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NO RESERVE Aristotle. Opera, post omnes quae in hunc usque diem prodierunt editiones..., vol. 1 only, title with woodcut printer's device, and early manuscript monastic inscription in ink, bookplate to pastedown, some faint damp-staining to top edge and gutter, early calf, rebacked, [Adams A 1744], Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1549 § James I and VI (King of England and Scotland) The Workes, first edition, half-title with fine engraved portrait of James I verso, woodcut arms to a2, small engraved portrait of Prince Charles to head of dedication, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, lacking engraved architectural title, letterpress title and several other ff. with paper repairs, a little browning and finger soiling, repairs to hinges, contemporary calf, with the arms of James VI and I to covers, and corner pieces, in gilt, re-backed, leather repairs to edges and corners, by Robert Barker and John Bill, 1616; and a quantity of others, C17th-C19th, leather bound, v.s. (qty)

Scotland.- Stuart (John Sobieski Stolberg) Vestiarium Scoticum: from a Manuscript formerly in the Library of the Scots College at Douay, hand-coloured lithographed plate and 75 glazed colour plates of tartans mounted on thick paper, captioned tissue guards, foxing to mounts, with copy of a letter concerning a new edition of the work loosely inserted, contemporary red morocco with Royal Scottish arms in gilt to both covers, g.e., rather worn and scuffed, spine faded, some repairs, small folio, Edinburgh, 1842.⁂ Notorious work on clan tartans, purportedly from a manuscript discovered by the Sobieski Stuart brothers who claimed to be descended from Prince Charles Edward Stuart or Bonnie Prince Charlie. Despite the misgivings of Sir Walter Scott and later being denounced as a forgery, along with the brothers themselves who appear to have invented many of the patterns, the work was welcomed by the clans and many of the tartans are still in use.

NO RESERVE Binding.- Chrysostomus (Johannes, Saint) In omnes D. Pavli epistolas commentarii, woodcut printer's device and seventeenth century manuscript ownership inscription in ink to title, bookplate, lacking OO5, second Z gathering mis-bound, scattered worm holes within text throughout, ornately blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, covers with eternal knot centre-pieces, borders composed of medallion profile portraits ?of peoples of different nations, gilt acorns (some dulling), and rosettes, amongst other decoration, gilt title to head of inner panel of upper cover, spine in compartments, remains of metal clasps, remnants of paper label to spine, some light wear in places, [VD 16 J 433], folio, Basel, Johann Herwagen, 1536.⁂ A previous owner's note suggests that the binding is by the 'Mauresken Meister of Basel', about whom we have found very little information.

Gaguin (Robert) [Annales] De Francorum gestis annales..., edited by Humbert Vellay, title in red and black, printer's woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, full-page woodcut illustration to versos of cc4 and Y7, with final blank leaf, a few manuscript annotations (including to title), some very light damp-staining at top edge, later green vellum with small shell stamps at corners in gilt, spine gilt but toned, joints cracked at foot, 8vo, Paris, [Jean Cornillau for Pierre Viart], 1521.⁂ Gaguin died in 1501, so his abridged history of France, first printed in 1495, was continued up to the reign of François I by Humbert Vellay.Provenance: Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855), archdeacon of Lewes and the owner of a substantial library [bookplate]; D.A. Freeman [bookplate]; D.L. Cumming [ink inscription].

Cornwall & Devon.- Twycross (Edward) The Mansions of England and Wales. County of Cornwall, number 25 of 175 facsimile reprints signed by the printer and publisher, with accompanying booklet loosely inserted, folding map, plates, original blind-stamped cloth, slip-case, Buckingham, Fountain Lake Press, [2019] § Pett (Douglas Ellory) The Parks and Gardens of Cornwall, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, Penzance, 1998 § Stockdale (F.W.L.) Excursions in the County of Cornwall, large paper copy, half-title, engraved portrait, additional vignette title, folding map and 47 plates only (of 48, lacking plate of Carclew and pp.59-60, supplied in loosely inserted facsimile), light foxing, mostly to tissue guards or text, bookplate of Sir Graves Sawle Bart. of Penrice (p.49), modern half morocco, spine gilt, by J.C.Avery for Allen Thompson, with binder's manuscript note bound in at end, 1824 § Britton (John) Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated, 2 vol. in 1, engraved maps, additional vignette titles and plates (each with two views) after Thomas Allom and W.H.Bartlett, rather foxed, light water-staining at beginning and end, contemporary half roan, gilt-stamped roan label to upper cover, rubbed, 1832; and another, v.s. (5)⁂ The first is a handsome reproduction of a notorious rarity. It was originally published in 1846 in a very limited number (probably only a few more than the 52 for subscribers), the first of a projected survey of the mansions of England and Wales. Five further volumes on Lancaster and Chester were produced in 1847-50 but none thereafter due to Twycross's death in 1852.

Suffolk, Walberswick.- Charter, grant by Thomas ?Wisare to Herman de Wesileton [Westleton] of a tenement in Walberswick, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 11 lines, water-staining affecting with loss of some text, folds, slightly yellowed and creased, good red wax seal with fine impression of a Paschal lamb, 90 x 276mm., 1424.

Wiltshire.- William Beckford & Fonthill Abbey.- Rutter (John) A Description of Fonthill Abbey, and Demesne..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, some foxing, G3 lacking small portion from outer margin, stitched in original buff wrappers with title printed on upper cover, advertisement for Rutter's guide to Wardour Castle on inside upper wrapper, rubbed and stained, preserved in modern board folder and morocco-backed slip-case, spine gilt, Shaftesbury, 1822; Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title, 12 engraved plates including 2 hand-coloured aquatints, double-page genealogical table, lacking folding plan (supplied in facsimile) and list of subscribers, wood-engraved vignettes, [cf.Abbey, Scenery 418; Millard, British 72, both large paper copies], Shaftesbury & London, 1823 bound after Britton (John) Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, half-title, engraved additional pictorial title and 10 plates including 2 hand-coloured aquatints, 4pp. list of subscribers and advertisements at end, 1823, together 2 works in 1 vol., foxing, mostly to uncoloured plates, bookplate of John Monkhouse of Barnard Castle, Simon Nowell Smith's copy with manuscript label, contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with olive green roan labels § Storer (James) A Description of Fonthill Abbey, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, wood-engraved tail-piece, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old spine, 1812 § Nichols (J.B.) Historical Notices of Fonthill Abbey, 11 engraved plates, modern half morocco, gilt, 1836, the first three rubbed; and 4 others by or about Beckford, 8vo & 4to (8)⁂ Various accounts and guides to Beckford's extraordinary Gothic mansion designed by James Wyatt. The construction was rushed and the huge tower collapsed several times. Beckford was forced to sell the property and most of its contents in 1822 due to financial constraints and the majority of the building was demolished in 1825.

Middle East.- Ockley (Simon) The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Ægypt, by the Saracens, 2 vol., first editions, previous owner's ink signature to titles, list of subscribers to vol. 2, publisher's advertisements at end vol. 2, scattered spotting and staining, new front endpapers to vol. 1, contemporary calf-backed boards, vol. 1 rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 1216 vol. 1 only], 8vo, 1708-18.⁂ The second volume was published in 1718 under the title 'The History of the Saracens.' Later editions were combined under the same title. Blackmer says of volume one; "Ockley's works is significant in two respects - as the first attempt to write a continuous history of the Arabs in English and secondly because it is based largely on then unpublished manuscript sources."

Wales.- Cumberland (George) An Attempt to Describe Hafod..., first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-title, errata/advertisement leaf, folding engraved plan by ?William Blake, contemporary manuscript notes concerning a proposed second edition to front free endpaper, an excellent copy in contemporary tree calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old roan label, 1796 § Heath (Charles) Monmouthshire. Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle..., first edition, spotting to last few leaves, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, split to head of upper joint, Monmouth, [1797], both rubbed; and c.25 others on Wales and Welsh houses, 8vo & 4to (c.30)⁂ The Hafod estate in Ceredigion was inherited and developed by Thomas Johnes (1748-1816), a politician, farmer, writer and social benefactor. He built a new mansion in the Gothic style, filling it with rare books & manuscripts and several furnishings from William Beckford's Fonthill Splendens, and between 1790 and 1810 planted 3 million trees creating one of the finest examples of an 18th century picturesque landscape. George Cumberland, a poet and amateur artist, was a friend of both Johnes and William Blake and it has long been believed that Blake engraved the plan for this scarce work.

Throsby (John) New Copper Plate Magazine, containing Select Views of Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats in England, letterpress title and 78 engraved plates, most after Throsby, mostly of Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, some with several views to a plate, some aquatint, faint pencil inscription to head of title, light marginal foxing or soiling, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, part of manuscript label affixed to upper cover, rubbed, spine chipped at foot, oblong 4to, J.Barker for J.Edwards, [plates dated 1789-96]. ⁂ A scarce compilation using plates from Throsby's Leicestershire and Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. The number of plates appears to vary but is approximately 80.

NO RESERVE Levant.- Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de) Relation d'un Voyage du Levant, 2 vol. in 1, titles printed in red and black, 89 engraved plates, 4 of which folding, numerous engraved illustrations, bookplate of Rev. F. Hutcheson to front free endpaper, with his ink ownership name to first title, lacking 3*1-4 (4ff. of "Lettre a Monsieur Begon"), 7 plates loose and frayed at edges to varying degrees, once causing very small loss to image at head, plate at Y4 browned along fold and with small loss to lower margin, most botanical plates captioned in early ink manuscript, some light soiling or spotting, endpapers frayed and worn, contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments and with morocco label, spine with upper two compartments torn and working loose, worn, heavily to lower cover, 4to, Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1718; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Tournefort's botanical expedition to the Levant, covering Crete, Constantinople, Turkey, the Black Sea, Armenia, Persia, Georgia and Smyrna.

King Charles I (of England).'A Journal of the Proceedings of the High Court of Justice erected by Act of the Commons of England .... assembled in Parliam't for Erecting of a High Court of Justice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England .... An Act of the Commons of England ...''Whereas it is notorious that Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many Incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms, hath had a wicked Design totally to Subvert the Ancient and Fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Nation ...'An interesting report of the proceedings, including witness accounts used against the King. Ink manuscript on paper, with red ruled borders, no date [1649 or later], 71 folio pages, bookplate of Rupert Potter [father of Beatrix Potter], worn panelled calf.King Charles I, (of England).The Workes of King Charles The Martyr: With A Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers concerning the Differences Betwixt His said Majesty and his Two House of Parliament.Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662, folio, lacking frontis, engraved title and imprimatur, first leaf is the title (A3), hence [12], 458, [10], 733, [6] pages, three double page engraved plates (loss to fore-edge of one plate), full calf binding with gilt tooling to spine and board edges. [pages not collated][Provenance - descent within the extended Potter family] (2)

An Unknown Yorkshire Soldier. A First World War ‘Trench’ Diary, dating from the 12th of April 1915 and ending abruptly after a gas attack on the 19th of December that year.The diary commences with an early morning entrainment of the horses from Edenthorpe (near Doncaster), crossing the Channel to [Le] Havre that evening. The unidentified soldier or sapper, a signaller, gives an account of laying signal lines, opening signal offices, handling horses, towns and villages visited, billets and meals, injuries, regiments encountered, names of O.C.s, shelling, rain, mud, etc. 9th of May, ‘Off duty at 7am. Attack began at 5am by Artillery. Signal thro’ during day showed heavy losses in E. Lancs, Lincolns, 13th London and other Batts. Had coffee in Fleurbaix and then to bed in barn. On duty 3pm ?offll. Attack still proceeding without much impression on our line. French said to be doing well. At night we have the two windows in our Signal Office made up with corrugated iron & sand bags.’ [? Battle of Aubers Ridge] 12th of September, ‘Went with Newboult & birdcage to 147 [Brigade] with cable, Everything very quiet. Good dugouts had a walk over bridge, a substantial one fit to take artillery’. On the 1st of December, the diarist travelled back to Sheffield on leave, returning on the 8th December. The final entry reads; ‘Dec 19, ’’SOS’’ - Gas attack 5.30am things lively until 8.30am, 146 & 148 des. 148 soon repaired from chateau’.[On the 19th December, Phosgene gas was used for the first time against British soldiers. The attack took place north of Ypres against the 49th (West Riding) Division, commencing at 5.15 am.]Manuscript on paper, single sided on c.27 leaves, 154mm x 94mm, limp cloth covers. Worn, several leaves loose.The diarist appears to have belonged to a Royal Artillery company attached to the 49th West Riding Division, possibly the 49th Divisional Signals Coy. Entrainment of the 49th Division began on the 12th of April with non-Infantry units travelling via Le Havre.

Catlin (Geo.)Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians ...London: published by the author, 1841, second edition, two volumes, viii, 264, viii, 266 pages, frontis to volume I, three maps (one folding), plates with figures numbered 3-22, 24-65, [3], 66-101, [1], 102-136, 138-141, 143-148, 150-158, 160-210, [1], 211-245, 248-312, marbled edges and endpapers, half morocco binding.Sporadic foxing, manuscript correction to name at page 104 and figures 28/29, previous owner's name to title pages, some corners rubbed.

Royal NavySignal-Book for the Ship of War. Day and Fog.No imprint or date [c.1796], small quarto, [4], 14, [2], 40, [2], 47-50, [2], 55-67, [1], iv pages, eight plates (three folding), manuscript entries and hand-coloured flags and pendants, lacking F2-3 and G3 (blank leaves according to Jisc), fore-edge cut to index tabs, original ownership inscription to front free endpaper (Rich’d Brinsley Tickell, October 7th 1796), bookplate of George Butler, worn half calf binding, upper board detached;[Richard Brinsley Tickell (1782-1805), son of Richard Tickell the playwright and satirist. After his father’s suicide in 1793, he was cared for by his mother’s brother-in-law, the Irish playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan who arranged his entry to the Navy].Haselden (Thomas). The Seaman’s Daily Assistant, Being A Short, Easy, and Plain Method of Keeping A Journal at Sea; In which are contained Rules Shewing How the Allowances for Leeway, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of Currents, &c. are to be made, and to ……Mount and Page, 1784, small quarto, vi, [2], 160 pages, binding weak and partially broken, tape to several gutter margins including title, original owner’s inscription to front endpapers (Robert Helme his book Pilling Oct’r 1st 1787), later inscription to title (James Lawrenson. Gt Eccleston Mar 29th 1825), worn leather binding, boards partially detached, strings giving way.

Grant (Charles Jameson). The Managers Last Kick, or, The Destruction of the Boroughmongers. J. Quick, no date [c.1832], broadside with woodcut illustration, visible sheet, 513mm x 350mm, manuscript inscription and repaired tear to right margin, mounted framed and glazed; with three Continental satirical prints, uncoloured, mounted, framed and glazed and nine other Satirical prints, two coloured, all mounted (13)

Vittorio Sella [1859-1943].The Matterhorn (Cervino), six large format silver print photographs of the mountain, comprising:5 - Alte Alpi. Cervino dall’Unter-Theodule Gletscher, nell’inverno 1884, depicting a figure on the glacier looking towards the peak.Slight retouching to the figure and glacier surface, manuscript description to lower margin, portrait;124 - Cervino dalla Valle Zmutt (Zermatt) 4 Agosto 1883, an unusual view of the ridge.Blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ lower right, printed title on slip to lower margin, portrait;423 - Cervino (Matterhorn) e Monte Rosa dal Col des Grandes-Murailles 4000m circa, view of the peak with mountain range in background. Very lightly tinted, matt, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ to lower right, printed title on slip to lower margin, landscape;With three untitled views, one portrait and two landscape, one in which the tinted foreground of two mountaineers and equipment is skilfully superimposed over a view of the Matterhorn (this image has some retouching to the skyline and some red scuffing to top right). The other landscape photograph is framed and glazed and appears to have had its margins removed or folded.Silver prints on bromide double weight paper, sheet size 300mm x 397mm, unglazed glossy unless stated, believed printed later than the dates given.C Douglas Milner described Vittorio Bella as ‘the greatest of all photographers of [his] generation’ (A Century of Mountain Photography, Alpine Club Journal, Nov 1957). For a detailed description of his life and work, see Ronald Clark’s monograph ‘The Splendid Hills, The Life and Photographs of Vittorio Sella, 1859-1943’, Phoenix House, 1948.[provenance, the photographs were purchased in 1945 by the vendor’s father, a British Army Captain, while stationed in the town of Biella]. (6)The untitled valley view has nicked top margin and stain to lower margin, there are a couple of scratches in the image. The composed view has red scuff marks to the RHS as described. There are also some small indentations to the LHS. There is a small indentation to the lower part of 124. A little dust marking present on reverse of some prints, edges a little curled.

Lake District Honeymoon. Wedding Tour of Mr & Mrs Edward Benham, Sept. 7th, 1852. A manuscript account of the couple’s honeymoon in Westmorland and Cumberland, following their marriage on the 7th of September at St Peter’s Church, Colchester. They arrived at Windermere by train the following day and stayed at the Crown Hotel overlooking Bowness. After a boat trip and climb to a summit, the couple moved on to Ambleside, hiring an apartment at the house of Mrs Johnson. The following day they set off on horseback for Langdale Pikes ‘taking ‘en route’ Colwith Force a very pretty waterfall. The former part of our ride lay along the Brathay. We passed Elterwater and Loughrigg Tarn … and after passing through a wild and hilly country put up our ponies at Mill Beck where we engaged a boy to act as guide to Dungeon Gill Force and up Langdale Pikes ….’Next morning they set off by cart for the Waterhead Inn at Coniston. Rambling around the lake and ‘choosing a flat and suitable stone for a monument to our worthy selves, Edward inscribed in admirably engraved letters the names of ‘Edward and Mary Benham’ with the date and then with all due form we buried the memorial with a visiting card in a place …’The tour continued to Patterdale and Airy Force via the Kirkstone Pass. Following a perilous return over the pass, they visited Wordsworth’s house on Rydal Mount and his grave at Grasmere. Heading to Keswick via Thirlmere they viewed Eagle Crag, Skiddaw, Helvellyn and Blencathra. The final entry relates to preparations for the ascent of Skiddaw. Whether they failed to survive Skiddaw or simply ran out of paper is not known.Manuscript on paper, 32 pages, 160mm x 100mm, stitch bound, without covers. Generally VG, outside pages a little dust marked with a few ink spots (see images). Sorry no provenance available.

Vittorio Sella [1859-1943].Alpine Ranges, six large format silver print photographs of the Monte Rosa massif and others, comprising:358 - Monte Rosa - Lyskamm - Castore e Pollure - dalla cresta del Welsshorn (Agosto 1887).Manuscript description to lower margin, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ lower right, landscape;1790 [bis]- Monte Rosa dal Passo di M. Moro (Macugnaga)Printed description to lower margin, landscape;1796 - Monte Rosa dal declivio boscoso sopra Macugnaga, alla sera. Agosto 1895.Skillfully tinted, printed title on slip to lower margin, portrait;1572- Vincent Pyramide - Parrotspitz e ghiarriajo della Pisse dalla cima del Fallenhorn (Alagna) Settembre 1892. Matt finish, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ to lower right, manuscript title to lower margin, landscape;107- Mischabel - Alphubel - Allalinhorn - Rimpfischhorn- & Valle di Zermatt dalla vetta del Cervino 4482 (29 Luglis 1882) Matt finish, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ to lower right, manuscript title to lower margin, landscape;150 - Dente del Gigante versante Occidentale (Monte Bianco).The Giant’s Tooth in the Mont Blanc massif, skillfully tinted, printed title on slip to lower margin, landscape.Silver prints on bromide double weight paper, sheet size 300mm x 397mm, unglazed glossy unless stated, believed to be printed later than the dates given. [provenance, the photographs were purchased in 1945 by the vendor’s father, a British Army Captain, while stationed in the town of Biella]. C Douglas Milner described Vittorio Bella as ‘the greatest of all photographers of [his] generation’ (A Century of Mountain Photography, Alpine Club Journal, Nov 1957). For a detailed description of his life and work, see Ronald Clark’s monograph ‘The Splendid Hills, The Life and Photographs of Vittorio Sella, 1859-1943’, Phoenix House, 1948. (6)Slight crease? to 1790bis, Small spot touched in on 358. Several spots touched in on 107 (preprinting). Some minor scuffs and small indentation (c.4mm) to 150). A little dust marking on reverse of some prints, edges a little curled, otherwise no obvious defects.

Geminiani (F[rancesco]), A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick.London, 1749, folio, engraved frontis after Bouchardon, engraved title, 4 pages of text, engraved dedication and thirty-one engraved pages of music, twentieth century cloth (several leaves remounted).Small ink manuscript label and name of author in pencil to frontis recto. Light crease to title page, possibly a very neat repair. A little dust marking to title. Contents generally VG.

[Fane (John, Earl of Westmorland)].Memoir of The Early Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain. By an Officer Employed in the Army.John Murray, 1820, first edition, [2], 234 pages, may lack a half-title, leaf before title is a blank, foxing throughout, bookplate of Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale, full calf gilt with gilt signet device to boards (faded).idem, Memoir of the Operations of the Allied Armies, under Prince Schwarzenberg and Marshal Blucher, During the Latter End of 1813, and the Year 1814 …John Murray, 1822, first edition, vii, [1], 341 pages, ten plans (eight folding, nine hand-coloured), two large folding maps, two folding tables within pagination, half-title inscribed ‘Lord Lonsdale from Lord ????? with manuscript errata below, occasional light foxing, bookplate of Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale, full calf gilt with gilt signet device to boards (faded);H.A.L. ‘The Old Shekarry’.Camp Life and Its Requirements for Soldiers, Travellers and Sportsmen. Part I, Soldiers and Their Equipment.A. H. Baily, 1872, xvi, 170, xvi pages plus 24 pages of adverts at front and rear, two folding plates, bookplate of Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale, catalogue description to front free endpaper, original cloth gilt (a little wear to extremities and upper board).With three others. (6). Other titles;Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee, nd.Wingfield, Historical Record of the Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, 1888.La Guerre de La Peninsule … Brussels, 1819.

Cavendish Bentinck (F.)An interesting manuscript diary covering the period March 25th to December 31st, 1878, believed to have been written by William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (1856-1948), father of the 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland and husband of the socialist suffragette Ruth Cavendish Bentinck. The diary gives a unique insight into the life of a young aristocrat and army officer and includes military training, dinners and London balls, theatre, horse racing (Ascot, York, etc.), fox hunting, royal escort, House of Lords, grouse shooting, visits to country estates and house parties (Sledmere, Nun Appleton, Osterley, etc.) and a Tour of France and Italy which includes a visit to the Paris Exposition:25th March;‘After breakfast George and I go to see about his servant and to choose curtains got for my rooms see Georges uniform tried on and arrange about my own for Aldershot Drill at the Regents Park barracks dinner tete a tete with mother and arrange with her about party for May 8th Ball given by Harvey Farquar in Grosvenor Place beautifully done and very pleasant where several young ladies make their 1st appearance.’May 1st;'After spending the greater part of last night in trying to find the lodging allotted to me and finally discovering them already occupied I pass the night at a public. At 10 o’clock I go to the School of Instruction find the class consists of 37 yeomanry officers. Call on various military officials get attached to the 1st Dragoon (Royals) and engage a small house behind the barracks on the outskirts of the town. Dine at mess with the Royals play whist win £2.3s. bed about twelve.'5th June;'Derby day leave Victoria for Epsom at 12 in company with E.W.D. and Bouverie a showering and unpleasant day travel down very comfortably luncheon on the Royals coach Sefton (price 9 to 1) wins the Derby somewhat easily, Insulaire (1st favourite) 2nd and Sir Joseph from whom much was expected nowhere. Dinner with the B. Dennisons Covent Garden Opera Trovatore Patti & Scaldi excellent ball at Lady Hoggs not very good home 2.30.'5th September;'Breakfast at eight hair cut Leave Charing Cross with ?Lambert for Deptford at ten o’clock the master of the ???? yard has a steam launch waiting for us and takes us down the river to where the collision between the Princess Alice and Bywell Castle took place we see innumerable boats dragging for dead bodies and about 7 are recovered whilst we are on the spot on our return to Deptford we stop at Woolwich to view 75 bodies of the unclaimed drowned a ghastly and terrible sight. Luncheon with Grant return to London see Father & Denice dinner at home leave for Paris at 8.25.'Ink manuscript on paper, ’T.J. & J. Smith’s Large Quarto Manuscript Diary’, three days to the page with single line for Sunday, interleaved with blotting paper, generally legible script but almost devoid of punctuation, original cloth-backed boards (worn, partially detached). A copy of Ruth Cavendish Bentinck’s ‘The Point of Honour: A Correspondence on Aristocracy and Socialism’, 1928, is loosely inserted.  

An Indian watercolour, tiger hunting scene with manuscript, 5 1/2" x 2 5/8", in ebonised frame, another similar, figures in a building with manuscript to reverse, 10" x 5 1/2", in gilt strip frame

HARRY HOUDINI (MAURINE CHRISTOPHER Ed): A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS - THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, USA, Kaufman, 1996. Facsimile Edition of the original manuscript, unnmbered issue out of 1000.Original slipcase and photographic cover.

Hand reading / Palmistry Interest: 16 titles: K SENGUPTA: THE MANUSCRIPT OF PALMISTRY, Calcutta, Manoranjan, 1980, First Edition; DEAN BRYDEN: PALMISTRY FOR PLEASURE, London, Methuen, 1927, some pencil markings/highlighting; SUJIT MUKERJEE: PSYCHO-PALMISTRY & PSYCHO-ANALYSIS, New Delhi, Sagar, 1974, First Edition; AN INDIAN PALMISTRY MADE EASY (HOW TO READ THE HAND), New Delhi, Indian National Publishing, 1950, First edition; DALE PHILLIPS: SCIENTIFIC PALMISTRY, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1931, First edition; PHANOS: ELEMENTS OF PALM READING, London, Grant Richards, 1903; PEARL L RAYMOND: PALMISTRY EXPLAINED,New York, Vista house, 1958, First edition; ZELIA ELGARO: THE ART OF HAND READING, McNiven, 1950; JULIUS SPIER / VICTOR GROVE (Transl), THE HANDS OF CHILDREN, London, Kegan, 1944, First edition; PRATAP SINGH: SECRET PALM - AN ORIGINAL TREATISE ON PALMISTRY, Delhi, Kartal Prakashan, 1981, First edition; 2x SHEIK HASSAN: TELL YOUR OWN FORTUNE, First edition; 2x FORTUNE TELLING BY CARDS - ORACLE OF DESTINY CHIROMANCY London, W Nicholson; MAURICE WOODRUFF: 1973 HOROSCOPE, London, Granada, 1972; P B BALLARD: GROUP TESTS OF INTELLIGENCE, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1927, Fourth impression.; (16)

A fascinating pattern book from a British earthenware manufactory, circa 1805-15Manuscript notebook containing circa 150 hand-painted designs for teaware, showing patterns for full plates and borders, numbered and coded for use within a factory, some with further annotations, manuscript list of prices at rear, 53 leaves, circa 19 blank, pen and watercolour, partial watermarks for Ruse & Turners 1805, reused marbled endpapers, original calf, 8vo (18mm x 120mm)Footnotes:This charming yet tantalising pattern book will have been used within a British pottery manufactory at the start of the 19th century. It records tableware patterns, drawn by hand either as a section of the border of a plate, or as the complete design used on a plate or saucer. These are identified by a sequence of pattern numbers ranging from 6 to 154 with some gaps. Some of the earlier patterns have been re-numbered, indicating perhaps a new partnership or change of factory ownership. This might have coincided with the decision to record the factory's patterns within this book. A watermark of 1805 within its pages gives us the earliest possible date for when this illustrated record was compiled, although the first patterns are incomplete and may have been copied from an earlier volume or unbound sheets of individual patterns.The earliest patterns suggest this began as a manufactory of creamware at the turn of the 19th century. Many appear to be copies of patterns used by major manufactories such as Wedgwood, Spode and Davenport. Subsequently pearlware or 'whiteware' was probably made, with a slight possibility that some patterns were intended for bone china. Stylistically, all of the patterns would appear to predate 1815. Two sections within the book bear the headings 'Painted Tea Ware' and 'Enamelled Tea Ware'. The former probably refers to underglaze painting (now known as Pratt Ware), while the latter indicates the use of overglaze enamel colours. Significantly, many patterns refer to the use of 'luster', which will have been painted in silver (or Platinum) lustre.This small pattern book begins with a few drawings showing pottery shapes that were popular in the period around 1800-10. Tables at the end of the book link some of the pattern numbers with a cost price per dozen, presumably to be used when pricing a complete tea service. Alongside each drawn pattern, a letter and number code gives a different price in shillings and pence. This code probably helped the pottery determine the wages paid to the decorating departments responsible for completing each pattern.The lustreware patterns that appear within the pages of the present lot may provide clues to the maker responsible. The future study of this pattern book may benefit from comparison with the Leeds Pottery pattern books which have been published almost in their entirety by John Griffin in 2005. Leeds was a creamware manufactory that subsequently made other ceramic bodies and some painted decoration included the use of lustre. Many other lustre-decorated tablewares and their makers are discussed by Geoffrey Godden and Michael Gibson in their book Collecting Lustreware (1991). On page 42 the authors note '...The Stoke-on-Trent City Museum contains several hundred lustred articles closely packed on twenty-two deep shelves, yet, we believe, only six of these pieces bear a maker's mark.' Little wonder that the maker of this pattern book has so far proved elusive.There are presently two mystery groups known to British porcelain collectors as 'The Pattern Book Factory' or 'Pattern Book class'. A pattern book by an unknown china maker working in Staffordshire in the period 1800-09 is preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum and interestingly, this maker used 'metalic' decoration (or in other words platinum lustre) on some of its porcelains. See Godden's Encyclopaedia of British Porcelain Manufacturers (1988), pp.579-585. This fascinating notebook maybe gives us a new Pattern Book Factory and its discovery starts a search for missing links to any of the numbered patterns within its pages.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

* Wallis (J. & E., publisher). The Royal Game of British Sovereigns, exhibiting the most remarkable events in each reign from Egbert to George III, circa 1820, hand-coloured engraved game dissected in 12 sections and mounted on linen, with 53 counter spaces depicting various events in royal history, with the title and 'Rules of the Game' in the centre, a little dusty and faintly foxed in places, overall size 50 x 64.5 cm, housed in original cardboard slipcase, with hand-coloured pictorial engraved label on upper side, lightly rubbed and marked in places, manuscript price 9/6 above label, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Estcourt family of Estcourt House, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.Whitehouse, pp.25/6.

Jamieson (Alexander). A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps Illustrated by Scientific Descriptions of their Contents, and Accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises, G. & W. B. Whittaker, T. Cadell and N. Hailes, 1822, engraved calligraphic title and dedication, thirty (complete) engraved celestial maps and charts, twenty-eight with sparse contemporary wash colouring, each with tissue guard, errata slip bound at rear, occasional pencil marginalia, slight spotting, near contemporary manuscript ownership signatures to the first front blank, contemporary half calf gilt with publisher's printed label to the upper siding, boards detached, heavily worn and frayed, oblong 4toQTY: (1)

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Scrapbook, compiled by Nicholas Carroll, designed and assembled by him, Malden, Mass., 1931, portrait frontispiece, 51 mounted and tipped-in colour plates, printed biography pasted to portrait verso, some light mainly marginal spotting and stains, typescript letter, dated 12. 2. 31 from Arthur Rackham to the compiler and manuscript note signed by Rackham approving the scrapbook, loosely inserted, original patterned stiff wrappers, some wear to spine, light toning to extremities, 4to, together with The Bookman Portfolio, Christmas 1906. Three Drawings by Arthur Rackham from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Art of Arthur Rackham. 24 Cards, edited by Jeff A. Mences, Dover Publications, New York, 2004 QTY: (3)

Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book, London: Macmillan and Co., 1913 reprint, illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny, advertisements at rear, small manuscript inscription to front endpaper 'From the "Gynie", Jan. 1915', front hinge a little tender, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Signed by the author to title.

Burnet (Gilbert). Some Letters, Containing an Account of what seemed most Remarkable in Travelling through Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. In the Years 1685 and 1686, 2nd edition, corrected and altered in some places by the author, Rotterdam: Printed for Abraham Acher, 1687, [xxii],336pp., bound withThree Letters concerning the Present State of Italy, written in the Year 1687. I. Relating to the Affair of Molinos, and the Quietists. II. Relating to the Inquisition, and the State of Religion. III. Relating to the Policy and Interest of some of the States of Italy, [London?], 1688, [xvi],191pp., with errata to verso of final leaf, occasional minor marks and light soiling, all edges gilt, attractive late 18th or early 19th century gilt-decorated red full morocco, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Pascal (Blaise). Pensées de Mr. Pascal sur la Religion, et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées apres sa mort parmy ses paperes, Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfganck, suivant la copie imprimée a Paris 1677, old ownership insription to title, a few marks, later calf, backstrip deficient, 12mo, plus[Davies, John]. Reflections upon Monsieur Des Cartes's Discourse of a Method for the Well-guiding of Reason, and Discovery of Truth in the Sciences. Written by a private Pen in French, and Translated out of the Original Manuscript, by J. D., London: Printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker, 1679, [14 (of 16)], 93pp., lacking A2(?), some marks and light soiling, title and final leaf relined, late 19th or early 20th century boards, 12mo, and other 17th century works, with defects including Hugh Latimer, [Frutefull Sermons], circa 1578, lacking title (text begins on A1 'to the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine, Dutches of Suffolke), final leaf with some repairs, old calf, worn with covers detached, small 4to, Charles Hoole, The Common Accidence Examined and Explained by short questions and answers according to the very words of the book. Conducing very much to the ease of the teacher, and the benefit of the learner, 1690 (lacking leaf of index at end), The Divine Banquet, or Sacramental Devotions, 1716, and the first volume of a two-volume bible published by Thomas Basket, 1756 (in contemporary binding), the last three works 12moQTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent.

Geological Map. Favre (Alphonse), Carte Géologique des Parties de la Savoie, du Piémont et de la Suisse Voisines du Mont Blanc..., J. Wurster et Cie, Winterthur, 1862, lithographic map with contemporary colouring, two inset tables of explanation, slight dust soiling, some marginal splits along old folds, near contemporary manuscript ownership signature to the upper margin, 820 x 630 mmA presentation copy from the author, Swiss geologist Alphonse Favre, to Dr Hugh Falconer, a Scottish palaeontologist. An association copy inscribed “à Monsieur le Docteur Falconer homage de l’auteur. Alphonse Favre [1815 - 1890] was a pioneer of Alpine geology, and this is the first geological map of the region. Dr Hugh Falconer [1808 - 65] was a geologist, botanist and palaeontologist, who travelled extensively on the Continent in his later years and the scientists likely met during that time.QTY: (1)

* Brock (Henry Matthew, 1875-1960). This Lady is Looking for Her Husband, pen, ink and wash on board, depicting three ladies talking in a shop, a man behind the counter looking on, signed lower left, title and 'A Bulbous Tale, No3. Gal.21' to lower margin, mount aperture 29.4 x 20 cm (11 1/2 x 7 7/8 ins), mounted (40.5 x 30.6 cm), together with Tony Would Make Pudding, circa 1908, pen, ink and wash on board, depicting a young boy kneeling on a chair next to a table, cutting out pastry, a female figure looking on, signed lower right, title and 'Tony's Friend 1908' in ink to lower margin, mount aperture 20.1 x 24.8 cm (8 x 9 3/4 ins), mounted (30.5 x 35.5 cm), plusBrowne (Gordon Frederick, 1858-1932). A Young Man Staggered Blindly Towards Him, pen and ink, depicting two groups of fighting soldiers, title and 'By ?oche of the legion' in ink to lower margin, initialled 'GB' to lower right, mount aperture 22.2 x 22.9 cm (8 3/4 x 9 ins), mounted (30.4. x 30.4 cm), together withGottlob (Fernand Louis, 1873-1935), La Possession, black chalk and pen & ink on paper, with traces of bodycolour, showing a young woman and a uniformed gentleman, signed lower right, titled in manuscript on verso, some small pin holes to extreme margins, sheet size 32 x 25 cm (12.5 x 9.75 ins), mounted (38 x 30.5 cm), andCowham (Hilda, Gertrude 1873-1964). Penelope Poet, circa 1912, black pen and ink on card, depicting a smartly dressed girl addressing a group of surprised looking young girls, signed lower right, caption in pencil to lower margin 'Penelope-Poet 'I shall be a poet'', produced for Little Folks, Penelope Poet, by Dorothea Moore, London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1912, sheet size 22.5 x 32.5 cm (8 7/8 x 12 3/4 ins), mounted (28 x 38 cm), together with another similar by the same artist, The White Knight in Armour, black pen and ink on paper, laid onto card, depicting a young school girl holding a candle above her head, her other hand touching her chest, standing on rafters, signed lower right, 'The White Knight in Armour- then something moving attracted her attention' in pencil to lower margin, sheet size 28.5 x 22.2 cm (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 ins), mounted (33 x 25.4 cm)QTY: (6)

Smith (Adam). Essays on Philosophical Subjects... to which is prefixed, an account of the life and writings of the author; by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E., 1st edition, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies... in the Strand; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1795, contents clean with good margins, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Henry Rowland Brandreth to front pastedown, contemporary mottled full calf, spine in six compartments, lacking spine label, some overall wear to joints and edges, corners bumped, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Rowland Brandreth, R.E. F.R.S. (1794-1848); From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent.Einaudi 5326; Goldsmiths' 16218; Jessop, p. 172; Kress B.3038; Rothschild 1902.Posthumously published work drawn from the volumes of manuscript material Smith deliberately kept intact at the time of his death, as opposed to the 16 volumes of manuscripts which he ordered to be destroyed. It includes the remarkable essay The principles which lead and direct philosophical enquiries, illustrated by the history of astronomy, which the philosopher probably wrote in the late 1740's and kept in a cabinet wherever he moved from 1751 until he died in 1790.The editor states that the various essays were originally intended as parts of 'a connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts', but the author 'long since... found it necessary to abandon that plan as far too extensive'.

Wallis (James). Wallis's New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Travellers Companion in which are carefully laid down all the Direct & Cross Roads, Cities, Townes, Villages, Parks, Seats and Rivers with a General Map of England & Wales, published J. Wallis and sold by Davies & Eldridge, Exeter, circa 1812, letterpress title and contents list, the contents list with a near-contemporary manuscript annotation to the upper margin, forty-three (complete) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, including 1 double-page (Yorkshire), plus a small map of the Isle of Wight, later pencil figures to the rear blank, some dust soiling and occasional staining throughout, original boards with calf reback and repaired corners, worn, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Chubb CCCLXIV

* Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Autograph Letter Signed, 'T.S. Eliot', The Criterion, 21 April 1938, to Julian [Morrell], a letter of condolences on the death of Julian's mother Lady Ottoline Morrell, 'I send you all my sympathy, dear Julian - but I have not much to spare: I mean that my first feeling is of the loss for myself. And I don't I quite realise that yet. It is very different to think of things without anyone who meant so much to me... ', 2 pp., 4to, together with: Sassoon (Siegfried, 1886-1967), Autograph Letter Signed with monogram 'SS', 23 C.H. Sq. [Campden Hill Square?], 18 January [1928], to Julian Goodman, concerning a wedding present for her (24 January 1928) and referring to the recent death of Thomas Hardy, 'I am a bit dreary at present. I was very fond of TH', one page written to top half of recto only, 8vo, plus an earlier Autograph Manuscript Note to Lady Ottoline Morrell from Sassoon, [?February 1919], describing the performance of 'Toronto' Frank Prewett in a debate on 'The 40 Hour Week' at the Christ Church Twenty Club, and mentioning George Santiana whom he had met at lunch at Garsington Manor, one page, 8vo, plus Russell (Bertrand, 1872-1970), Autograph Letter Signed with initials 'B.R.', Plas Penrhyn, Merioneth, 21 October 1963, to Julian [Morrell], thanking her for sending him a copy of the book on her mother [Ottoline: The Early Memoirs, 1963], one page, oblong 8vo, together with original postmarked envelope, plus Huxley (Aldous, 1894-1963), Autograph Postcard Signed, 'Aldous', postmarked from Bamberg, Germany, 22 May 1932, to Lady Ottoline Morrell, talking of their visit to Germany, plus other autograph letters and related from the collection of Lady Ottoline Morrell and her daughter Julian Morrell (later Goodman/Vinogradoff), including autograph letters from Denton Welch, Duncan Grant (x2), the singer Bryan Ferry, L.P. Hartley, Augustus John (slightly browned), Romola Nijinsky (typed letter signed, 22 October 1945, to Philip Morrell, concerning the Nijinsky Foundation), Axel Munthe (typed letter signed), Julian Huxley, Edith Olivier, Henry Lamb, Sacheverell Sitwell, Madge Kendal, and others, mostly one or two pages including a few greetings cardsQTY: (56)NOTE:Provenance: From the collection of Lady Ottoline Morrell and her daughter Julian Morrell, thence by family descent.

Ripa (Cesare). Iconologia... divisa in tre libre ne i quali si esprimono varie imagini di Virtu, Vitii, Affetti, Passioni humane, arti, Discipline, Humori, Elementi, Corpi Celesti, Provincie d'Italia, Fiumi, & altre materie infinite utili ad ogni stato di Persone. Ampliata dal Sig. Cav. Gio. Zaratino Castellini... & Ricorretta, Venice: Christophoro Tomasini, 1645, 350 woodcut emblems, half-title with contemporary Italian ownership inscription at head 'Ad usum Theodori Pecorini a Florentia Vallis-Umbrose monach. 1681', some marks and loss to edges, laid down on modern paper, title with printer's woodcut device, some light soiling, water stains mainly to upper margin, diminishing through the volume, occasional light browning, final few leaves repaired to upper outer corners, with loss of a few works, endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, spine with manuscript tile in brown ink, thick 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Landwehr 629.

England & Wales. Allard (Carel), Regni Angliae et Walliae Principatus Tabula divisa in LII Regiones Anglice Shire dictas..., Amsterdam, circa 1689, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, large decorative cartouche, 510 x 595 mm, together with Visscher (Nicholas Jansz). A New Mapp of the Kingdome of England Representing the Princedome of Wales and other Provinces, Cities, Market Towns, with the Roads from Town to Town and the Number of Reputed Miles between them are given by Inspection without Scale or Compass, Printed and given out at Amsterdam by Nicolas Visscher upon the Dam at the signe of the Fisher, with priviledge of ye states Generalls and are to be sould at London by John Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, [1694], engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, sparsely coloured heraldic cartouche, old manuscript number to lower margin but outside the printed image, 575 x 500 mm, with Morden (Robert). England [1695 or later], hand-coloured engraved map, old folds, 365 x 425 mmQTY: (3)NOTE:The first map described is a separate publication but is occasionally found in composite Dutch atlases. R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, Allard 3, state 1. The second map Visscher 2, state 4. The third map is Morden 10.

Greenville Collins (Captain). Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. In Two Parts. Being a new and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, with the Isles of Scilly, and thence to Carlisle. Likewise the Islands of Orkney and Shetland..., William Mount & Thomas Page, 1744, letterpress title printed in red & black, additional decorative title with an inset map of the British Isles, dedications to the Master and Wardens of Trinity House, preface and general description, 48 uncoloured engraved charts (one set into the text), mostly double-page, four folding (English Channel, Carlingford Loch, Scilly Isles and the River Thames) and three horizon profiles, printed on thick paper, very occasional dust soiling and spotting, front endpaper and one map with early 19th-century French manuscript text to verso, contemporary panelled sheep, repaired at head and foot of spine, joints lightly cracked, corners and boards refurbished, large folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Greenville Collins (d. 1694; fl. 1669-1693) served in the Royal Navy with Sir John Narborough in his expedition to southern South America and the Straits of Magellan where he became highly proficient at surveying and chart-making. In the early 1680s, Collins proposed that he undertake a full-scale survey of the British coastal waters. This was a priority because the majority of existing charts were out of date and were based on earlier Dutch surveys. King Charles II was persuaded of the importance of the project and funding was duly promised, and in 1681 Collins was given command of the yacht 'Merlin', and sent to survey the British coastline. The survey took seven years (between 1681 and 1688) and resulted in about 120 manuscript charts, from which were produced forty-seven engraved charts, covering most of the British Isles. Throughout the production of the 'Pilot' Collins struggled to get paid and eventually resorted to funding part of the project with his own money. Collins' work represents the first systematic survey of the coast of the British Isles created by an Englishman, as well as being the first marine atlas to be engraved and printed in London. As such it stands as a landmark in British chart-making and publishing. It also broke the reliance and dependence on Dutch maritime surveying. The 'Great Britain's Coasting Pilot' remained in print for one hundred years. This example is unusually clean, with wide margins and bound in contemporary boards.

Cook (Moses). The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forest-Trees..., 3rd edition, corrected, London: Eliz.Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth [et al.], 1724, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding engraved diagrams at rear, armorial bookplate of Philip Eyre and the Parlett family to front endpaper, contemporary calf, modern reback with red calf title label, 8vo, together with:Elkington (Joseph & Johnstone, John). An Account of the Mode of Draining Land, according to the system practised by Mr. Joseph Elkington, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, London: Printed by B. McMillan, sold by G. and W. Nicol, and to the Board of Agriculture, 1801, 19 folding engraved plates and plans, armorial bookplate of William Balston to upper pastedown, original cloth with printed paper label to spine, 8vo,Skellett (Edward). A Practical Treatise on the Breeding Cow, and Extraction of the Calf..., London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1829, early ownership in manuscript to upper blank margin of title, 13 folding engraved plates, toning and spotting, original cloth-backed boards, rebacked with recent printed paper title label to spine, 8vo,Radcliff (Thomas). A Report on the Agriculture of Eastern and Western Flanders; drawn up at the desire of the Farming Society of Ireland, London: John Harding and Dublin: W. Porter, 1819, hand-coloured engraved map frontispiece, 10 engraved plates (four folding), some offsetting and spotting, armorial bookplate of Henry Wise Harvey to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, blind and gilt decorated spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo,Cullyer (John). The Gentleman & Farmer's Assistant..., 2nd edition, Norwich: Printed for the Author, [1798], preface with author's signature, contemporary mottled sheep, joints cracked and light wear, 12mo, plus other 18th & 19th-century horticulture and agriculture relatedQTY: (11)

Charles I. Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae. Or the Works of that Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charls the I. Collected together, and Digested in Order, According to their Severall Subjects, Civil and Sacred, 2 parts in one, The Hague: Printed by Samuell Browne, 1651, engraved portrait frontispiece, double-page engraved portrait of Charles I at prayer (lined to verso and closed tear to fold), light dust-soiling, toning and spotting, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedown,19th-century blind panelled and decorated calf, spine torn and some wear, 8vo, together with:New Testament [French]. Le Nouveau Testament de Nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ, Traduit en François Selon l'edition Vulgate, avec les différences du Grec. 2 parts in one, new edition, A Mons: Gaspard Migeot [Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevier], 1672, general title in red and black and with woodcut device, 2nd part with separate title 'Les Epistres de S. Paul. Les Epistres Canoniques. L'Apocalypse', light damp-staining and dust-soiling, modern calf, 8vo (Willems 1480, The On account of the hostility of the Jesuits in Paris, this Jansenist Bible could not be printed in France and the various editions with the Mons imprint are usually attributed to the press of Daniel Elzevier at Amsterdam),Hall (Joseph). The Old Religion: A Treatise Wherein is laid down The true state of the difference betwixt the Reformed and Roman Church..., for a Preservation against Popish Insinuations, London: Printed by M. F. and are to be sold by William Freeman, 1686, some damp-staining, front endpaper with early manuscript ownership of Kitty and Agnes Travell, Frances Travell, and F. E. Witts, contemporary mottled calf, joints rubbed, 12mo, plus other 17th-early 19th-century antiquarian including Peacham (Henry). The Compleat Gentleman. Fashioning him absolut [sic], in the most necessary and commendable Qualities concerning Minde or Body, that may be required in a Noble Gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a Maine Battaile or Pitched Field, eight severall wayes: with the Art of Limming and other Additions newly Enlarged, London: Francis Constable, 1634, additional engraved title, lacking three leaves of text (N3, N4 & O1), leaves N1 & N2 detached, damp-staining throughout, contemporary calf, 4toQTY: (8)

* German Panoramas. A group of five hand-painted layered views on the Rhine, Germany, circa 1810, titled in contemporary manuscript: Das Schloss Wartenstein und die Eisenschmoltz in der Aue; Ansicht von Rüdesheim, an Rhein; Ansicht der Stadt Ofen und Pest (crossed through and inscribed in a later hand Ansicht von Caub an Rhein gegen Oberwesel); Ansicht der Stadt Köln am Rheim; and Ansicht uns Dorfes Maria brunn nächst Wienn und der umligenden Gegend, gouache and watercolour on cut-out card, incorporating cotton for boat rigging, each composed of 4 or 5 layers to form a 3-dimensional scenic view, each depicting a large and impressive building, and incorporating variously river and mountain scenes, village settlements, boats, peasant figures, and animals, minor dust-soiling and marks in places, occasional small breaks or creasing to fine detail of cut-out edges, the first view (with painted backdrop) in a contemporary gilt-moulded box frame, glazed, 38.7 x 65.7 x 9.7 cm, remainder loose (with 2 further painted backdrops) in original paper folders, contemporary manuscript titles to folders and to the back of each section, each layer approximately 21 x 61 cm and smaller QTY: (5)NOTE:A most unusual and attractive group of three-dimensional panoramas, skillfully executed and large in scale, yet beautifully detailed; we have not seen any similar. Three of the scenes bear a close resemblance to published scenic views: for the first see a coloured etching titled 'Wartenstein Castle and the Iron Foundry', by Laurenz Janscha (1749-1812) and Johann Ziegler (1749-1802); for the second see an aquatint titled 'Rüdesheim am Rhein', by Johann Jacob Sperli (1770-1841); and for the third see a coloured etching titled 'Ansicht von Caub gegen Oberwesel', by Johann Ziegler (1749-1802). The fourth scene shows the monastery of Mariabrunn, Penzing, Vienna.

Mason (William). The English Garden: A Poem, edited by W.Burgh, 1st collected edition, York: Printed by A. Ward, 1783, some light damp-staining, front free endpaper with early signatures of C. Travell and F. E. Witts, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, 8vo, together with:Marguerite (Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre). Les nouvelles de Marguerite, reine de Navarre, 3 volumes, Berne: la Nouvelle Société Typographique 1792, half-title to volumes 1 & 2, cancel title pages (re-issue of 1780-81 edition), 74 engraved plates (including frontispiece to first volume) and vignette illustrations, some light damp-stains and toning, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedown, contemporary dark green calf with gilt and blind decoration, few joints split at foot, 8vo,Sterne (Laurence). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 5 volumes, 3rd edition, London, 1769, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels to spines, 12mo,(Dodsley, Robert). The Oeconomy of Human Life, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin, London: E. Harding, 1798, stipple engraved vignette illustrations, without frontispiece, front blank with early annotation 'F. E. Witts. Presented to me by the Prince Hereditary of Saxe Gotha', upper pastedown with armorial of Edward Francis Witts, contemporary half calf, title label rubbed, 12mo, plus other 18th-19th century antiquarianQTY: (59)

Valerius Maximus. Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla. Adiecto indice propriorum nominum, rerumque memoria dignarum locupletissimo. Variae lectiones ex uetustiss. codicibus, Paris: Roberti Stephani, 1544, printer's woodcut device to title, colophon dated 'M.D.XLV. VII. id. Ian.', final blank leaf present, with light dust-soiling mostly to title, light damp-stains to lower margins at front of volume, lacking front free endpaper, early 19th-century signature of F. E. Witts and Mr. Bull's Circulating Library of Bath book label to upper pastedown, contemporary blind panelled calf with gilt decorative motif to centre of boards and decorative ornament to board corners, neatly rebacked with gilt ornament to compartments, corners refurbished, 8vo (Adams V108), together with:Lactantius. L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Divinarum institutionum lib. VII : de ira Dei, liber I; de opificio Dei, liber I; epitome in libros suos, Liber acephalos..., Lyon: Joannem Tornaesium & Gul. Gazeium, 1561, decorative border to title with manuscript ownership at head 'H. Peach Eton Coll.1702', damp-staining throughout, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedown, early 18th-century calf, gilt decorated spine with brown morocco title label, 16mo in 8s,Cunaei (Petrus). De republica Hebraeorum libri III. Editio novissima, Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge et Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1666, engraved title with 18th-century signature of W. Hasledine, engraved bookplate of Edwd. Witts to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, worn at foot of spine, 24mo in 8s, plus nine other 17th-18th century antiquarian, including Les Comedies de Terence..., 3 volumes, Rotterdam: Gaspar Fritsch, 1717, numerous engraved plates (some folding), damp-stained throughout, contemporary gilt decorated red morocco, some damp-staining and light wear, 16mo in 8s, and Orlando Innamorato di Matteo Ma. Bojardo rifatto da Francesco Berni, volumes 1, 3 & 4 only, Venice: Antonio Zatta e Figli, 1785, contemporary diced calf with gilt decorated spines, extremities lightly rubbed, 16mo in 8sQTY: (12)

* Kerr (Charles, 1858-1907). Original Illustration for Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard, circa. 1892, ink and wash on paper, heightened with white, signed bottom left, some toning, mount aperture 28 x 18 cm, framed and glazed (46 x 34.5 cm), together with the original illustration for Black Heart and White Heart by Rider Haggard, entitled 'So he fled straight on', ink and wash on paper, signed bottom left, heavily faded, mount aperture 30 x 22 cm, plus a copy of Haggard's Moon of Israel, with 8 original colour watercolour illustrations bound in the volume by Emma Louisa Osman Thomas, circa 1923, with manuscript inscription to front pastedown by Thomas's husband, 8voQTY: (3)

England & Wales. Abery (William), England, Hungerford, 'Midsummer' 1846, large manuscript map in ink and watercolour, slight spotting and staining, occasional marginal tape staining, one repaired closed tear affecting the title cartouche, 890 x 620 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:An unusually large manuscript map.

Walker (J. & C., publishers). Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas containing separate Maps of every County in England and the three Ridings of Yorkshire, J. and C. Walker, circa 1860, printed title with a near-contemporary dated ownership signature, 42 (complete) lithographic double-page maps with bright contemporary outline colouring, contemporary manuscript annotations to the verso of the 'Reference to the Hunts' and to the maps of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, map of Lincolnshire trimmed to the image and laid on later paper, map of Lancashire with some offsetting, slight spotting throughout, marbled endpapers, hinges and joints cracked and weak with the upper board near-detached, contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine worn, frayed and partially lacking, boards stained and faded, worn at extremities, folio, together with Church Commissioners (publishers). Third Report from His Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Consider the State of the Established Church with Reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, printed at The House of Commons, 20th May 1836, 25 (of 26, lacking Peterborough) double-page lithographic maps by S. Arrowsmith, contemporary wash colouring, slight worming, some water staining and offsetting throughout, publisher's printed wrappers, upright folio, with Early Days (publisher). January - December 1880, chromolithographic frontispiece, with four pictorial maps of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire, publisher's gilt cloth boards, 8vo, with another 33 folding maps, guide books and atlases, various sizes and conditionQTY: (36)NOTE:Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Newton (Isaac). Two Letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc, late Divinity Professor of the Remonstrants in Holland. The Former containing a Dissertation upon the Reading of the Greek Text, 1 John, v. 7; the Latter upon that of 1 Timothy, iii. 16. Published from authentic MSS. in the Library of the Remonstrants in Holland, 1st edition, London: J. Payne, 1754, pp. [iv],1-123, [1], half-title and final page of advertisements, contemporary signature to title, final leaf of text and following blank leaf with contemporary manuscript notes (letterpress word 'finis' struck through), edges untrimmed, armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedown, contemporary marbled boards with modern calf reback and corners, contemporary black morocco title label to spine preserved, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T18648; Babson 239; Gray 338.

* Mary Casey Archive. A large collection of letters from and to Mary Casey (née Penny), 1915-1980, daughter of Lucy Amelia Penny (née Powys), 1890-1986, and her husband Gerard Casey, comprising over 1100 letters sent from Lucy Amelia Penny to her daughter Mary Casey between 1922 and 1978, over 1100 letters and postcards from Mary Casey to her mother from 1926 to 1977, mostly with envelopes, the letters of Mary Casey to her husband Gerard and vice versa, 1945-1978, letters from members of the Powys family to Mary Casey, letters from Mary to members of the Powys family and various other Mary Casey letters, plus letters from various members of the Powys family to Gerard Casey and other Gerard Casey letters, organised and arranged in 12 shoe boxes, plus the original manuscript of Mary Casey's novel The Kingfisher's Wing, plus related printed matter and proofs, contained in 2 archive boxes and including a first edition of the book (1987)QTY: (12 shoe boxes & 2 box files)NOTE:Provenance: The Powys Collection at Mappowder, Dorset.

Stobaeus (Johannes). Eclogarum libri duo, quorum prior physicas, posterior ethicas complectitur nunc primum Graece editi. Una & G. Gemisti Plethonis de rebus Peloponnes. Orationes duae, eodem Gulielmo Cantero interprete, Antwerp Christopher Plantin, 1575, woodcut Plantin device on title-pages, parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut initials, final blank present, two closed tears to title repaired to verso with tape, a further large closed tear to front free endpaper verso with tape repair to verso, final few gatherings damp-stained (affecting text), wormhole at foot of gutter and in outer margin towards end, near-contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine (with date added later), lower cover marked, folio (33 x 22 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Voet 2263; USTC 403291. Editio princeps of Stobaeus's fifth-century compilation of extracts from Greek authors, edited by the Dutch professor of Greek, Willem Canter (1542-1575), from manuscripts in the library of Joannes Sambucus. Only books 1 and 2 are present here, 3 and 4 were considered a separate work and were published in 1536.

[Whitelocke, Bulstrode]. Memorials of the English Affairs: or, an Historical Account of what passed from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second His Happy Restauration. Containing the Publick Transactions, Civil and Military. Together with the Private Consultations and Secrets of the Cabinet, London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1682, damp-stain to title, some toning, 19th-century half calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, split at foot of upper joint, extremities rubbed, folio, together with:Taylor (Jeremy). Eniautos. A course of Sermons for all the Sundays of the year ... With a supplement of ten Sermons preached since His Majesties Restauration..., 3rd edition, London: Printed by E. Tyler for R. Royston, 1668, engraved portrait frontispiece inscribed to verso 'James Luccock, Diss, Norfolk, 1819', general title in red and black, manuscript annotation to final dedication leaf, occasional toning and few marks, 19th-century blind panelled calf, joints cracked and covers rubbed, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Wing W1986 and T331.

Tolkien (J. R. R.) Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. IX. Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire by R. E. M. Wheeler, D. Lit., F. S. A., and T. V. Wheeler, F. S. A., Appendix I. The Name 'Nodens' by Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford: University Press, 1932, pp. 132-137, folding plates and illustrations (one detached), manuscript list of contents at front, previous owner signature, contemporary buckram, a little rubbed and toned, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Lydney Camp in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire was an Iron Age hill fort and later Romano-Celtic temple dedicated to the Celtic deity Nodens, and the site was excavated from 1928-29 by Tessa and Mortimer Wheeler. In his capacity as a philologist at Pembroke College, Oxford, Tolkien wrote the Appendix on Nodens in 1932, 'Linguistic considerations unaided by other data can do little, usually, to recall forgotten gods from their twilight. The form of this name, however is favourable. The ending -ont (-ent) is a well-known one in Indo-European languages... But in ON, naut-r means any piece of valuable personal property, a sword, a ring, and we must probably compare the sense-development of 'cattle' and 'chattel', both derived from the late Latin capitale, principal property.'

Milne (A. A.). The Secret and other Stories, New York: The Fountain Press; London: Methuen and Company Ltd., 1929, Milne's signature to half-title, original cloth, torn remnants of plan dust jacket retained, slim 8vo (limited signed edition 563/742), together with:Milne (A. A.). Those were the Days, The Day's Play, The Holiday Round, Once a Week, The Sunny Side, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1929, printed on India paper throughout, Milne's signature to verso of title, early gilt inscription to upper pastedown 'Mary, from Auntie Vera, 1931', original cloth, light fading to spine and head of boards, 8vo (limited signed edition 200/250),Milne (A. A.). The Pooh Calendar, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1930], 13 leaves printed on thin card (including title), illustrated by E. H. Shepard, manuscript to verso of February leaf, occasional light spotting, leaves tied together at head, 8vo (leaf six 26 x 19 cm), plus Milne (A. A. & Fraser-Simson, H.). The Hums of Pooh, Lyrics by Pooh, decorations by E. H. Shepard, additional lyric by Eeyore, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1929, musical notation and illustrated throughout, original pictorial boards in dust jacket, lightly frayed to extremities, slim 4toQTY: (4)

Smith (Adam). The Theory of Moral Sentiments or an Essay towards an Analysis of the Principles…, 5th edition, London: W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, 1781, contemporary ownership manuscript signature to front endpaper, advertisements at rear, contemporary polished sheep, gilt spine with red morocco title label, head of lower joint slightly cracked with minor loss to head-cap, corners bumped, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Kress B425. This edition not in Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.One of the rarer lifetime editions, incorporating several minor improvements from the fourth edition of 1774.

Cousin (Louis, translator). Histoire de Constantinople depuis le règne de l'Ancien Justin, jusqu'a la fin de l'Empire, Traduite sur les originaux Grecs par Mr Cousin, President en la Cour des Monnoies, 8 volumes bound in 6, 2nd edition, Paris: Damien Foucault, 1685, engraved additional title to volume I, titles with woodcut devices, engraved head and tail pieces, occasional minor toning, contemporary vellum, volume numbers in manuscript to spines, some light dust-soiling and small stains, 8voQTY: (8)NOTE:Atabey 295. The second edition, first published in Paris in 1672-74, an abridged edition of the Corpus Byzantinae Historiae.

Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by A.C. Benson, reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, London: Siegle, Hill & Co, [1911], signed by Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe to limitation leaf, plates, illustrations and initials printed in gold and colours, on cream Japan vellum paper, text printed in red and black, red silk endpapers, top edge gilt, original full vellum, neat vellum reback with original spine relaid, turn-ins with gilt foliate roll, upper cover with elaborate gilt peacock finished in green and blue, accompanied by gilt foliation with petals finished in pink, incorporated by a broad foliate gilt roll, small serial number stamped in gilt to lower left corner, lower cover with large gilt foliate devices to corners within triple-ruled border, black morocco title label to spine (faded to brown), original fretwork clasps (lacking lower portion), inner margin of covers stained, folio (binding 35 x 26.5 cm)QTY: (1)

Lear (Edward). Book of Nonsense, 2nd edition, [Thomas McLean, 1855], 73 lithographic plates, including title (fore-edge neatly reinforced), 10 early manuscript limericks written in brown ink to various blank versos (some show-through to rectos), last one dated 'Plymouth Apl. '87', some light toning and foxing, 1 leaf with closed tear in lower edge (with archival tape repair on verso), another with tip of lower outer corner missing, close-trimmed, clipping top edge of some illustrations, ownership names to front pastedown, late 19th century black half calf gilt, oblong 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Printed in a very small edition of between 250 and 500 copies, this privately printed second edition preceded the first trade edition (i.e. third edition) by nearly a decade. The second edition has the same plates as the first edition of 1846, and only these first two editions were printed with lithographic plates. The second edition has the captions in five lines as opposed to three in the first edition. Both the first and the second editions contains three illustrations which were surpressed and did not appear again until recent times (‘Old Man of Kildare’, ‘There was an Old Man of New York’, and ‘There was an Old Sailor of Compton’).

[Foxe, John]. [Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church..., At London: Printed by Peter Short, 1596], title lacking, several woodcut illustrations and some folding plates (some torn with loss and repaired), lacking few leaves at rear, some leaves torn with loss, torn and frayed to fore-edges with loss, some spotting and few marks, later endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, lacking clasps, folio, together with:Stow (John). The Survey of London: contayning the Originall, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of that City, London: Printed by Elizabeth Purslow, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne, 1633, frontispiece lacking, title torn to corner, lined and repaired, final leaf provided in manuscript facsimile, few leaves repaired, some browning and spotting, modern brown half morocco, folio, together with:QTY: (2)NOTE:Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

* Powys (John Cowper, 1872-1963). A collection of manuscripts, typescripts and photocopies plus manuscripts by other members of the Powys family, the John Cowper Powys manuscripts including '4 October 1896' [poem of 4 lines], 'Oh Mother Earth! Oh Father Air!', 2 pp., 'I'll Never Forget the Day' [poem written in childhood], 'To Father and Mother' [poem, 1897], 'The Storms of Time' [4 pp. poem], Poem of Nellie's Death, initialled and dated 20 April 1893, Map of the Landscape of Porius drawn by John Cowper Powys on the back of a part of a letter to Gertrude Mary Powys, fragments entitled 'Pengloy - Baban y Gawr' [3 damaged 4to pages]; various galley proofs including Race and Literature, Marcel Proust, Thomas Hardy and His Times, The Charms of Solitude, Children of Adam, etc.; plus a small quantity of other manuscript, printed and photocopied items relating to other members of the Powys family and 23 manuscript sermon booklets for sermons of Charles Francis Powys delivered at Montacute, etc., c. 1894-1914QTY: (2 box files & a packet)NOTE:Provenance: The Powys Collection at Mappowder, Dorset.

Manuscript. Illustrated Ballads & Poems, by Frederica Rouse Boughton, 1858, ff.31, sepia ink manuscript, lavishly illustrated throughout on rectos incorporating text, including title-page with calligraphic inscription 'This little volume is affectionately dedicated to FSA [Fanny Stackhouse Acton] by FRB [Frederica Rouse Boughton] Acton Scott Xmas. 1858', names supplied in pencil beneath monograms, occasional toning and light marks, stitching strained, gilt patterned endpapers, armorial bookplate of Michael Hopton on front pastedown, leaf size 26 x 22.5 cm, original gilt decorated green calf, spine faded and rubbed, with loss to head, gilt-titled to upper cover, wide gilt decorated turn-ins, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Fanny Stackhouse Acton (1794-1881), daughter of noted botanist, Thomas Andrew Knight, was herself a botanist, as well as archaeologist, artist and writer. Amongst her achievements were the illustration of two of her father's publications (Pomona Herefordiensis and Herefordshire Pomona), the excavation of a Roman villa discovered in the grounds of her house Acton Scott Hall, the restoration of a number of historical buildings, including Stokesay Castle, and the publication of The Castles & Old Mansions of Shropshire in 1868. She married Thomas Pendarves Stackhouse in 1812. They had one child, a daughter, who died at the age of 17.Frederica Rouse Boughton (circa 1831-1921) was the daughter of Fanny's sister, Charlotte, who married William Edward Rouse Boughton. It seems likely that Fanny was particularly close to her niece in large part because of the loss of her only child. Frederica was an accomplished artist, and this beautifully-illustrated volume was evidently a labour of love given to a much-cherished aunt.