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Photographs - Challenger Expedition. ‘Views taken during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger’. An oblong quarto album containing eighty-one photographs taken during the first stage of the 1872-76 Challenger Expedition, a joint venture between the Royal Society of London and the British Admiralty to carry out an oceanographic circumnavigation. The photographic collection commences with a photograph of the members of the Royal Society at Sheerness, followed by two groups of Officers then views of Lisbon (7), a photograph of a drawing of a Naturalist’s room, Gibraltar (2 panoramic and 10 single), Madeira (1 panoramic and 5 single), Teneriffe (2 panoramic and 4 single), St. Thomas’s Island, West Indies (1 panoramic and 11 single), Bermuda (1 panoramic and 30 single including a monument erected by the ship for a Naval Schoolmaster and a ‘Boy, First Class killed by accident March 25th 1873’ *), three photographs of an Ocean Section, a biological specimen and a Cricketing Party from H.M.S, Challenger. (*An account of the accident which occurred during dredging appears in Lord John Campbell’s Log-Letters from ‘The Challenger’, 1877.) 1872-3, various sizes including 140mm x 185mm, 134mm x 187mm, 150mm x 200mm, panoramas vary from two sheet 145mm x 387mm to six sheet, 130mm x 1120mm, mounted on both sides of card leaves with manuscript captions below. Some creasing to panoramas and foxing to mounts. All edges gilt, worn diced calf binding with brass corners and clasp mounts (clasp not present), brass monogram to upper board - ‘J.B.’, possibly the album of John Young Buchanan (1844-1925), chemist to the expedition. [Departing from Britain in December 1872, ‘Challenger sounded, dredged and trawled the floors of the world’s oceans at no fewer than 362 locations, before returning in June 1876. The results of the voyage, encompassing the physical, chemical, geological, zoological and botanical dimensions of the ocean were published in fifty quarto volumes.’ ‘The Challenger Expedition established the foundations of oceanography and is second only to Darwin’s voyage aboard the Beagle for its contribution to nineteenth-century science’. Rehbock (P.F.), At Sea with the Scientifics. 1992].[Provenance by repute - Sotheby's, Groombridge Place, Kent, 15/9/92]

Photographs.An outstanding collection of 19th century photographs, comprising:Windsor and Eton - thirty-five photographs including many views of Eton College, the River Thames at Windsor and two views of the compiler’s room (one stained and chipped). Various sizes from 195mm x 280mm and 203mm x 270mm to 98mm x 60mm, each with manuscript caption.With a further seven composite photographs with adult heads on different bodies (one with a watercolour background) and two large photographs of pupils with Rev. C.C. James dated 1871 and 1872 (pupils named);Trinity College, Cambridge - nineteen photographs depicting Trinity College, ‘The Backs’, the library, the ‘Avenue’, Neville’s Court, Masters Court, etc.Various sizes from 266mm x 210mm to 135mm x 102mm;Switzerland - thirty-five smaller format photographs, views of Lucerne, Lausanne, Geneva. traditional costumes, etc.Several smaller photographs appear to be of engravings or artwork, Various sizes from 140mm x 225mm to 57mm x 77mm. Gibraltar - two photographs.Malta - nine photographs including four large folding panoramic photographs of Valletta Harbour each composed of three, four or five photographs.Individual photographs from 218mm x 270mm to 180mm x 227mm, panoramas up to 145mm x 1200mm.Miscellaneous, twenty-six smaller format photographs, mainly topographical including Stratford, Tintern Abbey, the Giant’s Causeway and Norwich.Large oblong folio album, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled full morocco binding with elaborate brass initials to upper board.[Rev C.C. James was an assistant master at Eton College].

Blue Coat School, Kendal.A Manuscript Work Book compiled by Christopher P. Shaw of Blue Coat School, commencing August 1864, the subjects covered comprise Mensuration and Superficies (with fifteen problems and their rules); Bricklayers’ Work; Masons’ Work; Carpenter’s and Joiners’ Work (with two hand-coloured diagrams of a hipped roof); Slaters and Tilers Work; Plasterers Work; Painters Work; Glaziers Work; Plumbers’ Work; Pavers’ Work and Vaulted and Arched Roofs. Approx 116 pages, with four leaves glued into two. Page size 223mm x 190mm, cloth-backed boards (binding weak).[Christopher P[earson] Shaw became an architect in Kendal. Copies of various census records are included with the lot];Broadside, ‘Blue-Coat Schools, Kendal. On Sunday Morning, October 26th, 1823, an Occasional Sermon will be Preached in the Parish Church of Kendal ….. A Collection will be made for Benefit of the Blue-Coat Charity Schools ….Lacking imprint, 382mm x 240mm, Blue-Coat Schools title on reverse, folds, small tape stain towards middle with full width stain to lower edge. ‘ES 1822’ watermark. (2)

Facsimile Manuscript.The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold.Folio Society, 2001, numbered limited edition of 1000 copies, colour facsimile, all edges gilt, full morocco gilt binding. [with] 'Commentary' by Andrew Prescott, original cloth-backed boards. Housed together in original solander box.Minor dust marks to box, otherwise Fine.

Charles Coote, The Duke of Devonshire and Charles Dickens. An interesting archive of letters and ephemera belonging to the composer Charles Coote, personal pianist of the 6th Duke of Devonshire, comprising:Three Autograph Letters Signed from Catherine Dickens (4 page, Feb 1853; 1 page, Jan 1854; 2 page, Dec 1856); One page ALS from Charles Dickens (31st Jan, 1860); Four page ALS from Georgina Hogarth at Tavistock House (Dickens’ sister-in-law and housekeeper); Five envelopes signed by Charles Dickens (1850s); Over eighty ALS, mainly addressed to Charles Coote, including six letters from his brother in India, four letters in three envelopes with the seal of the Surveyor General of Prisons, one arranging a visit to Pentonville Prison and a series of thirteen ALS relating to a ‘Guild of Literature’ tour including letters from the Duke of Devonshire and E. Bulwer Lytton; Five copy letters to the Duke of Devonshire; Seventeen manuscript notes; Two theatre posters, one for Bulwer Lytton’s comedy ‘Not So Bad As We Seem’ with Charles Dickens playing ‘Lord Wilmot’ (1851); Several items of ephemera including the visiting card of William Harwood, Executioner; a band payment table (1838); a Burial notice and a worn musical score for Coote’s quadrille ‘The Lights O’ London’.[Charles Coote ‘was associated with Chatsworth and the Duke of Devonshire for around thirty years. As well as leading the Duke’s private orchestra, he was ‘loaned out’ by the Duke on a number of occasions to the author Charles Dickens to play for various productions across England’. (Elizabeth French - See ‘Music from the Archives’ June 2023, a blog on the Chatsworth Website)].[Provenance - family descent from Charles Coote]

Holy Bible with additional New Testament.The Bible: That Is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke …… The New Testament of Our Lord …. Englished by L. Tomson. The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, Geneva or ‘Breeches’ bible, quarto in eights, [3], 190, 127, 129-197; 116, 11 leaves, lacking A1 before title page, bound without blank leaves before Apocrypha and NT. Maps and other illustrations present within text, [Herbert 226, (194 for collation)]. Title pages present for Old and New Testaments. Some staining and age tanning, occasional marginal notes, marginal wear, tear to inside corner of second leaf 127 (2Q7) with loss, hole in leaves 29 and 30 with some loss of text, some marginal worm tracks. Followed by a second New Testament without title page, comprising three preliminary leaves (*ii-iv), leaves numbered 441-554, (leaf 441 is the first page of St Matthew’s Gospel, with signature 3K1, no colophon at end), Worm track to head of leaves in first half of this NT, entering text in places;Preceded byCommon Prayer, The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, of that Translation which is appointed to be used in Churches.The Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595, quarto in eights, comprising title and seven calendar pages (heavily worn and restored), then leaves A-E8;and R.F.H., Two Right Profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall …The Deputies of Christopher Barker, no date, leaves A-K8, L2, some marginal annotation; And followed byPsalms, The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others …Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1594, quarto in eights, [10], 97, [98-110] pages, worming and wear to final leaves.Two pages of manuscript laid down on front pastedown and fly leaf, manuscript on two worn blank leaves at end of book, contemporary calf binding with brass lozenges and bossed corners, clasp plates without clasps, sympathetically restored or re-bound, retaining original leather, new endpapers. Later spine label, old worm holes, splits/wear to original leather over new calf.

Prophecies - Manuscript. Propheties Perpetu’les depuis l’an 1521 jusqu’à la fin du monde nouveer pour le cabinet de M’ De Pouvoir après sa mort, et expérimentés par L’academie des Sciences. Par Monsieur Jean, Moult. No date, ink manuscript on paper, [ii], 80 pages, printed portrait and epitaph tipped-in as frontis, woodcut of Garde du Tombeau mounted on front free endpaper verso, symbolic bookplate of Daniel Ruzo, Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus collector, notes in pencil to fly leaf which mentions the French Revolution, Nostradamus and Thomas Joseph Moult. Marbled paper endpapers, worn calf gilt, believed eighteenth century. [The dates in the manuscript are arranged in blocks of 21, each date separated by 28 years. In Thomas Joseph Moult’s work ‘Prophéties perpétuelles, très-curieuses et très certaines de Thomas-Joseph Moult’, the dates are also separated by 28 years, though in blocks of nine.]. [Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library].

Magic, Prophecy, Hermetics and the Occult.Bennett (Sir Ernest), Apparitions and Haunted Houses, A Survey of Evidence.Faber and Faber, August 1939, first edition, foxing to endapers, contents VG, original cloth (spine slightly faded, top edge dust marked).Grant (Kenneth & Steffi), Hidden Lore, The Carfax Monographs.Skoob, 1989, numbered limited edition of 1000, folio, ten mounted colour plates, Fine, original cloth gilt.Vaughan (Thomas) & Waite (Arthur Edward), The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan …George Redway, 1888, first edition thus, large taped repair to page 5, marginal tears, tanning, front endpaper split at hinge, Perkins Collection bookplate, original cloth dust marked with darkened spine;Gettings (Fred), Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils.Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, first edition, ex public library copy from the collection of the author, dust jacket;Barrett (Francis), The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer, Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy .... Volumes 1 - 9.Helios, 1964-66, numbered limited edition of 200, nine volumes, illustrated, original cloth-backed boards (some foxing to covers and edges);Steiner (Dr. Rudolf), A small collection of lectures given in 1924, typescript with colour illustrations, a 'Private Manuscript' for members of the Anthroposophical Society, worn wraps; with a small quantity of others.[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (qty)

Milton (John).Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Bently and Jacob Tonson, 1688, fourth edition, folio in fours, [4], 250, 151-197, 298-343, [7] pages, irregular pagination but text and register complete, engraved portrait frontis, twelve engraved plates, manuscript notes on Milton to reverse of plate I, armorial bookplate, attractive full morocco gilt binding.Some foxing, occasional light staining to inner margins, ink and pencil lines to several margins, minor tear in 2R1, small hole on 2R3 with smudged ink inscription in head margin verso, offset title to 2K4v, repaired tear to plate IV, some plates trimmed quite close to head and fore-edge margins, couple of pencil inscriptions to page margins, bookplate of Ethel Mary Portal, no ownership inscriptions found.

Nostradamus (Michel).Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [36], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, gutter gaping in places, front endpaper creased, manuscript on rear pastedown, small bookplate to front pastedown with name scratched off, worn calf gilt (backstrip partially detached with loss to head);idem, Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [34], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, lacking a preliminary leaf (a11), small hole in frontis, obscured annotation to title and frontis recto, vellum binding, modern slipcase;idem, Les Vraies Centuries, Presages et Predictions de Maitre Michel Nostradamus …Anvers: Peter wan Duren, 1792, French text, x, [2], xii, 136, xxii, 137-312 pages, some foxing/staining, small bookplate to title verso, marbled endpapers, quarter calf binding;With a modern facsimile of the 1557 first edition in faux leather binding with slipcase.[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (4)

WWI Pilot’s Flying Log Book.Strettell Miller (Flight Lieutenant W. H.), Royal Naval Air Service.A flying log commencing with a course at White City on the 24th March, 1916. Actual flying commences at R.N. Air Station, Chingford on the 2nd June 1916 with circuits up to 3000ft.The log records date and time, wind direction, machine number, passenger, time in air, height and course. In August, after 11 hours, 39 minutes of flying time, Strettell Miller moved on to Cranwell and in November, after increasing his flying time to over 47 hours, he moved via Paris to R.N.A.S. Vendome in northern France. During his time here most of the remarks are ‘instruction’ or ‘testing’ and include his first flight in a Bristol Scout. The instruction flights are with passengers, and given the flight hours, it is assumed that Strettell Miller was instructing rather than instructed. In June 1917, after almost 226 flight hours, he moved back to R.N.A.S. Chingford for more instructing and testing. In February 1918, he moved to No. 2 Wing, Eastern-Mediterranean Squadron where he flew Sopwith Pups and Camels, using a Camera Gun for reconnaissance missions. On April 1st 1918, (with 463 flying hours) he joined No 62 Wing of the newly formed RAF (British Aegean Group), flying Sopwith Camels and the Airco DH6. After photo-reconnaissance, bombing practice (including attacking a dummy submarine), formation flying, etc., bombing raids were commenced. In April he bombed Gallipoli Town and in May flew ‘To bomb Hun aerodrome at Drama. Several hits. Attacked two H.A. but they dived away showing no flight’ as well as searching the Theso-Bulgar coast ‘for hostile boats and supposed submarine base’. The final entry is for a Sopwith Camel flight on the 23rd May (written April) ‘20 Hun Seaplanes at Nagara, Dardanelles. F.St ?Whinbush? shot down off Straits’.Printed columns and titles, manuscript entries on approx 107 pages. Quarter morocco binding with worn gilt-lettered cloth.[Flight Lieutenant William Hogarth Strettell Miller, b.1893, gazetted Lieutenant (RNVS) 17 August, 1915].

Holy Bible - Bishop’s Version. [The Holy Byble, conteyning the olde Testament and the New. Set foorth by aucthoritie … ]. 1575, ‘Bishops version’ Bible, folio in eights, lacking General title page, date from NT title, commences with A1, the First book of Moses (Genesis). Register A-M8, N6, 2A-2T8, 3A-3S8, T6, 3V6, 4A-4M8, 4N7; NT. A-R8. Text maps and illustrations. Lacking all preliminary leaves, also lacking 4N8 (possibly a blank as no obvious loss) and NT R9-10 (no obvious loss, possibly a colophon), [register compared with Herbert 139]. Some staining and tanning, Margins trimmed close with some cropping of marginal notes and head titles, NT G7 trimmed into bottom line of text. A1 parted from text block, 3A2 3J1 and NT A2 torn with loss, loss to NT A8 replaced by manuscript. Marginal tears, some entering text, occasional loss of marginal notes, loss to very bottom edge of 4K1, small hole in 2J2 and 4J4. Minor annotation to 2K1, 2M2, 2O8, 2P8, 2Q1, 2R2-4, 3A8, 3G6, NT F8, M4 and R8, heavier annotation to blank leaf 2T8, blank verso of Apocrypha title and blank area of NT C1. [Bound with] Sternhold (Thomas) and Hopkins (John), The Whole Booke of Psalmes … Companie of Stationers, 1625, A-O6, P1 plus two worn leaves (incomplete after P1), tanning and marginal staining, annotation to blank A4v, hole in G4. Well worn panelled leather binding, back-strip disintegrating, upper board held by strings.

Watson (John).The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire.T. Lowndes, 1775, quarto, portrait frontis, copper plates as called for [Boyne p.93], two variants of thefirst folding view (one with cropped margin), three other extra plates, manuscript notes and pedigrees loosely inserted, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, full morocco gilt binding (Blackwell’s label).

Photographs. A collection of photographs in two albums: Album 1 - An interesting collection of large photographs, believed 19th century, including approx. 25 photographs of Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, etc. some with titles including: ‘H4 Picking Tea Leaves; Q80 Saruhashi, Koshu; H40 View of Miyajima; B71 Matsushima, Inland Sea …; 737 View of otoik [Kyoto] City. (twelve coloured, sizes include 200mm x 265mm; 205mm x 258mm; 205mm x 268mm, etc. removable from album, a couple with corner creasing) an image of a group of tennis players (monochrome, 206mm x 271mm); four interiors of a house (monochrome 210mm x 285/280mm); two views of a ?colonial settlement, (sepia 223mm x 283/285mm). Photograph of a school loosely inserted. Worn half morocco album; Album 2 - Record of a ‘Round the World’ cruise on board R.M.S. Rangitiki (New Zealand Line), leaving London, January 1934, crossing the Atlantic to Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to the Pitcairn Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Ceylon, Suez, returning to Southampton May 1934. Approx 137 monochrome photographs, generally mounted two or three to the page with manuscript descriptions below, various sizes including 95mm x 142mm, 142mm x 88mm, 80mm x 112mm, etc. Cloth album. (2)

Illuminated Manuscript. Single Leaf from a Breviary of Benedictine Use. North Italy, later 15th century, latin manuscript on both sides of the leaf, double column of 24 lines, black and red ink on parchment, three gold initials verso, one recto, two and three line, each on purple and blue background, one with green centre, script area approx. 128mm x 100, sheet size 200mm x 155mm, hinged in folding mount. [Provenance - label of the Folio [Fine Art] Society to rear of mount - MS2135]

Bewick (Thomas and John).[Bell (John Gray)*], A Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of Works, Illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, Wood Engravers, of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; with an Appendix of their Miscellaneous Engravings, Brief Sketches of their Lives, and Notices of the Pupils of Thomas Bewick.John Gray Bell, 1851, large paper subscriber’s copy, folio in fours, viii, 77 pages plus 8 page errata and addenda loosely inserted (including portrait of Rev. Farrer), 382mm x 273mm, three plates, manuscript note by the publisher to front pastedown ‘Subscription Copy, Large Paper. No 6. J.G.B.’ ‘Bookplate’ of Joseph Cowen, faded original cloth gilt, front hinge split, offsetting to title page of a portrait not present. As Bell was known to add illustrations to customers' requirements, an authoritative collation has not been found. This copy is therefore sold as described.[*Sometimes attributed to E.J. Selwyn, see Roscoe p.xxi]. [Sir Joseph Cowen 1800-1873, born in Greenside, County Durham. Colliery owner having inherited Blaydon Burn. Elected Liberal MP for Newcastle at the 1865 election. Buried in Winlaton]

Armorial Pedigree.The Pedigree and Descent of the Right Honourable, Edward, Earl of Worcester, Lord Herbert, Baron of Chepstow, Ragland, and Gower, Earl Marshiall, of England, Master of his Majesties Horse, Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, and of his Highnesses most Honourable Privy Council. And also the Pedigree of the Noble and Ancient family of Sir Thomas Cornwall Knight, Baron of Burford, Livng Anno 1615 being both linealy descended from Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou.Unusually large manuscript pedigree with hand-coloured arms, commencing with Geoffrey Plantagenet and ending with Edmund Cornwall, 4th son of Sir Thomas Cornwall. No date. Five joined sheets, apparently laid down with additional pedigree at base (the descendents of Sir Thomas Read). Approx 168cm x 41.5cm. Heavy foxing, framed and glazed (not examined out of frame).[Provenance - Sir James Harman, Lord Mayor of London, 1963]

Dickens (Charles).A cheque signed by Charles Dickens, 4th September 1866, drawn on Messrs Coutts & Comp., paying the Rev. William C. Sawyer, fifty pounds, eighteen shillings and sixpence, blue printed cheque, completed in manuscript, with one penny blindstamp and watermark, two vertical folds, pin hole to left side, 87mm x 183mm visible, mounted, framed, glazed front and rear.

Langley (B.).The Young Builder’s Rudiments ….J. Millan, 1730, quarto, [viii], 130, [2] pages, frontis. and twenty-eight plates (mis-numbered, as called for), frontis laid down, additional folding plate (manuscript) bound in, name to head of title page, half calf binding. [Archer 175.1];Langley (B. & T.), The Builder’s Jewel: or, The Youth’s Instructor, and Workman’s Remembrancer …[1746], small quarto, 34, [2] pages, 94 plates of 100 (lacking plates 16, 28, 38, 55, 56, and 100). Repair to lower part of title page with loss of imprint, date from introduction, ink annotation to reverse of several plates, edges shaved and stained, sheep binding (stained). [Not found in Archer]

Nostradamus.Du Vignois (Elisee), Notre Histoire Racontee a L'avance par Nostradamus, Noyon, 1911, top edge gilt, half leather binding; Le Pelletier (Anatole), Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame …Paris, 1867, two volumes bound as one, quarter calf binding; Torne-Chavigny (H.), Reedition du Livre de Prophetis de Nostradamus …Bordeaux, 1862, interleaved, additional press cuttings etc. added, extensive manuscript ‘Dictionnaire de Concordance’ bound in at rear, worn morocco binding;Fleuriot (Zenaide), Monsieur Nostradamus,Paris, 1875, half morocco binding; Bouys (Theodore), Nouvelle Considerations …..Les Oracles …et Particulièrement sur Nostradamus …Paris, 1806, worn half calf binding;Bareste (Eugene), Nostradamus.Paris, 1840, original wraps;Bonnellier (Hippolyte), Nostradamus.Abel Ledoux, 1834, two volumes, boards.[Not collated. Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library.] (8)

Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a more easier access to the knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method, 3rd edition, London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638, numerous armorial woodcuts including few full-page, copious manuscript annotations in brown ink to margins, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to front pastedown, title with paper repair to outer margin verso, occasional fraying to outer margins of leaves, with old damp-staining and worming to many quires (often not affecting text), contemporary calf, rebacked to style (with endpapers renewed), 4toQTY: (1)

* Java. Three views of Java, watercolour by R. M. West, circa 1830, 1 signed to lower right, the others unsigned, minor spotting, laid on card, largest 95 x 165 mm, others 70 x 135 mm, together with Rio de Janeiro. Three pencil drawings including Botafogo Bay, Arches at Fort Leme (?) and a Packet boat entering Rio De Janeiro, all dated July 1835 and titled to lower margin, 2 with contemporary manuscript inscription 'Mrs Welch' to verso, each approximately 100 x 160 mm QTY: (6)

Vergil (Polydore). Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae Historiae libri vigintiseptem. Ab ipso autore postremu?m iam recogniti, ad[que] amussim, salua tamen historiae veritate, expoliti, Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1555, title with printer's woodcut device and with some early manuscript annotations and markings, upper outer corner of title with ownership signature of J. Hewitt dated 1760 (title repaired and reattached at gutter, lightly creased and slightly dust-soiled), decorative woodcut borders and initials to leaves a2 and a3, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, early underscoring and annotations to margins throughout volume, light fraying to margins of first few leaves, short closed tear at foot of leaf H6, occasional damp-stains to margins of few leaves, contemporary blind panelled calf with blind arabesque to centre of each board, neatly rebacked and corners repaired, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams V448.Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia was commissioned by Henry VIII to chronicle England’s ancient past up to the early Tudor dynasty, ending with the advent of Henry VIII’s reign in 1509. It was first published in Basel in 1534 by Johann Bebel, and re-issued in 1546, but only with the 1555 edition (as here) was the reign of Henry VIII to 1538 added.

Popery. Popish Cruelty Display'd, Being a short, but impartial history of some of the assassinations, murders, and inhumane slaughters, committed by papists upon protestants ..., [London?], 1718, guarded-in title edge-frayed and with early ink manuscript name Willm Hodgson, bound with: Nottingham (Daniel Finch, Earl of), The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Whiston's Letter to Him, concerning the Eternity of the Son of God, and of the Holy Ghost ..., eighth edition, London: for Edward Valentine, 1721, 3pp. advertisements at end, bound with: [Randolph, Herbert], Some Plain and Short Arguments from Scripture proving the Lord Jesus Christ to be the supreme God ..., sixth edition, London: for John Clark, 1719, bound with: Popping (S., publisher), The Lay-Mens Humble Representation of their Just Grievances, London, 1720, bound with: Calamy (Edmund), A Letter to Mr. Archdeacon Echard, upon occasion of his History of England, third edition, London: for John Clark, 1718, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, generally toned, occasional minor marks or stains, some dust-soiling, hinges cracked, mid-18th century blind-tooled calf, rubbed, one corner showing, minor worming to spine ends, 8vo, together with: [Zacharie de Lisieux, pe?re], A Rela[tion] of [the] Cou[ntry of] Ja[nsenia, Ne[ver Till Now Described, Wherein] is [... composed in French by Lewis Fountaine, Esq; and newly translated into English by P.B.], [1668], majority of title lacking and torn away (with an additional usual version of the title bound-in at the rear), without folding map, some toning, dust- and finger-soiling mainly at front and rear, few leaves lightly edge-frayed or with minor losses to blank margins, without front endpapers, contemporary calf, worn, small 8vo, plus: Gunter (W.), Gunter's Confectioner's Oracle, London: Alfred Miller, 1830, 4 plans (one folding), without portrait frontispiece, lightly toned, scarce minor spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary maroon half calf, worn, front joint cracked and board loose, spine covering defective, 8vo, with 4 other antiquarian titles (one in 2 volumes), some defectiveQTY: (8)NOTE:First item: ESTC T180090, T21975, T49335, T171246 & T38157 respectively.Second item: ESTC R38878; Wing F1410 for the usual edition. This copy appears to have remnants of a rare version of the title with the additional phrase 'Never till now described'. This version is not in ESTC, Wing or Library Hub. We have only found one mention of this version: in the catalogue of the first portion of the ... library of the late James Crossley, sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 21-28 July 1884 (lot 896).

Bacon (Francis). Of The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, London: J. F. Dove, 1828, engraved frontispiece and additional title, bookseller's ticket to head of front pastedown, occasional light spotting, contemporary half calf gilt, lightly rubbed, 16mo, together with:Alighieri (Dante). La Divina Commedia, Rome: Mariano de Romanis, 1810, extensive manuscript annotations to preliminaries and margins, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to front pastedown, contemporary half morocco gilt, head of spine worn with some loss, rubbed, 16mo, withHorace. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, London: Jacob Tonson & John Watts, 1715, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut headpieces and initials, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts (with his ownership inscription to blank frontispiece recto and title), contemporary half calf gilt, some wear, 12mo, plusBisse (Thomas). The Beauty of Holiness in the Common-Prayer: as set forth in four sermons preach'd at the rolls chapel, 2nd edition, London: W. B. for Henry Clements, 1717, bookplate of Francis E. B. Witts to front pastedown, a few light spots, contemporary panelled calf, some wear and marks, 8vo, with 3 shelves of leatherbound antiquarian QTY: (3 shelves)

Malcolm (John). The Political History of India from 1784 to 1823, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1826, errata leaf at end of vol. I, light spotting front and rear, irst volume with ownership signature John Stracey 1827 to pastedown, edges untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, printed paper title label to spines of each volume, spines and joints worn, 8vo, together with: Barrow (George). Ceylon: Past and Present, London: John Murray, 1857, folding engraved map, 32 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, original cloth gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Radclyffe (Charles W.). Memorials of Eton College, 1st edition, Eton: T. Ingalton & Son, 1844, tinted lithograph title and 23 plates, foxing and some damp staining, contemporary red half morocco, gilt decorated spine, some wear and marks, folio, plus Peel (Lawrence). Horæ Nauseæ, London: Printed by Bradbury and Evans, 1841, contemporary manuscript note to verso of front free endpaper; 'Edwards Anson, From the Author, Laurence Peel, Jun 12, 1879(?)', light spotting, publisher's original cloth binding, 4to, plus 14 other volumes and 3 folding maps (Switzerland, India, The North of England and part of Scotland), various sizes and condition QTY: (22)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, conteining the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties special commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, general title within decorative woodcut border with genealogical entry to verso 'John Willis being born in the year 1705. Ye daughter of John Willies was borne febry. ye 5 1719/20' (short closed tear at head), New Testament title within decorative woodcut border with imprint dated 1612 (with small torn area towards gutter and slight border loss, manuscript alphabet, numbers and marks to verso), Apocrypha present, A4 of Translations to the Reader torn with text loss to lower outer quarter of leaf, D43 with upper outer corner torn away, closed tear to 2G1 and 2G2 at head, 2K4 with early manuscript inscriptions to verso and bearing the names Robert Hickson[?], John Douthwaite and George Harrison, 2P3 torn to lower outer corner with test loss, 2T2 closed tears at foot, 2V6 torn at foot with slight text loss, 3D3 torn to lower outer corner with loss, 3K7 with repaired long closed tear, 3T5 and 3T6 with small torn area and loss towards gutter, 3Z5 torn at foot with text loss, [A3] torn to upper outer corner with loss, [L7] with old paper repair at foot, manuscript inscriptions and notes to verso of final leaf of text, colophon dated 1612, few other short closed tears (few repaired), bound with at front The Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures..., by J[ohn]. S[peed]., [1613?], woodcut genealogies and double-page woodcut map of Canaan (with short closed tear to fore-edge), long closed tear to C4 and leaves D1, D3 and D4 torn with loss, also bound at front with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer (lacking all before B3), bound with at rear an incomplete The Booke of Psalmes..., London: Companie of Stationers, 1612, toning and dust-soiling throughout, spotting and few marks, early 19th-century panelled sheep, upper board detached, torn at head and foot of spine, wear to extremities, 4to (20.5 x 15.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 247; Herbert 320; STC 22255.Closely resembles the first quarto of 1612 (Herbert 313). Ruth iii, 15, she. Gen. i. 11, bring foorth. Herbert states both titles omit the words Appointed ..., however, the word is included in the general title of this example.

Morris (Beverly Robinson). British Game Birds and Wildfowl..., London: Groombridge and Sons, [1889], 59 (of 61) hand-coloured plates including frontispiece, manuscript initials J.M.B to front pastedown, spotting to first and last few leaves, publishers blue-green cloth with gilt decoration to spine and upper board, head and tail of spine a little worn, 4to QTY: (1)

Sarratt (J. H.). A Treatise on the Game of Chess; containing a regular system of attack and defense: also, numerous rules and examples, teaching the most approved method of playing pawns at the end of a game. To which is added, a selection of critical and remarkable situations, won or drawn by scientific moves. A new edition, revised and improved with additional notes and remarks by W. Lewis, London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and brown..., 1822, title with early ownership signature to head of Louisa Vialls, 8pp of publishers advertisements bound in at front, untrimmed, contemporary pale blue boards, rubbed and some marks and soiling, old card reback, with a little wear to edges and corners, 8vo, together withWalker (George). A Selection of Games at Chess, actually played by Philidor and his contemporaries: now first published from the original manuscript, with notes and additions by George Walker, London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835, lower blank portion of dedication leaf excised, 110pp., with single-leaf publishers list at end, original dark green cloth, with printed title label to upper cover, rubbed and label somewhat darkened, 8vo, plusAnderson (Hans Christian). Tales and Fairy Stories, by Hans Christian Anderson. Translated by Madame de Chatelain. Illustrated by Henry Warren, London; George Routledge & Co., 1853, wood-engraved plates, occasional minor marks, mostly to plates and text margins, upper inner hinge partly split, original blind-stamped and gilt-decorated red cloth, a little rubbed, small 8vo, and other 19th century and 20th century literature, etc., including Thomas Zouch, The Life of Izaak Walton; including notices of his contemporaries, 1826, The Other Side of the Question: or, an attempt to rescue the characters of the two royal sisters Q. Mary and Q. Anne..., by a Woman of Quality, London: T. Cooper, 1742, France Grose, A Provincial Glossary, with a collection of local proverbs and popular superstitions, London: S. Hooper, 1787, etc., leather-bound and cloth-boundQTY: (6 shelves)

Perry (George). Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells: containing a new arrangement of the Genera and Species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the Natural Specimens and including the latest discoveries, 1st edition, London: William Miller, 1811, 60 (of 61) hand-coloured engraved plates, half-title, some offsetting, manuscript page numbers in blue pencil to upper margins, manuscript contents list in pencil to preliminary leaf, 20th-century gilt half calf, boards partially faded, folio, together with;Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere avec la description du Cabinet du Roy..., volumes 1, 2 & 3 (of 15) bound in 1, vignette titles in red and black, numerous engravings including maps, natural history, human anatomy etc., contemporary calf, rebacked preserving spine, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Nissen ZBI 3134 (Perry, George).Although originally criticized for its exaggeration of form and colour, Perry’s Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells is now accepted as one of the most attractive and colourful works on conchology. The illustrations were based on natural specimens from private collections and the British Museum. Some of the names assigned to shells by Perry are still in use today.

Hobbes (Thomas, translator). The History of the Grecian War: in Eight Books, written by Thucydides, 2nd edition, corrected and amended, 1676, engraved additional title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 3 folding and double-page engraved maps, 2 engraved plates, frontispiece and front endpapers detached (folding map a little frayed at margins, small light water stain), rear blank with 18th century annotations, previous owner signatures of Frances Shirley and J. B. Locke to letterpress title, bookplate of Robert Quirk (with manuscript date of 1903), contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rebacked with original spine relaid, label renewed, some edge wear, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frances Shirley (Lady Frances Shirley, 1707-1778), signature to title.Wing T1134. First published in 1629, this is Thomas Hobbes' most famous translation and the first directly from the Greek. He also drew the ancient map of Greece.

Sacheverell (Henry). An Impartial Account of What pass'd most Remarkable in the Last Session of Parliament, relating to the Case of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, 1710, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound with: Sacheverell (Henry). The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, before the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors; upon an Impeachment.., Published by Order of the House of Peers, London: Jacob Tonson, 1710, engraved folding frontispiece, imprimatur leaf before title, closed tear to 3P2, bound with: Sacheverell (Henry). The Names of the Right Honourable Peers, who protested against some Proceedings in the case of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Together with their Lordships Reasons for such their Protestation, [London], 1710, half-title, bound with other related works of the period relating to Sacheverell including one with folding engraved plate, occasional spotting and toning, 18th-century armorial bookplate of a member of the Johnston family (name excised/removed), contemporary panelled calf, gilt initials R. LL. to centre of each board, joints split, some wear, folio, together with:Nicholls (William). A Comment on the Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, &c. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, T. Goodwin [et al.], 1710, engraved portrait frontispiece, manuscript ownership inscription to title 'Katherine Baker her book 1760', occasional light damp-staining at gutter of initial leaves, contemporary panelled calf, morocco title label to spine, upper joint split, extremities worn, folio, Wood (Anthony a?). Athenae Oxonienses: An exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford, 2 volumes in one, London: Tho. Bennet, 1691-92, titles in red and black, occasional light worming mostly to last few leaves at rear of volume, bookplate of Charles Harward to upper pastedown, upper hinge strengthened with adhesive tape, contemporary panelled calf, spine torn with loss mostly at head, adhesive tape residue to few areas mostly at spine edge of boards, board edges worn, folio QTY: (3)

Bible - New Testament [Greek]. Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, recens nunc editi: cum notis & animaduersionibus doctissimorum, præsertim vero?, Roberti Stephani, Josephi Scaligeri, Isaaci Casauboni. Variae item lectiones ex antiquissimis exemplaribus, & celeberrimis bibliothecis, desumptae, Londini [i.e. Leiden]: Apud [B. and A. Elzevir for] Richardum Whittakerum, bibliopolam, 1633, printer's woodcut device to title with first line in Greek characters, bound with at rear Book of Psalms. The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew..., London: Printed by G. M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1636, title within ornamental border, final leaf with tear to blank margin at gutter, bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer at front (lacking all before A4), some light toning, manuscript notes to front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated dark brown morocco with initials W. G. to each board, lacking ties, 8vo, together with:Daillé (Jean). Vint sermons de Iean Daillé sur divers textes de l'ecriture, : prononcés a Charenton en des jours de Cene, & en quelques autres occasions extraordinaires, Geneva: Pierre Chouët, 1653, title with woodcut device, errata leaf present at rear, ink stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled speckled sheep, joints split and loosening, 8vo, plus an incomplete Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacra sive Testamentum vet[us]..., London: E. Tyler, 1661, engraved general title, Old Testament incomplete and New Testament lacking all after the four Gospels, all edges gilt, contemporary dark brown morocco bearing the initials A. S. to centre of each board, neatly rebacked, 12mo, and one other liturgy related QTY: (4)

Barrett (William). The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol ..., Bristol: William Pine, [1789], folding engraved map, slightly edge-frayed, with closed handling tear and short split to inner fold, title with engraved printer's device, small hole to blank gutter, 29 engraved plates (correct as list, 14 folding), including Facsimile of Rowley's Manuscript, plates spotted and offset, extra-illustrated with two folding maps: Plan of the City and Suburbs of Bristol including Clifton & the Hotwells, Bristol: R.Edwards, November 1st 1799, and a facsimile of the 1671 map by I.M.: An Exact Delineation of the Famous Cittie of Bristoll and suburbs thereof, both folding and with a single short split to fold or closed edge tear, the former slightly edge-frayed, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked, rubbed, minor wear to extremities, 4to, together with: Balch (Herbert E.), Wookey Hole, its Caves and Cave Dwellers, London [etc]: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1914, photogravure frontispiece, black & white illustrations, photogravures, and plans (some with hand-colouring), original linen-backed boards, some wear to corners, few minor marks, 4to, plus: Hamerton (Philip Gilbert), The Unknown River, London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1871, mounted etched plates and title vignette, advertisement leaf at rear, binder's ticket of Hanbury & Simpson, Fleet St, all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, some stains and marks (mainly to rear cover), 4to, with 4 other titles, including: Bibliotheca Somersetensis, by Emanuel Green, 3 volumes, 1902, (ex. Brighton Public Library); Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, by S. Lewis, 2 volumes, 1846; Old English Household Life, by G. Jekyll, 1925; and West Country Churches, by W.J. Robinson, volume 3 only, 1915QTY: (10)

Middleton (Charles Theodore). A New and Complete System of Geography. Containing a full, accurate, authentic and interesting account and description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ..., 2 volumes, London: for J. Cooke, [1777-1778], vol.II title printed in red & black, 20 uncoloured engraved maps (including 7 folding), and 100 engraved plates, 4 maps with some edge fraying and chipping, one unfolded map (Scotland) with 3.5 cm closed edge tear, one folded map (North America) with central fold mostly split (with associated shorter tears and fraying), each front pastedown with early ink manuscript presentation label, inscribed in a calligraphic hand: Henry Budd, Southampton, to Henry Budd Blackmore of Hinton Ampner, both front hinges cracked, contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label to each spine, worn, 3 hinges cracked, vol. I rear cover detached, folioQTY: (2)

Rudder (Samuel). A New History of Gloucestershire, comprising the topography, antiquities, curiosities, produce, trade, and manufactures of that county, 1st edition, Cirencester: Samuel Rudder, 1779, folding engraved county map, 14 engraved plates and two single-page plans, armorial bookplate of Thomas Wakeman to front pastedown, contemporary diced calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, folio, together with:Bigland (Ralph). Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections, Relative to the County of Gloucester, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition, London: John Nichols, 1791-92, volume 1 with 22 engraved plates, engraved armorial to dedication leaf, volume 2 with 10 (of 11) engraved plates, lacking pp.69-72 and pp.225-252, preliminary leaves frayed and wormed, a few large closed tears, endpapers renewed, ownership inscription of William Capel, The Grove to front pastedown, untrimmed, contemporary quarter vellum, manuscript titles, scuffed and frayed with loss, folio, plusRudder (Samuel). A New History of Gloucestershire, comprising the topography, antiquities, curiosities, produce, trade, and manufactures of that county, 1st edition, Cirencester: Samuel Rudder, 1779, folding engraved map frontipiece (slightly browned and torn, with repairs on verso), 4 (of 17 plates), ownership inscription to title 'John Small Junr His Booke Octr 5: 1779', hinges strengthened with fabric tape, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked, extremities. rubbed and head of spine slightly frayed, folioQTY: (3)

Harley (Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford). A Catalogue of the Collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd: consisting of several capital pictures by the most eminent Italian, French, and Flemish Masters, great variety of Greek and Roman antiquities in urns, edicts, inscriptions, &c. as also of busto's and bronzes; together with several very scarce books of prints and drawings; particularly of the most famous altars, vestments, chalices, &c. by J. Paulo Panini and others; collected by the late Mr. Talman; the King of France's Cabinet complete; the Heads of the most eminent men in Europe in 30 volumes; with divers other valuable curiosities out of the Arundel Collection: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, at his House in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 8th of March, 1741-2, and the five following Days, [London, 1742]. engraved frontispiece by George Vertue, 18pp., annotated in contemporary brown ink with names of the buyers to outer margins, bound with A Catalogue of Greek, Roman and English Coins, Medallions and Medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceas'd, which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, at his House in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday March the 18th, 1741-2, and the five following days, [London, 1742], 50pp., annotated in contemporary brown ink with names of the buyers to outer margins throughout, 20th century wood engraved bookplate (designed by Reynolds Stone) of the architectural historian John Harris to front pastedown, 18th century half calf over marbled boards, lightly rubbed to extremities, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T30228 and T30132. The second item is considered the most important English numismatic catalogue of the 18th century.Edward Harley (1689?1741), son of Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, married the only daughter and heir of the 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, who brought a fortune of half a million pounds. Not surprisingly, he collected on a grand scale so that at his death he was estimated to own 7,639 manuscript volumes, 14,236 original rolls, charters and deeds, 330,000 printed pamphlets, 41,000 prints, over 17,000 books (the finest private library in England at the time), as well as antiquities, coins, medals and pictures. The Harley Manuscripts were sold to the nation in 1753 for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum.

Playfere (Thomas). Ten sermons Preached by that eloquent divine of famous memorie, Th. Playfere Doctor in Divinitie, [Cambridge]: Printed by Cantrell Legge, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1610, title with 19th-century ownership inscription and inked-out signatures to upper margin, bound with: Playfere (Thomas). Hearts Delight. A Sermon Preached at Pauls Crosse in London in Easter Terme, 1593..., 3 parts in one, London: John Legat, 1611, title to each part with woodcut device, some worm holes and short worm trails mostly at head at gutter, occasional light dust-soiling, late 18th/early 19th-century half calf, lacking spine, boards detached, 8vo, together with:South (Robert). Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, The second volume, never before printed, London: Printed by J.H. for Thomas Bennet, 1694, early manuscript notes to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, repaired at foot of spine, 8vo, plusTaylor (Jeremy). The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living [& Holy Dying]: In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every Vertue..., 24th edition, 2 volumes in one, London: D. Brown, J. Walthoe, J. and J. Knapton, [et al.], 1727, engraved frontispiece to each, two folding engraved plates, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, board corners worn, 8vo and one other, Bisse (Thomas). The Beauty of Holiness in the Common-Prayer: As set forth in Four Sermons Preach'd at the Rolls Chapel, London: Printed by W.B. for Henry Clements, 1716, some worming at head of several leaves at front of volume, margins of title browned, some light damp-staining, armorial bookplate of William Charles Cotton to upper pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, joints cracked, slim 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:1. STC 20005 and STC 20011. This first work was actually printed containing nine sermons only and not ten as the title states, of which 6, 7, 8, 5 are reprinted from STC 20026. Later editions were entitled "Nine sermons".2. Wing S4746.

Robertson (William). [Sha'ar 'o petah 'el lashon ha-qodesh]. A Gate or Door to the Holy Tongue, Opened in English. Containing. 1. The chief and necessary grounds of the Hebrew Grammar; 2. A Table for the Hebrew Roots ... 3. A Praxis to the Grammar and the Table..., London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Joseph Cranford, 1653, [12], 131, [5] pp., first line of title in Hebrew script, light fraying to upper margin of title slightly affecting manuscript signature, verso of title with inscription 'The Gift of J. Edmondson to his friend W. Simpson, August 11th, 1830', final leaf with catchword 'the' (however text appears complete and collates with other institutional copies, except this copy contains two additional text leaves at rear), few early marginal annotations, some toning, minor damp-stains to lower outer corners, occasional light dust-soiling mostly to title, modern light brown crushed morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, small 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Wing R1612.

* Gillray (James). Middlesex Election, London: H. Humphreys, August 7th, 1804, etching on wove with contemporary hand colouring, contemporary ink manuscript annotations below title, narrow margins, trimmed to top margin with no loss to image, a few repaired tears, 505 x 350 mm QTY: (1)NOTE:BM Satires 10264.Sir Francis Burdett, scarcely caricatured, sits in a carriage on the way to the hustings, past a large cheering mob. The radical politician Horne Tooke drives the carriage. Streams of election literature slip out of his pocket. Amongst the politicians pulling the carriage is Charles James Fox dressed as a ragged chimney sweeper, the Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Northumberland in aprons and the Duke of Bedford as a farmer. Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hasting stands in the foreground, beating a drum. Behind him is a lamp-post from which hangs a rat labelled 'No Ministerial Rats'.

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Cambridge: John Field, 1663, title somewhat soiled, woodcut or typographical initials, bound with Apocrypha, lacking title, woodcut initials, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Cambridge: by John Field, 1663, woodcut printer's device to title, some light toning throughout, few minor spots or marks, Psalms H3 verso with early ink juvenile drawing, final printed leaf lightly soiled, later endpapers, 19th century mottled calf, rebacked, one corner recornered, some wear to extremities, 4to, together with: The Book of Common Prayer..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: by the Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1682, title somewhat marked and partly detached, with gutter and bottom margins sometime excised and infilled, a2 partly adhered to title verso (torn away), bound with Apocrypha, lacking title, woodcut initials, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms..., London: for the Company of Stationers, 1682, all parts ruled in red throughout, close-trimmed at head and foot (sometimes cropping running title or catch-word), lightly toned, occasional minor marks or spots, final printed page lightly soiled, later endpapers, front hinge cracked after a2, 19th century half calf, worn, hinges cracked and covers loose, 4to, plus 4 others, including 4 Books of Common Prayer: one Oxford, 1706, another Oxford, 1834; the 3rd London: 1731, with ink ownership signature Lady Catherine Murray on title, and front flyleaf with ink manuscript inscriptions regarding ownership by Lady Murray (1789), the Countess of Dunmore (1799) and the Duchess of Sussex (1804), the 4th London, 1824, and a copy of Historia Sacra, or, the Holy History, 2nd edition, London: for John Wyat, 1720, with etchings (including one by Sturt), some repairs, endpapers with ink manuscript inscriptions regarding the births and deaths of 2 families, various bindings, some defectiveQTY: (7)

* Pellegrini (Carlo, pseud 'Ape'). R. Admiral Lord John Hay C.B. 1875, original watercolour caricature on paper, signed in pencil by the artist to the lower right, laid onto contemporary card with a manuscript ink title below the image and a line and wash border, slight spotting, and small closed puncture hole to the mount, inscription to verso giving the provenance of 'Christie's 5th March 1912, lot 370', overall size 430 x 305 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The caricature was published in Vanity Fair on October 23rd, 1875 and titled An Admiral.

Charles I. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtracture of his Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, [London]: Reprinted in R[egis]. M[emoriam]., 1648, folding engraved frontispiece of Charles I at prayer (frontispiece detached and short tear to fold at foot of plate), title with early inscription 'Maria Sophia Sheepshanks keep this fr. my sake M. E.', without portrait of King Charles?, some close trimming to text, marbled endpapers with manuscript notes to free endpapers, gilt gauffered edges, 19th-century red/brown blind decorated morocco with brass clasp, joints slightly cracked and rubbed at head and foot of spine, 12moQTY: (1)

Abolitionism. A sammelband of 13 political pamphlets including speeches concerning the abolition of the slave trade, French and English affairs of the 19th century and speeches by Edmund Burke, 1789-1799, including; Gisborne, Thomas. Remarks on the Late Decision of The House of Commons Respecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 2nd edition, London: Printed for B. White and Sons, Horace's Head, Fleet-street, 1792, a few manuscript corrections, plus, The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday and Tuesday, April 18th and 19th, 1791, reported in detail, London: Printed by and for W. Woodfall and sold at the printing-office of the Diary, Salisbury-Square, Fleet-Street, 1791, plus, The Political Testament of Maximil Robertspierre; with an Account of the Secret Negociations, carried on under his direction with several of the principal states of Europe..., London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796, and others, light spotting throughout, toning to a few leaves, armorial bookplate of Eus[ebiu]s. Horton (of Catton Hall, Derbyshire) and manuscript contents list to front pastedown and front free endpapers in both volumes, 19th-century half calf, rubbed and worn, one volume with front board detached, 8vo QTY: (2)

Caus (Salomon de). LesRaisonsdesForces Mouvantes avec diverses machines tant utilles que plaisantes aus quelles sont adjoints plusieurs desseigns de grotes et fontaines, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Jan Norton, 1615, engraved title to parts I and II, 60 engraved illustrations (mostly full-page, including 2 of music, and plate 22 to first part cancelled), numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams (including 2 full-page and one double-page), woodcut decorative initials and headpieces, some errors in pagination with few cancelled page numbers), bound with Caus (Salomon de). Institution Harmonique. Diuisée en deux parties: en la premiere sont monstrées les proportions des interualles harmoniques, et en la deuxiesme les compositions dicelles, part 1 only (of 2), Frankfurt: Jan Norton, 1615, engraved title, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams (including few full-page), woodcut decorative initials and headpieces, light worm trail holes to lower blank margins of few leaves at gutter (not affecting text), armorial bookplate of François Michel de Verthamon, Marquis de Bréau (d. 1738) to upper pastedown with 'v no. 72' in manuscript written below in an early 18th-century hand, contemporary calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine incorporating the monogram initials JGB to spine compartments, with maroon morocco title label and paper shelf number label ('V 72' in manuscript), the arms of Jérôme Bignon (1589-1656) to centre of each board, minor wear at head and foot of spine, folio (leaf size 39.3 x 25.3 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Brunet I, 1691; Graesse II, p. 90.The first edition of this important work regards the history of the invention of the steam engine. The first book deals with moving forces, the second with grottos and fountains for palaces and gardens, and the third with the construction of the water-driven instrumental organ. Salomon de Caus was a French Huguenot hydraulic engineer and architect under Louis XIII. He is known to have visited Italy in about 1595, where he saw the famous Mannerist garden at Pratolino, which stimulated his interest in water features. He later designed the garden of Somerset House and a garden now on the site occupied by the Maritime Museum in Greenwich. His Hortus Palatinus for Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V was dubbed "the eighth wonder of the world" by some of his contemporaries.Jérôme Bignon (1589-1656) was an author, celebrated magistrate and chief librarian of the French Royal Library. Bignon's grand-daughter Marie-Anne Françoise Bignon married François-Michel de Verthamon, Marquis de Bréau (1657-1738) in 1678. François-Michel de Verthamon was an advisor to the King Louis XIV in Parliament, elected first president of the Grand Council in 1697, and then Registrar Commander of the King's Orders in 1716. He was a great bibliophile who started the so-called Grand Council library, either by giving his own books, or by bequeathing a fund to increase it. The library was burned during the Palace fire in the mid-18th century.

Walpole (Horace). A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c., 2nd edition, enlarged, Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784, engraved frontispiece, 26 engraved plates, including 5 folding, one letter corrected in manuscript, occasional light spotting and offsetting, bookplate of Mark Girouard, 19th century crimson half morocco, spine rubbed with some fading, edges rubbed, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T64913; Rothschild 2501. First published in 1774.

* Football. An Oldham Athletic FC fixture list booklet, 1926-27, a few minor spots, original green cloth (gilt lettering a little rubbed and dulled), together with Plymouth Albion Supporters' Club. First Annual Dinner, Mikado Cafe, Plymouth, November 9th 1934, Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club Ball & Supper, March 9, 1934 (with horizontal crease mark), 3 half-tone press photographs of Plymouth Albion RFC, 3 newspaper match report requests, 1935, a scrapbook titled 'Rugby Statistics 1933/34/35', 3 Oxford v. Cambridge Rugby Football Match programmes (December 6, 1932, December 11, 1934, & December 10, 1935, small tears to December 1935), Manchester Utd v. Blackpool FA Cup Final programme, 24 April 1948, Bristol Rovers v. Manchester Utd souvenir programme, 30 January 1951, Manchester Utd v. Derby County programme, 1 January 1953, Manchester Utd v. Preston North End, 13 February 1960 and Sheffield Utd v. Manchester Utd, 24 April 1962 (a few players names in manuscript), a few creases and stains QTY: (18)

Switzerland. An album of 35 fine colour aquatint Swiss views after Johann Jakob Wetzel, Gabriel Lory and Samuel Birmann, circa 1820 -1830, 35 highly-finished hand-coloured aquatint views heightened with gum arabic, on pale cream wove paper, including 3 views by C. Rordorf after J. J. Wetzel, 3 by J. Hurlimann after Wetzel, 15 by Hurlimann after Lory, 4 by F. Hegi after Wetzel, 5 by S. Birmann (after his own designs) and 1 by Weber after Meyer, tissue guard to each plate, each with printed caption to lower margin, final plate (Vue d'Interlaken) in smaller format and loose at rear, plate sizes generally 25.5 x 32 cm (10 x 12 1/2 inches), sheet size of the plates generally 29 x 41.5 cm, 23 leaves of descriptive text bound in at front, of which 18 leaves are supplied in contemporary manuscript in brown ink, leaf size 46 x 33 cm, contents re-guarded, early ownership signature to front pastedown of Isabel E. Lecky dated August 1842, minor marginal soiling to text leaves, contemporary olive green half morocco over marbled boards, somewhat discoloured to edges and heavily rubbed, modern plain reback, large folio (binding size 47.5 x 36 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:A fine collection of large-format aquatint views of the Swiss and Italian lakes, combining remarkable detail and picturesque feeling by the leading aquatint publishers of the day Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834) Gabriel Lory (1784–1846) and Samuel Birmann (1793-1847), including plates from Wetzel's Voyage pittoresque aux Lacs de Zurich, Zug, Lowers, Egeri et Wallenstadt (1819) ,Voyage pittoresque au Lac Geneve (1820), Lory's Voyage pittoresque de l'Oberland bernois (1822) and Souvenirs de la Suisse, ou, Recueil de vues remarquables pour faire suite au Voyage pittoresque dans l'Oberland bernois (1829), and Birmann's Souvenirs de la vallée de Chamonix (1826).Titles of the individual plates are: Les Isles Borromées (Rordorf/Wetzel); San Martino vers Porlezzo (Rordorf/Wetzel); Lugano (Rordorf/Wtezel); Villa Pliniana (Hurlimann/Wetzel); Vue de Lausanne et de l'Extrémité Occidentale (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue de Clarens et de l'Extrémité Orientale (Hurlimann/Lory); Château de Chillon (Hegi/Wetzel); La Chûte du Rhin prise de la rive droite (Hurlimann/Wetzel); La Chûte du Rhin prise de la rive gauche (Hurlimann/Wetzel); Vue d'Arth (Hegi/Wetzel); Vue de la Caverne de St. Beat Audessus du Lac de Thoune (Lory); Maison de Paysan Près d'Unterseen; La Cascade du Giessbach (Hurlimann/Lory); Chute Supérieure du Staubbach; Vue de la Cascade du Schmadribach au Fond de la Vallée de Lauterbrunnen (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue de Grindelwald (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue des Montagnes du Wetter-Horn, Well-Horn, et du Glacier de Rosenlaui (Hurlimann/Lory); Les Cascades de Dorfbach et Alpbach à Meyringen (Hurlimann/Lory); Pont sur l'Aar au Passage du Grimsel (Hurlimann/Lory); Les Pierres sur le Glacier de l'Aar (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue de l'Hospice du Grimsel (Hurlimann/Lory); Le Repas Champetre (Hurlimann/Lory); Ringgenberg (Hegi/Wetzel); Le Chateau de Thoun (Hegi/Wetzel); Vue de la Ville de Neuchatel (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue de la Ville de Berne prise sur la Route de Thoune (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue de Pont du Diable (Hurlimann/Lory); Gorge de Cluse (Birmann); À la Flégère (Birmann); Glacier des Bossons (Birmann); Environs de Sallenche (Birmann); Lac de Chède (Birmann); Les Lutteurs de l'Oberland Bernois (Hurlimann/Lory); La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell sur le Lac des Quatre Cantons (Hurlimann/Lory); Vue d'Interlaken (Weber/Meyer).

Book of Common Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, London: Robert Barker and John Bill, 1630, letterpress to title in red & black, within decorative woodcut border, neatly repaired short closed tear to top edge, calendar of days in red & black, numerous decorative woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, black letter & roman text, title to Psalter with imprint London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1630, some light toning, scarce minor spots or marks, leaf B5 lower outer blank corner excised, leaves B6 & Y3 each with 6-6.5 cm closed tear from bottom edge, partly repaired, leaf P5 with small mark and associated stain to blank fore-margin (also affecting previous leaf), bound with: The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into English meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others..., Set forth and allowed to be sung in all Churches, of all the people together..., London: by R. Badger for the Company of Stationers, 1632, woodcut printer's device to title and typographic lines, woodcut headpieces, staves of music, generally light toning, p.65 with wax? drip, associated stain affecting previous and following leaves, final page (table) lightly marked, later endpapers, bookplate of Fountaine Walker [of Muirton House, Inverness], adhered printed card of Lucas P. Stubbs, Prospect House, Mount Road, New Brighton, and of Pen-y-Clip, Glan Conway, Nr. Conway, the card with ink manuscript inscription: To my dear son W.L.S., his Father's prayer book, 18th century blind-tooled calf, worn, rear hinge partly cracked, front cover nearly detached, front cover with (very rubbed) small gilt armorial, small folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: From the family of Reverend J.E. James, who received the book as a gift from a parishioner. James was Rector of Bladon with Woodstock, and conducted the internment service for Winston Churchill in 1965.

* Ward (Leslie, pseud 'Spy', 1851-1922). Sir George Faudel-Phillips (1840-1922), 1897, watercolour caricature on paper, signed in pencil by the artist lower left, 28 x 16.2 cm mount aperture, mounted with details to lower mount '"Mansion House", Vanity Fair 1897, Sir George Faudel-Phillips (1840-1922), Lord Mayor of London 1896-97', framed and glazed (47 x 34 cm), laid onto contemporary card with a manuscript ink title below the image and a line and wash border, slight spotting, and small closed puncture hole to the mount, inscription to verso giving the provenance of 'Christie's 5th March 1912, lot 370', overall size 430 x 305 mm QTY: (1)NOTE:Published in Vanity Fair (men of the Day, 683), 10 June 1897.

Celestial charts. A collection of eighteen engraved charts, Nuremberg, early to mid 18th century, engraved celestial charts by or after Doppelmayr, Homann, Seutter and Schenk & Valk, all with contemporary hand-colouring, several charts, torn, frayed and dust-soiled, a few with loss1.Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio..., J. G. Doppelmayr & J. B. Homann, engraved double-hemisphere of the moon, contemporary hand-colouring, water-stained, torn and frayed with loss to the printed surface, 485 x 585 mm2. Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale..., J. B. Homann, engraved hemispheral celestial chart, contemporary hand-colouring, water-stained, dust-soiled, margins frayed with slight loss, 490 x 585 mm3. Ephemerides Motuum Coelestium Geometricae, J. B. Homann, engraved hemispheral celestial chart, contemporary hand-colouring, water-stained, dust-soiled, margins and corners frayed with slight loss, 490 x 580 mm4. Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium quos Planetae inferiores Venus et Mercurius ad annum Salutis MDCCX..., J. G. Doppelmayr & J. B. Homann, engraved hemispheral celestial chart, contemporary hand-colouring, water-stained, dust-soiled, margins and corners frayed with slight loss, trimmed to the neatline along the lower horizontal margin, 490 x 575 mm5. Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe..., J. G. Doppelmayr & J. B. Homann, engraved hemispheral celestial chart, contemporary hand-colouring, water-stained, dust-soiled, margins and corners frayed with slight loss, 495 x 580 mm 6. Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui Cumzonis Circulis et Situ Populorum Diverso. P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map of the ancient world, contemporary wash colouring, four additional spheres to the decorative margins, slight dust soiling and staining, but confined to the margins, 415 x 510 mm7. Soliscirca Orbem Terrarum Spiralis Revo Lutio, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, slight staining, large margins, 430 x 495 mm8. Theoriatrium Superiorum Planetarum, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, slight marginal dust soiling and fraying, but not affecting the printed image, 430 x 510 mm9. Theoria Veneris et Mer Curii, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, large margins10.Haemisphaerium Stelatum Boreale Antiqum, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, some oxidization to old water colour causing some cracking, flaking and slight loss, some marginal soiling and fraying, but not affecting the printed image, 435 x 505 mm11. Poliometria Germaniae Ac Finitimorum Quorundmam Locurum Europa, M. Seutter, engraved triangular mileage table of distances between European cities, with a large uncoloured cartouche of the goddess Cybele in her lion-drawn carriage, dust-soiled and small areas of adhesion scarring, margins frayed and torn with slight loss, 490 x 560 mm12. Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum sive Machina Orbium Mundi ex Hypothesi..., P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, long closed tear affecting the printed image, torn with loss to the upper right corner, 435 x 520 mm13. Orbium Planetarum Terram Complectentium Sceno Graphia, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, slight creasing, 425 x 490 mm14. Scenographia Compagis Mundanae Brahea, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, one marginal closed tear just touching the plate mark, slight creasing, 430 x 500 mm15. Planisphaerium Arateum sive Compages Orbium Mundanorum ex Hypothesi Aratea in Plano Expressa, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, one marginal closed tear just touching the plate mark, some marginal fraying and chipping, 440 x 520 mm16. Tychonis Brahe Calculus, Planetarum Cursus et Altitudines Oboculos Ponens, P. Schenk & G. Valk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, slight overall toning, one marginal closed tear just touching the plate mark, some marginal fraying and chipping, 415 x 510 mm17. Corporum Coelestium Magnitudines, G. Valk & P. Schenk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, slight overall toning, one marginal closed tear just touching the plate mark, some marginal fraying and chipping, slight oxidization to old watercolour with a small area of loss, 420 x 505 mm18. Haemisphaeria Sphaerarum Rectae et Obliquae utriusque Motus et Longitudines tam Coelestes quam Terrestres ac Stellarum Affectiones Monsrantia, G. Valk & P. Schenk, engraved hemispheral map, contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal dust soiling and staining, slight overall toning, marginal closed tears, one just affecting the printed image, 430 x 500 mmcontemporary paper wrappers with a manuscript title 'Tabula Astronomicae' to the upper cover, wrappers heavily, worn and frayed with loss, oblong folio, binding size 530 x 630 mm QTY: (1)NOTE:Sold as a collection of maps and charts, not subject to return.

Atkyns (Robert). The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, 1st edition, London: W. Bowyer, 1712, engraved portrait frontispiece by Van der Gucht, 8 hand-coloured plates of coats of arms of Gloucestershire families with their names in manuscript beneath, engraved double-page map, 64 double-page 'bird's eye' engraved views by Johannes Kip, armorial bookplate of William Phelps to front pastedown, lightly spotted, old damp-stains to a few quires, hinges repaired, contemporary diced panelled calf gilt, rebacked, extremities worn in places (upper joint cracked at foot), lacking title label to spine, folio (39.5 x 24.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Upcott I 246-250.Provenance: William Phelps of Chestal House, Dursley. Phelps was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. An unusually bright example with the plates of the coats of arms finely hand-coloured.

* Rugby. Swindon Rangers Rugby Football Club team photograph, 1882-3, mounted photograph, captioned at head of mount 'Rangers 1882 & 3' with 18 names identified in manuscript to foot of mount: J. Wickenden (Hon. Sec & Umpire), S. Stone, J. A. Davis, W. Povey, W. Westmacott, J. B. Godwin, C. H. Barker, E. Smith, R. Dickson, J. Blackford, E. E. Haines, L. T. Haydon, J. R. Smith, W. W. Bliss, S. Warner, J. Hall, R. Williams (Hon. Sec), R. H. Day, small tear and loss at lower edge of mount, small water stains and light dust-soiling, photograph size 24 x 19.5 cm, mount size 37.5 x 32.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Scarce early team photograph of Swindon Rangers RFC. The Club appears to have been formed around 1870 and their first ground was at Gorse Hill near Swindon, later going on to play at The Croft, Old Town, Swindon and The Sands in Bath Road. The Club was disbanded in 1895 to be replaced months later by Swindon Rugby Football ClubThe name 'Rangers' was thought by some to have been appropriated by the founders of Rangers Football Club, when it was formed in Glasgow in 1872.

Bruce (James). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, plate volume only, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1805, half-title, 76 engraved plates, 3 engraved manuscript facsimiles, 3 engraved folding maps, armorial bookplate of Thomas Burgh and bookplate of Francis E. B. Witts to front pastedown, lightly dust-soiled, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked (with endpapers renewed), rubbed and marked, 4to, together with:Fosbroke (Thomas Dudley). Foreign Topography; or, an encyclodepick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the encyclopedia of Antiquities, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1828, engraved frontispiece, vignette title, 10 engraved plates, bookplate of Francis E. B. Witts to front pastedown, a few light spots, contemporary speckled calf gilt, rebacked, armorial gilt stamp of The Society of Writer's to the Signet to covers, rubbed, 4to QTY: (2)

* Paper. A folio volume of handmade Nonesuch papier d'Auvergne, circa 1920s, containing 279 leaves, few leaves with light damp-stain at gutter, edges untrimmed, contemporary gilt panelled terracotta vellum, folio (leaf size 31.5 x 20 cm), together with a volume of 17th/early 18th-century paper, containing 157 leaves, occasional spotting mostly to margins and few minor marks, free endpapers discarded, contemporary vellum stained and marks, lacking ties, 4to (leaf size 19.8 x 16 cm), plus a late 18th-century part used account book, containing 106 unused leaves, contemporary vellum, manuscript title of accounts to upper board, with brass clasps, small 4to (19 x 15.8 cm) QTY: (3)

* Golf. A framed display of 9 signed golf gloves from the 1981 British Open, match/practice/competition gloves signed by Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, Johnny Miller, Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, Lee Trevino, Tony Jacklin, Nick Faldo and Ben Crenshaw, plus a signed photo by Greg Norman, a Club Tent pass signed by Bill Rogers, a scorecard and Memorial Tournament pendant both signed by Jack Nicklaus, and a half golf ball signed by Tom Watson, each with manuscript name label, mounted on a cloth background, framed and glazed, 79.5 x 104.5 cm QTY: (1)

Book of Common Prayer. The Church-of-England-Man's Companion: containing the Book of Common Prayer..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David... and the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; with notes, practical and explanatory, Chester: by J. Poole, 1780, 11 engraved plates including frontispiece, title with early ink ownership name to top corner, intermittent damp-stain to lower outer corners, 3pp. early ink manuscript bound in at front, relating to family history (1764-1800), 19th-century calf, tooled in blind and gilt, rubbed, some wear to extremities, 4to, together with: Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments..., Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, by William Jackson and William Dawson, 1795, variable toning, intermittent spotting, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached, rear cover loose, 4to, with 15 others, Books of Common Prayer and similar, mostly 19th century, various sizes and conditionsQTY: (A carton)

Bookplates. An album of British bookplates, or Ex Libris, late 19th/early 20th century, comprising approximately 90 bookplates (most armorial, some pictorial), mounted on stiff card leaves, some spotting and toning, with a loosely inserted envelope (addressed to Mrs Battine, Bexhill-on-Sea) marked Duplicates containing another 12 bookplates, plus several hand-drawn copies in pencil or black ink, also several pen and black ink sketches of architectural features or woodcarvings mainly drawn at Lyme, and an ink manuscript letter from K.E. Graf zu Leiningen to Miss Orde, dated 18.3.96, asking for some bookplates for his extensive collection, original cloth, rubbed and somewhat soiled, some wear to extremities, oblong 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Count Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg (1856-1906) authored the book Deutsche und österreichische Bibliothekzeichen in 1901, translated into English as German book-plates: an illustrated handbook of German & Austrian ex libris. In the letter accompanying this album, he writes that the bookplate collection he possesses is the largest collection of whole the continent.Examples of the bookplates included are: Bertie Peter Cator; [Campbells of] Skipness; William Brabazon Urmston R.N.; Admiral & Mrs Page (Herbert added in ink manuscript); Grey of Falloden (Fallodon), Northumberland; Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Hardwick House, Suffolk; Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Ickleton; [Everard Green, Rouge Dragon]; Sir Willoughby Jones, Baronet, Cranmer Hall, Norfolk; Charles Murray Adamson, North Jesmond; Marie Magdalene Gräfin zu Leiningen Westerburg (and other German bookplates); Cecil Battine; Bertram Fitzherbert Widdrington; Christopher Gurney Hoare; James Cameron DunWaters, Plaish 1902; Beatrice Colyer-Fergusson, Wombwell Hall Gravesend, Ightham Mote Ivy Hatch Sevenoaks; Anne Elizabeth Bontine; Amy Troubridge; various members of the Orde family, Nornae Labouchere 1896.

Five Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Local Interest, Methodism in Georgian Nottinghamshire: Joseph Raynor of Mansfield, civil engineer and an ardent Methodist, his commonplace book, dated from October 1804, [53]ff of ink manuscript, mostly transcriptions and thoughts of a religious nature, including references to the Holy Bible, there is however an odd account of the 'Happy Death' of a soldier, John Birks, who died at Mansfield on 3rd October 1804, who, having left his regiment on furlough, drew his pay and spent most of it on the stagecoach to Mansfield, where he was not afraid to die, glad that he saw the face of a Methodist - which he wouldn't have done at the army camp, the verso with some multiplication tables and mathematics, contemporary calf over marbled boards, perished, loosening contents, later 19th century printed yellow book label of his descendant: Thos. Alex. Rayner, 4to; Mathematics: a George III manuscript arithmetic exercise book, Jos. Wood, July 2nd 1796, approx. [55]ff of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, both calculations and some explanatory text, contemporary parchment over boards, some wear and losses, but holding, 4to; Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852): Tennyson (Alfred, Poet Laureate), Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. A New Edition, London: Edward Moxon, 1853, half-title present if detached, original wrappers, 8vo, another copy, disbound, lacking wrappers, 8vo, 1852 Act of Parliament for the day of the Duke's Funeral to be a Bank Holiday, disbound, 8vo, portrait engravings and prints, some further ephemera, etc; a Victorian 'scrap' album of newspaper clippings, mid-19th c, approx. [55]ff, including articles on water-poisoning, cholera, angling and fishing, the philanthropic generosity of Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts, the London poor, discoveries and inventions, Price of Elephants in Assam, A Maori Bird Call.-In New Zealand [...], books published on Our Australian Colonies & British North America, earthquakes, Captain Moody's Floating Forts, further inventions and technology, [the ring and] Auction "Knock-outs", railways, etc., contemporary green quarter-roan over marbled boards, perished spione but holding, marbled edges, green seaweed endpapers, 4to; [&] Medical: Croydon Rural & Merton Joint Hospital Board Wages and Petty Cash Book, dated 1st December, 1910 to 25th January, 1912, [61]ff of manuscript accounts, contemporary red quarter-calf over green moiré silk, gilt-lettered upper-cover, marbled endpapers, foolscap folio (35 x 21.5cm), (5)

John Joseph Hughes (1827-1908) - Cattle Watering, signed and indistinctly dated, fragmentary manuscript label to verso, oil on canvas, 41 x 60.5cm Craquelure, signs of light cleaning and general wear, otherwise good condition.