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World War II - Iraq. Archive of material relating to Leading Aircraftman W.R. Morgan, c.1940s-50s, including his 'Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book' with handwritten details of wartime missions in the Middle East including Iraq, plus five Royal Air Force notebooks filled with Aircraftman Morgan's manuscript lesson notes, together with a qty. of items of aviation ephemera and personal effects, incl. family snapshots, greetings cards, ticket stubs and a signed card menu for the 1942 Airmen's Xmas Dinner at Habbaniya, Iraq, some general ageing and wear, all loosely contained in Morgan's hand-initialled linen satchel. (-)

Bruce (J.M., 1923-2002). Author's manuscript annotated index of British aeroplanes of the First World War, c. 1950's and later, a neatly handwritten and exhaustive index of all the British aeroplanes active during the First World War, with notes on use, location, squadron details, planes shot down, pilots killed, etc., all contained in five folio ruled ledgers, rubbed and some wear, spines crudely restrengthened or worn, together with Bruce's handwritten annotated index of Nieuport aircraft during World War One, and the author's typescript copy of The Sopwith Pup, both contained in modern ring binders. A highly important collection of manuscript notes by the acknowledged world authority on British Aeroplanes of the First World War period, representing over half a century of dedicated research. J.M. Bruce's classic British Aeroplanes, 1914-1918, was first published by Putnams in 1957, and was followed by other standard works on the history of First World War aeroplanes. The Sopwith Pup, by J.M. Bruce, Gordon Page and Ray Sturtivant, was published by Air-Britain in 2002, and Nieuport Aircraft of World War One was published in 1988.. (7)

Louis XVI Manuscript, single leaf (325 x 240mm.), [1779?], signed by Louis, and others, with a correspondence from the Duke of Clarence, a commission from George III to a David Robb Gins in regard to the Princess Royal regiment of Dragoon Guards, and 2 other manuscripts

Belloc, Hillare (1870-1953), Manuscript of Ballade of Betrayal, single page (330 x 205mm.), by Belloc (?), [n.d] With a copy of the Hilaire Belloc article for the Catholic Truth Society, published in phamlet 'England and the Faith', with a later issue duplicate

Manuscript letter - four page, from a First World War Merchant seamen, Mr A. T. Cairns to a Mrs Johnson, recounting his experiences in the war, together with silk souvenier titled 'Souvenir of Egypt', and three photographs, one of his daughter, and two of Mercant ship's 'S. S. Kumara', and R. M. S. Rimutaka'

French illuminated manuscript, ca. 1425 (?), tall 8vo (215 x 165mm.), 15 lines in length, either side, marginal illuminations, heightened in gilt

[Storer, James], The Rural Walks of Cowper ... near Olney, Bucks: representing the scenery exemplified in his Poems, London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper (and others), [n.d.], 4to (210 x 135mm.), half title, engraved frontispiece, 14 plates, and facsimile manuscript, later half red morocco, original title label pasted down onto front cover

The Rural Walks of Cowper; displayed in a series of views near Olney, Bucks: representing the scenery exemplified in his Poems, London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, [n.d.], small 4to (188 x 110mm.), half title, engraved frontispiece plate, 15 plates, and a facsimile manuscript plate, contemporary cloth, rebacked, title label pasted onto frontispiece

Jackson, J. E., Amye Robsart, with an Appendix of Original Documents Discovered at Longleat, Devizes, H. F. & E. Bull, 1877, 8vo (250 x 185mm.), title printed in red and black, folding facsimile manuscript plates, corrections by the author, original paper wrappers Author's Copy

Stackhouse, Thomas, A New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity..., London, for John Hinton, 1752, folio (395 x 230mm.), first volume only, title printed in red and black, frontispiece portrait plate of the author, plates, many folding, illustrations, initials, some marginal browning, folding plates with tears, manuscript annotations on front free endpapers, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, bookplate of Henry Godfrey The author Thomas Stackhouse was the Vicar for Beenham in Berkshire

Leyds, W. J., The First Annexation of The Transvaal, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), half title, folding facsimile manuscript, and folding map at end, pages uncut, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. With three duplicate copies of J. A. Hobson's 'The War in South Africa Its Causes and Effects' (London, 1900), James Bryce's 'Impressions of South Africa' (New York, 1900), Francis Younghusband 'South Africa of To-Day' (London, 1898), and J. P. Fitzpatrick 'The Transvaal from Within' (New York, 1900)

Album of c.20 watercolours on rice paper, ships, street vendors, etc., most with some damage, with 10 hand-coloured lithographs of Moscow, all pasted in, in a late nineteenth century scrap album, an album with 4 watercolours of butterflies, (some damage), loose - and another album including manuscript letters. (3)

Ferrier (J.P.). History of the Afghans, translated from the Original Unpublished Manuscript by Captain William Jesse, pub. John Murray, 1858, two maps incl. one folding at rear, contemp. full calf with gilt dec. spine, rubbed and sl. scuffed, upper corners a little bumped, 8vo. Presentation copy from A.J. Balfour (Prime Minister, 1902-05) with inscription on sheet pasted to verso of front free endpaper: "C. Byng, from A.J. Balfour, on his leaving Eton Xmas 1865". (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. A Compendium of the East. Being an Account of the Voyages to the Grand Indies made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland. Now Published for the first time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English Translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Ashley Gibson, 1937, six double-page plates, map endpapers, orig. linen-backed silk boards, small folio. Limited edition 282/300, signed by the Editor. (1)

*Europe. Manuscript pen and watercolour map of Europe, titled to lower margin 'Frederick Francis December 1831', some light spotting, approx. 2950 x 430 mm, framed and glazed (1)

West Ham United. The Thames Ironworks Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited share certificate, 1899, eng. certificate printed in purple ink, with some manuscript additions and signatures, approx 45 x 34.5 cms, framed. The original Thames Ironworks Football Team was formed in 1895 with the backing of Arnold F.Hills, the Chairman and Managing Director. It pioneered playing under electric lighting. set up on poles, in matches against Arsenal and West Bromwich Albion in 1896. In the 1898/99 season the Club turned professional and changed its name to West Ham United in 1900. Its ground, the Memorial Ground, Canning Town, was built by Hills for the staff and was in use between 1897 and 1904. (1)

Williams (Alfred, 1877-1930, Wiltshire author). A series of twenty-five autograph letters signed, mostly Dryden Cottage/'Ranikhet', South Marston, [Wiltshire], 2nd March 1910 to 6th October 1925, all to his friend, mentor and biographer, J.B. Jones, from soon after their first meeting for a fifteen-year period, concerning his working life (as hammer-man at the Great Western Railway works in Swindon, Gunner, market gardener and writer), the ups and downs of his literary life and scholarly interests, plus mentions of the Wiltshire countryside, rural life, friends, family and finances [which were always bleak], etc., totalling approx. 40 pages on an assortment of different papers, together with related ephemera, including a real photo postcard of himself as a Gunner, (with a presention inscription to Jones), a page of Sanskrit notes [Williams taught himself, Greek, Latin and Sanskrit], two original poem translations signed, 'Admonitions of Hiero (Pindar)' and 'Simonides of Ceos (Danae)', [both appeared in "Songs in Wiltshire", 1909], a sheaf of approx. twenty-five of Williams's (unpublished?) typescript poems, with a letter from Leonard Clark to J.B. Jones thanking him for their loan but considering them too slight to be worth preserving in a more permanent form, plus other letters from Clark to Jones concerning publishing projects, etc., a small quantity of printed and manuscript material relating to the preservation of Coate Water [home of Richard Jefferies], a typescript copy concerning the Jefferies-Williams Memorial Scheme, newscuttings, postcards and snapshots relating to Alfred Williams and his Wiltshire homes, plus ten books incl. J.B. Jones's own annotated presentation copies of the Williams biographies by Leonard Clark and Henry Byett. Some of the letters with this lot are quoted in Leonard Clark's biography, "Alfred Williams, His Life and Work", (Bristol, 1945); see pp. 39, 49, 50, 76, 99 & 160. (-)

*Early paper documents. A good collection of eighteen manuscript paper documents, 17th c., consisting of indentures, bonds, etc., the majority with seals attached, the earliest dating back to the reign of Elizabeth I (18)

*Essex - Elizabeth I, A very nice manuscript vellum Quitclaim. dated 18th December 1564. in which Thomas Chappeleyn of Fynchingfelde, Essex, and John Bedlowe of Great Beedefelde, Essex, quitclaim to Robert Harte of Hempsted, one messuage, one garden, one barn, three acres of land and half an acre of meadow in Hempsted, late the property of William Parker, with two seal tags including one with part of pendant seal attached, with translation (1)

*Essex - Manor of Barringtons, A most attractive manuscript vellum document in outstanding condition, dated 25th January 1562/3, in which Thomas Wyesman, gent, of Northend in the parish of Great Waltham, Essex, appoints Christopher Glaskocke as his attorney, to take for him and in his name, from Thomas Barrington of Hatfield Brodocke (Hatfield Broadoak) one Manor or Lordship with its appurtenances called Barringtons, in Chigwell, and all lands, tenements, meadows, pasture, woods, underwoods, rents, reversions and services belonging to the Manor, with seal tag retaining complete monogrammed pendant wax seal, with translation (1)

*Marriage Settlements. Good collection of twenty-two large sheet manuscript vellum indentures, 19th c., detailing marriage settlements of estates, Manors, early railway shares and other stocks, fortunes, etc., from wealthy and privileged English families, all retaining their original wax seals (22)

*Northamptonshire - Braybrook Castle, Manuscript vellum indenture, dated 28th November 1650, between Eliab Harvey, John Prestwoood, Henry Pratt, and Sir Edward Griffin, Knight, for the purchase of the Castle of Braybrook, together with the Manor and its vast estates, commons, fishing rights, etc., written in a neat attractive hand, in fine condition retaining its four original seal tags, each with a perfect pendant wax seal attached (1)

*Obligation Bonds, A good collection of ten attractive manuscript vellum obligation bonds, 1633/1667, all relating to London, some with pendant wax seals attached, a number concerning Daniel Harvey (1587?1647, brother of Dr William Harvey), another signed by Sir Peter Temple (1592?1653, Parliamentarian), etc., together with three manuscript receipts, dated 1654, 1657 & 1660 (10)

*Old English Inns. Collection of attractive large sheet manuscript vellum indentures, 19th c., all retaining their original wax seals, detailing the sale of different old drinking houses including The Angel Inn, White Hart Inn, the Plough, Bear Inn, Crosshands Inn, Foresters Arms, Seven Stars, Mason Arms, Beaufort Arms, Red Lion, The Bull, King Davies Inn, etc. (14)

*Suffolk - Elizabeth I. An attractive manuscript vellum Exemplification document, dated 17th October 1586, of a feet of a fine proclaimed at Westminster, between Roger Barber and Richard Walker against Henry Boldero, of the Manor of Holdernes, alias Eastgate Bearnes, with appurtenances and one messuage, 340 acres of land, twenty acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, one hundred acres of furze and heath, eighty shillings rents, and liberty of a fold for 500 sheep, in Bury St Edmunds, Barton Magna, Forneham St Martin and Roiwgham, retaining a complete example of the Great Chancery seal of Elizabeth I, with translation (1)

*Suffolk. Important and scarce medieval manuscript vellum manorial roll for the Manor of Lydgate [Lidgate] for the court leet held on Tuesday next after the feast of Corpus Christi [sixty days after Easter] in the 2nd year of Henry IV [1401], the document records the names of tithing (jury), amercements for non?payment of debts and non?attendance to answer plea, amercements, mainly for unlawfully turning their animals on the Lord's land and chopping down trees, Precept - Admissions and surrenders, further amercements for various offences, election of officers, the reverse of the document records various orders default of suit of court, defection of villeins, sale of a cottage without a licence, inquiry into ownership of land, etc.. A remarkable document detailing and recording the operation of the feudal system. With a translation of the main areas covered in the document and an inventory which identifies place names referred to and their present locations in and around Newmarket. (1)

*Yorkshire. Vellum Quitclaim manuscript document, dated 20th July 1561, from Francis Cholmley of Rudby in Cleveland, and his wife Joan, to Robert Yowertt and his son Thomas Yowertt of Baysedall (Bilsdale) in Yorkshire, a capital messuage called Nunhouse in Nunthorpe in [Great] Ayton, sold by Francis Cholmley, his wife Joan, to Robert Yowertt and his son, with two seal tags one still retaining fragment of pendant wax seal, with translation (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New ..., printed by Charles Bell, and Thomas Newcomb, 1696, occn. minor marginal annotations, early 19th c. leaf of genealogical notes in manuscript bound in before New Testament, title and first few leaves of Book of Common Prayer at end of vol. archivally repaired, some fraying to outer corners towards rear of vol., modern antique-style blind-panelled full calf, gilt dec. spine with crimson morocco label, folio (1)

Binding. Il Trionfo d'Amor Divino, Rime di F. Gioseppe Partiale da Napoli, Rome, 1659, title relined with later owner's bookplate to verso, sm. eng. port. of Pope Alexander VII to following leaf, woodcut initials, etc., colophon leaf at end (P. 6), with eng. of St. Alessio pasted to recto. (and with four late 19th c. related manuscript leaves of poetry bound in at end), a.e.g., contemp. gilt-dec. full red morocco, with the armorial bearings of an Italian Bishop to each cover, lacking ties, rubbed and some marks, 8vo (1)

Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury). Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1724-34, list of subscribers to each, contemp. panelled calf, slight wear to joints at head & foot of spines, folio. Vol.2 signed and inscribed by Burnet to verso of title: "The original manuscript of both volumes of this history will be deposited in the Cotton Library by T. Burnett". (2)

Manuscript. Auserlesenes Gebeth Buch, eines wahren Katholischen Schriften, c. 1750, manuscript German prayer book, in cursive italic hand in sepia ink, headings in red, section headings and part of title in gold, rubricated throughout, 208 numbered leaves of prayers, four untrimmed leaves of Register, twenty-six unnumbered leaves of Stations of the Cross, eleven blank leaves, twelve inserted engs., bound in contemp. velvet binding, undersewn with gold, later silver clasp, broken, a.e.g., gauffred edges, worn, upper cover loose, 8vo (1)

Plautus (Titus Maccius). Comoediae XX, ex antiquis, recentioribusque; exemplaribus, invicem collatis, diligentissime recognitae, Basle, Cratander, 1523, woodcut title border and initials, corner of a8 torn away, with missing text of 15 words supplied in later manuscript, occasional light water-staining,full antique-style pigskin-effect blind-stamped calf byBayntun, retaining two large fragments of a 15th-c manuscript as endpapers, 8vo. The first Basle edition. (1)

[Atterbury, Francis]. English Advice to the Freeholders of England, [... with a comparison of the merits of the Church Party and the Whigs], c. 1714, seventy-one pp. of manuscript text, written in a neat hand, plus a four pp. account of Silver and Plate at end, ruled border, a.e.g., a little staining to inner margins of endpapers only, contemp. full mottled calf gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., 8vo. Written at the time of the election of the new Parliament, following the accession of King George I. (1)

A single leaf from a manuscript choirbook Italy, circa 1500 on vellum, with extensive modern illumination depicting musicians 35.5x26cm., 14x10.25in.

A VICTORIAN MANUSCRIPT DIARY 'How we spent our Holidays or a Pedestrian Tour of the Isle of Man and the English Lake District 1863', by W.H. Phillips, red morocco bound, 7 1/4" x 5 3/4".

[Godwin (William)] "Marcliffe (Theophilus)". The Looking-Glass, a True History of the Early Years of an Artist, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, prize inscription on endleaf dated 1812, contemporary kid over original boards, label with manuscript title on upper cover, 12mo, Thomas Hodgkins, 1805.

H[ill] (J.L.) An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative & Amusing, title-page, introduction and 26 captioned illustrations, lithographed throughout, original half morocco, printed upper cover worn, rebacked, oblong 4to, Effingham Wilson, 1871 - A Crab-bed Tail, manuscript rhyming picture alphabet with 20 ink drawings, mounted in a small album with captions below, small 4to, [c.1880], 4to, (2).

Moral Sketches for young Minds, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, manuscript index on three inserted leaves, a short tear at foot of one leaf, one upper margin stained, otherwise an excellent copy, original Dutch floral boards, [Roscoe J247 (2) locating four copies], 32mo, E. Newbery, 1797

[Tšpfer (R.)].- The Comical Adventures of Beau Ogleby, manuscript English version of Topfer's "Histoire de Mr. Jabot", title-page, and 52 pp. each with between two and five captioned illustrations, modern half morocco, [watermarked 1834] - [Topfer (R.)] Histoire de Mr. de Vertpre, pictorial title-page and 48 pages with between one and six captioned illustrations, lithographed throughout, contemporary morocco gilt, g.e., Paris, Aubert, [1840], oblong 8vo, (2).

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, facsimile of the original manuscript and watercolour drawings, number 234 of 500 copies, 11 mounted illustrations, original roan, slipcase, 12mo, Decimus Publishing Ltd, 1979.

Robertson (W. Graham) Pinkie and the Fairies, the autograph manuscript, 101 pages, bound with later half-title, ink and watercolour frontispiece signed and dated November 1917, and an inscription relating to the gift of the manuscript, with inserted list of characters, an autograph letter signed to Elizabeth, 4 pp. 8vo, 1918, and a page of manuscript music signed by the composer and dated 1921, brown morocco gilt, the upper cover with the figures of two Cupids with bellows at either side of two lines of music, t.e.g., folio.

White (Frank) The Story of the Drowsy Dustman, colour frontispiece and plates, some hand-colouring, text a facsimile of a manuscript and typescript, original half morocco, gilt spine slightly rubbed, g.e., 4to, 1935.

London Palladium London Palladium (The), An important collection of over 600 photographs of performers who appeared at the theatre after its reopening in 1928, almost all signed and inscribed to George Black, director of the theatre, some postcard size, but the majority 10 by 8 prints or larger, mounted in two large albums, the first with a manuscript title-page in sign-written style, original cloth, one tie loose, large folio, 1929-1938. Leading comedians, singers, musicians, dancers, band leaders, conjurors, circus and novelty acts are represented in the collection, many appearing early in their careers. They include Larry Adler, Marie Burke (2), Harry Champion (2), Cicely Courtneidge, Gracie Fields (2), Flanagan and Allen, George Forby, Will Fyffe (3), Tommy Handley, Will Hay (2), Seymour Hicks, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Vera Lynn, Max Miller (2), Nervo and Knox (2), Vic Oliver, Ted Ray (2), Al Read, Paul Robeson, Billy Russell, Sophie Tucker, Max Wall, Nellie Wallace, Fats Waller, and George [Wee Georgie] Wood. Bandleaders include Louis Armstrong, Billy Cotton, Duke Ellington, Jack Hylton, and Jack Payne. Conjurers represented include Cardini (2), Chris Charlton, Chefalo, Cortini, Horace Goldin, and Jasper Maskelyne, while the circus acts include the Four Julians, the Keminys, Palermo and his sealion mimics (2), Power's Dancing Elephants, and other similar troupes of acrobats, jugglers, and animal acts.

A Royal Doulton Figure: 'Lily', HN 1798 (manuscript),

A Royal Doulton Figure:'Marie' manuscript details, in pink dress, HN1417,

18th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT COOKERY RECEIPTS; a folio manuscript volume containing approximately 60 culinary, medical and household receipts including Cheap Bread; Method of curing Butter; For destroying Buggs; To make Paco:lila or Indian Pickle; To make Egg Varnish for Pictures and For Consumptive Subjects, this requiring the essence of three boiled vipers and a pint of snails. Together with, at front, a manuscript account of the salvage of a ship, dated 1771, also accounts relating to Estate at Leckhamstead in Bucks, Estate of Cold Norton, Fairbridge, Essex; a full-page Ode by Sir William Jones and a List of Coaches that pass Henley, etc, folio, contemporary full vellum, the remainder of the volume unused and containing much good quality 18th century paper with the 'G.R.' and 'Propatria' watermarks.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ESTATES SURVEY; Manuscript 'Particular of the Estate and Manor of Woolshop situate in the Parish of Quedgley in te Couty of Glocester [sic] the Property of Charles Hayward Esq. - The Premises consists of a Genteel Mansion House ... with walls well covered with Fruit Trees a Green House, Hothouses, etc.' Together with surveys of Hayward's estates at Ashchurch, Gloucestershire and Eldersfield in Worcestershire, surveyed by J. Stone, 1792. In all approximately 50-pages, narrow folio, old calf, rubbed.

Armitage (Albert Borlase, Captain, Antarctic explorer, second in command, navigator of the "Discovery" & magnetic observer on the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, 1864-1943) Private Journal (Chiefly Personal) of Events on the "National Antarctic Expedition" in the S.S. "Discovery" under Commander Robert F. Scott, R.N by Albert Armitage Lieut R.N.R. 2nd in Command of, and Navigator to the Expedition, [Winter Quarters], autograph manuscript, with many altered or unpublished remarks, many on Scott & other members of the expedition, also magnetic Positions, observations on the weather and temperatures, & topography, geology and wildlife of Antarctica, title and 251pp. Excluding blanks, on blue lined paper, 2 ink sketches, comprising a sketch of a sledge with drive traces and a sketch of an ice measure vent, first f. Hole slightly affecting text, one or two other smaller holes, front endpapers, title and all to p. 12 extensively damp-stained though still legible, pp. 13-62 (including 24 blank pp.) with some marks due to damp, pp. 1-3 loose, some ff. Excised, some pp. Blue paper faded to white, front endpapers with the remains of recipes pasted down, original half calf, upper cover detached, upper cover and spine damp-stained, [cf. Spence 67], folio, 24th December 1901 - 31st January 1904.

Report of the Expedition "into the Interior of South Victoria Land... With a View to Finding a Pass through the High Mountains to the Westward of our Quarters", autograph manuscript addressed to Captain Scott & signed by the author, 114pp. including 2pp. "Note on health of Party" and 2pp. "Note on Equipment", written on rectos only, small tear slightly affecting two words on two lines at tail, slightly browned, stitched together with string, loose in the original blotting paper and later card covers, Armitage (Albert Borlase, Captain, Antarctic explorer, second in command, navigator of the "Discovery" & magnetic observer on the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, 1864-1943) [cf. Spence 67], sm. 4to, "Winter Quarters", [January-February] 1903.

Armitage (Albert Borlase, Captain, Antarctic explorer, second in command, navigator of the "Discovery" & magnetic observer on the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, 1864-1943) Oates from an Echo of the Spheres [by] H.W. Bain March 16 1912, ["Down in the South, where the Blizzards blow; Oates went forth to his death Alone!", first and last lines], autograph manuscript fair copy by Armitage, 4pp., folds, foxed and browned, 8vo, 16th March 1912; and 2 others photographs including a portrait of Armitage and the other of 3 ?members of an expedition, 8vo & 4to (3).

Markham (Sir Clements Robert, geographer and historical writer, a member of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830-1916) The Threshold of the Unknown Region, fourth edition, Sir Clement Markham's copy with his circular bookplate on front pastedown, inscribed by Armitage: "Presented to "Discovery's" library by Sir Clements Markham, also further inscriptions by Armitage, 5 folding colour maps (1 defective with most lost), 1p. Of manuscript notes tipped-in, browned, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, upper joint splitting, 8vo, 1876. (3M3).

Percy (Algernon Heber and Alice Heber) Journal from March 22 1894 to May 25 1894, 134pp.; Journal from April 1895 to June 25 1895, 103pp., original pencil & ink drawings, some mounted; Journal from April 2 1896 to May 21 1896, 107pp., 3 vol., manuscript, some mounted original pencil & ink drawings, contemporary half calf, 2 spines defective, 4to, [1894-96]. (3).

Semple (Robert) Sketch of the Present State of Caracas..., first edition, 6pp. Catalogue at end, final leaf defective at corner, ex-Signet Library copy with ink manuscript note on front free endpaper and shelf-label, contemporary half calf, Signet arms in gilt on covers, rubbed, [Sabin 79088], 8vo, 1812.

Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph, first edition, one of 170 complete copies so inscribed by Lawrence, 66 plates including "Prickly Pear Plate" not listed, (most colour, some photographic reproductions, 4 double-page) , illustrations, by Eric Kennington, Paul Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Roberts and others, pictorial endpapers by Kennington, 2 folding colour maps, each in duplicate, without the Paul Nash line drawings called for on pp. 92 & 208, first map with later folds, autograph manuscript correction by Lawrence in List of Illustrations, very occasional foxing on a few pp., with some related ephemera comprising a specimen printing of the first Seven Chapters of "Seven Pillars", a proof from the Oxford printing of 1922, a notice from Lawrence explaining the delay of "Seven Pillars" and a tribute: "Lawrence - The Man" by Sir Ronald Storrs, later pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "From the Library of H.G. Wells sold at 13 Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, NW1", bound in contemporary blue crushed morocco, gilt spine, corners bumped, t.e.g., others uncut, by Best, sm. 4to, 1926.

AFTER CARLE VERNET (1758-1836) PASSEZ PAYEZ; LE COUP DE VENT; LA MARCHANDE DE SAUCISSES; LE TOUR DE BARBE D'UN CHARBONNIER; ADIEU D'UN RUSSE A UNE PARISIENNE; LA PARTIE DE PLAISIR; LE MARCHAND DE PEAU DE LAPIN; TAMBOUR MAJOR ET SAPEUR DE LA GARDE NATIONALE Eight aquatints with hand colouring, trimmed to image and laid down onto washline and manuscript mounts,the largest 30 x 25cm. (8) ++ Some foxing and soiling; some wear and tear

THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE, manuscript copy in Griffiths' handwriting of the book published by Stanley Paul in 1958.

Anon. The London Complete Art of Cookery...also The Complete Brewer. London: William Lane 1797. Lacks frontis, some worm. Full cf. Small 8vo; Hayward, Abraham. The Art of Dining; or, Gastronomy and Gastronomers. London 1853 (2nd edn). Cl. 12mo; and a manuscript recipe book from circa 1881 to 1925. Full vellum. 12mo. (3).

Allen (Thomas). The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent, pub. Virtue, 5 vols., 1837, addn. eng. title to each, numerous eng. plts., plans and woodcuts to text etc., one missing text leaf provided in manuscript, contemp. half calf gilt, worn, spines defective with loss, 8vo (5)

*Anne (1665-1714, Queen). Four manuscript sheets of code words for February, March and April, 1703/4, each sheet written to rectos only with two columns 'For the Court' and 'For the Citty', the first leaf with conjugate (det.) and signed by Queen Anne at head of document, all leaves somewhat browned, folio (4)

*Cleveland - Elizabeth I. A magnificent manuscript vellum Exemplification document, dated 10th October 1586, from Ralph Bowes and his wife Joan, to William Bowes, Knight, William Bayte, and Thomas Bayte for the Manors of Nunthorpe, Stainton and Thorneton, with twenty-four messuages, twenty cottages, three dovecotes, thirty tofts, thirty gardens, thirty orchards, one thousand acres of land, five hundred acres of meadow, one thousand acres of pasture, forty acres of wood, one thousand acres more land, together with rents and common pasture in Nunthorpe, Stainton, Thorneton, Ryall Hill, Newbye, Middleton, Battersby, Ingleby and Yarm, written in a fine dark Chancery script and with a complete Great Chancery Seal of Elizabeth I, showing the Queen seated on throne with Orb and sceptre, with translation. Complete examples of the Great Chancery Seal of Elizabeth I are scarce. (1)