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*Portrait miniature. Lady Cambridge, mid 19th century, oval portrait miniature, gouache and watercolour on ivory, depicting a half-length portrait of a young lady wearing a pearl headdress on her dark brown ringlets, and a blue dress with muslin neckline, gathered sleeves, and braided bodice decoration, toned, 8.5 x 6cm (3.25 x 2.5ins), contemporary panelled ivory frame glazed, a few minor cracks in ivory, titled in contemporary manuscript on verso (1)

*Shoes. A pair of ladies' shoes, Hale, early 19th century, soft black leather, round toes with pink ruffle and inset pink ribbon bars and circles, each with tiny chain stitch border in matching cotton, pink silk edging and ties (each shoe with substantial loss to one ribbon), linen insoles with engraved oval label 'Hale, Ladies Boot & Shoe Maker, Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, London, Wholesale, Retail & for Exportation', small heels, some overall wear, length 23cm (9ins), together with A pair of ladies' shoes, F. Marsh, early 19th century, black satin, square toe and throat, the latter trimmed with a small satin bow, white kid leather insoles annotated in contemporary manuscript 'Gauche' and 'Droit', latter with oval engraved label 'F. Marsh, Maker & Importer of French Boots & Shoes, 148, Oxford Street, opposite Bond St.', right shoe with looped black silk tie (lacking to left shoe), length 25cm (10ins) The ribbon detail and small heels of the first item make this a pretty and more unusual pair of Regency shoes. (2 pairs)

*[Henrietta, Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, 1609-69]. Embroidered apron panel, English, early-mid 17th century, a large portion of early embroidery on cream silk, silk ground toned, sometime neatly stitched at edge to a linen backing and with a number of carefully stitched repairs, elaborately worked design with various floral, foliate, and lattice motifs, incorporating entwining stems and tendrils, in coloured silks (a little faded), metal threads, and spangles, using satin stitch, long and short stitch, couching, and bullion stitch, creases along top edge where previously gathered at waist, some damage and loss, 53.5 x 101cm (21 x 39.75ins), framed, with manuscript label on verso in an early 20th century hand The label on the verso reads "Apron from Rushbrooke Park thought to have belonged to Queen Henrietta Maria who went there after Charles' death. Two Laburnham wood cabinets & several other things bearing Charles' [...?] initials were also left at Rushbrooke, the old House of Mabel Davies Cooke's mother (Fanny Louisa Eyres) who was born there, her mother being Louisa Elizabeth Rushbrooke. The Cabinets are now in State Apartments at Windsor.' Highly decorated aprons like this one were not intended to be protective garments; rather they were an opportunity to add an element of sumptuous embellishment which could both demonstrate the fine sewing skills of the wearer and indicate her wealth and position in society. The Jermyns of Rushbrooke Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, were a prominent Royalist family. Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573-1645) was Comptroller of the Household between 1639 and 1641, and his son Henry Lord Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans (1605-1684) was a life-long friend of Queen Henrietta Maria, fulfilling variously the roles of Vice-Chamberlain, Master of the Horse and Lord Chamberlain. He was at her side throughout the various campaigns of the Civil War, and it was even rumoured that the pair were married in secret, with a contemporary report asserting that all the Queen's children were Jermyn's bastards. It is believed that the aforementioned cabinets were presented by Henrietta Maria to Lord Jermyn in 1665. On his death his will directed that the cabinets be taken to Rushbrooke Hall, the then residence of his nephew Sir Thomas Jermyn, where they were noted in an inventory of 1759. They were sold at Christie's in 1910 to Lord Rothschild and his brothers, who presented them to King George V and Queen Mary shortly after their Coronation, and today they reside in The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace. (1)

*Chinese Robe. A Chinese silk robe from the family of Sir Thomas Francis Wade, mid-late 19th century, a fine and heavy robe of peacock blue silk, elaborately embroidered overall with butterflies in a variety of colours, with border of butterflies and braid to neck, sleeve edges, and gusseted sides, quilted cream silk lining (with some minor discolouration in a few places), a few loose stitches and minor marks, but generally in very good condition, length 133cm (52.5ins), together with an old manuscript note 'Mandarin's Coat to MSH from T. Wade. Uncle Tom. Sir Thomas Wade First English Minister to China. Used as Opera Cloak by MSH also MFH' Provenance: Given by Sir Thomas Wade (1818-1895) to his sister-in-law Maria Sophia Hardcastle, n‚e Herschel (1839-1929), and thence by descent. A quite magnificent robe with an interesting ownership history. Sir Thomas Wade was an eminent British diplomat and sinologist who spent over forty years in China. He taught himself Mandarin, wrote extensively on Chinese studies, and his pioneering work led to the famous Wade-Giles system of romanization for Mandarin Chinese. Thomas Wade was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University. In 1868 he married Amelia Herschel, the daughter of astronomer Sir John Herschel, and sister of Maria Sophia. (1)

*Shoes. A pair of ladies' shoes, early 19th century, ivory satin, square toe and throat, the latter trimmed with a small satin bow, slight fraying to top of heels, lacking ties, sole of left shoe annotated in pencil in contemporary manuscript 'worn on my wedding day', length 24cm (9.5ins), together with Two ladies' shoes, Grieve & Co., early 19th century, two black satin shoes, both right shoes (indicated in contemporary manuscript inside), square toe and throat, the latter trimmed with a small satin bow, white kid leather insoles, latter with engraved label 'Shoes Sent to Pattern by Post, Grieve & Co., Ladies Boot & Shoe Manufacturers, No.21 New Bond Strt., To the Royal Family', contemporary manuscript ownership name of Miss Pakenham inside both, looped black ties (slightly later?), length 25cm (10ins), plus another cream satin pair similar, with paper labels 'gauche' and 'droit', and engraved label of F. Maker, some soiling and fraying, remains of ties The first pair of shoes are in such clean condition that, in view of the inscription, it is likely they were tucked away by the bride after her wedding day and not worn again. The second item is intriguing for its ownership inscription, the most famous Miss Pakenham being Kitty, who became the Duchess of Wellington ten years after Arthur Wellesley had first proposed to her and been deemed an unsuitable match by her family. After a decade of successful campaigns the suitor was seen in a different light by the Pakenhams and Wellesley honoured his proposal despite Kitty having (in Arthur's words to his brother) "grown ugly, by Jove!". The marriage was an unhappy one, as the couple were entirely unsuited. (3 pairs)

*Felix (Auguste, active 1850-1870). A large collection of original designs for hats, 87 pen, ink, and watercolour designs on wove paper (many of the 87 sheets with the design shown from two different angles), some highlighted in gold, several uncoloured (or with only a touch of watercolour), mostly for hats and headdresses, but some for jewellery, stoles, veils, and other accoutrements of dress, many dated variously 1860-1869 in neat contemporary manuscript to lower margin or beneath on album leaf, and some with caption names in the same hand e.g. Omphale, Marie TherŠse, Diva, Niska, Circassienne, Florentine, Bienvenue, ComŠte, Donna Garcia, Toque Grecque, Baudelette Greques, Senorita, approximately 10 x 14cm (4.25 x 5.5ins) and slightly smaller, some light toning and marks in places, 21 mounted (some in double aperture mounts), five mounted, framed, and glazed, most of remainder laid down on album leaves, housed together in a large green cloth solander box (rubbed and marked) Little seems to be known about Felix Auguste, although he was associated with the House of Worth, one of the most important fashion houses in Paris in the 19th century. The founder of the company was Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), the English dressmaker accredited with being the father of haute couture. His designs dominated the Paris fashion scene in the second half of the 19th century and well into the 20th. Later, Auguste Felix worked as a fashion designer for Parisian couturier Paul Poiret (1879-1944). His designs are drawn with great delicacy and his creations were inventive and often witty. The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art hold examples of his watercolours, which rarely come onto the market. Indeed, such a large collection of his work at auction is unprecedented. (87)

Ceramic designs. A sketchbook of original designs for pottery, circa 1822, approximately 170 pages, with drawings on rectos and versos, mostly pen & ink or pencil, but including approximately 50 watercolours (and a few with monochrome watercolour), depicting figure groups, birds and animals, flowers, with 26 pages contemporary manuscript at rear, mostly pertaining to paint colours, chemicals, and painting and printing techniques, and some notes relating to astronomy (mentioning Gemma Frisius, Uleg Beg, Dr. Bradley, Dr. Halley, and others), paper watermarked W. Weatherley 1822, some dust-soiling and marks, one leaf detached, original sheep with worn pencil slot, spine deficient and covers detached, lacking clasp, 8 x 13cm (3.25 x 5ins), together with another sketchbook of drawings, 1774-75, 60 pages, with pen & ink (and traces of pencil) still life designs on rectos and versos, mostly rectangular but including some circular or oval, each annotated to lower margin, with details of composition (e.g. 'Black Grapes, Peach & Linnets nest'), many mentioning Mr. Ackermann, but also Mr. Bassett, Mr. Stamford, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Nibbs, etc., toned and some marks, some chipping to lower edge (just clipping annotations in one or two places), engraved label to front pastedown 'Ackermann 191 Regent Street', original half roan, with pencil slot, rubbed, 9.5 x 13cm (3.75 x 5.25ins) (2)

*Swinnerton (Frederick, late 19th century). Bruges, oil on canvas, showing a peasant girl making lace, seated on a wooden stool beside houses alongside a canal, with a stone bridge over the water beyond, and washing hanging on a line, signed and titled in red lower right, 80 x 61cm (31.5 x 24ins), original fine quality gilt frame, with leaf and berry moulding and recessed acanthus leaves to corners, glazed, with later framer's label on verso annotated in manuscript 'regilded 1949' Provenance: Private Collection, Lancashire. (1)

*Thompson (Edward Horace, 1879-1949). Passing Gleams Loweswater and Melbreck, watercolour, showing sun shining through clouds over a loch with mountains, signed lower left, 25 x 39.5cm (9.75 x 15.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with artist's original printed label on backboard titled in manuscript Provenance: Private Collection, Lancashire. (1)

Morritt (John Bacon Sawrey). A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians, who have recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy. In Answer to Two Late Publications of Mr. Bryant, 1st edition, York, 1798, folding map, five folding aquatint plates after Gaetano Mercati, some toning and waterstains, offsetting and occasional light spotting, some pencil annotations and marginalia, original boards, manuscript title to spine, some wear to spine, upper cover detaching, some edge wear and stains, 4to Abbey Travel 398; Atabey 840; Blackmer 1157. Provenance: James Rennell (1742-1830, British geographer and 'Father of Oceanography'), his pencil annotations and bookplate, with the additional bookplate of his daughter Lady Rodd (1785?-1863), revisor and publisher of her father's works. "Morritt wrote this account of his sojourn in the Troad in response to Bryant's Dissertation concerning the War of Troy, 1796 and to his attack on Le Chevalier in Observations upon a Treatise, entitled a Description of the Plain of Troy, 1796... This journey to the Troad was made in November 1794, in company with James Dallaway and the artist Gaetano Mercati, who was in the service of the English ambassador Sir Robert Liston." (Blackmer). (1)

Allegorical map. Cooper (Mary), A map or chart of the road of love and harbour of marriage..., Aug. 15th 1747, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, long repaired closed tears, 175 x 300 mm, together with an 18th century pen and ink manuscript copy of the above map, old folds, some splitting along old folds, laid on later paper, 200 x 296 mm A scarce allegorical map showing the journey of love, beginning in the 'Sea of common life' and ending in 'Felicity harbour' having passed through the 'Harbour of marriage'. (2)

Czechoslavakia. Koderl (Josunn?), Manuscript map of the country surrounding the town of Olomouc, 1820, large watercolour and pencil map, some dust soiling largely confined to the margins, some marginal fraying and closed tears, 475 x 645 mm, together with another manuscript map of the same region by another hand (Nathias Berchel), toned overall, some marginal fraying, 470 x 640 mm The maps are highly detailed showing contours, roads, rivers, forests, settlements and fortifications. It is probable that these were executed by soldiers or military cadets as the maps have a martial appearance. The first map has the legend 'Bombardier & Baumann Compagnie' at the base. (2)

Devon & Cornwall. Geological Survey of Great Britain, published Ordnance Survey, 1809 [or later], nine engraved sheets with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, each sheet with a manuscript pen and watercolour key plan, each sheet approximately 640 x 480 mm, marbled endpapers, contained in a contemporary cloth box with printed label to upper board and a manuscript title label to spine (1)

England & Wales. Greenough (George Bellas), A Geological Map of England & Wales by G. B. Greenough Esq. F.R.S., President of the Geological Society, published by the Geological Society, 2nd edition, November 1st. 1839, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen on six sheets, calligraphic title with a manuscript number '137' below title, separate 'index of colours', each map sheet approximately 635 x 810 mm, slight offsetting, contained in a contemporary green morocco gilt book box with 'envelope style' lid, slight wear to extremities A bright example of a map which was controversial at the time of its publication, in that Greenough was accused of plagiarising William Smith's earlier and ground breaking geological survey and map of 1815. Greenough was stung enough by the critisicm to issue a written defense of his actions which was published in 'Memoir of a Geological Map of England: to Which are Added, an Alphabetical Index to the Hills, and a List of the Hills Arranged According to Counties (1820)'.William Smith's low social staus and background resulted in his work being largely ignored and the Geological Society of London did indeed plagiarise the map, undercutting Smith's asking price, which eventually pushed Smith to financial ruin and the debtor's prison. Recognition of his role as 'The Father of English Geology' would only follow much later in 1831 when Smith was awarded the Woolaston medal by the Geological Society. Greenough's map is important in its own right and is now recognised as a separate piece of scholarship but unlike Smith it involved no surveying but relied on other surveyors sending him information which he then collated. (1)

Persia. Ortelius (Abraham), Persici sive Sophorum regni typus, [1573], hand coloured engraved map, slight dust soiling, 350 x 495 mm, printed German text and manuscript French text on verso, text 'red-ruled' Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps, no. 167. (1)

Schreiber (Johann George). [Atlas Selectus von allen Konigreichen und landern der welt ...,] Leipzig, circa 1749, lacking printed title and index, manuscript index of maps, twenty-eight (only) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, some staining and dust soiling throughout, a few maps with the principal cities underlined, some near contemporary ink marginalia, hinges and joints cracked, contemporary boards, lacking spine, boards near detached, heavily worn and frayed, oblong 4to Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

World. Smith (Charles & Son, publisher), The World on Mercator's Projection, 1830, large engraved map with bright contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 785 x 1210 mm, contained in a contemporary cloth slipcase with printed label (with a near contemporary manuscript signature) to upper cover (1)

Carington Bowles (publisher). Bowles's Post-Chaise Companion; or a Travellers Directory through England and Wales..., 2 volumes, 1782, double page engraved map of England & Wales, 200 uncoloured engraved strip road maps printed on one hundred sheets, tables and index bound at rear, later manuscript annotations to front and rear endpapers of volume one, uniform green calf with gilt decorated spines, upper board and front endpaper detached from volume 2, rubbed and worn, 8vo (2)

The Graphic. A run of eighteen volumes, 1898 - 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, sixteen 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 (18)

Baskerville Press. Paradise Lost, a Poem in Twelve Books, the Author, John Milton, from the Text of Thomas Newton, 2 volumes, printed by John Baskerville for J & R Tonson, 1709, minor scattered spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary diced calf, rubbed to joints and extremities, 4to, together with Symmons (Charles), The Life of John Milton, 2nd edition, Nichols and Son, et al, 1810, engraved portrait frontispiece, one engraved folding plate, minor scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary blind and gilt decorated calf, rubbed to joints, 8vo, plus Horace's works, printed at the Bodani press, and Horatius Flaccus (Quintus). Opera, 2 volumes, Johannes Pine, 1733-37, all-engraved, list of subscribers present in both volumes, lacking list of antiquities (as often), contemporary manuscript index tipped in at rear of volume one, short closed marginal tear to final engraved leaf and final blank, bookplate of William Henry Harford to upper pastedown of each volume, contemporary calf, gilt and blind decorated, gilt decorated spines, a little rubbed at joints, labels partially deficient, 8vo (6)

Bible [English]. [The Bible, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined, Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1594], general title lacking, New Testament title within decorative woodcut border, double-column text in black letter, Apocrypha present (provided from another edition), early manuscript genealogical entries to New Testament title margins (torn to upper outer corner), additional early manuscript entries and verse to verso of New Testament title and few other leaves, Concordance at rear lacking final leaf (L2), some browning, spotting & dust-soiling, old paper repairs, few leaves loose and some fraying to margins, contemporary calf, vertical split to spine with loss of leather, worn, 4to Herbert 221, Darlow & Moule 170, STC 2163. Geneva version. With Genesis i. 3. 'Then God saide...'. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)

Dibdin (Thomas Frognall). Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, and of many Valuable First Editions, in the Library of George John Earl Spencer [and:] Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp, the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, to which is added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana [and:] A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, lately forming part of the Library of the Duke Di Cassano Serra, and now the Property of George John Earl Spencer, 7 volumes, 1st editions, for the author, 1814-23, half-title to each volume (except volume 7, 'Cassano'), Bibliotheca Spenceriana with engraved frontispiece and dedication leaf to volume 1, errata and advertisement leaves to rear of volume 3, fascimile plates (many in colours, some on india paper, mounted), profuse fascimiles of 15th-century woodcuts and types in the text, frequently rubricated, 1 vignette on india paper, 2 vignettes on india paper lacking (at volume 1 pp. 79 and 87), occasional spotting and offsetting, Aedes Althorpianae with 32 engraved plates (offset, some spotted), facsimile woodcuts in text, all volumes with presentation plates dated 1894 to front pastedowns, a few discreet ownership ink-stamps, top edges gilt, late-19th-century brown half morocco by Worsfold, rubbed, large 8vo (26.2 x 16.2 cm), together with: Peck (Francis), Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces relating chiefly to Matters of English History ... a new edition, greatly corrected, 2 volumes, printed for Thomas Evans, 1779, 10 etched plates including frontispiece, 20th-century bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford to initial blanks, contemporary tree calf, richly gilt spines, rubbed, joints cracked, minor wear to extremities, a wide-margined copy, large 4to (33 x 22 cm); Roxburghe (John Ker, 3rd Duke of), A Catalogue of the Library of the late John Duke of Roxburghe ... which will be sold by auction ... by Robert H. Evans [bound with:] A Supplement [and:] 'The Prices of the Roxburghe Library', 3 parts in 1 volume, 1st editions, W. Bulmer and Co., 1812, engraved frontispiece, blank ledger leaves bound in to rear, bookplate of John Bailey Langhorne (1816-1877), contemporary diced russia, rebacked, 8vo; and Coker Court, Somerset, [Manuscript library catalogue], 1842, 60 unnumbered pages + blanks, Coker Court bookplate, contemporary half roan, spine worn, 4to Provenance: From the Library of Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (11)

Hardyng (John). [The Chronicle of Ihon Hardying in metre ... from the first begynnyng of Englande, unto Edwarde ye fourth ... with a continuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diverse autors of substanciall credit, yt either in Latin orels in our mother toungue], 1st edition, [Richard Grafton, January 1543], 2 parts in 1 volume, text in black letter, woodcut cribl‚ initials, lacking **1-5 (including title page), a7-e4, g1-5, 2A1 (divisional title page) and 2S8-2V8, **1 (title page) and 2S8-2T1 supplied in 18th-century manuscript, occasional soiling and damp-staining, headlines and foliation often shaved, quires D-E with early marginalia and probably supplied from another copy, 2K7 lower outer corner restored, marginal repair to 2P3, bibliographical annotations and tipped catalogue descriptions to front front free endpaper and manuscript title page, 17th-century reversed calf, rebacked and recorned, gilt arms of Ralph Sheldon (1623-84) to sides, 8vo (18.6 x 11.8 cm) Provenance: binding with gilt arms of Ralph Sheldon (1623-1684), antiquary, collector and royalist, who 'created a fine library at Weston [his Warwickshire seat], catalogued by Anthony Wood' (ODNB); Sheldon's family were one of the wealthiest in the region but were restricted socially owing to their Catholicism. ESTC S103772; STC 12766.7; Hanham, 'The Two Editions of Grafton's Chronicle of John Harding', Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand III (1979) pp. 17-23 for the priority of this edition, First edition, with vertical chain-lines throughout, and leaf 2O4 beginning 'whiche' with lines 10-11 erroneously stating that Henry VII made 'Edwarde his eldest sonne duke of Buckingham'. In the second edition (STC 12767) the Continuation was revised, omitting most of the account of Henry VIII (quire 2V), which is also absent from some copies of the first issue. STC notes that the Harvard copy 'lacks Tt-Vv8 (last leaf of Hen. VII and all of Hen. VIII), and it is just possible that its text was originally abbreviated in a fashion similar to 12767', and that the Peterborough Cathedral copy 'also ends Ss8, completed by a few lines in MS'. (1)

Manuscript. Antiphonary on vellum, southern Europe, early 18th century, 34 leaves foliated 1-32 and [?]103-4, incipit 'Dixit Dominus' (Psalm 110), explicit 'oportet me esse' (Luke 2:49), 6 5-line staves to the page, 10 polychromatic initials with acanthus-leaf infill, 2 measuring 14.5 x 14.5 cm, the remainder 7 x 7 cm, additional calligraphic initials throughout in red or black, opening spread soiled and initial 'D' offset, variable rubbing and soiling elsewhere, generally mild, hair sides yellowed, rear inner hinge loose, contemporary diced russia with brass studs, rubbed, loss to spine-ends, large folio (52.5 x 36.5 cm) (1)

Nodes (O., & J. Bowcher). A Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, adapted to the Various Metres now in use in all Churhces, Chapels, and Dissenting Congregations throughout Great-Britain, the whole carefully figureed for the Organ, Piano-Forte, etc., 1st edition, printed for the editors, by W. Smith, 1803, 10 pp. preliminary text including title page, introduction, list of subscribers, and index, 152 pp. of engraved music score, 80 pp. (paginated 153-232) of contemporary manuscript music score to rear, initial blank loose, title page chipped at corner, final leaf of introduction torn and repaired, contemporary calf-backed boards, worn, vertical median cracks to boards, oblong 4to, together with Ashworth (Caleb), A Collection of Tunes, Part I. Consisting of Psalms Tunes ... with an Introduction to the Art of Singing and Plain Composition, 4th edition, enlarged, J. Buckland, 1775, 28 pp. preliminary text, 80 pp. engraved music score, 14 pp. contemporary manuscript music score to rear, some minor worming, pagination occasionally shaved, contemporary sheep (probably original, the title page with 'Price, bound in Sheep and rolled, Three Shillings' at foot), worn, oblong 4to, and Engraved music. [Primer and hymn book], 72 leaves of engraved music score including scales, exercises and hymns, printed rectos only and foliated 1-72, possibly lacking the title page, erratically interleaved with blanks filled with contemporary manuscript music score, 20 further leaves of manuscript music score to rear, 18th-century ownership inscriptions to pastedowns, contemporary calf, worn, oblong 8vo, and 3 similar ESTC N28000 for Ashworth (tracing two copies only, Newberry and Pittsburgh); the second part did not appear until 1782 and ESTC traces only the British Library copy. For the first work (Nodes and Bowcher) OCLC traces four copies in libraries (British Library, King's College London, and two US institutions). (6)

Percy (Thomas). Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances. Edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 volumes, London: N Trubner & Co., 1867-1868, bookplate of Joseph Knight to upper pastedown and ink stamp to front free blank, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary olive green straight grain morocco backed boards, large 4to Pencil note one of 65 copies on Whatman paper. (4)

Rudd (Thomas). Practicall Geometry, in Two Parts: The first, shewing how to perform the four Species of Arithmeticke ... The second, containing A Hundred Geometricall Questions, 1st edition, by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Robert Boydell, 1650, 2 parts in 1 volume, woodcut diagrams, head- and tailpieces and initials, closely trimmed throughout, cropping pagination, signatures and catch-words in part 1, just shaving several headlines in part 2, minor soiling to 2A2 verso (probaby a printing-shop accident), contemporary manuscript calculations to part 2 p. 121, blind-stamp of the earls of Macclesfield to title page and first 2 text-leaves, title page also with the cropped ownership inscription of William Jones (1675-1749), mathematician and tutor to the earls of Macclesfield, South Library bookplate to front pastedown, later calf, rebacked to style, 4to (17 x 11.5 cm) Wing R2107A. Provenance: Library of the Earls of the Macclesfield, Part IV, 4 November 2004, lot 862. (1)

Yorke (James). The Union of Honour. Containing the Armes, Matches and Issues of the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses and Earles of England from the Conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640. With the Armes of the English Viscounts and Barons now being: and of the Gentry of Lincolnshire. Whereunto is Annexed, a briefe of all the Battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the Conquest, till the yeere 1602, London: printed by Edward Griffin for William Leake, 1640 [i.e. 1641], [pi]2,A-B6,C4,D-2D6,2E6 (-2E3.4 + 2E3,4),2F6,3A-3F6,3G2,[2A2],2B-O2, additional engraved title with imprint dated 1641, cancel leaf to gathering 2E, few worm holes and running worm trail affecting some text, some dampstaining, modern calf, maroon morocco title label, folio, (STC 26103), together with Melville (James), The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: containing an Impartial Account of the most Remarkable Affairs of State during the last age, not mentiond by other Historians: more particularly relating to the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James. In all which Transactions the Author was Personally and Publickly concern'd. Now published from the Original Manuscript. By George Scott, Gent., London: Printed by E.H. for Robert Boulter, 1683, signature to upper margin of title excised and lined to verso, ink stamps to title and few other leaves, fraying to lower margins of last few leaves, endpapers renewed, contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, small folio, with Weever (John), Ancient Fenueral Monuments within the united Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent..., London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1631, few woodcut illustrations, without additional engraved title, and lacking all after p.871 4E4 (17 pages of index a-b4), some margins repaired, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, folio, plus Camden (William), Annals, or, the Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queen of England..., Written in Latin by the learned Mr. William Camden. Translated into English by R.N. Gent. Together with divers additions of the authors never before published, 3rd edition, 1635, letterpress title cropped to ruled margin and lined to verso, without frontispiece, additional title and final five leaves of contents at rear, some toning, dampstains and few paper repairs & consequent occasional text loss to few leaves, 18th century calf, rebacked, small folio (4)

Heron-Allen (Edward, 1861-1943). A Manual of Cheirosophy, Being a Complete Practical Handbook of the Twin Sciences of Cheirognomy and Cheiromancy by Means Whereof the Past, the Present, and the Future may be Read in the Formation of the Hands..., 1885, author's original holograph manuscript and corrected proofs, containing the original pencil sketches for the outline illustrations, as well as the artist's illustrations, bound together with a number of original drawings of the palm and its lines, and approximately 30 autograph letters signed relating to the work, bookplate of Heron-Allen to front pastedown, contemporary half morocco, 4to Sabattini 269. (1)

Illuminated manuscript facsimiles & reference. The Holkham Bible Picture Book, Introduction and Commentary by W. O. Hassall, 1st edition, Dropmore Press, 1954, colour and half-tone illustrations, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red full niger, blind vignettes to boards, spines slightly sunned, folio, number 39 of 100 copies signed by the editor, together with Dorez (L‚on, editor), Les manuscrits … peintures de la bibliothŠque de Lord Leicester … Holkham Hall, Norfolk, choix de miniatures et de reliures, 1st edition, Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1908, half-title, 60 plates, half-title and plate 23 slightly soiled, later red half morocco, large folio,McKendrick (Scot, editor), The History of Alexander the Great, An Illuminated Manuscript of Vasco da Lucena's French Translation of the Ancient Text by Quintus Curtius Rufus, 1st edition, Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996, photographic illustrations, original cloth with printed paper front board, spine slightly sunned, cloth slipcase (sunned), large folio, Thomas (Marcel, editor), Les Grand Heures de Jean Duc de Berry, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 1971, photographic illustrations, original red cloth gilt, red cloth slipcase (with slight fraying), large folio, and 2 others Provenance: From the Library of Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (6)

Pickford (William). How to Referee, with numerous diagrams explanatory of the association game of football, 1st edition, E. Hulton, circa 1906, 139 pages, illustrations, advertisements to pastedowns, some toning, library stamps to title and introductory leaf, library manuscript note to title (repeated at head of front cover), original yellow pictorial cloth, spine darkened and a little rubbed, some soiling, 8vo Scarce. William Pickford was an early inovator of the rules of Association Football and the book's aim "is to try and place the problems of the game in a popular form, to be a guide to the Referee and Linesman, to help the beginner, and is hoped to instil a better grasp of essential points in the minds of a class singularly ill-informed upon them - the players." (1)

Cary (John). Cary's New Itinerary: or an accurate delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross throughout England and Wales..., 1st edition, 1798, printed, title and dedication, folding engraved map of England & Wales, book plate of the Right Honble. Charles Lindley Viscount Halifax to rear of dedication, extensive near contemporary manuscript text to pastedowns and front and rear endpapers, modern marbled half calf but retaining original marbled boards, 8vo, together with the 3rd edition (2 copies), 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th editions of the same volume, mixed bindings, all 8vo, all with protective later paper dust wrappers, together with Paterson (Daniel), A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales and part of the roads of Scotland..., 15th edition, 1811, frontispiece of a folding engraved map of England & Wales, folding map of the Isle of Wight, slightly later ownership signatures to front pastedown and front endpaper, contemporary half calf gilt, upper joint cracked, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, together with the 17th & 18th edition, both with seven uncoloured folding regional maps by Edward Mogg, the 17th edition in contemporary calf, the 18th in contemporary reverse calf, re-backed, 8vo, with two cartons of late 19th and early 20th century volumes, mostly relating to roads, coaching and travel, plus a carton of approximately fifty folding Ordnance survey and touring maps, mostly 20th century, various sizes and condition (4 cartons)

Illuminated Address. To John Kellitt Esq., J.P., C.C., from the Members of the Liverpool and District Grocers and Provision Dealers Association in appreciation of his ability and courtesy displayed during his year of office as President of the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom, 1899, three thick card leaves (5 pages), consisting of fine hand illuminated title in gold and colours, two pages of dedication, with elaborate border decorations in gold and colours, all incorporating detailed vignette watercolours of Liverpool, and two pages of manuscript signatures, each with decorative illuminated border, illuminated by S. Harris Oxton, 12A Preesons Row, Liverpool, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers with dark blue morocco hinges, original black morocco with elaborate gilt decoration incorporating panelled decoration to boards and gilt initial J.K. to upper board, oblong 4to (25.5 x 31.5cm), together with a related photograph album with manuscript label to front pastedown "To John Kellitt Esq. J.P. with kindest regards from J. Shaw, 70 Parkhill St., Bolton. In appreciation of untiring services for the Grocery Trade, May 1911", containing 24 photographs with captions dated 1897-1910, includes scenes particularly including Grocers' association conference delegates in Liverpool, London, Darley Dale, driving to Chatsworth, at Fountain's Abbey, conference delegates motoring from Ripon, York, Oxford, on the River Thames, at Nuneham, Blenheim Palavce, Blackpool and Windermere etc., all edges gilt, original morocco with padded covers, slight wear to spine, small 4to, plus a small collection of related newspaper cuttings and memoriam address for John Kellitt (c.1841-1920) (2)

Ford (W.J.). A History of the Cambridge University Cricket Club 1820-1901, 1902, 7 black and white illustrations, some minor toning, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly faded and rubbed, 8vo, together with Backhouse (Janet), The Madresfield Hours, a fourteenth-century manuscript in the library of Earl Beauchamp, The Roxburghe Club, Oxford, 1975, 46 black and white facsimile plates, publisher's original red quarter morocco, boards lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Sutton (Richard Vincent), A Record of His Life, together with extracts from his private papers, printed by George W. Jones, 1922, black and white illustrations, original quarter cloth, boards lightly marked, large 8vo, plus other 20th century miscellaneous literature and reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to Provenance: From the Library of Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (6 shelves)

Band (George C., 1929-2011). Collection of books from the library of 1953 British Mount Everest expedition member George C. Band, all with his ownership inscription, book label, annotations (on self-adhesive slips tipped to margins), related laid-in material, or inscriptions to Band from the authors, the titles including: Winter-Blyth (M. A.), Butterflies of the Indian Region, 1st edition, Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1957, colour plates, title page partially detached, ownership inscription 'George Band, Chittagong, 1967', original boards (marked), dust jacket, large 8vo, Abraham (George D.), The Complete Mountaineer, 1st edition, Methuen & Co., 1907, photographic plates, spotting, endpapers browned, library plate and ink-stamp of Lincoln College, Oxford, book label of George C. Band, original cloth, worn, manuscript shelf-mark to spine, 8vo, Bonington (Chris), Chris Bonington's Everest, 1st edition, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2002, inscribed by Bonington 'To George, Happy memories, Ch. Bonington' on the title page, original boards, dust jacket, 4to, and 27 others others, various formats. Together with: Dyhrenfurth (Norman G., 1918-2017), Collection of Italian mountaineering books from the library of Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, leader of the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition, all with Dyhrenfurth's bookplate and ownership inscription, several inscribed at length by the authors to Dyhrenfurth's father G. O. Dyhrenfurth, leader of the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition, titles including Ghighlione (Piero), Dalle Ande all'Him laya, 1st edition, Turin: Montes, 1936, original boards, dust jacket, number 397 of 500 copies, and 6 others Collection of books from the libraries of two Himalayan pioneers, George C. Band and Norman G. Dyhrenfurth. Copac traces one copy only of Winter-Blyth's Butterflies of the Indian Region (British Library). (37)

Railways. A mixed collection of books, maps and photographs relating to railways, mostly 20th century, including MacDermot (E. T.), History of the Great Western Railway, 2 volumes (bound in three), 1927 - 1931, portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and maps throughout, contemporary cloth gilt, slight wear, 8vo (bound in 16s), together with Cruchley (G. F.), Railway map of England & Scotland, circa 1850, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset map of the 'continuation of Scotland', some staining, 700 x 510 mm, book plate of Richard Wyatt Bagshawe, bound in contemporary cloth with printed label to upper board, with Bradshaw (George), Map & Section of the Railways of Great Britain..., 1845, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset map of the environs of London, numerous gradient profiles, some spotting, 1600 x 990 mm, contemporary cloth gilt, upper hinge crudely repaired with sellotape, heavily worn and frayed with spine partially detached, later ink manuscript date to upper cover, plus two volumes (1936 & 1939) of the Great Western Railway Magazine, a folding lithographic map of the Canadian Pacific railway and a large collection of approximately 300 20th century photographs all relating to railways, various sizes and condition (approx.300)

Shropshire. An illuminated manuscript volume 'Reliquia Monastica in agro Salopiensi Extantes', circa 1850, 12 paper leaves, including illuminated decorative title, 8 leaves of manuscript verse with fine watercolour vignettes illustrations of various monastic buildings and ruins in Shropshire (to recto only), and two other leaves including a manuscript list of religious houses in the county, initial leaf with illuminated initial F.T.S. (two dates at foot of December 1847 & December 1857), moire patterned paper endpapers, hinges split, contemporary calf backed boards, gilt decoration to leather on boards and moire patterned paper covered boards, slight wear to extremities, slim folio (37 x 26cm) (1)

De Salis (Henry Rodolph). Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. A Handbook of Inland Navigation for Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders, and Others..., 1918, folding colour lithograph map contained in rear pocket, manuscript ownership to front free endpaper, original green cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo, together with A Chronology of Inland Navigation in Great Britain, 1897, with loosely inserted autograph letter signed from the author to Mr Bancroft of Ipswich Town Hall regarding travels around the navigations of the UK and his forthcoming book, original cloth gilt, 8vo, with Prothero (F.E. & Clark, W.A.), Cruising Club Manual. A New Oarsman's Guide to the Rivers and Canals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, 1896, folding lithograph map contained in rear pocket, original cloth, spine browned, frayed to extrem, 8vo, with Supplement to A New Oarsman'd Guide..., 1898, original printed wrappers, adhesive tape to lower left corner over upper cover, slim 8vo, plus other canal and inland waterway related, including Through the Kennet and Avon Canal by Motor Boat by Cyril Herbery Smith, 1st edition, 1929, inscribed by the author, and an ex-library set of History of the Manchester Ship Canal by Sir Bosdin Leech, 2 volumes, 1907 (18)

Fulton (Robert). A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation; Exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from Small Canals. And Boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen. With a description of the Machinery for facilitating Conveyance by Water through the most Mountainous Countries, independent of Locks and Aqueducts: including Observations on the great Importance of Water Communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, Aqueducts and Bridges of iron and wood, 1st edition, London: I. and J. Taylor, 1796, xvi,144pp., 17 engraved plates, without advertisement leaf at rear, oval ink library stamp, perforated stamp and manuscript number to title (strengthened at fore-edge), ink stamp at foot of first contents leaf and oval ink stamp mostly to lower outer corners of plates, some spotting and browning, modern half calf, green morocco title label to spine, 4to Sabin 26201. (1)

Hibbard (John). Hibbard's Essay of the Great Utility and Interest that might arise from a Circular & other Collateral, &c. Canal Navigation and Drainage, with the Great Interest, Advantage and Improvement locally arising therefrom to the Improvement of Agriculture and Cattle, Manufactures, Commerce, and Fisheries of Britain and Ireland. With Statements, at small expences, attending such being executed from the North to South Coasts, in proportion to its Magnitude of more than Two Thousand Miles. Also the present reducement of the prices of Grain. And further Improvement attending the Growth of Wheat, and use of Oats in Bread..., London: Printed for the Author, [1804], [2],43,[1],4pp., initial leaf facing title with few closed tear and lined to verso, last two lines of purchase information at foot of title crossed through, some dust-soiling and few marks, modern boards, slim 8vo The first edition was originally published in 1800. ESTC refers to an 1800 example with the presence of an illustration/manuscript map (ESTC N478108). The later edition in this lot includes a four page appendix 'The Author having published his thoughts....'. (1)

Priestley (Joseph). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain, as a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation, derived from Original and Parliamentray Documents in the Possession of Joseph Priestley, Esq., 1831, double-page engraved map frontispiece and hand-coloured folding sectional plan at rear (slight offsetting), ink name stamp to front free endpaper, edges untrimmed, original cloth, printed paper title label to spine, joints and extremities frayed, 8vo, together with a printed letter from Aire & Calder Navigation Office, Wakefield, dated April 22nd 1844 regarding interest rate reductions on invested money in the project, signed by Joseph Priestley, plus an manuscript document dated 19th June 1797 regarding a share of ninety pounds invested by William Wainman of Carhead in the undertaking of the canal navigation from Leeds to Liverpool, signed by Joseph Priestley and William Wainman (3)

Rolt (Lionel Thomas Caswall). Narrow Boat, 1st edition, 1944, frontispiece and illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford, original cloth in dust jacket, torn with loss mostly at head and foot of spine, 8vo, with loosely inserted autograph letter signed from L.T.C. Rolt to Phillip Mawdsley-Sprot, dated December 29th 1944, on headed notepaper from 'M.B. Cressy', with original envelope, Rolt replies most emphatically in the negative to Mawdsley-Sprott's enquiry as to whether 'Cressy' was for sale, offers to consign him to the nether regions, apparently for speeding on the cut, and goes on to offer him advice on buying and refitting a boat, together with Green and Silver, 1st edition, 1949, black & white plates from photographs by Angela Rolt, front free endpaper inscribed by L.T.C. Rolt, dated September 10th 1950, and signed by Angela, original cloth in dust jacket, torn with some loss at head and foot, 8vo, with The Inland Waterways of England, 1st edition 1950, colour frontispiece and black & white plates, folding map at rear, front free endpaper signed by L.T.C. Rolt, and with loosely inserted manuscript leaf of notes in his hand, and related letter from Angela Rolt, original cloth, dust jacket torn with slight loss at head & foot of spine (repaired to verso), 8vo, plus other works by L.T.C. Rolt and related, including four signed and a copy of Narrow Boat from the collection of Denys Watkins-Pitchford (27)

Manuscript. Receipt book of remedies and cures, late 17th century. Circa 320 pages of closely written hand-writing. Several pages of moves for country dances near the end in a later hand. Signature of Richard Thompson on p.23

*After Edward Donovan (1768-1837). Six fine watercolours of butterflies, including South American Lepidoptera, one of British swallowtail butterflies, and one of Australian locusts, early 19th century, all painted attending single plant sprigs, together six fine watercolour and gouache paintings on card, heightened with gum arabic, sheet size 26.5 x 20cm (10.5 x 8ins) and slightly smaller, mounted on thick paper album leaves, within sepia ink ruled or printed border, five carefully (but erroneously) titled in ink above 'Van Diemans Land Lepidoptera' and one 'British Lepidoptera', the five of Lepidoptera with plant title below, all within ruled frame, mount size 35.5 x 26cm (14 x 10.25ins), contemporary black frames Provenance: Private Collection, Gloucestershire. Five of the items offered here are inscribed in manuscript with the name of the plant, the first four being Australian plants: 1) 'Patersonia Glauca' with two butterflies:Historis odius and one unidentified; 2) 'Lechenaultia Formosa' with four butterflies: Episcada mira, Adelpha alala, Charaxes Ameliae [Africa] and unidentified skipper or moth; 3) 'Calostemma Purpureum' with two large butterflies: Caligo sp. and one unidentified; 4) 'Kennedia Coccinea' with four butterflies: Diaethria phlogea, Prepone dexamenis, Heliconus sp. and Noctuidae; 5) 'Ilex Aquifolium' [common holly] with two Papilio Machaon [UK]; 6) Unidentified plant [Patersonia?] with two Australian locusts. However, a specialist consultant has identified four of the images as South American butterflies on Australian plants. The watercolour of locusts is correctly identified as an Australian insect on an Australian plant, and the sixth image as British swallowtails on an Austrian holly branch. Edward Donovan was an Anglo-Irish writer, natural history illustrator, and amateur zoologist. He did not travel, but collected, described and illustrated many species based on the collections of his own and other naturalists. His best known works are An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China (1798) and Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas (1800,) and Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and Other Islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans (1805). The incorrect matching of these largely South American butterflies with Tasmanian/Australian plants would suggest that these highly skilled, unsigned watercolours were drawn by a contemporary of Edward Donovan, possibly someone in his circle, rather than by Donovan himself. (6)

Walsh (John Henry). The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle;including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles, and Revolvers, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Horace Cox, "The Field" office, 1882-4, numerous wood-engraved plates and vignettes, publisher's advertisements to rear of each volume, folding plate facing volume 2 p. 404 tape-repaired verso, inner hinges strengthened, original green cloth gilt over bevelled boards, extremities slightly rubbed, small sections of mottling to volume 2 covers, 8vo, together with: Teasdale-Buckell (George Teasdale), Experts on Guns and Shooting, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, Limited, 1900, photographic frontispiece, numerous photographic and woodcut illustrations, as plates and to the text, 3 folding tables, publisher's advertisements to rear, original cloth, pictorial onlay to front board (rubbed), large 8vo; Muirhead (James Patrick), Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks, 1st edition, John Murray, 1857, wood-engraved frontispiece, 5 plates, spotting, Eton College library plate dated 1881 to front pastedown, presentation plate inscribed 'Jacobus Patricius Muirhead' to front free endpaper, original green pictorial cloth gilt, manuscript shelf-mark in white ink to spine, square 8vo; Tennent (Sir J. Emerson), The Story of the Guns, 1st edition, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864, 4 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, inscribed by the author 'Th. young Esq, from J. Emerson Tennent' on the half-title, original green cloth, slightly rubbed and bumped, some minor wear, 8vo; and approximately 45 others, all concerning gunnery and field sports, 19th and early 20th century, original cloth, various formats (54)

Wilson (Rev. T.). The Little Conchologist; an introduction to the classification of shells, Darton & Clark, [1837], additional half title, engraved frontispiece with contemporary hand colouring, tissue guard, and three additional uncoloured engraved plates, contemporary manuscript ownership signature to front and rear endpaper, index and advertisement for books published by Darton & Clark at rear, all edges gilt, publisher's blind patterned cloth with printed title and ruled margin to upper cover, slight staining. 12mo in 6s Rare. No copy sold in auction in the last twenty-five years. Only two institutional copies found (British Library and Natural History Museum). Lawrence Darton, The Dartons, An annotated check-list, H234. (1)

*Chinese Botany. A collection of approximately 370 original botanical watercolours done at Amoy by Dr Bun-Ko, circa 1700, watercolours of flowers, fruit and plants on individual sheets of laid mulberry paper, each identified in Chinese script and mostly within pen and ink ruled borders, some with additional manuscript notes, the majority inscribed in a contemporary hand 'Done at Emoy in China by Doctor Bun-Ko, bro[ugh]t thence by Mr Chr[istopher] Brewster 1701' to lower margins, the largest sheet 38 x 22cm, but mostly 22 x 22cm and similar sizes James Cuninghame, a Scottish physician attached to the East India Company's 'Factory' in Amoy, commissioned a set of coloured drawings of indigenous plants from a Chinese physician, Dr Bun-Ko. Cuninghame asked Christopher Brewster to take the pictures, together with herbarium specimens, back to England, and present them to James Petiver in 1701. Petiver was a scholarly apothecary who was very actively involved with the Chelsea Physic Garden. The number of species collected by Cuninghame is estimated at nearly 600. The British Library holds 789 of the drawings in Addit. MS. 5292. Two other volumes containing 400 and 249 drawings made at Amoy form Addit. MSS. 5293, 5294. 'Cuninghame was the first European to have successfully returned botanical collections from China, and he sent to other botanists, including Dubois, Pluknet, and Petiver, many new plants including flowering and fruiting specimens of tea, for which he was repeatedly thanked in their works', (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). (approx. 370)

Cellarius (Christopher). Geographia Antiqua: Being a Complete Set of Maps of Antient Geography, 1793, 33 double-page engraved maps, each with manuscript number to verso, some light spotting and soiling, previous owner stamp to front endpaper (detaching), bookplate partly removed from front pastedown, contemporary calf-backed boards, some wear to spine and edges, 4to, together with An Atlas of Ancient Geography, by Samuel Butler, 1822, engraved outline map, engraved title and 20 double-page maps, most with outline colour, some light offsetting and spotting, front hinge broken, contemporary half calf, rebacked, lower joint splitting, edges rubbed, 8vo, plus Theodor Menke's Orbis Antiqui Descriptio, 2nd edition, 1855 (3)

Dillenius (Johann Jakob). Catalogus Plantarum sponte circa Gissam Nascentium. Cum Appendice, qua Plantae post editum Catalogum, circa & extra Gissam observatae recensentur, Johann Maximilian von Sande, Frankfurt, 1719, engraved map frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, a little light toning, contemporary annotations at front, previous owner inscription of John Innys, 1769, Redland Court, Gloucestershire, armorial bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Gloucestershire County Library ink stamp to front pastedown, contemporary calf gilt, manuscript author name to spine label, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo Nissen BBI 490; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1470. Second edition (first published in Frankfurt in 1718) and the first with the appendix, of Dillenius's flora on the area around Giessen in Germany. Bibliographically confusing with Nissen calling for 18 plates, Stafleu & Cowan calling for 16. Presentation copy, inscribed at foot of title: "Gift of the author to Littleton Brown, M.A., F.R.S.". Brown is mentioned by Dillenius in his Historia Muscorum, and assisted him by gathering specimens in Wales, Herefordshire and Shropshire. Interesting provenance with John Innys (died 1778), a London bookseller, who formed a publishing partnership with his brother William before later moving to Redland Court in Bristol. George Weare Braikenridge (1775-1856) was an English antiquarian, who purchased Broomwell House in Brislington, Bristol in 1823 where he amassed the important Braikenridge Collection of Bristol related history and topography. The collection is mostly now held at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Central Library and Bristol Archives. (1)

Gardiner (William). Twenty Lessons on British Mosses; or first steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants, 2nd edition, with enlargements, Edinburgh, 1846, 50 pages, some with mounted moss specimens, stitching broken, contents loose, some toning and offsetting, previous owner letter (torn in half) and inscription to title, bookplate, original blindstamped cloth, lacking spine, covers detached, 8vo, together with Twenty Lessons on British Mosses. Second Series, 1849, mounted moss specimens, some offsetting and spotting, contents detached, bookplate, previous owner inscription of Lady Huggins (1848-1915, scientist and astronomer), original cloth, spine defective, covers detached, 8vo, plus Hepaticae Britannicae; or Pocket Herbarium of British Hepaticae; named and arranged according to the most improved system, by William Graham McIvor, 1st edition, New Brentford, 1847, 18 leaves with 132 mounted specimens in 136 spaces, each with printed captions, plus two extra mounted specimens at end in first Appendix leaf, with manuscript caption (copies have varying numbers of specimens according to availability of rare specimens at the time), some light offsetting, original boards, spine faded, light spotting, 8vo Freeman 1300; 1302 & 2048 respectively. (3)

Gerard (John). [The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes..., very much Enlarged snd Amended by Thomas Johnson..., 2nd edition, London: Adam Islip , Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633], without title, also first and last blank leaves lacking, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, occasional spotting and few damp stains, minor worm holes and short worm trails mostly to upper margins of index and tables at rear, leaf 6Z6 of tables torn with loss and with some repairs including manuscript text infill, front and rear free endpapers detached, bookplate of Sir Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, Bt., contemporary calf, red morocco title label, joints split, worn at head & foot of spine, board corners worn and showing, folio Henrey 155; Nissen BBI 698 & STC 11751. (1)

Turner (Dawson). Muscologiae Hibernicae Spicilegium, 1st edition, Yarmouth, 1804, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light spotting, previous owner signature at head of title, untrimmed in modern half calf gilt, 8vo, together with Muscologia Britannica; Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, by William Jackson Hooker and Thomas Taylor, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, 1827, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates (supplementary plate I at end not published), one or two minor spots, contemporary presentation inscription at head of title, bookplate, contemporary green half morocco gilt, some fading to spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Bryologia Britannica; Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, by William Wilson, 3rd edition, 1855, 61 hand-coloured engraved plates, 3 page manuscript letter from the author to Joseph Sidebotham (1824-1885, Manchester cotton industrialist) dated 1867 tipped-in at front with additional cut signature pasted to front endpaper, bookplate of Joseph Sidebotham, later owner inscription, contemporary green half morocco, spine a little faded, joints rubbed, 8vo, with the same work by Wilson (with uncoloured plates), with a loose 2 page letter from Wilson, 1855, to an unknown recipient but likely Edward Schunck (1820-1903, British chemist), his bookplate and inscription (4)

[Weston, Richard]. Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardening... to which is added a complete chronological catalogue of English authors on agriculture, gardening &c., 1st edition, 1769, engraved plate, bookplate of Norman Douglas Simpson, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (Henrey 1489), together with The Gentleman Farmer. Being an attempt to improve Agriculture, by subjecting it to the test of Rational Principles, [by Henry Home, Lord Kames], 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1776, three engraved plates, some spotting front and rear, bookplate of Alexander Monro, Captain Rifle Brigade, contemporary calf, rebacked with most of original spine relaid, rubbed, 8vo, plus On Planting and Rural Ornament. A Practical Treatise, by William Marshall, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, 1803, advertisement leaf at end of volume II, 4 page manuscript 'Extracted from the Quarterly Review for March 1828' at end of volume I, some annotations to volume II, a little light spotting, bookplates of Sir Oswald Mosley (2nd Baronet, 1785-1871), contemporary calf gilt, volume I upper cover detached, others cracking, spines rubbed and chipped, 8vo (4)

Algae. An album of mounted specimens, circa 1870, 100 specimens mounted on white paper, each with clipped printed or manuscript captions, pasted onto buff album leaves, mostly several specimens per sheet, a few single specimems, two sheets with specimens directly mounted to album leaves, two loose specimens at front, offsetting to paper guards, 'bound at the Operative Jewish Converts Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green, London' ticket at front, all edges gilt, original calf gilt, spine repaired at head, a little rubbed, 4to Attractive specimens in good condition. (1)

Braithwaite (Robert). Sphagnaceae Britannicae Exsiccatae, London, 1877, printed title-page, lithographic dedication page in a facsimile of the author's hand and printed index leaf, 54 leaves (including 21*) of dried sphagnum specimens, between one and six samples per page, mounted on card or loose in purpose-made folded envelopes, leaves 6, 12 & 53 with no specimens, each leaf with manuscript numbered descriptions on mounted paper labels, versos blank, three manuscript corrections to index leaf including addition of 21*, printed notice for author's forthcoming book on Sphagnaceae or Peat-Mosses of Europe and America tipped onto front pastedown, ink presentation inscription beneath, 'Presented to Botany Department of the University of Bristol, Dec 6th 1920 by Mr Walter Derham', original cloth-backed plain boards with linen ties, printed label to spine, rubbed and slightly soiled, folio (35.5 x 25.5cm) (1)

Carrington (Benjamin & Pearson, William Henry). Hepaticae Britannicae Exsiccatae, four fascicules, Manchester, 1878-90, printed titles and 290 leaves with dried mounted specimens, mostly one or two per page, some in packets, each with printed caption label beneath, manuscript contents list for fascicules 1-3 loosely inserted, and identified in pencil as the hand of Reverend A. Ley, with accompanying envelope giving his address as Vicarage, Sellack, Ross, first volume with presentation inscription for B.M. Watkins from Pearson and with Watkins' name and address stamp to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, original cloth, cloth ties, printed labels to upper covers of fascicules 2-4, rubbed and a little frayed, 4to Rare. Only one other copy (fascicules 1-3 only) located at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (4)

*Franklin (John, 1786-1847). Mosses Collected in Capt. Franklin's Expedition to the Arctic Sea [1819-1822], principally named by Professor Schwaeglichen, manuscript title and 70 loose sheets with dried moss specimens mounted, mostly as multiples, to sheet rectos, a little scattered minor loss, title-page and lower mounts inscribed in ink, 'Capt. Franklin's Polar Expedition see his Bot. Appendix 1st edition' or similar, the majority additionally inscribed in another hand with pencil numbers and Latin name identifications to the specimens, some with additional location details for where the specimens were collected (Point Lake, Slave Lake, Camp Lake, Barren Grounds & Woody District, Fort Enterprise, English River, Mississippi River, Grand Rapid, Saskatchewan, Whitefall - October 1819 - Pine Forests, Borrowicks Fall (Set 17, 18, 19)), the title-page title probably in the hand of Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), sheet sizes 23 x 15cm, together with a paper fragment with ink notes in the holograph of Sir John Richardson, 15.5 x 19cm John Richardson, a Scottish naval surgeon and naturalist, travelled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819-1822. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and ichthyology for the official account of the expedition. On this, the first of Franklin's Arctic expeditions, Franklin lost 11 of the 20 men in his party, most dying of starvation, but also at least one murder and suggestions of cannibalism. The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots, gaining Franklin the nickname of 'the man who ate his boots'. Franklin published his 'Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21 and 22' with John Murray in 1823. In the same year John Richardson published 'Botanical Appendix to Captain Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea'. The pencil numbers and identification of specimens on these samples matches those in the Appendix, but the published account gives no specific details of locations. In the Preface Richardson writes: 'Professor [Christian Friedrich] Schwaeglichen, when in London, named the Musci, which renders that part of the list of high authority; and Professor Hooker, by undertaking the examination of the Lichenes and Fungi, has stamped a value upon a portion of the catalogue, upon which it was peculiarly desirable to have the opinion and authority of an eminent cryptogamic botanist'. Richardson returned with Franklin to Canada in 1825 but was not involved in the ill-fated third Arctic expedition of 1845. Richardson travelled with John Rae on an unsuccessful search for Franklin in 1848-49, describing it in 'An Arctic Searching Expedition' (1851). (71)

Peat Moss. An album containing approximately 160 dried sphagnum plant specimens, 1880s, neatly mounted as multiples to 51 album leaf rectos, neatly identified with date and name or initials of collector, the majority collected in west Cornwall by the album's apparent compiler E.W.M., plus some collected by W[illiam] Curnow, and others from the Lake District, Galloway, North Wales, etc., with collectors identified as J.W.N. Beckett, J. McAndrew, S. Anderson, W.B. Waterfall, C.H. Binstead and H. Boswell, plus some collected in North West Germany by F. Ebermaier, each with mounted printed caption completed in manuscript, some leaves blank, the album complete and with specimens in very good condition, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, a little frayed on spine, folio (43 x 28cm) (1)

Wilson (William & Hooker, William Jackson). Musci Americani; or, Specimens of Mosses, Jungermanniae, &c. Collected by the late Thomas Drummond, in the Southern States of North America, Warrington, 1841, printed title with integral blank and 51 leaves with dried specimens, laid two to four to a page on loose paper mounts with printed caption labels numbered 1-180, some specimens in packets, a contemporary manuscript note in Wilson's holograph giving details of 22 of the missing specimens which were included in the 28 previous sets, plus an autograph lengthy note signed by Wilson, Warrington, 31 December 1842, additionally giving a list of mosses sent by William Starling Sullivant [1883-1873] to Hooker as named by Wilson, 4to Rare with only one other copy identified and held by the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Ville de GenŠve. (1)

Malte-Brun (Conrad). Atlas Complet du Precis de la Geographie Universelle, Paris, 1837, title page and seventy-two (complete) engraved maps and charts, including a reduced Peutinger table, geological maps and diagrams, all (with the exception of the Peutinger table) with contemporary outline colouring, index at rear, marbled endpapers, contemporary half morocco gilt, folio, together with Desnos (Louis Conrad), Atlas de France. divis‚e en ses gouvernemens militaires et en ses g‚n‚ralit‚s, subdivis‚e en toutes ses provinces et petits pays &c. Assujetti aux Nouvelles Observations de M.M. de l'Acad‚mie Royale des Sciences..., Paris, 1769, double page decorative title, general folding map of France, two uncoloured plans of Paris and fifteen double page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring (complete), some dust soiling and slight staining largely confined to margins, near contemporary manuscript numbers to verso and recto of each map, near contemporary manuscript ownership signature to verso of title, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn and frayed with spine partially lacking, folio The first volume described is from the library of Marie Caroline, Duchess de Berry (1798 - 1870). (2)