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TATISHCHEV -- DRUKOVTSOV, Sergei Vasil'evich (1731-1786; ed.). Dukhovnaia Vasiliia Nikiticha Tatishcheva cynu ego Evgrafu Vasil'evichu. [The Testament of Vasilii Tatishchev to his son Evgraf Vasill'evich.] St. Petersburg: [Sukhoputn. kad. korpus,] 1773. 8° (195 x 120mm). (Some tears in the gutter, some mostly marginal soiling.) Near contemporary Russian half-calf (spine-foot chipped, corners rubbed, scuffed). Provenance: a contemporary Russian reader (inscriptions on endpapers). FIRST EDITION, published from a manuscript copy of the original composed in 1733. Bitovt 1770; SK 7160; Sopikov 3503. View on Christie's.com

New Mills Circuit: Minutes of the Meetings of the Local Preachers, 18098; a collection of other similar manuscript ledgers

Five vintage ledgers with manuscript entries

Maritime – Mauritius remarkable manuscript dated Melville In Port Louis Mauritius June 4th 1833 5pp folio with further ms diagram on a single leaf folio being orders for an attack on rebel forces on Mauritius : ‘...the boats with guns are to form in line abreast to the Southward of the Melville along the transporting buoys and the boats without guns but fitted with small arm men in a second line to the southward of those with guns in the first line are to be all the marines. ‘When these lines are formed they are to advance towards Coopers Island under cover of the Melville’s and Talbot’s fire and their own guns and on reaching the beach the marines and seamen are to land in as much order and as quickly as possible to form on the each and when ready to rush up the green bank where they must expect the enemy to oppose them and act accordingly...’ These appear to be the plan of attack against the armed Mauritius islanders who had been ordered by the Governor to disarm. In the event the plan was not needed as the island was returned to calm. Original battle plans such as this are rare on the market.

Ephemera – horology manuscript receipt issued by Ninian Wilmshurst a clockmaker for the making of a town clock dated 1757 (the town in question is unfortunately not named in the receipt). Clearly Ninian had not been paid his full due for the receipt is for arrears. Written on an 8vo piece of paper with a schedule of payments to him to verso An interesting aspect of this receipt is that Ninyon charges for extra work because ‘afterwards it was proposed to carry two hands...’ It is unfortunate that the town in question is not listed but Ninyon Wilmshurst is listed as having come from Bristol.

WWII – Mosley and the British Fascists manuscript in ink written on two brown paper wrappers in the hand of Arnold Leese being notes for a letter to Leslie Royce MP sent from prison by Leese dated August 5th 1942. Extremely rare. These notes were written by Leese while in detention in prison under the 18B regulations whereby anyone considered to be a Nazi sympathiser was interned for the duration of the War. In his letter Leese attacks the usual targets of Jews and Freemasonry

C. M. A collection of botanical drawings. MC del[ 68 watercolour drawings in an attractive style perhaps based on the Botanical Magazine though these are larger and more spacious manuscript title and each plate with leaf of manuscript description one plate once removed and stuck back with stamp paper 3 others removed contemporary straight-grain green morocco gilt frame sides with star and floral swags gilt spine g.e. a bit worn and loose 4to [c. 1800-20].

[Fourcade (Charles)?] An album of dried mosses and 54 leaves specimens mounted two to a page French captions in neat manuscript names followed by locations and sometimes the season mounted in an album contemporary half green morocco gilt a little scuffed but in nice state bought from W&W in 1985 for £70 with their invoice inserted oblong 4to [? Luchon] [c. 1860-70]. ***Luchon Esquierry Cazeril Vallee de Lys lac d`Oo Cascade de Montaubon lac Bleu etc. The fact that the album is carefully guarded throughout partly explains the excellent state of the specimens.

Fuchs (L.) Commentaires tres excellens first French edition translated by Eloy de Maignan 509 woodcuts of plants with the 2 blank leaves bb4 & Z8 issue with *** at line 6 of title the title a little frayed and soiled but a nice copy in contemporary vellum sewing guards from a 15th century liturgical manuscript minor wear ties partly defective later spine lettering in an ill-fitting morocco box by Sangorski old Jesuit library inscription partly ereased from title bought of Quaritch ex. the Willis King III sale with cutting and invoice inserted [Hunt 60 (imperfect); Adams F1105] folio Paris Gazeau 1549.

Fuchs (L.) De historia stirpium portrait and 516 woodcuts title guarded and blank portions renewed minor browning and stains without the blank leaf recent calf the book resewed 15th century manuscript sewing guard preserved at end Society of Apothecaries bookplate transferred to the new binding (ms. note “From the library at Chelsea Garden 1832”) bought from Junk with invoice and description inserted [Adams F1103] 8vo Lyons Balthazar Arnollet 1551.

[Henderson (Claude W.)] [Some butterflies of New G manuscript title 8 leaves of thin card (265 x 420mm. ) with 23 watercolour figures unbound [Loughborough] c.1963. ***Exhibited: Natural history illustration 1485-1968...from the collection of Michael Walpole Loughborough School of Librarianship 1969 item 51 part of one sheet illustrated. This exhibition with a 16pp catalogue was the only public showing of MW`s remarkable collection (and he told me he regretted even that).

Schkuhr (Christian) Beschreibung und Abbildung der 2 vol. portrait 93 hand-coloured plates contemporary half leather interleaved throughout with a mid-19th century English partial translation in manuscript (alas we cannot see any indication of the botanist concerned) binding a bit scuffed bought from W&W with an (incorrect) note of imperfection on the flyleaf [Stafleu 10.728] 8vo Wittenberg Verfasser 1801-06.

Schmidel (Casimir Christoph) Icones plantarum et 3 parts in 1 vol. 75 fine hand-coloured engraved plates minor marginal worming half calf rubbed manuscript names added at foot of some early plates title verso with cancelled 19th century stamps of Royal Library at Berlin (Jammas 11 not after 1840) and the Ducal library of Mechlinburg-Strelitz at Neustrelitz bought from Quaritch with their stock number at end and invoice inserted [Stafleu 10.854] folio Erlangen 1793-97.

Streuil (C.A. cure of Magnee Belgium) (herbarium 50 specimens each neatly mounted with manuscript captions marbled paper portfolio ms. title in paper heart pasted on letter from Streuil to [J.P.B.] Delessert inserted 4to [c.1845]. ***The letter is dated 1848 talks of a journey to Beaufays (both this and Magnee are SW of Liege) and speaks with great admiration of Delessert`s hebarium “One of the most considerable private herbaria of his time” - Stafleu I 614. However by the time this letter was written Delessert had died so it was probably never sent.

Sturm (Jacob) Deutschlands Flora...III Abtheilung: 7 vol. 464 hand-coloured plates 19th century half brown morocco neat bound in manuscript indices in French with references to Saccardo in purple ink later in the collection of [E.W.] Mason (1890-1975 mycologist) with his notes of a collation with BM(NH) copy and a letter to him from Arthur Anselm Pearson (1874-1954 mycologist) inserted (“The end of the fungus season leaves me not quite so pressed with work...” dated 28.12.43) [Stafleu 13.335 pp.70-71] 12mo Nuremberg 1817-53.

Vaillant (S.) Botanicon parisiense folding engraved map portrait 33 engraved plates by Wandelaar after Claude Aubriet contemporary sheep block printed endpapers in red and green bit scraped and worn but sound engraved bookplate of Bon du Charmel with Montaigne motto “Qu scay je?” (no. 2686 in manuscript) inscription of Dr. John. Schnell on flyleaf folio [Hunt 470; Stafleu 15.748] Leiden & Amsterdam 1727.

Barrington-Birds at Colindale [Hospital NW9] 10pp. manuscript note by `W.S.` giving background to pamphlet on front cover original wrappers [Ballance lists only the Edward Gray copy] Colindale Handcrafts [1941] § Eales-White (Major J. C.) Bird Life in Richmond and District spotted original printed wrappers [Ballance quotes only wrappers] [1935] § Lockley (R. M.) Birds of the Green Belt original cloth a very good copy in dust-jacket 1936; and c.95 others including a continuous run of London Bird Reports from 1936-2006 mostly bound in cloth 8vo(c.100)

Seebohm (Henry) Ornithological note book 120pp. text with 20pp. index c.20 sketches by Seebohm (one coloured) and a number of feather samples pasted in contemporary vellum gilt. g.e. loosely inserted a description of another volume of the diary 1869-72 identically bound for sale with the Traylens in the 1980s (priced £4 500 but with 12 coloured drawings) 4to 1869-72. ***An absolutely charming manuscript mostly birding in Northern England; Sheffield Derby etc. with a visit to Norwich. The sketches include a number of musical examples of bird song.

Bird Stamps. Christine Jackson`s own collection of 21 York & Byron stamp albums the stamps arranged in systematic order (vol.1 Struthioniformes to Pelecanifromes; vol. 21 Fringillidae to Ploceidae) upwards of 5800 mint stamps mounted in Howid strips together with some ancilliary material c.1970-2003.(box) ***Could justly be called the definitive collection since Christine Jackson wrote the first book on the subject; Collecting Bird Stamps Witherby 1977 and all the illustrations in the book are from the present collection. Also included are the manuscript and proofs of her book (and correspondence with the publisher) the bronze medal and certificate awarded by the British Philatelic Society several other books on the subject including those by Eliasson and Lanspeary packets of commemorative stamps issued by the GPO and the US postal authorities (US BIrds; WIldlife America) and some used bird stamps. A more detailed description is available on request.

Blankaart (Steven) Schou-burg der rupsen wormen first edition engraved title 16 engraved plates as described in the text with the extra plates 17-22 all coloured by a contemporary hand together with 13 watercolours of birds 10 on blank leaves at beginning and end the other 3 on blanks in the book (title verso N8 O1) contemporary vellum bit soiled the Macclesfield copy (sale I lot 14) with South Library bookplate and blindstamp on first few leaves as usual contemporary number 803 on first blank 18th century Shirburn pressmark VIII.e.39 8vo Amsterdam Jan ten Hoorn 1688. ***The additional plates are rarely found; both Dryander II 211 & Hagen 56 call for 16 plates as does Copac (the British Library copy). They and the bird plates may be connected with the unpublished continuation the manuscript for which is in the Royal Library at The Hague (they seem not to have the book itself). Blanckaart was a doctor but also an artist; he practised painting as well as paper-cutting (papieren snijkunst); perhaps we have here an example of his art.

Bloch. [Ichthyologie ou histoire naturelle] a bound group of 55 plates original hand-coloured engravings a few part-printed in colours each c.200 x 360mm. marginal damp-staining to a few plates and occasional slight surface dirt otherwise generally clean and the colours bright later vellum-backed marbled board manuscript title on spine oblong folio [c.f. Nissen 415] folio [Berlin 1782-85].

Bowdich.Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823 while on his third voyage to Africa. first edition 22 lithographed plates 4 hand-coloured 3 folding with final leaf (blank but for imprint) title a little browned foxed affecting plain plates but coloured plates clean with 1½pp autograph manuscript by the author concerning Ashantee and Ethiopian customs tipped to sheet and loosely inserted original boards uncut paper label on spine slightly rubbed and marked spine chipped at head [Abbey Travel 190] 4to 1825. ***Bowdich obtained a writership in the service of the Africa Company and went to Cape Coast Castle in 1814. He negotiated a treaty with the king of Ashanti granting peace to British settlements on the Gold Coast. He returned to England in 1818 and in 1822 again went to Africa where on reaching the mouth of the River Gambia he contracted a fever from which he died. The work contains botanical and zoological plates and descriptions.

Tales of the Cordelier Metamorphosed one of 64 copies texts in Italian English and French etched title-vignette and 10 illustrations by Robert Cruikshank all on india paper and mounted some foxing Albert M.Cohn`s copy with his bookplate bookseller`s ticket of Robson Kerslake contemporary calf gilt by Rivière spine gilt uncut slightly rubbed at edges 4to printed at the Shakespeare Press by W.Bulmer and W.Nicol 1821. ***Privately printed for the bibliophile George Hibbert who had bought the manuscript at the sale of the library of Count Borromeo of Padua in 1817. Albert M Cohn author of George Cruikshank. A Catalogue Raisonné...1806-1877 published in 1924 and still the definitive work on the younger Cruikshank.

Grasset De Saint-Saveur.Costumes..Peuple Membres des deux Conseils du Directoire Exécutif. hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title and 15 plates by Labrousse after St.Sauveur advertisement leaf at end text foxed and with light marginal water-staining but plates generally clean contemporary printed paste-paper boards with printed pink paper label mounted on upper cover also manuscript note of St.Sauveur`s address uncut rubbed rebacked [Colas 1294] 8vo Paris Deroy 1795.

Ruskin.Dame Wiggins of Lee inscr. presentation copy from John Ruskin to Sarah Angelina Acland inscribed on front free endpaper woodcut illustrations by Kate Greenaway book-label of Sarah Angelina Acland annotated with manuscript explanation of inscription on front pastedown original pictorial cloth gilt very slightly rubbed at edges 8vo Orpington 1885. ***The inscription reads “Angie/ From her poor little/ Hearth-Cricket/ 29th November 1885”. The note on the book-label explains “This book was given to her by Mr. Ruskin who called himself a `Cricket` in consequence of one of the household asking how a man could be a cricket (meaning critic).” Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) was the daughter of the physician Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900). Ruskin and Acland met as undergraduates at Oxford and remained lifelong friends.

Bible French. manuscript 15th cent illuminated manuscript on vellum in French 104 ff. collation: i-v8 vi6 vii 8 viii10 ix-xiii8 including blank (except for ruling) final ff. in vi and viii original foliation on most of first 18 ff. 23 lines written in brown ink in a handsome lettre bâtarde 30 2- or 3-line initials in gold on blue and white backgrounds many 1-line initials in gold on red or blue and white and a few on brown and gold 3 large miniatures (c.130 x 120mm.) with 4 lines of text beneath ruled in red staining heavy in places seriously affecting the last miniature and a number of other ff. wrinkling throughout small hole in lower border of the second miniature signature `Larochefoucauld` at foot of first p. armorial bookplate on first fly-leaf of H.C.Embleton sixteenth-century brown morocco covers with double blind-stamped roll paste-downs made up of fragments of an early liturgical book printed in red and black rubbed rebacked covers repaired 4to c.240 x 160mm. Northern France late 15th century. ***A fine manuscript though sadly affected by water-damage of three of the `sapiental` books of the Bible associated with King Solomon: Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Wisdom in the bible historiale version by Guyart des Moulins based on Peter Comestor`s Latin Historica Scholastica. The miniatures depict (f. 1r) Solomon enthroned with a group of courtiers beside him insructing his son Rehoboam in an architectural setting with a glimpse of a hilly landscape visible through an open door; (f. 47r) Solomon enthroned between two groups of courtiers (or students?). behind them a wall and behind that glimpses of landscape; (f. 64r) Solomon seated at a large desk writing on a scroll in an architectural setting with shelves of books high up on either side with lansdcape visible through a window above. The three miniatures are in similar architectural borders predominantly in gold with coloured pillars on either side and a tasseled cord on the right on which a small golden manikin is climbing at the foot a gilt pedestal on which is a panel or scroll with 4 lines of text. Provenance: from the La Rochefoucauld family library with signature at foot of first page very similar to that found in books in the Bibliothèque du Château de la Roche-Guyon sold by Sotheby`s in Monaco 9th Dec 1987 (cf lot 753) though unlike the books in that sale this manuscript has neither the library stamp on title nor the family arms on the covers.

Barthou (Louis) La Vie amoureuse de Richard Wagner manuscript 104pp. not including blank leaves written in blue ink on recto only except for one page on light blue paper large margin to each page for corrections each leaf mounted on guards contemporary full tan morocco by Marius Michel leather doublures patterned silk free endleaves marbled endpapers lettered in gilt bookplate of Louis Barthou on front endpaper 4to [ Paris 1925]. ***Barthou was Prime Minister of France in1913 and he also held a number of ministerial positions before and after WW1. His biography of Richard Wagner was also translated into English by Henry Irving Brock as The Prodigious Lover: New Aspects in the life of Richard Wagner.

Windsor Berkshire.- Liber Recordorum manuscript in Latin and English on vellum 98pp. ruled in red presentation inscription on front pastedown: ““Robert Blunt Windsor Presented by Miss Egelston daughter of the late Alderman Egelston Died 13th Aug 1836” and an A.L.s. from J. Edward Davis of 1 Elm Court Temple to Robert Blunt explaining the Ms. 1849” tipped-in on front free endpaper slightly yellowed and creased some edges a little soiled hinges a little weak eighteenth century half vellum rubbed and soiled 4to 1597-1863. ***”A fine is a final agreement or conveyance upon record for conveying. lands and tenements acknowledged in open court by the. defendant to be the property of the plaintiff.” - J. Edward Davis.

Speckle (Daniel) Architectura von Vestungen. first edition title in red & black with engraved architectural border by Matheus Greuter woodcut coat-of-arms of Julius Herzog von Braunschweig (the dedicatee) tail-pieces and initials 21 engraved plates all but one double-page but many bound with text between two parts with additional R1 &2 leaves following signature R and errata leaf at end with typographical border a few contemporary ink annotations title a little soiled and water-stained some other light soiling and staining a little wormed affecting hinges but intact eighteenth century half vellum over marbled boards spine titled in manuscript and split at head rubbed [Berlin Kat. 3516; Cockle 789] folio Strasbourg Bernhart Jobin 1589. ***Advanced treatise on fortification and town planning by the architect responsible for the fortification of Gibraltar.

A COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY CONTAINING A RELIGIOUS PLAY AND POETRY LEGAL FORMS AND LOCAL ACCOUNTS PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AT BROME HALL SUFFOLK BY LADY CAROLINE KERRISON, Ed Lucy Toulmin Smith, 1886, priv ptd, sigd and inscr from Lady Caroline Kerrison and ALs tipped in at front, orig ptd bds worn and soiled

KORAN, (probably Indian North West Frontier 16th Century or earlier), manuscript, old cf v worn, mixed condition

KORAN, (Persian, probably 16th Century or earlier), manuscript, old cf v worn, mixed condition

A Box: A E “Ted” Ellis Typescripts + some manuscript material

Architecture -- Adam, William -- Alexander Fraser of Strichen Manuscript elevation, plan and section of an obelisk and pedestal, 330 x 155mm., dated 4 August 1725 on verso, with the names of Alexander Fraser and WIlliam Adam scored through; Contract between Mr Alexander Fraser of Strichen Advocat and William Adam for "a pedestal and obelisk ovoid... twenty two foot high", one leaf, integral blank, signatures of Alexander Fraser and WIlliam Adam scored through. 4 August 1725; Adam, William A.L.S. to Mr Alexander Fraser of Strichen detailing his account and requesting settlement, 20th Feb. 1730; Adam, William A.L.S. to The Rt. Hon. The Lord Strichen, requesting urgent payment, one leaf, integral blank, 28th Nov. 1730 (4)Note: The mausoleum seems to have been planned by Alexander Fraser, 7th Fraser of Strichen, to commemorate his brother James, 6th of Strichen who had died without issue.Provenance: Acquired from the late Lord Lovat (d.1995). Upon the death of Colonel Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat (1736-1815), without legitimate surviving male issue, the Lovat estates were transferred, by entail, to Thomas Alexander Fraser (1802-1875), a distant cousin who was descended from Thomas Fraser of Knockie & Strichen (1548-1612), second son of Alexander Fraser, 4th Lord Lovat (1527-1557).

Flaubert, Gustave Autograph manuscript, [c. 1858-61], 14pp., 8vo, notes on the history of Spain made by Flaubert from Eugène Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire`s Histoire d`Espagne, possibly made while travelling through Spain to Morocco where Flaubert wrote Salammbô, with notes on the early tribes "mais le trait commune c`est la resistance à l`étranger", Phoenician, Greek, Carthaginian and Roman Spain, referring to Hannibal, Strabo, Hamilcar Barca, Hasdrubal, and to Musa` bin Nusair`s invasion of Spain ("voir le poeme de Southey sur Roderic le dernier des goths et la vision de Don Roderic par Walter Scott"); with two unrelated facsimile examples of Flaubert`s handwriting for comparison (3)Provenance: Salammbô (1862) is an important historical novel by Gustave Flaubert that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. Flaubert`s main source was Book I of Polybius`s Histories Included in this lot is a short autograph note by Lord Carlow [George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (1904–1944), founder of the Corvinus Press] explaining the content of the manuscript notes.

Lovat, Lord -- Fraser, Alexander G. Manuscript letters, some relating to Capt. Robert Fraser`s claims against the Earl of Breadalbane, 1821, and the claims of the Rev. Alex G. Fraser to be descended from John Fraser, the brother of Lord Lovat, 1833; and other Fraser correspondence (28 items), c. 1780-1833

Paton, Waller Hugh - Paton, John Noel - Early photographs A commonplace album containing a collection of small watercolours, manuscript poems and two early photographs, including two small watercolours signed Waller Hugh Paton, 1848; small pencil sketch initialed by Waller Hugh Paton, 1845; manuscript poem entitled "Dirge" signed by John Noel Paton, 1848; a small ink sketch signed by Waller Hugh Paton, 1845; three salt print photographic portraits, c.1840`s-50`s, of Sir David Brewster [18 by 14cm], Sheriff Gordon [18 by 14cm], a group playing chequers [15 by 19cm] and a small uncaptioned portrait [6.5 by 8cm], print of chequer players stuck down onto card leaf, others loose in album, bound in contemporary green morocco, lacking backstrip, upper board loose

Scottish legal manuscript -- [Gibson, Sir Alexander, Lord Durie] Ane abridgment of Durie`s practiques & adjudications. Legal manuscript copy, folio, 247pp., in two hands, eighteenth century calf, final leaf repaired, c.1640, some soiling, upper hinge broken, wornNote: Sir Alexander Gibson took his judicial title when he became President of the Court of Session in 1621.

Orkney - Cursiter, James W. List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland. Kirkwall: Wm. Peace & Son, 1894. 8vo, presentation copy from the author to William Mackenzie, bound with note leaves, contemporary purple cloth gilt and another copy bound in green cloth, no note leaves; Orkney Library Institution, rules & catalogue of the Orkney library. Edinburgh: printed by John Moir, 1816. 8vo, manuscript notes to rear, later green cloth boards, original covers bound in (3)

Dioscorides, Pedanius Libri octo Graece et Latine. Castigationes in eosdem libros. Paris: Petrus Haultinus, 1549. 8vo, [xl], 392 leaves, woodcut device on title, contemporary panelled calf, title torn without loss, double column, Latin & Greek text, some marginal manuscript annotations, covers detached, slightly wornNote: Adams D656

Thomas, Magister Thomas Magistri dictionum Atticarum collectio. Phrynichi Atticorum verborum & nominum collectio. Manuel Moscopuli vocum Atticarum collectio e libro de arte imaginum Philostrati & scriptis poetarum. Paris: apud Michaelem Vascosanum, 1532. 8vo, eighteenth century calf, [Adams T 647], worn, manuscript page numerals in extreme upper corner, small early manuscript deletions to title-page

Sobieski Stuart, John Vestiarium Scoticum, from the manuscript formerly in the library of the Scots College at Douay. Edinburgh: W. Tait, 1842. 4to, coloured mounted plates, red morocco-backed cloth

An album of manuscript verse, proverbs, and illustrations, calf bound (re-backed); and album of various Kensitas printed silk cigarette cards; and five newspapers, including The Sun, 15 Dec. 1801; and The Courier, 19 Jan. 1807, (7). Best Bid

A framed Indian painting on silk of a garden scene together with an illuminated 19th century or earlier page of an Islamic manuscript.

Bank of England, Henry Hase (1807-29), £1, 24 May 1819, printed date and serial numbers, with manuscript Cashier’s countersignature (D. B201c), torn and extensively repaired with stamp paper [this of various dates but including one piece showing the top edges of two ‘penny reds’], only fair but essentially complete and the paper sound; and £1, London, 11 Dec. 1820, with printed date and serial no. (D. B201c), cut into two halves and rejoined with an old gummed paper repair; also with a later taped repair and several bankers’ marks (including the signature of ‘Jas. Waterlow’), generally very good (2)

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Fred Clampitt, on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield note paper thanking him for his Christmas parcel and informing him of her gift of a fountain pen and wishing seasonal greetings, signed

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Mrs Clampitt on The Hotel Grosvenor, Swanage, Dorset notepaper, dated September 8th 1950, expressing her concern that an author calling herself `Enid Boyton` is trying to cash in on her name and noting that `the children know my stories at once if I had written them`, signed, together with `The School Friends` comic (2)

Enid Blyton - a manuscript to Fred Clampitt on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield notepaper, dated February 15th 1952, expressing her concern at Fred`s continued illness and informing him that she has written a new `Five` book and a seventh adventure book entitled `The Circus of Adventure`

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Mrs Clampitt on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield notepaper, two sheets, dated December 21st 1953, thanking Mrs Clampitt for her gift of an evening bag and offering her advice on tuition, and an account of her new magazine

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Fred Clampitt on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield notepaper, dated December 26th 1956, thanking Fred for his presents of handkerchiefs and soap and wishing him and his mother the compliments of the season, together with a further headed note to Mrs Clampitt informing her that `the author has paid the ten shillings subscription to the Asthmatic Review on Fred`s behalf (2)

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Mrs Clampitt on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield headed notepaper, though sent from The Grand Hotel, Swanage, dated April 8th 1956, expressing her concern at Fred`s ill heath and offering consolation to his mother, together with a postcard to Fred Clampitt dated 12th January 1951 wishing him a Happy New Year (2)

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Mrs Clampitt on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield headed notepaper, dated February 13th 1959, thanking Mrs Clampitt for her correspondence, and remarking on Fred`s new cine camera

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter to Mrs Clampitt on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield headed notepaper, dated December 22nd 1961, to Mrs Clampitt and Fred thanking them for their gift, a box of chocolates and Christmas card and remarking that her elder daughter and husband and three `tiny children all under 3½!` will be coming to stay over the Christmas period. Together with a further manuscript letter dated December 23rd 1962 address to Mrs Clampitt and Fred again thanking them for their gift of a box of chocolates and wishing them the compliments of the season (2)

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield headed notepaper, dated December 23rd 1965, addressed to Mrs Clampitt and Fred thanking them for their gift of toiletries and enquiring whether they had received her previous letter, which she entrusted to a youngster `who set off with a bundle of various people`s letters and announced on his return that he had dropped them all in the road!` Enid sends the compliments of the season to the Clampitts` and informs them that her younger daughter, a teacher will be staying at `Green Hedges` over the Christmas period, also a further letter on `Green Hedges` notepaper dated December 24th 1965 to Mrs Clampitt and Fred thanking them for their gift of handkerchiefs and informing them of her Christmas holiday plans (2)

Enid Blyton - a manuscript letter on `Green Hedges`, Beaconsfield headed notepaper, dated January 30th 1960, addressed to Mrs Clampitt, thanking her for her gift of embroidered handkerchiefs which were delivered in error to another `Green Hedges` in Beaconsfield, the author remarks that she has had a very busy time over the Christmas period. The letter torn vertically in half, together with two paper gift wrappers, one signed (3)

BUSSELL, Freda M. (calligrapher). - Francis BACON. Of Gardens. [N.p.:] 1922. 24 pages on 13 leaves, folio (250 x 190mm.) Manuscript throughout, numerous pen and ink illustrations, title-page and decorations with gilt. (Minor browning.) Modern morocco-backed boards.

[GLASSE, Hannah.] The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy… by a Lady… a new edition. London: 1770. 8vo (194 x 115mm.) Numerous manuscript additional recipes in a near contemporary hand, verso of title and bound at rear. (Some spotting and browning.) Modern half-calf (endpapers replaced).

Book of Hours 15th Cent illuminated manuscript on vellum in Latin apart from French Calendar 130 ff. only incomplete lacking several ff. through the manuscript and incomplete at the end and aparently misbound written in dark brown ink in a handsome gothic book-hand 3 full-page miniatures only in full borders of fruit flowers and foliage in colours on gold and white backgrounds 4 small miniatures (c. 35 x 40 mm.) with similar borders on fore-edge margins only many 1 or 2-line initials and a few slightly larger in gold on red or blue backgrounds similar line-fillers rubricated Calendar fully completed in gold and red with a few feasts in blue first f. with fore-edge margin crudely restored and with recto so badly browned as to be virtually illegible as is verso of last f. some soiling and marking elsewhere 2 miniatures scuffed modern vellum 152 x 105 mm. Northern France or Flanders mid-fifteenth century. ***The subjects of the large initials are (f. 49v) Adoration of the Magi the Virgin and Child seated under a red and gold canopy (f. 55v) Flight into Egypt the Virgin and Child on a donkey with Joseph on foot in front of a large rock in a landscape with a building in the distance (f. 61v) Coronation of the Virgin the Virgin kneeling before God seated under a green canopy with a red and gold wall behind The small miniatures depict (f. 13r) St. Luke with the Virgin and Child (f. 14v) St. Matthew with an angel (f. 16r) St Luke with his lion (f. 17r) the Virgin and Child enthroned.

Malory.History..Prince Arthur 1634 .as also all the Noble Acts and Heroicke Deeds of his Valiant Knights of the Round Table 3 parts in 1 each with woodcut frontispiece depicting Arthur and his knights at the round table printed in black letter lacking I4-5 & R4 from Part I and P4 (final leaf) from Part III (all supplied in neat 19th century manuscript) preliminaries of Parts II & III (Contents) misbound (transposed) P3 of Part II defective at lower outer corner with slight loss to last 6 lines some contemporary ink annotations and scribblings very browned slight marginal worming to a few leaves first frontispiece and final 2 leaves a little frayed and reinforced at edges (very slight loss to caption at head of frontispiece) 19th century reversed calf (rebound 1888) rebacked preserving old spine red roan labels a little worn upper cover detached [STC 806] small 4to William Stansby for Jacob Bloome 1634; sold not subject to return ***The sixth edition of Malory`s work the next was not published until 1816.

Cater (Gerrard) [On The Crowing Cock] lacking all except B3&4 the following 7pp. supplied in early manuscript soiled frayed at edges unbound [ESTC R175694] § Brerewood (Edward) A Learned Treatise of the Sabbath 2 parts in 1 second edition printer`s device on title some light water-staining worm-hole throughout affecting text unbound Oxford by John Lichfield for Thomas Huggins 1631 § Brumhall (John) A Fair Warning for England... edges frayed closed tear to title and some following leaves unbound [ESTC R4624] [1661]; and 4 others 17th century pamphlets most defective 4to & 8vo (7)