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An oil painting portrait of a Medieval monk writing a manuscript

Jerome K. Jerome : Manuscript of an unpublished and little known Dramatic work 'The Making of the Caffington-Smiths' ( reincarnation dream play) written in 1916 in collaboration with Justin Huntly McCarthy and referred to in his autobiography 'My Life and Times.' All the items in this lot are housed in a ring-binder. CONDITION REPORT: Well preserved and arranged.

Pupil's Copy Book, 1892. A small qto. Hb. Qtr.bound note book with marbled boards used by one Adonis Brabbins. The book is devoted to 'Photo-Etching or Half-Tone Blocks' and features elegant manuscript notes and some pencil drawn diagrams. CONDITION REPORT: Vg

La Ronde du Bon Bock Musique Libre, Nd. C. 1890?. Landscape Folio, red cloth, blind-stamped & gilt. Variety of monochrome illustrative plates & sketches with an accompanying text in a printed manuscript style. Scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Text block becoming loose.

Pupil's Copy Book, 1827. A small qto. Hb. Qtr.bound note book with marbled boards used by one John Brabbins. The book is devoted to 'The Nature and Properties of Logarithms' and features elegant manuscript notes together with hand-drawn geometrical diagrams, examples of how Arithmetical calculations are worked and set problems are approached. CONDITION REPORT: Some offsetting o/w vg

Playford J. : The Whole Book of Psalms with the Usual Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Together with all the Ancient and proper Tunes sung in Churches. Composed in TGhree Parts, Cantus, Medius & Bassus. 1697. 3rd. Ed. Small 8vo. Hb. Later calf. Engraved frontis. Text and musical notation. 'William Boyer, His Book 1699' manuscript annotation on fep. CONDITION REPORT: Binding worn with det. upper board. Text block generally clean, bright and tight.

Medieval written Latin manuscript on vellum. A single leaf from a religious/theological work featuring decorative marginal floral illumination in gilt and colour. Framed and glazed with both sides visible. CONDITION REPORT: Vg

A substantial collection of 19th.Century printed and manuscript paper Sale Documents, Conveyances, Schedules of Debts, Inventories, Statement of Effects, Affidavits, Agreements, Rents Payable, Certificate of Contracts, Plans and Auction Catalogues together with other miscellaneous documents. CONDITION REPORT: Variable. Inspection advised.

A collection of manuscript hand-written vellum documents documents which have been opened up from their usual folded state and placed within clear cellophane pockets. Items include conveyance, release and mortgage deeds. CONDITION REPORT: Vg.

WWI Officer's Hand-written manuscript note book ( small qto hb "supplied for the Public Service" ) containing detailed descriptions & calculations together with carefully drawn diagrams relating to a variety of defensive and offensive front line battle structures including : embrasures, barbettes, powder magazines, platforms, defilades; parados; bastions; trestle, ladder, floating, double lever, single truss & pile bridges; siege trenches; flying sap; bombardment preparations; barricades and the defence of villages. The notes have been appraised by an Instructor who has left very positive comments. CONDITION REPORT: Well preserved item

Justin H. MacCarthy : If I Were King (The Vagabond King) 1901. One of MacCarthy's works which gained some popularity and fame. The play was used as the basis of an Operetta by Rudolf Friml - 'The Vagabond King' in 1925 and this in turn adapted as a film version in 1930 & 1956. This Lot is comprised of one original typed manuscript of 'If I Were King' , two of 'The Vagabond King' together with an original printed copy of 'The Vagabond King' - French's Acting Edition. Also included is the Power of Attorney from MacCarthy to Nayfack, 1929.

Pupil's Copy Book, 1865. A small qto. Hb. Qtr.bound note book with marbled boards used by one John Brabbins. The book is devoted to 'Mensuration or Practical Geometry' and features elegant manuscript notes together with hand-drawn geometrical diagrams ( some coloured ), examples of how Arithmetical calculations are worked and set problems are approached. CONDITION REPORT: Vg

Pupil's Copy Book, 1825. A small qto. Hb. Qtr.bound note book with marbled boards used by one John Brabbins. The book is devoted to 'Compound Interest, Fractions and Decimals' and features elegant manuscript notes. Examples of how Arithmetical calculations are worked and set problems are approached. CONDITION REPORT: Vg

AUTOGRAPHS - GEORGE V (1865-1936) A manuscript letter, on embossed Buckingham Palace notepaper, dated 22nd March 1921, to Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby ('My dear Eddy'), thanking him for his hospitality at Knowsley Hall and commenting on plans for the 'decontrol of the mines', four pages, signed 'Yr sincere friend / George R.I.', 9cm x 12cm.

*Dutch School. Portrait of an Old Man, 17th century, oil on canvas, half-length portrait of a gentleman with curled shoulder-length hair, beard, and moustache, wearing a brown coat and white collar, and a black skull cap, with clasped hands, one hand gloved, and the other holding a glove, within a painted oval frame, manuscript label on verso with ownership name of Colonel Rowland Farrer dated 1885, 76 x 63.5cm (30 x 25ins), old stencilled Christie's number on stretcher, gilt moulded frame Provenance: Christie's, 2nd June 1961, lot 164. (1)

*Continental School. Amorino gathering flowers in a garden landscape, early 18th century oil on canvas, 19.5 x 15.2 cm (7.7 x 6 ins), antique-style gilt frame, with circular mount aperture, circular brass disc attached to verso with the stamped number D 3677, and with old pasted slip with manuscript number B.943, also attached to verso (1)

*Flemish School. Head of a bearded male figure in profile, looking right, circa 1650-1675, oil on heavy paper, impressed with the imprint of canvas from a previous relining on canvas (now removed), with extensive contemporary manuscript list of accounts and instructions for payments in brown ink to verso, apparently dated at head 1651, with numerous recipients' names, some discolouration and staining, strip to head of the sheet detached, some chips and minor loss to edges, 45 x 32.5 cm (17.75 x 12.8 ins) Provenance: Private Collection, Oxfordshire. On the reverse are 51 lines of detailed accounts for payments, written in brown ink by a contemporary hand in French and apparently dated Paris 1651. These accounts relate to a number of different people in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Ostend, Rotterdam, Middelbourgh, Rouen, Liege, London and elsewhere. Amongst those named are Jean Baptiste Lunden (1636-1703), the husband of Rubens' granddaughter Helene Francoise Rubens, Cornelis Goedjdbroeck (possibly Cornelis Gysbrechts, 1630-1683), Martin Bisthoven d'Anvers (probably Martin Janssens de Bisthoven of the Antwerp Mint), Jacob de Bie, Gouvaert Lammers, John Robben of London, Philippe de Surmont, and many others. Despite its fragile condition, this intriguing oil sketch and conjoined manuscript document may shed important light on the commercial activities of artists and merchants working in Flanders after the deaths of Rubens and Van Dyck in 1640 and 1641 respectively. (1)

*[Nelson, Frances Herbert [Fanny], Viscountess Nelson, 1761-1831]. Views of the Memorable Victory of the Nile, etched and engraved by Frances Chesham, aquatints by William Ellis, after William Anderson, [2nd edition], published Alexander Riley, 1 December 1800, a rare set of 4 aquatints with original hand colouring, descriptive letterpress trimmed with loss of all below publisher's imprint to each, laid on card and mounted to show image and engraved details of ships to lower margins, contemporary gilt frames with verre-eglomise ruled and decorative borders with title captions, glazed, visible image area 178 x 370 mm (7 x 14.5 ins) Provenance: A manuscript note written by Horatio Mends, signed and dated at York, 13 March 1928, giving the provenance of these aquatints is pasted to the backing board of all 4 pictures. The first reads: 'This is No. 1 of a set of 4 aquatints once the property of Viscountess Nelson. My mother, wife of Vice Admiral G.B.C. Mends and daughter of Captain Josiah Nisbet, son of Lady Nelson by her first marriage gave them to me. I have known them from early childhood as having belonged to Lady Nelson'. Lady Nelson had married Josiah Nisbet MD in 1779, but he died in 1781 leaving her an infant child, also called Josiah. This Captain Josiah Nisbet (1780-1830) was married to Frances Herbert Nisbet with whom he had six children. The youngest, Georgina Nisbet (1830-1904) married Vice-Admiral George Butler Clarke Mends (1808-1884), and it is their only child Brigadier-General Horatio Reginald Mends CB (1852-1933) who has written these notes of provenance. Viscountess Nelson bore her husband no children, but Nelson was fond of his stepson Josiah, even taking him to sea in 1793 for training as a naval officer. For the next few years he and Fanny wrote to each other affectionately and regularly. By the time Nelson returned to England in 1797 he was a changed man and in pain from the loss of his lower right arm following an attack on Santa Cruz, Tenerife. Fanny nursed him devotedly and this proved to be their happiest time together. Returning to sea in 1798 Nelson won the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and fell in love with Emma Hamilton. News of the affair reached England before Nelson and the Hamiltons returned in 1800. Though Fanny did her best to reconcile with him these attempts failed, though Nelson treated her generously, allocating her half his income. Fanny became Baroness Nelson in 1798 and Viscountess Nelson in 1801. After his death she was awarded a pension and lived in Exmouth until her death in 1831. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes of Fanny that 'When, in 1798, he [Lord Nelson] destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile she was touchingly proud of him', and the survival of this fine set of aquatints with strong anecdotal family provenance enhances this historical viewpoint. (4)

*Company School. Indian Barbet, late 18th or early 19th century, watercolour on paper, manuscript title at foot, 22.5 x 19 cm (8.75 x 7.5 ins), framed and glazed (1)

Watercolour Album. Album belonging to Margaret Chisholm Landreth, 21st December, 1831, approximately 150 leaves, containing a variety of drawings, engravings (mostly hand-coloured), and manuscript writings, including fifteen watercolours, mainly landscapes, seascapes, and topographical views, including 'Windsor Castle', 'A Highland Cottage', 'Furness Abbey', 'Old Well Walk, Cheltenham', 'Warwick Castle', some blank leaves at rear, marbled endpapers and edges, original blindstamped black morocco gilt, rubbed, 4to (1)

*Collins (Richard, 1755-1831). Portrait of George III, 1813, watercolour on ivory, oval head & shoulders portrait, 4.5 x 3.5cm (1.75 x 1.5ins), ebonised frame, glazed, back of frame with copy of manuscript note taken from verso of portrait '1813, Rd. Collins pinxit Principal Painter in Enamel to the King, by His Majesty's special appointment' (1)

*@Hunt (Geoff, died 2008). The "Cumberland Fleet", 1990, acrylic on board, showing yachts gathering to race on the Thames below St. Paul's Cathedral, signed and dated lower left, 8.5 x 12cm (3.25 x 4.75ins), framed, with manuscript title label on backboard, together with four others by Geoff Hunt similar: Wind Against Tide in Greenwich Reach; 'Cutty Sark' arriving at London Docks in 1872; Morning Light at Greenwich; King Charles II racing his yacht "Catherine" off Gravesend Fort, all signed and dated, each framed Commander Geoff Hunt RMS, spent nearly forty years in the Royal Navy as both seaman and fighter pilot. He painted throughout this period, mainly marine and aeronautical subjects, and began painting in miniature shortly before leaving the navy in 1988. His work is sought after for its minute accuracy of detail as well as for the artist's skill in portraying the subtle effects of light, wind and tide. Geoff Hunt was Past President of the Hilliard Society, a member of the Royal Miniature Society and Miniature Art Society of Florida, and a Miniature Artist of America. (5)

*@Hunt (Geoff, died 2008). The Battle of the Nile - 1798, 1988, acrylic on board, showing a naval engagement between French and English men o'war, signed and dated lower left, titled lower right, 9 x 14.5cm (3.5 x 5.75ins), framed, with manuscript title label on backboard, together with three others by Geoff Hunt similar: The Battle of the Nile - 'L'Orient' Blowing Up; Nelson (HMS 'Theseus') and Squadron Anchoring at Bay of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe; Nelson (Agamemnon) and Squadron at Bastia - 1794, all signed and dated, each framed, plus a circular portrait miniature by the same artist of Nelson after Robert Bowyer, framed and glazed (5)

*@Hunt (Geoff, died 2008). Trafalgar - 'Victory' Breaking Through the Franco-Spanish Line, 1997, acrylic on board, showing a naval engagement between 'Victory' and Spanish and French men o'war, signed and dated lower right, 8 x 13.5cm (3 x 5.25ins), framed, with manuscript title label on backboard, together with three others by Geoff Hunt similar: Action Between 'Pelican' and 'Argus' off Welsh Coast, 1813; HMS 'Boreas' (Capt. Nelson) Arriving at Antigua; First Shots - 'Victory' Approaching Franco-Spanish Line, all signed and dated, each framed (4)

*@Hunt (Geoff, died 2008). 'Terra Nova' (Capt. Scott) in Heavy Pack Ice - Dec 1910, 2006, acrylic on board, showing a three-masted barque amidst Antarctic ice floes, signed and dated lower right, 8.5 x 12cm (3.25 x 4.75ins), framed, with manuscript title label on backboard, together with three others by Geoff Hunt similar: HMS 'Carcus' and 'Racehorse' in the Arctic - 1773; 'Britannia' Entering Portsmouth, 1835' (after John Ward's 'Return to Harbour'); and another not titled, all signed and dated, each framed (4)

*@Hunt (Geoff, died 2008). HMS 'Britannia', off Table Mountain, 1999, acrylic on board, signed and dated lower left, 8.5 x 12cm (3.25 x 4.75ins), framed, with manuscript title label on backboard, together with three others by Geoff Hunt similar: 'Victoria and Albert' I, Leaving Carrick RDS on 8 Sept 1845; "Britannia" and Valkyrie II" off the Needles - 1893; and one not titled, all signed and dated, each framed (4)

*Miniatures. A pair of oval portraits of Mary Queen of Scots and Jane Shore, late 18th century, oil on ivory, each a head and shoulders portrait of a lady in opulent Elizabethan dress, Jane Shore cropped and infilled at head and foot, and with some re-touching, each approximately 9 x 7cm (3.5 x 2.75ins), matching ebonised frames glazed (Jane Shore with verre eglomise convex glass), each with contemporary manuscript label on verso, together with two oval painted silhouette portraits of gentlemen, one of a British army officer, early 19th century, each in an ebonised frame, glazed The labels on verso read: 'Mary Queen of Scots from an Original Picture painted by Frederic Zuccaro in the long Gallery in Edinburgh Palace'; 'Jane Shore from a picture in Ludlow Castle copied by J. Young 1794'. (4)

*Indian miniatures. Calendula, early 19th century, pen, ink and watercolour on recycled paper, old calligraphy and ink stamp, some toning to paper, 20 x 16 cm (8 x 6.25 ins), framed and glazed, together with Hunting scene, 19th century, group of Indian huntsmen dismembering a bear, opaque watercolour on paper within decorative border with deer, lions and tiger, manuscript text to verso, a few small wormholes, image 25 x 13 cm (9.75 x 5.25 ins), plus Female musician, late 19th/early 20th century, standing female with veena and peacock, Persian text at head and foot, image 15 x 12 cm (6 x 4.75 ins), framed and glazed, with three other watercolours, including a landscape with elephants and deer (6)

*Persian Miniature. Mountainous battle scene, late 18th or early 19th century, opaque watercolour on paper, with two lines of manuscript text at foot, ruled border in gold and red, image size 28 x 17 cm (11 x 6.6 ins), framed and glazed (1)

Miscellaneous - Potter (T.R.), The History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest [...] An Appendix, On The Geology, Botany, and Ornithology of the District, Hamilton, Adams and Co., London 1842, xii, 192, 80pp, hand-coloured map, geological strata and sub-title page, two-tone lithographs and monochrome engravings throughout, period boards, broad 4to; Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, Or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During The Middle Ages: Chonica Johannis de Oxenedes, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., S.A., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London 1859, two-page chromolithograph of manuscript leaf to front, unbound and mainly uncut, period wrap, 8vo [2]

Laet (Johannes de). Persia seu regni Persici Status, Elzevir Press, Leiden, 1633, engraved title, eight woodcut illustrations, slight marginal toning, hinges broken, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, 12mo Willems 386. (1)

*Dried Flowers. Seven large dried plant specimens, 1880, seven dried flowers (including six orchids), taped on to contemporary paper, dated French manuscript label to upper right corner, each image approximately 480 x 305 mm, mounted, framed and glazed in matching 'stone effect' modern wooden mouldings (7)

Ruscelli (Girolamo). La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, gia Tradotta di Greco in Italiano da M.Giero Ruscelli..., three parts bound in one, Venice, Giordano Ziletti, 1574 & 1573, printed title with some staining and a later manuscript ownership signature, sixty-four (of 65) uncoloured engraved maps of which twenty-seven are Ptolemaic amd thirty-seven are 'modern', Sicily bound in upside down, map of modern Germany with closed tear affecting image, Ptolemaic map of North Africa with repaired split along upper margin, map of Piedmonte stained, a few maps with worming to the gutter, some marginal staining, endpapers stained, contemporary vellum with morocco gilt label to spine, later manuscript 'library number' at base of spine and to upper board, 4to, size of volume 235 x 165 mm Sabin. 66505. (1)

Album. Album belonging to Mary Alloway, 1831, approximately 130 leaves, containing a variety of drawings, engravings (costume, natural history, botanical, views, etc.), and manuscript writings, including sixteen watercolours and pencil drawings, mainly portraits, landscapes, and topographical views, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original straight-grained red half morocco, gilt decorated spine, rubbed, large 4to With bifolium loosely inserted, inscribed in contemporary manuscript on the first page 'Sacred to the Memory of Mr. Jas. Alloway, who for 34 years filled a Confidential Office in the British Museum: And departed this Life the 14th of Febry 1831 Aged 69 Years...' (1)

Chester - Baillie Family. An autobiographical account of the childhood in Chester of Charles Henry Kingsley-Baillie up until his father's death in 1897, typewritten, 1946-47, a notebook of 55 numbered pages, typed to rectos only, with 11 additional watercolour pages of local characters and scenes, some manuscript corrections, foreword signed by the author, the pages contained in a contemporary small ring binder (hinges somewhat rusted), contemporary cloth, rubbed and slightly damp marked, 8vo, preserved in a contemporary card box with watercolour monogram IC [the author's sister Ivy Clifford] to upper cover, narrow 8vo An interesting series of reminiscences by the son of Edmund John Baillie, a successful nurseryman centring on the three Chester houses the family lived in, all named 'Woodbine'. The author remembers local characters, scenes and events as his family grew ever larger. His 'father interested himself in several societies - the Chester Society of Natural Science, the Kingsley Memorial Society, the Ruskin Society, the Archaeological Society of Chester, and several others. He was most active in promoting the erection of the Grosvenor Museum in Chester, which was made possible by the generosity of the Duke of Westminster, who donated the building site, and started the fund with a cheque for £10,000'. He also remembers an original watercolour by Ruskin given to his father by the artist which hung above his mother's desk, as well as other pictures and letters of Ruskin and 'an immense brown and white decorative panel by Walter Crane'. Among the other works owned was an immense picture by Dame Clara Knight and one of a Pomeranian dog 'by an artist friend of father's - Arthur Boddington - a very strange man - and a confirmed agnostic. The picture was given to my mother by Boddington as a peace offering, after she and Arthur became involved in a heated argument over religion, (in which Boddington lost out), and mother ordered him to leave the house'. He remembers visits by Sir George Adam Smith, Walter Crane, Hugh Nisbet and Ira D. Sankey. He also describes a violent thrashing given him by his headmaster, and the ensuing showdown between his father and the headmaster and being pulled out of the school. Other family friends remembered include Dr Jaeger and Sir Isaac and Lady Pitman. The account ends with the death of his father who had been suffering from diabetes, 'and I often wonder if he would have lived longer, if he had engaged a physician other than Dr Haynes Thomas, who was a homeopathist'. (1)

Manuscript Book. A mid 18th century manuscript volume of transcribed text from A Companion to the Temple; or, A Help to Devotion in the use of the Common Prayer, by Thomas Comber, ninety-five leaves (190 pages) of neatly written manuscript, in dark brown ink, mostly relating to the Communion service, some ink show-through, toning throughout, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary black morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, name & date of John Tilley, 1751 applied in gilt to covers, slight wear at head & foot of spine, small 8vo (1)

*Miscellaneous ephemera, mostly 19th century, including broadsides, leaflets, a few maps and prints, invoices and other pre-printed items completed in manuscript, a few manuscript items, etc. (a carton)

Camillo (Leonardi). Speculum Lapidum Camilli Leonardi. Cui Accessit Sympathia Septem Metallorum ac septem selectorum Lapidum ad Planetas. D. Petri Arlesis de Scudalupis Presbyteri Hierosolimitani, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Paris: Apud Carolum Seuestre & Davidem Gilliu[m], et Joannem Petitpas, 1610, engraved title with ink stamp and manuscript annotation to lower blank margin, one engraved portrait only (of 2, lacking portrait of the Duke of Nivernois), woodcut printers device to title of second part, full-page woodcut diagram, continuous pagination, small worm hole to lower blank margin of majority of first part, hinges repaired, contemporary speckled calf, modern reback and title label, board corners rubbed and showing, 8vo Early work on mineralogy. Caillet 6544; Duveen pp. 351-52; Ferguson II, pp. 26-27; Hoover 526. (1)

Civil War. The Humble Petition of the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London in Common Councell assembled. To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in High Court of Parliament. With their Answer to the said Petition, Printed by Richard Cotes, Printer to the Honorable City of London, 1647, [2],9,[1]pp., manuscript date 2 July 1647 to title, disbound 4to, together with A Firebrand Pluckt out of the Burning. A Sermon Preached at Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn Fast, Novemb. 27, 1644, by Benjamin Pikering, Minister of Gods Word at Buckstead in Sussex..., London: Printed by I.L. for Philemon Stephens, and Samuel Gellibrand, 1645, [8],28pp., disbound 4to, with A Declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Relating to the Affairs and Proceedings between this Commonwealth and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys, and the present Differences occcasioned on the States part..., with a Narrative of the late Engagement between the English and Holland Fleet..., London: Printed by John Field, 1652, 70pp., margins & page numbers cropped, disbound 4to, plus approximately twenty-five other 17th & 18th century tracts & pamphlets (mostly 17th century), all disbound (approx. 28)

Dugdale (William). A Baronage of England, or an Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility..., 3 volumes in 2, 1st edition, 1675-76, first two titles printed in red and black, with early manuscript ownership names to head, five folding tables, with some closed tears, one with vertical tear and old repair on verso (with consequent minor fraying and loss of narrow vertical strip of text), both volumes with some staining and marks, tears and small holes, and a couple of small losses to fore-margin just clipping marginalia, final half of volume 2 with single wormhole to blank fore-margin, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, worn and rubbed, corners showing, rebacked, folio in 4s, together with Berry (William), Encyclopaedia Heraldica, a Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, 3 volumes, undated, issued in parts between 1828-40, engraved titles, some toning and spotting mainly to first and last few leaves, volume 3 is the plates volume, ink ownership name stamp to front preliminaries, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary spotted green morocco with gilt lettered spines, rubbed and slightly marked, 4to plus Collins (Arthur), The Peerage of England..., 4 volumes, 2nd edition very much enlarged and corrected, 1741 titles in red and black, plates, contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, 8vo Dugdale: Wing D2480. (9)

Horatius Flaccus (Quintus). Les Oeuvres d'Horace, traduites Francois, avec des notes, et des remarques critiques sur tout l'ouvrage, par M. Dacier, 10 volumes, Paris, 1691, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece to each volume, contemporary uniform mottled full calf, gilt decorated spines, early paper label to foot of spine of most volumes, very slightly rubbed to extremities, 12mo, together with Tacitus (Publius Cornelius), Traduction complette de Tacite, 7 volumes, Paris, Chez Froull‚, 1788-1792, contemporary uniform mottled full calf, gilt decorated spines, a few minor marks (generally in very good condition), 12mo, plus another 10 volume set of Horace in French, edited by Dacier, Paris, 1691, contemporary engraved bookplate of The Right Honorable Thomas Earl of Hadinton to verso of frontispiece of the 10th volume only, and with manuscript library number in brown ink at front of each volume, bound in contemporary uniform full calf gilt, rubbed, 12mo (27)

*Illuminated initial. An illuminated, historiated initial "I" on vellum, Italy, circa 1450, the initial in gold, pink and white with a cardinal or religious figure in prayer, leafy upper and lower border, illuminated in green, red and white and partly on a blue ground, antiphonal manuscript remains and glue spots to verso, 75 x 63 mm (1)

*Illuminated initial. Manuscript antiphoner on vellum with large initial "N", probably Bologna, later 14th century, the initial in pink with white highlights on a blue ground with foliate infill decoration in red, green and blue with white highlights and small green roundels, 85 x 74 mm, extending into a coloured acanthus decoration bar, 4-line staves in red, capitals to recto and verso touched in yellow, leaf size 550 x 372 mm (1)

*Illuminated initial. A leaf from a manuscript psalter on vellum, late 15th century, in Latin, two columns, initials alternating red and blue, with decorative large initial "O" in blue with yellow and white tracing, infill border of gold and yellow, green, pink and blue acanthus on a red ground with white highlights, the initial exterior on a burnished gold ground with red, green and blue acanthus foliage extending into the margin with small gold roundels with decorative gold tracings, the initial 80 x 80 mm, text to verso somewhat rubbed and margins with old paper remains, sheet size 434 x 345 mm (1)

Lindsay (David). A Dialogue Betweene Experience and a Courtier, of the miserable estate of the Worlde, first compiled in the Schottishe tongue, by syr David Lyndsey Knight, (a man of great learning and science) nowe newly corrected, and made perfit Englishe, pleasaunt [and] profitable for al estates but chiefly for Gentlemen, and such as are in authoritie. Hereunto are anexid certaine other pithy posys of woorkes, invented by the said knight, as shal largely appeare in the table after folowing, [Imprinted at London: By Thomas Purfoote, and [i.e. for] William Pickering], Anno. 1566, [4], 154 leaves, woodcut portrait to verso of title, numerous woodcut initials and illustrations throughout, black letter text, title and following two leaves torn with loss (particularly to title & following leaf), close-trimmed to running titles and at fore-edge with some loss to marginal letterpress notes, some contemporary manuscript notes and marginalia, dirt & dust soiling and spotting throughout, marginal fraying and few other tears etc., contemporary limp vellum, ties defective, 8vo STC 15676, ESTC S1583. Place of publication and Purfoot and Pickering names from colophon; Pickering's role as publisher from STC. (1)

*Manuscript bifolium. A manuscript musical bifolium, possibly Germany, circa 1500, in Latin with 4-line staves in red, the second page with two large initials historiated with grotesque faces in red, blue and brown, each approximately 40 x 35 mm, large initial 'O' in red and blue to first page, sheet size 485 x 355 mm (1)

Zurita (Geronimo de). Indices Rerum ab Aragoniae Regibus Gestarum ab Initiis Regni ad Annum MCDX, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Zaragoza, 1578, titles with woodcut coats-of-arms, final leaves with large woodcut devices, some spotting and toning, a few small wormholes, shelf number and inscription to front endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, covers with decorative ornaments in black, manuscript title to spine, lacking two ties, a few small tears to yapp edges, some soiling, 4to Geromino de Zurita y Castro (1512-1580) was a Spanish historian and official chronicler of the Kingdom of Aragon. (1)

Florence Press. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and a Song of Liberty, by William Blake, with an Introduction by Francis Griffin Stokes, 1911, bookplate of Ken Tomkinson (loose), endpapers toned, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum binding gilt, with gilt lettering and a small paper label to spine, 8vo, together with Caradoc Press, In Praise of Wisdom, 1902, printed in red and black, with manuscript invoice (loosely inserted) from the Caradoc Press, dated Feb. 24 1903, orignal green sheep, lightly rubbed, gilt lettering, slim 8vo, (one of 350 copies on paper: Tomkinson 8), plus Essex House press, An Endeavour Towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris..., written by C.R. Ashbee, Stereotype edition, 1901, decorative title, eleven woodcut initials and one tailpiece by George Thomson, small closed tear to head of front free endpaper, original brown paper wrappers with black lettering, lightly marked with a short closed tear to front fore-edge, 8vo, plus three others similar: Juvenilia, by Kyrle Lang, the Mill House Press, 1931; Battle of Trafalgar, by Robert Southey, the Astolat Press, 1905 (with bookplates of Robert Peel Sheldon and Ken Tomkinson); Charmers & Catiffs, collected by Moira Meighn & Peter Rogers, the Medici Society, 1930 Provenance: from the collection of G.S. Tomkinson. (6)

Hamilton (N.E.S.A., editor). The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland; or Topographical Dictionary of the British Islands, 12 volumes, published Virtue & Co., circa 1870, additonal decorative engraved title, sixty-eight lithograph double page maps, some spotting and staining, later ink manuscript annotations to front endpapers and to rear endpapers in volume one, some hinges broken, contemporary blue cloth gilt, heavily stained and worn, large 8vo, together with Brabner (J.H.F., editor), The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 6 volumes, published William Mackenzie, 1894, title pages with library blind stamp, other usual ex-library markings, sixty-nine double page lithographic maps (including one folding) and twenty-four photolithographic monotone plates, bookplate of Bournmouth Reference Library and mid 20th century manuscript presentation inscription to front pastedowns (one label removed), publishers cloth gilt, a little worn, large 8vo (18)

Fortune (Robert). A Journey to the Tea Countries of China, including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills, with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains, 1st edition, John Murray, 1852, additional colour engraved title, two tinted lithographs, one engraved plate, one engraved map, letterpress engravings, some full-page, 32pp. publishers catalogue at rear, hinges split (front free endpaper and following two leaves near-detached), original gilt decorated green cloth, lightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, contained in custom-made drop-back box in red cloth (lightly rubbed), with gilt-lettered spine label Abbey, Travel 529. Loosely inserted manuscript letter addressed to Sir Percy and Lady Cradock and dated 1983, from 'David' of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd, Peking. Percy Cradock worked for the Foreign Office and served as British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1983. (1)

A typed letter with manuscript “God bless you” and signed by Saint Mother Teresa, dated 26th. August. 1988, with certificate of authentication.

A selection of 18th / 19th Century mostly leather bound books to include: a very early edition of Master Humphrey's clock, by Charles Dickens, Vol III, published by Chapman & Hall, London 1841; Arabian Tales : being a continuation of the Arabian nights entertainments, consisting of one thousand and one stories / tr. from the Arabian manuscript into French, by Chavis and Cazotte, and now tr. into English from the last French edition, Vols I, II & III, published Edinburgh 1792; a fairly rare pamphlet of The Weekly Entertainer; or Agreeable and Instructive Repository for Monday August 9, 1784, printed by R.Goadby & Co, Sherbourne; The Works of Rev. John Newton,...published by direction of his executors in six volumes, London 1808, Vol I; a first edition of Elements of Mechanical Philosophy, being the substance of a course of lectures on that science, by John Robinson, Vol I, London 1804, etc. (13) (faults)

THE BOOK OF KELLSReproductions from the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin; With a Study by Francoise Henry, London 1974, complete with cloth bound slip-case.

KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG: (1897-1957) Austro- Hungarian Composer of Film Scores, Academy Award winner. Pencilled signature ('Erich Wolfgang Korngold') on a page removed from an autograph album. With a small and rather hurried, one bar, autograph manuscript quotation above the signature, from Korngold's one act opera, Violanta. G

ELGAR EDWARD: (1857-1934) English Composer. A.L.S., Edward Elgar, three pages, 4to, Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 8th October 1908, to Mssrs. Novello & Co. ('Dear Sirs'). Elgar sends his publishers a manuscript (no longer present) of 'a little simple song' and asks that it be engraved as early as possible. The composer also encloses a letter (no longer present) from Mr. Salmon 'regarding the words (he refers to two sets - I have only set one as yet)' and requests that Novello & Co arrange matters with Salmon in the usual way. In a postscript, Elgar writes 'I hope to set the other poem soon but you need only refer to “Pleading” at present. I shall be glad if there can be no delay in this matter'. With a purple ink received stamp of Novello & Co to the first page, only very slightly affecting a couple of words of text and the date. VG

[WORDSWORTH WILLIAM]: (1770-1850) English Romantic Poet who served as Poet Laureate from 1843-50. A small collection of letters and documents etc., signed by various individuals associated with Wordsworth including his cousin, Julia Myers (early A.L.S., Julia Myers, four pages, folio, Rydal Mount, 5th July 1821, to Sophia Craig, writing whilst a pupil and stating, in part, 'Mrs Wordsworth said I might write to you then but Dorothy said I had better wait till Miss Dowling returned from Keswick, and I did so….Mr. Wordsworth has had six swarms of bees in his garden, three belonging to him, and three belonging to an old man who came to help him'), manuscript account of Wordsworth's expenses with Mary Tyson of the Stamp Office at Ulverston for the December quarter 1833, including postage and carriage, totalling £1169.12.1½, signed by Tyson and also by a representative of Wordsworth; a large envelope wrapper addressed to Asst. Surgeon [John] Wordsworth at Paxoi, signed to one panel by Wordsworth (d.1846, nephew of the poet) beneath a few mathematical calculations; an annuity document signed by William Field ('Subdistributor to William Wordsworth Esq'), 10th May 1829; an autograph envelope wrapper addressed by Dorothy Wordsworth to Edward Archer at Grasmere, with a brief note to the verso, Rydal Mount, 8th January n.y., and with a small red wax seal affixed, etc. Some age wear, G to about VG, 6

COLERIDGE HARTLEY: (1796-1849) English Poet, Biographer, Essayist and Teacher, the eldest son of the English Romantic Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A good, lengthy A.L.S., H Coleridge, four pages, 4to, Grasmere, 21st February 1832, to Mrs. C[harles] Fox (Sarah Hustler, 'Dear Freundlin'). Coleridge announces 'I know but two words of German and I cannot dispose of them better than to give you one of them - Indeed you were quite welcome to both but the other being Der Teufel, which means Apolly'on, is not worthy of your acceptance' and continues 'But Freundlin, signifying a female friend, is yours by two fold right. I wish we had such a feminine in our own language - but Friendess would sound very awkwardly. No tongue with which I am acquainted has an equivalent that is always used in an unexceptionable sense…In religious societies I believe it is usual to term all female friends sisters, but this appellation is too familiar to be taken freely by those without. And now, having finished by philological display, let me thank thee for thy kind and sweet letter and for the welcome intelligence it convey'd' The poet further writes of his younger brother, Derwent, 'Poor Derwent I fear has thought me unfeeling never to have written to him during his affliction, yet, had I known of it, what comfort could I have offered that his own faith would not better supply. Had he been sick himself, or in mere worldly trouble, I might have helped to divert his thoughts with my nonsense….the commonplaces of consolation are the dullest of all lies for they betray their own falsetious (?) by the very fact of their utterance. I have since had a few lines from Derwent whose manuscript is as prettily unintelligible as words of an unknown tongue warbled by a sweet voice. Pray do persuade him to sacrifice beauty to legibility - if he cannot write the two - for the sake of my soul for I am very apt to see naughty words when I am puzzled with an interesting letter. I am happy however that his spirits are relieved of which the said letter gives satisfactory proof, not only by its microscopic calligraphy, which denotes my eyes, and a steady hand, but by a P.S. in defence of the German Heresy of Poly-Homerism', providing an explanation that a learned German has revived a theory that the Iliad 'is not a continuous work of one man, but….stitched together….out of various ballads on the Trojan war', also commenting on his sister-in-law, Mary ('….these are cruel apprehensions that she may have to endure a mother's pains without a mother's joy….') and his nephews ('See them I must and will, but alas boys soon outgrow their prettiness') and of Grasmere, which he wishes to place in Fox's imagination and heart, describing his surroundings, 'A cloudless sky suffused with a fine transparent….ghost….through which the stars glimmer softly as the eyes of Nuns would do if they were permitted to wear a….apology for a veil….The hills displaying their dark outline relieved by a line of white light, the lake smooth….dimly reflecting one or two of the brightest twinkles, the trees calm in their nakedness, tranquil with resigned old age…' admitting however that '…really this is too bad in prose - such conceits look as bald out of rhime as a Bishop out of his wig'. Coleridge continues his letter 'Now my dear Freundlin let me hear from thee again - and let there be rather less about my genius in the next - luckily paper can neither laugh nor blush….Remember that compliments are properly of the masculine gender - a compliment in a ladies mouth is as unfeminine as a cigar' and concludes by remarking 'I have inserted a sonnet (no longer present) to Wordsworth which I hope he admires, tho I do not, I could write till morning and morning it is - of the Lord's day too - but there is no Sabbath….in works of love - yet I must conclude'. The final page of text is written around three of the borders of the central address panel. A letter of fine content. A few very small holes to a few folds, only very slightly affecting a few words of text, otherwise VGSarah Hustler (1800-1882) English Writer whose works included Poems, Original and Translated (1863). Wife of Charles Fox (1797-1878) Quaker Scientist and a member of the influential Fox family of Falmouth, Cornwall.

[PIUS VI]: (1717-1799) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1775-99. Papal Bull issued by the Papal Chancery in the name of Pius VI, one page (vellum), large oblong folio, Rome, May 1774. The attractive manuscript document, with ornate floral decorations at the head, regards the provision of a conventual priory in favour of Charles de Magauli. Signed at the foot by various functionaries of the Papal Chancery and with various dockets (some in French) to the verso. Lacking the seal and with four small neat slits at the foot where it would originally have been affixed. Some light overall age wear and minor dust staining, otherwise VG

GODARD EUGENE: (1827-1890) French Balloonist, the third balloonist to take dispatches out of Paris by balloon whilst under siege by the Prussian Army, 23rd September 1870. An interesting, rare D.S., Eugene Godard, aeronaut, two pages, 4to, Paris, 19th April 1883. The manuscript document, in French, represents an agreement between the aeronauts Eugene Godard & Jules Tourcade with Camille Dartois in which Dartois is to undertake an aerial ascent in his balloon The North on 29th April at his own risk, Godard and Tourcade providing the travel expenses and gas for inflating the balloon, and also agreeing to pay Dartois the sum of five hundred francs for his ascent. Signed at the conclusion by Godard, Tourcade and Dartois individually. Accompanied by an original 12mo printed ticket for entry to the Quadruple Ascension at the Place des Quinconces, 29th April 1883. Some very light, minor age wear, about VG, 2Camille Dartois (1838-1917) French Balloonist, the primary supplier of early balloons to the Godard family.

PISCHOF ALFRED DE: (1882-1922) Austrian Aviation Pioneer. Manuscript Documentunsigned, four pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1919), in French. The manuscript is the text of a speech or article and is entitled 'The Airship in World Transport (Conclusion)' and states in part 'In Britain, serious moves are in progress to create a very extensive air service to the colonies. There have been rumours of projects for constructing huge British airships, but these are regularly denied… The miserable outcome of the R34's flight to America could hardly have encouraged the British.' Continuing 'When, in the future, the operation of airships has reached a level of success which is in no way inferior to that of other modes of transport… it will then be possible to think of solving many other problems of worldwide transport. To link e.g. New York with Peking, an airship could take two routes… The quickest… across the continent of North America and the Pacific Ocean… would be about 15,000 kms' Further adding '…a different one… runs from New York directly westwards, passing over Labrador, Baffin Island, the sea of ice and the North Pole, and from there, in a direct line southwards, across eastern Siberia and Manchuria, to Peking…' Concluding 'Whether such a route will ever be used is still difficult to say. But, in view of the highly-developed current level of air navigation, and the speed of progress in recent years, the possibility can be envisaged of such journeys being made in the near future.' With two minor staple holes and very slight age wear, otherwise VG