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Lisney (Arthur A.) An Entomological Bio-Bibliography 1608-1800, 1956, Typescript signed by the author, with numerous amendments in type and manuscript, cloth-backed wraps [the work was published by the Chiswick Press in 1960 under the title `A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera 1608-1799]

Berry (Michael) & Brock (D.W.E.) Hunting by Ear, the Sound-book of Fox-hunting, 1949, dust wrapper, in original presentation box with 10 inch gramophone record (of 2, cracked; ); Address to Joseph Neale McKenna, from the Irish Shareholders of the National Bank, 1861, illuminated manuscript, gilt-tooled roan (worn); Large wax seal, 160mm dia., original metal case; Baswell (Peggy), A Few Impressions, 1927, watercolour, pen & ink hunting sketch, signed and dated, framed and glazed; A Few of the Things a Livery Stable Horse does in Oxford, nd., watercolour pencil sketch, mounted framed and glazed; with four horse-racing engravings, framed and glazed (9)

Eighteenth Century Jamaica-Liverpool Sea Trade A collection of manuscript material relating to the Law family of Lancashire (now Cumbria) including; five notebooks and several sheets of manuscript by George Law, a merchant in Kingston, Jamaica, 1768-81, including a journal of voyages to and from Liverpool, copy letters to Liverpool merchants advising on items to be shipped and their demand in Jamaica, accounts, invoices, cargo lists etc., ships include the Mary, the George, the Hillary, the Abbey and the Marquis Rockingham; A leather bound Law family Account Book, 1778; A copy book of letters relating to Cartmel, 1710-18, nearly 1000 pages, outer leaves defective; Session Book 1790, relating to courts at `Loynsdale Hundred`, Ulverston etc.; The diary of Thomas Harrison, 1784-86, agricultural work at Brathay; John Law`s book of precedents, 1737, vellum; A book of indentures, 1645-, relates to Middleton in Lonsdale, Poultonn, Lancaster, Sladburne and Grassingham, vellum (worn); A manuscript book/ledger of fines, fees and costs; with several other notebooks [note, it is believed that the Law family were bankers, possibly in Ulverston] (qty)

Commonplace Book of Poems An outstanding manuscript book of verse, illustrated throughout with charming watercolour drawings, nd., 19th century, exceptional quality, silk endpapers, a.e.g., gilt-tooled morocco, book-style slipcase

Dante Alighieri Il Dante Urbinate Della Biblioteca Vaticana (Codice Urbinate Latino 365), 1965, 2 vols., folio, numbered ltd. edition, facsimile illuminated manuscript of the Divine Comedy printed on faux vellum, full morrocco binding, second vol. with commentary in Italian, quarter morocco (both vols. with worn spines), slipcase

Novel in Shorthand Scott (Walter), The Pirate, Written in Phonography, by Samuel Pendered, 1884, v, 246 page manuscript with pen and ink illustrations, a.e.g., contemporary half calf (worn)

WWI Military Nursing Alice Welford`s album of photographs depicting life with Queen Alexandra`s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, 1915-1917, includes medical staff, patients, buildings and views, predominantly Gibraltar and Malta, several of Gallipoli, half roan album lacking backstrip; Ms Welford`s Manuscript Nursing Notebook, 1911, nursing certificate from St. Bart`s loosely inserted; Ms Welford`s Silver QAIMNS Reserve Medal or Cape badge, hallmarked, with ribbon and pin (3)

Scottish Manuscript Deed of Surrender by James Sindelande of lands held by him as tenant in chief of his `superior lord` Multray, 1573, relating to lands at Seafield and Tyrie, near Banff, Aberdeenshire, manuscript latin in brown ink on parchment, hybrid Secretary and Court hand, [strikingly similar to that of John Mudy, Lambeth Palace MS117], well preserved seal, `S Jacobi Sandelandis` with coat of arms [Sindelande states that the lands yield an annual income of twenty marks `of the customary money of the Kingdom of Scotland` and refers to the enfeoffment of his beloved second son, John Sindelande]

[Manuscript]. Milne, John. Footprints of the Fourth Leicestershire Regiment, August 1914 to October 1915, a typed manuscript, ninety-five pages, cord-bound between card covers Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports Best Bid

Ruskin, John The works. Orpington: G. Allen, 1883. 11 volumes, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed "Florence Harriette Isabella Druce, her name gratefully inscribed, by John Ruskin, Brantwood, 27th Sept. 1884"; Idem Arrows of the chace. 1880, 2 volumes; Idem Praeterita. 1886-1900. 3 volumes; Idem Deucalion. 1891; Idem Fors clavigera. 1890. 4 volumes; Idem The stones of Venice. 1884. 2 volumes; Idem The seven lamps of architecture. 1883; Idem The art of England. 1884; Idem The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. 1884, all matching blue calf; mostly rather rubbed; and 16 others by Ruskin; and a 4 folio page manuscript account by Florence Harriette Isabella Druce of her visit to Ruskin and stay at Brantwood, 25 Sept. - 19 Oct. 1884

Scottish heraldry--Lyndsay, David Facsimile of an ancient heraldic manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay. Edinburgh: L W. Paterson, 1879. Large folio, large paper impression, royal folio, limited to 50 copies, signed by the publisher, chromolithographed title and 132 chromolithographed plates of coats-of-arms, original cloth, binding soiled and rubbed, contents clean

Shelley, Percy Bysshe Queen Mab. London: W. Clark, 1821. First published edition, 8vo, original boards, lacking frontispiece, dedication leaf to Harriet and advertisement leaf at end, original boards, uncut, head and base of spine slightly rubbed, manuscript notes at end Note: Buxton Forman 22 Provenance: W.T. Collins, Feb. 1825, inscription on front endaper, ms. notes on rear endpaper

Burns, Robert Autograph manuscript poem "Jessie - A Scots Song - Tune, Bonie Dundee". Autograph poem, two stanzas each of eight lines each, with title line above, [c.1793], one leaf, 23 by 18.6cm., folds, short marginal tear at centre fold, with "This is Burns`s handwriting, J.D. Johnstone 1803, Dumfries" added in another hand at foot Note: "Jessie" was sent by Burns to his friend, the musician and editor George Thomson, in April 1793. The present text is identical, apart from the title, to the Dalhousie copy quoted by James Kinsley in Burns, Poems and Songs (1971) (Kinsley 404). In his letter to Thomson Burns wrote "These verses suit the tune exactly... There is a syllable wanting at the beginning of [l.9[ but I suppose it will make little odds" [Letter 554]. Thomson made up the line with "Oh!" in Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice and suggested some other alteration; Burns wrote to him in September 1793 that "your objection of the stiff line, is just; but mending my colouring wo ld spoil my likeness; so the Picture must stand as it is" [Letter 586] Although Burns sent him the manuscript in 1793, the poem was not published until 1798, and despite Burns`s request Thomson substituted "Scotland" for "Scotia in line five. The poem was inspired by Miss Jessie Staig, daughter of Provost Staig of Dumfries, who became the wife of Major William Miller of Dalswinton and died at age of twenty-six. Two autograph manuscript copies of "Jessie" are listed as extant in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts, volume III, part 1 (1986): one at the Burns Cottage Museum, entitled "Song" and headed "Tune, Bonie Dundee. Composed on Miss Jessie Staig, Dumfries" [c.1793] [Alloway MS 3.6184], the other, headed "Song - Tune Bonie Dundee", in a letter to George Thomson, April 1793, in the Pierpont Morgan library. [Pierpont Morgan, MA47, f.23] Paper with watermark partly visible: possibly "G. Taylor." On the verso, in ink, is the inscription "Burns` own hand" in a near contemporary hand. The present version differs from the Burns Cottage Museum manuscript in the first stanza. The present copy reads "Grace, Beauty & Elegance fetter her lover" while the Burns Cottage Museum copy reads as "Youth, Beauty & Elegance fetter her lover". The second stanza also differs. Line one of the present version reads "Fresh is the rose in the gay, dewy morning" while the Burns Cottage Museum copy reads "Fair is the rose in the gay dewy morning". The second line of the present version reads "And sweet is the lily at evening close" whereas the Burns Cottage Museum copy reads "And sweet is the lily in evening close" Provenance: From the estate of Admiral The Hon Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming of Cumbernauld (1774-1840) who was prominent in the Colombian and Venezuelan wars of liberation and married Dona Catalina Paulina Alessandro de Jimenez, 26 years his junior. Their daughter Clementina married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, and, as Lady Clementina Hawarden, became one of the earliest portrait photographers. The poem was given to the present owner`s grandfather, along with other Fleeming family papers, by Lady Hawarden`s grand-daughter, Lady Eveline Maude.

Diary & Sketchbook - Oxford, J. A manuscript diary and sketchbook dated March 14th 1889 to May 1907, various sketches throughout including Cawdor Castle, Tulloch Castle, a trip up Arthur`s Seat, Edinburgh, contemporary morocco gilt; Etchings A volume of etchings of 57 views around Scotland, each 6.5 by 9cm, contemporary calf, boards and some pages loose (2)

Roads - Town of Perth "Unto the Hon[oura]ble the Justices of Peace and Commissioners of supply in their General Meeting under the late Turnpike Act. The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the Town of Perth... as proper to open an easy communication with the Bridge [over the River Tay] from the West-Country and that in might in due time to joined to the County-Turnpike road to the South." Manuscript petition with 65 signatures at the base, circa 1810, 48 by 39cm, previous folds, framed and glazed, possibly taped at edges

Opera Nineteenth-century manuscript volume of nine vocal duets and an ensemble, including Rossini`s I Marinari and numbers from operas by Rossini (Il turco in Italia), Bellini (I puritani), Donizetti (Anna Bolena), Mercadante (Il giuramento) and Paer (Agnese), c. 1830`s, oblong 4to, 325 pages, annotated in brown ink on two systems per page, of up to five staves each, contemporary half calf, red-gilt label to cover ("Mrs Bayly."), occasionally trimmed at foot by the binder, apparently lacking title-page and lower half of the final leaf; Arias Two manuscripts of Italian arias, including Non ha cor` from Pietro Guglielmi`s Debora e Sisera, the full score, notated on twelve staves per page, inscribed on the title "Nel Real Teatro di San Carlo", and Regnante tradito from Paisiello`s Elfrida, oblong 4to, 45 pages in all, notated on three systems per page of three staves each, disbound (3) Note: Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi`s Debora e Sisera was first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on13 February 1788.

Canada - Rutherford, John "Mr John Rutherford`s journal in a letter to Sir John Nisbet", 19th century account of Rutherford’s narrative [an episode in the Pontiac War, 1763 – an unpublished manuscript by Lieut. Rutherford of the ‘Black Watch,’” printed in Canadian Institute Trans. (Toronto), III (1891–92), 229–52], 84 pages, 12mo, calf-backed cloth, binding soiled, inscribed on front endpaper: "James Hopkirk, painter, Jedburgh, 1839"

The History Of Little Fanny - A late Victorian / Edwardian manuscript copy of the 1810 edition published by S & J Fuller. 14 pages of ink manuscript complete with the 7 loose, hand-coloured headless figures and the interchangeable head. (1)

Political History - an interesting collection of mid-19th century ephemera, diaries and sketchbooks relating to the family of Robert W. Scott, MP, comprising a manuscript account of the honeymoon of Sarah Emma Scott (the MPs daughter) and her husband, brewery proprietor David Martineau, 1850, a diary for the year 1855 by David Martineau, a diary for the years 1852-1857 by Sarah, wife of Robert Wellbeloved Scott and a sketchbook of topographical drawings and watercolours by Sarah Scott (5) Robert Wellbeloved, later Scott, was the youngest son of Professor the Revd. Charles Wellbeloved of York, decended from the Wellbeloved family of Cobham, Surrey. He was born 15th July 1803 and trained as a barrister. 0n 17th February 1830 he married Sarah (1800-1874) - whose MS diary is in this lot - daughter and sole heiress of John Scott (1763-1832) of Stourbridge and The Red House, Great Barr, Staffs., 7th in descent from John Scott of Chaddesley Corbet, Worcs. and Stourbridge, the family being distant kin of their near neighbours at Great Barr, the Scott baronets. He inherited further Stourbridge property from his wife`s uncle William Scott, JP DL. On the death of his father-in-law in 1832, Robert Wellbeloved assumed the additional surname and arms of Scott by Royal Licence, and he was later in 1841 elected post-Reform Act Liberal MP for Walsall holding the seat until 1847. During this period he purchased the Ratlinghope Manor and Norbury estates in Shropshire, being later made Dl and JP and High Sheriff for Staffordshire. Scott died in 1856, leaving issue: John Addyes Scott (died 15th January 1888, having married and left issue); Sarah Emma, the creator of the album of watercolours included in this lot, who on 22nd June 1855 married David Martineau of Clapham Park, London (whose honeymoon is recorded in the MS journal); Mary Laetitia (died 31st May 1863) who married 19th March 1861 Revd. A. W. Worthington of Mansfield, son of J. W. Worthington of Stourbridge and Elizabeth Anne (d. 1869) married 9th April 1863 her brother-ni-law`s cousin Thomas Worthington of Cheetham Hill, Lancs.

Cookery - an 18th century manuscript recipe book, containing approximately one hundred and twelve receipts, including Black Sheep Pudding, a Calve`s Head, Cheese Cake, a Powder for a Cough, and others, written in black ink in cursive script, Buck-in-the-Park Borough badge watermark, probably Derbyshire, cover dated 1729

Apothecary/Cookery - an 18th century manuscript book of cures and recipes, including A Diet Drink for Dropsyes or Rheumatisms Rheumatick Cholicks or Purifying the Blood (from) Lady Huntingdon, an Excellent Receit for Burn or Scald, to make Paulsey Drops (from) Lady Denghby, to Bake Beef, to Stew Pigeons and others, written in ink in cursive script

MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. 1576 CUSTODY GRANTED BY ELIZABETH I TO WILLIAM WALTER OF WYMBLETON IN RESPECT OF THE MANOR OF SILCHESTER AND LAND IN HELMERTON ETC. IN LATIN NO SEAL PRESENT

DE WALDEN (LORD H) - Banners, Standards and Badges from a Tudor manuscript in the College of Arms, the De Walden Library 1904

DE WALDEN (LORD H) - A Tudor Book of Arms Tricked by Robert Cooke being Harleian Manuscript No 2169 Blasoned by Joseph Foster Hon MA Oxon, The De Walden Library 1904

A manuscript diary of a Tour in Palestine & Syria, 1893. Hand-written in a pre-bound booklet on ruled paper, the author unknown, of 100 pages, apparently unfinished, 17.5cm x 12cm, (lacking covers). Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports. Best Bid

A manuscript book of legal precedents, early 18th century, copied in a neat hand, in English; together with, beginning from the other end, 19th century common-place notes, full reversed calf. (This lot sold with all faults, not subject to return). Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.

Veneroni, Signor. The Complete Italian Master; containing the best and easiest rules for attaining that language, for Nourse, London 1763. Full leather, octavo; and assorted other volumes, most leather-bound, including a manuscript book of accounts, early 19th century, (12). Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.

GIUSEPPI, M.S., A Guide to the Manuscripts preserved in the Public Record Office, 2 vols, 1923/24, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 4 publications including Cushman, Forammifera of the Phillippine and Adjacent Seas, 1921, plates, PETRIE, Henry, Monumenta Historia Britanicca, or, Materials for the History of Britain, 1st edit, vol I (all published), large folio, titles in red and black, lithographic dedication in red and black, 17 plates of coins, 10 plates of manuscript, half-title torn with loss, plates spotted, disbound, 1848 and KNIGHT. Knight`s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, folio, 2 vols, in 1,4000 wood engravings of birds, reptiles, fish and mammals, a clean copy but both boards detached, c. 1860 (8)

A framed manuscript on parchment with two red seals, titled on mount St. German, 1423

GILBERT (DAVIES) "The Parochial History of Cornwall founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr Hals and Mr Tonkin." 4 Vols, well bound 1/2 morocco 8vo 1838 vg set.

ROBERT BURNS-ARRAN Distilled and bottled by Arran Distillers Ltd. Bottled to commemorate Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd. becoming Patron of the Robert Burns World Federation Limited on 25th January 2001. In original wooden presentation casewith Robert Burns manuscript "Scotch Drink". Single malt, 70cl, 40% volume.

ROBERT BURNS-ARRAN Distilled and bottled by Arran Distillers Ltd. Bottled to commemorate Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd. becoming Patron of the Robert Burns World Federation Limited on 25th January 2001. In original wooden presentation casewith Robert Burns manuscript "Scotch Drink". Single malt, 70cl, 40% volume.

A Phoebe Anne Traquair HRSA (1852-1936) A gold, silver and enamel pendant, circa 1905-06, the upper section of triangular form depicting Cupid paring love from a gold jar, the reverse with Cupid offering a gold heart, the bottom section suspended from triple-link chairs in the form of a heart depicting Cupid shooting an arrow towards earth, the reverse (lacking enamel) with Cupid sleeping, each section within a chevron engraved casing (lacking original enameled tear drop) 5cm high x 3cm wide Note: The pendant was given by George Brown Barbour (1890-1977) of Edinburgh to his fiancée Dorothy Latou Dickinson (1892-1981) of New York on the occasion of their marriage in May 1920. The pendant as first made may have been with the Barbour family prior to that date: it was personalised by the addition of the swan. Traquair was a friend of the Barbour family who had previously commissioned key examples of her crafts. George Barbour was the elder son of Dr (Alexander) Hugh (Freeland) Barbour of 4 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, the first owner of the Bonskeid cabinet (Shapes sale number 48, lot 390), which his sister Margaret had asked Traquair to decorate as a gift to her brother. Hugh and Margaret Barbour also commissioned a fine illuminated manuscript (now with Edinburgh University) for their sister Charlotte in 1897. Traquair had met the Barbours through Dr Alexander Whyte, the Edinburgh theologian married to Margaret`s sister Jane: the Whytes` home was 7 Charlotte Square. She illustrated Dr Whyte`s published commentary on Dante and painted portraits of members of their family, including Gustavus Aird Whyte. George Barbour therefore would have been familiar with the artist`s work for most of his life. The form and subject of this pendant made it particularly appropriate as a wedding gift. Of all classical subjects Traquair was most attracted to the story of Cupid and Psyche, and took it up in enamelling, especially in the early to mid-1900s. Several of her pendants of Cupid were sent to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London from 1903. For such classical or other secular subjects (such as mermaids) she often chose to enamel on silver as a quite different colour range-turquoise blues, greens, fiery russets and pearly flesh colours-was thus possible, and readily distinguished from the more primary reds, deep blues and greens worked on copper for religious work. These silver enamels, set as pendants, necklaces or occasionally brooches, are now among the most collectable of Traquair`s small scale work. A 1905 heart pendant of a sleeping Cupid, also worked on silver and set in gold with enamelled tear drop, was purchased by the National Museums of Scotland and is currently on display in the Museum of Scotland (A.1986.122).

Anthony Horowitz: Autographed page of manuscript from "The Greek who stole Christmas"

Couch (Jonathan). A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vols., 1862-65, 252 chromolithographed plates, vol. IV frontispiece plate and endpaper loose, annotated throughout in red ink, 3pp. manuscript notes bound-in vol. IV, occasional light spotting, original blue cloth gilt, some light wear, 8vo (4)

Reference. Winearls (Joan), Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, An Annotated Bibliography of Manuscript and Printed Maps, University of Toronto Press, 1991, b & w illusts., orig. pub. dec. cloth, spine partially split, 4to, together with Macdonald (Alastair), Mapping the World, A History of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1946-1985, pub. HMSO, 1996,col. portrait frontis., numerous col. and b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pub. cloth, d.j., 4to, with Kerr (Donald & Holdsworth Deryck W. eds.), Historical Atlas of Canada Volume III, Addressing the Twentieth Century, 1891-1961, University of Toronto Press, 1990,numerous colour printed maps and tables throughout, orig. pub. cloth gilt, d.j., folio, together with another thirty-two vols. similar (35)

* Diaries. Three original manuscript diaries kept by Rev. F. R. Edmonds of Lechlade, Glos., 19th November 1924 to 27th April 1925, covering a journey from Rangoon to Colombo, Freemantle, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand (Wellington, Christchurch, Aukland), Suva, Honolulu, Canada (Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto), and New York, the text including descriptions of churches and organs but as the journal progresses becoming more descriptive of sights seen, a total of approx. 170 leaves, mostly written to rectos only, a few cuttings, invoices and other printed and manuscript ephemera loosely inserted (and which identifies the author), orig. cloth, somewhat worn, slim 4to (3)

Illustrated manuscript. Polydore Vergil di Urbini`sHistory of England in 26 books, the edition from which this translation was made was printed in Basel for Jo. Bebelius, A.D. 1534, 4 vols. in two, 1836, written in a neat hand, with titles dated 1836, index, appendix and address to the reader in vol. 1, illustrated with two manuscript folding maps and forty-six full-page illustrations in pen and ink, some occasional corrections, scattered light spots, original cloth, some wear to spines, rubbed, 8vo. A scholarly labour of love, seemingly written in a single hand by an unknown writer from a single text, predating Sir Henry Ellis`stranslation from 1844. (2)

Naval Log Book. Log of the Proceedings on Board of H.M.S. Hibernia 120 Guns, Captain Peter Richards C.B. bearing the flag of Vice Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart. G.C.B., kept by Gordon Carey Whitbread, Naval Cadet, Commencing 10th March 1847 and Ending..., 1847-48, manuscript log journal, with calligraphic title-page and approx. 100pp. (plus 30pp. blank), kept whilst visiting Lisbon, Malta, and Naples, orig. qtr. sheep, rubbed and soiled, folio. In February 1845 H.M.S. Hibernia was commissioned by Captain Peter Richards to serve as Vice Admiral Sir William Parker`sflagship in the Mediterranean. (1)

* WWI - Archive of Major L.H. Lloyd, Royal Army Service Corps. Two albums containing numerous original photographs, postcards, maps, war diary, poems, orders, etc. 1914-18, 62 thick card leaves, mounted on both sides with approx. 300 original photographs and real photo postcards and approx. 120 documents, passes, printed orders, maps, original poems, War Diary or Intelligence Summaries, stamps, German billeting notices, christmas cards, invitations to balls, two Mention in Despatch notices etc., all neatly captioned in ink, a few leaves loose, a few minor spots, one half red, one half blue morocco, one upper joint splitting, lightly rubbed, oblong folio. A comprehensive and valuable record of one man`swar. Captain, later Major Lloyd served in Northern France from 1914-1918, the archive going on to 1919 when the British army occupied Cologne. The photographs start with embarkation at Southampton in 1914, arrival in Laventie in France, supplying the front, topography, constructing trenches and barbed wire defences, bomb throwing, shelled buildings, billets, graves, a football match on Christmas Day, 1914, R.F.C. planes and hangars, officers, German prisoners etc. ending with Spa, Antwerp and Cologne in 1919. The documents include several Special Order of the Day`sfrom Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, concert and sporting notices, translations of German orders, regulations, a certificate awarding an Iron Cross, 2nd class, German stamps in occupied Belgium, two manuscript poems, one titled "Our Little dug-out in the Trench" from 2nd Battn, West Yorkshire regiment, a manuscript war diary, from embarkation at Southampton 5 November 1914 to 19 Feb 1915 and two Mention in Despatch notices, 1919. (2)

[Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with diuers addicions, whiche were neuer in print before... , compiled by Jhon Lidgate, 5th ed., edited by John Stowe, 1561], black letter double-column text with woodcut initials throughout, lacks all prelims. (fourteen or ten leaves depending on issue which is otherwise not determinable), final leaf of text with colophon supplied as modern facsimile, old neat manuscript copy of the final leaf signed by Thomas Cox bound in at end (dampstained), some old soiling and dampstaining and scattered contemp. marginal inscriptions, two closed tear repairs to first leaf including one archival tissue repair touching running head and woodcut of the knight on his horse, the woodcut with neat old ink addition to right border of the image and a few doodles to the left, a few marginal tears, four defective and repaired prelims. [from the 1598 edition] inserted at front, recent calf by Period Bookbinders, folio. STC 5075. (1)

[Godwin, Thomas]. Romanae Historiae Anthologia recogniga et aucta. An English Exposition of the Roman Antiquities; wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel"d, and divers obscure phrases explained. For the use of Abingdon School, newly revised and enlarged by the author, 1668, 18th c. half calf, with marbled covers, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (renewed), small 4to, together with Stillingfleet (Edward), Origines Sacrae, or a rational account of the grounds of Christian faith, as to the truth and divine authority of the scriptures, 1st ed., 1662, title printed in red and black (with contemp. owner`sname, dated 1667 to upper outer corner, partly torn away), with contemp. manuscript comment in ink to recto of final blank, near-contemp. calf, restored with leather re-glazed, 4to (2)

Harvey (Gideon). Archelogia Philosophica Nova, or New Principles of Philosophy, containing Philosophy in General, Metaphysicks, or Ontology, Dynamilogy, or a Discourse of Power, Religio Philosophi, or Natural Theology, Physicks, or Natural Philosophy, 2 parts in 1 vol., 1st ed., 1663, separate title to second part and first part paginated as two, part-titles, lacks port. frontis., eng. illusts. to text, some manuscript marginalia and indexing, a little spotting or soiling, modern quarter calf gilt, 4to. Wing H1053. (1)

Pansa (Paolo). Vita del Gran Pontefice Innocenzio Quarto..., pub. Carlino, Naples, 1601, title with woodcut device, woodcut head-and-tail pieces and initials, small repair to title with manuscript annotation below publisher imprint, occasional spotting and browning, later endpapers, later vellum, some stains, 8vo (1)

Plutarch ( ). Vitae Parallelae, seu Comparatae, Guilielmi Xylandri Augustani Interpretatione Postemo Recognita, 3 vols., Frankfurt, 1592, title with woodcut devices, occasional underlining, library stamps, previous owner signatures and inscriptions to preliminaries, light dampstains, near-contemporary vellum, manuscript titles and small modern reference labels to spines, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo (3)

Riccioli (Giovanni Battista). Geographiae et Hydrographiae Reformatae Libri Duodecim, Bologna, 1651, engraved frontispiece plate (repaired), wood-engraved illustrations, occasional light dampstains and soiling, later half vellum, manuscript title to spine, slightly rubbed, folio (1)

[Heraldry]. Theses des principes du blason ou de l"art heraldique, lesquelles sous la presidence de Monsiuer le docteur Jean Christoffle Wagenseil ..., soutiendra Jean Jacques Sturm ..., [Altdorf:] Guillaume Kohles, 1719, 16 pp. with five armorial woodcuts to text, contemp. ink marginalia in French, additional large engraved armorial mounted as a plate on blank leaf facing p.13, bound with Rink (Eucharius Gottlieb), De eo quod iustum est circa galeam ..., Altdorf University Dissertation, 1st ed., Helmstedt, 1726, 51 pp., engraved plate, bound with two contemp. manuscript sections as second and fourth items of vol., the first headed "Ad Praefationem", 46 pp. with two blank leaves before and one blank leaf after, the text in French, German and Latin with numerous heraldic shields in sepia ink, the second manuscript section in the same hand and multiple languages titled "Scripta Arti Heraldicae Inservientia", 28 pp. in two columns with right (notes) column largely blank, blank leaf at front and rear of vol., some spotting and sl. soiling throughout, modern roan gilt, 4to. The first work by Sturm was published in 1690 and has the same pagination. (1)

Swan (John). Speculum Mundi, or, A Glass Representing the Face of the World, Shewing both that it did Begin, and must also End, the Manner how, and Time when, being largely examined, the whole of which, may be fitly called an Hexameron, or Discourse of the Clauses, Continuance, and Qualities of things in Nature, Occasioned as Matter pertinent to the work done in the six days of the Worlds Creation, 4th ed., much beautified and enlarged, 1670, some old dampstaining and occ. light browning, old manuscript doodles to endpapers, eng. bookplate of T. Longueville to front pastedown, contemp. blind-panelled calf, covers near-detached, some wear to extremities, 4to. Wing S6240. (1)

Manuscript Recipe Books. A collection of manuscript recipe books, early-mid. 20th c., approx. thirty books, in varying hands, some titled: Cheese Dishes; Ham & Bacon; Egg Dishes, Fish Dishes, Baked Puddings, Cold Sweets, Steamed & Boiled Puddings, Baked Puddings, etc., together with some loose leaves of recipes, both ms. and printed, plus three printed cookery items, incl. The Little Book of..., 10 vols., pub. George Newnes, [1912], orig. cloth, in varying colours, each 93 x 64 mm, contained in orig. paper-covered board bookshelf (approx.30)

Gilpin (William). Two Essays: One, on the Author`sMode of Executing Rough Sketches; The Other on the Principles on Which they are Composed, 1804, four engraved plates, occasional manuscript annotation, a few light spots, contemporary presentation inscription and signature, original cloth-backed boards, wear to spine, rubbed and stained, 8vo (1)

Coward (Noel). The Noel Coward Song Book, 1st ed. 1953, col. portrait frontis. title page signed by the author in biro, four col. plts. by Gladys Calthorp and numerous b & w vignette illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, dj a little frayed and soiled, 4to, together with a card with an ink manuscript note to Miss Lloyd Davies thanking her for her present to the Actor`sorphanages, signed by Coward, together with, Hartshorne (Albert), Old English Glasses. An Account of Glass Drinking Vessels in England from Early Times to the end of the Eighteenth Century With Introductory Notices, Original Documents etc., 1897,chromolitho. frontis. sixty-six litho. plts. (correct as list), numerous b & w illusts. to text throughout, occ. spotting, hinges weak, t.e.g., orig. dec. half vellum, spine split along rear joints and repaired, folio, together with Defoe (Daniel), The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, pub. Cassell and Company, 1896,numerous b & w wood engs. marbled end papers and paste downs, contemp. half vellum gilt with contrasting labels to spine, 4to, with Monsarrat (Nicholas), HMS Marlborough will Enter Harbour, 1952,dec. title page with library stamp, numerous illusts. throughout by James Holland, book mark and ex libris label of the British India Company, contemp. dec. cloth, 8vo (4)

Herbert (A.S.). Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961, Revised and Expanded from the Edition of T.H. Darlow and H.F. Moule, 1903, pub. 1968, orig. cloth in clear plastic d.j., upper cover slightly darkened, 4to, together with Wallis (Peter & Ruth), Newton and Newtonia 1672-1975, A Bibliography, 1st ed., 1977, orig. cloth, 4to, with Bridson (Gavin D.R., Phillips, Valerie C. & Harvey, Anthony P.), Natural History Manuscript Resources in the British Isles, pub. New York, 1980, orig. cloth, 4to, with Nicholson (Francis), Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, pub. Manchester, 1875, ink stamp to title, modern marbled covers, 8vo, plus other bibliography, science related, biographies and fiction etc. (2 cartons)

Dampier (William). A New Voyage Round the World, Describing particularly the Isthmus of America, Several Coasts and Islands in the West Indies..., their Soil, Rivers, Harbours, Plants, Fruits, Animals and Inhabitants..., 1st ed., James Knapton, 1697, pp.[10],VI,550,[4], folding eng. double-hemisphere map of the world by H.Moll showing California as an island, four other eng. maps (inc. 3 folding), foding map of East Indies torn to fold and with old repair to verso, lower outer corner of leaf F1 torn with slight loss, closed-tear to leaf S1 crudely repaired, slight dust soiling and few marks, bookplate and manuscript notes to front pastedown, lacks front free endpaper, contemp. calf, lacking lower board, upper joint cracked and worn to spine, 8vo (Wing D161), together with Carey (Frances Jane), Journal of a Tour in France, in the Years 1816 and 1817, pub. 1823, paper repair to inner margin of half-title and title, contemp. diced calf with gilt dec. spine (faded), 8vo, plus three others including odd volumes (5)

Johnston (W. & A. K. Ltd., publishers). Johnston`sRoyal Atlas of Modern Geography, Edinburgh & London, 1918, first prelim with biro inscription and library stamp, sixty col. printed maps (correct as list), occ. closed tears, one map with ink staning, library stamps to verso of some maps, marbled end papers, upper hinge broken, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt dec. upper board and spine, remains of label on upper board, rubbed and frayed, folio, together with Bartholomew (J.G.), The Survey Atlas of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1912,title page printed in red & black, eight uncoloured historical maps and sixty col. printed regional maps and town plans (complete as list), manuscript inscription to front paste down, hinges repaired, contemp. qtr. morocco, gilt heraldic device to upper board, joints weak, rubbed and frayed, folio, with another eleven similar, various sizes and condition (13)

Jungmann (Gustav Adolph). Die Aubergne in Frankreich, n.d., c.1835, near contemp. ink maunuscript contents list (with modern photocopy), manuscript and watercolour title board and thirty-six pencil drawings and watercolours (on thirty-three boards), three images showing signs of earlier mounting, contained in orig. gilt dec. green morocco book box, plush lined interior with hinged upper board and brass lock, rubbed and worn, lg.folio (1)

Venice. Venezia Vedute [so titled on upper cover], c. 1840, a collection of eighty-one hand-coloured engravings of Venetian views, artists and engravers include Moretti, G. Bernasconi, and others, all with printed captions to the lower margin, and some with the date 1837 or 1838, numbered in pencil to upper right corners throughout, some spotting and soiling and occn. light dampstaining, plate 23 with closed tear repair to verso, contemp. vellum with manuscript title and decoration to upper cover, a little rubbed and soiled, oblong 8vo (1)

Belvoir Hunt. Journal of the Operations of the Belvoir Fox Hounds from July 29 1803 ... to April 21st 1829, 25 vols., 1804-[29?], a near unbroken run lacking vols. for 1804-05 and 1805-06, all with printed half-titles, the volume for 1819-20 which was apparently never published included here in neat contemp. manuscript, scattered spotting or marginal browning, many vols. with ownership signature of the Manners family to front pastedowns, contemp. calf gilt with leather labels to spines, the manuscript volume somewhat thicker and with gilt dec. spine, all somewhat rubbed, several joints weak and a few covers det., 4to. A rare near-complete run of this journal, lacking only vols. 1-4 and 6-7. Schwerdt I, p.59 and IV, p. 11: "This Journal began August 10th, 1799, and ended April 21st, 1829, but the volume for 1819-20 was apparently never published, though the NS. manuscript thereof is preserved at Belvoir Castle". Schwerdt`scollection lacked a total of seven volumes including the manuscript volume here present. (25)

[MANUSCRIPTS] a modern pigskin blank album, containing over 140 manuscript letters, envelopes or cut signatures, including Queen Victoria & Albert, George III & IV & William IV (cut signatures); William Pitt (2pp. a.l.s. from Downing Street, 1784); Robert Peel (a.l.s. & envelope) & other P. M.`s; Sir George Grey, a.l.s. & envelope: re handwriting analysis; Robert Southey, poet (1.p.a.l.s.); Thomas Moore; Tennyson, S. Baring Gould, Christina Rossetti (cut signature), Moyle Sherer (a.l.s.); Paul Mendelssohn (a.l.s., 1863); Charles Dickens (envelope); Charlotte Yonge (a.l.s.); C. Kingsley (a.l.s.); Emmelina Fisher, (4pp. poem dated 1843: `The Fisherman`s Isle,`); J. Ruskin (a.l.s.); Goethe (cut signature); Humbolt (note & envelope) & many others.

[MANUSCRIPT] DARENTH ADULT ASYLUM (Kent) 3 Weekly & Monthly Wage Books, 1870`s & 1880`s, large folio & small folio. Note: the Darenth Asylum was a cutting-edge institution set up in Kent and closed within modern times (3)

[MEDICAL] HEISTER (L.) A General System of Surgery, 4to, vol.1 only, 20 folding plates, calf (distressed), L., 1743 [w.a.f.] TOWNSHEND (C.) Facts in Mesmerism…, 8vo, lacks half title, & portrait, 2nd Edn., L., 1844; a MANUSCRIPT MEDICAL CASE BOOK, doctor unidentified, London based, covering 1911-1914, 251 cases filled in, in a Cranford Medical Case Book; & 2 other vols. (5)