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China, Vietnam, Japan; big-game hunting Papers and journals of Philip Mason Sears (1899-1973), 1922-3 all manuscript (pencil) unless otherwise stated, contents comprise:1) Account of a hunting trip to north Shensi, China (55 leaves, loose), together with a notebook, headed ‘Hunting Trip to North Shensi’ (approx. 50 pp, containing 3 different drafts of the same narrative. Contents include descriptions of: Kwei-Hua-Cheng (‘a city of great fascination … the farthest point to which European civilization has as yet punctuated … Like all large Chinese cities, it teems with activity. And what sights there are to see on every side … a great number of the women down to the little girls had painted faces …’); Suiyuan (‘a splendid picturesque walled city’); Antung (‘on the Manchurian side of the Yalu River … a large disagreeable commercial town’); shipping on the Yalu River; village life; local housing, food and customs including wedding ceremonies; Russian refugees in Kwei-Hua-Cheng (‘as they remarked, nothing could have been worse than living under the Bolsheviks’); and an audience and shooting competition with the dutun (/tutung, i.e. military governor) of Suiyuan, General Ma Fuxiang (1876-1932) (‘He is a Mohammedan from Kausu … the absolute ruler of his people upon whom he imposes the heaviest taxes’).2) ‘Ammon Hunting in a Land of Long Ago’. Typescript, 18 leaves, foolscap, rectos only, signed ‘Mason Sears’ in pencil, pencilled corrections. Describing the above trip, focusing on sheep hunting, with additional details of local education, Mongol caravans, bandit raids, ‘red festivities’, etc. Together with another copy of the same article, carbon typescript, pencilled corrections.3) Notes from a hunting trip in the Vietnamese jungle with French big-game hunter François J. Defosse (1881-1954), 20 bifolia of friable wood-pulp paper, comprising detailed notes on bushcraft, specific animals and their pursuit including elephants, tigers, crocodiles, boar, etc. (e.g. ‘In following up a wounded tiger it is of great advantage to use a shotgun as a charging tiger cannot pass through two charges of big buckshot’), tribal customs (including the Mois tribe), etc., the trip undertaken in the vicinity of the La Nga river and possibly Hué (‘Hu’) and the notes presumably composed ‘on the spot’, ‘Defosse’ cited throughout. Together with approx. 30 leaves of related jungle notes on smaller paper, a manuscript map of the La Nga river, and a fragment of 9 leaves of typescript and manuscript relating to tiger and elephant stalking with Defosse, including sightings of gibbon and sambar.4) Notebook containing a journal of a visit to Japan, 27 pp., (a few leaves loose), with two different drafts of the same narrative, and including descriptions of Yokohama, Kamakura, Nikko, Kyoto, etc., comments on the Japanese imperial family, Japanese culture and the adoption of western customs and institutions, Japanese children, etc. (‘They are absolutely unspoiled and never seem to show off’), ‘Note on Kashmir’ (2 pp.) at end.5) Notebook containing remarks on Korea, Chinese theatre, and Chinese cities, and comparisons between Japan and China, 15 pp., textblock loose in binding.6) ‘Monster Demonstrations in Peking’, typescript, 14 pp, apparently an account of the May Thirtieth Movement, 1925 (‘Never since the Boxer Uprising of 1900, has the foreign community of Peking seen such an outburst of wrath among the Chinese as that which followed the killing of some students by the foreign police during the rioting of May 31st in the International Settlement at Shanghai …’) together with a carbon copy.7) ‘Bird shooting and the Yalu River’, 3 leaves, lined paper; ‘Mongolian trip’, 3 leaves, lined paper, comprising notes of trip from Kalgan to Gobi desert; Notes on Manila, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Saigon, Canton, 5 leaves, lined paper.8) Short article on geographical coordinates of Peking, carbon typescript, 4 pp.; small souvenir album of 10 photographs of shooting trip in Shansi, presented by Basil Cochrane Newton, British Legation, Peking (mounts loose in wrappers); 3 pp. notes on visit to Mongolia (on single sheet folded twice); 1 leaf on hunting in India including ‘River life going down to Bandipur’; 1 leaf headed ‘The Khyber Pass, May 18, 1923’, containing remarks from a visit; fragment of an account of a trip from Baguio, Philippines; manuscript hunting calendar; letter of recommendation for Haliba Pandit, guide on hunting trip; approx. 20 bifolia of miscellaneous notes on same paper as notes on Vietnamese hunting trip; and approx. 30 additional leaves, typescript and manuscript, including letters, journal fragments, etc.(quantity) Philip Mason Sears (1899-1973) was an American Republican politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate before helping develop US policy on Africa as representative to the UN during the 1960s. After graduating from Harvard in 1922 he spent a year travelling in the Far East with his friend Douglas Burden (1898-1978), the soon-to-be-famous naturalist who had been sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History to collect specimens from the region, and who later included his own account of the trip in his 1960 memoir Look to the Wilderness.Travelling first to Japan, Sears then proceeded to the distant Chinese province of Shensi in pursuit of the argali (mountain sheep). His description of the area is a fascinating eyewitness account of a traditional society on the eve of the epochal upheaval brought about by the Chinese Civil War, and includes an engrossing portrait of local Muslim warlord and opium trafficker Ma Fuxiang (1876-1932), who was to side with Chiang Kai-shek.Sears's guide on his next expedition to the depths of what is now Vietnam was the semi-legendary François J. Defosse (1881-1954), who had been employed by the Roosevelts during their own Asian hunting expeditions. A Conradian figure, Defosse arrived in Saigon in 1900 with the French army, and after years protecting workers on the Tonkin railway from tiger attacks was granted 'pioneer leave', probably a euphemism for intelligence work, and travelled into the jungle where he found employment with a logging company.Having chosen a course far more intrepid than most other travelling scions of the Gilded Age, Sears evidently intended these voluminous notes to form the basis of a published work, though perhaps sidetracked by his political career, he was not able to bring this intention to fruition.An article on the Mason Sears archive by Peter Robinson, Associate Professor, Japan Women's University ('Travel Writing as Historiography: Philip Mason Sears’s Unpublished Travel Writings', Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women’s University, no. 71, March 2022) is available on request.

Fordun, John of Scotichronicon cum Supplementis et Continuatione Walteri Boweri ... cura Walteri Goodall. Edinburgh: Robert Fleming, 1759. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary Spanish vellum, spines decorated in gilt, labels to second compartments, edges sprinkled red, title-pages printed in red and black, armorial bookplates of Edward Davenport (motto 'time deum et honora regem'), recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to volume 1, index and 'De nuptiis ...' section bound before main text in volume 1 (usually found at rear of volume 2), variable moderate browning [ESTC T096013];[Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun]. A Speech upon the State of the Nation. [London: no publisher, 1701]. 6 pp. + conjugate blank, 4to, unbound, housed in a custom red cloth case;Defoe, Daniel. A History of the Union between England and Scotland. London: John Stockdale, 1786. 4to, modern half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, spotting towards rear;and 1 other (Sir William Gibson-Craig, editor, Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland, Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1867-, 3 volumes, large folio, each volume with additional title-page containing hand-coloured and gilt vignette after a medieval manuscript initial, photozincographic facsimiles of manuscripts throughout, volumes 1 and 3 rebacked, volume 2 spine defective, contents not collated)(7) The Edward Davenport whose bookplate is found in this copy of Scotichronicon is possibly Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847), Cheshire landowner and member of parliament for Shaftesbury, who 'had the sensibility of an aspiring man of literature and the conscience of an ambitious social reformer' (History of Parliament, online).

Antiquities of Ionia London: [volume 1:] printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, sold by G. and W. Nicol [and others], [volume 2:] printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for George Nicol, 1821 & 1792. Volumes 1-2 (of 5), second and first editions, large folio (58 x 39.5cm), original boards with later manuscript labels pasted to spines and front covers, [4] xiv [2] 9 [1] 11-68, [6] 23 [1] [1] 26-43 pp., 42 and 63 engraved plates (plates in volume 1 numbered 1-59 and 1-4), engraved vignettes to title-pages, engraved head- and tailpieces, spines worn, volume 1 front board detached, other joints cracked, variable spotting to contents [ESTC T104764 for volume 2](2) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)The first volume was originally published in 1769, with 28 plates only. The third, fourth and fifth volumes were published in 1840, 1881 and 1915 respectively.

Les neuf matinées Paris: Jean Richer, 1585. First edition, 8vo, [16] 315 [1] pp., 19th-century quarter roan, moderately spotted and browned, side-notes shaved, private Spanish library markings to front free endpaper, ink inscription cropped from head of title-page [not in Adams];Vaillant, Clément. De la commodité de l'appanage ou panage de messieurs les enfans puisnez de la royale maison de France. Paris: Guillaume Linocier, 1584. First edition, 8vo, [4] 31 ff., c.1900 pink paper boards, binding worn, browning [not in Adams];Giocchi, Fabiano, & Francesco Giovanetti. Tractatus de Emptione et Venditione. Venice: ad Candentis Salamndrae insigne ['at the sign of the shining salamander], 1575. First edition, 8vo, [32] 502 [1] pp., contemporary limp vellum, woodcut device to title-page and colophon leaf, endpapers removed, small spill-burn to I5, quire T misbound but all present, worming to foot of last few leaves [EDIT CNCE 34080; not in Adams];Theodoret of Cyrus. L'Histoire en laquelle sont contenues les choses dignes de memoire advenues en la primitive Eglise, tant du regne de l'Empereur Constantin le grand, comme de se successeurs, propre à ce temps. Traduict gu grec en françois par D. M. Matthée. Paris: Jérome de Marnes, and Guillaume Cavellat, 1569. 16mo, [7] 257 [7] ff., contemporary vellum with manuscript spine-title, ties perished, slightly spotted, possibly lacking final blank [not in Adams but cf. T506 for a French edition of 1544](4) Nicolas de Cholières's work comprises nine cryptic musings on subjects including 'Des laides et belles femmes' ('Of beautiful and ugly women'), 'De la jalousie du mary et de la femme' ('Of the jealousy of husbands and wives'), 'De l'inégalité de l'aage [sic] des mariez, si un vieiallard doit prendre une jeune fille: ou une vieille recerher [sic] un jeune homme' ('Of the unequal ages of married couples, whether an old man should take a young girl, or an old woman seek out a young man'), and similar matters.

"Scotch National Songs" Musical Manuscript for Hercules Carmichael London, 1803. 24 manuscript pp. with music and lyrics for various Scottish songs, 13.5 x 9cm, soft calf

Highland Roads and Bridges Report of the Commissioners for making Roads and building Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland 1st June 1804-11th April 1811, comprising six reports, six folding maps and a folding plate;[bound with] Statement of the Origin and Extent of the several Roads in Scotland, made wholly, or in part, at the Public Expense… 21st March and 6th April 1814. Two maps, one folding;[bound with] A Survey and Report of the Coasts and Central Highlands of Scotland, 5th April 1803;[bound with] Reports from the Committee on the Survey and Report of the Coasts and Central Highlands of Scotland, May-June 1803, comprising reports 1-4, the third reports lacking appendix;Contemporary brown half calf with the ownership signature and manuscript contents notes of Robert Stevenson FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Bell Rock Lighthouse Charges for surveys, plans, medals, and superintendence of Engineers at the Bell Rock Lighthouse Manuscript document, 32 x 20cm, itemising various costs involved in building the Bell Rock Lighthouse, including “To Robert Stevenson Engineer for Northern Lights for Survey Report and other charges including expenses of Models relative to the erection of the lighthouse on the Bell Rock - £315”, etc. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS

Gibson, John A New and Correct Plan of Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the Country Adjacent, the New Buildings, Roads etc to the Year 1764, from an Actual Survey. [London: Robert Sayer], 1764. Engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, 29.2 x 50.6cm, sectionalised and laid on linen, housed in contemporary marbled paper slipcase with manuscript label, trimmed to neatline along bottom edge cropping imprint, linen splitting at top of central fold;W. H. Smith & Son. New Plan of London, c.1869. Lithographic map in colours, 58 x 86cm, sectionalised and laid on linen, folding into original cloth covers, toning, loss at intersection of panels next to Kensal Green;Knox, James. Plan of Edinburgh and its Environs. Edinburgh: John Fairbairn and John Anderson, 1824. Engraved map, 51 x 62, folding into original card covers with engraved label to front, matching slipcase;Enouy, Joseph. A New Map of Scotland, compiled from Actual Surveys, and regulated by the latest Astronomical Observations. London: Richard H. Laurie, 1821. Hand-coloured engraved map, 65 x 51cm, sectionalised and laid on linen, slipcase;and 16 other folding maps, Scotland and Edinburgh, 19th-early 20th century(20)

Collection of travel accounts Slade, Adolphus. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc. And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831. London: Saunders and Otley, 1833. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century cloth, edges untrimmed, half-titles, colour aquatint frontispieces, folding map, folding lithographic plate of manuscript facsimile;Fellows, Sir Charles. Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, more particular in the Province of Lycia. London: John Murray, 1852. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 7 folding plates and maps including frontispiece, spine sunned and with label removed, wear to head of rear joint, ink-stamps of the Poynton and Worth Colliers' Library to front pastedown (the leaf repaired) and title-page, frontispiece partly torn along stub but remaining attached;Bartlett, W. H. Gleanings on the Overland Route: Pictorial and Antiquarian. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1864. 8vo, original pink cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind, gilt edges, 22 engraved maps and plates including folding panorama of Alexandria, spine sunned;Palgrave, William Gifford. Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). New Edition, in One Volume. London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, engraved title-page with portrait of the author (the portrait implied to be a separate plate in the list of plates, apparently in error), 5 folding maps and plans;Martin, William Young. The East: being a Narrative of Personal Impressions of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in black, wood-engraved frontispiece, worming to front joint, damp-staining to foot of frontispiece and title-page;Walker, Theodore. Wanderings Eastward. A Diary of Travels in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece, in 1885. London: S. W. Partridge, 1886. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 8 wood-engraved plates;Hakluyt Society. Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the Years 1520-1527 by Father Francisco Alvarez. London: Hakluyt Society, 1881. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine faded;Beaufort, Emily A. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines. Including some Stays in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in Western Turkey. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pink pictorial cloth gilt, 5 chromolithographic plates (of 6: lacking volume 2 frontispiece), spines sunned, covers marked, volume 1 rear joint split;and 15 others, the mentioned items collated with regard to plates only(25) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

An Indian manuscript page, painted in watercolour and gouache with with an amorous couple, caligraphy text to verso, 21cm x 14.5cm

Roby (John). Traditions of Lancashire, 4 volumes, 2nd series, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 - 31, additional decorative etched titles to volumes 1 & 2, 22 engraved and etched plates with skilful later hand-colouring, several marginal closed tears and slight spotting, title page to volume one with long repaired closed tear, contemporary gilt tree calf, re-backed with gilt decorated spines, worn at extremities, 8vo, together with [Cromwell, Thomas]. Excursions in the County of Surrey, 1st edition, 1821, additional decorative engraved title, folding map of Surrey, 46 engraved plates and a folding lithographic plan of Guildford, slight spotting, later half calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, plus Hutton (W.). A Trip to Coatham, A Watering Place in the North Extremity of Yorkshire, John Nichols and Son and others, 1810, engraved portrait frontispiece, preface, folding engraved map of Cleveland with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, some spotting and offsetting, near-contemporary manuscript annotations to the recto and verso of the third front blank, 19th century half calf gilt, worn and rubbed, 8vo, plus Armitage (Ella S.). A Key to English Antiquities with Special Reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham District, published Sheffield by William Townsend, 1897, photolithographic frontispiece, numerous wood engravings throughout, contemporary ownership signature to the front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary vellum gilt, 8vo, and Moffatt (Rev. J. M. of Malmesbury). The History of the Town of Malmesbury and its Ancient Abbet, published in Tetbury and printed by J. G. Goodwyn, 1805, additional half-title with later manuscript ownership signatures, engraved topographical frontispiece, list of subscribers, three engraved plates and a folding table, appendix and errata bound at rear, page 229 torn with slight loss, joints cracked, contemporary half calf, heavily worn, bumped and frayed, 8vo, with Warner (Revd. Richard of Bath). A Walk through Wales in August 1797, printed in Bath by R. Cruttwell and Sold by C. Dilly, London, 1798, uncoloured sepia aquatint frontispiece, an advertisement with errata printed to verso, wood-engraved road maps as chapter headings, itinerary at rear, later ownership signature to front pastedown, hinges and joints cracked and worn with upper board near detached, contemporary half sheep with contrasting morocco gilt label to spine, worn and frayed, 8voQTY: (9)

Berry (William). Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Dictionary of Heraldry..., 3 volumes, London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, [1828-1840], engraved title to each volume, heraldic and related plates, spotting and toned (mainly to title pages), bookplate of Thomas Hayward Southby of Carsnell to front pastedown to volume 1, later endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked (volume 1 and 3 rebacked in cloth and volume 2 rebacked in calf) preserving original gilt decorated spines with double morocco labels, (title label to volume 1 replaced), 4to together with Robson (Thomas). The History of Heraldry, containing inquiries into its origin..., Sunderland: Turner and Marwood, 1830, engraved frontispiece, heraldic and related plates, minor spotting throughout, bookseller ticket of Frank Murray, Derby, Leicester and Nottingham to front pastedown, Redland Green, Bristol Vicarage blind embossed stamp and previous owner manuscript signature to front free endpaper, contemporary red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board, wear to extremities, 4to plus Reynolds (John). A Display of Herauldry of the particular Coat Armours now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales..., Chester: Roger Adams, 1739, 1-13pp., 11 engraved heraldic plates, advertisements to rear, gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1897, crude tape repair to upper hinge, 19th-century quarter straight grain morocco, spine worn and frayed, hinges and joints splitting, boards scratched and stained, 8vo (22 x 17 cm), and 4 other 20th-century books relating to heraldry QTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: Thomas Hayward Southby, Carsnell (bookplate) for Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica.

* Fiennes (William, 1582-1662). 1st Viscount Saye & Sele. Document Signed, ‘W. Say & Seale’, 1642, lower part of a manuscript Treasury warrant to pay Edward Fulham, bearing the signatures of four Lords of the Treasury, William Fiennes, Edward Littleton (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal), Edward Barrett (1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh), and Henry Montagu (as Earl of Manchester), a little soiling and some edge wear not affecting signatures or text, 1 page, 14 x 20.5 cm, laid down on a slightly larger old album leaf, together with an ink signature of 'T. Dorset, 18 March 1606' the signature and date on two small paper strips, pasted adjacent to form one piece, 11 x 97 mm, laid on a slightly larger piece of cardQTY: (2)NOTE:William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English nobleman and politician, known also for his involvement in several companies for setting up overseas colonies. He helped establish a company for the colonisation of Providence Island in 1630. In 1643 in England he was appointed a commissioner for the government of the plantations. A good example of his signature from during the English Civil War. Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, 1st Viscount Mandeville (c. 1563- 1642), Lord High Treasurer, 14 December 1620 to 29 September 1621. Edward Littleton, 1st Lord Littleton (1589-1645), Lord High Treasurer, 1641-1643.Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536-1608), English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer, 1599-1608.

Italian manuscript account book. Libro degli Affari di Lorenzo Pollini di Siena de'Beni di Asinalunga, 1775-79, 100 leaves of laid paper, each numbered in brown ink to upper outer corner, the majority blank, except for eleven pages of handwritten accounts in brown ink by Lorenzo Pollini at Siena Lunga, near Siena, 1775-79, and one page written in dark blue ink in English, and dated 1899, recording an art collector's notes regarding three purchases of works of art in January that year, including 'A marble putto, half a meter high. He rests on an oval base with the trunk of a tree coming out of it behind. Both arms, and the left leg below the knee have been broken off. Yet the figure is wonderfully attractive, and quite fine in every part. I am at a loss as to ascribe it, it comes nearest to Michael Angelo himself in his first Roman manner, about 1490-1500...' (probably by an American), original limp vellum, with manuscript title in brown ink to upper cover 'Libro degli affari di Lorenzo Pollini...', with ties (replaced, and with one missing), octavo (21 x 14.5 cm)QTY: (1)

Barclay (Rev. James). The Universal English Dictionary..., John Tallis and Co. 1844, additional decorative half-title, frontispiece of a view of Buckingham Palace, 59 engraved maps by J. Archer (55 of British counties) all with contemporary outline colouring, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, upper board detached, rear board near detached, worn and scuffed, 4to, together with Laurie (Robert & Whittle James). A Complete Body of Ancient Geography by Mons. D'Anville..., the Whole Materially Improved, by Inserting the Modern Names of Places Under the Ancient, 1801, printed title with small manuscript ownership signature and blind stamp, 13 (complete) double-page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, slight offsetting and staining, one map with a long closed marginal tear, but not affecting the printed image, text block detached, contents shaken and loose, contemporary half calf, boards detached, lacking spine, heavily rubbed and worn, slim upright folioQTY: (2)

Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de). Materia medica, or, A description of simple medicines generally us'd in physick..., 2nd edition, corrected, London: Printed by W. H. for Andrew Bell, 1716, publisher's advert leaf and 6 pp. manuscript index at rear, some damp-staining and scattered spotting, 20th-century calf with original 18th-century panelled calf sides relaid, 8voQTY: (1)

Scrap Albums. Three Scrap Albums, mid-19th-century, containing engraved and lithographic European and British topographical views, portraits, original pencil drawings and watercolours, manuscript notes and letters, fashion, genre and natural history, some prints loose, mixed contemporary bindings, two being small 4to and one folio QTY: (3)

Coach Making. The important and extensive archive of Holmes & Co., later Sanderson & Holmes, of Derby, carriage and later motor car body makers, early 19th c and later. For the full description please visit www.mellorsandkirk.com to view the online catalogue.The archive comprising:Light Chariots, an early-mid 19th c portfolio of 4 carriage designs with folding flaps by J. Gilfoy, signed, pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache on card, some heightened in gum arabic, 23.5 x 39cm, two flaps detached, each pasted onto concertina boards, contemporary red straight-grained morocco over boards,  scuffed wear, MS label to upper-cover, folio (40.2 x 25.5cm); Single and Double Headed Sociables, 427, an early-mid 19th c portfolio of 4 designs by J. Gilfoy, some folding flaps, pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache on card,  some heightened in gum arabic, 23.5 x 39cm, pasted down, and 3 loosely-inserted pen-and-ink further designs, indistinctly signed, 14.7 x 24cm, similarly binding to the former, folio (40.5 x 25.5cm);Broughams and Clarences, 429, a conforming portfolio of two designs, conforming media, unsigned, 22.5 x 39cm, album bound en suite to the latter, folio (40.5 x 25.5cm);Holmes & Co., Coach and Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen of England and Empress of India, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and Royal Family, n.d., an album of lithographed 10 designs, picked-out in gouache and gum arabic, with accompanying manuscript leaves, the whole prefaced by a letterpress leaf, some movement, contemporary morocco over boards, gilt, lettered upper-cover, all edges gilt, foliate endpapers, oblong 4to (15.7 x 25.2cm); Holmes & Co,. Coach & Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to the Queen & Royal Family, n.d., an advertising album of 25 lithographed designs, picked-out in gouache and gum arabic, prefaced by a letterpress leaf, contemporary cloth over boards, gilt, oblong 4to (16 x 26cm);Holmes & Co,. Coach & Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to the Queen & Royal Family./To be kept. Duplicate of Book/Sent o Messrs. Ross & Co., Bombay, [India], dated 5th January 1874, 61 designs, heightened gouache or gum arabic, accompanying MS letterpress leaves, the whole prefaced 2 lithographed letterpress leaves, disbound, original red cloth over boards, gilt, split contemporary parchment wrapper inscribed in manuscript, oblong 4to (16.5 x 26cm); 35 hand-coloured loose designs, mid-late 19th c, mixed sizes, 6 monochrome designs conforming, and 17 mixed media prints, mixed sizes;Victorian prize medals and medallions. 1) Great Exhibition 1851 AE prize medal by W. Wyon RA, Royal Mint, awarded to H. & A. Holmes, Class V A, 76mm, original fitted morocco Barnby of Clerkenwell presentation case, 2) The Worshipful Company of Coach Makers and Coach Harness Makers, Herbert Mountford Holmes, Master 1872-1873, silver-gilt coloured metal, 56mm, original Wyon morocco presentation case, split, 3) London International Exhibitions 1862 AE prize medal by Wyon, H. Holmes, Juror, Class VI, 76mm, original presentation case, split, 4) two London International Exhibitions 1874 AE medals, named to H.M. Holmes for Service, [&] Herbert & Arthur Holmes, Catalogue No. 6416, 51 and 50mm, original cases, 5) International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce & Manufacturers, Liverpool, 1886 AE medal by Elkington & Co., 50mm, original morocco presentation case, & 6) International Inventions Exhibition 1885 AE medallion, 45mm, cased, (7);Royalty. The firm's finely bound ledger detailing work commissioned by and executed for Queen Victoria, dated 28th September, 1849 to 11th March, 1861, [3]ff of manuscript only, primarily repairs and a few supplies, but for ' a new light and highly finished Clarence complete and delivered at the Royal Mews (Osborne) [...] £190-0-0 ' and a later Stanhope Phaeton at £110-0-0, the rest of the volume ruled but blank, sumptuously bound by Bemrose & Sons of Derby, their tickets, in full contemporary red morocco over boards, the covers ruled with five alternating gilt fillets enclosing a blind double fillet, the spine with five compartments, tooled in gilt with royal crowns and insignia, lettered with the then Queen's V.R. cypher, P.R. for the Prince Consort, titled and signed by the bindery, rolled anthemia turns-ins and dentelles, gilt gauffered edges, sewn silk end bands, marbled endpapers, original limp morocco wrap, worn, folio (33.6 x 22.5cm), loosely-inserted 1pp ALS from a indistinct courtier to Holmes, dated Windsor Castle, December 29 1846; Royal Warrants. Queen Victoria, two, dated 26th April 1849 and 4th December 1884, signed by Henry, 13th Duke of Norfolk, and Hugh, 1st Duke of Westminster respectively, as Masters of the Horse, each with red wax seals and later MS cancellation inscriptions, mounted and framed as one, 56 x 64.5cm overall; Royal Warrant. Queen Victoria, dated 12th June 1893, signed and sealed by William, 1st Viscount Oxonbridge as Master of the Horse, mounted and framed, 51.5 x 39cm;Royal Warrant. Adelaide, Queen Dowager, dated 27th December 1841, signed and sealed by Basil, 7th Earl of Denbigh, as her Master of Horse, mounted and framed, 51.5 x 39.5cm;Royal Warrant. Prince Albert, later Prince Consort, dated 8th November 1841, signed by Lord Robert Grosvenor, later 1st Baron Ebury, as Groom of the Stole, mounted and framed, 52 x 39.5cm; Royal Warrant. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), dated 20th May 1863, signed and sealed by Francis Knollys, later 1st Count Knollys, mounted and framed, 53.5 x 40.5cm; Royal Warrants. George V, two, dated 16th February 1911 and 5th May 1915, each signed by Bernard, 8th Earl of Granard, as Master of the Horse, each with later noted cancellation, mounted, the largest 42 x 27.5cm; Patents. No. 765, ""Improvements in the manufactures of tyres (sic) for wheels"", Mr. H.M. Holmes' duplicate specification, Patent dated April 5th 1855, [4]ff, MS on parchment, No. 176, ""Improvements in Carriage Springs"", 1861, printed and hand-scrivened over two sheets ofvellum, signed and with Queen Victoria's Great Seal present, toleware case, the document 52 x 77cm, and No. 2902, ""Improvements in axle-trees for carriage and other vehicles"", 1869, printed and hand-scrivened over two sheets of vellum, signed and with Queen Victoria's Great Seal present, toleware case, the document 52 x 77cm, (3);Photography. A disbound album of approx. 60 Victorian and later albumen prints and photographs of carriages and motor car coachwork, dated 1873 and onwards, some mounted but most loosely-inserted, including The Prince of Wales, Landau for India [the 1875-6 tour of the later Edward VII], his luggage van for the same visit, The Duke of Norfolk's 1879 barouche, The Maharajah of Cutch's barouche, the Earl Grey's, four images of the Paris Exhibition barouche, phaetons for the Marquess of Hartington and the Earl of Loudon, R.W. Chandos-Pole's four-in-hand drag, later images, without inscribed mounts, are dominated by motor cars, mostly civilian saloons, an occasional Red Cross ambulance c. 1914, further printed ephemera, including Daimler adverts, some plans/blue prints, etc., index leaf defective, some movement, folio (38 x 34cm); Petty Cash Book, dated and including payments from 18th January, 1813 - 14th May, 1822, approx. [244]ff of MS accounts in several hands, named workers and trade suppliers & some of their materials, some horse dealers; many of their clients, the aristocracy and gentry, including Bagots and Thynnes, various clergymen, the burgeoning industrial and professional classes, etc., contemporary reverse calf, blind-ruled, slightly chipped and worn, but good, rubbed gilt-lettered morocco piece, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, folio (33 x 22cm);

Medical. [Descartes] Renatus Des Cartes/De Homine, figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl, second edition, Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Ex Officinâ Hackiana, 1664, a respectable if imperfect copy of this seminal work, textually complete and collating: [38], 121 (i.e. 123), [1]pp, with in-text etchings and wood engravings, 10 etched and engraved anatomical plates as called for, 2 folding and the others full-page, of which only one plate (i.e. Fig: I the heart and lungs) has movable overlays, which have been repaired, when two plates are called for thus, another plate (i.e. Fol. 110. No.2, the nervous system) is present but defective, its counterpart is loose (i.e. Fol. 110. No. 1), the text is fresh and legible, in some places there are minor stains/soiling and/or creasing, infrequent chipped edges but with no loss of text, disbound between contemporary English blind-ruled calf boards, 4to, [Provincial Dorset Printing] Graves (Robert, M.D.), A Pocket Conspectus of the New London and Edinburgh Pharmacopœias, first edition, Sherborne: Printed by W. Cruttwell, et al., 1796, complete, collating: viii, 112pp, interleaved with slightly later manuscript notes, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [Royal College of Physicians], Pharmacopœia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Parisiis: Theophilum Barrois, 1788, engraved folding plate, former damp spots and occasional stains, mostly marginal, contemporary English speckled calf, some wear, 8vo, Ball's Modern Practice of Physic, volume III only, third edition, London: A. Millar, 1768, marginal worm trail, otherwise unexamined, contemporary calf, worn, 8vo, [&] Huxley's Lessons in Elementary Physiology, tenth edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, folding frontispiece of a human skeleton, in-text illustrations, lacking ffep, split, some foxing, original cloth, worn, 8vo, (5)  Provenance: 1st: Ex dono Ja. Leigh A.M./Cott. Chr. Soc./1673, dated ink MS ownership inscription to ffep; others later.

Cookery. A manuscript receipt book, E.B., n.d. [late 19th/early 20th c], [xxii] (contents), 81pp, paginated and predominantly inscribed with recipes for desserts puddings, a few sauces and soups, etc., contemporary vellum over boards, blind-ruled, splitting, tacked-on calf strips, presumably contemporary, marbled endpapers, 8vo, another four, similar, mid-19th c and later, of which three are partially-inscribed, mixed bindings and sizes, (5)

Late Victorian Oxford. A student's photograph album, Leslie Rimmer Paterson (1866-1935), of Keble College, dated 1887-88, comprising 16 large format b/w and sepia photographs, 23.9 x 30cm, mostly of sporting life, both university and collegiate, including group portraits of the first XI Keble cricket team, the Oxford University Rugby Union XV, the rugby teams of Keble Coll: Oxon v. Trinity Coll: Cambridge, rowing, including the Keble VIII bumped 1888, the 1887 procession of boats, the Torpids 1888, the New College VIII, others, fellow college students, further mixed format and media images of the college and its chapel's exterior, 5 interiors - presumably Paterson's family house, Rock Ferry's church St Peter's, cricket on the green, Liverpool and its docks, etc., pastedown with a lithograph after Louis Wain of Miss Tabby's Academy, mounted onto card leaves and manuscript annotated, contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered, oblong folio (27.6 x 38cm)  Provenance: Rev. Leslie Rimmer Paterson (1866-1935), formerly of  Rock Ferry, Merseyside (previously Cheshire), educated at Loretto School and then Oxford, later incumbent at Bishops Langham and Ranworth, Norfolk. 

Japan. [Japanese motifs/pattern book], Meiji period, woodblock-printed, black-ruled, printed calligraphic prelims, [38]ff with designs numbered 597-688, wood-block printed and hand-coloured, some picked-out in gilt, mixed sizes, no. 689 lacking having been excised and thus making the leaf defective, some of the concertina leaves opened, original wrappers, upper-cover with titled paper label and numbered VI in manuscript, spine with later loosely applied sellotape, 8vo, four miscellaneous parts of the Shin-Bijutsukai, The New Monthly Magazine of Various Designs by the Famous Artists of To-day, n.d., Meiji period, stitched in original wrappers, 8vo, and a harlequin volume of loosely-inserted gatherings, some illustrations but mostly text, original floral wrappers, 8vo, (6)

Geology. Sowerby (Henry, Assistant-Curator Linn. Soc. [Linnaean Society]), Popular Mineralogy; Comprising a Familiar Account of Minerals and their Uses, first edition thus of the first work to use chromolithography to illustrate minerals, London: Reeve and Benham, 1850, 20 plates illustrating 80 specimens, some minor foxed spots, original publisher's blue cloth by Westleys & Co of London, their ticket, pictorial gilt, rebacked, edges worn and some exposed, refreshed and repaired endpapers, contemporary bookseller's ticket of Fletcher of Norwich, uncut, loosely-inserted 19th c manuscript notes from one of Francis Butler's monograph, square 8vo

A mid-Victorian sketchbook, John Gibbs of The Yews, Yorkshire, 1867, [30]ff with 64 mixed media illustrations by various hands, including caricatural portraits, military and naval profile sketches and studies of uniform, a trompe-l'œil watercolour of two letters addressed to a William Hilder of Chancery Lane, ho-ho birds, landscapes, etc., a few inscribed, various dates, some tipped-in, contemporary green-quarter calf over marbled boards, Made & Sold by J.H. Morgan, Stationer, High St., Abergavenny, [Wales], ffep with his ticket, upper-cover with a titled vignette contemporary to the Crimean War: The Army & Navy For Ever, pastedown with 19th c armorial bookplate: John Gibbs, ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription: To my dear child, Anna Maria Selma Gibbs, (to be kept as an heirloom), J.G., May 25 1867, foolscap 8vo (15.5 x 30cm)

Staffordshire, Ceramic Design and Manufacture. [Pattern book] Wood & Sons Ltd., Burslem, Current Teapot Patterns, n.d. [mid-second third quarter 20th c], Nos. 1014-16, 1018-19, 1026, 1031-32, 1034, 1042, 1044, 1046-50, 1059, 1062, 1066-70, 1072, 1074-77, 1082, 1085-87, 1089-90, 1094-95, 1106-10, 1113, 1119, 1122-24, 1129-30, 1133-34, 1136-38, 1140-43, 1145, 1147-64, 1167-71, 1173, 1177-1183, 1185-99, 1202-18, 1221-46, 1255-56, 1260-83, 1295-1315, 1317-22, & 1324-33, most designs illustrated in polychrome, some b/w, all mounted onto square leaves (28.5 x 28.5cm), some designs duplicated but for a variation in colour or design, leaves annotated in manuscript with decorating notes, some cancellations noted boldly over the design, some leaves stuck, a few losses, the whole uneven and occasionally chipped, a few leaves with tape repairs to verso - around the binding puncture holes, contemporaneously collected as one in a ring binder, original black papered covers, factory labels to upper-cover, folio (44.5 x 36cm)

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852). Goss (John, Organist of St. Paul's Cathedral), The Music as Performed in St Paul's Cathedral at the Funeral of the The Duke of Wellington, signed by the composer, London: Addison & Hollier, n.d. [1852], copperplate engraved printing, title-page ruled with a broad mourning border, [ii], [37]pp, original publisher's cloth over limp boards, split, slight losses, title-page and pastedown with manuscript shelf numbering: KK.IV.5, folio (36 x 26.5cm), etc., (2) Provenance: reputedly the Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley, 2nd Baronet (1825-1889), composer and clergymen, and a godson of the first Duke of Wellington, thus an apparent association copy; ffep with pencil inscription.

From the Library of Anthony and Clarissa Eden, Earl and Countess of Avon. FitzGerald (Edward, translator) & Cole (Herbert, illustrator), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, London: John Lane, 1903, frontispiece and plates, finely bound in contemporary brown morocco by Riviere & Sons, signed dentelle, upper-cover split, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, cipher book label, 12mo, [Poggio Bracciolini], Florentin (Pogge), Les Facéties, two-volume set, copy no. 451/750, Paris: Isidore Liseux, Éditeur, 1878, parallel Latin and French text, contemporary tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 12mo, Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata, Parigi: Preso Lefevre, Librajo, 1838, contemporary vellum binding, gilt, speckled edges, contemporaneous ink manuscript ownership inscription: Catherine *.*. Harcourt/Roma Dec. 43, 8vo, [&] Musset (Alfred de), Frédéric et Bernerette, 1893, finely bound in contemporaneous three-quarter morocco gilt, repaired, 12mo, (5)  Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (1897-1977), British Prime Minister (1955-57), and his wife Clarissa (née Spencer-Churchill; 1920-2021), Countess of Avon; previously sold by Bellmans, Printed Books, et al., 13th July, 2023, part-lots from lots 7 & 8.

Bible and Biblical Criticism. D'Armaillac (Dom. Ger., Rhet. Profess.), Operis oratorii Genesis prologus. In Collegio Aessiesi, 1667, [1], 132ff, title inscribed in red and incorporating a heraldic dog, the manuscript inscribed in black ink, contemporaneous calf, red-speckled edges, 4to Provenance: Ex Libris Joannis Maria Jaquier Curatio/De Vegy, ffep with slightly later ink MS ownership inscription.

Nottingham Interest. The visitors' book of the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, possibly the country's oldest pub, during the ownership of Mrs. Ada Geraldine Etherington-Ward (aka "Auntie Ada"), dated 1957-66, [101]ff of manuscript signatures and inscriptions, in places illustrated with a few pen-and-ink cartoons and doodles, some loosely-inserted or tipped-in ephemera, including newspaper clippings or infrequent correspondence and postal history, most of the signatories appear to be British and Commonwealth policemen, frequently from Scotland Yard, other occasional dignitaries, British and international tourists, The USSR-Great Britain Society touring England in 1963 and even The Temperance Severn, etc., contemporary mid-20th c black morocco over cloth, the upper-cover indistinctly lettered: Trip to Jerusalem, 4to

World War One, RAF. Second Lieutenant Laurence Harold Button (1899-1921), pilot, 35 Squadron RAF, formerly of Beeston, Nottingham, [13]pp manuscript narrative: My doings while Prisoner of War, at the officers' PoW camp at Schloss Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, in which Button describes on the 9th August, 1918, at about 7pm, being 'over the front line. When I was attacked by 11 Hostile machine[s], [when] my Observer was wounded in the foot by the first burst, also my controls were shot away except my elevator control. I came down in a slow spiral, a strong west wind was blowing me further into enemy lines, also my engine was out of action. During the descent I was hit in the shoulders. I managed to land the bus, it crashed slightly. While on the ground I was wounded in the *** foot. Climbed out of the machine and gave myself up to some German Red Cross' etc., verso pastedown and leaf with pencil doodles, including aircraft parts and a hospital bed, the autograph account inscribed in a contemporary German notebook of cloth over marbled boards, along with three loosely-inserted transcripts of letters sent to Button's parents while he was missing (before being declared as wounded and a prisoner of war soon after) from Major K.F. Balmain, commanding officer of 35 Squadron, and Captain James E. Phillips, describing what they then knew of the Button's crash, pastedown of notebook with a later MS ownership inscription, 4to Button, apart from during his wartime service, appears never to have left his native Nottingham, according to archival records: a resident of Beeston, he was schooled at Nottingham High School, before passing through the officer training corps at Nottingham University and being commissioned in the RAF in early 1918. Following his crash and incarceration, it was not until 29th January 1919 that he was repatriated, having been treated in hospital for some months. The fact that Button died two years later, in 1921, one can only surmise his crash and the resulting injuries irrevocably impaired his health.

Bindings. The Book of Common Prayer, [...] Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd, 1710, [bound and issued with] The Whole Book of Psalms, London: Printed by William Pearson, for the Company of Stationers, 1711, first title with engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne, black-ruled title-pages, double-column, early 19th c mauve calf, blind-rolled foliate borders, spine sunned, light rubbing, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, The Book of Church Services Complete, printed on India paper, Cambridge: Printed by J. & C. F. Clay, at the University Press, n.d. [c. 1905], general and divisional titles, double-column, finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full black morocco over boards, in the Arts & Crafts taste, the upper-cover tooled in gilt with a crucifix, six-compartment spine of raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt line dentelle, foliate rolled and signed turn-ins, 8vo, Baxter (Rev. Richard), The Saints' Everlasting Rest, London: J.F. Dove, n.d. [c. 1820], original calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, with rare original travelling or presentation roan case, 12mo, [&] The Holy Bible, Stereotype Edition, London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817, double-column, contemporary black sombre morocco binding, (4) Provenance: 1st: 1) Theodosia Cavers, Edn [Edinburgh?], Jun ith, 1764, dated female manuscript ownership inscription to verso of title-page. 2) mid-19th c ownership inscriptions of the Walkers of Leith to ffep, dated 1841 & 1861.

Crime & Punishment. William Marwood (1820-1883), an autographed copy of his business/trade card, printed in monochrome: Wm. Marwood, Executioner, Church Lane, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, the verso of which is signed in manuscript and stamped in ink, 6.5 x 9cm, with a contemporary 1pp ALS in which the anonymous writer described his visit to the public executioner at his cobblers shop, noting to its recipient 'I enclose his card and autograph which I saw him inscribe - don't part with it', a later typescript of the letter, a later bw postcard, etc Condition evident from image.

An early 19th c lady's drawing-room album cum commonplace book, n.d. [the binding c. 1830], approx. [70]ff of typical manuscript verse and prose, illustrated with various 19th c mixed media prints, mostly antiquarian and topographical in nature, some from Dickens by Phiz, as well as a pen-and-ink drawing of two deer and Field Place: The Childhood home of Shelley, contemporary red morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, spine exposed, some movement, 4to, & a similar album of manuscript maxims, n.d., partially-inscribed on varying coloured paper, contemporary roan gilt, rubbed, 12mo, (2)

A lady's friendship album, Miss Patrick, dated April 20, [19]07, approx. [16]pp only of sentimental manuscript inscriptions and occasional pen-and-ink or watercolour inscriptions, including Lady Godiva, as well as a Lead plucked from wreath, hung in Edgware Road/in honour of King Edward VIIth (funeral), and some further ephemera in places, contemporary green cloth, oblong 8vo, another, Manuscript Album, 1907-17, approx. [25]ff of inscriptions and illustrations, including some humorous cartoons, a profile study after William Nicholson, etc., split, original wrappers, perished spine, etc., 4to, & a contemporary sketch album, partially-illustrated, including pencil sketches of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland after John Tenniel, original green cloth, oblong 8vo, (3)

Classics. Horace & Francis (Revd. Philip, translator), The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare, with Critical Notes collected from the best Latin and French Commentators, harlequin four-volume set, first edition of volume I, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, 1742, first editions thus of volumes II-IV, London: Printed for A. Millar, 1743, 1746 & 1746, parallel text, contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands enclosing six compartments lettered and tooled in gilt, split but holding, rubbed, slight losses, signs of former water stains, affecting lower portions only and without any loss of sense, etc., 8vo, (4) Provenance: 1) Arthur Percy Aylmer, (1801-1885), later 11th Baronet of Donadea, County Kildare, Ireland; 19th c crested bookplates to each pastedown. 2) Richard Reynell, 1891, title-page with ink manuscript ownership inscriptions.

Cookery. A lady's manuscript receipt book, Miss May Hickling, 10 Lenton Road, [The] Park, Nottingham, n.d. [late 19th c], [27]ff of recipes, mostly for puddings and cakes, original wrappers, creased, 12mo, another partial manuscript, similar, disbound, 12mo, five printed books, mixed bindings and sizes, (7)

Medical. Salmon (William, Professor of Physick (sic)), Synopsis Medicinæ, first dition, London: Printed by W. Godbid, for R. Jones, 1671, lacking general title-page, divisional titles of books II & III black-ruled, lacking all before *8, incomplete, extant signatures collating: *8, A³, B-M⁸, N1, [N8], O-Z⁸, 2A⁸, 2B2-8, 2C-2Z⁸, 3A⁸, 3B⁵, all before B tatty and with some lower-marginal chipped losses, some toning, browning and stains in places, not affecting legibility of text, numerous in-text astrological tables, recently bound in repurposed 19th c English legal vellum manuscript, 8vo, [Wing S454], [&] Buchan (William, MD), Domestic Medicine, sixth edition, London: Printed for W. Strahan, et al., 1779, early-mid 19th c morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, (2)

Royalty, The Coronation of George IV. Admission ticket No. 3557 to Westminster Abbey, dated 1821, wood-engraving printed in tones of black and blue, embossed border by Dobbs, signed by Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, GCB (1767-1845), under the Deputy Earl Marshal Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard's (1766-1824) authority, blind-stamped with the deputy's armorial seal, and inscribed in ink manuscript with directions for the recipient: Earl Marshal's Box/South Door, 23 x 25.5cm Slightly soiled.

Lenkiewicz (R.O.), The Mary Notebook, loosely-inserted limitation certificates signed by the artist, one of 350 copies, Plymouth: White Lane Press, Winter 1998, printed and colour illustrated facsimile of the original manuscript, bound by the Elephant Press in the original cloth over boards, red cloth slip case en suite, folio (43 x 31cm)

South Africa, Travel and Natural History. Green (Lawrence G.), These Wonders to Behold, signed by the author, first edition, Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1959, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, [botany] Flügge-de Smidt (R.A.H.), Flowers by the Roadside, ?the author's own annotated copy, Johannesburg, 1947, tipped-in typed annotations &/or corrections, ffep inscribed with the author's name, original boards, 4to, [ornithology] Gill's First Guide to South African Birds, Winifred Shand's copy with bird-watching manuscript, first edition, Maskew Miller Limited, 1936, MSS loosely-inserted and inscribed across the interior of the original publisher's dustjacket, chipped and torn, over blue cloth, 8vo, Keynes (Simon, editor), Quentin Keynes: Explorer, film-maker, lecturer and book-collector, 1921-2003, inscribed by the editor, copy no. 191/500, Cambridge, 2004, dustjacket over green cloth, 8vo, Elsie Garrett Rice, etc., (8)

Ephemera. [Postal history & horology]:  2pp letter from George Stacey, clock maker of Worksop, to Thomas Hallam Junior, Watch Maker, of Bridle Smith Gate, Nottingham, dated 1852, envelope with Penny Red stamp, other 19th c manuscripts, various, an 18th c wash and pencil landscape attributed to Thomas Hearne, 10.5 x 18cm, 9 early 20th c colour postcards, including World War One and humour, 10 b/w photographs of Japan and native domestic real life, Taisho/Showa period, a medieval inspired illuminated vellum picture, clipped autograph signature of General Sir Redvers Henry Buller VC, GCB, GCMG (1839 –1908), dinner invitation from Robert Arkwright of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire, as High Sheriff of the aforementioned county, printed on card, 1830 & 1831 manuscript account for Thomas Harrison of Tibthorpe, Yorkshire, an 1862 furnishing bill, mid-20th c manuscript accounts notebook along with a list of relations and present, 18th c family genealogical notes, Hebrew printing, etc

Music. [Oratorio] Handel (George Frideric), Messiah, n.d. [early 19th c], 411pp manuscript full score, contemporary straight-grained morocco boards only, disbound, folio (37.2 x 28.4cm), & Jackson (William, of Exeter), Elegies, second edition, London: Printed for the Author. Sold by R. Bremner, in the Strand, and most other Music Shops, n.d. [c.1765-70], [bound - and issued? - with] idem, Twelve Songs, Set to Music, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at the Music Shops, n.d. [c. 1765-1770], each with engraved copperplate-printed title-page and scores, preliminary letterpress leaves, pp: v, [1], 41; [ii], iii, [1], 2-42, contemporary reverse calf, panelled in blind, detached, split and chipped, upper-cover lettered in manuscript, folio (32.5 x 25cm), (2)

Cookery. An early 19th c lady's manuscript receipt book, *. Radcliffe, n.d. [c. 1800], [viii] (contents), 69pp, paginated and inscribed with various sweet and savory recipes, including Lord Cholmondelley's (sic, Cholmondeley) Receipt to make a Partridge Pye (sic), split affecting preliminary contents leaves, with some repairs, later split with one inscribed leaf loose, the remaining leaves blank, four loosely-inserted contemporary manuscript receipts and a scrap from a newspaper, contemporary reverse calf, rolled in blind, split and with losses to hide exposing boards and joints, 4to

Woolf (Leonard), his five volume autobiography, an association copy interleaved by one of his wife Virginia's biographers, first editions, mixed impressions, comprising Sowing, 1880-1904, fifth impression, Growing, 1904-1911, fifth impression, Beginning Again, 1911-1918, fifth impression, Downhill All The Way, 1919-1939, second impression, [&] The Journey Not The Arrival Matters, 1939-1969, fourth impression, London: The Hogarth Press, 1974, 1977, 1972, 1975, & 1973, each volume interleaved with the loosely-inserted manuscript notes of Roger Poole, all with original publisher's dustjackets, each with varying degrees of wear, but OK-good, over blue cloth as issued, 8vo, (5) Provenance: from the library of Roger Poole (1939-2003), literary theorist and man of letters, authority on Virginia Woolf and Kierkegaard, author of 'The Unknown Virginia Woolf ' (first published 1978).

A lady's friendship album, Frances Marjorie Fewster, dated Xmas, 1911, of which approx. [17]pp only are inscribed or illustrated, including a b/w photograph of tug-of-war at a girls' school, split with movement, contemporary roan gilt, oblong 8vo, another, later, dated 1929-30, only approx. [23]pp inscribed or illustrated, including with contemporary ladies of fashion, contemporary faux leather binding, oblong 8vo, & a late Victorian scrap album, dated 1880, inscribed with manuscript verse as well, browned and chipped card leaves, split with movement, contemporary cloth binding, worn, small folio, (3)

Travel. Leprette (Fernard) & Goar (Lillian, translator), Egypt: Land of the Nile, first edition thus, Cairo: R. Schindler, 1939, contemporary linen cover illustrated in pen-and-ink with caricatures and scenes of Egyptian antiquities, topography and domestic life, over original wrappers, 8vo, [RAF] Houghton (George W., Squadron Leader), The Flew Through the Sand, second edition, Cairo: R. Schindler, n.d. [1942], similarly bound to the latter in contemporary linen over the original wrappers, in this case the linen signed by various members of RAF Middle East Command stationed in Cairo during World War Two, 8vo, Beaton (Cecil), Near East, first edition, second impression, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., Summer, 1943, original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, Russell Pasha, etc., (6) Provenance: 1st & 2nd: A.L. Simnett, Christmas [&] December 1942, ink manuscript inscriptions to each ffep; presumably an RAF serviceman on active duty.

Binding; William & Mary Prayer Book. The Book of Common Prayer [...], London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas'd, 16[?94], [bound with] The Whole Book of Psalms [...], Oxford: Printed by the University Printers, 1703, printed in red-ruled double-column throughout, apparently complete, signatures collating: A¹², B⁶, C-S¹², T⁶; A-D¹², [1A1] (i.e. title) defective, ditto C1-4 & P9, O3 lacking the lower-right corner only with no loss of text, P2-7 inner-gutter split but holding, finely bound in a contemporary, if anachronistic, 'Restoration' design binding of silver-mounted crimson morocco, richly gilt with meandering flowering leafy tendrils, within a shaped rectangular black-painted reserve, gilt fillet and beaded border, the covers centred by a silver plaque monogrammed: AB, the silver edges and clasp chased with foliage and outlined in wrigglework, the singular extant clasp with maker's mark only: ?I/JM in Gothic script, conforming five-compartment flat spine, uneven edges with movements and traces of gilding, gilt foliate dentelles, polychrome block-printed endpapers picked-out in gilt, possibly Dutch, verso of recto endpaper with a manuscript quatrain, contemporaneous to 1703: Faith in Gold that Self denyes (sic),/Wisdom with her self Supplyes:/Filling the Soul with th' Eternal Good/When she wills not what she Would,  12mo (13 x 7cm) BCP title-page defective, so the suggested imprint date of 1694 has been surmised from the presence of Queen Mary's imprimatur leaf [T6] (though dated 1692) and 1694 being the last year a duodecimo prayer-book was printed before her death on 28th December, 1694, and thus the closest to the 1703 Psalms with which the BCP is bound with.  Provenance: 1) AB, presumably a member of the Burman family of Burman's (later Hathaway Farm), Shottery, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, an established Warwickshire farming family and neighbours of William Shakespeare's wife's family; AB's commissioned binding with monogrammed mounts, and almost certainly their verse to verso of recto endpaper. 2) Lucy Burman, slightly later 18th c ink MS ownership inscription on title-page. 3) W.R. Bunbury/1854, dated ink MS ownership inscription to ffep. Sold as a binding and as such not liable for return.

Travel. A Victorian gentleman's manuscript diary, dated October 25th - December 10th, 1857, [22]ff only, recto lacking a few leaves, however, the first extant leaf seems to be the start of the narrative, where the author disembarks at Alexandria with his companions, having sailed via Malta, and then travels south to Cairo and sees the Pyramids of Giza, before leaving Egypt for Italy and the usual Grand Tour sites, customary observations of travel and some local life, the account ending abruptly, some former water staining in places, though not affecting the legibility of the text, contemporary Letts, Son & Co notebook of black quarter-roan over green cloth, their ticket to pastedown, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo

A 19th c MS pocket account book, dated 1830-75, [26]ff only, one leaf also including a recipe To Make Ginger Beer, some quires loose with movement, contemporary vellum binding, restrained by a clasp, the upper-cover indistinctly inscribed with the compiler's name, marbled edges, 8vo three banking pass books, William Roy, Servant, dated 1851-3, various banks, partially-inscribed, original wrappers, worn, 12mo, & a mid-19th c and later manuscript, mixed dates, inscriptions including a partial house contents, an inventory of books, etc., within a John Price, Cowkeeper, etc., of Home Terrace, Hammersmith, adveristing notebook of limp red roan gilt, 12mo, (5)

Equestrian. Ferraro (Pirro Antonio), Cavallo Frenato, second edition, Venetia: Appresso Francesco Prati, 1620, defective, one divisional title-page, woodcut foliated initials and some footers, extant contents collating: π¹, A-D⁸, E⁷, F⁷, G⁸, H⁴; A³, B⁶, C⁵, N⁸, O⁶, P-Q⁴, some in-text woodcut illustrations of horse harnesses, etc., toned and browned contents, some water stained leaves, not affecting legibility of text, contemporary Italian vellum over boards, mottled from former staining, pastedown with manuscript inscription dated 1696, folio (32.5 x 23cm)

Old Masters. Studio del Disegno ricavato dall'extremita delle figure del celebre quadro della trasfigurazione di Raffaelle, Roma: nello Studio di Folo Posto, n.d. [c. 1800-20], engraved title-page, 31 engraved plates by Giovanni Folo and Vincenzo Camuccini after Raphael, printed on laid paper, margins with varying degrees of foxing, sometimes just within the platemark, some other occasional marks, 15 loosely-inserted pen-and-ink drawings after the prints, some of which are annotated in manuscript by an English hand, some sheets with chips, creases and slight, but stable, tears, original upper-wrapper only, now detached, folio (54 x 42cm)

China, Chinese Taoism. Laozi & Heysinger (I.W., editor), The Light of China/[The Tao Te Ching], inscribed presentation copy from the author, Philadelphia: Research Publishing Co., 1903, 165pp, original publisher's cloth, the spine's lettering dulled, 8vo  Provenance: Sir Oliver Lodge FRS (1851-1940), physicist, spiritualist and parapsychologist; ink manuscript presentation inscription addressed to him from the editor on ffep.

Anno Regni Annæ Reginæ Magna Britannia, Francia, & Hibernia, Octavo. At the Parliament Summoned [...] 1708 [-] [...] 1709, London: Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, et al., [&] Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1709-10, divisional title-pages black ruled and with the Royal Arms, principally printed in Gothic Black Letter, comprising 22 parliamentary acts, including that to build the Eddystone Lighthouse, another to build Portsmouth, Chatham and Harwich harbours and docks, for making a dock or bason at Leverpoole (sic; i.e. Liverpool), another for Cattewater and Sutton-Pool, Plymouth, punishing mutiny and desertion and for better payment of the army and quarters, various duties, mostly mercantile, but also for the early stages of window tax, textiles, etc., contemporary reverse calf over boards, worn with some losses, small folio (30 x 20cm)  Provenance: The Bayliffs (sic) & Corporation of Ludlow [Shropshire]. Aug:t 1710 Cost 10s: 6d, title-page with ink manuscript inscription, further MS of their's in places.

A mid-Victorian photograph album, c. 1855-60, illustrated with 63 prints after original photographs of leading contemporary 'celebrities' and leading pillars of the Establishment, nos. 61-62 accompanied by a loosely-inserted contemporary manuscript key, recording such sitters as a Charles Dickens, David Livingstone, youthful Gladstone, Lord Palmerston and further politicians, Lord Macaulay, Joseph Sturge the Quaker abolitionist, the operatic soprano Anna Bishop, the scientist and polymath Alexander von Humboldt, various members of the Church and some leading evangelicals, including John Bird Sumner and his brother Charles Sumner as Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Winchester respectively, Samuel Wilberforce as Bishop of Oxford, Archibald Campbell Tait as Bishop of London, Baptist Noel, etc., each portrait cut into an oval and pasted onto card, split and the leaves with some movement, contemporary gilt brass mounted black morocco over boards, rubbed and joints starting to split, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, oblong 8vo

Staffordshire. Leech (W., Surveyor in Leek), Particulars of an Estate in the Parish of Kingsley & County of Stafford belonging to Hugh Sleigh Esq., 1850, calligraphic title-page within carmine and green watercolour swagged festoon, bellhusk and laurel garlands, [10]ff of manuscript inscribed to verso only, contemporary papered wrapper, split with some movement, foolscap

Natural History. Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de) & Sonnini de Manoncourt (Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert), Histoire Naturelle, genérale et particulière, thirty-three volumes only, Paris: Chez F. Dufort, An VII-VIII [i.e. 1798-99], hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece of Buffon only, no further plates or illustrations, unopened, original publisher's wrappers, some wear and losses, manuscript and printed labels, uncut, 8vo, (33)  Sold not subject to return.

Bible. The Holy Bible, [issued and bound with] The Book of Common Prayer, [&] The Whole Book of Psalms, three parts in one, first Oxford edition, first printing (i.e. Bible colophon dated 1673), Oxford: At the Theater, 1675, Bible and BCP with additional engraved title-pages, BCP letterpress title defective and the Bible's tatty, double-column, uneven text block with some movement, some staining, otherwise unexamined, contemporary and later manuscript genealogical notices of the Burt family, contemporary calf over boards, panelled and tooled in blind, some worn losses, spine missing strip, red-stained edges, 4to in 8s, [Herbert 719]

Travel, Turkey. Hill (Aaron, Gent.), A Full and Just Account of the Present State of The Ottoman Empire In all its Branches, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold, by John Mayo, 1709, black-ruled title-page reinforced at gutter, lacking portrait frontispiece, pp: [viii], xxvii, [viii], 339, 6 engraved and etched plate with accompanying explanatory letter-press leaves, 19th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, rebacked, refreshed endpapers, folio in 4s (34.5 x 23.5cm)  Provenance: Sarah Cholmley, March ye 8th: 1709 (Cholmondeley?), contemporary original female ownership manuscript inscription to ffep.

[Du Choul (Guillaume)], Discorso sopra la castrametatione, et disciplina militare de Romani [...], Composto per il S. Guglielmo Choul [...], Con i Bagni, & essercitij antichi de Greci, & Romani [...], À Lione [i.e. Lyon]: Appresso Guglielmo Rovillio, 1556, collating a-o⁴, A-E⁴, ❧⁴, lacking the folding table, woodcut printer's armorial device on title-page, some ornamental letters, b1's is coloured, presumably by a later hand, bas relief headers and ornamental tail-pieces, in-text illustrations of the Roman army and classical antiquities, a broad margined copy, the title-page with marginal repaired worm trails, lower-margin with a constant worm hole, becoming more apparent by the end and developing into inner-marginal worming, but never affecting text, some soiling and dust in places, never affecting legibility, the second part with varying degrees of staining to the lower-margin, never touching text or any illustrations, contemporary parchment over boards, some worn losses to the binding, including the spine's contemporary manuscript lettering, the lower-edge of the text block with contemporary MS lettered short-title for shelving: Discorso s. la Ca***., recto pastedown with two distinct shelf numberings: A.3. & B.l.5., further inscribed fine tall copy, with which we agree, and Quaritch Cat no 347 [...], 4to (33 x 23cm) Provenance: Sir Compton Domvile, 1st Baronet (c.1775-1857), of Templeogue and Santry House, Irish MP and Governor of the County of Dublin; his fragmentary armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Local Interest. [Cox (Thomas)], Nottinghamshire, [from Magna Britannia et Hibernia], [In the Savoy: Eliz. Nutt, 1720], double-column, engraved folding county map, engraved distance table, 207pp, ffep and blank preliminaries loosening/loose, contemporary calf, split, recto pastedown with contemporaneous 18th c ink manuscript contents, 4to  Provenance: George Cresswell Bond (1863-1939), of Lenton Hall, Nottingham; armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.