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Click here to subscribePOSTAL HISTORY COVERS : GERMANY, an attractive group of pre-stamp covers & entires from Berlin, Dortmund, Dresden, Frankfurt, Offenbach, Borghorst, Coeslin, Magdeburg, Schwaan + many more. Inc a fine range of boxed & circular postal markings, manuscript charges etc. Some interesting contents too with legal, municipal & commercial documents. Worth a close inspection! (Original retail from some years ago £170+) (32 items).
Mount Everest Flights: 1933 (3 Apr) Houston Expedition flown cover (with Raj Darbhanga logo on reverse) addressed to Scotland franked India KGV ½a green and 1929 Air 8a purple tied by violet circular "HOUSTON MOUNT EVEREST FLIGHT/PURNEA" cachet dated 5 Apr 33 (Waterfall type IX), with PURNEA cds for 12 Apr 33 below, with sender's manuscript endorsement "Certified that this cover was flown over Mt Everest 3.4.33" and signed "Clydesdale", with near contemporary proving letter on Raj Darbhanga notepaper (dated 7.4.33) in same handwriting and signed, Lord Clydesdale accompanied the pilot McIntyre on this flight, opened out for display, 6a corner fault, this and cachet rather faded but rare as only 25 flown (Waterfall 360 points)
NO RESERVE Manoscritto. Li tre orbi. Commedia di tre atti in prosa scritta per il teatro Paroni nell'autunno dell'anno 1795. [Cremona (?)]: 1795. Manoscritto cartaceo in-folio (mm 302x205). Carte [24]. Titolo, lista degli attori e testo in inchiostro rosso e nero. Ottimo stato di conservazione. Legatura coeva in cartonato, titoli calligrafati al piatto anteriore. Manoscritto completo della commedia Li tre orbi, che include le indicazioni di scena per gli attori inframmezzate al testo - inedito e verosimilmente perduto - 'scritto per il Teatro Paroni nell'Autunno dell'anno 1795'. Come da indicazione in calce alla lista degli attori la scena si finge in Cremona e, probabilmente, l'anonimo commediografo potrebbe provenire proprio da area lombardo-veneta, come fanno anche supporre alcune forme linguistiche di uso dialettale. Manuscript on paper (302x205 mm). 24 leaves. Titles, list of the actors, and text written in ink red and black. In very good condition. Contempory paperboards, title inked on the upper cover. Complete manuscript copy of the unpublished comedy Li tre orbi, including instructions for the actors, and written - as the title states - for the - 'Teatro Paroni' in the autumn 1795. The play takes place in Cremona, in Lombardy, and the anonymous comedy writer had used forms and expressions typical of Lombard or Veneto dialect.
NO RESERVE Maximus Tyrius. Sermones è Graeca in Latinam linguam versi Cosmo Paccio interprete. (Al colophon:) Basileae: ex aedibus nostris [Johann Froben], 1519.In-folio (mm 295x203). Pagine 170 [i.e.174], [2]. Frontespizio, prefazione ed inizio dell'opera in eleganti bordure xilografiche, testatine e capilettera xilografici ornati lungo il testo. Minime bruniture ma ottimo esemplare. Legatura settecentesca in mezza pelle. Note manoscritte ed interventi paratestuali a qualche carta.Seconda elegantissima e migliore edizione dei Sermones di Maximus Tyrius, il primo libro ad essere decorato con xilografie di Ambrosius Holbein. L'opera è preceduta da una prefazione scritta da Cosimo Paccio, arcivescovo di Firenze, che te tradusse in latino l'originale greco utilizzando un manoscritto portato dal Lascaris a Firenze. Al verso dell'ultima carta catalogo editoriale di Froben.Folio (295x203 mm). 170 [i.e. 174], [2] pages. Woodcut title page, preface and begenning of the work, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Browning otherwise a very fine copy. Eighteenth-century half-leather. ink note on some leaves.The preferred second edition and the earliest work decorated with woodcuts by Ambrosius Holbein. The sermons are preceded by a preface written by Cosmus Paccius, the archbishop of Florence, who also translated the work from the original Greek into Latin. This translation was made from a manuscript copy of Tyrius' dissertations that was brought by Janus Lascaris from Greece to the De Medici family in Florence.
A postcard, photograph and clippings travel album c.1905-08, c.38 x 45cm, mainly covering trips to New Zealand, USA - Chicago and New York, and South Africa. All pasted to album leaves with some printed and descriptive manuscript text; subjects include Maori tribe studies, sporting scenes and Cecil Rhodes interest
General James Welsh (1775-1861) Madras Army, East India Company, manuscript sea chart and topographical watercolours. An early 19th Century album of poetry, journal extracts and religious compositions written in manuscript by Bellina Sophia Maxtone (James Welsh's daughter) containing a few prints and a pencil drawing by her of Bideford from Ford Wood, together with 12 pencil/ink/watercolour drawings mainly of views in India, including the beach at Waltair by Mrs Sarah Welsh and a group by James Welsh to include: The Antelope & Greyhound & other Boats on the Backwater (Vol.1 p.151), The Syrian Cathedral & Metropolitan's House at Cotyam in Travancore (Vol.2 p.229), Female Orphan Asylum at Calcutta, The Albatross & Pintadoes from the cabin window Robarts at sea off the Cape Dec.1836, Sketches from life of the Lioness & Royal Tiger in the fort of Marekherah belonging to the Mahaswanny Lingarajender Nadeem Rajah of Coorg March 24th 1811 (Vol.1 p.338), Yenklmurradee Fort (Vol.2 p.263) and The Ooplee Boorj (Vol.2 p.320), together with a signed manuscript sea chart by James Welsh documenting a ship wreck, inscribed 'Sketch in explanation of the loss of the I.C.Cos Extra Ship Travers on a Rock near Diamond Island at 5 am on the 7th Nov. 1808, in company with the Extra ships Monarch & Earl Spencer, Outward Bound', (Vol.2 p.286 'On the 7th of November the Travers ran upon a rock near Drowned island, off Negrais Point, on the Burmese shore, and was totally lost, with sixteen poor men on board; while we picked up one hundred and twenty-two persons in three boats and carried them all in our ship to Calcutta.'). The references in brackets relate to James Welsh's two-volume work 'Military Reminiscences; extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' service in the East Indies, published in 1830 by Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill. The present Lot bears a later ownership inscription 'Maria Sutherland from M.A. Elder in memory of their Angel Sister June 16th 1867'. Several of the above mentioned drawings are reproduced (with some variance) as illustrations in these two-volumes. The watercolours of a Lioness and Royal Tiger have been drawn on a leaf from James Welsh's original journal and stitched into this album. To the verso of the same leaf he has written an account of his visit to the Rajah of Coorg and sketching of the Royal pets: 'The Lioness has a capital House in the Fort, with a boarded floor & glass windows & seems to be the greatest Pet. I could not get her to sit or stand a minute & have not therefore done her justice in my hasty sketch.' This Lot is offered with a two-volume reprint in paperback of James Welsh's original work.
[Cambridge University elections, 1811.] Manuscript circular on the contest for the election of the Chancellor of Cambridge University. 2pp, signed by 13 Masters of Cambridge Colleges, and referring to the Duke of Gloucester's abstaining from personal canvas and thereby 'insulting not only the dignity of his own rank, but likewise the dignity of the University..' Note: the Duke of Gloucester was up against the Duke of Rutland, and in the event was elected to the post.
Literature, various including odd volumes. BUTLER (J) The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature, 4th edition 1750, worn calf; EATON (Mary) The Cook and Housekeepers complete and universal Dictionary, 1823, 8vo, typically soiled, strengthened binding; 'Select Prayers from Dr Johnson & others', a 19th century manuscript fair copy on 153pp.; HEIDEGGER. Histoire du Papisme, 1700, vol. II only, 12mo; WOLLSTONECRAFT (Mary) Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 1796, 8vo, (lacks title), calf; BOCCACCIO (G) Il Filostrato, Poema.., Paris 1789, 8vo, later cloth binding; 2 others (8)
The Reverend John Marriott Correspondence & Archive (Legal Advisor to the Protestant Bishops of England - A manuscript account of the National Debt at Xmas 1761 on the sunshine fund including to subscriptions was the South Sea Sinking of (3.7 million and lottery amities £1.4 million) The debt at Xmas 1725 forecast to stand at £56,393 million, repayments of £6 million charged to the Sinking Fund and standing at £55,509.446 - 911 3/4-An important contemporary Government Documents
14th-15th century AD. A parchment manuscript page with dry-point lining; recto: block of fifteen lines of blackletter text with tendrils to each edge, floral detailing in blue, red, white and gold leaf, versals in decorated blocks with gold leaf; verso: fourteen lines of similar blackletter text with embellishments, tendrils to the left margin only; the text beginsBenedicat nos Deus, Deus noster (may God bless us, our God), part of a processional antiphon. 2.55 grams, 18 x 13cm (7 x 5"). UK art market, acquired prior to 2000. Fine condition.
13th-14th century AD. A vellum manuscript page with dry-point lining; recto: block of twenty lines of blackletter text with red and blue tendrils to the margins, versals in decorated blocks with gold leaf; verso: twenty lines of similar blackletter text with embellishments, tendrils to the lower margin only; marginal note 'psalmus dauid anima'; the text begins 'exaudiat te dominus in die tribulationis' (May the Lord hear you in the day of tribulation), Psalm 19:2. 1.5 grams, 13 x 9cm (5 x 3 1/2"). Acquired on the London art market prior to 1980. Fine condition.
1466-1467 AD. First reign, light coinage, type VII. Obv: facing bust with E on breast and quatrefoil at sides within tressure with EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGLZ FRANC legend and 'crown' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS EBORACI legends and 'lis' mintmark for York mint. S. 2012; N. 1583.3.18 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. Good very fine; old tone.
1464-1470 and 1480-1483 AD. First reign, light coinage, local dies. Obv: facing bust with G left and key right with EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANG legend and 'plain cross' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with quatrefoil and CIVI TAS EBO RACI legend for York mint. Second reign, type XXI. Obv: facing bust with T left and slanting key right with EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL legend and 'rose' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with quatrefoil and CIVI TAS EBO RACI legend for York mint. S. 2062; N. 1594/S. 2134; N. 1654.0.75, 0.73 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. [2, No Reserve] Good fine; old tone.
1480-1483 AD. Second reign, type XXI. Obv: facing bust within tressure with EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL Z FRA legend and 'cinquefoil' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS LONBDON legends for London mint. S. 2103; N.1634.1.56 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. Good very fine; old tone.
1472-1473 AD. Second reign, type XIV. Obv: facing bust within tressure with EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL Z FR legend and 'annulet' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS LONDON legends for London mint. S. 2103; N. 1634.1.50 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. Very fine; old tone.
1477-1480 AD. Second reign, type XVIII. Obv: facing bust with C on breast within tressure with EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL Z FRA legend and 'rose' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with C at centre and POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS CANTOR legends for Canterbury mint. S. 2107; N. 1638.1.40 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. [No Reserve] Very fine.
1480-1483 AD. Second reign, type XXI. Obv: facing bust with EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGLI legend with 'cinquefoil' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with CIVI TAS LON DON legend for London mint. S. 2110; N. 1641.0.74 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. [No Reserve] Very fine; old tone.
1471-1483 AD. Obv: facing bust with EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGLI legend and uncertain mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with quatrefoil at centre with CIVI TAS EBO RACI legend for York mint. S. 2127; N. 1647.0.71 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. [No Reserve] Very fine.
1471-1483 AD. Second reign, London mint; one with 'pellet-in-annulet' mintmark, one uncertain mintmark. 0.72, 0.61 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. [No Reserve] Fine; first clipped, second pierced; old tone.
1504-1507 AD. Type IIIc. Obv: facing bust with double arched crown with HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGLIE Z FR legend and 'cross-crosslet' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEV ADIVTORE MEV and CIVITAS LONDON legends for London mint. S. 2199; N. 1705(c).3.05 grams.Ex Morton & Eden Ltd sale; formerly in the Archbishop John Sharp (1644-1714) collection. Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York from 1691 was an enthusiastic collector and student of coins and medals; his interest seems to have begun around 1687 when, as Rector of St Giles in the Fields, he ‘found it a good divertisement in the evening’. In contrast to nearly all his numismatic forbears and contemporaries who were interested in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sharp selected the coinages of the British Isles and, to a lesser extent, the Colonies and Continental Europe, as his chosen fields. He wrote his ‘Observations on the Coinage of England with a letter to Mr [Ralph] Thoresby’ in 1698-99, which was to circulate amongst numismatists in manuscript form for nearly a century before being finally printed in 1785. Subsequent owners of the Sharp collection evidently added to the collection. The historical sequence of ownership of the collection runs as follows: (i) Dr John Sharp (1644-1714), Archbishop of York; (ii).John Sharp (1674-1726), eldest son of the Archbishop, of Grafton Park, Northamptonshire; (iii) Dr Thomas Sharp (1693-1758), his brother, who was Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham; (iv).His son Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Vicar of Hartburn, Perpetual Curate of Bamburgh, who succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Northumberland and who oversaw extensive restoration of the largely-ruined Bamburgh Castle; (v) His daughter Anne Jemima Sharp (1762-1816), who bequeathed it in her will to her uncle Granville Sharp (1735-1813), the prominent Anti-Slavery campaigner. In the event Granville died before his niece, so that on her death in 1819 it passed to her first cousin, another great-granddaughter of the Archbishop: (vi) Catherine Sharp (1770-1843) of Clare Hall, near Barnet, whose husband Rev. Andrew Boult took the name Sharp on marriage; (vii) Her nephew Thomas Barwick Lloyd-Baker (1807-86), the social reformer and ornithologist who was also a direct descendant of the Archbishop through his maternal grandfather William Sharp (1729-1810), George III’s surgeon; thence by descent. During the 1960s and 1970s material from the celebrated Archbishop Sharp Collection was sold through the agency of dealers A.H. Baldwin & Sons, and Owen Parsons of Gloucester. There were auctions of Continental Coins (Sotheby & Co., 14 March 1966) and the particularly important English Coins and Medals Charles I – Anne (and Colonial Coins) held by Glendining & Co., 5 October 1977. The cataloguer of the latter sale drew attention to the distinctive toning found on many of the Archbishop Sharp silver coins, a feature which applies equally to the pieces offered here. Some of these have been studied and occasionally referenced in the past. Good fine, small striking split to flan edge, once bent and straightened; old tone.
Angling.- Aldam (W.H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making", first edition, half-title, 2 chromolithograph plates, 25 flies with dressing materials in 22 sunken mounts on 6 thick card leaves, some foxing, loosely inserted subscription form with list of subscribers and number of books totalling 217 copies, original pictorial cloth, g.e., a very handsome copy in modern board slip-case, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, 1876.⁂ A very good copy of one of the classic angling books. The manuscript on which Aldam based his text surfaced at a public auction in 1999, revealing the author's name to be Robert Whitehead, about whom nothing else is known. The flies include two mayfly patterns which are tied on very early eyed hooks specially made by Bartletts.
Knitting Recipes.- Euston (Sarah Anne) Knitting Recipes, autograph manuscript, 39pp., loose, browned, original roan wrappers, rubbed, 1846; and a small quantity of letters by Bessy Rosehill, later Elizabeth Countess of Northesk (wife of 9th Lord Northesk), and letters of condolence on the death of an earlier Lady Northesk, and 5 vol. only of Lady Northesk's work The Sheltering Vine and Sequel to the Sheltering Vine, v.s., v.d. (qty).
NO RESERVE Atkins Brothers Hosiery Factory.- Atkins (George, of Atkins Hosiery, Hinckley, Leicestershire, fl. 1876-1911) Account Book, autograph manuscript, c. 175pp. excluding blanks, original half calf, rubbed, upper joint split but still strong, 8vo, 1876-1911.⁂ The Atkins Brothers Hosiery Factory in Hinckley was the oldest surviving independent framework knitting firm in the world. The origins of the Atkins Brothers firm can be traced back to 1722, when Robert Atkins (1702-1768), the son of a yeoman farmer from Newbold-on-Avon in Warwickshire, returned to Bond Street in Hinckley to make stockings, having served his apprenticeship in London. At this time knitting was a cottage industry with supplies of wool readily available in the locality. The firm ceased trading in 2002.
Elizabethan Art.- Burton (R.) Elizabethan Art, autograph manuscript, 33pp., pen and ink decorated title-page and 27 pen and ink and watercolour illustrations, small tear in margin of 1p. of text, a few small ink marks, some illustration pp. creased, original cloth, facsimile signature of Elizabeth I on upper cover, lge. 4to, n.d. [c. 1920].
HMS Belfast. June 1946 - October 1947 [cover title], photographic album, a landscape album containing approximately 220 black & white photographs, mounted on 46 leaves, mainly to the rectos, many with ink manuscript captions, recording various places visited in the Far East, together with envelopes containing further loose photographs, and some contemporary newspaper pages, oblong folio Places named include: Hong Kong, Singapore, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nanking, Manila and Bangkok. People named in photographs include: Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, Major General Festing, T.W. Kwok, Mr. (later Sir) Alvary Gascoigne, General Byers, General Eichelberger, Rear Admiral Woodhouse, General Robertson, General Kwei, General Pai Chung-shi, John Keswick and Admiral Cooke. Other ships mentioned include: HMS Adamant, HMS Glory and HMS Venerable. (1)
Illuminated Testimonial. An illuminated testimonial for John Dent Goodman upon tendering his resignation as director and chairman of the London and Midland Bank Ltd., 15th July 1898, produced by Blades, East & Blades, [1898], a total of 4 well-executed watercolour, gilt and gouache leaves, the first 2 with text, the third leaf with 23 mounted vignette oval portrait photographs (manuscript key leaf loosely inserted), the fourth leaf with 15 vignettes of bank buildings (11 albumen print photographs and 4 well-executed watercolours to match), the Art Nouveau decorative borders with floral and foliage designs, the second leaf with 2 armorials and mottos to lower border, each 34 x 25 cm and window-mounted in thick card, Blades, East & Blades gilt stamp to final blank leaf, some mostly marginal spotting, moire silk doublures, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with gilt rules and bank's circular gilt crest to upper cover, inner dentelles with gilt floral design, minor rubbing at head and foot of spine, large 4to (49 x 40 cm) From the collection of his grandson Sir Victor Goodman, Clerk of the Parliaments. (1)
Lear (Edward). A Book of Nonsense, London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. & Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, circa 1870s, numerous colour illustrations on fifty-two leaves (printed to one side of the page only) plus frontispiece and title, a few spots to frontispiece and title, revers of frontispiece (browned) with early ink presentation inscription, hinges split, all edges gilt, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, some wear to extremities, set of Edward Lear stamps (issued 1988), with the matching miniature sheet, loosely inserted, 4to, together with Tupper (Margaret Elanora), Little Loving-Heart's Poem-Book, 1882 [but 1881], numerous black & white illustrations by various artists such as Kate Greenaway, half-title with ink presentation inscription dated 1881, front free endpaper detaching with tear, publisher's catalogue at rear,front hinge split. original pictorial cloth gilt, lightly rubbed with a couple of minor marks, large 8vo, plus Doyle (Richard), Jack the Giant Killer, Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1888], pictorial colour title, numerous colour illustrations and decorated borders, lacking publisher's introduction (usually tipped-in) describing this as a facsimile edition of Doyle's 1842 manuscript, free endpapers toned, front hinge splitting, original pictorial blue cloth, very lightly rubbed at extremities, front cover with small mark and minor dent, 4to in 8s, and 28 other late 19th century including: Jack O'Lantern and Other Rhymes by Eleanor W. Talbot, 1883; Queery Leary Nonsense, edited by Lady Strachey, 1911; A Masque of Days from the Last Essays of Elia, by Walter Crane, 1901; The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate, a R. Caldecott Picture Book, circa 1880s (31)
Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways. [Selection of maps.], [London: for H.M S.O, 1906-11], 8 folding lithographic maps on 8 sheets, all dissected onto linen and bound c. 1940 in 5 maroon cloth folders, text and outlines in colour, manuscript paper labels to front boards, approximate dimensions ranging from 450 x 650 mm to 950 x 600 mm, folders bowed, rubbed and marked, ownership inscriptions and a few other discreet annotations, with a collection of typed correspondence dated 1943 indicating that these maps were submitted to the Admiralty in response to a request for information, probably in preparation for D-Day The maps comprise: "Map of the Canal Systems and Navigable Rivers of Scotland" (plate number just shaved); "Map of the Canals and Navigable Rivers of Ireland" (plate number 2); "Map of the Canals & Navigable Rivers in the Catchment Basis of England and Wales (1 map on 2 sheets: plate 4, sheets 1 and 2); "Map of the Inland Navigation and Waterways of Belgium" (plate B.1); "General Map of the Navigable Waterways of France" (plate F. 1); "Map of the Inland Navigation and Waterways of Germany" (plate G.1); "The Industrial development along the Finow Canal" and "The Industrial Development along the Canalized Main from Frankfurt to Mainz" (2 maps on 1 sheet, plate G. 18). (5)
Dionysius the Areopagite (). Opera omnia quae extant, una cum eiusdem vitae scriptoribus nunc primum Graece et Latinae coniunctim edita. Accesserunt S. Maximi Scholia, nunc primum Latinitate donata, et Georgii Pachymerae paraphrasis in Epistolas. Omnia stuio et opera Petri Lansseli Grauelingani, Paris, Claude Morel, 1615, engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, Greek and Latin text in double column, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initial figures, contents toned, small damp-stain to top margin of prelims and first few text leaves, contemporary ownership inscription to title, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, corners restored, rubbed and slightly marked overall, folio, together with Philostratus the Athenian, [Greek title] Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia ... ex Mss. Codd. recensuit notis perpetuis illustravit versionem totam novam feit Gottfridus Olearius, Leipzig, 1709, half-title, title page printed in red and black, foxing and browning, Durham University ink-stamp and manuscript deaccession note to title verso, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints cracked but firm, extremities rubbed, tips rubbed, folio, together with 4 English imprints of other Greek works, comprising: Lysias & Isocrates, The Orations, translated from the Greek: with Some Account of their Lives; and a Discourse on the History, Manners, and Character of the Greeks, from the Conclusion of the Peloponnesian War, to the Battle of Chaeronea, by John Gillies, 1st edition thus, London, 1778, 2 engraved portraits, terminal errata leaf, small tide-mark extending from top edge of prelims, contemporary sprinkled calf, richly gilt spine, red morocco label, shallow chip to headcap, a few scuffs to sides, tips slightly worn, 4to; Polybius, The General History, in Five Books, translated from the Greek by Mr. Hampton, 1st edition thus, London, 1756, 2 engraved folding maps (1 after d'Anville), sporadic foxing, maps slightly browned and offset, small intermittent worm-track in lower outer corner, the text never affected, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine rather dry, headcaps chipped, joints partially cracked, but firm, extremities rubbed, 4to; [Aldrich, Henry], Artis Logicae Compendium, 1st edition, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1750, engraved frontispiece portrait of Aristotle, vignette title page, contents toned, a few contemporary ink-splashes, contemporary sheep, slightly rubbed, mild stripping, 12mo; Dionysius Longinus, Dionysii Longini quae supersunt Graece et Latine, recensuit, notasque suas atque animadversiones adjecit Joannes Toupius, accedunt emendationes Davidis Ruhkenii, editio altera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778, dedication leaf, mild toning, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked to style, 8vo (6)
Leti (Gregorio ). The Life of Pope Sixtus the Fifth ... translated from the Italian, with a Preface, Prolegomena, Notes, and Appendix, by Ellis Farneworth, 1st edition in English, London, 1754, engraved vignette arms to dedication, bookplates of John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1738-1816) and Henry Wheelwright Marsh (1860-1943), ownership inscription of Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope (1781-1855) to title page, very mild sporadic foxing, contemporary calf, gilt spine, rolled floral border gilt to covers, spine slightly worn, joints cracked but firm, slight rubbing to extremities, corners restored, folio, together with 7 similar works, comprising: Caraccioli, Louis-Antoine, Marquis, The Life of Pope Clement XIV (Ganganelli), 2nd edition in English, revised, London, 1778, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, damp-staining along bottom edges of boards, 8vo; Cabassut (Jean), Notitia ecclesiastica historiarum, conciliorum, et canonum invicem collatorum, veterumque juxta, ac recentiorum ecclesiae rituum, 3rd edition, corrected, Lyon, 1702, half-title, title page printed in and black with institutional ink-stamp, light foxing, contemporary mottled sheep, richly gilt spine, folio; Marti (Manuel), Epistolarum libri duodecim, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, corrected, Amsterdam, 1778, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, 2 plates depicting antiquities (1 folding), plates browned and offset, sporadic mild soiling, contemporary tan sheep, floral devices gilt to spine compartments, sides a little scuffed, 4to; Dos Martyres (Verissimo), Director Ecclesiastico das ceremonias da Cinza, Ramos, e de toda a Semana Santa, conforme as rubricas do Missal Romano ... 1st edition, Lisbon, 1755, engraved music score throughout, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title, general light soiling leaf of manuscript score partially pasted over p. 259, contemporary sheep, geometric blind roll to covers, front joint partially cracked, but firm, tips worn, 8vo; Calmet (Augustin), Commentaire Litt‚ral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, 8 volumes (of 25), 1st editions, Paris, 1707-15, including La GenŠse, Job, L'Eccl‚siastique, L'Evangile de S. Matthieu, L'Evangile de S. Marc et de S. Luc, L'Evangile de S. Jean, Ezechiel et Daniel, Les XII. petits prophŠtes, bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed and worn, 4to; Thomassin (Louis), Vetus et nova Ecclesiae disciplina ... editio omnium novissima, 2 volumes (of 3), Venice, Balleoni, foxing, contemporary cat's-paw sheep, gilt spines, rubbed, folio; Teresa d'Avila (Saint) Cartas, volume 4 only of the 4-volume Obras, 2nd edition, Antwerp, Plantin, 1661, contemporary sheep, rubbed and worn, worm-holes to spine, 4to Set of works of Roman Catholic interest; the Director Ecclesiastico is a scarce antiphonary with one copy traced in libraries (Bibliotheca Casanatense), and its binding exhibits Islamic influence. (16)
*Great Western Railway. List of Subscribers to a Testimonial, Presented to Mr Jeremiah Greenaway on his retirement from the Service of the Great Western Railway Company, in recognition of his unvarying courtesy & attention as Station-master at Kemble during a period of over 30 years, May 1900, manuscript document inscribed in ink on paper laid on card, with 125 prestigious names including the Earl and Countess of Bathurst, The Duke of Beaufort, Lord Ribblesdale, etc, 52.5 x 32.5cm (20.75 x 12.75ins) (1)
Ariel Poems. Complete set of 8 volumes, new series, 1954, comprising Mountains, by W.H. Auden, Christmas Eve, by C. Day Lewis, Sirmione Peninsula, by Stephen Spender, The Winnowing Dream, by Walter de la Mare, The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, by T.S. Eliot, Prometheus, by Edwin Muir, The Other Wing, by Louis MacNeice and Nativity, by Roy Campbell, each with lithographed frontispiece by illustrators including Edward Bawden, Edward Ardizzone, Lynton Lamb, David Jones and John Piper, original sewn wrappers and contained in original envelopes, slight fading to one or two extremities, 8vo, together with a duplicate set of the same, plus Housman (A.E.), The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1st edition, CUP, 1933, a few light spots, original boards, 8vo, plus The Claim, by Anselm Hollo, Goliard Press, 1965, illustrated headpiece in red, original wrappers, tall slim 8vo, limited signed edition 1/50, from a total edition of 150, with other poetry etc including Harold Monro's Real Property 1922 (2 copies), Norman MacCaig's Three Manuscript Poems, Rougemont Press, 1970 (limited edition 196/300), One Little-Press Year (The Sermon, Establishment Songs, Five Quiet Shouters, Scapegoats and Rabies), a Portfolio from Poet & Printer, 1967 and The Autumn Songs for Children's Voices, 1968 (limited signed edition 102/188, from a total edition of 500) (47)
Customs & ExciseInstructions for the Collectors and Other Officers Employ'd in Her Majesties Customs, &c. Edinburgh: printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1707. Folio, 9 folding tables, contemporary panelled calf, bookplates of 'Rollo' and J. Robertson, manuscript notes to front free-endpaper, a little soiling throughout, some rubbing and soiling to covers
Irish History and Politics - Anglo-Irish Acts of Union - 23 pamphlets, chiefly in original wrappers, including[Redfoord, Archibald] Union Necessary to Security. Dublin: J. Archer, 1800, presentation copy from the author to William Smith Esq., several manuscript corrections by the author, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T194733]; Gay, Nicholas Strictures on the Proposed Union between Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin: J. Exshaw, 1799, lacks wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T133505]; [Anon.] A Hint concerning the causes that may have encouraged the English Minister to entertain that Extraordinary Project of a Union. Dublin: V. Dowling, 1800. Second edition, original wrappers, uncut; [ESTC T195046]; O'Connor, Arthur State of Ireland. [1798], drophead title, lacks wrappers, uncut; Leader, Nicholas P. An Address to the Merchants, Manufacturers and Landed Proprietors of Ireland, in which the Influence of an Union... is examined. Dublin: J. Moore, 1800, original wrappers, unuct, wrappers a bit frayed; ["Irishman"] A Few Observations, accounting for the apparent apathy that has prevailed on the Question of Union. Dublin: J. Stockdale, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, slightly spotted; [Ireland, Parliament] A Report of the Debate in the House of Commons of Ireland... recommending a legislative Union with Great Britain. Dublin: J. Stockdale, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC N26396]; Tracy, Darby A Letter from Darby Tracy... Union with Great Britain. Dublin: W. Folds, 1799, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T121310]; Farnham, Barry Maxwell, Earl of] An Examination into the Principles contained in a Pamphlet entitled the Speech of Lord Minto. Dublin: J. Moore, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T97710]; Weld, Matthew Constitutional Considerations. Dublin: J. Moore, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T87677]; [Holmes, Robert] An Argument addressed to the Yeomanry of Ireland by Euromus. Dublin: J. Stockdale, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T110801]; ["Real Friend"] A Letter to the People of Ireland... by a Real Friend. Dublin: J. Milliken, 1799, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T33123]; Swift, Theophilus Hear Him! Hear Him! Dublin: J. Stockdale, 1799, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T195046], very slight marginal worming to a few leaves; ["Eminent Barrister"] No Flinching or a Perservering Opposition to the Measure of an Incorporate Union. Dublin: J. Milliken, 1799, lacks wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T182361]; Smith, William Review of a Publication, entitled, the Speech of the Right Honourable John Foster. Dublin: Marchbank, 1799. Third edition, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T89666]; [Oriel, John Foster, Baron] Observations on that part of the Speaker's Speech, which relates to Trade. Dublin: T. Burnside, 1799, lacks wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T55091]; ["Member of the Irish Legislature"] The Measure of an Incorporate Legislative Union. Dublin: R. Marchbank, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T98792]; [Taylor, Herbert] Impartial Relation of the Military Operations which took place in Ireland. Dublin: J. Milliken, 1799, folding map, folding plan, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T114958]; Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount The Speech... on the subject of an incorporating Union with Great Britain. Dublin: J. Rea, 1800, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T114958]; Moore, George Observations on the Union, Orange Associations. Dublin: H. Fitzpatrick, 1799, original wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T72011]; [Carey, William] Both Sides of the Gutter. Dublin: P. Byrne, 1789, contemporary marginal annotations, original wrappers slightly frayed, uncut, [ESTC T69146]; Gold, Thomas The Speech... on the Subject of an Incorporate Union. London: J. Debrett, 1800, lacks wrappers, uncut, [ESTC T121144]; O'Connor, Arthur Letter to Lord Castelreagh. [Dublin ? 1799], lacks wrappers, drop-head title, uncut, [ESTC T96138] (23)Provenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust
Galloway, Alexander Stewart[Drop-head title] State of the Process, Alexander Earl of Galloway, James Fea of Clestren, James Traill younger of Hobister... all Udalmen, and Proprietors of Lands and Heritages in the Islands of Orkney, against James Earl of Morton. [Edinburgh, 1757]. 4to [ESTC T79573]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Memorial and Abstract of the Proof, for the Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1758]. 4to, [ESTC T79575]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Memorial for James Earl of Morton... [Edinburgh, 1758]. 4to, [ESTC T79574]; [bound with] Additional Memorial for James Earl of Morton. [Edinburgh, 1758]. 4to, [ESTC T79572]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Answers for Alexander, Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1758]. 4to, [ESTC T79571]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] The Case of Alexander Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1759] 4to, [ESTC T79562]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Appendix to the Case of the Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1759] 4to, [ESTC T79564]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Memorial for Alexander Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1759]. 4to, [ESTC T79565]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Information for James Earl of Morton... [Edinburgh, 1759]. 4to, [ESTC T79566]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Remarks for Alexander Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1759] 4to, [ESTC T79567]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] ...The Petition of Alexander Earl of Galloway... [Edinburgh, 1759]. 4to, [T79568]; [bound with] [Drop-head title] Answers for James Earl of Morton... [Edinburgh, 1759]. 4to, [ESTC T79569]; bound in modern half calf gilt, a few manuscript notes, one manuscript leaf bound into rear, bookplate of J. Robertson
[Drummond de Melfort, Guy, Comte de][Traité sur La Cavalerie. Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1776] Large folio, atlas volume only containing 31 (of 32) numbered double page plates (plate 2 is lacking), 2 unnumbered double page plates and 6 unnumbered single page plates after Ridinger, engraved by Vindel, from his Riding School series: "Ein Pferd wie es mit der Blinden aufgeführet wird..." 1744, "Ein Pferd zwischen den Pillars an die Trömel..." 1744, "Pasagiren auf volte mit der Croupe gegen der Soeule" [n.d.], "Die Anweisung die Zügel..." [n.d.], "Ein Pferd von der freyen hand lauffen zu lasen...", 1776, "Capriole oder das Übersetzen..." 1776, contemporary boards with manuscript label to upper cover reading "Ecole de Cavalerie militaire française", some light dampstaining, plate 5 repaired to lower right corner, a few small repairs including one to plate 29, slight marginal worming to final plate, joints split, some parts of spine detaching
Edinburgh, Scotland, & Nova Scotia - a collection of ephemera and manuscriptsA Bill and Act for Upholding and Repairing the Bridges and Highways in the County of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1733. Later edition, small 8vo pamphlet; A Bill for Altering and amending the Laws which regulate the Qualifications of Freeholders... Edinburgh, 1775. Small 8vo, blue wrappers, a few manuscript annotations in an early hand; Copies of two documents stating that William Douglas of Killhead permits his son to inherit his property, dated 1724 and 1727; Copy of a letter dated 1760 to Miss Jenny Douglas: "Madame, I'm extremely sorry to find that all that has passed between you & me is now become the common talk of the Tea Tables & Coffee houses..."; a collection of receipts from Edinburgh traders; Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Rights, Edinburgh 9th September 1847, 4 printed pages; The Nova Scotia Question in connection with the Relief of Highland & other Destitution... Glasgow, 1847. 8vo pamphlet, 2 copies; and various other documents relating to the British American Association; and other documents (small quantity)
Macbean, William, translator. [Samuel Johnson]Phocion's Conversations: or, the Relation between Morality and Politics. Originally translated by Abbé Mably, from a Greek Manuscript of Nicocles. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Mr. Dodsley, 1769. First English edition, 8vo., pp. [8], civ, 303, [1], the 'Summary of the Conversations' (one leaf) bound after the title-page rather than at the end of the prelims (as in the ESTC collation), contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, morocco label, joints slightly worn, Syston Park bookplate, [ESTC T58712, 11 copies]Note: William Macbean was the younger of two brothers who were part of a team of six amanuenses that worked for Dr. Johnson transcribing quotations for the Dictionary.
Lawyer's style book,largely in English (or Scots) with some sections in Latin, containing exemplars of gift of tutorie, oblivgatioun be way of contract, charters of recognition, gifts of escheit, back-bonds, dispositions, instruments of consignation, contracts, chartour of alinatioun of lands with precept of seasing, charters of excambioun, obligatioun by way of contract, &c., c. 200 pages, 4to, contemporary vellum detached, some dampstaining at end (not affecting legibility, early 17th century; Small legal manuscript "Ane Compend off some practiques before the Lords since his Ma[jes]ties cuming home to Scottland qch was in ano 1606". 1686, 8vo, 70pp., several leaves detached, contemporary calf, author's name "Ja. Huttone" at end, binding detached; and a quantity of 17th century sasines, some relating to Alex[ander] Gall de Mall, one to William Hog Boigend of Aiton parish, one charter of Gilbert Gourlay in favour of Robert Bennet of lands in Kirktouns, one from 1486: transcript of ane decreit arbitall betwix Parick Douglassone to Johne Douglas of Barncay and Alex. David & Archibauld Dunbaris anent.. of the lands of ?? (this one in poor condition), all folded, some a little dusty
Manuscript Recipe and commonplace book: food, drink, home remedies and varnishes, c. 1794-31"Mr Tarn's Book of Recipes and Common Place Observations, 1794, After Many Years Practical experience Particularly in Varnishes proper for varnishing fine Paintings", c.272 manuscript pages containing recipes for food, drink, home remedies, varnishes, other products for colouring and restoring artworks and antiques, and such like, another section includes manuscript copies of academic writings and 2pp. of text in a runic code, Mr Tarn's name and the title of the book features on each endpaper, 24 x 20cm, eighteenth century half calf, very rubbed, covers detached
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