di nuovo riveduto, corretto, ed alla sua vera lettione ridotto, Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1612, final blank 3B8 discarded, lacking front free endpaper, 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, manuscript label to front board, headcap and board-edges worn, 8vo (14.7 x 9.2 cm, [Welser, Marcus, or Alfonso de la Cueva], Examen de la liberté originaire de Venise, traduit de l'italien. Avec une harangue de Louïs Hélian ambassadeur de France contre les Vénitiens, traduite du latin, 1st edition thus, Regensburg: Jean Aubri, 1677, occasional damp-staining, contemporary mottled calf, front joint cracked at head, 8vo (15.4 x 8.9 cm), Persico (Panfilo), Del Segretario libri quattro, 3rd edition, Venice: heirs of Damian Zenaro, 1643, spotting, browning and damp-staining title-page laid down, short closed tear in R5, 18th-century marbled sheep, spine refurbished, 8vo (15.3 x 9.4 cm), Bentivoglio (Guido), Raccolta di lettere scritte dal Cardinal Bentivoglio in tempo delle sue nuntiature di Francia, e di Fiandra á diversi personaggi. Agigiuntovi hora del medeisimo autore la relatione della sontuosa festa del Saracino fatta in Roma l'anno 1634, Rome: Filippo de'Rossi, 1654, final register leaf, moderate spotting and browning, damp-staining to front, 18th-century calf, joints cracked at ends, 8vo (15.8 x 10 cm), and Fabri Bremondani (Francesco), Delle lettere, scritte in varie lingue, ed in diversi argomenti, libri tre, Milan: Giulio Cesare Malatesta, 1661, additional engraved title-page lacking, Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate, 20th-century cloth, 8vo (16.4 x 10.4 cm), (Qty: 6)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Rare Parma edition of Castiglione's work, not in Adams, and printed the same year as the first edition of Machiavelli's Il Principe. It may have been printed from the Giunta edition (Florence, 1528) as the first leaf contains the Giuntine device; the first edition was printed at Venice by the Aldine press, also in 1528.

Aquila (Pietro). Galeriae Farnesianae Icones Romae in aedibus Sereniss. Ducis Parmensis ab Annibale Carracio ad veterum aemulatione posterumq. admiratione coloribus expressae cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis a Petro Aquila delineatae incisae, 1st edition, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, [c.1674], etched title-page, 24 etched plates by Pietro Aquila including dedication, allegorical plate and portrait of Carracci after Carlo Maratta (all unnumbered), and 21 plates after Annibale Carracci (numbered 1-21), all except numbers 11 and 13 double-page and mounted on guards, a little light spotting and dust-soiling, slightly stronger to plate 21, faint tide-mark to upper outer corners never affecting images, bound with: ibid., Deorum Concilium in Pincis Burghesianis hortis ab Ioanne Lanfranco Parmensi tum spirantibus ad vivum imaginibus tum monocromatibus atque ornamentis mira pingendi arte expressum, a Petro Aquila ad similitudinem delineatum et incisum expressum, 1st edition, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, [c.1675], etched title-page, 8 etched plates by Pietro Aquila after Giovanni Lanfranco (numbered 2-9 in manuscript to margins of plate-marks, plates 2 and 3 forming a single overview of the whole ceiling), all double-page and mounted on guards, dust-soiling, guards renewed, a few stains to title-page, 2 plates with short closed tears to bottom edge of central fold not affecting image, marginal tear to plate 6 (numbered 7), the corresponding right-hand panel laid onto thicker paper at an early date, plate 8 (numbered 9) similarly laid down, later marbled boards, green vellum spine, vellum tips, sides rubbed, wear to extremities, large folio (46.3 x 36 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Berlin Katalog 4088 (first work). Two uncommon large-scale works by Pietro Aquila (c.1630-1682) recording important Italian baroque ceiling decorations. The plates in the first work reproduce Annibale Carracci's decorations to the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the gallery at the Palazzo Farnese, which were executed between 1597 and 1601 for Cardinal Odoardo Farnese and depict Greek and Roman myths exemplifying the triumph of love. The second work is a record of Lanfranco's ceiling fresco 'The Council of the Gods', painted in 1624-5 in the central hall of the casino of the Villa Borghese for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.

Guazzo (Stefano). Lettere del Signor Stefano Guazzo, Gentilhuomo di Casale di Monferrato, sesta impressione ricorrette, aggiuntovi molte lettere del medesimo Autore non piu stampate, Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1606, title with printer's woodcut device, contemporary 2-line manuscript note to head of front blank verso in latin 'Quae pictas geritis facies vos jure potestis/Dicere cu Flacco pulvis et ombra sumus' [epigram by the Welsh poet John Owen', 1564-1622], ownership signature of Dudley North and John North to title, and two pages of notes on courtly attributes and qualities in Italian to recto and verso of rear blank, in a similar hand to the Latin quotation at front (perhaps by Dudley North?), contemprary limp vellum, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt Lettere di Guazzo 1606, some light wear, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602-1677), politician and M.P. for Cambridgeshire, whose children included Francis North (1637-1685), who became Lord Chancellor as Lord Guilford, Sir Dudley North (1641-1691) the economist, and John North (1645-1683), Master of Trinity College and Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge. 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool.

Mascardi (Agostino). Silvarum libri IV, 1st edition, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1622, engraved allegorical title-page after Peter Paul Rubens by Theodoor Galle, browning, a few stains, final blank (2C4) discarded, a little worming to inner hinges, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, 4to (20.5 x 16 cm), together with another copy (title-page stained along edges and with shaved contemporary ownership inscription to lower margin, spill-burns in H3 and I4, retaining final blank 2C4, bookplate of John Sparrow, 20th-century half vellum) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Both copies: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Second copy (in 20th-century half vellum): John Sparrow (1906-1992), English barrister, warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and influential book-collector. Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Title-Pages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXI), 48. The 'first book [of] contemporary poetry illustrated with a title-page by Rubens', of which 1,000 copies were printed (Bertram, Rubens as a Designer of Title-Pages, pp. 184 & 60). Ex-Jesuit Mascardi (1590-1640) was a prominent intellectual at the court of Pope Urban VIII.