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LOVETT, Caroline, The Excursion Ticket, manuscript account of a tour through Ireland in 1858, with pencil drawings. 4to, red morocco gilt

THE LAUNCHING CASKET FOR H.M. TORPEDO GUNBOAT HUSSAR, DEVONPORT DOCKYARD, JULY 3RD, 1894, carved with decorative roundels, the lid inscribed H.M.S. Hussar and lined with glazed watercolour of the ship with her specifications, designer, builders and launching dedication to Miss Osborn, the plush-lined base with fitted supports for carved ceremonial mallet and chisel - 7¬ x 13ó x 9óin. (18.5 x 35 x 24.7cm.); together with a manuscript list of Devonport launch dates between 10.3.1887-18.10.1899 and the lady invited to launch vessels; and a photocopy of the Military Record describing Hussar and her launch. (3), One of five ~Dryad~ class torpedo gunboats, they were essentially enlarged ~Alarm~ class vessels and retained the same slightly eccentric profile with wide-apart funnels and raised forecastles. Displacing 1070 tons, they measured 250 x 30«ft and were manned by 120 officers and crew. Armed with five 18in. torpedo tubes, a quick firing gun, one 6pdr and two 12pdrs, she could steam at a slightly stately 19¬kts at a time Thornycroft was already producing thirty-knotters. Serving as part of the International Squadron at Malta until 1905, in 1898 she embarked the final Ottoman forces in Crete after the Christian uprising of 1897-8, removing them to Salonica. In 1907 she had her armament removed and she served as a yacht and dispatch vessel for the Royal Navy~s Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean. In 1914 she was converted to a minesweeper and served at Gallipoli. She was broken up at Malta in 1921.

A DRY CARD BOAT COMPASS BY DRING & FAGE, LONDON, CIRCA 1830, the 4«in. printed card signed in manuscript Dring & Fage, Tooley Street, London, around the centre with sealing wax balancing and jewelled pivot, contained within white painted bowl with removable glass face plate, gimbal-mounted in wooden box (missing lid) -- 6 x 8in. (15 x 21cm.)

A MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM LORD NELSON TO ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD, OCTOBER 9TH, 1805, single sheet written aboard the Victory in his own hand throughout and addressed to My dear Coll -... regarding the removal of provisions and munitions from H.M.S. Malabar and signed off yours faithfully Nelson & Bronte with a postscript to remove Malabars bread of course take out of her and the other good things ... -- 9« x 7¬in. (24 x 18.5cm.)

A 19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT DIARY OR MEMOIR with a green leather cover

THOMAS COOPER GOTCH.A hand written manuscript by Thomas Cooper Gotch, 'A Long Engagement', set in an art school & concerns the affair of two students. 27 pages, corrected & annotated.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from Deidre McLellan, granddaughter of T.C. Gotch.

THOMAS COOPER GOTCH.A hand written pencil manuscript, 'The Professor: a sketch', concerning an artist & his painter wife on holiday in Italy, c.1881-82 & their meeting with an English professor. Dated February, April 1904.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from Deidre McLellan, granddaughter of T.C. Gotch.

THOMAS COOPER GOTCH.A 17 page, handwritten manuscript 'A Word to Landsmen', concerning a visit by the artist & his wife to Padstow & Pentyre & their encounter with a seafarer. Corrected & annotated. Also, two handwritten poems by T.C. Gotch, each initialled & dated & various other items of ephemera.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from Deidre McLellan, granddaughter of T.C. Gotch.

THOMAS COOPER GOTCH.A handwritten manuscript by Thomas Cooper Gotch, untitled, concerning the monks at the monastery of St. Croix. 23 corrected & annotated pages.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from Deidre McLellan, granddaughter of T.C. Gotch.

British School (19th century) Portrait of a gentleman, head and shoulders holding a manuscript Oil on panel, 67.5cm by 48.5cm

Bindings; A collection of leather-bound books, predominantly German, including sets and a manuscript notebook (4 boxes)

Five Early Indentures, 17th and 18th century, manuscript on vellum with several wax seals

REV FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD & REV CHARLES PARKIN: AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, London, 1805-10, 11 volumes bound in 22, large paper edition, interleaved, mezzotint port frontis + 36 plates of which 8 folding (folding Norwich plan loosely inserted with some staining), 14 pedigrees as called for, illustrations of Arms mainly all hand coloured, extra illustrated with approx 40 prints, drawings etc including a watercolour of Morningthorpe Church, and an albumen view of Forncett St Peter church, some manuscript material on interleaves in the same hand, armorial book plates of Daniel Gurney (1791-1880), volume 1 with inscription "These volumes,,,bequeathed to me by my father were given to my son Cecil Feb 2nd 1914 A(rthur) C(harles) W(odehouse) Upcher (1846-1938)", quarto, old quarter vellum, printed paper labels worn with loss, 11 volumes rebacked, 2 volumes recased + CLEMENT ROLFE INGLEBY (EDITED): A SUPPLEMENT TO BLOMEFIELD'S NORFOLK, introduction by Christopher Hussey, London, 1929, limited edition (350), numbered, signed presentation copy from Ernest Bullard to Cecil Upcher, quarto, original cloth, + a packet small lot East Anglia prints, drawings etc, mainly 19th century or earlier including John Hoyle, Norwich Plan (24)

[ALEXANDER NEVILLE]: THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION IN NORFOLK, IN THE YEAR MDXLIX: WHICH WAS CONDUCTED BY ROBERT KETT, A TANNER BY TRADE AT WYMONDHAM: THEIR FINAL OVERTHROW, ON 27 AUGUST, BY THE CONDUCT AND VALIANT BEHAVIOUR OF THE NOBLE EARL OF WARWICK, Norwich, Martin Booth, circa 1750, iv, 35pp + [1]pp publisher's adverts at end, rebound (not recent), half calf gilt worn, later front and rear end papers and blanks, mounted circa mid-19th century, albumen print portrait photograph with manuscript pen and ink border and manuscript pen and ink caption beneath "An Excellent Antiquary see Athenaeum 15 March 1856 p330 Robt Sermon Esq SA", title page with water staining and professionally repaired

[HENRY MANSHIP]: A BOOKE OF THE FOUNDACION AND ANTIQUITYE OF THE TOWNE OF GREATE YERMOUTHE: FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH: WITH NOTES AND AN APPENDIX, edited Charles John Palmer, Great Yarmouth, Charles Sloman for the editor, 1847, engraved frontispiece, engraved plan of Great Yarmouth + 2 plates as called for, xx, 161pp, errata slip tipped in at end, original blind stamped cloth gilt worn, top board near detached

MRS HERBERT JONES [ie C RACHEL JONES]: 4 works bound together in one volume: HOUGHTON-IN-THE-BRAKE, CONTRIBUTED TO THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Norwich, 1878, 42pp, 4 plates/plans, some manuscript alterations and redactions to text, pp31/32 with large part text excised: STIFFKEY: A SKETCH, CONTRIBUTED TO THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Norwich, 1876, 24pp, 8 plates/plans, NOTES ON SCULTHORPE CHURCH, CONTRIBUTED TO THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Norwich, 1872, 20pp, 4 plates, NOTES ON HARPLEY CHURCH, CONTRIBUTED TO THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Norwich, 1874, 3 plates/plans, quarto, contemporary morocco gilt, ownership signature and inscription "Mrs Herbert Jones, 32 Albert Hall Mansions, SW" and armorial bookplate of Somerville Arthur Gurney (1835-1917) to front paste down, top board with crimson morocco gilt title label "Essays Mrs Herbert Jones [ie: C Rachel Jones]" + MRS HERBERT JONES [ie: C Rachel Jones]: SOME NORFOLK WORTHIES, London, Jarrold & Sons, 1899, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece of Elizabeth Fry + 4 other portrait plates as called for, original quarter vellum very worn, armorial bookplate of Lancelot Francis Orde to front paste down (2)

COLLECTION OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE MILITIA AND PHILIP YORKE, 3RD EARL OF HARDWICKE INTEREST, 1792-1797, including manuscript accounts list of persons enrolled to serve, autograph letters signed including some from John Kohler, French Horn and Trumpet maker, London, to the Earl of Hardwicke pleading his Lordship to settle a long outstanding account including one dated November 26th 1797, ",,,I have wroth [wrote] several times to your Lordship but never received any answer, I also have called several times at your house, but your servants always tell me your Lordship could not be spoke with,,, I have a very heavy bill to pay,,, I beg your Lordship will consider my situation,,, it is of a long standing, part of it is from the 15th June 1793,,,", many of the items rubber stamped "Earl of Hardwicke MSS", together with some items relating to the proposed cut from Eau-Brink to Lynn including a relevant autograph copy letter signed from Sir Martin Browne Ffolkes (1749-1821) dated to Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757-1834) dated 9th September 1794, together with Hardwicke's autograph copy letter signed reply dated September 12th 1794, plus a manuscript abstract of sundry publications re Eau-Brink signed by Hardwicke, dated 1792, + some printed items etc, together with some sale particulars, mainly Kings Lynn and environs 1797-1814, a manuscript "specification park entrance Wimpole [Hall]" dated 1847 etc, the collection comprising some 40 items

20TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT PEN, INK AND WASH COPY OF A PLAN OF BAWBURGH, Norfolk, 1813, on architects translucent paper, approx size 1000 x 760mm

GERHARDIE WILLIAM: (1895-1977) Anglo-Russian Novelist and Playwright, one of the most critically acclaimed English writers of the 1920s. Series of four A.Ls.S. and a T.L.S., William, and one with his full signature, seven pages (total), small 4to, Portland Place, London, December 1960 – November 1961, all to Neville [Braybrooke]. Gerhardie writes regarding the publication of his tetralogy This Present Breath, in part, ‘Here are the opening and closing chapters of my tetralogy and the two drawings of the angels copied from the entablature of our old St. Petersburg house. This baroque house is both a talisman and a motto-theme running through the entire tetralogy, and this same friend of mine who copied the kneeling angels is making a drawing of the house for the book, to appear as end-papers and also on the jacket – unless having the two trumpeting angels on the jacket of the novel might be a better idea…..their function is to point to the musical construction of the tetralogy…..I asked my friend to provide them with trumpets. And I must say he has made a beautiful job of it. There is something of William Blake about the two angels. They have a dedicated, ecstatic expression, and really blow their slender silver trumpets with conviction. My friend’s name is James Parkhill Rathbone…..Please don’t think me fussy over my instructions to the printers…..but having lived with this idea for fifteen years, it would be a terrible shock if the printers (as printers are apt to do) substituted a lay-out with lettering of their own facile invention, contrived out of nothing better than contrariness and a wish to justify their inventiveness’ (31st December 1960), ‘Here are five new pages to be substituted for the five you have bearing the same page numbers. Then there are some corrections to be made in the text in your possession. These are marked on the other pages I enclose. The new pages are a great improvement, as you will see’ (16th June 1961), ‘I am returning the corrected galley-proofs today….I have made my point clear about the elaboration of the And sign before the chapter numerals and the galley margin. How happy I should be if the exquisite giant And sign could be reproduced in all its…..glory in miniature before the numerals! The whole title-plus contents page, with the Dante quotation, is laid out in such impeccable proportions that I look at it again, and again, in sheer aesthetic delight! It’s more than printing: it’s architecture’ (7th November 1961), ‘Olivia wrote a very charming article about my books, with special reference to the tetralogy in one volume – the one she half hoped you might like as an introductory piece in The Wind and the Rain. It was published in The Times…..and called ‘Buried Alive’’ (19th November 1961). Together with Gerhardi’s original design for the contents page of his tetralogy The Present Breath, with two rough sketches of the angels blowing their trumpets and various instructions, in part ‘I have attempted to indicate the different lettering needed but have not quite managed to get the proportions right. The sign & (which has symbolical significance, as appears in the penultimate chapter…..) should here divide, as it were, the title page from the contents page (sharing the same page between them)…..The ornamental lettering of Movement is perhaps too large in proportion….The quotation from Dante should be in rather smaller italics. The angels should not be reduced in size, or they will lose their individual expression of solemn, rapturous, ecstatic acclamation. The draw attention to the symphonic unity of the work’ and also including eight original pages of typescript from the manuscript of This Present Breath, with various corrections (some in holograph) and signed by Gerhardie to the final page. An interesting series of letters. Some with ink and pencil annotations by Braybrooke and some staining, paperclip rust stains and light overall age wear, G, 13 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.

ACKERLEY JOE: (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC’s weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. Small group of five A.Ls.S., Joe Ackerley (2), J R Ackerley and one with his first name only, eight pages (total; two of the letters incomplete), 8vo and smaller, London, 1955-61, to various correspondents including Neville Braybrooke, two written on the printed stationery of The Listener. Ackerley writes an interesting series of letters concerning his literary work, in part, ‘I couldn’t make up my mind about your Housman review. Good? Oh yes. But the book has been so spat & shat upon by everyone else that I wondered whether it was worthwhile adding any further mess to the sidewalk.’ (22nd May 1955), ‘I am posting you my own copy of Prisoners of War today. After your second letter I see that I should not withhold it from you when I am so easily able to satisfy a desire which has survived in frustration for so long – though I fear that, as with many of our greatest wishes, anticipation may well turn out to have been a happier state than realisation…..It was misnamed, it should have been called ‘The Interned’. That was my mistake. Some of our critics expected to see barbed wire and bayonets and could not understand why men so comfortably and securely situated should have been so unhappy. In fact the play is not really about war, but about a few individuals and the effect of frustration and idleness upon their minds. One of the few critics who truly saw what was happening was Hugh Walpole, and he came out in its support with one of the most honest articles he ever wrote’ (24th January 1958), ‘I don’t know if anything will come of my family memoir…..It is hardly a new book, for I was at work on it in the late thirties when I was living in Maida Vale. A doodle-bug, or whatever it was, then fell upon me & it, & I did not look at it again until lately. I find it awfully badly written & sadly lacking in essential information…..’ (8th March 1960), ‘I doubt you will much enjoy the Casement Diaries, they are not really rewarding and, pity is, Casement himself was such a bore. I’m sure that if one had known him & however much one might have admired his work for humanity, & even known of his sexual proclivities – one wouldn’t have wanted to dine with him……(incomplete letter). Also including a manuscript copy of a poem by Ackerley entitled Letter to a Lost Soldier, two pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. Some light overall age wear, minor paperclip rust stains and one letter with two file holes to the left edge, generally G, 6

BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General who, in 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa, successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Later Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement. Autograph Manuscript signed, with his initials BP, three pages, 8vo, Waiho Gorge, Westland, New Zealand, n.d. (1934), in pencil, on the printed stationery of the Glacier Hotel at the Franz Josef Glacier. Baden-Powell’s manuscript, with several corrections throughout, is entitled On a Glacier and states, in part, ‘As I write this I am sitting on a bluff on the shoulder of one of the great mountains which rear their snowclad heads high above me on every side. In front and below me runs a wide valley which is filled from side to side with a vast white sheet of ice; not the sort of ice you know at home but a jumbled mess of blocks and waves and walls of ice. It is a glacier, or frozen stream, a mile wide and twelve miles long from where it starts…..I can see three tiny moving specks some two miles away on the glacier. These are my two daughters mountain climbing with their guide. Dressed in breeches and puttees and heavy iron-shod climbing boots and armed with ice axes for cutting steps in the ice and with goggles to escape the glare of the snow, they love the excitement of clambering over those great slippery crags…..As for me I am taking it easy, sitting on my bluff and gazing over this mighty frozen torrent. There is a steady rumbling hum in the air, just like the roar of the traffic in London as you hear it sitting in Hyde Park. This rumbling is the sound made by that vast mass of ice slowly, slowly grinding its way over the rocks and stones beneath it. Watching it and standing on it you can perceive no movement, but moving it is all the same…..It behaves just as a stream of water does in running down a steep water course, the difference being that it is all a solid block of ice….’  The final page is lightly and neatly laid down to a page most likely removed from a scrapbook and the first two pages are neatly laid down to the left edges alongside. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, about VG The present manuscript was most likely written in preparation for Baden-Powell’s book Scouting Round the World (1935) which records the Chief Scout’s round-the-world voyage undertaken in 1934 in the company of his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, and their two daughters. The book features a description of his observations as his daughters climb the Franz Josef Glacier.

1898 (May?) Registered cover, endorsed by sender on back flap "Gruetzbach, Keetmanshoop", to Neustrelitz, Germany, franked Germany 1889-1900 50pf tied by manuscript cross with Luderitzbuch registration label affixed alongside, reverse bears Cape Town transit reg oval ds for My 19 98 and Neustrelitz arrival cds for 12.6 98, light toning and slight damage at top, with 1993 Steuer cert (Plate )

NO RESERVE British Isles.- Chaplin (S.E.) Geography of England & Wales, manuscript atlas with 47 leaves, four illustrating England and Wales, 43 with the English counties described, pen and black ink, watercolour, traces of graphite, one cream wove paper, each leaf approx. 245 x 313 mm. (9 5/8 x 12 1/4 in), occasional spotting and surface dirt, loosely inserted into contemporary morocco, tooled and gilt with title and date, with presentation box, oblong 4to, 1853.

Parliamentarian Naval Captain.- Prideaux (Sir Edmund, attorney general, ran the postal servant for parliament, d. 1659), Rolle (John, MP, Turkey Merchant), Bence (Squier, seafarer, merchant and politician), Bence (Alex, ship owner, MP) & Sir Walter Earle. Payment of an account to Richard Swanley of £10 5s. 3d, manuscript, ½p., slightly chipped at head, folds, browned, folio, 1st April 1646.⁂ Richard Swanley (1594/5-1650), naval officer. "Though an excellent seaman and an able commander Swanley had a violent temper and was not above profiteering on the side. In 1628 he quarrelled with the company factor over precedence and in 1631 struck his purser during a dispute. He was criticized for excessive private trading when in command in 1628-31. In June 1644 at the capture of Carmarthen he became the only known captain to carry out the parliamentary ordinance to throw any Irish prisoners into the sea. He was also one of a syndicate led by the earl of Warwick which financed the famous privateer the Constant Warwick. " - Oxford DNB.

Cromwellian Admiralty Salvage Laws.- Godolphin (John, civil lawyer, 1617-78), Clerk (William, civil lawyer, d. 1655) & Cocke (Charles George, parliamentarian legal writer, d. 1682) Letter signed by three judges of the court of admiralty to the Committee of Admiralty and Navy, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, seal mostly intact, folio, 19th July 1654, Admiralty judgement on the salvage laws concerning the ex Royalist ship Revenge, renamed the Marmaduke, the ship "is by law the Commonwealths, neyther is shee within the Letter of the Law of Salvage, for a halfe part...", folds, browned.⁂ John Godolphin and Charles George Cocke attended the funeral of Oliver Cromwell.Provenance: From the collection of Robert Cole with his impressed mark in left hand corner.

Committee of the Admiralty.- Shovell (Sir Cloudesley, naval officer, drowned in the ship Association off the Scilly Isles, bap. 1650, d . 1707) & others. Order to Lambert Western at Portsmouth Dockyard "to cleare the machine vessels there in order to their being refitted", Ds. "Clowd: Shovell", "Edward Dummer", "Captain Thomas Willshaw", "M. Aylmer" & 4 other signatories, manuscript, 1p., folds, browned, folio, 6th April 1694.⁂ Matthew Aylmer, first Baron Aylmer of Balrath (d. 1720), naval officer and politician.

Tobacco.- Rea (Augustin de la, Captain and Master at Buenos Aires) Razon de la Cargoa que conduze desde Buenos Ayres â los Reynos de España d Navios..., manuscript in Spanish, folds, browned, 315 x 200mm., 1756.⁂ An order to provide provisions from Buenos Aires to the king's navy, including tobacco.

Art collector & artist.- Willis (Thomas, tea dealer and art collector, of 13 Leinster Terrace, Hyde Park, 1836-1916) & Ethel Mary Willis, artist and miniaturist, daughter of Thomas Willis, of "Penshurst", 41 Park Road, Chiswick, 1874-1945. Archive of manuscript and printed poetry by Thomas Willis, and 2 pen and ink and pencil designs, a proof etching, and documents all by or relating to Ethel Willis, and a quantity of correspondence to both father and daughter, folds, browned, loose in a contemporary morocco portfolio, rubbed, v.s., v.d., 1849 - 1921 (c. 120 pieces).

Quinziano Stoa (Giovanni Francesco) De Syllabarum quantitae epographiae sex, collation: A-B8, C6, A-Q8, R10; [22], cxxxviii ff., woodcut portrait of the author on title, decorated initials, early ink annotations, worming to first 16 leaves, affecting text, contemporary boards alla rustica, fragments of re-used manuscript or printed leaves to pastedowns, spine worn and defective, numerous wormholes to covers, 4to (200 x 155mm.), Venice, Guglielmo de Monteferrato, June 1519. ⁂ Rare early edition of this popular Latin grammar by Giovanni Francesco Conti (1484-1557), which first appeared in Pavia in 1511. The author, better known under his humanistic name, Quinziano Stoa, was a disciple of the grammarian Giovanni Britannico, and taught Rhetoric and Greek at the University of Pavia. The title-page bears a fine woodcut depicting the author writing at his desk. Provenance: early ownership 'Ad usum Innocentij Phollij liberalitate Rudolphi Rici eius avunculi'.Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 37659

Greek Book of Hours.- Horologion, 716 (Greek numerals), [20] pp., printed in red and black, title with vignette depicting Virgin and Child, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, 8 full-page woodcuts and numerous vignettes in text, occasional light browning, a few manuscript notes on recto of front flyleaf, 20th-century brown morocco, covers within blind fillets and richly tooled border, central gilt vignette of cross (upper) and Virgin praying (lower), metal clasps intact, spine with two raised bands, compartments decorated with small gilt floral device, g.e., 8vo (125 x 83mm.), Venice, Andrea Giuliani, 1676.⁂ One of the rarest Greek liturgical editions printed in Venice in the 17th century. Responsible for this fine illustrated book, intended for the Greek community, was Andrea Giuliani, heir of Francesco, and active in Venice between 1656 and 1690. "Towards the end of the sixteenth century, from 1590, we hear of an extremely productive Venetian publishing house belonging to the Giuliani family, which concentrated on Greek liturgical books [...] this firm established itself firmly as a publisher of Greek books and maintained the tradition until the early decades of the eighteenth century" (K. Sp. Staikos, Greek Philosophical Editions in the First Century of Printing, Athens 2001, p. 87).Provenance: ownership inscription dated '1694' on title, barely legible.

NO RESERVE New Zealand.- Australia.- ["Eve in Wonderland": Photographic Album], cracked hinges, 1907; [Photographic Views of Tauranga], 1909; c.105 early gelatin silver prints mounted on card, manuscript titles to each card, original cloth, manuscript titles to upper covers, rubbed and a little soiled § Johnston (William & Alexander Keith) Emigration Map Queensland, Australia, title upper left, with inset map of the world highlighting Australia, lithographed map, 695 x 515 mm. (27 1/4 x 20 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some folds splitting, folding into original green cloth decorated in gilt, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1865 (3)⁂ The album's include images of Rotorua and Tauranga on the North Island of New Zealand.

The original manuscript and edited photographic images for The catalogue of Sassoon Chinese ivories (lot 296) contained in eighteen cotemporary ring binder folders, each photograph accompanied by corresponding typed text. (18)

A page manuscript 17th Century from Shahname (Book of Kings), written in Nasta'liq hand, with illumination, 34cm x 23cm

A page manuscript 17th Century from the book Khamsah of Nizami Nasta'liq with illumination, 34cm x 22cm

An Indian polychrome painted manuscript stand 19th Century decorated with patterns and carved details, 27.5 cm across

An Indian polychrome painted manuscript stand 19th Century decorated with central swastika and carved details, 23cm across

A Persian rectangular tile, decorated in the Iznik palette with an armed chief, wearing flowing robes, blossoming flowers on a blue ground, leafy border, 21.5cm high, 14.5cm wide, 19th century or earlier, manuscript label to verso inscribed: Persian tile from a demolished building, Damascus, Syria, 1942

ABBEY PLAYS, including the productions of the Irish Literary Theatre, published 1949 by the Sign of the Three Candles, with manuscript dedication from Henry Brogan; together with a signed Variety Club theatre program for 'The Mouse that Roared', signed by Noel Purcell (x 2); and a 'Chief Barker' luncheon stand card. (4)

THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCEThe Petition: a poem,wrote at New York in December last, addressed to His Excellency General Sir William Howe, Single sheet folio, printed on one side, in two columns (previously folded), c.1777, 375 x 232mmHeading paragraph captioned ‘The Editor states this “Jeu d’Espirit” has circulated in manuscript copies through the American army; and is “too good to be confined to the mere circle of his (the author’s) acquaintance” and “that its fame has reached this country”. Howe is praised: “Well knowing the valour and conduct which lead us/ and how soon we follow, when you are to lead us/Long Island, New York and Great Washington’s Fort.”The Americans are denigrated:“Their famed constitiution- their dernier resort”“Their fring’d rifle warriors, how we did scorn/as a parcel of rags set on posts in the corn!”“But now we’ve such stocks of them coop’d up in jail/ The whole congress money, coud not be their bail.”Married for 18 months, twelve of them away in the army, his young wife, through stress, lost their child. With the analogy of war he describes to the General how this will be rectified, if his request for home leave be granted.In order to open manly attack- When we meet face to face we shall soon come to battle - And then I know how to gain full satisfaction As the body's drive back in the heart of the action!I've a breach and a breast-work, then next to subdueWith a close cover'd way, and a sap to make tooAll round the deep ditch, there's chevauz de frizeAt Flat Bush * there's not such a cluster of trees- I've tools to entrench with, and make my approaches-I'll not ask grenadiers or light infantry there For the motions can't flank it, as brave as they'reNor army dragoons on my plan enlarge*A Pass on long Island, attacked the 27th of August Sir William Howe, succeeded as 5th Viscount in the Irish peerage, appointed commander-in-chief, North America 1775 and recalled 1778, married Frances, 4th daughter of William Connolly of Castletown and Lady Anne Wentworth

AMERICAN WARRecruiting in Ireland for the American War, 1777, manuscript receipt for men who joined Charlemont's volunteer force, Strabane 31 March 1777 / Received from William Knox Esqr. from 5th March to 31st of the Same Month Ten Men for the 68th Regt. of foot / Malby Brabazon / Lieut. 68th Regt. Strabane: 1777. The Irish parliament agreed to sending 4,000 of the troops garrisoned in Ireland to America for the war and presumably this led to a recruiting campaign. The resultant vacuum in Ireland was filled by a volunteer defence force under Charlemont which later became a pressure group for Irish liberty

A Rifle Volunteer Officer's Helmet. A dark grey cloth helmet by Hobsons, with white metal peak-edging and other fittings, complete with blackened QVC Maltese Cross plate bearing Cornwall Arms and Motto. Corded chin chain with black velvet lining. Roan leather headband inscribed in manuscript 'JT Thomas'. Minor moth damage. In an unmarked tin.

Memorabilia of General Gordon A manuscript note dated 8/1/74 to a Mr Waller inscribed "Before entrusting instruments to Mr Williams, see he is conversant with them"; another short letter dated 11/3/84 to Mr Waller, complete with its envelope and a transcript; a Union Flag, made in Khartoum from strips of coloured paper, sent to Mr Waller for his children. All items in individual glazed frames, together with three Egyptian Army buttons. (Lot)

Hand-painted Persian manuscripts, depicting horseman, hunting scenes and palace scene, together with a sheep skin manuscript with Middle Eastern script

ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT LEAF, late 19th/early 20th century handwritten and illustrated, depicting a stylised boat and figures, with Arabic text to verso. Presented in an early 20th century hand carved frame bearing the crest of the Cardinal Vaughan School.

Antique Miniature Persian Manuscript Depicting The sultan With His Court, Arabic Script To The Verso, Probably A Page From A Book, Mounted - Unframed, 11 x 7.5 Inches Excluding Mount

A number of sketches and a manuscript pen-and-ink map with key drawn by a 19th Century British artist living in China, including detailed graphite landscape studies depicting housing, local river transport and figures, each annotated in pencil, map 27 x 22 cm

A Second World War RAF ephemera and effects group, that of Leading Aircraftman W Dudley who served in the Mediterranean theatre, including his Service & Release book, a photograph album, and a four-leaf manuscript first hand account of the German invasion of Crete

A large quantity of Great War period documents largely pertaining to the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, including typewritten Nominal Rolls, Prisoner of War rolls and tallies, autograph manuscript letters, trench maps, Map of the Main Prison Camps in Germany with annotations, Regimental Orders, 1914 Star medal roll etc

NORTH INDIAN SCHOOL, 19th century, Two illustrated manuscript leaves or miniatures from the book ' Joseph and Zuleikha', images size 15.5cm x 9.3cm (2)

Fiji : 1874-1916 A remarkable collection of the postmarks of Fiji in a Senator loose-leaf album. Starting with Levuka, the old capital, with cds cancels on 12 stamps, a page of 'Sunburst' killer cancels showing the Levuka oval type on 2 single KEVII adhesives & a strip of 4 of the 2d dull green on piece; the Suva killer on 8 values, two in bright red; Smaller post offices are represented by BUA, with three values with manuscript name cancel & date(1900-02); UDU KACU manuscript cancel across a pair of 1d mauve(1899); TAVIUNI on Edward 1d(1905); NANUKULOA RA on 1d mauve(1902); scarce cds cancels of P.O.BA (3), P.O.NADI (2), P.O.NAVUA(3) & undated violet double ring SAVU SAVU/POST OFFICE on Edward ½d pair. The a 'locally made' cancel of P.O.NAMOLI in violet (c1900-01) on 2 x ½d green. Violet LAUTOKA, part cancels in violet on 1d & 2d(c 1900-07) & 4 examples of the 23mm cds on 4 adhesives (1905-10). A manuscript cancellation by the postal agent at NAUSORI (1897) plus 3 values with the cancel of 'A.M.Brodziak & Co Nausori' (1898) & 1899,1900 & 1903 examples of the Nausori P.O.cds on 1d or 2d adhesives; 2 pages of SUVA with various cds cancels from 1892 & examples of the duplex (1895). Three pages of cancels, not written-up, at the back of the album include more 'killer' cancels & part straight line cancels of SOMO SOMO, NADARIVATU, NADROGA, WAINIBOKASI etc. Plus some possibly fiscal manuscript cancels. A terrific lot for the specialist, many marks are rarely seen. All on stamp(s).(114 items - 135 stamps) Scans & photocopies are available - please contact the office. [US2]

Monkhouse (Cosmo, poet and critic, 1840-1901) Eight English Artists and their Studios, autograph manuscript signed, 57pp., last f. torn with some loss not affecting text, some soiling, browned, some folds, folio, n.d. [c. 1890].

[Purchas (Samuel) Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in al Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this present...], third edition, woodcut initials, lacking title and first leaf of Epistle Dedicatorie, 4B2 and 5C4, with old manuscript title of first edition tipped in at beginning (detached with next leaf), photocopies of missing title, Epistle Dedicatorie and 5C4 loosely inserted (but not 4B2), old ink inscription of "Samuel Hope...1794" at head of first leaf of text, some other ink inscriptions or marginalia, cropped affecting a few head-lines, browned, some stains, burn to C signature affecting 3 lines and causing hole to 3 leaves, a few tears (some repaired), ex-Liverpool library copy with small stamp to manuscript title, later half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., rubbed, [STC 20507], folio, [William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone], [1617]; sold not subject to return⁂ Samuel Hope, cotton-broker and banker of Liverpool.

Orde, née Wellesley (Lady Eileen, fourth daughter of the 8th Duke of Wellington, 1887-1952) Original illustration of fantastical sea creatures, watercolour and gouache on artists' board, 235 x 145 mm. (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in), unframed; together with manuscript letter on 'Apsley House, Picadilly, W.' headed paper from the artist to 'Miss Castell', 3 pp. of text, folded, some spotting and browning, both unframed, [circa 1905-1915] (2). ⁂ Artist, designer, and wife of the artist Cuthbert Orde (1888-1968). Her designs were used to illustrate advertisements for the fashion designer and couturier, Elspeth Phelps, amongst others. A photographic portrait of Orde appeared in the debut issue of British Vogue, and was the the first ever photograph published by the magazine.

NO RESERVE [Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de)] La Défense de Mon Oncle,136pp., ?first edition, n.p. [?Netherlands], 1767; Contes de Guillaume Vadé, édition augmentée par l'Auteur d'un Supplément au Discours aux Welches, Geneva, 1765, together 2 works in 1 vol., light soiling, contemporary half calf, spine ends worn, split to upper joint; Lettres Secrettes de Mr. de Voltaire, publiées par Mr. L.B., half-title, foxing and soiling, old ink stamp of John Brymer on title and with his manuscript note in Latin on half-title, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, Geneva [Amsterdam], 1765, rubbed, 8vo (2)

Australasia.- Carnegie (Hon. David W.) Spinifex and Sand; A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia, first edition, presentation copy from the Marquess of Queensberry inscribed on front free endpaper, 4 folding maps (2 in pocket at end), 14 plates (3 photographic), some maps with short tears, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed and soiled, [Ferguson 7960; Wantrup 196a], 1898 § Wade (William Richard) A Journey in the Northern Island of New Zealand, first edition, ink nos. on title and dedication, some foxing, lacks front free endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, old manuscript label to upper cover, rubbed and marked, Hobart Town, 1842 § Clavers (Mrs. Mary) The Settler's New Home, or Glimpses of Western Life, wood-engraved frontispiece and additional title, slightly browned, modern red morocco, g.e, 1845; and 2 others, 8vo (5)⁂ Queensberry, the son of the notorious ninth Marquesss of Queensberry who called Oscar Wilde, a 'sondomite' [sic]. The marquess accompanied Carnegie on his travels through Western Australia.

NO RESERVE Sea Captain.- Narbrough (Sir John, naval officer, bap. 1640, d. 1688) Certificate of shipping "upon the good Ship called the ffairefax...in the Maine Sea... one Bagg Conteyning one thousand two hundred & forty peeces of Eight..., Ds "John Narbrough", printed certificate with manuscript insertions, small red wax seal, folds, browned, laid down on card, 550 x 203mm., 10th March 1673.

Penny Post.- Howell (William, waterman, fl. 1680s) A Bill for ye Right Honble Countess of Plimmoth 1684 [Ursula Widdrington (1647-1717)]... "October 30... pd ye penny post for ye Letter 00 00 01", manuscript bill, 1p., foxed and browned, folio, 1684; and 9 others, documents and letters, including a haberdasher's bill, 1676, and a seamstresses bill for embroidering £40 made out to Sir Christopher Musgrave, 1710, an 18th century French inventory, and others on Wine, Medicine and Scottish Canals, folds, browned, v.s., v.d. (10 pieces). ⁂ First mentioned one of the earliest recorded instances of the London Penny Post when it was under the control of the Crown.Provenance: Collection of J. Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912), recorded in the Historical Manuscripts Commission report, The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1897. Much of the collection was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1914.

Ireland.- [Leap Castle]. Archive relating to the Darby family of Leap Castle, Co. Offaly, including: (1). 2 manuscript maps (manuscript map of of the parish of Aghacon in the Barony of Ballybritt in King's County, showing Leap Castle, 300 x 240mm., [c. 1740]; manuscript map, partly hand-coloured, of Roscone in the Barony of Ballybritt, 300 x 180mm., 1826 (2). 13 Autograph Letters signed from various correspondents in Ireland to John Darby in Leap and London, together 18pp., 1802-06, rental matters etc. (3). Autograph Letter signed from John Darby to his son Horatio, 3pp., 1833, dealing with land issues, the destruction by fire at Leap of old documents demonstrating the family's right to a bog etc., and other material, folds, browned, v.s., v.d., 1693-1833; and c. 65 letters from Thomas Bateson, brother of Robert Bateson-Harvey, first Baronet of Killoquin, Co. Antrim, on Irish matters, 1777-93, v.s., v.d. (qty).

Wine.- [Account book of port, madeira and wine purchased], manuscript, 8pp., folds, some ff. loose, stapled, original wrappers, 126 x 100mm., July 1790 § Leverett & Frye, Limited... Wine, Spirit and Bottled Beer Merchants... Islington..., printed card, 76 x 113mm., n.d. [c. 1870]; and 9 others, Wine etc., v.s., v.d. (11 pieces).⁂ First mentioned:: "Port from Hopper & Monkhouse for immediate Drinking. 13 Dozen all drank."

George IV.- The Duke of Kent's Observations on the Excess in... The Princess of Wales's Expenditure and the mode of preventing the same in future, manuscript document, 3pp., folds, browned, watermarked 1799, [c. 1801] § Cornwallis (Charles Cornwallis, first Marquess Cornwallis, Governor-General of India and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1738-1805) Autograph Letter signed to the Prince of Wales, 4pp., Calcutta, 1st November 1788, reporting on the state of India, "The times for making rapid fortunes in India are past and it will now be easy only by the industry and economy of a course of years, that a Servant of the Company [East India Company] who conducts himself like a man of honour, will be enabled to return with a competency to his native country", folds, browned; and a small quantity of others, including 4 other pieces relating to George IV as Prince of Wales, and 4 Autograph Letters signed from Howe Peter Browne, second Marquess of Sligo to William Brown Ffolkes, friend of Byron, 1808-10, folds, browned (8 pieces).⁂ First mentioned setting out the poor state of Princess Caroline's finances, and the duke's suggestions to mitigate them.