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Medieval manuscript in Latin on a single folio leaf of vellum written in an attractive hand with a few calligraphic embellishments

Trade Ephemera manuscript letter to a Linen Draper in New Bond Street dated 1838 ordering material and affixing a sample to the end of the letter together with a modern printed advert for the firm

Coal mining fine series of manuscript letters to Edward Plunkett owner of Belton Colliery in Durham being the regular reports on the progress of the mining activity at the colliery as well as engineering and other problems being tackled 1849. ...in the hurry of making up the estimate of savings to be effected by underground engine the other day I omitted to deduct from the annual savings the amount of stock ie horses sold which ought to be done so far as regards the 14 horses but calculating that more will be required as advance and that those already in use would require replacing... These letters provide a vivid picture of the ruthless nature of the coal barons at the height of the industrial revolution : ...now as to houses it will be well enough to build when cheap houses can no longer be got but my opinion is that we must first exterminate all our neighbours such as Adam and Frizell who both occupy a number of houses close to us by buying up all we can get which they now occupy. They are both very great nuisances to me and more especially so as their score juices are higher ...on one important occasion... Easton sent his band of music up and spent a good deal in liquor at one of the public houses with the view as we thought of enticing our hands from being bound for the 12 months. Once let us exterminate them from the neighbourhood and they cannot build on our coal or rather they would not in case we should undermine them...

Reade (Aleyn Lyell). The Reades of Blackwood Hill in the Parish of Horton, Staffordshire. A Record of their Descendents, with a Full Account of Dr. Johnson’s Ancestry, His Kinsfolk and Family Connexions, privately printed for the author, 1906, b & w illusts., folding genealogical tables, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little worn on spine, 4to, (350 copies printed), together with Banners, Standards and Badges from a Tudor Manuscript in the College of Arms, with an Introduction by Lord Howard de Walden, pub. The de Walden Library, 1904, col. frontis., num. b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little worn, 4to, and other miscellaneous books, mostly history and related, all ex-lib. copies with usual marks (3 shelves)

Williams (Rev. Jonathan, and Davies, Edwin). A General History of the County of Radnor Illustrated with Numerous Engravings of County Mansions, Public Men, Family Arms, etc. Compiled from the Manuscript of the Late Rev. Jonathan Williams, A.M., and other Sources, by Edwin Davies, of Brecon, pub. Brecknock, 1905, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, joints split and worn, thick 4to, together with Wynne (Sir John), The History of the Gwydir Family, pub. Oswestry, 1878, port. frontis., b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt (fore-edge of upper cover a little damp stained), 4to, plus Lloyd (John), The Early History of the Old South Wales Iron Works (1762 to 1840), pub. 1906, b & w illusts., t.e.g., near-contemp. red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, some wear to extremities, 4to, with other miscellaneous books, mostly Welsh and agricultural interest (6 shelves)

"16th/17thC, rare Elizabethan manuscript with text to front and verso and three suspended wax seals"

Manuscript.- Choirbook single leaf from a very large Latin manuscript on vellum 11 and 15 lines of text written in black ink in a regular liturgical hand 5 initials in red or blue with pen-and-ink decoration in the contrasting colour recto with 3 lines of music on a 5-line red stave framed and glazed 535 x 380 mm. ?Spain sixteenth century.

Hottinger (Johann Heinrich) Archaeologica Oriental 2 parts in 1 volume 150pp. irregular pagination but complete some browning bookplate of R.M.Burrell contemporary limp vellum manuscript title to spine 8vo Heidelberg Samuel Browne 1662. *** A work that discusses amongst other things middle-eastern religion and the nature of Islam as well as giving a survey of Eastern churches. Hottinger was a Swiss theologian and oriental scholar. Both parts contains sections in arabic type.

Hebrew. Biblia Hebraica sine punctis edited by G. Hebrew. Biblia Hebraica sine punctis edited by G. Desmarestz (or Maresius) slightly browned shorthand manuscript notes on front free endpaper margins a little trimmed later pane;lled calf corners bumped slightly rubbed spine laid down lackks head of spine [D&M 5139] 12mo [Amsterdam] 1701.

Bythnerus (Victorinus) Lyra Prophertica Davidis Re title in red and black title browned and frayed and half loose little staining elsewhere manuscript Irish school prize inscription on rear endpapers contemporary panelled calf worn hinge cracked 4to Jacob Flesher 1664 § Fleetwood (William) A Compleat Collection of the Sermons Tracts and Pieces of all Kinds 2 pp. advertisments at end title creased bookplate of the earl of Roden free endpaper all but loose contemporary calf worn front cover damaged hinges cracked folio D. Midwinter [et al.] 1737 § Heath (Thomas) An Essay towards a New English Verrsion of the Book of Job free endpaper all but loose contemporary calf worn spine defective hinges cracked 4to A. Millar & S. Baker 1756 § Book of Common Prayer (The) lacks a1 upper corner of title and next f. defective title restored contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt `J.ABBOTT` on upper cover little rubbed g.e. Cambridge J.Baskerville 1760 and 2 others religion 8vo (6).

(Rev George)] Tales of the Great St. Bernard 3 vo (Rev George)] Tales of the Great St. Bernard 3 vol first edition half-titles to vol. 2 and 3 as issued 3pp. advertisements at end of vol. 3 foxed manuscript circulating library list on front pastedown of vol. 1 ink signature on front free endpapers hinges weak uncut in original cloth-backed boards covers foxed and marked printed paper spine labels spines a little rubbed and faded some joints splitting modern slip-case [Sadleir 662; Loeber p.328; Wolff 1634] 1828 § [Richer (Adrien)] Great Events from Little Causes ink signature on title margins browned lacking front free endpaper and advertisements at end p.101 torn with slight loss of text contemporary calf gilt slightly rubbed and a little faded joints splitting F. Newbery 1767 8vo & 12mo (4)(4)

Smith (John Thomas) Nollekens and his times.... 2 vol. first edition engraved portrait (lightly foxed and offset on title) later manuscript notes on rear free endpapers engraved bookplate of Ethel Mary Portal contemporary calf Garter arms in gilt on upper covers slightly rubbed rebacked with gilt spines and black morocco labels 8vo 1828.*** A fascinating comment on the artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in London. Of particular interest is the account of William Blake one of the earliest of its kind and the listing of his books and prints in the collection of Richard Thomson. Apparently Evelyn Waugh`s favourite book.

Manuscript.- Farjeon Archive of papers and corresp (Eve Annabel writer critic and dancer ) including: autograph manuscripts typescripts correspondence theatre programmes etc. v.s. v.d. [twentieth century] (3 boxes)(qty)

Manuscript.- Calligraphy Clarke (M. Fenemore calligrapher). Cattafi (Bartola). Domani aprieremo l`arancia... single f. in black and red ink Italian text with interlinear English translation framed and glazed 325 x 225 mm. late twentieth-century.

[Dubroca (Louis)] Life of Bonaparte engraved frontispiece original boards paper spine uncut as issued slightly worn book-plate to front paste-down contemporary signature to front free end-paper 1802 § De Segur (General Count Philip) History of the Expedition to Russia...by...Napoleon 2 vol sixth edition original cloth backed boards paper labels rubbed 1827 § O`Meara (Barry) Napoleon in Exile 2 vol sixth edition frontispiece and engraved title later half calf 1829 § Mitchell (J.) The Fall of Napoleon 3 vol first edition original cloth 1845 § A General Officer Campaign of General Bonaparte in Italy 1796-7 second edition corrected frontispiece folding map original cloth rebacked Edinburgh 1800 § Fain (Baron) The Manuscript of 1814....the Abdication of Napoleon frontispiece folding map contemporary diced calf rebacked original spine laid-down new end-papers contemporary booksellers ticket slightly worn 1923 § De Bourrienne (M.) Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte 4 vol illustrations some damp-staining contemporary half calf slightly rubbed 1836; and a quantity of others similar v.s.(Qty). (Qty)

Air Pictorial, vol. 1 no. 3, 1941 to vol. 48 no. 12, 1986, a complete run lacking only the first two issues of this journal which began under the title Air Training Corps Gazette, b&w illusts., orig. colour printed wrappers, 1st issue (vol. 1 no. 3), lacks wrappers and with some sl. fraying and sellotape repairs to spine, occ. other soiling or creasing and occ. closed tears, some years with supplements, and all loosely contained in pubs. ring binders with manuscript nos. to spines, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to. Captain W. E. Johns was a regular contributor of Biggles’ stories for the early issues of this magazine. (2)

* The Brackley Archive. A fascinating and important archive of approx. 230 manuscript letters written by Herbert Brackley to his wife, Frida, the first from Kamakura, Japan, dated 6 May 1921, the last from Christiansborg Castle, Accra, Gold Coast, dated 22 October 1948, together with an almost complete run of his pocket diaries from 1922 to 1948 (lacking only 1930), containing meticulous daily detail, mostly in pencil, also approx. 180 vintage b & w photographs of various sizes (some captioned), plus a good group of ninety-eight items of paperwork relating to Brackley’s time in Japan with the British Aviation Mission, c. 1920-23, and a further group of forty-two items of paperwork c. 1933-39 (including many telegrams) relating to his time with Imperial Airways. After the sudden death of her husband, Frida, was persuaded by his many friends and acquaintances to take the matter of his memoirs in hand and eventually, in 1952, she managed to publish a substantial tome entitled Brackles. Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation, based mainly on extracts from his letters and diaries, a copy of which is included in this lot. (1)

Italy. Notiziario di Aeronautica No.2, Agosto, 1923, Commissariato dell’ Aeronautica, 136pp., photographs captioned in manuscript, folding blue diagramatic plans of aircraft, technical drawings etc., typescript text, some spotting, original wrapper, light spots, folio. Provenance: Caproni Library (label to cover). (1)

* WWII - RAF 303 Polish (F) Squadron. A group of three pilot’s flying logbooks belonging to F/O B. Zborowski, covering the period 9th March 1943 to 30th January 1946, initially showing training then including flights to Sywell, Newton, Cranwell and a few others, plus Tiger Moth, Master III, Spitfires I, II & V, printed tables neatly completed in ink manuscript with occ. stamps and pict. cuttings, orig. cloth, soiled and sl. frayed, 4to, together with a small quantity of approx. fourteen related items including receipts, personal letters, etc., plus a group of sixteen Polish air force journals, c. 1970s-1980s, orig. printed wrappers, 8vo (approx. 30)

* Flight Helmet. A scarce mid 20th c. Pilot’s High Altitude Helmet type “E”, c. 1960s, Reference No 22C/2095 “Taylor Pressure Helmet” No 870 - size Medium, fibreglass shell with applied makers logo transfers and manuscript serial numbers inscribed “PPH 123/256.78.11”, having padded and lined interior, complete with inbuilt oxygen mask with connecting supply-tube, head-phones & intercom with connecting jack-plug lead etc, zip closure to neck fitting with retaining lanyard, sealed clear vizor with tinted over-shield and protective cover, contained in original makers fitted hard carrying-case with lock and leather strap handle, together with related “Restricted” test-check data sheets and annotated check-list etc. dated 1960 (1)

* RAF. A group of personal memorabilia relating to Group-Captain W.A.Toyne DFC (1917-1994), including silver-plated cigarette-box commemorating his service career, engraved & inscribed 1936-1967, rare original Commission certificate as acting Pilot-Officer, signed by the newly-crowned King inscribed “George R.I.” in red ink (faded) with gilt title, printed and manuscript format with inked signatories of F.W. Bowhill and Donald Banks “by His Majesty’s Command” for the Air Council dated 1937, also with a Graduate Diploma Certificate from USAF War College dated 1954, a printed armorial crest for 213 Fighter Squadron, together with War Service medals group including France & Germany star with Battle of Britain clasp, Aircrew Europe star etc sundry related badges and ephemera including invitation to Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace dated 1972 (-)

* WWI Imperial German Air Force souvenir. A rare early fragment section from a downed German aeroplane, c. 1917, a part section of wooden panelled fuselage believed from an L.V.G. type aeroplane, of thin three-ply laminate featuring a black painted Balkan cross with white border edging on lacquered natural wood surface, and with indelible inked manuscript annotation verso inscribed “Taken from a downed German Scout Cambrai May 1917” (1)

* WWI - Royal Navy. The manuscript diary of A. F. B. Woodhouse [Commander Alfred Frederick Bell Woodhouse], 18th June to 16th August 1911, and 15th May 1914 to 11th April 1915, a total of approx. 86 pp., seemingly written up in occasional bursts, beginning on board HMS Fantome on the North West Coast of Australia, then skipping to HMS Research in May 1914 before joining HMS King Alfred on August 4th 1914, then with much patrolling in Scapa Flow, etc., on 29th August reporting ‘Sighted Drake in dog watches. She told us that BCS had had a scrap on Friday morning with a good deal of success. Light cruisers, destroyers and one BCS raided near Helgoland & intercepted German miners & destroyers returning on Friday early. Result: two German L.Cruisers & two destroyers sunk ...’, on 1st September, ‘At 6.30 suddenly sounded off Night Defence station. Falmouth had seen a submarine following the Galy (?) into harbour and had waited til her connig tower came up & then fired at her. She says she hit her twice ... we left at midnight after the battle fleet had left’, contemp. cloth with ownership name to upper cover, soiled and worn, 8vo, together with a group of forty-four mostly postcard size b&w photos relating to the Zeebrugge Raid of 1918, a little creased and soiled, uncaptioned and with no details to versos (45)

Drayton (Michael). Poly-Olbion or a Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests and other parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, 1st. ed., 1613, elaborate engraved title page, half title with near contemp. manuscript signatures, two engraved portraits of Prince Henry, very occ. repairs to text, sparse marginalia, lacking all maps, a.e.g., later moiré silk endpapers, book plate of the Earl of Cromer to front paste down, later crimson blind stamped morocco with gilt dec. spine, bumped at extrems., 4to (1)

Langley (Batty). The Plan of Windsor Castle, 1743, one b & w folding engraved plan with history and explanation and four b & w engraved folding views (complete), occ. marginal closed tears, slight dust soiling, slight marginal finger staining, orig. limp card wrappers, near contemp. manuscript ‘1’ to centre of upper board, worn and frayed, slim folio. Scarce. Held by only two British institutions. (1)

Nicolson (Joseph & Burn, Richard). The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, 2 vols., 1777, two folding eng. maps, numerous manuscript annotations and pen & ink armorials to margins, repaired closed-tear to lower outer corner of pp.183/184 in vol. 1, 19th c. calf by Riviere, elaborate gilt dec. spines with contrasting morocco labels to spines, joints cracked and extrems. rubbed, upper board of vol. 2 slightly dampstained and detached, 4to. Upcott p.1283. (2)

Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Stafford-Shire by Robert Plot, LLD., Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and Professor of Chymistry in the University of Oxford, 1st ed., Printed at the Theatre, Oxford, 1686, title page with engraved vignette of Pallas Athena in front of the Sheldonian, lacking map, thirty-seven b & w eng. plts. including twenty-six double page or folding, list of subscribers to rear, final plt. of Cavers Wall Castle possibly taken from another copy, heraldic armes plate replaced in old facsimile, front end paper with ink manuscript ownership signature to verso, contemp. mottled calf with gilt label to spine, joints partially cracked, rubbed and worn at extrems., folio (1)

Parker (Thomas Netherson). An Essay on the Construction, Hanging, and Fastening of Gates, 2nd ed., improved and enlarged, printed by C. Whittingham, for Lackington, Allen, 1804, six folding eng. plts., manuscript footnote by the author to verso of O2 (p.100), some light marginal spotting, bound with An Essay on the Construction, Hanging and Fastening of a Turnpike Gate, Turn-Wicket, &c., 1st ed., printed and published by Price, Oswestry ..., 1816, single folding eng. plt. (some light spotting and offsetting to facing leaf), marbled endpapers, with bookplate of Arthur Philip Lloyd to front pastedown, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine with black morocco labels, stamped in gilt to upper cover I. A. Lloyd E Dono Auctoris, sl. rubbed to joints and edges (generally a very good copy), 8vo. A scarce and unusual work on the use of gates in agriculture. (1)

La Quintinye (Jean de). Trattato del Taglio degl’ Alberi Fruttiferi, Bassano, 1697, engraved frontispiece, eleven folding engraved plates, light dampstain, wormtracks to rear pastedown, bookplate, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, loss to lower portion of spine, 8vo. Henrey 219 (first English edition). (1)

Platt (Sir Hugh). The Garden of Eden: Or, an Accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now Growing in England, with Particular Rules how to Advance their Nature and Growth, as well in Seeds and Herbs, as the Secret Ordering of Trees and Plants, 2 parts in one, 6th ed., 1675, woodcut initials, occasional small wormtracks, a few spots, manuscript note to front blank, 19th c. half calf, 8vo. This is Floraes Paradise (1608), republished with the new title ‘The Garden of Eden’. Wing P2388. (1)

Plinius (Gauis Secundus, The Elder). The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, Translated into English by Philemon Holland, 2 vols. in one, 2nd ed., 1634, titles with woodcut device, first title laid down with loss, lacking dedication and preface, b4, L6, N6 foredge margins trimmed, affecting some text, sections of pp.17-19 overlaid with manuscript annotation, some marginal repairs, occasional dampstains and marginal worming, bookplate, contemporary calf, old repairs, rubbed, folio. STC 20030. (1)

Society of Gentlemen. The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry in all its Branches; Containing the Various Methods of Cultivating and Improving every Species of Land, According to the Precepts of Both the Old and New Husbandry, 4th ed., Considerably Improved and Greatly Enlarged, [1793], engraved frontispiece, 34 engraved plates, lacking edition statement at front?, some manuscript notes loosely bound in, a few light spots, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original spine, folio (1)

[Fairbairn, John]. A Treatise upon Breeding, Reading and Feeding Cheviot and Black-Faced Sheep in High Districts. With some Account of and a Complete Cure for, that Fatal Malady the Rot. Together with Observations upon Laying out and Conducting a Store Farm, by a Lammermuir Farmer, printed for the author, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1823, 196pp., contemporary signature of William James to title, with his 4pp. manuscript index inserted after Contents leaf and occasional marginalia, bookplate, original boards, lightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

Livonia. Seutter (Georg Matthaus), Livoniae et Curlandiae Ducatus cum insulis adjacentib Mappa Geographica Exhibiti, Augsberg, c.1730, engraved map with bright original hand colouring, decorative b & w cartouche and mileage scale, 490 x 580mm, together with, Ortelius (Abraham), Livonia, c.1595, uncoloured engraved minature map, 80 x 110mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, with, Weigel (Christoph), Livoniae et Curlandiae Tabula, Nuremberg, c. 1724, engraved map with original hand colouring, near contemp. ink manuscript on verso causing very slight show-through, 335 x 400mm, mounted, plus, Mercator (Gerard & Hondius Henricus), Livonia, c.1637, hand coloured engraved map, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 150 x 190mm, English text on verso, mounted. The maps show the area of modern day Latvia and Estonia. (4)

*Art, Artists, & Calligraphy. A group of approx. forty letters, etc., 19th & 20th c., including letters from the artists Clarkson Stansfield, Herbert Herkomer, E. L. Sambourne, W. P. Frith, John Brett, Frederick Leighton, John Collier, William Holman Hunt, Luke Fildes, Henry Weekes, John Adams-Acton, Henry Charles Fehr, et al, plus letters from collectors, art dealers and curators including Philip Davis, Richard Wallace, Charles Eastlake, to Henry Pickering, portrait painter, 1761, a small calligraphic manuscript with illumination, 19th century, pages from an early printed work on calligraphy, with early 17th c. manuscript annotations, receipts for mixing colours, a few drawings and watercolours, including a pen and ink sketch by Edward Austin Abbey (a folder)

Manuscript receipt book. A late 17th century manuscript containing medical and culinary receipts, in more than one hand, containing 49pp. medical remedies, with 4pp. index (first leaf with tape repair at gutter obscuring some of ms.), and 8pp. recipes, one or two dated 1691, remainder of vol. filled with sermons and religious writings (approx. 230pp.), stitching broken and some leaves detached (some minor fraying), front free endpaper with early ms. names and ink trials, orig. blind-panelled calf, rubbed and worn, with covers detached, sm. 4to. With recipes such as: How to make Almond Knots; To make fruit Bisket; To make a Coller of Boif; To make the ffrench Barly Creame; To make a Sack posset, and medical receipts such as: To make an oyntment for the Rickets; ffor deafness; To make the Pheasant water for a Consumption; To make the Plague water; A medicom to hinder a woman from miscaring; To bring a way the after burden or a dead childe; An admirable oyl for green wounds never so great, made with little cost; To cure those that are bitten with a mad Dogg; To make the Red water good for meazells or small pox. (1)

*Napoleon I (Emperor, 1769-1821). Document signed ‘Bonaparte’ as First Consul, Paris, 3 Ventemiaire an dix [25th September 1801], printed document with eng. vign. at head, completed in manuscript and conferring upon Louice Blanchet with the first company of the second battalion of the 108.1/2 brigade ‘un fusil d’honneur’ for his actions and integrity on more than one occasion, papered seal at foot, counter signatures of the secretary of state and the minister for the navy in the colonies, minor soiling, horizontal brown line near head of document, 35 x 44 cm (1)

*Naval and Military. A small group of mostly naval and military ephemera, mostly 19th c., including a sheet of signals with hand colours flag, a contemp. manuscript copy of a report of HMS Revenge from Admiral Sir Philip Durham, 30th May 1837, a copy of [Baker, Samuel], a few words of advice to the mariners of England and enterprising youths inclined for the sea service ..., by a seaman’s friend, 1854, woodcut vign. to title, 12 pp., sewn as issued, a litho. plan of the East Gloucestershire Railway, c. 1860, plus newscuttings, etc. (a folder)

Naval. Journal and Remark Book. For the Use of the Offices of H.M. Navy, belonging to Lieut C.R. de C. Foot, 2 vols., 1885-1889, together two manuscript journal and log books, each approx. 180pp. (some leaves blank), giving details of voyages to Madeira, Barbados, Trinidad, Bermuda, Majorca, Naples, Corfu, Algiers, Gibraltar, Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, Hong Kong, Nagasaki, Malta, Scilly Islands, Vesuvius, etc., aboard H.M.S. Rover, H.M.S. Cordelia, H.M.S. Leander, H.M.S. Constance, with numerous other vessels mentioned, incl. a number of leaves in which Lieut. Foot describes some months aboard a torpedo boat and its operations, marbled endpapers, orig. half morocco, rubbed and marked, extrems. sl. worn, 4to. An early account of torpedo experiments, as well as many other fascinating details of Lieutenant Foot’s travels. For example, on 1st January 1886 he documents plans for the future occupation of St. Lucia, which place was to be improved by bringing in a number respectable English families, and on 21st March 1886 a shark was caught and cut open to reveal ‘2 tins of preserved meat, 2 hams in bags, and several pieces of pork & several large bones’. There are many accounts of stormy weather, hardships, deaths and sea burials, as well as visits from royalty and important officers. (2)

*[Nelson]. A fragile manuscript proporting a draft epitaph on Lord Nelson by Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner (1764-1843), ‘Here lies Admiral Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson whose victories as wide as his fame who almost annialated the enemy’s fleets in the Battle of Nile, Copenhagen & Trafalgar, who took as many ships of the line as he was years old & who by his death caused his Country to lament a glorious Victory & has engrafted in the Navy of England the claims for honor. He died 1805 aged 50. Here lies Admiral H. V. Nelson, let aboukir, Copenhagen & Trafalgar tell the rest. He died 1805 aged -’ and on page two, ‘Here lies Adm. Horatio Lord Visct. Nelson of the Nile, he was killed - aged -. The Victorious and Pious Nelson lies here’, and underneath in a later hand ‘Attempts of Sir Hilgrove Turner, Secretary to King George the Fourth to write an epitaph on Lord Nelson as requested by the King’, paper very browned and with several horizontal splits along chain lines, approx. 20 x 13 cm. Turner was an Army Officer and Courtier who held a succession of royal appointments at Court. From 1803 he was groom of the Bedchamber to George III, and was keeper of the King’s collection of prints. In 1809 he became gentleman attendant to George, Prince of Wales and was for many deputy secretary to the Prince at Carlton House. (1)

Apuleius (Lucius). Les Metamorphoses, ou L’Asne d’Or de L. Apulee Philosophe Platonicien. Nouvellement reveues, corrigées, & mises en meilleur ordre qu’aux precedentes impressions, Paris, chez Nicolas & Iean de la Coste, 1648, add. eng. title (close-trimmed to fore-edge), just touching eng. surface, twelve eng. plts., somewhat close-trimmed, occ. touching plate margin, a.e.g., 19th c. gilt-dec. red morocco, rubbed to joints, and extrems., 8vo. Ex libris Reginald Hebert, Bishop of Calcutta (1783-1826). With manuscript note in his hand to front endpaper ‘Pennicotts Sale [1811]. The best account of Banks and his famous Morocco is to be found according to Mr. Douce, Illusts. of Shakespeare, vol. 2, p. 212, in the notes to this translation of Apuleius by Jean de Montyard, which was first printed in 1602, 8vo, & several times afterwards’. Bookplate of Kenneth Clark, Saltwood to front pastedown. (1)

Guicciardini (Francesco). The Historie of Guicciardin, Containing the Warres of Italie ..., reduced into English by Geffray Fenton, 3rd ed., diligently revised, with restitution of a digression towards the end of the 4th booke, which had bene formerly effaced out of the Italian and Latine copies in all the late editions, imprinted by Richard Field, 1618, A1 (blank) present, title with printer’s woodcut device, contemp. mottled full calf gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extrems., folio. With manuscript shelf-mark of the Earl of Shaftesbury to front pastedown. (1)

Herodotus (of Halicarnassus). Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiae lib. IX. & de vita Homeri libellus. Illi ex interpretatione Laur. Vallae adscripta, hic ex interpret..., Ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Icones quarunda memorabiliu structuraru. Apologia Henr. Stephani pro Herodoto..., [Geneve]: Henricus Stephanus, 1566, printers woodcut device to title, two folding woodcut plts. with letterpress (one with short closed tear), title with small hole and early ink annotations & marks, early ink annotations and underscoring throughout, some minor worming to margins throughout volume, occ. minor dampstaining, fraying and consequent slight loss to lower margins at front of volume, later endpapers incorporating early vellum manuscript strips, contemp. calf, old reback with some loss of leather to spine, lower joint cracked and upper board detached, worn, folio. Adams 403. (1)

Paris (Matthew). Historia Major, Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa ..., 2 parts in one, 1640, half-title with eng. port. to verso, title printed in red and black, a few minor marks, and some staining to extreme fore-edges of last few leaves at rear of vol., contemp. sprinkled calf with raised bands to spine, rubbed and some wear, portion to head of spine missing, thick folio. STC19210. With manuscript shelf mark of the library of the Earls of Shaftesbury to front endpaper. (1)

Pelletier (Ambroise). Nobiliaire, ou Armorial General de la Lorraine et du Parrois, en forme de Dictionnaire, vol. 1 [all pub.], Nancy, 1758, half-title, title printed in red and black, approx. 1700 wood eng. illusts. of coats-of-arms to outer margins throughout, all with later hand-colouring by Jacques Francois Joseph de Faulx (born 1741), occ. early ink annotations, with ink annotations by De Faulx to front endpaper and half-title, including a somewhat crude painted armorial of the De Faulx coat-of-arms, and stating this volume was purchased in Metz, and that it was ‘mis en couleur par M. De Faulx procureur du Roi et terminé le 12 Mars 1826’, contemp. mottled calf, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed and some wear to edges, joints cracked, thick folio. Guigard 2681. A fine copy with attractive early colouring, of the first edition of Pelletier’s major work on heraldry, including the rare supplement and errata. Pelletier’s projected second volume remained in manuscript form, and was only published in facsimile in 1974. (1)

Waterloo. Souvenir de Waterloo [so titled on upper cover], c. 1820s, an album of fourteen litho. views and partly coloured large folding plan, some plates numbered and some with imprint of de Jobard, two with marginal repairs, several with ink notes relating to visits to Waterloo, several related news cuttings pasted onto margins and endpapers, occ. spotting and soiling, bookplate of W. J. Cole [Royal Navy], contemp. cloth with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, together with two advertising flyers for the Field of Waterloo, plus three manuscript diaries by members of the Cole family relating to trips to Europe in 1847, 1852 and 1854, including a visit to Waterloo by Cole and his two daughters Mary and Jane, a total of approx. 250 pp., contemp. qtr. roan over marbled boards, rubbed, small 4to, plus James (William), The Naval History of Great Britain ..., new ed., 6 vols., 1826, some spotting, bookplate of W. J. Cole, orig. cloth with printed paper labels to spine, faded and worn with some loss and a few spines det., 8vo (12)

Watson (James). The Spirit of the Doctor; Comprising many Interesting Poems; Selected from the Original Manuscript of the Late Mr. James Watson, Formerly Librarian of the Portico, in Manchester; and Commonly Called Doctor Watson..., and to which are Subjoined the Humors of Trim, Manchester: printed for the editors, by George Cave, 1820, litho port. frontis., occ. spotting, few marks and some browning (particularly to margins), Portico Library bookplate to front pastedown, early 20th c. half morocco, joints cracked and extrems. rubbed, 8vo, together with Taylor (William), The Dreaming Girl and Other Poems, pub. Manchester & London, 1841, eng. dedication leaf, blind library stamps to numerous pages, ink library stamp to tissue guard, upper inner hinge cracked, a.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, upper joints cracked and slight wear, library label at foot of spine, 8vo, with [Shaw, John Begg], Sonnets and Other Poems by Sigma, Manchester: Hale & Roworth, 1863, blind library stamps throughout, library bookplate to upper pastedown, hinges cracked, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, with Paynter (D.W.), The Muse in Idleness, pub. Manchester, 1819, closed-tear to title (ink library stamp and repair to verso), numerous blind library stamps throughout, later cloth, 8vo, and Mounsey (Archibald B.), The Dream; and other Poems, London & Rochdale, 1851, blind library stamp to title, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, paper library lable at foot of spine, slight wear to extrems., 8vo, plus other similar ex-library 19th c. provincially printed poetry (39)

A QUR`AN, probably 17th Century, with Arabic manuscript on paper in original leather binding, 6 3/4" x 4 1/2"

TWO PERSIAN/KASHMIRI ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT LEAFS, 19th Century, gouache on paper, each with Nasta`liq script, depicting a battle scene and the companion courtiers, each in Sedeli type frames, approximately 9" x 6 1/2" and 8" x 6"

A World War I Gallantry & Casualty medal group awarded to 13827 Private later Corporal then Sergeant Robert Edward Pickens of the 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment comprising The Military Medal for bravery in the field, 1914-15 Star, 1914-18 Medal and Great War for Civilisation Medal. Corporal Pickens was mentioned in the London Gazette dated 9th December 1916 where he was awarded the Military Medal. He was killed on the 28th October 1918 and is buried at Auberchicourt British Cemetery, memorial reference IV.B.16. He was the son of Samuel Robert and Katherine Pickens of 62 Duke Street, Old Trafford, Manchester, also included in this lot is an illuminated manuscript awarded to Sergeant R E Pickens by the Urban District Council of Stretford where it was decided at a meeting on the 3rd day of June 1919 to present his family with a memorial commemorating his Military Medal. Please note that the spelling of Sergeant Pickens is different on the edges of the medals than that of his real name, presumably due to clerking error, this lot is accompanied by some research (illustrated)

Autographed letters from the British managerial greats Sir Alf Ramsey and Bill Shankly, the Ramsey letter in typescript on Football Association headed paper dated 30th May 1972, addressed to Sportsmedia Ltd and regarding an agreement for the 1974 World Cup, signed in black ink; the Shankly letter in manuscript and dated in wartime on Christmas Day 1941, sent from RAF Bowles near Manchester, and being a reply to a piece of fan mail (2)

A signed manuscript letter from John Gully dated 7th March 1836 and addressed to Joseph Hume MP, the letter from the celebrated boxer, racehorse owner and MP for Pontefract, addressed from 3 Queen Square, Westminster, and reading: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 4th inst. and will thank you to furnish me with the names of the committee of the Reform Club. Respecting the politics of Mr Atkinson and Mr Tanfield I know them to be good substantial Reformers. The latter gentleman resides at Maldon, voted for Mr Lennard. He is a man of very large Property and married the sister of the Clergyman of Maldon. He was once very fond of the Turf but has retired many years ago. I never heard a whisper against him in any way. Mr Atkinson is a Widower who formerly lived in Kent but lately lost his wife and broke up his establishment, lives upon his fortune, never was in any kind of business that I am aware of. I forgot .. the name of the place he resided ... at this moment. I will let you know. Both these gentlemen with Mr Tempest(?) at my request allowed me to put their names down as candidates for the old Reform Club. I did not do so when I found the charge that was about to take place. I am my dear sir yours faithfully, John Gully.

A group of 109 b&w press photographs relating to horse racing in Uruguay mostly from the late 1940s and 1950s, backstamps and manuscript captions, many sized ready for publication. various dimensions (qty. approx 109)

Miscellaneous racing memorabilia, including: a dinner menu at the Ritz Hotel, 20th April 1921, to congratulate Mr Tom M McAlpine owner of the Grand National Winner `Shaun Spadah`; Derby Club Dinner Menus at the Savoy Hotel for 1935 & 1952; an engraving of the trophies on offer at Ascot in 1855; various ephemera including an old autographed manuscript letter from John Bell, Hon. Sec. of Carlisle Racecourse; miscellaneous prints & bookplates; a John Oaksey-signed b&w press photograph of him jumping the last at Sandown to win on Carrickbeg in 1964; a signed typescript letter from Brough Scott dated 19th May 1981; the very first edition of the Racing Post 15th April 1986 and the Sporting Life carrying the story of Lester Piggott`s [first] retirement in 1985; and a qty. of photographs including press issues with captions to the reverse and some glass photographic slides (a qty.)

A trophy, medals and photographs relating to the professional golfer Jack Bloxham, comprising: an Elkington silver miniature replica of the Dunlop Challenge Cup, inscribed with details of Bloxham`s victory in the Midland Professional Foursomes in 1926, on ebonised base, overall height 10cm., 4in.; together with five medals, the first three in gold and in original cases, awarded for the P.G.A. Midland Foursomes of 1911 of issue) and for Warwickshire County Representation in 1921 & 1924; the fourth medal in silver for the PGA Midland Section Autumn Meeting of 1911; the other in gilt-metal for the PGA 1919 Victory Tournament; together with three period mounted photographs featuring golf in The Midlands, one being a line-up of Midlands-based professional golfers including Bloxham, manuscript legend below, the other portraying a group of professional and the membership at Coventry (Finham Park) Golf Cub; the lot also including Bloxham`s Royal Warwickshire regimental badge, in a leather pouch. Jack Bloxham was a member of the Professional Golfers` Association from 1902, a year after the organisation was founded. His first appointment was at Warwickshire Golf Club from 1897 to 1908. He then moved to Leamington & County between 1908 and 1918, before settling at Coventry GC during the inter-wars years. Notable performances by Bloxham would include the 1926 PGA Matchplay Championship when he finished runner-up to Open Championship winner Sandy Herd at Royal Mid-Surrey. He won the PGA Midland Foursomes in 1911 and the Midlands Foursomes of the Dunlop Challenge Cup in 1926. Bloxham always wore distinctive white kid leather shoes on the golf course, the choice of footwear a result of suffering from polio in childhood.

An autograph album including the signatures of the British Lions rugby team to South Africa in 1924, neatly signed in ink to one page with manuscript legend, the album compiled in Bloemfontein, South Africa, also including the Western Province Touring Team of 1921, the New Zealand Military Rugby Team of 1919, also the English Soccer Team of 1920, the Western Province Soccer Team of 1926, the British Swimming Team of 1929 and the Holland Lady Swimmers of 1931, the album containing various other non-sporting autographs including actors and entertainers, Harry Lauder, Allen Doone, Thurston Hall, Ward McAlister, Zildah Bateman, Amy Coleridge, George de Lara, Douglas Burbridge etc., and the Sistine Chapel Choir soloists. It was on the 1924 tour of South Africa that the nickname the `Lions` was first coined, picked out from the heraldic beast on their neck ties. The official name was the British Isles Rugby Union Team. The team was captained by Ronald Cove-Smith and has the unenviable record of being the least successful Lions team to have toured South Africa, recording only nine victories from their 21 matches played. These autographs were collected on the occasion of the Orange Free State match on 9th August 1924, a game the Lions lost 6-3. By the First World War, South Africa and New Zealand had established themselves as world rugby`s two greatest powers. The tour of South Africa by The NewZealand Army Rugby Team in 1919 paved the way for a Springbok Tour of New Zealand in 1921, which was billed as "The World Championship of Rugby." Several members of the NZ Army team went on to become All Blacks internationals. The F.A. touring England soccer team of 1920 included the internationals Ephraim Longworth & Jack Bamber (Liverpool), Joe Smith (Bolton), Bobby Turnbull (Bradford P.A.), Harold Gough (Sheffield United), David Mercer (Hull) and Jack Mew (Manchester United).

Jim Taylor Fulham FC memorabilia, team-autographed items including a civic reception menu for the 2nd Division Championship win in 1948-49 (complete with letter & invitation from the Mayor); a wedding card sent to Taylor (with covering letter from Frank Osborne); a club Xmas card; a signed b&w team-group press photo and similar signed magazine photo; plus signed portrait photos of Fulham team-mates; the lot also including playing contracts for seasons 1949-50 to 1952-53 inclusive; players`s tickets for seasons 1938-39 & 1939-40 with separate player`s wife or friend complimentary tickets, and further players` tickets for seasons 1945-46, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1949-50, 1951-52 & 1952-53; club handbooks for 1948-49 & 1949-50 (two); a group of `good luck` telegrams sent to Jim Taylor on various match days; a qty. of b&w press photos; an interesting batch of wartime correspondence dating between 1941 & 1945 sent to Taylor from manager Jack Peart on Fulham FC letterhead, mostly signed typescript letters but some in manuscript; three wartime Fulham match programmes; and other miscellaneous items (a qty.)

A signed England 1966 World Cup display, comprising a central colour photograph of the winning team, the surrounding mount signed by nine of the finalists, with the autographs of the other two team members Bobby Moore and Bobby Charlton on signed photos elsewhere in the presentation, the central mount additionally signed by squad player Jimmy Greaves, together with commemorative postal covers signed by Alf Ramsey and the commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, and finally the signature of the trainer Harold Shepherdson on brown paper, framed & glazed, the backboard with manuscript details of when and how some of the signatures were obtained, 63 by 67cm., 24 3/4 by 26 1/2in.

R. Martin 5 views of London Bridge depicting the medieval and later bridge from an illuminated manuscript in 1500 after John Norden in 1600 Hollar in 1647 Sutton Nicholls in 1710 and Major G. Yates in 1827 lithographs each c.315 x 510mm. one laid on board support one with a repaired hole in lower blank margin some browning and a few repaired marginal tears 1830 (5)

Charles Townley 7 portraits of artists Anibale and Lodovico Caracci Dominichino Hogarth young and old Rembrandt and Rubens mezzotints 290 x 275mm. to 365 x 295mm. all trimmed to the image and mounted on decorated supports bearing manuscript captions slight surface dust and wear c.1780 (7)