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West Indies.- St Croix (island in the Caribbean under British occupation, 1807-15).- Manning (William, merchant trading in the West Indies, 1763-1835) Letter Book for St Croix, manuscript, 162pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, original red morocco, title lettered direct in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed, 4to (240 x 197mm.), 1808-14.*** "The Elders of the Danish Church feel... the most lively Sentiments of Gratitude for the benevolent interest which William Wilberforce Esqre M.P. and William Manning Esqre M.P. have taken in the fate of the Danish Prisoners of War... ." - U.F. Rosing.Copies of letters from Manning and others in London to and from the Burgher Councils of St Croix, St Thomas and St John regarding the running of the new colony after the islands had been seized by the British, including the Danish soldiers left on the island, agriculture and the use of sugar in distilleries. It includes a petition to George III to be allowed to sell agricultural produce to the United States and an answer on his behalf by the prime minister Lord Castlereagh. Also included are the Articles of Capitulation between England and Denmark. The islands were returned to Denmark in 1815 after the conclusion of the war between Britain and France.Manning "inherited two-thirds of the Ryan estates on Santa Cruz [St Croix] from his mother, and purchased the remaining third." - Oxford DNB.

Lloyd (Trevor, binder).- Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers (bound after preface), 50 engraved plates, very light soiling to title, some light foxing and browning, occasional faint damp-staining to lower margin (including to title), exquisitely bound in full red goatskin, by Trevor Lloyd, covers with central lozenge and corner-pieces of inlaid white paper, elaborately tooled in gilt and edged in black goatskin strapwork, the background lavishly tooled in gilt all over with a variety of tools all specially made by Stewart Field and incorporating four large circles of detailed featherwork, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with seven raised bands, second compartment with black goatskin label lettered in gilt, spine with "Bound by Trevor Lloyd MBE for David Nathan Maister" lettered in gilt to foot, turn-ins with gilt floral tools, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e., housed in a goatskin-backed drop-back box, [Fowler p.70; Harris 122; Millard, British 13], folio (535 x 375mm.), Printed for the Author, by J. Haberkorn, 1759. *** Bound in the style of one of the legendary Irish Parliamentary bindings tragically destroyed in the explosion at the Dublin Public Record Office in 1922. Described by the late G.D. Hobson as "probably the most majestic series of bound volumes in the world", the 149 large folio volumes containing the manuscript Journals of the Irish Lords and Commons had been stored, unnoticed, in the Dublin Public Records Office since the Acts of Union in 1800.The magnificent collection, nominally the work of the King's Stationers in Ireland, was shown to book collector and amateur binder Sir Edward Sullivan in the last decade of the 19th century. Sullivan made rubbings of all 149 unique volumes (now in the National Library of Ireland) and photographed 20, publishing his findings in Country Life magazine in September 1908 and Decorative Book-Binding in Ireland in 1914. The Dublin Public Record Office, with nearly all its contents including the bindings, perished during the siege of the Four Courts just a few years later.In 1990, Philip Maddock, a Boston-based book collector, started to build up a visual database of Irish hand tools with a view to making a digital reproduction of one of the lost volumes, inspired by images displayed in Maurice Craig’s Irish Book Bindings 1600-1800. This digital reproduction of Commons Journal 1757 was finally produced in 2006. Edward Bayntun-Coward, who carried out a review of this digital reproduction, introduced Maddock to Trevor Lloyd, the renowned bookbinder and restorer. The team of Maddock, Lloyd and toolmaker Stewart Field then collaborated over the next decade to make exact facsimile reproductions of 14 of the original (and now lost) bindings, a project that culminated in the exhibition 'Burning Books' at Dublin Castle in April 2017.

Cookery & Medical.- Hunter (Mrs, of Beech Hill, Reading) Curious old Receipt Book..., [title from label on upper cover], manuscript in several hands, 163pp. excluding blanks (including c. 14pp. "An Account of ye Alterations which I made att Haly [Heathley Hall, Hayley Green, Warfield] in Berkshire & what it cost me" and other building and planting notes), reverse entries, 1f. torn away, 2ff. with small tears, slightly browned, original green panelled vellum, blind-stamped tulip corner pieces, slightly soiled and stained, sm. 4to, 1730-67.*** Recipes include: "to keep ye Juice of Oringes Codm Cope 1730"; "A Receipt to Pickle Sparrows"; "A Lobster Pye"; "Lady Walpole's Receipt for Chicken Sauce"; "To make Mead Mrs E.L."; "Norfolk Shrub 1740"; "Lady Bolingbroks Cheese Given me by Mrs Pierse 1740 Augst 24"; "Fasting days Soop Mrs Pitt of Binfield Berks 1746"; "To make Orange Flower Bread"; "To make a sweet Jarr Mrs Masham"; "To make Profit Rols Mrs Waller 1751"; "Oyle of Charity Mr Pitt Binfield 1750 [John Pitt younger brother of William Pitt the elder]"; "1751 Mrs Waller a very good green dye"; "For Ahstma or Physick"; "For ye Gout or Rumatism Given me by Lady Harriot Cholmondly"; "the Tar Pills excellent for a Consumptive Cough Mrs Pitt Binfield"; "A most Excellent Cure for an Ague Lady Molesworth"; "Artificial Asses Milk Lady Dellawar"; "for a bad digestion Mrs Archer Jan. 18 1735 now Lady Archer"; "For ye Dropsy & this cured Genll Sutton after four times being Tapd given mt by Mrs Senhouse 23 May 1736 sister of Lady Shannon"; "Stone Horse Dung Water Mrs Kirwood Jan. 19 1736" etc.

Psalter, in Sahidic dialect of Coptic, in Coptic Uncials, manuscript on parchment, single leaf with a stub from its sister leaf on the other half of the bifolium, with remains of a single column of 27 lines of elegant Coptic Uncials set on unusually long lines, text partly indented ‘per cola et commata’, losses to upper and outermost edges (with damage to a few lines of text at head), stains in places, set in modern conservation paper, 200 x 160mm., [Upper Egypt (probably the White Monastery, Sohag)], [first half of fifth century]. *** Text and script: From an early Coptic Psalter, and containing Psalms 77:25-34 in the Sahidic dialect of Upper Egypt, translated in the third or even late second century (see E.A. Wallis Budge, The Earliest Known Coptic Psalter, 1898, and P. Nagel, ‘Der sahidische Psalter’, Der Septuaginta-Psalter, ed. Aejmelaeus and Quast, 2000, pp.82-96). The script here is a fine Coptic Uncial, derived from Greek Uncial, and showing its ultimate debt to Ancient epigraphic letter forms in its monumental and rounded majuscules and absence of spacing between words.Provenance: 1. Most probably produced for use in the White Monastery (or the Monastery of St. Shenouda), Deir el-Abiad, near Sohag, Egypt, a Coptic Orthodox monastery near the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag. It was founded by St. Pigol in 442, and grew substantially in importance after his nephew St. Shenouda the Archimandrite (d.466) took over in 385. A prolific writer, he launched a literacy campaign within the monastery, producing a large library and establishing the house as perhaps the most important in the Coptic Church. When the first European visitors reached the monastery, the library was housed in a room to the north of the central apse called the ‘Secret Chamber’, which could be entered only through a hidden passage. 2. Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), French collector-dealer, and Head Cashier at the Crédit Foncier d’Egypte in Cairo, who used this position to establish himself as the foremost antiquity dealer of Cairo in the 1920s and 1930s. A sale of part of his collection was held by Christie’s, London, on 2 March 1937. After his death his son kept the business going until 1953, and then the remaining stock was offered in Hotel Drouot, Paris, in 26-27 February and 5 June 1953, with the remainder apparently passing to Erik von Scherling.3. Re-emerging in Sotheby’s, 5 December 1995, lot 28.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 114/25, acquired in Sotheby’s.5. Bloomsbury Auctions, A Selection from The Schøyen Collection, 8 July 2020, lot 11, sold for £8000. 

Angling.- Minhinnick (Sir Gordon Edward George) Collection of 14 original illustrations and 20 original photographs for O.S. Hintz's 'Trout at Taupo', including the pen and ink manuscript map of Lake Taupo, original designs for chapter headpieces with fish, fisherman, tackle, and subjects with Māori interest, with two copies of the publication, from two editions, one with inscription 'To Max [Reinhardt], Who made this possible... Budge', the drawings various sizes between approx. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8 5/8 in) and 220 x 490 mm (8 3/4 x 19 1/4 in), the photographs between approx. 155 x 115 mm (6 x 4 1/2 in) and 300 x 240 mm (11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in), a few with extensive inscriptions verso, some handling creases, nicks and tears, all unframed, [circa 1955]; together with twelve original monochrome wash illustrations for Bernard Venables 'The Gentle Art of Angling' with a copy of the books, the illustrations on artist's board, each approx. 270 x 390 mm (10 1/2 x 15 1/4 in), all unframed, [circa 1955]; and a framed photograph with a faded inscription from Charles Ritz to Max Reinhardt (Sm. qty.) Provenance: from the estate of the late Max Reinhardt. Proceeds from the sale will benefit MaxLiteracy.org, which inspires creative writing in young people - set up in memory of Max and his authors.

[Lewis (Cecil Day, author, 1904-1972)], "Nicholas Blake". Autograph Manuscript of 'End of Chapter', 3 vol., c.235pp., mostly on recto, frequent autograph amendments and additions, final blank ff. torn out, 1f. loosely inserted unrelated to the work with the author's jottings (margin frayed and browned), original cloth, tall 8vo, 1957.*** Though Day Lewis is known primarily as a member of the lionised group known as the ‘Thirties Poets’, the author was also a bestselling crime novelist, writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. “I have a feeling,” he once remarked, “that people who read detective novels don’t like the detective novelist to be anything like a serious poet.” Day Lewis first turned his hand to detective fiction in 1935 to earn funds to repair the roof of his Cheltenham cottage. After the success of A Question of Proof, he obtained a 3-year contract with Cape guaranteeing £300 per year to write novels. End of Chapter is the twelfth in that series which features the private detective Nigel Strangeways. The sleuth protagonist has been variously compared with W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, and there are similar resemblances between the main victim, the highly strung novelist Millicent Miles, and Day Lewis’s mistress, Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was best friend of his second wife Jill Balcon.The autograph manuscript often has numerous instances of amendments to a page, either specific word or phrase changes, or insertions written on the opposite leaf. The author also plays with potential alternative titles of ‘The Buried Day’ or ‘End of a Chapter’ which are crossed through.Included also is a stray scrap of jottings on the same paper, on which Day Lewis has written notes for a lecture on theatre, giving thoughts on Juno and the Paycock, As You Like it, The Browning Version, and others. Written on the same leaf verso is a draft speech given on behalf of Mr Emlyn Williams at Oxford in the late ‘50s.All together a unique and important piece of genetic literary history.Provenance: Gifted from the author to his cleaner, then by descent as stated in letter (included). 

Hours, use of Rome.- Catholic Church. Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et biblianis cum triumphis cesaris, collation: A-E8 F2 G6 H-N8 O6, in Latin, 'Batarde type 98' in 29-31 lines, title below large metalcut printer's device (Renouard 1105) all within ornate metalcut border, 14 whole-page and 12 other large metcalcut illustrations, all but those whole-page set within wide architectural or historiated metalcut borders, rubricated throughout in red and blue, with 1-2 line initials, manuscript single rule border in red throughout, 3 ff. of manuscript prayers in a contemporary hand in ink bound at end, mainly in French, scored through later ink ownership inscription to title foot, a few tiny splashes from rubrication, handsomely bound in nineteenth century red goatskin by Capé, covers with inlays of black and tan in an intricate design of interlacing bands and leafy sprigs all edged in gilt and surrounding the title (upper) and imprint (lower) lettered in gilt, spine in compartments similarly inlaid, with six raised bands, olive morocco doublures ornately tooled in gilt, g.e., housed within modern drop-back box, 4to (249 x 164mm.), Paris, Simon Vostre, 1508.*** The superb Robert Hoe-Courtland F. Bishop-Mary S. Collins copy, with a distinguished provenance, of the most lavishly illustrated of Simon Vostre's quarto editions; known as the 'Grandes Heures' they are recognised as a highpoint of printed Paris horae for the abundance and intricacy of their graphic material. The fourteen whole-page illustrations of this edition, attributed to the workshop of Jean Pichore, form a complete new series for Vostre, only three having previously appeared. Provenance: I: Marielaine du Varny, of Rosny (near Mantes, Seine-et-Oise) [signed inscription to end of manuscript prayers]. II: Robert Hoe (1893-1909) [morocco book label; lot 1683 in Part IV of his sale at Anderson Galleries (New York), 11th November 1912]. III: Courtland F. Bishop (1870-1935) [morocco book label; lot 1037 in his sale Part I, 25th April 1938]. IV: Mary S. Collins (1864-1948) [book label].  

Crimean War.- Trollope (General Sir Charles, Colonel 1st Batallion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 1805-1888) Battle of the Alama [casualty list], autograph manuscript, 3pp. of bifolium, column each for 'Killed' or 'Wounded' and totals, folds, some staining, lightly browned, 20 September, 1854; A.L.s to unknown recipient concerning discipline, 2pp., "Corpl. punishment...broke down this morning after the infliction of 5 lashes in consequence of the only two cats breaking", no place, n.d., folds, lightly browned; Memorandum. 3rd Division. Camp Sebastopol. 16th ?February, 1856, manuscript, 6pp., including formation of marksmen, folds, 1856; Trollope (Frances, née LLoyd) A.Ls. to Charles Trollope, 2pp., no place, 6 July, no year, listing contents of a parcel she has sent, "The charcoal is according to Mrs ?Cagles prescription...for cholera", folds, short tears; and c.35 others, related, including an autograph manuscript on ciphers, 1861 (7pp., plus a f. of the cipher), v.s. (c.38 pieces) *** Trollope commanded the 1st Brigade in the 2nd Division, and then the 2nd Brigade in the 3rd Division during the Crimean War. 

Early Songbook.- [Petri (Theodoricus)] [Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scolasticae Veterum Episcoporum...], first edition, collation: A-M8 N4, lacking 7ff. including title (A1&2, A7&8, E1, K8, L1), A7, E1 & K8 supplied in contemporary ink manuscript, interleaved with 5ff. of contemporary ink manuscript near start, trimmed close with some loss at head and foot, particularly at beginning, some ink notes and annotation in a contemporary hand, A3, B1 & I8 torn with some repairs and loss to text, B7, E7 & I2 with small loss to portion of text at fore-edge or corner, the odd other short tear or repair, colophon to final f. with some ink scribbles and repaired with loss, browning and staining, modern wrappers, preserved in card folder, small 8vo (130 x 80mm.), [Greifswald], [Augustin Ferber], [1582]. *** A scarce collection of medieval spiritual songs. The work forms one of the oldest song books from the Nordic countries, printed in Greifswald, now in Germany but at the time part of Sweden. The 74 songs are primarily in Latin, but with some also in Swedish, including the well-known Christmas songs "In dulci jubilo", "Puer natus in Bethlehem", "Personent hodie" and "Gaudete". Scarce, with USTC recording 6 copies in Swedish libraries, and one in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg. This is believed to be the only example in private hands. Literature: VD16 P 1765.

Tibet.- Ritual of the Fierce Aspect of Buddhahood, manuscript in Tibetan, on simple native paper, complete in 42 numbered leaves, black ink on 5 ruled lines of 215mm. consisting of c.38 syllables, first and last leaf chipped and frayed at edges, browning, some generally light soiling and staining, occasional very small marginal worming, affecting a few letters to final few leaves, leaves loose, wrapped in dark pink cotton and housed in modern card folder, each leaf c.66 x 267mm., [Tibet], [18th century].  *** A central text of Tibetan Buddhism in which the Nying-ma-pa school exalt their guru to cosmic heights, defending their practices and beliefs against the criticisms of the ‘reformed’ schools. A partially illegible title-page identifies the text as a ritual manual, centred on the fierce aspect of the guru (Padmasambhava) as the embodiment of Buddhahood. The guru is invoked to grant the meditator a number of worldly and religious benefits, such as the overthrow of the eight classes of arrogant spirits, pestilence, fatal diseases, hysteria, the bestowal of empowerments and so on.

Burma.- Astrological manuscript, manuscript in Burmese, on cream paper, 22 leaves, text in black ink, 9-10 unruled lines per page, numerical charts, diagrams and figure drawings in ink and pencil, some in red outline or black touched with red, worm damage, leaves folding concertina-style into black lacquered covers, rubbed, a few nicks, each leaf c.120 x 385mm., [Burma], n.d.

Pierced binding.- Moritz of Hesse (Count) Davidis regii prophetae Psalterium, Vario Genere Carminis Latine Redditum, second edition, collation: A-Z, Aa-Oo4, P1, 147 leaves, woodcut Hesse arms on title and verso of final leaf, final leaf inner corner torn away with slight loss of text on recto and imprint on verso, upper hinge broken, contemporary gilt armorial pierced binding commissioned by the author from the Schmalkalden binder Hans Bapest, with cut stars, blooms, hearts and bars in the vellum panels to reveal the red silk beneath, Count Moritz’s arms appear in centre of upper cover, impressed decoration includes three different rolls and a flowering potted plant (centre of lower cover), two rolls repeated on spine, lilies in the compartments, edges gilt and gauffered with flowers and designs, evidence of green linen ties, yellow silk head-bands (cords broken, head- and tail-bands holding), spine a little soiled, small 4to (binding 185 x 155mm.), preserved in modern cloth chemise and drop-back box, Schmalkalden, [Michael Schmuck], 1593.*** Pierced vellum bindings are extraordinarily rare. A substantial proportion of those known from this period are found on copies of this second edition (the work was first published in 1590): six are recorded in total, all clearly by the same workshop (these include Bodleian, 4o A 111 Th.BS, British Library BL c27e7 and the three illustrated in L. Bickell, Bucheinbände des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts aus Hessischen Bibliotheken, Leipzig,1896, pl.29.Known as "The Learned", Moritz (1572-1632) worked on this Protestant paraphrase for eleven years, from ages eight to eighteen. The manuscript inscriptions on the title-page and flyleaf record the movement of this volume among scholars in the Landgrave’s immediate circle: Reformer and theologian Daniel Tossanus (1541-1602), his son-in-law Theodor Hack and mathematician and chemist Johann Hartmann (1568-1631), who later served as Moritz’s personal physician.Literature: Adams B 1477; VD 16B 3258; Nixon, Broxbourne Library pp. 105-7; Foot, The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society, pp. 20 & fig.30; L. Bickell, Bucheinbände des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts aus Hessischen Bibliotheken, Leipzig, 1896, pl.29.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** China.- Naide (Gu, compiler) Fawei lizheng tongshu [The Datong Almanac], 30 vol., edited by Luo Chonglin, woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 17 columns per page, 30 characters per column, single-line borders, c.152 illustrations, each leaf with some conservation support, some loss to preface and table contents with missing text supplied in neat manuscript, the occasional other loss, text occasionally supplied in red ink manuscript where block is worn, occasional faint marginal staining, stitched and bound Japanese-style in modern blue wrappers, housed in a green silk drop-back box, 8vo, China, Zhenbao tang bookshop, [Qianlong Period or later]. *** Also known as Fawei datong lizheng tongshu, this almanac contains a lunar calendar, astrological constellations, information on illnesses and amulets, the combining practices of the five elements and the Eight Diagrams, and the astrological connotations of the days. It is designed not for casual use but for professional Fengshui experts and fortune-tellers. This book is extremely rare: only three of the 30 volumes survive in the Beijing Library.

China.- Medicine.- Chaungshang jingyian [The experience of ulcers], 16 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 10 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single black fishtail motifs, single-line borders, c.273 illustrations, each leaf with some conservation support, many fore-edge folds with strengthening and restoration, the occasional other loss, generally small but a few times more extensive, with text sometimes supplied in neat manuscript where lacking, the occasional light stain, bound and stitched Japanese-style into modern blue wrappers, housed in 2 cloth wrap-around cases with clasps, 8vo, China, Haoranlou publisher, Kangxi 56, Qing Dynasty [1717]. *** The rare second edition of this work on ulcers and cutaneous complaints, ascribed to Dou Hanqing (1196-1280), a Taishi ('Grand Preceptor and Grand Academician') of the Southern Song Dynasty. Dou, originally an ulcer doctor, obtained his title for curing the crown prince's disease. The work was first published by his descendent (and more likely author) Sun Zhongquan in the 3rd year of the Longqing period (1569). This present edition is unrecorded in library catalogues in Taiwan and China. 

Holbein (Hans) Imitations of Original Drawings ... in the Collection of His Majesty, 84 engraved plates on 83 sheets, all printed in colours by Bartolozzi, C. Metz and C. Knight after Holbein, 66 printed on pink paper, plate list provided in manuscript, advertisement ff., occasional faint off-setting, bookplates, front free endpaper with large tears and old repairs, strengthened at hinges, contemporary straight grain morocco, rubbing to corners and extremities, [Abbey Life 205], folio, W. Bulmer and Co., 1792-[1800]. *** The originals, in chalk heightened with pen and metal-point, were made by Holbein during his two sojourns to England. They constitute preliminary studies for several of his most famous oil paintings. The drawings were originally in a volume now preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, called the Great Booke.

Sermons.- [Butts (Robert, Bishop of Norwich and later Bishop of Ely, 1684-1748)] [Twelve Sermons], autograph manuscript, title and 245pp., title torn at head and tail with loss, later ink inscriptions “Glemsford” and “Blunt[isham]”, Suffolk in a different hand and dated variously 1757-59, browned, original blind-stamped panelled calf, rubbed, upper cover detaching, sm. 8vo (154 x 97mm.), [c. 1720's]. *** The key to the authorship of this manuscript volume lies in the later inscriptions, found at the beginning or the end of the individual sermons, indicating that the same sermons were preached at Glemsford and Bluntisham in the late 1750’s. While the manuscript is obviously written in an early 18th century hand, the other inscriptions are evidently later. The writer of those inscriptions was Robert Butts (1722-68), Rector of Bluntisham and Vicar of Glemsford; son of the above named, Bishop of Norwich, and later Ely. Robert Butts (1684-1748), appointed dean of Norwich Cathedral, bishop of Norwich in 1733 and bishop of Ely in 1738. 

Alfonso XI (King of Castile, Leon and Galicia, called the Avenger, "el Justiciero", 1311-50) Privilegio rodado of King Alfonso X I of Castile, granting the town of Escamjella [Escamilla] to Yenego Lopez de Horozco [Íñigo López de Orozco], manuscript in vernacular Castillian, on vellum, single large membrane, main body of charter in 23 lines, witnesses in 27 lines, in a Court hand, royal names within red and green devices 2-lines high, opening device of 9 lines in red and green, large seal bearing arms of Castille and León in centre in red, green, blue and beige (c.194mm. in diameter), loosely folded with some creasing, a few holes towards lower edge, some light dust-staining and toning in places, housed within morocco backed clamshell box with gilt spine, charter: c.607 x 686mm., Segovia, Royal Chancery, 29th September 1344.*** Charter of King Alfonso XI  granting the town of Escamjella [Escamilla] to Yenego Lopezde Horozco [Íñigo López de Orozco]. The charter also commemorates the taking of Algeciras earlier in 1344 after a two year siege, and the subjugation of Granada in 1340.

Royal Navy.- Williams (C.) Naval Gunnery as Taught on board H.M.S. Excellent, Portsmouth [&] Arithmetic School Problems, manuscript, together c. 200pp. excluding blanks, pen and inks (first title with watercolour wash illustration), small watercolour illustration of a ship undergoing target practice, numerous pen and ink illustrations in the text, ruled in red, slightly browned throughout, contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper "Examined Thomas Holloway...", later ink signature on front pastedown, original half morocco, corners bumped, gilt spine, 4to, 1838.

Twenty six C18th & C19th vellum and other documents relating to Middleton, Suffolk, dated variously 1734-1886, including vellum indenture assignment of leasehold and premises in Middleton Mrs Mary Gunnell to Mr Reeve Clarke, with well executed small manuscript map/drawing of estate, plus others similar Chappell, Bedwell, Sewell, Clarke, Houghton, Gunnell, Barnes families etc, a couple relating to Yoxford, Suffolk (26)

RICHARD HOLMES LAURIE, MAP ALONG WITH A HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT a hand coloured folding map of Scotland, published 1828, with outer case, the manuscript with references to Lord Nelson's flagship, William Wallace, Napoleon, Queen Mary and others, signed by Daniel Caig, Helensburgh, framedthe map 84cm x 65cm open, the manuscript 26cm x 21.5cm overallQty: 2

BOOKBINDERS COPY - The Buried Giant (Signed Limited Edition of 205) by Ishiguro, Kazuo published by Faber & Faber 2015,Fine 1st print 2015 Faber hardback with outer slipcase, signed by Ishiguro, beautifully produced entry in this series. Comes with portfolio of reproduction manuscript pages, housed in outer box.

BOOKBINDERS COPY - The Holkam Bible, Folio Society, 2007, limited to 1750 editions, with companion commentary,2 vols., 4to., First Edition thus, with fine coloured plates; facsimile volume handsomely bound in half morocco, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, companion volume bound in cloth, leather back, the two volumes housed in publisher's clamshell case.Acquired by the British Library in 1952, this world-famous manuscript was held previously at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Holkham MS 666). It consists of 231 images mainly of episodes in the books of Genesis and Revelation, and is believed to have been produced in London between 1327-40. The superb facsimile is accompanied by a companion volume providing historical context, commentary and a bibliography, with Instructions for care laid in the facsimile volume.

First and Second World War military interest. A collection of reference books and biographies. The lot including titles such as General Reflections by Michael Gow, So Few Got Through by Martin Lindsay, Return Ticket by Anthony Deane-Drummond, Agent Extraordinary by G. Martelli, Gunners at War by Shelford Bidwell, Malta Diary of a War, Knights of the Floating Silk, Escape to Honour by Larry Harris and Brian Taylor, Men Under Fire by R. W. Thompson, The Big Drop by John Golley, One Man War by Bert Hall, Infantry Officers, We Serve by R. M. Neill Fraser, Aldenham School records, Silent Night - the Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith, Reflected Glory by Carney Lake, Bloody April by Peter Hart, Anzac and Empire by John Robertson, Militaria - Collecting Print and Manuscript, The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith, Aspects of Conflict 1916 by Peter Liddle, etc. Over sixty titles in lot.

FULL ITEM TITLE: Ocni lekarstvi dle prednasek prof. J. Schobla dil V. | PUBLISHER: no author listed | NOTE: lithographic copy of the manuscript | NUMBER OF PAGES: 352 + 192 + 256 | LANGUAGE: Czech | DIMENSIONS: 210 x 145 mm

FULL ITEM TITLE: Ocni lekarstvi dle prednasek prof. J. Schobla dil I. | PUBLISHER: no author listed | NOTE: lithographic copy of the manuscript | NUMBER OF PAGES: 882 | LANGUAGE: Czech | DIMENSIONS: 210 x 145 mm

FULL ITEM TITLE: Ocni lekarstvi dle prednasek prof. J. Schobla dil III. | PUBLISHER: no author listed | NOTE: lithographic copy of the manuscript | NUMBER OF PAGES: 329 + 543 | LANGUAGE: Czech | DIMENSIONS: 210 x 145 mm

AFTER MIR MUSAVIR, Iran/Persia, late 19th/early 20th C. - Nushirvan and the Owls, gouache and gold on card, panels at top containing text in nasta'liq script, outer border with scrolling floral and vegetal motifs in colours and gold, painting 31 x 19cms.; with borders 39 x 27cms.Provenance: private collection MonmouthAuctioneers note: After the original (with minor variations) in the British Library (Or. 2265) from Shah Tahmasp's Khamsa of Nizami. Mir Musavvir and Aqa Mirak closely collaborated in service to the Safavid royal library. They produced wall paintings for the palace of Prince Sam Mirza and illustrations for the royal manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami (1539–43).Comments: some over painting, card browned esp at verso, unframed, inspection advised.

East African Currency Board, a set of uniface printers proofs from the 1938-51 Issues, comprising 5 Shillings, 10 Shillings and 20 Shillings, all with manuscript date on reverse 1st April 1938, no serial numbers or signatures, six tiny cancellation holes in each, all with manuscript annotations on reverse by the secretary of the East African Currency Board, the 5 Shilling with minor handling, rust marks, paper clip indentations thus about uncirculated, 10 Shilling beautiful embossing, very minor rust mark from paper clip, about uncirculated, 20 Shilling with three light folds, handling, extremely fine. A truly wonderful lot! (3 notes) BNB B217p-B219p, Pick 28p-30p £1,800-£2,200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- All with a variation of the following text hand-written on reverse: “Approved subject to the alteration referred to in Mr Aird’s letter dated 1st April 1938 (signature) Secretary East African Currency Board 6 April 1938”

Wiener Stadt Banco, Austria, 1, 2 (2), 5 (2), 10 Gulden, 1800, also 5 Gulden 1806 (2), manuscript serial numbers, also National Bank, 500 Schilling, 1 July 1965, very good to good fine, last note uncirculated (9 notes) Pick A29a-A32a, A38a, 243a, Pick 139a £140-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Portuguese Guinea, reverse proofs for 10, 20, 50 and 100 Escudos, ND (1937), each with CANCELLED perforation, each with manuscript signatures of Antonio dos Santos Viegas and Joao Baptista de Araujo on reverse, also the archival envelope in which the four proofs were contained, in PMG holders 58, 58 EPQ, 55 EPQ and 55 EPQ, choice/about uncirculated, unique and a wonderful group of items (4 notes, 1 envelope) BNU PG31pp1, PG32pp1, PG33pp1, PG34pp1, Pick 21p2, 22p2, 23p2, 24p2 £400-£500

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Mozambique, specimen 2500 Reis, 2 January 1908, red manuscript serial number 00000, Alfredo Mendes da Silva signature, ship seal Type I, perforated SPECIMEN, in PMG holder 55 EPQ, about uncirculated, this is the only specimen of this exact type known BNU MZ25s2, Pick 30s £500-£700 --- This is the BNU plate note

National Bank of South Africa, Rhodesian Issue, 10 Shillings, 1 July 1922, serial number A 128169, one printed and one manuscript signature, some paper splitting but nonetheless a presentable very good and extremely rare banknote, only one other similar example traced by the cataloguer Pick S121 £800-£1,000

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Mozambique, specimen 5 Mil Reis, 2 January 1908, red manuscript serial number 00000, Alfredo Mendes da Silva signature, ship seal Type I, perforated CANCELLED, pinholes, in PMG holder 25, very fine, very rare and in fact the only known example of this exact type BNU MZ26s1, Pick 31s £300-£400

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Macau, specimen proofs for 2, 5, 10 and 20 Avos, 19 January 1952, all with zero serial numbers, each with one cancellation hole, all have a manuscript Teofilo Duarte signature at right, also the original archival envelope in which the four proofs were contained, in PMG holders 67 EPQ, 66 EPQ, 67 EPQ and 65 EPQ, superb/gem uncirculated, a unique and exceptional set (4 notes, 1 envelope) BNB B042ap-B045ap, Pick 40sp-43sp £800-£1,000

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Mozambique, colour trial 20 Escudos, 6 April 1937, serial number 000,000, manuscript signatures of the President (Antonio dos Santos Viegas) and one of the Adminstradors (Joao Baptista de Araujo signature) on obverse, single cancellation hole, in PMG holder 45, choice extremely fine, unique and a wonderful item BNU MZ77ct1, Pick 74cts £150-£200 --- This is the BNU plate note

[Richard Bourke of Thornfield, Limerick, famous Governor of Australia] 2 manuscript pages, dated 1830s with correspondence of Richard Bourke, Thornfield, Castleconnell on land dispute between Sir John Fitzgerald of Lisheen, Tipperary and John Earl of Norberry. from Thornfield, Castleconnell

Stoker (Bram)The Duties of Clerks of the Petty Sessions in Ireland, first edition, interleaved copy with manuscript notations, 8vo, Dublin, 1879. Stoker's second published work, a textbook and a product of his brief career in the Irish Civil Service. Rare

How to Write a Play ERVINE, St. John Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1928. SIGNED with a manuscript letter on front end paper. HB, DJ. Price Clipped

Eugene 0'Curry. Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History. Dublin 1861. With 26 facsimile manuscript tinted litho plates in Irish & Latin. Rare copy with one brand Irish College, Salamanca. Fine half calf

[Original Irish Manuscript Music by famous Irish composer] Dan an Molad na Gaedhilge;; Slán le Maigh; Slán le Maigh [in phonetic language] Ballinderry; Chasle an Dophe and Bhaile an Doines. with the 6 individual pieces signed by Robert O’Dwyer, and initialled at end R. O’D. 1902-1904 arranged by for Feis Ceoil. Large format. Series of contemporary ink drawings on one sheet with captions in Irish and one in English. Most unusual and worthy of research Irish language and music collection. O'Dwyer, conductor and composer. ‘O'Dwyer's creative output was small, best remembered for his outspoken advocacy and championship of a distinctive indigenous musical expression. Consistent with this view, he made various arrangements of Irish music for the choir of the Gaelic League’.

The Book of Kells with a Study of the Manuscript by Francoise Henry. London, Thames & Hudson. 1988. embossed cloth. 126 colour plates, 75 monochrome. 1974. Large format in slip case.

William Butler Yeats. Explorations. 1963; Mythologies. 1962; Autobiographies. 1961. All three with attractive bookplate of Edward Malins; Farr, Shaw, W. B. Yeats Letters 1946; William B. Yeats by Pollock. 1935 and Later Poems. 1926. ‘Jack to Joan. 1932 ’ in manuscript. 6 hardbacks

Lady Kate Dobbin, (1868-1955) An early 20th Century wooden Paint Box, opening to reveal fitted interior paints and sample colours, the lid with brass plaque initialed 'K.D. (Kate Dobbin); together with four travelling metal watercolour Boxes [one with manuscript label 'K. Dobbin], as a collection. (5) Provenance:  Private Collector, Cork City. Lady Kate Dobbin was born in Bristol, the daughter of William Wise, a solicitor. In 1887 she married Alfred Graham Dobbin who was knighted in 1900 for his role as High Chief Sherriff of the City of Cork. Lady Dobbin studied at the Crawford Municipal School of Art between 1891 and 1895. She submitted her first picture to the RHA in 1894 and continued to show there until 1947 exhibiting a total of one hundred and five paintings. She worked mainly in watercolours, painting scenes of Cork and the surrounding countryside.

L. de Costa, British late 18th Century "Mrs. Salvador (Baroness) wife of Joseph Salvador Esq., died at Tooting" oval miniature depicting elegant young Lady standing in a landscape with basket of fruit wearing a bonnet and royal blue low cut and lace dress, with stately building in the background, signed  lower left, approx. 5cms x 7.5cms, manuscript note on reverse, in ebonised frame. (1) Provenance:  The Gollock Family, Co. Cork, by direct descent.

Hugh Douglas Hamilton, RHA (1740-1808) "Jane Vipont Gerrard," (Liscarton, Co. Meath), oval, pastel, depicting elegant Woman with grey hair and blue ribbon, wearing lace dress and matching band, approx. 30cms x 23cms (12" x 9"), in black and gold painted glass and ornate gilt frame. (1) Note: Manuscript Genealogical Notes on reverse. Provenance:  The Gerrard family by direct descent.

MOHANLAL SONI (20th century), An Indian gouache miniature portrait of a young man holding a manuscript, heightened with gilt in floral borders, 33.5cm x 22cm, framed & glazed (48cm x 37cm).

From the collection of Vickers Staniforth - a collection of assorted film production ephemera, from various productions worked on by Staniforth. Includes: a script for 'The Red Shirt' by John Glennon, a screenplay ' Justice ', and 'An Original Story And Screenplay By Vickers Staniforth - What Will Be, Will Be' featuring a typed manuscript with amendments and other items. Also included is a film reel with unknown contents. 

Breviarium Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament. Italien, zweite Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Illuminierte Brevier-Handschrift im kleinen Format. Schöne Handschrift mit vielen hochwertigen Initialen, teils in Blattgold. Leider nicht ganz vollständiges und tls. verbundenes Manuskript. EINBAND: Neuer flexibler Pergamentband unter Verwendung alten Materials. 13,5 : 10,5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 11 großen Schmuckinitialen in mehreren Farben auf Blattgold-Grund und mit Akanthus-Ausläufern, zahlreichen zweizeiligen Fleuronnée-Initialen in Blattgold, Rot oder Blau mit Federwerk-Ausläufern, ferner mit zahlreichen kleinen Lombarden in Rot oder Blau mit kontrastierendem Federwerk. - KOLLATION: 167 Bll. (von?). Blattgröße 13 : 9,5 cm. Schriftspiegel 7 : 5 cm. Schwarze Tinte, Hervorhebungen in Rot. 13 Zeilen. Mit Reklamanten. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Dänische Privatsammlung. Breviary manuscript in pocket size, illuminated with 11 large initials in colors on burnished gold ground with akanthus tendrils and numerous fine fleuronne initials in burnished gold, red and blue with beautiful penwork. Latin mansucript on vellum. Italy, 2nd half of 15th century. Limp vellum using old material. 167 leaves (not quite complete and partly misbound). Sheet size 13 : 9,5 cm. - Partly minor soiling, few pages rubbed, 1 p. with ink blurring, first p. dusty and with ink scribbling at bottom. In general decorative manuscript. - Danish private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Antonius de Vercellis Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament. Italien (Lombardei), ca. 1450-1475. • Sehr seltene und kostbare Handschrift der einflußreichen Predigten des Franziskaners Antonius de Vercellis (ca. 1430-1483) • Dekoratives Manuskript auf feinem weißen Pergament • Illuminiert mit 71 Blattgold-Initialen auf farbigem Grund und zahlreichen Fleuronnée-Initialen Antonius de Vercellis war einer der bedeutendsten franziskanischen Prediger des Quattrocento und gehörte zu den Förderern der „Monte di Pietà“, den von den Franziskanern seinerzeit gegründeten mildtätigen Pfandleihhäusern für Arme. Seine Predigten wurden oft in Anthologien neben denen des heiligen Bernardinus, Caracciolo und Caetano aufgenommen. Im Druck erschienen sie erstmals 1492/93, nach 1500 folgten über zehn Ausgaben, was die damalige Verbreitung unterstreicht. Zeitgenössische Manuskripte der Predigten sind sowohl im Handel als auch in den öffentlichen Bibliotheken sehr rar. - Schöne und vollständige Handschrift mit allen 71 Sermones, es fehlt lediglich das Eingangsblatt des Prologs zu Beginn. Am Ende mit einem Inhaltsverzeichnis der 71 Predigten. EINBAND: Neuer Pergamentband. 19 : 14 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 71 Blattgold-Initialen auf zweifarbigem Grund mit Weißhöhung und tls. mit farbigem Akanthus-Ausläufer sowie zahlreichen Fleuronnée-Initialen in Blau und Rot mit sehr filigranem Federwerk. - KOLLATION: 303 Bll. (das erste weiß), rot foliiert. Blattgröße 18 : 13 cm. Schriftspiegel 12,5 : 8,5 cm. Abkürzungsreiche und perlschriftartige Minuskel in schwarzer Tinte, Hervorhebungen in Rot. 2 Spalten, 42 Zeilen. Im Kopfsteg mit zeitgenöss. Numerierung der Predigten von einer anderen Hand. Quinternio-Lagen mit Reklamanten. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. -  PROVENIENZ: Dänischer Privatbesitz. Very rare and precious manuscript of the influential sermons of the Franciscan Antonius de Vercellis (ca. 1430-1483). Decorative and well-preserved Latin manuscript on fine white vellum. Illuminated with 71 gold leaf initials on a colored ground with colored tendrils and numerous fleuronnée initials in red and blue. Mod. vellum. 303 leaves (first blank), foliated in red. - Lacking the not numb. initial leaf of the prologue, instead the first leaf of the first sermon (leaf 5) bound at the beginning. The following 3 leaves (1-3) misbound. - Here and there tiny marginalia by contemp. or somewhat later hands. - Danish private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Antiphonar Lateinisches Noten-Manuskript auf Pergament. 16. Jahrhundert. Großformatige Antiphonar-Handschrift in einem zeitgenössischen Holzdeckel-Einband. EINBAND: Zeitgenössische schwere, teils noch lederbezogene Holzdeckel mit 4 (von 5) großen Buckeln, Kantenbeschlägen und Schließenresten in Messing. Imperial-Folio. 53 : 34 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit zahlreichen blauen und roten Fleuronnée-Initialen (darunter 1 große Prachtinitiale) und Cadellen. - KOLLATION: 248 Bll. (von ca. 270). Blattgröße ca. 48 : 33 cm. Schwarze Quadratnoten auf 5 roten Linien, je Seite mit 5 Notenzeilen. Text in schwarzer Tinte, Hervorhebungen in Rot. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - Large-size antiphonary from 16th century, bound in strong wooden boards with brass fittings. Latin manuscript on vellum with square notes on 5 red lines. With numerous fleuronne or cadel initials. Sheet-size 48 : 33 cm. - Lacking ca. 20 leaves, few leaves damaged, ca. 30 leaves with defective corner, partly waterstained at head, 6 pages blurred. Binding damaged, spine removed. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Stundenbuch Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament. Frankreich (Limoges), um 1420. Frühes Stundenbuch für den Gebrauch von Limoges, illuminiert mit vier großen Miniaturen. Das Marienoffizium eingerichtet zum Gebrauch von Limoges. Ebenso weist das sporadisch besetzte Kalendarium deutlich auf eine Verehrung in dem Bistum Limoges hin, vor allem durch die Präsenz des HI. Marcialis Lemovicensis, Bischof von Limoges: Marcialis (30.6.), apparicio s. Marcialis (16.6.), translatio s. Marcialis (10.10.) und eine sonst nirgends belegte zweite translatio Marcialis (11.11.).Auf die alte Bischofsstadt Limoges verweisen ferner die eingetragenen Heiligen Psalmodius (13.6.), Redegundis (13.8.), Pardulphus, Abt von Guéret (6.10.), Austriclianus (15.10.), Gonsaldus, Eremit (5.11.) und Cessator, Bischof vom Limoges (15.11.). Auch die Litanei (114v-120r) enthält die Anrufung der Hauptheiligen des Limousin Marcialis und Pardulphus an herausragender Stelle. - Mit dem Text 'Sanctus Marcialis ad predicandum Galliis delegatus Lemoniciis civibus iubente Petro apostolo semina fidei eroganda suscepit' (39\u1075 ). Die vier Miniaturen zeigen: 14r Verkündigung Maria, 62r Joachim und Anna, 71r Mariä Geburt, 84r Begräbnisszene. EINBAND: Kalblederband des 15. Jhs. über Holzdeckeln mit Rollenprägung (Rankenfries mit Hirsch und Jüngling mit Vogel; Schriftband mit Wappen). 17,5 : 12 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Die 4 Miniaturen jeweils mit feinkariertem Hintergrund in Gold und Farben, unterhalb mit blauer Prachtinitiale auf Goldgrund sowie mit dreiseitiger Dornblattbordüre mit farbigem Akanthus an den Ecken. Die Horen-Anfänge mit 11 drei- bis vierzeiligen gerahmten Goldinitialen auf rosa und blauem Grund mit stilisierter Blütenornamentik. Ferner mit einer größeren Fleuronnée-Initiale zum Gebet Obsecro te (151r), zahlreichen kleinen Initialen mit Fleuronnéebesatz in Blau und Rot sowie blau-roten Zeilenfüllern. - KOLLATION: 155 BIl. (von 160?; das erste leer). Blattgr. 16,5: 12 cm. Schriftspiegel 9,5: 7 cm. Textura in brauner und roter Tinte. 15 Zeilen, regliert. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Dänischer Privatbesitz. Book of Hours for the use of Limoges, around 1420. Latin manuscript on vellum. With 4 miniatures, each with border, and numerous gilt and color initials. 15th cent. calf over wooden boards with rollstamps. 155 (of 160?) leaves, first blank. Sheet size 16,5 : 12 cm. - One leaf cut out after leaf 20. - Slightly stained (first and last leaves somewhat stronger), 3 leaves with marginal tear, miniatures slightly rubbed, 1 damage by worming. - Danish privat collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Antiphonar Lateinische Noten-Handschrift auf Pergament. Spanien, 17./18. Jahrhundert. Spanisches Antiphonar in einem prachtvollen und guterhaltenen Holzdeckelband. EINBAND: Zeitgenössischer blindgeprägter Kalblederband über starken Holzdeckeln mit 8 Messing-Eckbeschlägen, 2 Messingbuckeln und 2 Messingschließen. Imperial-Folio. 55 : 40 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit großer Eingangsinitiale, zahlreichen Cadellen sowie Fleuronnée-Initialen in Blau und Rot. - KOLLATION: 146 Bll. Schwarze Quadratnoten auf 5 roten Linien, je Seite 5 Notenzeilen, Text in Schwarz und Rot. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Dänische Privatsammlung. Spanish antiphonale from 17th/18th century in a well-preserved contemp. binding over wooden boards with brass fittings. Latin manuscript on vellum with numerous fleuronne and cadelle initials. - 146 leaves. - Ca. 25 leaves with removed initials or cut out marginal spots. Some staining, few pages blurred, partly with marginal defects at foot, boards with minor worming, 1 clasp detached. From a Danish private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Breviarium Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament. Süddeutschland, erste Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Fragment einer süddeutschen Brevier-Handschrift. EINBAND: Neuer Lederband über Holzdeckeln im Stil der Zeit. 16 : 11,5 cm. - KOLLATION: 54 Bll. Blattgröße 14,5 : 11 cm. Bastarda in schwarzbrauner Tinte, Hervorhebungen in Rot und mit roten Lombarden. 18 Zeilen. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Exlibris H. Legel. - Dänische Privatsammlung. Part of a breviary from the Southern Germany, first half of 15th century. Latin manuscript on vellum. 54 leaves. Sheet-size 14,5 : 11 cm. Brown blindtooled morocco over wooden boards in contemp. style, with 2 brass clasps. - Well-preserved and decorativly bound breviary fragment. - Bookplate H. Legel. - Danish private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Chorbuch Lateinische Notenhandschrift auf Pergament. Italien, erste Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Liturgische Notenhandschrift im Taschenformat. Schöne und insgesamt guterhaltene Notenhandschrift mit gregorianischen Gesängen, beginnend mit der Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Mattheum und endend mit dem Hymnus Sanctorum meritis inclita gaudia . Enthält außerdem einige liturgische Texte. EINBAND: Zeitgenössischer blindgeprägter Kalblederband über Holzdeckeln mit Pergamentvorsätzen (Ausschnitte einer größeren Notenhandschrift) und Schließenresten. 17,5 : 11,5 cm. - KOLLATION: 145 Bll. (von?) Blattgröße ca. 17 : 11,3 cm. Schriftspiegel ca. 14 : 9 cm. Schwarze Quadratnoten auf 4 roten Linien, 6 Notenzeilen je Seite. Text in Schwarz und Rot mit roten Lombarden. Obere Ecke zeitgenöss. foliiert in Rot. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Dänische Privatsammlung. Liturgical music manuscript in pocket size. Latin manuscript on vellum. Italy, first half of 16th century. 145 leaves (foliated by contemp. hand). Sheet size 17 : 11,5 cm. Contemp. blindtooled calf over wooden boards with vellum pastedowns. - Foliation numbering without 133-138. Two leaves with marginal cut-out at bottom, partly some fingerstaining, else inside mostly clean and well-preserved. Spine removed, covering of boards with defective spots. - Danish private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Jacobus de Voragine Sermones de tempore. Brescia, A. und J. Britannicus, 23. März 1491. Seltene italienische Inkunabelausgabe der beliebten Predigten des für seine Legenda Aurea bekannten Jacobus de Voragine. EINBAND: Flexibler Pergamentband d. Zt. mit hs. Titel auf dem vord. Deckel. 4to. 21 : 15,5 cm. - KOLLATION: 185 nn. Bll. Got. Type, 2 Spalten. 50 Zeilen. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - LITERATUR: GW M11632. - Goff J195. - BMC VII 976. - BSB I-111.050. - Pell(V) 145. Scarce Italian incunabulum edition of the popular sermons by the archbishop known for his 'Legenda Aurea'. Contemp. limp vellum with manuscript title on front board. 21 : 15,5 cm. Got. type, 2 colums, 50 lines. - Lacking last white leaf at end of register. Register pre- and misbound. - Here and there slightly browned and dirt stained, first 2 leaves of register and front endpaper with ink eroded spot at lower margin, front pastedown removed. Binding with small damage. Overall a nice copy with column titles, lombards and markings in red-brown (faded) by contemp. hand. Dieses Objekt wird regelbesteuert angeboten (R).

Stundenbuch Livre d'heures de Normandie Lateinisches Stundenbuch zum Gebrauch von Lisieux. Manuskript auf Pergament. Frankreich (Normandie) um 1490. • Seltenes Stundenbuch zum Gebrauch von Lisieux • Illuminiert mit 8 großen Miniaturen Die farbkräftigen Miniaturen mit großflächig angelegten Figuren und Gesichtern. Sie zeigen Verkündigung, Geburt Christi, Christus vor Pilatus, Dornenkrönung, Flucht nach Ägypten, Kreuzigung, Darbringung im Tempel sowie Auferstehung der Toten. - Inhalt: Kalender (1r-10v; fehlt Jan. u. Dez.); Marienoffizium zum Gebrauch von Lisieux (11r-52r); Sieben Bußpsalmen (53r-61v; fehlt das erste Bl.); Litanei mit Ursinus und Taurinus (61v-65v); Totenoffizium zum Gebrauch von Lisieux (66r-93v); Evangeliensequenzen (92r-94r). - Kalender sporadisch besetzt, rot hervorgehoben u. a. Dionysius von Paris am 9.10., der auch in der Litanei erwähnt wird, ebenso wie Genoveva. EINBAND: Brauner Maroquinband des 17. Jhs., Rücken mit floralem Stempel zwischen den Bünden, Deckel mit goldgeprägten Fileten und Vignette, 2 Messing-Schließen. 15 : 10 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 8 großen Miniaturen, unterhalb mit großer farbiger Intiale auf Goldgrund und umgeben von dreiseitiger Akanthusbordüre. Ferner mit zahlreichen kleineren Gold-Initialen auf farbigem Grund. - KOLLATION: 94 Bll. Meist Quaternionen, mit Reklamanten. Blattgr. ca. 14 : 10 cm. Schriftspiegel 8,5 : 6 cm. 17 Zeilen, regliert. Textura, geschrieben in dunkelbrauner Tinte mit Hervorhebungen in Rot. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - Rare book of hours for the use of Lisieux. Latin manuscript on vellum. France (Normandy) around 1490. 94 leaves. With 8 large miniatures surrounded by acanthus borders, each with col. initial on burnished gold ground. Further with several gilt initials on color ground. 17th cent. brown morocco with floral stamps on spine, gilt fillets and vignette on boards and 2 brass clasps. Sheet size 14 : 10 cm. - Lacking ca. 5 leaves: 2 cal. leaves, 1 leaf in the Office of the Virgin, the first leaf of the Penitential Psalms, and the last (this replaced on vellum by a later hand). Some fingerstaining, few pages rubbed, the first page blurred, spine partly restored. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Arthur Schnitzler 'Dummheit und böser Wille' Reigen. Zehn Dialoge. Winter 1896/97 [Wien 1900]. • Der äußerst seltene Erstdruck • Skandalträchtig, verboten und zensiert • Privatdruck in 200 Exemplaren • Von Schnitzler signiert und numeriert • Beiliegend ein eigenhändiger Widmungsbrief des Dichters 'Die Rezeptionsgeschichte von Schnitzlers Reigen ist gekennzeichnet von Skandalen und Fehlinterpretationen.' (Kindler) Ausgesprochen seltene erste Ausgabe des umstrittenen Werkes. Exemplar 158 von 200 als unverkäufliches Manuskript für Freunde und Bekannte gedruckt, und von Schnitzler zu Beginn eigh. signiert, numeriert und Hans Hiller gewidmet. Beigefügt ist zudem ein eigh. Widmungsbrief an Hiller, datiert 'Wien 11.3.1902', mit dem Schnitzler diesem das Buch zusandte (im beschrifteten Original-Briefumschlag eingeklebt). Dem Text vorangestellt ist folgende Vorbemerkung Arthur Schnitzlers: 'Ein Erscheinen der nachfolgenden Scenen ist vorläufig ausgeschlossen. Ich habe sie nun als Manuscript in Druck gegeben; denn ich glaube, ihr Wert liegt anderswo als darin, daß ihr Inhalt den geltenden Begriffen nach die Veröffentlichung zu verbieten scheint. Da jedoch Dummheit und böser Wille immer in der Nähe sind, füge ich den ausdrücklichen Wunsch bei, daß meine Freunde, denen ich dieses Manuscript gelegentlich übergeben werde, es durchaus in diesem Sinne behandeln und als ein bescheidenes, ihnen persönlich zugedachtes Geschenk des Verfassers aufnehmen mögen.' 'Die erste öffentliche Ausgabe des Werkes 1903, die der Wiener Verlag dennoch wagte, löste eine Woge der Empörung aus, die geltenden Bestimmungen der Sittlichkeitszensur im österreichischen Kaiserreich versperrten dem Werk die Bühne. Die fast zwei Jahrzehnte später erfolgte Erstaufführung an Max Reinhardts Berliner Kleinem Schauspielhaus wurde durch gelenkte Demonstrationen gegen das als 'pornographisch' diffamierte Werk gestört, der preußische Kultusminister untersagte weitere Vorstellungen.' (Kindler) EINBAND: Handgebundener violettfarbener Seidenband mit Rückenschild und goldgeprägtem Titel. 18,5 : 13 cm. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Seit über 40 Jahren in einer holsteinischen Privatsammlung. LITERATUR: Allen C13.1. - Hayn/Got. VII, 199. - Kosch XV, 660. - KLL XIV, 1033ff. - Haight, Verbotene Bücher S. 153. - Englisch S. 252f. The extremely rare first printing of this scandalous, banned and censored text. Privately printed in 200 signed copies; enclosed a handwritten dedication letter from the poet. Hand-bound purple silk volume with spine label and gold-stamped title. Fine and clean copy from a private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Breviarium Romanum Mit Signatur des Schreibers Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament. Italien, Piemont (Casale Monferrato), datiert 1474. • Vom Schreiber datiertes und signiertes Brevier • Vollständiges, umfangreiches und illuminiertes Manuskript • Im zeitgenössischen Holzdeckelband mit einer Metallöse, um das Brevier am Gürtel befestigen zu können • In dieser Form sehr seltene Handschrift Schöne und außergewöhnliche Handschrift, angefertigt 1474 vom Schreiber Guglielmo, einem Priester von S. Maria in Casale Monferrato, zwischen Turin und Mailand gelegen: 'Explicit iste liber per manus presbiteri gull(ielm)i de maria de casali. Anno dni. M.cccc.lxxiiij.' (f.399v). Die Tatsache, daß zwei der drei ganzseitigen Bordüren leere Schilde enthalten, deutet darauf hin, daß Guglielmo das Buch für den Verkauf und nicht für den eigenen Gebrauch geschrieben hat. Die Metallöse am oberen Rand des vorderen Einbandes ähnelt denen, die man bei angeketteten Büchern findet, aber ein Brevier wie dieses ist ein persönliches liturgisches Buch und kein Bibliotheksbuch, das hätte angekettet werden müssen. Die Vorrichtung diente dazu, das Manuskript an einen Gürtel zu hängen, um es schnell bei der Hand zu haben. Inhalt und Illumination: Kalender (f.3r); Kreisdiagramm zur Bestimmung des Osterdatums (f.9r); Temporale vom Advent bis zum 4. Sonntag im November, 'secundum consuetudinem Romane curie' (f.10r); Rubriken (f.186r); Offizium der heiligen Katharina (f.196r); Exorzismen von Salz und Wasser (fol.197v) und Segnungen von Neuvermählten (f.198v); Ferialer Psalter, gefolgt von Gesängen und Glaubensbekenntnissen (f.207r); das Offizium des heiligen Antonius von Padua (f.264r); Sanctorale, vom heiligen Saturninus bis zur heiligen Katharina (29.11.-25.11.) (f.266r); Commune sanctorum(f.371v); Einweihung einer Kirche (f.387r); Totenoffizium (f.390r); Marienoffizium (f.393r); Ordo für die Segnung der Mahlzeiten (f.398r); Kolophon, Litanei und Gebete (f.399v). Der Stil der Illumination ist lombardisch. Die Themen der historisierten Initialen sind: St. Paulus (f.10r); ein Heiliger, der das Modell einer Kirche (?) hält (f.207r); drei Bilder von König David (f.207r, 215v, 229r). EINBAND: Zeitgenössischer blindgeprägter Kalblederband über Holzdeckeln, obere Kante des Vorderdeckels mit originaler Metallöse; Rücken und zwei Lederschließen stilgerecht erneuert. 15,5 : 10,5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 5 historisierten Initialen, 4 meist ganzseitigen Bordüren sowie 9 Schmuckinitialen. - KOLLATION: 405 Bll. (davon 9 leer). Blattgröße 14,5 : 10,5 cm. Schriftraum 9 : 6,5 cm. 2 Spalten, 30-31 Zeilen. Braune und rote Tinte, mit blauen und roten Lombarden. - - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Sammlung Tözsér, Ungarn. - Auktion Sotheby's 5. Juli 2016, lot 66. - Dänischer Privatbesitz. Fine Latin manuscript on vellum, signed and dated by the scribe Guglielmo, a priest of S. Maria, Casale Monferrato. Complete, extensive and illuminated manuscript with 5 historiated initials, 4 full or partial borders, and 9 other illuminated initials. Contemporary blindtooled calf over wooden boards with a metal hoop by which it could have been hung from a belt. 405 leaves, of which 9 are blank. Sheet size 14,5 : 10,5 cm. - Only here and there minor fingerstaining, spine re-backed and with new clasps, in general well-preserved manuscript, very rare in this form. Danish private collection. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Feuerwerksbuch Feuerwerkerei Was ein Büchßenmeister wißen undt was gewohnheit Er an sich haben soll. Deutsche und lateinische Handschrift auf Papier. Dresden u. a., nach 1662. • Umfangreiches Handbuch des 17. Jhs. für Pyrotechniker • Wohl von einem Büchsenmacher und Feuerwerker am Dresdner Hof niedergeschrieben • Mit zahlreichen teils farbigen Zeichnungen Seltenes und interessantes handschriftliches Dokument über die Feuerwerkskunst des 17. Jahrhunderts. Wohl von einem Büchsenmacher und Feuerwerker mit Initialen 'A. F.' säuberlich niedergeschriebene Notizen, der den geschilderten Ereignissen nach zwischen 1635 und 1662 im Dresdner Raum, eventuell dauerhaft am kurfürstlichen Hof tätig gewesen ist. So war er an der Vorbereitung und Durchführung des großen 'Jason'-Feuerwerks anläßlich der Hochzeit am 19. Oktober 1662 zwischen Christian Ernst Markgraf von Brandenburg-Bayreuth und Erdmuthe Sophie von Sachsen beteiligt. Das 'Feuerwergk von eroberung des güldnen Flüßes (=Vlieses) durch den Jason' fand aufgrund seiner Pracht und wirkungsvollen Inszenierung Erwähnung in der zeitgenössischen Litertur; ferner zwei festliche Feuerwerke anläßlich der Doppelhochzeit zweier Söhne von Johann Georg I. von Sachsen im Jahr 1650. Der Schreiber erwähnt außerdem mehrfach die Kurfürstlich Sächsische Pulvermühle in Löbtau. Bemerkenswert auch die Sammlung von detaillierten Rezepten und Instruktionen für die Herstellung von Raketen, Feuerbällen, Feuerrädern, Feuerlanzen, Petarden, Granaten, die Verarbeitung von Salpeter, Schwefel, Quecksilber, Kampher z. B. für Schwarzpulverherstellung etc. EINBAND: Pergamentband der Zeit. 16,5 : 20 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 55 Federzeichnungen (16 kolor.). - KOLLATION: 221 num. Bll., 15 nn. Bll. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - PROVENIENZ: Mit Wappenstempel (nicht zuzuordnen) sowie hs. Besitzvermerken 'G. J. von Galagan' und 'Obbarius' (18./19. Jh.) auf den ersten Bll. Rare fireworks manual from the 17th century. Probably written down by a pyrotechnician from the court at Dresden. Illustrated with 55 (16 col.) drawings and schemata. Contemp. vellum. - Slightly tanned, front inner hinge slightly broken. Binding stained, vellum cover torn along the upper part of the spine, rear board with burn marks in places and inscriptions. Overall well-preserved and interesting manuscript. - With unknown armorial stamp (sagittarius) and ms. ownership entries 'G. J. von Galagan' and 'Obbarius' (18th/19th cent.) on first leaves. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Manuskriptkarte Lauf der Memel von ihrem Ursprung an bis Grodno. Section I (a bis f). Manuskriptkarte. Feder- und Tuschzeichnung auf pergaminartigem Papier. Titelsegment unleserlich gezeichnet, 'Major in dem Generalstaabe'. Deutschland um 1800. Aus 7 Segmenten zu 2 Teilen montiert. Gesamtlänge ca. 201 cm : ca. 17-42 cm. Detaillierte Karte des Oberlaufs der Memel von der Quelle bei Minsk bis Hrodna. Die wohl für militärische Zwecke sorgfältig gezeichnete Karte besteht aus sieben Sektionen, numeriert I a bis f, im Format zwischen 42 : 36 cm und 16 : 11 cm. Sie zeigt den mäandernden Flußlauf zwischen der Quelle bei Minsk (num. Sektion I f) bis zum litauischen Skirsnemune (num. Sektion I a) mit anliegenden Ortschaften, Wäldern, Überschwemmungsgebieten, Zuflüssen etc. Die Ortschaften sind weitestgehend benannt, die Zuflüsse mit Kommentaren zur Schiffbarkeit, der Fließgeschwindigkeit, Brücken etc. versehen. Eingezeichnet sind auch Straßen und einzelne Höfe. - Eventuell diente die Zeichnung als Vorlage für einen Druck. Die Numerierung legt ferner nahe, daß diese Karte nur Teil einer gesamten kartographischen Erfassung der Memel bis zu ihrer Mündung in die Ostsee darstellt. - ZUSTAND: Auf Anfrage. - Manuscript map of the headwaters of the river Memel / Neman in Belarus between the area of Minsk and Hrodna. Watercolor drawing on glassine paper, mounted from 7 sections in different sizes to 2 sheets. Germany ca. 1800 (signed illegibly by a major). Ca. 201 : 17-42 cm. - The colors partly faded by age, paper slightly creased, with occasional worming holes with small loss of illustration. Overall remarkably well preserved. R Dieses Objekt wird regelbesteuert angeboten (R).