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A manuscript copy of the Pali Brahmajala Sutta (a Buddhist Canonical text) with cased pair of fish servers

G* Sanz (b.1954) A still life with a violin, books, manuscript, quill pen and a fluted glass on a table signed, oil on panel 19.5cm by 15cm

A manuscript indenture circa 1554-8, framed and glazed

SCOTT FRANCIS. 17th century lecture notes on "Logic". Manuscript throughout, closely written in ink with a few drawings & doodles. Several hundred pages in well worn period calf (top board detached but present), 7½" x 5½". Believed to be the Francis Scott who studied at Edinburgh University, from 1656 to 1660. He may have been a member of the family of Scott of Buccleuch as there are related coats of arms drawn in the text. Scott was studying "Arts". Logic and Metaphysics were part of this degree and the Regent of Philosophy at the University at that time was John Wishart who would have taught all classes in the curriculum of the Arts.

Ephemera – Northumberland. Bundle of items relative to Alnwick Elections, 1835/1837 incl. manuscript List of Electors; also an accumulation of Legal & Insurance documents & correspondence & misc. others, principally northern interest & mainly 19th cent.

Ephemera – Northumberland. Carton of documents & mainly manuscript ephemera incl. a few relative to fishings, commercial enterprises & elections.

Ephemera – Northumberland. Collection of mainly 18th cent. documents & manuscript papers, many relative to Caistron Grange, Rothbury & various bundles of early 19th cent. papers re. Turnpike Roads with Lists of Subscribers, etc. In a wooden deed box.

Ephemera – Northumberland. Accumulation of diaries, manuscript accounts & notes relative to Thorp & Dixon, Thomas Naters, etc. Early 19th cent.

Ephemera – Northumberland. Bundle of items incl. Particulars & Conditions of Sale of The White Swan Inn, Alnwick; manuscript notes of William Dickson being Remarks upon a Coat of Arms in Bondgate Street, 1838; another essay by Dickson; fragments of notes by Dickson relative to Hulne Abbey; two manuscript maps of Ingram Parish, probably concerned with Tithe maps of the period; some rolled maps & other items. Mainly early to mid 19th cent.

Ephemera – various. Malet’s Soliloquy on Comparing the List of Voters with his Canvassing Book. A broadsheet poem; also manuscript diary of Matthew Liddell of Stillington Hall, Yorkshire, 1922 & an accumulation of various other prntd. & manuscript ephemera, northern interest, legal cases & opinions, etc.

Ephemera. Small bundle of late 17th & early 18th cent. vellum documents together with a carton of other manuscript ephemera, legal & northern interest, etc.

Ephemera – Northumberland. Case papers respecting the Refusal of the Chapelries of Holy Island to Pay the Church Rates, 1777; also a bundle of manuscript notes & letters by the historian, William Dickson & other manuscript items.

Ephemera-mainly Northumberland. Carton of prntd. & manuscript items incl. plan of Benton Park Estate, 1848; handbills for sale of timber, 1848 & 1849; manuscript legal documents; opinions; Turnpike Road returns, etc.

Blythswood Estate. A collection of papers on the claim of John Jacob Thomson to the Estate of Blythswood, approx. 30 manuscript documents. Papers supportive of the claim of John Jacob Thomson (d.1761), citizen & shoemaker of Lauenburg in Prussia, to the Estate of Blythswood, Renfrew, Scotland, which had belonged to his great grandfather Mathew Thomson, citizen & brewer, of Glasgow (d. by 1667); 1667-1763, n.d. English, Latin, French & German. Partly copies, including a small unbound booklet with copies of several of the relevant papers & individual items, being the originals of most of these & other papers.

The Triple Crown in England. A Brief Chronicle of the Connection between England and Rome from the Conversion of the Saxons to the Reign of Henry the Eighth. 2 manuscript vols. Half calf. 1848. A detailed (c.50,000 word) but partisan history inspired by the anonymous author’s fear “that the Church of Rome is in the ascendant in the heart of Protestant England”. Sources are cited & footnotes added, together with re-writings & the additional of extra material. “Scholarly & worthy of further study”.

Bourdillon (Francis William). Ode in Defence of the Matterhorn Against the Proposed Railway to its Summit, 1st ed., [1910?], 8 pp., col. frontis. by J. Hardwicke Lewis, fifteen six-line verses, five verses with pen and pencil manuscript alternative words and additions neatly written in, presumably in the author’s holograph, a few minor spots, orig. printed wrappers, sewn as issued, slim 4to. Various engineering proposals to reach the summits of Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, etc. were frequent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Popular Mechanics magazine was even so bold as to say in its April 1907 issue that ‘within four years a cog railway will land passengers at the very summit [of the Matterhorn], 14,780 ft. above the sea. There will be one almost perpendicular tunnel 7,700 ft. long, or rather high, for the grade will be 85 per cent. At the top a hotel will be excavated in the rock, with rooms looking out upon the magnificent panorama. One room will be supplied with oxygen for treatment of tourists who suffer from the altitude. The ascent will take 90 minutes; fare for round trip 10 dollars’. This and all other proposed railway projects since have failed to get off the ground. (1)

* Manuscript Climbing Routes. A group of approx. sixty new route descriptions, mostly 1970s/1980s but including some pre-war, the majority handwritten but also including a few typed, mostly signed, including John Redhead’s description of ‘The Bells, The Bells!’, plus accounts signed by Morris Linnell (Great Eastern Scafell), Pete Livesey, Steve Bancroft and Joe Brown, plus accounts by John Allen, Con Carey, Ed Cleasby, Rowland Edwards, Ron Fawcett, Mich Fowler, Simon Naden, Dave Knighton, Jim Moran, John Loy, Pat Littlejohn, Dominic Lee, Seb Grieve, Neil Foster, Richard Davies, Derek Carnell, Andy Pollitt, et al, mostly 1 or 2 pp. and mostly folio, together with a group of approx. twenty-six hand-written articles for C.C.J., 1970s, including articles by Ron Fawcett, Paul Mitchell, Jim Perrin, Tony Husbands, Dave Cuthbertson, Neil Foster, Jim Moran, Paul Williams, Geoff Milburn, Trevor Jones, mostly signed, one or two pages, folio, plus a few related items, both collections contained in polysleeves in two modern ring binders (2)

Cliffe (Charles Frederick). The Book of North Wales. Scenery, Antiquities, Highways and Byeways, Lakes, Streams, and Railways, 1st ed., 1850, engraved frontis., folding map, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, together with Halliwell (J.O.), Notes of Family Excursions in North Wales, taken chiefly from Rhyl, Abergele, Llandudno, and Bangor, printed for the author, 1860, inscribed by the author to title, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, a little fraying to head and foot of spine, and Cliffe (John Henry), Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles among the Mountains, Valleys, and Solitudes of Wales, 1st ed., 1870, advertisement leaf to rear, orig. brown cloth gilt, rubbed to head and foot of spine, plus an identical copy bound in blue cloth, (Cliffe explored the high mountain cwms and summits pre-1870), plus Davies (R. Rice), The Cambrian Sketch-Book. Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales, 1st ed., [1875], wood engraved frontis., orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, plus Ramsay (A.C.), The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales, 1st ed., 1860, folding map, wood engraved illusts, name excised to front endpaper, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, plus Moore (J.L., ed.), A Practical Guide to North Wales, Manchester, [1889], folding map of North Wales, trade adverts to front and rear, orig. pictorial card wrappers, upper cover detached, plus Roberts (Askew), The Gossiping Guide to Wales, 1881, maps and plans including some folding, trade adverts front and rear, orig. cloth gilt, fraying to head and foot of spine, plus other Welsh interest including ‘Round about Snowdon’ by T. Huson, ‘Welsh Scenery’ by Elijah Walton (Neate W13), a typed manuscript by E. Kelvin Lawrence titled “Gwern-y-Gof-Isaf” containing many original photographs, and a folding map of Snowdonia (12)

Young (Geoffrey Winthrop). Collected Poems, 1st ed., 1936, with 24-line manuscript poem on rear free endpaper, plus two leaves of manuscript poems loosely inserted, and author’s typed letter signed mounted on front pastedown, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and price-clipped d.j. (Neate Y15), together with Freedom. Poems, 1st ed., 1914, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, (Neate Y16) and April and Rain. Poems, 1st ed., 1923, orig. cloth, a trifle rubbed, (Neate Y14), all 8vo, and two others related, plus a silver gelatin portrait photograph of Geoffrey Winthrop Young, by Douglas Milner, boldly signed and dated by Young, 1952 (24 x 19cm) (6)

Muggletonianism. An epistle of the prophet John Reeves to Mr William Sedgwick, written in July 1657, 53 pp. manuscript in a neat hand, ruled in red, with each page in two columns and numbered 1-106, a little spotting and soiling, an added manuscript title on different paper stock reusing the drop title heading from the head of column one and signed Fred Hockley 1842, 19th-century cloth, spine gilt-lettered J. Reeves, partly darkened and soiled, a little wear to joints and corners, a little wear to joints and corners, small 4to (17 x 13.5cm). The Muggletonians were named after Lodowicke Muggleton, and were a small Protestant Christian movement begun in 1651 when two London tailors announced they were the last prophets foretold in the biblical Book of Revelation. One of these was John Reeve(s) who received a commission from God. John Reeve (1608-58), a cousin of Lodowicke Muggleton, was born in Wiltshire. The pair were arrested under the Blasphemy Act in 1650 and were convicted on a single count of denying the Trinity and sentenced to six months in prison. Reeves’ health deteriorated in prison and in his last few years he was a pauper. William Sedgwick was an Anglican Minister in Ely and a number of letters were written by Reeve to him and others in around 1654. Sedgwick supported Reeve until his death and explained his position in a correspondence with Reeve. The British Library holds correspondence and papers of both Sedgwick and Reeve. (1).

Naval and Military archive. A small archive of documents relating to Thomas Browne Gray of the Royal Marines and his son(?) of the same name, a Colonel in the Army, all 19th c., including four naval commissions printed on vellum and completed in manuscript, each with monarch’s autograph at head of document (King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria x 2), plus two commissions for the younger Gray from 1862 and 1870, neither signed by Queen Victoria, plus a manuscript copy of ‘A List of the French Fleet Under the Command of Rear Admiral Villaret, June 1st 1794’, 31 pp. written in a neat hand, stitched as issued, some soiling at front and rear, 8vo, plus a further near-contemp. copy of a document showing the number of men killed and wounded in the combined squadrons of England, Russia and France in action with the Turkish and Egyptian fleets in the harbour of Navarin, 20th October 1827, 2 pp., docketed, plus a university certificate and approx. 100 mostly private letters, c. 1860s/80s, relating to the younger Gray (a folder).

Slavery. A manuscript legal petition to Lord Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, concerning the will of George Ogilvie, 1790s, with reference to, among other things, a plantation with slaves in Jamaica, and concerning a dispute involving Sir John Wedderburn and others, thirty leaves written to rectos only, docketed, Ogilvie & Perry copy bill with solicitors C. & J. Ferrer & Atkinson, outer blank dust-soiled, stitched to upper left corner, folio (1).

Victoria (Queen of England, 1819-1901). Document signed, Buckingham Palace, 25th January 1838, pre-printed document on vellum with wafer seal and duty stamp to left margin, completed in manuscript and appointing Captain Francis Perry to be Major in the Royal African Colonial Corps, a little soiling, signed ‘Victoria R’ upper left, countersigned lower right, 29 x 38cm, together with a vellum military commission signed by King George III, appointing William Hamilton to be Ensign in the Eighty-Eighth Regiment of Foot under Thomas Keating, 21st March 1783, signed upper right (sl. creased), countersigned at foot, some spotting and soiling, 24 x 34cm (2).

Victorian Autograph Album. An album containing letters, signatures, free fronts, etc., all 19th century, including a tipped in unsigned note from Queen Victoria giving directions to Rollet, 1 p., 8vo, letters from the Royal children, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 14th March 1850, 3 pp., Princess Victoria, Osborne, n.d., in French, 2 pp., and Princess Louise, 3rd April 1855, one page in a juvenile hand, plus signatures of Queen Charlotte, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Wellington, Liverpool, Robert Peel, Clarendon, Lord Russell, Rosebery, George Cruikshank, Florence Nightingale, F. Marryat, Wm. Thackeray, Mary Howitt, printed lines by Hannah More signed and dated by her at foot, 1827, an eight-page autograph letter signed from Herbert Fisher, a one-page note from Edward Balwer Lytton, mostly cut signatures tipped in, plus a few loose items including copies of Royal household letters, a manuscript poem titled ‘to the noble author of Childe Harolde’, 4 pp., with Stoke Park 1812 written in the same holograph at foot, splits and spotting, a 19th-century watercolour of an unidentified man, hinges cracked, contemp. half morocco, rubbed, 8vo. (1).

Autographs. A small group of ten letters and musical quotations, including two letters from Sir Alexander McKenzie, one signed and one initialled, an autograph letter signed and an autograph musical quotation signed from W. Vincent Wallace, one page of manuscript music signed by Julius Benedict, a short note signed by John Barnett, a brief memorandum signed in the third person by Julius Benedict, two initialled letters from Sebastian Wesley and a brief note signed by Henry Bishop (closed tear repairs) (10).

Autographs. A collection of twenty-eight various autograph letters by English composers, conductors and musicians, mainly written to Flora Mann, c. 1910-44, including Ralph Vaughn Williams (2), Adrian Boult, Henry J. Wood (2), Eugene Goosens, Arnold Bax, Edward German, Philip Heseltine (“Peter Warlock”), Edmund H. Fellowes (3), Ivor Novello (2), a manuscript from the Pastoral Symphony apparently in the hand of Vaughan Williams and signed at head by the composer, plus other lesser-known figures, mostly handwritten letters, some with envelopes. Flora Mann sang in a vocal group called the English Singers, specialising in English madrigals, which was formed following the first world war, and whose first concert was given in London on February 28th 1920. (28).

Flute Patent. A manuscript grant of patent for William Bainbridge of Holborn Hill, London, Musician and Turner for improvements to the double and single Flageolet or English Flute, 7th August 1819, 4 pp. handwritten document, with signature of the Prince Regent George to head of first leaf, and signed at end by Lord Sidmouth, creased where previously folded, slim folio (1).

Furtwaengler (Wilhelm, 1886-1954). Typed letter signed, Potsdam, 26th May 1940, to Lydia Panische, thanking her for her various letters, with manuscript addition, one page, lower half blank, folio, together with orig. postmarked envelope, plus a signed postcard addressed to Professor Carl Straube, 1917, showing an alpine house (2).

Manuscript Hymns. Three Victorian manuscript albums of hymns for four-part voices, neat ink notation with song titles, compiled by William Longforth and John Miles of Hullavington, Wilts, dated 1846 and 1874, each signed and inscribed to front endpaper with compiler’s name, two bound in half calf, the other full sheep, somewhat worn and frayed, oblong format (10 x 24cm) (3).

Antiphoner. A Manuscript Antiphonal, Spanish, c. 16th century, comprising 114 vellum leaves, incomplete (leaf numbering begins on XXXI, and goes up to CCXXVII, with significant gaps), musical notation and latin verse to each side written in black ink, decorative initials in red, yellow & blue, some leaves misbound, and several leaves at end unnumbered, four leaves with portion excised, a few leaves trimmed at foot with slight loss, occasional closed tears and old repairs, 20th c. cloth, stained, folio, leaf dimensions approx. 41 x 28cm (16 x 11ins). Previously in the collection of Dr. H. J. Chaytor, Master of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge. (1).

Illuminated leaf. A single illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, from a commentary on the Psalms, French, late 14th/early 15th century, double-sided, 55 lines of double-column latin text to both sides, written in black, with initials in red & blue and floriated border decoration in red & blue, leaf approx. 275 x 210mm, mounted, double-glazed frame. The work from which this leaf is taken appears to be a commentary on the Psalms with text by St. Augustine, Jerome & Cassiodorus. (1).

Bible [Ethiopian]. Manuscript bible, Ge’ez language, c. 1800, eighty-five leaves, black and red script on vellum, two full-page col. illustrations of Saint George and the Dragon, and The Crucifixion, some soiling and marks, contemporary hand-carved wooden boards with inset bone decoration, leather spine, rubbed, 4to (250 x 220mm) (1).

Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites & Ceremonies of the Church., Together with the Psalter or Psalmes of David., London: printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662, title torn and repaired, few other leaves torn with occasional loss and repairs, lacks final leaf 2H8, some dust-soiling and marks, manuscript genealogies at front of volume, hinges split, a.e.g. with gauffered edges, early 19th c. panelled calf, cloth spine strip, worn, small folio. Wing 3622(A) and ESTC R211954. (1).

Davies (Samuel Thomas). Odd Fellowship; Its History, Constitution, Principles, and Finances, pub. Witham: Richard Sutton Cheek, 1858, 23pp., bound with the original manuscript version of the same work, comprising 84 leaves written in a neat contemporary hand to one side of each leaf, plus 4 leaves of manuscript tables, some spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. green half morocco, gilt dec. spine neatly repaired at head & foot, 8vo, together with Gould (Robert Freke). The History of Freemasonry. Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc., 3 vols., n.d., c. 1870s, num. b & w engs., mostly ports., some spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. half morocco, 4to, plus Tudor-Craig (Major Sir Algernon), Catalogue of Contents of the Museum at Freemasons’ Hall in the Possession of the United Grand Lodge of England, 3 vols., 1938, col. and b & w plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, 4to. Author’s gilt morocco book label to upper pastedown of first work. Samuel Thomas Davies (1833-98) was Witham’s first photographer. He was born in Bristol, but by 1860 he was living and working in Witham. By 1874 he was working on his own as a “Photographic Artist and Accountant” and was also the school attendance officer. In 1869 he prepared a guide book to Witham (unpublished), and was librarian at the Literary Institution and secretary and member of ‘Loyal Guithavon Lodge’ for over 40 years. When he died unmarried in 1898, the Oddfellows Friendly Society provided his tombstone in All Saints’ churchyard. (7).

Manuscript Sermons. A bound volume of handwritten manuscript notes of sermons by Reverend Philip Henry (1631-1696), 233 pp. of neat handwritten manuscript in brown ink, plus 29 pp. of further notes bound back-to-back at rear, some marks and occ. smudging, early ownership signature to front pastedown of Mary Savage, contemp. calf, joints cracked, worn, small 8vo. A collection of notes on sermons by Reverend Philip Henry, generally dated between 1683 and 1687, and possibly transcribed by one of his sons. Reverend Philip Henry was a Minister of the Gospel at Broad-oak, near Whitchurch in Shropshire. A Life of Mr Philip Henry was published by his son Matthew Henry (1662-1714), and Remains of the Rev. Philip Henry AM Extracted from Unpublished Manuscripts, by Sir John Bickerton Williams, was later issued by the Religious Tract Society in 1848, largely based on manuscripts, diaries and commonplace books by Philip Henry. (1).

Cathedral binding. Le Nouveau Testament c’est a dire la Nouvelle Alliance de Nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ, Amsterdam: Henry Desbordes, c.1710, eng. title (slightly dampstained), bound with Les Pseaumes de David, Amsterdam: Henry Desbordes, c.1710, eng. title, occasional spotting, contemp. and later manuscript ownership to front blank and endpaper including family history notes for the Dorey family of St. Helena, Jersey, Channel Islands, a.e.g., with gauffered edges, 19th c. calf cathedral binding with gilt initials P.D. to upper board, design impression weak in places, silver metal clasps (lower clasp with engraved initials P.D.R to inside edge), 12mo. The front endpaper blank has a manuscript inscription “This Book rebound at Bristol, The 31st October 1848, John Dorey”. (1).

Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A., F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, Transcribed from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalen College, Cambridge. , With Lord Braybrooke’s Notes, Edited, with Additions, by Henry B. Wheatley, 10 vols. (including Index & Pepysiana), 1902-3, port. frontis. to each, b & w illusts., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth, gilt-dec. spines, rubbed and some a little dampstained, 8vo, together with Zola (Emile), Nana, trans. Victor Plarr, Introduction by George Moore; La Curee, trans. A. Teixeira de Mattos, Introduction by Henry James; La Terre, trans. Ernest Dowson, Introduction by Harry Thurston Peck; Germinal, trans. Havelock Ellis, Introduction by William Dean Howells; Piping Hot, trans. Percy Pinkerton, Introduction by Guy De Maupassant; L’Assommoir, trans. Arthur Symons, Introduction by Robert H. Sherard, pub. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1924, together 6. vols., untrimmed, orig. cloth with printed paper label to spines (spare label at rear of each), orig. soiled and frayed d.j.s, 8vo, (2050 sets issued), together with other cloth-bound late 19th & early 20th-c. history and literature, etc. (6 shelves).

Methven (Robert). The Log of a Merchant Officer; Viewed with Reference to the Education of Young Officers and the Youth of the Merchant Service, pub. John Weale, Smith Elder & Co. [and] Ackermann and Co., 1854, addn. half title, dedicated title page inscribed in contemp. ink manuscript ‘With the Author’s Comps.’, dedication and preface, eighteen litho. plates including two printed in colour and two with addn. near contemp. hand colouring, ten litho. sample tables and logs, one folding litho. map and three wood engravings to text, t.e.g., upper joint cracked, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn at extrems., slim folio. Uncommon. (1).

Ptolemaeus (Claudius). Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, 2 parts bound in one, pub. Hugo a Porta & Gaspar Trechsel, Lyon & Vienna, 1541, letter press title with printers woodcut device, later manuscript ownership signature, slight worming to first few leaves, pp.128 trimmed with slight loss to image (chart of the winds), numerous large woodcut initials, fifty (complete) wood engraved maps (including forty-nine double page), slight marginal water staining, a few small splash stains, 18th century calf with gilt dec. spine, few worm holes to spine, a little rubbed, folio. Sabin 66485. Adams P2221. The second edition of Ptolemy by Servetus. Map 28 with an account of the discoveries of Colombus to verso. A fine early atlas in very good condition. (1).

Conybeare (William Daniel & Phillips, William ). Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science., part 1 (all published), 1st. ed. 1822, folding engraved geological map of England & Wales with contemp. hand colouring, calligraphic title page, folding engraved cross sectioned geological chart with contemp. hand colouring bound at rear with uncoloured folding eng. plt. of scientific instruments, later pencil annotations to front paste down and f.e.p., contemp. morocco gilt, a little rubbed at extrems., 8vo, together with Reynolds (James, pub.), Reynolds’s Geological Atlas of Great Britain, Comprising a Series of Maps Geologically Coloured., c.1880, addn. half title, col. litho. frontis. of ‘Comparative View of the Mountains and Hills of England and Wales’, index and hand coloured geological reference plt., thirty-three double page litho. maps with contemp. hand colouring (including one folding), complete as list, gutta percha perished, contents loose and text block detached, a.e.g., contemp. cloth gilt, spine torn and partially detached, faded, frayed and worn, small 8vo, with Ramsay (Andrew C.),Geological Map of England & Wales, pub. Edward Stanford, 1881, large folding map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight staining to margins, later ink manuscript ownership signature to end paper, 960 x 880mm, contained in contemp. blue gilt cloth slip case, a little rubbed at extrems. (3).

Gray (George Carrington). Gray’s New Book of Roads. The Tourist and Traveller’s Guide to the Roads of England and Wales and Part of Scotland on an Entirely new Plan., pub. Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1824, addn. dec. half title with a wood engraving of a rider at a tole-gate, half title with near contemp. ink manuscript ownership signature, folding eng. map of England & Wales with contemp. outline colouring, preface and list of roads and cross roads, forty-nine b & w eng. county and regional maps (including one folding, (‘A Map of Derbyshire’), appears to lack the county map of Derbyshire, index bound at rear, modern half morocco gilt, square 8vo. Chubb CCCXCII. (1).

Kitchin (Thomas). Ogilby’s Survey Improv’d or Kitchin’s New and Instructive Traveller’s Companion for the Roads of England and Wales. Laid down in a Plain Intelligible manner with all the Towns, Villages &c. thereon and the Distances in Single Miles on each Road, pub. Thomas Kitchin, 1771, oval calligraphic title page, index of towns and folding table of cross roads, folding map of England & Wales torn with loss, addn. facsimile map supplied with note indicating that it was taken from a copy of the atlas owned by Sir Henry Fordham, ninety-five uncoloured engraved strip road maps, slight staining to margins of final few leaves, last page with marginal closed tears and slight loss, repaired on verso, front end paper with repaired margins and with copious later pencil manuscript annotations and notes to recto and verso, modern end papers and paste downs, modern ‘envelope style’ limp calf with leather tie, oblong 8vo. The plates for these maps were acquired and used again by Carington Bowles in his 1782 ‘Post-Chaise Companion’ but this earlier publication is not listed in Chubb and we can find no auction records for this atlas. Scarce. (1).

Laurie (Robert and James Whittle). Whittle and Laurie’s New Traveller’s Companion: Exhibiting a Complete and Correct Survey of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England, Wales and Scotland: As far North as Edinburgh and Glasgow., 7th ed., pub. James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814, calligraphic title page, advertisement and explanation, 8 pps. of towns and villages, folding eng. map of England & Wales with contemp. outline colouring, twenty-five eng. regional route maps with contemp. hand colouring, manuscript ownership signature to first rear endpaper and another on first front endpaper, hinges and joints weak, contemp. limp morocco, rubbed at extrems., 4to. Beresiner pp. 136 - 39. (1).

Owen (John and Bowen, Emmanuel). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv’d; Being a Correct Coppy of Mr. Ogilby’s Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales., 4th. ed., pub. Thomas Bowles, 1749, title page, 8 pps. of tables, 273 pps. of uncoloured engraved road and county maps, printed back to back, 19th century ink manuscript inscription to front paste down, contemp. calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, 8vo. Chubb CLIIIa. (1).

Smith (Charles, Cartographer). Smith’s New English Atlas. Being a Complete Set of County Maps, Divided into Hundreds. Preceeded by a General Map of England and Wales., 1st ed., 1804, calligraphic title, 39 (of 46) hand-coloured engraved maps on 43 sheets (lacking Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland), occasional spotting and offsetting, one or two tears and marginal repairs, water stains to title and contents leaves, manuscript numbers, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, folio. Chubb CCCXI. Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return. (1).

Flintoft (J.J.). British Mosses in the English Lake District, Prepared and Arranged, pub. Keswick, c.1850, printed title, fifty leaves of pressed moss specimens with manuscript annotations, front free-endpaper clipped to upper outer corner, hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, (three UK institutional locations found), together with Braithwaite (R.), The British Moss-Flora, 3 vols., 1887, 128 eng. plts., occasional spotting, orig. gilt cloth gilt, large 8vo, with Berkeley (Rev. M.J.), Outlines of British Fungology; Containing Characters of above a Thousand Species of Fungi., 1860, twenty-four litho plts. (23 hand-col.), orig. cloth gilt, spine faded and loss at head, 8vo, and Handbook of British Mosses; Comprising all that are known to be Natives of the British Isles, 1863, twenty-four litho plts. (23 hand-col.), pubs. ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, joints split and frayed, rubbed, 8vo, plus Stark (Robert M.), A Popular History of British Mosses., 2nd ed., 1860, twenty chromo plts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, square 8vo. (7).

The Gentleman’s Compleat Jockey: With the Perfect Horse-Man and Experienc’d Farrier: Containing I. The Nature of Horses; their Breeding, Feeding and Management. II. The True Method, with Proper Rules and Directions to Order, Diet and Physick. III. the Methods to buy Horses, and Prevent being Cheated. IV. How to make Blazes, Stars and Snips. V. The whole Art of a Farrier, in Curing all Diseases. VI. The Methods of Shooing, Blooding, Rowling., by A.S. Gent., 1st ed., printed for Peter Parker, 1711, folding engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. pubs. list at end, wormtrack to contents and ad. leaves at end, some spotting and browning ‘1d’ manuscript price to title, contemporary calf, neat reback, 12mo. ESTC N483162 only lists one location and states the book is wrongly attributed to Adolphus Speed. (1).

Markham (Gervase). A Way to get Wealth, Containing sixe Principall Vocations, for Callings, in which every good Husband or hu-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves., 4 parts of six only, 10th ed., 1660, few woodcut illusts., general title torn to upper outer corner and lined to verso, two other leaves torn to upper outer corners, occasional marginal repairs, dust-soiling and few marks, 20th c. morocco gilt, 4to (Wing M678), together with Weston (Richard), The Gardener’s and Planter’s Calendar., 2nd ed., 1778, manuscript notes to front free-endpaper, contemp. sheep, torn & scuffed, 12mo, with Cobbett (William), The English Gardener., 1829, some spotting and browning, modern qtr. morocco, 12mo, and Anderson (James), The New Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist, [1872-74], twenty-five chromo plts. (inc. few double-page) and one double-page eng. diag., numerous illusts. to text, a.e.g., contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, 4to, plus six others related. The first title includes Cheape and Good Husbandry for the Well-ordering of all Beast and Fowles and for the General cure of their Diseases, 10th ed., 1660; The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent., 1660; Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry, or, The Enriching of all Sorts of Barren and Sterile Grounds in our Nation., 7th ed., 1660; A New Orchard and Garden., 3rd ed., 1660. (10).

Mudie (Robert). Gilbert’s Modern Atlas of the Earth, c.1820, 263 uncoloured engraved plts. of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, botany and natural phenomena, lacking title, index and maps, some marginal fraying and tears, a few plts. stained and dust soiled, worn and broken, contemp. half morocco gilt, boards and spine covered with adhesive clear plastic, crude manuscript tile to spine, 4to. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1).

Kent. Symonson (Philip), A New Description of Kent., the tractes of Ryuers, Rylles and creeks with the trendinge of the Sea-Shore be more naturally described then heretofore it hath ben done, pub. John Overton, c.1665, hand coloured engraved map on two conjoined sheets, inset views of Rye and Dover Castle, ornate strapwork cartouche, central fold strengthened on verso, occ. repaired marginal closed tears, lower left corner torn with loss and replaced in skilful manuscript facsimile, closed tears affecting image which are professionally repaired on verso, 530 x 780mm (1).

Manuscript map. A finely drawn manuscript twin-hemisphere World map titled “Map of the World from the Best Authorities” by James Fuller, Stockwell, Surrey, 1824, pen and ink on wove paper, four inset geaographical tables, sheet size 318 x 370mm, framed and glazed. Extremely finely and intricately drawn. For details on the calligrapher, see lot 237 in the prints section. (1).

Persia. Arrowsmith (Aaron), Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South, Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm Knight of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion and Sun, By John Macdonald Kinneir, pub. A.Arrowsmith. 1813, engraved folding map, sectionalised and laid on linen, on two sheets, contemp. outline colouring, some offsetting, slight staining and dust soiling, each sheet approx. 945 x 645mm, both inscribed on verso in near contemp. ink manuscript ‘Major Wyndham 67th Foot, 1822’. Colonel Charles Wyndham was commissioned into the army as Cornet with the 10th Light Dragoons in 1811. On the 20th December 1821 he was promoted to Major in the 67th Regiment of Foot. He served under Lord Wellington between 1812 and 1813 during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. (1).

Rennie (John, 1761-1821, canal pioneer). Reports as to the Wisbech Outfall and the Drainage of the North Level and South Holland., with a Statement &c. as to the Drainage of the Fens North of Boston by Anthony Bower: Printed by the Order of the Governor, Baliffs and Conservators of the Bedford Level Corporation, pub. Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1814, calligraphic title page with near contemp. pencil ownership signature, large folding engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, closed tear affecting image, addn. uncoloured folding engraved map, 33 pps. of text, partially uncut, contemp. paper wrappers torn and frayed with slight loss, ownership signature to upper cover, slim 4to, together with Joselyn (John & Jackson Arthur),Plan of the Parish of Stretham in the Isle of Ely, 1835, lithographic ‘enclosure map’ with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1220 x 1050mm, contained in contemp. slip case with later typed label to upper board and spine, biro annotation to recto of slipcase, with Wells (Samuel),To the most Noble The Governor, The Baliffs and Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, This Map of the said Great Level and parts Adjacent is most gratefully Dedicated, pub. G. & J. Cary, 1829, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on line, calligraphic title, heraldic crest and compass rose, some offsetting, some pencil and ink manuscript annotations, 810 x 790mm, marbled end papers, bound in contemp. half morocco gilt, frayed and worn (3).

Calligraphy. Four extremely well executed sheets of calligraphy and geographical tables, drawn by James Fuller and dated 1824-1826, pen & ink, two sheets drawn on Bristol board, two drawn on thick wove paper, comprising a sheet advertising the calligraphic instruction of Mr Fuller, a sheet displaying specimens of various typefaces, a sheet displaying the points of the compass and degrees of the sun, and a sheet of geographical charts showing the relative size of mountains and rivers, 56.3 x 45.5cm or 51.5 x 40.5cm, some light dust-soiling and marks. See the manuscript map in this sale, also by James Fuller. (4).

Indian Erotica. A pair of Indian erotic miniatures, probably late 19th or early 20th c., depicting copulating couples in the composite form of a running elephant and rider, gouache on paper (possibly from an earlier date), one with manuscript text above, 20 x 12cm mount aperture and slightly smaller, framed and glazed, together with a 19th c. Indian mica painting of a Hindu Procession, captioned with title to lower margin, some marks, 16 x 20cm, framed and glazed (3).

Parnell (Charles Stewart, 1846-1891). Letter signed ‘Chas. S. Parnell’, Morrisson’s Hotel, Dublin, 1st September 1882, to F. Boyle O’Reilly, Boston, ‘Allow me to introduce to you Miss Charlotte G. O’Brien - daughter of Mr William Smith O’Brien. Miss O’Brien has been interesting herself very much to secure proper treatment for emigrants at the ports of embarkation, and, also, in transit; and she now thinks of going a step further with the intention of securing [this word a manuscript correction in Parnell’s holograph] comfortable homes for them on their arrival in America. Any assistance or information that you can give her will very much oblige’, 2 pp. on both rectos of a bifolium, black border, 8vo. (1).

Poetry. A manuscript sonnet titled ‘Polite Happiness’, late 19th c., in the hand of the poet Aubrey De Vere (1814-1902), embossed letterhead of Monk Coniston, Ambleside, 1 p. plus integral blank, together with a manuscript poem in the hand of De Vere’s friend the author Henry Taylor (1800-1886), unsigned and untitled, begins ‘And when all hopes that needs must knit with self’, 2 pp., 4to, plus a third manuscript poem identified as in the hand of Mary Ann Browne (1812-1844, poet, married James Grey), titled ‘Music’, 2 pp., closed tear, some browning and creasing, tipped on to an old album leaf, 4to, plus a small group of 19th-c. copy letters, news cuttings, etc., relating to the poet Thomas Gray (8).

Thomson (William, First Baron Kelvin of Largs, 1824-1907). Two autograph letters signed, ‘William Thomson’, The Athanaeum, 10 May 1871, & The University, Glasgow, 11 February 1875, both to Mrs [Archibald] Smith, the first glad to hear that Archie continues to improve, suggesting that June would be the best time for a cruise, the remainder of the letter largely giving details of a boating expedition, including Holy Isle, The Bristol Channel and Plymouth, ‘. on getting out I found the Blue Bell (schooner, 170 tonnes, belonging to an old Glasgow college class fellow of mine, James Stevenson (which had left the Clyde two days after me and was bound for Spain & the Mediterranean). As I passed within short hailing distance they told us they were on the point of sailing for Cadiz. My nephew, Bottomley, and his father were with me and I wished to show them something before sailing for Portsmouth we stood out for the Eddystone [lighthouse] and weathered it very nicely on one long tack sailing quite close to it, and weaving round to the South to return to Plymouth Sound.’, 12 pp., the second beginning, ‘I have had the enclosed proofs for a few days but until today I have not been able to go through them as I wished to do before sending them to you. You will see that I have made two or three slight changes in the manuscript slip you sent me.’, continuing with further information and questions concerning the print run, etc., 4 pp., both 8vo. (2).

Britanny - Church Architecture. A manuscript plan for a church in Brest, to hold 2,500 people, drawn in February 1686 by [Simeon de] Garengeau, pen and ink on paper, signed lower right, sheet size 61 x 46cm, several splits along centrefolds, a little wear with loss at head and to right centrefold and lower left corner, without loss of image, a little soiling and creasing, docketed. The plan refers to the construction of the church Saint-Louis de Brest, conceived and directed by the architect Garengeau (1647-1741). (1).

Cleveland (Grover, 1837-1908). Document signed, ‘Grover Cleveland’, Washington, 4th August 1886, pre-printed document on vellum with embossed presidential seal, completed in manuscript and appointing Robert Charles Clipperton as ‘Consul of Her Britannic Majesty, for the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, to Reside at Philadelphia’, signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard, minor marks, 48 x 58cm, together with a pamphlet titled England and America. Speech of Hon. M. Russell Thayer at the Dinner Given May 27, 1898, by Citizens of Philadelphia to Captain Robert C. Clipperton, British Consul at Philadelphia, on the Occasion of His Retirement from Office, Printed by Request, [1898], 12 pp., related news cutting pasted to final blank, orig. printed wrappers, sewn as issued, somewhat soiled and heavy vertical crease throughout, covers detached, slim 8vo. Captain Robert Charles Clipperton (1830-1913) entered the Austrian army as a cadet in April 1848 and served in the 10th and 21st Battalions of Rifles. He fought with them during the campaign in Italy in 1848-9 and was present at the battle of Novara at the siege of Venice. He also served with the 12th Hussars and the 1st Hussars of the British German Legion. His diplomatic career began when he was nominated Vice-Consul at Theodosia, in the Crimea, in February 1858. He held various other posts before moving to America in October 1879, finally retiring on a pension in 1898. (2).