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A manuscript letter from Paul McCartney, dated 4th December, 1969, to Arthur H. Bailey, Consultant Designer, concerning the design and construction of a fireplace for Mr. McCartney's residence in St. Johns Wood, London.

An autograph album featuring signatures of the Saddler's Wells Ballet 1944, Sergei Rachmaninoff, a manuscript letter from Edmund Blunden, a signed typed letter from Walter de la Mare, with other literary and musical signatures, mid 20th Century.

* Zeppelin LZ18/L2. A small piece of fabric souvenir of the airship LZ18 built in 1913, sequestered by the German Military and redesignated L2, after few test flights this machine crashed due to an engine blow-up, this fragment mounted on card and with manuscript dedication in German inscribed Ballonhulle des L2 - explodiert am 17.10.13 - Berlin-Johannisthal -1

* R100. A silver brooch in the form of the airship, engraved & inscribed R100, contained in contemporary presentation box, together with an original booklet entitled The Visit of H.M Airship to Canada June 1930 manuscript in pencil inscribed actually carried on the historic flight in the airship together with original photographs depicting the R100 at mooring-mast at Cardington, and another over Felixtowe on trials during May 1930, also with a book entitled R100 in Canada (Barry Countryman) 1st edition with dust-jacket 1982, and other related photos and ephemera (-)

* Zeppelin LZ-38. A souvenir of the airship, that was shot-down and crashed after the raid over Theberton, Suffolk, comprising an aluminium ashtray inscribed Cast from Strafed Zeppelin Z-38, together with two further matching souvenirs for the LZ-38 and LZ-48, having fragments in aluminium formed in the shape of an airship applied to polished black bakelite plinths and with brass fragments inscribed LZ-38 and L15/LZ-48, both manuscript captions to reverse, the latter inscribed Crashed & Sank in the Thames, March 31st 1916 plus a related letter -4

* Memorandum Books. A group of ten manuscript accounts books of dispersements on boats sailing from Barnstaple, Newport, Cork, etc., c. 1811-32, inc. tabled listings of payments including labour, coal, ale, small beer, piloting, stevedors, harbour dues, lime, bridge dues, candles, etc., some leaves torn away and missing and one booklet empty, contemp. wrappers, some soiling and wear, slim 8vo -10

N.S. Savannah. A rare sales brochure for the first Nuclear-powered ocean-going commercial vessel, commissioned by the American Export Isbrandsen Line and the Joint Project of US Atomic Energy Commission and Maritime Administration of the US Department of Commerce, fully illustrated and including deck-plans etc, with manuscript dedication to the cover by the Captain David B. McMichael, Master, dated July 11th 1964 -1

* Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. The Manuscript Diary of Major Paul Cherrington of 30 Corps, 23rd September 1944 to 15th October, 1945, written in ink and pencil in an exercise book and comprising some 100 pages total with occasional inserted letters and a few sketches, detailing the Allied Advance into Germany during April 1945, including mention of the discovery of a Concentration Camp, On the 12th I had a most unusual experience. Two emissaries arrived from the other side to arrange that an area to the North of us should not be fought over. It seemed that it is a concentration camp with 60,000 inmates of whom some 2,000 have typhus of one sort or another. They dont want the disease to spread. Apart from this there are many criminals who might escape if the camp were fought over ..., Today we moved again to Celle Airfield. I travelled with Chester Wilmot & we went to the place where the concentration camp people were said to be. They had gone to the hospitals. There we followed them and heard their story. They were foreigners (& Germans) who were on force labour for a variety of reasons & had worked in the Anmann Gocing Works near Braunschweig. About a week ago they were taken from there by train, some 4,000 of them, including 300 women & they stopped at Celle for the engine to refuel. Their guards told them were off to Sachsenhausen where they would be gassed or shot. At Celle their train was between an ammo

* Indian Mutiny. Diary of the Oude Field Force in India, 1858, contemp. detailed manuscript account copy on twenty-four leaves, bound-with a manuscript copy of Cawnpoor- november 28th, 1857, General Windhams Dispatch to Sir Colin Campbell and with Declaration of Mrs. Murray of the Massacre of Cawnpoor, approx. thirteen leaves of manuscript copy, (together with a typescript for the complete manuscript), few minor marks, 20th c. qtr. morocco gilt, slim 4to the Siege of Cawnpore in 1857 (now Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh), was an episode in the Indian Mutiny when the sepoy troops at Cawnpore mutinied and were persuaded by a discontented Indian prince, Nana Sahib, to besiege the small number of European troops and officers, together with civilians, under the command of Sir Hugh Wheeler. After three weeks bombardment the garrison surrendered on 27 June 1857 The men were massacred as they boarded boats on the Ganges and the women and children were murdered on 15 July in a house known as the Bibigarh and their bodies thrown into a well. About 180 were murdered, over 100 of them children. The discovery of the bodies on 17 July by troops under Maj Gen Henry Havelock led to an outburst of feeling and cries for revenge in India and Britain. Brig James Neill ordered mutineers to lick up the blood before executing them. A memorial, which was subsequently built over the well, became the most visited shrine of British India. -1

* World War I - Gloucestershire Regiment. A group of nineteen letters and notes, c. 1915-17, several written to Margaret or Marjorie by her brothers Arthur, William and Walter Sotheron Estcourt, from Rouen, Masindi, British Expeditionary Force, Cairo, etc., concerning military and domestic matters, some with orig. postmarked envelopes to Marjorie at Shipton Moyne Rectory, Tetbury, a total of approx. 48 pp., 8vo/4to, together with Ernest Rokeby Collinss manuscript essays on the Corunna Campaign, Life of Sir John Moore and the Campagin of Salamanca, c. 1905-07, a total of over 50 pages, together with some related notes and drawings, folio, plus a group of twenty-four postcards, c. 1885 and later, written to Marjorie Estcourt and family Margaret Alice Sotheron Estcourt married Major Ernest Rokeby Collins, DSO, East Lancashire Regiment, in December 1918 [see Boer War lot above and Wrodl War One - Prisoner of War lot below]. Four of the letters to her in this group are from her brother Arthur Charles Sotheron Estcourt of the Gloucestershire Regiment, who was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 for conspicuous gallantry in action; he died on 8th August 1918 while working as an Observer for the Flying Corps. (a folder)

* Curtis (Alan H., 1897-1983). Wings. A Scrap-Book Portraying Incidents in the Life of a Pilot, c. 1914-1939, a fascinating set of four scrap albums compiled by Alan Curtis (started in 1932 and re-assembled in 1977), detailing his flying experiences from the beginning of the First World War to the early days of World War II, comprising numerous photos. of aircraft and pilots (both vintage and later), official documents, newspaper and magazine cuttings and other related paper souvenirs, including several signed menus, plus typescript reminiscences and manuscript notes by Curtis, incl. extracts from log books and diaries, etc., all carefully compiled in chronological order in four modern plastic ring binders, 4to Alan Harper Curtis, RNAS, RFC, RAF & S/Ldr, RAFVR. First flew at Hendon on 13th July 1914, with Edouard Baumann at the controls of a Wright biplane; joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 18th September 1915 and qualified for his pilots certificate on 7th November 1915 Enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps on 2nd March 1916 and gained his wings on 3rd August 1917 Served with No. 49 Squadron in France 19th October 1917 - 11th June 1918, carrying out bombing raids on French towns and engaging in numerous aerial scraps with the enemy (an extended handwritten account of an encounter that Curtis had on 7 June 1918 with von Richthofens Travelling Circus appears on p. 110 in volume 2). A Summary of Successful War Flights appears on pp. 145-6 in volume 2, including 2 Huns brought down out of control. 137 bombs dropped.

Breguet 763 Provence. A manufacturers publicity brochure for this Double-deck transport, with typed manuscript in English/French, with photo illustrations, cargo and passenger layout configurations 22 pp. pub. Nov. 1953, with supplements fold-out drawings and cut-away, together with an Air France colour eight-page fold-out brochure with artwork covers and cut-away views of the aircraft in flight -2

* Pilots Log. The manuscript flying log book of Lieutenant J.S. Bowker, 8th Bn, Manchester Regt, with the 113 Squadron (January 1918), serving in the Middle East, 15th September 1917 to 21st January 1919, including flights to Kalkili, Arsuf, Tabsor, Berukin, Sarona, Damascus, remarks incuding tactical, bomb raid, photographs, with mail, etc., a few leaves det., orig. printed wrappers, some soiling, 8vo, together with his commission to the rank of 2nd lieutenant (23rd Spetember 1915) and a certificate with facsimile signature of Churchill indicating that Bowker was mentioned in a Despatch from Allenby dated 5th March 1919 -3

Lawrence (T.E.). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph, Subscriber's Edition, privately printed, 1926, four folding maps, sixty-six plts., many coloured or tinted, incl. 'Prickly Pear' plt. (not listed), woodcut and line illusts. to text, incl. a col. text illust. after Kennington, woodcut pictorial endpapers by Kennington, without two line-drawings, 'The Prophets Tomb' and 'The Garden' by Paul Nash (as usual), in an unsigned full niger morocco binding, thick 4to One of 170 complete copies, with the notation at the foot of page XIX in the author's holograph, 'Complete copy I.XII.26 TES'; on the same page the author has made one manuscript amendment to the List of Illustrations, attributing the illustration of a gad fly to Kennington rather than Roberts. See illustration on rear cover of this catalogue. (1)

Wyse (Right Hon. Sir Thomas). An Excursion in the Peloponnesus in the Year 1858 ... edited by his niece, Winifrede M. Wyse, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1865, half-titles present, double-page eng. map, twenty-four uncol. etched plts., some folding, woodcuts to text, some minor scattered spotting, orig. blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo Blackmer 1847. Sir Thomas Wyse (1791-1862) was a distinguished anglo-Irish politician, diplomat, linguist and travel writer. He was appointed ambassador to Athens in 1849 and from then on devoted himself to Greek affairs. Wyse travelled throughout Greece to gather information on the economic and social conditions of the Peloponnesus and recorded his experience in a remarkable series of journals. He fell ill before the work had been published but he spent his final days correcting the manuscript, which he then bequeathed to his niece who had it published posthumousley. (1)

Wood (Anthony). The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford..., now First Published in English, from the Original Manuscript in the Bodleian Library; with a Continuation to the Present Time: by the Editor, John Gutch, 2 vols. (inc. Appendix), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1786-90, eng. frontis. to first volume (close-trimmed & laid-down), manuscript to endpapers, vol. 1 bound in contemp. half calf gilt with vellum corners, joints cracked, vol. 2 (Appendix) in late 19th/early 20th c. half calf gilt with vellum corners, joints rubbed, 4to (2)

Yorkshire - Swaledale. Original mid 18th century manuscript estate plan, drawn in ink and colours on vellum, the title within a plain rectangular border reading 'A Plan of the Manor of Grinton and Part of the Manor of Healaugh, the Manor of Arkengarthdale, the Manor of Fremington, the Verge of the Manors of Merrick and Ellerton and Several Manors in Wensleydale. N.B. The Mountains is Shaddowed, The Rivers and Rivulets are Blue, The Dotted lines divide the Moors, the Yellow Inclosures is Priory Land, The Green Inclosures Customary Land, the Red Inclosures Crown Land, the Brown Inclosures Free Land, the Orange Holy Land', compass rose, scale of distance surmounted by dividers, many fields and plots numbered, some creasing and dust soiling, a few brown marks, the sheet measuring 655 x 860 mm A fine example of an 18th century estate plan with the colours exceptionally bright. Many features of interest are marked on the map including numerous lead mines, for which the area is well known. (1)

* Old London Inn. Vellum indenture dated 20th June 1638 , between William Harte and Isaak Bringhurst of St Giles in the Fields, for the sale of all that messuage, orchards, gardens, now called 'The White Lyon' [Lion] in Paddington, London, together with a cobblers shop, attached to this indenture is a large vellum sheet containing a fascinating and very extensive manuscript inventory of all fixtures and fittings of the White Lion's various rooms, including also the contents of various stables, cellars, barns, and interestingly one of the entries in the inventory lists 'the Sign of the White Lion with poste and support', the document, in excellent condition also retains a perfect large pendant wax seal showing coat of arms A White Lion Inn in Paddington can be traced back to 1524. (1)

Manuscript prayer book. A mid 19th c. (or slightly later) Islamic prayer book, approx. 130 leaves of hand-written text with ruled blue & red border lines, dec. illustration to first leaf in red, blue & gold (close-trimmed to upper margin with slight loss to illustration), inner margins of 1st & last leaves strengthened, later endpapers, contemp. morocco with embossed decoration to both boards and central arabesque to each, old reback, worn, 12mo in 6s (approx. 165 x 100mm) (1)

Pacht (Otto and Alexander, J. J. G. ). Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols., 1966-73, col. frontis. to each vol., numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, 4to, together with Wormald (Francis & Giles, Phyllis M.), A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Acquired Between 1895 and 1979, 2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1982, colour and b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, large 8vo, plus Horst (Koert van der), Illuminated and Decorated Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht, An Illustrated Catalogue, Cambridge University Press, 1989, some colour and numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, and five others related, including The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford, by M. B. Parkes, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, New York, 1990 (11)

WATT, ELIZABETH MARY A collection of ephemera, autograph letters and manuscript verses, painting relating to Elizabeth Mary Watt and her family; to include a photograph of the artist setting up a display of her ceramics and pictures, approx 40.5cm wide by 30.5cm high, some creasing at corners; a collection of twelve birthday verses from Alfred Watt to his sister Mary, dated 14th Feb 1930 to 1946; Five autograph replies from Mary to Alfred thanking him for the birthday wishes, three of which are written in verse "Ode to Brother Poet...", c. 1930's-40's; an autograph letter signed addressed to Edith, regarding one of her shows at the Lady Artists Club in Glasgow; Scott-Sutherland, Colin Pattern People - Elizabeth Mary Watt. Cornwall: Pattern Press, 1995, 8vo, number 134 of 350 copies, original red paper wrappers, fine copy (21)

Gilbert (Linney). India Illustrated; an Historical & Descriptive Account of that Important and Interesting Country, c.1830, frontis., addn. eng. title (water-stained), and twenty steel-eng. views after drawings by William Daniell, foxed to margins, first few plts. water-stained to top blank margin, a.e.g., modern half morocco, with gilt lettered spine label, 8vo, together with Morell (Sir Charles), The Tales of the Genii; or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar, faithfully translated from the Persian Manuscript..., 2 vols. in 1, 1780, bound with Langhorne (Dr. John), Solyman and Almena, an Oriental Tale, 1780, and Ashmore (Francis), Zadig; or, the Book of Fate, an Oriental History, translated from the French of M. de Voltaire, 1780, and Hawkesworth (Dr. John), Almoran and Hamet, an Oriental Tale, 2 vols. in 1, 1780, numerous eng. plts., upper hinge split, contemp. half sprinkled calf gilt, rubbed, head of spine sl. frayed, and corners showing, 8vo (2)

a Manuscript Travel Journal of 1846, by Mary Owen BEARDMORE (1809-1891), describing her visit to mainly Italy with also Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria, with pen and ink decorations and elaborate title, small 4to marbled boards; with Extracts from the Diary of the Nawab Medhi Hasan Khan Fathah Nawaz Jung, London for private circulation circa 1890, full calf gilt

Leopold - The Almanus Manuscript, dustwrap; Edwardes - Weight Driven Chamber Clocks of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Edwardes - The Story of the Pendulum Clock; Lloyd - The English Domestic Clock, slipcase; British Museum - The Ferrous Metallurgy of Early Clocks (4)

* Australian Convict System. [Thrilling Incidents of the Convict System in Australasia: How it Grew and was Nourished and how it Declined, and what Evils and what Good have Arisen from it, by Eric Gibb, compiled from Authentic Sources, from Information contained in Official Documents and other Records], author's orig. manuscript, c. 1895,. comprising separately numbered sections, Preface, The Hulks, Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Some Concluding Remarks (7, 163, 111, 89, 171 & 26 pp. respec.), all text written to rectos only, some publishers pencil marks and comments, a little soiling and creasing and occasional marginal chipping, 8vo, together with a sixteen verse manuscript poem entitled 'The Death of the Bushranger [Dan] Morgan, Composed by the Rev. John Graham, copies by the Rev. William Bradley [this last line crossed out], Sydney, 18th April 1865, six page manuscript in a fair hand, written to rectos only, 8vo Eric Gibb's book was published by Hammond & Green, London, in 1895. The published books is 155 pp. and includes nine leaves of plates. Four copies have been traced in Australian libraries. This lot and the following lot have come from the descendents of Francis George Coles, who raised the prison hulk HMS Success from the bed of Sydney Harbour in 1891 and put it on display. He also commissioned Eric Gibb's work, one of the earliest works on the subject. (2)

* Defence of the Realm. Large printed document with manuscript insertions, dated 28th November 1803 , in which it relates to the threatened invasion of England, during the present war and the plans for rendering a body of people instrumental for the defence of the Country in case of invasion, or appearance of invasion, appointing Thomas Samuel Joliffe, a Lieutenant, to instantly repair to the Head Quarters of the Army and there await directions of the General of the District [Frome], and that he aquaint himself with all roads, lanes, foot paths, bridges, creeks, etc., by order of John Poulett, Lord Lieutenant for the County, with his signature and wax seal appended (1)

* Execution Warrant. A manuscript execution warrant for Francis Henry De Lamotte, 23rd July 1781,. addressed to Thomas Sainsbury and William Crichton, Sheriff of the County of Middlesex, in the holograph of James Adair (Recorder) with his black wax seal and signature at foot, a little soiling, one page, folio Francois Henri de la Motte was an ex French Army officer executed in London for High Treason on 27th July 1781, as indicated in this document. He had been arrested in January 1781 on suspicion of being a spy and held for six months in the Tower of London. At an Old Bailey Trial on 23rd July he was found guilty of running an operation which sent secret Naval Intelligence to France, concerning British Fleet dispositions at Portsmouth and other British Ports. Though sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered he was spared to some extent and after one hour hanging he was taken down, his heart cut out and burned. A crowd of more than 80,000 people witnessed de la Motte's execution at Tyborn. (1)

* Hampshire. Large folio manuscript volume, 116 pp, commencing the 12th September 1840 , listing the rent charge in lieu of the tythes payable in the Parish of Odiham, Hampshire, detailing the names of the various land owners, who occupies the lands, names and description of lands and premises, state of cultivation, quantities in statute measure and amount payable (1)

* London. Large vellum indenture, dated 9th November 1666 , relating to lands in Bishopsgate Street in London, with large pendant wax seal attached with another vellum indenture of 1680, made between William Soame and Sir Eliab Harvey, again relating to Bishopsgate Street, with two fine large pendant wax seals attached and another with a sheet of five printed receipts with manuscript insertions for rents paid for tenements in Hempstead and a 17th c. vellum document (8)

Ferrier (J.P.). History of the Afghans, Translated from the Original Unpublished Manuscript, by Captain William Jesse, 1st ed., 1858,. two folding maps supplied in excellent facsimile, modern half calf gilt, 8vo (1)

Lambe (Robert). An Exact and Circumstantial History of the Battle of Floddon...Published froma curious Manuscript in the Possession of John Askew..., Berwick upon Tweed, 1774, engraved frontis., erratum/advert leaf to rear, minor spotting, 19th century calf, sl. rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with Davies (Rev. D.P.), A New Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire, 2 vols. in 1, Belper, 1811, folding engraved map to frontis. (tears to folds), one aquatint plate of Belper, lacks plate of Derby, contemp. half calf, rubbed, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian including vols. 1 & 2 (of 3) of Congreve's Works (1710), a 12mo book of acts of parliament relating to excise laws, etc. (18)

Raleigh (Sir Walter) Die Fünffte Kurtze Wunderbare Beschreibung desz Goldreichen Königreichs Guianae in America, oder Newen Welt, Unter der Linea Aequinoctiali Gelegen: so Neulich Anno 1594, 1595, und 1596 von dem Wolgebornen Herrn, Herrn Walthero Ralegh, einem Englischen Ritter, Besucht Worden: Erstlich auss Befehl Seiner Gnaden in Zweyen Büchlein Beschrieder, mit einer Niderländischen Erklärung Gemacht, Jetzt aber ins Hochteutsch Gebracht und auss Unterschiedlichen Authoribus Erkläret, 4th ed., in Verlegung Leuini Hulsij Wittibe, Frankfurt, 1612. eng. illust. to title, folding eng. map, four eng. plts. (of 6), some dust soiling and light damp staining, recent limp vellum binding using old vellum manuscript, slim 4to (1)

Brown's Book of Musical Trifles; containing nearly 200 popular airs, easily arranged for Flute, Violin, Flageolet, Accordian, Cornopean, &c., pub. H. White, n.d., c. 1845,. 120 pp. of engraved music, some light browning and minor marginal soiling, title a little chipped to edges, manuscript list of songs to front and rear endpapers, contemp. leather backed boards, rubbed and somewhat worn, with portion to foot of spine missing, small oblong 8vo (1)

Maitland (J. A. Fuller and Squire, W. Barclay). The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, edited from the original manuscript, 2 vols., reprinted Dover Publications, 1963,. contemp. qtr. green morocco, 4to, together with Purcell (Henry), Orpheus Britannicus, 2 vols., 1721, reprint ed., Gregg Press, 1965, orig. blue cloth gilt, 4to, plus Victoria (Thomae Ludovici), Opera Omnia, vols. 1, 3, 5, & 7 only, 1902 11, reprint ed., Gregg Press, 1965, orig. blue cloth gilt, 4to, and other folio music scores, including Verdi's Falstaff, pub. G. Ricordi, 1893, Wagner's Der Rosenkavalier, Piano Edition, 1910 (previously owned by Albert Coates), Gregg Press reprint volumes of Handel's works, 7 vols., Dover reprints of Beethoven and Mozart's Complete String Quartets, etc., plus a large quantity of sheet music and concert programmes, some annotated from the collection of the organist Willis Grant, former professor of music at the University of Bristol (7 cartons)

Barrow (John). Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, the Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested, 2 vols., 2nd ed., corrected and improved, 1758,. eng. frontis. to vol. 1, fifty four folding eng. plts., contemp. calf, some wear, old manuscript label on upper cover of vol. 1, 'The Whole Body of Arts Very Scarce', 8vo Contains information on the arts of limning, Japanning, Gilding, Engraving, Etching and Mezzotinto, Refining, Compounding, Transmutation and Tinging all sorts of Metals and Minerals, Staining all sorts of Glass and Marble, Dyeing all sorts of Materials, Linen, Woollen, Silk, the Art of Tapestry Weaving, a description of Colours, Natural and Artificial, the Whole Art of Pyrotechny, and the Chinese method of making Porcelain, etc. (2)

Milne (A.A.). The Secret and other Stories, 1st ed., The Fountain Press, New York and London, 1929, a few pages lightly foxed, orig. cloth with paper label to sl. faded spine, slim 8vo, (limited ed. 516/742 copies, signed by the author), together with Winnie the Pooh, A Reproduction of the Original Manuscript, also included is the Text of the Printed Version, 1971, b & w port. frontis., top edges red, orig. linen gilt, in printed card slipcase, 4to, plus Rackham (Arthur), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, from The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie, [facsimile edition], 1983, col. plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. morocco, in slipcase, 4to, (limited ed. 445/500 copies), plus Newbolt (Henry), Aladore, Illustrated in Collotype from Drawings by the Lady Hilton, 1914, b & w plts., free endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. vellum gilt, 8vo, (limited ed. 94/150 copies, signed by the author) (4)

West Indies Grenada. 'Parishes of St. Mark and St. John in the Island of Granada. 1835. Rector The Revd. Samuel R.M. Brathwaite',. original ink manuscript map of Grenada with outline colouring, a little marginal flaking, approx. 235 x 365 mm (1)

Widmore (Richard). An Enquiry into the Time of the First Foundation of Westminster Abbey. As Discoverable from the Best Authorities now Remaining, both Printed and Manuscript. To which is Added an Account of the Writers of the History of the Church, 1743,. one eng. diag., contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, joints broken, small 4to (1)

* Genealogical pedigree A manuscript genealogical pedigree of the Denne family, 19th c., drawn in pen & ink with armorials, approx. 890 x 1200mm, plus two others similar, all rolled and contained together in metal tube (1)

Rhys (John David). Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve Linguae Institutiones et Rudimenta... Ad intelligend. Biblia Sacra nuper in Cambrobrytannicum sermonem & caste & eleganter versa... , Londini, excudebat Thomas Orwinus, 1592,. an incomplete copy, lacking Z1, Z3 and Z4, the missing text supplied in manuscript, the errata leaf present, two folding letterpress tables (torn without loss), woodcut diagrams in the letterpress, title page with a number of early ownership inscriptions, some scored through, this and the following ten leaves, and the final sixteen leaves, damaged at the fore edge, some soiling, occasional worming, contemp. calf, unlettered, worn, folio rees 4282. S.T.C. 20966. A grammar of the Welsh language, together with a laborious discussion of Welsh prosody. Whilst the D.W.B. entry questions Rhys' scholarship, it concedes that "the book contains items of knowledge which are not found elsewhere". (1)

Turner (Dawson). Descriptive Index of the Contents of Five Manuscript Volumes, illustrative of the History of Great Britain, in the Library of Dawson Turner, Esq., Great Yarmouth, 1851,. later 19th century half calf, red leather labels, marbled board sides, tall 8vo a presentation copy from Dawson Turner to the archaeologist Sir John P. Boileau, annotated thus by Boileau on the title page, and with a 2 page accompanying A.L.S. from Turner to him tipped in, Martin, Privately Printed Books, p. 541, "Never Published". (1)

Keynes (Geoffrey). Bibliotheca Bibliographici, 1st ed., Trianon Press, 1964,. b & w plts., minor spotting, orig. cloth gilt, small folio, together with Hobson (Anthony), Apollo and Pegasus, an Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library, 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1975, col. frontis. and b & w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., plus Rosetnhal (Bernard M.), The Rosenthal Collection of Printed Books with Manuscript Annotations, 1st ed., Newhaven, 1997, b & w illusts., orig. cloth, both 4to, plus other bibliography and bookbinding interest (26)

* Royal Menu. His Majesty's Dinner, under the controul of A[mant] Vilmet, Chief Cook [to King George IV], 13th October 1828,. an orig. manuscript eight course menu for eight persons written in a neat hand, with the name of the chef responsible for each course noted in the left hand margin, 32 x 14.5 cm (1)

* Scotland Royal Grant of King James IV. Scarce vellum manuscript grant from the King, with calligraphic initial letters, made at Edinburgh 3rd March 1504 , granting to John Sinclare of Hurdmanstoun all the lands of Hurdmanstoun with castle, fortalice and mill, together witht he rights of patronage, advowson, and donation of the Chapel of St John the Evangelist, near the castle, lying within our Shire of Edinburgh, together with all the lands of Carfra with their holdings, tenancies, liberties, services and mills and their appurtenances, lying in the bailiwick of Laurdidale within the shire of Berwick which lands, castle, etc., together with the barony of Westirpencaitland and their holdings, the document at great length and detail goes onto refer to cast areas of woods, plains, moors, marshes, ways, waters, pools, rivers, meadows, feeding grounds, mills, coal pits, hawking, fishing, etc., suspended from the document by a large vellum seal tag is an almost complete and very scarce example of the Great Seal of King James IV in honey coloured wax, showing the king seated on the throne, flanked by shields showing coat of arms, holding orb and sceptre, with reverse showing King mounted on horseback, with an in depth three page translation of the document (1)

* Scrap albums. A Diary of a Journey to Spain and Portugal by John Holt Beever, August November 1812,. 181 pp. closely written manuscript on several papers, no illusts., last forty pages detached and folded over at foremargin, includes mention of the battle of Salamanca, contemp. half reversed calf, worn, contained in purpose made recent qtr. morocco gilt book box, together with an unrelated diary entitled Three Weeks at Chamonix Mont Blanc, 14th August to 4th September 1925, an illustrated diary of approx. sixty pages on thick card leaves, comprising postcards, some photos. and illlusts. interspersed with the ink text, orig. buckram, recently rebacked with green morocco gilt, 4to, plus North Sea Pilot, manuscript book written at Portsmouth 1853, over 150 pages written in a fair hand and with a few illusts., giving directions and sailing instructions plus descriptions of all the new lighthouses and beacons on the Norwegian and Swedish coasts, orig. vellum boards, soiled and some wear, lacks clasp, oblong 8vo, contained with related paper ephemera in purpose made recent qtr. calf gilt book box, plus one other similarly bound manuscript of personalities of World War II (4)

South West England. 'Tour by Miss W. Portman & Miss Grove, into Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall & Dorsetshire, July 1820',. orig. handwritten manuscript account of a tour in south west England, forty two leaves, mainly written to rectos only, double page ms map of the region in ink, coloured in outline, contemp. morocco backed marbled boards, rubbed and some wear to spine and outer corners, small slim 4to A carefully handwritten account of the ladies' journey from Salisbury to Taunton, Linton, Ilfracombe, Bideford, Tavistock, Liskeard, Truro, Penzance, Helston, Falmouth, Bodmin, Plymouth, Totnes, Torquay, Sidmouth, Lyme, Dorchester and back to Salisbury, giving details of the scenery and events en route, with index of distances travelled and places stayed at, to rear of the text. (1)

Cookery. Manuscript receipt book, inscribed 'Royal Naval College, Feb 1864',. containing numerous receipts including marmalade, various cakes, wines, etc., some blank pages to rear, contemp. half morocco, worn with covers detached, together with three other later receipt books and one earlier (dated 1841), plus a defective copy of Hannah Robertson's The Young Ladies school of Arts (6)

Earnshaw (Thomas). Longitude. An Appeal to the Public: Stating Mr Thomas Earnshaw's Claim to the Original Invention of the Improvements in his Timekeepers, Their Superior Going in Numerous Voyages, and also as tried by the Astronomer Royal by Orders of the Commissioners of Longitude, and his consequent right to National Reward, 1st ed., printed for the author, 1808,. half title, seventeen unnumbered leaves of appendices at rear with errata to final page, small ink manuscript corrections to pp. 27 and Appendix E, some pencil underscoring, spotting and occn. heavy browning, a few leaves with marginal dampstaining, small tear to pp. 123/124 without loss of text, several leaves slightly sprung, uncut, contemp. marbled boards with remains of paper spine and manuscript title, spine worn, covers detached, 8vo Collation: pp. [viii], 280, [34]. Thomas Earnshaw (1749 1829) was a pioneer horologist and one of several developers of the marine chronometer. In 1782 he invented the so called spring detent chronometer scapement which became the standard for marine chronometers throughout the nineteenth century and has essentially remained unchanged until the advent of quartz digital timepieces. This rare autobiographical book was published by a disillusioned Earnshaw in an attempt to gain the recognition he deserved. (1)

Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von). Gli affani del Giovani Verter ..., translated into Italian by Corrado Ludger, 1788,. 123 pp. manuscript transcription by Margritt Sebatier, in a fair hand, prob. early 19th c., contemp. elaborately gilt dec. red morocco, rubbed and a little wear to extrems., slim 8vo, together with Scott (Walter), The Vision of Don Roderick and Other Poems, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1811, some spotting, initial leaves det., signed presentation inscription from the novelist F[rederick] Marryat to front free endpaper, contemp. diced calf, covers det. and spine def., 8vo, plus Fontenelle (Bernard le Bovier de), Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts, New Revised Edition, Amsterdam, 1701, some spotting and soiling, ownership names of Richard Bulkeley, and Lord Lovat [Simon Fraser, 1667 1747] to title, contemp. calf, upper cover and first two leaves det., small 8vo All with various ownership inscription of the Nutting family. (3)

(Bridges, John) Whalley, Rev. Peter, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, compiled from the manuscript collections of the late learned antiquary John Bridges Esq, Oxford 1791, engraved illustrations, in two leather bound volumes

Mid 17th Century hand-written Manuscript, the first 17 pages being the minutes of Parliamentary meetings from 1st November 1654 until 2nd December 1654, the remaining 46 pages (some blank) being recipes and cures such as "To Stew a Carpe" and "A Medicine for the Ague".

REPORTS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, 4 vols., containing reports 1 to 36, 1797 & 1798, with cont. manuscript indexes, later three quarter leather, ex Office of Woods Library, with stamps, etc.

An Arabic manuscript on Ethics, early 19th century (?), with gold detailed title, each leaf with black script within red borders, original brown morocco with gold embossed emblems. tall 8vo.

Davies (Professor David). EL GRECO, Illustrated, 1976, cloth, dust-wrapper. (Inscribed 'To Anthony Hicks/In memory of idyllic days/at Greenway House/David Davies'; together with a manuscript letter referring to '. . . the enormous pleasure we had from the fragrant gardens of Greenway and the vistas of the Dart seen through the haze of early morning mist or in mellow evening light. . . .'); together with a quantity of other volumes, some signed by Anthony Hicks.

A jewel box made of 24 different kinds of Jamaican wood, a manuscript key is sold with it.

An ornate middle eastern parquetry veneered fold top card table, underneath a manuscript label inscribed, "Bought in Jerusalem, March 1926".

Needlework accessories, including a clamp pincushion/tape measure, a book of Victorian manuscript, "Receipts for Knitting", etc.

Oxfordshire Records Society. The Churchwardens' Presentments in the Oxford Peculiars of Dorchester, Thame and Banbury, ed. Sidney A. Peyton, 1928, title fore-margin repaired, ink lib. stamp to verso, modern library half leather, rubbed, 8vo, together with Rusher's Banbury List, pub. Banbury, 1812-67, a run of pamphlets bound as one, a few sl. tears and some soiling, bound without wrappers, manuscript notes to front endpapers, contemp. half roan, worn and partly broken on spine, thick 8vo, plus other Oxfordshire and Banbury interest, all 20th c. pubs., including paperbacks and pamphlets (2 shelves)

*Italy - Naples. Six attractive hand coloured etchings of Napolese scenes with figures in the foreground in regional dress and volcanic landscapes beyond, early 19th century, each approx. 150 x 80 mm, plus a German engraving of a hatseller (approx. 355 x 240 mm), a 17th century manuscript leaf with coloured armorial shields, an old pencil portrait and one other One of the Napolese plates with the imprint 'In Napoli presso Vincezo Ferri Strada di Chuya'. (10)

*Albert, Prince Consort of Queen victoria of England, 1819-1861. Two fine and attractive vellum manuscript documents, 1852 , each bearing a large wafer seal set in relief on a fabric background, showing in great detail the coat of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, with each document signed by Prince Albert at the head, for pending appointments as special deputy wardens (2)