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Click here to subscribeVillage Manuscript Cancellations: 1880-87 small group of part/large part marks on QV 1d lilac (4) or ½d green incl Vieille Case (Proud P2), Portsmouth (Proud P3) toned, Colihaut (Proud P1) and Wesley (Proud P5) on ½d and rather discoloured 1d, latter undated, ½d and 1d with Portsmouth mark have BPA Certs
Cookery - Hammond, Elizabeth, Modern Domestic Cookery and Useful Receipt Book, 3rd ed., printed for A.K Newman & Co, Leadenhall Street, (London 1819), 288pp., half-leather bound marbled boards, ink manuscript inscription to end paper Rebecca Streets, her book 1826, Presented by the above to Mrs Henry Garbutt 1847
WWI Royal Flying Corps Pilot framed photograph c1918: depicting newly-commissioned Lt. Ernest Lainchbury c1918, contained in original decorative carved relief & fretwork frame portraying two pilots at presentation salute with propellers, supporting a pediment with inscription “The Eyes of the Army”, surmounting a large winged RFC cipher motif, containing central glazed portrait of the airman in his newly issued uniform, photographer signed Gillman of Oxford, and manuscript captioned verso by the subject inscribed “2nd Lieut. E.J. Lainchbury 1918”
Royal Flying Corps, A rare silk handkerchief with woven RFC badge with pilots wings in gilt thread, along with two embossed and woven RFC Christmas cards with inscriptions verso, together with a woven 58 Bomber Squadron badge and an official WW1 period note book, inscribed SBG Simons with extensive illustrated manuscript notes and instructions referring to 120hp Beardmore and 80hp Le Rhone aero engines, other instruments and accessories, original cloth covered boards, cord bound with early RAF badge to cover (4)
Avro Motor Car - A folio of early 20th century & later ephemera c1920: including photographs, press-cuttings, draft Marque-history original manuscript by David Thirlby written in blue ink on foolscap sheets, an early photo-illustrated manufacturer’s paste-up show-card & related sundry items, together with the author’s original Avro Certificate of Apprenticeship from 1947 to 1952, signed and dated as “Completing Aeronautical & Engineering Apprenticeship Course”, dated December 23rd 1952
“First U.K. Aerial Post” A rare original franked stamped postcard dated September 1911: carried in the inaugural service printed inscribed “For Conveyance by Aeroplane from London to Windsor” and further manuscript in ink by the sender “Flying must be the coolest job this weather I think I envy this postcard the flight!”, sent to E. Bullivant Esq, The Thatched House, Moulsford, dated 8/9/1911: together with a contemporary set of three Edwardian Progressive Whist illuminated score-cards with aeroplane imagery, complete with cord-attached pencils c1908 (4)
GERMANY. Thurn and Taxis. sobre 8, 10, 12. 1862. ½ s green, 2 s carmine red and lile 5 s lilac. Registered cover from CASSEL to CHAMBERY (reverse flap missing, without importance). Numeral cancel "14" and on front three CHARGE postmarks, one cursive and several manuscript notes. VERY FINE AND SPECTACULAR TRICOLOUR FRANKING.
BRITISH AREA. British India. sobre 22(2), 23(2), 25(2). 1874. 2 a orange, pair, 4 a green pair and 8 pink (Type II). Registered cover from MADRAS to PARIS, readdressed to NIEDERBRONN (ALSACE)(in France stamps of 15 cts bistre, strip of three are applied and cancelled with the c.d.s. REBUTS ET RECLAMATIONS, in blue). Manuscript on Indian stamps "Stamped and registered 16/6/74". VERY FINE AND EXTRAORDINARILY RARE FRANKING MIXED FRANKING.
UNITED STATES. sobre 1857. LOS ANGELES to CASTRES (FRANCE). C.d.s. LOS ANGELES / CAL (manuscript "Juny 9"), postmarks "26", PAID and French-British exchange GB / 40c (circulated via Panama, the date January 9th, conicides with one of the most important earthquakes happened at California, at Fort Tejon). VERY FINE AND RARE.
Three blue and white plates decorated with the Broken Scroll pattern 18th century, one Chinese porcelain, one Bow porcelain and one Dublin delftware, painted with an unfurled manuscript depicting flowering peony issuing from holey rockwork, the delftware plate cracked, 22.5cm. (2) Cf. Peter Francis, Irish Delftware, pl.12 and pp.105-106 for a discussion on the influence of Bow porcelain on Dublin delftware. Provenance: from the estate of the late Peter James Rankin.
Cookery.- - Spry [Recipe Book], manuscript, in several hands , 85pp Spry (Mary, ?of Place Manor in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall, wife of George Spry 1685/6-1732, daughter of Richard Bullock, of Helston, fl. 1701) [Recipe Book], manuscript, in several hands (most in Mary Spry's hand), 85pp., some reverse entries, ink inscription, "Mary Spry Her Book 1701" on fly-leaf, also 19th century ink stamp, "Shelfanger Nr. Diss" and inscribed, "Purchased from the Museum 1884" on fly-leaf, browned, original vellum, ties, soiled and creased, 2 small holes in spine, sm. 8vo, 1701. Recipes include: "To Stew a Carp"; "To Make a Quaking Puding"; "To Make an Almond pudding"; "To Pickle Sampier"; "To Spitchcott Eales"; "To Butter a Crabb"; "To make a Custard Pudding"; "To make a Wood Street Cake" [a lightly yeasted fruitcake with a rosewater icing originating in the City of London. Wood Street is just between Cheapside and Cripplegate, and, in the 17th century, was famous for its cakes]; "To make Raspberry Brandy" etc.
Suppression of agitation.- - [Command from the government of George I to Nathaniel Crew [Command from the government of George I to Nathaniel Crew, third Baron Crew, bishop of Durham on procedures to be adopted in dealings with papists, non jurors and persons dangerous to His Majesty's Government], Ds.s "Nottingham P" [ Daniel Finch, second earl of Nottingham and seventh earl of Winchilsea (1647-1730) ], "Sunderland C.P.S." [ Charles Spencer, third earl of Sunderland (1675-1722) ] , "Bolton" [ Charles Paulet [Powlett], second duke of Bolton (c.1661-1722) ], "Devonshire" [ William Cavendish, second duke of Devonshire (1670/71-1729) ] , "Orford" [ Edward Russell, earl of Orford (1652-1727) ], "James Stanhope", [ James Stanhope, first Earl Stanhope (1673-1721) ], manuscript, 2pp., tears along folds and where opened, browned, folio, 8th November 1715; and a small quantity of others, v.s., v.d. ( sm. qty).
Yorkshire Turnpike.- - A Register or Account, Of the Securities… for Monies borrowed on... A Register or Account, Of the Securities for Monies borrowed on the Credit of the Tolls arising on The Turnpike Road, From Rotherham to Hartcliff Hill County of York, manuscript, 74pp. excluding blanks, a few ff. excised, slightly browned, a few juvenile drawings not affecting text, original vellum, soiled, sm. 4to, 1768-86.
Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818).- - George IV Acknowledgement of Friedrich Ferdinand replacing Ludwig... George IV ( King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762-1830) Acknowledgement of Friedrich Ferdinand replacing Ludwig II as Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, "to a Convention concluded at Aix la-Chapelle for the Evacuation of the French Territory by the Allied Troops signed at Bernbourg", manuscript in English and French, 1p. with conjugate blank, on vellum, yellowed and slightly soiled, folio, Bernbourg, 20th December 1818; and a small quantity of others, including: a small scap album (with 3 photographs of Kenilworth Castle, drawings etc.), engravings, 2 books etc., v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).
Genealogy.- - Royal Genealogy of England, folding pedigree of English monarchs... Royal Genealogy of England, folding pedigree of English monarchs from Cerdic to Queen Victoria, manuscript on paper, linen-backed, 945 x 746mm., folding into half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, 4to, [c. 1840].
Poetry.- Tupper - Waterloo Avenged, autograph manuscript poem signed, 2pp (Martin Farquhar, poet and writer, 1810-89) Waterloo Avenged, autograph manuscript poem signed, 2pp., folds, browned, sm. 4to, Albury, Guildford, 16th December 1854; and a quantity of others, Poetry, mostly 19th century, v.s., v.d. (qty). First mentioned in celebration of the Battle of Inkerman.
Victorian schoolmistress.- - Mann [Autobiography], autograph manuscript signed, 16pp Mann (Eunice, schoolmistress, of Southampton, Cowes and elsewhere, fl. 1846-74) [Autobiography], autograph manuscript signed, 16pp., folds, unbound, folio, 25th April 1874. Mann's detailed account of her early life in Southampton (scalded as a very young child; holdidays with grandparents on the Isle of Wight), and then in Stockbridge where her father moved his business. Several members of the Mann family were nonconformist ministers and Mann spent her childhood in and around Southampton and Cowes, before becoming a schoolmistress, eventually taking up the position of headmistress of the school of the Rev. John Riddell of Harrietsham, Kent.
Theroux - Walking in Fjordland, second chapter from (Paul Edward, American travel writer and novelist, b. 1941) Walking in Fjordland , second chapter from 'The Happy Isles of Oceania' published in an amended form as 'Sloshing Around in South Island', autograph manuscript , title and 20pp., original note book, folio, April 1988. An account of a walking trip by Theroux in New Zealand in 1988.
[Drayton (Michael) - Poems…], lacks title and all before B3 , stained, slightly browned Poems ], lacks title and all before B3 (4pp. part of Barons Warres supplied in manuscript), stained, slightly browned, Thomas Park's copy with his ink signature on front pastedown and another ink signature and inscription on front free endpaper: "Edw H Nevinson from Mr. Park's sale", front free endpaper loose, lacks lower free endpaper, original boards, defective, upper cover detached, 8vo, [ ?by W. Stasby for John Smethwicke, ? 1613]; sold not subject to return.
Meon Valley.- - Wright Survey and Valuation of the Parish of Droxford in the... Wright (H.C., surveyor and valuer, fl. 1832) Survey and Valuation of the Parish of Droxford in the County of Hants: Descriptive of the Farms, Owners and Occupiers thereof together with the Woods, Mansions, Tenements and Tithes for the purpose of Equalizing the Parochial Assessments, manuscript, 126pp., ruled in red, new endpapers, modern half calf, old gilt morocco label on upper cover, folio, 1832.
Shakespeare (William) - The Works, 3 vol., vol. 1 with manuscript inscription 'For Richard Heygate from his Godfather Anthony Powell 27th November 1954,' contemeporary calf, rubbed, Oxford University Press, 1948/1953 § Howard (Charles) Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family, foxed and browned, contemporary calf, lacks upper board, J. Robson, 1769, plus 8 other vol., 8vo (12)
Plautus (Titus Maccius) - Comoediae Viginti, title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations and decorative initials, small device at end, lacks final blank f., fore-edge margins of first c.110 and last c 70 ff. very defective, with loss to side-notes at end, some worming, mostly marginal, but sometimes affecting text or side-notes, some staining, mostly marginal, early name at foot of title, bookplate of Horace Woolaston Moncton, 18th century vellum-backed patterned paper boards, morocco spine-label, chipped, lettering on lower edge, worn and stained, covers defective at fore-edges, perhaps chewed, paper on lower cover partly missing, revealing manuscript fragment beneath, in modern cloth case, colour facsimile of title on upper cover, [Adams P1485], folio, Venice, M. Sessa & P. de Ravani , 1518
Scrap album, including: manuscript , engravings and illustrations etc Scrap album, including: manuscript (Hampshire Wells, Odiam Manor, Froyle, "Meeting of the Archaeological Institute at Winchester Sep 1845", North & South Tidworth, Survey of the Manor of Broughton AD 1309 John Waraund etc.), engravings and illustrations etc. (Highclere, Kings House at Winchester Buck 1733), ephemera (sale particulars and plan of Dolly Wood Estate 1865, The Entirety of the Manor of Stockbridge etc.), newspaper cuttings, c. 300pp., slightly browned, upper hinge broken, original half morocco, rubbed, 4to, 1860s.
Southampton & elsewhere.- - Cooksey Scrap album, including: watercolours , manuscript notes Cooksey (Charles Frederick, antiquary, one of the founders of the Hampshire Field Club, 1848-1927) Scrap album, including: watercolours (Southampton, South Downs, Padstow etc., by Richard Baigent (1799-1881), drawing master at Winchester College), manuscript notes (Saxon Bone Pits at Southampton), ephemera (Southampton Trade cards), photographs (Rome, Pompei, England etc.), drawings (Bishopstoke), etchings, engravings, postcards, extracts from books, newspaper cuttings, c. 100pp., most pasted down, slightly browned, original cloth, 2 illustrations pasted down on upper cover, rubbed, 4to, 1890s - 1920s.
Uwins (Thomas) - The Costume of the University of Oxford, half-title, stipple-engraved portrait and 17 hand-coloured engraved plates by Agar after Uwins, ex-library copy with embossed stamp to half-title, title and each plate (but fairly unobtrusive), old ink signature at head of half-title, portrait offset, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary half morocco, gilt-stamped label to upper cover, worn, lower cover detached, [Colas 2947; cf. Abbey, Scenery 278], 1815 § Eyries (Jean Baptiste Benoit) L'Angleterre, ou Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Anglais, half-title, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, text in French with manuscript translation of title and introduction on verso of half-title & title/bound in, spotted, staining to lower margin at beginning, nick to upper edge of some plates and leaves repaired with tape, ex-library copy with embossed stamps to half-title and title but not plates, original roan-backed boards, spine gilt, rubbed, spines chipped at head, corners worn, [Colas 1013], Paris , [c.1821], 4to & 8vo (2) The first was originally issued as part of Ackermann's History of the University of Oxford published in 1814.
Children's manuscript.- - A Child's Anthology of Poems [A.A. Milne, John Drinkwater etc A Child's Anthology of Poems [A.A. Milne, John Drinkwater etc.], manuscript, title and 14pp., watercolour illustrations, cookery manuscript in reverse entries, ff. loose or working loose, original morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, spine defective, [c. 1920s]; and c. 35 others, miscellaneous, Art, Typography, booklets of foreign postcards etc., v.s., v.d. (c. 35).
Kepler (Johannes) - Opera Omnia, edited by Christian Frisch, 8 vol. in 9, first complete edition , engraved portrait, 8 plates, 2 folding tables and 2 ff. of facsimile manuscript, some offsetting, foxing and browning, ink library stamps, pencil and pen annotations mostly to endpapers and pastedowns, 5 vol. with original wrappers trimmed and mounted on pastedowns, hinges cracked, contemporary sheep-backed boards, spines gilt, joints cracked, extremities a little worn, 8vo, Frankfurt , 1858-71.
Travers (Benjamin) - An Inquiry into the Process of Nature in repairing Injuries of the Intestines, 7 engraved plates, modern cloth, 1812 § Fordyce (G.) A Treatise on the Digestion of Food, second edition, contemporary calf, spine ends repaired, 1791 § Spallanzani (L.) Expériences sur la Digestion de l'Homme , edited by Jean Senebier, old ink manuscript note at beginning, stained, contemporary calf-backed boards, spine worn and defective, Geneva, 1783 § Osler (William) Lectures on the Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors, original printed wrappers, spine defective, New York, 1894, some spotting, all ex-library copies with stamps, rubbed ; and 12 others on the intestines etc., some pamphlets, 8vo (16)
Gilbert (Charles Sandoe) - An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall: to which is added a complete Heraldry of the same, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, additional vignette titles, dedication, 25 plates of coats-of-arms (some printed on both sides), double-page map and 46 plates (some aquatint or wood-engraved), with 2 ALs.s. from the author and a manuscript: "An Abstract from Gilberts Survey of the County of Cornwall: Lerrannick", 14pp., n.d. bound in, slightly browned, some foxing to plates, mostly marginal, vol. I 1f. stain in margin, contemporary half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, t.e.g., 4to, Plymouth-Dock and London, 1817-20.
Aimez Loyaulte. The History of Basing House, in Hampshire Aimez Loyaulte. The History of Basing House, in Hampshire, engraved frontispiece, title and some other ff. stained, ink signature of Richard Booth Baring on title, modern half calf, Basingstoke, 1815 § The History of Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke, 2 engraved plates, 2 manuscript notes "Hampshire In the Holy Ghost Chapel Burying Ground are the Images of a Knight Templar and his Lady much defaced" and a pencil drawinjg of the tomb inscription, a few manuscript annotations in margins, original wrappers bound in, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern half morocco, Basingstoke, 1819 § Moody (H.) A History and Description of the Hospital of St. Cross, 2 lithographed plates (1 double-page) and a plan, title in red and black, Winchester, n.d. [?1840] § [Spence (Charles)] An Essay Descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey, lithographed frontispiece and title, slightly browned, Romsey, [1851], last two original cloth, slightly marked ; and c. 25 others, Hampshire (Basingstoke and Winchester), v.s., v.d. (c. 25).
GEORGE GODWIN: TOWN SWAMPS AND SOCIAL BRIDGES, 1972, "The Victorian Library", orig cl d/w + JOHN SIMS & OTHERS (eds): UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER HISTORY DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE OCCASIONAL PUBLICATION NUMBER 4 - A HAND LIST OF BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY POLL BOOKS, 1984 1st edn, orig ptd wraps + FREDERICK J FURNIVALL: THE FIFTY EARLIEST ENGLISH WILLS IN THE COURT OF PROBATE LONDON AD 1837-1439 WITH A PRIEST'S OF 1454, 1964 Early English Text Society, orig series no 78 1882, orig cl gt + DAVID CROOK: RECORDS OF A GENERAL EYRE, L, HMSO 1982 1st edn, orig ptd wraps + N R KER: MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, A LIST OF SURVIVING BOOKS, L, 1964, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks No 3, orig cl gt + A C S HALL (ed): HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COMMISSION - GUIDE TO THE REPORTS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS 1911 - 1957 PART 1 INDEX OF PLACES, L, HMSO 1973, orig cl gt + ANNE WHITEMAN (ed): RECORDS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY NEW SERIES EX- THE COMPTON CENSUS OF 1676, A CRITICAL EDITION, 1986, orig cl gt d/w + RUPERT GUNNIS: DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SCULPTORS 1660 - 1851, L, The Abbey Library [1968], New edition revised, orig cl gt d/w (8)
GRAND TOUR DIARY: a lively and detailed manuscript account of a European tour from September 4th 1815, returning to Clapham on 21st February 1816: the tour takes in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and France, much detail noted of art and architecture along the way, a detailed record of mileage and expenses at end, some 164pp in a closewritten and legible hand, a few botanical inserts tipped-in, contained in small 8vo commonplace book of period, sheep covered boards worn and rubbed with hinges split, contents generally sound. (1)
ARITHMETIC MANUSCRIPT, 18TH CENTURY: an extensive manuscript arithmetic work book, executed by one James Hamlyn between April 1793-February 1801 between the ages of 8 and 17: folio, mid-19th century cloth binding, containing 101 leaves of manuscript text and workings, attractive copperplate headings and divisional titles, some browning and creasing but condition generally sound. (1)
PITMAN'S SHORTHAND: Dickens (Charles): 'Pickwick Papers': London, F.Pitman, circa 1880. Stated in preface to be 'The First Volume of Pitman's Shorthand Library'. Together with 16 other volumes, all popular works translated into Pitman's shorthand to include other titles by Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, R L Stevenson etc, The Book of Common Prayer (with accompanying manuscript transcription also in shorthand), together with a volume of Tit-Bits magazine for 1892-3 in the same format, all but the latter volume 12mo or smaller, most in original publisher's bindings, condition generally sound. (17)
FISHING: STANLEY (Robert): 'Angling Anecdotes..' London, Sampson Low et al, circa 1890. 12mo, fine near period full green morocco, ornately gilt with botanic and fish devices, four raised bands to spine, upper board with central burgundy panel gilt lettered, teg. Together with a small volume titled 'Fishing Records', with manuscript entries from May 1899 to August 1908, giving details of where caught, wind direction, weather, fish and their weight etc. (2)
MEDICAL CASE REPORTS, MID-19TH CENTURY: 'Reports of Cases at University College Hospital': A volume of manuscript case reports from circa 1840, possibly compiled by one Thomas Matthews, comprising some 130 pages of entries, most closewritten in ink in a legible hand, 4 full page illustrations in pencil and 2 in pencil and colour wash depicting dissections of the heart, lists of surgeons dated to 1850s at rear, contained in worn half morocco commonplace book of period, spine deficient but contents generally sound. (1)
FLYING LOG, WORLD WAR II: an Air-Navigator's Flying Log compiled by Sgt A W Knowlson, entries from period between September 1943 and April 1946, largely flying sorties in the middle east, approx. 50pp of neat manuscript entries in ink, contained in official RAF log, blue cloth printed in black, 8vo. (1)
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