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*Yorkshire. Speed (John), York Shire, published John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand coloured engraved map, near contemporary manuscript annotation of the rivers, 385 x 510 mm, framed and glazed, together with Saxton (Christopher & Hole G.), Cestriae comitatus Romanis legionibus et coloniis olim insignis vera et absoluta descriptio, circa 1610, hand coloured engraved map, 'open book' cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, 260 x 305 mm, framed and glazed, with Morden (Robert), The county Palatine of Chester [and] Buckinghamshire [1695 or later], two hand coloured engraved maps, some spotting to Cheshire, 350 x 415 mm and 420 x 350 mm respectively, both framed and glazed (4)

Sporting prints. An album of forty-six sporting prints, mostly early to mid 19th century, aquatints and lithographs with contemporary hand colouring of hunting, shooting, coaching and poaching scenes, many with a humorous twist, with examples by or after Alken, Harris, Rowlandson, S & J Fuller and Hodgson, most trimmed to image before laying into the album, some dust soiling mostly confined to margins, later manuscript ownership signatures to front pastedown, hinges and joints weak, late 19th century morocco gilt, heavily worn and frayed, with the title 'Castle Milk' to upper siding, oblong 4to Castlemilk House was an 18th century country house and estate located in Carmunnock parish, south of Glasgow. The house was built around the 15th-century Castlemilk Tower, but was demolished in 1969 after its use as children's home had ended the previous year. (1)

The Graphic. A broken run of sixteen volumes, 1898 - 1902 & 1904 -1906, containing numerous engraved, gravure and lithographic illustrations, single page, double page and folding plates & supplements, original blue printed paper wrappers bound at rear or retained within each volume, fourteen volumes in uniform contemporary boards with printed advertisement to upper siding and a manuscript title to the spine, one volume in contemporary morocco, one volume in modern cloth but retaining original spine, some wear and dust soiling to extremities, folio (16)

Aesop. Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, by Sir Roger L'Estrange, 2nd edition, corrected and amended, printed for R. Sare [and others], 1694, 2 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece of L'Estrange by Robert White after Godfrey Kneller,and portrait of Aesop, front free endpaper detached, small spill-burn in d1, large engraved armorial bookplate of the Biddulph family, contemporary panelled calf, joints split but firm, slightly rubbed, folio (32 x 19.5 cm), Croke (Sir George), The First Part, though last publish't, of the Reports of Sr George Croke ... Collected and written in French by Himself; Revised and published in English by Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st edition, for John Field [and others], 1661, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, text mainly in black letter, errata leaf, contemporary calf, front board near-detached, worn, folio (29 x 17.3 cm), Agathias Scholasticus, [Greek title] De imperio et rebus gestis Iustiniani imperatoris libri quinque, ex bibliothecae et interpretatione Bonaventurae Vulcanii, Paris: Typographia Regia,1660, engraved title vignette, head- and tailpieces and initials, 3 initial leaves including title page detached, browneand slightly chipped, contemporary calf, covers detached, worn, large folio (42.5 x 28 cm), Jones (Sir William), Memoirs of the life, Writings, and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, by Lord Teignmouth, 1st edition, John Hatchard, 1804, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 leaf of manuscript facsimile, browning, ownership inscription 'Philip Gell, Tr. Coll. Cambridge, Aug. 1804' to half-title, bookplate of publisher and politician Philip Lyttelton Gell (1852-1926), contemporary quarter roan with Gell arms gilt to front board, spine rubbed and sunned, worn at head, 4to (29.8 x 24 cm) Wing A707 and C7011 for the first two items. (4)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and John Bill, 1630, general and New Testament titles within decorative woodcut border, general title with manuscript date beneath imprint and inscriptions to verso with slight show-through, Apocrypha present, double column black letter text with occasional very slight close-trimming to running titles and marginal notes, bound with at front the Genealogies by John Speed, including double-page woodcut map of the Canaan, Genealogies title strengthened to inner margin and initial leaves frayed to outer margins, bound with at rear A Briefe Concordance..., London: Printed by the Assignes of Clemment Cotton, 1630, with woodcut device to title, also bound with an incomplete Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: Printed by W.S. for the Company of Stationers, 1631, volume contains early ownership inscriptions and genealogical entries for Robert Imbleton dated Jan 2nd 1647, William Story (undated), and John Foster dated 1758 & 1780, occasional light dust-soiling and dampstains mostly to first & last few leaves, contemporary gilt panelled maroon morocco, second compartment of spine with gilt initials WM and date 1710, upper joint split at head & foot, spine worn with loss at head & foot, upper board dust-soiled, extremities worn, 4to, (leaf size 212 x 160mm) Herbert 430, Darlow & Moule 329 & STC 2290. Apocrypha with Wisd. xix. 22: 'neither diddest thou...'. (1)

Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works..., 4 volumes, 3rd edition, revised and augmented, London: H. Baldwin and Son, for Charles Dilly, 1799, engraved portrait frontispiece after Reynolds (offset to title) and two engraved folding plates, toning and scattered spotting and occasional dampstains, all edges gilt, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt decorated spines and board borders, manuscript library marks in gilt at foot of spines, 8vo, contained in two purpose-made book boxes Bennet Langton's copy, inscribed on the fly-leaf to the first volume 'From Bennet Langton to Bryan Waller'. The writer Bennet Langton (c.1736-1801) was a founding member of the Literary Club. He is best known for his close friendship with writer Samuel Johnson and has numerous appearances in James Boswell's book The Life of Samuel Johnson. The recipient of the volumes Bryan Waller is possibly the poet Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874). Bryan Waller wrote an epistle to Bennet Langton in 1802 (refer to The Monthly Mirror, volume 14, 1802, page 104). (2)

Sesti (Giovanni Battista). Piante della citta', piazze, e castelli fortificati in questo stato di Milano, Milan: Agnelli, 1718, engraved title vignette, 3 folding maps and plans, 22 full-page plans each with legend to facing leaf enclosed within engraved border, marginal damp-staining to outer leaves, extending into images and accompanying text of final 6 plans, marginal repair to leaf H1, closed marginal tear to V2, 20th-century quarter parchment incorporating an old manuscript leaf, 4to in 2s (28.5 x 20.5 cm) Provenance: Maurice Burrus, Alsatian tobacco magnate and politician (1882-1959; bookplate dated 1937). (1)

Froissart (Jean). Histoire et chronique memorable de messire Jehan Froissart, reveu et corrig‚ ... par Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles, 4 volumes in 1, Paris: Gervais Mallot, 1574, woodcut title devices, headpieces and initials, damp-staining to first gathering, repairs to title page verso and to margin of volume 1 leaf a3 obscuring one letter in headline, contemporary ownership inscription 'Henry Cobham, 1581' to title page (see note), contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt arabesque lozenges to sides, sides pitted and restored, folio (34 x 21 cm), together with Ambrose (Saint), [Omnia quotquot extant opera], volumes 1-3 (of 5) in 1, Basel: Froben, 1538,woodcut title- and colophon devices, historiated initials, incomplete (lacking volume 1 quire AA: replaced in a combination of printed and old manuscript facsimile), marginal damp-staining, mild browning, old blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked and extensively restored on front board, worn, folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm), Videl (Louis), Histoire de la vie du Connestable de Lesdiguieres, 1st edition, Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1637, incomplete (lacking engraved portrait), marginal damp-staining to initial leaves, bookplate of novelist John Fowles (1926-2005) to front pastedown and of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662-1711) to title page verso, old calf, worn, folio (35.5 x 24 cm) Adams F1067-8 for two other issues of this edition of Froissart; B937 for Ambrose (this edition was edited by Erasmus). Provenance (Froissart): likely ownership inscription of Sir Henry Cobham (1537-1592), English ambassador to France from 1579 to 1583. (3)

Johnson (Samuel). Prayers and Meditations, composed by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. and published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan, A.M. Vicar of Islington, Middlesex; and Rector of Little Thurrock, in Essex, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell, 1785, occasional light toning, 20th century mottled calf by Riviere & Son, gilt decorated spine with morocco title labels, 8vo, together with The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. with Occasional Remarks..., and a Catalogue of his Works, 1st edition, G. Kearsley, 1785, lacking portrait frontispiece, title loose, worm trail to fore-margin, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine rubbed, some wear to extremities, 8vo, with Piozzi (Hesther Lynch), Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last Twenty Years of his life, 1st edition, 1st issue, T Cadell, 1786, without half-title and errata, but with postscript at end, Lower inner blank corner of title lacking, few manuscript annotations and library stamps, occasional light soiling, modern sheep with red title label, 8vo, and British Synonymy; or, an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation..., 2 volumes, 1794, modern quarter calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco title labels, 8vo, and Johnson (Samuel), The Beauties of Johnson: consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, 4th edition, enlarged and corrected, 1782, etched portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, modern calf retaining earlier title label, 8vo, plus other Johnson related, including The Adventurer, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, 1754 (10)

Watson (J., publisher). Great-Britain's Memorial. Containing a Collection of the INstructions, Representations, etc. etc. Of the Freeholders and other Electors of Great-Britain, to their Representatives in Parliament, for these Two Years past, [bound with:] The Second Part of Great Britain's Memorial, 2 volumes in 1, 1st and 2nd editions, J. Watson, 1741-2, final advertisement leaf to each volume, mild spotting and browning, modern half calf, 8vo, together with: [Salisbury imprint], A Companion in a Post-Chaise; or, an Amusement for a Leisure Hour at Home: containing a Careful Selection from the most approved and entertaining Pieces, in Verse and Prose, that have appeared for many Years past, 1st edition, Salisbury, Sealy and Hodson, 1773, spotting and browning, marginal stain to first 2 quires, modern half calf, 8vo, [Chelsum, James], A History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto, 1st edition, Winchester: J. Robbins, 1786, mild spotting and browning, contemporary manuscript annotation naming the author to title page, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, [Crokatt, Gilbert], The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence; or, the Foolishness of their Teaching ... the Third Edition, with Additions, London: for M. Smith, 1719, half-title lacking, spotting and browning, ink-stamp of William Shand to title page, bookplate of John Sparrow to front pastedown, modern half calf, 8vo, Weber (Friedrich), Historiae Muscorum hepaticorum Prodorum, 1st edition, Kiel: Aug. Hesse, 1815, pp. 87/8 duplicated (possibly a cancel), both leaves tape-repaired, spotting and browning, marginal damp-staining, modern half calf, 8vo ESTC traces 13 copies of the first part of Great Britain's Memorial (5 in the UK), and four copies only of the second edition of the second part, which contains texts published to June 1741 (the first edition, of which ESTC traces three copies, ended on 1 May). Six copies only located by ESTC for the Salisbury-printed Companion in a Post-Chaise. (5)

Aul¡ (Joan). 'Libro De Musica', mid-19th century, title page + 46 leaves of manuscript music score, comprising Auli's autograph transcripts of a cantata by Haydn and 2 sonatas by Haydn's pupil Ignace Pleyel (1757-1831) erratically paginated or foliated, 10 staves of approximately 4 bars each to the page, mild spotting and browning, additional bifolium of manuscript music score laid in, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, worn and marked, oblong folio (22.5 x 31 cm) Joan Aul¡ (1796-1869) was a Spanish organist and composer from Felanitx, Mallorca. Provenance: private collection, Mallorca. (1)

Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. The Hymns, Anthems and Tunes with the Ode used at the Magdalen Chapel. Set for the Organ, Harpsichord, Voice, German-Flute or Guitar, Book I [all published], printed for Longman and Broderip, [circa 1780], engraved frontispiece titled 'A Magdalen in her Uniform' + title page + index leaf + 42 pp. of engraved music and text, contemporary ownership inscriptions of one Mariana Willmott and others (dated 1786 and later) to frontispiece verso, title page and p. 42, contemporary ownership monogram partially obscuring frontispiece, contents stab-stitched in contemporary marbled wrappers, manuscript label 'Hymns' mounted to front wrapper, spine slightly worn, both wrappers damp-stained, 8vo (24.4 x 15.4 cm), together with 2 others (both from the series Chansons et rondes de l'enfance, illustrated by Lorenz Frolich, published at Paris by J. Hetzel et Cie, circa 1880) Copac traces four copies of this issue, which was possibly preceded by a Thorowgood issue of 1765, though the date supplied for that iteration by ESTC appears to be conjectural. The Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Peninent Prostitutes was founded at Whitechapel in 1758 and occupied premises in Southwark before moving to Streatham in 1866, where it remained in various guises (the term 'penitent prostitutes' disappeared in the 1930s) until 1966. (3)

Rooke, J[ohn]. Sacred Music. Or a Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Chants for the Organ, 111 New Lowther Street, Whitehaven, 1851, title page in watercolour + 454 pp. manuscript music each annotated with the name of the tune, meter and composer + 8 pp. manuscript index, contemporary stationer's ticket (Callander & Dixon, Whitehaven) and annotation 'bound 29 March 1851' to rear pastedown, mild spotting and browning, inner hinges cracked, contemporary red half roan, rubbed, oblong 8vo (14.5 x 23.5 cm), together with: [Smith, John, 1797-1861, & Edward Fitzsimons], [Irish Minstrelsy; A Selection of Original Melodies of Erin, 1st edition, Goulding & Co., 1814], engraved dedication leaf + 3 pp. list of subscribers + index leaf + advertisement leaf + 93 pp. (mainly engraved music; some leaves letterpress only), title page lacking, later half roan, binding defective, folio (33 x 23 cm) The first item is an attractive and substantial manuscript produced by one John Rooke (1807-1872), a musician and schoolmaster who spent most of his life in the Cumbrian town of Whitehaven and the surrounding area. According to a recent biography written in the parish newsletter of St Bees Priory Church (June 2008), trade directories record him working variously as an artist, surveyor, music precentor, organist and portrait painter until 1844, when he became a master at St Bees Grammar School, where he worked until 1857, in which year he became headmaster of a new school established by the Haematite Iron Company. For the second work (Smith and Fitzsimons) Copac traces three copies only (Cambridge, Oxford and Trinity College Dublin). (2)

Sale (John). A collection of new Glees, composed by John Sale, Gentlemen of His Majesty's Chapels Royal ... To which are added Four Others (never before printed), composed and presented to the Author ... by Dr Arnold, Messrs Webbe, Callcott and Linley. Dedicated (by Permission,) to the Right Honble Lady Viscountess Belgrave, 1st edition, for the author, [circa 1800], title page + list of subscribers + 41 pp. music score, engraved throughout except for the list of subscribers, bound with approximately 12 others, engraved throughout, including: Callcott (John Wall), A Collection of Four Glees composed at Blenheim, 1799, and most respectfully inscribed by Permission to their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1st edition, for the author, 1800, title page + 12 pp.; ibid., A Collection of Five Glees ... Composed & most humbly inscribed to permission to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, 1st edition, for the Author, 1801, title page + 27 pp. + Callcott's advertisement to final leaf verso; and approximately 12 others, mainly glees by Callcott, engraved throughout, some lacking title pages and apparently extracted from larger volumes, contemporary half calf, morocco label gilt-lettered 'Callcotts' to front board, worn, front board detached, oblong folio (24 x 33 cm). Together with: 1 other sammelband of engraved music, containing approximately 25 pieces by Rossini and other Italian composers including Asioli and Liverati, published by Birchall, Goulding and others; 1 volume of manuscript music score, early 19th century, 50 (of 52) numbered pp., including transcripts of Guglielmi and others, contemporary wrappers, worn, oblong folio; and 1 volume of manuscript music exercises, late 18th century, 18 leaves + blanks, contemporary ownership inscription of contemporary mottled sheep, covers detached, oblong folio Copac traces eight copies for Callcott's Collection of Four Glees composed at Blenheim, and five copies for his Five Glees. (4)

Walmisley (Thomas Forbes). Six Glees, composed and respectfully dedicated with permission to the Noblemen and Gentlemen Members of the Catch Club, 1st edition, for the composer, sold at Londsdale & Mills, 1830, title page + 51 pp. engraved music score + list of subscribers, composer's initials to title page in manuscript, leaves uncut and stab-stitched in original drab wrappers, contents clean, wrappers slightly spotted, rumpled and chipped, oblong folio (26 x 34 cm), together with: Manuscript, Volume of manuscript music score, late 18th century, 2 parts in 1 volume, 42 + 36 pp. (each written upside-down with respect to the other), 10 staves to the page, contents including transcriptions of Purcell and Geminiani, hymns, and some apparently original compositions including 'On the Death of the Amiable Miss Young' signed 'R. M. 1786' (p. 31 of the second part), outer leaves browned, engraved bookplate of John Rashleigh, probably Sir John Colman Rashleigh, 1st Baronet and parliamentary reformer (1772-1842), contemporary half calf, worn, oblong 4to (23.5 x 29 cm), Manuscript, Volume of manuscript music score, early 19th century, 15 leaves, 1 piece titled 'Prince of Saxe Coburg, 1816', slightly spotted and marked, last 5 leaves shorter, stab-stitched in contemporary paper wrappers, marked, oblong 4to (23.5 x 27.5 cm), Romberg (Bernhard), Trois thˆmes de Mozart, vari‚s pour le violon et violoncelle, London: Clementi, Banger, Collard, Davis & Collard, [circa 1810], engraved title page + 11 pp. engraved music score, dynamics added in manuscript, disbound, folio (30.5 x 22 cm), and other 19th-century sheet music, bound and disbound Walmisley's work is scarce, with five copies traced in libraries (British Library, Cambridge, Glasgow, Oxford, and Royal College of Music). (4)

Amira (Georgius Michaelis). Grammatica Syriaca, sive Chaldaica, 1st edition, Rome: Giacomo Luna, 1596, Syriac and occasional Arabic and Hebrew types, woodcut initials, front inner hinge split (held by one cord only), moderate spotting, small intermittent section of worming in gutter, progressive marginal erosion to upper outer corners from quire 3E to 3O (final quire) and rear cover, the text never affected, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript spine title, slightly soiled, 4to (24.2 x 18.3 cm) Adams A965, BM STC Italian 1465-1600 p. 356; cf. Aboussouan sale, lot 35. An early Syriac grammar. 'Jirjis ibn Mikha'il ibn 'Amira (c. 1573-1644), taught Syriac at the Maronite College in Rome. He returned to Lebanon in 1595 as Bishop of Ehden and is associated with the celebrated Quzhayaa Psalter of 1610. The printer ... Jacobus Luna was the Maronite scholar Ya'qub ibn Hilal, formerly a compositor at the Medici press' (Aboussouan). (1)

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

Indian mica paintings. Album of 52 gouache paintings on mica, India, circa 1830-50, mostly medium-size (14 x 17 cm), a few smaller (14 x 10.5 cm or 9 x 6 cm), pasted at corners to paper mounts affixed to paper album leaves (one mount watermarked 1850), some with manuscript descriptions in a contemporary hand tipped to facing stubs (one watermarked 1826), many paintings loose, some rubbing, adhesive staining to mounts, a handful of chips and cracks, contemporary half morocco, spine defective, folio (33 x 23.5 cm) The paintings depict musicians, dancers, trades, court scenes, processions and various types of sedan chairs, carriages and mounted riders, incorporating horses, oxen, camels and elephants. The accompanying manuscript descriptions were evidently written by a British subject with first-hand knowledge of India. (1)

Khaqani (Afdal al-Din al-Shirwani al-, 1127-1187/7 or 1195 CE). Tuhfat al-'Iraqayn ['The Gift of the Two Iraqs'], Safavid Iran: colophon signed Muhammad Amin al-Qurashi, [circa 1600], Persian manuscript in black ink on glazed laid paper, 151 leaves + 3 blanks (folio 1 recto also blank), 11 lines of nasta'liq script to the page, divided into hemistiches, and set within gilt and blue frames throughout, headings in red, catch-words, incipit page (folio 1 verso) with illuminated headpiece incorporating penwork vegetal motifs and the text set within cloudbands on gilt ground; folio 1 laid down with small portion of text in skilful facsimile, sympathetic paper restoration to margins of outer leaves (just touching frames of final 13 leaves, the lost portions restored in facsimile), 3 further leaves towards rear with paper restoration in the text obscuring a few words; contemporary green morocco binding, floral filigree decoration to both sides enclosed by a blind frame composed of buta motifs, 12mo (12.7 x 7.5 cm), housed in 19th-century pink silk satchel with embroidered leaf-spray lining and decorative tie, the tie with attached tag annotated in a 19th-century hand 'Extracts from the Qran [sic] found in Ayub Khan's sleeping tent in his private camp at Muzra immediately after he had gone out' (see note) Khaqani was a major Persian author active in the 12th century CE. His Tuhfat al-'Iraqayn, a long narrative poem in mathnawi form, is considered 'one of the most eminent examples of sophisticated use of ornament in the whole of classical Persian literature' (Encyclopaedia Iranica). Most of its verses are addressed to the Sun, whom Khaqani commands to undertake a voyage from Shirvan to Mecca on his behalf. Provenance: apparently found in the tent of Ayub Khan, emir of Afghanistan (1857-1914), at 'Muzra' (i.e. Mazra'ah) after the Battle of Kandahar in 1880, the decisive engagement of the Second Afghan War (manuscript note attached to the satchel accompanying the manuscript); later in the collection of Sir Eustace Dixon Borrowes, 11th Baronet (1866-1939; listed in typescript document titled 'Papers, Deeds, Books, etc., The Property of Sir Eustace Dixon Borrowes Bart., 1924', photocopy supplied); thence by descent to the present owner. Sir Kildare Borrowes, 10th Baronet (1852-1924) was an officer in the 11th Hussars, one of the 31 cavalry regiments deployed during the Second Afghan War, so the manuscript may have been originally obtained by him. (1)

Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Ibrahim. Al-Fawatih al-wafiyah li'l-Manzumah al-'Amritiyah ['The Ample Preamble to the Manzumah of al-'Amriti'], Near East, 18/19th century, Arabic manuscript in red and black ink on glazed laid paper, 35 leaves, 25 lines of clear naskh script to the page, catch-words, contemporary marginalia, a few minor water-stains, paper-repairs to first 2 leaves, bound with a short treatise on astronomy, possibly fragmentary, 2 leaves, 1 diagram, colophon signed Sinan Basha, stitched in contemporary plain paper wrappers, spine worn, rear wrapper repaired and heavily annotated, 8vo (21.7 x 15 cm), together with: Kati (Husam al-Din al-, d. 1359/60 CE), Sharh al-Isaghuji, Near East, 19th century, Arabic manuscript in red and black ink on laid paper, 55 pp. + 2 blanks (contemporary manuscript pagination in top margins), contemporary marginalia, a few marks, book-block split between pp. 1 and 2, p. 1 remaining attached to front board, rear board lacking, 4to (25 x 18.5 cm); and 1 other (Arabic manuscript volume comprising 5 different linguistic treatises in 2 different hands, one dated 1231 AH [i.e. 1816 CE], 21 leaves, profuse contemporary marginalia, disbound, 8vo, 21.5 x 15.5 cm) See 'Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad Jarad (ed.), Nihayat al-tadrib, Nazm ghayat al-taqrib (Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah, 1971), p. 42 note 3 for the first work, which is a gloss on al-Durrah al-bahiyah fi-nazm al-Ajurrumiyah by Egyptian scholar Sharaf al-Din al-'Amriti (fl. c.1581 CE), which is itself a commentary on the highly influential introduction to Arabic syntax (nahw) by Berber grammarian Ibn Ajurrum (1273-1323). According to the colophon Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Ibrahim was a Hanafi jurist; Jarad had inspected a copy of his work dated 1271 AH (i.e. 1854/5 CE). Husam al-Din al-Kati was of Anatolian origin. He is only known through his Sharh al-Isaghuji, which is a 'gloss on Athir al-Din al-Abhari (d. 1264/5)'s Isaghuji, a brief collection of definitions of logic terms named after its inspiration, the Neoplatonist Porphyry's Isagoge' (University of St Andrews, cataloguing, online). Provenance: private collection, United Kingdom. (3)

Nawawi (Abu Zakariya' Yahya ibn Sharaf al-, 1233-1277 CE). Fatawa, Kirkuk: colophon signed Sayyid Ahmad al-Rushni al-Khalidi, for his righteous brother [li-ajl akhihi al-salih] al-Sayyid Muhammad Najib al-Khalidi al-Naqshbandi, 13 Muharram 1286 AH [1869 CE], Arabic manuscript in black ink on laid paper, 65 leaves, 11 to 13 lines of naskh script to the page, rubricated headings, 13 further leaves to the rear (some loose) containing additional texts and fragments (including poetry) in at least 2 different hands, one dated 1294 AH [ 1877/8 CE], a few stains, contemporary cloth, worn, 8vo (22 x 15.5 cm), together with: Jurjani (al-Sharif al-, 1339/40-1413/14), Sharh al-Fara'id al-Sirajiyah, Near East: colophon signed 'Abd al-Ghafur ibn 'Ala Ahmad, [19th century], Arabic manuscript in black ink on thick laid paper, 101 leaves, 15 lines of naskh script to the page, profuse marginalia, one shorter leaf depicting permutations of inheritance tipped in, occasional damp-staining, bound after a copy of Jawahir al-Fara'id by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274) in the same hand (3 leaves, damp-stained), contemporary goatskin backing paper boards, rubbed, contents shaken and stitching loose, 8vo (23 x 16 cm); and 2 others (both lithographic editions of Arabic treatises on usul al-fiqh) The first work is a collection of legal opinions (fatawa) by influential Syrian faqih and hadith scholar al-Nawawi (1233-1237); the second is a commentary by Persian polymath al-Sharif al-Jurjani (1339/40-1413/14 CE) on the Fara'id al-Sirajiyah, the foundational work on Islamic inheritance law by Siraj al-Din al-Sajawandi (d. 1203/4 CE). Provenance: private collection, United Kingdom. (4)

Ottoman Turkish manuscript. Insha'-i marghub [i.e. 'Desired Composition'], Ottoman Territories: colophon signed al-Sayyid Hafiz Ibrahim Rushdi, 1227 AH [i.e. 1812/13 CE], Ottoman Turkish manuscript, black ink on glazed laid paper, 40 leaves, 7 angled lines of ruqa' script to the page, side-notes, rubrication throughout, occasional smudging and staining, untidy marginal pen-trials to folios 2-3 and 38, contemporary marbled paper boards, text-block detached, 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm) Attractive manuscript comprising specimens of elegant letter-writing, with examples from the various branches of Ottoman epistolography, including letters of affection (mahabbat-namah), official memoranda (tadhakkurah), and petitions ('ard-i hal, including one addressed the Shaykh al-Islam, that is, the Grand Mufti). Ethe, Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindustani and Pushtu Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II (1930), MS 2188 contains a text titled Insha-'i marghub wa matlub. Provenance: private collection, United Kingdom. (1)

Tusi (Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-, 995-1067 CE). Talkhis al-Kitab al-Shafi [i.e. 'Abridgment of the Salutory Book'], Ottoman territories, 19th century, Arabic manuscript in black ink on glazed laid paper dyed pink or green, 330 leaves (lacking leaves at beginning and end, the remaining text containing parts of juz' 1-2 only), 19 lines of naskh script to the page, text within gilt frames throughout, frequent rubrication, occasional minor worming in margins, a few leaves towards rear browned, contemporary red straight-grain sheep, rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, small folio (23.5 x 13.5 cm), together with:Qur'an, Manuscript Qur'an, possibly Yemen, 18th century, Arabic manuscript in black and red ink on laid paper, 251 leaves (lacking at least 1 leaf at beginning, the text starting at Surat al-Baqarah, Ayah 17), decorative rub' and juz' markings in margins, soiled and stained throughout, first 5 leaves loose, contemporary leather binding (possibly goatskin), worn, small 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm); and 1 other (juz' 8 of a 19th-century manuscript Qur'an, red morocco binding, 8vo) The first work is an important treatise on the doctrine of the imamate by early Shia jurist Shaykh al-Tusi. It is described in the colophon to the first part as 'the Kitab al-Istifa' fi'l-imamah, which is an abridgment [talkhis] of the Kitab al-Shafi, the book with which the Sharif al-Murtada 'Alam al-Huda refuted the book on the imamate in the Mughni [a work by Mu'tazilite theologian 'Abd al-Jabbar], and it is by the shaykh Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi'; Kitab al-Istifa' fi'l-imamah ('The Complete Book on the Imamate') is also the name of a work by Abu Sahl al-Nawbakhti (851/2-923/4 CE), but Abu Sahl predeceased Sharif al-Murtada (965/6-1044/5 CE), from whose work the present abridgment is derived. Provenance: private collection, United Kingdom. (3)

Colvile (Frederick Leigh). Manuscript notebook for The Worthies of Warwickshire, circa 1857-68, approximately 165 leaves, including several tipped-in autograph letters from correspondents and one pencilled note annotated 'Note by Sr Thomas Phillipps', 3 section-titles signed with Colvile's monogram, illustrated with 1 folding pencil and watercolour view of Little Compton Manor House at Moreton-in-Marsh, 1 folding pedigree, and numerous pen-and-ink sketched including coats of arms, full-page sketch entitled 'Cotswold Games', 2 folding sketches of Wolford Manor House, and a sketch of the Rollright Stones after William Camden on india paper (mounted), bound with Prichard (Richard, & Robert G. Swayne), The Christian's Sorrow Turned into Joy - Christ, the Resurrection, and the Life. Two Sermons preached in the Parish Church of Barton, May 3, 1857, 1st edition, Oxford: John Henry and James Parker, 1857, 30 pp. pamphlet, original front wrapper inscribed 'F. L. Colvile, from Mrs Guillemard' bound in, bookplate of Frederick Leigh Colvile to front pastedown, 19th-century cloth, front joint split, 8vo (18.4 x 11.5 cm) Frederick Leigh Colvile (1819-1886), vicar of Leek Wootton in Warwickshire, was a member of the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Abbey (he was the nephew of Chandos Leigh), and was consequently related to Jane Austen. His Worthies of Warwickshire who lived between 1500 and 1800 was published in 1869. The bound-in pamphlet is rare, with two institutional copies traced. (1)

Knauer (Mauritius). Almenach perpetuel, imprim‚ … Francfort, 1700, traduit de l'allemand en fran‡ois pour Madame la Comtesse d'Hunolstein et Hombourg, 1770, French manuscript in red and black ink on laid paper, 158 pp. + 12 blanks, 1 folding table, bound red and blue silk page-makers, contemporary sheep, blind fleur-de-lys tools to spine and covers, rubbed, small 8vo (16.5 x 9.5 cm), together with Longus, Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chlo‚, Paris: [no publisher], 1745, additional engraved title page, engraved vignette to letterpress title, 4 engraved headpieces, 8 engraved plates by Jean-Baptiste Scotin, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contents largely unopened, later half morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo (17.5 x 11 cm), and 2 others (19th-century French literature, leather-bound Attractive French manuscript translation of the Calendarium oeconomicum perpetuum practicum by Mauritius Knauer, abbot of Langheim (1613/14-1664), prepared for a member of the pre-Revolutionary French aristocracy. The work is also known by its German title, the Hundertj„hriger Kalender. See Cohen-de Ricci 651-2 for Longus (this edition first published in 1731). (5)

*Letter of Marque. A rare manuscript letter of marque issued by the Admiralty to Captain David Browning, commander of the ship The Viper, dated 6th July 1779, large manuscript document in a clear clerical hand, brown ink on Whatman laid paper, with watermark, signed at the foot by Thomas Cox and Thomas Brookbank junior of the high Court of Admiralty of England, and Godfrey Lee Farren registrar, addressed to verso 'The Viper Capt. D. Browning French', creased where folded, small holes to folded corners, without loss, generally in very good condition, overall size 485 x 592 mm (19 x 23.25 ins) The use of letters of marque by the British king and his government allowed merchant vessels, or privateers, to seek redress for loss of goods and trade caused by hostile French ships, by the seizure of 'ships vessels and goods belonging to the French king' with instructions to 'bring the same to judgement in our high Courts of Admiralty of England', as this document states. The captain is authorized 'to set forth in a warlike manner' and 'by force of arms to apprehend seize and take the ships vessels and goods'. The letter also requires the captain to keep a journal of his activities, including a list of all his prizes, and their approximate value, as well as provide any information on the movements, locations, 'designs' and 'strength' of the French fleets and vessels. In return the captain may 'sell and dispose of such ships vessels and goods'. The Viper is carefully described in the document as a ship of about 365 tons, 'being Loop sterned, no head and one mast, mounted with twenty eight Carriage Guns carrying Shot of Nine pounds weight, and twelve Swivel Guns, and navigated with one hundred and twenty men'. It belongs to the port of 'Folkstone', it's principal owners being James Clark and David Major of Folkstone, merchants. Provenance: Contained within a folio family scrap album kept by Lionel S. Lewis, titled to inside front cover Family Record Book, and dated November 16th 1886, and including a variety of 18th and 19th century legal documents, share certificates, manuscript notes and letters, and photographs , all captioned and with extensive related handwritten notes. Many leaves are loose, and some chipped to edges with loss. The Lewis or Lewys family appear to originate from Stoke Gaylard in Dorset, with later generations resident in Thanet, Kent. Lionel Lewis's great grandmother was Mrs. Thomas Cramp, whose first husband was George Browning. The letter of marque is captioned by Lionel Lewis 'Letters of marque dated July 6th 1779 addressed to my Great-grandmother's brother-in-law'. The ship's captain David Browning would therefore be the brother of George Browning. (1)

Manuscript illumination. Collection of 16 illuminated antiphonary initials on vellum, 14th century and later, various dimensions (4.5 x 4.5 to 14.5 x 14.5 cm), some light rubbing (16)

Scrap album. Victorian scrap album, 1840-1868, approximately 50 leaves + 30 blanks (several leaves tipped in or excised), containing: some 25 paper-lace keepsakes, most with chromolithographic or gilt decoration, some with onlaid fabric collages, including one memorial keepsake dated 1868, 5 hand-coloured engraved cut-outs of harlequins on card, 1 similar with metallic onlays, 1 silk collage of King Lear, 3 small oil paintings of landscapes, signed on the mount 'Mr Bankes, 10 South Molton St', 1 medium-size watercolour of a castle, 1 large circular 18th-century style watercolour on laid paper depicting a woman reading music, and 1 large grisaille watercolour of a castaway with a telescope, all variously tipped or pasted in or mounted, together with approximately 10 pp. manuscript poetry including 6 pp. of apparently original verse signed Calcutta or Bengal, 1840, and 4 pp. manuscript music score, pink moir‚ silk endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary purple velvet with elaborate varicoloured velvet onlays and embossed gilt decoration, 4to (28.5 x 23 cm) (1)

Ashington, Northumberland. An album of 56 mounted photographs, circa 1901, including 30 relating to coal mining at Ashington Colliery with scenes of locomotives, mining underground, pit ponies, plus others including the fire brigade, schools, hotels, churches, Bothal Castle etc., each photograph with manuscript number and index at end, a little light fading to a few photographs and minor spotting to thick card, all edges gilt, original morocco with metal clasp, (spine and edges rubbed), metal rectangular plaque to upper cover engraved 'H. Richardson, September 30th 1901' (local mining expert), oblong 4to (1)

Milne (A.A.). Winnie The Pooh, a reproduction of the original manuscript, 1971, numerous monochrome facsimiles, original cloth in slipcase, 8vo, together with Lawrence (T.E.), Revolt in the Desert, 3rd impression, 1927, 16 monochrome illustrations, some minor toning, original brown cloth, lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, The Mint..., 1st edition, 1955, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned, spine lightly rubbed to foot, 4to, and Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress..., circa 1917, 29 colour illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, slight spotting, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards and spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous art, literature and history reference, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (2 cartons)

Chaplin (S. E.). Geography of England & Wales (title on upper cover), 1853, forty-seven manuscript pen and watercolour maps of England and Wales, English & Welsh counties, each with descriptive text surrounding the map, each sheet, very slight spotting, 245 x 315 mm, loose in a contemporary black morocco gilt portfolio, remains of silk ties, oblong 4to The very neat script describes the history and commercial attributes of each county as well as the principal county towns and cities and surrounds a small ink and watercolour map. (1)

Moore (Thomas). Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1st edition, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, plate of manuscript facsimile, spotting to endpapers and blanks, plates spotted and offset, engraved bookplate of B. B. Colvin, all edges gilt, near-contemporary polished calf by Clarke & Bedford, front joint superficially split but firm, some minor wear, 4to, together with: Pinero (Arthur W.), The Plays [box-title], 14 volumes, mixed editions, William Heinemann, 1891-6, photogravure portrait frontispiece to The Profligate, gilt floral endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary maroon roan, 16mo (15 x 10.5 cm), housed in a matching box, slightly rubbed, measurements 22 x 16.5 x 12 cm; Brereton (Austin), The Life of Henry Irving, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908, collotype frontispiece to volume 1, photogravure frontispiece to volume 2, collotype plates, extra-illustrated with 2 additional photographic prints mounted to volume 1 initial blanks above mounted facsimile signatures, volume 2 rear inner hinge cracked, original blue cloth, gilt vignettes of the Lyceum to front boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo; and approximately 50 others, including 19th-century works on Irving and related topics in original cloth, and mid-20th-century British theatre reference, condition generally very good, 8vo (3 shelves)

*Barks (Dora, early 20th century). A set of nine humorous illustrations, together nine pen, ink, & watercolour illustrations on card or artist's board, one with card joined at left and right margins (not affecting image), depicting various comical scenes, with figures, animals and birds, and grotesque creatures, a couple pencilled on verso 'Cricklum Crankums', each signed lower left or lower right corner, some light spotting and toning, image size 19.5 x 29cm (7.5 x 11.5ins), sheet size 27.5 x 37cm (10.75 x 14.5ins), hinged mounts with acetate, each with nonsense verse in manuscript to label on verso The verse reads, for example: 'He thought he saw a Yellow Cat/Bathing her sea-green eyes,/But when she turned into a hat/It caused him no surprise./"It always is the case," he said, "When I wear spotted ties."' Dora Barks illustrated a number of books for children published in the 1910s to 1920s, including some written by Ethel J. Barks, such as 'The Meet of the Gay Gissyquacks'. (9)

*Brock (Charles Edmund, 1870-1938, and Henry Matthew, 1875-1960). An archive of original and printed material, comprising approximately 100 small pencil drawings on paper, including natural history subjects, costume and figure studies, drawings of furniture, animal studies, etc., approximately 18 x 12cm (7 x 4.5ins) and slightly smaller, together with three pages manuscript verse in Henry Brock's hand, contained in an envelope addressed to H.M. Brock, Esq., Woodstock, Storey's Way, Cambridge, plus a large number of printed matter, including a number of suites of prints for various works by the Brocks: books, periodicals, dustjackets, Christmas cards, etc., colour and black & white, e.g. Ben Hur, Jane Austen, Gulliver's Travels, Leigh Hunt's Essays, Nursery Rhymes, Oliver Twist, Fairy Tales, etc., many in envelopes addressed to the Brocks from the publishers, plus some correspondence from publishers, e.g. Nelson, Blackie, Macmillan (2 cartons)

Du Maurier (George, 1834-1896). Emancipation!, 1891, pencil, pen and brown ink and wash on wove paper, image size 13 x 19 cm, signed 'Du Maurier' lower left, lower margin additionally signed and dated 'G du Maurier, Hampstead, Nov 91' and with title and three-line caption in author's holograph, a few spots in image, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 21 x 21 cm, old manuscript label verso Du Maurier's caption reads: 'Young bride of three hours standing / just starting on her wedding trip / - "Oh Edwin dear! Here's 'Tom Jones!' Papa told me I wasn't to read it till I was married! The day has come ... at last! buy it for me, Edwin dear!"'. Provenance: old manuscript label to back board, 'No 66 Original Punch drawing by du Maurier, a present from Mrs du Maurier'. (1)

*Hallward (Patience Mary, 1892-1981). A set of original illustrations for The Toad King's Coronation, 1953, approximately 30 black crayon and watercolour illustrations on tracing paper, including title and dedication leaf, most leaves consisting of manuscript text and one or more mounted illustrations tipped-in at corners with adhesive fabric tape, depicting a variety of anthropomorphic animals and birds, together with several other similar leaves uncoloured, some annotations by the artist, toned, a little creased and edge-frayed in places, overall sheet size 38 x 28cm (15 x 11ins) and a few smaller, loosely contained in a brown paper cover, with pencilled title on front Patience Mary Hallward was the daughter of stained glass designer Reginald Hallward and his artist wife Adelaide Bloxham. One of her sisters, Patricia Mary, also trained as an artist. We can find no evidence that this story was ever published. (a folder)

*Automaton. Twin Brothers, mid 19th century, sand toy in original glass-fronted thick card box, containing two multi-jointed acrobats suspended from a central metal rod, against a decorative Persian-style floral border, with printed green paper label below 'Twin Brothers, To be turned twice to the right', one figure lacking a foot, sand leaking and box repaired with black adhesive tape, 25 x 19.5cm (9.75 x 7.75ins), together with an early 20th century Chinese mahjong set, 146 bone and bamboo pieces, housed in a purple felt-lined carved wooden box, with locking hinged lid (with key) inlaid with brass, base of box cracked, plus a collection of 45 Chinese carved mother of pearl gaming counters, 19th century, various sizes and shapes, including fish, circles, short and long rectangles, ovals, housed in a wooden box, with remains of early manuscript label on sliding lid A rare automaton in working order; we have seen other acrobat sand toys, but not this particular one with two trapeze artists, who perform quite mesmerising feats. (3)

*Botanical cards. A set of twenty-two hand-drawn cards, circa 1810, 22 cards, each with pen, ink, and watercolour illustrations of flowers and their components to upper portion (e.g. a selection of leaves, examples of seed pods, various stamens, an array of stalks, different kinds of roots, etc.), above neat manuscript text, each card numbered to upper left corner, first card (title) lightly toned, 11 x 7.5cm (4.5 x 3ins), housed in original green paper-covered card slipcase, with remains of embossed gold border to edges, lightly rubbed and marked, and a little split to one joint, together with a set of 27 (of 28) picture cards, circa 1880, comprising seven sets of colour lithographed cards, each set depicting a fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood; Puss in Boots; Jack and the Bean-Stalk; Jack the Giant Killer; Cinderella; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and Bluebeard, Red Riding Hood set lacking a card, some rubbing, marks, and creases (The Proud Sisters card with consequent short split in lower edge), Golden Locks and Baby Bear cards both with surface loss to one corner (affecting some of text), plain pale pink versos (dusty), rounded corners, 11 x 7.5cm (4.25 x 3ins) The first item comprises a set of neatly executed instructional cards, perhaps made by a competent adult and intended as an educational tool for the older child, the first card stating: 'Botany is a Science which treats of Vegetables & Plants. Divided into Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, & Varieties.' (2)

Churchill (Winston S.). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, 1st edition, 2nd state, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898, half-tone frontispiece, 2 folding colour maps, 4 sketch-maps, errata slip tipped to p. 1 (indicating second state), 32 pp. publisher's catalogue dated '12/97' to rear, very faint mark to p. 1, a few small spots to edges very occasionally appearing in margins, original green cloth, a bright copy, 8vo, together with a contemporary pen-and-ink sketch of the Malakand Pass (spotted, 11.5 x 18 cm), and 1 albumen and 4 silver gelatin print photographs of native troops and a British officer, identified in manuscript captions versos or on mounts as the 30th Punjab Native Infantry and a Colonel O'Bryen (see note), some chipping, photographs including 2 large group portraits mounted on card (approximate dimensions 22 x 28 cm) Woods A1(a). A bright copy of Churchill's first book, accompanied by a collection of contemporary photographs apparently depicting Lieutenant-Colonel James Loughan O'Bryen of the 31st Punjab Infantry (not the 30th regiment as indicated by the captions), whose death in action on 2 October is described by Churchill at pp. 245-6. Provenance: acquired by the vendor from a descendant of O'Bryen circa 2010. (2)

*Guinness Christmas Booklets. Songs of our Grandfathers, illustrated Rex Whistler, 1936; Alice Forethought, illustrated Groves-Raines; Prodigies and Prodigals, illustrated Groves-Raines, circa 1940, colour illustrations, scattered minor spotting and soiling, original stapled printed wrappers, first item spotted and browned at edges, slim 8vo, together with two copies of A Guinness Scrap Book, 1937, colour illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, a little spotting, 4to, plus a related poster titled 'A Guinness Carroll', colour-printed on grease-proof paper with printed initials of the artist John Gilroy lower left, old ink manuscript numerals to left margin and some see-through from one line of ink to verso at upper margin, minor creasing, 49 x 36cm, plus two sheets of Guinness advertising tissue paper, 50 x 37cm The advertising poster was produced around 1932 for the London Underground. (8)

Milne (Alan Alexander). When I Was Very Young, New York: Fountain Press, 1930, black & white illustrations by Ernest Shepard, partly untrimmed, rear pastedown with small blank label to lower right corner, front pastedown with bookplate of G.F. Reiss, original patterned cloth with paper label to spine, slipcase, 8vo, together with The Christopher Robin Birthday Book, 1st edition, Methuen, 1930, numerous black & white illustrations by E.H. Shepard, original cloth gilt, spine somewhat faded, dusty and soiled dust jacket, small area of surface loss to front panel, some chips and losses, spine toned, 8vo, plus When We Were Very Young, 17th edition, Methuen, 1928, numerous black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, contemporary ink presentation inscription to half-title, first and last leaves and free endpapers partially toned, front free endpaper with contemporary ink ownership name, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spine ends barely rubbed, dust jacket, toned and lightly rubbed spine chipped at head, some minor edge fraying, rear panel with small mark, 8vo, and 8 others related including: Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bees, a Pop-Up Picture Book, [1953]; Punch Vol. CLXVI. January-June 1924; Winnie-the Pooh, a Reproduction of the Original Manuscript..., 1971 First item: limited edition, 635/842 copies signed by the author. (1)

Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: Containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size, a new edition, enlarged by George Graves and William Jackson Hooker, 5 volumes, Henry G. Bohn, 1835, 647 hand-coloured engraved plates after Sydenham Edwards, William Kilburn, James Sowerby, George Graves and William James Hooker, some offsetting and occasionally heavy from plates to descriptive letterpress leaves facing, scattered minor spotting, first letterpress leaf of volume 2 near-detached, bookplate of the Daltry Library, Stoke on Trent to each pastedown and each volume with manuscript presentation note to front free endpaper 'Presented to the Rev. Thos. W. Daltry, MA, FLS, by the members of the North Staffordshire Naturalist's Field Club in grateful recognition of his long and valuable services as its Honorary Secretary', dated 22nd March 1877, and signed by William Molyneux (President) and G. Brunt (Secretary to the Testimonial Committee), the final volume with additional inscription by Bertrum Daltry, presenting it to the Daltry Library of the North Staffordshire Field Club, 7 September 1904, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, spines darkened, folio (49 x 30.5 cm) One of the most important British flora. This is virtually a new work, being a greatly enlarged edition of the Flora Londinensis with over 200 new plates added. The first three volumes contain the original 432 plates, but with the text rewritten by Hooker. The final two volumes are entirely new with plates mostly from drawings by Hooker, together with his own descriptions. This edition was published in 1817-1828, and reissued with new title-pages in 1835. Great Flower Books, Page 54, Henry 597; Nissen BBI 440 (incorrect plate count). (5)

Fitzgerald (Edward). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse, 3rd edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1872, previous owner signature of Percy Browne, 1876 at head of title, full page manuscript note to rear endpaper, some light toning, stitching a little weak at front, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine rubbed, some fading, 8vo, together with a facsimile copy of the 1st edition Rubaiyat of 1859 translated by Fitzgerald, circa 1926 (contained in morocco slipcase) (2)

Heron-Allen (Edward, translator). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript into modern Persian Characters, H.S. Nichols, 1898, facsimile leaves, annotations and corrections throughout, light soiling and spotting front and rear, front hinge reinforced, original boards, losses at head and foot of spine, upper joint split, a few stains, folio Limited edition, one of 20 large paper copies. Edward Heron-Allen's own proof copy, with his manuscript corrections, additions and annotations, most of which were incorporated into Nichols' revised second edition of 1898. (1)

Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, [1911], text printed in colours, illuminated initials heightened in gold, colour plates and illustrations, light marginal soiling to a few leaves, top edge gilt, original vellum, upper cover with peacock design blocked in gilt, spine with morocco label and gilt decoration (very slight soiling), contained in modern foldover morocco-backed box, 4to Limited edition 533/550, signed by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe. (1)

Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, edited by Nathan Haskell Cole, 2 volumes, Joseph Knight, Boston, 1896, portrait frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, manuscript verse at end of volume II, a few small annotations, a little light spotting, front hinge of volume II reinforced, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt, spines toned, a little soiled, 8vo, Variorum Edition de luxe 176/250, together with Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, edited by Nathan Haskell Cole, 2 volumes, Multi-Variorum edition, Boston & London, 1898, illustrations, bookplates, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt (slight soiling), red cloth wrappers, light fading to spines, 8vo, with three others including Eben Francis Thompson's The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam, privately printed, 1910, inscribed by the author, and Francis Hindes Groome's Edward Fitzgerald: An Aftermath, 1902, limited edition of 600 (7)

Omar Khayyam. Rubaghat Omar. I. Khayyam. Lucknow. A.H. 1312 (so titled to spine), i.e. Lucknow, 1894, Persian lithographed text, marginal manuscript quatrain numbers, a little light spotting, original orange wrappers (bookseller ink stamp at foot of upper wrapper), top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine faded to brown, light edge wear, 8vo Provenance: Edward Heron-Allen's copy, his inscription, March 1897 and annotations to front endpaper. (1)

Omar Khayyam [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, St. Petersburg, 1888], lithographed text by Groboff in Persian, original wrappers, bookplates of Herman M. Schroeter & Willie Birkenruth, mailing envelope from Moscow to England, postmarks of 1899, and manuscript sheet translating the Russian, all bound in contemporary vellum-backed boards, spine a little soiled, 8vo One of 20 copies privately printed. (1)

Fowler (W.W.). The Coleoptera of the British Islands, 6 volumes including Supplement (with Horace and John Donisthorpe), 1st edition, L. Reeve, 1887-1913, 200 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some old ink manuscript annotations and amendments, original cloth gilt, some rubbing, together with three related publications by Edward Saunders and Owen S. Wilson, original cloth gilt, one volume rebacked with original spine relaid, slightly rubbed, all large 8vo (9)

Blagg (Mary Adela, 1858-1944). The Ugly Prince, 1906, 64pp. manuscript, first and final leaves browned, some minor chipping and fraying to edges, manuscript title on front pastedown, with inscription beneath 'For Miss A.N. Bowers From the Author January 1906', original stiff oilcloth wrappers, upper cover with manuscript title label, slim 4to, together with Four Fairy Tales, 1st edition, Cheadle: J. Lowndes, 1911, occasional light spotting, foliate endpapers, manuscript inscription on front free endpaper 'Félicité Hardcastle With good wishes for her birthday, July 1; from the authoress. 1911', original blue cloth, spine slightly darkened and a little frayed at ends, upper cover gilt decorated (slightly dulled), 8vo 'The Ugly Prince' is the first of the 'Four Fairy Tales' in the published book, and the manuscript predates publication by five years. There are slight deviations between the written and printed versions. English astronomer Mary Adela Blagg was, in January 1916, one of the first women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Her pioneering work on the standardisation of lunar nomenclature and the analysis of variable stars is widely known. Rather less well-known is her foray into the writing of children's books. 'Four Fairy Tales' appears to be her only fictional publication, and is itself rare, with the British Library copy the only listing on COPAC. Historian and naturalist Félicité Frances Hardcastle (1903-1988) was the daughter of Joseph Alfred Hardcastle (1868-1917) and great grand-daughter of illustrious astronomer Sir William Herschel. Her father, Joseph, was instrumental in setting Blagg on her astronomical path. She attended a local lecture series by him in Cheadle (where she lived all her life) and by 1906 he had arranged for the publication of her analysis of a year's worth of star observations, 4,000 in all. Hardcastle also helped guide Blagg to both of the fields already mentioned in which she did her best work. Mary Blagg's sister Alice married a William Eli Bowers. (2)

*Elizabeth II (Queen of Great Britain & Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). Full-length portrait of the couple in full ceremonial dress, 1990, black & white photograph, 21 x 16.5cm, signed in ink autopen, 'Elizabeth R' and 'Philip' to lower mount and dated 1990, mounted in dark blue straight-grain morocco desk frame by Paul Longmire of St James's, London, overall 33.5 x 26cm, together with a printed invitation to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953, printed in blue on card with embossed stamp lower right and oval ink Earl Marshal's Office stamp to verso, completed in manuscript for Mr and Mrs David Llewellyn, 22.5 x 27cm, in original postmarked envelope, dated 12 May 1953 (2)

*Victor Emmanuel III (1900-1946, King of Italy). Document signed 'Vittorio Emanuele' as King of Italy, Rome, 18 November 1929, a manuscript passport for Edoardo Cherubino Aznavour, ink stamps at head, signed on second page and countersigned by Mussolini, a little spotting, folio (1)

*Brooke (Rupert, 1887-1915). Autograph letter signed, 'Rupert Brooke', School Field, Rugby, Monday 25 March [1907], to his friend and fellow Cambridge student [Ernst] Goldschmidt, in full, 'I fear your letter has gone unanswered even longer than my languid wont. Will it solace you to know that two even more remote letters have not achieved reply, - and one from a lady! My few waking intervals at Cambridge were occupied in writing a paper I had promised for a society of youths of this school. That labour ended yesterday. But when, after a few days in London, I arrived here I found my father very ill. He is getting better now - He is (you may know) a housemaster at this delectable school. I have had to do all his term's marks (now falling due) and some of his work: all of which has left me little leisure. The weather is light blue and white: like London milk. Are you interested in the weather? I was once: now no longer. It is what one would have called Spring in other years, crocuses birds, sunshine, and little winds. But of course there is no Spring this year. There is not that wild laughter of lips immortally young in the air. It only tastes like flat wine, and passion dwelt upon too long. In Rugby everybody pleases and only the prospect is vile. The architecture recalls infamous London suburbs. But among it all pass glorious laughing people careless in the high divinity of youth. They have had a very bad term for illness. In a fortnight two poor lads have died from pneumonia. To die at 15 with all the best of their life unlived! Is there a greater tragedy than for a boy to die, except for him to grow old, to live? I am sorry you have "built an altar in my heart", and placed me on a pedestal. It is a mistake I made myself, once. Life is one of those ridiculous jest of which one never sees the point, - until it is too late, & one does not appreciate the humour', 4 pages on black-edged printed letterhead, neat ink manuscript initialled addition in Goldschmidt's holograph below day and month, 'prob. 1907 E.Ph.G.', a little dust-soiled along horizontal fold of final page, 8vo, together with two (presumably unsent) drafts of autograph letters of affection from Goldschmidt, intended for Brooke, in which he tries to summon the courage to write to him and find the right words to say, the more finished letter written at Hotel Gallia, Cannes, France, 24 February, 1907, 'For such a long time I have been endeavouring not to write to you but I can no longer keep myself back and so I suppose you will have to read a tiresome letter from me I am so constituted that I put all the beauty and goodness and all desirable things I can imagine into some unfortunate person's body and mind and then proceed to worry that person so long till I find out that all those treasure never belonged to him. Just now it is you who are so unlucky', continuing in similar vein, 4 pages, unsigned, 8vo, the second rough draft containing similarly lovelorn phrases, written in two columns vertically on a torn sheet of paper, split along folds without loss of manuscript, oblong folio An apparently unpublished letter, though one line is quoted in Keith Hale (editor): Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914 (Yale University Press, 1998) p. 25: 'Brooke's desire never to grow up is well chronicled. He once wrote to his friend Ernest Goldschmidt, "Is there a greater tragedy than for a boy to die, except for him to grow old, to live!"'. Two postcards from Brooke to Goldschmidt are transcribed in Geoffrey Keynes (editor), The Letters of Rupert Brooke (Faber, 1968), both sent from Munich to Goldschmidt in Vienna concerning Brooke's upcoming visit to him there in April 1911. In another letter, to E.J. Dent, sent while staying with Goldschmidt in Vienna, 13 April 1911, Brooke refers to Goldschmidt as having 'decayed dreadfully in mind, through living in Vienna' and 'is very sad because he thinks he offended you very much a year ago', while making additional anti-semitic remarks. (1)

Bedroom light, and reclining nude, number 901 and 900, published by Manuscript Ltd, England (2)

NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Potatoes.- Grenet (Pierre-Adrien-Just) Mémoire sur les Moyens de conserver la Pomme-de-terre sous la forme de Riz ou Vermicel, half-title, drop-head title, folding engraved plate of machinery and tools, [Paris], [De l'Imprimerie de la feuille du Cultivateur], [c.1794] bound with Grenet (Pierre-Adrien-Just) Suite du Mémoire sur le Riz de Pommes de Terres, [Paris], [c.1794] bound with Tessier (l'Abbé) Moyens Éprouvés pour Préserver les Fromens de la Carie, Publiés conformément aux Expériences nouvellement faites à Rambouillet, title with woodcut printer's device, Macon, J.P. Goery, 1786 bound with Dedelay (Pierre) Instruction sur les Bases d'une Législation sur les Grains, title with woodcut ornament, Marseille, Auguste Mossy, 1793, bound with 6 other agricultural or veterinarian 18th century works, including one in manuscript, together 10 works in 1 vol., modern marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, 8vo ⁂ The first two mentioned concern Grenet's experiment to store potatoes in a desiccated form, thereby conserving nutrients and providing an form of 'instant' potato product that could be used in a variety of dishes. The plate illustrates his desiccation machine.

Boyer (Abel) The Draughts of the most Remarkable Fortified Towns of Europe, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece and 43 plates, manuscript notes to front free endpaper, foredge strengthened,previous owner's name stencilled at head of dedication leaf, occasional faint dampstaining to edges, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, 4to, Isaac Cleave, and John Hartley, 1701.

Military.- Naval.- Reide (Thomas) A Treatise on the Duty of Infantry Officers and the Present System of British Military Discipline, first edition, light abrasion mark to front pastedown, contemporary tree calf, gilt, a little rubbed, J. Walter, and T. Egerton, 1795 § A List of the Officers of the Army, and Marines ..., occasional manuscript annotations and corrections, bookplate, broken upper joint, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, 1792 § [Frederick II of Prussia] L'Esprit du Chevalier Folard tiré de ses Commentaires sur l'Histoire de Polybe pour l'Usage d'un Officier, 18 folding engraved plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, ex-library with usual stamps, lacking front free endpaper, original paper boards, rubbed and worn, Paris, 1760; and 5 others, similar, 8vo (8)

NO RESERVE Peninsular War.- Ric (Don Pedro Maria) An Exposition of the Most Interesting Circumstances Attending the Second Siege and Capitulation of Zaragoza, first English edition, translated by William Buy, half-title, manuscript '13' to half-title, occasional spotting and browning, modern half morocco, 8vo, for James Ridgway, 1809.

Oriental manuscript weights in two different sizes. (18)

Potter, Beatrix - The Tailor of Gloucester, a facsimilie of the original manuscript and illustrations, number 243 of 1500, cloth, quarto, in slip-case, New York and London 1968