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EMMA AND MARIA PETIT: A JOURNAL OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT IN THE SUMMER OF 1838 DEDICATED TO MAJOR AND MRS BARCLEY, a comtemporary manuscript journal, 221 manuscript pages with a qty pen ink drawings and watercolours obl mor gt

MANUSCRIPT AS IN FULL DIARY 1893 BY ROYAL NAVAL OFFICER C C MCDONALD “HMS ARETHUSA” INCLUDING MALTA, ATHENS, ALEXANDRIA AND CAIRO WITH SOME PEN AND INK SKETCHES, orig cl gt soiled

1872 MANUSCRIPT OF A LINCOLNSHIRE EMIGRANT TO HAMILTON VICTORIA COVERING HIS PASSAGE TRAVELING IN THIRD CLASS ON “SS GREAT BRITAIN” WHICH SAILED ON 17 DECEMBER 1871 MANUSCRIPT ADDRESSED TO HIS PARENTS 20 MANUSCRIPT PAGES COMMENCING DECEMBER 16TH 1871 “------ I AWOKE TO HEAR THE COCKS CROWING UPON DECK IN THEIR PENS, THEY HAD ON DECK FOR THE USE OF THE SALOON ONE MILCH COW TO PROVIDE THEM WITH MILK AND FOR THE SALOON SECOND CLASS SHEEP, PIGS, FOWL, TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, PIGEONS AND RABBITS, THERE WAS ABOUT AN HUNDRED AND FORTY SHEEP ------“ “FRIDAY 22ND TODAY WAS WE RECOMMENCED TRAVELING ------ VERY NEAR THE SPOT WHERE WAS LYING AT HOLYHEAD WAS THE PLACE WHERE THE “ROYAL CHARTER” WAS WRECKED, OUR LAMPMAN WAS ON HER AT THE TIME, HE SWAM ASHORE TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE AND HE SAVED THE LIVES OF 37 BESIDES, HE HAD A HANDSOME PRESENT FROM THE QUEEN FOR THIS COURAGE-------“ “SATURDAY 6TH ------THEY HAD A CONCERT ON DECK TONIGHT, THERE WERE SEVERAL PUSHING YOUNG FELLOWS ON BOARD THAT LIKED TO SHOW THEMSELVES PROMINENT, SEVERAL THAT WILL DO NO GOOD FOR THEMSELVES NEITHER HERE NOR ANYWHERE ELSE ------- DRINK WAS THE GREATEST NUISANCE ON BOARD -------“ “MONDAY 12TH ----- I NOTICED TODAY HOW MANY WARRANT PASSENGERS WE HAD ON BOARD THERE WAS AN HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR OF THEM, THEY WAS VERY FORTUNATE BY COMING IN THIS SHIP AS THEY ARE GENERALLY SENT OUT IN SAILING VESSELS -----“ “WEDNESDAY 21ST ------- WE SIGHTED LAND THIS MORNING ----- I WAS IN MELBOURNE FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON UNTIL FRIDAY AFTERNOON, UNCLE MET ME ON FRIDAY MORNING ----- YOUR AFFECTIONATE SON AUSTIN” FOLLOWED BY 20 FURTHER MANUSCRIPT PAGES OF POETRY, small 4to wraps + orig poster for the voyage printed on both sides 15 x 10

PLAN OF ROADS IN BULMER [NEAR SUDBURY, SUFFOLK] SHOWING THE PARISH ALLOTMENTS AND COTTAGES, Manuscript hand col’d map by I J West, Pimlico, 1843, copied from the original tithe map, fdg bkd onto linen, 24” x 36”, obl, decor cf gt, mor slipcase

19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL “UN MOIS DE 1848” FROM KETTERINGHAM HALL (BOILEAU FAMILY) + A MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK (2)

LOG-BOOK OF “THE WOODS” TRIMINGHAM NORFOLK, 1936-58, Manuscript account of the Buxton Family’s time in “The Woods”, old qtr cf

19th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT PLAN “LANDING OF THE FRENCH AT FISHGUARD IN PEMBROKESHIRE SOUTH WALES 22 FEBRUARY 1797” 6 X 10 af

Bevan (Major H.). Thirty Years in India: Or, A Soldier's Reminiscences of Native and European Life in the Presidencies, from 1808 to 1838, 2 vols in 1, 1st ed., 1839, folding eng. map, two wood-eng. plts., addn. oval photographic port. of Major Bevan pasted to verso of title to vol. 1 and a manuscript account of his fatal accident (extracted from the Illustrated London News), tipped-in before dedication, recent green quarter morocco gilt, thick 8vo. (1)

*Fishing in India and Ireland. An original typescript fishing diary written by Brigadier Frederick George Gillies, relating to fishing trips to India, the Pyrenees, Devon and Ireland, in 1911, 1925-36, and typed up in 1939, 118 neatly typed pages with a few related insertions, approx. sixty mostly small-format b & w good quality snapshots pasted and captioned on seven card leaves at rear, fish caught in India and Kashmir including bamin, brown trout, mahseer (72 lbs), chiru, tengra, calabanse, murral, etc., and in Britain, salmon (18.5 lbs), various trout, pike (30.25 lbs) and perch, together with an original 300-page unpublished typescript in 2 volumes by the same author, entitled 'Fishing Notes', contents, sketches and all with neat manuscript corrections, contained in contemp. ring-leaf cloth binders, 4to, plus a manuscript game book kept by the same author, listing duck and game shooting expeditions in Britain and India between 1896 and 1925, approx. thirty completed leaves, orig. morocco notebook with tongued flap, rubbed, oblong 8vo, plus a group of fifty of the author's captioned b & w photo negatives relating to his fishing expeditions in India and Ireland (all 1930s), (full set of recent b & w photo prints from the negatives supplied with the lot), plus a group of family photos and papers, incl. Gillies' passport, a commission signed by Queen Victoria appointing him to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, pensions correspondence, etc. Brigadier Frederick George Gillies C.B., O.B.E., (1881-1955) was educated at Tonbridge and after attending Sandhurst he was gazetted in 1900. His first Regiment was the 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army, and later he served in the Poona Horse and the Royal Garhwal Rifles. He attended the Staff College, Quetta, in 1913 and during World War One took part in the campaign in Mesopotamia, being mentioned twice in Dispatches. He was also mentioned in Dispatches for his services in Southern Persia in 1918 and in Waziristan in 1919 for which he was appointed O.B.E. Later he commanded the Royal Garhwal Rifles and then held command of the Ambala Brigade from 1932 to 1934. Copyright for the Diary, Fishing Notes and photographs transfers to the buyer of this lot. (a carton)

Indian Military Uniform. A Collection of 35 watercolours of Indian Military Uniforms, early 20th century, depicting various regiments, each with manuscript descriptions, each 25.5 x 20.5cm. (35)

Ceremonial Dress. Seven scrap albums of photographs, newspaper and magazine cuttings etc, late 19th/20th c., featuring Royal, military and political figures of the day in official ceremonial costume, all with manuscript inventory numbers and explanitory notations, folio. This collection was formed as the basis of a proposed publishing project by Dr. C. D'Olivier Farran, an author of law books. (7)

*Fortification. Course of Fortification [so titled on upper cover], c. 1842, a composite vol. of unpaginated printed text, approx. 40 pp. manuscript exercises and twenty-four pen-and-ink full-page illusts. by H.P. Newton of the Royal Military Academy, each dated and signed off by a teacher, orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed, 4to, together with two manuscript exercise books for Shoeburyness Gunnery School, c. 1870s and contemp. copies of a hand-book for Field Service and Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry (5)

*Manuscript documents. An old file box containing an interesting collection of over forty paper manuscript documents from the 18th & 19th century, including obligation bonds, indentures, agreements, original early wills, etc., many with wax seals attached (-)

*Music Manuscript. Julia de Roubigne, An Opera. Dramatized by Edwd. Josh. Powell. The Music Arranged by Miss Kerby, 1822, 78pp (inc. 16pp. manuscript music) written on rectos only, in a neat hand, with double ruled red border throughout, contemp. half morocco by J. Kelly, rebacked, rubbed, 4to. The libretto of this opera and several of the songs appear to be original and unpublished. (1)

*Music Manuscript. A volume of manuscript music containing a selection of songs, marches and dances, n.p., 1814, 123pp of hand written music, compiler's name "Helen Harvey, Aug. 31st 1814" written to front pastedown, some pages slightly loose, contemp. red half sheep, worn, 4to. (1)

[Halle, Edward]. The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme ... beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth ... proceadyng to the reigne of ... kyng Henry the eight, the undubitate flower and very heire of both the sayd linages, [col:] Londini in officina Richardi Graftoni, 1548, title within an architectural woodcut border, the upper compartment showing the king sitting in parliament, full-page woodcut showing a similar scene on the verso of the last leaf of text XXX5, followed by the colophon bearing Grafton's large woodcut device, large woodcut initials, the integral blanks Rr8, KK6, and kkk8 present, expert repairs to the title-page, resulting in some 8 letters of letterpress being supplied or completed in manuscript, a few neat marginal repairs, some soiling in the text, and inoffensive light worming, contemp. manuscript Table of the contents relating to Henry VII on the three blank pages between the section and that relating to Henry VIII, early 19th Century russia, sides bordered in blind within gilt fillets, enclosing a single gilt fillet panel with decorative gilt cornerpieces composed of small tools, skilfully and sympathetically rebacked, a.e.g., small folio. S.T.C. 12722. First Edition, with the title-page reading "illustre". An excellent, complete copy of a work seldom found in such good condition. Described by S.T.C. as "an exceptionally difficult work to grasp because of perplexities in the order of its printing", this copy has S.T.C.'s early issue points. It is without tables, and has setting Pb of the Preliminaries, and 1b and 2ab of the text. Halle's "Chronicle" is a mirror of Tudor life. It is the best contemporary chronicle of the reign of Henry VIII, and a panegyric of the House of Tudor, and especially of Henry. Grafton, Holinshead, and Stow borrowed extensively from it, while Shakespeare, in his earlier historical plays, followed Halle closely. In 1555, with Mary Tudor on the throne, Grafton was stripped of his title "printer to the king", and Halle's work was prohibited by proclamation. (1)

Penmanship. Real Pen-Work Self-Instructor in Penmanship, pub. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1884, four col. plates highlighted in gilt, b & w illusts. and diagrams throughout, final leaf detached and sl. frayed, orig. printed boards, rubbed and worn, with spine lacking and covers detached, slim oblong 4to, together with eight manuscript excercise books, some mathematics, others with examples of copperplate writing, etc., with various ownership names all with surname Adlington (John, Jane, George, and Elizabeth Adlington), dated 1811-13, sm. 4to. (9)

Selden (John). The History of Tythes. That is, The Practice of Payment of them. The Positive Laws made for them. The Opinions touching the Right of them. A Review of it is also annext, which both Confirms it, and directs in the use of it, [London], 1618 [really 1680], some soiling and browning, contemp. calf, a trifle rubbed, neatly rebacked, although the new spine is dated 1718, small 4to. This work gave great offence to the clergy because passages in it questioned the divine right of tithes, and it was suppressed by public authority. This copy contains a contemporary manuscript copy of Selden's submission, made at Lambeth 28 January 1618, in which he humbly acknowledges his error, and apologises for the displeasure he has caused. This 1680 printing is the only edition to have the title-page printed all in black, and to have medial 'v' in the text. S.T.C. 22173. (1)

Medical Manuscript. Physicae Compendi ..., [by Jean Robert] Chouet ..., Scriptum Salmurii, 1684, 138 pp., including title with decorative border and device of a sphere, all in a very neat hand, few blanks at rear, oval ink lib. stamps to endpapers and foot of title, contemp. mottled calf, spine defective, small 8vo. See Wellcome Manuscripts catalogue vol. II (MSS after 1650) no. 1633 for a similar item by Chouet. (1)

Harleian Miscellany; Or, a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, 12 vols., new ed., 1808, some spotting and light toning throughout, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed on spines, 8vo. Large paper copy. (12)

*Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. An orig. engraved membership certificate on vellum admitting Doctor Andrew Duncan Junior, Physician in Edinburgh, to the Club, playing at the Links of Leith, dated 2nd September 1797, engraved form by D. Lizars with decorative title and a vignette of a golfer with raised club teeing off, the membership details completed in manuscript and signed by Secretary, Thomas [?], name now indistinct, a little spotting and minor soiling, 27 x 35 cm, with folds. Andrew Duncan (1773-1832), Physician and Expert in Forensic Science, was the eldest of the twelve children born to Andrew Duncan (1744-1828), Professor of the Institutes of Medicine. He was the only child to follow his father into medicine and assisted him in editing the 'Annals of Medicine'. In 1803 he published the "Edinburgh New Dispensatory", a highly popular work which ran through numerous editions and was published in German and French. He was for many years the Chief Editor of the newly founded "Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal", as well as a Secretary of Senate and Librarian to the University of Edinburgh. Archives and papers are held by National Library of Scotland, University of Edinburgh Library and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. (1)

*Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Engraved Membership Certificate on vellum admitting Doctor Andrew Duncan to the Club, playing at the Links of Leith, dated 8th May 1784, engraved Certificate with decorative heading and medallion vignette of a golfer with raised club teeing off by D. Lizars, the membership details completed in manuscript and boldly signed by Club Secretary James Balfour, a little spotting and soiling and minor creasing, 26 x 36 cm. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers was formed in 1744 playing at Leith links, and was the first golf club in the world. It's Golf House was erected in 1768, being the first golf clubhouse in the world. The first golf club outside of the United Kingdom, the South Carolina Golf Club in Charleston, was not formed until 1786. Andrew Duncan, the elder (1744-1828) was a St. Andrew's man who spent all of his long medical life in Scotland. He became Professor of the Theory of Medicine at Edinburgh in 1790 and President of the Royal College of Physicians in the same year. As a medical reformer, he was involved in the promotion of various new Institutions in Edinburgh. He had been horrified by the poor treatment of the mentally ill, having witnessed the conditions and early death of his patient, the poet Robert Fergusson (1750-74) in Bedlam. In 1792 he proposed the erection of a public Lunatic Assylum, finally built in 1807 at Morningside by the architect Robert Reid. This grew into the Royal Edinburgh Hospital which opened the Andrew Duncan clinic in 1965. See D & B for entries on Duncan and his son. Archives and papers are held by the National Library of Scotland, the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Library, Wellcome Library and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. (1)

*Royal Company of Archers. An engraved Membership Certificate on vellum, admitting Andrew Duncan, Physician in Edinburgh, to be a member of the Company at Edinburgh, dated 13th July 1771, printed certificate, completed in manuscript with members details and signed by James Hardie, S.G.R.S., a little soiling, remains of appended papered wax seal, showing an archer with bow and arrow beneath a tree, the verso showing cupid with a bow and arrow. Andrew Duncan, the elder (1744-1828), a St. Andrew's Physician and Medical Reformer - see D & B entry and Honorable Company of Golfers of Edinburgh Membership Certificates below. The Royal Company of Archers was formed in 1676. It was later appointed as the Sovereigns 'Body Guard in Scotland' for King George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822, and has served as bodyguard to each successive Sovereign. Membership is by election, members needing to be either Scots or with strong Scottish connections, the Company available for duty anywhere in Scotland at the request of the Queen. (1)

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus). Opera, et ad Dicendi Facultatem, et ad bene uiuendu utilissima, per Des Erasmum Roterod. ex fide ueterum codicu... Basileae in Officina Frobeniana, 1529, printer's woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, lacks pp. 337-372, contemp. ownership signature on title of Joannes Osbornus, early vellum manuscript pastedown at rear, contemp. blind-panelled and ? ? calf, worn on spine, folio, together with Carter (John), Views of Ancient Buildings in England Commencing in 1764, 3 vols in 1, pub. 1786-87, fifty-eight uncol. etched plts., with manuscript half-titles, recent quarter calf gilt, 12mo, plus other misc. antiquarian, incl. odd vols. (3 shelves)

manuscript: An account of the hired armed vessels employed in His Majesty's Service during the late war 30th June 1802 (37m x 24 cm) (tears in folds, edges dusty)

orig. Manuscript Log Of His Majesty's Ship "Minerva" from 1st January 1794 in Bombay Harbour to Thursday 24th April 1794 at Spithead fo, mbld. paper covers (little torn) 57 pages and 35 blank, v. good

orig. Manuscript Log Of The Proceedings On Board H.M. Sloop Guadaloupe Kept By John Frederick, 1812 4to, orig. patterned card covers, 120 pages (ft. cover and some pages ink stained top corner, one page edge damaged with some loss)

wright (Rev. G.N.) An Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin, 1821 17 plts. and folding plan (plan foxed and repaired), orig. mbld. bds, with recent cf. spine; Lewis (R.) The Dublin Guide Or A Description of The City of Dublin, n.d. [c. 1787], frontis. (pge. 197/8 in manuscript), orig. cf. bdg. (worn, jnts. split); with Two Other Volumes, Dublin related (4)

hare (H.F.) An Inquiry Into The Legislation Control and Improvement of the Salmon and Sea Fisheries of Ireland, 1850. The author's own copy. numerous manuscript notes on interleaved pages throughout, contemp. hf. cf. (worn at edges, jnts. splitting)

robertson (W.) The History of America, 1851 2 vol, contemp. full cf. (later labels); Forster (T.) The Perennial Calendar, 1824, contemp. cf; Five Volumes on Railways; A Manuscript Recipe Book dated 1713; with A Koran, Mor. bound (bd. det.) (10)

parchment Manuscript. Indenture regarding Farm in Brampton, Suffolk, 1540 (390mm x 270mm), 8 v-shaped cuts (deliberate, to cancel agreement); Parchment Manuscript regarding property in Bridgenorth, Shrop, 1566, (305mm x 210mm); Parchment Manuscript regarding property in Scott Garth, Aysgarth, 1659 (660mm x 405mm) lacking seal; with Parchment Manuscript, an agreement regarding property in Laxfield, Suffolk, 1431 (255mm x 95mm) (4)

John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836). A manuscript letter, addressed to Thomas Hinckley of Lichfield, commenting on plans 'to have the Edinburgh & Dublin Mails quickened', dated Bristol 27th May 1825, postmarked Bristol the same day, with an applied official black wax seal (of indistinct impression). Note: Originally from Ayr, in Lanarkshire, McAdam had moved south to first Exeter and then Bristol by 1816. He was appointed surveyor to the Bristol Turnpike Trust, and in 1820 was made 'Surveyor-General of the Metropolitan Roads'.

Florence Nightingale. Part of a manuscript letter (page two of two), in black ink, circa 1865, to J.S. Mill, M.P.; and Augustus John. A manuscript letter, in black ink, dated 1923, relating to a meeting with a publisher, in which he apologizes for not responding to a letter that was 'lost or thrown away by my servant', (2). Note: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a philosopher, political economist, and social reformer who stood as an independent member of parliament for the borough of Westminster between 1865 and 1868. He was the first M.P. to call for women to be given the right to vote.

DE VARREUX (Celestine) Cathedrals de France, avec description detaillee de quelques unes des plus belles et de LAbbaye de St Denis, a manuscript 8vo volume by the author of Poesies (1864) and Le Connetable de St Pol (1892), with few engraved plates and small trimmed mounted photographs, unpaginated, some words corrected, in somewhat worn leather backed boards

SPRECKLEY (Stormont) a manuscript travel journal circa 1828-1831, relating to excursions to Dovedale, Rottingdean, Paris and Coblentz, including brief description of a railroad at Moreton-in-Marsh with a cross-section sketch of a rail and wheel, also his expenditure, etc, in a square 8vo volume

A Manuscript Volume on Conveyancing. A System of Law concerning Estates, large 4to, circa 1800, calf

Howard (Brian, 1905-1958). First Poems, [God Save the King and Other Poems], author's original manuscript, [1930], title page with 'First Poems. Brian Howard', in author's holograph with small heart drawn in ink beneath and a pasted-in magazine headline 'Vive la Vie!' below, 4-line quote from Rimbaud to title verso, followed by eighteen poems in the author's holograph on thirty-seven pages, using blue, red and turquoise ink, numerous corrections and deletions, markings for verse intervals, some amendments including title changes in pencil, poems usually with composition place and date (1925-1930) at foot, final 7 pp. blank, small ink stain to fore-margin of a few leaves, pages uncut, orig. patterned wrappers with repeating abstract design in red, large heart outline drawn by Howard to upper cover in blue ink, partly soiled and faded, spine largely perished and upper cover det., large slim vo. Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard was born of American parents at Winkworth, Hascombe, Surrey. In 1918 he went to Eton and became friends with Harold Acton, and it was there that he began to write and publish poetry with encouragement from Harold Acton and Edith Sitwell. He started at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1923 where he joined the Hypocrites, a group whose members included Evelyn Waugh, L.P. Hartley, Lord David Cecil, Harold Acton and Anthony Powell. Later in the 1920s, he met W.H. Auden with whom he became a close friend and who echoed Lady Caroline Lamb's words for Lord Byron in describing Brian Howard as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. Between 1930 and 1947 Howard produced over seventy articles for the 'New Statesman'. During the 1930s he drifted around Europe and had affairs with various young men. He was often drunk throughout his adult life and alcohol, along with drugs, became a problem during his thirties. After the War he continued to write book reviews. In the 1950s his health failed through alcohol dependency and drugs. In January 1958 Howard's lover, Sam, died accidentally of asphyxiation from fumes from a gas heater while they were living together in Nice. Four days later Brian Howard killed himself by taking an overdose of sedatives. He had failed to fulfil his early promise as a poet and published little. His importance arises more from the influence he had on his contemporaries who found his openly homosexual and flamboyant lifestlye an inspiration. He was partly the inspiration for Cedric Hampton in Nancy Mitford's 'Love in a Cold Climate', and largely inspired Evelyn Waugh's characters Ambrose Silk in 'Put Out More Flags' and Anthony Blanche in 'Brideshead Revisited'. The manuscript here appears to be the author's final manuscript draft used for the publication 'God Save the King', his first and only book, which was published in an edition of 150 copies in 1931 by Nancy Cunard at the Hours Press in Paris. Provenance: The manuscript is accompanied by an autograph letter, dated 8th November 2006, from Dorothea Farquhar, 'Dear Mr Pinnington, I enclose the Brian Howard manuscript. For the record, I inherited it from Jenny Macdonell who was Howard's mother's God-daughter. Jenny Macdonell's mother is mentioned in Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster's biography ['Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure', 1968]'. (1)

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King, 1st ed., pub. George Allen & Unwin, 1954/5, Richard Adams's copy, with his ms. ownership signature and bookplate to each vol., and a few pencilled annotations in his hand, folding map to each, a.e.g., recent scarlet crushed morocco for Asprey, with orig. cloth covers bound in at rear of each vol., spines with gilt dot dec. raised bands, gilt lettered direct on a seme dot ground in second and third compartments, remainder with art nouveau flower tool surrounded by seme dots within double fillet frame, covers with gilt single fillet border, inner dot-filled double fillet border, with stylised flowers at corners, central single fillet panel filled with dots and roundels, with scabious flower at centre of each side, single fillet to board edges, gilt dec. turn-ins, 8vo. With six pages of important manuscript notes by Richard Adams, in which he pours out his thoughts about Tolkien's work and compares it to his own, in a free-flowing hand, with numerous additions and underlinings. He calls Gollum a 'marvellous conception... the awful, unacceptable outsider, who nevertheless is of huge value', and compares him to others who he sees as similar figures, such as Van Gogh, Shelley, Nelson, Emmeline Pankhurst and John Wesley. He goes on to say that Tolkien did not influence his own work, but changes his mind as he writes: 'I don't care for Magic and don't resort to it at all... I can't think of any respect in which Tolkien has influenced me. Afterthought. What about "The Girl in a Swing?" Supernatural. M.R. James?'. Adams expresses his disappointment that there are only two female characters in "Lord of the Rings" - Galadriel and Eowen - neither of whom, he says, exactly represent real Womanhood: '(I'm sure that Women's Lib. don't care for the overwhelmingly masculine tone of the conflict and the characterisation.) "Ask Germaine Greer?" (And "Watership Down" has been criticised for this. But the whole W.D. story hinges on the necessity of the female to a true society.)' Adams concludes that his feelings about "Lord of the Rings" echo Dr. Johnson's about "Paradise Lost": '"No man ever wished it longer"'. (3)

Scrap album. A scrap album containing approx. twenty-six watercolours, pencil drawings, and pen & ink sketches by noted artists, 1901-36, incl. caricatures by Frank Reynolds, Phil May, John Hassall, and A.J. Hardman, a pencil portrait of a mustachioed gentleman by Stan Wood, a pencil sketch of a duck by Cecil Aldin, another of Bonzo by G.E. Studdy, a watercolour seascape by Edith S. King, another of the sun setting over water by Sid Gardner, a pencil drawing of a windmill by T.W. Hammond, a watercolour of a young cleric by Fred May, a pencil drawing of a horse and foal by Arthur Spooner, another of Madame Butterfly by Lance Thackeray, and others, a.e.g., orig. roan, worn, with sl. loss to spine, and leather to upper cover split at edges and becoming detached, approx. 170 x 200mm, together with several sketches on envelopes loosely inserted With manuscript letter signed from Tom Browne to Mrs. Atkey tipped-in to front pastedown, on the artists headed paper, dated February 1st 1902, in which Browne explains that he is returning the album, saying I have got a few good names in your book. The first contribution to the album - a pen & ink sketch of a London cabby - is by Browne himself. (1)

*West Indies. A carefully-executed hand-coloured manuscript map of the West Indies, dated 1846, hand-coloured manuscript map of the West Indies, together with the adjacent parts of Florida, Mexico, Guatemala and South America, with numerous ports and towns marked in ink, longitude and latitude bordered in yellow, and with decorative title cartouche above, dated 1846 to extreme lower right corner, sheet size approx. 305 x 410mm (12 x 16 ins) (1)

*Apprenticeship Indentures. A group of five scarce apprenticeship indentures on vellum, c. 1845-55, printed with manuscript insertions, each bearing relevant wax seals and signatures of parties involved, trades include tailor, joiner & builder, cordwainer and wheelwrights (5)

*Danby (Thomas Osborne, 1st Earl of, 1631-1712). Document signed, Treasury Chamber, Whitehall, 16th April 1678, concerning the raising of money by a poll tax and recommending that you will particularly take care to tax all servants for such wages as they really receive or have contracted for ..., signed Danby, 1 p., folio, laid down, together with an old biographical manuscript note about Danby, laid down, 1 p., 4to, plus a related pamphlet by Edward Christian (Wing C3937) (3)

*Defence of the Realm. Large printed document with manuscript insertions, dated 1st December 1803 , in which it relates to the threatened invasion of England [by Napoleon] and the plans for rendering a body of people instrumental for the defence of the country of actual invasion or appearance of invasion, the document relates to Frome in Somerset and covers the emergency plans and commanding all millers to convey by wagon such quantities of sweet and clean flour, [no doubt to feed the army] etc., and to obey such orders and directions as shall be given by the office having command, etc., by order of John Earl Poulett, Lord Lieutenant for the County, with his signature and wax seal appended (1)

*George II (King of England, 1683-1760). Document signed George R., St. Jamess, 27th May 1728, manuscript warrant on paper for deducting subsisdences, signed by King at head of document, neatly written in a copper plate hand but with left margin trimmed affecting shoulder title and end text to left of countersignatures, countersignatures of Geo. Dodington, Geo. Oxenden and Wm. Clayton, a few spots, one page, tall folio (1)

*George V (King of England, 1865-1936). Document signed, 3rd March 1910, a printed commission with manuscript insertions appointing Edwin Poulden Fenton Stamper to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of Officers, signed at head above wafer seal George R. I., vertical folds, oblong folio. A curiosity as it is a printed form detailing King Edward VIIs details but clearly signed by George V. King Edward VII had been staying at Biarritz in March 1910 when he collapsed. He remained there to convalesce and his continued ill health was unreported. He returned to Buckingham Palace on 27th April and died on 6th May 1910. It would seem that the then Prince of Wales signed as though he were already King. (1)

*Letters Patent. Attractive manuscript vellum letters patent dated 2nd December 1840, for the appointment of Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall in charge of all records, Lordships, Manors, Lands, Rents, Tolls, etc., at a salary of four hundred pounds a year, with portrait of the young Queen Victoria in initial letters, decorative engraved borders showing royal coat of arms, britannia, cherubs, ornate scrolls, etc., with large privy Royal wax seal contained in metal skippet, presented in original presentation case (-)

*Lord Justices. Manuscript warrant signed by the Lords Justices, Whitehall, 7th July 1696, to the Commissioners of the Treasury, Order for Payment Unto Paul Foley, Speaker of the House of Commons, the sum of four hundred and fifty-five pounds for 91 days on the usual allowance of five pounds per diem as Speaker, signed by Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset (Poet and Dramatist), Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, John Lord Somers, Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Pembroke, the Duke of Shrewsbury, Sir Stephen Fox, and others, minor fraying and browning, integral blank with contemporary docket, old tape repairs to folds along inner blanks and final page, one page, folio, taped guard to paper folder. Enys Collection, lot 124. (1)

*Manor of Kingswinford. Two manuscript volumes containing the Court records for the Court Baron of the Manor of Kingswinford of the Right Honourable William Viscount Dudley and Ward, held between 26th October 1811 to 3rd April 1816, and from October 1816 to February 1821, containing over 350 manuscript pages, contemp. limp vellum, sm. folio (2)

*Sackville (Richard, died 1566). Manuscript document signed Ryc Sakevyle, 1560, authorising payment to Richard Mynsterley, Queens Messenger, for expenses incurred in delivering some letters to Sir William Cecil at Colchester, endorsed on the reverse by Richard Minsterley, one page, folio, together with a 19th c. transcription and transliteration of the old English. Sir Richard Sackville was first cousin to Anne Boleyn, Treasurer of the Queens Exchequor and Elizabeth I, and father of Sir Thomas Sackville. (1)

*Tuke (Maurice). A fathers blessinge to his motherless, and (as farre as the world can make hir) fatherless, Deare and onely Daughter Dorothie Tuke, orig. manuscript, dated 1641, title with decorative partly genealogical border, two page signed dedication to his Aunt, Mrs Katherine Betenson pp. 3-33, being an essay of pious homilies by way of a conduct book, the whole written in a very neat hand within double ruled red borders, signed again at rear, final page blank with This book was found at Scadbury in the closet by the Chapell, July 1737, lacks first page of main text, a little soiling and damp staining, contemp. stitched wrappers with Maurice Tukes ownership inscription to upper wrapper and a later inscription stating that this was found among Mr Williamss papers in December 1805, soiled and chipped at edges, slim 8vo. Maurice Tuke of Layer Marnui in Essex married Amy Kempe (baptised 1598), and their daughter, Dorothie, who inherited a portion of the Kempe property at Eastwell in Kent, who eventually married Sir Robert Filmer, baronet. (1)

Bible-New Testament. [Greek & Latin]. Joannes Frobenius Candido Lectori s.d. en Novum Testamentum, ex Erasmi Roterodami Recognitione..., [Johann Froben], Basel, 1527, title with wood eng. printers device (paper repairs to title and some marks), woodcut initials, nineteen leaves provided in manuscript facsimile, later endpapers, contemp. calf with blind dec. to boards & spine, upper joint cracked, folio. Darlow and Moule 4603. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)

Hughes (William, 1587/1663?). The Parsons Lawe. Collected out of the Whole Bodie of the Comon Lawe and some Late Reports by W.H.: of Grays Inne Esquier, Anno Dm. 1633, 192pp. of orig. manuscript written in a neat hand, each with ruled border, later endpapers with 19th c. bookplates of John Lucius Dampier, Stannary Court Library to upper pastedown, contemp. reversed calf with gilt embossed armorial of Sir Edwart Dering Bt. (1598-1644) to both boards, rebacked and corners repaired, folio. Hughes, William (1587/1663?), translator and compiler of legal works, matriculated at St Alban Hall, Oxford, on 18 January 1605, aged seventeen, and was admitted to Grays Inn on 7 November 1606. There is no date for his call to the bar, but he was made an ancient on 7 June 1627. Hughes was more of a translator and compiler of legal works than a reporter of cases. His first published work was The Parsons Law (1641). He continued to publish after the Restoration. An Exact Abridgement in England of the Cases Reported by Sir F. Moore, collected by Hughes, was published in 1665. Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644) began as an aspiring courtier to Charles I, with the Duke of Buckingham as his patron. In 1640 he was elected to the Long Parliament but his subsequent career veered between Royalist and Parliamentarian positions. He was also active in local Kentish politics as Lieutenant of Dover Castle, and as a magistrate. His interest in Kent extended to the antiquarian, but his main writings were anti-Catholic controversial tracts. He died of what may have been a brain tumour soon after abandoning the Royalist cause in 1644. (1)

*Illuminated leaf. A single vellum leaf from an illuminated manuscript latin Book of Hours, France? 15th c., double-sided, 21 lines of single-column text, written in brown ink, painted dec. initials heightened in gold, fine miniature painting of the baby Jesus in the crib, with Mary & Joseph looking on, attractive floral border panels painted in blue, green & heightened in gold, text & floral dec. border approx. 150 x 95mm, leaf approx. 170 x 115mm (1)

*Illuminated leaf. A single vellum manuscript leaf from a Breviary, Spain, c.1420, double-sided, 29 lines of double-column latin text, written in black & red, four 2-line dec. initials painted in red, blue, pink and gold, leaf size approx. 170 x 115mm, text approx. 115 x 85mm, mounted This Breviary leaf is of the Carthusian use and possibly written in Segovia. (1)

*Illuminated leaf. A single vellum leaf from an illuminated manuscript latin Book of Hours, Paris, c.1480, double-sided, 12 & 9 lines of single-column text, written in black, painted dec. initials heightened in gold, fore-edge margin to both sides of leaf with attractive floral border panel painted in red, green, blue & heightened in gold, text & dec. border approx. 68 x 75mm, mounted (1)

Isocrates. Isokratoue Apanta. Isocratis Scripta, quae Quidem nunc Extant, Omnia, Graecolatina, Postremo Recognita: Hieronymo Wolfio Oetingensi Interprete..., Ex Officina Oporiniana, Basel, 1571, woodcut illust. to title, text in latin and greek, some pages with slight damp staining to lower outer corners, manuscript fragments bound-in at front & rear, contemp. calf, blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, spine worn & torn with loss of leather at head & foot, thick 8vo. Adams I216. (1)

[Oldham, John]. Satyrs upon the Jesuits: Written in the year 1679. Upon Occasion of the Plot, Together with the Satyr against Vertue, and some other Pieces by the same Hand, 1681, early signatuer to title, bound with Some New Pieces Never before Publisht, 1681, occ. spotting and slight marginal browning, later endpapers, contemp. blind panelled calf, old reback, joints rubbed, 8vo, together with Gwinnett (Richard), Pylades and Corinna: or, Memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of Richard Gwinnett... and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas..., 1731, two eng. ports. (one trimmed & laid-down), contemp. calf, joints and spine repaired, 8vo, with Kauffmann (Angelika), Angelicas ladies library, or, Parents and Guardians Present, with eight elegant plates, designed by A. Kauffman, and H. Bunbury, Esq., 1794, stipple eng. title (dust soiled and strengthened to lower outer corner), five stipple eng. plts., one leaf with tissue repairs, modern morocco, 4to, plus fourteen others, including two 19th c. manuscript books (17)

Veen (Otto van). Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata. Imaginibus in aes incisis, Notisque Illustrata. Studio Othonis Vaenii, Philippum Lisaert, Antwerp, 1612, eng. port. to title, 100 full-page engs. (of 103), text in Latin, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and French, index leaves provided in manuscript facsimile, some light damp staining, near contemp. vellum, slightly dust soiled, 4to (1)

Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 1st ed., 1857, b & w illusts. by H.K. Browne, usual spotting and browning, t.e.g., later half morocco, gilt dec. spine with raised bands, 8vo, together with [Surtees, R.S.], Jorrocks Jaunts and Jolities. The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr John Jorrocks, 3rd ed., revised, 1869, sixteen hand-col. litho. plts. after Henry Alken, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., later crimson half morocco by Sangoreski & Sutcliffe, gilt dec. spine with raised bands, tall 8vo, plus A Catalogue of Sir John Sherburns Library, Brantingham Thorpe, Compiled by W.G.B. Page, Librarian, 1911, manuscript catalogue neatly handwritten on one side of the page only (approx. 180 leaves), with a few b & w ports. of author, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. olive-green morocco, a little rubbed, 4to, and other misc. books including bindings, auctioneers past catalogues (mostly Phillipps Manuscripts), pottery & porcelain reference, etc. (3 shelves)

*Cornwall & Devon, etc. Forty-four glass negatives of Devon and Cornwall etc., including three of Guernsey and one early motor vehicle, early 20th century, 8 x 10.5cm, contained in contemp. fitted wooden box with manuscript list pasted inside the lid (1)