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Great Britain.] 1796 Entire to Edinburgh, manuscript 5. On reverse Edinburgh Bishop mark and good straight line Appin. 1816 Entire to Dunkeld with Berford mileage mark. 1803 entire to Alloa, manuscript 1 1/2 and red Bishop mark with good Yeovil mileage mark on reverse. 1852 Entire to Leghorn, via France and manuscript 2/3d. Oval PD

"Hutton (Sir Richard, c. 1561-1639). The Argument of Sir Richard Hutton Knight in the Exchequer Chamber the xxviii of Aprill Anno Domini 1638, concerning shipp money, c. 1638, a manuscript of twenty folios, in a neat hand, waterstained and sl. soiled and frayed, corners of many leaves strengthened, slim folio. This manuscript gives Sir Richard Hutton's argument in support of his judgement at the trial of John Hampden, who had been brought before the Court of the Exchequer on account of his refusal to pay the shipp money levy. (1)"

"Illuminated manuscript. The Lament of Mary Queen of Scots at the Return of Spring, by Burns, illustrated by Lady Mary Fox, n.d., c. 1870s, sixteen illuminated leaves on vellum, in gold and colours, illustrating Burns' verse, including title, fifteen leaves with historical scences, vign. views and landscapes, ports., and floral decs. to borders, each leaf inlaid to album card, a.e.g., silk moire endpapers, orig. red velvet covers, spine renewed, rubbed and a little fraying to edges, contained in modern purpose-made half brown morocco drop-over bookbox, 4to (1)"

"London. Large vellum indenture dated 20th February 1641 , between Thomas Thorald, Daniel Harvey, Charles Snelling, Eliab Harvey, George Downes and other parishoners of London in the Parish of St Laurence Poultney, making a gift to the Churchwardens of the ""Grass Hopper"" in Bridge Street in the Parish of St Magnus the Martyr, near London Bridge together with all messuage, tenement, all houses, edifices, building yard, shop cellers, chambers, rooms, etc., together with the original signed manuscript receipt from the Churchwardens (2)"

"Scrap Album. An early 19th c. scrap album containing five orig. botanical and natural history watercolour drawings, plus several pencil drawings, twenty-four minature hand-col. engs. of female costume, a few greetings cards, manuscript, poetry, etc., contemp. blind-panelled calf, rubbed, 4to (1)"

"Bible ([English]). The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments..., the Introduction by Adam Clarke, printed at the Caxton Press, Liverpool, [1815], eng. frontis. & addn. eng. title, eng. plts. and hand-col. maps, slight damp staining to few pages, contemp. calf gilt, slight wear to extrems., folio, together with Sermons, Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches, in the Time of Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory..., 1676, damp staining to upper & lower margins, 19th c. half calf, folio, with Book of Common Prayer, Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Common Prayer, Signed by Convocation December 20th, 1661..., pub. 1891, facsimile leaves ruled in red, contemp. cloth, old repairs at head & foot of spine, folio, plus nine other theology related, including a defective late 16th/early 17th c. English bible (12)"

"Book of Hours. A complete calendar from an illuminated Book of Hours, Northern France [probably Paris], c.1490, six vellum leaves, naively but charmingly painted in gold and colours on both sides with borders of flowers and foliage, and at the head of each page with the occupations of the month, and the relevant sign of the zodiac, text in French, written in a gothic bookhand, in gold, blue and red, each leaf approx. 18 x 12cms.The scenes for each month (January to December) comprise: Feasting, Sitting by a Fire, Pruning, Garden scene with two lovers, A Couple on horseback hawking, Harvesting hay, Reaping corn, Threshing, Treading grapes, Sowing, Collecting acorns for pigs, & Killing a pig. The sign of the zodiac for May shows a naked couple representing Gemini, holding a shield with the initials I A, possibly indicating that the manuscript was produced for the marriage of a couple whose names incorporated these letters. (6)"

"Book of Hours [Dutch]. A bound volume of 98 leaves, prob. Holland or Flanders, 15th c., five prelims., sixteen lines to each leaf with red and some blue capitals throughout, three near-identical decorated leaves at the start of three 'parts', each with one six-line gold initial on a red and blue ground with floral decoration, the borders with floral tracing in red, blue and gold, seven leaves with a five-line capital (mostly 'G') in gold on red and blue gounds, with decorative tracing in white, blank portions of two pages and final leaf verso plus four additional leaves with manuscript text in a later hand, some soiling and light dampstaining throughout, disbound without covers, remains of broken 17th-c.(?) calf spine present, text block size approx. 82 x 60 mm, leaf sizes 140 x 100 mm, preserved in modern purpose-made cloth book-box (1)"

"Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, 1st ed., 1662, eng. port. frontis. (lined to verso), early manuscript note to title, occ. marginal notes to few leaves, errata to verso of A4 crossed-out in contemporary ink, contemp. speckled calf, gilt dec. spine, joints worn, folio. Wing F2440. (1)"

"Joachim (Abbot of Fiore). Profetie dell'Abbate Gioachino. Et di Anselmo Vescovo di Marsico, in Padova, 1625, engraving on the title-page, num. curious near-full-page woodcuts in the text, smaller additional unpaginated leaf, with woodcut astrological diagrams, tipped-in after the first leaf, some soiling and staining, most of the large woodcuts referenced with 19th c. manuscript marginal notes, later vellum, red leather label, soiled, small 4to (1)"

"Prayer book [Arabic]. A manuscript Sufi Prayer Book, prob. mid 19th c., one hundred leaves on fine vellum in neat Arabic script, illuminated headpiece in gold, red and blue with floral decoration in white, rose and lilac at head of first leaf, two full-p. painted miniatures of Mecca and Medina, eleven lines in black and red script to each page with simple gold flourishes, text borders in gold and black, contemp. wallet-style black morocco with Sufi decoration to covers, rebacked with new spine and foremargin, 15.5 x 10 cm (1)"

"Trapp (Joseph). A Reply to Mr. Law's Earnest and Serious Answer (As it is Called) to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the Folly, Sin, and Danger of Being Righteous Over-Much, 1741, 127pp., early manuscript notes to verso of final leaf, bound with Tennent (Gilbert, Minister of the Gospel in New-Jersey), Some Account of the Principles of the Moravians: Chiefly Collected from Several Conversations with Count Zinzendorf..., 1743, 48pp., closed tear to last leaf, bound with [Swift, Jonathan], The Presbyterians Plea of Merit; In Order to Take off the Test, (in Ireland,) Impartially Examined. With an Account of the State of Popery in that Kingdom, and of the Origin and Principles of the Dissenters in General, 2nd ed., [1733], 42pp., bound with Bowyer (Jonah, pub.), The Relative Duty of Pastor and People. Or, a Short Discourse, Shewing the Obligation that Lies I. Upon Him to Instruct them from House to House. II. Upon Them to Consult him as their Spiritual Guide... With Proper Prayers Taken out of the Epistles..., 1722, 100pp., contemp. half calf, rubbed & worn, 8vo (1)"

"Winstanley (William). England's Worthies. Select Lives of the MOst Eminent Persons of the English Nation, from Constantine the Great, Down to these Times, pub. 1684, eng. frontis. (with early manuscript notes to verso), lacks free endpapers, contemp. calf, upper board detached and spine worn at head & foot, 8vo, together with [Sandys, George], Anglorum Speculum, or The Worthies of England, in Church and State. Alphabetically Digested into the Several Shires and Counties therein Contained..., 1684, half-title present, later free endpapers, contemp. calf, neat modern reback, 8vo, with William III, The Life of William III. Late King of England, and Prince of Orange..., 2nd ed., 1703, eng. port. frontis., nine eng. pts. and one folding map, contemp. calf, slight wear at head of spine, 8vo, and Webb (W., pub.), A Complete Collection of Protests from the Year MDCXLI to the Present Year MDCCXXXVII, pub. 1737, contemp. calf, slight wear to joints, 8vo, with Church of England, Valor Beneficiorum: or, A Valuation of all Ecclesiastical Preferments in England and Wales. To which is Added a Collection of Choice Presidents Relating to Eccelsiastical Affairs, 1695, eng. frontis., contemp. calf, slight wear at head & foot of spine, 12mo, plus Clarendon (Edward, Earl of), The Proceedings in the House of Commons, Touching the Impeachment of Edward Late Earl of Clarendon, Lord High-Chancellour of England, Anno 1667..., pub. 1700, recent endpapers, contemp. calf, upper joint & spine worn, slim 8vo (6)"

"Illuminated manuscript. Scenes from ""The Song of Hiawatha"" by Longfellow, mid-20th c., forty-one pages of handwritten calligraphic text, with three illuminated initials in colours and gold, part-titles in blue, smaller initials in red and blue, etc., on handmade vellum paper by Whatman, contemp. patterned boards with morocco label to spine, 4to (1)"

"[Burton, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy [3rd ed., 1628] lacks title and all before p.1, upper corner of p.23/24 torn with loss (now supplied in old manuscript facsimile) contemp. calf upper cover det. folio, together with Suckling (John), The Works of Sr John Suckling, continuing all his Poems, Plays, Letters, etc., published by his Friends (from his own copies) to Perpetuate his Memory, 1676, general title and ten divisional titles, final leaf repaired, without loss, contemp. calf, minor wear to extrems., 8vo, with other misc. antiquarian, etc., mostly leather -bound (3 shelves)"

"Gurney Family. Four albums, late 19th and early 20th c., comprising photos, autographs, a few prints, etc., some relating to the Gurney family, incl. and albumen print port. of Daniel Gurney (1791-1880, banker and antiquary), plus photos of his home at Ructon Hall, various photos of later family members and paintings of Quaker ancestors, plus photos relating to the Hamond Family and Wootton, with a manuscript family tree of the latter, one album relating mainly to D.W. Gurney and his time at Eton and in the army, incl. group portraits, printed programmes, etc., two albums sl. soiled and dampstained, several images and leaves det., three albums contemp. morocco and one half morocco, the latter broken and worn, all oblong folio (4)"

"Manuscript History of Middlesex, late 18th c., 138 leaves of text, plus 12pp. index at end, neat hand written text in ink throughout, occ. minor corrections, contemp. red morocco, rubbed & some soiling, small 8vo (1)"

"Yorkshire. The History of Ripon: with Descriptions of Studley-Royal, Fountains' Abbey, Newby, Hackfall, etc. An Analysis of Aldfield Spaw: and Lists of the Rarer Indigenous Plants found in the Neighbourhood, 2nd ed., Ripon, 1806, tinted aqua. frontis., a few manuscript notes by previous owner, orig. boards, some wear, small 8vo, together with Baker (John Gilbert), North Yorkshire; Studies of its Botany, Geology, Climate and Physical Geography, 1st ed., 1863, two maps, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and a little worn on spine, with a second edition of the same work, 1906, orig. cloth, rubbed on spine, plus Baines (Henry), The Flora of Yorkshire, 1st ed., 1840, inscribed on title 'Fk. Bainbridge 1841-Presented by the author', half-title, two maps, orig. cloth, with Supplement, 1854, hand-col. map, orig. linen-backed boards, both slim 8vo, and others related (21)"

"MacCulloch (John). A System of Geology, with a Theory of the Earth, and an Explanation of its Connexion, with the Sacred Records, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1831, largely unopened, hinges split, orig. blind-stamped cloth, spines soiled, faded, and rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with Sebastiani (Antonio), Romanarum Plantarum Fasciculus Alter. Accedit Enumeratio Plantarum Sponte Nascentiumiun Ruderibus Amphitheatri Flavii, pub. Pauli Salviucci, Rome, 1815, six b & w eng. plts., incl. some folding, intermittent faint water-staining, late 19th c. roan-backed marbled boards, worn, with front board detached, 4to, plus Romanarum Plantarum Fasciculus Primus, pub. Romanis, Rome, 1813, four folding eng. plts., water-stained throughout, late 19th c. roan-backed marbled boards, spine sl. worn, 4to. Manuscript inscription opposite title-page signed 'L'autore'. (4)"

"Mantell (Gideon Algernon). The Wonders of Geology, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1839, numerous b & w plts. and letterpress illusts., ten hand-col. lithos. to vol. 2, rough-trimmed, orig. blindstamped cloth, worn, with part and whole of spine detached vols. 1 and 2 respectively, 8vo, together with Lyell (Sir Charles), A Manual of Elementary Geology..., 3rd and entirely revised ed., 1851, b & w eng. frontis. and numerous text illusts., 12-pp. pubs. cat. at rear, upper hinge split, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, spine ends and lower joint sl. worn, 8vo, plus The Student's Elements of Geology, 3rd ed., rev. and corr., 1878, numerous letterpress illusts., hinges split, orig. cloth gilt, small 8vo, plus a 4th ed. of the same. First item is a presentation copy from Mantell to Charles Lyell, with Lyell's book ticket on front pastedowns, and manuscript inscription 'From the author'. (5)"

"Ambrose (Alice & Wittgenstein, Ludwig). An assorted collection of Alice Ambrose's professional papers, including original and copy correspondence, advance maths course notes, etc., 1932-79, incl. autograph manuscript maths lecture notes [one page titled Real Variable and dated Michelmas 1933; from her time at Cambridge where she also studied philosophy under Wittgenstein and Moore], mostly in ink and some in pencil with occ. algebraic. diagrams, sixty-three loose leaves in a clsoe hand, from a hole-punched notebook, 8vo; unsigned copy of a testimonial in pencil for Ambrose by Ludwig Wittgenstein [in his hand], probably Trinity College, Cambridge, April 1935, few pencil manuscript insertions and corrections, 2 pages, 4to, together with a typed carbon copy (unsigned) of the same; four autograph references signed, one typed reference signed and three unsigned typed carbon copies from R. B. Braithwaite, all supporting Ambrose in her applciation for a research studentship or fellowship at Cambridge, 1933-35, nine pages on eight leaves; series of correspondence including original letters and carbon copies concerning the proposed publication of the Yellow Book and the various complications of copyright laws and various literary executors rights, 1967-79, including seven typed letters signed from Rush Rhees; signed Christmas card from G./E. Moore; correspondence concerning her applications and time in Philosophy departments at American Universities, 1932/50; two autograph letters signed from Margaret McDonald, 1950/51, etc. Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz (1906-2001) was a noted American logician and philosopher. She attended Cambridge University on a fellowship grant from Wellesley College and a studentship from Newnham College, where she studied with G.E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein, receiving a second Ph.D. from that university. Full contents list of this lot available on request. (a folder)"

"Manorial Documents. Collection of over fifty manuscript manorial documents, 18th to early 20th c ., copy of court roll, mainly on vellum, for various ancient English Manors (approx 50)"

National Gallery Reports 1893-1901] A small folio volume bound in half-leather, containing the Reports and also a number of manuscript lists detailing the proposed transfer of pictures from the NG to "the Gallery at Millbank". With: A Short Account of Portraits Pictures Plate etc etc in the Possession of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of London (1907) (2)

(Eric Fenby)] A Christmas card sent by Fenby to a friend in 1929. The inside of the card has words (from Hilaire Belloc) and manuscript music for a piece entitled "The Birds", all in Fenby's hand and signed "from Eric"

Vowles, William. Account Rendered. Unpublished typed manuscript, large 8vo, green cloth; and Cass, A.R. Harris. Cheap Salmon Fishing. Unbound typed manuscript, large 8vo (sold with all faults), (2).

Lindsay, Thomas M.. Life in a Mediaeval Castle in the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries. Unpublished typed manuscript, 4to, a.e.g., half morocco; with another volume of Notes on the Renaissance, (2).

A quantity of autographed letters, signatures and envelopes, including Queen Victoria, Rt Hon Gladstone, Earl Sydney, Earl of Beaconsfield, Rt Hon. Walpole, Sir Henry James, Randolph Churchill, and many other figures of late 19th and early 20th century society, together with a late 19th century manuscript alblum with copies of correspondence and poems of the day.

Illuminated manuscript leaf, fragments of a copy of the Codex of justiuin, in Latin, the complete leaf contains lib iiii, lit xxx, cap. 14-lit xxxi, cap. 14 (cf. the Berlin Corpus lwis Cioilis, ii, 1888, pp.170-171), with copious marginal gloss, apparently the apparatus of Accurius, the imperfect leaf has the gloss on lib ii, lit xii, cap 26, lit xviii, cap 4, early 14th century, perhaps from southern France. Illuminated manuscript leaf, leaf from a graduat, in Latin, writen in England and presumably of Saxon use, the leaf, which is from the Temporale, contains the choral portions of masses for the Holy Innocentts (28 December), and the sixth day after Christmas (cf. F. H. Dickinson's 'Missale ad ... coll. 70-74), musical rotation on a four-line stave, 15th century. With another.

Arabic manuscript - [Sharh al- 'Umda fi l-Kalam(?)] 'Ilm-i kelam beyaninda bir kitabdir', three treatise in Arabic on Islamic doctrine, including one on astronomy, early 18th century, 4to (260 x 175mm.), marginal annotations throughout, some lines underlined in red, later calf backed spine, worn.

Arabic manuscript - Daw al-Misbah, treatise in Arabic grammer [Ottoman], ca. 18th century, 8vo (205 x 130mm.), text printed in red and black, text leaves in red lined border, contemporary annotations in arabic, contemporary calf backed spine, rubbed.

A group of fifteen Ivor Novello cheques, 1942-44, three cheques drawn on a Drummond bank account with facsimile signatures of Novello countersigned by F. W. Allen, the remaining cheques drawn on a Glyn, Mills & Company bank account, all signed by F. W. Allen only, together with treasury sheets for Wyndham's Theatre, 6th February to 20th March 1926, seven printed letter sheets, with manuscript insertions showing artists' salaries and other expenses during the run of The Firebrand starring Ivor Novello, Hugh Wakefield and Constance Collier, plus other misc. Novello memorabilia including framed posters for Perchance to Dream and King's Rhapsody, and a personalised "Redroofs" enamelled circular ashtray (approx. 30)

My Life, by Ivor Novello, World Copyright, 1933, by the Author's Advisory Service, 84 pp., original typescript copy, occ. minor proof corrections in pencil and ink, orig. paper wrappers with typed labels to upper cover and spine, frayed and worn, 4to, together with a contemporary 12-page autograph manuscript signed by Ivor Novello entitled 'As Others See Me', various pen and pencil corrections, 4to. The unpublished autobiography covers Ivor's life from his early years to almost the end of his film career. (2)

A group of approx. thirty contemporary official copy letters and forms relating to the case of Rex v. Novello & Constable, c. 1942-44, mostly carbon copies of correspondence used during the trial, some with manuscript corrections, various sizes. A huge public scandal of its day. Ivor Novello was sent to prison for four weeks in May 1944, for unlawfully conspiring with Dora Constable [also known as Grace Walton], to commit offences against Paragraph 1 of the Motor Vehicles (Restriction of Use) Order 1942. (approx. 30)

Crimea & Engineering. Archive of maps, tinted lithographs and a book of original manuscript engineering notes and reports formerly belonging to Frederick King, Royal Engineer, all dating to the 1840s-50s and relating to the Crimean War and related engineering projects including the demolition of Sevastopol Docks, comprising Cooke, Brine, Fisher, Elpinstone, et al, Plan of Sevastopol and of the Attacks and Positions of the Allied Armies in 1854-5, lithographed at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton, 1857, containing 7 sheets only (of 8), lacking sheet number 8, hand coloured in outline, some small marginal tears and a little toning, each sheet approx. 720 x 1070 mm, together with six other similarly sized plans of parts of Sevastopol and surrounding area, some published to accompany the Report on the Siege of Sevastopol, and three fine large tinted lithos. entitled 'Plan of the Docks of Sevastopol Previous to their Demolition', 'The Fortress and Field Defences of Kars, Representing the Action between the Russians under General Muraviev, and the Turks under General Williams on the 29th September, 1855', 'View of the Town and Defences of Kertch from the North', each pub. Topographical and Statistical Depot, War Department, 1855/56, each sheet approx. 690 x 1010 mm, plus four other smaller litho. plans relating to the Crimean War, and an ink engineering drawing entitled '8 Inch Iron Gomere Howitzer' by R.Nelson and E.Lloyd, showing a side elevation, approx. 430 x 640 mm, an ink engineering plan of Sevastopol Docks showing the positions for the placement of explosives, together with 122 loose pages of ink manuscript notes and reports in the hand of F.W. King including titles such as 'Report on the Defences of the River Thames', 'Description of the method Employed for Repairing a Chimney 120 feet high', 'General Notes for Determining the Charges of Military Mines', 'Rules for Making Shafts & Galleries in Rock or in Masonry Composed of Very Large Materials', 'Rules Applicable to the Demolition of Masonry by Blasting', etc. (-)

[Magalotti, Count L.]. Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Through England, During the Reign of King Charles the Second, (1669). Translated from the Italian Manuscript in the Laurentian Library at Florence. To which is Prefixed, a Memoir of his Life, 1821, port. frontis. and thirty-nine sepia aqua. plts., inc. folding panorama of London & Westminster, (all correct as list), hole in folding panorama, ex-lib. copy with indelible ink stamp to frontis., title and each plt. (usually to the lower margin, just beside the printed caption), some minor marginal dust soiling, untrimmed, later half cloth gilt, rubbed and corners bumped, 4to (1)

* Inventories & Valuations. Collection of manuscript inventories dating from the 18th to the 19th c., includes listings and values of house contents for 1701, tradesman's inventories of 1725, disbursements for pupils at Ham Grammar School in 1835, London watch sellers sale inventories, live and dead farming stock, inventories detailing the various costs of feeding and looking after dray horses for a brewery, etc (17)

* Medical Manuscript. Manuscript Prescription Book kept by A. Harrington of Rochford, Essex, between 19th January 1864 and 28th December 1868, Rochford, 1864-68, 197 pages of prescriptions written in several neat hands, 48-page index, contemp. reversed calf with cross hatch decoration to ties, red leather label and letter "D" stamped to upper cover, sl. wear to spine, folio. A record of prescriptions with details of preson to whom described, place of residence, date prepared, and a total of over 500 prescriptions. (1)

* Oxfordshire. A Terrier and Survey of the Arable and Greensward-Ground, Belonging to Monoux Cope Esq. in the Open and Common Fields of Horley: Now Occupied in two Farms, by Mr. Sam. L. reen & Thos. Holloway, 1743, manuscript survey written in a neat hand on approx. 57 leaves and includes six plans of land within the text, blank leaves bound-in at rear, contemp. vellum, stained to upper board, 4to (1)

* Paper Indentures. Collection of manuscript paper indentures, agreements, etc., 17th, 18th & 19th c., relating to shooting and sporting rights, bowling green, public house, coach house, brewery, distillery, apothecaries, various estates and porperties, etc., most with seals attached (approx 40)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement, 2nd ed. [Great 'She' Bible], imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613/11, black letter text, fifty-nine lines in double column, large portion of woodcut general title still present (large portions to fore-margins missing, relaid), all eighteen leaves of prelims. present, without the Speed map usually found after the Genealogies, A2 repaired to margins, with some loss, A3 & 4 repaired to top margin, sl. affecting one or two words, several following leaves with paper repair to extreme top margin, not affecting text, eighteen leaves of Genealogies present (the first two leaves misbound before A2 of prelims.), NT woodcut title present (in good condition), lacks final leaf of text (Aa6), now supplied in old manuscript, Aa5 repaired and restrengthened to margins, with some loss of text to lower outer corner, occn. minor marginal repairs elsewhere, some minor damp stains, mainly to top margins at front of vol., occn. minor soiling (text generally in good clean condition), contemp. blind-panelled full calf over wooden boards, remains of brass clasps, diamond-shaped brass lozenge to centre of upper and lower covers, and brass bosses to corners of each cover (one missing to upper cover), 19th-c. reback, large thick folio. Herbert 319. A good copy of the Great She Bible, with the correction 'She' for 'He' in Ruth, III, 15. (1)

Blainville (J. de). Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, but Especially Italy: by the Late Monsieur de Blainville... In Three Volumes. Translated from the Author's Manuscript, Never Before Published..., 3 vols., 1757, lacks all plates and maps, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spines, contrasting morocco labels (two lacking), joints cracked and extrems. rubbed, 4to, together with Homer, Opera Omnia ex Recensione et cum Notis Samuelis Clarkii, Accessit Varietas Lectionum... Cura Jo. Augusti Ernesti, 5 vols., 1st Ernesti ed., Leipzig, 1759-64, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, few minor marks, contemp. green qtr. morocco, gilt dec. spines, slightly rubbed to extrems., 8vo, and with an 1808 edition of Hoyle's Games plus 9 broken or odd vols. of Classics, 17th-19th c. (18)

Horseracing. Anecdotes Relating to the Antiquity and Progress of Horse-Races, for Above Two Thousand Years, printed for J. Bell (Successor to Mr. Bathoe) near Exeter Exchange in the Strand, and C. Etherington in York, 1769, 35pp. (inc. title), pages trimmed to margins and window mounted onto separate leaves, title with near contemp. short manuscript note, includes three additional 18th c. newspaper cuttings pasted to separate leaves, bound together in early 19th c. half calf, slight wear to upper joint & extrems., 8vo (resized to 4to). Rare. (1)

A collection of twenty-seven grand tour plaster medallions, in rounds, ovals and oblongs, each with figures scenes and monuments, in two frames, mounted around manuscript titles of the medallions on a green felt ground, the medallions 2.5cm -7cm, the frames 42.5cm x 36cm

BEZAE (THEODORE) Jesu Christi D. N. Novum testamentum, sive Movum foedus., 2 parts, woodcut device on title-page, text in three columns - Greek, Beszae's Latin and the Vulgate, woodcut head and tailpieces, 525pp. in first part, 488pp. in second part, blank leaf, browning, dampstained, some small worm holes to a few leaves, contemporary annotations in an English hand in margins, 17th century Bezae bibliography written in manuscript on front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, folio, Geneva, 1582. This edition was Bezae's [or "Beze"] revised text based on the discovery of the important Codex Bezae, (Codex D), a manuscript of the Gospels and Acts probably written in the 5th century. Bezae personally owned this codex and presented it to Cambridge University in 1581.

Hutcheson, Francis A System of Moral Philosophy... published from his original Manuscript by his son Francis Hutchison, 2 volumes, first edition, list of subscribers, with final blank in volume 1, contemporary calf, 4to, Glasgow, R. and A. Foulis, 1755, rubbed, upper joints cracked Provenance: Signature of John Hamilton at head of titles Note: Gaskell 297; Kress 5445.

Two framed Islamic calligraphic manuscript pages and three framed textile fragments and other items.

HALES (JOHN): Golden Remains, first edition, 3 parts in one vol, engraved frontispiece and title by W. Hollar, the endpapers filled with later manuscript notes, contemporary calf, rebacked, joints broken, rubbed [Wing H269], sm 4to, for Tim Garthwait, 1659

M'Intosh (Charles). The Book of the Garden, 2 vols. (Structural/Cultural), 1853-55, num. b&w engr. plts., incl. some col., illusts. to text, contemp. green diced calf gilt, rubbed and a little worn on spines, thick 8vo, together with Lindley (George), A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden; or, an Account of the most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated in Great Britain, ed. John Lindley, 1831, half-title, occasional minor marks to margins, old manuscript notes to verso of half-title and title, and blank at rear, contemp. half calf, rubbed, 8vo. (3)

India. 'The Tomb of Akbar', an early 19th c. pen, ink and watercolour view, some sl. soiling and minor marks, mounted on old paper, with title in ink, in English and Hindi, approx. 220 x 360 mm , together with an early 19th c. album containing nine small format pen, ink and watercolour views and studies of parts of the Taj Mahal, the Pearl Mosque, etc., with some unrelated manuscript verse and a few mounted prints of English scenery, one or two leaves loose, a.e.g., contemp. blind-decorated full morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to head and foot of spine (contents detached), small 8vo (approx. 185 x 115 mm), plus 'A Rajah on his elephant', a mid-19th c. orig. watercolour, a few marks, one or two small stains, approx. 250 x 197 mm (3)

George IV (King of Great Britain). Fine autograph signature ('George P.R.') as Prince Regent [1811-1820], on a piece of paper, approx. 5 x 12cm, surmounted by a modern reproduction portrait of George IV, framed and glazed, together with George V (King of Great Britain), Signed Document ('George R.I.'), 25th April 1922, being a printed commission with manuscript insertions appointing Thomas M. Wilson to be Consul at Madras, slightly creased along vertical fold, approx. 29 x 43cm, plus Gladstone (William Ewart, 1809-1898), autographed envelope front signed, addressed to Edouard Leblanc in Sutton Coldfield, from London, with postmark 12th May 1877, surmounted by an engraved port. of Gladstone, all items framed and glazed (3)

Hamilton (Sir William, 1730-1803, diplomat, archaeologist, husband of Emma Hamilton). Cheque Signed ('Wm Hamilton'), 7 January 1797 , engraved blank with manuscript insertions, in 50 drawn on recipient, 1 page, slim oblong 8vo (1)

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1769-1852). Autograph Manuscript Dispatch, 14 February 1804 , comprising the last ten pages of a fourteen page dispatch (first bifolium missing), of a long message [to Lieutenant-General Stuart] signed 'Arthur Welleslay', discussing at length his proposals for the disposition of troops and for his own future in India: (in the missing section, printed in 'The Dispatches', Wellesley considers the options for the subsidiary troops serving with the Perswah and the Soubah of the Deccan, giving his views on where they should be stationed and what benefits would derive from different placements particularly for the capture and peacce of Malabar and future of the Bombay Army;) in the greater portion that is present Wellesley suggests that the Coast Army needs to be augmented by the numbers that it supplies to the subsidiary forces and estimates what the numbers would be under differing scenarios; states that he does not think that Stuart can be effective at Malabar in the rainy season; expresses the opinion that 'Malabar is our weakest point in India against an European Army..', agrees with Stuart about the need for as large a body of regular calvary as is possible together with a body of irregular cavlary though he is not hopeful that this can be achived in the Company's service 'without the existence of all the abuses which prevail in the native armies, and which in fact are the cause of the destruction of every power in India', (1)

Yeats (William Butler, 1865-1939). Typed Letter Signed ('W B Yeats'), Hotel Mignon, Rapallo, Italy, 5th November 1928, to [Stephen] MacKenna, 'Somebody, I cant think who, told me that a few years ago you made some translations from Irish. Have you got them still, and may I have them for the Cuala Press?', continuing that he can't pay much money, '0 or £30 perhaps', and asking to know his response as soon as possible, telling that he longer winters in Dublin and that they are hoping to come to Rapallo for six months every year where 'Max Beerbohm, Ezra Pound and Gerard Huptmann are our neighbours', concluding that 'I have read all your translations from Plotinus', apologising for dictating to his wife, 'but my eyes cann t [sic] stand much strain especially be artificial light', one manuscript word correction in Yeats's hand and two inserted commas, a few minor spots and marks, 1 page, 4to (1)

Coaching - Eton. A collection of twenty early 19th century ink manuscript chaise receipts, recording payment received from a 'Reverend Mr Thomas' on journeys to Eton, Hounslow, London, etc., dated 1805-10, some mention a White Horse Farm which may have been the Reverend's residence, some record the name of the 'boy' who received the payment, a few record several journeys where an account had been built up, all on slips of paper of varying size, tied with a piece of string attached to a slip of paper reading 'Post Chaise account at Eton' (approx. 20)

Cowper (William, 1731-1800). The Last Lock of Cowper's Wig, c. 1830, a lock of hair, tied with silk thread, mounted on card, and bearing manuscript inscription in ink 'the last lock of Cowper's wig, obtained from his late favourite gardener, Robert', and decorated with two sprigs from a shrub with manuscript inscription in ink below 'this shrub Cowper planted with his own hand', edged in gilt, and mounted on contemp. blind-embossed light blue card, overall size approx. 150 x 190 mm, and contained in contemp. folded sheet of paper, with an inscription in ink, 'the last lock of Cowper's wig. From Miss Aston of Newport Pagnell', a little soiled and sl. fraying to folds, together with an original copper plate by George Cruikshank, for vols. 2 & 3 of The Humourist, a 19th c. metal-faced relief printing block for the bookplate of Anne Isabella Ritchie, and a small quantity of proof plates of the frontispiece to Prideaux's Bibliography of Edward Fitzgerald, 1901 (4)

Hicks Family. A large archive of manuscript papers concerning an extensive account of travel and observations throughout India, the Middle and Far East, and Northern Africa, by a British Military Officer, with added notes derived from the study of the existing authorities of these regions, late 19th c., incl. both personal observations and historical notes ranging back to the Middle Ages, incl. a paper on Military Organisation, approx. 60pp, a list of the Caliphs of Baghdad, information on India, Arabia, Burma, Shanghai and the Yangtse, Java and Japan, together with some pages on Canada, the American Indians, etc., contained in four buff folio card folders These papers derive from the family of William Hicks (Hicks Pasha) who was killed, along with most of his men, by the Mahdi's troops at Kashgil in 1883. As the archive includes material dated after Hicks Pasha's death, this is probably the work of a son or younger brother. (-)

Lancashire. Large manuscript Recovery document dated 5th Septemebr 1739 , for the recovery of numerous tythes, mills, Manors in Great Poulton, Manor of Stead, Manor of Steynings, Manor of Croanton, Manor of Rittworth, together with other Manors, Rectories, churches, etc., with remains of large seal in skippet, together with another 18th c., vellum recovery granting rights to wrecks at sea, fishing rights, windmills, etc., also in Lancashire (2)

Manuscript album. A late Victorian album of humorous or doggeral verse in manuscript, with watercolour illustrations, c. 1890s, approx. 56 pp. of hand-written text and illustrations in all, num. pen, ink and watercolour illusts. throughout, orig. cloth, rubbed and soiled, oblong 8vo (approx. 185 x 265 mm) (1)

USA - South Carolina, Fort Moultrie. Three manuscript and typescript histories and pedigrees of the Moultrie family, 19th/20th c., together with two Fort Moultrie Centenary booklets (1876), and a related newspaper, all contained in a small wooden box labelled "Moultrie Papers" Members of the Moultrie Family emigrated from Scotland to South Carolina in the 18th century. See DNB for William Moultrie (1730-1805, revolutionary army officer and politician). (6)

Vere (Sir Horace, Baron Vere of Tilbury. 1565-1635). Manuscript vellum grant dated 2nd September 1630 , from Lord Horace Vere and Lady Mary, granting to Thomas Beale of Over in Gloucester a Spring, and to make a mill pond, together with land and rights of access, with signatures of Lord Vere and his wife Lady Mary, with two large pendant wax seals attached, both bearing the coat of arms of Lord Vere (1)