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Click here to subscribeManuscript travel and farming journal, 1775-1776over 250 pp. manuscript recording a journey from Edinburgh to Norwich, followed by observations on farming and country life in Norfolk, written by a Scottish observer, seemingly volume 1 of several volumes, a lack of corrections suggests this is a copy, possibly written up from notes, 8vo size, in later quarter cloth
Musical manuscriptsRossi Perugino, Giuseppi Tantum Ergo, musical manuscript, 6 leaves, 116 x 160mm; Liszt, Franz Autograph upper cover of an envelope, addressed "Á Son Éminence le Cardinal Prince Gustave d'Hohenlohe, Eugene d'Albano" and signed F. Liszt to lower left corner; and a piece of music in an unidentified hand (3)Note: Prince, later Cardinal Prince, Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe was a Vatican official and brother-in-law to the daughter of Liszt's mistress, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein. Prince Gustav opposed the idea of Princess Carolyn marrying Liszt, as he did not consider the match to be siutably advantageous.
Scandinavian navigation manuscript, and a ship's account bookNavigations Bok för Eric Pahlson...12. February 1833[?], 93 manuscript pages, with an additional title and dedication pages in black and purple ink, seemingly including various navigational theories and calculations, with two pen and ink drawings of ships, folio, modern brown quarter morocco, a few marginal repairs slightly affecting text, final pages somewhat faded, some browning; Ship's Account Book beginning in Malmö in 1844, heading to Sundsvall, Bergen, Stockholm, Christiania [Oslo], Sunderland, London, Odessa, Newcastle, New York, Dublin, Alexandria, Gibraltar, amongst other places, and finishing in Malmö in 1865, the signature of E. Pählson appears throughout, folio, contemporary half calf with soiled paper label to upper cover (2)
Fife: Kilmany, and the area; and Carntyne, GlasgowSeven manuscript plans, comprising: The East and West Farms of Kilmany and Cloughies; Cloughies; Muircraigs; Westerkilmany; Cloughies; East Farm of Kilmany; West Farm of Kilmany; each c. 44.5 x 57cm, hand-coloured, some creasing where the maps have been rolled, some soiling; a printed and rolled Ordnance Survey showing Kilmany; A Plan of Carntyne Estate for Registration of Ownership, hand-coloured printed map, some worming; Plan of the Estate of Carntyne, printed rolled map with manuscript additions (10)
Shettleston & Glasgow: 2 manuscript estate plansRichardson, T. Plan of the Runrig Lands of Shettleston. Glasgow, 1802, c.76 x 127cm, hand-coloured, linen-backed, dust-soiled; Ground, Augurs Plan of Camlachie Coal Works and New Coal Field of Barrowfield. 1788, c.99 x 122cm, hand-coloured, linen-backed, some soiling and staining (2)
Geography - Pemble, WilliamA Briefe Introduction to Geography containing a Description of the Grounds and generall Part thereof, very necessary for young Students in that Science. Oxford, Printed by John Lichfield for Edward Forrest, 1630. First edition, small 4to, pp. [4], '64' [i.e. 46], [2, blank], woodcut diagrams in the text, folding 'table of the climats', early manuscript biographical notes on the title verso and the final blank, modern red half-morocco, small rust hole repaired in C1, just catching an occasional letter (still legible), [ESTC S114325: 6 copies in UK, 5 in N. America]Note: A popular textbook which reached a fifth edition by 1675, The Briefe Introductionis devoted to 'the nature, qualities, measure, [and] other general properties of the earth' rather than to descriptions of particular 'countrys and coasts'.
Haydn, Franz JosephDr Haydn's VI original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment, for the Piano-Forte. Dedicated to Mrs. John Hunter … [London,] Printed for the Author, & sold by him at No. 1, Bury Street, St. J. Corri, Dussek & Co. Music Sellers to her Majesty, No. 67 Dean Street, Soho, & Bridge Street, Edinburgh. [1794.] [Bound with:] Second Sett of Dr Haydn's VI original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment, for the Piano Forte. Dedicated to the Right Hon.ble Lady Charlotte Bertie … London; Printed & sold for Messrs. Corri Dussek & Co. Music Sellers to her Majesty & their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales & Duchess of York … [1795], Folio, pp. 31, [1]; [2], 23, [1]. First edition of both sets, the first signed by Haydn on the title-page (as usual), ink ownership inscription, "Osborne Wight, 1795", to each title; bound with five other contemporary works, near-contemporary half calf, marbled sides, rebacked and recorneredNote: First edition of both sets of Haydn's English Canzonettas, the first signed by Haydn on the title-page (as usual). This is an early issue of the first set, with the fifth song untitled. Anne Hunter (née Home, 1742-1821), wife of the great surgeon John Hunter, provided Haydn with all the texts for the first set of six songs and selected a further six (Shakespeare, Metastasio, and at least one by herself, 'The Wanderer') for the second. The present copy of the first set is the trade edition (the work also exists without Corri, Dussek & Co. on the title; RISM lists only 6 copies worldwide). RISM H 2656 and 2678; British Union-Catalogue of Early Music, pp. 457 and 458. Provenance: From the library of the Rev. Osborne Wight (d. 1800), Fellow of New College, Oxford, whose bequest laid the foundations for the music manuscript collections at the Bodleian.
Low, GeorgeFauna Orcadensis: or, the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, of Orkney and Shetland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. 4to, interleaved with notepaper with several manuscript notes and the comment: The notes marked Forbes are from manuscript comments(?) from Mr James Forbes, parish schoolmaster of St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldshay, contemporary half calf, rebacked, lacking half-title, some browning and offsetting from inserted newspaper articlesProvenance: William Balfour Baikie's name, dated January 26 1847, written to paste-down endpaper. Baikie was an Orcadian naturalist and explorer.
Manuscript account of a voyage to Shetland, 1902Leith to Shetland, written and illustrated by Herbert J. Smith. 8vo, 25 leaves including photographs and a hand-drawn, hand-coloured map, The Peebles Book Supplement written in red ink to top of title-page, in later 20th century brown half calf gilt
Manuscript and news clipping volumes"Caithness Notes & Queries", green morocco bound volume, 24 x 21 x 8cm, with over 300 pages of newspaper clippings, several entitled "Caithness and Sutherland Notes and Queries", "Pulteney Notes" and others, looking into the history of Caithness; "A Fishy Tale from Orkney, as told by old men at the club fireside on winter evenings", 4pp. manuscript and illustrated comic poem, possibly created for J.R. Tulloch of Kirkwall, 8vo, green cloth; "The Road to the Northern Isles", blue quarter morocco bound volume, 26.5 x 22cm, over 70 pages with newspaper clippings comprising 30 sections which combine to make up a work entitled "In Search of the Northern Isles"; A small watercolour album, 10 x 13cm, containing views of Shetland (4)
Manuscript items, a collectionDiscreet of Declaration in Favours of the Inhabitants of Stromness, H.G.K., 1744, copy, 54 manuscript pp., 31.5 x 19.5cm, later calf, with typed transcription; Cash Book of Orkney Schooner Margaret Traill 1882-1888, c.100 manuscript pages, 19 x 12cm, modern black quarter morocco; Notes on Orkney A notebook with manuscript text copied from various works on Orkney, 8vo; The Reverend David Ramsay Biographical Sketch of Rev David Ramsay, Kirkwall, 24pp., 21 x 17cm, black morocco gilt, some dampstaining and repairs affecting text; Kirkwall Literary & Debating Society 158pp. from 1904-1913; Botany Letter sent to Magnus Spence in Deerness regarding Orcadian botany, 1916, 5 leaves, 25 x 20cm, bound in modern red cloth; Orkney Harbour Commissioners Probable estimate of cost of repairing damage done to Holm Pier by S.S. Fidget...February 1916, 33 x 21cm; Drain Petition Addressed to the Police of the Burgh of Kirkwall asking for the reconstruction of the main drain leading from Clay Loan, with 57 signatures (8)
Turnbull, William BarclayNotes, Chiefly Correctory, on Dr Dibdin's Tour Through Scotland. [Edinburgh,] 1838. 8vo, red quarter morocco, bookplate of David Murray, manuscript notes to flyleaf and title-page, some dust-soiling, some wear to coversNote: Rare. According to John Windle and Karma Pippin, "Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776-1847, A Bibliography", only 10 copies were printed.
Press Ganging - Urquhart, ThomasLetters on the Evils of Impressment with the Outline of a Plan for Doing them Away... London: published for the benefit of the Maritime Society, by J. Richardson... 1816. 8vo, original boards, with a manuscript note reading: "Mrs Wilberforce will be much obliged to Dr. Watson to call upon her as early as he can this morning at the Bishop of Oxford's house 61. Eaton Place, Monday June 22-, Mr Wilberforce feels very unwell & is anxious to see Dr Watson", joints splitting, spine peelingNote: The letter from Mrs Wilberforce, lightly laid into the book, is thought to refer to William Wilberforce, whose son, Samuel, was Bishop of Oxford. However, the note could equally refer to Samuel himself. Part of the book is entitled: "A letter to Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. on the subject of Impressment...", appealing to Wilberforce, as an abolitionist, to stand against the practice of press ganging.
Russell, George W. - unpublished ornithological typescriptShetland Gulls, Terns and Skuas. A paper written for the Zetland Society of Science and Arts... Lerwick, 1927. 4to, with 82 laid-in photographs by J.D. Rattar, a manuscript title-page and 48 typed leaves, each page of photographs neatly protected with a tissue-guard, bound in blue gilt-tooled morocco, J. Robertson bookplate, covers a little bowed
Smallpox in Orkney - a doctor's manuscript journalJurnal of Jurney to N Ronaldsha this 10th Septr 1786, written by Andrew Munro, 14 manuscript pages, bound in modern orange morocco with a typed transcription of the text, 17 x 11cmNote: Andrew Munro is recorded as having been a surgeon in Kirkwall. This short journal records his visit to the islands of North Ronaldsay and Sanday to investigate outbreaks of smallpox, and treat other ailments, particularly amongst the islands' children. Part of his account reads: "Since morning = some of David Dreaver's Children very bad applys a Blister to one of them which from appirance was dei=ing in the chincough [whooping cough] & Bleed two of them in the arm and gave to those able to bear it a gentle puck of Ipocacuan..." Munro also visits a boy on Sanday who seems to be suffering from smallpox. Munro describes how he gives the child "confections" in return for a sample of smallpox blisters from his arm.
Wallace, JamesAn Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. 8vo, folding map (repaired), folding plate (small closed tear), contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked with modern red morocco gilt labels to spine, some manuscript notes and an early ownership signature to title-page, bookplates of Mathew Shields and J. Robertson [ESTC R34706]
Waste Book of Cash - William Manson - the Ship Arundel, commencing at PhiladelphiaWaste Book of Cash disbursed by William Manson for his own use & for the Ship Arundel commencing at Philadelphia 31st of 10th Mo.[nth] 1772, continued 1773, 21 manuscript pages, stapled together, 33 x 21cm, tucked inside a custom-made red cloth covered caseNote: An interesting account of the costs involved in running a ship in the eighteenth century. William Manson may have been a master mariner and controller of customs at Kirkwall, according to one modern accompanying letter, conducting research into the manuscript
Brown, George Mackay - 'The Celt'12 manuscript pp. on 6 leaves comprising pages from Brown's homemade childhood magazine, 'The Celt'Note: As a teenager, George Mackay Brown was inspired by the children's comics of the time to start his own magazine, called 'The Celt'. Carola Huttman writes: "Largely concerned with news about football and containing stories he wrote himself, he distributed copies of it amongst his school friends."
Church in Orkney & ShetlandCraven, J.B. History of the Church in Orkney... Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1901. 4 volumes, 4to, original green cloth; and another set; Dryden, H. Ruined Churches in Orkney and Shetland, 8vo, comprising printed copies of Dryden's writings with some manuscript notes by Dryden, a manuscript copy of a letter to The Orcadian. 6pp., and a tipped-in letter from Dryden to a Mr Tait, providing an explanation of the volume, modern cloth, bookplate; Wilson, Bryce Drawings of St. Magnus Cathedral. Stromness, 1971. Folio case with 8 prints, case numbered 12/150 and signed by the artist; Petrie, Peter Narrative respecting the New Place of Worship Lately Erected in Kirkwall. Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1842. 8vo, later cloth, bookplate; Rutherford, J. Saint Magnus and the Planting of Christianity in Orkney. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1889. 8vo, quarter morocco; Goudie, Gilbert The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Southern Parishes of Shetland. Aberdeen: W. Jolly & Sons, 1912. Folio, inscribed to upper wrapper from the author, modern blue cloth, wrappers bound in; Hossack, B.H. Kirkwall in the Orkneys. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1900. 4to, a presentation copy to Dr Andrew Carnegie, red half morocco gilt; and 7 others, sold not subject to return (21)
Brown, George Mackay: 56 works, including 20 signed or inscribed by the authorA Voyage of Saint Brandon. [N.p., n.d.] Uncorrected radio script, inscribed to Brian Murray from George Mackay Brown, dated Stromness 7/8/90; [Idem] Loaves and Fishes. London: Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, signed; [Idem] Poems, New and Selected. London: the Hogarth Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to John Broom, signed; [Idem] Greenvoe. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First American edition, 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] The Hooded Fisherman. Kulgin D. Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1985. 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza on the final leaf; [Idem] Christmas Stories. Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1985. 4to, signed to final leaf, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] In the Margins of a Shakespeare. Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1991. Oblong 4to, proof copy? with various annotated remarks and suggestions; [Idem] - Bryce Wilson - Keith Allardyce Sea Haven. Kirkwall: the Orkney Press, 1991. 4to, signed by George Mackay Brown and inscribed to Brian Murray within a manuscript poem to the title-page; [Idem] Brodgar Poems... Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1992. 4to, signed and inscribed to Brian Murray; and a collection of others (55)
Brown, George Mackay: manuscript essays and notes on Gerard Manley HopkinsA collection of work undertaken by George Mackay Brown examining the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, comprising: Gerald [sic] Manley Hopkins: Two Landscape Poems, a 10pp. manuscript essay signed George M. Brown 1964, each leaf 25.5 x 20.5cm; Hopkins and his Metric, a 12pp. manuscript essay signed George M. Brown 1964, each leaf 25.5 x 20.5cm; Notes on the Bugler's First Communion, 7 manuscript pp. on 4 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm signed GMB March-April 1964 in pencil; Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Public, 12 manuscript pp. on 6 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm signed George M Brown December 1963-January 1964; The Windhover, 11 manuscript pp. on 6 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm signed George M Brown March 1964 in another ink; Gerard Manley Hopkins: Two Night Poems, 8 manuscript pp. on 4 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm, in blue and black ink, signed George M Brown November 1963; The Two Mary Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 10 manuscript pp. on 10 leaves each 25.5 x 20.5cm, signed G M Brown October 1963; Notes on "The Wreck of the Deutschland", 17 manuscript pp. on 20 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm, signed G M Brown Feb 1963; Notes on the Dark Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 12 manuscript pp. on 12 leaves each 25.5 x 20.5cm, signed George M Brown; The 'Henry Purcell' Sonnet of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 10 manuscript pages each 20.5 x 25 cm, signed George M Brown 3 December 1962; Gerard Manley Hopkins's People, 16 manuscript pages each 20.5 x 25 cm, signed George M Brown November 1962; AND three student notebooks containing notes in George Mackay Brown's hand regarding Hopkins; and 23 other pages of notesProvenance: Gifted to Brian M. Murray by George Mackay Brown in 1994.Note: Following his graduation from the Univeristy of Edinburgh in 1960, George Mackay Brown pursued a course of post-graduate research into Gerard Manley Hopkins. This lot contains several of George Mackay Brown's essays on Hopkins, many with pencil notes, possibly added by his supervisor.
Brown, George Mackay: manuscript notes and writingsNotebook 27 manuscript pp. in Brown's hand seemingly comprising journal entries, several leaves torn out; [The Yellow Dynasty...] 5pp. (on 5 leaves) of manuscript short story with pencil notes and corrections, each leaf 18 x 14cm, signed GMB Christmas Eve 1981; Poetry 1976 2 manuscript pp. (on 2 leaves) of a draft for the Scotsman review, each leaf 20 x 17cm; Songs heard in the right ear while taking amitryptilene tablets in Foresthill hospital A list of songs, dated 16 Sept 1991, signed GMB; Book of Essays Short list drawn up with Brian Murray 23/11/92, with 2pp. list; A Gara unpublished? poem in six stanzas with much crossing out, on both sides of a leaf torn from a notebook, c.16 x 9cm, unsigned; Peedie Stories [1] 2pp. unpublished? poem in 4 stanzas, many words scribbled out, signed George M. Brown and dated 13th Feb 79 Ferry Inn, larger leaf 17 x 10.5cm; A letter to Brown from the Celtic Cross Press; 4 other sections of notes and poems on small pieces of paper and an envelope
Brown, George Mackay: Orkney manuscripts50 leaves of notes, dated 1946-1948, each c.16 x 10cm and torn from a notebook or notebooks, in George Mackay Brown's hand, containing thoughts on literature and life, including a first or early draft of the poem Further than Hoy, with several deviations from the published 1954 version and incorporating a verse Further than Faith; Ships in the Ice, comprising 14 pp. on 14 leaves, mostly 17.5 x 13.5cm, of unpublished? manuscript telling the story of Franklin's Arctic expedition from the point of view of an Inuit man named Malik, signed George Mackay Brown 21 May 1973 [note: the posthumously published Northern Lights also contains a section with the same title, but different text]; The Old Women 1 page of notes for a poem involving whaling, unsigned [note: these are not notes for Brown's published poem The Old Women]; The Storm Watchers 10pp. (on 10 leaves) manuscript with corrections, each leaf 25 x 20cm, signed George Mackay Brown October 1962 (with date crossed through), published in A Calendar of Love; The Jomsvikings 12pp. (on 12 leaves) unpublished? manuscript, signed G.M.B., each leaf 25 x 12cm, some repairs, first leaf split into two; "The Tower at the Edge of the World" 3pp. (on 3 leaves) manuscript on lined notepaper, each leaf 20 x 13cm, comprising notes for a Radio Orkney book review, signed GMB 25/9/1961; Advice to Tourists at the West Shore: 13 March 1995 unpublished acrostic poem in two stanzas of five, then six, lines spelling the name 'Brian Murray', signed GMB 20.ii.95, written as a birthday present, 16 x 23cm; and two other items: a manuscript letter from George Mackay Brown to Brian Murray and notes by George Mackay Brown regarding an orkney prose anthology
English School (mid-19th century)Portrait of a Gentleman, three-quarter length, seated on a spoon back armchair, wearing stiff white collar and shirt, black frock coat, waistcoat and cravat fastened with a tie pin, holding a letter, the background with a curtain-framed landscapewatercolour with gouache heightening, 89cm x 68cm, fragmentary manuscript label to verso Condition Report: Good condition.
A 20th century French walnut jewellery casket of serpentine form with applied scrolling mouldings to the front, sides and canted corners, overlaid tortoiseshell panel to the front with sequined border, upholstered hinged lid opening to reveal a fitted interior of three compartments, secret drawer to the back containing two miniature manuscript letters with French text, on four bun feet, 33cm wide.
1914-1924 IRA intelligence officer Paddy Kane, his manuscript account of activities in War of Independence and Civil War. A detailed account of Paddy Kane's role during the War of Independence and the Civil War as a defence against charges, brought by the Free State Government in 1922, of embezzlement during his employment in the Post Office by withholding monies sent by a priest for investment in U.K. Bonds. He also details his treatment by arresting officers and the conditions whilst imprisoned in Wicklow Jail and Mountjoy. Some of the pages are trimmed but with no great loss to text. Includes scraps of envelopes smuggled out of Mountjoy detailing suggestions regarding his defence in this case. A published article from the Carloviana Journal entitled " Paddy Kane and the Fight for Independence" is included.
1921 (2 July) Signed letter from Eamon de Valera to Arthur Griffith. A one page manuscript letter, ' Arthur, Delighted with your book Resurrection of Hungary indeed a most suitable parallel in my view. Congratulations Your Confederate Eamon de Valera', accompanied by envelope addressed to Arthur Griffith TD, Mansion House, Dublin and a copy of Griffith's book, 'Resurrection of Hungary; A Parallel for Ireland'.
Birmingham Tower Papers and The Broy Manuscripts, in 6 volumes An extensive compilation of facsimiles of typed and manuscript extracts from, or summaries of, police reports, apparently from papers in Birmingham Tower [Dublin Castle]. The papers deal mainly with the affairs of the Fenians in Britain and are largely based on informants' information. In five volumes, quarto green cloth gilt, together with a sixth volume, bound en suite, titled The Broy Manuscripts, containing apparently similar material, with TLS laid in from State Paper Office (Dublin), 1954, granting permission to consult documents under certain conditions. With old library stamps. It appears the material was compiled by Michael J. Lennon, a Dublin district justice from 1937 to 1957.
1829 (18 March) A Petition to King George IV pertaining to the 1829 Roman Catholic Relief Act and the Catholic emancipation. Parchment. Written and signed by Reverend James Wilson (1803-1878) on behalf of the Associate Presbyterian Congregations of Leacumpher, Londonderry, signed by numerous members of the congregations and authenticated by Rowley Villers, justice of the peace for the counties of Londonderry and Tyrone. The petition gives a four point argument against the passing the Act and implores the Protestant King to invoke a dissolution of the present Parliament, or to withhold the Royal Assent. "The chief cause of the evils which afflict our unhappy Country we conceive will be found in Popery which enjoins on its Professors the payment of so many unscriptural and unreasonable Ecclesiastical Taxes - the Superstitious observance of such a multiplicity of Saints Days and other Holy Days - a Slavish and blind submission to Priestly Authority - and in its Doctrines of Auricular Confession - Absolution, and Purgatory, by which it encourages in its uneducated votaries an open disregard to all Laws Human and Divine". Signed by about 250 members of the congregation of Leacumpher. Fascinating manuscript, of important local and national historical interest. 5.20 by 22in. (13.2 by 55.9cm)
Christy Brown: important archive of typescript poems, plays and short stories, and letters. Includes single page typed poems, 8 apparently complete plays, 5 apparently complete short stories,100+ pages of incomplete plays and stories, all typescript, some annotated by the author, mostly obviously by his foot, also one very interesting pediscript letter on "my last night here" (hospital), also a 2 page manuscript letter from 48 Haddington Road, 12 June 1964. some in verse, advising Christy on his writings, signed "Jones", 1958 letter from Micheal O hAodha, Radio Eireann, turning down a play by Christy Brown, a note from the US Embassy regarding his visa, etc. (pp300+) Acquired from Christy Brown's mother by the father of the present owner.
1866-67 Irish Republic Twenty Dollars 'Fenian Bond'. Dated in manuscript January 23rd 1866, issued to Luke Walsh, signed in block by John O'Mahony. Rare denomination. Scarce large issue 7 by 11in. (17.8 by 27.9cm) Printed by Continental Bank Note Printing Company of New York. These bonds were issued in America to fund the Fenian Rising of 1867 and were "redeemable six months after the acknowledgement of the Independence of the Irish Nation". They were redeemed almost eighty years later by the Irish Government. Any outstanding bonds were thereafter valued only as collectibles, which today rarely show up at auction.
HOUSEHOLD - Cookery Recipes notebook (mid 19th century), compiled by Mrs. Mary J. Hudson (nee Bonnell). 160pp. in clear manuscript, black leather binding, sm. 4to.; another half leather & boards notebook from the same family, 198pp., of a later date & including cuttings; sold with a domestic account book from the Hudson family (1860s), 90pp. in ruled columns, leather backed boards. * includes expenditure on bookbinding, fireworks, horseriding, etc., as well as the usual domestic outlay; Mary married Capt. T.K.. Hudson in 1860, these accounts are of her earliest housekeeping in their new home together -The Dell, Cockleton Lane, Cowes, I.o.W.
POETRY - manuscript book with typescript label 'A Book of Souvenirs containing Poems / written by / Sophia Jane Bonnell & her Friends / between 1801 & 1820'; approx. 195pp., contemp. half calf & marbled boards, sm. 4to. * with a colour decorated 'Valentine' title page, & armorial family bookplate - Harvey Bonnell.
ROYAL NAVY - China Station; manuscript journal of Thomas Keith Hudson, serving as mate / acting lieutenant HMS. Sybille during the Second Opium War; approx. 50pp. used (1856-57); in a leather & clothbound ruled diary, 4to. * a 5th rate vessel (Commodore C.G.J.B. Elliot, senior officer in the Canton River); 'Imperial Junk incident, 1856' . . . 'Deep Bay Affair, 1857' . . . a descriptive & very detailed account - important source material; (see Lots 835 & 844 also T.K. Hudson reference)
MANUSCRIPT LETTERS - approx. 34, relating to the father & son Royal Naval officers (both retiring in the rank of Captain) John H. & Thomas Keith Hudson; covering the period 1843-1918, to and from family & friends, many of a domestic nature but some with reference to old naval shared memories; both served at sea on various stations, John retiring into the Coastguard in 1833 & Thomas retired from the Clio, flagship on the Australia Station in 1873; sold together with an ms. notebook, approx. 240pp., commencing Sept. 1819 of a miscellaneous nature - with theology prominent, & possibly in John Hudson's hand * letters include 3 from the well-known yachtsman, Lord Yarborough (to J.H. Hudson, 1833 & 1839), one a shooting invitation to his Appuldercombe Estate (I.o.W.); another (to Thos. Keith Hudson) from Admiral J.H. Stirling, the recipient's Commander-in-Chief on the Australia Station. (see Lots 835 & 843 also T.K. Hudson interest)
MISCELLANY - an interesting selection, early 19th / earlier 20th cents.; including manuscript material & photographs relating to the Somerset & Leeke-Roe families; an 1810 manuscript music book belonging to Augusta Dashwood; 'Dublin and the Sinn Fein Rising' (printed wrappers, Dublin, ca. 1918); and some assorted material (including some old railway photographs).
DUBOIS (Abbe J.A.) Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India; and of their Institutions, Religions and Civil . . . Translated from the French Manuscript. First Published Edition. original grey boards, uncut, with paper spine label, 4to. 1817. * contemp. ownership inscription on title; with an interesting 5pp. introductory note concerning the author - originally a Mysore missionary, who later 'went native' for some years as a Sannyasi; the East India Co. purchased the ms. volume, the French edition not appearing until 1825.
ST. FRANCIS. The Little Flowers of S. Francis of Assisi. Translated from the Italian by T.W. Arnold. Limited Edition. title within red decorated borders (by Noel Rooke), 24 facsimile pictorial plates, half title & limitation leaf; especially handsome green levant morocco, gilt & colour floral patterned covers within geometric designed panels & all within gilt & lilac borders, gilt-ruled & decorated panelled spine (repeating floral theme), ge. & generous ruled & decorated inner gilt dentelles, ge. & marbled e/ps. (by Speakman of Liverpool), 4to. published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus, 1909. * limitation of 500 numbered copies; the illus. were ' reproduced from a manuscript in the Laurentian Library, Florence '. Illustrated
LUCRETIUS. Di Tito Vita Lucrezio Caro della Natura delle Cose. Libri Sei. Tradotti dal Romano . . . da Allessandro Marchetti, Filosofo e matematico ordinario. Nella celebre Universita di Pisa. Manuscript text, approx. 180ff.; old (unlettered) calf, 4to. * ms. imprint - In Roma con licenza de 'Superiori, 1699; there were several 18th cent. printed Marchetti editions; this ms. with a dedication to Cosimo III, Duke of Tuscany.
A Qu'ran section, signed Abdullah, Afghanistan or possibly India, dated AH 1329/ AD 1911-12, comprising juz's XI to XIII, Arabic manuscript on paper, 94ff. plus two modern fly leaves, each folio with 9II . of black naskh script, each `juz and hizb opening folio with illuminated headpiece, in modern gilt green stamped binding with flap. 3063 KENED770/0001/0000
Late Mamluk or early Ottoman Astronomical tables, late 15th or early 16th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 10 ff. plus two modern fly leaves, the first folio with 34 II. of black naskh script, some words in red, the other folios with vertical tables in red ink marked in black and red naskh script, in modern gilt brown morocco binding, text panel 23.5cm. by 6.9cm., folio 27.5cm. by 9cm.. 3065 KENED772/0001/0000
A Persian prayer book, dated AH 1205, manuscript on paper, 228 ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 20 II. of black naskh script, important words in red, finely illuminated bifolio in gold and polychrome, paginated in pencil, late added owner's notes, in possibly original lacquer binding with floral decoration, text panel 16.9cm. by 8.3cm., folio 24.8cm. by 13.8cm. 3070 MS00000836/001
Amir Muhumud bin Yamin, Muquta'at, Timurid Persia, dated AH 831/AD 1427, manuscript on paper, 84 leaves written in two columns of nasta'liq script in black ink, one illuminated heading, colophon gives the name of the scribe as Muhammad bin Mazhai al- Nishaburi, recent commentaries in blue ink, modern green leather binding, (a.f), 22.7cm. by 14.2cm.
An Early Victorian Silver Swing Handled Sugar Basket, Charles Reily & George Storer, London 1848, the pierced bowl applied with cast figures representing the four seasons, engraved with a crest of an arm erect holding a manuscript, the handle engraved with initials, 10.5cm high excl. handle, 8.4ozt Clear makers mark twice to body, other marks rubbed, part marked to handle. Some wear to detail in figures. Crest crisp. Occasional small ding to body. Glass liner intact.
Ray Bradbury Interest : Wright P. : Spy Catcher - The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, 1987 ( 7th.Printing ) : 8vo Hb + Dj. A manuscript dedication on the front paste-down reads : " To Ray "The Mole" Bradbury from Pietri Kanescovitch Moskow 1987 Eingant sa Kolsov!". See note under 'Condition Report' CONDITION REPORT: *This inscription, believed to be by R.B.'s Soviet literary agent, jokingly harks back to the execution, in 1940, as a spy of Mikhail Koltsov (Stalin's Spanish Civil War special envoy); ostensibly prompted by 'Spycatchers' revelation about the bug planted in the U.S. ambassador's Moscow office (1940/50's) over a seven year period (the bug designed by Leon Theremin- of musical instrument fame)The book - Vg/Vg. Copy of notes available on request.The vendor has conducted some research on this and a copy of the resulting notes are placed with the book - the Auction House remains neutral about their significance.
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