*Prosecution of Felons. Manuscript vellum document, dated 13th January 1772, in which it relates that a number of burglaries, felonies, larcenies and thefts have been committed in the Parish of Membury, Devon, and that several persons guilty of the crimes have not been brought to justice on account of the great expense in the prosecution of these offenders, the document sets out to form a co-operative of twenty-seven people to fund the prosecution of such offenders, who commit burglary in dwelling houses, outhouses, or feloniously take or steal or carry away cattle, goods or chattels of us, or break hedges, steal wood, rob gardens, orchards, turnip fields etc., the signatures of all the members and their seals are affixed at bottom of document (1)
We found 33304 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 33304 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
33304 item(s)/page
*Slavery. Manuscript Proposal of the Royal African Company responding to the House of Commons request 'for ye better settling of trade to Africa and securing of same to this Kingdom and ye Plantations', c.1709, 1pp., comprising forty-one lines of text written in a neat hand to one side only, folio (1)
*Water Mills. Fine manuscript vellum document with wax seals, dated 29th July 1799, granting the rights to a stack of corn mills (known by the name of the New Mills) in Ledbury, Herefordshire, detailing its waterways, mill ponds, weirs, the repair and upkeep of the mills of its cogs, straps, cords, gearing, gates, stiles, rails, the barring of the use of the mills at high water or flood time (which would injure the wheels of the mills), together with rights to timber, spreading of dung, muck and manure, rights to mines and minerals, with attached reparation document (1)
![*Manuscript leaf. Large folio manuscript vellum leaf from a Missal or Psalter, [Siena c.1460], single vellum leaf written on](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/1877960/516-1-10729_468x382.jpg)
*Manuscript leaf. Large folio manuscript vellum leaf from a Missal or Psalter, [Siena c.1460], single vellum leaf written on both sides with five lines of large latin script & five lines of black musical staves on red lines, with two initial 'Es' to one side of the leaf (70 x 50 and 70 x 60mm), initials illuminated in gold, dark and light blue, green and white tracery (both within gold frames), upper miniature decorated with flowers and the lower with leaves, outer margin trimmed to text, approx. 480 x 320mm, mounted. (1)
*Manuscript leaf. Large folio manuscript vellum leaf from a missal or Psalter, [Siena c.1460], single vellum leaf with latin text written below each line of music, with a single initial 'E' (70 x 55mm) illuminated in gold, dark & light blue, green and white tracery, margin trimmed with slight loss, approx. 485 x 320mm, mounted (1)
Medicine. Manuscript student's exercise book, c.1760, 136 leaves, the first leaf of text titled 'Dr Smiths Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physick', includes list of contents at front and sectional headings throughout followed in each case by neat manuscript text on each condition, including inflammation, spasms, rickets, putridity of the body, rheumatism, gout, apoplexy, palsy, epilepsy, angina, consumption, diabetes, smallpox, poisons, bites of mad dogs, etc., written in ink in a clear hand, contents leaf relaid and strengthened, approx. twenty blank leaves, contemp. vellum, small 4to, contained in modern purpose made cloth book-box, together with another 19th century medical manuscript exercise book in a modern cloth binding (2)
Ogilvie (John). The Theology of Plato, compared with the Principles of Oriental and Grecian Philosophers, 1st ed., 1793, 205pp., single ad. leaf at rear, bound with Mendelssohn (Moses, a Jew, Late of Berlin), Phaedon; Or, the Death of Socrates, translated from the German, 1789,lacks pages 157-164, some spotting and light browning to margins, contemp. boards, worn, together with Watson (R.), An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, 1796, some spotting and light browning, untrimmed, orig. boards, crudely rebacked, 12mo, plus The Oeconomy of Human Life ... translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin, to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered; in a letter, from an English gentleman residing at China, to the Earl of ******, pub. Birmingham, 1790, half title present, eng. frontis., some spotting and light browning, contemp. sheep, rubbed and worn at extrems., 12mo (3)
Biblia Pauperum. The Golden Bible Picture Book, 2 vols., Fine Art Facsimile Publishers of Switzerland, 1993, facsimile volume with photolithograph facsimile illuminated manuscript leaves hightened in gold leaf, a.e.g., silk endpapers, orig. gilt dec. full red morocco bound by La Reliure d'Art du Centre bookbinders in Limoges, France, accompanied with a detailed explanitary volume, orig. red qtr. morocco, both oblong folio, contained in purpose made perspex slip-case (1)
Sykes (Major Percy Molesworth). The Glory of the Shia World. A Tale of a Pilgrimage translated and edited from a Persian Manuscript ... assisted by Khan Bahadur Ahmad Din Khan, 1st ed., 1910, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., dec. to text, orig. dec. cloth gilt, slightly faded on spine, 8vo (1)
*Denbighshire & Flintshire. Speed (John), Denbighshire and Flint-Shire, both sold Sudbury & Humble, 1610 or later, together two hand coloured engraved maps, the former with 10 cm closed tear, each approx. 380 x 510 mm, not laid down, together with an 18th century manuscript estate map of Tallin Green (North Wales), approx. 320 x 390 mm, all framed and glazed(3)
Three manuscript Deeds of Assignment: 1. Sale of lease of 1000 years of 1 meadow (2 acres) and close (1/2 acre) in parish of Kington (Herefordshire) from Richard Powell to John Langford - 6th June 1606 or 1607 (James's 4th year) & Rescript memo assigning it to John James 1632 2. Deed of Assignment of land in Latin from Sir Thomas Morgan, Jas. Walsh & Wm (?) to John Robinet of 11 acres of arable land and a parcel of arable lying in Calveshill (?) April 20, 1489 or 1490 3. Grant of house, garden and field for William Germayn, Clerk, and his wife to Roger Polle, ca. 1363
BRUCE, WILLIAM S. (Antarctic explorer and naturalist) Manuscript office copy (signed by Bruce) of a letter to Lt. R. J. Gould, R.N., from Oxton, Berwickshire, 25.8.17. Three pages, large 8vo., written on the reverse of "Tow-Netting Record" sheets of the S.Y. Scotia, Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.
ALBUM, mid 19th c., tall 8vo., cont. half roan boards (worn, backstrip detached), containing engraved topographical views of British Isles (Rock & Co. etc); two Swiss coloured views (laid down), other pencil drawings of views, several of dogs, and a few watercolours, with an early Christmas cards, many items loose corner mounted, manuscript copies of poems etc.
REYNOLDS, JOHN (1790-1868). writing master and headmaster of Arlington House Academy, Chadwell Street, Islington. Pen and ink writing master's board in trompe d'oeil style, with some hand colouring (some damages); Diary for May 1826, manuscript, 29pp., 4to., orig. wraps. other loose engravings.
ASHLEY-COOPER, F.S. ed. The Rev. John Mitford on Cricket. Nottingham 1921. Padwick vol 1 389, 7883; Cricket: An Heroic Poem by James Love. Nottingham 1922. Contains a manuscript transcription of William Goldwin's The Cricket Match, 1706; A Cricket Song by N. Felix. Nottingham 1923. Reprint of the 1864 edition. Padwick vol 1 6601. Together 3 vols., 8vo., orig. wraps. (3).
BELDHAM, WILLIAM "Silver Billy" 1766-1862. Original manuscript, 2pp., 8vo., author unknown, dated 5 june 1867, descibing a visit to Mrs. Beldham, aged 91, at Tilford, and relating events from Beldham's last apperance at Lord's until his death, "He never stopped to the last. He would often leave his house.with his bat under his arm, knocking up a ball upon it, and continue the same practicer without ever dropping the ball, till he got to the ground, which was two miles off". Sold with a typed transcript.
Charles Buchel, (1872-1950) A MOST STRIKING PORTRAIT OF THE ENGLISH AUTHORESS URSULA BLOOM (1892-1984), the subject seated, half-length, holding a small volume, on the promenade at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1932, exhibited at The Royal Portrait Painter's Society, 1932 (manuscript inscription on back of frame). 90cm x 70cm, (35.75in x 27.75in), in an earlier (18th century) giltwood frame.
Widmore, Richard, An Enquiry Into the Time of the First Foundation of Westminster Abbey ... to which is added An Account of the Writers of the History of the Church, London, 1743, 4to (245 x 210mm.), vignettes, folding facsimile manuscript letter at end, front free endpaper-B detached, contemporary half calf, front cover detached, worn, armorial bookplate of Charles Lyttelton
Hanley and the House of Lechmere, London, Pickering and Co, 1883, 4to (220 x 180mm.), half title, lithographed frontispiece, and photograph duplicate of the frontispiece pasted opposite, title vignette, hand-coloured coats of arms, initials, leaves within black ruled border, 2 photograph's pasted onto verso of front cover, and manuscript genealogical table of the Lechmere family on the verso of the back cover, stiff backed boards
Guide to Sandown Park, Stafford & London, Hill and Halden, 1854, small 4to (180 x 120mm.), title within black ruled border, title vignette, 2 plates, title margin with ownership stamp of Walter N. Landor, manuscript ownership description on front free endpaper, original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt
A History or Description, General and Circumstantial, of Burghley House The Seat of The Right Honourable The Earl of Exeter, Shrewsbury, printed and sold by J. W. Eddowes (and others), 1797, 8vo (195 x 120mm.), folding frontispiece plate, title with King's College London library stamp, with cancelled stamp, [bound with]: An Historical Account of The Antiquities in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Lincoln, Lincoln, printed and sold by W. Wood (and others), 4to (190 x 120mm.), tail-piece, [bound with]: Paulden, Thomas, An Account of the Taking and Surrendering of Pontefract Castle, and of the Surprisal of General Rainsborough in his Quarters at Doncaster, Anno 1648, Oxford, printed at the Theatre, sold by R. Clements (and others), 1747, small 4to (190 x 110mm.), later half calf, rebacked, spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary manuscript letter pasted in between the second and third works
Knight, Edward Walker, A Circumstantial Account of the Preparations for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles the Second, and A Minute Detail of That Splendid Ceremony, London, T. Baker, 1820, 8vo (260 x 160mm.), facsimile manuscript letter, and 10 engraved plates, new endpapers, later cloth backed spine, rebacked
Manuscript Album - An Inventory of the Furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Glass ... in the Mansion House of Hull, ca. 1836, 8vo (200 x 155mm.), 19 leaves, [Bound with]: A Catalogue of an Extensive Sale of Plate & Linen ... to be Sold by Auction, by W. W. Hyde at the Mansion-House on Wednesday, March 16th, 1836, Hull, by George Lee, 1836, 8vo, contemporary red morocco backed spine, rubbed
A Narrative of the Preparations at Hatfield House, The Seat of the Most Noble the Marquess of Salisbury, for their Majesties and the Royal Family to Review the Volunteer Corps and Militia of The County of Hartford, on Friday, 13th June, 1800, London, for J. J. Stockdale, 1818, small folio (250 x 200mm.), coats of arms in-laid illustrations, contemporary manuscript letter tipped in on verso of back cover, contemporary red morocco gilt, two coats of arms stamped in gilt onto front cover, g.e.
Five 17th Century Coats of Arms (apparently from the manuscript collection of the 4th Duke of Newcastle at Clumber, Nottinghamshire), depicting the arms of Colonel Carlos (granted by King Charles II), Viscount Sir Adam Loftus of Ely, George Belchier of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, Robert Spencer, 5th Knight and Baron of Wormleighton, Warwickshire, and James, Duke of York (afterwards James II), each 10ins x 7ins, in gilt frames and glazed
![[SIR EDWIN SANDYS (1561-1629) Statesman & Treasurer of the Virginia Company] - MANUSCRIPT MEDICAL & COOKERY RECEIPTS: A volu](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10539/1711045/123-4-10539_468x382.jpg)
[SIR EDWIN SANDYS (1561-1629) Statesman & Treasurer of the Virginia Company] - MANUSCRIPT MEDICAL & COOKERY RECEIPTS: A volume of upwards of 300 very detailed receipts in various hands; at the commencement of the 55th-page the volume being inscribed "Hear begins my Lady Sandys her receipts". There follows a further 136-pages of receipts; all these and those in the first section are fully indexed at end. Following "my Lady Sandys" receipts are a further 16-pages of receipts ; the volume is thus comprised of three sections. Many of the receipts in the first give their source, e.g. "My Lady de la fountaine", "Dr. Diodati" [Theodore Diodati 1574-1651?], "goodwife Cutt", "Sr Ric. ffords lady", "Sr William Ryders Lady", "Mr Lawrence the apothecary", "My Lady Waterman", "My Lady Anderson", "Mr Rogers had it from old Dr. Rugely", "Aunt Frances", "Mrs Robinson the midwife", "Mrs Lewes of Putney" etc. Only a few give their source in the "Lady Sandys" section, e.g. "My Cousen Sam Sandys", "Mary Spencer", & "Sir Theodore Mayherne" [1573-1655; physician] etc. The medical receipts include "To kill wild fire", "A water for the consumption and surfeit, alias the admirable and most famous snaile water"," The great plague water", "A gentle purge to be taken at any time without dainger. Good to free the liver from obstructions and stoping of the cause of most diseases in women, good against the dropsy and green sicknes, good for an ague after the third fitt, all writers call Rhubarb the life of the liver", "A most excellent anti Pestilentiall cordiall", "A powder to clear the heart and to drive Malencholly from the vital spirits about the heart....which is the mother of most diseases", "The great mistry in nature that Maxemilian the Emperor sent to his sister of Spaine", "Lucatellos Balsam","A writ for a madd dogg" [9 words to be "written upon any thinge the dog will eat"], "This balme cures all wounds through the flesh, all scaldings, heat or burne with the fier", "A receipt for the Gripes or Purgin.......it cured sister Kitty" and "Doctor Carays receipt for consumsion.....this cured my sister Pen" etc. The culinary receipts include "conserve of Cowslips", "Currant Wyne", "To make a lettis pie with a pudding in it", "To make a pudding about a Carpe", "To make flesh jelly", "To boyle larks in broath" etc. Closely written on 212-pages, small 4to, old leather boards now detached, lacking backstrip; first few leaves detached. Approximately 60% of the receipts are medicinal. *Circumstantial evidence within indicates, perhaps, that "my Lady Sandys" is the wife of Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629) the Jacobean statesman, member of the Council for Virginia 1607, and Treasurer of the Virginia Company 1619-20; perhaps his 4th wife Catherine (b.1583) whom he married c. 1604 and who bore him 12 children. There are references to "My cousen Sam Sandys" [his 2nd cousin Samuel (d.1651) ?], to "Aunt Frances" [his father, Edwin (1519-1585) Archbishop of York's sister ?], "Mary Spencer" [his daughter Mary who married Richard Spencer ?] and, in the 3rd section, perhaps a continuation by his daughters, references to "sister Kitty" & "sister Pen"[ his children Catherine and Penelope?]. The volume is however undated and only further research may positively establish a connection.
17TH CENTURY ACCOUNTS - OXFORDSHIRE. The manuscript account book of Christopher Kempston, presumably of Burford in Oxfordshire. Numerous entries on 71-pages narrow folio, written up between 1669 and 1704 in several hands. The entries include details of wages, e.g. for "all the woods done by Thomas Fowler and his men"; amounts paid for loads of mortar, sand, and "wallstones" also for hay, wheat and "pease"; charitable gifts e.g. "given to a poor man who was burnt out 0.0.6". He also records purchases, e.g. "then bargened with Tho. Jordan ffor a diall to shew 3 ways....west and south", to John Smith "paid him of and bargened with him ffor shooing and mending the plow irons" and Will. King "...made ffor me a pair of drawers, a vest and a pair of breeches, a coat and waistcoat, ffor my wife a gound, an underpeticoat and a waistcoat, for my daughter Martha a petticoat......". Only two towns are mentioned in the accounts, Burford and Abingdon. With a few late 18th Century entries. Narrow folio, full vellum. Together with a letter from the chairman of the Tolsey Museum, Burford, dated 1979, enquiring as to the possibility of acquiring "the Day book of Christopher Kempston" and mentioning that the museum's interests are "the activities which have gone on in Burford and with its leading citizens".
EARLY 18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT COOKERY RECEIPTS & YOUNG LADY'S EXPENSES: A large folio vellum-bound volume comprising on 32-pages, 158 culinary receipts for all manner of dishes and beverages including, "Canded Orranges or lemons; Wine of Mary golds or Clouvejelliflowers; Hog's Puddings; Florentine of Calves feet; a Tanzy; To Roast Salmons; To make a frygazee of Rabets; a Shaking Pudding; a Quaking Pudding, etc. etc. These would appear to be late 17th Century / early 18th Century. There follows a 2-page very detailed account of "The Charge of building house in New Street" [Bideford, Devon]; details of "Charge of the hoaling stones", the carriage of stones to Bideford, unloading of boats, etc; 1.5 pages of details of horses employed and 2-pages detailing stones sold . This followed by details of "What has been received" and "What Mr Belton hath had of Simon Westick", mostly coal and wood but also "2 horses to carry syder". Together with 11-pages of detailed accounts of monies received from Nicholas Ellis for rent "for the ground of great littleham court" [Littleham Court farm near Bideford, Devon] 1714-1734; with details of disbursements relating to Littleham Court; a number of the receipts for rent paid signed by W. Webb or Jane Webb. The volume also includes 10-pages, ca. 1711-1715, of very detailed accounts - some 260 entries - under the headings, "Jane Cawsey's account" or "Jane's bill" listing monies either given or lent to her and for what purpose, e.g. "Paid Mr Irving for 2 aprons 0-7-0; Paid Mr Potter for your board 8-12-0; you had in money when you went to Bideford 0-2-6; paid for your dinner at Mary Bowman's when wee where theire to eat pigg 0-3.3; paid for your blew poplin cloths 3.3.0" etc. etc. Jane has also used the volume, accounting for her expenses in great detail, ca. 450-entries on 11.75 pages, under the heading, "What I lay out for my self" e.g. "3yd and a quarter of galloome at 2d yd; a fan 1.10; for half a quarter of bitter almonds 0.0.4; for bleeding 0.2.8; for a quarter of lemon bread 0.0.4; for ye musick when it was at our house 0.0.6; gave a mad woman 0-0-3; pd. Mrs Bullen for teaching me my stomacher; a whim 0.5.0" etc. etc. These entries ca. 1712 - 1717. The first 147-pages of the volume comprise a 17th Century manuscript account of the "Bishops and Popes of Rome". 70-pages relate to Littleham Court & Jane Cawsey's affairs, as above; the remainder of the volume, some 500-pages, is unused.
A MID 18TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS (RECIPES) for cookery preserving, wine-making, home-medication, etc, in ink on cream laid paper watermarked with crown GR cypher excise marks, numbered pages 7-77, two further, several blanks, and 7 pages of index, (lacks cover, title, and pages 1-6 inclusive). Although incomplete, a most interesting side light on 18th-century domestic affairs including such delights as a recipe for "Horse-dung Water", and another, which requires "two hundred of woodlice a day" , bruised in a Marble mortar" and infused in "Sasparalla Tea". To be taken three times a day, along with the "urien" (sic), of a healthy Boy about 7 or 8 years old, applied to the part on a piece of “scarlet cloth”
AN EXTREMELY FINE LATE 18TH-EARLY / 19TH-CENTURY STUDENTS MANUSCRIPT BOOK of exercises relating to surveying, dialling, the use of the terrestrial and celestial globes, etc, executed in a fine running hand with numerous diagrams, including a sundial with "pop-up" gnomon, on laid paper watermarked 1797, in quarter calf with marbled boards, 4to
A German miniature New Year Card, signed "Victoria 1832" (possibly Queen) also Polite Repository for 1788, manuscript to "Sophia Gussie, Dec 1787, Queens Lodge, Windsor..with Mamma..& Lady Waldegrave", Le Souvenir...for 1823, miniature Map of Lancashire, and German "Denkmal der Freundsche", green leather box of friends" manuscript cards, c 1821-4, Royal connections likely (5)
Frederick William Ryan KM (1883-1956) An archive of papers, photographs and sketches. Included here are two copies of the prospectus, seven advertising flyers announcing the portraits of Tim Healy and President Cosgrave, photos and a b&w lithograph of Healy (by MacEgan); the same again for Cosgrave but with the printed folder and letterpress; the manuscript dummy copy for the Robert Emmet pamphlet, with ink lettering inside and out and the original pencil drawing of Emmet by MacEgan pasted in; a variety of photographs and manuscript material concerning the Wolfe Tone pamphlet, including MacEgan's pencil portrait of the bust in TCD library, newspaper clippings reporting the 1933 Wolfe Tone celebrations, annotated by Ryan, and a letter from Cahill & Co., who printed the Wolfe Tone Souvenir for Ryan; plus Lord Ashbourne - an Intimate Pen Picture by Charlotte Dease, published by Ryan and with eight related photos laid in. Also Dublin Shrines: Number One - Shrine of St. Anne at the Church of St. Audoen, High Street, with a lithograph by MacEgan, printed by Goodridge's and distributed by F. K. Ryan, with order form enclosed. Also a folder of 19 photographs of Irish interest; better include a scene in Castlecomer Co. Kilkenny, woodland scenes near Blarney Co. Cork, St Stephen's Green and Wine Tavern Street, Dublin. Lastly, manuscript notes relating to a pamphlet titled A French Consul in Ireland, 1789-1792: Two Note Books of the Baron Coqueber de Montbret.. By F. W. Ryan. The 22 page pamphlet (stapled wrappers, pages uncut) reproduces a talk that was read before the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland on 9 December 1930 and is inscribed by the author. Also his manuscript notes and translations of the notebooks (which are held in the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris), and typed manuscript copy of the Baron's Carnets de Voyage.. a travers Ireland. An interesting lot. €1000-€1500
Loading...-
33304 item(s)/page