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STRINDBERG AUGUST: (1849-1912) Swedish playwright, novelist & poet. A.L.S., August Strindberg, one page, 8vo, n.p., 22nd March 1902, to Emil Schering, in Swedish. Strinderg asks his correspondent if he knows a particular gentleman and also enquires as to whether a translation of a manuscript has been completed. Some very light, minimal age wear and some very minor traces of former mounting to the right edge of the verso, VGEmil Schering (1873-1951) German writer, translator, publisher and editor.

FATH-ALI SHAH QAJAR: (1769-1834) Shah of Qajar Iran 1797-1834. D.S., in Persian, as Shah, one page, folio, n.p., month of Ramadan 1241 (April 1825), in Persian. The manuscript document is a Royal firman and states, in part, ´In accordance with the decree of Our former Padishah, noble descendant Mirza Muhammad Ali Isfahani was appointed to manage the Lumban district, receiving a salary of thirty tumans in cash and thirty kharvars in goods. In this auspicious year of It´il (the Chinese Year of the Dog) and in future years, we extend this decree to His Excellency Sayf ol-Dowleh Soltan Mohammad Mirza, the Governor of the Dar al-Saltanah of Isfahan, and the convergence of infinite Royal affections and honours. We have decreed and bestowed this position along with the stipulated stipend to him, to be received annually and used for his livelihood, and with utmost diligence, to perform the duties of the said position. It is decreed to that fortunate son to instruct his officials to recognise the said position as exclusive to him, to refer the necessary responsibilities of the mentioned position to him, and that no one else is authorised to intervene in that position. He should record the accounts of the mentioned district and annually ensure the full amount of cash and goods is delivered to him without any deductions, while securing a renewed guarantee for claims´. The document features a Tughra and stamped seal at the head. Some folds and creasing, and with various neat splits to the former, only very slightly affecting the text. FR

ROCKINGHAM MARQUESS OF: (1730-1782) British Prime Minister 1765-66, 1782. A good, rare D.S., Rockingham, one page (vellum), large oblong folio, n.p., 8th September 1762. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is addressed to John Burton and appoints him 'to be Ensign in that Company of the Militia Battalion of Foot, raised and to be raised within the Wapentake or Hundred of Agbridge [i.e. Agbrigg] and Morley, Part of the West Riding of the County of York, Commanded by Sir George Savile Baronet' and orders that he carefully and diligently discharge his duties 'by training and disciplining the Persons to be arm'd and array'd in the said Company according to the Rules, Orders and Directions of the….Acts of Parliament'. Signed by Rockingham at the foot alongside a good red wax seal. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGA fine example of one of the rarest of all signatures of British Prime Ministers.

AN 18TH CENTURY NORTH AFRICAN LEATHER BOUND SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPT, signed Abd Alkaderben Mohamad ___, dated 1262.

Assorted volumes to include "Jones' Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland....", published by Jones & Co. 1829, 3 vols, engraved plates, marbled endpapers, half leather with gilt titles and decorations to the back strip, marbled boards, Milne A.A. "Now We are Six" Methuen & Co. 1927, binding loose, red cloth stained, corners bruised and bent, foxed, "John Bellows - A Centenary Tribute 1831-1931", privately printed, blue boards, Lambert Miss, "The Hand-book of Needlework" [Charles MacKenzie], "Natural History" ills throughout, poor condition, Vernon, George, Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire "The Life of ...Dr Peter Heylyn, Chaplain to Charles I and Charles II.....", printed for C. Harper 1682, front hinge cracked, contemporary full speckled leather, small 8 vol. and "The Works of Aristotle....His Complete Masterpiece....", printed for Miller, Law and Carter, contemporary full leather, O'Connor, Violet and Armel "Peace-Makers.." Mary's Meadow Series no IX, limp covers, loose, Gambier-Parry Mark "Highnam Memoranda" typed manuscript bound for the author (12)

Album of signed letters and photograph of Mr Rider Haggard to include Post Office telegram to Ditchingham from the editor of the Standard, letter to Mr Flintoft from Redcliffe Square, letters from Gunterstone Road, West Kensington 1887, from North Lodge, St Leonards on Sea 1922, letter from Ditchingham House 28th January 1900 referring to the sending of the manuscript of Blackheart/Whiteheart to CJL (CJ Longman) 

James Joyce, Giacomo Joyce, 1968, 1st edition with copies of manuscript, original slip case

Of Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier interest: collection of typed and handwritten manuscripts relating to Eric Crozier’s 1949 publication The Life and Legend of St Nicholas. NB: In 1948 Crozier provided the libretto for the Britten Cantata - Saint NicholasProvenance: Rescued from the 1953 East Coast floods by the vendor’s father Much of the handwritten manuscript has been obliterated by water

WWI Photograph Album Relating to HMS M.L. 212 a beautifully written album compled by Frederick Charles Jensen titled 'Ships That Pass', the album with photographs each mounted oposite a page of descriptive manuscript text, the opening text reads 'ML212 This boat was commissioned in the latter part of 1916/ Like her sister ships she was designed for a speed of 25 knots. When fully loaded this was never reached. They were intended for work in shallow waters favoured by the submarines then in use. As the range of these increased so did the value of the ML decresase.', images include the sailors abord the ship, the ship in dock, ML213, gunnary armament of an ML, bridge & deckhouse, the galley, ML463, ML518, ML313, radio room & equipment, engine rooms, Devonport sea plane, HMS Kayarra, use of hydrophones, Paravanes - torpedo, mines, depth charge explosions, U107 captured submarine in Weymouth dock, S.S.Z49, United States battle cruse Arizona, Japanese Destroyer, HMS M.31, Mona Queen, along with a small white metal frame with portrait engraved H.M.M.L 212, and 2 medals engraved 16131D.A. F.C.Jenson. D.H. R.N.R. in a card case marked the same

19th century Mughal manuscript with painted gouache scene, woman at a well, looked-on by an admirer, page 12 x 17 cm, overall 25 x 30 cm. Not available for in-house P&P

At The Earth's Core (1976) Film Story Board, an 88 page Storyboard manuscript for 'At The Earth's Core' - four pictures to each page (three on page 88) - 351 pictures in total - bound and in very good condition

The Great Train Robbery (1976) Film Story Board / Script and Tankard, a 134 page Storyboard manuscript for 'The Great Train Robbery' - four pictures to each page (three on page 134) - 535 pictures in total - bound and in very good condition plus Vic Simpson's script (Revised 1978) - 125 pages in good condition and a pewter tankard for the film given to cast and crew

An illuminated leaf taken from a Medieval Manuscript Breviary, of French origin and on vellum, double sided, framed, mounted, and under glass, measuring 8cm x 10cm, & 23cm x 28cm overall

Antiquarian manuscript book Historical scenes of the XVI century by Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp 1837 from family ownershipAntiquariaat handgeschreven boek Historische taferelen uit de XVI eeuw door Hendrik Conscience, Antwerpen 1837 uit familiebezit

Dimensions: Height 12,5 cm ; Wide 9,5 cm ; Depth 5,5 cm without baseWeight: 587,7 grams with base  Seated in vajrasana on a lotus pericarp, both hands in dharmacakramudra and formerly holding the stems of a lotus supporting the sword and manuscript, wearing dhoti, bejewelled, partly set with turquoise beads, his face with meditative expression, five-leaf crown set in front of a high chignon, sealed

Dimensions: Height 18 cm ; Wide 14,5 cm ; Depth 5,5 cmWeight: 849,5 grams We have only seen one other Nepalese stone stele of Avalokiteshvara with four heads and eight arms (on Cleveland Museum of Art ), seated with his consort on his lap. The main hands make the ‘turning the wheel of dharma‘ gesture, the remaining left hands hold a manuscript, a bow, a lotus flower, the upper right hand clutches a rosary, the middle one holds what looks like a crescent moon on a stick but could be an arrow, the lower one is held in the gesture of supreme generosity. 

William Roscoe (1753-1831), man of letters, one of England's first abolitionists and sometime MP for his native Liverpool, the Roscoe family album, almost certainly compiled during WR's librarianship at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, c. 1815-22, compiled with tipped-in and loosely-inserted manuscript, mostly verse, but with occasional prose, original and taken from belles-lettres, and one print, comprising: 1) Bonaparte General en chef de l'Armée d'Italie/Dessiné d'après Nature a Milan, s.l., s.n., n.d. [1796], portrait, engraving, 16.2 x 12.2cm, inscribed in contemporary manuscript pencil: from W Bracy Clark, Dec. 4. 1797 ; 2) ALS from WR, dated Lodge Lane, [Liverpool], Feb:y 21st 1824, addressed to Pleasance, Lady Smith (née Reeve; 1773-1877), Surrey Street, [Norwich], referencing their time at Holkham together and touching on some members of the Coke family, partial red wax seal; 3) Horace Beevor Love (1800-1838) after Sir Francis Chantrey RA (1781-1841) - Marble Bust of Sir James Edward Smith, signed, further inscribed in pencil, wash en grisaille, 30 x 19cm; 4) 18th c stipple engraved portrait of Louis XVI, inscribed in pencil: bought from Paris by J.E. Smith in 1786 & is an exact likeness, 27 x 20.5cm; 5) a contemporary transcript of Matthew Gregory Lewis's Alonzo the brace and fair Imgoine: a Romance, n.d. [1796-97], ink MS on paper, foolscap; 6) Americana: MS copy of a letter of Lafeyette's, dated 1829, illustrated with a drawing of the George Washington head seal; 7) Royalty: two cut-out paper work trees, reputedly by the hand of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, n.d., the outer wrapper with MS attribution: Cut by Princess Elizabeth & given me by herself ; 8) one leaf with three autograph manuscript scraps, by Queen Charlotte, 1792, and her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Augusta; 9) Gay's Receipt to Stew Veal, ink MS on paper; 10) Curious Epitaph, in Pewsey Church Yard, Dorestshire, MS on paper; 11) Reverence of King Edward the 6th for the Bible, ink MS on paper; 12) an 1820 copy of Leopold, Prince of Saxe-Coburg's signature; MS poem of 2pp of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; 13) Monody on the death my friend H.R., 8pp, ink MS on paper, further inscribed: Given me by the author/ William *** Roscoe/ July 1805 ; 14) Lines - on receiving from Doctor Rush of Philadelphia a piece of the Tree under which William Penn made his Treaty [...], 1812, 2pp; 15) Song - On the Ball given by the Friends of Brougham and Creevey, Liverpool, 1812, 1pp; 16) Lines to be placed under the Picture of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry Bathurst Lord Bishop of Norwich at Holkham, 1pp; 17) Parting, 1814, 1pp; 18) Letter-writing, 2pp; 19) Lines written extempore by W. Roscoe in an Alcove at Allerton, to verso: On the death of a Lady, 2pp; 20) To T.W. Coke Esq:r M.P. Holkham, as a mark of the sincere respect & attachment of The Author [...], Sonnet [by] [...] W. Roscoe, Allerton 10th Jan:y 1815, All the above is inscribed in the first page of the copy of W. Roscoe's Leo the 10th presented to W. Coke, 1pp; 21) To the Viscountess Dowager Anson (née Coke) on her Birth day [...], William Roscoe, 1821, 3pp; 22) To William Roscoe Esq [...], January, 1821, EWC, 1pp; 23) Sonnet To The Lady Jerningham [by] Mary Anne Roscoe, Nov:r 1823, 1pp; 24) Lines Addressed by * John Taylor to his brother the Rev:d Philip Taylor of Dublin [...], April 1824, 2pp; 25) Ode to Sickness by Wm. Corrie, 4pp; 26) Verses written in the Album at Cossey, 2pp; 27) Sonnet To the Nymph I love, 1pp; 28) "Sweet are the songs from Scotland's coast [...]", 2pp; 29) Verses by the Revd Crabb On His Visiting Normanston in the Year 1785, 3pp; 30) Folk Lore: The Wolf Thing, or Little Red Riding Hood, 2pp; 31) Cookery: To make Herb Soup, 1pp; 32) On seeing my dear Mother laid in her Coffin, 30th March 1820 [...], 2pp; 33) Cobbold (John?, translator), I feel ye, well-known Breezes! [...], 1pp; 34) To "the Rowende Table" - Sonnet, 1pp; 35) another copy; 36) Taylor (Arthur), Morte Arthur, 1pp; another copy; 37) Sonnet/Translated by Miss Schuty 1pp; 38) Inscription on a Tablet in Quidenham Church In Memory of The Lady Sophia Macdonald (née Keppel) [...] September 29th 1824 [...], 2pp; 39) Impromptu [...] Lord Lyttelton at home [...], Transcribed by Miss Sparrow, daughter of Lady Olivia Sparrow - at Holkham, Now Lady Mandeville, 1pp; 40) an indistinct poem of 2pp; 41) copy of an 18th c French letter, dated 1771, with English translation, 4pp; 42) The Attributes of God, 1pp; 43) Bishop Lowth, "I spent many years in that illustrious society [...]", 1pp; 44) Quarterly Review (May 1816) of Alison's Sermons, 1pp; 45) Marville on studying history, 1pp; 46) On seeing Mr West's Picture of the burning of Sodom, 1pp; 47) Humanitati S. by Abbé Correia da Serra, 1pp; 48) Sweet maid! [...] on the death of Mary Wilkinson [by] J.E.S., 1pp; 49) lines from Boothby's Penelope, 1pp; 50) After Martial, 1pp; 51) Fair art thou oh Allerton! [...], Oct. 1790, 2pp foolscap; 52) Sweet Verbena [&] Hymn, two works to a sheet by JES; 53) Description of a Masquerade at the Hon:le Mr. [Nicholas] Herbert's at Great Glemham [Suffolk] [...], 25th Sept:er 1770, 4pp; 54) Thursday 2 o'clock, Going to drink tea with Mrs. Stevens, an ALS of 7pp; approx. 18 further items, including another account of the Stratford masquerade at Hebert's, but dated 1769, contemporary russia gilt over marbled boards, Bound by Cupper & Ibes, Bank Place, Norwich, ticket to pastedown, the spine lettered in gilt: MANUSCRIPTS, now disbound, some worn losses, folio (35 x 24cm)

Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress, [...] to which are added Explanatory Notes; Together with the Memoirs of the Life of the Author, A New and Improved Edition, Stourbridge: Printed by J. Heming, n.d. [1809], lacking half-title (if called for), 404pp, four plates, including an engraved portrait of the author, split, mostly holding but with a couple of leaves loose/loosening, some uneven, contemporary sheep, perished spine split, yet holding, early 19th c and later manuscript ownership inscriptions for members of the Marsh and Parkes families, 8vo in 4s; [Theatre] a sammelband of four early 18th c plays, Dryden (John), The Spanish Fryar (sic), Troilus and Cressida, & Don Sebastian, King of Portgual, [with] Shadwell (Thomas), Don John: or, The Libertine Destroy'd, London: mixed publishers, 1736, 1735, 1735, & 1736, each drama with engraved frontispiece, late 18th/early 19th c calf over marbled boards, 12mo; [American Printing] The Book of Common Prayer, [...] together with The Psalter, or Psalms of David, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1825, double-column, additional engraved title-page, divisional titles, finely bound in contemporary crimson morocco, rolled in blind and gilt, rubbed, 8vo; a devotional sammelband, another BCP and Psalms, stereotype edition, Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, et al, 1807, [bound with] Brady & Tate's New Version of the Psalms of David, Oxford: Dawson and Co., 1806, two titles bound as one, double-column, split at recto gutter with some movement, finely bound in contemporary Regency crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, flat spine, all edges gilt, 8vo; and twenty other volumes, mostly literature, early 19th c and later, leather, part-leather and other decorative bindings, mixed sizes, (24)

An 18th c vellum notebook, John Brown/His Pocket Book, n.d. [c. 1780], inscribed pastedown, otherwise blank contents, signs of four leaves having been removed, the vellum over limp boards, envelope yapped edge, recto and verso pastedowns with pockets, block-printed foliate green endpapers, 8vo, enclosing three pieces of loosely-inserted printed and manuscript ephemera, comprising a printed and manuscript tenant's rental receipt from the Earl of Craven's estate, presumably Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire, dated 1779-80, a later manuscript tenancy notice, addressed to Brown, signed and dated Thos: Fisher, October 1793, and a later MS receipt, dated 1805

Seventeenth Century Scandal & Female Heiresses. The 1674 'Kidnapping' and Coerced Marriage of the Heiress Bridget Hyde (1662-1734; later Duchess of Leeds), an important contemporary transcript of legal documents, possibly an official court record, dated 1674-75, but presumably 1680, English, with some occasional legal Latin, scrivened by several distinct hands, ink manuscript on paper, marginal glosses, paginated, complete and collating: 935, [8]pp (tables), the whole illustrative of the case, i.e. the charge that Hyde's earlier marriage, aged 12, to her first-cousin John Emerton of Middle Temple in 1674 was still valid and that her coerced marriage, following her scandalous abduction by him, to Peregrine Osborne, then Viscount Dunblane (1659-1729; later 2nd Duke of Leeds), was bigamous (which the jury ruled, thus exacerbating the cause célèbre), resulting in Dunblane's father, then the Earl of Danby, being forced to buy off the Emertons to prevent further prosecution, the text with precis of witness depositions and evidence, including various aristocrats and members of the gentry, demonstrating not only Bridget's familial and social connections, - as well as Emerton's - but also her importance as a 'prize' in the contemporary marriage market, being both an heiress of land and capital (reputedly worth £100,000), in addition to its historic importance, the manuscript affords interesting insights into the conventions of a woman's roll and the extent of its influence in engagement and marriage in the later 17th c, and other pre-matrimonial customs, including the ring: ' Bridgett laying in her said Chamber called [...] to her saying Grace [Millington] come hither did you ever see my Ring showing [...] a Diaming Ring in fashion of a heart that was on her finger [...], contemporary blind-panelled vellum over boards, splat spine titled and indistinctly numbered in manuscript: Mr John Emerton's Case, folio (36.5 x 23.5cm) Provenance: By indirect descent from the Emerton family, via the Byron and later the Seymour families, at Thrumpton Hall, Nottinghamshire. This and similar cases, of what was becoming a familiar result of inheritance and the lack of a male heir, was topically satirised in Aphra Benn's drama The City-Heiress (1682).

Geology. Map: Environs of London (Geological), Southampton: Engraved and Published at the Ordnance Survey Office, London & Reading: [Printed by] Wyman & Sons Ltd., Lith., 1901, lithograph over 28 sheets of paper, coloured in contemporary wash, laid on linen, 66 x 89cm, marbled endpapers, contemporary red cloth case with retailer's ticket: Edward Stanford, Sole Agent in London for the Sale of Ordnance Survey Maps, pasted lettered manuscript label, 4to Provenance: Rev. H.S. Swithinbank, Linden Lodge, Clevedon, Somerset; book label to case.

Scotland; Sir Walter Scott's Review Copy. Southey (Robert), The Curse of Kehama, association copy, first edition, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810, half-title, [iv], ix, [i], 376pp, the text block with occasional contemporary inscriptions to: Note, retained original ffep with two distinct later 19th c manuscript inscriptions about the book's provenance: This volume was presented to Mrs. Weatherall, then in Edinburgh, by John Ballantyne Esquire, & is remarkable, as having been the Copy read by Walter Scott, when about to write a Critique upon the book for the Quarterly Review - TW, underneath which is added: T. Weatherale (sic?) the writer of the above note, married Miss Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown Esqr. of Newton House, near Whitby. And at the sale of the pictures, and other property belonging to T. Baron, held at the Angel Inn, Whitby, this volume was purchased by public auction by its present possessor Gideon Buck Present to John Dixon Buck, half-title inner-gutter re-margined, the inscribed ffep repaired, 20th c in-keeping tan quarter-calf over marbled marbled boards, contemporary marbled edges, 4to  Provenance: 1) Sir Walter Scott, Bt., FRSE, FSAScot (1771-1832), Scottish Romantic poet, novelist and historian; 2) John Ballantyne (1774-1821), the former's publisher, presented by him to; 3) Mrs. Weatherall (?), by descent, until public auction whence sold to; 4) Gideon Buck, 1875, his dated ownership mark and inscription, presented by him to; 5) John Dixon Buck, ironmonger of Whitby, Yorkshire, presumably the latter's son.

English Civil War; Extra-Illustrated and Interleaved by an Antiquary Descendant. Hutchinson (Lucy), Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, Representative of the County of Nottingham in the Long Parliament, and of the Town of Nottingham in the First Parliament of Charles II, etc. With Original Anecdotes [...] and A Summary Review of Public Affairs [...], first edition, London: Printed for Longman, Hurt, Rees, and Orme, by T. Bensley, 1806, frontispiece, folding pedigree (annotated), and 4 full-page plates, extra-illustrated with 6 mixed media engravings, inter-leaved with a two-fold manuscript continuation of the family pedigree, [3]ff of MS, including genealogical notices of the Derbyshire families of Chandos-Pole, Stanhope & Gell, and further antiquarian notices, an ALS from the Rev. Francis Hutchinson of Tisbury Vicarage, Salisbury (whose information was 'Quite wrong ', as annotated by POH), another from Gordon Goodwin (apparently 'An impudent and very ignorant person '), tipped-in printed ephemera from periodicals, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, marbled edges and endpapers, 19th c bookseller's ticket to ffep: E.W. Perry, George Street, Plymouth, 4to  Provenance: Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1810-1897), of Sidmouth, Devon, antiquarian, historian and diarist; his armorial bookplate, manuscript ownership inscription dated 1862, manuscript additions and marginalia.

Horse Breeding in Yorkshire. Four pieces of printed ephemera, mid-19th c, advertising the studs Neptune, to cover this season, 1840 [...], At £1 5s each Mare [...], Robert Rudd, Groom, letterpress-printed card with the horse's pedigree, 11.3 x 7.2cm; Cleveland Shortlegs, The property of Mr. Thomas Groves, Plumpton Hall, near Harrogate and Knaresbro', late of Manor House, Nun Monkton, near York. Will Serve Mares This Season, 1852. At £1 5s each Mare, and 2s 6d the Groom's fee, letterpress printed on card, wood-engraved vignette, decorative carmine border, 13.7 x 9.2cm; another for the same horse owner, The Flying Stag, 1853, letter-press printed on paper, York: T. Houlgate, Printer, 9.4 x 14cm; That High-Bred Roadster Stallion Merrylegs, The Property of H.C.W. Mitchell, Headingley, nr. Leeds, Will serve Mares this season, at Two Sovereigns each, And 2s 6d the Groom, n.d., letterpress-printed paper, wood-engraved vignette, red border, 15.6 x 12.6cm; Roland and Flying Stag's Route, (If Health Permit) [...], letterpress on paper, rounded rectangular, 9.5 x 13.6cm; and a Victorian trade card, J. Wood, Saddler & Harness Maker, Horsforth, inscribed in manuscript, 9 x 6.4cm, (6) Mixed condition.

The Cartwright family of Marnham Hall, Nottinghamshire. A portfolio of manuscript and other ephemera, early 19th c and later, including Americana: verse addressed to and about George Cartwright (1739/40-1819), British Army officer and later trader-explorer in Newfoundland and Labrador, by his brother John Cartwright (1740-1824), Royal Navy officer, major in the Nottinghamshire militia and political radical, n.d., 11 lines of verse; John Ternouth (1796-1848), sculptor, MS letter, dated 16 Feb:y 1826, presumably in a secretarial, addressed to Miss Cartwright, almost certainly Frances Dorothy Cartwright (1780-1863), JC's niece-adopted daughter and biographer, viz. sculpting a sepulchral monument in memoriam to the aforementioned radical; postal history franked cover addressed to Mrs. H. Strickland (née Mary Cartwright; the daughter, along with Frances, of the Rev. Edmund (1743-1823), JC'S brother), the verso of which is illustrated and inscribed with a spider and manuscript by one of her children; further children's and juvenile drawings, mostly natural history, including cut paperwork, mixed media, principally watercolour; pencil sketch of a country house, further amateur floor plans in pen-and-ink; Photograph of a picture now (1861) in the possession of G. Cartwright Esq:r (son of the younger Ed:d therein represented. The group was designed & arranged by Major John C. brother to Dr C [Rev. Dr Edmund C] and painted by [?]; further ephemera indicative of provenance through Edmund Cartwright's line of descent, early 19th c reverse calf over marbled boards, folio (37 x 23cm)

Travel. Anson (George, Esq., late Lord Anson) & Walter (Richard, MA, Chaplain of the Ship Centurion in that Expedition), A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4, two-volume set, Edinburgh: Alex. Lawrie and Co., 1804, contemporary marbled calf, the spines gilt with ships, gilt-lettered morocco pieces, some wear, 12mo in 6s; Falconer (William) & Dodd (Robert, illustrator), The Shipwreck, a poem, London: William Baynes, 1811, folding map frontispiece, 18 engraved plates and vignettes, foxed, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, disbound, 4to; Anon, Life on Desolate Islands; or, Real Robinson Crusoes, London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. [c. 1870], wood engravings, original cloth as issued, 8vo; etc., (6)  Provenance: 2nd: Captain Daniel Peach of the Honourable East India Company's Service, July 17th 1846; ffep with indistinct manuscript inscription, pastedown with his 'illuminated' watercolour and pen-and-ink armorial lettered bookplate; All: by repute from the library of Robert Louis Stevenson's family.

English Incunabula and Early English Ownership. Higden (Ralph) & Trevisa (John, translator), Polychronicon (Universal History), first English printed edition, Westminster: William Caxton, 2nd July, 1482, a single incunabulum leaf, folio CCLXXXI only, from Liber Sextus describing events in the time of Alured or Alfred of Wessex, possibly bishop of Sherborne, single-column of 40 lines, rubricated in red, recto fore-margin with contemporary English manuscript marginalia of mathematical calculations and arithmetic, 22.5 x 17.5cm, custom-made red cloth over board portfolio, pastedown with tipped in typed bibliographic note, [Hain 8659; Duff 172; Proctor 9645; De Ricci 49] Provenance: Geo. H. Brook; 20th c Medieval style seal bookplate to pastedown.

A post-Medieval illuminated manuscript antiphonal leaf, Europe, 16th or 17th c, black ink on vellum, some red rubrication, musical notation, hand-scrivened liturgy, foliated initials, recto border illuminated with a bird of prey and green leafy scrolling foliage, 67 x 42.5cm Good condition, some nominal losses and wear; as evidenced by images.

Topography. [Yorkshire] [Holland (John), The Tour of the Don [...], two volumes bound as one, first edition thus, London: R. Groombridge; Sheffield: G. Ridge, Mercury Office, 1837, contemporary mauve calf gilt, sunned spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Black (William), Reflections on the Relics of Ancient Grandeur, and the Pleasing Retirements in South Wales, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, by J. Haddon, 1823, original publisher's printed wrappers, Cecil H. Clough's copy with his loosely-inserted ephemera, 8vo; [Staffordshire] An Historical Description of Tutbury Castle and Priory, second edition, Burton-on-Trent: Printed by W. Wesley, for H. Wayte, Bookseller, Tutbury, 1851, frontispiece, original publisher's printed papered boards, rebacked, refreshed endpapers, loosely-inserted manuscript scrap: Mr. Charles Bentley/Castle Street/Tutbury [...], 8vo; Jackson (William), The Roman Pavement and The Jewry Wall, Leicester, Leicester: Edward Shardlow, Printer and Lithographer, 1892, original wrappers, 8vo; [&] Orwin's Laxton, Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, 1935, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo, (5)

Law and Land in the Reign of George III. A landowner's or land agent's book of legal transactions, contracts and verbal agreements between them and the tenantry, probably in and around Nether Kellet, Lancashire, dated 1764-1784, [48]ff of ink manuscript, contemporary marbled wrappers, 4to

A lady's friendship album, Truda Torr, Dresden, 1896, [65]ff, mainly inscribed in manuscript to one side with typical sentiments and passages from belles-lettres, as well as a ditty's musical score with notation composed from various bars of opera, further music, illustrated with 28 pen-and-ink or watercolor illustrations, either double-, full-page, or in-text, two Box Brownie snapshots of Saighton Grange, Cheshire, another group photograph with sitters' signatures, split with some movement, contemporary limp green roan, worn, 8vo; [Americana] The Floral Album, New York: J.C. Riker, 1841, hand-coloured title-page and 3 botanical prints, typical manuscript verse and entries by friends and relatives of Martha Ann of Lynn, Massachusetts, original publisher's roan over boards, gilt, worn, perished spine, 4to; an album of approx. 25 watercolour landscapes and botanical studies, dated 1891-1913, original diced black roan over cloth boards, oblong 8vo; another friendship album, Mabel Cecilia Holmes, Christmas 1908, partiallly-inscribed and partially-illustrated, roan over boards, worn, 8vo; & a blank early 19th c notebook, lacking some leaves, contemporary black roan over boards, worn, 4to, (5)

Wraxall (Nathaniel, Junior), Memoirs of the Kings of France, two volume set, first edition, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777, contemporary speckled sheep, 8vo; Sedgwick (Romney, editor), Lord Hervey's Memoirs, three-volume set, first complete edition, copy no. 377/900, London: [Privately printed] 1931, original publisher's blue cloth, contemporaneous armorial bookplates: Lieut. Colonel William Otter Gibbs (1883-1960), of Barrow Court, Somerset, slipcase en suite, 8vo; five volumes of the Annual Register, 1766-69, 1771, & 1802, bound en suite in contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo; A View of the Relative Situations of Mr Pitt and Mr Addington [...], second edition, London: John Stockdale, 1804, recent green calf over marbled boards, 8vo; further British history and politics; Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible, two volume set, third edition, London: David Ogilvy and Son, et al, 1806, ffeps with tipped-in contemporary manuscript ownership inscription: Thomas Bingham, of Thorganby, Yorkshire, 1806, contemporary russia, split but holding, 4to; further Bibles and devotionals, including a Book of Common Prayer; Beau Brummell; belles-lettres; others, mixed bindings and sizes, (32)

Ephemera, manuscript and printed, 18th c and later, including Mr Plumer's opinion relative to Charles Walkers Tithes, Claimed by Mr. Thompson, Rector of West Bridgford 1782, ink MS on paper, correspondence and postal history, early 19th c and later, including 20th c letters viz. book-collecting and the purchase of incunabula, a large Victorian cabinet card photograph of a thespian, by W & D Downey of Ebury Street, London, copies of wills and legals paper of the Betneys of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, 1860 Counterpart Lease of the London Stone Wine Vaults, Cannon Street, in the City of London, further parchment and paper indentures, 1845 Particulars and Conditions of Sale of A Freehold Estate, at Ollerton Wellow and Ompton, Nottinghamshire, 1pp ALS from a clerk at the Equitable Fire Office, Norwich, 1816,  an early 19th c pocket book partially inscribed with prose and figures, other banking books, Indian Post Office Savings Book Pass Book, 19th c letterpress poster: THIS SHOP TO Let, Printed and Sold by Thos. Morris, 8, Oxford-st, Bolton, 28 x 22cm, another two similar, early 19th c and later tradesmen's bills, a few food and wine merchants, Victorian utility bills, railwayana, Americana, hop patent, Stamp Office, etc

Miscellaneous. Hassell (John), Excursions of Pleasure and Sports on the Thames [...], Angling, Shooting, Sailing, & c. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823, aquatint frontispiece and 23 plates conforming, original publisher's blue cloth, blind-stamped, some splitting with loose/loosening leaves, slight twist, 8vo; Travel: Anon, Round the World Eastwards in 140 Days, sole edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: [Privately printed by] W. Wicking, Steam Printer, n.d. [1899], lacking title-page, otherwise complete and collating: [3]-63, [1]pp (colophon), the travelogue citing Japan, China, etc., original publisher's red moiré silk over boards, gilt-lettered upper-cover, all edges gilt, the fore and lower shape cut, marbled endpapers, verso of ffep with contemporary MS inscription, oblong 12mo; Psalms: Sidney (Sir Philip, Knt., translator) & Pembroke (The Countess of, translator), The Psalmes (sic) of David [...], Now First Printed from A Copy of the Original Manuscript, Transcribed by John Davies, of Hereford, in the Reign of James the First, first edition thus, one of 250 copies, [London]: From the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, 1823, half-title, two portrait engravings, original publisher's boards, split, perished spine, some of backstrip loosely inserted, uncut, 12mo; [Helps (Arthur)], Casimir Maremma, two-volume set, first edition, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870, half-titles, contemporary tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, conforming marbled endpapers, 8vo; Theatre: Sheridan (Richard Brinsley), The School for Scandal, London: John Murray, 1823, half-title, 20th c green morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered, 8vo; Kempe (William) & Dyce (Rev. Alexander, editor), Kemps Nine Daies Wonder, London: The Camden Society, 1840, original publisher's cloth, stamp to title-page: Arnold Library, Rugby, the school's later bookplate to pastedown, 4to, (7)

Topography. A manuscript travel diary, from Bromley, now Greater London, to Hastings and Winchilsea, East Sussex, dated 11th-17th October 1825, [11]ff, illustrated with a pencil sketch of a parish church and a loosely-inserted map, disbound, 4to

Auction Catalogue. Mr F.W. Kidd and Messrs T. Neale & Son:~ The E.M. Kidd Collection, To sell by auction, On [...] Nov. 11, 12 & 13, 1903, [comprising] The Valuable Collection of English Porcelain & Pottery, A Choice Collection of Oil Paintings & Water-Colour Drawings, Upwards of 400 ounces of Silver, chiefly Antique, Art Objects and Curios, Byron Relics (including the collars of Lord Byron's favourite dogs, "Boatswain" and "Thunder"), A Library of 600 Volumes of Books, [&] The Antique Furniture, Derby: Bemrose and Sons, Limited, 1903, 44pp, illustrated with b/w plates, priced in manuscript throughout, mostly including buyer's names, the final leaf inscribed with each of the three days' as well as the sale total: £4,924-7-11, finely bound in contemporary limp vellum gilt over boards, red speckled edges, floral endpapers, 4to Provenance: 1) Geoffrey Godden (1929-2016), bookplate; 2) The Rowland Williams British Ceramic Library, book label.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG (1801-1885), the 'Poor Man's Earl'. A late Victorian memorial album, n.d. [1885], [48]ff principally of pasted notices of his life and funeral, obituaries, eulogies, etc., recto &/or verson, taken from newspapers and periodicals of the day, some of which are illustrated with portraits or named-views of St Giles House, Dorset, but also printed and manuscript ephemera, including the Order of Service from Westminster Abbey, letterpress poem printed within a black mourning border, [4]pp National Memorial of Lord Shaftesbury composition, [2]pp autograph poem by Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple (née Tollemache; 1822-1901), a sepia photographic print of St Giles, letterpress poem on the anniversary of his birthday, dated Castle Wemyss, 1878, 1881 Guildhall proceedings, Old Scholars of the Ragged Schools address, Religious Tract Society poster, etc., disbound, 4to

Antique Ceramic Collecting; Photographically-Illustrated. A Catalogue of Porcelain & Pottery, Oriental, European, & English, The Property of The Rev. R. Waldo Sibthorp, of Nottingham. With Photographic Illustrations, dedicated and inscribed family presentation copy, first and only edition, Nottingham: [Privately printed by] T. Forman and Sons, 1874, black-ruled title-page, complete: 55pp (items 1-740), with contemporary ink manuscript additions to the lower margin and the whole verso of the last leaf (items 741-761), the collection illustrated by 60 mounted albumen prints as called for, photographed by John Clayson of Nottingham, their outline occasionally off-setting, some light marginal marks in places, some leaves' edges very lightly nibbled, verso inner-gutters of leaves reinforced with archive tape, but discreet, original publisher's clott gilt, worn, top of spine with split section and chip, but without major loss, bowed and bumped, 8vo  Provenance: Henry A. M. Waldo Sibthorp. A memento of his affectionate uncle, Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, January, 1875; verso of ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription. Principally the collection of Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic convert, but added to by various members of the Sibthorp family of Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire. On Richard's death the collection passed to his nephew Coningsby Charles Sibthorp (1846-1932) and later to be sold for charity in an anonymously at Christie's on 2nd March 1877.

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669) - The Artist's Mother, head-and-bust length, three-quarters right, signed with monogram: RHL [Rembrandt Harmensz Leydensis] and dated 1628 (2 transposed) within the plate, second state, etching and burin drypoint, on laid paper without watermark, sheet 7.1 x 6.9cm, plate mark 6.6 x 6.3cm, [B. 354; Hind 1; New Hollstein 5 ii/iv] Provenance: 1) Faint collector's stamp to verso, early-mid 19th c; almost certainly E.F. within an circle and if so, Eduard Faesch (1812-1845), a Kiel merchant and art collector (L.846). His stamp is noted 'found not only on prints, but also on good drawings (e.g. by Rembrandt)', as many international institutions' collections demonstrate. 2) Contemporaneous and later pencil manuscript inscriptions, to verso of sheet and mounting.     Roelof van Straten states this early etching by Rembrandt is one of the first to be signed by the artist with his RHL monogram. The backward "2" is indicative of Rembrandt's incomplete control of the plate's reversal during the printing process. 'The subtlety of modelling and the extensive vocabulary of descriptive strokes suggest an unexpected level of graphic sophistication for an etching of such an early date. [...] The Fact that Rembrandt signed and dated this etching indicates that although he may have initially undertaken the project as an exercise, he ultimately decided to market it. [...] [A] print that shows [...] technical mastery or subtlety of stroke' (Rosenberg, Rembrandt's Religious Prints, 2017, p. 438-39). Please see online images. A clean and even impression. Each corner with blemishes of varying degrees, presumably from former mounting, and now, in places, affecting the image within the plate mark. When examined on a lightbox, the lower-left corner margin appears thinned, but is OK and structurally sound; also, the sheet shows browned portions not generally visible in natural light. The indistinct collector's stamp could be a result of being washed. Currently hinge-mounted to a sheet of annotated card.

[Sterne (Laurence)], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, six-volume set, ninth edition, London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1773-72, volume I with frontispiece engraved by Ravenet after Hogarth, contemporary calf gilt, chipped and worn, split joints, an occasional board just holding, 8vo; Trimmer (Mrs. Mary) & Williams (Samuel, illustrator), A Natural History of [...] Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Reptiles, and Insects, two volume set bound as one, Chiswick: Printed by C. and C. Whittingham. Sold by Thomas Tegg, 1825, half-titles, in-text wood engravings, contemporary green half-calf gilt over marbled boards, 16mo in 8s; etc., (11)  Provenance: 1st: Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, FRS (1749-1838), of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, floriculturist, art collector, and sometime MP; his armorial bookplate to each pastedown, later stamped: Arthingworth [Manor?, Northamptonshire]. 2nd: E.D. Hale; contemporary manuscript inscription to recto pastedown.

Architecture. Italian Grand Tour: Raccolta di Numo 320 Vedute si antiche, che moderne della Cittá di Roma e di alcuni luoghi suburbani, [Rome]: Agapito Franzetti, n.d. [c. 1800], engraved title-page, 80 engraved named-view plates after various artists, occasional pencil annotation, some foxing, early-mid 19th c maroon roan gilt over cloth boards by Stoneham of Woolwich, signed, contemporary red speckled edges, oblong 4to Provenance: 1) A Memorial of Friendship from J.T.G. Riddell, 1812 ; ink manuscript inscription to title-page verso; 2) Isabella Stoddart, ink MS ownership inscription contemporary to 1812; 3) J. Stoddart, ink MS ownership inscription slightly later than the latter; 4) indistinct ownership inscription dated 1941, ffep; 5) Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), book illustrator, including some of Tolkien's works; inscription presenting the book in 1977 to 6); Julian Bicknell (b. 1945), New Classical architect and designer of the Palladian Henbury Hall, Cheshire; his and his wife's pictorial bookplate to pastedown.

Four friendship albums, early 20th c, typically inscribed with manuscript sentiment and illustrated with watercolours, pen-and-ink, and pencil illustrations and works, often cartoon/caricatural, mixed bindings and sizes, (4)

A lady's illustrated friendship album, Gladys Sissons, 1906-16, with 20 watercolour, pen-and-ink, &/or pencil illustrations, including an accomplished ink line drawing by G.W. Barnes of of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 10th Feb. 1910, signed, titled and dated, further depictions of children's stories, some named-view topography, including Old Norton, near Sheffield, some manuscript inscriptions, etc., original roan over boards, some wear and movement, 4to

English Civil War. [King Charles the Martyr]: [Eikon Basilike], The Povrtraictvre (sic) of His Sacred Majestie (sic) in His Solitudes and Svfferings (sic), first edition, third state, [London]: [Printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston, 1648, [i.e. 1649], double-page frontispiece engraved by William Marshall, complete, collating: [viii], 269pp; i.e. A⁴, B-R⁸, S⁷, O1 is repaired, bound in contemporary black sombre morocco gilt, the centre of each cover blocked in gilt by a shaped and scrolling monstrance, and flanked by alternating arrangements of an E/F monogram, fan shaped corner-pieces within the dentil double-fillet, flat spine, rubbed and split, but holding, all edges gilt, 8vo, [Wing E270]  Provenance: 1) Edmund Ferrers, Attorney of London; his monogrammed binding and ink manuscript ownership inscription to recto endpaper: Edmund Ferrers/His Booke/August the 3rd 1656. 2) R:d Stanley, second-half 18th c MS inscription, below which is the later pencil annotation: BA 1760/MA 1764, therefore, possibly Richard Stanley of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire (d. 1810), barrister, Recorder of Hertford from 1780, and a Senior Bencher of the Inner Temple. 3) The Reverend John Graham (1794-1865), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and later Bishop of Chester; John Graham inscription, later sold at his sale, Sothebys's, March 8th to 13th March, 1866, lot 318, for 7/1 to 4) James Beck; ownership and purchase inscription, dated 9th March, 1866. 5) Charles Braithwaite, Paint Merchant, Church Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1932-1960; inscribed in blue biro. 

Palaeography. [Africa, Ethiopia]: Budge (E.A. Wallis, editor and translator), Lady Meux Manuscripts Nos. 2-5: The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Life of Hannâ (Saint Anne), and the Magical Prayers of Aneta Mîkâêl, copy no. 291/300, London: [Printed for private circulation by] W. Griggs, Chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen, 1900, red and black title-page, half-title, limitation leaf, 111 coloured plates of facsimile illuminated Ge'ez manuscript, with letterpress translation and commentary, occasional faint finger-soiling, original red morocco, ornately decorated and blocked in blind, gilt-lettered spine, worn and rubbed losses, bumped corners, starting to split in places, yet holding, marbled edges and endpapers, pastedown with withdrawn ex-library stock bookplates and labels, stamps or stickers, title-page affected by their discreet stamp, folio (38.5 x 35cm)

Scotland; Trade and Transport. [Crinan Canal, Argyll and Bute] Plan of the part of the Canal from Oakfield March to the Intended Bason at Port-a-ree, n.d. [late 18th/early 19th c], ink manuscript on paper, the map drawn and delineated in pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolour, Scale of six English Chains to the Inch 66 feet each, the neighbouring land and property identified by its owners, 34 x 171cm Discernible folds across the plan. The edges of it chipped in places, as evidenced by images; in cases just affecting a couple of letters &/or the image, but with loss to the opening title letter. Some surface dust in places.

Wales. The Myddelton baronets of Chirk Castle, Wrexham, their rent roll, 1709-1731, ink manuscript on paper, [1], 15 (Arrears), 16-179ff (A Rent-roll of what in John Lloyd's Collection), a few individual tennants illustrated in places with minor commentary on the nature of their lease, lower-left inner margin wormed, affecting some letters, but never with loss of sense, becoming a clean singular hole by 50ff, contemporary panelled reverse calf over boards, rubbed and worn, split in places and bowing, but holding well, traces of speckled edges, foolscap folio (41.5 x 17.5cm)

Cambridge Platonists. Smith (John, late Fellow of Queens College), Select Discourses [...], As also a Sermon preached by Simon Patrick D.D. (then Fellow of the same College) at the Author's Funeral: With A brief Account of his Life and Death, second edition, Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, for W. Morden Bookseller, 1673, double black-ruled title-page, divisional titles, xxx, [2], 512pp, lower-left margin with worm trail growing fainter to two small holes by b2 which continue throughout, never with loss of letters, split in places but holding, contemporary mottled calf boards, rubbed, chipped and exposed in places, perished spine but holding, later 18th/early 19th c marbled edges, 4to Provenance: 1) J.G. *** [indistinct shelf numbering]/ 1673; ink manuscript ownership inscription to ffep. 2) Very learned and useful, but very dull./ W.M. LLD/Wood***; late 18th/early 19th c MS observation to ffep. 3) * *** Newman/ Oriel College [Oxford] - 1858; dated ink MS ownership inscription to ffep.

Japan. Map of Tokio (sic; Tokyo), n.d. [Meiji period, 19th c], woodblock printing on paper, contemporary hand colouring with wash annotated and inscribed in contemporary English manuscript, including the Imperial Castle, docketed title to verso, 44.5 x 60cm open, original blue wrappers, 16mo

Ireland. [Smith (Charles) & Harris (Walter)], The Antient (sic) and Present State of the County of Down [...], first edition, Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly, For Edward Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-hill, 1744, folding county map engraved by Samuel Wheatley, two or three leaves with contemporary and later marginalia, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style in the 20th c, reinforced at recto and verso gutters, some rubbed wear and minor chipping, 8vo; [&] Drummond (William Hamilton, DD), The Giant's Causeway, A Poem, first edition, Belfast: Printed by Joseph Smyth, et al, 1811, a broad-margined copy, 2 maps and 5 plates as called for, original publisher's boards, chipped, split, upper-cover detached, the other just holding, perished spine, uncut, 8vo, (2) Provenance: 1st: Daniel De La Cherois/Delacherois JP, DL (1825-1905), of the Manor House, Donaghadee, County Down; ink manuscript ownership inscription to title-page and verso of map, his armorial bookplate to pastedown.

Japan. Yoshimoto (Kamon, editor), むかしきれ江戸小紋模様裂手控帳 / Mukashikire edokomon moyōretsu tebikaechō, one of 250 copies, Kyoto, 1986, title-page and divisions, 50ff illustrated with 100 Japanese polychrome-printed devices and patterns, mounted 2 to a leaf, colophon, loosely-inserted manuscript note on Collets Chinese Gallery & Bookshop writing-paper identifying the pattern book, original pictorial stitched wrappers, paper labels with calligraphic script to upper-cover, folio

Theatre. Five sammelbands of plays, 18th-early 19th c, including first editions and Irish imprints, comprising: 1) seven bound as one: Fielding (Henry), [Rape upon Rape]/ The Coffee House-Politician; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap, London: J. Watts, 1730; idem., The Modern Husband, conforming imprint and date to the latter; idem., The Letter-Writers, same imprint, 1750; King (Thomas), Love at First Sight, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763; Carey (Henry) & Smith (John Christopher), Teraminta. An Opera, first edition, London: J. Watts, half-title, extra-illustrated with a cut-out frontispiece, defective; [&] Miller's The Mother-in-Law, second edition, London: John Watts, 1735; 2) [Ireland] eight bound as one: Havard's King Charles I, London: John Bell, 1777, frontispiece; Gay's The Beggar's Opera, eleventh edition, London: s.n., n.d; Dibdin's The Waterman, first Irish edition, Dublin: Printed by Permission of the Company of Booksellers for John Beatty, 1777; Sheridan's The Governess, first edition, Dublin: s.n., 1777; Murphy's Know your own Mind, first Irish edition, Dublin: Printed by P. Higly, 1778, half-title; Mendez (Moses), The Chaplet, London: W. Oxlade, 1777, frontispiece, uncut; Young's The Revenge, Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing, et al, 1764; [&] Garrick's Lethe, sixth edition, Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1759, contemporary Irish quarter-calf over marbled boards, early 19th c armorial bookplate of David Rochfort of County Limerick to pastedown, 12mo in 6s; 3) seven bound as one: Burgoyne's The Heiress, lacking title; Garrick's Clandestine Marriage, a comedy, lacking title; Whitehead's The Roman Author, first edition, London: R. Dodsley, 1750; Milton's Comus, seventh edition, London: R. Dodsley, 1744, half-title; Brooke's Rosina, thirteenth edition, London: T Cadell, 1790; Bickerstaffe's The Maid of the Mill, first edition, London: J. Newbery, et al, 1765; [&] Murphy's The Old Maid, London: P. Vaillant, n.d., late 18th c calf over marbled boards, vellum tips, 8vo; 4) Lee (Nathaniel), four dramas as one: The Rival Queens; Mithridates, King of Pontus; Cæsar Borgia; [&] Theodosius, London: Printed for J. Darby, et al., 1727-1728, the last two titles lacking their respective titles/divisional titles, contemporary speckled calf gilt, ffep with contemporary ownership manuscript inscription: Edm:d Brydges, No. 21, 12mo in 6s; 5) Selection Selection of English Plays, containing: Sheridan's The School for Scandal; Addison's Cato; Colman's & Garrick's The Clandestine Marriage; Cumberland's The West-Indian; [&] Sheridan's Pizarro, Paris: Printed for Theophilus Barrois, 1804, general half-title and divisional titles, bound in contemporary Parisian polished calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo in 6s, (5)

Mathematics & Arithmetic. A foolscap exercise book, Master James Stokes, Broughton, Shropshire, n.d. [early 19th c], [46]ff of manuscript calculations and explanations, about a third of which has been repurposed by a later family (c. 1840) with scraps and further ephemera, where present mostly obliterating the original manuscript, three leaves affected by varying degrees of cutting/loss, contemporary calf over marbled boards, worn but holding, folio (32.5 x 21.5cm)

Textile Manufacture. A mid-Victorian Letters Patent, Matthew Townsend of Leicester, Fancy Hosier, for an Invention for "Improvements in Machinery for Manufacture of Knitted Fabrics", No. 2858, 17th November, 1859, two sheets of mixed size parchment, printed in script with decorative pictorial borders, red-ruled, further inscribed in manuscript, docketed and indistinctly signed by the then Clerk of Commissioners, yellow wax seal affixed, the largest sheet 50.5 x 75cm The parchment and sheets and seal with some wear.

Cricket. An early 19th c drawing-room album, c. 1830, illustrated with a contemporary watercolour of a cricket match, within a fenced pitch and before a manor house, 10.6 x 15cm, mounted on a leaf with manuscript lines viz. the sport, loosely-inserted watercolour of a similar house from a different perspective, 13.5 x 23cm, the album further typically illustrated and inscribed over approx. [65]ff, with commonplace prose and verse from belles-lettres, and enclosing mixed media works on papers, including an earlier cartoon of Napoleon, [Triumph des Jahres 1813/ Den Teutschen zum Neuenjahr 1814], s.l., s.n., n.d. [1814], cut-out profile, etching, with contemporary watercolour hand-colouring, trimmed with loss of all lettering, 18 x 9cm, with a loosely-inserted contemporary 3pp MS poem on the same subject, India: a tipped-in ALS of 2pp, indistinctly inscribed by a contemporary Indian, in English, to a Master Surgster (?; presumably a member of the East India Company), addressed and dated Bombay/11th July 1829, viz. passage on a ship, an indistinct named-view pen-and-ink of an Indian landscape c. 1830, gouache still life on a petrified leaf, 11 x 11cm, four Chinese watercolour studies on pith paper, various states of condition and sizes, a small watercolour of British soldiers, full-page monochrome pen-and-ink study of a deer, named-view watercolour of Torquay, a satirical print by G. Davies after Charles Jameson Grant, [Frontispiece for The Penny Magazine] The March of the Intellect, lithograph, n.d. [1830-35], trimmed loss of primary title, 25.5 x 20cm, cut-out engravings and further mixed process prints, finely bound in a somewhat worn contemporary brown straight-grained morocco over boards, gilt, contemporary bookseller's ticket to pastedown: Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, London, rubbed and worn binding, split and contents loose/loosening, all edges gilt, 4to

A 19th c lady's drawing-room album, n.d. [c. 1830], [36]ff of commonplace manuscript prose and verse, some original composition, but mostly from belles-lettres, illustrated with 9 watercolour &/or pencil illustrations, including botanical studies, the remaining leaves blank, contemporary diced calf, rolled in blind, rebacked, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to

Debtors' Prisons. Report from the Committee on The King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea Prisons, &c. (Communicated by the Commons to the Lords.) Ordered to be printed 1st June 1815. 268pp, 2 folding engraved plates of floor plans over two stories, with contemporary hand-colouring in wash, Birmingham Law Society copy, their Victorian cloth binding, their neat stamp to title-page and first leaf of the report, 20th c reback with gilt-lettered morocco piece, folio (33.5 x 22.5cm); Treaties, Constitutional and further Legal History: [Rymer (Thomas) & Sanderson (Robert, editor)], Foedera, volume XIX only: 1628-1635, London: J. Tonson, 1732, imprimatur leaf, black-ruled title-page, double-column, ex-Public Record Office copy, their black cloth binding and bookplate, folio (37.5 x 24cm); & an early 20th c ledger, barely-inscribed with manuscript, contemporary red quarter-roan over moiré boards, somewhat worn, marbled edges and endpapers, folio (33.5 x 22cm), (3)

Travel. Yorkshire: a Windsor clergyman's summer motoring holiday journal, The Rev. W.R. Flex, cleric, school master and sometime Eton beak, August 1932, 103 ff manuscript diary, principally to verso, with social, topographical and antiquarian observations, including the Weavers' Strike at Hebden Bridge, the leaves adjoining the narrative illustrated with 12 hand-drawn motoring and other maps, 35 b/w photographs and 7 loosely-inserted of local sites and his family, further printed ephemera, contemporary papered limp boards, some wear, but holding, 8vo; World War Two, South-East Asia: My Pencil, my Rifle, and Me, dated 1945, an army serviceman's unfinished memoir, [iii], [24]pp of MS only, 6 mixed media illustrations (of 7, apparently), including a pen-and-ink self-portrait of the author in military uniform, the extant narrative comprises an amusing, and at times, self-deprecating introduction and an account of the sea voyage only, inscribed in a contemporary Japanese ruled ledger, with a later tacked-on tan pigskin leather wrapper, the upper-cover lettered in blind relief, foolscap 4to (31 x 23cm), (2)

Bindings. [Manuscript]: The Book of Common Prayer/Holy Communion, E. Hornby, Christmas, 1859, red-ruled, [41]ff hand-scrivened in red and black ink From the Edition of 1662, according to the Sealed Copy in the Tower of London, finely bound in brown morocco over bevelled boards by Hayday, signed, upper-cover starting to split, red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, 8vo; [Saint Augustine of Hippo], S. Augustines Manuell (sic), facsimile of the 1577 edition, London: Spottiswoode and Shaw, 1850, Gothic black letter, printed in decorative historiated borders, contemporary binding of red calf over bevelled boards, gilt, by Josiah Westley, signed with his stamp and label, upper-cover detached, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1844, black-ruled, finely bound in gilt metal-mounted blue velvet over boards, lacking clasp, all edges gilt, 16mo; and another devotional, Kempis (Thomas à), Imitation de Jésus-Christ, Paris: J. Langlumé et Peltier, n.d. [c. 1810], contemporary Cathedral binding of olive calf gilt, repaired, worn and splitting at lower-joint, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo in 6s, (4)  Provenance: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023), bibliophile, President of The Private Libraries Association and benefactor to The British Museum; his book labels and/or loosely-inserted and other pencil bibliographic notes.

The Harington Baronets of Ridlington, Rutland. Sir John Edward Harington, 8th Bt (1760-1831), his account book, dated 1823-1829, ink manuscript, 41pp, prefixed with a contents leaf inscribed with his income, bank accounts, financial interests and shares, including rentals, Brazilian, Mexican, Peruvian, Colombian, Greek, Carnatic, Indian, and other stock, the Thames Tunnel, the Provincial Bank of Ireland, County Fire Office, Kennet & Avon Canal, Grand Junction Canal, Regent's and other canals, Westminster Gas, Light and Coke Company, Desperate Debts, annuities, interest, capital, etc., loosely-inserted manuscripts, contemporary vellum over boards, blind-ruled, yapped fore-edge, inscribed in manuscript, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; his son's bank passbook, Robert Harington (1801-1864), the account held with Messrs. Hammersley & Clarke, dated 1832-1840, 32pp, similar binding to the latter, 12mo; six volumes of Receipts of Disbursements, almost certainly those of Sir John, 8th Bt, dated December 1797 to January 1799, January 1811 to December 1812, January 1813 to December 1814, January 1815 to December 1816, January 1823 to March 1825, October 1828 to May 1831, mixed contemporary sheep over boards, various degrees of wear, mixed sizes of oblong 8vo, (8)