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Joseph Crosfield; Poetry written by various members and connections of the Chorley family, 2nd volume, gilt tooled calf, manuscript, fontis bookplate of compiler.

A SINGLE PAGE taken from a French Medieval manuscript, framed, 6" x 3 1/2"

Livre Du Marriage Contenant Les Ceremonies..., Paris [circa 1850], added colour title, engraved frontis., 4 engr. plates, added manuscript dedication and other details, buff velvet with applied pierced and carved ivory emblems, etc., one clasp lacking some chips to bindings, 12mo.

* Cresswell-Genealogy of the Family of Cresswell of Cresswell in the County of Northumberland, collected from various deeds and other documents preserved at Cresswell & in the public records, transcribed & arranged for Francis Joseph Cresswell by Katherine Fry of Plasket, 1876, 116pp. manuscript with 6 watercolours, one pen and ink sketch and 2 lithographs bound in, black morocco, rubbed, upper cover detached

* Cookery-Manuscript cookery receipt book, [c.1800], 8vo, 78 leaves, including recipes for chery marmelade, aprecock chips, orange cakes, to make quince or Pippen past, Lemmon Puffs round, &c., green vellum, some light soiling, spine worn and repaired

* Victorian illuminated manuscript by Minny Wale, [c.1840], 8vo, 13 leaves on vellum, of poems by W. Whewell, Schiller & others, green velvet, worn

* Ffolkes, A.M.B., A Catalogue of the Paintings by A.M.B. Ffolkes at Hillington Hall, 1849, 4to, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 15 leaves lettered and decorated in blue, red, green and gold, contemporary red morocco gilt, elaborately tooled with onlays of green and olive morocco, brass clasps, g.e., extremities very slightly rubbed

*Norfolk Loan. A printed form completed in manuscript concerning a forced loan, Ordinance date of 27th October 1643, whereby six thousand poundes is to be levied by way of loan in the County of Norfolk and City and County of Norwich, ‘For the better inabling of our Brethren the Scots ... Assesse you to lend the summe of five poundes of currant english money to bee paid within eight dayes unto John Bassett Ald[erman] our trea[sure]r at his house in Lynn [Kings Lynn], with printed decoration at head, decorative capital initial letter, signed by six people lower right, A. Robarts (?), Valentine Pell, Tho. Toll, Josh. Greene, Richard Warner, and Latir. Sampson, and directed to Mr. Jermine Booth of the Parish of Geo. Tombleland [St. George Tombland] in the Cittie of Norwich, small pinhole to upper margin, 265 x 165 mm. Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. John Bassett, Joshua Greene and Thomas Toll were all Mayors of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk on more than one occasion during the mid-17th century. Sir Valentine Pell became High Sheriff of the County of Norfolk in 1644. (1)

*Travel Diaries. Three unrelated manuscript European travel diaries, 1852, 1877 & 1910, each describing details of journeys, places visited and people met, etc., plus three Victorian/Edwardian Commonplace Books, various bindings, some wear, all small 4to (6)

Biblia Sacra. Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, Sive Libri Canonici Priscae Judaeorum Ecclesiae a Deo Traditi..., Hannover, 1618, woodcut device to title, manuscript annotation to front free endpaper, inner joints repaired, a.e.g., contemp. gilt panelled morocco, gilt arabesque to upper & lower boards, rebacked and corners repaired, spine relaid, 4to, together with Sermons de S. Basile le Grand, Archeveque de Cesaree en Capadoce avec les Sermons de Saint Astere, Eveque D'Amasee. Traduits du Grec., pub. Andre Pralard, Paris, 1691, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, gilt armorial to centre of each board, joints cracked and slight wear to extrems., 8vo, with A Weeks Preparation Toward a Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper..., 13th ed., printed for Samuel Keble, 1707, eng. frontis., red ruled throughout, pages brownedcontemp. calf, slightly worn to extrems., 12mo, plus a Spanish Indulgence, c.1625, printed to one side, approx. 200 x 130mm, plus a volume of fifteen mounted 17th c. engravings, including 14 portraits of monks, each approx. 95 x 60mm, 20th c. cloth, 4to (5)

Illuminated Prayer book. "The Order of the Administration of the Lords Supper or Holy Communion", Illuminated manuscript book, n.d., early 20th c., 35pp. on eighteen vellum leaves, written black, red and gold, initials with neatly drawn illusts. and decorations, signed ‘E. Davies' to final leaf, contemp. dark terracotta morocco, upper cover with gilt design of a chalice surrounded by four inlaid flowers, covers slightly faded, leaf size approx. 150 x 95mm (1)

Muzio (Girolamo). Egloghe del Mutio Justinopolitano divise in cinque libri, Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, 1550, title with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials, early manuscript note and quotation (probably 18th c.) in Italian and Latin to blanks at front, old sheep, with later reback, a little rubbed and some marks, 8vo. Adams M2083. (1)

Saurin (Jacques). Discours Historiques, Critiques, Theologiques, et Moraux..., avec des Figures Gravees sur les Desseins de Mis. Hoet, Houbraken & Picart, 6 vols., The Hague, 1728-39, vignette eng. illusts., numerous eng. plts., vol. 1 with leaf 2G1 & 2G2 and vol. 2 with leaf *1 provided in manuscript facsimile, vol. 1 with leaves 2I1 & 2I2 close-trimmed and remargined, some light marginal damp mottling, marginal worming to vol.6, some pastedowns torn away, dec. eng. head & tailpieces, contemp. calf, some labels lacking, worn and upper board of vol. 1 detached, large folioBrunet V, 150., Large paper copy. (6)

Manuscript Cookery Book. A manuscript cookery book, mid. 19th c., title page with the signed "Mrs Bignell" and blind embossed library stamp for the library of C & E Lawrence, approx. 345 pages of neatly written recipes, 12pp. thumb index at front of volume, occ. minor spotting, recent endpapers, inner joint repaired, contemp. morocco, upper joint crudely strengthened with adhesive tape, extrems. rubbed, 4to. Includes recipes for plum pudding, ginger wine, poppy cordial, excellent soda buns, spiced beef and potted mushrooms etc. (1)

Bird (Alan). A History of Russian Painting, pub. Phaidon, 1987, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Cork (Richard), A Bitter Truth. Avant-Garde Art and the Great War, pub. Yale University Press, 1994, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. pict. stiff wrappers, 4to, plus Kren (Thomas & McKendrick, Scot), Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, pub. Getty Museum/Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. pict. stiff wrappers, 4to, and other various art ref., mostly VG (2 cartons)

Phillips (Hugh). Mid-Georgian London. A Topographical and Social Survey of Central and Western London about 1750, 1st ed., 1964, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in soiled and frayed d.j., 4to, together with Les Grandes Heures de Jean Duc de Berry, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Introduction and Legends by Marcel Thomas, pub. Thames & Hudson, 1971, fine full-page col. reprods. of the famous illuminated manuscript, previous owners manuscript note on verso of title, orig. cloth lettered in gilt, with matching slipcase, folio, plus other misc. books incl. art ref. and German literature, etc. (3 shelves)

Skelton (R.A.). Saxton's Survey of England and Wales, with a facsmile of Saxton's wall-map of 1583, Amsterdam, 1974, b&w plates, orig. blue cloth, large slim folio, together with Ravenhill (William, intro.), John Norden's Manuscript Maps of Cornwall and Its Nine Hundreds, pub. University of Exeter, 1972, double-page colour facsimile maps, orig. brown cloth gilt, in torn glassine d.j., folio, plus Margary (Harry, ed.), Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Map-Making in the County of Sussex, A Collection of Reproductions of Printed Maps published between the years 1575 and 1825, with introductory notes by R. A. Skelton, pub. Harry Margary/Phillimore & Co., 1970, b&w double-page maps, orig. blue cloth with large printed paper label to upper cover, large folio, and other English map facsimiles, including The Royal English Atlas, pub. David & Charles, 1971, A Map of the County of Devon by Benjamin Donn, 1965, Lewis Morris, Plans in St. George's Channel, 1987, Camden's Britannia 1695, pub. 1971, John Speed's England, four parts, 1953-54 (first part with a little damage to spine), Early Portsmouth Maps, pub. Portsmouth Record Series, 1978, Southampton Maps from Elizabethan Times, pub. Southampon Corporation, 1964, etc., various sizes, mostly folios (19)

Switzerland. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg, Franz), Decem et Tria Loca Confoederatorum Helvetiae, [1582], thirteen uncoloured engraved views of Swiss Cantons on one sheet, a few minor manuscript amendments, plate dimensions 370 x 470 mm. Includes views of Freiburg, Bern, Basel, Unterwalsen and Shwyz. (1)

Barrett (William). The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol, pub. Bristol, printed by William Pine, [1789], large folding eng. map, twenty-eight eng. plts. incl. many folding (one plt. bound upside down and another not cut as directed), facsimile of Rowley's manuscript, all complete as list, list of subscribers, bookplt. and blindstamp to title of ‘Oxford and Cambridge University Club Library', t.e.g., later half morocco gilt by Harrison of Pall Mall, sl. rubbed, 4to (1)

*Albert (Prince, 1819-61). Two fine vellum manuscript documents, 1852 , each document signed by Prince Albert at the head, for pending appointments as special deputy wardens, and both bearing a large wafer seal set in relief on a fabric background, showing, in detail, the coat of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall (2)

*Astronomical manuscript. A late 17th c. handwritten manuscript in English on the history and practice of astronomy and astrology, approx. 370 leaves, handwritten in ink to both sides, approx. thirty-six drawings of astrological figures, some charts and other astronomical diagrams, some fraying, with occn. loss to fore-margins, some soiling and marks, final few leaves with some damage and loss, contemp. calf, worn, small thick 8vo. A neat manuscript notebook or possibly commonplace book, with extensive information on the history, philosophy and practice of astronomy and astrology, including drawings of the conservations, information on comets, eclipses, weather, the application of astrology to daily life, etc.. There appears to be no indication of the author's identity. Sold with all faults. (1)

*Certificate of Naturalisation - New York. A certificate of naturalisation to the State of New York, given to William Wheeler, 17th May 1798, manuscript on vellum with wafer seal upper left (a little damaged), witnessed by John George Hobart and signed Edward Duncomb (Clerk), a little creased and soiled, approx. 15 x 20 cm, framed and glazed with old typed transcription taped to back of frame (1)

*Charles II (King of England, 1630-85). Document signed, Whitehall, 16th July 1664, being a manuscript commission appointing William Victor to be Captain in the company of foot ‘in the Regiment raised or to be raised in Our Guarison of Tanger whereof Cott: John FitzGerald is Collonel', written on vellum, signature of ‘Charles R' at head, a little spotting on folds and evidence of seal remains top left, oblong folio Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. (1)

*Couthon (Georges Auguste, 1755-94). Autograph letter signed, Clermont-Ferrand, 9th May, 1789, lengthy letter to a friend and colleague in a very neat hand, ‘... Si je pouvais douter que la chose publique vous laisse quelques instants de libres, je ferais des reproches ˆ votre amitiŽ, de ne m'en avoir pas accorder un seul depuis que vous etes parti, mais je respecte trop le motif de votre silence pour m'en plaindre', two pages, folio, together with two other French manuscript documents including one leaf of verses (numbered three and four and lacking first part) believed to be in the hand of Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767-94, noted Girondist), and an autograph letter signed from the Duc D'Istrie to Monsieur Tardis, dated 20th January 1814, 2 pp., folio (3)

Defence of the Realm. Large printed document with manuscript insertions, dated 3rd December 1803 , in which it relates to the threatened invasion of England, during the present war and plans for rendering a body of people instrumental for the defence of the Country in case of invasion or appearance of invasion to immediately call on the bakers having public ovens to convey Waggon Conductors, such quantities of well baked bread, etc., according to the Plands and Arrangements which I may receive from His Majesty... etc., By Order of John Poulett, Lord Lieutenent for the County, with his signature and fine amorial wax seal attached (1)

*Duroc (Geraud, Duc de Frioul, 1772-1813). A group of six certificates and promotions for Duroc, the first an unsigned certificate from Miliatry School in Chalons in 1792, the second a certificate to the position of First Lieutenant of Artillery, 16th September 1794, completed in manuscript with rubber stamp, 45 x 34 cm, together with a commission to the position of aide de camp to Napoleon (12th October 1796), signed by Alexander Berthier (1753-1815, Marshall), the third document nominating Duroc to the post of Commander of the Regiment, rubber stamp signature of Berthier, the fourth nominating Duroc to the General of the division (2nd September 1803), signed by Berthier and the fifth announcing him Senator (6th April 1813), signed by Count Daru, plus one further document relating to this promotion, all 4to/folio (7)

Gadbury (John, 1627-1704). Original astrology manuscript, late 17th c., begins folio 20 ‘The Lattitude of a place and the declination of the sun being given to finde the Meridian altitude of the sun above the horizon any day in the yeare, with an example' and continuing in a similar way with headings on how to find the sun's declination any hour of the day or night, finding the rising and setting and southing of the moon and other planets, the making of a horizontal dial, a table showing the sun's entrance and continuance in every of the 12 signs ... 1697, a table for converting hours and minutes of time into degrees and minutes of the equator, a directory showing how to erect a figure of the heavens by an ephemerides and table of houses, or the colours of the signs and planets, a necessary table showing the masculine and feminine degrees of every sign, a table showing what part of man's body is governed by every planet in any of the 12 signs, plus use of these tables, diagrams showing how to make an erect direct east dial and a south erect declining dial, etc., a total of 146 pages on 77 folios in Gadbury's holograph, including nine diagrams and various tables, with astrological symbols, two leaves torn with loss of lower half, including one diagram, a further leaves at end with notes and accounts on sundry matters in more than one hand and dating from 18th and 19th century, some blank pages and areas within the Gadbury manuscript with these sundry later notes and accounts, a little soiling and tissue repair to gutter margin of first two leaves, early 19th century roan backed boards with the name John Gadbury written to upper cover and pastedown in an unidentified hand, some edge wear, 180 x 140 mm. The folios are numbered throughout, the folios present being 20-25, 27-23, 36-59, 61-101, 103-107, [3 leaves], 123-25, 128, 130, 133-35, 137, 139-140. The Gadbury manuscript runs up to folio 100 inclusive and would appear to be the end of the text, the word finis appearing on folio 98 before some final meridian altitude tables. The later hand or hands appear to be largely by one Isaac Stephenson and seem to largely date from the late 18th century. John Gadbury, astrologer, was born in Wheatley, Oxfordshire. In 1655 he published ‘Speculum Astrologicum', the first of his annual almanacs and ephemerides. This was replaced after two issues by ‘An Astrological Prediction', he published various supplementary special issue almanacs in 1697, the most likely date this appears to have been written, he published another volume of ‘Ephemeris' and ‘Astrologonaytis or, the Astrological Seaman'. Provenance: From a private library in Derbyshire in his family home the manuscript has been for many generations. With thanks to William Hodge of the Bodleian Library who supplied photocopies of Gadbury's holograph photocopied from items in their collections. (1)

*George II (King of England, 1683-1760). Signed Letters Patent, Richmond, 29th June 1733, appointing William Charles Henry Friso [1711-51, Prince of Orange], knight of the Order of the Garter, manuscript in Latin on vellum, signed ‘Georgius R' upper left, light uniform soiling, 31 x 48 cm. William IV, Prince of Orange was the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands. Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. (1)

*George III (King of England, 1730-1820). Document signed, St. James', 6th August 1803, appointing Christopher Dennett to be Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Volunteers, commanded by Colonel James Robertson, printed document completed the manuscript with signature of Yorke at foot and ‘George R' at head of document, paper seals to left margin, some brown mottling heaviest at outer folds, approx. 23 x 34 cm. Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. (1)

*George IV (King of England, 1762-1830). Autograph signature ‘George R', [1829], a large bold signature, beneath which are the signatures of [Duke of] Wellington, Lord Granville Somerset and V. A. MacNaghten, with a later manuscript note beneath on the same piece of paper, indicating that the signatures were cut from a Treasury Warrant for Mary Harriet Lloyd's pension, dated 26th August 1829, a little browning, the whole piece of paper approx. 25 x 19 cm, pasted to an album leaf with four signatures including King William IV as Duke of Clarence (1)

*Italian manuscript. Successi Diversi occorsi in Napoli, late 17th/early 18th century bound manuscript in two parts, the first part containing sixty leaves of neat handwritten manuscript, plus one leaf of index, containing accounts of the lives of various counts and noblemen and women, the second part consisting of 221 leaves of neat handwritten manuscript, plus three leaves of index, the first leaf entitled Successi Diversi Traggici, ed Amorosi occorsi in Napoli, ed Altrove a Napoletani, old vellum, with bookplate of William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands, Cork to front pastedown, very slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Capitoli Decreti, e Ducali in materia del santo uffizio del'Inquisizione sopra l'eresia, c. 1658-59, handwritten manuscript title and 68 leaves of neat handwritten text, containing the principal decrees and regulations relating to the Office of the Inquisition, old paper wrappers, rubbed and marked, 8vo, plus an 8 pp. handwritten manuscript on vellum in brown and gold ink, being a certificate for a Doctorate from the University of Pisa, conferred on Petrus Franciscus, dated 1660, with large hand-illuminated coat of arms to first leaf, some stains throughout, contemp. limp sheep gilt, rubbed and stained, small slim 4to (3)

*James II (King of England, 1633-1701). Document signed, Whitehall, 5th January, 1685/6, manuscript Letters Patent on paper, creating Adam Loftus Baron of Rathfarnham in Our County of Dublin and Viscount Lisburne', signed ‘James R' at head and by Lord Sunderland, [Robert Spencer, Second Earl of Sunderland, 1641-1702] at foot, one page with integral address panel addressed to Henry [Hyde, Second] Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, folio. Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. (1)

*Kent Taxation. Manuscript document, witnessed 3rd May 1610, signed by the Kings Commissioners in Kent appointed for the taxation and assessment of the last payment of the third of the three subsidies granted to the King by a Parliament held in the third year of his reign, certifying to the Lord High Treasurer, Chancellors and Barons of the Exchequer and others that Richard Poyntell, Gentleman, who was at the time of the assessment dwelling in Chiselhurst with his family and household, had been assessed amongst the inhabitants of that Parish towards the last payment at eleven pounds in goods and that he had paid accordingly, signed ‘Tho. Walsingham' and ‘Percyvall Harte' with their impressed seals beneath and confirmation of the payment details made at foot [though curiously the figure given is eleven pounds eleven shillings], one page with integral blank, a little minor soiling, 305 x 200 mm. Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. Sir Thomas Walsingham [1560/61-1630, literary patron], first became MP for Rochester in 1597. He had estates in Chiselhurst making Poyntell a neighbour. Sir Percival Hart was the eldest son of Sir George Hart of Lullingstone, Kent. (1)

*Lefebvre (Francois Joseph, duc de Danzig, 1755-1820). Document signed ‘Lefebvre', Paris, [5th September 1799], on a partially pre-printed form completed in manuscript and addressed to Bernadotte, creating Jean Pierre Debereau (?) to adjutant, one page, 4to. Provenance: Archdeacon George Glover. (1)

A Liberty & Co Tudric Pewter Hinged Box, the cover inset with an enamel plaque depicting a maiden in medieval style dress clasping a manuscript, stamped "Tudric 0586", 13.5cm by 11cm by 6cm

Winchester College 1738, manuscript, possibly a list of masters and pupils, headed by Dr Bigg, Custos, on parchment, 7cm x 94cm (2.75"x 37")

Latin manuscript booklet, discourse on religion, vellum cover, n.d.

Nicolay, Nicolas de, Seigneur d'Arfeville [and Alexander Lyndsay or Lindsay]. La Navigation du Roy d'Ecosse Jaques Cinquesme du nom, autour de son Royaume, & Isles Hebrides & Orchades, soubz la conduicte d'Alexandre Lyndsay excellent pilote escossois. Recueillie & redigee en forme de description hydrographique, & representée en carte marine, & routier ou pilotage, pour la cognoissance particuliere de ce qui est necessaire & considerable à ladicte navigation, par Nicolay D'Arfeville., Premier Cosmographe du Roy, Commissaire ordinaire de son Artillerie, & a la visitation & description generalle du Royaume de France. Dediee A tres-illustre, & tres-vertueux seigneur, Anne Duc de Joyeuse, Pair & Admiral de France Paris: Gilles Beys, 1583.First edition, 4to. (228x165mm.), ff.[vi], 37 fine large folding map (383x288mm. to plate-mark), with ships, compass rose, and a sea monster, also with a folding scale, and 6 large woodcuts in the text (compass rose, prevailing winds, tides and currents, hazards, aids to direction-finding), small repair to head margin of last leaf, and sporadic faint dampstain to corners, contents otherwise in fresh and large state; rebound in modern limp vellum. Note: Royal Scottish Geographcal Society. The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850 (Revised and enlarged, with A History of Scottish Maps by D.G. Moir), Edinburgh, 1973. (Moir's third chapter is devoted to "Nicolas de Nicolay and Alexander Lyndsay," ; Taylor, Adams & Fortune. Alexander Lindsay, a rutter of the Scottish Seas c.1540. (National Maritime Museum Monographs 44), 1980; Moore. The historical cartography of Scotland. Aberdeen, 1991. For John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1504-1553), a key figure in the transmission of the principal text as well as in the political events of the period, see the entry by David Loades in the Oxford DNB It is an early navigational guide, the oldest Scottish "rutter" (an early sixteenth century term for a set of sailing directions, from the French routier); one of only a handful of such works of any origin to have come down to us, accompanied by the first accurate delineation of Scotland: created by the Scots for the purpose of containment; mysteriously obtained in manuscript by the English, copied by Nicolay and taken to the French king, then put into almost immediate use to avenge the murder of Cardinal Beaton at St. Andrews; and on two subsequent occasions with a view to supporting the Scottish succession The voyage of James V named on the title-page is that of 1540 when the King, with several nobles, set out to subdue the unruly Lords of the Western Isles. "The King visited Orkney, Skye, Lewis, Ross and Kintail and continued by sea to Dumbarton, where he left his fleet and rode back to Edinburgh, which he reached before 29th July (when he wrote to Henry VIII that he had visited the north and south isles), while the ships returned round the north of Scotland" Alexander Lyndsay was the pilot, and Nicolay credits him with having compiled the rutter by command of the King for the purpos. There would appear to be little doubt that this is true, as the guide, laboriously drawn from Lyndsay's experience - and from material gathered from other sources, as the volume and geographical range of the information suggest - starts from Leith as the expedition did, gives the route which James's fleet followed, and provides a suitable course through the Western Isles for meeting the island chiefs. In Scotland, extreme tidal conditions, a shallow seabed, and variable winds and visibilty, retarded the development of astronomical observations for navigation; northern pilots generally made their way by setting courses from one headland to the next, and by keeping in mind the effect of tidal streams and the risk of hidden rocks and other hazards. It required only a compass, a sand-glass, traverse-board, and a lead and line. Lyndsay's rutter is, therefore, typical as a guide to coastal waters before detailed charts and sophisticated inst

Highland Tartans. Badges of the Highlanders of Scotland, illustrated with natural specimens, arranged by John Tissiman, Scarborough, Illuminated by R. Gregory. Scarborough, 1864 manuscript on vellum, comprising illuminated title and 44 vellum leaves, 22 leaves with sample piece of tartan cloth and accompanying specimen of plant, seaweed or feather , 22 leaves with quotations from Sir Walter Scott in a calligraphic hand, red morocco album, rather worn, 44 x 35cm Provenance: David Greig of Leith and by descent.

Godwin, William (1756-1836), political theorist. Two page autograph manuscript of the first two pages of Godwin's essay Of Deception and Frankness, marked pages 45-46 c.35 lines on each page, "Nothing tends more effectually to poison morality in its source in the minds of youth, than the practice of holding one language & laying down one set of precepts, for the observation of the young, & another of the adult. You fall into this error, if, for instance, you require your children to go to church & neglect going yourself, if you teach them to say their prayers as a badge of their tender years, if they find that there are certain books which they may not read & certain conversations they may not hear. The usual mode of treating young persons will often be found to suggest to children of ardent fang & inquisitive remark a question, a sort of floating & undefined reverie, as to whether the whole scene of things played before them be not a delusion, & whether, in spite of contrary appearances, they are not a species of prisoner.", discussing Rousseau's treatise on education and the importance of frankness in the education of children, a few authorial corrections and alterations, a few letters obscured by guard attached to album page Note: A fascinating extract from Godwin's essay "Of Deception and Frankness", the title of the twelfth essay Godwin published in his work The Enquirer, reflections on education, manners and literature (1797). An accompanying later note records "Given to me by Mrs J. Stanger [of Keswick] from the manuscript in his own handwriting". Godwin's views on the education of children were considered excessively libertarian at the time; his own daughter, by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, eloped at sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley and later wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Knights Templars of New York Certificate that 'Our trusty and well beloved Brother Sir Anthony Charleton was by us Dub'd a Knight of the most Noble and Right Worshipful order of Knights Templar. we also certify that he is a Loyal Arch Excellent Mason. Given under our hand at our encampment at New York Island, 25 Sept., 1780 Tho. Stewart, G.M., Cha. Morison, & Peter Tayler, Gmo., Ja. Harvey, scribe', manuscript on vellum, black wax seal, 22 x 19cm, framed and glazed; and a framed silhouette portrait reputedly of Sir Anthony Charleton, 9 x 6cm (2) Note: The Knights Templar is the name of a Masonic-related organization, part of a branch of Freemasonry called the York Rite. The date is very early in the establishment of the Knights Templar in America. We have been unable to find any further information on the individuals mentioned, but imagine that they were the three primary officers and the secretary (scribe) of the commandery where Charleton held membership The miniature portrait is reputedly of Sir Anthony Charleton, but dates from c. 1820 and depicts a gentleman in his twenties or thirties

Maclachlan, Lachlan--Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-1788). Printed and manuscript receipt for #209:17 0 received from the Lord Elibank as his supply for his Lands in the Shire of Haddingtoun, payable "by virtue of an order from his Royal Highness Charles Prince Regent", signed by Lachlan MacLachlan, with a further note relating to the discharge signed by Lachlan MacLachlan on the verso, 3rd October, 1745 Note: Lachlan MacLachlan the seveneenth chief of the clan was appointed to the staff of Charles Edward Stuart as commissary-general. He led 300 of his clansmen to Culloden where he perished

Ruskin, John (1819-1900) and the Pre-Raphaelites. Autograph manuscript signed of preface for A. Gordon Crawford's "Notes on the Millais Collection", 1886 4to, one page, c. 19 x 31cm., framed and glazed, some light dust-soiling, editor's notes in blue pencil, slip with his signature, Brantwood, 22nd Jan. 1886 pasted onto foot of manuscript text, 25 lines, "the permission given in the hope that some of the fragment might add interest to the most important exhibition of English art yet given in the country but. I must broadly efface any impression that may be given by it of my criticisms having been of any service to the Pre Raphaelite school, except in protecting it against vulgar outcry. The painters rightly resented the idea of misjudging friends that I was either their precursor or their guide; they were entirely original in their thoughts and independent in their practice. Rossetti, I fear, even exaggerated his colour because I told him it was too violent; and to this very day my love of Turner dims Mr Burne Jones's pleasure in my praise." Note: Notes on some of the Principal Pictures of Sir John Everett Millais, exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery., was published with a preface and original and selected criticisms by John Ruskin in 1886. A. Gordon Crawford was the pseudonym of Mr Alexander Wise

Tait, John & Maitland, Charles Barclay. Ms decreet of valuation, John Tait, writer to the Signet against Charles Barclay Maitland, Esq. of Tillicoultry, 21st February & 31st July 1776 [regarding the valuation of lands and teinds around Harviestoun of Tillicoultry] Edinburgh, 1776 4to, 175 manuscript pages, each signed by Joseph Williamson, original marble wrappers, paper label, chipped at edges, backstrip worn, page 27 stained

Carr, Sir John. Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807. London: Mathews and Leigh, 1809 first edition, extra-illustrated copy, containing over 130 engraved portraits and plates, manuscript list of additional illustrations inserted, contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco gilt, by Hering, with his ticket, some spotting, lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, g.e., armorial bookplates of Sir Edward Priaux Tenant Bart., L.J. Whitford, Adam Sim Coulter and J. Dawson Brodie Note: A very fine copy

[Macpherson, James]--Thomas Travers Burke, translator. Temora: an Epic Poem of Ossian. Translated into English verse by Thomas Travers Burke. Perth: R. Morison, for the author, 1818 first edition, the translator's own copy with manuscript additions and corrections to the final section of notes, 8vo, half-title, contemporary crimson morocco, sides panelled in gilt and blind, spine gilt, gauffered edges Note: A superb copy in contemporary crimson morocco. The binding is unsigned but is almost certainly by D. Morison of Perth, son of the printer. The translator's own copy with manuscript additions: viz. "In the orthography (which I inserted as it was given me by a gentleman residing near the spot) there is, unquestionably, a mistake.". Provenance: Conyngham Library, with bookplate. See Ramsden, p.211

Phillip II, King of Spain, 1556-1598. Carta Executoria de Hidalguia in favour of Francisco de Escalante of Seville, royal official in Seville and Granada, in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 43 leaves, (7 blank), plus 2 contemporary flyleaves, lacking one leaf after f1 otherwise complete, 34 lines, written in dark brown ink in a fine rounded gothic hand, every page within a gold border with elaborate foliate flourishing at top and bottom of pages, fourteen large illuminated initials- (3 to 10-line, mostly 7 line) in designs of gold heightened with colour on coloured grounds with white tracery, large portrait miniature of Philip II enthroned, 107 x 97mm., showing the king seated on a renaissance throne lettered ''Filipus 2'', four pages with full-page miniatures or coats-of-arms surrounded by full borders, showing 1) the Crucifixion, the grantor and his son kneeling by the Cross, landscape background, scatter border of naturalistic flowers in the Ghent/Bruges style, 2) St. James on horseback vanquishing the Moors, landscape background, border of putti,caryatids, etc. 3) and 4) coats-of-arms within very elaborate mantling and with full borders including flowers, putti with masks, etc., additions at end, signatures at both ends, fine contemporary Spanish goatskin gilt and blind-stamped over paste boards, roll-tooled in concentric panels of classical heads within foliage, military accoutrements and ropework designs, gilt stamped with floral and rosette tools and a cockle shell, binding skillfully repaired, 304 x 213mm., [Granada, 9 December, 1564], green morocco-backed buckram box Note: The fine Grenadan binding is by the same binder as a Carta Executoria of 1570 which was lot 2997 in the sale of Major J.R.Abbey at Sothebys, 20 June 1978; the first and second roll-tooled borders are identical with the first and third on the Abbey binding and four of the small gilt floral stamps occur on both bindings

Salmon Fishing--Bund, J.W. Willis. Salmon Problems. London: Sampson, 1885 first edition, thick 4to, the author's interleaved copy with copious notes, revisions, additions and supplementary material, probably amassed with a view to a second edition, extensively extra-illustrated with original pen and ink sketches, lithograph plates, articles, tables, autograph letters, and a photograph, contemporary maroon morocco, extremities slightly rubbed Note: Correspondence includes letters from Scott F. Surtees (referring to Frank Buckland), 3 from Francis Day (author of The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland), some with sketches, Robert Hawes (discussing salmon fishing on the Lyn), John Andersson (discussing fishing on the Tay, Tweed & other rivers), manuscript notes, records and charts of salmon sizes, catches on the River Tweed from 1808-74 and other rivers, migrations, notes on the effects of pollution and dry weather, dams, weirs, fry, large salmon Tweed reports; printed reports & other material from the Fisheries Preservation Association and Board of Trade (Fisheries department), lithographed maps, printed graph showing yearly catches of salmon by rod and line from 1867-1885 articles from The Fishing Gazette, The Field, The Times, The Scotsman &c. Loosely inserted are various pamphlets, including Day, F. Observations on British Salmones. I Trout; On Races and Hybrids among the Salmonidae, 4 parts in wrappers; Fish Farming in Surrey; Migration of the Salmonidae, 2 parts; two manuscript reports to the Severn Fishery Board, 10pp., 1886; numerous newspaper clippings and cuttings relating to salmon, manuscript copy of Home Office letter regarding the salmon on the Taw and Torridge, 4pp., 1886 manuscript diagram showing the number of boxes of salmon sent to Billingsgate market from Scotland in 1885; manuscript notes, drawings and measurements of fish at Llandduri, &c. Willis Bund was Chairman of the Severn Fishery Board and a leading authority on salmon and salmon fishing. In response to Willis Bund's book the Fisheries Preservation Association initiated a programme to collect reliable information on the salmon fisheries "with the assistance of the Fishery boards, Angling Societies and Fishermen generally". Many of Willis Bund's notes and additions record the observations stemming from his extensive correspondence with anglers throughout the UK and Ireland Provenance: John William Willis Bund; H.C.M. Proctor, armorial bookplates

* Albert (Prince Consort of Victoria of England, 1819-1861). Fine large vellum manuscript, appointing James Robert Gardiner to the Duchy of Cornwall, given at Somerset House the 4th April 1845 , with signature of Albert at the foot of the document and with large wax seal, enclosed in a metal skippet, the document has attractive and decorative borders showing Royal coat of arms, Prince of Wales feathers and other emblems (1)

* Howard (Henry, c. 1848-1932, Royal Academy). Manuscript diary of Henry Howard of Stone House, near Kidderminster, 1883-1932,. approx. 400 pp. closely written text in a neat hand, the majority single-line daily entries using initials for names and other abbreviations, inc. mentions of paintings, lunches, meetings, dances, magistrates business, etc. inc. diary note of meeting with Rossetti, Linnell, Tadema & Cecil Lawsons (16th January 1883), eleven pages of notes on a visit to Russia in 1892, etc., other travels indexed at rear by year and inc. Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, other family notes at front and rear inc. a list of five pictures hung at the Royal Academy (1884-96), contemp. elaborately gilt dec. tan morocco, rubbed, remains of clasp, 8vo, together with an unrelated manuscript notebook written by Thomas Hawkins, Master of the Grammar School, Brackley, Northamptonshire, 1832, approx. 60 pp. neatly written historical notes on Brackley, covers detached, contemp. limp morocco, rubbed, both 8vo. Little seems to be known of the biography of Henry Howard, the dictionaries listing him as active as a painter between 1880 and 1913, and besides exhibiting five paintings at the Royal Academy Howard also exhibited in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. (2)

Military Orders Book. The Manuscript Orders Book of Lieut. Mitchell, Ensign, No. 5 Company, First Guards, 18th April 1851 to 22nd November 1852,. approx. 250 pp. in neat hand, covering duties in London, including orders on 6th November 1852 for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, contemp. calf, worn and clasp broken, oblong 8vo (1)

* World War I Diary. A manuscript diary written by Corporal J. E. Dix, 4th Middlesex Regiment, Devonport, 1st August to 1st October 1914,. 65 pp. written in a neat hand to rectos only of a notebook, ruled with 23 lines per page, giving a breathless first hand account of the first stages of the War, beginning with the barracks, the journey to France and subsequent battles of Mons, Landrecies, St. Quinton, Marne and Aisne, giving full first hand details of action, manoeuvres and casualties in a convincing and detailed manner, three full page sketch maps of the Battles and one later added note identifying a Lance Corporal of the 4th Royal Fusiliers, S. F. Godfrey [but actually Sidney Frank Godley, 1889-1957], who was gazetted for the Victoria Cross for bravery at Mons on 23rd August 1914, 'The enemy are coming out of the wood in thousands. Can't help hitting them. Range 900 yards. Infantry & Cavalry. They are trying to get the bridge down on the canal, some of them are swimming it. We are pouring in an awful fire & drive them back under cover of houses. Look they are driving the civilians out of their houses in front of them. Oh the cowards. Daren't fire. They get the bridge down. Now we are getting it. Where's our artillery. There shells are skimming(?) our ranks. A Toupe overhead gives our position away. Our right hand man (L. Cpl. Elliot) sends a message along that the enemy are advancing on our right. No notice taken by Officer. We are getting a crossfire now, something cruel. What's up with the Officer, is he mad. Sgt. Tee takes charge on his own & tells us to retire to the left by ones & twos. We are still keeping up our fire but they are outnumbering us by about 20 to 1. The shots are going very high, bad shooting. We all get away safe (twenty strong) can't find the Officer. Get to the town. Start to barricade the streets. Women & children all screaming. Shells coming over in scores. Join up with the 4th Fusiliers. They are holding onto a bridge that commands the main road. Their machine guns are doing murder. One gun out of action, the gunners all lying around dead & wounded. We are told to cover their retreat. Awful sights. We are all mad now. Our bayonets are fixed waiting the word "Go". The Fusiliers retire through us except the Machine Gun. A L.Cpl. & one Officer are manning this Maxim. The Officer drops but still this L.Cpl. sticks to his gun. We shout for him to come away but he doesn't seem to hear us. He must be raving mad but is doing hellish work. A shell burst nearby him. Can't see what's happened for smoke. It clears but no L.Cpl. to be seen. We pray to God that he has got away. Must have had a nerve like iron. Real British Pluck for he covered the retreat of his own Regiment', several leaves det., numerous blank versos with later doodles and scribblings, signed ownership signature to front pastedown and at rear of manuscript, orig. qtr. cloth, rubbed and some wear, large 8vo. It would appear that this is a contemporary fair copy written up by Corporal Dix shortly after his return to England, having been shot in the foot and leg at the Battle of Aisne on 14th September 1914. The conclusion of the diary notes that he went to the Southern General Hospital in Southmead, Bristol, from where he was discharged in mid October as convalescent. 'Wounds still painful but glad to get out of hospital. Think I am extremely lucky to be alive'. An excellent and vivid first-hand account of early World War I action and its terror.. (1)

Adultery. The Trial of Mrs. Eliz. Leslie Christie, Daughter of the Late Sir William Baird, Bart. of Saughton Hall, and Wife of James Christie, Esquire, Capt. in the late 88th Regiment of Foot, and Son of Major General Christie; for Committing Adultery with Joseph Baker, Esq; and Violating her Conjugal Vow, pub. G. Lister, [1783?], pp.[iv],92, half-title, one leaf of manuscript bound-in relating to the trial (conforms with Harvard Law Library copy), page number hand-written in a contemporary hand to upper margins, annotations to last leaf of pubs. ads. at rear, modern qtr. calf, morocco title label, slim 8vo The acts of adultery were committed while Major General Christie was serving in the West Indies. Whilst setting the type the printer omitted a whole leaf (pp.8-9) of text, but the signatures and numbering are complete as for a correct copy. The text of the two missing pages have been supplied on an extra leaf written in a neat hand with a note at the head of the front page. In 1796 a Private Act to dissolve the marriage of James Christie with Elizabeth Leslie Christie was passed, (Private Acts, 36 Geo.III.c.108). (1)

Barlaeus (Lambertus). Hesiodou Askraiou ta Heuriskomena. Hesiodi Ascraei quae Extant. Cum Notis, ex Probatissimis Quibusdam Qutoribus, Brevissimis, Selectissimisque. Accessit viri Clarissimi, Lamberti Barlaei..., in Ejusdem Theogoniam Commentarius. Opera & Studio Cornelii Schrevelii, 2 parts in one, Ludovici & Danielis Elzeviriorum, Amsterdam, 1658,. title printed in red & black and with woodcut vignette, dec. woodcut initials, slight spotting to title, contemp. sheep with blind dec. to boards, leather slightly torn at head of spine, rubbed and some wear to joints & extrems., 8vo, together with Posselius (Johannes), Calligraphia Oratoria Linguae Graecae, ad Proprietatem, Elegantiam et Copiam Graeci Sermonis Parandam Utilissima..., Jacob Stoer, Genevae, 1636, woodcut illust. to title, slight spotting and fraying to last few leaves, early manuscript note to front free endpaper, contemp. sheep with gilt dec. spine, slight wear to extrems., 8vo, with Horace, Traduction des oeuvres d'Horace en vers françois..., vols. 1-4 (of 5), contemp. calf, worn, labels worn and lifting, 12mo (6)

Commonplace Books. Six miniature commonplace books (or albums), c. 1830s-40s,. containing numerous manuscript quotations in ink, mostly from English and French poets and writers, plus various hand-coloured and uncoloured engravings, and thirteen original watercolour drawings including ten landscapes, plus children, costume, one or two marine subjects, etc., two initialled J. W. (or I. W.), sheet size approx. 75 x 110 mm (3 x 4.5 ins), a.e.g., all bound in contemp. calf or morocco gilt, rubbed and marked, with one upper cover det., spines lettered with the days of the week in French (lacking Vendredi), oblong 12mo (6)

Erasmus (Desiderius). Apophthegmatum, [siue scite dictorum libri sex, Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1531], lacks a1 (but title from Apophthegmatum libri duo, Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1533, with woodcut device, supplied in its place, old ink amendments and deletions), also a2 (supplied as three pages in neat old manuscript), a8 and I8-L4 (from 'Festum' in Index to end), some old ink marginalia and occ. underscoring, old ink amendments and deletions to title, ink acid burn to margin of leaf k5, closely trimmed with loss to annotations, some light dampstaining and spotting throughout, contemp. sheep, wear to extremities and upper cover near det., 8vo Adams E489. The title page supplied was probably originally bound with its text at the end of this textblock so completing the work in eight books. Both works are rare, the work having been first published in Basle in 1531 and the edition of Libri Duo from which this title is taken is not in Adams, Brunet or The Erasmus Online Database. (1)

Smith (Charlotte). The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer: Containing Narratives of Various Description, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1800-01, half-titles present, errata leaf and 4pp. ads. at rear of vol. 3, lightly browned throughout, hinges split, contemp. marbled calf gilt, rubbed, and sl. wear to extrems., some cracking and repairs to joints, 12mo, (Summers p.385), together with Griffiths (Ralph), Ascanius: or The Young Adventurer; A True History, Translated from a Manuscript Privately Handed About at the Court of Versailles, 1st ed., 1746, lightly browned thoughout, a little foxed in places, later half calf gilt, extrems. sl. rubbed, sm. 8vo, plus [Lawrence, Herbert], The Life and Adventures of Common Sense: An Historical Allegory, 1st ed., 1769, rough-trimmed, modern speckled calf, sm. 8vo, plus three others similar (8)

[Hoffmann, Dr. Heinrich]. The English Struwwelpeter, or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures, [drop-title], c.1866, 24 leaf manuscript copy, paper watermarked 1866, with ten tales of errant children neatly written, and embellished throughout with accomplished hand-col. pen and ink drawings, to rectos only, dusty and finger-soiled, two pages with juvenile pencil scribble, stitching broken and leaves detached, with some edge-tears, creasing, and fraying, final leaf torn and crudely repaired to verso, contemp. roan-backed cloth, soiled and worn, with most of spine lacking, gilt titled to upper cover, approx. 330 x 250 mm An early manuscript copy executed by a skilled hand, of Hoffmann's famous didactic story book, which first appeared in German in 1845, and in English in 1848. (1)

Coppard (A.E.). Easter Day [A Poem], 1931, comprising 4 pp. facsimile of the author's manuscript with the fifth and final page handwritten, signed, dated and numbered by Coppard, orig. linen-backed boards with slipcase, slim 8vo (limited edition 12/145), together with Nixey's Harlequin, 1931, Dunky Fitlow, 1933 , Silver Circus, 1938, all t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. vellum gilt with morocco labels to spines (Silver Circus in slightly dust-soiled d.j.), all limited signed editions of 304, 300 and 125 respec., 8vo, plus a series of four good long autograph letters written by Coppard in 1931 to Moira Gibbings, while he was living in Italy, mostly light-hearted society chit-chat and domestic trivia, plus approx. 40 other books by Coppard, inc. two copies of Pink Furniture (approx. 50)

Coppard (A.E., and others). Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game, pub. Golden Cockerel Press, 1932, orig. two-page manuscript Epilogue for the work by A.E. Coppard, together with nine multi-page orig. typescript chapters by Elizabeth Bowen, A.E. Coppard, John van Druten, Sean O'Faolain, Ronald Fraser, Nora Hoult, Hamish Maclaren, G.B. Stern, and Malachi Whitaker, together with an unlimited edition of the book (1)