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LEMAU DE LA JAISSE (Pierre): 'Plans des Principales Places de Guerre et Villes Maritimes Frontieres du Royaume de France...' Paris, Chez Didot, 1736, 12mo, contemp calf, worn with boards detached, first and final quires coming loose: 112 uncoloured circular plans within decorative woodcut frames, a few old ink ownership marks, old ink manuscript index at rear. (1)

PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS: a miscellany, to include 3 Bank of Bengal documents with adhesive revenue stamps, 1884-1896: 4 early 19thc printed shipping documents with manuscript entries: East India Co. vellum document, 1846, and 3 others. (Small quantity).

TRAVEL JOURNAL: interesting manuscript journal, 21 April-May 26 1913, approx 79pp, recording journey through France, Austria and Switzerland with Mediterranean cruise on 'SY Atrato', various tipped-in postcards and ephemera including Marconi receipt, contained in oblong 8vo album of the period, the covers with various transport tickets from the journey tipped down. (1)

FRENCH DOCUMENTS: two 18thc printed documents on paper with manuscript additions, 1764-67, the latter signed by treasurer Blondel de Gangay: together with an old French newspaper, folded.

FISHING BOAT DISASTER FUND: three hardbound folio logs containing manuscript accounts and transactions relating to disaster fund set up following loss of fishing vessel 'Star of the East' in 1891, with loss of seven crew members: ledgers detail fund raising efforts on behalf of widows and children through to Jan 1905. (3)

SHIP'S LOG: mss journal of a voyage from San Francisco to Queenstown in the ship Lodvic, commencing Feb 18th 1893 and kept by one E. Elton: daily manuscript entries into printed folio log, mainly observations on conditions and progress, marbled paper covers cloth backed, some general wear and soiling, else good. (1)

EUROPEAN TRAVEL LOG: an interesting manuscript log of travels in Europe by Dr Henry William Livett (1814-1901) an eminent surgeon who also made his name as an artist engraver: approx 78pp, neatly written in black and red ink, interspersed with sketch illustrations, provisional title at front 'Home Letters: written from Switzerland, Italy, and France...' dated 1886: contained in square 8vo commonplace book, half-calf over marbled boards, spine with loss and front boards detached, contents generally sound. (1)

LOUISA'S JOURNAL: collection of seemingly original manuscript verse and prose in two vols, dated 1857-59, the writer unidentified but thus titled to spine, closewritten throughout in black ink with numerous corrections in red to one volume, uniform contemp dark morocco, aeg, geometric design gilt to boards, extremities rubbed else in good condition. (2)

MANUSCRIPT: THE RUNCTION CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, 1887. Interesting manuscript annual in several different hands, approx 4pp, several original illustrations, including folding view of festive table in the medieval style, pen and ink sketched title page decorated in watercolour, names of contributing families including Gurney, Hammond, Severne, Ffolkes, Digby, Jones and Wicksted, some creasing and handling marks but generally in good condition, contained in folio album of red cloth covered boards, thus gilt lettered to upper board, some external wear. (1)

ENGLISH LADY IN HONG KONG, MANUSCRIPT DIARY: entertaining manuscript diary of an English lady in Hong Kong, covering period 25th Sept 1913-May 1917: daily entries with a few gaps noted, much observation of climate though with some entertaining details of day to day life interspersed...Saturday April 29th: a horrid morning: heavy humidity. Went up to Paddys & Tom bought 3 very old curious Chinese bronzes 2 dollars...' contained in two oblong 8vo notebooks of period, plain cloth bound, one volume with text block detached, generally in good condition. (2)

WOMEN'S RIGHTS: MANUSCRIPT POETRY: an interesting volume of manuscript poetry, mid 19thc, the writer unidentified though seemingly with a connection to the Leamington area (2 related printed items tipped-in), including an apparently unpublished 60 line poem entitled 'Women's Rights'. The poem begins: what are our rights? we do not claim to be manly and rough and bold: a call to the bar is not our aim! and members their seats may hold: we hear no music in all the clang of arms, and the shouts of war: clubs, Derby-days, and ignoble slang we care for? not a straw..., the poem continues later ...I have often heard the clergy teach the duties of women's lives, but I never heard ev'n a bishop preach from 'husbands love your wives'...other poetical contributions to the volume include verse entitled 'City of Litchfield', as well as another 10 verse poem with strongly feminist undertones entitled 'The Husband's Complaint', as well as other verse copied from published authors: accompanied by a second volume of manuscript verse and sketches. (2)

MUDGE'S TIMEKEEPER: '...Report which was made from the committee to whom the petition of Thomas Mudge, Watch-Maker was referred; and who were directed to examine into the matter thereof, and also to make enquiry into the principles on which Mr Mudge's time-keepers have been constructed...' ordered to be printed 11th June 1793: folio, 160pp, disbound and without boards, old brown paper wraps, numerous blank leaves at rear, some with later manuscript and pencil sketches and notes, seemingly unrelated. (1)

MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK: a lengthy and comprehensive 19thc manuscript receipt book, 447 pages of entries plus index at rear, covering huge variety of receipts including manufactures, furniture restoration, medications, destruction of vermin, cookery and preservation of foodstuffs, 'to make coffee of rye': antidotes to poisons, purification of oils, 'deafness cured by tobacco smoke' and much more: contained in mid-19thc commonplace book of marbled boards morocco backed, both boards detached and several quires loose and front and rear, contents generally sound. (1)

HAYLING ISLAND/HAVANT: a group of approx 7 printed/manuscript sales particulars relating to this area, circa 1870s, to include some folding plans, some tears and dampsoiling. (Small quantity)

LECTURE ON ANTS AT CRAWLEY: 'YMCA..a lecture entitled Ants or the History of the Little People with diagram illustrations, will be given by Rev. A D Spong (of Brighton), in the YMCA room, Crawley, on Wednesday, January 18th, 1911...no children admitted unless with adult friend..' Crawley, A E Willett, Steam Printer: folio printed notice, approx 50 x 38cm, folded, closed tear lower left: accompanied by the lecturer's own manuscript notes contained in 8vo commonplace book, a number of related cuttings and advertisement for series of lectures including this present one: TOGETHER WITH 8 large lecture diagrams printed/drawn(?) onto cloth, (differing sizes, average approx 150 x 94cm), old folds and dustsoiling, each depicting different aspects of ant physiology and life cycle. (Small quantity)

PORTSMOUTH CITY FIRE BRIGADE: vehicle log of Portsmouth City Fire Brigade, late 1950s-early 60s, daily entries for mileage, petrol, oil etc: TOGETHER WITH manuscript minutes book 'Portsmouth Conference Easter 1904', approx 175 pages of entries, contained in 8vo commonplace book of period. (2)

[KING CHARLES I PERIOD BIBLE] - THE HOLY BIBLE + BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER + GENEALOGIES + BOOKE OF PSALMESLondon, various printers, 1635-1636. 4to, five parts in one comprising: The Book of Common Prayer, London, Robert Barker, 1636; The Genealogies...by J S [no date, circa 1636]; The Holy Bible, Thomas Buck & Roger Daniel printers to the University of Cambridge [no date, circa 1636]; The New Testament, printed by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1635; The Booke of Psalmes, Imprinted by I.L. for the Company of Stationers, 1636. Common Prayer title heavily browned and laid down missing right hand strip of title, missing first leaf of calendar, prelims frayed, Genealogies contains 34 pages of printed tables + double-page map of Canaan, engraved title to Holy Bible, New Testament title within woodcut typographical border, some leaves with tears, some browning, several manuscript entries including births and deaths etc. 18th century panelled calf, both boards present but detached, most of spine missing and remainder is detached. Sold With All Faults

POPE, ALEXANDER LETTERS OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE, AND SEVERAL OF HIS FRIENDSLondon, J Wright, 1737. First edition, 4to, title in red and black with engraved vignette portrait of Pope after Richardson, half-title present, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, first 7 or so leaves with faint waterstain to top blank margin. Together with: FULLER, THOMAS - THE HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND London, 1662. First edition, folio, lacking portrait as often, title page laid down, a few leaves with marginal repairs, usual erratic pagination with some manuscript corrections of page numbers, full contemporary calf, re-backed (2)++see description

[FINE ENGLISH REGENCY-PERIOD BINDING] - HEWLETT, REV JOHN - THE HOLY BIBLELondon, Longman [and others], 1811-1812. First edition with notes by Hewlett, three volumes, large thick 4to, profusely illustrated with engravings throughout, a near-fine copy, manuscript entries on front free endpapers recording births, deaths etc. of the Glencross family. Handsomely bound in full Regency diced calf, boards with gilt borders and panelling, original attractive gilt spines almost imperceptibly laid down, minor corner wear, all edges gilt, a most handsome set (3)

[ 18TH CENTURY BIBLE CONCORDANCE IN A FINE MONASTIC CLASPED PIGSKIN BINDING ] LUCA, FRANCISCO SACRORUM BIBLIORUM VULGATAE EDITIONIS CONCORDANTIAE, AD RECOGNITIONEM JUSSU SIXTI V. PONT. MAX. Antwerp, J B Verdussen, 1733. Large thick 4to, half-title, main title with attractive woodcut printer's device, printed in triple columns, a very good crisp and clean copy, tiny wormhole to front free-endpaper and half-title (only). Finely bound in 18th century monastic white 'tawed' pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, the original decorative brass metal clasps and catches both present, boards elaborately decorated in blind with multiple panels consisting of foliate and scroll devices, spine with five raised bands, 18th century lettering and scrollwork in brown ink to second and third compartments, some soiling/darkening to boards, red speckled edges, lengthy early 19th century manuscript inscriptions to front inner board and free endpaper. From the Monastery of Geistingen, (near Cologne and Bonn, Germany), which finally closed in January 2006 when the last monks left there. With the monastery's booklabel to top inner board, and their stamp in blue ink to bottom of title

TIMLIN, WILLIAM MTHE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARSLondon, George G Harrap, [1923]. First edition, first impression, 4to, calligraphic text and 48 coloured plates, short repaired tear to right-hand margin of title (without loss), a clean and very good copy in the publisher's gilded quarter-vellum, slight wear to very top and bottom of spine, lower board with a circa 1-inch area of gouged surface wear. With the (rare) original dust wrapper, its spine largely lacking and partially replaced with a careful manuscript copy, worn with repaired tears. "The most original and beautiful children's book of the 1920s" - Richard Dalby, 'The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration'

BEAUJOYEULX, BALTASAR DE BALET COMIQVE DE LA ROYNE, Faict avx Nopces de Monsieur le Duc de Ioyeuse & madamoyselle de Vaudemont sa soeur. Par Baltasar de Beavioyevlx, Valet de Chambre dv Roy, et de la Royne sa mere.A Paris, Par Adrian le Roy, Robert Ballard, & Mamert Patisson, Imprimeurs du Roy. M. D. LXXXII. [1582]. First edition, 4to, [xvi] + 75 numbered folios, + 'Extrait du priuilege' leaf at the rear, with 27 engraved illustrations, as called for. Bound in later (probably 18th century) worn blue paper wrappers, manuscript label to spine, some creasing to corners, hairline worm-track to very inner margin of first few leaves (barely noticeable and not affecting text), folio 18 with short marginal tear not affecting text, folio 40 with closed tear along plate margin, folio 41 with m/s writing to outer margin, faint waterstain from folio 41 onwards. Rare. The 'Balet Comique de la Royne' is considered to be the first ballet, performed in 1581 at the French court of Catherine de Medici as part of the wedding celebrations for the Duke de Joyeuse and Marguerite de Vaudemont. The ballet was choreographed by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx and was the first piece to combine poetry, music, design and dance, using as a theme the witchcraft of the goddess Circe. It is also the first ballet of which there is a printed account (libretto), published in 1582. Beaujoyeulx's volume, with printed music and superb illustrations by Jacques Patin, was highly successful and influenced the courts of Europe. Rare. This copy has not been seen on the market for over 100 years, and comes with various letters to/from the British Library as well as enquiries to Sotheby's and Christie's. A manuscript note dated Dec 12th 1911 records that the book was "valued by Mr Quaritch at

BANKING HISTORY - MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANKING COMPANY LIMITEDA LATE 19TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY MINUTE-BOOK/LEDGER Recording communications with and transactions of a wide range of businesses and private individuals from 1899-1929, with numerous manuscript entries and tipped-in copies of typed letters primarily concerning debts and overdrafts, all contained in a folio book bound in the original brown morocco leather. An interesting example of how early bankers managed debt - particularly through the period of the First World War and the years directly following

[EARLY 19TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS TRACTS]A small archive of late-Georgian and early-Victorian religious tracts, schoolbooks, etc., originally belonging to children of the Fludyer family of Ayston Hall, Rutland (many of the items bear the names of Mary Fludyer, Augusta Fludyer, and others). The collection includes approx 34 small religious tracts, stitched and in the original printed wrappers (circa 1830-1850, various printers, some tracts with woodcuts), children's books with coloured frontispieces by Kronheim, a number of Mrs Trimmer's 'Prints' books (late 18th - early 19th century), a couple of early 19thC manuscript religious notebooks, and various other loose stitched pamphlets. A good collection of approximately 90 scarce and largely ephemeral items, generally in good condition (90)

1926 GENERAL STRIKE AND OTHER EPHEMERAA collection of various newspapers, 1926, all with articles relating to the first ever general strike in Britain. Plus a quantity of other unrelated printed pamphlets, an early 19th century manuscript will bound in full calf, various children's books including Kate Greenaway's Marigold Garden, etc. (a quantity)

13TH CENTURY GOTHIC MANUSCRIPT, 1292 parchment deed, Anglicana Cursive script, twenty one lines, relating to lands in Appleby in Derbyshire and in Leicestershire, wax seal attached, 17.5 x 22cm

ANNUAL REPORT (VOL II ONLY) OF THE SO-CALLED 'COMICAL CLUB' FOR 1821-1822A 319-page small folio bound manuscript consisting of meeting reports written by the Secretary of the 'Comical Club', which met at various venues in London on the first Wednesday of every calendar month. The manuscript is in brown ink in a clear and legible hand. Bound in contemporary diced calf with double black labels to spine, rubbed and some wear, with a modern armorial added in gilt to centre of upper board

[EARLY RAILWAY HISTORY] RAILWAY MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL JOURNAL. BANKS, STEAM NAVIGATION, MINES, CANALS, DOCKS, ASSURANCES PUBLISHED WEEKLY. AUG-DEC 1839London, Augustus Welde Evans, 1839. A very scarce run of the the first 20 issues of the magazine printed under this name, published weekly from August 17 to Dec 28. Originally launched as the monthly 'Railway Magazine' in 1835, the name changed to 'Railway Magazine and Annals of Science' in March 1836. With the August 17 issue of 1839, it changed again to the title offered here and was then printed weekly. The issues are loosely bound together, in a contemporary paper cover with a manuscript title (cover torn/badly worn). The issues are generally in good and bright condition, some leaves with short tears or slight fraying at the edges. When launched in 1835, this was the first-ever railway magazine. These 20 issues contain a wealth of information on the early history of the railway, as well as the other categories listed in the title

[BREECHES BIBLE, 1587] THE HOLY BIBLE… 4 parts in 1, 8vo, the New Testament title is "The Newe Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, translated out of Greek by Theod, Beza whereunto are adioined briefe summaries of doctrine upon the Evangelists and Actes of the Apostles, together with the methode of the Epistles of the Apostles by the said Theod. Beza; And also short expositions on the phrases and hard places, taken out of the large annotations of the foresaid Authour and Ioach, Camerarius, by P. Loseter, Villerius, Englished by L Tomson. Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Anno 1587." The Psalms title is "The Whole Booke of Psalmes...Printed by Iohn Wolfe, for the Assignes of Richard Day. 1587". The first title and following 15 leaves of the Old Testament have been replaced from a 1649 edition printed by Barker. A good early copy, some woodcuts in text, early manuscript entries of births and deaths, rebound in quarter calf with marbled boards, attractive 17th century gilt-gauffered edges, text leaves ruled in red throughout, sold w.a.f.

ASCHAM, ROGERTHE SCHOLEMASTER OR PLAINE AND PERFITE WAY OF TEACHING CHILDREN, TO UNDERSTAND, WRITE, AND SPEAKE, THE LATIN TONG...[etc]London, Iohn Daye, 1571 [colophon dated 1573]. Small 4to, title within woodcut typographical border, black letter text, large woodcut printer's device to final colophon leaf, title stained/soiled and repaired at top margin and outer corner, lower inner corner torn away touching border, dampstaining to first 3 gatherings and elsewhere, some leaves with outer corners torn away not affecting text, f66 with manuscript scribbling to verso in margin, other occasional browning, soiling and dust-marks. ESTC S100263. Bound together with: RUDD, CAPTAIN THOMAS - PRACTICALL GEOMETRY, IN TWO PARTS. London, J.G. for Robert Boydell, 1650. First edition, small 4to, two parts in one with separate pagination, 1st title heavily dusted/soiled and with outer corners torn away, diagrams in text, soiling/handling marks throughout and with some dampstain, final leaf heavily soiled and repaired, erratic pagination. Both works bound in full calf with later re-back, rubbed, worn at extremities. ESTC R217827++as described and sold w.a.f.

THE COMPLETE FAMILY BIBLE, OR THE CHRISTIAN'S TREASURYLondon, W Richardson, 1785. Quarto, engraved frontispiece and other engraved plates, contemporary calf, re-backed, joints weak and boards near-detached. Scarce. Ref: Darlow & Moule 1301, ESTC T95077. The British Library records only 2 copies in Britain and 2 in North America. The copy of George Fludyer M.P. (Sheriff of Rutland, 1814-1815) and his family, with numerous manuscript entries at the front of births and deaths etc; and six other volumes of Bibles/Prayer Books/Theology (7)

[BINDING] THE HOLY BIBLE CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLELondon, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [circa 1860]. Thick folio, over 900 engravings, family register with manuscript entries recording the births and deaths of members of the Gumley family of Leicester throughout the 19th century, a few leaves with some light browning, but a good profusely-illustrated copy bound in the original 19th century black calf, boards diced in blind within an outer gilt panel, lightly rubbed, short unobtrusive split to upper joint, all edges gilt

Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). The Second World War, 6 volumes written out in manuscript longhand into 2 large day books and a ledger, by an unidentified hand, circa 1950s, a right-sloping neat hand in mostly blue or black fountain pen inks with occasional red highlights, etc., seemingly an unabridged and full transcription (except some quoted sources typed up on separate loose sheets in a folder), written on both sides of approximately 800 leaves of 3 ledgers/day books, volumes 1 and 2 of the magnum opus written into one day book, volume 3 into a ledger (damp-frayed at lower margins), volumes 4-6 written into a second day book matching the first (with printed columns for rooms, wines, accounts, etc.), this final volume following straight on with full-length transcriptions of 4 other of Churchill's works in the same hand, 'My Early Life', 'Thoughts and Adventures', 'Great Contemporaries' and 'Step by Step', approximately 150 blank leaves at rear of volume 3, contemporary quarter leather, some soiling and wear, volumes 1 & 3 with printed stationer's labels of Arthur Wrigley, Leeds, at front, large 4to (49 x 41 cm), volume 2 folio (47 x 30 cm), together with a folder of related typed leaves supplying many of the quoted sources for which coded references are left in the manuscript(Qty: 3)A truly bizarre Churchill archive, this three-volume manuscript raises unanswerable questions of authorship and appropriation. The Second World War alone totals over 1.5 million words and what person would voluntarily, (or otherwise), attempt to rewrite all this verbatim in longhand defies all logic and explanation. The handwriting is not Churchill's, nor any of his known secretaries, according to the Churchill Archives, Cambridge. Besides which Churchill's modus operandi for writing was dictation to typists in the first instance, which was then hand corrected by Churchill, retyped and corrected once more. Even with the large team of researchers involved in the preparation of The Second World War there would have been no call for such a manuscript. The inclusion of full transcriptions of four further and earlier works by Churchill adds to the bafflement. The ledgers were acquired around 20 years ago from a large house clearance near York. There are two clues as to who the author may be, both possibly in the same hand as the manuscript itself: The name 'Philip H. [?]Richings' appears on the front free endpaper of the second day book, and a three-page manuscript poem ('An Ode to Sir Barnes [Wallis]'), included with the folder of typed quoted sources, is initialled 'P.H.R.' at the end.

* George III. A signed manuscript document for discharge of accounts for Lieutenant Colonel Henry Edward Bunbury, Deputy Quartermaster-General in the Mediterranean, dated 27th November 1807, manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, handwritten to recto only, and signed George R at head, addressed to the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts, and signed by several of them at foot, with a date of 15 July 1808, instructing the commissioners to discharge Lieutenant Colonel Bunbury for the sum of £370 15 ¼ shillings 'being the amount of his three abstracts of Contingent Disbursements of his Department between the 14th October 1805 and the 24th December 1806, inclusive', some marks and short tears to edges, generally without loss, sheet size 35.5 x 24 cm (14 x 9.5 ins), together with four other various military documents: an officer's commission on vellum to Thomas Edgcombe, Ensign of the Devon Company of Foot under Colonel Henry Trenchard, dated 19th May 1715, and signed by Sir William Courtenay, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon, a signed manuscript document on paper issued by the Office of Ordnance, dated 29th January 1744 addressed to the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington, Paymaster General of the Guards & Garrisons, being an account for damage done to Barrack bedding in the Savoy by the Second Regiment of Foot Guards quartered there from 25th October 1743 to 25th October 1744, for £13 8 shillings 9d and for bedding lost or embezzelled by General Guizes Regiment in garrison there..., signed by George Wade, Thomas Lascelles, George Gregory, William R. Earle and Andrew Wilkinson, single folded sheet, 31.5 x 20 cm (12.4 x 7.8 ins), a partly handwritten account of allow charges for the 1st West York Regiment of Militia, from 25th December 1797 to 24th December 1798, signed by Palmerston, and dated War-Office 2nd June 1817, and a bound folio volume containing 178 pages of neat handwritten manuscript petition, accounts and inventory relating to the estate of Captain Frederick Campbell, late of the 94th Regiment of Foot, and Agartent of the Argyll and Bute Militia, dated 1829-58, and including legal notes, an inventory of property, with valuations, and of accounts paid to the Campbelltown Auctioneer John Dunlop, etc., contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, folio (Qty: 5)

* George IV Coronation Ticket. A printed ticket for admission to Westminster Hall on the occasion of King George IV's Coronation, 19 July 1821, printed in red, black and blue with blind-embossed border by Dobbs, this ticket inscribed for Miss Hamilton in the Duke of Wellington's hand and signed by him beneath 'Wellington', countersigned by Lord Gwydyr, additionally inscribed in clerical hand 'Coronation Ticket' at upper margin and 'The Lord High Constable's Box' at lower margin, manuscript no. 265 in right oval, a little general soiling, torn along vertical fold with a little paper loss in several places, torn with loss to upper right margin, 23.5 x 26cm, pasted on an old album leaf with scraps and cuttings beneath and to versoThere are two versions of this compound-plate printed ticket, one admitting to Westminster Hall, the other to the Abbey, marked respectively 'Hall' and 'Abbey' in oval cut-outs to the left of the central motif. It is not clear who Miss Hamilton is but she would have been in the box with the Duchesses of Wellington and Westminster along with the Duke of Wellington who acted as Lord High Constable.(Qty: 1)

* James I (King of England). Vellum document with Great Seal of James I attached, circa 1603-1625, document damp stained affecting Latin manuscript, wax Great Seal (15cm diameter) very worn and in two piecesThe seal depicts a change in the royal arms on the shield, although very worn in this example. The royal arms for the first time contained the arms of Scotland and Ireland and also with a change to the legend on the seal which tells of the union with Scotland, England and Ireland under one King, and the end of the ancient feuds between England and Scotland. The banner of Edward the Confessor is also included to remind people of the King’s sovereignty over the ancient people and their Saxon kings who had ruled before in England and Wales. There were two versions of the Great Seal of James I, the first used from 1603-1605 and the second from 1605-1625 which incorporated changes to the canopy over the monarch's head. Given the wear to this example it is not possible to suggest which version is present in this case.(Qty: 1)

* Jack the Ripper. ' Reminiscences of Ex Detective Chief Inspector F.G. Abberline, C.I.D Scotland Yard. The Mysterious Disappearance of a Lady Supposed Decoyed away from Home for Robbery and Perhaps Murdered, and her Strange Adventure', circa 1920, a 28-page manuscript in the hand of Abberline giving his memories of this case in which Abberline acted as a private investigator in which a Mrs Brown feigns her own kidnap and borrows a baby in order to inherit family money, but is rumbled thanks to Abberline's efforts, written to rectos only and signed at end, butterfly clip top left, minor dust-soiling and fraying, 4to, together with an autograph letter signed from Charles Warren (1840-1927), head of London Metropolitan police during the Whitechapel murders of 1888, the letter written in 1925 and concerning receipts, one page, 8vo, plus an autograph letter signed from a spurious Jack the Ripper suspect, the English physician William Withey Gull (1816-1890), a letter agreeing a meeting with Dr Broadbent, one page, 8voFrederick George Abberline was Chief Inspector for London Metropolitan police and a prominent figure in the investigation into the Jack the Ripper serial killer murders of 1888. The case as recorded in this 28-page manuscript is recounted in M.J. Trow, Ripper Hunter: Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders , (Wharncliffe True Crime, 2012).(Qty: 3)

* Magic lantern slides . A collection of approximately 500 magic lantern slides, late 19th and early 20th century, mostly diapositives of English churches and architecture in Suffolk, Yorkshire, Somerset, etc ., but including a group of approximately 25 diapositive lantern slides of astronomy from the Royal Astronomical Society, 1890s/1900s, some of the topographical views with manuscript labels but many detached and many seals partly broken and evidence of mildew in many of the small lantern slide boxes, together with a group of approximately 300 lithographic lantern slides of unidentified artworks contained in seven wooden slide boxesAn ownership label included with the lot suggests that this archive belonged to the East Anglian artist Harry Becker (1865-1928).(Qty: 2 cartons)

* Magic lantern slides. A group of approximately 185 magic lantern slides, early 20th century, mostly diapositive views of Venice and Italy including some by George Washington Wilson and Giorgio Sommer, and including one showing the rebuilding of the Campenile in Venice, dated 7 April 1908, a few odds of Athens, Japan, Istanbul, Damascus and Alexandria, etc., many with manuscript or printed labels to seals (Qty: approx. 160)

* Magic lantern slides. A group of approximately 180 magic lantern slides, early 20th century, mostly diapositives of British rural views, some with manuscript or printed labels (Qty: approx. 180)

* Magic lantern slides. A group of approximately 130 magic lantern slides, early 20th century, mostly diapositives of the Middle East including Egypt, many with manuscript captions to seals (Qty: approx. 130)

Cole (Henry Hardy). Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council from Photographs, Plans, and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India, published by W.H. Allen for the India Museum, 1869, 43 mounted carbon autotype prints (numbered 1-44), lithographed map and 14 plates, occasional spotting to plates and some photograph borders, biopredation affecting blank lower margin of pp. 13-14 and border of three following photographs and a plan, manuscript library shelf label to front pastedown, all edges gilt, original morocco-backed printed boards, heavily rubbed and slightly soiled, a little corner and edge wear, cloth loss to upper margin of lower board, folioThe photographs are by John Burke (1843-1900) and measure 26.5cm x 20cm and smaller.(Qty: 1)

* Frith (Francis, 1822-1898). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments..., George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode, [1869], six albumen print photographs, each 10 x 15cm and smaller, printed captions to mounts beneath, two colour-printed maps, some manuscript details for the births, marriages and deaths of members of the Hardman family completed on relevant blank pages before New Testament title, all edges gilt, original embossed morocco with brass edges and clasp, neatly rebacked with original spine relaid, slightly rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1)

Senegal, Gambia and Sierra Leone. 'Voyage du Sénégal, 1891-1892' [spine-title], 105 albumen prints and 8 cyanotypes (various dimensions, 11.6 x 8.2 cm to 15.6 x 11.6 cm), mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged pale green card leaves, including one folding panorama comprising 2 albumen prints on 2 conjoined leaves, neat manuscript captions in French throughout, 15 of the albumen prints being studio photographs of Bordeaux and environs captioned in the negative (12 x 19 cm), the rest including street scenes in Dakar, Banjul ('Bathurst') and an unnamed town in Sierra Leone (probably Freetown), village scenes in Casamance, and group portraits of Africans in local and European dress and of members of the Anglo-French boundary commission (one such photograph captioned 'Commission de délimitation des frontières de la Gambie'), variable toning and fading, light spotting to mounts and a few images, minor undulation to card leaves, condition generally good, contemporary red half sheep binding, rubbed, light wear to extremities, oblong 4to (18 x 24.5 cm)Varied album apparently compiled by a French member of the Anglo-French commission which established the present borders of The Gambia.(Qty: 1)

* Baseball. A group of six cabinet cards of 19th-century baseball players, collotype reproductions, early 20th century, including Bob Ferguson, Andy Leonard, Ed Dailey, Jack Rowe and Frank Barrows, four with original manuscript inscriptions and/or printed details reproduced in the image, one unidentified player (?Cincinnati Reds) with surface loss, plus three similar cards of cricketers, one of the brothers Sam and Harry Wright, plus an unidentified batsman and bowler, all damp-stained and soiled with a little scattered surface rubbing, one of the Wright brothers chipped at lower corners, cards bowed with damp-staining to versos, 16 x 10c m (Qty: 9)

China. A group of four personal photograph albums relating to the London Missionary Society and the creation of Peking Union Medical College, circa 1907-15, a total of approximately 290 mostly window-mounted gelatin silver print snapshots, the majority of Peking scenes and people, plus classes and patients at the Peking Union Medical College, sparcely captioned but with mention of various western missionary names including Edwin Robert Wheeler and his wife Emily (nee Meech), Dr Wenham, J.M. Stenhouse, Ethel Livens, the Stucke and Cormack families, images mostly approximately 7.5 x 10cm and similar sizes, a few photographs loose, plus four leaves of manuscript notes (in more than one hand) giving information on some of the photographs, contemporary cloth, rubbed and marked, one volume with spine near detached, non-matching 8voThough there is no indication, the albums may have been compiled by Edwin Robert Wheeler and his wife Emily Gertrude Meech. They both worked at the Peking Union Medical College with the Baptist Missionary Society in the early years of the twentieth century and married in 1910. SOAS Archives, University of London, have three original photographs and photocopies of six additional photographs depicting scenes in Peking between 1912 and 1916 from Edwin Robert Wheeler (GB 102 MS 380897). Peking Union Medical College was founded in 1906 and later funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It is now affiliated with Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.(Qty: 4)

* China. A group of 103 medium format 6 x 6 cm gelatin silver print negatives, showing people, views and scenes in rural China, each negative contained in a sleeve with a gelatin silver print made from the negative, 8 x 11cm, most with manuscript information to versos, and contained in numbered sleeves (some with press stamps to versos in a broken card box with three glass plate negatives believed to be by the same photographer Commander Rodger) (Qty: approx. 200)

* Middle East. A group of approximately 320 photographs of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and India by Ella K. Maillart, circa 1930s and later, small-format gelatin silver prints, including contact prints, people, scenes and views, most with manuscript or typed captions to versos, some with red pen mark-up lines, mostly approximately 8 x 11.5cm, contained in four small card boxes (Qty: approx. 320)

* Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918). Reception by the Tsar in the Semi-Circular Hall, Alexander Palace, 4 February 1917, gelatin silver print photograph by K.E. von Gan & Co., showing a large group of officials, military officers and dignitaries posing for the photograph with Tsar Nicholas II seated at the centre front, 21.5 x 28cm, original card mount with photographer's studio details printed to versoThis is in all probability the last group photograph taken in the Tsar's palace of Tsarkoe Selo, and probably taken by Karl Gan [or Hahn]. Following the 'February Revolution', Nicholas II chose to abdicate on 2 March (O.S.) / 15 March (M.S.). The photograph was taken at the reception given to the Milner Mission in February 1917. The United States was not yet in the war and the triple Mission (political, strategic and supply) from the three major Western allies in Europe did not leave the British Isles until seven months after the Kitchener Mission had been sent to the bottom of the North Sea with the loss of the missioners themselves and all hands onboard. In the meantime the battle of the Somme had been launched from the British and French trenches in reply to the attack which the Germans had made even earlier in the year at Verdun. Both battles were maintained until the late autumn, and in December Mr Lloyd George, who had succeeded Lord Kitchener in June at the War Office, succeeded Mr Asquith as Prime Minister of Britain. The five men seated either side of the Tsar are (left to right) Lord Milner, the Italian ambassador, the British ambassador (Sir George Buchanan), the French ambassador (Monsieur Paleolouge) and Monsieur Doumergue (President of France). A few old typed and manuscript notes identifying some of the sitters is included with the lot in an envelope addressed to Right Hon. Lord Walter Layton (seen standing behind the British ambassador). A copy of the same photograph is held in the New College Archives Milner collection, Oxford.(Qty: 1)

* North Africa & Asia. A collection of approximately 250 small-format photographs by Ella K. Maillart, circa 1930s, including people, views, scenes and architecture in Turkistan, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Pakistan and Russia, many with manuscript information or typed captions to versos, some with photographer's credit wetstamp, mostly 7.5 x 11cm, plus a bundle of associated contact print strips (Qty: approx. 250)

Uganda and Kenya. 'Mit Leica und Agfa-Kino in Afrika. Tagebuch (12. Juli 1933 bis 16. März 1934) von Hellmut Schumacher. Band III', 172 gelatin silver prints (various dimensions, most 8.5 x 11.5 cm, several 12.5 x 17.5 cm) mounted rectos and versos to black card leaves, depicting views, big game, village scenes, and numerous local peoples including warriors, hunters, women and children variously identified as 'Suk' (i.e. Pokot), Kavirondo, Nandi, Turkana or Kikuyu, manuscript numbering (350-521) and German captions to mounts in white ink, 30 double-sided typescript text-leaves bound in, comprising 6 preliminary leaves (title-page and list of contents) to front, and 24 leaves (paginated 109-158) transcribing the photographer's journal interleaved throughout, contemporary broad-weave cream cloth binding, large gelatin silver print of giraffes under an acacia tree inset under transparent plastic to front board above manuscript title 'Uganda and Kenya', slipcase, folio (28 x 21 cm)A thorough visual record contextualised by the photographer's interleaved typescript journal, in which the entries are tabulated throughout with reference to the numbering accompanying the images.(Qty: 1)

* The Cottingley Fairies. Frances and the Fairy Ring, 1917, rare but damaged contact print taken from the original negative by Elsie Wright's father Arthur in1917, heavily crumpled, jagged centrefold split with repair to verso and some surface loss to centre of and upper part of photograph, chipped and frayed at edges, manuscript title 'Cottingley Fairies' to verso partly obscured by paper repair, 7.5 x 8.5cm, together with supporting paperworkProvenance: The family of Rosie Hallam, by direct descent.(Qty: a folder)

* Parchment. A good quantity of old parchment sheets, various lengths, all rolled, together with two Queen Victoria Great Seals in original metal skippet tins, plus two manuscript indentures on parchment dated 1657 & 1668, plus a box file containing an assortment of old metal (brass) corner pieces, clasps (mostly 17th & 18th century) and few later binding locks etc.Provenance: John Frederick Cuthbert MBE (1938-2016). He was the former Senior Conservator at the Guildhall Library, London, specializing in the conservation of parchment and seals. He retired in 2001 and received an MBE the previous year in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to libraries and archivism. He had highly regarded skills and also undertook conservation work for the Baring Archive, Lloyds and the Rothschild Archive.(Qty: a carton)

Cavalry Officer's Manuscript Manual. A manuscript written by Captain John J. Seelinger, 15th Light Dragoons, circa 1805, written in a neat hand and including sections on the general principles of riding, position of the dragoon mounted, turnings, bending or shoulders, regimental barrack regulations, riding lesson for the square or school, marching order, manner in which the saddlebags are to be packed and the horse accoutred in marching order, manner in which the stables duties are to be performed, etc., written on rectos and versos of 60 leaves, some marginal damp browning, a little scattered spotting and soiling, Seelinger's ownership name pasted to front pastedown, contemporary vellum with manuscript note to upper cover, rubbed and damp-stained, covers slightly bowed, small 4to (19 x 16cm) (Qty: 1)

Chimmo (William, 1828-1891). A manuscript journal in 2 volumes, 1841-48, covering the early years of Chimmo's naval career from starting as a midshipman aged about 13 written in a clear small hand in italic script on both sides of approximately 450 leaves, occasional pen and ink vignette illustrations, some old damp-staining and fraying with corner loss of leaves affecting text at start of both volumes, some damp browning and discoloration but sufficient ink held to retain legibility throughout, some further leaves detached and slightly frayed, first volume partly broken and entirely disbound, second volume contemporary half roan, worn, matching small 4to (15 x 15cm)(Qty: 2)Provenance: From the family of William Chimmo, by descent. William Chimmo entered the Royal navy as a midshipman during the first Chinese war and enjoyed a long and active career before retiring in 1873 with the rank of Captain. He travelled on surveying missions in the Pacific, the Fiji Islands, Australia, the northwest coast of Scotland, the west coast of America, the line from Ceylon to Java, and while serving as midshipman his ship, HMS Herald, was charged with searching for Sir John Franklin and his lost men. The first volume here offered covers Chimmo’s time from joining the navy and joining HMS Cornwallis , a 74-gun third rate ship of line, on 5 June 1841, setting sail for the China Seas a month later, actions off Canton in the fleet commanded by Sir William Parker in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-42), (known popularly as the First Opium War), and the eventual return to England in November 1844. Chimmo’s journal is written up in a fair hand, and presumably shortly afterwards, (the paper is watermarked 1839). He gives a vivid account of life on board ship, giving details of weather and sailing conditions, as well as the officers and crew and day-to-day life and dramas, from celebrations and drunkenness to floggings and shark catching, sinking of piratical junks, meetings with other ships and sailing vessels, plus trips on shore, copies of despatches and other documents. He is careful to note the deaths of officers and their causes, and he gives good detail about the conflicts, including the Battles of Chapoo, Woosung and Chinkiang. Chimmo also notes the historic signing of the Treaty of Nanking aboard his ship Cornwallis on 29 August 1842. The second volume begins with Chimmo back home in England in December 1844 before joining HMS Herald at Sheerness. HMS Herald was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette that had also been involved in the actions off Canton in 1841-42. She was then paid off at Chatham and converted to a survey ship. Henry Kellett recommissioned Herald for surveying in the Pacific and together with HMS Pandora she conducted a survey off the coast of British Columbia after the Oregon boundary dispute with the United States. Chimmo’s account begins with setting sail from Sheerness on 26 May 1845, and then proceeding to, among many other places, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Galapagos, Panama, San Francisco, Acapulco, etc. Chimmo begins by calling this 'Volumes 2 & 3', and yet this second volume ends in Panama on 7 May 1848, suggesting a missing third volume. On 9 May 1848 the Herald departed Panama and travelled through the Bering Strait on towards the Arctic as part of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, making three consecutive voyages to the north. Chimmo published his account of these trips to the Arctic in Euryalus; Tales of the Sea, a Few Leaves from the Diary of a Midshipman (J.D. Potter, 1860).

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

Great Britain - QV (embossed) : (SG 57) 1847 10d deep brown, 3 margins, some old faded manuscript at top and bottom on reverse, very fresh m.m. SG Spec. H2(2). SCARCE. Cat £15000 (image available) [US2]

Arundell (Francis Vyvyan Jago). A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia; with an Excursion into Pisidia, 1st edition, John Rodwell, 1828, engraved folding map frontispiece (spotted and offset), approximately 50 lithographic inscriptions on 23 sheets (the inscriptions individually numbered, the numbering erratic, occasionally absent or amended in manuscript), occasional light spotting to text, bound with: [ibid.,] Some Notices on the Church of Landulph, by the Rector, Devonport: Ramsey and Carrington, 1840, 46 pp., errata leaf, spotted and browned throughout, contemporary half calf, spine refurbished, headcaps restored, 8vo (20.4 x 12.8 cm)First work: Atabey 36 (with 'numerous lithographed plates of inscriptions on 14 folding or 6 double-sheets'); Blackmer 48 (with '22 numbered lithographed plates of inscriptions on 14 folding sheets'). Arundell was chaplain to the English factory at Smyrna (Izmir) (Qty: 1)

Clüver (Philipp). Introductionis in Universam Geographiam, tam veterem quam novam, libri VI, Brunswick: printed by Balthasar Gruber for Gothofred Müller, 1641, engraved title-page vignette, engraved portrait constituting signature )(2, the leaf integral with signature )(3, engraved folding plate (called for in VD17 but not listed in the Index tabularum), and 33 engraved folding maps, variable browning, signature 2A2 abraded costing a few letters either side, marginal damp-staining to final index leaves, minor worming to lower margins of final 5 leaves and to rear endpapers, discreet 20th-century ink-stamps of Dr Ronald Ruprecht to front free endpaper, title-page verso and margin of p. 33, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, monogram 'M D S' to front board and date '164Z [sic]' to rear board gilt, yapp edges, slightly marked, 4to (18.4 x 15.5 cm)Sabin 13805 (erroneously dating this edition 1661); Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477-1650 , 507; ibid., The Mapping of the World, Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700 , 356; VD17 56:726046B. The first edition of Clüver's work to contain maps; the text was originally published by the Elzevirs in 1624. Rare: no copies in UK libraries, 14 world-wide; a handful of copies traced in auction records, all in Germany, and several of these incomplete.(Qty: 1)

Bullock (William). A Catalogue of a Small but Very Fine Collection of Organized Fossils, from the Blue Lias Formation at Lyme and Charmouth, in Dorsetshire; Consisting Principally of Bones..., the Genuine Property of Colonel Birch, Collected at a Considerable Expense, which will be Sold at Auction, by Mr. Bullock, at his Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly, on Monday, the 15th Day of May, London: W. Smith, 1820, aquatint frontispiece, small pale dampstain to lower margin at gutter, original stitched wrappers, fore edges a little chipped and edge frayed, rear cover with small ink stamp to lower corner, contained in custom-made portfolio case, with five leaves of typescript regarding 'The Mysterious Colonel Birch', by H.S. Torrens, along with an ink manuscript notecard, written by H.S. Torrens, both loosely inserted, small 4toColonel Birch obtained a number of early fossil discoveries from the Lyme and Charmouth area of Dorset, many of which had been originally collected by Mary Anning. Several of the fossils sold at this auction were bought for the British Museum. The plate accompanying the catalogue, depicting an unknown crustaceous insect, has been described as 'the earliest representation of the Liassic eryonid decapod Coleia, hitherto unrecorded'.(Qty: 1)