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France.- Catalogue and ordnances relating to St Aubin de Burree [?St Aubin-sur-Mer], manuscript in French, c. 250pp., reverse entries, slightly browned, some ff. cut, 1 with tear, original vellum wrappers, creased, soiled and yellowed, sm. 4to, 1642.

Surrey.- Bargain and sale between John ffreeland and John Peto of Bysley of "one halfe and Moity of one ffreehold Messuage or Tenement at Knaphill in Horsell", manuscript, on vellum, 31 lines, folds, slightly creased, 280 x 355mm., 7th April 1631; and 3 others, Jacobean deeds relating to property in Bisley, Surrey, v.s., v.d. (4).

18th century school book.- Hobbins (Miss Frances) School book with poetry extracts, manuscript, 37pp. excluding blanks, printed floral borders, a few small tears in margins, original wrappers, with engraved illustrations on both covers (1 showing Shakespeare's tomb in Westminster Abbey), browned and soiled, tears with some loss, lower cover detached, numerous ink marks, sm. 4to, 4th May 1769.

Westminster School.- Welch (Joseph, compiler of biographical reference works, was for forty years assistant to William Ginger, bookseller to Westminster School. c. 1750-1805) A List of Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster, as they were Elected to Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, first edition, engraved frontispiece and plate, half-title, interleaved by the insertion of 209 pages of manuscript names of Westminster scholars, 8pp. list "Captains previous to their quitting Westminster" at end, with an additional 24pp. manuscript index at end, slightly browned, plates slightly foxed, hinges a little weak, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners worn, gilt spine, red leather label, rubbed, 4to, Printed by J. Nichols, Sold by W. Ginger and others, 1788 - [19th century].

Album Amicorum, manuscript in German, 117pp., 2 watercolours, 1 silk stitched illustration, a few pencil drawings, some newspaper cuttings, browned, some soiling, a few small tears, patterned endpapers, original gilt panelled morocco, slightly rubbed and creased, 120 x 195mm., 1801-48.

A framed and glazed Farsi calligraphic manuscript, 54 x 26cm

A large collection of maps and plans relating to the county of Derbyshire, predominantly linen-backed OS maps from 1880s-1950s but including several manuscript documents: 'Explanatory Plan' to accompany Mr Coke's Report showing the several Springs and Watersheds proposed to be impounded for a Supply of Water to Alfreton, Somercotes, Riddings, Swanwick and Ripley.  June 1871' (ink & watercolour); a late-18th/early-19th century manuscript map on vellum showing 'Mr Rolleston's Land' and 'Newlands Farm'; a vellum indenture for land in South Normanton, dated 1873, relating to 'John Slater Wilkinson of Hilcote Hall in Blackwell in the County of Derby' and 'Raymond Wilson Radford of Sherwood House, Sutton in Ashfield in the County of Nottingham'; 'Plan of the Lordship of the Riddings in the County of Derby Belonging to Christopher Rolleston Esquire, copied from a plan made by James Green in the Year 1806 by J. Horsley 1830'; ink & watercolour architectural plan for 'Proposed Offices and Sale Room Grosvenor Road Ripley for Mr S. W. Coupe' (indistinctly signed and dated 1923). Condition varied, rolled, some discoloured/torn as found

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, fifth Hawkins edition, London: J. F. and C. Rivington, 1791.  Etched frontispiece plus further etched plates and illustrations of fish within the text. Rebound in panelled calf with gilt title. Loosely inserted manuscript note on the edition with signature of Jack Heddon. [Coigney 14]

A very scarce English hunting book published during the reign of Queen Anne: [Smith, John]. The Experienc'd Fowler: Or, The Gentleman's Recreation, London: Printed for G. Conyers at the Golden Ring and J. Sprint in Little Britain, 1704. Text complete with publisher's advertisement for The True Art of Angling to final page. Featuring hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece and three further woodcut illustrations within the text. The book includes a manuscript footnote to p.83 regarding 'Bat-Fowling': 'This must be done in a very dark night when there is no wind'. Owner inscriptions to endleaves: 'Thomas Davenport's Book - bought March 3rd 1769 - If let loose and you it find, I pray you be so good and kind, As to restore it me again, And I will pay you for your pain'. The book provides instructions on catching birds with 'nets', 'lime-rods', 'snares and springes', low-bells', 'lights', 'trammel', 'baits', 'trap-cages'. It also explains how 'to make birds sing in Autumn and Winter'; 'to make a hen lay soon, and fast'; 'the speediest way to fatten poultry', 'to fatten herons, pewits, gulls, and bitterns'. There is a section entitled 'The Compleat Vermin-killer', with instructions for destroying weasels, moles, snakes, pole-cats, earwigs, nits, flies. For example, to kill snakes or adders: 'Take the largest Radishes, pare them small, and sprinkle them near their haunts, and eating of them they will dye. If you would handle Snakes without danger, wash your hands in the Juice of Raddish, and they will not bite you. To gather them in one place, take a handful of Onions, and about ten River Crab-fish, pound these together, and this mixture laid near their Haunts, will gather them together, so that you may destroy them.' Complete, contents with discolouration, ink stains and spill-burn; binding worn with crude old restoration as found

Collection of Victorian Valentine cards, to include "sachets" (sometimes scented sachets were sent instead of cards), four sealed/unopened examples; heart-shaped paper lace cards; numerous cards embellished with gilt and silver decoration and romantic motifs (cupids, arrows, anchors, flowers); a card depicting wedding shoes, inscribed, 'To be worn when we go to church together'; several chromolithographic examples by Marcus Ward & Co.; four "Vinegar Valentines" (including a hand-coloured lithographic cartoon of a fashionable young lady on a windy beach holding down her dress with added manuscript verse, 'We wish the wind would blow much higher, To show the foot we so admire', and another lithographic cartoon of a lady with a movable cotton and silk dress, which lifts up, with verse about her showing 'so much white stocking'); a postcard inscribed 'To my Valentine' and postmarked Feb 13 1902; an envelope postmarked Feb 14 1858 (with Penny Red stamp); a large paper lace envelope addressed to Master Albert Bonus of Kidsbrooke Terrace in Blackheath (postmarked Feb 14 1867 with Twopenny Blue stamp); two large envelopes with scrolling borders of romantic imagery (love hearts, cupids, flowers) addressed to Miss Margaret Burke of St. Mark's Place, N.Y.; approx 90 items in total, housed in a modern red binder

18th-century manuscript town crier's handbook, 'The Cryers Vade Mecum September 1st 1791', featuring the names of the magistrates and burgesses of Westminster along with oaths and proclamations. 61 pages (plus index and title), followed by 50 pages of 'Housekeeping' during 1885-1889, recording expenses such as 'sherry', '2 rashers of bacon', 'stamps', 'pot of jam', 'bottle of gin', 'pork pies', 'mending teeth', 'knuckle of ham', 'cucumber', 'magnesia', 'rump steak', 'Plumb's Cheese'. Contents generally good and bright, binding worn with loss to the leather at spine and upper board

William Henry Millais (British 1828-1899) Adelaide, illustrated manuscript leaf Bodycolour, ink and gold paint 21 x 14.2cm (8¼ x 5½ in.) Provenance: Property of the artist's family Thence by descent Adelaide Mary was the second daughter of William Henry Millais. Born in The Old Priory, in later life after the 1st World War, she and her husband Col. Earle retired to a house about 500 yards away he having completed a lifetime of service with the 14th Sikhs.

A Selection of Precedents from the Best Modern Manuscript Collections and drafts of actual practice forming a System of Conveyancing by the Late W.M. Bythewood volume 2 (1828) volume 4 (1829) volume 10 (1834) with volume 9 part 1 (1832) Boards with printed labels and original wrappers (4)  

Four prints in frames, see writing on the back "The Manuscript Collection" Originals created between 6th-15th centuries. January, March, September and October

MANUSCRIPT: HARRIS, Frank: Unpath'd Waters: A collection of four of Frank Harris's short stories, bound in brown paper without title page or date of publication. Includes: THE MIRACLE OF THE STIGMATA; PP: 1-19; THE IRONY OF CHANCE; pp: 20-37 (dated at the end: Sept, 1901); MR. JACOB'S PHILOSOPHY: pp: 1-15; & THE MAGIC GASSES; pp; 1-41 (with a number of corrections in pencil). The cover bears the handwritten title with: “Private and Unpublished" perhaps in Harris's hand. It also bears the signature of Alfred R Wallace co-author with Darwin of the "Theory of the Origin of Species". This copy comes from Wallace's own collection which was owned by his grandson. In poor condition. 40pp.

Colorful dish with wide band of pattern and main center depicting group reading.Highly patterned quatrefoil ground with 4 plaques of white with birds in center. Center is scholars on porch reading manuscript. All in turquoise, greens blues and yellow with red highlights. Hairline crack on back portion at 8 o clock position. Dimensions: 5.75"W x 1.25" DCountry of Origin: China Condition: Normal wear for age

BALCARRES (Colin Lindsay), 3rd Earl of. Secret Memoirs Anent the Revolution. In a letter from L:B: as to K:J: appears to be a near contemp. manuscript copy of the letter sent to James II from the Jacobite sympathiser concerning attempts to prevent his disposition. 105pp.; later 19th cent. blind-ruled and gilt-lettered morocco, panelled spine, gilt turn-ins and gilt top, cr. 8vo. * armorial bookplate of Thomas Edward Watson (St. Mary's Lodge, Newport, Mon.); later published as - 'An Account of the Affairs of Scotland, relating to the revolution in 1688 . . . ' (2 vols, 1714).

TREDGOLD (Thomas) The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Construction of the Steam Engine, vol. 3, only, folding and other plates, contemporary half roan, chipped, John Weale, 1852 - 53; TRAUTWINE (John C.) The Civil Engineer's Pocket-Book, thirteenth edition, illus., New York, John Wiley Sons, 1888 with THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY COMPANY Rules and Regulations for the Conduct of the Traffic and for the Guidance of the Officers and Servants, manuscript annotation, morocco with gilt company crest on upper board, rubbed, Inverness, 1868, v.s. (3)

WIGHT (Thomas & John Rutty) A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers in Ireland From the Year 1653 to 1700, first edition, foxed and browned, manuscript annotation to e/p., contemporary half calf, Dublin, 1751

(COMMISSIONERS OF SUPPLY) An Exact Copy of the Antient Valuation Roll of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. retoured to Exchequer 15th. July 1642 also, A Copy of the Modern Valuation Roll Made up and Reported to the Commissioners....1777, original wrappers, foxed, manuscript alteration, Dunfries 1778, bound with Valuation Rolls for 1799 & 1819, an Appendix showing Alterations from 1728 to 1819 with a 6pp manuscript Appendix continuing to 1888, later cloth, 4to.

BORROW (George) The Works, Edited with much Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript, by Clement Shorter. the Norwich Limited Edition,16 vols. 151/775 Copies, original cloth & d/wrappers. Constable, 1923

ST. ANNE'S MONASTERY (?): hand-coloured manuscript pictorial plan, 60cm x 39cm within mount, includes 8 line key beneath - 'Monasterium Deicella Dictum'. 1729, * possibly Italy? shows numerous buildings, also the Stations of the Cross throughout the grounds, framed and glazed.

Blomfield Rev E.: A General View of the World. 1807 Bungay. Two volumes. Maps. Manuscript inscriptions to each volume. Full suede leather binding with panelled spine. 2vols Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

The Christian's Complete Family Bible.1804. Folio. Illustrated with engraved plates. Manuscript family details to fixed end paper. Full calf leather binding. 1vol Condition Report Lacks free end paper to front and frontispiece detached.Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Very long Islamic manuscript prayer scroll or quran measures approx 40cm wide and over 600cm long approx 20ft

Henry IV's embassy to Margaret Duchess of Burgundy.- Henry IV (King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, 1367-1413).- Safe-conduct issued by John Croft, William Lyle, councillors, and Nicholas de Ryssheton, Doctor in Law, ambassadors of Henry IV, to the emissaries of Margaret III Duchess of Burgundy, Countess of Flanders and Artois, giving them the right to travel into Artois, Boulonnais, and Guines, in order to negotiate a commercial treaty between England and Flanders, under the terms granted by their earlier safe-conduct, and reciting the terms of their commission as ambassadors (along with John Urban and Sir Thomas Swinburne) as issued by the King on 22 July 1403, manuscript, the safe-conduct in in French, the terms of the commission in Latin, in a neat secretary hand, 1p., 55 lines, calligraphic pen and ink initial letter "J" in the shape of a fish, and armorial seals of the three ambassadors in red wax with good impressions, with vellum tags, later a small part of the central seal lacking, left hand seal with small damage, later dockets on verso, folds, slightly creased and browned, Phillipps MS 34926, 415 x 340 mm., Calais, 26 September 1404.⁂ Diplomacy in the Hundred Years War.This document outlines the terms of the ambassadors commission issued by Henry IV on 22nd July 1403. The embassy conducted by Nicholas de Ryssheton, canon lawyer and diplomat (d. 1413), John Croft, and William Lyle, was one of a series of negotiations at Calais with emissaries from the Margaret Duchess of Burgundy and Countess of Flanders (widow of Philip the Bold), in order to agree a commercial treaty. These negotiations lasted until June 1405 but met with no success. Ryssheton returned briefly to England in October 1404 "to inform the king at Coventry of the complete lack of progress even as to an agenda". - Oxford DNB.Sir John Croft (d.1419/20), of Dalton, Lancashire. Captain of the Castle of Marck in the March of Calais. While in office, Sir John spent several months at Calais as an ambassador for the negotiation of a truce with Flanders, receiving 20 marks by way of both reward and expenses.

Bede, the Venerable. The History of the Church of Englande, translated by Thomas Stapleton, collation: *6, >4, A-CCC4, woodcut printer's device on title and royal arms within typographical border on verso, 3 woodcut illustrations (2 full-page or nearly so) and intitials, later engraved bookplate of Rt.Hon. Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill pasted over part of royal arms on verso of title and with old manuscript library de-accession note dated 1770 at head, worming to upper inner margin of title with loss of "T" to "The" of title and border on verso, cropped shaving a few side-lines, rather stained, old calf, worn, spine defective, upper cover detached (with title), lower becoming so, [Pforzheimer 55; STC 1778], small 4to (180 x 130mm.), Antwerp, by John Laet, 1565; sold not subject to return⁂ First edition in English of the primary source of British history from 597 to 731, translated by the recusant Thomas Stapleton and as a result banned in England as traitorous.

Painted binding.- Album, containing watercolour of classical shrine amongst the ruins of Pompeii and 2 other watercolours (architectural sketch and another of the Ponte Vecchio at Florence), plus many mounted botanical specimens captioned in ink and dated 1830s to 1865, with manuscript presentation in Italian dated 1833 at beginning, attractively bound in original natural calf, upper cover with central diamond panel painted in oils depicting Italian scene of gentry walking in a park before a circular classical building, signed ?Massal, elaborate decorative borders of putti, harps and ornaments tooled in black and gilt and highlighted in white, spine gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels (unlettered), a little rubbed, lower corners bumped, oblong 4to, [Italy], [c.1830].

Chess.- Greco (Gioachino) Primo modo del gioco de Partito che giocandosi spesso occorrono li veri giochi & anco questi giochi de Partito sono tratti necessarij, perche al fin del giocho spesso occorrono essendo in essi molti tratti bellissimi & occulti, col'istesso ordine delle Pedine. Composto per Gioachino Greco Calabrese, 62 ff., unfoliated, title within an oval floral and foliate border, a putto at the top (smudged in places); border framing the opening of text on fol. 2r., a few annotations in French to the final blank leaves, not relating to the text, with the names 'Robert' and 'Louis' inked on the verso of the first leaves and at the end, along with some pen trials, contemporary French, possibly Parisian binding, gilt-tooled brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within two elaborate frames; cornerpieces, large fleuron, flat spine, richly tooled, head of spine repaired in a lighter coloured brown modern calf, rubbed, 126 x 84mm., binding 129 x 91mm., France, [?Paris], 1624 or 1625.⁂ A collection of partiti, or 'chess problems' by one of the most important figures in the history of chess, Gioachino Greco (1590/1600 - ca. 1630) called 'The Calabrian', from his hometown Celico, near Cosenza.Greco is considered the first professional chess player. He wrote in 1619/1620 his Trattato del nobilissimo gioco de scacchi, which circulated widely in manuscript, and was highly appreciated in the whole of Europe. He travelled extensively through France, England, and Spain. The highly commercial Greco often compiled small-format manuscripts for presentation to wealthy patrons, generally written, as here, in Italian by copyists and variously decorated by local artists. Each volume was produced according to a patron's individual preferences, a feature which increases significantly the interest and value of Greco's manuscripts in their individuality. Moreover, although the vogue to buy such pocket handbooks was widespread, only a small number of them have survived, owing to their extensive use. The present manuscript was produced in France, and in all likelihood in Paris, the city to which Greco had returned in 1624, after his successful stay in London. The manuscript is undated, but its handsome gilt-tooled binding, recalling Le Gascon's style, and the floral border framing the title confidently indicate the years 1624-1625 as date of its production. It is one of Greco's earliest manuscripts recorded by Sanvito in his reference work I codici scacchistici di Giulio Cesare Polerio and Gioacchino Greco. Similar manuscripts are found in institutional libraries, including the British Library, the Bodleian and the Bibliothèque Nationale. The one preserved in the National Library in Lisbon (MS H.I.3) bears the same title as ours, Primo modo del gioco de Partito. J. G. White, Greco and his Manuscripts. Giachino Greco 1600-1634. 300th Anniversary of the Writing of the First Manuscript 1619-1919, Philadelphia 1919; D. Hooper - K. Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, Oxford 1996, pp. 133, 158-159; A. Sanvito I codici scacchistici di Giulio Cesare Polerio e Gioacchino Greco, Brescia 2005.

Chess.- Ponziani (Domenico) Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi, second edition, title with woodcut printer's device, errata f. at end, woodcut diagrams, initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary vellum, red morocco label to spine, a few nicks, marked, [LN 527], 8vo, Modena, Heirs of Bartolomeo Soliani, 1782.⁂ A manuscript note by Sir Frederic Madden in the translation of this work (see lot 144) states that this is the best edition. Provenance: Richard Ford, his sale, Phillips, 3rd October, 1985, lot 255.

Medieval Watermill.- Charter, Sir Thomas Hastang and Matilda his wife convey to William de Ippeswell a water mill in Alcrinton [Alkerton, Oxon], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 14½ lines, in brown ink, indented at head, lacks seal, folds, browned, Phillipps no. 36235 on verso, 103 x 202mm., 1315.⁂ Sir Thomas de Hastang, of Chebsey (c. 1290 - c.1348; husband of Maud d'Eiville de Wauton and Elizabeth de Hastang; summoned as a Knight of the Shire in 1332 according to Dugdale, but not mentioned in any writ of that year, and summoned to a Great Council in 1342.

Suffolk.- Freysel (Sir Richard, Kt., attorney to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in a dispute with the Bishop of Norwich, fl. 1345-53) Quitclaim of land in Heggesett [Hessett] near Bury St Edmunds by Sir Richard Freysel kt. to Thomas Kyme, manuscript in Latin, in brown ink, on vellum, 11 lines, remains of wax seal, 90 x 255mm., 1353 § Power of Attorney to deliver seisin to Richard of Goldingham, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 7 lines, 50 x 260mm., Gislingham, 1353 (2 pieces).

Civil War.- [Lists of the king's troops of horse & lists of ranks with wages], manuscript lists, together 5pp., folds, browned, n.d. [c. 1642]; and 4 other Civil War letters, one concerning the Parliamentary Committee for Safety, 1643, and another relating to Colonel Montague's and Colonel Pickering's regiments, 1644, folio (7 pieces).⁂ Mentions Charles Prince of Wales, future Charles II, Prince Rupert & Maurice of the Rhine with their quotas of soldiers.

Plague-water and cookery & medical recipes.- Jackson (Mrs Sarah) Medical and cookery recipes, manuscript in several hands, title and 134pp. excluding blanks, reverse entries (later inscription dated 1755),3 recipes pinned to ff., ruled in red, slightly browned, a few ff. slightly ink stained, some holes in margins corresponding to puncture holes in upper cover, 11pp. of recipes loosely inserted, original gilt panelled black morocco, decorated with tulip flowers and Tudor rose corner pieces, corners and edges rubbed, g.e., sm. 4to, 1688 - 1755.⁂ "The plague Water. Take sage, salendine, rue, rosemary, rososolis, mugwort, pimpernel dragons scabins... of each of these half an ounce cardimum seed a penny worth. Put all these in a gallon of brandy". "1665 S. Pepys Diary 20 July (1972) VI. 163 My Lady Carteret did this day give me a bottle of plague-water home with me." - OED.A very fine recipe book with a wide range of medical and cookery recipes started in the late 17th century and continued until the middle of the next century. Three recipes are of particular interest, one citing "Lady Jason", another "Aunt Aubrey", and finally a reference to "Georges Chocolate House". Recipes include: "The Plauge Water"; "To Cure a Cough or Consumption"; "A Receipt for ye Scurvy in ye Body"; "The Lady Jasons Receit for Fitts"; "A very good water for ye Stone in ye Kidneys or Blader"; "A receit of a cake to cure anythinge yt is bitt by a mad dog"; "a receit for shortness of breath"; "for a swelling in ye privy parts"; "the balsam of ye Governor of Berne"; "My Aunt Aubreys Cake... Take ye Elkes of 18: Eggs..."; "To make Chocolate"; "To make a Custard Posset"; "Primrose Wine"; "A Turkish dish of meat"; "To make whipett sillabubs"; "To make Shrubb"; "How to make Puffe Past" etc.

Suffolk.- Thorney Hall Manor Court Book, manuscript in Latin and English, in several hands, 361pp., ruled in red, printed advertisement of James Marener of the Plow in Fenchurch Street, Stationer laid down on front pastedown, browned, some slight staining in places, hinges splitting but strong, original panelled reversed calf, "Thorney Hall" lettered direct on upper cover, rubbed, corners and edges worn, 2 brass clasps, folio, 1709-43.IMPORTANT NOTICE: This item is sold subject to the Manorial Documents Rules, and may not be removed from England and Wales.⁂ Stowmarket, Suffolk

Heathcote & Shirley families, of Hursley Park, Hampshire and Staunton Harold, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.- Album of letters and documents, including: Heathcote (Sir William, fifth Bt., politician, friend of John Keble, of Hursley Park, near Winchester, Hampshire, 1801-1881) Autobiographical essay, mentioning his friendship with Edward Austen [Rev James Edward Austen (1798-1874), Jane Austen's favourite nephew] and John Keble, manuscript, 12pp., [1829]; and c. 60 other pieces, including: an ALs from Wellington to Heathcote rejecting a request to take his baby on a visit to Stratfield Saye to meet Queen Victoria; 2 ALs.s by John Johnson (1732-1814), architect, for work done at Staunton Harold; document signed by William Murray, first earl of Mansfield (1705-1793), judge and politician; ALs from George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury; ALs from Richard Hurd (1720-1808), Bishop of Worcester; pen and ink and watercolour wash map of the Mizmaze on St. Catherine's Hill, Winchester, watermarked 1824; letter by Henry Houseman re the sale of Hursley Park; cyclostyled letter from H J jervis to Mr Awdry detailing his son's death during the retreat of the battle of Mons etc., some items removed and some ff. excised, a few small tears or chips to edges, folds, browned, all loosely inserted into an 19th century album, half morocco, gilt, rubbed, folio, 1717-1923.

Heraldry.- Order of the Garter.- Le Blason des Armoires de Tous les Chevaliers de l'Ordre de la Jarretiere en Angleterre..., manuscript in French, 583 watercolour coats of arms on 97pp., coats of arms captioned in French, 20pp. index at end, slightly browned, bookplate of Cesare Saluzzo on front pastedown, original calf, corners slightly bumped, gilt panelled spine, 8vo, [c. 1750].⁂ A compilation of coats of arms of knights of the Garter from its inception under Edward III until the mid eighteenth century.

18th century poetry.- Payne (Eliza, third wife of Thomas Lucas MP, c.1720-84) MP, West India merchant, treasurer of Guy's Hospital 1764-74 and president of its board of governors, and second wife of John Julius Angerstein, insurance broker and connoisseur of art, c. 1732-1823, d. 1800) [Volume of poetry], manuscript in several hands, 42pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original vellum, covers splayed, ties, sm. 4to, [late 18th century].⁂ Includes, "To Miss - on the Authors stealg Her Sleeve Knot, a Few Days before he Sail'd to the West Indias"; "The Man of Poverty", both apparently unpublished, and, "An Epistle to Mr PopeOccaskioned by his Characters of Women by A Old Lady", differs from published version.

British Army.- General Orders from the War Office on various military matters, manuscript copy letter book, in several different hands, c. 500pp., slightly browned, original vellum, soiled, corners and edges worn, small piece of spine torn away, folio, 1812-41 & 1842-46.⁂ Includes discipline on guard duty, a court martial in Barbados, poor quality of bread supplied etc. Index at end of list of soldiers of the Royal Tower Hamlets Militia.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father.- Barrett (Edward Barrett Moulton, plantation owner, 1785-1857).- Ledbury, Herefordshire. The Following Set of Maps of the Parish Ledbury in the County of Hereford... Trophimus Fulljames & William Womack... For Inclosing Lands in the Said Parish of Ledbury and of the General Inclosure Act..., manuscript on vellum signed "EM Barrett", title and 44pp., most ruled in red, 9 hand-coloured maps, all on vellum, title soiled, browned and creased throughout, front free endpaper torn and loose, original half calf and reversed calf boards, worn, red morocco label on upper cover, rubbed, joints splitting at head and tail, spine extensively rubbed, 730 x 860cm., large 4to, 1813.⁂ Includes a detailed map of Hope End, the 500 acre estate in Ledbury where Elizabeth Barrett Browning grew up.

India.- [?Member of the Oswald family, merchants of Auchincruive, Ayr )] [Diary], manuscript, 151pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original half roan, slightly rubbed, 1st February 1834 - 8th October 1835; and 3 others, including 2 manuscript account books (1 lettered direct "Mrs R A Oswald on upper cover) and a photograph album of the Oswald family, 8vo & sm. 4to (4).⁂ Probably the diary of a member of the Oswald family, Scottish merchants, on a tour of India, on several shooting expeditions in the United Provinces in northern India (Allahabad, Benares, Agra etc.), and commenting on the places and people he meets. "October 8th... on this... we started to pay a visit to the Begum of Sidanah [Sardhana] and arrived to breakfast where we were kindly received by Col.l. Dyce [David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51), traveller and putative lunatic] who is certainly the king thus having the power of life and death within her territories and in his person are combined the offices of judge commander of the forces... he is a young man of about 27 and is like all half casts very fat indeed... . The Begum's territory is worth about 120,000 pound sterling per annum and she has a most splendid house in Meerut and Sidanah and is now nearly 80 years old... the other day she had a man blown from a gun before her own eyes... this extraordinary woman was bought by her first husband while she was a match girl at Benares." - Diary.An earlier member of the Oswald family, Lucy Oswald (Johnstone), of Auchincruive, d. 1798, was the subject of a short song by Robert Burns.

Oxford.- 1867 Town & Gown Riots.- Casey (Rev. George Edwards Comerford, attended Lincoln College 1865-73, 1845-1912) Town & Gown a reminiscence of by-gone days at Oxford, autograph manuscript, 21pp. excluding blanks, 1 page partially cut away, slightly browned, unbound, [c. 1890s]; and another, autograph manuscript poem by the same, 8vo (2).⁂ An account of an undergraduates participation in the 1867 Town & Gown 5 November riots. "I was walking towards Lincoln College with Flanagan. He was from the south of Ireland, like myself. Shortly after Flanagan & I had entered the Turl, I drew his attention to a pool of blood on the pavement". Casey subsequently gets into several fights, is chased by a "bull dog" and several townsmen, and takes refuge behind a chemists counter.

Conrad (Joseph, author and master mariner, 1857-1924) Memorandum of agreement between Conrad and Edward Ward Oliver for the lease of Capel House at Warehorne, Kent, Document signed "Joseph Conrad", printed form with manuscript insertions, 3pp., folio, June 1910.

Humorous Memoirs.- Edwards-Moss (Sir Thomas Edwards-Moss, third Bt. of Roby Hall, Captain in the 3rd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 1874-1960) The Memoirs of Baron A, manuscript, 146pp. excluding blanks, numerous pen and ink sketches, some typescripts, some sketches and typescripts laid in with tape, slightly browned, original straight-grained morocco, corners and edges rubbed, lower joint splitting, g.e., oblong 4to, 1915-53.

[Milne (A.A., writer, 1882-1956)] [War Prophecy] Programme for the Next 3 Months by Belisha the Hippotist, autograph manuscript in pencil, 1p., (a drawing of a hippopotamus dressed in a long coat and wearing a wide brimmed hat), on verso of a typed royalty statement from publisher E.P. Dutton to Milne for the Christopher Robin reader, right hand margin torn roughly, slightly browned, 213 x 145mm., 21st January 1943.⁂ Predictions about the course of the Second World War: "1. Germany will be driven back to the line of the Dneiper in the South and the Baltic Provinces in the North 2. Finland will make peace (Genuine.) 3. The Axis will be axed in Africa... ."

Dury (John) The reformed librarie-keeper with a supplement to the reformed-school, as subordinate to colleges in universities, 4 parts in 1, title of 'Reformed Librarie-Keeper' with woodcut printer's device, woodcut typographic head-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, B5 printing flaw at foot, water-stained, later mottled wrappers, [Wing D2882], 12mo, printed by William Du-Gard, and are to bee sold by Rob. Littleberrie at the sign of the Unicorn in Little Britain, 1650.⁂ A rare copy of this early and important work on the central role played by libraries and librarians in the advancement of learning. Dury believed that librarians should not just be seen as custodians of books, but rather that they should make their collections accessible. He suggests that producing a good catalogue of collections is an essential starting point to this, which can then be used in meetings with heads of university faculties to make them aware of the printed and manuscript sources available to them. Their study of holdings, and especially new acquisitions would naturally benefit the learning of their students in the longer term. During the Commonwealth Dury was the deputy-keeper of what was formerly the King's Library at St. James' Palace. After Charles I fled from London, the library fell into a state of disarray and Dury is credited with the careful reorganisation of the books and manuscripts. Includes 'Bibliotheca Augusta', by Johann Schwartzkopf and 'An idea of mathematicks' by John Pell addressed to Samuel Hartlib.

Isabella I (as Queen of Castile, married Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1451-1504) Order to her chamberlain Sancho de Peredes to give a quantity of silver to her treasurer Alonso de Morales, D.s. "Yo la Reyna", also signed by Miguel Perez d'Almazan secretary, Alonso de Morales treasurer and witnessed by Diego Remirez one of the Queen's clerks, manuscript in Spanish, 2pp., 2 small slits repaired with tape, folds, slightly browned, folio, Granada, 12th August 1501.⁂ The order concerns the beating down of a silver brazier, done on the Queen's orders as it had soldered joints in it.

Erotica.- Joys of Hymen (The), or, the Conjugal Directory: A Poem, in Three Books, first edition, errata at end of Preface crossed through in ink & marked "corrigenda" in manuscript and with all listed corrected in text, small later ink signature "W.S.Ogden 1882" in ink to verso of title, a little spotting, stab-holes, small tear to inner margin of title, A2 partly detached, D1 & 2 torn and repaired affecting some text, modern half calf, spine and corners rubbed, 8vo, for D.Davis, 1768.⁂ Rare adaptation of the first three books of Quillet's Callipaedia, with only one UK printed copy (BL) listed by ESTC and 4 in America (Indiana University, McMaster University and University of Cincinnati). COPAC also lists printed copies held by Leicester University and the National Library of Scotland.

Manners (Catherine Rebecca) Poems, second edition, manuscript corrections in the author's hand to 2 poems, with 5 line note to one, engraved portrait frontispiece, John Bell, 1793 bound with Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern. A Poem, first edition, manuscript corrections in the author's hand to 4 pages, one with 4 line note, lacking half-title, J.Booth, 1799, together 2 works in 1 vol., autograph poem signed "Catherine Huntingtower, September 19, 1842" bound at rear, pencil inscription "Given to me by my highly esteemed & valued friend Lady Huntingtower formerly Lady Manners" to front free endpaper, 19th century morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, g.e., 4to. ⁂ Catherine Manners, (1766-1852), married William Manners, later Lord Huntingtower in 1790. She published two works of poetry, the copies of which in this lot have manuscript corrections. For example in the poem "Lines addressed to a Mother in Ireland" she alters the word "tedious" to "lonely", explaining in the margin "I have, on reflection, altered tedious to lonely; or no hour, except in pain, or sickness or dull company, could ever have tedious to a mind so active & enlightened as that of my dear mother was". Bound in with this copy is a 2-verse manuscript poem "What to thee is golden hair?/What are features heavenly fair?/Teeth of pearl & breast of snow/Eyes that sparkle, cheeks that glow?" with the author's explanation of how she came to write it.

Rosenberg (Isaac) Moses. A Play, first edition, a few neat manuscript corrections to text, original yellow wrappers, some light creasing to covers, minor rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, 1916; and a sadly broken first edition of Youth, 12mo & 8vo (2)

Heywood (Thomas) Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c., first edition, title with ornamental typographical border (shaved), lacking initial blank, title soiled and with small ink stain to foot, browned, light staining towards end, small gilt-stamped book-labels of Beverly Chew and John L.Clawson on front pastedown and printed label of James Stevens Cox on front free endpaper with manuscript list of provenance since 1819 loosely inserted, 19th century olive green calf, gilt, by C.Smith, spine gilt with red label (chipped), g.e., a little rubbed and marked, [Pforzheimer 482; STC 13358], small 8vo, by R.O. for R.H. and are to be sold by Thomas Slater, 1637.

[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, first edition, [one of 40 copies], presentation copy from the author inscribed "The Rev. John F.Bigge with the Author's compliments" at head of Preface and numbered 33 in circle, with 2 A.Ls.s. from Crawhall to Bigge mounted facing title and on verso of title, hand-coloured coat-of-arms mounted on leaf facing Preface, printed on rectos only (unpaginated), 31 engraved plates on india paper and mounted (one in hand-coloured and uncoloured state), 6 hand-coloured, some other plates (facsimiles, music etc.), numerous vignettes in the text, many hand-coloured, with 9 original watercolours by Crawhall on text versos or bound in including one full-page of trout, the last heightened with gum arabic, some foxing, bookplate of Edward E.Bigge, angling engraving captioned "Vernon Gallery. The Enthusiast" in ink manuscript on plate trimmed and mounted on front free endpaper (frayed at edge and detached with title and letters), some other ephemera loosely inserted, contemporary half roan, t.e.g., rubbed, spine faded, [Westwood & Satchell pp.69-70], 4to, [Newcastle upon Tyne, by and for the author], [1859].⁂ The author's first book, published anonymously. "A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collection...only forty copies were struck off for private circulation." W & S. Copies appear to vary as to contents.

Crawhall (Joseph, editor) A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, [one of 50 large paper copies with additional illustrations], half-title, title in red and black with woodcut device, etched or wood-engraved plates on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, woodcut or wood-engraved illustrations and ornaments, a few plates and illustrations hand-coloured, a good clean copy, bookplate of Nicholas Johnson Robinson of Preston Tower with 4pp. 'Newcastle Fisher's Garland' by Joseph Watson and single sheet poem 'Rothbury' by Watson tipped in, both with signatures and manuscript notes in red & black ink by N.J.Robinson, handsomely-bound for Robinson in contemporary panelled calf, gilt, ?by Waters of Newcastle, upper cover with panel containing title & owner's name & decorations in gilt with small illustrations in black after Crawhall, lower cover with onlaid snakeskin panel, spine gilt with red and green labels and fish motif, g.e., [Westwood &Satchell p.69], 4to, Newcastle, George Rutland, 1864.⁂ N.J.Robinson was evidently a member of the Newcastle Angling Club. One of his notes reads, " I first caught a trout with rod & line, and at same time threw a line for the first time in Bonnie Coquet's streams, (and at Rothbury) in 1865".

Crawhall (Joseph) Border Notes and Mixty-Maxty, [one of 50 copies of which 40 were for sale], lithographed facsimile of the original manuscript with numerous plates, illustrations and decorations by Joseph Crawhall and his son, several full-page, 5 plates and some illustrations/decorations hand-coloured, book-label of Alan Jarvis, contemporary half roan over peacock-feather cloth boards, t.e.g., others uncut, binder's ticket of Andrew Reid of Newcastle at foot of inside rear board, worn, lacking spine, covers detached, rear endpaper loose, [Westwood & Satchell p.70], small 4to, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1880.

Crawhall (Joseph) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a Selected Portion of the Collection of Prints, Drawings, China, Arms, Armour, etc. of Joseph Crawhall Esq., 15pp., Elspeth Challoner's copy with her pencil signature at head of first leaf and prices realised throughout, stapled, lightly soiled, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1894; with Sotheby's manuscript account for the two-day sale listing receipts and charges, plus a small bundle of ephemera relating to Crawhall including some proof pulls of woodcuts, 3 A.Ls.s. from Andrew Tuer of Ye Leadenhalle Presse to Crawhall discussing publishing details of various books etc., 1p. A.L.s. from Crawhall to Thos. Topham requesting "one or 2 pieces of Anglo Saxon" (pottery), prospectus for Impresses Quaint, and a dinner menu and ball programme for a dinner given by Crawhall's father when Mayor of Newcastle, v.s. (a bundle)⁂ Elspeth Challoner was Crawhall's daughter. The auction included his large collection of prints by Durer, Rembrandt etc., drawings by Keene, and memorabilia such as Lord Lovat's snuff mull. The latter realised the highest price, bought by Lord Rosebery for £24. The sale brought good prices generally, realising nearly £600 in total. Reserves were set only on some Keene drawings and a painting by Leech.

Tudor Will.- Last Will and Testament of Robertt Atwell of Prestbury, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, manuscript in Tudor English, on paper, 25 lines, in brown ink, calligraphic initial at beginning, indented at head, a small tear in right hand margin slightly affecting one word, a few small holes not affecting text, slightly browned, 210 x 300mm., 18th December 1545.⁂ Referring to Henry VIII as "sup[re]me heade imediatly under christe off this churche off engelonde".Atwell leaves his possessions to his sons John and William, his daughter Joan and his wife Alice. Robert Atwell, bailiff of Prestbury, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. In 1520 the prior of Llanthony leased the manor and rectory for 50 years to Atwell, to whose son John, the Crown renewed the lease for 21 years in 1553.

Trade.- [Mathias de Saint Jean (Jean Eon)] Le Commerce Honorable ou Considerations Politiques, contenant les motifs de necessité, d'honneur, & de profit, qui se treuvent à former des Compagnies de personnes de toutes conditions pour l'entretien du Negoce de mer en France, first edition, privilege leaf, woodcut initials and head- & tail-pieces, contemporary limp vellum, a little rubbed, a few contemporary manuscript notes in ink to lower cover, nick to edge or upper cover, [Kress 689; Goldsmiths' 914], Nantes, Guillaume le Monnier, 1646 § Arrest du Conseil d'Estat pour le Restablissement du Commerce, tant au dedans qu'au dehors du Royaume. Du 10. Avril 1661, 8pp., unbound and loosely inserted in the first, Paris & Nantes, Guillaume le Monnier, [1661], 4to (2)⁂ WorldCat lists only 3 printed copies of the first in the UK (BL, LSE, Senate House Library) and none of the second.

Angling.- Aldam (W. H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," by an Old Man, first edition, first issue, half-title, tipped-in black and white frontispiece, lacking chromolithographed plates as usual, 25 flies with dressing materials in 22 sunken mounts on 6 thick card leaves, scattered faint spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, 1876.⁂ The first issue of this title was issued without the colour chromolithographed plates.A very good copy of one of the classic angling books. The manuscript on which Aldam based his text surfaced at public auction in 1999, revealing the author's name to be Robert Whitehead, about whom nothing else is known. The flies include two mayfly patterns, which are tied on very early eyed hooks specially made by Bartletts.

Mathematics.- Euclid. Euclides Elements of Geometry: The First VI Books: In a Compendious Form Contracted and Demonstrated, by Captain Thomas Rudd, Chief Engineer to His Late Majesty. Whereunto is Added, the Mathematical Preface of Mr. John Dee, title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams, Q2 small piece of corn torn away slightly affecting catchword, some slight staining in a few places, browned, 8pp. of 18th century manuscript translations of several propositions from the first six Books of Euclid with pen and ink illustrations at beginning and end, ?possibly in the hand of Bern Dickinson one of the owners of this vol., 3 18th century ink ownership signatures on fly-leaf, fly-leaf half torn away, later endpapers, 19th century bookplate of Robert Goff on front pastedown, contemporary calf, creased, corners and edges worn, lower cover detached, lacks spine, [Wing E3396], sm. 4to, Richard Tomlins and Robert Boydell, the Sun & Bible neer Pie-Corner, and at the Bulwark neer the Tower, 1651.⁂ The first Rudd edition, reprinted from Henry Billingsley's first English translation of 1570, with John Dee's mathematical preface, the "most influential of all Dee's published works" - Oxford DNB. Ink ownership inscriptions, comprising: (1). Bern Dickinson (2). Sampson Parkyns (c. 1686-1713), inscribed as a student of St. John's College, Cambridge; son of Sir Thomas Parkyns (1664-1741), writer on wrestling; of Bunny, Nottinghamshire (3). "liber John Bennet Emptus sum Auction Anno 1714/5"; an early instance of an English book auction.

Lambe (Samuel) Seasonable Observations humbly offered to His Highness the Lord Protector, [2], 20pp., with initial blank, drop-head title, woodcut head-piece and initial, At the Authors charge...by William Hope, 1657 bound after Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury (The), 16pp., by K.P. for C.R., 1679 and [Blount (Charles)], "Junius Brutus". An Appeal from the Country to the City, for the preservation of His Majesties Person, Liberty, Property, and the Protestant Religion, 8pp., caption title, [1679] and Clarendon (Earl of) Two Letters...to His Royal Highness the Duke of York...[&] the Dutchess, occasion'd by Her embracing the Roman Catholick Religion, 4pp. caption title, [?1680] and D. (J.) A Word without Doors Concerning the Bill for Succession, 4pp., caption title, [1679] and [Smith (Francis)], "Tom. Tickle-foot the Taborer". Some Observations upon the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, 11pp., for A.Brewster, 1679 and Impartial Account (An) of Divers Remarkable Proceedings...of Parliament relating to the Horrid Popish Plot, &c., [2], 26pp., 1679 and Smith (John) The Narrative...containing a further Discovery of the late Horrid and Popish-plot, [8], 35pp., with initial imprimatur leaf and errata to p.35, by Robert Boulter, 1679 and Sarpi (Paolo) A Treatise of Matters Beneficiary, [8], 48, 59-84, [2] pp., with final blank, by Thomas Hodgkin..., 1680 and Cotton (Sir Robert) The Antiquity and Dignity of Parliaments, [2], 13pp., 1679, together 10 works in 1 vol., the first item bound last, contemporary ink manuscript list of contents on front free endpaper and receipts at beginning and end (upside down), some light soiling, a few minor stains, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and soiled, ink note and calculations to upper cover, [Wing L229, C883, B3300AB, C4421, D48, S4540, I63, S4127, S701 & C6481], folio⁂ The first item is scarce, with only 6 UK copies listed by ESTC and a further 5 elsewhere. This copy contains an initial blank and 20pp. text with the final leaf p.19 headed "To his Highness the Lord Protector..." and catchword on previous page "To" (but verso paginated "12"). ESTC calls for 18pp. and a final blank, plus a second section of 4pp. with caption title "A Post-script", stating "In this edition, the colophon does not include the bookseller's name William Hope. Wing reports edition with 'to be sold by William Hope' in colophon", as in the present copy. Evidently there are 2 variants and this edition appears to be complete.