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Click here to subscribeChartered Bank of India, Australia and China, 1 Mexican dollar, Shanghai, 14 May 1913, serial number 39593, black and pale mauve, value in red underprint low centre, manuscript signature low left, arms top centre, reverse green(Pick S191b), in PCGS holder 30, very fine and scarce Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, $5, Tientsin, 1 July 1926, serial number T/A 83831, blue and pink and value in green low centre, arms top centre, manuscript signature low left, reverse green(Pick S201), in PCGS holder 20, very fine and scarce, attractive Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, $10, Tientsin, 2 January 1928, serial number G/T 87013, black and pink and value in violet low centre, arms top centre, manuscript signature low left, reverse grey(Pick S203a), in PCGS holder 20, (apparent) very fine, writing in ink and stamp on reverse, scarce, attractive Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, $5, Tientsin, 12 June 1930, serial number E/L 042927, red and pale orange, value in green low centre, arms top centre, helmeted female head at left, manuscript signature low left, reverse red and pale green, boat on canal right centre(Pick S215), good fine and scarce Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, $10, Tientsin, 1 December 1937, serial number F/M 000848, blue, value in orange underprint at centre, helmeted male at left, arms top centre, manuscript signature low left, reverse blue, junk and sampan at centre(Pick S216) almost very fine, scarce Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $5, Shanghai, 3 September 1919, serial number 520831, blue and yellow, arms of the bank top centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right of A. Stephen, reverse purple, Ceres and cherubs at centre(Pick S352A, Cribb 5.11e), good fine Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $5, Shanghai, 1 March 1923, serial number 656070, blue and yellow and pink, arms of the bank top centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right of G.H.Stitt, reverse purple, Ceres and cherubs at centre(Pick S353, Cribb 5.13a), about very fine Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $10, Shanghai, 15 February 1916, serial number 306602, green and yellow-orange, arms of the bank top centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right of A. Stephen, reverse purple, cherubs and allegorical symbols at centre, value at left and right(Pick S357A, Cribb 5.11f), very fine Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $10, Shanghai, 24 July 1920, serial number 330869, green and yellow-orange, arms of the bank top centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right of A. Stephen, reverse purple, cherubs and allegorical symbols at centre, value at left and right, also $5, 1 March 1923, serial number 757317, blue(Pick S357A,353, Cribb 5.11f,5.13a), very fine and VG (2) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $10, Shanghai, 1 September 1923, serial number 449886, green and yellow-orange, blue and lilac, arms of the bank top centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right of G.H.Stitt, reverse purple, cherubs and allegorical symbols at centre, value at left and right(Pick S358, Cribb 5.13b), numerals low right, a pleasing very fine, scarce Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $50, Shanghai, 24 July 1920, serial number 22231, red and multicoloured, arms of the bank top centre, two manuscript signatures below, reverse purple, maiden (Britannia) and symbols of Empire, value at left and right(Pick S361, Cribb 5.13c), VG and quite rare Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $10, Shanghai, 1 January 1924, red serial number 451001, green and pale orange, arms of the bank at centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right of G.H.Stitt, reverse green, bank building at centre, value at left and right(Pick S365A, Cribb 5.14b), in PCGS holder 40, extremely fine, scarce Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Mercantile Bank of India Limited, $5, Shanghai, 1 July 1916, serial number 25064, green and pale orange, pagoda on island at centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature low right, reverse blue, Mercury at centre, value at left and right(Pick S442), paper still quite strong, about very fine and scarce Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Netherlands Trading Society, $5, Shanghai, 1 January 1909, serial number 121389, black and multicoloured, Orintal warrior top centre, bridge below, dragon at left and right, manuscript signature low right, reverse green, dragons and arms(Pick S458), VG and rare as an issued note Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Shun Yee Savings Bank, Hankow Ho-Kai, $1, handstamped serial number 54645, plum red and pale green, dragon at left and right, value at centre and at each corner, reverse pale orange, text in field(Pick unlisted), red chop on obverse and on reverse, a pleasing good extremely fine and rare. An example was sold in our January 2013 auction with manuscript serial number, this a different variety Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Imperial Chinese Railways, $5, 2 January 1899, serial number 0003, blue and pink-orange, locomotive and fort at centre, value at centre and at each corner, two manuscript signatures below, reverse red and white, locomotive on viaduct, boats and mountains, dragons around(Pick A60), in PCGS holder 30 (apparent) very fine, rust stains, minor ink erosion, very rare and a very low serial number Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Bernatskii, M. ВОПРОСЫ ДЕНЕЖНАГО ОБРАЩЕНIЯ. Petrograd, 1914. 8vo, contemporary black cloth and boards, gilt. xii, 464 pages; tables; errata sheet tipped in. Near fine. An important background work, concerning monetary circulation, precious metals, monetary reform and banking. Published на правахъ рукописи (i.e., issued as a duplicated manuscript only and not formally published), it was intended for students in the Department of Economics of the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute.
Garshin, M. Yu. ОПЫТЬ УКАЗАТЕЛЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ ПО НУМИЗМАТИКѢ. Russian Numismatic Society photocopy reprint of the original handwritten three-volume manuscript. Oblong 4to, original printed card covers. Vol. I: 108 unnumbered pages, being the title page and 207 pages of Part I of the original manuscript covering authors from A to Lerkh (Nos. 1 to 843). Vol. II: 153 unnumbered pages, being 87 pages of Part I of the original [authors Lerkh (844) to Oreshnikov (1151) together with a few additional notes] and 161 pages of what is presumably Part II (although there is no title page) covering authors from Oreshnikov (1152) to Trutovskii (1607). Part III: 163 unnumbered pages, being 97 pages of Part II of the original (authors Trutovskii to unknown, Nos. 1608 to 1885) and 208 pages of Part III [136 pages containing a supplement of authors from A.A.S. (1886) to Iakovlev (2237) and 72 pages containing lists, tables and indices]. Fine. A remarkable unpublished numismatic bibliography, still of the greatest importance, especially for the years between Gromachevskii (1904) and 1917. The original manuscript was produced by Garshin c. 1935–40. According to a 1958-dated handwritten note on the title page (reproduced in this copy), Vladimir Richter acquired the original manuscript from L.K. Davidova, who was caring for Garshin at the time of his death. Richter donated the volumes to the Hermitage library at the request of I.G. Spasskii. Leon Hermes was at some point allowed to copy the manuscript. His copy was sold with the rest of his library by George F. Kolbe in 1997. This RNS reproduction was probably made the following year. A Russian newspaper clipping on the first page of the manuscript translates as follows: “Mich. Yu. Garshin, honorary member of the Russian Society of Collectors in Paris, former member of the Russian Numismatic Society in St. Petersburg, and contributor to ‘Staraya Moneta,’ has completed the manuscript of his up to date numismatic bibliography. Listed are about 3,000 numismatic titles and some 700 authors—all that has been written about coins in the Russian language. Subjects include: early Russian coins, independent principalities and grand duchies, Czarist and Imperial, Revolutionary and USSR, the ancient world and Byzantine, oriental, coin-like badges, Polish coins, Western European, Jewish, biographies and obituaries of numismatists, coin hoards and finds, various writings on numismatic subjects, manuscripts, bibliographies, critiques, reviews. This book, of exceptional interest to every numismatist, should be published. October 20, 1935. V.M.” Our consignor notes that Garshin apparently copied some entries from Gromachevskii, as some errors found there are repeated. Not in Volkov. Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich on Peter I
Imperatorskoe Arkheologicheskoe Obshchestvo. ЗАПИСКИ ИМПЕРАТОРСКАГО АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКАГО ОБЩЕСТВА. Тома VIII и XI (1856 and 1865). 8vo, original printed wraps. (8), 323, (1), (2), 183, (3); (2), iii, (1), 615, (1) pages; 1 folding manuscript facsimile plate; 2 engraved plates; lithographic title page to plate section of second volume; 12 additional lithographic plates, the final one a double-plate. Both volumes with text blocks split at spine; first lacking rear wrap, second with front wrap loose; mostly unopened. General wear. Very good. Early volumes of this scholarly publication with occasional numismatic content. The second pagination to the first volume is for proceedings of meetings.
Tiesenhausen, V.G. von. НОВОЕ СОБРАНIЕ ВОСТОЧНЫХЪ МОНЕТЪ А.В. КОМАРОВА. St. Petersburg, 1888. 4to, disbound. (5)–36 pages; 2 fine plates, numbered II and III (complete text and plates). Manuscript genealogical charts of Arghun dynasty and Great Mongols on verso of final plate. Pages loose; title page provided in photocopy Good, but improvable. A rare offprint from the Записки Восточнаго Отдѣленiя (Vol. III, pp. 51–84, plus plates II and III). Mayer 1792. Not in Gromachevskii or Iakovchuk. Ex Markov sale 12, lot 1347.
[Boston Museum of Fine Arts]. (Vermeule, Cornelius C.). GREEK IMPERIAL COINS AND MEDALLIC ISSUES IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON. OVER THREE HUNDRED COINS SELECTED FOR ARTISTIC AND ICONOGRAPHIC INTEREST OR IMPORTANCE. SHORT LIST AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Boston, 1983. 4to, spiral-bound photocopy typescript and enlarged illustrations. 311 coins catalogued and illustrated. Near fine. [with] (Vermeule, Cornelius C.). ROMAN GOLD, ASIATIC SILVER: THE MINT OF IMPERIAL HISTORY. Boston, 1983. 4to, spiral-bound photocopy manuscript and typescript, with enlarged illustrations. 169 coins catalogued and illustrated. Near fine. Very scarce works, both having been produced for limited distribution.
[Virzi]. ANCIENT BRONZE COINS OF MAGNA-GRAECIA AND SICILY. 77 original annotated photographic plates illustrating 2238 coins, with a bound volume consisting of a photographically reproduced manuscript providing complete handwritten descriptions. Separate listing of the provenances of the Italian coins included. Plates measure 23.5 by 18 cm and are near fine. Booklet containing descriptions with rear board detached and a number of pages loose. Materials generally near fine. Original box for the group splitting at seams. Ex Robert J. Myers library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 118, lot 330). A privately produced catalogue of Tom Virzi’s collection. An assistant to Jacob Hirsch, Virzi formed one of the great collections in this area, some of which was sold by Hirsch himself in 1907, but most of which remained intact until Bank Leu offered 300 pieces in 1973 and Alex Malloy sold others in 1980. The photographs are original impressions and are very important: the Leu sale offered only 300 of the coins. The photographer is unknown: Myers acquired these directly from Virzi’s library, following Virzi’s death.
Akerman, J.Y. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RARE AND UNEDITED ROMAN COINS FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF THE ROMAN COINAGE, TO THE EXTINCTION OF THE EMPIRE UNDER CONSTANTINUS PALEOLOGOS. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. Two volumes. 8vo [24 by 16.5 cm], matching 19th-century full brown polished calf; spines with five raised bands, rules in gilt; black morocco spine labels, gilt; board edges decorated in gilt; all page edges gilt. (2), xxi, (1), 506; (2), 512 pages; titles printed in red and black; 22 finely engraved plates of coins. Neatly annotated throughout in ink (see comments); inscribed to Captain William Henry Smyth by the author on a preliminary blank; gift inscription by Smyth’s widow to Rev. C. Lowndes below. A bit rubbed, but sound and attractive. Near fine. An extraordinary set of one of this prolific author’s most ambitious and popular works. Akerman, usually considered the father of the Royal Numismatic Society, was the most important figure in the early history of British numismatics. William Henry Smyth, to whom Akerman presented this set, was the author (in the same year) of Descriptive Catalogue of Roman Imperial Large-Brass Medals; he would go on to publish in 1856 an important work on the Duke of Northumberland’s collection. Akerman’s inscription reads, “To Captain Wm. Henry Smyth R.N. &c. &c. &c. with the best respects of his obliged servant J.Y. Akerman.” Captain Smythe (1788–1865), joined the navy at an early age and saw service in European, Indian, Chinese and Australian waters. He purchased coins widely, from dealers in Turkey, Greece, Italy and Africa, and also at auctions and through private contacts. This copy has been carefully annotated by Smyth with prices gleaned from Mionnet and from a list of 19 different auction sales (beginning with the Fairfax sale of 1751) given in manuscript at the beginning of the first volume. After Smyth’s death, this set was presented by his widow to Rev. C. Lowndes in 1865, “in memory of the esteem entertained for him by her lamented husband.” A wonderful association copy of this classic work. One of a small number printed with titles in red and black. Leitzmann 2.
[Hersh]. Hersh, Charles. INVENTORY OF THE CHARLES HERSH COLLECTION OF ROMAN REPUBLICAN COINS AND MACEDONIAN FRACTIONALS. Photocopy of Hersh’s 304-page manuscript inventory of his voluminous collection. Single-sided copies, housed in green clamshell box. Generally fine. A detailed record of this important collection, formed over six decades. Hersh’s massive colection of around 7000 coins (5000 of them Roman Republican) was donated to the British Museum in 2002. As the collection has not been formally published, this record, even in photocopy, is quite significant.
An M.B.E medal as presented to Mr.Isaac Robinson on the 31st December 1976 for services to football, also included are the declaration as signed by H.M.Queen Elizabeth II and also an illuminated manuscript bestowing the role of Life Vice President of the F.A to Mr.Robinson and also a further illuminated certificate presented by the council of the city of Liverpool bestowing the position of Honorary Alderman to Mr.Isaac Robinson.
ARTISTS: Small selection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. by various artists, painters, architects etc., comprising Waldo Peirce (referring to a copy of Unser Kent), Moses Soyer, James Johnston Sweeney (T.L.S. to Alexander Calder, returning a typed manuscript of an article which he has edited with holograph corrections), Peter Blume, Pietro Belluschi (2), Richard Diebenkorn and Bernard Berenson. Some of the letters are written to the photographers Pach Bros. concerning sittings and portraits. G to VG, 9
JAMES V: (1512-1542) King of Scotland 1513-42. L.S., James R, as King, at the foot, one page, small 4to (8 x 7.5), Stirling, 25th February 1529[30]. The manuscript letter, in a secretary's hand, is addressed to the Justice Treasurer and his deputy and clerks, being an order to cease proceedings against William Livingstone of Kilsyth, to 'dicist & ceise of all calli[n]g p[ro]cedi[n]g or adjurnei[n]g' against him, his tenants and household, 'his tena[n]tis or s[er]vandis or ony of yai[m] in o'approcha[n]d justiceair of Du[n]bartane for q[uhat]su[m]ever actionis or crymes yai be delaitit of bot yt ye cloise y[ou]r dittays unto o[u]r nyxt justiceaire of striveli[n]g.' Minor traces of a red wax seal alongside the King's signature. Some dust staining, only lightly affecting the text and signature (which all remain perfectly legible) and some minor wear and tiny splits in the folds at the edges, G Provenance: The Spiro Family Collection, Part I, Christie's, London, 3rd December 2003 (Lot 48)
GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., George P R, as Prince Regent, on behalf of King George III, at the head, (minor blots at the beginning and end of the signature) two pages, folio, Court at Carlton House, 25th June 1812. The manuscript document is a warrant addressed to the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts and states that the 'Commissioners of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea have stated....that the sum of £8614.5.0 had been appropriated to the Current Expenses of the year from the deduction of one shilling in the Pound stopped on Payments to Our Pensioners from the 25th December 1810 to 24th December 1811', further authorising the payments under the Royal Sign Manual. Countersigned at the conclusion by Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851) 1st Baron Bexley. English Politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1812-23. With blank integral leaf. Some neat splitting at the folds (professionally repaired) and with some light age wear and dust staining, G
NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804- 14, 1815. D.S., Np, at the foot, as Emperor of the French and King of Italy, one page, folio, Imperial Palace of the Tuileries, 14th February 1809, in French. The manuscript document is a decree (numbered 326) presented to the Grand Chancellor of the Order of the Iron Crown, and names nineteen officers and men who are to be Knights of the Order of the Iron Crown. The list of individuals includes Captains and other officers drawn from the 1st Regiment of Italian Light Infantry, the 4th Regiment of Italian Infantry of the Line, the Royal Italian Chasseurs, the Napoleon Regiment of Dragoons and the Italian Regiment of Sappers. An attractively penned, clean and crisp document. VG Napoleon founded the Order in 1805, three weeks after being crowned King of Italy, using the Iron Crown, as Charlemagne had been. Said to contain a nail of the True Cross, it was made for Agilulf's Queen Theodelinda, the first royal Lombard to be Christian, and who died in 628. The present document lists a considerable part of the Order, the number of ordinary Knights, half the total, being limited to 50. The French Order ceased to exist in 1815, but an Austrian order (which lasted till 1918) was founded to mark their recovery of Lombardy.
Two hardbound manuscript notebooks. The smaller containing some 82, densely filled on both sides, handwritten pages. The cover decorated with an ink sketch of a schooner. The chief part of the smaller notebook comprises of a ship's logbook for the Schooner 'John Williams' commanded by J.N.Ridley. The John Williams was a trading vessel, handling such cargo as horn, wool, ostrich plumes and a diverse range of animal skins: lions, llama, goat, swans, pole cats etc. The logbook describes the vessel's journey in stages of a round trip that takes them firstly from Lisbon to 'Buones Ayres' travelling from November 1842 and arriving in Buenos Aires on January 27th 1843. The log then recommences on April 9th as they make passage for Paranaguá. Then to the mouth of the Rio Negro off the coast of Patagonia, thence to the Rio Plate (Uraguay) Leaving South America in October and making the passage back to England via Pernambuco and the Azores. Last dated entry of the shipping log is January 28th 1844. Each log entry gives position and very detailed descriptions of wind, weather and currents. There are some accompanying illustrations, primarily maps and harbour entrances. The log also contains trading accounts, prayers, poetry, medicinal recipes for: "TONICS, ASTRINGENTS, PURGATIONS, CORDIALS, AQUAS, TINCTURES" and their useful applications. Also use of leeches and treatment for the Bite of an Adder. The second, larger notebook containing approximately 200 handwritten pages, densely filled on both sides. Belonging again to J.N.Ridley, the notebook contains prayers but is principally a letterbook in which records of his work in shipping and as a shipping agent in 1855 are kept. There are also tracts of writing on many nautical related subjects - treating dysentery and diarrhea, shipping safety and losses at sea, providing assistance to fisherman. He writes to Charles Dickens and Lord Palmerston, even offering advice on the Crimean War.
Borough of Hartlepool Bastards (after birth) C., Application of the Mother After the Birth of the Child, 1856-1871, folio, containing 100 bound printed pro-forma 'informations', completed in manuscript, by which the mothers of illegitimate children named the father of the child and made application for the serving of a summons on the alleged father, two further manuscript applications inserted, original half cloth with printed label (well worn, upper board detached); School Record Book, Ward Jackson Girls School (Hartlepool), 1877-1905, commences Aug 13th 1877 - 'Girls and Boys today divided into separate Departments. Commenced my duties as ..., 503 pages (final leaf loose), of manuscript entries, attendance being a recurrent problem, worn half roan with later lamination (2)
Indentures A quantity of early indentures relating to south-west County Durham, particularly the Crook - Willington - Helmington Row - Escomb area, including; - An Elizabethan manuscript, [c1585], sheet size 250mm x 340mm, framed and glazed - A manuscript dated 1661, commencing 'To all christian people ...,' dated 1661, sheet size 305mm x 390mm, with two printed receipts completed in manuscript for rent due to Princess Queen Catherine, 1681 and 1684, the three together, framed and glazed; - A large indenture, 1748, which appears to relate to land at Newton Cap, 380mm x 488mm, two wax seals, ornate initial, framed and glazed; - - A large indenture, 1783, which relates to land at Helmington Row, 450mm x 630mm, two wax seals, ornate initial, framed and glazed; with a quantity of others, unframed, manuscript on vellum and manuscript on paper, approx 17 items (qty)
Grouse Moor Game Books Four manuscript game books, comprising; White Moor & Burn Moor, 1901-64, Grouse moor records with descriptions of days, started by George Carr Rushworth, cloth; White Moor, 1964-77, continuation of the Grouse moor records by George Rushworth, son of G.C.R., later continued by William Driver, the keeper, a.e.g., pigskin; Whinberry Harbour, 1977-79, continuation of the White Moor records, transcribed from the diaries and notes of Sir Alfred Hall-Davis, a.e.g., morocco; Fishing, 1961-78, White Moor fishing records, a.e.g., morocco. [White Moor or Whitemoor is located between Barnoldswick and Colne] (4)
Ford (Emma) Peregrine, 1993, oblong 4to, t.e.g., original cloth, slipcase; Gamebook, with manuscript entries, compiled by the Emerson family of Easby Hall near Great Ayton, 1878-1907, including shooting at Easby, Deighton, Cabrack, Whorlton, etc. full morocco (cover stained); Falkus (Hugh), Salmon Fishing, 1986, signed by the author, dust wrapper; idem, Sea Trout Fishing, 1986, signed by the author, dust wrapper; Oglesby (Arthur), Fly Fishing for Salmon and Sea Trout, 1986, signed by the author, dust wrapper (5)
Fishing Angling Record Book, 1911 to 1949, manuscript entries recording angling in South Africa, Beira and Mauritius (1911), India (predominantly Mahseer - 1913-14), France (1917-18), America (1920-21), Ireland, England and Scotland, includes location, weather and water conditions, rod, fly, fish, remarks, etc. 101 double pages, plus summary, oblong folio, leather, upper board initialled E.N.S.C.*, slipcase [*believed to be E.N.S. Crankshaw of Knutsford, Cheshire]
Botanical Illustrations - Original Artwork A collection of botanical illustrations, signed E Prat, pen and ink and watercolour, with manuscript titles and plate numbers, which run to forty-five (lacking eight from sequence), illustrations range from one to four specimens per sheet, thirty-seven sheets, 292mm x 228mm, preserved in cloth folder; Stearn (William T.), Plant Portraits from the Flora Danica 1761-1769, 1983, folio, original wraps; together with several botanical prints
SIR (ISIDOR) GEORGE HENSCHEL, (1850-1934), a small unrecorded archive of manuscripts and letters, comprising a three page manuscript titled '"Little Lamb, who made thee", a Song of Innocence (for the little children to sing), humbly set to William Blake's beautiful words by George Henschel', two pages of hand written music dedicated to Georgina & Peter and initialled and dated Jan 18th 1918; a second manuscript titled 'The Knight of Bethlehem, set by George Henschel', two pages of hand written music initialled and dated Nov 20th 1918; both within a 'Keepsake Cover' titled and signed by Henschel and enclosing three printed copies of Henschel's music. Accompanying the manuscripts are two letters to Miss Janet Dunlop Smith on Aviemore headed paper and dated June 19th 1914 and Nov 23rd 1914; a three verse sonnet written and initialled by Henschel, dated November 22nd 1914 and companion postcard; a programme for a concert titled 'Dr George Henschel's concert in aid of the funds of the Alvie Boy Scouts Association', dated September 4th 1913, signed by Henschel, five other singers and initialled by Miss Dunlop Smith. The first letter talks of a previous sonnet that Henschel had sent and details that he shall be travelling to town (London) where he will conduct a concert at The Queens Hall and hopes that they can meet for tea. The second refers to Miss Dunlop Smith as his "grateful public" in regard to his prior verses, as well as general news and what has occupied his time in Scotland. The third is a sonnet, accompanied by a postcard sent on the afternoon that the former was mailed, upon which he writes a new final verse stating "I think the following distribution of the last six lines is better" Georgina Henschel is the composers daughter by his second wife Amy Louis. Peter Cloughton (1915-1968) is the son of Henschel's daughter Helen Cloughton from his first marriage. It is presumed that they are the Georgina and Peter to whom the first manuscript is dedicated. George Henschel, composer and poet, was the first conductor of The Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881, began the London Symphony Concerts and later became conductor of the Royal Scottish National orchestra. Miss Janet Dunlop Smith (1888-1984) is the vendors godmother. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Dunlop Smith private secretary to Lord Minto while he was Viceroy of India. Miss Dunlop Smith was a singer under the professional name Janet Christopher. It is presumed that her close friendship with Henschel developed through their professional careers sometime in 1913 or prior.
Geoffrey Sparrow - `An Illustrated Alphabet`, manuscript book with title-page dated 1925, and 26 leaves of text with vignettes illustrative of the letters of the alphabet, many signed with initials, approx 18cm x 12.5cm, bound in red cloth, titled in gilt on the upper cover (title-page loosely inserted). Provenance: consigned for sale by a direct descendant of the artist.
Aquinas (Thomas) SUPER QUARTO LIBRO SENTENTIARUM. (1481) Small folio (295 x 205 mm) 310 leaves including first blank with manuscript title, (a-z10, A-H10 (a1 blank, a2r text, H2v, printer`s device printed in red, H3r tabula, H10r quire register, H10v blank), 56 lines and headline, double column, initial spaces, unrubricated, printed in two columns in gothic type. Unbound but sewn to bands, the first blank is separated and the final gathering is nearly detached, there are stains, ink perhaps, penetrating the page, at the bottom of leaves e4, f4, f(8), i4, i(6), k2-k(9), m3, n2,n3, o1, o(6)-o(8), o(10),p1,p2. There is a separate blot on the text of leaf and a spot on the lower margin of F1 verso. There is also some, generally faint, water staining evident in the pages of the Tabula and Register, it has not affected the text or the written notes. There is a single narrow wormhole present in the lower margins of folios A(10) to D5, well clear of the printed areas.The final leaf has a fragment torn from the upper corner possibly as the result of an attempted repair and the margin is discoloured. There are manuscript notations in margin of the tabula. There is a solitary attempt at a pen and ink decorative capital on leaf b2. Page edges dyed light red. Overall a crisp copy. The Sententiae - Sentences of Peter Lombard was the standard theological reference work of its time. And Sentences were the considered judgments and opinions of experts on questions of faith and dogma, which Lombard had collected and classified in four parts – the fourth dealing with the sacraments. The individual topics - in each part were called and numbered as so many distinctions. This work was Aquinas` thesis for his master`s degree in theology, a discussion and evaluation of earlier opinions. British Library, Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: http://istc.bl.uk/search/search.html?operation=record&rsid=712435&q=9 Good Venice [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et Socii 1481 Reserve: $1250 Click here to view further details and to bid
FitzPatrick, Sir J Percy South African Memories. Prepared for the press from the manuscript of the author by G H Wilson 240 x 165 x 45 [With binding error: see below.] In his Foreword, G H Wilson, who had been charged during FitzPatrick`s last illness with organising his `Scraps of History` (as he called them), writes that the book `. covers a very wide field of action, throwing much new light on the chequered history of the Transvaal in the period immediately before the South African War and thus supplementing Sir Percy`s brilliant volume, `The Transvaal from Within` [see Lot 15], which, in 1899, had so profound an effect on British public opinion in relation to South African affairs. Political questions, however, have, for the most part, been excluded from the present volume, which is mainly episodal in character.` The unattributed biographical introduction may also have been by Wilson. While the longest chapters are on the Battle of Colenso and Jock of the Bushveld, General de la Rey is the subject of two chapters, totalling 48 pp, while Rhodes features in three chapters.> Blue cloth-boards, gilt to the spine; top edge blue; plain endpapers; 320 pp of text and index + frontispiece of FitzPatrick and three other plates (Rhodes and Beit; President Kruger addressing a meeting at Krugersdorp - a rare 1896 photograph taken by FitzPatrick; and De la Rey in 1909 - this plate has been bound upside down). The covers are clean and the spine unfaded; without the blistering on all three cover faces, the condition would be better than Good; there is a binding crack at the back and the back cover has loosened. There is a small Grocott and Sherry label on the front paste-down, but the book is unmarked. The front and bottom page edges have medium foxing, as have the first twenty or so leaves. This is, nevertheless, a collectable copy - additionally, perhaps, for the binding error. Good London Cassell 1932 Reserve: $35 Click here to view further details and to bid
Kraus, Hans Peter The Cradle of Printing Part 2 [H P Kraus Catalogue 131; 1971] 355 x 250 The founder of the famous New York antiquarian bookseller H P Kraus was born in Austria in 1907. He died in 1988, but the firm he founded closed only recently, after publishing 204 catalogues. One of the most famous of these was Kraus`s own Catalogue 131, which lists 41 fifteenth century printed books from 25 presses in today`s Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, England and the Netherlands - some of the books unique and others sought-after examples of a few surviving copies. The oldest item in the catalogue was `the largest paper copy of the Gutenberg Bible` (c 1455) - the emphasis being on `paper` as vellum copies were usually larger. In chronological order, other books were Ptolemy’s first atlas (1462), Caxton’s Reynard the Fox (1481), Dante’s La Commedia (1481), The Book of Hawking (1486; `the first English sporting book`), Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1491), and Boccaccio`s Decameron (1492). Each item is illustrated and described over four pages. One or more colour plates illustrate a dozen of the books, while there are also 86 halftones and line-cuts. In a `personal postscript`, H P K, as he was known in the world`s antiquarian book trade, wrote: `Never before in this 20th century has so formidable an assemblage of great printed books been displayed and offered for sale in a catalogue; perhaps it never can be done again.` The binding is in blue silk, with a title label on the upper panel and the title gilt-embossed on the spine. The viii + 171 pp of illustrated and plates are printed on art paper. This copy is unmarked and includes the additional pasted-in plate showing one of the manuscript catchwords in the lower margin of the [Shuckburgh] Gutenberg Bible and missing in smaller (i e shorter) copies This copy is in exceptionally good condition. Near Fine New York H P Kraus 1971 Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and to bid
Hutcheson (Francis) A SYSTEM OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY 4to (280 x 220 mm) In Three Books; written by the late Francis Hutcheson, L.L.D., Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Published from the original manuscript by his son Francis Hutcheson, M.D. To which is prefixed some account of the life, writings, and character of the author, by the Reverend William Leechman, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the same university. 2 volumes: I. (x),xlviii,358. II. (ix), 380 pages, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines decorated gilt in panels and with red and dark green title labels, marbled endpapers, page edges dyed light red. Neat repairs to the top and bottoms of the spines and hinges. The bottom corners of all pages in volume II are damp stained otherwise the contents are crisp. Hutcheson’s intellectual legacy was considerable. He influenced the concepts later propounded so effectively by Adam Smith, one of his pupils, who was later to occupy the same Chair at Glasgow University. Smith’s name appears in the list of subscribers in volume 1 (for 2 sets). Good London R. and A. Foulis 1755 Reserve: $300 Click here to view further details and to bid
Chapman, James (Editor: Edward C. Tabler) Travels in the Interior of Africa 1849 - 1863 253mm x 189mm `Hunting and Trading Journeys, From Natal to Walvis Bay & Visits to Lake Ngami & Victoria Falls.`The text is from original and previously unpublished manuscript material edited by Tabler, but the illustrations are from `Explorations in South West Africa` (1864) by Thomas Baines, Chapman`s 1868 edition of `Travels in the Interior of S.A.` and the frontis portrait is from the Africana Museum.Two volume set. Original dust jackets. Original quarter leather spines with gilt titling on the spines and paper covered boards. Both volumes are profusely illustrated in black and white. Volume 1 has xiii prelims, 258 pages, a fold out map + volume 2 has xiii prelims, 244 page followed by the publisher`s list of books.CONDITION DETAILS: Both volumes are internally clean. The dust jackets have some edge wear and soiling. Good Cape Town A.A. Balkema 1971 Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and to bid
A Packet: Naval Ephemera including HM Navy Officers Journal with manuscript entries circa 1911, Portsmouth + a late Victorian Photograph Album depicting Britannia Royal Naval College River Dart Devon, images include Hulks of HMS Britannia and HMS Hindostan moored together in River Dart, group Photo of Officers etc + “The War” typescript journal by Member of RN Forces rank unknown, documenting Great War Naval Experiences aboard HMS Dartmouth in the Dardanelles circa 1915 + Royal Navy Service Certificate Arthur Charles Baycock (born 1887) Wimbledon, enlisted 1914, saw service throughout Great War + circa mid-20th Century Log Book of The Sloop Mintaka + Scrap Album of Crews by RMSP Arcadian August-September 1927 containing monochrome photographs, PPC etc
Five assorted Vintage Manuscript Receipt Books, including one mid-18th Century Manuscript Receipt Book, receipts include Ginger Beer, Lemonade Powders, Gout Mixture, Cough Mixture, Ointment for Nipples, Imitation of Bear’s Grease, Eau de Cologne etc + four others late Victorian/Edwardian similar containing Cookery Receipts, one Farmyard/Countryside interest containing entries for “Cure for the Murrain in Cattle”, “How to Destroy Mice” (5)
IAN RANKIN, 2 ttls: RESURRECTION MEN, 2001, 1st edn, sigd and inscr, orig cl silvered, d/w + THE NAMING OF THE DEAD, 2006, (250) presentation manuscript proof numbered and sigd, orig wraps + ROBERT HARRIS: ENIGMA, 1995, 5th printing, sigd, orig cl silvered, d/w + SEBASTIAN FAULKS: THE FATAL ENGLISHMAN, 1996, 1st edn, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + COLIN FORBES: THE CAULDRON, 1997, 1st edn, 1st impress, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + BEN ELTON: HIGH SOCIETY, 2002, 1st edn, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + RUTH RENDELL: THE ROTTWEILER, 2003, 1st edn, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + EDWARD RUTHERFURD: DUBLIN FOUNDATION, 2004, 1st edn, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + DAVID GEMMELL: TROY LORD OF THE SILVER BOW, 2005, 1st edn, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + SIMON SCARROW: YOUNG BLOODS, 2006, 1st edn, sigd, orig cl gt, d/w + JOE HILL: HEART-SHAPED BOX, Victor Gollancz, 2007 (1300) limited edn sigd, orig cl, d/w, s-c (11)
Three Boxes: a collection of documents and ephemera from the archive of John Cuming Walters (1863-1933), Editor of the Manchester City News, including manuscript and typed notes, newspaper cuttings, notebooks and ephemera covering a wide range of subjects. Walters was an authority on Shakespeare, Tennyson and Dickens and a prolific author responsible for numerous books as well as thousands of articles (3)
AL-FASHNI "al-Majâlis al-Saniyya fi`l-kalam `alâ Arbayn al-Nawawiya" (al-Fashni `alâ al- Arbayn Nawawiya) Manuscrit sur papier, 21 lignes de texte en écriture maghribi à l`encre noire et rouge, dans un encadrement de filets rouges et bleus. Titre dans un cartouche enluminé. Copie d`un commentaire de al-Fashni au sujet de l`ouvrage d`al-Nawawi, al-Arbayn Hadith. Reliure en cuir. Afrique du Nord, XIXe siècle. A 19th century North African manuscript. DIM. 21.5 x 17 cm (8 1⁄2 x6 11⁄16 IN.)
PETIT RECUEIL RELIGIEUX OTTOMAN, DATÉ 1849-50 contenant des Sourates choisies, des prières, les « Asmâ ‘al-hosna », d’autres prières et invocations. Le calligraphe est "Muhammad ‘Arif, élève de Mustafa Hakkâk Zâdeh", en l’année 1266 H. = 1850. Beau frontispice de début et nombreux titres enluminés. Reliure à rabat en maroquin rouge estampé et doré. (Usures). Turquie, 1850. A late 19th century Ottoman Turkish manuscript. DIM. 12,5 x 10 cm (4 15⁄16 x 3 15⁄16 IN.)
Montblanc, a limited edition Johann Sebastian Bach fountain pen, no. 09605/12000, released 2001, the brown resin barrel with gilt trim, the orange resin cap with a gilt clip in the shape of a clef, and cap band with the facsimile engraving of notes from the original manuscript of Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, with the Montblanc white star emblem to the cap end, the nib stamped ‘18K’, with a piston filler system, in its original box with tribute booklet, service guide and five facsimile sheets of music from the manuscript for Brandenburg Concertos
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