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Architecture.- Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) De Architectura Libri Decem, engraved additional pictorial title, woodcuts within text, some full-page, bookplate of Robert & Helen Kime, additional title with a few very short tears to lower margin, title with loss to blank lower corner, title lightly foxed and soiled, light browning, mainly marginal, some spotting, a few light stains, but generally good, without front free endpapers, upper hinge broken, later vellum, yapp edges, remains of manuscript title to spine, small loss to spine ends, rubbed and soiled, [Fowler 417; Berlin Katalog 1817; Cicognara 726; Willems 1097 'Magnifique édition, ornée de nombreuses figures sur bois dans le texte'], folio, Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1649. *** One of the most important editions of Vitruvius. It is a compendium of architecture, and the arts of building embellishment. It also contains a Latin translation of Henry Wotton's 'Elements of Architecture', edited by Joannes De Laet.

[Hamburg.] Der Stadt Hamburgk Gerichtsordnung und Statuta, second edition, fine engraved title with Baroque architectural border, Gothic letter, woodcut ornaments and printer's device to colophon, contemporary marbled boards, Hamburg, M.Froben, 1605 § Brun (Friederike) Sitten- und Landschaftsstudien von Neapel und seinem Umgebungen..., first edition, lacking half-title, with folding aquatint frontispiece and engraved plate, contemporary half calf, old paper manuscript labels, Leipzig, 1818 § Triangi (Franz Wilhelm) Concinnatio historico-politica, de & pro arcanis imperantium, first edition, half-title, lacking front free endpaper, extensive old ink annotations to rear endpapers, contemporary sprinkled calf, wormed patch to rear cover and foot of spine, Vienna, J.J.Kürner, 1700, rubbed; and 9 others, mostly German, including a stamped passport of 1813 issued by the Swiss canton of Aargau, v.s. (12)

Sibthorp (Rev. R. Waldo) A Catalogue of Porcelain & Pottery, Oriental, European and English, 65 albumen plates, each captioned by hand, interleaved with letterpress descriptions, no.741-770 with descriptions provided in manuscript, printed publisher's label pasted to title, evenly toned, one ff. with tear into text with no loss, leaves strengthened at gutter, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, new endpapers, modern antique-style morocco-backed boards, 8vo, Nottingham, John Clayson, 1874.

Maurice Baring's copy.- Drayton (Michael) Poems:, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, 2I7 blank, 2I8 leaf of commendatory verses, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, rear endpaper with contemporary manuscript copy of the dedicatory verso opposite, small repaired marginal hole to title, I2 piece torn from lower blank corner, N5 stain and small hole with loss of a few letters, N6 repair with loss of several letters verso (just touching a couple of letters recto), closely trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern calf, spine in compartments and with leather label, spine faded, [Pforzheimer 305; STC 7221], Printed by W. Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, vnder the Diall, 1613. *** Provenance: 'ffran. Goad'; 'Edward Erly' (contemporary and later ink names to front free endpaper); Maurice Baring (1874-1945), English man of letters (pictorial bookplate to front pastedown); Robert Ball (modern bookplate to front free endpaper).  

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***  Passports.- Canning (George, Prime Minister, 1770-1827) Passport for James Calvert to travel to Malta signed by Canning as Foreign Secretary, 1p. engraved with coat of arms and manuscript insertions, folds, creased, folio (355 x 255mm.), 18th December 1826; and 6 other passports, including 1 signed by Lord Aberdeen, 1 Russian, 1 Papal States etc., folio (7).

Susio (Giovanni Battista) I Tre Libri...della Ingiustitia del Duello, second edition, title with large woodcut printer's device and another smaller on final leaf, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, title with contemporary ink inscriptions (partly crossed out) and colouring to woodcut (causing small holes), contemporary marginalia, contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, [EDIT 16 26271], Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1558 § [Pozzi (Giovanni)] Del Vino..., second edition, contemporary half roan, spine worn at head, Florence, 1806 § Horvath (J.B.) Physica particularis, first Venice edition, 10 folding engraved plates (2 more than first edition of 1770), old ink stamps to title, contemporary carta rustica, uncut, joints worn and split, Venice, A.Zatta, 1782, rubbed, small 4to & 8vo (3)

Hydrochloric acid.- Fordyce (Sir William, physician, 1724-92) Autograph Manuscript signed on muriatic (hydrochloric) acid in a letter to Lord Bute, manuscript, 6pp., central folds, slightly browned, sm. 4to, 1790. *** References to the court of Russia and devastating effects of plague in Moscow. 

Hereford.- Bargain and sale Jane Breeton Widow and Henry Powell of "All those two newly erected Cottages or Tenements... situate in Scut Mill Lane...", D.s., manuscript on vellum, 2 red wax seals, folds, slightly yellowed, 414 x 590mm., 9th September 1819; and 4 others, including another document relating to Hereford, 2 relating to Wilmslow in Cheshire and an album signed by members of the Young Australia League, v.s., v.d. (5).

[Perreau (Jean-André)] Le Roi Voyageur, ou Examen des abus de l'Administration de la Lydie, first edition, half-title, foxing at beginning and end, modern marbled boards, "Londres", T.P.Cadel, 1784 § [Damours (Louis)] Lettres de Miladi***, sur l'influence que les Femmes pourroient avoir dans l'éducation des Hommes, 2 parts in 1, first edition, contemporary calf-backed boards, spine gilt and slightly wormed, Amsterdam, se trouve a Paris, Duschesne, 1784 § [Naigeon (Jacques, editor)] Recueil Philosophique ou Mélange de Pieces sur la Religion & la Morale, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in French, half-titles, slight damp-staining,"Londres" [Amsterdam], 1770, the last two contemporary calf-backed boards, spines gilt, the second a little wormed, the last torn and repaired; and 8 others, philosophy, education, philosophy etc., 8vo et infra (11) *** The first consists of a supposed discovered manuscript bearing the laws and institutions of a utopian "Lydia", a paragon of freedom of trade, liberal policies in agriculture and labour, civic and familial virtues, openly in contrast with the state of contemporary France. The second is a fictional collection of letters describing what a young man might learn about conduct and society from an older woman. The third is the uncommon first appearance in French of David Hume’s Essay on Suicide and The Immortality of the Soul, which had both been suppressed by Hume himself for fear of prosecution.

Folder of Fire Insurance Documents, c.30 contracts, posters, charts, receipts and other related ephemera,  engraved vignettes, signatures and manuscript notes, blind-stamped, v.s. between approx. 100 x 210 mm and 600 x 370 mm, some light foxing, some a little rubbed at edges, preserved in protective sleeves in folder [mainly late 18th to mid-19th century]. *** A collection of attractive pictorial documents relating to fire insurance spanning the late 18th and early to mid-19th centuries, and ranging from companies in Scotland to Liverpool.

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, lst Duke. Letter signed,, “Wellingtonâ€, partly printed and completed in manuscript, 1p., folio, lightly browned, small split at fold, Paris, 28 March 1816. Informing Major General Sir Edward Barnes that “The Prince Regent having been graciously pleased...to command that a Medal should be struck for the Officers, and Men, who fought at the Battle of Waterloo, I have the honor to forward the one destined for youâ€. Major General Sir Edward Barnes is described in the Waterloo Roll as 'our fire eating adjutant-general'. He commanded Brigades at the battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthes. M.P. for Sudbury he has a long and distinguished career and is generally credited as cofounder of the Army and Navy Club.Some repaired splitting to corners, paper evenly browned.

Henry Francoise. The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin, 126 colour plates, 75 further b/w plates, original publishers cloth gilt, slipcase, folio, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. Provenance: Ex-Libris Robert Lenkiewicz Foundation.Slipcase with some scuffs and marks.

A Charles II indenture manuscript, hand written with ornate title piece, on two sheets of vellum, each measuring, 68.5cm x 60cm, the reverse of the second sheet with a signature of H.R.H. George, Duke of York, dated April 21st 1899 whilst on a visit to Careysville, Ireland, rolled, with wax seal depicting a warrior on horse back in suit of armour.indenture soiled and with discoloured folds and creases, wax seal broken and crudely repaired with losses.

Ottavio Gigli. Nel Giorno delle augurate Nozze de l Duca A. Torlaonia con Donna T. Colonna questi Disegni originali di valentissimi Artisti, 15 double-page genealogical tables, engraved map, 22 engraved plates, including 10 partly hand-coloured and one processional double page plate wholly hand-coloured, tipped in slip with manuscript note, 'Given by Alexander Prince of Torlonia to Earl Grosvenor at Rome, March 1841', contemporary half vellum, spine tooled gilt, folio, no imprint, c. 1840. Prince Don Alessandro Raffaele Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Duke of Ceri (1 January 1800 to 7 February 1886) was an Italian nobleman of the House of Torlonia, titled Duca di Ceri, Prince di Fucino. This appears to be a commemorative volume produced on the occasion of his marriage to Donna Teresa Colonna-Doria (22 July 1823 to 17 March 1875) on 16 July 1840 in Rome.Slight marking in places, a fine copy.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. An album of sketches and manuscript copies by the Barrett's and their circle, including 'The Sea Side Walk' signed 'EBB' with a note 'Sidmouth August 17th, Monday evening, 1835', 2pp., and a further untitled poem, commencing 'For ever since my childhood looks/Could rest on nature's pictured books..', in six stanzas, also signed 'EBB', 2pp., together with a watercolour sketch by J. Varley, signed in pencil, and other sketches and drawings, the title page inscribed 'Arabella Barrett, Hope End June 13th 1831', contemporary morocco, 4to; together with a notebook with an outline for a play, possibly by Octavius Barrett Browning. PROVENANCE: From the family of Octavius Moulton-Barrett (1824-1910), youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, thence by descent. RARE. The album was a gift to Arabella Moulton-Barrett from Eliza Cliffe. 'The Sea Side Walk' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was first published in The Athenaeum. 2 July 1836, and collected in 'The Seraphim, and Other Poems', 1838. This appears to be a fair copy in the author's hand. The untitled poem is 'Minstrelsy', and also a fair copy in the author's hand. The album also contains 'A Short Catechism on the Subject of Albums' by Edward Moulton-Barrett, 2pp., several lines from William Wordsworth's 'The Fountain', transcribed by Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, and a copy of 'A Couplet, Written in a Volume of Poems...' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, transcribed by Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 1p.Mixed condition.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others. An album of loose manuscripts, the cover titled 'Barrett', including a fair copy of the manuscript 'Prologue' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2pp., in the author's hand, several incomplete manuscripts by Edward Moulton-Barrett, and others, including 'The Legend of Brown Rosary', 4pp., 'The Birth of Christ', 2pp., 'Prologue', 4pp., 'A Vision of Berry Pomeray', 8pp., leather boards, loose PROVENANCE: From the family of Octavius Moulton-Barrett (1824-1910), youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, thence by descent.Mixed condition.

Richard Harvey (attributed). The Farmer's Wife; or the Complete Country Housewife; Containing Full and ample Directions for the Breeding and Management of Turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. How to Make Sausages... for making Wines... Cyder... Butter... Cheese... Beer... the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey... Breeding and Managing Song Birds. Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, engraved frontispiece, and manuscript page at rear, contemporary full calf, 12mo, London: Alex Hogg, n.d.ownership inscription to front flypaper, rear flypaper with a green stain, occasional spotting and browning, extremities scuffed and corners bumped.

A 19th century tied bundle of birch sticks with attached manuscript note relating to 'The Birch Rod, a 'Relic' of Barbarism according to some.....Wm Clark Master St Thomas's Boys School Southwark 23rd November 1891', length 46cm.

Bartolomeo and Pietro Paoletti - a collection of 327 Grand Tour plaster intaglios, presented in eight leather-bound double-sided faux books, Rome, early/mid-19th century, each white plaster intaglio or 'impronte' edged in gilt and yellow paper, each case with black ink manuscript list of contents to front and rear pastedowns, one with manufacturer's address 'Si Fanno in Roma da Bartolomeo Paoletti, e Pietro Figlio, dimoranti di studio in Piazza di Spagna num.49', with marbled boards and brown leather spines, gilt-tooled 'Paoletti', numbered 1-8 and detailing the place in which the originals are housed, 25cm x 16cm (two intaglios missing and some faults). Note: the Paolettis' studio was located on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome until 1847 and enjoyed an excellent reputation throughout the 'Grand Tour'. Among their clients were Catherine the Great of Russia, Ferdinand III and Grand Duke of Tuscany.

A group of ethnic textiles, including a Burmese sazigyo manuscript binding tape, a Burmese Inle Lake lotus fibre panel, a Burmese longyi cloth and two panels of Hotan silk. Note: from the collection of a local academic traveller and collector.

NEW ZEALAND – MAORI LAND TRANSACTION Land transaction signed at foot by fifteen Māori chiefs with their moko, being an agreement between eight named Māori chiefs and George Lyall, Stewart Marjoribanks, George Palmer and Robert Torrens, Trustees of the New Zealand Company, exchanging '...one double barrel gun, eight muskets & one barrel of powder...' for various parcels of land '...denominated the Islands of Pakatu, Taratora, Ponue & Pake situated in the district of Tamaki... bounded the East side by the Eastuary [sic] Named by Captain Cook The Thames & by the Natives Te Cuppa on the West side by the Strait of Pahneniche on the North side by the aforesaid Strait and Eastuary and on the South side by the Sound or Passage called by the Natives Mamidua. Together with all the trees growing on the said four pieces or parcels of Land... belonging together with the Creeks, Bays and Harbours on the said Islands & the sea for 3 Miles distant from their shores...', signed beneath by Thomas Shepherd, Richard Bell, Luther Lechmere, and signed and subscribed at foot by the interpreter Thomas Kendall ('...I hereby certify that I interpreted the above to the chiefs whose Marks are annex'd, and that they fully understand the... meaning of the contents...'); engraved with manuscript insertions, simple line map in ink of Wyheckee on reverse, showing the islands of Pake and Po-nue, with compass rose and scale, one sheet of vellum, recto and verso, dust-staining, water-staining, discolouration, worn and rubbed with some losses, folio (600 x 415mm.), '...on board the Rosanna, at Anchor off the Island of Wyheckee...', 23 September 1826 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAFPope Gregory IX receiving the text of the Decretals from Raymond of Penyafort and another cleric, opening leaf of the Decretals with the glossa ordinaria by Bernard of Botone, 30 lines in two columns surrounded by the glossa in 80 lines in two columns in gothic textualis, brown ink on vellum with rubrics in red, four historiated initials on the recto, one historiated initial and one inhabited initial depicting the Holy Trinity (God the Father, Holy Spirit and Christ on the Cross) on the verso, all decoration heightened in gold, early marginal notes and manicules, 3 tiny single wormholes, framed and glazed, folio (leaf measures 405 x 270mm.), [Paris, c.1325-50]Footnotes:FINE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF of a fundamental text of canon law, The Decretals of Gregory IX. In 1230 the Pope ordered Raymond of Penyafort (d.1275) to organise the five existing compilations of canon law into one authoritative text. In 1234 he decreed that this was to be considered the official collection and sent copies of his Decretals to the universities of Bologna and Paris. The gloss that accompanies the text is the so-called glossa ordinaria which was completed in c.1266 by Bernard of Botone (d.1266).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in a secretarial hand 'Dr. Weddell/ Bagnères-de-Bigorre/ from the author' on the front free endpaper, half-title (verso with quotations by Whewell and Bacon only), folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound at end (Freeman's form 3, no priority), light marks and spots on preliminary leaves, occasional light single spots to text, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt (Freeman variant b, no priority), light brown endpapers, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, lower cover with a few minor marks and light small dampstain in upper gutter corner (showing as small v-shaped shadow to lower endpapers) [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859Footnotes:FINE COPY OF AN AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE' (Dibner), and 'a turning point... in the history of ideas in general' (DSB).Dr H.A. Weddell's name appeared on the manuscript list of persons to receive copies of the first edition of Origin of Species drawn up by Darwin sometime between August and October 1859. Weddell was a distinguished British-born botanist and physician who spent his entire career in France or in the service of France in South America. As early as 1856 Darwin had consulted Weddell's monograph on the Urticaceae 'when he was calculating the number of species and varieties in large and small genera' (Darwin Correspondence, Vol. 8, p.569). DCP cites a letter sent by Weddell to Darwin on 13 May 1863, in which he discusses searching for Ophrys (bee orchids) locally, fertilisation, and other botanical matters suggested by a reading of Darwin's On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, a copy of which he was sent in 1862.Weddell's death in 1877 opened up a place in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences. Darwin had twice applied unsuccessfully to be a corresponding member; on 5 August 1878, at last, the secretaries wrote to him inviting him to take up the position left by Weddell (DCP).Provenance: Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819-1877), presentation inscription from the author; Louis Devergne, neat ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Presumably this the Louis Devergne (1891-1941), who was archpriest at Loudon, some 40 miles from Poitiers where Weddell had died; private French owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MANUSCRIPT – EMBLEM BOOKIllustrated manuscript notebook, 'Loves Emblems', dating from the latter half of the seventeenth-century, illustrated with some 100 line drawings and densely written in ink recto and verso on ruled pages, beginning with the dedication 'To all pious and vertuous widows' ('...the cause of my writing this was Love... Being by death deprived of what in my eyes was most Loveworthy to me in the world, and finding some relief in venting my grief and passion in this manner; I writ some few of these Emblemes, only in remembrance of my love... to ease my overburdend heart...'), followed by a preface 'To the indifferent Reader', apologising for any errors ('...if you find repetitions, know it is because one and the same grief still troubles my heart... his memory still is loved, honored and esteemed, wherever he was known...'), continuing with four sections of her own verses, each emblem accompanied by a verse from the bible and a line drawing, the sections titled 'Introduction' ('Love is strong as Death'); 'The Motive' ('...think not this strange, for it is any wonder/ to find such pangs where hearts are split assunder...'); the main part entitled 'Loves Emblemes The Season' ('...for all future days a constant Frost? Has nipd my budding hopes, my hopes are crost...'); a table of contents; and ending with 'Heiroglyphicks' ('...My anxious soul can find no ease at all/ with fears and doubts my heart is so oppressed/ my task is great, but my endeavours small/ as is my power, Lord teach me what is best...'), the last spread illustrating the story of Doctor Peter du Moulin ('...he is author of that excellent book contentment of mind; which he write when he was king Charles 2nd's chaplain...'), c.107 numbered leaves, dust-staining, marks, some small tears, later quarter calf, marbled boards, worn, some loss to head of spine, 4to (202 x 160mm.), [late seventeenth-century]Footnotes:'THE CAUSE OF MY WRITING THIS WAS LOVE': A poignant memorial from a widow to her lost love dedicated to 'all pious and vertuous widows'.The author of this emblem book is unknown, but she explains in the preface that the omission of her name is deliberate: '...my knowledge of my works imperfection forceth me to conceal my name... yet it is impossible for me to conceal my love...'. She notes that she spent '...six or seven weeks of single days in compyling it...'. It takes the typical form of an emblem book, each spread comprising a charming and idiosyncratic line drawing in pen and ink, a motto taken from the bible and her accompanying text in the form of a verse inspired by that motto, in this case usually two pages in length. She may have been inspired by Francis Quarles' book Emblems, published in 1635. The volume is a heartfelt, and by her own admission cathartic, outpouring of grief after the death of her beloved husband: '...This my grief hath no relenting, knows of no relief/ since I must live although my life begone/ the joys of all my wretched life in one/ were here confined...'. Her utter despair and grief, which she admits is worse than the '...fires of hell...', emanates from every page ('...Nothing but death can ease my troubled soul/ Nothing but death can my just grief control...'). Within the framework of religious fervour, she speaks of sudden death ('...let him for death each single day prepare...'), and suffering ('...This sentence is pronounced to all/ that lead a life/ of Godliness, both great and small/ must suffer strife/ this suffering is so Generall/ both man and wife/ are Comprehended in this Lot,/ his suffrings must not be forgot/ who first to die for us refused not...'). The bookplate indicates that the volume was once in the collection of James John Forbes Leith (1780-1840) of Whitehaugh, Aberdeenshire, and his wife Williamina Helen Stewart Forbes Leith (1804-1866). He spent most of his career in India in the service of the Company and retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1826. The Beinecke Library holds a manuscript volume of sentimental acrostic poems by the couple, dated 28 November 1827 (Osborn d225) and, in 1848, Williamina privately published Whitehaugh, a poem addressed to her eldest son after the death of his father. It may be that the author of our manuscript was an earlier member of the Forbes Leith family. Provenance: Colonel & Mrs Forbes Leith, Whitehaugh (bookplate); purchased by book collector Alexander Macdonald (1910-1998, Professor of Bacteriology at Aberdeen Medical School); thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FRENCH REVOLUTION - LOUIS XVIDocument signed and subscribed by the King ('Bon Louis'), and his secretary, ordering Joseph Duruey, Administrator of the Royal Treasure, 2 October 1788, to pay 166,000 livres for his hunting expenses during 'le quartier d'Octobre 1788', one page, printed with manuscript insertions, light dust-staining and creasing, some marks and a few small pin holes, some small tears at folds, lower portion folded for framing, four slits for closure ribbon, remains of old paper on reverse where previously mounted, 4to (307 x 236mm.), Paris, 24 November 1789Footnotes:LOUIS XVI ATTEMPTS TO CLAIM HUNTING EXPENSES DURING THE TURMOIL OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: In 1788, the spending of the Royal Household alone made up 13% of total state expenses. By 1789 the country's finances were in disarray and the impoverished people were in uproar over royal profligacy and the King's absolute power. This document is dated just a few weeks after an angry mob marched on the palace of Versailles and Louis XVI and his family were forced to flee on 5 October 1789. They were brought to the Tuileries in Paris where they resided until their attempted escape in June 1791.Provenance: Private European collection formed by the owner's father some 50 years ago.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BORGES (JORGE LUIS)El Aleph, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED AND ANNOTATED COPY, with the author's signature on the title-page, his ink emendations on 22 pages, the otherwise blank 'Indice' page at the end filled with a list of quotes from the book (this also signed), and underscoring throughout, varying degrees of browning to text, untrimmed in publisher's illustrated olive wrappers over limp boards, extremities rubbed, some staining mainly to spine and lower wrapper [Becco 37; Loewenstein 355; Vallely 112], 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada, 1949Footnotes:BORGES'S ANNOTATED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ALEPH, his 'second great gathering of Ficciones, a worthy successor to the first, and the confirmation of Borges' international stature... Borges himself conceded that, along with Ficciones [1944], this was his major book' (Charles Vallely, Jorge Luis Borges. A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts, Lame Duck Books, 2003). The collection comprises thirteen short stories and an epilogue, including the famous title story, which was first published in the magazine Sur in September 1945, and Deutsches Requiem, a manuscript of which is included in the present sale.In the present copy Borges has underscored words, phrases and sentences on over 50 pages, with authorial deletions and corrections on 22 of them, ranging from a single word to a longer phrase. On the page with the printed heading 'Indice' at the end, he adds a list of 10 phrases taken from the book, with their page references. The corrections and this list appear not to have found their way into modern editions (although it has not been possible to consult the 1952 augmented second edition), but Borges was famous for endlessly revisiting, revising and annotating his manuscripts and books: 'There is no such thing as a first reading; for Borges, a first writing... His texts are always rewritten, never (I think) given once and for all... He insistently declares that texts are not finished, because they need to be completed by generations of readers. I take it that he also thinks that no writer ever really finishes anything' (Daniel Balderston, How Borges Wrote, University of Virginia Press, 2018).Provenance: Private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BORGES (JORGE LUIS)El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO VICTORIA OCAMPO, inscribed on half-title 'Para Victoria Ocampo, amiga e colaboradora de esta iniciativa feliz, con todo mi agradecimiento y admiración. Jorge Luis Borges. San Isidro, 1942', a little light browning, one short nick to fore-edge of title, untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's light blue wrappers printed in white, a little light soiling and creasing towards edges, spine slightly faded but otherwise very good [Becco 29; Loewenstein 355; Vallely], 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sur, 1942 [colophon: 30 December 1941]Footnotes:'ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF MODERN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE': INSCRIBED BY BORGES TO HIS 'COLLABORATOR' VICTORIA OCAMPO, THE DEDICATEE OF THE TITLE STORY AND ONE OF THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN FEMINISTS.'This is Borges's crucial book, arguably the most important work of modern Latin American literature.... it is easy to forget how original, indeed revolutionary, were Borges's procedures, especially in Latin America, which international modernism had yet to penetrate... The light blue wrappers... seem an unmistakable reference to James Joyce's Shakespeare & Co.. Ulysses... of which Borges proclaimed himself the first hispanic explorer in his callow youth' (Charles Vallely, Jorge Luis Borges. A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts, Lame Duck Books, 2003).El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ('The Garden of Forking Paths') was Borges's first collection of short stories, most of which had previously been published by Victoria Ocampo in Sur. Although it was critically lauded, the book failed to win the literary prizes many expected, leading Ocampo to dedicate a large part of the July 1941 issue of Sur to a 'Reparation for Borges'. The eight stories in El jardín, augmented by nine new ones, were then published as 1944's Ficciones, the work that would herald the author's international breakthrough. One of new stories was 'Funes el memorioso', a manuscript of which is included in the present sale.A key figure in Borges's life as far back as 1925, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was an Argentinian writer, publisher, feminist and influential intellectual. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and is perhaps best known for having founded the most important Latin American literary magazine of the time, Sur, in the 1930s. During the same decade she also developed a close friendship with Virginia Woolf following her involvement in Borges's translations of A Room of One's Own and Orlando, but this ended after Ocampo attempted to persuade the camera-shy author to have her photograph taken. She also radically shifted her political views as the decade progressed. Having shown some initial admiration for Mussolini in Italy, she gave her support to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, edited an anti-Nazi magazine during World War II, was the only Argentinian to attend the Nuremberg Trials, and spent time in prison for expressing her anti-Peronist views in 1953.In her later life Ocampo became the first woman to be admitted to the Argentine Academy of Letters, and her many famous friends and guests included Stravinsky, Malraux, Tagore and Graham Greene, who dedicated The Honorary Consul to her. 'Elegant and aristocratic, Ocampo was one of the first Latin American feminists, and fought to uphold the rights of women authors; her 'Letter to Virginia' documents her beliefs' (E. Fishburn & P. Hughes, A Dictionary of Borges, Duckworth, 1990).Provenance: Victoria Ocampo, inscribed to her by Borges on half-title; private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HOBHOUSE (J.C.)A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 2 folding double-page maps (one with small tear), 17 hand-coloured aquatints (7 double-page), one plan, 2 plates of facsimile handwriting, 2 plates of sheet music, occasional offsetting and light spotting, calf gilt with ornate roll tooled borders, rebacked, some wear, corners bumped [Atabey 584; Blackmer 821], 4to, James Cawthorn, 1813Footnotes:Provenance: William Rendell Beer, manuscript inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BORGES (JORGE LUIS)Autograph manuscript of his short story 'Deutsches Requiem', signed ('Jorge Luis Borges') at the end, seemingly a corrected final draft of the version published in El Sur and then in El Aleph, with ink corrections, deletions (in some cases giving 3 options for a word and crossing through 2 of them), and re-arrangements of phrases or paragraphs, 8pp., written in black ink on 8 sheets of squared graph paper, recto only, some browning, 8vo (242 x 165mm. and slightly smaller), [c.1946]Footnotes:'MUCHAS COSAS HAY QUE DESTRUIR PARA EDIFICAR EL NUEVO ORDEN' - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF BORGES'S POWERFUL HOLOCAUST NOVELLA.Written at the time of the Nuremberg Trials, first published in the magazine Sur in February 1946, and included in the collection El Aleph three years later (see adjacent lot), 'Deutsches Requiem' is the fictional last testament of Otto Dietrich zur Linde, an unrepentant Nazi concentration camp Commander, torturer and murderer. After being tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity, he reflects on his own sins and those of Nazi Germany whilst awaiting the firing squad. Borges was always keen to stress that he was not solely concerned with the physical horror of the genocide, but also with 'lo trágico del destino alemán', the destruction of German spirit and culture as a whole (Epilogue to El Aleph).Some critics over the years have suggested that the author's technique of putting distance between the reader and the horrific events that took place represented a shying away from the subject. Apart from the fact that 1946 was undoubtedly too soon for such fictional depictions, it is difficult to avoid finding parallels with Michael Glazer's recent Oscar-nominated film, Zone of Interest, which adopts its own distancing technique by setting the entire film outside the camp walls. A loose adaptation of Martin Amis's 2014 novel, the film tells the story from the point of view of the Auschwitz Commandant, Rudolf Höss, and his family. Like the dispassionate zur Linde, Höss is 'less the ideologue and passionate Nazi of his professional career, more of a dispassionate strategist'. Our manuscript would seem to be a near-final draft, written on Borges's famous mathematical graph paper, which was perfectly suited to his methodical and precise methods of composition. The first few pages are written on every other line, with numerous alterations, whilst the second half is more neatly written on every line. Although there are numerous deletions, corrections and markings to indicate that various paragraphs, sentences and phrases are to be re-arranged or swapped (one paragraph is entirely crossed through but rewritten verbatim elsewhere), we can find only one textual difference from the version printed in El Aleph, which adds the final short sentence sentence 'Mi carne puede tener miedo; yo no.' ('My flesh may feel fear; I do not'). One other manuscript of the story is recorded by Daniel Balderston (How Borges Wrote, University of Virginia, 2018), presumably in private hands with no details given.Provenance: Lame Duck Books, purchased 2006; private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTDE PAPE (FERDINAND AND CHARLES) Recueil de pieuses prières, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 209 pages (numbered in lower margin), illuminated throughout including title, 33 full-page illuminations, and 264 pages of text, each within elaborate borders of different colours (gold, green, blue, lilac, red and white) filled with flowers, birds, insects and butterflies, the last 12 pages with gold floral corner-pieces left blank for additions, illuminated initials heightened in gold throughout, illumination on p.7 neatly restored, original brown morocco by De Samblanx-Weckesser, covers and spine with blind-stamped floral decoration, green and red inlaid monogram on upper cover, red morocco doublures with all-over pattern of gilt stars, crescent moon and roses, gilt dogtooth border, red watered silk endpapers, leather ties with decorative metal clasps, g.e., contained in original diced roan box with gilt monogram on upper cover (light wear), small 4to (150 x 330mm.); together with a note by Charles de Pape, SIGNED and DATED, 4-page vellum bifolium in brown ink (160 x 120mm.), Bruges, 1908 (2)Footnotes:AN EXQUISITE AND RARE EXAMPLE OF NEO-MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATION. Ferdinand De Pape (1801-1885) was a Belgian painter and foremost representative of the revival of medieval illumination who attained national and international success. Ferdinand described himself as a 'peintre en moijen âge'; and his known works suggest that he drew most of his inspiration from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Brugean illumination. Ferdinand worked with his brother François (1814-1863) and later, from 1859, with his son Charles who eventually took over the workshop in 1882 when Ferdinand retired due to his failing eyesight. (see W. Dumond, 'The Bruges Illuminator Ferdinand de Pape', in The Revival of Medieval Illumination, 2007, pp.245-67).No other complete manuscripts have been traced at auction. The only other comparable example is held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, MS M.1115, Legende et déscription de la châsse de St. Ursule par Memling à l'hôpital Saint Jean à Bruges.The manuscript offered here was made for 'Monsieur and Madame Norbert Le Gallais-Metz' as is explained in the accompanying note in Pape's note. The manuscript, which celebrated the marriage between Norbert Le Gallais and Juliette Metz, was started as a collaboration between Ferdinand and Charles, and it was eventually finished by Charles in 1908. The 33 full-page fine illuminations depict scenes from the New Testament and various Saints, including St Norbert and St Juliet, who share the first names of the couple the manuscript was made for.ILLUMINATIONS: p.1 Le Gallais coat of arms; p.2 Salvator Mundi; p.4 Virgin Lactans crowned by angels; p.5 Angel musicians; p.6 Donor in prayer; p.7 Donor in prayer; p.8 Annunciation; p.15 St Peter; p.16 Visitation; p.21 St John the Evangelist; p.51 Annunciation to the Shepherds; p.29 St Catherine of Alexandria; p.30 Nativity; p.39 St Paul; p.40 Flight to Egypt; p.47 St Anthony; p.48 Presentation to the Temple; p.64 St Catherine of Alexandria; p.75 St Nicholas; p.76 St Barbara; p.81 St Luke; p.82 Agony in the Garden; p.107 St Mark; p.108 Altar with Host; p.125 St Matthew; p.126 Crucifixion; p.145 Bishop martyr; p.146 St Louis; p.158 Angel musician; p.176 St Francis receiving the stigmata; p.177 Coronation of the Virgin; p.197 St Norbert; p.198 St Juliet.TEXT: pp.9-38 Prières du Matin; pp.41-63 Messe de Mariage; pp.65-83 Exercice Pour la Confession; pp.83-107 Exercice Pour la Communion; pp.109-157 Prières durant la Saincte Messe; pp.160-176 Prières pendant la salut; pp.178-195 Prières du Soir; pp.194-209 Souvenirs de Famille LGM.The fine binding is by the Belgian master craftsman Charles de Samblancx [or Samblanx] (1855-1943), who began his binding career at age 11, as an apprentice to Coppens. He worked in partnership with the gilder Jacques Weckesser from 1889 to 1909. Samblancx worked in a variety of period styles, masterfully reproducing the bindings of previous centuries.Provenance: Norbert Le Gallais (1860-1934) and Juliette Metz; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NICOLAUS DE AUSMOSupplementum summae Pisanellae; ASTESANUS. Canones poenitentiales; ALEXANDER DE NEVO. Consilia contra Judaeos foenerantes, 3 parts bound in 1 vol., 528 leaves, 40 lines in two columns, Gothic type, early ownership inscription on fly-leaf (faded), marginal ink inscriptions, wormhole in inner gutter occasionally touching text, later vellum with yapp edges, manuscript title to spine [ISTC in00075000], 4to, Venice, Franz Renner, 1483Footnotes:A popular digest of canon law by Nicolaus de Ausmo (d.1475). Conveniently arranged alphabetically, from 'Abbas' to 'Zelus' it was intended as a supplement to Summa de casibus conscientiae by Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio (1260-1347). This edition includes Alexander de Nevo's Consilia contra judaeos, a treatise against the practices of Jewish moneylenders which occurs in editions from 1476 onwards.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)Autograph poem 'On Occasion of her Book to my Fior-di-Lisa' signed ('Christina G. Rossetti'), 8 lines beginning 'The Rose is Love's own flower – And Love's no less/ The Lily's loftiness...', affixed to the flyleaf of a volume of thirteen manuscript poems dedicated to Christina Rossetti, composed, written and illustrated by her close friend Lisa Wilson, beginning 'To Christina, My Dearest Friend', and including the poems 'Consecrations', 'Of My Lady', 'Her Birthday', and 'For Love's Sake', finely decorated in watercolour throughout with flowers such as forget-me-nots, honeysuckle and blossoms, 13 leaves of watercolour paper, printed gilt floral endpapers, vellum, ruled in gilt with initials 'C.G.R.' on upper cover, 8vo (178 x 125mm.), [1892]; with a separate autograph fair copy of Rossetti's poem titled 'In honour of her Book, and still/ more of my own/ Fior-di-Lisa' signed with initials ('C.G.R.') on a bifolium, one page, 8vo (175 x 111mm.), [?1892]; and group of associated ephemera including a cabinet photograph of Lisa Wilson and two botanical watercolours signed 'Helen Rossetti' (small group)Footnotes:'TO MY FIOR-DI-LISA': A VOLUME OF ILLUSTRATED POEMS DEDICATED TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI BY HER CLOSE FRIEND, WITH TWO COPIES OF ROSSETTI'S VERSE WRITTEN IN RESPONSE. This beautifully decorated vellum-bound volume was presented by Lisa Wilson to Christina Rossetti in 1892, soon after Rossetti's operation for breast cancer in May of that year, and bound in haste when it was thought that she had not long to live. The women had corresponded since the 1880's when Lisa Wilson '...a very invalidish girl, obliged to lie down a great deal...' (Mary F. Sanders, The Life of Christina Rossetti, London, 1930, p.254) wrote Rossetti an admiring letter. They finally met in 1885 when Christina offered to send her a copy of her new book Time Flies (see lot 118). Grasping the opportunity to meet in person, Lisa collected the book herself, thus beginning a close lifelong friendship, becoming her '...most important admirer... close friend and companion...' (Jan Marsh, Christina Rossetti, a Literary Biography, 1994, p.538). The moment is captured in her poem 'The Meeting' included here ('...let me recall the time when we first met... you came and let my hands clasp yours... Your lips, with their sweet melancholy curve and rare swift smile. Your musical low voice Thrilled through me...'). Rossetti herself was less poetic at the prospect of their meeting: 'Don't expect me to be as nice as my poems or you will be disappointed', she had written (Marsh, p.538).The collection of intense love poems, religious verses and thoughts on death has been described as '...the most public statement Wilson made of her love for Rossetti...' (Diane D'Amico, 'Lisa Wilson: 'A Friend of Christina Rossetti'', The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol. 10, Fall 2001, p.118). D'Amico argues that the poems must, however, be read in the context of female friendship at a time when intense expressions of love between women were allowed without being interpreted as sapphic, and that they can also be seen in the concept of a spiritual friendship that brought them closer to God, with Rossetti as Lisa's spiritual guide: '...Wilson's love for Rossetti and her poetry inspired by this love are influenced by a religious faith that allowed for such a concept of friendship...' (D'Amico, p.121). After Rossetti's death, Lisa requested William Michael Rossetti return the volume, in which Christina had inscribed a short verse dedicated to her, and inserted at the front of the book. 'Fior-Di-Lisa' casts Lisa as a lily and herself as a rose, and the book is full of the symbolic language of flowers through which their friendship was communicated. The poem was published in New Poems by Christina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti in 1896.As well as requesting the return of our volume, she also burned all Christina's correspondence and, apart from publishing these poems, never commented about a friendship she considered sacred, thinking it was enough, and indeed a privilege, to be remembered merely as Rossetti's friend. All the poems inscribed here, apart from the preface 'To Christina' were included in Lisa Wilson's only published work, Verses, of 1896, in which she revealed her pseudonym Christina Grey, under which she may have published other work. Whilst their close relationship is acknowledged by biographers, and our volume consulted by them, further detail is scarce and she is depicted as a rather shadowy figure of whom little is known. Diane D'Amico has put this deficiency right in her comprehensive essay 'Lisa Wilson: 'A Friend of Christina Rossetti'', (ibid, pp.109-129), where she talks about Lisa and our volume in detail. D'Amico identifies her as Mary Louisa Wilson (1850-1934), the daughter of a solicitor from Oundle. She remained unmarried and lived with her widowed mother and brother as companion and housekeeper in Gilston Road, London. A devout Christian, she was a regular attendee at her local church, St Mary's The Boltons, and devoted much time to visiting the poor and sick. She moved to Cornwall after the death of her sisters and her good friend Maude Corkran, and spent the last years of her life in Penzance. The book was passed on to her god-daughter Christina Corkran, and has remained in the family since then.Provenance: Mary Louisa 'Lisa' Wilson (1850-1934, poet, artist and friend of Christina Rossetti); her god-daughter Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran (1903-1979); thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BORGES (JORGE LUIS)Autograph manuscript of his short story 'Funes el memorioso', signed ('Jorge Luis Borges') at the end, headed 'Para la Nación' above the title, with the author's ink deletions, corrections and insertions on each page, 4pp., recto only, written in Borges's minute hand in brown and black ink, horizontal creases where previously folded, folio, [c.1942]Footnotes:MEMORY, INSOMNIA, NEUROSCIENCE AND AUTISM: AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'FUNES THE MEMORIOUS' - ONE OF BORGES'S MOST ENIGMATIC AND WRITTEN ABOUT SHORT STORIES.'Funes el memorioso' was first published on page 3 of the Arts and Letters section of La Nación on 7 June 1942, with an illustration by Alejandro Sirio, and two years later it was included in the second part ('Artfices') of his acclaimed second volume of short stories, Ficciones. Set in 1884, it tells the story of Ireneo Funes, a teenager living in the Uruguyan town of Fray Bentos (where it is thought that Borges was fathered). Fol1owing a head injury suffered falling from a horse, Funes develops an extraordinary capacity for remembering everything possible. Academics, philosophers and scientists are still searching for interpretations of this complex story.We have not traced any other manuscripts of 'Funes', nor are any included in Daniel Balderston's census at the end of How Borges Wrote (University of Virginia Press, 2008). Comparing the text of this draft with the one printed in La Nación has not been possible, but there are divergences from the version published in Ficciones: for example, in the first paragraph of our manuscript the phrase 'género obligatorio en el Uruguay, cuando el tema es un uruguayo' has been deleted but does appear later in print; and in the penultimate paragraph of the manuscript 'Repito que el menos importante de sus recuerdos era más minucioso y más vivo que nuestra percepción de las imágines en un calidoscopio' becomes '...de nuestra percepción de un goce físico o de un tormento físico' in print. There are also some minor corrections and numerous paragraph break changes.Provenance: Lame Duck Books, purchased 2006; private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GRANT FAMILY - MILITARY, BOER WAR, CHURCHILL, BRIGHTON AND WEST INDIESAn archive of diaries, albums of sketches and photographs, correspondence, papers and ephemera relating to Francis W. Seafield Grant (1842-1912), his wife Anne, and their four sons, all of whom served with distinction in the military, including;Album, compiled by Cecil Grant, containing approximately 40 pen and ink caricatures and sketches, signed by Grant and others, subjects including hunting, horses and dogs, cricket and golf, a scene from 'Alice in Wonderland', military, of which one captioned 'Armoured Train 'Wasp' in Action at Night near Devondale, S.A. during the Boer War Operations 1902', original half morocco, soiled, one joint split, oblong 4to, [c.1899-1902]; 'Sketches', including approximately 15 pencil sketches, including maps of the country 'West of Devondale, British Becuana Land' and 'map for repairs on railway line... [Transvaal], Nov. 1901', caricatures and views relating to the Boer War, cloth, oblong 8vo, c.1901Album of private gelatin print photos, belonging to Cecil Grant, including approximately 25 views and military scenes of the Boer War (one captioned 'The Highland Brigade drawn up about to advance on Magersfontein. Photo by me, Major A.S. Grant...'), 40 of home life, including a tennis tournament horse show, and cycling in Brighton, quarter morocco, worn, small oblong 4to, c.1899-1900Album of photographs, compiled by A.S. Grant, including 14 of Barbados (8 large, 6 small) by 'Siza Photos', approximately 40 others, Boer War and South Africa (one captioned 'Boy made to sit on crocodile by force for photo'), family members in uniform, etc., gelatin silver prints, mounted, some captioned, half morocco, worn, c.1900-1905Materials relating to Henry Eugene W. Grant, Colonial Secretary to the Leeward Islands, and other Colonial postings, including printed ephemera (programme for memorial service to Edward VII, Antigua, 20 May 1910; issues of the Leeward Island Gazette, invitations, author's presentation of 'The Story of the Falkland Islands' (1907, by W.L. Allardyce), manuscript and typescript material (5pp. article on 'Sun Printing', Belize, 1906; report received by telegram on the earthquake in Jamaica, 24 January 1907)Album of ephemera, newspaper cuttings, telegrams, etc. relating to various Grant family members, including an ink drawing of a bedroom (163 x 215mm.) captioned 'Winston Churchill was at this school with me. 29 & 30 Brunswick Road, Brighton' by A.S. Grant, and other materials, some loose, various datesA series of 18 pocket diaries for the years 1882, 1885-88, 1890, 1892-1901 and 1903-1905, belonging to Anne Grant (1842-1912), wife of Major F.W.S. Grant, with entries on their appointments (mostly in Brighton and Sussex), special events (Australia v. Sussex cricket match), or occasions in the lives/careers of her sons, etc., various bindings, worn, 8vo, 1882-1905; and several others (quantity)Footnotes:'WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS AT THIS SCHOOL WITH ME'- Miscellaneous manuscript, photographic and printed materials relating to Francis W. Seafield Grant (1842-1912), his wife Annie, their four sons Archie, Duncan, Alan and Cecil, and several other family members, all of whom had distinguished military or administrative careers in India, South Africa and the West Indies.Provenance: F.W.S. Grant (1842-1912) and sons; thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROYALTY – EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSORCorrected typescript draft of a long article titled 'The Story of the Education of a Prince by Edward The Duke of Windsor', published as The Education of a Prince in LIFE magazine, December 1947, a working proof heavily amended and with additions and corrections by the Duke of Windsor throughout in red pen, other amendments in pencil by the editor, additional passages typed on separate sheets and tipped in, some pages duplicated, some crossed through with red pen, comprising some 157 ruled yellow carbon paper pages and 18 mimeographed pages, the story written in three parts (Part I 'A Royal Boyhood', from birth to the accession of his father to the throne, Part II 'I, Edward Prince of Wales', from the coronation of George V to the outbreak of war, and Part III 'A Prince at War', on his wartime service and the immediate aftermath), c.175 pages, sections numbered 'Windsor I', 'Windsor II', 'Windsor III' etc., filing hole top left of each page, general dust-staining, marks and discolouration, contemporary red morocco, gilt coronet on upper cover, gilt title on spine within raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to (280 x 235mm.), [n.d. but c.1947]; in a custom-made solander boxFootnotes:'THE POSITION TO WHICH I WAS BORN': EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR WRITES CANDIDLY ON HIS CHILDHOOD & EARLY YEARS FOR AN AMERICAN MAGAZINE.The present typescript had its origins two years earlier when '...Reading LIFE in 1945 in the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor was impressed by the understanding of Britain shown in a series about his old friend, Winston Churchill. The Duke had a mutual friend call up Charles J. V. Murphy, now a LIFE staff writer, a big, ducal-looking Bostonian who had written the article (with John Davenport). The friend's suggestion: the Duke of Windsor and Reporter Murphy ought to know each other because 'the Duke is thinking of doing some writing himself.' The result of the delayed meeting (Murphy first spent six months in the Pacific as a war correspondent) was a three-part story, written by the Duke and edited by Murphy, on 'The Education of a Prince.' It was published in LIFE in December 1947...' (Time website, 'The Press: Edward & Wallis', 22 May 1950). The sequel, A King's Story, another collaboration with Murphy, took up the story and was published in book form in 1951. As can be seen from our manuscript, Edward went through the proof with a keen eye, making extensive amendments, correcting facts and deleting certain passages. These deleted extracts, struck through firmly with red pen, show hitherto unseen material that was left out of the published version. A constant theme throughout is the overwhelming sense of duty and responsibility of his position and his frustration at the restrictions this brought, despite a life of privilege: '...the concept of duty was drilled into me and I never had the same sense that the days belonged to me alone... My father literally pounded good manners into us...'. The final words of the piece, written in exile after his abdication, are telling: '...I did not spare myself in striving to fulfil all that was expected of me in the position to which I was born...'.Part I begins with his birth and early childhood, with hazy memories of the elderly Queen Victoria ('...She wore shiny black shoes with elastic sides...') and gives an insight into an idyllic childhood at York Cottage on the Sandringham estate ('...an elegant, undoubtedly paternalistic, and self-contained existence...', the Christmas festivities '...Dickens in a Cartier setting...'). As he grows older, the realisation he is now in the public eye becomes more apparent ('...the most significant change has been the disappearance of privacy... I grew up before the age of photography. We were seldom recognised on the street, and when we were the salutation would be a friendly wave of the hand or, in the case of a courtier or a family friend, a polite lifting of the hat...'). Part II, entitled 'I Edward Prince of Wales' opens with his sorrow at the death of his grandfather Edward VII, a kindred spirit ('...the last Englishman to have an uninterruptedly good time...'), and the coronation of George V which he identifies as a turning point ('...I arrived at the end of my boyhood... Henceforth the demands of my inheritance would press upon me ever more fiercely...'). The final part, 'A Prince at War', covers the war years, with much on his frustration at not being allowed to fulfil his potential as a soldier ('...I was to discover that my trophy value exceeded my military usefulness...'). After the war he devoted himself to what he and his brothers described as 'Princing'. A tour of the country after the war opened his eyes to the poverty and discontent among the people after years of conflict. Despite that, in a letter to George V, he assures him, perhaps ironically in light of future events, that the monarchy is still strong: '...there seems to be a regular epidemic of revolutions and abdications throughout the enemy countries... of those that remain I have no hesitation in saying that ours is by far the most solid...'. Provenance: The Duke (1894-1972) and Duchess (1896-1986) of Windsor; presented by Maître Suzanne Blum, the Duchess of Windsor's French lawyer and executrix, to the present owner who had provided important assistance in the administration of the Duchess's estate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)Series of thirty-four autograph letters signed ('Christina G. Rossetti') to Louisa Newsham, invalid and aspiring poet, written over some five years and charting a developing friendship, with Rossetti offering long and detailed critiques of Newsham's work throughout ('...Proclaimest cannot pass muster, I think, in either stanza. Nor do I like 'dearest' applied to Angels, as if giving them preference over saints...'), commenting on her illustrations ('...your 'queen of night in robe of royal blue' - would not a somewhat bluer sky commend itself to the gazer?...'), and on her 'pretty' carol ('...My brother (the poet) would not allow dawn to rhyme with such words as born...'), sympathetic to her ill health ('...I know enough of illness occasionally and of weak health more or less habitually...'), her London home ('...trees on both sides of the house... a source of real pleasure...'), her famous brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti ('...a highly gifted man, and was very attractive withal...'), thanking her for many gifts ('...the beautiful and beautifully packed chrysanthemums with their attendant greenery...'), commenting on the post of Poet Laureate ('...not Mr Ruskin, I wish, as I see no reason why the laurel should leap from poetry to prose however poetical...'), one letter of 10 February 1891 including a poem ('Looking back along life's trodden way'), and much else, each numbered in pencil by Louisa Newsham, no.34 inscribed 'the last' and initialled 'L.N.' on reverse, 105 pages, dust-staining, creased at folds, 8vo (175 x 110mm.), 30 Torrington Square, W.C., 4 February 1889 to 18 May 1894Footnotes:'...I ASSURE YOU MY BROTHER GABRIEL DID, IN OLD DAYS, SO MUCH OF THE SAME KIND FOR MY POEMS... AND HERE I AM AT YOUR SERVICE...': Christina Rossetti advises an aspiring poet.Christina Rossetti describes her relationship with Louisa Newsham in these letters as '...blessed work – blessed to myself... my dear unseen friend...' and her biographer Mary Sandars considered it a '...labour of love... to please and interest an invalid whom she never saw...' (The Life of Christina Rossetti, 1930, p.257). Rossetti usually destroyed her incoming letters so it is often difficult to glean information about her lesser-known correspondents but, in this case much can be discovered about the recipient from Rossetti's replies. It appears that Louisa Newsham lived the quiet life of an invalid in the town of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: '...It is a sad glimpse you afford of yourself, so suffering and so secluded...', Rossetti writes. Louisa had been moved to write to Rossetti after finding comfort in her poems published in the Watchword (evidently, as shown here, without her knowledge), and sends examples of her own writing to Rossetti for criticism. What is most striking about these letters are Rossetti's careful and extensive replies in which she forensically goes through Louisa's work stanza by stanza and offers her quiet but definitive opinion ('...What disturbs me more is the definiteness of 'daffodils' and comparative indefiniteness of 'flower bells'. Would it be possible and not amiss to substitute for the latter 'silver wind flowers'... Stanza 3 would perhaps gain by changing (l.2) 'streamlets' into 'rivulets', by which means to could be discarded and the 3 lines of the triplet brought into uniformity of the structure...'). She demonstrates the utmost tact and sends her apologies lest her comments offend ('...you must take my criticism only for what it is worth: use it if useful, if not acceptable, reject it without hesitation...'), and cites as an excuse her poet brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti ('...I assure you my brother Gabriel did, in old days, so much of the same kind for my poems, that they came out materially the better for his care...'). Sometimes the encouragement is more guarded ('...Far indeed I am from advising you to thwart your poetic impulse – an undoubted gift for your own solace, and perhaps for the solace of many others...'), but it appears that Louisa did have a long poem published as a devotional greetings card by Mowbray & Co. These detailed letters were written at a particularly busy time for Rossetti, working as she was on an enlarged edition of her poems (1890), The Face of the Deep (1892), Verses, (1893) and a new edition of Sing-Song (1893), as well as managing the household and engaging in extensive correspondence (see Antony H. Harrison, ed., The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Vol. 4, 1887-1894, 2004). From the very beginning they bond over their mutual ill health ('...I have a natural tendency to despondency...') and a love of flowers and nature. Rossetti was the recipient of many gifts of flowers from Louisa over the years ('...Lovely were the flowers when released from their box... I wonder whether your own hands placed the protecting wool round so many of the little choice bunches...'). In return Louisa was sent a photograph of a portrait drawing by Dante Gabriel ('...It was then, I believe, a good deal like me...') together with some autographs including that of D.G. Rossetti and Amelia Opie (not present here). As the relationship develops, more details of the Rossetti household are revealed ('...My home circle is less cheerful than in the old days; consisting as it now does of two very aged Aunts (87 and 80), one bedridden, the other still more seriously diseased. But... I am exactly where I should choose to abide were all the world laid open to my choice...') and her London home ('...not long ago I saw myself described as residing in a dreary London Square; but really I find my... London trees cheerful... I hope you feel the same concerning your moon, stars, sunshine, remote country...'). Her adoption of mourning paper in 1890 and 1893 marks the deaths of her aunts Charlotte and Eliza. All the letters are published in Antony H. Harrison's The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Vol. 4: 1887-1894, 2004, and have been consulted by Rossetti's biographers. Many are undated but have been put into sequence by reference to Louisa Newsham's pencilled numbers on each. The letters derive from the collection of Christina Rossetti's close friend Lisa Wilson but exactly when and how she acquired them is not known. On her deathbed, Rossetti had urged Lisa to be kind and write to Louisa occasionally ('...The announcement of my death may be a shock to her. Write to her at once...', Sandars, p.266). After Rossetti's death, Lisa had requested the return of her own manuscript volume from William Michael Rossetti (see lot 120) and destroyed Rossetti's letters to her to preserve her privacy. She may have requested Louisa return the letters or perhaps she acquired them after Louisa's death. The letters, together with the rest of her Rossetti collection in this sale (see lots 117-121) were passed to her god-daughter Christina Corkran, and has remained in the family since then. Two letters from Rossetti to Louisa dating from 1890 are held in the Wisbech and Fenland Museum.Provenance: Mary Louisa 'Lisa' Wilson (1850-1934, poet, artist and friend of Christina Rossetti); her god-daughter Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran (1903-1979); thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Einstein, Albert, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, 1879-1955, autograph letter fragment, signed in ink A. Einstein and typed Mit freundlichen Grüssen Ihr Albert Einstein, on paper with partial watermark visible for Whiting Mutual Bond, 14.8 x 14.3cm Footnotes: Note: An autograph scientific manuscript written on paper with similar watermark 'Whiting Mutual Bond Rag Content' was sold at Christie's, New York, 'Americana: Printed and Manuscript' sale, 12 February 2009, Lot 11. An Albert Einstein letter with typed 'Mit freundlichen Grüssen Ihr' was sold at the Autographs, Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents Auction at International Autograph Auction Europe S.L., on 25 March 2020, Lot 640. 

A Second World War Manuscript A light-hearted and slightly racy manuscript account of various women during the Second World War, illustrated and written in verse, including:- 'Just Another Squirt - Now to Grace we'll switch our tale, 'Comrade Grace' who ???? from Sale, For she is an N.F.S. ite, In her uniform so tight, See her hauling on the hose, What a strong, immobile pose, Never getting damp or soiled, Also never getting oiled'. The final illustration includes the graves of 'H.N. Dann? - Poet' and 'Eric Culshaw -Ink Slinger' who are assumed to be the author and artist. Ink on paper, with red rules, sixteen pages of verse plus title, sixteen full page pen & ink sketches, paper wraps worn. also, a Second World War German Naval Booklet: Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, Ostsee-Handbuch, sudlicher Teil von 1931 und Nachtrag 1939, Berlin 1940. (2)

Studio of Robert Jobling(1841-1923)A personal archive from the family of the Artist to include: the original manuscript for a poem by Aaron Watson, in homage to Jobling, January 1923; seven copies of the printed booklet Robert Jobling: A Tribute Spoken at the Graveside by The Rev. Samuel Pearson, 1924; a manuscript diary; a photograph of Jobling and other artists; a small quantity of printed ephemera relating to the Pen and Palette Club, Newcastle; numerous handwritten letters, envelopes, and other related paper ephemera.

A Victorian manuscript handwritten in black ink, containing notes from various sources regarding the Crimean War, apparently including references from Queen Victoria's diary, letters from Lord Raglan, speeches by Lord John Russell, and details of Queen Victoria's visit to Napoleon III in 1855, possibly notes for a book, or notes from a book, the pages numbered '30' to '65' totalling 35 pages from approximately ninety (the rest missing)

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK. Kidder, Edward. Receipts of Pastry and Cookery. For the use of his schoolars (sic) by Ed. Kidder, who teacheth at his school on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in the afternoon, in St Martin's Le Grand. And on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, in the afternoon, at his school in Cary-Street, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Letterpress title page followed by 70 pages of handwritten recipes, numbered up to page 61. C 1725. Contemporary panelled sheep, boards detached.Cataloguer's note: This book is found in both manuscript form and as a published book. The published version has 43 leaves, all engraved on copper, with calligraphic text and printed on rectos only. The book also contains 8 plates.Edward Kidder's significance in culinary history is that he was the first proprietor of a cookery school in England. He is also credited with the first recipe for puff pastry. Kidder's book is discussed at length by Eric Quayle, who describes it as 'much sought-after' and 'undoubtedly, one of the most interesting of the pre-1750 cook books'. However, Quayle does not seem to be aware of the existence of manuscripts copies.Previous commentators have assumed, not unreasonably, that the manuscript copies of his books were dictated to his students who then copied them down. However, the University of Iowa also has a manuscript copy of this book, again with a printed title page, and in 1993 they published a facsimile. A copy of their book is included with the lot. There are striking similarities in the handwriting of the Iowa copy and our copy. Furthermore, a manuscript copy in the library of the University of Pennsylvania, which has been digitised and is available online, also has very similar handwriting. In our opinion, all three copies are by the same hand. Did Kidder employ a clerk to copy out his recipe books, or are they in the hand of Kidder himself, who would perhaps have presented them to his lady students? Further research is required.The manuscript versions of Kidder's book are considerably scarcer than the printed copies. See Maclean pp 82-84 and Eric Quayle, Old Cook Books pp 89-95 (2)

LOCKYER, Nicholas. An Olive-Leafe; or a bud of the spring. John Rothwell, 1650. Lacks title page. The second title, Spiritual Inspection or a review of the Heart, has been moved to the front of the volume and a slip pasted over giving the correct title in manuscript. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked.With DENT, Arthur, The Plain-Man's Path-way to Heaven, Wherein every man may clearly see whether he shall be saved or damned. Set forth Dialogue-wise, for the better understanding of the simple. 26th edition 1643. In both Roman type and Black Letter. Lacking 48 pages (337-384). Worn old calf. Extensive contemporary marginal notes.With a Collection of Acts of Parliaments...Relative to those Protestant Dissenters who are usually called by the Name Quakers, from the year 1688. 4to, 1757. Worming to top corners. Old panelled calf rebacked (3)

FRENCH MANUSCRIPT, 1777. Receuil de différentes pièces de vers et chansons à l'usage de Madame la Comtesse de Lichtervelde, née Comtesse de Cassina de Wonsheim, 1777 (Collection of various poems and songs for the use of Madam the Countess of Lichtervelde, born Countess of Cassina of Wonsheim). Title plus 161 pages of poems and songs with a few blank leaves at the end. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooling to spine.

MILITARY MANUSCRIPT. A Practical Course of Artillery by G Warburton. Royal Military Academy, 1833. Small 4to, Pp xii, 307. Written in a neat hand and with several illustrations. Half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked. George Warburton (1816-57) was badly wounded in Spain in 1838. He was sent to Canada in 1844, stationed at Montreal, and wrote a book on Canada in 1846.

MANUSCRIPT. Anatomy of the Horse, Cow, Deer, Dog and Sheep, by Doris Donaldson-Hudson, Cheswardine, Shropshire, 1887. Landscape 4to. 27 leaves of plates, showing skeletons and muscles of farmyard animals. Half morocco, gilt edges.

Manuscript Notebook, an eighteenth-century English student's notebook containing lecture notes on various subjects, including Latin and theology, comprising approximately 70 leaves in manuscript, bound with vellum boards, 20cm x 16cm, with a manuscript account book, comprising 16 leaves in manuscript.The notebook is in poor condition, with the vellum boards bearing extensive rubbing, abrasion and damage, with a large section of the vellum torn away to the reverse cover. Guttering very work. The pages are extensively foxed. The account book is in better condition, but lacks its cover.

A 17th Century copy letter book relating to William Freeman (d. 1707) of St Kitts and Fawley Court for the period 31st March 1685 – 6th November 1690folio (35.5cm x 23cm) of four stitched sections later secured with three paper tape strips, 65 pages with 124 completed pages in manuscript preceded by three blank pages, with one loose letter inserted dated August 9th 1685, Letters dating 31st March 1685 – 6th November 1690, several letters appear signed in William Freeman’s hand. Letters in various hands throughout.Provenance: A Gloucestershire EstateFootnote: The full footnote can be accessed on the Chorley's website www.chorleys.com Including letters and occasional financial accounts to multiple correspondents regarding Freeman’s estates, predominantly in St Kitts, Antigua, Barbados and Montserrat and additionally shipments of wine from Madeira to London.The letters often read as long diatribes with detailed instructions on the management of his estates and shipments with details on the fluctuations in sugar prices, ongoing and repeated issues with shipping and transport, losses of profit to untrustworthy merchants and partners (and family members) interspersed with personal references and not so veiled threats to many of the letters’ recipients. The letters show an inherently astute yet (given the descriptions of certain events - often understandably) distrustful businessman. Certain sums mentioned in the correspondence indicate the impressive size of the business Freeman was managing (a letter of Sept 8th 1687 mentions a debt of £20,000 equating to over £3,000,000 today)Correspondents include many letters simply noted as to ‘Sr.’, in addition to Captain Ph. Edwards, Brother Henry [Freeman], George Liddell, Thomas Westcott, Brother [Robert] Helmes, Henry Freeman, Mr [Anthony] Henthorne, Joseph Loveday, Joseph Little, Matthew Matson & Co., Captain Ed Reade, Mr Lupton, Col [Thomas?] Hill, Sister [Sarah] Helmes, Henry Carpenter, William Fox, Humphry, Benjamin Skutt, Doctor Hesketh, Edward Parson, Thomas Belchamber, etc.Selected excerpts:Brother Henry, 31st March 1685letter of over 4 pages, various subjects including the request ‘not to omit to buy negros for yr Plant yr first opportunity that offers, WF’Brother Helmes, 8th August 1685‘……understand of the greater abuses and affronts that are put upon you by that Villen who I perceive is incouraged by the Governmt soe that little hopes of any redress as to that or any things … as cases now… I hope will not continue long in the same curt for that I am certainly informed by Sr N J that the King hath reserved his promise to him to goe governor but keepe this to yo. selfe least it should happen …’ … ‘ endeavor what possible you can to get 20 or 30 good choyse Slaves getting the longest time of paymt you can for them wth such other stock of horses & c as there is an absolute necessity … I would have you come home this next summer his Ma.tie having given me a Comp.a in his Royal Rigimt of Fusileers under ye Comd of my Lord Dartm.o which I will resign to you when you come …A letter to Freeman’s brother Henry dated August 18, 1685 contains an interesting comment on Catholicism. After Charles II death in 1685, James II wanted to secure the toleration of Catholics and removal of laws that forbade their participation in government and public life in England. The attempt by James II and VII to establish absolutist rule in his kingdoms, and to turn them into a Catholic monarchy, led to the breakdown of his authority by November 1688. It is therefore understandable that Freeman warns his brother to not mention Catholicism in letters that may be used officially in any capacity‘I take notice of the barberous usage you have meet from those villens w.ch I dispare of any redres for things being at that distance that noe legall proofed can be made of any things, however indeavor, what possible you can to gett good proofs of all things as authentiquely attested as possible.I finde the great craft to clear the governor is alleged that all is transarted by the judges of the court to slave of complts - against the governor therefore be sure to fix what you can upon him pticularly and give me as ample & anthentque an accompt of all things as possible you can but one thing you must advise you to forbare in your.r letters which you are to guilty of that is yo. Gross expressions of the Irish nation & romish religion both w.ch you must not att all medle with for w.ch reasons none of yo. Letters are for to be producto either before K. Or councell or to any man of quallity …’Brother Henry, October 10, 1688‘… In finde your maine business is always to keep me in ignorance’ … ‘Capt Winter is supposed to be lost and consequently those Jewells & c. of my wifes as she informed me ware of considerable valleu that I was ignorant of before …. You sent mee noe acct. but of a cabinet without mentioning the things therein contained’ … ‘give me more vexations then all the miscaridges that hath happened under your conduct for I have not patience to thinke that you should bee soe simply negligent as to suffer your selfe to bee made such a buble (?) of by a company of ignorant rogues just under your owne nose…’A letter to Benjamin Skutt (December 18th 1688) mentions the Glorious Revolution (the overthrow of the Catholic King James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange). During the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (on his march from Torbay to London), William III of Orange is said to have stayed at Freeman's Henley residence of Fawley Hall.…this day we expect the prince of orange in this towne, who now commd of all the Kings forces & has the absolute power in himself, god grant he may make good use of his power, all we can doe is to pray for a good result and the best we can hope for, is that it will end in a war with France wch I fear will … our poor collonies, yet I hope our … Joyning may prevent it, or at least that the French will not be capable of sending any aid from France, as in the former warrs, for the Gen.a preparations that are … that Kingdome by most of the princes of Europe seem to threaten that great Monarch w.ch hath soe long disturbd the praes (?) of Europe its not to be doubted but hers will be a very great army … (?) out of this kingdome against this hard sumer (?)…The last three letters of the book pertain to the death of William Freeman’s brother Henry. In a letter to William Fox and Edward Parson he writes ‘the news of my Bro.s unfortunate death …troubles soe much that I scarce know how to put pen to paper at this juncture’ … ‘in this time of Distres wherein we know not soon neither here or at home or abroad, we may have occasion to make use of one an other, …and have indeed been soe unfortunate sine this warr first broke out as that I never rec.d a lett.r fr, him …before the Camp of St xtopherThe volume is appended with a short note to the last page: ‘after Coll. Freemans death I don’t find that he kept any Copy book only loose coppys’

A collection of Letters and Poetry relating to the Strickland Family of Boynton Hall. spanning circa 1750-1850, including various transcribed excerpts of memorial inscriptions relating to the family, genealogical research, personal correspondence, stories and anecdotes; included are several original poems in manuscript circa 1800-1830 by ladies of the Strickland family, some signed ELS; an account or receipt dated 1752 for Sr George Strickland for spices and food and another similar dated 1757, a small marbled album of coats of arms relating to the family, not dated, two ink sketches of Tenby, 1835 of the South Gate, Arms, Runic Cross and an 'Old House', both with the monogram F. S. (possible Frances Strickland) and dated 1855; several bookplates and 18th and early 19th Century ephemera and a pen and ink silhouette on paper of an 18th Century gentleman; further with several notes and letters regarding the Freeman family of Fawley Court including a letter from E. Freeman to her mother (Fawley Court, January 17, 1806) A private Gloucestershire estate Various conditions, some toning, wear and tears to pages, scattered foxing.

Phillips (John) folio manuscript letter book, 201 pages on leaves in manuscript, original calf-backed marbled boards, with two other folio manuscripts by Phillips containing extracts from the religious writings of Edward Burroughs and Francis Howgill. (3)Some clear condition issues. Covers to all volumes are very deteriorated, with extensive rubbing and bumping, as well as loss in places. Guttering to all volumes is in very poor condition. Extensive deckling to outer page edges. The internal condition is much better, with generally moderate foxing consistent with age.

A folio album of private bound 18th & 19th Century sheet music and others the volume including: Wine cannot cure; Thomas Beilby, The Dying Negro … formed for promoting an abolition of the slave trade, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Dibdin (Charles) Poor Jack, London: Preston & Son, n.d., circa 1790; Dibdin (Charles), Poor Tom …, London: The Author; Jackson (William), When first this humble Roof I knew, London: Preston & Son; Paisello, Whither my love ah! Whither art thou gone, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Storace (S.) My native land I bade adieu, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; James (Charles) Melissa, London: Dale; Beilby (Thomas), The Dying Negro… formed for promoting an abolition of the slave trade, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Manuscript score for Prince of Bale’s Minnet; Dibdin (Charles), The Tar for all Weathers, London: The Author; Dibdin (Charles), The Lucky Escape, London: The Author; Joshua, Oh, Had I Jubal’s Lyre, London: J. Bland; Arnold & Pinto, If ‘tis Joy to wound a Lover; Les Adieux de L’infortune Louis XVI a son people, London: Dale’s; Shield, W., The Heaving of the Lead, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; I know that my Redeemer Liveth, London: J. Dale; Storace (Stephen), The Lullaby, London: J. Dale; ; Dibdin (Charles), The Soldier’s Adieu, London: The Author; He was Despised, Messiah, London: G. Goulding; Kilvington (T.) His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester’s March, London: The Author, 1795; Gionovichi, Rondeau; O Dear what can the Matter be, London: Preston & Son; Corri, (D.) My Ain kind Deabie: A Scotch Air, London: C. & Co.; Storace (Stephen) A Plighted Faith, London: Dale’s; Jackson of Exeter, Love in Thine Eyes, London: Bland & Weller; Percy & Antoinette (Marie), The Captive, London: The Author; The Favorite Duett of Jess MacPharlane as sung at the Dillettanti Concerts by Mr Dignum and Mr Hindle; Hook, My Heart is devoted dear Mary to thee … sung by Mr Darley at Vauxhall Gardens, London: Bland; Arnold (Dr.), Oh Happy Tawny Moor, London: Preston & Son; Hook, Sweet Kate the Irish Maid sung by Mr Page at Vauxhall, London: Preston & Son; Carnaby (W.), Song on Peace, London: Sold by Rt Birchall; Haigh (T.), The favorite Air When the Hollow Drum, London: Preston & Son; Dibdin (Charles), The Siege of Troy, London: Preston; Hook, The Wedding Day: A Favourite song sung by Mrs Kennedy at Vauxhall Gardens, London: S. A. & P. Thompson; Pleyel, Tho’ pity I cannot deny: A favorite Song sung by Mrs Crouch in the Haunted Tower, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Rimbault (S. F.) The Cottage in the Dell, London: F. Linley; pages 9-12 of A compleat delineation of the Royal procession to St. Paul’s on the 19 of December 1797; Here’s a health to those far away, London: R.t Birchall; Giordani, Queen Mary’s Lamentation sung by Sig. Tenducci at the Pantheon & Mr Abel’s Concert & c, London: J. Preston; Latour, New German Waltz, London: J. Bland; Storace (Stephen), Across the Downs this morning sung by Sig. Storace in No song, no Supper, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Gray (J. B.), Oh! Balmy Sleep, London: Tho.s Cahusac; Knyvett, In the Dead of the Night, London: R.t Birchall; Hook, You shall be my Love … sung by Mr Darley at Vauxhall, London: Preston & Son; Sestini, The Gipsy Song; Hook, Henry & Maria or the Soldier’s Farewell, London: Preston; with further manuscript pages including composition by Mrs Siddons, How hard’s the Fate of Womankind, The Confession; Aldiborontiphoscophornio; Last May a braw Wooer; Drops of Brandy; Mozart Air; Tweedside; The Birks of Endermay; The Spectre Song; Lord of all Powers; Pleyel, It may be Love; Callicott, Epitaph; Go to the Devil and shake yourself; Whither a mile of Edinburgh; several blank musical score sheets within marbled paper boards and leather spine; together with Dussek (I.L.) A compleat delineation of the Royal procession to St. Paul’s on the 19 of December 1797, the music for the Piano Forte by I. Dussek to which is added the form of the Church Service with part of the Vocal Music sung at that celebration, London: Printed for Corri. Dussek & Co., [1798], frontispiece by T. King, folio; Introduction, The Acclamation of the People, Coronation Anthem by Handel, , (pages 9-12 bound in the larger volume), The Litany, Sanctus by Robt Hudson, The Communion Service, The Creed, A Voluntary for the Organ by Handel, God Save the King; a volume 19th century privately collated paper bound sheet music including P. Henrion, Polka, D. Magnus, Royal Schottische, Theodore Oesten, Das Alpenhorn, German Melodies, Golden Pearls, Fleurs Italiennes, G.A. Osborne Roy McGregor, Henry F. Hemy, The Sledge Bell Galop, Oscar Comettant, La Sympathie, Adrien Talexy Aurelia, Alphonse Leduc, L’Ecrin Musical, Fantasies; Away with Melancholy: A Favorite Air or Duet composed by M. Mozart, London: Bland & Wellers Music Warehouse, 23 Oxford Street, n.d. [1793-1818], folio, loose sheet music, 2 leaves, 3pp.Well used and thumbed condition, binding poor, some annotations and insciptions

Pope (Alexander) works, London: B Law et al, 1797, 9 vols, 8vo, full calf gilt, marbled endpapers and page edges, engraved frontis to volume 1, the volumes containing loose leaf notes (late 18th century) in manuscript pertaining to Alexander Pope and William Kent. (9) The manuscript fragments read as follows:'The writing is Mr Kents (?)The Speaker (… it is supposed) had the design of altering and improving his place according to Mr Kent (?) , but the alterations it is to be presumed appearing too considerable, the design had been relinquished. The blessing … by A Pope (never published it is believed) is copied from a Commonplace book of Mr Kent the celebrated architect and designer repeat each mentioned in Mr P’s poems On the regular Plantations at E. C. Squire Kent for the speaker beginning to planDemolish’d L..ve Alley and BorderBut the Speaker, perceiving the Devil in the manSoon called all his Trees back to order Signed A Pope' Not collated. Rubbing, bumping to corners as well as some scuffing to boards. Internal contents fairly good, with some foxing.

Littleton (Sir Thomas) Littletons Tenures in English Lately perused and amended, London, indistinctly dated 16.., 16mo, later vellum binding, aeg, with gilt line tooling and blind tooled title to spine, marbled endpapers, bound with five index leaves in manuscript before the title page, inscribed ‘Maurice Digges his booke 1653’, three pages of tables to backCollated, front boards warped, cover with staining and soiling, front hinge starting to crack, pages toned throughout with some browning to edges, perfuse marginal notes in a fine 17th century hand, minor foxing, page 60 and 73 with slight loss to lower edge

East India Company Interest Manuscript Bottomry Bond for the boat Dawson by John Cook-Freeman (1689-1752) and his brother Thomas Cook dated 26 January 1729, Folio (40cm x 32cm), latin introductory paragraph followed by the conditions of the bond, naming Thomas Cook of London and John Freeman of Folly [sic] Court (Fawley Court, Henley on Thames) for the 'vessel called the Dawson of the burthen of five hundred tonns or thereabouts now at anchor in the River of Thames whereof Francis Steward is now Commander' for a voyage to 'Fort Saint George or any other port or place in the East Indies, China, Persia or elsewhere beyond the Cape of Good Hope', the bond to be paid to Aaron Franks; signed by Walter Henley and Robert Offerton, Thomas Cook and John Freeman and two red seals; verso with settlement statement of the bond; together with a single sheet manuscript receipt for to Thomas Cooke dated February 17 1725/6 for £500 in regard to a bottomry bond for the 'Spanish registered ships' signed by James Naish regarding Spanish registered ships dated 1725/26 and naming Edward Harrison Esq (18cm x 15.5cm) Qty: 2 From a Gloucestershire country house John Freeman, a Madras merchant and keen amateur architect inherited Fawley Court in 1707 and properties in the West Indies. He was an early member of the Society of Antiquaries, built the Gothic folly in the grounds and the Freeman family mausoleum in the village based on the design of the tomb of Caecilla Metella in Rome. His uncle, from which he inherited the estate has been a slave trader and it is possible that the boats in discussion would have been used for this purpose. James Naish was Chief of the English East India Company Council in Canton (Guangzhou), China and extensive records exist in the British Library of his travels and life.Further records of the family can be found in a letter book of John Freeman of Fawley Court to his brother Thomas Cook of Fort St. George and Calcutta, and to others, re his interests in East India trade and family affairs, 1717-1742, 1717-1742 (Gloucestershire Archives D1245/FF33)

Heraldry Scrapbook A folio scrapbook containing a collection of largely 19th century British armorials in the form of etchings and bookplates, some hand-coloured, including Duke of Somerset, Duke of Devonshire, Marquis of Lansdown, among others, pasted down to leaves of a folio manuscript volume with marbled boards and leather spine. Clear wear to the binding, with extensive rubbing and general wear. Deckled page edges. Foxing throughout.

Grant of ArmsManuscript Grant of Arms for Thomas Chiffinch (1600-1666), signed by the herald Sir Edward Walker (1611-1667), dated 1664, illuminated manuscript on vellum, heightened with gold, with one armorial bearing, overall 39 x 51cm.Thomas Chiffinch (1600-1666) was a royal page and loyal confidant of King Charles II. The grant was issued in 1664, and not 1644, as is sometimes recorded.Framed and glazed. The manuscript is generally in good condition. The colours, including the gilt, have been well preserved. There are creases to the sheet, where the grant has previously been folded in four. There is some additional minor creasing and undulation below the glazing (the manuscript has not been examined outside its glazing). There are a few evenly spaced holes towards the lower sections of the sheet, indicating where the seal was attached (which has since been removed). Some discolouration and light staining to other sections of the grant, consistent with age.

A 19th Century Manuscript Book, belonging to Madeline Braithwaite and dated 16th February 1894, mainly concerning the genealogy of the Braithwaite family, leather boards gilt embossed with author's initials, marbled endpapers and page edges, with an early 20th Century family photograph album (2)Manuscript book bears clear wear consistent with age, especially to the binding; internally, the contents are fairly bright, with some limited foxing. The photograph album has a very worn binding, with the cloth cover falling away, and the photographs themselves are very faded.

Cartwright (Lt. Col. William) Manuscript Standing Orders 10th Regiment P[rince of] W[ales] O[wn] Light Dragoons. [Circa 1795-1797], 8vo, approximately 104 pages, 2-page index at end, contemporary reversed calf, morocco gilt lettering piece on upper cover, ownership inscription of “Col. Cartwright” to front endpaper.The 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars) had George, Prince of Wales, as its regimental colonel, and consequently was one of the army’s most fashionable regiments. William Cartwright was the commanding officer from 1793 to 1802. The introduction to this manuscript volume begins: “It having for a long time been evident [...] that the PWO Light Dragoons might derive considerable advantage from having a set of fix'd regulations [...] Lt Col Cartwright has judged it adviseable to throw together the following Orders...” What follows is a set of regulations, divided into 33 sections, on subjects including the duties of various ranks, discipline, parade, and treatment of horses. It appears to be a working manuscript since there are scattered revisions and some later entries. Section headings include “Interior Economy of Troops”, “Guard and Black-Hole” (“A man confined to the Black-Hole is to receive no other sustenance but Bread & Water”), “Troop parades on Foot or Horseback”, “Baggage on a March”, and, covering equine matters, “Farriers”, “Hospital Stable &c”, and “Shoeing”. Towards the back of the volume are a small number of “Forms” – templates or examples for such paperwork as a “Certificate to be annexed to the Monthly Return” and the “Surgeons Morning Report”. The latter is followed on the verso by an example form for the “Veterinary Surgeons Morning Report”, handily demonstrating the roughly equal importance of men and horses to the military.Rubbed with some loss at foot of spine, some staining to outer leaves. Fairly clean internally, with some foxing and staining. Staining is particularly prominent towards the index pages at the end of the volume.

Maister (J) ‘Private Orderly Book August 10th 1793, Ensign J. Maister East York Regiment of Militia Caister Camp’, with daily passwords ("Parole London" etc.) and orders including training, escorts, and parade, circa 130 pages in manuscript, plus blanks, interleaved with blotting paper, oblong 8vo, 2 July to 10 December 1793, contemporary calfCaister-on-Sea in Norfolk was the site of one of a series of large military camps established to guard the coast following the outbreak of war with France.Some wear and loss to the binding. Internal contents generally in good condition, with some fading and foxing, but generally well preserved.

Religious Tracts, two volumes of Religious Tracts in manuscript, Volume One titled Tractatus de Penitentia, 306 numbered pages with 3 pages of notes; noted as 'Finis an: 1684, 24 July to the end of volume 1; Volume Two titled Tractatus de Sacramentis in genere in tertiam partem D. Thoma: 290 pages in manuscript with last three pages being the index; front endpaper inscribed with the initials F.B. to each volume, both volumes contemporary calf with gilt tooled spine and 5 raise bands, 16mo; together with several loose paper notes on Theology, Logic Ontology, PsychologicaQty: 2Spetchley Park, WorcestershireBinding in poor condition with dry leather, marked and scuffed, leather fold over wrappers delaminating, hinged cracked endpapers foxed and toned, interiors generally good with scattered foxing.

Justice (Francis) Manuscript Volumes of British Birds after Nature, Sutton-Courtney, Berkshire, circa 1810/20; 2 quarto (approximately 30cm x 24cm) albums of blank paper with numerous mss. descriptions of species of birds; most pages of descriptions are facing a watercolour and pencil illustration of the subject; volume I, 25 colour and volume II 8 colour illustrations; with bookplate for Francis Justice to pastedown of volume 1By descent through the Justice family who lived at The Abbey House, Sutton Courtney from 1549-1901. As was tradition for the family at that time, Francis Justice joined the Navy as a midshipman and first served on HMS Bellerophon.Two similar volumes appear to have been acquired by Yale University in 1954 and are noted in the The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 29, No. 1 (July 1954), pp. 42-43 under Ornithology. "Two bound volumes containing the manuscript of "English Birds after Nature, by Francis Justice, Sutton Courtney, Berks. Collected in the years 1785, 1786, 1787"