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A 19TH CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION, METHODIST MINISTRY, MISSIONARY & OTHER INTEREST with a hand-painted bookplate to the front pastedown 'Marianne Daniell / 1835', containing a signed manuscript verse by Jabez Bunting dated 1842; a signed manuscript '.. Verse in the Chippeway Language' by 'Kahkewaquonaby / alias / Peter Jones' dated 1831; a signed manuscript quote on friendship by Robert Newton dated 1838; a signed manuscript copy of 'The Lords Prayer in the Canarese language' by John Jenkins; a signed manuscript copy of the first verse of the hymn 'We've no abiding city here' by David Livingstone dated Cairo 18th November 1856; a clipped sample of John Wesley's hand-writing; a clipped sample of Charles Wesley's hand-writing; a signed manuscript quote by C.W. Isenberg dated Cairo 18th November 1854; a signed manuscript copy of 'The Lord's Prayer in Kinika' by Johnannes Rebmann dated Cairo 31st December 1855; signed manuscript versions of John 1:1 in the 'kisuahili', 'kinika', 'kikamba', kikuafi', 'galla', and 'amharic' languages by Johann Ludwig Krapf dated Cairo 24th November 1853; a signed manuscript verse by Nehemiah Goreh; watercolour and pencil artwork, including portraits, landscapes and nature studies; a dried seaweed montage 'In memory of Weymouth 1837'; and other items (total approximately 119 completed pages), full crimson leather, 25.5cm x 21cm. Condition Report : Covers scuffed; spine strip detached and with other tape strips. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.

[DOCUMENTS]. A LATE 18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK the front pastedown inscribed 'Isabella Sclater Bradford Yorkshire / Dec[em]b[e]r th[e] 16: 1789' and with her bookplate, the recipes including those for 'French Fritters'; 'To make Gingerbread'; 'A Biscuit Pudding'; 'Italian Cheese'; 'To Stew Mutton like Venison'; 'To make Blommange'; 'An Approv'd Receipt for Cowslip Wine'; 'To make White Catchup'; 'To Pickle Red Cabbage'; 'Norfolk Punch'; 'Currant Wine'; 'Puff Paste'; 'Currant Jelly'; 'Carrot Soup'; 'To Bottle Ripe Currants'; 'Elder Flower Wine'; and others, thirty pages, quarter leather and marbled boards, 19cm x 16cm.

[DOCUMENTS]. AN EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK circa 1711-1758, including assessments for 'ye poor' and land taxes, some entries referring to 'Bolton' and one page headed 'A Genral & perticular account of all ye Grounds surveyed by Jeremy Rhodes of Bradford...', also containing a few recipes including one 'To Make Cowslop wine', ninety-nine pages, full leather, 21cm x 17cm.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, 1 Mexican Dollar, Shanghai, hand-stamped date 14 May 1913, serial number 40274, one manuscript and one printed signature, minor stains, in PMG holder 58, choice about uncirculated and a lovely example for type, scarce BNB B6225b, Pick S191b £1,200-£1,600

Government of Jamaica, obverse and reverse archival photographs for 5 Shillings, 15 January 1938, showing a portrait and design never used on the issued notes, although the design and layout is in keeping with the designs used for 1939-60 issues, ink manuscript date at left ‘11.1.32’, in PMG holder 63, and 64 respectively, choice uncirculated (2 photos) BNB unlisted, Pick unlisted £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Russia, P.O.W Camp, Khabarovsk Region, 50 Kopeks, 1919, two manuscript signatures, two cancellation holes, purple handstamps on reverse, very fine and scarce £150-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

National Bank of Yugoslavia, uncut pair of proofs for 100 Dinara, 1994, with a handstamp and two manuscript signatures denoting authorisation to print, o uncirculated, rare (2 notes) Pick 139 £150-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Bangkok, 1 Tical, ND (1898), serial number 0133, Armstrong and one other manuscript signature, foreign substance, in PMG holder 20, very fine, extremely rare Pick S111 £2,000-£2,600

Sveriges Rikes Standers Bank, 10 Riksdaler, 3 January 1866, serial number C079910, two manuscript signatures, one small margin nick, otherwise exceptional quality of paper, a bright and fresh good very fine, rare Pick A133 £500-£700

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Mozambique, specimen 500 Escudos, 1 November 1941, serial number 000000, with note of approval, with the date 18 June 1941, and manuscript signatures of Manuel Rodrigues Junior and Antionio dos Santos Viegas, both of whose signature did appear on the issued notes in these positions, in PMG holder 63, choice uncirculated, unique and a fantastic piece of archival history Pick 87s, BNU MZ90s £240-£300 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Bermuda Monetary Authority, $10, 2 January 1982, serial number Z/1 023802, Yearwood and Trued signatures, with additional manuscript signature of Yearwood at left, minor handling, but overall uncirculated BNB B203b, Pick 30b £120-£160

Hay Internment Camp, Australia, 6 Pence, 1 March 1941, serial number C 40503, manuscript signatures of Robinow and Stahl, in PMG holder 35, choice very fine and scarce Schwan-Boling 551c, AU 910c £1,000-£1,500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Greenland, Danish Administration, 1 Ore, 1897, serial number printed 050373, two manuscript signatures, in PMG holder 25, very fine, extremely scarce BNB B146b, Pick 5b £400-£600 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Russia, P.O.W Camp, Batarejnaja, 1 Rubel, ND (1918-19), serial number 9890, three manuscript signatures, very fine and rare Campbell 6857d1 £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

National Bank of Yugoslavia, proof 100 Dinara, 1 March 1990, with a handstamp and pair of manuscript signatures denoting authorisation to print, about uncirculated to uncirculated, rare Pick 105 £100-£150 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Siege of Khartoum, 5000 Piastres, 25 April 1884, serial number 202, hectograph signature of General Gordon, hand stamps on obverse, manuscript signature on reverse, one horizontal bend, good extremely fine and scarce Pick S110 £120-£160

National Bank of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, proof 5 Dinars, 1950, proof 100 Dinara, National Bank of Yugoslavia, 12 August 1978, with two manuscript signatures denoting authorisation to print, uncirculated and rare (2 notes) Pick 67R, 90 £100-£150 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Bloemfontein Bank, Orange Free State, partial proof for £1, 1 November 1875, no serial number, several manuscript signatures, numerous pencil annotations, rare and interesting Pick S511, Hern 47 £150-£200

Thirteen framed works, to include: Frederick George Lewin (Local Artist, 1861-1933) - Scene of River Lock, initialled lower right, artist's name and title inscribed verso, gouache and pen on paper, 18 x 26 cm; An illuminated manuscript (1952), bearing six Royal Arms from different reigns with dates and surrounding calligraphy 22 x 22 cm; Two Indian Mughal type paintings depicting a scene of figures, gouache and gilt pigment with calligraphic surroundings on paper, 12.5 x 12.5 cm and 10 x 15 cm; Francesco Bartolozzi R.A. (1728-1815) after Morris R.A. - 'The Corn Field', stipple engraving on laid paper, 25 x 21 cm; A watercolour of 'The Beatrice' ship in full sail, titled in print below, 41 x 31 cm; an illustration of a hanging light fitting with a mounted eagle, pencil and watercolour on paper; together with a black and white photograph of the HMS Corunna; with group of five framed hand-coloured lithographs to include: 'Precipitate Flight of the French through Leipsic, Pursued by the Allied Armies', 'Cranbourne Dorsetshire', 'The Coronation of His Majesty George the Fourth...' Dubourg after Stephanoff; and 'Little Willie', all glazed and framed (13)

Composer Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) an early hand written music manuscript mass for four voices and strings and wind, F122, possibly in the composer's own hand, in fine binding with marbled boards, bookplate for Caroli Ricardi Ward

Collection of historical legal manuscripts to include John Lockhart, 1752, also contains manuscripts in relation to John Wilson 1780. Charter Confirmation by William Murray 1803 manuscript. Also to include General Service Manuscripts circa 1800 as pictured.

['W.M.']The Queens Closet Opened. Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving and Candying, &c. Which were Presented unto the Queen: By the most Experienced Persons of the times. Printed for Nath. Brooke and sold by Tho. Guy, 1674;A Queens Delight or The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right Knowledge of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent Waters.Printed by F. Leach for Nat. Brooks, to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1675;The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing The most Ready Wayes Whether Italian, Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering of Sauces or Making of Pastry.Printed by F. Leach for Nat. Brooks, to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1675;Three parts bound as one, each with separate title page and pagination, but continuous register, duodecimo, [xii], 190, [8], 106, [4], 123, [7] pages, including portrait frontis to first part, lower corner of B6 torn with loss of several letters, loss to final five leaves (possibly by insect), sporadic staining throughout, manuscript notes to fly leaf and recto of frontis, well worn leather binding, boards detached.

Hunting Journal.A good quality hunting diary (Webster’s Hunting Journal No. 3). Manuscript entries from December 1929 to February 1939, hunting several days per week, initially with the Quorn and the Belvoir Hunts and then almost exclusively with the Belvoir. A few items of ephemera and a photograph loosely inserted. All edges gilt, straight-grain morocco binding.

Nostradamus (Michel) - Manuscript. Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus ou SeVoir represente tout requis S’est passe tant en France, Espagne, Italie, Alemagne, Angleterres, qu’autres Parties du monde. Reveues & Corrigees Suivant les Editions imprimees a Lyon L’an 1644 Et a Amsterdam L’an 1668. Avec La Vie de L’autheur. Et transcritter Sur quelles A. Metz En 1790. Metz, 1790, ink manuscript on paper, [4], viii, [12], 162, [12], 163-266, [30], xxvii, xv pages, the first four pages (La Morte de Nostradamus) are tipped-in 19th century notes, later notes to front endpaper, worm track to inner margin affecting some letters, symbolic bookplate of Daniel Ruzo, Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus collector, worn French-style boards with cracked joints and leather spine label. [The work of an unknown Metz scribe, the title page appears to copy the 1689 Cologne edition, the text follows that addition with some additions. One addition is ‘Explications Sur Les Centuries de …’ (27 pages, possibly original work) which ends with King Stanislas of Poland arriving at Luneville in 1748]. [Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library].

[Petrarca (Francesco) 1304-1374] [Opere Volgari (Sonetti et Canzoni. Trionfi)]. Impresso in Fano Caesaris per Hieronimo Soncino, 1503, small octavo, italic type, unpaginated, register a-z8, et8, A8, lacking title page (ai), single word ms comment on t7r, some light staining, heavier to margins of latter leaves, title replaced by leaf with manuscript title ‘Sonetti di Petrarcha’. Colophon present at et5r, all edges gilt, straight-grain morocco binding. [This edition includes ‘the letter of Soncino to Caesar Borgia in which he falsely accuses Aldus [Manutius] of having wrongly usurped for himself the credit of Francesco [Griffo] da Bologna’s invention of the type called Aldine’ (B.L.)]

Nicolson (William).The English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries. Giving a Short View and Character of Most of our Historians, Either in Print or Manuscript .… G. Strahan, W. Mears, et al., 1736, third edition [first collected], folio, contemporary mottled calf (re-backed); Madox (Thomas), Firma Burgi, or An Historical Essay concerning the Cities, Towns and Buroughs of England. Taken from Records.Printed by William Bowyer for Robert Gosling, 1726, folio, good margins, Earl of Lonsdale bookplate, diced calf gilt binding with gilt Lowther device to boards (re-backed);With six others. [Lot sold not collated]

Aldin (Cecil). A Sporting Garland, pictured by Cecil Aldin. Sands, no date, first edition, oblong folio, 54 pages, gift inscription to front endpaper, original cloth-backed boards (rubbed, wear to edges); idem, The 'Rimasop' Hunting Diary, Season 1913-1914. Rimell & Allsop, no date, six mounted colour plates, some manuscript annotation, original boards (covers lightly stained); Emanuel (Walter), A Dog Day, or The Angel in the House. Heinemann, 1902, first edition, quarto, 'presentation copy' blind-stamp, twenty-eight full page illustrations by Cecil Aldin, original clotbacked boards (rubbed and stained covers); with seventeen others illustrated by Cecil Aldin. (20)

Early Indentures, autographs, etc.A small collection, comprising:An Elizabethan Deed of Trust relating to farm land, possibly in Suffolk, 1583, 21 lines of Latin secretary hand manuscript on vellum, 24.5cm x 46cm, seal tab without seal;A Tudor indenture from the 31st year of the reign of Henry VIII, [c.1540] but appears slightly later, thirty lines of English secretary hand manuscript on vellum, 25.5cm x 42cm, seal tab without seal, no signatures, possibly an early copy;An indenture placing Robert Smith of Bradfield Parish into Apprenticeship with John Richardson (mariner) of Scarborough, 1800, printed pro-forma on vellum, completed in manuscript, 15cm x 20.5cm;An 1834 copy of a 1763 indenture relating to land in the Glastonbury area, English manuscript on seven large paper sheets;The Irish Farmers’ Journal, a cropped title from the April 22, 1815 edition, with duty stamp;Four cropped autograph signatures, including C. B. Fry. (9)

Africa.- South Africa.- Diary of events on my journey to and my sojourn in South Africa, manuscript, 380pp. over 3 vol., the odd illustration, occasional staining, contemporary cloth-backed boards or limp boards, limp boards chipped, all vol. rubbed, housed in a 20th century half calf slip-case, gilt spine in compartments, rubbed, small folio, 1907-1913.  *** A detailed diary of a British soldier in South Africa. Includes a printed sheet of Cape Colony orders. 

America.- Tanner (H.S.) The American Traveller; or Guide Through the United States, engraved frontispiece showing the 'Falls of Niagara', 3 engraved plates, 4 engraved double–page city plans, and a large folding map with manuscript notations depicting the United States east of the Mississippi River with inset plans of several cities, toned and some surface dirt, original publisher’s embossed cloth, printed label to upper cover, faded, rubbed, 8vo, 1837

[Campbell (John)] Candid and Impartial Considerations on the nature of the Sugar Trade; the Comparative Importance of the British and French Islands in the West-Indies, half-title, 3 hand-coloured folding maps and plans, 2 with large splits to foldlines, half-title with small loss to bottom corner, previous owner's ink sums to half-title, scattered spotting and staining, contemporary drab boards, rebacked, one or two manuscript notes to boars, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, for R. Baldwin, 1763.

Young (Sir William) The West-India Common-Place Book, first edition, author's copy inscribed "the Author's Copy. WY" on title, with copious ink annotations and interleaved with 9ff. of manuscript notes and tables, 2 folding letterpress tables at end, bound without maps, K1 with small loss at gutter, Q4 with tear into text and no loss, scattered spotting and staining, tender edges, lacking endpapers, near contemporary drab boards, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, [Sabin 106128], 4to, 1807. *** A rare item, including notes by the author who in 1807 became the Governor of Tobago, retaining the post until his death in 1815.

Mediterranean.- Hand-Book for Travellers (A) in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, first edition, 4 folding maps, advertisements to pastedowns, old tape to title at gutter, John Murray, front endpapers renewed, hinges repaired, original cloth, previous owner's ink initials to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, upper joint repaired, 1840 § Murat (Nicholas) Guide de la Conversation en français et en turc suivi d'un Petit Guide de Constantinople, ink-stamp to title, previous owner's ink note to title, manuscript label to front pastedown, evenly browned throughout, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Constantinople, 1908; and another guide to Constantinople, 8vo (3).  *** The second mentioned is a simple introduction to Osmanli Turkish, using transliteration to represent the sounds of Turkish. It contains useful questions and phrases for tourists to use when sightseeing and shopping in the Bazaar in Constantinople. 

India.- Watts: 1916-1930, c.170 vintage photographic snapshots in various sizes, pasted to thin card leaves, most captioned by hand, some chipped with tiny marginal loss, later card wrappers, title in manuscript to upper cover, rubbed, c.1930; and another album containing more snapshots of India, oblong 8vo (2).  *** An interesting album containing images predominantly of India, including Delhi; Darjeeling; Calcutta; Agra; Allahabad and Bombay. Additional images include the Isle of Wight and Gibraltar. 

Africa.- Horsbrugh (Major Boyd) The Game-Birds & Water-Fowl of South Africa, first edition, half-title, 67 colour plates, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1912 § Cheesman (Major R. E.) Lake Tana and the Blue Nile, first edition, half-title, folding panorama frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, ex-Anglo-Ethiopian Society with neat ink-stamp to front free endpaper, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, number in manuscript to spine, partially erased, slight creasing and chipping to edges, a little rubbed, 1936 § Hickson (Sydney J.) A Naturalist in North Celebes, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, bookplate, cracked hinges, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities,  1889; and others similar, 4to & 8vo (7).

India.- Bengal.- East India Company (The) Commission received by Edward Hindley at Fort William, Bengal, printed document with manuscript insertions and signatures, folds, tears repaired verso (without loss of text), some staining, lightly browned, 245 x 381mm., [Bengal], no printer, 1803; and an A.L.s. from a Cumbria father (Myles Sandys) expressing his concerns for his son, who has been drafted to the East India Company (he would go on to serve for 22 years in India, rising to the rank of Major), v.s. (2)

Africa.- Algerian botany.- Peake (M.A.) Collection of 17 original specimen studies of wild flowers of Algiers, manuscript note with watercolours reads 'Wild flower of Algiers/ 40 specimens in 5 frames/ Painted by M.A. Peake in Algiers/ during the Spring of 1880./ Framed by Dr [?], Professor/ of Botany at the Lycéew Algiers/ framed 1881', watercolours over pencil, variously inscribed and dated in pencil and pen and ink, each approx. 170 x 110 mm (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in), laid onto mount supports, some with overmounts, acidic toning and browning to some, a few splits and tears, all unframed, circa 1880 (17)

Tobago.- Appraisement of Negroes upon Hamden Estate not included in Hamden Lease said to be the property of Curric & Oliver..., manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds strengthened with tape, edges slightly chipped, later pencil note, folio, 24th August 1807; Estimate of the Expence For the Erection of a Building for a Govt. House, 2pp.. with conjugate blank, n.d. [c. 1810]; George IV.- Order in Council approving the appointment of Logan Mitchell as a member of the executive council of the Island of Tobago, signed C.C. Greville, clerk of the privy council, 2pp., blind seal, 16th December 1826, manuscripts, first two folds strengthened with tape, extensively browned, folio; and c. 15 others relating to Tobago, including several printed Acts, v.s., v.d. (c. 15). 

Halliday (Sir Andrew) The West Indies: the Natural and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies, first edition, folding map frontispiece, 2 folding maps, one folding table, advertisements at end, previous owner's pencil signature, scattered faint spotting, contemporary cloth, sunned spine, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1837 § Higgins (Henry H.) Notes by a Field-Naturalist in the Western Tropics, frontispiece, plates, folding map, occasional marginal finger-soiling, ex-library with neat ink-stamp to title, modern morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, Liverpool, 1877 § Waring (Gerald A.) The Geology of the Island of Trinidad, B.W.I., full-page illustrations, 3 folding maps, one with short split to foldline and old repair verso, occasional underlining, original upper cover bound-in, ink manuscript notes to original cover, short tear with old tape repair, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Baltimore, 1926; and another copy of the first mentioned, 8vo (4). 

Trinidad.- Fraser (Lionel Mordaunt) History of Trinidad, 2 vol., manuscript note possibly in the author's hand pasted to front pastedown, half-title, folding table at end vol. 2, previous owner's ink inscription in latin to vol. 2 half-title, cracked hinges, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, vol. 2 backstrip becoming detached, 8vo, Trinidad, Government Printing Office, c.1891. *** The manuscript note in vol. 1 reads, "A memento from the author, who has found in the Book of Truth - "That there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother". Trinidad Aug: 20th 1896. "?Dies infanta!!"

Copies of Public Addresses &c. presented to Charles Grant Esq. when in the West Indies, manuscript in ink on paper, 16pp. of text written verso only, very faint water-staining, contemporary straight grain morocco, g.e., a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, small 4to, 1795-1814. *** Including mentions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad and St. Pierre. 

Barbados.- Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes, second edition, 5 engraved plates only (of 6), 3 folding plates concerning sugar processing with the accompanying letterpress explanatory leaf, 2 with tears and old repairs verso, folding map provided in facsimile only, rust-hole to L1 affecting odd letter, one or two marginal manuscript notes, one or two tiny holes, fraying and small loss to fore-edges, faint water-staining, lacking pastedowns, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Goldsmiths' 2039; Sabin 41058], folio, by Peter Parker ... and Thomas Gray, 1673.

A small collection of various Wedgwood Jasper wares including a pale blue pot and cover, lozenge-shaped dish, small cream jug, cylindrical pot, a black glazed trinket dish and cover, a dark blue glazed saucer, cream prunus blossom dish, together with four black basalt coffee cans, four saucers and plate and one volume "The Wedgwood Tradition - a History / Study of Wedgwood", handwritten manuscript with printed photographs throughout by BRENDA CROSSLEY (a Teacher Training College project circa 1956, hand bound by the author)

Royal Navy. Commission assigning Captain Thomas Sparke Thompson to HMS Colossus. 22nd September 1856. Oblong vellum folio, partially printed with manuscript insertions. Signed by Captain Peter Richards, C.B. (Third Naval Lord), Captain Alexander Milne (Fourth Naval Lord) and one other, probably a secretary. With papered admiralty seal and revenue stamps to the left side margin, further inscribed in ink, ‘Vice Keppel to Raleigh’ at the bottom right-hand edge of the document.Captain Sparke Thomas’s naval career began in September 1810 as a Volunteer Second-Class onboard the Galatea (36) under the command of Captain Woodley Losack. He was present during the 20th May 1811 frigate action off Madagascar and the blockade of Cherbourg before joining the Akbar (50) as a Midshipman in 1813 under Captains Sir Collingwood Dickson and Charles Sullen. He was subsequently stationed in Brazilian, North American and home waters for four years before further service in the East Indies, North American coast, Channel, West Indies and African coast as Midshipman and Master’s Mate on the Phaeton (46) and the Maidstone (42). His African coastal service included extensive boat service on rivers, and Thomas was tragically witness to the drowning of an Assistant Surgeon and ten men at the entrance to Bonny River.Thomas was sent home due to deteriorating health after contracting a fever in the Bight of Benin, where he held several UK-based positions before later being posted as Junior Lieutenant on the Spartiate, First Lieutenant on the Charlotte and commanding the Tiger and the Quail. He took command of the Comus off the South Coast of America from 1844-46, during which time he blockaded the ports of Maldonado and the Buenos Ayres squadron and served as the Senior Officer in the Parana and Uruguay rivers, collaborating with the French squadron in various capacities. Notably, Thomas orchestrated the evacuation of distressed English and European individuals from Mercedes in the Rio Negro. He Captained the Colossus until 17th June 1857, when the vessel was paid off at Sheerness. He was placed on the Retired List as Rear-Admiral in 1864 and Vice-Admiral in 1871.

Rear Admiral Samuel Brooking, Royal Navy - Patent application, 4th January 1828, signed by George IV. Printed document with manuscript insertions, four sides, folio, applying for a patent on an improved method of raising securing and securing ships masts, an invention he believes 'will be of much benefit and utility'.Signed at the top of the document by King George IV and at the conclusion by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for the Home Department and British statesman. Sold together with photocopied research detailing the patent and its applications.

Original Typed Manuscript for Billy Bost Story the Biography of the great Billy Boston, the Welshman who went on to become a Rugby League legend for Wigan and Great Britain

Book. The Parables of Our Lord, in illuminated manuscript form, octavo, embossed cloth with papier-mâché and plaster boards, with embossed decoration, published by Longman & Company, London 1847.

A DOUBLE-SIDED KUFIC CALLIGRAPHY MANUSCRIPT PAGE, framed and glazed.

JACOBITE RISING OF 1745 PROCLAMATION OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART, 10 OCTOBER 1745 contemporary secretarial manuscript copy, begins ‘As soon as we conducted by Providence of God arrived in Scotland …’, ends And this my Declaration will indicate to all posterity, the nobleness of my undertaking and generosity of intention, is given at our palace of Holy Rood House, C. P. R., By order of his Highness, Jo. Murray’, ink on laid paper with fleur-de-lys watermark, written on 3 sides of a single bifolium (39 x 25.5cm), partial separation along folds, nicks to extremities Prince Charles Edward Stuart's declaration of 10 October 1745, issued a month after the Jacobite capture of Edinburgh and less than three weeks after the Jacobite victory at the Battle of Prestonpans, was a major statement of his intended restoration of the Stuart dynasty and provides an insight into the kind of kingdom which might have come into being had he succeeded. In it the prince promises to respect freedom of religion and to consult parliament on the national debt and the nature of a refashioned union of England and Scotland, and refutes accusations of a Jacobite alliance with France and Spain, to which end he describes his arrival in Scotland, ‘attended by seven persons’ only, which he contrasts with the motley international backing of ‘Dutch, Danes, Hessians, and Swiss’ enjoyed by the Hanoverians. He asks whether his would-be subjects can say that have ‘been more happy and flourishing’ during 50 years of Hanoverian rule, and in an ingenious turn he presents a Stuart restoration as the true path to independence and domestic stability, asking: ‘Who has the better chance to be independent of foreign power? He who with the aid of his own subjects can wrest the government out of the hands of an intruder? Or he who cannot without assistance from abroad support his government … against the undisciplined part of those he has ruled over for so many years?'.

SCOTTISH HIGHLAND MUSIC TWO VOLUMES OF MANUSCRIPT PIOBAIREACHD TUNES 1930 Both 4to, 121 and 78 pp., bound in contemporary red half roan by David Ritchie of Johnstone, each volume with ownership inscription of one John Coupar, dated November 1930 in one volume, this volume with pencilled annotation below: ‘Copied from the MS of Donald Stuart MacDonald, a pipe-major of the Royal Scots. Macdonald's MS was a copy of the unpublished MSS of Angus Mackay. MacDonald made his copy while piper at Brodick Castle, dated Edinburgh 1882. Dedicated to Duke of Hamilton. D. S. Macdonald, P. M., 1st Battalion. The Royal Scots'. Together with a later edition of Angus Mackay, A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd, Aberdeen: Logan & Compy, c.1900 (first published 1838)

Five signed political autobiographies, Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, John Major, Michael Heseltine, two Parliamentary prints and illuminated manuscript address to Sir Kingsley Wood from the East Finsbury Conservative and Unionist Association, on the occasion of his de-selection as a Parliamentary candidate due to the boundary changes Dated 1918

Collection of Art/Antiques Reference Books and Catalogues, including Backhouse (Janet), The Illuminated Page, Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting, The British Library, 1997, dust jacket; Pope-Hennessy (John), Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Phaidon, 1965; The Complete Work of Michelango, two volumes, Macdonald, slipcase; and others, including Christie's catalogues, painting, sculpture, etc. (8 boxes)

Lucia di Lammermoor. Music by Donizetti. A serious opera in three acts as represented at Her Majestys Theatre, Haymarket. The authorised edition. Published London at Her Majestys Theatre by Seguin, Regent Street. July 27th, 1847, is inscribed in manuscript on the contents page. 33 pages plus 5 pages of publishers advertisements. Excellent copy in publishers light blue paper covers. 4"x7". From single vendor collection of Books, Music Scores, Theatre and Opera memorabilia Records. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW.

Royal Court Theatre, programme. circa. 1884. 5"x7 ½". Danl Druce by W. S. Gilbert and Cox Box by F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan. 2 sheets jagged at top of pages. This includes one sheet written in manuscript of the programme parts 1 and 2. From single vendor collection of Books, Music Scores, Theatre and Opera memorabilia Records. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW.

Roberto Devereux. Music by Donizetti. A lyric tragedy in three acts. The words by: M. Salvador Cammarano. Performed at Her Majestys Theatre, Haymarket. Authorised edition. London. Printed and sold by G. Stuart, 38 Rupert Street, Haymarket. Circa. 1845. 47 pages plus 4 pages of publishers advertisements. Quite a good copy in publishers light blue paper covers. 4¼" x 7" and with a manuscript inscription on the front cover dated June 24th, 1845. This copy carries the full text in Italian and English, as are many of the other items offered in this collection. From single vendor collection of Books, Music Scores, Theatre and Opera memorabilia Records. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW.

Woman writer.- Strickland (Agnes, English historical write & poet, 1796-1874) How will it end?, 3 vol., autograph manuscript up to the beginning of Vol.3, Chapter 32, in red or blue ink, some loose ff., occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary cloth-backed boards, backstrips worn, covers detached, rubbed and marked, small 4to, [c.1865].  *** Provenance: 'To the Duchess De Gramont. These volumes are affectionately inscribed by her attached friend Agnes Strickland. Park Lane Cottage, Southwold, Suffolk. Nov 1st. 1865' (ink inscription to inside over of vol.2). 

Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) The Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds and Serpents, 4 vol., edited by the Count de la Cepede and translated by Robert Kerr, 48 engraved plates, lacking half-titles, armorial bookplate of T. Fuller, with his ownership inscription to front free endpapers dated Bath 1809, small embossed address stamp to front free endpapers, vol. 3 title with volume number in ink manuscript, light offsetting, some light browning, some foxing, particularly to plates, vol. 4 front free endpaper loose, contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt and with double black morocco labels, extremities slightly rubbed, a handsome set, Edinburgh, 1802; and others natural history, 8vo (11)

Bible, Latin. Testamenti veteris Biblia Sacra, 6 parts in 1, woodcut device on titles, complete with initial leaf (blank except for signature mark par) and blank leaves L8 and 2P6, final leaf with small defect at upper edge with slight loss of text, some water-staining throughout, heavier towards end, some ink staining to lower edge and margin towards end, occasional browning and soiling, modern calf with end stubs of early manuscript on paper, [STC 2060.5], 4to, Henry Middleton [by J[ohn] H[arrison]], 1585.*** Provenance: W.Peete (early ink stamp on front free endpaper; ink inscription on title above that of George Brooke); "D.P." (possibly another Peete family member) initials on first leaf and front free endpaper.

Scott (Jonathan) The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 6 vol., engraved frontispieces (foxed and lightly offset), vol. 1 with armorial bookplate of Francis Lunn, vol. 6 title with small chip to inner margin, occasional spotting, 19th century polished calf, spines gilt and with double morocco labels, vol. 6 with strip of light sunning to head of upper cover, very lightly rubbed, 1811; and others, various subjects, including a 19th century manuscript recipe book, v.s. (c.25)

Royal Navy.- Holburne (Francis, Admiral, Royal Navy officer and politician, sat on the court martial of Admiral John Byng, 1704-71) Additional Signals... By Day and By Night... To Captain Holburne [HMS] Newark, manuscript signed in receipt, 3pp., tears in margins of each leaf, folds, browned, folio, n.d. [1757].